Stainlessness and the Return to the Ruins End; One Stillness Levels the Abyss

The body of the Three Nether Yin Puppets was completely twisted in that instant. Its originally stable and indifferent Stainless form was forcibly torn apart by some deeper alien force. It raised its head and let out a wild laugh that was not a sound, like the echo left by the collapse of countless eras at the same moment.

The void was swallowed whole, and an indefinable primordial entity, originating from the unknown depths, was forcibly torn out. It was neither light nor darkness, but a chaotic remnant before even the distinction between "existence" and "nothingness" had been made, instantly merging into its Fate Soul Nucleus. The Soul-Sealing Abyss suddenly lost its weight, the heavens and earth simultaneously falling and rising, space stretched into a torn membrane, time scattered like crumpled pages of a book. At this moment, the aura of the Three Nether Yin Puppets underwent a fundamental distortion; it was no longer merely a Fate Soul puppet at the Stainless Realm · Middle Stage, but a "Walking Return to the Ruins" forcibly embedded with fragments of the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor's will.

"The master bestows the law— Myriad Forms Return to the Ruins."

A deep and frenzied proclamation resounded, and the entire Soul-Sealing Abyss instantly collapsed into a massive vortex. At the center of the vortex was not darkness, but a "blank" that instilled instinctive fear. All things in heaven and earth, the laws and order, and the Dao Source were pulled, stretched, and torn apart at the edge of that blank space, as if twisted into a ball by an invisible hand and then casually discarded.

Before the rocks even crumbled, the concept of "mountain" was lost; before the Spiritual Qi dissipated, the definition of "energy" was stripped away; even space itself began to lose its meaning of "bearing." Everything was dragged into that Return to the Ruins, neither destroyed nor annihilated, but simply assimilated into a chaotic state that was neither existent nor extinct. Even the Dao fruits that powerful beings had condensed over millennia were like mud oxen sinking into the sea at the edge of the Return to the Ruins, unable to even create a ripple.

Qin Yu groaned, feeling his very being being forcibly pulled by an irresistible force. His Fate Soul, karma, history, and future trembled simultaneously, as if someone was trying to erase him from his "constructed" position. Without hesitation, the Silent Beginning Ring Master Soul Diagram spun wildly deep within his sea of consciousness, the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel lit up simultaneously, and the Silent Origin Stainless Sword resonated deeply in his palm. He took a step forward, using himself as an anchor to forcefully nail down the point of reality beneath his feet.

He hissed in a low voice, "Trying to drag me into the Return to the Ruins? Ask me if I agree first." Void Evolution Jiwu arose with a thought, his illusory and real forms overlapping around him. The pulling force of the Return to the Ruins began to distort the moment it touched the edge of his existence, as if it were pulling at a shadow that was both existent Does Not Exist, unable to truly anchor itself.

At that moment, Jin Hanyan stopped in her tracks.

She stood quietly outside the vortex of the Return to the Ruins, her white robes motionless, her silver hair flowing like water, as if this cataclysmic event, capable of swallowing the heavens and earth, had nothing to do with her. Yet, for the first time, a subtle hint of solemnity appeared deep within her almost transparent, icy-blue eyes.

She could tell that this "Myriad Forms Return to the Ruins to Nameless Box" technique did not belong to the Three Nether Yin Puppets, but was a mark of will forcibly left by the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor across the realm. Once fully unleashed, even if she spared no expense, she would have to use intervention at the level of the [Nameless Box] to completely stop it. Her fingertips had already gently touched the small bronze box on her ankle. With just one more thought, the world would be pulled back to the starting point of "unjudged".

"... It hasn't come to that point yet."

Jin Hanyan murmured to herself, her voice calm and utterly undisturbed. The next moment, she raised her head, her gaze passing over the Return to the Ruins to the core of the Three Nether Yin Puppets. She gently raised her index finger, but did not point it out. Instead, she slowly uttered four words: "The Dao Reverses the Heavens."

That wasn't an attack, it was a ruling.

The surging, Stainless power of the Return to the Ruins within the Three Nether Yin Puppets suddenly halted, as if forcibly pulled back from the source of time. The nascent divine power bestowed by the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor was not yet fully formed, and it was forcibly regressed to the chaotic state of "not yet condensed." The Return to the Ruins vortex showed visible collapse and reverse flow, and the power that pulled the heavens and earth back onto the Three Nether Yin Puppets itself, causing its body to tremble violently and emit a low groan that was almost like it was about to collapse.

Seizing this fleeting opening, Qin Yu's gaze turned icy. He unleashed the Silent Origin Stainless Sword Causeless Disillusionment Sword Intent piercing the edge of the Return to the Ruins like a colorless sword mark. Threads of cause and effect, and the framework of rules, snapped in pieces where the sword intent passed, forcibly tearing a gap in the connection between the Three Nether Yin Puppets and the Myriad Forms Return to the Ruins. At the same time, he brought his fingertips together, Source-Cause Construct Heart glowed faintly in his chest. The backlash from the Return to the Ruins was completely deflected back, slamming back into the Three Nether Yin Puppets' bodies, causing their already unstable Fate Soul Nucleus to collapse another layer.

At this moment, heaven and earth fell completely silent.

The Return to the Ruins still exist, but they are no longer complete. In the deepest part of the Soul-Sealing Abyss, an unerasable crack slowly emerges. The crack is not a shattering of space, but a trace of "forced intervention," like an irreversible imprint left on reality by some kind of will.

Jin Hanyan's gaze swept over the crack, and she immediately understood—the will of the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor had already made its first move here.

The Three Nether Yin Puppets, under the reverse flow of the Return to the Ruins and the double countermeasures, staggered and knelt on the ground, emitting a near-manic laugh.

"Hahahaha... not enough... not enough... you... you... think this is the end?"

It raised its head, its eyes no longer showing indifference, but rather a completely out-of-control madness.

"You are not yet able to completely Annihilation me... The energy bestowed upon me by my master is far beyond the reach of you humans..."

In that instant Soul-Sealing Abyss completely lost the concepts of "depth" and "boundary".

The Three Nether Yin Puppets slowly straightened its body, its form beginning to show unstable double images, as if it were being simultaneously superimposed and torn apart by countless eras. Right behind it, the void was forcibly torn open, and a phantom that was not truly descended, yet was enough to make the heavens and earth tremble instinctively, slowly emerged.

It is a being that cannot be fully described.

The phantom of the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor had no clear outline, as if it were pieced together from countless broken fragments of cause and effect, shattered traces of destiny, and reversed images of time.

Standing behind the Three Nether Yin Puppets, He seemed to be standing at a higher-dimensional "observation point." His eyes were not actually eyes, but two constantly collapsing and reconstructing blank vortexes. With each slight fluctuation of the phantom, the space of the Soul-Sealing Abyss would wrinkle and shatter like thin paper, only to be forcibly smoothed out again, in an endless cycle.

That was not a descent, but a projection of will.

The Three Nether Yin Puppets knelt before the illusory figure, their voices no longer their own, but rather drowned out by a grand, cold, and ruthless will:

"Final God-Granted Form... Awakening..."

The next moment, the world fell silent.

There was no explosion, no torrent of energy, and not even any obvious killing intent. A Light of Stainlessness slowly descended from between the phantom and the Three Nether Yin Puppets, like a ray of light hanging down from the sky, gentle and pure, yet causing the very foundation of the Soul-Sealing Abyss to begin to crumble.

"All Things Are Like Bubbles and Return to the Ruins to Beginningless".

Wherever the Light of Stainlessness touched, Qin Yu's first sensation wasn't an attack, but rather the illusion of being "seen." His obsession, his cultivation, his fighting spirit, and the outline of his physical body gradually became transparent in the light, as if reflected as a series of false images, ready to vanish at the slightest touch. Immediately afterward, time began to fracture around him. The path of cultivation he had walked, the future possibilities yet to unfold, were forcibly erased from his destiny, as if he had never cultivated and should never have a future.

Even more terrifying is that the light is not simply destroying, but purifying—purifying everything that is regarded as "acquired," "obsession," or "difference," attempting to pull all phenomena back to the same "neither existent nor extinct" state of Return to the Ruins.

Just then, Jin Hanyan took a step forward.

She did not hesitate.

For the first time, her hand truly landed on the [Nameless Box].

The box was opened by a single thread.

In that instant, the world suddenly lost its focus.

Time was forcibly pulled back to an undefinable origin, where light and darkness had not yet separated, cause and effect had not yet appeared, and even the concepts of "Stainless" and "Annihilation" Does Not Exist. In the Nameless Box, the Silent Void before the chaos was opened was drawn out by her absolute will, transforming into a gray-white torrent that even the observer could not bear, directly meeting the Light of Stainlessness of "Myriad Illusions - Return to the Ruins Beginningless".

At the moment of contact, there was no collision.

Only coverage.

The Light of Stainlessness attempts to purify everything, but the Silent Void torrent directly negates the act of "purification" itself—since Heaven and Earth Undetermined, how can there be purity or impurity? Since all things Unborn, how can there be erasure or assimilation?

The Light of Stainlessness began to vibrate violently, bubbles collapsed in pieces, the pull of the Return to the Ruins became unprecedentedly chaotic, and the Ultimate divine power of the Three Nether Yin Puppets suffered its first structural collapse.

At the same time, Qin Yu had already stepped forward.

He neither retreated nor defended himself.

The Silent Origin Stainless Sword came to a complete stop in his hand. Its blade was no longer sharp, but it seemed to carry a certain "uniqueness". His main soul fully unfolded at this moment. The Silent Beginning Ring Master Soul Diagram was fully manifested in his sea of consciousness. The Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel returned to their positions, and the Source-Cause Construct Heart suddenly lit up.

He spoke in a low voice, not loud, but it sounded like words carved directly into the very foundation of heaven and earth:

"Undefined Destruction Sword."

This sword strike had no trajectory.

Wherever the sword intent passed, it did not sever or annihilate, but negated the definition. The myriad illusions lost their definition of "illusion," the Beginningless Return to the Ruins lost its affiliation of "Return to the Ruins," and the Light of Stainlessness lost its right to be named "Stainless." The sword intent pierced the core of the existence of the Three Nether Yin Puppets, forcibly tearing an irreparable rift in the connection between it and the projection of the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor's will.

The Three Nether Yin Puppets let out their first truly agonizing scream.

The phantom of the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor visibly trembled at this moment, its outline becoming violently blurred, as if some unexpected countermeasure was taking place.

Jin Hanyan didn't give it any time to adjust.

She raised her hand and tapped lightly with her index finger.

"Nameless."

[Return to Silence - The Nameless Finger].

The instant that finger fell, the existence of the Three Nether Yin Puppets was completely stripped of its "name." Not a title, not a code name, but the qualification for its existence to be acknowledged. Its Fate Soul, its form, and all its abilities began to lose their anchor in the world, and even the process of "being Annihilation" could not occur completely.

The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor suddenly froze.

The next moment, Jin Hanyan added softly:

"Return to the Unjudged."

[Silent Void, the Way Reversed in All Heavens] Arrives at the thought.

The remaining structure of "Myriad Illusions - Beginningless Return to the Ruins Nothingness" was completely regressed to its unformed chaotic embryonic state, and the backlash surged back exponentially, directly piercing through the core of the Three Nether Yin Puppets. At the same time, Qin Yu's sword intent completed its final judgment, Silent Origin Stainless Sword trembled slightly, erasing the last trace of its existence.

There was no explosion.

There were no aftershocks.

The Three Nether Yin Puppets vanished completely deep within the Soul-Sealing Abyss.

Not even a trace of its existence remains.

The phantom of the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor paused for a moment in the higher dimension before slowly dissipating, leaving behind only an irreparable and unforgettable crack, deeply engraved on the root of the Soul-Sealing Abyss.

Heaven and earth returned to silence.

And this battle has finally come to a true end.