The Forbidden Seal Judges the Void, Soul Silence Delays the Abyss
At this moment, the sky Mist-Shrouded Heart-Devouring Marsh, completely lost the concept of "form".
The Causal Soul Logic Realm Abyss no longer floated silently as a crack, but began to materialize and sink. It was not the form of any living being, nor an object—it was more like a compressed, folded, and solidified "deep layer of logic." Countless layers of translucent abyssal structures nested one another, like thick, dark crystalline plates, slowly falling from the sky. Each layer was engraved with unrecognizable causal cross-sections and logical breaks. It had no boundaries, no fixed outline, yet it continuously "covered" reality as it descended, flattening and sealing off the rules of the Mist-Shrouded Heart-Devouring Marsh layer by layer.
That was the manifestation of the Abyssal Adjudication.
It wasn't a pronouncement of life or death, but a direct denial of the battlefield's "bearing capacity." Space began to lose weight, time collapsed and swirled, and heaven and earth no longer distinguished between up and down, near and far. All existence was forcibly pulled towards a common, inescapable level of judgment. The chaotic earth beneath Xi Huanluo emitted a low cracking sound, and the rules were crushed into pieces and peeled off, as if the world was being slowly crushed by an invisible giant hand.
The moment the verdict was finalized, the Master Soul Dominion suddenly raised its head.
Its massive, dissected and torn body writhed wildly in the chaos, the law of devouring was forcibly pushed to its Limit, and the incomplete structure was forcibly stitched together amidst roars. In the next instant, a chaotic divine thought that pointed directly to the "origin of consciousness" suddenly erupted, no longer targeting the physical body, no longer targeting the laws, but bypassing all defenses and directly locking onto the divine soul itself.
Soul Devouring Return to the Ruins Burial Memories
In an instant, Xi Huanluo's sea of consciousness seemed to be forcibly torn open by an invisible hand.
The soul space, which was originally as stable as the core of chaos, suddenly fell into darkness in an instant. It was not just simple blackness, but a void abyss that could devour "meaning". Chaotic divine thoughts poured in like a tide, and the soul core in the sea of consciousness, which was originally calm and flowing, suddenly trembled. The memory fragments surrounding it were forcibly torn apart, as if they were dragged into a bottomless black hole.
The abyss "grew" within her sea of consciousness.
Countless tentacles formed from the chaotic will emerged from the void, entwining her soul, piercing her memories, and clinging to her Dao heart. These tentacles did not rush to destroy, but rather ruthlessly peeled away—peeling away cognition, peeling away will, peeling away the fundamental definition of "who I am." Her soul was pulled away from her body little by little, transforming into a blazing yet collapsing humanoid shadow, dragged towards the hemispherical Soul Devouring Abyss ahead.
Within the Abyss, countless fragments of shattered memories float.
It wasn't hers, but the remnants of consciousness left behind by countless devoured beings. They collided, wailed, and shattered in the void, transforming into the most primal spiritual energy, which was greedily absorbed by the chaotic divine will. Her Dao heart trembled violently under the erosion, and for the first time, cracks appeared in her originally stable chaotic will. Negative echoes spread along the structure of her divine soul, attempting to pull her into the abyss of "forgetting herself."
At the same time—the entity from the Causal Soul Logic Realm Abyss finally completed its "response" to the judgment.
Within that layered, abyssal structure, a certain layer suddenly shone with a blinding dark light. It was not light, but a logical shadow forcibly given a "sense of existence." The shadow spread, transforming into Order Adjudication layer that covered the entire battlefield, where countless broken causal trajectories appeared, and were subsequently uniformly broken and rewritten.
Manifestation of Abyssal Divine Powers -- "Main Seal Broken - Realm Unrecorded"
The moment the Order Adjudication fell, the chaotic domain surrounding Xi Huanluo was forcibly compressed. It wasn't destruction, but rather a "refusal to bear" of it. The space she stood on lost its qualification to continue containing the power of chaos. The domain suddenly collapsed, and the backlash surged upwards along the divine power structure, forming a pincer attack with the Master Soul Dominion Abyss, which was controlled by the main soul.
The collapse occurred simultaneously, both internally and externally. Xi Huanluo's body shuddered violently.
Her soul had not yet been completely dragged into the Abyss, but the accumulated power of judgment and devouring had already exceeded the Limit she could currently stabilize. Her throat tightened, and a mouthful of chaotic blood mist spilled from the corner of her lips. The blood color was wiped away by the Order Adjudication layer before it could take shape in the air, turning into meaningless energy echoes.
Her figure was forced back, her footsteps shattering the void, and the chaotic energy became violently disordered.
Below the Mist-Shrouded Heart-Devouring Marsh, the defenses of the Fallen Dawn Divine Hall, a hundred miles away, suddenly stirred.
All the disciples turned pale and looked up almost simultaneously. When they saw the figure that had been repelled, their minds were struck as if by lightning. Fear, shock, and disbelief exploded in their eyes at the same time—it was the first time they had seen the deputy hall master forced to vomit blood and retreat in a head-on confrontation.
"Vice Hall Master--!"
Several elders of the Fallen Dawn Divine Hall, still recovering from serious injuries, rushed out of the protective array almost instinctively, unleashing their remaining domains without hesitation to forcefully catch Xi Huanluo's falling figure. Chaotic energy and Fallen Dawn power intertwined to form layers of protection, steadily shielding her in the center, blocking her from the still-roaring Abyssal Adjudication.
The heavens and earth are still trembling.
The Master Soul Dominion under the Abyssal Adjudication, churned with the laws of devouring, the aftershocks of the soul-devouring abyss still lingering. Causal Soul Logic Realm Abyss slowly hovered, the Order Adjudication Layer, like a cold net of judgment, enveloped the entire Mist-Shrouded Heart-Devouring Marsh.
This battle is no longer just a clash between the strong; it is a harbinger of a true interplay and tearing apart of different levels.
The rules of the Mist-Shrouded Heart-Devouring Marsh were still twisting and churning. The entity of the Abyssal Adjudication was like a dark dome made up of countless "disorder layers," pressing heavily on the heavens and earth. The Order Adjudication layer crushed the breath of the soul inch by inch, and even fear seemed to be stripped of its echo, leaving only a kind of calm that clung to the bone marrow—a deathly silence after being forcibly suppressed to the Limit.
Protected by the elders in the center, Xi Huanluo's chest rose and fell barely. The chaotic blood mist at the corner of her lips had not yet dissipated before being swallowed into meaningless dark spots by the Order Adjudication Layer. However, a ray of annihilation light, unique to the Fallen Dawn Divine Hall, suddenly lit up deep within her pupils—not fire, not light, but a primordial divine power that could "rewrite chaos into purity." Like a thin, imperceptible line of dawn, it split open from between her brows, stitching back together along the dark opening torn open by "Divine Soul Devouring Return to the Ruins Burial Memory" deep within her soul. There was no explosion at the stitching point, only layers of extremely faint blue-purple ripples spreading out at the edge of her sea of consciousness.
Wherever the ripples passed, the shadows entwined by the tentacles of the Devourer were forcibly stripped away, turning into fragments of "forgotten debris." As they fell, they were directly refined into nothingness by the essence of the Fallen Dawn. Her Dao heart was restored to its rightful place in this stitching, and the tremors of her chaotic divine sense were suppressed to an extremely low level, as if a world on the verge of collapse was being restored to its balance point "before judgment." She gently exhaled, and the distorted storm of the Mist-Shrouded Heart-Devouring Marsh's Swamp paused briefly within a hundred feet of her, as if it had been choked by some higher, pure order.
She raised her eyes, her voice still cold, yet carrying an undeniable steadiness. "I'm fine." Then she looked at Xiao Jinyu and the elders, who were standing guard on the outer perimeter, their bodies covered in blood and gore, and her tone suddenly sharpened, "Elder Xiao, take your disciples back to the temple immediately for protection. If you stay here any longer, neither of us can bear the consequences." Xiao Jinyu gritted his teeth until they turned white, the wound on his chest still oozing blood like Fallen Light. He stepped forward, his voice hoarse but stubborn. "Vice Temple Master, we won't leave. We'll fight it together!" The gloom in Xi Huanluo's eyes suddenly darkened, as if anger ignited in the stillness.
She shouted sternly, "This is an order! Take them away! Do you want them to die here, leaving not even bones behind, not even their very existence to be swallowed up!" These words pierced the hearts of everyone like a sharp blade of dawn. The disciples' eyes trembled violently, fear and resentment churning within them. Xiao Jinyu let out a low growl that was almost tearing apart, but in the end, she still turned around forcefully, her hand trembling as she pressed down on the shoulder of a disciple who wanted to rush back, "Retreat... retreat for all!" The elders gritted their teeth and pushed the group back, the protective spells of the Fallen Dawn Divine Hall layering up, as if dragging the remaining life force out of the storm's center.
Xi Huanluo back. She stepped out of the protective array, her figure transforming into a streak of blue-purple annihilation light, almost faded by the pressure of the Order Adjudication Layer. She pierced straight towards the core where the Abyss entity and the Master Soul Dominion. Behind her, only a furious roar exploded from the depths of her throat, shattering the layers of rules of the Mist -Mist-Shrouded Heart-Devouring Marsh: "Run—!" The moment she rushed into the Order Adjudication Layer, it felt as if the entire world was pressing down on her. The shadows of the Disorder Layer closed in like countless layers of curtains, trying to completely deny her "bearing capacity." However, the Fallen Dawn Origin within her body roared and spun. The chaotic "Heaven and Earth Undetermined was forcibly pulled to its Ultimate by her. Chaotic particles within tens of thousands of miles rushed back as if they had heard a summons. The black and white intertwined primordial flow condensed into a lightless sphere in her palm.
The sphere reflected no color, even the surrounding wind and mist were sucked in and collapsed, space was twisted into a spiral, mountains and marshes were pulled inward and tilted, even the Order Adjudication layer showed slight wrinkles and cracks, as if it had been bitten at the root by a deeper "undefined singularity". Xi Huanluo carried the black sphere and sped away. Suddenly, circles of ancient primordial runes floated on the surface of the black sphere. The runes were not engraved, but seemed to emerge from the "original Nameless" on their own. Each flash made the laws of the Mist-Shrouded Heart-Devouring Marsh cry out, the rock layers silently pulverized, the mist was evaporated into a transparent phantom, and cracks crisscrossed the sky, as if the world was being forced back to the chaotic embryonic movement before primordial chaos. Suddenly, she raised her hand and pushed the black sphere forward.
The black sphere rapidly contracted as it was pushed, shrinking from a hundred meters to ten meters, then to an inch, then to the tip of a needle—ultimately condensing into an almost invisible singularity. Everything around that singularity was frozen in place; sound was silenced, light was suppressed, and energy solidified into a deathly thin sheet. The massive, twisted body of the Master Soul Dominion, in its presence, instinctively hesitated before the singularity. The Devouring Law surged wildly, yet seemed stuck in an invisible throat, unable to be expelled. The next instant, the singularity exploded. There was no roar, but a "pulse of creation and destruction" beyond hearing swept across thousands of miles in an instant. The intense light didn't illuminate, but directly tore apart the boundaries of all things. Then, a circle of lightless shockwave spread out, shattering space into pitch-black nothingness wherever it passed. Time, like a broken string, was stretched into countless luminous fragments that scattered. The rules of the Mist-Shrouded Heart-Devouring Marsh were thrown back to their most primordial chaotic state. In that instant, heaven and earth seemed to lose their name; even the distinction between "existence" and "non-existence" was torn open. The Master Soul Dominion was swallowed whole.
Its chaotic body disintegrated, tore apart, and peeled away layer by layer. The scales of the Devouring Law were crushed into dust by the shockwave, the skeletal main vein of logic was torn to ash, and even its surging divine sense was blasted into meaningless black dots. It let out a near-mad roar, and the remaining core forcibly condensed, stubbornly stabilizing the main body, which was about to be erased, on the verge of "not completely returning to nothingness"—its body had already split into several pieces.
Like a collapsing, colossal dark structure floating in the chaotic currents, it was torn to shreds, almost beyond recognition, yet it hadn't truly vanished. At that moment, the entity of the Abyssal Adjudication suddenly sank, the Discontinuity Layer surging with an even deeper, darker glow. The Order Adjudication Layer contracted inward, seemingly trying to protect the Master Soul Dominion the remaining core, dragging it back to the deeper reaches of the abyss to reassemble. However, Xi Huanluo's gaze, amidst the embers of the intense light, was as cold as absolute stillness; she gave it absolutely no chance to maneuver.
Suddenly, the source of the Fallen Dawn in her palm revealed an extremely ancient forbidden color seal. The seal was neither a talisman nor an array, but rather it was as if "purity" had been written as a knife. She uttered a forbidden phrase that sounded like the name of the temple in a low voice. The remaining light and shadow of the Mist-Shrouded Heart-Devouring Marsh fell silent at the same time, and even the Order Adjudication Layer seemed to be forcibly suppressed—the forbidden divine power of the Fallen Dawn Divine Hall then manifested.
It was a "Dawn Stillness Purifying Edict" that defied description. It first landed on the core of the Master Soul Dominion, but it didn't explode, crack, or sever it. Instead, it caused the cause and effect, logic, and existence records surrounding the core to surface simultaneously, like countless lines and words hidden behind heaven and earth being forcibly pulled to the forefront. Then, with a gentle stroke of the Dawn Stillness Purifying Edict, those lines and words instantly became pure white, transparent, and returned to zero. The roar of the Master Soul Dominion was silently severed.
Its remaining core was as if it had been erased from the records of heaven and earth. The fragments of its body, along with the root of the law of devouring, also lost their support, turning into a blank that never happened. Not even the causal echo of its "previous existence" was left. In the chaotic current of the Mist-Shrouded Heart-Devouring Marsh, only an extremely clean Wuhen remained, so clean that it was chilling, as if that ruler had never descended, never roared, and never devoured any living being.
The entity of the Abyssal Adjudication trembled violently at that moment. The dark radiance of the Discontinuity Layer appeared as if it had been pierced, creating a brief void. The Order Adjudication Layer rolled back with a roar, seemingly forced to "hesitate" for the first time. Xi Huanluo at the edge of that primordial ember, her shoulders slightly slumped, but the bloodlust in her chest was still suppressed. She raised her eyes and stared intently at the entity of the Abyss. The annihilation radiance in her eyes was like a cold star burning to its Limit, still not extinguished.
A hundred miles away, Xiao Jinyu led his disciples in a retreat, staggering through the chaotic fog. Many looked back at the primordial chaos that had been pushed back into the primordial void, their eyes filled with the trembling of relief after surviving a catastrophe, and an almost instinctive awe and sorrow for their Vice Hall Master. They knew this battle was far from over, because the Causal Soul Logic Realm Abyss had not receded, and the crucial moment for the Vice Hall Master's bloody battle in the Abyss was yet to come. But they could do nothing to help; all they could do was pray for their Vice Hall Master in their hearts.