The two elders of the Asura Immortal Hall, lying on the ground, were covered in blood, their Silent Profundity radiance shattered beyond recognition. As they looked at Qin Yu slowly approaching, true fear appeared in their eyes for the first time—a fear that even cause and effect and identity could not provide any support.
"You... you cannot Annihilation us! We are elders of the Asura Immortal Hall... the Asura Immortal Hall will not let you go..." Before the words could finish, the void suddenly fell silent. Qin Yu's eyes did not even flicker. He raised his hand and delivered an extremely restrained yet absolutely fatal strike. He did not unleash any grand domain, but simply combined the "Three Forms of Fate Construction: Existence Erasure" with a wisp of the residual echo of "Void Source: Dream Stillness".
The anchor points of their existence, which had not yet closed, were directly nailed down. In an instant, the bodies of the two Supreme Elders of the Silent Mystery Realm · Supreme lost weight in the air, like silhouettes crushed by an invisible hand. From bones and flesh to soul and cause and effect, they disintegrated together. There was no explosion, no struggle, only two gray-white traces that quickly dissipated, as if they had never truly stood in this forest.
Qin Yu coldly withdrew his hand, his voice so low it was almost devoid of emotion. "It was the Asura Immortal Hall killed." The Shadow-Devouring Forest of No Return returned to its former state, the wind and shadows flowing freely. Spring remained, but a layer of emptiness and stillness, erased by cause and effect, had been added. Qin Yu stood in the forest, his mind already deep within his sea of consciousness. The half-illusory, half-real Key of Silent Profundity hovered silently, its dark, mysterious crystal form appearing and disappearing within his sea of consciousness.
Like an Annihilation star core yet to fully awaken, silent but containing countless Unborn possibilities, he gazed at it, slowly exhaling, a decision forming in his mind. "Now that I've obtained the Key of Silent Profundity, I must strike while the iron is hot and break through to the Silent Mystery Realm as soon as possible. The road ahead will only become more thorny."
The next instant, Qin Yu stopped and tore apart the spatial barrier in the southern part of the Void Obliteration Domain. The void in front of him split open like cloth, and chaotic air currents surged out. He stepped into the rift, and his figure was immediately swallowed up, leaving only the Shadow-Devouring Forest of No Return that had not yet completely subsided, indicating that a cultivator who was about to touch a higher level of existence had once again embarked on the path ahead.
To the south of the Void Obliteration Domain, an absolutely silent domain, so still that even chaotic storms seemed to shun it, quietly unfolded. Here, there was no sky, no earth, only a layer of almost transparent "silence," like an inverted, silent abyss, swallowing all sound, cause and effect, and fluctuations. Qin Yu within it, his figure seemingly detached from the world's narrative, leaving only the outline of an existence bearing will.
He slowly raised his hand, and the half-illusory, half-real Key of Silent Profundity deep within his sea of consciousness was activated. The dark, mysterious key appeared between his brows, and in the next instant, it transformed into an invisible wave of mystery, seeping into the deepest part of his soul. In that instant, the world seemed to be paused by an invisible hand, Void Emanation Realm · Supreme, which was "neither existent nor nonexistent, a fusion of illusion and reality," began to vibrate violently, like a ceaseless river being forcibly led to a bottomless, silent sea.
At that very moment, in a forgotten forbidden zone within the Void Obliteration Domain, space was suddenly torn apart. A twisted and magnificent phantom of a demonic beast emerged from the rift, its glass-like scales reflecting the shattered world lines. It chuckled low and gleefully, its voice seemingly transcending countless dimensions, resounding directly above the silence. "Oh, someone is about to break through... Perfect, I'll devour your essence to nourish this king." However, before this lurking will could truly approach, it was silently isolated by the outer layer of that absolute stillness, like a shadow shut out, only able to hover in the void, unable to interfere with the transformation that had already begun.
Guided by the Key of Silent Profundity, Qin Yu's soul completely merged into the "Xuanji Trial Fusion." Countless Unborn possibilities unfolded in his consciousness, like a surreal storm simultaneously occurring in the past, present, and future. He saw how, if he remained in the Void Emanation Realm, continuing to pierce through the Wuji with illusion and reality, he would accumulate power in countless battles, and how he would be devoured by a backlash during a moment of causal imbalance. He also saw that if he forcibly pursued a higher realm without relinquishing his obsession, he would be swept away by the silence within the key, forever falling into the boundless void, becoming part of the Unborn possibilities. Illusions crashed against his consciousness like waves.
But Qin Yu's gaze gradually calmed. He didn't grasp at any "ifs," nor did he deny any possibility. Instead, he let his thoughts extinguish inch by inch. The Flow of Void Emanation began to break within him, the obsession that had pierced through the Wuji was voluntarily relinquished, the flow of existence ceased to be formless, and thoughts collapsed into the Abyss of No Thought. Time lost its measure around him, and space beneath his feet obliterated its boundaries. All things seemed to retreat to the Beginningless beginning, leaving only a pure "silence."
In that instant of utter silence, the Key of Silent Profundity emitted a silent vibration. The dark crystal key did not shatter, but instead dissolved like water, transforming into countless black light fragments. These fragments seeped into every inch of Qin Yu's being, following the patterns of his divine soul. His divine soul, Dao foundation, and physical body were rewritten simultaneously, no longer dependent on the sequence of time, nor limited by the distance of space.
The "fusion of the real and the unreal" of the Void Emanation Realm was completely surpassed, replaced by a state of Silent Profundity could not be perceived but truly existed. At this moment, the world began to operate anew. Outside the Silent Domain, the chaotic airflow of the Void Obliteration Domain suddenly collapsed and reorganized, forming an invisible ripple that spread outwards, but quietly dissipated the moment it touched Qin Yu, as if it dared not approach.
As all the strange phenomena subsided, Qin Yu slowly opened his eyes. His aura was no longer vast or sharp, but rather a near- Does Not Exist calm. Standing there, he seemed not to occupy any space; time flowed past him without leaving a trace. He raised his finger; his fingertip held neither light nor power, yet everything around him spontaneously froze at that moment. It was the natural manifestation of the Silent Mystery Realm · Initial Stage, "Ji Ran Formlessness." Time collapsed into nothingness, space vanished into the boundless expanse, and only the stillness of the Silent Profundity encompassed all Unborn possibilities.
He clearly sensed that with a single thought, he could temporarily obliterate the enemy's cause and effect, causing all attacks and battles to fall into a "no beginning or end" void. However, he also understood that if this power were abused, it would ultimately push him into deeper Annihilation.
Qin Yu slowly concealed his aura and stood in the center of the quiet domain. His cultivation had already steadily entered the Silent Mystery Realm · Initial Stage, and his level of existence had undergone a fundamental leap. The spying from the Glazed Dao-Extinguishing Zheng also became clear and perceptible the moment he completed his breakthrough, like a giant beast lurking in the distance, finally confirming the location of its prey.
There was no wind in the Absolute Stillness Domain; even the word "stillness" seemed to have been stripped away. Qin Yu sat cross-legged in that untouchable Ji Ran, the dark light fragments of the Key of Silent Profundity still slowly swirling deep within his soul. They did not emit light, but seemed to quietly pull the colors of the entire Void Obliteration Domain from afar and then quietly release them, making the world appear both clear and blurry, as if all things were being gently smoothed repeatedly between "about to take shape" and "never taken shape".
Qin Yu suddenly sensed a slight vibration within his body of an old Void Evolution Origin. It wasn't a surge of power, but rather like a river suppressed deep within the realm of nothingness suddenly hearing the sound of a deeper sea. The Void Emanation Realm · Supreme of Nothingness, the Void Evolution Jiwu, was still there, but it was no longer the same. It was as if it had been covered by an unnamed membrane of "silence" from the Key of Silent Profundity, making each of its breaths lighter, farther, and less traceable.
In that instant, it felt as if an invisible fingertip had gently tapped the depths of Qin Yu's consciousness. The dark ripples of the Key of Silent Profundity spread from the center of his soul. Wherever the ripples passed, they did not annihilate anything; instead, they seemed to press both the "speakable and unspeakable" aspects of all things into a soft, black velvet. Sound, light, thoughts, and causal threads neither broke nor continued upon touching that ripple.
Instead, they merged into a silence that was "both like it happened and like it never happened" in an indistinguishable way. Within Qin Yu's body, the divine power origin that originally belonged to the Void Emanation Realm suddenly appeared as an extremely thin gray- Void Evolution Jiwu " was being dragged to a higher, quieter, and more boundless level.
Outside the Silent Domain, an indescribable phenomenon suddenly appeared in the Void Obliteration Domain: it was neither a pillar of light shooting into the sky nor thunderclouds pressing down, but rather the very "description" of heaven and earth itself cracking open; the distant mountain shadows suddenly seemed to be folded, and the nearby void suddenly seemed to be unfolded.
All colors are compressed into an extremely thin layer of iridescent film and applied to the surface of space, beneath which lies a suffocatingly deep black, as if the world is being forced to admit that some things no longer belong to the binary of reality and illusion, but are to be taken over by a deeper silence.
Qin Yu's breathing remained steady, but with each breath, it was as if he were drawing a Does Not Exist river into his chest and abdomen, then transforming the river into an Unborn mist. The mist did not spread but instead contracted, shrinking into a tiny "Stillness Core." This Stillness Core hung between his heart and brow, like a non-shining star. Inside the star, there was no time or space, only a kind of inclusiveness—encompassing everything that would happen, might happen, had never happened, and even the "negation of what happened."
The instant the "Stillness Core" took shape, the talismanic image of the * Void Evolution Jiwu * suddenly emitted a near-tearing tremor. The image didn't explode, but rather seemed to be ripped from the edge of the fusion of reality and illusion by an invisible hand and thrown into the Stillness Core. The moment the image entered the Stillness Core, the entire static domain seemed to lose the distinction between "the previous breath and the next." Countless tiny, dark fragments appeared in the void beside Qin Yu; the fragments resembled glass, yet also solidified silence.
Each fragment reflects a "possibility that never happened," perhaps the sword he once swung never fell, the words he once uttered never left his lips, or the murderous intent he once harbored Unborn —the fragments collided without a sound, yet in that instant they "gently erased" the surrounding spacetime, causing that small area to temporarily lose its traceable cause and effect and sequence.
Qin Yu's eyelashes fluttered slightly, but within his sea of consciousness, a silent storm seemed to rage. The remaining black light fragments of the Key of Silent Profundity swirled around the Stillness Core. When they reached a certain extreme, the light fragments suddenly sank into the depths of the Stillness Core, like billions of tiny black stars falling into the same bottomless sea. Immediately afterward, a brand-new pattern appeared on the surface of the Stillness Core —the pattern was not a rune, but rather like a birthmark of "Unborn," belonging neither to existence nor to nothingness. It simply stood there quietly, announcing that a higher-level essence had taken over.
The symbolic image of "The Void Evolution Jiwu" was completely dissolved in the Stillness Core. It was neither erased nor preserved, but rather incorporated into the "stillness Unborn." Qin Yu suddenly understood: the "indiscernible silence" of the Void Evolution Endless had once caused everything to fall into the Sever Thought shadows of the fusion of the real and the unreal, and now the "stillness without beginning or end" of the Silent Profundity went a step further—it no longer dealt with "existence," but directly dealt with "possibility," embracing the embryo of possibility along with its negation into the stillness Unborn, letting them disintegrate without cause or effect, seemingly both about to be born and seemingly forever destroyed.
Then the Stillness Core suddenly contracted, like a tiny black hole closing deep within Qin Yu's soul, or like an invisible flower blooming in the blink of an eye. A faint circle of mysterious light suddenly appeared around Qin Yu's body. The light was not bright, but it made people instinctively afraid to look directly at it, because those who looked directly at it would have a misconception in their hearts—that they were being "enclosed," enclosed in a stillness without beginning or end, without cause or effect, and even the idea of "wanting to struggle" seemed to have been placed in an Unborn embryo before it was formed and quietly extinguished.
Qin Yu slowly raised his hand, and a tiny "Unborn point" appeared in the void in front of his fingertips Unborn point neither devoured light nor emitted darkness; it simply hung quietly, while the surrounding spacetime and causal lines spontaneously bypassed it, like tides flowing over reefs. The Unborn point trembled slightly, as if countless possibilities were being conceived within it, or as if all possibilities were being gently pressed back into the embryo, never to be born again. Qin Yu clearly heard in his heart that the name of that newborn was not announced by anyone, but rather emerged from the stillness of the Silent Profundity itself—"Silent Profundity Unborn".
He made no loud pronouncements, no declarations, and not even a clear "launch" action, yet that Unborn point had already caused a strange, blank echo to appear in a small Void Obliteration Domain outside the Still Domain: if an observer were to perceive it from afar at this moment, they would only feel that "the embryo of all possibilities is contained within stillness," but they would be unable to point out what is contained within it, nor could they distinguish whether it is birth or death. Even "what just happened" would become a fusion of clarity and blankness in their consciousness, as if they remembered something, yet as if they had never remembered it at all.
Qin Yu slowly withdrew his hand, and the point of Unborn origin silently dissipated, as if it had never appeared, and as if it had never existed at all. His aura remained stable, yet it was even more difficult to detect than before. The foundation of the Silent Mystery Realm · Initial Stage was truly solidified at this moment, and the leap of that divine power origin also completed the first "qualitative change echo" from the Void Evolution to the Silent Profundity within his body.
In the distant rift of the forbidden zone, the illusory figure of the Glazed Dao-Extinguishing Zheng seemed to sense an instinctive unease in the stillness of the Silent Profundity Unborn. Its low laughter paused for a moment, then it coiled even more coldly in the shadows, as if waiting for Qin Yu to reveal any weakness that could be exploited. Then it slowly stepped forward, followed closely by tens of thousands of demonic spirits that appeared and disappeared behind it.