Amidst the swirling battlefield lights and shadows, Qin Yu turned to face Jin Hanyan. In that instant, the Ultimate Silent Profundity that had been gripping him just moments before softened in his eyes. He smiled gently, his voice low and warm, as if this were not a battlefield of life and death, but merely a destined reunion. "Miss Hanyan, I knew... it would be you."
Jin Hanyan didn't say much. Her gaze swept quickly over Qin Yu, confirming that his qi was disordered but not collapsed. Then she raised her hand and took out a pill. The pill floated in her palm, its color between jade white and dark gold. The pill was not round, but rather like a crystal core polished by time. Fine and restrained Dao patterns flowed on its surface. The patterns did not glow, but seemed to be breathing slowly.
"The Stainless Return to Origin Pill." She handed the pill to Qin Yu, her voice calm yet carrying an unyielding resolve. "Young Master Qin, please take this first. This beast not only dragged you and me into the trap of the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor, but now it's slaughtering Void Emanation Realm cultivators in the Void Obliteration Domain. Today—you and I must utterly Annihilation it."
Without hesitation, Qin Yu received the pill. The moment he took it, his fingertips felt an almost "clean" sensation. It was neither warm nor cold, but a purity stripped of all impurities. He put the pill into his mouth, and it melted instantly without any burst of medicinal power. Instead, it was like a drop of clear water falling into a long-dried-up source pool. The next moment, an extraordinary phenomenon occurred.
Deep within his consciousness, the causal logic that had been torn and distorted by the Stainless Divine Power began to return to its proper place. The broken causal lines were not forcibly repaired, but rather "straightened out" by an invisible hand, restoring the misplaced front and back to their original positions, and the collapsed logical nodes falling back into place one by one. The remaining Stainless Erosion within his body was quickly stripped away, turning into wisps of grayish-white dust that dissipated from his body and disappeared into the void.
The stillness of the Silent Profundity spread out once more, the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel resonated with a low hum, and the Silent Beginning Ring Master Soul Diagram slowly rotated in his sea of consciousness, his state recovering to near its peak in just a few breaths. Qin Yu gently exhaled, feeling an unprecedented sense of clarity throughout his body.
He stood side by side with Jin Hanyan, the void beneath their feet solidifying. The Ultimate Silent Profundity and the sharp edge of the Stainless judgment unfolded on the same plane, forming a strange yet stable confrontation.
The Glazed Dao-Extinguishing Zheng looked down at them, its enormous beastly eyes reflecting two figures, its coldness like solidified ice crystals. "Little girl, your cultivation is actually at the Stainless Realm · Supreme." Its voice echoed between heaven and earth, carrying a condescending arrogance, "Very well. Today, I will let you know the difference between humans and us."
As soon as it finished speaking, it took a step forward, and the world suddenly sank. The Light of Stainlessness was no longer simply shining, but began to flow along the veins of time. The Glazed Dao-Extinguishing Zheng raised its front claws and slashed down into the void, Stainless River-Severing Reap was fully unleashed at this moment.
A Reverse Order beam of light tore through the heavens and earth from beneath its claws. Within the beam, the light and shadow did not flow forward, but rather reversed. At the edge of the battlefield, shattered rocks began to recede, collapsed ley lines rose anew, and the outlines of previously Annihilation remains flashed in the void before vanishing just as quickly, as if not even allowed the right to "restore." Time was forcibly pulled back, and the reversed force swept towards Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan.
Qin Yu felt his existence being pulled by an invisible force, his time anchor point within his body began to tremble, and fragments of his life played out in reverse in his sea of consciousness—scenes that had not yet happened, had already happened, and even those that should not have been touched—surged forth simultaneously. Jin Hanyan acted almost at the same instant. She took a step forward, Nameless Box unfolded behind her. The box's shadow was like a dark mirror that devoured cause and effect, forcibly dragging a corner of the Reverse Order light trace into it, causing its trajectory to deviate.
Qin Yu's eyes narrowed, and the Silent Origin Stainless Sword was held horizontally in front of him. The sword's edge did not slash at the light trace, but instead pointed at his own "time positioning" in the void. The stillness of Silent Profundity suddenly spread. He used the Cause and Effect Deconstruction of the Three Forms of Fate Construction as a guide to temporarily separate his current "state of existence" from the severed timeline, preventing the reverse force from locking on completely. His figure appeared as overlapping afterimages in an instant, as if he had been pulled back by time, yet also as if he stood firmly in the present.
The Reverse Order light traces collided head-on with the Nameless Box and the Silent Profundity Profound Stillness, unleashing a deep and prolonged roar that seemed to forcibly break time itself. The aftershocks spread, and large swathes of void experienced brief "memory blanks," with even light losing its direction for a moment.
The Glazed Dao-Extinguishing Zheng let out a suppressed roar. For the first time, its Light of Stainlessness showed obvious disorder. Several fine cracks appeared on the glazed scales on its chest. Pure light overflowed from the cracks, but it carried an undeniable imbalance. It looked down at the two of them. Its beastly eyes no longer showed only contempt, but for the first time, true killing intent and fear appeared.
Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan steadied themselves simultaneously, their auras intertwining. Without needing to speak, they had already entered a true battle to the death.
After suffering repeated setbacks, the Glazed Dao-Extinguishing Zheng finally lost control completely. It roared to the sky, its voice no longer a simple beastly howl, but an echo like the throats of countless epochal calamities being torn open at the same moment, causing the entire southern space of the Void Obliteration Domain to collapse layer by layer. The pure, crystal- Stainless radiance around it was suddenly stained with cracks. These were not contaminations, but the forced shattering of its perfect form when the source of calamity was forcibly pushed into the third stage. What gushed from the cracks was no longer purity, but a "destruction and purification" compressed to the Ultimate, as if to first wash away all existence into absolute blankness, and then crush it all.
The battlefield spiraled completely out of control at that moment. The sky was like a thin film crumpled by a giant hand, space constantly folding, rebounding, breaking and reforming. Distant mountains were smoothed into flat, empty facets by an invisible force, swallowed up before even leaving any remnants behind. The laws of the Void Obliteration Domain began to scream, the boundary between light and darkness disappeared, the sense of direction completely collapsed, all reference points were forcibly stripped away, leaving only the source of calamity to dominate everything.
The back of the Glazed Dao-Extinguishing Zheng suddenly bulged, and two enormous wings, so large they blotted out the sky, tore out from its spine. The Void Wings unfolded completely in its berserk state. These wings were not flesh and blood, but were composed of layers of overlapping, Stainless spatial facets. Each unfolding was accompanied by a roar as if the void was being forcibly torn apart. In the instant the wings spread, its figure vanished from its spot, and several afterimages simultaneously appeared hundreds of feet away, making it difficult to distinguish between reality and illusion. Short-distance teleportation and long-distance void displacement were completed in the same breath. The wings stirred up not a gale, but Stainless storm. Wherever the storm passed, the aggregation of spiritual energy was directly blown away, and the supernatural structures lost their support, collapsing like sandcastles.
Immediately afterwards, its body began to collapse and stretch, eventually transforming into an incomparably pure yet chilling light source, and the "Stainless Reflects Void and Nothingness" descended with a roar. It wasn't the process of the domain unfolding, but rather the result of the domain "manifesting"—the Stainless Void and Nothingness Domain took shape in an instant. The battlefield was completely enveloped within it, all forms became transparent in the light, obsessions burst like bubbles, causal lines evaporated rapidly after being illuminated, and the textures of laws peeled away layer by layer. Qin Yu only felt that the edges of his physical body began to show signs of etherealization, and his mind was forcibly pulled towards a temptation of "returning to purity by giving up resistance," as if he could obtain eternal peace simply by obeying.
However, in this almost certain death in the void, both auras stabilized simultaneously.
Jin Hanyan took the first step forward, her figure becoming exceptionally clear amidst the Stainless void. The Nameless Box fully unfolded behind her, its shadow not attempting to resist the Stainless, but rather embedding itself into the edge of the domain in a state of "neither nothing nor nothing," forcibly reversing the causal fragments that were about to be erased. Her six great supernatural powers did not erupt directly, but instead operated in an extremely subtle rhythm, keeping herself in Threshold state of "being reflected but not judged."
At that moment, Qin Yu completely Entering Stillness profound stillness. He did not unleash his domain or release any grand divine powers, but instead anchored himself in the center of nothingness with his physical body. The Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel resonated softly, and the Boundless Realm Source Wheel slowly unfolded within his body. His existence in the Stainless void no longer manifested as an "individual," but rather as a blank segment that could not be fully reflected. At this moment, the Silent Profundity and Jin Hanyan's causal judgment truly resonated—not superimposed, but complementary.
Extremely subtle imbalances began to appear in the Stainless Void and Nothingness Domain. Those "Unborn causes and effects" that should have been completely erased were captured and redirected by Jin Hanyan, and then contained by Qin Yu with the stillness of the Silent Profundity, preventing them from being reflected any further. Glazed Dao-Extinguishing Zheng was shocked and furious to discover that his domain was being "consumed," not destroyed, but its very foundation was being gradually drained away.
It frantically vibrated its Void Wings, attempting to reposition itself, only to find that each teleportation landing point was prematurely "frozen" in a spatial slice that could not be fully established. Qin Yu moved. His movements were not swift, but terrifyingly precise. The Silent Origin Stainless Sword slashed out along the unfolding trajectory of the Boundless Realm Source Wheel. That sword did not directly hit the beast's body, but instead struck the core inflection point of the Stainless Void and Nothingness Domain.
Jin Hanyan attacked almost simultaneously. Her power did not seek destruction, but rather to sever—severing the synchronized rhythm between the Glazed Dao-Extinguishing Zheng and her own calamity origin. The two forces struck at the same instant, and a muffled sound, as if the world's skeleton were breaking, came from within the domain.
The Stainless Reflects Void and Nothingness began to collapse. The pure light source trembled violently, and for the first time, darkness tinged its radiance. The true form of the Glazed Dao-Extinguishing Zheng was forcibly jolted out of its dormant state in the nothingness. Its massive beastly body flew out, its glazed scales shattering in pieces, and its Stainless Blood sprayed into the void, only to be evaporated by its own power halfway through. It crashed heavily into the churning spatial rift, spitting out a mouthful of blood mixed with light fragments. Its aura plummeted, and it was only a hair's breadth away from true Annihilation.
It struggled to raise its head, and for the first time, a look of near-fear appeared in its beastly eyes.
The eyes of the Glazed Dao-Extinguishing Zheng Demon were completely filled with blood, a madness born of being driven to the brink of despair yet refusing to admit defeat. A low, broken laugh rolled in its throat, like countless shattered pieces of glass rubbing against each other in its chest. "Very good... very good... two mere humans have actually driven this king to this extent."
It suddenly raised its forepaw, a thin crack appearing in the palm, and swallowed a strange crystal core directly into its mouth. The crystal core was not a treasure in the traditional sense, but a "Crystal of Calamity Will" that had been forcibly compressed and sealed. Its outer shell showed layers of glassy cross-sections, while inside, dark gold and Stainless white light flowed, as if a sleeping heart was beating within it, each pulse causing the laws of heaven and earth to tremble.
The moment the crystal core entered its belly, the aura of the Glazed Dao-Extinguishing Zheng was no longer simply pure Stainless, but was tainted with a "final judgment" that transcended purification. It roared, its voice seemingly reverberating directly in the depths of cause and effect—"This was bestowed upon me by my master. You humans will be Annihilation today."
The next instant, heaven and earth fell silent.
The Glazed Dao-Extinguishing Zheng raised its head, the Light of Stainlessness around it frantically collapsing and expanding. Three low, icy incantations were uttered, each syllable like a blade forged from its very existence—"Silent Light Ash Destruction, Heaven-Imprisoning Slaughter."
"Stainless cage weaves a tapestry, an obsessive mind binds the soul."
The moment the light and sound fell, space was forcibly folded, and a semi-transparent glass cage appeared out of thin air. The cage walls were not reflections, but dense patterns of existence, interwoven with crimson, dark black, and gilded gold, as if imprinting Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan's past, entanglements, and possible future onto them. An invisible force suddenly pulled, and the two of them felt a tearing pull on their souls, as if they were about to be forcibly ripped from their bodies in the next instant.
"A single slash extinguishes all, and cause and effect vanish."
As the second sentence fell, the cage suddenly contracted, and time inside began to accelerate wildly. Countless blades of obsession emerged from the cage walls, cutting not at vital points, but at the weakest points of the mind and the Dao. A slit of ethereal light slowly opened in the center of the cage, as if the world itself had opened a cold eye.
"Imprisoned by the heavens, slaughtered beyond measure, vanished without a trace!"
In the final instant the eight characters exploded, the laws of heaven and earth were struck as if by a heavy hammer, and even the distant boundary of the Void Obliteration Domain showed a brief "gap," as if everything was about to be erased.
Just as this Ultimate Annihilation was about to be completed, Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan moved simultaneously.
Qin Yu took a step forward, his feet making no sound, yet it felt as if he were stepping on the spine of the world. His Innate Martial Soul, [Silent Beginning - Ring Master Soul Diagram], fully unfolded at this moment. The soul diagram was not a physical entity, but rather spread out with his own existence as the center. The Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel resonated loudly, and the Boundless Realm Source Wheel fully unfolded within his body. The three formed a "blank structure" that could not be fully reflected by the cage.
He did not use the "Silent Profundity Unborn" technique, but instead, with his body and foundation at the Silent Mystery Realm · Peak, he forcibly unleashed the [Heavenly Cause Judgment Sequence - Six Severances Seal] technique.
--The Final Order Interrogation: World Silent Judgment. This move is not about slaying the enemy, but about ruling: ruling that "the cause of this prison cannot be established."
At the same time, Jin Hanyan was already standing beside Qin Yu, her expression Ultimate calm. Her six divine abilities resonated simultaneously. [Return to Silence - Nameless Finger] was not unleashed, but hovered at the Threshold of "about to be unleashed". Based on [Formless and Invisible - The Annihilation Other Shore], she unleashed [Unjudged - Yin-Yang Reversal], forcibly reversing the tens of millions of years of torment magnified within the cage into "fragments that never happened". Meanwhile, [Chaos Undivided, Heaven and Earth Judged] acted like an invisible scissor, forcibly severing the synchronous rhythm between the Glazed Dao-Extinguishing Zheng and the Calamity Crystal Core.
The cage trembled violently, the blade of obsession began to crumble, and the void rift trembled unstablely for the first time.
Qin Yu let out a low shout, Silent Origin Stainless Sword fully materialized in his hand. He didn't unleash a dazzling sword light, but instead used one of the Silent Origin Stainless Sword Five Forms.
The sword strike of "Undefined Destruction Sword" does not sever the physical form, but rather "the definition itself." Where the sword strikes, the definition of the cage "as a cage" is directly erased.
In the same instant, Jin Hanyan completed her final judgment. Her [Silent Void - Dao Reversal of Heavens] was fully unleashed, reversing and detonating the Stainless judgment logic of the Glazed Dao-Extinguishing Zheng itself—not contamination, but for the first time, turning its judgment target "itself".
The two forces collided violently in the void. There was no explosion, no flames, only a low groan as if the world had been utterly shattered.
Before completing its third stage, the Silent Light Ash Destruction, Heaven-Imprisoning Slaughter was forcibly backfired. The Glazed Cage and the Void Light Rift collapsed simultaneously, and the massive beast body of the Glazed Dao-Extinguishing Zheng was pierced by its own Light of Stainlessness. The Calamity Crystal Core inside its body exploded into countless light fragments. It let out a roar that tore through the heavens and earth, and for the first time, unwilling fear appeared in its beast eyes. Stainless blood mixed with light dust gushed out, and its existence trajectory was peeled away layer by layer. Finally, under the combined attack of Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan, it was completely Annihilation.
The world returned to silence, and even the concept of "calamity" seemed to have been erased from this region.