Jin Hanyan's voice sounded exceptionally cold above the Heavenly Sha Alliance, yet carried an undeniable decisiveness. She gazed at the lifeless faces still "walking" in the plaza, her eyes narrowing slightly, and whispered, "Young Master Qin, we cannot sit idly by and wait to die. If these Fate Soul puppets escape this place, they will surely wreak havoc on the entire Void Obliteration Domain."
Before she could finish speaking, Qin Yu nodded slowly, his eyes showing no hesitation, only an almost cold calm. "Yes, let's go. Since they've become like this, let's send them on their way." The moment he finished speaking, he took a step forward, the void beneath his feet seemed to be pressed down by an invisible force, the space slightly sinking. Jin Hanyan followed closely behind, their figures crossing the boundary at the edge of the Heavenly Sha Alliance's broken array patterns, officially stepping into the sect square that had been completely corrupted by "Fate Soul Distortion".
The instant they stepped in, the entire Heavenly Sha Alliance seemed to be jolted by an invisible nerve. The thousands of "disciples" who had been standing motionless shuddered simultaneously. In the next instant, dense black smoke erupted from their seven orifices, pores, and shadows. The black smoke did not rise upwards, but rolled along the ground as if it had weight, accompanied by a piercing low groan, as if countless Breaking Intent were wailing at the same time. The eye sockets of those "disciples" completely collapsed, and their faces, which had still retained a semblance of human form, rapidly elongated and distorted, their bones emitting a teeth-grinding cracking sound.
The distorted feeling of their Fate Soul being forcibly nailed to their physical bodies was clearly visible. They all looked up, but their gazes were not focused on Qin Yu or Jin Hanyan. Instead, they were "locked" on the causal fluctuations generated the moment the two stepped in. The next instant, low and frenzied roars erupted simultaneously from all around the plaza. The sounds did not come from their throats, but directly from the Fate Soul level, as if the entire sect was being pulled by the same Fate Soul chain, responding with a thunderous roar.
Immediately afterward, the first row of Fate Soul puppets surged forward, the stone slabs beneath their feet shattering the moment they stepped out. Without any cushioning from their flesh and blood, their bodies leaned forward at an angle defying physiology, their limbs trailing black afterimages of cause and effect. Like a swarm of things forcibly dragged from the "other side of death," they surged forward, their speed increasing with each step, tearing the air apart in ripples.
The remnants of the array in the center of the square flickered wildly and then quickly extinguished under their footsteps, while more Fate Soul puppets surged out from all directions. Figures leaped down from the eaves, pillars, and broken platforms. Black smoke wove into a huge, writhing net in mid-air, completely surrounding Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan. At that moment, the entire Heavenly Sha Alliance no longer resembled a sect ruin, but rather a giant beast with its jaws wide open. All the twisted Fate Soul simultaneously pounced on the only "living cause and effect" in the arena.
Jin Hanyan and Qin Yu moved almost simultaneously. Without a word, without any probing, it was as if, the moment they stepped into the plaza, they had already made their final judgment on these utterly distorted beings. Jin Hanyan raised her hand first. Her fingertips didn't form any hand seals, nor did any obvious spiritual energy leak out, yet the "sound" of the entire Heavenly Sha Alliance plaza was suddenly emptied. The wind stopped, the smoke lingered, and the roars seemed to be pressed into an abyss by an invisible hand. The void behind her slowly cracked open, and a ripple of silence, indescribable in color, spread outwards—the prelude to [Formless and Invisible: The Annihilation Other Shore].
The other shore did not descend into space, but directly entered the Fate Soul level. Those Fate Soul puppets that rushed forward first suddenly froze. Before the madness on their faces could turn into an attack, their Fate Soul were pulled into a "corridor of Annihilation" with no end in sight. Black smoke flowed backward in their bodies, like ashes rolled back by time. Bones, flesh, and causal afterimages lost their support at the same moment, and their entire bodies silently collapsed, turning into a void where even dust did not want to stay.
Immediately afterwards, she slowly pressed down with her other hand, and [Chaos Undivided, Heaven and Earth Judged] unfolded. The "up and down," "inside and outside," and "birth and death" of heaven and earth were instantly smoothed out. The center of the square seemed to be forcibly folded into a canvas without front and back. Hundreds and thousands of Fate Soul puppets suddenly lost their sense of direction while running. The force of their forward rush backfired on themselves. Under the judgment of chaos, the black smoke Fate Soul collided, overlapped, and tore each other apart. Before they could really get close to the two of them, they had already disintegrated in the chaotic judgment domain and exploded into disordered dark light fragments.
Almost simultaneously, Qin Yu took a step forward. The ground beneath his feet did not crack, but it felt weightless in silence. Qin Yu raised his hand, the Silent Origin Stainless Sword not fully drawn, only a sliver of eerie light visible on its blade. Yet, within that sliver, the measure of time seemed to be smoothed out. He coldly swung it down, the sword intent of [Undefined Destruction Sword] not aimed at a specific target, but rather swept across the entire plaza, defining its very existence. Where the sword light passed, there was no explosion, no roar, only a chilling emptiness spreading outwards. Patches of Fate Soul puppets lost their qualification to be "defined as enemies" the instant the sword intent touched them. Their forms seemed to be deleted from the world's script, along with their footprints, the billowing black smoke, and the unfinished roars, all vanishing into Emptiness.
The remaining Fate Soul puppets attempted to evade the sword's momentum and attack from the flanks. Qin Yu slightly raised his eyes, and the newly formed [Silent Profundity Unborn] deep within his sea of consciousness flowed quietly within him. He did not fully release it, but merely allowed that wisp of "Unborn stillness" to naturally overflow. In the next instant, the attack trajectories of those puppets suddenly froze in mid-air. They were not intercepted, nor were they negated, but rather, they "never truly formed." Their forward momentum seemed to exist only in the observer's illusion. The black smoke dissipated on its own in mid-air, Fate Soul were contained, disintegrated, and quietly disappeared within the Silent Profundity Stillness Domain.
The two forces intersected and overlapped in the center of the plaza, creating a near-apocalyptic scene. Chaos and Silent Profundity coexisted, Stainless and Annihilation resonated. The ground of the Heavenly Sha Alliance plaza gradually lost its original material concept. Stone slabs, array patterns, and ruins first turned into blurred outlines, and then completely disappeared. Thousands of Fate Soul puppets surged in like a tide, but were swallowed up by an invisible tsunami, disappearing in large swaths. In just a few breaths, the plaza, which had been roaring and deafening, fell into complete silence. The black smoke dissipated, leaving only a blank area where the "boundary between life and death" had been erased, a place where even the wind refused to linger.
Qin Yu slowly withdrew his hand, the sword intent of the Silent Origin Stainless Sword receding inward. Jin Hanyan also gently exhaled, the aftershocks of the Other Shore Annihilation gradually dissipating behind her. The two stood side by side in the center of the empty square, their feet on a void that no longer held the meaning of a "sect". The Heavenly Sha Alliance was thus completely erased from the causal map of the Void Obliteration Domain.
The plaza of the Heavenly Sha Alliance had just fallen silent, the emptiness of "even cause and effect being wiped clean" had not yet completely dissipated, when a chilling tremor suddenly came from the deepest part of the ruins. It was not the sound of footsteps, nor the fluctuation of spiritual energy, but rather a disjointed echo, as if some logical structure had been forcibly torn apart and then pieced back together. The ruins collapsed on their own, but the rubble did not fall to the ground; instead, it was crushed into powder in mid-air by an invisible force. Three figures slowly "emerged" from the darkness—they did not walk out, but were "forcibly allowed" to exist here by the world.
The Jin Hanyan saw clearly, her gaze suddenly darkened, her voice low, cold, and restrained. "Those are... the three elders of the Heavenly Sha Alliance." However, the words themselves carried a hesitation that even she herself noticed, because the beings before her had long since ceased to be "human." The first elder's body resembled repeatedly folded alabaster, its skin exhibiting a layered structure of grayish-white and dark purple. Its features were not symmetrically distributed on its face, but rather appeared as if they had been carelessly discarded and then reassembled. Its eyes were not on the same plane, yet they simultaneously stared at Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan, their gaze devoid of emotion, containing only a cold "judgment."
The second elder's lower body had completely vanished, replaced by a constantly writhing black, logical mist. Embedded within the mist were broken bones and runes. His chest cavity was empty, yet a twisted causal node pulsed within it, each pulse causing subtle distortions in the surrounding space. The third elder was the most bizarre. His body appeared complete, yet it resembled an infinitely elongated shadow, its outline constantly dragging and overlapping. When he walked, he didn't move, but rather "appeared and disappeared" simultaneously in different locations, as if his very existence was so unstable that he could be ejected from the world at any moment.
Qin Yu's gaze swept quickly over the three, his tone low and calm. "Be careful, they possess an irregular aura of logical contamination. They're not simply Fate Soul puppets; they seem more like failed products repeatedly rewritten by some high-level will." Before he finished speaking, the first mutated elder had already raised his structurally misaligned arm. Without forming hand seals or releasing spiritual power, he simply "looked" at Qin Yu's location. The next instant, his divine power, "Silent Appearance - Nothingness," was activated. There was no light, no impact, and not even any process that could be called an "attack." A remaining stone pillar beside Qin Yu instantly lost its "appearance of existence." It wasn't shattered or annihilated, but rather as if it had been deleted from the script of reality. Even the perception that "there was once a stone pillar here" began to blur. Jin Hanyan's heart tightened. It was an erasure method that directly targeted the Silent Profundity level. Its core wasn't destruction, but rather making the target never exist.
Almost simultaneously, the second mutated elder let out a low, inhuman groan. The black mist suddenly expanded, and his divine power, "Causal Erosion: Reversal of Fragments," unfolded. The causal nodes embedded in the mist abruptly exploded into countless tiny Logic Fragments. These fragments, like barbs, pierced the surrounding space, forming concentric rings of dark light rotating in reverse. Wherever these rings passed, the causal order was forcibly disrupted. The dissipated remnants of Fate Soul on the ground briefly "regressed," reappearing in distorted forms, only to be torn apart by their own Karmic Backlash in the next instant.
The entire area resembled a broken video repeatedly replayed and constantly malfunctioning, both visually and logically nauseating. The third mutated elder moved at this moment; his body suddenly stretched into a shadow covering half the sky, within which countless overlapping human figures emerged. His divine power, "Shadow Structure: Multiple Overlaps," descended, dragging the entire ruin into a world of double images. Three states—"here," "once here," and "soon to be here"—simultaneously existed within the space. Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan's figures were forcibly replicated into several illusory images within the shadow domain, each making different actions at different points in time. Any misjudgment could potentially attack the "incorrect self."
Faced with the simultaneous unleashing of three mutated divine abilities, Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan did not retreat a single step. Jin Hanyan shifted her body, directly cutting into the gaps between the overlapping shadow structures. She did not confront them head-on with her divine abilities, but instead used [Unjudged - Yin-Yang Reversal] to forcibly reverse the "master-servant relationship" within the shadow domain, causing the overlapping images to instantly lose their reference, superimpose and devour each other, with large swaths of images falling and dissipating like shattered mirrors. At the same time, she lightly pointed forward with her other hand, and [Return to Silence - Nameless Finger] quietly descended. That finger did not point to a specific target, but rather touched the causal core of "Cause Erosion - Reverse Evidence Remnant Ring," causing the Reverse Evidence Aura to suddenly pause.
Then, as if its fulcrum had been removed, the entire structure collapsed, and the causal fragments rotating in the opposite direction quickly returned to zero under the Nameless force. Qin Yu, on the other hand, stepped steadily forward. He did not use any of the disabled core systems, but instead used the Silent Origin Stainless Sword to slash across the void. His sword intent did not pursue Ultimate sharpness, but precisely cut into the logical edges that "Silent Form: Nothingness" had not yet fully covered. Wherever the sword light swept, the process of "erasure" was forcibly interrupted.
That "never-before-seen" trend was abruptly nailed to a semi-formed state, and large holes appeared in the arm of the first mutated elder, as if the world refused to continue to bear it. The three strange divine powers collided, collapsed, and backfired in the air, and the ruins of the Heavenly Sha Alliance shook violently again. The forms of the three mutated elders also began to show obvious signs of instability. Logic pollution interfered with each other in their bodies, emitting a tearing sound that made one's teeth ache.