The moment the three elders looked up simultaneously from the depths of the ruins, there was no trace of "life" left. Their pupils were hollow and collapsed, leaving only a kind of mad drive that had been repeatedly torn apart and forcibly pieced back together—not will, not obsession, but the remnant logic of attack itself. The air began to crackle, as if the bottom of the world was being continuously struck.
The first elder suddenly spread his arms, his body shattering into countless layers of time-manipulating afterimages in an instant. His released divine power, "Mystic Sha Time Demise," didn't emit any dazzling light, but instead created an extremely unsettling illusion across the entire battlefield—time ceased to flow, instead happening and destroying simultaneously. In the space before Qin Yu, a blurry humanoid silhouette experienced the cries of an infant, the burst of youthful energy, the decay of old age, and the collapse of bones in a flash, only to return to wholeness in the next instant. This cycle repeated endlessly, the scene so fast that even consciousness couldn't fully grasp it, leaving only a dizzying, soul-tearing sensation, as if "existence" was being repeatedly crushed and discarded. Almost simultaneously...
The second elder prostrated himself on the ground, his broken body suddenly collapsing into a point of indescribable geometry, and the "Void Annihilation Realm Scar" erupted. There was no tremor, no roar; the entire area beneath Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan's feet was as if the space had been smoothly wiped away by an invisible hand. The ground, air, and light disappeared simultaneously, leaving an absolute blank fracture in their vision, its edges so smooth they were chilling, as if this space had never been defined in the first place.
The third elder slowly raised his head at this moment, a smile that was not human. The "Reverse Causality Stillness" technique quietly took shape without any warning. A sudden, chilling emptiness gripped Jin Hanyan's heart, as if a certain outcome had been predetermined, and the world was frantically searching for a Does Not Exist reason to make it true. Just as the triple killing techniques simultaneously sealed off the battlefield, Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan, almost without exchanging a word, reacted at the same time. Jin Hanyan stepped forward, her figure directly piercing the core of the time-collapse created by the "Mystic Sha Time Demise."
Instead of fighting against time itself, she forcibly shattered the premise of "time being necessarily continuous" with [Chaos Undivided, Heaven and Earth Judged]. The meaning of chaos surged like a torrent, and those times that should have been cyclical and extinct lost their ordering basis under the judgment of chaos, collapsing into a desolate and unusable wasteland. In the next instant, she unleashed [Formless and Invisible, the Annihilation Other Shore], and a dark and absolute domain of Annihilation spread out horizontally, enveloping the spatial void caused by [Void Annihilation Realm Scar]. It was not to repair space, but to make the "erasure of space" itself lose its meaning. The void fracture rapidly contracted and fell in the Annihilation Other Shore, as if swallowed into a bottomless abyss.
Qin Yu made his move at the same time. He did not directly respond to the result-oriented killing logic of "Reverse Causality Stillness". Instead, he used the Three Forms of Fate Construction Cause and Effect Deconstruction to precisely cut into the Causal Loop that was not yet fully closed. He forcibly dismantled the logical foundation of "the result must be true". Immediately afterwards, he swept his sword horizontally. The sword light of the Silent Origin Stainless Sword was not blazing, but it carried an inescapable will of judgment. It severed the Third Elder's unfinished "world cause replenishment" process on the spot. The Karmic Backlash instantly erupted in his body, and his body began to collapse from the inside.
The collapse of the three divine powers triggered a chain reaction in the air. Light, shadows, fragments of time, and spatial debris swept across the ruins like a storm. At this moment, the Heavenly Sha Alliance ruins resembled a wound that had been repeatedly torn open, its internal logical structure completely collapsing. The three mutated elders simultaneously let out silent howls as their bodies began to disintegrate in different ways: the Time Elder completely lost its order in an infinite number of moments, turning into a string of afterimages that could never be pieced back together; the Space Elder, along with the last small area around him, was swallowed by the Other Shore of Annihilation Other Shore, leaving no trace; and the Reverse Cause Elder shattered instantly in the self-devouring of cause and effect, even the result of "attempting to attack" was erased. In the end, everything returned to silence, leaving only slowly falling ashes and the gradually stabilizing pulse of the world above the ruins, as if the devastating clash had never happened.
Before the aftershocks of the three elders' complete Annihilation had completely dissipated, a discordant low groan suddenly emanated from the depths of the Heavenly Sha Alliance ruins. The sound was not like an energy vibration, but rather like the groan of logic being forcibly dragged and Time Splitting. Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan turned around at the same time, their gazes piercing through the broken palace and collapsed earth veins. In the deepest part, a black crystal core floating in the void slowly appeared.
It was not a crystal in the ordinary sense. Instead of refracting light, it devoured all colors. The dense black energy surrounding it was like a living thing, with each wisp calculating and eroding on its own. Wherever it swept, the remaining traces of cause and effect were directly distorted, polluted, and rewritten. The world's original lines of energy on the ground collapsed one after another, as if the very fact that "something happened here" was being forcibly denied.
The black crystal core suddenly began to tremble violently. The tremor did not cause an explosion, but it caused the entire space to shake irregularly, as if reality was being constantly corrected by an invisible hand. Then, the black energy collapsed inward, and in the next instant, it burst outward with a bang. A figure was forcibly "pieced together" in front of the crystal core. It was Li Tiansha of the Heavenly Sha Alliance - or rather, only the outline of Li Tiansha remained.
His body was tall and stiff, his limbs were elongated in a strange way, and his skin had a dark, almost metallic sheen. It was covered with fine cracks, from which the same black mist constantly seeped out. His face still vaguely resembled the outline of the former leader of the Heavenly Sha Alliance, but his features were severely displaced. His eyes were empty and lifeless, and his pupils no longer reflected any external scene. Instead, they constantly flashed chaotic afterimages of cause and effect.
What was most unsettling was his brow—the black crystal core was firmly embedded there, like a third eye, or a cold shackle. Every faint pulsation of the crystal core would trigger the logical circuits throughout Li Tiansha's body. His aura rose steadily above the ruins, surging from the Annihilation Dawn Realm · Initial Stage all the way up. The chaotic intent spread like a tsunami, and the spatial layers were compressed and overlapped, finally stabilizing at the peak of the Chaos Realm · Supreme. It wasn't the joy of a breakthrough, but a forced elevation after being completely occupied. Li Tiansha was more like a vessel wearing a humanoid shell.
He slowly raised his head, the sound emanating from his throat a mixture of multiple echoes, neither a human voice nor a beast's roar, but a whisper from the black crystal core directly to the world through his body. With each syllable, Qin Yu could clearly feel a slight stinging sensation on the surface of his own causal logic, as if the other's very existence was constantly trying to "take over" everything around him. Jin Hanyan's expression darkened; she could sense that the person before her was no longer a simple enemy, but a walking source of pollution, whose core will no longer belonged to Li Tiansha himself.
Above the ruins, black energy surged, and the oppressive force of chaos pressed down as if it were a tangible force. A new battle was taking shape, and this time, the enemy was no longer an out-of-control puppet, but an existence completely controlled by the Black Body Crystal Core, walking the world with the Chaos Realm · Supreme.
Li Tiansha slowly raised his head. The black crystal core embedded between his eyebrows suddenly lit up for a moment, then completely went dark the next moment, as if even the act of "glowing" itself was being denied. His lips opened and closed slightly, but the sound did not come from the vibration of his throat. Instead, the surrounding space collapsed and reorganized on its own, forcibly squeezing out segments of meaning into sound, which poured into Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan's sea of consciousness layer by layer.
The voice was cold and hollow, yet carried an undeniable command, as if some will was using Li Tiansha's body to proclaim a decree to the world—within the Void Obliteration Domain, all cultivators who have entered the Silent Mystery Realm are "soul materials" awaiting harvest. Their souls, foundations, and Unborn potential will all be devoured, transformed into extensions of the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor of Annihilation; all transformed beings will lose their selves, swearing undying loyalty until the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor finds his sole objective—"the Body of Void Evolution Causality-Replenishing Marrow."
The moment the voice uttered the term, the world seemed to instinctively freeze, as if even the world itself reacted with a rejection to the concept. Qin Yu frowned slightly; he clearly felt his own perception, honed in the Silent Mystery Realm, exhibit a slight instinctive avoidance for a fleeting moment, as if something that shouldn't have been touched had just been forcibly brought up. He repeated the words in a low voice, his tone unusually calm. "The Body of Void Evolution Causality-Replenishing Marrow? What is that?"
Jin Hanyan's expression suddenly changed at this moment. A rare hint of suppressed shock and chill flashed across her usually calm gaze. She took a deep breath, her voice deliberately lowered, yet still carrying an undisguised solemnity, and slowly revealed the truth buried in the ancient taboo—the so-called Body of Void Evolution Causality-Replenishing Marrow was not a naturally born thing, but a forbidden crystal personally refined by a supreme being. Its origin was extremely terrifying: it required one's own "Void Evolution Core" as a guide to peel off and compress the "marrow" at the deepest part of the causal origin, and then, in the final step, to forcibly integrate a wisp of "Annihilation True Meaning" that had escaped when the bead shattered. The three elements were superimposed, negated, and reconstructed before finally being sealed in the deepest cracks and folds of the bead.
That thing Does Not Exist in any Knowing Layer under normal circumstances; it's hidden and invisible. It only manifests itself when the bead is in the Void Evolution stage and the causal logic is broken—for example, when a low-level origin triggers rejection, when incomplete Void Evolution causes a progress gap, or when a Causality-Replenishing Marrow tears open the rift in the Dao Heart. It serves as the Ultimate repair logic for forcibly repairing the damage.
At this point, Jin Hanyan's tone had turned completely cold. She looked at Qin Yu, her gaze more serious than ever before. "Young Master Qin, this is bad... The scheme of the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor is probably far more terrifying than we imagine. The Void Evolution Causality-Replenishing Marrow is an absolutely forbidden item. Its acquisition method... is not 'taking,' but 'stealing'—it must be forcibly extracted from the very core of a cultivator's Fate Soul. That process is so cruel that even 'death' cannot be considered the end."
She paused, as if suppressing a chill surging within her, and continued, "Legend has it that among billions of cultivators, perhaps only one cultivator at the Void Emanation Realm has an extremely low chance of naturally developing such a marrow body within their body; many even believe it's merely a recorded legend... But if this legend is true, then the person targeted will not be allowed to die, but will be endlessly used and dismantled until even the fact that they 'once existed' is drained dry."
Above the ruins, the black crystal core trembled slightly once more. Li Tiansha's figure appeared increasingly distorted in the chaotic aura, as if it were not an individual, but a conspiracy itself that had already extended its tentacles. Qin Yu stood there quietly, his aura of the Silent Mystery Realm · Peak as restrained as an abyss. He did not respond immediately, but slowly sank the words "Body of Void Evolution Causality-Replenishing Marrow" into the deepest part of his heart.