Dao Reversed: The Question of the Beginningless

The Causal Soul Logic Realm Abyss, at the moment when the Master Soul Dominion is fully unleashed, no longer resembles space, but rather an awakened organ.

All causal lines within the domain tightened simultaneously, as if countless transparent veins were emerging from the depths of the void, interlocking and entwining with each other, compressing the entire space into a closed world that served only "recycling and purification".

The Master Soul Dominion at the center of the domain, its body supported by countless Fate Soul logics, and its arms slowly spread out.

The next instant— the Stainless World-Purifying Kill. There was no roar, no incantation.

Billions of azure-colored light particles burst forth from its body. This was not an eruption of energy, but rather an outward manifestation of its own realm. As the light particles ascended into the air, the "color" of the entire Causal Soul Logic Realm Abyss was instantly extracted. The traces of grayness, filth, and chaos turned into white smoke in the first instant and were forcibly purified.

Immediately afterwards, all the light particles converged at high altitude.

A pale golden curtain of light, covering the sky and earth, slowly descended.

The light curtain had no thickness, yet it gave people an absolute sense of "impenetrability." Fine, ethereal black lines flowed along its edges, like the silent fall of fragments of existence that had been peeled away. Before the light curtain even touched the earth, the space began to tremble deeply, with ripples spreading outwards, as if the world was being cleansed and corrected.

Wherever the light curtain passes, obsessions crumble first.

Jin Hanyan clearly saw that the remaining fragments of Fate Soul in the air evaporated on their own before the light curtain truly arrived, turning into wisps of silent white smoke; then came the dissolution of form, and the structure in space began to lose stability, like a reflection on the surface of water, gently smoothed out by an invisible hand.

This is the foundation of slaughter in the Stainless Realm. "All defilement is annihilated, nothing is pure and nothing remains."

The voice of the Master Soul Dominion echoed behind the light screen, calm and resolute, as if it had already announced the end.

Jin Hanyan stood directly below the light screen.

At that moment, her body seemed to be simultaneously locked within countless layers of judgment— her Fate Soul, Dao foundation, and divine soul were all scanned layer by layer by the power of Stainless, and any emotional fluctuations, deviations in will, or obsessions of existence were being marked and stripped away.

She could feel her image being "washed away".

If it had been a moment later, she would no longer be "Jin Hanyan," but merely a blank space that had been purified.

Just as the light screen was about to completely cover her, she raised her hand.

It's not a stance of confrontation, but a stance of denial.

Jin Hanyan's gaze fell completely silent at that moment, and the Daoist essence of the six great supernatural powers retreated to the deepest part of her sea of consciousness, leaving only an almost Emptiness will forming on the surface of her body.

She spoke softly, her voice low, yet it seemed to declare to the entire world, "Form and appearance are not on this shore."

In the next instant— Formless and shapeless, the Annihilation Other Shore— her figure suddenly "vanished."

It doesn't disappear, but rather it's stripped away from the current narrative level.

The pale golden light barrier of the Stainless World-Purifying Kill pressed down heavily, but a strange fracture appeared the instant it touched her body—the light barrier was neither blocked nor shattered, but rather lost its target.

Jin Hanyan's existence was forcibly pushed into the "Other Shore State" in that instant.

Her physical form no longer possessed the "appearance" to be purified, and her Fate Soul no longer existed in a recyclable structure. All her obsessions, definitions, and identity labels simultaneously fell into a silent dark realm.

The light curtain continued to descend, but it could only pass through the "place where she once stood."

A vast expanse of pale golden light cascaded down around her, flattening the ground, space, and even the meridians of her soul, turning them into absolute blankness. Yet, at the very center of that destruction, an outline of a vacuum that could not be covered remained.

The next instant— Jin Hanyan stepped back from the other shore.

Her figure solidified again, appearing behind the light curtain, her clothes fluttering in the aftershocks, yet there was no trace of purification or erosion on her body.

The two forces clashed head-on in the air.

The pale golden light barrier continued to expand outwards, while the space behind her collapsed violently due to the return of "Formless and shapeless," as if the rules of two worlds were forcibly coexisting in the same scene.

At the boundary between light and emptiness, a silent yet Ultimate visual impact erupts.

For the Master Soul Dominion truly tightened its gaze. "... Other Shore State." In its voice, a fluctuation that did not belong to "Judgment" finally appeared.

After the previous attack failed, the Causal Soul Logic Realm Abyss no longer maintained any disguise.

It wasn't anger, but a deeper, more instinctive "recycling impulse." The Master Soul Dominion slowly raised his hand, his five fingers spread.

In an instant, the underlying structure of the entire abyss began to reverse—not to expand, but to collapse inward.

Jin Hanyan immediately noticed something was wrong.

The space beneath her feet was no longer "ground," but had transformed into countless overlapping Causal Soul Reclamation tracks, each one revolving back to the same origin, like billions of transparent Fate Soul vessels tightening simultaneously, forcibly dragging her back from the "Other Shore State" to the current narrative level.

This time, it wasn't an attack, but a retrieval. The true form of the Causal Soul Logic Realm Abyss had truly manifested at this moment—

Countless Fate Soul logics transformed into dark light threads, emerging from all directions, piercing through space, time, and the very definition of existence, precisely locking onto Jin Hanyan's "not yet completely severed form anchor point."

The light strands couldn't touch her body, but instead wrapped directly around the "shadow of her existence."

The Other Shore State was forcibly pulled back. At that very moment—

The Master Soul Dominion raised its fingertips. There was no sword, yet there was sword intent. Clear Profound Form-Breaking Slash.

A slender, almost invisible silver-white sword shadow condensed at its fingertips.

When the sword shadow first appeared, there was no change in the surrounding space. Only countless tiny bubble illusions quietly appeared in the air. What was reflected in those bubbles was not scenery, but the instability of existence itself.

The moment the sword shadow locked onto Jin Hanyan, the bubble simultaneously froze.

The sword suddenly became solid.

The light patterns of the two characters "Disfigurement" slowly emerged from the surface of the sword shadow. The strokes were not sharp, but they carried a coldness of absolute negation.

The next instant, the sword was drawn. There was no slashing motion.

The silver-white sword shadow transformed into a stream of light, leaping from any location in the Causal Soul Logic Realm Abyss.

Wherever it passed, space was torn open by a transparent rift, Light of Stainlessness leaking from the rift spread out like cold mist, instantly rendering all the structures it touched meaningless.

On Jin Hanyan's shoulder, lines resembling shattered glass appeared first.

That wasn't a wound. It was the boundary of her "form" being severed.

Once this strike is completely executed, she will no longer have a basis for returning to existence.

Just as the sword shadow was about to pierce through—

A cold glint flashed in Jin Hanyan's eyes. She did not retreat, nor did she flee to the other side again.

Instead, take a step forward.

With this step, a certain "boundary" within her body was actively torn apart. Unresolved – Yin and Yang reversed.

The world silently flips. It's not a spatial inversion, but a momentary reversal of logical positive and negative.

The "form obsession" that Clear Profound Form-Breaking Slash originally targeted was forcibly replaced by "empty image afterimage" at this moment. The sword shadow no longer struck the foundation of her existence, but a "pseudo-form" that she had actively abandoned.

A silver-white sword flashed past. The glass shattered instantly, but only a false outer shell broke away.

The real Jin Hanyan has already turned the tide after the sword shadow incident.

She didn't stop. Taking advantage of the momentary malfunction in the Causal Soul Reclamation logic, she raised both palms simultaneously, her five fingers together.

At this moment, she no longer targeted the Master Soul Dominion.

Rather, it Causal Soul Logic Realm Abyss itself, Chaos Undivided, Heaven and Earth Judged.

She used herself as a point of reference to forcefully deny the premise that "the Abyss possesses a stable core".

The central region of the entire Causal Soul Logic Realm Abyss trembled violently under this judgment.

High in the sky, the core of the Causal Soul Logic Realm, which spanned ten meters, suddenly developed dense cracks. The cracks did not spread outwards, but rather collapsed inwards, as if a heart had been hollowed out from the inside.

Countless streams of Fate Soul logic light were forcibly severed, gushing out in reverse and transforming into an out-of-control storm of cause and effect.

The spatial structure inside the abyss began to peel away layer by layer, the recycling track collapsed, the logical lifeline broke, and the feeding system completely fell into chaos.

For the first time, the figure of the Master Soul Dominion was forced to retreat.

It steadied itself, but its gaze was no longer cold; instead, it carried a hint of scrutiny and suppressed excitement.

The remnants of the abyss fell and vanished behind it.

After a moment of deathly silence, it spoke softly, "You are quite good, human. Although we are both at the Stainless Realm · Supreme, your logical framework as a human is far inferior to ours."

It slowly raised its head, its gaze like a blade of judgment. "But you, you can withstand my divine power."

Jin Hanyan's lips curled slightly, but her smile was utterly cold. She stared at the Master Soul Dominion, her tone filled with undisguised sarcasm:

"You're not bad either; at least you can withstand my supernatural powers."

The moment those words were spoken, the remaining structure of the Causal Soul Logic Realm Abyss suddenly froze.

The Master Soul Dominion showed no anger, but instead slowly raised its arms, as if welcoming some preordained ritual. Its deeper origins were completely unsealed, and the power of Stainless no longer emanated as light, but transformed into an absolute sense of tranquil emptiness. Even the surging remnants of the souls around it lost their meaning of "flow" at this moment.

"Void Stillness Beginningless Kill."

Its sound no longer traveled through the air, but appeared directly at the edge of Jin Hanyan's consciousness, as if it were an echo from before time itself was born.

The Master Soul Dominion the hands to form the "Beginningless" seal.

In an instant, a semi-transparent gray-white light shield appeared around Jin Hanyan. The light shield was not thick, but it was like a thin film that isolated her from reality, forcibly separating her from the current time and space. Inside the light shield, the reversed time patterns flowed like a tide, and countless fine and clear causal threads appeared from the void, being pulled, entangled and stretched by the light shield.

She clearly "saw"—fragments of her own memories resurfacing; the accumulation of power was regressing.

The causal relationships that were once severed, denied, and surpassed reappeared one by one, only to be cleansed by the power of Stainless.

There was no pain. No tearing. Only a calm and complete sense of being "erased".

Outside the light barrier, space began to blur, and the flow of time visibly slowed down. Images of Jin Hanyan's past flashed within the light barrier, only to fade rapidly, like traces erased by an invisible hand. The light barrier began to contract, compressing inward into an increasingly smaller gray-white dot of light.

Once the light spot is extinguished, she will be sent back to nothingness from before "Beginningless", as if she had never existed.

At that very moment— Jin Hanyan closed her eyes. Not in struggle, but in acceptance.

She acknowledged the legitimacy of this power of regression, and recognized that "Beginningless Endless" was inherently part of the Great Dao. The next moment, she opened her eyes.

Deep within the pupils, there is no other shore, no chaos, only a kind of almost indifferent clarity.

She uttered four words softly. "Silent Void, the Way Reverses All Heavens." There was no burst of light. There was no tremor.

The gray-white light shield that enveloped her suddenly underwent an extremely subtle change—the reversed time patterns within the shield paused for a moment.

Immediately afterwards, the flow of the patterns reversed. Not because it was interrupted, but because it was challenged.

Jin Hanyan did not deny "Beginningless," but instead used herself as an anchor to forcefully raise a higher-level question—

If all paths can be traced back to the Beginningless, then is the Beginningless itself also within the path?

The instant this thought took shape, the core logic of the Void Stillness Beginningless Kill was pried open by a tiny crack.

The gray-white light shield trembled violently, but did not collapse. Instead, it pushed the Stainless power that traced back to its origin back along the threads of cause and effect.

The body under the Master Soul Dominion suddenly trembled.

A thin crack silently appeared on its chest. There was no blood in the crack, only the Light of Stainlessness that had been reflected back flowing erratically, as if its "Beginningless anchor point" had been briefly shaken.

It took half a step back. Just half a step. But at the pinnacle of the Stainless Realm · Supreme, that was already a real injury.

The crack closed rapidly. The aura of the Master Soul Dominion did not weaken, but there was a clear momentary imbalance. It was not a weakening of power, but the first wavering of its absolute power.

The gray-white light surrounding Jin Hanyan completely dissipated, and she stood once again atop the ruins of the Causal Soul Logic Realm Abyss. Her clothes were still, and her aura was steady, as if the annihilation that had just targeted "Beginningless" had never happened.

She looked up at the Master Soul Dominion, her tone calm yet sharp. "Your path is complete. But—it's not beyond questioning."