The moment Jin Hanyan stepped onto the battlefield, the pace of battle above the entire Shadow Void Capital was forcibly raised to a new level.
She didn't deliberately release any pressure, nor did she extend any domain.
With a mere sway of her body, she was already standing in the very center of the chaotic battlefield. The next instant, she raised her hand.
It wasn't a hand seal, nor was it gathering momentum; rather, it was an extremely natural, almost casual movement, as if it were merely brushing dust off a sleeve.
--Return to Silence, Nameless Finger.
The moment that finger struck, there was no explosion in the heavens and earth.
Instead, all sound suddenly vanished. It was an extreme stillness.
It was as if an invisible hand had gripped the throat of the entire Shadow Void Capital City.
Where the finger landed, space did not shatter, but it was completely emptied at the "conceptual level." Tens of thousands of Logic Remnants Lord frantically froze in motion at the same moment—not frozen, but their own "reason for existence" was directly erased by this finger.
There was no struggle. There were no screams.
Those Logic Remnants Lord of the Chaos Realm · Initial Stage, whose logical remnants faded from their core, were washed away from the inside out by an invisible tide. The chaotic structure crumbled inch by inch, the fragments of laws turned into meaningless ashes, and finally even the traces of "having existed" were taken away.
With a single finger, the void stretching for hundreds of miles ahead was completely cleared.
The chaotic storm automatically circled around that area, as if even chaos itself was unwilling to touch the "blank space" left by that finger.
The cultivators in the city who witnessed this scene were momentarily speechless.
This wasn't the first time they'd seen the Stainless Realm make a move.
But such a clean, thorough, and unreasonable Annihilation still shakes the soul.
However, before this brief shock had even subsided—
High in the sky, the Taowu Formless Devil Beast finally reacted.
For the first time, emotions appeared on its almost human-like face.
Not anger. Not vigilance. But rather—contempt.
A faint smile, yet one that instinctively sent shivers down the spines of all those at the Stainless Realm, appeared at the corner of its mouth.
"Heh..." That low laugh, though without sound waves, directly affected the causal layer, causing countless cultivators to experience a momentary mental disorientation.
The next moment, it raised one of its front paws. Not to attack, but to tear.
The void beneath its claws was like a thin sheet of paper torn at will, offering no resistance. It wasn't space shattering, but rather space itself being negated, a "chaotic rift" forcibly torn open, spanning heaven and earth.
Beyond the rift lies not darkness, but a deeper existence.
An endless tide of gray-white mist surged forth from the cracks.
Immediately afterwards, one, two, ten, a hundred... figures slowly emerged from the depths of the void.
The moment the first figure fully appeared, the entire Shadow Void Capital fell into deathly silence.
It was a supreme being— Master Soul Dominion. But it wasn't the kind of "single entity" that everyone had struggled to defeat on the various battlefields before.
Instead, they Stainless Realm · Middle Stage. Their forms are completely different from those of the Logic Remnants Lord.
Each Master Soul Dominion seems to be formed from a "complete chaotic will," with a clear outline that constantly switches between reality and illusion. There are no superfluous patterns on the body surface, only the purest and coldest aura of law flowing through it.
Their eyes were two empty, grayish-white light sources.
No emotions. No ego. Only an absolute will to execute.
What's most disheartening is the sheer number of them. After one, there's a second. After the second, there's a third.
The cracks kept widening, seemingly without end.
Tens of thousands of Stainless Realm · Middle Stage Master Soul Dominion emerged from the depths of the void like an army formation, orderly, indifferent, and silent.
At this moment, even those old monsters Chaos Realm · Supreme had their expressions truly change for the first time.
Someone's throat tightened, their voice dry and almost broken. "This... is impossible..."
"Stainless Realm · Middle Stage... Master Soul Dominion... How could they possibly appear as an army...?"
"This is no longer a siege... this is... the annihilation of a domain..."
Fear, as tangible as a physical force, spread across the battlefield. Not because the enemy was strong, but because the rules had been broken.
In the past, they faced a "Master Soul Dominion," and it took an extremely heavy price to barely suppress and kill it.
Now, with tens of thousands upon tens of thousands of people, this gap can no longer be bridged by courage, willpower, or combat strength.
This was an absolute, overwhelming defeat. Jin Hanyan stood high in the sky, her gaze fixed on the rift that tore through the void.
Her expression was more solemn than ever before. She knew very well.
At this moment, Shadow Void Capital truly faced was no longer a war, but rather—
The Source Realm level cleansing took place, while the Taowu Formless Devil Beast merely hovered higher up, overlooking everything as if watching a drama with a predetermined ending.
On the battlefield, the sky Shadow Void Capital was no longer the sky.
Jin Hanyan stood at the forefront, her robes fluttering in the chaotic currents. Her gaze remained unwavering, yet for the first time, she truly felt—
This is not Master Soul Dominion. It is a complete sequence of destruction.
The Taowu Formless Devil Beast, looked down from its high perch, and with a gentle flick of its tail whip, ripples spread across the void like water.
Its voice was devoid of emotion, yet it resonated directly deep within the minds of all the Stainless Realm experts:
"Struggle." That's all that's left of your existence.
The defensive array of the Shadow Void Capital was operating wildly, and fine cracks began to appear on the Chaos Essence Crystal on the city wall.
The cultivators in the Chaos Realm gripped their weapons tightly, but for the first time, a thought arose in their hearts—if reinforcements did not arrive, no one would survive.
The sky above the Shadow Void Capital was ignited in an instant. Not by flames, but by the simultaneous awakening of chaos and the Stainless will.
The moment Jin Hanyan stepped into the air, two other Stainless Realm experts appeared behind her. One's aura was like a deep, still abyss, and Myriad Phenomena Return to Stillness with every move; the other was surrounded by almost transparent afterimages of cause and effect, and with every breath, the logic of the world receded on its own. The three figures stood side by side on the dome of the Shadow Void Capital, like three nails driven into reality, forcefully stabilizing the collapsing sky.
Almost at the same moment they appeared, the entire killing system of Shadow Void Capital was forcibly activated.
On the city wall, the Chaos Essence Crystal seemed to be twisted open by an invisible hand, and densely packed Annihilation Structure patterns appeared on the surface of the thousand-foot-high city defenses. These patterns were not runes, but "death permits" directly engraved into the structure of reality. The entire main city emitted a deep resonance, as if an ancient, slumbering beast had opened its eyes.
The next breath--
Light, falling.
Not just one, but hundreds and thousands of chaotic killing beams piercing the heavens and earth. They erupted simultaneously from city walls, streets, towers, and void array eyes, radiating and tearing through the sky. Wherever they passed, the Logic Remnants Lord were wiped out in mid-air before they could even utter a wail, becoming a gray-white "empty segment." Those empty segments could not even be called remnants, because they were stripped of even the qualification of "having ever existed."
At the same time, the streets inside the Shadow Void Capital were completely deformed. Chaotic runes rose from the ground, surging through the city like a living river, transforming into countless suspended killing arrays. Every cultivator who stepped into the array had their aura amplified, resonated, and superimposed—tens of thousands of cultivators at the Silent Mystery Realm attacked simultaneously, and the light of laws bloomed layer upon layer in the city, like a starry sea that had been ignited.
However, the Master Soul Dominion.
Tens of thousands of Stainless Realm · Middle Stage Master Soul Dominion raised their hands at the same moment.
There was no roar, no declaration.
Their movements were so synchronized they were almost indifferent, as if they were not launching an attack, but rather carrying out an order that had long been written into the very core of the universe.
In an instant, the "stability" of heaven and earth was completely drained.
The Chaos Realm cultivators' defenses failed in an instant. They weren't broken, but rather lost their meaning as "defenses." Waves of Stainless will swept across like silent tides, and the figures of dozens of the Chaos Realm experts suddenly froze in mid-air, then peeled away from reality like a picture erased by an eraser.
There was no explosion, no bloodshed.
They just suddenly disappeared.
Jin Hanyan's pupils suddenly contracted. She raised her hand and pointed out, "Return to Silence - Nameless Finger" blooming with an absolute Annihilation light trace in the void. The light trace was like a still line that stretched across the heavens and the earth. The more than ten Master Soul Dominion that it touched were frozen at the same time, and then forcibly pulled into the "unnamed" state, along with the causal structure behind them, which collapsed together.
But in the next instant, more Master Soul Dominion filled the vacancies.
The other two Stainless Realm experts attacked simultaneously. Jin Hanyan unleashed "Formless and Annihilation Other Shore," transforming the entire dome into an indistinguishable void, within which hundreds of Master Soul Dominion lost their "position." She then released "Chaos Undivided, Heaven and Earth Judged and Earth," forcibly dragging both sides into the same logical level, briefly causing the Master Soul Dominion to lose their "dimensional advantage."
But the price was that cultivators in the Shadow Void Capital began to fall in droves.
Cultivators at the Silent Mystery Realm · Supreme were swept away like grains of sand by the wind with a casual strike Master Soul Dominion, not even having time to struggle; experts at the Chaos Realm · Initial Stage fought desperately, each self-destruction and each burning of their origin only brought about a very brief pause in their opponents.
The city did not collapse. As one group of cultivators fell, another immediately took their place.
Some people drove their weapons into the array's core before they fell, some used their last ounce of consciousness to maintain the array's operation, and some even rushed towards the Master Soul Dominion, just to buy themselves a moment before the opponent made their move.
The entire Shadow Void Capital is using its very lives to resist this invasion that should never have happened.
High above, the Taowu Formless Devil Beast remained motionless.
It simply looked down at all of this, a barely perceptible smile slowly curving its lips, as if watching a drama whose ending had already been written.
The sky Shadow Void Capital has begun to show cracks that cannot be healed.
The sky above Shadow Void Capital has completely lost its original color. The gray-black waves of energy surging from the Chaos Sea Abyss are like an inverted galaxy, pressing down on the city from layer to layer. Thousands of the Stainless Realm Master Soul Dominion are hidden within them, and every vibration causes the entire space to tremble, as if the city is being slowly crushed by an invisible giant hand.
At that very moment, not far from Jin Hanyan, the Stainless Realm expert who had been silent all along suddenly spoke. His voice wasn't loud, but it was crystal clear amidst the chaotic roar, "Fellow Daoist, you are Jin Hanyan, the first direct disciple of the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall, aren't you? The divine power you just unleashed has revealed the unique inheritance logic of the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall."
Jin Hanyan's gaze remained fixed on the Master Soul Dominion gathering in the distance. She merely nodded slightly, her tone calm and restrained, "Senior, now is not the time to speak. We should deal with these Master Soul Dominion as soon as possible."
The moment the words fell, the auras of the three abruptly diverged, each standing in different positions in the void, forming a silent yet stable triangular suppression formation of the Stainless Realm. The Stainless Realm expert who had spoken first slowly raised his hand, and behind him, an ancient and imposing boundary shadow slowly unfolded.
Like a gray canopy formed by countless Time Splitting and times, within which countless shattered remnants of worlds could be vaguely seen floating and sinking. He took a step forward, and the entire void suddenly froze, then his divine powers were fully activated—
This was not a simple killing technique, but an annihilation technique based on "realms". The sky suddenly pressed down, and countless Master Soul Dominion were directly swept into the layers of shadowy realms before they could react.
Like a stone thrown into a bottomless abyss, it couldn't even stir up a ripple of struggle before its existence was crushed, dismantled, and swallowed layer by layer, until even the main soul structure could not remain intact.
At the same time, another Stainless Realm expert had completed his divine power preparation. His figure gradually blurred in the void, as if merging with the surrounding chaotic energy. Then, extremely fine yet infinitely extending light patterns spread out from his body.
The light patterns were not dazzling; instead, they resembled the marks left by the erosion of time, silent and cold. When he gently grasped them, the light patterns instantly pierced through the void, precisely locking onto a large number of core nodes of the Master Soul Dominion.
The next instant, there was no earth-shattering explosion, nor the collision of energy torrents; instead, tiny cracks appeared simultaneously within the locked-on Master Soul Dominion's body, rapidly spreading along its own structural framework.
As if some kind of "fundamental order" had been forcibly removed, hundreds and thousands of the Stainless Realm Master Soul Dominion silently disintegrated at the same time, turning into meaningless chaotic debris that scattered into the void with the wind.
Two completely different styles of the Stainless Realm abilities unfolded simultaneously on the same battlefield. One was like a collapsing boundary, suppressing everything head-on; the other was like the detachment of order, silently erasing everything. At the center of their convergence, Jin Hanyan remained steadfastly high in the sky.
Her very existence was like an insurmountable boundary, firmly blocking the torrent of Master Soul Dominion unleashed by the Taowu Formless Devil Beast outside the Shadow Void Capital. Even so, the number of Master Soul Dominion continued to surge.
The figures of the Chaos Realm cultivators and Silent Mystery Realm cultivators fell and dissipated continuously above the city. Blood and chaotic energy intertwined to create a suffocating scene. The entire Shadow Void Capital struggling to hold on amidst the roar, as if it would be completely torn apart at any moment.
Higher still, the Taowu Formless Devil Beast remained suspended in the depths of the sky, its expressionless human face overlooking everything. There was no anger or impatience in its eyes, only an almost indifferent scrutiny, as if it were waiting for a result it had already foreseen.