Deep within the Shadow Void Capital, the core of the city that suppressed the entire main city finally emitted a sound that should not have been heard.
That wasn't a roar, but an extremely subtle cracking sound that made all the Stainless Realm experts simultaneously tremble.
Like an ancient crystal bearing the weight of billions of years, after countless impacts, the first irreversible crack finally appeared. The Chaos Sea Abyss beneath the Shadow Void Capital suddenly churned, and the previously suppressed chaotic tides began to flow backward.
The Chaos Essence Crystal atop the city walls lost some of their resonance, and the black, white, and gray air currents simultaneously became chaotic, sometimes solidifying into mountains and sometimes disintegrating into nothingness and fragments. For the first time, the "unpredictable existence and non-existence" structure of the entire city became unbalanced, with day and night simultaneously covering different areas of the city, palaces and ruins overlapping and overlapping, and the flow of time breaking into countless segments on the streets.
A large number of cultivators at the Silent Mystery Realm were directly Annihilation by the backlash of the formation, and cultivators at the Chaos Realm also felt that the "foundation of the city" beneath their feet was loosening - the Shadow Void Capital was entering its countdown to survival.
Just as the chaos teetered on the brink of spiraling out of control, Jin Hanyan stood high in the sky, her robes fluttering in the chaotic storm. Her gaze swept over the falling cultivators in the city, the battle lines torn apart by the Master Soul Dominion, and the slowly expanding crack in the city's core. Without hesitation, her voice resonated clearly through the resonance of her Stainless Realm divine soul, reaching the consciousness of the other two Stainless Realm experts.
"Senior, the number of cultivators in the city has exceeded 300; this cannot continue."
"Moreover, it's impossible to determine when reinforcements from other major cities will arrive."
"The three of us must act swiftly and decisively—commanding our Ultimate abilities appropriately, and striving to Annihilation all Logic Remnants Lord the Chaos Realm logic in the shortest possible time."
The words were spoken without hesitation or further deliberation.
The two Stainless Realm experts nodded almost simultaneously. One of them responded in a low voice, his tone as firm as a boulder that could shatter countless worlds, "Good."
The other person uttered only one word, yet it seemed to seal the fate of this battlefield. "War."
The next moment, the auras of the three people underwent a qualitative change simultaneously.
Jin Hanyan slowly raised her hand, her expression completely silent at this moment, as if all the birth and death, noise and fear in the world could no longer touch her heart. Her Ultimate divine power did not start with a violent energy burst, but with an absolute stillness - when her will was fully unfolded, the domain of "Formless and Invisible, Annihilation Other Shore" was silently spread.
It was as if an invisible hand had pressed the "stillness" button on the world.
Centered on Jin Hanyan, the vast and boundless void began to lose its meaning of "form." Light ceased to propagate, shadows ceased to cast, and all the Logic Remnants Lord the Chaos Realm logic simultaneously experienced a strange stagnation, their existence forcibly pulled into an intermediate state of "Non-Existence nor Does Not Exist." Immediately afterwards, "Chaos Undivided, Heaven and Earth Judged" was activated—this was not a strike, not a suppression, but an Ultimate Order Adjudication covering the entire battlefield. The distinctions between heaven and earth, above and below, inside and outside, birth and death were completely erased, and the "judgment premises" upon which all the Logic Remnants Lord relied for their actions were directly deleted.
The swathes of the lingering Logic Remnants Lord the Chaos Realm collapsed silently at this moment. Their bodies did not shatter or explode; they were simply erased from reality, failing even to undergo the process of "death." They were directly transformed into Formless emptiness and swallowed up by the Annihilation Other Shore.
At the same time, the Ultimate divine power of the first Stainless Realm expert was fully unleashed.
He slowly brought his hands together, and the boundary behind him was no longer the sky, but completely collapsed into a "World Tomb". It was an Ultimate structure formed by the compression of countless broken worlds. Where the World Tomb fell, space, time, and causality were simultaneously compressed into a thin layer that could not be unfolded.
Tens of thousands of Logic Remnants Lords from the Chaos Realm were forcibly drawn into the World Tomb. They tried to struggle, but found that their "world adaptability" was meaningless here— the World Tomb was not a battlefield, but the end. All beings included within it were crushed into meaningless boundary debris in the same instant, and even the remnants of logic could not dissipate.
The third Stainless Realm expert slowly closed his eyes in the void.
When he opened his eyes again, the "order" of the entire battlefield had been irreversibly disrupted. His Ultimate power was not destruction, but rewriting the order of annihilation. Countless, intricate light patterns emerged from the depths of the void; they were not attacks, but "recycling."
Each beam of light precisely pierced the core of a Logic Remnants Lord the Chaos Realm's logic, instantly stripping away the most fundamental logic upon which its existence depended, regressing it to a stage "before it was created." Those Master Soul Dominion didn't even have time to react before being erased back into nothingness in the sense of time.
The three Ultimate divine abilities of the Stainless Realm were completely superimposed at the same moment.
The sky outside the Shadow Void Capital was completely torn apart, and the Chaos Sea Abyss surged upwards, only to be forcibly pushed back under the suppression of the three Ultimate forces. Vast swathes of the Logic Remnants Lord the Chaos Realm logic were wiped out, and a brief but shocking vacuum appeared on the battlefield.
At an even higher vantage point, the expressionless face of the Taotie Taowu Formless Devil Beast showed a subtle change for the first time.
The Taowu Formless Devil Beast, is finally no longer just a bystander.
When the Ultimate divine powers of the three Stainless Realm experts were superimposed and a large area of Master Soul Dominion was forcibly cleared, its expressionless face slowly rose, and its empty eyes truly "gaze" at the core of the town of Shadow Void Capital for the first time. In that instant, all the sounds in the world seemed to be drawn away, leaving only an extremely subtle yet soul-chilling sound—the sound of friction.
That wasn't an energy collision, but rather a primordial anomaly produced when "existence" and "Non-Existence" were forcibly misaligned.
The Taowu Formless Devil Beast, raised one claw. The movement was not swift, but it carried an irresistible sense of nature. The moment the claw tip fell, the void seemed to be torn open by invisible beast teeth, and a rift spanning the heavens and the earth instantly formed.
There is no light or darkness within the rift, only the ever-surging and ever-annihilating "Stainless Void Form," which is the original state that can Stainless Realm · Supreme.
Its supernatural power does not attack the city itself, but rather directly interferes with the logic of the city's defenses.
The core of the Shadow Void Capital City trembled violently; the previously slight crack expanded infinitely. Simultaneously, the Chaos Essence Crystal throughout the main city emitted a piercing resonance, and the city walls began to collapse on a massive scale.
The tides in the Chaos Sea Abyss surged uncontrollably, as if trying to drag the entire city back to an "undefined" state.
The countdown has truly begun.
Jin Hanyan stood high in the sky, her figure appearing extremely lonely amidst the chaotic storm. She could clearly sense that as long as the core of the town endured another impact of the same level, the Shadow Void Capital would no longer be "destroyed," but would be completely erased from existence.
It's not as simple as the city being destroyed and people dying; it means that millions of cultivators in the city will be completely wiped out on a logical level, leaving no trace of their existence.
Abandoning the city and retreating would at least preserve oneself and some of the stronger individuals;
To protect the city with her own body means that she must use her Stainless form to forcibly bear the backlash from the collapse of the entire main city.
This was a choice with no compromise. At that very moment, the heavens and earth trembled once more.
It didn't come from within the Shadow Void Capital, but from—afar.
Dozens of terrifying, indescribable torrents of energy surged simultaneously from the edge of the Void Obliteration Domain. It was not reinforcement from a single direction, but a synchronized arrival that crossed different realms, different routes, and different levels of chaotic tides.
Each trajectory of falling energy leaves a lingering trace in the void, as if the very origin itself was forcibly dragged there.
The first burst of energy struck, instantly reducing entire swathes of the Master Soul Dominion to nothingness;
The second wave of attacks tore apart the lines of the Logic Remnants Lord.
The third, fourth, fifth... as these forces overlapped and unfolded, the center of the battlefield seemed to be swept away by an invisible hand, and more than half of the Master Soul Dominion were directly Annihilation before they could even react.
Immediately afterwards, several figures materialized from the torrent of energy.
The patriarch of the Chaos First Palace, Yun Qiusheng, stood in the air. His aura was no longer at a level that could be understood by those in the Chaos Realm or the Stainless Realm, but rather a state of being that had completely broken free from the "path of thought"—the Severed Thought Realm · Initial Stage. The moment he appeared, the surrounding chaotic airflow automatically dispersed, as if it dared not approach his radius of thought.
Following closely behind was Feng Muheng, the patriarch of the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall. He was also at the Severed Thought Realm · Initial Stage, but his aura was more restrained, like a silent, desolate sea. His gaze swept across the battlefield, and with just one glance, the action logic of many Master Soul Dominion was briefly disrupted.
When Xi Weiyu, the ancestor of the Fallen Dawn Divine Hall, descended, the colors of the world faded for an extremely brief moment. It was the oppressive feeling of Severed Thought Realm · Middle Stage cultivator, as if all light and shadow had to obtain her permission before they could continue to exist.
Finally, Qin Zhien, the patriarch of the Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall, appeared.
He didn't unleash any exaggerated energy bursts; he simply took a step and stood above the core of the battlefield. However, the instant he appeared, the cracks in the core of the Shadow Void Capital City, which were on the verge of complete collapse, briefly stabilized. Severed Thought Realm · Advanced Stage, simply by "arriving," had already begun to influence the survival probability of the entire city.
That's not all.
Following closely behind the four great temple ancestors, a succession of Stainless Realm · Supreme experts from various sects, God Clan, and the Liu Yuan Practitioners arrived like a Realm Breaking, numbering in the tens of thousands of Stainless Realm · Supreme. Their auras intertwined, forming a massive source pressure field covering the entire Shadow Void Capital.
At this moment, the scale of the battlefield was forcibly increased. The Taowu Formless Devil Beast finally raised its head completely.
For the first time, its empty eyes reflected a true "opponent."
Jin Hanyan stood before everyone, slowly withdrawing the city-suppressing will she was about to unleash. She did not make a choice immediately, because she already sensed that this battle was no longer just a battle to defend the city, but a battle to directly Annihilation this beast.
For the first time, the Taowu Formless Devil Beast truly showed a look of shock.
It wasn't fear, but a judgment stemming from instinct—it clearly sensed that the four figures suspended in the four directions of the sky were no longer "variables that could be calculated," but rather the overwhelming pressure of the Severed Thought Realm, enough to shake the established layout.
Each aura acted like an anchor embedded in reality, causing an irreversible shift in the stability of the entire Shadow Void Capital.
It slowly raised its head, its face expressionless, but its empty eyes reflected the figures of the four ancestors. Its voice was low and distorted, as if squeezed out from countless layers of logic.
"Foolish humans."
The moment the words left his mouth, the world fell silent. "You are all nothing but ants struggling in your death throes."
The next moment, it made a move that caused all the powerful figures present to change color simultaneously.
The Taowu Formless Devil Beast, suddenly opened its mouth. It didn't roar, but spat out a crystal core that slowly emerged from its mouth.
It was not a treasure in the physical sense, but a logical core forcibly solidified—the crystal core was entirely black, yet it was not darkness, but rather an "absolute negative" that devoured light, causality, and sight.
Strange runes kept appearing and disappearing on the surface of the crystal core, each flash accompanied by a violent tremor in the sky above the Shadow Void Capital.
When the crystal core completely detached from the mouth of the Taowu Formless Devil Beast, black light erupted. It didn't spread, but rather fell.
The black light seemed to pierce directly from "above" to "below," and the sky Shadow Void Capital City underwent a logical misalignment at the same time—the skies that originally belonged to different spatial levels were forcibly pulled together, folded, and connected. The rumbling sound no longer came from a single direction, but rang out simultaneously from "all possible directions."
The barrier began to close.
One layer, two layers, three layers... no longer just superpositions of defensive barriers, but the closure of the actual structure itself. The countless formations originally used to defend the city were forcibly reconstructed into a huge super barrier covering the entire battlefield.
The barrier's surface resembled a flowing, dark golden dome, upon which purplish-black lightning patterns danced. With each flash, it erased a lingering spatial shockwave that had not yet escaped.
The Shadow Void Capital was completely sealed off.
Inside and outside the city, above and below the sky, all escape routes simultaneously vanished at this moment.
For the first time, the gazes of the Ancestors of the Severed Thought Realm truly turned solemn—this was no longer a siege, but a sacrificial-level battlefield lockdown.
Just as the barrier completely closed, the Taowu Formless Devil Beast slowly lowered its head, its voice no longer distorted, but instead carrying an almost devout indifference.
Welcome!
All sound in the world suddenly vanished.
"Main Soul Master, Primordial Chaos - Yuanshi"
As soon as the words were spoken, the space in the center of the barrier began to collapse.
It wasn't looking inward, nor outward; rather, it was like a mirror that had been forcibly twisted, with reality torn open by an indescribable rift. Within that rift, there was no chaotic energy, no primordial tide, only a deep, mind-blowing backdrop of starry sky.
Then, it appeared. It was a true embodiment of Annihilation and calamity.
Its massive body seemed to be forged from dark gold and purplish-black energy, its muscles undulating like star-studded mountain ranges, and the armor covering its entire body was not scales, but layers of solidified destructive will. Purple lightning flowed across its surface like blood vessels, and with each pulse, it would cause the barrier to resonate violently.
Its head hung low, its form both ferocious and majestic, its eyes like burning stars in the abyss, radiating an oppressive aura that belonged to no Knowing Realm. Most chillingly, however, was its back—
Three phantom soul heads burning with black flames hovered behind his shoulders, seemingly not subordinate, but rather second and third consciousnesses that had not yet fully manifested. The black flames burned silently, yet they caused all cultivators' souls to instinctively "retreat."
It held a giant blade wrapped in purplish-black lightning in one hand. The blade had no sharpness, but as it slowly rotated, it cut the surrounding space into countless discontinuous layers.
It stood there, without making any unnecessary movements.
But throughout the entire Shadow Void Capital —time began to malfunction, space began to sink, and cause and effect began to lose their weight.
The Severed Thought Realm · Pinnacle.
At this moment, even the four patriarchs of the four temples clearly realized that the real war in the Shadow Void Capital had only just begun.