Deep within the Shadow Void Capital, the void was as cold and hard as polished obsidian. The Taowu Formless Devil Beast, stood in the center of the battlefield. Its body no longer displayed any flesh and blood structure, but was composed of countless layers of Stainless facets. In the next instant, its lowered head slowly rose, and its human face, which should not have had any "expression," was completely transformed into a flawless mirror.
"Mirror Reflection Annihilates Form," activated.
There were no energy fluctuations, no spreading killing intent, and not even any signs of divine power being activated. The Stainless mirror simply hung there quietly, yet it simultaneously rendered the entire five-hundred-zhang space ineligible for "active attack." The remaining killing intent, thoughts, and fighting spirit in the air had not yet solidified before they were completely reflected in the mirror—not copied, but amplified, the very source of the obsession.
Jin Hanyan's reflection appeared in the mirror.
It wasn't her appearance, but the extremely subtle "intentional judgment" she made just before attacking. That slight intention was infinitely extended in the mirror, transforming into hundreds of attack trajectories that were forming, and then—backlash.
The void suddenly collapsed, and what rebounded was not a specific supernatural power, but the primal impulse to "annihilate the enemy" itself. Any thought, any killing intent, as long as it is judged as "a denial of the existence of Taotie," will be superimposed on itself in the mirror, transforming into a doubled destructive backflow. It is an extremely cruel defense method—letting the enemy die under the weight of one's own obsession.
This is a supernatural power born for the mind, will, and soul.
However, Jin Hanyan did not make a move. She didn't even mobilize any of her internal energy.
The moment the mirror began to reflect her, her existence suddenly became extremely strange—she was still standing there, but no longer "in a position of confrontation." What was reflected in the mirror was not her attack, but a misaligned blank space.
Because she gave up the "attack".
Jin Hanyan slowly raised her right hand, her fingertips not pointing at Taotie, but gently falling into the void itself. Her voice was not loud, but it was as if she was stating a fact that had already been established to heaven and earth.
Silent Void, the Way reverses all heavens.
At that moment, the structure of the battlefield completely changed.
There was no supernatural power unleashed, no energy surge, and even the "target of backlash" Does Not Exist. She did not exert power, but rather reversed the legitimacy of the act of "resistance" within the Great Dao. The moment the Dao reversed the heavens, the world no longer acknowledged the establishment of the causal loop of "attack-reflection".
The Stainless mirror, Mirror Reflection Annihilates Forms, vibrated violently.
It wasn't shattered, but rather it began to be unable to reflect anything. Jin Hanyan's reflection no longer appeared in the mirror, nor did it reflect obsessions, killing intent, supernatural powers, or intentions—because at this moment, the Great Dao determined that these things no longer had the qualification to generate opposing relationships.
The Taowu Formless Devil Beast made its first sound.
That was not a roar, but the echo of a collapse when the very foundation of something was uprooted. Cracks began to appear on its mirror, not from external force, but from the disappearance of the "reflected object" in the mirror, after which the mirror itself lost its meaning. The Stainless surface peeled away layer by layer, each layer turning into nothingness dust the moment it peeled away, unable even to complete the process of falling.
It wants to reflect, but can't find anything to reflect.
It wanted to retaliate, but found that the distinction between "enemy and friend" had been erased by the laws of nature.
Jin Hanyan took a step forward, and the entire 500-zhang mirror domain collapsed simultaneously, like an empty mirror stripped of its world background, even stripped of the right to shatter. The Taotie's form rapidly faded in the air, not being erased, but rather being rejected by the Great Dao as a "confrontational existence."
At the last moment, the mirror reflecting the human face finally revealed true nothingness.
There were no enemies. There was no self. The Taowu Formless Devil Beast, vanished on its own in the mirror.
He didn't die from the attack, but from the fact that "the conditions for a counterattack could never be met again."
The battlefield fell silent.
Jin Hanyan stood in the void, her breathing steady, her robes perfectly in place.
She didn't look back at the now Emptiness area, because the battle had ended the moment she chose not to enter into an "attack relationship."
Jin Hanyan stood amidst the void ruins, the last Stainless mirror image of the Taowu Formless Devil Beast completely annihilated. She did not relax; instead, she instinctively turned her head in that instant to look at the other side of the battlefield.
Qin Yu is still fighting.
Another identical Taowu Formless Devil Beast was entangled with him closely. Its body left almost no trace as it ran through the void, like a piece of existence whose annotations had been erased. Its aura was more solid and more dangerous, and even the surrounding cause and effect showed a hollow state after being constantly gnawed away.
Qin Yu stood directly in front of it, without retreating.
He stared intently at that face, which was also "Formless yet resembling a human face," his gaze calm to the point of being almost icy. In the next instant, the Taowu Formless Devil Beast suddenly crouched down, its fangs protruding from its Stainless form, rough and ferocious in appearance, as if it had been forcibly dragged out from an era that should not exist.
"Boar Fang Shatter Cause"
There was no domain expansion, no premonition of gathering power. It was a pure, instinctive killing intent born for close combat. The Taowu Formless Devil Beast instantly traversed ten zhang, its body enveloped in Stainless light during the charge, its speed increasing dramatically in an instant.
The fangs weren't biting into flesh and blood, but rather into everything on Qin Yu that could be called "origin"—fate, bloodline, cultivation karma, and existence history.
This strike ignores all defenses. This strike targets the very source.
The causal relationship began to crumble the instant before it was about to engage, as if it had been declared an "invalid connection" in advance. This was a close-range divine ability capable of killing a high-level cultivator in one strike, and even the path of avoidance was cut off at the causal level in advance.
Just as the fangs were about to close, Qin Yu moved.
It's not moving backward, but rather stepping forward.
He stepped into that ten-zhang death distance, his body actively facing the trajectory of the fangs snapping shut. At that moment, for the first time, a very brief pause appeared in the eyes of the Taowu Formless Devil Beast, because the "object it bit" suddenly became incomplete.
Qin Yu raised his hand, his fingertips pointing towards the void.
The Three Forms of Fate Construction Cause and Effect Deconstruction. It's not about defense, but about dismantling.
This move did not collide head-on with the fangs, but forcibly dismantled the "inevitable connection between the bitten object and its cause and effect" before the bite occurred. The fangs still fell, but only shattered a fragment of the collapsing cause and effect. Fate, bloodline, and the origin of cultivation were instantly broken into countless fragments that lost their inevitability, turning into blank bubbles in the void that could no longer be connected.
The Shatter Cause failed to materialize, but the cost was not zero.
The lingering force of the fangs continued, and Qin Yu's aura experienced a very subtle break for a moment. His body was shaken back several steps, and the void beneath his feet shattered into radial cracks. But just as the Taowu Formless Devil Beast charged forward because its "bite failed," Qin Yu's second step had already landed.
He didn't give the other person a chance to create distance again.
The Silent Origin Stainless Sword appeared in his palm. The sword's edge emitted no external radiance, yet the moment it appeared, it silenced the surrounding causal debris completely. Qin Yu slashed horizontally with his sword; the trajectory was extremely short, yet incredibly precise.
The Causeless Disillusionment Sword.
This sword strike wasn't aimed at the beast's body, but rather at the "causal killing state" that had surged within the Taowu Formless Devil Beast after the activation of "Boar Fang Shatter Cause," a state that hadn't yet been reclaimed. Causeless Illusory Destruction directly shattered its rule fulcrum, causing it to temporarily lose stable control over the destruction of cause and effect.
The sword passed.
The chest and abdomen of the Taowu Formless Devil Beast suddenly collapsed, as if a piece had been hollowed out from the level of rules. The Stainless Beast Body did not bleed, but a large part of its structure collapsed into gray-white light debris, its aura obviously dropped, and the entire beast body was violently blasted away, crashing heavily into the depths of the void.
It didn't recover immediately. This was a devastating blow.
Jin Hanyan watched this scene from afar, but her pupils suddenly contracted at that moment.
She suddenly realized something. It wasn't a difference in combat strength, but rather an anomaly in the level of power.
The Taowu Formless Devil Beast, that she had just Annihilation, left no echo of "Causal Severance" when it dissipated;
However, the one in front of Qin Yu, despite being injured, still firmly held onto the Stainless killing intent that permeated the entire battlefield.
An idea instantly formed in her mind.
The one she was fighting was a fake body. The one Qin Yu was facing was the real body.
The void suddenly folded, and a chaotic rift silently opened beside Qin Yu. Jin Hanyan stepped out from the rift, her robes not yet fully stable, but her gaze had already precisely locked onto the heavily injured yet still churning Taowu Formless Devil Beast.
She stood beside Qin Yu, her voice calm yet urgent, without the slightest hesitation.
"Young Master Qin, you were fighting its true form. I have already Annihilation its false form. Its Fate Soul logic must have been severely damaged. If you and I join forces, we can completely Annihilation it. Now, this Shadow Void Capital has completely fallen. The cultivators in the city are no match for the Logic Remnants Lord and Master Soul Dominion them. The longer this drags on, the more disadvantageous it will be for us."
Qin Yu didn't ask any further questions.
His gaze remained fixed on the Taotie Taowu Formless Devil Beast, his eyes flashing with a cold, sharp light. After a moment, he nodded.
"Alright. Miss Hanyan, you find its fatal weakness—its logic—and I'll deliver the final blow."
The words had barely left his mouth Taowu Formless Devil Beast, panicked.
Its Stainless beastly body heaved violently. The void in its chest and abdomen, slashed by the Causeless Disillusionment Sword, had not yet fully healed, and the Fate Soul shock brought about by the Annihilation of its illusory body was constantly surging back. It realized one thing—it was locked into a battle situation that could be terminated.
The next instant, it roared to the sky. "Tiger Roar Void," it unleashed its power.
The howl was not a sound, but a materialized wave of Stainless sound. The void was directly flattened by the howl, as if it were being repeatedly struck by an invisible giant hammer. When the first wave of sound burst out, the ruins of the city, the Logic Remnants Lord, the struggling cultivators, and the demon spirits were all shattered into gray-white dust.
The second circle spread, blurring the boundary between spirit and matter, even light and shadow began to shatter into meaningless glitter; the third circle advanced, continuously corroding the space within a radius of ten thousand feet, presenting a collapsing scene "being devoured by nothingness".
The entire Shadow Void Capital seemed to have been placed inside a resonant, Stainless bell.
Before the howl had Taowu Formless Devil Beast had already begun to blur, and faint, Stainless patterns appeared on its body, as it prepared to enter the "Stainless Concealment" state.
But at that very moment— Jin Hanyan raised her hand.
She didn't fight against the sound waves, nor did she try to block out space. Instead, she put two fingers together and gently pointed them into the void.
Return to Silence - Nameless Finger.
The moment that finger was pointed out, the world fell silent. The Tiger Roar Void continued to spread through the void, but it seemed as if its "killing intent" had been removed. The sound waves no longer locked onto the enemy, but instead exhibited an extremely strange deviation in the air. It was not a cancellation, but rather a forced loss of the ability to judge "who to attack".
At the same time, Jin Hanyan's other supernatural power had already been unleashed.
Undetermined; Yin and Yang reversed.
The triple effects of "disintegration," "corrosion," and "Nullification" contained in the howl were forcibly reversed at this moment. The Stainless sound waves continued to spread, but began to gnaw at their source in reverse. The nihilistic corrosion flowed back along the sound waves, rushing straight towards the Taowu Formless Devil Beast itself.
"Now," Jin Hanyan whispered.
Her gaze had completely pierced through the beast's outward appearance, revealing the only fatal logical flaw in the true form— the Fate Soul's central nervous system was still maintaining the erroneous judgment that "the true form and the false form have separated."
In that instant, she made her final choice.
Chaos Undivided, Heaven and Earth Judged.
At this moment, heaven and earth were forcibly classified into an "undifferentiated state," with truth and falsehood, appearance and concealment, offense and defense all being dragged into the same level of judgment. Before the state of Stainless Concealment was completed, the true form of the Taowu Formless Devil Beast was forcibly pulled back into a definable reality.
Qin Yu moved.
He took a step forward, Silent Origin Stainless Sword fully materialized in his hand. There was no sword hum, no burst of light, only a silence that made all things instinctively retreat. The moment the sword was raised, the entire Shadow Void Capital seemed to hold its breath.
Undefined Destruction Sword.
This sword strike was not aimed at the physical form, but at the very last qualification that "the Taowu Formless Devil Beast can still be written as an existence."
The sword fell.
Heaven and earth fell silent.
The roar of the Stainless Tiger abruptly ceased, the sound waves shattering into countless meaningless fragments in mid-air. The Taowu Formless Devil Beast body began to disintegrate from head to tail, not shattering, but being stripped away layer by layer of its definition of existence—flesh and blood, soul, destiny, cause and effect, and the logic of killing—falling one by one into an irretrievable Annihilation Abyss.
It wanted to roar, but found that the "roarer" was no longer valid.
It wanted to hide, but discovered that "things that could be hidden" had been cancelled.
In the end, the entire Taowu Formless Devil Beast silently turned into a colorless dust, gently smoothed by the void, leaving not even the concept of "being killed".
The battlefield finally fell silent.
Above the Shadow Void Capital, only fragmented starlight and lingering gray-white mist remained.
Qin Yu sheathed his sword, his gaze calm. Jin Hanyan stood beside him, slowly exhaling, but remained vigilant.