When Qin Yu stepped into the Void Obliteration Domain from the southern sky, the level of heaven and earth seemed to be quietly raised. The sea of clouds was no longer just floating mist, but like a solidified sea surface, slowly undulating beneath his feet. He took a step forward, and at the end of his vision, a magnificent main city, almost unreal, was revealing its true form above the endless clouds—that was the Formless Mystery City.
The entire city is not situated on the earth, but rather floats above a vast, boundless sea of clouds. The city's territory is a perfect and majestic circle, like an ancient seal held aloft by the heavens. Surrounding the city is a massive, immeasurably large arc-shaped celestial ring.
Hanging down from the void and arching high, the walls are dark and deep, their surface covered with fine, stardust-like structural patterns, as if layered from countless remnants of eras. It is not a simple building, but more like a "gateway remnant" that spans between reality and a higher level, silently hanging above the city, neither completely closed nor ever truly open.
Leading into the city was a straight, cloud-piercing bridge. Its broad surface resembled a celestial vein forged from light and stone, stretching from the depths of the sea of clouds towards the heart of the city. Countless figures moved across the bridge, their footsteps creating gentle ripples that never sank the ground.
It was as if it were being steadily supported by some invisible order. From a distance, the crowds looked like ants, yet they were orderly, adding a touch of vibrant human life to this magnificent and awe-inspiring city.
At the heart of the city, a magnificent complex of main halls stands silently. The domes, pillars, and layered silhouettes of the halls, bathed in the warm, solemn light of the clouds, possess a beauty neither as ostentatious as a mortal royal city nor as cold and aloof as a divine temple.
Rather, it is a delicate balance between "order" and "prosperity". The entire Formless Mystery City is like a precise place placed on the heart meridian in the south of the Void Obliteration Domain. It is stable and ancient, but it contains countless forces that can move the times.
Qin Yu concealed his aura, stood above the clouds outside the city, and calmly swept his gaze across the entire city area.
There were no warning signs, no turbulent logical currents, and no oppressive feeling characteristic of the arrival of the Master Soul Dominion.
The city was brightly lit, with crisscrossing streets where cultivators and mortals mingled. Shops glowed with spiritual light, and the sounds of bargaining, laughter, and the flapping of wings of spirit birds mingled together, creating a bustling scene that was nothing out of the ordinary. On the cloud bridge, people came and went without a trace of panic; the city's defensive array patterns remained hidden, as if they were merely a habitual presence rather than something created for war.
Everything was too "normal".
Qin Yu stood outside the city, not immediately stepping inside. His gaze lingered for a moment on the enormous celestial ring suspended high in the sky, then slowly shifted to the busiest area of the city. The tranquility before him did not ease his gaze; instead, it held a sharp, almost cold scrutiny.
There was a brief moment of peace like this before the destruction of the Shadow Void Capital.
A breeze blew from the depths of the sea of clouds, ruffling the hem of his clothes. Qin Yu took a step forward, landing at the entrance of the cloud bridge to the Formless Mystery City, already prepared for the worst.
Qin Yu stood at the end of the cloud bridge, his gaze sweeping over the seemingly orderly prosperity of the city, but his heart remained unmoved. He knew very well that in a main city of this caliber, without witnessing "destruction in progress" firsthand, any warning would be dismissed as mere alarmism.
It might even be misinterpreted as a deliberate provocation. He muttered to himself, his tone calm and decisive—rather than trying to persuade them, let them see it for themselves.
The moment the thought settled, he raised his hand and gently called out.
Azure Ring silently appeared, landing on his right shoulder, her petite figure appearing and disappearing in the cloud light. She tilted her head, and after listening to Qin Yu's meaning, a dangerous smile slowly curved her lips. The Annihilation Pattern in her pupils spun slightly faster, like the source of some mischievous script about to be ignited. "Don't worry, Little Qinzi," her voice was light yet chilling, "I'm a master of this kind of acting. I guarantee it'll be so realistic they won't even have time to 'suspicion'."
The next instant, Azure Ring disappeared from Qin Yu's shoulder.
Above the Formless Mystery City, a very subtle crack suddenly appeared in the once clear sea of clouds. It was not wind, nor airflow, but the trace of space itself being "gently peeled open". Immediately afterwards, beneath the celestial ring surrounding the city, a shadow that did not belong to any known laws began to slowly seep out, like ink dripping into clear water, first a small spot, and then rapidly spreading.
Azure Ring's figure appeared high in the sky, her arms outstretched, her fingertips trailing fine wisps of blue light. These wisps of light were not dazzling, but as they fell, they continuously "replicated" their own logic of existence. In the void, distorted images were forcibly woven together—broken shells, incomplete forms, and the outlines of monsters that seemed to have been forcibly pieced together after being forgotten by the world.
That was the outward remnant of the "Logic Remnants Lord".
They did not actually arrive, yet they were infinitely close to reality in every detail. Their existence was extremely bizarre, as if they had been forcibly dragged out from the fault lines of history. Failed law fragments constantly spilled from the edges of their bodies. As they moved, a low and intermittent rumble rose in the sky, as if the entire sky above the Formless Mystery City was being covered by an invisible layer of "error".
At the same time, Qin Yu outside the city, secretly using himself as an anchor to gently stir the causal echoes at the edge of the city. He did not destroy any defenses, but simply made those warning patterns that should have been dormant "sense" the possibility of invasion in advance. The next moment, several high-level cultivators in the city looked up almost simultaneously, their expressions changing drastically.
The sky darkened.
It wasn't that the sunlight was being blocked, but rather that the "understandable sky" was retreating. Twisted shadows began to slide down along the inner edge of the celestial ring, like projections of impending doom. They hadn't even truly entered the city's defenses yet, but they had already caused the spatial stability of the Formless Mystery City to drop rapidly.
"Enemy attack--!" a cultivator suddenly shouted from within the city...
Exclamations erupted throughout the city. The first to react were not ordinary people, but the Chaos Realm cultivators guarding the various districts. Almost simultaneously, they sensed that the "erroneous aura" carried by those shadows was highly consistent with the calamity fluctuations left over from the fall of the Shadow Void Capital.
Panic spread instantly, like dry grass set ablaze.
On the streets, people scattered and fled, the spiritual light of shops went out, and flying machines in the air crashed out of control. The once gentle and normal radiance of the city was forcibly covered by layers of cold-colored array patterns. A huge buzzing sound came from the depths of the city foundation, and one, two, three main defensive arrays were activated at the same time. The runes were like a galaxy rolling back, intersecting between the city walls and the sky to form an impenetrable light curtain.
Further away, the senior cultivators in charge of the main formation had solemn expressions and issued the highest alert order without hesitation. The Chaos-level killing defense formation was awakened ahead of schedule, the formation core trembled, and a heavy, iron-like oppressive feeling emanated from the void. In just a few breaths, the entire Formless Mystery City completed the transformation from a "prosperous main city" to a "wartime fortress".
High in the sky, the shadows of those "Logic Remnants Lord" paused for a moment in front of the array's light screen, then slowly dissipated as if rejected by the rules, turning into countless fragments of concepts that disappeared into the sea of clouds.
The crisis came quickly and went quickly. But no one in the city breathed a sigh of relief.
They witnessed firsthand how the defensive formations were forced to activate prematurely, and they also felt the chill of the world order being shattered in that instant. No one doubted anymore—a real attack could strike at any moment.
Outside the cloud bridge, Qin Yu watched all this quietly. Azure Ring returned to his shoulder, smiling as if nothing had happened. "How was it?" she said softly. "The effect was good, wasn't it? They'll definitely believe it now."
Qin Yu nodded, his gaze deep. Formless Mystery City had been successfully brought into a state of combat readiness.
But he knew very well that this was only the first step. The real storm was brewing far more far away.
Standing high in the clouds Formless Mystery City, Qin Yu took one last look at the commotion within the city, and the tension in his heart finally eased slightly. The main defensive array patterns continued to slowly rotate, like a colossal beast fully awakened lying on the city's foundation. The auras of more than ten Chaos Realm experts were positioned in all directions, like anchored stars, subtly echoing each other.
Deeper still, tens of thousands of cultivators at the Silent Mystery Realm no longer concealed themselves. Their Innate Martial Soul hovered beside them, some like heavenly soldiers in formation, others like ancient beasts crouching low. In a short period of time, the entire main city underwent a complete transformation from "peaceful and prosperous" to "pre-battle chill".
Qin Yu clearly sensed that the cultivators' mindset had changed—they were no longer passive bystanders waiting for explanations, but rather guardians prepared to face the calamity, which was exactly the result he wanted.
Without lingering any longer, he turned around, his aura subtly receding, and the space beneath his feet parted like water. In the next instant, his figure transformed into an almost elusive afterimage, fleeing towards the western horizon of the Void Obliteration Domain, his target being the true main city renowned for its cause and effect— the Karma Sacred City.
Just as Qin Yu left, a low, restrained discussion quietly unfolded in the deepest part of the Formless Mystery City's City Council Hall. Several Chaos Realm · Supreme experts sat within a ring of light array, none of them looking relaxed. One of them slowly raised his hand, the lingering causal shock from when the strange phenomenon dissipated still remaining on his fingertips.
His voice was hoarse and solemn as he stated that it was not an ordinary illusion, but a "premonitory projection" that closely resembled a real calamity. The residual logic in it was extremely similar to the Logic Remnants that had appeared in various regions of the Void Obliteration Domain a few days ago.
The other old man snorted coldly, but did not refute it. He only admitted that if the defensive formation had not been activated in advance, the stability of the city would have fluctuated abnormally. If there had been a real invasion, the consequences would have been unpredictable.
After a brief silence, they quickly reached a consensus: instead of dwelling on the identity and motives of the "early warning person," they focused all their attention on how to deal with the possible second and third attacks.
The main defensive formation was required to remain in a semi-active state, several backup killing formations began connection testing with the city's core, Chaos Realm cultivators took turns guarding key formation nodes, and Silent Mystery Realm cultivators were reassigned to the wartime sequence.
Even some of the ancient restrictions that had been dormant in the city for many years were included in the "awakenable list". In their view, rather than waiting for the Logic Remnants to truly descend and then hastily responding, it would be better to completely transform the Formless Mystery City into an iron fortress that could meet calamities at any time.
And all of this is quietly progressing in the direction Qin Yu had envisioned.
Beneath the western sky, the faintly intertwined lines of destiny of the Karma Sacred City have already emerged in the distance, like an invisible net covering the heavens and earth, awaiting its arrival. The storm in the Void Obliteration Domain is being quietly ignited between one main city after another.