The massive body of the demonic beast slowly straightened above the remaining void of Soul Reflection Core City. The causal dust left behind after the city's destruction danced across its surface like unhealed scars from bygone eras. Its voice didn't emanate from its mouth, but rather pressed directly upon the Fate Soul of the three.
A deep, grand, and judgmental echo reverberated through the heavens and earth, layer upon layer. "Not bad, you actually managed to see through the logical illusion I laid out with the entire main city. Remember my name, Primordial Chaos - Mieyin. To be erased by me is the only glory of your lives."
The moment the words fell, the last remaining fragments of cause and effect in Soul Reflection Core City suddenly ignited. All the slaughtered beings, the broken cultivation paths, and the intercepted futures were simultaneously drawn in. It was not energy, but "death itself that had already occurred." The Mieyin condensed behind it into a rotating dark golden causal core. With each pulsation of the core, ripples of Fate Soul collapsed inward in the surrounding space, as if the entire world was being forced to recall its own death.
The Mieyin raised its massive arm, causing the causal core to deflect. A torrent of Cause Annihilation Torrent, neither light nor shadow, poured forth from its palm. Wherever it passed, there were no explosions, no sounds, only blank spaces where traces of cultivation were directly erased. Even the spiritual energy in the air instantly reverted to its state before it was invoked. The ground, ruins, and broken city walls quietly crumbled at the edge of the torrent, as if gently wiped away from the timeline by an unseen hand. Any force that attempted to resist would lose its reason for "having existed" before it even began to resist.
Jin Hanyan moved at that moment. Her figure unfolded almost simultaneously with the Karma Ripple. The Nameless Box flipped in her palm. The moment the lid was slightly opened, a gray-white, Silent Void · Dao of Chaos pattern spread out. The Unjudged Yin-Yang Reversal took effect instantly. The Cause Annihilation Torrent that was originally sweeping towards the three of them was forcibly reversed. Part of the Mieyin was pulled back to the Mieyin itself, causing the dark gold cracks on its surface to suddenly shine brightly and emit a low and angry roar.
At the same time, Qin Yu before the two, his true form of the Chaos Realm silently unfolding behind him. It wasn't a physical form, but a direct invocation of the "undifferentiated state." He took a step forward, and the Chaos Origin deep within his Fate Soul resonated with the primordial chaos before the world was formed.
The rules receded from his body, logic lost its anchor, and the Mieyin released by Mieyin cause of destruction began to contradict itself within three feet of him. It was both "destruction that had already happened" and "the starting point of occurrence" that could not be found in the chaos. Large fragments of cause and effect collapsed into meaningless ashes in front of him and were swallowed up by the true Chaos True Aspect.
At this moment, Tangyi truly took a step forward. Her aura was no longer concealed, and the oppressive power of the Origin Ruins Ash Dragon descended like an ancient sky suddenly falling. The figure of Mieyin was reflected deep within her pupils, but she did not lock onto its form; instead, she directly bit into the still-rotating causal core within its body.
The Hongmeng Origin roared deep within her body, but did not erupt immediately. Instead, it caused the temperature of the entire battlefield to drop to a near-stagnant state of Annihilation, and even the surging Mieyin Yin experienced a brief slowdown.
The three counterattacks were not simultaneous, but they were completed in the same breath— Jin Hanyan tore apart its causal trajectory, Qin Yu dismantled the logical support upon which it was based, and Tangyi had already locked onto its truly indispensable "root".
For the Mieyin took a half step back, and the void beneath its feet collapsed into a black abyss. Its eyes, burning with the fury of an era, were fixed on the three people, and for the first time it realized that these three people were not simple.
The instant that Primordial Chaos - Mieyin fully stretched its body in the void, the last remaining spatial structure of Soul Reflection Core City was forcibly emptied. Heaven and earth seemed to be folded inward by an invisible hand, and the streets, palaces, and echoes of Fate Soul that once belonged to the city collapsed into rings of dark golden Epoch Judgment Rings.
Interlocking rings slowly rotated, each rotation proclaiming one thing to reality—this was a verdict already written into the "extinction conclusion." The true nature of the Mieyin revealed itself at this moment; it was no longer a simple demonic beast, but a shell of epochal will directly condensed from the "Mieyin."
Miniature, destroyed city shadows appeared on its back, silently replaying the fate of countless lives within them. Wherever it stood, the world was forcibly designated as the "domain of destruction."
Jin Hanyan's gaze turned completely cold in that instant. Her Fate Soul essence vibrated incessantly in the Silent Void · Dao of Chaos, and she whispered to Qin Yu, "Qin Yu, be careful. Although this beast is only at the Stainless Realm · Supreme, its causal structure is extremely disordered. I sense another kind of... disordered realm."
Qin Yu nodded slowly. The Chaos Realm essence resonated within him, and his perception was clearer than anyone else's; it was no illusion. "I also sensed it. Its body simultaneously carries two different levels of causal logic: one belonging to the Stainless Realm itself, and the other... seems like a remnant of a higher-order ruling that was forcibly grafted onto it."
Before the two had finished speaking, Mieyin had already raised the arm wrapped with the Epoch Judgment pattern. It did not roar or make a declaration, but in an extremely brief moment, it completely severed all its "thoughts".
The world suddenly fell silent.
The Severed Thought Three Thousand Slashes technique descended at this moment.
The consciousness of Mieyin falls directly into absolute emptiness of thought. It no longer possesses "I", no longer possesses "intention", and no longer possesses "killing intent". All locks on the mind, soul, and cause and effect naturally collapse before they even get close to it, as if trying to grasp a Does Not Exist shadow.
In the next instant, the invisible Thought-Severing Blades spread out. It was not a blade of light, but a kind of cutting of "thought itself". The void beneath Qin Yu and the other two seemed to be cut open by countless invisible blade marks. The floating pebbles in the distance lost their "direction" and "purpose" in an instant and froze in mid-air.
Within a radius of a thousand feet, the Absolute Thoughtlessness Field was fully formed.
His inspiration froze, the preliminary calculations of his cultivation technique were instantly frozen, the formation collapsed on its own before it could even be deployed, and even the thought of "what to do next" was forcibly suppressed. If it were any other cultivator of the same realm, they would have long since become a mindless, empty shell.
However, none of this actually happened in front of Qin Yu and his two companions.
Qin Yu took the first step forward. He didn't confront the Absolute Thoughtlessness Field through "resistance," but instead unleashed his true Chaos Realm —the undifferentiated state unfolded around him, where thought and non-thought, existence and non-existence, merged. The Absolute Thoughtlessness Field attempted to freeze "thinking."
However, no object could be frozen in the chaos, because there Does Not Exist stable "thought" here. The moment the Thought-Severing Blades fell into the boundary of chaos, it was directly pulled into a non-opposing fuzzy state. It neither hit the target nor could it be invalidated, and could only dissipate on its own in meaninglessness.
Jin Hanyan acted almost simultaneously, the Nameless Box reopening in her palm. The Unjudged Yin-Yang Reversal forcefully intervened in the internal structure of the Absolute Thoughtlessness Field. She wasn't attempting to restore reasoning, but rather directly reversing the definition of "frozen"—
It was no longer them who were frozen, but the ruling logic emanating from the Mieyin itself. In an instant, some of the Thought-Severing Blades rolled back, exploding dark cracks on the surface of the Mieyin, and the Mieyin of the city trembled.
Just as signs appeared that Mieyin was about to forcefully detonate his Ultimate move, "Heart Stillness Returns to Nothingness," Tangyi finally moved. Her figure moved unimpeded through the Realm of Absolute Thoughtlessness Field, as if this frozen consciousness Does Not Exist for her. She Mieyin her head...
At this moment, the oppressive aura of the Origin Ruins Ash Dragon was fully unleashed, its gaze transcending all appearances and directly locking onto the pulsating causal core within Mieyin's body—not a thought, not a will, but the "pre-cause itself" of its existence.
In that instant, for the first time, the Mieyin exhibited an incomprehensible fluctuation.
Its absolute emptiness is being watched by a more ancient and primordial force.
In that instant, Tangyi completely shed her "follower" persona. Her aura was no longer concealed, and the origin of the Origin Ruins Ash Dragon silently unfolded in the void. There was no dragon roar, no flames, only a heavy, oppressive feeling, as if "an era had rewound," suddenly descended. She took a step forward, and the space beneath her feet seemed to be crushed by an invisible force.
The next instant, she stood directly in front of the causal vision of Mieyin. What was reflected deep within her pupils was no longer the form of a demonic beast, but rather a series of intertwined, mutually devouring rivers of cause and effect. These causes and effects were not unified; some originated from the natural extensions of the Stainless Realm.
Some, however, clearly belong to a higher level of "forced injection," as if they were brutally embedded into the very foundation of their existence. It is precisely these causes and effects that do not belong to the same sequence that are mutually exclusive and superimposed, forming the disordered realm that made Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan both alert.
The instant Tangyi confirmed this, she made her move, silently releasing "Vast Sea Dragon Breath - Primordial Zero." It wasn't a burst of breath, but rather a nearly transparent stream of primordial Annihilation. Wherever it passed, there were no energy fluctuations, yet everything's presence rapidly diminished.
The most core Mieyin node of the city's Mieyin was instantly locked, and the power of retrospection directly reversed its origin. The primordial strangulation was launched simultaneously, attempting to suppress that causal node back to the primordial state of "not yet happened" before the foundation could react.
At the same time, Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan did not hesitate. With a wave of his hand, Qin Yu's Chaos Realm true form fully unfolded, its undifferentiated state covering the battlefield. He did not choose to annihilate it head-on, but instead directly activated the Primordial Formless, briefly withdrawing himself from the established rules and logic. Rules, causality, and narratives around him collapsed layer by layer like smoothed ripples.
His existence no longer corresponds to any single proposition; all judgments against "Qin Yu" lose their anchor at this moment. Jin Hanyan, on the other side, unfolds the Nameless Box, with the Unjudged Yin-Yang Reversal and the Chaos Undivided, Heaven and Earth Judged simultaneously superimposed.
She forcibly locked the two conflicting causal sequences within Mieyin's body using the Silent Void · Dao of Chaos, attempting to make them "self-contradictory" at the same time, thus detonating their existence logic from within.
The three supernatural powers entered the location of Mieyin at almost the same time, but the scene suddenly became bizarre in the next instant. All the power encountered no resistance, as if passing through an empty shell that had long lost its substance. The return of the dragon's breath did not touch the entity, the deconstruction of chaos did not find the rules, and the judgment of the Nameless Box did not hit any "existing" object.
At that moment, the Fate Soul of the Mieyin appeared in an extremely unnatural state of transparency. Then, its figure was wiped away from the spot as if by an invisible hand. There were no spatial fluctuations, no traces of teleportation, and not even the cause and effect of its "disappearance" was left behind, as if it had never been standing there in the first place.
A brief, deathly silence enveloped the battlefield. The next instant, a deep, Ultimate rumble echoed from the depths of heaven and earth. The sound didn't originate from the outside world, but reverberated directly within the Fate Soul's core, as if a certain point in the void had been forcibly "rewritten."
The figure of Mieyin reappeared, but it was no longer the chaotic, Stainless Realm aura of the Pure Realm. Instead, it was replaced by a cold and hollow sense of oppression. The characteristics of severing thoughts and intentions had completely stabilized, and the realm of Thought Has No Root naturally unfolded.
Severed Thought Realm · Initial Stage.
When Mieyin opened its eyes again, there was no emotion in them. Its very existence was like an ending commentary forcibly embedded in reality, coldly looking down at Qin Yu and the other two. The previously chaotic lines of cause and effect around it were roughly "cut and rearranged".
Forced into a higher-level conceptual structure, the Mieyin was upgraded at this moment, and the true epoch-level collision inevitably began.