The lake bottom completely "lost its boundaries" in the next instant.
The Blood Soul Fish's single eye suddenly contracted, the dark vortex abruptly reversed, and the entire Soul Domain's inner cavity emitted a vibration that was not a sound—it was not a fluctuation, but a sense of rupture as if the rules were forcibly torn apart.
The Blood Soul Fish's massive body slowly retreated at the bottom of the lake, and the cracks in the soul patterns on its scales lit up at the same time, like billions of burning blood-red cracks that spread along its spine to its tail fin.
Its hunting prowess truly unfolds at this moment: Realm-Breaking Blood Devour, Lawless Wind Prison.
There was no initial move, no build-up of momentum.
The moment the supernatural power took shape, the space at the bottom of the lake was completely "emptied." The concepts of up and down, front and back, near and far collapsed simultaneously, and all directions lost their meaning. The crimson soul essence stopped flowing and was crushed into countless fragments, which floated in mid-air like torn pages of the world.
Then, the wind appeared.
That was not airflow, but a logical storm formed by the "Will to Realm Breaking". It blew out from the gaps in the scales of the Blood Soul Fish, and wherever it passed, all tangible rules and intangible laws were dismantled one by one - the continuity of space was severed, the order of cause and effect was flattened, and the stable structure of the Fate Soul was directly stripped away in the wind.
The moment the wind blew past Qin Yu, he clearly sensed that a corner of the "definition edge" of his existence had been gnawed away, as if some force was trying to dismantle him from the concept of "Qin Yu". The Chaos True Aspect trembled violently, and the logical support around him kept collapsing and reorganizing.
Jin Hanyan also let out a muffled groan. The Silent Void · Dao of Chaos circulated wildly within her body, but it still couldn't completely counteract the killing intent at the logical level. This wasn't aimed at the physical body, nor at the soul, but directly at "why you can exist."
The lake collapsed in the wind into a boundless, shattered void, without height, Beginningless Endless, with only the howling Wind of Realm Breaking.
At that moment, Qin Yu's eyes suddenly turned cold.
Instead of trying to stabilize the lake region, he did the opposite.
The Chaos True Aspect was fully revealed. Qin Yu took a step forward, holding the Silent Origin Stainless Sword horizontally in front of him. The sword's edge was not pointed at the Blood Soul Fish, but directly pierced the collapsing lake structure beneath his feet. His consciousness instantly locked onto the "Order Adjudication node" of the entire Soul Domain. The power of chaos no longer repaired, but forcibly severed it.
Breaking Domain Counterattack - Chaos Order Adjudication, unleashed. The moment the sword fell, there was no explosion, no light.
Only a thin, dark crack extended from the tip of the sword, piercing through the entire underwater world. Wherever that crack passed, all the "lake rules defined by the Blood Soul Fish" were forcibly declared invalid, space began to collapse in reverse, and the inner cavity of the Soul Domain was torn open with an unclosable cross section.
The Wind of Realm Breaking became chaotic in that instant, and the originally disordered logical slaughter was abruptly interrupted, as if a hunting ground had been cleaved in two.
At the same time, Jin Hanyan raised her hand.
Instead of confronting the storm, she closed her eyes, and the Silent Void · Dao of Chaos sank to its deepest level within her body. In the next instant, the aura around her suddenly returned to absolute Space Silence, not disappearing, but rejecting all definition.
The Silent Void Resonance, then becomes apparent.
Centered on her, an invisible "Formless Domain" slowly spread out. The Soul Domain's erosion of the Fate Soul was forcibly dissolved into Unborn state the moment it stepped into this area. The Wind of Realm Breaking swept by, but could not find anything to tear apart; the logical killing lost its foothold here.
Qin Yu's Chaos Order Adjudication and Jin Hanyan's Silent Void · Dao of Chaos resonated for the first time at the bottom of the lake.
To both adjudicate and negate the rules.
The Blood Soul Fish's single eye suddenly tightened, and the dark vortex paused briefly. For the first time, it realized that its home ground was being dismantled in reverse.
The lakebed began to tremble, the crack in the Soul Domain continued to widen, and the crimson Soul Essence flowed back into the Blood Soul Fish's body. The Realm-Breaking Wind Prison showed signs of collapse that could no longer be maintained.
In that instant, the Blood Soul Fish went completely berserk.
All the remaining crimson soul essence at the bottom of the lake poured back into its body at the same time, and the huge body emitted a low and tearing roar. It was not a roar, but the echo of the original Fate Soul being forcibly torn apart.
Its scales flipped up one by one, and beneath each scale emerged dense chains of soul patterns. These chains were not meant to bind, but rather to connect—connecting it to its true foundation.
The next moment, the Blood Soul Fish directly burned its own original Fate Soul.
It wasn't an instigation, but a sacrifice.
The single eye suddenly exploded into a scarlet soul core, within which layers upon layers of Fate Soul remnants emerged, like countless beings that had been devoured, merged, and rewritten opening their eyes at the same moment. The entire lake region was forcibly "flattened" in that instant.
The rift torn open by the Chaos Order Adjudication was firmly held down by a tyrannical and unreasonable will of the Fate Soul, and for the first time, the Formless Domain that spread from the Silent Void Resonance also showed signs of being squeezed and eroded.
This is an attempt to forcibly suppress all rules and resistance by relying on the Fate Soul and the depth of history.
The Blood Soul Fish's berserk form was fully revealed. Its body was no longer a single beast, but rather a blood-red soul mountain made up of countless Fate Soul. The "ground" at the bottom of the lake began to tilt towards it, and space itself became part of it. The judgment of Order Adjudication was suppressed, the denial of Silent Void was covered, and the entire soul domain was pulled back into its control.
But at that moment, Qin Yu made a move. He no longer confronted the Blood Soul Fish head-on.
The Silent Origin Stainless Sword was slowly raised in his hand. The blade was not aimed at the Blood Soul Fish, but at the deepest part of the lake, at the fundamental vein that runs through the Soul Domain. His gaze was cold and clear-headed—since the home field cannot be contested, then let the home field Does Not Exist.
The sword fell. This sword strike had no name.
The Chaos Order Adjudication was compressed to its Ultimate, no longer judging rules or existence, but directly judging the "causal continuity that supports the establishment of the Soul Domain". Wherever the sword touched, the underlying logical structure of the lake was completely severed, as if a giant net was cut off from its core node.
A chain reaction of collapses erupted in the next instant.
The lake was no longer shattered, but completely ineffective. Space began to roll inward, and the crimson soul essence, having lost its anchor, transformed into countless falling fragments. The Fate Soul mountain formed by the berserk form of the Blood Soul Fish underwent irreversible collapse, and the power that originally suppressed Order Adjudication and Silent Void became a heavy burden that was backfired upon.
The moment the foundation of the lake broke, Jin Hanyan's expression suddenly changed.
Her Silent Void · Dao of Chaos detected an unusual echo in the backlash—not from the Blood Soul Fish itself, but from a deeper layer of causal remnants. Among the Fate Soul devoured and fused by the Blood Soul Fish, some did not belong to the Ancient Plain of Dead Remains, or even to the Void Obliteration Domain.
It was a deliberately transplanted trace of cause and effect.
Jin Hanyan's voice was exceptionally clear amidst the collapsed lake. "Qin Yu... its Fate Soul is incomplete."
She quickly deduced that the Fate Soul layers supporting the Blood Soul Fish's rampage were not obtained through natural hunting, but rather were the result of some entity pre-emptively introducing and feeding it, as if preparing a "shell" large enough to support a greater being.
Within those Fate Soul, there remained an extremely ancient and chilling causal link—not the will of the Blood Soul Fish itself.
It's more like... something that was once severed but has not truly perished, using it to continue its tentacles.
The lake is collapsing, the Blood Soul Fish are roaring, but the real danger is only now beginning to emerge.
At the Threshold point of the lake's collapse, the Blood Soul Fish suddenly froze. Its massive body ceased its struggle, and its scales lost their luster, as if some force had emptied them from within. Then, its abdomen and back simultaneously split open—not with flesh shattering, but with the sound of its Fate Soul being forcibly torn apart.
Layers of soul shadows were pulled upwards by an invisible force, like the discarded remains of a sacrifice. The entire blood lake came to a complete standstill at this moment, the surging blood waves solidified into an eerie mirror, and the origin of the Blood Soul Fish that once suppressed Order Adjudication and Silent Void began to collapse rapidly, transforming into a constantly trembling soul shell.
The moment the soul shell became completely hollow, a true will descended from it.
It wasn't born from the Blood Soul Fish's body, but rather it used it as a gateway.
In the center of the blood lake, space silently cracked open, and a figure draped in a dark gray robe slowly appeared. The robe seemed to be woven from the remnants of an old era and the weathered fate, hanging down in layers, with faint lightning patterns flowing between the folds, as if a storm was sealed beneath the fabric.
It has no face; deep within its hood lies a void that devours light, instantly obliterating any attempt to perceive it. Its arms hang naturally, palms facing outward, as if accepting the collapse of the entire lake region, or as if declaring—all of this was born for it.
The sky Does Not Exist at the bottom of the lake, but thunder exploded in rings behind it, and gray-white lightning spread out in circles, illuminating the body that floated in the void. Each thunderclap was accompanied by the echo of cause and effect being rewritten, the blood lake sank, space flipped, and the entire lake area seemed to be dragged into a higher dimension of shadow.
Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan did not hesitate at all.
Before that existence could fully solidify, Qin Yu had already withdrawn the remaining power of the Chaos Order Adjudication. The Silent Origin Stainless Sword drew a clean and crisp upward trajectory beside him, and the Chaos Order Adjudication forcibly tore open the spatial rift that had not yet closed; Jin Hanyan's Silent Void · Dao of Chaos resonated accordingly, and the power of Formless covered the two of them.
The remaining soul domain at the bottom of the lake was completely isolated. Almost at the same moment the thunder exploded, the two broke through the blood lake's blockade and were thrown back onto the lake's surface. The void beneath their feet trembled, and the blood lake behind them continued to collapse and shrink.
And that being finally completely detached itself from the bottom of the lake.
It slowly rose from the deepest part of the blood lake, with no water or space beneath its feet, only the flattened layers of cause and effect retreating one after another. The crimson of the blood lake gradually faded, turning into a dark gray-black, the stench dissipated, leaving behind an even more chilling silence.
The figure hovered in mid-air, its hood slightly raised. Although its face remained hidden, Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan simultaneously felt as if they were being precisely watched—not by a gaze, but by an existence itself being locked onto.
At that moment, the heavens and earth fell silent, and the lightning ring slowly rotated.
The lightning ring slowly rotated under the gray sky. The figure, draped in a robe that looked like a tattered page from an old era, stood still in mid-air. There was no outward pressure emanating from him, yet the entire Ancient Plain of Dead Remains was as if an invisible hand had pressed down on its throat, and even the wind dared not move.
Jin Hanyan's gaze narrowed slightly, and the Silent Void · Dao of Chaos within her quietly subsided. She whispered to Qin Yu, "The aura of this being... is no longer just at the Severed Thought Realm; it has probably already crossed that boundary."
Qin Yu did not respond, but coldly stared at the figure. The Silent Origin Stainless Sword hung at his side, its blade silent yet subtly vibrating. He slowly spoke, "A place like the Ancient Plain of Dead Remains could actually give birth to an existence of this level... It seems that 'death' here has never been a simple matter of dying."
As if responding to his judgment, the lightning rings surrounding the creature paused slightly, and its grey robes fluttered in the void without wind, revealing layers of dark red and greyish-white soul patterns within their folds. As these patterns lit up, a truth sealed for countless eons gradually took shape amidst the echoes of cause and effect—
This was not an external enemy, but one of the most primordial powerhouses of the Ancient Plain of Dead Remains. So ancient that he existed even before this wasteland was called "Wilderness." It was an era where war and death were the way, and he was devoured by the Blood Soul Fish in that all-consuming war, destined to perish. Yet, deep within the endless blood lake...
Using its broken will as a seed, it self-generated Fate Soul within the Blood Soul Fish's body, devouring, reorganizing, and reshaping itself. It failed time and time again, and started over again and again, nurturing itself for several eras.
Only now, with the Blood Soul Fish's soul domain completely torn apart and the shell that sealed off the logic of its Fate Soul shattered, has it finally broken free and completed its true "rebirth".
The being slowly raised its arms, and lightning exploded in a ring behind it. Countless white bones deep in the Ancient Plain of Dead Remains trembled simultaneously, as if bowing to their former master. The next moment, it took a step forward. There was no space beneath its feet, but it caused the collapse of the causal layer. The air was compressed into visible ripples, heading straight for Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan.
The first direct confrontation erupted silently.
Qin Yu made the first move, Silent Origin Stainless Sword suddenly lit up. A Chaos Order Adjudication spread along the sword's edge, but what he slashed out was not sword light, but a trajectory of existence that was forcibly corrected. Wherever it passed, space and logic were simultaneously cut apart, like torn pages of a book flipping up.
Almost simultaneously, Jin Hanyan took a half step forward, and the Silent Void · Dao of Chaos unfolded in full. Her figure split into several layers of overlapping reality and Formless, and the power of formlessness transformed into a silent surge, sealing off the soul domain tentacles that the living being might extend.
The two forces converged in mid-air, but the expected explosion did not occur. The being merely raised its hand slightly, and the lightning ring suddenly contracted, unfolding a gray-white soul curtain in front of it. Chaos Order Adjudication cut into it, as if falling into a bottomless abyss, being swallowed layer by layer and slowly dissipated;
The moment the power of Silent Void touched the soul barrier, it was also pulled in the opposite direction, as if it were being dragged back to a more primitive "undefined" state.
Qin Yu's pupils constricted slightly, his sword thrust advancing instead of retreating, forcefully compressing the Order Adjudication once more; Jin Hanyan let out a low shout, the Silent Void · Dao of Chaos vibrating, forcefully severing the backlash. In a mere breath, the three forces intertwined above the Ancient Plain of Dead Remains, lightning, chaos, and Silent Void tearing at each other.
The surface of the entire ancient plain began to crack, bones turned to dust, and were reshaped by a new deathly intent in the next instant.