Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan simultaneously concealed their auras, their figures like two shadows forgotten by the world, slowly approaching the area where the causal echoes were most chaotic.
The ground of the Ancient Plain of Dead Remains cracked silently beneath their feet, only to heal itself in the next instant, as if it dared not leave any trace to be found.
The further you go, the heavier the sense of oppression in the air becomes, as if the world has been forcibly pressed into an invisible abyss, and even the wind becomes sluggish and heavy.
When the two reached the edge of a ruptured fault line, the view ahead finally came into full view.
It was an area utterly ravaged by battle, with mountains collapsing into massive circular craters, and space churning and swirling as if repeatedly kneaded by countless invisible giant hands.
In the very center of this distorted world, six enormous and ferocious figures stood in six directions, surrounding an even more terrifying being.
Those six Devil Beasts, each seemingly born from destruction itself, possessed diverse forms, yet all radiated a terrifying pressure at the Stainless Realm · Supreme.
Some bodies seemed to be forged from obsidian and flesh, with limbs as thick as mountain pillars and barbed bone blades growing from their joints;
Some carried shattered bone wings; the wing membranes were not flesh and blood, but rather woven from twisted causal patterns, each flap of which caused a tearing sound in space.
Others are clad in dark gold scales, with crimson light flowing between the scales, as if the vengeful spirits of countless living beings are compressed and sealed on their bodies.
Their eyes were uniform and cold, devoid of any emotion, displaying only pure killing intent and execution forged by the will of the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor.
However, even these six Devil Beast exuded a sense of tension and vigilance at this moment.
Because, surrounded by them, the presence of that demonic beast had completely overwhelmed everything else.
It was a super monster that seemed to be formed from a combination of storms, seas of clouds, and ancient rage.
Its body is not solid flesh and blood, but rather seems to be constructed from endless surging gray-white clouds. The outline of muscles like mountains can be vaguely seen in the clouds. With each "breath", the air currents between heaven and earth are forcibly drawn and transformed into a roaring hurricane.
Its head was ferocious and majestic, its mane danced wildly like a storm, and its eyes burned with a dark golden light, like two lightning cores compressed to their Limit.
Wherever one gazes, space begins to tremble and become unstable. When limbs step down, the earth is not crushed, but rather directly "collapsed," as if the causal plane is groaning under unbearable pressure.
The monster simply stood there, and a natural storm domain formed around it, with rolling clouds and rumbling thunder, as if it had forcibly incorporated a part of the entire Ancient Plain of Dead Remains into its own domain.
At this moment, the battle is at its most intense and deadlocked stage.
The six Devil Beast constantly shifted positions, sometimes charging head-on with pure brute force, and sometimes tearing apart the cloud structure surrounding them with twisted laws.
The demonic beasts retaliated almost instinctively, each swing of their giant claws formed from cloud storms causing dimensional tremors.
It forced all six Devil Beast back simultaneously. Thunder exploded within its body, and the storm transformed into countless invisible blades, colliding head-on with the Devil Beast's offensive and unleashing an impact powerful enough to tear mountains and rivers apart.
The world collapsed and was forcibly stabilized repeatedly between them, and the causal lines were cut and reassembled time and time again. The entire battlefield was like a runaway engine that could World Extinguisher.
Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan watched this scene quietly from a distance, neither of them making a move rashly.
They could all clearly sense that neither the six Devil Beast nor the super monster had yet revealed their true strength.
This is a top-level duel where any third party who steps in could be instantly swallowed up.
Jin Hanyan's gaze lingered on the demonic beast for only a moment, and the Silent Void · Dao of Chaos within her sea of consciousness instinctively trembled. Her pupils contracted almost imperceptibly, and her voice, though extremely low, carried an unprecedented solemnity. "Qin Yu... this is neither the Stainless Realm nor the Severed Thought Realm. This demonic beast is probably already standing on the threshold of the Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme Threshold."
Her gaze seemed to pierce through the churning clouds and thunder, landing directly on the constantly collapsing and reforming domain itself. "Look around it," she said, "There are no stable boundaries. Dimensions around it are not torn apart, but actively 'negated.' Tangible rules and intangible laws automatically disintegrate once you get close."
This is already the beginning of Boundary Collapse and the shattering of dimensions.
Qin Yu did not respond immediately; his entire focus had already sunk into a calmer, more dangerous analysis. His gaze wasn't fixed on the explosive power of the demonic beasts, but rather on dissecting the battlefield itself, following the flow of its energy—
He incorporated the patterns of the collapsing earth, the direction of the folding of space, the echo frequencies left after the causality was severed, and even the subtle rhythmic differences in the contraction and expansion of the monster domain each time the six Devil Beasts were injured into his deductions.
He noticed an extremely subtle yet fatal anomaly: each of the monster's heavy blows was accompanied by an "overexpansion" of its domain, as if it had forcibly drawn upon a power exceeding its stable threshold for a short period of time to Realm Breaking.
In the next instant, this force will be forced to withdraw, leaving a brief but real "gap".
That was not weakness, but a kind of Realm Breaking Origin that had not yet been fully stabilized—its power was enough to crush six Devil Beasts, but it was still limited by a core that had not yet been repaired.
"It's not a naturally born monster that Realm Breaking." Qin Yu said in a low voice, his tone calm to the point of being cold. "Look at its power circuits, they're not closed, they've been 'splittered'."
Its Wind of Realm Breaking did not originate from a complete Dao foundation, but rather seemed to... have been forcibly pushed to this level after devouring some kind of Realm Breaking remnant.
His gaze swept over the depths of the churning cloud-like body of the demonic beast. "So it's very strong, but there's a price to pay—if you keep pushing it to overextend its domain, its very essence will tear apart."
At that very moment, the battle situation suddenly changed.
The six Devil Beast seemed to receive some silent command at the same time, and their original rhythm of fighting independently and attacking in turn was instantly interrupted.
They suddenly separated, and six Ultimate dark crimson runes lit up simultaneously in all six directions. It was not a single force, but an absolute execution structure that had been engraved deep into the Fate Soul beforehand.
A huge, distorted mark suddenly appeared in the void. The mark was incomplete, but it exuded a familiar aura that chilled one's soul—it was the remnant of the will of the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor.
The world seemed to be paused by an invisible hand. In the next instant, the six Devil Beast simultaneously tore apart the outer layer of their own Fate Soul, and the source of darkness was forcibly extracted and gathered, condensing into a continuously collapsing killing core in their center.
Space began to peel away layer by layer like a shattered mirror, light and shadow were compressed into broken lines, and the laws and order of the entire battlefield were forcibly rewritten with a single direction—annihilation.
This is the true trump card left behind by the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor —a "proxy world-destroying" technique that can be activated at crucial moments without the emperor's personal presence.
However, the super monster did not retreat.
Just as the killing core was about to fully take shape, the demonic beast's cloud-like body suddenly contracted, and the surging storm was forcibly suppressed into its body in an instant, as if the entire world had been emptied of sound. The next moment, it slowly raised its forelimbs, which were made of thunderclouds and causality, and gently pressed them forward.
There was no light, no loud noise.
Only an invisible shockwave, seemingly emanating from the edge of the boundary, swept out. Wherever it passed, space was not shattered, but rather directly "flattened," with all dimensional folds compressed into an absolute void plane.
The moment the still-developing killing core came into contact with this power, the runes crumbled inch by inch, and the causal lines scattered like ashes blown away by a gale.
One of the Devil Beast didn't even have time to roar before its massive body began to collapse from the very essence of "existence" under this force—its scales lost their meaning, its flesh and blood lost their definition, and its Fate Soul structure was directly torn apart.
A mouthful of dark red primordial blood sprayed out, and his entire body, like a hollowed-out afterimage, crashed heavily into the depths of the already collapsed earth.
Jin Hanyan lowered her voice, her gaze never leaving the churning storm in the realm ahead. She turned to Qin Yu, her tone tense. "Qin Yu, what do we do now?"
Qin Yu did not respond immediately. His gaze was fixed on the deepest part of the battlefield, his eyes cold and sharp. After a moment, he slowly spoke, "Don't move. Going out now will only result in being targeted by the six Devil Beasts and that monster at the same time, which is tantamount to walking into a death trap."
Jin Hanyan was slightly taken aback, then asked, "So what are your plans?"
Qin Yu said in a low voice, "I have a bold decision. Senior Qing said that the classic book is guarded by a demonic beast—so I am absolutely certain that the super demonic beast in front of us is the guardian of the book. The six Devil Beast came to seize the book on the orders of the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor. If we intervene at the crucial moment and help it withstand a deadly attack, it will be equivalent to offering it a 'goodwill' when it needs it most."
Jin Hanyan frowned slightly, her rationality quickly prevailing over her emotions. "The idea is sound, but the risk is extremely high. If the six Devil Beasts are no match for it and are Annihilation, we won't even have a chance to intervene; even if we manage to save it, there's no guarantee it will show us any goodwill."
Qin Yu's lips curled into a faint smile, his tone resolute. "Don't worry, I'm willing to bet. A being like the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor wouldn't just employ this one move. The six Devil Beasts are merely pawns on the surface; further ahead—there must be a true killing move hidden."
Jin Hanyan remained silent for a few moments, her gaze sweeping once more over the constantly collapsing and reshaping realm on the battlefield. Finally, she nodded. "That makes sense. Let's wait and observe, then find the only entry point."
Qin Yu responded softly, "Yes, just watch... The true powerhouse sent by the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor hasn't shown itself yet. These six Devil Beasts are merely used to deplete the Guardian's essence."
The moment they finished speaking, the battlefield suddenly spiraled out of control again.
The remaining five Devil Beast roared to the sky at the same time, and the scarlet mark left deep in their Fate Soul was completely ignited. They no longer held back, and their huge bodies forcibly formed a broken but terrifying array in the void.
In the next instant, the higher-level structure left behind by the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor was completely unsealed—countless black and red runes peeled off their bodies like living things, suspended in the air, interlocking and rotating with each other, forming a destructive array that spanned the heavens and the earth.
The colors of heaven and earth were stripped away at this moment, and space was like a metal plate that had been repeatedly folded, emitting a piercing cracking sound. Thunder was no longer thunder, but was stretched into broken dimensional fragments.
The five Devil Beast simultaneously unleashed their innate divine powers, transforming a torrent of slaughter into a dark waterfall that overturned the world, pressing down on the super demonic beast from five directions at the same time. Wherever it passed, mountains evaporated, and the void collapsed into bottomless rifts.
However, just as the destructive torrent was about to converge, the monster suddenly froze.
It wasn't suppressed, but rather it stopped voluntarily.
Its surging cloud body completely contracted in an instant, and the originally violent Wind of Realm Breaking was forcibly suppressed into its body. All the noise in the world seemed to be wiped away by an invisible hand.
The next moment, a will more ancient, indifferent, and complete than ever before slowly awakened—it was no longer mere ferocity, but a true dominant consciousness belonging to the Realm Breaking Realm.
The boundaries beneath its feet collapsed into a meaningless plane. It raised its head, and wherever its gaze fell, the rules automatically retreated, as if unworthy to coexist with it. Then, it slowly raised its forelimbs and casually swung them forward.
This strike was silent, without a roar or a flash of light.
Only an invisible yet irresistible "Realm Breaking wave" swept out, and the boundaries of everything it touched were directly erased.
The two Devil Beast charging at the forefront didn't even have time to let out a scream. Their massive bodies lost their "definition of existence" in an instant. Their scales, flesh, and Fate Soul collapsed at the same time, turning into a blank space that even the void could not contain, and they were completely Annihilation.
The remaining four Devil Beasts were swept away by the aftershocks of the wave; their Fate Soul structures were instantly torn apart, their crimson essence gushing out, and their bodies were blasted tens of thousands of feet backward.
His aura plummeted, and he was already critically injured and on the verge of death. At this moment, the battle was no longer a simple slaughter. It had officially entered the level of a boundary duel.