The pupils of the Causal Soul Logic Venerable contracted sharply in that instant, as if pierced by some irresistible ominous sign; it finally understood what they were about to do.
It wasn't about fighting the three commanders head-on, nor about getting entangled with the Primal Chaos Heavenly Emperor; it was about shattering the "foundation" of this sealed realm on the spot, and unleashing Qin Yu's blade, which was specifically designed to sever the foundation of magical treasures.
A distorted growl escaped its throat, the sound waves carrying echoes of shattered, silent text. The space around the battlefield cracked like glass struck by a heavy hammer, and it pointed to the dark array eye at the deepest part of the sealed realm.
Almost roaring, it pressed the order into the void, "Quick! We absolutely cannot let them shatter the array's core! We absolutely cannot let Qin Yu get out!" Before the words were even finished, it and the other two main Main Soul Commander simultaneously activated their magical treasures. The soul flags were raised, their surfaces torn apart as if by an invisible storm.
Billions of gray-black soul fragments poured down from the flag, transforming upon landing into a sky-covering "Soul-Forgetfulness Curtain." Once the curtain was drawn, the light in the world seemed to be shattered into powder, and even the cultivators' breathing became sluggish and unfamiliar. The nine petals of the Chaos Divine Lotus bloomed simultaneously, each petal flowing with different Dao patterns. At the moment the flower opened...
All attacks on the battlefield were forcibly "redirected" towards Lianxin, like rivers flowing into the sea. Even the outward projection of Yun Qiusheng and Qin Zhien's essences were diverted by half an inch. The Taiyi Divine Wood Branch trembled coldly, and faint white rings resembling tree rings appeared on its branches, spreading outwards layer by layer, affecting everything in their path.
The aftershocks of the spell seemed to have been stripped of their "reason for existence," turning into meaningless dust that fell to the ground. Even space itself emitted a dull groan in that "zeroing" sensation, as if it were about to be erased into a blank, indiscriminate void.
Within the sealed realm, the Primal Chaos Heavenly Emperor also felt the sharp threat of the array eye being locked at the same moment. Its huge yellow sac true form swelled up for a moment without warning. The next moment, the color of the entire sealed realm suddenly faded from chaotic gray to a near "colorless" deathly stillness, as if even the color had been stripped away.
It had no face, yet it instilled a chilling sense of being stared at in everyone. The faint, almost imperceptible song and dance deep within the sac convulsed more rapidly, then transformed into a sharp, indescribable, ethereal tremor. This tremor didn't pierce the eardrums, but rather directly choked the deepest impulse in one's mind to "act."
The divine power "Absolute Thoughtlessness Seal Kill - Heart Source Silent Closure" suddenly took shape within the sealed realm: it did not sever the physical body, nor did it rupture the Dao Fruit, but instead directly sealed the very origin of the thought of "taking action," causing a momentary interruption in the flow of the source within Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan's bodies.
It was as if someone had tightened his lifeline at its source, forcing even the flow of his blood to halt for a moment; at the same time, invisible "Silent Closure Ring" spread from the body of the Primal Chaos Heavenly Emperor, and wherever they passed, space seemed to be compressed into thin paper, and time seemed to be folded into wrinkles.
The ground beneath Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan's feet even showed inward-sinking black depressions, as if trying to swallow them, along with their intention to attack the array's core, into the "Void of Thoughtlessness."
Just as the half-breath of the deadly seal was about to be fully realized, Qin Yu's sea of consciousness suddenly trembled. A wisp of dark blue flame burst forth from between his brows, small yet sharp enough to slice through the heavens and earth. Azure Ring swiftly darted out, her petite figure flashing through the void. The extremely thin blue chain on her ankle dragged the cracked broken bell, making a very soft "clang" that seemed to strike the very bones of the entire sealed realm.
The tremors caused visible cracks to appear in the concentric Silent Closure Ring. She snorted coldly, her voice as chilling as a blade beneath ice. "Hmph, you still want to launch a sneak attack? I've been watching you the whole time." The broken sword she held upside down in her right hand dripped blue blood tears, which shattered into small Xiaoqing rings in the air, each Azure Ring reflecting the Primal Chaos Heavenly Emperor's "most feared way of dying."
That wasn't a visual image, but rather the deepest premonition of annihilation within her Fate Soul, instantly disrupting its silent rhythm. Azure Ring immediately raised her hand and pressed down, unleashing the Silent Wheel Final Abyss. Ten layers of dark azure soul wheels spun simultaneously within her skirt, the soul wheels overlapping to form a miniature projection of a wheel-like prison, directly slamming into the twitching "source of lingering resentment" deep within the Primal Chaos Heavenly Emperor's body.
The moment the Wheel of Hell fell, there was no roar, only a brief silence, as if the world had been choked. The Primal Chaos Heavenly Emperor's body suddenly caved in, as if gripped by an invisible giant hand. The entire "Silent Closure Ring" of the sealed realm instantly reversed, and for the first time, the Primal Chaos Heavenly Emperor was forced back half a step. A thin crack even appeared on the surface of his body. There was no blood in the crack, only clumps of crushed "Embers of Thought" that silently burned out in the darkness.
At the same time, outside the sealed boundary, Tao Piaoran's gaze was as cold as snow. She saw that the magical treasures and supernatural powers of the three commanders were already pressing down on Yun Qiusheng and Qin Zhien. If they were delayed for that moment, they would never be able to wait for Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan's synchronized attack from both inside and outside.
Without hesitation, she seemed to transform into a peach-colored afterimage blooming in a storm. With a wave of her hand, a forbidden light ripped open from her palm, like a thin blade tearing the sky across a thousand miles. Countless peach-petal-like fragments of light scattered from the edge of the blade, each fragment representing a brief moment of "severing the cause" and "stopping the thought."
Using herself as a bridge, she forcefully blocked the Soul Banner's Soul-Forgetfulness Curtain in front of her, reversed the trajectory of the Chaos Divine Lotus, and used her own Fate Soul to withstand the zeroing rings of the Taiyi Divine Wood Branch. As a result, an extremely shocking scene unfolded in the sky above the battlefield.
The supernatural powers of the three magical treasures crashed into the same thin, almost transparent, peach-colored sky like three roaring torrents. The sky trembled violently, and the ripples spread outwards like waves being struck on the surface of the universe. Tao Piaoran's hair turned into light in the headwind, and her body began to develop tiny crystalline cracks. What overflowed from the cracks was not blood, but a pale golden light formed from her essence and lifespan.
Yun Qiusheng's eyes instantly turned bloodshot, and his throat felt like it was blocked by a piece of red-hot iron. He almost roared, "Piaoran--!" But Tao Piaoran didn't turn around. She simply pushed the peach-colored canopy forward another half inch, forcefully snatching the last "half a breath" for Yun Qiusheng and Qin Zhien.
The next instant, the divine powers of the three magical treasures exploded down simultaneously, shattering the peach-colored sky into a rain of flowers. Before the flowers hit the ground, they were crushed into nothingness by the Zeroing Ring. Tao Piaoran's figure was also forcibly erased in that instant, without even a scream. Only a faint peach fragrance remained, quickly cooling in the battlefield wind, as if it had never existed.
That half-breath was enough.
Within the sealed boundary, Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan moved simultaneously. Qin Yu's gaze locked onto the array's core. The Silent Origin Stainless Sword remained unsheathed, yet a wisp of extremely fine sword intent emanated from his fingertips, like a cold thread stealthily tracing its way through the void, directly piercing the most concealed causal gap on the outer edge of the array's core Jin Hanyan took a step forward.
A sense of Silent Void that that existed before chaos, rose around her. Her aura instantly became "formless Formless," as if even the fact that she existed had been gently erased, leaving only a pair of eyes as cold as starlight from the deepest part of an icy sea. She whispered in response to Qin Yu: "Yu."
The two simultaneously aimed at the array's core. Their power didn't spread out overwhelmingly, but rather was compressed to its Ultimate, like gathering the weight of the entire world into a single needle tip, piercing directly at the "root of establishment" of the sealed boundary.
Outside the sealed boundary, Yun Qiusheng and Qin Zhien raised their hands at the same moment. Yun Qiusheng's Chaos Origin poured into his palm like a tidal wave, condensing into an ancient seal so heavy that it caused space to sink. As soon as the ancient seal appeared, the surrounding wind suddenly stopped.
Qin Zhien was like an ancestral blade unsheathed. His aura no longer emanated outwards in waves, but transformed into a dark pillar of light that pierced the sky. Within the pillar of light, ancient Lineage bloodline oaths were faintly burning. The two attacks merged into one at the same position and in the same instant at the core of the formation.
In that instant, the seal seemed to be pried open from the inside by an invisible giant hand. The array's core first emitted an extremely fine, crisp sound, like the first crack appearing on ice. Immediately afterward, countless dark cracks spread wildly along the seal's dome, from which distorted gray-white mist surged forth, carrying with it an echo of Annihilation compressed to its Ultimate.
Then the entire sealed realm began to "collapse in reverse"—not an explosion, but like a giant painting being erased from its center. The erased area first became blank, then rapidly expanded. Even the space beneath the feet of the Primal Chaos Heavenly Emperor began to lose its support, the mass of the seal shuddered heavily, and the cracks widened.
The twitching dance within the pouch was forcibly torn off, turning into black fragments that scattered. At the same moment, the magical artifacts and divine powers of the three Main Soul Commander also rebounded, causing the soul flags to tremble and crack in several places; the petals of the Chaos Divine Lotus curled slightly, and the Dao patterns on its veins dimmed for a moment.
The annual rings on the Taiyi Divine Wood Branch suddenly stopped, as if forcibly interrupted by some sharper "principle of establishment".
The seal finally gave way.
It shattered completely with a deafening roar, yet as if it were being smothered by cotton wool, breaking into countless transparent pieces that fell to the ground and vanished into nothingness in mid-air.
Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan's feet suddenly lost their footing, and the world was reconnected. The blood and cold wind of the battlefield instantly flooded their vision, and the tragic war scenes outside surged in like a tide. Qin Yu stood amidst the collapsed remnants of the sealed realm, his eyes so cold that they seemed to want to uproot the entire abyss of the Causal Soul Logic Realm Abyss.
The moment the sealed boundary shattered completely under that combined attack, it was as if a curtain concealing the truth had been suddenly lifted from the heavens and earth. Grayish-white fragments rolled up and then Emptiness, revealing a battlefield behind them where blood surged and causal currents crisscrossed.
The instant this world reconnected, Qin Yu didn't pause for a moment. His gaze was so cold it was almost transparent, as if he had already seen through the "cause of birth" and "principle of existence" of all magical treasures. For the first time, he actively drew upon the source of starlight deep within his sea of consciousness. His thoughts, like an anchor, fell straight down, and a deep, calm mantra unfolded between his lips. "Treasures wish to shake me? Stars fall, components vanish."
As soon as he finished speaking, the Star Wancai Key deep within his sea of consciousness was forcibly drawn out. It no longer appeared on its own, but was pulled from the endless sea of stars by his will. At that moment, all the light in the world seemed to be redistributed, and countless starlight poured back into a river of light that pierced through the void. At the end of the river of light, a battle key made of countless stardust and primordial colors slowly took shape.
It is not made of metal or gold, but rather a personification of the universe's "construction of answers". Every slight tremor of the key body will cause the surrounding space to show dense historical remnants. These are the first logical imprints cast on countless magical artifacts at the beginning of their creation, and now they are being dragged into the light one by one to be judged.
The three Main Soul Commander felt a fatal misalignment almost simultaneously. It wasn't a suppression on a power level, but a more fundamental stripping away, as if someone were flipping through the "Book of Origin" of their magical artifacts, crossing out page after page the very reason for their existence. The soul flags were the first to emit a shrill tremor.
The patterns on the flag, forged from countless Fate Soul, instantly faded and peeled away, turning into gray-white stardust that flowed backward. Even the trace of "the flag ever existing" was erased in the air.
The Chaos Divine Lotus trembled violently. Before its nine petals could fully close, it began to crumble from the center. The Great Dao Laws contained within its veins, like a creature stripped of its skeleton, broke apart inch by inch. The light patterns of time, cause and effect, and life and death annihilated each other in the exploding starlight, ultimately leaving only a meaningless dark shadow, which was swept away by the starlight.
Even the shadow itself ceased to exist, and the Taiyi Divine Wood Branch let out a low groan that was almost a wail. The annual rings on the branch reversed wildly, from prosperity to decay, and then from decay back to the void of "Unborn". The entire history of the divine tree was forcibly folded and crushed, turning into a cloud of colorless stardust that scattered with the wind.
The entire process lacked exaggerated explosions, yet it was more thorough than any destruction, as if the three ancient magical artifacts had never been forged, never been used, and had never left even a trace on this land. The battlefield fell into a brief and eerie stillness for a moment, and the three commanders froze simultaneously, as if they had suddenly lost the "exoskeleton" that supported their existence.
The cultivators fighting nearby witnessed this scene and unleashed their pent-up energy in the next moment. The balance of the battle was forcibly reversed by this Starlight Battle Key. Before the starlight had even dissipated, Qin Yu stood in the shattered light, as if he had firmly grasped the focus of the entire battlefield in his palm.