Su Xingrou's voice echoed slowly within the Star-Net Immortal Hall, gentle yet carrying an undeniable solemnity. "Young Master Qin, this Void Evolution Causality-Replenishing Marrow can not only completely awaken Source-Suppressing Stillnessless Venerable, but also help it directly cross the boundary and enter the Profound Mystic Void Realm after awakening."
If successful, not only the Void Obliteration Domain, but the entire Source of Epochless · Middle Layer will suffer irreversible collapse.
She paused slightly, her gaze as cold as the depths of a galaxy, and continued, "What's worse is that the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor has already found the natal artifact 'Divine Body World Destruction' left behind by the Source-Suppressing Stillnessless Venerable in the deepest part of the Asura Immortal Hall."
Although in its current state it cannot fully unleash the true power of this divine artifact, even a partially activated one is enough to shake the foundation of the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer.
The star patterns inside the hall twisted slightly, as if the name "Divine Body World Destruction" itself carried an ominous weight.
Qin Yu remained silent for a moment, his mind rapidly deducing from the countless clues, before raising his eyes and asking, "May I ask, senior, have you been able to deduce the specific whereabouts of the person carrying the Void Evolution Causality-Replenishing Marrow?"
Su Xingrou gently shook her head, but did not answer immediately. Instead, she raised her hand and waved.
In an instant, the void in the center of the Star-Net Immortal Hall was torn open, and a scene woven from fate patterns, threads of cause and effect, and remnants of time slowly emerged.
Above the Desolate Abyss Ice Field, the world was deathly pale, the cold wind was like a blade, and cause and effect were frozen. In the scene, several Chaos Realm cultivators were fighting against a group of Remnants Lord. Ten main souls descended at the same time, their soul shadows covering the sky, and fate was shattered. The icy plains were torn apart by wave after wave of destruction, and space collapsed in a roar.
Then, a terrifying figure, capable of burning away all logic, descended from the sky— the Logic-Extinguishing Divine Phoenix.
Its appearance caused the "reasoning" of the entire Desolate Abyss Ice Field to begin to melt, and the rules fell like ashes. In the scene, a woman in the Chaos Realm forcibly used her Fate Soul as a guide to tear open an escape gap and send a young man into the void rift. At that moment, her eyes were calm and resolute, but they also carried an undisguised farewell.
Immediately afterwards, the power of Void Evolution manifested briefly within her body, disrupting cause and effect and distorting her destiny. She used this to evade the final lock of the Logic-Extinguishing Divine Phoenix, and in the instant before destruction fell, she completely disappeared beyond all traceable paths.
The scene abruptly ended there. The star patterns faded, and the hall returned to silence.
Qin Yu's gaze was fixed on him; he recognized the young man in the image at a glance—it was Zhou Yujin. And the woman at the Chaos Realm...
"I see," Qin Yu said in a low voice, "That woman is Zhou Yujin's younger sister, Zhou Wanning."
He looked up at Su Xingrou: "Senior, have you deduced her final whereabouts?"
Su Xingrou sighed softly, a rare hint of helplessness in her sigh, "It was precisely because when she was fighting against the Logic-Extinguishing Divine Phoenix that the Void Evolution Causality-Replenishing Marrow was fully revealed, and all her causes and effects, destiny, and destination were automatically concealed by the power of the Void Evolution."
From that moment on, neither I nor my ancestor, the Star-Net Immortal Hall, could ever trace her true whereabouts again.
Upon hearing this, Qin Yu understood and slowly said, "So, the real purpose of your invitation, senior, is to have me find her."
Su Xingrou nodded, her gaze gentle yet fixed on the source of his being. "Yes. Because her life was extended because of you."
"If you hadn't helped her brother find that Nameless Root-Returning Medicine, she would have perished long ago from the backlash of the Void Evolution Causality-Replenishing Marrow."
It was precisely because of the Nameless Root-Returning Medicine that the Void Evolution Causality-Replenishing Marrow recognized her as its master, allowing her to survive and coexist with it.
Her voice was soft, yet every word struck at the heart of cause and effect. "In a sense, all of this originated from you."
Only you, unaffected by the natural rejection of the Void Evolution Causality-Replenishing Marrow, can truly approach her.
Star-Net Immortal Hall, there was a moment of complete silence.
Azure Ring gently swayed on Qin Yu's right shoulder, as if she had long anticipated this moment.
Qin Yu's gaze settled completely at this moment. It wasn't hesitation, but the calm that came after a decision had been made.
He looked up and bowed respectfully to Su Xingrou. "This junior understands."
Qin Yu's voice slowly faded within the Star-Net Immortal Hall, causing the star patterns within to tremble slightly, as if destiny itself was responding to his question. His gaze was steady and direct.
Without any beating around the bush. "Senior, since that's the case, could you deduce the true hiding place of the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor? If we can Annihilation it first, perhaps all the crises can be ended sooner."
Su Xingrou looked at him quietly for a long time before gently shaking her head. In that instant, the light and shadow in the hall, which had been flowing like a sea of stars, dimmed slightly.
"No." Her voice remained gentle, yet carried a rare hint of hesitation. "The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor has now entered the Severed Thought Realm - Supreme, and more importantly..."
It possesses a divine artifact. That artifact itself is based on 'prevention and deduction'. All the deductive abilities of my Star-Net Immortal Hall concerning destiny, cause and effect, and the future will be forcibly erased once they touch its logical boundaries."
She paused, her gaze falling on Qin Yu, as if she wanted to say something more, but then stopped abruptly.
"And you, Young Master Qin..."
The sentence didn't continue. Su Xingrou lowered her eyes slightly, then changed the subject, tightening her tone. "Although my palace cannot deduce the woman's final whereabouts, there is one thing that might provide you with a realistic clue."
Qin Yu's gaze sharpened slightly.
"The Logic-Extinguishing Divine Phoenix." Su Xingrou slowly raised her hand, and the star patterns on the dome of the Star-Net Immortal Hall gently rotated. "That woman vanished into the void right before the Logic-Extinguishing Divine Phoenix's eyes. Even though the Void Evolution Causality-Replenishing Marrow blocked all subsequent causal events, in that instant, the Logic-Extinguishing Divine Phoenix must have captured her final spatial orientation and the afterimage of her destiny."
"In other words," she looked at Qin Yu, "If we want to find out her true whereabouts, we can't bypass the Logic-Extinguishing Divine Phoenix."
Qin Yu remained silent for a few moments, then slowly nodded, having already made his decision.
"I understand." His voice was calm and decisive. "In that case, please tell me the final whereabouts of the Logic-Extinguishing Divine Phoenix."
Su Xingrou did not hesitate any longer. With a gentle wave of her sleeve, the star patterns in the hall suddenly rearranged, and a dark and profound trajectory appeared from the void. It was an area covered by countless Annihilation runes, as if even existence itself had been suppressed to the lowest point.
"The final refuge of the Logic-Extinguishing Divine Phoenix was a forbidden zone deep within the Void Obliteration Domain," Su Xingrou said, her voice lowering slightly. "Its name is Eternal Silence Return to the Ruins."
The moment those four words were uttered, even Azure Ring swayed slightly, and the broken bell at the end of the chain emitted a very soft, low chime.
Qin Yu stood up and bowed respectfully to Su Xingrou without saying anything more.
As he turned to leave the Star-Net Immortal Hall, the world behind the palace doors, constructed from destiny, cause and effect, and stars, slowly closed in.
It was as if all the deduced secrets had been sealed away again.
Beyond the void, the light and shadow of the Void Obliteration Domain unfolded once more. The moment Qin Yu stepped out of the Star-Net Immortal Hall, his aura was Ultimate suppressed, and even his presence was compressed to the lowest level. He did not linger or look back; with a flicker, he directly vanished into the depths of the void.
Before him lay a forbidden area within the Void Obliteration Domain, considered taboo by countless powerful individuals.
There is no order there, no cycle of birth and death, only eternal silence and the Eternal Silence Return to the Ruins.
Qin Yu's aura completely disappeared outside the Asura Immortal Hall, and the void closed again, as if it had never been set foot in. Star-Net Immortal Hall, the slowly flowing star trails did not return to calm. Instead, after a brief silence, a very subtle but extremely unusual disturbance appeared.
Just as the starlight had not yet fully returned to its original order, from the deepest part of the palace, a figure shrouded in the weight of time and destiny slowly emerged.
He was an extremely elderly man, his hair and beard as white as snow, but not pale; rather, they bore a faint star-gray hue, as if each strand of hair had been imbued with the residual light of countless deductions. He held in his hand an ancient staff, the staff not made of gold or jade.
It appears to be carved from a single piece of star bone "eroded by fate," with faintly visible broken and reconstructed life lines, silently cycling.
The moment Su Xingrou saw him, her expression suddenly turned solemn, and she immediately bowed, her tone more serious than ever before.
"Ancestor."
The old man did not respond, but slowly walked into the hall, his gaze falling on the spot where Qin Yu had just sat, as if he could still see the lingering afterimage of cause and effect.
Su Xingrou pursed her lips slightly, but finally spoke, her voice filled with an uncontrollable probing.
"Ancestor, now... can we tell Xingrou?"
The old man remained silent. He simply raised his staff slowly and lightly touched the air with the tip.
--boom.
The entire Star-Net Immortal Hall seemed to have its fate page turned by an invisible hand. The stars, talismanic sequences, and causal lines within the palace were simultaneously reversed and rearranged, and an unprecedented scene unfolded in the void.
The scene depicts the Void Obliteration Domain, torn to Ultimate.
The galaxy collapsed, the boundary wall shattered, and the ruins of the main city fell like meteorites. Countless demon spirits, monsters, and shadowy figures turned to dust in the destruction. In the center of this desperate situation, Qin Yu stood on the shattered orbit of fate, with the Azure Ring floating beside him. The ten layers of soul wheels transformed into the Silent Origin Wheel Prison, tightly sealing off the killing intent of the entire world.
The colossal divine body of Source-Suppressing Stillnessless Venerable is collapsing, and its Realm Breaking power, which transcends limits, is being stripped away and annihilated by layers of Annihilation logic; on the other side, the existence of Thought Severance Devouring Emperor is being completely erased, and even the traces of "having existed" are gradually fading in the picture.
But what truly shocked Su Xingrou was not all of this.
At the end of the scene, as the Void Obliteration Domain returned to calm, a figure quietly appeared.
She was an extremely mysterious woman.
Her presence was not forceful, yet it created an extremely deep entanglement with Qin Yu's destiny; they were not side by side, but it seemed as if their fates had already become each other's fulcrum.
They were not dependent on each other, yet they were drawn to each other at crucial moments. In the scene, there was a connection between her and Qin Yu that even the Star-Net Immortal Hall's deduction light screen could not fully depict, as if that relationship did not belong to the category of "being deducible".
Su Xingrou's pupils contracted slightly, and her breathing became disordered for the first time.
"This... how is this possible... he's only at the Stainless Realm · Initial Stage..."
She glanced at the old man instinctively, about to ask him a question. At that moment, the old man finally raised his hand and gently waved it away.
A simple gesture, yet it made all the questions Su Xingrou was about to ask stop in her tracks.
The old man's gaze remained calm, yet carried a serenity born from having witnessed countless endings. He brought his staff down once more, this time not to manifest the future, but to directly cleave open a hidden dimensional gate deep within the Star-Net Immortal Hall.
"Follow me." The voice was old, yet steady as a clock.
Beyond the boundary gate lies the true core secret chamber of the Star-Net Immortal Hall.
The moment you step inside, all sound from the outside world completely ceases. There are no stars here, yet it seems deeper than any starry sky; there is no light source, yet it is permeated with a soft, life-giving radiance. The secret chamber has a circular structure, and its four walls are composed of layers upon layers of life-giving crystal walls.
Each layer preserves traces of development from different eras, like a history built from countless failures and successes.
In the center of the secret room is a suspended circular platform.
On the circular platform, there were no objects, only an empty groove. Around the groove, there were engraved life patterns that were older and more complex than those in the main hall of the Star-Net Immortal Hall. The patterns were incomplete, as if waiting for something to return to its place.
The air was filled with an atmosphere that made people instinctively hold their breath.
That wasn't pressure, but rather a spatial preparation sufficient to support the "Ultimate deduction".
Standing in the secret room, Su Xingrou finally realized that what was about to appear was not the answer itself.
It is the Star-Net Immortal Hall, a true treasure of deduction, which only the Ancestor can use.