The black winds that Eternal Silence Return to the Ruins gradually subsided.
The ashes of the Forbidden Demonic Phoenix have completely dissipated, leaving only the lingering primordial fluctuations in the world, like the lingering smoke after a battle.
Qin Yu slowly sat cross-legged. The Silent Origin Stainless Sword lay across his knees, its blade still faintly glowing with the afterglow of judgment.
He raised his hand and took out a divine pill. The pill was dark blue, with fine life patterns on its surface, like stars flowing across it.
As soon as the pill entered his mouth, it instantly transformed into a warm, primordial energy stream, flowing down his throat and directly into the Fate Soul Nucleus.
The sea of consciousness trembled. The depleted soul frequency began to slowly revive. The origin, like parched earth receiving its first spring rain, gradually became moist.
His breathing returned to normal from its disordered state, and the remaining burn marks on his chest were slowly fading.
After several dozen breaths, Qin Yu opened his eyes. His gaze had regained its composure and sharpness. Just then, a cyan light gently appeared.
Azure Ring sat lazily on his right shoulder, swinging her legs back and forth, her fiery blue hair swaying gently.
"Hmm, not bad, Little Qinzi." She patted his shoulder with a smile.
"He managed to defeat Severed Thought Realm · Middle Stage Demonic Phoenix without my help. Impressive! That was Forbidden Demonic Phoenix, hehe."
Qin Yu glanced at her sideways and smiled faintly. "Just lucky."
"Just luck?" Azure Ring rolled her eyes. "You're saying you're just lucky because you completely shattered their fundamental logic."
Qin Yu stopped teasing and slowly stood up, gazing into the distance. "Yes, and through this battle, I've also learned a lot."
"I still need to understand and improve more about the conflict between the Principle-Extinguishing Origin and the logic of judgment." He paused for a moment.
The voice lowered. "But the most crucial thing now is how to find Zhou Yujin's sister. She absolutely cannot fall into the hands of the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor."
Azure Ring nodded slightly in thought. Qin Yu gazed into the depths of the Eternal Silence Return to the Ruins. This was no ordinary forbidden zone.
The area of Eternal Silence Return to the Ruins can no longer be described as a "region".
If measured against the outside world, its territory is large enough to contain a complete world system.
Mountains and rivers layered like fragments of the universe. Countless shattered continents float beneath the black sky.
In the distance, a deep, fractured abyss stretches for thousands of miles. The horizon is not a horizon, but a series of dark outlines formed by overlapping and folded dimensions.
Each landform contains an independent spatial hierarchy. If we compare the outside world, a complete and vast world, to a single page of a book.
Then, Eternal Silence Return to the Ruins is a spatial superposition of an entire scroll unfolding. Its size is comparable to the superposition of multiple great realms.
If measured against the highest levels of cultivation in the outside world, this is equivalent to merging the territories of several complete universe-level cultivation systems.
But this is only the "outer periphery." The real core lies at a deeper level.
Qin Yu slowly exhaled. "Such a large area... even if I flew for a hundred years, I might not be able to cover all levels. No wonder the Logic-Extinguishing Divine Phoenix was willing to lay a trap and wait for her to appear on her own."
Azure Ring rested her chin on her hand, squinting her eyes. "Hmm... it's ridiculously large." "And the space here is severely folded, one layer inside another."
"If she deliberately conceals the cause and effect, it will be difficult for us to pinpoint the exact cause and effect."
Qin Yu pondered for a moment. "But since the Logic-Extinguishing Divine Phoenix has created an illusion for her," it means she must be somewhere within that space.
"Perhaps... the traces of her and Void Evolution Causality-Replenishing Marrow still linger here." Azure Ring suddenly blinked.
"Little Qinzi, have you noticed?" "It's become too quiet here now."
The wind stopped. The distant Return to the Ruins suddenly trembled slightly.
Qin Yu slowly raised his head. In the far distance, a barely perceptible ripple of cause and effect slowly spread out.
Unlike hostility, beneath the gray, desolate sky of Eternal Silence Return to the Ruins, a very fine ripple suddenly appeared in space.
That wasn't the wind, nor was it a tremor of the forbidden zone's will. It was a true trajectory of flight.
A hundred miles away, a figure swept across the edge of the shattered, floating realm at an extremely fast speed.
It almost transformed into a pale silver stream, weaving through the twisted and folded folds of space.
Qin Yu's gaze locked on her instantly, his pupils contracting slightly. "Azure Ring." Her voice wasn't loud, but it carried an unwavering resolve.
Azure Ring, who had been swinging her legs on his shoulder, immediately stopped laughing when she heard this.
"Hmm." In the next instant, she transformed into a streak of azure light and entered Qin Yu's mind from his shoulder.
Without any hesitation, Qin Yu's body trembled, and he vanished from his spot in an instant.
It's not simply about flying away; it's about judging space itself. The spatial hierarchy of Eternal Silence Return to the Ruins is inherently in an unstable, folded state.
Ordinary people can only fly by traversing existing spatial gaps. But Qin Yu is different. He raised his hand Empty Grasp. His palm trembled slightly.
The Three Forms of Fate Construction: Time Flow Reversal – The timeline briefly reversed for three breaths around him.
He forcibly pulled the spatial fold that the figure had just passed through back to a state where it was "not yet closed".
Simultaneously, he Three Forms of Fate Construction of Cause and Effect Deconstruction to lock onto the causal remnants left behind by the fleeing figure.
Breaking it down into its most basic trajectory structure, the space beneath Qin Yu's feet seemed to be torn apart by an invisible hand in the next instant.
It wasn't a break, but a redefinition of location. He directly determined "ten miles ahead" as "where we are right now."
Space folded like paper. Heaven and earth reversed in an instant. Qin Yu's figure appeared ten miles ahead of that flying trajectory.
He landed on a suspended, gray-black fault-shaped stone platform. His long robe fluttered slightly, and his aura was calm and composed.
In the distance, the figure that was moving at lightning speed suddenly noticed something was wrong.
He looked up abruptly. The silver streak of light stopped abruptly in mid-air, leaving a long, arcing ripple in the air.
He slowly came to a stop. The winds of the Eternal Silence Return to the Ruins seemed to quiet down at this moment. Qin Yu stood ten miles ahead.
His gaze pierced through the distorted layers of the dim space, finally making out the figure.
He was slightly burly, his white clothes were somewhat torn, and his hair was disheveled by the cold wind of the restricted area.
His aura was unstable. But deep within his body, a very peculiar fluctuation was faintly flowing.
Beneath the Eternal Silence Return to the Ruins, desolate sky, the lingering echoes of their gazes still resonate in the air.
Qin Yu did not hesitate any longer. He took a step forward, and his voice traveled through ten miles of space, clearly reaching the ears of the figure.
"Brother Zhou— Zhou Yujin." The figure trembled suddenly. The spiritual power that was about to be unleashed instantly froze.
His pupils contracted sharply, and his aura became sharp and wary. "Who are you??"
Zhou Yujin landed slowly, her long sword held horizontally in front of her, her eyes fixed on Qin Yu. "May I ask, fellow Daoist, how do you know my name?"
The wind whistled past. The shadows of the Eternal Silence Return to the Ruins branches swayed between the two.
Qin Yu then realized that when he first met Zhou Yujin, he was disguised as "Mo Linxuan" and did not have his current appearance at all.
He sighed softly. Then his facial bones trembled slightly, his Fate Soul frequency subtly adjusted, and the contours of his features slowly changed in the light and shadow.
In a few breaths, that familiar face reappeared. Zhou Yujin's eyes widened suddenly. The longsword fell to the ground with a clang.
Tears welled up almost instantly. "Brother Linxuan—!" His voice trembled.
That shout was like an emotion that had been suppressed for too long suddenly bursting forth.
Qin Yu had already walked forward. "Brother Zhou, long time no see." Zhou Yujin wiped away her tears, still staring at him in disbelief. "Brother Linxuan... what was your appearance just now?"
Qin Yu slowly reverted to his true appearance. His expression was calm, yet imbued with a newfound composure. "Brother Zhou, what I just saw was my true face."
"My name is Qin Yu." "Mo Linxuan... that was just a name I made up at the time."
He said softly, "I encountered some trouble at the time and had to change my name and appearance. Please forgive me, Brother Zhou."
Zhou Yujin almost without hesitation.
He shook his head instead. "Brother Qin... no." "If it weren't for you helping me find that Nameless Root-Returning Medicine, I couldn't have done it alone."
"My sister..." He choked on his words, his eyes welling up with tears again. "She couldn't have survived either."
The wind howled softly. From the distant Eternal Silence Return to the Ruins, came the faint sound of space cracking. Qin Yu's expression turned serious. "Brother Zhou, I've come here for your sister as well."
How do you know she has vanished into Eternal Silence Return to the Ruins?
Zhou Yujin took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down. "Not long ago, our area was besieged by monsters, Devil Beast, and the Logic Remnants Lord."
"My sister fought against the Logic Remnants Lord to protect us." "She sent me away... she let me leave."
"When I return to the Desolate Abyss Ice Field-- "
His voice lowered. "She's gone." "Not Annihilation." "She escaped." "And my parents... in that great war..."
He didn't continue. Qin Yu remained silent. Zhou Yujin clenched her fists. "Now, it's just my sister and me left."
"Our Fate Soul have been connected since childhood, sharing a causal connection." "That connection points to Eternal Silence Return to the Ruins."
"And..." His eyes trembled slightly. "Her Fate Soul is very weak." The words fell the moment they were spoken.
Deep within Qin Yu's sea of consciousness, Azure Ring gently opened her eyes. "Little Qinzi," she said, "That fluctuation... I vaguely sensed it too."
Qin Yu looked up into the depths of the Return to the Ruins. The dim space seemed to be breathing slowly. His voice was low.
The gray sky of Eternal Silence Return to the Ruins hangs low, as if space has been repeatedly folded by an invisible hand, and the broken mountains in the distance float in mid-air like forgotten corpses.
Qin Yu was silent for a moment, then suddenly looked directly at Zhou Yujin. "Brother Zhou." His voice was not loud, but unusually solemn.
"Are you aware that your sister possesses a crystal core called 'Void Evolution Causality-Replenishing Marrow'?"
Zhou Yujin was taken aback. "Void Evolution... replenishes karmic essence?" He frowned, clearly having never heard of this name before.
"Brother Qin, what is that?" He shook his head, his tone frank yet bewildered. "I've never heard of such a thing, much less know... it's inside Wanning's body."
The wind swept across the desolate forbidden zone. Qin Yu slowly exhaled.
He had already anticipated this answer. "It's normal that you don't know." "That thing shouldn't exist in a mortal body."
His gaze grew cold. "The Void Evolution Causality-Replenishing Marrow is no ordinary spiritual object."
"It can mend broken cause and effect, reconstruct destiny, and reverse the logic of life and death."
"Even—" he paused, "... change the future course of a world."
Zhou Yujin's breathing faltered slightly. Qin Yu continued, "But the price is—" "It will continuously devour the host's Fate Soul frequency, reshaping the foundation of their existence."
"If managed properly, it can coexist with [the organism]." "If it becomes unbalanced—or it must be forcibly removed."
Qin Yu's gaze turned to the even more chaotic space deep within the Return to the Ruins. "The Fate Soul of the one destined to reside there will be devoured by the Void Evolution structure."
"A person will be gradually 'disassembled' on a causal level."
Zhou Yujin's face turned deathly pale. "How is this possible... How could Wanning have something like this inside his body?"
Qin Yu's voice was low and deep. "Back then, you came to me seeking medicine. The reason your sister's Fate Soul was shattered, yet she couldn't completely perish, suffering endless torment..."
"It was precisely because this Void Evolution Causality-Replenishing Marrow that awakened within her body." "That Nameless Root-Returning Medicine is not a cure."
"Instead—" "helping her complete her first fusion with the Void Evolution Causality-Replenishing Marrow."
Zhou Yujin's hands trembled slightly. "Then doesn't that mean... all along... she's been enduring this power?"
Qin Yu nodded. "Yes." His eyes turned slightly cold. "And what's worse—" "The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor is also searching for the Void Evolution Causality-Replenishing Marrow."
The air seemed to freeze the moment those words were spoken. Zhou Yujin's pupils constricted sharply. "Why... why is it looking for this?"
Qin Yu slowly said, "Because the Void Evolution Causality-Replenishing Marrow can awaken the suppressed Source-Suppressing Stillnessless Venerable."
"Even—" "to help it break through to a higher level." "If it falls into the hands of the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor," "the entire Void Obliteration Domain will be turned into a sacrificial ground."
From the distant Eternal Silence Return to the Ruins, a muffled sound of space collapsing echoed.
Zhou Yujin's throat tightened. "So..." "Wanning being hunted down... wasn't a coincidence?"
Qin Yu did not deny it. "Yes." "What's inside her is the true key to this calamity." Silence. After a moment.
Zhou Yujin looked up. Her eyes were no longer panicked, but resolute. "Brother Qin." "I believe in you." "No matter what lies ahead, I will go with you."
Qin Yu looked at him and slowly nodded. "That's good." He gazed deeper into the Return to the Ruins.
The space there was even more chaotic, with the fluctuations of Fate Soul appearing and disappearing intermittently.
Like a candle flickering in the wind, her Fate Soul is extremely weak. The consequences of her losing balance in the depths of Eternal Silence Return to the Ruins would be unimaginable.
Qin Yu turned his gaze back to Zhou Yujin. "From now on—" "No matter what you see, do not act rashly." "This is not just a restricted area."
"This is also a forbidden zone of cause and effect. If you sense the area where your sister is truly hiding again, we will go to rescue her immediately."
At that moment, a faint tremor of Fate Soul reappeared in the distance. Zhou Yujin suddenly looked up. "Brother Qin, come with me."
Qin Yu's figure had already moved slightly. "Go." The two figures simultaneously rushed towards the deeper layers of the Eternal Silence Return to the Ruins.