Before the fragments of the collapsed Blood Wheel World had completely dissipated, the Blood Demon suddenly raised its head and let out a silent howl. The broken core of the Wheel Realm behind it abruptly contracted, as if forcibly compressed into a dying crimson star. It no longer maintained the original complete shape of the wheel, but instead crushed the entire remnant core of the Wheel Realm into countless fragments of crimson light. The fragments, like a meteor shower, rolled back into the depths of its chest cavity.
The next instant, a blood-red ring reformed behind it. The ring stopped rotating and remained suspended, like a life-protecting lock. The Blood Wheel Life Protection with the Wheel Realm as its shield and the remnant core as its heart, burning all its escape routes into defense.
Immediately afterwards, its arms suddenly opened wide, and the already churning blood sand beneath its feet abruptly collapsed. The entire land melted under its palms as if its skeleton had been removed, and dark red blood gushed forth from the depths of the earth in an instant.
The Lightless Blood Abyss transformed into a boundless sea of blood, its waters thick as if molten Fate Soul. Countless twisted faces rolled across its surface, their mouths agape in a roar, yet no sound was uttered, leaving only a pure "silent terror" pressing down on all sides.
Foundationless Blood Sea
The Blood Demon stood in the heart of the sea, and the sea of blood spun wildly around it. The air was dyed dark red, and space seemed to droop downwards like a melting candle. The boundaries between heaven and earth lost their stability at this moment, and blood waves surged hundreds of feet high, each crest reflecting the shadow of "Qin Yu".
Yet they were all different; some hesitated, some were angry, some doubted, and some collapsed. The sea of blood was not merely a corrosive force, but rather it pierced the very foundation of consciousness, tearing away the "foundation of thought" and causing existence itself to begin to falter.
The blood mist invaded the edge of Qin Yu's sea of consciousness. In that instant, the world around him seemed to develop imperceptible cracks. His sense of direction was stripped away, and the flow of time began to lose its order. The sea of blood beneath his feet suddenly transformed into the Annihilation Abyss Epoch, into the Chaos First Palace, into every realm he had ever protected. All the scenes overlapped and tore apart. He almost heard a cold voice from the depths of his own heart:
"If it's all just a fabrication, then why do you wield the sword?"
The blood waves surged, and tens of thousands of blood tides swept in like tentacles, trying to drown him. Countless distorted faces in the sea of blood simultaneously stretched out semi-transparent palms, trying to drag his Fate Soul into the seabed and assimilate it.
The Blood Demon's gaze ignited with dark flames deep within the sea of blood. Its inner core flickered, and the Blood Wheel Life Protection, turning all counterattacks into buffers. It no longer attempted a direct confrontation but instead aimed to eliminate Qin Yu's fulcrum of existence through "foundation collapse."
Just as the sea of blood was about to completely close, Qin Yu's eyes suddenly regained their clarity.
Instead of fighting against the sea of blood that was eroding his consciousness, he sank deeper into a layer of absolute calm—a judgment belonging to the Order Adjudication, not the struggle of the trapped.
The next instant, the sword in his hand turned slightly, and a hand seal quietly unfolded deep within his sea of consciousness.
[Heavenly Cause Judgment Sequence: Six Severances Seal]
First Form Fate Cause Sealing Mirror - Logic Abyss Core
An invisible mirror suddenly appeared above the sea of blood. The mirror did not reflect external appearances, but reflected "cause". The causal network of the dark core of the Blood Demon's chest cavity was forcibly revealed, and blood-red causal lines appeared in the void, like countless tangled crimson nerves.
The second technique Naming Reconstruction the Master Book Seal Severance.
Qin Yu lightly touched the void with his sword, and an ancient seal fell from the sky. The seal was not power, but a "definition." The name of the Blood Demon's "Blood Wheel Life Protection" was forcibly rewritten. Its protection was no longer protection, but "Prisoner of the Remnant Core."
The Blood Wheel Life Protection suddenly trembled, and tiny cracks appeared at the edge of the blood ring.
The Blood Demon roared, and the sea of blood surged violently, attempting to engulf the mirror, but the third move had already landed.
Orbital Collapse Lock and Chain Annihilation.
The blood-red lines suddenly tightened under the pressure of the inscription, like a fully drawn bowstring, and snapped simultaneously in the next moment.
The Blood Wheel Dark Core suddenly became unbalanced.
The sea of blood lost its core support, and the waves suddenly collapsed.
Qin Yu no longer hesitated, unleashing the power of both swords simultaneously.
The Silent Origin Stainless Sword - The No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword drew an extremely still black arc on his right side. Wherever the arc passed, the surface of the sea of blood instantly froze into a silent black domain.
The Silent Origin Stainless Sword and the Causeless Disillusionment Sword exploded with cold, star-like light on the left side, the sword light falling like a million stars, tearing apart the remaining waves of blood inch by inch.
The black arc and the cold light intertwined to form a cross-shaped array of light, piercing straight into the Blood Demon's chest.
The Blood Wheel Life Protection ring was completely locked at this moment, and the words "Prisoner of the Remnant Core" appeared in the void. The ring began to disintegrate from the inside out, and the dark core emitted a low, mournful cry, like a crushed blood-red star.
The Blood Demon struggled frantically, its arms bursting open with countless blood blades in an attempt to retaliate. However, each blood blade lost its meaning in the silent and still realm before it could take shape, turning into scattered dust.
In the final instant, Qin Yu stepped forward, merging his two swords into one, the blades striking the center of the dark core.
Light and darkness exploded at that point.
Blood steamed up, the afterimage of the cycle was torn to pieces, and countless faces turned to dust in mid-air.
The Blood Demon's form began to collapse from its chest, the crimson color receding rapidly like a drained lake, the dark core shattering into tiny crystalline dust, hovering for half a breath before completely Annihilation.
The entire Lightless Blood Abyss, returned to deathly silence.
As the sea of blood receded, space was reshaped, leaving only a massive rift carved by sword intent that stretched across the land.
Qin Yu slowly sheathed his sword, the black and white sword light extinguished in his palm, the blood mist dissipated, and his figure stood alone in the center of the rift valley.
The Blood Demon was completely Annihilation. Only the aftershocks slowly subsided between heaven and earth.
After the Blood Demon Annihilation, the blood mist in the Lightless Blood Abyss had not completely dissipated, and the residual Annihilation Structure in the world still echoed softly. Qin Yu in the center of the rift valley, the afterglow of the Silent Origin Stainless Sword in his palm gradually fading. He closed his eyes, and the Fate Soul frequency deep within his soul, which shared the same origin and breath as Yingling, slowly resonated.
An invisible ripple spread from his sea of consciousness, piercing through layers of blood abyss mist, traversing billions of miles of void, and reaching the Soul Reflection Core City. A resonance was formed.
Yingling stood atop the core of the Soul Reflection Core City array, beneath her feet resting the re-stabilized Annihilation Structure Array patterns. The array's eye rifts, originally torn open by the three infiltrators from the outer realms, were now sealed by layers of causal chains, and dozens of hidden Order Adjudication restrictions were laid out outside the array's core.
The outermost layer is the "Void Evolution Lead Array," which uses false cause and effect as bait to lure any divine sense that tries to probe the main array into the false array core. Embedded within the array are countless basic, fictitious array patterns, which appear fragile but are actually layered upon each other, forming a labyrinthine illusion of confusing cause and effect.
The middle layer is the "Annihilation Construct Reverse Folding Array," whose core has been quietly moved by Yingling to a hidden space within a fold. Where the original main array was located, only a pseudo array core remains. Anyone who forcibly breaks the Annihilation Structure and destroy their own Fate Soul.
At the deepest level is the "Order Adjudication Sealing Severance Seal Absolute Refinement" enhanced by Yingling of the same Fate Soul as her own. It is a Fate Soul chain that is almost integrated with the formation itself. Unless one has a soul frequency that is exactly the same as Qin Yu's, one cannot detect its existence at all, let alone shake it in the slightest.
Yingling slowly opened her eyes, responding to Qin Yu's resonance. "The main formation is stable, and the guiding array core is complete. If any external spying attempts occur again, they will only lead to their doom."
Within the Blood Abyss, Qin Yu observed through Yingling's eyes, then nodded almost imperceptibly.
Then, a voice transmission came through: "Alright, that's enough. You can go back now; Annihilation Abyss Epoch can't stay away for long." "Remember to tell Ruishan and Qingwan that I'm doing well."
Yingling's gaze softened for a moment, but he said nothing more, only raising his hand. In that instant, the space around him was not simply torn apart, but peeled away layer by layer.
Above Soul Reflection Core City, a very thin silver line suddenly appeared in the void. The silver line was not a crack, but a mark left by the Fate Soul Key that had "unlocked" the boundary. The Fate Soul Light of Yingling was of the same origin as Qin Yu, and at that moment it transformed into a deep blue mark, imprinted on the void.
The boundary was not forcibly broken; rather, it was "identified."
A soul frequency key imprint belonging only to Qin Yu and Yingling resonated deep within the boundary. Ripples of the same frequency spread across the void like water, before slowly parting to reveal a narrow yet unfathomably deep passage.
The interior of the passageway is not a simple space.
Rather, it is the boundary barrier of the Annihilation Abyss Epoch.
Within the barrier, countless Annihilation Structure arrays could be vaguely seen intertwined and operating, with killing array patterns slumbering deep within the boundary wall. Unless Fate Soul is completely of the same origin, even if one forcibly breaks in, one's Shatter Cause and effect will be shattered by the first layer of the Order Adjudication Mieyin Array and Cause-Destroying Array," and then the Fate Soul will be sealed by the second layer of the " Annihilation Construct Realm Locking Array," ultimately turning into nothingness and dust.
Yingling turned back for one last look at Soul Reflection Core City before stepping into the rift in the boundary wall.
The boundary closed silently. The silver lines vanished, as if they had never existed.
Within the Lightless Blood Abyss, Qin Yu opened his eyes; Yingling's aura had already Returning Annihilation Abyss Chronicle.
Silence returned to heaven and earth. The eerie winds from the depths of the Blood Abyss slowly stirred up the remaining dust, and Qin Yu looked up at the deeper layer of blood mist.
The formation is now stable, and all worries have been eliminated.
Deep within the Lightless Blood Abyss, the blood mist surged like the lungs of a sleeping behemoth breathing slowly, swallowing all the light in the world. Only Qin Yu's figure, like a cold, lonely starlight, sped through the endless layers of dark red mist.
His Fate Soul suddenly trembled, and a very familiar chaotic aura, like a thin thread, was drawn from the depths of the Blood Abyss. Although the aura was weak, it was extremely pure, carrying the Silent Void · Dao of Chaos rhythm that he knew all too well.
Liangyan.
Qin Yu's pupils suddenly contracted, and the Annihilation Structure energy around him surged instantly. He no longer probed the flow of cause and effect in the Blood Abyss. His figure suddenly accelerated, and the void behind him cracked layer by layer. A straight passage was torn open in the blood mist, as if the entire Lightless Blood Abyss had been pierced through by his thought.
The further he went, the more stagnant the blood energy became, the air felt like heavy blood plasma, and even space itself was corroded, drooping and distorted, as if the world had long since lost its complete structure. Qin Yu, however, did not hesitate. The Silent Origin Stainless Sword vibrated slightly in his hand, cleaving through the turbulent currents of cause and effect ahead of him.
He stopped abruptly the next moment.
A hundred feet ahead, a strange, empty area slowly emerged, where the blood mist automatically dissipated, as if suppressed by some higher-level Dao principle.
In the center of that empty space, a "zither" stood quietly. It was no ordinary object.
It has no physical form, yet it truly exists. The body of the instrument is woven from transparent ripples, like water frozen in mid-air. Seven strings float above it, each one formed from Beginningless light, its radiance soft yet profound, as if carrying the Primordial Echoes from before the beginning of time.
The zither did not touch the ground. It hovered in the void, and the surrounding space showed subtle ripples, as if the entire world was breathing around it.
Qin Yu's heart skipped a beat. Wuji Dao Artifact - Evolutionless - Return to Stillness.
That was Ling Liangyan's natal artifact.
He had seen its true, earth-shattering form. He had seen the scene where cause and effect reversed and all paths returned to silence when the seven strings were plucked. He had seen Liangyan Yan stand holding the zither, Chaos Undivided, Heaven and Earth Judged, and whose sharp edge crushed Ji Gui with a single thought.
Such a Dao artifact could never leave its master. Qin Yu slowly took a step forward, his Fate Soul perception covering the area.
Liangyan's presence lingered on the strings. That presence had not yet faded away.
Yet it was extremely faint. Even more frightening was that the Daoist resonance between the strings had not shattered, indicating that it was not forcibly shaken off during the great battle, but rather "stripped away."
A chill, difficult to suppress, surfaced deep within Qin Yu's pupils.
Liangyan would never willingly give up Wuyan·Guiji.
Unless she is forcibly dragged into a deeper Annihilation Structure space, or even into a sealed domain beyond the Blood Abyss dimension.
He reached out, his fingertips slowly touching the body of the instrument. At the instant of contact, the seven Beginningless light strings trembled gently.
A wisp of extremely fine chaotic sound wave spread out, as if the air was being cut by an invisible blade, and a distant echo came from the depths of the Blood Abyss.
That wasn't an attack. That was a kind of...
A warning. The zither was gesturing. Qin Yu's fingers trembled slightly for a moment.
It wasn't out of fear, but rather because of an emotion he rarely experienced, slowly spreading deep within his chest.
Liangyan, what exactly happened to you?
The blood mist began to slowly gather again, as if sensing his presence, a deeper will was watching from the shadows.
Qin Yu's gaze turned completely cold. He no longer concealed the pressure of his Fate Soul.
The Dao Foundation of the Void Emanation Realm surged within his body, the Silent Origin Stainless Sword resonated softly, and the Seven-Stringed Zither floated slightly in front of him, resonating with his aura.
He knew that Liangyan was not dead; otherwise, the zither would have Annihilation long ago. But she was in extreme danger at this moment.