Deep within the Lightless Blood Abyss, the blood mist churned slowly like the breath of a dying beast. Qin Yu before the seven-stringed zither formed from transparent ripples, his heart sinking into extreme cold.
If Liangyan wasn't Annihilation on the spot, then the only possibility is...
She was taken away. And the person who could forcibly abduct her before the collapse of Wuyan·Guiji...
Only the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor.
Qin Yu's fingertips slowly approached the strings, his Fate Soul sensing the wisp of Beginningless light just as it touched the strings.
Boom! All seven strings resonated simultaneously. It wasn't a piercing sound, but rather a very low and distant chaotic echo, as if the long night deep within an era had been stirred.
The zither suddenly rose into the air, and transparent ripples transformed into layers of halos. The Daoist rhyme remaining on the seven strings transformed into flowing images, spreading out in the center of the Blood Abyss.
Remnant String Reflection. The scene slowly takes shape amidst the blood mist.
Ling Liangyan stood there, her long hair as black as ink, her aura as deep as the abyss. Behind her, dozens of disciples of the Chaos First Palace stood in formation, their Fate Soul intertwined, forming a Chaos Guardian Domain.
Opposite them, a figure stood silently. It was a Master Soul Dominion, with a cultivation level of the Stainless Realm · Initial Stage.
It was clad in a tattered gray-white robe, the hem of which fluttered in the wind like fragments of the universe. Its head was covered by a wide hood, beneath which lay a faceless shadow, with only two faint, dark red lights slowly rotating. Between its hands, it held a Fate Soul Nucleus burning with dark red flames, within which countless broken causal runes appeared.
The blood mist formed a huge dark red ring behind it, covered with fine Dao patterns, like distorted Ji Gui imprints.
Ling Liangyan made the first move.
With a flick of her jade fingers, the seven strings of the Wuyan Guiji Strings vibrated in unison, and the chaotic sound waves swept across the world like a tsunami. In that instant, the world fell silent, the blood mist was torn apart, and space was compressed into a thin line by the music.
The Master Soul Dominion raised his hand. The dark red flames suddenly surged, colliding with the zither music. The light and flames exploded, and the Blood Abyss trembled.
The disciples joined forces to activate the protective domain, their Dao principles intertwining to resist the aftershocks of the flames.
Up to this point, the situation remained evenly matched. However, just as Ling Liangyan was about to pluck the second string...
The sky above the Blood Abyss suddenly darkened. It wasn't dark clouds, but the arrival of some higher-level will.
A faint yet overwhelming aura pierced through the void. Time in the scene seemed to be held still by a single finger.
The next instant, an invisible force descended from the Blood Abyss sky.
There was no light. There was no sound. Existence was simply erased.
All the Chaos First Palace disciples behind Ling Liangyan had their Fate Soul collapse and their Dao foundations shattered in the same instant. They didn't even have time to scream before turning into ashes.
That wasn't a battle. That was a judgment. Qin Yu clenched his fists instantly.
In the scene, Ling Liangyan's eyes turned cold, and the chaotic Dao aura surged. She forcefully plucked the seven strings, Chaos Undivided, Heaven and Earth Judged exploded in the Blood Abyss.
Trying to tear apart that descending will.
However, a very deep rift appeared in the sky above the Blood Abyss.
The void was forcibly torn open. An invisible hand reached down from the highest level of the Severed Thought Realm · Supreme.
Liangyan's zither music was suppressed in that instant. Wuyan·Guiji emitted a violent tremor. The Master Soul Dominion knelt on the ground. That hand of will fell.
Space was rolled up like a sheet of paper. Ling Liangyan was dragged directly into the rift. The rift closed, and everything returned to silence.
The Remnant String Reflection shattered. The Blood Abyss returned to deathly silence. Qin Yu's breathing was extremely light, yet icy cold.
Just then, a low tremor suddenly came from the space surrounding the Blood Abyss. A gray-white figure slowly stepped out from the void rift.
Its shape is exactly the same as what is seen in the film.
The tattered, greyish-white robe floated and burned like a fragment of the universe, black smoke rising from the hem, and dark red flames flickered within.
Beneath the hood, there was no visible face; only two points of crimson light slowly rotated.
It clasped its hands together, the dark Fate Soul Nucleus in its palms slowly rotating, and shattered causal runes appeared in the flames.
Behind it, a dark red ring rises, its interior filled with Annihilation Structure patterns, like a broken railway track.
Its aura is at the Stainless Realm · Initial Stage.
Yet it carried a chilling madness born from being imbued with the will of a higher power.
Its gaze fell upon Wuyan Guiji.
His voice was hoarse and deep. "The Dao artifact... left here... belongs to its master."
It slowly raised its hand. Dark red flames extended from its palm, coiling around the seven-stringed zither like tentacles.
The light from the Blood Abyss was absorbed in that instant. Qin Yu looked up.
The chill in his eyes froze completely. The Silent Origin Stainless Sword hummed softly in his hand. The air suddenly turned cold.
Blood mist churned, and the air deep within the Lightless Blood Abyss, seemed to freeze as if its temperature had been sucked out.
Qin Yu before Wuyan·Guiji, the Silent Origin Stainless Sword hanging by his side. The sword's edge remained still, yet its aura was as cold as a bottomless abyss.
The gray-white robed Master Soul Dominion slowly approached, its dark red Fate Soul Nucleus spinning in its palm, a blood-red ring expanding behind it, and flames burning silently.
Qin Yu raised his eyes, his voice Ultimate cold. "You damned beast." The blood mist momentarily froze.
"Today, you will pay for Liangyan's blood debt." The moment the words fell, Qin Yu did not hesitate.
With a flick of his wrist, the sword intent of the Silent Origin Stainless Sword did not emanate outwards, but in an instant it sank into the depths of the opponent's Fate Soul.
He didn't choose to engage in a direct confrontation, nor did he choose to probe. He simply raised his hand.
Heavenly Cause Judgment Sequence, Six Severances Seal, Final Order Interrogation, World Silent Judgment
Before the sword was drawn, the heavens and earth began to sink.
The sky above the Blood Abyss suddenly collapsed, the dark red flames were extinguished as if by an invisible hand, the ring behind the Master Soul Dominion began to crack, and the causal runes were shattered inch by inch.
The creature didn't even have time to roar before the Fate Soul Nucleus in its palm suddenly reversed.
Time is flattened. Space is folded.
The next moment silence fell.
Its Fate Soul split open from the center, and its gray-white robe, along with the dark red flames, was stripped away from its very foundation. Its entire form transformed into a twisted black shadow in the center of the Blood Abyss.
There was no explosion. No loud noise. Only the extremely low rumble of existence being erased.
However, in that final moment...
Qin Yu's gaze suddenly sharpened. He didn't let it dissipate completely; the sword's edge trembled.
The lingering image of the Fate Soul was forcibly frozen in place. [Heavenly Cause Judgment Sequence - Six Severances Seal - Abyssal Rotation Profiling - Forced World Enforcement]
The remaining traces of cause and effect were pulled out and forcibly aligned. A dark, shadowy soul was dragged out from the shattered debris.
Qin Yu clenched his fist. Soul Search—not tearing, but precise alignment.
He used his power of Void Evolution to peel away the concealed area deep within the Master Soul Dominion the Fate Soul.
The image suddenly exploded in his mind: Black Sea, an endless Black Sea.
Above the sea, the sky was torn into several overlapping layers of void, with Transcendent Five-Dimensional Space suspended above it, like an inverted dark domain.
The will of the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor never left. It never truly appeared on the land of the Void Obliteration Domain.
It lies hidden in the super-five-dimensional realm above the Black Sea, like a predator surveying its prey.
Deeper inside, in a secluded space, Liangyan's presence could be faintly discerned.
It has been blocked and suppressed, but it has not yet been extinguished.
Qin Yu's pupils suddenly contracted. "The Black Sea..." His heart sank.
So that's how it is. From the moment the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor appeared, it never left the Black Sea.
All the slaughter and manipulation originated from that Transcendent Five-Dimensional Space. It has been directing from the same spot, and it has been waiting.
Waiting for what? Waiting for the awakening of the Void Evolution Causality-Replenishing Marrow? Waiting for the moment when a certain Fate Soul aligns?
Qin Yu's aura suddenly turned icy cold. He released his grip. The remnant soul was completely annihilated, and the Blood Abyss returned to its deathly silence.
Wuyan Guiji floated silently in front, its seven strings trembling slightly, as if responding to the aftershocks of Liangyan's Fate Soul.
Qin Yu reached out. The Annihilation Devil Pupil - Final Spirit Core activated in his palm.
A dark purple pupil slowly opened, its interior flowing with the light of the end.
The ethereal light transformed into a wisp of transparent light and shadow, which was slowly absorbed into it.
The spirit core closed, and the light in the entire Blood Abyss dimmed. Qin Yu did not linger.
He raised his hand, and the void was torn open—not an ordinary rift.
Instead, it is an extremely deep vertical cross-section, where space is like a sheet of paper that has been forcibly torn open, and time and space flow backward inside.
He stepped inside. His black hair flashed a final, chilling shadow through the blood mist.
The next instant, his figure shot straight towards the Chaos First Palace. Because of something...
We must inform them immediately that Liangyan has been taken away and that the true hiding place of the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor.
The Black Sea. But why did it specifically target Liangyan? What was its motive? It remains unclear.
The highest main hall of the Chaos First Palace hangs atop the pinnacle of spacetime, its dome draped with an inverted Milky Way. Beams and pillars forged from Chaos Sacred Gold pierce through the upper and lower void realms. At the heart of the hall, a colossal Return to the Abyss Disc slowly rotates, countless causal patterns emerging within its surface.
Like an invisible river flowing endlessly in the void, the surrounding Annihilation Structure structures rise and fall, and the entire main hall seems to be built on the complete framework of the Great Dao. Its aura is so heavy that even breathing seems to be aligned with the Chaos Origin.
As Qin Yu stepped into the center of the hall, the three auras within simultaneously trembled slightly.
Palace Master Yun Yanwan stood with his hands behind his back, his body surrounded by chaotic Dao energy that surged like a dark golden sea of thunder; Vice Palace Master Yun Yanxi's robes flowed like clouds and snow, his gaze steady and sharp; Ancestor Yun Qiusheng sat upright on the Return to the Abyss Disc, his hair white but his aura unfathomable, his Chaos Realm · Supreme pressure not released outwards, but causing the space to instinctively lower.
The palace doors closed. Qin Yu raised his hand and waved it, and the Annihilation Devil Pupil - Final Spirit Core appeared in his palm. Inside, the Boundless Return to Silence was sealed, and a transparent string shadow trembled gently within it.
Qin Yu said nothing more. He raised his hand and placed the Annihilation Devil Pupil · Final Spirit Core on the Palace Heart Return to the Abyss Disc. His fingertips lightly touched its surface, and the power of Annihilation Structure slowly spread out. The Wuyan·Returning to Silence sealed within it then manifested. The seven strings were transparent like the light of the Beginningless condensation. As the remaining Dao principles on the strings trembled, the void of the main hall rippled like the surface of water.
"I went to the Lightless Blood Abyss to seek the aura of Liangyan." Qin Yu's voice was calm, but it carried an extremely suppressed chill. "Deep in the Blood Abyss, I encountered a Blood Devil of the Severed Thought Realm. It used its Blood Wheel Assimilation and construct Will Wheel Realm, attempting to trap me in the Realm of Severed Thought with its Thought-Severing Blood Blade of Severed Thoughts. In the end, I managed to Annihilation."
He paused, his gaze turning slightly cold. "After the Blood Demon's demise, I followed the lingering Fate Soul force of Liangyan and discovered this zither isolated in the depths of the Blood Abyss. And this artifact is none other than Liangyan's divine weapon."
As the words fell, the seven strings of Wuyan Guiji resonated in unison. "The Remnant String Reflection —Begin."
A single, silent note was plucked, and the light inside the hall suddenly dimmed. A transparent mirror cracked open in the void, and a scene slowly unfolded.
The scene of Lightless Blood Abyss appeared.
Liangyan, her long robe fluttering in the wind, surrounded by the Silent Void · Dao of Chaos energy, led dozens of disciples of the Chaos First Palace to suppress a Stainless Realm · Initial Stage Master Soul Dominion in front of her. The sound of her zither transformed into an undefined realm, pressing down layer by layer.
The world fell silent in an instant. A high-ranking will descended from the sky.
It wasn't a physical presence, but pure suppression. Space collapsed, and cause and effect froze.
Liangyan's disciples could even react, their Fate Soul shattered on the spot, their physical bodies turned to ash, and even the traces of their existence were erased.
Yun Yanxi's pupils suddenly contracted.
In the scene, Liangyan forcefully plucks the string of silence, attempting to break the seal of will with the Sound of the Unjudged chaos, but the void is torn apart.
A Severed Thought Realm · Supreme- level Annihilation Structure Divine Power transformed into a rift in the Black Sea, sealing her entire body within it.
The scene abruptly ended there. The atmosphere in the main hall suddenly became heavy. Qin Yu slowly withdrew his hand, the string music ceased, and the image vanished.
"I later encountered the remnant will of the Stainless Realm · Initial Stage Master Soul Dominion on the outskirts of the Blood Abyss; it attempted to seize this zither." Qin Yu's gaze was icy. "I Annihilation it and forcibly aligned its fragmented Fate Soul fragments using soul-searching logic, ultimately..."
He looked up and stared directly at the Ancestor and the Palace Master. "Liangyan was taken to the super-fifth-dimensional level above the Black Sea, while the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor never left the Black Sea from beginning to end."
The CD containing the image of the Palace Heart Return to the Abyss suddenly vibrated.
Yun Yanxi spoke first, her voice low. "Could it be that the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor has found the secret technique to repair the Annihilation Realm-Breaking Pearl again, and that secret technique... is related to Liangyan?"
Yun Yanwan frowned slightly. "Qin Yu has sealed off the first repair logic channel, using the power of Void Evolution to block the causal rift of the Annihilation Realm-Breaking Pearl. If there is another repair method, it must not be an ordinary path. But why would such a forbidden object involve Liangyan?"
Ancestor Yun Qiusheng slowly opened his eyes. The causal patterns on the Return to the Abyss Disc suddenly fluctuated. He said in a heavy tone, "The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor has always preferred to kill the innocent rather than let the guilty go free. Liangyan must possess the 'key' it desires."
The atmosphere in the hall suddenly became heavy. Qin Yu stood in the center, his gaze cold yet extremely steady, and the main hall fell into a brief silence.
Qin Yu slowly spoke, "Ancestor, have any ancient texts mentioned how many ways there are to repair the Annihilation Realm-Breaking Pearl?"
Inside the main hall, the atmosphere was heavy. Yun Qiusheng slowly closed his eyes. At this moment, he no longer relied on speculation, but truly unleashed the divine power of the Severed Thought Realm · Initial Stage.
Chaotic Dao energy swirled around him, unfolding layer by layer, like an ancient sea of books spanning countless ages being forcibly turned over.
He raised his hand, his fingertips lightly touching the void. In an instant, countless phantom images of ancient books appeared above the entire Chaos Main Hall.
Not just one book, but hundreds of millions of books. Each ancient book is formed from the Dao patterns of Fate Soul essence, and emits a silent vibration as the pages are turned.
Time seemed to be compressed at this moment. The pages turned rapidly. One page. A thousand pages. Ten thousand pages...
Countless ancient inheritances from the Void Obliteration Domain Realm, forbidden fragments, secret records related to the Realm-Breaking Pearl, and records of the Annihilation Source Core flashed through his sea of consciousness at Limit speed.
His pupils reflected thousands upon thousands of ancient books, their pages swirling behind him like a storm.
Chaotic energy vibrated. Dao patterns burned. Thoughts ceased, will vanished, and Thought Has No Root.
He forcibly suppressed all his thoughts into a state of "Void of Thought Severance," using his purest Fate Soul to quickly deduce and review the information.
The scene was incredibly magnificent. The entire sky above the main hall seemed to have transformed into an ancient sea of light.
The pages flew by like shooting stars. Countless memories were flipped through in a single breath.
Finally, all the illusory images collapsed abruptly. All the ancient books burned to ashes at the same time.
Yun Qiusheng slowly opened his eyes and shook his head. "No," he said in a low voice. "We really couldn't find it."
The atmosphere in the hall froze. "What does that beast want to do by grabbing Liangyan?" Silence.
There was no answer. Qin Yu's gaze was icy. He had wanted to wake Azure Ring directly, but he suppressed the thought as soon as it arose.
The most important thing now is not deduction, but action. He looked up at the Ancestor and the Palace Master. "Ancestor, Palace Master." "We no longer need to have any doubts."
The voice was extremely steady. "Immediately organize forces and head to the Black Sea." "Shatter the Transcendent Five-Dimensional Space and force that beast to reveal itself."
"Saving Liangyan is the most important thing." The aura in the main hall suddenly trembled.
Yun Yanwan's gaze sharpened instantly. "Alright, I'll summon all the elders immediately."
Yun Qiusheng said in a deep voice, "Leave a portion of the elders and disciples to guard the temple. Yanwan will lead the team with you, Qin Yu."
"Yanxi and I will stay at the temple, just in case."
The air was heavy. Qin Yu and Yun Yanwan responded simultaneously, "Okay. Let's prepare to depart immediately."