The war in the Black Sea has not yet ended. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Void Obliteration Domain, the world seems to be shrouded in some deeper shadow.
The Soul-Devouring Demon Eye region. From a high altitude, it is a landscape that cannot be described by ordinary standards.
The mountain range wasn't actually a mountain range, but rather a ring of cliffs, layer upon layer, extending around the central abyss. The surface of the cliffs was covered with dark purple cracks, like the finger marks left by countless souls scratching at it. The center of the abyss was pitch black, but it wasn't empty; it was a gigantic "eye." A real eye.
The outer perimeter is formed by jagged rock ridges that resemble "eyelids," the abyss is the "white of the eye," and the dark red core of light rolling in the very center is like a slowly rotating pupil.
The entire area was eerily quiet. There was no wind. There was no sound.
Only the occasional low, soul-like murmur emanating from the earth seemed like the slow breathing of some being sealed away for eternity.
Countless tiny fragments of soul energy float in the air; once touched, they will instantly be drawn from one's consciousness.
This is not a battlefield. This is a seal. It is the graveyard of something forbidden.
The space above this strange place suddenly distorted slightly.
There was no vibration. No cracks. It was as if reality itself had been moved an inch away.
The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor slowly appeared in the void. His human form was cold and eerie.
Her long, silvery-white hair fell like snowflakes in the night, the ends of which floated slightly, as if unrestrained by gravity.
His face was pale, his features sharp, and his eyes deep as a frozen abyss. Deep within his pupils, faint gray-black swirling patterns appeared, as if countless Cause Splitting were swirling within them.
He was clad in a dark silver robe, the hem trailing with ethereal light and shadow, and fine cracks were visible between the folds of the robe, as if it were pieced together from broken dimensions.
Faint, annihilating Annihilation floated on his chest, and with each breath, the surrounding space would slightly collapse.
Severed Thought Realm · Supreme, where all thoughts and intentions ceased, consciousness vanished, and no thought arose. He gazed down at the abyss, which resembled a giant eye.
No emotion. No fluctuation. Just a slow landing. The first step—boom.
The sealing array surrounding the entire Soul-Devouring Demon Eye instantly lit up.
Countless dark gold runes emerged from the cliff layers, converging into thousands of chain-like beams of light that shot out from all directions.
Step Two. The ground cracks open. Hundreds of ancient array platforms emerge, their array patterns as red as blood, unleashing a soul pressure impact powerful enough to tear apart even a master of the Severed Thought Realm.
Step 3. The "pupil" in the center of the abyss suddenly widened. A dark red soul light, like thunder, pierced through the sky and went straight for the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor's brow.
The world suddenly erupted into chaos. Yet, he didn't even blink. His sleeves fluttered slightly, and a gray-black aura of Annihilation emanated from his body.
Those magical chains, powerful enough to suppress Stainless Realm · Supreme, instantly touched his aura.
It crumbled inch by inch, like a weathered stone sculpture. The soul pressure that approached him within three feet disintegrated on its own, turning into gray fragments.
The beam of light that pierced through the sky shattered silently the instant it touched his forehead, as if it had never existed.
He continued forward. With each step he took, a layer of the sealing array collapsed, and the array platform shattered.
The rock strata crumbled. The ancient restriction, under Absolute Thoughtlessness Supreme divine power, crumbled like an old, withered leaf.
Finally, he reached the very center of the Soul-Devouring Demon Eye, where the enormous pupil was almost within reach.
The dark red light core slowly rotated, as if warning, or perhaps expressing fear.
The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor slowly raised his hand. In the void, a divine sword appeared.
The Divine Body World Destruction.
The sword's blade was as black as a solidified abyss, yet its edge was crisscrossed with almost transparent dimensional cracks. The hilt was inlaid with a gray-white core, as if bearing fragments of a severed world.
He spoke softly. "Dimensional Deconstruction." The sword fell. There was no sword light. No Sword Qi. Only the collapse of "definition."
The moment the sword touched that enormous pupil, the concept of the pupil's "volume" began to crumble.
The abyss has lost its "depth." The rock strata have lost their "thickness."
The timeline here appears as visible broken threads, easily severed by the sword's edge.
The space was like a piece of torn cloth, peeled away layer by layer, revealing a dark, empty cavity inside.
That "eye" began to collapse. Not shatter, but rather lost its basis for existence.
The dark red core vibrated wildly, but then completely collapsed in the next instant. The entire center of the Soul-Devouring Demon Eye was wiped out by a single sword strike.
The world fell into a deathly silence. Then, a strange barrier slowly emerged from the center of the collapse.
The barrier was colorless and formless, yet it completely stilled the surrounding space. Inside the barrier, faint, deeper waves of darkness could be seen.
The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor's gaze was calm. He sheathed his sword and stepped into the realm, his figure slowly disappearing into the Realm of Light.
It was as if a door in the deepest part of the world had been reopened.
Above the Black Sea, the world is no longer the world.
The seawater churned into towering black waves, with Daoist flames burning between the crests, and countless Fate Soul auras intertwined and collided in mid-air.
The powerful figures from various sects and temples in the Void Obliteration Domain walked on the waves. The sea beneath their feet collapsed layer by layer due to the shockwaves caused by their divine powers, only to be forcibly supported by the power of chaos.
The laws of the heavens were torn apart like shattered mirrors, with lightning and beams of Annihilation crisscrossing each other, as if billions of stars were falling at this moment.
Some unleashed their life -Fate Soul, transforming them into hundred-foot-long halos of light that swept across the horde of demonic beasts; others ignited their primordial true fire, causing the Black Sea to vaporize into a churning blood mist; still others, elders of the Chaos Realm, clasped their hands together, creating a giant chain of cause and effect that instantly suppressed dozens of demonic emperor-level beasts, the chains rubbing against the air with a piercing roar.
The Demon Race was equally ferocious.
The Heavenly Demon Army transformed into a dark shadow that blotted out the sky, with tens of thousands of demonic beasts taking flight, their black wings obscuring the sun and moon. The Demon Emperor charged across the waves, each step leaving a deep chasm in the sea. Demon Saint-level beings directly tore through space, spewing out gray, Annihilation flames that divided the human army.
The skies over the Black Sea resembled an apocalyptic battle.
Each time their supernatural powers clashed, a section of space collapsed; each time their Fate Soul shattered, it would transform into a meteor and fall into the sea, stirring up a whirlpool thousands of feet deep.
At the heart of the battlefield, Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan were already engaged in direct combat with two Severed Thought Realm · Middle Stage.
The celestial demon, clad in deep purple scales and with four wings on its back, flapped its wings, and an obsidian disc floated in its palm, within which a crimson heart pounded wildly.
It suddenly roared, "Silent Heart Realm-Devouring Wheel!"
Based on the "severance of thought and intention" of the Severed Thought Realm, one transforms one's own consciousness into the Realm Devouring Wheel Heart, stripping away the opponent's source of thought, causing a brief "rootless gap" in their Dao foundation, and then crushing the Fate Soul structure with the wheel.
Those who are targeted experience sluggish thinking, disrupted and disordered Fate Soul, and broken lines appear on the causal lines around their bodies, making them extremely vulnerable to sudden and severe damage.
The obsidian disc suddenly expanded into a thousand-foot-long wheel, with a crimson heart suspended in its center, pounding wildly. With each pounding, the heavens and earth seemed to skip a beat. As the wheel spun, space was rolled into a spiral shape, a huge whirlpool was drawn out of the sea, and a dark red arc was pressed into the sky.
At the same time, the celestial demon, its entire body condensed from gray mist, raised its spacetime scythe, the arc of its blade gleaming with a cold gray light.
It murmured softly, "Cause Severance Silent Trace."
By severing the "basis of existence" upon which the target 'Fate Soul depends through the Void of Absolute Thoughtlessness, it temporarily loses its causal connection with the world.
Those who are affected will experience an "existence shift," making it difficult for their companions to detect their true location. Their Fate Soul and physical body will become misaligned, making them extremely vulnerable to further destruction.
As the scythe swung, a gray arc drew a silent rift in the air. Dark gray light fragments seeped from the rift, dimming the colors of the world wherever it passed. The space around Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan began to distort and overlap, as if reality were being layered upon each other.
Two Severed Thought Realm · Middle Stage killing moves descended simultaneously, instantly creating a massive vacuum above the Black Sea.
Jin Hanyan's gaze was cold and aloof. She slowly raised her right hand. "Return to Silence - Nameless Finger." Her fingertip pointed out.
That finger emitted no light, yet it created an "Domain of the Unjudged" in front of its tip. When the wheel-like shadow spun to within three feet of her, it abruptly lost its "meaning" of rotation.
The red heart is beating erratically, and fine cracks are appearing on the surface of the obsidian roulette.
At the same time, Qin Yu remained motionless. The Silent Origin Stainless Sword in his hand hummed softly. "The Causeless Disillusionment Sword."
The sword intent surged suddenly. Before the sword's edge fell, the cause and effect were severed.
The connection between the wheel-like shadow and the gray crack was severed in an instant. Qin Yu's sword swept out, his sword intent transforming into a pure arc of Annihilation, colliding head-on with the arc of the gray mist scythe.
Boom! The earth and sky shook violently.
A single sword cleaved a deep chasm into the Black Sea, the seawater steaming into a sky-covering black mist. The wheel-shaped shadow trembled violently under the combined attack of the power of returning to stillness and the sword intent of causelessness, its crimson heart pounding wildly out of control.
The purple-scaled demon staggered back several steps, its scales cracking and bleeding.
The arc of the Gray Mist Demon's scythe was torn apart by the sword intent, its body twisted slightly, and its Fate Soul fluctuated briefly.
However, the two souls at the Severed Thought Realm · Middle Stage Fate Soul stable. They roared simultaneously, their killing intent surging.
The Black Sea surged furiously.
Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan stood side by side, with towering waves of blood and countless afterimages of divine powers behind them. Two Severed Thought Realm · Middle Stage were still pressing in with overwhelming force, their shadows and gray mist intertwined, exuding a murderous aura.
Qin Yu's gaze was cold, and he turned his head to whisper:
"Yan'er, let's not get entangled with them anymore. Let's just Annihilation. We'll work together to break through the Transcendent Five-Dimensional Space and rescue Elder Liangyan's body first."
Jin Hanyan nodded slightly. "Mm." In that instant, both of them calmed down.
It wasn't retreat, but a resolute decision. The Purple-Scaled Heavenly Demon suddenly burst into wild laughter. "Wheel Heart Burning Sacrifice--!"
Its four wings suddenly tore through flesh and blood, its scales exploded, and the obsidian disc and the crimson heart completely merged into one. The heart swelled to a hundred feet in size, and the Fate Soul fire burned wildly within its body. The wheel-like shadow transformed into ten thousand crimson arcs of light, and the entire Black Sea was forced into a collapsing vortex.
Wheel Heart Burning Sacrifice
By sacrificing one's own Fate Soul, the origin of Absolute Thoughtlessness is burned, causing the core of the wheel and the Fate Soul to go berserk in unison, unleashing destructive power beyond the level of this stage in a short period of time. The price is the permanent shattering of the Fate Soul.
At the same time, the Gray Mist Demon roared, "Thought Severance Realm Sealing!"
Its scythe swept across, and suddenly the world fell silent.
A gray, silent domain suddenly opened up, forcibly separating Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan. Space was cut into two overlapping layers, the connection between their Fate Soul was briefly severed, and the roar of the battlefield outside completely disappeared.
Thought Severance Realm Sealing
By severing all external causal ties within the area through the Void of Absolute Thoughtlessness, the trapped individuals are isolated within the sealed boundary, their Fate Soul unable to provide external assistance or join forces.
The Gray Mist Demon grinned maliciously, but the next moment it entered the sealed realm.
Jin Hanyan slowly raised her hand. "Silent Void - The Dao Reverses All Heavens." Her aura was no longer gentle.
The primordial Dao intent erupted from her body, and the undifferentiated light flowed like a galaxy in reverse. Cracks suddenly appeared in the gray, silent domain within the sealed realm.
The scythe's arc was pushed back inch by inch. The Gray Mist Demon's Fate Soul was forcibly dragged into the "Annihilation Other Shore" realm she had constructed.
At the same time, Qin Yu remained motionless. The Silent Origin Stainless Sword floated before him. "Heavenly Cause Judgment Sequence - Final Order Interrogation - World Silent Judgment."
Before the sword could strike, cause and effect crumbled.
The burning core of the Purple Scaled Heavenly Demon's wheel suddenly paused for a moment. That moment was not a pause in time, but a severing of cause and effect. The connection between the wheel's shadow and the burning Fate Soul was forcibly severed.
Immediately following was the "No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword."
The sword flashed and struck. Heaven and earth fell silent.
That was not dazzling light, but the Ultimate "nothingness". Wherever the sword intent passed, the core of the wheel was stripped of its definition of existence inch by inch.
The burning Fate Soul turned to ashes, and the obsidian disc shattered into nothingness dust.
The Purple-Scaled Heavenly Demon roared and charged forward.
But the sword intent had already arrived. Its Fate Soul Nucleus was severed directly.
The explosive burst of blood light shattered in the sky above the Black Sea, turning into a sky full of crimson dust.
On the other side, Jin Hanyan lightly clasped her five fingers together. "Formless and shapeless, the Annihilation Other Shore." The seal of the Gray Mist Demon was reversed.
Its scythe-like arc lost its meaning of "cutting" in the realm of the other shore. The Fate Soul began to collapse, and the gray mist body was forcibly pressed back to the origin of cause and effect.
Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan's eyes met. No words were needed; their sword intent and chaotic Dao intent merged simultaneously.
Boom! The Gray Mist Demon's Fate Soul exploded, and its scythe shattered into invisible fragments of light.
The two Severed Thought Realm · Middle Stage were completely Annihilation. A vacuum briefly appeared above the Black Sea.
Qin Yu turned around. "Hall Master Yun." Yun Yanwan already understood.
He clasped his hands together, and the chaotic Dao energy surged, sending a pillar of light ten thousand feet tall straight into the sky.
Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan leaped up simultaneously. "The Unnamed Initial Silence." "Chaos Undivided, Heaven and Earth Judged." The three forces merged.
The boundary of the Transcendent Five-Dimensional Space above the Black Sea trembled violently, and the originally untouchable dimensional structure was forcibly pulled out of shape. The space peeled away layer by layer, like glass being shattered, and countless distorted magic circle afterimages were reflected in the fragments.
Qin Yu's sword pierced straight to the core. Jin Hanyan's palm struck with Sound of the Unjudged that reverberated through the void.
Yun Yanwan used the Chaos Origin to suppress the last dimensional barrier.
Boom--! Boom--! Boom--!
The boundary wall shattered completely. The three figures simultaneously transformed into streaks of light and traversed the boundary in an instant.
The next instant, they had stepped into the true hiding space of the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor.
The air was heavy. Intricate magic circles crisscrossed at the center of the altar.
Ling Liangyan.
She was suspended above the altar, her limbs and Fate Soul Nucleus pierced by dozens of pitch-black chains. Gray-black Annihilation Pattern flowed across the surface of the chains, and the remnants of her Fate Soul had completely vanished.
Her physical body remained seated and still, but there was no longer a trace of life in it; her Fate Soul had been completely shattered.
The hollow traces left by Silent Profundity Self-Proving Cause were faintly visible on her chest. It was an irreparable void, a rift of nothingness.
The eerie aftershocks of the ritual still lingered around the altar, and gray currents swirled softly in the air.
Jin Hanyan's breath hitched slightly. Yun Yanwan clenched her fists. Qin Yu slowly stepped forward, his gaze turning completely serious.