The star mist surrounding the Star-Net Immortal Hall had not completely dissipated when Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan stepped out of the illusory landscape obscured by the power of deduction. Suddenly, the world fell silent for a moment.
An extremely subtle sound, yet capable of penetrating the layers of cause and effect, fell directly into the depths of Qin Yu's sea of consciousness.
"Young Master Qin." The voice was gentle, yet carried a weight as deep as the Milky Way.
"We have known each other for a time, and your destiny is extraordinary, destined for greatness. My palace will grant you another opportunity."
Qin Yu paused slightly. Within his sea of consciousness, starlight slowly unfolded, like a page of a book of deduction being turned.
"At the border between the north and south of the Void Obliteration Domain, there lies a secluded realm, isolated by ancient restrictions, called [Silent Thought Ruins]."
The voice continued, "Within it lie countless wills of Annihilation and traces of breaking through realms. If you can withstand the test of severing all thoughts and intentions within, you may directly transcend the Stainless and step into the Absolute Thoughtlessness."
"This is the strength you need most right now." The voice faded away. "May your journey not be in vain."
His sea of consciousness returned to silence. Qin Yu's heart trembled slightly. Had he directly broken through to the Severed Thought Realm?
He slowly responded in his heart, "Thank you, Hall Master Su. Once the chaos subsides, this junior will never forget this kindness."
Jin Hanyan was standing nearby, noticed a subtle fluctuation in his aura and asked softly, "What's wrong, Yu?"
Qin Yu slowly exhaled and recounted what had happened in his sea of consciousness.
"Hall Master Su just transmitted his voice, saying that there is a Silent Thought Ruins at the border of the North and South of the Annihilation Void Obliteration Domain, which contains a great opportunity that may help me break through to the Severed Thought Realm directly."
Jin Hanyan was slightly taken aback. "Silent Thought Ruins?" She frowned slightly. "Never heard of it."
But soon, a gentle light appeared in her eyes.
"Yu, the Star-Net Immortal Hall's predictions have always been accurate. Since Hall Master Su is willing to speak, it must not be empty talk."
She smiled gently. "Now that Source-Suppressing Stillnessless Venerable been resurrected, the Void Obliteration Domain is in dire straits. Only if you can reach the Severed Thought Realm will you truly be qualified to fight against him."
Qin Yu nodded. "Let's go together." Jin Hanyan agreed without hesitation. "Okay." The two walked side by side.
The heavens and earth rushed past beneath our feet, and mountains and rivers were left behind like streaks of light.
However, just as they stepped into the border between North and South, Qin Yu's mind suddenly jolted.
A rapid yet extremely steady voice transmission tore through space and entered the divine sense.
"Qin Yu, return to the temple immediately." "The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor has appeared alone." "His aura is unusual; he seems to be searching for something."
Qin Yu suddenly stopped. Jin Hanyan stopped almost simultaneously. "What's wrong, Yu?"
Qin Yu's expression instantly turned serious. "Hall Master Yun transmitted his voice. " The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor has appeared." "And he's alone... seemingly searching for something."
Jin Hanyan's eyes turned cold. "Since he dared to show himself alone, he must have something on his mind."
Her gaze was calm, yet unwavering. "Yu, we absolutely cannot let him escape this time."
She looked at Qin Yu. "Go to Silent Thought Ruins." Qin Yu was slightly taken aback. "Hanyan?"
Jin Hanyan gently shook her head, her voice soft yet firm. "That's an opportunity that can directly break through the Realm of the Severed Thought Realm." "You need it more than I do."
She gently took Qin Yu's hand. "I am now at the Stainless Realm · Supreme. Even with the opportunity, I may not be able to digest it in a short time."
There was not a trace of hesitation in her eyes. "But you are different."
"Source-Suppressing Stillnessless Venerable is the Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme. Currently, only Ancestor Yun Qiusheng and Ancestor Qin Zhien of the Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall Annihilation Void into the Absolute Thoughtlessness."
Although the Star-Net Immortal Hall Absolute Thoughtlessness, they will never get involved in this turmoil. If the two ancestors are no match for them, then the Void Obliteration Domain will ultimately have no way out.
Therefore, once you enter the Absolute Thoughtlessness, we will surely have hope.
Her voice was low and gentle. "Yu, I'm returning to the temple." "You go to the Silent Thought Ruins." "I'll wait for you to emerge, and we'll fight together."
Qin Yu looked at her. Her gaze was clear, without a trace of selfishness. It wasn't concession; it was trust.
It was a resolute decision to place the future on his shoulders.
She gently raised her hand and straightened his clothes.
"Yu." "You're never alone." "I'll protect the rear for you." "Go and claim the power that belongs to you."
A breeze swept between them. Silence fell. Qin Yu slowly reached out and pulled her into his arms.
He remained silent for a moment, then slowly released his grip on her hand, the sharpness in his eyes transforming into a gentle calm.
"Hanyan, be careful in everything you do, and wait for me to come back."
Jin Hanyan looked up, smiled gently, her eyes filled with tender reluctance. "You too."
Before she finished speaking, she tilted her head slightly and kissed Qin Yu's lips. Her movements were gentle, yet carried an undeniable firmness.
All the reluctance and longing hidden in my heart were completely surrendered in this kiss.
A moment later, the two separated, their eyes locked, and without another word, they took a step forward simultaneously.
One headed north, the other east. Their figures transformed into two streaks of light and separated.
Inside the main hall of the Chaos First Palace, chaotic Dao patterns slowly flowed across the dome, and layers of eerie light descended from the Pillar of Return to the Abyss.
The entire hall resembled a giant, slowly breathing Fate Soul Nucleus, maintaining a final order amidst the oppressive atmosphere of an impending storm.
The palace doors suddenly opened. Jin Hanyan stepped in. Her sleeves were still dusty from the journey, but her expression had returned to its usual cool and serene state.
Yun Yanwan stood in the center of the hall, and seeing Jin Hanyan return alone, asked in confusion, "Miss Hanyan, where is Qin Yu?"
Jin Hanyan clasped her hands in a respectful bow. "Reporting to the Palace Master," she said, her voice steady yet each word clear and distinct.
"Yu and I went to the Star-Net Immortal Hall and learned why the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor was targeting Elder Ling Liangyan."
The energy within the hall trembled slightly. "Elder Ling possesses a Silent Profundity Self-Proving Cause Seed."
The air seemed to be compressed instantly. "That was the last seed of cause and effect condensed by a cultivator at the cost of their entire life's foundation when they broke through to the Silent Mystery Realm."
"It is also a forbidden method that can perfectly repair the Annihilation Realm-Breaking Pearl."
Yun Yanwan's pupils suddenly contracted. "... Silent Profundity Self-Proving Cause Seed?..."
Jin Hanyan continued, "Afterwards, the Palace Master of the Star-Net Immortal Hall told Qin Yu about a secret realm called [Silent Thought Ruins], which could potentially help him directly enter the Severed Thought Realm."
"Originally, Yu and I planned to go together." "But the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor suddenly appeared."
Her gaze darkened slightly. "Yu and I have decided that I will return to the temple to assist, while he will go to the Silent Thought Ruins to seek a breakthrough."
A brief silence fell over the hall. The chaotic Dao energy slowly surged.
Yun Yanwan slowly exhaled. "Silent Profundity Self-Proving Cause Seed..." "Silent Thought Ruins..."
He shook his head. "I've never heard of either of those names before. But since they came from the Star-Net Immortal Hall, they must be true."
His gaze shifted. "Miss Hanyan." "The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor has now led a small team of demon emperors to the Corrupted Rotting Spirit Cavern Void Obliteration Domain."
The elders in the hall all wore solemn expressions. "According to the reports from the various halls, he is indeed searching for something."
"The other temples and sects in the Void Obliteration Domain have dispatched disciples and elders to surround and intercept them."
Jin Hanyan's eyes sharpened instantly. "Alright." "Then I will lead the team there."
Yun Yanwan nodded. "I've already made arrangements." "The Chaos First Palace has just welcomed a hundred Chaos Realm · Initial Stage disciples, accompanied by five Stainless Realm · High Stage elders."
"We shall depart immediately." Jin Hanyan in a fist salute. "Hanyan accepts the order."
A moment later, the Chaos Dao Array was activated above the Chaos First Palace. Hundreds of auras soared into the sky, forming a silent yet sharp force.
One hundred disciples who had just entered the Chaos Realm · Initial Stage stood in neat formation, their Fate Soul intertwined like an iron wall; five Stainless Realm · High Stage stood in front of the formation, their auras Steady as a Mountain.
Jin Hanyan stood at the forefront. Her clothes fluttered, and her long hair was slightly lifted in the chaotic wind.
She didn't say much, but slowly raised her hand. "Let's go." The next moment...
The entire team transformed into a black-gold torrent that tore through the sea of clouds. The space beneath their feet collapsed layer by layer.
The sky of the Void Obliteration Domain was torn open by their Dao principles, creating a crack that stretched for thousands of miles.
In the direction of the Rotting Spirit Cavern, dark clouds loomed overhead. In the distance, the earth's veins seemed to writhe in agony, and black miasma rose skyward. Between heaven and earth...
Qin Yu stood alone in the Void Obliteration Domain the north and south of the Annihilation Void Domain met. The ground beneath his feet was gray and gritty, and the wind carried a damp, dusty smell. In the distance, several cliffs, like the skeletal spines gnawed by time, stretched between the mist and the sky. This place looked no different from any other Nameless wasteland in the Void Obliteration Domain.
The Limitless Evolving True Flow flowed gently and slowly between heaven and earth, drifting along the earth's surface like fine mist, occasionally skirting around cracked rocks and sparse black grass. It was neither violent nor displayed any strange phenomena, not even a trace of dazzling light.
Even the resentful shadows, lingering thoughts, and Anomalous Spirit auras that usually linger outside the secret realm are pitifully thin, as if this place is just an ordinary, desolate road that no one would give a second glance to.
Qin Yu's gaze, however, lingered on this "ordinary" landscape. The calmness in his eyes was like a hidden sword. He knew very well that the more perfectly normal it was, the more it meant that someone had used extremely sophisticated methods to conceal the source of energy here. Unless it was done deliberately, the Void Obliteration Domain could not possibly have such a "clean" terrain and aura, as if it had been smoothed out.
He slowly raised his right hand, his fingertips twirling slightly. The Limitless Evolving True Flow in his palm wasn't forcibly drawn out; instead, it was guided by his extremely subtle soul frequency, slowly circling along the almost imperceptible "causal zigzag line" in the air.
That was the method Su Xingrou mentioned: not to shake the door with force, not to break through the barrier with momentum, but to use one's own Fate Soul as the sole "rectification," causing the illusion to reveal its flaws on its own.
Qin Yu exhaled softly, a slight glow appearing between his brows. The aura of the Book of Fate Law - The Realm Severing Origin Brush swept through the depths of his consciousness for a moment, as if invisible pages were opening and closing before his eyes. He did not write any grand Dao patterns, but simply made a dot in the void with the most concise stroke.
There was no light or sound where the stroke fell, only a faint "echo of Fate Soul" spreading out, like ripples silently gliding across the ground. Wherever it passed, the shadows of the pebbles subtly increased by half an inch, the swaying of the grass slowed by half a beat, and the direction of the wind reversed for a moment, as if this world had been forced to align with a "real rhythm" that did not belong to it.
Immediately afterwards, Qin Yu raised his hand and pointed his finger, his fingertips like knives, and quietly activated the Three Forms of Fate Construction Structure: Cause and Effect Deconstruction of Cause and Effect. He was not cutting anything off, but peeling away the "causal attribution set up by the occultist" from the roots of this terrain layer by layer, just like pulling out the dark thread that supports a flawless painting from behind it.
In an instant, a very faint cracking sound rang out in the air, unlike the breaking of metal or stone, but more like some unseen obsession being forcibly torn apart. The gray-white gravel beneath Qin Yu's feet suddenly lost its "silent" disguise, and fine dust slowly rose against gravity, condensing into thin, pale black lines that coiled around him within three feet.
Like countless tiny ribbons of Fate Soul fluttering in the wind; the horizon before him distorted, the outline of the distant cliffs flipped like folded pages of paper, and the sky "changed color" in an instant.
The originally gray sky seemed to have been torn apart by an invisible giant hand, revealing a deep and chilling darkness behind it. In the darkness, there was not starlight, but cracks that seemed to be formed by "thoughts", crisscrossing each other like the Annihilation remnants left by countless powerful beings throughout the ages.
The illusion collapsed completely in the next instant.
The wasteland beneath Qin Yu's feet vanished, replaced by a silent, desolate realm resembling a "Sea of No Thoughts": the earth was no longer soil and stone, but rather a layer of dark silver crystal polished to a mirror-like surface, reflecting the flowing black and white light tides in the sky; the Limitless Evolving True Flow was no longer gentle, but transformed into deep, long rivers, converging into the core of the realm from all directions, carrying with it a chillingly pure and desolate stillness.
It was as if every wisp of energy could strip away a person's distracting thoughts bit by bit; what was even more eerie was that there was no sound of wind, no chirping of insects, and even the heartbeat seemed to be swallowed up by this desolate realm, leaving only the most authentic tremor of the Fate Soul echoing within the body, as if someone was silently warning in one's ear: No excessive thoughts are allowed here, those who think too much will have their souls torn apart.
Standing before this earth-shattering transformation, Qin Yu felt his robes being gently lifted by an invisible aura of solitude, yet his gaze grew ever more composed. He knew that he had stepped into the true threshold of the Silent Thought Ruins.
Its mystery lies not in its dazzling phenomena, but in its ability to make all thoughts heavy, making every step feel like stepping on one's own Fate Soul; and the deeper one goes, the closer the opportunity to leap forward will be to the extreme state of "using silence as a blade and thoughts as a sacrifice." And at the very front, a faintly visible barrier gate slowly appears, quietly waiting for him to step in.