The storm in the Nine Nether Prison Abyss has long since subsided.
Qin Yu atop the abyss's crevice, the power of Absolute Thoughtlessness flowing within his body like a vast sea, his Fate Soul, which had been almost extinguished, now stabilized once more.
He slowly exhaled a breath of stale air and turned to look at the small blue figure on his shoulder.
"Xiao Yue." Blue Ring was sitting on his shoulder, hugging her knees, her blue halo spinning quietly. She looked up when she heard this.
"Hmm?" Qin Yu's gaze was calm, but his anxiety was barely concealed. "Do you think there's any way to repair Hanyan's Fate Soul?"
Blue Ring's expression hardened slightly. She closed her eyes and probed into the depths of Qin Yu's sea of consciousness. Beneath the Void Divine Tree, Jin Hanyan's Fate Soul was like a flickering lamp in the wind, teetering on the verge of collapse.
A moment later, she slowly opened her eyes.
"Miss Hanyan's injuries are too severe." Her voice lowered. "That attack was a force that Realm Breaking, directly targeting her very essence, only to be torn apart by the force of reversal... her Fate Soul shattered..."
"It's not just simple trauma, but a forced disruption of the 'fixed state of existence'." Qin Yu frowned slightly.
"Right now, I've only just awakened to the Blue Ring, and my divine power isn't enough." Xiao Yue shook her head. "If I force my way in, it will only cause her Fate Soul to suffer a second shock."
Let's return to the Chaos First Palace first. Let's see if there are any treasures Chaos First Palace to stabilize the Fate Soul and preserve its foundation.
Qin Yu was silent for a moment, then nodded. "Okay. Let's go back first."
As soon as he finished speaking, he raised his hand and tore open the void, the power of Absolute Thoughtlessness transforming into a silent rift. With a flash of blue light, the two figures disappeared above the Nine Nether Prison Abyss.
The Chaos First Palace. Clouds surge and flow across the sky, and the temple is surrounded by peaks.
The moment Qin Yu stepped into the palace, the light of the protective array in front of the hall trembled slightly, Yun Yanwan immediately sensed that aura.
He flashed and landed in front of the hall. When he saw Qin Yu, a look of joy immediately appeared in his eyes. "Qin Yu! You're finally back!"
He strode forward. "The Ancestor is waiting for you in the main hall. He seems to have something important to tell you!" Qin Yu nodded without saying anything more and stepped straight into the main hall.
Inside the main hall, Dao patterns flowed slowly, and Yun Qiusheng stood with his hands behind his back, his aura calm and composed.
Upon seeing Qin Yu enter, his expression shifted slightly, then a meaningful smile appeared on his face. "Qin Yu."
"Ancestor," Yun Qiusheng looked up at the distant void and slowly spoke, "I have good news for you."
With a flick of his sleeve, a projection woven from causal rays appeared in the center of the hall—the causal network of the entire Void Obliteration Domain.
"Just a short while ago, the two deepest causal threads of the Void Obliteration Domain... suddenly broke."
He pointed to two long-extinguished streaks of light. "One is the fate trajectory of Source-Suppressing Stillnessless Venerable." "The other is the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor."
Qin Yu's gaze flickered almost imperceptibly. Yun Qiusheng continued:
"That wasn't a fall, nor a serious injury, but a complete 'disappearance.' Not even a causal afterimage remained. It was as if it had never existed."
"Such methods... are beyond the reach of the Severed Thought Realm, and even beyond the reach of the Stainless Realm."
He sighed softly. "Most likely, it was some ancient, powerful being hidden outside the Void Obliteration Domain who intervened, directly Annihilation them and erasing their existence."
His tone carried a hint of reverence, which he made no attempt to conceal. Qin Yu remained calm, showing no sign of anything amiss.
He didn't respond to that sentence, but instead raised his hand. The next moment, the void rippled slightly, and a figure in white slowly emerged.
Jin Hanyan lay quietly in the void, her face pale, blood still clinging to her lips, her Fate Soul force so faint it was almost imperceptible.
"Ancestor." Qin Yu's voice showed obvious urgency for the first time.
"Hanyan has suffered severe injuries, and her Fate Soul is now in imminent danger. Is there any way to stabilize her Fate Soul?"
Yun Qiusheng's expression suddenly changed. He stepped forward, and his divine sense instantly covered Jin Hanyan.
The next moment, his pupils suddenly contracted. "This..." He was so shocked he was almost speechless.
The foundation of the Stainless Realm · Supreme was directly torn apart by the power of the Realm Breaking. Cracks spread across his Fate Soul like a spider web.
Such an injury... almost no one in the entire Void Obliteration Domain could achieve it.
He suddenly looked up at Qin Yu, a very complicated expression flashing in his eyes.
As if realizing something, Qin Yu called out, "Ancestor—" pulling him back to reality.
Yun Qiusheng suddenly snapped back to reality. "Yes... yes! Yes!"
He turned and said, "Yanwan!" "Yes!" "Quickly, go and bring me this divine medicine, the Stainless Flowing Light!"
Yun Yanwan's expression changed, and she immediately nodded. "Yes!" Her figure transformed into a streak of light, heading straight for the depths of the inner hall.
The atmosphere in the main hall was extremely solemn. Qin Yu stood quietly beside Jin Hanyan, his palm gently placed on her brow, and the power of his Absolute Thoughtlessness was slowly transmitted to her like a thin stream.
Xiao Yue stood on his shoulder without saying a word. She simply watched Jin Hanyan's gradually crumbling Fate Soul, and for the first time, genuine worry appeared in her eyes.
Inside the main hall, the light of the Dao hung low. Yun Qiusheng stood on the steps of the hall, his gaze slowly falling on Qin Yu.
In that instant, his consciousness felt as if it had been gently sliced by an invisible blade. Severed Thought Realm · Middle Stage. He could hardly believe it.
The last time they met, Qin Yu was still in the Absolute Thoughtlessness Initial Realm. Now, in just a short time, he has already stepped into the middle stage. Moreover, his aura is not a superficial breakthrough, but rather steady, profound, and like a deep abyss of stars. It is Ultimate restrained, yet it faintly exudes a weight that is enough to oppress the order of heaven and earth.
What shook him even more was the small figure floating on Qin Yu's right shoulder, dressed in a blue dress.
Her silver-blue hair floated slowly in the void, like a tranquil ray of light in a sea of stars. Her petite body was only a few inches tall, yet she stood extremely steadily. Her feet dangled in the air, and the hem of her skirt seemed to be woven from fine blue light, with faint ripples of void spreading along its edges.
Those eyes... pure and calm. Yun Qiusheng subconsciously probed them with his Severed Thought Realm divine sense.
The next instant, his mind was jolted. Emptiness. It wasn't undetectable. It wasn't obscured.
Rather, there was absolutely no cause and effect, no Fate Soul trajectory, and no trace of cultivation.
It was as if the little girl had never been recorded by the universe. Yet, in that "blank space," there was a faint trace of divine energy.
The fluctuation was extremely slight, yet it caused the very essence of his Absolute Thoughtlessness to tremble slightly for a fleeting moment.
It's like the natural suppression that a higher being looks down upon a lower being.
Yun Qiusheng's breath hitched. He opened his mouth, almost as if to ask something. Just then—
"Ancestor!" A hurried voice broke the silence.
Yun Yanwan strode into the hall, holding a luminous object floating above a jade plate in her hands.
"I've brought it." Yun Qiusheng suddenly snapped back to reality. "Quick, give it to her."
Above the jade plate, a flowing light floated. It was neither a pill nor a liquid.
Instead, it is an Ultimate "river of light" —Stainless Flowing Light.
Its entire body is a blend of milky white and silver-gold, like the first rays of dawn, forcibly compressed into a semi-transparent liquid of light.
The light was not dazzling, but extremely pure. Countless fine runic rays flowed within it, moving slowly like the veins of a galaxy.
Each ray of light seemed to contain the original definition of "Stainless". The surrounding air vibrated gently, and the space rippled like the surface of water.
The power it exudes is neither attack nor oppression, but a mysterious rhythm that restores everything from the broken to the whole.
Qin Yu accepted the jade plate with both hands. His movements were extremely light, as if he were holding not a priceless treasure, but destiny itself.
He slowly sat down and pulled Jin Hanyan into his arms. Her hair fell onto his arm, cool as frost.
The aura of his Fate Soul was almost imperceptible. Qin Yu raised his hand. The ball of Stainless Flowing Light slowly detached from the jade plate and floated in mid-air.
With a gentle touch of his fingertip, the ball of light transformed into an extremely fine stream, slowly sliding into Jin Hanyan's lips like morning water.
There was no explosion. There was no dazzling light. It was just that for a moment, the world seemed to hold its breath.
The instant the Stainless Flowing Light entered her body, her chest trembled slightly. The next moment, the entire hall suddenly darkened.
It wasn't that the light disappeared. Rather, everyone's senses were forcibly pulled into the world of her Fate Soul within her body.
It was a soul realm on the verge of collapse. Countless black cracks appeared in the sky. The earth shattered into floating fragments.
At the Fate Soul Nucleus, a light core teetered precariously, riddled with cracks, and could collapse at any moment.
The Stainless Flowing Light descended. That silver-gold light, like a ray of morning sunlight, slowly fell upon the cracks.
The first crack begins to heal, not to be covered up.
Instead, the soul matter on both sides of the crack slowly melts, recombines, and reconnects.
A thin ray of light, like a needle stitching the heavens and the earth together, slowly weaves through the darkness.
Each time it passed through, it brought with it a gentle wave of light. Outside Jin Hanyan's body began to glow with a faint silver light.
The cracked Soul Seal between her brows gradually receded. Qin Yu sensed the faint fluctuations of her Fate Soul, which began to slowly recover.
But the process is extremely slow, like rebuilding a continent piece by piece in a collapsing world.
Within the Soul Realm, the Stainless Flowing Light spread out, transforming into countless fine threads of light that extended along every meridian of her Fate Soul.
The shattered bridge of souls was rebuilt. The broken threads of cause and effect were rewoven. Time seemed to slow down to its Limit.
Every inch of the repair process is accompanied by a low, gentle hum.
That wasn't a sound. It was a frequency vibration generated during the reorganization of the Fate Soul.
Inside the main hall, the air rippled with fine, subtle waves.
Yun Qiusheng and Yun Yanwan almost held their breath.
Xiao Yue stood on Qin Yu's shoulder, her blue eyes quietly watching the repair process. A faint blue light flowed around her, stabilizing the vibrations in the surrounding space.
Finally, the last crack at the Fate Soul Nucleus was filled with silver light.
The light core slowly rotated. A wisp of aura truly belonging to the "Stainless Realm · Supreme" was rekindled.
The cracks in the sky above the Soul Realm slowly closed. The collapsed earth reformed. Darkness receded. Dawn rose.
Inside the main hall, Jin Hanyan's fingertips twitched slightly. Qin Yu's heart tightened instantly.
The next moment, her eyelashes trembled slightly.
Then she slowly opened her eyes. Those clear, cold eyes, as cold as frost, once again reflected the world.
Her vision blurred slightly, and the first thing she saw was Qin Yu's face, which was very close to hers.
"... Yu," the voice was extremely soft, yet crystal clear. Qin Yu's tense expression finally relaxed.
He didn't speak. He simply tightened his arms slightly. In that instant, the air in the hall seemed to regain its flow.
The last wisp of Stainless Flowing Light slowly dissipated within her body. Her Fate Soul stabilized.