The spear swept across, the sword light tore through. A black passage was forcibly cleaved open by the beast horde. Shattered ruins collapsed behind them, and stone pillars broke off like falling meteors.
The Heart of Paradox flickered wildly in the air, its gray-white light oscillating violently like the core of a storm.
Logical cracks spread from the ground to the sky, like countless cracked mirrors, cutting the entire palace space into fragmented pieces.
"Go!" Shangguan Lingxiao roared. The spearhead vibrated. The aura of the True Annihilation Realm · Supreme was compressed into a dark golden light screen, protecting him and Shangguan Xuanchen.
The two leaped into the air simultaneously, their figures streaking through the sky like meteors, heading straight for the path of life that had been forcibly torn open.
The beast tide surged behind them. The Nine Nether Qilin trampled the ruins, and ghostly flames rose like a sea. Black scales covered the sky and almost submerged the exit again.
Shangguan Xuanchen slashed horizontally with his sword, tearing open space once more with a dark crack. The exit was within reach. The air was already vibrating like boiling water.
Just as the two were about to rush out of the passage, suddenly, the world fell silent for a moment.
It wasn't calm. Rather—all sounds were forcibly silenced. The roars of beasts vanished. The sound of the wind disappeared.
Even the flicker of the Heart of Paradox froze in mid-air. The next instant, a roar erupted. No ordinary roar.
It was a roar that seemed capable of Sever Karma. "Roar--!!!" The sound rang out the instant.
Space was sliced horizontally. Not torn apart, but like a page of a book being cut in half. An invisible rift swept across the void.
The spear's edge and the sword's light were all severed. The dark gold light barrier shattered instantly, and the black cracks vanished without a trace.
The two figures seemed to have crashed into an invisible "wall of termination." Bang! Both were simultaneously thrown back.
Shangguan Xuanchen spat out a mouthful of blood, his body forcibly pinned in mid-air. Shangguan Lingxiao's pupils constricted sharply.
He could clearly feel that the "causal connection" between himself and the exit had been severed; it wasn't a spatial blockade.
It wasn't a suppression of power. Rather, the causal chain leading to "departure" was severed by that roar.
The beast tide stopped simultaneously. Thousands of Nine Nether Qilin slowly separated, their black scales retreating like a receding tide.
In the center of the ruins, an even deeper darkness slowly gathered. Golden flames rose slowly from the darkness.
Those were not ordinary beast eyes. They were a pair of enormous pupils, as vast as the heavens, within which flowed broken logical runes.
Space around it collapsed on its own. The flashing frequency of the Heart of Paradox went out of order instantly. The logical cracks in the entire area began to flow backward.
Shangguan Lingxiao gripped his spear tightly, veins bulging on the back of his hand. He whispered, "Nine Nether... King of the Qilin."
The being in the darkness slowly took a step. The ground collapsed. The logic itself trembled.
Its aura far surpassed that of any of the Qilins from before. With a single roar, Sever Karma, sealing off the path to life and death.
At this moment, escape has become an "untenable proposition." The beast tide has gathered again.
But this time they were no longer impatient. It was as if they knew their prey had nowhere to retreat.
The darkness deep within the ruins slowly cracked open, not emerging from space, but as if squeezed out from a "logical fault line".
The first step was taken. The ground didn't crack, but the presence of the entire area was diminished, as if a layer of reality had been peeled away.
The King of the Nine Nether Qilin has fully revealed himself. His body is so enormous that it almost fills the entire palace ruins.
Its entire body was covered in black scales, each scale forged as if from Cold Nether Mystic Iron, with golden cracks along its edges.
Dark golden flames flowed within the cracks, but they were not burning; rather, they resembled causal runes slowly rotating. The two horns curved upwards, like two ancient halberds plunged into the sky.
A tiny black vortex floats at the tip of a corner. Broken logic symbols flash continuously within the vortex.
Its mane fell like the night sky, each strand like a severed chain of cause and effect. Its tail swayed slowly.
The air distorted. Its pupils were enormous, like stars in an abyss. But what was reflected in its pupils was not flame.
It is a reality torn apart. With each breath, space collapses layer by layer.
The beast tide parted automatically. Hundreds and thousands of Nine Nether Qilin prostrated themselves and roared. The King of Qilin True Annihilation Realm · Supreme.
When truth is annihilated, reality ceases to exist. All truth and all illusion become indistinguishable. Its very existence is a form of "True Annihilation."
Neither true nor false, neither born nor dying, only the Realm of True Annihilation, swallowing all existence and non-existence. Shangguan Lingxiao gripped the divine spear tightly in his hand.
The dark gold cracks on the gun barrel now blazed brightly. The True Annihilation Realm · Supreme origin within his body was circulating wildly.
For the first time, he felt oppressed. Shangguan Xuanchen gripped the divine sword tightly. The blade trembled slightly. His throat tightened.
Their gazes were fixed on the colossal beast. The air was so heavy it was almost suffocating.
The Beast King simply raised his head slowly. An invisible pressure compressed the space around the two of them.
Shangguan Lingxiao spoke in a low, cold voice.
"This Qilin King's cultivation has already reached the True Annihilation Realm · Supreme." "True Annihilation, nothing remains of reality."
"All that is real and all that is illusory are rendered indistinguishable." "This realm is neither true nor false, neither born nor dies."
"Only the Realm of True Annihilation can swallow up all existence and non-existence." The words fell.
Shangguan Xuanchen gritted his teeth. "Are we going to die here today?" "Damn it--!"
The Beast King lowered its head slightly, its dark golden pupils fixed intently, as if assessing the value of its prey's struggle.
Shangguan Lingxiao took a deep breath. "Don't panic," he said in a low voice.
"We still possess the Heart of Paradox." Shangguan Xuanchen was startled. "Use it now?"
Shangguan Lingxiao slowly shook his head. "Unless absolutely necessary, it must not be swallowed."
His gaze was grave. "Every increase in the Heart of Paradox comes at the cost of fundamental logical complexity."
The thicker the origin, the more complex the network of paradoxes, and the more difficult it is to understand the existence of the cultivator.
The wind stopped. The Beast King's breathing was heavy. "In the end," he said, "He will become an enigma in all the realms, indescribable by any logic."
"This is the Ultimate freedom that Realm Breaking." "And also—eternal loneliness."
Shangguan Xuanchen remained silent, gripping his sword hilt tightly. He stood ahead.
The King of Qilin slowly opened its mouth. A dark aura began to gather in its throat. The logic of heaven and earth began to break once again.
The King of Qilin slowly raised its head. Deep within its dark golden pupils, it seemed as if an entire ocean of logic was churning. It did not roar.
There was no violent movement. It simply opened its mouth slowly, and a core of light, as black as night, condensed in its throat.
That wasn't fire. Nor was it energy. It was a "severed cause and effect."
Supernatural Power - Annihilation True Roar of Disorder
With the True Annihilation Realm · Supreme, the "sequence" itself was severed. Those affected by this roar were not destroyed, but rather their existence was governed by the temporal order upon which they were attached.
The causal chain and the arrangement of laws are all disrupted. The goal will collapse between "not yet happened" and "already ended," losing the premise of stable existence.
The Qilin King let out a deep roar. The sound wasn't deafening, but it was like an invisible giant blade sweeping across the heavens and earth.
The sky collapsed into layers of cross-sections the instant the sound waves spread. Space seemed to be sliced horizontally by a box cutter. Ruins and stone pillars stood still in mid-air.
Then it disappeared. Not shattered, but removed from the "sequence." The sound waves swept over Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen. The light in the air began to recede.
The dust on the ground floated and then flowed backward. The protective magical powers around the two began to become misaligned.
Shangguan Xuanchen was the first to be struck. He raised his sword to strike, but felt his arm sink. Before the sword could fall...
A crack suddenly appeared on his right shoulder. It wasn't a wound, but rather a "skipped section." No blood splattered.
It was as if a piece had been erased from the "sequence of existence." The intense pain came belatedly.
"Pfft--!" He suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. His body was blasted back several feet, Mystic Void Realm · Supreme trembled violently.
Shangguan Lingxiao's gaze darkened. "Hold on!" He slammed his spear into the ground, unleashing the full power of his True Annihilation Realm · Supreme.
Dark gold patterns spread from the gun's shaft. He stood side by side with Shangguan Xuanchen. "Quickly, join forces!"
Shangguan Lingxiao unleashed his divine spear once more. Using his second divine power, "Guardian of the Constant - All Laws Void," he held his spear horizontally in front of him with one hand.
The gun suddenly transformed into a transparent, ethereal wall, like a thin veil. A chaotic, mercury-like luster flowed across the surface of the wall.
It was like a "wall of Emptiness" that reflected all laws yet rejected them. The second Annihilation Roar of the Qilin King crashed down.
The sound waves struck the wall of nothingness. There was no explosion, no tearing. Only the "causal vibration" carried by the roar, upon touching the wall, instantly...
Without the foundation of "oscillation," sound waves revert to their most primitive form: sound wave particles. These particles then transform into light points.
The point of light vanished into nothingness. Dozens of Nine Nether Qilin seized the opportunity to pounce, unleashing a raging inferno.
Claws tore through space. Flames crashed against the wall of nothingness. The cause of the burning was erased. The flames transformed into the most primal fire element.
It turned into specks of light again and vanished completely. The claws fell, their sharpness attribute erased.
The claw shadows reverted to a chaotic stream of particles. Annihilation. All attacks, like dreams and bubbles, vanished upon contact, returning to Emptiness.
Just as the Void Wall unfolded, Shangguan Xuanchen, enduring his injuries, raised his divine sword to the sky, igniting the Mystic Void Realm · Supreme.
The Divine Power of Profound Mystic Void - Rifting the Realm Silence, the sword's edge slashed down. A dark pillar of light, spanning the heavens and earth, directly approached the Qilin King.
Wherever the beam of light passed, space was completely torn apart, and the Nine Nether Qilin retreated in fright.
The beast tide parted automatically. The pillar of light and the wall of nothingness reflected each other, one attacking and the other defending, True Annihilation the Mystic Void.
Two Ultimate forces pressed down on the Qilin King simultaneously. The beast tide was violently pushed back under the weight of these two divine powers.
The ruins collapsed completely. A huge crack appeared in the sky. The entire area seemed to have been forcibly torn in two.
The Qilin King roared, its dark golden eyes flashing. Its massive claws slammed into the ground, causing it to collapse once more.
The surrounding Nine Nether Qilin scattered. The king's aura was fully unleashed. The King of the Nine Nether Qilin slowly raised his head.
Deep within the dark, golden pupils, a complete darkness suddenly descended. That darkness was not a shadow, nor was it the night.
Rather, it was the absolute absence of light after it was removed. It no longer roared, nor did it stomp the ground. The entire world suddenly held its breath.
The End - Annihilation
First Realm: Ink-Stained Mountains and Rivers - Silence. The dark golden fire patterns that originally flowed around the Qilin King suddenly collapsed.
All light receded, transforming from gold into an unfathomable, annihilating black. The sound of heaven and earth...
Vanished. The wind stopped. The beast's roar ceased. The Heart of Paradox floated in mid-air, even its flashing frequency was frozen. Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen felt a sudden heaviness in their chests.
It's as if "existence" itself is being suppressed.
Second Realm: True Form Misplaced - Delusion. The Qilin King's form began to blur. It was no longer a beast, no longer a king, like an ancient painting soaked in water.
The outline is blurred. Reality is displaced. A "reflection" appears between its two corners.
The reflection was actually Shangguan Xuanchen, but there was more than one. Childhood, youth, Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage, Mystic Void Realm · Supreme.
Even images of him potentially reaching the Realm Breaking Realm in the future. Countless timelines overlap. Every trace of his existence.
Gathered within that "reflection," Shangguan Xuanchen's pupils constricted sharply. "Senior brother--!"
Third Realm: Annihilation Finger - True. The Qilin King slowly raised its forelegs. There was no roar.
There was no burst of light. It simply pressed down gently. The tip of its hoof touched the point of the "reflection," and space silently cracked. From the crack flowed...
It wasn't magma, but a milky-white "void." That void, like an eraser, spread outward from the center of the reflection. Shangguan Xuanchen's body suddenly trembled.
His right shoulder, chest, and Fate Soul core all suffered simultaneous fractures. Not from being pierced, but from being "skipped." Blood gushed from his mouth.
The sword light dimmed instantly. His body fell like a kite with a broken string.
Fourth Realm: Ultimate Void - Annihilation. The reflection gradually faded. The Qilin King slowly retracted its forelegs. There were no corpses left in the world.
There was no explosion. It was just that Shangguan Xuanchen's aura suddenly weakened, and his presence began to blur.
Even Shangguan Lingxiao's "memories" of him flickered for a moment.
"... Xuanchen?" Shangguan Lingxiao suddenly bit his tongue, using the excruciating pain to stabilize his Dao heart. Shangguan Xuanchen was severely injured and on the verge of death, unconscious.
Shangguan Lingxiao's eyes were bloodshot. "Today—I will surely kill you!" He no longer hesitated and took out a Heart of Paradox.
The grayish-white crystal shimmered in his palm, alternating between existence and Does Not Exist. He swallowed it in one gulp. His origin suddenly exploded.
A logical rift tears open within the body. The seeds of paradox sink deep into the Fate Soul. Contradictions frantically proliferate.
The thickness of the primordial energy increased exponentially. The True Annihilation Realm · Supreme began to approach its boundary. The heavens and earth trembled around him.
When truth vanishes, reality ceases to exist. All that is real and all that is illusory become indistinguishable. In this realm, there is neither truth nor falsehood.
Without birth or death, only the Realm of True Annihilation swallows all existence and non-existence. He gripped the spear with both hands. His third divine power— Annihilation Realm: Reverse Order to Truth—was unleashed.
Using the power of True Annihilation resulting from paradoxical fission, the definition of "end" is forcibly rewritten, reversing the established fact of "never existing" into "inevitable existence."
The spearhead was raised high. Dark gold and gray-white intertwined to form a massive annihilation ring. Within the ring, logical symbols flowed in reverse. The "reflection" above the Qilin King's head was forcibly dragged into the ring. The milky-white "emptiness" began to flow backward.
The erased lines of cause and effect reappear. The power of the end is torn apart.
The logic of the End of Annihilation was abruptly shattered. The heavens and earth reverberated with a deafening, silent tremor. For the first time, the Qilin King took a step back.
Shangguan Lingxiao roared, his spear pointing straight ahead. The Ultimate secret, True Self - Eternal Silence in One Thought, he and the divine spear simultaneously transformed into a pure black streak.
That blackness is not a color, but an absolute nothingness from which light and concepts cannot escape, spreading silently.
This forms a spherical realm of Annihilation. Within this realm, there is no light, no sound, no heat, Timelessness, and no space.
The King of the Nine Nether Qilin was enveloped within it. Its enormous body began to lose its outline. The logical runes in its golden pupils gradually collapsed.
The black scales turned into dust, then vanished into nothingness. The king roared, but no sound came out. It tried to step out of its domain.
But it was discovered that the premise of "existence" had been removed. The rules of the domain interrogated its Dao heart. True Annihilation against True Annihilation.
The king showed signs of instability for the first time. The black domain suddenly contracted. A flash of light. Then utter silence. As the darkness dissipated.
Only an empty void remained where it had been. After a long while, the chaotic energy slowly filled it in.
The King of the Nine Nether Qilin was utterly Annihilation. The beast tide was terrified. Thousands of Nine Nether Qilin let out low roars, then scattered and fled. The spatial rift closed.
The black scales receded like a tide, and the entire ruins returned to deathly silence. Shangguan Lingxiao knelt on one knee, his very essence trembling violently.
The paradoxical rift backfired. He suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, and grayish-white light patterns coursed through his body. But he forcefully suppressed them and was not seriously injured.
He slowly got up, walked to Shangguan Xuanchen's side, and helped him up.
The power of True Annihilation was injected into his body to heal him. The sky remained cracked and mottled. The ruins remained silent.