Three days later, Qin Yu quietly went alone to the sect's "Realm Calamity Tower" to face the most dangerous mission hanging on the Crimson Soul Rankings— [Soul Poison Remnant Realm Cleansing Mission].
That was a world-defining mission marked as "Nine Stars of Extreme Calamity - Soul Extinction Level". No one has ever successfully entered and returned. It is the only extremely dangerous mission that no one in the Thousand Realms Sect has ever taken on. The Soul Poison Remnant Realm was once the place where the Shang Lineage Clan sealed their souls. The earth veins were corrupted by evil souls, and soul poison has been emanating from it for many years, enough to erode world consciousness.
When Qin Yu signed the Soul Pact without hesitation and submitted the mission, the Shang Lineage's spies, who were secretly hiding, were shocked and immediately sent the information back to Shang Kui.
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"Has he gone mad?" Shang Kui's eyes turned cold upon hearing this, his first reaction being that it was a trap. Anyone who didn't Severed Phenomena Realm would die on that mission, and that was Shang Lineage's territory. Could this really be a trap he set?
But just as he hesitated, a secret order came from the high command of the Soul Hunting Army, stating that three "Soul Splitters" had been dispatched to assist him in carrying out this mission. At the same time, the Wind Extinction God Clan also responded to the Soul Hunting Army's request and sent one of their Order Creation Realm experts, Feng Qingyu, to go along.
The Soul Hunting Army's letter stated, "This child must be eliminated; we cannot afford to miss him."
Faced with pressure and murderous intent from all sides, Shang Kui finally revealed a sinister smile, "Since that's the case... then let's bury him to the grave in one fell swoop!"
Little did he know, this was Qin Yu's meticulously planned "Deadly Hunting Scheme".
The Soul Poison Remnant Realm a gloomy and rotten domain of death. It is located five million miles outside the Thousand Realms Sect in an abandoned ancient soul battlefield. It is shrouded in miasma and poisonous miasma, and corpses and souls wander there all year round. Those who are infected by the soul poison are annihilated without a trace.
The high command of the Soul Hunting Army quietly relayed a message: three "Soul Splitters" at the Severed Phenomena Realm level had secretly assembled in the Black Soul Realm. These three were all extremely brutal killers, known as the "Soul-Severing Group."
--Their names are as follows:
1. ** Zhan Hunchen **: Skilled in assassination, his "Unsevered Living Soul Hand" can sever the very essence of an enemy's soul, making it undetectable even to divine sense.
2. ** Shi Guyang **: With bones as its soul, it is proficient in the art of soul bone explosion. Its innate ability is "Bone Domain Soul Explosion," an area-of-effect attack that is effective against groups of enemies.
3. ** Yan Tongwang **: Third level of the Severed Phenomena Realm, possessing "Nightmare Pupil Three Consciousnesses", which can cause people to fall into mental illusions, and both body and soul are drowned.
At the same time, Feng Qingyu, a first-stage Perfect Order Creation Realm expert dispatched by the Wind Extinction God Clan, quietly joined them.
Feng Qingyu is skilled in both wind and thunder cultivation and is adept at wielding the "Wind Calamity Thunder Sea Diagram". This map is a mid-level Realm Artifact of the Wind Extinction God Clan. Once it is unleashed, wind and thunder will instantly cleave the soul domain for thousands of miles, and no living being can escape, their souls will be severed in the nine heavens!
Shang Kui also appeared in person, dressed in a black robe, his eyes filled with indifference and arrogance. His tone was calm but full of killing intent.
"If I still cannot kill Qin Yu here, I, Shang Kui. I will use this Soul Poison Remnant Realm as my grave to offer sacrifice to my heart's fire!"
The five of them stepped into the Soul Poison Remnant Realm together, setting up a plan in all directions, intending to turn this place into Qin Yu's Burial Abyss of Souls...
However, Qin Yu had already laid a trap.
At the edge of the Soul Poison Remnant Realm, in the crevice valley filled with poisonous mist and intertwined soul shadows, Shang Kui and his group quietly appeared. They did not rush to reveal their whereabouts, but instead used a 'Soul Concealment Talisman' to lurk in the shadows.
"Did he True One come alone?" A hint of suspicion flashed in Zhan Hunchen's eyes.
"Hmph, whether it's bait or not, this is the Soul Land of my Shang Lineage. Once he enters, he won't leave alive today." Shang Kui's tone was icy as he looked at Qin Yu's figure deep inside the Soul Poison Mist Sea, his eyes filled with boundless hatred.
Yan Tongwang scoffed, "Don't worry, this Soul Poison Remnant Realm is the stage we set up. No matter how strong Qin Yu is, he can't escape the grasp of the five of us."
The Order Creation Realm expert from the Wind Extinction God Clan, "Feng Qingyu," remained silent, only closing his eyes to sense his surroundings. Suddenly, he whispered:
"No... he didn't actually venture deep into the poisonous core area; he was guiding us deeper in."
Everyone felt a slight tremor in their hearts, but before they could react, a silent soul pressure suddenly swept across the sky above them.
"Oh no!" Shang Kui exclaimed in alarm.
But it was too late...
Qin Yu used the "Soul Poison Remnant Realm" as bait, pretending to enter, but in reality, he had already been lying in ambush there for three days. He integrated the Azure Ring's perception power and set up three layers of "Silent Soul Reverse Concealment Array", forming an invisible ambush!
First layer: ** Soul Barrier Bewilderment Array ** -- Seals off perception, making it difficult for the enemy to detect that the space within the formation has already been altered.
The second level: ** Silent Lightning Consciousness Restriction ** -- Contains traces of thunder soul; once triggered, the thunder soul immediately detonates the enemy's sea of consciousness.
The third layer: ** The Life Severing Hidden Abyss ** -- a "conceptual barrier" formed by Azure Ring. Any enemy who steps into it will be judged as dead by heaven and earth.
Just as Shang Kui and the others were about to surround them, Qin Yu used his divine sense to create three phantom clones to lure the enemy into the "deep layer of soul poison" and lead Feng Qingyu to the Soul Extinction Rift Valley.
A sudden clap of thunder!
It's Zhou Yu!
Although he did not manifest himself, the power of the second level of the Nine Abyss Silent Lightning Canon, "Abyss Lightning Soul Shaking," suddenly swept across the battlefield! The thunder soul trembled, triggering strange phenomena in heaven and earth. Yan Tongwang, and his three souls were shattered!
Then Qin Yu made a move.
He brandished his divine spear, unleashing [Ring Spear - Silent Severing Abyss]!
In the gray light of the Silent Origin, Zhan Hunchen meridian was pierced by a spear, and before he could exert any force, his soul was already annihilated!
Shi Guyang attempted to support his Bone Domain, but his Bone Soul was forcibly shattered by Qin Yu's second move, breaking along with his Divine Bones.
Feng Qingyu launched a counterattack with the "Wind Calamity Thunder Sea Diagram," but at that moment Qin Yu suddenly stepped into the Life Severing Hidden Abyss, Azure Ring instantly released the projection fragments of the sixth move, [No Perception, Myriad Extinctions]!
Despite being in its incomplete form, even a wisp of fragmented thought caused cracks to appear in Feng Qingyu's sea of consciousness, and his soul was as if being pulled apart, making it impossible to maintain the Realm Artifact Scroll.
The Ultimate spear pierced the sky, infused with "Silent Origin - Boundless Ashes," striking him squarely in the chest bone, severing Feng Qingyu's soul and annihilating his realm!
Shang Kui there, stunned and bewildered.
"Impossible..."
He had come to realize that he was the trapped beast being gradually driven into a deadly situation, while Qin Yu was the mastermind behind it all!
"You... you're a monster!!"
"I am not." Qin Yu approached slowly, his black hair moving without wind, his expression cold. "I am the end you summoned."
One spear—the end!
In that instant, the Soul Poison Remnant Realm was filled with thunderous roars and a desolate light that swallowed the heavens.
Qin Yu atop the ruins, gazing towards the distant sect.
"The Shang Lineage... are nothing but remnants."
Deep within the Soul Poison Remnant Realm, the gloom had not yet dissipated. Shang Kui, along with three Soul Splitters, Feng Qingyu, and others, had just been killed, their blood still surging. Suddenly, the void trembled, and two chilling soul powers rolled in from the other side of the poisonous mist!
"Severed Phenomena Realm Fifth Stage Perfection..."
Qin Yu's gaze suddenly sharpened. It was a kind of oppressive force that surpassed that of his previous enemies, and its aura was as black as ink, bearing the unique mark of the Soul Hunting Army. The two were the Soul Hunting Army's "Twin Soul Patrol Judges", named "Xuan Yuankui" and "Hei Moxie" respectively. At this moment, they stepped out from the void rift.
They were ordered to investigate whether the battle in the Soul Poison Remnant Realm had ended, but they did not expect to be greeted by the familiar aura of their comrades—all of them had been annihilated, with no survivors.
Who is it!
As the Hei Moxie condensed its soul light, the afterimage of Shang Kui's remnant soul appeared in the void. The fear and the final "annihilation" enraged him.
Xuan Yuankui let out a cold snort, "Member number fifty-seven of the Soul Hunting Army died here... No matter who it was, today they will be reduced to ashes."
Because they simply couldn't believe Qin Yu possessed such power to Annihilation those individuals. They were convinced that a powerful figure was behind it all.
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Their eyes flashed with murderous intent, and with a single step, they instantly closed in on Qin Yu and Zhou Yu.
Zhou Yu had not fully recovered, and his soul power was still corroded by the poisonous fog. He felt a soul-destroying force pressing down on him. He forcibly condensed the Nine Abyss Silent Lightning Canon Soul Pattern, but as soon as he touched the enemy's shadow, he was blasted away by Xuan Yuankui's palm. His Soul Sea trembled, his blood and qi surged in reverse, and he spat out blood!
"Zhou Yu!" Qin Yu shouted, flying to catch him. He quickly took out a divine medicine, a peerless divine pill that he had personally refined years ago within the Azure Ring. As soon as the pill entered his mouth, it transformed into countless strands of clear light, flying into Zhou Yu's sea of consciousness, bones, and soul source, rapidly reshaping his soul meridians and stabilizing his blood energy.
Xuan Yuankui sneered, "A mere True Soul Realm Third Stage cultivator dares to challenge us... He's courting death."
Hei Moxie shouted, "Kill!" With a roar, the two charged straight at Qin Yu and Zhou Yu.
The two judges attacked simultaneously, one striking the Eight Soul Tower with a palm strike, the other condensing three thousand shadow soul blades. The void twisted and cracked, and the threads of the Great Dao snapped and arrived!
Qin Yu stood still, not taking a single step back. The Azure Ring within his body trembled silently, unnoticed by anyone, as an aura of "extreme stillness" surged within his bones and blood!
[Silent Origin - Trace the Spirit Abyss], the third move of the Azure Ring Secret Technique, fully awakened!
In an instant--
Qin Yu's aura suddenly surged, and an unprecedented power burst forth from his chest!
Azure Ring - Resounding!
In an instant, the void collapsed, Myriad Phenomena Return to Stillness.
A halo of azure light surrounded him, suddenly illuminating the myriad realms, with countless runes converging like a galaxy.
The next moment, he let out a low shout:
"Silent Origin: Tribulationless Chapter, Third Form - Silent Origin: Trace the Spirit Abyss!"
Boom!!
The entire Soul Poison Remnant Realm seemed to be torn apart by some supreme rule. A "Void Abyss River" flowing upstream stretched across the sky and slowly emerged from behind Qin Yu. Within the abyss river, countless soul shadows flowed backward, as if tracing back to their past lives. Every strand of soul pointed to the original soul seal of the two Soul Hunter experts!
In that instant, the heavens and earth seemed to hold their breath.
"Impossible! What kind of law is this! It can actually strike directly at the source of my soul?!" One of the experts at the Severed Phenomena Realm was utterly horrified, his eyes filled with Ultimate fear.
"The soul source... is collapsing! This is... a mindset killing?!" The other person was already pale, as if all life had been drained from them.
Suddenly, the Abyss River surged, and the two Soul Hunters, both at the Severed Phenomena Realm Fifth Stage Perfection, were as if recognized as 'dead' by heaven and earth. Under the power of the Silent Origin, they collapsed and vanished silently in the Abyss River, their cause and effect erased.
Qin Yu still, the Azure Ring gradually fading, his aura becoming utterly still, and all beings remained silent.
--Silent Origin: Tribulationless Chapter. Secret Technique 3: Complete Awakening.
A river of soul Origin Framework was born beneath Qin Yu's feet, reversing the void and turning back time. Like a silver river flowing backward, that river directly locked onto Xuan Yuankui's Fate Soul imprint!
The next instant, his spiritual lamp exploded in the Abyss River, along with his past lives, memories of reincarnation, and everything else were extracted and extinguished!
"Aaaaaah!!!" Xuan Yuankui screamed and turned into ashes, not even his primordial soul could escape.
Even Hei Moxie could not escape being locked on, turning into a soul shadow and ashes, completely annihilated.
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The fighting has ended.
Zhou Yu leaned against Qin Yu and slowly rose, her eyes filled with shock. "You... what was that just now...?"
Qin Yu's expression remained unchanged. "A kind of... ineffable power."
Zhou Yu didn't ask any more questions, but instead laughed heavily, "Good, that beast Shang Kui is completely Annihilation."
They turned to look at the now-dead Soul Poison Remnant Realm, where the burial grounds were still burning.
The two then returned to their sect.