Before the fish's cry had faded, it was as if a crack had been torn open in the heavens and earth. From the mist all around, dark shadows emerged.
They were not beasts, nor ghosts, but a group of extremely bizarre creatures.
They emerged from the crumbling pillars of the ruined palace, crawled out from the churning cracks at the bottom of the river, and fell from the unhealed crevices in the air.
Their forms are distorted. Some are half-transparent, some look like they were torn apart and forcibly stitched together, and some have no facial features, just a blurry gray shadow.
They all held weapons in their hands: halberds, broken knives, tattered spears, and blood-rusted longswords.
Those weapons were not made of solid metal, but rather resembled "remnants of authority" extracted from fragments of history.
Each weapon was enveloped in a dim, lingering light of laws. Its aura spread out, Realm Breaking Realm · Middle Stage.
One, two... ten, a hundred... soon, hundreds and thousands.
They were densely packed, surrounding the entire lake. They didn't roar or howl; they just stood quietly.
Their gazes were empty, yet they were all fixed on Qin Yu. The Void-Shattering Nether Kun giant fish sank halfway into the lake.
Only his pair of deep blue vertical pupils were visible, coldly watching as if waiting... waiting for the beast tide to tear him apart.
Qin Yu slowly raised his head, his gaze sweeping across all directions. He knew these were no ordinary puppets.
They retain fragments of some kind of narrative, like "unfinished existences" forcibly left in this ruin.
If the delay continues, the number will only increase. Qin Yu did not wait any longer.
He took a step forward. The Silent Origin Stainless Sword was held horizontally before him, its blade humming softly. The air suddenly fell silent. "The Silent Origin Stainless Sword — The Historyless Void Severance Sword."
It erases the concepts of "all-time narrative" and "the weight of fate" with a single stroke, transcending the definitions and possibilities of history, destiny, and script.
It returns to—absolute No Definition emptiness. Even the concepts of "historical existence" and "narrative revival" are completely negated.
The sword blade slashed down. There was no earth-shattering Sword Qi, no booming explosion, only an extremely clean black crack.
It wasn't a spatial rift; it was the very fabric of time itself that was cleaved open. The sky suddenly darkened, and the entire lake appeared as if it had been splashed with thick ink.
The stars vanished. Time stopped. The beast tide froze. The next instant, darkness spread.
The bodies of countless creatures began to blur, like sand paintings being gently blown away by a starlight breeze. Weapons disappeared first.
Then came the arms, the shoulders, the head. They didn't explode. There were no screams. The edges just faded.
As if erased by an eraser, the chaotic black lotus phantom drifted down petal by petal in the air. The concepts of "existence" were stripped away.
Removed from the timeline. Eliminated from parallel universes. Deleted from narrative records. There is no "having ever existed." There is no "being forgotten."
It wasn't even "erased." The history of the universe entered a state of "absolute Timelessness" at that instant.
It's as if they were never written down. Vast swathes of life have turned into gray and white afterimages.
In an instant, it vanished into emptiness. Heaven and earth left Wuhen. There was no echo of cause and effect.
There was no backlash. There was no possibility of revival. With a single sword strike, more than half of the beast tide evaporated instantly.
A large area of the lake was cleared. The air was as clear as ever. For the first time, the remaining creatures showed signs of sluggishness.
Their weapons began to tremble. They retreated. The pupils of the Void-Shattering Nether Kun giant fish suddenly contracted.
The lake water erupted into huge waves. It had never seen such a strike that negated even the very foundations and origins of its history.
Qin Yu stood at the edge of the darkness, his robes fluttering gently in the silent wind.
The sword remained lowered, the gaze cold and piercing. The number of remaining living beings was still staggering.
But this one sword strike made the ruins truly realize that they were not facing prey.
The lake water churned, and crimson and eerie green light intertwined on the surface, forming strange patterns. Suddenly, the Void-Shattering Nether Kun's pair of deep blue vertical pupils flashed with a cold, abyss-like light.
It did not attack immediately. Instead, it opened its mouth, causing the lake water to ripple. The remaining Realm Breaking Realm · Middle Stage suddenly stiffened.
Their weapons slipped from their hands and hung suspended in mid-air. Their bodies began to dissolve, not shatter.
Instead, it disintegrated on its own. The skin and flesh turned into a black liquid, and the bones melted into grayish-white glitter.
The weapon shattered into sharp fragments. Countless fragments were swept up by the lake water and flowed towards the Void-Shattering Nether Kun.
The entire lake surface was like a boiling furnace. All traces of those living beings were forcibly removed.
Flesh and blood, fragments of laws, Fate Soul light were all compressed into distorted beams of light.
Light intertwined and merged, coalescing into a pitch-black vortex in the center of the lake. Within the vortex, skeletons pieced together.
Scales reformed. Bloodlines stitched together. The next instant—a new, monstrous fish burst forth from the water. It was slightly smaller than the Void-Shattering Nether Kun.
Yet it is even sharper. Its body has a metallic texture with alternating deep purple and dark silver. Its scales are arranged like blades.
Six pairs of curved bony wings sprout from its back. Each bony wing is inlaid with a dark red crystal core. The fish's head is flat.
Its eyes have no pupils, only a constantly rotating silver ring. Its mouth has no teeth, but rather a spiral of sharp blades.
Three chain-like bone whips extend from its tail. Its cultivation level is at the Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme.
Their auras were on par with the Void-Shattering Nether Kun. The lake water was pressed down by the two powerful forces, and the air vibrated.
The Void-Shattering Nether Kun suddenly moved. Its body swayed, but no trajectory was left.
The Rebirth Swimming Traces —ignoring rules/evading truth. Its path of movement exists in the rule-blank zone after "Realm Breaking".
Any attempt by divine sense, deduction, or clairvoyance to lock onto it will only capture the scars on the world it left a second ago.
As it moved, it left a trail behind it composed of countless shattered mirror fragments. Each fragment reflected an afterimage from a different timeline.
What Qin Yu sees is always a shadow of the past. Its true form, however, exists outside of cause and effect.
Suddenly, thin cracks appeared in space. Qin Yu's divine sense locked onto the cracks, which were gradually healing.
The Void-Shattering Nether Kun was no longer in its original position. At the same time—the newly born strange fish opened its mouth.
Supernatural Power: Severed Realm Erosion Tide, Dimensional Erosion/Law Corruption. It does not exhale air currents.
Instead, it is a grayish-white "Realm Erosion Stream." Wherever it is touched, the structure of laws begins to decay itself.
The formation collapsed. The divine weapons rusted. Space collapsed into a decaying void.
The gray-white tide rolled like a thick fog. Wherever it passed, the air felt as if it were being devoured by termites.
The edges shattered into powder. The ground collapsed into hollow abysses. The lake water was corrupted into dried-up ash and sand.
Two Supreme pressures simultaneously pressed down on Qin Yu. One could not be locked onto, while the other corroded everything.
The heavens and earth trembled. Qin Yu finally slowly raised his hand. Deep within his sea of consciousness, a Wordless Heavenly Book slowly opened.
"Primordial Hongmeng, Great Luo Heavenly Chapter." The pages unfold. Time, pages. A page turns.
The world suddenly rewound. The gray and white decaying tide flowed backward. Spatial rifts rolled back. The afterimage of the Void-Shattering Nether Kun was dragged back to the previous second.
Everything seems to be edited and rearranged. Fast forward, rewind, freeze frame. The lake surface instantly becomes a gray-white silhouette. Space and words.
Qin Yu's fingertips were writing in the void. The characters "Prison." appeared and three-dimensional light and shadow unfolded.
The stars spun within the words. The void and abyss surged. The strange fish was instantly trapped.
The bone wing hits the word wall. Sparks fly. Write again - "Gate."
A spatial rift opened. Qin Yu outside the door, avoiding the blank traces of Rebirth Swimming Traces. Life and death, ink marks.
Ink flowed across the pages. Qin Yu wiped it away. The strange fish's name dimmed. Its silver-ringed pupils suddenly dimmed by three points. The ink spread along its bony wings, like blood being drained.
The Void-Shattering Nether Kun finally revealed itself. It roared. The blank space of rules was forced to appear before the pages of the book.
Qin Yu's gaze was cold. He turned the page again. Cause and Effect - Punctuation. Golden punctuation marks appeared.
The symbols ","" and "." were linked together in the air to form a chain. Qin Yu pressed a punctuation mark.
The causal link between the two fish has been altered. The original "parallel attack" relationship has become "mutual conflict".
In an instant, the Realm Erosion Stream reversed its impact, Void-Shattering Nether Kun the remnant image of the Rebirth Swimming Traces to collide with the monstrous fish's bone wings, resulting in a spatial explosion.
The Five Elements and Five Colors: Ink, Blue, Red, Yellow, White, and Black. Five-colored halos swirled in the air. Qin Yu brought down a single stroke.
Crimson flames transformed into meteorite streams. Green wood became towering vines. Black water swept through a corrupting tide. Platinum blades rained down like swords from the sky. Yellow earth suppressed spatial rifts.
The five elements intertwined, piercing directly through the monster fish's chest cavity. Its bone wings shattered, and its silver ring pupils broke.
It emitted a silent crack. Its entire body was erased in the five-colored ink light, utterly Annihilation, leaving no trace of history.
There is no possibility of resurrection. The Void-Shattering Nether Kun was twisted and backfired by cause and effect. The Rebirth Swimming Traces were forcibly dragged into the Time · Page.
The fish's body was torn apart by the five-colored ink flames. The old wound on its abdomen widened. The dark green laws surged forth, severely injuring it.
Yet he was not dead. The lake water churned, and for the first time, genuine fear appeared in those deep blue vertical pupils.
Qin Yu slowly closed the book. The world returned to its colors. White mist rose from the lake.
Blood-red waves surged on the lake's surface. The enormous body of the Void-Shattering Nether Kun swayed precariously amidst the aftershocks of the five-colored ink light.
The laceration in its abdomen continued to spew forth remnants of the eerie green law. Yet it did not retreat. Its pair of eerie blue vertical pupils suddenly became extremely calm.
Like the darkness at the very bottom of the deep sea, it slowly opened its mouth. This time, there was no water.
There was no wind pressure. Only a string of extremely tiny light bubbles slowly emerged from its throat. The light bubbles floated in the air.
Transparent and pure white, like drops of morning dew, yet each drop is as heavy as a small world within itself.
Supernatural powers, the Return to the Ruins Fish Orchid, Creation and end. When the old world is about to be destroyed, it will expel bubbles like fish eggs.
Each bubble is a "dimensional embryo." They drift into the cracks of the broken world.
When the flower bud blooms, it can reshape a destroyed old world, or conversely absorb the existing world and compress it into a chaotic origin.
The light bubble suddenly stopped. It slowly expanded in the void, changing shape, and petals made of pure light unfolded.
Magnolia-like buds bloomed in the sky above the lake, thousands of them floating in the air.
A miniature galaxy rotates within the flower's stamen. Pure energy rises, while turbid energy sinks. The flower slowly closes.
The lake water is compressed. Space collapses inward. Air condenses into a singularity. Another flower blooms. The remnants of the palace are reconstructed.
A new world emerges, its aura clear. The world alternates between blooming and closing, as if World Creation and World Extinguisher are happening simultaneously.
A holy light shone down, yet it sent shivers down one's spine. It was a gentle destruction. The Void-Shattering Nether Kun seized this opportunity.
With a flick of its tail fin, the lake surface exploded. Its massive body sank rapidly to the bottom of the lake.
The water surface closed. The Return to the Ruins Fish Orchid remained suspended in the void, continuously closing.
If allowed to fully unfold, the entire palace ruins will be absorbed into the flower's heart and return to chaos.
Qin Yu's pupils contracted slightly. Without the slightest hesitation.
The Great Primordial Hongmeng Great Luo Heavenly Chapter, from the depths of the sea of consciousness, suddenly opened.
Time, the pages of a book. He suddenly turned the page. The process of the flower bud opening was lengthened, and the closing motion was slowed down.
Thousands of magnolias hovered amidst the gray and white silhouettes. Space, words. He waved his hand and wrote "lock".
The shapes of the characters emerge. The bud of light is sealed by the three-dimensional text. The edges of the petals tremble.
Yet it could not close completely. Life and death, ink stains. Qin Yu raised his hand and wiped. The ink spread at the flower's stamen.
The light of the miniature galaxy dimmed. The energy of Creation was suppressed. The power of termination was out of balance.
The sky shook violently. Dozens of magnolia blossoms were instantly extinguished.
The petals turned into light fragments and dissipated. However, some flower buds still broke free from the bindings and fell downwards.
Qin Yu's gaze turned cold. He turned the page again. Cause and Effect - Punctuation. Golden punctuation marks appeared.
He forcibly reversed the causal connection between "flowers blooming" and "fish escaping," rewriting the conjunctions.
"Flowers bloom—helping them escape" becomes "Flowers bloom—blocking their retreat."
In an instant, all the magnolias that had not yet closed were pulled in the opposite direction, tightening the space beneath the lake surface.
Five Elements, Five Colors of Ink. Green Wood Transforms into Vines. Black Water Presses Down the Bottom. Crimson Fire Seals the Seams.
Platinum runs through the heart of the lake. Loess is used to suppress the fissures. The lake surface bursts violently.
The Void-Shattering Nether Kun's movement was forcibly slowed down, but it continued to descend, attempting to escape into the shattered dimensional rift deep within the lake.
Qin Yu did not hesitate. "We must not let it escape." Once the Return to the Ruins Fish Orchid blooms elsewhere...
The consequences would be dire. He stumbled and lost his footing; the pages of the book flashed behind him.
His body plunged straight into the lake. The water parted automatically in front of him, as if cleaved by a brush tip.
The water curtain rose high on both sides. He leaped down, chasing straight to the bottom of the lake. The lake water quickly closed in.
Above, the remaining magnolia buds gradually died down.
Darkness churned deep within the lake. The colossal figure of the Void-Shattering Nether Kun fled amidst the abyssal water pressure.
Qin Yu pierced through the deep water like a beam of white light.