The Wind of Realm Breaking swirled endlessly amidst the ruins. The remnant soul of the Leaf Guardian stood silently at the core of the rifted dimension, his black robes hanging low, his sword blade piercing the void. The surrounding space peeled away layer by layer and was forcibly pieced back together, as if constantly oscillating between "broken" and "not broken."
Blue Ring Xiao Yue suddenly frowned, a very solemn light flashing deep in her star-blue pupils. Her voice was low but extremely clear. "Little Qinzi, step back. This remnant soul is not an ordinary Realm Breaking Realm." That aura was not just the oppressive force of power, but a strange feeling that the boundary itself was being torn apart, as if its very existence was denying the continuity of space.
Qin Yu didn't ask any further questions. He lightly stepped back, landing ten meters away, the withered leaves beneath his feet swirling slightly but making no sound. He slowly raised his right hand, and an extremely cold, silvery-white sword light condensed from the depths of his palm. The Silent Origin Stainless Sword slowly took shape amidst the storm of shattered dimensions, its blade clear and Stainless, its edge slender and sharp.
It seemed not to be forged from metal, but rather condensed from some purer, primordial source of Annihilation. As the sword was drawn, the surrounding chaotic space momentarily fell silent. Qin Yu's gaze was icy.
The voice was deep and steady. "Xiao Yue, let me handle this. You can rest for a bit." Xiao Yue smiled gently, shrugged, and gracefully floated to a broken stone pillar beside her. Her legs dangled in the air, surrounded by a faint starlight, as if she were watching a play where the outcome was already clear.
The remnant soul of the Leaf Guardian made no extra movements. The long sword beneath his black robe suddenly rose gently, the movement extremely slow, yet at the instant it was raised, the surrounding space suddenly emitted a piercing tearing sound. First divine power – "Void-Shattering Sword".
Break through the "boundaries of space". Wherever the sword points, it severs the spatial barrier between two points. Distance is no longer an obstacle; the sword arrives instantly.
He didn't step forward, nor did he swing his sword horizontally; he simply made a light slash forward. That slash was like drawing a line on an invisible canvas. The sword barely moved, yet the space between Qin Yu and the remnant soul suddenly cracked like a mirror.
Cracks exploded from the depths of the void, and sharp Sword Qi surged out from the fissures. In the next instant, the Sword Qi had already emerged directly from the shattered spatial rift to within three inches of Qin Yu's throat, as if the distance had never existed.
At the same time, the space around Qin Yu suddenly collapsed, and the surrounding void shrank inward like a cage. Fragments of space floated and overlapped, sealing him in the prison of the shattered void.
The sword arrives, the boundary shatters.
However, just an inch before the Sword Qi touched his throat, a faint silver light flashed deep in Qin Yu's eyes. The Silent Origin Stainless Sword trembled slightly in his hand. Instead of retreating, he took a step forward.
That step was extremely light, yet it felt as if he were stepping on a spatial fulcrum that had not yet been completely severed. The sword blade turned horizontally, and silver-white light rippled out from the blade. He did not directly confront the Void-Shattering Sword, but instead inserted the sword blade into the collapsed spatial rift in front of him at an extremely precise angle, as if searching for an "anchor point" that had not yet been completely destroyed within the invisible fissure.
"Space can shatter, boundaries can break," he muttered to himself, his sword flashing. "But the source of these breaks also has its cause."
The first move of the Silent Origin Stainless Sword – the No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword.
The sword was drawn without intention; its intent was not directed at space itself, but rather at the source of the "thought that Realm Breaking." The silver-white sword light did not fly out in a straight line, but instead flowed upwards along the shattered spatial crack, like a lightning bolt moving in reverse, suddenly piercing through the collapsed void.
Before the Void-Shattering Sword could fully unleash its power, it was severed at its source. The collapsing cage of space trembled violently, and the fragments that were collapsing inward suddenly stopped, then scattered and collapsed as if being pulled in the opposite direction.
With a deafening roar, the shattered void exploded into waves of blue and white light. A gale swept through the ruins, and withered leaves surged like a sea, but were blocked by an invisible sword intent three feet away from Qin Yu.
The remnant soul of the Leaf Guardian swayed slightly, his black robe billowing in the Realm Breaking storm. His longsword, pierced into the void, emitted a deep, resonant sound, and the cracks widened once more, seemingly preparing to unleash a deeper level of Realm Breaking power.
Qin Yu stood firmly in place, the Silent Origin Stainless Sword held horizontally beside him, its silvery-white light slowly flowing around him, smoothing out the remaining spatial cracks inch by inch.
His gaze was frosty, his sword intent lingering, and the scorching aura of shattered dimensions still remained in the air. Xiao Yue sat atop a distant stone pillar, swinging her legs, and commented with a smile, "Not bad, Little Qinzi, but this remnant soul has more than just this one divine ability, you'd better be careful." Qin Yu didn't turn around, only replying calmly, "Don't worry, the more techniques and divine abilities the better, I want to see just how strong this Realm Breaking Realm really is."
The remnant soul of the Leaf Guardian slightly lifted its black robe, and an invisible gaze seemed to descend from the depths of its hood, causing the Wind of Realm Breaking to rise once more.
The longsword beneath the black robe of the Leaf Guardian's remnant soul was slowly drawn, and the point where it pierced the void suddenly exploded with countless dimensional rifts. The next instant, he took a step. That step was not on the ground, but on the structure of space itself, and the dimensions beneath his feet shattered like layers of broken glass.
The first layer of reality collapsed with a deafening roar; the second layer of void shattered like water being pierced by a stone; and the third, deeper layer of dark space was forcibly ripped open, creating an abyss-like rift—"The Dimension-Severing Step."
Boundary Collapse, dimensions shattered, and the Wind of Realm Breaking swept across like blades, stirring up invisible waves of energy in the ruins. Withered leaves were torn into pieces in mid-air but remained suspended, as if the order of time and space had been forcibly disrupted. The remnant soul of the Leaf Guardian traversed between the collapses of the three dimensions, its figure sometimes near and sometimes far, and in the next instant it had already closed to within three zhang of Qin Yu.
He gave Qin Yu no chance to catch his breath, and with a slight lift of his longsword, his second divine power was launched almost seamlessly from the Dimension-Severing Step – the Formless Sword. Breaking the "boundary of form," it severed the fixed form limits of the sword itself, allowing the sword to freely transform between reality and illusion, hardness and softness, Between Being and Nonbeing.
The moment the sword's edge shot forward, the ancient longsword suddenly vanished into a wisp of sword wind. His black robe billowed in the wind, and the sword wind swept over him like an invisible, chilling tide. Qin Yu slightly raised his sword to block, but the sword wind abruptly transformed into a cold, eerie light, piercing through the gaps in the blade of the Silent Origin Stainless Sword.
The next instant, it solidified into a real sword blade three inches to his side, its cold light piercing straight into his heart. Qin Yu dodged to the side, and the sword blade once again disintegrated into a sky full of stardust. Hundreds of streams of light simultaneously pierced the same point from all directions. The illusion and reality were indistinguishable, and continuous cracking sounds erupted in the air, as if countless dimensional membranes were being pierced.
Xiao Yue hovered leisurely atop a distant stone pillar, her star-blue eyes now devoid of any playful expression, fixed intently on the ever-changing sword aura. She didn't make a move, but simply murmured to herself, "The form changes, but the 'Will to Realm Breaking' remains the same."
Amidst the raging torrent of the Formless Sword, Qin Yu suddenly took a step forward, and the second form of the Silent Origin Stainless Sword unfolded in his sea of consciousness. The sword intent was not for defense, but for active suppression.
He no longer chased after the ever-changing sword shadows, but closed his eyes for a moment, pointing the sword directly at the remnant soul of the Leaf Guardian. The second move of the Silent Origin Stainless Sword — the Causeless Disillusionment Sword. The sword intent was not directed at the sword's form, nor at dimensions, but directly at the "cause of Realm Breaking."
A silvery-white sword light condensed into an extremely thin beam around him, and then suddenly erupted. Instead of flying out in a straight line, the sword light cut directly into the constantly oscillating Realm Breaking storm surrounding the remnant soul of the Leaf Guardian.
The flowing light of the Formless Sword abruptly slowed as the silvery sword intent touched it, disrupting the rhythm of the transition between the illusory image and the solid sword, and causing a sudden, discordant tremor in the sword wind. Qin Yu opened his eyes, catching that fleeting anomaly—
Although the remnant soul of the Leaf Guardian could shift between form and reality, its core remained firmly attached to the hilt of that ancient longsword. That hilt was the anchor point for the power to Realm Breaking, its only weakness—a vulnerability where "form can change but the essence remains the same." Qin Yu snorted coldly, "Found it."
Qin Yu suddenly lunged forward, his sword flashing diagonally, a silvery-white light streaking across the sky like a meteor, directly striking the hilt of the longsword. The remnant soul of the Leaf Guardian, its black robe billowing, attempted to once again use the Formless Technique to change the sword's form, but the Causeless Disillusionment Sword had already locked onto the "Cause of Realm Breaking."
Before the form had fully transformed, it forcibly entered its original logic. With a loud bang, a blinding silver light exploded from the hilt of the sword, the Wind of Realm Breaking suddenly went out of control, and the dimensional rifts burst outward as if being torn in the opposite direction.
The remnant soul of the Leaf Guardian was struck head-on by the sword. His black robes fluttered wildly in the storm, and his body was sent flying backward as if hit by a heavy hammer, crashing directly into the trunk of the ancient tree. The giant tree roared, withered yellow leaves fell like rain, and space trembled and rippled outward. The Realm Breaking storm was forcibly pushed back into the depths of the rift, and the dimensional collapse temporarily stopped.
Qin Yu sheathed his sword and stood still, the silvery sword light slowly receding around him, leaving only a low echo in the ruins. Xiao Yue clapped softly in the distance, a smile returning to her face, "Not bad, Little Qinzi, that strike was quite accurate." Qin Yu's gaze remained fixed, and he simply said, "He hasn't truly fallen yet."
Deep within the trunk of the ancient tree, the remnant soul in black robes slowly rose, its longsword resonating, and the power to Realm Breaking surged once more.
The remnant soul of the Leaf Guardian slowly rose from the depths of the ancient tree's trunk. His black robe billowed in the storm that Realm Breaking. The longsword in his hand no longer trembled but gradually fell silent, and ancient crack symbols appeared on its blade.
As if the sword itself were some kind of sealed epochal law, he slowly raised the sword, its tip pointing straight to the sky. The already shattered dimension above suddenly froze, the cracks stopped spreading, as if some deeper order was forcibly covering the power that Realm Breaking.
From beneath his low-hanging hood, a strange incantation suddenly emanated. The sound seemed to come from a depth of a spatial rift, echoing and resonating with each syllable as if tearing open the skin of time.
"The year ends -- the source is extinguished -- Beginningless -- without birth --"
The sound lingered, like the echo of some ancient ritual. The incantation was not continuous, but rather fragmented whispers; with each pause, a small patch of space in the sky turned into grayish-white dust. That dust was not matter, but a piece of history that had been erased in advance.
Blue Ring Xiao Yue's expression instantly turned serious. Standing atop the broken stone pillar, her star-blue light slightly diminished, her voice low and clear. "The year ends, the source dies, Beginningless, no birth... Little Qinzi, pay attention, he is about to summon an ancient divine beast called the Age Devourer."
Qin Yu's gaze remained fixed, Silent Origin Stainless Sword resonated slowly in his palm.
The moment the last syllable of the incantation fell, the torn dimensional abyss in the sky suddenly unfolded slowly to both sides, as if a curtain had been lifted by an invisible hand. There was no thunder, no beam of light, no burst of energy, only an extremely quiet pressure descending.
A figure slowly emerged from the void. It was a wolf, but it was neither a wolf that galloped across the grasslands nor a wolf that howled at the moon. It was a wolf that had come from the end of time.
Its size was immeasurable. At first glance, Qin Yu thought it was no bigger than a mountain, but in the next instant, he realized that it was just an illusion caused by the compression of his senses—because a single hair of the wolf hanging from the sky was enough to crush an entire void Rending Domain in the distance; and when he tried to probe it with his divine sense, he felt that the wolf was no bigger than an ordinary wolfhound. It was just that the sense of oppression distorted reality into an incomparable scale.
Its fur was a grayish-white color, somewhere between existence and nothingness, like embers after a fire, or like forgotten old snow. Every hair trembled very slightly, and with each tremor, a space-time spread outward like ripples on water, then vanished silently.
Occasionally, a faint light would flicker among the hair; it wasn't light, but rather the final glance of a dying era.
Its eyes had no pupils, only two bottomless vortexes. Within these vortexes flowed countless sunsets—not the sunsets of any particular world, but the final scenes of all worlds, all possibilities, and all life that had ever existed. Qin Yu only met the gaze of those vortexes for a fleeting moment.
He then clearly felt a segment of memory being gently peeled away at the edge of his consciousness, like a page being swept away by the wind.
Its limbs tread upon the void, yet it never makes a sound. Not because it is light, but because wherever it treads, even the sound is erased beforehand. Where it lingers, no trace is left, for the place where it stands is transforming from "once existed" to "never existed."
Behind it, there is always a gust of wind. That wind neither stirs up dust nor raises waves, but is the final sigh of something forgotten.
Its name is "Age Devourer," and in its mouth, time is nothing more than a bite of crushed bone.
The remnant soul of the Leaf Guardian slightly raised its sword, and the Age Devourer slowly lowered its head, its swirling eyes locking onto Qin Yu. The air did not tremble, but a deeper kind of terror flowed within it.
Supernatural Power - Bite of Retroactive Erasure.
This is not an attack, not a spell, not even a supernatural power—it is "the end" itself transformed into instinct.
The Age Devourer opened its mouth slightly, without roaring or making a sound, and simply bit forward gently.
Qin Yu did not see any energy fluctuations, but he clearly felt that the causal lines behind him were being forcibly pulled back. That mouthful was not directed towards his current body, but rather flowed upstream along the threads of time, pointing directly to the moment when he was first acknowledged as "existing" by heaven and earth.
The first breath.
The first glimmer of consciousness.
The moment the world defined the first speck of dust as "Qin Yu".
If that bite were to fall—
In all of time and space, there has never been that one breath.
Throughout all the ages, there has never been a wisp of consciousness.
Heaven and earth have no recollection of ever having such a person.
I don't recall ever having such a connection.
It's not death.
Because the prerequisite for death is having lived.
It's not annihilation.
Because the premise of extinction is existence.
That is a nothingness deeper than nothingness, an end that comes earlier than the end itself.
The Maw of Age Devourer slowly closed, and a vast expanse of space above began to ripple with grayish-white light, as if a piece of history was being erased by an eraser. The remnant soul of the Leaf Guardian stood silently behind it, his black robes motionless, his sword pointing to the sky, as if he had merely opened a door, while the true destroyer had already descended.
Amidst the ruins, withered leaves silently vanished. Qin Yu still, gently raising the Silent Origin Stainless Sword.