In the Shi Lin of the Northern Region, a fierce wind howled and echoed among thousands of black stone pillars, and a murderous intent suddenly gathered in the air.
The two Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators had completely lost their patience. One of them, with a cold look in his eyes, roared angrily.
"Stop wasting your breath on them!" He suddenly shuddered, the sound of his long sword echoing through the Shi Lin.
"Shen Qingchen made us chase him for three days and three nights!" He stared intently at Shen Qingchen, his killing intent surging.
"This kid's a rabbit!" "Today—" "Kill him along with his accomplice!"
Before they finished speaking, their auras surged simultaneously, Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme swept across the entire Shi Lin like a storm.
The space trembled violently, and the ancient patterns on the surface of the stone pillars cracked. One of the figures slowly raised his hand.
He didn't actually grip the knife; rather, it was as if he drew an invisible blade from thin air, and with Empty Grasp of his hand, it appeared as if he were holding it.
Suddenly, cracks began to appear in the surrounding space, spreading like a spider web, but strangely, there was no sword light.
There was no trace of it, as if the sword Does Not Exist at all. Yet, the next moment, he swung the sword— the Boundless Realm Slash.
The slash fell silently and without light, yet the entire space was sliced open in that instant.
Space, time, and causal lines broke simultaneously, and a pitch-black rift spread out from the void.
The rift was not darkness, but a kind of "nothingness" that even light could not define. The rift rapidly extended towards Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen.
Wherever it passed, all boundaries began to collapse, spatial coordinates were erased, time positioning was broken, and causal anchor points collapsed.
Shen Qingchen's figure even began to blur, as if he were being stripped away from the world. At the same time...
Another cultivator also moved, slowly forming hand seals, and a colorless ripple spread out from his body.
As the ripples spread, strange changes began to occur in the world; the sky and the earth gradually blurred, and rocks and air permeated each other.
The whole world seems to be being compressed, and all differences are beginning to disappear; this is precisely the Myriad Manifestations Return to One.
Gray ripples rapidly covered the Shi Lin and pillars, causing them to lose their shape. The air turned into a gray curtain, and Shen Qingchen even felt his consciousness beginning to blur.
The boundaries between self and the outside world are dissolving; his thinking is in chaos. Cause is effect, past is future; all logic collapses at this moment.
All things began to be pressed into an undefinable chaotic origin, and two great supernatural powers descended simultaneously, one severing boundaries and the other annihilating separation.
Shen Qingchen's expression changed slightly as the situation nearly extinguished all hope, but Qin Yu remained completely still throughout.
He simply stood there quietly, his gaze indifferent, as if watching two ants swarming towards him.
Just as the two divine powers were about to touch them, Qin Yu moved; he didn't even draw his sword.
He didn't use any complicated supernatural powers, but simply slowly raised his hand, bringing his two fingers together as if picking up a wisp of light from the void.
Then Qin Yu's voice rang out calmly, "Get lost." The instant his voice fell, Qin Yu lightly pointed two fingers. Unnamed Initial Silence.
This seemingly ordinary finger gesture, in the instant it landed—the whole world suddenly fell silent.
Time stopped, the gale in the Shi Lin ceased, and the spreading "Boundless Realm rift" suddenly froze.
The spreading gray "Myriad Manifestations Return to One" also came to a complete standstill, as if the axis of the universe had been removed.
Ten chaotic lotus shadows suddenly bloomed on Qin Yu's fingertips, turning the void into a blank sheet of paper, and the outlines of all things in heaven and earth were quickly erased.
The ancient scroll of Heavenly Dao seemed to turn its pages in the void, revealing the names, causes and effects, destinies, and history of the two cultivators—
The colors were fading rapidly, as if erased from the records of the universe, and the two cultivators were still in their attacking stances.
But their eyes suddenly became blank because they suddenly felt themselves disappearing, not from death, not from annihilation.
Instead, their bodies, which had never existed before, began to become transparent, first their arms, then their torsos, and finally even their Fate Soul began to dissolve.
The cultivator who unleashed the "Boundless Realm Slash" opened his mouth as if to say something, but found that his voice could not exist at all; his name had been forgotten by the universe.
His cause and effect were erased by history, his fate was never written, and in the next instant, the two figures disintegrated at the same time.
There was no blood, no remnant souls, not even the ripples of annihilation. It was as if—they had never been here at all.
The Shi Lin returned to silence, the fissure of the "Boundless Realm Slash" disappeared, and the gray curtain of "Myriad Manifestations Return to One" dissipated.
The world returned to its original state, as if nothing had ever happened. Shen Qingchen stood in the same spot.
He was completely stunned. He looked at Qin Yu, then at the spot where the two people had just been. It Emptiness.
Without even leaving a trace, Shen Qingchen remained silent for a few moments, then slowly opened his mouth wide.
"Brother Qin..." "What you're doing..." "Isn't this a bit outrageous?" He had chased after two Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme for three days and three nights without being able to shake them off.
Qin Yu's finger pointed at the Shi Lin, and nothing happened. Only Qin Yu remained standing quietly, as if the finger had just been pointed at him.
With a mere flick of the wrist, the fierce winds in the Northern Region Shi Lin gradually subsided.
The brief yet terrifying exchange just now seemed as if it had never happened. Qin Yu withdrew his finger, his expression remaining calm.
Shen Qingchen was still standing there, looking as if he had just woken up from a dream.
He glanced at the spot where the two Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators had been standing, then at Qin Yu, and couldn't help but click his tongue.
Qin Yu said slowly, "Brother Shen, it's nothing." His tone was nonchalant. "Just two cultivators at the Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme."
Shen Qingchen rolled his eyes after hearing this, shook his head and smiled wryly. "Tsk tsk tsk. Brother Qin, you're simply a prodigy!"
As he spoke, he pointed to himself. "I'm also at the Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme." "But facing the two of them, there was absolutely no chance of victory."
Shen Qingchen helplessly shrugged. "I could only be chased by them the whole way." Then he looked at Qin Yu, his eyes full of amazement.
"And what about you?" "Realm Breaking Realm · Middle Stage cultivation." "You Annihilation them completely with a single finger." "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it."
Qin Yu simply smiled and didn't explain further. Instead, he said, "Brother Shen, let's leave here first. What was that treasure you mentioned earlier?"
Shen Qingchen suddenly remembered something. "Oh, right, right!" He almost forgot. He slapped his forehead. "Let's go, let's go." "It's not safe here."
"I'll take you to a secluded place." After saying that, Shen Qingchen led the way, and the two figures quickly disappeared into the depths of the Shi Lin.
They traversed dozens of stone pillar fissures and climbed over a fractured rock wall, finally arriving at an extremely secluded area.
This place is surrounded by several huge stone walls, and a tilted boulder above blocks out the sky, so even from an aerial view, this space is almost invisible.
Shen Qingchen breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that there was no sign of anything around him. He then slowly took out a storage crystal core from his pocket.
His expression then turned serious. "Brother Qin." "Look at this." The next moment, Shen Qingchen took out an ancient scroll from his storage crystal core.
The moment the ancient scroll appeared, the surrounding air trembled slightly, and Qin Yu's gaze froze instantly, because this thing was too strange.
It was a Wordless Heavenly Book, an ancient scroll entirely white without any text or symbols.
It doesn't even bear a trace of the Dao; it's like a blank sheet of paper. But when one truly gazes at it, an extremely strange feeling arises.
It was as if even the concept of "Emptiness" itself had been swallowed up by it. Qin Yu's divine sense tried to explore it, but found that any rules would dissipate on their own as soon as they approached this ancient book.
It seemed as if even the great principles of heaven and earth paled in comparison. Shen Qingchen slowly said, "Brother Qin, this ancient scroll is called—" "The Blank Dao Scroll."
As he spoke, a hint of reverence even crossed his face. "It doesn't record any Daoist teachings." "Because—"
Shen Qingchen said in a low voice, "Any law seems shallow in its presence." Qin Yu listened quietly as Shen Qingchen continued to explain.
"Its true power," he said, "is not the casting of spells," but rather—coverage." As he finished speaking, he slowly unfurled a corner of the ancient scroll.
In that instant, the surrounding air suddenly distorted slightly, as if some kind of rule was being erased.
Shen Qingchen immediately closed it again, a bead of sweat appearing on his forehead. "Once this thing is unfolded..."
"It can erase any established rules in the world." "Even—including cause and effect." Qin Yu's gaze sharpened slightly.
Shen Qingchen continued, "In battles between the Mystic Void Realm cultivators, this thing is practically invincible."
"Because the battle is no longer a clash of magical power," but rather—"Shen Qingchen pointed to the ancient scroll—"who will unfurl the scroll first."
"Whoever can erase the other person's past, present, and future." He gave a wry smile. "To put it bluntly," he said, "Can erase the other person's entire history."
Qin Yu was silent for a moment, then asked, "Where did this thing come from?" Shen Qingchen shook his head. "Nobody knows." "Because this kind of thing shouldn't exist in the first place."
He said softly, "Legend has it that one can only briefly possess it in the moment of complete forgetting everything."
Qin Yu carefully examined the Blank Dao Scroll. He had already concluded that Shen Qingchen was right; if this thing fell into the hands of the Mystic Void Realm cultivator...
Unfolding the ancient scroll during battle can even erase the Fate Soul of a cultivator at the True Annihilation Realm · Initial Stage; this is no ordinary treasure.
It was a Dao artifact approaching the Ultimate level of the rules. Shen Qingchen looked at Qin Yu and suddenly smiled. "Brother Qin," he said, "This thing..."
"I don't feel comfortable carrying it alone." "Or—" He was about to continue when Qin Yu suddenly looked up.
His gaze drifted into the distance because he sensed an extremely strange aura rapidly approaching the Northern Region Shi Lin.
Deep within the Northern Region Shi Lin, the wind still howled softly between the stone pillars. Just as Shen Qingchen had rolled up the Blank Dao Scroll in his hand again, Qin Yu's expression suddenly changed.
His gaze suddenly turned to the distance. The next moment, Qin Yu said in a low, urgent voice, "Brother Shen." "Someone's coming." Shen Qingchen was taken aback, but Qin Yu continued:
"Put away the treasure first." Without any hesitation, Shen Qingchen immediately put the Blank Dao Scroll into his storage crystal core, and the ancient scroll disappeared the instant it did.
The eerie "blank space" around them dissipated, but Shen Qingchen's expression suddenly changed. He lowered his voice and said:
"Not good... Brother Qin." "There seem to be quite a few people coming." He frowned deeply. "When I first arrived in the north, I seemed to sense a—"
"Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal..." Qin Yu's eyes darkened instantly, and he immediately raised his hand to signal "Shh." Shen Qingchen stopped them both from releasing their divine senses at the same time.
They soon saw what was happening in the distance: dozens of miles away, a figure was rapidly approaching from the sky.
That person exuded an extremely fierce Mystic Void Realm. He Mystic Void Realm · Middle Stage, with a burly build, a ferocious face, and his face covered in scars.
Clad in dark armor, his aura was like that of a ferocious beast that had fought its way out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
Qin Yu's eyes narrowed slightly. This person was clearly not an ordinary cultivator, just as the person was getting closer and closer.
Without the slightest hesitation, Qin Yu instantly activated the essence of his Fate Soul. The next moment, Qin Yu took a step forward, and the void beneath his feet trembled slightly.
An extremely subtle spatial domain unfolded instantly. This was not ordinary spatial concealment, but rather Transcendent Five-Dimensional Space folding.
The surrounding space was like a piece of paper that had been gently folded, and the area where Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen were located instantly detached from its original dimension.
Inside a higher-level spatial interlayer, everything outside remained clearly visible, but their existence had been stripped away from the real world.
Shen Qingchen could even see the Shi Lin beneath his feet, yet he felt as if he were standing in another transparent world.
Qin Yu lowered his voice and said, "Don't move. Don't make a sound. Conceal your aura." Shen Qingchen nodded immediately, and the two of them remained completely still.
Just a few breaths later, the Mystic Void Realm · Middle Stage cultivator arrived at this place, boom--
His figure hovered above the Shi Lin, his powerful aura pressing down like a mountain, and his gaze swept around.
His divine sense spread out like a whirlwind, searching inch by inch, but Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen seemed to Does Not Exist a trace.
The cultivator frowned, realizing that their current location no longer belonged to this space.
He looked around with a gloomy expression, muttering to himself, "Strange..." He raised his head and sensed again.
He then cursed impatiently, "I clearly sensed the aura of a supreme treasure." "Although it was only for a moment..."
His eyes widened in confusion. "How could they disappear so quickly?" Qin Yu watched silently from the higher dimension.
He already understood that what this person sensed was the aura emanating from Shen Qingchen the moment he unfolded the Blank Dao Scroll.
Even if a treasure of that level is only unfurled for a moment, it is enough for the Mystic Void Realm expert to detect it.
Fortunately, Shen Qingchen managed to hide in time, and Qin Yu also used his spatial concealment; otherwise, they would have been exposed by now.
The fierce-looking cultivator lingered in the air for a while and scanned the area several times with his divine sense, but still found nothing.
He was clearly somewhat unwilling and muttered under his breath, "Damn it." Then he gave up and stopped searching.
With a flash, he transformed into a blur and disappeared from the Shi Lin. Soon, the sky returned to silence.
The gale blew again between the stone pillars, and in that unseen higher dimension, Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen still stood in the same place.
Only after that aura had completely dissipated did Qin Yu slowly withdraw his spatial domain, and the two returned to the real world.