Within the Azure Wood Divine Forest, the previously barely maintained order of the array collapsed completely in that instant. The grand arrays of the Hua Lineage, the Shangguan Lineage, and the Ju Lineage shattered almost simultaneously, and vast swathes of Fate Soul light patterns exploded in the air, like a torn star map scattered across the heavens and earth. The powerful figures, having lost the protection of the arrays, had no way to retreat.
Hua Jingmeng stepped forward first, his entire being surging with bloodlust. His hands swiftly formed a hand seal, and the blood-gold pages behind him suddenly unfurled into a towering wall. His voice was hoarse yet extremely fierce, "Suppress—!" With this furious roar, countless pages crashed down like a torrent, each page inscribed with a decree of slaughter, tearing through space as they fell.
The onrushing Dao Shadow Soldier were forced into the pages of the book. The instant the pages closed, everything inside was forcibly written with the word "annihilation," erasing them before they could even leave a trace of resistance. Hua Feiting followed closely behind, spreading her arms and countless crimson threads appearing around her. These threads instantly pierced the void, locking the large number of Dao Shadow Soldier in place.
The next moment, the threads suddenly tightened, as if the entire area was being twisted into a knot by an invisible hand, and hundreds of Dao Shadow Soldier simultaneously exploded into streams of golden and blue light; Hua Yanzhi, at the cost of burning his Fate Soul, directly summoned a blood-red long brush that pierced through heaven and earth.
He stepped into the void and swept his hand across, leaving a scarlet rift in the sky. Wherever the rift passed, the bodies of the Dao Shadow Soldier were neatly severed, their chance to reunite was cut off for a moment.
On the other side, Shangguan Jinyan forcefully suppressed the surging injuries within his body, spreading his hands out wide. The entire space unfolded in his palms like layers of glass. His voice was low and cold, "Stacked Realms—Suppress!" Dozens of layers of space were compressed into a giant cage, trapping thousands of Dao Shadow Soldier within. The next instant, the space suddenly collapsed inward, compressing all those trapped into a single point.
Even the energy form was crushed into its most primitive remnants; Shangguan Xingci's figure flashed, transforming into a stream of light piercing through multiple dimensions. Each appearance of his was accompanied by a deep sound of space rupture. Wherever he passed, the bodies of the Dao Shadow Soldier were directly torn apart from different dimensions, their afterimages completely annihilated before they could dissipate.
Shangguan Shuheng stood behind, slowly raising his hands. A spatial wheel covering thousands of miles condensed above his head. As the wheel rotated, it released layers of twisting ripples, constantly pushing away, tearing apart, and crushing the charging Dao Shadow Soldier. The entire area seemed to be swept into an invisible spatial storm.
From the direction of the Ju Lineage, Ju Anran's eyes were bloodshot. He slammed his hands into the air, and a vast sea of sound exploded forth. He shouted, "Soul Suppression - Echo!" The sound waves layered upon each other as if they were tangible. Wherever they passed, the bodies of the Dao Shadow Soldier were shaken to the point of disintegration and reassembly. Once the frequency was out of balance, they shattered completely in an instant.
Ju Junyao roared and took a step forward, the sonic patterns beneath his feet materializing into battle runes. He unleashed a punch, the fist trailing countless sonic boom afterimages, directly piercing through an entire column of Dao Shadow Soldier in front of him. The resulting shockwave cleared a radius of several hundred feet around them.
Ju Muyao clasped her hands together, and a spear formed from pure musical notes appeared in her palms. She hurled it, and the spear split into thousands of beams of light in the air, pouring down like a torrential rain. It pierced through large numbers of the approaching Dao Shadow Soldier, and the shattered light particles fell like a shower of stars.
However, these supernatural powers, which were enough to suppress a battlefield, only brought a brief gap in the face of the boundless sea of Dao Shadow Soldier. In the next instant, countless new figures filled in from behind, and the entire battle line was filled again. At this moment, in the sky above, the auras of the two Primordial Chaos Origin Beast Huang, pressed down simultaneously. The power of the Luan bird and the Phoenix converged in the depths of the void, and a pressure far exceeding any previous impact suddenly descended.
The Luan bird spread its wings, and multicolored fragments of light gathered wildly around it. Meanwhile, the Xuan Mystic Void Fire Intent of the Phoenix surged in from the other side like an invisible tide. The two inherently incompatible forces intertwined, tore, and merged in the high sky, ultimately condensing into an Ultimate divine power that pierced through heaven and earth— the Realm's End Mystic Nirvana.
By fusing the Luan bird's "boundary shattering" essence with the Phoenix's "Ultimate Mystic Void returning to nothingness," the "boundaries" and "Boundless Realm" of all existence are simultaneously pulled into a state of collapse, causing the target to disintegrate in a synchronous manner between "existence shattering" and "concept dissipation."
Within the locked area, all defenses, formations, magical artifacts, and Fate Soul structures will lose their stability at the same instant. First, the boundaries will be shattered by the power of the Luan bird, and then the remaining meaning will be erased by the power of the Phoenix. Even the fact that "there was once a defense" will be erased.
It is specifically designed to break through group defenses and formation systems; the more a system relies on structure and rules, the faster it collapses.
The world suddenly lost its color, followed by a ring of multicolored cracking light that exploded from the sky. The cracking light contained an imperceptible Mystic Void fire intent. The fire did not burn anything, but it caused "existence" itself to begin to lose its support. In the next instant, the entire space was as if it were being squeezed inward and torn apart outward by an invisible giant hand, and all levels of structure collapsed at the same time.
The moment this divine power struck, the Chi Lineage's formation could no longer be maintained. The Wheel of Cause and Effect cracked inch by inch from its center, and the cracks spread wildly along the formation's patterns. Su Qingyuan pressed her hands tightly against the center of the formation, and was blasted backward several feet by the shock, blood dripping continuously from between her fingers.
She gritted her teeth and held on for the last breath, but that last breath was ultimately crushed. The roulette wheel collapsed with a crash, and the area where thousands of Chi Lineage disciples were located was swallowed up head-on by that force. Many figures were Annihilation on the spot before they could even scream, turning into a blank space.
Shen Qingchen was positioned at the very core of the impact. He had just raised his hand to re-establish the formation when the entire space collapsed. The power of the "Realm's End Mystic Nirvana" locked onto him, and his Fate Soul showed signs of tearing apart in an instant. He was almost completely obliterated on the spot.
At that very moment, a figure suddenly darted in. Ignoring her own severe injuries, Su Qingyuan struck him on the shoulder with a palm, forcefully shaking him out of the center of the collapse. At the same time, she herself bore most of the impact. The light of her Fate Soul on her back dimmed instantly, her sleeves were torn, and she was thrown dozens of feet away, landing heavily in the broken array patterns.
"Run!!!" Chi Yueyin's roar tore through the battlefield at that moment, her voice almost laced with blood, "Escape if you can—don't look back!!!"
On the other side, Hua Yanzhi also roared to the sky, his voice filled with despair and madness, "Hua Lineage disciples—retreat! Retreat now!!!"
The moment the order was given, the remaining disciples of the Lineage completely lost their formation, and the entire battlefield fell into unprecedented chaos. Some turned and fled, some struggled and resisted in place, and some were even swept into the wave of Dao Shadow Soldier rushing from behind without being able to distinguish their direction. The brutal killing reached its peak at this moment.
Ju Anran, Ju Junyao, Ju Muyao stood side by side, their three supreme treasures lighting up simultaneously, firmly blocking the remaining disciples of the Ju Lineage.
Chi Chengyu, Chi Ruoyao, and Chi Yueyin also forcibly steadied themselves, their divine weapons igniting with their last brilliance, protecting the remaining Chi Lineage disciples behind them. The three of them were covered in blood, but none of them retreated a single step.
Before them, the two Primordial Chaos Origin Beast Huang, and countless Dao Shadow Soldier pressed forward once more; there was no way to retreat between heaven and earth.
Countless Dao Shadow Soldier, like the surging tide, coldly and precisely sliced through the entire battlefield. Three torrents of energy simultaneously pressed down on the remnants of the Ju Lineage and Chi Lineage' formations from different directions, sealing them off completely. The figure of the Five-Colored Realm Breaking Luan slowly descended from the void rift behind them.
Its indistinct outline is like a broken line across the concept of "escape route," completely erasing any possibility of "retreating."
On the other side, the phoenix's Mystic Void descended like an invisible abyss, completely swallowing the Hua Lineage and the Shangguan Lineage into its domain. The Lineage were now completely surrounded, as if a giant hand had closed over the entire Azure Wood Divine Forest, crushing their path to survival in its palm.
Hua Yanzhi stood at the edge of the collapsing array, his eyes bloodshot and almost unfocused. His voice ripped apart at that moment, "Everyone in the Hua Lineage —ignite your source! Tear a path through me! Even if only one of you survives, you must return!"
The moment his words fell, his Fate Soul ignited, and his entire body was like a crimson torch being lit. Forbidden runes exploded from his body, and the remaining disciples of the Hua Lineage responded almost simultaneously, with dozens of primordial flames soaring into the sky, forcing the surrounding Dao Shadow Soldier back for a moment.
On Shangguan Shuheng's side, a furious roar echoed, his voice cold and resolute, "Shangguan Clan—unleash all forbidden techniques! Whoever leaves alive can take everything back with them!" As he finished speaking, the three layers of Mystic Void Annihilation Wheel behind him spun wildly, the entire space emitting a near-collapse-like hum as they rotated. The surviving Shangguan disciples used their blood as a catalyst, forcefully pushing their forbidden divine abilities to their Ultimate.
Ju Anran's chest heaved violently, his voice heavy with an almost tearing quality, "The Ju Lineage —no matter what, someone must return alive!" His sonic sea went completely berserk, the rhythm no longer orderly, but transformed into a primal shock, shattering wave after wave of approaching Dao Shadow Soldier.
Chi Yueyin bit her tongue, blood staining her lips, her voice resolute, "Everyone in the Chi Lineage —listen to my command! Even if we all give our all today, someone must go back and report!" Her words were like a chain that pierced the depths of everyone 'Fate Soul, forcefully pulling back their wills that were on the verge of collapse.
The next instant, the Dao Shadow Soldier Army completely overwhelmed them.
It was an absolute advance without hesitation, pause, or emotion. The golden-blue figure drew thousands of trajectories in the air, Origin-Returning Blade lit up at the same time, like a silent wave of death crashing towards the remnants of the Lineage' formation.
Some roared and charged out of the formation, wielding forbidden divine powers in an attempt to block them; others gritted their teeth and poured their life essence into their weapons, directly colliding with the Dao Shadow Soldier. A deafening roar exploded in an instant, and light spread like a starburst. But everything that erupted was swallowed up by a new wave in the next instant. Those who fell left no corpses, only an empty space that had been erased.
At the very peak of this torrent of despair, the two Primordial Chaos Origin Beast Huang, simultaneously launched their Ultimate attack.
With a gentle inhale, the entire world seemed to be moved by its breath. Then, something that could not be called "wind" was exhaled from its mouth. It was a flow that shattered even the concept of wind— the Wind of Realm Breaking.
Wherever it passed, everything called "existence" began to shatter; array patterns resembled ink being wiped away, spatial structures resembled broken bones, and even the words "solid" and "stable" themselves lost their meaning in that wind.
The remaining defenses of the Hua Lineage and Ju Lineage were instantly stripped away layer by layer, and even the forbidden divine abilities that had just been activated collapsed halfway, turning into indefinable dust.
At the same time, the phoenix slowly flapped its ineffable wings, and a portion of the entire space seemed to be directly "cancelled"—the Cinnabar Grotto Without Grotto. It wasn't destruction, nor annihilation, but rather a blanket of "never having existed," an entire area simply becoming hollowed out under its power.
Even the causal records of "people, formations, and battles that once took place here" were erased. Dozens of disciples from the Hua Lineage and Shangguan Lineage vanished completely in an instant, as if they had never stepped into the Azure Wood Divine Forest.
But just as the pressure of the final battle was about to fall, a counterattack erupted simultaneously.
Hua Feiting suddenly spread her arms, and a wordless ancient book slowly opened in the void. The pages were Wuhen, yet as they turned, they dragged out a torrent of time reversal— the Primordial Origin Chapter. The shattered space began to revert to its original state, and the traces that had just been erased briefly flowed back. Those areas that had been "cancelled" seemed to be forcibly pulled back from Does Not Exist for a moment, giving the Hua Lineage and Shangguan Lineage a brief respite.
Shangguan Shuheng's divine power, the Mystic Void Annihilation Wheel, reached its Limit at this moment. All attacks that collided with the wheel's surface were swallowed up and dissolved, even turning back into invisible echoes that bombarded the Dao Shadow Soldier' main bodies. Batches of soldiers disintegrated in this backlash.
Ju Anran completely abandoned his defenses and directly entered the "Annihilation Return Path." His existence seemed to be detached from the battlefield, and all the killing intent locked onto him began to tear apart the caster himself. Several Dao Shadow Soldier who tried to surround and kill him collapsed their own structures the moment they attacked, turning into fragments.
Chi Yueyin closed her eyes and "disappeared" from the battlefield. The Thoughtless Tribulation Dao Perish unfolded, and all attacks that tried to lock onto her lost their logical target. Instead, the Dao Shadow Soldier casting the spell paused and self-destructed in a brief paradox.
These forces, combined under Limit, finally tore open a crack.
The Dao Shadow Soldier shattered in large numbers, and the auras of the two Primordial Chaos Origin Beast Huang, also showed extremely subtle disturbances. The multicolored fragments of light from the Luan Bird became unstable for a moment, and the Xuan Kong Domain of the Mystic Void also retreated for a very short time. At that moment, the entire battlefield seemed to be forcibly held still.
However, the price was also being paid at the same time. Hua Yanzhi knelt on the ground, his chest collapsed, and his Fate Soul was almost extinguished. Shangguan Shuheng's face was so pale that there was no color in it, and cracks had appeared in his three-layered Xuan Wheel. Ju Anran's aura was sometimes strong and sometimes weak, and she seemed to be swallowed up by the "Return Path" at any time. When Chi Yueyin reappeared, blood was spilling from the corner of her lips, and her eyes showed an undisguised weakness.
The battlefield fell silent for a moment, but the Dao Shadow Soldier continued to spread out endlessly, while the Lineage... only a dozen or so figures remained standing in place.
The wind moved slowly through the air, carrying a suffocating emptiness. In this battle, there were no victors, only those who had not yet fallen.