The creature's form suddenly paused within the core of the True Annihilation Domain. The next moment, its body ceased to maintain any stable form and began to "disintegrate itself" in an incomprehensible way, as if it were actively abandoning the structure of "complete existence."
Transforming oneself into countless overlapping fragments of reality and illusion, each carrying a different level of "form of existence," from visible entities to invisible concepts, nested and unfolding layer by layer, and at the deepest point where these countless fragments converge, a pure gray void slowly emerges. It is not the core, but rather like "the only remnant left after all cores have been negated."
It raised its hand, but instead of energy fluctuations, something far more terrifying happened—"Reality Deconstruction."
At that moment, the entire battlefield seemed to be torn apart by some invisible logic. A ripple that moved from "existence" to "non-existence" spread out silently. The starting point was colorful, like the splendor of the birth of all things, but the ending point quickly fell into gray and white. All colors lost their meaning in that gray and white, as if the act of "existence" itself was negated.
Where the ripples passed, space began to collapse in layers.
A floating piece of rock first cracked open, the cracks as fine as a spider web, then the entire rock disintegrated in the air into countless particles, the particles then scattered into tiny specks of light, the specks of light became transparent instantly, and finally disappeared completely, leaving not even a ripple;
The moment the light of the end surrounding the Void Finality Saint Emperor was struck, the light first lost its boundaries, then its internal structure began to collapse, the trajectory of the light became chaotic, and finally it faded rapidly like an erased picture;
The Dao-Extinguishing Ripple of the Primordial Dao-Extinguishing True Emperor exploded in the air, but it was not shattered. Instead, it collapsed from the very definition of "wave" itself. Circles of waves turned into fragments, and from the fragment level, they continued to be dismantled until they completely lost the meaning of "wave".
The most terrifying thing was perception. The three emperors simultaneously felt a chill penetrate deep into their Fate Soul. They clearly "saw" every layer of their bodies being analyzed: the texture of their skin was dissected, and the structure of their flesh was marked.
The support of the skeleton was overturned, and even the most fundamental understanding of "why I exist" began to crack. It was not an attack, but proof—proof that their existence was not solid.
The Void Finality Saint Emperor roared, "It's proving we shouldn't exist!"
The Primordial Dao-Extinguishing True Emperor roared, "If this continues, we'll collapse on our own!"
The Eternal Annihilation Heavenly Emperor's brow split open, and the Abyss of Annihilation trembled violently, but he did not rashly make a move.
At that moment, Qin Yu spoke, his voice not loud, but like a nail, it pierced directly into the depths of the three people's minds.
"Do not resist its deconstruction." The three emperors were simultaneously shocked.
Qin Yu took a step forward, and his figure did not immediately disintegrate in the deconstruction ripples. Instead, it seemed to "fit" the edge of the ripples. His gaze was fixed on the gradual trajectory that changed from solid to illusory, as if he were observing some extremely precise structure.
"It's not destruction, it's deduction." "It's dismantling upwards along the 'chain of existence.'" His voice suddenly turned somber.
"Then don't let it complete this chain." The next moment—
Qin Yu clasped his hands together abruptly. "Void Source - Dream Stillness!" There was no light, no fluctuation.
An Ultimate "undefined region" suddenly unfolded between the four of them. In that region, the boundary between existence and Does Not Exist was blurred. The moment the deconstruction ripple rushed into it, it paused briefly because it could not find a "definable target".
Qin Yu's eyes flashed, and he instantly shouted in a low voice, "Now—segment truncation!"
The Void Finality Saint Emperor suddenly took a step forward. The light of the end around him stopped spreading and suddenly converged into an extremely thin beam of light, directly cutting across the middle of the deconstruction ripples. The beam of light did not erase it, but stripped away the "definition of existence", causing the middle of the ripples to lose the basis for further deduction.
The Primordial Dao-Extinguishing True Emperor roared and slammed his hands down, shouting "Dao-Extinguishing Judgment!"
The Dao-Extinguishing Ripple no longer opposes the whole, but precisely bombards the starting point of the wave, completely crushing the structure of the "material level" and causing the starting point of the deconstruction to lose its support.
The Eternal Annihilation Heavenly Emperor stood with his eyes closed, and the Abyss of Annihilation between his brows suddenly opened—
"The Severance of Time and Causality." A single word, yet it resonates silently.
The ongoing chain of deconstruction was instantly severed at the level of "temporal existence," and all deconstruction outcomes that had not yet occurred were preemptively sealed before they happened.
At the very instant the three emperors made their move, Qin Yu's figure vanished.
The next moment, he appeared at the end of that ripple. "Pre-Origin Shaping - Self-Destruction of All Laws."
His fingertip gently touched the surface, and a completely new "definition" suddenly appeared in the area that had been approaching the "meaningless" endpoint.
Neither defense nor counterattack, but an invisible will suddenly appeared. "Deconstruction is not allowed here." Silent and without a trace, yet like a brand new law, it was directly imprinted between heaven and earth.
The entire "Reality Deconstruction" ripple became unprecedentedly chaotic at this moment.
The starting point was destroyed, the middle section was stripped away, time was interrupted, the ending point was altered, and the entire chain collapsed instantly. Boom!
There was no explosion, but a space suddenly collapsed into a "void," and the creature took a half step back for the first time.
Its constantly reassembling body suddenly developed an incongruous "fault" in a certain area, within which a distorted shadow of light could be vaguely seen vibrating—
That was its Fate Soul Nucleus. A sudden glint of light flashed in the eyes of the Void Finality Saint Emperor: "Got it!!!"
The Primordial Dao-Extinguishing True Emperor laughed wildly, "Hahahaha--Finally, it's torn open! Master is amazing!!"
The Eternal Annihilation Heavenly Emperor slowly opened his eyes, his voice low and deep. "Its core... has developed a crack. It's still the master."
Qin Yu stood at the forefront, without turning around. He simply spoke softly, "Don't let your guard down." The next moment, the aura surrounding that creature surged violently.
The creature's movements suddenly slowed dramatically. It ceased its advance into the shattered True Annihilation Domain, instead gently raising its palm. Within its palm, a faint yet suffocatingly powerful black light slowly condensed.
The black light did not spread or vibrate, but it caused a slight misalignment in the "narrative trajectory" of everything around it—as if someone was secretly altering everything that had ever happened in this world.
The next moment—a pen slowly emerged from the black light.
It was not metal, not stone, not any perceptible material. Its pen barrel seemed to be compressed from countless broken timelines, with faint afterimages of the past and future floating on its surface; the pen tip, however, was extremely fine, so fine that it was almost invisible, like a crack extending from "existence" to "nothingness".
Its appearance caused a moment of stillness, as if the entire universe instinctively "avoided being written about." "The Final Stroke of Return to the Ruins."
The creature did not speak, yet it was as if the name had simultaneously surfaced in the hearts of all beings. It slowly raised its pen, without unleashing any power.
But something even more terrifying was happening. Countless faint "outlines" suddenly appeared around the space where Qin Yu and his companions were. These lines were not real; they were manifestations of some kind of "narrative traces." They intertwined to form a huge network covering the heavens and the earth. Each line corresponded to a fact that had "occurred."
With a light stroke of the pen, without making a sound, it was as if a gash had been carved into history.
In that instant, a portion of the ravaged battlefield in the distance suddenly vanished. Space did not collapse or explode; it was as if that area "Does Not Exist in the first place." Even the remnants of the battle were erased, as if it had never been involved in the war. Before that stroke had truly been made, the world had already begun to be "rewritten."
The Pen of Return to the Ruins trembled slightly in the creature's hand. Before its tip even touched Qin Yu's outline, the surrounding space had already begun to shift. A corner of the ruins torn apart by the battle between the four suddenly disappeared—not collapsed, not shattered, but simply "Does Not Exist in the first place."
Even the traces of ruin were erased, as if the battle had never happened; the time dimension further away also began to collapse quietly, a future branch that had not yet unfolded vanished in silence, all possibilities that had not yet occurred were denied in advance, and even the idea that "it will happen" lost its basis for existence.
The brushstroke moved slowly forward, the movement incredibly deliberate, yet inescapable. It was as if the entire narrative of the universe was advancing with that single stroke. The instant Qin Yu's figure was locked onto by the brush's intent, his past simultaneously surfaced across countless timelines—cultivation, battles, breakthroughs, struggles, choices—
All experiences manifest at the same moment as layers of overlapping light and shadow outlines, but these outlines are not protection, but "evidence to be erased." As soon as that stroke is truly made, all these traces will be erased together, like a page of a book that has been completely wiped clean.
The voice of the Eternal Annihilation Heavenly Emperor suddenly tore through space at this moment. "Not good, Master, that is a magic weapon that surpasses the Chaos Origin!" Before he finished speaking, he had already moved sideways, and the Abyss of Annihilation split open from between his brows. Time and causality were suppressed to their Limit at the same time, attempting to lock the point of advancement of that stroke;
The Dao Foundation within the Primordial Dao-Extinguishing True Emperor's body trembled violently, and the power of annihilation surged around him like a raging tide. He no longer cared about any consumption, and directly used his own Dao origin to transform into layers of broken rule barriers, spreading them forward, attempting to cut off the path of that stroke "before it is written";
Without hesitation, the Void Finality Saint Emperor stood at the forefront, compressing the light of the end to its Ultimate within his body. All the light condensed into an almost invisible thin film of existence, directly covering Qin Yu and stripping away the "definition of existence" itself.
However, Qin Yu did not retreat; he stood still and did not even raise his hand.
He stared at the pen, his eyes devoid of any emotion, as if he were not seeing an Ultimate magic weapon capable of erasing everything, but rather a "faulty logic" about to be corrected.
"It's alright, you all step back, let me handle this." The voice wasn't loud, but it sounded like an undeniable command.
The three emperors were simultaneously startled, their movements momentarily halting in mid-air.
Qin Yu slowly took a step forward. This step was not based on space, because space was no longer reliable at this moment. He used his own Fate Soul as an anchor to forcibly fix his "existence" at this moment. The instant that step landed, the narrative that was being rewritten around him showed a very slight deviation, as if the "writing process" of this world was interrupted for a moment.
"It's just a mere magical artifact." He looked up, staring directly at the creature. "Today I'll show you what it means to have a useless object."
The moment he finished speaking, a faint light suddenly appeared deep within his sea of consciousness. The light was neither like energy nor supernatural power; it had no form. Yet, the instant it appeared, it caused all the "objects" in the entire world to tremble simultaneously.
At that moment, the trajectory of the Final Return to the Ruins paused for a fraction of a second—just that one second.
Qin Yu gently pointed his finger forward, without unleashing any power or supernatural abilities.
Only one unseen yet truly existing "law" was triggered at this moment.
The Star Wancai Key, devoid of light and fluctuation, witnessed something more profound than destruction: the "origin" of the Return to the Ruins: The Final Pen was traced back.
Not along space, not along time, but along the moment it was "defined as a magic weapon," a moment that had not yet manifested, yet had already been locked in.
In that instant, the rules governing all objects in the universe were reversed. All processes related to "forging," "condensing," and "imparting rules" were forcibly reverted to the initial "conceptual stage," which had not yet been formed and was already deemed "invalid."
The next instant—the brushstroke of the final stroke of Return to the Ruins —preceded the collapse; it did not break, but rather was "never defined as a brushstroke."
Then, cracks began to appear on the pen barrel. These cracks were not physical breakage, but rather a "disintegration of the logic of existence." Each crack corresponded to a rule that had been stripped away.
The cause-and-effect rewriting, narrative erasure, and time rewinding conveyed in the pen all lose their foundation at this moment. The power that was originally enough to rewrite everything becomes the starting point of its own collapse.
The cracks spread rapidly, and the entire pen began to disintegrate into countless tiny "stardust" fragments. These stardust fragments were not matter, but rather fragments of rules broken down to their Ultimate. Each grain shimmered with a brief brilliance, as if recounting the power it once possessed.
But before they could spread, they were swallowed up by the deeper Law of Returning to Zero, the light suddenly went out, and even the concept of "fragments" was erased.
The entire process was devoid of explosions or roars, only an Ultimate stillness, as if the universe itself were gently erasing a creation that should not exist from its source.
That stroke was never made, and that pen is no longer here; it was never truly "existed" at all.
The creature's body trembled violently at that moment. Its originally stable True Annihilation structure instantly became disordered, and the hidden Fate Soul Nucleus within its body suddenly exposed a flaw, causing a burst of light to explode from its depths.
As if its most fundamental fulcrum of existence had been forcibly torn apart, it took a step back for the first time, and the entire domain fluctuated violently. The overwhelming pressure of True Annihilation that suppressed everything was momentarily out of balance at this moment.
Qin Yu stood still, slowly withdrawing his finger. He did not pursue the creature, but simply gazed at it indifferently.
"What you rely on is not your own strength, but the magical weapon in your hand," he said lightly. "Unfortunately, you've chosen the wrong opponent."
Before the words were even finished, the creature's aura surged violently, and a power far more terrifying and pure than before erupted. This was no longer a rule driven by an artifact, but its own unique primal annihilation power. The entire space trembled violently, as if the real battle to the death had only just begun.