A blinding white light shone across the Salt Desert, and the silent wails of countless souls reverberated through the sea of consciousness. Qin Yu stood outside the Realm Breaking Heavenly Sect, his robes fluttering, his gaze icy Ultimate. He didn't glance once more at the already crumbling sect order. With a clench of his right hand, the Silent Origin Stainless Sword appeared from the depths of nothingness. The sword was devoid of light, yet it absorbed all light. The surrounding space collapsed layer by layer around the sword's edge, as if heaven and earth were voluntarily making way for a "path that cannot exist."
The next instant, he took a step forward, hovering directly above the sect's protective formation. His longsword pressed slightly downwards; before the sword intent was even released, the entire formation trembled. The flowing array patterns began to malfunction, as if they had been "defined as not existing" at their very core. Then, he slashed down with his sword. The No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword descended silently, without Sword Qi or fluctuation. Wherever the sword's edge swept, the "origin of existence" of the formation was severed. The protective array patterns, like a river cut off at its source, instantly dried up, collapsing in patches with a deafening roar that echoed throughout the heavens and earth.
Only then did all the disciples in the plaza below truly realize what had happened. Some looked up and saw the figure standing in the void, their faces instantly turning deathly pale, terror spreading in an instant. "Run! Run!!" "An alien being has descended!!!" "Help!!!!" Screams rose and fell, the formation completely collapsed, countless disciples scattered like a runaway torrent, spiritual energy chaotic, order utterly destroyed. Amidst this chaos, a furious roar suddenly tore through the heavens and earth, "Insolence!! Who dares to be so insolent in my Realm Breaking Heavenly Sect!!!"
As the words fell, a terrifying divine power erupted from the depths of the sect, folding space layer by layer. A beam of destructive light, condensed from rules, traversed the distance in an instant, aiming directly at Qin Yu's brow. Even before the light arrived, the surrounding space began to collapse. But Qin Yu's gaze remained unmoved. He lightly turned his sword, unleashing the Causeless Disillusionment Sword. Before the attack even touched him, the causal structure was directly overturned. The divine power twisted and broke in mid-air, as if its existence had been forcibly erased, collapsing with a deafening roar. The void cracked open, and a figure slowly emerged.
Luo Xinghe stood in mid-air, his aura as heavy as a mountain, yet he couldn't suppress the deep shock in his eyes. He stared at Qin Yu, his voice low and suppressed, "Fellow Daoist Qin, we know of your grudge with Hua Jingmeng, but your direct killing of my sect's elder is going too far. My Realm Breaking Heavenly Sect has never had such a deadly enmity with you."
Qin Yu slowly turned his head, his gaze like an abyss pressing down, devoid of any emotion. He simply spoke calmly, "I am the Daoist Master Zongke of the Boundless Realm Divine Sect Unfettered Guest Heaven's Venerable." As his words fell, silence descended upon the world. Luo Xinghe's pupils suddenly contracted, instantly understanding everything. He didn't utter another word, directly transmitting his divine sense throughout the entire sect, "Quickly—notify the Hua Lineage!! Otherwise, the sect will be annihilated today!!!"
However, it was all too late. Qin Yu had no intention of giving them any more chance to breathe. At this moment, his Fate Soul unfolded completely without reservation. Deep within his sea of consciousness, the absolute structure that had been elevated from the Final Beauty Page ignited with a roar, unleashing endless primal power. "Boundless Return to the Abyss - Annihilation Other Shore." At this moment, heaven and earth lost the right to speak. It wasn't deathly silence, nor was it stillness; rather, the concept of "sound" was forcibly stripped from the world, and even vibrations lost their meaning.
An Absolute Ring, unobservable, imperceptible, and indescribable, slowly emerged and expanded around Qin Yu. It wasn't a diffusion of power, nor the envelopment of a domain, but rather a rewriting of the boundaries of one's right to exist. The instant the ring covered the entire plaza, all the frantically fleeing disciples stopped abruptly. They weren't imprisoned or suppressed; rather, their very "right to exist" was being systematically and layer by layer revoked.
The first disciple's feet were still suspended in mid-air when his ankles vanished. There was no shattering, no splattering of blood and flesh, no dissipation of energy; it was simply—** Does Not Exist **. His body was erased from reality piece by piece, and even the process of "disappearing" itself could not be recorded by any being.
His companion instinctively turned his head to look, only to find his eyes blank with confusion. He muttered to himself, "Just now... who... was here?" The second man desperately tried to use a teleportation technique to escape, but the incantation had barely begun to flow in his mind when the act of "casting the spell" was immediately deemed invalid. His entire body instantly collapsed inward into a single point, and in the next instant, even the concept of "point" was erased, leaving nothing but a trace.
The third man's knees buckled, and he knelt to beg for mercy. His fear hadn't even fully formed before his intention to "beg" was completely nullified. He left not a trace of emotion before vanishing into nothingness. Tens of thousands of disciples were wiped out in an instant. No blood, no corpses, no roar, no aftershocks. Even the fact that "they once existed here" was being reversed and rewritten.
Between heaven and earth, only an empty plaza remained. The wind swept through, but could no longer touch any living creature. Qin Yu stood isolated high in the sky, like a judge who held reincarnation in his hands, announcing the arrival of the end. Only at this moment did true fear finally surface in Luo Xinghe's eyes.
But that fear was fleeting, quickly suppressed by overwhelming rage and killing intent. He took a sudden step forward, unleashing the full power of his Mystic Void Realm · Supreme, his roar shattering the heavens, "Qin Yu!! You're courting death!!!" As he opened his arms wide, countless fragments of broken time appeared wildly in the void, each replaying actions that should have happened but were never completed.
Fragments intertwined and entangled, coalescing into an invisible net that enveloped heaven and earth, locking onto Qin Yu. Luo Xinghe ruthlessly pressed down with a palm, his voice like thunder from the heavens, resounding throughout the universe. "Fate-Defying Severance of Sequence!! Stop before it's finished!!!" Heaven and earth roared, rules twisted, and spacetime became chaotic. The true battle to the death erupted completely at this moment.
In the void, the invisible net woven from "unfinished causes" was still tightening, and Luo Xinghe's divine power was attempting to lock Qin Yu into a broken sequence from which the "result could never be reached." However, in the next instant, Qin Yu's aura suddenly plummeted.
As if stepping into this moment from outside of time, he gently turned the Silent Origin Stainless Sword in his hand. Before the sword blade moved, his Fate Soul responded first. The wisp of residual power left by the Heavenly Craft Mystic Arts Ancestral God within his body suddenly merged with his True Annihilation Realm. An invisible shock spread outward from his body and directly crashed into the Disordered Net that covered the heavens and the earth.
There was no sound of collision, no energy explosion. The moment it made contact, the giant net collapsed from its very core. The "incomplete logic" that constituted it was directly negated. All the broken time fragments extinguished simultaneously in the air, like images whose basis for existence had been erased, vanishing in an instant.
"Crack--!" A crisp cracking sound, sharp enough to pierce the Fate Soul, exploded deep within Luo Xinghe's sea of consciousness.
His supernatural powers were shattered, utterly shattered.
Luo Xinghe staggered back a step, his eyes instantly bloodshot, his aura violently trembling. He stared intently at Qin Yu, his voice filled with barely concealed madness and horror, "Impossible... How could this be... You're only at the Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage... while I've already reached the middle stage... My divine abilities... how could they be shattered by you!!!"
Qin Yu did not answer, nor did he even glance at him again. He simply raised his right hand slowly, his two fingers together in an extremely light motion, as if picking up a wisp of Does Not Exist dust.
In that instant, heaven and earth parted, and time stopped.
The flow of time was not slowed down; rather, the concept of "time" itself was forcibly removed. The entire space instantly lost its order of sequence, beginning and end, cause and effect; past and future became indistinguishable.
All movement was completely frozen in place; particles ceased to flow, breath ceased to fluctuate, and even the tremors of the void were frozen in an instant. All causal chains were suspended in midway, neither occurring nor ending, existing in a blank state never acknowledged by the laws of heaven and earth.
Space began to distort and change, but instead of collapsing, it was forcibly smoothed out by an overwhelming will.
The four directions of heaven and earth suddenly shed all their inherent structure and form. Mountains and rivers collapsed, palaces melted away, starlight went out, and array patterns dissipated. All tangible things vanished, turning into a pure blank draft, like a blank universe that had not yet been given any form and had not been written on.
At Qin Yu's fingertips, ten Chaos Azure Lotus silently exploded one after another. With each lotus's birth and death, the underlying logic of a world was forcibly stripped away, rules collapsed, order dissipated, laws became ineffective, and all things in the world retreated to the most primitive "undefined and unnamed" origin.
The Wordless Heavenly Book in his sea of consciousness opened on its own.
On the pages of the book, all traces that originally belonged to Luo Xinghe —his name, destiny, cause and effect, cultivation, and existence record—began to fade away on their own, as if erased by an invisible hand.
The Dao Sound vanished, the Law fell silent, and the entire universe, at this moment, returned to "the time before it was first conceived."
Qin Yu spoke softly, "The Unnamed Initial Silence." Luo Xinghe's pupils shattered completely at that moment. He saw it; he saw everything about him being revoked.
It's not about death. It's not about annihilation. It's that it never happened.
His memories faded away inch by inch, the threads of his past broke apart layer by layer, and the traces of his existence were gradually pulled away from the long river of history. His life, which was clear one second, became a blur in the next; the roads he had walked, the connections he had formed, and the paths he had cultivated were all silently erased.
There was no pain, no trace, no echo. It was as if he had never existed in this world for even a moment.
Fear, true fear. For the first time, it completely consumed his Fate Soul. "Run—!!!"
Without any hesitation, he turned around abruptly, burning his own essence and tearing through space, wanting to escape from all of this. He knew that the only way to survive was to escape.
He needed to escape to find the Hua Lineage; only beings of that level could possibly withstand this finger strike. However, he had only taken one step when the space had not yet truly opened.
Qin Yu raised his other hand and uttered the word "Forbidden."
The residual rules of the Three Forms of Fate Construction - Existence Erasure were reversed by him, directly locking onto Luo Xinghe's "permission to act".
Space closed, time froze, and Luo Xinghe was forcibly imprisoned in place. His body remained in the posture of tearing through the void, but the act of "escaping" had been completely denied.
He couldn't move, not even the thought of "wanting to move" was valid. Qin Yu slowly took a step forward.
As the two fingers fell, at that very moment, the distant void suddenly exploded. "Stop--!!!!"
A voice, carrying an extremely terrifying pressure, descended from the depths of multidimensional space. Before the voice had even fully arrived, the rules at the edge of the entire Skeleton Star Sea began to tremble.
That was a powerful figure from the Hua Lineage, a true powerhouse. However, Qin Yu did not stop; he didn't even shift his gaze.
Two fingers had already touched down. "Buzz--" Luo Xinghe's existence completely collapsed in that instant, without exploding or disintegrating.
His body, soul, cause and effect, destiny, memories, future, past, and all possibilities were simultaneously erased from the depths of the universe.
He left no trace, no blank space, and even the concept of "Luo Xinghe" was no longer recognized by the universe.
There was no longer this person in the world. Qin Yu withdrew his hand, the void returned to normal, time flowed again, space was redefined, and nothing had happened.
However, the sect leader of the Realm Breaking Heavenly Sect was no longer there, and in the distance, the terrifying aura that had descended was now completely enraged.