The Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon coiled in mid-air, its massive body returning to silence amidst the aftershocks of the recently shattered Daoist power. Its pupils slowly narrowed, then it fixed its gaze on Qin Yu, its voice resounding from the depths of space, low and oppressive, "I never imagined that the human race could produce a descendant like you, surviving two of my divine abilities in succession."
Qin Yu in the center of the island, the Silent Origin Stainless Sword hanging at his side. His aura was restrained yet solid as a mountain. His lips moved slightly, and his voice was cold, "Bring it on. Consider it a test of my own Limit."
Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon slowly nodded, its massive body leaning slightly forward, its aura surging. "Good, young man, if you can hold on, I will not only release you, but also bestow upon you an opportunity." Qin Yu's eyes flashed, then returned to calm. "Then let's begin."
The next instant, the heavens and earth suddenly sank, and the aura of the Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon began to change drastically. Its scales cracked open one by one, and gray-white primal light surged from within. Its skeletal structure rearranged in mid-air, and its originally coiled dragon body began to lengthen and rise. A row of bone spikes like broken mountains burst forth from its back, and its wings spread, with gray-white flames burning on the wing membranes.
Its tail trailed a long, annihilating trajectory. Its entire form transformed from a dragon's body into a more ferocious and ancient source form. Its head was raised, its horns twisted into rings, within which flowed an indiscernible light of existence and non-existence. A deep, abyss-like cavity split open in its chest, devoid of any organs.
There was only a gray-white core that kept shrinking and expanding. With each pulsation of the core, a layer of "presence" was drawn away from the surrounding space. The entire island began to sink slightly, the air became heavy, and the cultivators on the distant floating island all changed color. Several people took several steps back, and even breathing became difficult.
The Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon raised its head, its silent roar reverberating directly into the very core of space. Its body began to burn, greyish-white flames seeping from the gaps in its scales. These flames, devoid of heat and light, instantly engulfed its entire body, spreading outwards and coalescing into a massive ring-shaped structure before it.
Countless fragmented images flowed across the ring wall, some depicting stars, others Emptiness, some existence, and others desolation. These images were simultaneously ignited on the ring wall, devouring and dissolving each other. The ring of fire slowly rotated, and at this moment, space lost its support. The edge of the island began to collapse, cracks extended, and it fell into the unfathomable abyss below without echoing.
"Existence and Nonexistence Burn Together." Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon uttered these words in a low voice, and the ring of fire suddenly expanded.
The ring of fire advanced in all directions, its speed slow, yet it directly transcended spatial limitations. Everything in its path began to fade: air dissipated, rock layers crumbled, light was swallowed, shadows were stripped away, and the entire area lost its distinction between light and shadow. The flow of time halted at this moment, then shattered completely. A giant boulder on the island, having just collapsed, vanished in mid-air, incinerated into an indefinable void.
Without leaving even a speck of dust, the ground beneath Qin Yu's feet began to peel away layer by layer. Existence and nothingness were ignited simultaneously, and even the concept of "space" gradually dissipated as the fire ring advanced, forming an indescribable absolute void.
Qin Yu stood still, his gaze calm. He didn't retreat; instead, he slowly raised his head, looking at the approaching ring of fire. His Fate Soul circulated rapidly at that moment, suppressing all fluctuations in his sea of consciousness to their Limit. He spoke in a low voice.
"Burn everything, both existence and non-existence..." He slightly raised the Silent Origin Stainless Sword in his hand. There was no light on the blade, but a very subtle fluctuation was gathering. His voice rang out again, calm and clear, "Then I won't let you find the fuel."
The fiery ring had closed to within ten feet of him, everything around him vanished completely, and the center of the island began to collapse. Qin Yu stood in this area that was returning to emptiness, his aura beginning to subside. In the next instant, the five domains within his body trembled simultaneously.
The five-fold structure of Void Source Unborn, Annihilation, cause and effect, and concept was instantly superimposed and compressed, and an extremely small Existence Zero Point took shape in front of him. The moment that point appeared, the edge of the fire ring paused slightly, and the gray-white flame began to break the instant it touched the zero point.
On the distant floating island, a cultivator's throat tightened, "That fire... it even burns the void... and he still won't retreat..." Another person stared intently at Qin Yu, his voice low, "He's resisting... no... he's rewriting the fuel..." More people held their breath, their gazes fixed on the island, which had become the center of everyone's attention.
The moment the fiery ring closed in, the entire floating island ceased to be intact. Layers of its edges peeled away, the rock strata turned to nothingness, and even the space it held was dissipating. Qin Yu in this area being consumed by fire, his breath rising and falling noticeably for the first time. He didn't retreat; instead, he held the Silent Origin Stainless Sword horizontally before him. The bloodstains on his palm hadn't yet dried, and his breathing became heavy.
The five domains deep within his Fate Soul trembled simultaneously. The Existence Zero Point compressed to its Limit began to destabilize at the zero point. Grayish-white flames eroded along the edge of the zero point, and subtle cracking sounds echoed continuously in the void. His sleeves dissipated inch by inch, and grayish-white powdery marks appeared on the edges of his skin. His entire body was locked into the category of "fuel" by the ring of fire, and his gaze suddenly tightened.
His voice was deep yet suppressed, "Since you've burned away everything..." He slammed his left hand into the void, his sea of consciousness instantly churning. The structure of the Void Source · Dream Stillness Five Domains unfolded completely, then reversed and compressed in an instant. Zero Point could no longer maintain its stability, collapsing wildly inward, taking in all the "definitions of ignitable laws" around it. The moment the gray-white flames touched it, they showed no further tendency to spread. Instead, they were forcibly dragged into the depths of Zero Point, and the trajectory of the fire ring's advance was repeatedly broken.
Everything before him froze completely. His body trembled violently; the ground beneath his feet had long since vanished into nothingness, yet he stood alone on a "Domain of the Unborn," forcibly propped up by his own Fate Soul. His breath suddenly became chaotic, and a mouthful of blood, which he could no longer suppress, spurted out. Yet, he still took a step forward defiantly, his sword slashing forward furiously, shouting fiercely, "Back off!"
This sword strike was without light or sound, yet a gap opened directly at the edge of the ring of fire ahead. All the "fire of existence and non-existence" within the gap collapsed simultaneously, forcibly swallowed by Zero. The entire ring of fire lost its balance in that instant, its spread abruptly halting, and then began to collapse inwards, the grayish-white flames continuously swirling back.
The space regained its outline, and an unstable foothold reappeared in the center of the island. Qin Yu's body trembled, and he knelt down on one knee. The tip of his sword pierced the void to stabilize his body. His chest heaved violently, his aura clearly decreased, and his Fate Soul fluctuated erratically, but he did not fall. The ring of fire in front of him completely collapsed, and the remaining flames were swallowed up by Zero. The entire area returned to a state that was incomplete but could still bear weight.
On a distant floating island, a cultivator gasped, "He... he broke through..." Another's eyes widened, his voice barely audible, "That was a Dao technique that even burned away the void... He withstood it with his own existence..."
Most people had stopped talking and their eyes were all fixed on the island where Qin Yu was. They even deliberately lowered their breathing. That area had now become a forbidden zone within a forbidden zone.
The Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon surveyed everything, its massive head slowly nodding, the greyish-white light in its pupils slightly diminishing. "Very good," its voice was steady and deep. "Next, you must hold on."
As the words fell, its tail fin slowly rose, and extremely fine cracks began to appear in the entire space. These cracks did not spread but remained suspended in mid-air, as if fixed by some force. Dark golden light flowed on its tail fin, and each ray of light was wrapped with the afterimage of broken cause and effect. It suddenly swung its tail, and the void was directly torn open, instantly forming a transparent fault line that ran across the entire floating island.
The spatial structures on both sides of the fault line simultaneously came to a standstill, the air stagnated, and the sound disappeared. Qin Yu's breathing became momentarily disorienting at this moment. Before his action was completed, the result had already lost its connection. Where the fault line passed, all causal chains broke simultaneously.
"Karma Burial."
The instant the fault line unfolded, the entire area fell into an eerie silence. Qin Yu's raised hand froze in mid-air; his movement remained, but there was no point in continuing. The power circulating within him hadn't failed, but it had lost its point of connection for "results after release." The sword aura condensed on the Silent Origin Stainless Sword stagnated, unable to move forward or dissipate. All fluctuations in space were severed.
All the logic of "because... therefore..." was completely stripped away. His consciousness was clear, but a brief blankness occurred in the next moment. His gaze narrowed slightly, and he sensed that every movement he made no longer had a "follow-up". The foothold under his feet began to loosen, but there was no result of falling. Even the act of "falling" lost its meaning.
Chaos erupted among the cultivators on the distant floating island. One swung his sword, but the Sword Qi vanished in mid-air; another cast a spell, but the runes that had just lit up went out. Their movements slowed, and their eyes gradually lost focus. "Why... why did I attack...?"
Someone murmured softly, then froze on the spot. They were still breathing, but had lost all possibility of continuing to move. Their bodies went limp, without any injuries, but they had come to a complete stop.
Qin Yu amidst the fault line, his gaze slowly tightening. He felt his Fate Soul being forcibly dragged into a "meaningless state," all his methods losing their support. His voice rang out softly, "Sever Karma..." His fingers trembled slightly, and deep within his sea of consciousness, he began to forcibly construct new supporting logic.
A causal fault line stretched across the entire floating island. Qin Yu stood within it, and everything around him fell into an extremely bizarre standstill. The Silent Origin Stainless Sword was still in his hand, its sword intent undiminished, yet it had lost the continuity of "hitting the mark after being unleashed." His Fate Soul was still circulating within him, but it had lost the result of "bringing change after circulating." Even his breathing began to slow down, each breath seeming to stop halfway through. He was dragged into a logical vacuum that was absurd to the Ultimate.
He did not struggle immediately, nor did he force an outburst. He slowly closed his eyes and sank his consciousness little by little into the deepest part of his sea of consciousness. There was no wind from the outside world, no fire from the battlefield, no causal fault line that cut across heaven and earth like the Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon. Only the Fate Soul Nucleus was pulsating weakly.
Qin Yu forcefully suppressed all outward thoughts, retracting every action that was about to take shape. Since the "because... therefore..." logic had been severed, he would no longer search for "cause" and "effect." In his sea of consciousness, the Five Domains of the Void Source slowly emerged, with the Realm of the Unborn being the first to tremble. A very fine ripple spread outward, stripping the old logic of "actions must lead to results" from his own Fate Soul structure. Immediately afterwards, the Concept Disintegration Domain began to operate from the inside out.
The connection of "I acted, therefore the supernatural power occurred" was severed, and then the Domain of Annihilation crushed the old order of "the result proves the cause." Blood seeped from Qin Yu's forehead. With each layer of logic reconstructed by his Fate Soul, the backlash he suffered grew heavier. His right hand trembled slightly, and the Silent Origin Stainless Sword in his hand almost slipped from his grasp, but he held it tightly.
He uttered a low voice, "Since you Sever Karma, then I will let action precede meaning." As soon as he finished speaking, his Fate Soul Nucleus suddenly contracted, and the Source-Cause Construct Heart reverberated within his body. A new logical framework rose directly from the depths of his sea of consciousness, no longer relying on "cause and effect" or "action must have meaning." It defined "action itself" as the source of existence.
The next instant, he raised his hand. The movement was initially slow, as if it were being held back by an invisible force. When his arm was halfway up, the causal fault lines around him trembled violently. The severed causal threads in the surrounding space suddenly tightened, trying to force his movement back into the absurd vacuum. Qin Yu's arm bones emitted a dull thud.
His sleeves shattered instantly, his skin cracked and bled, and the blood droplets hovered in mid-air, unable to fall. His eyes suddenly darkened, and he pointed his left hand to his brow, uttering a low growl, "Three Forms of Fate Construction — Existence Erasure."
It wasn't about erasing the enemy, but about erasing the old judgment locked onto by "Karma Burial" in his own actions. In an instant, his arm was forcefully pulled out of the causal break, the stagnation was torn open, and his energy suddenly flowed freely. He opened his eyes.
His eyes flashed with lightning speed. "Try again!" In the next instant, the Silent Origin Stainless Sword slashed out horizontally. This sword strike did not seek to hit the target, nor did it seek a result. It only sought to make the act of "slashing" valid under the new logic. The moment the sword's edge swept across, a clear crack appeared in the causal discontinuity in front of him.
The crack spread wildly in both directions, the entire fault structure began to shake violently, the absurdity that had enveloped the entire island suddenly loosened, the stagnant air began to flow again, and the loose rocks hanging from the island's edge fell heavily.
Qin Yu's chest heaved violently, and he spat a mouthful of blood directly onto the sword. He took two steps back, and large cracks appeared on the rock beneath his feet, but he finally managed to walk out of that logical vacuum.
The Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon remained silent. Its massive head lowered slightly, and its deep red pupils gazed quietly at Qin Yu, revealing for the first time genuine recognition and appreciation in its eyes. Then, its body began to change.
The dragon's coiled body suddenly tensed, and the primordial core inside its chest cavity trembled violently. Grayish-white primordial energy and dark red lightning and fire simultaneously burst forth from the gaps in its scales. The entire body slowly rose into the air, its bones twisting and turning outwards one by one. A huge vertical slit opened on its back, from which rows of lava-red bone wings spread out. The wing bones were as thick as mountains, and the wing membranes were completely covered by burning lightning and fire, every inch exuding an aura of destruction.
Its head elongated further, its neck spurs grew excessively long, and the horn on its head shattered and reformed, transforming into a sharp and broken crown of annihilation. The scales on its chest completely peeled away, revealing a blazing, molten skeleton inside, within which crackling, reddish-white electricity surged continuously. Its limbs became even thicker, and its claws extended inch by inch.
Its claws dripped with molten light carrying an aura of annihilation; its tail joints swelled, the tip splitting into a multi-layered blade structure, each swing leaving long, destructive cracks in the air. The sky behind it was instantly ignited.
Two pillars of lightning and fire pierced the heavens and earth and crashed down from the sky, pouring into its wings. The entire island sank violently, and the surrounding space was compressed and cracked layer by layer. Ash and sparks filled the air. The final form of the Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon was fully revealed. The cultivation of the Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage was pushed to the Limit at this moment. The pressure brought by the true form of the Source Beast far exceeded the scope of the same realm.
The moment this scene unfolded, several nearby floating islands trembled simultaneously. The cultivators who had been watching from their islands paled in shock. One of them abruptly retreated, his voice strained as he involuntarily shouted, "Retreat! Get back quickly!"
Another person stared intently at the area where Qin Yu was, their breathing erratic. "That Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon is still changing... This island is no longer safe!" Several nearby floating islands began to slowly shift outwards simultaneously, as if some deeper instinct was driving them away from the island where Qin Yu was. At first, the cultivators thought it was the trial space itself adjusting.
Until someone suddenly noticed the ground beneath their feet slightly undulating, a cultivator looked down and his face instantly turned deathly pale. Beneath the island's surface, a layer of rock had cracked open, revealing dark red veins and a massive, pulsating structure. This was no ordinary geology, but the inner structure of a colossal creature. Immediately afterward, cries of alarm came from another island as the edges of the ground were lifted up.
Beneath the surface, layers upon layers of scales and bone armor were revealed. Further away, a floating island suddenly emitted a deep, resonant groan, and the entire island began to rotate slightly, as if alive. Only then did everyone truly realize—the so-called floating island beneath their feet was never an inanimate object in the trial space, but rather a slumbering being from another world.
Or perhaps it's the outer shell manifested by a higher-level Primordial Beast Dao Divine Venerable. At this moment, these "islands" instinctively distanced themselves due to the release of the final form of the Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon, just as a herd of beasts were clearing the battlefield for a more powerful being.
Qin Yu stood in the center of the island, looking up at the Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon, which had fully unfolded its final form. The floating islands that were originally densely packed around the area had begun to thin out, leaving a huge airspace over the entire battlefield.