Hua Yuening's gaze turned icy cold in that instant. She clearly saw that Xuanling Divine Huang's attention had temporarily shifted, and a brief gap appeared in the causal structure of the entire battlefield—the only "opportunity" created by the chaos and slaughter.
Without hesitation, her gaze shifted slightly, locking onto Chi Ninghua's Fate Soul essence. The next moment, she slightly raised her fingertips, and the laws within her body abruptly reversed. Space ceased to expand, time ceased to flow, and everything collapsed inward. She whispered, "True Annihilation Divine Power, Severing Fate - Return to Destruction of Illusory Order."
At this moment, a very thin gray-white ring appeared behind her. There was no light in the ring, only a constantly collapsing timeline flowing slowly. The timeline carried all of Chi Ninghua's past and future. Hua Yuening lightly tapped her fingertip, and the timeline suddenly broke. There was no explosion or vibration at the break, only a blank space that "never existed" rapidly spreading to both ends.
This supernatural power does not directly attack the physical body, nor does it touch the surface defense. It directly strikes at the definition of "life sequence," separating the target's life process from the continuity of time and cause and effect, causing it to lose the logical support for "continuing to exist" at a certain moment.
The moment the effect appeared, Chi Ninghua froze, and the world in her eyes seemed to shift in an instant.
One moment she was on the battlefield, the next she seemed to be in a blank space Beginningless Endless. All her movements lost their connection, and a violent tearing came from the depths of her Fate Soul. It was not pain, but an imbalance of "the order of existence being disrupted". Her breath became disordered, and her whole body seemed to be forcibly pulled out of the timeline and then roughly stuffed back into its original position.
However, Chi Ninghua reacted extremely quickly.
Almost at the instant her life force shattered, her inner essence erupted, a pure, annihilating white light bursting from her chest. She clasped her hands together, concentrated her divine sense, and uttered a low shout—"Chaotic Divine Power—Return to Origin: Anchor of Myriad Orders!"
Behind her, a phantom wheel of law unfolded instantly, its surface covered with countless causal markings. Each marking reversed its own destiny structure. She forcibly used her own Fate Soul as an anchor to "nail" the broken time and causality back to their original positions. The trajectory of her dissipating existence was forcibly pulled back by a violent force.
Two forces collided head-on within her body.
The fractured order of destiny and the legal principle of forced re-anchoring are simultaneously oscillating.
Her body trembled violently, and she spat out a mouthful of blood. She was thrown back dozens of feet, her aura plummeted, and fine cracks appeared on her Fate Soul. Even though she managed to stabilize herself, she had already suffered a severe injury.
She stared intently at Hua Yuening, her eyes filled with an almost tangible chill, her voice low and sharp—
"Hua Yuening, you're truly despicable." Hua Yuening's lips curled into a cold smile, her eyes remaining completely unmoved, her tone as cold as ice.
"Despicable? In this situation, eliminating you first is the cleanest method. In victory and defeat, there are never any superfluous considerations."
Before she could finish speaking, the entire palace fell silent.
The last cultivator's presence completely dissipated within the Feather Burial. Xuanling Divine Huang's wings slowly folded, and its enormous eyes were devoid of any further fluctuations. All interference had been eliminated, and its gaze returned to the arena, to the two remaining auras— Hua Yuening and Chi Ninghua.
It slowly turned its body, and the space distorted slightly as it moved, as if bearing it itself was a burden. The pressure of the Source Beast's origin spread silently once again, and even the remaining laws began to slow down.
Step by step, it slowly approached the two of them.
A cold glint flashed in Hua Yuening's eyes. She slightly turned her gaze, sweeping it once more over Chi Ninghua. A sharp edge lurked in the smile on her lips as she spoke softly—
"Now, let's see how long you can hold out."
Her inner energy was fully unleashed, all laws were no longer suppressed, and the space around her began to collapse slightly, clearly indicating that she had entered a state of full-force combat.
Chi Ninghua did not respond further.
Her gaze had already sunk into the deepest depths. Without hesitation, she swallowed several Supreme Transformation Source Crystal into her body. The crystals exploded inside her body, turning into pure energy that rushed into the depths of her Fate Soul. Her originally broken aura was quickly stabilized through forced repair. While stabilizing herself, she slowly raised her head, her eyes fixed on Xuanling Divine Huang in front of her.
She knew very well that there was no turning back in the battle that was about to begin.
Xuanling Divine Huang stopped in mid-air, its body leaning slightly forward. The light deep in its eyes condensed again, and that cold judgment from its origin locked onto Chi Ninghua. It clearly captured that trace of a crack in her Fate Soul that was not yet fully stabilized. It was the most direct flaw, and also the easiest point to be ended.
The next instant—its two eyes lit up simultaneously.
Its left eye shone with golden light like the sun, so intense that it illuminated the very structure of space, revealing its distinct layers. Its right eye shone with silver light like the moon, so cold and still that even the flow of energy became sluggish and stagnant. Gold and silver converged before it, rapidly solidifying into an enormous "Wheel of Judgment."
Xuan Ling - True and False Judgment, Divine Power Descends.
In the instant of rotation, the entire internal structure of the palace was forcibly exposed, and everything hidden was completely revealed. The remaining array nodes, broken law patterns, hidden injuries in the cultivator's body, and cracks in the Fate Soul... all were exposed under the golden light, while the silver light was like an invisible erosion, spreading from the bottom of the space.
Chi Ninghua had anticipated this attack.
The power of the Supreme Transformation Source Crystal within her body had not yet been fully digested, and her Fate Soul was still trembling. However, she did not retreat. Her hands suddenly formed a seal, and the wheel on her chest abruptly enlarged, its nine layers of patterns lighting up simultaneously. An extremely condensed chaotic light domain unfolded around her, and she uttered in a low voice—"Return to Origin: True Order Determination!"
At this moment, she no longer tried to fight against "truth and falsehood," but Existence Anchoring in an independent "sequence," using her Fate Soul as the axis to fix her self-definition within a single state, making it difficult for external judgments to directly rewrite.
Golden light arrived first.
All the remaining layers of concealment and defense within her body were completely stripped away, and even the newly repaired cracks in her Fate Soul were reopened. Her aura fluctuated violently, but her physical body was forcibly stabilized within that layer of "true order" and was not completely torn apart.
Immediately afterwards, a silver light descended.
Her body rapidly blurred at the edges, her arms, shoulders, and even half of her torso began to become transparent, her energy reactions weakened, and the flow of magical power was disrupted. She gritted her teeth and persevered, her Fate Soul frantically operating to pull her collapsing existence back together.
However, at the very moment she was desperately resisting the power of Xuanling Divine Huang judgment.
Another deadly attack suddenly erupted from the side, and Hua Yuening also made her move.
Without any warning, as if she had been waiting for this moment, she compressed the power within her body to its Ultimate in an extremely short time, then released it suddenly. She brought two fingers together and drew them in the direction of Chi Ninghua, her voice low and cold—
"True Annihilation Divine Power - [Silent Flower · Final Burial Boundary Cut]." Space was directly divided at this moment.
A very thin, grayish-purple crack extended from her fingertip. It was not an ordinary attack, but a "boundary-ending" cut that directly detached the target area from the overall structure. Anything that was cut would no longer participate in any subsequent changes, and even its right to "continue to exist" would be severed.
The attack had no trajectory and landed directly on Chi Ninghua.
She is currently under the dual pressure of "True and False Judgment," with her Fate Soul, physical body, and legal principles all stretched to their Limit, making it impossible for her to cope with the third killing intent at the same time.
The next instant—grayish-purple cracks pierced through her defenses, and her chest shuddered violently.
It wasn't a penetrating wound, but rather a section of her "existing structure" was directly severed. Her aura collapsed abruptly, and she was forcibly thrown backward, spitting out blood again. Her Fate Soul was shaken to the point of near shattering, making it extremely difficult for her to even maintain her own form.
Her eyes instantly flashed with coldness and killing intent. "Hua Yuening--!!" Her voice was now completely undisguised.
Hua Yuening simply stood there coldly, her breathing still steady. She did not continue to pursue, but quietly watched the result of that attack, her eyes filled with an undisguised coldness and calculation.
High in the sky, the Wheel of Judgment of Xuanling Divine Huang continued to rotate slowly.
It didn't stop; its eyes locked on her again. At this moment, Chi Ninghua was truly in dire straits.