Meanwhile, on the other side of the Crystal Mountain Range.
Chi Ninghua stood on a vast mirror lake. The water beneath her feet was as calm as glass, reflecting countless overlapping and intersecting skies. But the moment the beast's roar spread out, the entire mirror lake simultaneously exploded with countless cracks.
Chi Ninghua suddenly looked up. The Silent Void Sword Seal between her brows glowed slightly, and a trace of Eternal Silence flowed automatically, insulating her from some of the shock.
"That roar..." Her expression changed for the first time.
A low-frequency rumble was constantly emanating from the surrounding space, as if some enormous creature was slowly awakening deep within the mountains.
Chi Ninghua slowly tightened her grip on the Divine Sword of Silent Void, her gaze darkening. "No... this aura is already approaching the level of Chaos Source Beast Dihuang. Even the Primordial Beast Dao Divine Venerable could handle it, but if it's truly Dihuang- level..."
She didn't continue speaking, because she knew very well what the Chaos Source Beast Dihuang meant.
That level of existence is far beyond that of ordinary demonic beasts; it has already touched the Chaos Origin and is an ancient life form that has existed since the Primordial.
Born from the rifts of chaos, they are inherently endowed with the power to tear apart laws, devour dimensions, and reconstruct space. Even the True Annihilation Realm · Supreme would find it difficult to survive when facing them, let alone contend with them.
Chi Ninghua exhaled softly, and then her figure suddenly disappeared.
A gray-white sword mark streaked across the sky above Mirror Lake, and the person was already rushing towards the source of the roar.
"Let's go see what it is..." Meanwhile.
Southeast region of the Crystal Mountain Range.
Hua Jingmeng was walking alone through a dark blue crystal forest. Countless crystals around him reflected his figure. In some of the reflections, he had already entered the True Annihilation Realm, while in others, he was covered in blood and dead in the abyss. In still others, he was sitting on the throne of the Hua Family Lineage Chief, looking down on all living beings.
But the moment that roar rang out, all the mirror images shook violently at the same time, and Hua Jingmeng suddenly stopped, her expression changing slightly.
A terrifying sense of oppression spread from the depths of the mountains, even causing a brief disruption to the Fate Soul within his chest.
He slowly raised his head, gazing at the area in the distance that had begun to glow with a dark golden light. His pupils contracted slightly. "That voice... it should be the Chaos Source Beast, Dihuang."
The surrounding crystal forest was constantly cracking, and in the distance, a huge black shadow could be seen moving slowly; even its outline was enough to cause the space to collapse.
Hua Jingmeng remained silent for a few moments, then her gaze gradually regained its composure. "With my current cultivation level, I absolutely cannot confront that kind of thing head-on."
He slowly tightened his grip on the Annihilation Stillness True Profound Pagoda at his waist, his mind quickly recalling Hua Jingyun's words before he left.
Although the Fate-Reversing Epiphyllum is born on the edge of True Annihilation, it rarely takes root near truly ferocious Chaos Source Beast. That level of existence would completely devour all "possibilities" around it, making it difficult for the Fate-Reversing Epiphyllum to grow stably.
Hua Jingmeng's eyes flickered for a moment, then she decisively turned around.
"The places where the Fate-Reversing Epiphyllum can truly be born should be those seemingly quiet areas that are close to the True Annihilation Rift Layer."
He muttered to himself, and the next moment, he transformed into a streak of light and sped off towards a more secluded direction in the mountains, quickly disappearing into layers of crystalline mist.
At this very moment, deep within the Crystal Mountain Range, that terrifying roar resounded once more, and boom—!!! A pitch-black abyss rift suddenly split open in the sky above the entire mountain range.
Deep within the Crystal Mountain Range, the concept of a "mountain range" has long since transcended its original purpose.
The sky was like an ever-turning, pitch-black book, so heavy it resembled billions of worlds stacked together. Ink-black characters floated in the air, unable to touch the ground. Each time those characters flickered, a part of the surrounding space seemed to lose its "presence."
The ground was covered with a thick, muddy black fog, within which countless fragmented remnants of civilizations could be faintly seen: collapsed ancient cities, extinguished star fields, and a massive, crumbling wheel of destiny. They were like stories forcibly rewritten, forever submerged in this region.
In the center of that endless black mist, a figure so enormous that it could not be fully contained by sight was slowly moving.
Boom... The moment its claws touched the ground, the mud and mist within hundreds of miles collapsed.
That was a true "Dragon of the End," the Fate Page End the Stillness Book Imperial Dragon.
Its dragon body transcends ordinary flesh and blood, formed by countless enormous pages stacked and solidified. Each page is like a black hole suspended in the void, with deep gray ripples of Annihilation constantly spreading from its edges. Wherever the ripples spread, a corner of the entire space is quietly erased.
A dragon's spine stretches across the heavens and earth, its pages fluttering and turning like dragon scales, countless mysterious characters drifting out from the depths of the pages. Engraved among them are the names of ancient God Clan, imprinted with long-extinct cosmic laws, and some characters contain terrifying Daoist charm; a cultivator's Fate Soul will instantly shatter and dissipate upon even a glance at them.
But what's most terrifying is its pupils; they aren't the eyes of any dragon at all. Deep within those pupils are two slowly shifting "Lifeless Realm."
The pupils reflected countless parallel worlds that were dying out. In some worlds, galaxies collapsed; in others, all living beings knelt and cried out; and in still others, even the concept of "life" was being erased.
Anyone whose Fate Soul it casts will experience an extremely cold illusion, as if their name has been gently erased from the world by someone.
Further away, a crystal mountain tens of thousands of feet high suddenly trembled slightly, and the Stillness Book Imperial Dragon slowly turned its head.
Boom—millions of pages on its neck turned simultaneously, and the entire world was suddenly filled with the deep sound of pages turning.
The voice sounded like the whispers of millions of dead souls, and in the next instant, the towering crystal mountain began to "fade" without warning.
There is no collapse or destruction in the world; existence itself simply fades away slowly, falling into a primitive state that has never been recorded by time or the laws of nature.
The crystalline light on the mountain's surface gradually disappeared, its outline became transparent, and finally vanished completely. Not even a single fragment remained in its place, and even the surrounding space forgot that a mountain had ever existed there.
Within the black mist, countless divine beasts and Primordial Chaos Origin Beast Huang prostrated themselves on the ground.
There were nine-headed celestial beasts engulfed in silver flames, giant turtles bearing ancient mountain and sea patterns on their backs, and ancient thunder phoenixes coiled in the void. But now, they all bowed their heads, their Fate Soul trembling violently, and even their breathing was suppressed to the minimum.
Because they all know that what exists before them is something that can truly "erase their past existence".
Suddenly, a Primordial Chaos Origin Beast Huang let out a low growl out of fear. As soon as the sound rang out, the Stillness Book Imperial Dragon slowly lowered its head.
The "Lifeless Realm" in the dragon's eyes turned slightly, and in the next instant, the entire body of the Primordial Chaos Origin Beast Huang suddenly froze.
It neither screamed nor struggled.
Starting from the tail, the body gradually turned into a grayish-white blank. That blankness rapidly spread throughout the entire body, and wherever it passed, flesh, Fate Soul, bones, and karma all lost their record.
In just a few breaths, the Source Beast Huang completely disappeared, and all the surrounding Divine Beast Supremes lowered their heads even further.
The entire black mist region was eerily silent, with only the Stillness Book Imperial Dragon slowly surveying its territory.
Behind it, countless pages flipped in the darkness, as if searching for the next narrative to be "ended."
A hundred miles away from the Crystal Mountain Range, the lake remained eerily quiet.
Night fell over the lake, and the starlight was reflected in the water. The entire lake looked like a huge, deep blue piece of glass spread between heaven and earth, with faint silver patterns floating on the bottom. From a distance, it was so beautiful that it seemed almost unreal.
But at that very moment, the surface of the lake suddenly began to ripple gently, initially just a faint ripple.
Then, boom! The center of the entire lake suddenly collapsed.
Hundreds of feet high waves surged into the sky, as if the lake water was forcibly pushed open from the depths by some terrifying entity. An Ultimate suppressed Fate Soul force began to spread from the bottom of the lake, causing dozens of surrounding mountain peaks to tremble violently at the same time, and countless ancient trees to collapse in an instant.
At the bottom of the lake, the enormous shadow that had been lurking for so long finally slowly emerged.
Its body was so enormous that its entirety could not be seen; the part that was visible above the lake already blocked out a large portion of the moonlight. Dark blue patterns flowed between its jet-black scales, like a galaxy slowly flowing in the deep sea. With each flash, fine cracks appeared in the surrounding space.
What's most unsettling are its eyes; two dark golden vertical pupils slowly open in the depths of the lake.
The pupils seemed to contain two ancient seas compressed within them, with faint images of storms, thunder, and collapsing stars surging within. Just one glance would give ordinary cultivators a suffocating feeling of being watched by an ancient behemoth.
It slowly raised its head, and the lake water poured down along its massive outline, like a torrential rain covering the sky and the earth.
Then, a deep and ancient voice slowly resounded. "Let me see..." "What exciting thing is happening in this Crystal Mountain Range?"
The moment the sound faded, the entire lake fell silent, and the next instant, its enormous body began to crumble away bit by bit.
It wasn't destroyed, but transformed into countless dazzling starlight.
The starlight peeled away from the scales and slowly floated into the sky, like a galaxy tide in the deep sea. Within each ray of starlight, the shadows of ancient beasts and the shattered sea were faintly reflected.
Countless swirling ripples began to appear on the lake's surface, and starlight continuously compressed and condensed in the center of the lake.
Gradually, a tall, slender figure slowly emerged.
The man wore a dark blue robe, the edges of which were shrouded in a faint white mist that seemed to flow slowly around him as if it were alive. His shoulder armor was decorated with dark gold dragon patterns, with a ghostly blue glow flowing between the patterns, as if sealing some ancient sea beast.
His long hair was a deep blue, like the night sea, with faint, eerie flames burning at the ends. The flames had no temperature, yet they subtly distorted the surrounding space. A faint blue crystal pattern on his forehead shimmered slowly, like a mark left by some ancient race.
His face was so handsome it was almost otherworldly, yet his eyes still retained the coldness befitting a deep-sea overlord.
Wherever his gaze swept, the lake water parted automatically to both sides; even more terrifying was the aura of Fate Soul surrounding him.
The True Annihilation Realm · Supreme, and the pressure it exuded was not the aura of an ordinary cultivator after breaking through; rather, it resembled an ancient being that had long stood at the pinnacle of the True Annihilation Realm, forcibly suppressing its own true form.
The man slowly lowered his head and looked at his palm. A deep-sea whirlpool faintly appeared in his palm.
He then chuckled softly. "Being human... that's convenient, isn't it?" With that, he took a step forward.
Boom! The lake surface instantly exploded, creating a thousand-foot wave, while his figure transformed into a streak of dark blue light and sped towards the Crystal Mountain Range.