The gray-white river of fate finally reached the feet of that Ju Lineage elder, where it was cold and lifeless, devoid of any Spiritual Qi.
But the moment the river water touched the tips of his shoes, he was suddenly jolted, as if he had been dragged into another world by some irresistible force.
Boom! The world suddenly turned upside down. The elder felt a darkness before his eyes, and in the next instant, he had fallen into the depths of the River of Fate.
All around was an endless gray-white torrent; the sky disappeared, and the earth disappeared as well.
Only one long river, stretching across the heavens and earth, flows ever onward. Floating on its surface are countless shattered worlds: extinguished stars, broken ancient cities, burning corpses of cultivators, and dimensional rifts that have been completely wiped out.
Even more terrifying is that his "future" is constantly emerging from the river. The first scene that appears is a collapsed ancient city.
The sky was burning, and countless black cracks covered the heavens and earth like a spider web. He himself stood in the middle of the ruins, covered in blood, with a gray-white spear piercing his chest.
Before he could even see the enemy clearly, the image shattered, and a second future immediately appeared.
He saw himself trapped in an absolutely dark space, his Fate Soul collapsing little by little until only a pair of empty eyes remained floating in nothingness.
In the third future, he knelt before the Ju Lineage's main hall. The entire Ju Lineage had been completely annihilated, with mountains of corpses and seas of blood covering the heavens and the earth. His body, however, was pierced and nailed to the sky by countless crystals.
The fourth future was even more terrifying. He saw himself standing in front of a giant mirror, and the "self" in the mirror slowly walked out, and then...
He snapped his neck with his own hands. Boom!! All the images exploded at the same time, the river of fate began to churn wildly, and the elder's face changed completely.
Because he discovered that these futures... were not illusions; the sense of death in each scene was terrifyingly real, and he could even clearly feel the excruciating pain of his Fate Soul being torn apart.
Even more bizarrely, those "futures" were gradually encroaching on reality, and a bloody hole pierced through his chest actually began to appear.
Crystalline spikes began to grow on the surface of his skin, and even his Fate Soul fluctuations showed signs of collapse. "Damn it!!!"
The elder finally roared. Boom! His True Annihilation Realm · Supreme cultivation erupted instantly.
A torrent of grayish-white Fate Soul surged from his body, forcefully shaking the surrounding river water hundreds of feet away. He suddenly formed a hand seal, and an ancient life wheel suddenly appeared behind him.
"Fate Wheel Annihilation-Suppressing Seal!" Boom!!! The Destiny Wheel spun, and ancient runes burst forth from the wheel, forcibly sealing off the surrounding space-time.
At the same time, he suddenly flicked his sleeve, and a bronze ancient bell flew out.
The ancient bell is covered with patterns of mountains and rivers, and the inside of the bell wall faintly shows the flow of billions of starlight, clearly making it an extremely powerful defensive treasure.
"The Mountain and River Soul-Stabilizing Bell!" Dong--!!! The bell tolled throughout the heavens and earth, and a circle of golden ripples suddenly spread out.
The surrounding visions of the future paused briefly, and the elder's eyes sharpened as he instantly soared into the air.
He tried to forcefully tear apart the illusion, but at that very moment, the River of Fate suddenly went completely berserk, rumbling—!!!
The entire river seemed to come alive, countless future scenes began to emerge simultaneously, and tens of thousands of "him" appeared at the same time.
Some are dead, some have gone completely insane, some are suppressed at the bottom of the abyss, and some have even transformed into some indescribable monsters.
They all looked up at the same time, their eyes fixed on him in reality. In the next instant, those "future selves" rushed into the river of fate.
Boom!!! The entire space shattered completely, and the elder's face turned deathly pale instantly, because he realized that his supernatural powers were failing.
The wheel of fate began to crack, and dense cracks appeared on the surface of the ancient bronze bell. Those future scenes were forcibly "covering" his reality.
His left arm began to turn transparent, more and more marks of death appeared on his chest, and even his Fate Soul began to collapse toward those "future states of death".
"Break for me!!!" He suddenly spat out a mouthful of his life essence blood, burning his Fate Soul to forcefully activate the ancient bell.
Dong--!!! This time, the sound of the bell shook the entire river of destiny, and countless future scenarios were briefly shattered.
Before he could catch his breath, a pair of enormous eyes slowly opened from the depths of the surrounding river. Those eyes were icy cold and devoid of any emotion.
It's like looking down on a doomed fate, while at the same time, outside the illusion.
The little elf was sitting on a floating crystal, swinging its two tiny feet.
The mirror in its arms reflected the elder's desperate struggle. The little elf tilted its head.
Then it chuckled softly. "Then..." "Let's make it a little more difficult." It stretched out its little hand and gently tapped the mirror.
In the next instant, deep within the river of fate, those enormous eyes... opened completely.
In the depths of the river of fate, the moment those enormous eyes fully opened, the entire illusion seemed to be covered anew by some higher-level force.
Boom! The grayish-white river water suddenly began to flow backward.
The future scenes that were originally floating on the river collapsed simultaneously, and countless fragments of fate spun, collided, and reassembled in mid-air, creating a chilling "logical inconsistency" throughout the space.
The Ju Lineage elder suddenly realized that his concept of supernatural powers... was being refuted.
The Destiny Wheel he had just condensed existed between heaven and earth one moment, but the next moment it suddenly became a state of "never having been created". The runes on the surface of the Destiny Wheel began to extinguish one by one. The extinguishing was not a collapse, but as if it was forgotten by the world itself.
Immediately afterwards, the "rules" of the entire illusion began to distort; time ceased to move forward, space became unstable, and life and death overlapped simultaneously.
His body would sometimes appear as a frail, old man, and sometimes as a young man again. But the next instant, he would suddenly become translucent, as if he had been forcibly pulled from reality.
The most terrifying thing is the erasure of concepts. From the depths of the river of fate, countless gray characters slowly emerge, like some kind of "end record" being written automatically.
The concept of a cultivator began to fade, and the identity of an elder began to become blurred.
Even the causal connection to the Ju Lineage was being erased little by little, and the elder finally revealed a truly terrified expression for the first time.
Because he discovered that he was being "defined as blank," and this blankness was not directed at his physical body, but rather at erasing "why he exists."
His name began to be forgotten, his experiences began to fade, and even his Fate Soul began to exhibit a strange sense of discontinuity.
But at that very moment, the elder suddenly bit his tongue, and with a bang, a mouthful of his life-blood sprayed into the void. He then formed an extremely ancient hand seal with both hands.
The surrounding space instantly echoed with the sound of countless chains snapping. "The Ju Lineage's Forbidden Divine Power—" "Ancestral Return to the Ruins: Reversal of the River of Life!"
Rumble--!!! The entire River of Destiny suddenly trembled, and an enormous gray-white phantom suddenly appeared behind him.
The phantom was not a concrete human form, but rather a "collection of ancestral souls" formed by the superposition of countless ancient Fate Soul, each of Fate Soul exuded an extremely ancient aura of True Annihilation.
By sacrificing his own Fate Soul, he activated the "reverse will" left in the river of fate by the ancestral souls of the Ju Lineage, forcibly severing his connection with the logic of his current destiny and separating himself from the predetermined trajectory of death.
For a short period, the caster is no longer defined by fate, cause and effect, logic, or time. All locking, prediction, future overwriting, and concept erasure will lose their target. The caster can rely on this state "outside the River of Fate."
It forcibly severs the foundation of all illusions. It is specifically designed to counter supernatural powers of fate, cause and effect, and logic overriding, and possesses extremely strong countermeasures against forces such as "future overriding," "time locking," and "Existence Denial."
However, each time this technique is used, the caster will permanently lose a portion of their Fate Soul essence and forget an extremely important memory. If the ancestral soul fails to carry on the technique, the Fate Soul will be directly swallowed by the River of Fate, completely becoming a "person without fate."
As the forbidden divine power was unleashed, the elder instantly burst into flames, gray-white flames shooting up from the depths of his Fate Soul, and blood began to flow continuously from his eyes.
At the same time, the entire illusion also truly collapsed for the first time. Boom!!! A huge crack was forcibly torn open in the River of Destiny.
The future scenes that were sweeping over us began to crumble in pieces, the gray characters that erased concepts were also extinguishing one after another, and even the space formed by the surrounding logical negation began to show huge cracks.
The elder suddenly looked up. "Smash it for me!!!" Boom!!! He took a step forward.
The entire illusion finally began to collapse, and the crystal forest from the outside world was faintly visible behind the cracks.
He was just one step away from forcibly escaping, but at that very moment, outside the illusion, the little sprite tilted its head slightly.
"Oh dear..." "So close." It casually pulled a small object from its pocket; it was a tiny crystal die.
The dice were only the size of a fingertip, yet their surface was covered with densely packed ancient life patterns. The little elf tossed them gently.
With a snap, the dice landed on the mirror, and in the next instant, the entire illusion froze, the elder's angry roar still lingering on his face.
But the space around him had transformed into a transparent crystal cage, and the die was slowly floating in front of his brow.
Immediately afterwards, a very thin silver line shone gently from inside the die, without exploding.
Without a roar or even any energy fluctuation, the Ju Lineage elder's body suddenly split neatly in two, starting from between his eyebrows.
Along with his Fate Soul, along with karma, and along with the forbidden divine power he had just used, everything was severed together. In the next instant, his two halves of his body simultaneously transformed into countless crystalline lights.
Completely dissipated, the river of fate returned to calm, as if the fierce struggle had never happened.
The little elf hugged the small mirror again, looked down at the gray-white figure that had appeared in the mirror, and laughed happily.
"Oh dear, why are they all so fragile..."