Deep inside the corridor, the temperature plummeted.
Despite being a void realm composed of soul essence, it now exudes a chilling aura that seems capable of freezing Fate Soul.
That wasn't Qian Ruishan's Ice Soul, nor Yao Wanqing's Mirror Soul, nor even the aftershocks of the Silent Origin Fragment itself.
That is the fundamental structure of the entire Third Realm, and it is collapsing.
Ming Tong led the way, his expression growing increasingly solemn. "We are approaching... the 'Construction Hub' of the Third Realm."
"Further ahead, it's not just the Soul Trial."
"It is— the Soul Well itself, that has set up a 'Retrospective Realm Lock'."
"If you're not careful, even your own past, whether your Fate Soul ever existed, will be forcibly rewritten."
As soon as she finished speaking, the soul staircase beneath everyone's feet suddenly trembled!
The entire corridor began to twist and turn.
As if an invisible hand had shattered the order of time, the Soul Stone Staircase transformed into spiraling reflections, layer upon layer, constantly flowing backward.
"This is... Soul Cause Overlapping Images!"
Ming Ye exclaimed in shock, "I saw it... my own soul! There are three figures existing at the same time--!!"
Qian Ruishan suddenly stopped.
What she saw was the scene of her soul collapsing and her whole body frozen when she first awakened to the Ming You; then, in another turn, it was her lonely figure in the mortal world as a child, frozen in snow.
But the next scene—is a destiny never before traversed:
She did not meet Qin Yu, but was abandoned by the Nether Firmament Underworld Sect and imprisoned at the Soul Well, her soul never to awaken.
"This is... the Soul Well attempting to create a replacement thread for a 'soul that never existed'!"
"Soul Cause Retroactive Rewriting —To tear apart and rearrange the 'true path' of our existence!"
"If anyone's will is unstable, or their Fate Soul is unstable, they will be completely sucked into the 'False Soul Path,' unable to escape the eternal cycle of illusion!"
This is a trial that cannot be conducted through brute force.
It takes "Why do you exist?" as the fundamental question and thoroughly examines the Fate Soul of every individual.
Yao Wanqing's steps trembled slightly. For a moment, she saw herself repeatedly shattering in the mirror, her soul besieged by hundreds of "selves," each questioning her:
"Do you only have value because of Zhou Yu's existence?"
"If you have no lover, no Lineage, would you still cultivate?"
She almost spoke, but suddenly a burst of icy lightning exploded from within her body—it was her Mystic Mirror Ice Soul reminding her:
"I am with you; your existence needs no explanation to the world."
She gritted her teeth and rushed out of the illusionary realm, her eyes resolute as a blade!
Ming Kong also experienced the phantom soul tearing, seeing himself as an outcast of the Ming Clan, forever suppressed by his elder brother Ming Ye, until his soul shattered—but he shattered it with a single sword, angrily severing the illusory fruit.
Qian Ruishan had already closed her eyes in the cold light.
Her Icy Cold Pierces the Realm is actively freezing those "never-before-happened" futures, pressing them into the Fate Soul like pieces of a lens, reaffirming her unique path of existence.
Until the very end, everyone looked towards the very front.
Qin Yu remained motionless.
His steps never faltered from beginning to end, and no trace of his soul appeared.
He never experienced "the Soul Cause Overlapping Images"...
Because from beginning to end, this world never pre-programmed a "Fate Soul script" for him.
He is not included in the backtracking mechanism.
The entire corridor seemed to crack, collapse, and evade his steps automatically, as if none of it dared to hinder his advance.
Ming Tong's eyes twitched slightly, and she whispered, "Soul Well... I'm afraid of him."
Final Soul Domain - Central Hub Approaching
The collapse of the Third Realm Soul Well plunged everyone into the deepest part of the Soul's essence.
This is no longer a staircase, but a sunken "Silent Soul Altar".
The gray soulstones, like skeletons, formed a platform floating above the bottomless abyss.
In the center, a ball of golden and black soul fire burned silently.
One of the objects slowly rotated; it was none other than the Silent Origin Main Core Fragment!
It was larger than the two pieces that had appeared before, about half a palm's width, and three deep seals, "Chronicle, Soul Cause, Severed Boundary," flowed deep within the soul patterns.
The entire space seemed to be suppressed by it—soul skills became ineffective, soul consciousness became dulled, and the spirit of Fate Soul seemed to turn into dust in front of it.
Ming Tong's expression turned solemn. "This is... the true Silent Origin Core."
"The two pieces you saw before were merely the last glimmers of light that vanished when it shattered."
As soon as she finished speaking, a sudden tremor ran through the void!
A soul-like figure emerged from the abyss, like a tomb guardian, holding a long staff made of soul bones, and staring at the crowd.
It has no name, no consciousness, only one mission:
"Guard the original Silent Origin, and do not allow any non-still souls to approach."
Its soul-bond body seemed to be a reforged remains of an ancient soul era, completely faceless, with only one eye—
The image reflected in his pupils was the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword.
It raised its soul staff and slowly pointed it at Qin Yu.
It recognized the sword.
It sensed the moment when "this power" destroyed the Silent Origin.
It trembled and roared, trying to awaken the defense mechanisms of the Silent Origin.
Because it knows--
The Sword of Origin Destroyer is the Ultimate enemy that truly severs the "causal relationship of existence"!
Above the Silent Soul Altar, the air seemed to have died.
Silent, invisible, without wind.
The "Remnant Guardian," whose entire body was forged from soul bones, slowly opened its single eye.
It has no soul, yet it is as heavy as the Heavenly Abyss.
It has no mouth or nose, yet it seems to roar out the despair of an entire era.
It is a residual image of consciousness that evolved from the Silent Origin Main Core, one of the "Soul Artifacts of the Broken Era" that guarded this object for countless epochs.
Ancient Soul Era: The Remnant Guardian
It was not gazing at everyone, but at Qin Yu.
Its single eye was fixed on the sword that was still not fully drawn— the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword.
It remembers.
It remembered that when that sword struck, the entire Silent Origin Heavenly Domain and the memories of all ancient souls were "erased" of their reason for existence!
"Click--"
Its joints twisted within its soul bones, and chains burst forth from its body, as if trying to forcibly imprison this space!
"They're here!"
Ming Tong charged forward, striking the Remnant Guardian with a palm strike!
Soul Technique: Ming Yuan Surge!
Soul power surged forth like a tidal wave, crashing down with immense pressure!
But the Remnant Guardian merely waved his right hand and lightly tapped with his bone staff!
"Click--!!"
Ming Tong was blasted ten feet away, crashing into the soul stone behind him and shattering it!
"This guy... even if I use Silent Origin Soul Power, I can only withstand one move from him?"
Ming Ye and Ming Kong exchanged a glance, their hearts sinking.
They understood that this was no longer a "trial of the soul," but rather—
The final battle between the ancient era and the strongest beings of the present.
Qian Ruishan had already quietly stepped out.
The Second Soul of the Icy Cold Pierces the Realm is fully activated!
Five chilling techniques freeze space, layer upon layer!
She froze the edge of the altar, forcibly suppressing the flow of "soul feedback disorder," but the next instant—
The Remnant Guardian stomped down!
Spatial reconstruction!
Nine ancient soul remnants appeared around the entire Soul Altar, each seemingly a long-forgotten "cycle of death."
It swung its bone staff and let out a fierce whistle!
"By the command of Silent Origin, activate the main core defense!"
Boom--!!
Beneath the abyss of space, three auras of the Soul-Slaying level soared into the sky!
That is...
Immortal Antiquity mythical beasts have appeared in the world!!
First Head: Nine Nether Flame Bone Dragon
A collection of countless bones, with a blazing soul at its core.
Slowly rising from the Severed Soul Abyss, a colossal dragon-bone beast, hundreds of feet long and covered in dark red soul flames, caused the entire space to burn with the vibration of its bone wings!
Its roar caused the Soul Altar to tremble violently, the void to crack, and everyone's souls to feel a tearing pain!
Ming Tong roared, "This thing... was wiped out once in the last era!"
She formed a hand seal, and a soul flag appeared, forcefully engaging in battle!
Second Head - Soul Rend Thunder Viper
Their souls intertwined, their snake-like eyes as deep as the abyss.
As the void twisted, a silver-purple lightning serpent over a hundred feet long suddenly burst forth, as if the entire Soul Well Corridor was dominated by its electric current!
"Wanqing back!"
As Zhou Yu roared, the phantom of Azure Thunder Lightning Hunter descended, and the lightning patterns clashed!
He detonated the Thunder Soul Seal, directly confronting the Thunder Viper!
Electric sparks flew everywhere, and space shattered!
Yao Wanqing then activated the Mystic Mirror Ice Soul to seal off the lightning waves.
The third head - Unnamed variant - Nether Soul Dream Taotie
It was a misty, shadowy thing, without a physical form, yet it could extract people's fear, regret, and unfulfilled desires from the air and form them into a weapon within themselves!
It silently traversed the battlefield, transforming into the faces that everyone had once lost, quietly appearing deep within everyone's consciousness!
The image of the severed Ming You appeared in Ming Ye's sea of consciousness.
Qian Ruishan's eyes were filled with the image of that lonely figure from that snowy night in the mortal realm.
Yao Wanqing even saw... her mother's moment of collapse as her soul disintegrated.
In that instant, the entire battle was thrown into chaos!
"It's a phantom soul type! Quickly block your consciousness!"
Ming Kong forcibly sealed the Soul Seal, using the power of death to shake the sea of consciousness, repelling the power of the Dream Eater!
Qin Yu's gaze narrowed slightly as he looked at the Dream Eater floating in space.
"You kill enemies using illusions?"
"So--"
"Destroy the very reason for your existence."
"So that you never even had the act of 'creating illusions'."
Origin Destroyer Divine Technique, Second Form - Sever the Cause, Preventing Birth
A flash of sword light.
Nether Soul Dream Taotie--
Collapsed instantly!
It was not killed.
It has been completely eradicated from the logic of "why it exists".
It has never manifested itself in the world.
The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword displays its power once more!
The Soul Well Corridor has become a battlefield of Asura.
Ice and cold Realm Breaking, thunder roars, ghostly shadows emerge, and ancient dragons howl—everyone has done their utmost to fight against the three Immortal Antiquity and exotic beings, while in the center of the Silent Origin Main Core, the most crucial battle has already erupted.
Qin Yu stood alone on the central altar.
The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword was half-drawn from its sheath; before the sword even moved, the Soul Altar trembled as if collapsing.
Opposite, in one of the eyes of the Ancient Soul Era Remnant Guardian, a fierce soul flame blazed. The bone chains within its body wailed, and as the Soul Seal floated, it seemed as if an ancient world was emerging behind it.
That was the original shape of the Soul Well.
It is "the first layer of the Soul Map before the Silent Origin Consciousness constructs the Soul Realm".
It raised its staff of soul bones and murmured softly.
Those are unspoken ancient words, and a curse that transcends eras.
"With this body I will guard the Soul Chronicle, and slay those who defy its mandate."
"You come from beyond this era—you shall perish."
Boom!!!
The entire space suddenly sank!
Nine layers of soul domains manifested behind the Remnant Guardian, each layer carrying the trajectory of destruction from the previous era!
Soul Skill: Epoch Soul-Locking Fall
Nine layers of pressure completely sealed Qin Yu off!
This attack was not meant to kill him.
It is to erase all traces of him in the "time dimension".
"Is this your last stand?"
Qin Yu spoke softly.
He slowly drew his sword.
The black light rippled like the remnants of a collapsing era. At this moment, the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword emitted a completely black, eerie light, and the world seemed to vanish without a trace!
"You want to use the Soul Seal of the old era—to lock in the time period in which I existed?"
He chuckled softly:
"I am not even within your understanding of the epochal system."
A dark, ghostly sword light rose.
Origin Destroyer Divine Technique - Third Form - Sever the Epoch Without a Trace
This sword strike is no longer about negating the enemy's reasons or motivations, but about erasing, at its very root, the "traces" of the enemy throughout all eras.
This is not about killing the enemy.
Yes—so that the world can't remember that he ever existed.
Rumble!!!
The Ninefold Soul Lock trembled violently, as if all the soul runes had fallen into a state of ineffective restart!
A deafening roar, like the burning of the universe, suddenly erupted from within the Remnant Guardian's body.
Its soul bones are crumbling, its Soul Seal is breaking, and its "existence" is being completely shattered by Qin Yu's sword.
The next breath.
The entire Ancient Soul Legacy Guardian was frozen in place.
It didn't collapse, but rather—like being erased by time—slowly "faded" from everyone's sight.
There wasn't even a lingering echo of death.
Only the "Remnant of the Broken Era" on the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword remains, etched in the void, indescribable.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the battlefield—
Thunder Beast Clash: Soul- Soul Rend Thunder Viper vs. Azure Thunder Lightning Hunter
Thunderclouds exploded in the sky.
As Zhou Yu roared, lightning erupted from his right arm, and the Soul Pact Seal bloomed!
Azure Thunder Lightning Hunter descends from the heavens!
It treads on thunder with its four claws, its mane bristling, and glares angrily at the Thunder Viper!
The Thunder Viper roared, unleashing a destructive soul lightning bolt that clashed violently with the Azure Thunder Lightning Hunter!
The entire Soul Well seemed to have been torn in two!
"Roar!!"
Thunder Hunter: Silent Abyss Thunderclap!
Thunder Viper - Rending Consciousness, Devouring Souls Break!
Two beams of soul lightning, one golden and one purple, collided and exploded high in the sky, tearing apart the entire Silent Origin Space! Everyone could only retreat far away, shielding their souls and protecting their bodies!
After the thunder roared, the Thunder Viper was forced back, its scales burst open, and its aura greatly diminished!
Azure Thunder Lightning Hunter, engulfed in lightning flames, still stood angrily in the air, his divine soul resonating with Zhou Yu's, glaring ahead!
In this battle against lightning—he never retreated!
As the Remnant Guardian collapsed and the alien species were suppressed, the Silent Origin Main Core Fragment began to vibrate violently!
A faint light rose from the Soul Altar, as if making a choice, a summons, and a response.
Ming Tong, Qian Ruishan, Ming Ye, Zhou Yu, Yao Wanqing, Ming Kong... all felt a slight tremor in their sea of consciousness, as if some kind of will was stretching across them, extending its "desire" towards a certain person.
Qin Yu looked up.
The core of the Silent Origin Fragment, about half the size of a palm, floated silently toward him.
Without uttering a word, an ancient soul's words echoed in everyone's hearts:
"The core... belongs to the 'Severer of Chronicles'."
The Soul Altar was silent; the void no longer trembled.
The lingering effects of the battle were still slowly settling within everyone, but all eyes were now fixed on the center of the altar—on the slowly rotating Silent Origin Main Core Fragment.
It is about half the size of a palm and has no luster.
Yet it floats with a silence deeper than the stars.
No one dared to approach, not even Ming Tong, who had just defeated the Remnant Guardian, who stood several feet away.
Because it was an instinctive fear.
--Fear is not an "enemy," but an "Ultimate denier."
It doesn't World Extinguisher; it ensures you are never "remembered in this world."
Just as the Silent Origin Fragment were silently suspended, they drifted toward someone on their own.
A slight tremor ran through everyone's hearts.
Qian Ruishan, Ming Tong, Ming Ye, Zhou Yu, Ming Kong, Yao Wanqing all turned to look.
--It is heading towards Qin Yu.
Slow but determined.
It's as if... we're traversing time and space, heading towards a predetermined destiny.
Qin Yu stood quietly in place, without moving or saying a word.
But just as the fragments were about to reach him--
The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword resonated.
Without wind, a wisp of black-gold sword light rose from the spine of the sword, like a line of time flowing backward, inch by inch overlapping with the Silent Origin Main Core Fragment!
The heavens and earth suddenly sank!
The next breath--
The entire Soul Altar was transformed into a gray and white world!
Everyone else was excluded, leaving only Qin Yu, who floated in an endless expanse of soul light.
He felt as if he were in a history that "did not exist".
Ahead, countless fragmented soul shadows drifted about.
That is... a remnant of an era, a causal break, a trace of a soul that Unborn.
He saw a source that no one knew:
The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword was not forged.
The Silent Origin Fragment were not condensed.
They were once the same entity—some kind of unnameable "starting object".
When that Primal Artifact shattered during the First Rebellion, it split into:
A portion of it became the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, specifically designed to slay "existence" itself;
A portion of them became the Silent Origin Main Core, slumbering in the Soul Well, wielding the power of "memory" and "history."
And Qin Yu... is the only one who can make the two resonate again.
Because his Fate Soul was never born within the existing world system.
He is a will that transcends the "Era Soul Creation Mechanism".
The image disappeared.
The Soul Altar returned to reality. Everyone opened their eyes, and Qin Yu had already reached out and gently grasped the Silent Origin Fragment in his palm.
Silent and without light, yet it shook everyone to their core.
Ming Tong murmured softly:
"It... has chosen a master."
Ming Ye's gaze was complex, Ming Kong opened his mouth but ultimately remained silent.
Qian Ruishan walked over slowly and stood beside Qin Yu.
"What... are you?" she asked softly.
Qin Yu smiled slightly but did not answer. Instead, the Silent Origin Fragment he was holding tightly in his fingertips slowly sank into the depths of his Soul Sea.
The next breath--
The entire Soul Altar began to tremble!
A pillar of light rose from beneath Qin Yu's feet, reaching straight to the top of the Soul Well!
That is the "Light of the Ascension to the End."
This is also the automatic termination mechanism triggered throughout the entire Soul Well Ruins.
Soul Well - Final Strike.
A mysterious voice came from the sky:
"You have become... the new 'Silent Soul Origin Return Candidate'."
Everyone was deeply shocked.
But no one voiced any objection.
Because—they all witnessed firsthand that Qin Yu had transcended all the rules of this world.
Distance.
Outside the Soul Well, the pupils of the Xuanyuan Tower Envoy contracted slightly.
"As expected... that sword is the 'anchor' that Ultimate rejects causal structures."
He turned to look at Yuan Jin: "The main clan is about to launch a plan to 'Origin Reclamation the lower realms'."
Crimson lightning patterns appeared in Yuan Jin's eyes, and a cold smile appeared on his lips:
"Qin Yu, I will show you what it means... that even the Blade of Severing Eras cannot sever the true 'divine will' of my Crimson Abyss Divine Clan."
However, in the next instant—
A faint, almost forgotten light suddenly burst forth from Ming Tong's body!
"That's... another Silent Origin Fragment on Ming Tong's body!" Ming Ye exclaimed.
It detached from her body, transforming into a streak of soul light that flew straight towards Qin Yu.
Ming Tong did not stop her; instead, she said softly:
"It... has found its other half."
Ming Ye initially thought that the fragment on her body might not be the other half of the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, but...
The next instant, the two fragments converged in the void—
Boom--!!
The spatial explosion was like the Realm Collapse!
The deepest part of the Soul Well has begun to tremble!
The two fragments, like the yin and yang poles destined to Return to One, merged into one without any repulsion, eventually coalescing into the complete Silent Origin Main Core!
In an instant, a straight golden-black boundary pattern appeared across the entire Soul Altar, reaching all the way to the sky!
It is no longer a creation of the Soul Well.
It is the remnant core of the first artifact from beyond the realm, the Thing of Beginning!
But the moment the main core was completed, the [Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword] in Qin Yu's sea of consciousness suddenly broke free of its sheath!
The sword hummed even without wind, and familiar traces of combat techniques appeared:
[Sever the Void in a Single Thought]
[The Sever the Cause, Preventing Birth]
[Sever the Epoch Without a Trace]
... until the tenth move, [Source Silence Severs All]!
Everyone's Soul Sea trembled simultaneously, and all the famous Ultimate sword techniques from their memories surfaced at this moment, ultimately sinking into the depths of the sword!
The next instant, the void trembled slightly.
An unprecedented soul rune appeared on the spine of the black and gold sword!
Everyone froze, the world fell silent, and language failed them!
They stared at the pattern, but couldn't name it!
Qian Ruishan gasped, but no sound came out!
Ming Ye and Ming Kong tried to call out, but it was as if their consciousness had been "cut off from the flow of language"!
Only Qin Yu stood still, whispering:
This technique... is called -- Boundary Beginning: The Sole Silent Name.
In that instant, the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword completed its eleventh awakening!
It is not swordsmanship, not a soul skill, not a denial--
It's a recycling of the "naming system" itself!
Heaven and earth can no longer remember what they have severed!
What a profound sense of emptiness washed over everyone was!
It was as if even if there had been enemies before them, they now knew nothing of their names, forms, reasons for their arrival, or reasons for their deaths!
Only Qin Yu, sword in hand, eyes lowered, murmured softly:
In this world, ultimately only one 'name of existence' needs to be remembered.
"The rest—all can be Annihilation."
The Eleventh Form of the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword: Beginning of the Realm - The Sole Silent Name - Completed.