The Soul-Restraining Envoy appeared.
The pressure from heaven and earth was immense, as if being gripped by an invisible giant hand.
The Silent Origin Soul Tomb fell silent in an instant.
He neither drew his sword nor initiated combat; he simply stood there, uttering a soul-stirring incantation that seemed to sink to the bottom of the sea:
No bloodshed required.
The next instant, a gray-gold whip chain slowly rose up behind him.
This soul chain—neither iron nor bone, neither soul nor spirit—is one of the primordial sealing artifacts of the Epoch Immortal Clan, named:
[Name-Sealing Soul Chain].
Once locked, the Soul Name will be stripped away, the Fate Soul will lose its master, the soul's consciousness will no longer belong to itself, and even the "memory of existence" will fade from the world!
Ming Tong's expression changed drastically, and he hissed:
"Retreat! This is the Soul-Restraining Envoy's life-bound lock—it cannot be tainted in the slightest!"
But it was too late.
The Soul Chains twitched suddenly, like the weight of fate pressing down, piercing through heaven and earth in an instant!
Boom--!!
Five beams of soul light shot out from the chain, like five spears piercing through the boundary, tearing through space and distorting the soul domain, an absolute plunder that almost ignored distance and defense!
Target--
Ming Ye
Ming Kong
Zhou Yu
Yao Wanqing
Qian Ruishan!
"Qin Yu!"
Qian Ruishan spoke up immediately, but before she could utter a sound, she was bound by sealing chains, and her Soul Name began to blur in that instant as the Soul Seal on her body was being peeled off!
Zhou Yu roared, Thunder Hunter hissed, but the sealing chains were not material; they were the Ultimate denial of "Fate Soul ownership."
In that instant, their Fate Soul were ripped from the "memory of the world"!
The two soul beasts, Ming Ye Ming Kong, struggled violently, but froze instantly just as the chain light pierced their bodies!
"Damn it!!" Ming Tong severed the Soul Void with a palm strike, attempting to forcefully block it, but the sealing chains seemed to be preordained, instantly completing five soul-piercing locks, and all five were swallowed by the gray mist!
Whoosh--!
Five beams of soul light forcibly tore open five interdimensional rifts in mid-air, forcing everyone to rush in and disappear without a trace in the blink of an eye!
The soul was completely dissipated.
The world was silent.
All of this, from the appearance of the Soul Chain to the completion of "Soul Seizure and Separation," took only two breaths!
So fast that no one could react, so precise that not a single trace of soul energy was leaked out.
In the entire Soul Tomb, only Qin Yu remained standing on the bone platform, his long hair billowing in the wind, his sword still untouched and his lips still silent.
The Soul-Restraining Envoy slowly withdrew his hand, his tone calm:
"They will live in my realm's 'Soul Prison Ring Domain' until you—return that sword that should not exist."
You only have one choice.
"Otherwise."
Their names will be completely erased from the world.
The air condensed.
The entire Silent Origin Soul Tomb seemed to fade to gray in that instant.
Qin Yu gazed silently at the Soul-Restraining Envoy, his eyes showing no anger, only tranquility.
He slowly gripped the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword. Before the sword was even drawn, the soul patterns had already gathered, and the ring seal hummed softly.
After a long pause, Qin Yu said softly:
You're wrong.
"They shouldn't be stripped of their names."
"What should be eradicated is your 'naming itself'."
Buzz!!!
The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword resounded once more atop the Tomb of Souls!
As the black and gold light shone forth, the world fell silent!
Soul Prison Ring Domain, imprisoning countless souls.
The five Name-Sealing Soul Chain cast by the Soul-Restraining Envoy not only forcibly abducted Zhou Yu, Yao Wanqing, Ming Kong, Ming Ye, and Qian Ruishan from reality, but also threw them into a place called:
The Ultimate forbidden zone for sealing souls, the "Soul Prison Ring Domain".
It was a ruined tower piled with countless fragments of forbidden lands, sunken registers, and faded soul tablets.
There was no sun in the sky, only flowing mist of souls. Cracks layered across the sky, and blurry soul shadows and painful murmurs flickered within the fissures in the ground.
The pagoda is like a boundary, and all the beings whose names have been stripped away are imprisoned in the deepest "Sunken Soul Layer" of this place.
They are no longer remembered by the world, no longer acknowledged by fate—as if they were "dead," yet their consciousness is preserved, forever oscillating between Annihilation and lucidity.
Swish--
Five sealing chains broke through the air and entered.
As if whipped by the Soul Whip, Zhou Yu and the others were all slammed heavily into different floating layers.
Yao Wanqing fell into the Mirror Soul Rift Valley, surrounded by broken mirrors that reflected the souls she was enveloped by "unrecognizable" to her.
Ming Ye and Ming Kong were cast into the top of the Soul Tower, into a completely sealed soul array. The aura of the soul beasts was suppressed into slumber, and the two brothers were isolated into two "soulless beings."
Qian Ruishan fell into the deepest "Realm-Overturning Ice Platform". In the unnamed Frosty Soul Domain, she lost her [Icy Cold Pierces the Realm] soul. Every inch of her soul veins began to freeze, and she could no longer even utter the words "sister".
Zhou Yu was thrown into the "Soul Prison Lightning Abyss," a soul-examination pit specially created by the Soul Prison Ring Domain for those with lightning-attribute Soul Seal. His [Azure Thunder Lightning Hunter] was forcibly stripped away, and he even began to forget that his soul beast had ever existed.
And deeper still.
"Yan Sheng! Aren't you immortal?!"
Lei Wuyuan was sealed atop a "Prisoner's Name Stone Pillar" suspended by soul locks, roaring and struggling, his blood staining the execution platform.
Yan Sheng leaned weakly against a "Soul Stele," his Soul Seal shattered, with only a last wisp of flame maintaining his consciousness.
Yan Ling and Yan Ce had already lost their voices, their souls were dead, and their eyes were vacant.
They were among the previous batch of powerful Spirit Firmament warriors who were captured and sealed away.
Once a prodigy, he is now on the verge of losing even his name.
At that very moment, at the very top of the entire Floating Pagoda Realm—
The Soul-Restraining Envoy slowly walked into the sky, and gently rolled up the second soul chain in his hand.
"Place them in the lowest level [Name-Overturning Restriction]."
"Qin Yu will come."
"I want him to walk into this... prison of unforgettable memories."
Above the entire Soul Prison Ring Domain, three layers of restrictive seals slowly unfolded, like the Heavenly Punishment Wheel turning, dripping down invisible soul light!
Each ray of soul light, like a needle, a thread, or a knife, is like an extremely precise soul scanning needle, piercing through the prisoner's sea of consciousness, Fate Soul, soul source, and even the deepest "original name factor"!
That is--
Soul Prison Wheel - Blazing Name
A periodically activated soul-punishing technique, devised by the Soul-Restraining Envoy, its essence is to strip away the Fate Soul's memories, completely transforming the prisoner into a "soul puppet Consciousnessless."
Ming Ye let out a painful growl as his "Nine Nether Flame Bone Dragon" insignia struggled violently within his body, but was suppressed by the soul chain, preventing the soul beast from fighting!
Ming Kong endured the humiliation with unyielding strength, lightning patterns pulsating on his body, but his sea of consciousness had already been pierced by the Thousand Soul Needles, and cracks began to appear in his lightning soul!
Yao Wanqing's face turned deathly pale, the Mirror Soul Seal gradually blurred, and her consciousness seemed to be trapped in a hallucinatory dream from which she would never awaken!
Zhou Yu gritted his teeth and roared, his hands transforming into lightning to bombard the Soul Chain Ring, but the lightning power could not affect the space whose name had been stripped away— Azure Thunder Lightning Hunter roared wildly, but wailed inch by inch in front of the boundary wall!
And Qian Ruishan--
Beneath the Realm-Overturning Ice Platform, her soul patterns were already frozen, and her eyes became vacant. The [Icy Cold Pierces the Realm] within her body was faintly beginning to "backfire," as if it was being "forgotten" by herself!
"Elder sister..."
Ming Ye let out a trembling roar, but at that moment, Qian Ruishan's gaze could no longer be focused on him.
Soul Name, severed!
The soul is being worn down!
The soul was stripped away!
At this moment, the Soul Prison Ring Domain truly revealed its terrifying truth, resembling a "soul-forbidden hell":
The Tower of Soul Sealing and Knowledge Stripping, a Nameless Place for Imprisoned Souls.
Just as Qin Yu was lurking behind a rock, preparing to hunt down the ten Epoch Soul Hunters in front of him...
The heavens and earth remained still, yet he suddenly paused!
A piercing, excruciating pain, as if it came from Ultimate deepest abyss of the underworld, suddenly crashed into his consciousness!
BOOM--!!
Within his sea of consciousness, the black-gold soul wheel trembled violently, and a bloody mark suddenly appeared between Qin Yu's brows, with blood dripping down his cheek.
His feet did not move, but his soul trembled.
At that moment, he clearly "saw" it.
Not with the eyes, but with the soul!
--Qian Ruishan is trapped between a pillar of ice souls, her limbs hanging upside down by ice locks, and the [Icy Cold Pierces the Realm] Soul Seal in her body is being forcibly stripped away. Each stripping takes away a piece of her memory and sense of existence.
Her pupils began to dilate, her lips and teeth froze, and she even forgot why she was fighting.
"... Do you still remember who I am?" Qin Yu murmured, a look of pain flashing in his eyes.
--Ming Ye was suspended from the Soul Fire Monument, the "Soul Name Crack Mark" etched on his back. Every breath he took ignited his soul bones, searing pain from the very source of his soul, yet he endured it, still murmuring:
"Sister... Sister... Don't be afraid... I... Remember you."
Ming Kong was nailed to the Ring Abyss Mirror Platform by the Soul Nails, and the Thunder Soul in his body was being "eroded and fused" little by little. Every bit that was peeled away was like being burned by lightning flames, causing unbearable pain!
In the Ten Thousand Mirrors Shattered Realm, Yao Wanqing is trapped by her "self-illusion" reflected in the mirrors. Each mirror is interrogating her soul, shattering her beliefs and tearing apart her defenses!
Zhou Yu is the most tragic.
He was locked in the Lightning Prison Soul Jail, with the dismembered [Azure Thunder Lightning Hunter] beside him. The connection between the soul beast and its master had been forcibly severed. He roared and shouted, but the thunder turned into silent wails!
Each and every one of them is experiencing the cruelest, most inhumane, and most unforgivable torture in the world!
It is easy to tear the body apart, but difficult to strip away the soul.
Isn't forgetting oneself more painful than death?
All of this--
All of these entered the deepest part of Qin Yu's soul.
His eyes suddenly narrowed, his fingers gripping the sword cracked, the internal seal rotated, and the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword vibrated slightly.
"Soul-Restraining Envoy..."
"You..."
"I will tear the entire Epoch Immortal Clan this era to pieces."
His voice wasn't loud, yet it seemed to rise from the depths of the Black Abyss to the heavens, each word imbued with countless layers of soul fire!
Buzz!!
The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword ripped through the air, unleashing a surge of black and gold energy.
The Silent Origin Soul Tomb is as dark and desolate as a dead land, with no sound of soul winds, only the mournful cries of ten thousand souls echoing in silence.
In the shadow of rocks behind a certain Soul Hall, Qin Yu slowly crouched down.
His gaze was sharp as he stared at the ten Epoch Soul Hunters ahead.
These people are Soul-Restraining Envoy, dedicated to slaughtering all those in the Spirit Firmament who still retain the will to resist outside the Soul Prison Ring Domain.
They stood in a circle, hunting down a dying Spirit Firmament cultivator.
"The first part of stripping away the name, begin," one of them sneered.
They didn't notice --
Not far away, the black and gold longsword was slowly cracking open from its scabbard, releasing a beam of light.
"You--"
"Live too long."
Boom--!!
The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword soared through the sky!
A wave of black and gold energy swept across the entire Soul Domain! In an instant, the entire Silent Origin Soul Tomb seemed to be engulfed by a World Extinguisher tidal wave—
The rock strata collapsed, the forest of steles broke, and the space shattered like a broken mirror!
The black and gold Sword Qi ripped through the sky, like the death ring of an era of destruction, rotating and pressing out ten layers of pressure on the Soul Tomb!
"What--!!"
"It's him! Qin--!"
Before they could even utter their names, they were already enveloped in the flash of swords—
Utterly annihilated!!
The first wave of ten people were all wiped out!
Qin Yu remained silent, his figure following him like a shadow, instantly covering a hundred feet.
One sword severs the soul-destroying bell; one step destroys the Soul Tower!
He wielded his sword like a demon, sweeping past one Epoch Soul Clan stronghold after another—at each location, the Black Gold Ring moved first, followed by the cry of the Origin Destroyer Sword!
The Soul Vessel is destroyed, and all the Soul Talismans are broken!
The Soul Clan includes scouts, Soul Hunters, Chain Seals, Soul Curse Masters, and those who tame Prison Soul Beasts...
One by one, before they could even react, they were annihilated directly at the source of cause and effect by the Sword of Origin Destroyer.
They never uttered a sound, nor did they shed blood.
Because they—never existed.
Within half an incense stick's time, the entire Silent Origin Soul Tomb turned into a deathly silence!
The entire Silent Origin Soul Tomb seemed to be detonated by a soul core star the moment the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword erupted!
The Forest of Steles is broken, the Soul Tower is cracked, the Prison Gates are opened, and the Sky Tower explodes!
The sounds of ghosts wailing and wolves howling erupted from all four directions of the Soul Tomb.
"Aaaaaah--No!!!"
"How did he get in?!"
This sword... does not belong to this world!
"Soul-Restraining Envoy!! Summon the Soul-Restraining Envoy!!"
Howls, wails, cries, struggles--
Every sound was mixed with the pain of having one's "soul cause" completely severed; every wail was the last struggle to be "erased from existence"!
But Qin Yu, under the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, never stopped.
He is like a master of the night, his sword pointed wherever he goes—
A single sword strike shattered the Soul Tower's core.
One step and you pierce through the Soul Prison City;
With a single finger, he shattered the Soul Curse Stele of the Epoch Soul Envoy!
With each strike, the black-gold Sword Qi carves out a "soul-severing zone" from the void, completely severing the enemy from the root of cause and effect, leaving no blood, no wound, only nothingness!
The lingering soul is like the wind, the shadow of the monument like sand.
The wails grew increasingly frantic, as if the billions of vengeful spirits throughout the entire Tomb of Souls were crying out, "Please stop killing!"
But--
The killings did not stop.
When the last Epoch Soul Envoy knelt beneath the array of monuments, he looked up and saw not a god, but Qin Yu, who held a black-gold divine sword and whose face was as still as the dead sea.
"You... you're not human..."
Their lingering souls wander, the forest of steles crumbles, and heaven and earth no longer respond to their names!
Qin Yu stood atop the monument mountain, his body untouched by the blood rain. Yet his soul aura was like that of the most ancient god in hell—ruthless, speechless, and capable only of destruction.
Finally, before the last remaining tower, he cleaved all his enemies with a single sword strike, leaving only one soul, whose body swayed precariously as he knelt on the ground, his eyes filled with utter terror.
"Please... have... me..."
Qin Yu reached out, his five fingers gripping the head, and a wisp of soul light poured into it from between his fingers!
[Origin Destroyer Divine Sense - Deep Soul Search] -- The Soul Sea Cracks!
Before the man could even scream, all the memories in his mind were torn apart in an instant!
The images flooded Qin Yu's mind like a storm:
--Soul Prison Ring Domain, a circular Soul Tower, suspended at the end of the Epoch Remnant Realm, is constructed from seven rings of soul seals!
--Each ring of souls is based on "Fate Soul Deprivation", and each layer imprisons different types of powerful beings!
Its core Soul-Restraining Envoy!
All information has been thoroughly investigated!
The Soul Hunter's soul collapsed inch by inch, turning into ashes.
Qin Yu sheathed his black-gold sword and looked up at the distorted void in the distance.
That is the entrance to the [Soul Prison Ring Domain]!
He whispered:
"Hold on, I'll take over."
"I'll take you home."