A long wind swirled in the void, and the three Eternal Silence Realm cultivators stood frozen in place, cold sweat even beading on their foreheads. They could clearly sense that the aura emanating from the elder of the Hua Lineage had completely locked onto their Fate Soul essence.
The surrounding space collapsed inward silently, and strands of dark golden patterns spread across the heavens and earth like the source of life. This kind of power broke free from the shackles of mortal pressure, and with a single word, it could decide the life and death of all living beings.
The elder of the Hua Lineage slowly raised his head. His gaunt face was devoid of emotion, but his abyss-like eyes made the Fate Soul the three tremble. He gently raised a finger...
A wisp of gray-gold law swirled slightly at his fingertips, his voice hoarse and cold, "If you won't speak..." He trailed off, a faint smile slowly curving his lips, "... then never speak."
Boom! The moment the words left his mouth, the space beneath their feet suddenly collapsed!
The man in the dark gold robe turned deathly pale, his whole body trembled violently, and even his breathing became erratic. He hurriedly clasped his hands and bowed, his voice trembling, "Senior... Senior! You're from the Chi Lineage!"
The other two were also so frightened that they immediately lowered their heads, their foreheads almost touching the empty ground. "Yes, yes, yes! It's Chi Ninghua the Chi Lineage protecting us!" "But we really don't know who broke through!" "We only know that the phenomenon was extremely terrifying... and that Chi Ninghua was personally guarding outside the mountain!"
Hua Yanyang stood to the side, and upon hearing the name "Chi Ninghua," his brows finally twitched slightly. He placed his hands behind his back, his long robes fluttering in the wind, a hint of coldness and amusement flashing in his eyes. "Chi Ninghua?" He slowly raised his head, looking at the collapsing sky in the distance, a meaningful, cold smile playing on his lips. "Heh..."
"That's truly strange." "A dignified steward of the Chi Lineage, actually personally protecting someone who has broken through to the True Annihilation Realm?" As he spoke, his eyes grew increasingly cold.
He knew very well that anyone who could get Chi Ninghua to do this was no ordinary person. The elder of the Hua Lineage also slowly frowned, turned his head slightly to look at Hua Yanyang, and said in a low voice, "Young Master, this matter is probably not simple."
"Such a phenomenon far exceeds the scope of ordinary True Annihilation Realm." "Even..." He paused, his pupils slowly contracting, "I vaguely sensed just now that the rules of that area seemed to be 'disappearing'."
Upon hearing this, a strange glint flashed in Hua Yanyang's eyes, and the next moment, he suddenly chuckled. That smile was cold and dangerous.
"Since that's the case—" He slowly raised his head, his gaze fixed on the distant mountains. "Then let's go take a look." He looked at the three of them. "You three can get lost." Boom! The next instant.
The two figures transformed into streaks of light and headed straight for the outer edge of the mountain range. Meanwhile, on the outer edge of the mountain range, a gray-white storm continued to surge.
Chi Ninghua stood quietly on the mountaintop, the Divine Sword of Silent Void stuck in the ground. The entire world was shrouded in a faint, Eternal Silence Sword Domain. Her usually cold eyes were now filled with anxiety. Her long hair was blown about by the gale. She stared intently at the mountain where the cave was located, her fingertips turning slightly white.
"Why isn't it over yet..." she murmured, a clear unease creeping into her voice for the first time. "If this continues... I'm afraid it will attract even more people."
As she spoke, she slowly clenched her fists, a hint of panic flickering in her eyes. She could sense that the entire area was undergoing an increasingly terrifying change: the sky was losing its color, the mountains were becoming transparent, and even the sound of the wind was becoming intermittent. This scene was beyond what a breakthrough to the True Annihilation Realm could describe.
At that very moment, deep within the cave, Qin Yu finally took the final step, the attainment of the realm—the unspeakable return. In that instant, the entire cave completely lost the meaning of "space." There was no up or down, no near or far, no flow of time, no causal connection. Qin Yu sat there cross-legged, but the act of "cross-legged sitting" was rapidly losing its definition. His figure began to blur, shedding its ethereal and dissipating surface form, and his own mode of existence was completely breaking free from the shackles of all established perceptions.
The Primordial Profound Nothingness True Annihilation Tribulation Disc floated silently in front of him, and the dark abyss on the disc was slowly collapsing inward, but the next moment...
It suddenly stopped spinning, and then the entire calamity disc began to "forget itself," and the outermost layer of silver-white light patterns, representing "lingering echoes," suddenly extinguished inch by inch.
The ethereal light in the middle, symbolizing the "tremor of nothingness," also began to become silent and transparent, while the absolute darkness in the innermost circle slowly spread out, like a drop of ink.
As the droplet entered the entire world, Qin Yu's sea of consciousness exploded in the next instant. Countless images began to collapse wildly, the river of time shattered inch by inch, and billions of causes and effects were extinguished simultaneously.
His past, his future, his Fate Soul, his memories, even the name "Qin Yu" itself, began to slowly lose their meaning.
At this moment, he no longer felt like he was "breaking through," because the concept of "breakthrough" itself Does Not Exist; there was simply no "path" between the Mystic Void Realm and the True Annihilation Realm.
There was no leap, no improvement, not even a "realm." All the so-called cultivation, all the so-called enlightenment, all the so-called transcendence, were like a long and absurd dream. And now, the dream has finally ended. In the cave, Qin Yu's figure suddenly froze completely. The next moment, his outline began to slowly become transparent, but he did not disappear. All the established laws of heaven and earth could no longer define his existence.
The surrounding space collapsed in large swathes, and countless laws crumbled rapidly as if scorched by flames. Outside the mountain, Chi Ninghua suddenly looked up because she suddenly realized...
The entire world fell silent, and the very concept of sound itself slowly dissolved and blurred in the universe, in the next instant.
Boom!!!! The entire mountain range suddenly erupted with an indescribable gray-white torrent; it was neither light nor power!
Something "unknowable" is descending upon reality! The sky suddenly cracked open, and billions of miles of clouds became transparent at the same time.
The river of time slowly materialized high in the sky, but in the next instant, even the river of time itself began to collapse! Countless stars in the sky went out one by one.
Space shattered layer by layer like a mirror, and the whole world was like a painting being erased bit by bit by some invisible hand.
Chi Ninghua stood in the eye of the storm, her long hair flying wildly, her beautiful eyes revealing true shock for the first time, "Qin Yu..."
Her voice trembled, because at this moment, she could no longer even sense Qin Yu's presence. Concealment and isolation were irrelevant; the "undetectable" behavioral paradigm had completely failed against Qin Yu. And at that very moment, a deafening boom echoed from the distant void! Two streaks of light instantly tore through the heavens and earth! It was Hua Yanyang and that Hua Lineage elder!
As soon as Hua Yanyang landed, he looked up at the sky and his pupils contracted sharply when he saw the collapsing River of Time.
"This..." He showed a look of shock for the first time.
The elder at the Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme beside him paled drastically, taking a step back, his voice trembling, "Young Master... something's wrong..."
"This is no longer an ordinary phenomenon of the True Annihilation Realm!" "It's like—" But he hadn't finished speaking.
Chi Ninghua slowly turned around, grasped the Divine Sword of Silent Void, and her gray-white sword intent swept across the heavens and earth!
Her reddened eyes were fixed on Hua Yanyang and the other person, her voice icy cold, devoid of any warmth, "Hua Yanyang— "
The air froze instantly, and inside the distant mountain, Qin Yu's last vestige of "self" was finally and completely annihilated.
The aura of "True Annihilation" between heaven and earth continued to churn, as if the entire mountain range had been dragged into some indescribable depths of nothingness. The sky was sometimes transparent, sometimes cracked, and countless spatial rifts spread like a spider web.
Chi Ninghua stood alone in the center of the storm, her gray-white sword domain surrounding her. Blood dripped slowly from between her fingers as she gripped the sword, but she did not retreat an inch.
In the distance, Hua Yanyang slowly walked through the air. His dark gold floral robe fluttered wildly in the wind, his long hair was tied up high, and a faint, sinister smile hung on his handsome face. His eyes, like those of a venomous snake, slowly swept over Chi Ninghua and finally settled on the mountain behind her.
The next moment, he suddenly chuckled. "Oh my—" "It really is Chi Ninghua?"
He clapped as he slowly took a step forward, dark gold patterns automatically forming in the air beneath his feet. "Tsk tsk tsk..." He looked Chi Ninghua up and down, his eyes full of amusement and coldness. "Not bad, it hasn't been that long since we last met, and you've already reached the Eternal Silence Realm Initial Stage."
As he spoke, the corners of his mouth slowly turned up, but that smile was utterly devoid of warmth.
Upon hearing this, Chi Ninghua slowly raised her head. Her eyes were still a little red, but the coldness in them grew stronger. She gripped the Divine Sword of Silent Void tightly, and the gray-white sword intent spread out beneath her feet. "Hua Yanyang," she said in a low voice.
Every word she uttered was filled with suppressed anger. "I know my cultivation is inferior to yours." "But today—" She suddenly raised the Divine Sword of Silent Void!
Boom!!! A gray-white sword mark instantly tore through the heavens and earth! The entire mountain range trembled slightly under the sword intent! Chi Ninghua's long hair danced wildly, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth, yet she stood firmly in place, her gaze terrifyingly resolute, "No matter who you are—" "You won't get past me!" "Even if you're at the Wuji Realm— "
"So what!!" Boom!!! With her final angry shout, the Eternal Silence Sword Domain erupted completely! The gray-white storm swept across thousands of miles like World Extinguisher tsunami, forcibly severing Emptiness, and causing the surrounding space to collapse continuously.
Hua Yanyang simply stood there, silently watching her for a few moments. Then he suddenly laughed. The laugh grew increasingly sinister. "Heh..." "I really want to see today—"
"Who exactly is it that makes you, Chi Ninghua, fight so desperately to protect him?" As he spoke, a murderous intent surfaced deep in his eyes. The next instant, he suddenly turned his head, and an extremely subtle divine sense transmission instantly entered the consciousness of the Hua Lineage elder beside him.
"Elder." "I just checked the surroundings." "No one's here." He slowly narrowed his eyes, the cold glint in them growing stronger. "Since that's the case..."
"Why not take this opportunity—" "and kill her directly." "As for the person inside who broke through to the True Annihilation Realm..." Hua Yanyang slowly raised her head to look at the mountain, a sinister smile appearing on her lips, "No matter who it is," "we must not let him succeed in breaking through. We absolutely cannot let any member of the Chi Lineage who dares to be alone escape."
The elder of the Hua Lineage didn't hesitate at all upon hearing this; he simply nodded slightly. The next instant—BOOM!!!! He took a step forward! The entire world collapsed instantly!
A terrifying pressure belonging to the Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme descended suddenly, freezing the space within a radius of 100,000 miles instantly, and causing countless mountains to collapse on the spot!
The elder slowly raised his hands, and countless dark golden chains of law suddenly appeared between his ten fingers. Within those chains, countless shrill afterimages could be faintly seen struggling. He slowly raised his head, his gaze icy. "Divine Power—" "Burial of Heaven: Silent Soul Sealing Prison." Boom!!!!!!
The sky and earth suddenly darkened! In the next instant, a dark golden abyss spanning millions of miles suddenly split open in the sky! Inside the abyss, countless enormous black chains slowly descended, each chain wrapped with decaying divine runes. These runes twisted and writhed wildly like living creatures! The entire sky seemed to have transformed into a gigantic cage!
Using the Law of Eternal Silence as its source, the target's Fate Soul, origin, and law consciousness are simultaneously dragged into the "Silent Soul Divine Prison," forcibly sealing off all of the target's supernatural powers and Fate Soul flow, causing them to be forever trapped in a semi- Annihilation state of "unable to live, unable to die, and unable to reincarnate."
Once pierced by chains Fate Soul will be forcibly dragged into the "Silent Soul Prison Realm." The target will not die but will remain conscious forever, forced to watch helplessly as their own laws, origin, and existence decay little by little. This system is specifically designed to counter all Fate Soul systems below the Eternal Silence Realm, especially targeting sword cultivators and Fate Soul cultivators.
The elder slammed his palms together! Boom!!!! Countless chains rained down from the sky simultaneously! Each chain trailed jet-black flames, and as they ripped through space, even time itself was forcibly ripped open! The entire sky was transformed into a dark abyss! Countless chains madly pressed down on Chi Ninghua!
Upon witnessing this scene, Chi Ninghua's pupils suddenly contracted! Because she could sense that this attack was enough to seal her Fate Soul! Yet even so.
She didn't back down; instead, she slowly raised her head, and for the first time, a true resolve appeared in her reddened eyes. "I want to go back..."
She bit her lip hard, blood dripping from the corner of her mouth, her hand gripping the sword trembling slightly, yet she still took a step forward, her greyish-white sword intent soaring into the sky, "Then step over my dead body!!!" Boom!!!! She gripped the sword tightly with both hands!
The entire world turned gray instantly! "Divine Power—" "Silent Void Heavenly Abyss: Eternal Silence Guardian." In an instant, countless gray-white sword patterns spread wildly beneath her feet! The entire world suddenly seemed to be dragged into Eternal Silence Abyss! Countless gray-white sword marks emerged from the void. These sword marks intertwined, transforming into a gray-white sword curtain covering tens of thousands of miles!
By constructing an "absolute defensive boundary" with the Eternal Silence Sword Dao, one completely integrates one's own Fate Soul, origin, and sword intent into heaven and earth, forming an Eternal Silence barrier.
As long as the barrier remains intact, the protective path will not be broken! Any attack that enters the sword domain will be weakened layer by layer by the Eternal Silence Sword Intent until it is completely dragged into "Annihilation and stagnation".
Chi Ninghua's long hair danced in the air as she slowly rose into the sky, her greyish-white sword intent surging wildly from her body! The entire world began to fade! Her eyes even started to bleed, yet she still gripped her sword tightly! Boom!!!! The next instant, billions of chains collided violently with the greyish-white sword curtain!!!
The heavens and earth shattered instantly! The terrifying shockwave transformed into World Extinguisher storm that swept across millions of miles! Countless mountains were directly shattered! The sky collapsed! The earth cracked! Chi Ninghua's sword curtain trembled violently. Her hands gripped her sword tightly, blood constantly spilling from the corner of her mouth. Yet she still held on! However, the difference in cultivation between the two was ultimately too great! Boom!!!!
The next instant, the gray-white sword curtain was finally shattered! Countless chains pierced through the storm in an instant! Chi Ninghua's face turned pale! She felt as if she had been struck by a heavy blow!
"Pfft—!" She suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood! Her body flew backward heavily like a kite with a broken string! Boom!!! Her body slammed into the mountainside!
The entire mountain collapsed instantly! Rock fragments flew into the sky! Blood dripped continuously from the corner of her mouth. Yet even so, she still gripped the Divine Sword of Silent Void tightly.
Without retreating an inch, Hua Yanyang stood quietly in the void, looking down at the heavily injured Chi Ninghua lying on the ground, a slow smile playing on his lips.
That smile was cold and mocking. "How about it?" "Now..." "Still want to continue protecting the sect?"