The greyish-white Sea of Oblivion surged relentlessly, and the chilling sense of "oblivion" between heaven and earth grew ever stronger. With each step the group took, blurry afterimages appeared in the sand: the faces of cultivators, collapsing realms, and ancient divine runes that were no longer recognizable. And just as those images surfaced...
Then it swiftly sank into the depths of the sand sea, as if it had never existed. Chi Jun remained at the forefront, his True Annihilation Realm · Initial Stage Fate Soul aura constantly spreading, protecting everyone from the ever-encroaching Oblivion Rules from all around. But just as the group continued to advance for several dozen miles—
Boom!!! A piercing scream suddenly echoed from the depths of the desert ahead. "Aaaaaahh...
The sound was so sharp it almost pierced the Fate Soul of everyone present. The next instant, a deafening roar erupted! Large swathes of sand dunes ahead exploded one after another.
Dozens of cultivators, covered in blood, rushed out from afar, fleeing desperately towards the outer perimeter as if they had gone completely mad. Some had half their bodies gone, leaving only their broken Fate Soul skeletons exposed; others had their eyes completely torn off.
His face was covered with claw marks burning with eerie blue flames; one cultivator even scratched his face repeatedly as he fled, screaming hysterically, "Don't chase me!! Don't chase me!!!!"
Boom!!! The moment he finished speaking, the sand sea behind him exploded violently, and a gigantic black shadow pounced down instantly. Before anyone could even see what happened, the cultivator's entire body was torn into a cloud of blood mist, spraying blood across the sky. The shrill screams abruptly ceased, and the air fell silent. Meanwhile, more and more cultivators in the distance began to frantically flee towards the outer perimeter.
The entire Desert of Forgetting seemed to erupt in chaos. A young disciple in the group, his face deathly pale, his hand gripping the divine weapon trembling slightly, abruptly turned to look at Chi Jun, his voice clearly filled with fear. "Steward Chi Jun... should we take another route?!"
Many disciples around him began to waver, for the fluctuations in their Fate Soul ahead were terrifying; even the aura of a True Annihilation Realm cultivator was constantly crumbling. But Chi Jun suddenly looked up, his eyes icy cold. "No." His voice was low and rumbling like thunder. "It's too late." "If we change routes—" "We'll have to detour at least hundreds of thousands of miles."
As he spoke, another stretch of sand in the distance suddenly exploded, and a giant beast engulfed in blue flames shattered a cultivator's Fate Soul barrier.
Chi Jun's gaze grew increasingly somber. "The deadline given to the clan wasn't long enough to begin with." "Now we can only move forward." He abruptly turned and scanned the crowd. "Listen up, everyone!!" "Absolutely no one can be separated!!" "Anyone who falls behind—" His voice suddenly turned icy. "Will die."
The air suddenly became oppressive, and everyone gripped their natal artifacts tightly. Just then, the gray-white sandstorm in the distance slowly dispersed, and in the next instant, everyone's pupils contracted sharply. Thousands of feet ahead, a huge black shadow was frantically traversing the sea of sand. These were not ordinary demonic beasts, but a group of extremely ancient primordial divine beasts.
They were enormous, each hundreds of feet tall, covered in jet-black mane from which blazing blue flames flowed, as if a vast amount of dark blue magma was surging beneath their flesh. Their eyes were completely transformed into burning blue pupils, their fangs were sharp and white, and they constantly spewed out blazing blue primordial fire breath from their mouths, causing the surrounding space to violently distort with each breath.
What's most terrifying is that the Fate Soul fluctuations emanating from each of them are comparable to the peak of the Mystic Void Realm · Supreme, with some even approaching the True Annihilation Realm · Intermediate Stage.
And at this moment—they are slaughtering. Boom!!! A blue flame divine beast suddenly pounced out, its front paws slamming down on a True Annihilation Realm cultivator's protective Fate Soul, which instantly exploded. The giant beast opened its blood-red maw and bit off half of the cultivator's body in one bite, spraying large amounts of primordial blood into the sky. On the other side, dozens of cultivators joined forces to form an array.
A vast array of dimensional rules bombarded one of the divine beasts, but the giant beast suddenly roared in fury—BOOM!!! The blue flames around its body suddenly surged. A large amount of divine power was directly burned into nothingness. In the next instant, its entire body transformed into a blue afterimage and instantly rushed into the crowd, with flesh and blood flying Fate Soul shattering.
Screams echoed throughout the Desert of Forgetting, while the divine beasts grew increasingly frenzied, seemingly losing all reason and even tearing at each other. Blue flames continuously exploded in the sea of sand, and countless cultivators fled frantically for their lives, plunging the entire world into chaos. Shen Qingchen's face paled slightly, and he subconsciously stepped forward to shield Su Qingyuan, while Su Qingyuan gripped her Sheathless Blade tightly, her gaze constantly scanning the distant battlefield.
Chi Jun clenched his fists tightly because he had discovered that those ancient divine beasts... were also charging towards them.
Deep within the Desert of Forgetting, a raging wind howled, the greyish-white sand sea churning like countless forgotten fragments of Fate Soul. The beast tide composed of blue flames drew ever closer, its deep roars constantly shattering the surrounding space. Large numbers of cultivators fled frantically towards the outskirts, some coughing up blood and screaming, "We can't stop them!! We simply can't stop them!!"
At that very moment, Chi Jun took a sudden step forward, his dark black Fate Soul patterns spreading out beneath his feet. He stood suspended in mid-air, his robes fluttering wildly in the raging sandstorm. His eyes were fixed on the blue flame beast tide ahead, and his voice boomed like thunder throughout the entire group. "Quick!! Unleash your divine powers!! These are Blue Flame Demon Wolf!!"
Rumble--!!! The moment his words fell, the sand sea in front of him completely exploded, and dozens of Blue Flame Demon Wolf pounced at the same time.
Those demonic wolves were astonishingly large, each one standing tens of feet tall, their entire bodies covered in jet-black fur, with dark blue cracks constantly flowing between the fur, as if molten lava was churning deep within their flesh and blood. Their eyes burned with terrifying blue flames, and when they roared, what spewed from their mouths were large swaths of annihilating fire that burned the very structure of their Fate Soul.
Boom!!! The first Blue Flame Demon Wolf pounced down, its claws tearing through space as a vast expanse of blue flames enveloped the Chi Lineage's team. "Attack!!!" Chi Jun roared. In the next instant, the entire Chi Lineage team erupted simultaneously, boom boom boom boom boom--!!! More than ten divine abilities instantly tore through the sky. A Chi Lineage disciple clasped his hands together, and a huge silver Fate Soul wheel appeared behind him. The wheel spun rapidly, and a large number of silver-white domain blades shot out instantly.
"Thousandfold Evolution Space-Rending Wheel!!" Sizzle—Dozens of sharp blades pierced the head of a Blue Flame Demon Wolf. Large amounts of blue flames and blood sprayed across the sky on the other side. A female disciple's long hair danced wildly as she plunged her crimson spear into the ground. Boom! Countless crimson-gold Fate Soul fire chains erupted from the depths of the sand sea, tightly binding the two charging Blue Flame Demon Wolf.
"Realm-Burning Soul-Locking Spear!!" In the next instant, she suddenly raised the spear. Boom!!! The bodies of the two demonic wolves exploded into a sky full of blue flames and blood mist. Further away, another young man from the Chi Lineage formed hand seals, and a huge bronze ancient bell phantom appeared behind him. Thud--!!! The moment the bell rang out, a large area of space began to collapse layer by layer, and the bodies of several charging Blue Flame Demon Wolf were instantly shattered, with a large amount of bones and flesh crumbling in mid-air.
The entire battlefield instantly descended into a frenzied battle. Although the Blue Flame Demon Wolf was an ancient divine beast, the lowest cultivation level in the Chi Lineage's team was at the Mystic Void Realm · Middle Stage. Facing an encirclement of dozens of demon wolves, they not only did not collapse, but instead forcefully suppressed the beast tide head-on. Boom!!!
A disciple of the Chi Lineage wielded a black-gold giant axe, its axe beam traversing thousands of feet, directly cleaving three Blue Flame Demon Wolves in half at the waist. Blood cascaded down, and large swathes of wolf corpses fell heavily into the sea of sand. On the other side, Chi Jun took a step into the air, and the aura of his True Annihilation Realm Fate Soul spread out with a roar. He clenched his right fist suddenly, and boom!!! The entire space in front of him suddenly contracted.
The five Blue Flame Demon Wolf didn't even have time to scream before their bodies were crushed into a mass of burning blue flames. In just a few dozen breaths, almost all of the first wave of Blue Flame Demon Wolf that pounced were wiped out. But before everyone could catch their breath, boom!!! The sand sea further away exploded again, and hundreds of Blue Flame Demon Wolf rushed out from the depths of the sandstorm at the same time.
The entire Desert of Forgetting began to tremble, and the densely packed blue flame beasts swept in like a tsunami, the oppressive feeling of Fate Soul in the air growing heavier and heavier. At this moment, Shen Qingchen suddenly rose slowly into the air, his eyes slightly closed, the Blank Dao Scroll automatically floating in front of him, and the surrounding wind and sand began to stand still strangely. Su Qingyuan stood beside him, her Sheathless Blade never drawn, her fair hand gently gripping the hilt, but her eyes were terrifyingly cold.
The next instant, Shen Qingchen slowly raised his arm, "Causality Severance." Boom--!!! The world suddenly darkened, and a magnificent golden river suddenly appeared, stretching across everyone's heads. The river was formed by the interweaving and solidification of countless Fate Soul structures, causal nodes, and time remnants, and it controlled the direction of all spirits in the world.
As the long river surged, the past and future of countless Blue Flame Demon Wolf simultaneously appeared. Shen Qingchen sat cross-legged in the void, his hands forming profound hand seals as the Blank Dao Scroll slowly unfolded. He reached out and gently probed into the depths of the long river. In the next instant, strands of transparent silk were slowly drawn from the river of fate.
Those threads—the very causal link that kept the Blue Flame Demon Wolf "alive" —Shen Qingchen suddenly opened his eyes, and with a light flick of his finger, swoosh—all the transparent threads snapped simultaneously. In the next instant, the bodies of the large group of Blue Flame Demon Wolf in front of him suddenly froze. They were not injured, nor were they bleeding, but the blue flames in their eyes began to extinguish rapidly.
One by one, the demonic wolves began to tremble violently, as if they had suddenly lost their reason to "continue to exist." Thud. The first demonic wolf fell, followed by the second, the third, the fourth... a large number of Blue Flame Demon Wolf collapsed one after another.
Their bodies bore no wounds, yet their Fate Soul structures were collapsing madly. Even the traces of their existence were being rapidly forgotten by heaven and earth. Large numbers of wolf corpses gradually turned into transparent ash and vanished. At the same time, Su Qingyuan slowly raised her right hand. She did not draw her sword, but simply pressed lightly on the hilt of the Sheathless Blade. Her fingertips slowly closed, and an extremely cold aura instantly tore through heaven and earth.
"Pre-Origin Tribulation Finger." Buzz--!!! The space in front of her suddenly collapsed, and a silver-white finger beam as thin as a hair instantly pierced through the sky. The light was too fast, even beyond the perception. Dozens of Blue Flame Demon Wolf in front of her had not even reacted before their bodies began to flicker violently.
The past that had existed was being completely wiped away by heaven and earth. The wolf pack's bodies rapidly lost their physical form from their heads, becoming transparent. Their Fate Soul, karma, and the remnants of time collapsed in the same instant.
Before the entire swarm of Blue Flame Demon Wolf could even utter a single mournful howl, they vanished completely into the universe. The surrounding cultivators suddenly opened their eyes wide, a chilling sense of unease surging in their hearts. A strange emptiness filled the world, yet no matter how hard they tried to recall, they could not find any trace of what had been lost.
Su Qingyuan stood still, her sword sheathed and unmoved. Deep within her clear, cold eyes flowed a chilling, piercing light. The large swarm of Blue Flame Demon Wolf in front of them had been almost completely annihilated by the combined efforts of the two of them, while from the deep, dark depths of the Forgotten Storm, increasingly ferocious roars were slowly pressing in from afar.