The World Within the Scrolls, the Final Silence Sea
The deathly silence of heaven and earth trembled violently. Taiyan Ancestral Mountain, a primordial Primordial Supreme Treasure truly encompassed heaven and earth, slowly rose from the top of the Divine Mountain. Countless ancient primordial patterns flowed across its surface, each pattern recording a world that had already been destroyed.
Within each ravine slumbered the remnants of a shattered era. The moment it was fully revealed, the surrounding space began to collapse on a large scale, the ancient stone tablets hanging in the sky shattered one after another, and billions of miles of void were pressed down continuously, as if the entire world could not bear its weight.
However, Qin Yu simply raised his head slowly, a cold smile appearing on his lips. "Hmph, just Primordial Supreme Treasure. Today, I'll show you what it's like." The next moment, an unprecedented starlight suddenly appeared deep within his sea of consciousness. There was no earth-shattering pressure, no world-destroying energy torrent, only an absolute will that transcended all objects.
A faint hum resonated as an ancient key shadow slowly emerged. The key shadow was not enormous, and even appeared quite ordinary. However, the moment it appeared, all the artifacts in the entire world simultaneously let out a mournful cry. The Taiyan Ancestral Mountain, suspended in the distance, trembled violently, as if it had encountered some kind of natural enemy. The Star Wancai Key slowly descended, but it did not release any attack.
Without using any supernatural powers, it simply appeared, and the instant the Taiyan Ancestral Mountain made contact with it, boom—the entire Primordial Supreme Treasure trembled violently. Countless Primordial Divine Runes on the surface of the mountain began to disintegrate, followed by a crack, then a second, a third, and a fourth, with countless cracks instantly spreading throughout the entire Ancestral Mountain.
The cold smile on Divine Mountain's face froze instantly. "What?!" Rumble—the internal structure of Taiyan Ancestral Mountain began to crumble madly. Matter was dismantled. Energy was dismantled. Rules were dismantled. Cause and effect were dismantled. Concepts were dismantled. The Hongmeng Origin accumulated over millions of epochs began to collapse. Countless fragments turned into stardust, all within a few breaths.
The Primordial Supreme Treasure that had accompanied the Divine Mountain for millions of epochs utterly crumbled before its eyes, ultimately transforming into countless starlight that dissipated into the void, leaving the world deathly silent. The Divine Mountain was completely stunned, staring blankly at the scene before it, its shock even surpassing the intensity of the Cognitive Cage's explosion earlier. "Impossible..." "This is impossible..." "The Taiyan Ancestral Mountain is Primordial Supreme Treasure..."
"How is this possible..." It stared intently at Qin Yu, its voice trembling. "You..." "Who are you...?" "How could you crush my Primordial Supreme Treasure directly..." "This... this is impossible..." However, the only answer it received was Qin Yu's extremely cold eyes. The next moment, Qin Yu slowly formed a hand seal, and the causal anchor point buried deep within the origin of the Divine Mountain's Fate Soul instantly erupted.
Boom! The Cognitive Cage exploded completely, and countless chains of cause and effect spread wildly from the depths of the Fate Soul. The entire sea of consciousness of the Divine Mountain fell into chaos, and a large number of memories began to overlap. A large amount of cognition began to collapse. It could no longer even distinguish who it was. A tearing pain came from the source of its Fate Soul. "Ahhh--" The Divine Mountain let out a shrill roar.
Its massive body trembled violently. Just as it was about to mobilize its power to suppress it, it discovered that its Fate Soul had already lost control. At this moment, it finally felt true death. "Wait--" "No--" "This emperor is willing..." However, Qin Yu did not give it a chance to finish speaking. Boom-- An ancient mark slowly rose from behind Qin Yu.
Suddenly, the entire world fell into absolute silence. The Supreme Eternal Stillness Seal, the third divine power, the Originless Return to One, the End and Beginning Everlasting, instantly seemed to pause all things in the world. The shattered space stopped spreading, the flying pebbles froze in mid-air, and even the painful struggles of the Divine Mountain began to slow down, as if the entire world had been pulled into some kind of absolute constant state.
Qin Yu in the center of heaven and earth, his body shrouded in an indescribable faint light, seemingly existing yet Does Not Exist, as if the past and future overlapped within him. The Divine Mountain was horrified to discover that all its supernatural powers, all its strength, all its origins had become useless, because it could not lock onto Qin Yu at all, nor could it even define Qin Yu. Then...
Qin Yu slowly raised the Silent Origin Stainless Sword, and endless Annihilation began to gather on its blade. "Slaying the Dao - Annihilation Sword." As the voice fell, heaven and earth fell silent, and an indescribable sword light slowly appeared. There was no earth-shattering explosion, no devastating roar, only absolute silence. As the sword light swept across, the rules shattered.
Causal Severance, time was severed, space was severed, Fate Soul were severed, existence was severed. The massive body of the Divine Mountain suddenly stiffened, its eyes wide open. Even at the last moment, it still could not believe that it, which had traversed millions of epochs, would perish at the hands of a True Annihilation Realm · Supreme cultivator. "So..." "This emperor..." "is really going to die..." A faint sound rang out.
The Divine Mountain's body slowly split open from the middle, then turned into countless points of light and began to dissipate. Its Fate Soul essence shattered, its cause and effect were completely severed, and its traces of existence began to disappear. Finally, even the last wisp of breath completely returned to nothingness, and the world returned to silence once more. Just after the Divine Mountain completely dissipated, the ancient scroll that had been floating in mid-air slowly lost its support.
As it began its descent, the ancient wheel, half-submerged in the void sea, continued to slowly rotate on the azure scroll. Broken threads of cause and effect drifted gently between heaven and earth— the Scroll of Causal End, the Wheel of Karmic End, the Annihilation Return to the Ruins. Qin Yu's eyes narrowed slightly, and he took a step forward, instantly folding space in the next moment. His figure had already appeared in front of the ancient scroll, and with a swift movement, the scroll fell into his palm.
The instant the two ancient maps came into contact, the Scroll of Thought-Locking Void - Void Thought Stillness - Tower of No Birth and No Destruction within the storage crystal core suddenly resonated with an unprecedented force. Boom! The two ancient maps lit up simultaneously, and an even more ancient aura slowly awakened from the depths of the scroll.
The moment the Scroll of Causal End fell into Qin Yu's hands, the Scroll of Thought-Locking Void within the storage crystal core suddenly erupted with an unprecedented blue divine radiance.
Boom! The entire desolate world trembled violently as the two ancient scrolls simultaneously broke free from Qin Yu's control and floated in the void. In the next instant, the Scroll of Causal End slowly unfolded, Scroll of Thought-Locking Void also fully unfolded. One on the left and one on the right, they floated between heaven and earth. The dark blue wheel slowly rotated, and the deep blue glazed tower trembled slightly. The two ancient scrolls seemed to have finally met again after countless eras.
The entire world fell silent, devoid of sound or ripples, save for the two ancient scrolls that drew ever closer, until finally the left and right scrolls slowly rotated. The backs of the scrolls aligned perfectly, their edges overlapping seamlessly. Boom! The entire space erupted in a blinding blue light, and a dark blue pillar of light, traversing the heavens and earth, shot into the sky.
The two ancient maps began to truly merge. The wheel and the ancient tower on the scroll lit up at the same time. The wheel began to spin faster, and countless thought bubbles flowed wildly on the tower. The Cause Splitting threads floating around the map burned at the same time, turning into countless blue streams of light that flowed into the center of the ancient map. Then, a rotating blue vortex appeared in the center of the map.
The vortex initially appeared to be only the size of a fist, but it continued to expand, reaching hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands of feet, eventually covering the entire world. At its center, there were no energy fluctuations, yet it exuded an irresistible attraction, as if it connected to a world forgotten for countless eons. At that moment, Qin Yu didn't even have time to react.
His entire body was swallowed by the blue vortex. Boom! Heaven and earth disappeared, time disappeared, space disappeared, and all his senses collapsed, as if he had experienced a fall across countless dimensions. He didn't know how much time had passed, but when Qin Yu opened his eyes again, the scene that came into view made him truly stop breathing for the first time.
Before him stretched an endless sea, but it was no ordinary ocean. The entire surface of the sea was a solidified, deep blue, smooth as a mirror, without waves, ripples, or even any movement, as if time had completely died here. Qin Yu was standing on a blue crystal slab, which floated on the seashore and stretched hundreds of feet forward.
Beneath his feet lay crystals as clear as mirrors, within which flowed countless tiny streams of blue light. Before him lay the endless void sea, the Final Silence Sea. Or rather— the Final Thought Annihilation Void Sea and Void. In the distance, in the center of the ocean, an ancient wheel of immeasurable size lay half-submerged in the water. Only the upper half of the wheel was visible, yet it was still as vast as a world itself.
Countless broken threads of cause and effect were wrapped around the rim of the wheel. These threads floated on the sea like hair, constantly appearing, breaking, and disappearing. The wheel slowly rotated, and with each inch it rotated, subtle causal vibrations appeared in the surrounding space. A hundred feet directly above the wheel, an ancient glazed pagoda suspended upside down in the void floated silently.
The spire points vertically downwards, directly towards the center of the wheel. The entire ancient tower is deep blue, with countless bubbles of thought flowing across its surface. Each bubble seems to contain a segment of consciousness, including living beings, worlds, civilizations, and eras. They are constantly being born, destroyed, and replayed, emitting an extremely faint hum. And the most eerie thing is...
Between the wheel and the ancient tower, there exists an extremely thin blue beam of light, only as thick as an arm, yet it pierces through heaven and earth, connecting the wheel and the tower together. Within a three-foot radius around the beam of light, there is an area of absolute stillness, where there is no light, no shadow, no cause and effect, no thought, and even existence itself seems impossible to approach.
On the distant sea, thousands of broken threads of cause and effect floated and sank, sometimes bright and sometimes dim. Many of the threads shattered as soon as they took shape, dissolving into specks of blue dust that fell into the vast ocean.
From time to time, ethereal black shadows swept across the depths of the sea, formless and intangible. A mere wisp of their aura could evoke a bone-chilling cold emanating from the depths of one's soul. These were the last traces left behind by beings that had been completely eradicated from the world in the past. Qin Yu slowly raised his head, only to find that there was no sky, no sun, no moon, no stars, and no other light source here.
The eerie blue divine light emanating from the roulette wheel and the faint blue glow flowing across the surface of the ancient tower created a breathtaking contrast. Nearby, the light was a deep blue; further away, it was a dark blue, and beyond that, a complete and utter darkness that seemed endless, boundless, and without end. Qin Yu stood quietly on the crystal slab, his gaze growing increasingly solemn. For upon truly stepping into this place, he finally understood that this was neither a secret realm nor a ruin; it was more like a world that had been artificially sealed away.
A world specifically designed to suppress two forbidden treasures. Just then, an extremely ancient voice suddenly echoed from the depths of the Final Silence Sea. "Ten million epochs..." "Has another living being finally set foot here..." As the voice faded, the Tower of No Birth and No Destruction, suspended upside down in the void, suddenly shone with an unprecedented blue light.