High in the sky, after the two chieftains of the Shade-Guarding Clan disappeared into countless green light spots, the entire world fell into a depressing silence. Qian Wenwan, her long hair swaying gently in the wind. She did not speak, but looked down at the Shade-Guarding Clan kneeling on the ground below, weeping uncontrollably.
Some wept bitterly, clutching the fragments of the divine staff left behind by the two clan leaders; some knelt on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly; and many more simply stood there, their eyes vacant. They didn't even know what to do next, because in the Shade-Guarding Clan, the two clan leaders were the clan's support. Now that their support was gone, the entire clan seemed to have lost its direction.
Qian Wenwan slowly closed her eyes. Before entering the Layered Realm Void, she never imagined that there would be such people and evil people in this world. But now, she saw with her own eyes the gentleness, kindness and tolerance of the Shade-Guarding Clan. They never intentionally harmed anyone.
They only wanted to live by the ancient tree, but even so, the Blazing Erosion Clan still wanted to exterminate them. At this moment, for the first time, she truly felt killing intent. When she opened her eyes again, an ancient silver-white pattern slowly appeared between her brows. As soon as the pattern appeared, the light in the world began to dim slowly.
The sky lost its color, the wind ceased its flow, and even the cries below gradually faded. Qian Wenwan raised her palm, her five fingers slowly spreading. An ancient and deep voice emanated from within her. "Myriad Phenomena Return to Stillness." "Eternal Night Buries Gods." Boom—the entire world suddenly trembled.
Centered on her, a silver-white halo rapidly expanded. Wherever the halo passed, space began to peel away, and time began to stand still. The flowers, grass, and trees on the ground quickly turned gray-white, and even the clouds in the sky stopped moving. Behind her, an enormous phantom slowly rose up.
The phantom's face was obscured; all that could be seen was that it sat cross-legged in the endless void, its eyes closed, its hands forming a mudra, and countless ancient runes surrounding its body. An aura of Annihilation, transcending life and death, reincarnation and time, began to permeate the heavens and earth. In the distance, Chi Yan's expression changed drastically; for the first time, he felt a true sense of impending death.
This was no ordinary defeat, but a suffocating feeling of being completely erased and ceased to exist by all traces of the world. "Damn it!" "This woman is insane!" Chi Yan roared, and a raging crimson flame suddenly ignited behind him, completely igniting the origin of the Wrath Clan, and his eyes turned blood red.
Countless dark red patterns rapidly covered his entire body, and in the sky, a giant of fury, tens of thousands of feet tall, slowly materialized. The giant's face was ferocious, and its eyes spewed seas of fire, as if representing all the anger in the world. At the same time Shi You's expression finally lost its composure.
He swiftly formed hand seals, and countless black malevolent thoughts gathered wildly around him. Streams of resentment, jealousy, greed, hatred, and other negative emotions materialized into a torrent. In the end, they condensed into a pitch-black sun behind him. The sun had no light, yet it continuously devoured everything around it. As soon as it appeared, the surrounding space began to decay and collapse.
Chi Yan and Shi You exchanged a glance. For the first time, the two joined forces to unleash the true inherited divine power of the Blazing Erosion Clan. The raging giant and the pitch-black sun rose into the sky simultaneously. Then, the two forces began to slowly merge. The sky trembled violently, and the whole world roared. Countless Shade-Guarding Clan looked up in terror.
That power was far beyond their comprehension. "Blazing Erosion Returns to the Origin!" "World Extinguisher Divine Punishment!" The next moment, the raging giant and the pitch-black sun crashed down on Qian Wenwan at the same time, and the Annihilation phantom behind Qian Wenwan slowly opened its eyes at this moment, those eyes were devoid of any emotion.
Only boundless, eternal silence remained. She gently raised her hand and pointed forward. "Burial." Just one word. The entire world suddenly fell silent. The next instant, the three forces finally collided. No one could describe the scene at that moment: the sky vanished, the earth vanished, the light vanished.
All that remained in everyone's vision was a blinding white light, followed by a devastating shockwave that swept outwards in all directions, instantly shattering millions of miles of void. Countless spatial rifts pierced the heavens and earth, the Shade-Guarding Ancient Tree trembled violently, and countless leaves flew everywhere. The entire region shook violently, with a deafening rumble—
The deafening roar lasted for a long time. As the light gradually faded, three figures were simultaneously sent flying backward from the sky, their Chi Yan shattering dozens of distant mountain peaks. Blood kept flowing from the corners of their mouths. Their chests had caved in half. Shi You was also in bad shape; the pitch-black sun had completely shattered, and his right arm had almost disappeared.
Her face was as pale as paper, while Qian Wenwan's condition was clearly more serious. She flew backwards for tens of thousands of feet before finally managing to stabilize herself. As soon as she stood up, she spat out a mouthful of blood, her once white dress now stained red with blood, and her Fate Soul within her body continued to vibrate.
A sharp pain shot through her mind. She raised her head and stared intently at the two people in the distance. After the battle, she finally realized one thing: their strength was definitely no less than that of the Eternal Silence Realm · High Stage. Otherwise, they could never have fought her to such an extent. On the other side, Chi Yan was equally shocked. He slowly wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.
Staring intently at Qian Wenwan, his eyes filled with disbelief. "Damn it!" "A mere outsider!" "She actually withstood our clan's divine power!" Shi You's gaze grew increasingly cold. He slowly rose from the ruins, a chilling killing intent surfacing in his eyes. "Enough with the nonsense." "Use the treasure bestowed upon us by the clan leader." "Today, we must annihilate her completely, no matter what."
As she spoke, Shi You slowly reached into her robes and took out an ancient bone fragment as black as ink. The moment the bone fragment appeared, the temperature in the world suddenly dropped, and even the Shade-Guarding Ancient Tree began to tremble slightly. Clearly, it was no ordinary object.
After holding the Black Bone fragment in his palm, Shi You's expression suddenly became more solemn than ever before. His face, which had just been cold and vicious, now showed an almost fanatical reverence. Seeing this, Chi Yan's rage gradually subsided.
He slowly stepped back a few paces, his hands hanging down in front of his chest, then lowered his head as if welcoming the arrival of some supreme being. The entire world suddenly fell silent. Countless members of the Shade-Guarding Clan huddled behind the ancient tree, even their breathing subconsciously becoming softer. The bone fragment floated in mid-air, its surface beginning to show dense cracks.
Wisps of dark energy continuously seeped from the cracks, followed by a deep, ancient rumble that slowly echoed from the depths of heaven and earth. The sound seemed to come neither from the sky nor from the earth, but rather from the very depths of everyone's hearts. Boom—
The bone fragments shattered completely, and in an instant, the world lost its color. The entire sky suddenly turned pitch black, and countless dark clouds surged wildly. Billions of dark red lightning bolts wandered deep within the clouds, and in the center of that sky-covering darkness, an unimaginably enormous figure slowly emerged. It was an ancient being composed of countless twisted bones.
He had no complete face; a constantly writhing black vortex floated above his head, and dozens of dark red eyes opened from the depths of the vortex. Those eyes were emotionless, yet they instilled an uncontrollable chill in the souls of all who saw them. His body was incomplete, with dozens of broken divine weapons embedded in his shoulders.
The chest was empty, filled with swirling, dark fog, from which countless faces—crying, roaring, resentful, jealous, and hateful—constantly surfaced. Behind it grew countless thick bone chains, each ending in an ancient head, some of which were weeping.
Some were laughing, some were roaring angrily, and some were revealing chillingly sinister smiles. After the entire being appeared, the sky began to crack, the earth began to sink, and even the Shade-Guarding Ancient Tree trembled violently, with countless leaves falling down as if instinctively fearing something.
Shi You and Chi Yan knelt simultaneously in the void, their foreheads heavily touching the ground. Then, their hands rapidly formed hand seals, their movements becoming faster and faster. Strange runes flew continuously from their fingertips, and at the same time, they began to chant an extremely ancient and obscure language, their voices low and distorted.
Like the whispers of billions of departed souls, like the murmurs of countless ancient beings at the end of time, "The abyss of calamity Beginningless, the Endless Annihilation." "Anger is the fuel, evil is the seed." "I beseech the ancestral spirits, return from the land of the unknown." Sever cause, sever effect, sever name, sever fate, return to the state of nothingness, return to the Unborn, return to the state of unknowing.
As the last word fell, the two looked up simultaneously, their hands clasped together abruptly. "Slay!" Boom— The Ancestral Spirit of Evil high above slowly lowered its head. Dozens of scarlet eyes opened at the same time, and the entire world stopped turning in that instant. It slowly raised a finger.
The movements were extremely slow, yet the surrounding world began to collapse in patches. An indescribable light emerged from His fingertips and then slowly descended towards Qian Wenwan. Divine Power— Return to the Beginning Calamity Wrath. At this moment, Qian Wenwan finally felt an unprecedented fear.
She saw her supernatural powers begin to crumble, her Daoist principles begin to disintegrate, and all the laws she had mastered begin to lose their meaning. She even began to feel a sense of disorientation. "Who am I..." This thought appeared in her mind without warning, and the next moment, she found that her memories were becoming blurred.
Her own name began to sound unfamiliar, her past began to crumble, and even why she was standing there was becoming unclear. The light had not yet truly descended, but she already felt a profound despair. It was not death, because death at least meant that she had existed.
This attack was negating her very existence—past, present, and future. Every trace of "Qian Wenwan" was being stripped away, bit by bit. She slowly raised her head, her once clear eyes gradually losing focus, her face growing paler, and her clenched hands trembling slightly.
Her lips parted slightly, but she found herself unable to utter a sound. For the first time, she felt true powerlessness. For the first time, she realized she couldn't withstand this attack. She stared intently at the slowly descending Ancestral Spirit of Evil, her eyes devoid of their previous rage.
All that remained was a profound sense of shock and despair, for she finally understood that the power before her far exceeded the comprehension of the Eternal Silence Realm. Meanwhile, Chi Yan and Shi You slowly rose to their feet, cold smiles appearing on their faces. They knew that once the Return to the Beginning Calamity Wrath descended upon this outsider, it would vanish completely from this world, leaving not even a trace of its existence.