The Blazing Erosion Clan army was filled with murderous intent, and the entire Southern Region was immersed in a suffocating atmosphere. The burly man standing to the left of the Blazing Erosion Clan chief, whose body was as big as a mountain, suddenly took a step forward. The moment his foot landed, the ground sank, and cracks spread rapidly from the center of his feet.
His black beast armor made a dull creaking sound with each movement, his exposed arms were muscular and bulging, and his dark red skin was covered with crisscrossing burn marks, each one radiating a burning, Anger and Aversion Origin.
He slowly raised his head, his bloodshot eyes fixed on Qin Yu, a cruel smile spreading across his lips. He then turned to the Blazing Erosion Clan Chief, clasped his hands in a fist salute, and said in a deep voice, "Clan Chief, let me go and deal with that arrogant outsider."
The Blazing Erosion Clan Chief's expression remained unchanged; he merely nodded slightly, his voice deep and authoritative. "Yes, go. Slay him, and I will bestow upon you one hundred bottles of Sacred Tree Source Liquid."
Upon hearing this, the burly man's eyes blazed with fanaticism, his breathing became heavier, and his smile grew even more ferocious. He nodded emphatically and said, "Rest assured, Chieftain, I will not let you down."
As soon as he finished speaking, he took a sudden step forward, and his entire body was already at the forefront. He clenched his right hand in the air, and a dark light suddenly tore through the void, revealing a completely black demonic halberd.
The halberd is long and heavy, its surface covered with ancient gray-white cracks. Dark red essence flows continuously from the depths of the cracks. The sharpness on both sides of the halberd blade is restrained, yet it constantly devours the surrounding light, as if anything that gets close to it will be dragged into an eternal abyss.
He slowly raised his demonic halberd, its blade pointing directly at Qin Yu, a contemptuous smile playing on his lips, "Boy, dying under my Heaven-Holding Halberd is your greatest honor." Qin Yu gazed at him calmly, his expression remaining serene. Then, he took a step forward, and a greyish-white Daoist aura slowly spread from beneath his feet.
The Silent Origin Stainless Sword slowly appeared in his palm. With a gentle tremor of its blade, a wisp of Annihilation sword intent quietly spread out, suppressing the surrounding raging flames. Qin Yu slowly raised the sword tip, his gaze falling on his opponent, a slight smile playing on his lips, "Very well, then I'll experience it for myself."
The burly man's eyes suddenly flashed with a cold light. Without uttering a single word, he gripped the Heaven-Holding Halberd tightly with both hands, and a chilling source of evil erupted from his body. At that moment, all sounds in the world vanished simultaneously.
The wind stopped, the flames ceased to flicker, and the breathing, the clash of weapons, and the footsteps of the tens of thousands of the Blazing Erosion Clan cultivators in the distance all fell silent. Even their heartbeats seemed to be completely swallowed up by some force, and the entire world fell into absolute stillness.
The burly man slowly raised the Heaven-Holding Halberd, his voice hoarse and cold, "The Silent Abyss World-Sweeping Halberd." As the four words slowly fell, the Heaven-Holding Halberd gently swung out in an arc. There was no astonishing speed, no dazzling brilliance.
The moment the halberd's edge swept through the air, a bottomless, gray-white Annihilation domain slowly unfolded. This was no ordinary spatial rift that tore the heavens and earth apart, but an absolute void where even the primordial existence was forcibly eradicated.
The surrounding world lost all color, all laws of nature froze and stopped turning, and the ancient and boundless Daoist principles were completely dissolved and swallowed up. Only a deathly, endless engraving, constantly spreading outward, stood silently between the myriad realms of the heavens.
"Initial Realm - Trace Halt."
The moment that trace of silence spread to Qin Yu, time around him suddenly froze. All things in heaven and earth stopped, the raging flames remained suspended in mid-air, the falling pebbles stopped in the void, and even the Dao aura flowing around Qin Yu began to slow down. That power did not suppress the physical body, but directly froze existence itself; movement, thought, Fate Soul, and origin were all dragged into absolute stillness.
The burly man didn't stop; the Heaven-Holding Halberd slowly advanced once more. "Middle Realm— Trace Vanishing."
The deep, desolate abyss suddenly expanded, and the space where Qin Yu was located began to fade little by little. His figure gradually became transparent, the spatial coordinates under his feet were constantly erased, and the surrounding world could no longer lock onto his existence. The fluctuations of his Fate Soul began to dissipate, his divine sense senses were rapidly severed, and even the causal connection was swallowed up little by little by that Silent Abyss, as if someone was holding an invisible eraser, slowly wiping Qin Yu away from the entire world.
The burly man's eyes were bloodshot. He roared and raised the Heaven-Holding Halberd high with both hands, pouring all the evil within him into it, causing the entire halberd to emit a deep hum.
"Final Realm - Return to the Abyss!" The halberd crashed down, and the deep, silent Silent Abyss instantly covered the heavens and the earth.
Grayish-white static patterns began to appear on Qin Yu's body, spreading from his shoulders to his entire body. His outline gradually blurred, and his body slowly lost its color, like an ancient painting that had been washed away by countless years, slowly disappearing.
At the same instant, the causal threads that bound Qin Yu shattered inch by inch. The aura that had been left behind in the world, the sword intent that shattered the starry river, the footprints that had traversed countless ages, and the Fate Soul imprint rooted in the order of time were all slowly swallowed and dissolved by the Eternal Silence Abyss.
Heaven and earth spontaneously erased all evidence of his existence. The universe, in its mysterious way, established a law to completely eliminate the name "Qin Yu," erasing him from all time and space, from ancient times to the present and into endless future generations, turning him into pure nothingness.
In that desolate world, only the extremely cold light on the Heaven-Holding Halberd slowly flowed, and the smile on the burly man's face became more and more ferocious as this divine power was fully unleashed.
The Heaven-Holding Halberd in Chi Ming's hand had completely fallen, and the deep, desolate Silent Abyss continued to expand. Grayish-white static patterns spread along the heavens and earth, and wherever it passed, time stopped flowing, space lost its direction, and all the Daoist principles were dragged towards that endless, Eternal Silence Abyss.
There was no sound left in the world; even the churning lava in the distance seemed to freeze in mid-air. The entire battlefield seemed to have been completely erased of the concept of "movement." However, just as that Silent Abyss was about to engulf Qin Yu slowly raised the Silent Origin Stainless Sword. His eyes were completely calm.
Within the sea of consciousness, the Silent Beginning Ring Master Soul Diagram slowly unfolded, and the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel simultaneously rotated. Strands of gray-white Daoist rhyme flowed continuously along the sword's body, ultimately returning to the sword's edge.
Qin Yu spoke softly. "Silent Origin Stainless Sword." "Third Form." "Causeless Disillusionment Sword." The sword tip slowly extended forward. There was no astonishing Sword Qi, no earth-shattering roar. It was merely an extremely calm thrust. At the very moment the sword was thrust out, a Daoist aura that transcended all laws slowly descended. It was neither destruction nor killing, but rather—absolutely No Definition.
Wherever the Silent Origin Stainless Sword passed, all previously established concepts began to rapidly crumble. Was time frozen? Before Qin Yu's sword strike, the very concept of "time freezing" began to disintegrate. Were spatial coordinates erased? The logic of "spatial coordinates" directly lost its foundation. Was the trace of existence swallowed up? The premise that "existence can be erased" was completely negated.
It was not a cracking, not a resistance, nor a forced suppression, but rather it caused the underlying logic upon which the Blazing Netherworld Chi Ming Power depended to completely lose its effectiveness from the root. As the sword continued to advance, the Silent Abyss that covered the heavens and the earth began to tremble violently, and gray-white static patterns shattered one after another, and frozen time began to flow again.
The space, which had lost its color, regained its luster. The Great Dao of Return to the Abyss, said to be able to devour all traces of the past, present, and future, was now crumbling from its deepest depths. Boom!
Finally, the two supreme paths collided head-on, and the entire world suddenly erupted with a gray-white shock that spanned hundreds of thousands of miles. There were no flames or thunder. Only the two paths continuously annihilated each other. On one side, the origin of evil constantly erased existence, and on the other side, absolute No Definition constantly dismantled logic.
Gray and black intertwined, and a gigantic void appeared in the center of the world, devoid of any laws or rules. Even "nothingness" could not exist within it. In the distance, tens of thousands of the Blazing Erosion Clan cultivators' expressions changed drastically. The ground beneath their feet cracked continuously, and the sky began to tilt. The entire Southern Region trembled violently due to the collision of these two great paths.
After a long while, a crisp cracking sound slowly rang out... Crack... It wasn't space shattering, but rather the core logic of the Chi Ming Power beginning to crumble. Immediately afterwards, one, ten, a hundred, countless cracks rapidly spread throughout the Silent Abyss. Finally, boom!! The entire Great Dao of Return to the Abyss exploded.
Countless gray-white static patterns turned into countless fragments and dissipated into the heavens and earth. The Heaven-Holding Halberd in Chi Ming's hand trembled violently, and a terrifying backlash rushed directly into his Fate Soul along the halberd. "Pfft--" Chi Ming suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, his body retreated dozens of steps, and the tiger's mouths of both hands exploded at the same time, blood dripping continuously onto the ground. The entire battlefield was deathly silent.