Hua Yin had long ago entrusted the deepest strand of his essence to the Hua Lineage bloodline. As long as the direct line of the Hua Lineage has not been severed, and as long as the clan's fortune still flows within the ancestral land, this anchor point can preserve a sliver of possibility for him to reassemble his Fate Soul. The Myriad Ages Fruit Lodging is merely the outermost layer of cover; the Hua Lineage bloodline is his true last resort, which he is unwilling to reveal to others.
The Ring Master Soul Diagram swiftly traced the dark red line, and the Fate Soul fluctuations of the Hua Family Lineage members, the bloodline traces deposited deep in the ancestral land, and the causal imprints left by the elders of past generations all formed a continuously extending gray-red vein in Qin Yu's sea of consciousness.
The Void Source · Dream Stillness then changed its devouring direction. Countless Zero Point Offshoot no longer chased after the past and future that had been severed, but instead spread outward along Hua Yin's only remaining bloodline anchor point. Subtle ripples silently penetrated the dark red cause and effect. Wherever they passed, the Fate Soul imprint belonging to Hua Yin in the Hua Lineage bloodline began to lose its color layer by layer.
Qin Yu slowly closed his five fingers, his voice low and resonant, reaching the depths of the Five Realms. "No matter how deeply you hide, you have ultimately left your roots. Since this Fate Soul resides within the Hua Lineage bloodline, I will follow the causal path of that bloodline and pursue your last escape route to the very end."
Hua Yin was charging towards the edge of the Five Domains when he heard these words and his figure suddenly froze. He could clearly feel that the Fate Soul Anchor Point hidden deep within the Hua Lineage's bloodline had been touched by the Zero Point Offshoot, and that power that brought all things back to stillness was rapidly approaching along the Lineage's cause and effect. Once the anchor was swallowed up, the only present he had gained by personally severing the past and the future would also lose its last support.
A genuine panic finally flashed across Hua Yin's eyes. He abruptly reached into the torn flesh of his chest and pulled out a palm-sized, dark purple soul talisman from behind the Fate Soul Nucleus. The moment the talisman appeared, the light within the five domains dimmed instantly. "Boy, you've been hiding your true strength, but today you have absolutely no chance of Annihilation this old man."
The soul talisman was made of some kind of leather, its edges covered with fine serrations. Its surface had no ordinary runes, only a blurry human face stitched together by countless black lines. The face's eyes were tightly closed, its lips were pierced by nine thin, blood-red nails, and a tiny, pale bone fragment was embedded between its brows. Inside the bone fragment, countless phantoms of Fate Soul knelt and struggled.
Dark purple ripples continuously appeared around the Soul Talisman. Each ripple swept across the void, silently stealing the spatial coordinates of the vicinity, causing that area to lose its clear location. Deeper still, there was an extremely insidious life-substituting Daoist aura, which seemed to have already devoured the Fate Soul of countless living beings before their death, refining their final "departure" into an escape karma that the talisman holder could borrow.
Hua Yin held the Soul Talisman in his palm. The scales on his palm were cut open by the edge of the Soul Talisman. As soon as the black and red demonic blood touched the surface of the talisman, the blurry human face that had been closed suddenly opened its eyes.
There were no pupils in his eye sockets, only two constantly rotating, pitch-black holes.
In an instant, a sharp soul howl pierced through the five realms, and countless phantoms of the dead souls refined into the soul talisman struggled out from the dark purple talisman surface. Their bodies intertwined, transforming into a twisted soul river that forcibly cut across the space between Hua Yin and the Existence Zero Point. When the Zero Point Offshoot touched the soul river, the dead souls at the forefront were immediately deleted. However, for every one that disappeared, the soul talisman would push out ten or a hundred remnant souls from the depths, forcibly delaying that moment of devouring.
Without any hesitation, Hua Yin bit his tongue and spat a mouthful of his Fate Soul essence blood onto the Soul Talisman's brow, instantly turning the pale bone fragments into blood.
The nine thin nails that had pinned the human face and lips snapped open one after another, and the human face on the soul talisman opened its mouth, emitting a shrill whistle that could make the Fate Soul tremble simultaneously. The space behind Hua Yin was not torn apart; instead, the outline of his own Fate Soul rapidly faded, and his flesh, scales, demonic patterns, and gray-black core were simultaneously absorbed by the soul talisman.
The Soul Talisman did not break through the Five Domains for him; it forcibly stripped Hua Yin's current "existence location" from the records of heaven and earth, and then used the causal relationship of the departure of thousands of dead souls as a cover to drag his only present to an unfamiliar destination that had long been buried inside the Soul Talisman.
Qin Yu's eyes narrowed, and the Existence Zero Point immediately pressed forward.
Countless Zero Point Offshoot pierced through the River of Souls, and swathes of souls vanished along with their memories and karma. Large gray-white cracks quickly appeared on the surface of the Soul Talisman. Half of Hua Yin's body had already been swallowed up, while his remaining Fate Soul was still firmly held by Void Source Dream Stillness. Large areas of his shoulder, left arm, and chest turned into shadow dust one after another. The anchor point of the Hua Lineage bloodline was also torn apart by the Zero Point Offshoot, and the dark red thread trembled violently. In the end, only a faint remnant remained, which was forcibly swept away by the Soul Talisman.
At the last moment before the Soul Talisman shattered, Hua Yin's ferocious face suddenly rose from the dark purple halo. His scarlet vertical eyes stared intently at Qin Yu through the continuously closing gap in the Soul Talisman, and his roar, filled with deep hatred, echoed out, causing the entire ruins to tremble with continuous rumbling.
"Boy! I will remember this debt. From now on, you will have nowhere to stand in the entire Eternal Nonexistence Limitless Domain. You will suffer unbearable retribution for what you did today!"
As the last word fell, the Soul Talisman exploded into countless dark purple fragments. Thousands of souls simultaneously let out mournful screams. Before the fragments even hit the ground, they were swallowed up by Existence Zero Point. Hua Yin's figure also disappeared at the intersection of the five domains.
Heaven and earth returned to silence. The Void Source · Dream Stillness slowly closed, leaving only lingering gray-white aftershocks above the ruins. Qin Yu stood on the shattered mountain ridge, his gaze falling on the spot where Hua Yin had disappeared. The Ring Master Soul Diagram could still detect extremely faint traces of bloodline.
Hua Yin escaped. He had severed most of his past and future, his Myriad Ages Fruit Lodging was almost destroyed, and his Fate Soul origin had suffered a severe injury that was enough to shake his foundation. Even the Fate Soul Anchor Point that was entrusted to the Hua Lineage bloodline was torn off by the Void Source Dream Stillness.
At the critical moment, the mysterious dark purple soul talisman devoured countless dead souls as a substitute for his own life, forcibly stripping him of his existence, thus allowing him to snatch back a last glimmer of life from the devouring of his Existence Zero Point.
The Void Source and Dream Stillness slowly receded, and the five vast domains dissipated layer by layer like the receding tide of clouds. The Existence Zero Point disappeared into the depths of the void, and this ancient ruin, crushed by the great war, returned to its deathly silence.
The surrounding mountains were scarred and devastated, with broken peaks overturned and ancient ruins scattered across the barren land. The lingering echoes of the fierce battle still reverberated between heaven and earth.
Qin Yu slowly exhaled a long breath, and within his sea of consciousness, the Ring Master Soul Diagram gradually fell silent. Xiao Yue sat down again on the star-blue ring, her face showing exhaustion, but a contented smile appeared in her eyes.
"It's finally over." Qin Yu nodded slightly. "It's the end."
His figure slowly descended from the sky, his toes lightly shattering the earth. The instant he landed, he gently flipped his right hand, and a wisp of pale golden light slowly appeared, quietly holding an ancient talisman the size of a palm within.
Its entire body is pale gold, densely covered with soul patterns as fine as hair, each pattern flowing with a faint spiritual light. This item is called Soul Sound Talisman. It has no killing power whatsoever, but it can completely record all the sounds, scenes, Fate Soul fluctuations and the flow of origin within a certain world.
Qin Yu slowly probed the talisman with his divine sense. Buzz—the soul talisman trembled gently, and countless images unfolded in his sea of consciousness.
It all began in a desolate old house, where Hua Yin went alone to meet his lover. The two confronted each other, and he confessed that he had colluded with the Ancient God Clan to refine the Return to the Ruins Tribulation Descent Pill. He also revealed that the Hua Lineage family had planted spies in both the Chi and Ju Lineage. He admitted that he wanted to use the Tribulation Descent Pill to control the two families' guardian Source Beast Huang, and further revealed the Hua Lineage's ambition to dominate the Eternal Nonexistence Limitless Domain.
The entire process, from falling into demonic possession and activating forbidden techniques of the Ancient God Clan to fighting his way out and escaping, is preserved in its entirety, including sound, visuals, and every minute detail, without any omissions.
Qin Yu carefully put away the soul talisman, a faint smile appearing in his eyes. This smile was peaceful and serene, surpassing any victory he had ever won. What he sought was not to kill Hua Yin, but irrefutable, irrefutable evidence.
A whisper echoed in his heart: All of Hua Yin's incriminating evidence has been collected. Qin Yu raised his eyes and gazed into the distance, his gaze falling on the place where various top forces had gathered. "The martial arts tournament is approaching." He narrowed his eyes slightly. "I should go to the Chi Lineage." Before he finished speaking, his right hand lightly swept through the air. Swoosh
A dark passage tore open in the void, at the end of which time and space shifted erratically. Qin Yu did not hesitate, stepping into it. The void trembled slightly, and his figure completely disappeared from the ruins.
Inside the void passage, the river of time rushed backward beside him. Qin Yu stood with his hands behind his back, his expression calm and undisturbed. In his sea of consciousness, Xiao Yue rested her chin on her hand, gazing at the ceaseless flow of space, and suddenly chuckled softly.
"Little Qinzi, from beginning to end, you never intended to fight Hua Yin to the death."
Qin Yu smiled upon hearing this, "That's right. If it were just to take his life, I wouldn't have needed to deliberately show weakness, much less lure him all the way to these ruins." Xiao Yue nodded slightly. "So, all those questions you asked in the old house, all those deliberate provocations and attempts to provoke him, all to lure him into a trap—it was all part of your plan from the beginning?"
Qin Yu gazed at the path ahead and slowly spoke, "Hua Yin is cautious and suspicious by nature. If you force him to reveal the truth, he won't utter a single word. But when a person is confident of victory and sees their opponent as a dead man, it's hardest for them to hide their plans, and they can't help but reveal all their secrets."
The Soul Sound Talisman reappeared in his palm. "From the moment Hua Yin stepped into the ancient house, the Soul Sound Talisman had already been activated. The subsequent maneuvering, questioning, feigning weakness, pretending to escape, and luring him deep into the ruins—all these actions were solely to make him confess his guilt, Non-Self empty accusations."
Looking at the complete picture circulating within the talisman, Qin Yu said calmly, "Now that we have both witnesses and physical evidence, even if the Hua Lineage tries every means to deny and evade responsibility in the future, they cannot erase the evidence of his own confession."
Xiao Yue clenched her little fists, her eyes filled with joy. "The Hua Lineage is in big trouble now!" Qin Yu put away the soul talisman, his expression returning to calm. "But the real danger has only just begun. There is a high-ranking traitor hidden within the Chi Lineage. If we can't find this person, all our plans are at risk of being leaked."
He slowly closed his eyes, and a Leng Jue figure appeared in his mind— Chi Ninghua. After experiencing the confrontation in the ancient house, the deadly battle in the ruins, the conspiracy of the Ancient God Clan, and the layers of scheming in the undercurrents of the Chi Lineage, Qin Yu was already certain that, in the entire Chi Lineage, only Chi Ninghua was worthy of his complete trust.
He had to finalize the entire plan with Chi Ninghua before the martial arts tournament began. Firstly, he wanted to expose the Hua Lineage's wolfish ambitions in public with the irrefutable evidence in the Soul Sound Talisman. Secondly, he wanted to uncover the mole lurking in the Chi Lineage's upper echelons before the Hua Lineage could make another move. As the river of time continued to extend forward, the Chi Lineage's location was already within reach.