Silent Abyss versus Annihilation Structure
On the arena, the Dao principles were boiling to the Ultimate. This was no longer a battle between cultivators, but two supreme Dao Path that transcended all laws of the world, engaging in the most fundamental and thorough fateful clash in the same world.
Countless cultivators held their breath, and there was not a single sound in the world. Only two Ultimate torrents of primordial energy were locked in a fierce standoff and a frenzied clash in the airspace above the arena. A gray-white, Stillness Scroll stretched across the sky, covering all realms.
Shangguan Haoqian stood at the core of the painting, his Fate Soul essence burning completely, with ten thousand ink patterns swirling around him. Each line was Order Adjudication heaven and earth carved by his own hand. The moment the Stillness Scroll: Myriad Forms Return to the Abyss, space was frozen, time was locked, and all things were archived.
Mountains and rivers, emptiness, traces of the Dao, cause and effect—all formed things in the world become predetermined scenes in his paintings. Once a scene is captured in a scroll, its existence is fixed, its rules are locked, and its evolution is halted.
This is the Way of Determining the Order Adjudication of All Things, but even if he pushes the Order Adjudication All Things to its perfect Ultimate, the figure standing in the center of the Annihilation Structure Tide remains motionless. Around Ju Mohan, the Primordial Annihilation Structure Domain rotates endlessly.
The endless gray and white ink lines that fill the scroll, the established rules of heaven and earth, and the solidified structure of all things, once you step into the Annihilation Structure Domain within three feet, are all forcibly traced back to their source, dismantled, stripped away, and reassembled.
The "result" that Shangguan Haoqian fixed was forcibly traced back to the "origin" in his hands, the Order Adjudication determined and the Annihilation Structure was destroyed, one locked the evolution of heaven and earth, and the other subverted the Origin Framework.
The balance of the Dao principles across the entire arena was visibly tilting towards Ju Mohan, and Shangguan Haoqian's eyes narrowed with Ultimate concentration. For the first time, he truly realized that with the Myriad Forms Brush and Ink, he possessed an inexhaustible world to depict and an unfathomable Dao root to archive.
"Ju Mohan, your path precedes all other paths."
His voice resounded through the sky, containing both Ultimate approval and a resolute determination to fight to the bitter end. "I record all things to take shape, you dismantle all things to return to their origin. This battle is my Dao Path of myriad forms encountering the primordial annihilation of heaven."
Ju Mohan stood calmly at the center of the primordial tide. "Brother Shangguan's 'Stillness Scroll' can seal all laws, suppress all phenomena, and lock away illusion and reality; it is already the pinnacle of the contemporary Order Adjudication." "However... the Order Adjudication can only bind the 'formed form,' but cannot confine the 'Unborn essence.'"
With a single sentence, he revealed the Ultimate barrier between the two great Dao Path. Shangguan Haoqian's mind became completely clear. He knew that the ordinary Myriad Forms Return to the Abyss could no longer suppress this Primordial Annihilation Structure. Since writing could not seal the heavens, then he would Entering Stillness with his body and merge his life with the Dao.
Boom!!! Suddenly, the entire scroll of paintings flipped upside down!
The gray-white sky that covered the vast expanse of the heavens suddenly contracted, and countless landscapes, ink marks in the void, and lines of cause and effect all flowed upstream and Return to One to Shangguan Haoqian's body.
The world of heaven and earth crumbled inch by inch, not in defeat, but in Ultimate condensation. Countless Order Adjudication abandoned their vast expanse and all condensed into the Fate Soul. "Silent Self - Return to Origin!" As the four words fell, all sound ceased.
The Source Power of the entire Flourishing Age Square was completely dead, the laws of the Dao ceased to evolve, the void froze and solidified, and even the Fate Soul of the cultivators watching the battle experienced a momentary stagnation. From the center of Shangguan Haoqian's brow, a wisp of extremely faint, extremely distant, and extremely desolate silver-gray light broke out of his body.
That wasn't a halo of divine power; it was the most primordial root of the Eternal Silence Realm. A primordial rift, devoid of form or shape, split open in the sky, and a wisp of the primordial source of Annihilation, spanning countless ages, descended and infused his body. His hair turned shrouded in silence, his robes turned ashen, and his physical body lost its vibrant, living quality, transforming into a Stillness Dao body.
At this moment, he was no longer the cultivator who painted the heavens with his brush; he was the very essence of Eternal Silence walking the world. His existence was completely integrated into the Great Dao of Annihilation. All things in the world that Annihilation Structure, dismantled, or reconstructed, as long as they touched the origin of Eternal Silence, would be instantly suppressed, frozen, Return to the Ruins.
Boom!!! The Annihilation torrent exploded outwards from him!
The Dao Domain, which had been constantly being Annihilation Structure, suddenly retaliated. The gray-white silent light suppressed the surrounding area, and for the first time, the Primordial Annihilation Structure Domain, which was constantly flowing with Ju Mohan, was forcibly suppressed, imprisoned, and its operation slowed down.
The countless black Dao patterns, dismantling the origin, solidified layer by layer under the baptism of Annihilation, becoming impossible to deduce or reconstruct. Shangguan Haoqian raised his eyes, his gaze filled with boundless stillness.
"I return to stillness, to coexist with the Dao." "Your Annihilation Structure can dismantle the forms of all things, but do you dare to dismantle the root of this Annihilation of heaven and earth?" At this moment, the entire audience was horrified.
The four envoys on the high platform all rose, their eyes trembling. "To merge with the Dao, to Still the Self, Return to Origin... this is the true posture of touching the source of Eternal Silence!" He no longer used supernatural powers; he himself was the greatest Dao principle suppressing all!
A deathly silence enveloped the arena, everything stopped turning, and it seemed that the outcome was already decided. Yet, deep within the dark clouds, Ju Mohan still stood in the same spot, facing the Annihilation tide that suppressed eternity, his expression calm and undisturbed, only a soft sigh falling into the wind.
"Brother Shangguan, you have merged your Fate Soul with stillness, becoming one with the Great Dao." "This Dao is invincible within 'stillness,' yet it is also trapped within 'stillness.'" "You have become Annihilation, and thus lost your 'self.'" "But my Dao never breaks stillness, only strips away ties."
As soon as he finished speaking, Ju Mohan clasped his hands together in a hand seal, and the Primordial Annihilation Origin Seal behind him began to rotate violently, a dark blue-green primordial light pillar piercing the sky! The Annihilation Structure Great Dao, which had originally only been dismantling its structure, suddenly ascended to the deepest part of its origin! "Selflessness—Leaving the Abyss!"
Boom!!! This strike had no overwhelming killing power, no Heaven Collapse might, only an Ultimate delicate and Ultimate silver-gray mark, quietly stretching across the void. This mark did not sever the physical body, break the Dao domain, or destroy all phenomena; it only did one thing—strip the Dao from the original bond between me and myself.
In an instant, a chain of the Great Dao, deeply buried in the heavens and earth and Ultimate stable, suddenly appeared in the high-level origin that no one could see. It was the bond between Shangguan Haoqian and the Great Dao of Eternal Silence, the foundation of his Still the Self, Return to Origin.
A faint crack appeared. Crack—a silent sound resounded throughout the very source! Shangguan Haoqian's Ultimate stable and Annihilation Dao Body suddenly developed countless fine cracks.
His resonance with the Eternal Silence Realm began to weaken, his Fate Soul, which had merged with the Great Dao, began to detach, and his impeccable form of Annihilation was being forcibly peeled away, dismantled, and severed from its very origin.
"That's amazing!!!" Shangguan Haoqian was shocked, and disbelief appeared in his eyes for the first time.
He had merged with the Dao, and should have been impervious to all laws and Annihilation Structure, yet the opponent's Dao bypassed the surface-level combat and directly attacked the shackles of his Dao's foundation! "Your return to the Entering Stillness."
Ju Mohan like an ancient bell, pierced through the mists of Annihilation. "I, Li Yuan, am to detach Leaving Stillness." "You borrow the power of heaven and earth to become invincible, I will sever your ties to heaven and earth!" Boom!!! The two supreme origins clashed completely!
On one side, there is the Annihilation of the world, aiming to Return to the Ruins and make all laws Eternal Silence; on the other side, there is the breaking of the abyss and the separation of the self and the Tao, aiming to redistribute the origin.
The gray-white torrent of Annihilation and the cyan-black Annihilation Structure the Dao were frantically strangling, annihilating, reborn, and overturning each other in the center of the arena. Layers of the void collapsed and reassembled, and Dao patterns Annihilation and reborn one by one.
Cracks spread rapidly across Shangguan Haoqian's Annihilation Dao Body, severing his connection with the Great Dao of Eternal Silence. His original form of Nirvana, which had suppressed all the heavens, was forced to fade away layer by layer. The power of Nirvana dissipated, the Myriad Forms of the World collapsed, and the Dao Patterns of Order Adjudication dissipated.
He was forcibly forced back to the body of a prodigy from the incarnation of the Great Dao of Eternal Silence. Taking advantage of the moment when his Dao body was loose, his origin was turbulent, and his Fate Soul was unbalanced, Ju Mohan fully opened the Primordial Annihilation Structure Domain!
A palm strike descended! This palm strike dismantled all remaining Order Adjudication, shattered all Annihilation aftershocks, and reconstructed the very structure of the arena! Boom!!!
A tremendous shockwave erupted from the source! The last barrier of Stillness Dao surrounding Shangguan Haoqian shattered, a mouthful of primordial blood sprayed into the sky, and his body flew backward like a kite with a broken string, crashing heavily into the center of the arena.
He knelt on one knee, his Dao aura violently chaotic, his Fate Soul fluctuating wildly, his Ultimate Dao Path completely shattered. Yet he did not succumb to despair. Raising his head, he burst into loud laughter, a hearty laugh that reverberated throughout the plaza. "What a magnificent Li Yuan! What a masterful Annihilation Structure Great Dao!"
"I believed myself to be invincible among my contemporaries, having achieved perfect tranquility, yet you managed to shatter my foundation at its very core!" "Today's defeat is utter and complete; I am utterly convinced of your superiority!"
He slowly rose, wiping away the bloodstains, his eyes growing ever clearer and brighter. "You've shown me that the fixed Order Adjudication is ultimately limited; only the stripping away of the origin can lead to the highest." "When I advance further on my Dao Path, I will surely return to discuss the root of the Dao with you once more!"
Across the arena, Ju Mohan absorbed the surging tide of Annihilation Structure and Primordial Annihilation Origin Seal to his spiritual platform, his eyes filled with equal respect and recognition.
"Brother Shangguan, you are the first opponent in my life to force me to awaken the state of 'No Self, Depart the Abyss' and 'Breaking Through the Dao'." "Your 'Returning to the Origin of All Forms' and 'Unity with the Self' have already placed you at the pinnacle of the Dao Path Order Adjudication." "Though you have lost, your Dao is not dishonored." He slightly cupped his hands, his demeanor composed. "Brother Haoqian, you flatter me." Boom!!!
Ju Mohan wins and advances!! Shangguan Haoqian loses and is eliminated!! The moment Nangong Xingyun's pronouncement fell, the long-silent Flourishing Age Square was instantly engulfed in a towering wave that shook the heavens.
This battle is devoid of despicable schemes or external attacks; it is a pure clash of Dao Path, an Ultimate contest of origins, and an unparalleled duel between two of the greatest talents of our generation, who prove their Dao with their Fate Soul and contend for supremacy with their great Dao. It will surely be etched into the annals of this Flourishing Age Assembly.