On the high platform, Nalan Yanqing's gaze narrowed slightly. "Tranquil Abyss Thrust is the Jiang Lineage's inherited swordsmanship. The essence of this sword lies in searching for the inherent flaws in the chain of all things' operation."
Xuanyuan Canglan nodded slowly. "She held nothing back, immediately targeting Qin Yu's core strength, leaving no room for her opponent to adapt." Murong Yunche commented softly. "If Qin Yu cannot calmly resolve this, the initiative in the entire duel will instantly fall into Jiang Hanning's grasp."
Everyone's attention was focused on Qin Yu. Facing this sword strike that was enough to make even the most talented geniuses in the Eternal Silence Realm take it seriously, Qin Yu remained calm and composed throughout.
The cold light relentlessly approached his brow, an inch, half an inch, three-tenths of an inch... Just when everyone thought the sword was about to touch his body, Qin Yu slightly shifted to the side. He didn't activate any dazzling divine abilities, nor did he detonate his primal energy; he simply took a natural step to the side.
But it was this very step that caused Jiang Hanning's sword to graz his sleeve, sending a faint, lingering hum through the air.
Jiang Hanning's icy blue eyes suddenly narrowed. She clearly sensed that the sword's edge had firmly locked onto Qin Yu's origin node, but at the very moment of contact, the target had already moved away from that Dao principle point, as if Qin Yu had already anticipated all the possible landing points of this sword.
The sword's edge sliced through the void, and a silver-gray ripple of primal energy spread outwards. A thin, barely perceptible sword mark appeared on the hard surface of the arena.
There was no explosive impact, no destructive storm, but the flow of Source Power in the airspace around the sword mark stopped completely, and the flow of time was briefly frozen. After several breaths, the laws of heaven and earth slowly returned to normal.
Witnessing this, the spectator plaza erupted in a deafening roar. "He dodged it! He actually avoided Tranquil Abyss Thrust!" "How did he do that? This sword strike specifically targets a flaw in the rules; ordinary movement techniques simply cannot dodge it!"
Many cultivators in the Eternal Silence Realm were shocked. They knew better than anyone how terrifying Tranquil Abyss Thrust was. The key to victory with this sword was never the speed of the advance, but the precise tracing of the source. Every living being that exists between heaven and earth must have a corresponding origin node.
Qin Yu, however, deliberately broke away from the path of the node before the sword's edge arrived. On the high platform, Nangong Xingyun's eyes flashed with a strange light. "Interesting, he didn't simply rely on his movement speed to dodge."
Nalan Yanqing slowly spoke, "He deduced and analyzed the path and patterns of the sword intent's movement in advance."
Xuanyuan Canglan's gaze fell on Qin Yu, and he sighed, "A cultivator from the mid-level can actually see through the evolution of the Dao principles contained in the Eternal Silence Realm sword technique. This Qin Yu is far more unpredictable than the rumors suggest."
On the arena, Jiang Hanning slowly sheathed her sword and stood there, looking at Qin Yu. For the first time, a ripple appeared on her indifferent expression, revealing an undisguised surprise.
"Did you understand the reason behind this sword strike?"
Qin Yu remained calm and answered with composure, "Your swordsmanship is unparalleled in its power, yet every strike leaves behind a unique trajectory. Once you find that trajectory, you can easily dodge it."
Jiang Hanning for a moment, then nodded slightly. "It seems that the intelligence gathered by the Hua Lineage ultimately underestimated you." She raised her Frost Crystal Longsword again, and a chilling aura rose from the sword, causing fine ice crystals to continuously condense in the surrounding void.
"With my next strike, I won't give you any more room to deduce or predict." Qin Yu lowered his eyes, his right hand slowly gripping the Silent Origin Stainless Sword at his waist, the blade shimmering with a faint, primal light. "I'll be watching."
As the words fell, the bustling Flourishing Age Square fell silent once more. Everyone understood that Tranquil Abyss Thrust earlier was merely the prelude to a test of each other's strength. The true clash, which would affect their Dao foundations and determine their origins, had only just begun.
Jiang Hanning beneath the cold sky, the moment the icy crystal sword in her palm slowly rose, the surging waves of voices in the entire Flourishing Age Square abruptly subsided. Millions of cultivators held their breath, their countless gazes fixed on that solitary figure in white, their hearts filled with Ultimate solemnity.
Tranquil Abyss Thrust just now was an epitome of the Ultimate precision of swordsmanship, Ultimate capture of the flaws in the laws of heaven and earth. At this moment, Jiang Hanning has completely broken free from the shackles of ordinary swordsmanship. Her swordsmanship is no longer confined to superficial offense and defense, or the constraints of the physical body, but directly targets the fundamental gaps in the existence of living beings and the weak points in the chain of the Dao foundation.
Silvery-white frost spread and grew from beneath her feet, like the ancient, unyielding Daoist aura of a frozen abyss, with wisps of Annihilation sword intent taking root in the void and locking the airspace.
Boom--!
The thousand-foot-wide airspace above the arena suddenly trembled violently, and the invisible Dao patterns collapsed and died layer by layer. The endless extreme cold originated from the depths of Jiang Hanning's Fate Soul and erupted. With her as the core, the entire area within a thousand feet was shrouded in the ancient cold and desolate power.
Stillness Frost Cold Abyss!
In an instant, the entire arena transformed into an Eternal Silence silent and frigid realm, isolated from the mortal world and frozen by all laws. The hard and indestructible arena surface was completely covered with thick frost, and the originally stable spatial barrier turned into a crystal-clear mirror surface, giving rise to billions of fine, spiderweb-like void cracks.
A deafening roar erupted from the spectator stands. "This is the core inheritance of the Jiang family's Eternal Silence Realm sword path—its domain unleashes myriad laws, condensing into cold, a single sword locks away the very essence!"
On the high platform, the four judges all focused their attention, their expressions solemn.
Murong Yunche nodded slightly, revealing the terrifying core of this move. "Previously, with a single sword strike, she had to personally find the flaw. Now, with the domain expanded, the entire world becomes her eyes and ears of swordsmanship, and the gaps in the origins of all things are fully understood by her."
In the center of the frigid abyss of the arena, Jiang Hanning slowly raised her eyes. Her icy blue pupils held an eternal stillness, devoid of any emotion, yet concealing the power to overturn the Dao. "With this sword strike, I will let you witness firsthand the true essence of the Stillness Frost Sword Dao." The Frost Abyss Reverberation.
The entire Stillness Frost Cold Abyss instantly fell into absolute silence. All the snowflakes falling from the sky were suspended in mid-air, and the myriad sword intents of Annihilation were frozen in place. All the fluctuations of Source Power and the evolution of the laws of the world were completely still.
The next instant, her figure appeared silently three feet in front of Qin Yu.
So slow that millions of spectators could clearly see the trajectory of the sword's edge. The more gentle it was, the more it made their hearts tremble and their Dao hearts tighten. This sword stripped away all its killing intent and abandoned all its fancy attacks. Its sole target was to lock onto that primordial gap in Qin Yu's physical body.
An extremely faint sword hum pierced the Silent Void. The sword's edge stopped steadily three inches in front of Qin Yu, without staining his flesh or tearing his clothes, yet it had already taken root in the realm of law and principle.
Jiang Hanning's first sword strike had already carved out an extremely subtle yet real and indestructible void in Qin Yu's existence.
Before the silence could dissipate, Jiang Hanning flicked her wrist, and the second layer of sword intent quietly settled, thud!
In an instant, countless fine silver-gray patterns appeared around Qin Yu's body, not covering his skin or binding his body, but directly imprinted on the very essence of his being.
Like an eternally operating supreme primordial array, its core gears were quietly jammed, triggering a chain reaction of collapse. The first primordial chain stalled, followed by the second and third, each building upon the last and each backlashing the previous one, locking Qin Yu's entire system of laws layer by layer.
"Locked up! Completely locked down at the origin level! Bound by the shackles of law, cultivators of the same level have already had their Dao foundations crumbled. How can Qin Yu break this deadlock?"
He did not look down at the Annihilation Pattern entwined around his body, but merely glanced at the invisible rift in the void. The light in his eyes was clear, and he had already seen through all the Dao principles and origins of this sword.
As the soft whisper subsided, Qin Yu slowly raised his right hand, precisely grasping the hilt of the Silent Origin Stainless Sword at his waist—the "No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword."
The sword hummed softly as it was drawn from its sheath, and a wisp of gray-white Daoist aura, transcending all laws and rules, suddenly spread out. It was neither cold and desolate, nor violent and destructive, nor overwhelmingly powerful, yet it caused all the Dao principles, sword intents, and domain forces of the entire world to bow down and fall silent.
On the high platform, the four envoys rose up simultaneously, their eyes trembling and their minds reeling.
Xuanyuan Canglan's expression was extremely solemn as he succinctly revealed the Ultimate secret. "What he struck was not the sword, but the very essence of the Dao that existed before the sword intent even arose! It was the very foundation upon which this Frost Abyss Reverberation was established!"
The true meaning of the "No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword" lies not in attacking, but in negating the origin of ideas. Qin Yu's sword strike completely negates the very foundation of the laws that make all of this possible.
In an instant, the countless silver-gray Annihilation Pattern swirling around Qin Yu suddenly stopped.
All the Frost Abyss Reverberation, rooted in its origin, faded, dissolved, and returned to nothingness, layer by layer.
She clearly sensed that her Annihilation sword intent was not shattered, blocked, or crushed, but rather that it had completely lost its foundation for existence.
"How is this possible...?" Boom--!
As Qin Yu took a step forward, the Silent Origin Stainless Sword trembled slightly, and all the shackles of the Frost Abyss that bound his Fate Soul, origin, and cause and effect vanished without a trace.
"He's cracked it! He truly cracked the Stillness Frost Cold Abyss's ultimate attack at its very core!" "Although Qin Yu is also at the Eternal Silence Realm Initial Stage, it's utterly unbelievable that he could break through the fundamental principles of the Eternal Silence Realm's sword path!"
"This child's sword has already transcended existing rules, touching upon the void origin before the birth of the Dao."
In the center of the arena, Jiang Hanning sheathed her sword and stood still. Her white robes fluttered slightly, and the indifference in her icy blue eyes had completely faded, replaced by a burning, Ultimate fighting spirit.
"It seems I truly underestimated you; your swordsmanship far surpasses mine."
Qin Yu gripped the Silent Origin Stainless Sword tightly, his black robes fluttering, his deep eyes calm and unwavering. He responded indifferently, "Your swordsmanship proposition has too many flaws!!!"
The Daoist auras of the two prodigies clashed violently, igniting the atmosphere of the entire Flourishing Age Square once again. The ultimate battle, a true clash of Dao foundations and a contest for origin, had officially begun!