Qin Yu's gaze fell on Ju Miaoting. "This path is almost like tracing back to the beginning of creation; its strength lies in its infinite variations. As long as the rate of evolution surpasses analysis, no fixed rule in the world can confine it."
"But the flaws are equally obvious. The more complex the changes, the harder it is to stabilize the foundation. If it encounters a force that can directly lock down the core of the origin, the entire Annihilation Structure System will be shaken to its core."
Then he turned to look at Shangguan Anyu. "The Shangguan Lineage's Stillness Scroll Analysis' is completely different." "They don't participate in creation, but observe and record all things, extracting the fundamental logic of operation from them." "Their advantage lies in Ultimate precision. As long as there are patterns to follow, they can find a way to break the deadlock."
"But its limitation lies here. Analysis requires the target to have a definite structure. When faced with a constantly changing, undefined entity, it takes a lot of time to settle it."
Qin Yu sighed inwardly. "To control all changes, or to understand all phenomena. The paths of the Ju Lineage and the Shangguan Lineage are fundamentally different."
"One creates the world with their own hands." "The other interprets all things in the world." This is the most fundamental difference between the two Lineage' lineages.
Just as Qin Yu was deep in thought, a deafening roar erupted once again from the center of the arena.
Ju Miaoting's hands moved swiftly, forming hand seals, and the entire arena was completely transformed into a world of Annihilation Structure. Mountains, rivers, and stars were born in the void, only to collapse and dissipate with a roar. Each cycle gave birth to a new set of Dao principles.
Shangguan Anyu stood within this ever-changing world, with the Stillness Scroll floating behind him. Strands of gray ink marks continuously descended, collecting the rules that were born and died in an instant, and then deducing and altering them in reverse.
Two Source Power intertwined and collided wildly, one creating endlessly, the other analyzing tirelessly. The vast arena had become a battlefield where two paths of inheritance clashed.
Another loud bang rang out, and the two slid backward several steps. Ju Miaoting's clothes fluttered in the wind, Shangguan Anyu's aura of origin fluctuated slightly. After a series of exchanges, neither side had gained a clear advantage.
The onlookers were in a frenzy, many standing up, their eyes glued to the arena. "How spectacular! This is the true clash of the Lineage' lineages!" "The Ju Lineage's Annihilation Structure is unfathomable!" "The Shangguan Lineage's analytical techniques are equally terrifying!" "The two are locked in a stalemate!"
Even many cultivators at the Eternal Silence Realm had solemn expressions. This battle had long transcended the ordinary struggle of geniuses; it was a head-on confrontation between two Great Dao systems.
On the high viewing platform, all four referees were intently watching the battle. Nalan Yanqing's eyes were darting around, Xuanyuan Canglan's expression was solemn, Murong Yunche nodded slightly, and Nangong Xingyun's eyes were also filled with deep meaning.
Qin Yu remained seated, quietly observing the struggle for dominance. He knew in his heart that the turning point that would truly determine the outcome had not yet arrived.
The battle on the arena had now entered a prolonged phase. Ju Miaoting and Shangguan Anyu had been locked in a stalemate for a long time, their auras intertwined like a celestial river, having long since transcended the ordinary Eternal Silence Initial Stage fighting.
One walks the path of primordial destruction, Primordial Annihilation Structure reshaping all things; another guards the path of Stillness Scroll Analysis, illuminating the origin and restoring all laws.
The entire arena was riddled with holes, and fragments of laws floated like stardust, sometimes collapsing and sometimes reforming. The laws of the universe were constantly being created and destroyed in the hands of the two, as if this world was being repeatedly dismantled, reforged, deciphered, and returned to silence by two invisible hands.
After such a protracted battle, ordinary techniques and inherited Daoist principles are no longer sufficient to determine who is superior.
Ju Miaoting slowly raised her eyes, and for the first time, her usually gentle and Wenwan features revealed a solemn and dignified expression. After years of cultivating the Primordial Annihilation Structure, she had always used change and transformation to defend against enemies and the formless to overcome the tangible. But now, facing Shangguan Anyu's profound understanding of the Dao of the Stillness Scroll, she no longer concealed her sharpness.
"Shangguan Anyu." Her voice was clear and melodious, landing on the arena. Each word was steady and gentle, yet possessed an ancient charm. "Your Stillness Scroll and ability to discern the essence of all things truly make you unparalleled in this world."
She paused slightly, her fingertips lightly brushing her waist, a gentle, dark blue light quietly emanating from it. "But the Primordial Annihilation Structure of my Ju Lineage is not only capable of a thousand transformations, but can also return to its origin."
A jade pendant the size of a palm slowly rose out. It was made of bluish-white jade, plain and uncarved, without any ostentatious or glittering colors, yet it carried a profound aura of primordial chaos. The patterns on the jade were never fixed; one moment they were the veins of mountains and rivers, the next they were the orbits of stars, and then they transformed into the vast and intricate patterns of the origin, ever-changing and without any fixed form.
The jade heart, a single crystal core, resembled the primordial chaos before creation, devoid of light or radiance, yet causing the laws of heaven and earth throughout the entire arena to hold their breath. It was as if what was sealed within it was the very first wisp of origin, the beginning of heaven and earth, before all things were settled.
This is the Primordial Spirit Treasure through generations of the Ju Lineage — the Primordial Annihilation Structure Jade.
Born in Primordial beginning of time, he remembered the principles of the creation of heaven and earth and held the power to reconstruct all things. With this power, he could restore order to the laws and reshape all things. On the other side, Shangguan Anyu also closed his eyes and concentrated, no longer holding back any of his strength.
The gray ancient scroll floating behind him trembled violently, its pages swirling like an ancient wind sweeping across the land, exuding a sense of vicissitude and antiquity. In the next instant, a nine-petaled black-blue lotus slowly rose from the center of the scroll. The lotus petals were as dark as an eternal night, with faint blue light flowing along their edges. The patterns were naturally formed, like a wordless Daoist book etched by heaven and earth.
A tiny gray-white light spot swirled silently in the lotus heart, lifeless and without breath, yet it contained the supreme analytical power to see through all illusions and dismantle all origins, causing all the surrounding floating fragments of rules to freeze.
This is the Shangguan Lineage Primordial Spirit Treasure family— the Stillness Scroll Mystic Lotus, which illuminates the origin of all phenomena and records the waxing and waning of all dharmas. All tangible and intangible paths in the world, as long as they have traces to follow, can be deciphered, traced back to their source, dismantled, and returned to stillness by it.
Two great Primordial Spirit Treasure have appeared in the world: one governs life, change, and the reconstruction of heaven and earth; the other governs destruction, observation, and the dissection of all phenomena.
For a moment, the vast Flourishing Age Square, with its millions of cultivators holding their breath, was completely Ji Ran. On the high platform, the four referees all had solemn expressions.
Nalan Yanqing's gaze deepened. "In their youthful clash, both unleashed the primordial power that protects their clans; this battle has long transcended mere victory or defeat."
Xuanyuan Canglan slowly nodded, his tone solemn. "The Primordial Annihilation Structure Jade and the Stillness Scroll Mystic Lotus, two supreme treasures, appearing together on the battlefield of their generation, has not been seen for many years. Today's battle is a direct confrontation between the Ju and Shangguan lineages."
On the arena, the air was still and the Daoist aura filled the sky.
Ju Miaoting held the jade in both hands, and the Xuanqing Origin burst forth with a roar. Thousands of Annihilation Structure rays of light spread out in all directions, not attacking people or destroying external objects, but silently dismantling the fundamental laws of this world.
The space was layered, the rules were stripped away, and even the analytical light curtain that spread from the Stillness Scroll Mystic Lotus was forcibly broken into countless tiny fragments, scattered and disordered, with no ability to make coherent deductions.
She spoke softly, her voice carrying the vastness of antiquity. " In the Primordial Annihilation Structure, all things returned to their source." Rumble--! Heaven and earth seemed to return to the beginning of creation.
The illusory images of mountains and rivers appeared out of thin air, and the star trails crisscrossed the sky. Under the power of the jade pendant, all the myriad laws returned to their origin and were rearranged. She did not break Shangguan Anyu's Stillness Scroll, but directly rewrote the foundation of heaven and earth on which the Stillness Scroll depended.
If you examine my myriad changes, I will make the principles you have examined vanish in an instant; if you record my birth and death, I will make the path you have recorded no longer have a fixed form. This is the supreme realm of the Primordial Annihilation Structure —not to contend with the enemy for strength, but only with the enemy for the Dao Contention.
At the same time, Shangguan Anyu's eyes flashed with a gray light, and the nine petals of the Xuan Lotus fully unfurled, covering the entire arena with a black and blue light curtain. The void seemed to be completely contained by an ancient book, and all the ever-changing patterns of Annihilation Structure and all the new and ever-changing rules of heaven and earth were imprinted and archived word by word.
His voice was as calm as still water as he uttered five words: "Stillness Scroll Mystic Lotus, Myriad Forms Return to Stillness." Buzz! The arena was transformed into a scroll, and all phenomena were recorded.
No matter how Ju Miaoting reshaped the world and changed the laws, Xuanlian could instantly record them and firmly grasp that unchanging core Dao pattern amidst the myriad changes.
One path is ever-flowing, opening up new horizons step by step; the other remains still, exploring the Dao step by step. These two completely different supreme paths collide and fiercely balance each other within the confines of the arena.
The millions of cultivators watching from below were already utterly shocked. This was no longer a battle between two people, but a millennium-long contest between the Great Dao of World Creation and the Great Dao of Observation. One sought to create something from nothing and rewrite the universe; the other sought to use stillness to control movement and pierce through illusion.
The Great Dao has no winners or losers, but in the struggle for supremacy there is life or death. In the final moment, the power of the Primordial Chaos is unleashed in full force.
The Primordial Annihilation Structure Jade Burst forth a torrent of dark blue primordial energy, like the turbid air of the Primordial surging, covering the heavens and reconstructing all laws; the Stillness Scroll Mystic Lotus Blooms with a pillar of dark blue analytical light that reaches the heavens and the earth, like the eternal light of silence falling down, illuminating the very essence of all things.
The two supreme origins converged in the center of the void with a thunderous roar, arriving silently before erupting like a thunderclap.
The entire arena fell into a sudden, deathly silence; even the wind stopped, the clouds ceased, and the very breath of the Dao ceased. The next instant, a massive shockwave that stretched across the heavens and earth swept across the surrounding area, cracks spreading crisscrossing the arena and countless fragments of rules flying everywhere, as if a small world was on the verge of collapse.
Both figures trembled violently at the same time, Ju Miaoting's body shook violently, her face turning deathly pale in an instant.
Her Dao of Annihilation Structure can manifest in all forms, disrupt the laws of nature, and sever techniques, but it can never sever the analytical essence rooted in her opponent for millennia. Amidst endless changes, the Stillness Scroll Mystic Lotus firmly grasps the one and only unchanging core essence deep within her Fate Soul.
A wisp of extremely sharp analytical power pierced through the layers of reconstructed heaven and earth, shattering countless Annihilation Structure barriers, and struck directly at the Fate Soul. Crack
The countless intricate and complex Annihilation Structure patterns within her Fate Soul cracked inch by inch, and her Dao foundation trembled. A mouthful of warm, bloody blood uncontrollably surged up her throat and slowly dripped down her lips.
She staggered a few steps, her body swaying slightly, but she never bent her knees or bent over. On the other side, Shangguan Anyu was also seriously injured.
Just as Xuanlian deciphered the origin, Ju Miaoting's final reconstruction of the origin broke through the temporal constraints of the analysis. That primordial origin Dao Source the Primordial, disregarding laws and rules, forcefully pierced through the Stillness Scroll light curtain and crashed onto his Fate Soul lotus heart.
The once clear and constant light of the Xuan Lotus suddenly dimmed, and the countless ancient analytical characters on it crumbled and turned into ashes.
His tall body suddenly bent over, his black clothes stained with blood on the chest, and he spat out a mouthful of hot blood, which landed on the blue stone of the arena. It was a shocking sight. A peak duel had ended with both sides suffering injuries.
The audience erupted in a clamor, their shouts deafening, but they quickly fell silent, focusing their attention on the two blood-stained, unyielding figures on the arena.
Everyone saw that both were seriously injured and that their Dao foundations were damaged, but no one dared to say who was weaker or who had lost. The wind swept across the arena, stirring up fragments of rules scattered all over the ground, and also stirring up the two men's disheveled robes.
Ju Miaoting raised her sleeve and gently wiped away the bloodstains from the corner of her lips. Her clear and resolute eyes remained bright and firm, showing no sign of despair. She raised her hand and grasped the floating Primordial Annihilation Structure Jade once more. Although the jade's light was weak, her Dao heart had not been extinguished.
"I haven't lost yet." His voice wasn't loud, but it was firm and resolute, resounding throughout the surrounding area.
Shangguan Anyu slowly straightened his slightly bent back, his robes stained with blood and his breath fluctuating. His eyes, like a cold pool, remained calm and still, showing no anxiety or hesitation.
He gazed silently at the woman opposite him, and slowly spoke, each word steady and firm. "Me too." Victory or defeat may be decided, but the great path will not be lost; the body may be wounded, but the heart will not yield.
For them, this battle was no longer about Lineage honor or ranking; it was a struggle between the Primordial Annihilation Structure and the Stillness Scroll Analysis, a testament to the great Dao of the ever-changing phenomena and the still illumination of all laws.
The next instant, two previously weakened auras rose from the ground once more, the Xuanqing Jade Pendant floated into the air again, the Hongmeng Origin slowly revived, the Black-Green Lotus unfolded once more, and the Eternal Silence Light once again illuminated the arena. Despite their remaining blood, they fought on, their Dao hearts unyielding. The final battle of the second round was not yet over!