The black, ancient Stillness Scroll that had been cracked and damaged before him now floated in mid-air, one page, ten pages, a hundred pages... countless densely packed analytical Dao texts broke free from the scrolls, spreading out across the sky and traversing the void.
At this moment, he seemed to stand in the deepest depths of Eternal Silence, overlooking the birth and death of all things, the end of all phenomena, and gazing directly at the Ultimate mystery of all existence. "Ju Gongchen," he spoke slowly, his voice steady and cold, piercing through the deathly silence. "Your Lonely Return to the Ruins can freeze all existence, freezing the myriad forms of the world."
"But before freezing everything—" "Have you ever asked the origin, existence, why it has been able to continue?" As he finished speaking, he slowly took a deep breath.
At the center of his brow, a faint gray vortex slowly emerged. Within the vortex lay the secrets of the heavens: the birth and flourishing of countless worlds, the reincarnation and replacement of countless beings, the rise and fall of brilliant civilizations, and the birth and death of all laws. In the end, all prosperity, all vitality, and all principles returned to a pure void.
The Stillness Scroll Analysis, and the Void Abyss Breath, opening with a deafening roar. The entire Myriad Worlds Graveyard fell into utter silence, and Nameless fear, originating from the depths of the soul, rose simultaneously in the hearts of millions of cultivators. It was the profound truth of the Great Dao, which mortal beings could not touch, the Ultimate law that transcended all phenomena, cold, just, and merciless, judging all existence.
"The Sound of the Absolute Truth." Shangguan Anyu uttered these four words softly.
The outside world remained completely silent, but from the very core of Ju Gongchen's Fate Soul essence and the depths of his soul, a long, ancient sigh suddenly resounded. This sound originated from before the primordial chaos and from the very end of time.
In an instant, countless images flooded into Ju Gongchen's mind. His youthful dedication to cultivation, his perseverance on the Dao Path, the heavy responsibility of Lineage inheritance, his obsession with pursuing the Primordial Origin... all these moments of his life were vividly before his eyes, but in the next second, all the images shattered, collapsed, and turned into gray dust.
Three chilling, piercing questions were branded Ultimate within his consciousness, indelible and inescapable.
Why do you exist? The Primordial Origin you have pursued throughout your life can not escape the destiny of returning to nothingness. Returning to nothingness is the only Ultimate destination for all things.
Ju Gongchen's body trembled slightly, his Fate Soul shook violently, and the Primordial Annihilation Structure Power flowing around him instantly became disordered and stagnant, on the verge of collapse.
But this confusion lasted only a moment. The next instant, the bewilderment in his eyes vanished, and his gaze returned to its clear and bright state, becoming even more resolute and insightful.
He raised his eyes to gaze at Shangguan Anyu opposite him, a faint smile slowly spreading across his lips. "Your path, which penetrates all principles and questions the very origin, is indeed unparalleled among your peers."
"But you've overlooked the most fundamental principle." "The meaning of existence, the obsession with pursuing the Great Dao, the trajectory of the birth of all things—all of these are themselves part of existence."
Boom!!! The dormant Primordial Dao suddenly erupted completely! The Trace of Incessancy that was about to be dismantled and denied by the Ultimate truth was reorganized, stabilized, and sublimated against the odds in the Silent Void.
The Lonely Return to the Ruins had not dissipated, nor had the Sound of the Absolute Truth faded. The two Ultimate Origin powers confronted each other and clashed wildly in the center of the arena.
The Lonely Return to the Ruins seeks to freeze all phenomena and solidify existence, bringing the world's changes to a complete standstill. The Sound of the Absolute Truth seeks to question the origin and deny existence, allowing all things to collapse and dissolve on their own.
One still, one extinguished; one locked, one broken—two diametrically opposed Ultimate forces of the Great Dao intertwined, clashed, annihilated, and regenerated wildly, turning the arena's airspace into a chaotic torrent of laws.
On the four supreme thrones in the sky, the four Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang were all moved. The eternally collapsing void rift of the Southern Boundless Abyss Huang trembled slightly, as if resonating with this principle of returning to stillness.
The infinite possibility net surrounding Wanyan Huang in the north suddenly rippled with layers of vast waves, causing countless future trajectories to shift and perish due to this great battle.
For the first time, Mystic Deconstruction Huang focused his mind completely, his gaze fixed on the arena. He no longer regarded it as an ordinary legal proposition, but rather as a great battle that could shake the very origin of emptiness.
Only the Nameless Huang of the East remained silently seated, neither judging right nor wrong, neither determining victory nor defeat, silently overlooking the struggle of all laws.
On the high-altitude judging panel, the four Void Emanation Realm all wore solemn expressions. Nangong Xingyun's gaze was deep and his emotions were turbulent; Nalan Yanqing's eyes flickered slightly, his eyes filled with shock.
They both knew in their hearts that this battle had long transcended the realm of a duel between peers and had entered into a true struggle over the fundamental principles of the Void. At this moment, if either of them showed even the slightest wavering in their Dao heart or a deviation in their understanding of the principles, their Dao foundation would crumble, their Fate Soul would be damaged, and they would be directly defeated.
At the heart of the arena, Daoist energy resounded continuously. Ju Gongchen and Shangguan Anyu both shaken violently at the same time, each experiencing a sweet taste in their throats as they spat out mouthfuls of blood essence, staining the void in front of them red.
On the Fate Soul of both prodigies, fine cracks of law principles broke out, and the backlash of the Great Dao eroded their bodies, leaving them severely injured.
Yet the two remained standing proudly, their feet firmly planted on the arena, neither retreating an inch nor yielding a single step. The Lonely Return to the Ruins hung suspended in the air, freezing all existence in its entirety.
The Sound of the Absolute Truth through the ages, questioning the true meaning of existence layer by layer. The Ultimate Origin collision between the Primordial Annihilation Structure and the Stillness Scroll Analysis has entered its most tragic and agonizing peak stage. The outcome remains elusive, and no one can predict the final result.
At the center of the arena, the confrontation between the two Ultimate paths had lasted for dozens of breaths. The Eternal Silence of the Lonely Return to the Ruins and the original questioning of the Sound of the Absolute Truth were locked in a fierce struggle, neither willing to yield. The entire Myriad Worlds Graveyard was completely submerged in the unprecedented oppression of the Great Dao, all the clamor of billions of realms was crushed, leaving only the deathly silence of the conflicting laws.
Ju Gongchen's Dao is to drag all things back to Eternal Silence, freeze all existence, and seal the myriad changes of the world in the final moment. Shangguan Anyu's Dao is to grasp the Ultimate truth and question the origin, forcing all things to their original nature, and making all existence doubt the meaning of its continued existence.
One exists in a fixed form, the other in a collapsed core.
Two diametrically opposed yet fundamentally connected supreme paths clashed repeatedly within the confined arena. With each clash of principles, the impregnable protective Dao patterns surrounding the arena flickered violently and trembled incessantly, the layers of light curtains teetering on the verge of collapse.
Even on the four supreme thrones in the sky, the original forms of the four Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang showed ripples of change, and the unchanging Dao rhythm was quietly shaken by this battle among peers.
In the center of the arena, Ju Gongchen stood amidst the dark blue chaos, his breathing heavy and labored, his chest heaving.
A faint gray mark appeared between his brows, a mark left by the backlash of the Eternal Silence Law after he pushed the Fate Soul Lonely Return to the Ruins to its Ultimate. The power of death not only imprisoned his opponent, but also constantly eroded his own origin.
Yet the sharpness and conviction in his eyes had not dimmed in the slightest; they remained clear and unwavering, firmly locking onto Shangguan Anyu ahead.
"Shangguan Anyu." His voice was steady, piercing through the chaotic torrent of legal principles. "Ordinary inherited supernatural abilities are ultimately just the surface of the Great Dao; they can no longer determine the outcome between us."
Across from him, Shangguan Anyu raised his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his lips. The moment his fingertips brushed against the blood, even the essence blood was quietly dismantled and annihilated by the fine analytical Dao patterns.
The folding fan in his hand was tattered, with large areas of the ancient scroll patterns on the fan surface cracked. The hundred pages of the Stillness Scroll floating behind him were also riddled with cracks and teetering on the verge of collapse. Several pages of the ancient scroll had already lost their luster and were on the verge of disintegration.
But his gaze remained sharp and piercing, showing no sign of fatigue or retreat. "I feel the same way." After he finished speaking, the two faced each other in a brief silence.
Without needing to say more, the two prodigies had already discerned each other's intentions. At this point, only by tapping into the deepest roots of their bloodlines and the most fundamental foundations of their lineages could they break the deadlock and contend for supremacy.
The next instant—BOOM!!! Two overwhelming auras simultaneously broke through the shackles, rising from the ground and soaring straight into the sky!
Ju Gongchen slowly stretched out his arms, and the profound azure Daoist aura around his body suddenly converged Return to One, shrinking back into the depths of his Fate Soul.
In the next instant, an ancient and boundless dark blue mark slowly rose from the source of his Fate Soul, simple, profound, and desolate, carrying the essence of countless ages.
The seal contains not a single word or phrase, only layers of primordial patterns that endlessly rotate, are born and die, and cycle without end, replicating the original trajectory before the birth of all things in the heavens.
This is the deepest, most hidden secret of the Ju Lineage's direct lineage, never revealed to the world, and never passed on to ordinary descendants— the Silent Origin Ancestral Seal.
It is not a supernatural power cultivated later in life, but rather an indestructible root of the Dao imprinted in the bloodline of the Ju Lineage family ancestors when they traced back to the Primordial and touched the Hongmeng Origin. It can only be passively awakened when the Great Dao reaches its limit and the principles of law are exhausted, burning away the original essence and tracing back to the source of eternity.
The moment the Ancestral Seal appeared, the void behind Ju Gongchen completely changed. Countless points of dark blue light bloomed one after another, and within each point of light, the prototype of an independent world was reflected.
There is the primordial world, where chaos reigned and nothing was known; there are the tender realms, where new life sprouted and vitality began to emerge; there are the broken mountains and rivers, which had reached their peak but were now declining and on the verge of collapse; and there is also the Ji Ran universe, empty and devoid of life and laws.
This is not an illusion, but the Ultimate reverse deduction of the Primordial Annihilation Structure Dao—traversing the original forms of all "possible existences" in the world.
Ju Gongchen raised his palm forward, facing Shangguan Anyu opposite him, his voice like an ancient bell, resounding throughout the heavens and earth:
"Before the Primordial, all things were undefined, and all laws had no basis." "Today, I use the ancestral seal to trace back to the origin, returning to the moment before all phenomena Unborn." "I want to see how your Stillness Scroll Analysis will interpret this undefined, formless, unsubstantiated, and baseless primordial void!"
As soon as the words were spoken, a deafening roar erupted! All the countless points of dark blue light converged, swirled, and intertwined, condensing into a vast and boundless vortex of origin in the center of the arena, chaotic and all-encompassing.
The Beginningless Empty Chapter unfolds completely! At this moment, Ju Gongchen no longer constructs rules or reshapes all things, nor does he freeze existence or fix time and space.
He directly pushed all his existence, foundation, principles, and forms into an "undefined" state of Beginningless, without fixed structure, operational rules, logical connections, or flaws.
Like a blank sheet of ancient Xuan paper, empty and devoid of ink, nothing can be observed, analyzed, or broken. All methods of analysis in the world rely on established existence, formed laws, and complete logic, but he directly erased all such reliance.
Across from him, Shangguan Anyu gazed at the Beginningless chaos, his usually calm eyes revealing for the first time Ultimate sense of solemnity and apprehension. He knew perfectly well that Ju Gongchen's move had struck at the Ultimate weak point of Stillness Scroll Analysis of the Great Dao.
Without form, there is no dismantling; without structure, there is no breaking; No Definition, there is no tracing back to the source. Ordinary methods of analysis will ultimately fail completely and leave no trace when faced with this Beginningless origin.
But he didn't retreat a step or yield an inch. Shangguan Anyu slowly raised his hand, his palm pressed against the spot on his chest where his Fate Soul was located. A wisp of deep, dark primordial light burst forth from the deepest part of his Fate Soul and slowly took shape.