On Qin Yu's palm, a dark red causal crack slowly unfolded, and gray mist silently overflowed from the depths of the crack. Wherever it passed, the already formed causal Dao traces did not break or shatter, nor were they subjected to external force. However, the originally predetermined order began to quietly shift.
The fourth seal of the Heavenly Cause Judgment Sequence – Final Order Interrogation – World Silent Judgment: This seal was never intended to attack or kill Hua Jingmeng; rather, it interrogates the necessity of a matter's existence within the order of cause and effect.
Qin Yu pointed his fingers down slowly, "You're calling cause the effect." "Then I'll question this cause and effect—" His gaze suddenly sharpened like frost. "On what basis does it stand?" Boom!!! The causal order above the arena trembled violently.
Countless dark red cracks spread outwards from beneath Qin Yu's feet, while gray mist rapidly expanded along the established causal pathways of heaven and earth. The Blameless Karma Scale above Hua Jingmeng's head immediately sensed this, and the left pan suddenly sank, attempting to weigh the impact of the Final Order Interrogation · World Silent Judgment on Hua Jingmeng. However, the next moment, an extremely bizarre scene appeared.
The right pan remained perfectly still, and Hua Jingmeng's pupils contracted sharply. Ding!!! The left pan trembled violently again, while the right pan remained unmoved.
This was because Qin Yu never imposed the Final Order Interrogation · World Silent Judgment upon Hua Jingmeng's body; what he judged was "the causal order upon which the Blameless Karma Scale relied for completing the equal replacement."
The Hua Jingmeng is not the goal, nor is the scale of cause and effect. What is truly being tormented by the World Silent Judgment is that ironclad law. "Hua Jingmeng suffered the influence brought about by Qin Yu, therefore Qin Yu must bear the same karmic consequences."
Qin Yu walked straight past the ancient scale itself, rewriting the cause and effect of heaven and earth upon which this scale relied to weigh all things.
The Blameless Karma Scale can weigh the causes and effects that have already occurred, but it is powerless to weigh whether the causal order itself should continue in this way. If it wants to include the World Silent Judgment in its weighing scope, it must first acknowledge that the World Silent Judgment on the causal order has already taken effect; but once it acknowledges that this judgment is established, its own inherent order of "tracing back from effect to cause and replacing it with equal measure" has already fallen under the power of Qin Yu's rewriting.
The first dark red crack climbed up the black and white interwoven beam of the scale, and then, snap! A thin but indelible crack appeared in the center of the beam.
Hua Jingmeng's expression suddenly darkened, and her hands rapidly formed hand seals as she frantically poured her Fate Soul essence into the Blameless Karma Scale. The two ancient, eerie green lamps flared up, and tens of thousands of causal threads shot out from both ends of the scale, attempting to re-lock the bond of giving and receiving between Qin Yu and herself.
Qin Yu didn't even glance at those threads of cause and effect. He gently flipped his five fingers, reversing the order and rearranging the cause and effect. The original chain was: Qin Yu made the move, Hua Jingmeng suffered the Blameless Karma Scale, and the equivalent karmic result was returned to Qin Yu.
At this moment, under the shroud of the Final Order Interrogation · World Silent Judgment, this complete chain of cause and effect was forcibly dismantled.
The act of "taking" is still there. The act of "enduring" is still there. The act of "weighing" is still there, but the essential link between "returning" and "the one who inflicted" has been stripped away by Qin Yu. Hua Jingmeng was horrified to discover that the ancient scale could still weigh the damage, but it could no longer find anyone to whom to pour out this price!
"This is impossible! You... you... you!!!" For the first time, genuine shock and anger appeared on his face. Qin Yu's eyes remained calm and composed as he continued to press down with the fourth seal in his palm. Buzz!!!
Above the sky, a time-reversing phantom, so large it obscured the entire Myriad Worlds Graveyard, slowly emerged, with countless causal Dao patterns rearranging within it. The Blameless Karma Scale, hanging high above Hua Jingmeng's head and wielding absolute balance, swayed violently, its left disc plummeting while its right disc remained suspended in mid-air. Just as the right disc attempted to capture Qin Yu's Fate Soul coordinates, a dark red causal crack, following its trajectory, severed the bond once more.
Ding!!! Ding!!! Ding!!! The ancient scales resounded incessantly, and with each ring, the difference in height between the left and right pans increased by one point.
The black and white scale beams twisted and bent, the two ancient, eerie green lamps flickered on and off, and the supposedly unchanging balance was completely shattered. The Blameless Karma Scale relentlessly searched for the corresponding "cause," while the Final Order Interrogation continuously replaced and rewrote the cause and effect it found.
It wanted to pin the blame on Qin Yu, so Qin Yu cut off the corresponding link; it attempted to trace the origin of the Fate Soul, so the Fourth Seal placed this act of tracing the origin into a completely new causal order; it tried to define the Final Order Interrogation as interference imposed on it by Qin Yu, but the Fourth Seal's function, from beginning to end, was to carry the causal order of heaven and earth that was intertwined with the two of them.
Qin Yu wasn't competing with Gu Cheng for fairness; he caused this so-called fairness to lose its foundation of precedence.
The veins on Hua Jingmeng's forehead bulged slightly as he fully activated the Grand Void Dao Transformation Art, continuously replenishing his body with a constant flow of primordial energy. However, the more he replenished, the uglier his complexion became.
The Blameless Karma Scale has fallen into an unsolvable causal dilemma: to counter the Final Order Interrogation, it must weigh the Final Order Interrogation; to weigh the Final Order Interrogation, it must first determine that Qin Yu is the cause of the disaster; however, the causal order of "Qin Yu as the cause" is being constantly rewritten by the Final Order Interrogation.
Qin Yu took a step forward, and with a thud, his foot landed on the arena, causing the nine wheels of the Silent Beginning Ring Master Soul Diagram behind him to vibrate simultaneously.
"Hua Jingmeng." Qin Yu raised his eyes and spoke. "If there were no reason." He took his second step. "Your scale—" With his third step, Qin Yu's five fingers suddenly clenched. "And what will you use to weigh the fruit this time?"
The Final Order Interrogation · World Silent Judgment power was completely unleashed, and collapsed! The left side of the Blameless Karma Scale shattered on the spot! Hua Jingmeng's body trembled violently.
Large swirling black and white Dao patterns erupted from the shattered scale pan, causing the countless causal lines to lose their support and twitch wildly before snapping one by one. The right side of the scale pan tilted violently, and the ancient, eerie green lamp hanging below suddenly went out amidst its frantic swaying.
Immediately afterward, the second ancient lamp went out as well. Poof! Hua Jingmeng's face turned deathly pale, and the first trickle of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth. He looked up and saw that his previous smugness and confidence had vanished, replaced by overwhelming horror.
But the shattering didn't stop there. The dark red causal cracks behind Qin Yu contracted inwards, and the fourth seal completed the final reforging of the causal order. Crack!!!
The black and white scale beams snapped in the middle with a crash, the two sections tilting in different directions. Countless ancient causal patterns peeled off in large pieces, and the black and white colors, representing absolute equality, became misaligned. The ancient scales hanging above Hua Jingmeng's head completely lost their balance.
Explosion!!! The entire Blameless Karma Scale shattered with a deafening roar! Countless black and white fragments of light rained down upon the sky.
All the fragments of light that had broken free from the scale were enveloped by the dark red causal cracks, returning to Annihilation layer by layer. Hua Jingmeng staggered back half a step, his chest heaving violently. The backlash surging deep within his Fate Soul caused his expression to change several times, and the Great Void hidden between his brows also became momentarily disordered.
Qin Yu remained standing in place, his robes fluttering slightly in the wind. From beginning to end, he did not launch a single attack on Hua Jingmeng.
High in the sky, between the thrones of the Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang, Wanyan slowly straightened his body. On his usually unfathomable face, a genuine interest flickered in his eyes.
Qin Yu's actions were based on a simple principle: the Blameless Karma Scale had a rule that every cause has an equal karmic consequence to return to its origin. Qin Yu did not deny this rule. He merely used the Final Order Interrogation · World Silent Judgment and remove that "cause" from the causal order that the ancient scale could trace. The scale still upheld fairness, but it could no longer find out from whom to seek karmic consequences.
After the Blameless Karma Scale shattered completely, countless black and white fragments of light still drifted slowly above the final arena. The two ancient, eerie green lamps that held the balance had been Annihilation, and the broken scale beams were embedded in the dark red causal cracks, gradually dissolving into the dust of Annihilation. Hua Jingmeng stood amidst the scattered remnants of causal light, and the composure he had deliberately maintained in the past finally faded completely from his face.
His chest heaved violently, and a flush crept onto his handsome, pale face, making his embarrassment almost impossible to conceal. Millions of gazes descended heavily from the periphery. Just moments before, he had confidently declared that Qin Yu would not dare to make a move, but in the blink of an eye, the Blameless Karma Scale, which he relied on, was dismantled layer by layer from the root of cause and effect by the Heavenly Cause Judgment Order · Six Severances Seal. Under the enormous contrast, his eyes twitched slightly, and his teeth clenched silently.
This embarrassment was fleeting, replaced by a deeper rage rising from the depths of his soul, like a hidden fire, growing ever more intense with each suppression. He stared intently at Qin Yu, veins bulging on the back of his hand. After a long while, he slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, and the corners of his mouth curved into a smile once more. But this smile was devoid of any leisurely air; it was replaced by a chilling coldness and murderous intent born from repeated setbacks.
"Qin Yu, you truly are ruthless." Hua Jingmeng's voice was low and deep. Her gaze swept over the flowing Silent Beginning Ring Master Soul Diagram behind Qin Yu, then fell on the still-dissipating dark red causal cracks. Anger was hidden in her eyes, but her tone still maintained a semblance of calm. "I never expected your Heavenly Cause Judgment Order · Six Severances Seal to be so powerful."
Qin Yu remained silent, standing still and gazing at him. There was not a trace of provocation in his eyes, and even after breaking the ancient scales of cause and effect, he showed no arrogance. This calm and composed demeanor only made Hua Jingmeng's expression grow even more unpleasant. What he disliked most was Qin Yu's detached and indifferent calm.
The next instant, Hua Jingmeng suddenly raised her right hand, her index finger lightly tapping the air in front of her, snap!
Without warning, space tore open from its center, and a long, narrow, dark rift rapidly extended upwards and downwards. At the edges of the rift, layers of spatial debris crumbled away. What was initially only a few feet wide instantly transformed into a dark void hundreds of feet wide.
Within the void, there was no starlight, nor the lingering light of Dao principles commonly found in the void; only the darkness of eternal damnation slowly swirled. Buzz!!! As Hua Jingmeng continuously poured her Fate Soul essence into it, a vast vortex condensed deep within the darkness.
The Great Void Daoist aura that lingered around was drawn in by a tremendous force, and even the light flowing above the arena bent towards the edge of the vortex, silently sinking into darkness.
From afar, the dark vortex hanging in front of Hua Jingmeng looked like a gaping abyss carved out of the heavens and earth. Any divine sense that approached even slightly would lose its perception at the edge, with only an ancient, desolate, and chilling Fate Soul slowly awakening from its depths.
The surging anger in Hua Jingmeng's chest gradually subsided at this moment. He took half a step forward, his entire right arm plunging straight into the dark vortex. Darkness climbed upwards along his wrist bone.
In an instant, it engulfed his entire forearm, causing the Great Void energy of the four directions to tremble violently. Without the slightest hesitation, his five fingers seemed to grasp an ancient artifact that had slumbered for countless ages, his shoulders slumbered slightly, and his arm slowly pulled outward.
A deep, vast primal tremor emanated from the depths of the black hole, almost imperceptible to mortal ears. A section of dark gray sword hilt was the first to appear. Then, inch by inch, the cold, silent sword blade slowly emerged from the darkness.