Mystic Deconstruction did not deny Qin Yu's enlightenment; instead, the curiosity in his eyes intensified. "Today's Silent Origin Return to Truth is merely his initial glimpse of this Great Dao. At this moment, he must personally experience the Return to Silentness to complete the Return to Truth; he must act as a bridge between the Silent Origin and Manifestation. Therefore, this technique is still limited by the upper limit of the Origin he can bear."
The enormous beastly eyes narrowed slightly. "But what if one day he no longer needs to use himself as a bridge?" The surrounding world suddenly fell silent.
Mystic Deconstruction continued, "If he could directly capture the traces of the Silent Origin left behind after any being has returned to Annihilation, and draw back to the origin from that source, then the broken foundation of the Dao, the shattered Fate Soul, the annihilated origin, and even a being that has already returned to nothingness, leaving only a wisp of a remnant..."
Mystic Deconstruction didn't finish his sentence, but the light shimmering in Wanyan's eyes already conveyed the immense weight of his words.
Jiheng slowly turned his head to look at Qin Yu below, while Suhuang completely abandoned his scrutinizing attitude towards his junior. All four of them understood the terrifying possibility that Mystic Deconstruction's unfinished words implied.
Wanyan said in a deep voice, "That's why I said that what he filled in was precisely what came after Annihilation." His gaze fell back on Qin Yu once more, the importance he placed on him being unprecedented.
"I'm growing more and more fond of this young man." Just as the four great beasts were moved by Silent Origin Return to Truth, Hua Jingmeng, in the center of the arena, had already fallen into another surging emotion.
He finally understood the cause and effect, and it was this clarity that allowed fear to truly seize his mind.
Hua Jingmeng gripped the Vast Annihilation God-Burying Banner tightly with both hands, his knuckles cracking slightly from the pressure. He stared at the wisps of light that had condensed from the Silent Origin behind Qin Yu, his facial muscles twitching uncontrollably. His eyes first showed astonishment, then disbelief, and finally, a raging fire slowly consumed everything.
He had initially assumed that Qin Yu was trying to break the Myriad Spirits Burial Banner, that the other party had found a way to resist the stripping away of divinity. Only now did he realize that Qin Yu had never been in a hurry to shatter his divine power.
Qin Yu was using his banner to comprehend the Dao, his Myriad Spirits Burial Banner, his Divine Stillness Domain, and even the Three Burials Tribulation that he had just activated by burning his Fate Soul essence.
Hua Jingmeng's chest heaved violently.
This humiliation far surpasses the direct defeat of the banner technique. He poured out all his resources, determined to bury Qin Yu in the Silent Abyss, but in the end, his own deadly attack inadvertently opened the door to the fifth form for Qin Yu!
"Qin Yu..." Hua Jingmeng gritted her teeth, her eyes bloodshot rapidly spreading. "How dare you..." Qin Yu ignored her.
At this moment, his enlightenment was still spreading. Within the Silent Origin Star Sea, strands of primordial origin were constantly manifesting, and the Dao Path to the Silent Origin Return to Truth was becoming clearer and clearer. This complete indifference completely ignited the last bit of reason in Hua Jingmeng's mind.
"Enough!!!" Boom!!! Hua Jingmeng forcefully slammed the Vast Annihilation God-Burying Banner into the stone surface of the arena, and it shattered!!!
Centered on the point where the banner pole landed, countless gray-blue cracks appeared on the arena. These cracks did not spread outwards, but instead all converged towards the dark black circular spot in the center of the banner. Hua Jingmeng gripped the banner pole tightly with both hands and poured her Fate Soul essence into it without reservation. The gray-blue tide of silence, which had been pulled back by the Silent Origin Return to Truth, suddenly surged wildly.
"You want to use my Vast Annihilation Burial Banner to comprehend your Great Dao?!" Hua Jingmeng's face was slightly distorted by rage, her eyes surging with a chilling malice. "Then I will let you perish here completely!!!" Buzz!!!
The dark black circular spot in the center of the banner suddenly expanded outwards. One foot, three feet, ten feet.
The entire banner rippled violently, and the ancient afterimages that had just opened their eyes twisted and stirred again in an instant. The thousands of gray-blue light spots that were flowing toward Qin Yu suddenly froze in mid-air.
The next instant, an aura completely different from all the previous divine power slowly seeped out from the depths of the inky black circular spot. There was no gray-blue glow, no lingering soul or shadow, and no surging silent tide.
Only the purest and Ultimate silence remained. All the supernatural powers that the Myriad Spirits Burial Banner had previously displayed were merely using the banner to draw upon the remaining power of Eternal Silence. At this moment, in her rage, Hua Jingmeng forcibly bypassed the banner itself and directly touched the very core of this ancient divine weapon—the essence of Eternal Silence.
A mournful wail, heavy and Fate Soul- shaking, echoed from the depths of the Myriad Worlds Graveyard.
Hua Jingmeng's body trembled violently, and the color drained from his face rapidly. Forcibly touching the source had already come at a price; a thin crack appeared on the Fate Soul mark between his brows, and blood trickled from the corner of his mouth again. But he refused to give up, his bloodshot eyes fixed on Qin Yu, his ruthlessness filled with madness.
He absolutely could not allow Qin Yu to continue his enlightenment, absolutely not!
The black circular spot at the heart of the banner continued to expand, and the surrounding space peeled away its inherent Dao imprints layer by layer. For the first time, the Silent Origin Star Sea behind Qin Yu was truly shaken. Those primordial light spots that had just begun to take shape and were about to return to their true form were dragged backward by the great power of the Eternal Silence Body.
A vast torrent of primordial energy, spanning the realms of Returning to Truth and Eternal Silence, instantly blocked Qin Yu and the Vast Annihilation God-Burying Banner, roaring! On one side was Qin Yu's newly cultivated Returning to Silent Origin Return to Truth, drawing back the things that had returned to Silence to manifest; on the other side was Hua Jingmeng's Eternal Silence body, which she forcibly pulled out by tearing apart her own Fate Soul, intending to drag all things back into the abyss of Annihilation.
Two roads that were going in opposite directions collided head-on here.
In the center of the arena, Qin Yu's black hair was blown backward by the two opposing torrents of primordial energy. He slowly raised his eyes, looking at Hua Jingmeng, who had already fallen into madness, and then at the ever-expanding, jet-black circular spot. The Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel rotated in succession deep within his Fate Soul, and the newly formed Silent Origin Return to Truth, at the moment of the Eternal Silence manifesting in the world, gave rise to a new layer of understanding.
Hua Jingmeng was determined to stop him, but he didn't know that when the true form of Eternal Silence appeared before him, the Great Dao "after Annihilation" in Qin Yu's eyes became more and more complete and transparent, and Qin Yu's gaze slowly darkened.
High above, Wanyan saw this scene, and a strange light flashed in its ancient giant eyes once again. It did not speak out, but simply looked down quietly. It also wanted to witness with its own eyes—to see how far the newly born Ji Yuan Silent Origin Return to Truth could go when facing the true body of Eternal Silence.
Qin Yu stood quietly in the center of the arena, which had been completely tainted by the Myriad Spirits Burial Banner and was no longer what it used to be. His dark black hair was wildly billowing as the two primordial torrents collided violently, and his robes fluttered incessantly.
Beneath their feet, on the boundless stone surface, layers upon layers of gray-blue, silent patterns stretched out, crisscrossing and spreading in all directions. The power that Hua Jingmeng had forcibly drawn from the depths of the Vast Annihilation God-Burying Banner at any cost had long since transcended the rudimentary supernatural abilities that had previously been stripped of their divinity.
It is the Eternal Silence essence buried for eternity and dormant in the deepest part of time. It is the Ultimate place of Annihilation to which all beings ultimately go after all the myriad spirits, Fate Soul, and traces of their obsessions have been buried.
A vast, boundless, gray-blue tide of silence crashed down from behind Hua Jingmeng, and wherever it passed, all the myriad paths of heaven and earth lost their original rhythm and trajectory. The shattered stone fragments on the arena, which had just been gently lifted by the aftershocks of the primordial energy, instantly froze in the void, their surface colors fading layer by layer, until even the marks of time and the traces of power they had borne were washed away by the silent force, leaving them a pale white.
Behind Qin Yu, the Silent Origin Star Sea, which had undergone three burials to prove its heart and was reborn from the ashes, was slowly rotating along a completely opposite path of the Great Dao. Billions of gray-blue light spots that had returned to silence were gently guided by the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel, and strands of the most primordial Great Dao Origin were awakening one by one from their ancient slumber, emitting a faint light.
One was buried, the other returned; one lived in solitude, the other retreated; the other advanced. Two diametrically opposed supreme paths collided violently in the center of the arena, spanning ten thousand feet of heaven and earth, forming a gray-blue boundary that cleaved the universe, a solemn standoff.
Buzz!!! Deep within Qin Yu's Fate Soul, the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel trembled and resonated in unison.
He slowly closed his eyes, not rushing to resist the erosion of the Eternal Silence body, but instead actively dispelling the outermost Silent Origin of his Fate Soul. In an instant, the pure Eternal Silence power drawn by Hua Jingmeng rushed straight in through this gap and poured into his body with a roar.
The primordial light points that had just condensed around Qin Yu suddenly dimmed and withered, and fine gray-blue streaks spread deep into his arms, shoulders, and neck, reaching the core of his Fate Soul.
A deafening roar erupted from the distant spectator stands. Many of the young disciples of the Chi Lineage rose to their feet in shock, Chi Boqian's gaze, which had been calm for many years, instantly hardened like iron. Only the four Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang in the sky remained silent, their ancient and silent eyes fixed on the arena, having already seen through Qin Yu's deep state of mind and schemes.
He wanted to bear the burden with his own body and personally witness Eternal Silence.
Previously, during his three burials and enlightenments, he had only glimpsed the shallow divine silence power after the transformation of the Vast Annihilation God-Burying Banner. Now, Hua Jingmeng destroyed her own foundation and forcibly tore apart the ancient barrier, sending the most original and purest Eternal Silence essence of the Burial Banner to her. In the midst of a desperate situation, she completed the final incomplete foundation of the Dao of Silent Origin Return to Truth for Qin Yu.
Qin Yu's mind and consciousness sank completely into the deepest recesses of his Fate Soul.
He witnessed the first strand of the True Origin return to Annihilation, followed by the second and third strands withering away in succession. Past memories were buried and silenced, the traces of time were completely annihilated, the external phenomena of the Fate Soul faded away layer by layer, and even the brilliant light patterns flowing around the outer edge of the Silent Beginning Ring Master Soul Diagram were slowly covered by Eternal Silence.
Qin Yu did not hinder him in the slightest, but simply observed quietly, tracing the path of all things returning to stillness all the way to their source. The deeper he went into the origin of the Great Dao, the more Emptiness all things appeared. Cause and effect were severed, branches were cut off, the Dao disappeared and the differences in laws were destroyed. All existences in the world that were buried and destroyed eventually went to the only Ultimate destination.
In Silent Origin, Qin Yu suddenly opened his eyes. In his deep pupils, there was no surprise or fear, only complete understanding and clarity. "So that's how it is. It should have been like this a long time ago." His voice was soft and gentle, yet every word was clear and steady, falling steadily into Hua Jingmeng's ears.
Hua Jingmeng's eye muscles twitched violently, her heart filled with a mixture of shock and anger, and a sudden sense of unease arose. Qin Yu slowly raised his right hand, his five fingers leisurely spread in front of his chest, and the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel, which had been endlessly rotating deep within his Fate Soul, suddenly froze and stopped rotating.
All the myriad paths of heaven and earth Ji Ran silent, and in the next instant, the Nine-Wheel Dharma Wheel reversed in unison! Buzz!!!
This primordial roar reverberated throughout the entire Myriad Worlds Graveyard. The Silent Origin Star Sea behind Qin Yu, which had been dimmed and withered by the Eternal Silence, suddenly contracted and condensed inward. Hundreds of millions of gray-blue light points followed the nine reversing Dharma Wheels, condensing into nine vast torrents of returning to the origin that stretched across the sky. At this moment, the fifth divine power that Qin Yu had just comprehended was finally fully realized and perfectly manifested.
"Void Source Truth Command— " The five fingers slowly closed, the Daoist essence condensing through eternity. "Fifth Form, Silent Origin Return to Truth."