A massive gray-white light curtain slowly rose from around the six people. The light curtain did not completely close, but was divided into six layers, each layer reflecting the figures of the six people. Chen Yong stood with his spear across his body in the first layer, and the same was true in the second layer, until the deepest sixth layer, where the appearance, Fate Soul, position, and divine weapon of the six people were all consistent.
Chen Yong scanned the array patterns, confirming that the Fate Soul of the five people had all been incorporated into the array, before speaking in a low voice, "From now on, no matter what you see, do not rely solely on your own senses."
If someone sees that they are injured but the other five do not, then the five injured shall be considered the group; if someone feels that they have left the area but the others can still sense them, they must not leave the group without permission.
The woman with the sword paled slightly: "Senior brother is worried..." "It can confuse reality," Chen Yong interrupted her. "The six of us will use our six lives to prove ourselves to each other." The hearts of the five men sank simultaneously, and the moment those words fell, the Nine Nether Cold Pool in the distance suddenly fell completely silent.
The previously churning thousand-foot vortex stopped, and the towering black-blue waves, hundreds of feet high, also halted in mid-air. Chen Yong's pupils slowly narrowed, and the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon moved. This time, it did not rush towards the six people.
The enormous dragon body, perched between the sky and the Nine Nether Cold Pool, slowly unfurled. Its Azure Dragon tightened along its countless feet-long body, and its massive head rose toward the sky, its dark blue eyes closing completely for the first time.
"Woo--!!!" A long, drawn-out dragon roar came from its throat. The sound was not as high-pitched as before, but the desolation contained in it sent a chill down the spines of all six people.
The sound was unlike any vocalization they were familiar with.
When it passed the Nine Nether Cold Pool, the water did not ripple; when it passed the surrounding mountains, the rocks did not respond; after it reached the ears of the six people, they could not even be sure whether they had truly "heard" it.
The massive body of the demonic dragon began to bend backward, its head descending and its tail rising. Segments of its dark Azure Dragon body coiled in reverse above the Nine Nether Cold Pool, and countless sharp scales on its spine gradually stood up. The calm on Chen Yong's face finally changed.
As those reverse scales opened, he saw for the first time what truly existed beneath the dragon's scales: there was no flesh, no bones, no bodily tissues that any living being should possess, only tiny vortexes.
Countless vortexes swirl together, engulfing each other, with reality and illusion constantly exchanging places within them. A drop of real blood entering it can become an illusion; a thought that was originally fabricated can instantly become reality.
At the densest point of the dragon's reverse scales on its chest and abdomen—a True Annihilation Vortex, far larger than any of the other vortices, was spinning endlessly. Chen Yong's eyes darkened. "Everyone, hold your positions!" The dragon's tail had already reached the dragon's head.
The next moment, the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon opened its massive jaws and bit its own tail tip, its head and tail joining together, creating a huge, dark, closed loop that spanned the Nine Nether Cold Pool. The Great Expansion Total Extinction completely annihilated, and the moment the closed loop took shape, countless reverse scales simultaneously stood up completely, and hum!!! Everything that could be identified around the Nine Nether Cold Pool trembled at the same time.
The first realm - True Suchness Fading: No light truly emanated from the ink ring, but Chen Yong suddenly discovered that the gray-black spear in his hand had lost its color. Then, the cold crystal beneath his feet, the distant mountains, the sky, black, white, blue, gray, all colors began to rapidly fade from the world.
"Activate the formation!" Chen Yong thrust his spear into the ground, and the Six Lives Annihilation - True Guardian Formation activated, with all six layers of light screens lighting up simultaneously. But the next moment, they could no longer hear anything.
The five True Annihilation Realm · Initial Stage opened their mouths simultaneously. Although they could clearly see each other speaking, no sound entered their consciousness. Immediately afterward, the coldness vanished.
They were in the Nine Nether Cold Pool, still surrounded by the extreme frost that could freeze logic and causality, but the perception of "cold" was being forcibly stripped away.
The man wielding the heavy black ruler looked down at his palm, his face instantly turning extremely pale. He could see his hand, but he couldn't feel his skin, couldn't confirm whether the divine weapon in his hand was heavy or light, and even began to question whether his five fingers were still part of his body.
A distant, towering peak thousands of feet high was swept by an invisible, Dark Ruins Death Light. The mountain did not collapse; it simply flowed slowly downwards. Once its hardness disappeared, the entire mountain gradually transformed into a formless, grayish-white liquid that silently slid down the mountainside.
Chen Yong's eye twitched violently. "Hold on!" Since his voice couldn't travel, he directly used his Fate Soul to transmit his thoughts to the five people in the formation, and the six layers of light screen quickly overlapped. The six people simultaneously confirmed each other's existence. The first layer faded, barely blocking the light, but the dark closed loop formed by the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon had already begun to rotate, the first circle, the second circle, the third circle.
The speed increased rapidly, and the world inside the ink ring completely lost its normal form. Then, one of the Fate Soul patterns in the Six Lives Annihilation - True Suchness Guardian Formation suddenly dimmed. Chen Yong looked down sharply. The array pattern was not broken; it was still there. However, after extending from himself to the sword-wielding woman, this array pattern produced no further results.
Chen Yong's heart sank. Second Realm— Causality Corrosion! The woman simultaneously sensed the abnormality and immediately raised her silver-gray short sword, intending to inject her life Fate Soul into the formation. She did raise the sword, and her essence did indeed enter the sword, but—nothing happened. She completed all the actions, and then vanished.
On the other side, the man manipulating the six ancient mirrors switched hands continuously, and the six ancient mirrors turned towards the demonic dragon in turn, with gray-white True Annihilation beams already condensing inside the mirrors.
The beam shot out, traversing thousands of feet, and then stopped. It was neither blocked nor destroyed; the only consequence of this attack was that it "reached its target." The man's eyes widened suddenly.
For the first time, he truly understood what the True Annihilation Realm · Supreme meant. Before the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon, attacks didn't even need to be defended against, because cause and effect could Does Not Exist. "Senior Brother!" A hint of panic finally appeared in the Fate Soul message. Chen Yong didn't answer; he was doing his best to maintain the great formation, and fine beads of sweat had already seeped from his forehead.
The most crucial mutual verification relationships in the Six Lives Return to Annihilation and True Suchness Guards the Formation are losing their results one by one. He can confirm the existence of five people, and the five people can also confirm his existence, but the act of "confirmation" can no longer produce the follow-up of "this person truly exists".
The dark ring formed by the demonic dragon spun faster and faster until it finally disappeared. Only a single dot remained above the Nine Nether Cold Pool, a tiny dark dot so small that it was almost invisible to the naked eye. The moment Chen Yong saw it, the strongest sense of danger he had felt since entering the Nine Nether Cold Pool suddenly rose in his heart.
"Everyone!" His Fate Soul transmission carried a sharp shout for the first time. "Pour all your Fate Soul essence into the great formation!" The five people didn't hesitate at all. Boom!!! The Fate Soul essence of the six True Annihilation Realm cultivators simultaneously rushed into the core of the formation, and the six layers of protective light barriers contracted wildly, shielding all six people at the very core. And in the distance, that dark singularity—
It throbbed slightly, without sound, without light, without impact. The third realm of Great Expansion Total Extinction, the singularity opened, and heaven and earth suddenly froze. A silent region without boundaries spread outward from the center of the Nine Nether Cold Pool. It passed through the pool water, and the pool water remained there; it passed through the mountains and rivers, and the mountains and rivers remained there.
Passing through the sky, the sky showed no cracks, yet everything began to exist in two states simultaneously: the mountain existed, yet the mountain Does Not Exist. The pool water was flowing, yet the pool water never flowed; the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon was above the sky, yet the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon had never appeared.
Two completely conflicting realities simultaneously came into being at this moment, and the Silent Zone finally reached the Six Lives Annihilation - True Suchness Guardian Formation, hum!!! The first layer of light curtain suddenly dimmed.
It didn't break, because "breaking" itself was no longer certain. Half of the second layer of light disappeared, and the third layer began to flicker violently. The six people simultaneously saw something that made their scalps tingle. Inside the formation, twelve people appeared. Six of them were desperately maintaining the formation, while the other six had already fallen to the ground.
The next instant, there were eighteen again. The third group of six stood on the distant, icy cliff, their faces blank, as if they had never entered the core of the Nine Nether Cold Pool. "Which one is real...?"
The thought finally arose in the Fate Soul of a cultivator, and the instant it appeared, a fine crack appeared on the surface of his Fate Soul. Chen Yong suddenly turned his head. "Don't try to explain!" He finally Great Expansion Total Extinction.
The more they try to confirm what is real, the more they will fall into the dead end of having both truth and falsehood existing simultaneously. "Everyone, give up judging!" Chen Yong gripped the spear tightly with both hands, frantically pouring the Fate Soul essence of the True Annihilation Realm · Peak into the core of the formation.
"Guard your own Fate Soul!" "Don't worry about what you see!" The silent zone completely engulfed the six people. At this moment, Chen Yong even saw himself dead. He saw his own corpse floating in the Nine Nether Cold Pool, and he also saw himself successfully slay the demonic dragon and leave with the five people.
He also saw that he had never been here before. Countless contradictory realities simultaneously flooded his consciousness, each one real and each one fake. Chen Yong slowly clenched his teeth, and the veins on his forehead bulged. For the first time, he felt his "existence" loosening from reality.
The five people behind him were in even worse shape. One person's left arm had become semi-transparent, and another person's face was sometimes clear and sometimes disappearing. The woman with the sword was clearly two hundred feet behind Chen Yong, but her voice entered everyone's Fate Soul from a direction that Does Not Exist at all.
"Senior Brother Chen..." "Am I... still in the formation?" Chen Yong suddenly turned around. He saw her, but the next moment, he could no longer see her. The Six Lives Return to Annihilation - True Suchness Guardian Formation was still running, but even the formation itself was now simultaneously showing two realities: "Already set up" and "never existed." Above the Nine Nether Cold Pool, the True Annihilation Singularity was still silently spreading.
For the first time, the six truly understood the terror of the True Annihilation Realm · Supreme Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon. It hadn't killed them. It was gradually robbing them of their right to prove themselves to the real world. Once that final connection was completely severed, they would still possess consciousness, still be able to see the Nine Nether Cold Pool, and even see each other.
But from that moment on, no one in reality would ever see them again. Chen Yong gripped the spear tightly, blood streaming down his palms along the shaft. His eyes were bloodshot. The last three layers of the Guardian Light Screen in front of him were dimming one after another in the silence of the Great Expansion Total Extinction. They had been forced into a truly perilous situation.