The Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon suddenly raised its head and roared, its enormous body slowly rising from the icy pool. The gray chaos flowing between its broken scales suddenly subsided. It no longer mutated, no longer devoured, and no longer dragged itself into the interlayer of truth and falsehood.
In that instant, it became extremely clear. The dragon horns were dragon horns, the dragon scales were dragon scales, and the wounds were wounds. Everyone in the Nine Nether Cold Pool could clearly perceive its existence like never before. Chen Yong's eyes changed drastically. For a creature of the True Annihilation Realm, such a change of actively abandoning an indistinguishable state was definitely not normal.
Deep within the dragon's chest, a faint gray light slowly shone, then expanded into a ring. The gray halo contained no oppressive aura, no killing intent, but simply circled the entire body of the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon. The dragon looked down at the six people, and the rage in its dark blue eyes gradually settled into a superior and indifferent desolation.
"Return to the Ruins True Self." The four words resonated into the Fate Soul. The gray Gray Ring expanded for the first breath, covering the Nine Nether Cold Pool. In the second breath, it crossed the Frosty Crystal Mountains. In the third breath, it had already spread to the more distant Void Dharma Realm. The gray light circle passed through Chen Yong's Return to Truth, Pierce Fate. The spearhead did not shatter, nor was it blocked by the demonic dragon.
It was only beginning to fade. Chen Yong clearly felt that there was still a connection between himself and this supernatural power, and the spear had indeed been used. However, the most basic trace that "this spear is qualified to exist here" was fading away.
A moment later, the trajectory of the gray-black spear's divine power became transparent and retreated on its own. The nine sword shadows followed closely behind, neither broken nor countered; they simply lost the right to remain in the mortal world.
The silver-gray sword shadows collapsed one after another, until not even a trace of sword intent remained. Gray Mountain, Four Mirrors Lock Domain, Sixteen Silent Ring, and Sever Source Saber were swept by gray light circles in turn. The attacks that the six people had exerted all their strength to unleash all faded away from this world on their own within a few breaths.
The five True Annihilation Realm · Initial Stage' expressions changed drastically. "How could this be..." Chen Yong did not answer. Because the Gray Ring had already covered the Primordial Mirror beneath their feet, the Primordial Mirror lit up immediately. The bronze mirror surface was crisscrossed with six anchor marks, indicating that there were six people here, all six of them. However, despite the fact that it had always been successful, this time it did not stop the Gray Ring even slightly.
The halo slowly passed over the outer edge of the Primordial Mirror. The six figures reflected on the mirror's surface remained, but extremely strange gaps began to appear around those figures. The Primordial Mirror Primordial Mirror, the Return to the Ruins True Self began to revoke the basis for their "should be here." The former confirmed their existence, while the latter removed the legitimate foundation of their existence.
For the first time, the six felt that even the Primordial Mirror was being suppressed head-on. The sword-wielding woman's left hand began to turn transparent, followed by her sleeve.
She felt no pain, only looking down to see her arm slowly shrinking inward. The connection between her physical body, Fate Soul, and Dao principles remained intact, yet a higher-level force was causing them to leave this world.
The Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon hovered high in the icy pool, its expression now cold and desolate. It didn't even look at what the six people were doing. In its Return to the Ruins True Self, it only acknowledged one truly irreversible reality—its own self.
Apart from it, everything else can be eliminated. Looking at the Primordial Mirror hanging above his head, whose radiance was beginning to waver, Chen Yong finally understood why this demonic dragon dared to give up its third divine power even after suffering repeated heavy blows.
This move was prepared for the Primordial Mirror. If they continued to resist with only "self-proving their existence", the six of them would eventually be completely expelled from this world by the Return to the Ruins True Self, even though their existence was still proven by the Primordial Mirror.
A ruthless glint flashed in Chen Yong's eyes. "Senior brother!" Someone behind him could no longer contain their shock. Chen Yong suddenly raised his right hand, opened his mouth and bit his index finger, and bright red blood gushed from his fingertip. As soon as the Fate Soul essence blood of a cultivator at the peak of the True Annihilation Realm · Peak appeared, the surrounding space rippled with a faint gray-red color.
Chen Yong didn't wipe it away. He directly raised his hand and pressed the drop of essence blood into the very center of the Primordial Mirror. The five people were shocked at the same time. "Senior brother, you want to..." "Do as I say!" Chen Yong's voice suddenly became sharp. "If you don't want to be expelled from the mortal world by it, hand over your Fate Soul essence blood to the Primordial Mirror!"
The five people did not ask any more questions. The woman with the sword was the first to bite her fingertip, and a drop of blood essence flew out. Then, the second, third, fourth, and fifth drops of the True Annihilation Realm Fate Soul essence blood all landed on the three-inch bronze fragment at the same time.
Unabsorbed by the mirror's surface, the six drops of blood hung above the latitude and longitude lines, flowing slowly before settling in six different locations. The Primordial Mirror Primordial Mirror fell completely silent, its bronze radiance vanishing entirely. Chen Yong's vision went black, and the next instant—
An ancient tradition that had never been told to him by the clan elders entered the consciousness of the six people directly through the Fate Soul connection between their blood essence and the Primordial Mirror.
The Primordial Mirror possesses a rarely manifest killing power, and it cannot be activated on ordinary days because it never takes the initiative to kill on behalf of anyone.
Only when six beings, whose existence has been fully verified by it, and who, with their Fate Soul essence and blood as witnesses, are willing to jointly undertake a "Primordial Judgment," will the killing intent that slumbered since the birth of the first law awaken.
Its name is Primordial Mirror, Primordial Chaos Original Edict. It does not try to prove "I exist now", nor does it compete with enemies for "who is qualified to exist". It writes about something much earlier.
Before the concepts of "legal" and "illegal" even existed, and before the concepts of "permitted" and "not permitted" were even proposed, the first law embodied in the Primordial Mirror had already completed its first self-verification.
Therefore, the things determined by the Primordial Chaos Original Edict cannot be granted or deprived of their qualifications by any existence in later generations. It has only one most ancient true meaning of the Way of Rebirth, and cannot reverse the judgment of the Primordial Initial Proof. The Return to the Ruins True Self of the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon can declare that the permission for the existence of all things is taken back by itself.
However, the concept of "permission" itself is later than that of the Primordial Mirror. The principle of "legality" is also Primordial Mirror. Since it was born later, it has no right to reverse the "is" that has already appeared in the first moment. The six drops of Fate Soul essence blood lit up at the same time, and the four meridians on the surface of the Primordial Mirror slowly separated from the mirror body. The first meridian runs across the Nine Nether Cold Pool.
The second beam ripped through the Void Dharma Realm, the third extended from the past to the present, and the fourth plunged directly into the deepest part of the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon's origin. There was no earth-shattering pillar of light. Instead, a vast and ancient aura descended, so immense that it caused the consciousness of all six to freeze simultaneously. At that moment, they saw a world that had never existed in any memory.
Before the primordial chaos was divided, before True Annihilation existed, and before nothingness possessed its current meaning, in the endless vastness, for the first time, an extremely faint "existence" appeared. In just an instant, the first wisp of physical laws unfolded, and the Primordial Mirror took shape. This scene was completely reflected back to the present world by the Primordial Chaos Original Edict.
The Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon's expression changed drastically for the first time. The ever-expanding gray halo around it suddenly stopped. The Demon Dragon wanted to continue declaring that everything was a revocable illusion. But this time—its declaration had no point of reference, because the Primordial Mirror had already traced the entire confrontation back to the era before the "License of Existence" existed.
There was no right to revoke, no law to deny, only the first self-proof that had already occurred. The Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon's pupils shrank suddenly, and it retreated abruptly. But it was too late. In the center of the Primordial Mirror, six drops of Fate Soul essence blood merged inwards at the same time, and an ancient light seal, no bigger than a fingertip, appeared. That light seal had no name, no complex Dao patterns, and only a very simple vertical mark inside.
Chen Yong raised his hand, and his five companions raised their hands at the same time. At this moment, the Fate Soul essence of all six people overlapped with the Primordial Mirror. "Fall!" Boom!!! The ancient light seal appeared directly on the forehead of the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon. There was no flight process, no distance, because the Primordial Chaos Original Edict had already dragged the Demon Dragon back to the original reality after the birth of the first law.
At this moment, all the True Annihilation authority that was born from the Primordial Mirror was no longer concealed.
The Great Expansion Total Extinction, unable to return it to zero; the Nine Abyss Immersion, unable to swallow the original edict; the Return to the Ruins True Self, even more unable to banish something born before "permission" from the world.
For the first time Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon was fully revealed as an existence with a clear origin, a clear Fate Soul, a clear dragon body, and a clear boundary between birth and death.
Chen Yong's eyes sharpened, and the light seal on the Primordial Mirror suddenly turned downwards, First Law Severs Truth of the Primordial Chaos Original Edict! Swoosh!!! A very thin, pale mark pierced through the dragon's forehead, then passed through its head, its neck bone, and the True Annihilation vortex in its chest and abdomen, before slashing along its entire spine towards its tail.
The massive body of the demonic dragon suddenly froze, the rage in the eyes of the azure Azure Dragon instantly solidified, and the next moment—the first crack appeared in the True Annihilation Vortex on its chest and abdomen. Crack!!! The crack spread rapidly, a second, a third, countless cracks, and all 99,999 acupoint membranes simultaneously stopped rotating.
All the life force, consciousness, and life marks that it had swallowed to sustain the Nine Abyss Immersion had lost their home and were now dissipating from the depths of its body. The demonic dragon suddenly opened its mouth. "Roar--!!!" This was its last complete dragon roar. The roar shook the Nine Nether Cold Pool, and the mountains trembled at the same time. But before the sound could travel far, its dragon horns had already begun to turn into gray-white dust.
Then came the dragon's head. Large swaths of dark blue scales peeled away from its forehead, leaving no blood or bits of flesh. The True Annihilation Realm · Supreme Dragon, which had roamed the Nine Nether Cold Pool for countless years, was being severed inch by inch by the Primordial Mirror along the earliest possible form of reality.
It attempted to re-enter True Annihilation, Primordial Mirror revealed it. It tried to transform itself into illusion, Primordial Chaos Original Edict still retained its origin, which had been confirmed by the primordial law. It attempted to activate the Return to the Ruins True Self to revoke the legitimacy of its own death.
But the First Law Severs Truth had already bypassed the word "legal," directly striking at the very root that enabled it to become a living being. Bang! The True Annihilation vortex in its chest and abdomen shattered completely. Countless gray-black fragments sprayed outwards, and the massive dragon body suddenly lost its support, its neck plummeting downwards, its spine annihilating segment by segment.
The body, which originally stretched for thousands of feet, turned into pale dust from head to tail. As soon as the dust appeared, it was illuminated again by the four meridians of the Primordial Mirror, severing all the remaining Fate Soul, True Annihilation, acupoint membrane, and causality within it.
Finally, only those dark Azure Dragon eyes remained, their rage dissipated, leaving only an incredulous tremor. Then—the eyes went out. The last piece of the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon's tailbone turned grayish-white above the icy pool. All the True Annihilation essence Annihilation simultaneously, and all the roots that could have reassembled the dragon's body scattered. The Nine Nether Cold Pool returned to its silence.
Only countless remnants of life essence that had been absorbed and Nine Abyss Immersion slowly fell from the sky and sank back into the depths of the pool. The Primordial Mirror hung between the six people. The six drops of Fate Soul essence blood had been completely consumed, and the luster of the bronze mirror slowly dimmed, restoring its original ancient and broken appearance.
Chen Yong's face was deathly pale, his chest heaving violently several times. He managed to keep his balance by bracing himself against his spear with his right hand. The five people behind him were in even worse condition. Two of them had already knelt on one knee, and the other three were panting heavily. Their Fate Soul essence had clearly weakened due to continuously maintaining the Primordial Mirror and the Primordial Chaos Original Edict.
No one spoke. All six stared at the center of the Nine Nether Cold Pool, where there was no longer the demonic dragon, no dragon shadow, no True Annihilation Vortex, and no re-forming acupoint membrane. The True Annihilation Realm · Supreme — the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon —had been utterly Annihilation by them.