Boom!!! The entire chest cavity of the behemoth suddenly collapsed inward and trembled violently. For the first time in history, after it devoured the creature, it gained no power and did not evolve any form.
One section of dragon bone was the first to dissipate and vanish, followed by the second and third sections, all without attack or destruction, without injury or damage. The reason these ancient remains were kept together and formed was entirely due to the "devouring-forming" closed loop.
The initial surge of power had been launched, but it ultimately failed. The ancient cycle had broken completely for the first time. Gulp! The enormous maw devoured, only to find nothing. Gulp!! It tried again, but still found nothing. Gulp!!!
Three times it swallowed, three times it emptied; the more it swallowed, the more it lacked; the more it lacked, the hungrier it became; the hungrier it became, the more it swallowed. Each futile swallowing only exacerbated the collapse of its own essence. In dire straits, the behemoth instinctively tried to save itself. Its thousands of tiny mouths on its body suddenly turned against itself, gnawing at any possible flesh and blood around it.
Swallowing its own flesh and blood instantly completes its form, temporarily restoring the closed loop and slowing its collapse. Qin Yu's eyes flashed coldly; he had anticipated this. His fourth divine power instantly locked down. "Silent Origin Heart-Annihilating Key!"
He did not restrict his devouring power or his devouring methods, but only locked the wisp of self-salvation in his heart—that root of his obsession with "filling the void with food and filling the emptiness with things."
"The heart desires to mold truth?" Qin Yu's lips were bloodied, his eyes sharp as frost, each word chilling. "Annihilation Heart arises—thoughts become emptiness!" Buzz—!!! The giant beast's nascent thoughts of self-preservation, instinct for finding things, and obsession to fill the void were instantly Annihilation and completely reduced to zero.
It can still devour, still has the will to devour, still retains the momentum to devour, but it can no longer find a target, no longer define food, and no longer fill the void with something. The momentum to devour continues, but there is nothing to devour; the contradiction is locked, and the dead end is created by nature.
Thus, the entire breakthrough process was successfully completed.
"Abyssal Rotation Profiling - Forced," turning its eternal swallowing orbit, causing it to devour its own emptiness. "Star Structure Returning Ring - Source Cause Severance," severing the source of its definition, making the vacuum forever inedible. "Book of Fate Law - Realm Severing Origin Brush," revealing its fundamental nature, making the contradictions irresolvable. "Silent Origin Heart-Annihilating Key," locking its self-salvation thoughts, making the cycle unable to continue.
The four divine powers were interconnected and interlocked, with none creating emptiness, none using emptiness, and none attacking beasts. From beginning to end, Qin Yu never touched that true vacuum even a fraction of it. He simply sent this ancient behemoth that had devoured all paths to a predicament it could never cross, forcing it to confront the emptiness it could never swallow.
"Roar--!!!" For the first time in its life Evolution-Devouring Beast let out a deafening roar. But the roar was swallowed up by its own endless maw as soon as it began. The world remained silent and still, except for the sudden surge of a colossal wave hundreds of millions of feet high in the Sea of Tastelessness, which shook the entire region.
The colossal beast's body completely collapsed, its ancient dragon bones crumbling section by section, and countless pieces of flesh and blood falling off in pieces. Evolution Name fragments flowed wildly along its body surface, scattering across the sky. Its limbs, with their numerous mouths, lost their unified rhythm, tearing at and devouring each other.
Taizu, who had a broken path on his back, asked, twisting violently and trembling endlessly. "If everything returns to silence, can we..." The remaining half of the word "Yan" finally stopped flowing and hung in the void. "Ten Thousand Yans Return to Silence" The supreme magical power completely collapsed and disintegrated layer by layer.
The various Dao roots that Qin Yu had once swallowed and assimilated were stripped away one by one and broken free: the Silent Origin Sword, the Root of Judgment, the Meaning of Interpretation, the Dao Path Return to Zero, the Zero Point Pointing, the Unfinished Severing Thought... all the Dao Devouring rhymes scattered back into the world.
Behind Qin Yu, the extinguished past fell silent, the fractured future ceased to collapse, the fading Evolution Name stopped disappearing, and the rampant and spreading cracks in his Fate Soul within his sea of consciousness finally came to a complete halt. Qin Yu's body swayed violently, and his blood and qi surged incessantly.
He knew that the "Wanyan Return-to-Stillness Devouring" had been broken, but the Evolution-Devouring Beast was not dead. The endless remnants, Evolution Name, and possibilities accumulated over millions of years of devouring still maintained its enormous true form, and its residual power remained.
It must be completely eradicated, and there is only one chance to strike. If it is given even a moment to breathe and allowed to rebuild the "devour-formation" cycle, the Supreme Dao Devouring will surely make a comeback and close the loop again.
Qin Yu's eyes flashed with a sharp light as he quickly scanned the myriad supernatural abilities around him. "Void Source - Dream Stillness" could expand the momentum of collapse, but it was too slow and would miss the opportunity. "Heavenly Cause Judgment Sequence - Six Severances Seal" had already completed its mission of breaking the deadlock, and stacking them would be useless and would only create more variables.
"The Annihilation Devil Pupil - Final Gaze" comes at a terrible price and is unnecessary. "Return to Origin and Sever Retracing" can sever all qualifications of existence, but it is very easy to erase the fourth Emanation Domain the domain and the residual Dao charm of the ancestor, damaging the foundation of the trial.
Finally, his gaze returned to the serene longsword in his hand, the "Silent Origin Stainless Sword." He now understood that the final thing he needed to slay was not the beast's flesh, bones, or remains. It was the last wisp of its primal will within those remains—"I must continue to devour."
This is its last concept, its last foundation, its last origin, and Qin Yu happens to possess a sword that can sever all the origins and beginnings of all concepts and ideas in the world. Qin Yu slowly tightened his grip on the sword hilt.
His Fate Soul was still wracked with excruciating pain, his chest wound was still raw, his body Evolution Name and scarred, and his face was deathly pale, devoid of any color. Yet, the moment his five fingers gripped the hilt of the sword—
Clang--!!! The clear, resonant sword cry shattered the silence of heaven and earth, soaring straight to the sky! The Sea of Tastelessness collapsed to both sides with a roar, retreating completely. Qin Yu took a step forward! Boom!!! The sea beneath his feet instantly collapsed and exploded.
With his second step, Qin Yu pierced through layers of collapsing debris, reaching the gigantic maw of the colossal beast. Thousands of out-of-control mouths surged forward, closing in. Qin Yu neither retreated nor dodged, pressing on relentlessly.
His left hand suddenly rose, and the hand seals were activated again. "Fate Cause Sealing Mirror - Logic Abyss Core"! The twelve dark mirrors suddenly unfolded and formed a circle around him! This time, he did not trace the root of the Dao, nor did he investigate cause and effect, but only for sealing! The twelve rampant devouring trajectories were all received, broken, and sealed by the mirrors.
Qin Yu calmly traversed the center of the mirror array, heading straight for the core. The colossal maw of the giant beast crashed down, engulfing the world in darkness. Deep within the maw, the six remnants of life that had been swallowed for millennia surged and stirred, their countless long-forgotten senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and knowledge yearning to return to the world and continue their Dao Devouring.
Qin Yu raised his eyes, facing the boundless darkness. He neither retreated, nor feared, nor avoided. "You devour all paths." His right hand slowly raised his sword, the blade gradually straightening.
"Swallow Wanyan." "Swallow nothingness." "Swallow the void."
The hollow chest contracted violently, and countless fragments of Evolution Name transformed into a torrent, surging forth. Qin Yu's eyes blazed with Ultimate sharpness, each word ringing out with unwavering resolve, resounding through the ages. "But you can't even swallow yourself—why you're never satisfied—" He stepped into boundless darkness!
Clang--!!! The "Silent Origin Stainless Sword" is fully awakened, and its sword intent returns to stillness! First move-- "No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword"! This sword does not cut the dragon's bones, nor the mangled body, nor the giant mouth, nor the remnants of eternity. The sword's edge is extremely simple, pure, and still.
Only by directly targeting the core of all things, severing the origin of the Origin Framework of "eternal devouring," can one truly understand. A single, chilling, and Ultimate silent Silent Origin Sword flashed across the darkness of the gigantic maw, disappearing in an instant. The next moment, all was silent, and all the world's mouths of conquest ceased abruptly.
The gigantic maw on the soles of the feet, the swallowing marks on the limbs, the devouring passages in the chest cavity, and the tasting marks on the tail—all the mechanisms for countless devouring were severed and rendered Eternal Silence silent. The root of the Dao Devouring was completely reduced to zero.
One breath, two breaths, three breaths. Crack—the first crack on the top of the giant beast's skull quietly spread and appeared. Boom!!!!!! The entire ancient mountain and sea graveyard exploded and completely collapsed! Hundreds of millions of dragon bones soared into the sky, and countless pieces of flesh and blood shattered into stardust, their Evolution Name flying and drifting away.
Countless six residual breaths that had been swallowed for eternity and trapped in darkness broke free from their imprisonment and returned to heaven and earth. The eternal bottomless hole in the chest of the giant beast was completely exposed to the tasteless world for the first time.
Qin Yu stood silently before the void, his sword tip hanging down, untouched by dust. He had not touched the void in the slightest, nor defined, possessed, or comprehended it. He simply let it reveal itself freely, existing for a fleeting moment.
After losing the Origin Framework of "eternal devouring," no power, no remains, and no Daoist essence can reassemble itself around this void. The dragon bones are hard to return, the Evolution Name are hard to gather, the flesh and blood are hard to reunite, and the void cannot be preserved.
The gigantic maw could not be closed, and the beast's body could not be preserved. Qin Yu slowly sheathed his sword. Clang—the sword's sound subsided, and all was silent. Behind him, the giant beast's towering head split open from the center, and the two halves of its enormous maw crashed down towards the sides of the Sea of Tastelessness.
During its fall, it disintegrated layer by layer, inch by inch, from tens of thousands of feet to hundreds of feet, down to the last wisp. Ultimately, it all turned into countless unclaimed traces, drifting away with the wind. The incomplete question posed by the founding emperor on its spine floated up, suspended in mid-air. "If all returns to silence, may we...?"
A fragment of a character hung alone between heaven and earth, neither complete nor dissipated. As the last piece of the beast's remains shattered and scattered—the fourth Emanation Guardian, the Evolution-Devouring Beast —was utterly annihilated.
At the same time, the supreme divine power that enveloped the entire Fourth Root Emanation Domain collapsed and disintegrated layer by layer.
"Dao Devouring" -- Collapse! "Dao Spitting" -- Collapse! "Return to Emanation" -- Collapse! Boom!!!!! The last wisp of formless Daoist essence exploded into nothingness, vanishing without a trace.
The fragmented Evolution Name behind Qin Yu no longer faded, the cracks in his Fate Soul no longer spread, the crisis of Return to Emanation of the three lifetimes was completely resolved, the broken path ahead had not been restored, the severe injuries he had suffered had not been healed, and the price he had paid had not been offset.
The wounds remain, the damage remains, the imperfections remain, yet he still stands, still exists, still remains undestroyed. The Sea of Tastelessness gradually calms, the waves return to stillness.
Qin Yu stood alone amidst the scattered, shattered fragments of the sky, sword in hand. His clothes were stained with blood, and his face was pale, yet he showed neither the dejection of defeat nor the arrogance of victory. This battle was neither a contest of strength nor a direct assault.
From beginning to end, it was all about exploring, breaking through, and reversing the Dao. First, we tried all sorts of methods to see through the core of the behemoth's Dao Devouring —what it devoured was not magic or technique, but the very root of the Dao. Then, we quietly observed the hunger of all ages and distinguished the Ultimate difference between the emptiness that can be devoured and the emptiness that cannot be devoured.
The four supernatural powers are linked layer by layer, locking in the contradictions of the Great Dao, causing it to devour itself into a dead end and collapse its origin. The final sword Thought Severance severs the origin of the Dao thought that has been devouring forever, completely ending the Wanyan Dao Devouring.
He never created emptiness, never wielded emptiness, never used emptiness as a weapon; he only forced the behemoth to devour its own emptiness, trapping it in an unsolvable predicament and destroying the eternal way.
The wind has ceased, the sea is calm, and the world is serene. The Evolution-Devouring Beast, and the Dao Devouring has collapsed, but the fourth trial is far from over. The incomplete character "Yan," which hangs between heaven and earth and belongs to the eternal question posed by the Great Ancestor, floats quietly, awaiting an answer, continuation, and clarification. Qin Yu raises his eyes and gazes into the distance, neither advancing nor retreating, neither taking nor touching, but simply standing quietly in the center of the Sea of Tastelessness, waiting for the fourth source of the "Taste" Dao to descend.