Even Self-Existence Returns to Nothingness
The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion suddenly clutched his head, his six long, bony fingers piercing the pale bone surface. The horror in his dark gold eyes was gradually swallowed by intense violence. His gray-gold vertical pupils spun wildly in his chest, and the remaining ancient prison essence gushed out along the bone seams. The last remaining sliver of clarity finally collapsed completely under the continuous erosion of the Beginningless.
"Ahhh--!" It roared to the heavens, its enormous body trembling violently. Its six tattered bone wings suddenly unfurled outwards, and large swaths of crimson-black essence burned wildly between the wing bones. The ancient prison true name, which had already lost most of its essence, collapsed one after another deep within its Fate Soul. The remaining bone patterns of the twelve spines on its back were also forcibly ignited at this moment. Thick crimson-black blood flames spread wildly along its chest, arms, and six bone wings, and the sky above the entire Blue-Gray Mountain Plain was once again shrouded in deep blood.
It has stopped trying to protect itself.
Within his dark golden eyes, fear, humiliation, rage, and hatred sealed away for millennia intertwined wildly. The muscle lines on his pale, skeletal face twisted and contorted with Ultimate fury, and his four curved, black-gold horns shattered one after another.
Large amounts of dark red primal blood slowly dripped down its forehead, its stark white teeth grinding together with a harsh, screeching sound, and deep, frantic panting breaths emanated from its throat. It suddenly raised its head, staring intently at the distant Gongpiluo Huang, the last glimmer of clarity in its eyes finally being completely consumed by its overwhelming rage.
"Good! Good! Good!" It roared three times in a row, each roar carrying an even more ferocious ancient prison aura. The twelve layers of bone armor that had already collapsed exploded one after another, and large areas of ancient blood prison in the gray-gold vertical pupils of its chest collapsed wildly. Thick blood flames spread rapidly along its ten-thousand-foot-tall body, and even the six crimson bone wings began to burn inch by inch under this terrifying power.
"I never imagined that my resurrection today would be destroyed by you, you beast!" It suddenly spread its arms, its six long, bony fingers clenching tightly, its dark golden eyes filled with an almost manic killing intent. "Then let's perish together!! Let's perish together!!"
Rumble--!
The ancient body of the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion, towering ten thousand feet tall, suddenly burst into a raging crimson-black blood flame. The gray-gold vertical pupil in the center of its chest shattered completely, and the ancient blood prison remaining deep within the pupil collapsed one after another. Hundreds of millions of bones burned simultaneously in the blood flame, and the true name of the ancient prison, which had already lost some of its origins, was forcibly drawn into the depths of the blood flame.
Transforming into streaks of pitch-black embers, the six tattered bone wings began to rapidly crumble along their roots, igniting all the ancient prison essence contained within the wing bones. The remaining skeletal patterns of the twelve spines also turned to ashes at this moment. Thick, dark red primordial blood gushed wildly along the bone seams, only to be swallowed by the pitch-black embers before it could even spill.
It is burning its entire Fate Soul essence and blood.
Those ancient skeletal patterns that once supported it through the Primordial Ancient Prison, those primal accumulations that enabled it to repeatedly reassemble its immortal body, those malevolent spirits and remnants of Fate Soul that had endured for millennia—all of these now transformed into fuel for the pitch-black embers.
The once vast and boundless sea of blood in the ancient prison rapidly dried up in just a few breaths, the six crimson bone wings collapsed one after another, and the enormous body, which was tens of thousands of feet tall, gradually lost its complete outline in the blood flames.
But just as these primal forces were completely consumed, a terrifying aura, entirely different from all the previous ancient prison divine powers, slowly emerged from the depths of that pitch-black ember, without any divine power beams shooting into the sky.
Without the condensation of ancient bone imprints, even the Fate Soul essence of the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion itself rapidly lost its complete form within that pitch-black ember. The power it ultimately unleashed no longer required the maintenance of a complete Fate Soul essence. All traces of existence that could be called Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion were converging towards the depths of that pitch-black ember.
The previously calm gaze of Gongpiluo Huang finally changed at this moment. It slowly raised its head, the Beginningless Abyss in the depths of its left eye suddenly contracted, Endless Ancient Rhyme in its right eye also violently trembled.
At the same time, extremely fine gray-white patterns appeared on the twelve star spots on the spine. The tooth mark that was constantly gnawing at the first cause of the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion actually developed an extremely small crack the moment the pitch-black embers appeared.
Crack! The edge of the tooth mark suddenly shattered. Immediately afterwards, a second crack spread rapidly along the center of the tooth mark.
Gongpiluo Huang's eyes suddenly narrowed. It finally realized that the pitch-black embers were directly burning the ancient authority upon which the Teeth of Beginningless rested.
On the pale, crumbling bone surface of the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion, a hideous smile slowly emerged. The madness in his dark golden eyes almost materialized, and a final, low, hoarse roar came from deep within his throat.
" From the Jin Beginning Absolute Nothing — Return to One Void!!"... All sounds in the world vanished at that moment.
The ever-collapsed Blue-Gray Mountain Plain suddenly fell into absolute silence. In the distance, tens of thousands of divine beasts opened their huge mouths, but could no longer utter any roars. The remaining True Annihilation essence surging between the broken mountains also stopped flowing at this moment. Even the ancient causal patterns that had not yet completely dissipated showed an extremely strange stagnation the moment the pitch-black embers appeared.
The tiny tooth mark hovering in front of the chest of the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion suddenly ignited with a wisp of pitch-black flame. That flame did not scorch the surrounding void, nor did it devour any origin. It simply spread slowly along the original location where the tooth mark first appeared, directly burning the Beginningless Ancient Rhyme that could have cleaved through all first causes into a fine layer of ash.
Sizzle—The first tooth mark vanished abruptly. Immediately afterward, countless tiny tooth marks that had spread along the causal lines of the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion Fate Soul ignited simultaneously. Dark embers surged wildly along the causal patterns, and wherever they passed, the ancient names of the Prison that had been gnawed away began to reappear, and ancient memories that had lost their origins began to surface again from the depths of the Fate Soul.
In the gray-gold vertical pupils, the previously empty sea of bones reappeared with hundreds of millions of ancient skeletons. The traces of the twelve dark red crescent moons that once existed became clear again. The First Cause, the First Name, and the First Thought, which had been revoked, were forcibly re-fixed in the burning of the pitch-black embers.
The ancient name of the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion, once lost, returned to its rightful place at this moment. However, its very Fate Soul essence had been completely transformed into that patch of pitch-black embers. Those ancient memories that had re-emerged did not return to the depths of its Fate Soul.
Instead, it became the vessel for the continued burning of the pitch-black embers. The more blank spaces were gnawed away by the Teeth of Teeth of Beginningless, the clearer the Absolute Beginning became as it was re-condensed. Large numbers of ancient true names rapidly emerged along the void, only to collapse one after another deep within the embers, forming a long, pitch-black river that stretched across the heavens and the earth.
The Beginningless Abyss in the depths of Gongpiluo Huang's left eye suddenly trembled. It could clearly feel that the "Biting the Beginningless - Initial Cause Severance" technique it had previously used was being forcibly destroyed from its root by that jet-black ember fire. The Teeth of Beginningless, which was originally able to make all things lose their origin, was now even showing large cracks on the traces of its own use.
Gongpiluo Huang suddenly raised its front paw, and the Beginningless Ancient Rhyme its left eye suddenly expanded outward, attempting to send that patch of black embers back to its original state before it was born. However, as soon as the Beginningless Ancient Rhyme touched the edge of the embers, it was directly burned by one of the extremely fine black patterns. The originally complete gray-white primordial ring shadow began to crack one after another, and the twelve beastly manifestations also trembled violently at this moment.
"Damn it!! Could it be???" Gongpiluo Huang finally lost his previous composure.
It suddenly opened its right eye, Endless Abyss expanded abruptly, attempting to draw the pitch-black embers to an unreachable end. However, the embers did not spread forward along any complete cause and effect; instead, they burned in reverse along the traces of the "Biting the Beginningless - Initial Cause Severance" technique.
The ancient authority that could send all things into Endless collapsed one after another the moment the embers touched it. The gray-white primordial halo was torn open with large black gaps. Even the crimson-black scar on Gongpiluo Huang's forehead, which had been left by Unthought Source Burial, suddenly ignited with tiny black flames at this moment.
Rumble! A pitch-black rift suddenly appeared across the sky above the entire Blue-Gray Mountain Plain.
The rift didn't unleash any violent shockwaves outwards, but it caused all the ancient Dao patterns around it to simultaneously cease their flow. The previously disordered Twelve Zodiac Star Positions abruptly rearranged under the black embers, with the rat-shaped star spot lighting up first.
Then the bull-shaped star spot returned to its original position, and the outlines of the other ten stars that had not yet truly manifested returned to their original order one by one. The first cause and the first thought that had been stripped away by the Teeth of Beginningless in the world also reappeared one after another at this moment.
Immediately afterwards, a jet-black sword light slowly emerged from the depths of the rift. This sword light had no sharp blade, nor a complete sword body; it was merely an extremely thin, jet-black trail, slowly extending along the path of all the Beginningless erasures that had occurred between heaven and earth.
Wherever the sword light passed, the remaining gray-white Beginningless Ancient Rhyme burned one after another, the ancient causal patterns were fixed again, and the characters and true names that had lost their origin gradually recovered. The entire Blue-Gray Mountain Plain fell into absolute silence when that sword light appeared.
Gongpiluo Huang suddenly looked up. It finally realized that the dark sword light was not locked onto its palm-sized gray-white body, nor was it the rat-shaped sign of the Twelve Zodiac Aspects.
The sword light locked onto the act of "Biting the Beginningless - Initial Cause Severance" itself. As long as that Teeth of Beginningless had truly bitten down, it had already left an absolute trace that could never be traced by the Jin Beginning Absolute Nothing.