The Seventh Soul Domain: Severing Causes and Forging a New Realm, A Sword Ushers in a New Era
The crimson sky hangs over the ages, and the Questioning Abyss Floating Island stretches across the void, like an ancient behemoth that has slumbered for countless years, quietly residing at the core of the Soul Path of the Annihilation Epoch Realm.
This battle marks Qin Yu's first ascent to the core soul arena of the floating island level Fate Cause Master Seal, directly confronting the supreme soul structure remnants of the Annihilation Epoch Realm.
Pre-Nonbeing sect prodigies, no worldly cultivators, only a being formed using the ancient Soul Arts of Annihilation Epoch — the Fate Abyss Illusory Causality Dragon.
The dragon's body stretched for thousands of feet, its scales and armor no ordinary creature, but rather the tangled remnants of the souls of powerful beings who had fallen at the Fate Beginning Realm throughout the ages. With each breath it exhaled, there were traces of the soul techniques of countless cultivators who had died in battle throughout the ages; as its tail swayed gently, thousands of dormant Innate Martial Soul resonated and wailed in unison, echoing throughout the ancient void.
This dragon has no self-awareness, no mind, and no thoughts, yet it possesses the most terrifying power in the world—devouring the very foundation of the law governing the existence of living beings and erasing the legitimate source of the continuation of all things.
In the previous battle, seventeen experts at the Fate Beginning Realm had bravely gone into battle, their Innate Martial Soul shattering and turning into scattered soul dust. All the cultivation techniques they had painstakingly practiced throughout their lives, their reputations in the world, and all traces of their existence in this world were swallowed up by this dragon, leaving nothing behind.
The entire consciousness domain of the Questioning Abyss Floating Island was violently distorted, and the void collapsed layer by layer and piece by piece like a crumpled scroll of silk. Azure Ring hung high above Qin Yu's head, its clear light flowing, but it remained Ji Ran and still, quietly waiting for its master's command.
Those outside the region all felt a sense of unease, believing that Qin Yu had already avoided their attacks and was helpless.
It should be known that any wisp of the remnant soul skill surrounding the Fate Abyss Fate Abyss Illusory Causality Dragon could crush an ordinary cultivator at the Fate Beginning Realm, causing their soul to scatter. Qin Yu, on the other hand, has only been in charge of the Fate Cause Master Seal for a few months, and in the eyes of the world, his foundation is still shallow, making him unable to withstand this ancient ferocious beast.
Under the spotlight, emotions were mixed, some anxious, some regretful, and some indifferent.
In the center of the battlefield, Qin Yu stood silently.
He slowly raised his right hand, gently probing into the abyss of his own consciousness. The movement was extremely slow, and every inch of its trajectory was clearly visible in the void, falling into everyone's eyes.
In this seemingly ordinary exploration, the Eternal Soul Stele of the Questioning Abyss Floating Island suddenly trembled violently, its Dao patterns surging as if it had encountered an unprecedented change.
The entire audience erupted in uproar, filled with astonishment and doubt.
The next moment, Qin Yu raised his hand and emerged from the abyss, revealing a jet-black longsword.
The sword's blade was deep and unadorned, covered with ancient dark gold patterns. The faint light at the tip was not a luminous light, but rather the Ultimate power of devouring emptiness—devouring all fleeting light, devouring all consciousness, devouring all the existence of all things.
The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword.
The Destruction Vessel, unique to the Primordial Realm, has never appeared in the world since the creation of the Annihilation Epoch Realm. No one knows its name, and no one has ever seen its form.
A deafening roar reverberated across the floating island, causing the main Soul Stele to tremble incessantly, its surface covered with cracks. The entire soul domain's sea of consciousness emitted continuous tremors, not a warning from heaven and earth, but rather the primal fear and apprehension emanating from the very source of the rules themselves.
The inherent laws of this world have never included this weapon, this path, or this power.
These transcendent beings, without origin Nameless, No Definition or rules, are beyond the capacity of the laws governing their domain. The authorities seek to seal, eliminate, and erase this existence that transcends all.
The piercing, trembling sound abruptly ceased, fading into deathly silence.
Qin Yu simply raised his eyes and gazed indifferently at the main Soul Stele that bore the rules of the world.
One glance, no anger, no killing, no strife, no attachment, only a detached calm overlooking the illusory rules, as if observing the ignorant and foolish.
His voice was soft and gentle, neither loud nor clear, yet it pierced through layers of emptiness, reaching every inch of the world's consciousness.
"My skills need no definition from the Annihilation Epoch Realm."
As soon as he finished speaking, he held his longsword horizontally in front of him.
The Azure Ring above his head suddenly shone brightly, and the Fate Cause Master Seal deep within his sea of consciousness trembled in sync. The seal and the halo resonated and merged, giving rise to a completely new rhythm that had never been born or recorded in the Annihilation Epoch Realm. This rhythm did not follow ancient rules or inherit old principles; it was the Dao Source Order unique to the inheritor of the Fate-Cause.
Using the main seal as a brush and the Azure Ring as a musical anchor, Qin Yu, amidst the void and chaos, penned a brand-new proposition that spans eternity:
"If fate can be attributed to cause, then my sword is the weapon to sever that cause."
The sixteen characters, each burning away the false principles of the Dao, transformed into gilded Dao traces that would forever remain in the void. The Dao traces intertwined and gathered, condensing into a vast talisman, which crashed into the body of the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, completely fusing into one.
In an instant, the divine sword truly appeared in the world.
It has no blazing light, no overwhelming power, only a state of perfect and true existence.
For the first time, the unchanging core principles of the Annihilation Epoch Realm perceived, accepted, and recognized this divine weapon that transcended the old order. The trembling of the rules that had previously filled the arena vanished, replaced by the silent stillness of the very origin of the world, the bewilderment and trembling of the eternal order in the face of the new supreme Dao.
The Daoist principles of the void rose and fell, giving rise to an unprecedented judgment of heaven and earth, echoing far and wide:
The more knowledgeable one becomes of martial arts, the more successful one becomes in registration. The source of judgment is attributed to the master of Fate-Cause and the master of the Azure Ring.
This artifact is unparalleled, capable of tracing back to all structures and imparting all causes. From this moment on, the Annihilation Epoch Realm finally bowed its head.
It could not define Qin Yu's Dao, but it was forced to accept, accommodate, and acknowledge this new power that transcended eternity. Humans were born according to the boundaries and cultivated themselves according to reason, but Qin Yu alone, with his own Dao, made heaven and earth follow him.
Fate Abyss Illusory Causality Dragon finally sensed the impending doom. Its thousand-foot-long body coiled into a formation in the sky, roaring to the heavens, shaking the blood-red firmament. The dragon's mouth opened wide, and the remnants of countless powerful figures from past generations condensed into a torrent of soul techniques, crashing down upon it.
Thousands of unique and deadly techniques overlapped and intertwined in chaos, tearing apart the void and evaporating the sea of consciousness. Wherever they passed, all things returned to silence, and nothing survived.
Qin Yu stood motionless before the surging black tide.
He simply raised his sword and made a light slash.
This strike does not sever the form of the torrent, nor shatter the appearance of the spell; it severs the causal root upon which countless soul techniques depend for their existence.
The sword light dimmed and fell silent, annihilating all laws and principles, sweeping across the boundless torrent.
The raging soul skills suddenly solidified, then disintegrated layer by layer and dissolved bit by bit.
It was not destroyed by external forces, but rather the very reason for its existence was completely negated.
All myriad spells ceased to exist from that moment on. The remnants of countless souls from eternity were severed from their source.
The sword light continued, traversing the void, and precisely struck the core of the Illusory Causality Dragon Soul's spine.
The earth-shattering dragon roar abruptly ceased.
The thousand-foot-long dragon body crumbled and disintegrated segment by segment from head to tail. With each inch of scales disintegrating, the mournful cries of countless ancient souls echoed, a mixture of relief, resignation, resentment, and gratitude, all intertwined and dissipating into the void.
A moment later, the enormous dragon body completely dissolved, leaving only a solitary dragon head hanging in the air.
The fierceness in the dragon's eyes suddenly vanished, replaced by a rare clarity.
Its voice was old and mournful, filled with the vicissitudes of countless ages of wandering:
"I... have no way to return home."
With those words, the dragon's head transformed into a shower of soul dust, utterly annihilated in the void of the Seven Soul Domain, its eternal entanglement finally broken.
The sword is sheathed, the battle is over.
The entire Floating Abyss was plunged into an eternally silent void.
The suspended main Soul Stele automatically updated its Dao inscriptions, engraving a new record for all eternity:
The extraordinary skill "Sever Fate, Cut Off Return" has appeared in the world.
The practitioner, Qin Yu, holds the Fate Cause Master Seal and is in charge of all Master Book.
From this day forward, the Annihilation Epoch Realm will no longer be a cage of rules that shackles all living beings. Qin Yu's supreme power, originating from the Original Realm, has been officially accepted by Heaven and Earth and listed as a legitimate Dao structure in the new realm.
The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword has become the first weapon in the Annihilation Epoch Realm Era to transcend the limitations of knowledge and register a unique and irreplaceable weapon.
And all of this is merely the prologue to a new era.
The Azure Ring in the sky slowly spun and hummed. Qin Yu closed his eyes and stood in the void. Deep within his sea of consciousness, the six Azure Ring Origin Soul Skills rotated synchronously and generated in a closed loop, forming a complete Dao lineage that surpassed the ancient order of the Annihilation Epoch.
Its Spirit Edge Piercing the Realm, piercing through all rules and constraints, allowing one to transcend all established barriers;
The Realm-Severing Silent Light burns away the very essence of the world's constructs, annihilating all solidified logic;
The Silent Origin Wheel Prison, which contains all the false constructs and techniques of the world, leads to eternal Annihilation and never to be reborn.
The Realm Abyss Reverse Evolution, tracing back to the origins of countless Annihilation Epoch, overturning old principles and establishing new interpretations;
The Spirit Filth Annihilates Heaven, stripping away distorted and remnant consciousness, purifying the chaotic foundation of the Dao, and cleansing the laws of heaven and earth;
The Silent Realm Returns to the Beginning, the final question settles: all things are uncertain, yet I can rewrite them, I can redefine them.
Six styles resonate in unison, their Daoist essence permeating the heavens!
The floating Heavenly Soul Stele trembled violently, and the ancient inscriptions were completely rewritten layer by layer.
Qin Yu suddenly opened his eyes, his left hand holding the Fate Cause Master Seal, his right hand embodying the rhythmic condensation of Azure Ring. The two powers shone brightly, hanging high in the sky, and he wrote down a new rule that would shake the entire world for eternity:
"Skills have no fixed order, souls have no fixed name, martial arts have no fixed fate, and beasts have no fixed form."
"What I write is the beginning of cause; what I pardon is the name of construction."
"From this day forward, the Annihilation Epoch Realm will encompass all souls of heaven and earth beyond our comprehension."
As soon as the words were spoken, all the monuments dimmed, and the entire Floating Questioning Abyss Floating Island briefly broke free from all logical constraints, entering an unprecedented realm of freedom.
In the blink of an eye, the core laws of the Annihilation Epoch Realm were completely overhauled. The entire system of ancient rules, including the evaluation of constructs, the confirmation of martial soul rights, the registration of soul beasts, and the continuation of skill chains, was infused with the Daoist rhyme of the Azure Ring Six Forms and the main authority of the Fate Cause Master Seal.
This is not a simple input of techniques, but rather an application of one's own lineage to the laws and principles of an entire realm.
Qin Yu transformed his own Dao Source Logic into a brand-new underlying rule for the Annihilation Epoch Realm, rewriting the order of cultivation throughout the ages.
When the foundation of Heaven and Earth was first established, the principles of the four directions were restored to their proper order, the first line of the Dao was restored to its rightful place, and the Silent Origin: Tribulationless Chapter appeared in the world.
Qin Yu stood Ji Ran atop the peak, the six primordial runes of the six paths flowing around his body in his sea of consciousness: Breaking Wheel, Emberless, Tracing Abyss, Balancing Heaven, Silent Cause, Returning to Nothingness. The six ancient methods were originally beyond the Annihilation Epoch and were not recognized, but now they were all recognized by heaven and earth, designated as the orthodox structure of the broken chain of cause and effect, recorded in the Annihilation Epoch Construct Cognition Canon, and forever orthodox.
The second lineage returned to its rightful place, Silent Ring Return to the Abyss Diagram took shape.
The Dao diagram in the palm unfolds, fully demonstrating the wonder of peeling away the false soul and tracing the true structure. The five forms of the Soul Diagram— Soul Suppression Swaying, Reflecting the Reflecting Gate Tower, Ring Descent, Extinction Trace, and Abyss Explosion —were previously unexplained and unreliable, existing outside the law. Now, with the confirmation of the master seal, the five forms Return to One, forming a book and a diagram, listed as the unique Soul Diagram Secret Canon of the Annihilation Epoch Realm.
The third divine weapon has returned to its rightful place, Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword has been fully vindicated.
The sword, crafted from the primary cause of the first-class sword, possesses unparalleled authority, and can only be wielded and controlled by Qin Yu. All ten sword Dao patterns are displayed on the Soul Stele, with the ten styles of Severing Void, Severing Cause, Severing Era, and Severing Fate nested layer upon layer, forging the Annihilation Epoch Realm, unique and unparalleled, with no trace that can be imitated.
The fourth soul beast has returned to its rightful place, and the two souls have appeared and been named.
Deep within the Abyss of Consciousness, two supreme souls frequently emerged. A dark dragon Realm Devouring, and a final light swept across the world; one silent, one bright, they overwhelmed all heavens. The two souls, imbued with the Azure Ring's mandate, reconstructed their Soul Seal and established their own Dao names. They were officially included in the Annihilation Epoch Realm and listed as high-level orthodox soul bodies, Fate-Cause their master, capable of fighting, summoning, and extending the myriad chains of magic.
From this point onward, the rules for soul beasts in the Annihilation Epoch Realm were amended with an eternal footnote: all those who receive a name from the master are considered legitimate heirs of heaven and earth.
Atop the floating island, Qin Yu surveyed the myriad worlds rising and falling, his voice calm as he spoke, revealing a new rule for all ages:
"The Annihilation Epoch Realm is not weak, but it is confined by the old order and does not know the ultimate Dao beyond the heavens."
"Today I receive the Lord's seal, to inscribe the rules for all souls, to rectify the names of all skills, and to return all laws to their origin."
"The Silent Origin can be approached, the abyss can be inscribed." "Where my pen touches the ground, that is the beginning of the Dao."
As soon as the words were spoken, the entire Annihilation Epoch Realm experienced its first-ever resonance of consciousness and souls since the beginning of time.
Thousands of propositions, countless logics, myriad martial spirits, and countless inscriptions are all permeated, purified, and reshaped by the Daoist charm of the Azure Ring and the authority of the main seal.
It's not about analysis, it's not about compatibility; it's about penetrating the very foundation of a realm and reshaping the eternal order.
From novice disciples to reclusive masters, from mortal cultivators to ancient soul beasts, the Spiritual Sense of all living beings in the world trembled. Some had their martial souls rebuilt and their Dao Path reborn; some had their old methods crumbled and their soul paths declined; some attained enlightenment in a single day, while others instantly fell into ruin.
Twenty layers of soul realms, thousands of miles of floating territory, the fate of all living beings depends on that lone figure atop the floating peak.
Qin Yu has Annihilation Epoch Realm.
Only one place remains, detached from the world, unaffected by the turmoil of the world.
The distant, Annihilation End Floating Island lies at the very bottom of the Annihilation Abyss.
A cascade of pale white hair hung down without wind, and that peerless figure stood silently above the ancient rules, overlooking the upheaval of the Dao that swept across the entire realm.
She exists neither in the new order nor in the old rules; she existed before the birth of any legal principles.
She is Yan Yue, the embodiment of Annihilation Abyss's original will, the ultimate law of dawn, and the writer of the ultimate dimension.
Possessing two souls, wielding eternal truths:
One is the Annihilation Abyss First Light, illuminating the silent sea, reversing entropy Return to One, capable of annihilating billions of souls; the other is the Final Origin Annihilation Breath, sealing the world in a single breath, locking away the laws of time and destiny, and severing the life force of countless battles.
No matter how powerful the Azure Ring Six Forms are, they ultimately write new rules for the world.
She is the primordial light that existed before all things Unborn and before heaven and earth were created.
She remained unmoved, unaltered, simply gazing silently at the youth who shook the world, a soliloquy arising in her heart, a sentiment born since the beginning of time:
"He is neither a master of construction techniques, nor a writer of prophetic books, nor is he included in the annals of prophetic Annihilation Epoch."
"Yet, through his own methods, he caused the entire Annihilation Epoch Realm to explain existence to him and to change its rules for him."
"People wait for heaven and earth to define them, but he alone makes heaven and earth learn to define him."
Yan Yue closed her eyes, her main Fate Soul beside her swayed slightly, and the Annihilation End Floating Island trembled incessantly.
She murmured to herself, revealing the true meaning of this unprecedented upheaval:
"The Annihilation Epoch Realm has finally ushered in this true blade of logical definition."
She had to admit that this person held the power to write Dao Orders on the same level as herself, and his vision transcended the shackles of her own passive existence.
Everyone awaits the writing of destiny, but Qin Yu alone defines destiny first, and then puts pen to paper for all living beings.
Above the void, Qin Yu seemed to sense something, and suddenly raised his eyes to look at the distant Annihilation End Floating Island.
Two gazes, spanning millennia, met across the void.
One is the Lord of Fate-Cause returns from the old world and reshapes the order; the other is the Supreme Ruler of the Ultimate Law who is born from the origin and sits alone before the Dao.
The entire Annihilation Epoch Realm trembled slightly at that moment. It was the tremor of destiny, the tremor of the Dao order, and the supreme Ji Ran of the last moment before the beginning of a new era.