As the second layer of "Mirror Origin Retracing" was annihilated, a magnificent yet profound star trail unfolded beneath Yan Yue's feet.
Each step along this star trail reflects "the moment she appeared in someone else's destiny."
At this moment, she is stepping into the deepest level of the Reverse-Time Soul Abyss.
A realm known as [Fate-Annihilating Return Abyss].
Here, there are no stars, and no sense of space.
Only countless life-sounding light shuttles, like billions of intertwined life threads, hang suspended in the void.
Yan Yue stepped into this place, three soul sounds immediately appeared in her sea of consciousness.
--These are the three people she once "saved" or "changed":
Zi Xue's Voice: That was the moment she used her Spiritual Sense to forcibly stabilize his soul, shielding him from transcending cause and effect.
Yunyi's Voice: In the Illusory Dragon Adversity, she used Recognition Annihilation to suppress Yunyi's rampaging Soul Core Disaster.
Qin Yu's voice...
--That voice, however, never reappeared.
Instead, there was a series of unfinished scales, like a severed requiem, forcibly torn off before the final climax.
Yan Yue slowly extended her hand.
"Qin Yu..."
At this moment, the life-sounding light shuttles in the air began to weave automatically, forming a "Fate-Cause- Locking Soul Statue".
That was Qin Yu —clad in the Annihilation Abyss Battle Armor, a faint Azure Ring of light appearing between his brows, frozen in the moment before the explosion, a faint smile remaining on his face, but his soul consciousness Entering Stillness in the next instant.
Yan Yue's eyes widened in shock. At that moment, the Radiant Starfrost Robe proactively released its soul energy, and a galaxy surged into the "Fate-Cause- Locking Soul Statue".
The entire "Fate-Annihilating Return Abyss" trembled.
[The Third Soul Chain: Challenging Logic]
"The soul consciousness, submerged in the cracks of Fate-Cause, will be retrieved from the source of Annihilation and returned to its rightful place."
"If we fail, we will forever lose all traces of those whose fates you changed, and return to the beginning of time."
Yan Yue closed her eyes and slowly uttered a phrase:
"The Recognition Annihilation Final Realm, the Severed Dawn Sealing Wheel, and the Annihilation Principle Observation Lock"
She slowly raised her right hand--
The billions of starlight on the hem of the [Radiant Starfrost Robe] skirt begin to flow backward.
Her aura resonated with the entire "Fate-Annihilating Return Abyss," like a master controlling the trajectory of destiny.
The next instant, the entire Soul Abyss trembled, and a—
"The Other Side's Decree"
It has finally been played again!
Like billions of star chains reversing, the membrane of time trembles, and space grain lines roll back.
Amidst the fragmented flow of the Milky Way, the Radiant Starfrost Robe slowly draped over Yan Yue's shoulders and body, countless starlight swirling around it, just as the contract master certification was about to be completed—
The world suddenly froze.
The light in the entire Galaxy Theater was drained, the stars froze, and even the flowing Milky Way beneath Yan Yue's feet instantly turned into a gray, desolate river.
At that moment, a shadow powerful enough to shatter the Annihilation Lord Realm tore the world apart from [the next second].
--The Instant Abyss Owl descends.
"Lord of Annihilation, Bearer of Starlight..."
"The path you are walking is one that has never been written."
"This path has no cause, no order, no fixed form..."
"I came here to correct these errors."
"You shouldn't have come back that second."
With each word spoken, the void seemed to be cleaved by the sharp blade of time. In the echo, the spacetime around Yan Yue collapsed layer by layer, as if she had fallen into a "catastrophe of seconds."
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Yan Yue stunned amidst the starry sky, her mind reeling.
She finally understood...
She should have been teleported back to the main hall to reunite with Qin Yu and the others the moment she obtained the Radiant Starfrost Robe.
But at that very moment, he was "swallowed" by the time-beast before him.
It does not originate from any particular force.
It is the instinctive backlash in the world's operation, an attempt to "prevent unexpected trajectories."
"I didn't miss it... I was 'forced off the tracks'..."
Yan Yue's eyes gradually calmed down as her fingers slowly traced the starlight on her shoulder.
You're saying I shouldn't have come back?
"Then I will—reverse the abyss and return to time, turning each second into light."
She finally raised her head and looked at the strange beast that stretched across the starry sky, its entire body burning with "future afterimages".
The dawn flames ignited. The Milky Way responded silently.
But at this very moment--
The Milky Way froze, starlight flowed backward, and the once-flowing universe was as if it had been "torn apart" from the torrent of time by an invisible hand.
The next moment, a crack appeared across the entire starry dome, stretching from heaven to earth, as if dragging "a second into the future" into "the present."
Accompanied by the explosive sound of billions of gray and white afterimages shattering—
--It's here.
It was an extremely asymmetrical beast, resembling both an eagle and an owl, seemingly both illusory and unreal.
It has a right wing made up of "second hand afterimages", each slight tremor seeming to tear apart a time scale.
The left wing is "feathers hanging upside down by the current," each feather extending into the past, dragging along countless fragments of fates that have already ended.
Its body is pieced together from the patterns of time that have collapsed. It has no blood or bones, but is composed of countless "memory bones" of worlds that once existed and then vanished.
It has no face; its head is a swirling "black time mirror core" that vaguely reflects billions of time bubbles and future cross-sections. Anyone who dares to look directly at it will be pulled into a death that has not yet occurred.
Each blink of its eyes is like a thousand years passing in the blink of an eye.
It did not leave its footprints, yet it caused the entire galaxy to collapse into a time trough.
In the void, it silently emitted a sound like the shattering of seconds, as if striking within Yan Yue's sea of consciousness:
"The Radiant Robe Bugui you."
"You're interference."
"The garment you are wearing will exacerbate the variables in the 'future spectrum'."
"This thing has no home... and you shouldn't have taken it out of the Star Source Tomb Realm."
Yan Yue's face was as still as water, while the starlight on her shoulders shone like flames.
She slowly raised her eyes and coldly responded to the strange beast:
"Whose creation are you? Who decides what 'should' and 'shouldn't' be?"
"I came traversing the Milky Way, not out of covetousness, yet it chose me... Can you stop me?"
"Then let's give it a try."
The next moment, starlight wheel imprints appeared on the Radiant Starfrost Robe, and the "Recognition Annihilation Final Realm - Severed Dawn Sealing Wheel" slowly rotated in her sea of consciousness, condensing into radiant flames.
The Milky Way is out of order, and cause and effect are reversed.
Instant Abyss Owl remained silent. Its spinning "Time Mirror Core" suddenly froze, and in the next instant, the starry river within hundreds of thousands of miles around seemed to be rewound—rapidly rewinding for five seconds!
Yan Yue remained standing still, her eyes as cold as splitting stars.
She already stands in the future.
Instant Abyss Owl - Time Flow Skill
Time-Marking Wing Shadow
Unleash the "Second Hand Afterimage" on the right wing, tearing apart the battlefield's real-time sequence and forcibly dragging enemy skills into unfinished time, preventing them from being used.
Yan Yue's consciousness trembled, and she was almost pulled into the "collapse zone" where her skill had not yet been completed.
Returning Moment Clock Wheel
The left wing emitted fragments of past memories, summoning "remnants of Yan Yue's past battles," attempting to reverse her actions and counter her.
However, the Radiant Starfrost Robe automatically released a starlight field, revealing its falsehood.
Domain of Second Annihilation
Construct a "second-interruption domain" where all skills within the battlefield will be "cut off to zero seconds," as if they were never activated.
Its most terrifying skill is its blocking ability, which can even render the combat logic "non-existent".
Yan Yue silent, her right arm slightly raised, and her Star Frost Battle Skirt bloomed like flames!
The entire Milky Way dome seemed to awaken, radiating brilliance, with meteors seemingly burning in reverse.
The billions of stars along the hem of the skirt burst into flames in an instant, transforming into countless starlight blades that scattered in all directions.
Each blade carries a triple mechanism: complete stellar gravity, causal weighting, and technique delay.
Instant Abyss Owl extended its mirror wings. "This is not a component you should possess. Remove it immediately."
Yan Yue Moon Flame Ignites, Activating Skill: Recognition Annihilation Final Realm - Severed Dawn Sealing Wheel
As the starlight wheel unfolded, a tearing sensation appeared in the "Domain of Second Annihilation," and the aura of Annihilation Yan Yue transcended the order of time.
The [Domain of Second Annihilation] that Instant Abyss Owl had just triggered was instantly absorbed by the "Star River Flow" mechanism of Radiant Starfrost Robe!
Starlight surged around Yan Yue, and the flowing galaxy around her skirt spun rapidly, directly devouring this "zero-second spacetime" as energy, which enhanced Yan Yue's soul power!
"... You devoured my time?"
--Instant Abyss Owl, for the first time, revealed a tone of intense shock.
Yan Yue took a step forward, and the radiant flames rose, the white light and starlight intertwining on her skirt, like a god descending from the abyss.
She slowly began, "I didn't come looking for a fight..." "But you've imprisoned me and taken away my way home."
"I'm here today simply... to retrieve them."
The second level of the Recognition Annihilation Final Realm Sealing Wheel begins to rotate.
The next second—she moved.
The shimmering starlight had not yet faded, and the radiant star tide still flowed slowly along the edge of the Radiant Starfrost Robe.
The "Annihilation Judgment Wheel Seal" on Yan Yue's right shoulder rotated slightly, reflecting the intertwined reality and illusion of her sea of consciousness. She slowly raised her eyes and looked at Instant Abyss Owl opposite her. That time beast, which wandered in the gaps of spacetime logic, was activating its true domain.
The walls of the entire Reverse-Time Soul Abyss began to crack, and rings of time clocks, inlaid with black and gold cracks, emerged. The clocks stopped rotating and collapsed inward, transforming into a [Forbidden Time Domain].
"Since you insist on taking that Starry Robe," Instant Abyss Owl's voice was desolate, like the shattering of countless ages, "Then... I will lock you here forever as well."
The next moment--
[Instant Abyss Owl - True Domain Skill: Owl Balance Silent Abyss]
The sky and earth faded simultaneously, time lost its sense of before and after, as if the world itself had been rewritten by a "static proposition." The Milky Way and star tides Yan Yue began to freeze and recede, and even starlight was sucked into an invisible axis of reversal.
Her time was being stripped away, her memories were being eroded, and the billions of stars on her star-studded dress suddenly dimmed for a moment!
But Yan Yue did not retreat.
In her eyes, a ray of light, like the first rays of Silent Abyss, appeared.
"The Recognition Annihilation Final Realm —not for defeating enemies, but for Realm Breaking."
Her Fate Soul slowly unfolded, and rings of broken causal chains erupted from her consciousness, condensing into the initial boundary of the Wheel of Recognition Annihilation.
A resounding boom, as if billions of memories were simultaneously breaking free of their shackles—
[Yan Yue Skill - Annihilation Abyss Opens Silence]
Starlight burst forth beneath their feet, radiating out the first layer of the Recognition Annihilation Wheel Seal, the "Opening Ring," specifically designed to break through the enemy's "Logical Starting Point." The previously frozen starlight began to rotate in reverse, the light of the Milky Way flowed again, Radiant Starfrost Robe instantly regained control of the rhythm of time!
She raised her right hand slightly, Annihilation Judgment Wheel Seal spun half a circle.
"My time is my own to control."
A pale, silent light imprint of consciousness slowly advanced towards Instant Abyss Owl, instantly causing a corner of his "Time-Stop Shell" to peel off.
After a moment of explosive sound, Yan Yue stood at the heart of the Starlight Stream, her skirt fluttering like the waves of the Milky Way, each strand of starlight tearing at time without breaking. The Radiant Starfrost Robe absorbed and transformed Instant Abyss Owl's "Time Lock" attack time and time again, while her own soul consciousness and causal chain were gradually advancing along this invisible flow.
Opposite, the Swift Instant Abyss Owl's outer shell resembled a shattered gold clock, its layers overlapping and rewriting the time logic of the surrounding space with each vibration.
It spoke in a low voice:
"Yan Yue... your Fate Soul is in too much danger."
"Your existence is like a variable of 'Ultimate cause'... unpredictable and unfathomable."
The next instant, its head trembled, and six rift-like time halos appeared behind it, each twisting and collapsing towards a certain point in the past, clearly revealing one of its core techniques:
⸻[Instant Abyss Owl - Epoch-Annihilating Time Wheel]
Six fragments of historical images erupted simultaneously, all transforming into the points in time when Yan Yue activated "Recognition Annihilation Final Realm," and simultaneously attacked her.
One person's six senses overlap, and one mind receives six echoes of self.
The entire battle was instantly pushed to the Limit mental endurance!
The starlight beneath Yan Yue's feet trembled violently. Although the Radiant Starfrost Robe could absorb the attack, this time, the attack was not on the skill—but on the logical trajectory of her own past activation of her Fate Soul!
She lowered her head slightly, but her expression showed no fear.
"Since you want me to break down because of the past."
She slowly raised her hand, and as the star feathers flowed, the [Annihilation Judgment Wheel Seal] on her left shoulder suddenly burst forth with even stronger dark gold patterns.
"Then I will now... sever all ties with the past."
[Yan Yue: Dimension-Severing Soul Law]
Recognition Annihilation Wheel Seal rotated to the second boundary, three Realm Breaking patterns exploded out, and the "Cause and Effect Severing Ring" she had personally written appeared in her soul consciousness, reversing the impact on the six layers of time images!
This move is not about defense—it's about completely breaking the logical chain that establishes the attack on oneself!
Boom!!
The six images, like a clock with its broken string, along with the axis of the "Epoch-Annihilating Time Wheel," all collapsed, turning into rings of burning, hollow wheel marks around her.
The entire Reverse-Time Soul Abyss was illuminated by starlight; at that moment—even time itself seemed to bow its head.
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Yan Yue's aura remained calm, and the starlight flowing from her Radiant Starfrost Robe was now even more abundant, with even the depths of her sea of consciousness beginning to rise with a faint galactic tide of light.
Instant Abyss Owl let out a low growl, truly revealing his deep hostility.
"You... can now defy fate."