Annihilation Abyss Misaligned Layers · Spatial Boundary Rejection

Deep inside the church, the starlight flowed slowly, and billions of starlight cascaded down like a veil, sprinkling at the feet of the four people.

At this moment, the war has just begun to subside.

Qin Yu, Yunyi, Zi Xue, and Yan Yue walked around the center where the starlight converged and sat down on a low stone altar on the right side of the church. It was a quiet area made of star stones, and what flowed around them was not air, but slowly moving starlight and soul energy.

Yan Yue sat cross-legged, her Radiant Starfrost Robe still shimmering with billions of starlight, every star pattern on the hem trembling slightly, as if still resonating with the lingering effects of the battle just now.

Yunyi leaned gently against Qin Yu, her fingertips idly playing with the starlight floating in the air, and softly muttered:

"What on earth is this place...? Even the starlight is made of soul energy."

Zi Xue rested one hand on her knee, her gaze fixed on the endless star trails on the church dome, and whispered:

"It's like... the origin of some kind of star soul domain? Or a slice of the world projected from the Annihilation Abyss level? We've entered a deep domain of a construct that transcends the 'manifest layer' of the world..."

Before she could finish speaking, Yan Yue slowly opened her mouth, her voice calm and composed:

"I just entered a timeline that doesn't belong to the present."

Qin Yu turned to look at her, Yan Yue her eyes and said softly, "I saw that we were trapped in the time rift, and only I was sent out... The three of you were locked in that one second when I 'had not yet returned'."

Yunyi exclaimed in surprise, "Then we are...?"

"I... retrieved it from the Reverse-Time Soul Abyss." Yan Yue's gaze was firm as she nodded gently.

The air suddenly went still for a moment.

Zi Xue turned to look at her, her eyes filled with disbelief, but when she truly saw the battle armor on Yan Yue's body—

The Radiant Starfrost Robe, a battle skirt woven from billions of starlight, slowly swirls with the brilliance of the Milky Way in silence.

Zi Xue exclaimed in shock, "This... this battle dress... if it were in my previous dimension, it could probably Annihilation the entire world-level causal network."

Yunyi was stunned, and whispered in amazement, "Sister, you're... too strong now..."

A barely perceptible hint of seriousness flashed in Qin Yu's eyes. He then turned to look at Yan Yue and said earnestly:

"With you here now, I feel at ease."

Yan Yue slightly, and she gently looked away, but the corners of her mouth couldn't help but turn up slightly.

Then Yan Yue gently stroked the hem of Radiant Starfrost Robe and whispered:

"... Actually, I never truly left this place. Back then, I was supposed to teleport back to you immediately after the suit appeared."

Her voice lowered.

"But in that instant, a force forcibly pulled my entire soul and time coordinates away to another space."

Zi Xue's eyes flashed. "You mean... time-based interference?"

"Hmm." Yan Yue, her gaze calm and composed. "That was a realm called [Reverse-Time Soul Abyss]. And there, I encountered a... Time Beast."

Its name is -- Instant Abyss Owl.

Qin Yu raised an eyebrow, Yunyi sat up straight instantly, and Zi Xue took a light breath, as if she sensed something was wrong.

Yan Yue continued, "It forcibly froze the three of you in that one second before I returned, preventing you from escaping that timeline. And I was forced to face it alone."

She paused slightly, her expression turning cold.

"It coveted the Radiant Starfrost Robe, wanting to seize it while I was unstable... It even tried to use my soul as a vessel to infiltrate the robe's control."

"It wasn't defeated." Yan Yue's tone was cold, her gaze as sharp as frost.

"It was... completely annihilated by me."

"Even the coordinates in the time record were deleted."

Qin Yu gazed at her silently for a long time, then asked softly:

"... You single-handedly defeated a monster capable of sealing off three of our timelines?"

Yan Yue did not answer, but gently brushed her shoulder. The billions of starlight on the Radiant Starfrost Robe suddenly flashed. It was the afterglow of time being shattered, the memory engraved on the hem of her clothes.

Looking at that glimmer of starlight, Zi Xue felt a chill rise from the depths of her soul, and she couldn't help but speak:

"That strange beast... if it were me, I probably wouldn't even be qualified to appear before it..."

Yunyi whispered, "It dared to covet Radiant Starfrost Robe; it was already courting its own destruction."

Qin Yu slowly clenched his fist, his voice low and firm:

"If there's a second one, I'll be there, and it won't be able to touch you."

Yan Yue's eyes flashed, she smiled softly, but remained silent.

Inside the church, the starry river continued to flow slowly, and a deeper resonance quietly emerged between the four of them.

This brief moment of quiet contemplation is not the end, but merely a rare moment of peace on the journey through the Annihilation Abyss Deep Domain.

The four of them leaned against a corner on one side of the church, where the starlight was low, and remained silent all night.

The Radiant Starfrost Robe gently covered Yan Yue's body, like a serene Milky Way lying still, the star-like gauze swaying slightly, as if the entire church was calming down with the rhythm of her breath.

Qin Yu sat quietly in meditation, the Azure Ring slowly rotating behind him. Streaks of azure light enveloped Yunyi and Zi Xue, as if repairing some unnoticed crack in their soul consciousness.

The entire Star Church is like a place of time unbound by the years, where all the stars are silent, without wind or sound, and even the breath of the soul is stretched into a slow rhythm.

But they didn't know—

The moment Radiant Starfrost Robe sent Yan Yue back from the Reverse-Time Soul Abyss, the rules of time in the outside world quietly broke and then restarted.

They thought it was just a short rest, but at that moment the sky outside the palace had quietly changed—

The rising sun was the starlight of the next day. In the Annihilation Abyss Overarching Realm, one night had passed.

But the true length of that night... no one can know.

The next day, as the stars began to shine, the palace remained quiet.

Qin Yu sat cross-legged beneath the star patterns on the east wall of the church, with the Azure Ring slowly rotating behind him, ripples spreading through the void, seemingly resonating silently with the depths of the Annihilation Abyss world.

Yan Yue quietly against the starlight-covered gauze of her Radiant Starfrost Robe, her breath coming in long, even gasps. Her soul sank into the abyss of her Fate Soul, as if she were undergoing a deeper "resonance and adaptation" with the battle armor that had just become her perfect match.

Zi Xue closed her eyes in quiet contemplation, the starlight on her forehead flickering faintly, the shadow of the Xuanfeng soul lingering silently within her body, and wisps of the laws of the Eternal Orbit Star Dao quietly resonating around her; Yunyi, on the other hand, leaned against the wall, her expression alert, as if she had sensed something.

Suddenly--BOOM-!!

The entire Star Church suddenly trembled, as if it had been forcibly awakened from somewhere deep within. The galaxy inside surged violently, and billions of star lines appeared on the walls of the Milky Way, reconstructing themselves in a loop, as if executing some kind of spatial displacement command!

Qin Yu frowned and suddenly opened his eyes.

"The outside world... has moved?"

The next instant—BOOM—!

A jet-black Soul Seal rose from the four corners of the Star Church's foundation, sixty-four hidden structural marks flowing from its base, and layers of spatial light arcs surged forth, all within an instant—

The entire church was "lifted" from the surface of the Annihilation Abyss! And looking down from the outside of the church—

The entire Star Church, resembling a cosmic palace, was slowly rising into the air, seemingly embarking on some kind of "predetermined trajectory," and flying towards the deeper spacetime rift of the Annihilation Abyss Overarching Realm!

All four of them felt a slight tremor in their souls.

Qin Yu looked up and saw the Milky Way flowing in a certain direction on the church dome. It was no longer the movement of natural stars, but a meticulously planned "spacetime navigation path".

Yan Yue frowned and whispered, "This church... isn't a static building at all, but a 'flowing domain' within the Annihilation Abyss... We've been taken away."

Yunyi's expression turned grave. "Perhaps we triggered some kind of hidden checkpoint..."

Zi Xue gazed at the rapidly changing starry sky outside the window, her heart trembling. "This isn't ordinary movement, this is... a leap! The spatial level has already transcended the boundaries of our current location."

Qin Yu's eyes were calm as still water as he said in a low voice:

"It has a 'purpose'."

The church soared into the void, leaving behind shattered nebulae, soul domains, and the Dark Realm.

In the distant depths of the Annihilation Abyss, a "Black Ring of Realm Splitting" with no end in sight gradually emerged—

The Star Church is heading towards the Annihilation Abyss Overarching Realm, the Unknown Extreme Domain.

The Star Church soared through the void, like an ancient star ring artifact, traversing the Annihilation Heaven Overarching Realm.

As they approached a certain Annihilation Abyss, Qin Yu and the others suddenly sensed that the surrounding space began to subtly "overlap".

At first, it was just a blurry, illusory light flickering among the stars on the church's outer wall. But soon, the entire dome of stars suddenly distorted, as if the "recording method" of the entire space had been altered.

Then—"Click—"

It was as if some unnamed spatial structure had been torn apart by an invisible force.

Everyone saw--

The second layer of space "slid out" from the void, like the turning of a page in a scroll, slowly "covering" their real dimension.

This space is actually a historical site that the Annihilation Abyss has long since vanished from!

The reflection of the Soul Palace in the ruins, the phantoms of all living beings long since turned to ashes, the fragments of time flowing through the sky... like a "fragment of a dead world," slowly unfolds around the Star Church.

Yan Yue suddenly stood up, staring at the scene. "This is... the Annihilation Abyss Realm of the past?"

Yunyi then said in a low voice:

"No... it's more like an 'abandoned era' that the Annihilation Abyss has never revealed... The church's path is forcibly tearing open one 'abandoned dimension' after another..."

Suddenly, a crack appeared in front of the church—

It was a remnant of a floating time chain, entwined with countless grayish-white soul threads, like the remains of time drifting in the void, upon which floated—

Fragments of obliterated skill components

The deleted afterimage of the Wheel of Cause and Effect

Folded World Map Fragments

And, names and voices that once existed, but are now forgotten...

All of this, like the lingering echoes of a nightmare, kept gushing out from the cracks, attempting to invade the Star Church.

Swish!

Azure Ring suddenly appeared behind Qin Yu, instantly releasing a blue-gold structural force ripple that blasted away all the nearby inanimate objects.

Zi Xue gasped in a low voice, "These aren't attacks... they're abandoned 'logic corpses.' They're trying to parasitize new 'hosts.'"

Yan Yue looked at Qin Yu and said softly, "This world... is beginning to notice us."

The third layer of spatial overlap is about to begin.

The church is being dragged into an Annihilation Abyss of a self-correcting mechanism.

It forbids this church from reaching that unknown final realm.

It is silently alerting the intruder—

"This is not your realm; you should return immediately."