The entire Milky Way lake, at the moment the old man casually tossed it aside, seemed to encounter some kind of cosmic abyss-level draining force, and began to slowly collapse and recede.
The old man gently tossed the broken oar, constructed from fragments of a star core, into the air. Instead of falling, it remained suspended in mid-air, transforming into a ring of starlight that slowly rotated.
And the lake formed by the Milky Way also underwent a strange transformation.
Thousands of star waterfalls flowed backward, their light dimmed, and the entire lake seemed to be reversed, shattered into billions of star points, as if time had been reversed and erased. The water surface collapsed, the waves were silent, and the Milky Way rose up like mist hanging upside down.
In the end, only a ring of starlight remained, encircling the old man's feet, like a mysterious constellation, as if a projection of destiny had been torn down from the celestial map.
He stood there in the void, his back to Qin Yu and the others, his figure hunched over, his robes tattered, yet surrounded by trillions of stardust, radiating a pressure that transcended the rules of time and space.
Qin Yu, Yunyi, Yan Yue, and Zi Xue did not relax for a second.
They knew—this was not the end of the battle.
But this was the beginning of the real test. Suddenly, the old man slowly raised his hand—
With a single finger, the ring of shattered starlight suddenly burst forth with light!
Boom--!
The void where the remnant lake was located was directly shattered, and a huge skeleton phantom formed by the spur of the starry river rose up again. It was the Galaxy Skeleton that the old man had summoned back again, but this time, its power and might far exceeded that of the previous one!
Its spine is like the primordial line of the Milky Way, encircling countless causal totems; its eyes burn with the fire of logic, like a forbidden lord who has traversed countless eons; with each step it takes, the emblems of time shatter the void.
At this moment, Yan Yue's eyes were cold, and her star-studded battle skirt rippled with the winds of the Milky Way;
Zi Xue stomped her foot, and the Star-Commanding Mystic Phoenix spread its wings and cried out; Yunyi raised the corner of her lips, and the three souls of the Silent Abyss bloomed like shadows;
Qin Yu slowly gripped the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword with his right hand, and the Azure Ring spun lightly behind him, with ring imprints quietly appearing.
Although the Star River Lake has receded, the real battle to defend the pass has only just begun!
The afterglow of the Milky Way rippled, the skeleton returned, and the old man of the Annihilation Abyss unleashed his divine might. Just as the rules of heaven and earth were about to collapse—
Qin Yu's expression darkened slightly, and he parted his lips slightly. Deep within his sea of consciousness, a Soul Seal that had been sealed for countless hours was finally unsealed.
At that moment, a deafening roar echoed from beyond the heavens.
A ring of Ultimate, pitch-black patterns, tinged with the shimmering light of the cosmos, suddenly exploded beneath Qin Yu's feet. The immense, abyss-like surge of spiritual consciousness, like Annihilation wave piercing through the end of an era, reverberated outwards in all directions!
"Come out, Extinguished Light."
He called out a name softly, and the heavens responded!
Boom!!!
A figure burst forth from the depths of a spacetime rift, its nine layers of ethereal wings obscuring the sun and Realm Splitting. Its form resembled that of a supreme being, its body imbued with the "Annihilation Abyss: The Light of the End."
The divine beast was covered in overlapping light, its surface seemingly ethereal and faceless, enough to confuse the soul at a glance, yet its eyes burned with a sharp, rational light that could seize the heavens and take lives.
It was precisely what Qin Yu had never revealed to the world—
Extinguished Light Void Desert, the Final Light Plunderer
When that colossal soul shadow fully materialized, Yan Yue and Zi Xue's eyes widened in shock, and they blurted out in disbelief:
"Qin Yu... you also have a... transcendent divine beast!?"
Zi Xue rarely lost her composure; an uncontrollable fighting spirit ignited in her eyes.
"This one... even in my original star system's latitude, it's capable of tearing apart a hyperdimensional array!"
Yan Yue's expression was unusually solemn, and her heart sank inwardly.
This level of soul beast already possessed the power to shake the very structure and logic of Source of Epochless; he had never summoned it except in life-or-death situations.
At this moment, Yunyi, standing beside Qin Yu, was already smiling slyly:
"Haha, Extinguished Light, you're finally out! If Brother Yu hadn't called you, you'd probably have gone crazy!"
The void beast slowly lowered its head, its indifferent voice revealing a hint of resentment that had been suppressed for too long:
"... If you don't come out soon, I'm really going to tear your Brother Yu's sea of consciousness apart."
After speaking, the ethereal wings of the Extinguished Light trembled, causing the fragments of the church and the starry river to rise and fall once more. At the intersection of the void and the final light, life and death were like a revolving flame of rebirth, and the rules of annihilation and the logic of reconstruction emerged together!
On its back are the six characters "Proof of Annihilation Abyss", proving that it is not only a soul beast, but also an Annihilation Abyss- level soul shadow divine beast that has deeply recognized its master and is in harmony with the laws of the era.
At this moment, the five-person formation was complete:
Qin Yu · Azure Ring Silent Origin Master's Knowledge
Yunyi - Three Illusory Dragon Souls Original Body
Yan Yue · Dawn Phoenix Annihilation Radiance Bearer
Zi Xue · Starry Sky Burning Cause of the Silent Origin Phoenix Lord
The Extinguished Light of Void Desert · Final Light Plunderer
Face off!
The Elder of Annihilation Abyss - The Being Who Guides the Stars
Galaxy Skeleton - Annihilation Realm Bone of Destruction
A full-scale confrontation that truly transcends the "level of logic," the Limit condensation before its official outbreak.
Next, all that remains is for Elder Annihilation Abyss to take his step, and the Star Wars will resume!
The battlefield, where the starry sea had fallen and the lakes had shattered, was as if time itself had pulled it out of the laws of the universe and sunk it into the deepest layer of the Annihilation Heaven Overarching Realm.
The old man from the Annihilation Abyss didn't utter a word before his figure suddenly vanished.
The Galaxy Skeleton suddenly raised its head, and a silent roar, devoid of sound waves yet capable of shaking the soul, was released from its empty mouth, instantly plunging the entire Starshine Lake battlefield into a vortex of collapse!
Immediately afterwards--
First attack: Heavenly Abyss Annihilation - Skeleton Realm Splitting Strike
The Galaxy Skeleton raised its enormous right claw, made of galaxies, and slammed it down onto the ground!
The entire lake shattered like a sand table; that claw attack didn't target a single point, but rather destroyed the entire "concept of terrain"!
The ground was directly stripped away into void fissures;
Spatial logic is out of balance, and annihilation ripples tear apart countless fragments of light;
A semi-circular Annihilation Abyss emerged from the claw shadow and crashed down upon Qin Yu's team!
Its power is so terrifying that if it were to fall upon the current world's main dimension, it would be enough to cut the entire divine river of the realm into pieces!
Meanwhile--
Second Attack: Star Breath Soul Sealing - Elder's Forbidden Finger
The old man from the Annihilation Abyss had somehow appeared on the skull's shoulder, and in his hand was no longer a boat oar, but a slender scepter woven from thousands of nebulae.
He suddenly pointed forward!
In an instant, countless [Logical Seals] and [Causal Chains] surged from his fingertips, like a contract to sacrifice his soul veins, forcibly binding Qin Yu, Yan Yue, and the others!
The starlight beneath Yan Yue; the starlight surrounding Zi Xue instantly dissipated by three-tenths.
Yunyi's soul trembled, and the Illusory Dragon Soul Core dimmed slightly;
Even Extinguished Light's wings tucked slightly under that single finger, his aura forcibly suppressed!
This is -- Annihilation Yuan Zhi Finger · Sealing Cause Severance Law
The moment this finger falls, it completely locks down the target's "combat skill release conditions." Unless the target possesses the Ultimate "Realm Master's sovereignty," they are all subject to this finger's [logic freeze]!
The two attacks did not occur sequentially, but at the same instant!
One is a structural annihilation offensive involving the shattering of the galaxy and the tearing apart of space.
One is a rule-based suppression and blockade that involves logical constraints and freezing of the soul chain.
The combined attack of outright assassination and feigned destruction was intended to completely dismantle Qin Yu's side in the very first strike!
The entire world fell into a deathly silence.
The galaxy flows backward, the laws pour forth, and the reality of annihilation surges like a tidal wave!
In the next instant, the space where Qin Yu and his group of five were located was completely engulfed by this double attack!
When the combined attack of the skeleton and the old man swept in like a collapsing galaxy, the entire battlefield seemed to collapse into a logically unbalanced black hole.
But in the depths of that torn, silent light, a sword suddenly rose up!
Qin Yu's Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword - Sever Observation, Leaving No Mirror
"--Sever your connection to the mirror."
His sea of consciousness trembled, and black-gold source flames ignited in Qin Yu's eyes as the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword spun and cleaved out from the void.
This sword strike wasn't aimed at the skeleton or the old man, but rather directly at the source chain of rules and the logic of observation in the air!
That is one of the ultimate soul skills specifically designed to break through "high-dimensional prediction" and "future observation" —the Sever Observation, Leaving No Mirror!
- In an instant, the logic of the stars breaks down; - The old man's chain of cause and effect reveals its flaws;
- The time-tearing flow caused by the skull slash was shattered into dust!
It's as if a single sword has severed the "Eye of God," causing the enemy's attacks to lose their focus of suppression!
Yan Yue - Annihilation Seal Soul Realm
Yan Yue paused, and the Radiant Starfrost Robe surged with light!
His right hand transformed Annihilation Abyss the Soul Seal Annihilation, and with a sudden press, the world changed drastically.
"Annihilation Seal Soul Realm - Locking in your main soul's source!"
An annihilation seal crashed down from the void, like a falling Xingyun, striking the Galaxy Skeleton's chest with pinpoint accuracy, causing its soul core to tremble and its consciousness to become disordered.
- The colossal skeletal form leaned back half a step, its spiritual defenses slightly crumbling; - A fracture appeared in the galactic skeletal spine;
- Low growls emanated from the skeleton's soul shell, as if sensing intense erosion!
Yunyi · Rending Domain Dragon Soul
"You think you can break my soul core with that skeleton shell?"
Yunyi smiled sweetly and raised her hand to press down with a palm strike.
As the Illusory Dragon's soul energy flowed, the entire battlefield seemed to be reflected in the Black Abyss, and the Rending Domain Dragon Soul was suddenly activated!
The Black Abyss Dragon Shadow tore out from behind her, piercing through space and rules, and directly struck the skeleton's waist, lifting its massive body more than ten feet into the air!
- The three pillars of causal runes in the Rending Domain shattered instantly; - Star Skull's body shattered into countless fragments, crashing back to its original spot;
- Although their fighting strength did not collapse, they were briefly thrown off balance!
Zi Xue, Star Soul, Myriad Wheels Fall
"Do your rules even apply to star orbits?"
Zi Xue's body was surrounded by brilliant star feathers, Nine-Winged Mystic Phoenix soared through the Soul Sea, with starlight burning across the sky!
She suddenly waved her hand, and a beam of starlight condensed into a runic gear, which crashed down from the sky!
--Star Soul·Wanqi Wheel Fall
That was not a single strike, but the fall of nine star wheels, with each falling wheel accompanied by the fall of a star's core!
Two thin marks were instantly blasted through the bone armor on the Galaxy Skeleton's chest, and the old man from the Annihilation Abyss was also forced back half a step by the stream of light, his scepter swaying!
Extinguished Light · Consciousness-Annihilating Time-Devouring Chain
The slumbering Extinguished Light, the Void Desert · Final Light Plunderer, finally roared:
"You dared to touch my Brother Yu? Did you even ask me?"
Its form transformed into a black and silver phantom, its wings unleashing ten intertwined "Recognition Annihilation chains" that pierced through the void!
- [Consciousness-Annihilating Time-Devouring Chain] directly tears apart the connection logic between the skeleton and the old man!
- The skull's left shoulder wing was shattered, and the power of its left arm was completely annihilated!
The old man's star power and rule patterns on his head showed signs of disintegration, and his divine sense was also shaken, causing him to cough up blood slightly!
⸻After the conflict broke out, the star patterns on the Annihilation Abyss Skeleton were shattered and its soul shell was charred black. The old man's aura weakened slightly, while Qin Yu and the other four, although each had minor injuries, had stable souls.
The battlefield froze for a moment. Before the shattered bones and remnants of the Milky Way could fall, the old man suddenly lowered his head and spat out a mouthful of dark golden blood. As the blood mist rose, it actually burned directly in the void, backfiring wildly like a soul-shattering fire!
Yan Yue's pupils contracted slightly, and she whispered, "Something's not right..."
The old man slowly reached out and took out a dark blue starstone from his tattered star-patterned robe.
The star stone is elongated oval in shape, and its entire body is composed of galactic fragments, spatial flow factors, and time lock beads, with internal star clusters flowing like the fusion of billions of universes.
"... You deserve my fervor, just once."
The old man whispered something, and then pinched his fingertips together!
Starcore Galaxy Stone - Burn and Revolve the Realm Source!
Bang!!!
The entire starstone shattered into countless strands of galaxy, instantly enveloping him and the Galaxy Skeleton.
In an instant--
Galaxy reverses, light-years flow backward, rules shatter!
The shattered body of the Galaxy Skeleton rapidly reconstructed, its bones coated with a layer of ghostly blue flames. With each step it took, the space itself collapsed violently. Meanwhile, the old man's soul underwent a dramatic transformation, like a divine core that coexists with destruction and eternity, burning and erupting in the void!
He slowly raised the Starry Sky Staff in his hand, and at this moment, he was like the ruler of the star trails, and he struck down with a single blow!
"--Star Calamity, All Surging Forces Return to Silence!"
This attack was neither a technique nor a skill, but rather a direct suppression of the enemy structure using the "trillion-star surge" rule within the universe.
Space collapsed, time distorted, and even the Annihilation Abyss itself began to tremble violently!
-boom--!!!
The Annihilation Battle Domain exploded with a ring-shaped starburst ripple, like the creation of heaven and earth colliding with a boundary, directly shattering Qin Yu's squad's formation!
Zi Xue was the first to be hit. Her nine wings of the Xuanfeng were all broken, her starlight was extinguished, and she fell to the ground like a shattered star feather, unconscious.
Yunyi forcibly summoned the Illusory Dragon Ring to protect herself, but was still blasted tens of thousands of feet away, her Illusion Scales shattered and she coughed up several strands of soul blood;
Extinguished Light's wings shattered, his soul core nearly destroyed, and he barely managed to retain a wisp of spiritual energy. He knelt on the ground, panting heavily.
Qin Yu forcefully used the Azure Ring to resist, but his clothes were torn to shreds, blood gushed from his mouth, and his left arm had its soul power circuit severed by the wave of rules;
Yan Yue forcefully countered, Radiant Starfrost Robe rose to its Limit, but a corner was still torn apart, and a piece of silver light scattered, like a broken star tide rolling in the wind!
The Qin Yu squad was severely injured in the attack, leaving only Qin Yu and Yan Yue barely able to maintain their fighting stances!
However, opposite them, the Galaxy Skeleton was reborn, its fighting spirit soaring, while the Annihilation Abyss Elder stood at the heart of the Star Ring, his eyes like blazing Xing Ji and silent flames, burning through countless ages!