Void Divine Tree · Fate Techniques Not Permitted

The next day, as dawn broke.

The Purple Bamboo Grove was as quiet as ever, but with an added sense of tranquility before parting.

The breath of the soul flowed slowly through the forest, and a thousand purple bamboos rustled in the wind, as if bidding a quiet farewell to the end of some destiny.

In front of the main hall of Source Immortal Abode, Qin Yu, Yan Yue, Zi Xue, Yunyi, Extinguished Light stood solemnly in full gear.

Their clothes remained still, their expressions composed—a calm stillness befitting a battle unseen.

It wasn't confusion, but a clear understanding: what they were leaving behind was not just this temple in the forest, but a completed stage in their destiny.

A moment later, the inner gate of Xingheng Palace slowly opened, Annihilation Radiance Star Pattern gently flowed across the door.

The Lord of Fate-Traces, Che Ming, and the Mingxi Che Yuan, Xingheng, were already waiting in the hall.

The two stood in front of the main seat, with the star chart of Fate-Cause floating behind them. Although they did not display any imposing power, they naturally exuded the majesty of the main hall.

Yan Yue stepped forward first, gave a slight bow, and said in a low voice, "Che Ming, Palace Master Xingheng."

"We should go."

Xingheng nodded slightly, her gaze sweeping over the five people with a gentle yet firm look, finally settling on Qin Yu.

Che Ming slowly walked down the steps and stood a few feet in front of Qin Yu. Before he even spoke, a layer of annihilating light surged from his palm, as if to seal away his words.

Qin Yu finally stepped forward, clasped his hands in a fist salute, and spoke solemnly:

"Senior Che Ming, Senior Xingheng."

"The matter of Fate Que has been decided, the soul has returned to its proper course, but our mission is not yet complete."

Today, I formally bid farewell.

"After leaving the Purple Bamboo Grove, we will enter the next main battleground for map composition."

"This journey may end with a return, or Bugui."

"If you return, we will meet again; Bugui... your destiny seal will remain here."

His voice was calm, yet every word was like a vow, etched into the starry sky of the Purple Bamboo Grove.

Yunyi stood behind him and nodded gently; Zi Xue and Yan Yue stood on either side of him, their gazes firm, while Minguang stood silently at the back, his body radiating a quiet, Extinguished Light.

Xingheng looked at Qin Yu before her, her expression shifting slightly, but she remained silent for a long time before slowly speaking:

"You're not saying goodbye." "You're writing the title for the next page of your Fate Book."

Che Ming also stared at Qin Yu and said in a deep voice, "The Gate of Fate Que will never be closed to you again."

"As long as you live, your name will be inscribed on your Fate Soul."

He condensed the annihilation light in his palm into an Annihilation Soul Talisman and slowly pressed it onto Qin Yu's soul consciousness:

"This seal is a record of your destiny. Wherever you tread in the future, if you encounter any echoes of your destiny, this seal will guide you."

Xingheng walked up to Yan Yue, her gaze sweeping over everyone, and said softly:

"Your existence transcends mere combat." "Go." "Go and fulfill the destiny you have yet to complete."

The wind blew open the purple bamboo leaves, Qin Yu slowly turned around, and the five people left the hall in order.

Behind them, the two masters of destiny stood side by side, watching the line of figures disappear into the distance of the star forest.

But their next step will no longer be the final resting place of their Fate Que.

Instead, it's—an unknown page of the main war document.

Several dozen breaths later.

The Purple Bamboo Grove had already disappeared behind them. The five people moved through the void, concealing their auras and making no sound.

Amidst the interplay of light and shadow, they had arrived at the boundary between heaven and earth—the edge of the Star River Waterfall.

That sea of stars, once caused by the rupture of the Fate Que, surged upwards against the current, venting all the causes of the disordered life trajectory into the high sky.

Today, the waterfall no longer flows in a chaotic, turbulent manner.

Conversely, as if the order of Heaven were first established, as if cause and effect were in their proper order, the Star Waterfall cascades down from the top of a towering cliff, with layers of Milky Way surging and scattering, like rain falling on the universe, like destiny returning to its course.

A misty haze, twinkling starlight—each drop of light seemed to be a footnote rewritten in the Fate Book, flowing downstream, gentle yet resolute.

Star River Waterfall – finally back to its former glory.

The five people stood on the edge of the cliff, their clothes fluttering in the wind, gazing at the flowing starlight, each lost in thought.

Zi Xue spoke quietly:

"Before we arrived, this was the beginning of all defiance."

"Now, it's... going smoothly."

Yan Yue gazed at the waterfall, a hint of calm in her eyes. "It's not flowing smoothly."

"It has been rewritten."

Yunyi smiled faintly, "Who rewrote it? Of course, it was us, hehe?"

Extinguished Light didn't speak. She simply stood behind Qin Yu, quietly watching the path of the flowing starry river, her eyes reflecting the outline of the miracle that had been reversed from fate to destiny.

Qin Yu stood at the very front, hands behind his back, gazing at the Star River Waterfall, and muttered to himself:

"The world is beginning to acknowledge our writing." "Then—" "It's time for us to continue writing."

The Annihilation Heaven Overarching Realm, a silent abyss has fallen, and the twenty-ninth day has arrived.

Since the Starfall returned to its source, a full month has passed. Qin Yu and his group have been venturing deeper along the trajectory of the restored destiny flow, crossing the Immortal Source Star River Waterfall, stepping into the deep chain of constructing realms, and traversing the fault lines and logical Realm Splitting of the Time Annihilation Ring...

Now, we have finally arrived at the deepest part of the Annihilation Heaven Overarching Realm.

This is a borderland forgotten by heaven and earth, devoid of wind, light, and sound.

Yet, within this profound stillness, an indescribable "breath" subtly permeates the air.

It was as if the entire realm was waiting for a moment when something would be "revealed".

The five stopped atop a vast, empty soul platform, before them the fault line Annihilation Abyss. And beyond that abyss, an unbelievable sight suddenly appeared—

A tree.

It's not an ordinary tree, but...

The only "World-Constructing Soul Tree" in the Annihilation Heaven Overarching Realm.

It towers at the end of the broken boundary, like a celestial pillar spanning the universe. Its roots penetrate the bottom of the entire Annihilation Heaven Overarching Realm, and its branches and leaves stretch infinitely upward, as if piercing through the Annihilation Abyss and reaching the pinnacle of destiny.

The entire tree is not "golden," but transcends any concept of gold.

It was a kind of "annihilated crystallized soul-like tree body", like an ancient Soul Seal hidden in amber, or like time being sealed as matter, its surface covered with layers of life-structured patterns, as if the cover of Book of Fate was placed on it.

Its leaves do not generate wind, yet they overflow with soul essence, drifting down slowly like shattered feathers and starlight. With each falling leaf, a broken skill logic around it self-destructs.

On the tree trunk, countless "skill remnant threads" are engraved, as if all the combat components, propositional logic, and original texts of soul skills in the world were once "defined, denied, and recorded" on this tree.

This is not a tree. This is--

The fundamental source of the logic of the entire Annihilation Heaven Overarching Realm.

How the world allows constructs, who owns the propositions, which skills are valid, and which existences are not recognized... are all "determined" by it.

Yunyi a soft breath, her expression turning genuinely serious for the first time. "This is not a tree."

"This is the... matrix of the Annihilation Realm Construct."

Yan Yue solemn. "Every time it moves, the world will rewrite 'Permitted Construction'."

Zi Xue murmured, "In other words, if it considers a certain skill 'should not exist'—then that skill... cannot even be written down."

Extinguished Light simply raised his head, his gaze pure. "It hasn't woken up yet."

She's right.

The Annihilation Realm Soul Tree seemed to be still asleep. But every branch, every soul leaf, every life vein... had begun to show a slight pulsation.

That wasn't the wind. That was the "definition of authority" of destiny vibrating at a low frequency.

Qin Yu stood at the forefront, his gaze deep and unfathomable as he stared at the fundamental tree.

He remained silent for a long time.

The wind was still, the tree was undisturbed, but everyone's Fate Soul was trembling slightly—as if, if they got too close, the skills, tactics, and soul diagrams they had once written down would be examined and swallowed up by this tree one by one.

This is the core of the Annihilation Heaven Overarching Realm.

This is also the crux of their journey—something they must confront.

Five streaks of light teleported in an instant, stepping beneath the Soul Tree.

This enormous Annihilation Realm Soul Tree, resembling a pillar of Fate-Cause from mythology, has roots that twist and turn like a withered dragon biting the earth in a thousand abysses; its trunk is covered with cracks, each crack seemingly concealing some kind of forbidden skill or spell yet to be released.

Qin Yu stood under the tree, his gaze sharp, his spiritual energy radiating outwards, preparing to endure the "logic correction penalty" that might result from getting close to it.

But at that moment—

A dry, strange cough suddenly echoed from the void:

"Cough... cough cough..."

This cough is not a physical cough, but rather the world itself coughing up a hidden structure.

Yan Yue an eyebrow and instantly stood in front of Qin Yu, her Dawn Wheel spinning as she entered a defensive stance.

The next breath.

A few feet to the lower left of the Soul Tree, the void was torn open like a thin film, and a hunched old man in black robes slowly emerged.

Her body was withered, dressed in a faded gray cloth robe, leaning on a peeled wooden cane, her back almost bent into a bow shape, her soul breath barely perceptible, like an ancient corpse sealed for thousands of years... yet she stood straight, walking step by step towards the roots of the Soul Tree.

That face, blurry yet familiar.

Yunyi's pupils contracted, and she exclaimed in surprise:

"This... isn't this the old woman from the spirit-ferry boat before?!"

Extinguished Light turned his head slightly, his tone extremely calm. "She shouldn't be here."

Zi Xue's expression darkened, and star trails appeared in her eyes. "She's not an ordinary person... she's a plot device."

Qin Yu's expression also hardened as he recalled the moments when he first stepped into the Annihilation Heaven Overarching Realm and was carried by that strange spirit boat—

The old woman had spoken softly and evasively, remaining tight-lipped about the future of the World-Covering. Now, she stood at the root of the Soul Tree that constructs the realm... Her identity had already been revealed.

The old woman slowly raised her head, her face covered with wind-eroded cracks, but her eyes were like the deepest soul fire beneath the Annihilation Abyss, dark and undying.

She stared at Qin Yu, her voice hoarse and husky. "We've finally made it this far..."

"What a pity. None of you can write the name of this tree."

The air instantly turned cold, the Soul Tree trembled slightly, and its branches faintly emitted a low murmur of destiny, as if sensing the approach of some kind of "anti-destiny component".

Yan Yue spoke in a low voice:

"She is... the guardian of this tree?"

The old woman did not respond, but instead revealed a set of broken, yellowed teeth and chuckled softly:

"I was alive before it was written."

"And it was also the only thing that remained when it was about to vanish."

She took a step forward, and the entire Annihilation Realm suddenly trembled. Three of the hundreds of millions of logic chains sealing the Soul Tree instantly slipped down, unlocking the first layer of the chain.

The old woman stood in the void, her back hunched, yet she showed no signs of weakness.

She extended a withered, bony finger, pointing to the giant tree that supported the root of the annihilation.

The voice seemed to drift from the abyss of time, each word eerie and distant:

Do you know what this is...?

An indescribable light shone in her eyes; it was neither joy nor anger, but a cold laugh born of utter madness and death.

"This is the core of the Annihilation Heaven Overarching Realm."

"It is also the only thing in this world that cannot be described."

She spoke slowly and deliberately, as if reciting an ancient, forbidden text:

This object is called the Void Divine Tree.

"No one knows the origin of its name."

"No one can describe the tree's appearance."

"No one can affect it using any construction techniques."

"Because what you call soul consciousness, propositions, skills, rules, tactics, logic, and divination... are all byproducts of it."

"It doesn't belong to this era, nor to any logic of Fate Soul; it simply exists."

That's all.

The surrounding void trembled, and even the light became blurry and uncertain.

A faint glint appeared between Yunyi's brows as she murmured, "Void... Divine Tree..."

Yan Yue's pupils trembled slightly. "No wonder... I seemed to have seen its afterimage before."

Zi Xue also spoke in a deep voice, "With such an object here, Annihilation Heaven no longer needs a master of laws—it is the Origin."

The old woman chuckled softly and slowly closed her eyes, "If you go forward..."

"It is to write one's own illegitimacy."

"It is—to attempt to paint ink on emptiness."

The wind suddenly stopped, and the branches ceased trembling.

Qin Yu's gaze was as cold as stars as he looked at the tree, remaining silent for a long time.

In the distance, the Void Divine Tree stands silently, like an abyss.

No one knows when it was born, and no one dares to say whether it will disappear.

--And now, they must face it.