Recognition as a Page of the Book · Annihilation Light Returns
The sky was utterly silent, the battlefield now a chaotic realm of annihilation. Although the power of the Soul Tree's bestowal of life had not completely claimed lives, the departure of the five and the protective aura of the Azure Ring revealed the mutation of the world's reconstructed balance.
At that moment— Qin Yu moved.
He slowly raised his right hand, holding no weapon and without any spirit rings rotating.
But the instant the Ring Master Soul Diagram appeared behind him, a circular life chain within the Ten Main Seals began to spin rapidly, and with it, the entire world was ablaze with power:
The rules are being written by him alone.
He whispered, "Fate Ring." "Linked-Stage Judgment."
The heavens and earth changed color, and the charts of destiny surged like a tide.
At that moment, the old woman suddenly looked up and saw five layers of "Life Rank Linked Boundary Rings" appearing in the surrounding space, each representing:
1. Existence Recognition Stage 2. Skill Definition Stage 3. Skill Construction Legality Stage 4. Fate-Cause Establishment Stage 5. Soul Consciousness Positioning Stage
Each stage is a prerequisite structure for building a person's "existence" and "action".
If a person fails to pass one of the five levels, their skills, constructs, and even their identity will be considered a "logical pseudo-construct"!
Qin Yu pressed two fingers together, gathering the entire fifth-order boundary ring in his palm, and then slashed down with a single palm strike!
"Based on the book of fate, the evidence for his continued advancement in rank can be determined."
The five layers of destiny crashed down, sealing off all the defining factors surrounding the old woman!
The old woman still wanted to use her Soul Tree permissions to write again—but then she discovered:
Her structural rights are being ruled as "an unfinished component".
His soul trembled violently, and his sea of consciousness surged like waves!
The entire "Soul Tree's Fate Book" suddenly flipped up behind her, turning into gray pages!
She let out a piercing roar, trying to break free from the fifth-order judgment, but it was too late:
Her [existential recognition level] has been broken: this means that the identity she has established is no longer officially recognized by the world.
Her [Construction Legal Rank] has been nerfed: this means that the skills she releases will be subject to world-class logical negation.
Her [Soul Consciousness Positioning Level] is disordered: this means the world cannot confirm exactly "which page of the book she exists on".
She—began to peel away from the "life's pages"!
He was struck by the Fate Ring of Fate, sent flying thousands of feet, and crashed heavily onto the stone steps at the base of the Soul Tree!
Blood gushed out, the life chart shattered, and the soul fragmented into dozens of pieces!
The heavens and earth trembled, and the golden radiance of the Soul Tree dimmed for several breaths, as if it would no longer grant her power!
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Yan Yue stood beside Qin Yu, sensing the fifth-tier Fate Ring covering the battlefield. Her eyes brightened slightly, and she whispered:
"This is your main skill, the Life Seal... Its power of judgment is now capable of shaking the very foundations of existence."
Qin Yu's gaze was sharp as a blade, yet remained completely unmoved.
He knew that wasn't enough.
Although the old woman's soul was severely damaged and her life force was half destroyed, she was still barely breathing.
She relied not on combat strength, but on that one and only being she depended on—
Void Divine Tree - Endowed with the Breath of Life.
In the next phase, to completely eradicate it, the "definition source permission" of the sacred tree must be shaken.
Meanwhile, in the distance, the old woman raised her head on the stone steps. Her broken body, her crazed eyes, and the faint glow of the Soul Tree's feedback were still burning brightly!
She whispered, as if to herself:
"Fate... can still... be granted..."
The chains of fate shattered, and the soul's consciousness Ruin Abyss.
The old woman lay in a pool of blood at the base of the Soul Tree, her body shattered like a corpse, her breath barely a whisper.
Her eyes should have been extinguished, but—the darkness did not.
On the contrary, Qin Yu clearly saw an extremely eerie glint in her pupils—
That wasn't anger, pain, or resentment. It was an obsession and madness never before seen in history.
She slowly sat up, kneeling on the ground, her body trembling slightly, yet she turned around slowly but resolutely—
With his back to everyone, he faced the Void Divine Tree that covered the entire Annihilation Heaven Overarching Realm.
She stretched out her hands, her ten fingers almost broken, yet she still plunged her remaining hands deep into the crevices of the Soul Tree's roots!
In an instant, everyone heard a low, hoarse groan escape from her throat.
She closed her eyes and whispered, "If you no longer define me..." "Then I will—become you."
"Thump!"
A terrifying reverse soul wave erupted from the old woman!
Her soul consciousness actually released itself into the sacred tree!
It's not summoning, it's not borrowing power—it's fusion!
She is forcibly rewriting her own "logic of existence" in reverse with the "root definition page" of the Void Divine Tree!
Yunyi's expression changed, and she murmured, "She... is reversing the soul recognition domain of the grafted divine tree..."
Yan Yue frowned, her voice icy:
"This kind of reverse-writing technique... is something even the world dares not acknowledge..."
Extinguished Light responded calmly:
"She's no longer constructing techniques; she's using her own 'existence' as a 'word,' forcibly writing it into the very essence of the sacred tree."
- Ten breaths.
Around the roots of the Soul Tree, countless branches and veins trembled, and the originally stable main trunk of the divine tree experienced slight spiritual frequency disturbances!
The golden light on the branches suddenly dimmed, and the fading light receded.
The old woman's body was undergoing subtle changes:
Her skin began to crack, and what flowed out was a blood glowing with a golden light;
The patterns of the Soul Tree branches appeared on her back, echoing the main trunk of the Divine Tree;
Her eyes were completely tinged with gold, and lines of "technical characters" appeared within them, as if her eyes were transforming into "pages of a book."
She slowly turned around, her flesh and blood no longer whole, her eyes devoid of clarity, her expression utterly twisted into an Ultimate, maniacal laugh:
"I am no longer myself." "I am it—I am a new page in the Tree of Souls."
"You cannot kill a single page of the Divine Tree."
"Unable to delete me."
Her body trembled violently, and the void shattered!
Beneath the shattered soul, a skill never before seen was being constructed:
[Books are my body, an inalienable destiny]
Qin Yu's gaze darkened, and he slowly took a step forward.
The battle has entered the stage of shared destiny between the sacred trees.
This time, they were not facing just one person.
Instead, it is a "semi-structure" possessing the authority of the sacred tree.
From then on, writing about oneself was tantamount to attacking the sacred tree—the Mad Demon Body.
The old woman has gone mad.
Qin Yu quietly took a step forward, causing the Annihilation Seal to vibrate and the Soul Diagram to emerge. At this moment, the Ten Forms of Fate-Cause converged on the deepest page.
He murmured four words: "Final Chapter - Fate-Severing Question."
In an instant, the entire Soul Map was sealed into a single page of Stillness Book:
There is no soul light, no laws, only a stroke of the pen and a question.
That pen—I ask you, why do you exist?
If there is no answer, then death is certain.
The moment this technique was unleashed, the world Annihilation, and even Yan Yue felt a slight tremor in her heart. She knew that this was Qin Yu's original question, a true inquiry into the "basis of existence" of the other party.
"Why do you do this for yourself?" "And why can't you die?"
If a proposition is not self-consistent, the enemy will "erase it from the world structure."
However--
The old woman raised her head and laughed at the roots of the sacred tree, her golden eyes blazing, her voice like that of a madwoman:
"I am the page!"
"Your question about 'existence'—I don't need to answer it, because I am part of the construct itself!"
"You can't get an answer from me!!"
Boom--!
The entire chain of fate in [Final Order: Fate-Severing Question] has broken!
Qin Yu suddenly retreated three steps, his soul energy trembling in his chest and his sea of consciousness churning.
Yan Yue reached out to support him, Dawn Wheel of his consciousness waves, a look of surprise appearing on her face for the first time.
Qin Yu... for the first time, he couldn't bring himself to ask.
The old woman laughed loudly, her flesh and blood tearing away, but her laughter never stopped.
"In the end, you are just a writer."
"And I am a book—I am a page of the sacred tree."
"You think you can delete me?" "You should delete the entire sacred tree!!"
Her figure rose again, and her remnant soul, carrying the aura of the divine tree, began to spread throughout the area, preparing to unleash the final [Divine Tree Coating - World Rewriting] technique!
At this most critical moment—
Sudden!
The entire Void Divine Tree trembled!
"Thump!!"
A low hum, like a heartbeat, came from the depths of the sacred tree. The golden branches suddenly stopped shining, and then:
--A golden light emerged from every inch of the sacred tree's branches!
Strands and strands, like the Logic Origin of the sacred tree!
They did not flow to the old woman.
Instead, they turned towards Qin Yu —and towards Yunyi, Yan Yue, Extinguished Light, Zi Xue beside him—
They all poured in at once!! The five people's bodies trembled!
The golden light silently seeped into everyone's soul, consciousness, life chain, and skill framework!
Instead of rejecting them, we naturally resonated with their "world logic"!
At this moment, the Azure Ring appeared in Qin Yu's sea of consciousness.
Without any concealment, it slowly emitted a sound:
"That's not the construction technique it bestowed upon us."
"It is this that bestows upon you—the power of anti-logical structures."
Qin Yu was slightly shaken, and asked in a deep voice, "Why... why did it bestow this upon us?"
Azure Ring replied, "It doesn't belong to any human definition."
"That woman, by forcibly writing herself into the pages of the book, is a betrayal of the 'undefined' nature of the sacred tree."
"Shenmu is marking you as 'rewriters outside the law'."
"You... will receive the only page."
A page not within the sacred tree, yet possessing a structure that is equivalent to the sacred tree itself—a "Anti-Book Construct."
Azure Ring's last words fell softly:
She forced herself to write herself as a page in the book...
"And you are those chosen by the Divine Tree..."
--Never written down, yet it will become the final chapter.
The old woman originally hovered high above the branches of the Void Divine Tree, her broken body radiating the power of the divine tree, a golden life bar floating behind her, just like a depiction of the "face of the divine tree".
She thought she was already an unalterable "page of the original body".
However—at that very moment.
She saw the entire Void Divine Tree tremble, she heard its "low hum," and she felt countless strands of golden light, yet none flowed towards her...
Instead—it was poured into Qin Yu! It was poured into Yan Yue! Yunyi, Extinguished Light, Zi Xue —without exception!
In that instant, the old woman's laughter abruptly stopped, as if a crack had suddenly been torn open in some "logical center" of her soul.
She was stunned.
She gazed at the golden light flowing towards Qin Yu and his group of five, and murmured:
"... What are you doing..."
"They... are not me... I am your page..."
Her tone grew increasingly shrill, her voice seeming to tear the entire Soul Realm apart!
"It's you!!!"
"I am the one who writes myself—I am the one who gives you the shape of pages!"
"I knelt... I offered my soul, I killed the Chain of Fate... I even tore myself apart to earn your acknowledgment!"
"And you gave it to them!?"
She suddenly threw her head back and laughed loudly, her voice like a wail, like the wailing of a ghost tearing apart the Fate Canon:
"Hahahaha-- Void Divine Tree, you truly have never understood us humans!"
"You're just lines, just fragments of rules, just an illogical madman!!"
"You'd rather give strength to those who weren't included!"
"Yet you've abandoned me, your loyal servant who volunteered to join you?!"
Her soul trembled violently, and the golden patterns on the book page began to twist and shatter!
Her laughter became painful, broken, and even carried a desperate, rebellious edge, as if rejected by the world.
"You deserve to die!!!" "You're not even a god! You don't deserve to possess the Fate Book-- "
She suddenly reached out, trying to tear at the branches of the sacred tree, and even tried to forcibly pull back the golden light!
But the moment her fingertips touched a wisp of divine light, a "sizzle" sound rang out, and her entire arm disintegrated into ashes.
The sacred tree will no longer allow her to touch it!
She went completely mad! She screamed at the top of her lungs, "Don't give them to them—they're not a page! They don't belong to you!!"
"I am a book! I am the book!!"
At this moment, Qin Yu and his four companions stood quietly on the ground, the golden light of annihilation constructing a reversed book domain around them.
That was not written by the sacred tree, but rather transcends the book itself.
Shenmu is giving them its hope of "resisting being tampered with" in a way that is "passively bestowed."
The old woman's voice echoed mournfully in the air:
"You are nothing but 'the unwritten ones'!"
"And I am the one who 'writes my own story'!!"
"By what right do you bestow these gifts upon them?"
She didn't understand. She was also unwilling to accept it.
But she is about to face the power of the divine tree's counter-structure and the final judgment of the fate seal.