Soul Body Destroyed · The Ash Calamity's Sacrifice Severed

The entire Grey Lake region has become a desolate inferno.

The massive soul of the Gray Abyss Tree Nightmare was shattered by the annihilation and separation of "Silent Origin - Eternally Sever the Heavenly Balance," with a bottomless life scar piercing between its soul core and gray body.

At this moment, it is no longer a complete logical entity.

Like the burnt remains of a sacrificial offering, it rests atop the corrupt lake, its fragile, gray soul aura floating in mournful cries. The lake's essence has been more than half devoured, and the surrounding void displays the Limit chaos of the "Fate Shattered Domain."

But Qin Yu didn't stop.

His eyes were colder than before the Ash Nightmare was destroyed.

Because he had seen through it all, this strange beast was not only a manifestation of corruption, but also a living embodiment of the logic of some kind of "sacrificial relic".

It was sealed here because a certain fallen spiritual core from an early era combined with a chaotic soul consciousness. It was a failed but not completely destroyed secondary core of a divine destiny, which had long since transcended the duality of life and death and become a "soul-sacrificing fragment" in the chaos.

In other words, it can die once, but within the Ash Abyss Realm, it still retains Second Soul core. If it is not completely severed, it can be reborn again at the outer edge of the Gray Realm!

Qin Yu had already discovered this point through his soul consciousness during the "Initial Fate - Writing-Opening Seal" just now.

Therefore, he stepped forward.

This step takes you into the "Remnant Consciousness Seal Domain" at the heart of Gray Abyss Lake.

It is also the final "Soul Core Sacrifice Domain" of the Gray Abyss Tree Nightmare.

Boom!

As Qin Yu landed, the remnant soul of the Gray Nightmare Body trembled violently, roaring and howling once more. Its soul sound shattered the five layers of void, and pieces of black and gray "Spirit Sacrifice Chains" emerged from behind it, transforming into the Gray Sacrifice Soul Array.

At this moment, it awakened the true "power of the soul before death".

That was a chant in a primitive hybrid language:

"The ash sacrifice is not yet over, the spirit of the shattered is not yet dead. Life is not yet severed, the soul still returns to me..."

As this chaotic verse was completed, the Gray Abyss Tree Nightmare completely incinerated its remaining "sacrificial soul." Its remains were ignited by soul fire, its head raised high, emitting a hoarse low growl, as it launched its final counterattack against Qin Yu:

[Broken Sacrifice and Remnant Curse - Ash Devouring Spirit's Lament]

Tens of thousands of gray curse chains rose up beneath Qin Yu's feet, like chains of the dead, trying to drag Qin Yu into the "Gray Soul End Realm" where he would Annihilation with them.

That was not an attack.

That was the "reverse pull" of the sacrificial ceremony.

Those dragged into it will henceforth be defined by the Ash Nightmare Soul Language as "those who die with me," becoming the material for the awakening of the Second Soul core!

Whether it's soul consciousness, destiny trajectory, technical structure, or identity, all will fall into the abyss of corruption.

This technique can even drag the "Original Skill Soul" of the Primordial Void Realm into collapse!

But Qin Yu merely gazed at the Gray Domain deep space where countless chains swirled and gray curses burned, and spoke softly:

"You think I would give you the right to be reborn?"

The next moment.

Qin Yu pressed his left hand to the ground, the Soul Diagram appeared, and as his finger seals flipped, a burst of spiritual energy erupted:

Silent Ring, Return to the Abyss Diagram, Reflecting Gate Tower

An endless soul map unfolded beneath Qin Yu's feet, like a sacrificial seal, completely reflecting the "Gray Sacrifice Domain" within it. The gray curse chains, soul bones, and decaying fire were all frozen in the image!

The skill "Reflecting Gate Tower" is the most capable of "soul-locking and reflecting" within the Silent Ring Diagram.

Once a character is mapped into the image, their [Soul Traces], [Technique Tracks], [Life Curses], and [Consciousness] will all be locked as a "static, dead image".

At this moment, all the gray curse chains came to a standstill!

The Nightmare's plan to pull in the "Second Soul Core Sacrifice" was completely frozen in time by Qin Yu using the "Power of the Silent Ring"!

He gave Grey Nightmare no chance to turn the tide.

The next second, the imprint on the soul map flipped over again:

[Ring Descent.]

The map collapsed, the boundary crumbled.

The entire Gray Soul Domain plummeted instantly!

This "fall" was not towards the ground, but rather into Qin Yu's "Annihilation Abyss Domain of the Cause and Effect Absolute Writing"!

It was an annihilation space where enemy skills could not exist, enemy souls could not be written, and enemy lives could not be reborn.

The remnant soul of the Gray Abyss Tree Nightmare let out a mournful cry:

"... No... I have not yet offered... I am the Lord's... life sacrifice..."

-- Utter collapse.

The entire soul fragmented into gray light, completely losing all possibility of sacrifice, resurrection, storage, and awakening.

And Grey Lake finally fell completely silent.

The surface of Gray Abyss Lake has returned to stillness.

But behind this tranquility, Qin Yu did not immediately relax—because deep within his soul consciousness, a faint yet extremely eerie "thump" suddenly rang out, like some enormous object slowly beating its heart at the bottom of an abyss.

This does not belong to the Gray Abyss Tree Nightmare.

Instead, it was a "remnant echo of the core" left behind by the Ash Nightmare's soul sacrifice.

Its original form has been annihilated, but the [fragments of logical causality] reflected by the Ash Abyss Domain still struggle to survive in the deep space.

Qin Yu immediately closed his eyes and calmed his mind, using [Initial Fate - Writing-Opening Seal] to re-examine the remaining causal chain between himself and the Ash Abyss Nightmare Body:

"... The fate is sealed, the Soul Abyss is annihilated, yet the logic I was 'involved' in during our battle remains unclear?"

He instantly realized that the Gray Abyss Tree Nightmare was not an individual entity, but rather a part of the deep ritual within the entire Ash Ruins Secret Realm.

In other words, it is merely an extensional contact of the "Gray Realm Causal Core".

But that "cause core" still lies dormant somewhere.

Boom!

Ripples suddenly appeared on the grey lake.

Qin Yu pressed his palm down into the void, using [Silent Origin · Trace the Spirit Abyss] to reverse the last three breaths of the Gray Nightmare's life sacrifice. A "Reflecting Soul Pattern" unfolded in the air—he saw:

"Beneath the Ash Abyss lies a complete [high priest structure]."

That was an extremely ancient "soul-worshiping ritual wheel".

Its core is not the Gray Nightmare itself, but a "failed-to-be-constructed Epoch Origin Soul Bone"!

--It seems that long before the collapse of Epoch Origin, an ancient divine soul, whose name had been erased, was abandoned here as the "Wheel of Sacrifice".

Its remaining consciousness is brewing the next "cycle start-up"!

"This is not the end of the Battle of the Ashes... but the true beginning of the construction of the entire Epoch Origin Secret Realm."

A sense of unease washed over Qin Yu.

He knew he couldn't let the "Gray Realm Causal Core" remain dormant any longer.

If it awakens, even if it re-emerges in a "failed life form," its existence will unleash a logical storm powerful enough to shake the entire order of the Eternal Evolution Realm Hall!

Therefore, Qin Yu slowly raised his hand, gathering soul energy in his right palm and forming a hand seal with his left, and whispered four words:

"Sever the Main Narrative."

Boom!

Beneath the entire Grey Lake, a blurred "High Priest's Narrative Emblem" appeared!

That is the writing trajectory of the destiny of the Lord of the Gray Nightmare, or the "writer" behind the Gray Realm.

Qin Yu unleashed a powerful palm strike!

"I don't need to obliterate your entire work, I only need to sever this 'stain of sacrifice' from your soul."

"Sever the Main Narrative" means breaking off "a designated piece of history" within the existing logic already written by the enemy.

With this technique, the life runes of the "Priest Structure" were severed in half!

The deep "logic core" of the sealed Gray Realm Causal Core suddenly went out of control, and tens of thousands of causal lines exploded in space, surging towards Qin Yu like a tidal wave.

Without flinching, he turned and his soul diagram rose into the air:

Silent Ring, Return to the Abyss Diagram, Extinction Trace!

This technique is called "Global Trace Removal Technique".

In an instant, all the "nuclear remnants" were purified by flames and burned completely in the heart of the Gray Abyss Lake.

The entire logic of corruption, within the framework of "Extinction Trace," has been transformed into a void that will never be repeated!

--This place will no longer be offered up, no longer be remembered.

The true Gray Abyss Tree Nightmare has been completely erased from the causal chain.

The lake surface was completely still.

Heaven and earth offered no response.

After Qin Yu completely annihilated the remnants of the core consciousness of the Gray Abyss Tree Nightmare with [Sever the Main Narrative] and [Extinction Trace], Gray Abyss Lake finally returned to its lifeless state.

But this deathly silence lasted for less than half a breath.

The next moment--

Boom!!

The space behind Qin Yu suddenly exploded!

A bizarre, gray-black tide of souls, as if bursting forth from fragments of another dead world, surged toward him!

"Backlash of Gray Consciousness?!"

Qin Yu's eyes turned cold—this was no ordinary attack, but the backlash from the failed self-reconstruction of the entire Soul Domain after the Gray Abyss Tree Nightmare was erased!

This backlash was not directed at the remnants of the Gray Abyss Tree Nightmare, but at the "Destroyer" himself— Qin Yu.

Because he forcibly severed the causal connection between the Gray Abyss Tree Nightmare and the Ash Realm Master with the "Soul of an Outsider," the underlying narrative logic of the "Epoch Origin Ash Ruins" collapsed prematurely!

Thus, the space self-repair system was activated.

Using the method of "crushing soul consciousness," Qin Yu was removed from the world of logic!

"This Gray Domain... still retains a remnant of its self-defense instinct?"

Qin Yu shattered the spatial backlash with a single palm strike, but the next second, five soul chains instantly shot out from the entire Gray Domain, coiling around it like snake claws!

All five soul chains carry a "structural self-destruct logic" --

If Qin Yu were trapped by it, he would be deemed an irrational existence and annihilated in less than a breath!

--Just like "poorly written sentences are automatically deleted".

"... Good timing."

Qin Yu suddenly chuckled softly, then summoned the ring-shaped soul rune from the depths of the soul diagram and said loudly:

"Ring Descent."

A ring of pure black Fate Ring flames spun rapidly from his palm, transforming into a downward trajectory from the Soul Domain!

The [Silent Ring - Return to the Abyss Diagram] Ring Descent is a technique that reverses the position of a fallen soul.

Before spatial cognition collapses, it can reversely "anchor its own soul consciousness" and forcibly pull the hostile mechanism [into its own defined dimension]!

"You want to remove me? Then I'll make you willingly recognize me as a 'build source'."

--This is a top-level counter-control against interference from the logic of the Fate Soul.

Bang bang bang!

The five gray soul chains were pulled by the "Ring Descent" and instead dragged into Qin Yu's back. At that moment, Qin Yu's soul diagram and the dark imprint of the Annihilation Dawn Silent Wheel flashed briefly, and all five gray chains broke!

Immediately afterwards, the power of the Ring Descent force spread, directly suppressing and sealing the logic of the collapse of the soul domain in the center of Gray Abyss Lake. The backlash failed, and instead, it was "logically suppressed."

BOOM!!

The center of the lake was completely still.

The backlash from the gray consciousness failed, and the soul domain was suppressed and returned by Qin Yu using the "Fate Soul Positioning Technique".

Although he coughed up blood and a crack appeared on his forehead, he still stood upright in the abyss of silence, without retreating in the slightest.

He whispered:

"This is not enough... the true initiation has not yet fully begun."

"I want to make this Ash Abyss, in the very sense, 'unrecoverable'."

The next move will be the crucial strike that completely obliterates the logic of ritual.

At this moment, the heart of Gray Abyss Lake had returned to silence, and even the backlash from the self-destruction of the Soul Domain had been suppressed by Qin Yu's reverse control.

However--

A faint gray shadow, however, slowly rose from the depths of the lake.

Like the final obsession of a sacrificial priest, like the lingering resentment of someone who died a thousand deaths.

It has no physical form, only a broken, ashes-covered stele.

That is the true origin of the Gray Abyss Tree Nightmare's life stele, containing the primordial imprint of the "Ash Abyss Chronicle." Once it remains, it may reconnect with the root of the Sacrifice Abyss.

At this moment, even though Qin Yu had severed the soul chain lifeline of the Gray Abyss Tree Nightmare, if the Gray Stele were allowed to continue to exist, one day, the logic of the Sacrifice Abyss could still use the "Life Stele" to gestate again and give birth to a new "Tree Nightmare"!

"You... you actually still have a remnant of the Life Stele core."

Qin Yu stared at the gray figure and said, word by word:

"Then, let me completely erase your final definition."

He flipped his left hand again, and a page of the pitch-black Fate Canon emerged from his soul consciousness. It was the real page of the [Annihilation Abyss Dawn Canon: Law Alters the Eternal Epoch] given to him by Yan Yue!

This page contains the "Classic of Constant Circumstances and Determination"—possessing the supreme ability to alter the 'continuous logic' of a single existence under the cosmic discipline!

In short, it is not destruction, but a "fundamental change"—making this monument, from its very source logic, "No longer possess the 'possibility of future existence'."

Qin Yu unleashed the power of the classic texts with a single word, uttering a low shout:

"Law Alters the Eternal Epoch, life is torn apart without ceasing, sacrifices are eternally sealed!"

Sizzle----!

Obsidian flames ignited on the pages of the Fate Canon, instantly constructing an invisible "Destiny Track Rift Seal" in the void.

The crack seemed to have completely torn the space where the Life Stele was located apart from the world for a period of time.

And this "residual lineage of knowledge" will be completely eradicated from the continuous logic of the world!

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhh--!!"

The gray monument emitted faint, sharp whistles; these were no longer the sounds of the Tree Nightmare, but rather the commemorative echoes of the Ash Abyss itself.

It was once a spiritual index left by a certain master of the Abyss, and now, with the Codex of Fate Canon broken, it emits a mournful cry before its annihilation.

Boom!!!

As the "Destiny Track Crack Seal" was completely settled, the gray stele shattered into countless dust particles, as if words had been peeled from the pages of a book of the world, and could no longer gather form, soul, or destiny.

The space then fell into complete silence.

There were no more waves, no more main cause.

"--This is true Annihilation."

Qin Yu spoke softly, slowly putting away the fragment of the Fate Canon Codex, his gaze as indifferent as the heavens.

At this moment, he was covered in dust, his robe was torn, and the faint traces of light still lingered between his brows.

But he knew--

The Gray Abyss Tree Nightmare will never again be recalled by any Abyss entity, nor will there be any causal point to reconstruct it.

Even if it was the original evil spirit of the "Epoch Origin Ash Ruins", it has no future.

"Annihilation is not the same as destruction."

"It means you... never had the right to be mentioned again."

At this moment, the deepest part of the entire Epoch Origin Ash Ruins Secret Realm was completely calm.

The annihilation sound no longer responds.