The light of the Epoch Origin Radiance shone down upon the Radiant Palace Eastern Region. In the guarded area of the temple, Yan Yue, dressed in pure white, sat quietly in the center of the "Conradiance Halls." Within her sea of consciousness, faint ripples still surged, as if responding to the faint echo of someone's sea of consciousness resonating thousands of miles away. Zi Xue, Yunyi, and Extinguished Light all closed their eyes and concentrated their breaths within their respective temples. The four spiritual breaths resonated with each other, converging into a subtle and sacred aura that permeated this region, making the Radiant Palace Eastern Region seem to be immersed in a mysterious and tranquil atmosphere that was "unapproachable."
However, at that moment, a series of hurried footsteps came from outside the hall.
"Thump--Thump--Thump--!"
Ten dark figures appeared before the main gate of Radiant Palace Eastern Region. All were clad in the standard battle robes of the Eternal Evolution Realm Hall's law enforcement officers, with the seal of "Commander" emblazoned on their chests. Their auras were heavy, yet not intimidating. The leader, hands clasped, spoke in a clear voice:
"By order of the Palace Master, we urgently Yan Yue, Zi Xue, Extinguished Light, and Yunyi, to the 'Mystic Radiance Abyss Realm' to participate in the battle to exterminate the strange beasts of the Secret Abyss. The mission level is 'Forbidden Rank - Outer Ring'. They must depart immediately without delay."
Yan Yue frowned slightly, and gently raised her starry eyes. At that moment, the void seemed to lose its color at her glance. She did not immediately get up, but slowly asked:
"What order was given by Lord He? Is there any written document to prove it?"
The man in black remained calm and immediately pulled out a golden scroll from his sleeve. It was engraved with the seal of the Eternal Evolution Realm Hall and accompanied by the Record Locking Script, confirming it as an legitimate order. However, there was a faint sense of disharmony in his aura.
Zi Xue slowly stepped out of the palace gate, her phoenix eyes slightly narrowed, and she chuckled softly:
"This order came at just the right time... we've had no missions these past few days."
Yunyi stood smiling beside Yan Yue and whispered:
"Sister, should I fly over there first to scout out the location?"
Extinguished Light slightly unfolded his folding fan and murmured, "Is there really a strange beast on Source of Epochless's side that warrants the four of us going out together?"
Yan Yue's expression remained calm throughout, but at this moment she slowly rose, her voice calm yet penetrating to the heart:
"Oath has been given, and we shall obey. However, if anything goes wrong during this mission, the four of us... will handle it ourselves."
The man in black bowed and said yes, indicating that they should prepare to leave.
At that moment, Yan Yue the palace gate, a ray of starlight flowed from her fingertips, seemingly conveying some unspoken meaning to the distance.
Outside the palace, a slight breeze stirred, and under the urging of the ten commanders, a rift in the void slowly opened, revealing a teleportation vortex leading to the "Mystic Radiance Abyss Realm" above the Radiant Palace Eastern Region.
Yan Yue, Zi Xue, Yunyi, and Extinguished Light, dressed in the ceremonial robes of temple guards, each with a different radiance, were all composed and unhurried. They didn't say much, as if this "mobilized" mission was just a routine patrol.
But just before they stepped into the void, Yan Yue subtly transmitted a message to Yunyi:
"The Heavenly Radiance Soul Ring, ceaselessly binding my life force, do you remember?"
Yunyi nodded, a slight smile playing on her lips, "I've already locked onto it; the moment the sun shines will be the moment it cracks."
Yan Yue said no more and stepped into the vortex.
Zi Xue followed closely behind, her phoenix wings not yet revealed, but starlight flowed beneath her feet, as if she were stepping on fire to become a phoenix. Three zhang behind her, a semi-ethereal "Phoenix Radiance Sealing Diagram" had quietly condensed in the void. She smiled softly.
"If this trap is set up carefully enough, then I will set this entire Mystic Radiant Abyss... ablaze."
Extinguished Light appeared the quietest, his folding fan closed, but his gaze was fixed on the subtle rhythms of the fingers, steps, and breaths of the ten commanders.
She thought to herself:
"The order is real, but its structure is too stable... It's like a 'fixed pattern' that has been simulated thousands of times in advance. A real order wouldn't be so flawless."
She gave a soft hum and then plunged into the abyss.
... The ten officers bowed in salute, the vortex closed, and one of them quietly took out an annihilation crystal rune engraved with the character "Yu" and crushed it.
Deep within the void, Yu Yuance's figure materialized from the mist. His eyes were slightly closed, and he murmured:
"The strategy is now complete."
He paused, a fierce glint flashing in his eyes:
"The four of you, though highly talented... are ultimately not destined by the gods."
... At this moment, the four women have arrived at the "Mystic Radiance Abyss Realm".
That was one of the rare "high-latitude fracture zones" recorded in the Source of Epochless, appearing as a land of blood-red clouds, where the landform was constantly distorted and reconstructed, and occasionally beams of strange light would pour into the earth veins from the sky, and then the earth veins would reflect back scorching annihilation energy.
Yan Yue unmoved, but a faint golden star pattern quietly appeared in her palm, the "Eternal Abyss Pivot Rune," which was her unique soul perception array that could sense all the logical impulses within the Abyss Domain.
"This place... doesn't seem like a place for mopping up, it's more like... a trap for capture and killing."
Yunyi looked up at the distorted sky and smiled softly:
"Then... should we take the initiative and become the host?"
Yan Yue didn't answer a word, but simply turned to look at the other end of the darkness, her gaze icy, her voice indifferent and chilling:
"Since they're ready... let's make our move."
Within the Mystic Radiance Abyss Realm, all things continued to surge, and blood clouds slowly rotated, as if the entire space-time was waiting for the signal that a certain killing trap was about to be completely closed.
Just as Yan Yue, Zi Xue, Yunyi, and Extinguished Light stepped into the central annihilation rift zone—
"Boom--!!!"
A bolt of Annihilation Lightning, as if crashing down from the source of life, tore through the sky.
Immediately afterwards, the distorted sky fell like a giant, peeling net, and five figures mixed with endless black and gold annihilation energy suddenly appeared, standing on the annihilation platform above the four women.
The five men were clad in dark gold armor and each held a weapon capable of annihilation. The aura emanating from them was not ordinary battle intent, but rather a clan-based killing intent that seemed to devour all laws.
The leader, dressed in a black robe adorned with stars, was none other than Yu Yuance.
A contemptuous smile played on his lips as he looked down at the four women, his voice cutting through the air like a blade:
"I thought you were so clever... but a little trick was enough to fool you all."
He slowly raised his hand, and the five Yu Clan generals, Primordial Void Realm · Supreme, instantly dispersed, forming a ring-shaped suppression formation. Their divine senses locked on them, their life chains restrained them, and even the spatial manipulation was forcibly broken.
"The Guardian Temple of the Source of Epochless? Ha... It's nothing but a mask to cover your shame. Do you think that status will guarantee your safety?"
"Today's battle is a Soul Burial formation prepared for you."
The words had barely left his mouth.
The five generals of the Yu Clan formed a chain of battle spirits that appeared in the air, instantly unfolding a five-pointed, inverted destiny diagram inscribed with the ancient ancestral motto of the Yu Clan: "The abyss breaks through the five judgments, the soul Bugui."
A chill flashed in Yan Yue's eyes, but she showed no panic. She slowly took half a step forward and whispered:
"You were wrong from the moment you opened your mouth."
Yu Yuance's eyes flickered slightly. "Hmm?"
Yan Yue gently raised her right hand, and a silver-white wheel slowly unfolded at her fingertips, her whisper already carrying a hint of annihilation:
"It wasn't that we were lured out by you... but rather that you finally walked into the heart of our 'hunt'."
She looked at the other three.
Zi Xue had already spread her phoenix wings in full, her starlight burning fiercely, and her smile was like blazing starlight, "I've long wanted to test whether your Yu Clan's Fate Chain Array is worth this setup."
Yunyi licked her lips, her Illusory Dragon Eye transforming into the Three Souls Split Eye, her smile playful yet chilling, "You know, when a hunter is too confident, he's often the first to die."
Extinguished Light slowly unfurled the gray feather folding fan that had never been truly opened, and uttered each word clearly:
"Soul Stabilization, Breath Control, Life Destruction... I'm short on materials. Let's see if these five 'Supreme Life Consciousness' are enough for me to refine a new technique."
The next moment.
The four women simultaneously dispersed, their battle formations shifting, and silver light, fire phoenixes, Illusory Dragon, and annihilation appeared all at once!
The heavens were turned upside down once more.
But this time, it wasn't the ambush that prevailed; instead, the killing situation was reversed!
The void trembled violently!
The moment Yu Yuance the order, the ten black-clad cultivators who had been hiding in the surrounding annihilation rifts instantly appeared. They were all subordinates of the Yu Clan's Dark Order, and the lowest Ultimate was the Final Cycle Realm. Their bodies were surrounded by annihilation mist battle patterns, and they jumped into the battle formation without saying a word.
Five Primordial Void Supreme experts and ten Final Wheel black- Ultimate assassins instantly formed an encirclement, sealing off all escape routes!
The entire Annihilation Domain Realm suddenly turned as cold as the Realm of Death.
Phase One: Encirclement and Extermination - Array Activation and Destruction
Yu Yuance shouted coldly:
"Use the chains of life to form a killing array, annihilate them—not a single one will survive!"
"Whoosh--!"
The Fivefold Life Chain Sealing Array was suddenly activated!
Five Supreme experts stood at the heart of the pentagram, their palms radiating five different types of annihilating light—belonging to Annihilation Rift, Time Binding, Soul Scissors, Life Stripping, and Consciousness Withering.
The name of this formation is:
Five Chains of Annihilation - The Chart of Destiny
At the same time, ten men in black surrounded them from the outside, their figures intertwined to form the "Ten Kill Sha Formation," their movements as ghostly as ghosts and as subtle as the threads of a tailor's sewing world—extremely stealthy and deadly.
But at this very moment--
Yan Yue moved!
She turned around and raised her hand, unleashing a streak of silver light that swept out diagonally!
The Silent Fire Samsara!
The star trails froze and vanished, but life itself burned fiercely!
Where the silver light passed, the first man in black who rushed over didn't even have time to react before he turned into a wisp of ashes that disappeared in the starlight!
"One."
Yan Yue calm.
Zi Xue was not to be outdone. The Star-Commanding Mystic Phoenix behind her instantly spread its nine wings and raised its hand!
Phoenix Descends upon the Nine Mysteries!
Suddenly, countless phoenix feathers and star threads appeared on the entire battlefield, intercepting the trajectories of the ten men in black! The feather threads scorched their lifelines, and upon contact, they burned away the black-clad men's technical logic!
"The second one, the third one."
Zi Xue's voice was clear yet cold.
Yunyi then rose into the air, unleashing the full power of the Three Illusory Dragon Souls, and three illusory giant shadows appeared in her three-colored dragon eyes!
"Soul Severing Three Transformations - Rending Domain Dragon Soul!"
A dragon's roar pierced through the three soul dimensions. The three men in black showed fear on their faces at the same time, but they didn't even have time to struggle before their soul chains shattered instantly, breaking apart like paper!
"Fourth, fifth, and sixth."
As soon as Yunyi finished speaking, the Illusory Dragon roared and shattered the trajectory of fate!
At the same time, Extinguished Light finally unfurled the [Annihilation Radiance Judging Fan], its ghostly gray aura swirling in all directions, and slowly uttered the incantation:
"The First Cut of the Radiant Light, the Destruction of the Image, and the Sealing of the Light."
A silent, radiant light curtain swept out in a fan shape, engulfing the three of them!
Seven, eight, nine!
The three of them vanished into the darkness of their consciousness, leaving not even a remnant soul behind!
Just as the last man in black was about to escape, Extinguished Light glanced up and saw:
"Hide?"
The gray curtain trembled slightly, and the last one instantly turned into dust.
Ten men in black, instantly annihilated!
In just seven breaths, the four temple guards each beheaded their enemies!
Yu Yuance's expression changed drastically in the sky!
"Impossible... how could they kill ten people in an instant?"
What made his face darken completely was—
The five-person killing formation was supposed to forcibly seal the life force of the four women's techniques, but it had no effect whatsoever!
Yan Yue stood still, her silver-white aura swirling slightly, and softly uttered four words:
"You think we were really lured out by you?"
Five experts from the Yu Clan, all at the Primordial Void Realm Supreme Level, suddenly appeared, their killing intent soaring to the heavens!
One of them sneered and suddenly released his Innate Martial Soul:
"Severing the Radiance and Destiny: The Sealing Diagram"
A dark silver soul image emerged from above its head, interwoven with numerous broken chains, sealing off the void layer by layer!
The other four also erupted simultaneously:
The first to unleash the super skill [Discernment - Rending Thunder Abyss] directly blasted towards Yan Yue;
The second person unleashed a sealing-type soul skill, [Life Disc Reverse Suppression], attempting to suppress Zi Xue and Yunyi;
The third one used [Annihilation Blood·Silent Palm] to forcefully Realm Breaking and launch a surprise attack on Extinguished Light;
The fourth person raised the sealing artifact high, and a divine sealing chain shot out, attempting to bind and kill the four people on the spot!
Ten men in black had already closed in, and the scene instantly erupted into chaos!
Yan Yue stepped forward, her long hair flowing, her expression remaining calm.
She didn't panic. Instead, she flipped her left hand, and the Annihilation Dawn Silent Wheel appeared behind her.
He coldly uttered four words:
"The Annihilation Abyss Opens Silence."
In an instant, the world fell silent!
A Silent Abyss halo composed of billions of annihilating lights suddenly shot out, directly blasting away the two Yu Clan experts who rushed in first, along with three men in black!
The soul shattered, and the physical structure collapsed!
Immediately afterwards, Yan Yue her right hand again, and the Dawn Wheel spun! "The Endless Dawn Radiance."
At that moment, a silvery-white light burst forth from her palm, forcefully illuminating the very essence of her soul, ignoring the enemy's techniques!
Several attacking enemies suddenly felt their vision go dark—their consciousness seemed to be swallowed up by a mouthful of "Silent Abyss Dawn Fire"!
All the super moves they unleashed froze in mid-air, as if their logical continuity had been severed by the chains of time!
At this moment, Zi Xue was also adorned with Star Phoenix Battle Feathers, her star-like eyes burning, and divine fire flames condensing in her hands:
"Phoenix Falls upon the Star Palace."
A phoenix streak of purple-gold meteor shot out, striking directly at the root of the enemy's soul. The three men in black were instantly burned and their souls shattered!
"What's being burned isn't your bodies, but the lifeline behind your techniques!"
The Extinguished Light, Time Silence and still, unfurled like a fan, uttering a chilling sound:
"Annihilation Light Judging Lord, Sever and Establish Realm Causes."
She suppressed the entire arena with her Radiant Breath, halting the flow of logic!
Supreme expert in the arena unleashed their constructive domain, the entire domain was engulfed by a gloomy, pitch-black light, and completely extinguished!
"Under the annihilation light, skills cannot be 'written' any further."
Yunyi's three souls resonated, and her three dragon eyes converged at the center of her forehead, unleashing her ultimate technique:
"Silent Abyss Single Gaze; Three Souls Descend upon the Severed Realm!"
The three bursts of soul power struck like three "spears of logic," piercing straight into the core of a Yu Clan's consciousness!
"Ah--!"
The opponent seemed to have been Definition Stripping: self-awareness, soul consciousness structure, and skill logic collapsed simultaneously!
The tide of battle turned in an instant!
All ten men in black were wiped out!
Three of the five top experts of the Yu Clan have already been severely injured!
Yan Yue a slow step, her voice as cold as ice:
"If we weren't prepared, how could we have played along with your 'entrapment act'?"