Calamity Radiance Lost Realm · Obsidian Soul City
Rumble--!!!
Before the aftershocks of the Annihilation sword light had even dissipated, the entire Ancient Soul-Annihilating Forest was already boiling like a raging abyss tearing apart!
Just after that sword strike, a low roar, like that of a disgraced god-king, exploded from beneath the earth, sounding like the furious cry of millions of lost Fate Soul awakening at the same time!
The colossal shadow that had been slumbering beneath the cliff finally raised its head slowly.
The Annihilation Crown Emperor An - All Daos Lost.
Its enormous body resembled the soul of an emperor rising from the abyss of death, composed of countless fragments of broken destiny, its form like a temple of logic abandoned by the world.
It possesses a head resembling an obsidian crown, with each "horn" bearing the marks of annihilation.
His pupils were lifeless and dull, yet they seemed to see through to the "meaning of existence" beyond time.
The moment it fully opened its eyes, the soul frequency of the entire Silent Forest plummeted!
Immediately following behind, the three dark beings sealed deep within the Soul Sleep also awoke at the same time!
They are all at the intermediate stage of the No Consciousness Realm!
The first one: A Black Bone warrior covered in "reverse-written characters," with long, thin limbs and inscriptions floating on his body like a jumbled history book, named -- The Narrator of Chaos, Yuan Che.
Second: Half humanoid, half shadowy and misty, with an "Eternal Silence Heart Crystal" constantly pulsating on its chest, seemingly capable of devouring ideas, named -- Dawn Erosion Soul Descendant · Mysterious Corpse.
The third one: His whole body was like pieces of a burning star map pieced together, his figure was floating and uncertain, and a "mini universe of annihilation" was slowly rotating above his head. His name was -- Rift Era Sealing Spirit · Nightmare Chen.
They had just woken up and had not yet fully formed their soul consciousness and logic, yet they were already roaring angrily upwards without any concealment!
Who... disturbed my eternal sleep?!
Boom--!!
Annihilation Crown Emperor An slammed his claw into the ground, unleashing a surge of soul pressure that shook the heavens and earth, instantly reducing all the ancient trees within a hundred feet to dust!
The myriad residual marks entwined around its body rose like talismans and star trails, as if proclaiming:
"This realm tolerates no constructive logic!"
Qin Yu stood directly in front of the roar, the shadows of the trees before him breaking like rain, his robes fluttering, his expression as calm as ever.
He remained motionless—this was precisely the "core of the chaos" he had planned.
And at that very moment--
The thirteen men in black who rushed in from behind finally saw the whole scene in front of them!
"That's... that's..."
"How could this be?!"
The masked, black-robed elder's expression changed drastically in an instant. He stared intently at the skull of the Annihilation Crown Emperor An, which resembled the crown of an emperor, and the slowly rotating eyes of the Annihilation Crown. His voice suddenly exploded:
"Stop!! Back up! Back up--!!"
But it was too late.
The Annihilation Crown Emperor An has already locked onto them.
The colossal body of the Annihilation Crown Emperor An trembled, and the pitch-black "Crown Lie Jiao" scattered and swirled like out-of-control chains of an era.
At the same moment, it and the three newly awakened Soul Sleep powerhouses raised their arms, and soul power, causality, space, and conceptual power converged around them to form a destructive spacetime vortex!
The entire Ancient Soul-Annihilating Forest was like a structural component whose core had been emptied, leaving behind a void in the world—
Absolute Magnetism Annihilation Domain.
This is a "Soul Realm Consensus Engine" specifically designed to devour intruders. It can forcibly pull the logical existence, temporal memories, and combat trajectories of all intruding individuals into the Old Soul Time Domain Retrospective Layer in an extremely short time!
Qin Yu was at the very front, no more than fifty feet away from Annihilation Crown Emperor An!
"Boom--!!"
The first causal magnetic field, like the sky pouring down from above, descended from the heavens and directly sucked him into the reconstructed trajectory!
Space was torn apart, time was reversed, and ancient gray-black patterns, like chains, bound Qin Yu's soul consciousness!
"Not good!"
Qin Yu's eyes narrowed sharply. He knew—this was some kind of ancient soul-devouring technique that "sealed off the legitimacy of outsiders' logic"!
The Annihilation Crown Emperor An opened its enormous maw, which resembled a chasm in a mountain cliff, and several chains of red and black teeth surged like a deep abyss, tearing through space and biting down towards Qin Yu's head!
"Trying to devour me?"
His right hand suddenly gripped the sword hilt in a reverse grip!
--The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword: Sever the Cause, Preventing Birth!
Buzz!!!
A jet-black sword light slashed out, severing the causal source of all skills and simultaneously cutting off the causal logic of Annihilation Crown Emperor An and the three Dark Souls!
The causal chains, life trajectory lines, soul power resonance, and skill structure of the entire Annihilation Domain were as if cut into a blank state by that one sword!
However--
Those three who had just awakened from their slumber reacted extremely quickly!
The narrator Yuan Che roared and spat out a mirror shield engraved with "Yinwen Twisted Chain," forcibly absorbing the sword intent of the Broken Cause!
Xi Shi Hun Yi Xuan Hai's entire body was engulfed in black mist, summoning a "Conception Gray Mist Field" to disintegrate the broken chain energy!
Rift of the Era Sealing Spirit - Nightmare Chen slammed his palm into the ground, unleashing a "Tide of Shattered Chronicles," causing all the counter-attacking sword intent to flow back into the void!
The combined soul power of the three actually managed to completely neutralize the near-annihilating [Sever the Cause, Preventing Birth]!
And Qin Yu's sword strike—
Although it did not harm Annihilation Crown Emperor An or the Three Souls, it inadvertently struck a section of deeply buried black chain beneath their feet!
"Click--!"
The sound of cracking echoed from the depths of the void!
That wasn't a chain of skills, nor was it a soul lock, but rather—
A "logic black hole" suppressed by ancient cause and effect!
The moment the seal shattered, the earth began to collapse violently!
"Buzz!!"
The entire battlefield suddenly trembled, and in the center of the void, a distorted vortex, like a "breakpoint in Fate-Cause," surged and unfolded wildly!
This is not a skill released by either party, but rather the activated world's abandoned Karmic Retrieval mechanism!
--In that instant, the black hole beneath Qin Yu's feet suddenly opened up!
There wasn't even time to maneuver again!
His figure was swallowed up by the sealed vortex of logic!
"Bang!!!"
With a flash, the power of annihilation surged forth!
Qin Yu--
It has completely disappeared.
Only a lingering trace of cause and effect remained, gently drifting down in the air, shattering into dust, and completely merging into the broken cause and effect on the ground.
The black-robed elder behind him had his pupils shrink sharply, and his face turned deathly pale!
And Annihilation Crown Emperor An... was slowly turning his head to look at them.
Just as Qin Yu's figure was swallowed into that dark, twisted black hole of logic—
"Boom--!!"
The black hole suddenly contracted, as if the pupil of the world's heart had closed, accompanied by concentric rings of gray-black causal ripples, and it abruptly shut itself off!
The sealing was completed extremely quickly, even forcing the second wave of soul energy from Annihilation Crown Emperor An, which had not yet fully unfolded, to a halt.
Meanwhile--
Annihilation Crown Emperor An, the soul auras of the three dark beings suddenly shifted!
Their causal chain --
Suddenly, it began to crack!
One, two, three... hundreds of soul chains burst forth from their bodies, burning like meteors in the air before instantly turning into silent ashes.
This is not caused by the enemy's skills, but by some kind of influence and imbalance caused by the existence of the master!
All their causal relationships seemed to be automatically reconstructed because of Qin Yu's "fall".
As the black hole completely closed, the Annihilation Crown Emperor An let out a roar that was different from anger—
It was a roar filled with grief and rage!
Its imperial crown chain shattered completely, and tens of thousands of blocking light chains within its body broke!
He's gone completely berserk!
The next moment--
Annihilation Crown Emperor An stepped forward, and three powerful Soul Spirits floated up to his left and right.
The soul frequencies of the four began to resonate, the sky darkened instantly, and a black obsidian death star that pierced through the entire Silent Realm appeared in the sky!
Boom!!!
The four roared simultaneously, their souls burning brightly, instantly converging into a combined attack unlike anything ever seen before in this realm.
"The Name of Annihilation - Judgment Without a Master"
This is not a combat skill, but an Ultimate logical interrogation of the "intruder"!
They no longer tried to discern hostility, nor did they consider the consequences; instead, they labeled all participants as "components that cannot be retained."
"Boom!!!!!"
The moment that strike landed, the heavens and earth seemed to be torn open by a black hole that seemed to swallow the world.
Before the thirteen men in black could fully react, the light of the Obsidian Death Star had already pierced into their consciousness from behind!
"Aaaaaah--!!!"
They couldn't even mount a counterattack; they could only feel their own names, memories, and logic of existence collapsing, being annihilated, and being completely erased in an instant!
Silent. Wuhen. Soulless.
In an instant, thirteen enemies at the Primordial Void Realm · Supreme and the No Consciousness Realm · Peak—
All wiped out.
Only the lingering echo of Fate-Cause remained in the air, slowly drifting down to the ground and returning to dust.
Annihilation Crown Emperor An slowly lowered his head, gazing at the black hole that had just been sealed beneath his feet.
He did not move.
The Narrator, Yuan Che, growled softly, "Who... is that person?"
Xuanhai uttered a cold sentence. "He awakened the dark rift of [Return to the Source Beneath Silence]..."
Yan Chen replied softly, "Then... we... cannot be apart."
Annihilation Crown Emperor An slowly turned around, walked to the edge of the black hole, and sat down again.
The three Soul Master returned to their original positions, their soul essence unchanged, but they were no longer dormant, but were now quietly guarding their posts.
They will do so for the figure that entered the black hole—
Waiting until the moment of awakening again.
Tinnitus, tearing, reconstruction.
In the instant he was swallowed by the black hole, Qin Yu's consciousness seemed to be stripped of its "legitimacy," as if he had been deleted from all his conceptualizations and fallen into some unknown... abandoned layer.
--Until the feeling of gravity returned and my feet touched the ground.
The moment he opened his eyes, the scene before him was so shocking it was as if a myth had collapsed:
The sky is a cross-section of a dark abyss, with layers of cracked patterns like a giant dragon crawling across the sky, gleaming with golden-red flames before destruction.
The land is an endless torrent of lava and broken cliffs and bridges. The blazing magma, like a river of fire, meanders and surges, tearing the entire land into floating islands of lava above the fiery abyss.
Distance--
A colossal Black Obsidian Castle stood silently deep within the sea of fire, half-tilted, as if it had been torn apart and then painstakingly pieced back together by some divinely ordained destroyer.
Amidst the tower's crumbling walls, ancient statues of deities, weathered and worn, remain only with charred, broken arms and a praying posture.
Thick smoke billowed from the crevices of the rocks, as if the spirits of the dead had not yet dissipated; the waves of fire roared endlessly in the air, like echoes of ancient divine battles.
The rocks beneath his feet, etched with broken inscriptions, seemed to bear the structure of some forgotten proposition—and they even glowed faintly when they touched Qin Yu's footsteps!
Qin Yu at the edge of the cliff, looking around with a slightly serious expression.
"This is no ordinary sealed domain..."
His tone was low.
"... This is the abandoned layer of the Annihilation Realm Construct, where all the 'worlds that failed to be written'... slumber."
Behind him, the black hole gate had long since closed, leaving only faint wisps of causal dust, as if telling him—
There is no way back here.
At that moment, from among the distant ruins, a low murmur seemed to emanate... a sound that didn't belong to the roar of lava.
That wasn't a sound, but a kind of --
SOS from fragments of consciousness
Or perhaps...
A disqualified deity, an unresolved obsession.
At the edge of the precipice, molten lava surges and churns like a tidal wave.
Qin Yu lowered his gaze slightly, suddenly noticing something amiss—
Unlike ordinary lava flows that follows the contours of the land, this magma flows along an irregular trajectory that defies the logic of gravity and topography, undulating, swirling, and leaping about.
Ultimately, it all flowed towards that distant Black Obsidian Castle.
The flames converged, as if the very essence of fire were being poured into the throne.
The path of lava converged into a massive ring of fire at the base of the castle's lowest level, as if continuously supplying energy for some unknown seal!
Qin Yu stared at the scene for a long time, lost in thought, when the rocks beneath his feet trembled again, faintly echoing with the "resonance of ancient components".
He spoke slowly, his voice low and deep:
"The magma flow defies the laws of physics... it's being forcibly pulled."
"That Black Obsidian Castle... is the central logic of the entire Lost Realm."
He recalled--
Just as he released [Sever the Cause, Preventing Birth], the sword failed to defeat the enemy, but it inadvertently cleaved open the seal point under the feet of the Annihilation Crown Emperor An, thus opening the dark vortex leading to this place.
"This... is not a naturally formed subterranean space."
A cold glint appeared in his eyes:
"This is a hidden tomb of sealed logic."
He began to deduce:
This world may be a failed component banished from the Annihilation Epoch Realm during a certain propositional collapse, and his sword just happened to shatter its "logical seal," releasing this underground world that should never have been revealed to the world again.
At this moment, the lava continuously pouring into the lower levels of the castle might not be fuel, but rather some kind of...
"Memory-enhancing fluid?"
"... transforming obliterated history into molten lava, solely to keep a certain once-sealed existence breathing..."
Whispers echoed amidst the blazing flames.
Qin Yu slowly lifted his foot and stepped towards the city of the Obsidian Throne.
He knew that unless he uncovered the truth about this lost world—
I will never be able to leave.