Illusory Source Dream Abyss · The Maze of Illusion and Reality (II)

After the illusionary sea of mist collapsed at the fourth node, it did not completely dissipate, but instead transformed into a spiraling, descending dream core. Qin Yu and Yan Yue were pulled along by this force and plunged into an abyss-like void.

At that moment, the world was silent, and everything was white.

They seem to have been stripped from "reality," leaving only consciousness—and the place where consciousness resides is this place: the true core of the dream source.

This place is called: Dream Realm Universe - Primordial Dream Core.

The moment Qin Yu landed, he was no longer standing on the ground, but on a shimmering platform constructed from countless folded "rings of existence"—

Each ring is engraved with words such as annihilation, hope, deception, fate, mirror world, and illusion.

Yan Yue descended alongside Qin Yu, but a blurry, enormous eye began to appear around them, as if the entire Dream Abyss had gained a will. That was—

Dream Abyss Master's Consciousness - Primordial Illusory Law

It doesn't attack, yet it begins to shape the world.

In an instant, countless "past selves" appeared around Qin Yu and Yan Yue, and even a reflection of the future appeared—a Yan Yue covered in cracks, and a Qin Yu on the verge of death with a broken soul.

What the Illusory Law of the Void Source creates is not an illusory enemy, but a mirror image of future cause and effect!

Qin Yu's gaze darkened, and he released:

Fate Cause Master Seal: Structure and Transformation Domain

Instantly, countless golden components spun out, like gears, divine pens, and talisman chains, rotating around Qin Yu's soul consciousness, constructing a logical domain belonging to him, and sealing off the "possibilities of the future"!

Each component resembles a light wheel mechanism, and when combined, they form a giant "Propositional Clock" above Qin Yu's head, with the right to write the future recorded on its surface. When Huanlu attempts to write Qin Yu's "failed future," the clock automatically reverses, erasing it!

Yan Yue raised her hand and instantly released:

Recognition Annihilation Final Realm - The Severed Dawn Sealing Wheel

Her soul consciousness surged forth like the light of dawn and flowing water, enveloping their consciousness and preventing the Dream Source Illusion from "dragging them into the future weaving."

At the same time, the Dream Source Illusionary Law revealed its true form--

A Dream Abyss beast that seems to be constructed from concepts, its entire body woven from "fragments of cognition," surrounded by a "mixed chain of cause and effect from the past and future," each strike a "reshaping of existence."

Qin Yu's eyes sharpened as he slowly raised the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword and whispered:

"Since you can't construct a future, then I'll destroy your hypocritical present."

--Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword - Final Technique: Source Silence Severs All - Trace and Sever, Leaving No Wheel

The moment the sword was drawn, the very center of the dream world trembled!

A massive sword light, formed from threads of cause and effect, ripped through the sky above the Dream Realm, like a "delete page" torn from a divine book. It pierced the core of the Dream Abyss Illusionary Law, extinguishing and collapsing all the "future scenarios" constructed by the opponent!

Yan Yue then unleashed her Ultimate collaboration skill:

"Endless Annihilation Wheel!"

Her Dawn Wheel reversed, forming a time lock that prevented the enemy's soul from manipulating any of its logical components, causing Annihilation in an instant!

The Dream Abyss Master's Consciousness - Primordial Illusionary Law shattered under the combined attack of the two, turning into illusory fragments that fell from the sky.

Immediately afterwards, the entire primordial space of the dream realm collapsed like a mirror, and a vortex gate leading to the next level of dream imagery opened.

At the end of the vortex fissure, a wisp of green light was trembling slightly.

That was Azure Ring's will, quietly guiding...

Qin Yu's heart trembled slightly, and his consciousness stirred:

"Azure Ring, it's your turn next."

The realm of Illusory Source Dream Abyss was now slowly swirling around the two of them like ink painting. The dream mist was deep, and countless illusions surged in like a tide, like fragments of memory or nightmares of the future. Qin Yu and Yan Yue were now forced to the core of the Illusory Abyss, the ** Fate Dream Path **, where they were endlessly repeating the crises they had experienced in the past from all directions, but each time they were more profound and more real.

Illusion Unveiled, Fate Book Rewriting

A "Split-Faced Soul Annihilator" emerged from the dream mist—it possessed the appearance of Yan Yue, but was constructed from the "Yan Yue's impending demise" from one of Qin Yu's past nightmares. Its eyes were cold, and it was surrounded by the "Dawn-Burning Rending Law." It wielded a counterfeit Annihilation Dawn Wheel Ring in its hand, and with a sweeping motion, it cleaved the void, slashing down furiously at Qin Yu.

"Yan Yue?!" Qin Yu instantly saw through the flaw, but his mind paused for half a second.

--The illusion had already seized the opportunity to infiltrate his source consciousness, constructing a "false memory destiny."

Skill Burst - Annihilation Abyss Opens Silence

At this moment, the true Yan Yue's eyes flashed, and the Annihilation Abyss Opens Silence was unleashed!

The void revealed six layers of the Dawn Abyss Soul Wheel, as if wings of light were unfolding. In an instant, it severed the fake "Yan Yue Illusion" in Qin Yu's sea of consciousness from the logic of his Fate Soul source. The power of annihilation rolled like black dawn, stripping away the illusion.

As it shattered, the rules of the dream collapsed like a broken string, and the illusion exploded into countless "annihilated shadows and broken feathers," turning into a mournful ethereal light that was swallowed up by the wheel ring.

Combat Technique Counterattack - Fate Book Reconstruction

The illusions coalesced once more, transforming into hundreds of Qin Yu's reflections, each releasing "Source Fate Severing Construct," attempting to forcibly inscribe the ending that "Qin Yu will ultimately die by fate."

Yan Yue remained calm and composed, summoning the Pen of Fate to unfold the Soul Domain chapter beneath her feet:

She slowly wrote, "Life is not over yet, so how can there be an ending? The beginning and the end of my writing are determined by me."

Release the skill in an instant:

The Light Abyss Return to the Beginning Time: Silent Book: Chapter Zero

The scene transforms into an endless sea of ink-written books, with the logic of the world being forcibly overwritten page by page. All the illusions of Qin Yu are reduced to ashes under the power of "Fate Chapter Reconstruction," gradually burning away.

Above the vast river of destiny, Yan Yue, clad in soul robes, stands at the center. Her Fate Brush is divine, and the ink of her soul transforms into stars, converging behind her to form the "Annihilation Abyss Star Book Formation." Each rune that lights up corresponds to the self-destruction of the illusion.

The source of the Void Origin Illusion Flow began to become unstable, and the entire Dream Abyss trembled violently!

At this moment, a golden scroll of destiny emerged from the depths of the illusion; it was the embodiment of the will of the "Void Source Divine Hall," and it uttered a hysterical whisper:

"You dare to rewrite fate? Do you know that beyond the realm of dreams, there is still a game within a game?"

The scroll of destiny trembled, releasing a backlash that attempted to pull Qin Yu and Yan Yue into the void of memories.

The sword in Qin Yu's hand suddenly emitted a burst of annihilating light!

The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword: Sever Fate, Cut Off Return

With a single sword strike, the life scroll's source axis was severed, sealing the possibility of reversing fate!

A massive, wheel-shaped annihilation rune fell from the sky, instantly crushing the scroll of destiny into dust. The soul flames rippled out a hundred-foot-long wave, illuminating the entire Illusory Abyss space with a clear distinction between light and darkness.

The Fate Dream Path transformed into fragmented spiritual patterns floating in the air. A tattered page of Fate-Cause hung in Yan Yue's palm, gleaming with a cold light; it was the key to the next illusion node.

Qin Yu walked to her side, their eyes met, and the same thought arose in their minds at the same time:

"Truth is determined by me, illusion is destroyed by you."

After Yan Yue shattered the illusion Fate Dream Path, the Illusory Source Dream Abyss underwent a new change. Qin Yu and Yan Yue stepped into a dream field called the "Abyss of Severed Consciousness," which was no longer an ordinary illusion, but a space where images of consciousness and remnants of thoughts intertwined.

The Void Origin Illusion Flow absorbed fragments of Qin Yu and Yan Yue's past battles, emotions, killings, regrets, and obsessions, materializing these "remnants of thought" to construct a "Boundless Realm Dream Corridor." The dream corridor has no doors or roof, and its four sides are filled with mirrored souls, reflecting their deepest obsessions and attempting to awaken the most uncontrollable emotions deep within their hearts, thereby triggering the collapse of their soul consciousness.

Enemy generation: Mirror of Obsession - Wheel of Illusion

As the two stepped into the dream corridor, two cracks of mirror light appeared in the void and opened with a bang, one on the left and one on the right.

From the left mirror emerged "Berserk Qin Yu": wielding a destructive divine sword stained with obsidian annihilation fire, his rage burning fiercely, his eyes devoid of any reason, filled only with an annihilating will. He represented Qin Yu's hidden "Ultimate killing intent."

"Obsession Yan Yue" emerges from the right mirror: her eyes are cold, her body is wrapped in "Fate-Sealing Chains", and she holds the extremely dark form of the Annihilation Dawn Wheel Ring, symbolizing the Ultimate loneliness of "irreversible cause and effect".

The mirrored image drew closer, each step causing a tremor that shook countless dream patterns.

Skill Burst - Ring of Annihilation Abyss Dawn Canon

Yan Yue with a cold gaze and made the first move:

The Endless Dawn Radiance

His pupils transformed into the shimmering, star-studded eyes of the Dawn Wheel, releasing a beam of light that tore apart the causal bonds of "Obsession Yan Yue" opposite him, and ignited the true thought deep within his soul.

Dawn Wheel, a hundred layers of rhythmic patterns hung behind her, forming the "Annihilation Dawn Star Formation." Light pierced through the layers of halos, like the first ray of light illuminating the chaos at dawn, burning the mirror-like Yan Yue into Soul Rend crystals.

Before the illusion crumbled, it whispered, "So... I am the form you feared losing..."

Yan Yue taken aback, but remained unmoved. A halo of light reappeared beneath her feet.

The Realm Beginning: One Silence

Clear all emotional links within the dream realm, separating Qin Yu and Yan Yue's true thoughts from the "emotional dream construct".

Qin Yu's Breakthrough Slash: Fate Principle Reflection Severance

At this moment, "Berserk Qin Yu" roared and charged towards his true form. The shape of the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword was extremely distorted, and rings of Rending Domain appeared behind him.

Qin Yu, however, had already coldly drawn his sword: Fate Cause Master Seal - Final Order - Fate-Severing Question

"I have questioned every cause and effect, and no destiny can refute my heart!"

A platform array composed of destiny components rose beneath Qin Yu's feet, with the "Ring of Destiny" appearing at its center. Three streams of light—azure, cyan, and deep black—converged into a brush, transforming into a sword—the "Final Book Annihilation Seal."

With a light slash of the longsword, a beam of light, Sever Proposition, cleaved downwards, "naming and deleting" the berserk shadow from its fundamental destiny, shattering it in mid-air, thus defining its existence.

When the mirror image burns out, all causes are severed.

⸻Virtual Void Source Backlash Mechanism - Illusory Abyss Punishment Activated

After the two obsessions vanished, the dream guardian of the Core of the Void Source emerged in the center of the dream corridor. "Mirror Consciousness Dream-Devouring Snake."

Its entire body is a flowing, ethereal image, composed of countless mirror patterns, with seven vertically arranged pupils, each reflecting a different "future annihilation ending."

It opened its mouth and released Void Source dream flames, attempting to swallow the two into the "Future Erasure zone".

Qin Yu summoned Azure Ring and whispered:

Azure Ring - Realm-Severing Silent Light

The azure light transformed into a wheel, condensing into a beam of light that severed the boundary between reality and the dream, completely separating the dream from the illusion!

As the azure light struck, the entire Dream Corridor was enveloped by a distorted void, the scene shattering into countless fragments, which were pierced one by one by the "Realm-Severing Silent Light." In the end, the Dream Serpent hissed and collapsed, returning to nothingness.

The mirror layer crumbled, the dream corridor collapsed, and a new gate with radiant patterns appeared ahead.

Yan Yue picked up the fragments of the dream, and once again wielded her Fate Brush:

"Dreams are not illusions, but real because of me; illusions are not deceptions, but can be changed by me."

She lightly wrote the two characters "Broken Illusion," and the mirror's light vanished.

The two slowly stepped into the next node, and the dream mist behind them finally stopped writhing.

The Mirror Corridor collapsed, the Dream Flame dissipated, and Qin Yu and Yan Yue walked side by side into the newly emerged Gate of Dawn Patterns. Before them stood a boundless, domed Dream Palace. The palace Emptiness, but countless fragments of broken Dream Books floated around it, each page inscribed with the cause and effect of their past battles, fragments of fate, and the logic of destruction.

Yan Yue said softly, "This place... is the core of the 'Abyss of Fate Dreams,' the Ultimate node of the Illusory Source Dream Abyss. The Void Origin Illusion Flow will use this 'Dream Book World' to reassemble our Fate Soul components into a false existence... If we lose this battle, we will disappear forever from the dream."

The Illusionary Source Main Consciousness Debuts: Dream Source Consciousness Devourer

At that moment, a jet-black dream form emerged from the center of the hall, draped in wings made of tattered pages of a dream book, its seven eyes shining like dream wheels. It was the deepest dream consciousness of the Void Origin Illusion Flow: Dream Source Consciousness Devourer, capable of devouring the existence of Fate Soul and replacing it with "the self in the dream".

It raised its palm, silently writing the next word:

Qin Yu: Exists in Illusion

The next instant—BOOM!

The entire Dream Book space began to deconstruct Qin Yu's existence.

Azure Ring's Cry - Main Soul Backlash

But at that very moment, the Azure Ring within Qin Yu's body suddenly resounded with a deafening roar, its azure light transforming into chains that pierced through his Fate Soul from his sea of consciousness and poured into his limbs and bones!

Azure Ring - The Realm-Overturning Primordial Cosmos

The azure light reversed the origin of the universe, forcibly bringing back the "Unborn" world, causing the logic of the dream to collapse, and the true self to be reborn according to destiny!

Above the sky, a rotating azure ring appeared, enveloping the entire Dream Palace.

The Azure Ring's rotation speed increased rapidly, evolving into a torrent of starlight, forcibly gathering countless fragments of memories, destinies, soul consciousness, and existence into Qin Yu's body.

Behind him, countless fragments of life seals manifested—this was the full release of "Main Fate Soul: Annihilation Abyss First Light"!

Just as the illusion was about to collapse, a deep abyss split open in Qin Yu's sea of consciousness. Amidst the roar of heaven and earth, strands of "unrecognizable logic of Fate-Cause" soared into the sky!

At this moment, all perception, recognition, and deductive logic in the world collapsed before Qin Yu.

A massive Fate Ring appeared beneath Qin Yu's feet, within which circled an entropy reversal curve representing "the collapse of the Primordial Void and the reorganization of the Consciousnessless."

Above the void, star trails extinguished, time fell silent, and all existing "identification paths" crumbled.

A clear voice came from his sea of consciousness:

"The Primordial Void is now full, and today I enter the Consciousnessless —fate cannot be named, and the soul does not recognize me!"

In an instant, the initial stage of the No Consciousness Realm was completed!

Qin Yu's entire aura seemed to "disappear" from the world.

The ethereal white soul flame and the azure light mingled, like a high-dimensional dream dissolving into the lifeblood of reality, merging into Qin Yu's palm.

The Annihilation Divine Sword followed him like a shadow, its blade bearing the inscription "Mark of Erasing Fate".

Counterattack Moment: The Final Strike of the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword is Activated

Facing the Devouring Dream Body, Qin Yu slowly raised his sword, and five divine seals, three Fate Brush, and ten soul wheels appeared behind him.

He whispered:

"You want to trap me in a dream? But I have long since severed my ties to dreams."

The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword - Eleventh Form - Beginning of the Realm - The Sole Silent Name

"I give you a unique name, which, being a dream, can never be reality!"

--The sword falls!

The black light flowed like divine thunder piercing through a dream, causing the entire dream book world to crumble silently, and the Dream Source Consciousness Devourer exploded with a deafening roar!

Yan Yue whispered, "This sword strike does not belong to the dream world."

The dream ends, the light returns.

The two leaped out from between the shattered dreams, and the Illusory Source Dream Abyss behind them completely closed in the light of the Azure Ring.

In the land where dreams shattered, only remnants of soul patterns, intertwined with annihilation and reality, remained.