The void was silent, as still as the ancient clock of the Annihilation God.
Thirteen cultivators at the Primordial Void Realm had just moments before engaged in a fierce battle, their destinies intertwined, and their techniques flying.
At this moment, even "death" cannot be left behind.
Their existence has been completely obliterated by that finger; even the phrase "once came" no longer exists.
The world around us continued to flow, but there seemed to be a sense of something missing in the air.
Every inch of space and time instinctively avoids the memory of that moment, as if the world is unwilling to admit that the destruction had ever happened.
That being, formed from the core of the rules—
Still suspended in the air, its body unmoved, its aura neither increasing nor decreasing, as if the destruction just now was as light as writing a footnote.
The annihilation core in his head, resembling a star nucleus, trembled slightly, as if sensing that some distant coordinate had been touched.
The next moment--
He raised his left hand, fingers together, and gently tore through the air!
The entire Mystic Zero Domain collapsed once again.
But this time, it wasn't shock, it wasn't oppression, but rather—
An entire space was stripped away, like the skin of the world being peeled off.
The torn section revealed an extremely distorted coordinate fault line.
Like a "Logic Realm rift" connecting the main axis of the Source of Epochless, black and blue cracks surged within it like a glacial current flowing backward.
He didn't utter a single word. He left no trace.
He simply stepped into the crevice—
Its form vanished as if it had never existed, and the cracks healed themselves before even the pain in the space could spread.
As the light faded, Yan Yue's silver eyes fixed on the spot where the crack had disappeared.
She said softly:
"He did not originate from the Heavenly Emanation Treasure Realm... He should be a 'Chain of Annihilation Laws' that was allowed to descend through a certain route. The cause of this realm has already been settled."
Qin Yu lowered his gaze slightly, and the Azure Ring slowly rose:
"This is just a harbinger... it means that the upcoming Heavenly Emanation War will no longer adhere to the rules that cultivators within this era can bear."
Extinguished Light stepped forward, his brow shimmering with starlight.
"Perhaps we are not here to fight, but to disrupt the operation of a logically flawed system."
Yunyi whispered, "Regardless of who orchestrated this from behind the scenes, that finger strike just now... wasn't a show of force, but a declaration—those of lower dimensions are unworthy to participate in this game."
The Mystic Zero Ice Domain has returned to silence.
Only the lingering patterns of annihilation in the air slowly faded away.
All of this was merely the "echoes of the eve of the Heavenly Emanation Treasure Realm."
Amidst the swirling dust and stillness, the air remained stagnant. Though the spatial scars left by the Annihilation Law Annihilation Finger had been stitched up, the entire world seemed to be breathing in silence. A section of the destiny trajectory of this place had been erased.
Yan Yue put away the Dawn Wheel, and the silver-white butterfly wings slowly fell, the light of dawn fading away with the wind.
Yunyi focused her mind gently, her spiritual eyes still reflecting the image of the creature from the Logic Realm tearing through the void and departing.
Extinguished Light remained silent, taking small steps forward. His fingertips swept starlight lightly across the void, but he gained nothing.
In that instant before the deathly silence had completely dissipated—
He turned around and stood in the wind, his figure as still as the azure sword intent in the night.
His voice was deep and resolute, carrying the weight of a command.
"Hurry up."
Yan Yue raised her eyes, said nothing, and nodded gently, her steps flowing like water in the overflowing sunlight.
Yunyi frowned slightly. "That creature... might not be the only one."
Extinguished Light looked at Qin Yu: "What did you notice?"
Qin Yu's voice resounded in the four people's consciousnesses, like a wisp of sound cleaving through a silent sea:
"We shouldn't be here now. This isn't the edge of the Heavenly Emanation Treasure Realm —it's... the source where some kind of liquidation logic is at work."
"This is not a battlefield, but a place to 'test one's life points'."
For those of lower dimensions, it is a tomb;
For us, it's... a record page that shouldn't have appeared so early.
He tilted his head slightly to look at the spatial layer further away, where the Azure Ring faintly revealed ten layers of interlocking rings behind him:
"Head towards the southwest airspace. That's where the undetermined areas within this fragmented treasure realm are located."
The group quickly soared through the air.
With the Yan Yue ahead, the morning light, like a soft mist, blocked all prying eyes;
Yunyi then unleashed her Illusory Feather Light Chain, disrupting the path and line of sight;
With a flick of his finger, the Extinguished Light Annihilation Light Rending Domain enveloped everyone, forming a triple spatial pseudo-track;
Behind Qin Yu, the Azure Ring hummed softly, "stripping" the entire team from the logic of reality into a semi-hidden state, making their movements imperceptible to the laws of nature.
They were quietly moving away from the ruins of the annihilation trial that had just taken place.
The empty space behind them was now devoid of corpses, spiritual energy fluctuations, and traces of cultivators.
It's like a page has been torn from a history book.
Heavenly Emanation Treasure Realm - Outer Shattered Realm - Returning Consciousness Clan Camp
This place is different from the deathly silence of the Mystic Zero Domain.
The place where the Returning Consciousness Clan resides is a spatial fold known as the "Hidden Knowledge Realm Fold".
A semi-transparent curtain of memories descended from the sky, as if the whole world was replaying fragments of history.
An altar woven from consciousness is slowly rotating.
At its center, a tall figure stood at the heart of the destiny chart, wearing a gray-white crackled robe, with the "Return to Consciousness Curse" between his brows faintly burning like a flame.
He was the chief of this Heavenly Emanation mission dispatched by the Returning Consciousness Clan:
--Elder Jin Wuming of the Annihilation Source Realm
His gaze swept over the dozen or so main members of the Returning Consciousness Clan around him.
Among them were many at the peak of the Final Cycle Realm, and even "Path Constructors" who had just entered the Primordial Void.
Furthermore, there were several spirit sealers responsible for the "Book-Rank Destruction Technique," each possessing an aura as subtle and poisonous as a ghostly thread, their abilities deeply concealed.
Jin Wuming spoke in a low, deep voice, yet it was as if a command had been written into the souls of everyone present:
"Listen up, all of you. This time, entering the Heavenly Emanation Treasure Realm to seize treasures is only the stated purpose."
Our true purpose is --
"Annihilate and completely delete Qin Yu."
As soon as these words were spoken, a transparent array appeared in the void, stripping the two characters "Qin Yu" into a chain of consciousness sealing.
To prevent the world's logic from detecting this, it is evident that the Returning Consciousness Clan maintained an absolute level of secrecy regarding this order.
A dark gold talisman appeared in Jin Wuming's hand, imprinted with the pattern of the Returning Consciousness Clan's forbidden technique, "Shi Annihilation - Final Chain Severance".
He spoke coldly:
"Within the depths of the Heavenly Emanation Treasure Realm, all treasures possess the 'Supreme Origin Destruction Thought.' This includes cultivation techniques, talismans, divine artifacts, and strange flames... all of which can be used to counterattack."
Therefore—unless absolutely necessary, anyone who has entered the deep core area should not use their 'ultimate skill'!
His gaze turned slightly cold, and his voice lowered several degrees:
"I don't need your vanity and glory in the first round of the melee. I only need one thing from you: find him alive, and then wipe him out together."
"This battle is not a contest of victory or defeat, but a revision of the pages of the book of world logic."
In an instant, the light within the entire Hidden Knowledge Realm turned gray, and the trajectories of fate fell silent.
All the members of the Returning Consciousness Clan responded in deep whispers, echoing like a black tide:
"When the name-deleting agent arrives, all conscious souls will submit."
"Knowledge is sealed for ten thousand pages, only to destroy its master."
The next moment, Jin Wuming his hand, causing the spatial flow to distort and a crack to appear in the air, connecting to the "Heavenly Emanation Treasure Realm · Middle Layer - Talisman Artifact Ruptured Soil".
He calmly ordered, "Proceed. Enter the middle level of the Shattered Realm. The 'Talisman Diagram Divine Embryo Runes' there might be the first step in luring him into a trap."
As spacetime rippled slightly, Qin Yu and his six companions quietly emerged from a crack in the light and landed in a mysterious, otherworldly realm.
There was no wind here, yet the shadows of the trees swayed gently.
Though there was no sun, its light shimmered.
At first glance, it seems as if the heavens and earth have been polished into a dreamlike state of light glass.
The place where they stood was an ancient stream woven with crystal light, its waters clear and flowing silently.
Yet, beneath every ripple, tens of thousands of rainbow-colored rays of light refracted, like fragments of time flowing in water.
Stardust-like particles of light floated on the water's surface, rising slowly with the resonance of breath, then turning back into light dust and returning to the bottom of the water.
Beneath the water, there are spiraling star trails, as if an inverted starry tomb is hidden beneath the entire lake.
On both sides of the stream are crystallized sand dunes and huge ancient palm trees, their leaves gleaming, each branch and leaf shimmering with "unsolved mysteries" patterns.
Like the entire scene itself, it is waiting to be written.
At the end of the Mirror Lake, a path of starlight stretches slowly forward.
The path seemed to be drawn by some mysterious force as a "path of destiny," winding its way into the distant night.
It seems to connect not to a single region, but to an abyss of an inverted star system—
Stardust cascaded down like a waterfall, the Milky Way swirled backward, and "boundary streams" split open in the sky, each stream flowing with gray-gold veins of light whose cause and effect were yet to be written.
At that end, the outline of a void tower is faintly visible. The tower is not yet formed, but it draws light particles from all things in heaven and earth to construct itself.
Yan Yue walked on the water, the Dawn Wheel slowly rotating behind her, a circle of light drawing out the "Annihilation Dawn Soul Pattern" in the crystal water.
She parted her lips slightly and whispered:
"This place... is not a naturally formed landscape. It is some kind of 'unfinished destiny-constructed space'."
Extinguished Light stood quietly by the stream, her fingertips brushing across the water's surface. The light flowed like gauze, and after a moment of sensing, she coldly spoke:
"The 'water' here is not a liquid, but rather 'light memory before the rules were written in'."
Yunyi gazed at the end of the starry path, her illusory feathers fluttering, and murmured:
"I see that illusory tower in the distance... it seems to be trying to absorb the thoughts of those who have taken form. Perhaps it's a divine artifact that has taken form and is becoming sentient."
A hint of wariness flashed in Wang Long's eyes. "But this place is too quiet... abnormally quiet."
Qin Yu slightly raised his hand, and the Azure Ring appeared behind him, like a slightly ajar door.
"We have entered the 'Source Marsh Layer' of the Heavenly Emanation Treasure Realm, which is one of the regions in the outer layer that is closest to the logic of the realm construction."
This place is invincible and devoid of any special skills, yet it is the most likely place to encounter the 'original object before its formation'.
"Everything that has not yet been written down may take shape here."
Just as the dawn broke and before Qin Yu could finish speaking—
At the end of the marshland ahead, a beam of blazing golden light suddenly erupted, as if piercing through a boundary.
In that instant, the entire mirror-like stream suddenly "peeled" to both sides, transforming into swirling golden waterfall patterns.
The spiritual light of heaven and earth seemed to respond to some kind of will, converging into a beam.
To prostrate oneself in a certain direction, to worship.
Qin Yu's expression changed drastically, the Azure Ring resonated, Yan Yue's gaze sharpened, and five overlapping soul lights appeared on the Dawn Wheel.
"It's a transformation fluctuation," she said softly.
"It's not a divine artifact, not a strange fire... it's a cultivation technique." A glint of light flickered in Yunyi's eyes.
"This is no ordinary cultivation technique; it's—a transcendental origin code." Extinguished Light's tone was icy. "I sensed the power to construct the main world."
The next moment, the six of them leaped into the air and arrived at the core of the golden light in a spatial teleportation.
The place they descended upon was a floating Spirit Breath Floating Island, its surface woven from luminous crystal chains, suspended in mid-air, with star waterfalls cascading down from all sides.
At the heart of the island, a figure sat upright, eyes closed in meditation, as still as the Chaos's First Birth.
He is not in human form.
What he wore was not clothing, but a golden dragon-patterned battle armor composed of countless chains of scriptures.
Each French character seemed to move slowly, encircling him like a living entity.
That is not ordinary text, but the "original source of rule encoding", a remnant of the earliest constructed logic in the Source of Epochless.
His face was deep and indistinct, as if it could not be accurately identified by sight.
Her hair cascaded down her back like a waterfall of starlight, a blend of black and gold, exuding an air of untold beauty.
The place where he sat cross-legged was a wordless golden page woven from fragments of the "Heavenly Dao," floating and rotating.
Each rotation causes a line of logic in the universe to pause briefly before resuming.
The manual trembled slowly within his body.
It did not release any oppressive force, yet the heavens and earth were synchronously modified by the vibrations of its logic.
And on that blank golden page, four characters of bronze script finally appeared:
Nameless Collection of True Knowledge
Before the world was first created, there existed the "Origin of Knowledge".
All techniques must first be "defined," then "written," and then "passed down."
However, this method is different--
It was not created by human hands, but rather "the first conceptualization that arises after the logic of the Consciousness Realm awakens to itself."
It was not written down by the person who named it, nor can it be named; it defines itself as "Nameless".
It can be directly read by cultivators, imbued with the inherent rules and causes, and its destiny structure can be reversed;
Users can even, under certain conditions, erase the influence of the entire cultivation system on themselves and break free from the definition of "cultivator".
The moment this transformed being opened its eyes—
A scene suddenly appeared above the entire Hanze: "Epochal Spirit Script Reversal Scroll".
Countless existing cultivation techniques, combat skills, spiritual paths, soul techniques...
In an instant, it flashes in the air, deconstructs, reverses, and returns to zero.
Yan Yue whispered:
"That's a cultivation technique source-unraveling ritual... He's not cultivating, he's performing a 'self-rewriting of the cultivation technique'."
Extinguished Light's expression was unusually solemn.
"I suspect... this cultivation technique allows the host to erase the act of 'cultivation' itself."