Soul Cavern Dense Forest, Northwest-Eastern Fog Zone.
The fog here is several times denser than the area Qin Yu had previously entered.
The blue-green mist was no longer drifting, but rather seemed to have solidified into a liquid "sea of mist," undulating and rolling along the ground, as if possessing some kind of eerie spirituality. Light could not penetrate it, and even divine sense seemed to sink into a bottomless swamp, unable to penetrate even a hundred feet.
The moment Qin Yu stepped into this place, a chilling sensation ran through him.
His pupils narrowed slightly as he stood at the edge of the mist, his Fate Soul gently activated, and his divine sense quietly probed ahead like a thread.
However--
"Whoosh--"
In just a few breaths, his divine sense trembled violently as if it had been torn apart by a thousand blades!
"This mist... already possesses the ability to sever divine consciousness and devour soul power."
Qin Yu frowned slightly, slowly raised his hand, and the aura of the Fate Law Origin Brush within his body flowed slightly. The azure light did not move; he merely mobilized the soul essence of his body to protect his consciousness and stabilize his sea of consciousness.
As his divine sense pierced through the first layer of mist barrier, a shocking scene suddenly flashed into his mind—
The ground was littered with corpses.
Those were not the remains of ordinary beasts, but high-level alien species from the depths of the Soul Cavern Dense Forest, each bearing traces of soul pressure from the Annihilation Source Realm or even the No Consciousness Realm.
Their corpses lay scattered about, their flesh torn to shreds, some even appearing as if their very structure had been forcibly "rewritten"—half of their bodies seemed to have been cut into different logical dimensions, twisted and entangled into bizarre geometric shapes; some had hollowed-out soul shells, their remaining consciousness reversed and sealed off, as if they had been deprived of the right to "die," and could only remain eternally in a state of Threshold collapse.
Qin Yu slowly stepped into it, and the aura of annihilation swept over him like a deathly domain.
"These corpses... were not slaughtered by foreign enemies."
"Instead—fighting each other?"
His pupils contracted slightly as he crouched down to examine the corpse of a headless behemoth.
Their throats were not severed by a sharp weapon, but rather torn open by some kind of causal erosion; the claw marks and teeth marks on their bodies all came from other beasts of the same kind. Clearly, these berserk soul beasts had completely lost their reason, no longer distinguishing between friend and foe, and had fallen to the brink of a frenzied state of "logic self-devouring".
At that very moment--
The ground trembled slightly.
The fog churned.
Not far away, a strange beast that was not yet dead slowly raised its head.
It was a "Soul-Howling Rending Spider," its true form being Mid Annihilation Origin Stage. It was on the verge of death, but its body was still entwined with threads of mist, as if it were being controlled by some kind of will.
"Crunch... Crunch..."
Its six spider legs suddenly braced themselves on the ground, its shattered body emitting painful, dry gasps, but the next moment, its already corroded mouthparts let out a piercing shriek—
--It wasn't a sound wave, but a "command to tamper with" it.
"--Kill every living being before you."
The mist then flowed into its shattered body like water!
"Call out--!!!"
It transformed into a spider-like shadow that Time Splitting, lunging towards Qin Yu!
Qin Yu stood still, calmly watching the trajectory of the charging sword, while an Annihilation sword intent quietly gathered in his palm.
He did not use the Azure Ring.
" --Silent Origin: Wheel-Breaking Seal."
He raised his right arm slightly, and a seal of Annihilation was imprinted in the void in front of him.
In an instant, a dark gray seal wheel suddenly bloomed, like the first light of a silent night!
Boom!
The next moment, the "Soul-Howling Rending Spider" had just rushed into the area covered by the seal when its entire soul consciousness seemed to freeze as if time had been reversed. Immediately afterwards, all the remaining reincarnation logic within its body collapsed instantly.
"Puff--!!!"
Before it could even utter a mournful cry, it exploded into silent ashes, its remains completely annihilated on the spot.
The foggy area fell silent once more.
However, Qin Yu did not relax. He stood in the middle of the thick fog, gazing at the slowly churning ripples of mist deeper within.
He knew--
There are far more than just these maddened soul beasts inside.
And there are beings even stronger than them, lurking silently deep within the mist, awaiting his arrival.
Qin Yu where the mist had dissipated, carefully examining the mutated corpse marks on the ground. The eerie blue mist still lingered on the surface, like a lingering curse. But at that moment—
Thump.
Footsteps.
Extremely subtle, yet remarkably clear in this desolate place.
Qin Yu's brows furrowed, and he suddenly turned around.
One, two... five...
"No... there are more than a dozen auras... how is that possible?"
His pupils narrowed, and although the azure light around him remained still, his divine sense had already been fully activated.
According to the deduction path provided by Venerable Lord Tong Ning, entering the depths of the Soul Cavern Dense Forest requires at least the "Peak Annihilation Source Realm" soul power to construct a "stable logical shell," supplemented by the Fate Soul Seal Stone specially bestowed by the temple, in order to resist the invasion and reconstruction of the mist itself. The reason he was able to reach this place was only because the Azure Ring light actively enveloped him, and his sea of consciousness itself had already surpassed common sense, possessing the ability to be immune to tampering.
But why are other presences gradually approaching at this moment?
"Coo coo..."
At that moment, a chilling "whispering" sound came from the surrounding fog, as if a thousand insects were gnawing at it.
Immediately afterwards--
"BOOM--!!!"
The entire ground suddenly shook!
The mist behind Qin Yu was suddenly torn apart, and a monstrous aura of "rotten death" rushed towards him!
He turned around abruptly, his face darkening.
What came into view was a dense mass of dark shadows.
At the forefront were three "mutated Soul-Fang Demon Lion," whose skin was no longer flesh and blood, but a "mutated inlay" composed of decaying bone spikes and blue-green runes. With each step they took, the ground was eroded like paper.
Their eyes were not pupils, but rotating rune structures, flashing with the three causes of death, corrosion, and disintegration.
And after them--
They were actually dozens of humanoid mutated creatures!
They wore the robes of disciples from various temples, but had long since lost their human form. Their bodies were covered with parasitic soul spots and deep blue mist patterns, their faces were distorted, their pupils were sunken, and their entire bodies seemed to be completely possessed by a strange force.
At the very front were three disciples of the Divine Palace who were originally at the late stage of the Annihilation Source Realm, but now they had been completely reduced to "remnants of alien consciousness".
Their souls were almost completely gone, leaving only "physical shells" controlled by the will of the mist. However, the three of them still had faint expressions of struggle on their faces, as if they were trying to make a final cry for help in their dying consciousness.
"It can actually control Late Annihilation Origin Stage expert... This is no simple case of mist corrosion."
"This is a soul taking over."
A cold glint flashed in Qin Yu's eyes.
He took a step forward, clenched his right hand, and the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword instantly materialized from his sea of consciousness. The sword's edge was as black as an abyss, and in an instant, it shattered the surrounding mist. Under the light, ten layers of broken chain patterns appeared on the sword's body!
"Good timing."
With a cold shout, his long hair danced wildly, and the void beneath his feet suddenly shattered!
Behind him, ten thousand beasts roared in fury, and the humanoid mutant howled to the sky. Countless blue and green soul patterns surged out from his body and swept towards Qin Yu, like thousands of "Fate Soul chains" trying to trap him in the dead zone!
--Battle begins!
Qin Yu suddenly raised his sword:
[The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword: Sever the Epoch Without a Trace]!!
Boom--!!!
Beneath the vast sky, a jet-black Sword Qi, severing all records, swept out from the void like a divine pen that inscribed destiny, turning the pages of a book upside down!
The entire "existence record" of this world was instantly erased!
The three Soul-Fang Demon Lion at the very front row were completely erased from the battlefield before they could even struggle during the attack, as if their existence had been "lost."
They made no sound, as if they had never been there.
Immediately afterwards, Qin Yu took a step forward, his body as swift as a shadow, the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword swirling around him.
[Sever the Realm, Leaving No Name]!
As the sword slashed down, space shattered like a mirror, and beneath the void, a Nameless Abyss slowly opened, swallowing up all the "mutated disciples" who tried to approach.
Their bodies continued to disintegrate and disintegrate until they were completely transformed into "something unrecognized".
"Splash--!!!"
A huge gap was instantly torn open in the fog!
"You... are beyond saving."
Qin Yu's expression was cold. He turned his sword, and the final strike aimed straight at the mutated main body in the center.
"The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword - Source Silence Severs All, Trace and Sever, Leaving No Wheel!"
In that instant, the entire misty area fell silent.
Three layers of "Origin of Stillness Light Wheel" rose beneath Qin Yu's feet, each wheel displaying ancient characters of Annihilation, illuminating the void.
With a single strike of his sword, the Dao Source Silence Slash tore through the center of the enemy ranks!
All the mutants struck by it no longer have the right to be "born"—their conception, Fate Soul, origin, identity, and affiliated temple are all reduced to zero and "forgotten" by the entire Source of Epochless!
At this moment, heaven and earth were silent.
Only the Sword Qi ceased to flow, and blood rained down.
The surrounding blue-green mist, as if "annihilated by the main cause," began to rapidly dissipate.
Qin Yu slowly sheathed his sword, his gaze deep and thoughtful.
He finally confirmed that these blue-green mists were indeed linked to the existence logic of the "mutated entity".
By slaying just one "Logic Guardian," the fog in that area can be cleared.
"In other words... I have to eliminate them one by one."
He looked up into the depths of the Soul Cavern Dense Forest—
--There, hidden, yet terrifying forces lurk.
In the mist, the Milky Way shattered, and a resounding boom Shatter Cause.
The heavens and earth seemed to collapse. Deep within the Soul Cavern Dense Forest, the blue-green mist had become like a stagnant, decaying swamp, swallowing up all the light of soul consciousness. Qin Yu at the deepest part of the thick fog, the azure light surrounding his consciousness retreating into his body, leaving him standing alone like Silent Abyss, dark tower. At this moment, the entire space suddenly fell into a deathly silence, even the movement of air froze.
"Thump--" "Thump--" "Thump--"
Each sound, like a thunderous roar from the deepest core of the world, resounded through the thick fog, echoing between heaven and earth.
The ground began to crack, and dark blue soul patterns spread out from the earth like veins, instantly turning the thousand-foot-wide area beneath Qin Yu's feet into a soul shadow abyss. With a heart-pounding roar, the giant shadow deep in the mist gradually solidified.
Rumble--
In the fog, as if mountains were collapsing, a colossal figure slowly emerged from the depths of the mist.
It has the form of a dragon, but has long lost its pure dragon bloodline. Its entire body is made up of countless layers of peeling scales, each scale like a fragment of the world corroded by the Fate Soul, with patterns of World Extinguisher logic—the veins of crimson gold flow like curse inscriptions, and a pair of blood crystal wings on its back that seem both real and illusory, as if even space itself is collapsing and twisting behind it.
Its eyes were no longer eyes, but two burning "mixed flames" within a black-gold abyss. No pupils, no white light, only burning fragments of soul—ignoring fate, ignoring life and death. It raised its head and let out a world-shaking dragon roar—
"Roar--!!!"
The sonic boom erupted, instantly collapsing all spatial logic within hundreds of miles. The mist swirled back like ten thousand snakes slithering through the forest. Several distant mountain ranges were directly torn apart by the dragon's roar, collapsing with a deafening crash. The void was as thin as paper, and the wind and thunder were silent.
Qin Yu remained unmoved, his eyes as calm as a still sea as he faced this being constructed from the "Devouring Dragon Soul" and the "Logic of the Mysterious Mist".
"What a fine... 'Construct Dragon'."
He slowly raised his right hand, and from within it, a dark writing brush, as black as a fire burning in the silent night, emerged from his sea of consciousness. It was the main artifact of the Book of Fate Law — the Realm Severing Origin Brush, its tip shimmering with the initial light of cause and effect and the trajectory of fate.
The next instant, he swung his left hand in a backhand motion, and an Annihilation light of annihilation bloomed in the void. A black longsword, its entire body engulfed in molten flames, appeared in mid-air—it was none other than—
The Silent Beginning: The Ring Master Soul Diagram.
Two weapons at once!
In an instant, the world changed color, and the Consciousness Realm trembled. At that moment, Qin Yu's eyes shone with Xing Ji, and he uttered a low shout:
"Silent Origin - Wheel-Breaking Seal!"
He used the Source Brush to draw six layers of light in the void, each layer surging with the marks of world judgment and reincarnation. As he wrote the final stroke, the six layers of light instantly transformed into a chain of annihilating light, striking straight at the dragon's heart!
With a roar, the dragon's crimson-purple crystalline membrane transformed into a shield that exploded forth, unleashing countless annihilation vortexes that clashed head-on with Qin Yu's brushstrokes! However, in the very next second—
"Fate Cause Master Seal, Star Tracing, Mirror of Return!"
Qin Yu moved the Source Brush again, and the brush moved like a dragon and a snake. A mirror-like wheel of cause and effect suddenly bloomed behind him, pointing directly at the dragon's right claw.
"Tracing its roots and understanding its origins."
As the mirror shone, the scales on the dragon's right claw instantly cracked open, revealing its design logic directly in space—it was actually pieced together from the remnants of hundreds of soul beasts! And the source of these soul beast components was one of the constituent elements of the mist!
Qin Yu's gaze was sharp as lightning. "Your existence is one of the nodes in the fog!"
In the next instant, the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword slashed out— Sever the Cause, Preventing Birth!
The sword's edge transformed into countless Karma Ripple in mid-air, each ripple corresponding to a logical construct of a "skill's origin." Wherever the sword's edge passed, the logical framework crumbled! That was—
"Strip away the concept! Rewrite the logic! Sever the Fate Soul!"
The black-gold dragon let out an extremely painful roar, and the blood-red light beneath its wings twisted wildly, as if it were about to devour its own body!