At this moment, the entire world seemed to have transcended time.
The sky stood still, the ashes hovered, and only two opposing figures remained in the air.
On one side stood Qin Yu and Yao Zhiyan, beneath the azure light and the wheel of destiny seal;
On the other side are the "memory definition versions" reflected from the abyss of dreams, namely Mirror Fate Qin Yu and Mirror Fate Zhiyan.
The real clash didn't begin with the sword's edge against the illusionary array—
Instead, the core issue that erupts is "who better fits the world's perception of them"!
This is a war of "concepts".
This is the plunder of the "right to define existence"!
With a gentle wave of his hand, the Dream Recorder, the Waking Enforcer, transformed the entire Sunken Soul Ruined Capital into a narrative space matrix. A massive Dream Consciousness Compilation Ring Array appeared beneath his feet, from which hundreds of millions of information threads surged forth, weaving a tapestry covering the entire wasteland—
"Fate Consciousness Reflection Law Net!"
On this legal network, each thread records a piece of information: "About Qin Yu" or "about Yao Zhiyan," including past settings, external perceptions, Fate Soul inscriptions, historical memories, and accounts from others!
Everything becomes a parameter, serving as the standard by which those Waking Enforcer define "who is the real you"!
"You once Fate Trajectory Profiling in the Soul Cavern Dense Forest, saving people from annihilation."
"You once wielded the Origin- Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword within the Origin Framework Realm, severing the chronology."
"You once awakened Azure Ring, the Threshold life core, and the book ended in Annihilation Abyss."
Behind the Waking Enforcer, Mirror Fate Qin Yu took a step forward. The Fate Soul particles, life trajectory amplitude, and Silent Origin fluctuations emanating from his body were exactly the same as Qin Yu's, even more precise than the previous description.
He's not copying you.
"He's 'fulfilling all the pre-set expectations about you'."
Yao Zhiyan whispered, shocked, "He... wants to replace you with the 'you' in his dreams."
At the same time, Jingming Zhiyan slowly raised her hand, and every sound track that appeared at the core of the "Nine-Aspect Revolving Splendor Array" in her hand was exactly the same frequency as the real Yao Zhiyan had used in the past.
Even the rhythm of the faint light flickering on her body was exactly the same as the Threshold calculation frequency during the Battle of Return to the Abyss.
--Mirror Fate· Zhiyan: "Yao Zhiyan should be a harmless and steadfast follower; she should not question the choice of her destiny master."
--Mirror Fate· Qin Yu: "Qin Yu should be aloof, cold, emotionless, and tireless. He should not struggle, nor should he be hurt."
They are not simply imitating --
They are defined by the rules of the entire dream world as "more suitable beings".
At that moment, Qin Yu suddenly realized:
This is a challenge to "self-sovereignty".
The Waking Enforcer is not killing; he is rearranging reality within a dream.
As long as he can construct a logical structure through this "legal network" that is more acceptable than the "original form,"
The original Qin Yu and Yao Zhiyan will be automatically identified by the system as 'redundant', 'erroneous', and 'need to be deleted'.
This is a battle of logical overlay at the level of existence!
At this moment, my consciousness trembled!
The Book of Fate Law slowly unfolded behind Qin Yu, and words appeared, but not a single word could be written.
Yao Zhiyan's array core appeared, only to find that the initial position of the musical notes had been forcibly blocked.
Both of them felt an invisible pressure.
As long as this Dream Consciousness Law Net exists, they will be trapped by the definition of "constructed by others".
Qin Yu slowly raised his head, gazing at the boundless information network, his voice as calm as ice:
"... Do you think that by using the version of me written by someone else in your dreams, you can steal the essence of my existence?"
"But you forgot."
"--I am the writer."
"You are an unfinished draft of the design."
Boom--!!
The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword resounded in the air, and the Book of Fate Law forcibly tore three pages apart!
Within Qin Yu's sea of consciousness, the [Ring Master Soul Diagram] trembled, and the entire structure of his life consciousness underwent a backlash and reorganization!
At the same time, Yao Zhiyan let out a soft whistle, forcibly detonating the third layer of musical scale sealing at the array core, stripping away all her own memory of musical rhythms and displacing them from the current audio sequence.
She murmured softly:
"Since you want to define me..."
"Then I will sever all old definitions, leaving only—the me of the present moment."
--The echo of a soul resounds, like an avalanche crashing down a mountain!
Mirror Fate Qin Yu and Mirror Fate Zhiyan slowly stepped forward.
A clash of fate and a battle of dreams—the real confrontation is about to erupt!
The Dream Consciousness Law Net, like trillions of rays of light, spreads across every inch of the Sunken Soul Ruined Capital. The Dream Chronicles Waking Enforcer stands at the edge of the wasteland, coldly watching this duel between "reality and definition".
Within the vortex of dreams, the Mirror of Fate stepped out!
[Mirror Fate - Qin Yu] made the first move, his movements were exactly the same as when Qin Yu had killed the mirror image before, even the frequency of the Fate Soul vibration, the starting angle, and the energy fluctuations at the moment of the move were overfitted to reality.
--He raised the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword high, and the moment the blade fell, the world seemed to freeze.
Time is frozen, and space is stretched into a distorted backdrop for the flow of dream consciousness.
Is this your shadow?
Qin Yu sighed softly, a hint of sarcasm on his lips. He remained motionless, gesturing with one hand.
The light of Annihilation, like the Milky Way rolling backwards!
He didn't actually swing his [Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword], but rather just lightly tapped it.
[The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword: Sever the Main Narrative]!
In an instant, the trajectory beneath Mirror Fate Qin Yu's feet was directly erased!
--It's not about severing him from his fate, but about separating him from the "book of narratives"!
There was a loud "poof" sound!
Before Qin Yu could even finish his move, he was wiped from existence as if a mirror had shattered!
Without even uttering a shout, it vanished completely from the entire Sunken Soul Ruined Capital, as if it had never existed!
The world was silent for three breaths.
The legal network composed of dream information actually collapsed and cracked after Qin Yu's sword strike!
The distant whispers of the dead—
"He... beheaded the 'Definer'..."
"He killed 'himself in his dream'..."
"He's even stronger than a dream..."
Meanwhile, the situation on the other side was not so easy.
The clash between [Mirror Fate - Zhiyan] and Yao Zhiyan is a fierce battle amidst illusions and melodies!
The Mirror Life Body perfectly replicates the formation structure shown by Yao Zhiyan in the Battle of Return to the Abyss. It not only perfectly interprets the offensive and defensive rhythm of the Nine-Aspect Revolving Splendor Array, but can even interfere with Zhiyan's own thought process in the audio spectrum!
"She... read the next melody in advance?"
Yao Zhiyan's eyes widened in shock. With a misaligned illusion, a scorching wound was inflicted on her chest by a resounding sound!
A golden array of light tore through her left shoulder, ripping her robes and causing blood to drip down her arm.
You are not me.
She gritted her teeth, a slight smile playing on her lips, and the mark between her brows suddenly lit up.
But before she could condense the formation again—
Buzz!!!
A flash of blue light appeared, and the wind of Annihilation swept past!
Qin Yu had already teleported to mid-air in front of Yao Zhiyan, the [Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword] in his hand transforming into a black streak of starlight that shattered logic!
A horizontal slash!
--[Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword: Sever the Soul in Nine Silences]!
Boom!!!
The nine layers of Fate Soul structure within Zhiyan's body were instantly severed, each layer reflecting Yao Zhiyan's past emotions, struggles, gentleness, anger, loneliness, and perseverance...
But at this moment, they all turned into shattered soul mist and fell into the void of starlight!
She was originally just a fleeting image of a dream, and ultimately, she vanished where the dream remained unfinished.
The earth shook violently, and the entire legal network collapsed!
The dream-consciousness patterns transformed into silvery-white fragments, falling into the ruined city like a rain of silver.
All the souls lurking in the shadows of the ruined city—those "memory ghosts" who refused to leave and were enslaved by the Waking Enforcer —emerged from the void at this moment!
They gazed at Qin Yu and Yao Zhiyan standing before the two "Mirror-Life Corpses," their eyes no longer filled with confusion and emptiness, but rather—
Shock, fear, worship, realization, disbelief.
One of the extremely ancient ghosts murmured:
"He... is not someone defined by dreams..."
"He is... the one who defines dreams."
The entire Sunken Soul Ruined Capital fell into absolute silence.
Only Qin Yu remained, his sword slightly lowered, while Zhiyan gently wiped away the bloodstains beside him.
In the distance, the Dreamer, the Waking Enforcer, frowned slightly and raised for the first time the "Halberd of Record Judgment," a weapon he had never used before.
Because he realized:
The person opposite cannot be controlled by the dream master.
The sky still hung low, and the last rays of the law had not yet completely dissipated, yet the entire Sunken Soul Ruined Capital was plunged into a kind of terrifying silence.
That tranquility was like a dream about to collapse—just one breath away from crushing all reality into pieces.
Qin Yu atop the thousand-foot-high ruins, the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword slowly pressing down, its blade pointing at the tall figure floating above the broken coffin.
He spoke slowly and deliberately, his tone chilling.
"What other tricks do you have up your sleeve—" "Bring them all on."
The words fell.
Boom--!!!
The entire ruined city collapsed instantly!
It's not a physical collapse, but rather a large-scale withdrawal of the "scene memory components themselves," as if the dreamer is finally no longer "borrowing from old dreams," but instead—personally taking action from the very source of the dream!
Dream Chronicles: The Waking Enforcer Has Moved!
He had originally stood atop the coffin, like a cold and indifferent judge, but at this moment he suddenly unfurled the four-winged Soul Law Reconstruction Light Wheel!
--The four wings are like indelible marks of destruction etched in the heavenly book, each representing an ancient and long-gone "rule of Memory Deprivation"!
First Wing - [The Curse of Forgotten Names]: All those who enter the Judgment Domain will have their names, their knowledge, and their definitions stripped away layer by layer.
Second Wing - [Light of Unremembering]: Erases all traces of the other person being "remembered by others".
Third Wing - [Dream Master Edict]: Seals the enemy into a dream they themselves have constructed. If they cannot break free from the dream's structure, they will be trapped within it in a cycle of "death."
Fourth Wing - [Sever Consciousness and Judge Fate]: Once the dream soul collapses, the true Fate Soul will suffer a structural backlash and be permanently severed.
"He's no ordinary dream architect..."
"He is -- [Dream Judge/Executor]!"
Yao Zhiyan's face turned pale, and she forced herself to breathe, whispering, "Senior Brother Mo, be careful! He's no longer the one who defines the order of dreams, but—he's going to directly cut you into the dream and make a judgment at the soul level!"
Dream Chronicles: The Waking Enforcer slowly raised the enormous, jet-black scepter, almost taller than the entire world of soul consciousness.
[Dream Scepter - Halberd of Record Judgment]!
It is not made of metal or spiritual materials, but is formed by the entanglement of soul inscriptions condensed from the names of billions of "forgotten ones". Every inch of the scepter exudes a violent distortion of destruction setting and stripping away logic!
He spoke—his voice was deep and flat, yet it sounded like a judge reciting a verdict:
"You shouldn't exist outside of dreams."
"You have stepped out of the dream that the dream master did not grant."
"--You will be rewritten."
Boom!!!
The Dream Realm is fully activated!
The entire Sunken Soul Ruined Capital of Shenhun transformed into a "Dream Consciousness Execution Domain," where space, color, sound, gravity, and time all collapsed, and the world beneath Qin Yu and Yao Zhiyan's feet became completely illogical!
--The ground no longer exists--only flowing crystallized dreams remain;
--The sky is no longer distant--but rather fragments in Qin Yu's mind are projected into billions of layers of "memory sky";
Meanwhile, the Dream Recorder: Waking Enforcer slowly descended into the core of the dream realm, pointing his scepter!
Click!!!
The space around Qin Yu suddenly shattered, and a fictitious dream soul chain descended from the sky, sealing off his true identity spectrum!
Qin Yu's expression darkened, and the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword in his hand trembled!
Within his sea of consciousness, the Azure Ring emitted a series of alarms, and the Silent Realm Light Wheel slightly opened, but had not yet been activated.
He let out a soft breath and whispered to Yao Zhiyan beside him:
"Step back, he's not someone you can handle."
"I'll do it."
Qin Yu at this moment--
No Azure Ring Techniques were activated, nor was the final page of the Book of Fate Law summoned.
He merely took one step.
In that instant, the very essence of the Dream Realm trembled!
The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword was raised, its blade pointing towards the Dream Chronicles: Waking Enforcer's pupils flashed violently for the first time!
He realized that this child was not fit for dreams, not fit for writing, and not fit for reconstruction!
He is the "anti-dream entity" that reverses the dreamer's perspective.
He is an indefinable being!
The real showdown between the two --
It will shatter reality like a dream, like severing Fate Soul—
Let's begin!