The rain of ashes fell silently from the depths of the eternal night, yet it scorched the Void Realm like oil into a fire. Qin Yu and Yao Zhiyan had now stepped into the darkest, most folded structure of the Star Abyss Forecourt, where before them lay a colossal ancient land resembling a withered, cracked divine monument— the Annihilated Chapter Rending Domain.
The entire area resembled an abandoned world book, with twisted and broken characters hanging from the void like fragments of scripture, floating in weightless air. Each character carried the aura of a lost destiny, as if writing an unclaimed, desperate tale.
At this moment, the sky seemed to be torn apart, and a vortex of ash suddenly opened.
Suddenly, a "storm of ashes from pages" erupted from the void, enveloped by a hurricane of mixed black and white runes. A Soul-Rent Living Being, draped in tattered scrolls and with exposed bones, slowly stepped out from the vortex.
With each step he took, broken words and fragments of text crashed down from the void beneath his feet, as if each step was a "judgment of obliterated chapters." He held a "Annihilated Chapter Burning Pen," and every stroke he wrote was a death sentence, the brush tip slicing through the air and emitting a mournful howl of Soul Rend.
"I am the abandoned chapter, penned by the Obliterators... Your story—it's time to turn the page."
As his cold words fell, the entire Annihilated Chapter Rending Domain began to twist, and the ground rolled up inch by inch into a "gray page spirit curtain," as if erasing the entire battlefield and dragging it into an unknown chapter of death.
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However, just as this eerie aura reached its Ultimate, six sudden booms of "Mirror Explosion Thunder" echoed from the sky.
In the very center of the sky, a huge mirror slowly unfolded in the void, from which six Soul Mirrors flew out and stood in a circle, their spiritual pressure as heavy as a natural disaster. Beneath the mirror was a Mirror Soul being whose entire body was covered in shattered mirror-gold scales and whose face had no features.
Its form is like a phantom sculpted in a dream; with each movement, its body structure breaks down and reassembles, and even its very existence is in an unstable, inverted state.
Within each soul mirror, the images of Qin Yu, Yao Zhiyan, the Riven Prison Battle, the Dream Record Battle, and even the past uses of the [Book of Fate Law] and the [Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword] were clearly reflected.
"The Mirror Soul speaks not of the Lord's Way, its judgment is neither good nor evil. I am the deluded Lord of the Mirror's Judgment, and all your paths... are reflected within my image."
The next moment, the six soul mirrors spun rapidly like star rings, rendering the entire sky of the Annihilated Chapter Rending Domain into a boundless mirror screen, where heaven and earth were no longer clearly distinguished, leaving only the reflection of souls and the light of judgment.
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Qin Yu's gaze sharpened. "This is... the true defensive line set up by the Dawn Soul Book Prison."
Yao Zhiyan's eyes showed seriousness. "These two auras are... far stronger than before."
In her sea of consciousness, Azure Ring whispered slowly, "This domain name is the Annihilated Chapter Rending Domain, one of the earliest structures that failed to be written in the Dawn Soul Book Prison. Once activated by two Soul Master working together, it will fall into a 'Double-Layer Fate Trajectory Counter-Law'... You must be careful."
Soul-Rent Living Being: The Discarded Chapter Ash Wielder
He held a jet-black, cracked blade, its blade forged from burnt pages, the marks of which still held the cries of the erased. Its appearance was like a concrete manifestation of the "narrative of death," instantly shattering all language, logic, and temporal chains in the air.
"--The intruders... return to my chapter."
As soon as he spoke, the silent incantation exploded, and the entire Rending Domain suddenly resembled an ancient field filled with "entropy traps." A large number of ash snakes spewed from the void ground. These were not real objects, but rather aggregated from "burnt time periods." They were not living things, but "narrative shadows" that could drag Fate Soul directly into the "unrecorded" gaps in time, condemning them to eternal damnation.
At almost the same moment, Yao Zhiyan sensed the appearance of "Soul-Narrating Devouring Mark" beneath her feet—a trap seal forcibly written into her "failure fate," belonging to the initial interference of [Judging Mirror Delusion Master]!
"Senior brother! Watch out for the second force..."
Qin Yu's gaze suddenly darkened:
"So it was a dual reconstruction battle."
Before the burning aura of the "Discarded Chapter Ash Wielder" had dissipated and the distorted soul ash in the air had settled, a barely perceptible low-frequency heartbeat slowly emanated from the depths of the Rending Domain.
That wasn't a sound, but rather a vibrational interference at the level of consciousness.
"Bang--!!!"
The void shattered in an instant, and a mirror that could not reflect any true image emerged from the right side of the rift palace. The mirror was irregularly fragmented, pieced together from thousands of fragments of "broken observation of cause and effect," with countless folded mirror souls and flowing delusions rising behind it.
A figure slowly stepped out.
It was a figure clad in a tattered ceremonial robe, his face covered with countless "Mirror Mark Seals," and behind him stood three giant floating mirrors, each reflecting the moment of Qin Yu and Yao Zhiyan's death at a different point in time.
He slowly raised his head, his eyes reflecting a lingering gray light, and spoke:
"Since this place is the realm of oblivion, it does not tolerate any [defiant existence] -- all who wish to proceed are merely presumptuous seekers."
--The Judging Mirror Delusion Master has now truly revealed himself.
He is the "Logic Mirror Soul Arbiter" set up by Dawn Soul Book Prison - Fate-Annihilating Heaven-Sealer, controlling the trajectory of his enemies' destinies to repeatedly "rehearse and collapse" in his mirror, and then "forcefully realize" it in reality.
Yao Zhiyan felt a jolt in her heart. The "death scenes" in the mirrors were forcibly written back into her Fate Soul, as if she had really experienced such an annihilation!
He is... rewriting our future!
She gritted her teeth and channeled her spiritual energy, her long zither sweeping across the void as she instantly unleashed her battle technique:
Broken Feather Dance - Mirror Crack
Countless flowing crimson sonic feathers surged around her, transforming into crisscrossing sonic slashes that hurtled towards the three mirrored souls of the pre-rehearsal! At the same time, she let out a soft shout:
"[Sound Seal and Echo - Resonance and Resounding]!"
Boom!!
The sound of the long zither was like thunder tearing through the void. In that instant, the sound of the shattering echoed with the feeling of the illusory world collapsing. The entire Rending Domain seemed to be torn apart by the music, creating countless parallel reflections.
But she hasn't completely blocked all the feedback from the mirror.
"The mirror of a deluded ruler has no power to reflect anything external."
--The Mirror Wheel behind the Judging Mirror Delusion Master spun, forcibly resetting all the scars!
Just then, Qin Yu stepped aside, his cold gaze having already discerned the core of their logic, and whispered:
"Since you use the Image of Life as your formation, then I will sever your book at its source."
He raised his hand and unfolded the Book of Fate Law, his five fingers coming together, and a blazing blue light shot into the sky.
He walked slowly forward, stepping into the array area while chanting softly:
"Those who cling to the established order and judge fate falsely, once the will of Heaven is set, will all perish."
[Fate Cause Master Seal - Constant Track - Broken Structure Lock]
Boom!!!
The causal logic of the entire Annihilated Chapter Rending Domain was forcibly "locked in" the moment he raised his pen. The "predictable structure" of the Mirror Lord instantly became invalid, and the "death script" he set up was also completely destroyed in the process of being stripped away.
The three mirrors shattered one after another!
The Judging Mirror Delusion Master trembled slightly, revealing for the first time a crack that seemed to have spiraled out of control.
At that moment, "The Discarded Chapter Ash Wielder" also made a sudden move, his cracked blade flashing with Soul Annihilation flames, slashing towards Qin Yu's back!
In an instant, the two guardians of the Annihilated Chapter Rending Domain simultaneously launched an absolute counterattack!
At this moment, Qin Yu's expression remained unchanged.
He touched the ground with the "Fate-Path Pen" while softly calling out:
"Recognition Annihilation Silent Abyss."
Suddenly, a dark silver star track rose from the depths of his consciousness, circling the deepest part of his mind, and exploded with Dao Abyss light, annihilating all energy perception behind him!
That sword strike missed its target.
The Roar of the Discarded Chapter Ash Wielder:
"You severed my consciousness?! You actually..."
But Qin Yu did not turn back. He simply pointed his sword forward, and countless lines of destiny appeared in his eyes, like a halo woven from starlight slowly rising.
After his consciousness was severed and his soul sealed, the "Discarded Chapter Ash Wielder" let out a low, panting sound. His body began to tremble violently, as if countless charred memories were churning within him. Even the Rending Domain earth-like ground beneath his feet showed gray scripture-like cracks.
At this moment, the entire Annihilated Chapter Rending Domain suddenly lit up with an extremely dim gray-white light. The sky was like sealed pages of a book, turning and tearing them over one by one. Ash-like fragments transformed into "scripture-like structures," swirling around the body of the Discarded Chapter Ash Wielder.
He slowly raised his head, his voice like the lingering words of a corpse, a reversed reading of gray tones:
"I am the ashes of discarded chapters, the embers of memory. All that has not been written down is reconstructed by me."
"The Lord's command exists; it should not continue here."
Immediately--
Domain Activation: Ash Law Reconstruction - Ash Book Sealing Boundary
Boom--!!
The space surrounding Qin Yu and Yao Zhiyan seemed to have been suddenly sealed off by an entire "grayish-white Death Book," each page of which contained not words, but distorted fragments of memory from ashes—
--The broken cry of a mother;
--The sound of a blank baby crying;
--The self-denial in the last second before annihilation...
All these fragments hovered in the air, pressing down on the two, as if trying to reconstruct their "identities" into "souls within the book."
Yao Zhiyan's expression changed slightly, and she gritted her teeth as she stood up with her zither.
"This is no ordinary suppression—he's trying to rewrite our memories and our destinies!"
She plucked the strings again, and the music soared, releasing:
[Reincarnation Melody - Fatal Insight]
Silver and red intertwined sound wheels bloomed from her fingertips, transforming into a reversal of fate sound array, shattering the oncoming "Sealed Realm Death Pages" one by one. Wherever the sound wheels passed, even the death words that sealed time were shattered!
But just as she was forcibly erasing the first three pages of memories, the Death Book on the right suddenly changed!
"Whoosh--!!!"
A page of "Shadow Chapter" drawn from the realm of the dead suddenly emerged, wrapping around Yao Zhiyan's right arm and instantly detaching from her projected consciousness.
"Ah--!"
She cried out in alarm as she was instantly pulled into the depths of the pages. Her entire right arm seemed to be swallowed up, her soul power collapsed, and she fell from the void, crashing into the pile of pages in the distant, scorched earth!
"Zhiyan!"
Qin Yu's expression changed drastically!
At that moment, he saw Yao Zhiyan's right hand begin to turn gray, her entire arm peeling away rapidly like burning pages of Soul Book. Her face was contorted in pain, and her breathing became labored.
He took a step forward, clenched his fist, and went straight for the Book of Fate Law in his sea of consciousness!
"If you dare touch her—I will erase your very existence."
His voice was low and cold, uttering each word slowly and deliberately:
"Fate Cause Master Seal Fate Trajectory Profiling"
Boom--!!
In an instant, the entire area was illuminated by another parallel destiny!
That was the fate of the "Discarded Chapter Ash Wielder" being instantly dissected—page after page of the book transformed into his past, the chapters he had not written, and his sunken soul!
At this moment, Qin Yu's gaze seemed to disregard the origin of its life and the logic of its existence, focusing solely on the trajectory of fate—the "loop of destiny" that had not yet been written.
"You shouldn't have the authority to reshape other people's destinies."
"You 'forgotten thing,' shall be slain today."
The moment [Fate Trajectory Profiling] was activated, a "Fate Track Pen" piercing through reality and fiction emerged from the void, tearing apart the page structure Ash Law Reconstruction!
"Boom!!!"
The domain of the Discarded Chapter Ash Wielder exploded with a deafening roar. The "Gray Law Pages," now out of control, tumbled and shattered in the air, and the gray chapter light array inscribed behind him also went out.
Qin Yu caught Qin Yu Yao Zhiyan as she fell, gently lifting her up with his right hand and whispering, "Are you alright?"
Her right arm was half gray, but her breathing was still steady. She nodded gently, "I can still hold on."
The two stood in the air once more, while opposite them— the Judging Mirror Delusion Master —the three mirror souls began to tremble violently in sync.
He raised the "Mirror Blade Soul Law" and whispered:
"Act Three... I will preside over it."