The vast starry plains, where dust and light have not yet settled.
Qin Yu atop the void. The Azure Ring had long since returned to his sea of consciousness, yet countless strands of light still flowed slowly around his body, like fragments of a starry river, resembling the primordial spirit before the Heaven and Earth Undetermined, isolated in a world after destruction.
The ground beneath their feet was a place that had just been erased by the Return to the Silent Realm Returns to the Beginning and the Fate's Existence Completely Covers All.
This vast region, which once bordered the [Eternal Consciousness Evolution Clan] and the [Ink Spirit Annihilation Clan], now has no trace of life remaining. The earth's veins have collapsed, the Dao patterns of heaven and earth have been stripped away from the foundation, and even the aura of "life that once existed" has been completely wiped out. There are no embers, no reincarnation, no soul fire.
All traces have returned to their initial stillness.
Qin Yu slowly withdrew his gaze. His pupils, which bore both blue and green hues, were as still as Divine Abyss, yet as fierce as a suppressed fire in the night.
He didn't look back, but simply took a light step forward across this shattered void.
At that moment, he slightly raised his head, as if gazing at some place yet to be revealed.
The voice was deep and imposing, like the Dao:
"Mystic Emanation Nether Venerable - Liang Jichen."
The moment those four words were uttered, the entire star field trembled violently, and the heavens shook slightly, as if some sealed Fate-Cause had been forcibly unlocked.
Qin Yu slowly uttered his last words:
"That's your temple's biggest flaw..."
These words, though devoid of anger, struck like a hammer blow, not as an accusation or a roar, but as a verdict.
The moment he finished speaking, a faint blue light swirled around Qin Yu, and Azure Ring appeared faintly in his sea of consciousness, accompanied by the resonating sound of light strings. A Silent Abyss light gate spanning countless worlds slowly opened.
He stepped into the void alone.
Their footsteps were silent, yet seemed to shatter the heavens.
Heaven and earth fell silent once more.
Only that one sentence, echoing in the uncharted heavens, remained, like a silent bell tolling above the Source of Epochless.
--"Mystic Emanation Nether Venerable, Liang Jichen."
"That's the biggest flaw in your temple."
The Source of Epochless, the Nether Confinement Primordial Realm, the True Word Extremity Hall.
The dark light was as black as ink, the dome overturned, and between heaven and earth, only a cluster of divine palaces, hundreds of millions of feet tall, remained, stretching across the spine of the Void Abyss. This place was one of the oldest sealed layers in the Epoch Source Realm, the core root of the True Word Extremity Hall.
At this moment, beneath the heavens, the masters of the five great temples stood in unison atop the Altar of Myriad Origins:
[The True Word Extremity Hall] -- Yan Fengyuan (The Only Book Realm - Supreme)
[The Fate Que Hall] -- Que Haoliu (The Supreme in the Only Book Realm)
[Fate Cause Spirit Tower] -- Yin Chandie (Only Book Realm, Supreme)
[Law God Origin Court] -- Lü Longxu (Only Book Realm - Supreme)
[Epoch Book Sealing Abyss] -- Yuan Hechen (Only Book Realm · Supreme)
The Lord of the Palace stood on the Ninefold Soul Platform, each carrying behind him the remaining elites of their clan, divine messengers, and law priests. Their ceremonial robes swayed, divine seals shone, and array marks spread for millions of miles, like the remnants of a mournful army from the past era, ready to fight to the death.
At this moment, Yan Fengyuan held a scroll of ancient soul-sealing techniques, his expression grim, and slowly uttered:
"Seven of the Nine Mirrors of the Silent Curse have been broken... The combined refining plan of the Eight Great Halls has ultimately come to naught."
His gaze swept over the temple masters beside him, his eyes revealing an iron will forged in blood and oaths.
"Gentlemen, since there is no way to retreat, let us no longer vainly think of a way out."
The next moment, Yan Fengyuan suddenly unfurled the ancient scroll of sealing souls, and nine soul incantations instantly shot out, transforming into divine blood runes that coiled around the altar:
"The Annihilation Abyss Plan has failed; the demons are coming."
"Activate our last remaining trump card—True Word Ultimate Array: Origin Destroyer - Realm Breaking -Sealing God Lock!"
The four hall masters' eyes narrowed.
Que Haoliu of the Fate Que Hall replied in a resounding voice, "Very well, since Gui Shi, Meng Suo, Heng Shi, Mo Ling, and the others have all been wiped out, I, the Remnant Flame of Fate Que... will join forces with you, Zhenyan, in this battle."
Fate Cause Spirit Tower Yin Chandie Die, the Spirit Pagoda of Destiny, plunged the Soul Needle in his hand into the Earth Vein Source Seal, and an ancient incantation appeared. "Fate Cause Spirit Tower, offer the Pagoda Heart, Nine-Turn Spiritual Bone, and unite the life veins."
The Law God Origin Court, Lü Longxu voice, "I am willing to burn the rules of my remaining life to suppress Qin Yu."
Ji Epoch Book Sealing Abyss Yuan Hechen summoned a scroll called "The Epoch-Severing Heavenly Book," which emitted the radiance of broken life runes. "Our Five Divine Palaces unite for the final battle... Whether we perish or rise in glory, it all depends on this day."
--The divine array is activated.
Above the main hall, five divine soul mirror walls suddenly appeared, each mirror surface displaying the image of a shattered abyss. Heaven above heaven, earth within earth, cause and effect within the mirror, and the law book outside the soul—the five-dimensional divine structure was forcibly incorporated into a world-destroying sealing structure, like a giant lock of gods constructed from the remnants of the wishes of all living beings, spanning sixty thousand worlds of the Epoch Origin.
The name of this formation is:
True Word Ultimate Array - Origin Destroyer Realm Breaking Sealing God Lock
Composition requires:
The five great temples' primordial energy intertwined;
Each temple master offered their own "written destiny and knowledge";
With "Extreme Word Origin Lock" as the core;
The Eightfold Heavenly Laws were activated, sealing off all "Source-level Main Souls".
All of this was for the purpose of dealing with one person: Qin Yu.
The five great temple masters were utterly shattered, yet remained silent and refused to retreat.
Yan Fengyuan again:
"Once this formation is activated, all realms will be sealed in silence. Even the Lord of the Epoch Origin will fall into the Origin Break Domain, a realm where one cannot define oneself!"
"Gentlemen! Prepare for battle—await his arrival!"
--The mirror array shook the void of the Epoch Origin, and the cracks of the God Sealing stretched for hundreds of millions of miles across the earth. The entire Western Region of the Source of Epochless was as if plunged into the night of the apocalypse.
At this moment, above the True Word Extremity Hall in the Western Region, at the Source of Epochless.
The heavens fell, and the void was overturned.
The entire void where the True Word Extremity Hall was located suddenly trembled violently, as if pierced by ten thousand divine chains!
In the next instant, an array as intertwined as a galaxy, yet as black as ink, burst forth from the dome of Epoch Origin, covering hundreds of millions of miles, as if sealing the entire western part of Epoch Origin, along with the area beneath Jibi, into a black abyss of souls.
[First layer of mirror]:
The Chaos Azure Crystal Mirror contained 60,000 soul shadows that spun within it. The images that appeared were the remnants of formations, clans, and souls that Qin Yu had annihilated, accompanied by echoing wails, like a death epic projected in a slideshow.
[Second layer of mirror]:
The Law-Severing Divine Mirror is covered with cracks in the laws, each mark shimmering with golden and blue runes, shattering the entire logic of the Epoch Origin laws, as if the "structural lines of the world" have been directly cut off, causing the spatial dimensions to collapse inward.
[Third layer of mirror]:
The Fate Origin Sealing Mirror, with hundreds of billions of life paths intertwined like blood threads. The entire mirror surface is like a slice of the "web of destiny"—the threads of destiny constantly break, reconnect, and rewrite, with every inch of the mirror surface resisting the establishment of the "name of the Ring Master".
[Fourth layer of mirror]:
The Consciousness Abyss Soul Mirror contains ninety thousand layers of soul abysses, each locking onto the soul's path home. Those with consciousness are trapped in a nightmare abyss, and anyone who gets too close will be instantly "severed from the Consciousness Realm" and fall into Consciousnessless.
[Fifth layer of mirror]:
The Epoch-Severing Sealing Mirror. This mirror hangs high in the sky, reflecting not space, but the "main thread of history." Tens of thousands of records appear in the mirror, with scrolls, cause and effect, genealogies, and the lines of heaven intertwined. Every piece of history about the "Annihilation Abyss Epoch" is rapidly burning and turning to ashes—as if rehearsing the consequences of "erasing the existence of Qin Yu."
The five mirrors appeared simultaneously, enveloping the entire True Word Extremity Hall and connecting the Fate Soul essence of the five great temples, causing it to instantly rumble and crack.
Boom--!!!
A sealing divine light, like a pillar of stars covering the sky, rose from the Five-Dimensional Divine Array, stripping away the colors of the entire land, leaving only a destructive hue of black, white, and gold and blue!
Above the mirror array dome, a colossal "Divine Lock Totem," beyond description, gradually emerged—it coiled like a rune above the core of the five mirrors, its center bearing an extremely dark shackle seal inscribed with seven ancient Epoch Origin characters:
"Sealing the Soul, Locking the Source Body, Destroying the Ring of Existence."
The entire sky has fallen into the alien world of the "Mirror Domain Epoch Lock":
Space was compressed into irregular fault lines, like a shattered mirror.
Laws, like fragments of crystal, floated everywhere, and the threads of time twisted and turned within the array;
There was no more wind or light between heaven and earth, only the chanting of incantations, like a chorus of gods reciting a hymn of destruction;
All the mirrors resonated with a thousand layers of sound tracks, echoing throughout the entire Epoch Origin Divine Soul!
At this moment, if the people of Truth looked up, they could only see the silent, apocalyptic scene of "True Word Extremity Hall being imprisoned in the Five Mirrors," as if the entire universe had been imprisoned by the gods in a black mirror!
The high-ranking disciples of the True Word Extremity Hall stood beneath the nine-layered altar array, their souls trembling and their faces pale, yet not one of them retreated.
They understood—this was the final, deadly sealing formation of the True Word Extremity Hall.
Because what they were facing was the one who was about to fall from the dome:
That Lord of the Annihilation Abyss, who "World-Covering with cyan light" and "Soul Annihilation with Blue Ring";
That "Fate Soul Seal Bearer" who uprooted the eight main halls and silenced the Heavenly Dao with a single thought;
The Source of Epochless, the Western Region Border, a Hundred Miles Beyond the True Word Extremity Hall, the Zeroth Still Domain
The void, originally Silent Void, was now filled with the aftershocks echoing from the distant array of five intersecting mirrors.
But the next moment-
Between heaven and earth, a tiny blue light, like a spark deep within a galaxy, gently appeared in a void where time seemed to stand still.
This faint blue light was like a glimmer of light on ashes, not even detectable by time and space.
However, just one breath later, the entire "hundred-mile void" suddenly trembled!
The azure starlight expanded, multiplied, disintegrated, and merged in space at an incredible speed.
In the blink of an eye, an Azure Ring Star Abyss, hundreds of millions of feet long, swept out from the void like a divine imprint!
The azure light surged like a vast ocean, covering everything from the heavens to the earth's veins, from the surface of dimensions to the depths of destiny, forming a dreamlike encircling sea. Within every inch of light lay countless runes and world-constructing chains, shining with the most ancient power of the Annihilation Lord from the Epoch Origin.
Then--
That majestic figure, with one ring representing the sky and one stroke representing the soul, slowly appeared at the very center of the Azure Ring.
He neither touched the ground nor fell into the air; with only a wisp of green light, he stood atop the entire world.
--Qin Yu, Gui Lin.
There was no physical body beneath his feet, only a "Constellation of Annihilation" woven from ninety-nine layers of encircling Fate Soul light, supporting his every step.
Behind him, there were no battle flags, but countless soul shadows slowly rose—
Those were the enemies he had wiped out Annihilation Abyss Epoch, the races he had personally eradicated, reflected behind his divine consciousness like a mirror of ghostly light, enhancing the brilliance of his soul!
His body was surrounded by a waterfall of azure light, which reflected fifty-six kinds of primordial incantations such as Soul Annihilation, Severance, Sealing Boundary, Breaking Era, and Returning to the Wheel. Even the Source of Epochless was briefly paused when he appeared in the world!
Just as he took his ninth step, a streak of azure lightning flashed across the entire Epoch Origin sky, followed by an eye of intertwined blue and green, which slowly opened from between his brows.
In an instant, the storm ceased, the Heavenly Dao fell silent, and beyond the Five Mirrors, the Primordial Spirit and soul senses of those across billions of miles of territory all felt a tremor in their hearts, and involuntarily murmured to themselves:
"Azure Ring... he's here."
In this moment of silence, at the center of the Five Mirrors Formation in the distance, the super formation constructed as the "Sealing Lock of the Epoch Origin of Time" finally seemed to sense something about to destroy it. The formation's incantations twisted, the mirror surfaces trembled, and the divine chains faintly cracked...
Qin Yu merely looked up.
His eyes shone like stars, like celestial monuments illuminating the world, surrounded by a blue light, and he slowly uttered four words:
"The barrier here can be broken."
Within the Five Mirrors Grand Array, the Myriad Realms Inscription Array, Soul Sealing Divine Incantation, Consciousness Sea Chains, and Severed Construct Spirit Field that seal the Heavenly Domain have been fully activated. The entire True Word Extremity Hall, together with the array connecting the other four Great Divine Palaces, forms a divine lock seal that can isolate the impact of an era.
Within the core area of this boundary-sealing array, hundreds of thousands of disciples were densely packed together.
They came from the seed-born individuals of destiny within the [Fate Que Hall].
Students of construction techniques from [Fate Cause Spirit Tower]
Enforcer of spells from [Law God Origin Court]
The Book of Fate Observer from [Epoch Book Sealing Abyss]
And the main lineage warriors and soul creators of the True Word Extremity Hall.
They wore soul crowns, chain armor, stood on inscribed altars, and wielded spirit pens, law implements, divine hammers, and cursed chain blades.
Logically speaking, they are the generation of young people below the Source of Epochless possess the greatest array power and the greatest control over the rules of the universe.
But—the instant that beam of light, both azure and blue, entered their vision, all eyes seemed to freeze on the tiny specks of starlight, a blend of azure and blue, in the sky above.
A disciple exclaimed in shock, "He... he really is Qin Yu? Wasn't he said to be no more than Consciousnessless Middle Stage?!"
"I can't see through him... I can't sense him... My spiritual sense has failed!!"
"He just stood there, and the trajectory of my destiny in my mind's sea appeared broken!"
"That... is it the power of the Azure Ring?! Or... the power of the Blue Ring?!"
"Isn't he the Annihilation Lord? Isn't he that... legendary being from the Annihilation Abyss Epoch who couldn't possibly survive?! How could he...?"
Fear, trembling, doubt, and regret fell like icy rain into the hearts of every disciple within the formation.
Those disciples who were once arrogant and aloof, looking down on all foreigners, now had fear and disbelief written all over their faces.
They didn't know why Qin Yu, despite not having reached the Primordial Void Realm, could annihilate the Returning Consciousness God Lord and destroy the Annihilation Origin Races with a single blow;
They couldn't understand why that azure light contained the aura of an "undefinable" being;
They could hardly believe that the Lord of the Annihilation Abyss, once wanted and despised by the Temple of Truth, was now the greatest threat to this Epoch Origin...
"He... is not from the No Consciousness Realm at all... he is... an existence beyond our comprehension..."
Within the array, a young disciple of the Law God Origin Court trembled and knelt on the array platform. This kneeling posture instantly spread like a plague; one person knelt, then a hundred, and thousands of disciples trembled in fear, their eyes filled with an instinctive submission mingled with Fate Soul, as they gazed at the figure slowly descending from the heavens, who, before even making a move, had shattered the aura of the Heavenly Mirror.
Qin Yu finally arrived at the core of the Five Gods Temple's sealed boundary.
The lingering echoes of fear spread endlessly beneath the array.