The Consciousness Realm Collapses into the Abyss

Deep within the Fate Severing Gorge, the sound of the wind seemed to have vanished.

The aura of void folds grew increasingly intense in this area. The floating rock fault beneath their feet became unstable, and the light began to exhibit a strange "iridescent splitting" phenomenon—as if every ray of light around them had undergone countless logical refractions, presenting a kind of "cognitive collapse aesthetic."

Just as Qin Yu was slowly passing through a spatial fracture zone with jagged folds, a sudden and violent logical interference appeared ahead!

His "observation field recognition" failed completely at that moment, and all his future predictions and spatial perceptions were rendered useless.

He stopped abruptly, his gaze sharpening, and quietly crept up to a towering cliff, holding his breath as he looked down.

At that moment, he saw a scene... a sight that shouldn't have appeared in the Fate Severing Gorge.

On a ethereal flower platform somewhere in the fault canyon, a "rainbow pillar" that seems to come from beyond the Epoch Origin stands amidst a sea of blooming flowers. The pillar is composed entirely of an unknown "annihilation crystal radiance," within which flow the illusions of countless miniature worlds, as if the trajectories of destiny are flowing backward, reincarnating, and recombining.

Surrounding the pillar sat five women draped in rainbow-colored veils—all of them were alien beings with long ears, their bodies emanating "heartbeat ripples" that did not belong to the logical structure of the Source of Epochless.

One of them was playing the zither. With each gentle pluck of the strings, a rainbow-colored rhythm rippled around them, causing the surrounding space to soften, rotate, recombine, and fold.

The other women surrounded the rainbow pillar, their hands outstretched on the smooth surface, as if communicating, performing a ritual, or manipulating some indescribable power.

And the most shocking thing is--

The logic of each of these people's existence is exceptionally vague. Qin Yu couldn't confirm whether they were "living beings," or some kind of illusionary projection, or even whether they "existed at this moment."

"... This logical density and mapping method... don't seem to be the Source of Epochless should have."

Qin Yu frowned slightly and murmured.

Azure Ring suddenly whispered, "It's not an image... it's immersion."

"They are not projections; they are the core consciousness of a certain world 'projected' into a layer of dead logic within the Fate Severing Gorge."

What you are seeing now is Cross-Realm Sacrificial Sequence —a rite of passage from another dimension.

Qin Yu's expression immediately turned cold, and he began to activate the Silent Beginning Soul Diagram in his mind to assume a defensive posture.

This is not an ordinary illusion, but a process of "dimensional projection" at an extremely high level.

At the core of that rainbow-colored cylinder... there was a faint, Limitless Evolving True Flow, with a frequency extremely close to that of the "resonance factor"!

It was precisely the ripples generated by the remnant core of the Limitless Resonance Crystal Fragment!

"Are they... trying to seize the source logic of the Evolving True Flow fragments?"

Qin Yu's gaze sharpened.

It's time to make a move.

He didn't hesitate any longer.

In her sea of consciousness, Azure Ring had already appeared beside her shoulder, and amidst the shimmering light, she uttered cold words:

"The Dimensional Projectors Bugui to the Source of Epochless. If they are allowed to complete the resonance extraction, the logic of the Fate Severing Gorge will collapse. Let's do it."

In an instant -

The Silent Beginning Ring Master Soul Diagram vibrated and emerged from Qin Yu's sea of consciousness. With a flick of his fingers, the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword appeared in the void with a "hum" from within his Fate Soul. As soon as the sword's edge appeared, a slash like "annihilation of spacetime" cut through the void!

He moved.

With a faint glimmer of starlight, the figure vanished into the subdimensional fluctuations, instantly appearing above the "rainbow pillar".

"The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword - First Form: Sever the Void in a Single Thought!"

He formed a hand seal with his left palm and swung his sword down with his right arm!

Suddenly, a "black and silver rainbow split" appeared and fell from the sky, as if shattering the source of a dream. The originally soft and swirling rainbow light instantly collapsed!

The very idea of space was severed beforehand—the dimensional foundation of the alien projection was completely canceled out in the causal logic the instant before Qin Yu struck!

"Alert!"

The rainbow-colored female voice seemed to awaken her from a dream; two of the five women suddenly opened their eyes, and the woman on the left, who was playing the zither, instantly raised her hand—

Buzz!

A phantom shield constructed from "Dream Spirit Star Patterns" suddenly appeared, shimmering with a protective current interwoven with sound waves and logical light particles.

But it's too slow.

Qin Yu had already made his move before the thought even arose.

Sever the Void in a Single Thought, Does Not Exist opportunity to respond.

"Boom!!!"

The beam of light exploded, and the embedded Limitless Resonance Crystal Fragment overflowed with dazzling light, drifting among the annihilated dust!

The five women instantly dispersed. One tried to recall the remnant core, another emitted high-frequency consciousness waves to try to disrupt Qin Yu's perception, and the third made a hand seal, attempting to reorganize the ritual's logic.

"Don't even think about it."

Qin Yu's cold eyes flashed, and with his left hand, he wielded the Realm Severing Origin Brush, making four consecutive strokes in the void!

Fate Cause Master Seal, Eleventh Form - Star Tracing, Mirror of Return!

"Every thought and every move you make... has a cause."

"Since that's the case—return to the mirror, lock the cause."

In an instant, four mirror-like soul-locking images appeared in the void, each one like an ancient star chart, radiating the power of solitude!

The five women from another dimension froze abruptly as the mirror image fell!

Their action logic was captured, analyzed, and its causes were traced back—forcibly returning to the state of "the technique not yet established"!

"What kind of Soul Arts is this?! He's not even a being above the Chaos Realm!"

"The logic formulas of Source of Epochless can accurately trace causes?! This is not compliant with regulations!!"

Fear finally showed on their faces.

"You don't belong to this logic."

Qin Yu suddenly stepped into the air and descended, his sword flashing once more!

The Third Form of the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword – Sever the Epoch Without a Trace!

"From this place, from this era, from my world—erased."

The black and silver slash descended from the core of the five people's convergence, as if shattering a long river of time. In an instant, all five women were severed by the logic of their Fate Soul and annihilated from the fractured space!

The rainbow-colored cylinder shattered completely, and the fragments and Limitless Resonance Crystal Fragment lingered in the air for a few breaths.

But just as Qin Yu was about to reach out and grab it, the Azure Ring in his Sea of Consciousness suddenly trembled!

"Stop—Don't touch it!"

"Although the remnant core was not completely transformed by them, foreign logic factors remain on its surface. Once it comes into contact with it, it could trigger a cross-dimensional infection, and if it gets out of control, death is inevitable!"

A cold glint flashed in Qin Yu's eyes. He suppressed the urge to take it back, flipped his palm, and used the Boundary Seal Technique to temporarily freeze it in the outer domain of his soul consciousness, sealing it within the barrier of Consciousnessless, pending further purification.

He stood still, surrounded by shattered rainbow light. The otherworldly scene had long since collapsed, and the air was filled with the afterimages of annihilation and the remnants of the Limitless Evolving True Flow.

But the deeper aura of the distant Fate Severing Gorge still lingered faintly...

This battle has only just begun.

The aftershocks of the Rainbow Battlefield had not yet completely dissipated, and the air was still filled with ripples of starlight and the remnants of logic. Qin Yu stood quietly in the center of the broken star platform, slowly turning the sealed Resonance Crystal Fragment core in his palm.

Azure Ring's voice echoed in her mind, "These alien wills... this shouldn't be the first time they've attempted to invade the Fate Severing Gorge. Their goal is clear—to extract the 'original logic core' of the Resonance Crystal Fragment."

"So, they're not looking for the crystal itself, but rather... the causal trajectory behind the crystal?"

Qin Yu's eyes narrowed slightly as he looked into the depths of the distant canyon.

There, a black-silver rift, like a colossal annihilation scar fallen from the sky, stretched between the two mountains, its depths unfathomable. From within the rift, faint "light threads" continuously extended out, weaving together to form a hidden "track"-like logical transmission line.

Those filaments of light emitted precisely --

"The fluctuation of the Wuji resonance factor."

Without any hesitation, Qin Yu instantly stepped into the air and sped along those strands of "resonance trajectory".

Just as he approached the edge of the crack, a deep, ancient roar, seemingly traversing endless ages, suddenly resounded from the abyss—

"Roar--!!!"

A being that defied description by conventional biological forms burst forth.

It possesses a translucent, crystalline bone shell, and its entire body is pieced together from "fragments of a logic diagram." Every inch of its texture constantly flashes with the patterns of Fate Soul and traces of structural techniques, as if it has been reconstructed a thousand times by the power of annihilation!

Its eyes are like two "star-viewing pupils," capable of projecting the caster's soul trajectory onto the void!

[Fate Severing Gorge - Abyss-Rending Observation Beast]

Type: Annihilation Logic Reconstruction Type Beast (Devouring beings that possess construct logic)

Characteristic: Tracks the caster's skill logic, devours its causality, and reassembles it into its own power.

Level: Annihilation Origin - Ultimate (Closest to the logical boundary of Annihilation Dawn)

"It can see the trajectory of your skills!" Azure Ring hissed. "The more you unleash, the faster it devours them!"

Qin Yu remained expressionless as he slowly raised his right palm.

"Then I won't use my 'existing skills'."

A ring of absolutely Space Silence, colorless light suddenly appeared beneath his feet.

Recognition Annihilation Silent Abyss.

The flow of consciousness solidified, and the entire canyon seemed to be shrouded in a "vortex of empty consciousness," dragging Qin Yu's thoughts into an illogical abyss.

And that "Abyss-Rending Observation Beast," which was originally about to project the "Mirror of Fate," suddenly—

"Click--!!"

The projection broke, the skills were locked, and its logic acquisition system collapsed!

It emitted a Soul Rend, but before it could land, Qin Yu's figure flashed, and his annihilated gray soul light was like a knife.

The Seventh Form of the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword - Sever the Spirit Source Abyss!

--One sword seals the source of the soul, one sever destroys the root of the technique!

"Boom!!!!"

The entire body of the beast exploded with the "skill source point" at its core, as if thousands of skills had been reduced to their "initial state before the skill took shape," and were completely annihilated!

Its skeleton shattered into fragments and fell into the abyss. Qin Yu glanced around and saw a remnant line, resembling a "soul dimension light band," leading to the bottom of the canyon in the center of the shattered beast.

Azure Ring said in a deep voice, "That's the dominant flow zone of the resonance crystal... It will lead you to the core of the source region where the crystal is born."

"In other words, the true main convergence point of the Resonance Crystal Fragment —is right below there."

Qin Yu gazed at the abyss of the rift leading to nothingness, his eyes filled with an unprecedented solemnity and brilliance.

The deepest part of the Fate Severing Gorge is calling to him.

Beneath the crack lies an endless abyss.

Qin Yu stepped into the void, and his whole body seemed to be pulled down by an invisible giant hand, but there was no wind, no gravity, and no attraction around him, as if the "existence reference" of the entire world had been forcibly stripped away.

He didn't fall into "space," but rather into "logical hierarchy."

As he descended to a certain level, countless "Fate Chain Fragments" suddenly appeared around him—they were neither memories nor the future, but flowed out from the void like fragments of cause and effect, containing the traces of skills he had never used, moments of battle, and even future scenarios.

Azure Ring whispered, "This is... the Fate Chain Distortion Zone."

"All the skill fragments and Fate Soul intentions that were once conceived, never activated, or rejected will be stripped away and recreated here... forming your own 'Sea of Fate-Cause Remnants'."

The next moment, countless phantom images of "Qin Yu himself" appeared around him.

Some of them unleashed techniques of the Silent Origin, some released Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword · Severing Form that they had never used before, and others attempted to construct the logic of destiny and unfinished fusion techniques. In the hands of each phantom, fragmented remnants of the chain of destiny appeared.

Qin Yu frowned and murmured:

"Destiny Seal - Abyss-Turning Star Platform".

Instead of fighting these phantoms, he summoned his own Fate-Cause control structure, causing all the phantoms to transform into star chains, return to his soul consciousness, and dissipate into nothingness.

Just then, the outline of an undefined life form slowly emerged in the life chain region ahead.

That's not a physical entity, but more like a "blind spot" where countless dimensions of logic overlap.

You saw it, but you couldn't describe it.

You are aware of it, but you can't remember its shape.

It's like a language that's been obliterated, a name that's been deleted, an "unnamed life form" banished from existence.

[Deep within the Fate Severing Gorge - Unnamed Existence]

Logical description: Not recognized by any language, concept, or skill.

Combat Characteristics: Every attack is a projection of the enemy's own logic onto itself; attacking it is tantamount to testing and eroding one's own Fate Soul.

Existence Effect: During combat, your consciousness will be continuously deprived of skill activation until it returns to "initial nothingness".

Azure Ring immediately tensed up. "This thing... comes from the outer region of 'Severed Observation Logic'! We can't fight it with traditional combat methods!"

"If attacked directly, it will recognize you as part of itself and devour your soul."

Qin Yu's eyes turned slightly cold. "Then... just make sure I'm not identified."

He raised his palm, using:

Sever Observation, Leaving No Mirror.

The Ninth Form of the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword erupted, and an absolutely desolate mirror slowly unfolded behind him!

This sword strike was not to slay the enemy, but rather—

Cut off the "projected definition" of "you" in the eyes of the enemy.

In an instant, the unnamed entity experienced a brief period of confusion. It attempted to read Qin Yu's Fate Soul logic, only to find that he "Does Not Exist in the identifiable projection space."

Now!

"Recognition Annihilation Silent Abyss!"

Qin Yu struck again, unleashing two annihilation logic techniques in quick succession, dragging it back into the "Inconceivable and Unknowable" abyss!

The entire Fate Chain Distortion Zone began to collapse, and Qin Yu leaped into the newly revealed "bottom of the Fate Soul's essence."

Ahead, an altar resembling the core of an obsidian star slowly appeared.

In the center, embedded, is a fragment of a partially formed Limitless Resonance Crystal core.

It has not yet been classified as an entity, but is in Threshold logical stage between "construction-annihilation-reconstruction".

Azure Ring exclaimed in a low voice, "This is... the incubation site of the resonance crystal's primary source."

"If we can set up a fusion formation here, we might be able to sense more of the triggering factors for the awakening of the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword ahead of time..."

Before Qin Yu could get close, the surrounding space suddenly trembled.

The third wave of alien beasts is approaching from the multiple Rending Domain of the Fate Severing Gorge via spatial jumps!

They are not guards of the crystal core, but rather summoned by the resonant logic of this place.

Hunt down anyone who gets close!