Three Sovereigns Descend Under Pressure · Misaligned Layers of Soul and Sense
The desolate atmosphere of annihilation still lingered all around; scorched earth and Realm Splitting, spatial fragments crawling across the sky like spiderwebs. In the thick fog, Qin Yu lowered his head and said in a low voice, "We must hurry forward. Xiaotong, do you have any other way to directly sense your sister's Fate Soul?"
The Xiaotong pursed his lips, as if desperately trying to remember, then his eyes lit up. "I remember! My sister once said... if I really can't find her, I can crush this Fate Soul Crystal Core in my hand. As long as I crush it, my sister's will emit a strong 'magnetic field laser' in any area of the Mist Soul Severed Realm, shooting directly into the sky."
Chi Ning was overjoyed upon hearing this. "Then what are we waiting for? Xiaotong, quickly crush it! This place is getting more and more dangerous; who knows what else might jump out next?"
"Yes!" The Xiaotong nodded, mustered his courage, and took the Fate Soul Crystal Core out of his pocket.
The crystal core resembles flowing starlight crystals, sealing within it a certain extremely fine Fate Soul frequency. Its outer shell displays complex red and blue intersecting runes, constantly shifting in the dim yellow mist.
"I'll do it." Qin Yu frowned slightly upon seeing this, reached out and took the Fate Soul Crystal Core, his fingertips surging with annihilating power, and slowly injected a force powerful enough to distort space.
"Click... Hmm?"
Qin Yu frowned slightly, at a loss for what to do.
The surface of the crystal core was like countless intertwined components of destiny, its logical blockade so tight that even he, at the Peak Annihilation Source Realm, was helpless against it.
"This thing... I can't even squeeze it?" he said in surprise.
The Xiaotong hurriedly said, "Brother, this crystal core was given to me personally by my sister. Only I can crush it because she set a 'Blood Sense Unique Lock' inside."
Qin Yu glanced at him and handed the crystal core back to him. "Then you do it."
The Xiaotong nodded solemnly, accepted the crystal core, and clasped his hands together in front of his chest.
In an instant, a series of blood-red lines appeared in his palm, like branches of life that never cease to grow, extending from the back of his hand to the surface of the crystal core. On the crystal core, golden patterns and incantations like locks lit up, intertwining with each other and finally forming a miniature "Realm-Breaking Rending Form" rune array.
"Snap!!"
A dull, cracking sound rang out, as if something had not been crushed, but rather a sealed destiny had been detonated.
The crystal core shattered completely, and a dazzling red light shot out from the fragments, piercing the sky like a meteor and soaring straight to the heavens in an instant.
The next second, deep within the Mist Soul Severed Realm, a soul-shaking crimson pillar of light exploded forth from the distant, unknown beyond!
The light seemed to tear apart the entire gray mist space, with endless ripples of Fate Soul within the pillar of light, like billions of Spiritual Sense crying and echoing. Its penetrating power was so strong that it could be directly perceived even from thousands of miles away!
Chi Ning suddenly looked up. "In... in that direction!"
Crimson light pierced the sky, illuminating layers of mist. Distorted and distorted afterimages of souls appeared and vanished like waves at the edge of the pillar of light, as if some deep-seated call from the Fate Soul was guiding them to the deepest and most unfathomable place of the Mist Soul Severed Realm.
Azure Ring's voice also rang out in Qin Yu's mind at this moment:
"... This is a coordinate beacon, and also a breakthrough in logic. That beam of light wasn't 'emitted,' but rather tore open a perceptual barrier that severed some kind of the Mist Soul Severed Realm. You need to hurry."
Qin Yu's eyes flashed, and he muttered to himself:
"The Heart of the Annihilation Origin Severed Realm... should be over there."
They sped toward the crimson soul crystal signal soaring into the sky, traversing the shadowy corridor of the Broken Realm Mist Soul, and finally arrived at the deepest level of the Heart of the Annihilation Origin Severed Realm.
As their footsteps passed the last surging wall of air, the scene before them suddenly changed.
It was a scene from a cosmic abyss that defied conventional understanding.
Ahead lay a vast, flowing waterfall of starlight, like a cascading Milky Way, plunging down from the highest heavens. The waterfall's curtain was formed by interwoven gold and blue light; the water was not water, the light was not light, and every inch of the turbulent flow contained countless fragments of cause and effect and echoes reflected from the Fate Soul.
Before the cascade of light, a figure dressed in black and white stood solemnly gazing upwards. He faced the direction of the source of starlight, as if he were resonating with the entire Heart of the Annihilation Origin Severed Realm in some kind of consciousness.
Behind the waterfall curtain lies the second scene—
It was a Heavenly Road constructed from millions of golden threads and fragments of rules, descending from the heavens and winding its way through the void clouds and the fragmented clouds of the boundary. The golden light was like a woven corridor, just like the fabric of destiny itself.
The core area of the entire Heart of the Severed Boundaries was like a dream, devoid of ordinary objects, with only the flow of light woven from Fate Soul particles, and the boundaries of rules layered like rivers and peaks.
At this moment, the three of them stood quietly before the waterfall.
The Xiaotong stared blankly at the golden-blue light, murmuring, "This... this is the main body of the Heart of the Annihilation Origin Severed Realm... Sister once said that every drop of light here reflects the past lifelines of the myriad souls of the Annihilation Realm."
Chi Ning took a deep breath, a hint of awe in his eyes. "Even the breathing of this space seems to originate from some kind of supernatural will..."
Qin Yu remained silent, his eyes reflecting the river of light, quiet and profound. At that moment, Qinghuan's Azure Ring words echoed within his mind:
"This place... is not the boundary of existence, but the 'memory layer' of the core of the broken boundary. The causes and effects, Fate Soul, obsessions, and even traces of extinction of all those who have lost their way may be slumbering behind that waterfall."
"If she's still alive... it must have been after that."
The ultimate location of the Heart of the Annihilation Origin Severed Realm has already been revealed.
Just as the three were gazing at the core of the Heart of the Annihilation Origin Severed Realm, the void suddenly trembled.
The golden-blue light waterfall, which had flowed like a galaxy, suddenly contracted, and ripples, like the breath of stars, spread out from the depths of space, accompanied by an unprecedented sense of oppression, like the murmur of an abyss, like the awakening of chaos.
The next moment--
From behind the golden curtain deep within the waterfall, three dark figures slowly emerged.
It was neither footsteps nor flight, but rather an existence revealed by the active compression of space, as if the world could no longer bear their concealment and was forcibly pushed out.
The first one Like-Ash Fire-Skeleton King.
His entire body was composed of black, deathly flame bone fragments. He was tall and imposing, and every inch of his bones burned with eerie blue-black flames. These flames were not light, but the lingering flames of obsession left after his memories had been burned away. His eyes were two empty vortexes, like wells that devoured all causes.
Behind it were a pair of tattered, yet still twisting, withered black wings, their edges like fragments of a rhythm torn a hundred times by fate.
The second one, resembling the Abyssal Worm Lord, was coiled up.
Its entire body was spiraling and constantly coiled, its structure resembling neither insect nor soul. Its body was composed of layers of nested black soul cocoons, with blood-red chains wrapped around each link. The chains were densely covered with inscriptions of the rules of the severing boundary—clearly, he had once used the entire Annihilation Origin as a prison, but now he had broken free from that cage.
His face was blurred like a fleeting shadow, his eyes closed, but with each breath, a layer of space would collapse.
The third is the most indescribable of all, the Mist Shadow Crowned One.
He wore a black and gold robe as dark as eternity, beneath which there was no physical form, only the shattered remnants of his Fate Soul constantly reconstructing itself. His head was surrounded by a floating crown, which was not made of physical matter, but rather a "paradoxical loop of observation" composed of dozens of Mieyin, distorted logic, and forbidden rules.
Whenever one's gaze falls upon him, one's thoughts involuntarily become lost, as if his very existence is the embodiment of some kind of "unsolvable mystery."
The three stood before the waterfall, silent, yet the world fell into a deathly silence.
Qin Yu frowned sharply, and the Azure Ring in his sea of consciousness instantly lit up. "Severed Observation Realm... and the Supreme at that..."
Chi Ning took a soft breath, his expression more solemn than ever before. "They... are not native beings of the Mist Soul Severed Realm, but... 'Realm-Wielding Adjudicator Guardians' who infiltrated from outside the Annihilation Origin..."
The Xiaotong was so frightened that he took a step back, almost collapsing to the ground.
The wind stopped, the clouds stagnated, Fate Soul froze.
The three Dark Supreme, the deepest guardians of the Annihilation Origin Severed Realm's core, have quietly made their appearance.
This is an Ultimate blockade, a fight to the death, a battle that can only be fought once.
Like-Ash Fire-Skeleton King took a step, in an instant, the void seemed to be violently lifted up like the ashes of a thousand-year-old furnace. The ghostly blue flames swept up millions of soul shadows and remnants, rushing towards Qin Yu and his companions like a strange curtain. The flames did not burn the body, but they burned the consciousness. They were formed from the obsessions of countless dead souls, carrying fragments of "once existing" imprints—each flame seemed to be the dying will of an existence that had died in endless eras.
Behind him, a pair of withered black wings twisted the logic of space, and with each tremor, the rules shattered like broken mirrors. Ripples of black and blue flames swept out from his bone wings, forming three "Ring of Fate Flame" that rippled outwards, as if enveloping the entire space in a "determined, deathly silence" future.
"This is no ordinary flame breath, it's Flame of Certain Death!" Chi Ning's expression changed, and her Innate Martial Soul [Butterfly Soul Glazed Sound Mirror] suddenly appeared in her palm. The Glazed Sound Mirror flashed, and melodies rose and fell—
Butterfly Soul Glazed Sound Mirror - Mirror Soul Leap!
Buzz!
Millions of sonic butterflies suddenly appeared in the space, forming a semi-transparent sonic barrier in the rhythm of the music, which blocked the flames from the outside. The obsessive flames that were torn apart by the mirror sound turned into broken butterflies in the air and collapsed into ghostly light in the sonic range of Liuyin.
At that very moment, the Abyssal Worm Lord suddenly set out.
He didn't actually walk; his entire soul cocoon body slid into the back of the space like a collapsing vortex, and then leaped out from Qin Yu's side as if the spaces between them had become seamless paths in his eyes.
"Soul Lock Realm Parasitism?"
Qin Yu's brows furrowed, and the [Book of Fate Law - Realm Severing Origin Brush] in his hand was suddenly unleashed!
In an instant, a page of a scroll unfurled in the air, and Qin Yu swiftly wrote, instantly conjuring a skill:
Fate Cause Master Seal, Star Tracing, and Return Mirror
Tracing the origins of skills reveals the starting point of logic!
Space froze in an instant, reversing the trajectory of the Abyssal Worm Lord's "space-smuggling" back to its starting point, as if time were rewinding. Simultaneously, a round mirror appeared from the void, reflecting the Insect Lord's contorted posture as he rose—
"It's settled."
Qin Yu gave a cold shout, and the law of orbit in the mirror forcibly pulled him back to reality. Before the Abyssal Worm Lord could even attack, he was bound in place by the logic he had constructed, unable to move.
But before Qin Yu and Chi Ning could catch their third breath, the third being—the most unpredictable [Mist Shadow Crowned One]—finally made his move.
He did not move, yet the "logic of existence" had already influenced everything around him.
Suddenly, thousands upon thousands of inaudible whispers echoed in the void—the reverberations of causality being torn apart, the self-expansion of the forbidden rules in reality. The floating crown above his head began to spin, like a black hole of logical paradox, pushing the entire space into an indescribable chaos.
Qin Yu's sea of consciousness trembled violently!
"It is Observation Rejection Domain —it cannot be looked at directly, cannot be written about, cannot be recorded, otherwise its logic will collapse!"
Almost instantly, Qin Yu activated the "Silent Principle Void Annihilation Scripture - Silent Wheel Dawn Extinction"!
A radiant light of annihilation expanded from beneath his feet, and the entire space was instantly swallowed by a rule without preconditions. The enemy's logic collapsed because it relied on "observation and definition"!
"Dawn's Demise - The Realm of Severing Consciousness!"
A burst of light pierced through the spatial rift, illuminating the crowned figure and instantly throwing his paradoxical crown into chaos. The causal and forbidden logic surrounding it clashed and collapsed!