The Crystal Core Appears · The Map Fragment Returns to Its Master
Between heaven and earth, the sword's edge, interwoven with darkness and flowing light, continued to spread, annihilate, and echo. That was the true release state of the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword [Silent Track - Extinction of Consciousness Flow] after being suppressed by the logic of the Fate Cause Master Seal. Wherever the sword light passed, the "definition logic" of the root of all skills turned into dust.
At that moment, the mysterious man finally took two steps back, for the first time in a row.
"How is this possible... You actually... cracked the master logic of my 'Order-Cause Reversal Art'?" His pupils dilated, and his tone was no longer as cold and composed as before, but instead filled with uncontrollable astonishment.
Qin Yu's gaze grew increasingly cold.
"You think... disrupting the causal sequence of skill releases will allow you to suppress me?"
With a flick of his right hand, a "mirror-shaped soul wheel" composed of Nine-Ring True Evolution power suddenly appeared in front of him. The light inside the ring spun, and each strand presented a scene of time, cause and effect, dimension, and logic superimposed on each other.
[Fate Cause Master Seal, Cause of Lock, Mirror's Binding Law] -- Begin!
"Freeze your building chain—prevent you from even generating the 'idea' of building techniques."
Suddenly, the "Mirror Binding Soul Wheel" spun around, transforming into a spatial vortex of overlapping ripples that rushed towards the mysterious man!
Wherever the vortex passed, the surrounding void seemed to freeze, and the "conceptual construction chain" seemed to be completely uprooted. Even the new spell that the mysterious man was about to condense was forcibly shattered the moment it took shape!
"Damn it!!!"
The mysterious man roared suddenly, finally unleashing a gray-blue pillar of soul light—his core Soul Arts.
[Reversed Soul Laws: Collapsed Era]!
Boom--!!
In that instant, thousands of gray-blue soul threads emanated from his body, spreading like nerves into the depths of the logic of heaven and earth. Each soul thread pierced into the invisible "causal structure line" in the void, forcibly rewriting the "cause" and "effect" of the current universe fragment, making the skill logic unable to be activated!
"You may be able to see through the logic of skills, but can you break my deliberate severing of the world's causal structure?!"
He strode forward with a maniacal laugh. As the gray-blue soul threads swept through, the void suddenly became extremely unstable, the light of the skills began to distort, and even time itself began to flip and distort.
But— Qin Yu's voice was as calm as ice:
"You're too arrogant."
"You really think my skills rely solely on causal logic in combat?"
"You forgot—I have the [World Enforcement Core]."
Buzz!!!
Deep within the sea of consciousness, the Ultimate core derived from the [Fate Cause Master Seal]—[Fate Cause Master Seal, Destiny Seal, World Enforcement Core]—instantly appeared, and a golden pen stroke that nearly pierced through the deep sea of logic pierced through the Nine-Ring True Evolution!
[Final Prologue: Fate-Severing Question]!
[The Master Book - Cause Severing Name]!
[Fate Trajectory Profiling]!
Three moves in quick succession, each stroke like a judgment!
"I will remove your name from the list of those who created this technique!"
"I refute your logical reasoning!"
"I've already sealed off your next move, which you haven't even unleashed yet!"
The mysterious man's expression finally changed completely. One-third of his gray-blue soul threads were severed, his logical structure collapsed, and he was sent flying backward as if suppressed by a divine seal!
He roared, "You... you control the 'naming right' of skills? You actually possess the Fate Cause Master Seal...!"
"How is it?" Qin Yu took a step forward, and the logic of heaven and earth reversed. A "Realm-Sealing Causal Disc" slowly unfolded behind him, reflecting countless logical derivations!
"Next, you only have one choice—to seek death outside of my techniques."
Boom----!!!
At that moment, heaven and earth completely collapsed!
Centered on Qin Yu's feet, the void seemed to be forcibly cleaved open by an invisible brush, all things were silent, and the "Annihilation Slash Wheel Patterns" formed from the ten combat techniques in [Silent Origin · Tribulationless Chapter] emerged from the void, presenting a brush-like array of "multi-dimensional rewriting", like a logical map of a whole structure of techniques spreading out at the bottom of the universe!
[Silent Origin - Wheel-Breaking Seal]
[Silent Path - Extinction of Consciousness and Transmigration]
[Silent Origin - Eternally Sever the Heavenly Balance]
Three moves, in tandem!
The Nine-Ring True Evolution Wheel vibrated violently in Qin Yu's sea of consciousness, its power of creation surging like a swirling sea of stars. The Purple-Gold Eternal Pole Crystal Core within Qin Yu's body also trembled, releasing outwards a "Limitless Evolving True Flow" like starlight, supplying energy like a tidal wave!
The entire battlefield seemed to be shrouded in an invisible brushstroke, all colors began to peel away, leaving only the boundary line between black and white. At this moment, the [Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword] in Qin Yu's right hand was like a "pen of logical annihilation," drawing a broken chapter on the canvas where black and white met.
With each strike of his sword, a new dimension was severed in the air.
Time shattered, space crumbled, cause and effect collapsed!
The mysterious man gritted his teeth and roared, his entire figure instantly leaping backward. Several [Reverse Soul Law - Collapse Era Cause] attempts were made to unfold across the entire domain, but each one was either directly reversed by [Sever Fate, Cut Off Return] or sealed in advance by Qin Yu using the predictive logic of "Fate Trajectory Profiling".
"How... how could you possibly be one step ahead of me at every step!?" he roared, his eyes filled with resentment and terror.
"Because you're taking a path that defies logic, while I—am writing a [logical origin] that never existed before." Qin Yu slowly raised his hand, forming a final Ultimate gesture:
[Fate Cause Master Seal - Annihilation Construct Authority]!
Boom boom!!
In that instant, the entire battlefield transformed into a vast mirror, revealing the source of all the skill components that the "mysterious man is about to unleash"!
"The conditions for the existence of all your skills, their naming paths, their invocation order, their soul connection... are all determined by my negation."
"Under the Annihilation Construct Authority, you will be unable to construct techniques."
The mysterious man seemed to be torn apart by an irresistible "flow of Annihilation information." His soul was breaking apart and his sea of consciousness was spinning in reverse. He even tried to unleash his trump card, only to find that even the power to "define" had been erased!
"No--!!"
He forcibly burned his soul source, roared, and soared into the sky, summoning a remnant of soul power, intending to use the "remnant self-destruction" to kill Qin Yu.
But--
Qin Yu remained expressionless, his fingertips twitching slightly.
[Azure Ring, Second Form: Realm-Severing Silent Light] -- Slash.
A blade of silent light, stretching across the sky, like a cold, annihilating judgment, swept across his palm!
That Soul Realm —just before it exploded, was severed directly from the source of time!
There was no process.
There is only one outcome— the Soul Realm never existed.
"You... you... who exactly are you...?"
Puff--!
Before the mysterious man's consciousness collapsed, he spat out a mouthful of blood, his face turning Ultimate pale.
The next moment, it was completely dark.
It was as if light had never existed.
The mysterious figure took a silent step forward, his body tattered, yet suddenly unleashing an indescribable, ethereal glow. The next instant, his pupils completely dissipated, leaving only a black mark traversing his sea of consciousness—
"My Innate Martial Soul— [Annihilation Abyss Soul-Breath Realm]."
Boom!!!
An invisible behemoth slowly emerged from behind him—neither beast nor spirit nor human, but an abyssal self composed of a distorted stream of soul consciousness. It had no face, no body, only constantly twisting fragments of the concept of existence pieced together. Behind it was a disintegrating causal diagram!
[Annihilation Abyss Soul-Breath Realm]:
It can devour the enemy's consciousness and soul information, completely annihilating all of the enemy's "skill settings, logic chains, and basis for existence";
It belongs to the "Soul Consciousness Existence Definition Erasure" type of martial soul. Once fully constructed, it will form a self-domain level anti-construction logic.
Function and Effect: Soul source reversed, techniques erased, Existence Returns to Stillness!
The mysterious man roared!
"Soul Annihilation and Consciousness - Ultimate Skill: [World Collapse - Consciousness Devouring Origin]!!!"
In an instant, the [Annihilation Abyss Soul-Breath Realm] twisted and rose, the sky transformed into the Soul Sea, time became ripples, and the entire battlefield was plunged into—
Silence! Causelessness! Selflessness!
All existing logic began to be devoured, bit by bit.
Even the Annihilation Abyss starlight behind Qin Yu was collapsing!
"With this strike, I exhausted my very essence, utterly devouring you into nothingness!!"
But—just as the mysterious man was about to launch his attack.
A soft murmur seemed to come from the beginning of the universe.
"Above Annihilation, Fate-Cause is redefined."
Qin Yu's divine sense permeated his entire body, and the logic behind all skill combinations was instantly recalled!
First layer: [Fate Cause Master Seal, Star Tracing, Mirror of Return]!
Tracing back the chain of enemy techniques, we accurately pinpointed the root node of "Boundary Collapse - Knowledge Devouring Elements"!
Second level: [Silent Origin - Eternally Sever the Heavenly Balance]!
Sever the enemy's skill's balance in constructing "consciousness and causality," causing it to begin to self-collapse!
Third layer: The Azure Ring has moved!
[Azure Ring - Super Awakening - Part 1: Return to the Silent Realm Returns to the Beginning - Fate's Existence Completely Covers All]!
Boom!!!
The entire battlefield--
First, it fell into a state of "conceptual stillness"!
All sound vanished, all light extinguished, all aura froze, and even the mysterious figure's [Annihilation Abyss Soul-Breath Realm] slowly disintegrated into fragments like a painting from a higher-dimensional perspective...
Following closely behind--
All five moves at once!
A single, Realm Breaking slash descended, cleaving the twisted soul in two;
With a single stroke of the Brush, the causal path of one's cultivation is severed from the very source of the soul;
With a single Shatter Soul Consciousness disintegrated all the resonance points of the soul consciousness into nothingness particles;
The first move of the Sever the Art's Beginning completely altered its "Boundary Collapse - Consciousness Devouring Origin" technique source;
The One Form Corrupt Heaven's Cause, completely Annihilation the "Spiritual Cause, Consciousness Cause, and Fate-Cause" upon which its existence is based!
Finally, an Azure Ring Rift Realm appeared directly above the battlefield, transforming into the "Black Ring of Life Silence," slowly pulling the mysterious man's remaining soul consciousness inch by inch into it...
"What is this... what is this?!"
"You... you shouldn't... exist..."
He roared, struggled, and howled, but the Soul Annihilation fluctuations within the ring had already stripped him of all ties with the world.
Bang!!! The mysterious person's soul shattered!
The Martial Soul is broken! Its existence record has been erased from the "Silent Realm Opening Chapter"!
-- Annihilation.
The mysterious figure was completely Annihilation within the Annihilation Realm Rift Ring. Even the "definition of existence" was reduced to fragments and erased inch by inch from the domain of destiny. The battlefield was deathly silent, and countless spacetime cracks appeared in the void due to violent distortion. The starlight dimmed, and the soul power was like mist.
At the center of the ruins where the mysterious man vanished, a faint light quietly shone against the ripples of annihilation.
That was a crystal core.
It slowly rose from the void rift, as if it were a remnant of some destiny that had been arranged long before the mysterious man's death, hovering quietly in mid-air, seemingly watching Qin Yu silently.
The crystal core is shaped like a "thirteen-prism" and its overall color resembles "ancient soul annihilation copper". The surface pattern is constantly flowing with inscriptions originating from an unknown ancient era, while a wisp of pale green light meanders and rises deep in the center, like a "broken chapter of fate" being rewoven against the current.
Three halos appeared on the outer layer of the crystal core, each containing a wisp of a fractured "space-time rift," within which faint remnants of broken maps flowed, forming some kind of mysterious fragment of existence.
Qin Yu stared intently, his mind reeling. "This is...?"
He slowly raised his hand, mobilized the power of his sea of consciousness, and drew upon the aura of the Annihilation Demon Flame within the Azure Evolution Core, causing it to transform into a wisp of black-gold crack chain that flew out from his fingertip, hooking the crystal core like a shooting star.
In an instant, the crystal core flew into his palm and trembled violently!
The world suddenly changed; the surrounding space began to collapse inward, as if time had reversed, returning to the "empty realm" before birth.
In the void, a fragment of a broken ancient map appeared under the sensing of the Azure Evolution Core.
The fragment of the image was in the shape of a semi-circular wheel, covered with "causal seals and Soul Annihilation curses". However, in response to the two fragments in Qin Yu's sea of consciousness, it slowly rotated on its own, resonating with the radiance of the first two fragments!
Boom!!!
The three ancient images merged together in the sea of consciousness, radiating a light curtain as brilliant as a galaxy!
A line of text appeared on the light screen:
[The Realm of Primordial Echoes - Three Images Combined, Reflecting the Main Path of the First Chapter]
Then, the nine-layered patterned halo expanded within Qin Yu's sea of consciousness, each representing:
Logical origin axis;
Astrological marks and traces;
The ancient road was blocked off in fragments;
Focus of Spiritual Sense imagery;
Void-breaking passage;
The key to the Time Wheel Reversal Formation;
The core of the boundary construction proposition;
Gate to the Sealed Realm of Annihilation Abyss;
All of these constitute a single logical chain leading to the true "Realm of Primordial Echoes"!
The moment the three diagrams merged, the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel within the entire sea of consciousness began to tremble slightly on their own, as if the power contained within the diagrams themselves was shaking the very foundation of one's destiny!
At this moment, Azure Ring trembled slightly, her voice like a sob. "... The power of this map... is more ancient... more profound... than any fragment of the Destiny Domain I know... as if it existed before Annihilation, born from the beginning of the Dao...[Primordial Construct Domain]..."
Qin Yu quietly absorbed the third fragment of the map into his sea of consciousness, then slowly stored the "mysterious crystal core" into the Azure Evolution Core, muttering to himself:
"The rest is up to us to wait for the second map to appear."
Silence returned. Qin Yu's figure transformed into a streak of light, darting out of the ancient tree's ruins. The rifts in the Annihilation Abyss left by the battle slowly closed, while the fragments of the "Ancient Soul Inscription Tree" still swayed in the wind, as if aware of a true master of Fate-Cause—
They are embarking on a path of no return.