Asura Soul Prison · Blood Vortex Devours Life

The surrounding void trembled violently amidst the roars of countless Annihilation Source Realm demons. The ghostly gray soul energy swept in like a tsunami, compressing the space within a radius of several hundred feet into a viscous dead zone. The pupils of each demon were a deathly white light, and the annihilation energy they spewed from their mouths cut through the air like blades, even gnawing open the gaps in space.

Qin Yu's expression darkened. He raised his hand and drew the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword into his palm. With a horizontal slash, the Azure Ring between his brows suddenly burst forth with annihilating light. As the ring spun, dozens of azure light chains fell like meteors, instantly freezing the souls of more than ten little ghosts in mid-air. At the same time, the sword slashed downwards, and the [Silent Origin - Boundless Ashes] erupted with a roar, transforming into a torrent of Annihilation fire that devoured everything, directly cutting a gap in the blockade.

Almost simultaneously, the Sole Book Soul Domain behind Wang Yuan suddenly unfolded, and ten thousand scrolls of ink books surged like a sea. The ink-colored characters flowed and formed an array in the void. With a low shout, "Book Turns - Severing the Path and Sealing Off!", countless characters severed the energy connection between the little ghosts like sharp blades, temporarily cutting the encirclement on both sides into a vacuum zone.

The two forces combined at that moment, and the gloomy death tide in front of them was cleaved open, creating a gap just wide enough for the two to pass through. The Azure Ring Annihilation Light and the Ink Book Soul Domain intersected at the edge of the gap, forming a repulsive force that temporarily forced back the approaching little ghosts.

Qin Yu whispered, "Let's go!"

Without hesitation, Wang Yuan used the Annihilation Step technique, transforming into two streaks of light that pierced through the air alongside Qin Yu. Taking advantage of the gap not yet closing, they forcefully broke through the first wave of impact.

Behind the breach, the howls of the imps were already gathering again, and the dark gray tide surged once more, like an angry abyss chasing its prey—but at least, the first line of defense had been torn apart by them.

The eerie gray deathly realm erupted into chaos at that moment. The howls of the imps shook the void as if its eardrums were bulging and tearing apart, and spatial rifts meandered and spread in mid-air, like wounds ripped open by an invisible giant hand, from which surged a torrent of pitch-black chaotic mist. The mist churned in the eerie light, transforming into countless distorted human faces and phantom images of skeletal remains, accompanied by shrill cries and laughter that assaulted the senses, as if the entire world had turned into a living hell.

Qin Yu stood in mid-air, the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword stretching across the sky like a rainbow. The annihilating radiance emanating from the sword resembled a star exploding at close range, illuminating the entire battlefield. With each strike, the air was instantly sucked away, and the sonic boom transformed into pale shockwaves, tearing the charging demons into countless dust particles. His Azure Ring spun to its Ultimate between his brows, and with each flash of the ring, a ripple of Annihilation exploded in the void, obliterating the souls of the dozen or so demons as if they had never existed.

At this moment, Wang Yuan's Sole Book Soul Domain was pushed to its Limit —a vast expanse of ink-black scrolls hung in the sky, cascading down like a waterfall. Each page turned was accompanied by the roar of ink-black lightning. The lightning was not ordinary electricity, but the light and flames that exploded after the soul's origin was forcibly engraved into runes. Instantly, it froze an entire area of little ghosts into ink-black sculptures, and then shattered them in the next second, turning them into a rain of words that scattered into the void.

Boom--!

A gigantic demon, ten times the size of an ordinary imp, suddenly burst forth from the ground. Its grayish-white bone wings tore through the mist, swooping down with an annihilation whirlwind. Its eyes were like two flowing black holes, capable of draining the soul fire of any living being with a single glance. Qin Yu coldly snorted, his sword flashing as the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword and the Azure Ring [Annihilate the Soul and Draw the Dawn] erupted simultaneously—the ring of light transformed into a blue starry river, locking the gigantic demon's soul and dragging it into the cracked realm of Annihilation. In the next instant, it turned into countless scattered fragments of light, swallowed by the annihilation fire.

Above ground, thousands upon thousands of imps had turned into a sea of ashes and shadows, yet new hordes of imps continued to surge in from spatial rifts, the abyss beneath the earth, and even the dark side of the void. Each bombardment was like plucking the heaviest note on the strings of death's harp—light and shadow, shattered bones, soul fire, and annihilation intertwined to create an endless scroll of slaughter.

The surrounding sky darkened completely, leaving only sword light, ink lightning, annihilation fire, and soul rain intertwining in the void to form a magnificent and breathtaking battlefield mural, as if at this moment, even heaven and earth were forced to witness this endless feast of slaughter.

Just as the second wave of slaughter was forcibly suppressed, a muffled roar, so deep it sent shivers down one's spine, suddenly came from the ground, like some ancient behemoth awakening in the Netherworld. The cracked earth's crust suddenly bulged, and what spewed out was no longer an ordinary imp, but a ghost general at the Annihilation Source Realm · Middle Stage —its body rose from the ground like a mountain, its bony carapace engraved with patches of pitch-black soul incantations, each incantation radiating fluctuations of corrupting logic, causing the void to undulate and distort as if scalded by boiling oil.

Its pupils burned with purplish-black soul fire. The moment that light shone upon it, the air within a hundred miles instantly froze. All the imps whose gaze swept over it stopped moving, kneeling in unison, trembling as if welcoming an unparalleled sovereign. Then—

Boom!!!

The ghost general raised the halberd forged from the bones of the underworld. What surged on the blade was not the light of matter, but the pure origin of the "law of annihilation". With a casual swing, dozens of spatial rifts were forcibly cleaved open, turning into dark vortexes that devoured everything, and even the skeleton of the void was collapsing.

Qin Yu and Wang Yuan moved almost simultaneously.

At this moment, the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword was fully unleashed. The annihilating white flames bursting from the sword were like the final flash of a collapsing star, sweeping across the battlefield along the amplified Annihilation pulse of the Azure Ring. Every ray of sword light that struck the Ghost General's armor would explode into a visible ripple of spacetime deconstruction, causing the soul curses around it to peel off piece by piece and scatter like charred ashes.

Wang Yuan's Sole Book Soul Domain transformed into an endless black-gold sky curtain, with countless scriptures rising from behind him and converging into a massive Soul-Severing Seal, directly sealing the causal chains around the Ghost General. As the seal crashed down, the annihilation fluctuations of the Ghost General's halberd instantly froze, as if it had been dragged into an abyss by invisible chains.

The ghost general roared, and soul fire spewed from its seven orifices, transforming into an overwhelming wave of nether flames that swept across the surrounding area, as if to burn the world into a deathly silence.

Qin Yu let out a low shout, Azure Ring spun to its Ultimate, unleashing three consecutive attacks: [No Perception, Myriad Extinctions] stripped the Ghost General of its existence, causing it to be rejected by the world like a corpse; [Realm-Overturning Primordial Cosmos] completely severed its cultivation path, pressing it into the Unborn World; immediately afterward, [Annihilate the Soul and Draw the Dawn] directly pulled its True Soul into the Azure Ring Rift Realm, and a ten-thousand-foot-long sea of annihilation light burst open in the void.

At that moment, the battlefield seemed to lose all color, leaving only an endless clash of white and black. Light and shadow collided to form an exploding annihilation star, which swallowed the ghost general and the thousands of lesser ghosts around him.

As the light faded, only soul dust remained in the air, falling like fine rain. The ground was forcibly sheared away hundreds of feet, revealing Netherworld, abyssal rift valley below.

As the third wave of impact subsided, a deep, Nine Nether horn sound, seemingly piercing the depths of the netherworld, suddenly echoed from the depths of the battlefield. The sound waves did not originate from the air, but rather exploded directly from the depths of everyone's soul—carrying an irresistible summons and suppression.

Immediately afterwards, dozens of cracks appeared to be torn open in the ground by some force, and seven Annihilation Source Realm · High Stage stepped out simultaneously. Each of them was over a hundred feet tall, wearing armor woven from soul bones and Nether Steel, and each had a different "soul bone crown" floating above their head—an authoritative mark they had condensed after killing countless cultivators of the same level. When their feet landed, the earth would collapse into abysses, and the edges of the void would tremble and tear around them like rags.

Without uttering a single word, they simply raised their weapons—some wielding giant axes with a mist of devouring energy flowing along their blades; others gripping ghost bows with long, black-gold arrows formed from the souls of the dead nocked on their strings; and still others raising their bone fists, their knuckles inlaid with soul crystals that spun like stars—each weapon exuding an aura capable of destroying cities and annihilating worlds.

Boom--!!

Seven attacks landed simultaneously, instantly weaving into a light curtain comparable to the Doomsday Judgment—not a single color, but a destructive tide of purple-black, deep blue, annihilated white, and crimson mixed together. Each stream of light carried a soul-consciousness impact and spacetime deconstruction wave capable of annihilating a city.

Qin Yu and Wang Yuan stood back to back in the center of the battlefield, their eyes burning with the same fighting spirit.

The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword was raised high, and the annihilation white light on its blade suddenly compressed into an Ultimate sharp Annihilation rainbow, slashing straight at the first charging double-axe ghost general. The sword light and the axe shadow collided, and the void seemed to be forcibly torn in two. Huge bursts of light spread in the air, like fragments of a supernova falling, each piece trailing a long annihilation tail.

At the same time, Wang Yuan's Unique Soul Domain fully unfolded, and the black and gold scrolls fluttered in the air like thousands of battle flags. The words transformed from the pages into three-dimensional rune arrays, directly locking the causal chain of the two ghost generals' attacks and forcibly delaying their actions for several breaths. In those few breaths, Qin Yuqing's Azure Ring spun rapidly, and with a move of [Overturning the Primordial Universe], he pressed the two ghost generals into the "Unborn Realm," causing their figures to blur and disintegrate in reality for an instant.

But the other five ghost generals had already attacked from all directions. The long arrow of the Netherworld Bow Ghost General pierced through the air, carrying the trajectory of the soul chain, and aimed straight at Qin Yu's brow. In that instant, Qin Yu turned to the side, deflected the arrow with his sword, and the [No Perception, Myriad Extinctions] released by Azure Ring directly stripped the arrow of its "presence", causing it to disappear into thin air during flight.

But on the other side, the Giant Fist Ghost General was already close at hand. Wherever its fist passed, the air was compressed into a mirror-like spacetime layer, and even light was broken. Qin Yu shifted his feet, and the annihilating sword blade countered, clashing head-on with the fist. The shockwave of the explosion directly blasted hundreds of little ghosts around into soul dust.

At this moment, the battlefield became an Asura landscape interwoven with blood and annihilation light—the roars of the ghost generals and the soul fires illuminated the sky above the dark graveyard, while Qin Yu and Wang Yuan wove the only path to survival in this purgatory with sword light and scriptures.

The ghost general's roar exploded in the soul consciousness like a resounding bell, causing many cultivators to bleed from their seven orifices on the spot and stagger to the ground.

Among the treasure hunters who were teleported in, those with slightly weaker Annihilation Source Realm · Initial Stage didn't even have time to react before being turned to ashes by the first wave of soul power. Their physical bodies were first stripped away into scattered light fragments, and then their souls were swallowed up by the Netherfire, turning into the surging black Yin current beneath the feet of the seven ghost generals.

Someone desperately cast a defensive array, dozens of light shields layered upon each other to protect them. But in the next instant, the giant axe ghost general's axe light fell like lightning splitting the sky, Boom--! The entire defense was shattered in one strike, and the person, along with the protective array, was cut in two. Blood formed a long river in the air, which was instantly absorbed by the annihilation aura and vanished Wuhen.

A mid-level cultivator wielding a spear roared as he charged towards the Nether Bow Ghost General. The tip of his spear blazed with dazzling platinum flames, but his attack was instantly entangled by soul chains, losing all momentum. The Ghost General coldly raised his hand and gently squeezed—the cultivator was compressed into a thumb-sized soul crystal, which fell to the ground with a crisp cracking sound.

In the air, several cultivators attempting to escape collided with the soul wave unleashed by the Fist-Strike Ghost General—the soul wave was formless and intangible, yet like a tide sweeping across the starry sea, dragging their figures back to the ground and slamming them heavily into the depths of the rift valley. Accompanied by a deafening sound of bones cracking, their bodies instantly twisted, transforming into shapeless streams of soul matter, which were greedily devoured by the horde of ghosts underground.

The ground was littered with shattered weapons, broken armor, and scattered soul flames—one after another, cultivators of the Annihilation Source Realm fell, their battle cries turning into desperate screams in just a few breaths.

Blood flowed along the cracks in the ground, as if drawn by an unseen hand, merging into the black vortex at the center of the battlefield, becoming a source of nourishment for the demon general's power.

In this hellish scene, only the temporary passage torn open by Qin Yu and Wang Yuan's combined attack continued to flicker with a light that intertwined with annihilation and brilliance—it was the only area that had not been blackened by the ghostly mist.

With each step the two took, dozens of little ghosts turned into soul dust behind them, but in the next instant, even more little ghosts emerged from the cracks and shadows, as if the bottom of the entire cemetery was an endless pool of souls that would never run dry.

At this moment, even the high-level treasure hunters began to panic—they roared as they activated their trump cards, while being overwhelmed by the oppressive aura of the ghost generals.

A powerful expert at the Annihilation Source Realm · Supreme roared and burned his life essence to create a golden divine shadow a hundred feet tall, attempting to withstand the axe light head-on. However, before he could unleash a second attack, the divine shadow was pierced by an arrow and then collapsed with a bang, turning into countless fragments of golden light that were swallowed by the vortex.

At this moment, the entire scene seemed to be cast into an apocalyptic Asura scroll by blood and soul fire—and Qin Yu and Wang Yuan stood in the center of this scroll, the only two who could still resist this hellish tide.