Void Sea, Time Split · Surge of Fate Construction

The moment Qin Yu stepped into the second level of the Extreme Refinement Tower, it was as if the "observation logic" of the entire universe had been reset. The surroundings were no longer simple void, but a colorless, formless, and boundless sea of consciousness, as if all existence had been stripped of color and texture, leaving only a chilling "pure perception."

Then, this sea of consciousness suddenly trembled—countless pitch-black chains of soul consciousness emerged from the void, like ancient instruments of torture spanning endless ages, each link engraved with cursed inscriptions belonging to no era. These chains had no end; they meandered and coiled, as if trying to forcibly drag Qin Yu's soul out of the sea of consciousness.

At that moment, the sky atop the tower split open like a ripple in silk, from which an endless "cascade of causal light" descended—each ray carrying billions of possibilities, crashing down simultaneously from Qin Yu's childhood to countless future illusions, attempting to make him lose himself in countless versions of himself, so that he could never find his one true "self."

Boom! The first chain, accompanied by a soul-ripping shriek, lashed towards Qin Yu with such speed that Does Not Exist visual "process" whatsoever; it touched his brow in the next instant. The Azure Ring suddenly emitted a cyan-gold halo, deflecting the chain, but the inscriptions on the chain instantly transformed into countless "inverted characters," engraving themselves into the cyan light and forming a reverse erosion.

Beneath Qin Yu's feet, the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel suddenly spun at high speed, like gears in a movie's Limit zoom-in shot, pulling at the surrounding time and space, forcing the chains to slow down the moment they approached him. At the same time, he gripped the Book of Fate Law - Realm Severing Origin Brush in his backhand and drew a stroke in the void—that stroke seemed to carve an insurmountable "absolute chasm" in the Emptiness, forcefully severing the three soul chains that rushed straight at him.

But this is just the beginning.

Suddenly, hundreds of millions of "eyes" lit up the entire space. They were not physical entities, but the eyes of observers from countless parallel universes, endless pasts and futures. Each pupil flickered with different colors and emotions, some with pity, some with hatred, and some with pure indifferent scrutiny. At the same time, they released "existential suppression" on Qin Yu, attempting to erase him directly from the history of this space.

Qin Yu's figure was surrounded by countless intertwined chains and waterfalls of light. In the scene, the radiance of the Azure Ring and the trajectory of the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel intertwined in the void to form a cyan-gold soul domain barrier, resisting the endless erosion from the outside world. Each impact was like a nuclear explosion-level shockwave. The whole scene was sometimes still and sometimes stretched. The light and shadow were constantly shattered and reassembled in Qin Yu's pupils.

As the last chain turned into dust, the causal light waterfall suddenly contracted, and the second level of space began to collapse, turning into countless reverse-flowing light bands returning to nothingness. Qin Yu's figure stood steadily in the center of the collapse, his aura still as calm as a mountain... He had passed the second level of tempering.

The space of the third level of the Extreme Refinement Tower is not like a tower at all, but rather like falling into a high-dimensional battlefield that is even more ancient than the Source of Epochless itself.

The ground beneath Qin Yu's feet was not substantial, but rather pieced together from countless "inverted fragments of mountains and rivers." Each piece floated above a void rift, within which surged Annihilation Abyss beyond the definition of color, as if a single misstep would drag one into an unspeakable abyss of eternal doom.

The sky is a rotating, multi-dimensional ring, each ring carrying a different history and future. As it slowly rotates, the Realm Wheel appear and disappear on the ring surface, like a projector using the universe as its raw material. The overwhelming sense of scale replays the entire process of the universe's birth and death for you in a single second.

However, the real test came from all directions—high-dimensional soul beasts crawled out from the void rifts. They had no fixed form; some resembled giant beasts pieced together from an entire sea of stars, their eyes burning with the death light of billions of stars; others were transparent, their forms constantly flickering and switching between three, four, and five dimensions, and even observing their existence would cause the soul excruciating pain.

When the first soul beast fully materialized, its height obscured two-thirds of the multidimensional star ring. With each breath it took, it caused folds and distortions in space, as if the entire world was being squeezed into a giant transparent vortex.

--boom!!!

The soul beast let out a roar that was not a sound; it was a shockwave that directly affected the "base point of existence." The floating mountains and rivers beneath Qin Yu's feet instantly shattered into tens of thousands of pieces, turning into light dust that was sucked into the beast's mouth. Accompanying the roar, dozens of tentacles, like waterfalls of time and space, suddenly lashed out, each carrying the power to tear apart the world's timeline.

Qin Yu's eyes turned cold, and the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel instantly began to operate at full speed. The Azure Ring in his sea of consciousness shone like the midday sun. He swung the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword with his right hand, aiming directly at the nearest tentacle.

In an instant—as the sword flashed, the void shattered like glass into countless sharp fragments of rules. The tendrils were severed by the sword, and what gushed from the cut was not blood, but a shower of causal fragments, which exploded in the air into thousands of rays of light, illuminating the entire high-dimensional battlefield.

On the other side, two soul beasts simultaneously swooped down, forming a cross-attack, spewing out two completely different streams of destruction—one was the Annihilation Abyss Ice Breath that froze everything, stopping time along its path; the other was the Annihilation Flame Stream that burned the rules of existence, scorching even the void itself into pitch-black cracks.

The space beneath Qin Yu's feet suddenly sank, and he abruptly formed a hand seal with his left hand, releasing [Three Forms of Fate Construction Structure: Cause and Effect Deconstruction] --

All the locked space, energy, and attacks around him shattered into countless fine geometric fragments of light in an instant. These fragments were then forcibly reassembled by him into a barrier that reversed spacetime, directly deflecting the icy breath and fiery currents back. In the scene, the shockwave and the torrent of light fragments devoured each other in the air, like a nuclear explosion tearing between reality and nothingness.

Then, Qin Yu's right eye flashed, and [Time Flow Reversal] was activated—the timeline in the battlefield was torn apart, and some soul beasts were dragged back to their incompletely evolved past forms, causing their combat power to plummet instantly, giving him a fatal opening.

As the Azure Ring spun, he released [Realm-Overturning Primordial Cosmos], directly pressing the strongest soul beast into the Unborn World. In the scene, its massive body was cut into countless "fragments of the unborn Dao" by the halo, gradually disappearing into the Annihilation white light.

The roars of the high-dimensional soul beasts in the third layer gradually weakened, and the rotation of the star rings also gradually stopped. The battlefield returned to deathly silence, with only the dark currents of the Annihilation Abyss churning in the depths of the void...

The fourth level of space felt like a sudden plunge from a physical battlefield into a boundless, silent Silent Abyss. There was no sky, no earth, only colorless seawater all around, yet it neither flowed nor surged, Does Not Exist. Qin Yu stood suspended within it, his ears, mind, and senses all stripped away, leaving only his self-awareness floating in a heavy sense of oppression.

Suddenly, a very thin streak of light appeared deep within the void sea, spreading outwards like a crack. Wherever the light passed, the water shattered into countless crystal fragments, like shattered crystals of time floating in the void, reflecting countless blurry images—some were the afterimages of oneself wielding a sword on an ancient battlefield, some were the solitary figures of an unknown future, and some were even a stranger to oneself, buried at the end of an unknown era.

These images were silent, yet they could penetrate directly into the depths of one's soul, making it impossible to distinguish between illusions and fragments of reality. As the images overlapped, the surrounding seawater suddenly solidified into countless human figures, their faces being Qin Yu himself, but their expressions were either grief-stricken, mad, or indifferent. Each figure carried a different aura, yet all exuded the same killing intent.

In the next instant, these "illusionary images" all raised their hands, their palms unleashing Ultimate energy—some freezing the void sea with the chilling breath of the Annihilation Abyss, some igniting the flames of Annihilation to burn the images, and some directly surging forth with the torrent of time.

Qin Yu's Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel roared and spun in his sea of consciousness, Azure Ring appeared, and its radiance tore through the deathly silence of the void sea. He swung the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword in his backhand, the sword blade piercing through the endless void water, severing the first cold breath that came. The light stream that was a mixture of ice shards and seawater was split into countless causal fragments by him with [Cause and Effect Deconstruction], which then swallowed the three phantoms in reverse.

However, more "selves" were still approaching, and each approach seemed to peel away his existence bit by bit. Qin Yu's mind sank, and he instantly released [Existence Erasure], using the green light between his eyebrows as a guide to spread out ripples. Wherever the ripples reached, the outlines of the phantoms began to become transparent from the edges, and the sound, image, and aura were completely erased, eventually turning into a wisp of light that flowed back into his imprint.

The void sea trembled, and the water suddenly collapsed downwards, revealing an endless abyss paved with starlight. Beneath the abyss, a pair of eyes, more ancient than the world itself, slowly opened, carrying an indescribable pressure. In that instant, Qin Yu felt a strong premonition—this Ultimate test of the fourth level was far from truly beginning.

As those abyssal eyes slowly opened, the colors of the entire void sea seemed to be stripped away by an invisible hand, turning into pure stillness and darkness. Light ceased to exist, sound was stripped away, even Qin Yu's heartbeat and breath were silenced, and the world was left with only a silence that oppressed to the bone.

It was a gaze that transcended sight—as if the entire world were its pupil. In the boundless darkness, billions of tiny chains of laws floated and rotated, each engraved with an ancient mark that had annihilated the universe. In their faint flickering, they were enough to make the birth and destruction of a star unfold simultaneously in Qin Yu's sea of consciousness.

What followed was a giant hand emerging from the abyss.

It is not a physical entity, but rather a condensation of obsidian fragments from the collapse of countless stars and shattered streams of spacetime. In its palm is a vortex burning with a deep green, ghostly flame; each flicker of the flame transforms into a "history of extinction," instantly erasing a portion of existence from the void. Deep within the palm's lines meander the dying whispers of countless beings, overlapping to form an ancient judgment:

"Fate Constructor... I will annihilate you."

The moment the giant hand landed, the void sea surged silently, and the entire body of water transformed into incomparably sharp fragments of time—each drop of water carrying the passage and decay of thousands of years, dragging countless afterimages swallowed by time as it crashed forward.

Qin Yu's eyes suddenly blazed with light, Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel roared, Azure Ring spun and bloomed between his brows, releasing ripples of annihilation and nascent life. Without any hesitation, he simultaneously activated his three core skills:

[Time Flow Reversal]

The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword slashed out suddenly, its blade adorned with countless strands of time light that cascaded down like a waterfall, slicing through the spacetime surrounding the giant palm layer by layer. One half of the palm was regressed to the primordial chaos, while the other half was fast-forwarded to the dust and remnants of billions of years later. Time around it simultaneously boiled and froze. The giant palm's descent was briefly halted in this torn spacetime, and the surrounding void sea was cleaved into countless fragmented moments, like shattered glass floating on a dark river.

[The Realm-Overturning Primordial Cosmos]

The Azure Ring suddenly transformed into an invisible, silent universe, like a black eclipse that swallowed all laws, instantly enveloping the giant hand and pressing it into the primordial void before the birth of all laws. It was a state of Annihilation where even cause and effect had not yet been written—the chains of laws on the giant hand broke one by one, falling into an abyss of no birth Nameless, even its reason for existence was stripped away.

[Existence Erasure]

The green light between Qin Yu's brows suddenly surged, transforming into a spreading halo that extended from his fingertips to the entire void. The outline of the giant hand began to dissolve from its edges, like ink being burned by invisible flames, peeling away little by little into dust, which then turned into countless streams of light that rolled back into the imprint between Qin Yu's brows. Those ashes were not matter, but "the fact that it once existed," which was now completely reclaimed.

But the killing intent of the Eye of the Abyss surged instantly. The entire Void Sea seemed to be turned upside down, transforming into an endless downward vortex, even pulling in the light. Hundreds of millions of whispers from the future, the past, and parallel worlds overlapped into a frenzied roar, dragging Qin Yu and Azure Ring towards the center.

Qin Yu's eyes suddenly narrowed, and he unleashed a powerful attack with a backhand—

[Cause and Effect Deconstruction]

The ripples of destiny instantly impacted the entire void sea, dissecting the foundation of the vortex into floating fragments of causal light. The boundaries of the galaxy, the waves, and the void were cut into countless geometric fragments, which tumbled and reassembled in the air into an inverted mountain and sea barrier. The mountain peaks hung vertically at his feet, the seawater flowed upstream, and the crests of the waves crashed against the boundaries of the void, forming an absolute barrier strong enough to block the power of the abyss.

In the final moment before the collapse of the mountains and seas, the Eye of the Abyss slowly closed, the vortex gradually subsided, and the Void Sea was completely erased. The cultivation platform beneath his feet reappeared, and the trial runes of the fourth level of the Extreme Refinement Tower lit up beneath Qin Yu's feet, the light like flowing divine gold, making his figure appear as cold and aloof as an ancient deity.

Qin Yu exhaled a long breath, and the Azure Ring between his brows dimmed to a faint halo. He knew clearly that if it weren't for the Three Forms of Fate Construction and the Azure Ring working together, he would never have been able to escape unscathed.