Beneath the vast sky surrounding the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm, time flowed slowly, the oppressive atmosphere rising and falling with the very breath of the realm. At the forefront of the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall's array, an Annihilation Dawn Realm Supreme Elder, whose aura was as profound as an abyss, slowly stepped forward. His gaze was unwavering, seemingly able to pierce the very souls of every disciple, and his voice echoed like a celestial bell in the sea of consciousness among them—
"Disciples, on this journey to the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm, you may form your own teams or act alone. However, your safety must be your top priority. Do not risk your lives for the sake of seeking opportunities. Although this mystic realm holds endless treasures and inheritances, it has also buried countless bones."
His gaze swept over the thousand core disciples, paused slightly, and his tone suddenly turned serious, as if striking a chord in each of their hearts.
"If attacked by disciples from other temples, immediately activate the black flag, and we elders will arrive at the scene as soon as possible. Remember—only by living can you talk about opportunities!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the elder of the Annihilation Dawn Realm raised his hand and waved it, causing ripples to spread across the void—the pulse of the passage into the secret realm. Countless core disciples looked solemn, but in the next instant, the scene became lively.
Some immediately sought out their former companions, and several huddled together to discuss in hushed tones; others, alone and indifferent, flapped their wings and soared into the unknown depths of the desolate wilderness; still others secretly surveyed their surroundings, their eyes gleaming with the light of self-interest and calculation.
Just then, three extremely powerful auras approached from the crowd. These were three core disciples, all at the Supreme the Severed Observation Realm. Their steps were steady, and the oppressive aura emanating from them was like a storm enveloping the surroundings. The leader smiled and cupped his hands, his tone calm yet carrying an undeniable weight:
"Senior Brother Qin, this place is fraught with danger. Why don't we team up and explore for opportunities?"
The other two chimed in, "That's right, with Senior Brother Qin here, our chances of winning are much greater."
No sooner had he finished speaking than a familiar figure stood beside Qin Yu — Wang Yuan. His gaze was calm and steady, his voice even yet filled with trust. "Senior Brother Qin, what do you think?"
Qin Yu glanced at the three, his gaze sweeping over their auras and spiritual fluctuations, and he already had a plan in mind. He didn't say much, but simply nodded slightly, a sharp glint flashing between his sword-like eyebrows.
Deep within the void, the entrance to the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm, like a lurking beast, quietly awaits their entry—there, opportunity and danger will intertwine in an instant.
Beneath the sky of the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm, the sound of the wind seemed to be swallowed up, replaced by a heavy silence that made it hard to breathe. Qin Yu and his group of five soared through the air, crossing endless dark mountain ridges and canyons covered with gray bone dust. The terrain beneath their feet gradually sank, and a wasteland that looked like the end of the world slowly unfolded in their field of vision.
The earth looked as if it had been scorched by countless apocalyptic fires and eroded into withered bones by the cold, desolate winds, its color a mixture of gray and charred black, like the skin of the dead. The ground, crisscrossed with cracks, seemed to have been cleaved open by the claws of an ancient behemoth, and from the bottomless fissures, occasionally, eerie green phosphorescent flames would emerge, like the howling of the dead souls trapped underground.
Ahead stood a colossal, long-dead, blackish-gray tree, its roots, like coiled serpents, winding and covering the entire valley. Its branches were broken, the remaining bone-like veins stretching towards the sky, as if praying to the heavens, or perhaps cursing the living. At the base of the tree, a broken, dry riverbed meandered down, its parched surface littered with massive dragon bones of varying sizes, all exuding an aura of Ultimate decay and death.
At the end of the river, a vast clearing came into view—there lay a colossal skeleton, its wings torn into countless fragments, its massive head bowed, its horns curved like a crescent moon, its eye sockets as black as abyss, as if even in death it could still drag one's soul into Endless Abyss. Its scales were covered with mottled ash and cracks, each fissure from which flowed congealed dark red blood, seemingly telling the intruders of a battle that once tore the heavens and earth apart.
Above, the dim, yellowish light was suppressed like a dying oil lamp, and thick, dark clouds churned with ripples of blood and ink. Occasionally, a deep purple bolt of lightning would silently flash by, outlining the entire desolate landscape with an eerie chill. The air was filled with a smell that was a mixture of rust, rotting flesh, and ancient dust, as if even breathing could gently wear down one's soul.
And deeper still, it seems, an ancient, dormant will, yet poised to awaken at any moment, is watching them...
Qin Yu and his group of five paused slightly in mid-air. Even the three at the Severed Observation Realm · Supreme involuntarily slowed their flight speed.
At that moment, they all felt a chill that penetrated to the bone—not from the temperature, but from the illusion of being "stared at."
Around the clearing where the dragon's remains lay, the wind swirled silently, carrying the ashes, broken bones, and fragments of dragon scales that floated slowly in the air, as if drifting in an invisible current. The trajectory of each fragment as it spun in the air seemed to be meticulously controlled by an unseen giant hand, forming a near-perfect vortex.
Qin Yu's gaze fell upon the dragon's remains. In that instant, he clearly saw—deep within those long-empty eye sockets, a faint, eerie green light flashed and disappeared, like the pupil of some ancient being confirming the location of its prey.
Immediately afterwards, a sound wave like a deep thunderclap resounded deep within everyone's consciousness, devoid of any emotion, yet like an ancient judgment:
"The living... should not set foot in this place."
Boom--
The air around the dragon skeleton collapsed instantly, as if space itself had been suddenly emptied. Giant trees, riverbeds, and rift valleys simultaneously emitted teeth-grinding cracking sounds. Countless dragon bones, broken swords, and shattered armor were swept up in the ash storm, transforming into a death vortex that blotted out the sky and swallowed the entire valley.
The cracks in the ground instantly expanded into a huge abyss, from which gushed out a stream of mist mixed with gray and black, within which countless blurry figures stretched out their arms, as if trying to drag everything into it.
Each surge of fog causes a brief disorientation in one's consciousness, making time, space, and all senses seem to lose their meaning.
Qin Yu slowly grasped the hilt of the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword. The aura of the Azure Ring surged quietly in his sea of consciousness. The faint azure light met the dark green light, as if the curtain of slumber was about to be torn open.
And that ancient will, at this moment, was finally fully awakened...
The eerie green light suddenly burst forth from the depths of the dragon's eye sockets, like a star that had been suppressed for billions of years exploding, breaking free from the constraints of time and space.
Boom--!
The world suddenly darkened, with only a dark green tide of light bursting forth from the dragon's remains, like countless torrents of light tearing through the air and slicing through the sky. The clouds above the valley were instantly shattered, transforming into hundreds of swirling dark tornadoes that intertwined and crisscrossed each other in the high sky, emitting a roar like ten thousand iron cavalry galloping.
The dragon skeleton began to move--
It was a terrifying sight that defied all reason.
Each section of the dragon skeleton assembled with a crackling sound, like a giant castle being slowly reassembled; when the cracked dragon wing skeleton opened, the resulting bone wind was like an ancient hurricane, directly blowing away hundreds of feet of surrounding rocks and ancient trees, and forcibly shearing off a layer of the ground.
Eerie green soul flames erupted from the cavity inside the dragon's skeleton, flowing throughout its body like countless fine veins of light, outlining a complete— the Undead Annihilation Abyss Dragon.
It was a monster composed of bones, soul fire, causal chains, and spatial rifts. With each breath it took, large areas of the void would crack; with each blink it would send hundreds of spatial rifts shooting outwards, like blades slicing through the sky.
A roar exploded!
This was not a sound, but a vibration of the rules. Invisible ripples spread from the mouth of the Undead Annihilation Abyss Dragon, sweeping across dozens of miles—the colors of the sky were instantly stripped away, turning into a deathly gray-white, and the shadows of all things were stretched and distorted, as if being sucked into Endless Abyss.
Qin Yu and his group of five were instantly blasted back. The rocks beneath their feet turned into light fragments the moment they touched the ripples and vanished into thin air.
The three core disciples at the Severed Observation Realm · Supreme simultaneously darkened, their "Nonexistence Form within their bodies being bound by an extremely domineering chain of cause and effect, temporarily losing their concealment properties.
The Undead Annihilation Abyss Dragon raised a gigantic claw made of bones and soul fire, and slashed down fiercely in the direction Qin Yu was located.
Before the claws even landed, the void was torn into five enormous spatial rifts, their interiors churning with eerie green ghostly flames and invisible storms of rules, as if even light itself was being swallowed up.
The Azure Ring between Qin Yu's brows suddenly lit up, and the Annihilation fluctuations of the ring blade spread like ripples on the water's surface. The moment it collided with the eerie green, spacetime collapsed violently, unleashing a chaotic energy surge powerful enough to destroy the entire valley.
Bone fragments, soul flames, spatial debris, and countless specks of light intertwined in the air, pouring down like an apocalyptic meteor shower.
But the battle has only just begun.
Before the roar of the heavens and earth had subsided, the mountain-like bone wings of the Undead Annihilation Abyss Dragon suddenly flapped, creating a storm that swept up the Netherworld energy within a radius of dozens of miles, turning the entire battlefield into a pitch-black dead zone.
The void beneath Qin Yu's feet collapsed instantly, his robes fluttered wildly, and a ring of azure-gold Annihilation light suddenly erupted from the Azure Ring between his brows, like a ring of stars flying out of his sea of consciousness.
"Azure Ring ·One Style: Spirit Edge Piercing the Realm!"
A straight, Annihilation beam of light shot out from the Azure Ring. Wherever the beam passed, space was sliced in two, and even the ghostly green soul fire released by the Undead Annihilation Abyss Dragon was forcibly cut in two, swirling to the sides. In that instant, the surrounding darkness was completely torn apart, revealing a deathly gray sky full of cracks behind it.
Wang Yuan followed closely behind, his Soul Brush of the Only Book Realm writing swiftly in the air. With each stroke, a golden page would transform like a stream of light, flying out and turning into a giant character that solidified the void, locking the claw strike of the Undead Annihilation Abyss Dragon in mid-air.
"Sole Book, the Realm Words Book Seal Script!"
The characters instantly transformed into a massive light lock, completely sealing off the space around the dragon's claw. The Undead Annihilation Abyss Dragon let out a deafening roar, and the chains of rules surrounding its bone claw began to break wildly, transforming into countless streaks of black and green lightning that retaliated.
The three core disciples Severed Observation Realm · Supreme also unleashed their full power.
The first person unleashed both palms simultaneously, and a causal galaxy composed of billions of stars appeared behind him. Each star transformed into a high-density, regular meteor, frantically crashing towards the neck bone of the Undead Annihilation Abyss Dragon.
The second person transformed into a dark figure, wielding a semi-transparent Soul Rend Halberd. Each strike cleaved the surface of the dragon's skeleton, creating cracks tens of feet deep, with bone fragments and soul fire flying everywhere.
The third person spread his arms, and the "Nonexistence Form" behind him was forcibly activated. His whole body turned into a blurry phantom, shuttling through the spatial gaps, trying to directly attack the core of the soul flame between the eyebrows of the Undead Annihilation Abyss Dragon.
The Undead Annihilation Abyss Dragon, its rage boundless.
Its wings suddenly closed, forming a Nether Prison Bone Cage constructed of bones and soul fire, sealing all attacks within. The next moment, countless giant dragons woven from causal chains and eerie green soul flames burst forth from the walls of the bone prison, rushing towards Qin Yu and the others. When each soul flame dragon opened its mouth, it spewed not flames, but chaotic streams of time and fragments of space, instantly killing anyone who touched them.
Qin Yu's pupils contracted, and he instantly switched the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword to its Ultimate output state.
"Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword - Sever Fate, Cut Off Return!"
The sword ignited with a silent, pitch-black light, slashing down and instantly severing the causal chains of the three Soulflame Dragons, turning them into shattered fragments of light that dissipated. But more Soulflame Dragons continued to roar and pounce, turning the entire battlefield into a desolate abyss of destruction, a tapestry of eerie green and black gold.
The air was filled with bone fragments, soul fire, spatial debris, broken causal threads, and the Annihilation Azure Ring. Each collision was a catastrophe that could instantly reduce the entire valley to nothingness.
Meanwhile, the soul flame core of the Undead Annihilation Abyss Dragon... burned even more intensely in the deep, eerie green light.