The azure vortex expanded once more, as if the entire sky had been torn in two by an invisible hand. A gap with no end appeared in the sky above the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm, and a silent tsunami was surging from the depths of the void.
Hong Xiuxiang's entire Spirit Brocade Book Realm burned to ashes, the pages turning into countless shattered fragments of a scene that fluttered around her, like dying butterflies being constantly crushed by the ethereal green waves.
She suddenly raised the last volume in her hand Sole Book Ultimate Style Soul-Forgetting Brocade Words Record.
The sea of books manifested once more, with billions of spiritual texts crashing into the whirlpool like waves, and a massive array of scenarios crashing down upon the Tower Hunter.
Heaven and earth froze in that instant.
The Tower Hunter's figure was sealed within a sea of interwoven words, each word containing a counterforce that obliterates the logic of the soul. Spiritual culture served as a chain, piercing through its Nonexistence Form and locking it firmly in place.
"--seal up!"
Hong Xiuxiang uttered a single word, blood spilling from the corner of her lips, her aura instantly dimming. She forcefully ignited her soul source, propelling the power of the sea of books to compress and shatter the Tower Hunter's azure vortex bit by bit.
Boom boom boom!!!
The edge of the azure vortex was forcibly torn apart, and the shattered concept transformed into thousands of ghostly lights that fell, smashing through the ground of the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm and leaving behind rift valleys that stretched for thousands of feet.
However--
At the heart of the vortex, a bony hand slowly emerged, its knuckles tracing patterns in the air, as if the very space itself were being gently torn apart like a piece of cloth. The Tower Hunter stepped out from the crack, his azure eyes remaining cold and unwavering.
Hong Xiuxiang felt a tightness in her chest, and was thrown hundreds of feet away, crashing heavily into a cracked mountain wall in the distance. The dull thud of bones shattering echoed in her back. Her vision went white for a moment, and all she could hear was her own rapid but weak breathing.
The Tower Hunter lowered its head, gazing at Hong Xiuxiang, who was kneeling on the ground, blood trickling down her lips. It did not rush to attack, but instead raised a hand, its five fingers gently clenching together—an invisible pressure, like a mountain falling, pressed her firmly to the ground, making it extremely difficult for her to even lift her head.
Despite her chaotic breathing and shattered meridians, Hong Xiuxiang's eyes remained cold and clear. She slowly raised her hand and pressed the last tattered page of the scroll to her heart.
Even if I Annihilation here today, I will still make you... remember my name--
She murmured softly, her voice almost drowned out by the meaningless silence.
Inside the dark, bone-walled passage, Qin Yu and his group of five hurried along the deep path that stretched out through cracks. The surrounding rock walls looked as if they had been gnawed by some kind of superdimensional creature, covered with irregular grooves and grayish-white bone ridges. With each breath, a chilling, deathly breath seeped from the cracks in the rocks.
Suddenly--
Qin Yu's steps suddenly halted, the Fate Construction Seal between his brows trembled slightly, and deep within his sea of consciousness, the third ancient diagram suddenly shone with flowing light. The light patterns spread out like ripples on water, resonating with a certain distant frequency.
--Buzz!!!
In the resonance, a familiar aura broke through the barriers of time and space, directly entering the depths of Qin Yu's soul. It was... the aura of Hong Xiuxiang!
Moreover, he even sensed that the aura was rapidly weakening, as if it were being swallowed up little by little by some invisible abyss.
Qin Yu's pupils suddenly contracted. The flowing light on the third ancient map transformed into a phantom vein, pointing towards the exit at the end of the passage ahead. At the end of that path of light, the phantom patterns of the first ancient map appeared—it was undergoing an unprecedented resonance and fusion with the third map!
"It's her!" Qin Yu whispered, his voice filled with barely suppressed urgency.
Wang Yuan frowned. "Senior Brother Qin, are you saying— the Miss Hong is right outside this exit?"
"That's right, and she's in great danger right now." Qin Yu took a step forward, and the Annihilation Soul Seal Light Wheel quietly unfolded behind him, with surging waves of Silent Origin rolling out like a torrent along the bone wall.
Zhang Bing, one of the two at the Severed Observation Realm, exchanged a glance with the other two at the Severed Observation Realm · Supreme, and they all felt that strange resonance, their sense of crisis reaching its Ultimate.
The five people sped through the passage, their figures transforming into five streaks of light, constantly twisting and leaping through the dark bone spine passage until—
Boom!!!
With a deafening roar as space shattered, the group burst out of the passage, and the sight before them instantly sent shockwaves through their hearts.
On the shattered, desolate mountain plain, Hong Xiuxiang, covered in blood, knelt on one knee before a Tower Hunter over a hundred feet tall, surrounded by a dark green vortex. The air was filled with an intense, almost solidified killing intent and a wave of Annihilation, as if cutting through everything with invisible blades.
Within Qin Yu's sea of consciousness, a scene suddenly appeared where the first and third ancient images were completely superimposed, bursting forth with dazzling light and transforming into a surging current that impacted his senses, making him understand—
This is not just a rescue operation, but also an opportunity.
Each breath of the Tower Hunter seemed to strip away the colors of heaven and earth. A deep blue vortex swirled and surged from its chest, transforming into countless spiraling annihilation vortices that shredded the earth, the air, and even the light, forming a silent storm of destruction.
Hong Xiuxiang knelt on the cracked rock, her chest heaving, blood trickling from her lips. Her "Spirit Brocade Book Realm" had already been shattered, the light ribbons formed from the pages teetering around her. Every wisp of the page was desperately fighting against the dark green vortex, as if it would be completely annihilated at any moment.
Just then--
Boom!!!
At the end of a hidden passage behind the Tower Hunter, a blindingly intense burst of Silent Origin suddenly erupted from the void. Five figures simultaneously burst forth, leaving a trail of blazing white light tens of feet long in the air, and rushed into the battlefield with a deafening roar as bone walls collapsed.
Hong Xiuxiang's pupils dilated suddenly at that moment, and her breath caught in her throat—
Qin Yu.
That figure who fought side by side with him in Gloomshadow Source Village now arrives amidst a storm of annihilation and light fragments, exuding an unshakeable aura of suppression. The Silent Origin fluctuations form an incorruptible domain around him, suppressing the Tower Hunter's annihilation vortex and creating a vacuum.
A strange feeling welled up inside her—a mixture of relief at surviving a disaster and a tremor at seeing the only foothold in a desperate situation.
Qin Yu landed half a zhang in front of her, his back broad and steady, like a barrier between heaven and earth. The Annihilation Soul Seal Light Wheel behind him was fully activated, the Annihilation flames and the illusory Azure Ring rings within the light wheel intertwined and flickered, and the ancient map in his sea of consciousness made him look like a judge standing in the river of time.
"Step back." Qin Yu's voice was deep, yet it struck Hong Xiuxiang like thunder.
She nodded gently, and despite her serious injuries, she gritted her teeth and stepped back to the side, her eyes fixed on that familiar figure—in that instant, she understood that this insurmountable calamity would be completely rewritten because of his arrival.
The Tower Hunter let out a deep roar, as if it came from the depths of hell. The azure vortex suddenly expanded, transforming into thousands of spatial blades that rushed straight towards Qin Yu and the four people who had just arrived.
Qin Yu slowly gripped the hilt of the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, and the ancient diagram in his sea of consciousness resonated like thunder—he was about to make his move.
As the Tower Hunter roared in fury, the emerald vortex in his chest instantly exploded into tens of thousands of spatial rifts, each carrying the sharpness of "conceptual cutting," as if it could dissect existence itself into nothingness and remnants. The rifts spun at high speed, transforming into a silent storm that twisted the battlefield into a fragmented vortex space.
The ground beneath Qin Yu's feet was instantly sliced into countless floating geometric fragments, which floated in mid-air as if weightless. Faced with this attack that directly locked down his evasion path, a cold glint flashed in his eyes, and he raised his left hand, instantly forming the Fate Cause Master Seal - Cause Lock - Mirror Binding Law.
Countless mirrors woven from Soul Seal patterns exploded in mid-air, like transparent barriers piercing the trajectory of the rift storm, forcibly altering the direction of some spatial rifts and directing them to another vortex of space, where they collided and shattered.
At the same time, Qin Yu drew his sword with his right hand. Before the sword even moved, his aura had already torn through the air. The sword light suddenly condensed into an extremely thin white crack, so sharp that it seemed to cut off even one's vision.
The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword - Sever the Void in a Single Thought!
The trajectory of the sword's edge directly severed the approaching vortex of cracked blades. The originally unstoppable azure light melted silently upon contact with the sword intent, like ice and snow meeting the blazing sun, turning into specks of dissipating spatial dust.
A strange green light flashed in the Tower Hunter's giant eyes, and it uttered a spell that echoed like the sound of a dry well. With the spell, black ripples suddenly appeared in the air, spreading outwards. Each ripple carried the law of "weakening existence". Wherever it passed, rocks crumbled and light faded.
Qin Yu frowned slightly, knowing that a direct confrontation would quickly diminish his presence, so he immediately countered with the Three Forms of Fate Construction: Existence Erasure.
A dark green ripple spread out from beneath his feet, precisely locking onto the core of the wave's rules, removing the factor that locked onto "his own existence" from the wave chain, causing it to lose its target and instead dart around in the air like an out-of-control tide, colliding with each other.
Upon seeing this, Zhang Bing and the other two Severed Observation Realm · Supreme immediately split up to restrain the Tower Hunter's lower limb attacks, creating an opening for Qin Yu to enter.
Forced back half a step, the Tower Hunter suddenly raised a cracked claw, a condensed emerald sphere spinning in his palm, reflecting dozens of different "Qin Yu figures," each figure repeatedly being torn apart and shattered—this was the killing move of "Causal Lock".
Qin Yu's gaze sharpened, his sword pointing diagonally, and he uttered in a low voice, "Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword - Sever the Cause, Preventing Birth."
The sword light transformed into a silent crack that traversed the sky, directly slashing into the causal core of the azure sphere. Instantly, all the recurring images of death shattered, transforming into a reverse-flowing rain of causal light that poured back into the Tower Hunter's body, causing its attack to falter and fine cracks to appear in the azure vortex on its chest.
Taking advantage of the momentum, Qin Yu stepped forward, and the Fate Cause Master Seal - Final Order - Fate-Severing Question suddenly activated. The seal pattern transformed into a towering dark blue stele shadow that fell from the void, suppressing the Tower Hunter's Fate Seal to its Limit, preventing it from reorganizing the power of the vortex in a short time.
With the five-man formation surrounding them, the oppressive atmosphere of the battlefield suddenly shifted towards Qin Yu's side.
In the instant the Tower Hunter was suppressed, a howl that pierced the heavens and earth erupted from deep within his chest. That howl was not a sound wave, but a "pulse of Annihilation" that directly impacted his soul.
The sky suddenly darkened, the surrounding light was forcibly pulled away, and the battlefield turned into a colorless, illusory world. Qin Yu felt a crack running through the sky appear deep in his sea of consciousness, as if it were about to split his soul in two.
He reacted extremely quickly, flipping his left palm and instantly forming the Fate Cause Master Seal - Seal Evolution - Mirror Returning Ring. Countless layers of semi-transparent mirror rings overlapped on the outer layer of his consciousness, like shields protecting his soul, reflecting the direct path of the pulse back into the air, striking the dark dome and causing thousands of black lightning chains to fall down.
The Tower Hunter raised both claws and grabbed all the lightning chains. With a sudden tug, it wrapped them around its claw blades, transforming them into a jet-black lightning armor covering its entire arm, which it then slammed towards Qin Yu head-on.
Qin Yu's expression was cold and stern. He slightly turned his sword and uttered in a deep voice, "Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword - Sever the Spirit Source Abyss!"
With this sword strike, the sword light cascaded down like a waterfall, cleaving through all the lightning armor gathered on the Tower Hunter's claws. The black lightning stream transformed into countless scattered dark jellyfish-like energy clusters, dissipating into the spatial rifts at the edge of the battlefield.
But the Tower Hunter's offensive did not stop. It flung its claws out, and the pair of translucent bone wings on its back suddenly closed, revealing a huge dark purple pupil between the wings—an extremely rare "soul-consciousness pupil" that could look directly into the target's soul and forcibly alter its fighting will.
A flash of light, and the colors of the entire battlefield suddenly faded, as if everything had fallen into a slowly solidifying illusion. Zhang Bing and the other two Severed Observation Realm · Supreme froze instantly, their breaths frozen in mid-air.
Qin Yu was shocked and immediately activated the Three Forms of Fate Construction: Time Flow Reversal!
In an instant, countless rifts of light crisscrossed the sky, and the battlefield scene seemed to be rapidly rewound—the spread of the pupils was abruptly pulled back to before the Tower Hunter's bone wings closed. Taking advantage of this opening, Qin Yu swiftly stepped forward, his left palm pressing into the void. "Fate Cause Master Seal - Cause-Determining Silent Judgment!"
A solidified, dark blue ring rose from beneath the Tower Hunter, locking it and the entire space in place. Even the soul pupil behind him lost its activity within the ring, turning into a dark gray, lifeless object.
"Now!" Qin Yu shouted in a low voice.
Zhang Bing and the two other Severed Observation Realm · Supreme instantly broke free. At the same time, they unleashed all their power to attack the chest crack of the Tower Hunter. With a deafening roar, the azure vortex completely shattered, turning into billions of fragments of light that shot into the sky. Finally, a line of suppressive advantage appeared on the battlefield.