The Tower Hunter was knocked back dozens of feet by the combined attack of the three, and the crack in its chest almost pierced through the core of its soul body. However, its pupils suddenly shrank to the size of pinpoints in that instant, and an indescribable "will of annihilation" erupted from the depths of its bone wings.
The pitch-black battlefield instantly flipped, the ground beneath their feet transformed into a flowing vortex, and the entire space seemed to be pulled into a bottomless abyss. Countless black bone claw phantoms stretched out from all directions, intertwining to form a soul-devouring net that covered the heavens and the earth, rushing straight towards Qin Yu and his group of five.
"Step back!" Qin Yu shouted in a deep voice, and instantly released the Three Forms of Fate Construction of Cause and Effect Deconstruction: Causal Deconstruction.
Centered on him, the existence of all the bone claw phantoms instantly decomposed into countless tiny fragments of causal light, like billions of fireflies bursting in the darkness. Then, he gathered them together in his palm, reshaping them into a huge causal light wall that enveloped the entire team. The bone claws lunged at the light wall and vanished into nothingness.
But the Tower Hunter did not give up. It suddenly opened its blood-red maw, and a jet-black stream of souls, accompanied by Netherworld howl, rushed out. It was pure existence stripping; once touched, even one's name and memories would be erased from the universe.
Qin Yu's eyes suddenly darkened, he raised his sword high, and uttered a deep, thunderous sound—
"Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword - Sever Fate, Cut Off Return!"
The sword light transformed into a catastrophic torrent that swept across the heavens and earth, cleaving the soul stream in two. The two waves collided in the air, creating ripples of light that even distorted the rules of the universe.
"Give me the Soul Core of the Tower Hunter!" Wang Yuan also made his move at this moment. The Only Book Realm: The Soul-Forgetting Brocade Words Record unfolded, and ten thousand pages poured down from the void, completely rewriting the space beneath the Tower Hunter's feet into a deathly silent "Soulless Domain".
The Tower Hunter's movements were finally suppressed to their Limit, and the crack running through his chest pulsated violently, exposing the eerie green light of his soul core.
Qin Yu's eyes flashed like lightning, his right hand gripped the sword hilt in reverse, and he let out a low shout:
"The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword - Beginning of the Realm - The Sole Silent Name!"
With this strike, the colors of the entire battlefield were drained to gray, the sounds were silenced, and time was compressed into a single instant. The sword's edge pierced the crack, its intent like stuffing the primordial point of Annihilation into the soul core of the Tower Hunter.
"--lonely."
With a whisper, the Tower Hunter's form disintegrated in silence, turning into countless dust-like fragments of light, which were absorbed by the void. The battlefield returned to deathly silence, with only the remaining spatial rifts quietly healing.
The last wisp of the Tower Hunter's soul was completely annihilated, and the darkness of the battlefield gradually dissipated, leaving only a ground torn apart by the shockwave. The gloomy mist in the space slowly receded, and shattered bone fragments and lingering soul light fell like rain.
Qin Yu sheathed his sword and stood amidst the ruins. Although his breathing was steady, one could see that his right arm was trembling slightly from forcibly activating the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword - World Beginning - The Sole Silent Name. His gaze quickly fell on Hong Xiuxiang not far away - her clothes were stained with blood, her breathing was disordered, and her face was as pale as paper. Clearly, both her soul and body had been severely injured.
Without hesitation, Qin Yu raised his hand, and a pure white recovery pill with golden starlight flowing around its core appeared in his palm. Fine, regular light patterns surrounded the pill, as if sealing the life force of the entire star field, and with each breath, the surrounding desolate aura warmed up.
"Swallow it." Qin Yu's voice was deep and firm, leaving no room for negotiation.
Hong Xiuxiang was taken aback, pursed her lips and took it, but Qin Yu directly brought it to her lips—the moment her fingertips touched it, the pill turned into a warm stream of light and entered her mouth.
In the next instant, a surge of immense life force erupted from her sea of consciousness and meridians, like a vast spring tide washing over every inch of her shattered soul and meridians. The blood-stained wound on her chest healed at a visible speed, her breathing gradually stabilized, and her previously dim eyes regained their brightness.
Hong Xiuxiang slightly raised her eyes, gazing at Qin Yu. A complex emotion flashed across her eyes for a moment, but she only whispered, "Thank you."
The battlefield scars around them had not yet completely subsided, and the pale green soul mist left behind by the Tower Hunter still lingered on the broken ground, as if silently telling the story of the danger and cruelty that had just occurred.
Wang Yuan withdrew his wary gaze and turned to Hong Xiuxiang, his tone tinged with a mixture of confusion and concern. "Miss Hong, why are you alone? Didn't you team up with any of the other disciples from the Dawn Cloud First Hall?"
Upon hearing Hong Xiuxiang's shoulders trembled slightly, and a hint of vulnerability finally appeared on her usually resolute expression. She let out a soft breath, her voice trembling almost imperceptibly. "Alas... I was originally traveling with my five junior sisters, but in the previous battle, they were all Annihilation out by that Tower Hunter... If you hadn't arrived in time, I'm afraid I would be gone by now."
As she spoke, her eyes reddened slightly, and her eyelashes trembled gently due to the mist, as if she was trying to suppress her emotions, but she still could not hide her loss and grief.
Qin Yu stepped forward, his gaze steady yet reassuring. "The Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm is fraught with danger; perhaps this is their fate. Miss Hong, if you don't mind, please come with us from here on out, so we can look after each other."
Zhang Bing echoed in a deep voice, "Yes, Miss Hong, we are all upright people, and with Senior Brother Qin here, you can rest assured."
Hong Xiuxiang slightly raised her eyes, her gaze churning with emotions, which gradually calmed under Qin Yu's gaze. She looked at Qin Yu tenderly, as if she had found solace in his composure and fearlessness, and nodded heavily.
Seeing that she agreed, Qin Yu turned his gaze to the distant horizon, which was now stained with the blood of the Tower Hunter, and said in a deep voice, "Alright, let's leave this place first."
The air still seemed to carry the lingering chill of the Tower Hunter, but the six figures had already reformed into sharp blades and stepped into the deeper shadows of the secret realm.
The surrounding void seemed to freeze instantly, time and space simultaneously compressed into a deathly silence by an invisible force, preventing even a particle of light from escaping. Qin Yu and the others, who had just been preparing to vanish into the void, were forcibly frozen in place, and a deep, resonant voice, seemingly echoing from ancient times to the present, reached their ears—
"You think you can just leave so easily after deleting my Guardian Hunter 'Lie Que? That's... far too presumptuous."
The voice carried no anger, yet it possessed an irresistible sense of command, like a judgmental voice emanating from the abyss of time, striking directly into the depths of their souls. In an instant, the six felt as if their souls and consciousness were being forcibly torn apart by countless tiny splitting particles, with stinging and tearing sensations surging like a tide, making even breathing difficult.
A burst of countless streams of light erupted from the void ahead, like a collapsing galaxy or an endless waterfall cascading down from the heavens, refracting a chilling radiance. From the center of the light, a figure slowly emerged—
It was an otherworldly being, so tall it seemed to blot out the sky, its entire body covered in intricate and mysterious dark gold armor patterns. Every line was like a flowing ancient rune, containing undecipherable laws of annihilation. Its mask was a deep blue crystal, reflecting layers upon layers of illusory void. It had no eyes, yet it exuded a piercingly oppressive aura. Embedded on its forehead was a brilliant blue diamond that seemed to contain trillions of stars, slowly pulsating with World Extinguisher power.
In his right hand he held a deep blue crystal artifact shaped like a long cone, its surface shimmering with a cold light like that of the deep sea bottom, each fluctuation causing ripples in the surrounding space and time; a light-colored scarf draped over his left shoulder fluttered in the wind, as if bringing the wind from another dimension into this world.
This is an existence that is neither a propositioner nor a Logician, unconceptable, unwritten, and unpredictable—an absolute suppressor of the mid-level Annihilation Dawn Realm.
His aura seemed to transcend all records and cognition, a manifestation of the Ultimate, Source of Epochless of all things.
Qin Yu, Wang Yuan, Hong Xiuxiang exchanged a glance, their hearts tightening – this was no opponent they could easily contend with.
Billions of streams of light converged into a waterfall, sealing off all escape routes in all directions, and the air was compressed to emit a metallic hum.
The otherworldly being slowly raised the azure crystal cone in its hand, the tip of which shimmered with extremely dark blue annihilation light, as if drawing out the entire spacetime thread by thread, weaving it into an annihilation blue trajectory that spanned the heavens and the earth.
As he chanted in a low, indistinct voice, the light suddenly spread into countless fine "Cause Annihilation cracks," each one like a wound that had been cut open in reality, overflowing with a chilling current that devoured souls and rules.
Skill - Annihilation Blue Soul-Judging Abyss
Annihilation of soul consciousness and existence records cuts the soul concept of all locked targets into countless fragments and completely erases them at the causal level.
Qin Yu was shocked. He could sense that this attack was not a simple energy strike, but rather it attacked the very definition of existence. If he were to take it head-on, even someone like Wang Yuan, who was in Nonexistence Form at the Severed Observation Realm · Initial Stage, would have their very foundation for survival stripped away.
"This move... must be countered at its root." The Azure Evolution Core between Qin Yu's brows trembled slightly, but the Azure Ring did not manifest—this was not a last resort, and he still had his own way of dealing with it.
Qin Yu simultaneously formed hand seals, and the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword appeared in his right hand, its blade emitting a jet-black aura that swallowed up light. Meanwhile, his left hand rapidly condensed the runes of the Fate Cause Master Seal.
Countermeasure Combination: [Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword - Sever the Soul in Nine Silences] + [Fate Cause Master Seal - Cause-Determining Silent Judgment]
Sever the Soul in Nine Silences: The sword's edge transforms into nine black soul-abyss rifts, weaving together in the void to form a "Soul-Destroying Array," directly severing the soul's root in the enemy's annihilating blue rift.
Cause-Determining Silent Judgment: The Fate-Cause seals the enemy's causal chain, causing its annihilation rift to lose its continuity and spread.
As Qin Yu unleashed his sword, nine pitch-black cracks, like nine dark dragons devouring the Milky Way, suddenly intertwined in mid-air, forming an Annihilation wheel spanning the void, which collided head-on with the azure rift.
Boom--!
Space collapsed into an abyss, where billions of blue lights intertwined with endless darkness, unleashing a visible "storm of rules" that swept outwards like a giant wave, instantly shredding mountains and cliffs into dust. Wang Yuan and Hong Xiuxiang were both thrown back dozens of feet by this impact, their chests tight and their hearts filled with shock.
The brilliance of the azure rift was gradually suppressed and shattered, eventually being crushed into nothingness by the black wheel of Annihilation.
However, the otherworldly being merely tilted its head slightly, a cold, mocking smile seemingly lurking beneath its mask. The next instant, the ground beneath its feet suddenly crystallized, spreading into a vast azure barrier—a new offensive was brewing.
The azure barrier expanded rapidly across the ground, like countless cold, icy veins of rules growing wildly in the void, covering an area of dozens of miles in the blink of an eye. The surface of the barrier shimmered with dense, ethereal blue runes, each carrying a sense of repulsion that was "unwriteable and unconceptable," causing the soul to instinctively resist staring at them.
The otherworldly being raised the crystal cone in its hand and uttered a low, ancient syllable—
Skill - [Annihilation Blue Evolution-Extinction Realm]
The logic and causality of the area are completely stripped away into isolated fragments, preventing the enemy's skills, martial spirits, and techniques from calling upon their own complete logical structure, causing their combat power to plummet to only 20-30% of its original level.
An extremely cold shock instantly shot from the soles of their feet straight into their consciousness. The space beneath their feet was "sliced into countless floating, azure facades by the "rules." Every step felt like stepping on a broken fragment of time, with no leverage.
"We can't let this barrier close completely!" Qin Yu shouted.
His sword trembled, and the [Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword - Sever the Realm, Leaving No Name] suddenly erupted—the moment the sword light struck, the azure facade in front of him seemed to be stripped of its existence record, and the entire barrier was cleaved open with a black chasm.
At the same time, Wang Yuan released his Innate Martial Soul, and the eight-winged phantom bloomed with silent ripples. [Soul-Evolving Reverse Abyss Slash] directly cut into the core node of the enemy's Annihilation Blue Rune, forcibly tearing out a second breach.
With Hong Xiuxiang by her side, she opened the Spirit Brocade Book Realm with one hand. The pages revealed the [Soul Book Cuts Off Breath], and large swaths of ink-colored spiritual culture formed sharp chains, binding the causal threads at the edge of the barrier and slowing its closing speed.
Zhang Bing and another disciple at the Severed Observation Realm · Supreme launched an attack from the left and right respectively.
Zhang Bing released the [Silent Flame Heaven-Splitting Seal], transforming the annihilating fire stream into a meteorite falling like the sky, pressing down on the barrier directly above and forcing its structure to loosen.
Another disciple unleashed the [Void Rending Destruction Claw], the claw marks cleaving through more than a dozen pieces of the rule-based structure, causing the barrier to tremble incessantly.
The six attacks converged, like six blades of judgment with different attributes, simultaneously slashing towards the core of the rules of the Annihilation Blue Evolution-Extinction Realm.
Boom--!
Suddenly, a blinding vortex of azure and pitch-black energy burst forth from the surface of the barrier, like two irreconcilable cosmic tides colliding head-on. The shockwave swept across, turning mountains to dust, tearing a rift in the sky, and sending countless fragments of space falling like a broken mirror in the distance.
For the first time, the otherworldly being halted, forcing the expansion of the Azure Barrier to stop. The light beneath its mask flickered slightly, clearly not expecting this group to break through its blockade in such a short time.
However, it slowly raised its arms, and the ocean of energy behind it, resembling a vast blue galaxy, began to swirl—a new killing move was gathering strength.