The Mist Formation Shatters · Soul Annihilation Strikes

The pitch-black void, like a desolate starry sea, suddenly surged, and an outline, seemingly formed from the fragments of trillions of stars, slowly raised its head. That face, shrouded in endless galaxies, had no features, only a cosmic Annihilation Abyss so deep that even light could not escape it, gazing at Qin Yu and his companions.

The sound didn't come from the air, but roared out directly from the deepest part of everyone's consciousness, carrying an irresistible sense of command and a cold, judgmental will.

"Things beyond logic should not exist in this world—therefore, you... should all disappear."

As soon as the words were spoken, the entire space seemed to be shattered by an invisible hand. The sky fractured, and countless swirling nebulae of distorted colors poured down from the cracks, like a celestial river overflowing its banks. The ground beneath their feet suddenly became transparent, revealing the endless falling void and collapsing chains of logic beneath it, with fracture lines like bones extending across time and causality.

The next moment--

He raised his palm, which was covered with intricate star patterns, and a seven-colored spiral halo slowly rotated in his palm, each circle cutting the boundary between reality and nothingness. What followed was a sense of detachment from all dimensions, as if someone was erasing you from "existence"—not only the physical body, but also the history and traces of your past existence were being erased bit by bit.

A violent stellar-level gravitational wave was suddenly released, sweeping across the entire area with the roar of stars shattering. The ground beneath Qin Yu and his companions undulated and collapsed like waves, and the entire world seemed to be engulfed in an apocalyptic storm of light and darkness.

The expressions of the four people simultaneously turned extremely solemn.

The first senior brother, a master of the Severed Observation Realm · Supreme, raised one hand, and a pillar of purple-gold light erupted from the depths of his sea of consciousness, piercing straight into the sky. The pillar of light exploded in the air into countless fiery runes, condensing into a giant battle spirit ape a thousand feet tall. The giant ape's eyes were like burning stars, its pupils flashing with golden and purple intertwined lightning flames. Each breath seemed to tear apart the skeleton of this space-time, emitting a deep yet deafening roar. It pounded its chest violently, as if the void was cracked open, and the shockwave from its roar tore the thick fog in front of it into four pieces, revealing a dark abyss.

The aura of Annihilation Abyss Severed Observation Realm · Supreme, suddenly surged, like an endless Black Sea instantly covering the surrounding area. Behind him, a gigantic, pitch-black monument— the Severed Abyss Stele Shadow —slowly emerged. The monument reached to the heavens and the earth, and the billions of runes engraved on its surface seemed to be alive, slowly flowing and emitting wisps of cold, annihilating light. Each rune that flashed carried an oppressive feeling that was impossible to look directly at, like the Ultimate judge gazing upon and judging cause and effect. As soon as the shadow of the monument appeared, the surrounding mist actually rolled back and retreated on its own, as if afraid of being etched with the name of annihilation.

With a wave of her hand, Hong Xiuxiang unfurled the Spirit Brocade Book Realm, a sea of books suspended in mid-air, their pages dancing like flowing clouds, displaying illusory images of "severing causes, ending lives, locking souls" as they twirled in the air. Each word seemed to carry the power to erase a piece of history. Her eyes, like cold stars, fixed on the dark figure ahead. The Book Realm slowly contracted into an impenetrable defensive light screen, protecting Qin Yu and his two senior brothers in the center.

Qin Yu slowly raised his eyes. Without using the Azure Ring, the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword already emitted a deep sword sound in his sea of consciousness. The eleven cracks on the sword flashed in turn, like invisible chains locking the killing intent in front of him. His aura Steady as a Mountain, but his eyes were already brewing a determination to shatter the sky at any moment.

Four forces intertwined and converged in the sea of mist, and the entire world seemed to be pulled into a purgatory on the verge of collapse—the sea of clouds churned as if being stirred by a giant hand, the earth veins rose and cracked, and rumbling sounds like the world breaking apart came from the depths of the void.

The next instant, the void suddenly burst open, and countless cracks appeared in all directions. From each crack, a black "existence stripping tentacle" emerged. The tentacle was covered with constantly flashing logical symbols. With each flash, a large area of space was directly erased, turning into gray dust and disappearing without a trace.

The first wave of power—"Void Consciousness Stripping Chains"—sweeped in with a deafening roar.

The tentacles, like chains devouring order, simultaneously locked onto the four from all dimensions. Each one carried the power to obliterate the concept of "I ever existed," sucking in even the air, sound, and light, forming bottomless voids of Annihilation that enveloped the four.

The War Soul Giant Ape roared and slammed its fists into the void. The thousand-foot-long purple-gold fist shadow slammed into the nearest tentacle, bursting out a dazzling golden-purple vortex that completely shattered that space and forcibly severed several chains.

The Severed Abyss Stele Shadow suddenly tilted forward, and billions of runes on its surface lit up simultaneously, like a black star exploding. The annihilation impact released by the stele shadow clashed with its tentacles, and the runes transformed into torrents of Annihilation Abyss, annihilating and sealing off all the chains that were trying to penetrate the four people's sea of consciousness.

Hong Xiuxiang's Spirit Brocade Book Realm flipped rapidly, the pages transforming into walls of cryptic text, drawing the remaining chains into the illusory realm, causing them to lose their sense of purpose and strangle each other within the illusion.

In an instant, Qin Yu activated the "Sever the Void in a Single Thought" technique of the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword. With a flash of the sword's edge, it was as if the neural network of the void had been severed. Those tentacles less than three zhang away from him instantly collapsed, turning into silent gray light and dissipating into the depths of nothingness.

The first wave of power was shattered by the combined efforts of the four.

But the shadowy aura deepened at this moment, as if its true killing intent had just been awakened.

The shadowy figure's vertical pupils suddenly contracted, like two bolts of lightning tearing through the void, instantly igniting the undercurrents of the entire mist.

The next instant, the colors of heaven and earth vanished completely, replaced by a deathly color woven from pure Annihilation factors—even light was negated here.

Its voice seemed to emanate from a sea of graves millions of years ago, deep, cold, and carrying an irrefutable Ultimate verdict—

"The Recognition Annihilation Silent Tide."

The invisible force didn't surge forth, but rather arose simultaneously in every part of space. The air seemed to be sucked out; temperature, sound, gravity, time—all were stripped away. Then—

An endless Sea of Form churned in the void, without waves or spray; every inch of its surface was as smooth as a mirror, yet within it surged particles of destructive logic. Countless tiny wisps of annihilation drifted from the tide like silent snowflakes, rewriting the definition of existence into nothingness wherever they went.

As soon as the first Severed Observation Realm · Supreme raised his battle spirit giant ape, the cracks and runes on his fist shattered like porcelain the moment they touched the Annihilation Tide, making a very slight "crack" sound. Then the entire giant ape turned into countless purple-gold fragments, like a painting wiped clean from the world's draft by an invisible hand.

The shadow of the Severed Abyss Stele Shadow behind the second Severed Observation Realm · Supreme brother was pierced by invisible annihilation lines the instant the stele's patterns boiled. From the stele's core, countless tiny void fragments spread in all directions. All the annihilation runes engraved on the stele's surface turned into pure black light spots, falling one by one into the tide and disappearing. The next instant, he and the stele shadow became transparent and ethereal from head to toe, completely dissolving into the colorless and formless sea of deathly silence.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang were caught up in the aftermath almost simultaneously.

The invisible tide did not collide with the physical body, but instead rushed directly into the sea of consciousness, peeling away the soul inch by inch. Qin Yu's chest felt as if it had been struck by an invisible giant hammer; the sound of bones shattering inside his body was clearer than his heartbeat. His blood turned into countless black particles of light, which were absorbed by the tide and disappeared instantly. Hong Xiuxiang's Spirit Brocade Book Realm churned violently, and thousands of pages turned into illusory butterflies of light that scattered in all directions, only to be swallowed up by the tide and turned to ashes.

The mist churned violently, and the figure of the shadow seemed to be composed of shadows and Logic Fragments from the entire space. Its vertical pupils, like two beacons of despair in the deathly silence, carried a cold disdain.

It slowly extended a hand—a hand that seemed to be pieced together from countless fragments of collapsing space, with flowing black runes on its finger bones and a bottomless vortex of darkness in its palm. As its five fingers spread open, the skeleton of the surrounding space emitted a piercing cracking sound.

As the giant hand descended, Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang's shadows were twisted into fragments on the ground, as if they had been pre-cut into parts to be deleted.

The black giant hand's finger bones were already pressing down on his brow, and that bottomless vortex seemed capable of swallowing the very definition of existence.

Qin Yu's chest surged with qi and blood to its Ultimate, and deep within his sea of consciousness, Azure Ring suddenly awoke from her Annihilation.

Boom--

A silent shockwave exploded from Qin Yu's body, instantly reversing the colors of the entire world—the sky turned into boundless white desolation, the ground plunged into an endless Black Abyss, and the timeline seemed to be violently torn apart, scattering into countless shimmering fragments of light.

The Azure Ring hovered above Qin Yu's head, its surface covered with unreadable Annihilation Order, each mark resembling an independent cosmic law collapsing and being reshaped.

At the center of the ring, a pitch-black, Annihilation light slowly opened, its depths revealing an infinitely folded primordial void, reflecting all unborn destinies. (From "The Silent Realm Returns to the Beginning: The Fate's Existence Completely Covers All")

One move Draw the Silent Edge to Break the Realm; one move Sever the Fate Trajectory; one move Shatter Soul Consciousness; one move Sever the Art's Beginning; one move Corrupt Heaven's Cause.

The enemy's destiny, Dao root, sea of consciousness, and existence record have all collapsed, and he has been erased into the Silent Realm Opening Chapter, never to return.

First Form: Silent Edge Breaks the Realm

A wisp of azure light slashed out from the ring, silent yet severing the very foundation of the giant hand's concept—the bone fingers pieced together from spatial fragments vanished directly from the knuckles, as if they had never existed.

Second Technique: The Sever the Fate Trajectory

The Azure Ring spun, projecting countless fine threads of fate, which were then all severed by the sharp blade. The shadowy figure's vertical pupils contracted violently, and the vortex palm instantly came to a standstill, as if it had lost its direction in devouring its target.

Third Form: Shatter Soul Consciousness

A streak of azure light pierced straight into its forehead, transforming into thousands of fine needles that penetrated its sea of consciousness, causing its soul to collapse into irreversible dust wherever it passed.

Fourth Form: Sever the Art's Beginning

The originally formless "Recognition Annihilation Silent Tide" in the void was forcibly manifested into a visible Sea of Form, which then split in the middle under the sharp edge of the Azure Ring, and the two halves of the tide turned into countless dried void fragments that fell and disappeared.

Fifth Form: Corrupt Heaven's Cause

A ring of dark blue corrosive ripples spread out from Qin Yu as the center, and every inch of space, every logical chain, and every rule it touched was instantly corroded, shattered, and annihilated. Even the light in his vertical pupils was suppressed into a grayish-white that was on the verge of extinction.

As the fifth move landed, the Azure Ring completely closed, transforming into a rain of light that poured down, as if covering the world with a nascent curtain, erasing the shadow along with the existence it represented back to the first page of the Silent Realm —a chapter that would never be turned.

Before the shadowy figure could make a sound, it completely lost its connection with reality, vanishing from space, time, cause and effect, concepts, and memories.

The world returned to deathly silence, the only sound being the clear, resonant echo of the Azure Ring slowly returning to Qin Yu's brow.

The moment the Azure Ring disappeared back into his brow, Qin Yu felt a sudden tightness in his chest, and a sweet, metallic taste rose in his throat.

He managed to hold back the blood, but the aftershocks of that attack felt like countless needles piercing through his bones—each breath accompanied by a slight cracking sound from his bones.

Hong Xiuxiang was in even worse shape. A deep, bloody gash ran diagonally from her shoulder to her waist, revealing the bone. Her soul seemed to have been swept away by the Corrupt Heaven's Cause of the previous attack, leaving her consciousness momentarily dazed. She stood beside Qin Yu, her face as pale as Azure Ring's rain of light, her lips trembling slightly, yet she stubbornly refused to collapse.

The Azure Ring between Qin Yu's brows was still slowly rotating. He looked up and gazed around, his expression instantly darkening.

The lingering logical energy in this space did not dissipate; instead, it surged beneath the deathly silence, as if brewing another, even more deadly attack. That perception was not unfounded; it was an instinctive warning of a truly deadly crisis that he had developed after cultivating to his level.

"Something's not right here--" Qin Yu murmured to himself. In the next instant, he activated the combination of Time Flow Reversal and spatial teleportation, gripping Hong Xiuxiang's wrist with his palm. Annihilation power surged from his meridians, completely enveloping the two of them.

A straight, pale blue crack was forcibly ripped open in the void, from which fine fragments of time light spilled out, like shattered sun and moon flowing backward.

The two figures were instantly engulfed in a storm of light and dust. All sound was stripped away at this moment, leaving only a sense of oppression that spread from the spinal cord to the sea of consciousness— the Limit feeling of being on the verge of life and death.

In the blink of an eye, in another part of the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm a hundred miles away, the air slightly sank, a crack silently opened, and Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang's figures fell out.