In the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm wilderness, the deathly silence seemed to be ignited by golden flames, and a deep lion's roar exploded in the void. The Golden Dawn Lion slowly stepped out, its mane like a storm of Fate-Cause, each strand carrying countless threads of fate, howling and shattering the narrative of heaven and earth. On its limbs, the "Seal of Script Negation" burned like blood-red branding, crushing the void inch by inch, forcing Qin Yu's existence logic to blur instantly, as if he could be erased from the "protagonist" at any moment.
The lion's whispered roar was not a sound wave, but a pronouncement of the narrative's collapse:
"You are no longer the writer; you are merely superfluous words."
In an instant, the mountains and rivers beneath Qin Yu's feet trembled violently. His life trajectory seemed to be torn apart page by page by an invisible pen. Qian Ruishan's smiling face, Mu Qingwan's figure, Yan Yue's gaze... all were stripped away by the Annihilation Wind swept by the lion's mane and turned into ashes.
Qin Yu's pupils constricted sharply, his mind reeling as if struck by a massive hammer. But the next moment, the Azure Ring suddenly appeared between his brows, transforming into a halo of Annihilation that violently shattered the negation logic of the void script. At the same time, he raised his hand to form a hand seal and uttered in a low voice:
"Fate Cause Master Seal, Seal's Derivation, Mirror Returning Ring!"
A life seal as deep as Star Abyss erupted, and a mirror-like ring appeared, reflecting back the "script denial" swept by the Dawn Lion and forcibly freezing it in the void. In the mirror light, the Dawn Lion's momentary savage smile was locked by the reflection, and the power of the script seal was briefly slowed down.
But the Dawn Lion's pupils blazed with intense golden life force, and with a deafening stomp, the void collapsed, tearing apart the cracks on Qin Yu's seal ring. Its low roar echoed once more:
"Fate-Cause Annihilation Lion, negating all protagonists!"
Qin Yu unleashed the full power of his Azure Ring, the azure light transforming into countless blades of shattering light, and let out a low shout:
"Azure Ring, Second Form - Realm-Severing Silent Light!"
A beam of Annihilation slashed from his body, like a death line traversing heaven and earth, colliding head-on with the Lionmane Hurricane. In the clash between light and wind, space shattered into pages, and vast swathes of void were torn apart, turning into countless fragments of text that scattered across the sky.
At that moment, the world seemed to have been transformed into a discarded draft of a script, being re-evaluated.
In their first direct confrontation, Qin Yu and the power of the Fate-Cause Annihilation Lion tore the narrative rules of the entire secret realm to the brink of collapse.
The void trembled violently, as if the entire Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm had been forced to transform into a fragile "narrative book," which shattered violently upon impact with the collision of the golden lion's mane and the Azure Ring silent light.
The script mark on the back of the Fate-Cause Annihilation Lion burned even more fiercely, transforming into countless blood-red characters that floated in the void, weaving together a vast epic. The characters burned and murmured, like the wails of countless rewritten souls of destiny.
All that could be heard was its roar:
"Dawn-Cause Zero Book - Denying the Script!"
Boom! The scroll suddenly unfolded, and the starry river above Qin Yu's head was torn apart like a rag. His existence was pulled into that sea of bloody narrative. He saw his life story being rewritten in an instant: he had never met Azure Ring, never stepped into the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall, and even the name "Qin Yu" was erased by lines of bloody words.
The person is being removed from the "protagonist" position.
Qin Yu trembled violently, his internal energy collapsed wildly, and the Annihilation and Life Seals around him were on the verge of collapse.
However, at that very moment, the Azure Ring light burst forth, like a Black Gold Ring severing the blood-red tornado, instantly freezing all logic of "erasure." The Azure Ring's voice resounded in his sea of consciousness:
"Qin Yu! It's going to rewrite the foundation of your narrative. Immediately use the Seal of Fate Cause Master Seal, then use the Annihilate the Soul and Draw the Dawn to pull back the soul and strike!"
A cold, sharp light flashed in Qin Yu's eyes, and his hand seals suddenly connected:
"Fate Cause Master Seal, Cause of Lock, Mirror Binding Law!"
The Star River Seal Chain suddenly appeared, and dozens of causal iron chains descended from the void, fiercely locking the turning pages of the blood-red scroll, causing it to temporarily stop. At the same time, the Silent Ring between Qin Yu's brows burst into flames, its sound like thunder:
"Azure Ring - Annihilate the Soul and Draw the Dawn!"
Boom! A dark blue-green Realm Splitting suddenly bloomed, like an abyss of death, directly projecting the True Soul of the Dawn Lion. The soul shadow forged by golden flames was immediately burned by countless Annihilation soul lights as soon as it was drawn in. The void reflected the death of the Dawn Lion, and the lion's roar turned into a mournful low cry, shaking the star field to pieces.
But the true terror of the Fate-Cause Annihilation Lion was only just beginning to unfold.
Its limb branding glowed again, and blood-red characters shot skyward like flames, transforming into a terrifying "narrative manifesto" hanging in the heavens:
"There can be no two main characters; the Book of Fate-Cause belongs solely to me!"
In the next instant, the entire world transformed into its theater, and all existing causal and destiny lines were pulled into its body, transforming into the power of the script that empowered it.
The gap between Qin Yu and it was instantly magnified to the Ultimate, as if he were fighting against "fate itself" alone.
Heaven and earth shattered into burning pages, countless causal threads surging and intertwining like fiery chains. The Dawn Lion stood atop them, like the sole writer, intent on completely erasing Qin Yu into an "irrelevant character."
The void roared, and a blood-red tornado enveloped the heavens and earth. The Fate-Cause Annihilation Lion was like the "sole writer of the script," its golden mane burning with the radiance of destruction. Blood-red characters branded on its limbs dragged countless lines of fate into its body. It was the only one that reigned supreme in the world, and Qin Yu's existence was constantly being stripped away, with even the space beneath his feet collapsing inch by inch.
Qin Yu's eyes narrowed sharply. He sensed that the power was not simply the might of the Annihilation Dawn Realm, but something far more terrifying—the "power to define narratives."
If he is completely suppressed, he will no longer be Qin Yu, but merely an "Nameless bystander".
Azure Ring shouted coldly in his mind:
"Qin Yu, you cannot retreat! The Fate Cause Master Seal and the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword will emerge simultaneously. Use your Chain of Cause and Effect to counter its narrative foundation, then use the Sever Fate, Cut Off Return to sever its script's continuation!"
In an instant, countless chains of causal seals surged from Qin Yu's body, spanning the sky and locking every page of the blood-red scroll like iron chains. At the same time, he swung the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword with his right hand, the sword resounding with countless sounds of destruction, its blade like a burning, Annihilation galaxy, suddenly slashing down.
"The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, Fourth Severed Form - Sever Fate, Cut Off Return!"
Boom!!
The sword light erupted, tearing the entire void apart as if a giant curtain had been ripped open. A black and white "path of destiny" shattered directly under Qin Yu's sword. The moment it was slashed, it seemed as if the "future chapters" of the entire world had turned to ashes. A part of the blood-red scroll was forcibly torn apart, and the scarlet characters emitted a broken wail, shattering into star-like ashes that scattered.
The Fate-Cause Annihilation Lion roared, its eyes burning like golden flames in an abyss of script. It stomped its limbs, and the Nine Heavens Blood Scroll ignited once more, forcibly restoring the shattered chapters, and a new line of text appeared on the script:
Qin Yu: Failure is inevitable.
In an instant, Qin Yu's body trembled violently, his sea of consciousness felt as if it had been struck by a hammer, his blood surged, and he was almost erased by those words.
But he suddenly let out a low roar, and the Annihilation around him and the Fate Cause Master Seal became linked. The Azure Ring behind him transformed into a ring shadow, and its radiance shattered the void.
"Fate Cause Master Seal - Final Order - Fate-Severing Question!"
Countless question marks of cause and effect transformed into imprints on the sky, fiercely covering those blood-red words. Each question mark was like a bolt of lightning, tearing apart the script setting of "destined failure," reversing it little by little, turning it into ambiguity and chaos.
The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword was raised high once more, Qin Yu's entire body shimmering with light, the sword's edge pointing directly at the Dawn Lion:
"You deny that I am the protagonist? Then I will use my sword to utterly Annihilation your script!"
Billions of causal chains shattered in the air, falling like a shower of stars. The clash between Qin Yu and the Fate-Cause Annihilation Lion was like the collision of two world scripts: one side was the blood-red chapter of the "sole protagonist," and the other side was the Annihilation writing of "Sever Fate, Cut Off Return."
At this moment, all observers in the world fell silent, for what they witnessed was not a battle, but the tearing apart and clash of two cosmic narratives.
The blood-red light of heaven and earth surged like a raging tide, and the roar of the Fate-Cause Annihilation Lion seemed to be writing—it wanted to use a "script" to erase Qin Yu's existence. Every roar turned into crimson gold characters, suspended in the void, branded into heaven and earth, attempting to completely erase the two words "Qin Yu".
Qin Yu's blood surged, and his sea of consciousness was suppressed and roared incessantly, but his eyes blazed with an extremely cold and sharp light. The Azure Ring behind him suddenly roared, its light rotating and bringing with it countless ripples of Annihilation, as if a portal to the "Unborn World" was slowly opening.
He spoke in a low, deep voice, his tone like cold iron striking the void:
"Azure Ring: The Realm-Overturning Primordial Cosmos!"
In an instant, the void collapsed into an abyss. Within the halo of light, a desolate universe, never before born, emerged, with ripples of black and gold spreading outwards. It was a realm without stars, without history, without cause and effect, a pure and pristine "Unborn" realm.
The Azure Ring projection transformed into a celestial wheel, spinning violently, its ring of light pressing directly towards the Fate-Cause Annihilation Lion.
The crimson scroll churned wildly, and the crimson-gold characters roared like a million soldiers, trying to push open this "Unborn" place. However, once the Azure Ring light touched it, all the words shattered instantly, turning into ashes and returning to silence, as if they had never been written at all.
Boom!!!
The Fate-Cause Annihilation Lion's golden mane bristled, its soul trembling in the radiance of the Unborn World. Its Ultimate seal, "Negation of the Script," was being peeled away bit by bit, its crimson flames turning into dim fragments. It roared, attempting to rewrite everything with the "Dawn-Cause Zero Book"—
"Enemy Name: Qin Yu, Existence Erasure!"
The words had barely left her lips when the power of the Azure Ring struck first, forcibly severing the text and swallowing it into the Unborn Silence, completely cutting off any possibility of its restoration.
Qin Yu raised the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword high in his right hand, its blade reflecting the black-gold ripples of light, like the first stroke of the primordial creation. His voice was deep and resonant, like an iron law falling from the heavens:
"Unborn, there is no writing! If you deny me, then you too will be reduced to the state of 'Unborn'!"
As the sword fell, the silent universe roared, and the halo of light engulfed the golden soul of the Fate-Cause Annihilation Lion.
The enormous figure of the Dawn Lion was seen breaking apart one after another. The branding on its limbs, all the written inscriptions, and even its fundamental essence, the "Dawn-Cause Zero Book," were all erased and completely dissipated in the Unborn World.
The sky collapsed as if a thousand curtains were torn open, and billions of blood-red characters exploded into a shower of ashes and stars, which were swallowed up one by one by the azure Azure Ring light. The whole world seemed to have undergone a "script deletion", and the remains, words, and lion shadows all returned to nothingness. The world returned to deathly silence, leaving only Qin Yu standing alone under the Black Gold Ring light, his figure as the only existence.
Azure Ring responded softly in her mind's eye, her voice trembling with a chilling intensity:
"Qin Yu, it's not the strongest; it's merely an outpost. The Dawn-Cause Zero Book could be erased means that a deeper enemy from the script... is already watching."
The void suddenly collapsed, and at the instant the Fate-Cause Annihilation Lion was completely Annihilation, an extremely intense radiance burst forth from the depths of its shattered soul. That radiance was not blood-red, but a molten gold, as if the very foundation of heaven and earth were burning.
As the light gradually coalesced, a magnificent ancient book slowly emerged.
The ancient book's appearance was like that of a sacred text forged in the furnace of hell. Its jet-black cover was forged from demonic iron, with sharp black thorns coiled around its edges, each arc seemingly capable of Time Splitting. Engraved in the center of the cover was a flame pattern like a blazing sun, at the core of which was a fiery red eye, like the gaze of judgment, staring intently at heaven and earth. The surrounding patterns transformed into burning lines, like lava flowing through a rock wall, constantly pulsating.
The entire book stands atop a charred stone platform, the base surrounded by ancient runes that constantly flash with crimson light, forming flowing flame patterns. The pages are unopened, yet it already exudes a sense of oppression that forces all rules, narratives, and logic to automatically become invalid. Every wisp of overflowing aura seems to deny the existing "script" of heaven and earth, making existence feel that it may be rewritten at any moment.
Azure Ring suddenly appeared in Qin Yu's sea of consciousness, her eyes unusually bright, and she said softly:
"This is... the 'Origin Truth Framework Scripture'."
Her voice trembled as she continued:
"Using the source as its true pen, it reconstructs all frameworks. The illegal, the false, and the transcendent are all ineffective dust before it."
The ancient book trembled slightly, and countless crimson runes appeared around it, like the illusion of pages turning on their own. Each page's turn reconstructed a new framework in the void, only to vanish again, judging the concept of "new life" itself as an illusion and turning it to ashes.
Qin Yu sensed this aura, and his palms unconsciously clenched. The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword hummed slightly, seemingly responding to the pressure of this ancient book.
The fiery array patterns flowed, and the ancient book cover opened its central crimson eye as if it were alive. The light of the eye swept across the void, and the texture of the entire space instantly collapsed, only to be reshaped in another way in an instant, as if the world was nothing more than a page of its manuscript, which could be judged, torn apart, and rewritten at any time.
At this moment, Qin Yu clearly realized that what he had found was the fifth volume of the thirteen volumes of the "Beginningless Silent Origin True Scripture" - the "Origin Truth Framework Scripture".