Returning to Life from Certain Death · Annihilation Breaks Through

The shattered Fate Sequence Holy Codex transformed into countless fragments, burning and collapsing in the vast sky of the wasteland, then coalescing into a blood-red storm that swept across the heavens and earth. The woman stood in the center of the storm, her eyes extremely cold and fierce. As the Holy Scripture shattered completely, the suppressed power within her was finally released.

"Since my destiny as a writer has been ruined, then I will fight to the death with my true self."

She stretched out her arms, and suddenly an enormous Fate Cause Avatar—

This avatar, towering over ten thousand feet tall, resembled a colossal shadow constructed from chains of cause and effect and crimson scriptures. Atop its head burned the "Annihilation Dawn Sun Wheel," like a star in the sky undergoing destruction. Its limbs transformed into "Fate Cause Heavenly Pillars," each step crushing the wasteland into silent fragments. From its chest emerged an "Unfinished Book of Fate," its pages turning without wind, reflecting the fates of countless erased beings, calling out like ghosts.

Boom--!

As the avatar fully descended, the entire wasteland's spacetime collapsed, shattering like glass to reveal a dark purple abyss of nothingness. The colors of heaven and earth faded completely, with only the burning blood light of the avatar behind her illuminating the entire world.

Qin Yu's brow furrowed suddenly, and the Azure Ring deep within his sea of consciousness trembled slightly. Hong Xiuxiang's face paled even more, and she whispered, "This is... her true form, the incarnation of Annihilation Dawn Realm · Peak Fate Cause Avatar..."

The woman's voice echoed through the heavens and earth, carrying a chilling killing intent:

"Since the established order has been broken, then let a new destiny be written in blood! Today, none of you will leave!"

She suddenly raised her hand, and a giant palm formed from billions of Fate-Cause -cause scriptures swept down, shattering the entire space inch by inch under the palm's shadow, its power terrifying beyond measure.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang exchanged a glance, and then attacked simultaneously.

Qin Yu directly activated the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, its azure light intertwined with the power of Annihilation Abyss. With a single strike, he unleashed [Sever the Epoch Without a Trace]. Wherever the sword passed, spacetime collapsed, and causal lines snapped.

Behind Hong Xiuxiang, the Spirit Brocade Book Realm emerged, her Innate Martial Soul fully unleashed, and the pages transformed into a "sealed ocean of words," forcefully blocking the giant hand's path.

Boom!!!

The giant hand and the combined force of the two exploded in the void, the shockwaves rippled up the desolate wilderness in all directions, turning it into a sky full of debris and quicksand. What resounded between heaven and earth was not sound, but the sound of countless Fate Cause Chain being torn apart, like the beating of the heart of the universe.

The Fate Cause Avatar behind the woman suddenly roared to the sky, its voice not like that of a living being, but like the lament of the very laws of heaven and earth. Immediately, the unfinished "Book of Destiny" burst into flames, transforming into billowing blood flames that spread across the sky, covering half the firmament.

[Fate-Annihilating Sacred Mark: Myriad Orders Collapse]

The burning pages of the scrolls fell from the sky like a giant meteor shower, each page a complete "chain of fate." They trailed long, blood-red tails, burning with countless runes, and crashed down upon the earth with an overwhelming pressure capable of destroying everything.

Boom!!!!

The moment the first page fell, the entire wasteland was crushed and sank completely, sand and stones flew everywhere, and mountains collapsed instantly, as if their existence had been erased. Each page of the Fate-Cause was like a "World Extinguisher nuclear bomb," destroying the entire area upon its fall.

Above the sky, crimson light pierced through the clouds, forming a vast, fiery ocean of storms, reflecting billions of "unborn futures" and "erased pasts." The screams of countless souls echoed across the land, as if hell itself had been reborn.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang were instantly locked down by this wave of attacks.

The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword within Qin Yu's body trembled, eleven annihilation sword patterns appearing on its blade, and its sword intent soared into the sky. He roared:

"Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword - Sever Observation, Leaving No Mirror!"

In an instant, a dazzling sword light swept across the heavens and earth, as if shattering the "mirror world" completely, reflecting countless deleted illusory futures and annihilating them. The sword light collided fiercely with the first page of the Book of Fate-Cause, exploding into blinding flames.

Boom!!!

Hundreds of purplish-red energy vortexes erupted in the sky, each powerful enough to tear apart a world. The shockwaves transformed into a destructive storm, flattening tens of thousands of miles of wasteland and stirring up towering dust storms.

At the same time, Hong Xiuxiang clasped her hands together, unleashing her Innate Martial Soul Spirit Brocade Book Realm. Millions of scrolls of spirit books transformed into a light screen, rapidly overlapping to form a "Soul-Sealing Book Array," forcibly sealing the second page of the Fate-Cause Book. The sea of spirit books burned with golden and purple flames, emitting a deafening roar that tore through the heavens and earth, barely managing to block that immense attack.

But the third page fell with irresistible force, slamming into the two of them!

Qin Yu's heart skipped a beat, Azure Ring within his body erupted with light, releasing its power directly:

[Azure Ring, Second Form: Realm-Severing Silent Light]

In an instant, all colors in the world were stripped away, leaving only a pale, Annihilation radiance. That radiance was like a "death line" that stretched across the universe, Sever Karma and tearing Time Splitting. The third page of the Fate-Cause shattered the moment it touched the extinguished light, turning into endless ashes and being erased by the power of Annihilation.

Boom!!!

Half of the sky collapsed completely amidst the intertwining of the crimson storm and the Annihilation radiance, the shattered spatial slabs floating and rotating in the void abyss like continents;

The earth cracked into countless black fissures, from which spewed fragments of causal chains, shimmering with golden and red flames;

The aftershocks of the three attacks intertwined, causing this area to completely lose its order and briefly transform into chaotic disorder.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang were thrown back dozens of miles by the aftershocks. Their robes were torn by the storm, and blood spilled from their mouths, but they still managed to hold their ground and withstand the woman's first deadly attack.

The woman's gaze was as cold as a knife, and her voice seemed to come from a shattered time and space:

"Very well... You actually managed to withstand my Fate-Annihilating Sacred Mark. Then let's try again—can you withstand the true killing move of the 'Fate Cause Avatar'!"

The woman's "Fate Cause Avatar" erupted completely, and the illusory imperial figure behind her seemed to support the entire world, while the blood-red Fate-Cause Scroll burning around her grew increasingly intense.

[Fate-Cause Destroyed by Heaven, Unparalleled Life Collapsed]

With a flick of her finger, the void suddenly collapsed, and countless blood-red pages transformed into countless meteorites, crashing down upon the heavens and earth, as if to directly "erase" Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang's fates, as if they had never existed.

Space shattered, time tore apart, and all order was utterly destroyed. At that moment, it was as if the entire middle layer of the Source of Epochless was pulled into an "apocalyptic scenario," with countless afterimages of the future burning in the air, flashing, and then vanishing into nothingness.

Qin Yu gritted his teeth, raised the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword high, and burned all the sword patterns on the blade, releasing the [Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword - Source Silence Severs All - Trace and Sever, Leaving No Wheel], forcefully blocking the impact of the Heavenly Meteor at the forefront. However, his shoulder flesh exploded, his robes tore, and his figure was almost swallowed by the annihilation light.

Hong Xiuxiang's gaze suddenly hardened at that moment.

She flipped her hands over, and a crystal-clear magic weapon appeared in her palms. It was a soul-suppressing artifact personally bestowed upon her by her master, Elder Liu Mei — Silent Mystery Realm · Supreme from the Dawn Cloud First Hall.

[Dawn Dream Soul Lotus - Silent Brocade Seals the Cosmos]!

As soon as the magical artifact was unleashed, the world fell silent.

Endless purple-gold lotus petals emerged, and a dreamlike lotus platform that blotted out the sky unfolded. Trillions of runes were engraved within the petals, each rune shining with the dual aura of "Annihilation" and "protection".

As Hong Xiuxiang softly called out:

"Eternal Annihilation, soul sealed and returned to the universe!"

Boom boom boom!!!

The lotus platform pressed down, unleashing countless rays of purple-gold flame, as if engulfing the entire world in a "Dream Stillness and Burning."

One after another, the blood-red scrolls collapsed, burned out, and vanished under the suppression of the lotus platform!

The woman's Fate Cause Avatar struggled violently, and the Emperor's Shadow roared to the sky, trying to piece the scroll back together, but under the purple-gold lotus light, her Fate-Cause script burned page by page, turning to ash completely.

"--No!!! I am the Ten Thousand Bones Empress! How can I be sealed here..."

Boom--

Before she could finish speaking, her entire Fate Cause Avatar exploded, burning into a sky full of blood-red ash, and vanished completely in the light of the purple-gold lotus. The world returned to silence, as if she had never existed.

In the depths of the void, only her echo remained, gradually fading away in the wind.

Hong Xiuxiang collapsed to her knees, her breath extremely weak. Blood trickled from the corner of her lips, and the magical lotus platform in her hand shattered into countless stardust fragments.

Qin Yu's eyes widened at the sight, and he immediately helped her up, his voice low but full of respect:

"Miss Hong, this time... if it weren't for you, we might have been completely wiped out."

Ashes drifted from the sky, and the wind howled mournfully.

The Ten Thousand Bones Empress, the Fate Cause Avatar, has now been utterly Annihilation.

However, deep within that void, a faint echo of Fate-Cause lingered, as if suggesting that the battle was not truly over...

The light of the golden lotus faded, and the ashes drifted away in the wind, gradually restoring tranquility to the world. But just after this deathly silence, a deep rumble suddenly echoed from the depths of the void.

Qin Yu's brow twitched suddenly, and the light patterns of the third ancient diagram appeared on their own, beginning to resonate strongly with some kind of power in the world. At the same time, Hong Xiuxiang's first ancient diagram also trembled in her sea of consciousness, and an ancient rune slowly bloomed.

The ashes in the void did not completely disappear, but were drawn together by some invisible force, slowly gathering in mid-air and condensing into a phantom image. The image was not real, but it carried the vicissitudes of time, as if recording the remnants of countless eras.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang exchanged a glance, and at the same time, their hearts skipped a beat.

"This is..."

Hong Xiuxiang's face was pale, but she struggled to stand up, her voice trembling slightly. "It's the coordinates of the second fragment of the map... The Fate Cause Avatar of the Ten Thousand Bones Empress's destiny has been completely Annihilation by us, but her lingering echo has become a catalyst, drawing out the aura of the fragment from its depths!"

As the image gradually became clearer, ancient chants suddenly echoed in the sky, accompanied by thunderous roars. Deep within the mountains, an ancient path shrouded in gray mist slowly emerged. Along that path stood countless broken stone tablets, each inscribed with indistinct runes, seemingly once a "Fate Cause Stele Forest" of some ancient civilization.

Azure Ring's voice also rang out in Qin Yu's mind at this moment, calm but with a hint of solemnity:

"The second fragment... is located at the deepest part of that forest of steles. But be careful, this area is no ordinary place. Each of those fragments carries the logic of Fate-Cause. Getting too close will pull your soul into nothingness."

Hong Xiuxiang's eyes still showed weariness, but also a resolute light. She said softly:

"Young Master Qin, this time, we must retrieve that incomplete map ourselves, no matter what."

Qin Yu looked at her with a complicated expression, but finally nodded.

In the distance, the ancient road was shrouded in gray mist, and the forest of steles was oppressive, as if countless extinguished narratives were slumbering within. Faint, wailing sounds echoed in the air, like the reverberation of beings that had been completely wiped out in the void.

An invisible, chilling aura enveloped the heavens and earth.

The second fragment of the map is within reach.

At the same time, Qin Yu felt a faint sense of danger. It was as if at the end of this forest of steles, what awaited them was not just the fragmented map, but something far more terrifying than the "Ten Thousand Bones Empress"...

The low murmur of the stele forest grew heavier, as if the souls of those who had perished for millennia were echoing there. The oppressive atmosphere made the air seem to freeze, and Hong Xiuxiang's face grew paler and her breath became weak.

Qin Yu frowned slightly, raised his hand and flipped it over. A flash of green light appeared in his palm, and a pill appeared. The pill was a golden-orange color like glass, with faint Dao patterns flowing on its surface. With each breath, one could feel the surging vitality within it.

"Miss Hong, swallow it." Qin Yu's voice was deep, yet carried an unyielding firmness.

Hong Xiuxiang paused for a moment, then without any pretense, she reached out and took the pill. When her slender fingertips gently touched the pill, she could even feel the warm life force pulsating at her fingertips. She tilted her head back and swallowed it. The pill melted instantly in her mouth, turning into a warm and smooth spiritual stream that flowed down her meridians. In an instant, her previously broken meridians were repaired, and her breathing gradually stabilized.

Qin Yu didn't delay either. He took out another recovery pill he had refined from the Azure Evolution Core and swallowed it directly. As the effects of the medicine spread, the hidden wounds in his body caused by the Dao Shadow Soldier Commander slowly healed, and the stagnant energy in his chest gradually dissipated.

In just over ten breaths, although their injuries had not fully healed, they had recovered to a state where they could fight again.

Hong Xiuxiang looked up at Qin Yu, a gentle light appearing in her eyes, and said softly, "If it weren't for you... I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to hold on until now."

Qin Yu shook his head, his gaze fixed on the distant forest of steles shrouded in swirling gray mist, his voice resolute. "Now that we've come this far, there's no turning back. We must obtain this second fragment of the map, no matter what."

Deep within the forest of steles, a low rumble seemed to echo their voices, and the runes between the steles gradually lit up, like pairs of indifferent and cold eyes watching the intruders.

Hong Xiuxiang took a deep breath, nodded gently, and gripped her Spirit Brocade Book Realm tightly, her eyes even more determined than before.

The two auras intertwined at this moment. Although it was only a brief recovery, it was like two of the most dazzling flames igniting in the darkness, ready to set this desolate forest of monuments ablaze at any moment.