Starfall Cleanses the Silence · Life Radiance First Appears
The following day, Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi stepped into another area of Realm of Primordial Echoes. The world before them suddenly opened up, and an incomparably majestic mountain rose from the ground, as if tearing open the embrace of the stars. The mountain rose in layers, like celestial steps leading straight to the sky, with countless golden waterfalls surrounding each layer, cascading down like the Milky Way. Under the reflection of the starlight in the night sky, the thousands of feet of water transformed into radiant rivers of light, flowing with mysterious Daoist sounds.
Where the waterfall plunges, the lake ripples with golden light, its surface like a giant mirror reflecting the Milky Way and mountains, a blur of reality and illusion, as if the whole world breathes because of it. Between the cascading light, ancient runes emerge, each drop of water carrying the whispers of cause and effect, as if the mountains themselves were some kind of ancient "heavenly book," recording the veins of Primordial Echoes.
Hong Xiuxiang held her breath, her mind almost captivated by this wondrous sight. She whispered, "This place... is like a celestial palace with layers of pages, each waterfall an undeciphered scripture."
Yunyi's dragon eyes shimmered with a deep blue light reflected in the water as she softly added, "No, this place doesn't resemble a scroll; it's more like a stairway to the soul and destiny. Each level is a trial leading to a deeper realm..."
Qin Yu's gaze was deep, and he felt an extremely suppressed tremor in his heart. He clearly sensed that there was a powerful surge of energy hidden within this "Starfall Heavenly Stairway," as if some unspeakable existence was lurking deep within the waterfall, silently watching them.
The three stood at the foot of the roaring waterfall, the earth rumbling and golden light scattering, as if they were at the heart of a "miracle".
Looking up, he saw the Starfall Heavenly Stairway, layer upon layer, each level like a scroll of celestial scripture, the cascading water like golden chapters. But behind this magnificent and awe-inspiring sight, a chill crept into Qin Yu's heart.
He could sense that behind the waterfalls of each level of the Heavenly Staircase lay unknown adversaries. These were not illusions, but real, tangible killing intent—as if the entire Heavenly Staircase itself was a stage born for battle.
Yunyi's eyes flickered slightly, and he said in a deep voice, "Little Qinzi, this is not just a strange sight, but a battlefield that opens layer by layer. Every layer you ascend will be met with enemies."
Hong Xiuxiang's Brocade Ink Soul Brush trembled slightly, and a page-like light appeared. Her gaze gradually calmed. "If that's really the case, then the top layer... must hold the supreme treasure we seek."
As her voice fell, the entire mountain suddenly trembled, and a faint purplish-black radiance appeared within the waterfall's light, deep and mysterious, as if it were a projection of endless stars and the trajectory of fate. It was an existence that transcended all cognition, as if time and space were intertwined within it, emitting a deep causal resonance.
Qin Yu's heart tightened suddenly. He recognized that aura—it was the legendary Star Abyss Life Marrow. Azure Ring had mentioned the origin of the Star Abyss Life Marrow to Qin Yu earlier.
Star Abyss Life Marrow can only be born in the deepest Abyss Core Rift of the universe. It is a terrifying fault line connecting multiple dimensions, where distorted illusions of cause and effect surge, and Star Abyss Messengers guard the rift. Only by breaking through the heavenly steps, traversing the illusions, and defeating all enemies in the way, can one possibly extract the most core drop of essence.
Yunyi raised her eyes, her expression solemn yet radiant. "If you can obtain it, Little Qinzi, your path... will be completely rewritten."
Hong Xiuxiang's gaze was deep, her brushstrokes shimmering with ink, as she softly added, "But if we fail, the three of us will have our names erased by the turbulent currents of cause and effect."
The three looked at each other, their hearts heavy, yet the same flame ignited in their eyes.
Star Abyss Life Marrow...
That was the deepest gift from the Realm of Primordial Echoes, and also the cruelest test they were about to face.
The three climbed the roaring waterfall steps, amidst swirling mist and raining starlight. However, the moment they stepped onto the first level of the heavenly staircase, the world fell silent. The flowing waterfall suddenly froze in mid-air, transforming into countless shattered crystal fragments. Each crystal reflected not their shadows, but rather—severed destinies and broken souls, as if foreshadowing their fate.
"They've arrived." Qin Yu murmured, the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword in his hand Leaving Stillness hum.
Immediately, the crystal shattered, and dozens of Star Abyss Remnant Spirits emerged from it. Their forms were twisted, they were draped in chains of cause and effect, and their eyes burned with light like shattered galaxies. With each step they took, they left black cracks on the Heavenly Staircase, as if their very existence was a desecration of the "rules".
Leading the pack was a colossal beast, over a hundred feet long, with countless star rings on its back, constantly shattering and reforming. It was the Life-Rending Star-Devouring Beast —a terrifying creature that feeds solely on "tearing apart the orbits of fate."
It opened its gaping maw, its voice echoing with a reversal of cause and effect:
"Those who step into the Heavenly Realm—their destiny is severed."
In an instant, the surrounding space and time reversed, and the aura of the three people was forcibly pulled, as if they were about to be stripped of their existence by the power of fate.
Yunyi's dragon eyes suddenly lit up, her soul wings unfurled, and tens of thousands of butterfly shadows danced, condensing into the Butterfly Abyss Illusory Tide, suppressing the distorted torrent of cause and effect outside.
Hong Xiuxiang's Brocade Ink Soul Brush trembled, and with a single stroke, a Soul Seal Script Law Severance appeared in the void, forcibly severing the life-track link released by the Star-Devouring Beast.
Qin Yu then swung his sword across the sky, combining the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword and the Sword of Dream Silence to unleash the Illusory Consciousness Ashen Blade, cleaving the first remnant spirit into ashes from the Causal Water Curtain.
Boom--!
The three forces intertwined above the celestial steps, instantly transforming the entire first level into a battlefield of Annihilation and reconstruction. Countless starlight fell, as if the heavens themselves were burning.
The Life-Rending Star-Devouring Beast roared, and the star ring on its back suddenly exploded, turning into countless "fragments of fate" that bombarded down, seemingly trying to crush the three of them with the power of the entire galaxy.
Boom! The celestial steps roared, the waterfall's starlight exploded instantly, and countless Star Abyss Remnant Spirits attacked simultaneously.
Their chains transformed into burning galaxies, lashing wildly at the void. As the chains swung, the entire celestial staircase crumbled. Each fall created a sea of causal fragments, within which countless images flickered—the souls of enemies they had once slain, forcibly awakened, tearing at them in return.
Qin Yu's sword flashed, and the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword and the Sword of Dream Silence resonated together, releasing the second form of the Sword of Dream Silence: Soul Annihilation - Lingering Dream Chant.
The world fell silent, as if the world had been stripped of its sound. Then, countless annihilating rhythms poured out from the void, like invisible nuclear ripples, tearing the remnant soul's consciousness into fragments of light layer by layer.
Silently, yet trillions of soul threads snapped in an instant, black cracks burning on the remnant spirit, like slow-motion shattering glass.
Hong Xiuxiang followed closely behind, holding the Brocade Ink Soul Brush. With a turn of the brush, Thousand Pages Sever Causality suddenly appeared in the void.
Countless glowing pages transformed into flashing swords and blades, each page etched with a destiny trajectory as it flipped through the air. When they suddenly slashed down, the causal lines of the entire battlefield were shattered into pieces.
In an instant, the remnant spirit's body was sliced open by countless books of light, and each fragment reflected a "future that never existed."
Yunyi took flight, unleashing the Rending Domain Dragon Soul.
With a dragon's roar, the dragon soul shockwave swept in all directions, tearing the entire star waterfall apart like a sonic boom. The void was ripped open into countless black cracks, and the remnant spirit was shattered by the dragon phantom, its soul consciousness exploding in the sky like fireworks.
In the first round, the three of them suppressed dozens of remnant spirits, forcing them to retreat steadily.
A deafening roar!
The star rings on the back of the Life-Rending Star-Devouring Beast suddenly burst into flames, each ring like a star exploding, turning into streaks of light that crashed to the earth.
The light and shadow of countless shattered star rings descended from the sky like a rain of Xingyun. When they crashed onto the celestial steps, the waterfall of starlight instantly evaporated, transforming into endless spatial vortexes.
It unleashed its first great supernatural power Night Cause Reverse Attraction!
All skill chains in the world were forcibly reversed. The sword light that Qin Yu unleashed was actually forced back into his hand. The pages of Hong Xiuxiang's book suddenly flew back to the tip of the pen in mid-air. Yunyi's butterfly shadow froze instantly, as if it were sealed outside the dream.
The three seemed to be forced to witness "their future being erased," and their souls suffered a backlash in an instant.
Qin Yu snorted coldly, a blue light flashing between his forehead. He immediately activated the Fate Cause Master Seal - Cause Lock · Mirror-Binding Law, forcibly locking the reversed cause and effect and stabilizing himself.
Azure Ring's sea of consciousness trembled, and the light of Annihilation burst forth, dissolving most of the reverse pull impact for him.
Hong Xiuxiang held the brush with both hands, and with a fierce stroke, released the Soul Seal Script Law Severance.
A golden-blue seal appeared in the void, like a suspended star, and fell instantly, completely nailing the Star-Eating Beast to its doom! The scene was like iron chains piercing through the entire universe.
Yunyi roared angrily, the dragon soul flapped its wings, and unleashed the Black Abyss Devouring Descent.
A black vortex transformed in her palm, devouring all the fragments of the star ring. All the falling streaks of fate collapsed instantly, turning to ashes which she swallowed whole!
Boom! The Heavenly Staircase was shattered, and the battlefield fell into disarray.
The Life-Rending Star-Devouring Beast roared in fury, burning its life force to unleash its Ultimate combined attack—
"Fate Trajectory World Collapse!"
All the star rings behind it reassembled, transforming into a supernova that burst forth in the void, its light enough to tear apart the entire Star Abyss. The causal chain reversed wildly, and the entire Heavenly Staircase trembled violently, as if it were about to be completely annihilated.
Qin Yu's eyes were cold as he unleashed the fourth form of the Sword of Dream Silence: Desolate Fate - Eternal Fall of the Dream Realm!
The sword light transformed into a boundless vortex, pulling the Star-Devouring Beast into an endless, falling dream world. Time and space collapsed instantly, leaving only an eternal sense of falling!
At the same time, Hong Xiuxiang her brush, burning her soul with blood to unleash her Ultimate technique, "The Final Chapter of the Sole Book: The Realm-Severing Script."
An enormous "End" character appeared in the void, its strokes spanning heaven and earth. The moment the stroke was made, all enemy souls in the world froze simultaneously, and then began to collapse violently!
Yunyi's furious eyes widened as she unleashed the Silent Abyss Single Gaze!
Her right eye burned like Star Abyss, and a chain of silent light pierced through the void, directly piercing the life axis of the Star-Devouring Beast. The entire world froze instantly, time was frozen, and the enemy's soul shattered into fragments in an instant!
Triple ultimate techniques intertwined!
With a deafening roar, the Heavenly Staircase completely collapsed, the Star-Devouring Beast and its remnant spirits Annihilation, and their ashes fell with the Starfall, transforming into countless shimmering raindrops of light that sprinkled across the entire first level.
A blend of beauty and destruction, this battle felt like a true apocalypse for the stars.
As the Star-Devouring Beast utterly collapsed under the combined Annihilation counterattack of the three, its massive form slowly disintegrated as if burned by a galaxy, countless fragments of light turning into shattered stardust that plunged into the waterfall of light below. Boom—The entire Heavenly Staircase trembled violently, as if even the very foundations of cause and effect were being torn apart and reassembled. The starlight waters, which had been polluted by it, miraculously underwent a transformation at this moment:
The filthy aura of blood and shadow was completely wiped away in the deafening impact, and the radiance of the cascading waterfall suddenly turned into a pure silver-blue, like a cleansed celestial river reflecting the endless void. Each stream of light in the waterfall carried glittering starlight, as if real stars were merging into the water, flowing downstream, striking the rock walls and bursting out colorful mists of light.
Amidst the swirling light and mist, the battlefield's remains, the shattered chains of cause and effect, and the fragmented phantoms were all swallowed up by the starlight, as if this fierce battle had never existed, leaving only a pure and flawless landscape.
Qin Yu before the waterfall, his long hair dampened by the splashing starlight. He gazed at the rushing water, feeling the causal rhythm within it returning to order. The deep, resonant sound was like the universe singing in his ears.
Hong Xiuxiang gripped the Brocade Ink Soul Brush tightly, her eyes filled with shock and relief. She watched the pure light flow down from the Heavenly Waterfall, and for a moment she felt as if she were inside a Stainless book, each drop of starlight a word written by heaven and earth.
Yunyi spread her wings and took flight, her dragon eyes reflecting countless rays of light, a blend of deep blue and dark purple, like a mirror image of a soul resonating with heaven and earth. She murmured, "This is... the prelude to the Star Abyss Life Marrow... indeed, the higher one goes, the closer one is to the origin."
The three stood side by side, gazing at the Heavenly Stairs. The cascading waterfalls of starlight, reflected in the starry night sky, resembled a tidal wave, their magnificent grandeur enough to take any living being's breath away. Each level seemed to conceal unsolved mysteries, while at the very top, the mysterious Star Abyss Life Marrow emitted a faint, purplish-black light, as if beckoning them to continue their ascent.