The golden trial arena shattered with a deafening roar, the earth cracked like glass, and the sky resembled a torn scroll, with fragments transforming into streaks of fire that fell from the void. Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi stood side by side on the shattered river of cause and effect, their souls intertwined, like three inextinguishable beacons, flowing against the raging torrents of fate.
However, just when they thought the Judgment Domain had collapsed, the enormous, immeasurable figure of the Judge did not dissipate. Its single eye slowly turned, and countless chains of causal light surged from the cracks, like blood flowing backward, frantically repairing itself. Golden blood flames burst from its body, reflected on countless shattered Fate Shard Crystal, as if billions of worlds were wailing.
"The reversal of judgment... is not yet over." The voice was chillingly cold, not words, but the very force of fate itself. As it uttered these three words, the shattered space was forcibly reversed and pieced back together, the severed river of fate flowed again, and all the destroyed phantom skills were reborn one after another, gathering once more in the Arbiter's palm.
Its body was even more terrifying than before, and within its single eye condensed three rings of destiny—past, present, and future. The rings overlapped, like cosmic gears. As the rings slowly rotated, time was twisted, space was shattered, and the destiny trajectories surged like a raging blood tide, the oppressive force pressing directly upon Qin Yu and his companions.
Cold sweat broke out on Qin Yu's brow, the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword hummed incessantly, and the Azure Ring trembled slightly in his sea of consciousness: This was not a simple resurrection, but rather the arbiter had entered its second arbitral form.
Hong Xiuxiang gripped the Brocade Ink Soul Brush tightly, her face pale, yet she resolutely raised the brush. She whispered, "It is now... going to use the Triple Fate Orbit to completely erase us." Countless pages of light and shadow appeared at the tip of the brush, yet trembled inch by inch under the golden aura of judgment.
Yunyi's eyes flashed with the light of the abyss. She bit her lip and roared softly. Her dark dragon wings suddenly spread out, and the power of her soul-suppressing realm rose up. She forcefully withstood the pressure of the three rings falling down, but her shoulder was also scorched by the golden light, and blood seeped out.
Qin Yu's eyes narrowed, and he said in a low but firm voice, "It hasn't been defeated yet, but we must not retreat." He took a step forward, and the power of the Silent Origin surged. The [Silent Ring - Initial Realm Resonance] slowly unfolded, and the black-gold silent light intertwined with the illusory light patterns of the Sword of Dream Silence, beginning to construct a new counterattack.
The sky trembled as the three confronted the second form of the Arbiter, resembling the opening of a true apocalypse.
The aura of Annihilation Origin around Qin Yu had reached its Limit. The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword floated in the air with a roar, its blade like an Annihilation celestial river, shimmering with a cold light capable of shattering Shatter Cause. Behind him, the illusory image of the Azure Ring appeared and disappeared, the Realm-Severing Silent Light flowing, and the sound of the ring resounding, as if the entire Waterfall Heavenly Stairway was trembling along with it.
Her Hong Xiuxiang fingers gripped the Brocade Ink Soul Brush tightly, her soul blood intertwining with the ink's light. Her hair moved without wind, and countless phantom pages swirled around her, like unwritten chapters of the universe, awaiting her to inscribe the "final chapter."
Yunyi slowly raised her eyes, and the Black Abyss Dragon Soul and the Butterfly Shadow Illusion Tide appeared together. The Silent Abyss Single Gaze flowed in her eyes, carrying a terrifying aura that could freeze time and space. Countless fragments of Night Feather Azure Expansion floated around her, transforming into a destructive star river hanging in the air.
Between the three, their souls and vital energy intertwined, converging into an unprecedented storm of Annihilation. In the air, causal cracks spread like a spider web, the light of their destinies was broken layer by layer, and even the heavens and earth began to emit a dull, shattering sound.
Qin Yu spoke in a low voice, as if burning from the depths of his Fate Soul: "This strike... is not just for a breakthrough, but to completely obliterate all causal judgments that hinder us."
Hong Xiuxiang's eyes were cold, and with a turn of the pen tip, a huge outline of the word "End" appeared in the void, and the ink light condensed into a prison.
Yunyi's dragon eyes shone brightly, and the Star Butterfly Illusionary Sea and the Annihilation Abyss Black Dragon roared simultaneously, their sounds of Annihilation resounding throughout the entire Heavenly Staircase.
At this moment, the three of them stood side by side, like three different trajectories of fate that finally converged into a single line of annihilation. All the power was accumulating, all the rules of heaven and earth were trembling, and all the star waterfalls were halting due to the impending impact.
Just as Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi Yi had caught their breath, the Fate Shard Crystal on the Heavenly Steps suddenly shattered, and the previously annihilated Fate-Trajectory Adjudicator was reborn in the torrent of cause and effect from the crystal! But this time, it was no longer in its previous humanoid judgment posture, but had completely stepped into the second form of the Fate Master.
In the void, a colossal, pitch-black figure of judgement, towering ten thousand feet tall, appeared. Its body was entirely pieced together from countless fragments of destiny, each fragment shimmering with the phantoms of billions of life paths, as if the "ends" of countless lives converged upon it. Its head was faceless and eyeless, merely a blank fragment of Fate Book, its pages constantly burning and turning to ash, which fell to the earth like a torrential rain. Its arms transformed into enormous scales of destiny, one side suspending "birth" and the other "annihilation," the scales eternally tilted, emitting a soul-crushing roar that shattered the very soul.
With each step it took, the starlight and flowing water of the entire fifth-level Waterfall Heavenly Stairway turned into dust of fate, and the rhythm of the void completely stopped, as if all existence had been forcibly brought into the judgment of the scales of fate. The three even felt their heartbeats, breaths, and even "future actions" being prematurely taken away.
The Fate-Judging Ashen Bell
The Arbiter raised the head of the void, and a colossal bell resounded through the air. Once the bell rang, the "future fragments" in the enemy's consciousness were shattered, causing any unreleased skills to prematurely fail.
Countless specks of fate spread with the tolling of the bell, like a white storm enveloping Qin Yu and his companions, shattering their skill chains like glass.
Annihilation-Track Tilting Scales
The scales on both arms suddenly tilted, forcibly including the enemy in the judgment. The left scale represents "certain death", and the right scale represents "Eternal Silence". No matter which side the enemy falls on, the result is annihilation.
Suddenly, each of the three people's "illusions of fate" appeared behind them, dragged by the scales, and the lines of the void kept breaking.
Future-Burning Chapter
Its head transformed into fragments of Fate Book, instantly burning countless pages and erasing the enemy's existence for the next few breaths.
Hong Xiuxiang was horrified to discover that her book realm for the next three breaths was completely blank! Yunyi's dragon soul shadow was also forcibly erased for a moment, as if it had never existed.
The entire scene resembled an apocalyptic judgment. The starlight of the waterfall on the fifth floor was completely transformed into a stream of fateful ashes, and Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi were forced to their Limit with no way to back down.
The colossal figure of the Fate-Trajectory Adjudicator stood in the void, its ten-thousand-foot-tall body like a shackle of order that pierced through time and space. The scales swayed back and forth, rumbling and vibrating, and the gray bell tolled again and again, shattering the future of all living beings. The Waterfall Heavenly Stairway in front of the three no longer flowed with starlight, but had turned into a completely disordered gray stream of fate.
The [Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword] in Qin Yu's hand suddenly resonated, its blade gleaming with a light interwoven with black and dream patterns. Azure Ring azure ring vibrated slightly in response from the depths of his consciousness. Qin Yu's eyes turned cold as he uttered in a low voice, "Silent Origin - Unborn Silent Cause!" A black soul pattern appeared like a shattered sky, forcefully cleaving a crack in the Fate-Judging Ashen Bell raised by the Arbiter. Immediately, he flipped his left hand, and the Sword of Dream Silence appeared, its blade radiating illusory light. The fourth move—Silent Fate - Eternal Fall of the Dream Realm—was suddenly released. Countless dream vortexes opened instantly, drawing the Arbiter's scales into an eternal fall Timelessness. Even for just a moment, it slowed the giant shadow's movements.
At this moment, Hong Xiuxiang's mind burned with passion, and the tip of the [Brocade Ink Soul Brush] in her hand danced. Countless void seals appeared instantly. Her soul blood burned to ashes, and finally, the tip of the brush gently fell, solidifying into a single word in the void—"The End." As the word "The End" appeared, the world instantly darkened, time stopped, and all chains of cause and effect shattered in the void. Her new Ultimate skill—The Final Chapter of the Sole Book: The Realm-Severing Script —unfolded! This was a forbidden technique that wrote existence as "completed," and even the giant shadow of the Arbiter suddenly froze.
At the same time, Yunyi raised her head, her dragon eye igniting with a three-colored soul ring. Behind her Black Abyss Dragon Soul and a sea of billions of butterflies manifested simultaneously, their dragon roars shaking the heavens and earth. She whispered, "Silent Abyss Single Gaze - Three Souls Descend upon the Severed Realm!" That eye instantly descended, its black, purple, and gold light piercing through the void, locking onto the three foundations of the Arbiter's Fate Track, Soul Track, and Technique Track. The entire void seemed to be pierced by the light of three giant dragons' eyes, Fate-Trajectory Adjudicator instantly shattered, countless streams of fate surging forth.
Three forces erupted simultaneously --
Qin Yu's Silent Origin Dream Sword completely dragged the arbiter's causal logic into a downward spiral;
The final chapter of "Hong Xiuxiang" freezes its existence in the "completed" ending;
Yunyi's Silent Abyss Single Gaze completely erased the three fundamental principles of her destiny.
Boom--!
The entire fifth-level Waterfall Heavenly Stairway suddenly exploded, the starlight and water flow reversed and shattered into billions of fragments. The colossal shadow of the Fate-Trajectory Adjudicator, standing ten thousand feet tall, was completely pulverized by the combined efforts of the three. The shattered scales turned into a stream of ash, the broken Fate Book burned to nothingness, and the final chime of the bell faded away without a trace.
The Space Silence for a moment, then a solid, purplish-black crystal appeared above the waterfall. It was the core of the Fate Shard Crystal, formed by compressing the remnants of the Arbiter and the fragments of starlight. The surface of the crystal reflected the afterimages of billions of fate tracks, echoing with a low hum, as if carrying the causal waves of the entire world.
At this moment, the three were covered in blood, but their eyes shone with unwavering determination. They knew that this was only the fifth level of the Realm of Primordial Echoes. The higher they went, the more difficult it became.
Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, Yunyi were lifted up by the collapsing torrent of starlight from the fifth layer, as if surrounded by the echoes of countless destiny orbits as they ascended step by step. As they crossed the broken waterfall of light, the world suddenly changed.
What lay before me was no longer the flowing starlight, but a Time's Withered Abyss.
The entire celestial staircase seemed to have fallen into a desolate cosmic ruin. The waterfall transformed into a gray-white reverse flow of time, descending from the sky but freezing in mid-air. Each drop of water reflected a shattered future and a fragmented past. Cracks filled the void, within which emerged the afterimages of ancient battlefields: the low horns of fallen gods, the blood-red banners of defeated emperors, and the silent lament of billions of lives turning to dust simultaneously.
The moment they took their first step, the surrounding spacetime immediately distorted.
Qin Yu's shadow was forcibly stretched to a thousand feet, transforming into another "Qin Yu" struggling deep within the gray waterfall, as if his future self was howling in agony amidst endless cycles of defeat and reincarnation. Hong Xiuxiang's figure was torn in two in the void, one half reflecting her lonely childhood and helplessness as she was forced to cultivate the Book Realm; the other half showing her possible future fate—standing alone at the end of the Sea of Books, her face cold and desolate. Yunyi's dragon soul phantom was also split, one swirling in the Silent Abyss of the past, the other falling into the Emptiness of the Black Abyss, seemingly foreshadowing the ultimate and complete annihilation of her existence.
Rumble--
In the center of the celestial staircase, a throne made of countless fragments of Time Splitting bones appeared. On the throne, a colossal shadow covered in spatial and temporal cracks slowly raised its head.
That was a Time-Judging Beast, the Abyss-Reversing Desolate Venerable.
Its form is that of a half-dragon, half-beast, its body not covered in scales, but rather by countless flowing "fragments of time," like a broken hourglass being reassembled. With each step of its limbs, countless afterimages of the past appear on the ground: the cries of children, the flames of war, the fragments of burnt-out stars. Its eyes are not pupils, but two enormous clocks: the left eye reverses, going back to the past; the right eye spins fast, devouring the future.
When it growled softly, the sound seemed to pour down like billions of years at once, causing the three people's hearts to stop, as if their lives had come to an end.
Under its aura, the world suddenly lost its "present." Everything struggled in the tearing apart of the past and the future, and the three could not even feel their own breathing. Once their skill chains were activated, they were instantly pulled into a state of "not yet happened" or "already ended," making it impossible to use them smoothly.
In that instant, Qin Yu's blood surged, and the Azure Ring trembled violently deep within his sea of consciousness. A chill ran through him:
"The sixth level... is even more insane than any of the previous levels. This level will probably require us to gamble everything we have."
Hong Xiuxiang gripped the [Brocade Ink Soul Brush] tightly, blood seeping from her fingertips. The brush trembled silently, and countless pages slowly appeared in the void. She bit her lip and whispered:
"A chapter of fate... This time, I will not back down!"
Yunyi's dragon eyes suddenly lit up, and dragon wings and a sea of butterflies appeared behind her. Countless butterfly shadows intertwined with the Silent Abyss Black Dragon to form a vast azure dragon Dragon Abyss. She smiled sweetly, yet it carried a chilling intent.
"Little Qinzi, this beast... let's tear him to pieces together!"
Boom--!