Life Marrow Incarnation · Ultimate Judgment

As Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi finished healing and stepped onto the final step leading to the seventh level, the entire world suddenly froze. The sound of the waterfall stopped abruptly, the starlight froze in mid-air, and every drop of water seemed to be locked in the moment before it fell.

The steps beneath their feet were no longer ordinary starlight stone steps, but were paved with transparent crystal plates of destiny. Beneath the crystal plates, billions of destiny paths hung upside down, like rivers of light, reflecting the life and death of countless beings, where birth and death unfolded in an instant.

A suppressed roar filled the air, as if emanating from an indescribable heart, pounding at the very core of the Waterfall Heavenly Stairway. With each "heartbeat," the Fate Soul imprints in the hearts of Qin Yu and the other two trembled, as if forcibly aligned by a supreme will, their destinies forced into synchronization.

At this moment, they clearly realized that the trials of the first six levels were merely a selection process by "fate." The real judgment had only just begun on this seventh level.

The distant waterfall no longer plunged down, but flowed upwards, transforming into a Star Abyss Pillar that soared straight into the sky. At the core of the pillar, liquid Star Abyss Life Marrow was slowly flowing, its light more intense than the sun and more profound than the night sky, with countless broken causal lines wrapped around it, as if the origin of the universe was breathing.

A sense of oppression washed over them like a tidal wave—not physically, but crushing on a matter of fate. Even with just breathing, the three felt their futures being constantly rewritten and altered, as if they might lose the right to continue existing in the next instant.

At the end of this frozen space-time and cause and effect, a blurry giant shadow begins to emerge from the depths of life essence—it is not a physical form, but a concrete manifestation of "destiny itself".

The moment one steps onto the seventh level of the Waterfall Heavenly Stairway, the world suddenly freezes. The starlight ceases to flow, time stops, and even the rise and fall of breath seem to be frozen. The entire staircase transforms into an invisible scroll of starlight, and at the very center of that scroll stands a colossal shadow.

Its body seemed to be formed from endless streams of purplish-black liquid light, each drop carrying the fate of billions of worlds. Starlight flowed along its surface, condensing into twelve rivers of destiny that circled around it, each river containing the flickering images of life and death of living beings. It was a record of "existence itself," indifferent, ruthless, and beyond reproach.

Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, Yunyi all held their breath—this oppressive feeling wasn't from power, but from the deprivation of their "right to exist."

The colossal shadow slowly lowered, and countless runes of destiny appeared in its swirling vortex head. It did not speak, but an irresistible will struck the three people's consciousness directly.

"You all, writing this here, your end is only silence."

As the words fell, the heavens roared, the twelve rivers of destiny trembled in unison, and a golden-black pillar of light suddenly fell, enveloping Qin Yu. At that moment, his entire body seemed to turn into a blank sheet of paper—all ten breaths of the future were erased, skills, counterattacks, and the possibility of existence were all left blank.

"Qin Yu!" Hong Xiuxiang exclaimed in shock. She picked up the newly fused Brocade Ink Soul Brush in her hand and wrote swiftly. Countless golden and blue seals appeared in the void, forcibly intercepting the pillar of light that was rewriting the trajectory of fate. Instantly, the pages of the book turned into swords and scattered, and the cause and effect were cut page by page, barely tearing a gap in the blank space of Qin Yu's trajectory of fate.

At the same time, Yunyi roared, her dragon soul shadow tearing through the void. As her wings unfurled, countless night feathers transformed into a meteor shower, cascading down directly at the life essence vortex in the giant shadow's chest—

[Night Feather Azure Expansion]!

The black and purple light rain collided with the golden and black vortex, the explosion shattered the heavenly steps, the starry river broke apart, and space crumbled like a mirror.

Qin Yu finally broke free from the shackles of emptiness. He gripped the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword tightly with both hands. As the sword hummed, dream patterns appeared, and the sword resonated with the Sword of Dream Silence in his sea of consciousness.

[Sword of Dream Silence - First Form - Dream Severance - Illusory Ashes]!

The sword light slashed out horizontally, transforming into a dark dream trail that cleaved the causal chain cast by the giant shadow. Countless "future illusions" were burned to ashes, and the battlefield regained space for action.

But at that moment, the Star Abyss Life Marrow Incarnation slightly raised its hand, and the twelve life tracks trembled simultaneously. An even larger Karma Severed Prison descended, and countless chains crashed down like a waterfall. The heavens and earth roared, and the three were once again forced into an abyss with nowhere to escape.

In the first round, merely a "test" nearly wiped out the future of Qin Yu and his companions!

The world suddenly fell into a deathly silence. The cruelty and oppression accumulated from all the battles in the first six levels were completely crushed at this moment—that was just the prelude, and now the gates of hell were being opened.

As the Star Abyss Life Marrow Incarnation raised its hand, the twelve life tracks simultaneously shattered, transforming into twelve chains of causal imprisonment. These were no longer single chains of light, but rather spanned the entire world, stretching across the void as if to drag the entire Realm of Primordial Echoes into Entering Stillness. Images of countless living beings appeared on each chain: some weeping, some dying, some burning. It seemed that all the life tracks of the past, present, and future were simultaneously annihilated, merging into these twelve chains of imprisonment.

Boom--!

The moment the prison lock crashed down, the entire seventh-level Heavenly Waterfall was shattered, starlight turned into blood-red flames that flowed backward, and even spacetime itself was distorted.

The ground beneath Qin Yu's feet was torn apart, and the annihilating waves forced a tightness in his chest, causing all the logic in his mind to simultaneously fall into chaos. It was a sense of oppression that even "existence itself" was being erased, a hundred times more despairing than all the enemies from the previous six levels combined.

Hong Xiuxiang immediately activated the Brocade Ink Soul Brush, causing the pages to dance wildly, transforming a thousand pages into a barrier. However, when the prison chains crashed down, the pages instantly burned to ashes, and she was thrown back so hard that she coughed up blood, staggered, and almost fell into the Starlight Abyss.

Yunyi roared angrily, her dragon soul radiating from her body, unleashing the [Rending Domain Dragon Soul]. A dragon shadow burst forth from her body, piercing through the void, as if to Cause Splitting with dragon might. But in the next instant, her dragon shadow was torn apart by the prison chains. Before the night feathers could fall, they shattered in mid-air, billions of feathers turning into dust of Annihilation. She groaned, her right shoulder instantly splitting open, blood flowing and turning into butterflies, staining the void red.

As Qin Yu directly bore the brunt of the impact from the core of the Twelve Hell Chains, his body stiffened abruptly, and his ** Three Forms of Fate Construction ** simultaneously failed at that moment.

[Cause and Effect Deconstruction] Reversed by the chain, his ripples turned into shackles, binding himself.

[Time Flow Reversal] was forcibly severed, and all remnants of the future and the past collapsed.

[Existence Erasure] was swallowed by the Life Essence Vortex, and for a moment he lost the awareness that "I am still alive".

The bones in his body made a loud, cracking sound, and his flesh began to peel away.

At this moment, Qin Yu truly felt for the first time: the first six levels only allowed them to see "death"; the seventh level was truly meant to make them "never exist."

All three were pushed to their Limit. Hong Xiuxiang's mouth was full of blood, Yunyi's dragon soul shattered, Qin Yu's life trajectory went blank, and flames of destruction ignited at the edge of his sea of consciousness.

Even so, they still stubbornly maintained their last line of defense.

Hong Xiuxiang gritted her teeth and wrote down -- [The Final Chapter of the Sole Book: The Realm-Severing Script], and the word "final" appeared in the void, forcibly severing the three prison chains.

Yunyi exhaled dragon breath, barely managing to summon back [Dark Abyss Roaring Soul], causing the Soul Prison to shatter.

Qin Yu then unleashed the power of the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword and the Sword of Dream Silence in unison, their sword sounds piercing through his sea of consciousness, as if forcibly drawing a trajectory of "existence" amidst countless "non-existent" outcomes!

Even so, they barely managed to hold on, and all three were forced back ten miles at the same time. The heavenly steps beneath their feet cracked inch by inch, and the entire seventh-level space was on the verge of collapse.

The residual force of the Twelve Chains of Hell had not yet dissipated when the space turned into a silent vortex, and even breathing felt like it was being sucked away by fate itself.

Hong Xiuxiang's face was pale. She bit her lip tightly and frantically flipped the Brocade Ink Soul Brush, trying to lock the prison chain with the [Soul Seal Script Law Severance], but in the next instant, a golden-black prison chain directly shattered her seal and pierced through her chest!

Puff--!

Blood splattered, Hong Xiuxiang body trembled violently in the air. Half of her soul consciousness shattered instantly, and her illusion of the "Spirit Brocade Book Realm" collapsed with a crash. In that instant, she was almost completely dragged into the void of "non-existence" by the chains of the prison.

"Xiuxiang!" Qin Yu's pupils contracted sharply, and his heart tightened abruptly.

Yunyi roared, and the shadow of the dragon soul exploded, desperately blocking several other chains of hell, but she was still blasted until she was covered in blood, and her dragon wings tore apart inch by inch.

Just as the fragrance of the Hong Xiuxiang was about to fade, Qin Yu gritted his teeth and hissed:

"Azure Ring —now!"

In her sea of consciousness, Azure Ring's figure suddenly appeared. She raised her hand and pointed, and a ring of azure light enveloped Hong Xiuxiang's entire body. The void collapsed, revealing an annihilation crack. The next moment, Hong Xiuxiang's figure was forcibly sent into the depths of Qin Yu's Azure Evolution Core.

"Heal inside! If anyone dares to lay a finger on you, I, Qin Yu, will fight to the death to cleave it in two!"

Qin Yu's heart was like a knife, his bloodline burning, and he drew both the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword and the Sword of Dream Silence.

The prison chains trembled, but instead of retreating, he advanced.

Boom!

He took a step forward, and the starlight of the entire void exploded beneath his feet. The [Silent Origin - Tribulationless Chapter] within him suddenly activated:

[Silent Origin - Wheel-Breaking Seal] Shatter Cause, the sword shadow soaring into the sky like a blood-red sun;

[Silent Origin - Eternally Sever the Heavenly Balance] forcefully shattered the prison chains, causing the void to tilt inch by inch;

Then, [Sword of Dream Silence - Second Form - Soul Annihilation Remnant Chant] was superimposed, and the silent symphony of annihilation spread out with a roar, forcing the soul shadows on the prison chains to twist and shatter.

Yunyi roared again, her Roaring Soul shattering the blood mist, and she forcefully broke through a corner of the prison chains with the [Rending Domain Dragon Soul]. Her eyes were blood red, and her body was covered in cracks, but she still stood firmly by Qin Yu's side.

Blood streamed down Qin Yu's forehead, yet his eyes remained as firm as iron.

"Xiuxiang, I won't let you die! If fate is to judge me, Qin Yu, then I will tear fate apart!"

The void roared, starlight rained down, and the entire seventh floor began to tremble completely under this counterattack.

The aftershocks of the shattered void had not yet dissipated when the entire Star Abyss Heavenly Waterfall suddenly fell silent, as if even breathing had been forcibly erased. Qin Yu and Yunyi, their bodies stained with blood, were about to regain their footing when they saw the soaring Fate Judgment Sovereign suddenly stop moving.

The twelve chains of hell suddenly broke apart inch by inch, but instead of dissipating, they transformed into billions of golden and black fragments that flowed upstream and surged into the ruler's chest.

Boom!!!!

The entire seventh level of the waterfall world instantly collapsed into a "pitch-black Star Abyss".

The water froze, the starlight extinguished, and only countless Fate Shard Crystal appeared in the void, swirling around like stars.

In this deathly silence, the ruler's body began to crack.

Its original form, resembling a giant of judgment, crumbled away, revealing its second form—the "Star Abyss Life Marrow Body":

His entire body was crystallized, as if pieced together from countless shattered universes, with purplish-black liquid starlight flowing within him, each drop reflecting the birth and death of countless worlds.

Behind it unfolds six layers of "Fate-Path Star rings," each ring recording the birth and death of billions of living beings. As they rotate, the sound is like the cries of billions of people.

A "Life Essence Eye" appeared in the center of his head, as black as an abyss, yet burning with golden flames. A single glance from it caused Qin Yu and Yunyi's souls to ache, as if their very existence had been judged to be "about to perish."

Boom boom boom--!

A thunderous roar, like the beating of drums, suddenly resounded throughout the heavens and earth, and the oppressive aura of the second form enveloped the entire area:

The Starfall flowed backward, its waters transforming into countless rivers of cause and effect, which were then severed by its palm, turning into chains that bound it around itself.

With each breath, the surrounding space automatically rewrites cause and effect, causing Qin Yu and Yunyi's movements to slow down, and even creating the illusion that their "past selves" and "future selves" overlap simultaneously;

Even more terrifying is that liquid starlight drips continuously from its body. Each drop transforms into a "Life Marrow Puppet" on the battlefield, clad in shattered crystal armor, with combat power comparable to the Annihilation Dawn Realm · Peak.

"Your existence has been erased by fate."

It was not human speech, but the voice of destiny, which directly bombarded the depths of the soul, giving people the illusion that "they are already dead."

Qin Yu and Yunyi felt a sudden tightness in their chests, their blood vessels bursting open, yet they still stubbornly raised their heads.

The second form of the Fate Judgment Sovereign has finally been fully unleashed—it has transformed into a walking body of "Life Essence Origin," surpassing all enemies in the first six levels.