The Heavenly Road's Final Judgment · A Sword Strike at Death's Door

Qin Yu's body was violently tossed and turned by the turbulent winds of his descent until the endless vortex finally stopped. Only then did he regain his footing, his feet landing on a seemingly solid yet illusory layer of rock. Before his breathing had fully calmed, he saw a glimmer of light ahead, projected from the depths of endless darkness, like some unknown call.

With a thought, he followed the ray of light, his footsteps echoing slowly against the stone walls. The long, corridor-like cave was incredibly deep, each step feeling like treading on the whispers of countless dead souls, the surrounding rocks shimmering with eerie, dark patterns. Finally, when he reached the end, the world before him suddenly vanished.

It was the entrance to a cave on a sheer cliff, and the view outside the cave was so vast that it seemed to belong to another world.

Beneath the sky, billowing white clouds surged, like a tidal wave formed from the bursting and solidification of billions of flames, layer upon layer, as if the heavens and earth were being submerged by an inverted giant wave. Above the sea of clouds, countless starlight points fell, intertwining with the blue sky, as if a chaotic universe had been overturned here. Below, a landscape of valleys and lands stretched out in a well-ordered manner, with verdant forests interspersed with golden cliffs, and a winding river like a silver chain flowing straight towards the distant blue sea.

Nestled in the valley, towering stone pillars and crumbling walls stand like ancient temple ruins left behind by deities, surrounded by shattered rocks and a lush sea of flowers. Strange mists billow from the bottom of the valley, mingling with the white clouds in the sky, as if Boundless Realm between heaven and earth.

At that moment, Qin Yu stood on the edge of a precipice, his eyes reflecting the magnificent, otherworldly scenery, a silent awe washing over him. He murmured, "This place... could it be the legendary Source Rift Deep Realm... or Source of Epochless · Middle Layer's underground world?..."

Qin Yu took a deep breath and slowly stepped into this incredibly mysterious world.

In an instant, the atmosphere between heaven and earth suddenly changed from the outside world. The omnipresent Boundless Limitless Evolving True Flow surged and raged here, like billions of galaxies rushing forward, so thick that it almost turned into liquid waves that wandered in the void. Every slight tremor in the air carried a heavy sense of power, as if with each breath, one could swallow a fragment of the origin of an entire universe.

The Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel surrounding Qin Yu suddenly began to operate spontaneously, their buzzing sounds exploding within his body. It was as if he had seen the long-lost Mother Sea, and was completely awakened by the rich flow of the Limitless Evolving True Flow in this world. He looked up and saw that the sky and the earth in the distance had no clear boundary. Clouds hung upside down, mountains stretched across the sky, and forests and seas seemed to connect vertically, forming an incredibly bizarre and inverted world.

"The Limitless Evolving True Flow is so intense... it's ten or even a hundred times stronger than the energy sea in the middle layer of the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall!" Qin Yu was shocked beyond anything he had ever felt.

He murmured to himself, "Could it be... that this is truly the Source of Epochless? The place closest to the Origin of the Source Rift, hidden behind countless layers of illusions and abysses?"

As he ventured deeper, the power intensified, and the shimmering points of light in the void transformed into flowing runes. Occasionally, they would flash past his eyes, but Qin Yu couldn't discern their true forms. He only felt that those runes were like imprints recording the Initial Fate of the universe.

Deep in the valley, a river churns with colorful mist, cascading down the cliff to merge into the azure sea below. The splashing water transforms into star-like crystals in mid-air, never to dissipate. Further away, an ancient tree hangs upside down, stretching across the sea of clouds, its branches flowing with silvery sap and exuding an aura that shakes the soul.

Qin Yu's steps were steady, but his mind was far from calm. He knew that he had stumbled into a previously unrecorded underground secret realm, which might truly be related to the legend of the "Boundless Realm Source Marrow".

Qin Yu slowly stepped into the new area, and suddenly the view opened up before him, as if he had entered a "Heavenly Road" forged from golden divine light.

A vast sea of clouds surged and rolled, but these clouds were no ordinary things. Each wisp shimmered with golden fragments of light, as if the waves of the river of time had solidified here, stirring up the dust of cause and effect from billions of years. Above the sea of clouds, golden light and darkness intertwined, as if the sky had been torn apart, and a dazzling pillar of light shone from the distance, hanging down from the sky and piercing straight through this unknown underground world.

The road before Qin Yu was not a real stone path, but rather a path woven from countless mysterious runes. Each rune trembled slightly, as if recording the truths of countless worlds over billions of years. With each step he took, the runes beneath his feet would glow with a ripple of light, as if responding to his presence or trying to test whether he was qualified to continue.

On both sides of the road, the remaining giant stone pillars stand tall, but they are long broken and mottled. Their surfaces have been eroded by the years, but divine carvings can still be seen. Between those broken pillars, golden lightning occasionally flashes, splitting through the clouds and accompanied by a deep rumble, as if some ancient will is sleeping.

Looking up, the end in front seemed to lead to the endless sky. A path of light pierced through the clouds and penetrated the depths of chaos, like a ladder to heaven personally inscribed by Source of Epochless, pointing straight to the unknown heights.

At this moment, Qin Yu was deeply shocked. He felt the Limitless Evolving True Flow surging wildly around him, several times more concentrated than before in the Origin of the Source Rift, as if every breath contained the Ultimate logic of deducing the heavens and earth. This place was definitely not an ordinary underground world, but more like an "ancient divine path," opened only for certain destined people.

He murmured to himself, "Where exactly is this place? Is it the buried Heavenly Road? Or an entrance to a deeper level of the Source of Epochless?"

The moment Qin Yu's toes touched the "Heavenly Road," the runes on the road suddenly came to life, as if sensing the intruder's arrival. The entire Heavenly Road trembled violently, and countless rays of light spread out from beneath his feet, rippling outwards into the endless sea of clouds. Gold and darkness intertwined, instantly constructing a world where nothingness and reality overlapped.

Qin Yu's sea of consciousness suddenly trembled!

An invisible, immense force swept in, unlike the heaviness of mountains or the oppression of the deep sea, but rather a higher-dimensional "Flow of Void Emanation" that directly poured into the soul.

It was a power that was neither existent nor nonexistent, a fusion of reality and illusion—

In that instant, he felt as if he Does Not Exist at all, as if his name, identity, and memories had been stripped away from time and space;

In the next instant, he felt incredibly real again; his physical body, aura, and soul were clearer than heaven and earth, as if he were the only one in the universe.

The constant switching between existence and Does Not Exist caused his sea of consciousness to surge with each transition, and the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel resonated violently. If Qin Yu had not already reached the [Logic Realm Realm - Supreme], he would probably have been obliterated by this Void Evolution pressure the moment he stepped onto it.

Cold sweat beaded on his forehead, and a sharp, piercing pain shot through the depths of his consciousness, as if countless invisible hands were tearing at his "chain of existence," trying to completely erase him from the definition of the universe.

Qin Yu's gaze was like lightning, and he coldly whispered:

"This is the residual pressure of the Void Emanation Realm... This Heavenly Road is actually built upon the foundation of the Flow of Void Emanation! No wonder no one has ever broken through this place."

He slowly activated the [Silent Principle Void Annihilation Scripture], and the ten layers of Annihilation Sutra culture within his Soul Sea flowed like light, firmly stabilizing his sea of consciousness. At the same time, the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel spun rapidly, locking his own logical chain tightly, barely suppressing the pain of "alternating existence and Does Not Exist".

On the Heavenly Road, before the first step had even been fully landed, the golden light between heaven and earth suddenly exploded.

The boundless sea of clouds was torn in two, and the void, hundreds of millions of feet high, was ripped open like a curtain. Giant runes, like miracles, emerged from the abyss. These runes were not carved from stone, but were woven from light and nothingness. Each one was like a definition document of the universe, flashing with alternating light of "existence" and "annihilation".

As the runes surged, the world suddenly darkened, and only a terrifying aura of the Void Emanation Realm filled the surroundings.

Boom!!!

The Heavenly Road beneath Qin Yu's feet suddenly transformed into an endless river, its golden waters surging, but no longer water, but chains of cause and effect. As the chains flowed, they pulled at countless illusions, one moment revealing a magnificent scene of "Qin Yu ascending to the peak, with all races paying homage"; the next instant, it reversed into an Annihilation wasteland where "Qin Yu's remains were nowhere to be found, and his name was forgotten by the world."

Existence and Does Not Exist switch wildly before our eyes.

Immediately afterwards, the runes began to twist and condense into a giant shadow.

It was a "Void Emanation Adjudicator," its form towering tens of thousands of feet tall, its face indistinct, its body pieced together from countless Logic Fragments. With each breath it took, countless worlds were born and destroyed, as if representing the Final Judgment of the Void Emanation Realm.

Boom--

The arbiter raised his hand, the void collapsed, and an annihilation spear, interwoven with gold and black, condensed from nothingness, traversing heaven and earth, as if to erase the concept of "Qin Yu" itself from the universe.

At that moment, the entire Heavenly Road trembled violently, and billions of golden runes erupted simultaneously, transforming into a rain of light that poured down with such immense force that it resembled a collapsing galaxy, shaking the entire universe.

Qin Yu's mind roared as he saw the true meaning of the trial:

The first trial of the Heavenly Road is a judgment of paradoxes!

If he cannot prove "I am the reality" with his own logic, then when the spear falls, he will no longer be "killed," but defined as having never existed!

Faced with such divine might, Qin Yu's gaze turned icy. The Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel behind him spun rapidly, and the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword appeared in his hand. With a tremor of the sword's edge, it actually triggered the echo of the Annihilation Cause and Effect!

He whispered coldly, "If you want to erase my existence... then try defining what nothingness is first!"

The moment Qin Yu took his first step onto the Heavenly Road, the golden river beneath his feet suddenly collapsed, and the chains of cause and effect surged wildly, as if to drag him into an abyss of Annihilation Abyss. Each chain was incredibly heavy, as if it carried the fate of billions of living beings. With each step he took, he had to bear the immense pressure of the impending doom of countless worlds.

"Click--!"

The sound of bones cracking exploded within his body. The Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel spun wildly behind him, yet they still teetered precariously, as if they would be crushed at any moment by the endless chains of cause and effect. His sea of consciousness was struck by lightning, his soul churning. The Heavenly Road before him shifted wildly between light and darkness, one moment a golden road, the next a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

Just then, the Void Emanation Adjudicator stepped forward.

With each step it took, a gaping maw opened in the Heavenly Road, and countless chains of cause and effect shot out from the abyss, like the reins of death, binding Qin Yu's limbs and sea of consciousness.

"Roar!!!"

The arbiter raised his hand, and the Spear of Annihilation was formed. As the spear tip trembled, the entire Heavenly Road collapsed, creating a Void Evolution. All logic and history vanished in that instant, becoming "unwritten."

As the spear struck, Qin Yu's flesh and blood instantly tore open, and cracks of Annihilation appeared on his skin, as if trying to erase him from the very definition of existence. He felt everything about him being stripped away: his name, his soul, his karma, even "traces of his past existence"—all were being stripped away!

"Ah--!"

Qin Yu let out a low roar, blood splattering everywhere. He gritted his teeth and held the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword horizontally in front of him. The sword blade vibrated, releasing the sword radiance of the Sever the Void in a Single Thought, forcibly blocking the spear. The two forces collided, instantly stirring up a world-destroying wave. Countless runes on the Heavenly Road were shaken to the point of collapse, falling into billions of light fragments.

However, Qin Yu was blasted back a hundred feet by the spear, and two rings of the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel on his back suddenly shattered, blood gushing out, and he was almost blown off the Heavenly Road!

The arbiter gave him no chance to breathe, raising his spear to strike again. This time, the spear light transformed directly into countless Void Evolution paradoxes, each representing a world's "negation" of Qin Yu. They overlapped, forming an annihilation that even a Supreme Realm expert like the Logic Realm Realm could hardly withstand.

Qin Yu's blood surged backward, his mind reeled, and he was filled with auditory hallucinations:

"You Does Not Exist."

"You have never set foot on the Heavenly Road."

"You have never possessed the Nine-Wheel Dharma Wheel."

"You are not a cultivator from the Source of Epochless."

Every sound was like a knife, ripping into his soul.

He was pressed down onto the Heavenly Road, the golden road trembled, and blood stained it red.

At that moment, Qin Yu's eyes turned bloodshot, and he suddenly raised his finger and flicked it:

[Limitless Flower-Pinching Heaven-Silencing Finger - Finger Severs the Karmic Ruins]!

With a single finger strike, the beam of light transformed into an arc, forcefully cleaving the paradoxical river unleashed by the Arbiter. The "voices of denial" in the sky instantly collapsed, and his name and existence returned once more!

"Call--"

Qin Yu gasped for breath, his body trembling, blood flowing Heavenly Road. Every inch of his meridians was tearing apart, and every breath felt like a struggle against the will of the entire Void Emanation Realm.

Yet he still stood up, the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword held horizontally before him, blood dripping from his fingertips, and coldly uttered. "The Heavenly Road denies me? Then I will write the Heavenly Road!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel, after breaking, reformed themselves. The light of the wheels illuminated the entire Heavenly Road. Qin Yu staggered and once again faced the Arbitrator, fighting a bloody battle!

The Void Emanation Adjudicator slowly raised his hand, and the entire Heavenly Road trembled as if the whole world was awaiting its judgment.

Boom--!

The sky suddenly split open, and countless rebellious runes poured down from the void, like a waterfall of billions of chains, binding Qin Yu firmly. Each chain was engraved with the curse of "Existence Denial"—"Your past is false," "Your present is an illusion," "Your future is already dead."

In an instant, Qin Yu's Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel completely dimmed, and countless "possibilities of death" flickered in his sea of consciousness. Even his soul seemed to be dragged out of his body and disintegrated into countless illusory fragments.

The arbitrator's spear has finally struck!

This spear pierced through the rules of the entire Heavenly Road, causing the void to collapse on the spot, and countless cracks spread like a spider web, completely engulfing Qin Yu.

"Click click click--"

His body twisted violently, the sound of bones breaking echoing, his chest was pierced through, and blood gushed out like a waterfall. In that instant, Qin Yu could barely lift a finger, his consciousness blurred, and the world before him was nothing but a black and white blur.

"Is this... the end?"

His mind was filled with a roar, and the pressure of imminent death pressed down on him, as if he could be completely annihilated at any moment.

However, the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword trembled before his chest, its blade emitting a pale light that resonated with his weak heartbeat; and the bloodstains on his fingertips ignited that last glimmer of hope—

"The Limitless Flower-Pinching Heaven-Silencing Finger!"

Qin Yu roared, using the last bit of his soul power and bloodline to slash out with the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, while simultaneously pointing a finger with his broken finger bone.

Boom--!

The sword's edge and the finger's edge converged, unleashing a world-destroying brilliance. The Sword Qi of the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword transformed into a long river of annihilation, severing the spear shadow of the Judge; while the "Finger Severs the Karmic Ruins" of the Limitless Flower-Pinching Heaven-Silencing Finger shattered the rebellious curse seal on the chains.

At that moment, the entire Heavenly Road was swallowed up by a terrifying annihilation storm, space collapsed continuously, and even the Arbiter's figure was shaken back half a step.

Qin Yu lay prostrate on the ground, barely breathing, his blood staining the Heavenly Road red. His chest was shattered, his bones exposed, and even his sea of consciousness was burning. Yet he was still alive.

"Huff... huff..."

He was breathing heavily, his hand gripping the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword trembled, his fingertips a bloody mess. Yet, a cold light ignited in his eyes.

"This power... although it is the pressure of the Void Emanation Realm, it is not complete... less than one-third of a true Void Emanation Realm's power."

He stared coldly ahead, his voice hoarse yet resolute.

"If it were truly the complete power of the Void Evolution, I would have been completely Annihilation long ago, leaving not even a trace."

As he said this, he wiped the blood from the corner of his lips, stood up unsteadily, and the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel on his back slowly began to rotate again despite their damage, while sword intent and finger intent still roared incessantly around him.

The Heavenly Road trembled, and the illusory figure of the arbiter continued to coalesce in the darkness. Qin Yu understood that the most dangerous battle was not yet over.