The Annihilation Beast Returns to the Abyss · Borrowed Rage Succeeds

In the silent, non-existent realm, everything seemed frozen outside of time, except for the nest composed of "negation," which began to emit a faint ripple. The ripple was initially weak, like a gentle night breeze, but with each pulse, the surrounding space distorted and collapsed, transforming into a void stripped of definition.

Deep within the lair, the Void Crown Final Darkness floated silently. The invisible crown slowly rotated, its central "Pupil of Finality" remaining tightly closed. Yet, in a fleeting moment—

Those pupils suddenly snapped open.

--Buzz--

The sound of Annihilation echoed silently, causing the entire No Definition Domain to tremble simultaneously. Thousands of void layers folded and collapsed, and billions of "causal threads" snapped into ashes in the same instant.

It "saw" it.

The Silent Radiance Crystal Core, which shared the same origin as its own, had vanished. It was the core of its existence, the sole "logical anchor" between it and the Source of Epochless. No one could steal it, for it represented the "reason acknowledged by existence". And now, that reason had been erased.

An invisible roar erupted from the depths of dimensionless space.

That roar wasn't just the sound of air being shaken; it was a wave that tore apart definitions. A storm of Annihilation erupted in the nest domain, the void was overturned like a giant wave, and the annihilating light surged like a reversed sea, instantly erasing all fragments that had ever "existed."

The "Pupil of Finality" spun, and countless vortexes appeared around it, each vortex being a collapsing world; tens of thousands of souls, fragments, and remnants of rules were sucked into the "Abyss of Nothingness" and then completely annihilated, Does Not Exist even the concept of "disappearance".

Void Crown Final Darkness's anger, like an invisible lightning bolt, pierced through the entire Annihilation Wasteland Border.

It silently raised its head and "looked" toward the direction of the canyon—the only place where its original essence still remained.

Its form slowly rose, and the surrounding space peeled away layer by layer, as if the skin of the universe was being torn open. With each tremor, the spiritual veins within billions of miles automatically broke, and the laws of heaven and earth were forced to make way for it.

A wave of Annihilation began to spread towards the canyon.

Meanwhile, inside the main tent of the canyon camp, Huo Yuan sat cross-legged in the center of the spirit array, recovering his strength, when suddenly his mind jolted, and his sea of consciousness felt as if it were being scorched by raging fire.

He suddenly opened his eyes, cold sweat instantly streaming down his forehead. That oppressive feeling—that instinctive fear seeping from his very bones—could only be brought about by one being.

"That beast... what's wrong with it! It's so violent!"

Huo Yuan abruptly stood up, his voice low and almost furious. "What's going on? Why is it acting violently? Could it be... that someone has touched its treasure?"

He whirled around, his divine sense sweeping across a hundred miles. "Pass down the order—everyone on alert! Prepare defensive formations! If that thing truly awakens... none of us will survive!"

The cultivators outside responded hastily, raising their own arrays of light in a panic. The sky began to distort, spiritual light flowed backward from afar, and the air pressure above the canyon plummeted to its lowest point.

Huo Yuan looked up at the sky, his fists clenched, his gaze as dark as iron. "Damn it, who on earth has angered that Devouring World Emperor?"

Meanwhile, dozens of miles away in the shadows, Qin Yu stood with his hands behind his back, silently watching the gradually tearing Black Abyss rift in the sky, a cold smile playing on his lips.

"It seems it has found it."

Azure Ring sighed softly, "Little Qinzi, you've really played that trick."

Qin Yu said in a low voice, "Sometimes, the one who draws the knife... is not necessarily the one who kills."

The night was pressed into a gray curtain, and a low-frequency vibration came from the depths of the sky, like an invisible giant drum beating the skeleton of the entire world. The clouds above the canyon stopped rolling, but were "torn flat" by an indescribable force, and every crack flickered with an incomprehensible annihilation light.

The next moment--

Boom!!!!

A sound wave, neither thunder nor roar, shattered the heavens and the earth, blurring even the very definition of space. The earth was violently lifted from the middle, mountains rolled like waves, and the cliffs of canyons crumbled into towering clouds of dust amidst the air vibrations. The air was stripped of its sound, and the world fell into a deathly, distorted stillness.

That aura has arrived.

In the far distance, a dark curtain of light emerged from the depths of the void. It was not light, but a reflective shadow, layer upon layer, like the membrane of the universe being lifted. Then, a crown composed of "invisible" slowly appeared. It had no form, only a "final crown" woven from negative light, encircling the center of the celestial curtain. With each tremor of the crown, the sky collapsed, the earth's veins fractured, and the Spiritual Qi of countless spiritual veins turned into weeping mist, silently being absorbed into the depths of the "Pupil of Sourcelessness."

The Void Crown Final Darkness —it has been revealed.

The moment the "Pupil of Finality" opened, the entire world was illuminated by a beam of colorless light. That light had no temperature, no wavelength, yet it caused the heartbeats of all life to stop simultaneously—even those who could not see it could feel that "existence was being denied."

A ray of annihilation swept across, and the defensive light screens of dozens of array towers instantly distorted into nothingness. The array inscriptions fell off the engravings like ashes, and the spirit stones shattered into ash. The spiritual pressure was as heavy as mountains and seas, and countless shattered soul shadows floated in the air, like memories that had been extracted and scattered in the void.

Huo Yuan burst out of the main tent in shock, his foot shattering the ground as he stared intently at the invisible crown suspended deep in the sky. His blood seemed to freeze in that instant, his voice hoarse and low. "Something's wrong... It's not releasing its power, it's locking onto a target!"

The surrounding cultivators were terrified, all looking up at the sky shrouded in the "final crown." Countless points of light collapsed in the clouds, turning into "ashes of existence." Huo Yuan's divine sense spread wildly, trying to capture the direction of that aura.

Then he realized—the focus of that anger was heading towards their camp.

Huo Yuan's expression changed completely.

"How is this possible... that beast... is actually coming towards us?!"

He gritted his teeth and growled, his eyes bloodshot, his voice almost swallowed by the din. "Who!? Who disturbed its nest?!"

The sky shattered completely at that moment. The invisible crown fell from the clouds, as if the entire night sky had been turned upside down. The Void Crown Final Darkness descended from the crack. Its "shadow" had no weight, yet it brought an oppression heavier than mountains and seas. Countless spiritual streams flowed in reverse, the array platform exploded with a bang, and the defensive light barrier extinguished, dissolved, and annihilated the moment it touched that annihilating light.

Huo Yuan's chest tightened, and a metallic taste of blood rose in his throat. He stared intently at the light of destruction, only one thought in his mind:

"No... its nest is in the northwest, why is it coming towards us? What... is it chasing?!"

He turned around abruptly, his gaze falling on the base of the Soul Tower in the center of the camp, where a faint, unusual fluctuation remained—the aura of the Silent Radiance Crystal Core left behind by Qin Yu.

Huo Yuan's pupils suddenly contracted to the size of pinpoints, and his mind went blank.

"Someone... brought its origin here!"

The moment he realized it, the sky collapsed again. Void Crown Final Darkness's pupils opened wide, and the entire camp was swallowed by colorless light.

The heavens and earth shattered amidst a deafening roar. In that instant, the Annihilation Wasteland Canyon distinguish between day and night; light and shadow were swallowed by the "Existence Denial," transforming into a colorless abyss. The gale was no longer wind, but the shrieking of torn space. The air shattered into fragments, and the flow of time twisted into a chaotic spiral amidst the tremors.

The "Pupil of Finality," shrouded in Void Crown Final Darkness, slowly gazed down, its crown-like shadow, vast as the universe, stretching across the sky. Three thousand layers of annihilating light vortexes around it simultaneously reversed, each layer a collapsing world, churning mountains and seas, stars, souls, and karma. All spiritual energy in the world—including spiritual veins, array patterns, and the True Qi within cultivators' bodies—was drawn to its "Sourceless Annihilation Judgment" in the same instant, forming a magnificent reverse torrent.

Huo Yuan stood in the center of the Dragon Abyss Association's grand formation, his hair whipped back by the shockwave, his face ashen, his aura surging like a mountain. He roared, "Everyone—form the Dragon Abyss Soul Array!"

Boom!!!

The entire camp instantly ignited with nine layers of array rings. Nine giant dragons, condensed from soul flames, soared into the sky, swirling and roaring around Huo Yuan. Each dragon's body was engraved with ancient annihilation runes, radiating intense golden-red light. They spewed dragon flames, burning away the fragments of the void and constructing layer upon layer of defensive barriers.

At the same time, the spirit stones, soul crystals, and blood arrays deep within the foundation of the formation instantly ignited, emitting a dazzling red light. Thousands of cultivators chanted the formation incantation in unison, and soul flames appeared in their sea of consciousness, all merging into Huo Yuan's origin imprint.

"Dragon Abyss Suppresses the World - Soul Prison Locks the Void!"

As his furious roar fell, the earth cracked open, and hundreds of feet high golden chains rose from the depths of the canyon, weaving into a net that sealed the heavens, locking in the fall of the Void Crown Final Darkness. Each chain flickered with runes formed from soul consciousness, and the sound waves were like continuous war drums, shaking the entire Annihilation Wasteland Border.

The "pupils" of the Void Crown Final Darkness, contracted slightly.

In the next instant, the world fell still.

It raised its invisible crown of light and silently pressed it down.

"Boom!!!!!"

The sound was indescribable; the world seemed to lose its physical meaning at that moment. The nine soul dragons roared in unison, flames collided with annihilation light, and exploded into billions of golden and red pillars of light that pierced through the clouds. One by one, the array runes were burned away, and the spiritual veins erupted from the ground into a torrent of flames. The nine soul dragons were constantly collapsing and torn apart in the annihilation wave.

Huo Yuan roared, forming a hand seal with both hands, forcibly injecting his Fate Soul into the array core. His brow split open, spewing out a wisp of blazing soul light. "Dragon Abyss Eternal Solidification - Nine Souls Combined Seal!!"

His aura surged instantly, and the nine soul dragons roared again, transforming into nine annihilating stars that rose into the sky, colliding with the Void Crown Final Darkness crown light.

--The sky collapsed and the earth cracked.

Two forces of "existence" clashed head-on. Golden-red radiance and colorless annihilation light intertwined to form a terrifying storm, whipping up an energy wall thousands of miles high. The sacred mountain collapsed, the sea veins dried up, and countless spacetime rifts were shattered in the void. Every inch of air shrieked, and spatial fragments turned into a rain of light, falling like a meteor shower.

The cultivators behind Huo Yuan were blasted away one by one, their blood staining the sky, yet they still stubbornly continued chanting the array incantation.

"Hold the line! Stabilize the core!"

"Ah--!!"

Light and shadow ignited in their collision, the world like a painting set ablaze. The canyon was completely transformed into the center of the annihilating storm.

Hundreds of miles away, Qin Yu stood atop a broken peak, gazing at the energy storm sweeping across the heavens, his eyes flashing with light.

Azure Ring's voice rang out softly, "Little Qinzi... they're really fighting hard."

Qin Yu's expression was indifferent, and his tone was calm. "The wrath of the Void Crown Final Darkness is beyond their ability to withstand. The Dragon Abyss Association is merely the first ashes of its fury."

The sky continued to churn, Void Crown Final Darkness the "Pupil of Finality," now shrouded in darkness, hung high in the air like an invisible seal of judgment, swallowing light and shadow into ashes. The world sank into a distorted groan, and the cultivators of the Dragon Abyss Association struggled on the edge of life and death, their blood and light mingling into a burning sea of clouds.

Just then, a subordinate stumbled into the center of Huo Yuan's main formation, his voice hoarse and almost torn apart by the storm. "Boss! Look—that thing! The monster's Origin Crystal Core —is in the center of our camp!!"

Huo Yuan suddenly turned his head, his gaze falling on the center of the formation.

He saw—at the focal point of the Nine Souls Array, the "Silent Radiance Crystal Core," emitting a faint, colorless light, was quietly suspended. It was like a miniature sun, yet it devoured all light. The surrounding energy flow, array veins, and Spiritual Qi fluctuations were all drawn and distorted by it.

That is the life core of a demonic beast.

Huo Yuan's mind went completely blank. The next instant, his expression changed drastically, and he almost roared incoherently, "This... this is its... treasure?! Who! Who put this thing here?!"

The surrounding cultivators were filled with terror. "Chief, we don't know either! It... it suddenly appeared in the center of the formation! And that beast's rage... it came straight from that direction!!"

Huo Yuan's fingers trembled; he could almost feel the gaze of the "Pupil of Finality" locking onto the aura of this crystal core. That chilling feeling of "being Existence Denial" crept up from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

He roared, "You bastards—this isn't ours! Give it back!!"

He shattered the stone platform at the center of the array with a single palm strike, forcefully mobilizing all his spiritual power. The array patterns reversed, and the mountain trembled. Huo Yuan formed hand seals, tearing open a void rift with his bare hands. The edges of the rift flickered with annihilation arcs, like pages of a world being burned by fire.

"With my soul as the guide—return the treasure to its Return to the Abyss!!"

Boom--

He held the Silent Radiance Crystal Core in his palm and suddenly thrust it out. The crystal core transformed into a dazzling, colorless stream of light, trailing embers like starlight, passing through the crack and flying towards the distant location of the Void Crown Final Darkness.

The invisible crown of light in the void paused slightly.

The light stream transformed into a white lightning bolt billions of feet away, plunging straight into the "Pupil of Finality." The instant the Silent Radiance Crystal Core merged with it, a silent shockwave suddenly erupted from the sky, and the distortion of heaven and earth began to slowly subside.

The raging storm of light gradually subsided, and the suffocating sense of oppression dissipated little by little.

The "gaze" of the Void Crown Final Darkness seemed to stare at the camp below for several breaths, as if confirming the source of the aura. Finally, the invisible crown gently rotated, slowly rose, and merged back into the endless void.

The world fell into a deathly silence.

Huo Yuan knelt on one knee, drenched in cold sweat, his breathing rapid as if he had just crawled out of hell. His hands were still trembling, and his voice was low and deep. "Damn it... who did this... who... almost wiped out our entire family?!"

The deputy leader beside him struggled to lift his head, his face covered in blood. "Boss... that light... it didn't appear on its own... someone... deliberately placed it in our camp..."

Huo Yuan's pupils contracted slightly, and a chilling killing intent rose from within him. He slowly raised his head and looked at the shadows of the distant mountains—there, a faint aura of Annihilation had long since dissipated into the wind.

"He..." Huo Yuan's voice was hoarse, his gaze seemingly capable of tearing through the void, "That person... used us."

The wind in the canyon blew again, carrying the smell of burnt blood. In the distance, Qin Yu atop the ruined peak, his gaze fixed intently on the direction the demonic beasts had retreated. Azure Ring chuckled softly in her mind's eye:

"Little Qinzi... it seems they still don't understand how ruthless your move is."

Qin Yu pursed his lips slightly and said in a low voice:

Whether you understand or not—it doesn't matter anymore.