The sky above Lingyao Immortal Palace completely collapsed.
At that moment, the entire "Mixed Realm Floating Vault" lost its sense of direction and time—the heavens and earth were emptied into an endless gray void, and hundreds of millions of spatial fragments collided, overlapped, and tore each other apart, emitting a roar like that of a god. Each tremor was enough to instantly reduce a realm to zero.
Nan Yao stood suspended in the center of the void, her long silver hair dancing like a meteor ring. Behind her, the nine layers of the "Chaos Unification Law Ring" opened simultaneously, instantly unleashing golden and black light ripples that pierced through the heavens and earth. That light was not energy, but "the reflection of the law itself"—as if forcibly awakening the underlying language of the universe.
The moment she looked up, a chilling glint of murderous intent ignited in her eyes. "Annihilation Radiance Final Spirit —your game ends here."
The distant, Annihilation Radiance Final Spirit only smiled quietly.
Her pupils resembled two ancient, collapsed black stars, and her gauze dress unfurled into countless streams of silver light. Each ray of light was a tangible line of annihilation rules, swirling around her to form an "Annihilation Radiance Sacred Ring."
The wind stopped. The light was sucked in. The world fell silent instantly, leaving only the gentle yet cruel smile of the Annihilation Radiance Final Spirit.
"Sister Nan Yao," she murmured softly, her voice as sweet as a child's song, yet it caused the entire void to tremble violently, "I come from the end of light, only to witness the demise of chaos."
Boom!
She raised her right hand and tapped lightly with one finger.
"Annihilation of Radiance - Realm Collapse Laws and Transformation of Realms."
The silver light transformed into a waterfall-like storm of particles, cascading down from the sky. The storm was silent, yet capable of tearing apart anything with "logic." Void, time, rules, causality—all were instantly stripped away, reduced to pure annihilation.
Nan Yao clasped her hands together, and nine rings overlapped!
"Chaos Unification, Boundary Core Fixed!"
In an instant, the entire world was rewoven with "order". She used herself as the boundary center, compressing the infinite chaotic power into a point of light, and then expanding it again, instantly constructing nine layers of boundary walls to resist the collapsing annihilation storm.
Two extreme forces—"the order of annihilation" and "the rebirth of chaos"—collide head-on at the center!
Space fractured into trillions of shattered mirrors; time reversed, collapsed, and exploded; each moment was like the universe restarting, only to be swallowed up by the annihilation of the next.
The collision of energy and rules created a visible "spacetime tsunami." Waves of law storms swept across, tearing open rifts spanning billions of light-years, and even the upper realms of the Source of Epochless could feel the chaotic impact.
Annihilation Radiance Final Spirit reached out, and silver light gathered in her palm to form a "Sword of Law." The sword was transparent, yet even space could not contain it. She raised the sword and lightly drew a stroke, as if writing a word in the air.
"The Cataclysmic Reversal: The Final Page"
The entire sky instantly transformed into an open book of annihilation.
Each page records a "deleted" world. Mountains, rivers, seas, stars, rules, life—page by page, they are scattered by the wind, turning into ashes and falling to the ground.
Nan Yao gritted her teeth, blood flowing from the corner of her lips; four of her nine rings had already shattered. She infused her soul into the core imprint, and her entire being erupted with chaotic aurora.
"Chaos is immortal; it arises from Annihilation!"
Her body was engulfed by endless flames, and within the flames, a "Phoenix of Chaos" manifested—the Ultimate symbol of the Unification Palace, symbolizing the eternal will of everything to be reborn from shattering.
Phoenix wings unfold, swirling through the nine realms!
A phoenix's cry shook the heavens as a pillar of chaotic flame pierced through the annihilation storm, striking directly at the body of the final spirit.
Enveloped in flames, Annihilation Radiance Final Spirit did not retreat. She looked down at the burn marks on her chest and chuckled softly.
"Beautiful... but unfortunately, you're fighting a Does Not Exist enemy."
She extended her finger, and the tip of her finger flashed with the light of the "Zero Realm Sacred Mark," a symbol of returning to zero for all existence.
"Annihilation of Radiance - Deletion of Causes - Activation."
Space frozen. Time reversed.
Nan Yao's phoenix flames instantly solidified, her wings turning to dust layer by layer. Her body began to become transparent, and even the fluctuations of her soul were gradually "erased."
"This... is... the power of deletion..." Nan Yao's voice trailed off.
The Annihilation Radiance Final Spirit slowly approached, reaching out to gently stroke her face, its eyes filled with tenderness bordering on pity. "I'm sorry... I must recreate the Celestial Palace."
The whispers of the Annihilation Radiance Final Spirit echoed like a silent funeral dirge in the ashes. Her fingertips lightly touched the air, and that wisp of light should have completely annihilated Nan Yao's fate. However, in that instant of Annihilation —deep within the chaos, a faint light flickered.
The light was so faint as to be almost imperceptible, yet it vanished instantly within Annihilation's "Zero Realm Vision".
Annihilation Radiance Final Spirit slightly raised its head, the vortex of annihilation in its eyes gently swirling. "... Did it escape?"
Her voice remained gentle, yet beneath that gentleness emanated a chilling coldness. She raised her hand, her fingertips tracing a wisp of lingering chaotic energy—a fragment of Nan Yao's soul. She closed her eyes, gently inhaled the air, and smiled slightly, "Very good, very clever. You used the backlash of the chaotic self-return to reverse 'deletion' into a split archive... You hid yourself beneath the laws of the realm."
Meanwhile, in the void rift at the other end.
Nan Yao was covered in blood, her breathing was disordered, and five of her nine rings had shattered. Her fingers struggled to form hand seals, and the fragments of the Boundary Heart Ring within her body continued to crumble, their light flickering and then extinguishing. Her body was almost transparent, and even her own voice was fading away.
"Cough... Her power is too bizarre... She can even erase 'existence'."
She gritted her teeth and channeled her last bit of strength into the Boundary Talisman in her chest. Instantly, the void around her body distorted slightly, forming a barrier as thin as a dream – that was the "Chaos Mirror Image," the Limit life-protecting technique of the Unification Palace, which could temporarily hide one's own logic within the source of chaos.
She sat down against the crumbling rock wall, her breath almost swallowed by the wind. Everything around her was collapsing silently; the cracks in the void, like a dead sea, slowly closed, only to split open again.
"I... I have to hold on..." Nan Yao whispered, the blood at the corner of her mouth dissipating into fragments in the weightlessness. "I need to... tell the outside world about that thing..."
She recalled those pure, innocent eyes, and that one word, "Sister." A bitter feeling welled up inside her.
"That's not life at all... that's the self-awareness of 'Annihilation Radiance Final Law'... she's hunting down the life-ordained beings of the Five Halls of the Annihilation Void."
The instant she closed her eyes, an extremely thin silver line ripped through space, silently passing by her right side.
Nan Yao's pupils suddenly contracted! Her heart almost stopped beating.
The instant that extremely thin silver line swept across, she instinctively used her soul as a guide to completely merge herself into the chaotic flow of laws—she transformed into "Mist of the Boundless Realm," hiding within the folded layers of the collapsing space, even the fluctuations of her own destiny were forcibly suppressed to stillness.
The air seemed to freeze. Time itself appeared to have stopped flowing.
Annihilation Radiance Final Spirit's eyes, as clear as an annihilating starry sea, slowly swept across the gray void. She stood quietly, her toes not touching the ground, her entire being like a dream formed from solidified silver light. She stretched out her finger and gently drew a line in the air, and thousands of rays of light extended out, forming an Ultimate "Annihilation Radiance Law Net."
This network of light hums through space, each filament acting as a search for "existence definition." Any trace of life, consciousness, or breath is captured, located, and deleted by it.
However--
The law net flashed in the air for a moment, but found nothing.
Annihilation Radiance Final Spirit's expression remained calm. A slight smile played on her lips, and a naive joy appeared in her eyes. "Strange... why is there no trace of her presence?"
She turned her head slightly, her silver hair slipping down her shoulder, her gauze dress flowing in the still air, whispering almost inaudibly.
"Sister—" Her voice was sweet and harmless, yet like an echo from the abyss, reverberating through the shattered space, "Stop hiding, come out and play! I have some fun things to do here..."
She stretched out her small hand, and a swirling, illuminating crystal sphere appeared in her palm, within which several compressed fragments of fate's trajectory faintly flickered—those were the people she had previously "broken." She looked down at the crystal sphere, a satisfied smile on her face.
"Look, they're all here with me."
The sound grew softer, yet it caused the temperature in the space to plummet.
Meanwhile, in a folded space only a few hundred feet away from her—
Nan Yao huddled in a layer of gray chaos, trembling all over, her soul almost shattered. She dared not make a sound, her eyes fixed on the movement of a silver light on the outer layer. Each time the silver light passed by, the surrounding space completely lost its color and vitality, as if reality had been wiped clean.
Sweat trickled down her forehead, dripping into the void, only to be instantly extinguished by the "Annihilation Radiance Law." She felt her heartbeat being slowly crushed by that power.
She bit her lip tightly, forcing herself to stay conscious, one sentence echoing repeatedly in her mind—
She must not discover this, absolutely not. Even the slightest thought will be wiped out.
Outside, the Annihilation Radiance Final Spirit was still chanting softly, its footsteps silent, yet each step created subtle ripples in the space.
She raised her head slightly, as if listening to the whispers of the wind, or as if she were truly conversing with Nan Yao.
"Sister—" she said softly, with a childlike curiosity, "Are you playing hide-and-seek with me? How naughty... but—"
She suddenly turned her head, her smile carrying a strange emptiness.
No matter how well it's hidden, it can't escape the fate of being rewritten.
She turned around, her skirt tracing a dazzling arc of light, silver particles scattering in all directions, causing the walls and dome of the entire Lingyao Immortal Palace to tremble slightly.
"Sister—let's see where you can hide!!"
Her voice faded into the distance amidst the stream of light, disappearing into endless silence.
Inside the folded layer, Nan Yao finally slowly loosened her clenched teeth, her body drenched in cold sweat, her eyes still filled with uncontrollable fear. She looked at the sky, now transparent thanks to the annihilation, and her heart was almost overwhelmed by despair.
That thing... wasn't human at all...
She is the end of the world, the eraser of existence...
The last whispers of fading light drifted from the outside world, like the lingering echoes of a nightmare:
"Sister, if I find you... it'll be so much fun!"