Asura Realm Devouring: Fate Image Destruction and Rewriting
The clouds and mist of Gray Spirit Mountain were completely torn apart at this moment, and countless strands of gray-white air currents surged back into the sky, sweeping across the mountain peak like a death storm. Qin Yu and Extinguished Light were still standing in front of the illusory image of the Nether Abyss Book Serpent and the Nether Script Lord turned to ash, the ground beneath their feet still trembling, and the air was filled with the aura of ashes after the laws of annihilation had been completely burned away—as if time itself was trembling slightly. Suddenly, a roar that Time Splitting pierced through from the other end of the sky, accompanied by a sound that even the logic of space was collapsing, and two terrifying figures of light descended.
Nan Yao's expression changed drastically. She looked towards the distant sky, her voice filled with fear. "Not good, Young Master Qin, they're catching up!"
The moment the two figures landed, the energy of heaven and earth reversed. The first was Li Hanshou, the chief hunter of the Heavenly Sha Alliance, clad in a blood- Li Hanshou hunting robe. The condensed Void Evolution Domain behind him transformed into a crimson-black net of cracks, within which the air twisted into thousands of serpentine fissures, seemingly about to devour the entire space. The second was Yu Huang, the Supreme Elder of the Silent Mystery Realm · Supreme Venerable Yuhuang the Asura Divine Hall. His jet-black Asura battle armor exuded endless deathly chill, with gray-white spiritual flames swirling on the armor's patterns. Within the flames, the mournful cries of countless Asura could be heard, sending chills down one's spine.
A Li Hanshou's lips as he lightly flicked the spear in his hand, which seemed to be forged from the bones of annihilated blood. His voice boomed across the mountain peak. "Run! Why aren't you running anymore? Weren't you running away pretty fast just now? Look at the end of Gray Spirit Mountain, where do you think you can escape to?"
Qin Yu's gaze was calm, his sword tip touching the ground, yet his aura was as unfathomable as a bottomless abyss.
Venerable Yuhuang slowly raised his head, his gaze falling on the trace of annihilated ashes on the ground. His tone was icy. "Not bad... You've reached the pinnacle of the Severed Observation Realm · Supreme and you've managed to Annihilation the Nether Abyss Book Serpent, the Nether Script Lord? Heh, you do have some skill." He waved his hand, and the air instantly transformed into crimson ripples. A thousand-foot-tall Asura Tower appeared in the void, its soul fire churning and pressing down on the entire mountain region into silence.
Extinguished Light stood a step behind Qin Yu, her long, black hair fluttering slightly in the wind, and two annihilation star rings slowly rotating deep within her eyes. The light in the air automatically faded around her, and the world seemed to have been stripped of its color, leaving only cold black and dark silver radiance.
"The aura of annihilation..." Venerable Yuhuang's gaze sharpened, his voice lowered, "It seems your 'divine beast' is no ordinary creature."
The Silent Origin Stainless Sword in Qin Yu's hand trembled slightly, a pale golden soul ring pattern appearing on its blade. His voice was calm, yet contained a chilling intent that sent shivers down one's spine. "You two have come from afar, isn't it for that Sacred Radiance Limitless? If you wish to take it, then come and take it."
Nan Yao gripped the Sacred Radiance Limitless, her aura chaotic, and the faint light imprint of the Chaos Return to Oneness Palace appeared behind her as she desperately protected the sacred treasure with both hands.
Li Hanshou grinned maliciously, his spear sweeping across the room, tearing a scarlet gash. "Take it? Of course I'll take it! But before that, I'll take your life first!"
A sudden gust of wind arose, causing the energy of heaven and earth Gray Spirit Mountain to boil violently. Rock walls crumbled, mountain spirits howled, and the sky was torn in two in an instant—the dual auras of annihilation and Asura descended simultaneously.
In the midst of that storm, Qin Yu's gaze had become as deep as the silent night. He slowly raised the Silent Origin Stainless Sword, and a long rainbow of annihilation light and starlight was reflected on the sword's body. Meanwhile, the pupils of the Extinguished Light had transformed into the twin wheels of annihilation radiance.
Before them lay the approaching deathly aura of Venerable Yuhuang and Li Hanshou; behind them lay the still-unrecovered Nan Yao and that faint Sacred Radiance Limitless light.
A mountain breeze swept between the two, and the world seemed to hold its breath.
The wind on the Gray Spirit Mountain had ceased, and the setting sun seemed to have been shattered into the folds of the sky, blood gold and inky black intertwining to form a oppressive twilight. Nan Yao's aura rose and fell weakly behind them. Qin Yu and Extinguished Light stood side by side on the precipice, and two terrifying figures stepped through the torn clouds directly in front of them— Li Hanshou, Void Emanation Realm · Middle Stage cultivator, his body surrounded by a dark red mist that surged from nowhere, as if he had kneaded the world into a thin film and then casually overturned it; Venerable Yuhuang, the Silent Mystery Realm · Supreme, a black sun that was easily forgotten after being seen behind him, time seeming to disintegrate into countless fragments on his shoulders and drift away at will. Before they could speak, the space itself screamed.
Li Hanshou his spear horizontally, and a thousand afterimages appeared on the spear's spine. His voice, dragged by Void Evolution, seemed to come from near and far. "Run, let's see where you can run to." He thrust out the spear, but the tip didn't pierce; instead, it severed the "future that the two were about to dodge." The stone ridge beneath Qin Yu's feet instantly became a meaningless black hole.
Qin Yu's sword intent surged forth, Silent Origin Stainless Sword - Causeless Disillusionment Sword slashed out a backlight arc, as if directly severing the "reason for this attack," instantly depriving the edge of the black hole of any further reason to collapse. However, the power of Void Evolution did not stop there. Li Hanshou took three steps in the air, his figure and spear shadow overlapping into nine layers of illusory images. As the superimposed images fell together, Qin Yu felt a tightness in his chest, his blood surging, and his shoulder armor was slashed open with a deep red line.
At this moment Venerable Yuhuang raised his palm and pressed down, the Asura Heavenly Prison Tower appearing directly above Qin Yu's head Timelessness interval. The thousand-layered tower wheel resembled a thousand layers of hell, stripping away one's will to resist and the order of counterattack layer by layer. As soon as the tower's shadow subsided, Extinguished Light stepped forward, her long hair transforming into a silent black glow in the darkness. She lowered her gaze, and five Annihilation Radiance Runes spun brightly on her forehead:
"Annihilation Light Judging Lord, Sever and Establish Realm Causes."
Heaven and earth suddenly stopped, a moment enough to suffocate an army. The suppression of the Asura was forcibly paused, the thick, iron-like blood flames solidifying into inky glass in mid-air. But the chasm of realms tore through the surface of the pause in the next instant—the black sun behind Venerable Yuhuang trembled slightly, as if extracting "paused time" from another layer of narrative for later use. In an almost unreasonable way, he forcefully raised another finger in the stillness.
"Asura Realm Devouring - Soul Domain Judgment"
The sound of heaven and earth was crushed into sand. Qin Yu only had time to turn sideways and shield Nan Yao behind him. The Heavenly Cause Judgment Sequence - Orbital Collapse Lock was forcibly activated, and seven golden and black magic rings were stacked. He used a fragment of the "Master Book Seal Severance - Naming Reconstruction" to inscribe the proposition "This domain does not allow soul devouring" on the second ring. The rings interlocked, and the blood flames were suppressed to the edge of turning black gold, but Yuhuang's fingertip only touched it - the sixth ring broke with a crash. The aftershock swept across Qin Yu's chest, his ribs felt like they were being hit by an iron hammer, and hot blood spurted from his lips. He staggered half a step, but still used his shoulders and back to hold up the collapsing rock dome, absorbing the aftershocks for Nan Yao.
Li Hanshou spotted an opening and slashed through the air with her spear, writing a line of scarlet forbidden characters. "Soul Hunter - All Things Return to Emptiness." Those characters weren't words; they were "all the possibilities you might face next," prematurely taken away as corpses. As the spear flashed, Extinguished Light pupils, like double black holes, narrowed to a single line, and her voice was as cold as the final chapter:
"The Final Radiance Void Law: The Fate Image Destruction and Rewriting."
The blood-red words before her seemed to be written backwards, leaving the spearhead temporarily without "reason." But the terror of the Void Evolution lies in its irrationality— Li Hanshou rewrote "the result of a successful hit in the past" in the present. The spearhead grazed Qin Yu's shoulder, and a burst of blood erupted from his shoulder blade. The chilling Annihilation seeped into his heart through his bones. He groaned, stepping out with the Leaving Stillness Ring·Primordial Resonance, causing the torn earth veins to resonate with his own Fate Soul, forcefully suppressing the spread of his injury into a controllable narrow crevice.
Seeing an opportunity Venerable Yuhuang suppressed the Black Sun again, and the Asura reignited in mid-air. With each step the tower took, it erased a trace of the "possibility" of retaliation from Qin Yu's future. Extinguished Light raised his palm and slashed horizontally. With Lightless Cause Birth · Annihilation Chain Extinguishing Proof directly denied the "qualification" of the tower's shadow to activate. The tower's sound stopped abruptly—but the Realm of Silent Profundity replaced the fact that "the tower had already existed" as if taking it from the back of a higher mirror. The tower continued to descend in another narrative.
Qin Yu stopped blocking directly. He turned the pages of the book with his left hand and held the sword in his right. The pages and the blade formed a self-rewriting "circle of propositions" in front of him.
"Heavenly Cause Judgment Sequence: Final Order Interrogation - The World Silent Judgment!"
"The Silent Origin Stainless Sword, the Historyless Void Severance Sword!"
The golden-black book ring pushed the proposition that the Asura "must descend" to the question of "why it must." Once this "must" was removed, the tower's weight suddenly lightened by an inch. At the same time, the sword light severed "the history of the tower's existence at this moment," adding an unbearable crack to its current fall. The tower's shadow was forced to tremble, but was firmly stabilized by Yuhuang's power of realm. The two forces tore each other apart, as if the sky was being pulled in opposite directions by two invisible hands. The sea of clouds was split in two, and lightning poured into the valley. Qin Yu felt a sweetness in his throat, his knees sank, but he still held his sword horizontally in front of him, blocking the last inch of blood flame pressing down on Extinguished Light and Nan Yao.
Li Hanshou sneered, and nine illusory figures rose again, whipping the entire mountain ridge into a canyon with a flick of the spear's tail. He didn't entangle with the Extinguished Light, but instead targeted Qin Yu's wounds— the Void Evolution spear wasn't aimed at the present moment, but at Qin Yu's "arm that would raise its sword in the next instant." Qin Yu's arm went numb, and he almost lost his balance and fell.
Just as the spear was about to pierce his chest, Extinguished Light slightly raised his eyelashes, his black, abyss-like pupils narrowed into rings, and he uttered a cold voice:
"The Annihilation Fate Radiance Induction, the Star Judgment of End and Beginning"
A black and white star fell from the sky, but it did not determine the fate of the enemy—it placed its judgment on the fate of "this spear." The spear's momentum was forced to compress into a point and freeze into dust. Li Hanshou was forced to move sideways to borrow strength. The Void Evolution Flow burst and flashed, folding himself out from outside that point. Half of his shoulder armor was scorched black by the annihilation, but it still forcibly held on with a thickness of a higher realm to avoid being completely obliterated.
The Venerable Yuhuang understood her choice. The dark sun dipped slightly, and Silent Profundity descended, signaling the imminent tolling of a new hellish bell. Under the relentless pressure, Qin Yu suddenly held his breath, allowing his aura to vanish completely in an instant—no, to briefly place the "definition of his own existence" into an unobservable shadow.
"Non-Observation Extinction Aspect - The Ultimate"
At this moment, there was no light, no sound, no process; only the "result" of the Asura falling another step was quietly taken away, and an invisible wedge was missing from the surging black sun. Qin Yu did not use this to obliterate his enemy—the realms were worlds apart, he could not do it—he merely used this "absolute nothingness" to erase the inevitable defeat that weighed on his head. The price was blood dripping from between his fingers, a stinging pain coming from the depths of his sea of consciousness. He used his will to pry the aftershocks of "self-erasure" from his Fate Soul, and finally, a mouthful of blood could not be suppressed and spilled from between his teeth.
"Enough." Extinguished Light said softly, five Annihilation Runes arranged in a ring. She did not throw the Ultimate Wheel at the two of them, but instead covered the battlefield itself.
"Xuanji Return to Origin - Lightless Final Wheel - Reduction by 30%, Target Limited to: Outer Layer of Battlefield Overlay Rules."
The colossal wheel of ethereal light silently opened and closed high in the sky. The calamity of time reversal and space collapse did not crush the enemy, but instead stripped away the "outer rule enhancement" that Yuhuang had brought with his realm, forcing the black sun to remain only within "itself" and no longer able to borrow from "the realm". Li Hanshou's Void Evolution flow was also wiped away by three parts of the wheel's edge, and the nine layers of illusory image became seven layers. For the first time, he stopped in front of the wheel, and the fierce light in his eyes intensified.
In the brief, almost invisible entanglement, Qin Yu took his second step. He hurled the Book of Fate Law high into the air, its pages transforming into rings, within which the concept of "protection" appeared. He then used the Limitless Flower-Pinching Heaven-Silencing Finger - Finger Severs the Karmic Ruins shatter a dark rift approaching Nan Yao. Immediately afterward, the Silent Track - Extinction of Consciousness flowed from the spine of his sword, severing a section of the "Hunter's Memory Chain" that Li Hanshou had placed on the spearhead, forcing him back half a zhang. Blood rolled down the back of Qin Yu's hand, but he did not retreat. Instead, he used the Silent Lord - Causeless Judgment to sever a wisp of Asura Bell power from Yuhuang, forcibly changing the future that was "certainly suppressed" to "perhaps not suppressed."
The mountain wind surged back into the world. Venerable Yuhuang gazed intently for a moment, a thin sliver of light flashing from the black sun, as if assessing the cost of forcibly pursuing him with his Silent Profundity body; Li Hanshou raised his spear to lick the blood from the corner of his lips, the Void Evolution Flow gathering around him once more, his killing intent transforming into ruthless patience—they all understood: with their superior cultivation levels, they could still gain the upper hand, but the combination of the two opponents and their defensive and offensive tactics was enough to turn a "sure kill" into a "severe injury." Furthermore, the female disciple from the Chaos Return to Oneness Palace was being protected behind them; continuing the entanglement might introduce even more variables.