Venerable Silent Shadow Wuhen of Gray Spirit Mountain

Venerable Yuhuang sneered, his dark eyes churning even deeper. His fingertips traced rings of light that seemed to twist the very fabric of the world. His voice, deep and guttural in the twilight, sounded like it was being squeezed from a thousand graves, "Li Hanshou must use his Realm Self-Evolution skill. This kid and that woman are incredibly strange, otherwise we'll both be dead today." Li Hanshou turned, a crimson mist swirling around his spear, transforming into countless tiny fragments of the future. His gaze seemed capable of splitting a person in two, past and future. A cold smile played on his lips, the spear tip reflecting a knife-like glint in the sunlight. "Good, end them directly, let them know the true power of the difference in realms." Before his words even finished, the heavens and earth seemed to be gripped by two invisible giant hands simultaneously. The wind ceased abruptly, and the air of Gray Spirit Mountain instantly froze into tangible ice.

Li Hanshou treads on the Flow of Void Emanation, each step extracting the rocks beneath his feet into illusory images. Hundreds of semi-transparent "flow channels" appear around him, extending outward like rivers, extracting all possible counterattacks and evasions into fragments of time, sending them directly into his palm—this is the destiny net generated by the Void Emanation Realm itself. He preemptively captures "the enemy's next feasible method," engraving it in reverse as his own sharp blade. The tip of his spear spews out Void Evolution runes, which open countless small holes in the air, as if trying to gnaw reality into transparent thin paper. At the same time, the Void Evolution core within his body begins to pulsate with an unusual rhythm, intertwining blood-red and ghostly blue light spots. That rhythm is like a machine tearing the gaps in time wider, allowing each of his attacks to preemptively sever the opponent's response line.

The Venerable Yuhuang stood silently to the side, his palm raised, the power of Silent Profundity surging like a black tide in the deep sea. He was not in a hurry to attack, but instead silently wove a grand "causal framework"—the ultimate self-derived Ultimate Silent Mystery Realm: replacing all noise with absolute stillness, swallowing the opponent's counterattack rhythm with the void of time. The black sun behind him suddenly cracked open with countless fine cracks, from which flowed gray light streams that resembled both ink and stardust. These streams of light fell to the ground and became countless still clocks. The hands of the clocks did not move, but shattered the moment their memories were extracted. Those shattered fragments transformed into silent arrows, carrying an "irreversible" stillness, nailing any move that attempted to be launched at the same moment to the wall of time.

Two realms of power unfolded simultaneously in the air: Void Evolution like a net, Silent Profundity like a wall, mirroring and devouring each other. Void Evolution wove "various possibilities of the future" into arrows and threw them at the opponent, while Silent Profundity would scrape away the path of each arrow for a period of time before it arrived, causing the arrow to lose the premise of "hitting the target". Void Evolution turned the battlefield into a flowing trap, while Silent Profundity extinguished the anchor points of the trap one by one. The two supreme techniques were like two giant beasts wrestling in the same well, and the vibrations they emitted hit the depths of the valley.

Qin Yu's old wound was reopened, causing him new pain. He knew that with his current Limit at the pinnacle of the Severed Observation Realm · Supreme, facing the combined power of Void Evolution and Silent Profundity, he could only use strategy and sacrifice to exchange for a chance to survive. He gritted his teeth, and the Silent Origin Stainless Sword in his hand emitted a heavy sword cry. The tip of the sword carried a coldness soaked in blood and pages, wanting to "rewrite this moment" and sever the point of overlap between the two forces. Extinguished Light stood in front of him, her black radiance like the sea, her eyes without a ripple. Her Five Seals of Annihilation Radiance slowly rotated, like five small wheels of death preparing to cast a judgment of destiny. The surrounding air was sucked away and compressed with her breath. Time around her was like crumpled paper, becoming increasingly difficult to discern the closer one got. Nan Yao was protected behind the two of them. Her broken aura trembled in the medicine and Qin Yu's aura, but it was also suppressed even more deeply by the rolling fluctuations of the realm self-evolution before her.

The light and shadow from all directions were fragmented into countless pieces at this moment: the Void Evolution channels wove a giant net in the air, with phantoms of the "future" flashing in the mesh; the world outside the net seemed to be drawn into a curtain, behind which lay countless predetermined endings; the Silent Profundity clocks fell from the sky like countless daggers, each dagger taking away a memory, a possibility of retaliation, leaving only emptiness where it landed. The stone peaks of Gray Spirit Mountain were torn apart by the two forces as if sliced open by a knife, and dust and gravel tumbled into a giant gray dragon, rushing straight towards them.

In that oppressive, almost suffocating moment, heaven and earth seemed to hold their breath. The pupils of all the onlookers were stretched into pinholes, and even the birds and beasts in the distance, who had not yet joined the fight, were forced to kneel by the two forces. Venerable Yuhuang and Li Hanshou stepped forward at the same time, their auras converging in the air to form a high wall powerful enough to destroy the former sect. The entire Gray Spirit Mountain seemed to be paused by that wall. Time continued to flow outside the wall, while everything inside the wall was to be rewritten and annihilated by their self-generated power.

Just as the final breath of the two realms was about to crush Qin Yu, Extinguished Light, and Nan Yao, along with this valley, into a monument of destiny, the sky seemed to be torn open by a giant hand, and the silence was pushed to its end at that moment.

Nan Yao's pupils suddenly contracted under the torn sky, her tears reflecting a blinding silver light in the chaotic flow of energy and the collapsing space. Her voice trembled with heart-wrenching pain. "Young Master Qin —no...!" At that moment, the roar of heaven and earth seemed to be pressed into a vacuum by the combined power of the power of the Extinguished Light and the Venerable Yuhuang. The air was completely sucked out, and the body of Gray Spirit Mountain was collapsing like fine sand.

The Extinguished Light radiance surrounding Min Guang surged dramatically at that moment, her long hair completely transforming into a lightless annihilation, and the black holes in her pupils swirled like collapsing galaxies. She raised her hand, and five annihilating radiance runes on her forehead lit up simultaneously, her voice seemingly emanating from the deepest void of the universe. "Xuanji Return to Origin - The Lightless Final Wheel!"

Boom—the sky exploded. In that instant, the concept of "color" in heaven and earth completely collapsed. A colossal, boundless wheel of silent light rose from behind the Extinguished Light, with white and black rays intertwining within it. Its outline resembled a black sun that devoured all worlds, yet at its center burst forth a destructive white light. The wheel of light slowly rotated, and with each rotation, it tore a crack in time, crushing space into quicksand.

The Venerable Yuhuang roared, "Foolish! The power of the Silent Profundity can devour all worlds!" As he raised his hand, the black sun behind him exploded, and the tide of the Silent Profundity gathered into countless "Asura Karma Chains," each chain tied with the roars of billions of dead souls, transforming into a hellish galaxy that pressed down on Qin Yu and the other two.

At this moment, Li Hanshou's spear trembled, and his Void Evolution Flow transformed into hundreds of layers of time-shattering shadows. His figure appeared simultaneously in each layer, each future wielding his spear and slashing down, shouting in unison, "Void Evolution Hunting Prison - Myriad Souls Burst!"

The three laws of annihilation, time, void, and Asura Hell erupted simultaneously, turning the entire Gray Spirit Mountain into ruins in an instant. Everything trembled between destruction and reversal. The Stillness Light Wheel of Extinguished Light collided head-on with the power of the two realms—in an instant, all light vanished. Heaven and earth, color and sound, hot and cold, light and darkness, past and future all dissolved into pure "silence."

At that Threshold moment between light and annihilation, blood gushed from Qin Yu's throat, and the azure light in his sea of consciousness suddenly flashed. He roared, his voice piercing through the shattered space:

" --Azure Ring!!!--"

The heavens and earth trembled, and the sea of consciousness boiled. That call seemed to have triggered the deepest rhythm of the Source of Epochless. In the next instant, the "Fate Soul Crystal Core - Azure Evolution Core" between Qin Yu's eyebrows suddenly cracked open, and an endless azure ring burst out from the void. As the ring rotated, billions of layers of soul light bloomed, the sky reversed, and cause and effect flowed backward.

Azure Ring appeared.

She slowly emerged from the boundary between serene light and crimson hues, surrounded by ten layers of soul seals, her eyes shimmering with an aurora borealis interwoven with "silence and life." Her blue hair flew wildly, her voice clear yet carrying an indescribable majesty—

"Ha—dare to play with realms in front of Little Qinzi? Let's see whose realm truly Annihilation!"

In an instant, all ten wheels of the Azure Ring opened simultaneously.

--"Annihilate the Soul and Draw the Dawn!"

The entire world became transparent and silent. Azure Ring raised her hand, and a dark blue ring appeared, transforming into a gate of Annihilation. Within the gate burned the flames of countless soul shadows, yet without heat. That was the "True Soul Rift Realm." In the next instant, a beam of Soul Annihilation light swept out, striking directly between the brows of Venerable Yuhuang and Li Hanshou.

They both jolted, a twisted pain flashing in their eyes—because their "souls" had been forcibly drawn into the "Azure Ring Rift Realm" at that moment. In the silent world, the two supreme souls continuously disintegrated and reborn within the Realm Splitting, only to be stripped and redefined again. Each rebirth was marked with a mirror image of death, ultimately reflecting as their own "deathly appearance."

Azure Ring whispered, her voice seeming to come from memories of countless eons past. "The Soul Annihilation has been drawn."

--"The Realm Immeasurable Tribulation!"

The second ring unfolded. The sky above Gray Spirit Mountain suddenly shattered into countless "fragments of cause and effect," and countless unpaid life lines were ignited simultaneously. The karmic fire of heaven and earth poured out like a river, and billions of life lines transformed into a rain of calamity fire, illuminating the entire Gray Spirit Mountain.

The Venerable Yuhuang roared, countless Asura Seals appearing on his body in an attempt to resist, only to find that each seal self-destructed the moment it was released, the causal chain backfiring on him—this was the terror of the Realm Immeasurable Tribulation, which used every unfulfilled segment of the enemy's life trajectory as fuel, causing all the karmic consequences to return to him.

Li Hanshou roared, Flow of Void Emanation was ignited by the Annihilation Flame. The possibilities of the future were destroyed one by one, and each of his attacks collapsed into ashes in the next second.

Qin Yu shouted, "--Qing Azure Ring, final move!"

Azure Ring clasped her hands together, and ten rings converged behind her into a boundless vortex of annihilating light. Her voice, echoing from eternity, carried a chilling intent to end her life:

"The Unborn Silence Seal —Fall!"

At that moment, the record of existence of heaven and earth was completely severed. The Silent Seal fell to the ground, and the timeline ended at this moment. The figures of Venerable Yuhuang and Li Hanshou blurred in an instant, and were erased in the next moment—not killed, but "removed from being mentioned." Their physical bodies, souls, memories, history, cause and effect, and even the traces of being "known" by others, all disintegrated in the annihilation light.

The world fell into a deathly silence. The wind ceased to blow, the light ceased to shine, and even the three characters "Gray Spirit Mountain" were gradually erased from the world's language.

Azure Ring slightly raised her head, the ring seal closed, and light gathered between her brows. Her voice transformed into a clear, bell-like sound:

"The Soul Annihilation has vanished, the calamity of the realm has ended. --The Silent Wheel Final Abyss, sealed."

The final strike explodes.

Behind Azure Ring unfolded a boundless "Silent Wheel Stele Realm," its surface inscribed with the final marks of countless worlds. All beings she had annihilated relived their last breath within the monument's shadow before Entering Stillness Abyss. The phantoms of Venerable Yuhuang and Li Hanshou also appeared within the monument's light, before shattering into dust, absorbed and erased by the Silent Wheel Stele Seal, and from that moment on, they ceased to exist in the world.

As the light faded, the Silent Wheel Monument sank, and the celestial curtain closed once more.

Qin Yu knelt on the ground, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth along the blade of his sword, the Extinguished Light gradually fading. Azure Ring turned and landed lightly, patting Qin Yu's shoulder, her tone still light and cheerful. "Phew—done, Little Qinzi, now those two aren't even left with a hair on their heads."

Qin Yu smiled slightly, then looked up, still catching his breath. "Good... This time, thanks to you."

Extinguished Light stood to one side, the black glow still swirling around her clothes. Her gaze swept between Azure Ring and Qin Yu, and she nodded slightly.

The sky returned to complete silence, leaving only the collapsed Gray Spirit Mountain burning silently, the annihilation light and the silent flames intertwining to create an indescribable apocalyptic scene.

The world after the Annihilation was as still as if it were dead. The bones of Gray Spirit Mountain were still silently crumbling, and the lava in the earth's core turned into streaks of bluish-black light, emitting a strange afterglow. The air was no longer air, but a thin film of fragmented spacetime reshaped by the "aftershocks of annihilation," floating with every breath, and even the concept of wind was stripped away.

Nan Yao stood frozen on the shattered mountain ridge, her robes tinged with a faint blue by the shimmering light. Her lips trembled, yet she could utter a single word. At that moment, her mind went terribly blank—she couldn't comprehend how that seemingly delicate and Qingyi woman in green could single-handedly obliterate two peak-level beings Silent Profundity and Void Evolution. It wasn't a contest of power, but rather a pronouncement of a higher level of existence—from seeing, to recognizing, to remembering, even the fact that "they once lived" was erased from the very foundation of the world's code.

"What... is she...?" Nan Yao's voice was so soft it was almost inaudible, and her whole body trembled slightly in the aftershocks of the illuminating light.

Qinghuan still stood there, her expression calm, and the annihilation flowing in her eyes gradually extinguished. But in that tranquility, there was an absolute pressure that could make the world afraid to approach. Under her feet, the last trace of the "Silk Wheel Ending Abyss" tablet pattern was still dissipating, and the annihilation tracks engraved were like the passage of stars, and each line represented a life path that had been completely returned to zero.

However, the aftereffects of this move extend far beyond the immediate situation.

As the Annihilation Silent Wheel completely collapsed into the causal layer, the spacetime surrounding the entire Gray Spirit Mountain began to tremble and rumble.

Deep in the sky, a dark blue crack stretched from the distant clouds to an unseen end, as if the world's celestial bones had been forcibly cleaved open. Within the crack, causal lines, in billions of strands of light, broke, intertwined, and reformed, each intersection triggering the collapse and restart of space. This was the manifestation of the "rupture of the causal layer"—past, present, and future three-dimensional time was forcibly superimposed, and the flow of time in the entire region reversed, swirled, and collapsed into chaos amidst the annihilation.

Meanwhile, in Gray Spirit Mountain, Azure Ring's aura continued to slowly descend. She stretched out her hand, and a gentle blue light appeared in her palm. The light was no longer the extinguishing brilliance, but as soft as a drizzle.

"Alright, alright, Little Qinzi, don't grit your teeth so hard. A little Azure Ring Light Rain will make the pain go away right away."

With a flick of her fingertips, countless Azure Rings of light showered down like spring rain. The light threads were as fine as hair, yet they carried a strange rhythm of rebirth. Wherever they passed, shattered rock walls solidified anew, and scorched air resumed its flow. When they landed on Qin Yu's shoulder, the light flowed into his skin like liquid, reshaping the flesh torn by the Void Evolution Spear's power into new textures; the aura around Extinguished Light, which had been devoured by the Annihilation Radiance, was balanced by the soft light, and his black hair flowed like mist once more.

When the Azure Ring light rained down on Nan Yao, her lifeless breath instantly returned to normal, the spiritual meridians shattered by the Annihilation Profound attack within her body were reconnected, her sea of consciousness returned to calm, and even the severe injury to her chest visibly healed. She stared blankly down at the strands of azure light winding around her arm, and tears welled up in her eyes.

"This... is... life being rewritten..." she murmured.

Qin Yu exhaled a long breath, and the light in his eyes refocused. He slowly tightened his grip on the sword in his hand, and the light from the Azure Evolution Core between his brows had subsided.

"Thank you," he said softly.

Azure Ring waved her hand and smiled, "No need to thank me, it's your fault for always rushing ahead." The glint in her eyes faded, returning to a clear blue. "Alright, the causality of this space is still unstable, we need to leave immediately. Those Asura monsters have probably already smelled the scent."

Qin Yu nodded and made a sweeping motion in the air. With a thought, the sharp edge of the Silent Origin Stainless Sword tore a deep rift in the air. Within the rift, chaotic rainbow light shimmered—it was a cross-dimensional teleportation Rending Domain.

He turned to look at Nan Yao, his voice steady and gentle. "Miss Nan, I will escort you back to the Chaos First Palace. This place... is no longer safe."

Nan Yao was still in shock. She nodded slightly and replied softly, "Yes... Young Master Qin."

Extinguished Light took one last look at the mountain range that had been completely Annihilation by the annihilation light. His long hair fluttered slightly, and his tone was cold yet carried a deep sense of vigilance. "The Asura Divine Hall and the Nine Alliances Gang will definitely not let this go."

Qin Yu took a deep breath, his eyes sharp. "Then let them come."

As soon as he finished speaking, he shielded Nan Yao with one hand and stretched out the other, placing his palm between Extinguished Light and Azure Ring. The three of them instantly merged into one. Azure Ring let out a soft hum and pointed her finger, causing the spatial rift to suddenly expand, transforming into a portal to nothingness.

Azure light, fading brilliance, and silent radiance all shone simultaneously.

In the next instant, the three disappeared into the collapsing light stream of Gray Spirit Mountain, leaving only the mountain region that had been torn apart by a mythical battle, still slowly collapsing. And in the far sky, at the top of the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer, the gray storm still echoed in the distant sky, and the echoes of the Cause Splitting traveled tens of thousands of miles, reaching the Asura Divine Hall.

At this moment, within the main hall of the Asura Divine Hall, crimson Asura Flame surged like a tide. Several Asura disciples who had returned from the outer realms knelt in the center of the hall, their breaths ragged and their faces filled with indescribable terror. The leader bowed his head and reported in a trembling voice, "Reporting to the elders... Elder Yuhuang, the Venerable Yuhuang of the Silent Mystery Realm · Supreme Profound Realm, led us in pursuit of the traitor from the Chaos First Palace who carried the 'Sacred Radiance Limitless'... Upon reaching Gray Spirit Mountain, the heavens and earth collapsed, light vanished, and all life ceased. I, your disciple, was fortunate enough to escape. What I saw was utter Annihilation —even the Venerable's Fate Soul imprint... had ceased to exist..."

The air inside the hall froze instantly.

The high-hanging Asura Stele trembled with a deep hum, as if even the building itself was enraged. A dozen ancient Asura auras slowly awakened from the depths of the shadows, and layers of annihilated light illuminated the roof of the hall. When each elder opened his eyes, the temperature of the entire hall dropped sharply.

"The Fate Soul Seal is missing?"

What about fate?

"Unpredictable... it's like being completely erased from the causal chain..."

"How is this possible!" An old man suddenly stood up, the Asura Flame behind him exploding into thousands of skeletal phantoms. "Yuhuang is the Silent Profundity Supreme Realm! In the Void Obliteration Domain, those who can touch his Fate Soul are few and far between!"

Another elder said in a deep voice, "Unless... it's the ultimate technique of the Annihilation Realm—a skill capable of breaking through Xuanji and Mieyin."

"The Final Form of the Annihilation Realm?"

A brief, deathly silence fell over the hall. Everyone held their breath, those four words seeming like a taboo subject. If someone had truly used that level of technique within the Void Obliteration Domain, it not only meant that the user's cultivation had reached an unfathomable level, but also that this mid-level system of destiny had been disturbed by some 'unknown entity'.

"Let's go." The leading elder finally spoke in a low voice, his tone as cold as iron cutting through the air. "Lock onto the last trace of Yuhuang's life force; even if it's just a wisp, investigate it thoroughly."

"If anyone dares to harm the Venerable One of my Asura Divine Hall in the Void Obliteration Domain..."

"--He will be stripped of even the right to reincarnation."

As soon as the words fell, more than a dozen blood-red streaks of light shot into the sky from the hall, piercing through the array of Asura Tablets on the roof, tearing open the void, and pointing directly towards Gray Spirit Mountain.

The ruins of Gray Spirit Mountain.

The wind no longer blows, and the sky no longer brightens. That battlefield has lost the concept of "existence," leaving only floating fragments of annihilation and the dust of shattered spacetime.

When the dozen or so Asura elders descended, the ground beneath their feet transformed into a semi-transparent glass-like surface, reflecting their shadows into countless broken shapes.

"This place... doesn't feel like a battlefield; it's more like a piece of a world that was torn out of time and space."

Even the flow of the Limitless Evolving True Flow has stopped.

They spread out to investigate, and hundreds of causal chains spread through the void, piercing through heaven and earth like probes. Moments later, all the chains snapped simultaneously, making a crisp cracking sound.

"No destiny." "No soul." "Even the record of his 'existence' has been erased..."

An old man knelt down, his palms covering the ground, a stream of light spreading outwards. His gaze grew colder with the flow of his aura. "The very essence of Gray Spirit Mountain has been erased—even the inscription on the name 'Gray Spirit Mountain' is fading."

Their voices gradually lowered, shaking the deathly silence of the space.

"The one capable of directly erasing Silent Profundity Supreme is definitely not from within the Void Obliteration Domain. Even those old monsters of the Chaos Realm couldn't directly erase a Perfected being of the Silent Profundity Supreme. So who is it?"

"Perhaps... it comes from an existence even higher up in the Source of Epochless."

"It could also be a reverse annihilation triggered by the awakening of a sacred artifact."

The leading elder closed his eyes and whispered, "Whoever made the move, it means that the rules of Annihilation Void have been shaken. The disappearance of Yuhuang is not the end, but a warning sign."

He looked up at the distant sky, where the still unclosed chasm of annihilation reflected blurry light and shadow, as if another world was spying on them.

"Investigate every last trace of life on Gray Spirit Mountain, leaving no stone unturned in its cause and effect."

"Yes!"

More than a dozen Asura elders dispersed simultaneously, their blood-red light filling the sky above Gray Spirit Mountain. The Asura Stele Array was reshaped along with their figures, resembling a massive soul-searching array operating in the air. Annihilation energy surged, mountains and rivers were reconstructed, and the boundaries of the void glowed red, as if the entire world was groaning in pain.

But no matter how they reasoned, they couldn't arrive at any conclusion.

There is no trace of Yuhuang's Fate Soul here.

There is also no proof that he ever existed.

Only Space Silence, fading light, and a faint, indistinct ripple of final stillness seemed to silently mock the incompetence of all the explorers.

"Let's go." The leading elder finally withdrew his hand, his voice as cold as iron. "Within the Annihilation Void... a being capable of devouring Fate Soul has appeared. The Source of Epochless... perhaps... the world is about to change."

As soon as the words fell, more than a dozen figures simultaneously turned into annihilation light and disappeared into the shattered sky, leaving only the valley, which had been shaken into a gray-white state by the power of Asura, quietly sleeping in eternal silence.

Gray Spirit Mountain was finally plunged into complete, silent darkness.