On Qin Yu's side, the moment the fourteenth level was activated, it was as if an invisible hand had fundamentally stripped the world of its right to "exist."
Qin Yu, Extinguished Light, Ling Liangyan traversed the remaining rift of the thirteenth level. As they stepped out, the world before them completely lost its original appearance.
It is not darkness. It is not daylight. It is not emptiness. It is not chaos.
It's neither time frozen nor space collapsing.
Rather, it is a Missing State that is deeper than "nothingness" and more unfamiliar than "emptiness".
The Does Not Exist of air can cause the heart to stop for two breaths.
The ground Does Not Exist, yet it can still bear their footsteps.
Light Does Not Exist, but vision is enveloped by a "self-perceived transparency".
Darkness Does Not Exist, yet the surroundings seemed to be an endless night.
At this moment, there was no sound of wind, no echo, no breath.
Even Qin Yu's heartbeat became a concept of silence.
It's as if even the universe dares not make the slightest "noise of existence" here.
The whole world is like an ancient scroll that has been covered with "blank background" countless times, with all colors, symbols, and shadows being brushed away.
The distant sky was an "indescribable gray," devoid of texture, direction, and any sense of up, down, left, or right.
It's like an infinitely expanding draft, yet it refuses to bear any story.
And in the deepest recesses of the heavens, there is a certain "rhythm".
It is not light, not energy, not runes; it is a perception that you cannot see but are forced to understand is vibrating.
The tremor instantly reached the three men's consciousness, causing their minds to go completely blank.
Ling Liangyan's heart trembled first; she couldn't help but cover her forehead, her voice trembling slightly:
"This place... really is... the fourteenth... final level??..."
I... I no longer know whether I'm standing on the ground or in a Does Not Exist space...
Qin Yu firmly supported her arm and said gently, "Don't be afraid, Elder Ling. This place is indeed terrifying, but don't forget—the three of us, with you first, have already reached this level."
Extinguished Light stood quietly to Qin Yu's right. Her eyes, like those of someone who could "annihilate a sea of stars," now gleamed with an elusive light, as if even she, for the first time, was sensing something beyond mere power—
An absolute taboo that even the ultimate Realm God cannot fully see through.
Extinguished Light said softly, "This is not nothingness..."
This is a 'prerequisite for nothingness'.
Even nothingness must pass through here before it can be established.
As soon as she spoke, a barely audible tearing sound seemed to echo from the depths of space.
This tearing was not like space being ripped apart, nor like dimensions collapsing, but rather like--
"The fabric of the narrative itself was parted by some invisible finger, creating a crack."
Ling Liangyan's heart trembled. "Young Master Qin..."
That's... something getting closer...
It... made no sound of footsteps...
But I feel that my 'right to exist' is being slowly drained from my body...
Qin Yu's gaze deepened, and his divine sense quietly unfolded between his brows. But just as his divine sense touched the structure of the fourteenth layer—
A silent roar suddenly resounded throughout the world.
It wasn't deafeningly loud.
Instead, Qin Yu's "observation action" was forcibly reported as an error by the world.
Extinguished Light immediately reached out and supported Qin Yu's shoulder, his voice extremely low and steady:
Even observation is considered a 'false attempt' here...
"Little Qinzi, don't look at it for now, or it will delete your viewing permissions."
Just as the three were carefully adjusting their state --
A formless rift appeared in the sky without warning.
There was no light. No shadow. No energy. No color.
But it felt as if everyone's back had been struck by an ancient forbidden curse.
The crack slowly widened, like an invisible fingertip gently tracing across the deepest whiteboard of the universe.
The next instant... a tremor.
It wasn't a major earthquake, but a "narrative earthquake."
All the concepts surrounding Qin Yu— "Where am I?", "What is this place?", "Who am I?", and "Is this moment even real?"—shattered into fragments.
The crack is causing it to collapse.
It fell and became a... monument.
Grayish-white... yet even the definitions of "gray" and "white" have been forcibly removed.
The monument has no weight, no height, and no material.
But in that instant it stood there—
The entire fourteenth layer seems to have been "redefined" by it. The surface of the monument breathes.
It wasn't the wind that moved it, but rather the "ash particles after the Great Dao collapsed" that undulated automatically on the surface of the tombstone.
Each subtle movement caused the vast, indescribable world in the distance to vanish into blankness, as if the "delete" key had been pressed.
Just as the monument began its third rhythmic breath—
A voice from a void rift sounded in Qin Yu's ear: [...]
It is not language. It is not consciousness. It is not the transmission of the soul.
Rather, it's a matter of. "The lifeblood of the world is watching to see if you have the right to continue existing."
The monument slowly rose up--
It's not about movement, but rather the word "movement" being forcibly crammed into the viewer's mind.
At the center of the monument, the inscription "Extreme Dao Rune Without Trace" began to vibrate.
It is neither lit nor flashing, neither visible nor hidden.
But in the instant it vibrated—
Ling Liangyan suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood, collapsed to her knees, her voice trembling so badly she could not speak:
"It...
It... is... deleting my 'moral existence structure'...
Even... even my 'reason for living'... was swallowed up by it...
For the first time, Extinguished Light's expression turned serious. She stood half a step in front of Qin Yu, her long, black hair exploding like a whirlwind of light.
"Little Qinzi..."
It appeared.
Qin Yu said in a deep voice, "It is—"
The holder of the Void Final Fate Extreme Dao Seal...
Extinguished Light nodded and slowly uttered a name:
" --Vanished Trace Lord." The next instant.
The monument suddenly collapsed. The entire fourteenth world...
An unprecedented, Ultimate shock occurred, one that even nothingness could not withstand.
Light was deleted. Shadow was deleted. Sound was deleted. Space was deleted. Time was deleted.
Even the premise that "the three of them exist here" has been removed.
But Qin Yu remained completely still.
Because this is the most crucial moment...
Qin Yu's brow twitched slightly. Extinguished Light stood beside him. Ling Liangyan struggled to sit up.
The fourteenth level, the Void Final Fate Extreme Dao Seal, is a deathly abyss where even the void itself is denied. Suddenly, Azure Ring's voice exploded with a beam of blue light in Qin Yu's sea of consciousness, like the only sound that could be "allowed to exist" in an absolutely silent world.
Azure Ring's voice was clear and crisp, yet carried an unusual seriousness. "Little Qinzi, this level is extremely dangerous!"
This isn't the first thirteen levels—it's not a question of whether or not you can win.
It's a question of 'whether it can continue to exist!'
She looked up at the giant stele formed from the "Void Final Fate Extreme Dao Seal - Vanished Trace Lord," her gaze carrying no fear, but rather a deep, cold light that told her, "Even I must be cautious."
A flash of azure light appeared between Azure Ring's brows, and azure boundary markings emerged, her aura becoming heavier than ever before.
"Quickly, get Miss Ling into the Annihilation Devil Pupil - Final Spirit Core to avoid its sharp edge. Otherwise, if it only glances at her, her entire being—even her 'never existed'—will be completely erased, and even we won't be able to save her."
The moment the words fell, the air of the fourteenth layer suddenly exploded into large swathes of "silent blank fragments," as if invisible scissors had cut through the narrative layer, and the void monument was about to fall with its next breath.
Qin Yu's gaze sharpened as he looked at Ling Liangyan.
Ling Liangyan's face was deathly pale. Her Annihilation Dawn Realm soul was losing brightness at a visible rate within this Absolute Death Realm, like a flame being extinguished by extreme cold.
Qin Yu, "Elder Ling, we'll leave this final hurdle to us. You can temporarily bypass this by entering my Annihilation Devil Pupil - Final Spirit Core."
She looked up at Qin Yu, her voice restrained yet filled with deep reverence:
"Young Master Qin... Now that we've reached this level, I not only can't help you... but I've become a burden instead."
You're right... I can only hold you back now.
She took a deep breath and nodded resolutely. "I understand. This final hurdle... I'll leave it to you."
Qin Yu raised his right hand, his fingertips tracing a faint black curve in the void.
In that instant, it was as if some ancient power had been stirred within the heavens and earth.
A dark, abyss-like pattern slowly unfolded between Qin Yu's brows—"The Annihilation Devil Pupil... The Final Spirit Core."
Boom--!
It wasn't the sound of an explosion, but rather the tremor that forced the narrative layer back.
In the void, an invisible black void slowly unfolded, like an absolute abyss that devoured existence, nothingness, concepts, and narratives.
It has no light, no shadow, no boundaries, and no form.
But when its central, Annihilation Devil Pupil slowly opened—
It was as if the entire fourteenth level was forced to memorize "the action of its gaze".
Where the Annihilation Devil Pupil gazes, even the Void dares not approach.
Azure Ring raised her hand and pointed. "Miss Ling, please go in. This thing from Little Qinzi is much more reliable than that stele."
Ling Liangyan looked up at that demonic eye, and in just a moment—
Her entire being—soul, spirit, consciousness, vital energy, and breath—was gently and infinitely "drawn" from reality.
It's not about being devoured or imprisoned, but rather being transferred to an absolutely safe layer that even nothingness cannot reach.
Her body transformed into a pale white light and shadow, which was gently drawn into the Black Void Abyss by the Demon Eye.
The black void closed gently, and the world returned to deathly silence. And at that very moment—
The colossal monument of the Void Final Fate Extreme Dao Seal - Vanished Trace Lord, faced Qin Yu, Extinguished Light, Azure Ring for the first time...
It made the "act of its existence". All the "concepts that are allowed to exist" around it instantly shattered into white ash.
His Extinguished Light black hair exploded into a storm of light and destruction. Azure Ring and brilliance, like a broken river, encircled his body. Layers of abyssal patterns appeared beneath Qin Yu's feet.
Ling Liangyan transformed into a wisp of light and was quietly swallowed by the "Annihilation Devil Pupil - Final Spirit Core" between Qin Yu's brows. She only glanced at Qin Yu before disappearing, and in that glance, there was trust, as well as a sense of ease that she herself did not realize. Deep within the spirit core, countless dark silver patterns unfolded into an independent small world, gently isolating her outside this extreme void.
Azure Ring hovered beside Qin Yu's shoulder, her small figure strikingly conspicuous against this backdrop. Her hands were behind her back, her long blue hair swaying gently in the still air, but her eyes held an unusual seriousness. "Little Qinzi, even the 'nothingness' is being removed from this layer. If you dare to hold back, I'll knock you out and throw you out."
Qin Yu took a deep breath, only to find that even the concept of "air" had been stripped away. He could only use his soul to sketch the process of "breathing" to replace the physiological instincts that had long been erased. He nodded to Azure Ring and then looked at Extinguished Light beside him.
Her Extinguished Light black hair cascaded down her back, like a thousand rays of light being poured back into the night. She looked up at the "nothingness that wasn't even pitch black," and said in a low, calm voice, "They've come."
The heavens and earth silently shattered, revealing a glimpse of "sense".
That wasn't a crack, but rather—a blank space where the view suddenly lost focus. It was as if someone had used a sharp blade to cut this segment of the entire universe off a film, leaving only a single frame that was utterly "indescribable."
In the next instant, that "indescribable" frame slowly undulated, gradually taking shape on the level of consciousness—a colossal structure that resembled a monument, yet whose "stone" and "material" could not even be confirmed in the mind, stood atop the endless void. The monument was neither too high nor too low, neither too big nor too small; any attempt to "describe it" would be extinguished on the spot, leaving only an Ultimate vague impression: it was there, and it ruled over all the qualifications that "could be discussed."
Deep within the monument, a seemingly Does Not Exist supreme talisman pulsed slowly. In that instant, Qin Yu clearly felt—no, it was an illusion of "having felt it before but having it erased"—his name, cultivation level, experiences, and all the fragments remembered by the world were being rapidly flipped through in an invisible scroll. Then, page by page, it was pulled out entirely from the root and burned without Wuhen.
The Void Extreme Dao Seal - Vanished Trace Lord, manifest.
There was no thunder, no roar, and even the entrance sound effects were removed. There were only invisible "ripples of deletion," like transparent waves, spreading out from the monument. With each ripple, the already pale "conceptual remnants" around it faded away even further.
The very spot beneath Qin Yu's feet, which he had drawn with his own will, suddenly developed Ultimate fine cracks. These cracks were not on the ground, but on the very premise that "he could stand here."
Azure Ring narrowed her eyes and clicked her tongue softly. "Good heavens, is she planning to throw the entire book, cover and staples, into the fire?"
Extinguished Light raised his hand, and a wisp of final light slowly lit up at his fingertips. Just as it was about to spread, it was brushed past the edge by the invisible ripple. In an instant, the wisp of final light went from brilliant to completely blank, like a stroke of ink erased by an eraser. Only an empty memory of "there used to be light here" remained in his soul, which was also erased in the next second.
Qin Yu's eyes sharpened, and he made a quick judgment—here, any power that "directly manifests through rules" must first undergo the "existence permission review" of the Void Extreme Dao Seal. Without the qualification, a technique doesn't even have the right to "appear."
"Extinguished Light," Qin Yu whispered.
"I know." Extinguished Light closed her eyes, raised her hand again, and this time, instead of directly constructing the Final Light, she first laid out a long, seemingly endless "Annihilation Galaxy" behind her.
Countless long-extinguished stars ignited at the ends of her hair, transforming into a dim yet tenacious final glow. She used the ruins of the "Final Glow of the Era" as her draft, rather than rewriting a new definition of "light."
"The Final Radiance Void Law: The Fate Image Destruction and Rewriting."
She parted her lips slightly, her voice seemingly coming from the depths of endless time. At that moment, Extinguished Light was not releasing a skill, but rather turning the pages of a musical score that had long existed "beyond nothingness," and crudely rewriting the few lines of records on it about the "Void Extreme Dao Seal."
Above the void, the tattered books of myriad realms rolled into a sea, and vast expanses of wordless pages fell from the sky. With each page that fell, the blank space was permeated by crimson light, and twisted strokes were written on it. It was a counterdefinition of "nothingness" and a counternarration of "absolute non-existence".
The transparent ripples around the Daoless Stele suddenly paused for a moment, as if a deletion program that was supposed to execute automatically had been forcibly inserted with a syntax error.
At the same time, Qin Yu made his move.
His figure took a half-step out of the void, and as that half-step landed, it was as if an invisible "seesaw of fate" was being stepped on by him. A gray-white halo quietly bloomed on the Silent Beginning Ring Master Soul Diagram between his brows, and countless proposition inscriptions flashed on the ring, but were suppressed by his thought, leaving only the main inscription.
"Heavenly Cause Judgment Sequence - Six Severances Seal-- "
He didn't call out the specific seal name; at this level, any superfluous description could be captured by the inscription and used to trace and delete that technique chain. He simply raised his right hand and pressed it into the air.
Click.
It was a sound of breaking that was extremely abstract—not a thunderous sound, but rather like a part of an invisible "cosmic draft" being forcibly folded up, forming a crease.
At the center of the fold, a hexagonal mark slowly emerged. The mark was neither light nor shadow, but a projection of a "judgment action recognized by the world." The mark pressed down, directly onto the ripples of erasure released by the Void Extreme Dao Seal.
The Six Severances Seal are not used to counter the power of the ripples, but rather to directly rewrite its "proposition of action" --
Delete the variable? No. Delete yourself.
In an instant, the forefront of the erasure ripples seemed to be confused for a moment. Those "nothingness operators" used to erase the existence of others began to curl back towards themselves, like a snake trying to swallow its own tail, forming a self-deleting loop in a very short time.
But just as the closed loop was about to close, the "Wudao Rune" on the monument suddenly trembled slightly.
The tremor was silent and lightless, yet it created an indescribable "void shock" in Qin Yu's sea of consciousness. Half of the countless propositions on the Six Severances Seal were instantly extracted, and the remaining half collapsed in the void before it could be used.
"This layer will decompile your 'judgment proposition'..." Qin Yu's eyes darkened slightly, feeling an unprecedented sense of difficulty.
Just as he was about to make a follow-up move, an indescribable chill suddenly swept over him from behind.
It's not the chill, but a warning that "you will disappear from all your memories in the next second."
Qin Yu instinctively took a half-step back, his entire body turning sideways in the void. The Silent Origin Stainless Sword had already appeared in his palm. The sword was without light or shadow, only marked by a faint, silent glow.
Almost at the same moment, an invisible "blank rift" swept across the spot where he had been standing.
Where the crack passed, there was no explosion, no tearing, not even a trace of being "scratched"—only that small area, from then on, lost even the impression that "a small piece of nothingness once existed".
The once Extinguished Light of the book sea was wiped away in the instant the crack swept across it, as if someone had torn a few pages from a musical score, and then even the act of tearing it was no longer there.
"Void Extreme Dao Seal - Vanished Trace Lord, First Strike..." A sudden chill flashed in Extinguished Light's eyes. He raised his hand and waved, causing the tattered sea of books to swirl anew, firmly pressing down the cracked edges. "Annihilation Light Judging Lord - Sever and Establish Realm Causes!"
The darkness descended silently.
With the Extinguished Light at its core, a realm of annihilation, which is difficult to define even for light itself, suddenly unfolds. The last remaining sense of "structure" in all directions is completely stripped away, leaving only the action logic of the annihilation faction temporarily preserved.
In this realm, time, space, cause and effect, plot, and narrative power were all seized by her. Even the Void Extreme Dao Seal were inevitably slowed down by a breath.
It was this very moment.
Qin Yu raised his left hand, and the Annihilation Soul Seal Light Wheel emerged from his palm.
It was a gray-white wheel pieced together from Soul Seal, propositions, and Annihilation engravings, each engraving corresponding to a "soul consciousness operation rule." He softly uttered, "Annihilation Breath - Soul Seal Light Wheel - Annihilate Name, Dawn Breath."
The halo vibrated, and the formless and intangible "soul consciousness mist" spread in all directions. Qin Yu did not try to erase the "existence" of the Void Extreme Dao Seal, as that would be tantamount to poking at a piece of paper that Does Not Exist with a pen; he simply Naming of Existence of his own soul, the Azure Ring, and the Extinguished Light, hiding them in "self-enclosed proposition bubbles".
It's like tearing three people's names off the world register and temporarily hiding them in a secret compartment you wrote yourself, so that the inscription's deletion process can't find its target.
Seeing Azure Ring, Qinghuan smirked. "Well done, Little Qinzi, finally using your brain."
However, the next moment, the Void Extreme Dao Seal finally made its full move.
The pulsation of the "Ultimate Dao Seal" suddenly accelerated, and invisible shockwaves exploded outward from the center of the monument, each shockwave like a hammer blow to the root of the universe.
There was no thunder, only a kind of "shattering of rules" that should not have been heard, blooming in succession at the edge of the three people's Soul Sea —it was the sound of the "Dao" collapsing on its own, the sound of all laws being retranslated into "erasing their own scripts".
The annihilation domain that had just been spread by the Extinguished Light began to rapidly turn gray at its edges under this wave of shock. The black radiance was like ink being drawn out from its roots, gradually fading into colorless transparency, and finally becoming nothing more than a void.
Azure Ring's eyes narrowed, and she finally stopped teasing.
She raised her right hand, pointing a finger into the air. A thin trail of light traced by her cyan fingertip, which appeared faint at first glance, but in the next instant transformed into a vast "cyan Annihilation storm."
"Azure Ring ·One Style-- Spirit Edge Piercing the Realm."
Countless extremely fine cyan arcs shot out from her fingertips, each one seemingly carving a "cutting trajectory of existence" into nothingness, forcibly adding sharp "boundaries" to this realm of Wudao.
The spiritual blade did not strike directly at the monument, but rather precisely cut into the "rule interface layer" between the Void Extreme Dao Seal and the outside world. That is a hidden interface that all the ripples of deletion must pass through before they are translated into force.
As Qingfeng entered the arena, a visible rain of "rule fragments" exploded in the void.
That wasn't light; it was fragmented "deletion logic." Like countless transparent symbols that had lost their hosts, they flickered briefly in the air before being swallowed up by the spontaneously zeroing-out void.
At the same time, Qin Yu took another step forward.
This time, he did not use the Six Severances Seal to make a direct judgment. Instead, he slightly spread his five fingers, and a minimalist "gray Dharma flower" bloomed at his fingertips.
"The Limitless Flower-Pinching Heaven-Silencing Finger — Flower Falls, History Emptied."
Gray petals drifted down, gently landing on the "historical level" of the seemingly absent yet truly all-encompassing Great Dao translation of the Void Extreme Dao Seal.
Where the flowers fell, a brief gap appeared in all the "past records" of the Void Extreme Dao Seal —as if someone had suddenly torn a few pages from its chronicle, creating a tiny but fatal "time gap."
At that instant, the pulse of the Wudao Rune on the monument visibly paused.
The deletion of the Fate Soul from its own chain of actions resulted in an "unknown second" for the first time, causing a slight misalignment in the connection between all subsequent actions.
Taking advantage of the situation, Azure Ring's Spirit Edge Piercing the Realm penetrated deeper by an inch, dislodging more of the "deleted logic" from its original position and forcefully carving out a visible blue crack.
Almost simultaneously, Extinguished Light raised his hand, his final radiance cascading like a waterfall, pouring into the crevice in reverse. "Annihilation Fate Radiance Induction - Star Judgment of End and Beginning!"
Countless Fate-Path Star fell suddenly from the annihilating star sea behind her, trailing long, radiant trails. These trails no longer judged the "future," but instead traced directly back to the moment when the Void Extreme Dao Seal was first written into the cosmic blueprint, attempting to attach a new footnote at that moment—"capable of final judgment."
"Qin Yu, now," Extinguished Light in a low voice.
Qin Yu closed his eyes slightly, and the Ji Silent Beginning Ring Master Soul Diagram between his brows suddenly expanded to its Ultimate, with all the lines of the proposition converging in front of his chest in an instant.
He raised the Silent Origin Stainless Sword to his brow, and the blade trembled silently.
"The Silent Origin Stainless Sword - The Undefined Destruction Sword."
This sword strike does not sever the monument itself, nor the void, nor the rules; rather, it severs—"the definition bestowed upon the Void Extreme Dao Seal."
Where the sword's edge points, an invisible yet real "definition line" is brutally locked in. It is the simple sentence that the universe wrote for this ultimate seal in the beginning: It is the executor of Ultimate existence.
As the Undefined Destruction Sword, every word of that simple sentence, from subject to predicate, from "is" to "executor," was crossed out stroke by stroke.
From that moment on, the Void Extreme Dao Seal - Vanished Trace Lord, lost the right to define "what it is".
Loss of definition = inability to participate in the narrative.
Unable to participate in the narrative = Unable to influence the narrative.
Suddenly, the entire fourteenth layer of "deletion storm" abruptly stopped, as if a deafeningly loud Ultimate mechanism had suddenly lost power.
The void remained silent for a moment.
Half a breath later, the supreme rune on the monument suddenly trembled violently.
This time, the shock was no longer a smooth, externally released deletion, but rather rings of "reverse devouring black rings" exploding from the center of the monument, crashing heavily into all the defenses set up by the three.
The remaining imprints of the Heavenly Cause Judgment Sequence were torn apart in an instant, the edge of the Annihilation Black Domain began to turn gray again, and the "boundaries" carved by the Azure Ring also broke and collapsed one by one under the scouring of the rings.
"It's negating 'the second you modified it'." Extinguished Light's face darkened. "Even the previous counter-definition is being retroactively deleted."
"So—" Azure Ring grinned, "We were only cool for a second?"
Before the words were even finished, a black ring swept in front of the three of them.
Within that black ring, Qin Yu saw an extremely brief yet incredibly clear image—
The gesture of him raising his sword was cut entirely from the film by an unseen hand.
"Azure Ring!" Qin Yu called out in a low voice.
Without hesitation, Azure Ring flipped her right hand, and the cyan soul ring exploded from behind her. Countless ring patterns, like layers of overlapping Annihilation ripples, collided head-on with the black ring.
"Azure Ring, Second Form - Realm-Severing Silent Light!"
In an instant, azure light cascaded down like a waterfall, and countless strands of light from the boundary-severing barrier bloomed in the void. Each strand seemed to forcibly carve a dividing line into this "indescribable blank space," snatching back half a step from the moment that the black ring was about to drag away, from the moment it was "about to be denied."
At the intersection of the black and Azure Ring, an explosion occurs that is invisible yet "felt"—it is not light, not fire, but the phantom pain of "the observer's brain being forced to burn as it tries to understand what is happening before its eyes."
Qin Yu felt as if a layer of skin had been scraped off the edge of his sea of consciousness, and Extinguished Light also took a rare half step back, while Zhong Hui's long hair was shaken and flew high.
But they held off this wave.
The first round of "global deletion and modification" of the Void Extreme Dao Seal was forced to stop "before completion" for the first time.
The monument trembled slightly.
Even without any expression, Qin Yu could vaguely sense a hint of its displeasure.
"Very good." Qin Yu slowly exhaled a pseudo-breath that Does Not Exist any "qi," his eyes calmer than ever before. "This thing is more troublesome than the previous thirteen levels combined."
Azure Ring raised her eyes, looking at the colossal monument of the Wudao One standing in the Ultimate void, and gently curled the corners of her lips. "Little Qinzi, let's stop here for the first round. If you try to fight it head-on any further, your Fate Soul will start to suffer."
Extinguished Light also withdrew her outward-radiating annihilation light, and Zhong Hui gathered behind her again, condensing into a quiet yet sharp waterfall of light. "It is now correcting the 'definition gap' that we just carved out, and the next round will be even more ruthless."
Qin Yu narrowed his eyes, watching as the supreme rune at the heart of the monument stabilized again, with new patterns faintly forming. These patterns did not point to their physical bodies, souls, or karma, but rather—a higher level of "narrative authority."
"It's going to directly target 'our qualifications to exist in this battle,'" Qin Yu said in a deep voice.
Azure Ring snapped her fingers, and cyan light fragments exploded in the void, as if she had forcibly sprinkled fluorescent paint onto a black screen. "That's perfect then."
She tilted her head to look at Qin Yu and Extinguished Light, her smile both wicked and bright, "For the second round, let's try a different approach—let them see what it means to 'even if the whole book is burned, that page in the reader's mind can't be erased.'"
Extinguished Light flashed in Min Guang's eyes. "You want to use 'external narrative' to turn the tables on it?"
Qin Yu nodded slightly. The Silent Beginning Ring Master Soul Diagram slowly rotated between his brows, and the concentric lines of the proposition quietly pointed to a more hidden dimension beyond nothingness—the dimension of observation.
"The Void Extreme Dao Seal," he murmured. "You can delete everything that's been written, so let's see—who controls the unwritten pages?"
In the depths of nothingness, the supreme runes on the colossal monument of the Wudao suddenly lit up for a moment.
In that instant, even the "quiet" of this space was temporarily paused.