The Immortal Seeker: Legend of Bronze Mirror-Chapter 871 - 404: Annihilation! Annihilation!

Xu Qing shrugged off the remnants of the Nine Heavens Thunder Prison that were gradually dissipating behind him, and the aura of the Imperial Palace Core ahead was as enticing as an ambrosial jade liquid, almost within reach.

However, standing in the way of that final step was a Bodhi Tree, about ten feet tall and completely black as ink.

It stood silently in an absolute void of darkness, with sparse branches and leaves, and a withered form, each black leaf seemingly solidifying the sorrow and vicissitudes of countless eons.

There was no earth-shattering pressure, no all-freezing chill, and no tyrannical destruction.

It merely existed, yet it emanated a heart-palpitating, bone-chilling silence.

This was not the disappearance of sound, but the reduction of the meaning of "existence" itself, an absolute void after "change" had been completely stripped away.

A fine black Divine Dog just stepped into the edge of this area, then as if struck heavily, whimpered and was fiercely thrown back by an invisible barrier, forced to pace anxiously beyond the boundary.

"Bodhi Ancestor... Path of Annihilation..."

The bronze mirror manifested related words of the Black Bodhi Tree, each word as heavy as a thousand pounds.

Xu Qing's heart sank to the bottom.

This seemingly ordinary Black Bodhi was the most insoluble, profundest Ultimate Killing Formation of the Fengdu Emperor Palace.

Immediately, his gaze became as sharp as a blade, and the Sword Intent representing the Five Elements Slaughter around him expanded and erupted to the extreme without reservation!

Block my Dao, all can be killed!

The five-colored Flying Sword floated in front of him, humming and trembling, its body swirling madly at unprecedented speeds with azure, red, yellow, white, and black lights intermingling!

At the tip of the sword, a solid green lotus of pure slaughter aura instantly bloomed, its lotus petals no longer illusions, but composed of countless dense Dao Seed Runes shimmering with cold light, each rune seeming to contain the cold will to end a world.

Five Elements generate and overcome each other, all things wither! Slaughter Immortals! Slaughter Gods! Slaughter Dao! Slaughter all methods to the end!

Five Elements Exterminating Sword—The End of All Things!

Xu Qing directed his fingers like a sword, pouring in his lifelong cultivation, invoking Chaos Power, and brazenly slashing toward the Black Bodhi Tree with the pinnacle of a sword imbued with the True Meaning of End!

Whoosh!

The five-colored Chaos Sword rainbow tore through the darkness! Wherever the sword light passed, the space silently obliterated, leaving a long-lasting unhealable void scar.

At the core of the sword rainbow, the slaughter green lotus rapidly revolved, its heart a dull grey "annihilation" True Meaning, seemingly dragging all tangible and intangible, existence and non-existence along its path into the final destination—Annihilation!

This sword embodied the ultimate comprehension of integrating the Five Elements with slaughter, comprehending the End Great Dao! Enough to cut down stars, to destroy boundless realms!

Yet, when this world-annihilating sword rainbow touched the Black Bodhi Tree...

There was no earth-shattering explosive collision!

There was no splendid rain of light from an energy explosion!

Not even the slightest ripple of energy spread out!

The Five Elements Exterminating Sword light, enough to obliterate ordinary Great Dao projections, just... passed through unimpeded! Like a scorching beam of light penetrating the purest void, like a sharp blade slicing through the invisible clear wind. The sword light passed through the black trunk and sparse branches and leaves, slashing into the darkness behind it, eventually exhausting its energy, slowly dissipating, as if it never appeared.

The Black Bodhi Tree, did not move a bit. Not even the slightest tremor shook the smallest withered leaf.

Absolute silence!

Xu Qing's pupils constricted abruptly to the size of a needle point!

A cold chill instantly traveled from his spine to his crown!

He clearly "saw" that, at the moment his sword light touched the Bodhi Tree, the Five Elements Magical Intent, Slaughter Dao Seed, Chaos Energy that constituted the sword light, even that bit of True Meaning of Destruction, disappeared into thin air like a stone cast into a bottomless abyss, without causing any ripple, just... "vanished"! Not resisted, not destroyed, but... "annihilated"! As if where the Black Bodhi Tree stood was the embodiment of "End" itself, any "existence" that approached it automatically returned to the void of annihilation.

"Eternal... Unchanging..."

Xu Qing's throat was dry, finally comprehending deeply the despair these four words represented, the absolute nature of them!

This Black Bodhi was neither an energy body nor a material entity; it was the projection of the Silent Extinction Dao Laws, the state of "eternal silence" itself!

Regardless of how strong the Five Elements Immortal Slaying Sword is, its sharpness ultimately acts upon "existence." How could it harm this representation of the "nonexistent" ultimate?

At the moment his mind was intensely shocked, the withered branches and leaves of the Black Bodhi Tree, as though formed by the deepest despair, swayed ever-so-slightly, silently.

No light, no sound.

But an invisible, intangible, colorless, odorless "nuance," as if withdrawn from all "meaning" in the world, like the first wave of absolute darkness at the inception of the universe, silently spread, instantly permeating the hundred-zhang space around Xu Qing—Innate Silence Divine Light!

This Divine Light was not an energy attack but the immersion and assimilation of the Great Dao Law!

The Chaos Protective Immortal Light that automatically rose on Xu Qing's body, upon encountering this silent nuance, instantly became like solidified grease, heavy and viscous, its operation slowed a thousandfold! The previously surging Chaos Power in his meridians became like it was trapped in sticky tar; every maneuver became incredibly difficult, and the mental energy expended multiplied geometrically! His once-proud, all-encompassing chaotic nature suddenly seemed a heavy burden, being infiltrated and dismantled bit by bit by the silent nuance, forcibly dragged towards the abyss of final deathly silence.