The Immortal Seeker: Legend of Bronze Mirror-Chapter 872 - 404: Annihilation! Annihilation!
In his Primordial Spirit Sea, the Five Elements Dao Diagram that once shone as brightly as the Milky Way—the sharp white light representing metal, the vibrant green of wood, the soft deep black of water, the fiery red of fire, and the heavy yellow of earth—was now losing its luster at a speed visible to the naked eye, becoming dim and faded!
The Dao Seed Runes forming the foundation of the Great Dao, like weathered rock, began to peel and crack on the surface, turning into tiny, lifeless gray dust, dispersing into the silent darkness.
The Tai Chi Diagram of Yin Yang Reversal had its balance completely broken, the yang fish representing life rapidly shrank, while the yin fish representing death expanded madly, almost devouring the entire Primordial Spirit Sea!
With every breath, he felt his "Taoist Practice" slipping away, and his understanding of the Heaven and Earth Laws becoming blurred and unfamiliar.
"Buzz… ooo…" The Five-Colored Flying Sword floating in front of Xu Qing let out a mournful wail.
The Five Elements Slaughter Sword Intent flowing on the sword's body extinguished rapidly, like a frozen flame.
The pure slaughter-condensed green lotus petal on which the Dao Seed Runes blurred and dissipated as if erased by a rubber.
The weak yet resilient light of the Sword Spirit, under the illumination of the Silent Extinction Divine Light, flickered violently like a candle in the wind, the light dimming rapidly, as if it could be extinguished at any moment.
On the sword's body, fine gray cracks, resembling crackled porcelain, started to appear!
"Ugh!" Xu Qing let out a painful groan, from his seven orifices, instead of blood, a trickle of gray, lifeless "Dao Qi," representing the forcibly extinguished origin of the Great Dao, slowly seeped out!
His hair turned gray from the roots at a speed visible to the naked eye, his once elastic skin rapidly lost its shine, becoming dry and slack, his eye sockets deepened, and the sharp spirit in his eyes was replaced by a deep fatigue and bewilderment.
He felt himself disintegrating from the "source," being "erased"!
Suppressing any ripple of emotion within his mind, Xu Qing squeezed out the almost exhausted mana to once again urge the Five Elements Immortal Slaying Sword.
The sword light struggled to brighten, but was as weak as a firefly, slashing against the Bodhi Tree, it still had no effect, like a mud bull entering the sea.
He tried to use an escape skill, but the silent extinction implication around him, like sticky amber, firmly trapped him in place, unable to move an inch.
He operated the Taiyi Dao for deduction, trying to find a glimmer of life, but the countless possibilities deduced all pointed to the same ending—extinction!
Absolute extinction!
The crushing sense brought by the immortal feeling made all wisdom, skill, and strength seem so pale and laughable.
Time seemed to have lost its meaning or infinitely extended.
Xu Qing's consciousness began to blur, sinking into an eternally dark, bottomless cold dark quagmire.
In his past memories: the toil of cultivation, the joy of breakthrough, the passionate fights; all became distant and illusory, as if separated by a thick layer of rough glass.
He felt the concept of the existence of "Xu Qing" being stripped and dissolved.
He was no longer the strong one who dared to break into the Emperor Palace, but an aggregate of energy and consciousness that was headed toward total nothingness, even the emotion of "despair" itself became numb and indifferent under the erosion of extinction.
His Primordial Spirit Fire flickered as if about to extinguish, leaving only the last faint spark, heavily surrounded by endless extinction darkness.
The Taiyi Dao Origin that Xu Qing had condensed, originally gathered like a Chaos Egg in the core of Xu Qing's Sea of Consciousness, was now suppressed to the extreme, its light becoming so faint as to be almost invisible, its surface full of gray cracks, as if about to completely shatter at any moment.
At this moment, Xu Qing deeply felt that true despair was not destruction, but watching helplessly as everything that marked one's existence was ruthlessly and irreversibly erased in absolute, unmovable silence! Watching oneself step by step toward total and eternal "nothingness."
Just as the Primordial Spirit Fire was about to completely extinguish and the light of the Taiyi Dao Origin was compressed to the faintest extremity, to the point where even the concept of "self" was about to be thoroughly consumed by extinction.
The Taiyi Dao Origin, faint to the limit and nearly assimilated with extinction, seemed to be forced to the absolute critical point of "existence" and "non-existence," and suddenly… inwardly collapsed!
It was not an explosion!, but an extreme introversion!
Returning to a state more primitive than "nothing"—when chaos was not yet open, when everything was absolute nothingness, even the concept of "nothing" itself had yet not been born!
An ancient intent stemming from before Taichu, transcending all "existence" and "non-existence," like the singularity in Xu Qing's modern memory that does not freeze in absolute zero, suddenly awakened at the deepest layer of Xu Qing's consciousness abyss about to thoroughly sink!
In this absolute extinction, where all the Great Dao he cultivated postnatally was erased to near the depletion of the origin, that point symbolizing the Taiyi True Intent of "before the beginning" and "all is nothing" instead became the only "existence" that cannot be thoroughly erased by extinction!
Because extinction means ending everything, returning to "nothing."
Whereas Taiyi is the beginning of "nothing," is "nothing" itself, and even… a nurturing bed for "existence"!
Silent Extinction Divine Light can erase everything "existing," but cannot erase this most primitive point of beginning of "nothing," which is "Taiyi"!
"Extinction… ends everything… returns to nothingness…"
"Taiyi… chaos is not open… also nothingness…"
"It turns out that extinction is not the end, Taiyi is its source, or are they converging?"
An unprecedented comprehension, like the first light of Heaven and Earth Opening, tore through Xu Qing's consciousness filled with endless suffocating darkness!
Put to death and then born! Broken and then established!
Roar!
Xu Qing suddenly opened his eyes! In the depths of those originally dull and lifeless pupils, an absolute darkness, as if capable of devouring all light, erupted!
It was not the darkness of destruction, but the original darkness before chaos opened and harmony judged!
He no longer tried to resist the Silent Extinction Divine Light! Instead… he embraced it actively!
"Body turns to Taiyi! All Laws Return to Ruins! Extinction shares the origin—scatter!"
Xu Qing made a crazy move that even made the projection of the Bodhi Ancestor look sideways!
He no longer maintained his shape, nor guarded the remaining Dao Foundation! He actively drew upon the last weak yet intrinsically profound Taiyi True Intent within his body to reverse its operation!
Crack! Crack!
The remaining Five Elements Dao Foundation and Yin Yang Balance within him, under the reverse operation of the Taiyi True Intent, shattered fiercely like fragile glass!
This was not destruction by external force, but self-disintegration from the origin!
Accompanied by the collapse of the Dao Foundation, an unimaginable pain swept over the Primordial Spirit, but his eyes were astonishingly bright!
The shattered fragments of the Dao Foundation, the remaining Origin Power, and even the invading Silent Extinction Divine Light… Under the reverse traction of the Taiyi True Intent of "All Things Return to Ruins," they crazily rushed into the depths of the Primordial Spirit toward that one collapsing Taiyi Singularity!
That singularity seemed to transform into the initial "singularity" of the universe, an ultimate origin capable of devouring, encompassing, and transforming all, ultimately returning to "nothing"!
Buzz!
The singularity exploded in a sudden expansion! It was not an explosion but a kind of silent "diffusion"!
Xu Qing's body instantly became ethereal and transparent as if composed of the purest darkness.
When the omnipresent, all-eroding Innate Silent Extinction Divine Light touched this layer of pure darkness representing the "Taiyi Void," it ceased to be a relationship of erosion and being eroded, but like a drop of water merging into the sea, without obstruction… It fused into it!
Silent Extinction Divine Light was assimilated by the "Taiyi Void" Xu Qing had transformed into!
He was no longer an "existence" opposing extinction, but rather turned himself into a more profound "void" of the same origin as extinction, itself! How could extinction erase void?
To use one's own way to repay oneself! With the same origins merge, and all laws are impervious!
The eternal, serene Black Bodhi Tree, unyielding through countless tribulations, swayed violently for the first time!
The Silent Extinction Dao Laws forming its projection seemed to encounter a higher-level, more origin call from "void," uncontrollably flowing and gathering toward the deep darkness that Xu Qing had transformed into!
On the hazy face of the Bodhi Ancestor's projection, there seemed to appear a slight ripple of "stillness," as if breaking the eternal unchanged "static."
