Arc 2Chapters 26–50
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Qin Yu discovered the Soul-Rending Ancient Tree and saw its guardian drive away the woman from the Shadow Woods and her companions. After they ambushed him on his way out, he escaped into the mountain mist and lured one pursuer toward a mutated demonic dragon, hoping to turn the hunt against them.
Qin Yu escaped the Soul-Rending Mountain Range after luring a pursuer into the demonic dragon’s territory, where the dragon killed him and then fought off the alluring woman and the black-robed Yuan Transformation Realm expert. The woman fled while the dragon killed the black-robed man, and Qin Yu returned toward Cloud-Leveling Hall with two demon cores and renewed resolve, keeping the mysterious gray light secret.
After returning to Cloud-Leveling Hall, Qin Yu refined a mutated beast core and mastered all five forms of the Spirit Spear Heaven-Guiding Art. As the Great Yan Continent inter-sect martial tournament approached, he joined Nangong Heyao and other outer disciples in a wine gathering and resolved to fight for Cloud-Leveling Hall.
Cloud-Leveling Hall prepared for the inter-sect martial tournament as Qin Yu entered Blood Shadow Deadly Valley to strengthen himself. After stealing and consuming the Purple-Gold Immortal Grass, he broke through to major accomplishment of the Qi Condensation Realm, with the tournament only three days away.
Qin Yu tested the strength he had gained from reaching major accomplishment in the Qi Condensation Realm, then joined Cloud-Leveling Hall on its journey to the Great Yan Continent tournament in White Frost Ancient City. After the sects gathered and tensions rose, Venerable White Frost began the draw and selected Cloud Waves Gate, Gale Hall, and Mystic Crane Sect for the first outer-disciple battles.
Cloud Waves Gate, Gale Hall, and Mystic Crane Sect fought six matches, and Gale Hall and Cloud Waves Gate advanced while Mystic Crane Sect was eliminated. Cloud-Leveling Hall then entered the tournament and drew its matchups, leaving Qin Yu set to face Ye Qing.
Cloud-Leveling Hall’s Zhao Xinyu, Yang Zheng, and Nangong Heyao each won their martial tournament matches, strengthening the sect’s standing in the first round. The chapter ended with Nangong Heyao defeating Gale Hall’s Zhou Lie in a single decisive sword strike.
Qin Yu defeated Ye Qing with a single sword strike, completing Cloud-Leveling Hall’s three victories and earning the attention of powerful sects. After Liu Hongzhuang defeated Bai Shuangxue with a blood-burning technique, Qin Yu and his fellow disciples agreed that Yang Zheng and Zhao Xinyu should concede if they drew her, leaving Qin Yu or Nangong Heyao to face her.
The tournament’s elimination rounds began, and the Cloud-Soaring Sect defeated the Qianyuan Sect to advance to the finals. Cloud-Leveling Hall drew Pure Fragrance Garden, and its leaders agreed that Yang Zheng should surrender rather than risk Liu Hongzhuang killing him.
Zhao Xinyu lost to Huo Caixu after a fierce fire-and-ice duel, and Yang Zheng stopped Huo Caixu from killing her before conceding his own match against Liu Hongzhuang. Nangong Heyao then defeated Lan Lengqing with his sword techniques, giving Cloud-Leveling Hall another victory.
Qin Yu defeated Luo Yilin with Heaven-Guiding Strike, giving Cloud-Leveling Hall a chance to force a deciding two-on-two match against Pure Fragrance Garden. The chapter ended with Qin Yu and Nangong Heyao preparing to face Liu Hongzhuang and Yue Linmeng, who planned to attack them with beguiling arts and cold poison.
Qin Yu and Nangong Heyao fought Liu Hongzhuang and Yue Linmeng in the tiebreaker between Cloud-Leveling Hall and Pure Fragrance Garden. After their teammates were incapacitated and Liu unleashed her ultimate art, Qin Yu killed her with the Spear of Ashen Annihilation, then collapsed unconscious as the arena erupted.
Qin Yu’s gray power erased Liu Hongzhuang and Yue Linmeng, securing Cloud-Leveling Hall first place in the tournament and bringing the sect great rewards and recognition. When the five great sects invited Qin Yu to join them, he chose White Cloud Sect and left with Yang Zheng and Zhao Xinyu, while Nangong Heyao joined Juntian Hall.
Qin Yu, Yang Zheng, and Zhao Xinyu traveled to the White Cloud Sect, where they passed the welcoming ceremony and became outer disciples. Assigned to Heavenly Splendor Peak, they looked toward the sect’s higher realms and vowed to make their mark.
Qin Yu, Yang Zheng, and Zhao Xinyu advanced their cultivation in the White Cloud Sect before choosing the Immortal Vein Ruins for their first patrol assignment. After entering the ruined territory, they discovered an ancient altar beneath a storm of chaotic lightning and sensed that a power beyond the Yuan Transformation Realm lay hidden there.
Qin Yu, Yang Zheng, and Zhao Xinyu fought their way through the Immortal Vein Ruins, where Qin Yu gave Yang Zheng a powerful demonic core and the three encountered a black dragon guarding a cave. Qin Yu lured the dragon away so the others could enter, and Zhao Xinyu claimed the divine sword Moon-Congealing Frost; Qin Yu remained locked in battle with the dragon.
Qin Yu, Zhao Xinyu, and Yang Zheng joined forces to battle the black dragon after Moon-Congealing Frost drew it back to the cavern. Zhao Xinyu ultimately killed the dragon and claimed its demon core, and the three wounded disciples left to find a safe place to recover.
After surviving the battle with the black dragon, Qin Yu, Zhao Xinyu, and Yang Zheng recovered in a hidden cave, where they discovered the strength of their new weapons and cultivation arts. They swore to stand together through life and death before falling asleep, while the Immortal Vein Ruins continued to rumble in the distance.
The cultivation hierarchy extended from the Great Yan Continent through the Spirit Firmament Great Realm to the Source of Epochless. After becoming the Master of Zero Page, Qin Yu stabilized the Annihilation Abyss Epoch and created an eleven-realm system that surpassed the old hierarchy.
The chapter described Huayan, the Void Threshold Empress, and her power to erase and rewrite existence, fate, and narrative itself. It left her poised beyond the story as an arbiter between illusion and reality.
The chapter presents Zero Page as an indescribable meta-state beyond existence, logic, time, and narrative, with all manifestations reduced to temporary residual echoes. It identifies Qin Yu as Zero Page’s sole manifestation and “master without mastery,” while insisting that even these descriptions are illusions.
The chapter explained the Source Ring’s origin in the Silent Abyss and described how its five orders of power progressed from destroying souls to rewriting reality’s fundamental principles. It left the Source Ring as an overwhelming order of annihilation, born to end the wars of the myriad worlds.
The chapter described Qin Yu’s Definition Realm as a position outside existence, nonexistence, and the cultivation system, where he established rules and withdrew meaning at once. It left Qin Yu as the prerequisite for stories to begin and end, though he would not accept the label of “perfect.”
Qin Yu, Zhao Xinyu, and Yang Zheng entered the Immortal Vein Ruins, defeated its runic guardian, and endured the golden ancient road’s Spiritual Qi torrent to break through. Their breakthroughs awakened immortal phenomena across the ruins, which a White Cloud Sect elder detected from afar.