Recaps

Qin Yu returned to the Source of Epochless, reported his experiences to Venerable Lord Tong Ning, and chose to visit his mother in Taiyan Heaven. The chapter ended with him arriving above the Great Yan Continent and announcing that he was home.

• Qin Yu formally acknowledged Zi Xue as his true disciple and sent her to prepare for the Eternal Evolution Divine Hall tournament.
• Fate Que Huangyuan, Ji Hengtu, Fate Spirit Annihilation Woman, Dream Master Jun Xujing, and other powerful figures learned that Qin Yu had defeated his hunters and claimed the Source-Cause Construct Heart.
• Qin Yu recounted the Heavenly Emanation Treasure Realm battle to Venerable Lord Tong Ning, who assured him that Yan Yue was likely safe and approved his visit to his mother.
• Qin Yu opened a gate of return to the origin and left the Hall of Observation and Judgment.
• Qin Yu arrived in Taiyan Heaven, the Great Yan Continent, and quietly said that he had returned to his mother.

After ten years away, Qin Yu returned to the White Cloud Sect and reunited with his adoptive mother, Qin Yu, before the sect held a grand welcome feast. He also reconnected with Yang Zheng and Zhao Xinyu and met their son, Ning'er, as the homecoming celebrations began.

• Qin Yu arrived at the White Cloud Sect, presented Xiao Yinshan with the Master Command Token, and was welcomed by the sect master.
• Xiao Yinshan brought Qin Yu to see his adoptive mother, Qin Yu, and they embraced after ten years apart.
• Qin Yu's mother ordered a grand celebration, and the White Cloud Sect lit its peaks and welcomed him as Young Master Qin Yu.
• Yang Zheng and Zhao Xinyu arrived with their son Ning'er, and Qin Yu greeted his old friends and met the boy.
• Qin Yu thanked Yang Zheng and Zhao Xinyu for caring for his mother, and Qin Yu watched them reunite with a smile.

After celebrating Qin Yu’s return to the White Cloud Sect, he spent a quiet morning with his mother and told Sect Master Xiao he planned to take her to Hidden Source Ridge. He promised Ning'er he would return to fly kites with him.

• Qin Yu shared breakfast and a walk through the garden with his mother, reassuring her that he would not leave her lonely for so long again.
• Qin Yu told his mother that Qian Ruishan, Mu Qingwan, and the others remained in the Annihilation Abyss Epoch, and he had returned to spend time with her.
• Qin Yu met Sect Master Xiao and Yang Zheng, then said he planned to take his mother to Hidden Source Ridge to revisit their old home and the green nanmu tree.
• Sect Master Xiao approved the trip and said the sect would protect Qin Yu's mother in his absence.
• Ning'er asked Qin Yu to stay, and Qin Yu promised to return after the trip to fly kites with him.

Qin Yu brought his mother back to their former home on Hidden Source Ridge, restored the ruined house, and made it a protected foundation for their family. He then gathered food from the mountain, and the two shared a quiet meal together, reunited in their old home.

• Qin Yu created a nine-colored lotus throne and carried his mother across Taiyan Heaven toward Hidden Source Ridge.
• Qin Yu and his mother visited their childhood home and recalled their life there together.
• Qin Yu restored the old house, revived the well, empowered the elm tree to guard it, and established the Return-to-Source Soul-Guarding Formation.
• Qin Yu asked his mother to brew immortal tea while he went into the mountain to gather game and wild greens.
• Qin Yu returned at dusk, cooked their meal, and shared tea and food with his mother in their restored home.

Qin Yu spent a peaceful night with his mother on Hidden Source Ridge, then took her to revisit the transformed Mist Market. There, they caught up with Auntie Zhang and shared a warm reunion with an old friend.

• Qin Yu told his mother how exhausted he was from years of fighting, and she reminded him that home and her care would always be waiting for him.
• Qin Yu took his mother on a five-colored spirit platform to the Mist Market, which had grown into a vast trading capital since his childhood.
• Qin Yu and his mother walked through the bustling market and reminisced about visiting it when he was young.
• Qin Yu and his mother ran into Auntie Zhang, who introduced her grandson Zhang Jingrui and recalled Qin Yu's childhood.
• Qin Yu gave Zhang Jingrui a spirit moon candy, and Qin Yu and Auntie Zhang continued catching up.

Qin Yu and his mother shared a meal at Auntie Zhang’s home before Qin Yu helped Zhang Xiuhe investigate a child’s mysterious affliction. He used the Book of Fate Law to restore the boy’s soul and fate trajectory, leaving the child awake and recovering.

• Auntie Zhang welcomed Qin Yu and his mother to Frostwood Cottage, where they shared a meal with her family.
• Zhang Xiuhe left to treat a neighboring family’s unconscious child, but his medical techniques could not overcome the strange mark blocking the child’s Qi meridians.
• After returning to search his master’s medical texts, Zhang Xiuhe accepted Qin Yu’s offer to examine the boy and took Qin Yu and Auntie Zhang to the village.
• Qin Yu identified the mark as a non-fate-trajectory annotation that had torn the child’s soul consciousness away from his fate trajectory.
• Qin Yu used the Book of Fate Law and the Realm-Severing Source Pen to reconstruct the child’s fate trajectory and mend his soul.
• The child awoke, and Qin Yu gave him an Origin Heart Body-Fortifying Pill to stabilize his soul and body.

Qin Yu left his mother in the White Cloud Sect, entrusting her with pills and a spirit platform before departing through a spatial rift. Meanwhile, a forbidden soul entity began reviving in the Soul Cavern Dense Forest, and Lord Tong Ning hoped Qin Yu had returned to stop the coming crisis.

• Qin Yu summoned the Five-Colored Heaven-Wielding Platform to take his mother back to the White Cloud Sect, impressing the people of the Zhang residence.
• Qin Yu gave his mother three thousand Azure Essence Limitless Pills and left her the spirit platform and instructions, asking Yang Zheng and Zhao Xinyu to care for her.
• Qin Yu bowed farewell to his mother and departed through a spatial rift, while she promised to wait for his return.
• A yellow-green soul mist erupted from the Myriad Souls Sacrificial Well, and observers detected signs of a Non-Returning Narrative Soul revival in the Soul Cavern Dense Forest.
• An observation mirror shattered in the Heavenly Emanation Hall of Observation, and Lord Tong Ning sensed an unknown soul entity and wondered whether Qin Yu had returned to calm the crisis.

Qin Yu met Hall Master Yan Xu and Tong Ning, who explained that a strange mist in the Soul Cavern Dense Forest was threatening an ancient seal and could unleash a catastrophic collapse of soul consciousness. They appointed Qin Yu to lead an investigation with fighters from other temples, and he accepted, vowing to destroy anyone who betrayed the mission.

• Qin Yu learned that the Soul Cavern Dense Forest had been placed under a ban after a strange mist appeared, and Azure Ring warned that something had broken free of a seal.
• Elder Feng Wujin summoned Qin Yu to the Annihilation Abyss Prayer Platform, where he met Tong Ning and Hall Master Yan Xu.
• Yan Xu and Tong Ning revealed that Yanli Heavenly Maiden had sealed the Inenarrable One and its soul soldiers in an ancient well beneath the Soul Cavern Dense Forest.
• Tong Ning and Yan Xu explained that False Soul Origin Mist was twisting native creatures and could contaminate billions of True Immortals if it reached the seal's main lock.
• Yan Xu and Tong Ning assigned Qin Yu to represent the Eternal Evolution Realm Hall in a joint investigation, ordering him to annihilate anyone who betrayed the mission.
• Qin Yu accepted the task and vowed to cut down anyone who conspired against the Dao, regardless of their rank.

Qin Yu accepted a secret mission to investigate the Soul Cavern Dense Forest, using a God Origin Crystal Core to disguise himself as Mo Chen. He discovered that the mist rewrote the consciousness and Fate Souls of living beings, and Azure Ring warned that an unwritten narrative might lie behind it.

• Hall Master Yan Xu gave Qin Yu the God Origin Crystal Core, and Venerable Tong Ning explained that the Soul Cavern upheaval might involve cross-epoch karmic forces.
• Qin Yu fused the core into his sea of consciousness, took on the assumed identity Mo Chen, and entered the Soul Cavern Dense Forest to investigate.
• At the Nine-Story Wind-Watching Tower, Mo Chen overheard that the mist transformed bitten cultivators into Mist Slaves by reconstructing their consciousness chains.
• Qin Yu surveyed the forest and found that mutated soul beasts slaughtered one another and consumed each other's Fate Soul consciousness chains.
• Qin Yu used Fate Trajectory Profiling to examine the mist and determined that it rewrote the meaning and purpose of existence; Azure Ring warned that an unwritten narrative might be behind it.

Disguised as Mo Chen, Qin Yu entered the Soul Cavern Dense Forest to investigate the source of the mist’s mutations. After the mist tried to rewrite his identity, he used the Azure Ring to repel it and fought two mutated soul beasts, discovering that their fates had been forcibly altered.

• Qin Yu watched the battle outside the forest, kept his identity as Mo Chen hidden, and slipped past the blockade into the mist.
• The mist tried to rewrite Qin Yu’s existence, but the Azure Ring protected him and caused the mist to retreat.
• Qin Yu erased a mutated Evolution Rock Prison-Splitting Tiger with Linked-Stage Judgment.
• Qin Yu used Fate Trajectory Profiling to learn that a mutated Soul-Devouring Heavy Mastiff’s fate had been rewritten, then reversed its trajectory until conflicting logic annihilated it.
• Qin Yu sensed that he had only just entered the mist’s soul-luring stage.

Qin Yu used the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword to annihilate the soul tides and confront the Cinder Abyss Black Prison Envoy, Mo Da. After Qin Yu struck Mo Da’s soul consciousness, Mo Da transformed into the Abyssal Soul Mad Demon and expanded the Annihilation Abyss Soul-Refining Realm, leaving their battle poised to escalate.

• Qin Yu drew the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword and erased the three incoming soul tides with Sever the Epoch Without a Trace.
• The Cinder Abyss Black Prison Envoy, Mo Da, emerged from the mist and attacked Qin Yu with soul-consciousness rift veins and an army of prison shadows.
• Qin Yu used Sever the Soul in Nine Silences to destroy Mo Da’s attacks and strike his sea of consciousness with the ninth silence, Eternal Binding of Empty Consciousness.
• Mo Da’s body was flooded by mist and pierced by black soul needles, transforming him into the Abyssal Soul Mad Demon.
• Mo Da expanded the Annihilation Abyss Soul-Refining Realm and unleashed seven soul-flame torrents at Qin Yu, who faced him with only the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword.

Qin Yu used the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword to destroy Mo Da and discovered that the mad beasts were the source cores of the mist covering the Soul Cavern Dense Forest. After the mist receded and revealed part of an ancient sealing array, Qin Yu headed deeper into the forest, while a patrol squad from the Annihilating Thought Return Hall arrived and learned that he had slain the mad beast.

• Qin Yu used five forms of the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword to erase Mo Da's thoughts, powers, existence, fate, and soul.
• Qin Yu concluded that the mad beasts were strange mist source cores and that killing them would clear the mist across the Soul Cavern Dense Forest.
• Qin Yu found a fragment of an ancient sealing array exposed by the receding mist and suspected that the forest concealed a sealed entity.
• Qin Yu set out deeper into the forest to destroy the mad source entities and investigate the calamity's origin.
• Lin Feng and five other Annihilating Thought Return Hall disciples arrived, identified Qin Yu as the one who killed the mad beast, and respectfully questioned him.
• Qin Yu concealed his identity, gave no name, and continued into the misty forest as the disciples watched.

Qin Yu fought through the Soul Cavern Dense Forest’s blue-green mist, destroying corrupted beasts and disciples and discovering that killing a central logic guardian cleared the mist around it. Deep in the forest, he confronted a Construct Dragon formed from countless soul-beast remnants and began severing the logic sustaining it.

• Qin Yu entered the dense mist, found the corpses of maddened exotic beasts, and annihilated a surviving Soul-Howling Rending Spider with Silent Origin: Wheel-Breaking Seal.
• Qin Yu faced three mutated Soul-Fang Demon Lions and dozens of altered divine hall disciples, then erased them with the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword.
• Qin Yu realized the mist was bound to a central altered entity and retreated after destroying its logic guardian body cleared the surrounding region.
• Qin Yu encountered a colossal Construct Dragon whose body was made from corrupted scales and soul remnants, and summoned the Realm Severing Origin Brush and Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram.
• Qin Yu traced the dragon’s origins to hundreds of soul beasts and struck at its construction logic with Sever the Cause, Preventing Birth, causing it to roar in agony.

Qin Yu erased the black-and-gold dragon from the battle’s narrative, but sacrificed beasts rebuilt it as Black Abyss Great Darkness. After the creature nearly killed him with a fate-rewriting attack, Qin Yu reversed its script and landed a devastating sword strike, leaving it struggling to rise.

• Qin Yu used the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword and his fate techniques to erase the black-and-gold dragon from the battlefield’s narrative.
• Mutated exotic beasts sacrificed themselves to rebuild the dragon as Black Abyss Great Darkness, an entity formed from their remnant souls.
• Black Abyss Great Darkness attacked Qin Yu with a fate-preview soul net, blasting him across the forest and gravely wounding him.
• Qin Yu used the Book of Fate Law · Realm-Severing Source Pen to rewrite the attack’s script and make Black Abyss Great Darkness the intended sacrifice.
• Qin Yu shattered Black Abyss Great Darkness’s curse and slashed through its torso with Sever the Cause, Preventing Birth.
• Black Abyss Great Darkness struggled to rise as Qin Yu knelt nearby, badly injured and asking whether it had another attack.

Qin Yu erased the mutated Black Abyss Great Darkness, purifying its mist region, and recovered with the Azure Ring's help. He met old acquaintances from the Sequence Wheel Eternal Hall without revealing his identity, then set off toward the next mist region to continue cleansing Soul Cavern.

• Black Abyss Great Darkness revived through a curse, but Qin Yu used the Book of Fate Law and Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword to erase its existence completely.
• The mist region collapsed after Black Abyss Great Darkness was destroyed, and the Azure Ring healed Qin Yu's wounds and restored his Fate Soul.
• Qin Yu concluded that the mist was a control field created by mutated Soul Masters and vowed not to return until Soul Cavern was cleansed.
• Yao Zhiyan, Ling Yingying, Yin Zishuang, Nangong Quan, and Li Xiayue arrived with other divine hall disciples and found Qin Yu at the purified battlefield.
• Qin Yu introduced himself as Mo Chen, a Rogue Cultivator, declined offers to join the Sequence Wheel Eternal Hall and Grand Cognition Divine Hall, and departed for the next mist region.

Qin Yu joined Yao Zhiyan and the other Sequence Wheel Eternal Hall disciples as they entered the Soul Cavern Dense Forest, where the mist mutated into a deadly red-black domain. He protected the group and destroyed a swarm of Soul-Peeping Ghost Eyes, but a deeper presence began to awaken.

• Qin Yu agreed to travel with Yao Zhiyan, Ling Yingying, Yin Zishuang, Nangong Quan, and Li Xiayue, then led them toward the Spinning Soul Forest to destroy its remnant consciousness.
• Qin Yu used the Azure Ring to shield himself from the mist and later expanded its protective light to cover the five disciples as the mist turned red and black.
• Qin Yu identified the mutated mist as a sign that the area had a master and led the group forward along a temporary safe path.
• Thousands of Soul-Peeping Ghost Eyes surrounded the group, and one attacked Li Xiayue's soul consciousness.
• Qin Yu used Fate Trajectory Profiling, the Abyss-Turning Star Platform, and the Wheel-Breaking Seal to disrupt and destroy the ghost eyes.
• The red-black mist retreated, but a heavier breathing sound came from within it, signaling that the true master was awakening.

Yao Zhiyan, Ling Yingying, Yin Zishuang, Li Xiayue, and Nangong Quan fought alongside Qin Yu to drive back the beast tide in the Soul Cavern Dense Forest. A revived Forbidden Sound · Chief Adjudicator then appeared and incapacitated the five disciples, leaving Qin Yu to face its attack alone.

• Yao Zhiyan destroyed twelve beasts with her mirror-butterfly techniques, and Ling Yingying trapped and annihilated another group with her conch.
• Yin Zishuang froze the beasts and their regeneration within her ice domain, then called on Li Xiayue and Nangong Quan to attack.
• Li Xiayue annihilated dozens of beasts with his lightning halberd while Nangong Quan froze others with his Nether Spring Ice Realm.
• Qin Yu and the five disciples gathered in the mist and gained preliminary control of the core region.
• Forbidden Sound · Chief Adjudicator emerged and struck the group with a roar that gravely injured the five disciples, while Qin Yu remained unharmed.
• Qin Yu stepped forward alone and used Silent Origin: Wheel-Breaking Seal as the Chief Adjudicator swung its sword, and their attacks collided.

Qin Yu fought the Forbidden Sound · Chief Adjudicator with the Fate Law Origin Brush and Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, countering its sound-annihilating abilities and severing the logic supporting its existence. The Chief Adjudicator survived the clash but was left grievously wounded.

• Qin Yu used Fate Inheritance: Knowledge Sealing Stage and Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword techniques to wound the Forbidden Sound · Chief Adjudicator and resist its curses.
• Qin Yu severed the Chief Adjudicator's name fate-chain, bound its attacks with Cause Lock · Mirror-Binding Law, and drove it back with Initial Fate · Inscribed Activation Seal.
• The Forbidden Sound · Chief Adjudicator recovered and activated its Sound-Consciousness Stripping Domain, silencing the battlefield and attacking Qin Yu's soul and perception.
• Qin Yu protected his soul consciousness, pinned the Chief Adjudicator's sound core, and severed its narrative axis with his sword.
• Qin Yu used Fate Seal · Abyss-Turning Star Platform to counter the Chief Adjudicator's ninety-nine silent bells, then struck with Trace and Sever, Leaving No Wheel.
• The Chief Adjudicator's existence logic was severed from the world's blueprint, but it remained alive in a broken state and struggled to rise.

Qin Yu defeated Forbidden Sound · Chief Adjudicator and used a divine pill to save Yao Zhiyan, who learned that her companions had been erased. He memorialized the six dead, then turned toward the approaching rift in the Source Realm.

• Forbidden Sound · Chief Adjudicator unleashed its annihilation sound, erasing Yin Zishuang, Ling Yingying, Nangong Quan, and Li Xiayue while Yao Zhiyan survived by activating her master's mechanism treasure.
• Qin Yu used the Fate Cause Master Seal and Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword to stop the attack, destroy the Chief Adjudicator's mirror-image, and annihilate the enemy.
• Qin Yu collected the Forbidden Sound Crystal and carried the unconscious Yao Zhiyan to a secluded platform, where he gave her a Silent Soul Fate-Reversing Pill.
• Yao Zhiyan awoke and grieved after Qin Yu told her that her senior brothers and junior sisters had died.
• Qin Yu inscribed the six dead companions' names on a golden page and looked toward the true rift in the Source Realm.

Qin Yu and Yao Zhiyan entered the golden core of the Causality Construct Realm, where Annihilation Origin Construct Spirit Guan Yao confronted Qin Yu for existing outside his simulated fate. Qin Yu reversed Guan Yao’s sixty-four-realm sealing formation and struck back, leaving Guan Yao to acknowledge that Qin Yu might reach the Wound of the Constructed Realm as their battle began in earnest.

• Qin Yu identified the golden mist as the fate-logic matrix of a fractured layer of the Source of Epochless, and Yao Zhiyan agreed to follow him into it.
• Annihilation Gold Threads attacked Qin Yu and Yao Zhiyan, but Qin Yu’s Azure Ring shield protected them.
• Guan Yao appeared, introduced himself as the Annihilation Origin Construct Spirit, and declared that Qin Yu should not exist.
• Qin Yu told Yao Zhiyan to remain inside the azure barrier, then faced Guan Yao’s sixty-four-realm Cause Construct Sealing Formation.
• Qin Yu used the Fate Cause Master Seal to seize the formation’s causal cores, turned it into a protective formation, and damaged Guan Yao’s structural-frequency cloak with his sword.
• Guan Yao acknowledged that Qin Yu had not been foreseen or excluded and might have authority to reach the Wound of the Constructed Realm.

Qin Yu defeated Construct Spirit Guan Yao by turning the Annihilation Frequency Fate Core’s reverse-control mechanism against him, then destroyed the Annihilation Realm Rift Core with the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword. The Soul Cavern Dense Forest was restored to stillness, and Qin Yu prepared to return with Yao Zhiyan.

• Guan Yao trapped Qin Yu in a prison of annihilated realms and used the Annihilation Frequency Fate Core to rewrite his existence.
• Qin Yu profiled Guan Yao’s reverse-control mechanism in the Book of Fate Law, causing the core to backlash and fracture.
• Qin Yu severed Guan Yao’s spirit source circuits with the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, leaving Guan Yao weakened as the Annihilation Realm Rift Core emerged.
• Qin Yu connected to the rift core with the Fate-Path Star Platform and approached it despite Guan Yao’s warning that it could erase his existence.
• Qin Yu rejected the core’s reconstruction authority and used Realm Beginning: Sole Silent Name to erase the Annihilation Realm Rift Core.
• Guan Yao acknowledged Qin Yu’s victory and dissolved, while Yao Zhiyan joined Qin Yu in the restored Soul Cavern Dense Forest and he said they should go back.

Qin Yu faced Mingsu, the Consciousness Buryer, who emerged from the annihilated core’s remnants and attacked him with powers that could erase existence and rewrite origins. Though Qin Yu countered Mingsu’s first techniques, the Death Book wounded him and stripped at his identity, leaving him to prepare a final counter using the Annihilation Abyss Epoch Orthodox Path.

• The annihilated core’s golden mist remained, and Mingsu, the Consciousness Buryer, rose from a coffin beneath the Soul Cavern Dense Forest.
• Mingsu attacked Qin Yu with a consciousness judgment, but Qin Yu used Fate Trajectory Profiling to break its six waves.
• Mingsu sealed Qin Yu’s fate-trajectory lines with his crown of dead consciousness, but Qin Yu’s Azure Ring overturned the crown and his Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword severed Mingsu’s observability.
• Mingsu returned in a more terrifying form and used the Death Book to rewrite Qin Yu’s beginning, leaving Qin Yu badly wounded and Yao Zhiyan trapped behind the cyan barrier.
• Qin Yu realized Mingsu had been written into the epoch by mistake and revealed the Annihilation Abyss Epoch Orthodox Path, preparing to write Mingsu’s final chapter.

Qin Yu used the Source-Cause Construct Heart to reverse Mingsu’s lethal attack, annihilating the Consciousness Buryer, but the battle left him near death. A strange formation transported Qin Yu and Yao Zhiyan to the Starlight Illusory Realm’s Star Abyss Forecourt, where the Azure Ring healed Qin Yu and urged them to explore.

• Mingsu attacked Qin Yu with the Death Book’s Dead Consciousness Pen, attempting to erase him from the Book of Epoch.
• The Source-Cause Construct Heart activated and reversed Mingsu’s attack, destroying Mingsu and clearing the Soul Cavern Dense Forest of dead consciousness.
• Qin Yu collapsed near death, and a silver-black guiding array transported him and Yao Zhiyan away from the Soul Cavern Dense Forest.
• Qin Yu and Yao Zhiyan awoke in the Starlight Illusory Realm, where their Fate Souls and abilities could not function normally.
• The Azure Ring identified their location as the Star Abyss Forecourt and restored Qin Yu’s soul, fate trajectories, power, and Book of Fate Law page.
• Qin Yu and Yao Zhiyan set out together along a starlight path to explore the realm.

Qin Yu and Yao Zhiyan uncovered the dead faith projection’s attempt to draw them into the Star Abyss and followed its fading light to an annihilation-burned village. They learned that the village was destroyed by the Star Abyss master soul for trying to steal the writing of star souls, and continued toward the forbidden area beneath its tower.

• A veiled woman told Qin Yu and Yao Zhiyan to become the Star Abyss master soul’s soul slaves, but Qin Yu discovered she was a dead-consciousness projection repeating her final wish.
• Qin Yu and Yao Zhiyan rejected the woman’s invitation, and her body turned into starlight that led them toward the Star Abyss Heavenly Palace.
• Qin Yu and Yao Zhiyan followed the light into a ruined village beside the Annihilation Abyss, where residual consciousness lingered among the scorched remains.
• The Azure Ring revealed that the village’s civilization had tried to reverse-engineer fate tracks and steal the writing of star souls, so the master soul burned it down.
• Qin Yu and Yao Zhiyan headed toward the forbidden area beneath the village’s seven-tiered tower, preparing to face the trial.

After Qin Yu vanished from the Source of Epochless, the Soul Cavern Dense Forest returned to normal and the Eternal Evolution Realm confirmed he had become the Master of Fate. Tong Ning and Yan Xu moved to protect the Annihilation Abyss Epoch as other factions began searching for him and plotting around his disappearance.

• The temple disciples and elders found the Soul Cavern Dense Forest restored, with all its aberrants and other monsters destroyed.
• Tong Ning and Yan Xu confirmed Qin Yu was the Master of Fate, but discovered his Fate Soul crystal had gone dark and he was beyond the realm's observation.
• Tong Ning and Yan Xu activated the Annihilation Epoch Protection Protocol and prepared to conceal and guard Qin Yu's epoch until his return.
• Zhu Ming found that the Returning Consciousness Clan could no longer observe Qin Yu and ordered an investigation into where he had gone.
• Three black-consciousness observers awakened, learned that several powers were moving, and decided to find Qin Yu or target what he had left behind.