Recaps

Li Jin and Dan Guikui fought to a draw after unleashing techniques that attacked and rewrote consciousness, and both advanced to the next round. Qin Yu then faced Zhu Yiheng, whose Star Descendant Clan allies recognized Qin Yu as a dangerous opponent and whose Supreme power erupted as their battle began.

• Li Jin ignited Dan Guikui’s consciousness meridians, but Dan Guikui reversed the attack and severed Li Jin’s thoughts with his axe.
• Li Jin unleashed World-Burning Chain Thought and Cause-Extinguishing Annihilation Fire Refines the Realm, while Dan Guikui countered with Fate-Tracing Chain Axes and Broken Wheel Return Slash.
• Li Jin and Dan Guikui’s final attacks collided, leaving both gravely injured; the Floating Cosmos Battle Mirror declared a draw and advanced them both.
• Qin Yu stepped forward to face Zhu Yiheng, who mocked Qin Yu’s Annihilation Source Realm cultivation and challenged his ability to withstand Supreme Consciousnessless.
• A Silent Mystery Realm elder of the Star Descendant Clan sensed that Qin Yu carried formidable annihilation power and warned himself not to underestimate him.
• Qin Yu told Zhu Yiheng to stop talking, and Zhu Yiheng unleashed his No Consciousness Realm · Supreme power as their match began.

Qin Yu defeated Zhu Yiheng by using Sever the Main Narrative to destroy the Star Descendant Clan disciple’s fate-based attacks without drawing his sword. The first round ended with the Observer Clan ahead, and the competitors prepared for the second round.

• Zhu Yiheng trapped the battlefield in his future-predicting Chess Fate Board and unleashed Dark Radiance Counter-Narrative Art against Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu used Sever the Main Narrative with a finger to invalidate Zhu Yiheng’s skill constructs and shatter his board.
• Zhu Yiheng made a final attack by binding his life to the Chess Fate Board, but Qin Yu destroyed the board’s logic and defeated him.
• The tournament announced the first-round results: the Observer Clan had three wins and one draw, including Qin Yu’s victory over Zhu Yiheng.
• Qin Yu returned to his companions, and Venerable Lord Tong Ning and Hall Master Yan Xu praised the team before the second round began preparations.

Yao Zhiyan fought Ye Yuanyao in the second round of the Floating Cosmos Battle Mirror, using dream-soul techniques to withstand his strongest attacks before she was overwhelmed and surrendered. Ye Yuanyao ignored her surrender and tried to kill her, but Tong Ning stopped him; the battle was awarded to Ye Yuanyao, leaving the Star Descendant Clan facing the spectators’ anger.

• Yao Zhiyan faced Ye Yuanyao while Qin Yu urged her to surrender if she could not win.
• Yao Zhiyan disrupted Ye Yuanyao’s Fate-Rending Cause-Severing and reflected his Reverse Wheel Annihilation Blast with her dream-soul mirror.
• Ye Yuanyao unleashed another Reverse Wheel Annihilation Blast, grievously wounded Yao Zhiyan, and forced her to surrender.
• Ye Yuanyao continued attacking and attempted to kill Yao Zhiyan after Chen Yuxue urged him to make her disappear.
• Tong Ning halted Ye Yuanyao’s attack, suppressed him, and moved Yao Zhiyan to the Observer Race’s camp.
• The Floating Cosmos Battle Mirror declared Ye Yuanyao the winner, and the Observer Race and other spectators reacted with fury.

After Ye Yuanyao nearly destroyed Yao Zhiyan, Qin Yu vowed to end him in the next match. Luo Yuncang and Li Jin then fought an escalating battle of fate-law and abyssal flame techniques, which ended with Li Jin preparing a move she said would destroy Luo Yuncang’s soul.

• Hall Master Yan Xu stabilized Yao Zhiyan with her breath and a Silent Shadow Fate Essence Pill, while Qin Yu vowed to finish Ye Yuanyao in their next match.
• Luo Yuncang and Li Jin began their match, and Luo Yuncang stopped her first Abyss-Refining Soul-Severing Lock with Fate Realm Protection.
• Li Jin attacked Luo Yuncang’s fate trajectories with Ember Nirvana Consciousness Meridian Ignition, but Luo Yuncang reconstructed them and shattered the attack with his halberd.
• Li Jin expanded her Abyss-Burning Chain into a soul-severing domain, but Luo Yuncang invoked void law to create new fate trajectories and break her chains.
• Li Jin tried to burn the conceptual paths behind Luo Yuncang’s void law, but he dispersed his technique into non-cognitive segments and struck through her prison with Consciousness-Rending Void Ember.
• Li Jin staggered back, then smiled and announced that her next strike would destroy Luo Yuncang’s soul.

Li Jin overcame Luo Yuncang with his final annihilation-fire technique, giving the Star Descendant Clan both victories in the second round. After the quarter-hour rest, Dan Guikui and Ye Yuanyao entered the arena to begin the first match of the third round.

• Li Jin broke through Luo Yuncang’s closed-loop Fate Trajectories with his ultimate attack and won their duel, though he was left near collapse.
• The Floating Cosmos Battle Mirror named Ye Yuanyao and Li Jin as the second-round victors and announced their third-round matches against Dan Guikui and Qin Yu.
• Chen Yuxue urged Ye Yuanyao to kill Dan Guikui, and Ye Yuanyao promised to direct his murderous intent at him.
• Qin Yu warned Dan Guikui about Ye Yuanyao’s ruthlessness, while Dan Guikui resolved to face him and set his Fate Trajectory straight.
• The quarter-hour ended, and Dan Guikui and Ye Yuanyao entered the Floating Cosmos Battle Mirror to begin their match.

Ye Yuanyao defeated Dan Guikui in the third round after overpowering his skill-reversing defenses, but Qin Yu’s Fate Soul Crystal Pill saved Dan Guikui from a fatal attack. The Observer Race recognized Dan Guikui’s loss as honorable, while Tong Ning and Yan Xu saw Qin Yu as key to changing their future.

• Ye Yuanyao’s Annihilation Origin attacks overwhelmed Dan Guikui, who nevertheless severed the basis of one of Ye Yuanyao’s skills with his epoch wheel and axe.
• Ye Yuanyao struck Dan Guikui with Stellar Entropy: Reverse Wheel Annihilation Blast, grievously wounding him, then prepared to erase his skill-naming authorization.
• Dan Guikui activated the Fate Soul Annihilation Crystal Qin Yu had given him, and its causal backlash blasted Ye Yuanyao away before Dan Guikui conceded.
• The battle mirror declared Ye Yuanyao the winner, while the spectators recognized that Dan Guikui had lost without disgrace.
• Dan Guikui thanked Qin Yu for the crystal pill, which Qin Yu said Tong Ning had bestowed on him.
• Tong Ning and Yan Xu reflected that Qin Yu’s actions could help the Observer Race rewrite its past.

Qin Yu advanced to the final battle after Li Jin conceded, then defeated Ye Yuanyao with techniques that sealed and erased his attack and existence. The Observer Clan celebrated the victory, and the Eternal Extreme Progenitor declared Qin Yu qualified to become an inner disciple of the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall.

• Li Jin conceded to Qin Yu before their match began, and Qin Yu won while telling Li Jin he was not worthy.
• The battle mirror announced Qin Yu and Ye Yuanyao as the final contestants, and the Eternal Extreme Progenitor offered Qin Yu inner discipleship if he won.
• Ye Yuanyao accused Qin Yu of saving Dan Guikui and threatened to annihilate him and the Observer Race; Qin Yu provoked him by revealing Chen Yuxue's contemptuous words to Li Jin.
• Ye Yuanyao launched his Abyssal Cosmos Space-Shattering Slash, but Qin Yu sealed its failure in advance and used Annihilate Name, Dawn Breath to erase the attack and delete Ye Yuanyao.
• The Floating Cosmos Battle Mirror declared Qin Yu the winner, the Observer Clan celebrated, and the Eternal Extreme Progenitor confirmed that Qin Yu qualified.

After Qin Yu killed Ye Yuanyao, the Star Descendant Clan's elders tried to attack him, but Hao Yuanzun intervened and declared the Observer Clan the winner. He ordered the clans to exchange territories and told Qin Yu to remain behind alone.

• The Star Descendant Clan's two elders attacked Qin Yu, and Tong Ning and Yan Xu intervened to protect him.
• Hao Yuanzun appeared and ordered the four Silent Mystery Realm experts to return to their seats.
• Hao Yuanzun named Qin Yu the competition's winner and revealed that Qin Yu had once annihilated five Only Book Realm experts while at No Consciousness Realm.
• The Star Descendant Clan's elders accepted their defeat after Hao Yuanzun defended Qin Yu's victory.
• Hao Yuanzun ordered the Observer Clan and Star Descendant Clan to exchange territories and dismissed everyone except Qin Yu.

Qin Yu accepted Hao Yuanzun’s invitation to join the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall as an inner disciple and received an Eternal Pole Crystal Core. After returning to the Observer Race, he revealed that the hall had granted his people three epochs of resource inheritance, and Tong Ning announced a seven-day celebration and a ceremony to take over the Star Descendant Clan’s region.

• Hao Yuanzun offered Qin Yu inner discipleship and three epochs of benefits for the Observer Race, and Qin Yu accepted.
• Hao Yuanzun gave Qin Yu an Eternal Pole Crystal Core, which Qin Yu inscribed with his name before returning to the Observer Race’s Radiant Palace Eastern Region.
• Tong Ning, Yan Xu, and the gathered Observer Race leaders welcomed Qin Yu home and praised his victory over the Star Descendants.
• Qin Yu announced his new status and the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall’s resource inheritance, stunning the hall and prompting Dan Guikui to swear allegiance to him.
• Tong Ning ordered a seven-day celebration and announced that the Observer Race would hold a regional transfer ceremony to take over the Star Descendant Clan’s territory.
• The Azure Ring told Qin Yu that the next step was to awaken the Blue Ring.

The Observer Clan honored Qin Yu with a seven-day banquet for his victory over Ye Yuanyao, then formally exchanged territories with the Star Descendant Clan. The Observer Clan settled in the Star Descendant Clan’s former sacred domain at the edge of the Source of Epochless’s middle level.

• The Observer Clan hosted a seven-day banquet for Qin Yu, and powerful guests from across realms honored his victory over Ye Yuanyao.
• Tong Ning and Yan Xu welcomed the Star Descendant Clan as both clans began the agreed territory exchange.
• The domain migration formations transported the Observer Clan to the Star Descendant Clan’s old territory and the Star Descendant Clan to the Observer Clan’s former lands.
• The Observer Clan arrived in the golden sacred domain, where Tong Ning described its many realms and sacred sites.
• Luo Yuncang explained that the new territory marked the boundary of the middle level, and the Observer Clan recognized that it had left the outermost reaches.

The Star Descendant Clan accepted its defeat to the Observer Race and surrendered its ancestral domain, while Qin Yu left the outer region and entered the middle layer of the Source of Epochless. There, the Azure Ring explained the dangerous Limitless Evolving True Flow as Qin Yu’s new path to cultivation, and the middle layer recorded his arrival.

• The Star Descendant Clan’s disciples mourned their defeat, and Li Jin blamed Qin Yu and the Fate Soul Crystal Pill for their loss of the Golden Sacred Abyss.
• Qin Yu said farewell to Yan Xu, Tong Ning, and Shu Xunyan as Yan Xu and Tong Ning departed for the middle layer.
• Qin Yu used the Eternal Pole Crystal Core to open a passage and entered the middle layer of the Source of Epochless as an inner disciple of the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall.
• The Azure Ring identified the substance entering Qin Yu’s consciousness as Limitless Evolving True Flow and explained its five primordial constructs and dangers.
• The Azure Ring protected Qin Yu as the True Flow began reshaping his consciousness and fate track, and the middle layer recorded his entry.

Qin Yu reached the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall after absorbing the Limitless Evolving True Flow and presenting the Eternal Pole Crystal Core that proved he was personally accepted by Hao Yuanzun. The elders registered him as an inner disciple and assigned him to the Annihilation Star Hall.

• Realm-Hut Guardian Clan guards recognized Qin Yu's Eternal Pole Crystal Core, recorded his first logical entry mark, and left him to absorb the true flow.
• Qin Yu followed the sacred hall's path of summons to the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall.
• Qin Yu presented the crystal core to the hall guards, who confirmed its Seal of Silent Eternal and escorted him inside as an inner disciple.
• The First Elder accepted Qin Yu's crystal core as proof of his identity and ordered Qingfeng to guide him into the Annihilation Star Hall.
• Qingfeng welcomed Qin Yu as an inner disciple of the Annihilation Star Hall and explained that he could use its resources and inheritances except for the core sacred grounds.

Qin Yu settled into the Star Abyss Palace, where Limitless Evolving True Flow strengthened his cultivation and connected with the Azure Ring and his Fate Soul constructs. After meeting six inner disciples, he began a powerful refinement that could let him approach the authority to weave the Logic Realm.

• Qingfeng showed Qin Yu the Star Abyss Palace and left him to cultivate in the inner disciple’s hall.
• Qin Yu explored the palace and began cultivating with its dense Limitless Evolving True Flow.
• Chi Ning, Shen Yuzhi, Luo Huan, Mu Xun, Du Linglin, and Mo Zhiyan visited Qin Yu, introduced themselves, and invited him to discuss the Dao at the Star Clear Pool.
• The Azure Ring guided Qin Yu as a surge of primordial Limitless Evolving True Flow flooded the palace and resonated with his Fate Soul constructs.
• Qin Yu reforged his Fate Soul structure as the Azure Ring said he might gain early access to the authority to weave the Logic Realm.

Qin Yu absorbed Limitless Evolving True Flow in Star Abyss Palace and broke through to Annihilation Source Realm · High Stage, drawing Ancestor Hao Wuli out of seclusion to investigate the disturbance. The energy began transforming Qin Yu’s Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram toward a future evolution into a Unique Soul Diagram · Realm-Constructing Grade.

• Limitless Evolving True Flow flooded into Qin Yu, and he broke through to Annihilation Source Realm · High Stage.
• Ancestor Hao Wuli sensed the surge, rushed to Star Abyss Hall, and found no abnormality after questioning its elders.
• The elders dispersed after Ancestor Hao Wuli withdrew, while Qin Yu remained unaware of his arrival.
• Limitless Evolving True Flow stirred Profound Limitless Radiance within Qin Yu’s Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram.
• The Azure Ring told Qin Yu that his Soul Diagram was beginning to evolve toward Unique Soul Diagram · Realm-Constructing Grade and that he could become a Soul Diagram Realm Wielder.

Qin Yu and the other new inner disciples attended a gathering where Elder Yan Ce explained the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall’s six core rules and the dangers and value of Limitless Resonance Crystals. The rules took effect immediately, and Qin Yu looked toward the True Flow-filled depths of the Source of Epochless’s middle region.

• Luo Huan, Chi Ning, Shen Yuzhi, Mu Xun, Du Linglin, and Mo Zhiyan escorted Qin Yu to the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall’s plaza after an elder summoned the disciples.
• Elder Yan Ce announced that the Sacred Hall had accepted a hundred new disciples, including ten inner disciples such as Qin Yu.
• Yan Ce outlined the rules against private fighting and the access inner disciples received to the Sacred Hall’s cultivation resources.
• Yan Ce warned that absorbing too much Limitless Evolving True Flow could destroy a cultivator’s soul and explained that Limitless Resonance Crystals increased safe absorption capacity.
• Yan Ce described how Resonance Crystal Fragments could be combined and set monthly fragment-collection duties for outer disciples, while inner and core disciples would undertake dangerous explorations and contests.
• The disciples accepted Yan Ce’s rules, which took effect immediately, as Qin Yu turned his attention to the depths of the middle region.

Elder Yan Ce explained the inner sect promotion rules and the Mission Hall before dismissing the gathering. Qin Yu joined six Annihilation Star Hall companions for a tour of the inner sect, beginning at the Fate Authority Mission Hall, where they saw its vast mission system and a dangerous five-star assignment.

• Elder Yan Ce announced that outer sect disciples could attempt promotion assessments every three years, while exceptional cultivators could advance directly, and he described the Mission Hall’s missions, rewards, and ranking.
• Elder Yan Ce dismissed the disciples, and Qin Yu reflected with the Azure Ring on the new rules and opportunities.
• Chi Ning, Shen Yuzhi, Luo Huan, Mu Xun, Du Linglin, and Mo Zhiyan welcomed Qin Yu and offered to show him around the inner sect.
• Chi Ning led the group on a flying shuttle toward the inner sect’s sacred domains.
• The group arrived at the Fate Authority Mission Hall, where Chi Ning explained its mission categories and Shen Yuzhi described the Annihilation Ranking.
• Qin Yu examined a five-star mission to search a forbidden abyss for the Heart of the Annihilation Origin Severed Realm before Chi Ning led the group toward their next stop.

Qin Yu and his companions visited the Artifact Repository Star Abyss, the Pattern Derivation Tower Realm, and the Myriad Epoch Slumber Domain, where each realm revealed ways to develop and study Fate Souls. After Chi Ning led the group away from Chen Po’s provocation, they continued toward the Silent Extreme Reverse Consciousness Realm.

• Chi Ning explained the Artifact Repository Star Abyss and its artifact souls, while Qin Yu sensed the Azure Ring and Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword respond to the realm.
• The group entered the Pattern Derivation Tower Realm, where Chi Ning told Qin Yu he would one day need to leave his causal self-engraving in the Cause and Effect Reflection Imprint Palace.
• Qin Yu and the others visited the Myriad Epoch Slumber Domain, where his reflection in the dream mirror remained unstable and an unnamed dream stele drew his attention.
• Chen Po confronted Chi Ning and mocked Qin Yu, but Du Linglin challenged him and Chi Ning used a dream-cause isolation pattern to lead the group away.
• Chen Po vowed to humiliate Chi Ning, while the seven companions continued toward the Silent Extreme Reverse Consciousness Realm.

Qin Yu and the others toured the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall’s inner domains, including the dangerous Soul Restriction Floating Platform, where Qin Yu learned he would one day need to face an incomplete version of himself. After returning to the Star Abyss Palace, the group shared wine and tea, and Qin Yu learned that Chen Po’s arrogance came from his uncle’s protection.

• Chi Ning and Shen Yuzhi explained that the Soul Restriction Floating Platform tested disciples’ ability to stabilize and reconstruct their Fate Souls, while Qin Yu resolved to face his incomplete self there someday.
• The seven passed through the remaining sacred domains, from the Starflame Soul-Smelting Furnace to the legendary Fate Chart Uniqueness Hall, then returned to the Annihilation Star Hall.
• Chi Ning invited everyone to the Star Abyss Palace, and Qin Yu welcomed them for tea and wine.
• Qin Yu asked about Chen Po, and Chi Ning, Shen Yuzhi, and the others explained that Chen Po relied on his uncle, law enforcement elder Chen Yan, despite his weak soul chart and low battle ranking.
• Qin Yu joked that he would answer Chen Po’s next provocation with a round of “ow, ow, ow,” and the group laughed as their drinking continued.

Qin Yu studied the dangerous Limitless Evolving True Flow at the Star Abyss Palace and reflected on how the black-robed elder had escaped his attack. After his fellow disciples departed, he planned to investigate the middle layer through missions and seek a weapon to awaken his Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, with Azure Ring giving him a token to enter the core areas.

• Qin Yu restrained himself from absorbing the Dark Evolving Undercurrent and used the outer ripples of the Limitless Evolving True Flow to observe his Fate Soul.
• Qin Yu recalled that the black-robed elder had escaped annihilation using an exceptionally concentrated, super-threshold state of Limitless Evolving True Flow.
• Chi Ning and the other Star Abyss Palace disciples joined Qin Yu after waking, then left him to make use of the platform.
• Azure Ring appeared, and Qin Yu explained that he would visit the Mission Hall and Weapons Pavilion to learn about the middle layer and find a weapon source for his sword.
• Azure Ring warned Qin Yu about the dangers of the Weapons Pavilion and gave him a golden inner disciple crystal core that could grant access to its core levels.

Qin Yu visited the Fate Authority Mission Hall and accepted a high-risk gathering mission to retrieve a Limitless Resonance Crystal Fragment from Fate Severing Gorge. He left with a Wandering Ring Fate Seal and a ten-day deadline, aware that the mission would not be ordinary.

• Qin Yu surveyed the six mission domains and chose the neglected gathering missions area.
• Qin Yu selected the mission to collect a Limitless Resonance Crystal Fragment at Fate Severing Gorge.
• A mission elder confirmed Qin Yu's qualification and bound the four-star mission to him with a Wandering Ring Fate Seal.
• Qin Yu received the mission rune seal jade and learned he had ten days to return with the fragment intact.
• Qin Yu left the Mission Hall and set out toward Fate Severing Gorge.

Qin Yu traveled to Fate Severing Gorge to gather Resonance Crystal Fragments, where an elder warned him about its anomalous creatures and gave him a Consciousness-Stabilizing Echo Talisman. He confronted a Track-Devouring Beast and destroyed it with the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, beginning his test of Fate Soul in the middle layer.

• The eldest mission elder warned Qin Yu that Fate Severing Gorge’s unstable space and anomalous creatures made survival the true danger, then gave him a Consciousness-Stabilizing Echo Talisman.
• Qin Yu arrived at Fate Severing Gorge, where Azure Ring cautioned him about the incomplete logic of the Fault Domain.
• A Track-Devouring Beast emerged and attacked Qin Yu by interfering with his fate trajectory.
• Qin Yu used Sequence Reconstruction to counter the beast’s trajectory interference and expose its vulnerability.
• Qin Yu summoned the Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram and used the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword’s First Severing Form to erase the Track-Devouring Beast.

Qin Yu disrupted an extradimensional ritual in Fate Severing Gorge, defeated the beasts and unnamed existence blocking his path, and reached the nurturing site of a forming Resonance Crystal Fragment. As more exotic beasts converged on the altar, he faced a new threat before he could approach the fragment.

• Qin Yu destroyed the iridescent cylinder and annihilated the five women attempting to extract the Resonance Crystal Fragment’s source logic, then sealed its contaminated remnant core.
• Qin Yu followed the fragment’s resonance trail into a fissure and killed the Abyss-Rending Observation Beast with Recognition Annihilation Silent Abyss and the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword.
• Qin Yu descended through the Fate Chain Distortion Zone and absorbed the phantoms of his unused skills with Fate Seal · Abyss-Turning Star Platform.
• Qin Yu made himself unrecognizable to the Unnamed Existence and dragged it into an abyss, collapsing the Fate Chain Distortion Zone.
• Qin Yu reached the altar holding a forming Resonance Crystal Fragment, but a third wave of exotic beasts leapt toward him from the surrounding Rending Domains.

Qin Yu retrieved the Limitless Resonance Crystal Fragment from Fate Severing Gorge after defeating three deadly monstrous beasts, then returned to the Mission Hall in only three days. The elders confirmed his record-breaking 520-point score and wondered whether they had welcomed an extraordinary figure.

• Qin Yu killed the Construct-Narrative Nether Mastiff, the Abiding Epoch Engraving Spirit, and the Consciousnessless Construct-Spirit Entity with his abilities and Azure Ring’s help.
• Qin Yu collected the Limitless Resonance Crystal Fragment and left Fate Severing Gorge, realizing the mission tested cultivators’ ability to survive its dangers.
• Qin Yu returned to the Mission Hall and presented the fragment to the astonished elders.
• The elders verified the fragment and learned Qin Yu had completed the mission in three days by taking the core route without avoiding danger.
• The elders awarded Qin Yu 520 points, surpassing Ju Ji’s record of 463, while Azure Ring accompanied him out without explaining its true nature.

Qin Yu learned that the Limitless Evolving True Flow had let Azure Ring briefly take physical form, then received his companions’ surprise and praise for completing the Fate Severing Gorge mission alone in three days. He joined them on a visit to the Radiant Heaven Imperial Capital, where he saw the vast city’s bustling markets and sacred halls.

• Azure Ring appeared in a tiny physical form on Qin Yu’s shoulder and explained that absorbing the Limitless Evolving True Flow had allowed her to materialize temporarily.
• Chi Ning, Shen Yuzhi, Luo Huan, Mu Xun, Du Linglin, and Mo Zhiyan visited Qin Yu and learned that he had completed the Fate Severing Gorge mission alone in three days.
• Chi Ning invited Qin Yu to explore the largest main city in the middle layer, and Mo Zhiyan jokingly named their group the Eternal Extreme Seven Heroes.
• Qin Yu and his six companions traveled to the Radiant Heaven Imperial Capital, where Chi Ning introduced the city to them.
• Qin Yu and his companions explored the capital’s crowded streets, markets, trading halls, and fate-chain information center, and Qin Yu recognized it as the middle layer’s supreme hub.

Qin Yu learned how Starlight Crystals and Limitless Resonance Crystals shaped trade in the Radiant Heaven Imperial Capital, then heard rumors of a Resonance Crystal omen in the Jiye Abyss Forest. After watching the Imperial Radiance Divine Lineage’s wedding procession, he decided to investigate the forest.

• Chi Ning explained the Starlight Crystal currency system and the exceptional value of Limitless Resonance Crystals to Qin Yu.
• Chi Ning took Qin Yu and the others to the Star Banquet Heavenly Abode, where they heard rumors of a Resonance Crystal omen in the Jiye Abyss Forest.
• Du Linglin and Mu Xun warned that the forest was dangerous, while Mo Zhiyan noted that powerful cultivators would pursue any true Resonance Crystal.
• Qin Yu and the others watched the Imperial Radiance Divine Lineage’s grand wedding procession and learned it was marrying Fairy Mengxi of the Moonlight Hall.
• Qin Yu connected the forest omen with the lineage’s history of finding Resonance Crystals and decided to visit the Jiye Abyss Forest.