Recaps

Qin Yu bought the supposedly worthless Netherworld Orange Lamp at auction after the Azure Ring sensed sealed Netherworld origin logic within it. Back at the Annihilation Abyss Star Palace, he combined three defensive treasures into a system for the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm and prepared for a possible ambush.

• Qin Yu recognized a faint resonance between the Netherworld Orange Lamp and the Azure Ring while the auction crowd mocked the lamp.
• Qin Yu bought the Netherworld Orange Lamp outright for one billion Annihilation Starlight Crystals, and the Azure Ring detected sealed Netherworld origin logic when he touched it.
• Qin Yu paid for the lamp and purchased a Realm-Sealing Causal Disc and a Returning Realm · Evolving Reflection Abyss Mirror at the Primal Reconstruction · Soul-Mechanism Inscription Workshop.
• Qin Yu returned to the Annihilation Abyss Star Palace and connected the Realm-Sealing Causal Disc, Returning Realm · Evolving Reflection Abyss Mirror, and Annihilation Abyss Mirror Prison Heart Core with Limitless Evolving True Flow.
• Qin Yu completed the three-treasure defensive counterattack system and concluded it could give him time to retaliate against a Severed Observation Realm · Supreme expert in the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm.

Azure Ring awakened the Netherworld Orange Lamp, giving Qin Yu a weapon capable of annihilating even a Chaos Realm · Supreme expert. At Eternal Star Hall Square, the Sacred Hall selected one thousand core disciples for the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm expedition, and both Qin Yu and Wang Yuan were chosen.

• Azure Ring used the five Silent Evolution Pillars and the Limitless Evolving True Pattern to ignite the Netherworld Orange Lamp's Karmic Dust and awaken its annihilating flame.
• Wang Yuan arrived at the Annihilation Abyss Star Palace to accompany Qin Yu to the Sacred Hall assembly, having reached Severed Observation Realm · Initial Stage.
• Vice hall master Zhang Qiang announced that only core disciples at Logic Realm Realm · Initial Stage or above could join the expedition.
• Chi Ning, Shen Yuzhi, Luo Huan, Mu Xun, Du Linglin, and Mo Zhiyan wished Qin Yu a safe and victorious return.
• Grand Elder Chen Chao announced that one thousand disciples had been selected, and Qin Yu and Wang Yuan found their names in their Purple-Gold Eternal Pole Crystal Cores.

Grand Elder Chen Chao gave the core disciples protective karmic formation flags before the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall sent them into the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm. Qin Yu and the other arrivals reached its eerie outer region, where the elders prepared to cross a river of light into a world cut off from the Source of Epochless.

• Chen Chao distributed karmic formation flags that could conceal the disciples, trap enemies, and shield them from annihilation.
• Chen Po asked Chen Chao to ensure Qin Yu died in the secret realm, and Chen Yan revealed that he had arranged for core disciples to attack Qin Yu there.
• Chen Chao ordered Chen Po to abandon his feelings for Chi Ning, and Chen Po agreed to obey his Master.
• Zhang Qiang announced the opening of the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm, and twenty elders led one thousand core disciples, including Qin Yu, through the rift.
• Entrances opened across the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer as disciples and warriors from other halls and clans entered the secret realm.
• Qin Yu and the others arrived at the secret realm's outskirts, where the elders grew wary of crossing the river of light and severing their ties to the outside world.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang recognized each other among the gathered forces outside the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm, renewing their understanding about the maps they sought. As the great powers assembled for the secret realm’s opening, an elder from the Glazed Immortal Hall reunited with Old Zhang of the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall.

• The Dawn Cloud First Hall arrived, and Hong Xiuxiang exchanged a knowing nod with Qin Yu, recalling their joint escape from Gloomshadow Source Village and their shared map quest.
• Cultivators noticed Hong Xiuxiang’s greeting and speculated about her connection to Qin Yu, while her fellow disciples assessed him.
• The great powers of the Source of Epochless gathered outside the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm, where the chaotic clouds and ancient formations shrouded its entrance.
• The Glazed Immortal Hall arrived, and its elder recognized Old Zhang of the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall as an old comrade from the battle at Annihilation Star Pass.
• Qin Yu listened as the two elders reminisced and realized that the Glazed Immortal Hall elder was no ordinary figure.

Qin Yu and Wang Yuan joined forces with three core disciples to explore the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm, where an ancient dragon skeleton awakened as the Undead Annihilation Abyss Dragon. They fought back against its devastating attacks, but the dragon’s soul flame core continued to burn stronger as the battle raged.

• An Annihilation Dawn Realm elder warned the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall disciples to protect themselves, and Qin Yu agreed to explore with Wang Yuan and three Severed Observation Realm · Supreme disciples.
• Qin Yu and his companions discovered a dragon skeleton in a desolate valley and sensed an ancient presence watching them.
• The dragon skeleton awakened as the Undead Annihilation Abyss Dragon and attacked the group with spatial rifts, soul fire, and destructive waves.
• Qin Yu used the Azure Ring and Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword while Wang Yuan and the three disciples struck at the dragon.
• The dragon formed a Nether Prison Bone Cage and sent soul-flame dragons after them, but Qin Yu severed the causal chains of several attackers as the dragon’s core burned more fiercely.

Qin Yu and Wang Yuan destroyed the Undead Annihilation Abyss Dragon and led their group into a strange passage hidden in its lair. Elsewhere, Hong Xiuxiang and five Dawn Cloud First Hall disciples were caught in a logic-distorting trap, and Hong prepared a sealing formation as an unknown presence watched them.

• Qin Yu, Wang Yuan, and the other disciples coordinated their attacks to expose the Undead Annihilation Abyss Dragon’s soul-flame core.
• Qin Yu severed the dragon’s core with the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, while Wang Yuan erased its remaining soul consciousness with the Sole Book Ultimate Style.
• Wang Yuan spotted a dark passage among the ruins, and Qin Yu led the five disciples into its eerie depths.
• Hong Xiuxiang and the five Dawn Cloud First Hall disciples sensed that the secret realm’s logic was being altered around them.
• Hong Xiuxiang raised a wall of books to block a fissure beneath the group as an invisible force began trapping them.
• Hong Xiuxiang identified the trap as remotely controlled and began forming a sealing array while an unknown presence watched through a widening spatial crack.

Hong Xiuxiang fought the Annihilating Cause Palace Hunter as it used causality and world-erasing techniques to attack her and the six female disciples. The Hunter deleted the other five disciples, leaving Hong Xiuxiang alone in the Conceptless Domain, determined to end the hunt herself.

• The Annihilating Cause Palace Hunter emerged from a rift and attacked the six female disciples by seizing their shadows and timelines.
• Hong Xiuxiang used her Spirit Brocade Book Realm techniques to disrupt the Hunter's attacks and bind its abyssal fissure with golden chains.
• The Hunter broke free and trapped Hong Xiuxiang and the disciples inside its Conceptless Domain, where two disciples vanished under its erasing waves.
• The Hunter unleashed Final Deletion, erasing the five female disciples and leaving Hong Xiuxiang alone.
• Hong Xiuxiang gripped the last burning page and declared that she would end the hunt.

Hong Xiuxiang nearly died after exhausting her Spirit Brocade Book Realm against the Tower Hunter, but Qin Yu sensed her distress and arrived with four companions. Qin Yu and the others gained a slight advantage after breaking the Tower Hunter’s eerie turquoise vortex, though the battle continued.

• Hong Xiuxiang sealed the Tower Hunter with her final scroll, but it broke free, wounded her, and pinned her to the ground.
• Qin Yu sensed Hong Xiuxiang’s weakening presence through the ancient diagrams and hurried with Wang Yuan, Zhang Bing, and two other cultivators toward her location.
• Qin Yu and his companions emerged onto the battlefield, where Qin Yu shielded Hong Xiuxiang and began fighting the Tower Hunter.
• Qin Yu used his seals and Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword to counter the Tower Hunter’s attacks while Zhang Bing and the other two held it back.
• Qin Yu reversed time to stop the Tower Hunter’s soul consciousness eye, then called for his companions to attack its chest.
• Zhang Bing and the two other cultivators struck the crack in the Tower Hunter’s chest, shattering its eerie turquoise vortex and giving the group a slight advantage.

Qin Yu and his companions destroyed the Tower Hunter, rescued Hong Xiuxiang, and prepared to leave before the guardian’s master appeared and trapped them. They broke through his first attacks, but the otherworldly being began forming another killing move.

• Qin Yu and Wang Yuan suppressed the Tower Hunter’s attacks, and Qin Yu destroyed its soul core with the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword.
• Qin Yu healed Hong Xiuxiang, learned that the Tower Hunter had annihilated her five junior sisters, and invited her to join the group.
• As Qin Yu and his companions tried to leave, an otherworldly being appeared, accused them of deleting his guardian Lie Que, and attacked them with Annihilation Blue Soul-Judging Abyss.
• Qin Yu countered the otherworldly being’s soul-targeting attack with the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword and Fate Cause Master Seal.
• The otherworldly being cast Annihilation Blue Evolution-Extinction Realm, but Qin Yu, Wang Yuan, Hong Xiuxiang, Zhang Bing, and another disciple combined their attacks to halt the barrier.
• The otherworldly being began gathering energy for another killing move.

Qin Yu and his companions struggled against an otherworldly being whose annihilation powers erased bodies, souls, and records of existence. After they briefly countered its attacks with temporal reversal and a Dark Matter Core, the enemy escalated its assault, and Qin Yu prepared to combine his fate-construction power with a Dark Matter Prison Core.

• The otherworldly being's Annihilation Extremity Consciousness-Destroying Spear wounded Qin Yu despite defenses from Wang Yuan, Hong Xiuxiang, and Zhang Bing.
• The being's annihilation chains erased Zhang Bing and killed another cultivator while wounding the survivors.
• Qin Yu used Time Flow Reversal and Cause and Effect Deconstruction to delay the chains as a surviving Severed Observation Realm disciple activated a Dark Matter Core to help break them apart.
• The otherworldly being unleashed Nameless Annihilation Realm-Judgment of Overturned Form, and Qin Yu and Wang Yuan slowed and blocked its reality-shattering mirrors at the cost of further injuries.
• A surviving Severed Observation Realm disciple revealed a Logic Decomposition Dark Matter Prison Core, and Qin Yu began synchronizing it with his fate-construction power to challenge the enemy's Nonexistence Form barrier.

Qin Yu and the others destroyed the Annihilation Dawn Realm being Lie Que, then fled deeper into the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm and recovered in a hidden valley. After Qin Yu revealed his third map fragment to Hong Xiuxiang, an unknown presence noticed it, and the group continued toward a mysterious bone bridge.

• The two Severed Observation Realm disciples weakened Lie Que's defenses, allowing Qin Yu to erase it with the Azure Ring, though the five survivors were badly injured by the backlash.
• As vast shadows appeared on the horizon, Qin Yu and the others escaped to a hidden valley where the Azure Ring healed their wounds with the Rain of Azure Radiance.
• Qin Yu secretly showed Hong Xiuxiang his third map fragment and explained that it had resonated with her first fragment when he sensed she was in danger.
• The map fragments' alignment alerted a pair of eyes deep within the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm, and Hong Xiuxiang realized they may have disturbed a dangerous existence.
• Qin Yu led the group deeper into unnatural ruins of shattered spatial cross-sections, where they found a bone bridge spanning an abyss, and declared they would cross it.

Qin Yu and his companions were confronted on the bone bridge by the Silent Shadow Asura Clan and Ming Yuan Ghost Palace, who demanded their treasures and attacked. Qin Yu used the Azure Ring’s Realm-Overturning Primordial Cosmos to erase the two leaders, but the victory left him and his companions badly weakened.

• Qin Yu, Wang Yuan, Hong Xiuxiang, and two Severed Observation Realm disciples crossed the bone bridge and encountered the Silent Shadow Asura Clan and Ming Yuan Ghost Palace approaching from behind.
• The leaders of the two forces demanded that Qin Yu’s group hand over their treasures, and Wang Yuan, Hong Xiuxiang, and Cheng Han refused.
• The Silent Shadow Asura Clan leader attacked with bone-feather spears while the Ming Yuan Ghost Palace man sent causal chains after Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang; Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang repelled the attacks.
• The two enemies launched a combined assault, but Qin Yu used Causal Deconstruction to dismantle their attacks and countered with his sword while his companions helped break their defenses.
• Qin Yu unleashed Realm-Overturning Primordial Cosmos, erasing the two leaders and their existence, then collapsed to one knee as his surviving companions struggled to stand.

Qin Yu and his companions crossed the bone bridge after collecting the spoils left by the erased enemies, only to awaken its master, the Bone Abyss Nether Emperor. The Nether Emperor trapped them in a bone prison, and although Qin Yu and the others countered its first assault, its greater attack began.

• Realm-Overturning Primordial Cosmos erased the Silent Shadow Asura Clan and Ming Yuan Ghost Palace disciples, leaving their treasures behind, which Wang Yuan, Hong Xiuxiang, and another Severed Observation Realm disciple divided while Qin Yu declined his share.
• The five continued along the bone bridge as Hong Xiuxiang sensed that it recorded their steps and another disciple detected an observer mimicking their Qi.
• Giant skeletal hands rose from the Annihilation Abyss, overturned the bone bridge, and revealed the Bone Abyss Nether Emperor, who sealed the five inside its bone domain.
• Qin Yu froze and destroyed approaching chains with Fate Cause Master Seal, Wang Yuan drew others into his Sole Book, and a disciple decomposed much of the bone tide with Dark Matter Crystal Wheel.
• Qin Yu cut apart the remaining bone tide with Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, but the Bone Abyss Nether Emperor gathered its power for a stronger attack.

Qin Yu destroyed the giant skull attacking the bone bridge with the Azure Ring and led his companions into a wasteland of annihilated ruins. There they faced a mysterious armored man whose presence destroyed their weapons, until the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword emerged and made him falter in fear.

• The giant skull unleashed its Ultimate Fate Abyss attack, but Qin Yu used the Azure Ring to sever its power and annihilate its soul.
• Wang Yuan, Hong Xiuxiang, Qin Yu, and the two Severed Observation Realm · Supreme disciples escaped across the collapsing bone bridge into a vast wasteland of ruined worlds.
• A mysterious man in golden armor appeared, and his presence made one disciple's Crimson Abyss Sword disintegrate and destroyed the other disciple's weapon.
• Qin Yu's Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword emerged from his sea of consciousness and formed a domain that sheltered the group.
• The mysterious man faltered and showed fear when he recognized the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword.

The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword erased the mysterious man after countering his annihilating attacks. A second, ancient immortal sword appeared and came to Qin Yu, whose touch awakened its power and enveloped him in golden-white light.

• The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword destroyed the mysterious man's bone chains and erased the blade shadows he summoned.
• The mysterious man unleashed Formless Return to Zero, but the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword cut apart the technique and annihilated him completely.
• An ancient immortal sword appeared before Qin Yu and resonated with the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword.
• The Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword drew the immortal sword close to Qin Yu, then returned to the Seat of Annihilation within his sea of consciousness.
• Qin Yu reached out and touched the immortal sword, causing it to erupt in light and envelop him.

The Fate-Cause Annihilation Lion, Dawn-Cause Zero Book, battled the Spirit Clan and Star Abyss Clan forces in the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm, erasing their attacks and overwhelming their defenses. After the clans’ combined final strike failed, the lion used Dawn-Cause Zero Book · Peerless Finale to delete their warriors and battle kings from existence.

• The seven female generals of the Spirit Clan and eight Star Abyss Clan warriors attacked Dawn-Cause Zero Book, but it erased their techniques and weakened them.
• The Spirit Clan chief female general and Star Abyss Clan battle king combined their strongest defenses against the lion’s broken chapter of fate-cause.
• The chief female general and battle king launched a Spirit Tide Giant Phoenix and Eternal Abyss Divine Ring, but the lion erased both attacks.
• The Spirit Clan and Star Abyss Clan warriors burned their bloodlines and used Spirit and Abyss Fall Together · Final Strike to drag the lion into the void, but it returned.
• Dawn-Cause Zero Book unleashed Peerless Finale and erased dozens of Spirit Clan and Star Abyss Clan experts, including both battle kings, from existence.

The Fate-Cause Annihilation Lion erased the Spirit Clan and Star Abyss Clan warriors with [Dawn-Cause Zero Book · Unrivaled Finale], leaving a blank battlefield and alarming cultivators throughout the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm. Qin Yu sensed the power from afar, captured a fragment of its logic, and prepared to counter it before his group continued onward.

• The Fate-Cause Annihilation Lion unleashed [Dawn-Cause Zero Book · Unrivaled Finale], erasing the warriors of the two divine clans and all traces of their existence.
• Cultivators across the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm felt the annihilation presence, while the Spirit Clan and Star Abyss Clan elders discovered their disciples' Fate Soul Crystal Cores had shattered.
• The elders reached the battlefield and found a nameless domain marked by lingering traces of the Fate-Cause Annihilation Lion's power, but no sign of the attacker.
• Qin Yu, Wang Yuan, Hong Xiuxiang, and two disciples sensed the distant power, and Qin Yu recognized it as an existence-erasing force.
• Qin Yu studied the power's rhythm, sealed a logic fragment inside his Azure Evolution Core, and devised a possible counter before leading the group onward.

Qin Yu and his four companions encountered a deadly formation mist that trapped and consumed cultivators, then fought its fog-born attacks. After spotting disciples of the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall trapped inside, Qin Yu resolved to rescue them.

• The Spirit Clan and Star Abyss Clan elders left the ruined battlefield to aid their surviving disciples.
• Qin Yu and his four companions discovered a formation mist that swallowed cultivators and stripped away their souls and awareness.
• Wang Yuan sealed a bone chain with his Innate Martial Soul, while Qin Yu used the Fate Cause Master Seal to deflect the formation’s attack.
• A humanoid fog figure attacked with a giant sword, and Qin Yu, Wang Yuan, and Hong Xiuxiang countered its strikes.
• Qin Yu spotted trapped Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall disciples, including a wounded senior brother, and decided to rescue them.

Qin Yu destroyed the mist formation and rescued the trapped disciples of the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall, then sensed a powerful force approaching and stayed behind with Hong Xiuxiang and two Severed Observation Realm seniors. The force emerged from the mist as an indescribable being identified as the embodiment of the end of the Source of Epochless.

• Qin Yu used three techniques to break the mist formation and free the trapped disciples of the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall.
• The rescued disciples explained that a faint wisp of spiritual breath had lured them into the mist, where their perception of time and consciousness were eroded.
• Qin Yu sensed a powerful force approaching and ordered Wang Yuan to take the rescued disciples somewhere safe.
• Wang Yuan escorted the rescued disciples away, while Hong Xiuxiang and two Severed Observation Realm seniors stayed with Qin Yu to face the approaching force.
• The two senior brothers summoned their Innate Martial Souls as a faceless, star-wreathed being emerged from the mist, bearing the presence of the end of the Source of Epochless.

Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and the two senior brothers fought a black shadow that attacked them with powers capable of erasing existence. The Azure Ring awakened and destroyed the shadow, but Qin Yu sensed another lethal threat and fled with the wounded Hong Xiuxiang to a location a hundred li away in the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm.

• A cosmic black shadow declared that Qin Yu and the others must disappear, then attacked them with Void Consciousness Stripping Chains.
• The first senior brother summoned a battle-soul giant ape, the second senior brother brought forth the Severed Abyss Stele Shadow, and Hong Xiuxiang opened the Spirit Brocade Book Realm as the four resisted the chains.
• The black shadow unleashed Recognition Annihilation Silent Tide, destroying both senior brothers' manifestations and badly wounding Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang.
• As the shadow's giant hand pressed toward them, Qin Yu's Azure Ring awakened and erased the shadow with five moves, including Silent Edge Breaks the Realm and Corrupt Heaven's Cause.
• Qin Yu sensed that another deadly attack was brewing, seized the wounded Hong Xiuxiang, and used Time Flow Reversal and spatial teleportation to escape.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang emerged from a silent rift at another location in the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm, a hundred li away.

Azure Ring revealed that she was the Primordial Ring, whose complete form was the Black Gold Ring, and told Qin Yu that he carried the remnant of her will from a war beyond spacetime. She made Qin Yu her hope for returning to her true form and taking vengeance, while unknown Dao-wielding figures searched the battlefield for him.

• More than ten strange figures emerged on the battlefield, and their leader ordered them to search for the one who had left.
• Azure Ring urgently warned Qin Yu to hide, so he took Hong Xiuxiang into a concealed mountain abyss.
• Azure Ring told Qin Yu that she was the primordial root, and showed him a vision of the black-and-gold ring giving rise to existence.
• Azure Ring explained that she was only at the Azure Ring stage and that her complete form was the Black Gold Ring.
• Azure Ring revealed that Qin Yu carried the remnant of her will from a great war beyond spacetime and vowed to avenge her enemies when she regained her true form.

Azure Ring revealed that the Source Dao Supreme Return Emperor had annihilated her and that Qin Yu was the surviving continuation of her will. After the Emperor’s Dao Shadow Soldiers detected Azure Ring’s power, Qin Yu resolved to grow stronger before the enemy could find him.

• Azure Ring recounted how the Source Dao Supreme Return Emperor awakened from her golden radiance, betrayed her, and destroyed her, leaving Qin Yu as her final continuation.
• Azure Ring showed Qin Yu the Emperor’s indestructible Dao Shadow Soldiers and explained that they had detected her residual power after Qin Yu used Silent Realm Returns to the Beginning · Fate's Existence Completely Covers All.
• Azure Ring warned Qin Yu that the Emperor was searching for her and said they had to advance their cultivation until she could fully awaken and return to her Black Gold Ring form.
• Qin Yu told Hong Xiuxiang that a dangerous enemy was approaching but kept Azure Ring’s identity and their connection secret.
• Qin Yu remembered Qian Ruishan, Mu Qingwan, and Yan Yue, then vowed to avoid the Emperor and cultivate faster so he could protect them and eventually fight back.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang reached the Annihilation Ancient Divine Palace, where two terrifying guardian souls barred the entrance and rival factions waited for someone to test them. Hong Xiuxiang reunited with Elder Liu Mei and the Dawn Cloud First Hall, while Liu Mei publicly promised to repay Qin Yu for saving her; Qin Yu remained outside the group as the crowd focused on the palace.

• Qin Yu renewed his vow to protect those he cared about, and Azure Ring promised to face the dangers ahead with him.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang left together and reached a gathering of cultivators before the Annihilation Ancient Divine Palace and its two guardian souls.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang watched the factions size one another up, while Hong Xiuxiang warned that they were waiting for someone else to challenge the guardians first.
• Elder Liu Mei found Hong Xiuxiang, who explained that Qin Yu had saved her after her fellow Dawn Cloud First Hall disciples were killed by exotic beasts.
• Elder Liu Mei welcomed Hong Xiuxiang back into the Dawn Cloud First Hall and promised that she and the hall would repay Qin Yu's kindness.

Qin Yu noticed that no disciples from the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall had gathered before the Annihilation Ancient Divine Palace as the gathered powers debated how to enter. After a guardian statue struck down an Annihilation Dream Sacred Hall expert, a Crimson Annihilation Divine Gate disciple gained entry by attuning his Fate Soul Crystal Core, while an Eternal Night Observatory Pavilion disciple was destroyed when his attempt failed.

• Qin Yu searched the crowd and found no trace of the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall's disciples.
• An Annihilation Dream Sacred Hall expert approached the palace gates and was knocked back by a guardian divine statue's sword strike.
• A white-haired elder explained that cultivators had to attune their Fate Soul Crystal Cores to the gray ripples and earn the guardian statues' recognition.
• A Crimson Annihilation Divine Gate disciple passed the judgment, received the Annihilation Ancient Seal, and entered the palace.
• An Eternal Night Observatory Pavilion disciple failed the attunement, and the guardian statues shattered his Fate Soul Crystal Core and destroyed him.

Qin Yu realized that the guardian statues judged entrants by their greed, fear, and wavering thoughts, then led Hong Xiuxiang safely into the Annihilation Ancient Divine Palace. The Dawn Cloud First Hall disciples followed using the same clear-minded approach, while other cultivators continued to die trying to force their way through.

• After several cultivators were annihilated and five others entered, Qin Yu told Hong Xiuxiang that the statues judged greed and fear and that a completely calm mind could pass.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang waited as more cultivators died, then walked past the guardian statues without being attacked and entered the palace.
• The female disciples of the Dawn Cloud First Hall followed, keeping their minds clear, and also passed through the gates safely.
• Other cultivators tried to imitate them, but one was killed by the statues, while powerful figures from great clans observed and began making plans.