Recaps

After recovering from his injuries, Qin Yu traveled under the name Mo Chen to the Dark Abyss Plain, where he joined Yuan Xuanzi in destroying five Dao Shadow Soldiers. Yuan Xuanzi invited him to hunt more Phantom Demonic Spirits, and Qin Yu accompanied him toward a site where a commander-level being had gathered while concealing his identity.

• Qin Yu recovered from his injuries and set out for the Dark Abyss Plain to hunt Phantom Demonic Spirits as Mo Chen.
• Qin Yu found the remains of slain cultivators and encountered five Dao Shadow Soldiers.
• Yuan Xuanzi arrived, identified the Phantom Demonic Spirits, and told Qin Yu to leave the five to him.
• Qin Yu and Yuan Xuanzi joined forces to annihilate all five Dao Shadow Soldiers.
• Yuan Xuanzi invited Qin Yu to accompany him against the Phantom Demonic Spirits, and Qin Yu agreed to avoid arousing suspicion.
• Yuan Xuanzi led Qin Yu toward a gathering that included at least one commander-level being.

Qin Yu and the Ancient Venerable of the Chaotic Abyss entered the Narrative Graveyard, where the Ancient Venerable secretly used eight Phantom Demonic Spirits to test Qin Yu and seal his retreat. Qin Yu survived with Azure Ring’s hidden aid, but five Dao Shadow Soldier Commanders appeared and launched the Fivefold Dao Flame · Annihilation Ensemble, leaving the battle at a desperate opening.

• The Ancient Venerable of the Chaotic Abyss questioned Qin Yu about the Phantom Demonic Spirits, while Qin Yu concealed their connection to the Source Dao Supreme Return Emperor.
• The Ancient Venerable of the Chaotic Abyss led Qin Yu into the Narrative Graveyard and secretly planned to use the Phantom Demonic Spirits to test him.
• Eight Phantom Demonic Spirits attacked Qin Yu with deletion logic as the Ancient Venerable of the Chaotic Abyss blocked his retreat.
• Azure Ring disrupted the attack, allowing Qin Yu to counter with the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword and sever the eight spirits’ logic.
• Five Dao Shadow Soldier Commanders emerged and unleashed the Fivefold Dao Flame · Annihilation Ensemble against Qin Yu and the Ancient Venerable of the Chaotic Abyss.

Qin Yu turned the Dao Shadow Soldiers’ Five-Flame Silent Prison against the Ancient Venerable of the Chaotic Abyss, who was burned to ash. When the soldiers identified Qin Yu as their true target and sealed him in an array, he reversed time to escape and vanished from their causal tracking, though the backlash left him badly injured.

• Qin Yu and the Ancient Venerable of the Chaotic Abyss fought the five Dao Shadow Soldier Commanders, who formed the Five-Flame Silent Prison around them.
• The Azure Ring warned Qin Yu that the prison was designed to consume the Ancient Venerable of the Chaotic Abyss, so Qin Yu redirected its causal points and severed his own connection to the Ancient Venerable.
• The Five-Flame Silent Prison burned the Ancient Venerable of the Chaotic Abyss and his Ancient Abyss Ancestral Effigy to ash.
• A commander identified Qin Yu as the [True Target], and six commanders and thirty-eight Dao Shadow Soldiers trapped him in an Annihilation Return-to-Source Sealing Array.
• Qin Yu used the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, the Azure Ring, and the Azure Evolution Core to break the array and reverse time, escaping several thousand miles away while collecting the Ancient Venerable's treasures.
• Qin Yu survived the escape but was gravely injured, and the Dao Shadow Soldiers could no longer trace his existence through cause and effect.

After defeating the Ancient Venerable of the Chaotic Abyss, Qin Yu discovered the Logic Evolution Realm Core among his spoils and risked refining it. He reached the Logic Realm Realm · Middle Stage, defeated three Dao Shadow Soldiers, and prepared to face their commander.

• Qin Yu recovered from his battle with the Ancient Venerable of the Chaotic Abyss and found the Logic Evolution Realm Core among the Ancient Venerable's treasures.
• Qin Yu refined the core through five perilous stages, forming a Logic Evolution Dharma Wheel and advancing to the Logic Realm Realm · Middle Stage.
• The Azure Ring warned Qin Yu that his next enemies would include the Phantom Demonic Spirit's commander.
• Three Dao Shadow Soldiers attacked, and Qin Yu used Cause and Effect Deconstruction, Framework Judgment Book, and Sever the Soul in Nine Silences to destroy them.
• Qin Yu collected three Embers of the Ruins of Return and vowed to master the Beginningless Silent Origin True Scripture before confronting the Dao Shadow Soldier Commander.

Qin Yu collected the remnants of the Dao Shadow Soldiers he had defeated, then rescued Hong Xiuxiang while disguised as Mo Chen. After revealing his identity and reuniting with her, he explained why he was hiding from the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall, but kept the Dao Shadow Soldiers’ true origins secret.

• Qin Yu stored three pieces of the Ember of the Ruins of Return in the Azure Evolution Core, then followed the resonance of his ancient map fragment to Hong Xiuxiang’s battlefield.
• Qin Yu, disguised as Mo Chen, destroyed the two Dao Shadow Soldiers attacking Hong Xiuxiang and collected their remnants.
• Qin Yu brought the wounded Hong Xiuxiang to a sealed grotto, revealed his identity, and reassured her after she described searching for him since the secret realm closed.
• Qin Yu healed Hong Xiuxiang with the Azure Ring as she asked why he had not returned to the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall.
• Qin Yu explained that Chen Chao could use his return to frame him and endanger Hong Xiuxiang, Chi Ning, and the others, so he was fighting the Phantom Demonic Spirits under the identity of Mo Chen.
• The Azure Ring warned Qin Yu not to reveal the Dao Shadow Soldiers’ true origins, and Hong Xiuxiang resolved to stand beside him despite his secrecy.

Qin Yu accepted Hong Xiuxiang's offer to accompany him, and they traveled to the Annihilation Bone Wasteland to seek the second map fragment. After surviving a karmic illusion trap, they awakened the Eternal Prohibition Guardian Soul, which stood between them and the fragment.

• Hong Xiuxiang asked to share Qin Yu's dangerous path, and Qin Yu agreed to face life and death with her.
• Hong Xiuxiang told Qin Yu that the second map fragment had appeared at the Blood Bone Divine Altar in the Annihilation Bone Wasteland.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang entered the wasteland and were trapped in mirror walls showing painful visions of their pasts and futures.
• Qin Yu used Azure Ring's Realm Abyss Reverse Evolution to shatter the mirror walls and free them from the karmic aftershock trap.
• The disturbance awakened the Eternal Prohibition Guardian Soul, and Azure Ring explained that they had to annihilate it to obtain the map fragment.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang fought a woman wielding the Fate Sequence Holy Codex, whose power threatened to erase them from existence. Qin Yu shattered her attempt to write his final chapter, but the woman warned that he was outside the fate sequence as an even greater power began to gather.

• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang joined their sword, ring, and book-soul powers to withstand the woman's Golden Annihilation Fire Wheel.
• The woman transformed the wheel into the Fate Sequence Holy Codex and used it to erase Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang from the world's records.
• Qin Yu used the Fate Cause Master Seal's Fate Ring to judge the erasure and force the fate sequence to continue, saving himself and Hong Xiuxiang.
• The woman opened the Absolute Final Chapter and began writing that Qin Yu did not exist, while Hong Xiuxiang's book-soul attacks failed to stop the words.
• Qin Yu unleashed Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword · Realm Beginning: Sole Silent Name and shattered the unfinished line erasing him.
• The woman declared that Qin Yu was not within the fate sequence as a more terrifying power began to gather.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang defeated the Ten Thousand Bones Empress’s Fate Cause Avatar, and its lingering echo revealed the location of the second map fragment in an ancient stele forest. After recovering from their injuries, they prepared to enter the dangerous ruins together.

• The Ten Thousand Bones Empress unleashed her Fate Cause Avatar and attacked Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang with pages of the Fate Sequence.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang held back her attacks, and Hong Xiuxiang used the Dawn Dream Soul Lotus to annihilate the Ten Thousand Bones Empress’s avatar.
• The avatar’s lingering echo revealed an image pointing to the second map fragment in a Fate Cause Stele Forest, where the Azure Ring warned that the steles could draw in their soul consciousness.
• Qin Yu gave Hong Xiuxiang a recovery pill, and both of them healed enough to continue their search.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang resolved to enter the stele forest and retrieve the second map fragment.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang fought the forest of steles’ fate-written shadows, and Qin Yu used the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword and Azure Ring to erase their inscriptions and destroy the formation. After they found the second remnant map, the forest’s soul appeared, leaving them to face its trial.

• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang entered the forest of steles and saw shadows of themselves emerge, acting out their future attacks before they could use them.
• Qin Yu reflected his stele shadow’s sword strike with the Azure Ring, while Hong Xiuxiang used Realm Words Book Seal Script to suppress her own shadow temporarily.
• Qin Yu used Sever the Main Narrative to erase the forest’s fate-writing, then destroyed the core stele with Source Silence Severs All: Trace and Sever, Leaving No Wheel.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang found an ancient damaged scroll that the Azure Ring identified as the second remnant map.
• The soul of the forest of steles appeared, and Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang realized they would have to face its trial to obtain the map.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang faced the stele forest’s first judgment after Zixin, the forest’s soul and will, tested Qin Yu and summoned a phantom that reflected flaws in their fate trajectories. They destroyed it with their combined powers, but Qin Yu knew more dangerous phantoms awaited them.

• Zixin identified herself as the soul and will of the stele forest and sensed an unfamiliar Silent Origin presence in Qin Yu.
• Zixin began the forest’s judgment, warning Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang that they would be assimilated if they failed to survive.
• A towering judgment phantom formed an annihilation stele blade and attacked Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang.
• Qin Yu used the Fate Cause Master Seal, the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, and the Azure Ring while Hong Xiuxiang defended them with her Spirit Brocade Book Realm.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang weakened the phantom’s second stele blade, then joined their attacks to destroy the phantom completely.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang survived the first judgment, but Qin Yu anticipated that more terrifying phantoms would appear.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang defeated the Mirror Radiance Judging Saint in the stele forest’s second trial, though Hong Xiuxiang was badly wounded. Zixin then began the third trial, as a new enemy took shape and Qin Yu sensed the challenge would target the essence of their lives.

• Zixin announced that Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang had passed the first trial, then revealed the Mirror Radiance Judging Saint as the guardian of the second trial.
• The Mirror Radiance Judging Saint turned the stele forest into a field of mirror images and unleashed a relentless rain of judgment swords against Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang.
• Hong Xiuxiang was grievously wounded while defending herself, and Qin Yu shielded her as she continued fighting beside him.
• Qin Yu combined the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword with the Fate Cause Master Seal to break the enemy’s holy sword, then used Realm-Overturning Primordial Cosmos to annihilate the Mirror Radiance Judging Saint.
• Zixin confirmed that Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang had passed the second trial and began the third as the stele forest twisted and a new enemy started to form.

Qin Yu defeated the Silent Abyss Narrative-Extinguishing Venerable in the stele forest, enduring attacks that tried to write him into a final chapter. Zixin revealed herself as the spirit of the second remnant map and entrusted it to Qin Yu before fading away.

• The Silent Abyss Narrative-Extinguishing Venerable formed from the stele inscriptions and attacked Qin Yu and the injured Hong Xiuxiang.
• Qin Yu sent Hong Xiuxiang to recover and fought the Venerable with the Fate Cause Master Seal, Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, and Azure Ring.
• The Venerable unleashed successive narrative-ending attacks, while Qin Yu deconstructed their causes and effects and countered them with the Azure Ring.
• Qin Yu's final assault shattered the giant black brush and destroyed the Silent Abyss Narrative-Extinguishing Venerable, leaving him bloodied but standing.
• Zixin emerged and revealed that she was the second remnant map's spiritual manifestation, which had created the trials to find worthy bearers.
• Zixin faded into starlight, forming the remnant map, and Qin Yu put it away.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang fused the three map fragments and entered the Realm of Primordial Echoes, where Azure Ring revealed a chance to awaken Yunyi and explained what would be needed to revive Extinguished Light. Qin Yu vowed to save them both, and he and Hong Xiuxiang set off together into the realm.

• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang brought the three map fragments together, revealing the complete map to the Realm of Primordial Echoes and drawing them inside.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang explored the realm’s visions of ancient civilizations and learned that a distant pillar of light might mark an opportunity.
• Azure Ring appeared and revealed that tears from a Silent Origin Soul Butterfly could awaken Yunyi before the Blue Ring awakened.
• Azure Ring explained that reviving Extinguished Light required four supreme treasures, including the Ashen Core of Final Light and the Spatial Limit Rift Crystal.
• Qin Yu vowed to awaken Yunyi and Extinguished Light, and Hong Xiuxiang promised to accompany him.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang rose into the air and journeyed toward the depths of the Realm of Primordial Echoes.

A legion of Dao Shadow Soldiers invaded the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer and overwhelmed the Imperial Radiance Divine Lineage, Moonlight Hall, Glazed Immortal Hall, Crimson Martial Hall, the Aberrant Race, and the Divine Descendants. As the surviving experts launched a final sacrifice, all six founding ancestors appeared, and the chapter ended with them facing the legion’s world-ending assault.

• The Dao Shadow Soldier legion appeared across the Middle Layer and crushed the defenses and attacks of the six factions.
• The surviving experts burned their life sources and launched a desperate combined assault against the Dao Shadow Soldiers.
• The founding ancestor of the Imperial Radiance Divine Lineage appeared and struck back with a sea-of-stars palm.
• The founding ancestors of Moonlight Hall, the Glazed Immortal Hall, the Crimson Martial Hall, the Aberrant Race, and the Divine Descendants joined the battle.
• The Dao Shadow Soldier Commander and more than a thousand soldiers raised their blades and unleashed a vast sea of golden-cyan flames against the six founding ancestors and the remaining survivors.

The Phantom Demonic Spirit commander defeated the six great progenitors, annihilating them and plunging the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer into despair. Ancestor Hao Wuli and the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall’s leaders then faced the commander and its Dao Shadow Soldiers in a desperate last stand.

• The six great progenitors joined forces against the Phantom Demonic Spirit commander, but its Annihilation Book's End · Fate Narrative Beng Yin shattered their attack and rewrote existence.
• The six great progenitors burned their origins to unleash the Origin Silent Radiance, but the commander erased their final attack and annihilated all six.
• Ancestor Hao Wuli rallied the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall after the progenitors fell, while Zhang Qiang, Chen Chao, and Elder Ji Yuan prepared to defend it.
• The Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall’s leaders formed the Eternal Extreme Silent Light Grand Formation as the Phantom Demonic Spirit commander and more than a thousand Dao Shadow Soldiers attacked.
• Ancestor Hao Wuli, Zhang Qiang, Chen Chao, and Elder Ji Yuan unleashed their powers against the invading army, and the two sides clashed.

Hao Yuanzun arrived at the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall and destroyed more than half the attacking Dao Shadow Soldiers, but over a hundred commanders then emerged and overwhelmed the defenders. The chapter ended with the disciples and elders facing annihilation as their strongest fighters fell.

• Hao Yuanzun arrived at the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall and used the Eternal Extreme Heavenly Stele to destroy or injure more than half of the Dao Shadow Soldiers.
• More than a hundred Dao Shadow Soldier Commanders emerged from a rift and combined their Dao Flames to threaten the entire Source of Epochless · Middle Layer.
• Disciples from the various sacred halls and clans formed battle formations and fought the commanders, while Hao Wuli and the elders were besieged.
• Chen Chao, Chen Po, Shen Yuzhi, Luo Huan, Mu Xun, Du Linglin, and Mo Zhiyan were killed by the commanders.
• The defenders' lines collapsed as the surviving disciples and elders watched the commanders press their attack.

The Dao Shadow Soldiers devastated the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer, and Hao Yuanzun struggled to hold the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall against their commanders’ Causality Annihilation Tide. The Sourceless Hidden Army emerged from beneath the world and erased the invading forces, leaving the battlefield silent.

• Dao Shadow Soldiers burned and destroyed the territories and divine halls across the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer.
• Hao Yuanzun suppressed a hundred Dao Shadow Soldier Commanders but could not stop their Causality Annihilation Tide from threatening the entire Middle Layer.
• The Sourceless Hidden Army appeared from the collapsed underground world and destroyed thousands of Dao Shadow Soldiers with its Origin Destroyer Whips and other powers.
• Sixteen Void Commanders joined the battle and annihilated the remaining Dao Shadow Soldiers and commanders.

The Sourceless Hidden Army battled the overwhelming Dao Shadow Soldier Legion across the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer, leaving the Progenitors and countless cultivators fearing the destruction of their world. As the fighting threatened to annihilate the Middle Layer, five Sourceless Commanders appeared and suppressed the Dao Flames, leaving the survivors wondering if they would be saved.

• Hao Yuanzun and the other Progenitors witnessed the Sourceless Hidden Army annihilate Phantom Demonic Spirits and feared what the army might do to them.
• The Sourceless Hidden Soldiers and Void Commanders fought back against waves of Dao Shadow Soldiers, breaking their samsara attacks and destroying their forces.
• Three Origin Annihilation Generals entered the battle and erased vast numbers of Dao Shadow Soldiers as the Middle Layer descended into chaos.
• Ancestor Hao Wuli ordered the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall disciples to retreat behind its barrier while cultivators across the Middle Layer struggled to endure the devastation.
• Five Sourceless Commanders emerged from the clouds, extinguished the Dao Flames, and made the Dao Shadow Soldiers recoil in fear.

The Sourceless Hidden Army and the Phantom Demonic Spirit commanders fought a devastating battle across the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer, leaving the Phantom Demonic Spirit forces nearly destroyed. As the five Sourceless Commanders prepared to finish the survivors, Source Flow Guardian emerged from a golden vortex and overwhelmed the battlefield with his presence.

• The five Sourceless Commanders unleashed the Silent Profundity Five Aspects · Return-to-Nothingness Diagram, destroying tens of thousands of Dao Shadow Soldiers and grievously wounding many Phantom Demonic Spirit commanders.
• More than a hundred Phantom Demonic Spirit commanders counterattacked with curses, illusion wheels, and twelve black suns, forcing the Sourceless Hidden Army and its Void Commanders into a fierce struggle.
• The battle devastated the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer, and the Sourceless Hidden Army reduced most of the Phantom Demonic Spirit forces to nothing while a few surviving commanders called for help from a deeper layer.
• As the five Sourceless Commanders prepared their final strike, a golden vortex swallowed their attack and Source Flow Guardian emerged from it holding an ancient Source Dao Wheel.
• Source Flow Guardian’s presence suppressed the Sourceless Hidden Army and restored the surviving Dao Shadow Soldiers’ confidence, while the other survivors trembled before him.

The Sourceflow Guard overwhelmed the Sourceless Hidden Army, gathered the remaining Dao Shadow Soldiers, and left the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer after failing to find his target. With both forces gone, the survivors began repairing the devastation while fearing the mysterious expert might return.

• The Sourceflow Guard appeared and forced the beings of the Middle Layer, including the Sourceless Hidden Army, beneath his Supreme pressure and Sound of Return to Source.
• The Sourceflow Guard drew the remaining Dao Shadow Soldiers and commanders into a golden army formation, searched the Middle Layer for someone, then vanished with his legion through a rift.
• The Sourceless Hidden Army remained motionless in the sky, shaken by the Sourceflow Guard, before it eventually merged into the void and disappeared.
• The surviving Founding Ancestors organized repairs, with leaders from the Dawn Cloud First Hall, Imperial Radiance Divine Lineage, Glazed Immortal Hall, Crimson Martial Hall, Profound Frost Sacred Hall, and Eternal Night Observatory Pavilion restoring the land and sealing rifts.
• The surviving disciples followed the Founding Ancestors' orders and began rebuilding their homes, while the ancestors privately feared the mysterious expert might return.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang survived the Realm of Primordial Echoes’ trials and fought a powerful ancient guardian. After judging them, the guardian allowed them to enter the Realm-Cause Dense Forest, where they sensed a force that could change the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer.

• Qin Yu stopped a spatial rift with Silent Origin while Hong Xiuxiang used the Spirit Brocade Book Realm to absorb its splintering blades.
• Ancient guardians appeared, and the echoes stirred painful memories in Hong Xiuxiang, who steadied herself and resolved not to retreat.
• A towering ancient guardian attacked Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang with a devastating halberd strike.
• Qin Yu met the guardian’s attack with the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword and the Azure Ring, while Hong Xiuxiang’s book mirror helped withstand the impact.
• The guardian survived the clash, withdrew his killing intent, and permitted Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang to enter the Realm-Cause Dense Forest.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang saw the forest’s vast road, cosmic trees, and destiny-bearing steles, and recognized its significance.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang passed the trial guarding the Realm-Cause Dense Forest and entered a castle caught in a distortion of time and existence. There they met a powerful woman who recognized a trace of primordial causal thought in Qin Yu and linked it to Mengxi, the realm maiden he had once seen sealed in a crystal.

• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang endured the forest’s strike and entered the Realm-Cause Dense Forest.
• The forest distorted their shadows and sense of time, revealing an ancient castle above a sea of clouds.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang followed a dangerous path through space-time and reached the castle.
• The castle’s doors shut behind them, and they found a woman seated on a throne in its hall.
• The woman sensed primordial causal thought connected to the Azure Ring in Qin Yu and said it reminded her of her elder sister, Mengxi.
• Qin Yu recalled the realm maiden sealed inside a crystal in Gloomshadow Source Village and wondered how she was related to the woman.

Qin Yu told Mengxin that he had found her sister Mengxi sealed in Gloomshadow Source Village and vowed to rescue her. When he revealed the Sword of Dream Silence, Mengxin recognized it as Mengxi’s sword and accepted that he was the successor her sister had chosen.

• Qin Yu described finding Mengxi sealed in a crystal and meeting Uncle Meng, who guarded her with the Book of Realm Construction.
• Mengxin revealed that Mengxi had sealed the Dark Annihilation Origin forbidden art within herself to protect their clan, while Uncle Meng stabilized the crystal seal.
• Qin Yu promised to take Mengxin to Mengxi and rescue her, despite the danger of entering the ultimate annihilation abyss.
• Mengxin presented a phantom trace of the Book of Realm Construction and challenged Qin Yu to prove his resolve.
• Qin Yu manifested the Sword of Dream Silence and revealed its five forms, whose sword intent shook the hall.
• Mengxin recognized the sword as Mengxi’s and declared that Qin Yu was the successor her sister had chosen.

Qin Yu explained Mengxi’s connection to the Sword of Dream Silence and told Mengxin how he and Hong Xiuxiang had entered the Realm of Primordial Echoes. After Mengxin warned them about the hidden armies threatening the realm, Qin Yu revealed his quest to find the Tear of the Silent Origin Soul Butterfly, and Mengxin entrusted him with her damaged map of the realm.

• Qin Yu told Hong Xiuxiang that Mengxi had been sealed in a forbidden place at Gloomshadow Source Village and that the Sword of Dream Silence had once belonged to her.
• Qin Yu introduced himself and Hong Xiuxiang to Mengxin and explained that three map fragments had merged into the Realm of Primordial Echoes map, which led them there.
• Mengxin revealed that her mother had sent her into the realm to preserve their bloodline and that she had not known its name or how the map fragments could unlock it.
• Mengxin warned Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang that ancient divine beasts commanded hidden armies of bizarre creatures and that the guardians protecting the realm could fall.
• Qin Yu told Mengxin that Yunyi and Extinguished Light had fallen into eternal slumber and that he had to find the Tear of the Silent Origin Soul Butterfly to awaken Yunyi.
• Mengxin gave Qin Yu her damaged ancient map of the Realm of Primordial Echoes, hoping it would help him find the Tear.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang left the Realm-Cause Dense Forest with Mengxin’s map fragment and followed its guidance into the Time Barren Plain. After Qin Yu destroyed a colossal beast woven from broken timelines, the plain collapsed and revealed the Karmic Forest Abyss, where the pair continued onward.

• Qin Yu resonated with the ancient map fragment, and the Azure Ring identified it as a guide to the Silent Abyss Butterfly Sea and the Tear of the Silent Origin Soul Butterfly.
• Mengxin thanked Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang for telling her that her elder sister was alive, and she promised to leave the castle with them if they returned safely.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang left the Realm-Cause Dense Forest and followed the map into the Time Barren Plain, where they fought off a temporal rift and faced a beast that attacked across multiple eras.
• Qin Yu used the Azure Ring’s Realm-Overturning Primordial Cosmos to annihilate the temporal beast, while Hong Xiuxiang’s Spirit Brocade Book Realm helped lock the battle into the present.
• The Time Barren Plain collapsed and exposed the Karmic Forest Abyss, so Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang followed the karmic light-chains toward it.