Skip to main content
The Great Leap Backwards
  • Home
  • Library
  • Read
    • Popular
    • Charts
    • Browse
    • Categories
    • Wikis
    • Glossary
  • Request
  • Activity
  • Leaderboard
  • Help
Our Apps
  • DaoSearch
  • Narratorr
Social
  • Discord
  • Patreon

Recaps

Ringlord of the Source Realm
VolumesArcsSummaries

Arc 50The Stillness Trials

Qin Yu subdued the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon and led it through a hidden inheritance that strengthened Tangyi. He then entered a deadly trial for the Stillness Chaos Return-to-Origin Pearl and passed four ordeals, emerging with a certainty of existence beyond identity.

  • Qin Yu drew the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon away from the Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall, and Chu Xianbing, Ming Ji, and Zhang Lin erased Master Soul Dominion and the Logic Remnants Lords.
  • Qin Yu returned to the Gloomy Mist Soul-Entangling Swamp and established a Coexistence Fate Soul Anchor that calmed and subdued the dragon.
  • Qin Yu named the dragon Tangyi, and the swamp sent Qin Yu, Azure Ring, and Tangyi to a hidden palace where Tangyi began an inheritance.
  • Tangyi endured four trials in the Crabapple Shadow Star Palace, refined the Primordial Origin Dragon Marrow Crystal, and gained human form and three new powers.
  • The old woman offered Qin Yu the Stillness Chaos Return-to-Origin Pearl and sent him into a trial that could advance him to the Chaos Realm or kill him.
  • Qin Yu passed the Ancient City of Eternal Stillness trial by living an ordinary life without surrendering his freedom to choose, then obtained the Water Without Causality.
  • Qin Yu passed the Order of Inversion and Nameless Domain trials by observing without asserting where he existed and letting his name, memories, and emotions dissolve.
  • Qin Yu entered the fourth trial as the city and its senses vanished, rejected the final something that would bind him to the Ruins of Emptiness, and opened a passage into Pre-Nonbeing.
Chapters 1227–1251 Vol. 13 Read

Ch. 1227The Mysterious Demon Dragon

Qin Yu watched the Fate Soul Dominion’s ritual summon a colossal demon dragon from a blind spot in existence, then recognized that the dragon’s soul had been taken over by a higher master soul. As the Gloomy Mist Soul-Entangling Swamp revealed itself as an ancient will and entered Qin Yu’s consciousness, he waited to learn what it wanted.

  • Qin Yu secretly observed the Stainless Realm · Supreme Master Soul Dominion and the Logic Remnants Lords begin a ritual fueled by Fate Souls and remnants of history.
  • The ritual formed a karmic vortex that drew the Gloomy Mist Soul-Entangling Swamp into a world-like state and began restoring an erased demon beast to reality.
  • A ten-thousand-li dragon emerged with scarlet eyes, and Qin Yu realized its soul consciousness was controlled by the Fate Soul Dominion.
  • The dragon’s annihilation ripples began erasing the concepts and laws around it while Qin Yu deduced that its calamity had been deliberately controlled.
  • The ancient will of the Gloomy Mist Soul-Entangling Swamp entered Qin Yu’s consciousness, and he waited for it to speak.
Read chapter

Ch. 1228The Stillness Dragon Breaks Through Emanation, Calamity Befalls Heavenly Emanation

The Gloomy Mist Soul-Entangling Swamp revealed the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon’s origins and told Qin Yu that he was destined to master it. Qin Yu pursued Master Soul Dominion and the dragon into the void, while they arrived at the Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall and threatened its fate-based order.

  • The Gloomy Mist Soul-Entangling Swamp showed Qin Yu how the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon had formed as an annihilating law and how a mighty expert had sealed it and created the swamp to watch over it.
  • The Gloomy Mist Soul-Entangling Swamp explained that it could not interfere with Master Soul Dominion’s formations and urged Qin Yu to subdue the dragon rather than destroy it.
  • The Gloomy Mist Soul-Entangling Swamp identified Qin Yu as the dragon-taming sovereign, and Qin Yu promised to return if he succeeded in mastering the dragon.
  • Qin Yu followed the traces left by Master Soul Dominion as it escaped through the void with the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon.
  • The Thoughtless Stillness Dragon, Master Soul Dominion, and a vast host of Logic Remnants Lords emerged above the Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall, disrupting its karmic network and triggering a warning from the Fate-Emanating Immortal Envoys.
Read chapter

Ch. 1229The Heavenly Emanation Crisis

The Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall fought Master Soul Dominion, the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon, and the Logic Remnants Lords as the battle threatened the Sea of Heavenly Emanation. The chapter left the elders struggling to hold back the dragon while Master Soul Dominion used Karmic Retrieval to strengthen itself and destabilize their defenses.

  • The Thoughtless Stillness Dragon erased nine Fate-Emanating Immortal Envoys, prompting Zhang Lin, Jian Wuhen, Ming Ji, and the hall’s elders to enter the battle.
  • Ming Ji ordered the disciples to attack the Logic Remnants Lords while the elders targeted the dragon, and Qin Yu disguised himself as a Fate-Emanating Immortal Envoy to join the fight unnoticed.
  • Master Soul Dominion controlled the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon and unleashed Calamity of Thought Stillness, which disrupted the Sea of Heavenly Emanation and weakened the hall’s fighters.
  • More than ten elders formed the Order Adjudication Heavenly Screen to constrain the dragon’s thought-stilling power.
  • Master Soul Dominion activated Karmic Retrieval, drawing in Logic Remnants Lords and karmic fragments to strengthen itself as the heavenly screen shook and the dragon’s power grew.
Read chapter

Ch. 1230Ancestor Chu Xianbing

The Thoughtless Stillness Dragon erased the Silent Mystery Realm · Supreme elders and threatened to overwhelm the Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall. Ancestor Chu Xianbing arrived, restrained the dragon, and destroyed nearly all the Logic Remnants Lords, leaving the battle turning in the hall’s favor.

  • Hall Master Ming Ji and Vice Hall Master Zhang Lin attacked Master Soul Dominion, but its stainless-light defense withstood their abilities.
  • The Thoughtless Stillness Dragon used Mind-Consciousness Self-Slaughter to erase the Silent Mystery Realm · Supreme elders, while Qin Yu realized he needed to lure the dragon away.
  • Chu Xianbing appeared, and Ming Ji and Zhang Lin told him the dragon had annihilated the hall’s elders.
  • Chu Xianbing used Causal Sealing Balance to restrain the dragon and Causal Emanation-Slaying Slash to erase nearly all the Logic Remnants Lords.
  • The Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall’s disciples cheered as Qin Yu recognized that Chu Xianbing’s attack had struck the enemies’ causal anchors.
Read chapter

Ch. 1231Severing the Anchor in Secret

Master Soul Dominion unleashed an effectively endless army from the Causal Soul Logic Realm Abyss, forcing Chu Xianbing to strain the Wheel of Heavenly Emanation to hold it back. Qin Yu secretly severed the abyss's supply anchor, but Master Soul Dominion noticed the disturbance, and the chapter ended with the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon stopping a combined attack from Chu Xianbing, Ming Ji, and Zhang Lin through Thought Severing Tribulation.

  • Master Soul Dominion opened a fissure and summoned the Causal Soul Logic Realm Abyss, from which an immense tide of Logic Remnants Lords poured forth.
  • Chu Xianbing drove the Wheel of Heavenly Emanation to its limit to resist the black tide, while Qin Yu secretly traced and severed the abyss's supply anchor.
  • Master Soul Dominion sensed the brief disruption and searched the Fate-Emanating Immortal Envoys, but Qin Yu concealed his presence before the gaze passed.
  • As the Wheel of Heavenly Emanation began to fracture, Chu Xianbing, Ming Ji, and Zhang Lin launched a coordinated attack on Master Soul Dominion.
  • Master Soul Dominion drew the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon forward, and it used Thought Severing Tribulation to halt the three attacks and sever the connection between their consciousness and actions.
Read chapter

Ch. 1232Leading the Dragon with a Thought

Master Soul Dominion used the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon against Chu Xianbing, Ming Ji, and Zhang Lin, while Qin Yu secretly prepared a way to draw the dragon away from the Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall. The chapter ended with Qin Yu revealing himself and preparing to shift the battlefield beyond the hall.

  • The Thoughtless Stillness Dragon used Intent Does Not Exist · Empty Form to erode the identities of Chu Xianbing, Ming Ji, and Zhang Lin, but Chu Xianbing stabilized them with a Stainless curtain.
  • Qin Yu deduced that the dragon’s power could be redirected by inviting it toward the source of Thought Severance, and he secretly laid a causal path beyond the Sea of Heavenly Emanation.
  • Chu Xianbing released Limitless Purifying Stillness Slaughter, weakening the dragon, while Master Soul Dominion resisted the light and targeted Ming Ji and Zhang Lin with a killing mark.
  • Chu Xianbing sacrificed part of his sealed innate causality to blunt Master Soul Dominion’s attack, giving Ming Ji and Zhang Lin a brief chance to survive.
  • The Thoughtless Stillness Dragon unleashed Thought Has No Root · Causal Blindness, but Qin Yu’s hidden causal invitation made the dragon turn and briefly disrupted its power.
  • Qin Yu revealed himself and called out to the dragon, drawing the others’ attention as he prepared to lead the battle away from the hall.
Read chapter

Ch. 1233The Emanation Sea Seals Xing, Stainless Burns to Its Final Embers

Qin Yu redirected the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon’s destructive intent onto himself and drew it away from the Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall. As Chu Xianbing, Ming Ji, and Zhang Lin attacked Master Soul Dominion together, their combined powers erased him completely.

  • Qin Yu redirected the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon’s hatred and annihilating intent onto his own Fate Soul, then feigned injury and fled to lure the dragon away from the battlefield.
  • Master Soul Dominion lost control of the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon as it pursued Qin Yu, and Chu Xianbing struck him with Glazed Glass Mirror Shadow Slaying.
  • Chu Xianbing called Ming Ji and Zhang Lin to join him, and the three prepared to finish Master Soul Dominion while he was weakened.
  • Ming Ji trapped Master Soul Dominion in Heavenly Emanation Sea Current Burial, while Zhang Lin subjected him to Punishment of Neither Existence nor Nonexistence.
  • Chu Xianbing manifested the Wheel of Heavenly Emanation and used Fate Returns to the Limitless and Transforms Tribulation to bind Master Soul Dominion in a cocoon of light.
  • The three divine abilities closed together, completely erasing Master Soul Dominion and every trace of his existence.
Read chapter

Ch. 1234Luring the Dragon into the Mist

Chu Xianbing destroyed the Causal Soul Logic Realm Abyss and organized the battered Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall’s recovery, while worrying about Qin Yu. Qin Yu led the pursuing Thoughtless Stillness Dragon toward the Gloomy Mist Soul-Entangling Swamp, intending to subdue it by drawing it back to the place where it had once been imprisoned.

  • Chu Xianbing ordered Zhang Lin and Ming Ji to help purge the remaining Logic Remnants Lords, then erased the Causal Soul Logic Realm Abyss with Limitless Return to the Source · Severing Burial of the Realm Abyss.
  • The Fate-Emanating Immortal Envoys eliminated the last Logic Remnants Lords, and Chu Xianbing told the survivors that every elder had fallen in the battle.
  • Chu Xianbing tasked Zhang Lin with repairing and securing the divine hall and Ming Ji with healing the injured disciples, then worried that the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon had not returned from pursuing Qin Yu.
  • Qin Yu evaded the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon and reasoned that he needed to subdue it rather than kill it, recalling that it had once been imprisoned in the Gloomy Mist Soul-Entangling Swamp.
  • Qin Yu turned toward the swamp, and the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon followed despite showing a brief instinctive wariness toward its former prison.
Read chapter

Ch. 1235The Dragon-Taming Anchor

Qin Yu survived the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon’s thought-severing attack and recognized that its wounds and divided instincts made coexistence possible. He realized the dragon could not be subdued by force, but needed a Fate Soul anchor to share the burden of existence.

  • Qin Yu entered the Gloomy Mist Soul-Entangling Swamp as the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon pursued him.
  • Qin Yu used the Six Severances Seal-Fate Cause Sealing Mirror to contain the dragon’s Thought Severing Tribulation and halt its attack.
  • Qin Yu examined the dragon’s severe wounds and sensed its power weakening and its instinct beginning to resist Master Soul Dominion’s command.
  • Qin Yu released his anchor of existence, disrupting the dragon and provoking a clash between its imposed command and awakened instinct.
  • The Thoughtless Stillness Dragon unleashed Empty Thoughts Enter Stillness, but Qin Yu used Void Evolution Jiwu and Causal Deconstruction to understand the attack.
  • Qin Yu realized that true dragon taming meant giving the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon an object of coexistence through his Fate Soul.
Read chapter

Ch. 1236Dragon Taming and Rewriting

Qin Yu established a Coexistence Fate Soul Anchor with the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon, risking his own Fate Soul to rewrite their connection twice. He left the dragon in a stable, controllable state of coexistence, completing the most dangerous stage of taming it.

  • Qin Yu opened his Fate Soul defenses and established the Coexistence Fate Soul Anchor with the rampaging Thoughtless Stillness Dragon.
  • Qin Yu sacrificed a layer of his Fate Soul to rewrite the dragon's Severed Thought and halt its rampage.
  • Qin Yu suffered the dragon's spreading Severed Thought and received an instinctive echo that coexistence meant sharing.
  • The Thoughtless Stillness Dragon sent its collapsing Severed Thought pressure through the anchor, threatening to destroy Qin Yu and itself.
  • Qin Yu used Three Fate-Constructing Forms · Causal Deconstruction to rewrite the anchor's order and make himself its primary anchor.
  • The Thoughtless Stillness Dragon calmed as its Severed Thought was contained, and Qin Yu completed the second rewrite.
Read chapter

Ch. 1237The Severed Thought Prison Domain and the Ashes of Thoughtlessness

Qin Yu completed the rewriting that subdued the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon and formed a causal Fate Soul attunement with it. He learned the dragon’s six laws and ultimate annihilation technique, then Azure Ring awoke and claimed the little dragon as her mount.

  • Qin Yu transformed his Fate Soul into a coexistence core, and the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon acknowledged him as the third rewriting succeeded.
  • Qin Yu formed a causal Fate Soul attunement with the dragon, which shrank into a small, docile form in his palm.
  • The Thoughtless Stillness Dragon opened its severed thought origin to Qin Yu, revealing six divine abilities and the ultimate technique Severed Thought Returns to Stillness · Ten Thousand Thoughts Burn the Form.
  • Azure Ring awoke on Qin Yu’s shoulder, saw the little dragon, and declared it would be her mount.
  • The little dragon submitted to Azure Ring, who climbed onto its back and rode it around Qin Yu.
Read chapter

Ch. 1238Crabapple Shadow Star Palace

Qin Yu named the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon Tangyi and formed a true soul bond with her. The Gloomy Mist Soul-Entangling Swamp sent Qin Yu, Azure Ring, and Tangyi to the hidden domain of an ancient supreme treasure, where they arrived before a floating palace.

  • Qin Yu named the little dragon Tangyi, and she joyfully revealed her enormous true form before shrinking back down beside him.
  • The Gloomy Mist Soul-Entangling Swamp congratulated Qin Yu on bonding with Tangyi and revealed a map leading to its innermost region.
  • The Gloomy Mist Soul-Entangling Swamp transported Qin Yu, Azure Ring, and Tangyi to an ancient teleportation array, warning that it led to the treasure left for a true dragon tamer.
  • Qin Yu, Azure Ring, and Tangyi passed through the array and arrived in a crystal-flower valley beneath a floating palace domain.
  • Qin Yu sensed that the mysterious palace domain had opened for him and prepared to explore it.
Read chapter

Ch. 1239The Mysterious Old Woman

Qin Yu reached the hall and faced an ancient woman who tested his motives, desires, and the path he had taken. She sent him alone to fetch water from a well to the south, while Azure Ring secretly erased the karmic force that would have kept Tangyi and Azure Ring behind.

  • Qin Yu approached the hall and encountered an old woman seated in the void, while Azure Ring warned him that she was dangerous.
  • The old woman opened her eyes and asked Qin Yu why he had come, what he wanted, and how he had reached the hall.
  • Qin Yu answered that he sought to complete his Fate Soul order, accept the consequences of the Thoughtless Stillness Dragon, and bear the karma of his journey without evading responsibility.
  • The old woman said she was thirsty and told Qin Yu to fetch water from the well to the south, instructing him to go alone while Tangyi and Azure Ring stayed with her.
  • Azure Ring secretly erased the old woman's karmic logic that would have kept them behind, but Qin Yu noticed nothing and set off south to fetch the water.
Read chapter

Ch. 1240The Flower Realm Receives the Source

Qin Yu entered a tranquil flower sea and discovered that its Formless Well tested his Fate Soul through memories, exhaustion, and the temptation to give up. He accepted his doubts without being ruled by them, obtained the well’s drop of water, and passed the trial.

  • Qin Yu followed the old woman’s directions and found a vast flower sea that served as a place of respite for dragon tamers.
  • Qin Yu explored the flower sea with his Fate Soul, awakening images of his younger self, past choices, and buried memories before sensing the Formless Well and being pushed back.
  • Qin Yu faced the flower sea’s renewed trial, which confronted him with the costs of his past, weariness, and gentle illusions that tempted him to stop.
  • Qin Yu climbed a staircase of flowers toward a milky-white bloom, while the flowers behind him withered and erased his path back.
  • Qin Yu opened his Fate Soul to his doubts and burdens, gently cradled the flower, and received its drop of water as the flower sea renewed itself.
Read chapter

Ch. 1241The Crabapple Shadow Inheritance

Qin Yu absorbed the Flower of Nothingness’s origin, advancing the Void Divine Tree and earning entry to the inheritance hall. The hall revealed Tangyi’s Crabapple Shadow Star Palace inheritance, which drew her into its first trial: Annihilation Sea Soul Tempering.

  • Qin Yu absorbed the drop of origin in his sea of consciousness, and the Void Divine Tree developed a new branch with a nascent golden star mark.
  • Azure Ring inspected Qin Yu’s sea of consciousness, teased him about his gains, and said the old woman had fallen asleep waiting for him.
  • The old woman recognized that Qin Yu had obtained the Flower of Nothingness’s inheritance and opened the hall for him, Azure Ring, and Tangyi.
  • Inside the hall, a star palace awakened to Tangyi’s bloodline, and Azure Ring realized the inheritance had been prepared for her.
  • The words “Crabapple Shadow Star Palace” appeared, and the final character entered Tangyi’s tail before transporting her away.
  • Tangyi found herself in the Waveless Sea and began the Annihilation Sea Soul Tempering trial, where annihilation steadily eroded her body and soul.
Read chapter

Ch. 1242Dragon Tracks Hidden in the Sea

Tangyi endured the Waveless Sea’s erasure by holding to her existence through the Coexistence Anchor, passing the first trial and returning with a new mark and a more resilient dragon form. In the Crabapple Shadow Star Palace, Qin Yu and Azure Ring witnessed a fleeting projection of the Dragon Tamer's Supreme Treasure as Tangyi advanced toward the second trial.

  • Tangyi expanded into a ten-thousand-zhang dragon and entered the Waveless Sea, where its gray threads stripped away her scales, memories, and sense of self.
  • Tangyi relied on the Coexistence Anchor and her instinctive existence to preserve her core as the sea eroded her outer form and forged darker scales beneath it.
  • The Waveless Sea’s central gaze confirmed Tangyi could remain, stopped erasing her, and left a star-patterned mark beneath her chest scales.
  • Tangyi returned from the first trial with a stronger resistance to erasure and sent echoes of annihilation through the void.
  • In the Crabapple Shadow Star Palace, the character for “Star” vanished briefly and revealed an indistinct crystal to Qin Yu and Azure Ring.
  • Azure Ring recognized the crystal’s appearance as a sign that Tangyi had passed the first trial, while Qin Yu prepared for the second.
Read chapter

Ch. 1243Abyssal Shadow Tribulation and the Punishment of Returning to Stillness

Tangyi passed the Primordial Dragon Battle Shadow Tribulation by learning to align with the ancient Dragon Dao, then faced the Hall of Dragon Remains Returning to Stillness, where the stripping of her abilities, memories, and identity forced her to rebuild her existence from her own origin. She passed the third trial with a lingering crack in her origin, standing at a new starting point.

  • Tangyi fought the Innate Primordial Dragon Battle Shadow, adapting to its attacks until their Dragon Dao laws resonated and merged into her.
  • Qin Yu and Azure Ring watched as the Shadow character vanished and opened the entrance to Tangyi's third trial.
  • In the Hall of Dragon Remains Returning to Stillness, the marrow crystal's origin laws stripped Tangyi of her divine abilities, knowledge, bloodline arts, emotions, memories, and sense of being a dragon.
  • Tangyi held on to a primordial sense of her own existence and let the stripping continue, prompting the Innate Primordial Dragon's traces to resonate and reconstruct her Dragon Dao from within.
  • Tangyi endured the backlash and passed the Punishment of Myriad Dao Stripping, emerging with a solidified dragon body and a lingering crack in her origin.
Read chapter

Ch. 1244Primordial Origin Dragon Marrow Crystal

Tangyi faced the final inheritance trial and rejected a perfect phantom that offered to fuse with her, choosing instead to refine the Primordial Origin Dragon Marrow Crystal herself. She passed the trial and gained the crystal’s recognition, while Qin Yu and Azure Ring learned of her success in the Crabapple Shadow Star Palace.

  • Qin Yu and Azure Ring watched the final character, “Tang,” shatter, beginning the inheritance’s last trial.
  • Tangyi encountered her Perfect Self, which tempted her with power and a painless fusion with the Primordial Origin Dragon Marrow Crystal.
  • Tangyi rejected the Perfect Self and endured the crystal’s backlash, holding to her own Dao rather than retreating or accepting perfection.
  • Tangyi devoured and refined the marrow crystal, causing the Perfect Self to disintegrate and the crystal to submit to her.
  • Tangyi passed the final trial, and a projection of the Primordial Origin Dragon Marrow Crystal appeared in the palace as Qin Yu and Azure Ring recognized her success.
Read chapter

Ch. 1245Tangyi Takes Human Form

Tangyi fused the Primordial Origin Dragon Marrow Crystal and awakened its ultimate dragon Dao laws. She then transformed into human form in the Crabapple Shadow Star Palace, where she looked at her hands and smiled.

  • Tangyi returned to her small dragon form with the Primordial Origin Dragon Marrow Crystal stabilized before her chest.
  • Azure Ring urged Tangyi to refine the crystal immediately and try to take human form.
  • Tangyi endured the crystal's three-stage fusion, absorbing its origin annihilation, concept-splitting, and causality-reversing laws into her dragon Dao.
  • Tangyi completed the fusion and manifested the powers Origin Return to Zero, Concept Reaping, and Causality's Retrogression to Stillness.
  • Tangyi transformed from dragon into human form and stood in the palace, smiling as she examined her hands.
Read chapter

Ch. 1246The Old Woman Appears Again

Tangyi completed her transformation into human form and tested the three divine abilities she had comprehended. The old woman returned and offered Qin Yu a supreme treasure that she said was especially suited to him.

  • Tangyi called Qin Yu her master, and he asked her to call him young master instead.
  • Azure Ring teased Tangyi about being a mount, easing the atmosphere in the Star Palace.
  • At Azure Ring’s urging, Tangyi sensed the powers of Cangming Dragon Breath: Origin Return to Zero, Primordial Dragon Claw: Concept Reaping, and Hongmeng Dragon Tail: Causality's Retrogression to Stillness.
  • The old woman appeared through the palace doors, approved of Tangyi, and told Qin Yu that he was special.
  • The old woman offered Qin Yu a supreme treasure that she said was especially suited to him.
Read chapter

Ch. 1247An Illusion Becomes a Dream

Qin Yu accepted the old woman’s deadly trial for the Stillness Chaos Return-to-Origin Pearl and was transported to an ancient city above a sea of clouds. He arrived amid a peaceful city filled with ordinary people, where the trial’s purpose remained unclear.

  • The old woman offered Qin Yu the Stillness Chaos Return-to-Origin Pearl, which could advance him directly to the Chaos Realm, but warned that failing her trial would mean his death.
  • Qin Yu accepted the trial without hesitation and told Azure Ring and Tangyi to wait for him.
  • The old woman used an ancient ring to send Qin Yu into the trial, while Azure Ring joked about his good fortune and Tangyi prayed that he would succeed.
  • Qin Yu appeared before a vast city suspended above clouds and sensed that it was judging who deserved to exist.
  • Qin Yu entered the city and found bustling streets full of ordinary people, whose everyday lives seemed to form the trial’s hidden measure.
Read chapter

Ch. 1248The Prison of Ordinariness

Qin Yu entered the Ancient City of Eternal Stillness and was reduced to an ordinary resident, living through twenty-two years of everyday joys and hardships. He retained a faint sense of his fundamental self, completed the Prison of Ordinariness trial, and watched the city make way for a deeper layer of the Realm of Being and Nonbeing.

  • Qin Yu entered the Ancient City of Eternal Stillness, where ordinary life unfolded in peace and order.
  • The city stripped Qin Yu of his extraordinary abilities and knowledge, leaving him an ordinary person who remembered only his name.
  • Qin Yu lived through decades of work, love, loss, illness, and aging while an unbroken sense of self remained within him.
  • Qin Yu peacefully closed his eyes during the twenty-second winter, and time stopped as the first trial was declared complete.
  • Qin Yu regained his full awareness and understood that the city had tried to make him accept ordinary life as his final existence.
  • Qin Yu realized he had been permitted to continue, and the Ancient City of Eternal Stillness began making way for a deeper realm.
Read chapter

Ch. 1249The Source of the Clamor

Qin Yu saw through the Ancient City of Eternal Stillness’s happiness to the causal prison beneath it and escaped the first layer by refusing to let happiness define him. In the Sea of Causal Clamor, he found the city’s original wish and formed a Formless Well, but the final test of taking from it without desire remained.

  • Qin Yu recognized that the city’s residents followed fixed causal paths and that its comfortable lives were designed to make visitors give up their freedom to choose.
  • Qin Yu accepted the city’s happiness without letting it define him, breaking free of its first layer and triggering a storm of causal voices.
  • Qin Yu traced the clamor to an ancient being’s wish for a place to settle and learned that the city would ultimately fade when it was forgotten.
  • Qin Yu approached a beggar through masterless movement and pressed his existence into the stillness of the beggar’s breath, suspending the city’s causal chains.
  • Qin Yu formed a Formless Well at the still point and realized he had to take its water without wanting or claiming it.
Read chapter

Ch. 1250Order of Inversion

Qin Yu passed the second trial by accepting the Water Without Causality without taking it and making himself immune to causal judgment. He entered the third trial, the Order of Inversion, and halted its inverted world through pure observation as the realm recalibrated for a deeper test.

  • Qin Yu let the drop in the Formless Well merge with him without forming the thought of taking it, obtaining the Water Without Causality.
  • When the guardian will sent the causal torrent against him, Qin Yu used Three Forms of Fate Construction · Existence Erasure on himself and made himself ineligible for cause and effect, collapsing the city's causal network.
  • The third trial, the Order of Inversion, unfolded as time, space, and meaning reversed, and Qin Yu found himself caught in a city with no stable inside or outside.
  • Qin Yu stopped trying to locate himself and abandoned the assertion that he existed, keeping only the ability to observe the inverted city.
  • Qin Yu's observation suspended the city between opposing states, and the Order of Inversion recalibrated into a blank transitional realm.
Read chapter

Ch. 1251Ruins of Emptiness

Qin Yu passed the third trial’s Nameless Domain by ceasing to cling to his identity, then faced the fourth trial, where perception and concepts were stripped away. He relinquished the final remnant that could anchor his existence and opened a passage through Pre-Nonbeing.

  • Qin Yu allowed his name, memories, emotions, and sense of self to dissolve in the Nameless Domain until the trial could no longer find anything to dissolve.
  • The Nameless Domain closed, and Qin Yu emerged from the third trial with a steady certainty of existence beyond names or memories.
  • Qin Yu entered the fourth trial as the Ancient City of Eternal Stillness evaporated, and the world’s colors, sounds, senses, time, and space were successively stripped away.
  • The concepts of the city and its people disintegrated, leaving Qin Yu with a final faint something that could preserve his existence but bind him to the Ruins of Emptiness.
  • Qin Yu stopped acknowledging the final something, entered Pre-Nonbeing, and opened a passage that confirmed he had passed the fourth trial.
Read chapter
495051
Arc 50 of 89
Arc 50 of 89
AboutStatsAPIChangelogStatusContactPrivacyTermsDMCA
© 2026 RandomTranslator·v3.26·RSS