Recaps

Qin Yu intervened in a battle over the Chi Lineage's belongings, annihilating Xiao Potian with Unnamed Initial Silence and stopping Chu Lingyun's probe with Primordial Formless. After a masked messenger spoke to Chu Lingyun, the Realm Breaking Heavenly Sect withdrew, but Chu Lingyun marked Qin Yu as a future target.

• A Realm Breaking Heavenly Sect cultivator demanded that Gu Linfeng hand over the Chi Lineage's belongings, and the two Realm Breaking Realm Initial Stage leaders began fighting.
• Xiao Potian attacked Qin Yu, but Gu Linfeng shielded him from the annihilating pillar of light.
• Qin Yu used Unnamed Initial Silence to erase Xiao Potian from existence, drawing the attention of both camps.
• Ye Wuhen blocked Chu Lingyun from attacking Qin Yu, while Qin Yu used Primordial Formless to repel Chu Lingyun's divine-sense probe.
• A masked man whispered to Chu Lingyun, who then withdrew the Realm Breaking Heavenly Sect and warned Qin Yu that he would suffer in the future.

Qin Yu traveled with Ye Wuhen and the Boundless Realm Divine Sect to Returning Light Heavenly City, learning about the five multidimensional universes and passing the city’s strict entry rites. After the sect members went to deliver their cargo, Qin Yu explored the bustling city with Blue Ring · Xiao Yue, unaware that a hidden observer had noticed him.

• Ye Wuhen invited Qin Yu to travel with the Boundless Realm Divine Sect’s convoy to Returning Light Heavenly City, and Qin Yu accepted to learn more about the upper layer.
• Gu Linfeng described the Skeleton Star Sea and the other four multidimensional universes, as well as the Boundless Realm Divine Sect’s standing.
• The convoy reached Returning Light Heavenly City and passed its causal examination, law correction, and city-domain oath before entering.
• Ye Wuhen gave Qin Yu a Boundless Realm Divine Sect token and arranged to meet him later at the Taotie · Myriad Worlds Remains Hall Restaurant while the sect delivered its goods.
• Qin Yu explored the city with Blue Ring · Xiao Yue, who warned him to be careful, as an unseen gaze briefly swept over him.

Qin Yu explored the Weapon Burial Tower but decided the Silent Origin Stainless Sword remained the weapon best suited to him. He then went to the Taotie · Myriad Realms Remains Hall, where Ye Wuhen and Gu Linfeng joined him for a meal.

• Qin Yu entered the Weapon Burial Tower and learned that challengers had to survive a weapon's Weapon Dissolution Illusory Realm to earn its recognition.
• An ancient old man asked Qin Yu what weapon he sought, and Qin Yu said he was only looking around.
• Qin Yu rejected the idea of choosing another weapon because the Silent Origin Stainless Sword suited his Fate Soul and Dao foundation.
• Qin Yu traveled to the Taotie · Myriad Realms Remains Hall, where Ye Wuhen and Gu Linfeng greeted him.
• Blue Ring, Xiao Yue, protested when Gu Linfeng mistook her for Qin Yu's soul beast, and the group entered the hall together.

Qin Yu and the Boundless Realm Divine Sect celebrated in the Taotie · Myriad Realms Remains Hall, where Ye Wuhen explained the conflict between the Chi and Shangguan Lineages and invited Qin Yu to join the sect. He outlined the lineage selection in a hundred days and the immense difficulty of advancing beyond the Severed Thought Realm, leaving Qin Yu to consider the challenge ahead.

• Ye Wuhen welcomed Qin Yu and the Boundless Realm Divine Sect to a lavish banquet at the Taotie · Myriad Realms Remains Hall.
• Qin Yu learned that the expensive meal was Ye Wuhen's treat and that the Chi Lineage's shipment had contained immortal herbs and diluted sacred treasures targeted by the Shangguan Lineage's lackeys, the Realm Breaking Heavenly Sect.
• Ye Wuhen invited Qin Yu to join the Boundless Realm Divine Sect and compete in the lineage selection in a hundred days, where the top ten cultivators could be chosen by the Chi, Ju, Shangguan, or Hua Lineage.
• Gu Linfeng explained that the selection drew cultivators from five multidimensional universes, while Ye Wuhen described the strict hierarchy and cultivation levels of the four great lineages.
• Ye Wuhen explained that reaching the Realm Breaking Realm required Boundary Collapse and a reconstruction of existence, warning Qin Yu that many cultivators remained trapped in Absolute Thoughtlessness for millions of years.

After leaving Returning Light Heavenly City, Qin Yu and the Boundless Realm Divine Sect encountered a Realm Breaking Realm Pinnacle Void Tribulation Devouring Chi in the Heaven-Burning Flame Domain. Qin Yu secretly reinforced the sect’s failing array, then joined Ye Wuhen against the beast as it began to devour the array itself.

• Ye Wuhen led the group north through the Heaven-Burning Flame Domain, where he sensed a primordial divine beast nearby.
• A Realm Breaking Realm Pinnacle Void Tribulation Devouring Chi emerged and devoured much of Ye Wuhen’s Realm Breaking · World-Splitting Wind.
• The Void Tribulation Devouring Chi expanded its annihilation vortex, draining the disciples’ power and breaking the array’s foundations.
• Qin Yu secretly used the Silent Origin Stainless Sword’s order to repair the array’s connections while the disciples struggled to hold it together.
• Qin Yu joined Ye Wuhen at the front, and the beast unleashed Void Tribulation · Myriad Chains Return to the Void to drain the array and everyone’s divine abilities.

Qin Yu helped Gu Linfeng and Ye Wuhen break the Void Tribulation Devouring Chi’s attack, but the beast unleashed a cause-erasing technique that devastated the Heaven-Burning Flame Domain and nearly wiped out their group. To keep Xiao Yue’s power concealed and save the survivors, Qin Yu lured the beast away while Ye Wuhen and Gu Linfeng led the remaining disciples back to the sect.

• Gu Linfeng and Ye Wuhen combined their powers against the Void Tribulation Devouring Chi, and Qin Yu used the Causeless Disillusionment Sword to destroy its black vortex.
• The Void Tribulation Devouring Chi unleashed Causeless Death Chain Annihilation, shattering the formation, killing three disciples, and injuring Gu Linfeng, Ye Wuhen, and Qin Yu.
• As the beast advanced on the survivors, Qin Yu struck its chest and told Ye Wuhen to take everyone away while he lured it off.
• The Void Tribulation Devouring Chi pursued Qin Yu across the Heaven-Burning Flame Domain, and Ye Wuhen and Gu Linfeng led the surviving disciples back to the sect.

At the edge of the Heaven-Burning Flame Domain, Qin Yu and Blue Ring Xiao Yue fought the Void Tribulation Devouring Chi after it transformed into the nine-headed Tribulation Realm Devouring Lord. They overcame its reality-erasing attacks and annihilated it, leaving the dead zone quiet again.

• The Void Tribulation Devouring Chi offered to spare Qin Yu if he surrendered one of his divine keys, but Blue Ring Xiao Yue appeared and refused.
• The Void Tribulation Devouring Chi transformed into its nine-headed Causeless True Body and attacked Qin Yu and Xiao Yue with Beginningless Return-to-Extinction Core.
• Qin Yu severed the void core's connection to the Beginningless Domain while Xiao Yue negated its Beginningless logic, destroying the attack.
• The Devouring Lord used Severance of Ten Thousand Causes and Effects, but Xiao Yue countered it with her divine abilities and Qin Yu erased five of its heads.
• Xiao Yue cut off the remaining heads' thoughts, allowing Qin Yu to dismantle their causal links and destroy their souls and historical coordinates.
• Xiao Yue erased the Devouring Lord's will to resist, and Qin Yu used Unnamed Initial Silence to annihilate its last four heads and collapse its vortex and law chains.

Qin Yu and Xiao Yue traced the Void Tribulation Devouring Chi’s appearance to an unknown source deep within the Heaven-Burning Flame Domain, while other factions concluded that a treasure had drawn the beast. As cultivators gathered at the domain’s outskirts, the Ju and Shangguan Lineages arrived and turned the search into a tense confrontation.

• Xiao Yue used causal search to determine that the Void Tribulation Devouring Chi had come to the Heaven-Burning Flame Domain on its own, drawn by something deep within it, and Qin Yu headed there with her.
• Ye Wuhen and Gu Linfeng returned to the Boundless Realm Divine Sect with injured disciples, and Ye Wuhen told Su Qianxue that Qin Yu had killed Xiao Potian and lured the Void Tribulation Devouring Chi away so they could escape.
• Luo Xinghe learned of the beast’s appearance and decided to report the suspected treasure to the Shangguan Lineage.
• Qin Yu returned to the domain’s outskirts, concealed his presence among the gathered cultivators, and waited as rumors spread about a rare treasure.
• Ju Wanning and Ju Anran arrived with the Ju Lineage, followed by Shangguan Xuanchen and Shangguan Lingxiao with the Shangguan Lineage, and their forces faced each other tensely.

The Thoughtless Burial Domain appeared within the Heaven-Burning Flame Domain, revealing the Thoughtless Realm Breaking Dust and an ancient sealing formation. After five Realm Breaking Realm experts were erased by the formation, Qin Yu waited to see how the two great Lineages would respond.

• Shangguan Xuanchen and Ju Anran exchanged barbed remarks as their Lineages gathered to search for the Void Tribulation Devouring Chi.
• A violent eruption revealed the Thoughtless Burial Domain and its treasures, including the Thoughtless Realm Breaking Dust, while Qin Yu watched with Xiao Yue’s guidance.
• Ju Wanning and Ju Anran identified the formation beneath the vanished ruins, and Shangguan Lingxiao warned his disciples not to act rashly.
• Five Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme experts attacked the formation and were erased by its wind of Realm Breaking.
• Xiao Yue offered to help Qin Yu, but Qin Yu chose to wait and see what the two great Lineages would do.

The ancient sealing formation began erasing cultivators, and Qin Yu and the two lineages identified its weak point at the seventh ring. Shangguan Lingxiao’s attack triggered the formation’s collapse, breaking the seal and revealing a fissure leading underground.

• The formation selected cultivators and erased them, while Qin Yu realized it was drawn to intense, disordered thoughts and identified the seventh ring’s return node as its formation eye.
• Ju Wanning and Ju Anran independently located the same weak point, while Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen prepared to break the formation.
• Shangguan Xuanchen sacrificed nearby cultivators by throwing them into the formation eye, causing the seventh ring to falter and its core to loosen.
• Shangguan Lingxiao used Heaven-Annihilating Realm-Seizing Palm against cultivators near the formation, and Qin Yu warned everyone to scatter before the attack struck.
• The trapped cultivators’ origins detonated at the formation eye, shattering all nine rings and breaking the seal as a vast underground fissure appeared.

Qin Yu entered the Thoughtless Burial Domain and was lured by an illusion in the Thought Hall, where a demon king and dozens of Devil Beasts ambushed him. He destroyed them all, leaving the ruined hall silent.

• Shangguan Xuanchen and the Shangguan disciples entered the rift, followed by Ju Wanning, Qin Yu, and the other cultivators.
• Qin Yu arrived in the Thoughtless Burial Domain and found the ruined Thought Hall.
• Inside the hall, an illusion of its former splendor and an alluring woman nearly drew Qin Yu into a trap, but a voice in his sea of consciousness warned him to wake up.
• The woman revealed herself as a middle-stage severed thought realm demon king, while dozens of Devil Beasts surrounded Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu erased the Devil Beasts with the No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword and broke the demon king's Thought Abyss Soul-Eroding Realm with Naming Reconstruction.
• Qin Yu annihilated the demon king with the Undefined Destruction Sword.

Qin Yu left the ruined Thought Hall and continued deeper into the Thoughtless Burial Domain, while Shangguan Lingxiao and the Shangguan Lineage discovered a palace filled with Hearts of Paradox. As they gathered the Dao fruits, dozens of Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme divine beasts emerged and surrounded them.

• Qin Yu watched the Thought Hall’s illusions vanish and headed toward a dark corridor deeper in the domain.
• Shangguan Lingxiao led Shangguan Xuanchen and nine disciples into a ruined palace, where they found countless Hearts of Paradox.
• Shangguan Lingxiao explained the Hearts of Paradox’s powers, then ordered the group to collect them.
• Shangguan Lingxiao sensed a presence behind him and ordered everyone to stop moving.
• Dozens of Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme divine beasts emerged from the shadows and surrounded the Shangguan Lineage as the largest beast opened its jaws behind Shangguan Xuanchen.

Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen fought a growing tide of Nine Nether Qilin inside the ruined palace, but the seven disciples who swallowed the Hearts of Paradox lost control and died. Shangguan Lingxiao brought out his spear and joined Shangguan Xuanchen in carving a path through the beasts to escape.

• The Nine Nether Qilin attacked, and Shangguan Xuanchen and Shangguan Lingxiao killed several with their divine abilities.
• Hundreds of Nine Nether Qilin emerged from spatial rifts, forcing the seven remaining disciples to swallow their Hearts of Paradox.
• The empowered disciples fought the beast tide, but their unstable paradox powers turned against them, and all seven died.
• As Shangguan Xuanchen was nearly overwhelmed, Shangguan Lingxiao summoned a spear and erased scores of qilin by severing their causality.
• Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen wielded spear and sword together to cut a passage through the beast tide and flee the ruined palace.

Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen faced the King of the Nine Nether Qilin after it severed their escape, and the king nearly erased Shangguan Xuanchen with its ultimate technique. Shangguan Lingxiao swallowed the Heart of Paradox, annihilated the king, and then began treating Shangguan Xuanchen’s injuries.

• Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen tried to escape the beast tide, but the King of the Nine Nether Qilin severed their path and revealed itself.
• Shangguan Lingxiao explained the danger of using the Heart of Paradox, while the qilin king launched its Annihilate Truth · Order-Severing Heavenly Roar.
• Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen combined their defenses and attacks, but the qilin king unleashed End · Nether Annihilation Tribulation and left Shangguan Xuanchen gravely injured and unconscious.
• Shangguan Lingxiao swallowed the Heart of Paradox and reversed the qilin king’s erasure of Shangguan Xuanchen before enveloping the king in True Self · One Thought of Eternal Silence.
• Shangguan Lingxiao completely annihilated the qilin king, drove the beast tide into retreat, and treated Shangguan Xuanchen’s injuries.

Shangguan Lingxiao annihilated the cultivators who attacked him and Shangguan Xuanchen, but a golden light drew everyone toward a divine hall in the Thoughtless Burial Domain. When the hall’s deadly formation trapped the cultivators, a terrifying being from another world descended and began disrupting it.

• Shangguan Lingxiao killed more than a dozen cultivators with Causality Severance · Annihilation Return to the Ruins after they tried to seize the Hearts of Paradox.
• The remaining cultivators struck Shangguan Xuanchen while Shangguan Lingxiao was slowed by paradox backlash, gravely wounding him and leaving him unconscious.
• A golden beam appeared in the Thoughtless Burial Domain, drawing Ju Wanning and Ju Anran, Shangguan Lingxiao, and other cultivators toward an ancient divine hall.
• When cultivators rushed into the hall, its golden formation cut down those at the entrance and sealed the valley, forcing Ju Wanning and the others to retreat amid the chaos.
• A being with black wings, dark armor, and a red blade descended from the torn sky, and its presence warped the golden formation.

An otherworldly being forced the cultivators to enter the golden temple, where a deadly trial offered powerful treasures to those who survived. Inside the Boundless Realm Heavenly Palace, Ju Wanning passed the True Annihilation Realm trial and emerged bearing its mark, while the other trials continued.

• An otherworldly being killed a cultivator who tried to escape, then ordered the others to enter the temple in batches.
• Two injured cultivators emerged with a divine treasure and an ancient bronze lamp, confirming that the temple held both opportunity and mortal danger.
• The being selected Ju Wanning for the next batch, and she entered the temple while Ju Anran watched anxiously.
• Ju Wanning faced a labyrinth of contradictory truths and falsehoods, then erased their distinctions rather than choosing between them.
• Ju Wanning let go of her attachment to annihilation and to passing the trial, causing the labyrinth and its mirror wall to vanish.
• Ju Wanning emerged on a platform with a trace of True Annihilation in her palm and watched the other trials continue.

Ju Wanning obtained the True Annihilation · Formless Gate and left the golden temple after passing its trial, while Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen pursued her. Elsewhere in the Thoughtless Burial Domain, Qin Yu cultivated beneath a waterfall of logic and reached a breakthrough in his understanding.

• Ju Wanning formed the True Annihilation · Formless Gate and absorbed its mark into her sea of consciousness.
• Three other cultivators passed their realm trials and gained the Realm Source Severance Wheel Diagram, Mystic Void Origin Lamp, and Absolute Thoughtlessness True Mirror; the four survivors emerged from the golden temple.
• Ju Wanning warned Ju Anran about the Origin Trial before leaving the formation, and Ju Anran remained inside with the other disciples.
• Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen confronted Ju Wanning from a ridge, and she fled after leaving a tracking mark for her lineage.
• Shangguan Lingxiao ordered Shangguan Xuanchen to pursue Ju Wanning and make her compensate them for their losses.
• Qin Yu cultivated beneath the logic waterfall, absorbed its principles, and experienced a breakthrough in his understanding of logic.

Qin Yu explored the Thoughtless Burial Domain, absorbed a Logic Origin waterfall, and broke through to Severed Thought Realm · Supreme. He then faced a vast lightning judgment in a canyon and destroyed its first stage as a greater force gathered above.

• Qin Yu encountered and annihilated a thought-wraith, then followed a strange structural energy deeper into the domain.
• Qin Yu absorbed the Logic Origin waterfall, advanced to Severed Thought Realm · Supreme, and stored the waterfall's origin in a vessel.
• Qin Yu noticed a distant flash of golden light but continued south through the Thoughtless Burial Domain.
• A giant face formed in the firmament and unleashed lightning embodying time, space, cause and effect, fate, logic, and narrative slaughter against Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu countered the lightning with his seals, sword, and other abilities, piercing through the tribulation's first stage as a deeper fluctuation began to gather.

Qin Yu defeated the three lightning manifestations by dismantling the logic that gave their powers and existence form, then gained insight into seeing logic itself. The tribulation’s enormous face descended as a divine body of law and logic, leaving Qin Yu to face it directly.

• The lightning tribulation formed three manifestations of time and fate, space and karma, and law and logic, then attacked Qin Yu with powers that compressed time, sealed space, and erased his existence.
• Qin Yu used the Six Severances Seal and his sword to break the attacks and erase the law-and-logic manifestation’s definition, destroying it.
• The remaining manifestations tried to force Qin Yu into a single failed fate and seal him inside an inescapable domain, but Qin Yu severed the premise that their structures had to exist and destroyed them.
• Ju Wanning sensed the Logic Lightning Tribulation and changed course toward it while Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen pursued her.
• The tribulation’s enormous face descended in a solid body of law and logic, and Qin Yu faced it with his sword raised.

Qin Yu resisted the Will of the Firmament’s first two divine abilities by severing their underlying structures, while Blue Ring Xiao Yue neutralized the second attack’s collapsing laws. The Will of the Firmament prepared its third move, leaving Qin Yu still facing the tribulation.

• The Will of the Firmament used Primordial Overwrite to roll Qin Yu’s cultivation history back, but Qin Yu severed the rollback and broke its authority to judge him.
• The Will of the Firmament offered Qin Yu an opportunity if he withstood three more divine abilities, and Qin Yu accepted.
• Qin Yu countered Logic Zeroing by affirming his established source and striking the purple core, breaking the first divine ability despite being injured.
• The Will of the Firmament unleashed Myriad Laws Annihilated Together, disrupting the laws throughout the canyon and forcing Qin Yu to one knee.
• Blue Ring Xiao Yue rearranged the collapsing laws with a blue ring, neutralizing the attack and restoring Qin Yu’s stability.
• The Will of the Firmament acknowledged Xiao Yue’s intervention and began preparing its third move.

Qin Yu defeated the heavenly will’s third trial by affirming his self-established existence, then received the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter. Ju Wanning witnessed his rise to Severed Thought Realm · Supreme and the inheritance of the Wordless Heavenly Book.

• Ju Wanning arrived at the canyon and watched as the heavenly will launched its third trial, Existence Returns to Stillness, against Qin Yu.
• Xiao Yue explained that the attack could only erase existence dependent on heaven and earth, then helped Qin Yu stabilize his origin.
• Qin Yu used Source Cause Severance, Unnamed Initial Silence, and Undefined Destruction Sword to affirm his existence and shatter the black dot.
• The heavenly will declared that Qin Yu had passed and bestowed the Wordless Heavenly Book, the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter, upon him.
• Qin Yu accepted the inheritance, while Ju Wanning watched in awe from the canyon’s edge.

After surviving the Will of the Firmament’s trial, Qin Yu met Ju Wanning and helped her escape Shangguan Xuanchen and Shangguan Lingxiao by using the Wordless Heavenly Book. Ju Wanning headed to find her separated disciples, while Qin Yu continued alone into the Thoughtless Burial Domain and agreed to meet her at the lineage election in a hundred days.

• Qin Yu spoke with Ju Wanning after the trial, and they introduced themselves and discussed his breakthrough to Supreme.
• Shangguan Xuanchen and Shangguan Lingxiao confronted Qin Yu and Ju Wanning, seeking a treasure Ju Wanning had obtained and threatening them.
• Ju Wanning offered to hold off the Shangguan experts so Qin Yu could escape, but Qin Yu said he had a way to shake them off.
• When Shangguan Xuanchen attacked with Void Realm Severance · Folded Space Plunging Kill, Qin Yu used Time · Page, Space · Character, and Causality · Punctuation to redirect the collapse and escape with Ju Wanning.
• Qin Yu and Ju Wanning parted in the forest after agreeing to meet at the lineage election in a hundred days; Ju Wanning went to find her junior brother and the other disciples, and Qin Yu continued deeper into the domain.

Qin Yu encountered an ancient golden-scaled fish guarding the ruined second palace in the Thoughtless Burial Domain and fought through its rule-reflecting defenses. He shattered its protective boundary and grievously wounded it, but the creature began a strange roar that signaled its next attack.

• Qin Yu found the ruined palace complex and sensed that its ancient remnants of logic responded to his arrival.
• The river reversed course, and an enormous golden-scaled fish with crimson wings emerged and attacked Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu tested the fish’s Formless Scale Tribulation and discovered that he could disrupt its three-foot boundary by attacking the interface around it.
• Qin Yu avoided the fish’s Realm Fissure Breath, shattered its protective boundary with the Undefined Destruction Sword and No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword, then wounded it with the Causeless Disillusionment Sword.
• The grievously wounded fish held its ground and began a hollow, bone-shaking roar as Qin Yu prepared for its berserk phase.

Qin Yu used the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter and the Silent Origin Stainless Sword to defeat the ruin’s monstrous fish, but the Void-Shattering Nether Kun unleashed a world-ending ability and fled into a rift beneath the lake. Qin Yu pursued it into the depths before it could escape.

• Qin Yu erased more than half the beast tide with the Silent Origin Stainless Sword’s Historyless Void Severance Sword.
• The Void-Shattering Nether Kun sacrificed the surviving beings to create a Supreme monstrous fish, and the pair attacked Qin Yu with evasion and law-corrupting abilities.
• Qin Yu used the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter to manipulate time, space, life and death, cause and effect, and the five elements, annihilating the new fish and gravely wounding the Void-Shattering Nether Kun.
• The Void-Shattering Nether Kun unleashed Return to the Ruins Fish Orchid, creating flowers that could absorb worlds, while it tried to flee beneath the lake.
• Qin Yu restrained the flowers with the Great Luo Heavenly Chapter and plunged after the Void-Shattering Nether Kun into the lake’s depths.

Qin Yu defeated the Void-Shattering Nether Kun’s rule-stripping attack, but a far older force at the lake bottom annihilated the creature. With Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen waiting above the lake near a newly emerged Thoughtless Burial Domain auxiliary hall, Qin Yu stayed underwater and descended toward the awakening presence.

• The Void-Shattering Nether Kun used Eyes of Void Drowning to strip away Qin Yu’s grasp of reality, but Qin Yu cut through the effect with his sword instincts and wounded it.
• The Void-Shattering Nether Kun fled toward the lake’s depths, where an ancient Fate Soul impact struck Qin Yu and an agonized cry from the creature abruptly ended.
• Qin Yu fled toward the surface, detected dozens of cultivators including Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen, and concealed himself beneath the lake.
• A ruined temple emerged from the lake, and cultivators identified it as a possible auxiliary hall of the Thoughtless Burial Domain and rushed inside to search for the Thoughtless Realm Breaking Dust.
• Shangguan Lingxiao persuaded Shangguan Xuanchen to wait while the other cultivators explored, planning to seize treasures after they cleared the dangers.
• With Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen still guarding the surface and the taboo presence stirring below, Qin Yu descended toward the deepest part of the lake.