Recaps

Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen watched Netherworld Divine Wolves slaughter cultivators inside a ruined temple before leaving the lakeshore. Below the lake, Qin Yu fought two abyss guardians and shattered their Realm Breaking domains, ending with his Fate Soul damaged but stable.

• Netherworld Divine Wolves revealed the ruined temple as an illusion trap and killed the cultivators trapped inside while Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen watched from the lake.
• After the ruins fell silent, Shangguan Lingxiao recognized the trap and led Shangguan Xuanchen away.
• Qin Yu sank into the lake’s abyss, where its strange rules tore at his Fate Soul until he used divine abilities to stabilize himself.
• Two abyss guardians attacked Qin Yu with saber light, but he broke their restriction and deflected the strike.
• The guardians unleashed Realm Breaking domains that shattered dimensions and disrupted laws, and Qin Yu used his sword and fate abilities to rewrite and sever their attacks.
• Qin Yu shattered both guardians’ domains, steadied his damaged Fate Soul, and dismissed their power as unimpressive.

Qin Yu annihilated the two fused Realm Breaking Realm Pinnacle guardians and followed a blue light into an independent realm beneath the lake. There he discovered the Nether Ruins Auxiliary Hall and paintings preserving visions of the Thoughtless Burial Domain at the height of its prosperity.

• The two guardians fused and unleashed Final Rift Judgment Epoch · Myriad Dimensions Annihilation against Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu split the compressed dimensions with Myriad Dimensions Rebirth, stripped away the technique's defining premise with Unnamed Initial Silence, and erased the fused guardian with the Great Luo Heavenly Chapter · Final Chapter.
• Qin Yu continued toward the blue core, but its light swallowed him and transported him to a storm-wracked realm with a vast island and black castle.
• Qin Yu reached the castle and found the inscription Nether Ruins Auxiliary Hall above its entrance.
• Qin Yu entered the hall and saw moving paintings that preserved worlds from the Thoughtless Burial Domain's flourishing past.

Qin Yu met Hua Feiwu in the central hall and entered three mist-door trials, passing the World-Tracing Dust Tribulation and Realm Shattering and Dimension Collapse. He emerged from the second trial with a newly arisen consciousness, while the third door began to tremble.

• Hua Feiwu appeared from a painting of the Thoughtless Burial Domain and revealed a hidden pitch-black painting.
• Hua Feiwu formed three mist doors and named their trials; Qin Yu entered the World-Tracing Dust Tribulation.
• Qin Yu relived a past tragedy but chose not to change it, passing the first trial as his obsession settled into a quiet point of light.
• Qin Yu entered the second door, where his name, memories, emotions, and sense of self began to dissolve.
• Qin Yu neither clung to his identity nor surrendered himself, allowing a new sense of being to emerge from the chaos and passing the second trial.
• Hua Feiwu approved of Qin Yu's passage, and the third mist door began to tremble.

Qin Yu passed the third mist-gate trial by turning protection and destruction into an endless flow of change. Hua Feiwu revealed that the Thoughtless Burial Domain and its Realm Breaking Dust were hidden inside an ordinary leaf, then Qin Yu returned to the lake knowing how to find and enter it.

• Qin Yu used Primordial Hongmeng and Source-Cause Construct Heart to guide the Wind of Realm Breaking through protection and destruction, passing the third trial.
• Hua Feiwu revealed the Thoughtless Burial Domain’s destruction and showed its ruins and Thoughtless Realm Breaking Dust compressed into an ordinary Realm Leaf.
• Qin Yu learned that the leaf was hidden on an old tree in an ancient forest within the Eternal Nonexistence Limitless Domain and that Thoughtless Heart Contemplation and Mind-Consciousness Resonance could open its hidden main hall.
• Hua Feiwu vanished into the pitch-black scroll, which then disappeared along with the hall’s remaining signs of power.
• Qin Yu was returned to the moonlit lake, carrying the leaf’s form and Qi in his mind and knowing the way into the Thoughtless Burial Domain.

Qin Yu left the empty lake ruins, unaware of the slaughter that had taken place there, while Ju Wanning led her group through the Thoughtless Burial Domain in search of its halls. Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen annihilated a group of Devil Beasts, but the cultivators they rescued remained wary of their intentions.

• Qin Yu found the lake ruins deserted and left, assuming the others had already obtained treasures.
• Ju Anran asked Ju Wanning about the Shangguan brothers, and she said her group would keep searching for the domain's halls before leaving for the lineage election.
• Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen entered an ancient palace and found cultivators fighting numerous Devil Beasts.
• Shangguan Lingxiao secretly planned to recruit the fighters as allies before killing them after dealing with Qin Yu and the Ju Lineage.
• Shangguan Lingxiao used True Annihilation Formless World to erase the Devil Beasts, and Shangguan Xuanchen offered the cultivators further help.
• The rescued cultivators thanked Shangguan Lingxiao, but the Severed Thought Realm cultivators remained wary because he had previously used their peers as sacrifices.

An Epoch Being descended into the ruins and trapped the cultivators in its domain, forcing Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen to unite with the surviving cultivators against it. The being reversed their attacks and erased many fighters from existence, leaving Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen wounded amid a shattered formation.

• An Epoch Being descended through a rift and sealed the ruins with its True Annihilation Realm domain, trapping the cultivators who tried to flee.
• Shangguan Xuanchen used Void Realm Unbinding to weaken the seal, and fifteen Realm Breaking Realm cultivators and ten Severed Thought Realm cultivators joined Shangguan Lingxiao to fight.
• Shangguan Lingxiao struck the Epoch Being with Causality Severance · Annihilation Return to the Ruins as the assembled cultivators unleashed their attacks.
• The Epoch Being used Tracing Causality · Birth and Extinction of All Things to reverse Shangguan Lingxiao's strike and the other cultivators' attacks, erasing several fighters from existence.
• The Epoch Being used Causality Severing · Traceless Primordial to erase eight Severed Thought Realm cultivators and four Realm Breaking Realm cultivators, while Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen barely escaped its gaze wounded.

Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen forced the remaining cultivators to fight the Epoch Being, whose second form began awakening after it endured a devastating forbidden assault. They interrupted its transformation with a coordinated attack, but the wounded Epoch Being remained alive in the sky.

• Shangguan Xuanchen killed the two Severed Thought Realm cultivators who tried to escape, while Shangguan Lingxiao ordered the eleven Realm Breaking Realm cultivators to fight.
• Shangguan Lingxiao used Preserve Constancy · All Laws Are Empty to neutralize the Epoch Being’s attacks, then ordered the eleven cultivators to unleash their forbidden origin divine abilities.
• The forbidden assault wounded the Epoch Being, but backlash erased two Realm Breaking Realm cultivators and severely injured the other nine.
• The Epoch Being began awakening its second form, and Shangguan Lingxiao ordered the surviving cultivators to attack before it could complete the transformation.
• Shangguan Lingxiao unleashed True Self · One Thought Eternal Silence as Shangguan Xuanchen opened a gap in the Epoch Being’s defenses, allowing the nine cultivators’ attacks to interrupt its transformation and blast it away.
• The nine Realm Breaking Realm cultivators collapsed from forbidden backlash, while Shangguan Lingxiao emerged weakened and the Epoch Being remained alive with its Fate Soul cracking.

Shangguan Xuanchen tricked nine Realm Breaking Realm cultivators into taking Severed Realm Imprisoned Soul Pills, secretly binding them with slave marks while restoring their strength. As the Epoch Being unleashed a devastating divine ability, Shangguan Lingxiao identified a weakness in its Dao Cause circuit and directed the group to attack the runes on its chest.

• Shangguan Lingxiao instructed Shangguan Xuanchen to give the nine cultivators Severed Realm Imprisoned Soul Pills while concealing their true purpose.
• Shangguan Xuanchen persuaded the cultivators to take the pills, which restored their strength and secretly branded each Fate Soul with a slave mark.
• The Epoch Being re-formed and unleashed Dao Cause · Nothing and Nothing, Still Nothing, threatening to erase the battlefield from perception.
• Shangguan Lingxiao and the nine cultivators rallied for a final assault, while Shangguan Xuanchen used Xuanji · Boundless Name-Veiling Seal to obscure the Epoch Being's name.
• Shangguan Lingxiao discovered that the Epoch Being's chest emblem exposed its Dao Cause circuit during an exile and ordered the group to strike its runes.

Shangguan Lingxiao and the other cultivators annihilated the Epoch Being, then discovered and opened a concealed underground cavern beneath the ruins. The cavern entrance stood open, and its depths remained unexplored.

• Shangguan Lingxiao and the eight other Realm Breaking Realm cultivators struck the Epoch Being’s emblem circuit with their supreme treasures, while Shangguan Xuanchen sealed its escape route.
• Shangguan Lingxiao used True Self · Something from Nothing to erase the Epoch Being from existence, leaving no corpse or remnant soul.
• The cultivators praised Shangguan Lingxiao, who questioned them and confirmed that a supreme treasure lay beneath the ruins.
• A Realm Breaking Realm cultivator touched a disguised sealing-formation core shaped like withered grass and was thrown into rubble.
• Shangguan Lingxiao exposed the formation core and dismantled the sealing formation with Silent Void.
• The ground folded open to reveal a bottomless cavern, and Shangguan Lingxiao announced that the entrance was open.

Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen trapped the Realm Breaking Realm cultivators in the cavern’s lethal restrictions and forced them onward with slave imprints. The surviving six reached a vast grotto and saw a pillar of light enclosing the supreme treasure, still trapped in danger.

• Shangguan Xuanchen told the nine cultivators they could claim the treasure, but the Stillness Severing Net Formation erased the first two who entered.
• Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen blocked the remaining seven and revealed that the pills they had given them contained slave imprints that would kill them without regular doses.
• Shangguan Xuanchen threatened the seven into continuing deeper into the cavern, where a spatial restriction erased one cultivator who tried to burn his Realm Breaking origin.
• The six survivors reached a vast grotto with nine broken pillars and a pillar of light rising around the still-unrevealed supreme treasure.

Shangguan Lingxiao revealed and claimed the Primordial Limitless Pearl in the grotto, then forced five Realm Breaking Realm cultivators to accompany him to kill two people. At the ruined Thoughtless Burial Domain palace, Ju Wanning and Ju Anran had already entered with their disciples, and Shangguan Lingxiao's group arrived as several factions converged on the ancient ruins.

• Shangguan Xuanchen forced six Realm Breaking Realm cultivators onto the platform, causing the Primordial Limitless Pearl to manifest in the pillar of light.
• One Realm Breaking Realm cultivator tried to reach for the pearl, and Shangguan Lingxiao erased him with Causality Severance · Annihilation Return to the Ruins.
• Shangguan Lingxiao used the True Annihilation Realm and Mystic Void reflection to draw the Primordial Limitless Pearl into his storage crystal core.
• Shangguan Lingxiao ordered the five surviving cultivators to help him kill two people, and they followed him out of the grotto under Shangguan Xuanchen's threat.
• Ju Wanning and Ju Anran led ten Ju Lineage disciples into the ruined ancient palace, which they suspected was the Thoughtless Burial Domain's secondary hall.
• A group of five splendidly dressed cultivators entered the palace, then Shangguan Lingxiao, Shangguan Xuanchen, and their five coerced followers arrived and descended toward the ruins.

Qin Yu arrived at the ruined ancient hall in the Thoughtless Burial Domain, where eight statues guarded its gate and selected cultivators to face trials. After one Mystic Void Realm cultivator failed the first trial and was erased by the sword statue, three more cultivators were chosen by different statues.

• Qin Yu descended to the ruined hall and saw more than a thousand cultivators held back by eight enormous statues.
• A Mystic Void Realm cultivator approached the sword statue, which sealed him inside the Mystic Void Myriad Transformations Tribulation.
• The cultivator failed to sever his karmic attachments, escaped the formation believing he had passed, and was erased by the statue's sword.
• A Realm Breaking Realm cultivator, a Mystic Void Realm cultivator, and a True Annihilation Realm cultivator stepped forward to face the statues.
• The shield statue chose the Realm Breaking Realm cultivator, the sword statue selected the Mystic Void Realm cultivator, and the bell statue trapped the True Annihilation Realm cultivator in its trial.

Three cultivators were annihilated by trials set by the divine statues, and Qin Yu deduced that the statues matched trial takers according to their Dao foundations and cultivation realms. He joined Ju Wanning and Ju Anran, explained his theory of the eight origins, and left the group facing the statues as the threat around the hall grew more tense.

• The shield, broken sword, and ancient bell statues annihilated three cultivators in trials tied to realm walls, Mystic Void, and time.
• Qin Yu deduced that the eight statues embodied distinct origins and judged cultivators according to their realms and Dao foundations.
• Ju Wanning contacted Qin Yu and warned him that Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen were nearby with five Realm Breaking Realm cultivators.
• Qin Yu joined Ju Wanning's group and met Ju Anran, who welcomed him after learning he had helped Ju Wanning escape the Shangguans.
• Qin Yu told Ju Wanning and Ju Anran that the statues represented eight ultimate authorities that could unite into a single Mystic Void being, while Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen watched from afar.

After a True Annihilation Realm · Peak cultivator passed the eight statues by making his presence indistinguishable, Qin Yu realized the statues were screening for a balance among their eight authorities. He formed that balance, opened a passage into the ancient hall, and entered with Ju Wanning, Ju Anran, the Ju Lineage disciples, and their pursuers.

• Many cultivators abandoned the square, while Shangguan Lingxiao ordered five Realm Breaking Realm cultivators to kill Qin Yu and warned them to wait for his signal.
• A True Annihilation Realm · Peak cultivator balanced his presence with the statues and slipped through when they turned aside.
• Qin Yu studied the statues, concluded they sought candidates who could balance the eight authorities, and explained his method to Ju Wanning and Ju Anran.
• Several cultivators imitated the first man's indistinguishability and were annihilated by the statues.
• Qin Yu balanced the eight authorities within himself, causing the statues to open a passage, and entered with Ju Wanning, Ju Anran, and the Ju Lineage disciples.
• Shangguan Lingxiao, Shangguan Xuanchen, the five Realm Breaking Realm cultivators, and several others rushed through before the passage closed.

Qin Yu and the Ju Lineage followed a glowing path into a mist-shrouded ruined palace, where cultivators began vanishing without warning. As the mist pulled people out of the scene, Qin Yu and Ju Wanning disappeared, leaving Shangguan Lingxiao behind in the chaos.

• Shangguan Lingxiao ordered five Realm Breaking Realm cultivators to kill Qin Yu and said he and Shangguan Xuanchen would handle the Ju Lineage.
• A strange sound awakened the ancient hall, and arcane patterns lit up into a path leading deeper inside.
• The Ju Lineage and the Shangguan group followed the path to a ruined palace surrounded by shifting mist, where a cultivator's junior brother vanished and cries for help echoed through the fog.
• More cultivators disappeared, including Shangguan Xuanchen and Ju Anran, while Ju Wanning discovered that only five of her ten disciples remained.
• Qin Yu warned everyone to retreat, but the mist and twisting arcane patterns pulled Qin Yu and Ju Wanning away as well.

A mist divided the palace intruders among isolated formations before drawing them into a circular array governed by a massive hourglass. Qin Yu and Ju Wanning faced the Time Annihilation Absolute Thoughtlessness Formation as its first grain of Time Sand fell and its thought-severing cycle began.

• Qin Yu and Ju Wanning found themselves trapped in a sealed space, while Shangguan Lingxiao and Ju Anran were separated into other spaces with members of their respective lineages.
• The mist withdrew and revealed the intruders inside distinct formation halos, including the Five Elements, Yin-Yang, Cause and Effect, Life and Death, Space, Narrative and Language, Power and Ideology, Time and History, Subject and Self, Void, and Fate formations.
• A giant hourglass emerged at the center of the hall, connected to every formation, and began to turn as its first grain of Time Sand fell.
• Blue Ring Xiao Yue appeared in Qin Yu’s sea of consciousness and identified his and Ju Wanning’s formation as the Time Annihilation Absolute Thoughtlessness Formation, explaining its rings, core, and activation condition.
• The outer ring began its Absolute Thoughtlessness Circulation, drawing out Qin Yu’s memories and eroding his and Ju Wanning’s self-awareness as the other formations also began to destabilize.

Qin Yu and Ju Wanning escaped the time formation by disrupting its runes and severing its connection to the Lifeless Core, while Ju Anran and Shangguan Xuanchen broke the fate formation together. Shangguan Lingxiao rallied those trapped in the void formation, but the remaining cultivators were still in danger as the hourglass continued to run down.

• Qin Yu identified the time formation’s two stages and told Ju Wanning that they had to reverse time rather than fight it directly.
• Qin Yu rewrote the present as undetermined, and Ju Wanning entered an already-annihilated state so they could evade the formation’s attacks.
• Qin Yu severed the link between the Time Flow Ring and the Lifeless Core, and he and Ju Wanning reversed the ring and collapsed the time formation.
• Shangguan Xuanchen tried to turn a fate thread against Ju Anran, but Ju Anran and the seven Ju Lineage disciples resisted the attack.
• Ju Anran and Shangguan Xuanchen joined their Mystic Void power to crack the Fate Wheel Pearl and break the fate formation.
• Shangguan Lingxiao explained that the void formation required a unified anchor, and the three Ju Lineage disciples and two other cultivators agreed to follow his plan.

Shangguan Lingxiao led five cultivators through the Void Array by joining their Fate Soul Anchor Points, but the array erased one cultivator before the survivors escaped. Ju Wanning reclaimed the three Ju Lineage disciples as the two sides gathered around the hourglass, while Qin Yu kept watching the still-unrevealed core.

• Ju Anran and the Ju Lineage disciples regrouped with Ju Wanning and Qin Yu outside the arrays, while Qin Yu warned Ju Wanning to keep the returning disciples at a distance.
• Shangguan Lingxiao joined the five trapped cultivators’ Fate Souls into a circuit and used his spear to expose and strike the Annihilation Realm Pearl’s weakness.
• The Annihilation Realm Pearl erased one cultivator as Shangguan Lingxiao led the others out, and the Void Array collapsed behind them.
• Ju Wanning used a thread of causality to pull the three Ju Lineage disciples to her side, while Shangguan Xuanchen and five Realm Breaking Realm cultivators moved to protect Shangguan Lingxiao.
• The surviving unaffiliated cultivator fled, leaving the Ju Lineage and Shangguan’s group facing each other across the hourglass as Qin Yu watched its core.

The hourglass judged and erased every cultivator still trapped in the formations, then opened a realm gate that Qin Yu, the Ju Lineage, Shangguan Lingxiao, and the others entered. They arrived in a sealed burial domain where a colossal coffin and sixteen divine statues surrounded a mysterious cube containing a multidimensional universe.

• The hourglass reversed, erased all cultivators still trapped in the formations, and vanished as a realm gate appeared.
• Shangguan Lingxiao prepared an ambush, but Qin Yu sent Ju Wanning and Ju Anran through the gate with the Ju disciples before entering himself.
• Shangguan Lingxiao, Shangguan Xuanchen, and five Realm Breaking Realm cultivators followed Qin Yu into the gate.
• The cultivators emerged in a burial domain before a colossal coffin guarded by sixteen divine statues, and the realm gate closed behind them.
• A universe-filled cube appeared above the coffin, stirring the statues and quickening the coffin's heartbeat.

The cube transported Qin Yu and the others into the palace’s memory of the Epoch Battlefield, where a real battle against primordial divine beasts began. After several cultivators were killed, the group fought back, and Shangguan Lingxiao erased two beasts while Qin Yu and the others helped blunt the attack.

• The cube destroyed the tomb domain and pulled everyone into a vision of the ancient war, where the palace’s vice hall master defeated an otherworldly ruler before the battlefield memory shattered.
• Qin Yu and the others found themselves on the Epoch Battlefield as primordial divine beasts descended and killed several Rogue Cultivators.
• Shangguan Lingxiao urged the survivors to fight and erased a charging primordial divine beast with Causality Severance · Annihilation Return to the Ruins.
• Ju Wanning, Ju Anran, Shangguan Xuanchen, and the five Realm Breaking Realm cultivators combined their abilities to resist the beasts’ Mystic Void power.
• Qin Yu disrupted the beasts’ attacks with his Causeless Disillusionment Sword and Fate Cause Sealing Mirror, allowing Shangguan Lingxiao to erase a second beast.

A ruler’s remnant image appeared over the Epoch Battlefield and erased many cultivators, while Ju Wanning protected Qin Yu and Ju Anran with her supreme treasure umbrella. Qin Yu, Ju Wanning, Ju Anran, and the fleeing Shangguan Lingxiao reached the battlefield’s center, where the enormous cube resonated with the remnant image.

• The ruler’s remnant image distorted the battlefield, and Shangguan Lingxiao secretly ordered five Realm Breaking Realm cultivators to kill Qin Yu.
• Ju Wanning blocked their five attacks with Annihilation Order · Return to Truth Domain Veil and confronted Shangguan Lingxiao.
• The ruler’s remnant image used Formless and Causeless to erase more than a dozen cultivators and the five attackers, while Shangguan Xuanchen was gravely wounded.
• Ju Wanning opened her supreme treasure umbrella and blocked the remnant image’s strike aimed at Qin Yu and Ju Anran.
• Shangguan Lingxiao fled, and primordial divine beasts erased Shangguan Xuanchen before he could detonate his origin.
• Qin Yu led Ju Wanning and Ju Anran to the battlefield’s center, where they found Shangguan Lingxiao and the enormous cube rotating and resonating with the ruler’s remnant image.

Qin Yu and the Ju siblings destroyed the illusion’s cube and escaped the epochal battlefield, revealing a powerful purple gourd inside the awakened coffin. Shangguan Lingxiao fled, the siblings departed for their lineage, and Qin Yu remained alone with the treasure and an invitation to compete in the Eternal Nonexistence Limitless Domain.

• Qin Yu devised a plan to make the sovereign remnant strike the cube, while Ju Wanning and Ju Anran helped conceal their coordinates and manipulate the battlefield.
• The sovereign remnant’s Formless Slash hit the cube, and Qin Yu used Existence Erasure to destroy its array core and collapse the illusion.
• The group returned to the ruined tomb hall as the coffin opened and revealed a purple gourd.
• Shangguan Lingxiao warned Qin Yu and the Ju Lineage that he would remember their debts, then fled the burial domain.
• Ju Wanning and Ju Anran gave Qin Yu the gourd and invited him to join the lineage competition before departing for their lineage.
• Qin Yu accepted the gourd and remained alone in the Thoughtless Burial Domain.

In the Thoughtless Burial Domain, Xiao Yue explained the Cause-Trapping and Effect-Locking Gourd and its Paradox Source Water. She used the water to awaken Blue Ring’s Second Form, Logical Chain Severance, leaving Qin Yu with a newly sealed, empty gourd.

• Qin Yu opened the purple gourd and smelled a fragrance that stirred his soul and clarified his thoughts.
• Xiao Yue identified the gourd as an instrument forged by Old Man Duanyin and explained that it contained Paradox Source Water.
• Qin Yu offered the Paradox Source Water to Xiao Yue so she could comprehend Logical Chain Severance.
• Xiao Yue opened the gourd by sensing its logic, absorbed the droplet, and experienced the severing and rebuilding of her existential chains.
• Xiao Yue awakened Blue Ring · Second Form: Logical Chain Severance and demonstrated it by erasing a boulder through the collapse of its logical supports.
• Xiao Yue returned to Qin Yu’s shoulder and offered to test her new ability on an enemy; Qin Yu had already resealed the now-empty gourd.

Qin Yu and Xiao Yue reached an ancient withered tree where the true main hall was sealed inside one of its indistinguishable leaves. Xiao Yue used Blue Ring’s Logical Chain Severance to identify and expose the hidden leaf, awakening its guardian remnant soul.

• Qin Yu stored the spent Cause-Trapping and Effect-Locking Gourd and continued with Xiao Yue toward the true main hall.
• Qin Yu found an ancient tree whose tens of thousands of dead leaves concealed the main hall, but he could not tell them apart.
• Xiao Yue used Blue Ring · Second Form: Logical Chain Severance to scan the tree’s hidden logical structures.
• Xiao Yue severed the logical support of one leaf, triggering a collapse that exposed a tall, black-robed figure.
• The leaf guardian’s remnant soul emerged from the shattered dimensions, holding a longsword and standing between Qin Yu and the true main hall.

Qin Yu battled the Leaf Guardian's remnant soul in the shattered dimension, countering its boundary-breaking sword arts with the Silent Origin Stainless Sword and striking the source anchored to its sword hilt. The remnant soul then summoned Age Devourer, whose Bite of Retroactive Erasure began targeting the origin of Qin Yu's existence as Qin Yu raised his sword to face it.

• Blue Ring Xiao Yue warned Qin Yu about the Leaf Guardian's remnant soul, and Qin Yu sent her aside before summoning the Silent Origin Stainless Sword.
• The remnant soul attacked with Void-Shattering Sword, but Qin Yu used No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword to cut off the attack at its source and break the spatial cage.
• The remnant soul used Dimension-Severing Step and Formless Sword, but Qin Yu's Causeless Disillusionment Sword disrupted its shifting attacks and revealed the longsword hilt as its anchor.
• Qin Yu struck the hilt, sending the remnant soul crashing into the ancient tree and briefly forcing the Realm Breaking storm to subside.
• The remnant soul recited an incantation and summoned Age Devourer, which used Bite of Retroactive Erasure to target the moment Qin Yu first existed.
• As Age Devourer began erasing history around him, Qin Yu raised the Silent Origin Stainless Sword.