Recaps

Qin Yu and Xiao Yue fought the Leaf Guardian's remnant soul and the Age Devourer as the enemies used time reversal, sealing, and law-breaking abilities. Qin Yu wounded the remnant soul but had not destroyed it, while Xiao Yue warned that she could not hold back the Age Devourer much longer.

• Qin Yu countered the Leaf Guardian's Time Reversal Sword with the Causeless Disillusionment Sword and used the Fate Cause Sealing Mirror to trap its backward-tracing sword intent.
• Xiao Yue broke the Age Devourer's Years' Bite Reversal Wheel with Logic Chain Severance and slowed the beast with Sever Thought and Extinguish Consciousness.
• The Leaf Guardian's remnant soul activated Leaf Vein Hall Sealing and used Dao Fall Sword to collapse the laws throughout the ruins.
• Qin Yu invoked Final Order Interrogation · World Silent Judgment and struck the remnant soul's core flame, disrupting the Dao Fall Domain and injuring him.
• The Age Devourer began using the Bite of Retroactive Erasure, and Xiao Yue called to Qin Yu that she could not hold it back much longer.
• Qin Yu gathered silver-white sword light for a final strike aimed at the remnant soul's root.

Qin Yu and Xiao Yue fought the Leaf Guardian’s remnant soul and Age Devourer in the ancient ruins. They exposed Age Devourer as a summoned fragment, severed its connection to the realm, and rewrote events so it had never descended there.

• The Leaf Guardian’s remnant soul used Heart Sword to drag Qin Yu’s fears and memories into an illusion, but Qin Yu countered with Soulless Annihilation Abyss Sword.
• The Leaf Guardian’s remnant soul unleashed Beginning and End One Sword, and Qin Yu defeated it with Undefined Destruction Sword.
• Age Devourer’s Bite of Retroactive Erasure began erasing Qin Yu and Xiao Yue, while Xiao Yue discovered that a summoning thread anchored it to the realm.
• Qin Yu used Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter to reveal and sever the summoning thread, and Xiao Yue locked Age Devourer’s existence in place with Logic Chain Severance.
• Qin Yu wrote that Age Devourer had never descended into the realm, causing it to dissolve as the ruins and Xiao Yue were restored.

After the ancient tree returned to a single golden-green leaf, Qin Yu entered the Thought Burial Heavenly Hall and found the Heart of Buried Thoughts at the center of the thirty-six Thought Realms. The Heart paused, then began beating in a new rhythm after sensing Qin Yu.

• The ancient tree vanished and left behind a golden-green leaf, which Xiao Yue identified as the true form of the tree.
• Xiao Yue returned to Qin Yu's sea of consciousness to rest, and Qin Yu gained the leaf's acknowledgment and entered the Thought Burial Heavenly Hall.
• Qin Yu arrived at the silent, magnificent hall, where the faceless statues revealed their features and watched him climb the stairs.
• The hall's doors opened for Qin Yu, revealing the Heart of Buried Thoughts surrounded by thirty-six halos representing the Thought Realms.
• The Heart of Buried Thoughts paused when Qin Yu approached, then resumed beating in a changed rhythm after sensing him.

Qin Yu accepted the Thought Burial Heavenly Hall’s thirty-six-layer judgment rather than choose between its two supreme treasures. He passed the first layer and began dismantling the overlapping trials, but the remaining twenty-eight layers descended early and turned their tests into direct judgments against his existence.

• The Heart of Buried Thoughts offered Qin Yu the Thoughtless Realm Breaking Dust or the Primordial Return to Oblivion Pill, and warned that claiming both required surviving thirty-six layers of judgment.
• Qin Yu chose to undergo the judgment, and the first Thought Severance Void Domain stripped away his memories and emotions until he let his thoughts return to zero and passed.
• Eleven overlapping thought realms descended, and Qin Yu used the Silent Origin Stainless Sword, the Wordless Heavenly Book of the Primordial Hongmeng, and the Heavenly Cause Judgment Order · Six Severances Seal to counter their conflicting trials.
• Qin Yu identified how the realms depended on competing interpretations and dismantled their connections, breaking the eighth layer’s chains of will with the Historyless Void Severance Sword.
• The remaining twenty-four layers appeared ahead of time as the ninth through eleventh layers intensified, and the eleventh layer’s measuring blade became a judgment aimed at erasing Qin Yu’s existence.

Qin Yu and Blue Ring Xiao Yue dismantled the Thirty-Six-Layer Thought Realm by changing its fixed endings and exploiting contradictions between its judgments. They broke the final gateway, and the pressure of the Thought Realm vanished.

• Qin Yu used the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter to turn the first nine layers’ certain-death endings into unfinished possibilities, then cut apart the tenth layer’s Chaos Torrent and the eleventh layer’s Judgment Thought Blade with the Silent Origin Stainless Sword.
• Blue Ring Xiao Yue emerged from Qin Yu’s sea of consciousness and helped him face the remaining twenty-four layers by suppressing mental attacks and identifying contradictions between the gateways.
• Qin Yu and Xiao Yue advanced through the gateways, severing their logical supports and using the heavenly book, Six Severances Seal, and sword techniques to make the judgments undermine one another.
• Xiao Yue identified the final gateway’s dependence on judgment as the only narrative, and Qin Yu challenged its right to be correct forever with Final Order Interrogation · World Silent Judgment.
• The judgments contradicted one another, the final gateway shattered, and the pressure of the Thirty-Six-Layer Thought Realm disappeared.

After passing the Thought Burial Heavenly Hall’s judgment, Qin Yu received two supreme treasures and used the Thoughtless Realm Breaking Dust to break through to the Realm Breaking Realm Middle Stage. He and Xiao Yue left the Thoughtless Burial Domain as Qin Yu anticipated the approaching election of the four great lineages.

• The voice in the Thought Burial Heavenly Hall awarded Qin Yu the Primordial Return to Oblivion Pill and the Thoughtless Realm Breaking Dust, explaining their powers.
• Qin Yu stored the Primordial Return to Oblivion Pill inside his Annihilation Devil Pupil · Final Spirit Core.
• At Xiao Yue’s urging, Qin Yu entered the Severed Thought Realm · Supreme state and merged the Thoughtless Realm Breaking Dust into his consciousness.
• The dust shattered Qin Yu’s thought-severed consciousness and formed a Wind of Realm Breaking, allowing him to reach the Realm Breaking Realm Initial Stage and then the Middle Stage.
• Qin Yu told Xiao Yue that the four great lineages’ election was drawing near, opened a spatial rift, and left the Thoughtless Burial Domain with her.

At Returning Light Heavenly City, Qin Yu overheard news about changes to the Four Great Lineages selection and losses in the Thoughtless Burial Domain. Hua Jingmeng arrived with five powerful guards, and Qin Yu learned that he had gained a Hongmeng Dao Medicine in the Nine Nether Cold Pool, leaving Qin Yu quietly studying how the news connected.

• Cultivators in a restaurant reported that the Four Great Lineages selection now required competitors to reach Severed Thought Realm · Supreme and would take place in Stele Forest Imperial City.
• They said Shangguan Xuanchen and ten Shangguan disciples had died in the Thoughtless Burial Domain, while only Ju Wanning and Ju Anran had returned from the Ju Lineage expedition, and Shangguan Lingxiao had been severely injured.
• Qin Yu listened from a nearby table and memorized the information about the selection, the deaths, and its location.
• Hua Jingmeng entered the restaurant with five Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme guards and ordered a private room, prompting the cultivators to discuss his recent rise to Mystic Void Realm · Middle Stage.
• The cultivators said Hua Jingmeng had obtained a Hongmeng Dao Medicine in the Nine Nether Cold Pool, while Qin Yu considered the news and looked toward Hua Jingmeng’s private room.

Qin Yu followed the Hua Lineage after Hua Jingmeng and Hua Feiting left Returning Light Heavenly City, tracing their karmic trail to a dark ancient forest. There he discovered the Hua Lineage had hidden ahead of Ye Wuhen and Gu Linfeng of the Boundless Realm Divine Sect, and realized they were the Hua Lineage’s target.

• Hua Feiting arrived at the restaurant palace with two Hua Lineage stewards while Qin Yu quietly considered why the lineage had come to the city.
• Qin Yu sent his divine sense upstairs, but Hua Jingmeng sensed the spying and released his pressure across the hall.
• Hua Jingmeng and Hua Feiting left with ten Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators, and Qin Yu followed them through the void using a karmic thread.
• Qin Yu tracked the Hua Lineage to a dark ancient forest, where their karmic trail disappeared, and concealed himself nearby.
• Ye Wuhen and Gu Linfeng entered the forest, and Qin Yu recognized that the Hua Lineage had been lying in wait for the Boundless Realm Divine Sect party.

Qin Yu reached the Boundless Realm Divine Sect convoy just as the Hua Lineage trapped it in an Annihilation Construct Killing Formation. After reuniting with Ye Wuhen and Gu Linfeng, Qin Yu refused Hua Jingmeng’s demand that he leave, and the two sides began fighting in the ancient forest.

• The Hua Lineage’s twelve cultivators activated an Annihilation Construct Killing Formation around Ye Wuhen’s convoy, but Qin Yu warned them and Ye Wuhen pushed the group out of its reach.
• Qin Yu reunited with Gu Linfeng and Ye Wuhen, who had believed he died after luring away the Void Tribulation Devouring Chi in the Heaven-Burning Flame Domain.
• Ye Wuhen called on his disciples to protect the cargo, while Hua Jingmeng ordered Qin Yu to leave and offered to overlook their earlier dispute at the restaurant.
• Qin Yu declared that he had come specifically to target the Hua Lineage and the Shangguan Lineage, prompting Hua Feiting to threaten him.
• Hua Jingmeng ordered his ten cultivators to attack, and Ye Wuhen, Gu Linfeng, and the convoy’s disciples met their assault with their own attacks.

Qin Yu fought Hua Feiting after helping Ye Wuhen’s side repel the Hua Lineage, and his sword techniques broke through her defenses and wounded her. Hua Feiting then summoned a divine artifact, and her power began to rise.

• Hua Jingmeng attacked the Boundless Realm Divine Sect’s escort party with the Silent Abyss Adjudication Wheel, but Qin Yu split it with the Historyless Void Severance Sword.
• Ye Wuhen struck the ten Hua Lineage Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators with the Realm Splitting Abyss Suppression Halberd, blasting them back.
• Hua Feiting ordered Hua Jingmeng to fight Ye Wuhen and the disciples, then challenged Qin Yu herself while Qin Yu assigned Ye Wuhen and Brother Gu to handle Hua Jingmeng.
• Hua Feiting sent a Void Evolution Heavenly Meteor at Qin Yu, and he split it apart with his sword before striking with the Causeless Disillusionment Sword.
• Qin Yu’s sword broke through Hua Feiting’s Void Evolution Mystic Wall and Annihilation Order Return Wheel, wounding her and declaring that he was targeting the Hua Lineage and Shangguan Lineage.
• Hua Feiting brought out a flower-and-butterfly ring divine artifact, and her presence rapidly rose.

Qin Yu fought Hua Feiting as she unleashed increasingly powerful domains through the Nether Butterfly Wreath, while Ye Wuhen and Hua Jingmeng battled amid heavy casualties. Qin Yu’s Undefined Destruction Sword tore through Hua Feiting’s ultimate domain, leaving her to realize that his sword power could erase existence.

• Hua Feiting used the Nether Butterfly Wreath to trap Qin Yu in Butterfly Domain: Void Silent Burial, but Qin Yu found the wreath at its core and disrupted the domain with a sword strike.
• Hua Feiting unleashed Butterfly Domain: Mystic Void Realm Burial, and Qin Yu split it apart with the Historyless Void Severance Sword.
• Ye Wuhen and Hua Jingmeng exchanged powerful attacks as the battle between the Boundless Realm Divine Sect and the Hua Lineage caused mounting casualties.
• Hua Feiting expanded her domain into Final Burial Realm and sent hundreds of thousands of burning spirit butterflies crashing down on Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu used the fifth form of the Silent Origin Stainless Sword, Undefined Destruction Sword, to cleave through Hua Feiting’s domain and make her recognize his power to erase existence.

Ye Wuhen and the surviving Boundless Realm Divine Sect disciples made a last stand against Hua Jingmeng and the Hua Lineage. Gu Linfeng sacrificed his Fate Soul to destroy five Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators, but Hua Jingmeng killed him, and the remaining disciples were wiped out as Qin Yu remained trapped in Hua Feiting’s butterfly domain.

• Hua Jingmeng ordered his five Hua Lineage disciples to attack, and Ye Wuhen rallied the wounded Boundless Realm Divine Sect disciples to fight back.
• Gu Linfeng used the forbidden art Soul Burning Return to Stillness and charged the five Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators.
• Ye Wuhen unleashed the Fate Soul Realm Splitting Sword and killed one cultivator, while Hua Jingmeng escaped Gu Linfeng’s charge with Phantom Life Escape.
• Qin Yu tried to stop Hua Jingmeng’s Soul-Slaughtering Obliteration Palm, but Hua Feiting trapped him in Butterfly-Locked Void Prison.
• Gu Linfeng detonated his Fate Soul, killing the other five Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators, but Hua Jingmeng’s palm annihilated him.
• Ye Wuhen tried to shield the Boundless Realm Divine Sect disciples from the palm’s aftershock, but it killed the remaining disciples.

Qin Yu shattered Hua Feiting’s Flowers Bloom with a Single Thought and used Void Source · Dream Stillness against Hua Jingmeng, leaving both sides injured. When Hua Feiting unleashed Primordial Origin Chapter, Chi Ninghua intervened, forcing Hua Feiting and Hua Jingmeng to flee; Qin Yu and Ye Wuhen remained on the battlefield as a figure descended from the sky.

• Hua Feiting trapped Qin Yu with Flowers Bloom with a Single Thought, but Qin Yu found its causal core and destroyed the lotus.
• Ye Wuhen burned his Fate Soul to hold off Hua Jingmeng, and Qin Yu crossed the battlefield to shield him.
• Qin Yu unleashed Void Source · Dream Stillness against Hua Jingmeng, while Hua Feiting countered with Return to the Ruins Tribulation; their collision blasted all four fighters into the ruins.
• Hua Jingmeng suffered damage to his Fate Soul, and Hua Feiting warned that Qin Yu’s power exceeded his realm before unleashing Primordial Origin Chapter.
• Chi Ninghua’s beam shattered Hua Feiting’s divine ability, and Hua Feiting escaped with Hua Jingmeng after threatening Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu and Ye Wuhen remained on the shattered battlefield as a figure descended from the sky.

After the battle, Chi Ninghua arrived as an Yingling, healed Ye Wuhen, and offered to recommend Qin Yu to the Chi Lineage for the Stele Forest Imperial City competition. Qin Yu and Ye Wuhen reached Returning Light Heavenly City and discussed the competition’s stricter entry requirements and new format, leaving Qin Yu asking why the Xuanyuan and Nangong Lineages controlled its rules.

• Chi Ninghua arrived at the battlefield, gave Ye Wuhen a healing pill, and praised Qin Yu’s performance against Hua Feiting and Hua Jingmeng.
• Chi Ninghua offered to recommend Qin Yu to the patriarch for entry into the Chi Lineage, while Ye Wuhen said she would report the escort losses and arrange for others to take over the cargo.
• After Qin Yu and Ye Wuhen left, Xiao Yue told Qin Yu that Chi Ninghua’s appearance was only an Yingling, whose power had reached the True Annihilation Realm · Initial Stage.
• Qin Yu and Ye Wuhen returned to Returning Light Heavenly City and celebrated their survival with a meal and Myriad Spirits Brew at the Taotie · Myriad Realms Remains Hall.
• Ye Wuhen explained that the competition now required at least the Realm Breaking Realm and might include secret-realm, formation-domain, and resource contests.
• Qin Yu asked why the Xuanyuan Lineage and Nangong Lineage had final authority over the competition’s rules, and Ye Wuhen invited him to drink before explaining.

Ye Wuhen explained to Qin Yu how the Ten Great Lineages shaped power in the Upper Layer and described the leading young prodigies. He clarified that the Wuji Realm and realms beyond it were not divided into stages, leaving Qin Yu to recognize that the upcoming grand competition would pit their understandings of the Dao against one another.

• Ye Wuhen told Qin Yu that the Ten Great Lineages dominated the Upper Layer, with the Ju and Chi Lineages allied to the Xuanyuan Lineage and the Shangguan and Hua Lineages tied to the Nangong Lineage.
• Ye Wuhen explained that the Xuanyuan and Nangong Lineages used the grand competition in Stele Forest Imperial City to select young experts for secret realms, ancient tasks, and resource struggles.
• Ye Wuhen named Hua Yanyang, Shangguan Shumu, Chi Xiyue, and Ju Lingyuan as the four leading prodigies of the Eternal Nonexistence Limitless Domain and described their strengths.
• Qin Yu asked whether the prodigies were at different stages of the Wuji Realm, and Ye Wuhen explained that cultivation realms after Eternal Silence were no longer divided into stages.
• Qin Yu realized that Wuji Realm cultivators were judged by their understanding of the Dao and Fate Soul Origins, and that the grand competition would be a clash of Dao.

Ye Wuhen explained why the four main cities were closely controlled and relatively safe, then took Qin Yu to the Echo Cliff · Deathbed Auction House. As the auction filled with cultivators, Qin Yu sensed the Hua Lineage among the luxury-seat guests, and the auction was poised to begin.

• Ye Wuhen told Qin Yu that the four main cities belonged to the Hua, Shangguan, Ju, and Chi Lineages, but the Supreme Transformation Primordial Domain held them accountable for keeping trade and order stable.
• A street crier announced a major auction featuring the Emberless Mirror, and Ye Wuhen invited Qin Yu to attend.
• Ye Wuhen explained that the Echo Cliff · Deathbed Auction House sold relics from dead universes and used Returning Light Retrospection to reveal their final moments.
• Ye Wuhen led Qin Yu to the middle-tier seats, where Qin Yu sensed a floral-patterned Fate Soul presence in the luxury tier and learned the Hua Lineage had arrived.

At Echo Cliff · Deathbed Auction House, Qin Yu and Ye Wuhen attended an auction of relics from destroyed universes while Hua Jingmeng arranged to have them killed after they left the city-surround. The first lot sold, and the auction began presenting a powerful set of four swords and a formation diagram from a fallen Mystic Void universe.

• The auctioneer explained that the lots came from dead universes and announced the bidding rules.
• Qin Yu sensed Hua Jingmeng's hostility, and Ye Wuhen warned him to be careful.
• Hua Jingmeng told a disciple to inform the sacred clan to kill Qin Yu and Ye Wuhen after they left the city-surround, offering ten million Annihilation Starlight Crystals for Qin Yu's death.
• The Fragment of the Long River of Time was auctioned for twenty million Annihilation Starlight Crystals.
• The auctioneer unveiled four swords and the Mystic Void Formation Diagram, then opened bidding at ten million Annihilation Starlight Crystals.

Qin Yu followed Xiao Yue’s advice and won the combined lot of three mysterious treasures for one hundred million Annihilation Starlight Crystals, despite Hua Jingmeng’s challenge. When Hua Jingmeng demanded an asset check, Qin Yu agreed and secured a rule barring Hua Jingmeng from bidding on future lots if he proved he could pay.

• The auctioneer presented the Primordial Traceless Stillness Light, the Blankness of the Severed Path of Words, and the Void Nirvana Dao Fruit as one lot with a starting bid of fifty million Annihilation Starlight Crystals.
• Xiao Yue urged Qin Yu to obtain all three treasures, and Qin Yu opened the bidding at sixty million.
• Qin Yu and Hua Jingmeng raised the price against each other until Qin Yu won the lot for one hundred million Annihilation Starlight Crystals.
• Hua Jingmeng demanded an asset verification, and Ye Wuhen worried that Qin Yu could not pay.
• Qin Yu accepted the verification and proposed that Hua Jingmeng be barred from bidding on the remaining lots if Qin Yu proved his funds.
• Hua Jingmeng accepted the condition, and the gray-robed elder began the asset verification.

Qin Yu proved his wealth at the Echo Cliff · Deathbed Auction House by producing a hundred God-Level Resonance Crystals, forcing Hua Jingmeng out of the bidding and drawing the attention of greedy cultivators. The auction then resumed with the World Creation Remnant Sequence, a treasure that could reveal the laws behind a universe’s creation, opening at twenty thousand Limitless Resonance Crystals.

• Qin Yu revealed a hundred God-Level Resonance Crystals, shocking the auction house and convincing the gray-robed old man that he had passed the asset verification.
• Blue Ring Xiao Yue revealed that Qin Yu possessed far greater reserves, including eight zi God-Level Resonance Crystals after her fusion.
• Qin Yu asked the gray-robed old man to bar Hua Jingmeng from bidding, and Hua Jingmeng left after threatening Qin Yu and arranging for the Holy Clan to target him.
• Qin Yu returned to his seat as cultivators watched him with greed, while Ye Wuhen marveled at his wealth and Qin Yu claimed he had found the crystals in a forbidden zone.
• The auction host introduced the World Creation Remnant Sequence, explained that it preserved the laws of a universe’s creation, and set its starting bid at twenty thousand Limitless Resonance Crystals.

At the Deathbed Auction House, the World Creation Remnant Sequence went unsold before the Emberless Mirror was revealed and sparked a fierce bidding war. Qin Yu learned that a Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage cultivator could use the mirror to comprehend the origin rules and advance directly to Supreme, while powerful bidders began offering vast quantities of God-Level Resonance Crystals and supreme techniques.

• The World Creation Remnant Sequence received no bids at its price of twenty thousand Limitless Resonance Crystals and remained unsold.
• After other lots were sold, the hostess presented the Emberless Mirror and described its three stages of still illumination and its role in the breakthrough from Mystic Void Realm to Supreme.
• Xiao Yue told Qin Yu that a Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage cultivator could use the Emberless Mirror to comprehend the logic of the origin rules and step directly into Supreme.
• A masked blue-robed cultivator opened bidding at one hundred God-Level Resonance Crystals, and bidders rapidly drove the price to one thousand.
• Cultivators began offering supreme techniques and divine abilities, including Origins Return to One and Primordial Complete Dao, while Qin Yu watched calmly.

Qin Yu learned that the Emberless Mirror could open a path to the Limitless Final Abyss and won it at the Echo Cliff auction despite an offer from Ancient God Clan elder Luo Qingchuan. After collecting his treasures, Qin Yu parted from Ye Wuhen and vanished into the night as greedy observers followed him.

• Ye Wuhen told Qin Yu that the Emberless Mirror could open the boundary wall to the Limitless Final Abyss, the lost home of the three beast emperors who had followed Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu bid 3,000 God-Level Resonance Crystals for the Emberless Mirror, and Luo Qingchuan offered him a divine ability in exchange for withdrawing; Qin Yu refused, so Luo Qingchuan yielded.
• The host sold the Emberless Mirror to Qin Yu, who collected it along with the Primordial Traceless Stillness Light, Blankness of the Severed Path of Words, and Void Nirvana Dao Fruit.
• Ye Wuhen urged Qin Yu to take shelter at the Boundless Realm Divine Sect, but Qin Yu declined and gave him a storage crystal core before leaving through a spatial fissure.
• Ye Wuhen discovered that Qin Yu had given him a hundred million God-Level Resonance Crystals, while hidden observers followed Qin Yu into the night.

Qin Yu joined an escort mission at No Return · Datong Bank, where two cultivators who had been tracking him joined the team. The transport carriage departed for North City · Stele Forest Imperial City with Qin Yu and the other escorts, while the ambushers waiting beyond Returning Light Heavenly City anticipated his arrival.

• Three experts hiding in a world within the Heaven-Reaching Ancient Vine waited to ambush Qin Yu, planning to use Hua Jingmeng's offer to gain favor with Hua Feiting and seize Qin Yu's treasures.
• Qin Yu registered for a herb escort mission at No Return · Datong Bank and met Shen Qingchen and the other waiting escorts.
• Two Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators arrived, ignored Shen Qingchen's greeting, and watched Qin Yu, who realized they had followed him.
• A deacon briefed the ten escorts and led them to the spirit-patterned transport carriage carrying medicinal herbs to North City · Stele Forest Imperial City.
• The escorts took their assigned positions, and the carriage departed Returning Light Heavenly City with Qin Yu's two suspected pursuers among the team.

Qin Yu exposed three Holy Clan cultivators hiding along the Heaven-Piercing Ancient Vine Star Domain route and persuaded the Wugui · Datong Bank escort party that they intended to rob the convoy. The escorts surrounded the three ambushers, and the confrontation turned hostile.

• Three Holy Clan cultivators recognized Qin Yu in the approaching Wugui · Datong Bank convoy and prepared to ambush him.
• Qin Yu detected their concealed presences, warned the escorts, and used spatial force to expose them.
• The ambushers claimed they were targeting Qin Yu alone, but Qin Yu argued that their hiding place and one cultivator's words showed they planned to rob the convoy.
• Shen Qingchen and the escort cultivators surrounded the three Holy Clan men as killing intent rose.

Qin Yu provoked the Holy Clan assassins into attacking, prompting the escorts to kill all three, then used the aftermath to expose suspicion toward two escort cultivators who had stayed out of the fight. The chapter ended with Shen Qingchen and the other escorts surrounding the pair and questioning whether they were spies.

• Qin Yu baited a Supreme Holy Clan cultivator into using Hand of Shattering Realms, and the escorts destroyed the attack and annihilated him.
• Qin Yu warned the escorts that the Holy Clan were targeting the cargo, and the remaining assassins attacked him with their divine abilities.
• Shen Qingchen and the six other escorts killed the Supreme Holy Clan cultivator and the Mystic Void Realm cultivator who had burned his source.
• Qin Yu pretended to be badly injured, then privately pointed out to Shen Qingchen that two Supreme escorts had never joined the battle.
• Shen Qingchen confronted the two silent escorts, and Qin Yu accused them of possibly being spies as the others moved to surround them.

Qin Yu exposed two Ancient God Clan cultivators who had infiltrated the convoy and pursued the one who escaped. In the Inverted Mountains, the fugitive admitted that Luo Qingchuan had arranged the ambush, and Qin Yu prepared to confront him.

• Shen Qingchen and the escort cultivators recognized the two Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators as members of the Ancient God Clan and allies of the three attackers.
• Qin Yu warned the group that the two were escaping, and the escort cultivators attacked; one fugitive sacrificed his companion and escaped using Karmic Reverse Escape.
• The escort team found the Ancient God Clan token, while Qin Yu identified Luo Qingchuan as the one behind the plot and pursued the survivor.
• Shen Qingchen led the convoy onward toward North City · Stele Forest Imperial City as Qin Yu followed the fugitive's karmic trail.
• Qin Yu caught up with the injured cultivator in the Inverted Mountains, where the man confirmed Luo Qingchuan had arranged the ambush and explained the Ancient God Clan's plan.