Recaps

Qin Yu effortlessly stopped the Ancient God Clan cultivator’s realm-shattering attack and dismantled his forbidden Return to the Ruins Domain. After Qin Yu exposed the gap in their abilities, the wounded cultivator swallowed a black Dao fruit and transformed, breaking through to Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage as he challenged Qin Yu.

• The Ancient God Clan cultivator attacked Qin Yu with the Realm-Shattering Staff, but Qin Yu halted and erased the collapsing space with a touch.
• Qin Yu mocked the cultivator’s inferior understanding of laws and causality and revealed that he had only pretended to be injured.
• The cultivator activated the forbidden Annihilation Divine Domain · Descent of the Return to the Ruins, but Qin Yu severed its causality and destroyed the domain.
• The badly injured cultivator swallowed a black Dao fruit and transformed into a demon-like being.
• The cultivator’s power rose to Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage, and he asked Qin Yu how he would defeat him.

Qin Yu fought the devilized Ancient God Clan cultivator and destroyed the devil-path origin that sustained him. After the victory, Qin Yu found an ancient god token and decided he would visit Luo Qingchuan’s Ancient God Clan.

• The devilized cultivator used the World-Devouring Devil Fetus to absorb Qin Yu’s No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword, then struck him with the Law-Breaking Staff and wounded him lightly.
• The devilized cultivator unleashed the Formless Staff, but Qin Yu used Cause and Effect Deconstruction to find the devil-path origin core sustaining his power.
• Qin Yu struck the core with the Causeless Disillusionment Sword, cracking it and causing the devilized cultivator’s power to collapse.
• Qin Yu finished the devilized cultivator with the Undefined Destruction Sword, erasing his body and soul.
• Qin Yu caught the ancient god token left behind by the cultivator and stored it away.
• Qin Yu looked toward the distant Ancient God Clan and said he would visit Luo Qingchuan there.

Xiao Yue fused three supreme treasures into a sword seal and guided Qin Yu in reforging Primordial Formless into a sword Dao divine ability. Qin Yu created the Dao-Slaying · Annihilation Sword, which Xiao Yue said could help them face an expert at the True Annihilation Realm · Initial Stage.

• Qin Yu withdrew to a hidden space in the Inverted Mountains with Xiao Yue and brought out the three supreme treasures.
• Xiao Yue explained that the treasures could reforge Qin Yu's Primordial Formless into a sword Dao divine ability usable with any sword.
• Xiao Yue fused the Primordial Traceless Stillness Light, Blankness of the Severed Path of Words, and Void Nirvana Dao Fruit into a white sword seal.
• Qin Yu unleashed Primordial Formless as Xiao Yue sent the sword seal into its chaos and absorbed its eightfold power.
• Qin Yu infused the resulting sword light into the Silent Origin Stainless Sword and severed a distant Inverted Mountain from the universe's narrative.
• Xiao Yue named the new sword style Dao-Slaying · Annihilation Sword and said it could help them face an expert at the True Annihilation Realm · Initial Stage.

Qin Yu returned to Shen Qingchen’s caravan after killing the Ancient God Clan cultivator, and they delivered their medicinal herbs to Stele Forest Imperial City. As the group left the Delivery Divine Hall to celebrate, seven pursuers sent by Hua Jingmeng followed Qin Yu and waited for a chance to attack him.

• Qin Yu reunited with Shen Qingchen and the others outside Stele Forest Imperial City and told them he had killed the Ancient God Clan cultivator.
• Shen Qingchen’s caravan entered the city and completed the medicinal-herb handover at the Delivery Divine Hall.
• A Mystic Void Realm elder and six Supreme experts identified Qin Yu and pursued him on Hua Jingmeng’s orders, targeting him when he separated from the group.
• Shen Qingchen invited Qin Yu and the others to celebrate at his home after they collected payment for the delivery.
• Qin Yu and the others left the Delivery Divine Hall and headed toward the forge district.

Shen Qingchen brought Qin Yu and their companions to his residence, where they met his younger sister, Shen Mengling, and gathered for dinner. Seven hidden attackers planned to isolate and kill Qin Yu after the guests became drunk, but Qin Yu sensed their presence and decided to play along.

• Shen Qingchen led Qin Yu and the others to his floating pavilion residence in Stele Forest Imperial City.
• Shen Mengling greeted the guests and said their parents were away; she then went to buy food for the evening meal.
• Seven cultivators hiding nearby discussed how the Chi Lineage’s city patrols prevented them from attacking openly and planned to lure Qin Yu outside the city.
• The attackers settled on waiting until the guests were drunk, then using spatial domains to seal Qin Yu off and kill him.
• Shen Mengling returned with food, and Shen Qingchen hosted Qin Yu and the others for dinner and wine.
• Qin Yu sensed a concealed presence during the meal, hid his awareness, and decided to let the attackers make their move.

Qin Yu used a disguised projection of Yingling to lure seven Holy Clan cultivators into an ambush by the Chi Lineage, which annihilated them. The next morning, Qin Yu joined Shen Qingchen and the others as they headed to Stele Forest Imperial City's grand martial competition.

• Qin Yu sent a disguised projection of Yingling to attack Chi Lineage patrol disciples while wearing the Holy Clan's appearance, drawing the patrol after him.
• The seven Holy Clan cultivators prepared to attack Qin Yu, but the Chi Lineage's ten Mystic Void Realm Supreme experts confronted and annihilated them.
• Qin Yu recalled Yingling and concealed his role in the night's events from Shen Qingchen and the others.
• Shen Qingchen and his companions set out for the grand event and found Stele Forest Imperial City crowded with cultivators from across the Eternal Nonexistence Limitless Domain.
• Qin Yu and the others headed toward the martial competition platform as the city's grand event began.

Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen registered for the martial competition and learned that entrants would face a deadly new trial in the Endless Abyss World. The chapter ended as the participants prepared for a one-month struggle to claim four seals and join one of the great lineages.

• Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen chose to register to temper themselves, while their six companions decided not to compete.
• Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen received lineage-marked participant tokens and entered the inner hall, where they saw the four lineage patriarchs, including Chi Boqian, Ju Jinyu, Shangguan Lingxiao, and Hua Nongrui.
• A Chi Lineage expert of the True Annihilation Realm · Supreme introduced the Contemplating the Realm Mirror Domain and announced the competition's new rules.
• The expert said participants would be randomly transported to the Endless Abyss Forbidden Zone World and would have one month to find one of its four Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seals.
• The expert declared that participants could kill and seize treasures without restriction, warned them to leave before the month ended, and Qin Yu viewed the Abyss World as a coming hunting ground.

Qin Yu entered the Endless Abyss for the martial tournament after Shen Qingchen explained the taboo Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal and its potential reward. Hua Jingmeng arranged a bounty on Qin Yu, and shortly after Qin Yu arrived in the strange ancient realm, three cultivators confronted him to claim it.

• Shen Qingchen told Qin Yu that the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal was an unknowable taboo treasure that might lead its wielder toward the Wuji Realm.
• Hua Jingmeng ordered a Hua Lineage disciple to offer one hundred and fifty God-Level Resonance Crystals to anyone who killed Qin Yu in the Endless Abyss.
• The Chi Lineage host activated the teleportation formation, and Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen agreed to meet at the northernmost point before being transported into the Endless Abyss.
• Qin Yu arrived on a floating continent and observed the realm's ancient city, suspended mountains, and unstable flaws in its structure of existence.
• Three cultivators found Qin Yu and announced that Young Master Hua had offered a bounty for his Fate Soul before releasing their Fate Soul Qi against him.

Qin Yu effortlessly nullified three Realm Breaking Realm Pinnacle cultivators' attacks, then erased them with his Void Source · Dream Stillness divine ability. Alone on the floating continent, he looked toward the Endless Abyss and said it was starting to get interesting.

• Three cultivators attacked Qin Yu with divine abilities that locked his cause and effect, suppressed him with a mountain seal, and slashed at his existence.
• Qin Yu casually dispelled all three attacks, leaving the cultivators stunned and convinced he carried a powerful supreme treasure.
• The cultivators began forming the Three Absolutes Life-Locking Wheel to trap Qin Yu in a great cause-and-effect formation.
• Qin Yu unleashed Void Source · Dream Stillness, combining five domains to halt and unravel the formation and the cultivators' existence.
• The three cultivators vanished completely, and Qin Yu turned his attention toward the Endless Abyss.

Qin Yu followed an ancient presence to a tower believed to be the secluded abode of the Primordial One Thought Primal Emperor. Inside, an illusion of treasures turned one cultivator into a Thought Demon, and Qin Yu helped the others destroy it as a faint presence stirred deeper in the tower.

• Qin Yu sensed an ancient thought spreading through the Endless Abyss and flew toward its source.
• Qin Yu met five Supreme cultivators at an ancient tower, and they invited him to explore it with them.
• The six entered the tower and saw illusory treasures that began to erode the cultivators’ Fate Souls.
• One cultivator touched an illusory sword and became a Thought Demon, while Qin Yu used Ji Nian Returns to Truth to free the other four from the illusion.
• Qin Yu and the four cultivators joined forces to destroy the Thought Demon, and a faint presence stirred in the tower’s depths.

Qin Yu and four cultivators confronted a Mystic Void Realm Mind-Thought Lifeform inside the ancient tower and struggled against its reality-warping abilities. After their combined attacks shattered its wings, the creature began transforming into a frenzied demonic thought.

• A towering Mind-Thought Lifeform formed from Void Evolution mist appeared, and Qin Yu recognized it as a Mystic Void Realm initial-stage foe.
• The creature unleashed Unknowable Stillness, and the five cultivators counterattacked with their divine artifacts and Qin Yu's Silent Origin Stainless Sword, though one cultivator was injured.
• The Mind-Thought Lifeform used Path of Speech Severed to erase names and concepts, so the four cultivators formed a battle formation while Qin Yu prepared another sword strike.
• Qin Yu's Historyless Void Severance Sword and the four cultivators' attacks struck together, cracking the creature and shattering both of its wings.
• The Mind-Thought Lifeform ignited black thought-flames in its eyes and began transforming into a frenzied demonic thought.

Qin Yu and two cultivators destroyed the thought-born creature by breaking the core reflection in its Stillness Illumination Mirror Ring. When the ancient tower’s illusions vanished, the Star-Shattering Moon-Embracing Pendant appeared before them, and they hesitated to claim it.

• The thought-born creature transformed and used its unknowability power to annihilate two of the five cultivators, leaving Qin Yu and two allies alive.
• Qin Yu recognized the Stillness Illumination Mirror Ring as the source of the creature’s power and found its original cognition at the ring’s center.
• Qin Yu and the two cultivators sealed the creature in place while Qin Yu struck the mirror ring with three sword techniques.
• The Historyless Void Severance Sword shattered the original reflection, and the creature disintegrated as the illusionary world collapsed.
• The Star-Shattering Moon-Embracing Pendant appeared in the ancient tower, and Qin Yu and the two cultivators paused before reaching for it.

Qin Yu yielded the star pendant to three Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators, then secretly marked it with causal Dao intent before leaving to find Brother Shen. The mark triggered a powerful phenomenon that drew hundreds of experts to the pendant and surrounded its new owners.

• Three Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators attacked Qin Yu and his two companions, then demanded the star pendant and the Emptiness Stillness Seal.
• Qin Yu agreed to give up the pendant, quietly planted a causal tether on it, and left the ancient tower while his companions departed separately.
• The three cultivators took the pendant and headed through the Southern Region as Qin Yu sped north to meet Brother Shen.
• The pendant released a pillar of blue light that revealed its location to experts across the Endless Abyss.
• Hundreds of cultivators surrounded the three men and demanded the pendant, and they realized Qin Yu had tricked them.

A brutal cultivator seized the star pendant in the Southern Region and fled with it, while Qin Yu raced to the Northern Region and reunited with Shen Qingchen, who was being pursued by two Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators. The pursuers arrived and threatened to kill both men, but Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen faced them together.

• A burly cultivator killed the Realm Breaking Realm cultivator holding the star pendant, drove off the remaining cultivators, and took the treasure.
• Shen Qingchen fled through the Northern Region's stone forest as two Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators pursued him for an ancient scroll.
• Qin Yu sensed Shen Qingchen was in danger and used spatial movement to hurry toward him.
• Shen Qingchen recognized Qin Yu, changed course, and reunited with him in the stone forest.
• The two pursuers caught up and threatened Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen, while Qin Yu calmly prepared to face them.

Qin Yu erased two Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme pursuers with a single technique, then Shen Qingchen showed him the Blank Dao Scroll, a treasure capable of overwriting rules and erasing existence. After a Mystic Void Realm · Middle Stage cultivator sensed the scroll, Qin Yu concealed them in higher-dimensional space until the man left.

• Two Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators attacked Shen Qingchen and Qin Yu with Boundless Realm Slash and Myriad Manifestations Return to One.
• Qin Yu used Unnamed Initial Silence to erase the attackers from existence, leaving Shen Qingchen stunned.
• Shen Qingchen led Qin Yu to a secluded spot and revealed the Blank Dao Scroll, explaining that it could overwrite rules and erase cause and effect.
• Qin Yu sensed someone approaching, and Shen Qingchen put the scroll away before the newcomer arrived.
• Qin Yu hid himself and Shen Qingchen in higher-dimensional space while a Mystic Void Realm · Middle Stage cultivator searched for the treasure he had sensed.
• The cultivator left without finding them, and Qin Yu withdrew the spatial domain after the area was clear.

Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen headed toward the stone forest’s gathering cultivators after Shen Qingchen described sensing the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal, but a Mystic Void Realm cultivator intercepted them and demanded their treasures. Qin Yu recognized the stolen pendant on the attacker and prepared as the old man struck at them with a battle-axe.

• Shen Qingchen told Qin Yu that his Fate Soul had sensed the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal near the stone forest, where he later found an ancient temple and a blank Dao scroll.
• As numerous cultivators gathered, Qin Yu changed his appearance and presence to avoid being recognized by Hua Jingmeng, then set off with Shen Qingchen to investigate the seal.
• A scarred Mystic Void Realm · Middle Stage cultivator emerged from a spatial rift, accused them of taking a supreme treasure, and demanded they hand it over.
• Qin Yu secretly told Shen Qingchen to stay calm and sensed that the supreme treasure pendant was inside the old man's storage device, recognizing it by his lingering trace of cause-and-effect Dao intent.
• The old man summoned a black battle-axe and swung it at Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen, while Qin Yu's gaze turned cold.

Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen fought the Mystic Void Realm old man as his Mystic Axe divine abilities attacked their defenses and altered the rules of combat. After Shen Qingchen used the Blank Dao Scroll to erase the old man's target banishment rule, Qin Yu regained the ability to attack and rushed toward him.

• Shen Qingchen shielded Qin Yu from the old man's first axe strike while Qin Yu's Six Severances Seal halted its power.
• Qin Yu used Unnamed Initial Silence to reflect the old man's second strike back at him, then challenged him to a sword fight.
• The old man unleashed Mystic Axe-Cannot Be Cleaved, injuring Shen Qingchen and distorting Qin Yu's existence until Qin Yu's seal suppressed the effect.
• The old man used Mystic Axe-Cleave What Cannot Be Cleaved to banish Qin Yu from combat, preventing him from targeting or attacking anyone.
• Qin Yu told Shen Qingchen to unroll one corner of the Blank Dao Scroll, which erased the target banishment rule.
• Qin Yu regained the ability to attack, vanished in a burst of speed, and charged straight at the old man.

Qin Yu used Shen Qingchen’s Blank Dao Scroll to wound a Mystic Void Realm · Middle Stage elder, then detonated the Primordial One Thought Primal Emperor pendant and annihilated him. Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen escaped the arriving cultivators, while Hua Jingmeng remained convinced Qin Yu would soon die, unaware that Qin Yu was still alive.

• Shen Qingchen erased a gap in the elder’s divine ability with the Blank Dao Scroll, allowing Qin Yu to wound him with the Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram, the Silent Origin Stainless Sword, and the Six Severances Seal.
• The elder unleashed One Cleave into Emptiness, but Qin Yu triggered the cause-and-effect intent hidden in the Primordial One Thought Primal Emperor pendant, forcing its origin power into a destructive reversal.
• Qin Yu pulled himself and Shen Qingchen into Transcendent Five-Dimensional Space as the pendant’s explosion annihilated the elder and devastated the stone forest.
• Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen sensed approaching cultivators and fled deeper into the stone forest before more than a dozen Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators arrived to investigate.
• At Stele Forest Imperial City, Hua Jingmeng discussed Qin Yu’s bounty and doubted reports that he had been killed, while the display showed two Realm Breaking Realm · Middle Stage Fate Soul lights moving deeper into the Northern Region’s stone forest.

Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen discovered a colossal tree bearing flowers that embodied the world's concepts, and its falling petals erased cultivators from existence. As the tree unleashed a deadly rain of flowers, Qin Yu escaped with Shen Qingchen into a crevice in Transcendent Five-Dimensional Space, where they sensed an ancient presence emerging from the tree.

• Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen entered a clearing in the stone forest and found hundreds of cultivators gathered around a vast tree covered in conceptual flowers.
• Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen joined the crowd, where cultivators speculated about the tree and the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seals.
• A pale silver flower sank into a cultivator's Fate Soul, reversing his age and cultivation until he vanished as though he had never existed.
• The tree shook and released tens of thousands of flowers that transformed or erased cultivators on contact, sending the crowd fleeing in panic.
• Qin Yu grabbed Shen Qingchen and used his spatial divine ability to escape into a crevice in Transcendent Five-Dimensional Space.
• Qin Yu watched the ancient tree from the higher-dimensional crevice as an ancient presence began to emerge from its crown.

The ancient tree slaughtered most of the cultivators in the stone forest by harvesting them with its concept flowers, then trapped the survivors in golden pollen that suppressed their powers. Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen stayed hidden in higher-dimensional space as the tree formed a monstrous guardian from its trunks, which Qin Yu suspected was a reaper nourished by the cultivators it had consumed.

• The ancient tree sealed the stone forest and unleashed a rain of concept flowers that devoured cultivators and absorbed their essence.
• Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen survived in higher-dimensional space while the flowers harvested the cultivators and returned their power to the tree.
• After the flowers returned to the tree, surviving cultivators began leaving their hiding places, but Qin Yu stayed behind because he suspected the danger was not over.
• The ancient tree sealed the area again and released pollen that froze the cultivators' divine power, leaving them helpless on the ground.
• The ancient tree reshaped three trunks into a huge wooden monster armed with a war hammer, and Qin Yu sensed it had been nurtured as a reaper.

Three wooden giants harvested the cultivators’ sources and fed them into an ancient tree, which revealed the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal and the sleeping corpse of the Primal Spirit Nurturing God. After the tree sealed them away again, the giants began searching the area, and Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen suspected they were hunting others hidden in higher-dimensional spatial rifts.

• Three wooden giants drained the cultivators’ sources and Fate Soul imprints, then sent the harvested energy into the ancient tree.
• Qin Yu traced the source energy to a core within the tree and suspected it contained the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal.
• The ancient tree opened and rose into the air, revealing a sleeping woman holding the formless seal.
• Shen Qingchen identified the woman as the Primal Spirit Nurturing God, and the tree poured the harvested sources into her without waking her.
• The tree closed around the woman and the seal, while the three wooden giants remained and began patrolling the area.
• Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen suspected the giants were searching for cultivators concealed in higher-dimensional spatial rifts.

Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen were forced out of a higher-dimensional fissure alongside hidden cultivators, who joined forces to fight the three wooden giant spirits. The spirits unleashed their Myriad Worlds Root Fixation domain, killing five cultivators and incapacitating Shen Qingchen; Qin Yu saved Shen Qingchen with his Annihilation Devil Pupil as the spirits closed in on him and the two surviving Mystic Void Realm cultivators.

• A wooden giant spirit detected a higher-dimensional fissure and forced three Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators out, then attacked them with its hammer.
• The giant spirits found more hidden cultivators, including Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen, and the ten survivors formed a united front against them.
• Five Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators attacked the spirits, while Qin Yu used Heavenly Cause Judgment Order · Six Severances Seal to briefly freeze their power.
• The three spirits activated Myriad Worlds Root Fixation, annihilating five cultivators and leaving Shen Qingchen and another Realm Breaking Realm cultivator unconscious.
• Qin Yu swallowed Shen Qingchen into his Annihilation Devil Pupil as the three spirits approached him and the two injured Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage cultivators.

Qin Yu fought a tree spirit while two Mystic Void Realm cultivators battled the other two, and he discovered that the spirits could only be destroyed by severing the origin nodes sustaining them. After Qin Yu shattered his opponent’s Realm Wheel and annihilated it, the other cultivators charged the remaining spirits as Qin Yu turned his attention to the silent ancient tree.

• Qin Yu used Master Book Seal Severance to disrupt the roots attacking him, but the tree spirit restored them with its realm patterns.
• The three fighters remained locked in separate stalemates, and the two Mystic Void Realm cultivators were stunned that Qin Yu could contend with his tree spirit.
• The tree spirit trapped Qin Yu in a Realm Wheel that enclosed space, time, and causality in a repeating cycle.
• Qin Yu escaped the cycle with World Silent Judgment and destroyed the Realm Wheel’s core with his Causeless Disillusionment Sword, annihilating the tree spirit.
• Qin Yu explained that the tree spirits’ cores were their origin nodes, prompting the two cultivators to attack the remaining spirits as he watched the ancient tree.

Qin Yu and two Mystic Void Realm cultivators destroyed the tree spirits, awakening the ancient tree as a powerful demon wielding the World-Burying Flower Staff. After they survived its attack, the saber-wielding cultivator died trying to seize the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal, leaving Qin Yu and the remaining cultivator to face the demon together.

• Qin Yu revealed the tree spirits' origin nodes, and the two cultivators destroyed them by attacking those nodes.
• Qin Yu identified the woman's corpse inside the ancient tree and the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal on her body, prompting the tree to transform into a demon.
• The ancient tree demon wielded the World-Burying Flower Staff and attacked Qin Yu and the cultivators with World-Burying Flower Crown.
• Qin Yu and the two cultivators combined their defenses to survive the demon's attack.
• The saber-wielding cultivator tried to take the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal, but the demon killed him with its flowers.
• Qin Yu told the remaining cultivator they could not defeat the demon as they were, then studied the corpse and the trunk linking it to the monster.

Qin Yu and a Mystic Void Realm cultivator fought the ancient tree demon, whose symbiosis with a female corpse and the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal sustained it. After the cultivator sacrificed himself to weaken the demon, Qin Yu severed the connection, claimed the seal, and escaped its final attack; outside, the four great Lineage heads noticed the first Mystic Seal had been claimed.

• The ancient tree demon used Stillness Flower Return Burial, and Qin Yu and the Mystic Void Realm cultivator combined their defenses to survive its attack, though both were grievously injured.
• The Mystic Void Realm cultivator used Fanciful Thought Silent Void to weaken the demon, then collapsed, leaving Qin Yu to find its weakness.
• Qin Yu realized the demon depended on a dying symbiosis with the female corpse, severed their causal link, and gouged the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal from her chest.
• Qin Yu used World Silent Judgment to destroy the female corpse, causing the ancient tree demon to collapse and unleash a final destructive strike.
• Qin Yu escaped the strike with Time Flow Reversal and left the ruined stone forest carrying the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal.
• The Realm-Reflecting Disc marked the first Mystic Seal as claimed, drawing the attention of the four great Lineage heads.