Recaps

Qin Yu and six other cultivators entered the third page, where they faced the Ink River and its power to absorb and rewrite those who entered. As the river began to ink over them, Qin Yu let its rules touch him without resisting, keeping his Dao foundation intact while the group became separated.

• Su Qingyuan warned Qin Yu that the two Ancient God Clan cultivators could not be trusted, and Qin Yu recognized them as enemies tied to Luo Qingchuan's ambush.
• Qin Yu and the other six cultivators passed through the portal and discovered the Ink River, where they had to write rules themselves or risk being drawn into samsara.
• When the Ancient God Clan cultivators tried to make someone else test the river first, Qin Yu challenged them over their agreement, and Su Qingyuan and the others backed him.
• The two Ancient God Clan cultivators entered the Ink River first, followed by Qin Yu, Su Qingyuan, and the remaining cultivators.
• The Ink River's rules surged over all seven and began turning their bodies to ink; Qin Yu allowed the rules to spread across him without letting them replace his Dao foundation.

The seven cultivators faced the Ink River’s Peril of Ink Devouring as its rules tried to rewrite their Dao foundations. Qin Yu and several others stabilized their cores and crossed the first tribulation, while one cultivator was swallowed by the river.

• The Rule Ink Spirit’s scrutiny awakened as the seven entered the Ink River, and its rules began covering their bodies and invading their Fate Souls.
• Qin Yu and Su Qingyuan remained calm and let the river’s power circulate without resisting, while the other cultivators suffered varying degrees of erosion.
• The two Ancient God Clan cultivators adjusted their Dao foundations to the river’s rhythm and stabilized their cores, crossing the first Threshold.
• Su Qingyuan’s Dao foundation resonated with the Ink River and formed an origin point that stopped the ink from advancing further.
• One of the remaining cultivators faltered, had his Dao foundation rewritten, and disappeared into the river.
• Qin Yu synchronized the river’s power with his Dao foundation, formed a stable Dao-rhyme ink mass in his dantian, and crossed the Peril of Ink Devouring.

The Mo Yuan Cycle Lord manifested the Rule Ink Spirit and subjected the six cultivators to the drag of samsara. Qin Yu understood that the final trial required repairing the Ink River’s rules without resisting or being absorbed, and the ultimate manifestation of the Rule Ink Spirit appeared as the trial escalated.

• The Rule Ink Spirit split the Ink River and pulled the six cultivators toward samsara whirlpools that drew out their pasts, regrets, and obsessions.
• The two Ancient God Clan cultivators resisted by shielding their Fate Souls and severing cause and effect, while Su Qingyuan and the other two cultivators overcame the whirlpools in their own ways.
• Qin Yu guided Ink River water into void rifts, steadied the rules, and polished the second tribulation without fighting the river’s pull.
• Qin Yu explained to Su Qingyuan that they had to use their Dao Rhyme Ink Masses to protect their origins and mend the Ink River’s flaws while allowing its rules to flow.
• The Rule Ink Spirit expanded into a ten-thousand-zhang manifestation, raised a brush of dark ink, and unleashed the ultimate trial of rules, samsara, and the void.

Qin Yu and the others faced Mo Yuan, the Samsara Lord, as the Ink River’s rules attacked and the Ancient God Clan cultivators’ hidden scheme killed two challengers. Qin Yu refined the river’s rules without surrendering his Dao, dispelled the tribulation, and left the Water Realm clear, with only he, Su Qingyuan, and the two Ancient God Clan cultivators remaining.

• Mo Yuan unleashed the Void Ink Leak, reopening repaired fissures and destabilizing the six challengers’ Dao foundations.
• Su Qingyuan followed Qin Yu’s guidance to redirect the void’s power and repair key fissures, helping Qin Yu and the other cultivators stabilize.
• Mo Yuan combined assimilation and erasure to reset the Ink River, while the two Ancient God Clan cultivators evaded the attack and used a hidden cause-and-effect channel to kill two challengers.
• Su Qingyuan continued repairing crucial fissures as Qin Yu realized the way through was to join the Ink River’s operation while preserving his own Dao.
• Qin Yu reshaped the river’s cause and effect, added concise rules to its flow, and made Mo Yuan’s power of returning to nothingness stabilize the river instead of erasing the challengers.
• The Samsara Ink River and Mo Yuan dispersed, the Water Realm became clear, and Qin Yu, Su Qingyuan, and the two surviving Ancient God Clan cultivators remained.

Qin Yu and Su Qingyuan faced two Ancient God Clan cultivators over the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal and two mysterious jade boxes in the Water Realm. After Qin Yu repelled their attacks, the sides agreed that the Ancient God Clan cultivators would take the seal while Qin Yu and Su Qingyuan claimed both boxes.

• The Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal and two jade boxes appeared, prompting the four cultivators to vie for the treasures.
• An Ancient God Clan cultivator attacked Qin Yu with Realm Trace Severance, but Qin Yu broke the technique with his Silent Origin Stainless Sword.
• Qin Yu struck back with Dao-Slaying · Annihilation Sword, and the other Ancient God Clan cultivator used Origin Return Realm Covering to halt its force.
• The Ancient God Clan brothers considered attacking together, but the composed brother warned that Qin Yu and Su Qingyuan could defeat them.
• Qin Yu saw through the composed brother's attempt to turn him and Su Qingyuan against each other, then proposed that the brothers take the seal and the pair take both jade boxes.
• The composed Ancient God Clan cultivator accepted the arrangement and claimed the seal for himself.

After the Ancient God Clan cultivators entered the Realm of Fire, Su Qingyuan claimed the Sheathless Blade and Qin Yu opened the other jade box. The cracked key inside merged with Qin Yu’s Star Wancai Key, transforming it into the Star Wancai Key - Edict of the Law of Returning to Zero.

• An Ancient God Clan cultivator took the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal, then he and his companion entered the fourth layer through the opening barrier to the Realm of Fire.
• Su Qingyuan took the left jade box and awakened the Sheathless Blade, which resonated with her Fate Soul and void Dao trace.
• Qin Yu used Master Book Seal Severance · Naming Reconstruction to remove the seal on the right jade box and opened it to reveal a cracked star-silver key.
• Qin Yu’s Star Wancai Key emerged and resonated with the cracked key, awakening its records of destroyed artifacts.
• The keys merged and transformed into the Star Wancai Key - Edict of the Law of Returning to Zero, an anchor for Qin Yu’s Order Adjudication of End of All Artifacts.

Qin Yu, Su Qingyuan, and the Ancient God Clan cultivator entered the Realm of Fire and endured its Samsara Shackles and Emberfire Reforging. After their attempts to resist the forge were beaten back, Qin Yu identified a minute deviation at the core of the Emberfire Dao Foundation.

• Qin Yu and Su Qingyuan entered the fourth page and found the Ancient God Clan cultivator waiting alone; he claimed his brother had left with a seal, while Qin Yu privately warned Su Qingyuan that the other man was likely hiding nearby.
• The rules drew Qin Yu, Su Qingyuan, and the Ancient God Clan cultivator into the Domain of Emberfire, where the Rule Kindling Flame manifested and bound them in the Samsara Shackles.
• The three repeatedly burned out and returned to life; Su Qingyuan used the power of absence, Qin Yu guided the fire into his Dao Rhyme Ink Mass, and the Ancient God Clan cultivator suppressed it with his source power.
• The domain began Emberfire Reforging, which tried to dismantle and rewrite their Dao Foundations; Su Qingyuan, Qin Yu, and the Ancient God Clan cultivator each struggled to preserve their core structures.
• The three counterattacked together, but the fire veins swallowed their powers and blasted them back, leaving their presences in turmoil.
• Qin Yu gathered his deductions and saw a minute deviation at the core of the Emberfire Dao Foundation.

Qin Yu and Su Qingyuan learned to use Dao Foundation Kindling Flame to reconnect void cracks and withstand the Domain of Emberfire’s forging trials. The chapter ended with them stabilizing inside the furnace while the injured Ancient God Clan cultivator was nearly overwhelmed.

• Qin Yu told Su Qingyuan to weld void cracks with kindling flame instead of filling them, and she followed his guidance to reconnect the rules.
• Qin Yu used ink intent and kindling flame together to repair cracks, while the Ancient God Clan cultivator’s defenses were erased and he was badly injured.
• The Ancient God Clan cultivator accused Qin Yu and Su Qingyuan of understanding the domain’s rules, and Qin Yu denied it while Su Qingyuan mocked him.
• A crimson-gold Rule Kindling Flame manifestation appeared and pulled Qin Yu, Su Qingyuan, and the Ancient God Clan cultivator into a phantom furnace to undergo assimilation forging.
• Qin Yu and Su Qingyuan transformed the forging strikes with kindling flame and stabilized their Dao Foundations, while the Ancient God Clan cultivator failed to imitate them and was nearly shattered.

Qin Yu and Su Qingyuan survived the Ashen Fire Dao Foundation’s Return to the Ruins Rekindling and made the Realm of Fire stable by joining their kindling flames with its fire veins. The Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal appeared and waited for them to choose what to do next.

• The Ashen Fire Dao Foundation unleashed Return to the Ruins Rekindling, reducing the secret realm to darkness and stripping away Qin Yu’s Dao foundation.
• Qin Yu told Su Qingyuan to merge with the kindling flame as it rekindled, but an Ancient God Clan cultivator struck her with an ancient bell and summoned a hidden attacker against Qin Yu.
• Xiao Yue helped Qin Yu use Blue Ring techniques to erase the hidden attacker and sever the remaining Ancient God Clan cultivator’s existence.
• Su Qingyuan used Return to the Ruins Sigh and Dao Dissolution Heavenly Burial to destroy the ancient bell and kill the surviving cultivator.
• Qin Yu joined his kindling flame with the Realm of Fire’s veins, and the domain settled as sparks entered his and Su Qingyuan’s Fate Souls.
• The kindling flame mark formed beneath Qin Yu and Su Qingyuan, and the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal appeared, waiting for their choice.

Qin Yu and Su Qingyuan reached the fifth layer, where Qin Yu gave her the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal and the jade box before sending her back while he continued alone. Su Qingyuan returned just before the competition deadline, but Qin Yu remained missing as the results were announced.

• Qin Yu defeated the hidden threat and gave the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal to Su Qingyuan, then divided the Dreamplay Beads with her and gave her the jade box.
• Qin Yu told Su Qingyuan to leave the Abyss and asked her to tell Shen Qingchen to return to his Lineage and try to join the Chi Lineage.
• Su Qingyuan left through a rift, and Qin Yu entered the Earth Realm alone.
• In Stele Forest Imperial City, Shen Qingchen worried about Qin Yu, while Hua Jingmeng sent a disciple to investigate Qin Yu's fate.
• Su Qingyuan emerged with the third Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal just before time expired and placed it on the platform.
• The host announced Shen Qingchen, Feng Qingyuan, and Su Qingyuan as the top three, and Shen Qingchen looked for Qin Yu.

Su Qingyuan and Shen Qingchen chose to join the Chi Lineage after Su conveyed Qin Yu’s message that he was safe in the Endless Abyss and wanted them to join. They entered the Chi Lineage’s main domain to complete their admission, while Feng Qingyuan joined the Shangguan Lineage and Hua Jingmeng left the emptied plaza.

• Su Qingyuan told Shen Qingchen that Qin Yu was safe in the Endless Abyss and had asked them to join the Chi Lineage.
• Shen Qingchen chose the Chi Lineage, and Feng Qingyuan chose the Shangguan Lineage in gratitude for its help.
• Su Qingyuan and Shen Qingchen took the Chi Lineage token together as the martial competition ended.
• Hua Jingmeng stared at the vanished Endless Abyss barrier, then left after abandoning his immediate plan.
• The Chi Lineage host led Su Qingyuan and Shen Qingchen through the main domain to the Hall of Newly Admitted Disciples, where they began their admission.

Qin Yu entered the Destiny Narrative Pages trial, where fate was arranged through countless pages, and resisted the realm’s attempts to bind him to a predetermined role and ending. After he disrupted the narrative and rejected its efforts to write his choices in advance, the Logic Ink Page Spirit appeared as the secret realm’s guardian.

• Qin Yu examined the layered pages of destiny and realized the trial required him to escape a fixed narrative by taking part in writing it.
• The destiny page beneath Qin Yu revealed his past and a foretold ending that would reduce him to a fixed passage in the book.
• Qin Yu used Master Book Seal Severance · Naming Reconstruction to erase the roles imposed on him and leave his designation undetermined.
• Qin Yu added an unrecognized turning point to his destiny page, breaking the logical link between his foretold ending and the events leading to it.
• When the pages tried to predetermine Qin Yu’s motives and choices, he resisted their influence and severed the future written in advance.
• The pages fell silent, and the Logic Ink Page Spirit gathered before Qin Yu as the guardian of the secret realm.

Qin Yu overcame the Logic Ink Page Spirit’s attempts to lock his fate and rewrite his resistance, using the Book of Fate Law and his own narrative strokes to overturn the Fate Narrative Book Page Secret Realm. The Spirit’s second form was destroyed, and the realm’s pages began reorganizing around Qin Yu’s rewritten narrative.

• The Logic Ink Page Spirit locked Qin Yu into a predetermined ending, but Qin Yu added the line, “One thought remains undecided,” and shattered its closed fate loop.
• The Logic Ink Page Spirit manifested its second form and reverse-wrote Qin Yu’s choices as part of its own story.
• Qin Yu used the Order Adjudication wheel seal and the Historyless Void Severance Sword to change the Spirit’s interpretation of his actions to “the plot derails” and tear its narrative scroll.
• Qin Yu wrote, “The Master Book is not finished; the ending has no authority,” pushing the Spirit’s guardian role backward through the realm.
• Qin Yu severed the Spirit’s connections to the subsidiary pages, reversed its recent writing, and erased the definition of its second form.
• Qin Yu destroyed the Spirit’s scroll, brush, and second form as the realm’s pages began reorganizing around his new narrative.

Qin Yu resisted the Logic Ink Page Spirit’s attempt to force him into a predetermined ending by writing his own narrative into the Master Book core. With Xiao Yue’s help, he broke the Fate Page Lock, leaving him weakened but alive as the sea of books reorganized around the path he had written.

• The Logic Ink Page Spirit manifested its Final Chapter Page and used Sequence Disruption to trap Qin Yu in a predetermined plot that ended with his death.
• Qin Yu overwrote the sentence “Here, the story concludes” with “Unfinished” and charged into the Master Book core to rewrite the ending.
• The Logic Ink Page Spirit opened its tome and suppressed Qin Yu with the Fate Page Lock, forcing visions of his sealed and archived endings upon him.
• Qin Yu stopped resisting the ending directly and inscribed his own choices and path into the core of his page, weakening the golden barrier.
• As Qin Yu’s Fate Soul neared collapse, Xiao Yue stabilized it with a blue halo and urged him not to write himself out of existence.
• Qin Yu set the final stroke, shattered the Fate Page Lock, and caused the pages to reorganize around his self-written narrative.

Qin Yu overcame the Logic Ink Page Spirit by embedding his narrative into the sea of books, then used the Endless Pill to break down his laws and awaken the Mystic Void Core. He reached the Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage, with the Earth Secret Realm's pages now unfolding around his existence.

• The Logic Ink Page Spirit reset the sea of books, but Qin Yu let his narrative settle into the pages and gradually rewrote their fate-locking rules.
• Qin Yu stabilized the Earth Realm's narratives, causing the Logic Ink Page Spirit to break apart and merge into the pages as nourishment.
• Qin Yu swallowed a Supreme Transformation Source Crystal to repair his Dao foundation and stabilize his Fate Soul.
• A colorless jade box appeared, revealing an Endless Pill that Xiao Yue identified as a treasure capable of stabilizing Qin Yu's unfinished Mystic Void Core.
• Qin Yu absorbed the Endless Pill and dismantled his laws and Dao structures into Breaking Intent until the Mystic Void Core awakened.
• Qin Yu entered the Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage, and the sea of books resumed around him without binding him to a predetermined narrative.

A disturbance in the Azure Wood Divine Forest caused its symbols to peel away and gather in the Symbol Graveyard as the forest’s rules began to reverse. After ten Hua Lineage investigators vanished and their Fate Souls were erased, the four great lineages sent forces toward the forest, where their leaders prepared to investigate together or compete for whatever had appeared.

• The Azure Wood Divine Forest’s symbols detached from its leaves and converged on the Symbol Graveyard, where the buried characters began to revive.
• Hua Nongrui learned that ten Hua Lineage investigators had vanished and their Fate Souls had been erased, then ordered Hua Jingmeng and Hua Feiting to join her in leading a thousand disciples to investigate.
• Shangguan Lingxiao ordered Shangguan Jinyan, Shangguan Xingci, and Shangguan Shuheng to each lead a thousand disciples and join forces with the Hua Lineage.
• Ju Jinyu ordered Ju Anran, Ju Junyao, and Ju Muyao to each lead a thousand disciples and meet the Chi Lineage before heading to the forest.
• Chi Boqian ordered Chi Chengyu, Chi Ruoyao, and Chi Yueyin to each lead a thousand disciples and meet the Ju Lineage before entering the Azure Wood Divine Forest.

News of a disturbance in the Azure Wood Divine Forest drew powers and cultivators from across the Eternal Nonexistence Limitless Domain, gathering them outside the forest. As the Hua, Shangguan, Chi, and Ju lineages faced off, a pair of roars from within the forest signaled that something was awakening.

• The God Clan, rogue cultivators, a black-mist sect, and other powers set out for the Azure Wood Divine Forest after hearing of the disturbance.
• Tens of thousands of cultivators gathered outside the forest, where the Holy Clan, Ancient God Clan, and Profound Heaven Clan also appeared.
• The Hua and Shangguan lineages arrived on a carrier of remnant rule-pages, while the Chi and Ju lineages arrived on a frozen river of cause and effect.
• Hua Jingmeng accused the Chi and Ju lineages of rushing to claim opportunities, but Hua Feiting silenced him before the standoff escalated.
• Shen Qingchen wished Brother Qin could witness the gathering, and Su Qingyuan reassured him that Qin was safe in the Endless Abyss.
• The forest’s symbols began to change, a fissure opened toward the Symbol Graveyard, and two roars shook the cultivators as a colossal outline appeared.

The cultivators entered the Azure Wood Divine Forest, where unstable symbols and the Symbol Graveyard erased people from existence as the four great lineages fought to hold their formations together. The arrival of the Luan Emperor, the Nameless Mystic Emperor, and a vast army of Dao Shadow Soldiers left everyone stunned and the forest in deathly silence.

• Rogue Cultivators and the four great lineages charged into the Azure Wood Divine Forest, where chaotic symbols began killing cultivators and stripping away their names and existence.
• The Symbol Graveyard awakened forgotten characters that attacked the intruders, causing panic and a battle throughout the forest.
• Hua Jingmeng, Shangguan Jinyan, Chi Chengyu, and Ju Anran organized their lineages into defensive arrays that resisted the forest's destructive forces.
• The four lineages' arrays held as thousands of other cultivators were erased, until two terrifying roars shook the forest and brought the Luan Emperor and Nameless Mystic Emperor into view.
• A vast formation of Dao Shadow Soldiers appeared beside the two Primordial Chaos Origin Beasts Huang, leaving the four lineages and all other cultivators speechless.

The Five-Colored Realm Breaking Luan and the Mystic Void phoenix unleashed attacks that shattered boundaries, erased perception, and threatened the four great lineages’ formations as Dao Shadow Soldiers slaughtered the outer battlefield. The four formations remained barely intact, with their stewards and disciples still fighting to preserve their identities and hold the line.

• The Five-Colored Realm Breaking Luan spread its wings and fractured the boundaries across the Azure Wood Divine Forest, while the four great lineages struggled to keep their formations together.
• The Mystic Void phoenix underwent First Nirvana, stripping away laws, thoughts, and existence as cultivators outside the formations vanished.
• The Dao Shadow Soldiers advanced through the forest and overwhelmed the Holy Clan, Ancient God Clan, and Profound Heaven Clan forces, absorbing their energy.
• The Realm Breaking Luan cried out without sound, causing cultivators in the formations to lose their memories, identities, and names.
• The phoenix’s next nirvana stripped away perception and devastated the four formations, but Hua Jingmeng, Shangguan Jinyan, Chi Chengyu, Ju Anran, and the others continued holding them together.

Su Qingyuan and the four great Lineages struggled to hold their formations as Dao Shadow Soldiers and the Primordial Chaos Origin Beasts dismantled the defenders’ will and defenses. The Hua, Ju, and Shangguan Lineages fell, while the Chi Lineage’s karmic wheel remained barely intact at the brink of collapse.

• Su Qingyuan suppressed her grief and poured her Fate Soul power into the Chi Lineage’s formation to keep it steady.
• The Dao Shadow Soldiers annihilated the remaining Rogue Cultivators and other races, then turned toward the four great Lineages.
• The phoenix stripped away benevolence, righteousness, propriety, faith, and virtue, disrupting the defenders’ bonds, coordination, and resolve.
• The Five-Colored Realm Breaking Luan erased its observers and weakened the Lineages’ formations as the Dao Shadow Soldiers attacked.
• The Hua, Ju, and Shangguan Lineages’ formations collapsed under the assault, while Su Qingyuan, Chi Chengyu, Chi Ruoyao, and Chi Yueyin barely kept the Chi Lineage’s cracked karmic wheel from shattering.

The two Primordial Chaos Origin Beast Huang unleashed Realm's End Mystic Nirvana, shattering the four great lineages' formations and devastating their ranks. Hua Yanzhi, Shangguan Shuheng, Ju Anran, and Chi Yueyin ordered their people to burn their origins and fight for a survivor to escape; their counterattacks opened a brief gap, but only a dozen or so figures remained standing.

• Hua Jingmeng, Hua Feiting, Hua Yanzhi, Shangguan Jinyan, Shangguan Xingci, Shangguan Shuheng, and the Ju Lineage's fighters attacked the Dao Shadow Soldiers after the formations collapsed, but could only briefly hold back the tide.
• The two Primordial Chaos Origin Beast Huang combined the luan's boundary-shattering power and the phoenix's Mystic Void power into Realm's End Mystic Nirvana, which destroyed the Chi Lineage's formation and killed many disciples.
• Su Qingyuan pushed Shen Qingchen out of the collapsing attack's center and took most of its force, while Chi Yueyin and Hua Yanzhi ordered their lineages to retreat.
• The Dao Shadow Soldiers and the two Huang trapped the surviving members of the Hua, Shangguan, Ju, and Chi Lineages, prompting Hua Yanzhi, Shangguan Shuheng, Ju Anran, and Chi Yueyin to command their people to burn their origins and unleash forbidden arts.
• The luan used Wind of Realm Breaking and the phoenix used Cinnabar Grotto Without Grotto, erasing defenses and disciples, while Hua Feiting, Shangguan Shuheng, Ju Anran, and Chi Yueyin counterattacked with their strongest techniques.
• The four lineages' combined counterattacks opened a narrow gap and disrupted the Huang briefly, but Hua Yanzhi, Shangguan Shuheng, Ju Anran, and Chi Yueyin were gravely weakened, leaving only a dozen or so figures standing.

The fused Divine Phoenix unleashed All Spirits Return to Ashes against the surviving four lineages, forcing them to fight with their final strength. Their combined techniques drove the phoenix to the ground, but the battle remained unresolved.

• The Luan Emperor and the phoenix fused into a towering Divine Phoenix, and Hua Feiting gave Hua Jingmeng a protective garment and ordered him to carry news back to the Hua Lineage.
• Shen Qingchen asked Su Qingyuan to care for his family, but she urged him to believe that they would survive and that Qin Yu would return from the Endless Abyss.
• The fused Divine Phoenix unleashed All Spirits Return to Ashes, igniting the survivors' memories and Fate Souls as Hua Feiting, Hua Yanzhi, and fighters from the Shangguan, Chi, and Ju Lineages resisted the flames.
• Shen Qingchen used the Mystic Female Return to Stillness Pill to reach the Mystic Void Realm · Middle Stage and manifested the Blank Dao Scroll, while Su Qingyuan unleashed Dao Dissolution Heavenly Burial.
• The lineages' combined techniques shattered many Dao Shadow Soldiers and forced the fused Divine Phoenix to crash to the ground with cracks across its body.

The slaughter in the Azure Wood Divine Forest left six survivors, who used their last strength to escape the battlefield. The Source Flow Guardian appeared, erased the combined Divine Phoenix, and withdrew with the remaining Dao Shadow Soldiers, leaving the battlefield empty.

• Hua Feiting, Hua Yanzhi, Feng Qingyuan, Shangguan Jinyan, Shangguan Xingci, Ju Junyao, Ju Muyao, Chi Chengyu, and Chi Ruoyao died in the final onslaught.
• Shangguan Shuheng opened a fissure in space and took Hua Jingmeng away.
• Chi Yueyin used Thoughtless Tribulation Dao Perish to remove herself, Shen Qingchen, and Su Qingyuan from the battlefield, while Ju Anran tore open an escape route and left alone.
• The Source Flow Guardian appeared at the Wuji Realm and erased the dying combined Divine Phoenix with a single finger.
• The Source Flow Guardian withdrew alongside the remaining Dao Shadow Soldiers, leaving only the shattered battlefield behind.

Shangguan Shuheng and the other survivors reported that an army of otherworldly beings had annihilated hundreds of thousands of cultivators in the Azure Wood Divine Forest. Thirty elders arrived, found no traceable remnants, and sealed the forest while concealing the catastrophe.

• Shangguan Shuheng returned to the Shangguan Lineage with Hua Jingmeng and told Shangguan Lingxiao that the otherworldly army had killed most of their forces, including Jinyan, Xingci, Hua Feiting, and Hua Yanzhi.
• Ju Anran and Chi Yueyin separately reported the massacre to Ju Jinyu and Chi Boqian, and all three lineages dispatched ten True Annihilation Realm · Supreme elders.
• Thirty elders reached the Azure Wood Divine Forest and suppressed its collapsing space, but found the battlefield destroyed and the cultivators' Fate Souls completely erased.
• A Shangguan elder blamed the Ju and Chi Lineages, while elders of those lineages accused Shangguan of drawing cultivators to the forest with rumors of a supreme treasure.
• The Shangguan elders departed, and the remaining Ju and Chi elders agreed to hide the catastrophe and sealed the Azure Wood Divine Forest from entry, detection, and accurate perception.

After breaking through to the Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage, Qin Yu entered the Realm of Light and faced the Lightblade Erasure Spirit, which judged and erased his existence. By anchoring himself with the conviction that he was still here, he interrupted the realm’s erasure and began to form an area where its light could persist.

• Qin Yu entered the Realm of Light, where the Lightblade Erasure Spirit began erasing his shadow and judging whether his existence was valid.
• Qin Yu condensed his memories, laws, and cause and effect into a core of existence that pulled erased parts of him back into being.
• Qin Yu stepped onto erased space and pressed new existence into the blank, resisting the Spirit’s increasingly relentless attacks.
• The Lightblade Erasure Spirit took form and struck at Qin Yu’s body, memories, sea of consciousness, and Fate Soul Nucleus.
• Qin Yu caught rays of light before they vanished, interrupting their erasure and leaving them suspended in an incomplete state.
• Qin Yu joined the halted rays into an area where light no longer vanished immediately, and the Lightblade Erasure Spirit showed a faint change.