Recaps

Zhou Yu and Yao Wanqing passed the Sealing Soul Tower’s trials, revealing extraordinary soul abilities and earning places in the Nether Firmament Underworld Sect’s battle sequence. Qin Yu then entered the soul-sacrificing formation, whose inability to record his soul awakened an ancient formation tower and established him as the sect’s future of the Soul Realm.

• Zhou Yu passed the Lightning Soul Life Return Formation’s three trials, received the Lightning Ancestor Remnant Seal, and was named to the sect’s Soul Battle Sequence.
• Yao Wanqing broke through the Heavenly Soul Reverse Mark Formation, revealed her dual-soul physique, and was appointed chief of the sect’s battle sequence.
• Qin Yu entered the soul-sacrificing formation, where the elders discovered that his formless soul root could not be recorded by the formation.
• The Azure Ring restored Qin Yu’s connection to the rebelling formation, allowing it to guide him to the ancient formation core.
• Qin Yu awakened the thousand-year-old Black Gold Three Souls Formation Tower and the sect’s oath to defend the person who awakened it.
• Ming Yuan knelt and pledged to follow Qin Yu, while the sect recognized his standing in the soul path.

Qin Yu awakened the Black Gold Three Souls Formation Tower, uncovering its connection to his unknown origins and Qian Ruishan’s previous life. Named leader of the Nether Firmament Underworld Sect’s expedition to the Silent Sorrow Ancient Soul Forest, he departed with his companions and accompanying elders aboard the Nether Soul Heavenly Boat.

• Qin Yu awakened the ancient tower and learned that entering its heart could trace his soul origin back three thousand epochs, while the Azure Ring resonated with the tower.
• Grand Venerable Mingxu welcomed Qin Yu as a main-hall elder, and the tower revealed three sealed souls and the thousand-year sacrifice of a sect daughter who had been Qian Ruishan in a previous life.
• Qian Ruishan recognized the call of her former life, and the awakened tower’s power left Qin Yu unconscious as the Azure Ring quietly loosened its seal.
• Mingxu summoned Qin Yu and his companions, announcing an expedition to the Silent Sorrow Ancient Soul Forest for Silent Origin Relic Fragments and warning of powerful beasts and the lurking Epoch Immortal Clan.
• Mingxu appointed Qin Yu to lead the sect’s trial group and assigned five Realm Lord Realm elders under Ming Tong to accompany them.
• The Nether Firmament Underworld Sect launched its Nether Soul Heavenly Boat, carrying Qin Yu’s group toward the ancient forest.

Qin Yu and the Nether Firmament Underworld Sect arrived at the Silent Sorrow Ancient Soul Forest, where rival powers gathered over the possible opening of the Silent Origin Soul Tomb. As hostile clans threatened Qin Yu and Qian Ruishan, the Divine Flame Radiant Realm and Thunder Prison Mystic Gate formed an alliance with the Nether Sect for the trial.

• Qin Yu boarded the Nether Soul Heavenly Boat with Qian Ruishan and the others, and the boat carried them toward the Silent Sorrow Ancient Soul Forest as Qin Yu sensed a stirring within the Azure Ring.
• Qin Yu and Qian Ruishan reaffirmed that they would face future dangers together, while Ming Ye watched the forest in silence.
• Ming Ye, Ming Tong, and Ming Kong led the Nether Sect's disciples into the ancient forest, where a thousand-year-old remnant formation began to revive and rival factions arrived seeking the Silent Origin relic.
• Venerable Feng Yanxing, the Xuanyuan Tower Envoy, and Yuan Jin each threatened Qin Yu or Qian Ruishan, setting the rival groups against the Nether Sect.
• Venerable Yanyou and Lei Wuyuan offered alliances to Ming Tong's group, and Lei Wuyuan pledged that the factions would face the trial together.

The group entered the Silent Sorrow Ancient Soul Forest, where Qin Yu killed the Silent Soul Ape King with one strike. A Soul-Sealing Transfer Formation then scattered them into separate deadly regions, while Qian Ruishan's second soul continued to awaken and an ancient dark blue blood source stirred deep in the forest.

• Ming Ye and Ming Kong led the group through the forest's ghost wind field as Qian Ruishan sensed a connection to her past life and Qin Yu shielded her Qi fluctuations.
• Qin Yu killed the Silent Soul Ape King with the Ring Spear, causing the other soul beasts to flee and astonishing the assembled disciples and elders.
• Qian Ruishan told Qin Yu that her second soul was calling to her from deep in the forest as the group continued onward.
• Ming Tong identified the bronze-gray mist as an Upper Origin Era Soul-Sealing Transfer Formation, which activated and scattered the group across five regions.
• Qin Yu faced a Soul Erosion Crawler Beast in an ancient valley, while Qian Ruishan, Zhou Yu, Yao Wanqing, Ming Kong, and Ming Ye encountered separate dangers in their new locations.
• Ancient clan elders recognized the formation as the Chaotic Realm Soul Seal, while a drop of dark blue blood stirred at the core of the ruined formation.

Qin Yu defeated a strange beast in the ancient forest, then followed Chi Lan and Chi Yuankui to the Abyss of Spectral Souls, where a ghostly mirror produced powerful counterparts that killed them. The Azure Ring trembled as Qin Yu watched the mirror, leaving him to face the mystery of its manufactured counterparts.

• Qin Yu used the Ring Spear to defeat a three-headed beast, then emerged in the Black Bone Abyss.
• Qin Yu hid and watched Chi Lan and Chi Yuankui kill a Rift Feather Gold Soul Zheng.
• Qin Yu followed the twins into a forbidden valley, where they found a floating stone mirror with a ghostly blue eye.
• The mirror produced counterparts of Chi Lan and Chi Yuankui, who attacked them with evolved versions of their own techniques.
• The counterparts fused and killed Chi Lan and Chi Yuankui, then devoured their remains.
• Qin Yu emerged from hiding and sensed the Azure Ring tremble as he studied the mirror.

Qin Yu defeated the mirror’s crimson counterpart with the Azure Ring, then was pulled into the Abyss of Origin Destruction and forcibly bound the World-Destroying Divine Sword, Origin Destroyer, to his soul. He learned that the mirror was a fragment of the sword and discovered its ten severance techniques.

• Qin Yu fought the crimson being reflected in the mirror, countering its soul and time attacks with his Silent Origin and Ring Spear techniques.
• Qin Yu used the Azure Ring’s Void-Breaking Extreme Slash to destroy the mirror being, causing the mirror realm to collapse and pull him into the Abyss of Origin Destruction.
• Qin Yu encountered Origin Destroyer, whose will nearly erased him, but the Azure Ring stabilized his soul and forcibly fused the sword with him.
• Origin Destroyer explained that the mirror was a fragment of its power and that Qin Yu’s altered reflection had drawn its will back.
• Qin Yu discovered the ten Origin Destroyer Severance Forms, including techniques that erased an enemy’s existence, fate, soul, power, and place in the narrative.

Qian Ruishan fought and defeated a Soul Jiao in the Soul Mist Convergence Sea, where her dormant Second Soul began to awaken. Drawn into the Ice Soul Underground Palace, she claimed Icy Cold Pierces the Realm, became its master, and joined it with her First Soul as two main souls sharing one platform.

• Qian Ruishan battled the Soul Jiao, resisting its soul attacks and briefly drawing on power from her stirring Second Soul.
• Qian Ruishan used World-Freezing Chains to suppress the Soul Jiao's soul tide, then struck it down with the Cold Stamen Ice Tassel as her Second Soul manifested.
• A vortex dragged Qian Ruishan to the bottom of the Soul Sea, where she discovered the Ice Soul Underground Palace and entered its gates.
• The Ice Soul Empress's soul shadow named Qian Ruishan a returnee of the seventh lineage and embedded Icy Cold Pierces the Realm into her soul platform.
• Qian Ruishan faced the soul source's trial in a realm of ice mirrors, accepted her own cold, and became the master of Icy Cold Pierces the Realm.
• Qian Ruishan manifested her First Soul and Icy Cold Pierces the Realm together as twin main souls and declared that the ice realm was complete.

After Qian Ruishan awakened her twin souls, a domain transfer brought her to Zhou Yu in the Lightning Abyss Soul Well, where they fought Venerable Feng Yanxing and his five followers. The Azure Thunder Lightning Hunter chose Zhou Yu, who formed a soul pact with it and became a Thunder Hunter Pact Master.

• Qian Ruishan's twin-soul awakening triggered a domain transfer that carried her into Zhou Yu's lightning-sealed soul well.
• Venerable Feng Yanxing and five Blazing Soul Clan cultivators confronted Zhou Yu and Qian Ruishan, claiming the secret domain and demanding their souls.
• Zhou Yu was badly wounded by the five cultivators, while Qian Ruishan used her awakened second soul to injure Feng Yanxing.
• The Azure Thunder Lightning Hunter appeared and forced Feng Yanxing and his followers to retreat.
• Zhou Yu resonated with the Nine Abyss Silent Lightning Canon, entered the Realm Consciousness Realm, and formed a soul pact with the Azure Thunder Lightning Hunter.

Zhou Yu and Qian Ruishan reunited with Yao Wanqing in the Soul Abyss Stele Prison, where their awakened powers triggered the release of an ancient soul remnant. After they weakened it, Yao Wanqing awakened her Fate Soul, the Mystic Mirror Ice Soul, and learned its five combat skills.

• Zhou Yu and Qian Ruishan were teleported to the stele array, where they reunited with Yao Wanqing and revealed their newly awakened souls.
• The stele array opened when the three souls converged, releasing an ancient remnant thought that threatened to destroy them.
• Zhou Yu and the Azure Thunder Lightning Hunter joined forces with Qian Ruishan and Yao Wanqing to weaken the soul shadow and drive it back into the stele abyss.
• Yao Wanqing's sealed Fate Soul awakened as the Mystic Mirror Ice Soul, and she shared a tender moment with Zhou Yu.
• Yao Wanqing discovered the Mystic Mirror Ice Soul's five combat skills and recognized that she had begun her own path forward.

Ming Kong and Ming Ye were forced by the Netherworld Ancient Lamp to fight each other in soul illusions until Qin Yu restored their recognition and destroyed the lamp. A hidden soul book then elevated their cultivation and granted them three Soul Arts before transporting all three away as the cave collapsed.

• Ming Kong and Ming Ye were drawn into the Gloomy Abyss Ancient Cave, where the Netherworld Ancient Lamp stripped their memories and set them against each other.
• Qin Yu entered the cave and used the Azure Ring to reconnect Ming Kong and Ming Ye’s memories, ending their battle.
• Qin Yu shattered the Netherworld Ancient Lamp, revealing the ancient book Soul Nether Reflection · Ethereal Realm Nether Body beneath its pedestal.
• The soul book raised Ming Ye to Realm Consciousness Realm · Fifth Stage Perfection and Ming Kong to Realm Consciousness Realm · Fourth Stage Perfection, while granting them three secret Soul Arts.
• As the cave collapsed, the soul book transported Qin Yu, Ming Kong, and Ming Ye away through a fissure passage.

Ming Tong and the four Ming Clan elders fought the Relic Curse Skeleton Saint and its corpse army in an ancient ruin, where Ming Tong ultimately destroyed the ancient emperor with the Silent Soul Banner. Afterward, they discovered a fragment of the Silent Origin Relic inside a black coffin, the object the ancient emperor had sought.

• Ming Er, Ming Yin, Ming Zhi, Ming Luo, and Ming Tong entered an ancient ruin and found a Black Soul Coffin bearing signs of the Prisoner of Fugu.
• The Relic Curse Skeleton Saint emerged from the coffin and raised a corpse tide, which the five elders fought with their soul techniques.
• The Skeleton Saint sacrificed its aberrant corpses to unleash a Soul Pact that gravely injured Ming Er, Ming Yin, Ming Zhi, and Ming Luo, leaving Ming Tong to face it alone.
• The Skeleton Saint wielded the Netherworld Ancient Saber to break Ming Tong's defenses, but Ming Tong summoned the Silent Soul Banner and annihilated it and its forces.
• Ming Tong and the other elders discovered a violet-gold-lit fragment of the Silent Origin Relic inside the black coffin.

Ming Tong and the elders faced the Shadow Soul Tree in the Soul-Severing Depths until Qin Yu arrived and erased it from existence with the Origin Destroyer. The group discovered a seal pointing to another Silent Origin fragment in the Soul Well’s seventh realm, and Qin Yu led them toward it despite the stated restriction.

• The Silent Origin fragment transported Ming Tong and the four elders to the Soul-Severing Depths, where they encountered the Shadow Soul Tree and its Soul-Severing Roots.
• The Shadow Soul Tree attacked with its Body-Inhabiting Soul Curse, causing Ming Luo to mistake Ming Yin for an enemy before Ming Tong suppressed the curse.
• Qin Yu, Qian Ruishan, Zhou Yu, Ming Ye, and Ming Kong arrived, and the Shadow Soul Tree recoiled when it failed to perceive Qin Yu’s soul.
• Qin Yu summoned the Origin Destroyer and erased the Shadow Soul Tree and the possibility of remembering it with a single strike.
• The group uncovered a Soul Well Sealing Formation and learned that the true Silent Origin fragment was sealed in the Soul Well’s seventh realm.
• Despite the warning that those whose souls did not return could not approach, Qin Yu declared that the restriction did not apply to him and led the group toward the Soul Well.

Qin Yu and his companions entered the Soul Well and faced the Mirror Soul Boundary, where Qian Ruishan’s second soul, Ming You, revealed herself to Ming Ye as his long-lost sister. After their reunion, the passage to the second realm opened, and Qin Yu vowed to protect the group as they continued.

• Ming Tong led Qin Yu, Qian Ruishan, and the others into the Soul Well after Qin Yu heard a voice calling from below.
• Venerable Feng Yanxing, the Xuanyuan Tower Envoy, and Yuan Jin arrived at the well, and Yuan Jin used the Crimson Abyss Soul Mirror to detect Qin Yu and a Silent Origin fragment.
• The group entered the Mirror Soul Boundary, where the well split their soul images and created hostile copies that repeatedly reformed when attacked.
• Qian Ruishan froze and sealed her phantom with her soul arts, briefly revealing Ming You’s true form in the Soul Mirror Ice Wheel.
• Ming Ye recognized Ming You as his sister, and Ming You spoke to him through Qian Ruishan before Qian Ruishan accepted him as her younger brother.
• Qin Yu acknowledged Qian Ruishan and Ming Ye’s family bond, then the passage to the second realm opened.

Yao Wanqing defeated the fate-remnant of her abandoned self and awakened the Fate Soul Mystic Mirror Ice Soul, but Venerable Feng Yanxing, Yuan Jin, and the Xuanyuan Tower Envoy attacked the group before they could enter the third realm. Qin Yu used Origin Destroyer to devastate Feng Yanxing by severing the causes of his existence, then led the others toward the third soul gate.

• Yao Wanqing rejected the fate-remnant of the self she might have become, awakened Mystic Mirror Ice Soul, and cleared the soul path before her.
• Venerable Feng Yanxing, Yuan Jin, and the Xuanyuan Tower Envoy broke into the second realm and attacked the group as the soul path began to collapse.
• Ming Tong fought the Xuanyuan Tower Envoy, Qian Ruishan faced Yuan Jin with Ming You’s power, and the others battled Feng Yanxing’s disciples.
• Qin Yu drew Origin Destroyer and struck Feng Yanxing with Sever the Void in a Single Thought, then endured Feng Yanxing’s attacks after he used a pill to break through to Realm Lord Third Stage.
• Qin Yu used Sever the Cause, Preventing Birth to strip away the causes sustaining Feng Yanxing’s cultivation and identity, leaving him alive but broken.
• Qin Yu sheathed Origin Destroyer, warned the attackers through his actions, and led the group toward the third soul gate.

Qin Yu and his companions entered the Soul Cause Corridor, where Qian Ruishan mastered Ming You’s Fate Soul and Qin Yu’s untraceable origin triggered the corridor’s lockdown. Yuan Jin’s Soul-Devouring Cause Formation endangered Yao Wanqing and Ming Ye, but Qin Yu destroyed it with Origin Destroyer as two Silent Origin Fragments resonated; Yuan Jin fled, and a mark for “silence” appeared on Qin Yu’s sword.

• Qian Ruishan faced a Fate Remnant Body of Ming You and passed the trial when Ming You chose to become her Fate Soul.
• The Soul Cause Corridor failed to identify Qin Yu’s origin and sealed him in a verification space, but the Azure Ring’s shadow overwhelmed its rules and released him.
• Yuan Jin trapped Yao Wanqing and Ming Ye in the Soul-Devouring Cause Formation and threatened to displace their soul causes.
• The Silent Origin Fragment appeared, and it resonated with Qin Yu’s Origin Destroyer and the fragment within Ming Tong.
• Qin Yu unsheathed Origin Destroyer and shattered Yuan Jin’s formation with Sever the Cause, Preventing Birth, freeing Yao Wanqing and Ming Ye.
• Yuan Jin fled as the two Silent Origin Fragments resonated, and a mark for “silence” appeared on Qin Yu’s sword.

Qin Yu reached the Silent Origin Main Core in the Soul Well, defeated the Remnant Guardian, and was acknowledged by the core as its master. When Ming Tong’s fragment fused with it, the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword awakened its eleventh form, Realm Beginning: Sole Silent Name, while the Xuanyuan Tower Envoy and Yuan Jin prepared a new plan outside the Soul Well.

• Ming Tong led the group through the collapsing Third Realm, where Qian Ruishan, Yao Wanqing, Ming Kong, and Ming Ye resisted false versions of their pasts while Qin Yu passed untouched.
• The Remnant Guardian summoned three ancient variant beasts, and Qin Yu erased the Nether Soul Dream Taotie by severing the cause of its existence.
• Qin Yu defeated the Remnant Guardian with Sever the Epoch Without a Trace, while Zhou Yu and the Azure Thunder Lightning Hunter battled the Soul Rend Thunder Viper.
• The Silent Origin Main Core Fragment chose Qin Yu, and a vision revealed that it and the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword had once been parts of the same artifact of beginning.
• The fragment entered Qin Yu’s soul sea and triggered the Soul Well’s final ascension, as the Xuanyuan Tower Envoy ordered Yuan Jin to prepare the recovery of the origin beneath the realm.
• Ming Tong’s other fragment fused with the main core, and the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword awakened its eleventh form, Realm Beginning: Sole Silent Name.

After the Silent Origin Main Core awakened, Qin Yu and the others were transported to the Silent Origin Soul Tomb, where the resurrected Epoch Immortal Clan began hunting the Spirit Firmament Great Realm’s trial-takers and realm lords. Qin Yu’s allies fought back with their soul beasts, but the Soul-Restraining Envoy arrived to seize the Main Core, and Qin Yu challenged him.

• The Nine Nether Flame Bone Dragon, Soul Rend Thunder Viper, and Nether Soul Dream Taotie formed Soul Pacts with Ming Ye, Ming Kong, and Ming Tong, while the Soul Forest transported everyone to the Silent Origin Soul Tomb.
• Qin Yu’s group encountered a Mindless Soul Hunter, then saw the Epoch Immortal Clan mark and devour vulnerable trial-takers as it activated its Soul-Sealing Hunting Domain.
• The Epoch Immortal Clan attacked Spirit Firmament’s powerful experts: Yan Ling was chained, Yuan Jin’s Fate Soul was stripped of its name, Lei Wuyuan was overwhelmed, and Feng Yan was gravely wounded.
• Qin Yu stepped forward as the clan’s soul shadows gathered, and Ming Tong, Ming Ye, Ming Kong, and Zhou Yu fought back with their Soul Pacts and soul beasts.
• The Soul-Restraining Envoy appeared and demanded the Silent Origin Main Core; Qin Yu refused and challenged him to take it.

The Soul Shackle Envoy abducted Qin Yu’s companions and imprisoned them in the Soul Prison Ring Domain, where their names, memories, and Fate Souls were being stripped away. After sensing their suffering, Qin Yu annihilated the Soul Clan forces in the Silent Origin Soul Tomb, learned where the prison was, and set out to rescue them.

• The Soul Shackle Envoy used the Name-Sealing Soul Chain to seize Ming Ye, Ming Kong, Zhou Yu, Yao Wanqing, and Qian Ruishan, then threatened to erase them unless Qin Yu surrendered his sword.
• The five were imprisoned in different layers of the Soul Prison Ring Domain and subjected to soul torture, while Yan Sheng, Lei Wuyuan, Yan Ling, and Yan Ce remained captive there as well.
• Qin Yu sensed Qian Ruishan and the others being tortured, then vowed to destroy the Epoch Immortal Clan and raised the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword.
• Qin Yu ambushed and annihilated the Epoch Soul Hunters and other Soul Clan forces throughout the Silent Origin Soul Tomb.
• Qin Yu searched a surviving enemy’s soul, learned that the Soul Prison Ring Domain had seven ring-soul layers and was guarded at its core by the Soul Subjugation Envoy, then headed for its entrance to bring his companions home.

Qin Yu entered the Soul Prison Ring Domain and used the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword to defeat the wardens guarding its first six levels, freeing his imprisoned allies. After rescuing Ming Tong, he prepared to continue deeper into the Soul Tower.

• Qin Yu killed Epoch Soul General Liemian with Sever the Epoch Without a Trace, briefly restoring the prisoners’ memories and consciousness.
• Qin Yu defeated Hong Feng, shattered the Twin Lightning Prison Chains, and freed Zhou Yu and Azure Thunder Lightning Hunter.
• Qin Yu destroyed Jing Jin and the soul-mirror domain, then rescued Ming Kong and gave him a restorative pill.
• Qin Yu broke Tao Mian’s dream prison and freed Ming Ye, whose sister Ming You helped him wake from the illusion.
• Qin Yu destroyed Ice Soul Reflection and freed Yao Wanqing from the Ice Mirror Prison Domain.
• Qin Yu annihilated Sui Mu Guming, shattered the blood-soul chains and soul nails, and caught the exhausted Ming Tong as she fell.

Qin Yu destroyed the Soul Prison Ring Domain, rescued Qian Ruishan and the imprisoned realm lords, and led the survivors in wiping out the Epoch Immortal Clan remnants before the Silent Sorrow Ancient Soul Forest collapsed. After an ancient array evacuated them, an unknown leader appeared with a host of Immortal Ancient experts and declared that it was time to settle the debt of the Soul Prison Ring Domain.

• Qin Yu shattered the seventh Soul Tower with the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword’s tenth form, breaking Qian Ruishan’s ice coffin and destroying Jin Hunyuan.
• Qin Yu used the Origin-Restoring Spirit to revive Qian Ruishan, then broke the ring array’s seal hub and freed the imprisoned realm lords.
• Venerable Feng Yanxing, Xuanyuan Tower Envoy, Yuan Jin, Venerable Yanyou, and other rescued experts acknowledged Qin Yu and joined him in hunting down the Epoch Immortal Clan remnants.
• Qin Yu and the assembled experts exterminated the hidden soul cultivators and demons, but the Silent Origin Soul Tomb began collapsing and dragged the Silent Sorrow Ancient Soul Forest into a void rift.
• An ancient emergency array evacuated Qin Yu, Qian Ruishan, and the other survivors to the outskirts of Heavenly Soul Valley as the forest collapsed.
• A mysterious leader appeared with a host of Immortal Ancient experts and said Qin Yu walked outside fate and that the debt of the Soul Prison Ring Domain must be settled.

After Qin Yu returned to the Nether Firmament Underworld Sect, Immortal Ancient forces declared war on Spirit Firmament and launched an invasion of the Divine Flame Radiant Realm. Venerable Yanyou fell fighting the Silent Night Wielder, but Xuan Cang arrived, destroyed the invading army, and killed the Watcher.

• Ming Tong reported Qin Yu's victory over Jin Hunyuan and the three divine beasts' Soul Pacts, just as an Immortal Ancient presence threatened the Nether Firmament Underworld Sect.
• The Silent Night Wielder appeared over Spirit Firmament, declared every clan an enemy, and prompted clans and sects across the realm to unite as the Spirit Firmament Allied Forces.
• The Soul Annihilation Abyss Refining Soldiers invaded the Divine Flame Radiant Realm, where Yan Sheng, Yan Ling, Yan Ce, and the Four Great Soul Elders resisted them.
• Venerable Yanyou emerged, killed the Soul Abyss Guide, and fought the Silent Night Wielder in a battle that devastated the Flame Realm and ended with Yanyou's apparent death.
• Xuan Cang arrived, annihilated the Soul Annihilation Abyss Refining Soldiers, and killed the gravely wounded Silent Night Wielder.

Xuancang Shenying convened the ten great clans after the Immortal Ancient Clan awakened, and they swore to unite under Qin Yu’s command. As the Spirit Firmament prepared its defenses, Qin Yu armed his companions, set out for the Ancient Rift Star Belt, and fortified the Thousand Realms Sect with a powerful formation.

• Xuancang Shenying summoned the ten clan and sect heads, warned that the Immortal Ancient Clan and its leaders had awakened, and secured their oaths to defend the Spirit Firmament.
• Xuancang Shenying appointed Qin Yu commander of the Spirit Firmament Soul Alliance, assigned formations to the ten factions, and branded the Origin-Rending Seal into Qin Yu’s sea of consciousness.
• The ten factions began building their assigned formations, while Qin Yu gathered Zhou Yu, Ming Ye, Ming Kong, Yao Wanqing, Ruishan, and Ming Zhen and gave each a pair of life-saving pills.
• Qin Yu told his companions they would head to the Ancient Rift Star Belt, where the Immortal Clan was prophesied to descend first.
• Qin Yu and Qian Ruishan went to the Thousand Realms Sect, where Qin Yu established the Soul Reverse Realm Abyss formation and vowed that the sect would not fall.

Shi Mingzhuoji led the Soul-Burning Immortal Army in an assault that shattered the Thunder Prison Mystic Gate’s defenses and crippled Elder Tingjin, but Qin Yu arrived and struck Shi Mingzhuoji down with the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword. After the enemy army collapsed, Zhou Yu defeated the berserk Nether Soul Abyss Viper and established it as his second Fate Soul battle beast.

• Shi Mingzhuoji deployed the Soul-Burning Immortal Army and used the Fire of the Future to break the Thunder Prison Mystic Gate’s formation, destroy its divine generals, and devastate its forces.
• Elder Tingjin emerged to counterattack, but Shi Mingzhuoji burned the sect’s future and struck him down, then prepared to erase the Thunder Prison Mystic Gate.
• Qin Yu arrived with the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword and used Sever the Cause, Preventing Birth to erase Shi Mingzhuoji’s soul flames and rout the Soul-Burning Immortal Army.
• The Nether Soul Abyss Viper emerged from the Soul Rend Altar and attacked the battlefield, so Zhou Yu summoned the Azure Thunder Lightning Hunter to fight it.
• Zhou Yu used the Origin Extreme Lightning Nirvana Seal to defeat the Nether Soul Abyss Viper, which submitted and became his second Fate Soul battle beast.

Yanyuan Caimeng led the Nightmare Abyss Army in destroying the Crimson Abyss Divine Clan, defeating its leaders and sealing its territory in dreamfire. Qin Yu arrived too late to save the clan, preserved its memory at the Soul Stele, and vowed to settle accounts with Yanyuan Caimeng.

• Yanyuan Caimeng's Nightmare Abyss Army attacked the Crimson Abyss Divine Clan, broke through its Ten-Domain Flame-Sealing Diagram, and trapped its people in the Sleeping Dream Realm Seal.
• Yuan Hecang and Chi Mingzun tried to resist Yanyuan Caimeng, but he revealed that Chi Mingzun's apparent awakening and counterattack had taken place inside a dream and destroyed him.
• Yanyuan Caimeng unleashed successive dream aspects that consumed the clan's ancestral records, bloodline, territory, and leaders, killing Chi Xuanxi and wiping out the Crimson Abyss Divine Clan.
• Qin Yu arrived with Zhou Yu, Yao Wanqing, Ming Ye, Ming Kong, and Qian Ruishan after the clan had fallen.
• Qin Yu sent pure soul light into the Soul Stele to preserve the clan's memory, then vowed to settle accounts with Yanyuan Caimeng.

After destroying the Crimson Abyss Divine Clan, Yanyuan Caimeng forced the Nether Devouring Hall to submit and turned it into a Nightmare Abyss outpost. He then moved against the Heavenly Abyss Beast Que, whose defenders prepared for battle as the Nightmare Abyss Dream Army advanced.

• Yanyuan Caimeng threatened the Nether Devouring Hall with invasion unless it submitted within three days, and its master agreed to obey the Nightmare Abyss Army.
• General Dream Rout occupied the hall, imposed military controls, seized its soul arts, and subjected its disciples and elders to dream seals and soul pacts.
• Ran Xu secretly sent a message toward the Nether Firmament Underworld Sect, while Nightmare Abyss forces continued to suppress resistance within the Nether Devouring Hall.
• Yanyuan Caimeng formally bound the Nether Devouring Hall to the Nightmare Abyss Dream Domain and identified the Heavenly Abyss Beast Que as his next target.
• Beast Venerable Xuanyin activated the Mysterious Abyss Ten Citadels Array and gathered his four soul-beast commanders as Yanyuan Caimeng and Nightmare Curse · Marquis Void Hoof led the dream army toward the citadel.