Recaps

Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan reached the Blazing Erosion Clan’s Blood Soul Pool, where Qin Yu sensed an ancient presence sleeping beneath it. Yuan Weizhi’s jade slip revealed how the false patriarch captured him and cast him into the pool.

• Qin Yu sent the exhausted Xiao Yue back into his sea of consciousness, then continued with Qian Wenwan toward the estate’s depths.
• Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan found a vast Blood Soul Pool filled with anguished Fate Soul fragments and bound by ancient runes.
• Qin Yu used the Ring Master Soul Diagram to trace the pool’s blood threads and sensed an ancient existence at its bottom.
• Qian Wenwan activated Yuan Weizhi’s jade slip, which displayed his past encounter with the Blazing Erosion Clan.
• A gray-white soul banner pierced Yuan Weizhi and suppressed his Fate Soul origin, allowing the false patriarch to capture him.
• The false patriarch ordered blood soul puppets to throw Yuan Weizhi into the Blood Soul Pool and seal his soul.

Yuan Weizhi’s final recording warned Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan that something hidden beneath the Blood Soul Pool was more terrifying than the pool itself. While searching for its source, they found an ancient painting showing the pool as an empty pit with an altar at its bottom, suggesting it had not originally been a Blood Soul Pool.

• Yuan Weizhi’s recording showed his ten days in the Blood Soul Pool, his discovery of the Wordless Heavenly Book, and his warning about a terrifying thing at the pool’s bottom.
• Qian Wenwan and Qin Yu decided to investigate the bottom and search the underground space for the pool’s foundation before the escaped desire origin could recover.
• Qin Yu searched the blood-stained corridors, murals, side halls, altars, and chambers but found no formation, seal, or mechanism.
• Qian Wenwan called Qin Yu to an ancient hall filled with untouched divine weapons and showed him a yellowed painting of the Blood Soul Pool.
• Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan saw that the painting depicted an empty pit with an altar at its bottom, and Qin Yu concluded that it had not originally been a Blood Soul Pool.

Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan used the ancient painting to drain the Blood Soul Pool and uncover an ancient altar at its bottom. After sealing the blood pool inside the painting and hiding it away, they approached the altar, suspecting its true secret lay beneath it.

• Qin Yu discovered a hidden seal in the ancient painting and used the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter to undo it.
• The ancient painting drew all the blood and resentful souls from the Blood Soul Pool into the pool depicted in the scroll.
• Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan found a gray-white, nine-tier altar at the bottom, covered in rootlike patterns that suggested a powerful ancient tree lay beneath it.
• The painting sealed the blood pool inside itself again, and Qin Yu hid it in a concealed rift while Qian Wenwan promised to destroy the altar that opened the way there.
• Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan stepped onto the pool's bottom and walked toward the altar to seek the secret beneath it.

Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan opened the ancient altar and discovered the Myriad Dao Source Root tree, where they received Source Dao leaves and entered separate revelations of the myriad Daos. As the tree’s ancient presence began to awaken, Qin Yu grasped the source before the Great Dao’s expression, while Qian Wenwan’s Compassionate Joy Divine Sword absorbed the myriad Daos.

• Qin Yu used the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter to unravel the altar’s root-pattern seal and turn its Dao-source chains into characters, raising the altar to reveal the hidden world.
• Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan recognized the colossal ancient tree as the Layered Realm Void Great Emperor’s Myriad Dao Source Root, which embodied and drew nourishment from the myriad Daos.
• The Myriad Dao Source Root split a chaotic Source Dao leaf between Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan, drawing both of them into visions of the Great Dao.
• Qin Yu witnessed the cycle of creation and realized that the deepest source existed before the Great Dao was expressed.
• Qian Wenwan understood that Compassion and Joy meant embracing the myriad Daos, as her Compassionate Joy Divine Sword absorbed their true meanings.
• The Myriad Dao Source Root trembled as an ancient presence awakened within its trunk and Great Dao patterns converged across its body.

Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan learned the truth about Desire and the Myriad Dao Source Root Tree from its returning Origin will. The tree restored its full presence and bestowed a Source Fruit on Qian Wenwan, leaving her with an opportunity to witness the Origin of the myriad Daos.

• The Origin will revealed that the Myriad Dao Source Root Tree was the Layered Realm Void Great Emperor’s true first lifebound supreme treasure and that Desire was his surviving obsession, not one of the seven emotions.
• The Origin will explained that Desire had secretly possessed successive Blazing Erosion Clan patriarchs for a million years, cultivating the Seven Emotions Origin so it could take the tree and Wordless Heavenly Book and impersonate the Emperor’s sole continuing will.
• The Origin will returned to the Myriad Dao Source Root Tree, which absorbed the divine thought and recovered its complete Origin presence.
• The Myriad Dao Source Root Tree produced a Source Fruit and gave it to Qian Wenwan because her Dao of Compassion and Joy aligned with its source root.
• Qian Wenwan accepted the Source Fruit, which would let her face the Origin of the myriad Daos.

Qin Yu secured the Myriad Dao Source Root Tree for his great world while Qian Wenwan used the Myriad Dao Source Fruit to enter the Wuji Realm. They then left Myriad Dao Space to seek the last of the Seven Emotions Origin, Desire.

• The Myriad Dao Source Root Tree asked Qin Yu to take it to his great world, and Qin Yu stored it in the Annihilation Devil Pupil · Final Spirit Core.
• Qian Wenwan swallowed the Myriad Dao Source Fruit, and the Compassionate Joy Divine Sword helped her break through the Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme barrier into the Wuji Realm.
• Qian Wenwan congratulated Qin Yu on gaining the tree’s recognition and explained that Wuji cultivators followed unique Great Daos.
• Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan opened a spatial rift and departed to find Desire, the last of the Seven Emotions Origin.

Desire recovered in hiding in the Western Region and vowed revenge on Qin Yu and his companions. As Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan searched the empty region, Desire activated a million-year-old network of hidden desire power beneath the land.

• Desire absorbed the Fate Soul origins stored in hundreds of orbs, healing its wounds and swearing to destroy Qin Yu, his Dao, his Fate Soul, and his friends.
• Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan found no inhabitants or clans in the Western Region and wondered whether Desire had ever had a clan of its own.
• Qian Wenwan drew the Compassionate Joy Divine Sword as she and Qin Yu guarded against Desire watching them from the shadows.
• Desire recalled secretly watching Qin Yu, Qian Wenwan, and Yuan Weizhi enter the realm, intending to use them to find the Seven Emotions Origin and open the Wordless Heavenly Book.
• Desire raised its wand and chanted, awakening hidden patterns that spread desire power throughout the Western Region.

Desire trapped Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan in illusions shaped from their deepest wishes. Qin Yu rejected his perfect Annihilation Abyss Epoch and shattered the illusion, while Qian Wenwan remained faced with the temptation of her reunited loved ones.

• Desire cast a spell that enveloped the Western Region in gray-black threads and separated Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan into individual illusions.
• Qin Yu awoke in an ideal Annihilation Abyss Epoch where Xiao Yue and his other companions were alive and welcomed him as Realm Master.
• Qian Wenwan found herself in a peaceful city with her deceased family, teachers, and friends, who urged her to stop fighting and stay with them.
• Qin Yu rejected the illusion, declaring that his true great realm included suffering, loss, and people choosing to protect one another.
• Qin Yu unleashed No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword and shattered the illusion realm.

Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan escaped Desire’s illusion and destroyed the true Desire Realm by finding and striking its source. Qin Yu then shattered Desire’s staff and gravely wounded him, leaving Desire helpless in a crater as Qin Yu approached.

• Qin Yu used the Great Luo Heavenly Chapter to break Qian Wenwan out of the Desire Illusory Realm, then challenged Desire to reveal himself.
• Desire created the Desire Realm · Myriad Beings Dream Together, an independent world formed from countless desires.
• Qin Yu analyzed the realm’s source while Qian Wenwan’s Great Dream Returns to the Nest sword technique stilled its Dao; Qin Yu found and shattered its source core.
• Desire fled after the realm collapsed, but the Myriad Dao Source Root tree told Qin Yu that Desire’s true source lay inside his staff.
• Qin Yu used the Undefined Destruction Sword to destroy the staff and strike Desire’s Fate Soul, leaving him gravely wounded and unable to resist.

Qin Yu explained to Desire that the seven emotions and six desires belonged together, and Desire accepted his end as his essence returned to the Wordless Heavenly Book. The seven emotions reunited as the Layered Realm Void Great Emperor’s origin, then Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan left through a rift as the Layered Realm Void dissolved.

• Qin Yu told the dying Desire that returning to the origin meant restoring wholeness rather than annihilation, and Desire acknowledged the value of the seven emotions before dying.
• Qin Yu placed a drop of Desire’s essence blood on the Wordless Heavenly Book, causing the fourth page to reveal the character and verse for desire.
• The seven emotion origins rose from the book and joined into a river of origin, manifesting the vast will of the Layered Realm Void Great Emperor.
• The Wordless Heavenly Book opened all seven pages and released a pillar of light before returning to Qin Yu’s palm.
• The Myriad Dao Source Root opened a passage to the outside world, and Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan entered it together.
• The spatial rift closed, and the Layered Realm Void collapsed into primordial points of light.

Qin Yu accepted Qian Wenwan’s appointment as deputy shopkeeper of the Heavenly Secrets Dao Pavilion, then returned to the Annihilation Abyss Epoch and entrusted Yingling with the Myriad Dao Source Root. After Yingling carried it to the realm’s core to plant, Qin Yu returned to the Source of Epochless to prepare for the Four Great Lineage Grand Competition.

• Qian Wenwan gave Qin Yu a deputy shopkeeper token and promised him access to the Heavenly Secrets Dao Pavilion’s resources and treasures at cost.
• Qin Yu declined to visit the pavilion immediately because he planned to prepare for the Four Great Lineage Grand Competition, where he had promised to serve as the Chi Lineage’s outside aid.
• Qian Wenwan departed through a spatial rift, and Qin Yu traveled to a hidden realm, entered the Annihilation Abyss Epoch, and summoned Yingling.
• Yingling reported that the Annihilation Abyss Epoch was peaceful and prospering, and that Ruishan, Yunyi, and the others were cultivating in seclusion.
• Qin Yu gave Yingling the Myriad Dao Source Root and ordered him to plant it at the center of the Annihilation Abyss Epoch so cultivators could comprehend the origins of the myriad Daos.
• Yingling flew off with the Myriad Dao Source Root, while Qin Yu returned to the Source of Epochless.

Qin Yu secluded himself in the mountains to stabilize his Eternal Silence Realm Dao foundation. Meanwhile, a masked man escaped three pursuers through the Heavenly Ruins Floating City and fled into a dark forest, with the three men following him inside.

• Qin Yu confirmed the mountain range was empty, then sat down to stabilize his Dao foundation in meditation.
• In the Fourth Multidimensional Universe, a masked man fled through the shifting Heavenly Ruins Floating City as three powerful men pursued him.
• The masked man escaped the city and shattered a black bead, unleashing a flood of Narrative Fragments to delay his pursuers.
• The silver-haired man cast a Narrative-Severing Divine Spear, but the masked man narrowly evaded it and continued fleeing.
• The masked man entered a dark forest, and the three pursuers followed him into it.

Hua Lingxi arrived in the dark forest and defeated the masked man who had stolen the Hua Lineage's secret scroll. After he refused to surrender it, she prepared to grant his wish to die.

• The masked man fled through the forest with three Hua Lineage experts pursuing him and demanding the secret scroll.
• A terrifying pressure forced the masked man and his pursuers to stop, and Hua Lingxi descended into the forest.
• The masked man accused the Hua Lineage of shameful deeds and threatened to expose the contents of the secret scroll.
• Hua Lingxi used Flower Burial Heavenly Abyss to shatter the masked man's divine ability and hurl him into a mountainside.
• The masked man refused to hand over the scroll even if his divine soul was destroyed, and Hua Lingxi said she would grant his wish to die.

Hua Lingxi and three allies overwhelmed the masked man after his Primordial Spirit Treasure, the ancient azure-gold boat, failed to protect him. His mask broke, revealing Ye Ting, a Holy Clan elder and Qin Yu’s soul puppet, who still clutched the secret scroll and defied his captors.

• Hua Lingxi unleashed Ninefold Flower Stillness · Burial of the Myriad Realms against the masked man.
• The masked man summoned an ancient azure-gold boat, whose artifact spirit used Nine Heavens Realm Folding to disrupt Hua Lingxi’s attack.
• Hua Lingxi ordered the three allies behind her to attack, and they joined her in striking the boat and its artifact spirit.
• The ancient boat shattered under their combined assault, and its destruction blasted the masked man into the mountains.
• The masked man’s black mask broke, revealing Ye Ting, who held onto the secret scroll and cursed Hua Lingxi and the others.

Hua Lingxi battered Ye Ting and prepared to destroy the Holy Clan to force him to reveal a stolen secret scroll. The injury awakened Qin Yu’s connection to Ye Ting, and Qin Yu arrived just as the Hua Lineage disciples were taking their captive away.

• Hua Lingxi accused Ye Ting of stealing a secret scroll and demanded he reveal where he had hidden it, but he refused and denounced the Hua Lineage.
• Hua Lingxi struck Ye Ting, grievously wounding his Fate Soul and activating the Ring Master Soul Chain Qin Yu had left in him.
• Qin Yu sensed Ye Ting’s impending death, tore open a spatial rift, and left his secluded cave to reach him.
• Hua Lingxi ordered her disciples to take Ye Ting to the Holy Clan and threatened to destroy it with her Primordial Dao Supreme Treasure.
• The Hua Lineage disciples sealed Ye Ting’s Fate Soul and carried him away as Qin Yu appeared, prompting Ye Ting to call him master.
• Hua Lingxi recognized that Ye Ting was Qin Yu’s soul puppet and became wary of the calm newcomer.

Qin Yu rescued the wounded Ye Ting from Hua Lingxi and refused to let the Hua Lineage take him. As Qin Yu and Hua Lingxi fought, he stopped her three disciples from attacking Ye Ting and exposed that he had anticipated their plan.

• Hua Lingxi recognized Qin Yu as a possible Soul Master, and her disciples identified him as the man Hua Jingmeng had once put a bounty on.
• Qin Yu broke Ye Ting’s Fate Soul chains, brought him to safety, and gave him a pill to heal while declaring he would take him away.
• Hua Lingxi summoned her Nine Stillness Heavenly Radiance Spear and attacked Qin Yu, who met her with the Silent Origin Stainless Sword.
• Hua Lingxi secretly ordered her three disciples to kill Ye Ting, but Qin Yu used Orbital Collapse Lock-Chain Annihilation to bind them before they could reach him.
• Qin Yu mocked Hua Lingxi for thinking her ambush would distract him, and she shouted in anger.

Qin Yu overcame Hua Lingxi’s Annihilation Spear Tribulation, annihilated three Hua Lineage disciples, and shattered her Ruins Ashen Returning Light with his No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword. Hua Lingxi was badly wounded and left unable to understand Qin Yu’s power.

• Hua Lingxi used Annihilation Spear Tribulation to erase space and causal ties around Qin Yu, but Qin Yu countered it with Causeless Disillusionment Sword.
• Qin Yu used Soulless Annihilation Abyss Sword to erase the three trapped Hua Lineage disciples, provoking Hua Lingxi’s fury and shock.
• Hua Lingxi activated Ruins Ashen Returning Light, absorbing the battle’s destruction and healing her wounds as she challenged Qin Yu again.
• Qin Yu used No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword to silence and shatter Hua Lingxi’s silvery-white domain.
• Hua Lingxi was thrown back through several mountain peaks and, bleeding, demanded to know how Qin Yu possessed such a powerful divine ability.

Qin Yu defeated Hua Lingxi after the Star Wancai Key silently destroyed her Myriad Beasts Stillness Emperor Jian and he erased the foundations of her Great Dao with the Undefined Destruction Sword. Hua Lingxi vanished without a trace, while Ye Ting watched in awe of Qin Yu’s power.

• Ye Ting recovered while watching Qin Yu defeat Hua Lingxi’s Ruins Ashen Returning Light with a single sword strike.
• Hua Lingxi summoned the Myriad Beasts Stillness Emperor Jian, a Primordial Dao Supreme Treasure, and prepared to fuse it with the Nine Stillness Heavenly Radiance Spear.
• The Star Wancai Key’s Edict of Returning to Zero caused the Myriad Beasts Stillness Emperor Jian to disintegrate into primordial stardust.
• Hua Lingxi burned her Fate Soul and Great Dao to sacrifice herself and try to take Qin Yu down with her.
• Qin Yu used the fifth form of the Silent Origin Stainless Sword, Undefined Destruction Sword, to erase Hua Lingxi’s Great Dao, Fate Soul, and existence.
• Ye Ting watched Hua Lingxi disappear and praised Qin Yu’s terrifying sword strike.

Qin Yu rescued the wounded Ye Ting and asked why the Hua Lineage had hunted him, prompting Ye Ting to explain how he intercepted a secret scroll during a covert exchange with the Ancient God Clan. Ye Ting ended his account after describing his escape from the Hua Lineage, leaving Qin Yu with the scroll and the revelation of their alliance.

• Qin Yu confirmed that no Hua Lineage cultivators remained nearby, then took Ye Ting to a private room in Heavenly Ruins Floating City.
• Qin Yu asked why the Hua Lineage had pursued Ye Ting, and Ye Ting presented the sealed secret scroll he had seized.
• Ye Ting recounted how he saw six Hua Lineage disciples secretly trade a storage pouch for the scroll with a masked member of the Ancient God Clan.
• Ye Ting followed the Hua Lineage group and attacked them in a canyon, killing two disciples and taking the scroll.
• The lead disciple used a Primordial Supreme Treasure, severely wounding Ye Ting before he destroyed it and fled; Hua Lingxi then arrived.

Qin Yu received the sealed secret scroll from Ye Ting and instructed him to keep his ties to Qin Yu secret while pursuing control of the Holy Clan. Meanwhile, Hua Yin learned that Hua Lingxi and the disciples carrying the scroll had disappeared, then met a mysterious ally to organize a covert search before the four-lineage competition.

• Qin Yu carefully examined the ancient secret scroll, stored it, and praised Ye Ting for bringing it to him.
• Ye Ting reported that the Shangguan Lineage remained quiet and said he expected to take control of the Holy Clan and become patriarch within two and a half years.
• Qin Yu told Ye Ting to remain with the Holy Clan, conceal their relationship, and contact him if trouble arose.
• A Hua Lineage disciple told Hua Yin that Hua Lei and the others, along with Hua Lingxi, had not returned and could not be reached through soul communication talismans.
• Hua Yin warned a mysterious ally that the scroll's whereabouts were unknown and met him in a hidden residence in Heavenly Ruins Floating City.
• Hua Yin and the mysterious man agreed to send powerful experts to search for the scroll and keep the matter secret before the four-lineage competition.

Qin Yu asked Xiao Yue to study the sealed ancient scroll, then went out to buy a detailed map of the God-Defying Heavenly Abyss. After hearing that the Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang of the Four Great Lineages might compete in human form, he returned to the inn, where Xiao Yue announced she had found a way to break the seal.

• Xiao Yue examined the ancient scroll and took it into Qin Yu’s sea of consciousness to search for a flaw in its restriction seal.
• Qin Yu visited the Myriad Illustrations Pavilion and bought a map of the God-Defying Heavenly Abyss for ten thousand Supreme Transformation Source Crystals.
• Qin Yu overheard cultivators discussing the Four Great Lineage Grand Competition and the possibility that the Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang would take human form and compete.
• Qin Yu recalled seeing Wanyan, the Chi Lineage’s Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang, and wondered whether the new competition plans had been arranged recently.
• Qin Yu returned to the inn, where Xiao Yue told him she had found a way to break the scroll’s seal.

Qin Yu and Xiao Yue opened an ancient scroll and discovered that the Hua Lineage planned to use a poison pill against the Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huangs guarding the Chi Lineage and Ju Lineage. They decided to visit the Ancient God Clan that developed the pill, hoping to stop the plot and uncover proof of the Hua Lineage’s involvement.

• Xiao Yue identified a brief pause in the scroll’s restriction, and Qin Yu used the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter to help break the seal.
• Qin Yu and Xiao Yue read the scroll’s record of the Return to the Ruins Tribulation Descent Pill, which could destroy a Huang’s Fate Soul origin.
• Xiao Yue concluded that the Hua Lineage intended to poison the Huangs guarding the Chi Lineage and the Ju Lineage at the four-lineage martial competition.
• Qin Yu reasoned that poisoning those Huangs would let the Hua Lineage and Shangguan Lineage overpower the Chi Lineage and Ju Lineage, but the scroll alone could not prove the Hua Lineage’s collusion.
• Qin Yu and Xiao Yue decided to visit the Ancient God Clan that night, and Qin Yu opened a spatial rift and stepped through.

Qin Yu entered the God-Defying Heavenly Abyss and reached the Ancient God Clan’s heavily guarded ancestral land. Disguised as one of their disciples, he bribed a patrolman to open the gate and slipped inside, intending to kill half the clan.

• Qin Yu studied his map of the God-Defying Heavenly Abyss and identified the Ancient God Clan’s ancestral land, surrounded by natural forbidden zones.
• Qin Yu traveled through the desolate abyss and spotted the Ancient God Clan’s vast city, protected by hundreds of Fate Soul restrictions and ancient formations.
• Qin Yu changed his appearance and Fate Soul presence, then used an identity token taken from a slain Ancient God Clan disciple to pose as one of their cultivators.
• Qin Yu approached the city gate and claimed to a patrolman that he had returned late after going out for drinks.
• Qin Yu bribed the patrolman with a storage bag containing a hundred Supreme Transformation Source Crystals, and the patrol opened the gate for him.

Qin Yu infiltrated the Ancient God Clan’s ancestral ground and silently killed its patrol disciple, many disciples, and the deacons. After slipping through the elders’ restriction array, he was discovered, exposed his true cultivation, and faced the clan’s elders.

• Qin Yu killed the patrol disciple who had helped him enter the ancestral ground, then used the token to survey the clan’s layout.
• Qin Yu silently annihilated disciples in their quarters and killed the deacon in a guarded courtyard with the No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword.
• Qin Yu wiped out the deacons in their residential area and approached the elders’ temples.
• Qin Yu deciphered the elders’ restriction array with the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter and entered the elders’ area.
• An elder confronted Qin Yu, attacked him, and summoned the other elders after noticing that the restriction had been breached.
• Qin Yu dropped his disguise, revealed his Eternal Silence Realm initial-stage cultivation, drew his sword, and declared himself the King of Hell of the Ancient God Clan.

Qin Yu confronted Yuan Cangming and the Ancient God Clan elders, demanding the Return to the Ruins Tribulation Descent Pill and accusing the clan of secretly obtaining it through the Hua Lineage. The Fourth Elder revealed that the clan’s disciples and True Annihilation Realm deacons had all been killed, and Yuan Cangming led the elders in preparing to attack Qin Yu.

• Yuan Cangming and eleven elders surrounded Qin Yu after he entered the elders' district, and Luo Qingchuan recognized him from the Echo Cliff auction.
• Qin Yu revealed that he had come to obtain the Return to the Ruins Tribulation Descent Pill, prompting the elders to angrily deny the accusation.
• Qin Yu claimed that one person had secretly dealt with the Hua Lineage and offered to show evidence.
• The Fourth Elder returned and reported that all the disciples and True Annihilation Realm deacons had been slain.
• Yuan Cangming ordered the elders to kill Qin Yu, and they summoned their divine weapons and focused their killing intent on him.