Recaps

Qin Yu adapted to Hua Jingmeng’s Grand Void transformations, but Hua Jingmeng unveiled the Eternal Tribulation Fate-Determining Wheel to predict and constrain his actions. As Qin Yu raised his right hand amid Hua Jingmeng’s layered false sources, Hua Jingmeng anticipated a Realm-Severing Source Pen attack and waited to see how he would respond.

• Qin Yu countered Hua Jingmeng’s close-range transformations, while the Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram recorded and analyzed their principles.
• Hua Jingmeng recognized that the longer the fight continued, the more Qin Yu would understand his Dao, and summoned his Grand Void Fate Wheel.
• Hua Jingmeng revealed the Eternal Tribulation Fate-Determining Wheel, which narrowed Qin Yu’s possible actions and predicted his next moves.
• Hua Jingmeng filled the arena with interlocking false sources, while Qin Yu ignored them and slowly raised his right hand.
• Hua Jingmeng predicted that Qin Yu would use the Book of Fate Law · Realm-Severing Source Pen and challenged him to break the trap.

Qin Yu dismantled Hua Jingmeng’s false origins and used Abyssal Rotation Profiling to escape the Fate-Determining Wheel’s control, striking Hua Jingmeng and weakening his wheel. Hua Jingmeng abandoned his attempt to trap Qin Yu along a single fate path and prepared to make every fate trace watch him.

• Qin Yu used the Book of Fate Law and Realm Severing Origin Brush to expose the true origin beneath Hua Jingmeng’s false origins.
• Hua Jingmeng used the Eternal Tribulation Fate-Determining Wheel to lock Qin Yu into a predicted future.
• Qin Yu invoked Abyssal Rotation Profiling · Compulsion, creating new paths within the fates Hua Jingmeng had fixed.
• Qin Yu misled Hua Jingmeng with false predictions, then struck his chest and forced him backward.
• Hua Jingmeng’s Fate-Determining Wheel weakened, and he pressed his hand to the mark between his brows, deciding to let all the fate traces watch Qin Yu.

Hua Jingmeng unfolded Simultaneous Contemplation of Myriad Fates, filling the final arena with fate projections that could observe Qin Yu’s every possible move. Qin Yu faced his threat without backing down, while the Hua Lineage grew confident that Hua Jingmeng would win.

• Hua Jingmeng fused the Grand Void Dao Transformation Art with the Eternal Tribulation Fate-Determining Wheel and manifested countless fate trajectories and versions of himself across the arena.
• Nangong Xingyun and Nalan Yanqing recognized that Hua Jingmeng’s new technique would let him observe any path Qin Yu created.
• Hua Jingmeng warned Qin Yu that every path he took would fall beneath his gaze and threatened to kill him.
• Qin Yu replied that Hua Jingmeng’s people might not stand aside if Qin Yu killed him.
• Hua Lineage elders and disciples dismissed Qin Yu’s chances and expressed confidence in Hua Jingmeng.

Hua Jingmeng unleashed the full power of Simultaneous Contemplation of Myriad Fates, causing versions of himself from countless possible futures to begin entering reality around Qin Yu. The chapter ended as those future Hua Jingmengs prepared to attack Qin Yu from every direction.

• Hua Yin watched Qin Yu warily, while Hua Nongrui remained composed and withheld judgment as the Hua Lineage mocked Qin Yu.
• Chi Lineage members voiced their support for Qin Yu, and Chi Boqian urged them to stay calm, saying Qin Yu had his own trump cards.
• Hua Jingmeng stopped waiting for Qin Yu to strike and declared that every future version of himself would send Qin Yu on his way together.
• Hua Jingmeng poured Great Void power into the fate wheels, and versions of himself from numerous futures began stepping into reality around Qin Yu.

Hua Jingmeng trapped Qin Yu in a killing formation made from countless possible futures, while the judges debated which fighter to support. Qin Yu uncovered the single Fate Soul source behind the myriad manifestations and prepared to strike it directly.

• Hua Jingmeng filled the arena with future Fate Manifestations and attacked Qin Yu from every possible path.
• Nalan Yanqing warned Xuanyuan Canglan that they might need to protect Qin Yu if the Hua Lineage retaliated, while Nangong Xingyun plotted to claim Hua Jingmeng for the Nangong Lineage.
• Qin Yu destroyed hundreds of Hua Jingmeng's manifestations but realized they continually returned through the Fate Wheels.
• Qin Yu used the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel to trace every future back to Hua Jingmeng's single Fate Soul origin.
• Qin Yu stopped cutting down the manifestations and prepared to strike the source of Hua Jingmeng's myriad fates.

Qin Yu used Star Structure Returning Ring to trace Hua Jingmeng’s myriad futures back to their shared Fate Soul origin and sever their source-cause connection. Hua Jingmeng’s fate manifestations vanished, and his final Eternal Tribulation fate wheel began to crumble.

• Qin Yu looked past Hua Jingmeng’s countless fate manifestations and used the Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram to find their shared Fate Soul origin.
• Qin Yu unfolded Star Structure Returning Ring and traced the source-cause veins connecting the myriad futures to Hua Jingmeng.
• Hua Jingmeng tried to alter the exposed fate traces, but Qin Yu’s returning rings pinned them down and severed the fate manifestations’ connections.
• Qin Yu pressed on Hua Jingmeng’s main Fate Soul vein and cut it with the word “Sever,” collapsing the sea of fate and scattering the future manifestations.
• Hua Jingmeng stood amid the destruction as his last Eternal Tribulation fate wheel cracked and began to crumble.

Hua Jingmeng countered Qin Yu’s destruction of Simultaneous Contemplation of Myriad Fates with the Blameless Karma Scale, which returned any consequence inflicted on him to Qin Yu. Qin Yu discovered that the scale needed a cause to weigh, then began a technique that made Hua Jingmeng’s confidence falter.

• Qin Yu shattered Simultaneous Contemplation of Myriad Fates by severing the root that let its myriad fates exist together.
• Hua Jingmeng summoned the Blameless Karma Scale and declared that any damage or severance he suffered would be matched by an equal loss to Qin Yu.
• The scale redirected residual force and origin resonance back onto Qin Yu, convincing the Hua Lineage elders that it was difficult to break.
• Qin Yu observed the scale’s responses and realized it needed a consequence to occur before it could trace that consequence back to its cause.
• Qin Yu withdrew the Silent Origin Stainless Sword and began a technique that shook the arena’s karmic Dao traces, freezing Hua Jingmeng’s smile.

Qin Yu used Final Order Interrogation · World Silent Judgment to sever the causal link that let Hua Jingmeng’s Blameless Karma Scale return harm to him, destroying the scale. Hua Jingmeng then opened a black vortex and began drawing an ancient sword from within it.

• Qin Yu rewrote the causal order the Blameless Karma Scale relied on, preventing it from tracing an equal karmic consequence back to him.
• Hua Jingmeng poured his Fate Soul origin into the scale, but Qin Yu’s fourth seal shattered its pans, lamps, beam, and finally the entire artifact.
• Wanyan watched Qin Yu’s technique with genuine interest as Hua Jingmeng recovered from the backlash and confronted Qin Yu with anger.
• Hua Jingmeng opened a vast black vortex in space and thrust his arm into its depths.
• Hua Jingmeng slowly pulled an ancient dark gray sword from the vortex.

Hua Jingmeng drew the Vast Sea Dao-Burying Sword, an immemorial weapon whose power of negation unsettled the arena and its spectators. After Qin Yu taunted him about relying on his lineage, Hua Jingmeng raised the sword and began an attack that threatened the foundations of existence.

• Hua Jingmeng drew the Vast Sea Dao-Burying Sword from a void vortex, and the Chi Lineage elders recognized it as a relic forged by Daoist Cangming from the remnants of the first Dao epoch.
• The elders explained that the sword could negate Dao laws, origins, and the foundations of existence, while Qin Yu studied its ancient resonance.
• Hua Jingmeng recovered his composure and told Qin Yu that the sword would strike him down.
• Qin Yu mocked Hua Jingmeng for riding his uncle's coattails, provoking Hua Jingmeng's anger.
• Hua Jingmeng raised the sword, silenced the arena, and caused cracks of darkness to spread through the void as its blue point of light brightened.

Hua Jingmeng used Eternal Heaven Burial to strip away the bonds supporting Qin Yu’s existence, but Qin Yu countered with the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter. He halted the sword’s advance, leaving Hua Jingmeng shaken as the decisive clash began.

• Hua Jingmeng thrust the Vast Sea Dao-Burying Sword’s first form, Eternal Heaven Burial, toward Qin Yu and began severing his ties to heaven and earth.
• The sword’s dark blue realm cut Qin Yu off from surrounding Dao laws and spread cracks across the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel.
• Qin Yu summoned the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter and opened Void Blank Space to support his existence independently of the world.
• Qin Yu used Karmic Punctuation to divide the links of karma that Eternal Heaven Burial relied on to trace his existence.
• Eternal Heaven Burial’s advance faltered, and Hua Jingmeng lost his confidence as Qin Yu remained unharmed.

Qin Yu countered Hua Jingmeng’s Eternal Heaven Burial by severing its links to causality and sealing the sword move’s origin logic. After the sword intent shattered, the stunned spectators and powerful lineages recognized that Qin Yu had defeated the move at its root.

• Qin Yu used Void Source · Dream Stillness and Existence Zero Point to escape Eternal Heaven Burial’s causal reach, forcing Hua Jingmeng’s sword intent to lose its target.
• Qin Yu summoned the Book of Fate Law and Realm Severing Origin Brush to identify how the Vast Sea Dao-Burying Sword’s deep-blue light supported its first move.
• Qin Yu invoked Fate Cause Sealing Mirror · Logic Abyss Core to lock Eternal Heaven Burial’s origin logic in place and shatter its sword intent.
• The recoil from the broken move numbed Hua Jingmeng’s arm and forced him to stagger back as the last of the sword intent dispersed.
• The watching lineages, judges, and Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang reacted with shock as they recognized Qin Yu had broken Eternal Heaven Burial at its root.

After Qin Yu broke Hua Jingmeng’s Eternal Heaven Burial, he summoned the Silent Origin Stainless Sword and unleashed the Historyless Void Severance Sword, which erased Hua Jingmeng’s past and futures. Hua Jingmeng realized his transformations could not escape the attack and raised the Vast Sea Dao-Burying Sword to resist as the historyless darkness closed in.

• Hua Jingmeng roared in disbelief after Qin Yu dismantled Eternal Heaven Burial and all his earlier divine abilities.
• Qin Yu told Hua Jingmeng it was his turn to strike and summoned the Silent Origin Stainless Sword, drawing the attention of the four Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang.
• Qin Yu’s sword revealed Hua Jingmeng’s past, present, and countless possible futures, along with the history of the Myriad Worlds Graveyard.
• Qin Yu unleashed the Historyless Void Severance Sword, erasing Hua Jingmeng’s futures and severing the historical foundation behind his transformations.
• Hua Jingmeng recognized the danger to the Origin of his existence and raised the Vast Sea Dao-Burying Sword against the approaching attack.

Hua Jingmeng used Eternal Silence Nirvana to escape Qin Yu’s Historyless Void Severance Sword, but the attack followed the karmic link between his old and new selves and shattered the rebirth. As the sword closed in, Hua Jingmeng repeatedly remade his Fate Soul at the cost of his memories and reason, then summoned the Vast Annihilation God-Burying Banner.

• Hua Jingmeng stabbed the Vast Sea Dao-Burying Sword into his Dao heart and used Eternal Silence Nirvana to abandon his old foundations and forge a new Fate Soul.
• Qin Yu’s Historyless Void Severance Sword pursued the karmic link of Hua Jingmeng’s rebirth and shattered the deep-blue lotus and its new thread of fate.
• Hua Jingmeng shattered the remaining history within his Fate Soul and repeatedly created new selves to evade the sword, losing memories, feelings, and reason with each rebirth.
• Hua Jingmeng summoned the Vast Annihilation God-Burying Banner and seized its pole, meeting the conditions to wield the primordial dread object.

Hua Jingmeng barely survived Qin Yu’s Historyless Void Severance Sword by sacrificing the Vast Annihilation God-Burying Banner’s ancient remnants and damaging his Fate Soul. After taking a Fate Soul pill, he recovered enough to face Qin Yu again, while Qin Yu watched to see what other reserves Hua Jingmeng had.

• Hua Jingmeng poured his Fate Soul’s origin power into the Vast Annihilation God-Burying Banner and used it to wear down Qin Yu’s Historyless Void Severance Sword.
• The banner finally dissipated the sword intent, leaving Hua Jingmeng severely injured, his Fate Soul cracked and his forbidden rebirth method unstable.
• Hua Jingmeng swallowed a Fate Soul pill, steadied his foundation, and kept the banner ready as protection against Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu chose not to attack, wanting to discover what other powers Hua Jingmeng still had in reserve.
• Hua Jingmeng warned Qin Yu that he would make him pay even if they perished together, then tightened his grip on the banner.

Hua Jingmeng unleashed the Myriad Spirits Burial Banner against Qin Yu, using its stillness to strip away the sense of self that gave Qin Yu ownership of his memories, karma, and power. As the banner’s burial rite closed around him, Qin Yu remained standing and studied its effect.

• Hua Jingmeng unfurled the Vast Annihilation God-Burying Banner and activated its Myriad Spirits Burial rite, silencing the arena and spreading a domain that made people lose their sense of self.
• Gray-blue motes and remnant spirits emerged from the banner, forcing nearby spectators and cultivators to retreat as the domain disrupted their Fate Souls.
• Hua Jingmeng directed the banner’s power at Qin Yu, whose thoughts and killing intent drew its threads toward the deepest source of his sense of self.
• The banner began dimming Qin Yu’s claim to his memories, karma, and abilities without destroying them, while Hua Jingmeng poured his Fate Soul into sustaining the rite despite its growing cracks.
• Qin Yu remained standing with the Silent Origin Stainless Sword in hand and watched as the first strand of stillness reached the root of his self.

Qin Yu let Hua Jingmeng’s Vast Annihilation God-Burying Banner bury his Fate Soul so he could comprehend its Dao, tracing its power back to the Eternal Silence Abyss. As the first three burials stripped away his attachments, Qin Yu discovered an undying awareness beyond self and Dao, leaving the battle suspended in absolute silence.

• Qin Yu allowed the banner’s gray-blue stillness to enter his Fate Soul and used the Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram to follow its paths back to the banner’s origin.
• Qin Yu realized the banner transferred beings’ origins to the Eternal Silence Abyss rather than truly annihilating them, and he traced the stillness to that Abyss.
• Qin Yu lowered his sword and challenged Hua Jingmeng to bury him, prompting Hua Jingmeng to unleash the banner’s full power.
• As the first burial stripped away Qin Yu’s attachments to self, Qin Yu found an undying inner awareness that observed their disappearance.
• The second burial stripped away Qin Yu’s attachment to dharma, and he recognized that the enduring awareness remained beyond his Dao arts.
• The third burial erased the distinction between Qin Yu and Hua Jingmeng, enemy and self, and victory and defeat.

Qin Yu comprehended Silent Origin and transformed the Vast Annihilation God-Burying Banner’s path from mere stripping and stillness into rebirth from annihilation. He unveiled Void Source Truth Command’s fifth move, Silent Origin Return to Truth, and awakened the banner’s ancient shadows.

• Qin Yu entered the Silent Abyss in his mindscape and realized that the origins stripped away by the Vast Annihilation God-Burying Banner had never truly perished.
• Hua Jingmeng declared victory as Qin Yu stood motionless, but Qin Yu’s Void Source · Dream Stillness opened and revealed Existence Zero Point, making the banner unable to define or bury him.
• Qin Yu saw that the banner’s Dao had stopped halfway and willingly reenacted the course of a living being’s birth within Silent Origin.
• Qin Yu’s stripped memories, will, and Great Dao were reborn, allowing him to comprehend Void Source Truth Command’s fifth move, Silent Origin Return to Truth.
• Qin Yu turned the banner’s gray-blue points of light into a sea of Silent Origin stars and explained that annihilation could lead to rebirth.
• Qin Yu awakened the banner’s ancient lingering shadows, completing its Dao Path while Hua Jingmeng watched in shock.

Qin Yu endured Hua Jingmeng’s Myriad Spirits Burial Banner and created the fifth form of Void Source Truth Command, Silent Origin Return to Truth. The four Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang recognized that he had found a path beyond annihilation, though Mystic Deconstruction judged the new form was not yet perfected.

• Qin Yu formed a sea of Silent Origin stars and revealed Silent Origin Return to Truth after enduring the three burials of Hua Jingmeng’s banner.
• The cultivators and elders of the four great Lineages, along with the judges, reacted with shock as they realized Qin Yu had used the banner’s attack to comprehend his own Dao.
• Wanyan traced how Qin Yu had advanced beyond the banner’s return to silence and praised him for completing the road beyond annihilation.
• Jiheng and Suhuang considered what Qin Yu’s new form might mean, while Mystic Deconstruction analyzed its limits.
• Mystic Deconstruction said Silent Origin Return to Truth probably had not yet reached perfection.

Qin Yu let Hua Jingmeng unleash the true form of Eternal Silence so he could experience annihilation at its source and complete his fifth divine ability, Silent Origin Return to Truth. He finished his enlightenment and manifested the move as the two opposing Daos collided in the arena.

• Mystic Deconstruction explained that Qin Yu's Silent Origin Return to Truth could one day reverse annihilation from its root, and Wanyan and the other Beast Huang recognized its terrifying potential.
• Hua Jingmeng realized Qin Yu had used his Vast Annihilation God-Burying Banner and killing moves to comprehend the Dao, then drove the banner into the arena and unleashed Eternal Silence's true form.
• Eternal Silence's true form clashed with Qin Yu's Silent Origin Star Sea, and Qin Yu deliberately let its power enter his body so he could trace all things' return to silence back to Silent Origin.
• Qin Yu opened his eyes with complete understanding, reversed all nine wheels of his Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel, and fully manifested his fifth move, Silent Origin Return to Truth.

Qin Yu perfected Silent Origin Return to Truth as Hua Jingmeng’s Eternal Silence failed to suppress him. Desperate, Hua Jingmeng sacrificed his Fate Soul to the Vast Annihilation God-Burying Banner, opening the Rift of Return to the Ruins and forcing Qin Yu to face Absolute Pre-Stillness.

• Qin Yu advanced through Hua Jingmeng’s Eternal Silence, and Silent Origin Return to Truth restored what the annihilation had buried.
• Hua Jingmeng realized his power was strengthening Qin Yu’s Dao, then sacrificed his Fate Soul and poured its essence into the Vast Annihilation God-Burying Banner.
• Hua Nongrui and Hua Yin recognized Hua Jingmeng’s forbidden sacrifice, while Xuanyuan Canglan, Nalan Yanqing, Murong Yunche, and Nangong Xingyun raised a formation and evacuated the spectators.
• Hua Jingmeng’s memories, cultivation, and obsessions flowed into the banner as a black rift opened, shaking the Fate Souls of cultivators across the Myriad Worlds Graveyard.
• Wanyan identified the phenomenon as Absolute Pre-Stillness, and Qin Yu sensed the Rift of Return to the Ruins draining the foundation of Silent Origin.

Hua Jingmeng unleashed Life Silence Return to the Ruins, draining Silent Origin and locking the arena in Absolute Pre-Stillness at the cost of his Eternal Silence Realm foundation. Qin Yu abandoned Silent Origin Return to Truth and traced the rift’s connection back through his Existence Zero Point, while the Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram suddenly trembled.

• Hua Jingmeng opened the Rift of Return to the Ruins, freezing the arena and dissolving its layers into nothingness.
• Hua Jingmeng’s Eternal Silence Realm Dao foundation collapsed, dropping him to the True Annihilation Realm · Initial Stage and gravely injuring his Fate Soul origin.
• Qin Yu’s Silent Origin Return to Truth lost its foundation as the rift drained Silent Origin and Absolute Pre-Stillness pressed toward him.
• Qin Yu sank into Void Source · Dream Stillness and used his Existence Zero Point to trace the rift’s faint connection to the present world.
• Hua Jingmeng urged Qin Yu to keep comprehending as Qin Yu’s Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram trembled and the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel contracted.

Qin Yu risked severe damage to his Fate Soul to reverse the Undefined Destruction Sword against Hua Jingmeng’s Life Silence Return to the Ruins, destroying its foundation and defeating him. Nangong Xingyun declared Qin Yu the winner and announced him as the martial competition’s first-place victor, though Qin Yu remained gravely injured.

• Qin Yu’s attempt to analyze Absolute Pre-Stillness triggered a backlash that injured his Fate Soul, so he stopped probing the void and summoned the Silent Origin Stainless Sword.
• Qin Yu used the Undefined Destruction Sword to sever the conceptual foundation of Hua Jingmeng’s Life Silence Return to the Ruins, breaking the Rift of Return to the Ruins and annihilating the Vast Annihilation God-Burying Banner.
• Hua Jingmeng unleashed Hua Nongrui’s life-protecting ancient lotus, but Qin Yu’s sword shattered it and struck Hua Jingmeng, leaving him unable to continue.
• Nangong Xingyun caught Hua Jingmeng, gave him a primordial divine pill, and announced Qin Yu as the victor of the final battle.
• Nangong Xingyun declared the final rankings: Qin Yu took first place, Hua Jingmeng second, and Ju Gongchen third, as the crowd celebrated Qin Yu’s victory.

After Qin Yu defeated Hua Jingmeng, the Four Great Lineage prodigy tournament ended with Qin Yu declared the winner. As the judges prepared to present his first-place reward, Nangong Xingyun summoned a sword blank from a golden curtain of light.

• Hua Lineage elders carried the unconscious Hua Jingmeng away and worked to stabilize his severely damaged Fate Soul and Dao foundation.
• The four judges announced the tournament's end, and the spectators celebrated Qin Yu's unprecedented first-place victory as an outside recruit.
• Nangong Xingyun invited Qin Yu to receive the first-place reward, and Qin Yu bowed to the judges and the cheering crowd before approaching them.
• Nangong Xingyun praised Qin Yu's talent while concealing his personal wariness, then summoned a strange black-and-white break in a golden curtain of light.
• An unadorned sword blank descended from the golden curtain and appeared before Qin Yu and the judges.

Qin Yu received the first-place prize, the Severing Cycle and Slaying Beginning Sword Embryo, after winning the Four Great Lineages' Prodigy Competition. The prizes were awarded to the other top contestants, and the story moved on to the long-awaited sparring match between the guardian Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang.

• Nangong Xingyun awarded Qin Yu the Severing Cycle and Slaying Beginning Sword Embryo, whose power could rupture closed-loop Daos, and Qin Yu sensed his Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel respond when he grasped it.
• Hua Yin accepted the second-place prizes on behalf of the injured Hua Jingmeng, including ten thousand Dreamplay Beads and the Eternal Silence Return to the Ruins Scripture.
• Hua Yin and Qin Yu exchanged a brief, cold glance as they passed each other in the arena, then returned to their respective lineages.
• The Chi Lineage congratulated Qin Yu on his victory, and Chi Boqian praised him for winning first place as an outside aid.
• Ju Gongchen received the third-place Primordial Origin Supreme Treasure, completing the awards for the top three contestants.
• Nangong Xingyun announced the competition's conclusion and appointed Nalan Yanqing to preside over the guardian Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang sparring match.

Nalan Yanqing explained the two-round Dao exchange and unveiled the Wordless Heavenly Disc, where the four Beast Huangs would compare their Fate Soul origin logic. After the incense burned out, Boundless Abyss Huang, Wanyan, Mystic Deconstruction, and Nameless took their seats and released their origins as the first round began.

• Nalan Yanqing outlined the rules for the origin-logic comparison and the later paired Dao discussions, then gave the four Beast Huangs one incense stick to harmonize their origins.
• Boundless Abyss Huang took the southern origin seat, and his collapsing fissure made the platform’s patterns and their meaning recede into nothingness.
• Wanyan took the northern seat, where branching possibilities spread through the platform as intricate silver-white origin strings.
• Mystic Deconstruction took the western seat, causing the platform’s patterns and Dao structures to form, revise themselves, and break apart.
• Nameless took the eastern seat, and names, forms, and the seat’s Dao patterns faded around him.
• After the incense burned out, Nalan Yanqing told all four Beast Huangs to release their Daos together, beginning the first round.