Recaps

Chen Yong and five Annihilation God Clan cultivators reached the Nine Nether Cold Pool, where the water suddenly churned and a demon dragon awakened. The True Annihilation Realm · Supreme dragon rose from the depths and regarded them as they stood ready on the cliff.

• A young cultivator questioned whether the dragon bone lay in the cold pool, and Chen Yong ordered the group to summon their divine weapons and stay alert.
• The pool erupted into a vast whirlpool, and Chen Yong carried the other five away as a surge of water swallowed the cold crystal ridge.
• Two blue eyes appeared beneath the whirlpool, and an ancient dragon's roar shook the Void Dharma Realm as a powerful presence awakened.
• The demon dragon's horns, head, and immense scaled body rose from the pool, confusing the cultivators' perceptions of reality and illusion.
• The True Annihilation Realm · Supreme demon dragon lowered its head and appraised Chen Yong and the five cultivators without attacking.

Chen Yong and five Annihilation God Clan cultivators confronted the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon at the Nine Nether Cold Pool. After the demon dragon’s breath disrupted their Fate Souls and a casual claw strike overwhelmed Chen Yong, he ordered them to form a defensive array.

• A cultivator recognized the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon, and Chen Yong steadied the group by urging them not to panic.
• The demon dragon released a wisp of breath that froze the causality linking the six cultivators’ Fate Souls to their actions.
• Chen Yong used his True Annihilation Realm origin to shield the other five and cut them free of the invading breath, then stayed to test the dragon with a spear strike.
• The demon dragon stopped Chen Yong’s attack with a casual claw swipe, shattered three layers of his protective origin, and sent him flying back injured.
• Chen Yong judged that the five weaker cultivators could not endure a prolonged fight and ordered them to form the Six Lives Returning to Annihilation, True Suchness Guarding the One Array.

Chen Yong and the other five cultivators faced the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon as it unleashed Great Expansion Total Extinction, making contradictory realities coexist and eroding their ability to confirm one another’s existence. The chapter left the six trapped in the spreading silence, with their formation failing and Chen Yong unable to tell whether they would remain connected to reality.

• Chen Yong warned the other five not to trust their senses alone and formed the Six Lives Returning to Annihilation · True Suchness Unity Guard Formation to confirm one another’s existence.
• The Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon revealed countless vortices beneath its scales, formed a closed loop by biting its tail, and began draining color, sound, and cold from the world.
• Chen Yong’s formation resisted the first stage, but causality corrosion made its links and the cultivators’ attacks fail to produce their intended results.
• The demon dragon’s loop collapsed into a singularity, which unleashed Great Expansion Total Extinction and made conflicting versions of the world exist at once.
• Chen Yong told the others to stop judging what was real and protect their Fate Souls as duplicate versions appeared and the formation began to fade.
• The silence spread through the formation, causing the six cultivators to lose their connection to reality while Chen Yong watched the last curtains dim.

With the Six Fates Return to Annihilation · True Suchness Unity Array close to collapse, Chen Yong revealed the Primordial Mirror, an ancient treasure that anchored existence and helped restore the group’s attacks against the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon. The mirror exposed the dragon’s existence and destabilized its Great Expansion Total Extinction, but the enraged creature tried to drag the treasure into its True Annihilation singularity.

• As the array failed and the six cultivators began slipping out of reality, Chen Yong told them to hold the final barrier and stop attacking.
• Chen Yong summoned the Primordial Mirror, which anchored his existence and then confirmed the other five cultivators were in the same world.
• The Primordial Mirror joined cause and effect into inseparable facts, allowing the sword-bearing woman’s strike and the six ancient mirrors’ beams to reach their targets.
• The mirror reflected the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon and confirmed that it had once existed, forcing its body back toward reality and cracking the origin of Great Expansion Total Extinction.
• The enraged Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon coiled around its True Annihilation singularity and pressed toward the Primordial Mirror, trying to drag it into the core of its power.

Chen Yong used the Primordial Mirror to break the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon’s Great Expansion Total Extinction and grievously wound its origin. The demon dragon then began drawing life origins from across the surrounding region into the countless apertures on its body.

• The Primordial Mirror traced the demon dragon’s origin back to a primordial moment, breaking its closed loop and exposing it to reality.
• The demon dragon’s True Annihilation power turned against it, tearing open a huge wound and restoring the six cultivators to the real world.
• Chen Yong warned the five Annihilation God Clan cultivators to hold the formation as the wounded demon dragon fell ominously silent.
• The Nine Nether Cold Pool sank, and the demon dragon opened ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine gray apertures across its body.
• The demon dragon drew life origins from plants, beasts, and distant cultivators into its apertures, then opened its eyes with an unsettling emptiness.

The Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon unleashed Nine Abyss Immersion, draining life, disrupting consciousness, and tracing the origins of Chen Yong and the five Annihilation God Clan cultivators. Chen Yong used the Primordial Mirror and array to protect their identities as the demon dragon suffered a backlash and began losing control.

• The demon dragon’s Blood Immersion drained nearby life and began extracting vitality from the six, but Chen Yong used the Primordial Mirror to anchor their life essence to the present.
• The demon dragon’s Consciousness Immersion dragged up memories and flooded the cultivators with voices, and Chen Yong struck one man to bring him back to his senses.
• The demon dragon’s Fate Immersion began severing the origins of Chen Yong’s cultivation, so he gathered the five around the Primordial Mirror to preserve their histories.
• The demon dragon began to molt and consume its own body as Nine Abyss Immersion’s backlash made it lose control.
• Chen Yong activated Six Lives Return to Annihilation, Guarding the One Reversal, and the six pinned their verified selves to the present world.

Chen Yong and the others used the Primordial Mirror to break the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon’s first Nine Abyss Immersion and badly wound it. Chen Yong tried to seal its apertures before it could recover, but the demon dragon sacrificed part of its origin to bypass his seal and unleash Nine Abyss Immersion again.

• The Primordial Mirror confirmed the six people's origins, snapping the demon dragon’s fate-root tendrils and sending backlash through its spine as parasitic consciousnesses turned against it.
• Chen Yong kept the formation intact while the Primordial Mirror pinned the demon dragon’s distortion into reality, causing its spine to break and its body to crash partly into the Nine Nether Cold Pool.
• Chen Yong ordered his five companions to stay in position and supply their Fate Soul origin to the Primordial Mirror while he attacked alone.
• Chen Yong used the Nine Luminaries Annihilation-Suppressing Dragon-Sealing Heavenly Gate to bind the demon dragon and block its apertures from reopening.
• The demon dragon tore open its chest-and-belly wound, sacrificed part of its origin to bypass the seal, and began a second Nine Abyss Immersion, prompting Chen Yong to order a retreat.

Chen Yong and the five Annihilation God Clan cultivators endured the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon’s second Nine Abyss Immersion, then launched a coordinated assault to stop it forming a third innate divine ability. The demon dragon abandoned the forming source core, but its roar revealed that the danger had only intensified.

• The demon dragon unleashed a second Nine Abyss Immersion, damaging Chen Yong and the five cultivators while its own body and Fate Soul were torn apart.
• The demon dragon’s immersion faltered, then it withdrew the swallowed vitality, memories, and life source to form a gray-cyan core between its horns.
• Chen Yong recognized that the demon dragon was preparing a third innate divine ability and called on the five cultivators to interrupt it.
• Chen Yong and the five cultivators attacked together with a spear, sword, ruler, mirrors, rings, and saber aimed at different parts of the demon dragon’s source.
• The demon dragon abandoned its unformed source core, scattered it back into its body, and roared as the sense of danger grew stronger.

The Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon used Return to the Ruins True Self to erase the six cultivators’ attacks and strip away their right to exist. Chen Yong and his companions awakened the Primordial Mirror’s Primordial Chaos Original Edict and annihilated the demon dragon, leaving the six alive but severely weakened.

• The Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon unleashed Return to the Ruins True Self, causing the six cultivators’ attacks to fade and their bodies to begin disappearing.
• Chen Yong pressed his Fate Soul essence blood onto the Primordial Mirror and ordered his five companions to offer theirs as well.
• The six drops of essence blood awakened the Primordial Mirror’s Primordial Chaos Original Edict, which reached back to the first law and halted the demon dragon’s gray halo.
• Chen Yong and his companions invoked First Law Severs Truth, striking the demon dragon and breaking its True Annihilation vortex.
• The demon dragon disintegrated completely, and the six cultivators remained beside the cold pool, exhausted and weakened.

After the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon was annihilated, the Nine Nether Cold Pool parted to reveal the ancient Dark Ruins Return Hall. As Chen Yong and the others recovered, they discovered the Primordial Mirror retained a trace of the demon dragon that showed the hall standing at the bottom of a gray-white abyss.

• The Nine Nether Cold Pool parted after the demon dragon's death, revealing the Dark Ruins Return Hall and its nine hundred and ninety-nine steps.
• The sword-bearing woman recognized the hall's name, and Chen Yong ordered the group to recover without approaching it.
• Chen Yong inspected the Primordial Mirror and found it had gained a faint dragon-shaped remnant trace.
• The remnant trace showed all six a vision of the Dark Ruins Return Hall at the bottom of a gray-white abyss.
• Chen Yong looked toward the hall after the vision vanished.

Chen Yong and his five companions descended into the Nine Nether Cold Pool and entered the Dark Ruins Return Hall, where they found a sealed treasure box at the center of its main hall. The box’s runes examined them and its black seal began to glow, leaving Chen Yong and the others poised before the unknown.

• Chen Yong identified the ancient hall beneath the pool as their true objective and led his recovered companions down toward it.
• The six reached the Dark Ruins Return Hall, and its doors opened after the vortex in one of their carved pupils turned toward them.
• Chen Yong led the group through the hall’s corridor and side chambers, passing headless statues, empty platforms, and mirrors that reflected nothing.
• The six entered the main hall and saw a small gray-blue treasure box floating above the blank center of seven concentric circles, surrounded by ancient runes and four revolving rings.
• The runes turned toward Chen Yong and his companions, briefly touched their Fate Souls, then resumed rotating as a faint light kindled along the box’s black seal.

Chen Yong approached the ancient box in the Dark Ruins Return Hall and discovered that its runes had chosen him, while the Primordial Mirror revealed the connection between the box and the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon. Hundreds of remnant souls watched as the dragon’s phantom appeared and dissolved into the box, causing all three layers of runes to tremble.

• Chen Yong stepped into the hall’s central circles, and the ancient runes examined the six cultivators before gathering around him alone.
• The runes formed an outline around Chen Yong’s Fate Soul, and he told his companions to stay behind as he approached the box.
• The Primordial Mirror emerged and projected the demon dragon’s remnant trace toward the ancient box, revealing the dragon had guarded it.
• Gray-white mist formed hundreds of remnant souls on the hall’s walls, and they watched the Primordial Mirror.
• The mirror released a thousand-zhang phantom of the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon, which cried out and dissolved into the ancient box.
• All three layers of runes around the box trembled as the dragon’s dark light entered it.

Chen Yong retrieved the ancient box after the remnant souls and runes vanished, then led his five companions out of the Nine Nether Cold Pool. As they crossed the Ten Thousand Swords Golden Ruins, a voice stopped them and they found three figures behind them.

• The runes returned to the remnant souls, which dissipated along with the four ancient rings, leaving the ancient box unobstructed.
• Chen Yong cautiously took the ancient box, sealed it inside his storage pouch, and told his five companions their mission was complete.
• The six left the Dark Ruins Return Hall and escaped the Nine Nether Cold Pool before its walls of water closed again.
• Chen Yong led the injured group through perilous lands toward the Annihilation God Clan, and they entered the Ten Thousand Swords Golden Ruins.
• Chen Yong noticed the ruins had grown unusually quiet and stopped; a voice ordered the six to stop, and they saw three figures near a broken sword platform.

Chen Yong and his five companions encountered three peak true annihilation realm cultivators in the Ten Thousand Swords Golden Ruins, who suspected they had come from the Nine Nether Cold Pool and demanded their storage bags. Chen Yong tried to negotiate while preparing his group to fight, but the white-robed cultivator summoned a murky-white Dao seal.

• The golden-robed, black-robed, and white-robed cultivators questioned Chen Yong about his clan and whether he had visited the Nine Nether Cold Pool.
• The golden-robed man sensed the unusual Fate Soul traces on Chen Yong and challenged him, prompting Chen Yong to warn his companions to protect the ancient box.
• The white-robed cultivator awakened the broken swords in the ruins and demanded that the six hand over their storage bags.
• Chen Yong and his companions quietly prepared their array, and Chen Yong offered resources but refused to surrender their private clan property.
• The white-robed cultivator rejected Chen Yong's attempt to negotiate and produced a murky-white Dao seal.

Chen Yong and his five companions fought to hold their formation against three peak True Annihilation cultivators from the Primordial Dao Clan, who sealed the Ten Thousand Swords Golden Ruins and attacked with its ancient sword concepts. Chen Yong used the Primordial Mirror to anchor the formation, but its revelation made the attackers decide to kill all six and seize it.

• The Primordial Dao Clan sealed the ruins and demanded the six surrender their storage items, then the gold-robed man struck their formation with peak origin power.
• The black-robed man used Primordial Return to the Vein to combine nearby sword concepts and batter the formation, while Chen Yong recognized the attackers as members of the Primordial Dao Clan.
• Chen Yong summoned the Primordial Mirror, which restored the truth of their surroundings and stabilized the Six Fates formation.
• Seeing the mirror, the three attackers coveted it, and Chen Yong urged his five injured companions to prepare for a fight against three peak cultivators.
• Chen Yong warned his companions that the Primordial Dao Clan could turn the ruins against them, while the attackers spread into an inverted triangle and resolved to kill all six and take the mirror.

The three Primordial Dao Clan cultivators turned the Ten Thousand Swords Golden Ruins into a weapon and began dismantling the Six Fates Return to Annihilation, True Thus Guarding Unity Array. Chen Yong used the Primordial Mirror to expose and pin down their true bodies, then charged the golden-robed man as both sides committed to a final strike.

• The golden-robed, black-robed, and white-robed cultivators gathered sword concepts from the Golden Ruins and formed three Primordial Ancient Swords to attack the Six Fates array’s junctions.
• The first sword shattered a Fate Soul array pattern, so Chen Yong used the Primordial Mirror to mark the three opponents’ true locations and ordered the six to split up.
• The array’s defenses fell, and the three ancient swords grievously wounded the heavy-ruler man and another cultivator as their companions rushed to engage the black-robed and white-robed men.
• Chen Yong advanced on the golden-robed man while his companion helped maintain the Mirror’s marks, and the two groups fought to create an opening in the Three Extremes combined attack.
• Chen Yong pinned down the golden-robed man’s true body with the Primordial Mirror and thrust his spear as the golden-robed man gathered a massive sword attack, leaving their killing strikes about to collide.

Chen Yong pierced the golden-robed man with the Primordial Mirror’s coordinates, breaking the Primordial Combined Attack Great Formation but leaving himself gravely wounded. He ordered Zhao Qinglan to escape with the ancient box while his companions continued fighting to cover her retreat.

• Chen Yong endured the golden-robed man’s sword assault and pierced his true body, using the Primordial Mirror to pin down his Fate Soul origin.
• Chen Yong blasted the golden-robed man into a metal wall, and the Primordial Ancient Wheel cracked, crippling the combined attack formation.
• Chen Yong told Zhao Qinglan to take the storage bag and escape with the ancient box, while another wounded companion urged her to return to the clan alive.
• The white-clad cultivator gathered the scattered sword intent and sent it crashing toward Zhao Qinglan, but the young cultivator guarding her shielded her with Two Aspects Sever Reality.
• The young cultivator charged back into the fight, while the man with the heavy ruler attacked the black-robed cultivator with Annihilation Mountain Without Substance.

In the Ten Thousand Swords Golden Ruins, a dying Annihilation God Clan cultivator awakened to the Dao of reality and illusion, giving Chen Yong an opening to help Zhao Qinglan escape with the storage bag. Chen Yong and the others held off the three Peak cultivators as the golden-robed man ordered his allies to use their secret art.

• A gravely wounded young cultivator broke through his Dao shackles and used the blurred boundary between reality and illusion to entangle the black-robed man.
• Chen Yong seized the opening, passed Zhao Qinglan the storage bag, and charged the white-clad cultivator to keep him from pursuing her.
• The awakened cultivator and three companions trapped the black-robed man while Chen Yong and another fighter held back the white-clad man.
• Zhao Qinglan fled through the shattered formation, and the golden-robed man recognized the storage bag and ordered that she not be allowed to escape.
• Chen Yong formed a defensive line with the remaining Annihilation God Clan cultivators to protect Zhao Qinglan's retreat.
• The golden-robed man reunited with the black-robed and white-clad men and told them to use their secret art.

Chen Yong and the Annihilation God Clan disciples sacrificed their Fate Soul roots to awaken the Primordial Mirror’s forbidden ability, Primordial True Judgment, against the three Primordial Dao Clan cultivators. The mirror annihilated two attackers and wounded the golden-robed man, but it and its sacrificers were destroyed, leaving the golden-robed man alive and Zhao Qinglan’s fate unresolved.

• The golden-robed, black-robed, and white-clad men formed the Annihilation Ten Thousand Swords Formation, drawing on Time Silence, Space Silence, and Existence Silence to trap Chen Yong and his companions.
• Chen Yong and the Annihilation God Clan disciples offered their essence blood and Fate Soul origins to the Primordial Mirror, awakening Primordial True Judgment.
• The Primordial Mirror stripped away the annihilation definitions attached to the ancient swords, bringing the swords crashing down and annihilating the black-robed and white-clad men.
• The golden-robed man protected himself with a dark-gold shield, while Chen Yong and the disciples dispersed as their Fate Soul roots were consumed and the Primordial Mirror broke apart.
• The wounded golden-robed man abandoned his pursuit of Zhao Qinglan and flew away to seek a safe place to suppress his injuries.

Zhao Qinglan fled the Ten Thousand Swords Golden Ruins after Chen Yong and the other disciples died holding off Primordial Dao Clan cultivators, carrying the ancient box they had sacrificed themselves to protect. She reached the Annihilation God Clan’s ancestral domain gravely wounded and asked the guards to take her to the clan leader.

• Zhao Qinglan fled through the Void Dharma Realm, grieving as the Fate Soul connections to Chen Yong and the other disciples went silent.
• Zhao Qinglan vowed to return the ancient box and the sect’s undertaking to the Annihilation God Clan, then used her remaining True Annihilation origin to reach its ancestral domain.
• Zhao Qinglan’s suppressed injuries erupted when she arrived, leaving her barely able to walk toward the mountain gate.
• The mountain gate guards recognized Zhao Qinglan, saw that she had returned alone, and asked what had happened to Chen Yong and the others.
• Zhao Qinglan asked the guards to take her to the clan leader, and they hurried with her toward the ancestral domain’s center while she guarded the storage pouch.

Zhao Qinglan returned to the Annihilation God Clan with the ancient box after Chen Yong and the others died protecting her from the Primordial Dao Clan. Yuan Zhanxiao vowed revenge, then formally declared war and ordered confident clan members to kill the Primordial Dao Clan’s people.

• Two guards brought the gravely wounded Zhao Qinglan to Yuan Zhanxiao, who used Supreme Transformation Source Crystals to stabilize her Fate Soul.
• Zhao Qinglan told Yuan Zhanxiao that three Peak True Annihilation Realm cultivators from the Primordial Dao Clan killed Chen Yong and the others as they covered her escape.
• Zhao Qinglan presented the ancient box recovered from the Nine Nether Cold Pool, and Yuan Zhanxiao took it and promised that the Primordial Dao Clan would pay for the deaths.
• Yuan Zhanxiao decided to give the ancient box to his master, who had defeated Hua Jingmeng and won the martial competition.
• Yuan Zhanxiao issued a clan decree formally declaring war on the Primordial Dao Clan and ordering confident Annihilation God Clan disciples to kill its members.

Hua Yin investigated Qin Yu’s disappearance and, after hearing Chen Jinrong’s account of the Annihilation God Clan and an ancient box from the Nine Nether Cold Pool, planned to use Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan to draw Qin Yu out. He left Chen Jinrong with orders to capture the two Chi Lineage cultivators alive during their patrol in the Azure Wood Divine Forest.

• Hua Yin learned that Qin Yu had stayed inside the Chi Lineage grounds since the martial arts tournament and ordered his disciple to keep watching secretly.
• Hua Yin met Chen Jinrong, who reported that the Annihilation God Clan had fought to protect an ancient box from the Nine Nether Cold Pool.
• Hua Yin rewarded Chen Jinrong and showed him portraits of Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan.
• Hua Yin told Chen Jinrong to gather True Annihilation Realm · Peak cultivators and ambush the Chi Lineage patrol in the Azure Wood Divine Forest.
• Hua Yin ordered Chen Jinrong to capture Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan alive and send him a Soul Sound Talisman before questioning them.

Hua Yin secretly investigated the Annihilation God Clan and grew suspicious that Hua Jingyun was not truly secluded. He ordered Hua An and Hua Yuan to carry out a covert plan, while the chapter shifted to the bustling Chi Lineage residence in Stele Forest Imperial City.

• Hua Yin ordered a hidden operative to trace the ancient box, investigate the Annihilation God Clan, and report without alerting them.
• Hua Yin summoned Hua An and Hua Yuan, who reported that Hua Jingyun had stayed inside his palace despite Hua Jingmeng’s grave injuries and departure with Nangong Xingyun.
• Hua Yin suspected Hua Jingyun might be absent or secretly recovering, and he quietly instructed Hua An and Hua Yuan to act against the potential threat.
• Hua An and Hua Yuan promised to handle Hua Yin’s order in secret and left his palace.
• The chapter shifted to Stele Forest Imperial City, where guests streamed into the Chi Lineage’s residence.

After the Chi Lineage's tournament victory, cultivators and factions from across the realm gathered at its estate to offer gifts, seek protection, and pursue alliances. As ancient reclusive clans entered the estate and the crowd watched, the Chi Lineage's off-domain patrol formed in the sky for its scheduled inspection.

• Cultivators from many domains flocked to the Chi Lineage estate, bringing gifts and seeking its protection or favor.
• Hidden experts watched the gathering, curious about the Chi Lineage's rising power and the outside champion who had won the tournament.
• Ancient reclusive clans arrived seeking audiences and alliances, and one clan openly pledged itself to the Chi Lineage.
• Chi Lineage elders welcomed the reclusive guests and sent reports to the inner estate as visitors continued to arrive.
• A hundred Chi Lineage disciples formed in the sky under an Eternal Silence Realm attendant, and onlookers identified them as the off-domain patrol beginning its routine inspection.

Chi Lineage disciples Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan joined a hundred-strong patrol dispatched to inspect the Azure Wood Divine Forest. After the patrol departed, a hidden observer reported that the two had entered the forest and vanished through a spatial rift.

• Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan watched the many clans gathering at the Chi Lineage estate and discussed the lineage's growing influence.
• The Eternal Silence Realm deacon distributed jade slips and ordered the hundred disciples to inspect the Azure Wood Divine Forest, report dangers, and return in three days.
• The deacon opened a teleportation barrier, and Shen Qingchen, Su Qingyuan, the other disciples, and the deacon entered the forest.
• A disguised man watched Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan enter the barrier, then retreated to a secluded spot between ancient steles.
• The man sent a Soul Sound Talisman message reporting that the patrol had departed and the two targets had entered the forest, then escaped through a spatial rift.