Recaps

Hua An and Hua Yuan secretly used the Primordial Stillness Lion to blur the protections and boundaries around Hua Jingyun’s secluded palace. Hua Yuan then prepared to check whether Hua Jingyun was still inside.

• Hua An sensed the patrols and told Hua Yuan they had time to act.
• Hua Yuan placed a dark gold seal bearing a stone lion on the palace steps and chanted an ancient incantation.
• The seal summoned the vast Primordial Stillness Lion, whose golden light dissolved the palace’s protective order and blurred reality around it.
• Hua Yuan guided a strand of Fate Soul toward the seal to verify whether Hua Jingyun remained inside the palace.

Hua Yuan and Hua An used the Primordial Stillness Lion to bypass Hua Jingyun’s palace restrictions and search for him, but found only traces of his past cultivation. After sensing powerful figures approaching, they fled, leaving Hua Qingyan unable to find any evidence of their presence.

• Hua Yuan used the Primordial Stillness Lion’s Before Words ability to prevent Hua Jingyun’s palace restrictions from identifying or recording it.
• Hua Yuan and Hua An sent their perceptions into the palace, but found signs that Hua Jingyun had cultivated there without finding him alive.
• Hua Yuan used a faint thread of Overtone Recollection to search the palace’s echoes for Hua Jingyun, but received no response.
• As dozens of powerful figures approached, Hua Yuan recalled the Primordial Stillness Lion into its seal, and he and Hua An escaped through a spatial rift.
• Hua Qingyan arrived with Hua Lineage disciples, searched the palace and surrounding area for traces, and found nothing.
• Hua Qingyan dismissed the search party and left, still wondering whether she had truly sensed a primordial divine beast.

Hua An and Hua Yuan reported that Hua Jingyun was missing from his secluded palace, prompting Hua Yin to order a secret investigation into when he had left. Meanwhile, all one hundred Chi Lineage disciples arrived at the outskirts of the Azure Wood Divine Forest.

• Hua An and Hua Yuan returned to Hua Yin and reported that Hua Jingyun's palace held traces of his Fate Soul but no sign of the man himself.
• Hua Yuan said their use of the Primordial Stillness Lion had found no living echo of Hua Jingyun's origin in the palace.
• Hua Yin ordered them to keep the discovery secret and investigate records and contacts to determine when Hua Jingyun had disappeared.
• Hua Yin rewarded Hua An and Hua Yuan and warned them to proceed discreetly without alerting the lineage head or other elders.
• All one hundred disciples of the Chi Lineage arrived at the outskirts of the Azure Wood Divine Forest, whose shifting Path of Logic required them to understand its unique growth patterns.

Shen Qingchen, Su Qingyuan, and Chi Qingyue entered the northern core patrol area of the Azure Wood Divine Forest and began inspecting its routes and restrictions. They found a restriction node that had recently been triggered by an unknown force, recorded the anomaly, and continued their patrol.

• Shen Qingchen, Su Qingyuan, and Chi Qingyue formed a patrol team and traveled through the shifting Dao Paths to their assigned northern territory.
• The three used their Chi Lineage identity tokens to pass through the concealed restriction protecting the core patrol area.
• Shen Qingchen, Su Qingyuan, and Chi Qingyue began their patrol, mapping routes and checking restriction nodes for disturbances.
• Shen Qingchen noticed lingering ripples at a restriction node that should have been inactive, though its patterns were intact and showed no damage.
• Su Qingyuan confirmed that someone had triggered the restriction, and Shen Qingchen stopped Chi Qingyue from approaching it.
• The three recorded the disturbance and lack of visible damage in their jade slip, then resumed their patrol.

Shen Qingchen, Su Qingyuan, and Chi Qingyue were ambushed in the Azure Wood Divine Forest by seven masked True Annihilation Realm · Peak cultivators led by a man in a golden robe. As the attackers moved to kill Chi Qingyue and capture Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan, Shen Qingchen used Ten Thousand Years in an Instant against one of them.

• Shen Qingchen sensed a hidden attack and shielded the group from a divine ability as they scattered through the forest.
• Seven masked True Annihilation Realm · Peak cultivators emerged and surrounded Shen Qingchen, Su Qingyuan, and Chi Qingyue.
• The leader in the golden robe ordered his followers to kill Chi Qingyue and take Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan alive.
• Shen Qingchen tried to activate his patrol jade slip, but two attackers pressed him from opposite sides.
• Shen Qingchen blocked an attack and struck a nearby cultivator with Ten Thousand Years in an Instant, rapidly aging the man's origin foundation.

Su Qingyuan and Shen Qingchen used their Dao-defying abilities to resist the masked cultivators while Chi Qingyue fought her attacker. When the golden-robed leader redirected all six Peak cultivators against Chi Qingyue, Shen Qingchen struck their exposed backs with Causality Severance, destabilizing three of them.

• Su Qingyuan used Pre-Origin Tribulation Finger against a masked cultivator as Shen Qingchen trapped another in Ten Thousand Years in an Instant, forcing the hunters to defend themselves with layered barriers.
• Chi Qingyue attacked the masked cultivator targeting her, summoning life Dao traces and clashing with his dark origin power.
• The golden-robed masked man ordered the five cultivators fighting Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan to attack Chi Qingyue, aiming to end the battle before Chi Lineage patrols arrived.
• Six True Annihilation Realm · Peak cultivators surrounded Chi Qingyue, and Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan recognized she could not hold them off alone.
• Shen Qingchen used Causality Severance on the five cultivators as they turned away, severing the causes that sustained their continued existence and destabilizing three of them.

Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan wounded three masked cultivators with their divine abilities, but the gold-robed masked man used Dao Tribulation Source Matchmaker to grievously injure them. Chi Qingyue flew into a rage as six True Annihilation Realm · Peak cultivators surrounded her and launched a coordinated attack.

• Su Qingyuan used Dao Dissolution Heavenly Burial while Shen Qingchen used Causality Severance, disrupting the masked cultivators’ defenses and gravely wounding three of them.
• The gold-robed masked man used Dao Tribulation Source Matchmaker to attack Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan at their sources, leaving both unable to rise.
• The gold-robed masked man ordered the six masked cultivators to attack Chi Qingyue, who erupted in fury as they sealed off her escape routes.
• Three masked cultivators began their assault with a crushing True Annihilation disk, a pitch-black war spear aimed at Chi Qingyue’s brow, and pale chains closing in to bind her.

Chi Qingyue was overwhelmed by six True Annihilation Realm · Peak cultivators until the ancestral bloodline of the Lord of the Great Dao Charter awakened within her. She invoked Final Abolition and Establishment, and her decree began tightening golden law chains around the six attackers’ Fate Souls and Dao foundations.

• The six masked cultivators coordinated their peak techniques and trapped Chi Qingyue in a deadly assault, wounding her as Su Qingyuan and Shen Qingchen watched helplessly.
• The six attacks engulfed Chi Qingyue, but a crimson light emerged from her Fate Soul and an ancient phantom appeared behind her, freezing the techniques and restoring order to the surrounding laws.
• The gold-robed masked man recognized the phantom as possibly the Lord of the Great Dao Charter, and the phantom merged into Chi Qingyue’s bloodline and Fate Soul.
• Chi Qingyue’s ancestral bloodline awakened, revealing the golden seal-script character “Abolish” on her brow and surrounding her with patterns of fundamental Great Daos.
• Chi Qingyue used Final Abolition and Establishment to manifest golden chains within the six cultivators and tightened them around their Fate Souls and Dao foundations.

Chi Qingyue awakened her ancestral bloodline as a descendant of the Lord of the Great Dao Charter, annihilated six attackers, and drove their leader to flee. She found Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan gravely injured and ordered them to return to the clan for treatment.

• Chi Qingyue used the Great Dao Charter's authority to annihilate the six masked True Annihilation · Peak cultivators, while their leader escaped through a rift in the void.
• Chi Qingyue's eternal ancestral bloodline fully awakened, revealing her descent from the Lord of the Great Dao Charter and transforming her appearance and bearing.
• Chi Qingyue went to Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan and discovered that Dao Tribulation Source Matchmaker had damaged their Fate Soul origins and cultivation foundations.
• Chi Qingyue told Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan to stop patrolling and return to the clan immediately to heal.

After the ambush, Chi Qingyue and the Chi Lineage disciples continued their patrol through the Azure Wood Divine Forest. At the final patrol area, they found a triggered restriction and were confronted by spreading scarlet mist from which a colossal black figure began to emerge.

• Chi Qingyue told the arriving Chi Lineage disciples that seven men in black had ambushed them, and that Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan needed urgent treatment.
• The disciples escorted Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan back to the lineage while Chi Qingyue confirmed the patrol jade talisman had recorded the battle and planned to report it to the Elders' Hall.
• Chi Qingyue and the remaining disciples resumed their patrol and reached the forest's final area, where they discovered signs that someone had triggered a core restriction.
• Dark red mist seeped from the surrounding trees and rocks, forcing the disciples to retreat as it swallowed the forest ahead.
• A pitch-black figure began to rise and solidify within the scarlet mist.

The Chi Lineage disciples encountered the Demonic Spirit Silent Abyss Last Speaker, whose power reached the middle stage of the Eternal Silence Realm. After it erased one disciple and sealed the forest around them, Chi Qingyue and the others were trapped inside its domain.

• The leading Chi Lineage disciple recognized the giant as the Silent Abyss Last Speaker and explained its origin and terrifying abilities.
• The disciple judged that the Demonic Spirit had reached the middle stage of the Eternal Silence Realm and ordered everyone to retreat.
• The Silent Abyss Last Speaker turned its head, silenced the forest, and used Last Word Final Chapter to erase one Chi Lineage disciple.
• Chi Qingyue urged the remaining disciples to scatter as the Silent Abyss Last Speaker fully spread its wings.
• The Silent Abyss Last Speaker sealed a ten-thousand-meter area, blocking escape and preventing messages from reaching the outside.

The Chi Lineage disciples found themselves sealed inside the Azure Wood Divine Forest by the Silent Abyss Last Speaker and formed their Ten Thousand Lives Return to the Ramparts, Ancient Bulwark of Longevity Formation for protection. Its Dharma-Ending Desolate Current began dismantling the formation and the disciples’ Fate Souls, leaving them struggling to hold the fading barrier together.

• The Chi Lineage disciples failed to escape, contact their lineage, or send messages, so their leading disciple ordered them to form the Ten Thousand Lives Return to the Ramparts, Ancient Bulwark of Longevity Formation.
• Chi Qingyue and the other disciples joined their Fate Soul source power to raise a sealed, layered ancient bulwark.
• The Silent Abyss Last Speaker released its Dharma-Ending Desolate Current, which dissolved an ancient tree and weakened the forest’s restrictions.
• The desolate current reached the formation and began stripping away its patterns, natural laws, and the disciples’ Fate Soul protection.
• The leading disciple ordered everyone to keep supplying power as cracks spread through the bulwark and the disciples began to bleed and shed flecks of light dust.
• The Chi Lineage disciples poured their remaining strength into the formation, but the golden barrier continued to fade as the desolate tide pressed toward them.

The Chi Lineage disciples struggled to withstand the Silent Abyss Last Speaker’s Dharma-Ending Desolate Current, and Chi Qingyue slowed its erosion by simplifying their formation. The enemy then unleashed Stillness of All Existence, which began extinguishing the formation’s foundations as the disciples faced imminent defeat, until an unseen speaker declared the beast would not harm their lineage.

• The Dharma-Ending Desolate Current shattered the first layer of the Chi Lineage’s Fate Soul Ancient Bastion, injuring several disciples.
• Chi Qingyue realized the current eroded complex laws faster and told the disciples to strip away composite runes, slowing the second layer’s collapse.
• The Silent Abyss Last Speaker caused the Azure Wood Divine Forest and the laws sustaining it to fall into stillness.
• The disciples resisted the pull of Stillness of All Existence, but the second bastion began collapsing from within despite their efforts.
• Chi Qingyue despaired as the barrier dwindled to a nearly transparent film, and an unseen speaker vowed that the beast would not harm her lineage.

Chi Xiyue arrived at the Azure Wood Divine Forest, restored the Chi Lineage’s failing formation, and confronted the Silent Abyss Last Speaker. After it attacked the origin of her existence, she invoked a power that questioned whether the Eternal Silence Realm needed the Demonic Spirit it had produced.

• Chi Xiyue descended into the battlefield and restored the Myriad Lives Return to the Ramparts · Ancient Bulwark of Longevity Formation to its peak.
• Chi Xiyue told the Chi Lineage disciples to keep stabilizing the formation while she faced the Silent Abyss Last Speaker.
• The Silent Abyss Last Speaker used Trace the Origin to Prove Falsehood to attack Chi Xiyue’s existence at its source and dismantle her memories and Dao marks.
• Chi Xiyue resisted the attack without doubting herself, then invoked Verify the Dao and Return to the Origin through the rift to the Eternal Silence Realm.
• Chi Xiyue asked the Eternal Silence Realm whether the Silent Abyss Last Speaker’s existence was necessary to it.

Chi Xiyue erased the Silent Abyss Last Speaker by appealing to the Eternal Silence Realm, then investigated the ambush that had injured Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan. She learned the masked attackers had deliberately targeted Chi Qingyue while keeping Qingchen and Qingyuan alive, and the chapter ended with her recognizing the attackers’ intentions were deliberate.

• The Eternal Silence Realm rejected the Silent Abyss Last Speaker, and it dissolved completely back into Eternal Silence as Chi Xiyue’s attack on its origin ended.
• Chi Xiyue dismissed the Ancient Bastion of Longevity Formation and ordered the Chi Lineage disciples to investigate and record the area’s anomalies.
• Chi Xiyue asked Chi Qingyue to lead her to where Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan had been injured, then examined the lingering traces of the attack.
• Chi Xiyue found that the attack had corrupted the foundations of Qingchen and Qingyuan’s existence, including their Dao foundations, Fate Souls, and causal origins.
• Chi Qingyue told Chi Xiyue that seven masked attackers had ambushed them, with their golden-robed leader ordering them to kill her and capture Qingchen and Qingyuan alive.
• Chi Qingyue confirmed that the attackers consistently targeted her while sparing Qingchen and Qingyuan, and Chi Xiyue understood that the distinction had been intentional.

Chi Xiyue discovered that the ambush in the Azure Wood Divine Forest had been carried out by the Primordial Dao Clan, while Chi Qingyue revealed she was the seventh-generation descendant of the Lord of the Great Dao Charter. The two returned to the Chi Lineage and reported the events and evidence to Chi Boqian.

• Chi Xiyue found six blank spaces where Chi Qingyue had erased six True Annihilation Realm · Peak cultivators from existence.
• Chi Qingyue told Chi Xiyue that the Lord of the Great Dao Charter had appeared through her Fate Soul and that she was His seventh-generation descendant.
• Chi Xiyue identified the ambushers as members of the Primordial Dao Clan from the proposition logic in their residual traces.
• Chi Xiyue and Chi Qingyue returned to the Chi Lineage, where the surviving patrol disciples were sent to recover and the evidence was secured.
• Chi Xiyue presented the findings and sealed origin mark to Chi Boqian and began recounting the forest's events.

Chi Qingyue revealed that she had awakened the bloodline of a seventh-generation descendant of the Lord of the Great Dao Charter, while Chi Boqian suspected Hua Yin had orchestrated the ambush on Chi Qingchen and Chi Qingyuan. At the Hua Lineage, Hua Yin learned that Hua Jingyun was secretly living in Returning Light Heavenly City and began plotting against him.

• Chi Qingyue told Chi Boqian that she had killed six True Annihilation Realm · Peak attackers after awakening her bloodline and using Final Abolition and Establishment.
• Chi Boqian ordered Chi Qingyue to keep her inheritance secret and focus on stabilizing her Dao foundation.
• Chi Boqian suspected Hua Yin had used the Primordial Dao Clan to target Chi Qingchen and Chi Qingyuan, but refused Chi Xiyue's proposal to destroy the clan without proof.
• Hua An and Hua Yuan showed Hua Yin a recording proving Hua Jingyun had left his seclusion and was living in a hidden residence in Returning Light Heavenly City.
• Hua Yin rewarded Hua An and Hua Yuan, then began devising a careful plan against Hua Jingyun.

Hua Yin tracked the secluded Hua Jingyun to his residence in Returning Light Heavenly City and killed the steward who recognized him. Hua Jingyun confronted his former rival and challenged him to fight, but Hua Yin mocked his diminished cultivation.

• A black-clad Hua Yin watched Hua Jingyun’s residence from the shadows as the steward left the house.
• The steward recognized Hua Yin, but Hua Yin killed him with a single strike that annihilated his body and Fate Soul.
• Hua Jingyun came outside, recognized Hua Yin, and told him to drop his disguise.
• Hua Yin revealed himself and mocked Hua Jingyun’s secluded home.
• Hua Jingyun awakened his weakened True Annihilation Realm · Initial Stage Fate Soul origin and challenged Hua Yin to fight.
• Hua Yin dismissed Hua Jingyun’s challenge and ridiculed his current cultivation.

Hua Yin attacked Hua Jingyun with Myriad Beginnings Return to Ash, intending to erase his existence, but Hua Jingyun’s ancient Dao foundations let him survive the killing art. The first exchange ended with Hua Jingyun gravely injured and Hua Yin wary of pressing his advantage.

• Hua Yin stripped the courtyard of color and silence, then unleashed Myriad Beginnings Return to Ash against Hua Jingyun’s Fate Soul and Dao foundations.
• Hua Jingyun awakened his True Annihilation Realm · Supreme Fate Soul Source and raised the Eternal Wall of Truth's Guard to shield his existence.
• Hua Yin’s annihilation fire destroyed the layered walls and pierced Hua Jingyun’s chest, leaving him badly wounded but alive.
• Hua Jingyun steadied himself after the attack, having kept his Fate Soul and Dao foundation from being erased.
• Hua Yin was surprised that Hua Jingyun survived and cautiously examined the courtyard and his opponent instead of advancing.

Hua Yin used the Primordial Beginning Ash Stele to overpower Hua Jingyun, whose hidden primordial armor could not withstand the attack. As three familiar presences approached, Hua Yin annihilated Hua Jingyun, erased his traces, and escaped through a rift in the void.

• Hua Jingyun secretly shattered a jade slip to summon help, and Hua Yin realized he had to kill him quickly.
• Hua Yin unleashed the Primordial Beginning Ash Stele, which traced Hua Jingyun’s roots and trapped him in an illusion of the peaceful Hua Lineage before forming a mark of annihilation.
• Hua Jingyun awakened his hidden primordial armor, but the stele’s attack shattered it and gravely wounded him.
• Hua Yin sensed three familiar presences approaching, struck Hua Jingyun’s Fate Soul again, and annihilated him as Hua Jingyun warned that Meng'er would not let him get away with it.
• Hua Yin erased the traces of his presence throughout the residence and escaped through a tear in the void.

Hua Yutian, Hua Luoyuan, and Hua Qichi investigated Hua Jingyun’s destroyed residence and found that his killer had erased every trace. Hua Yin, the killer, returned to the Hua Lineage and quietly celebrated, confident that his attack had left no evidence.

• Hua Yutian arrived at Hua Jingyun’s residence with Hua Luoyuan and Hua Qichi and found no body or surviving trace of Hua Jingyun’s life.
• Hua Luoyuan concluded that the killer had erased all evidence, making the battle impossible to reconstruct or trace.
• Hua Qichi realized that the killer must have known the location of Hua Jingyun’s secret residence in advance.
• Hua Yutian said only five people knew the hiding place, including himself, Hua Luoyuan, Hua Qichi, and two others, then ordered the investigation kept secret.
• Hua Yutian vowed to find and avenge Hua Jingyun before leaving with Hua Luoyuan and Hua Qichi.
• Hua Yin returned to the Hua Lineage’s grand elder’s hall, reviewed his attack, and celebrated Hua Jingyun’s death while planning his next move.

After killing Hua Jingyun, Hua Yin bound Hua An and Hua Yuan as Soul Thralls to ensure they could never reveal his secret. He then gave each of them a Primordial Supreme Treasure, leaving the newly bound men shocked by his generosity.

• Hua Yin told Hua An and Hua Yuan that he had slain Hua Jingyun and warned them that only the three of them knew what had happened.
• Hua An and Hua Yuan swore their loyalty and initially refused the crystalline cores Hua Yin offered as rewards, but he ordered them to accept.
• Hua Yin announced that Hua An and Hua Yuan would become his Soul Thralls, and they submitted rather than resist.
• Hua Yin implanted Soul Seals in both men’s Fate Soul origins, binding their lives and deaths to his control.
• Hua Yin gave Hua An an ancient black-and-gold shuttle and Hua Yuan an ancient gray-and-silver disc, identifying both as Primordial Supreme Treasures.

Hua Yin gave Hua An and Hua Yuan supreme treasures and Void and Reality Two Aspects Elixirs, winning their willing loyalty and arranging for them to leave the lineage to break through in secret. After they departed, Hua Yin turned his attention to Hua Yutian, while Hua Yutian confronted Hua Tingyuan in a sealed palace.

• Hua Yin gave Hua An and Hua Yuan Primordial Supreme Treasures and explained that the Void and Reality Two Aspects Elixirs could help them break through to True Annihilation Realm · Supreme, though the process was perilous.
• Hua Yin warned Hua An and Hua Yuan that Hua Yutian would suspect them after Hua Jingyun's annihilation, and ordered them to leave on a training mission and take the elixirs in seclusion.
• Hua An and Hua Yuan pledged their loyalty to Hua Yin, then left the hall with their rewards.
• Hua Yin reviewed his arrangements and decided that Hua Yutian was his next target.
• Hua Yutian returned from Returning Light Heavenly City and met Hua Tingyuan in a sealed palace deep within the Hua Lineage's ancestral grounds.

Hua Yutian and Hua Tingyuan reported Hua Jingyun’s annihilation to Hua Nongrui after learning that the killer had erased every trace and apparently planned the attack in advance. Hua Nongrui began investigating how Jingyun’s secret refuge had been discovered, and Hua Yutian admitted he had concealed Jingyun’s move to Returning Light Heavenly City.

• Hua Yutian confronted Hua Tingyuan over Hua Jingyun’s death, and the two accused each other before learning that Jingyun’s attendant had also been killed.
• Hua Tingyuan set aside their quarrel and agreed with Hua Yutian to report the murder to the patriarch.
• Hua Yutian told Hua Nongrui that Hua Jingyun had been annihilated and that the killer had erased every trace of their presence.
• Hua Tingyuan urged Hua Nongrui to avenge Hua Jingyun and punish the killer for infiltrating the Hua Lineage’s main city.
• Hua Nongrui asked when Hua Jingyun had moved to Returning Light Heavenly City, and Hua Yutian admitted that he had concealed the move and began explaining what had happened.

Hua Nongrui learned that Hua Jingyun had been murdered and ordered Hua Yutian and Hua Tingyuan to investigate secretly, concluding that the killer was inside the Hua Lineage. With the lineage weakened by its defeat and other losses, she kept the death from Hua Jingmeng and placed her remaining hope in his cultivation with the Nangong Lineage.

• Hua Yutian revealed that Hua Jingyun had secretly left the ancestral grounds decades earlier to hide his injured Fate Soul source and protect Hua Jingmeng.
• Hua Nongrui sealed the news of Hua Jingyun's death and gave Hua Yutian and Hua Tingyuan restricted jade tablets to report their findings directly to her.
• Hua Nongrui concluded that someone within the Hua Lineage had tracked down and killed Hua Jingyun, and ordered a secret investigation with no leniency for anyone who obstructed it.
• Hua Nongrui warned Hua Yutian and Hua Tingyuan not to let Hua Jingmeng learn that his uncle had been murdered, because the news could disrupt his cultivation in the Nangong Lineage.
• After the two elders left, Hua Nongrui reflected on the Hua Lineage's worsening position and hoped Hua Jingmeng would rise through arduous cultivation.