Recaps

After the Azure Wood Divine Forest mission failed, Hua Yin sent Hua Ciyuan, Hua Junmo, and Hua Ziye to kill the wounded Chen Jinrong and silence him. Chen Jinrong lured them into a deadly formation and annihilated them, then fled Returning Light Heavenly City severely weakened and vowing revenge on Hua Yin.

• Hua Yin received Chen Jinrong's report of the failed mission and promised to send healing medicine while secretly deciding to eliminate him.
• Chen Jinrong suspected Hua Yin would silence him, so he prepared a contingency in his secluded cave abode.
• Hua Ciyuan, Hua Junmo, and Hua Ziye attacked Chen Jinrong, but destroyed only an Yingling remnant soul that triggered his hidden formation.
• Chen Jinrong trapped the three Hua Lineage stewards inside the Dao-Defying Primordial Beginning formation and killed them.
• Chen Jinrong was gravely weakened by activating the formation, vowed revenge on Hua Yin, and disappeared into the night.

After Hua Ciyuan, Hua Junmo, and Hua Ziye died while trying to kill Chen Jinrong, Hua Yin exposed Chen as the thief of the Annihilation God Clan’s ancient box to make the clan pursue him. Three years later, Qin Yu completed his recovery and reached Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme in the Life Source Pool, where he began using the Severing Cycle and Slaying Beginning Sword Embryo to take his perfected Sword Dao beyond its limits.

• Hua Yin learned that Hua Ciyuan, Hua Junmo, and Hua Ziye had died, and realized Chen Jinrong had anticipated the ambush and killed them.
• Hua Yin sent a secret transmission identifying Chen Jinrong as the Primordial Dao Clan disciple who had seized the Annihilation God Clan’s ancient box, intending to turn the clan against him.
• Three years later, Qin Yu completed his cultivation in the Life Source Pool, restored his Fate Soul, and reached Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme.
• Qin Yu activated the Severing Cycle and Slaying Beginning Sword Embryo, splitting the sky into black and white and exposing cracks in closed-loop Dao principles across the world.
• The sword embryo stripped the traces of Supreme Finality’s Sword Dao from its original source sword, reducing the sword to nothingness and revealing the essences of its ten realms.

Qin Yu completed his three-year seclusion in the Life Source Pool, breaking the ten-realm Supreme Finality sword Dao and fusing the Severing Cycle and Slaying Beginning Sword Embryo into his soul. He created the supreme sword form Return to Origin and Sever Retracing, which erased a target’s right to exist and every trace of its existence, and remained quietly seated as the pool returned to calm.

• Qin Yu broke the closed loop of his ten sword realms, refined their radiance into a ball of light, and reconstructed his sword Dao beyond the need to acknowledge a target before destroying it.
• Qin Yu traced his Supreme Finality sword Dao back to its first origin, tore out its initial anchor, and stripped away the sequential act of severing until all ten realms became one.
• Qin Yu fused the Severing Cycle and Slaying Beginning Sword Embryo into his Fate Soul, completing Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme after three years of seclusion.
• Qin Yu formed the new supreme sword form Return to Origin and Sever Retracing, which stripped targets of their right to exist across time, karma, and every other anchor without leaving a trace.
• Qin Yu settled back into quiet meditation in the Life Source Pool, with his cultivation and sword intent fully contained within him.

Qin Yu completed his breakthrough to the Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme and carefully stabilized his Fate Soul and Dao foundation in the Life Source Pool. Outside, the Chi Lineage watched in shock as its elders and prodigies struggled to understand the black-and-white phenomenon his transformation had caused, while Qin Yu remained in seclusion.

• Qin Yu fused the Severing Cycle and Slaying Beginning Sword Embryo into his sword intent, awakening Return to Origin and Sever Retracing and reaching the Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme.
• Qin Yu examined and strengthened his Fate Soul and Dao foundation, settling his cultivation and concealing his power as the Life Source Pool's resonance smoothed away lingering instability.
• Chi Boqian and Chi Lanyue concluded that the phenomenon had originated at the Life Source Pool, but Chi Lanyue could not discern Qin Yu's transformation or Dao Path.
• Chi Ninghua recalled that Qin Yu had entered seclusion at the Eternal Silence Realm Initial Stage, while Chi Tongyue recognized that his transformation had shaken the Dao foundation of a Supreme cultivator.
• Chi Xiyue and the gathered Chi Lineage disciples were left stunned by the phenomenon, and the plain-robed elder praised the depth of Qin Yu's foundation.
• Qin Yu continued meditating in the Life Source Pool as the Chi Lineage watched, his cultivation stable and his presence concealed.

After completing his breakthrough to Eternal Silence Supreme, Qin Yu prepared to leave the Life Source Pool while Xiao Yue decided to enter seclusion in his Final Spirit Core to awaken her remaining divine abilities. Chi Boqian, the mysterious old man, and Chi Xiyue waited outside as Xiao Yue began her retreat.

• Outside the Life Source Pool, Chi Boqian and the mysterious old man discussed Qin Yu’s rise from Eternal Silence Initial Stage to Supreme and the extraordinary divine ability behind the black-and-white phenomenon.
• Chi Xiyue arrived at the forbidden area and joined Chi Boqian and the old man in waiting outside the stone gate.
• Qin Yu finished consolidating his cultivation, and Xiao Yue praised him for reaching Eternal Silence Supreme after accompanying him through three years of seclusion.
• Xiao Yue examined the Life Source Pool and told Qin Yu she needed to strengthen her divine abilities so she could keep pace with him.
• Xiao Yue drew one cubic meter of Life Source Pool water into a storage crystal core and entered Qin Yu’s Annihilation Devil Pupil · Final Spirit Core to begin her seclusion.

Xiao Yue created an isolated great world within the Boundless Realm Domain and entered seclusion to cultivate the Blue Rings. After three years in the Life Source Pool, Qin Yu emerged at the Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme and left with Chi Boqian and Chi Xiyue to hear about changes in the outside world.

• Xiao Yue used the Life Source Pool water to prepare a secluded cultivation ground in a newborn great world, then began nourishing the Blue Rings and comprehending their Dao resonance.
• Qin Yu emerged from the forbidden area after three years, having reached the Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme with his Fate Soul and Dao foundation fully stabilized.
• Chi Boqian, Chi Xiyue, and the mysterious old man welcomed Qin Yu and praised his cultivation and composure.
• Qin Yu credited the Chi Lineage and the Life Source Pool for his progress, and Chi Boqian invited him to discuss the changes in the outside world.
• Qin Yu accompanied Chi Boqian and Chi Xiyue toward the ancestral grounds' inner hall while the mysterious old man returned to guard the forbidden area.

Qin Yu celebrated reaching the Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme with Chi Boqian and Chi Xiyue, then confessed he had taken water from the Chi Lineage’s Life Source Pool. Chi Xiyue revealed that Qingchen and Qingyuan had been attacked by the Primordial Dao Clan three years earlier, and the escaped leader remained unidentified.

• Chi Boqian and Chi Xiyue congratulated Qin Yu on his breakthrough and praised his talent and stable Dao foundation.
• Qin Yu credited the Life Source Pool for helping him recover and advance, and Chi Boqian said Qin Yu’s own strength had made the breakthroughs possible.
• Qin Yu admitted that he had taken some water from the Life Source Pool without asking, and Chi Boqian dismissed the matter as trivial.
• Chi Xiyue told Qin Yu that seven Primordial Dao Clan members had attacked Qingchen and Qingyuan during a patrol in the Azure Wood Divine Forest, seeking to capture them alive.
• A Chi Lineage disciple awakened a hidden bloodline ability and killed six attackers, while their leader escaped.
• Chi Xiyue said the Chi Lineage had spent three years searching the Primordial Dao Clan for the leader but had found no trace of him.

After learning that Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan had recovered from the Azure Wood Divine Forest ambush, Qin Yu took over the investigation and traveled to Stele Forest Imperial City to meet Qian Wenwan. Their reunion ended with Qian Wenwan asking whether he had come about the Holy Clan, and Qin Yu revealing that he knew nothing about it.

• Chi Xiyue told Qin Yu that Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan had fully recovered and that the Chi Lineage had protected them since the ambush.
• Qin Yu volunteered to investigate the ambush alone, and Chi Boqian agreed while promising the Chi Lineage would protect him if the Hua Lineage harmed him.
• After Qin Yu left, Chi Xiyue named Hua Yin as her suspect, and Chi Boqian agreed that the evidence pointed toward him but remained inconclusive.
• Qin Yu arrived at the Heavenly Secrets Dao Pavilion in Stele Forest Imperial City, where a steward recognized him as a registered shopkeeper and directed him to Qian Wenwan.
• Qian Wenwan welcomed Qin Yu and asked whether he had come because of the Holy Clan, but Qin Yu said he knew nothing about it.

Qian Wenwan told Qin Yu how Ye Ting had bought vast supplies from the Heavenly Secrets Dao Pavilion three years earlier to establish the Holy Clan, and Qin Yu confirmed Ye Ting was his Soul Thrall. Qin Yu revealed that his real reason for visiting was to ask about the Primordial Dao Clan, prompting Qian Wenwan to prepare to explain its unusual history.

• Qian Wenwan recounted how Ye Ting had purchased extensive clan-building supplies three years earlier and how she had waived the cost as a favor to Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu confirmed that Ye Ting was his Soul Thrall and said he had tasked Ye Ting with becoming the Holy Clan's patriarch within three years.
• Qian Wenwan realized Qin Yu had not come to discuss the Holy Clan and reaffirmed that she was willing to help him as a fellow shopkeeper.
• Qin Yu asked Qian Wenwan about the Primordial Dao Clan, and she said its history was unusual.

Qian Wenwan explained how Hunyuanzi founded the Primordial Dao Clan through the Myriad Transformations Return to the Ruins Scripture and why its members can draw power from their surroundings. Qin Yu connected that history to the Azure Wood Divine Forest ambush and learned that the clan was loosely organized but endured because of its scripture.

• Qian Wenwan told Qin Yu that Hunyuanzi stole the Myriad Transformations Return to the Ruins Scripture, used the Realm Transformation Grand Formation to drain the Great Void Heavenly Palace’s main peak, and defected after reaching the True Annihilation Realm.
• Qian Wenwan explained that Hunyuanzi founded the Primordial Dao Clan in the Sea of the Boundless Realm, where its members could use the environment to strengthen their abilities.
• Qian Wenwan recited the clan’s precept about devouring all things, and Qin Yu connected the clan’s cultivation methods to the ambush in the Azure Wood Divine Forest three years earlier.
• Qin Yu asked Qian Wenwan which powers maintained close ties with the Primordial Dao Clan, and she said the clan had no lasting alliances and its members usually wandered independently.
• Qian Wenwan explained that Jiang Lingyun managed the clan poorly but that the Myriad Transformations Return to the Ruins Scripture had allowed the scattered clan to survive for three million years.

Qian Wenwan explained that the Primordial Dao Clan’s inheritance made its cultivators powerful only when they could draw on their surroundings, and Qin Yu revealed that the clan had arranged an ambush for his friends as part of a plot targeting him. After leaving Stele Forest Imperial City, Qin Yu changed course to check on the Holy Clan and the Annihilation God Clan before confronting the Primordial Dao Clan.

• Qian Wenwan told Qin Yu that the Myriad Transformations Return to the Ruins Scripture replaced other cultivation paths, leaving its practitioners vulnerable in barren places with little Dao resonance to draw upon.
• Qin Yu told Qian Wenwan that members of the Primordial Dao Clan had ambushed his two friends to capture them alive, and they concluded that he was the true target of a hidden instigator.
• Qian Wenwan offered to investigate the Primordial Dao Clan, but Qin Yu declined and said he would settle the grudge himself; she gave him a voice transmission jade slip for future assistance.
• After Qin Yu left, Qian Wenwan ordered the Heavenly Secrets Dao Pavilion to provide Holy Clan visitors with supplies free of charge and treat them with the highest courtesy.
• Qin Yu left Stele Forest Imperial City and redirected his journey to check on the Holy Clan and the Annihilation God Clan, intending to bring them along when he dealt with the Primordial Dao Clan.

Qin Yu returned to the Annihilation God Clan after three years and saw how greatly Yuan Zhanxiao and Yuan Xuangu had expanded and transformed its territory. He reunited with his Soul Thralls, who sensed his breakthrough to the Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme, and headed with them to the clan leader’s hall.

• Qin Yu surveyed the Annihilation God Clan’s vast new territory and saw its connected Great Dao roots and starry sky above the central city.
• Yuan Zhanxiao sensed Qin Yu’s arrival through their Fate Soul connection and informed Yuan Xuangu that their master had returned.
• Yuan Xuangu and Yuan Zhanxiao met Qin Yu at the clan’s outskirts and sensed that he had reached the Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme.
• Yuan Zhanxiao and Yuan Xuangu knelt and welcomed Qin Yu, who ordered them to rise.
• Qin Yu led Yuan Zhanxiao and Yuan Xuangu toward the clan leader’s hall.

Qin Yu returned to the Annihilation God Clan and heard how Yuan Zhanxiao and Yuan Xuangu had rebuilt it into a powerful, well-organized clan over three years. Yuan Zhanxiao then returned an ancient box tied to a dangerous expedition, and his account ended as he revealed that the Primordial Dao Clan had ambushed the returning clansmen.

• Qin Yu took the patriarch's seat while Yuan Zhanxiao and Yuan Xuangu reported on the Annihilation God Clan's growth, forces, territories, experts, and reserves.
• Qin Yu praised Yuan Zhanxiao and Yuan Xuangu for rebuilding the clan's foundations.
• Yuan Zhanxiao produced an ancient silver-and-black box that he had kept for Qin Yu for three years.
• Yuan Zhanxiao explained that Chen Yong and five clansmen found the box in the Dark Ruins Return Hall after killing a Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon with the Primordial Mirror.
• Yuan Zhanxiao recounted that the Primordial Mirror triggered the box's patterns and dispersed the hall's remnant souls.
• Yuan Zhanxiao said three peak True Annihilation Realm cultivators from the Primordial Dao Clan ambushed Chen Yong's group in the Ten Thousand Swords Golden Ruins, and Qin Yu reacted with cold anger.

Qin Yu accepted the ancient box that Zhao Qinglan had returned after Chen Yong and five clansmen sacrificed themselves to defeat a Primordial Dao Clan ambush. He then took Yuan Zhanxiao and Yuan Xuangu to the Holy Clan, where they saw that Ye Ting had built a territory vast enough to stand as the Annihilation God Clan’s equal.

• Yuan Zhanxiao recounted how Chen Yong and five clansmen died protecting Zhao Qinglan and the ancient box, destroying the Primordial Mirror to break the Primordial Dao Clan’s formation.
• Qin Yu accepted the ancient box and sealed it safely inside the Boundless Realm Domain of the Annihilation Devil Pupil · Final Spirit Core.
• Qin Yu praised Yuan Zhanxiao and Yuan Xuangu for rebuilding the Annihilation God Clan and preserving the fallen clansmen’s relics.
• Qin Yu told Yuan Zhanxiao and Yuan Xuangu that he was taking them to the Holy Clan and declared that the two clans would stand together against their enemies.
• Qin Yu, Yuan Zhanxiao, and Yuan Xuangu arrived at the Holy Clan and saw its vast cities, territory, and towering central holy city.
• Qin Yu led the two men toward the Holy Clan’s core restricted area, recognizing that Ye Ting had made the clan powerful enough to stand as the Annihilation God Clan’s equal.

Qin Yu reunited with Ye Ting, who had become the Holy Clan’s patriarch and rebuilt its foundations over three years. In the patriarch’s hall, Ye Ting presented the clan genealogy and revealed the scale of the Holy Clan’s territories and resources.

• Holy Clan guards surrounded Qin Yu, Yuan Zhanxiao, and Yuan Xuangu after they entered the clan’s core territory.
• Ye Ting sensed Qin Yu’s arrival, appeared before the guards, and dismissed them without revealing his relationship with Qin Yu.
• After the guards left, Ye Ting knelt and welcomed Qin Yu as his Master, then escorted him toward the patriarch’s hall with Yuan Zhanxiao and Yuan Xuangu.
• Ye Ting presented Qin Yu with the Holy Clan genealogy and described the work he had completed to organize the clan’s territories, personnel, and resources.
• Ye Ting opened the genealogy to display a detailed three-dimensional map of the Holy Clan’s domain and outlined its cities, cultivation grounds, and resource territories.

Ye Ting presented Qin Yu with the Holy Clan’s vast membership, expert forces, and resource holdings, leaving Yuan Zhanxiao and Yuan Xuangu astonished by its scale. The report continued with 96 resource territories and more than 860 million top-grade energy crystals remaining in the nine main treasuries.

• Ye Ting opened the Holy Clan genealogy and reported more than 127 million registered members, organized across its administrative and professional systems.
• Ye Ting revealed that the clan had more than 1.86 million Mystic Void Realm cultivators, 270,000 True Annihilation Realm cultivators, and 6,700 Eternal Silence Realm cultivators stationed throughout its territories.
• Yuan Zhanxiao and Yuan Xuangu compared the Holy Clan’s strength with the Annihilation God Clan and recognized the gap between them.
• Ye Ting displayed the clan’s 96 resource territories, including twelve core territories, and reported that its nine main treasuries held more than 860 million top-grade energy crystals.

After surveying the Holy Clan’s immense strength, Qin Yu formally allied Ye Ting with Yuan Zhanxiao and Yuan Xuangu, then set out with them to exterminate the Primordial Dao Clan over its past killings. The four arrived at the clan’s ancestral land in the Sea of the Boundless Realm, where space suddenly tore open above the settlement.

• Ye Ting revealed the Holy Clan’s vast population, territories, resource stores, and war reserves to Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu introduced Ye Ting to Yuan Zhanxiao and Yuan Xuangu and formally united the Holy Clan and the Annihilation God Clan under his command.
• Remembering the deaths linked to the Primordial Dao Clan, Qin Yu ordered Ye Ting, Yuan Zhanxiao, and Yuan Xuangu to accompany him to exterminate a clan.
• Qin Yu opened a rift through space, and the four traveled to the Sea of the Boundless Realm.
• The four arrived at the Primordial Dao Clan’s ancestral land, where space tore open above the center of the sea.

Qin Yu confronted the Primordial Dao Clan over Chen Jinrong, a golden-robed member accused of slaughtering living beings, and demanded that the clan hand him over. After learning Chen Jinrong had left three years earlier, Qin Yu ordered the clan exterminated, and Ye Ting, Yuan Zhanxiao, and Yuan Xuangu began their attack.

• Qin Yu emerged from a spatial rift with Ye Ting, Yuan Zhanxiao, and Yuan Xuangu, frightening the Primordial Dao Clan and its three True Annihilation Realm · Peak elders.
• Qin Yu demanded the identity of a clan member who habitually wore golden robes and threatened to exterminate the clan if the person was not handed over.
• Zhan Lingyun identified the absent member as Chen Jinrong and said he had left the clan three years earlier, but the clan did not know his whereabouts.
• Qin Yu accused the elders of responsibility for Chen Jinrong’s crimes, and Ye Ting, Yuan Zhanxiao, and Yuan Xuangu killed Zhan Lingshuang, Zhan Lingxiao, and Zhan Lingyun.
• Qin Yu ordered the Primordial Dao Clan exterminated, and Ye Ting, Yuan Zhanxiao, and Yuan Xuangu plunged toward the clan’s ancestral land to attack.

Qin Yu pursued Jiang Linglong after the Primordial Dao Clan’s ancestral grounds were slaughtered and demanded the truth about Chen Jinrong. Jiang Linglong’s false lead exposed his treachery, and he unleashed Return to the Ruins · Silent Sea, trapping Qin Yu in a deathly domain as the black sea began to consume him.

• Ye Ting, Yuan Zhanxiao, and Yuan Xuangu killed the Primordial Dao Clan cultivators at their ancestral grounds while Qin Yu noticed two fugitives escaping in opposite directions.
• Qin Yu sent Yuan Zhanxiao after the fugitive on the left and ordered Yuan Xuangu and Ye Ting to guard the grounds, kill returning clansmen, and gather the clan’s resources.
• Qin Yu pursued the fugitive on the right and used the Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram to appear in his path.
• Qin Yu identified the fugitive as Jiang Linglong, a Supreme Eternal Silence Realm grand elder, and demanded information about Chen Jinrong.
• Jiang Linglong claimed Chen Jinrong had appeared at the Echo Cliff · Deathbed Auction House, but Qin Yu saw through the lie.
• Jiang Linglong unleashed Return to the Ruins · Silent Sea, freezing the surrounding domain and causing its black waters to creep over Qin Yu.

Qin Yu used the sword technique Return to Origin and Sever Retracing to erase Jiang Linglong’s Return to the Ruins · Silent Sea and sever the foundations of his existence. As Jiang Linglong vanished from the world and its memories, he was left unable to finish asking who Qin Yu was.

• Jiang Linglong trapped Qin Yu in Return to the Ruins · Silent Sea and explained how the Sea of the Boundless Realm strengthened his clan’s divine ability.
• Qin Yu revealed that he would test the sword technique he had spent three years comprehending, though he made no visible movement or attack.
• Return to Origin and Sever Retracing erased the origins and conditions that allowed Jiang Linglong’s Silent Sea techniques to exist, restoring the sea to normal.
• Jiang Linglong failed to invoke Return to the Ruins · Silent Sea again and watched his Dao foundation and cultivation memories begin to disappear.
• The sword technique erased Jiang Linglong’s past, present, and future, while the world and the Primordial Dao Clan’s records forgot him.
• Jiang Linglong began to vanish and asked Qin Yu who he was, but his words disappeared before he could finish.

Qin Yu retrieved Jiang Linglong’s final memories and discovered that Hua Yin had worked with Chen Jinrong to target Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan as bait for him. After returning to the ruined Primordial Dao Clan, Qin Yu ordered its resources distributed to the Holy Clan and the Annihilation God Clan and told his followers to build their strength in secret while he dealt with Chen Jinrong himself.

• Qin Yu used the Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram to collect Jiang Linglong’s final memories, which revealed Chen Jinrong speaking of Hua Yin and the Hua Lineage.
• Qin Yu concluded that Hua Yin had arranged the Azure Wood Divine Forest ambush to capture Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan and use them to lure him out.
• Qin Yu distinguished that ambush from Chen Jinrong’s earlier interception of the ancient box, which had been a separate incident over treasure.
• Qin Yu returned to the Primordial Dao Clan’s ancestral grounds, where Yuan Zhanxiao reported killing its patriarch and tracing his memories to Chen Jinrong’s dealings with Hua Yin.
• Qin Yu ordered the Primordial Dao Clan’s seized resources distributed to the Holy Clan and the Annihilation God Clan, and instructed Ye Ting, Yuan Zhanxiao, and Yuan Xuangu to develop their strength quietly.
• Qin Yu told Yuan Zhanxiao not to investigate Chen Jinrong further, declared he would handle him personally, and required the three followers to contact him by voice-transmission jade slip.

After destroying the Primordial Dao Clan, Qin Yu searched for Chen Jinrong but found his hidden residence abandoned, then chose to investigate the ancient box before fulfilling Wanyan’s request. Hua Yin learned that Qin Yu had left seclusion and the Primordial Dao Clan had been wiped out, and ordered his people to stop watching Qin Yu.

• Yuan Zhanxiao, Ye Ting, and Yuan Xuangu divided the Primordial Dao Clan’s spoils between the Holy Clan and the Annihilation God Clan before leaving its ruined ancestral land.
• Qin Yu used memories from Jiang Linglong and the Primordial Dao Clan’s patriarch to locate Chen Jinrong’s hidden cave abode in the Skeleton Star Sea, but found it empty.
• Qin Yu decided to study the ancient box Yuan Zhanxiao had given him before carrying out Wanyan’s dying request.
• A black-clad disciple told Hua Yin that Qin Yu had left the Chi Lineage and that the Primordial Dao Clan had been destroyed.
• Hua Yin ordered his people to withdraw everyone watching Qin Yu and forbade them from approaching, spying on, or following him without authorization.

Hua Yin suspected Qin Yu’s destruction of the Primordial Dao Clan was connected to Chen Jinrong and ordered every trace of their association erased. In a remote hideaway, Qin Yu examined the ancient box and sent his Fate Soul origin into it, causing its patterns and nine arcs to move.

• Hua Yin concluded that Chen Jinrong might have exposed his secret dealings and ordered his people to purge everyone and everything connected to him.
• Qin Yu traveled into the Skeleton Star Sea and established overlapping restrictions across a ten-thousand-li area around a hidden underground space.
• Qin Yu summoned the ancient box from his Spirit Core and studied its strange seal, patterns, and image of a dragon, pool, hall, and matching box.
• Qin Yu sent a strand of Fate Soul origin through the seal and continued past the barrier inside the box.
• The box’s ancient patterns began flowing toward the seal, and its nine broken arcs slowly rotated counterclockwise.

Qin Yu understood the Casket of Three Restrictions’ three trials and began the first, which tested whether he could discern the ultimate endpoints of his possible paths. Inside the trial, he saw countless futures, each river ending in a different fate.

• Qin Yu discovered that the box’s restrictions were End, Return, and Void, corresponding to effect, method, and cause, and learned they had to be faced in that order.
• The restrictions stopped and revealed the box’s name: the End Return to the Ruins Ancient Box, also called the Casket of Three Restrictions.
• Qin Yu used his Fate Soul Origin to enter the first trial, where countless rivers represented paths that might unfold from his own life.
• Qin Yu saw one possible future in which he rose to supreme heights but eventually reached a path’s endpoint and remained unable to advance.
• Qin Yu witnessed other possible paths end in death, madness, annihilation, isolation, ruin, backlash, or the loss of his sense of self.

Qin Yu broke the End of the Myriad Daos restriction by holding to the truth that he remained himself regardless of any outcome. After recovering from the trial, he touched the box’s second character, Return, and was plunged into chaos as the next restriction began.

• Qin Yu endured countless possible endings and proved that none of them could define who he was.
• Qin Yu shattered the rivers of endings, and the ancient voice declared that End could not define him.
• The Ultimate Restriction · End of the Myriad Daos broke, marking Qin Yu as acknowledged by the Ultimate Restriction and revealing the second restriction’s Qi, Return to One.
• Qin Yu meditated and rejected methods that would forcibly erase the differences within himself, choosing instead to stabilize his true self.
• Qin Yu touched the character Return, causing the middle arcs to freeze as the world around him was swallowed by chaos.