Recaps

Qin Yu received Wanyan’s heavenly book and learned that the Being As It Is Secret Realm held three known objects and an unexplained fourth. After returning to the Chi Lineage, he learned his friends had recovered and become stewards, then decided to enter the Primordial Grave alone and in disguise to avoid drawing attention.

• Qin Yu accepted Wanyan’s heavenly book, and Wanyan told him about three mysterious objects and an unknown fourth thing in the secret realm.
• Qin Yu left the forbidden area and reunited with Chi Boqian and Chi Lanyue, who did not question him about his meeting with Wanyan.
• Chi Boqian told Qin Yu that his two friends had recovered with the help of Primordial Annihilation Condensation Pills and now served as Chi Lineage stewards.
• Qin Yu said he would leave for the secret realm the next day, but would not travel with the Chi Lineage group.
• Qin Yu explained that he planned to change his appearance and enter the Primordial Grave alone because his growing fame could make him a target.

Qin Yu prepared to enter the Being As It Is secret realm in disguise after Chi Boqian warned him about the five supreme geniuses and the dangers within. He returned to the Chi Lineage and reunited with Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan, ending the chapter in a warm celebration of their progress.

• Chi Boqian warned Qin Yu that the four lineages' finest disciples, including Ju Lingyuan, Chi Xiyue, Hua Yanyang, Shangguan Shumu, and Shangguan Hongyin, would enter the secret realm.
• Chi Boqian advised Qin Yu to stay cautious because alliances inside the secret realm could give way to conflict and betrayal over valuable opportunities.
• Qin Yu agreed that Chi Boqian could tell Chi Xiyue he would enter in disguise, but said he would reveal his identity only if they met inside the secret realm.
• Qin Yu returned to his Chi Lineage residence and reunited with Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan after two years apart.
• Qin Yu and his friends shared wine and laughed as they discussed Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan's cultivation breakthroughs and new steward roles.

After a warm reunion with Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan, Qin Yu tried to comprehend the Causeless Heavenly Questioning Book but was repeatedly blocked by a mysterious fog. He set out that night for the Primordial Grave, traveling inconspicuously among a vast crowd of cultivators bound for the Fifth Multidimensional Universe.

• Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan shared lighthearted memories with Qin Yu over wine before taking their leave.
• Qin Yu examined the Causeless Heavenly Questioning Book and sensed it probing his past and fate when he touched it.
• Qin Yu repeatedly explored the book's mysteries, but a sudden fog blocked every path before he could reach their deepest meaning.
• Qin Yu dismissed the book and decided to leave immediately for the Primordial Grave instead of waiting for dawn.
• Qin Yu entered the Void Dharma Realm and joined the throng of cultivators traveling toward the Fifth Multidimensional Universe without drawing attention to himself.

Qin Yu traveled with the vast stream of cultivators toward the Primordial Grave, learning that the Ancient Gate of Myriad Dharmas was open but no one dared enter its lightless interior. He reached the gate at the source of the Eternal Silence Long River and saw only immeasurable darkness beyond it.

• Cultivators traveling ahead of Qin Yu discussed the crowded secret realm, the black fog beyond the open gate, and the dangers of entering first.
• Qin Yu quietly listened, kept pace with ordinary cultivators, and continued toward the Fifth Multidimensional Universe as forces from across the Eternal Nonexistence Limitless Domain converged on the Primordial Grave.
• Qin Yu followed the crowd north toward the source of the Eternal Silence Long River, where the surrounding land and traces of the Dao vanished into stillness.
• Qin Yu reached the outskirts of the secret realm and saw the Ancient Gate of Myriad Dharmas standing intact at the river’s source, surrounded by silent cultivators.
• Qin Yu looked through the fully open gate and saw only absolute darkness beyond its doorway.

Qin Yu discovered that the Ancient Gate of Myriad Dharmas annihilated every attempt to probe the darkness beyond it, leaving entry as the only way to learn what lay inside. By dawn, the four great Lineages and five Wuji Realm prodigies had gathered before the gate, but no one had dared to enter.

• Qin Yu watched cultivators’ divine senses vanish at the Ancient Gate of Myriad Dharmas, then cautiously tested it himself and withdrew after his perception was annihilated.
• Morning broke over the Primordial Grave as cultivators continued to gather, while attempts to probe the gate’s darkness all failed.
• Qin Yu saw Hua Yin, Ju Moting, Shangguan Wan'er, and Chi Tongyue leading the four great Lineages’ camps near the gate.
• Qin Yu identified Ju Lingyuan, Chi Xiyue, Hua Yanyang, Shangguan Shumu, and Shangguan Hongyin as the five Wuji Realm prodigies gathered there.
• The crowd waited before the open gate, but no one took the first step into its darkness.

Qin Yu and the gathered cultivators waited outside the Ancient Gate of Myriad Dharmas, each unwilling to be the first to enter its unknown secret realm. When a burly Eternal Silence Realm Peak cultivator tried to investigate an ancient pattern, it activated a forbidden formation and drained him to ashes, leaving the gate blazing with light as the black hole began to churn.

• The cultivators argued over who should scout the secret realm, while Qin Yu watched the standoff and the five great heavenly talents kept their distance from one another.
• Hua Yanyang deflected Shangguan Shumu’s question about whether the Hua Lineage would seize the first opportunity to enter.
• A burly Eternal Silence Realm Peak cultivator stepped forward with a divine weapon and approached the Ancient Gate of Myriad Dharmas.
• The burly man touched an ancient formation pattern, which trapped him and drained his body and Fate Soul until he crumbled into ashes.
• Ancient patterns across the cliff and gate lit up, and the pitch-black hole inside the gate began to churn.

An ancient restriction trapped Qin Yu and thousands of cultivators in black fog around the Ancient Gate of Myriad Dharmas, immobilizing them and cutting off escape. The gate spoke four cryptic lines about steadfast Dao hearts, suggesting the fog was a test, but no one yet knew how to pass it.

• Black fog burst from the Ancient Gate of Myriad Dharmas, engulfed the cultivators, and sealed the thousand-li area against escape.
• Qin Yu and every other cultivator were immobilized as the fog's cold seeped toward their Fate Souls.
• Cultivators tried and failed to break the spatial barrier, while sects and Lineages called their members together and formed defenses.
• The Ancient Gate of Myriad Dharmas illuminated its formation patterns and spoke four lines about steadfast Dao hearts and seeking the path with true intent.
• Qin Yu recognized that the fog was part of the gate's test, while other cultivators debated whether holding to their Dao hearts would let them proceed.

Black fog invaded the cultivators’ consciousnesses and caused them to see and hear different false realities, while Qin Yu remained clearheaded until the fog drew his consciousness away from his body. He entered a realm filled with treasures, recognized it as an illusion, and learned that it was the first test, the Illusory Domain of Greed and Delusion.

• The black fog seeped into cultivators’ seas of consciousness, making them mistake companions for enemies and attack one another.
• The cultivators’ senses and Fate Soul marks became unreliable, and their groups fell into chaos as they struggled to distinguish reality from illusion.
• The fog reached Qin Yu, muffled the sounds around him, and drew his consciousness away from his restrained physical body.
• Qin Yu opened his eyes on an ancient jade platform surrounded by pills, tomes, weapons, and other treasures.
• Qin Yu recognized the treasures as unreal, and the words “Illusory Domain of Greed and Delusion” appeared as the first test.

Qin Yu faced the Illusory Domain of Greed and Delusion, which trapped cultivators by making them cling to treasures and desires they knew were illusions. He understood the test and began letting go of its offerings, leaving the trial unresolved as he moved past an ancient sword without taking it.

• An old man, a cultivator tempted by pills, and a sect expert became trapped in their own illusions because they could not relinquish their desires.
• The illusion offered Qin Yu treasures, cultivation opportunities, higher realms, and finally a blank book that promised an answer he sought.
• Qin Yu recognized that knowing an illusion was false did not mean he had truly let go, and he examined the temptations without turning away.
• Qin Yu acknowledged the value of powerful weapons but refused an ancient sword that offered itself to him, saying he had come this far without it.

Qin Yu passed the Illusory Domain of Greed and Delusion by refusing its shortcuts and the promise of answers, while another cultivator failed because he still desired a false treasure. The five great Heavenly Prodigies also passed, and all who succeeded were drawn into the second trial.

• Qin Yu admitted he wanted strength and answers but chose to pursue them on his own path, causing the illusory world to shatter and completing the first trial.
• An Eternal Silence Realm expert failed after saying he wished a false Dao seal were real, losing his qualification to enter the Being As It Is Secret Realm.
• A woman watched the treasures in her illusion dissolve and passed, while her consciousness sank into an unknown second trial.
• The black mist withdrew from failed cultivators, who realized they had lost despite never taking the offered treasures.
• Ju Lingyuan, Chi Xiyue, Hua Yanyang, Shangguan Shumu, and Shangguan Hongyin rejected their personalized temptations and passed the first trial.
• The five Heavenly Prodigies were carried deeper into the black mist, where the second trial awaited them.

Qin Yu faced the Illusory Dream of Past Regrets, which recreated the people and moments he had lost and offered him a perfect chance to undo his regrets. He acknowledged his grief but chose to accept the life he had lived and continued onward, leaving the trial unresolved beyond his decision to walk away from the illusion.

• After the first layer shattered, black fog recreated Qin Yu’s past and opened the second trial, the Illusory Dream of Past Regrets.
• The illusion brought back people from Qin Yu’s life and rewrote partings and failures into a perfect continuation of the past.
• Qin Yu approached his old friends and heard one tell him that there was still time to make everything right.
• Qin Yu admitted that he regretted some choices and wished his lost friends were still with him.
• Qin Yu held an old friend’s hand, then let go, saying that regret and loss were part of his life and that he would not trade his lived past for perfection.
• Qin Yu walked past his old friends without looking back.

Qin Yu passed the Illusory Dream of Past Regrets by accepting his real past without clinging to the wish to start over, then entered the third trial, True Self Returns to Nothingness. As the trial stripped away his appearance, identity, cultivation, and Dao, he waited without resisting, while the test had yet to reach the self itself.

• Qin Yu rejected the perfect past and watched the Illusory Dream of Past Regrets collapse, passing the second trial.
• Cultivators who failed the first trial awoke trapped by the spatial restraint, while others remained asleep in deeper trials.
• A man who had passed the greed trial but could not part with his deceased mother failed the trial of past regrets.
• Qin Yu entered boundless stillness, where memories and the identities that defined him appeared and revealed the third trial.
• Qin Yu let the illusion strip away his body, names, achievements, cultivation, and Dao without resisting, but the trial continued.

Qin Yu passed the True Self Returns to Nothingness illusion by accepting that he could continue on the Dao without clinging to the need to exist, and the third trial shattered. In the prison, many cultivators awakened in defeat while only a handful remained asleep and advancing toward the Ultimate trial.

• Qin Yu faced the illusion’s demand to relinquish his memories, cultivation, and the self called Qin Yu, recalling how Clinging to Knowing had trapped him during the Ultimate trial in the Wanyan Ancestral Land.
• Qin Yu accepted his past without denying it and said that the road and the Dao would remain even if he no longer existed.
• Qin Yu let his memories and identities dissipate, declaring that he would walk the Dao if he existed and need no proof if he returned to nothingness.
• Qin Yu’s awareness returned with his memories and cultivation intact, and the True Self Returns to Nothingness illusion shattered as he passed the third trial.
• Cultivators across the prison awakened after failing the trials, while an elderly man concluded that the Ancient Gate of Myriad Dharmas chose the steadiest Dao heart rather than the strongest cultivator.
• Only a handful remained unawakened, still progressing toward the Ultimate trial and its final test of the self.

Qin Yu passed the third trial, severing his final attachment to his own existence, and entered the Being As It Is Secret Realm through the Ancient Gate of Myriad Dharmas. Thousands of cultivators and the Five Great Heavenly Prodigies also passed the trial and were drawn into the gate.

• Qin Yu accepted the loss of his memories, Dao foundation, and sense of self in the final illusion, then awakened as the ancient gate acknowledged him and lifted his restraints.
• The guiding light carried Qin Yu through the Ancient Gate of Myriad Dharmas and into the Being As It Is Secret Realm.
• Thousands of cultivators who passed all three trials awakened across the black mist and streamed into the ancient gate.
• Ju Lingyuan, Chi Xiyue, Hua Yanyang, Shangguan Shumu, and Shangguan Hongyin each let go of their final attachment to the self and broke the third illusion.
• The Five Great Heavenly Prodigies rose into the air and entered the Ancient Gate of Myriad Dharmas.

Qin Yu entered the Being As It Is Secret Realm, a vast world bearing ancient traces of the Venerable of the Great Dao's Root and Fruit, and found that the cultivators had been scattered across it. The chapter left Qin Yu and the other newcomers listening as a distant, continuous rumble shook the realm.

• Qin Yu emerged from the Ancient Gate of Myriad Dharmas onto an immense ancient plain and surveyed the secret realm's layered lands, skies, and star seas.
• Qin Yu noticed ancient trenches, cut mountains, golden markings, and a colossal ring-shaped mark left by the Venerable of the Great Dao's Root and Fruit.
• The black hole scattered cultivators across the secret realm, separating Qin Yu from Chi Xiyue and the other leaders of the four great lineages.
• Newly arrived cultivators marvelled at the realm's scale, while an elder warned his group not to touch its ancient traces carelessly.
• A distant rumble shook the ground and clouds, then grew into a continuous roar that silenced the cultivators.

Qin Yu and the cultivators in the Being As It Is Secret Realm were attacked by a massive tide of primordial divine beasts and divine beast supremes. As the battle spread across the ancient plain, several groups fought back, but a bone-armored supreme’s nine dark moons broke through the attacks of three Eternal Silence Realm cultivators.

• Qin Yu sensed countless powerful beasts approaching and warned that a divine beast supreme tide was coming.
• The beast tide poured over the mountains from every direction, and the scattered cultivators scrambled to prepare for the attack.
• Black-gold divine rhinoceroses charged into the cultivators, who wounded one and then scattered to avoid the herd.
• Crimson-feathered birds attacked from above, while cultivators pierced one with a spear formed from their Fate Soul origins.
• A nine-headed serpent and a giant beast carrying an ancient city attacked separate groups, and cultivators brought both under concentrated assault.
• A bone-armored divine beast supreme unleashed the radiance of its nine dark moons, shattered cultivators’ defenses, and forced three Eternal Silence Realm experts to intercept it.

Shangguan Wan'er led more than ten thousand Shangguan Lineage disciples in defending their landing site from successive beast tides. When a terrifying presence approached and the beasts parted before it, she ordered the disciples to form a massive defensive array, leaving them waiting for the trial’s guardian to emerge.

• Shangguan Wan'er rallied the scattered Shangguan Lineage disciples and organized them into ranks as beast tides attacked from three sides.
• The Shangguan Lineage used coordinated Fate Soul attacks to repel wave after wave of beasts and kill several supreme divine beasts.
• Shangguan Wan'er noticed blood briefly turning into luminous mist and felt a strange dislocation in her Fate Soul.
• A distant roar halted the battlefield, and the beasts bowed and parted as a presence more powerful than the earlier supreme divine beasts approached.
• Shangguan Wan'er ordered the disciples to retreat into a formation, and more than ten thousand cultivators combined their origins to raise a vast defensive array.
• The guardian of the Twelve Zodiac Illusion Realm’s trial began approaching behind the dust while Shangguan Wan'er and the disciples braced for its arrival.

Shangguan Wan'er and the Shangguan Lineage braced their formation as an overwhelming presence approached through the beast tide. A palm-sized grayish-white beast appeared, and a white-browed elder identified it as Gongpiluo Huang.

• Shangguan Wan'er suppressed the formation’s fear-induced instability and ordered the disciples and elders to hold their positions.
• A deep rumble shattered the mountain peaks, and the divine beasts stopped and opened a path through the beast tide.
• A grayish-white breath emerged from the dust, erasing dust and dimming the lingering True Annihilation Dao patterns.
• A palm-sized grayish-white beast appeared, while the surrounding beasts bowed and an immense outline of its true form stretched across the sky.
• A white-browed elder recognized the beast’s rat-shaped star marking and cried out, “Gongpiluo Huang?!”

Shangguan Wan'er and the elders recognized the gray-white beast as Gongpiluo Huang, a Primordial Beast Luminary whose presence meant something had been denied a beginning. As it opened its eye, its Beginningless ancient rhyme began erasing the origins of the Shangguan Lineage's defensive formation, leaving the disciples under threat.

• The white-browed elder identified the gray-white beast as Gongpiluo Huang, one of the twelve Primordial Beast Luminaries.
• Shangguan Wan'er recalled that Kumbhira had once severed the first thought in Wuji and warned that Gongpiluo Huang's appearance meant an existence or lineage should not have a beginning.
• Shangguan Wan'er ordered the elders, stewards, and more than ten thousand disciples to steady the formation as the beast tide fell silent.
• Gongpiluo Huang opened its left eye and spread Beginningless ancient rhyme across the formation's outer barrier.
• The formation's patterns began dissolving from their origins, its light barrier fractured, and the white-browed elder declared that the ancient rhyme was severing the formation's foundation.

Gongpiluo Huang’s Beginningless resonance annihilated Shangguan Lineage disciples and crippled their defensive formation. Shangguan Wan’er stabilized the breach, but Gongpiluo Huang then corrupted the Fate Souls of tens of thousands of divine beast Supremes, sending the entire beast tide charging toward the lineage.

• Gongpiluo Huang’s gaze erased dozens of Shangguan Lineage disciples and tore a major breach in the southeastern formation position.
• Shangguan Wan’er and the elders reinforced the damaged barrier, while an elder explained that forcibly repairing severed markings drew Fate Souls into the Rift of Beginningless.
• Shangguan Wan’er ordered the disciples to stop tracing the severed markings and reinforce the intact parts of the formation, barely stabilizing it.
• Gongpiluo Huang sent out its divine sense and corrupted the Fate Souls of the dormant divine beast Supremes, turning their eyes crimson and driving them into a frenzy.
• Shangguan Wan’er ordered the lineage to defend the formation as tens of thousands of berserk Supremes charged toward its damaged barrier.

Gongpiluo Huang drove tens of thousands of divine beast Supremes into a massive assault on the Shangguan Lineage's defensive formation. Shangguan Wan'er and the disciples fought to hold the barrier as the relentless attacks weakened it, while she watched Gongpiluo Huang at the heart of the beast tide.

• Gongpiluo Huang directed the divine beast Supremes to charge the Shangguan Lineage's formation from every side.
• Shangguan Wan'er ordered the disciples to reinforce the barrier as lightning, moonlight, falling stars, and a six-headed beast's attacks battered it.
• Shangguan Lineage elders and disciples combined their Fate Soul origins and martial abilities to resist the assault and wound the six-headed divine beast Supreme.
• The beast horde's continued charges cracked and weakened the formation, while the Shangguan Lineage's counterattacks brought down many beasts.
• Shangguan Wan'er poured Eternal Silence origin into the formation and kept her attention on Gongpiluo Huang, whom she sensed was driving the assault.

Gongpiluo Huang's ancient resonance spread through the Shangguan Lineage's grand formation, erasing elders and stewards and driving the formation toward collapse. As the divine beast supremes lost their wills and continued attacking, Shangguan Wan'er prepared to spend her Fate Soul origin power to stop their assault.

• Gongpiluo Huang's ancient resonance reached the damaged southeastern formation, causing stewards and Shangguan Chengyue to dissolve along with their Fate Souls.
• The resonance struck more elders and stewards, opening gaps in the grand formation and forcing Shangguan Lineage disciples to retreat toward its center.
• Shangguan Wan'er and the remaining elders formed a Fate Soul barrier to block Gongpiluo Huang's divine sense from spreading further.
• Shangguan Wan'er realized the divine beast supremes were losing their wills and attacking the formation without regard for their injuries.
• Shangguan Wan'er decided to activate the Shangguan Lineage's guardian divine ability with her own Fate Soul origin power, despite the risk to her Dao foundation.

Shangguan Wan'er unleashed her Stillness Heaven Wheel Slash and killed more than half the attacking divine beast supremes, but the effort gravely injured her and left the Shangguan Lineage’s formation near collapse. As the survivors faced Gongpiluo Huang, it began opening its right eye, which Shangguan Wan'er knew was tied to the power of Endless.

• Shangguan Wan'er summoned her Fate Soul heavenly wheel and sent a vast sword tide crashing into the beast tide.
• Shangguan Wan'er’s swords slew more than half the divine beast supremes and forced the remaining beasts to scatter, but she exhausted her Fate Soul origin and collapsed.
• The white-browed elder and two other elders caught Shangguan Wan'er and brought her back to the damaged formation.
• The surviving Shangguan Lineage disciples assessed their losses while Gongpiluo Huang remained motionless at the head of the beast tide.
• Gongpiluo Huang began opening its right eye, and Shangguan Wan'er recalled that the eye suppressed Endless and that opening both eyes would throw the laws of time and cause and effect into chaos.

Gongpiluo Huang’s Beginningless and Endless resonances devastated the Shangguan Lineage’s formation, forcing its members to sacrifice their weapons’ origin power to keep it standing. Shangguan Wan’er began leading a retreat toward a northwestern rift, but Gongpiluo Huang awakened a second beast star spot and summoned an ancient umbrella above the formation.

• Gongpiluo Huang’s opposing ancient resonances severed the formation patterns’ causal connections and shattered several defensive positions.
• The white-browed elder ordered the lineage members to pour their divine weapons’ origin power into the formation, temporarily restoring its barrier at great cost.
• Shangguan Wan’er suppressed her injuries with pills and directed the lineage to move the formation northwest toward a rift to escape the beast tide.
• The white-browed elder and two other elders took the forward defensive line as the wounded and disciples shifted into an orderly formation retreat.
• Gongpiluo Huang awakened the ox-shaped second star spot, reshaping the mountains and weighing down heaven and earth with its immense presence.
• A gray-white ancient umbrella appeared above the formation core, bearing twelve ribs with distinct primordial Dao resonances.

Gongpiluo Huang opened an ancient umbrella over the Shangguan Lineage’s shattered formation, sealing the sky and releasing primordial rain that eroded defenses and injured Fate Souls. With the formation close to collapse, Shangguan Wan'er and Elder White Brow rose to attack the umbrella and try to open a path for their clanspeople.

• Gongpiluo Huang pointed toward the Shangguan formation, causing the ancient umbrella to expand and cast its shadow across the battlefield.
• Shangguan Wan'er ordered the clanspeople to hold formation and poured her remaining Eternal Silence origin power into its foundation.
• A gray-white droplet fell from the umbrella and began eroding the formation’s Fate Soul light screen, then a downpour spread across the defenses.
• The primordial rain corroded formation patterns and origin weapons, injured several stewards, and caused a True Annihilation Realm disciple to collapse and die.
• Elder White Brow warned Shangguan Wan'er that replenishing the formation with origin power only accelerated the rain’s erosion.
• Shangguan Wan'er and Elder White Brow agreed to attack the umbrella and rose into the air together.