Recaps

Chen Yong and five Annihilation God Clan cultivators defeated the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon and recovered an ancient box, but Primordial Dao Clan attackers killed Chen Yong and the others as Zhao Qinglan escaped. The Annihilation God Clan declared war, while Hua Yin arranged a secret ambush for Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan in the Azure Wood Divine Forest.

• Chen Yong and the five cultivators fought the Nine Nether Dark Ruins Demon Dragon, using the Primordial Mirror and their combined essence blood to destroy it.
• The six entered the Dark Ruins Return Hall, where the demon dragon’s remnant trace entered an ancient box that Chen Yong took with him.
• Three Primordial Dao Clan cultivators attacked Chen Yong’s group in the Ten Thousand Swords Golden Ruins to seize their storage items and the Primordial Mirror.
• Chen Yong and his companions fought back, but the Primordial Dao Clan’s Annihilation Ten Thousand Swords Formation consumed their Fate Soul roots as Zhao Qinglan escaped with the ancient box.
• Zhao Qinglan reached the Annihilation God Clan and gave Yuan Zhanxiao the box, and he declared war on the Primordial Dao Clan.
• Hua Yin learned of the ancient box and ordered Chen Jinrong to ambush the Chi Lineage patrol and capture Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan alive.
• Clans and cultivators gathered at the Chi Lineage estate as its hundred-person patrol departed for the Azure Wood Divine Forest with Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan.
• A disguised operative watched Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan enter the forest, reported their departure to Hua Yin by Soul Sound Talisman, and escaped through a spatial rift.

The Chi Lineage patrol survived a deadly ambush as Chi Qingyue awakened her ancestral inheritance, while Hua Yin found and killed Hua Jingyun. The Hua Lineage began a secret investigation, unaware of the full extent of Hua Yin’s schemes.

• Hua Yuan and Hua An searched Hua Jingyun’s palace with the Primordial Stillness Lion, found no living trace of him, and reported their findings to Hua Yin.
• Shen Qingchen, Su Qingyuan, and Chi Qingyue were ambushed by seven masked cultivators, and the gold-robed leader gravely wounded Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan.
• Chi Qingyue awakened the bloodline of the Lord of the Great Dao Charter and annihilated six attackers, while their leader escaped.
• The Silent Abyss Last Speaker trapped the Chi Lineage patrol and began destroying its defensive formation, but Chi Xiyue arrived and erased the beast by rejecting its existence through the Eternal Silence Realm.
• Chi Xiyue traced the ambush to the Primordial Dao Clan, while Chi Qingyue revealed her inheritance to Chi Boqian, who ordered her to keep it secret.
• Hua Yin tracked down Hua Jingyun’s hidden residence, overcame his defenses, killed him, and erased the traces of the attack.
• Hua Yutian and his companions found no evidence at Hua Jingyun’s residence, while Hua Yin made Hua An and Hua Yuan his Soul Thralls and sent them away with treasures and elixirs.
• Hua Nongrui sealed the news of Hua Jingyun’s death and ordered a secret investigation, warning Hua Yutian and Hua Tingyuan to keep the murder from Hua Jingmeng.

After reaching Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme, Qin Yu joined the Holy Clan and the Annihilation God Clan and destroyed the Primordial Dao Clan while tracing the attacks on his allies to Hua Yin. He then began testing the End Return to the Ruins Ancient Box, passed its End restriction, and faced its second restriction, Return to One.

• Chen Jinrong killed Hua Ciyuan, Hua Junmo, and Hua Ziye when they tried to ambush him, then fled after vowing revenge on Hua Yin.
• Qin Yu completed three years of cultivation in the Life Source Pool, reached Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme, and formed Return to Origin and Sever Retracing.
• Chi Xiyue told Qin Yu that Primordial Dao Clan members had attacked Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan, and Qin Yu set out to investigate.
• Qian Wenwan explained the Primordial Dao Clan’s history and cultivation, and Qin Yu learned that its members had also attacked the Annihilation God Clan over the ancient box.
• Yuan Zhanxiao told Qin Yu that Chen Yong and five clansmen had died protecting the ancient box from the Primordial Dao Clan, and Qin Yu united the Holy Clan and the Annihilation God Clan under his command.
• Qin Yu and his followers attacked the Primordial Dao Clan, and Qin Yu erased Jiang Linglong with Return to Origin and Sever Retracing before discovering evidence linking Hua Yin to the ambush on Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan.
• Qin Yu searched Chen Jinrong’s empty cave abode, while Hua Yin ordered his people to eliminate evidence of his dealings with Chen Jinrong.
• Qin Yu entered the End Return to the Ruins Ancient Box, overcame its End restriction by rejecting every possible fate, and began facing its Return to One restriction.

Qin Yu completed the End Return to the Ruins Ancient Box’s three restrictions, reached the Wanyan Ancestral Land, and entered the True Evolution Divine Hall. He passed the Eye Faculty trial and began the Ear Faculty trial, where he faced the danger of becoming an echo.

• Qin Yu reconciled his myriad selves, formed the One Origin Dao Seal, and opened the End Return to the Ruins Ancient Box after surviving the Void Origin Restriction.
• Qin Yu let go of his identity and cultivation to overcome the Third Restriction, gained the Shadow of Origin, and concealed the unfinished Dao Abyss inside the box.
• Qin Yu followed the Wanyan Ancient Map to the Wanyan Ancestral Land and used the Star Wancai Key’s Edict of Returning to Zero to erase its seal.
• Qin Yu entered the True Evolution Divine Hall and passed the Eye Faculty trials by releasing his attachment to seeing, then received the insight “Seeing Stillness Return to Evolution.”
• Qin Yu entered the Ear Faculty domain, where he discovered that existence itself continued to hear and that his attention could multiply sound into endless forms.
• The Hearing-Derivation Beast exposed Qin Yu’s desire to be heard and began the Hearing Attachment trial, where Qin Yu let false calls of his name fade but realized he could not escape hearing while he existed.