Chapter Summaries

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.

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.