Chapter Summaries

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.

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.