Chapter Summaries

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.

Qin Yu entered the Second Restriction, where countless versions of himself and every part of his life were split apart and forced to compete for dominance. After his attempts to reunite them failed, he realized that choosing any single self as the original would make the others outsiders, and the restriction left him questioning what made him the true self.

• Qin Yu entered a colossal furnace where the Second Restriction manifested countless versions of him, each convinced it was the original.
• Qin Yu used the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel to gather the selves, but they split apart again and began fighting over his Fate Soul's origin.
• Qin Yu stopped suppressing the selves and recognized that the Second Restriction required him to confront every part of himself on equal terms.
• Qin Yu used the Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram and the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel to search for a shared basis among the selves, but every approach failed as the furnace's refinement intensified.
• The countless Qin Yus challenged Qin Yu's claim to be the true self, and he remained silent, realizing that his assumption of absorbing them might have been wrong.

Qin Yu accepted every past and future self as part of his complete true self, broke the second Return to One Restriction, and formed the One Origin Dao Seal. The End Return to the Ruins Ancient Box completed its second ring, leaving the final Void Origin Restriction ahead.

• Qin Yu realized that the Return to One Restriction required him to contain all differences among his myriad selves rather than discard them.
• Qin Yu opened the core of his soul to every self, and the past and future selves returned without being suppressed or erased.
• Qin Yu reconciled his gentle and murderous selves, declaring that good and evil could shape his path but could not replace his heart and soul.
• Qin Yu formed the One Origin Dao Seal, shattered the Myriad Phenomena Furnace, and absorbed the converged principles of the myriad Daos.
• Qin Yu returned to the underground airspace as the End Return to the Ruins Ancient Box transformed, widening its opening and completing its second ring.
• Qin Yu sensed the final Void Origin Restriction at the box's deepest point and prepared for its trial.

Qin Yu entered the End Return to the Ruins Ancient Box’s third restriction, the Void, and discovered that any attempt to define or assert existence was erased. As his name, bonds, powers, and memories vanished, the restriction’s question—who he was before birth—left him close to being erased from the world entirely.

• Qin Yu studied the remaining Void restriction and decided that his usual methods and divine abilities would only give it something to negate.
• Qin Yu stripped his perception of acquired power and identity, then sent it into the Void and vanished from the underground expanse.
• Qin Yu found himself in a realm without space, time, or sensory distinctions, where even the concepts of entering and of the third restriction disappeared when he tried to define them.
• The Void erased Qin Yu’s name, worldly identities, relationships, and attempted use of the Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram.
• The restriction asked Qin Yu who he had been before birth, then erased his cultivation, Fate Soul foundation, physical form, Dao foundation, and past experiences.
• Qin Yu’s figure and Origin imprint began fading in the underground expanse as the Void threatened to erase every trace of his existence.

Qin Yu broke the Third Restriction by abandoning every attachment and allowing his primordial awareness to exist naturally in the Beginningless void. The ancient box opened, acknowledged him as its master, and revealed that the ultimate secret treasure was now only an inch beyond its lid.

• Qin Yu let go of his name, cultivation, Dao foundation, memories, and One Origin Dao Seal instead of resisting the Third Restriction’s erasure.
• Qin Yu’s primordial awareness resonated with the Supreme Eternal Stillness Seal, stopping the erasure and allowing the Void Restriction realm to dissolve.
• The End Return to the Ruins Ancient Box opened by itself, its three rings completed as the character “Void” faded away.
• Qin Yu’s body, Fate Soul, cultivation, memories, and karmic bonds returned, and the blank fissures in Ye Ting, Yuan Zhanxiao, Yuan Xuangu, and the others were mended.
• An origin imprint entered Qin Yu’s deepest foundation, granting him the Shadow of Origin and the ancient box’s acknowledgment as its master.
• Qin Yu understood how the three restrictions worked and saw that the ultimate secret treasure lay just beyond the box lid, which had opened an inch.

Qin Yu opened the End Return to the Ruins Ancient Box and discovered that it was nurturing an unstable Dao Abyss that could not yet be entered. He learned the box’s three-inch opening was essential to its growth and recognized him alone as its master, leaving him to guard it until the Abyss matured and he reached the Dao Nonexistence Realm.

• Qin Yu opened the End Return to the Ruins Ancient Box, and a nascent chaos universe began forming inside it.
• The three shadows and ancient inscriptions warned Qin Yu that entering the unfinished Dao Abyss would erase or absorb anyone who was not at the Dao Nonexistence Realm.
• Qin Yu tested the opening and learned that the box’s slow breathing nurtured the Abyss while time inside passed far faster than time outside.
• Qin Yu tried to close the lid but an unyielding primordial barrier held it open by three inches.
• Qin Yu discovered that the opening isolated and nourished the Abyss, recognized him as its sole master, and would automatically suppress intruders.