Chapter Summaries

Gongpiluo Huang’s Beginningless Ancient Rhyme eroded the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion’s bone armor, but the Scion restored it and forged a massive bone seal. As the ancient beings prepared to clash, Shangguan Wan’er and Elder White Brow rebuilt the formation and readied the survivors to flee through the northwest rift valley; the chapter ended as the Scion attacked Gongpiluo Huang with a colossal bone halberd.

• Gongpiluo Huang’s Beginningless Ancient Rhyme crumbled the Scion’s bone rings and began eroding its armor, but the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion used its origin power to repair itself.
• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion formed a crimson-black bone seal that drew in the eroded runes, while Gongpiluo Huang revealed the Beginningless and Endless Ancient Rhyme in its eyes.
• Shangguan Wan’er and Elder White Brow organized the surviving Shangguan Lineage clanspeople, restored the shattered formation, and prepared to escape toward the northwest rift valley once the ancient beings began fighting.
• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion lunged at Gongpiluo Huang and formed a gigantic bone halberd from a river of blood and ancient skeletons.

Gongpiluo Huang and the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion fought a devastating battle, with their opposing origin forces tearing apart the sky and surrounding mountains. As the Shangguan Lineage’s damaged formation faced the deadly aftershocks, Shangguan Wan'er and Elder White Brow used Primordial Dao Supreme Treasures to shield the survivors, leaving them protected for the moment.

• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion unleashed twelve Heaven-Burying Halberd Strikes, and Gongpiluo Huang countered with Return to Stillness Before the Beginning, dismantling the attack layer by layer.
• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion replenished its ancient prison origin force and clashed repeatedly with Gongpiluo Huang, while their attacks devastated the surrounding landscape.
• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion’s twelve prison worlds exploded into a blood-colored torrent, which Gongpiluo Huang stretched along an endless ribbon as bone chains pursued it.
• Lingering aftershocks battered the Shangguan Lineage’s weakened grand formation, injuring disciples and threatening its remaining formation cores.
• Elder White Brow raised the Nine Mysteries Primordial Origin-Suppressing Bell to shield the survivors, and Shangguan Wan'er used the Purple Firmament Primordial Life-Protecting Ring to protect their injured Fate Souls.
• The other elders deployed their treasures to reinforce the formation, while Shangguan Wan'er ordered the disciples to restrain their Fate Soul presences and avoid drawing the combatants’ attention.

Gongpiluo Huang used his Myriad Causes Returning Slash to shatter much of the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion’s armor and origin, but the Scion intensified his assault and unleashed Blood Prison Imperial Burial. The chapter ended as a colossal skeletal blade swept toward Gongpiluo Huang.

• Gongpiluo Huang’s Myriad Causes Returning Slash broke through the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion’s bone armor and damaged his origin.
• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion tore away his ruined armor, transformed his remaining power, and charged Gongpiluo Huang with six Ancient Prison bone claws.
• Gongpiluo Huang and the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion exchanged dozens of attacks, leaving the Scion’s body cracked and most of his armor destroyed.
• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion drew in the scattered corpses and bone origin to form the shadow of the Ancient Prison Remnant Emperor.
• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion unleashed Blood Prison Imperial Burial, sending a colossal skeletal blade and twelve rivers of bone remains toward Gongpiluo Huang.

Gongpiluo Huang and the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion continued their evenly matched battle, devastating the blue-gray mountain plain and threatening the Shangguan Lineage’s formation. Elder White Brow recognized that Gongpiluo Huang represented the Origin Foundation Layer and warned that the Scion could not kill him with this power alone, leaving Shangguan Wan’er to ask whether the survivors should flee.

• Gongpiluo Huang unleashed Wuji Returning Ring, and its primordial ring clashed with the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion’s crimson-black imperial blade.
• The two ancient origins repeatedly battered each other, neither gaining the upper hand as the mountain plain and surrounding heavens were torn apart.
• Shangguan Wan’er and Elder White Brow held the damaged Shangguan Lineage formation together under the protection of their Primordial Dao Supreme Treasures.
• Elder White Brow connected ancient records to the battle and said Gongpiluo Huang corresponded to thought, the Origin Foundation Layer, which the Scion could not overcome to kill him.
• Shangguan Wan’er strained to stabilize the Purple Firmament Primordial Life-Protecting Ring, suffered renewed bleeding, and asked whether the survivors should flee.

Shangguan Wan'er and Elder White Brow waited with the surviving Shangguan Lineage as the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion fought Gongpiluo Huang. When the Scion began opening its gray-gold vertical pupil, Elder White Brow recognized the technique that had once grievously wounded Shangguan Lingxiao.

• Shangguan Wan'er urged Elder White Brow to move the wounded disciples toward the northwestern rift, but he insisted they wait because the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion was not yet defeated.
• Elder White Brow warned Shangguan Wan'er that the Scion's vertical pupil had withstood their seals before, while Gongpiluo Huang's Beginningless Ancient Rhyme threatened to erode its power.
• Shangguan Wan'er ordered the stewards to keep the surviving clansmen and gravely wounded disciples protected within the damaged formation as she and Elder White Brow watched the battle.
• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion stopped attacking, pressed its fingers against the vertical pupil, and began breaking the skeletal markings that concealed it.
• Elder White Brow recognized the opening pupil and recalled how it had once shattered Shangguan Lingxiao's golden Dao wheels and torn away nearly half his Fate Soul origin.

Gongpiluo Huang faced the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion’s Myriad Souls Burying Cause, which threatened to break through its defenses and attack its Fate Soul. It countered with Myriad Thoughts Not Yet Stirred, interrupting the Scion’s intent and sending its ancient rhyme into the Scion’s Fate Soul.

• Elder White Brow recognized the Scion’s attack and ordered Shangguan Wan'er and the elders to protect the disciples’ Fate Souls.
• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion unleashed Myriad Souls Burying Cause, using torrents of skeletal souls and a gray-gold bone awl to tear through Gongpiluo Huang’s defenses.
• Elder White Brow recalled that the same power had nearly destroyed Patriarch Lingxiao’s Fate Soul true name.
• Gongpiluo Huang used Myriad Thoughts Not Yet Stirred to prevent the Scion’s next thought from arising, briefly halting its bone awl.
• Gongpiluo Huang sent wisps of ancient rhyme through the Scion’s divine ability and into its Fate Soul, making its vertical pupil shake violently.

Gongpiluo Huang’s Beginningless Ancient Rhyme crippled the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion by severing its thoughts before its divine abilities could form. The Ancient Scion discovered that it would need to attack the root of thought itself to defeat Gongpiluo Huang, while the Shangguan Lineage waited for a chance to escape.

• Gongpiluo Huang’s Beginningless Ancient Rhyme shattered the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion’s bone cone, crescent moons, armor, and ancient prison attacks, leaving it severely wounded.
• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion tried to use its abilities again, but the ancient rhyme repeatedly severed its forming thoughts.
• Shangguan Wan'er recognized that Gongpiluo Huang was eroding the Ancient Scion’s thoughts, while Elder White Brow urged her to wait before moving the clan toward the northwestern rift.
• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion tested how the rhyme interrupted its abilities and realized it targeted the first moment of thought.
• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion concluded that ordinary divine abilities could not defeat Gongpiluo Huang and began gathering an ancient presence to strike at the root of thought.

The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion used Unthought Source Burial to attack the first point where Gongpiluo Huang’s thoughts manifested, managing to wound him. Gongpiluo Huang countered with One Thought Undivided, but the Scion forced the attack to hold, leaving Gongpiluo Huang with a shallow wound and proof that his source could be harmed.

• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion condensed a scarlet-black bone seal and unleashed Unthought Source Burial against Gongpiluo Huang.
• The bone seal infiltrated the ancient rhyme around Gongpiluo Huang and marked the rat-shaped star mark, leaving a scarlet-black spot on his forehead.
• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion realized Subtlety of Myriad Thoughts had a point of manifestation, while Gongpiluo Huang admitted he had underestimated him.
• Gongpiluo Huang used One Thought Undivided to blur the seal’s target and erase distinctions across the battlefield.
• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion stabilized the seal with scarlet-black source, widening Gongpiluo Huang’s mark into a shallow wound that released gray-white source.

Shangguan Wan'er and Elder White Brow tried to evacuate the Shangguan Lineage through a spatial passage while Gongpiluo Huang and the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion remained locked in battle. The Ancient Scion severed the passage and killed dozens of stewards and elders, but the survivors were sent into the northwestern rift before the passage collapsed.

• Elder White Brow and Shangguan Wan'er gathered the surviving clanspeople and opened a spatial passage to the northwestern rift while the two ancient beings focused on each other.
• Thousands of Shangguan Lineage members began evacuating through the passage as Shangguan Wan'er and Elder White Brow defended it with their treasures.
• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion noticed the escape, used Space-Causality Severed Path to rupture the passage, and killed dozens of stewards and elders with a red-black bone blade.
• Shangguan Wan'er tried to protect the remaining clanspeople, but the blade shattered her barrier and worsened her injuries.
• Elder White Brow struck the blade with the Nine Mysteries Primordial Origin-Suppressing Bell, then forced the remaining disciples through the passage before it collapsed.

Shangguan Wan'er and the surviving Shangguan Lineage escaped the battlefield, leaving dozens of elders and deacons behind. Gongpiluo Huang then used Initial Cause Severance against the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion, erasing the origins of its inheritance and existence as the Scion realized what had been attacked.

• Shangguan Wan'er and Elder White Brow led the injured Shangguan Lineage survivors to safety, while dozens of their elders and deacons remained behind on the battlefield.
• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion swore to kill Gongpiluo Huang and pursue the fleeing Shangguan Lineage.
• Gongpiluo Huang dismissed its zodiac manifestations and made its Beginningless teeth touch before invoking Initial Cause Severance.
• A tiny tooth mark spread through the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion’s true names, Ancient Prison inheritance, memories, and origin power, leaving blanks where their first causes had been.
• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion tried to resist with its origin power, then recognized that Gongpiluo Huang was biting into the first cause that made it the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion.

Gongpiluo Huang’s First Cause Severance gnawed through the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion’s connection to its origin, despite the scion scattering its source among nameless skeletal thoughts. The scion’s body, powers, and memories continued to lose their causes as the attack spread.

• Gongpiluo Huang’s tooth mark erased the underlying causes of the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion’s skeletal patterns, true names, and memories.
• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion used Myriad Skeletons Self-Existence to scatter its source into hundreds of millions of nameless skeletal thoughts.
• Gongpiluo Huang’s tooth mark continued to sever the scion’s original cause, and the scattered skeletal thoughts began vanishing.
• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion’s body failed to reassemble as its bone wings and armor shattered and source blood poured from its chest.
• Gongpiluo Huang remained calm while the tooth mark spread, leaving the scion’s ancient prison, memories, and existence increasingly blank.

The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion burned his remaining existence to unleash Jin Beginning Absolute Nothing, restoring what Gongpiluo Huang’s Teeth of Beginningless had erased. A pitch-black sword light then traced the use of Gongpiluo Huang’s ability, leaving his next move uncertain.

• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion lost his remaining clarity and ignited his Fate Soul source and essence blood as he prepared to perish with Gongpiluo Huang.
• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion unleashed Jin Beginning Absolute Nothing—Return to One Void, and its pitch-black emberfire burned away the Teeth of Beginningless and restored his lost true name and memories.
• Gongpiluo Huang tried to send the emberfire to the beginning and draw it toward an endless end, but both efforts failed as his ancient authorities and forehead scar began to burn.
• A pitch-black rift appeared above the blue-gray mountain plain, and the Twelve Zodiac Star Positions and erased first causes returned to their original order.
• A pitch-black sword light emerged from the rift and followed the trace of Gongpiluo Huang’s use of Gnaw Beginningless · First Cause Severance.

Gongpiluo Huang and the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion destroyed each other in the backlash of Jin-Beginningless Absolute Nothingness, erasing their origins and traces from the world. As Shangguan Wan'er and Elder White Brow sensed the battle’s end from the ravine, the fabric of the surrounding world began to fracture.

• Jin-Beginningless Absolute Nothingness pierced Gongpiluo Huang, destroying its twelve star spots, ancient authorities, and connection to the Source of Wuji until it vanished completely.
• The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion succumbed to the backlash, laughed that it had taken Gongpiluo Huang with it, and disappeared along with its name, memories, and karma.
• The black Jin fire dissipated, the Twelve Zodiac Star Positions returned to order, and the surviving divine beast supreme beings regained clarity.
• Shangguan Wan'er and the injured members of the Shangguan Lineage gathered on a protected rock platform in the ravine while Elder White Brow guarded them.
• Elder White Brow and Shangguan Wan'er sensed both ancient presences vanish, but his probing Dao markings dissolved beyond the ravine.
• Elder White Brow warned Shangguan Wan'er to be careful as a sharp crack sounded across the sky.

After Gongpiluo Huang and the ancient prison creature perished, the illusion collapsed and Shangguan Wan'er’s survivors were pulled onto an ancient formation platform. There, they discovered eleven other platforms and reunited with survivors from other clans, while the purpose of the twelve-platform formation remained unclear.

• Shangguan Wan'er realized the blue-gray mountains and plains were an illusion as the world began to collapse, and she and the elders failed to stabilize it.
• Elder White Brow protected the Shangguan Lineage survivors with the Nine Mysteries Primordial Origin-Suppressing Bell as the illusion vanished and a force pulled them through the void.
• Shangguan Wan'er and the survivors landed on one of twelve ancient platforms, whose Dao rhyme she recognized as sharing a source with Gongpiluo Huang’s Beginningless Ancient Rhyme.
• Shangguan Wan'er and Elder White Brow saw groups from the Profound Heaven Clan, the Grand Inception Clan, and other clans appear on the remaining platforms.
• The gathered cultivators questioned where they were and compared their different trial experiences, but Shangguan Wan'er could not determine what the twelve platforms represented.

The Grand Inception Clan elder reveals that the twelve zodiac trials were deadly Parallel Illusion Realms within the Myriad-Age Twelve-Direction Grand Formation, and that surviving cultivators have reached the true realm. After learning that only a thousand Shangguan Lineage disciples survived, Shangguan Wan'er leads them into the central Gray-Gold Barrier to enter the secret realm’s core.

• The Grand Inception Clan elder explains that each of the twelve formations generated countless Parallel Illusion Realms, where trials were real and death was permanent.
• Shangguan Wan'er confirms that her team fought Gongpiluo Huang, and the elder reveals that more than a hundred cultivators in a neighboring illusion realm died facing the same Beast Sovereign.
• Surviving teams appear on the twelve platforms, and the Profound Heaven Clan, the Grand Inception Clan, and other clans begin crossing the bridges toward the central barrier.
• Shangguan Wan'er learns that only thirteen elders, nine stewards, and one thousand disciples remain from the more than ten thousand Shangguan Lineage members who entered the secret realm.
• Shangguan Wan'er rallies the survivors, then leads them with Elder White Brow across the dark-gold bridge and into the Gray-Gold Barrier.

The Chi Lineage party crossed the Xuanhuang Ancient Plain, where a crushing ancient resonance weakened their powers and strange tremors shook the land. The mountains parted to reveal an immense xuanhuang ox-like being bearing twelve star-shaped markings, with Beginning characters on its horns and an End character on its tail.

• Chi Tianhong reported that a distant floating mountain drew in spatial Dao principles and carried an unusually heavy xuanhuang resonance.
• Chi Tongyue warned the Chi Lineage cultivators not to use wide-ranging divine abilities or tear open space, and ordered them to stay together.
• A series of tremors made the mountains, floating landmasses, and star-shadows sink as an ancient presence approached.
• The enormous mountain split apart, revealing a colossal xuanhuang figure with curved horns, four hooves, and twelve markings along its back.
• The figure fully emerged and lay at the end of the plain, its breathing raising and lowering distant mountains and rivers.

Chi Tongyue recognized the enormous ancient being confronting the Chi Lineage as Vajra Radiance, one of the Twelve Zodiac Primordial Beast Luminaries, whose power of bearing pressed down on the lineage. She identified his ox-aspected origin logic as Illusory Generation and warned the disciples to defend themselves as they prepared to fight.

• Vajra Radiance revealed his ox-shaped star marking and declared that the Chi Lineage would learn what it meant to bear.
• His ancient pressure forced Chi Lineage disciples to their knees and weighed on their Fate Souls and Dao foundations as Chi Tongyue shielded them.
• Chi Tongyue recognized Vajra Radiance as the ox-aspected bearer of the beginning and one of the Twelve Zodiac Primordial Beast Luminaries.
• Vajra Radiance's power caused the plain to sink and cracked the rock beneath the Chi Lineage, so Chi Tongyue raised a barrier to protect the disciples.
• Chi Tongyue explained that Vajra Radiance's Illusory Generation could undermine real Dao foundations and Fate Souls, and urged everyone not to lower their guard.
• A Chi Lineage disciple drew his ancient sword as the group prepared to face Vajra Radiance.

Vajra Radiance crushed the Chi Lineage formation with its Xuanhuang Ancient Resonance, forcing Chi Tongyue and Chi Tianhong to change tactics and launch a combined attack. The strike reached Vajra Radiance, but its Illusory Generation origin logic disrupted Chi Tongyue’s perception of how the ancient blade had formed.

• Chi Lineage disciples and elders raised their Innate Divine Weapons to reinforce the formation, while Chi Ninghua protected nearby disciples with her jade seal.
• Vajra Radiance struck the ground twice with its hooves, sinking the plain and severely straining the Chi Lineage’s defensive array.
• Chi Tianhong told Chi Tongyue through a Fate Soul transmission that they had to attack Vajra Radiance’s Illusory Generation logic rather than simply resist its pressure.
• Chi Tongyue rallied the elders and disciples, who combined their origin power into an enormous dark azure ancient blade and sent it at Vajra Radiance.
• Vajra Radiance closed its eyes and pressed its horns forward, causing Chi Tongyue to lose the perception of how the blade had formed and recognize the power of Illusion.

Vajra Radiance used the Illusory Generation True Scripture to transform the Chi Lineage’s weapons, defenses, and Fate Soul foundations, leaving its ten thousand cultivators in danger of having their Dao foundations rewritten. Chi Tongyue raised a temporary barrier and ordered the elders and disciples to defend their Fate Souls and stop activating large-scale abilities.

• Vajra Radiance’s Illusory Generation True Scripture spread illusion marks through the Chi Lineage, blurring the origins of their divine weapons and Dao foundations.
• The scripture drew Chi Tongyue’s dark cyan ancient blade into a tiny mark between Vajra Radiance’s horns and began eroding the cultivators’ Fate Souls.
• The Twelve Zodiac Star Positions on Vajra Radiance’s back shifted as Chi Tongyue and Chi Tianhong struggled to understand and resist its power.
• Chi Ninghua tried to shield several hundred disciples with her jade seal, but its protection was also drawn into the Illusory Generation True Scripture.
• Chi Tongyue reignited her Dao Wheel, formed a cyan barrier against the spreading marks, and ordered the elders to fortify their Dao foundations while the disciples withdrew their weapons.

Chi Tongyue and nine Chi Lineage elders sacrificed all their Eternal Silence cultivation to activate the Myriad Illusions Return to Truth Pool and halt the Illusory Generation True Scripture’s spread. The pool restored the Chi Lineage’s Dao foundations and contained the illusions, leaving Vajra Radiance’s assault unable to advance against them.

• Chi Tongyue and the Chi Lineage elders formed a barrier that slowed the illusion characters but could not stop them from eroding the disciples’ Dao foundations.
• Chi Tongyue urged Chi Tianhong to activate the Myriad Illusions Return to Truth Pool, and he agreed that ten elders would risk sinking all their cultivation into it.
• Chi Tongyue, Chi Tianhong, and eight elders took positions around the Chi Lineage ranks while Chi Ninghua was told to keep the disciples within the return-to-truth boundary.
• Chi Tongyue summoned the ancient stone pool, and the ten elders sank all their Eternal Silence cultivation into it.
• The pool stopped the illusion characters from spreading and restored clarity to the disciples’ Fate Souls and divine weapons.
• Vajra Radiance renewed his Illusory Generation assault, but its markings sank into the pool as Chi Tongyue deployed the Ten Directions Return to Truth—Myriad Illusions Sink into the Pool formation.