Chapter Summaries

Qin Yu entered Illusion God Main City disguised as a True Immortal Great Emperor and learned that the Nightmare God Temple screened outsiders through lethal trials that offered a Source Ascension Logic Pill. He agreed to join Ning Hao for the trial as the qualification test officially began, intending to use the opportunity to infiltrate the temple.

• Qin Yu entered Illusion God Main City with Xiao Menglin's life-bound divine consciousness imprint and observed the city's busy trade and strict temple-entry screening.
• At a teahouse, Qin Yu overheard that two True Immortal Great Emperors had arrived seeking entry tokens for the Nightmare God Temple.
• Ning Hao introduced himself to Qin Yu as a True Immortal Emperor from the Eternal Age and warned that outsiders who entered the temple had not returned.
• Ning Hao explained that survivors of the cruel trial could obtain a Source Ascension Logic Pill that severed cross-epoch chains and allowed outsiders to become native cultivators.
• Qin Yu accepted Ning Hao's invitation to enter the trial together, planning to use him to reach the temple's core.
• The Nightmare God Temple announced that its preliminary disciple qualification trial had begun and summoned registered candidates to the Soul-Executing Altar.

Qin Yu and Ning Hao entered the Nightmare God Clan’s brutal disciple assessment, where candidates faced lethal Fate Soul screening. Ning Hao passed, and Qin Yu stepped forward, hinting that he would make the device collapse.

• Qin Yu and Ning Hao arrived at the Soul-Executing Altar as the Nightmare God Clan announced that only the first twenty candidates would become disciples.
• The purple-robed elder activated the three assessment trials and warned that candidates with Fate Soul levels below four would be killed or eliminated.
• Mo Youyuan and many other candidates died when the Fate Soul Level Screening Device judged them insufficient or unstable.
• Ning Hao’s Fate Soul caused the screening device to malfunction briefly before it identified him as level four, mid-stage, and eligible.
• Qin Yu told Ning Hao to watch for the device’s reverse collapse, then walked toward the Fate Soul Level Screening Device.

Qin Yu, disguised as Qin Ning, watched powerful outsiders pass the Nightmare God Clan’s Fate Soul screening before taking his own test. His hidden soul pressure nearly destroyed the device and injured Wang Chi, but Qin Yu suppressed it and passed, leaving the elders suspicious of his Annihilation Abyss Hidden Lattice Physique.

• Sage Cangyou and Golden Immortal Xuanluo arrived and passed the screening, displaying Fate Soul levels six and five, respectively.
• As the screening continued to kill or injure cultivators, Ning Hao warned Qin Yu that the device was probing souls more deeply and promised to stand by him.
• Silver-Winged Soul Observer Yu Xu examined Qin Yu but saw only the false soul structure created by Qin Yu’s disguises.
• When Qin Yu stood beneath the screening pillar, his soul pressure shattered three fate-mark chains and damaged Wang Chi’s sea of consciousness.
• Qin Yu withdrew his pressure, received a level-five Annihilation Abyss Hidden Lattice Physique assessment, and passed; Wang Chi suspected the designation had ties to a supposedly annihilated great realm.

Qin Yu passed the Nightmare God Clan’s Source Consciousness Resonance trial while concealing his true soul, and the clan’s elders dismissed their suspicions. The third trial was announced as the Initial Yuan Threshold Challenge Array, where Qin Yu planned to use the clan’s own rules against it.

• After Sage Cangyou achieved extremely high compatibility on the Source Consciousness Resonance Platform, Wang Chi sent Li Jin to investigate number 472, Qin Ning.
• Li Jin found Qin Ning’s background and soul core apparently unblemished, though Wang Chi ordered him watched.
• Ning Hao and Golden Immortal Xuanluo also passed the resonance trial with high compatibility.
• Qin Yu received ordinary compatibility and 62.04% resonance stability, and Wang Chi classified him as an unstable alternate-source entity rather than a threat.
• The chief examiner announced that 103 candidates had passed the second trial and introduced the Initial Yuan Threshold Challenge Array’s three tests.
• Qin Yu realized the tests imitated mechanisms of the Annihilation Abyss Epoch and resolved to use the Nightmare God Clan’s rules against it.

The Nightmare God Clan’s third assessment tested candidates’ ability to reverse-construct an enemy soul’s actions, and most challengers failed while a few epoch experts passed by varied methods. The Rift Venerable of the Ruined Capital passed through logical vanishing, leaving Qin Yu, listed as Qin Ning, poised to take his turn.

• Yang Fuyuan and several early challengers failed to reverse-construct the Yuan-Slaying God King’s soul, while number 106 became the first to pass by freezing its actions for five breaths.
• Sage Cangyou, Golden Immortal Xuanluo, Ning Hao, True Emperor Yuance, Soul Practitioner Xingjin, and Pei Yuantu passed using distinct soul and causality techniques.
• Later challengers including True Emperor Huaying, Daoist Yunyuan, and True Immortal Cangjue failed, and the results showed only eight passes among sixty-six tested.
• The Rift Venerable of the Ruined Capital stripped his existence from time, causing the enemy soul to stop functioning, and passed with a special-grade, unclassifiable verdict.
• After the Rift Venerable stepped down, the array advanced toward Qin Yu’s turn as number 467 lit up and Qin Ning began to stir his soul consciousness.

Qin Yu passed the Time Cognition Reverse Construction assessment by holding the simulated enemy soul immobile, then the third round began with simultaneous thought-realm and silent-soul trials. Sage Cangyou and Golden Immortal Xuanluo were the only candidates to pass before the roster advanced to Ning Hao.

• Qin Yu fixed the Yuan-Slaying God King simulation in place for seven breaths and passed the reverse-construction assessment.
• The chief examiner announced that 37 candidates had passed the first stage and opened the thought-realm and silent-soul assessments simultaneously.
• Yang Fuyuan failed to sustain his thought domain, and the candidates who followed also failed to meet the dual assessment's requirements.
• Sage Cangyou constructed a suppressive thought realm and silenced the enemy soul, earning very high ratings in both tests.
• Golden Immortal Xuanluo trapped the enemy soul within its own causal structure and established complete silent-soul suppression, passing with an excellent rating.
• The roster advanced to Number 186 · Ning Hao, who was about to take the stage.

Ning Hao and Qin Yu passed the final dual-realm examination by narrow margins, while Qin Yu concealed his abilities well enough to have his surveillance canceled. The Nightmare God Temple concluded its preliminary trial, issued bronze tokens to twenty successful candidates, and summoned them to the Soul-Executing Altar in three days for rankings and rewards.

• Ning Hao bound the simulated Curse Emperor Yuanqing with his six-fate sealing technique, passed both realms at the cost of severe injuries, and received quiet aid from Qin Yu.
• Of the remaining candidates, only a handful passed, bringing the number of successful candidates before Qin Yu's test to nine.
• Qin Yu constructed a bare-minimum thought realm and used concealed annihilation pressure to pass the dual-realm challenge, after which Wang Chi classified him as low danger and canceled surveillance.
• Silver-Winged Soul Observer Yu Xu announced that only twenty of 13,621 participants had passed and gave each successful candidate a bronze token.
• Yu Xu ordered the candidates to gather at the Soul-Executing Altar in three days, where their rankings would be announced and the top three would receive a Source Ascension Logic Pill.

Qin Yu returned from infiltrating the Nightmare God Temple and revealed that it was exploiting extradimensional True Immortal Great Emperors to create soul-bound weapons. He joined forces with Observation Sovereign Tong Ning to plan a trap for the hidden mastermind, while Tong Ning detected a mysterious cultivator using a substituted soul source; back at the Radiant Palace, the group prepared for a visit to the temple in three days.

• Qin Yu told Yan Yue, Yunyi, Extinguished Light, and Zi Xue how the Nightmare God Temple screened extradimensional cultivators and selected twenty of a million candidates for further assessment.
• Qin Yu warned Yan Yue that he would return to the Nightmare God Temple in three days, then went to meet Tong Ning and reported the temple's soul-chain array and Source Ascension Logic Pill.
• Tong Ning agreed to help Qin Yu expose the mastermind through a plan that used her Observation Sovereign authority to create a false epochal deviation.
• Tong Ning activated her perception authority and detected a cultivator in the northern wasteland realm whose soul source had been substituted to disguise their identity.
• Qin Yu returned to the Radiant Palace and met Yao Guangxun, Shu Xunyan, and Feng Wujin, who confirmed the Nightmare God Temple's threat and prepared for Yao Guangxun to visit its Soul-Executing Altar in three days.

Qin Yu and Tong Ning’s allies prepared to sabotage the Nightmare God Clan’s Soul-Executing Altar, and Qin Yu helped erase one of its key energy nodes before a patrol could discover him. He then revealed his true name and identity to Ning Hao over the promised drink, warning that the next events could show him another side of the world.

• Qin Yu explained the plan to break the deadlock to Feng Wujin, Shu Xunyan, Yao Guangxun, Yunyi, Extinguished Light, Yan Yue, and Zi Xue, and said they would draw in the net after the next crucial step.
• Qin Yu and Tong Ning’s blue-robed elder erased the sacrificial-mark energy source at a Soul-Locking Revolving Wheel node beneath a cliff near the Nightmare God Temple.
• Three Nightmare God Temple patrol members investigated the node’s disturbance but found no trace of sabotage and withdrew.
• Qin Yu sensed the patrol from a nearby hill and concluded that acting ahead of them had saved him from being discovered.
• Qin Yu visited Ning Hao in his true form, revealed that Qin Ning was not his real name, and identified himself as Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu shared Ning Hao’s Starfire Memory-Severing Brew and told him that his next actions might reveal another side of the world.

Qin Yu revealed that the Nightmare God Temple’s assessment was a trap to harvest the strongest candidates as sacrificial souls, and enlisted Ning Hao to warn the other eighteen. Disguised as Qin Ning, Qin Yu infiltrated the temple as a counter-sacrifice quietly began beneath its altar.

• Qin Yu told Ning Hao that the Source Ascension Logic Pill and the assessment were part of a Soul-Capturing Array designed to sacrifice the strongest candidates and forge the Nightmare main soul.
• Ning Hao agreed to work with Qin Yu, who gave him a soul imprint and instructed him to expose the bindings hidden in the other eighteen candidates’ bronze tokens.
• Ning Hao vowed to warn all eighteen within three days, even if they rejected or cursed him, and swore to die in their place if he failed.
• Qin Yu watched from a mountain ridge, then entered the Nightmare God Temple grounds disguised as Qin Ning using soul-domain mimicry.
• The Lord of the Silent Abyss approached the exclusive passage for bronze-tier token holders as a counter-sacrifice and soul-sealing scheme quietly began beneath the temple.

Qin Yu learned that Wang Long was away on a two-month mission, while Ning Hao revealed to Pei Yuantu that the Nightmare God Temple had marked the twenty copper-rank disciples as sacrificial furnaces. With Qin Yu’s soul-seal method, Ning Hao and Pei Yuantu awakened all nineteen others and prepared them to gather as usual on the third day, when Qin Yu would handle the rest.

• Qin Yu went to Wang Long’s residence and learned from a night-watch disciple that Elder Fuyao had sent Wang Long alone on a survey mission in Yandong’s outer reaches, where he was expected to remain for two months.
• Ning Hao met Pei Yuantu at the Serene Vast Immortal Studio and used a soul-seal method to reveal the sacrificial inscriptions hidden in their copper-rank tokens.
• Ning Hao told Pei Yuantu that a mysterious Primordial Void Realm cultivator had taught him the method, while keeping Qin Yu’s identity secret.
• Ning Hao and Pei Yuantu agreed to discreetly warn the other eighteen disciples and told each other to gather as usual on the third day without drawing the Nightmare God Clan’s attention.
• Ning Hao and Pei Yuantu visited the nineteen disciples separately, and the disciples confirmed that their tokens contained soul-locking sacrificial seals.
• A half-step Annihilation Origin investigator sensed a brief disturbance in the sacrificial markings, but the trace went silent again.

Qin Yu and nineteen other True Immortal Great Emperors turned the Nightmare God Temple’s Soul-Executing Altar against its creators, destroying the sacrificial array. Qin Yu revealed his true identity and faced the temple’s wounded elders as they attacked him.

• Qin Yu, disguised as Qin Ning, and nineteen other True Immortal Great Emperors took their places on the Soul-Executing Altar as Yu Xu began the ceremony.
• The soul chains shattered before they could bind the twenty immortals, and the array’s circuits began to collapse and backfire.
• Wang Chi recognized that the array was being reverse-reconstructed, but the Soul-Executing Altar collapsed and the Nightmare God Temple’s ten elders were blasted away.
• Qin Yu cast off his Qin Ning disguise, revealed his true name, and summoned the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword.
• Wang Chi identified Qin Yu and led the ten elders in an attack, but Qin Yu declared that they would face annihilation as the battle began.

Wang Chi summoned the Nightmare God Clan’s guardian, Ji Yanzhenshu, to fight Qin Yu, but Qin Yu’s allies arrived and surrounded the temple. As the main confrontation began, Qin Yu sent Ning Hao and eighteen emperors to attack the Nightmare God Clan’s branches, while the Returning Consciousness Clan stayed out of the battle and Liang Jichen watched from afar.

• Wang Chi crushed a Golden Radiance Divine Talisman and summoned Ji Yanzhenshu, a Supreme Severed Observation Realm guardian, to kill Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu’s ten powerful allies arrived at the Nightmare God Temple and confronted Ji Yanzhenshu and the Nightmare God Clan.
• The elders of the Returning Consciousness Clan forbade their disciples from interfering, while Liang Jichen dismissed the Nightmare God Clan as a pawn and watched Qin Yu’s moves.
• Qin Yu told Ning Hao to lead eighteen True Immortal Great Emperors in destroying the Nightmare God Clan’s branch temples across its domains.
• Ning Hao activated a teleportation array, and the nineteen emperors set out to attack the Nightmare God Clan’s scattered forces.

Wang Chi and the Nightmare God Temple elders launched an all-out assault against Qin Yu and the reinforcements, but Qin Yu and his allies overpowered several opponents. Qin Yu gravely wounded Wang Chi with his final severance technique, then was swallowed by Wang Chi’s forbidden curse and fell to one knee as Wang Chi declared they would both die.

• Wang Chi rallied the Nightmare God Temple’s nine other main soul elders and unleashed a vast soul-curse attack against Qin Yu while other reinforcements joined the battle.
• Qin Yu broke through Wang Chi’s soul chains and struck at his consciousness with the Fate Cause Master Seal, forcing Wang Chi to burn his soul to resist.
• Yan Yue, Yunyi, Zi Xue, Extinguished Light, the Star-Vast Mystic Lord, and the three Only Book Realm experts fought the Nightmare God Clan’s elders and other combatants across the battlefield.
• Qin Yu used the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword’s final severance technique to strike Wang Chi’s fate consciousness, leaving him gravely wounded but alive.
• Wang Chi activated the forbidden Soul-Devouring Realm-Smearing Curse, and the blood-colored abyss swallowed Qin Yu before he could complete his counterattack.
• Qin Yu fell to one knee at the Silent Rift Platform, bleeding and braced against his sword, while Wang Chi laughed and vowed that they would both die.

Qin Yu and Yan Yue unleashed the Life-Annihilating Dawn Codex to erase Wang Chi and help destroy the Nightmare God Clan’s forces. As the exhausted survivors faced the clan’s Annihilation Dawn Realm leader, Qin Yu identified himself as the Lord of the Annihilation Abyss Epoch.

• Yunyi, Zi Xue, and Extinguished Light annihilated the remaining Nightmare elders and the Nightmare Order Twins as Yan Yue joined Qin Yu on the battlefield.
• Qin Yu and Yan Yue combined their powers to release Silent Cause of Myriad Realms, erasing Wang Chi from the source logic of the world.
• With Wang Chi gone, the allied forces killed or restrained Nightmare survivors and destroyed the Soul-Executing Altar and the Nightmare Blood Eye emblem.
• The Annihilation Profound Dark Lord descended, shook the wounded survivors with his power, and asked Qin Yu who he was.
• Qin Yu faced the clan leader and named himself Lord of the Annihilation Abyss Epoch of the Source of Epochless.

Qin Yu used the Azure Ring and a vast annihilation array to erase the Nightmare God Clan from existence, then rewarded the nineteen True Immortal Great Emperors who had destroyed its branch strongholds. He left the allied experts awed by his power and sent the nineteen emperors home with pills to help them advance.

• Qin Yu activated the Purple-Gold Fate Lock array and ordered his allies to escape beyond its boundary, while the Nightmare God Clan was trapped inside.
• The Nightmare patriarch unleashed the clan’s ultimate technique, but Qin Yu used the Azure Ring’s sixth and seventh forms to collapse the clan’s consciousness, rules, and existence.
• Qin Yu annihilated the Nightmare God Clan and erased its name from fate, leaving only himself in the clan’s former territory.
• Qin Yu returned to Yan Yue and the others, and the nineteen True Immortal Great Emperors arrived to report that they had destroyed the clan’s branch strongholds.
• Qin Yu gave the nineteen emperors Azure Fate Pills to help them break through to Primordial Chaos Ancestral God, then sent them home along their fate paths.

After Qin Yu annihilated the Nightmare God Clan, powerful factions across the Source of Epochless prepared to oppose or support him. Tong Ning affirmed that she would stand by Qin Yu as the greater conflict approached.

• Qin Yu left the Nightmare God Clan’s erased realm with Yan Yue, Zi Xue, Extinguished Light, and Yunyi.
• Gui Xuanyan activated the Returning Consciousness Clan’s defensive grand array and sealed the clan within its domain.
• Annihilation Principle Record Venerable issued the True Word Extremity Hall’s decree to exterminate Qin, while Liang Jichen recorded Qin’s fate and vowed to shatter his brush.
• Yu Xufei and Yu Mingyao decided to awaken the Yu Realm Blood Sacrifice Envoy to test Qin before considering the clan’s ultimate sacrifice.
• Four great halls declared support for Qin, while many other factions and clans joined the effort against him.
• Tong Ning heard the report of Qin’s victory, declared that the greater conflict was coming, and vowed to stand by Qin and wield Ji Lü’s sword against anyone who threatened him.

After Qin Yu and his companions were appointed Oath Hall Divine Guards, he went alone to investigate Wang Long’s disappearance. He found that a Rule Remnant Devourer had swallowed Wang Long into the Logic Forbidden Domain, destroyed the monster, and prepared to enter the causal rift valley to rescue him.

• The deputy hall master appointed Qin Yu, Yan Yue, Zi Xue, Yunyi, and Extinguished Light Oath Hall Divine Guards and gave them protective tokens.
• Qin Yu told his companions that Wang Long had been missing for seven days and left alone to search for him.
• Shu Xunyan invited Zi Xue to train in the Illusory Realm Void Light, and Zi Xue agreed to go.
• Qin Yu traced Wang Long’s presence to the Spiritual Sense Drifting Terrace and discovered that a Rule Remnant Devourer had dragged him into the Logic Forbidden Domain.
• Qin Yu reconstructed Wang Long’s naming core and destroyed the Rule Remnant Devourer with Recognition Annihilation Law Severance.
• Qin Yu pinpointed Wang Long’s remnant soul and set out to enter the nine-layer construct-cause rift valley to bring him back.

Qin Yu broke the Seven-Round Cause-Construction Labyrinth Formation and rescued Wang Long, then defeated Jing Hengrao, the rule remnant devourer. After restoring Wang Long’s consciousness, Qin Yu learned of a deeper scheme involving the Nightmare God Clan, and Wang Long swore to fight at his side.

• Qin Yu broke the seven layers of the labyrinth and pulled Wang Long’s soul from the Rending Domain.
• Jing Hengrao descended, trapped Qin Yu and Wang Long in the Ash Abyss Locking Domain, and attacked Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu erased Jing Hengrao’s name and existence with his fate techniques and the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword.
• Qin Yu stabilized Wang Long’s soul, and Wang Long explained that Elder Fuyao had sent him to investigate alien forces before a soul trap captured him.
• Qin Yu suspected a deeper Dark Realm scheme connecting the Nightmare God Clan and the rule remnant devourer, and Wang Long vowed to serve as a blade at his side.

Qin Yu rescued Wang Long and returned with him to the Conradiance Halls, where he prepared his allies for the coming battles. Qin Yu and Yan Yue entered seclusion, fused their Fate Souls, and broke through to new realms before reaffirming their bond.

• Wang Long recalled being attacked by a rule remnant devourer, and Qin Yu gave him an Annihilation Heart Reversal Pill before bringing him back to the Conradiance Halls.
• Yan Yue told Qin Yu that Senior Shu Xun had taken Zi Xue to train in the Illusory Realm Void Light, while Qin Yu assigned Yunyi and Extinguished Light to recover in his sea of consciousness.
• Qin Yu and Yan Yue began secluded cultivation on the Origin Silence Sunken Abyss Platform, where their two-person ultimate Fate Soul technique began to take shape.
• Qin Yu advanced to Primordial Void Realm · Supreme, and Yan Yue advanced to No Consciousness Realm · Initial Stage as their Life-Annihilating Dawn Codex domain formed.
• After their breakthroughs, Yan Yue admitted she feared she would not catch up to Qin Yu, and he reassured her that their shared technique depended on both of them.