Chapter Summaries

Qin Yu entered the Annihilation Ancient Divine Palace and chose to approach the mysterious Bookless Hall while Elder Liu Mei led Hong Xiuxiang and the Dawn Cloud First Hall disciples to the Dreamcolor Flow Hall. After Qin Yu resisted the Bookless Hall’s fate-writing test with the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, its gates opened onto a world of steles and scrolls, where an ancient voice demanded his narrative as a pact.

• Qin Yu and the others entered the Annihilation Ancient Divine Palace and saw its ninety-nine halls, which concealed different dangers and opportunities.
• Elder Liu Mei led Hong Xiuxiang and the Dawn Cloud First Hall disciples toward the Dreamcolor Flow Hall, while Qin Yu headed alone for the Bookless Hall.
• The Dreamcolor Flow Hall recognized the Dawn Cloud First Hall disciples and opened its gates to them.
• The Bookless Hall unleashed a storm of pages that tried to force Qin Yu into a predetermined fate, but he halted it with the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword.
• The Bookless Hall’s blank stele cracked and its gates opened, revealing a vast world of gray steles and scrolls; an ancient voice demanded that Qin Yu offer his narrative as a pact or be buried beneath the steles.

Qin Yu faced the Book of Fate’s narrative trial in the Bookless Hall and destroyed the colossus that tried to impose his death as an unchangeable ending. A crimson ancient book then appeared as the void’s gift, leaving Qin Yu confronted with a new, ominous force.

• Qin Yu entered the Bookless Hall alone and saw the Book of Fate display scenes from his life and possible future deaths.
• Qin Yu used the Realm Severing Origin Brush and the Book of Fate Law to resist the scroll’s narrative backlash and rewrite fate.
• The scroll unleashed the Narrative End-Book-Deleting Silent Curtain, but Qin Yu’s Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword severed its virtual death scenes.
• Qin Yu destroyed the narrative colossus with his sword, the Fate Ring, and the Silent Principle Void Annihilation Scripture.
• A crimson ancient book emerged from the void, and Qin Yu sensed that it could write his fate once opened.

Qin Yu encountered the complete Beginningless Silent Origin True Scripture and learned that uniting its thirteen volumes would make him the sole origin point, at the cost of isolation. He resolved to protect those he cared about and harmonized with the first volume, the Beginningless Origin Record.

• The Azure Ring explained the thirteen volumes and the power and cost of becoming the Beginningless Silent Origin Body.
• Qin Yu vowed to protect those he cared about even if he became an isolated origin point.
• The Beginningless Origin Record opened and drew Qin Yu into visions of attempts to define his origin collapsing into endless cycles.
• Qin Yu gained the first volume's recognition and could make projections that trapped origin-seekers in an endless cycle.

Qin Yu explored the Annihilation Ancient Divine Palace while Hong Xiuxiang entered the Hall of Dream Colors and faced trials that embodied her fears, desires, and possible fate. She overcame three layers of illusions, though the hall’s trial continued to loom over her.

• Qin Yu continued through the ancient halls after obtaining a scripture in the Bookless Hall.
• Elder Liu Mei led Hong Xiuxiang and her junior sisters into the Hall of Dream Colors and warned them that its trials would expose their deepest obsessions.
• The hall separated the women into individual dream realms, and Hong Xiuxiang used her Spirit Brocade Book Realm to defeat illusions of her fears and her master.
• Hong Xiuxiang shattered a gentle illusion of childhood protection and a future with Qin Yu, enduring the trial of her deepest longings.
• A fate-judge tried to write Hong Xiuxiang’s future into a scroll, but she resisted with her book realm and survived the third trial, bloodied amid the ruined pages.

Hong Xiuxiang survived the Dream Color Hall trial and gained the Sole Book Ultimate Style · Annihilation Tribulation Execution Chapter, then joined the other trial survivors in the palace plaza. Outside, twelve Dao Shadow Soldiers appeared and annihilated every cultivator who had failed to enter.

• A forbidden spirit book awakened in the Dream Color Hall and transformed Hong Xiuxiang's Spirit Brocade Book Realm, granting her the Sole Book Ultimate Style · Annihilation Tribulation Execution Chapter.
• Hong Xiuxiang left the hall and told Elder Liu Mei that the trial was over, while the other divine halls' disciples emerged with powers and bearing transformed by their trials.
• Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and disciples from the various halls gathered in the palace plaza, where they watched one another warily as tension mounted.
• Twelve Dao Shadow Soldiers emerged from a rift outside the palace and raised their Origin-Returning Blades against the cultivators who had failed to gain entry.
• The Dao Shadow Soldiers erased every lingering cultivator outside the palace, leaving only themselves amid the silence.

The twelve Dao Shadow Soldiers entered the Annihilation Ancient Divine Palace and erased its guardians and cultivators with their power of returning to the origin. Qin Yu and the other survivors felt the force spread through the palace, and the chapter left them facing the approaching Annihilation Legion.

• The twelve Dao Shadow Soldiers destroyed the palace’s two divine statues and entered the Annihilation Ancient Divine Palace.
• The soldiers ambushed and erased several Only Book Realm experts, dissolving their soul books and bodies into their energy.
• Qin Yu sensed the soldiers’ presence spreading through the palace, while Hong Xiuxiang and other cultivators felt their consciousnesses shake.
• The soldiers’ Dao patterns swept through the palace, weakening cultivators across multiple halls and leaving them terrified.
• The Dao Shadow Soldiers emerged in a deep corridor and killed more than a dozen Annihilation Source Realm and Only Book Realm cultivators in a single attack.

Qin Yu regrouped with Hong Xiuxiang and Dawn Cloud First Hall as twelve Dao Shadow Soldiers entered the Annihilation Ancient Divine Palace. The soldiers shattered the Book Sea · Sealing Formation with a single attack, leaving the defenders badly wounded and the hall on the verge of being erased.

• Azure Ring warned Qin Yu that the Dao Shadow Soldiers had begun slaughtering, so Qin Yu raced to the Hall of Dream Colors to find Hong Xiuxiang and Dawn Cloud First Hall.
• Qin Yu ordered everyone to gather and prepare for a mysterious power, while Hong Xiuxiang arranged the disciples into a formation.
• The twelve Dao Shadow Soldiers appeared and erased part of the palace with their Origin-Returning Blades; Azure Ring identified them as Supreme killing soldiers derived from the Source Dao Supreme Return Emperor's will.
• The three elders and over a hundred female disciples formed the Book Sea · Sealing Formation as Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang faced the soldiers.
• The Dao Shadow Soldiers struck the formation once, shattering its pages and injuring the elders and disciples, while Qin Yu recognized that their power exceeded the limits of the Annihilation Dawn Realm.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang led the gathered cultivators against twelve Dao Shadow Soldiers whose Origin-Returning attacks threatened to erase their fate and existence. Qin Yu countered their techniques with his sword, fate seal, Azure Ring, and Silent Origin, but the battle left the palace in ruins and everyone gravely injured as the twelve soldiers still faced them.

• The Book Sea · Sealing Formation shattered, and Qin Yu realized the twelve Dao Shadow Soldiers were beings of origin-return beyond ordinary Supreme cultivators.
• The Dao Shadow Soldiers unleashed a gold-and-azure tide that drew disciples and experts from the other divine halls into the battle.
• Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and the gathered factions attacked together, but their powers failed to penetrate the soldiers' protective light.
• The twelve soldiers unleashed Origin-Returning Annihilation Tide, devastating the divine halls and breaking through much of the cultivators' defenses.
• Qin Yu countered the soldiers' Fate Cause Extraction, Narrative Devouring, and Multidimensional Folding techniques with his Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, Fate Cause Master Seal, and Silent Origin.
• The soldiers used Existence Erasure, and Qin Yu combined Three Forms of Fate Construction with Azure Ring's Realm-Severing Silent Light; the clash left the palace in ruins and the cultivators gravely injured, with Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang still facing the twelve soldiers.

Qin Yu and the Dawn Cloud First Hall fought the twelve Dao Shadow Soldiers as they unleashed their ultimate attack. Qin Yu destroyed the soldiers with the Azure Ring, and the palace fell silent.

• The twelve Dao Shadow Soldiers sensed the Azure Ring and attacked Qin Yu, overwhelming Hong Xiuxiang's Spirit Brocade Book Realm barrier.
• Qin Yu unleashed the Azure Ring's Realm-Severing Silent Light, then used the Returning Annihilation Abyss Mirror to capture two Dao Shadow Soldiers and strengthen himself.
• Qin Yu activated the Limitless Silent Evolution Lamp-Lighting Formation, but the soldiers countered with the Origin-Returning Realm-Extinguishing Field.
• Qin Yu combined the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword with the Netherworld Lamp and called on the Dawn Cloud First Hall's elders and disciples to release their strongest Innate Martial Souls.
• The Azure Ring unleashed its silent slashes and Realm-Overturning Primordial Cosmos, severing the soldiers' foundations and futures.
• Qin Yu used Annihilate the Soul and Draw the Dawn to pull the twelve Dao Shadow Soldiers' souls into the Azure Ring Rift Realm, where they were destroyed.

After destroying the twelve Dao Shadow Soldiers, Qin Yu sent the Dawn Cloud First Hall group away and continued alone to search for the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall disciples. In the Causality Labyrinth River, he encountered a Fate-Cause Annihilation Lion that began negating his existence, and he prepared to strike back.

• Qin Yu’s annihilation power shocked Hong Xiuxiang, the two Dawn Cloud First Hall elders, and the disciples who witnessed the destruction of the twelve Dao Shadow Soldiers.
• Qin Yu insisted on searching for the missing Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall disciples, so the two elders took Hong Xiuxiang and the other disciples away to report to the progenitor.
• Qin Yu followed the resonance of the golden Eternal Pole Crystal Core into a gray-white mist, where the Azure Ring warned him of an ancient presence and the dangers of the Causality Labyrinth River.
• Qin Yu resisted the mist’s causal illusions and chanting with Silent Origin techniques and pressed deeper toward the golden light.
• A giant Fate-Cause Annihilation Lion appeared and used Dawn-Cause Zero Book-Enemy-Slaying Plot to negate Qin Yu’s identity as the protagonist, prompting Qin Yu to vow to annihilate its script.

Qin Yu defeated the Fate-Cause Annihilation Lion by using the Azure Ring to erase its script within an unborn realm. The lion's destruction revealed the Origin Truth Framework Scripture, the fifth volume of the Beginningless Silent Origin True Scripture, while the Azure Ring warned that a greater enemy was watching.

• The Fate-Cause Annihilation Lion tried to erase Qin Yu by rewriting his life, but Qin Yu used the Fate Cause Master Seal and Azure Ring to resist its script.
• Qin Yu used the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword to sever the lion's fate and challenged its claim to be the sole protagonist.
• Qin Yu unleashed the Azure Ring's Realm-Overturning Primordial Cosmos and erased the lion, its seals, and its Dawn-Cause Zero Book.
• The Azure Ring warned Qin Yu that the lion had been only a vanguard and that a deeper enemy was watching.
• The Origin Truth Framework Scripture appeared from the lion's shattered soul, and the Azure Ring identified it as the fifth of the thirteen volumes of the Beginningless Silent Origin True Scripture.

Qin Yu obtained the fifth volume, the Origin Truth Framework Scripture, and briefly linked its power with the Beginningless Origin Record. He found the imprisoned Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall disciples and elders in the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm and broke their cage, though three Soul-Annihilating Prison Wardens remained nearby.

• Qin Yu passed the Origin Truth Framework Scripture’s trial and gained the power of the Framework Judgment Book.
• The Beginningless Origin Record and the Origin Truth Framework Scripture resonated, briefly combining the Origin Cycle and Framework Judgment Book into a True Scripture fragment.
• Qin Yu sensed the weakened Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall disciples and elders and followed their traces deeper into the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm.
• Qin Yu found more than a dozen disciples and three elders trapped in a cage guarded by three Soul-Annihilating Prison Wardens.
• Qin Yu used the Fate Cause Master Seal and the Azure Ring’s Realm Abyss Reverse Evolution to destroy the cage and free the captives.

Qin Yu freed the elders and disciples trapped in the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm, then followed their report to rescue Wang Yuan. He discovered that Wang Yuan had been used as bait in a trap laid by Chen Chao, and the chapter ended with Qin Yu fighting to break the Karmic Illusion Prison.

• Qin Yu used the Fate Cause Master Seal and Azure Ring to free the elders and disciples from a spatial cage, then learned Wang Yuan had been swept into a more dangerous region.
• Qin Yu sent the elders to escort the rescued disciples out and led a group of core disciples toward the forbidden land to find Wang Yuan.
• Qin Yu found Wang Yuan bound in a Sole Book Remnant Realm, where cloaked enemies revealed that Wang Yuan was bait intended to lure Qin Yu into their trap.
• Wang Yuan warned Qin Yu to flee as the black-and-gold-cloaked force, secretly positioned by Chen Chao, tightened the chains torturing him.
• Qin Yu and the core disciples were sealed inside the Karmic Illusion Prison, where a soul beast killed one disciple and regenerated chains resisted Qin Yu's Fate Cause Master Seal attack.
• Qin Yu fought the prison's chains and illusions while secretly building his strength to destroy the formation and save Wang Yuan.

Qin Yu failed to save Wang Yuan after learning the cloaked figures had used him as bait, and he swore vengeance on Chen Chao, Chen Po, and the Chen Clan. He decided not to return to the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall, choosing instead to train alone in the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm until he was strong enough to face his enemies.

• Qin Yu killed the Chain Prison Phantom Lord's chains and broke through the prison to reach Wang Yuan, but hidden causality particles destroyed Wang Yuan before he could save him.
• Qin Yu used Sever the Main Narrative and Annihilation Construct Authority to attack the cloaked figures, who escaped through the shattered space.
• Qin Yu vowed to annihilate Chen Po, Chen Chao, and the Chen Clan, but the Azure Ring warned him that Chen Chao was too powerful to challenge yet.
• Qin Yu decided that returning to the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall would expose him and implicate Chi Ning and the others, so he chose to remain in the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm and train alone.

The Middle Layer launched a hunt for the Phantom Demonic Spirits as the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall learned Qin Yu and Wang Yuan had not returned from the secret realm. Qin Yu secretly escaped under a false identity, determined to avenge Wang Yuan and expose Chen Chao and the Chen Clan.

• The major powers named the Dao Shadow Soldiers Phantom Demonic Spirits and issued a domain-wide bounty to hunt them.
• The surviving elders told Chi Ning, Shen Yuzhi, and the other disciples that Qin Yu had rescued them before going deeper into the secret realm to save Wang Yuan.
• Zhang Qiang ordered the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall to join the campaign against the Phantom Demonic Spirits and dismissed Qin Yu and Wang Yuan's survival as a matter of fortune.
• Chen Chao and Chen Po revealed that they had used Wang Yuan as bait, arranged his death, and hoped Qin Yu would perish or be branded a traitor.
• Qin Yu emerged from a rift disguised with altered features and clothing, then disappeared into the crowd to conceal his identity and plan his revenge.

Qin Yu saw that the Middle Layer had placed bounties on the Dao Shadow Soldiers, whom it mistook for Phantom Demonic Spirits, and watched hunters be annihilated as the soldiers spread across the region. The Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall convened the factions to respond, but its leaders disagreed over sealing the threat or fighting it.

• Qin Yu walked through the Radiant Heaven Imperial Capital and learned that the Middle Layer was offering a million Annihilation Starlight Crystals for each Phantom Demonic Spirit killed or a useful lead.
• Hunters formed a team and tried to trap ten Dao Shadow Soldiers with the Spirit-Trapping Sundering Formation, but the soldiers destroyed the formation and annihilated all hundred cultivators.
• Dao Shadow Soldiers appeared across the Middle Layer, erasing people, sects, and regions, including the Vast Sky Ancient Plain, the Bottomless Sea Abyss, the Crimson Hell Mountain Range, and the Eternal Night Observatory Pavilion.
• The Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall hosted a council where Zhang Qiang called the soldiers an ultimate disturbance, and Chen Chao urged the factions to activate the Supreme Abyss Sealing Law.
• Representatives argued over whether to fight or seal the soldiers, while an elder of the Dawn Cloud First Hall warned that the threat might reach the Core Layer.

After the Spirit Dream Divine Descendants were annihilated, Qin Yu disguised himself as Mo Chen to keep the Phantom Demonic Spirits from targeting his allies. He sought a way to expose their nonexistence forms, and the shopkeeper offered him the Annihilation Contemplation Locking Seal Core, a one-use treasure that could pin such an enemy in place.

• More than thirty Dao Shadow Soldiers erased the Spirit Dream Divine Descendants and their city before marching deeper into the city.
• Qin Yu heard rumors of the clan’s destruction in a Radiant Heaven Imperial Capital shop and realized the Dao Shadow Soldiers were ultimately hunting him.
• Qin Yu used the Azure Ring to conceal his presence and took on the identity of Mo Chen, vowing to hunt down the Dao Shadow Soldiers.
• Mo Chen asked the shopkeeper for a treasure that could expose and lock a Severed Observation Realm being in its Nonexistence Form.
• The shopkeeper revealed the Annihilation Contemplation Locking Seal Core and explained that it could manifest and immobilize a powerful hidden enemy, but would shatter after one use and risk harming its user’s sea of consciousness.

Qin Yu bought the Annihilation Contemplation Locking Seal Core, which could expose Phantom Demonic Spirits, and concealed his identity when he encountered Chi Ning and Meng Qing. He left the capital to hunt the Dao Shadow Soldiers, sensed one nearby, and vanished into the void as his first battle approached.

• Qin Yu learned that the Annihilation Contemplation Locking Seal Core could reveal Severed Observation Realm beings and paid one hundred million Annihilation Radiance Forbidden Stars for it.
• Qin Yu saw Chi Ning and Meng Qing in the market but stayed disguised as Mo Chen so his enemies would not endanger them.
• Meng Qing sensed a familiar presence and searched the crowd, but she failed to recognize Qin Yu before leading Chi Ning and the disciples away.
• Qin Yu vowed to hunt the Phantom Demonic Spirits and traveled from the capital into the mountains.
• Qin Yu sensed a Dao Shadow Soldier nearby, activated his power, and disappeared into the void to begin his hunt.

Qin Yu discovered the Annihilation Thought Sea Scroll guarded by a group of Dao Shadow Soldiers in an ancient ruin. He attacked with Azure Ring and the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, destroying the soldiers’ formation in a storm of annihilation.

• Qin Yu entered a sacred ruin, where Azure Ring warned him that multiple Dao Shadow Soldiers were nearby.
• Qin Yu found more than thirty Dao Shadow Soldiers surrounding a remnant page of the Beginningless Silent Origin True Scripture, identified by Azure Ring as the Annihilation Thought Sea Scroll.
• Qin Yu decided to seize the scroll before the soldiers could seal it away, and he quietly approached the ancient stone platform.
• Three Dao Shadow Soldiers attacked with their Origin-Returning Blades, while the others formed a Phantom Origin Formation to trap Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu manifested Azure Ring’s second form, Realm-Severing Silent Light, and drew the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword to break the formation and strike the soldiers.
• Qin Yu’s combined attack engulfed the Dao Shadow Soldiers in an annihilation storm, leaving the battle’s outcome and the scroll’s fate unresolved.

Qin Yu defeated the fused Dao Shadow Soldiers and claimed the Annihilation Thought Sea Scroll, learning it was a hidden fragment of the Beginningless Silent Origin True Scripture. He gathered the three Embers of the Ruins of Return and stored them in the Azure Evolution Core.

• Three Dao Shadow Soldiers joined their powers and trapped Qin Yu in a thought-sea domain, but Qin Yu used Unborn Silent Cause to break their resonance.
• The three Dao Shadow Soldiers fused into a giant shadow body and unleashed their final attack, but Qin Yu combined the Azure Ring with the Fate Cause Master Seal to destroy it.
• Qin Yu claimed the Annihilation Thought Sea Scroll, and the Azure Ring explained that it was a hidden fragment representing the true scripture's forbidden principle of silence before thought is born.
• The scroll resonated with Qin Yu's other ancient scriptures and formed a translucent phantom ring linked to the Beginningless Silent Origin True Scripture's hidden origin body.
• Three Embers of the Ruins of Return appeared, and Qin Yu stored them in the Azure Evolution Core as proof of victory and materials for future advancement.