Chapter Summaries

Hao Yuanzun arrived at the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall and destroyed more than half the attacking Dao Shadow Soldiers, but over a hundred commanders then emerged and overwhelmed the defenders. The chapter ended with the disciples and elders facing annihilation as their strongest fighters fell.

• Hao Yuanzun arrived at the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall and used the Eternal Extreme Heavenly Stele to destroy or injure more than half of the Dao Shadow Soldiers.
• More than a hundred Dao Shadow Soldier Commanders emerged from a rift and combined their Dao Flames to threaten the entire Source of Epochless · Middle Layer.
• Disciples from the various sacred halls and clans formed battle formations and fought the commanders, while Hao Wuli and the elders were besieged.
• Chen Chao, Chen Po, Shen Yuzhi, Luo Huan, Mu Xun, Du Linglin, and Mo Zhiyan were killed by the commanders.
• The defenders' lines collapsed as the surviving disciples and elders watched the commanders press their attack.

The Dao Shadow Soldiers devastated the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer, and Hao Yuanzun struggled to hold the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall against their commanders’ Causality Annihilation Tide. The Sourceless Hidden Army emerged from beneath the world and erased the invading forces, leaving the battlefield silent.

• Dao Shadow Soldiers burned and destroyed the territories and divine halls across the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer.
• Hao Yuanzun suppressed a hundred Dao Shadow Soldier Commanders but could not stop their Causality Annihilation Tide from threatening the entire Middle Layer.
• The Sourceless Hidden Army appeared from the collapsed underground world and destroyed thousands of Dao Shadow Soldiers with its Origin Destroyer Whips and other powers.
• Sixteen Void Commanders joined the battle and annihilated the remaining Dao Shadow Soldiers and commanders.

The Sourceless Hidden Army battled the overwhelming Dao Shadow Soldier Legion across the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer, leaving the Progenitors and countless cultivators fearing the destruction of their world. As the fighting threatened to annihilate the Middle Layer, five Sourceless Commanders appeared and suppressed the Dao Flames, leaving the survivors wondering if they would be saved.

• Hao Yuanzun and the other Progenitors witnessed the Sourceless Hidden Army annihilate Phantom Demonic Spirits and feared what the army might do to them.
• The Sourceless Hidden Soldiers and Void Commanders fought back against waves of Dao Shadow Soldiers, breaking their samsara attacks and destroying their forces.
• Three Origin Annihilation Generals entered the battle and erased vast numbers of Dao Shadow Soldiers as the Middle Layer descended into chaos.
• Ancestor Hao Wuli ordered the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall disciples to retreat behind its barrier while cultivators across the Middle Layer struggled to endure the devastation.
• Five Sourceless Commanders emerged from the clouds, extinguished the Dao Flames, and made the Dao Shadow Soldiers recoil in fear.

The Sourceless Hidden Army and the Phantom Demonic Spirit commanders fought a devastating battle across the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer, leaving the Phantom Demonic Spirit forces nearly destroyed. As the five Sourceless Commanders prepared to finish the survivors, Source Flow Guardian emerged from a golden vortex and overwhelmed the battlefield with his presence.

• The five Sourceless Commanders unleashed the Silent Profundity Five Aspects · Return-to-Nothingness Diagram, destroying tens of thousands of Dao Shadow Soldiers and grievously wounding many Phantom Demonic Spirit commanders.
• More than a hundred Phantom Demonic Spirit commanders counterattacked with curses, illusion wheels, and twelve black suns, forcing the Sourceless Hidden Army and its Void Commanders into a fierce struggle.
• The battle devastated the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer, and the Sourceless Hidden Army reduced most of the Phantom Demonic Spirit forces to nothing while a few surviving commanders called for help from a deeper layer.
• As the five Sourceless Commanders prepared their final strike, a golden vortex swallowed their attack and Source Flow Guardian emerged from it holding an ancient Source Dao Wheel.
• Source Flow Guardian’s presence suppressed the Sourceless Hidden Army and restored the surviving Dao Shadow Soldiers’ confidence, while the other survivors trembled before him.

The Sourceflow Guard overwhelmed the Sourceless Hidden Army, gathered the remaining Dao Shadow Soldiers, and left the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer after failing to find his target. With both forces gone, the survivors began repairing the devastation while fearing the mysterious expert might return.

• The Sourceflow Guard appeared and forced the beings of the Middle Layer, including the Sourceless Hidden Army, beneath his Supreme pressure and Sound of Return to Source.
• The Sourceflow Guard drew the remaining Dao Shadow Soldiers and commanders into a golden army formation, searched the Middle Layer for someone, then vanished with his legion through a rift.
• The Sourceless Hidden Army remained motionless in the sky, shaken by the Sourceflow Guard, before it eventually merged into the void and disappeared.
• The surviving Founding Ancestors organized repairs, with leaders from the Dawn Cloud First Hall, Imperial Radiance Divine Lineage, Glazed Immortal Hall, Crimson Martial Hall, Profound Frost Sacred Hall, and Eternal Night Observatory Pavilion restoring the land and sealing rifts.
• The surviving disciples followed the Founding Ancestors' orders and began rebuilding their homes, while the ancestors privately feared the mysterious expert might return.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang survived the Realm of Primordial Echoes’ trials and fought a powerful ancient guardian. After judging them, the guardian allowed them to enter the Realm-Cause Dense Forest, where they sensed a force that could change the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer.

• Qin Yu stopped a spatial rift with Silent Origin while Hong Xiuxiang used the Spirit Brocade Book Realm to absorb its splintering blades.
• Ancient guardians appeared, and the echoes stirred painful memories in Hong Xiuxiang, who steadied herself and resolved not to retreat.
• A towering ancient guardian attacked Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang with a devastating halberd strike.
• Qin Yu met the guardian’s attack with the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword and the Azure Ring, while Hong Xiuxiang’s book mirror helped withstand the impact.
• The guardian survived the clash, withdrew his killing intent, and permitted Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang to enter the Realm-Cause Dense Forest.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang saw the forest’s vast road, cosmic trees, and destiny-bearing steles, and recognized its significance.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang passed the trial guarding the Realm-Cause Dense Forest and entered a castle caught in a distortion of time and existence. There they met a powerful woman who recognized a trace of primordial causal thought in Qin Yu and linked it to Mengxi, the realm maiden he had once seen sealed in a crystal.

• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang endured the forest’s strike and entered the Realm-Cause Dense Forest.
• The forest distorted their shadows and sense of time, revealing an ancient castle above a sea of clouds.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang followed a dangerous path through space-time and reached the castle.
• The castle’s doors shut behind them, and they found a woman seated on a throne in its hall.
• The woman sensed primordial causal thought connected to the Azure Ring in Qin Yu and said it reminded her of her elder sister, Mengxi.
• Qin Yu recalled the realm maiden sealed inside a crystal in Gloomshadow Source Village and wondered how she was related to the woman.

Qin Yu told Mengxin that he had found her sister Mengxi sealed in Gloomshadow Source Village and vowed to rescue her. When he revealed the Sword of Dream Silence, Mengxin recognized it as Mengxi’s sword and accepted that he was the successor her sister had chosen.

• Qin Yu described finding Mengxi sealed in a crystal and meeting Uncle Meng, who guarded her with the Book of Realm Construction.
• Mengxin revealed that Mengxi had sealed the Dark Annihilation Origin forbidden art within herself to protect their clan, while Uncle Meng stabilized the crystal seal.
• Qin Yu promised to take Mengxin to Mengxi and rescue her, despite the danger of entering the ultimate annihilation abyss.
• Mengxin presented a phantom trace of the Book of Realm Construction and challenged Qin Yu to prove his resolve.
• Qin Yu manifested the Sword of Dream Silence and revealed its five forms, whose sword intent shook the hall.
• Mengxin recognized the sword as Mengxi’s and declared that Qin Yu was the successor her sister had chosen.

Qin Yu explained Mengxi’s connection to the Sword of Dream Silence and told Mengxin how he and Hong Xiuxiang had entered the Realm of Primordial Echoes. After Mengxin warned them about the hidden armies threatening the realm, Qin Yu revealed his quest to find the Tear of the Silent Origin Soul Butterfly, and Mengxin entrusted him with her damaged map of the realm.

• Qin Yu told Hong Xiuxiang that Mengxi had been sealed in a forbidden place at Gloomshadow Source Village and that the Sword of Dream Silence had once belonged to her.
• Qin Yu introduced himself and Hong Xiuxiang to Mengxin and explained that three map fragments had merged into the Realm of Primordial Echoes map, which led them there.
• Mengxin revealed that her mother had sent her into the realm to preserve their bloodline and that she had not known its name or how the map fragments could unlock it.
• Mengxin warned Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang that ancient divine beasts commanded hidden armies of bizarre creatures and that the guardians protecting the realm could fall.
• Qin Yu told Mengxin that Yunyi and Extinguished Light had fallen into eternal slumber and that he had to find the Tear of the Silent Origin Soul Butterfly to awaken Yunyi.
• Mengxin gave Qin Yu her damaged ancient map of the Realm of Primordial Echoes, hoping it would help him find the Tear.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang left the Realm-Cause Dense Forest with Mengxin’s map fragment and followed its guidance into the Time Barren Plain. After Qin Yu destroyed a colossal beast woven from broken timelines, the plain collapsed and revealed the Karmic Forest Abyss, where the pair continued onward.

• Qin Yu resonated with the ancient map fragment, and the Azure Ring identified it as a guide to the Silent Abyss Butterfly Sea and the Tear of the Silent Origin Soul Butterfly.
• Mengxin thanked Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang for telling her that her elder sister was alive, and she promised to leave the castle with them if they returned safely.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang left the Realm-Cause Dense Forest and followed the map into the Time Barren Plain, where they fought off a temporal rift and faced a beast that attacked across multiple eras.
• Qin Yu used the Azure Ring’s Realm-Overturning Primordial Cosmos to annihilate the temporal beast, while Hong Xiuxiang’s Spirit Brocade Book Realm helped lock the battle into the present.
• The Time Barren Plain collapsed and exposed the Karmic Forest Abyss, so Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang followed the karmic light-chains toward it.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang faced Karma Severed Prison in the awakened Karmic Forest Abyss, where fate-erasing attacks pushed them to their limits. As Qin Yu prepared to unleash the combined power of the Azure Ring and the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, the battle remained unresolved.

• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang entered the Karmic Forest Abyss and resisted visions of their own deaths as its karmic power awakened.
• Karma Severed Prison appeared and attacked them with a scythe that severed fate trajectories; Qin Yu met the blow with the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword.
• Hong Xiuxiang used the Spirit Brocade Book Realm to turn back part of the scythe's force and shield Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu combined the Azure Ring with the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword to counter Karma Severed Prison's second strike, cracking the enemy's scythe.
• Karma Severed Prison unleashed Karma Wheel Annihilation, and Qin Yu used the Azure Ring and his sword to sever some of its chains while Hong Xiuxiang protected him.
• Qin Yu gathered the Azure Ring and the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword for their strongest combined strike against Karma Severed Prison.

Qin Yu and the Azure Ring joined forces with the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword to erase the enemy and destroy the Karmic Forest Abyss. After he and Hong Xiuxiang recovered, a rift opened and dark creatures emerged, revealing the battle was not over.

• Qin Yu used the Azure Ring and the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword to erase the enemy and its traces from existence.
• Hong Xiuxiang witnessed Qin Yu's power, vowed to follow him, and accepted a divine pill he gave her while they recovered.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang sensed the shattered karmic chains being torn open and saw a faceless figure emerge from the void.
• An Obsidian Bone Phoenix, an Annihilation Abyss Bone Lion, and an armored dark being emerged from the rift.
• Hong Xiuxiang identified the creatures as the vanguard of the army Mengxin had warned them about, and Qin Yu prepared to fight.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang fought off three dark beings in the Karmic Forest Abyss, with Qin Yu unleashing the Azure Ring to annihilate them. After recovering, they reached the entrance to the Silent Abyss Butterfly Sea, where a storm of phantom butterfly wings immediately threatened them.

• Hong Xiuxiang used the Wave Heart Dream Mirror Soul to deflect the dark beings’ attacks while Qin Yu countered with the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword and Fate Cause Master Seal.
• Qin Yu invoked the Azure Ring’s Soul Annihilation-Dawn Drawing and joined its power with his sword to destroy the three dark beings.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang recovered in the Karmic Forest Abyss, and Qin Yu gave Hong Xiuxiang a healing pill.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang set out to find the Silent Origin Soul Butterfly and reached the entrance to the Silent Abyss Butterfly Sea.
• A storm of phantom butterfly wings surged from the entrance as Qin Yu warned that the sea would be more dangerous than the Karmic Forest Abyss.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang crossed the Realm of Primordial Echoes, endured illusions that tested their deepest fears, and were swept into a boundless sea of flowers. There they encountered a mysterious woman whose poem stirred their understanding and resolve, while her radiant ancient book responded to their arrival.

• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang explored the realm’s luminous forests and abysses as a shadow watched them from a waterfall.
• A spectral figure confronted them with visions of their fears and failures, but its raised finger dispelled the illusions.
• Hundreds of millions of radiant butterflies surrounded Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang and transported them to an endless sea of spiritual flowers.
• A hooded woman in a dark purple robe appeared beside an enormous ancient tome and recited a poem that made the flower sea glow with starlight.
• Qin Yu connected the poem to the memories and calamities of the Source of Epochless, while Hong Xiuxiang vowed that she would not fear even an endless night.
• The mysterious woman continued reading as the book’s radiance strengthened and Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang felt the poem’s power.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang underwent the Flower Sea Judgment, where they passed through separate Petal Worlds and sealed a pact by joining hands. After they emerged, the mysterious woman vanished and a purple-blue flower began releasing a powerful radiance that stirred a sense of familiarity in Qin Yu.

• The veiled woman sensed an unprecedented fateful cause in Qin Yu and challenged him and Hong Xiuxiang to survive the Flower Sea Judgment.
• The woman sent Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang into separate Petal Worlds, where visions of stars and flowers let them sense each other's hearts.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang crossed a rainbow bridge and joined hands, sealing the pact that allowed them to leave the Petal World.
• Hong Xiuxiang asked Qin Yu not to let go, and Qin Yu clasped her hand more firmly as they emerged from the illusion.
• The mysterious woman disappeared, and a purple-blue flower at the center of the flower sea erupted with light that stirred a familiar feeling in Qin Yu.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang faced illusions that tested whether they would choose solitude or share their paths, and they vowed to stand by each other. They passed the Sea of Flowers Trial and returned to the sea, where the central flower celebrated their success.

• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang entered separate flower illusions, where petal beings tested their convictions through visions and a song.
• Qin Yu saw the deaths of his companions and feared that bonds would bring others to harm, while Hong Xiuxiang saw a dream of her future collapse into Qin Yu's lonely departure.
• Hong Xiuxiang told Qin Yu she would rather live and die with him than leave him alone.
• Qin Yu asked Hong Xiuxiang to stand by his side, and she vowed to stay even if she were reduced to ashes.
• The flower beings sealed their bond, the illusion receded, and Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang returned to the sea of flowers as the central flower bloomed around them.

Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang passed the flower sea’s second trial, then faced its six flower enemies in the final trial. They combined their sword and book arts to destroy the enemies, leaving the flower sea peaceful again.

• The flower sea woman announced that Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang had passed the second trial, then warned that the true test was still ahead.
• Six flower enemies appeared and attacked Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang with flames, ice, darkness, golden light, dream music, and soul-piercing strikes.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang countered the six enemies’ attacks with their sword and spirit-book techniques, destroying their weapons and suppressing their assault.
• The six enemies burned their lives to unleash Myriad Flowers' Silent Radiance, combining their powers into a giant blade.
• Qin Yu and Hong Xiuxiang combined their strongest techniques, shattered the giant blade, and dispersed all six flower enemies.

Qin Yu obtained the Tear of the Silent Origin Soul Butterfly and accepted the karma bound to it. With Azure Ring’s help, he used its power to revive Youlong Yunyi, who awakened in his sea of consciousness.

• The Silent Origin Soul Butterfly revealed its immense form and created the Tear of the Silent Origin Soul Butterfly from the sea of flowers.
• The tear responded to Qin Yu and fused with the Azure Ring, transforming into a Soul Butterfly Crystal as the Realm of Primordial Echoes trembled.
• Azure Ring warned Qin Yu that the crystal was a fragment of Silent Origin’s source and carried heavy karma, but he vowed to continue for Yunyi and those he protected.
• Azure Ring used the tear’s power to remake Youlong Yunyi’s soul origin, healing her soul wings and restoring her strength.
• Youlong Yunyi opened her eyes beneath the ancient void tree and called Qin Yu “Elder Brother Yu Qin.”

Qin Yu witnessed Yunyi awaken and return in human form, and their Fate Souls entered a complete shared pact. Yunyi met Hong Xiuxiang and the Azure Ring, leaving Qin Yu caught between his companions as they playfully competed over who would protect him.

• Yunyi awakened, joined Qin Yu as a dragon soul mark, and then appeared before him in human form.
• Qin Yu and Yunyi touched hands, completing their shared Fate Soul pact and vowing to protect and remain with each other.
• Hong Xiuxiang met Yunyi, and the two promised they would both stay by Qin Yu's side.
• The Azure Ring manifested, and she and Yunyi bickered over who would protect Qin Yu better.

Qin Yu, Yunyi, and Hong Xiuxiang left the Silent Origin Soul Butterfly’s sacred flower sea and entered the Fallen Star Blood Abyss, where they faced the Cause-Derived Layered Night Leopard and its Karma Remnant Spirits. Their combined attacks damaged the beast’s defenses, but it began rebuilding its shield, and they prepared to strike again.

• Hong Xiuxiang resolved to stand beside Qin Yu despite her jealousy of Azure Ring and Yunyi, and Qin Yu thanked the Silent Origin Soul Butterfly before leading them away.
• Qin Yu explained that the Realm of Primordial Echoes held a mysterious army driven by destruction and pursuit, and warned that they had to purge it.
• Qin Yu, Yunyi, and Hong Xiuxiang entered the Fallen Star Blood Abyss, where they sensed the danger of its broken karma and awakened a surge of hostile power.
• The Cause-Derived Layered Night Leopard emerged with an army of Karma Remnant Spirits and used its skills to reverse karmic chains and rewrite the paths of attacks.
• Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi combined their techniques to split the blood river and break much of the leopard’s shield, but the beast started rebuilding it.
• Qin Yu vowed to annihilate the leopard, and Yunyi declared that the three would fight together to destroy it.