Chapter Summaries

Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi destroyed the Cause-Derived Layered Night Leopard, and Yunyi awakened new butterfly-and-dragon powers. They entered a strange sea of books, where Hong Xiuxiang claimed the Brocade Ink Soul Brush and a Boundless Realm Book-Devouring Dragon attacked them.

• Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi combined their powers to destroy the Cause-Derived Layered Night Leopard and restore silence to the Fallen Star Blood Abyss.
• Yunyi revealed that the Tear of the Silent Origin Soul Butterfly had fused with her dragon soul and given her new powers.
• Qin Yu, Yunyi, and Hong Xiuxiang followed a mysterious radiance into a sea of books and found an ancient brush left behind by the Book Sage.
• Hong Xiuxiang took the brush, merging it with her Spirit Brocade Book Realm and discovering her new power as brush and book became one.
• The Boundless Realm Book-Devouring Dragon appeared with a legion of dark creatures and used its gray flames to break soul techniques and devour Qin Yu's protective formation.

Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi fought the Boundless Realm Book-Devouring Dragon and the dark beings in the Fallen Star Blood Abyss, with Qin Yu erasing their enemies through dream-based sword arts. Hong Xiuxiang then claimed the Brocade Ink Soul Brush, fused it with her Spirit Brocade Book Realm, and ended the remaining enemies with her new powers.

• The Boundless Realm Book-Devouring Dragon claimed the Brocade Ink Soul Brush and attacked Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi with its gray-flame formation.
• Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi combined their powers to break through the dragon's defenses, but it devoured their attacks and used the stolen power against them.
• Dozens of dark beings joined the battle, and Qin Yu used his dream-based sword arts to destroy them and erase the Boundless Realm Book-Devouring Dragon.
• Hong Xiuxiang took the Brocade Ink Soul Brush and fused it with her Spirit Brocade Book Realm, awakening five new skills.
• Hong Xiuxiang used Sole Book Final Chapter · Realm-Severing Script to destroy the remaining enemies, then declared that the book and the enemies were finished.

Beside a lake in the Realm of Primordial Echoes, Qin Yu told Yunyi and Hong Xiuxiang how Yan Yue had been saved by Huayan and revealed that Minguang was still sleeping in his sea of consciousness. As Qin Yu vowed to find them and return to the Annihilation Abyss Epoch, Yunyi welcomed Hong Xiuxiang as family, and Hong Xiuxiang resolved to grow strong enough to stand beside him.

• Qin Yu thanked Yunyi and Hong Xiuxiang for staying with him, and both promised to remain at his side.
• Yunyi asked Qin Yu what had happened to Yan Yue, and he said she had been gravely wounded before Huayan saved and took her away.
• Qin Yu vowed to find Yan Yue and said Minguang was still asleep in his sea of consciousness.
• Hong Xiuxiang resolved to break through beyond the Only Book Realm so she could keep pace with Qin Yu.
• Yunyi reassured Hong Xiuxiang that she was family and said they would protect the Annihilation Abyss Epoch together.
• Qin Yu explained that Qian Ruishan, Mu Qingwan, his friends, and his seniors protected the world he had created, and the three walked toward the deeper unknown.

Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi climbed the Starfall Heavenly Stairway, where they faced the Life-Rending Star-Devouring Beast and its Star Abyss Remnant Spirits. After defeating them and cleansing the first level, they saw the Star Abyss Life Marrow glowing near the summit and prepared to continue upward.

• Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi discovered that each level of the Starfall Heavenly Stairway held a waiting enemy, and Qin Yu recognized the purplish-black presence as the Star Abyss Life Marrow.
• Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi stepped onto the first level and battled dozens of Star Abyss Remnant Spirits led by the Life-Rending Star-Devouring Beast.
• The Life-Rending Star-Devouring Beast used Night Cause Reverse Attraction to turn their attacks against them, but Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi countered its power.
• The Star-Devouring Beast unleashed Fate Trajectory World Collapse, and the three answered with their ultimate techniques to annihilate it and the remaining spirits.
• The defeated enemies’ corruption vanished, and the first level’s waterfalls turned pure silvery blue as Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi sensed the path leading toward the Star Abyss Life Marrow.

Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi fought their way through the second heavenly tier, where Karma Nightmare Disciples tried to erase Qin Yu by rewriting his fate. After Qin Yu destroyed the first group, a Supreme-level Nightmare Disciple leader emerged and began rewriting the trio’s memories and existence; the chapter ended with the three striking together as Yunyi’s butterflies surged toward the leader.

• Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi entered the second heavenly tier and were attacked by Karma Nightmare Disciples who tried to erase Qin Yu from history.
• Qin Yu resisted the false fate with the Azure Ring and Sword of Dream Silence, then combined Silent Origin, the ring diagram, and his sword intent to destroy the Nightmare Disciples.
• A Nightmare Disciple leader emerged from a giant gray wheel, and its karmic power began rewriting Hong Xiuxiang’s memories and making Yunyi see Qin Yu turn to ash.
• Qin Yu opened a gap in the leader’s fate trajectories with Wheel-Breaking Seal while Yunyi used Dark Abyss Roaring Soul and Hong Xiuxiang unleashed Book Annihilation Ink Waves.
• The leader used Karma Rewriting: Fate Trajectory Reset to Zero, but Qin Yu froze its gray fire with Silent Ring: Initial Realm Resonance and shattered it with Illusory Consciousness Ashes.
• Yunyi sent a tide of starlit butterflies at the staggered leader as it prepared a more powerful wave of karmic rewriting.

Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi defeated the Nightmare Disciple leader on the second level, then fought the Fate Redactors on the third and claimed another Karmic Crystal. The crystal revealed the fourth level and the waiting Fate Adjudicator as the stairway carried them onward.

• Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi combined their powers to destroy the Nightmare Disciple leader and its gray wheel of karma.
• Hong Xiuxiang identified the resulting Karmic Crystal as cause-derived ash marrow, and Qin Yu took it despite the Azure Ring's warning about the third level.
• Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi resisted the Fate Redactors' attempts to erase their existence, rewrite their pasts, and end their futures, then destroyed them together.
• Qin Yu took the Karmic Crystal left by the Fate Redactors, which held powers to anchor or sever karma and glimpse fate at a cost.
• The Starfall Heavenly Stairway began carrying the group to the fourth level, where the crystal revealed a vast court and the waiting Fate Adjudicator.

Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi defeated the Fate Adjudicator on the fourth level of the Starfall Heavenly Stairway by joining their powers against its ultimate and self-destructive judgments. They obtained the Fate Shard Crystal, which the Azure Ring identified as a possible key to the fifth level, and the waterfall carried them upward toward a trial that would cross life and death.

• The Fate Adjudicator revealed the companions’ fate-tracks and attacked them with Fate-Track Judgment and Future Erasure.
• Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi countered together, then shattered the Fate-Track Scales and halted the Adjudicator’s Ultimate Judgment.
• The Fate Adjudicator unleashed a final self-judgment that threatened to erase all three from existence.
• Qin Yu linked their fate-tracks with the Azure Ring, Hong Xiuxiang wrote “Not ended,” and Yunyi joined their powers to destroy the Fate Adjudicator.
• Qin Yu collected the Fate Shard Crystal from the Adjudicator’s remains, and the Azure Ring said it might reveal the cause of the fifth level or briefly rewrite a fate-track.
• The starlit waterfall lifted Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi toward the fifth level.

Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi fought the Fate-Trajectory Adjudicator, whose judgment bound them to past skills and turned their own powers against them. They broke through its first domain together, but the Adjudicator recovered and revealed a deeper assault on their pasts and possible futures, leaving Qin Yu determined to erase its foundation.

• The Fate-Trajectory Adjudicator appeared on the fifth level and bound Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi to past skill trajectories, making their abilities misfire against them.
• Qin Yu used Silent Origin: Tribulationless Chapter and the Sword of Dream Silence while Hong Xiuxiang and Yunyi joined him to break through the Adjudicator's judgment domain.
• The Adjudicator endured the assault, reassembled its fate chains, and projected reversed fate charts that threatened to erase the trio's pasts and existence.
• The Adjudicator surrounded the trio with mirrors showing rewritten futures, and Qin Yu resolved to erase the foundation of its power.

Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi destroyed the Fate-Trajectory Adjudicator with a combined attack and obtained its core shard. They ascended to the sixth layer, Time's Withered Abyss, where the Abyss-Reversing Desolate Venerable appeared and trapped them between past and future as they prepared to fight.

• The Fate-Trajectory Adjudicator revived in its second form and attacked Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi with its fate bell, tilting scales, and future-burning chapter.
• Qin Yu used Silent Origin and the Sword of Dream Silence, Hong Xiuxiang unleashed Sole Book Final Chapter · Realm-Severing Script, and Yunyi struck with Silent Abyss Single Gaze · Three Souls Descend upon the Severed Realm.
• The trio shattered the Adjudicator and obtained the Fate Crystal Shard · Core from its remains.
• Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi ascended into Time's Withered Abyss, where the sixth layer distorted their pasts, futures, and abilities.
• The Abyss-Reversing Desolate Venerable appeared on a throne of broken time, and the three prepared to fight it together.

Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi fought the Abyss-Reversing Desolate Venerable, whose time and fate powers overwhelmed them and erased their attacks. As the Venerable prepared to destroy them, Azure Ring awakened and annihilated it with her Silent Realm power, leaving the three alive amid the ruined sixth level.

• The Abyss-Reversing Desolate Venerable used [Time Reversal Abyss] to erase Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi's attacks before they could happen.
• Qin Yu, Yunyi, and Hong Xiuxiang combined their powers to break through the reversal, but Hong Xiuxiang was badly wounded by the backlash.
• The Venerable unleashed [Time Tribulation Plunges into the Abyss], stripping away the trio's attacks and futures and leaving all three gravely injured.
• The Venerable used [Ten Thousand Abysses Return to Zero] to erase existence itself, while Qin Yu shielded Hong Xiuxiang and Yunyi as they collapsed.
• Azure Ring awakened, unleashed her Silent Realm techniques, and completely erased the Abyss-Reversing Desolate Venerable.

After defeating the Abyss-Reversing Desolate Venerable, Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi recovered on the sixth level as the stairway to the seventh level appeared. Elsewhere, the Abyss-Rending Desolate Prison Mystic Hou led his legion to the remnant image of the Ancient Silent Abyss God's seal, whose distant pulse resonated with Qin Yu's Three Forms of Fate Construction.

• Qin Yu gave Hong Xiuxiang and Yunyi divine pills, and the three rested and recovered from the battle on the sixth level.
• Yunyi reassured Hong Xiuxiang that they would stay by Qin Yu's side and protect him.
• The Abyss-Rending Desolate Prison Mystic Hou led his dark legion into a cavern and knelt before the remnant image of the Ancient Silent Abyss God's seal.
• The seal's ancient heartbeat triggered Qin Yu's Three Forms of Fate Construction, and he sensed they were responding to a distant, ancient existence.
• The seal's heartbeat slowed as Qin Yu resolved not to submit to the power connected to Fate Construction.

Qin Yu, Hong Xiuxiang, and Yunyi faced the Fate Judgment Sovereign on the seventh level, where its fate chains nearly erased them from existence. After Qin Yu and Yunyi fought back and Azure Ring rescued the gravely wounded Hong Xiuxiang, the Sovereign transformed into its Star Abyss Life Marrow Body and unleashed a new assault.

• The Fate Judgment Sovereign attacked Qin Yu by erasing his future, while Hong Xiuxiang and Yunyi helped him break free with their powers.
• The Sovereign summoned twelve prisons of cause-and-effect chains, overwhelming the trio and badly injuring Hong Xiuxiang and Yunyi as Qin Yu's defenses failed.
• Hong Xiuxiang severed several chains, Yunyi damaged the soul prison, and Qin Yu carved out a path of existence, but the three were driven back to the brink of collapse.
• When a prison chain pierced Hong Xiuxiang, Qin Yu summoned Azure Ring, who sent her into his Azure Evolution Core to heal.
• Qin Yu and Yunyi counterattacked the prison chains, provoking the Sovereign to absorb their fragments and reveal its Star Abyss Life Marrow Body.
• The transformed Sovereign rewrote cause and effect, created Life Marrow Puppets, and declared that fate had deleted Qin Yu and Yunyi's existence.

Qin Yu and Yunyi joined forces with the Azure Ring to destroy the Star Abyss Life Marrow in its Source Star form. Afterward, the Star Abyss Life Marrow Core appeared, and the Azure Ring revealed that mastering it could let Qin Yu rewrite the fate of the entire Source of Epochless.

• Qin Yu used the Three Forms of Fate Construction against the Life Marrow avatar, but it repaired itself and unleashed a barrage of fate blades.
• Yunyi unleashed Silent Abyss Single Gaze · Three Souls Descend upon the Severed Realm, allowing Qin Yu to erase the avatar with his swords.
• The Life Marrow avatar reformed as the Star Abyss Life Marrow in its Source Star form and trapped Qin Yu and Yunyi in chains of fate.
• The Azure Ring awakened alongside Qin Yu and unleashed Realm Immeasurable Tribulation, then joined him in three ultimate strikes that erased the Star Abyss Life Marrow.
• The Star Abyss Life Marrow Core appeared above the shattered seventh layer, and the Azure Ring told Qin Yu that mastering it could rewrite the fate of the entire Source of Epochless.

Qin Yu and Yunyi fought the Life Marrow Counterpart on the eighth layer, where it turned their possible futures into powerful enemies. Qin Yu unleashed the Azure Ring’s three forms to annihilate their fused future projection, leaving them wounded on the collapsing Heavenly Stair.

• Qin Yu touched the Star Abyss Life Marrow Core on the seventh layer, discovered it was incomplete, and was carried with Yunyi and Hong Xiuxiang to the eighth layer.
• The Life Marrow Counterpart emerged and attacked Qin Yu and Yunyi with amplified versions of their techniques, forcing them to fight their own future selves.
• The counterpart merged the future versions of Qin Yu and Yunyi into the Future Twins: Lord of Destruction, which nearly erased them with combined sword and eye attacks.
• Qin Yu and Yunyi struck back together, and Qin Yu used the Azure Ring’s Silent Origin Wheel Prison to seize the fused projection’s true soul.
• Qin Yu used Annihilate the Soul and Draw the Dawn, then Realm Immeasurable Tribulation, to erase the Lord of Destruction and its paths of fate.
• The Lord of Destruction was completely annihilated, while wounded Qin Yu and Yunyi remained standing atop the collapsing eighth Heavenly Stair.

Qin Yu and Yunyi faced the Mirror of Fate on the ninth level, where they battled countless dark versions and tragic futures of themselves. Qin Yu ultimately destroyed the fused Fate-Track Silent Shadow with Realm Immeasurable Tribulation as the ninth heavenly stairway began to shatter.

• Qin Yu and Yunyi arrived at a sea of fate-tracks, where the Mirror of Fate revealed alternate versions of them and declared that they had to sever their pasts and futures.
• Qin Yu used the Three Forms of Fate Construction, while Yunyi unleashed Silent Abyss techniques, to destroy waves of illusions that the Mirror of Fate repeatedly restored.
• The Mirror of Fate combined their dark futures into Fate-Track Silent Shadow, which overwhelmed them, wounded Yunyi, and regenerated after Qin Yu erased one of its arms.
• Fate-Track Silent Shadow unleashed Final Fate Judgment, and Yunyi's Rending Domain Dragon Soul began to break apart under its attack.
• Qin Yu invoked Realm Immeasurable Tribulation, engulfed Fate-Track Silent Shadow in calamity flames, and erased it along with Final Fate Judgment.
• Qin Yu knelt in the restored darkness as the ninth heavenly stairway shattered, resolved that cause and effect and fate-tracks would no longer bind him.

Qin Yu and Yunyi entered the tenth level, where Qin Yu used three supreme treasures to break the shackles around the Star Abyss Core and fused it with another core. The Complete Core transformed Qin Yu’s sixteen Fate Cause Master Seal forms into the Heavenly Cause Judgment Order · Six Severances Seal, leaving him with a new power and an unavoidable calamity ahead.

• Qin Yu and Yunyi were swept from the collapsing ninth level through a river of karmic light and entered the ancient gateway to the tenth level.
• Qin Yu and Yunyi discovered the Star Abyss Core imprisoned by black threads of annihilated karma and fate.
• Qin Yu used the Karmic Crystal, Fate Shard Crystal, and a Star Abyss Life Marrow Core to destroy the black-thread shackles.
• A second Star Abyss Life Marrow Core appeared, and the two cores fused into the Star Abyss Life Marrow · Complete Core.
• The Complete Core entered Qin Yu’s sea of consciousness and merged his sixteen Fate Cause Master Seal forms into the Heavenly Cause Judgment Order · Six Severances Seal.

Qin Yu used the Six Severances Seal to destroy the dark forces’ influence over the tenth layer, then reunited with the recovering Hong Xiuxiang in a mysterious void beyond the waterfall sky stairs. After revealing the power of the Star Abyss Life Marrow, he shared a meal with Yunyi and Hong Xiuxiang and resolved to investigate a cave linked to his Three Forms of Fate Construction; both companions vowed to go with him.

• Qin Yu unleashed the Six Severances Seal’s six forms, causing the black lines across the tenth layer’s fate paths to collapse into streams of light.
• Qin Yu and Yunyi were transported beyond the vanished waterfall sky stairs, where Qin Yu used the Azure Ring to revive Hong Xiuxiang.
• Qin Yu told Hong Xiuxiang and Yunyi that they had obtained the complete core of the Star Abyss Life Marrow, which had elevated his Fate Cause Master Seal into the Six Severances Seal.
• Qin Yu prepared a meal, and he, Yunyi, and Hong Xiuxiang shared a warm moment around the campfire.
• Qin Yu announced that he would seek a cave whose strange resonance seemed connected to his Three Forms of Fate Construction, and Yunyi and Hong Xiuxiang vowed to accompany him.

Qin Yu, Yunyi, and Hong Xiuxiang defeated ten disordered book spirits in the Abyss of Cause and Effect, then entered the River of Time Flow Reversal. There, visions of their possible deaths appeared as Temporal Sequence Puppets erased their attacks and began dragging them toward nonexistence.

• Qin Yu, Yunyi, and Hong Xiuxiang entered the Annihilated Cause Grotto, where its mirror-like surface began erasing reflections of their pasts.
• Ten disordered book spirits attacked by rewriting the trio’s cause and effect, but Qin Yu, Yunyi, and Hong Xiuxiang destroyed them with their abilities and the Azure Ring’s Silent Origin Wheel Prison.
• The trio collected the Karmic Crystals and stepped through a vortex into the River of Time Flow Reversal.
• Hong Xiuxiang, Yunyi, and Qin Yu each saw a frightening vision of their future, including Hong Xiuxiang’s broken brush, Yunyi’s dead dragon form, and Qin Yu alone among his fallen companions.
• Ten Temporal Sequence Puppets emerged and reversed the trio’s techniques, resetting Hong Xiuxiang’s Ink Wave, turning back Yunyi’s roar, and halting Qin Yu’s sword strike.
• The puppets raised their hands and began pulling at the trio’s shadows as time and the colors of the surrounding space reversed.

Qin Yu, Yunyi, and Hong Xiuxiang defeated the temporal puppets in the Annihilated Cause Grotto and discovered a statue resonating with Qin Yu’s Three Forms of Fate Construction. The Abyss-Rending Desolate Prison Mystic Hou and its legion arrived to guard the statue, and the trio began a desperate battle against them.

• Qin Yu used the Six Severances Seal and Fate-Cause Sealing Mirror to freeze and destroy the ten temporal puppets.
• Qin Yu, Yunyi, and Hong Xiuxiang entered an abyssal hall, where a divine statue’s sphere resonated with Qin Yu’s Three Forms of Fate Construction.
• The Abyss-Rending Desolate Prison Mystic Hou emerged with dozens of dark creatures and ordered the trio to leave their treasures and retreat.
• Qin Yu identified the Mystic Hou’s cultivation and the dark creatures’ strength, while Yunyi and Hong Xiuxiang prepared to support him.
• Qin Yu drew the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword and chose to fight, and the Mystic Hou attacked with Prison Abyss Space-Shattering Tribulation, sweeping the trio into gray-gold flames.

Qin Yu, Yunyi, and Hong Xiuxiang fought the Abyss-Rending Desolate Prison Mystic Hou and more than thirty dark beings in the Annihilated Cause Grotto. When the Mystic Hou’s nine rings nearly erased them, the divine statue released annihilating black light that destroyed the dark beings and drove the Mystic Hou away, leaving the injured trio stunned by the statue’s power.

• Qin Yu, Yunyi, and Hong Xiuxiang combined their attacks to break through the Mystic Hou’s flames, but more than thirty high-stage dark beings appeared and surrounded them.
• Qin Yu severed the beings’ causal chains, Yunyi trapped their rift attacks in a soul prison, and Hong Xiuxiang cut through their black mist and apparitions.
• The Mystic Hou unleashed its nine gray-gold rings, freezing Hong Xiuxiang, draining Yunyi, damaging Qin Yu’s sword, and gravely injuring all three companions.
• The divine statue fired annihilating black light, causing the Mystic Hou to flee and erasing the dark beings in an instant.
• Qin Yu, Yunyi, and Hong Xiuxiang stared at the statue, shaken by the power that had saved them.