Chapter Summaries

Mengxi reunited with Mengxin and Uncle Meng after Qin Yu broke her seal, and she let him keep the Sword of Dream Silence. The group escaped the divine miracle space for Gloomshadow Source Village, but the being that had sealed Mengxi tracked them there and confronted them.

• Qin Yu vowed to protect his loved ones after witnessing Mengxi and Mengxin reunite.
• Mengxi thanked Qin Yu for freeing her and reunited with Mengxin and Uncle Meng.
• Mengxi returned the Sword of Dream Silence to Qin Yu, saying the sword had chosen him.
• Uncle Meng warned that the being responsible for Mengxi's seal might sense its destruction, so Qin Yu opened a passage and led everyone out of the divine miracle space.
• Qin Yu offered Mengxi, Mengxin, and Uncle Meng crystals to help them rebuild their strength after they arrived at Gloomshadow Source Village.
• The being tracked them to the village, and Qin Yu drew the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword as it announced, "Found you..."

Qin Yu faced an Annihilation Dawn Realm · Supreme being who attacked the group with the Return to Zero Realm. The Void Finality Saint Emperor, Primordial Dao-Extinguishing True Emperor, and Eternal Annihilation Heavenly Emperor annihilated the attacker, then bowed to Qin Yu as their master.

• An Annihilation Dawn Realm · Supreme being descended and threatened to annihilate Qin Yu and his companions for breaking the illusion crystal.
• Qin Yu summoned the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, shielded the others, and struck against the being’s Return to Zero Realm.
• The Void Finality Saint Emperor, Primordial Dao-Extinguishing True Emperor, and Eternal Annihilation Heavenly Emperor appeared behind Qin Yu.
• The Eternal Annihilation Heavenly Emperor used Annihilation Judgment and Eternal Sealing to erase the Annihilation Dawn Realm · Supreme being.
• The three divine beasts bowed to Qin Yu and pledged to serve him, while his companions recognized his immense power.

Qin Yu sent Mengxi, Mengxin, and Uncle Meng into the Annihilation Abyss Epoch and stationed three divine beasts there to protect it. After returning to the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer, he learned from Hong Xiuxiang that a mysterious expert had taken the Phantom Demon Army Corps into the Limitless Void Abyss.

• Qin Yu offered Mengxi, Mengxin, and Uncle Meng refuge in the Annihilation Abyss Epoch, and they accepted.
• Qin Yu sent the three members of the Meng family and the Void Finality Saint Emperor, Primordial Dao-Extinguishing True Emperor, and Eternal Annihilation Heavenly Emperor through the Gate of the Annihilation Abyss.
• Yingling welcomed the newcomers, while Qian Ruishan and Mu Qingwan received Mengxi, Mengxin, and Uncle Meng into their new home.
• The three divine beasts took positions in the northern, eastern, and western regions of the Annihilation Abyss Epoch, joining the world's other guardians to strengthen its defenses.
• Hong Xiuxiang told Qin Yu that the Phantom Demon Army Corps and the Sourceless Hidden Army had devastated the Middle Layer, before a mysterious expert suppressed both sides and took the Phantom Demon Army Corps into the Limitless Void Abyss.

Hong Xiuxiang departed to help her master rebuild and defend the Dawn Cloud First Hall, while Qin Yu promised to wait for her and not face every enemy alone. He secluded himself in an ancient rift realm to refine the Primordial Limitless Pill, and its power fused with his Nine-Wheel True Evolution, the Six Severances Seal, and Azure Ring as his transformation began.

• Azure Ring warned Qin Yu that the mysterious expert might be one of the Source Flow Guardians, an elite legion serving the Source Dao Supreme Return Emperor.
• Hong Xiuxiang told Qin Yu she had to return to the Dawn Cloud First Hall to protect it and rebuild its devastated foundations.
• Qin Yu embraced Hong Xiuxiang, promised to await her safe return, and vowed to tell Yunyi more about the Phantom Demon Army and the Supreme Return Emperor later.
• Yunyi returned to Qin Yu's sea of consciousness, and Qin Yu traveled to an ancient rift realm and sealed it off to refine the Primordial Limitless Pill.
• The pill's power surged through Qin Yu as he opened the Nine-Wheel True Evolution and Azure Ring manifested the Six Severances Seal within his sea of consciousness.
• The Nine-Wheel True Evolution, Six Severances Seal, and Azure Ring combined into a Primordial Void Source Furnace, reforging Qin Yu's Fate Soul foundation as he awakened with overwhelming power.

Qin Yu advanced to Logic Realm Realm · Extreme and learned the ten forms of the Limitless Flower-Pinching Heaven-Silencing Finger from the Primordial Limitless Pill. After deciding he could no longer stand aside amid the turmoil in the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer, he set out for the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall.

• Qin Yu formed the Multidimensional Logic Key, broke through to Logic Realm Realm · Extreme, and established a controllable Void Source Domain.
• The Primordial Limitless Pill revealed the Limitless Flower-Pinching Heaven-Silencing Finger, whose ten forms could erase thoughts, karma, history, souls, realms, and existence itself.
• Qin Yu absorbed the ancient manual into his soul consciousness and demonstrated the art’s power, while the Azure Ring recognized it as an absolute logic of annihilation.
• Qin Yu told the Azure Ring that he would return to the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer because its conflicts demanded action from him as a core disciple of the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall.
• Yunyi affirmed Qin Yu’s decision, and he departed for the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall with the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword.

More than a year after Qin Yu disappeared, Chi Ning mourned him in the restored Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall while Lin Jiesheng offered to protect her. Qin Yu then returned to the Sacred Hall, presenting his Purple-Gold Eternal Pole Crystal Core and Annihilation Star Token to gain entry.

• Chi Ning quietly held Qin Yu’s sword-scar fragment and wondered whether she could accept his death.
• Lin Jiesheng found Chi Ning and offered to petition the elders to transfer her beside the Annihilation Abyss Star Palace, but she declined.
• Qin Yu arrived at the Sacred Hall in a surge of azure light and displayed a Purple-Gold Eternal Pole Crystal Core.
• The guards inspected Qin Yu’s token, confirmed his identity as an Annihilation Star Hall core disciple, and respectfully welcomed him.
• The Sacred Hall opened its defenses, and Qin Yu entered through the gates.

Qin Yu returned to the Eternal Extreme Sacred Hall and met its progenitor, Hao Yuanzun, who asked him about his year missing in the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm. Qin Yu revealed that Chen Chao had arranged an attempt on his life and presented evidence, while keeping some secrets to himself.

• Zhang Qiang welcomed Qin Yu back and led him into the Silent Abyss Chaos Forbidden Domain to meet Hao Yuanzun.
• Hao Yuanzun appeared and recognized Qin Yu’s rapid advancement to the Logic Realm Supreme Dao.
• Hao Yuanzun asked Qin Yu to explain what had happened in the Desolate Annihilation Secret Realm.
• Qin Yu said Chen Chao had arranged for experts to hunt him and explained that he had later been trapped in a mysterious illusion.
• Qin Yu showed Hao Yuanzun a recording sealed in a crystal core, which captured the attackers naming Chen Chao’s orders.
• Hao Yuanzun said Chen Chao and Chen Po had already died fighting the Phantom Legion, and Qin Yu agreed to let their sins end there.

After returning from Desolate Annihilation, Qin Yu learned that the Sacred Hall had survived a Phantom Demon Army invasion and received the Radiant Cosmos Star Hall as his new home. He began cleansing and cultivating there, resolving to visit his comrades when dawn came.

• Hao Yuanzun welcomed Qin Yu back and instructed Zhang Qiang to explain what had happened during his absence.
• Zhang Qiang told Qin Yu that the Phantom Demon Army had invaded the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer and that his Annihilation Abyss Star Palace had been given to someone else.
• Zhang Qiang gave Qin Yu the Radiant Cosmos Star Hall, and Qin Yu traveled there and entered as its new master.
• Qin Yu explored the hall’s powerful spiritual formations and began cultivating in its spring pool.
• Qin Yu remembered Chi Ning, Shen Yuzhi, Luo Huan, Mu Xun, Du Linglin, Mo Zhiyan, and Wang Yuan, and resolved to visit them after his cleansing.

Chi Ning learned that Qin Yu had returned and rushed to the Radiant Cosmos Star Hall, where they reunited in an emotional embrace. Lin Jiesheng witnessed them together, grew jealous, and left with hostility toward Qin Yu.

• Chi Ning overheard disciples confirm that Qin Yu had returned and hurried to the Radiant Cosmos Star Hall.
• The hall doors opened, and Chi Ning saw Qin Yu and embraced him as they reunited after a year apart.
• Qin Yu comforted Chi Ning and invited her inside, and they entered the hall together.
• Lin Jiesheng arrived, saw their embrace, and silently burned with jealousy toward Qin Yu.
• Lin Jiesheng left the hall with a cold snort, while hostility between him and Qin Yu took root.

Qin Yu reunited with Chi Ning in the Radiant Cosmos Star Hall, told her how he returned, and learned that the Phantom Demon Army had killed many of their companions. He vowed to avenge them, then Yunyi appeared and introduced herself to Chi Ning as Qin Yu’s powerful life-bound soul beast.

• Qin Yu told Chi Ning that he had been trapped in a mysterious illusory realm after surviving an ambush and had only recently escaped.
• Chi Ning revealed that the Phantom Demon Army devastated the middle layer, and that Shen Yuzhi, Luo Huan, Mu Xun, Du Linglin, Mo Zhiyan, and Wang Yuan had died defending the sanctuary.
• Qin Yu comforted Chi Ning and vowed to collect the debt owed by the Phantom Demon Army.
• Chi Ning told Qin Yu that Meng Qing was recovering in seclusion and that Chi Ning had advanced close to the Logic Realm Realm threshold.
• Yunyi emerged from Qin Yu’s sea of consciousness and introduced herself to Chi Ning as his life-bound soul beast, revealing her Annihilation Abyss-level form.

Qin Yu entered the Eternal Dream Descent into Silence Palace to awaken the Sword of Dream Silence and discovered its true power in the realm of the unborn. He gained the ultimate technique [Dream Silence's Final Unity · Unborn Silence's Only One], while Lin Jiesheng's jealousy of Qin Yu and Chi Ning hardened into murderous intent.

• Chi Ning met Yunyi, felt uneasy about Qin Yu's powerful Fate Soul companion, and was reassured by Qin Yu that neither she nor Yunyi was someone he could give up.
• Lin Jiesheng watched Chi Ning's reunion with Qin Yu and vowed to disregard their ties as fellow disciples and take revenge.
• Qin Yu entered the Eternal Dream Descent into Silence Palace to explore the Sword of Dream Silence's hidden power.
• The dream realm revealed that Dream Silence united the unborn with eternal extinction, and the sword absorbed countless threads of dream causes.
• Qin Yu awakened the Sword of Dream Silence and formed [Dream Silence's Final Unity · Unborn Silence's Only One], a technique that erased an enemy's possibility of existence.

Qin Yu emerged from the Eternal Dream Descent into Silence Palace with a new Sword of Dream Silence form and met Chi Ning and Meng Qing. Meng Qing revealed that the Phantom Demon Army’s attacks were believed to target an ancient seal, then recounted how a powerful figure once sealed a dangerous race and imposed rules that kept outside powers from entering the Source of Epochless’s Middle Layer.

• Qin Yu completed the palace trial and awakened the Sword of Dream Silence’s new form, [Dream Silence Final One · Un-Silenced Only One].
• Chi Ning and Meng Qing congratulated Qin Yu, and Meng Qing noted that his cultivation had reached the Logic Realm Realm · Extreme.
• Meng Qing told Qin Yu that the Phantom Demon Army’s invasion was linked to an ancient seal beneath the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer.
• Meng Qing described a strange race that once devoured soul consciousness and disrupted cause and effect, and said a mighty figure from the Upper Layer sealed them away.
• Meng Qing explained that the mighty figure created the Sourceless Hidden Army and imposed a restriction barring outside-dimension experts from entering the Middle Layer.
• Qin Yu privately recognized that Meng Qing’s explanation about the seal was mistaken, while concealing what he knew about the Dao Shadow Soldiers.

After Meng Qing and Ji Yuan left, Qin Yu and Chi Ning traveled to the Radiant Heaven Imperial Capital to comfort the families of their fallen comrades. They visited several households and vowed to protect their loved ones, then set out to visit Wang Yuan’s family.

• Meng Qing and Ji Yuan summoned Meng Qing to a hall meeting, leaving Chi Ning with Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu and Chi Ning agreed to visit the parents of their fallen comrades and traveled to the Radiant Heaven Imperial Capital.
• At the Shen residence, Qin Yu and Chi Ning comforted Shen Yuzhi’s parents, offered them gifts, and promised to treat them as family.
• Qin Yu and Chi Ning shared a meal with Shen Yuzhi’s parents, and Qin Yu promised to visit them every year.
• Qin Yu and Chi Ning visited the families of Luo Huan, Mu Xun, Du Linglin, and Mo Zhiyan, offering support and accepting Mo Zhiyan’s belongings to safeguard.
• Qin Yu and Chi Ning headed west through the capital to visit Wang Yuan’s family.

Qin Yu pursued Chen Yue and his attendants after they abducted Wang Yao and injured her parents. In the southern forest, Qin Yu unleashed his Dream Silence sword technique, overwhelming the seven realm-level enemies and ending with a warning that he had offered to spare them.

• Qin Yu and Chi Ning found Wang Yuan's parents grieving in the residence, while an injured steward told them Chen Yue had taken Wang Yao by force.
• Qin Yu pursued Chen Yue's group into the southern forest, and Chi Ning stayed behind to protect Wang Yuan's parents.
• Chen Yue mocked Qin Yu and threatened to erase him with his Book Realm power as six Severed Observation Realm attendants and an Annihilation Dawn Realm attendant prepared to attack.
• Qin Yu unleashed Dream Silence Final One · Un-Silenced Only One, shattering Chen Yue's fate-writing and the attendants' domains while erasing half of the Annihilation Dawn Realm man's form.
• Qin Yu stood over the defeated group and reminded them that he had promised to spare them if they put down the palanquin.

Qin Yu countered Chen Yue’s fate-writing and the assaults of his followers with techniques that severed causality, history, and the logic of their attacks. As Chen Yue’s Book Realm power backfired and several followers were erased, Qin Yu prepared to deliver another judgment against the remaining enemies.

• Chen Yue summoned the Pen of Rewriting Fate Order, but Qin Yu’s Flower-Pinching Thought Silencing halted its characters and stripped the pen of its power to write.
• Qin Yu killed two Severed Observation Realm cultivators by severing their causes and erasing them from history, then used Causeless Judgment and Finger Severs the Karmic Ruins to break the remaining attackers’ domains and techniques.
• Chen Yue and his followers renewed their assault, but Qin Yu’s Flower Falls, History Emptied erased two more Severed Observation Realm cultivators from existence and memory.
• Chen Yue unleashed Book Realm · Abyss Sealing, and Qin Yu used Fate Cause Sealing Mirror · Logic Abyss Core to stall the book sea and lock its fate-order chains.
• Qin Yu used Abyssal Shift Profiling · Forced Realm Enforcement to turn Chen Yue’s writing against him, cracking his pen and injuring him as his followers continued attacking.
• Qin Yu raised the Sword of Dream Silence and the Source-Extinguishing Divine Sword, preparing a new judgment against the remaining enemies.

Qin Yu used the Azure Ring to annihilate Chen Yue’s two companions, then destroyed Chen Yue’s ancestral cauldron with the Star Wancai Key and erased him with Silent Lord · Causeless Judgment. He rescued Wang Yao from the palanquin, freed her from her restraints, and offered to take her home.

• Qin Yu unleashed five moves of the Azure Ring’s Silent Realm Returns to the Beginning and completely erased two cultivators.
• Chen Yue attacked Qin Yu with the Pen of Fate Sequence, trapping the forest in a book realm and summoning the Chen Clan’s Severing Abyss Heaven-Annihilating Cauldron.
• Qin Yu used the Star Wancai Key to shatter the Heaven-Annihilating Cauldron into motes of light.
• Qin Yu cast Silent Lord · Causeless Judgment, destroying Chen Yue’s Pen of Fate Sequence and erasing Chen Yue from existence.
• Qin Yu found Wang Yao unconscious in the palanquin, removed her restraints and drug, and told her he had come to save her.
• Wang Yao woke and took Qin Yu’s hand as he offered to take her home to her waiting parents.

Qin Yu rescued Wang Yao and moved her family to a hidden sanctuary protected by a formation, then gave them supplies and vowed to protect them. After discussing the threat posed by the Chen Clan with Chi Ning, he resolved to investigate the dangerous seal in the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer alone.

• Qin Yu brought Wang Yao back to her parents and promised to protect Wang Yuan's family.
• Qin Yu and Chi Ning escorted Wang Yao's family to a secluded sanctuary, where Qin Yu created a barrier that only Wang Yuan's bloodline could pass.
• Qin Yu gave Wang Yao a mirror pouch containing a vast store of Annihilation Starlight Crystals and essential supplies before he and Chi Ning departed.
• Chi Ning warned Qin Yu that the Chen Clan might retaliate for the death of Chen Yue, but Qin Yu said they had no evidence against him and would answer for their crimes.
• Qin Yu told Chi Ning he intended to investigate the seal in the Source of Epochless · Middle Layer before a larger expedition, and promised her he would return safely.

Qin Yu left the Radiant Cosmos Star Hall alone to investigate the sealed land, despite Yunyi and Chi Ning’s concern, while Chen Xintong ordered a search for her missing son, Chen Yue. At the seal, Qin Yu witnessed a mysterious man’s attempt to alter it fail and learned that the man had reached the Chaos Realm before he vanished.

• Qin Yu told Yunyi he had to investigate the sealed land, and she vowed to follow his soul and protect him if needed.
• Qin Yu departed the Radiant Cosmos Star Hall after Chi Ning urged him to return alive, then traveled toward the forbidden wasteland.
• Chen Xintong sent Lu Feng and three teams to investigate Wang Yuan’s residence and search for the missing Chen Yue.
• Qin Yu reached the ancient seal and watched a mysterious man write runes over it, only for the seal’s power to destroy his work and hurl him into the ruins.
• The wounded man revealed the Chaos Realm’s power, declared that the seal would not stop him for long, and vanished; the Azure Ring warned Qin Yu that the man was exceptionally dangerous.

Qin Yu witnessed the seal’s ancient origins and recognized a mysterious figure from the battlefield before fighting the Bone Spirits in the second forbidden zone. After destroying them with Silent Origin · Boundless Ash, he encountered two giants dragging a coffin, who sensed his presence.

• Qin Yu touched the seal’s core crystal and saw a vision of the ancient battle that created the seal, including the strange sealed race and a gray-robed figure who suppressed them.
• Qin Yu recognized an indistinct figure in the vision as the mysterious Chaos Realm being who had survived across countless years, then withdrew before the seal or the figure could detect him further.
• Qin Yu entered the bone plain, where obsessions formed Bone Spirits from the remains of beings at or above the Annihilation Dawn Realm.
• Qin Yu unleashed Silent Origin · Boundless Ash and reduced the Bone Spirits to ash, then continued deeper into the forbidden zone.
• Qin Yu encountered two hundred-zhang giants dragging a rune-covered black coffin, and the giants stopped after sensing him.

Qin Yu witnessed an ancient battle echo behind the seal, where two imprisoned giants broke free and a mysterious swordsman annihilated the armies with one strike. The vision faded, leaving Qin Yu shaken by the swordsman’s gaze and overwhelming power.

• Qin Yu saw the Army of Nightmare clash with another ancient legion in a projection of the past, while the Azure Ring warned him that it was an illusion.
• Two chained giants broke free, attacked both armies, and shattered the ancient coffin they had been dragging.
• A mysterious armored man emerged from the coffin and unleashed a sword strike that erased the opposing armies and shattered the battlefield.
• The mysterious man and the two giants vanished as the vision faded, leaving Qin Yu alone with the sword strike’s pressure imprinted on his consciousness.