Chapter Summaries

Qin Yu, Extinguished Light, Ling Liangyan, and Azure Ring fought the Lord of Extinguished Consciousness in the Twelfth Heavenly Prison. Azure Ring erased the Lord and destroyed the prison, leaving Ling Liangyan and Extinguished Light recovering under her protection.

• The Soulless Return to Silence Seal suppressed Qin Yu, Extinguished Light, and Ling Liangyan, and began draining their souls.
• Azure Ring emerged from Qin Yu's sea of consciousness and suppressed the seal's soul-sucking power as the Lord of Extinguished Consciousness awakened.
• Azure Ring pushed back the Lord's Extreme Entropy Soul Mist with Realm Abyss Reverse Evolution, while Qin Yu and Extinguished Light countered its soul-devouring rules.
• The Lord of Extinguished Consciousness struck Ling Liangyan unconscious, prompting Azure Ring to unleash Annihilate the Soul and Draw the Dawn and sever the Lord's soul roots.
• Azure Ring used Silent Wheel Final Abyss to erase the Lord of Extinguished Consciousness and annihilate the Twelfth Heavenly Prison.
• Azure Ring healed Ling Liangyan and suppressed Extinguished Light's wounds, and Ling Liangyan thanked her for saving her life.

After defeating the Lord of Extinguished Consciousness, Qin Yu received a reverse-entropy seal and gained its remnant as a soul servant. He and his companions entered the thirteenth level, where the Lord of Chaotic Values attacked their convictions, and Qin Yu used the seal to protect their values before preparing a counterattack.

• The Soul Silence Reverse Entropy Seal formed from the remains of the Soulless Return to Silence Seal, strengthening and stabilizing Qin Yu, Extinguished Light, and Ling Liangyan’s souls.
• Azure Ring placed the Consciousness Soul Core inside Qin Yu, granting him protection from soul destruction and related forces; the Lord of Extinguished Consciousness submitted as his Soul Servant Mark.
• Qin Yu and his companions entered the thirteenth level and faced the Lord of Chaotic Values, whose scales dragged those with strong convictions toward self-destruction.
• The Lord of Chaotic Values attacked with Conviction-Dissolving Mud, pulling at Qin Yu’s values and threatening Azure Ring and Ling Liangyan.
• Qin Yu used the reverse-entropy seal to stabilize their souls and make their values resistant to the black sludge.
• Qin Yu assigned Azure Ring to sever the enemy’s Chaos Value Chain and Extinguished Light to counter its anti-ethical shockwave.

The Blood Blade Hall army, led by Xue Wuhen, launched a surprise assault on the Chaos Evolution Divine Sect. The sect’s five Supreme elders activated their defenses and clashed with the attackers, leaving the battlefield in chaos as their formations collided.

• Two Chaos Evolution Divine Sect guards spotted a concealed army approaching and activated the sect’s warning formation.
• Xue Wuhen arrived with a hundred thousand Blood Blade Hall cultivators and ordered them to slaughter everyone in the sect.
• Five Annihilation Dawn Realm · Supreme elders appeared and challenged Xue Wuhen, who vowed to destroy the sect.
• The Blood Blade Hall army charged as the elders ordered the sect’s disciples to defend the divine domain.
• The sect activated the Heavenly Emanation Golden Radiance Diagram while Xue Wuhen deployed the Blood Sea Heaven-Sealing Formation.
• The five elders unleashed Heavenly Emanation Five Silences, and the golden and blood-red formations collided, tearing apart the sea and sky.

Xue Wuhen and Xue Yingfeng led the Blood Blade Hall in the destruction of the Chaos Evolution Divine Sect, overcoming its elders and annihilating its disciples. Xue Wuhen taunted the Chaos First Palace before ordering the Blood Blade Hall to withdraw.

• The five Annihilation Dawn Realm · Supreme elders used their techniques to hold back the Blood Blade Hall until Xue Wuhen unleashed a devastating blood tide and summoned Xue Yingfeng.
• Xue Wuhen and Xue Yingfeng opened three blood formations that reversed the sea, devoured the sect’s outer islands, and shattered the sect-protecting formation.
• The five elders fought back with their manifestations, but Xue Wuhen killed the white-bearded elder with the Blood Prison · Sect-Breaking Needle.
• Xue Yingfeng used the Annihilation Flame Blood Banner to create a forbidden domain, and Xue Wuhen and Xue Yingfeng swallowed Soul Annihilation Extreme Pills to reach Void Emanation Realm · Middle Stage and kill the remaining four elders.
• Xue Wuhen and Xue Yingfeng led the slaughter that annihilated every Chaos Evolution Divine Sect disciple and erased the sect, after which Xue Wuhen taunted the Chaos First Palace and ordered the Blood Blade Hall to withdraw.

After the Chaos Evolution Divine Sect was annihilated, the Chaos First Palace declared war on the Blood Blade Hall and the Asura Divine Hall. Qi Kun gave Xue Wuhen and Xue Yingfeng five forbidden scrolls, and they completed a vast formation around the Blood Blade Hall to trap the Chaos First Palace when it came seeking revenge.

• Annihilation River and Yan Kong found the Chaos Evolution Divine Sect reduced to ash and identified the Annihilation Flame Blood Banner as a treasure of the Asura Divine Hall.
• Yun Yanwan learned that Xue Wuhen and the Asura Divine Hall had orchestrated the sect’s destruction, then ordered the Chaos First Palace to prepare for war.
• Qi Kun revealed himself to Xue Wuhen and Xue Yingfeng, gave them the Five-Direction World-Extinguishing Scrolls, and ordered them to prepare a trap for the Chaos First Palace.
• Xue Wuhen and Xue Yingfeng deployed the eastern, southern, western, and northern scrolls to create four lethal domains around the Blood Blade Hall.
• Xue Wuhen activated the central scroll and joined the four domains into a completed formation that would kill anyone who entered within five hundred li of the Blood Blade Hall.

Qin Yu, Extinguished Light, and Azure Ring fought the Vanished Trace Lord, which wielded the Void Extreme Dao Seal and threatened to erase their existence from the fourteenth layer. They halted its first wave of deletion, then prepared to attack its control over the story itself.

• Qin Yu, Extinguished Light, and Ling Liangyan entered the fourteenth layer and encountered the Vanished Trace Lord, whose stele began deleting the world around them.
• Azure Ring warned that Ling Liangyan could be erased, so Qin Yu sent her into the Annihilation Devil Pupil · Final Spirit Core for safety.
• Extinguished Light, Azure Ring, and Qin Yu combined their powers to disrupt the stele's deletion ripples, but the Vanished Trace Lord began undoing their counterattack.
• Azure Ring used Realm-Severing Silent Light to block the stele's black ring, forcing its first domain-wide deletion to stop before completion.
• Qin Yu, Extinguished Light, and Azure Ring planned to use external-reader narration to challenge the Void Extreme Dao Seal's control over what could exist in the story.

Qin Yu, Extinguished Light, and Azure Ring combined their powers to annihilate Void Extreme Dao Seal · Vanished Trace Lord and escaped the collapsing fourteenth layer. They arrived with Ling Liangyan before a mysterious nebula gate beyond the fourteen layers, where an unknown presence began to awaken.

• Void Extreme Dao Seal · Vanished Trace Lord used reverse-writing authority to erase the battle and the trio’s existence, but Qin Yu, Azure Ring, and Extinguished Light fought back together.
• Qin Yu imprisoned Vanished Trace Lord’s authority and wounded its stele, while Extinguished Light rewrote its fate to permit its annihilation.
• Azure Ring unleashed Silent Wheel Final Abyss, and Qin Yu, Extinguished Light, and Azure Ring combined their attacks to annihilate Vanished Trace Lord completely.
• The collapsing final realm storm swept Qin Yu, Extinguished Light, and Azure Ring into an unknown world beyond the fourteen layers.
• Qin Yu released Ling Liangyan from his spirit core, and she joined the others before a vast nebula gateway.
• The nebula vortex trembled as an ancient presence began to awaken before the four of them.

Ling Liangyan entered the Nebula Deep Realm alone and received the Beginningless Evolving Void Wheel and the Selfless Emanation Seal. Their powers transformed her from the Annihilation Dawn Realm · Supreme to Void Emanation Realm · Ultimate, leaving her one step short of Supreme and changed into a new self.

• The Nebula Gate revealed that Ling Liangyan would enter the first stage alone, so she stepped through before Qin Yu, Extinguished Light and Azure Ring entered together.
• Ling Liangyan arrived in the Nebula Deep Realm, where the awakened Nebula Ice Heart bestowed the Beginningless Evolving Void Wheel upon her.
• The Selfless Emanation Seal appeared and erased Ling Liangyan’s existence before touching her brow and raising her cultivation to Void Emanation Realm · Initial Stage.
• The seal’s power and the Beginningless Evolving Void Wheel successively advanced Ling Liangyan through Middle Stage, High Stage and Ultimate.
• The Selfless Emanation Seal vanished, and Ling Liangyan realized that only one step to Supreme remained and that she had become a new self shaped by the Flow of Void Emanation.

Qin Yu met the ancient Source Serpent beyond the Nebula Gate and received Void Ash Dust, which helped him break through to Annihilation Dawn Realm · Supreme, along with the third volume of the true scriptures, the True One Definition Register. After returning to the gate, he reunited with Ling Liangyan, and they entered it together as it opened again.

• Qin Yu encountered the Source Serpent, which said it had waited for him and offered to grant him any wish.
• Qin Yu asked for Void Ash Dust and used it to break through to Annihilation Dawn Realm · Supreme, surpassing Extinguished Light.
• The Source Serpent revealed that Qin Yu possessed two volumes of the true scriptures and bestowed the third, the True One Definition Register.
• The Source Serpent sent Qin Yu, Azure Ring, and Extinguished Light back to the Nebula Gate, where Ling Liangyan congratulated Qin Yu on his breakthrough.
• The Nebula Gate opened again, and Qin Yu and Ling Liangyan stepped through it together.

Qin Yu, Extinguished Light, and Ling Liangyan entered the world beyond the Nebula Gate and discovered a realm filled with countless powerful treasures. Qin Yu used the Annihilation Devil Pupil · Final Spirit Core to absorb every treasure in the Southern Heaven Treasure Domain, then approached a strange light that was opening at the domain’s end.

• Qin Yu, Extinguished Light, and Ling Liangyan were swept through the Nebula Gate into an ancient starry world where the rules transformed the landscape into a vast treasure realm.
• Ling Liangyan marveled at the countless treasures, while Extinguished Light suspected the realm was the source of treasure creation and Qin Yu sensed the treasures resonating with the artifacts within him.
• Qin Yu and Ling Liangyan flew in separate directions to gather treasures, while Extinguished Light remained where she was.
• Qin Yu opened the Annihilation Devil Pupil · Final Spirit Core and absorbed every treasure in the Southern Heaven Treasure Domain, leaving it stripped of even their traces.
• Qin Yu closed the Final Spirit Core and headed toward a strange light opening at the end of the Southern Heaven Treasure Domain.

Ling Liangyan claimed Non-Emanation · Return to Stillness and became its master, while Qin Yu obtained the Fate Principle Reflection Severance cultivation art. After mastering their new powers, Qin Yu flew north to meet Ling Liangyan.

• Ling Liangyan followed a soul resonance to the Northern Region’s outermost edge, where she discovered the formless zither Non-Emanation · Return to Stillness.
• Ling Liangyan accepted the zither’s trial and became its master, gaining the Void Emanation Realm · Ultimate · Zither Master status.
• Ling Liangyan tested the zither’s powers and learned from Stillness that Return to Stillness · Final Emanation would erase her if she completed it.
• Qin Yu followed Azure Ring’s directions to a floating book and passed its questions about severing fate, erasing causes, and reversing future death.
• The book became the Fate Principle Reflection Severance art, which Qin Yu absorbed and used to learn its five forms.
• Qin Yu thanked Azure Ring, heard Extinguished Light say he could touch the level of Annihilation Light Dimension Severance, and flew north to meet Ling Liangyan.

Qin Yu, Ling Liangyan, and Extinguished Light defeated the Abyssal Annihilation Mark · Fallen Abyss Demon Emperor and obtained two decrees that could destroy a Chaos Realm · Supreme expert when used together. They then left the Nebula Treasure Realm through a rift into the realm storm.

• Qin Yu warned Ling Liangyan of the approaching Abyssal Annihilation Mark · Fallen Abyss Demon Emperor and moved her to safety.
• Qin Yu, Extinguished Light, and Ling Liangyan combined their powers to counter the Demon Emperor’s fate-sequence erasure and force it back.
• Qin Yu and his companions attacked the Demon Emperor with their strongest techniques, and Qin Yu erased its final life-mark with Non-Observation and Extinction of Forms.
• Qin Yu obtained the Nameless Coffer of Decreeing Reversal and Return and the Formless Wedge of Decreeing Extermination, which together could make a Chaos Realm · Supreme expert vulnerable to annihilation.
• Qin Yu and Ling Liangyan left the Nebula Treasure Realm with Extinguished Light through a rift in the firmament.

Yun Yanwan sent Liu Xu and the Chaos First Palace’s forces to destroy Blood Blade Hall in revenge for the slaughter of the Chaos Evolution Divine Sect. Blood Blade Hall activated Qi Kun’s Five-Direction Realm-Annihilating Scrolls Formation, but the five elders dismantled it, leaving Liu Xu poised to make Xue Wuhen pay.

• Yun Yanwan ordered Liu Xu to lead the Chaos First Palace’s army against Blood Blade Hall and avenge the fallen disciples of the Chaos Evolution Divine Sect.
• Xue Wuhen and Xue Yingfeng prepared Blood Blade Hall’s disciples to activate the Five-Direction Realm-Annihilating Scrolls Formation as Liu Xu’s forces arrived.
• Liu Xu and the four other elders detected the formation’s five cores, prompting Xue Wuhen to order its immediate activation.
• The formation unleashed five destructive scrolls, but the elders used Annihilation Dawn power to destroy them and collapse the formation.
• Liu Xu confronted the stunned Xue Wuhen and asked if he was ready to pay the price.

Liu Xu and the Chaos First Palace defeated Blood Blade Hall, but only after the five elders sacrificed their cultivation to erase the demonized Xue Wuhen and save their disciples. As the survivors destroyed Blood Blade Hall and mourned the fallen, an unseen voice revealed that Liu Xu had walked into its scheme.

• Liu Xu led the Chaos First Palace disciples into battle against Xue Wuhen, Xue Yingfeng, and Blood Blade Hall.
• The five elders killed Xue Yingfeng with the Three Xuanji Fate Seals, and Xue Wuhen swallowed a Soul-Sacrificing Devil Pill that transformed him into a Void Emanation Realm · Middle Stage demon.
• Xue Wuhen overwhelmed the five elders and threatened the Chaos First Palace disciples, so Liu Xu and the others burned their cultivation to unleash the forbidden World-Ending Silent Formation and erase him.
• The elders' realms fell to the Annihilation Dawn Realm · Initial Stage, and the Chaos First Palace disciples slaughtered the surviving Blood Blade Hall fighters and razed their stronghold.
• As the elders and disciples began clearing the ruins, an unseen voice in the void claimed that Liu Xu had walked into its scheme, then vanished without being noticed.

Qi Kun led a hundred thousand Asura Divine Hall disciples in an assault on the Chaos First Palace, demanding its sacred treasure and blaming it for Venerable Yuhuang’s death. Yun Yanwan and the palace’s defenders fought back, but an unidentified Chaos Realm · Supreme expert joined Qi Kun, and the battle continued with both sides’ leaders engaged.

• The Chaos First Palace’s warning formation activated when Qi Kun and the Asura force approached, and Yun Yanwan realized the enemy had exploited the palace’s campaign against the Blood Blade Hall to lure its disciples away.
• Qi Kun accused the Chaos First Palace of stealing the Asura Divine Hall’s sacred treasure and killing Venerable Yuhuang, while Yun Yanxi accused the Asura Divine Hall of colluding with the Blood Blade Hall and killing Nan Lan.
• Qi Kun ordered the Asura disciples to attack, and the Chaos First Palace formed its defenses as five elders’ techniques met the army’s blood tide.
• Qi Kun activated the Second Sequence Fierce Slaughter Formation and overpowered the palace’s five elders, prompting Yun Yanwan to reveal her Chaos Realm · Extremity power and clash with him.
• A masked Chaos Realm · Supreme expert emerged beside Qi Kun and erased Yun Yanwan’s golden-world attack, while Yun Yanxi and the palace elders fought Qi Kun and the Asura forces.
• Qi Kun trapped three Chaos First Palace elders in his Myriad Tribulations Prison, and Yun Yanxi blasted back ten Asura Void Emanation Realm elders with her chaos longsword.

Yun Yanwan and the Chaos First Palace were on the verge of defeat when their old ancestor, Yun Qiusheng, emerged from seclusion as a Stainless Realm expert. He annihilated the invading army and erased Qi Kun and the masked Chaos Realm expert, leaving the palace survivors in awe.

• Qi Kun and the masked Chaos Realm expert overwhelmed Yun Yanwan, and Yun Yanxi caught him as he was blasted away.
• Yun Yanxi ordered the fifteen elders to defend the Chaos First Palace, but the expert's destruction tide shattered their defenses and gravely wounded them all.
• As Qi Kun and the masked expert prepared another strike, Yun Qiusheng emerged from the main hall in a display of Stainless Realm power.
• Yun Qiusheng opened his Stainless Light Domain and turned the hundred thousand Asura Divine Hall disciples into dust.
• Qi Kun and the masked expert attempted to escape, but Yun Qiusheng froze them with his Stainless Final Wheel and erased them from existence.

After the Asura Divine Hall arrived to avenge Qi Kun, the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall intervened to protect the Chaos First Palace. The three sides avoided a costly battle and agreed to settle their conflict when the Deep Root Lower Layers opened in one month, while Qu Xiangjie secretly ordered a search for the mysterious youth.

• Yun Qiusheng revived the Chaos First Palace’s defenses as He Xunsu, Qu Xiangjie, and three other Asura Divine Hall experts arrived with their army.
• Qu Xiangjie challenged Yun Qiusheng, but Feng Xizhi arrived with the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall and accused the Asura Divine Hall of disrupting the Void Obliteration Domain.
• He Xunsu warned Qu Xiangjie that a battle would weaken the Asura Divine Hall before the Deep Root Lower Layers opened, and Qu Xiangjie proposed postponing the conflict.
• Yun Qiusheng and Feng Xizhi agreed to avoid fighting and settle the matter in the Deep Root Lower Layers one month later.
• Qu Xiangjie withdrew the Asura Divine Hall’s forces and secretly ordered He Xunsu to send the Shadow Soul Guards to find and capture the Severed Observation Realm youth.

After the Chaos First Palace survived the Asura Divine Hall’s ambush and restored its shattered domain, Qin Yu parted from Ling Liangyan to pursue hidden karmic clues. He mastered Jiwu's Single Silence in an ancient ruin and set out to find the connection concealed in the Void Obliteration Domain.

• Feng Xizhi withdrew the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall after helping the Chaos First Palace repel the Asura Divine Hall, while Yun Qiusheng warned that the conflict was not over.
• Liu Xu returned from the Blood Blade Hall with reinforcements, learned the ancestor had defeated the attackers, and joined Yun Yanwan in restoring the Chaos First Palace.
• Yun Yanwan used the Chaos Return to the Source Seal and the Pillar of Return to the Abyss to rebuild the divine hall, while Yun Yanxi helped heal the wounded.
• Qin Yu told Ling Liangyan he would not return to the Chaos First Palace with her because he needed to investigate personal karmic clues, and Ling Liangyan went back alone.
• Qin Yu cultivated in an ancient ruin and mastered the Annihilation Dawn Realm true-aspect skill, Jiwu's Single Silence, which erased a stone slab without leaving any trace.
• Qin Yu declared that he would seek the karmic tie hidden in the Void Obliteration Domain.

Ling Liangyan returned to the Chaos First Palace at Void Emanation Realm · Ultimate and learned that the Deep Root Lower Layers would open in a month. Qin Yu, now at Annihilation Dawn Realm · Supreme, traveled with Extinguished Light to the Grave Slope Ruins, where they found a coffin leaking Nameless Primordial Ash.

• Ling Liangyan returned to the Chaos First Palace, and Yun Yanwan welcomed her advancement while asking where Qin Yu was.
• Ling Liangyan told Yun Yanwan that Qin Yu had reached Annihilation Dawn Realm · Supreme and would return later; Yun Yanwan then ordered her to prepare for the Deep Root Lower Layers opening in a month.
• Two Asura Divine Hall spies reported Qin Yu's absence, and He Xunsu's council presumed he had died in the Bookless Ruins and ordered their allies to target Chaos First Palace members in the Deep Root Lower Layers.
• Qin Yu finished cultivating with Extinguished Light and chose to visit the Grave Slope Ruins instead of returning to the Chaos First Palace.
• Qin Yu and Extinguished Light reached the Grave Slope Ruins and found a strange coffin whose presence erased consciousness and leaked Nameless Primordial Ash.

Qin Yu and Extinguished Light approached the Nameless Primordial Cinders Coffin under Azure Ring’s protection, but touching it caused Qin Yu to vanish into its interior Realm of Illusory Origin. There, four mysterious judges appeared and declared that the hour of judgment had come.

• Qin Yu and Extinguished Light witnessed the Nameless Primordial Ash erase powerful cultivators and negate Extinguished Light’s annihilation light.
• Azure Ring woke and used her azure radiance to repel the ash, explaining that it could erase existence, nonexistence, and concepts.
• Protected by Azure Ring, Qin Yu and Extinguished Light crossed the ash and reached the coffin, which seemed to recognize Qin Yu.
• When Qin Yu touched the coffin, reality stripped away and he was pulled into the Realm of Illusory Origin, leaving Extinguished Light and Azure Ring behind.
• Four beings—Chiyi, Muque, Jingui, and Anmian—appeared around Qin Yu, and a disembodied voice announced the hour of judgment.