Chapter Summaries

Qin Yu and Extinguished Light defeated Chiyi and cornered Muque in the Nameless Primal Ash Illusory Realm. As Muque began to break apart, unfamiliar light, sound, and rules descended, while the third and fourth Extinction Order Celestial Race members entered the battle.

• Chiyi attacked Qin Yu with the Ashen Zero Blade, but Qin Yu erased him from existence with Non-Observation and Extinction of Forms.
• Muque emerged and used Epoch Pre-Incineration to burn the world’s future destruction into the present.
• Extinguished Light stopped Muque’s attacks and erased the nine Cause-Extinguishing Binding Chains, while Qin Yu severed their causal foundations.
• Muque unleashed Gloomy Realm Burial, but Qin Yu and Extinguished Light jointly invalidated and destroyed the attack.
• As Muque began to break apart, unfamiliar powers descended, and the third and fourth otherworldly beings appeared.

Qin Yu and Extinguished Light fought Ashen Sundial · Final Light Fallen One, Jingui, as he unleashed the Final Light Heavenly Domain and tried to erase them from reality. They annihilated Jingui together, but Dark Crown · Eclipse Judicator began emerging from the darkness as the final enemy.

• Jingui appeared through a platinum fault line and attacked Qin Yu and Extinguished Light with the Final Light Law.
• Qin Yu severed Jingui’s causal attacks while Extinguished Light countered his Final Light techniques, and they fought off his attacks across multiple dimensions.
• Jingui unleashed Final Light Will, erased the ground beneath them, and attempted to stop time and turn the space into his Final Light Heavenly Domain.
• Qin Yu and Extinguished Light combined their powers to halt the domain, then struck Jingui with the Lightless Final Wheel and Undefined Destruction Sword.
• Their combined attack erased Jingui’s body, soul, laws, cause and effect, concept, and narrative.
• Dark Crown · Eclipse Judicator began appearing from the darkness, and Qin Yu and Extinguished Light prepared to face the last enemy.

Qin Yu and Extinguished Light faced Dark Crown · Eclipse Judicator, who tried to erase them and rewrite the battle into a future where Qin Yu died. They destroyed his judgment world and annihilated him, then turned toward a speck of light in the depths.

• Dark Crown · Eclipse Judicator arrived and judged Qin Yu for erasure, while Extinguished Light halted his falling Eclipse Clauses.
• Anmian used Origin Eclipse to sentence the ancient space to nonexistence, but Qin Yu and Extinguished Light resisted his clauses and shadow attacks.
• Anmian began writing a world where Qin Yu was destined to die and tried to drag Qin Yu and Extinguished Light into it.
• Qin Yu and Extinguished Light joined forces to resist the draft, with Qin Yu destroying the written image of his dead self and Extinguished Light severing Anmian's causes.
• Qin Yu and Extinguished Light used Ring Master Resonance and their final attacks to destroy Anmian, his judgment world, and the cause of his creation.
• Qin Yu and Extinguished Light turned toward a speck of annihilating light brightening in the depths.

Qin Yu and Extinguished Light witnessed the Primordial Coffin’s origin in a war from before the Source of Epochless was written, then were drawn inside and separated by its Nameless Primordial Ash. The coffin carried Qin Yu to a palace in the deepest layers beneath the Void Obliteration Domain, where an ancient voice welcomed him to its forgotten bottom.

• Qin Yu and Extinguished Light saw a battlefield from before the Source of Epochless, where the era’s experts sealed a colossal world-devouring beast inside the Primordial Coffin at the cost of their lives.
• The coffin began calling for someone who could open it, then used Nameless Primordial Ash to pull Qin Yu and Extinguished Light inside.
• The coffin sorted them into different domains, sending Qin Yu alone into its true inner world as it descended through a cosmic rift beneath the Void Obliteration Domain.
• The coffin arrived at an immense palace surrounded by an azure Void Realm, and Qin Yu and Extinguished Light stepped out.
• An ancient voice from the palace addressed Qin Yu, saying he had finally come to its forgotten bottom.

Qin Yu learned that the Deep Root Lower Layers were the origin of the Void Obliteration Domain and entered them early because the Obliteration Coffin had chosen him. There he claimed the Final Beauty Page and transformed it into the Absolute Ring, awakening the Silent Ring’s final form, Immeasurable Return to the Abyss: Annihilation's Other Shore.

• Qin Yu questioned the ancient soul shadow and learned that the Deep Root Lower Layers were the root of the Void Obliteration Domain and opened to others in one month.
• The soul shadow explained that the Obliteration Coffin had acknowledged Qin Yu and gave him early access to a page of the Deep Root palace.
• Qin Yu entered the sphere of light and discovered the Final Beauty Page, a blank page whose ring judged his soul frequency.
• The Final Beauty Page resonated with Qin Yu’s five forms of the Silent Ring Return to the Abyss Diagram and used them to forge the Absolute Ring.
• Qin Yu gained Immeasurable Return to the Abyss: Annihilation's Other Shore, and the Deep Root palace recognized him as its new Ring Master.

After Qin Yu and Extinguished Light entered the deeper abyss, the Deep Root Lower Layers opened across the Void Obliteration Domain. Qin Yu was already deep inside, while the realm’s factions mobilized for the dangerous expedition and Chaos First Palace worried over his absence.

• Qin Yu returned from the Deep Root Light Domain, and Extinguished Light said the senior had vanished after leaving a four-line message that pointed toward a deeper abyss and a hidden opportunity.
• Qin Yu interpreted the message, then he and Extinguished Light entered the next layer of the Deep Root abyss through an opening in the ghost palace.
• Ling Liangyan waited in Bright Zither palace for Qin Yu, unaware that he had already entered the Unnamed Page Realm ahead of the Deep Root Lower Layers opening.
• A galactic waterfall appeared over the Southern Region, revealing the entrance, and Yun Yanwan sent Chaos First Palace disciples into the Deep Root under four elders while Qin Yu remained missing.
• He Xunsu ordered more than ten thousand Asura Immortal Hall disciples to seek treasures and attack Chaos First Palace, while the Silent Nothingness, Fallen Dawn, and Heavenly Emanation halls also dispatched their forces.
• Sects, gangs, Rogue Cultivators, and Liu Yuan Practitioners across the Void Obliteration Domain surged toward the entrance as hundreds of millions gathered there.

The entrance to the Deep Root Lower Layers opened beneath a galactic waterfall, drawing tens of thousands of cultivators and the forces of all five great divine halls. As the halls gathered, the Liu Yuan Practitioners also approached, and the crowd braced for a deadly contest over the depths.

• A galactic waterfall poured into the newly opened Deep Root entrance as cultivators from across the Southern Region gathered around it.
• The Silent Nothingness Divine Hall arrived with its Void Stillness Walkers, silencing the area around the abyss.
• The Fallen Dawn Divine Hall’s thirteen Fallen Light Hermits emerged and caused logic and thought to break down nearby.
• The Asura Immortal Hall arrived with the Immortal Emanation Asura, including Chen Jieli and Asura Wuye.
• The Chaos First Palace descended with its Primordial Envoys and elders, while Ling Liangyan wondered where Qin Yu had gone.
• The Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall arrived with nine immortal envoys, and the Liu Yuan Practitioners approached as the assembled crowd argued over entering the Deep Root.

The five great divine halls gathered as Deep Root opened in an unprecedented cosmic upheaval, and their elders warned of danger and ordered their disciples to prepare for clashes. All five halls and countless other cultivators entered the abyss, unaware that someone had already reached its deepest part.

• Jian Wuxin and Li Jiangfeng exchanged friendly greetings and agreed that the younger generation should venture into Deep Root because the opening seemed unusually dangerous.
• Xi Huanluo and Asura Fenye threatened each other, then postponed their conflict until they entered Deep Root.
• The Heavenly Emanation grand elder warned his disciples to avoid the Asura Immortal Hall and Chaos First Palace, while Asura Fenye ordered his followers to target the Chaos First Palace and attack the Fallen Dawn Divine Hall if they encountered them.
• The entrance to Deep Root opened as a vast galactic vortex, shocking the gathered cultivators with its unprecedented scale.
• Jian Wuxin, the Fallen Dawn grand elder, He Xunsu, Li Jiangfeng, and the Heavenly Emanation grand elder led their factions into Deep Root, followed by countless other cultivators.
• The vortex drew the entrants into the abyss, while an unknown person had already entered the deepest part of Deep Root.

The disciples of the Primordial Chaos Dao Court, the Ten Thousand Domains Supreme Sect, and the Heaven-Slaying Sword Sect entered a magnificent hall in Deep Root and encountered the supposedly extinct Primordial Annihilation Flame Divine Feather Beast. The beast annihilated disciples and crushed their three great elders’ attacks, and as its eyes lit again, the survivors faced another imminent strike.

• The three sects’ disciples cautiously explored the Purple Radiance hall, where the elders sensed a powerful presence sleeping within.
• The Primordial Annihilation Flame Divine Feather Beast formed from the hall’s drifting lights and revealed itself as a spirit of law from the archaic war.
• The beast swept annihilating light through the hall, reducing several disciples from all three sects to luminous dust.
• The three sects’ great elders attacked together, but the beast shattered their defenses and mortally wounded or annihilated them.
• The beast’s eyes lit once more as the surviving disciples stood helpless before its next attack.

The Fallen Dawn Divine Hall’s three Void Emanation Realm elders and thirty Fallen Light Hermits fought the Primordial Annihilation Flame Divine Feather Beast as it prepared an epoch-level attack. They annihilated the beast at the cost of every surviving disciple in the hall, then discovered the Epoch Divine Feather Shattered Heart among the ruins.

• Thirty Fallen Light Hermits and three Void Emanation Realm elders arrived and used the Fallen Light Formation to stop the beast’s second attack.
• The beast shattered the formation with its third strike and began gathering epoch-level divine might, forcing the elders to prepare their true-aspect technique.
• The three elders manifested their true aspects and unleashed Fallen Dawn · Three Aspects Reverse Evolution-Light-Shattering Netherworld against the beast.
• The clash destroyed the hall and annihilated the surviving disciples, while the elders’ attack shattered the beast and extinguished it.
• A strand of purple light rose from the ruins, and the elders recognized it as the Epoch Divine Feather Shattered Heart.

The Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall’s party entered the Fate Coffin Mirror Hall and was forced to fight copies of themselves that could steal their authority over fate. After fourteen envoys survived the trial, a Fate Abyss Spirit Key appeared in the shattered coffins.

• Xuanshuo led the immortal envoys onto the rune-covered path, awakening the ancient region and revealing thirty Fate Coffins.
• Xuanshuo identified the forbidden ground as the Fate Coffin Mirror Hall, where each coffin held a copy of one envoy and demanded that they kill their Fate Coffin Bodies or be replaced.
• Luo Ming, Ziling, Liulan, and the three Void Emanation Realm elders fought and defeated their respective Fate Shadows.
• The battle ended with only fourteen of the thirty immortal envoys still alive, all of them wounded.
• A powerful light rose from the shattered coffins, and the three elders recognized it as the Fate Abyss Spirit Key.

The five Liu Yuan Practitioners attacked the three elders of the Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall and erased them and their fourteen immortal envoys with Fate Bottom Collapse Current. The Fate Abyss Spirit Key fled into the distance, and the Liu Yuan Practitioners pursued it.

• Cen Yuan, Xuan Xu, and Xing Ji fought over the Fate Abyss Spirit Key until five Liu Yuan Practitioners appeared and claimed it belonged to the Fate Abyss.
• Cen Yuan, Xuan Xu, and Xing Ji joined the fourteen immortal envoys in forming a defensive array against the Liu Yuan Practitioners' Fate Abyss Trial Slaughter.
• The Liu Yuan Practitioners overwhelmed the array and erased the immortal envoys one by one.
• The Liu Yuan Practitioners used Abyss Bottom · Five Aspects Erasure to erase Cen Yuan, Xuan Xu, and Xing Ji, along with all traces of their existence.
• The Fate Abyss Spirit Key fled, and the leader of the Liu Yuan Practitioners ordered the others to pursue it.

Qin Yu and Extinguished Light encountered the fleeing Fate Abyss Spirit Key in the Deep Root Lower Layers, where five Liu Yuan Practitioners pursued it and demanded that they hand it over. After Extinguished Light stopped one attacker and Qin Yu was overpowered by the others, the key entered Qin Yu and began recognizing him as its master, leaving the pursuers scrambling to stop it.

• The Fate Abyss Spirit Key fled into Qin Yu and Extinguished Light’s valley, with five Liu Yuan Practitioners pursuing it.
• The Liu Yuan Practitioners claimed the key belonged to them and ordered Qin Yu and Extinguished Light to move aside.
• One Liu Yuan Practitioner attacked Qin Yu, but Extinguished Light annihilated his sword strike with one finger.
• Qin Yu stopped Extinguished Light from intervening and fought two Liu Yuan Practitioners, but their power sent him crashing back and injured his hand.
• The Fate Abyss Spirit Key rushed into Qin Yu’s chest as the five Liu Yuan Practitioners attacked, beginning to recognize him as its master.

Qin Yu endured the Fate Abyss Spirit Key rewriting his fate while Extinguished Light fought off the five Liu Yuan Practitioners. Azure Ring awoke and erased all five, and the spirit key fused completely with Qin Yu as his Fate Abyss power began to awaken.

• The Fate Abyss Spirit Key entered Qin Yu's fate sea and began rewriting his body and fate, leaving him unable to resist the five Liu Yuan Practitioners.
• Extinguished Light shielded Qin Yu and halted the practitioners' attacks with her Final Radiance and Annihilation Light powers.
• The five Liu Yuan Practitioners opened their abysses and unleashed their ultimate technique, forcing Extinguished Light back as the spirit key began fusing with Qin Yu.
• Azure Ring awoke inside Qin Yu's fate sea and erased the five Liu Yuan Practitioners and every trace of their existence with Unborn Silence Seal.
• The Fate Abyss Spirit Key fused completely with Qin Yu, and Extinguished Light declared that fate authority had opened.

Qin Yu awakened Fate Authority through the Fate Abyss Spirit Key and fused the ten forms of the Limitless Flower-Pinching Heaven-Silencing Finger into the ultimate form, Unnamed Initial Silence. He and Extinguished Light headed toward a battle over the Star Abyss Fate Vine, where numerous Annihilation Dawn Realm experts fought as the herb appeared to choose its destined owner.

• The Fate Abyss Spirit Key merged with Qin Yu’s Void Divine Tree and awakened his Fate Authority.
• Azure Ring explained that the key was the unique catalyst needed to master the Limitless Flower-Pinching Heaven-Silencing Finger’s ultimate form.
• Qin Yu united the technique’s ten forms into Fate Abyss Heavenly Finger · Unnamed Initial Silence, which could erase an enemy’s existence at its source.
• After sensing powerful forces gathering in the Deep Root Lower Layers, Qin Yu and Extinguished Light set off to investigate and seek the Chaos First Palace.
• At the Fate Abyss Fault, more than a dozen Annihilation Dawn Realm experts fought over the Star Abyss Fate Vine as it seemed to choose its owner.

Yan Sha and fifteen Immortal Emanation Asuras slaughtered the experts at the fault line and seized the Star Abyss Fate Vine before Qin Yu and Extinguished Light arrived. As Qin Yu continued deeper into the Deep Root Lower Layers, a wounded Chaos First Palace disciple told him that Ling Liangyan and others were trapped in an ancient soul-severing mechanism, and Qin Yu went to scout for a way to save them.

• Yan Sha arrived with fifteen Immortal Emanation Asuras and killed the Annihilation Dawn Realm experts fighting over the Star Abyss Fate Vine.
• Yan Sha suppressed the Star Abyss Fate Vine, sealed it into a Fate Soul seedpod, and left with the Asuras.
• Qin Yu and Extinguished Light reached the cleared battlefield, discovered the spirit treasure had been taken, and continued deeper into the Deep Root Lower Layers.
• Qin Yu found a badly wounded Chaos First Palace disciple, who told him that Elder Liu Xu had sent him and others to protect Elder Ling Liangyan before an ancient soul-severing mechanism activated and annihilated his senior brothers.
• Qin Yu gave the disciple a healing pill and went ahead to scout the mechanism and find a way to rescue Ling Liangyan and the others.

Qin Yu and Extinguished Light entered a time-erased fault in the Deep Root Lower Layers and faced a formation that tried to seize Qin Yu’s Fate Abyss authority. After they destroyed the formation and its guardian, Qin Yu erased the entire encounter from the region’s history, and they continued into the abyss ahead.

• Qin Yu and Extinguished Light entered the silent fault and realized it was a space abandoned by the Fate Abyss and cut out of time.
• The Severed Soul Chain Formation activated, summoned an Abyss Guardian, and locked onto Qin Yu after recognizing his Fate Abyss Mark.
• Qin Yu used Heavenly Cause Judgment Order to sever the formation’s soul-chain branches, while Extinguished Light fought and erased the Abyss Guardian.
• Qin Yu invoked Immeasurable Return to the Abyss: Annihilation's Other Shore and erased the nine main soul chains and the formation’s existence.
• Qin Yu used Unnamed Initial Silence to remove the battle from the region’s history, then he and Extinguished Light proceeded into the dark abyss.

Qin Yu entered the Pre-Narrative Lock Domain to reach Ling Liangyan and discovered that its mechanism was guarding the Fate Abyss Original Record. As the Pre-Narrative Constructor tried to erase his existence through Fate Track Reverse Deduction Judgment, Qin Yu touched the Primordial Fate Brush’s first stroke, halting the judgment.

• Qin Yu and Extinguished Light found Ling Liangyan, Elder Liu Xu, and their companions trapped in the Pre-Narrative Lock Domain, and Qin Yu identified a seam that led inside.
• Qin Yu entered the domain and used Fate Abyss Initial Opening and Unnamed Initial Stillness · Shallow Touch to stop its soul chains and open the way to the Fate Abyss core.
• Qin Yu reached the Fate Abyss · Initial Layer Core, where Ling Liangyan recognized him from within a translucent Pre-Narrative Crystal Domain.
• The Pre-Narrative Constructor activated Fate Track Reverse Deduction Judgment and began deleting Qin Yu’s fate track backward.
• Qin Yu stepped into the core despite the judgment and touched the Primordial Fate Brush’s first stroke, causing the Lock Domain’s chains to break and its reverse deduction to fail.

Qin Yu awakened the Primordial Fate Brush and rewrote the lock domain’s rules, saving Ling Liangyan and the fifteen Primordial Envoys from the Pre-Narrative Constructor’s Higher Judgment. He led the survivors through the collapsing Deep Root Lower Layers to a stable valley, while a new crack opened in the distance.

• Qin Yu used the Primordial Fate Brush to reverse the lock domain’s first judgment and briefly resonated with Ling Liangyan’s Fate Soul.
• Qin Yu entered the imprisoned domain and confronted the Pre-Narrative Constructor as it began a second Higher Judgment.
• Qin Yu rewrote the lock domain’s rules, broke the fate chains, and freed Ling Liangyan and the fifteen Primordial Envoys.
• Qin Yu led the group through the collapsing Deep Root Lower Layers, while Extinguished Light cleared threats from behind them.
• Ling Liangyan thanked Qin Yu after they reached a stable valley, and a new crack opened in the distance.

After saving the Chaos First Palace’s disciples, Qin Yu split from them and continued alone into Deep Root, while Liu Xu led the group onward with the Coffer of Reverse Return. Elsewhere, Wu Jixuan and the Void Stillness Walkers faced all five of Deep Root’s mechanisms, culminating in a desperate clash with the Final Prohibition · Sound of No Life.

• Liu Xu arrived in the valley and thanked Qin Yu for rescuing Ling Liangyan and the Primordial Envoys.
• Qin Yu advised the Chaos First Palace to move together, then chose to travel alone so his enemies would not target the group.
• Qin Yu entrusted the Coffer of Reverse Return to Liu Xu before leaving through a spacetime rift with Extinguished Light.
• Liu Xu led the Chaos First Palace’s disciples and elders deeper into Deep Root to seek opportunities.
• Wu Jixuan ordered the Void Stillness Walkers to enter the No Observation Sequence as the Reverse Entropy Silent Wheel and the other mechanisms appeared.
• Wu Jixuan invoked the Silent Void Return Law as the Void Stillness Walkers clashed with the Final Prohibition · Sound of No Life.