Chapter Summaries

Qin Yu endured the Reverse River Lamp · Extinction’s trial, destroyed its nine imposed deaths, and became its master, while Jin Hanyan ventured deeper into the Deep Root with the Forgotten Memory Pearl · Severance. After the Asura Immortal Hall blamed the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall for Chen Jieli’s erasure, its forces began attacking both the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall and the Chaos First Palace, and two other great divine halls withdrew from the Deep Root Lower Layers.

• Qin Yu entered the awakened Reverse River Lamp · Extinction’s core, where it repeatedly brought his possible deaths forward.
• Qin Yu and Extinguished Light destroyed the nine future corpses, and the Reverse River Lamp · Extinction acknowledged Qin Yu as its master and reset his possible deaths.
• Jin Hanyan traveled deeper through the Deep Root Lower Layers with the Forgotten Memory Pearl · Severance, which had chosen her as its master.
• The Asura Immortal Hall learned that Chen Jieli’s Fate Soul had been extinguished, blamed Jin Hanyan, and ordered its forces to kill members of the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall and the Chaos First Palace.
• Asura hunting parties attacked a Chaos First Palace exploration party and a Silent Nothingness Divine Hall squad as the conflict spread through the Deep Root Lower Layers.
• The Fallen Dawn Divine Hall and the Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall ordered their forces to withdraw, leaving the Asura Immortal Hall, the Chaos First Palace, and the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall amid the escalating chaos.

Qin Yu used the Reverse River Lamp · Extinction to eliminate every external way he could die, while Jin Hanyan defeated an oblivion envoy and obtained the Return to the Womb Cauldron · End. As the divine halls formed an alliance and a treasure-seeking practitioner plotted against them, Qin Yu erased an Asura Immortal Hall squad that attacked him and descended to the next layer.

• Qin Yu activated the Reverse River Lamp · Extinction, erasing every possible way for others to kill him and gaining the power to choose his own death.
• Jin Hanyan defeated the Silent Depth · Oblivion Name-Burier, opened the Nameless Box, and received the Return to the Womb Cauldron · End.
• Elder Liu Xu and the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall's grand elder joined the Chaos First Palace and combined their formations to oppose the Asura Immortal Hall.
• The Liu Yuan Practitioner watched the alliance form and plotted to claim the halls' treasures and opportunities after they weakened one another.
• Thirty Asura Immortal Hall disciples and their Void Emanation Realm deacon attacked Qin Yu, who erased them with Unnamed Initial Silence and Jiwu's power.
• Qin Yu dismissed the Asura Immortal Hall's aggression, then followed Extinguished Light into the next layer.

The Asura Immortal Hall attacked the allied forces of the Chaos First Palace and the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall on the eighty-eighth layer, with Luo Qinghuang overwhelming their defenders. Liu Xu and Ling Liangyan used Qin Yu’s decree artifacts together to extinguish Luo Qinghuang and turn the battle.

• Ping Koucen led a hundred thousand Asura Immortal Hall disciples toward the eighty-eighth layer, with Luo Qinghuang joining the assault.
• Luo Qinghuang attacked the allied forces, shattered the Chaos First Palace’s formation, and badly wounded the Silent Void grand elder.
• Liu Xu, the Silent Void grand elder, and Luo Qinghuang clashed, leaving Liu Xu and the grand elder gravely injured as the battle devastated the layer.
• Ling Liangyan reminded Liu Xu to use the item Qin Yu had given him, and Liu Xu produced the Nameless Coffer of Decreeing Reversal and Return as Ling Liangyan summoned the Formless Wedge of Decreeing Extermination.
• Liu Xu and Ling Liangyan joined the decree artifacts’ powers, which utterly extinguished Luo Qinghuang and shattered the Asura Immortal Hall’s fighting spirit.

The third wave of the Deep Root Lower Layers’ tremors scattered the forces of the Asura Immortal Hall, the Chaos First Palace, and the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall across deadly layers. Jin Hanyan broke free of the Unrecorded Long Night and pressed deeper, while the scattered Asura and Silent Void forces faced annihilation in their new domains.

• The third wave of tremors tore apart the layer boundaries and randomly teleported everyone on the eighty-eighth layer to different realms.
• Jin Hanyan landed in the three hundred and ninth layer, resisted the Unrecorded Long Night’s Judger, and continued deeper toward the Deep Root Lower Layers’ true inheritance.
• The scattered forces of the three halls landed in lethal domains as the hundred-layer sequence disruption entered calamity mode.
• In the Mad Consciousness Corridor on the five hundred and ninety-second layer, Ping Koucen and the Asura Immortal Hall reinforcements turned on one another and slaughtered their own force.
• In the Unnumbered Layer Domain, shadows attacked the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall disciples and erased them from existence.

Ping Koucen became the Death-Date Asura guardian of the 592nd layer and was possessed by the Eyeless One, while the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall’s forces were trapped in the Unnumbered Domain. The domain revealed itself as the final layer, where three terrifying beings appeared and began an apocalypse.

• Ping Koucen transformed into Death-Date Asura · Xuanji Form as the 592nd layer collapsed, and the Eyeless One took control of him.
• A vast, indistinct being appeared behind the Eyeless One’s hybrid monster, and the 592nd layer became a deathtrap.
• The shadows in the Unnumbered Domain attacked the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall’s disciples and elders, killing and injuring many.
• The grand elder realized the group had reached the final layer when the number -999 appeared above their sea of consciousness.
• The shadows gathered into three colossal beings, and the grand elder ordered everyone to retreat as the layer turned into an apocalypse.

Three beings from the Mystic Void Realm annihilated the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall and ravaged the Deep Root Lower Layers, while Jin Hanyan recognized the threat and fled to warn others. Elsewhere, a Liu Yuan Practitioner was trapped by his deleted future self and erased from existence.

• The Black Abyss Realm Devouring One, Flame Crown World Render, and Soul-Bound Final Fallen One erased the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall on the 999th layer and began ascending through the lower layers.
• The three beings destroyed sects and populations from the 998th layer up to the 920th, purging the Deep Root Lower Layers.
• On the 97th layer, Elder Liu Xu and Ling Liangyan sensed the upheaval as they recovered with the remaining Chaos First Palace disciples, while Jin Hanyan detected the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall's erasure on the 309th layer.
• Jin Hanyan reached the 999th layer, identified the attackers as beings of the Mystic Void Realm, and left to warn cultivators in the higher realms.
• A Liu Yuan Practitioner was drawn into the Final Cause Rending Domain, where his deleted future self bound him with nine Epoch-Severing Annihilation Rivers and erased him completely.

The Liu Yuan Practitioner used the Bone of Halted Reading and the Lid of the Final Coffin to try to defeat the Shadow of the Future, but the Shadow proved it could exist beyond both treasures’ limits. After the Liu Yuan Practitioner’s final counterattack briefly shattered its outline, the Shadow reassembled and began deleting his resistance and existence.

• The Liu Yuan Practitioner burned his life to forge a Paradoxical Origin Long Blade and attacked the Shadow of the Future, but the Shadow declared that he was already dying within the cause and effect of his death.
• As the Annihilation River consumed him, the Liu Yuan Practitioner revealed the Bone of Halted Reading and the Lid of the Final Coffin, using them to erase the Shadow’s causal threads and seal its possible futures.
• The Shadow of the Future stepped beyond the Bone of Halted Reading’s reach and explained that it was the future born after the Lid of the Final Coffin severed all other futures.
• The Shadow of the Future shattered both treasures and collapsed the Liu Yuan Practitioner’s chance of victory, but he unleashed Paradoxical Origin Echo and blasted the Shadow into undefined fragments.
• The Shadow of the Future reassembled in its Final Cause Deletion Form and deleted the Liu Yuan Practitioner’s counterattack, resistance, and struggle as his body turned transparent.

Jin Hanyan sensed a causal deletion spreading through Deep Root and warned the Chaos First Palace that three Mystic Void Realm beings threatened the Void Obliteration Domain. As Qin Yu and Extinguished Light fought an erased-future shadow, Jin Hanyan confronted Bo on the seventy-third layer and forced him to retreat.

• The Shadow of the Future erased the Liu Yuan Practitioner, leaving logic fragments that began corroding the Rending Domain.
• Jin Hanyan detected the Final Cause Deletion Formula and realized an older power was erasing narrative residue throughout Deep Root.
• On the five hundred and eighty-ninth layer, Qin Yu and Extinguished Light destroyed a shadow that tried to bring Qin Yu's final breath forward.
• Jin Hanyan warned Liu Xu and the Chaos First Palace that three Mystic Void Realm beings had appeared at Deep Root's bottom and urged them to seal the lower layers and alert the other factions.
• On the seventy-third layer, Jin Hanyan's Chaos Source Power undid Bo's war-stopping domain, stripped away his Dao, and forced him to retreat before she continued upward.

Jin Hanyan drove cultivators from the Deep Root Lower Layers with her hidden Stainless Realm pressure, but a teleportation shock hurled her to the 698th layer, the Forgotten Light Realm · Stillness Flower Heaven. There she fought its guardian, the Flower of No Record, and their clash continued without a clear victor.

• Jin Hanyan used her Stainless Realm pressure to force cultivators across the Deep Root Lower Layers to retreat without revealing herself.
• As Jin Hanyan reached the second layer, a teleportation shock erased her location and sent her to the 698th layer.
• Jin Hanyan discovered the Forgotten Light Realm · Stillness Flower Heaven and heard it identify her as an unrecorded visitor.
• The Flower of No Record appeared and attacked Jin Hanyan with memory-light chains and powers that erased harm and rewrote the world.
• Jin Hanyan countered with her Stainless techniques, manifesting the White Emperor Who Ceases War and cracking the guardian's petals.
• Jin Hanyan and the Flower of No Record continued their battle, shaking the realm as neither gained victory.

Jin Hanyan erased the Flower of No Record, captured the taboo blade Boundless Already Void · Return to One, and encountered three Mystic Void Realm beings on the 608th floor. After they blocked her escape and wounded her, she unleashed a Chaos domain but was left facing their renewed attacks.

• Jin Hanyan used Return to the Unjudged to erase the Flower of No Record and return its Truth Form to chaos.
• Jin Hanyan isolated Boundless Already Void · Return to One and stored the blade inside the Nameless Box.
• Jin Hanyan reached the 608th floor and was detected by Black Abyss Realm Devouring One, Flame Crown World Render, and Soul-Bound Final Fallen One.
• The three Mystic Void Realm beings sealed Jin Hanyan's escape routes with Realm Devouring, time-fire, and the Fallen Soul domain, tearing her ankle and shadow.
• Jin Hanyan rewrote the 608th floor as an Unborn World, briefly suppressing the three beings before they broke free and wounded her chest.
• Jin Hanyan acknowledged the three Mystic Void Realm beings and formed the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall's hand seal again.

Jin Hanyan fled three Mystic Void Realm beings through the Deep Root Lower Layers and arrived on the five hundred and eighty-ninth layer, where they targeted her, Qin Yu, and Extinguished Light. Qin Yu awakened the Reverse River Lamp · Extinction’s death-zeroing power and briefly countered the attackers, but they overwhelmed the group, leaving Extinguished Light to shield him as another strike approached.

• Jin Hanyan used the View-Shattering Mirror: Nothingness, Forgotten Memory Pearl · Severance, and Return to the Womb Cauldron · End to escape the three Mystic Void Realm beings and flee upward.
• The Black Abyss Realm Devouring One, Flame Crown World Render, and Soul-Bound Final Fallen One tore through layer boundaries in pursuit, while Jin Hanyan descended to the five hundred and eighty-ninth layer and warned Qin Yu and Extinguished Light.
• The three beings reached the five hundred and eighty-ninth layer and attacked; Jin Hanyan, Extinguished Light, and Qin Yu combined their powers, but the Soul-Bound Final Fallen One severed Jin Hanyan’s escape passage.
• The Mystic Void Realm beings locked onto the Reverse River Lamp · Extinction inside Qin Yu, whose power zeroed out their attacks and let him counter them for a moment.
• The three beings intensified their assault, badly wounding Jin Hanyan and Extinguished Light and nearly overwhelming Qin Yu, until Extinguished Light stood between him and their next strike.

Qin Yu, Jin Hanyan, Extinguished Light, and the Azure Ring annihilated three Mystic Void Realm beings, then fell into the Zero Cause Realm, where the Gate of Finality chose Qin Yu as its bearer. Qin Yu used its authority to escape back to the Void Obliteration Domain, and the group rested after Jin Hanyan departed.

• Extinguished Light, Qin Yu, and Jin Hanyan fought the three Mystic Void Realm beings until the Azure Ring joined them and their combined attacks annihilated the enemies.
• The destruction of the three beings caused all 999 Deep Root Lower Layers to collapse, sending Qin Yu, Jin Hanyan, Extinguished Light, and the Azure Ring into the Zero Cause Realm.
• The Gate of Finality awakened, chose Qin Yu, and placed its authority in his palm.
• Qin Yu made an exit possible with the Gate of Finality, and the four escaped the Zero Cause Realm into the Void Obliteration Domain.
• Jin Hanyan thanked Qin Yu and returned to the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall, while Qin Yu and Extinguished Light rested in the Sinking Cause Wasteland.

The erasure of three Mystic Void Realm beings caused the Deep Root Lower Layers to collapse and unleashed nine Primordial Calamity Beasts into the Void Obliteration Domain. As the beasts scattered across the realm, the surviving factions fled and began preparing to unite against them.

• The collapse of the Deep Root Lower Layers revealed the aftermath of three Mystic Void Realm beings being erased and opened a vast rift.
• Nine Primordial Calamity Beasts emerged from the abyss and devastated the cultivators gathered nearby with their powers.
• The nine beasts scattered across the Void Obliteration Domain, each heading toward a different region and spreading destruction.
• The Silent Nothingness Divine Hall and Chaos First Palace elders ordered their factions to retreat and called for united defenses.
• Yun Huan and Ming Ji led their divine halls to withdraw and prepare for the calamities, while survivors fled the Deep Root area.

After Deep Root collapsed and unleashed nine calamity demon beasts across the Void Obliteration Domain, Qin Yu sent Extinguished Light back to the Annihilation Abyss Epoch to prepare defenses and returned to the Chaos First Palace. He began recounting his journey through Deep Root to the hall master and elders, leaving them stunned by Jin Hanyan’s strength and the dangers they faced.

• Nine calamity demon beasts escaped from Deep Root and rampaged across the Void Obliteration Domain.
• Qin Yu sent Extinguished Light to the Annihilation Abyss Epoch with the White Stele Brush: End and Reverse River Lamp · Extinction to prepare defenses with Yunyi and the others.
• Qin Yu returned to the Chaos First Palace, where he learned the hall had activated defensive formations against the demon beasts.
• Yun Yanwan welcomed Qin Yu into the inner hall and asked him to recount what happened in Deep Root.
• Qin Yu told the elders that Jin Hanyan had reached the Stainless Realm · Middle Stage and had helped him survive three Mystic Void Realm beings.

Yun Yanwan organized the Chaos First Palace to defend the Void Obliteration Domain from the escaped calamity beasts, then revealed the palace’s hidden origins and its monitored sacred treasure to Qin Yu. Qin Yu agreed to travel to the Saint Transformation Divine Domain and retrieve the treasure before the beasts could find it.

• Yun Yanwan ordered ten patrol teams to watch the palace’s territories, assigned elders to guard the halls, and summoned the three direct disciples Biyou, Xuanhao, and Chenling back from training.
• Yun Yanwan dismissed the assembly but asked Qin Yu to stay, then brought him through a secret passage to the Chaos First Palace’s true secret hall.
• Yun Yanwan told Qin Yu that the Chaos First Palace was a small branch of the Nangong Lineage established by Yun Qiusheng, who had hidden the sacred treasure in the Saint Transformation Divine Domain.
• Yun Yanwan explained that the treasure’s restriction let the Nangong Lineage monitor the palace and that its activation could expose the sect to punishment or annihilation.
• Yun Yanwan asked Qin Yu to retrieve the sacred treasure before the calamity beasts reached it and passed on the patriarch’s method for avoiding the restriction.
• Qin Yu accepted the mission and promised to bring the sacred treasure back safely.

Qin Yu set out for the Saint Transformation Divine Domain with the map and key Yun Yanwan gave him, learning that an unknown sacred treasure might also be hidden there. Meanwhile, Extinguished Light returned to the Annihilation Abyss Epoch with the treasures and reunited with Yunyi, Qian Ruishan, and Mu Qingwan.

• Yun Yanwan gave Qin Yu the Ancient Map of the Saint Transformation Divine Domain and the Restriction-Breaking Inscription Key, and told him about a rumored second sacred treasure hidden there.
• Qin Yu accepted the mission and raced southeast toward the Saint Transformation Divine Domain.
• Extinguished Light returned to the Annihilation Abyss Epoch carrying the Reverse River Lamp · Extinction and the White Stele Brush: End, and Yingling greeted her.
• Yunyi joyfully embraced Extinguished Light and took her to meet Qian Ruishan and Mu Qingwan.
• Extinguished Light introduced herself to Qian Ruishan and Mu Qingwan, and the four women reunited in the main hall.

Extinguished Light returned to the Annihilation Abyss Epoch with two forbidden treasures from Qin Yu and guided Yunyi through refining Silent Abyss Unconstructed. Yunyi became the Illusory Dragon Lord and demonstrated authority that could sever existence, history, fate, and narrative, leaving the Annihilation Abyss Epoch able to protect itself while Qin Yu remained away.

• Extinguished Light reassured Qian Ruishan, Mu Qingwan, and Yunyi that Qin Yu was safe and had become the sole guest elder of the Chaos First Palace.
• Extinguished Light entrusted the White Stele Brush: End and Reverse River Lamp · Extinction to the Annihilation Abyss Epoch as defensive treasures against a future crisis.
• At Extinguished Light's urging, Yunyi began refining Silent Abyss Unconstructed, and the Annihilation Abyss Black Sea, Illusory Butterfly Star River, and Ming Yuan Dragon Shadow manifested around her.
• Yunyi fused with the treasure and three Illusory Dragon souls, transforming into the Illusory Dragon Lord at a level comparable to the Annihilation Abyss Epoch itself.
• At Silent Abyss Lake, Yunyi tested Jiwu Annihilation Mirror, severing targets' skills, existence, futures, histories, karma, immortality, narration, and observation before the witnesses forgot the demonstration.
• The Annihilation Abyss Epoch acknowledged Yunyi's authority, and Yingling watched from above, relieved that she and the others could protect the realm while Qin Yu rested.

Qin Yu entered the Saint Transformation Divine Domain and used the Restriction-Breaking Inscription Key to destroy Yun Qiusheng’s Primal Origin World-Sealing Formation. He reached the ruined hall where Yun Qiusheng had once cultivated, and continued inside as the ancient site seemed to test and acknowledge him.

• Qin Yu arrived in the Saint Transformation Divine Domain and followed the ancient road toward its depths.
• Yun Qiusheng’s Primal Origin World-Sealing Formation trapped Qin Yu and threatened to send him into the Unborn World.
• Qin Yu used the Restriction-Breaking Inscription Key to erase the formation and break the first restriction.
• Qin Yu discovered a ruined divine hall where Yun Qiusheng had once cultivated and received a sacred treasure.
• Qin Yu entered the hall’s depths as its lingering radiance touched him, sensing that the sacred treasure was there.

Qin Yu entered the sealed depths of the ancient temple and retrieved the Saint Transformation Star Codex after dismantling the Nangong Lineage’s restriction. As he stored the relic, a towering golden-and-black Buddha statue awakened behind him and turned its attention toward him.

• Qin Yu used the Restriction-Breaking Inscription Key to dissolve the temple’s inner seal and reveal a hidden staircase.
• Qin Yu descended to the sacred relic vault, where the Saint Transformation Star Codex appeared on an ancient altar under a five-pointed star restriction.
• Qin Yu used Cause and Effect Deconstruction, Time Flow Reversal, and Existence Erasure to remove the Nangong Lineage’s restriction.
• Qin Yu received the Saint Transformation Star Codex and stored it in the Annihilation Devil Pupil · Final Spirit Core when the Saint Transformation Divine Domain began to tremble.
• A hundred-zhang Buddha statue opened its eyes, moved a finger, and stared at Qin Yu.

Qin Yu battled the Buddha statue’s Void Emanation curse spirits in the Saint Transformation Divine Domain and traced their endless births to the curse source. After the statue’s remnant consciousness emerged and unleashed a vast curse tsunami, Qin Yu used the Silent Origin Stainless Sword’s second form to cleave it apart, leaving the confrontation with the remnant spirit still unresolved.

• The awakened Buddha statue summoned three kinds of Void Emanation curse spirits, which attacked Qin Yu in the sealed chamber.
• Qin Yu used the Fate Cause Sealing Mirror, Silent Wheel Dawn Extinction, and No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword to destroy waves of curse spirits, but their numbers kept multiplying.
• Qin Yu traced the curse spirits’ births to a logic chain linked to the crack in the Buddha statue and used Ring Orbit Collapse Lock · Chain Annihilation to break it, slowing their creation.
• The Buddha statue’s remnant consciousness emerged, threatened Qin Yu, and opened the curse source to unleash a black tsunami of curse spirits.
• Qin Yu used the Silent Origin Stainless Sword’s second form, Causeless Disillusionment Sword, to cleave the curse tsunami apart and erase the curse spirits.
• Qin Yu confronted the Buddha statue’s remnant consciousness, declaring that it was now his turn to fight it.