Chapter Summaries

Qin Yu visited the Heavenly Radiance Pill Hall, where he studied its legendary pill inheritance and compared it with the far greater divine pills within his Azure Ring. He then met Ling Jingxi at the Vast Mist Terrace and agreed to follow her to the Spirit Firmament Great Realm’s initial realm holy land.

• Qin Yu entered the Heavenly Radiance Pill Hall and examined its five ancient alchemical seals and the Spirit Firmament Pill Canon.
• Qin Yu saw that the Azure Ring contained thirty-six divine pills vastly superior to the hall’s legendary pills, and resolved to bring them to the hall one day.
• Qin Yu copied portions of the Spirit Firmament Pill Canon before leaving the pill hall.
• Qin Yu went to the Vast Mist Terrace, where Ling Jingxi appeared and asked him to come with her.
• Qin Yu nodded and agreed to follow Ling Jingxi to the initial realm holy land.

Ling Jingxi brought Qin Yu to the forbidden Death Abyss and revealed that only he could enter the Initial Realm Holy Land, where she needed him to retrieve the Realm Evolution Soul Flower. Qin Yu accepted the mission and passed through the gate into the ancient land.

• Ling Jingxi led Qin Yu to the Death Abyss and told him that only he could enter the Initial Realm Holy Land.
• Ling Jingxi crossed the Soul Bone Spine Bridge and destroyed a Golden Bone Fang Emperor Lizard with a single stroke.
• Ling Jingxi explained that the Holy Land came from the Fragmented Era of the Ring Yuan Realm and that its restrictions prevented her, as a Realm Lord, from entering.
• Ling Jingxi asked Qin Yu to retrieve the Realm Evolution Soul Flower, her only chance to break through to the Law Order of the Rank God.
• Qin Yu accepted the mission and entered the Initial Realm Holy Land through the gate of light.

Qin Yu entered the Initial Realm Holy Land, where the Azure Ring resonated with the realm and revealed its core patterns to him. Outside, Ling Jingxi watched the response and believed her choice of Qin Yu was right.

• Ling Jingxi reflected that Qin Yu and the Azure Ring were the key to her gamble as the gate to the Initial Realm Holy Land opened.
• Nine Realm Lord Realm experts sent ten Initial Yuan Realm cultivators into the holy land to compete for the Realm Evolution Soul Flower.
• Qin Yu entered the holy land and encountered its strange, constructed landscape of floating islands, spirit trees, and rivers of spiritual currents.
• Qin Yu sensed the Azure Ring release an arc of light, triggering its Spirit Edge Piercing the Realm form and revealing the holy land's core patterns.
• Ling Jingxi watched the distant azure light and concluded that she had chosen right.

Qin Yu entered the Initial Realm Holy Land and destroyed its guardian, Qimo Duoli, with newly awakened techniques. He reached the Silent Realm Ruins and found the Ethereal Realm Black Heart Lotus, unaware that an intangible shadow had appeared above it.

• Lie Zhao and Xin You teamed up to kill a Heaven-Extinguishing Nether Bone Beast in the Nether Bone Mountains.
• Qimo Duoli attacked Qin Yu, but Qin Yu awakened Ring Spear · Silent Severing Abyss and used it with Silent Origin · Boundless Ash to annihilate the guardian.
• Lie Zhao and Xin You were badly injured by the force of Qin Yu’s techniques, while the Purple-Gold Emperor Abyss Dragon briefly watched before returning to sleep.
• Qin Yu sealed Qimo Duoli’s remnant source essence and continued toward the holy land’s core.
• Qin Yu entered the Silent Realm Ruins and found the Ethereal Realm Black Heart Lotus, as an intangible shadow appeared above it.

Qin Ning was expelled from the black-hearted lotus domain and reached the Realm Evolution Soul Flower, where he defeated its purple-gold dragon guardian with fused techniques. The flower recognized him as its destined one, took him away, and the Initial Realm Holy Land collapsed.

• A mysterious phantom erased the black-hearted lotus domain and sent Qin Ning elsewhere in the Initial Realm Holy Land.
• Lie Zhao and Xin You found the Realm Evolution Soul Flower guarded by a purple-gold divine dragon, and Qin Yu arrived at the site.
• The dragon's soul voice knocked Lie Zhao and Xin You unconscious, while Qin Ning endured it with help from the Azure Ring and challenged the guardian.
• Qin Ning's thirteen Black Bone Spear techniques failed to break the dragon, but his Ring Spear and Silent Origin techniques destroyed its soul body.
• The Realm Evolution Soul Flower recognized Qin Yu as its destined one, enveloped him in divine radiance, and carried him away as the holy land collapsed.

Qin Yu emerged from the collapsing Initial Realm Holy Land with the Realm Evolution Soul Flower and reunited with Ling Jingxi, who had feared he would not return. After Ling Jingxi gave him a healing pill and the Cosmos Venerable Token, Qin Yu left to return to his sect.

• The Initial Realm Holy Land began collapsing ahead of schedule, and Ling Jingxi waited outside, unable to sense Qin Yu inside.
• Qin Yu emerged from a void fissure carrying the Realm Evolution Soul Flower, and Ling Jingxi embraced him in relief.
• Qin Yu gave the Realm Evolution Soul Flower to Ling Jingxi, then accompanied her to her immortal pavilion at the Heavenly Cosmos Auction House.
• Ling Jingxi gave Qin Yu a Supreme Unity Spirit Source Pill, but he said he needed to return to his sect.
• Ling Jingxi presented Qin Yu with the Cosmos Venerable Token, and he accepted it before leaving without looking back.

Qin Yu returned to the Thousand Realms Sect, reassured Qian Ruishan, and broke through to Initial Yuan Realm Fifth Stage Perfection with help from Ling Jingxi. As the Heavenly Chasm Formation Trial approached, he prepared to visit the main city for ingredients to strengthen Zhou Yu before the trial.

• Qian Ruishan welcomed Qin Yu back and told him she had feared Shang Kui had attacked him, then warned that Shang Kui had arranged for Zhang Hao to target him in the Heavenly Chasm Formation Trial.
• Zhou Yu invited Qin Yu to join the trial, and Qian Ruishan explained that participants had to endure the formation and obtain a Spirit Seal Stone to enter the Heavenly Chasm Secret Realm.
• Qin Yu cultivated behind the sect and advanced to Initial Yuan Realm Fifth Stage Perfection amid a powerful celestial phenomenon.
• Ling Jingxi sent Qin Yu the power of one billion Realm Spirits, which he sealed away, and Qin Yu sensed a mysterious connection to the Dao through the Azure Ring.
• Qin Yu set out for the main city to find ingredients for pills that might improve Zhou Yu's combat strength before the trial.

Qin Yu bought the five main ingredients for the Life-Exterminating Spirit Pill and gave Zhou Yu a powerful pill before the Thousand Realms Sect opened the Boundless Abyss trial. The disciples were transported into the secret realm, while Zhang Hao concealed his killing intent near the gate.

• Qin Yu paid three million Realm Spirits for the five Life-Exterminating Spirit Pill ingredients and another five hundred thousand for Three-Affinities Cauldron Fire Liquid, then received Netherworld Pills from the seller.
• At the Thousand Realms Sect trial, Xue Bing announced that disciples would enter the Boundless Abyss and compete for the Boundless Tribulation Heart Pearl.
• Qin Yu gave Zhou Yu a pill, which Zhou Yu recognized as far stronger than ordinary healing pills, and told him to save it for a crucial moment.
• Qin Yu and Zhou Yu activated their Spirit Seal Stones and ranked among the top three in the formation trial.
• The sect elders opened the formation gate, and Qin Yu and Zhou Yu entered the Boundless Abyss with the first group of disciples.
• Zhang Hao concealed his True Soul Third Stage cultivation and watched from near the gate as the Spirit Seal Stones transported the disciples to scattered locations in the secret realm.

Qin Yu and the other disciples were scattered across the Spirit Firmament Great Realm, where unstable fragments of space held deadly hazards and hidden treasures. As Qin Yu found a Dark Abyss Origin Mark and drew the attention of unseen enemies, Zhou Yu discovered the Ancient Thunder Tribulation Tower and agreed to enter it with the scheming Si Yao.

• Qin Yu arrived in a chaotic realm of broken laws while Zhou Yu, Si Yao, and other disciples were transported to separate dangerous regions.
• The disciples learned that the realm contained the Boundless Tribulation Heart Pearl and numerous treasures, while the Realm-Severing Devouring-Wing Devil attacked those nearby.
• Zhang Hao prepared to draw out the heart pearl core with a dark stone and the help of two shadowy figures.
• Qin Yu found a Dark Abyss Origin Mark at a fractured woodland stele, sensed a watcher, and vowed to find the Permeating Abyss Heart Pearl.
• Corpse-Patterned Guest and the Shang Lineage deacon Ember Sealer waited for Qin Yu to reveal his origin, while Zhang Hao declared that Qin Yu would die.
• Zhou Yu reached the Ancient Thunder Tribulation Tower, accepted Si Yao's offer to join forces, and secretly gripped the sword-skill fragment Qin Yu had given him.

At the Ancient Thunder Tribulation Tower, Zhou Yu saw through Si Yao’s attempt to use him as a shield, struck him down, and uncovered the lightning formation’s golden core. After Zhou Yu broke the barrier, he led the disciples into the tower, where an unknown presence and ancient divine markings awaited them.

• Si Yao urged Zhou Yu to enter the deadly lightning and draw it away, but Zhou Yu struck him from behind when he pretended to agree.
• Si Yao was injured by Zhou Yu’s attack and the purple lightning, while Zhou Yu warned the disciples against selfish schemes and became their leader.
• Zhou Yu spotted a golden thread at the heart of the lightning formation and used Burning Radiance Star Trace to break the barrier.
• Zhou Yu spared Si Yao and told him not to damage the bonds between fellow disciples, and the group followed Zhou Yu toward the tower.
• Zhou Yu and the disciples entered the open tower, where ancient divine markings appeared on the walls and an unknown presence greeted them.

Qin Yu watched a giant ape wielding an ancient red-and-blue sword battle a Shang Lineage expert in the Fractured Woodland. The ape awakened the Ape Origin War Sword’s final form and drove its opponent to flee, leaving Qin Yu to suspect the sword was the woodland’s true opportunity.

• Qin Yu sensed a hidden watcher from the Shang Lineage and continued deeper into the Fractured Woodland, where a red-and-blue giant ape emerged with an ancient sword.
• A Shang Lineage expert approached the ape and attacked with the Nether Origin Soul Rend Halberd, a mid-grade Realm Artifact, but the ape met him head-on.
• The expert’s halberd wounded the ape, prompting the ape’s sword to evolve into the Ape Origin War Sword: Realm-Breaking Initial Form.
• The Shang Lineage expert unleashed the halberd’s full power, while the ape used the Body-Burning: Source-Summoning Spell to awaken the sword’s Realm-Breaking Final Form.
• The ape overpowered the Shang Lineage expert, who escaped with a Shang Lineage Death-Avoidance Gold Medallion, while Qin Yu watched and recorded the sword’s intent.
• Qin Yu concluded that the ape’s ancient sword might be the true opportunity in the Fractured Woodland.

Qin Yu battled the giant ape in the Fractured Woodland and broke through to the True Soul Realm under pressure. The Azure Ring deflected the ape’s attacks, but a Shang Lineage expert arrived and joined forces with the wounded ape to attack Qin Yu.

• Qin Yu fought the giant ape with his spear and seals, forcing it back as their clashes devastated the Fractured Woodland.
• Qin Yu comprehended a new boundary and broke through to the True Soul Realm during the battle.
• The Azure Ring deflected the giant ape’s sword strikes and injured it, terrifying the ape and awakening its sword’s artifact spirit.
• A Third Stage expert of the Shang Lineage emerged and asked the giant ape to join forces against Qin Yu.
• The giant ape agreed, and both experts attacked Qin Yu together.

Qin Yu fought the giant ape and a third-stage Realm Consciousness Realm expert from the Shang Lineage in the Fractured Woodland, turning back their attacks with his spear and the Azure Ring. He awakened the battle technique Ring Spear · Firmament-Annihilating Cinders and annihilated both opponents, remaining alone amid the destruction.

• The giant ape and the Shang Lineage expert attacked Qin Yu together, but he evaded their combined strikes and repelled them with Silent Origin · Boundless Ash.
• Qin Yu struck the Shang Lineage expert with Ring Spear · Silent Severing Abyss, cracking his halberd and injuring his sea of consciousness.
• The Azure Ring blocked the giant ape's Blue Lightning Realm-Shattering Judgment, forcing both enemies to prepare their strongest attacks.
• The Azure Ring's residual breath fused with Qin Yu's Black Bone War Spear and Gray Ring, awakening the Firmament-Annihilating Tribulation Fire and Ring Spear · Firmament-Annihilating Cinders.
• Qin Yu's spear annihilated the giant ape and the Shang Lineage expert along with their weapons, leaving him standing alone at the heart of the destruction.

Zhou Yu and the Thousand Realms Sect disciples entered the Ancient Thunder Tribulation Tower, where Zhou Yu overcame its first judgment and obtained the Nine Abyss Silent Lightning Canon. The tower expelled them before they could reach the second floor, and Zhou Yu vowed to master all nine layers and return.

• Zhou Yu led Si Yao and the other disciples into the Ancient Thunder Tribulation Tower and found the Nine Abyss Silent Lightning Canon on a stone platform.
• The tower invoked the Diagram of Tribulation Judgment, which pinned the group beneath its pressure.
• Zhou Yu used Burning Radiance Star Trace to strike a flaw in the diagram and passed its first judgment.
• The apparition declared that Zhou Yu could enter the hidden cache, and the Nine Abyss Silent Lightning Canon fell into his palm.
• The tower expelled Zhou Yu and the others when they tried to ascend, revealing that they needed to master all nine layers of the canon first.
• Zhou Yu vowed to complete the nine tribulations and return to the tower.

After the others left the Ancient Thunder Tribulation Tower, Zhou Yu studied the Nine Abyss Silent Lightning Canon and learned its nine realms of lightning cultivation. Qin Yu arrived after a deadly battle, and the two joined forces to explore deeper into the secret realm.

• The disciples who had entered the tower with Zhou Yu departed in different directions, leaving Zhou Yu alone beneath the lingering lightning.
• Zhou Yu studied the Nine Abyss Silent Lightning Canon and discovered its nine realms, culminating in a technique that could erase an enemy's fate and existence.
• Qin Yu arrived and told Zhou Yu that he had driven off a giant ape wielding an ancient sword.
• Zhou Yu recounted how he and the others had entered the tower, broken its lightning formation, and obtained the canon.
• Zhou Yu and Qin Yu agreed to explore deeper into the secret realm and flew into the thunder-wracked wasteland forest.

Qin Yu and Zhou Yu entered the Boundary Abyss Rift Domain, a forbidden remnant beyond ordinary laws, and fought off a realm-destroying beast. They spotted nine ancient formations on a floating island, where the Boundless Tribulation Heart Pearl might be waiting.

• Qin Yu and Zhou Yu entered the Boundary Abyss Rift Domain and discovered its broken spacetime and hostile laws.
• Qin Yu and Zhou Yu found signs of a source-level severed realm, including a broken bone of the Heavenly Dao and a blood-bone altar that might guide them toward the Heart Pearl.
• A strange beast with bony wings and three blood-colored pupils emerged from a void fissure and attacked them.
• Zhou Yu used Burning Radiance Star Trace while Qin Yu fought with Silent Origin · Boundless Ash, and together they injured the beast.
• Qin Yu and Zhou Yu saw nine ancient formations on a floating island, each with a pearl-shaped pillar of light, and headed toward them.

Qin Yu and Zhou Yu reached the Boundless Tribulation Heart Pearl and broke Zhang Hao’s shifting killing formation, with Zhou Yu awakening the third form of the Burning Radiance Sword Chapter. As the pearl appeared, Zhang Hao arrived with a mysterious black-qi figure and used a talisman to stir the pearl’s soul silk, threatening to trap them on the island.

• Qin Yu and Zhou Yu found the Boundless Tribulation Heart Pearl on a floating island and realized its ancient markings formed Zhang Hao’s killing trap.
• Qin Yu identified the formation’s variable-inversion mechanics while Zhou Yu used Burning Radiance Star Trace and then Blazing Tribulation Sundering Yang to hold it back.
• Qin Yu used Silent Origin · Boundless Ash to strip the formation runes of their reconstruction logic.
• Zhou Yu awakened Radiant Wheel Burns the Realm and annihilated the killing formation.
• The Boundless Tribulation Heart Pearl emerged, and Qin Yu suspected it came from outside their domain.
• Zhang Hao appeared with an indistinct figure shrouded in black Qi, activated a Boundless Tribulation Descending Breath Talisman, and made the island’s earth veins shake.

Zhang Hao used the Boundless Tribulation Descending Breath Talisman to claim the Boundless Tribulation Heart Pearl and summoned the fifth-stage Realm Consciousness enforcer Ember Sealer to kill Qin Yu and Zhou Yu. Qin Yu and Zhou Yu fought back, and the chapter ended with both sides poised for a decisive clash.

• Zhang Hao activated the Boundless Tribulation Descending Breath Talisman and tried to draw the Boundless Tribulation Heart Pearl to himself.
• Zhang Hao summoned Ember Sealer, a fifth-stage Realm Consciousness enforcer, and threatened Qin Yu and Zhou Yu.
• Qin Yu broke Ember Sealer's soul-sealing chains while Zhou Yu's sword clashed with the enforcer's black blade.
• Zhou Yu awakened the fourth form of the Burning Radiance Sword Chapter and countered Zhang Hao's Boundless Tribulation Shattered Thought Palm.
• Qin Yu struck Zhang Hao back and broke Ember Sealer's Soul-Locking Abyssal Fire with Ring Spear · Silent Severing Abyss.
• Qin Yu and Zhou Yu stood together against Zhang Hao and Ember Sealer as the Heart Pearl shone above Zhang Hao's palm.

Zhang Hao and the Ember Sealer attacked Qin Yu and Zhou Yu, but both fighters revealed powerful techniques that severely weakened their opponents. Before they could finish the fight, the Boundless Tribulation Heart Pearl awakened the remnant will of the Tribulation Lord and swept everyone into a crimson-gold galaxy.

• Zhang Hao summoned the Ember Sealer and used a talisman to unlock the power protecting the Boundless Tribulation Heart Pearl.
• Qin Yu fought the Ember Sealer while Zhou Yu confronted Zhang Hao, and Qin Yu used the Gray Ring to unleash a spear technique that stripped the Ember Sealer of his origin and weakened him.
• Zhou Yu used the fifth form of the Burning Radiance Sword Chapter to destroy Zhang Hao's blood-soul sword domain and damage his Fate Soul.
• The Boundless Tribulation Heart Pearl released the Tribulation Lord's remnant will, which declared that its bearer must endure ten thousand tribulations.
• The pearl transformed into a crimson-gold galaxy and swept Qin Yu, Zhou Yu, Zhang Hao, and the Ember Sealer into its power.

Qin Yu and Zhou Yu were drawn into the Final Tribulation Judgment Prison, where a deadly selection forced them to fight until only one remained. Qin Yu broke the prison’s rule with the Azure Ring, saved Zhou Yu, and claimed the Boundless Tribulation Heart Pearl, but Zhou Yu was left questioning Qin Yu’s true nature.

• The Boundless Tribulation Heart Pearl transported Qin Yu, Zhou Yu, Zhang Hao, and the Ember Sealer into the Final Tribulation Judgment Prison and began a contest to choose one master.
• Zhang Hao attacked Zhou Yu, but Qin Yu and the Ember Sealer joined the fight as the prison suppressed their powers.
• Qin Yu used the Ring Spear’s Fourth Form to erase the Ember Sealer.
• Zhang Hao struck at Zhou Yu, who killed him with the Burning Radiance Sword Chapter’s Fifth Form.
• The prison’s rules began erasing Zhou Yu, but Qin Yu awakened the Azure Ring and shattered the rule that only one person could survive.
• Qin Yu and Zhou Yu escaped to the floating island, where the Boundless Tribulation Heart Pearl entered Qin Yu’s hand and Zhou Yu wondered who he really was.