Chapter Summaries

Tangyi endured the Waveless Sea’s erasure by holding to her existence through the Coexistence Anchor, passing the first trial and returning with a new mark and a more resilient dragon form. In the Crabapple Shadow Star Palace, Qin Yu and Azure Ring witnessed a fleeting projection of the Dragon Tamer's Supreme Treasure as Tangyi advanced toward the second trial.

• Tangyi expanded into a ten-thousand-zhang dragon and entered the Waveless Sea, where its gray threads stripped away her scales, memories, and sense of self.
• Tangyi relied on the Coexistence Anchor and her instinctive existence to preserve her core as the sea eroded her outer form and forged darker scales beneath it.
• The Waveless Sea’s central gaze confirmed Tangyi could remain, stopped erasing her, and left a star-patterned mark beneath her chest scales.
• Tangyi returned from the first trial with a stronger resistance to erasure and sent echoes of annihilation through the void.
• In the Crabapple Shadow Star Palace, the character for “Star” vanished briefly and revealed an indistinct crystal to Qin Yu and Azure Ring.
• Azure Ring recognized the crystal’s appearance as a sign that Tangyi had passed the first trial, while Qin Yu prepared for the second.

Tangyi passed the Primordial Dragon Battle Shadow Tribulation by learning to align with the ancient Dragon Dao, then faced the Hall of Dragon Remains Returning to Stillness, where the stripping of her abilities, memories, and identity forced her to rebuild her existence from her own origin. She passed the third trial with a lingering crack in her origin, standing at a new starting point.

• Tangyi fought the Innate Primordial Dragon Battle Shadow, adapting to its attacks until their Dragon Dao laws resonated and merged into her.
• Qin Yu and Azure Ring watched as the Shadow character vanished and opened the entrance to Tangyi's third trial.
• In the Hall of Dragon Remains Returning to Stillness, the marrow crystal's origin laws stripped Tangyi of her divine abilities, knowledge, bloodline arts, emotions, memories, and sense of being a dragon.
• Tangyi held on to a primordial sense of her own existence and let the stripping continue, prompting the Innate Primordial Dragon's traces to resonate and reconstruct her Dragon Dao from within.
• Tangyi endured the backlash and passed the Punishment of Myriad Dao Stripping, emerging with a solidified dragon body and a lingering crack in her origin.

Tangyi faced the final inheritance trial and rejected a perfect phantom that offered to fuse with her, choosing instead to refine the Primordial Origin Dragon Marrow Crystal herself. She passed the trial and gained the crystal’s recognition, while Qin Yu and Azure Ring learned of her success in the Crabapple Shadow Star Palace.

• Qin Yu and Azure Ring watched the final character, “Tang,” shatter, beginning the inheritance’s last trial.
• Tangyi encountered her Perfect Self, which tempted her with power and a painless fusion with the Primordial Origin Dragon Marrow Crystal.
• Tangyi rejected the Perfect Self and endured the crystal’s backlash, holding to her own Dao rather than retreating or accepting perfection.
• Tangyi devoured and refined the marrow crystal, causing the Perfect Self to disintegrate and the crystal to submit to her.
• Tangyi passed the final trial, and a projection of the Primordial Origin Dragon Marrow Crystal appeared in the palace as Qin Yu and Azure Ring recognized her success.

Tangyi fused the Primordial Origin Dragon Marrow Crystal and awakened its ultimate dragon Dao laws. She then transformed into human form in the Crabapple Shadow Star Palace, where she looked at her hands and smiled.

• Tangyi returned to her small dragon form with the Primordial Origin Dragon Marrow Crystal stabilized before her chest.
• Azure Ring urged Tangyi to refine the crystal immediately and try to take human form.
• Tangyi endured the crystal's three-stage fusion, absorbing its origin annihilation, concept-splitting, and causality-reversing laws into her dragon Dao.
• Tangyi completed the fusion and manifested the powers Origin Return to Zero, Concept Reaping, and Causality's Retrogression to Stillness.
• Tangyi transformed from dragon into human form and stood in the palace, smiling as she examined her hands.

Tangyi completed her transformation into human form and tested the three divine abilities she had comprehended. The old woman returned and offered Qin Yu a supreme treasure that she said was especially suited to him.

• Tangyi called Qin Yu her master, and he asked her to call him young master instead.
• Azure Ring teased Tangyi about being a mount, easing the atmosphere in the Star Palace.
• At Azure Ring’s urging, Tangyi sensed the powers of Cangming Dragon Breath: Origin Return to Zero, Primordial Dragon Claw: Concept Reaping, and Hongmeng Dragon Tail: Causality's Retrogression to Stillness.
• The old woman appeared through the palace doors, approved of Tangyi, and told Qin Yu that he was special.
• The old woman offered Qin Yu a supreme treasure that she said was especially suited to him.

Qin Yu accepted the old woman’s deadly trial for the Stillness Chaos Return-to-Origin Pearl and was transported to an ancient city above a sea of clouds. He arrived amid a peaceful city filled with ordinary people, where the trial’s purpose remained unclear.

• The old woman offered Qin Yu the Stillness Chaos Return-to-Origin Pearl, which could advance him directly to the Chaos Realm, but warned that failing her trial would mean his death.
• Qin Yu accepted the trial without hesitation and told Azure Ring and Tangyi to wait for him.
• The old woman used an ancient ring to send Qin Yu into the trial, while Azure Ring joked about his good fortune and Tangyi prayed that he would succeed.
• Qin Yu appeared before a vast city suspended above clouds and sensed that it was judging who deserved to exist.
• Qin Yu entered the city and found bustling streets full of ordinary people, whose everyday lives seemed to form the trial’s hidden measure.

Qin Yu entered the Ancient City of Eternal Stillness and was reduced to an ordinary resident, living through twenty-two years of everyday joys and hardships. He retained a faint sense of his fundamental self, completed the Prison of Ordinariness trial, and watched the city make way for a deeper layer of the Realm of Being and Nonbeing.

• Qin Yu entered the Ancient City of Eternal Stillness, where ordinary life unfolded in peace and order.
• The city stripped Qin Yu of his extraordinary abilities and knowledge, leaving him an ordinary person who remembered only his name.
• Qin Yu lived through decades of work, love, loss, illness, and aging while an unbroken sense of self remained within him.
• Qin Yu peacefully closed his eyes during the twenty-second winter, and time stopped as the first trial was declared complete.
• Qin Yu regained his full awareness and understood that the city had tried to make him accept ordinary life as his final existence.
• Qin Yu realized he had been permitted to continue, and the Ancient City of Eternal Stillness began making way for a deeper realm.

Qin Yu saw through the Ancient City of Eternal Stillness’s happiness to the causal prison beneath it and escaped the first layer by refusing to let happiness define him. In the Sea of Causal Clamor, he found the city’s original wish and formed a Formless Well, but the final test of taking from it without desire remained.

• Qin Yu recognized that the city’s residents followed fixed causal paths and that its comfortable lives were designed to make visitors give up their freedom to choose.
• Qin Yu accepted the city’s happiness without letting it define him, breaking free of its first layer and triggering a storm of causal voices.
• Qin Yu traced the clamor to an ancient being’s wish for a place to settle and learned that the city would ultimately fade when it was forgotten.
• Qin Yu approached a beggar through masterless movement and pressed his existence into the stillness of the beggar’s breath, suspending the city’s causal chains.
• Qin Yu formed a Formless Well at the still point and realized he had to take its water without wanting or claiming it.

Qin Yu passed the second trial by accepting the Water Without Causality without taking it and making himself immune to causal judgment. He entered the third trial, the Order of Inversion, and halted its inverted world through pure observation as the realm recalibrated for a deeper test.

• Qin Yu let the drop in the Formless Well merge with him without forming the thought of taking it, obtaining the Water Without Causality.
• When the guardian will sent the causal torrent against him, Qin Yu used Three Forms of Fate Construction · Existence Erasure on himself and made himself ineligible for cause and effect, collapsing the city's causal network.
• The third trial, the Order of Inversion, unfolded as time, space, and meaning reversed, and Qin Yu found himself caught in a city with no stable inside or outside.
• Qin Yu stopped trying to locate himself and abandoned the assertion that he existed, keeping only the ability to observe the inverted city.
• Qin Yu's observation suspended the city between opposing states, and the Order of Inversion recalibrated into a blank transitional realm.

Qin Yu passed the third trial’s Nameless Domain by ceasing to cling to his identity, then faced the fourth trial, where perception and concepts were stripped away. He relinquished the final remnant that could anchor his existence and opened a passage through Pre-Nonbeing.

• Qin Yu allowed his name, memories, emotions, and sense of self to dissolve in the Nameless Domain until the trial could no longer find anything to dissolve.
• The Nameless Domain closed, and Qin Yu emerged from the third trial with a steady certainty of existence beyond names or memories.
• Qin Yu entered the fourth trial as the Ancient City of Eternal Stillness evaporated, and the world’s colors, sounds, senses, time, and space were successively stripped away.
• The concepts of the city and its people disintegrated, leaving Qin Yu with a final faint something that could preserve his existence but bind him to the Ruins of Emptiness.
• Qin Yu stopped acknowledging the final something, entered Pre-Nonbeing, and opened a passage that confirmed he had passed the fourth trial.

Qin Yu passed the Ruins of Emptiness’ ultimate judgment by allowing every possible version of himself to exist without identifying with any of them, then faced the Stillness of True Nature and chose to return to the mortal world. The Ancient City of Eternal Stillness condensed into the Stillness Chaos Return-to-Origin Pearl, which Qin Yu accepted as his path toward the Chaos Origin.

• Qin Yu let every possible version of himself exist without claiming any as his true self, leaving the ultimate judgment unable to define or reject him.
• Qin Yu released his position as an observer, ending the recursive layers of awareness and perceiving three pulsations that revealed a path from Silent Profundity’s Observation State toward the Chaos Origin.
• Qin Yu chose to return to the mortal world rather than remain in pure observation or merge with the Ancient City of Eternal Stillness.
• Qin Yu held all five aspects of the city—ordinary, clamorous, inverted, empty, and true to its nature—without being overwhelmed by any of them.
• The Ancient City of Eternal Stillness folded into an unborn form and became the Stillness Chaos Return-to-Origin Pearl, which Qin Yu accepted as his guide toward the Chaos Origin.

Qin Yu returned to the Crabapple Shadow Star Palace with the Stillness Chaos Return-to-Origin Pearl and learned from Chi Tongyue that reaching the Chaos Realm required him to refine himself through it. With Azure Ring and Tangyi guarding him, Qin Yu completed the transformation and reached the Chaos Realm · Initial Stage.

• Qin Yu returned to the Crabapple Shadow Star Palace, where Azure Ring and Tangyi welcomed him and Chi Tongyue praised his mastery of the Dao.
• Chi Tongyue explained that Qin Yu had to cast his Dao Fruit, divine soul, Dharma body, and sense of identity into the pearl to be reborn, then revealed herself as a being of the True Annihilation Realm · Supreme.
• Chi Tongyue said her name and promised to meet Qin Yu again when he reached the upper layer, then disappeared into stillness.
• Qin Yu entered seclusion in the Star Palace as Tangyi established a protective domain and Azure Ring stood guard.
• Qin Yu refined the Stillness Chaos Return-to-Origin Pearl, letting it encompass his Dao Fruit and guide his self through primordial Chaos.
• Qin Yu emerged at the Chaos Realm · Initial Stage, with the pearl integrated into his origin.

Qin Yu refined the Chaos Shadow Core and broke through to Chaos Realm · Supreme, becoming one with Chaos. With Azure Ring joining his sea of consciousness, he and Tangyi left the Crabapple Shadow Star Palace to confront the still-unfolding turmoil in the Void Obliteration Domain.

• The Chaos Shadow Core resonated with Qin Yu's newborn Chaos Origin, and Azure Ring urged him to refine it and advance to Chaos Realm · Supreme.
• Qin Yu absorbed Chaos Qi and transformed the Shadow Core through its stages, merging the Chaos Shadow Origin into his body and divine soul.
• Qin Yu connected his Chaos Shadow Origin to the Source Realm's Chaos and shattered the limit of Chaos, reaching Chaos Realm · Supreme.
• Azure Ring and Tangyi congratulated Qin Yu, who said it was time to leave because Thought Severance Devouring Emperor's scheme had grown dangerous.
• Azure Ring entered Qin Yu's sea of consciousness, and Qin Yu and Tangyi left the Crabapple Shadow Star Palace through a passage in the void.

Jin Hanyan visited the Shadow Void Capital, a city suspended above the Chaos Sea Abyss, and found rare calm amid its shifting streets and extraordinary markets. She dined in a renowned restaurant as the chaos tides began to change, signaling that powerful beings capable of unsettling the Source Realm were approaching.

• The chapter described the Shadow Void Capital's shifting walls, dangerous moat, unstable streets, and Primordial Hall, which served as a holy land for Chaos Realm · Extremity cultivators.
• Jin Hanyan walked through the city without releasing her presence, while chaos runes and the surrounding bustle seemed to yield to her.
• Jin Hanyan visited a renowned restaurant and ordered rare dishes whose effects could transform cultivators from lower-level worlds.
• Jin Hanyan ate calmly in a private domain, while the chapter noted that the changing chaos tides signaled the approach of beings capable of shaking the Source Realm's balance.

Jin Hanyan and the Shadow Void Capital faced an assault by the Stainless Tao Devil Beast, identified as the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor, and its tens of thousands of Logic Remnants Lords. The city’s defenders fought back, and Jin Hanyan cleared a swath of attackers, drawing the beast’s attention.

• Jin Hanyan sensed an outsider’s will darkening the sky and freezing the Chaos Sea Abyss as the Shadow Void Capital’s defenses awakened.
• The Stainless Tao Devil Beast emerged above the city with tens of thousands of Chaos Realm Logic Remnants Lords, and Jin Hanyan recognized it as the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor.
• The Shadow Void Capital’s cultivators formed defensive lines and arrays as the Logic Remnants Lords descended and the battle began.
• Chaos Realm experts attacked the Remnants Lords while Jin Hanyan used Return to Stillness: Nameless Finger to erase every attacker in a wide area.
• The Taowu Formless Devil Beast turned its hollow eyes toward Jin Hanyan, seemingly recognizing her as worthy of its attention.

Jin Hanyan and two other Stainless Realm experts fought to defend the Shadow Void Capital against the Taowu Formless Devil Beast and its army of thousands of Stainless Realm · Middle Stage Master Soul Dominions. The city’s defenses and cultivators suffered devastating losses as the battle continued, while the Taowu Formless Devil Beast watched from above.

• Jin Hanyan erased tens of thousands of Logic Remnants Lords with Return to Stillness: Nameless Finger.
• The Taowu Formless Devil Beast tore open a rift and unleashed thousands of Stainless Realm · Middle Stage Master Soul Dominions, revealing a threat Jin Hanyan recognized as a Source Realm-level purge.
• Jin Hanyan and two other Stainless Realm experts joined forces with the Shadow Void Capital’s defenses, but the Master Soul Dominions overwhelmed cultivators and killed them in droves.
• One Stainless Realm expert crushed Master Soul Dominions within an ancient realm-shadow, while the other silently dismantled hundreds more by extracting their fundamental order.
• Jin Hanyan held the front line as Master Soul Dominions continued to emerge and the Shadow Void Capital struggled to withstand the assault.

Jin Hanyan and two Stainless Realm experts unleashed their ultimate divine abilities to destroy the Logic Remnants Lords, but the Taowu Formless Devil Beast struck the Shadow Void Capital’s protective core. Reinforcements led by four Severed Thought Realm patriarchs arrived, only for the beast to seal the battlefield and summon Lord Primordial Chaos · Origin Erosion, a Severed Thought Realm · Pinnacle adversary.

• Jin Hanyan and the two Stainless Realm experts combined their ultimate divine abilities, erasing vast numbers of Logic Remnants Lords and briefly stabilizing the battlefield.
• The Taowu Formless Devil Beast attacked the Shadow Void Capital’s protective core, widening its crack and threatening to erase the city and its inhabitants from existence.
• Dozens of power torrents arrived, bringing Yun Qiusheng, Feng Muheng, Xi Weiyu, Qin Zhien, and ten thousand Stainless Realm · Supreme experts to reinforce the city.
• The Taowu Formless Devil Beast produced a black crystal core and sealed the Shadow Void Capital and the surrounding battlefield inside a vast barrier.
• The Taowu Formless Devil Beast summoned Lord Primordial Chaos · Origin Erosion, whose arrival revealed a Severed Thought Realm · Pinnacle threat and began the true battle for the city.

The four divine hall ancestors fought the master soul commander as its Origin Erosion Domain threatened to consume the Shadow Void Capital. Qin Yu and Tangyi arrived at the battlefield, where Qin Yu joined Jin Hanyan against the Taowu Formless Devil Beast and learned that the Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall had two ancestors.

• The master soul commander suppressed the cultivators, but Yun Qiusheng, Feng Muheng, Xi Weiyu, and Qin Zhien joined forces to halt its advance and contest its domain.
• The Taowu Formless Devil Beast unleashed Logic Remnants Lords and Master Soul Dominions across the city while Jin Hanyan used Silent Void · Dao Reverses the Heavens to protect routed cultivators.
• Qin Yu and Tangyi emerged near the Void Obliteration Domain, sensed the battle, and rushed toward the Shadow Void Capital.
• Qin Yu struck the Taowu Formless Devil Beast with Undefined Destruction Sword, shaking its defenses, then joined Jin Hanyan at the battlefield's edge.
• Jin Hanyan told Qin Yu that the Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall had two ancestors, and Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan prepared to suppress the Devil Beast while Tangyi went to aid the city’s cultivators.

Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan wounded the Taowu Formless Devil Beast after it split itself into two identical Stainless Realm · Supreme existences. The battle reached a temporary balance, with Qin Yu’s opponent only lightly injured and Jin Hanyan’s grievously wounded.

• The Taowu Formless Devil Beast attacked Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan with Void Shadow Devouring, but Jin Hanyan reversed its erasure and Qin Yu’s Undefined Destruction Sword grievously injured the beast.
• The wounded Devil Beast released Klein-blue mist and created a second identical self by replicating its Cause and Effect Logic Fate Soul.
• Jin Hanyan and Qin Yu agreed to fight one Devil Beast each and divided the battlefield between Chaos Shadow and Silent Void.
• Qin Yu escaped the lock of Dust Extinction Reincarnation, dismantled its causal structure, and cut through the vortex, suffering only manageable injuries as he lightly wounded his opponent.
• Jin Hanyan countered the other Devil Beast’s Dust Extinction Reincarnation with Annihilation Other Shore, Chaos Undivided, Heaven and Earth Judged, and Dao Reverses the Heavens, grievously injuring it.
• Both Devil Beasts stopped attacking as the two battlefields settled into a temporary balance.

Primordial Chaos · Origin Erosion battled the four divine hall patriarchs with powers that erased existence and decayed time. After Qin Zhien’s counterattack protected a judged present, he stood alone against Yuanshi at the battlefield’s center.

• Yuanshi erased a Chaos Realm · Supreme cultivator, but Yun Qiusheng, Feng Muheng, Xi Weiyu, and Qin Zhien combined their powers to make Touch of Return to the Ruins choose a target.
• Yuanshi unleashed Eternal Tribulation Time Erosion, stripping the present from the battlefield and grievously injuring Feng Muheng and Yun Qiusheng while Xi Weiyu remained standing.
• Qin Zhien pinned down an acknowledged present, but Yuanshi’s second-stage attack tore it apart and targeted him with temporal decay.
• Qin Zhien withdrew from established temporal frameworks and folded the shattered presents into a plane where only their confrontation could occur.
• Qin Zhien and Yuanshi’s forces collided, further injuring Feng Muheng, Yun Qiusheng, and Xi Weiyu as Qin Zhien and Yuanshi faced each other at the battlefield’s center.