Chapter Summaries

Qin Yu summoned Yingling from the Annihilation Abyss Epoch to investigate the disturbance threatening the sealing formation at Soul Reflection Core City while Qin Yu continued toward the Lightless Blood Abyss to find Liangyan. Yingling stabilized the formation and fought three Stainless Realm · Middle Stage attackers, ending with their assault still underway.

• Qin Yu sensed that someone was probing the formation at the altar in Soul Reflection Core City and feared its failure would let Ji Remnants Lord, the Causal Soul Logic Realm Abyss, and Master Soul Dominion retrace endlessly.
• Qin Yu summoned Yingling from the Annihilation Abyss Epoch and asked him to investigate the altar while Qin Yu searched the Lightless Blood Abyss for Liangyan.
• Yingling reached Soul Reflection Core City, where Ji Remnants Lord's empty shells were reviving and three strange beings were trying to break the formation.
• Yingling used Silent Origin and the Silent Origin Stainless Sword to repair the formation, disrupt the attackers' causal hook-threads, and suppress the shells' revival.
• One attacker used Blood Cause Life Devouring · Threefold Annihilation Kill, but Yingling countered it with Causal Deconstruction and redirected the blood rings past him.
• The attacker prepared another strike as Yingling watched the formation's widening fissure and weighed whether to attack or protect the seal.

Yingling stabilized the sealing formation in Soul Reflection Core City after annihilating one Outer Domain infiltrator and driving the other two away. In the Lightless Blood Abyss, Qin Yu received Yingling’s warning and continued fighting the Blood Devil as it launched another attack.

• The infiltrator sent its blood-cause falling burial core toward the formation eye, but Yingling redirected it and rewrote its cause so it struck its caster instead.
• Yingling used Immeasurable Return to the Abyss: Annihilation's Other Shore to erase one infiltrator, then the two survivors tore open a causal fissure and escaped.
• Yingling restored the sealing formation, dispersed the gathering Remnants Lords, and confirmed that the altar was stable for now.
• Qin Yu received Yingling’s message about the Outer Domain infiltrators while fighting the Blood Devil in the Lightless Blood Abyss.
• Qin Yu used Unnamed Initial Silence to interrupt the Blood Devil’s attack, then raised the Silent Origin Stainless Sword as the Blood Devil launched its bone spurs again.

Qin Yu fought the blood fiend in the Lightless Blood Abyss, first suppressing its initial form with the No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword before it transformed and entered the Severed Thought Realm. He broke its blood-wheel realm with Void Source · Dream Stillness and his twin sword intents, but the fiend survived and prepared a more desperate counterattack.

• Qin Yu coordinated with Yingling to conceal the formation’s true core and told Yingling to return to the Annihilation Abyss Epoch after setting it up.
• Qin Yu used the No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword to erase the blood fiend’s attacks and collapse its bone ring, suppressing its first form.
• The blood fiend transformed, entered the Severed Thought Realm, and blocked Qin Yu’s combined No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword and Causeless Disillusionment Sword with its Myriad Souls Return to Shield.
• The blood fiend trapped Qin Yu in its wheel realm and nearly severed his consciousness with the Thought-Severing Blood Blade.
• Qin Yu awakened the Ring Master Soul Diagram and used Void Source · Dream Stillness with his two sword intents to tear apart the wheel realm and damage the fiend’s dark core.
• The blood fiend survived by shielding its core, and the collapsing wheel realm hurled Qin Yu back into the Lightless Blood Abyss as the fiend prepared a fiercer attack.

Qin Yu destroyed the blood demon in the Lightless Blood Abyss and confirmed that Yingling had secured Soul Reflection Core City’s main array. He then found Liangyan’s Dao artifact, Non-Emanation · Return to Stillness, and realized Liangyan was alive but in extreme danger.

• The blood demon unleashed Foundationless Blood Sea to attack Qin Yu’s consciousness, but Qin Yu used the Six Severances Seal and his two sword techniques to destroy it.
• Qin Yu resonated with Yingling, who reported that Soul Reflection Core City’s main array was stable and protected by decoy formations and concealed seals.
• Yingling used their shared soul frequency to return through the Annihilation Abyss Epoch’s realm barrier, which recognized his Fate Soul and closed behind him.
• Qin Yu sensed Liangyan’s chaotic presence and followed it deeper into the Lightless Blood Abyss.
• Qin Yu found Liangyan’s natal Dao artifact, Non-Emanation · Return to Stillness, and sensed that Liangyan had been forcibly taken into a deeper sealed space.

Qin Yu discovered that the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor had taken Liangyan to a hidden super-five-dimensional layer above the Black Sea. After reporting to the Chaos First Palace, he prepared to lead a rescue expedition to the Black Sea.

• Qin Yu activated Non-Emanation · Return to Stillness and saw a reflection of Liangyan being abducted after a higher will annihilated the Chaos First Palace disciples accompanying her.
• A Master Soul Dominion appeared to seize the zither, but Qin Yu destroyed it and searched its remaining Fate Soul, learning that Liangyan was sealed above the Black Sea and that the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor remained there.
• Qin Yu brought the zither to the Chaos First Palace and showed Yun Yanwan, Yun Yanxi, and Yun Qiusheng the reflection of Liangyan's capture.
• Yun Yanxi and Yun Yanwan speculated that Liangyan might be a key to repairing the Annihilation Realm-Breaking Pearl, while Yun Qiusheng found no relevant answer in the ancient texts.
• Qin Yu urged the Chaos First Palace to go to the Black Sea and rescue Liangyan, and Yun Yanwan agreed to lead the expedition with him while Yun Yanxi and Yun Qiusheng guarded the divine hall.

The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor and ten heavenly demons extracted Ling Liangyan’s Silent Profundity Self-Proving Cause Seed to use with the Annihilation remnant core. Ling Liangyan’s Fate Soul shattered, leaving her lifeless as the Emperor prepared to revive the Lord Emperor.

• The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor began extracting Ling Liangyan’s Silent Profundity Self-Proving Cause Seed through the altar’s formation.
• The formation exposed the cause seed within Ling Liangyan’s Dao foundation and restrained her Fate Soul while she remained conscious.
• The ten heavenly demons and the Emperor forcibly tore the cause seed from Ling Liangyan, shattering her Fate Soul and leaving her body lifeless.
• The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor took the cause seed and declared that the string was ready.

Yun Qiusheng lost the Fate Soul connection to Ling Liangyan and mobilized Chaos First Palace as Qin Yu and Yun Yanwan joined forces with the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall above the Black Sea. Inside the isolated supra-five-dimensional space, the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor restored the Annihilation Realm-Breaking Pearl using the Silent Profundity Self-Proving Cause Seed, while the allied armies prepared to attack.

• Yun Qiusheng watched Ling Liangyan's Fate Soul thread go dark, then ordered Yun Yanxi to activate Chaos First Palace's defenses and seal its realm gates.
• Qin Yu and Yun Yanwan prepared to break the boundary wall above the Black Sea, where Li Cangming, Li Yanzi, and Jin Hanyan arrived with the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall's army.
• Jin Hanyan reunited with Qin Yu, while Li Yanzi and Yun Yanwan pledged their forces to destroy the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor.
• The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor sent the ten heavenly demons out to deal with the approaching human armies after extracting the Silent Profundity Self-Proving Cause Seed.
• The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor used the Cause Seed to restore the Annihilation Realm-Breaking Pearl, which regained its complete annihilation power.

The combined forces of the Void Obliteration Domain gathered above the Black Sea to fight the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor, but Qin Yu realized the emperor was absent and might have repaired the Annihilation Realm-Breaking Pearl. As the armies clashed, Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan confronted two middle-stage heavenly demons and countered their thought-severing attacks.

• Cang Wenxuan, Ye Mingyuan, Lei Xuance, Jing Hengzi, and the other leaders assembled their forces above the Black Sea with Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan.
• The firmament collapsed, and ten heavenly demons followed by a vast Demon Race army emerged from the gray-black void.
• Qin Yu determined that Ling Liangyan had been killed and suspected the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor had repaired the Annihilation Realm-Breaking Pearl and left.
• The Void Obliteration Domain forces and the Demon Race launched a full-scale battle above the Black Sea.
• Two middle-stage heavenly demons attacked Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan with thought-erasing abilities.
• Jin Hanyan used Chaos Undivided, Heaven and Earth Judged to break the wheel-heart domain, while Qin Yu deconstructed and renamed the enemies’ techniques to turn their attacks aside.

The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor destroyed the Soul-Devouring Demon Eye’s seal and entered the hidden realm as Qin Yu, Jin Hanyan, and Yun Yanwan fought through the Black Sea to reach it. They found Ling Liangyan’s body suspended over an altar, with her Fate Soul shattered and no trace of life remaining.

• The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor erased the center of the Soul-Devouring Demon Eye with Divine Body World Destruction and entered the barrier concealed within it.
• Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan fought two Severed Thought Realm · Middle Stage Heavenly Demons above the Black Sea.
• The two Heavenly Demons used sacrificial techniques, but Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan annihilated them with their sword and Dao powers.
• Qin Yu, Jin Hanyan, and Yun Yanwan combined their powers to shatter the boundary wall of the space beyond five dimensions.
• Qin Yu, Jin Hanyan, and Yun Yanwan entered the hidden realm and found Ling Liangyan chained above an altar, her Fate Soul completely shattered.

Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan traced Thought Severance Devouring Emperor's path while Yun Yanwan escorted Ling Liangyan's preserved body back to the temple. Thought Severance Devouring Emperor revived Source-Suppressing Stillnessless Venerable, who turned toward the approaching Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan as his presence spread toward the Black Sea.

• Qin Yu asked Yun Yanwan to return Ling Liangyan's body to the temple and said he and Jin Hanyan would pursue Thought Severance Devouring Emperor to reclaim the Annihilation Realm-Breaking Pearl.
• Yun Yanwan preserved Ling Liangyan's body in a chaos crystal ring and left through a spatial rift.
• Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan followed the lingering cause-and-effect trace left by Thought Severance Devouring Emperor and raced toward his hiding place.
• Thought Severance Devouring Emperor began using the restored Annihilation Realm-Breaking Pearl to revive Source-Suppressing Stillnessless Venerable, while Divine Body World Destruction returned to its true master's side.
• The Annihilation Realm-Breaking Pearl shattered after completing the resurrection, and Source-Suppressing Stillnessless Venerable awakened at Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme.
• Source-Suppressing Stillnessless Venerable praised Thought Severance Devouring Emperor, then looked toward the Black Sea as Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan approached.

Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan returned from the ruined altar to find the Source-Suppressing Stillnessless Venerable had joined the Black Sea battle and annihilated most of its cultivators. After Li Yanzi died and the survivors gathered at the Chaos First Palace, Qin Yu proposed seeking the vanished Star-Net Immortal Hall for a way to survive the coming crisis.

• The Source-Suppressing Stillnessless Venerable and the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor escaped the ruined altar before Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan arrived, and Qin Yu concluded that the Venerable had been resurrected.
• Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan returned to the Black Sea, where the Venerable froze the battlefield, took the remaining Heavenly Demon Legion, and erased cultivators who had not reached the Stainless Realm · Initial Stage.
• Qin Yu warned the surviving cultivators that the Void Obliteration Domain faced a true crisis, while Li Yanzi told him and Jin Hanyan that the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall had fallen before her Fate Soul disintegrated.
• Jin Hanyan grieved with Qin Yu, and the two traveled to the Chaos First Palace, where Yun Qiusheng confirmed that the domain had suffered heavy losses and called for a defensive plan.
• Qin Yu asked about the Star-Net Immortal Hall and suggested seeking its help to find an opening in the future against the Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme.

Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan traveled to the Star-Net Immortal Hall to learn how the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor repaired the Annihilation Realm-Breaking Pearl and how to stop the Source-Suppressing Stillnessless Venerable. Su Xingrou revealed that a mysterious figure was the key to the battle and warned that two linked beings could only be eliminated together.

• Qin Yu told the Chaos First Palace that the Star-Net Immortal Hall had identified the Void Evolution Causality-Replenishing Marrow as a way to repair the Annihilation Realm-Breaking Pearl, and he suspected Ling Liangyan had held another means of repair.
• Yun Qiusheng sent Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan to the Star-Net Immortal Hall to seek a way to break the deadlock, and Qin Yu agreed to go with her.
• Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan found themselves trapped in a spatial restriction until Qin Yu sent his will through the star net and Su Xingrou opened the way for them.
• Su Xingrou told Qin Yu that Ling Liangyan had carried a Silent Profundity Self-Proving Cause Seed, which her hall had failed to deduce.
• Su Xingrou showed Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan an image of an unknown figure, identifying that figure as the key to defeating the Source-Suppressing Stillnessless Venerable.
• Su Xingrou warned that two beings shared one root and that both could be eliminated only by destroying them together, then Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan departed.

Hall Master Su revealed the Silent Thought Ruins as a chance for Qin Yu to reach the Severed Thought Realm, but Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan split up when the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor appeared. Jin Hanyan led a force toward the Rotting Spirit Cavern while Qin Yu uncovered the ruins’ hidden entrance and stood before its mist gate.

• Hall Master Su told Qin Yu that the Silent Thought Ruins might let him break through to the Severed Thought Realm, and Qin Yu set out with Jin Hanyan.
• Hall Master Yun warned Qin Yu that the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor had appeared alone and seemed to be searching for something, so Jin Hanyan urged Qin Yu to seek his breakthrough while she returned to help.
• Jin Hanyan told Yun Yanwan that Elder Ling Liangyan carried a Silent Profundity Self-Proving Cause Seed, which could repair the Annihilation Realm-Breaking Pearl, and agreed to lead a force against the emperor at the Rotting Spirit Cavern.
• Jin Hanyan departed with more than a hundred Chaos First Palace disciples and five elders, while Qin Yu traveled alone to the northern and southern border of the Void Obliteration Domain.
• Qin Yu used his Fate Soul and causal techniques to expose the concealed Silent Thought Ruins, then approached the mist gate at the heart of the newly revealed realm.

Qin Yu entered the Silent Thought Ruins, accepted his obsessions in the No-Thought Corridor, and crossed the Thought River by anchoring himself with three questions. He reached the Annihilation Hall, where a silent-thought remnant soul challenged whether his sense of self was real, leaving his answer unresolved.

• Qin Yu faced Silent Shadow in the No-Thought Corridor and absorbed it by accepting his obsessions as part of himself.
• Qin Yu entered the Thought River and resisted its memories by holding to the questions of who he was, where he came from, and where he was going.
• Qin Yu rejected the river’s illusions of Jin Hanyan, the Void Obliteration Domain, Zhou Wanning, and Zhou Yujin, then reached the opposite bank.
• Statues resembling Qin Yu rose from his footprints as he continued toward the Annihilation Hall.
• A silent-thought remnant soul asked Qin Yu whether the self he clung to was real or merely a thought.

Qin Yu passed Silent Thought’s trial by refusing to sacrifice anyone, surrendering his earliest obsession with power, and entering Thought Stillness’s annihilation without resistance. He helped Thought Stillness release its compulsion to finish breaking through, leaving the Annihilation Hall open and its deeper presence waiting.

• Qin Yu rewrote the trial’s demand to sacrifice one person, then gave up his memory of first longing for power to claim the Eternal Silent Thought Dust.
• Qin Yu used Void Source · Dream Stillness to approach Thought Stillness and No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword to sever its unfinished thought.
• An ancient remnant revealed that Thought Stillness had been created from its failed attempt to sever its final thought and asked Qin Yu to help it.
• When Thought Stillness’s urge to sever itself reignited, Qin Yu questioned why it wanted transcendence and exposed the obsession driving its endless loop.
• Qin Yu used Causal Deconstruction to change Thought Stillness’s belief that it had to complete its breakthrough, and Thought Stillness let go and dispersed.
• The Annihilation Hall’s door opened, revealing an older presence awaiting Qin Yu.

Qin Yu entered the Annihilation Hall and absorbed the Eternal Silent Thought Dust, which forced him to face the ancient cultivator’s failed attempt to sever his final thought. He broke free of the failure’s cycle by letting go of the need to sever or prove anything, and stood at the threshold of the Realm of Absolute Thoughtlessness, where the true breakthrough and its price awaited.

• Qin Yu discovered the Eternal Silent Thought Dust in the center of the Annihilation Hall and saw its glazed-glass insights, abyss of nothingness, and mark of failure.
• The dust entered Qin Yu’s sea of consciousness and drew him into the moment when the ancient mighty figure failed to sever its final thought.
• Qin Yu resisted the cycle by abandoning the thought that he must defeat the failure and anchoring himself with the simple awareness that he was present.
• Qin Yu received the dust’s insights into the Stainless stages, but the mark of failure tried to bind him to the ancient figure’s obsession.
• Qin Yu let the urge to sever pass without resisting it, and the mark of failure lost its hold on his thoughts.
• When the mark used Qin Yu’s concern for Yan Yue, Ruishan, Qingwan, and Hanyan to rekindle his obsession, he let his love remain without turning it into a binding thought, and the rift began to crumble.

Qin Yu paid for his breakthrough by surrendering a gentle memory from his mortal life, then crossed the Stainless stages and entered the Severed Thought Realm · Initial Stage. After stabilizing the loss with his abilities, he emerged from the collapsing Silent Thought Ruins onto the boundary plain of the Void Obliteration Domain and wondered how Yan'er was doing.

• Qin Yu offered a quiet memory of being saved by gentleness to the Eternal Silent Thought Dust as fuel for crossing its threshold.
• Qin Yu retraced the path of the ancient mighty figure and advanced through Stainless · Middle Stage, High Stage, Pinnacle, and Supreme.
• Qin Yu endured the void's attempt to strip away the foundation of his thoughts and entered the Severed Thought Realm · Initial Stage.
• Qin Yu used Cause and Effect Deconstruction and Causeless Disillusionment Sword to stabilize the hollow left by his lost memory without restoring it.
• The Silent Thought Ruins collapsed, and Qin Yu returned to the boundary between the northern and southern parts of the Void Obliteration Domain.

Jin Hanyan followed a faint spatial ripple in the Rotting Spirit Cavern and was pulled into a blood-red world, where she found the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor overseeing a ritual to awaken a dragon-like being. The dragon’s cry shook the wasteland, and the Emperor noticed her presence.

• Jin Hanyan sensed a subtle spatial ripple after the other cultivators left the Rotting Spirit Cavern and approached the collapsed stone wall alone.
• A hidden force pulled Jin Hanyan through collapsing space and into a strange wasteland beneath a dark red sky.
• Jin Hanyan detected the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor near a ruined tower and cautiously approached his position.
• Jin Hanyan saw the Emperor and five otherworldly beings feed their essence blood into a formation surrounding a dark embryo.
• The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor inscribed a Dao pattern on the embryo and commanded it to awaken.
• A dragon cry shook the wasteland as a gigantic dragon-shaped shadow stirred within the blood membrane, and the Emperor turned toward Jin Hanyan.

Jin Hanyan fought the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor and his five otherworldly allies as the blood dragon broke free of its prison. The dragon killed the surviving allies, but the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor tore out its core and escaped, leaving Jin Hanyan in the ruined wasteland.

• Jin Hanyan attacked the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor with Return to Stillness: Nameless Finger, but five otherworldly beings combined their powers to weaken it.
• The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor ordered the five beings to test Jin Hanyan, and she turned their attacks against them with Chaos Dao techniques.
• The blood dragon broke through the blood membrane, destroyed the formation, and attacked the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor and Jin Hanyan.
• Jin Hanyan reversed the three surviving beings' ultimate attacks into the blood dragon, which then killed all three.
• The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor plunged his hands into the blood dragon's chest and tore out its core, causing the dragon to collapse.
• The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor escaped through a void rift with the dragon core, leaving Jin Hanyan alone in the shattered wasteland.

Qin Yu broke through to the Severed Thought Realm and traced Jin Hanyan to the Nine Nether Prison Abyss, where she followed the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor. The chapter ended with Jin Hanyan discovering that the Emperor had delivered the blood dragon’s heart and core to the Source-Suppressing Stillnessless Venerable for a mysterious purpose.

• Jin Hanyan followed a faint trace of Thought Severance after the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor escaped, while Qin Yu completed his breakthrough to the Severed Thought Realm.
• Qin Yu returned to the Chaos First Palace, learned that Jin Hanyan had not come back, and set out to search for her.
• Qin Yu used Causal Deconstruction and Origin Tracing at the Rotting Spirit Cavern to uncover how the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor had torn out the blood dragon’s heart and escaped with its core.
• The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor brought the blood dragon’s heart and core to the ninth layer of the Nine Nether Prison Abyss, where the Source-Suppressing Stillnessless Venerable received them.
• Jin Hanyan descended through the Nine Nether Prison Abyss in concealment and saw the Emperor, the Venerable, and the dragon’s heart in the ninth layer.