Chapter Summaries

Qin Yu defeated the heavenly will’s third trial by affirming his self-established existence, then received the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter. Ju Wanning witnessed his rise to Severed Thought Realm · Supreme and the inheritance of the Wordless Heavenly Book.

• Ju Wanning arrived at the canyon and watched as the heavenly will launched its third trial, Existence Returns to Stillness, against Qin Yu.
• Xiao Yue explained that the attack could only erase existence dependent on heaven and earth, then helped Qin Yu stabilize his origin.
• Qin Yu used Source Cause Severance, Unnamed Initial Silence, and Undefined Destruction Sword to affirm his existence and shatter the black dot.
• The heavenly will declared that Qin Yu had passed and bestowed the Wordless Heavenly Book, the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter, upon him.
• Qin Yu accepted the inheritance, while Ju Wanning watched in awe from the canyon’s edge.

After surviving the Will of the Firmament’s trial, Qin Yu met Ju Wanning and helped her escape Shangguan Xuanchen and Shangguan Lingxiao by using the Wordless Heavenly Book. Ju Wanning headed to find her separated disciples, while Qin Yu continued alone into the Thoughtless Burial Domain and agreed to meet her at the lineage election in a hundred days.

• Qin Yu spoke with Ju Wanning after the trial, and they introduced themselves and discussed his breakthrough to Supreme.
• Shangguan Xuanchen and Shangguan Lingxiao confronted Qin Yu and Ju Wanning, seeking a treasure Ju Wanning had obtained and threatening them.
• Ju Wanning offered to hold off the Shangguan experts so Qin Yu could escape, but Qin Yu said he had a way to shake them off.
• When Shangguan Xuanchen attacked with Void Realm Severance · Folded Space Plunging Kill, Qin Yu used Time · Page, Space · Character, and Causality · Punctuation to redirect the collapse and escape with Ju Wanning.
• Qin Yu and Ju Wanning parted in the forest after agreeing to meet at the lineage election in a hundred days; Ju Wanning went to find her junior brother and the other disciples, and Qin Yu continued deeper into the domain.

Qin Yu encountered an ancient golden-scaled fish guarding the ruined second palace in the Thoughtless Burial Domain and fought through its rule-reflecting defenses. He shattered its protective boundary and grievously wounded it, but the creature began a strange roar that signaled its next attack.

• Qin Yu found the ruined palace complex and sensed that its ancient remnants of logic responded to his arrival.
• The river reversed course, and an enormous golden-scaled fish with crimson wings emerged and attacked Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu tested the fish’s Formless Scale Tribulation and discovered that he could disrupt its three-foot boundary by attacking the interface around it.
• Qin Yu avoided the fish’s Realm Fissure Breath, shattered its protective boundary with the Undefined Destruction Sword and No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword, then wounded it with the Causeless Disillusionment Sword.
• The grievously wounded fish held its ground and began a hollow, bone-shaking roar as Qin Yu prepared for its berserk phase.

Qin Yu used the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter and the Silent Origin Stainless Sword to defeat the ruin’s monstrous fish, but the Void-Shattering Nether Kun unleashed a world-ending ability and fled into a rift beneath the lake. Qin Yu pursued it into the depths before it could escape.

• Qin Yu erased more than half the beast tide with the Silent Origin Stainless Sword’s Historyless Void Severance Sword.
• The Void-Shattering Nether Kun sacrificed the surviving beings to create a Supreme monstrous fish, and the pair attacked Qin Yu with evasion and law-corrupting abilities.
• Qin Yu used the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter to manipulate time, space, life and death, cause and effect, and the five elements, annihilating the new fish and gravely wounding the Void-Shattering Nether Kun.
• The Void-Shattering Nether Kun unleashed Return to the Ruins Fish Orchid, creating flowers that could absorb worlds, while it tried to flee beneath the lake.
• Qin Yu restrained the flowers with the Great Luo Heavenly Chapter and plunged after the Void-Shattering Nether Kun into the lake’s depths.

Qin Yu defeated the Void-Shattering Nether Kun’s rule-stripping attack, but a far older force at the lake bottom annihilated the creature. With Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen waiting above the lake near a newly emerged Thoughtless Burial Domain auxiliary hall, Qin Yu stayed underwater and descended toward the awakening presence.

• The Void-Shattering Nether Kun used Eyes of Void Drowning to strip away Qin Yu’s grasp of reality, but Qin Yu cut through the effect with his sword instincts and wounded it.
• The Void-Shattering Nether Kun fled toward the lake’s depths, where an ancient Fate Soul impact struck Qin Yu and an agonized cry from the creature abruptly ended.
• Qin Yu fled toward the surface, detected dozens of cultivators including Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen, and concealed himself beneath the lake.
• A ruined temple emerged from the lake, and cultivators identified it as a possible auxiliary hall of the Thoughtless Burial Domain and rushed inside to search for the Thoughtless Realm Breaking Dust.
• Shangguan Lingxiao persuaded Shangguan Xuanchen to wait while the other cultivators explored, planning to seize treasures after they cleared the dangers.
• With Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen still guarding the surface and the taboo presence stirring below, Qin Yu descended toward the deepest part of the lake.

Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen watched Netherworld Divine Wolves slaughter cultivators inside a ruined temple before leaving the lakeshore. Below the lake, Qin Yu fought two abyss guardians and shattered their Realm Breaking domains, ending with his Fate Soul damaged but stable.

• Netherworld Divine Wolves revealed the ruined temple as an illusion trap and killed the cultivators trapped inside while Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen watched from the lake.
• After the ruins fell silent, Shangguan Lingxiao recognized the trap and led Shangguan Xuanchen away.
• Qin Yu sank into the lake’s abyss, where its strange rules tore at his Fate Soul until he used divine abilities to stabilize himself.
• Two abyss guardians attacked Qin Yu with saber light, but he broke their restriction and deflected the strike.
• The guardians unleashed Realm Breaking domains that shattered dimensions and disrupted laws, and Qin Yu used his sword and fate abilities to rewrite and sever their attacks.
• Qin Yu shattered both guardians’ domains, steadied his damaged Fate Soul, and dismissed their power as unimpressive.

Qin Yu annihilated the two fused Realm Breaking Realm Pinnacle guardians and followed a blue light into an independent realm beneath the lake. There he discovered the Nether Ruins Auxiliary Hall and paintings preserving visions of the Thoughtless Burial Domain at the height of its prosperity.

• The two guardians fused and unleashed Final Rift Judgment Epoch · Myriad Dimensions Annihilation against Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu split the compressed dimensions with Myriad Dimensions Rebirth, stripped away the technique's defining premise with Unnamed Initial Silence, and erased the fused guardian with the Great Luo Heavenly Chapter · Final Chapter.
• Qin Yu continued toward the blue core, but its light swallowed him and transported him to a storm-wracked realm with a vast island and black castle.
• Qin Yu reached the castle and found the inscription Nether Ruins Auxiliary Hall above its entrance.
• Qin Yu entered the hall and saw moving paintings that preserved worlds from the Thoughtless Burial Domain's flourishing past.

Qin Yu met Hua Feiwu in the central hall and entered three mist-door trials, passing the World-Tracing Dust Tribulation and Realm Shattering and Dimension Collapse. He emerged from the second trial with a newly arisen consciousness, while the third door began to tremble.

• Hua Feiwu appeared from a painting of the Thoughtless Burial Domain and revealed a hidden pitch-black painting.
• Hua Feiwu formed three mist doors and named their trials; Qin Yu entered the World-Tracing Dust Tribulation.
• Qin Yu relived a past tragedy but chose not to change it, passing the first trial as his obsession settled into a quiet point of light.
• Qin Yu entered the second door, where his name, memories, emotions, and sense of self began to dissolve.
• Qin Yu neither clung to his identity nor surrendered himself, allowing a new sense of being to emerge from the chaos and passing the second trial.
• Hua Feiwu approved of Qin Yu's passage, and the third mist door began to tremble.

Qin Yu passed the third mist-gate trial by turning protection and destruction into an endless flow of change. Hua Feiwu revealed that the Thoughtless Burial Domain and its Realm Breaking Dust were hidden inside an ordinary leaf, then Qin Yu returned to the lake knowing how to find and enter it.

• Qin Yu used Primordial Hongmeng and Source-Cause Construct Heart to guide the Wind of Realm Breaking through protection and destruction, passing the third trial.
• Hua Feiwu revealed the Thoughtless Burial Domain’s destruction and showed its ruins and Thoughtless Realm Breaking Dust compressed into an ordinary Realm Leaf.
• Qin Yu learned that the leaf was hidden on an old tree in an ancient forest within the Eternal Nonexistence Limitless Domain and that Thoughtless Heart Contemplation and Mind-Consciousness Resonance could open its hidden main hall.
• Hua Feiwu vanished into the pitch-black scroll, which then disappeared along with the hall’s remaining signs of power.
• Qin Yu was returned to the moonlit lake, carrying the leaf’s form and Qi in his mind and knowing the way into the Thoughtless Burial Domain.

Qin Yu left the empty lake ruins, unaware of the slaughter that had taken place there, while Ju Wanning led her group through the Thoughtless Burial Domain in search of its halls. Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen annihilated a group of Devil Beasts, but the cultivators they rescued remained wary of their intentions.

• Qin Yu found the lake ruins deserted and left, assuming the others had already obtained treasures.
• Ju Anran asked Ju Wanning about the Shangguan brothers, and she said her group would keep searching for the domain's halls before leaving for the lineage election.
• Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen entered an ancient palace and found cultivators fighting numerous Devil Beasts.
• Shangguan Lingxiao secretly planned to recruit the fighters as allies before killing them after dealing with Qin Yu and the Ju Lineage.
• Shangguan Lingxiao used True Annihilation Formless World to erase the Devil Beasts, and Shangguan Xuanchen offered the cultivators further help.
• The rescued cultivators thanked Shangguan Lingxiao, but the Severed Thought Realm cultivators remained wary because he had previously used their peers as sacrifices.

An Epoch Being descended into the ruins and trapped the cultivators in its domain, forcing Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen to unite with the surviving cultivators against it. The being reversed their attacks and erased many fighters from existence, leaving Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen wounded amid a shattered formation.

• An Epoch Being descended through a rift and sealed the ruins with its True Annihilation Realm domain, trapping the cultivators who tried to flee.
• Shangguan Xuanchen used Void Realm Unbinding to weaken the seal, and fifteen Realm Breaking Realm cultivators and ten Severed Thought Realm cultivators joined Shangguan Lingxiao to fight.
• Shangguan Lingxiao struck the Epoch Being with Causality Severance · Annihilation Return to the Ruins as the assembled cultivators unleashed their attacks.
• The Epoch Being used Tracing Causality · Birth and Extinction of All Things to reverse Shangguan Lingxiao's strike and the other cultivators' attacks, erasing several fighters from existence.
• The Epoch Being used Causality Severing · Traceless Primordial to erase eight Severed Thought Realm cultivators and four Realm Breaking Realm cultivators, while Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen barely escaped its gaze wounded.

Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen forced the remaining cultivators to fight the Epoch Being, whose second form began awakening after it endured a devastating forbidden assault. They interrupted its transformation with a coordinated attack, but the wounded Epoch Being remained alive in the sky.

• Shangguan Xuanchen killed the two Severed Thought Realm cultivators who tried to escape, while Shangguan Lingxiao ordered the eleven Realm Breaking Realm cultivators to fight.
• Shangguan Lingxiao used Preserve Constancy · All Laws Are Empty to neutralize the Epoch Being’s attacks, then ordered the eleven cultivators to unleash their forbidden origin divine abilities.
• The forbidden assault wounded the Epoch Being, but backlash erased two Realm Breaking Realm cultivators and severely injured the other nine.
• The Epoch Being began awakening its second form, and Shangguan Lingxiao ordered the surviving cultivators to attack before it could complete the transformation.
• Shangguan Lingxiao unleashed True Self · One Thought Eternal Silence as Shangguan Xuanchen opened a gap in the Epoch Being’s defenses, allowing the nine cultivators’ attacks to interrupt its transformation and blast it away.
• The nine Realm Breaking Realm cultivators collapsed from forbidden backlash, while Shangguan Lingxiao emerged weakened and the Epoch Being remained alive with its Fate Soul cracking.

Shangguan Xuanchen tricked nine Realm Breaking Realm cultivators into taking Severed Realm Imprisoned Soul Pills, secretly binding them with slave marks while restoring their strength. As the Epoch Being unleashed a devastating divine ability, Shangguan Lingxiao identified a weakness in its Dao Cause circuit and directed the group to attack the runes on its chest.

• Shangguan Lingxiao instructed Shangguan Xuanchen to give the nine cultivators Severed Realm Imprisoned Soul Pills while concealing their true purpose.
• Shangguan Xuanchen persuaded the cultivators to take the pills, which restored their strength and secretly branded each Fate Soul with a slave mark.
• The Epoch Being re-formed and unleashed Dao Cause · Nothing and Nothing, Still Nothing, threatening to erase the battlefield from perception.
• Shangguan Lingxiao and the nine cultivators rallied for a final assault, while Shangguan Xuanchen used Xuanji · Boundless Name-Veiling Seal to obscure the Epoch Being's name.
• Shangguan Lingxiao discovered that the Epoch Being's chest emblem exposed its Dao Cause circuit during an exile and ordered the group to strike its runes.

Shangguan Lingxiao and the other cultivators annihilated the Epoch Being, then discovered and opened a concealed underground cavern beneath the ruins. The cavern entrance stood open, and its depths remained unexplored.

• Shangguan Lingxiao and the eight other Realm Breaking Realm cultivators struck the Epoch Being’s emblem circuit with their supreme treasures, while Shangguan Xuanchen sealed its escape route.
• Shangguan Lingxiao used True Self · Something from Nothing to erase the Epoch Being from existence, leaving no corpse or remnant soul.
• The cultivators praised Shangguan Lingxiao, who questioned them and confirmed that a supreme treasure lay beneath the ruins.
• A Realm Breaking Realm cultivator touched a disguised sealing-formation core shaped like withered grass and was thrown into rubble.
• Shangguan Lingxiao exposed the formation core and dismantled the sealing formation with Silent Void.
• The ground folded open to reveal a bottomless cavern, and Shangguan Lingxiao announced that the entrance was open.

Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen trapped the Realm Breaking Realm cultivators in the cavern’s lethal restrictions and forced them onward with slave imprints. The surviving six reached a vast grotto and saw a pillar of light enclosing the supreme treasure, still trapped in danger.

• Shangguan Xuanchen told the nine cultivators they could claim the treasure, but the Stillness Severing Net Formation erased the first two who entered.
• Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen blocked the remaining seven and revealed that the pills they had given them contained slave imprints that would kill them without regular doses.
• Shangguan Xuanchen threatened the seven into continuing deeper into the cavern, where a spatial restriction erased one cultivator who tried to burn his Realm Breaking origin.
• The six survivors reached a vast grotto with nine broken pillars and a pillar of light rising around the still-unrevealed supreme treasure.

Shangguan Lingxiao revealed and claimed the Primordial Limitless Pearl in the grotto, then forced five Realm Breaking Realm cultivators to accompany him to kill two people. At the ruined Thoughtless Burial Domain palace, Ju Wanning and Ju Anran had already entered with their disciples, and Shangguan Lingxiao's group arrived as several factions converged on the ancient ruins.

• Shangguan Xuanchen forced six Realm Breaking Realm cultivators onto the platform, causing the Primordial Limitless Pearl to manifest in the pillar of light.
• One Realm Breaking Realm cultivator tried to reach for the pearl, and Shangguan Lingxiao erased him with Causality Severance · Annihilation Return to the Ruins.
• Shangguan Lingxiao used the True Annihilation Realm and Mystic Void reflection to draw the Primordial Limitless Pearl into his storage crystal core.
• Shangguan Lingxiao ordered the five surviving cultivators to help him kill two people, and they followed him out of the grotto under Shangguan Xuanchen's threat.
• Ju Wanning and Ju Anran led ten Ju Lineage disciples into the ruined ancient palace, which they suspected was the Thoughtless Burial Domain's secondary hall.
• A group of five splendidly dressed cultivators entered the palace, then Shangguan Lingxiao, Shangguan Xuanchen, and their five coerced followers arrived and descended toward the ruins.

Qin Yu arrived at the ruined ancient hall in the Thoughtless Burial Domain, where eight statues guarded its gate and selected cultivators to face trials. After one Mystic Void Realm cultivator failed the first trial and was erased by the sword statue, three more cultivators were chosen by different statues.

• Qin Yu descended to the ruined hall and saw more than a thousand cultivators held back by eight enormous statues.
• A Mystic Void Realm cultivator approached the sword statue, which sealed him inside the Mystic Void Myriad Transformations Tribulation.
• The cultivator failed to sever his karmic attachments, escaped the formation believing he had passed, and was erased by the statue's sword.
• A Realm Breaking Realm cultivator, a Mystic Void Realm cultivator, and a True Annihilation Realm cultivator stepped forward to face the statues.
• The shield statue chose the Realm Breaking Realm cultivator, the sword statue selected the Mystic Void Realm cultivator, and the bell statue trapped the True Annihilation Realm cultivator in its trial.

Three cultivators were annihilated by trials set by the divine statues, and Qin Yu deduced that the statues matched trial takers according to their Dao foundations and cultivation realms. He joined Ju Wanning and Ju Anran, explained his theory of the eight origins, and left the group facing the statues as the threat around the hall grew more tense.

• The shield, broken sword, and ancient bell statues annihilated three cultivators in trials tied to realm walls, Mystic Void, and time.
• Qin Yu deduced that the eight statues embodied distinct origins and judged cultivators according to their realms and Dao foundations.
• Ju Wanning contacted Qin Yu and warned him that Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen were nearby with five Realm Breaking Realm cultivators.
• Qin Yu joined Ju Wanning's group and met Ju Anran, who welcomed him after learning he had helped Ju Wanning escape the Shangguans.
• Qin Yu told Ju Wanning and Ju Anran that the statues represented eight ultimate authorities that could unite into a single Mystic Void being, while Shangguan Lingxiao and Shangguan Xuanchen watched from afar.

After a True Annihilation Realm · Peak cultivator passed the eight statues by making his presence indistinguishable, Qin Yu realized the statues were screening for a balance among their eight authorities. He formed that balance, opened a passage into the ancient hall, and entered with Ju Wanning, Ju Anran, the Ju Lineage disciples, and their pursuers.

• Many cultivators abandoned the square, while Shangguan Lingxiao ordered five Realm Breaking Realm cultivators to kill Qin Yu and warned them to wait for his signal.
• A True Annihilation Realm · Peak cultivator balanced his presence with the statues and slipped through when they turned aside.
• Qin Yu studied the statues, concluded they sought candidates who could balance the eight authorities, and explained his method to Ju Wanning and Ju Anran.
• Several cultivators imitated the first man's indistinguishability and were annihilated by the statues.
• Qin Yu balanced the eight authorities within himself, causing the statues to open a passage, and entered with Ju Wanning, Ju Anran, and the Ju Lineage disciples.
• Shangguan Lingxiao, Shangguan Xuanchen, the five Realm Breaking Realm cultivators, and several others rushed through before the passage closed.

Qin Yu and the Ju Lineage followed a glowing path into a mist-shrouded ruined palace, where cultivators began vanishing without warning. As the mist pulled people out of the scene, Qin Yu and Ju Wanning disappeared, leaving Shangguan Lingxiao behind in the chaos.

• Shangguan Lingxiao ordered five Realm Breaking Realm cultivators to kill Qin Yu and said he and Shangguan Xuanchen would handle the Ju Lineage.
• A strange sound awakened the ancient hall, and arcane patterns lit up into a path leading deeper inside.
• The Ju Lineage and the Shangguan group followed the path to a ruined palace surrounded by shifting mist, where a cultivator's junior brother vanished and cries for help echoed through the fog.
• More cultivators disappeared, including Shangguan Xuanchen and Ju Anran, while Ju Wanning discovered that only five of her ten disciples remained.
• Qin Yu warned everyone to retreat, but the mist and twisting arcane patterns pulled Qin Yu and Ju Wanning away as well.