Chapter Summaries

A mist divided the palace intruders among isolated formations before drawing them into a circular array governed by a massive hourglass. Qin Yu and Ju Wanning faced the Time Annihilation Absolute Thoughtlessness Formation as its first grain of Time Sand fell and its thought-severing cycle began.

• Qin Yu and Ju Wanning found themselves trapped in a sealed space, while Shangguan Lingxiao and Ju Anran were separated into other spaces with members of their respective lineages.
• The mist withdrew and revealed the intruders inside distinct formation halos, including the Five Elements, Yin-Yang, Cause and Effect, Life and Death, Space, Narrative and Language, Power and Ideology, Time and History, Subject and Self, Void, and Fate formations.
• A giant hourglass emerged at the center of the hall, connected to every formation, and began to turn as its first grain of Time Sand fell.
• Blue Ring Xiao Yue appeared in Qin Yu’s sea of consciousness and identified his and Ju Wanning’s formation as the Time Annihilation Absolute Thoughtlessness Formation, explaining its rings, core, and activation condition.
• The outer ring began its Absolute Thoughtlessness Circulation, drawing out Qin Yu’s memories and eroding his and Ju Wanning’s self-awareness as the other formations also began to destabilize.

Qin Yu and Ju Wanning escaped the time formation by disrupting its runes and severing its connection to the Lifeless Core, while Ju Anran and Shangguan Xuanchen broke the fate formation together. Shangguan Lingxiao rallied those trapped in the void formation, but the remaining cultivators were still in danger as the hourglass continued to run down.

• Qin Yu identified the time formation’s two stages and told Ju Wanning that they had to reverse time rather than fight it directly.
• Qin Yu rewrote the present as undetermined, and Ju Wanning entered an already-annihilated state so they could evade the formation’s attacks.
• Qin Yu severed the link between the Time Flow Ring and the Lifeless Core, and he and Ju Wanning reversed the ring and collapsed the time formation.
• Shangguan Xuanchen tried to turn a fate thread against Ju Anran, but Ju Anran and the seven Ju Lineage disciples resisted the attack.
• Ju Anran and Shangguan Xuanchen joined their Mystic Void power to crack the Fate Wheel Pearl and break the fate formation.
• Shangguan Lingxiao explained that the void formation required a unified anchor, and the three Ju Lineage disciples and two other cultivators agreed to follow his plan.

Shangguan Lingxiao led five cultivators through the Void Array by joining their Fate Soul Anchor Points, but the array erased one cultivator before the survivors escaped. Ju Wanning reclaimed the three Ju Lineage disciples as the two sides gathered around the hourglass, while Qin Yu kept watching the still-unrevealed core.

• Ju Anran and the Ju Lineage disciples regrouped with Ju Wanning and Qin Yu outside the arrays, while Qin Yu warned Ju Wanning to keep the returning disciples at a distance.
• Shangguan Lingxiao joined the five trapped cultivators’ Fate Souls into a circuit and used his spear to expose and strike the Annihilation Realm Pearl’s weakness.
• The Annihilation Realm Pearl erased one cultivator as Shangguan Lingxiao led the others out, and the Void Array collapsed behind them.
• Ju Wanning used a thread of causality to pull the three Ju Lineage disciples to her side, while Shangguan Xuanchen and five Realm Breaking Realm cultivators moved to protect Shangguan Lingxiao.
• The surviving unaffiliated cultivator fled, leaving the Ju Lineage and Shangguan’s group facing each other across the hourglass as Qin Yu watched its core.

The hourglass judged and erased every cultivator still trapped in the formations, then opened a realm gate that Qin Yu, the Ju Lineage, Shangguan Lingxiao, and the others entered. They arrived in a sealed burial domain where a colossal coffin and sixteen divine statues surrounded a mysterious cube containing a multidimensional universe.

• The hourglass reversed, erased all cultivators still trapped in the formations, and vanished as a realm gate appeared.
• Shangguan Lingxiao prepared an ambush, but Qin Yu sent Ju Wanning and Ju Anran through the gate with the Ju disciples before entering himself.
• Shangguan Lingxiao, Shangguan Xuanchen, and five Realm Breaking Realm cultivators followed Qin Yu into the gate.
• The cultivators emerged in a burial domain before a colossal coffin guarded by sixteen divine statues, and the realm gate closed behind them.
• A universe-filled cube appeared above the coffin, stirring the statues and quickening the coffin's heartbeat.

The cube transported Qin Yu and the others into the palace’s memory of the Epoch Battlefield, where a real battle against primordial divine beasts began. After several cultivators were killed, the group fought back, and Shangguan Lingxiao erased two beasts while Qin Yu and the others helped blunt the attack.

• The cube destroyed the tomb domain and pulled everyone into a vision of the ancient war, where the palace’s vice hall master defeated an otherworldly ruler before the battlefield memory shattered.
• Qin Yu and the others found themselves on the Epoch Battlefield as primordial divine beasts descended and killed several Rogue Cultivators.
• Shangguan Lingxiao urged the survivors to fight and erased a charging primordial divine beast with Causality Severance · Annihilation Return to the Ruins.
• Ju Wanning, Ju Anran, Shangguan Xuanchen, and the five Realm Breaking Realm cultivators combined their abilities to resist the beasts’ Mystic Void power.
• Qin Yu disrupted the beasts’ attacks with his Causeless Disillusionment Sword and Fate Cause Sealing Mirror, allowing Shangguan Lingxiao to erase a second beast.

A ruler’s remnant image appeared over the Epoch Battlefield and erased many cultivators, while Ju Wanning protected Qin Yu and Ju Anran with her supreme treasure umbrella. Qin Yu, Ju Wanning, Ju Anran, and the fleeing Shangguan Lingxiao reached the battlefield’s center, where the enormous cube resonated with the remnant image.

• The ruler’s remnant image distorted the battlefield, and Shangguan Lingxiao secretly ordered five Realm Breaking Realm cultivators to kill Qin Yu.
• Ju Wanning blocked their five attacks with Annihilation Order · Return to Truth Domain Veil and confronted Shangguan Lingxiao.
• The ruler’s remnant image used Formless and Causeless to erase more than a dozen cultivators and the five attackers, while Shangguan Xuanchen was gravely wounded.
• Ju Wanning opened her supreme treasure umbrella and blocked the remnant image’s strike aimed at Qin Yu and Ju Anran.
• Shangguan Lingxiao fled, and primordial divine beasts erased Shangguan Xuanchen before he could detonate his origin.
• Qin Yu led Ju Wanning and Ju Anran to the battlefield’s center, where they found Shangguan Lingxiao and the enormous cube rotating and resonating with the ruler’s remnant image.

Qin Yu and the Ju siblings destroyed the illusion’s cube and escaped the epochal battlefield, revealing a powerful purple gourd inside the awakened coffin. Shangguan Lingxiao fled, the siblings departed for their lineage, and Qin Yu remained alone with the treasure and an invitation to compete in the Eternal Nonexistence Limitless Domain.

• Qin Yu devised a plan to make the sovereign remnant strike the cube, while Ju Wanning and Ju Anran helped conceal their coordinates and manipulate the battlefield.
• The sovereign remnant’s Formless Slash hit the cube, and Qin Yu used Existence Erasure to destroy its array core and collapse the illusion.
• The group returned to the ruined tomb hall as the coffin opened and revealed a purple gourd.
• Shangguan Lingxiao warned Qin Yu and the Ju Lineage that he would remember their debts, then fled the burial domain.
• Ju Wanning and Ju Anran gave Qin Yu the gourd and invited him to join the lineage competition before departing for their lineage.
• Qin Yu accepted the gourd and remained alone in the Thoughtless Burial Domain.

In the Thoughtless Burial Domain, Xiao Yue explained the Cause-Trapping and Effect-Locking Gourd and its Paradox Source Water. She used the water to awaken Blue Ring’s Second Form, Logical Chain Severance, leaving Qin Yu with a newly sealed, empty gourd.

• Qin Yu opened the purple gourd and smelled a fragrance that stirred his soul and clarified his thoughts.
• Xiao Yue identified the gourd as an instrument forged by Old Man Duanyin and explained that it contained Paradox Source Water.
• Qin Yu offered the Paradox Source Water to Xiao Yue so she could comprehend Logical Chain Severance.
• Xiao Yue opened the gourd by sensing its logic, absorbed the droplet, and experienced the severing and rebuilding of her existential chains.
• Xiao Yue awakened Blue Ring · Second Form: Logical Chain Severance and demonstrated it by erasing a boulder through the collapse of its logical supports.
• Xiao Yue returned to Qin Yu’s shoulder and offered to test her new ability on an enemy; Qin Yu had already resealed the now-empty gourd.

Qin Yu and Xiao Yue reached an ancient withered tree where the true main hall was sealed inside one of its indistinguishable leaves. Xiao Yue used Blue Ring’s Logical Chain Severance to identify and expose the hidden leaf, awakening its guardian remnant soul.

• Qin Yu stored the spent Cause-Trapping and Effect-Locking Gourd and continued with Xiao Yue toward the true main hall.
• Qin Yu found an ancient tree whose tens of thousands of dead leaves concealed the main hall, but he could not tell them apart.
• Xiao Yue used Blue Ring · Second Form: Logical Chain Severance to scan the tree’s hidden logical structures.
• Xiao Yue severed the logical support of one leaf, triggering a collapse that exposed a tall, black-robed figure.
• The leaf guardian’s remnant soul emerged from the shattered dimensions, holding a longsword and standing between Qin Yu and the true main hall.

Qin Yu battled the Leaf Guardian's remnant soul in the shattered dimension, countering its boundary-breaking sword arts with the Silent Origin Stainless Sword and striking the source anchored to its sword hilt. The remnant soul then summoned Age Devourer, whose Bite of Retroactive Erasure began targeting the origin of Qin Yu's existence as Qin Yu raised his sword to face it.

• Blue Ring Xiao Yue warned Qin Yu about the Leaf Guardian's remnant soul, and Qin Yu sent her aside before summoning the Silent Origin Stainless Sword.
• The remnant soul attacked with Void-Shattering Sword, but Qin Yu used No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword to cut off the attack at its source and break the spatial cage.
• The remnant soul used Dimension-Severing Step and Formless Sword, but Qin Yu's Causeless Disillusionment Sword disrupted its shifting attacks and revealed the longsword hilt as its anchor.
• Qin Yu struck the hilt, sending the remnant soul crashing into the ancient tree and briefly forcing the Realm Breaking storm to subside.
• The remnant soul recited an incantation and summoned Age Devourer, which used Bite of Retroactive Erasure to target the moment Qin Yu first existed.
• As Age Devourer began erasing history around him, Qin Yu raised the Silent Origin Stainless Sword.

Qin Yu and Xiao Yue fought the Leaf Guardian's remnant soul and the Age Devourer as the enemies used time reversal, sealing, and law-breaking abilities. Qin Yu wounded the remnant soul but had not destroyed it, while Xiao Yue warned that she could not hold back the Age Devourer much longer.

• Qin Yu countered the Leaf Guardian's Time Reversal Sword with the Causeless Disillusionment Sword and used the Fate Cause Sealing Mirror to trap its backward-tracing sword intent.
• Xiao Yue broke the Age Devourer's Years' Bite Reversal Wheel with Logic Chain Severance and slowed the beast with Sever Thought and Extinguish Consciousness.
• The Leaf Guardian's remnant soul activated Leaf Vein Hall Sealing and used Dao Fall Sword to collapse the laws throughout the ruins.
• Qin Yu invoked Final Order Interrogation · World Silent Judgment and struck the remnant soul's core flame, disrupting the Dao Fall Domain and injuring him.
• The Age Devourer began using the Bite of Retroactive Erasure, and Xiao Yue called to Qin Yu that she could not hold it back much longer.
• Qin Yu gathered silver-white sword light for a final strike aimed at the remnant soul's root.

Qin Yu and Xiao Yue fought the Leaf Guardian’s remnant soul and Age Devourer in the ancient ruins. They exposed Age Devourer as a summoned fragment, severed its connection to the realm, and rewrote events so it had never descended there.

• The Leaf Guardian’s remnant soul used Heart Sword to drag Qin Yu’s fears and memories into an illusion, but Qin Yu countered with Soulless Annihilation Abyss Sword.
• The Leaf Guardian’s remnant soul unleashed Beginning and End One Sword, and Qin Yu defeated it with Undefined Destruction Sword.
• Age Devourer’s Bite of Retroactive Erasure began erasing Qin Yu and Xiao Yue, while Xiao Yue discovered that a summoning thread anchored it to the realm.
• Qin Yu used Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter to reveal and sever the summoning thread, and Xiao Yue locked Age Devourer’s existence in place with Logic Chain Severance.
• Qin Yu wrote that Age Devourer had never descended into the realm, causing it to dissolve as the ruins and Xiao Yue were restored.

After the ancient tree returned to a single golden-green leaf, Qin Yu entered the Thought Burial Heavenly Hall and found the Heart of Buried Thoughts at the center of the thirty-six Thought Realms. The Heart paused, then began beating in a new rhythm after sensing Qin Yu.

• The ancient tree vanished and left behind a golden-green leaf, which Xiao Yue identified as the true form of the tree.
• Xiao Yue returned to Qin Yu's sea of consciousness to rest, and Qin Yu gained the leaf's acknowledgment and entered the Thought Burial Heavenly Hall.
• Qin Yu arrived at the silent, magnificent hall, where the faceless statues revealed their features and watched him climb the stairs.
• The hall's doors opened for Qin Yu, revealing the Heart of Buried Thoughts surrounded by thirty-six halos representing the Thought Realms.
• The Heart of Buried Thoughts paused when Qin Yu approached, then resumed beating in a changed rhythm after sensing him.

Qin Yu accepted the Thought Burial Heavenly Hall’s thirty-six-layer judgment rather than choose between its two supreme treasures. He passed the first layer and began dismantling the overlapping trials, but the remaining twenty-eight layers descended early and turned their tests into direct judgments against his existence.

• The Heart of Buried Thoughts offered Qin Yu the Thoughtless Realm Breaking Dust or the Primordial Return to Oblivion Pill, and warned that claiming both required surviving thirty-six layers of judgment.
• Qin Yu chose to undergo the judgment, and the first Thought Severance Void Domain stripped away his memories and emotions until he let his thoughts return to zero and passed.
• Eleven overlapping thought realms descended, and Qin Yu used the Silent Origin Stainless Sword, the Wordless Heavenly Book of the Primordial Hongmeng, and the Heavenly Cause Judgment Order · Six Severances Seal to counter their conflicting trials.
• Qin Yu identified how the realms depended on competing interpretations and dismantled their connections, breaking the eighth layer’s chains of will with the Historyless Void Severance Sword.
• The remaining twenty-four layers appeared ahead of time as the ninth through eleventh layers intensified, and the eleventh layer’s measuring blade became a judgment aimed at erasing Qin Yu’s existence.

Qin Yu and Blue Ring Xiao Yue dismantled the Thirty-Six-Layer Thought Realm by changing its fixed endings and exploiting contradictions between its judgments. They broke the final gateway, and the pressure of the Thought Realm vanished.

• Qin Yu used the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter to turn the first nine layers’ certain-death endings into unfinished possibilities, then cut apart the tenth layer’s Chaos Torrent and the eleventh layer’s Judgment Thought Blade with the Silent Origin Stainless Sword.
• Blue Ring Xiao Yue emerged from Qin Yu’s sea of consciousness and helped him face the remaining twenty-four layers by suppressing mental attacks and identifying contradictions between the gateways.
• Qin Yu and Xiao Yue advanced through the gateways, severing their logical supports and using the heavenly book, Six Severances Seal, and sword techniques to make the judgments undermine one another.
• Xiao Yue identified the final gateway’s dependence on judgment as the only narrative, and Qin Yu challenged its right to be correct forever with Final Order Interrogation · World Silent Judgment.
• The judgments contradicted one another, the final gateway shattered, and the pressure of the Thirty-Six-Layer Thought Realm disappeared.

After passing the Thought Burial Heavenly Hall’s judgment, Qin Yu received two supreme treasures and used the Thoughtless Realm Breaking Dust to break through to the Realm Breaking Realm Middle Stage. He and Xiao Yue left the Thoughtless Burial Domain as Qin Yu anticipated the approaching election of the four great lineages.

• The voice in the Thought Burial Heavenly Hall awarded Qin Yu the Primordial Return to Oblivion Pill and the Thoughtless Realm Breaking Dust, explaining their powers.
• Qin Yu stored the Primordial Return to Oblivion Pill inside his Annihilation Devil Pupil · Final Spirit Core.
• At Xiao Yue’s urging, Qin Yu entered the Severed Thought Realm · Supreme state and merged the Thoughtless Realm Breaking Dust into his consciousness.
• The dust shattered Qin Yu’s thought-severed consciousness and formed a Wind of Realm Breaking, allowing him to reach the Realm Breaking Realm Initial Stage and then the Middle Stage.
• Qin Yu told Xiao Yue that the four great lineages’ election was drawing near, opened a spatial rift, and left the Thoughtless Burial Domain with her.

At Returning Light Heavenly City, Qin Yu overheard news about changes to the Four Great Lineages selection and losses in the Thoughtless Burial Domain. Hua Jingmeng arrived with five powerful guards, and Qin Yu learned that he had gained a Hongmeng Dao Medicine in the Nine Nether Cold Pool, leaving Qin Yu quietly studying how the news connected.

• Cultivators in a restaurant reported that the Four Great Lineages selection now required competitors to reach Severed Thought Realm · Supreme and would take place in Stele Forest Imperial City.
• They said Shangguan Xuanchen and ten Shangguan disciples had died in the Thoughtless Burial Domain, while only Ju Wanning and Ju Anran had returned from the Ju Lineage expedition, and Shangguan Lingxiao had been severely injured.
• Qin Yu listened from a nearby table and memorized the information about the selection, the deaths, and its location.
• Hua Jingmeng entered the restaurant with five Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme guards and ordered a private room, prompting the cultivators to discuss his recent rise to Mystic Void Realm · Middle Stage.
• The cultivators said Hua Jingmeng had obtained a Hongmeng Dao Medicine in the Nine Nether Cold Pool, while Qin Yu considered the news and looked toward Hua Jingmeng’s private room.

Qin Yu followed the Hua Lineage after Hua Jingmeng and Hua Feiting left Returning Light Heavenly City, tracing their karmic trail to a dark ancient forest. There he discovered the Hua Lineage had hidden ahead of Ye Wuhen and Gu Linfeng of the Boundless Realm Divine Sect, and realized they were the Hua Lineage’s target.

• Hua Feiting arrived at the restaurant palace with two Hua Lineage stewards while Qin Yu quietly considered why the lineage had come to the city.
• Qin Yu sent his divine sense upstairs, but Hua Jingmeng sensed the spying and released his pressure across the hall.
• Hua Jingmeng and Hua Feiting left with ten Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators, and Qin Yu followed them through the void using a karmic thread.
• Qin Yu tracked the Hua Lineage to a dark ancient forest, where their karmic trail disappeared, and concealed himself nearby.
• Ye Wuhen and Gu Linfeng entered the forest, and Qin Yu recognized that the Hua Lineage had been lying in wait for the Boundless Realm Divine Sect party.

Qin Yu reached the Boundless Realm Divine Sect convoy just as the Hua Lineage trapped it in an Annihilation Construct Killing Formation. After reuniting with Ye Wuhen and Gu Linfeng, Qin Yu refused Hua Jingmeng’s demand that he leave, and the two sides began fighting in the ancient forest.

• The Hua Lineage’s twelve cultivators activated an Annihilation Construct Killing Formation around Ye Wuhen’s convoy, but Qin Yu warned them and Ye Wuhen pushed the group out of its reach.
• Qin Yu reunited with Gu Linfeng and Ye Wuhen, who had believed he died after luring away the Void Tribulation Devouring Chi in the Heaven-Burning Flame Domain.
• Ye Wuhen called on his disciples to protect the cargo, while Hua Jingmeng ordered Qin Yu to leave and offered to overlook their earlier dispute at the restaurant.
• Qin Yu declared that he had come specifically to target the Hua Lineage and the Shangguan Lineage, prompting Hua Feiting to threaten him.
• Hua Jingmeng ordered his ten cultivators to attack, and Ye Wuhen, Gu Linfeng, and the convoy’s disciples met their assault with their own attacks.

Qin Yu fought Hua Feiting after helping Ye Wuhen’s side repel the Hua Lineage, and his sword techniques broke through her defenses and wounded her. Hua Feiting then summoned a divine artifact, and her power began to rise.

• Hua Jingmeng attacked the Boundless Realm Divine Sect’s escort party with the Silent Abyss Adjudication Wheel, but Qin Yu split it with the Historyless Void Severance Sword.
• Ye Wuhen struck the ten Hua Lineage Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators with the Realm Splitting Abyss Suppression Halberd, blasting them back.
• Hua Feiting ordered Hua Jingmeng to fight Ye Wuhen and the disciples, then challenged Qin Yu herself while Qin Yu assigned Ye Wuhen and Brother Gu to handle Hua Jingmeng.
• Hua Feiting sent a Void Evolution Heavenly Meteor at Qin Yu, and he split it apart with his sword before striking with the Causeless Disillusionment Sword.
• Qin Yu’s sword broke through Hua Feiting’s Void Evolution Mystic Wall and Annihilation Order Return Wheel, wounding her and declaring that he was targeting the Hua Lineage and Shangguan Lineage.
• Hua Feiting brought out a flower-and-butterfly ring divine artifact, and her presence rapidly rose.