Chapter Summaries

Qin Yu fought Hua Feiting as she unleashed increasingly powerful domains through the Nether Butterfly Wreath, while Ye Wuhen and Hua Jingmeng battled amid heavy casualties. Qin Yu’s Undefined Destruction Sword tore through Hua Feiting’s ultimate domain, leaving her to realize that his sword power could erase existence.

• Hua Feiting used the Nether Butterfly Wreath to trap Qin Yu in Butterfly Domain: Void Silent Burial, but Qin Yu found the wreath at its core and disrupted the domain with a sword strike.
• Hua Feiting unleashed Butterfly Domain: Mystic Void Realm Burial, and Qin Yu split it apart with the Historyless Void Severance Sword.
• Ye Wuhen and Hua Jingmeng exchanged powerful attacks as the battle between the Boundless Realm Divine Sect and the Hua Lineage caused mounting casualties.
• Hua Feiting expanded her domain into Final Burial Realm and sent hundreds of thousands of burning spirit butterflies crashing down on Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu used the fifth form of the Silent Origin Stainless Sword, Undefined Destruction Sword, to cleave through Hua Feiting’s domain and make her recognize his power to erase existence.

Ye Wuhen and the surviving Boundless Realm Divine Sect disciples made a last stand against Hua Jingmeng and the Hua Lineage. Gu Linfeng sacrificed his Fate Soul to destroy five Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators, but Hua Jingmeng killed him, and the remaining disciples were wiped out as Qin Yu remained trapped in Hua Feiting’s butterfly domain.

• Hua Jingmeng ordered his five Hua Lineage disciples to attack, and Ye Wuhen rallied the wounded Boundless Realm Divine Sect disciples to fight back.
• Gu Linfeng used the forbidden art Soul Burning Return to Stillness and charged the five Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators.
• Ye Wuhen unleashed the Fate Soul Realm Splitting Sword and killed one cultivator, while Hua Jingmeng escaped Gu Linfeng’s charge with Phantom Life Escape.
• Qin Yu tried to stop Hua Jingmeng’s Soul-Slaughtering Obliteration Palm, but Hua Feiting trapped him in Butterfly-Locked Void Prison.
• Gu Linfeng detonated his Fate Soul, killing the other five Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators, but Hua Jingmeng’s palm annihilated him.
• Ye Wuhen tried to shield the Boundless Realm Divine Sect disciples from the palm’s aftershock, but it killed the remaining disciples.

Qin Yu shattered Hua Feiting’s Flowers Bloom with a Single Thought and used Void Source · Dream Stillness against Hua Jingmeng, leaving both sides injured. When Hua Feiting unleashed Primordial Origin Chapter, Chi Ninghua intervened, forcing Hua Feiting and Hua Jingmeng to flee; Qin Yu and Ye Wuhen remained on the battlefield as a figure descended from the sky.

• Hua Feiting trapped Qin Yu with Flowers Bloom with a Single Thought, but Qin Yu found its causal core and destroyed the lotus.
• Ye Wuhen burned his Fate Soul to hold off Hua Jingmeng, and Qin Yu crossed the battlefield to shield him.
• Qin Yu unleashed Void Source · Dream Stillness against Hua Jingmeng, while Hua Feiting countered with Return to the Ruins Tribulation; their collision blasted all four fighters into the ruins.
• Hua Jingmeng suffered damage to his Fate Soul, and Hua Feiting warned that Qin Yu’s power exceeded his realm before unleashing Primordial Origin Chapter.
• Chi Ninghua’s beam shattered Hua Feiting’s divine ability, and Hua Feiting escaped with Hua Jingmeng after threatening Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu and Ye Wuhen remained on the shattered battlefield as a figure descended from the sky.

After the battle, Chi Ninghua arrived as an Yingling, healed Ye Wuhen, and offered to recommend Qin Yu to the Chi Lineage for the Stele Forest Imperial City competition. Qin Yu and Ye Wuhen reached Returning Light Heavenly City and discussed the competition’s stricter entry requirements and new format, leaving Qin Yu asking why the Xuanyuan and Nangong Lineages controlled its rules.

• Chi Ninghua arrived at the battlefield, gave Ye Wuhen a healing pill, and praised Qin Yu’s performance against Hua Feiting and Hua Jingmeng.
• Chi Ninghua offered to recommend Qin Yu to the patriarch for entry into the Chi Lineage, while Ye Wuhen said she would report the escort losses and arrange for others to take over the cargo.
• After Qin Yu and Ye Wuhen left, Xiao Yue told Qin Yu that Chi Ninghua’s appearance was only an Yingling, whose power had reached the True Annihilation Realm · Initial Stage.
• Qin Yu and Ye Wuhen returned to Returning Light Heavenly City and celebrated their survival with a meal and Myriad Spirits Brew at the Taotie · Myriad Realms Remains Hall.
• Ye Wuhen explained that the competition now required at least the Realm Breaking Realm and might include secret-realm, formation-domain, and resource contests.
• Qin Yu asked why the Xuanyuan Lineage and Nangong Lineage had final authority over the competition’s rules, and Ye Wuhen invited him to drink before explaining.

Ye Wuhen explained to Qin Yu how the Ten Great Lineages shaped power in the Upper Layer and described the leading young prodigies. He clarified that the Wuji Realm and realms beyond it were not divided into stages, leaving Qin Yu to recognize that the upcoming grand competition would pit their understandings of the Dao against one another.

• Ye Wuhen told Qin Yu that the Ten Great Lineages dominated the Upper Layer, with the Ju and Chi Lineages allied to the Xuanyuan Lineage and the Shangguan and Hua Lineages tied to the Nangong Lineage.
• Ye Wuhen explained that the Xuanyuan and Nangong Lineages used the grand competition in Stele Forest Imperial City to select young experts for secret realms, ancient tasks, and resource struggles.
• Ye Wuhen named Hua Yanyang, Shangguan Shumu, Chi Xiyue, and Ju Lingyuan as the four leading prodigies of the Eternal Nonexistence Limitless Domain and described their strengths.
• Qin Yu asked whether the prodigies were at different stages of the Wuji Realm, and Ye Wuhen explained that cultivation realms after Eternal Silence were no longer divided into stages.
• Qin Yu realized that Wuji Realm cultivators were judged by their understanding of the Dao and Fate Soul Origins, and that the grand competition would be a clash of Dao.

Ye Wuhen explained why the four main cities were closely controlled and relatively safe, then took Qin Yu to the Echo Cliff · Deathbed Auction House. As the auction filled with cultivators, Qin Yu sensed the Hua Lineage among the luxury-seat guests, and the auction was poised to begin.

• Ye Wuhen told Qin Yu that the four main cities belonged to the Hua, Shangguan, Ju, and Chi Lineages, but the Supreme Transformation Primordial Domain held them accountable for keeping trade and order stable.
• A street crier announced a major auction featuring the Emberless Mirror, and Ye Wuhen invited Qin Yu to attend.
• Ye Wuhen explained that the Echo Cliff · Deathbed Auction House sold relics from dead universes and used Returning Light Retrospection to reveal their final moments.
• Ye Wuhen led Qin Yu to the middle-tier seats, where Qin Yu sensed a floral-patterned Fate Soul presence in the luxury tier and learned the Hua Lineage had arrived.

At Echo Cliff · Deathbed Auction House, Qin Yu and Ye Wuhen attended an auction of relics from destroyed universes while Hua Jingmeng arranged to have them killed after they left the city-surround. The first lot sold, and the auction began presenting a powerful set of four swords and a formation diagram from a fallen Mystic Void universe.

• The auctioneer explained that the lots came from dead universes and announced the bidding rules.
• Qin Yu sensed Hua Jingmeng's hostility, and Ye Wuhen warned him to be careful.
• Hua Jingmeng told a disciple to inform the sacred clan to kill Qin Yu and Ye Wuhen after they left the city-surround, offering ten million Annihilation Starlight Crystals for Qin Yu's death.
• The Fragment of the Long River of Time was auctioned for twenty million Annihilation Starlight Crystals.
• The auctioneer unveiled four swords and the Mystic Void Formation Diagram, then opened bidding at ten million Annihilation Starlight Crystals.

Qin Yu followed Xiao Yue’s advice and won the combined lot of three mysterious treasures for one hundred million Annihilation Starlight Crystals, despite Hua Jingmeng’s challenge. When Hua Jingmeng demanded an asset check, Qin Yu agreed and secured a rule barring Hua Jingmeng from bidding on future lots if he proved he could pay.

• The auctioneer presented the Primordial Traceless Stillness Light, the Blankness of the Severed Path of Words, and the Void Nirvana Dao Fruit as one lot with a starting bid of fifty million Annihilation Starlight Crystals.
• Xiao Yue urged Qin Yu to obtain all three treasures, and Qin Yu opened the bidding at sixty million.
• Qin Yu and Hua Jingmeng raised the price against each other until Qin Yu won the lot for one hundred million Annihilation Starlight Crystals.
• Hua Jingmeng demanded an asset verification, and Ye Wuhen worried that Qin Yu could not pay.
• Qin Yu accepted the verification and proposed that Hua Jingmeng be barred from bidding on the remaining lots if Qin Yu proved his funds.
• Hua Jingmeng accepted the condition, and the gray-robed elder began the asset verification.

Qin Yu proved his wealth at the Echo Cliff · Deathbed Auction House by producing a hundred God-Level Resonance Crystals, forcing Hua Jingmeng out of the bidding and drawing the attention of greedy cultivators. The auction then resumed with the World Creation Remnant Sequence, a treasure that could reveal the laws behind a universe’s creation, opening at twenty thousand Limitless Resonance Crystals.

• Qin Yu revealed a hundred God-Level Resonance Crystals, shocking the auction house and convincing the gray-robed old man that he had passed the asset verification.
• Blue Ring Xiao Yue revealed that Qin Yu possessed far greater reserves, including eight zi God-Level Resonance Crystals after her fusion.
• Qin Yu asked the gray-robed old man to bar Hua Jingmeng from bidding, and Hua Jingmeng left after threatening Qin Yu and arranging for the Holy Clan to target him.
• Qin Yu returned to his seat as cultivators watched him with greed, while Ye Wuhen marveled at his wealth and Qin Yu claimed he had found the crystals in a forbidden zone.
• The auction host introduced the World Creation Remnant Sequence, explained that it preserved the laws of a universe’s creation, and set its starting bid at twenty thousand Limitless Resonance Crystals.

At the Deathbed Auction House, the World Creation Remnant Sequence went unsold before the Emberless Mirror was revealed and sparked a fierce bidding war. Qin Yu learned that a Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage cultivator could use the mirror to comprehend the origin rules and advance directly to Supreme, while powerful bidders began offering vast quantities of God-Level Resonance Crystals and supreme techniques.

• The World Creation Remnant Sequence received no bids at its price of twenty thousand Limitless Resonance Crystals and remained unsold.
• After other lots were sold, the hostess presented the Emberless Mirror and described its three stages of still illumination and its role in the breakthrough from Mystic Void Realm to Supreme.
• Xiao Yue told Qin Yu that a Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage cultivator could use the Emberless Mirror to comprehend the logic of the origin rules and step directly into Supreme.
• A masked blue-robed cultivator opened bidding at one hundred God-Level Resonance Crystals, and bidders rapidly drove the price to one thousand.
• Cultivators began offering supreme techniques and divine abilities, including Origins Return to One and Primordial Complete Dao, while Qin Yu watched calmly.

Qin Yu learned that the Emberless Mirror could open a path to the Limitless Final Abyss and won it at the Echo Cliff auction despite an offer from Ancient God Clan elder Luo Qingchuan. After collecting his treasures, Qin Yu parted from Ye Wuhen and vanished into the night as greedy observers followed him.

• Ye Wuhen told Qin Yu that the Emberless Mirror could open the boundary wall to the Limitless Final Abyss, the lost home of the three beast emperors who had followed Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu bid 3,000 God-Level Resonance Crystals for the Emberless Mirror, and Luo Qingchuan offered him a divine ability in exchange for withdrawing; Qin Yu refused, so Luo Qingchuan yielded.
• The host sold the Emberless Mirror to Qin Yu, who collected it along with the Primordial Traceless Stillness Light, Blankness of the Severed Path of Words, and Void Nirvana Dao Fruit.
• Ye Wuhen urged Qin Yu to take shelter at the Boundless Realm Divine Sect, but Qin Yu declined and gave him a storage crystal core before leaving through a spatial fissure.
• Ye Wuhen discovered that Qin Yu had given him a hundred million God-Level Resonance Crystals, while hidden observers followed Qin Yu into the night.

Qin Yu joined an escort mission at No Return · Datong Bank, where two cultivators who had been tracking him joined the team. The transport carriage departed for North City · Stele Forest Imperial City with Qin Yu and the other escorts, while the ambushers waiting beyond Returning Light Heavenly City anticipated his arrival.

• Three experts hiding in a world within the Heaven-Reaching Ancient Vine waited to ambush Qin Yu, planning to use Hua Jingmeng's offer to gain favor with Hua Feiting and seize Qin Yu's treasures.
• Qin Yu registered for a herb escort mission at No Return · Datong Bank and met Shen Qingchen and the other waiting escorts.
• Two Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators arrived, ignored Shen Qingchen's greeting, and watched Qin Yu, who realized they had followed him.
• A deacon briefed the ten escorts and led them to the spirit-patterned transport carriage carrying medicinal herbs to North City · Stele Forest Imperial City.
• The escorts took their assigned positions, and the carriage departed Returning Light Heavenly City with Qin Yu's two suspected pursuers among the team.

Qin Yu exposed three Holy Clan cultivators hiding along the Heaven-Piercing Ancient Vine Star Domain route and persuaded the Wugui · Datong Bank escort party that they intended to rob the convoy. The escorts surrounded the three ambushers, and the confrontation turned hostile.

• Three Holy Clan cultivators recognized Qin Yu in the approaching Wugui · Datong Bank convoy and prepared to ambush him.
• Qin Yu detected their concealed presences, warned the escorts, and used spatial force to expose them.
• The ambushers claimed they were targeting Qin Yu alone, but Qin Yu argued that their hiding place and one cultivator's words showed they planned to rob the convoy.
• Shen Qingchen and the escort cultivators surrounded the three Holy Clan men as killing intent rose.

Qin Yu provoked the Holy Clan assassins into attacking, prompting the escorts to kill all three, then used the aftermath to expose suspicion toward two escort cultivators who had stayed out of the fight. The chapter ended with Shen Qingchen and the other escorts surrounding the pair and questioning whether they were spies.

• Qin Yu baited a Supreme Holy Clan cultivator into using Hand of Shattering Realms, and the escorts destroyed the attack and annihilated him.
• Qin Yu warned the escorts that the Holy Clan were targeting the cargo, and the remaining assassins attacked him with their divine abilities.
• Shen Qingchen and the six other escorts killed the Supreme Holy Clan cultivator and the Mystic Void Realm cultivator who had burned his source.
• Qin Yu pretended to be badly injured, then privately pointed out to Shen Qingchen that two Supreme escorts had never joined the battle.
• Shen Qingchen confronted the two silent escorts, and Qin Yu accused them of possibly being spies as the others moved to surround them.

Qin Yu exposed two Ancient God Clan cultivators who had infiltrated the convoy and pursued the one who escaped. In the Inverted Mountains, the fugitive admitted that Luo Qingchuan had arranged the ambush, and Qin Yu prepared to confront him.

• Shen Qingchen and the escort cultivators recognized the two Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators as members of the Ancient God Clan and allies of the three attackers.
• Qin Yu warned the group that the two were escaping, and the escort cultivators attacked; one fugitive sacrificed his companion and escaped using Karmic Reverse Escape.
• The escort team found the Ancient God Clan token, while Qin Yu identified Luo Qingchuan as the one behind the plot and pursued the survivor.
• Shen Qingchen led the convoy onward toward North City · Stele Forest Imperial City as Qin Yu followed the fugitive's karmic trail.
• Qin Yu caught up with the injured cultivator in the Inverted Mountains, where the man confirmed Luo Qingchuan had arranged the ambush and explained the Ancient God Clan's plan.

Qin Yu effortlessly stopped the Ancient God Clan cultivator’s realm-shattering attack and dismantled his forbidden Return to the Ruins Domain. After Qin Yu exposed the gap in their abilities, the wounded cultivator swallowed a black Dao fruit and transformed, breaking through to Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage as he challenged Qin Yu.

• The Ancient God Clan cultivator attacked Qin Yu with the Realm-Shattering Staff, but Qin Yu halted and erased the collapsing space with a touch.
• Qin Yu mocked the cultivator’s inferior understanding of laws and causality and revealed that he had only pretended to be injured.
• The cultivator activated the forbidden Annihilation Divine Domain · Descent of the Return to the Ruins, but Qin Yu severed its causality and destroyed the domain.
• The badly injured cultivator swallowed a black Dao fruit and transformed into a demon-like being.
• The cultivator’s power rose to Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage, and he asked Qin Yu how he would defeat him.

Qin Yu fought the devilized Ancient God Clan cultivator and destroyed the devil-path origin that sustained him. After the victory, Qin Yu found an ancient god token and decided he would visit Luo Qingchuan’s Ancient God Clan.

• The devilized cultivator used the World-Devouring Devil Fetus to absorb Qin Yu’s No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword, then struck him with the Law-Breaking Staff and wounded him lightly.
• The devilized cultivator unleashed the Formless Staff, but Qin Yu used Cause and Effect Deconstruction to find the devil-path origin core sustaining his power.
• Qin Yu struck the core with the Causeless Disillusionment Sword, cracking it and causing the devilized cultivator’s power to collapse.
• Qin Yu finished the devilized cultivator with the Undefined Destruction Sword, erasing his body and soul.
• Qin Yu caught the ancient god token left behind by the cultivator and stored it away.
• Qin Yu looked toward the distant Ancient God Clan and said he would visit Luo Qingchuan there.

Xiao Yue fused three supreme treasures into a sword seal and guided Qin Yu in reforging Primordial Formless into a sword Dao divine ability. Qin Yu created the Dao-Slaying · Annihilation Sword, which Xiao Yue said could help them face an expert at the True Annihilation Realm · Initial Stage.

• Qin Yu withdrew to a hidden space in the Inverted Mountains with Xiao Yue and brought out the three supreme treasures.
• Xiao Yue explained that the treasures could reforge Qin Yu's Primordial Formless into a sword Dao divine ability usable with any sword.
• Xiao Yue fused the Primordial Traceless Stillness Light, Blankness of the Severed Path of Words, and Void Nirvana Dao Fruit into a white sword seal.
• Qin Yu unleashed Primordial Formless as Xiao Yue sent the sword seal into its chaos and absorbed its eightfold power.
• Qin Yu infused the resulting sword light into the Silent Origin Stainless Sword and severed a distant Inverted Mountain from the universe's narrative.
• Xiao Yue named the new sword style Dao-Slaying · Annihilation Sword and said it could help them face an expert at the True Annihilation Realm · Initial Stage.

Qin Yu returned to Shen Qingchen’s caravan after killing the Ancient God Clan cultivator, and they delivered their medicinal herbs to Stele Forest Imperial City. As the group left the Delivery Divine Hall to celebrate, seven pursuers sent by Hua Jingmeng followed Qin Yu and waited for a chance to attack him.

• Qin Yu reunited with Shen Qingchen and the others outside Stele Forest Imperial City and told them he had killed the Ancient God Clan cultivator.
• Shen Qingchen’s caravan entered the city and completed the medicinal-herb handover at the Delivery Divine Hall.
• A Mystic Void Realm elder and six Supreme experts identified Qin Yu and pursued him on Hua Jingmeng’s orders, targeting him when he separated from the group.
• Shen Qingchen invited Qin Yu and the others to celebrate at his home after they collected payment for the delivery.
• Qin Yu and the others left the Delivery Divine Hall and headed toward the forge district.

Shen Qingchen brought Qin Yu and their companions to his residence, where they met his younger sister, Shen Mengling, and gathered for dinner. Seven hidden attackers planned to isolate and kill Qin Yu after the guests became drunk, but Qin Yu sensed their presence and decided to play along.

• Shen Qingchen led Qin Yu and the others to his floating pavilion residence in Stele Forest Imperial City.
• Shen Mengling greeted the guests and said their parents were away; she then went to buy food for the evening meal.
• Seven cultivators hiding nearby discussed how the Chi Lineage’s city patrols prevented them from attacking openly and planned to lure Qin Yu outside the city.
• The attackers settled on waiting until the guests were drunk, then using spatial domains to seal Qin Yu off and kill him.
• Shen Mengling returned with food, and Shen Qingchen hosted Qin Yu and the others for dinner and wine.
• Qin Yu sensed a concealed presence during the meal, hid his awareness, and decided to let the attackers make their move.