Chapter Summaries

Qin Yu used the Primordial Return to Oblivion Pill to save Shen Qingchen, restoring his Fate Soul and helping him break through to the Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage. He gave Shen Qingchen the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal and sent him out of the Endless Abyss while he continued deeper alone.

• Qin Yu hid with Shen Qingchen in a concealed spatial rift and sealed the area against tracking.
• Qin Yu used the Primordial Return to Oblivion Pill to restore Shen Qingchen's shattered Fate Soul and bring him back from the brink of annihilation.
• Shen Qingchen revived and broke through to the Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage, then vowed to follow Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu gave Shen Qingchen the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal, explaining that it would be safer with him and that he refused to join a lineage if it meant changing his surname.
• Qin Yu told Shen Qingchen to leave the Endless Abyss with the seal, and Shen Qingchen accepted before heading for the exit as Qin Yu continued deeper into the abyss.

Shen Qingchen returned first from the Endless Abyss with the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal and received a pill from Chi Boqian, while the crowd mistook him for the one who had seized the seal. In the abyss, Qin Yu was confronted by five deathsworn hunters hired by Hua Jingmeng, who attacked him with their strongest techniques.

• Shen Qingchen emerged from the Endless Abyss as a Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage cultivator carrying the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal, and the crowd acclaimed him as the first to return.
• Shen Qingchen placed the seal in the first treasure position, and Chi Boqian named him the competition winner and gave him a Mystic Female Return to Stillness Pill.
• Shen Qingchen realized the pill could help him cross into the Mystic Void Realm Middle Stage, stored it carefully, and hoped Qin Yu would return safely.
• Five deathsworn hunters hired by Hua Jingmeng confronted Qin Yu in the Endless Abyss and showed him a supreme treasure projecting his true appearance.
• Qin Yu refused to answer whether he had seen the projected man, and the five hunters launched their Supreme killing moves against him.

Qin Yu annihilated the five attackers with his supreme techniques, claimed a mysterious fragment, and continued deeper into the abyss. At a silent lotus pond, his consciousness touched a realm beyond the Great Dao, beginning a fundamental reconstruction of his Dao foundation.

• Qin Yu nullified the five attackers’ Supreme divine abilities, revealed that he was the person they had been seeking, and annihilated all five with his sword.
• Qin Yu found a fragment that resisted observation and causal erasure, then stored it in the Annihilation Devil Pupil · Final Spirit Core.
• Qin Yu continued into the abyss and discovered a water-jade lotus pond filled with perfectly preserved but withered lotuses.
• When Qin Yu reached toward a withered lotus, the pond’s lotuses bloomed and drew his consciousness into visions of rules, logic, and existence being deconstructed.
• Qin Yu briefly touched Mystic Void, and his Dao foundation began to undergo structural reconstruction beyond the Great Dao.

Qin Yu awakened the Primordial Lack fragment while the lotus pond devoured him, broke through to the Supreme realm, and escaped its illusion. As the pond revealed its true, hostile form, he faced the colossal being rising from its depths with the Silent Origin Stainless Sword.

• The lotus tendrils dragged Qin Yu into the pond’s black sludge, which erased his body and cracked his Dao foundation while the great Dao illusion shattered his consciousness.
• The fragment within Qin Yu’s Annihilation Devil Pupil · Final Spirit Core awakened, resonated with the sludge, and shattered the limits of his cultivation.
• Qin Yu touched the Primordial Lack, perceived the origin of the myriad realms, and was reborn with the source code of the rules, reaching Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme.
• Qin Yu broke free of the lotus pond, saw the bones of the cultivators it had consumed, and tore open the pond’s bottom with his power.
• The pond transformed into a sea of black poison and purple-black lightning as a colossal being began to rise from its depths.
• Qin Yu summoned the Silent Origin Stainless Sword and formed an Annihilation Field, then aimed his blade at the emerging entity.

Qin Yu faced the nine-headed evil dragon that manifested the lotus pond’s will and resisted its power to judge his existence. He erased two of its heads with the No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword, and as the remaining seven prepared to swallow him alive, he raised his sword again.

• The nine-headed evil dragon emerged from the lotus pond and revealed its Mystic Void Realm · Supreme power.
• The evil dragon’s first head used Sever All Falsehood and Delusion to attack Qin Yu, but Qin Yu used Master Book Seal Severance · Naming Reconstruction to make his existence undeniable and dispel the attack.
• Qin Yu struck with the Silent Origin Stainless Sword’s first form, No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword, erasing the evil dragon’s skeletal dragon domain and two heads.
• The seven remaining heads reacted with fear and fury, and the dragon asked Qin Yu what he was and how he wielded a sword of Annihilation Structure.
• The evil dragon’s heads urged their eldest brother to swallow Qin Yu alive and drag his Fate Soul into the Dragon Prison, while Qin Yu raised his sword again.

Qin Yu defeated the seven-headed dragon by unraveling the powers and divided Dao it relied upon. After explaining why its Mystic Void Realm was already fractured, he watched the final head accept its incompleteness and dissolve into nothingness.

• The dragon unleashed fate-devouring and existence-erasing powers, but Qin Yu reversed their effects and destroyed its third head with the Causeless Disillusionment Sword.
• The dragon burned its origin and attacked Qin Yu's causality, name, form, and existence, but Qin Yu merged with the Emberless Mirror and erased its attacks.
• Qin Yu used the Undefined Destruction Sword to annihilate five more heads, leaving only the central head alive.
• Qin Yu explained that the dragon's nine heads had split its foundation into mutually conflicting Daos, while his Realm Breaking cut the principles it relied upon.
• The final dragon head recognized that it had never been complete and dissolved its Fate Soul, causality, origin, and existence.

After Qin Yu slew the evil dragon, Yu Funing restored the lotus pond and explained that she was its self-awareness, formed from undefined Daos. She revealed where two more Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seals lay and gave Qin Yu an ancient, mysterious scroll before he continued into the Endless Abyss.

• Qin Yu destroyed the evil dragon, allowing Yu Funing to emerge from the intrinsic divine lotus and thank him for saving her.
• Yu Funing explained her origin and restored the ruined lotus pond to its pristine state.
• Qin Yu showed Yu Funing the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal, and she revealed the locations and guardians of the Southern Region and Eastern Region seals.
• Yu Funing gave Qin Yu an ancient scroll she could not decipher, and he stored it in the Annihilation Demonic Eye · Final Spirit Core.
• Qin Yu departed deeper into the Endless Abyss as Yu Funing faded from sight.

Qin Yu and other cultivators became trapped in the Four Sequences Definition Heaven-Sealing Grand Array after two Mystic Void Realm High Stage experts entered the Mystic Realm Definition Ruins and disturbed its foundation. The cultivators argued over how to escape, and one Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage cultivator stepped into the Domain of Spring Life to test the array.

• Qin Yu concealed his presence among the cultivators gathered at the Mystic Realm Definition Ruins.
• A gray-white-robed expert and a crimson-black-robed expert arrived, ordered the crowd to stand back, and entered the deeper ruins.
• The crimson-black-robed expert disturbed a definition fault, awakening the four realm pillars and forming the Four Sequences Definition Heaven-Sealing Grand Array around everyone.
• The trapped cultivators blamed the two experts, but the gray-white-robed expert calmed the confrontation and urged them to find a way to break the array.
• After discussing the four sequences and the need to find a fixed point, a Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage cultivator entered the Domain of Spring Life with his natal divine weapon.

A Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage cultivator entered the Domain of Spring Life and was killed after choosing its seemingly safe Day Gate. Later, three cultivators entered the Winter Domain and followed its Day Gate, while the Night Gate remained unexplored.

• The Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage cultivator vanished into the Domain of Spring Life and faced a choice between the Day Gate and Night Gate.
• He chose the Day Gate, where spatial rifts, an Azure Dragon supreme, and Mystic Void Flower Nightmares destroyed him.
• The cultivators outside waited without learning his fate, and several broke away to seek escape through the seasonal domains.
• A Mystic Void Realm High Stage cultivator in crimson-and-black robes entered the Winter Domain with two Realm Breaking Realm cultivators.
• The three chose the warm Day Gate, Melting Warmth and Clearing Snow Realm, leaving the Night Gate unexplored.

A crimson-black-robed cultivator escaped the Winter Domain after two companions were killed, then warned the others that every season’s gate seemed deadly. The grayish-white-robed expert sent another group into the Spring Domain and urged them toward its Day Gate, but his hesitation after one cultivator entered cast doubt on his advice.

• The crimson-black-robed cultivator survived the Winter Domain’s ice fissures and Black Tortoise Sovereign, but the two Realm Breaking Realm cultivators with him vanished in the trap.
• The crimson-black-robed cultivator told the grayish-white-robed Mystic Void Realm High Stage expert that both Winter gates were death traps, while two battered cultivators returned from the Summer and Autumn Domains.
• The grayish-white-robed expert called for volunteers to explore the Spring Domain, and two Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage cultivators joined him despite the crowd’s fear.
• Inside the Spring Domain, the grayish-white-robed expert failed to probe either gate with his divine sense, then claimed the Day Gate was the path to survival and pressured the others to trust him.
• One Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage cultivator rushed through the Day Gate, and the grayish-white-robed expert stopped short of entering as the other cultivator noticed his hesitation.

The surviving Spring Domain scouts returned and declared every route fatal, while Qin Yu noticed signs of concealment. A rune then erased cultivators at the formation's center and forced the others into the seasonal domains, where the spring and summer gates inflicted further deaths.

• The gray-white-robed man and the Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage cultivator abandoned the Spring Domain after the cultivator who entered the Day Gate failed to return.
• The gray-white-robed man threatened the returning cultivator into silence, and Qin Yu noticed their suspicious exchange as the crowd concluded that all four domains led to death.
• A changing rune appeared at the formation's center and erased two Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators from existence.
• The trapped cultivators failed to breach the formation's boundary and scattered into the four seasonal domains to escape the rune's attacks.
• A cultivator entered the Spring Domain's Night Gate · Secluded Stillness Spring Courtyard and was destroyed by shadowy vines, Mystic Void black mist, and the Azure Dragon's roar.
• Cultivators entered the summer day and night formations and were destroyed by Vermilion Bird True Fire, dimensional rifts, and soul-devouring creatures.

Qin Yu entered the Night Gate after Xiao Yue determined that both gates were deadly, then survived the Autumn Night Bones Mystic Void Array by becoming still and escaping its judgment. Outside, the other five cultivators chose the Day Gate, where its killing array began destroying them.

• The two Mystic Void Realm High Stage cultivators pressured Qin Yu to scout a gate, while Qin Yu secretly asked Xiao Yue to inspect the array.
• Xiao Yue determined that both gates led to death and told Qin Yu to enter the Night Gate; he slipped past the five cultivators and entered the Autumn Night Bones Mystic Void Array.
• Xiao Yue explained that the array judged targets by locking onto their existence, so Qin Yu put away his sword and remained completely still until its threats passed.
• Qin Yu and Xiao Yue concluded that the true path to survival lay in the Winter Domain, while the five cultivators outside assumed Qin Yu had died.
• The five cultivators entered the Day Gate together, where golden winds, a White Tiger Supreme, and Severed Dao Bizarre Shadows attacked them; two Initial Stage cultivators were annihilated.

Qin Yu survived the Autumn Day Wind Realm Breaking Array and entered the Winter Domain, where a Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage cultivator tried to force him to test the realm gates. When the cultivator attacked, Blue Ring Xiao Yue used Logic Chain Severance to cripple him, leaving him stunned by her power.

• The Autumn Day Wind Realm Breaking Array killed the three Mystic Void cultivators, the crimson-black battle-robed cultivator, and the gray-white-robed cultivator.
• Qin Yu left the Withered Bones Mystic Void Formation with Blue Ring Xiao Yue and found the Autumn Domain empty, with its bizarre rune gone.
• Blue Ring Xiao Yue explained that the rune had appeared because the four domains lacked cultivators to receive the formation's power, and that finding the true path to survival could loosen or collapse the formation.
• Qin Yu entered the Winter Domain and confronted a Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage cultivator between the Day Gate and the Night Gate.
• The cultivator drew a Realm Splitting Spear and ordered Qin Yu to choose a gate, then attacked when Qin Yu refused.
• Blue Ring Xiao Yue used Blue Ring · second form—Logic Chain Severance, disrupting the cultivator's attack and Fate Soul and sending him crashing onto the ice.

Qin Yu destroyed the Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage cultivator, chose the Night Gate with Xiao Yue’s help, and dissolved the Four Sequences Definition Heaven-Sealing Grand Array to reveal the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal. He left the seal to six waiting Mystic Void Realm Middle Stage cultivators, who began fighting over it after one of them was killed.

• Qin Yu used the Causeless Disillusionment Sword to erase the injured Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage cultivator from existence.
• Xiao Yue identified the Winter Domain as the gate of life and directed Qin Yu through the Night Gate into the Mystic Winter Still Night Realm.
• Qin Yu harmonized his Dao power with the array’s dark nether origin, restoring balance and dissolving the Four Sequences Definition Heaven-Sealing Grand Array.
• The Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal appeared, but six Mystic Void Realm Middle Stage cultivators emerged and surrounded Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu told Xiao Yue he did not need the seal, feigned surrender, and left the six cultivators to contest it.
• One cultivator rushed for the seal and was killed by a sword strike, prompting the remaining five to attack each other and charge toward it.

Five Mystic Void Realm · Middle Stage cultivators fought over the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal, with their battle escalating until one used a forbidden art to annihilate the others. He obtained the seal but suffered severe backlash to his Fate Soul and fled toward the exit.

• Five cultivators clashed over the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal, and their attacks repeatedly failed to claim it.
• One cultivator briefly connected with the seal, but two opponents struck him with supreme treasures and broke his hold.
• The fighting escalated as one cultivator unleashed the Myriad Phenomena Annihilation Construct Stele and another detonated ten God-Level Resonance Crystals; a cultivator was annihilated when three attacks converged on him.
• With four cultivators left, one burned the origin of his existence and unleashed Forbidden Art · Reverse Construction of Return to the Ruins, dismantling two opponents beyond restoration.
• The forbidden-art user caught and annihilated the last fleeing cultivator, then seized the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal.
• His Fate Soul cracked from the forbidden power’s backlash, so he tore open the void and fled toward the exit with the seal.

Feng Qingyuan claimed the second Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal and began recovering from his battle, while Shen Qingchen worried about Qin's return. The Shangguan Lineage gave Feng Qingyuan a Retrospective Fate Soul Pill to repair his injuries and invited him to meet its Lineage Head, leaving Feng Qingyuan determined to join the lineage.

• Feng Qingyuan emerged from the Endless Abyss with the second Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal and was announced as the second-place finisher.
• Feng Qingyuan placed the seal in the formation, then swallowed two divine pills to stabilize his damaged Fate Soul.
• Shen Qingchen watched the realm-viewing light screen anxiously, hoping Brother Qin would return safely before the trial ended.
• The Chi Lineage served immortal food and wine to the spectators and recovering cultivators in the square.
• Shangguan Lingxiao sent an elder to give Feng Qingyuan a Retrospective Fate Soul Pill and arrange for him to meet the Lineage Head in ten days.
• Feng Qingyuan swallowed the pill, felt his Fate Soul's cracks heal, and resolved that he had finally entered the Shangguan Lineage.

While Qin Yu roasted the divine beast supreme dragon he had slain, he explained to Blue Ring Xiao Yue why he had given the Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal to Shen Qingchen and refused to join a great Lineage. After a black beam and a pale beam of immense power struck the abyss, Qin Yu changed his appearance and headed toward their impact site.

• Shadowy cultivators criticized Feng Qingyuan for risking his Fate Soul to seize the Mystic Seal and join the Shangguan Lineage.
• Qin Yu and Blue Ring Xiao Yue ate roasted dragon meat in a hidden cave, where he said he had already given another Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal to Shen Qingchen.
• Qin Yu explained that he would not join a Lineage because he would not change the surname his mother gave him, he needed freedom to reach Yan Yue in the Supreme Transformation Primordial Domain, and Shen Qingchen could benefit from the seal.
• Blue Ring Xiao Yue said that after Qin Yu reached the Supreme Transformation Primordial Domain, she could sense Yan Yue's location; Tangyi continued recovering beneath the Void Divine Tree.
• Two opposing beams of origin light struck the abyss and warped the region, prompting Qin Yu to change his appearance and rush toward where they fell.

Qin Yu and thousands of cultivators entered the first layer of the giant Dao book, the Turbulent Current Scales, where the Black Gold Ruler Stillness began a trial that erased those unable to maintain a sense of self. As most entrants were annihilated, Qin Yu studied the ruler’s method of measurement and stepped onto a scale mark without being judged.

• Thousands of cultivators gathered around a vast six-layer Dao book, where two lights appeared to be Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seals.
• The first layer opened, and Qin Yu entered with the crowd, arriving in a cosmic domain divided by golden scale marks.
• A voice announced the Turbulent Current Scales trial, and the Black Gold Ruler Stillness appeared as the domain’s rule and judge.
• The first trial, Inscribe the Self, stripped away cultivators’ identities and reduced many to nothing; more than half of the entrants were erased within moments.
• Qin Yu let the measuring light dismantle his identity, then realized the ruler was defining him rather than simply measuring him.
• Qin Yu stepped onto a scale mark without being judged, and the Black Gold Ruler Stillness shuddered as he challenged its method of measurement.

The graduations’ second and third trials erased most of the cultivators, while Qin Yu interfered with the graduations’ underlying definition. After the survivors began recovering, the dark-gold ruler launched a new temporal attack, leaving them fighting for their lives.

• The Dao Measuring and Timelessness trials forced the cultivators to confront ultimate Dao marks, erasing dozens who could not preserve their Dao hearts.
• Qin Yu analyzed the graduations and disrupted their structure, while a few cultivators endured Timelessness through unwavering thought and became exceptions.
• Only a little over a hundred cultivators survived, and Qin Yu sensed that the trials were merely a selection before the ruler began watching them.
• As the survivors recovered with protective arrays and God-Level Resonance Crystals, the ruler unleashed tens of millions of graduation bands that marked targets with temporal coordinates and erased them.
• Qin Yu used the Silent Origin Stainless Sword to sever the attacks’ paths of definition, but ten cultivators were erased as the slaughter began.

More than a hundred cultivators fought the Black Gold Ruler Stillness, whose scales defined and measured existence. After the Return to the Ruins Annihilation Formation faltered, Qin Yu severed the ruler’s source and helped the survivors destroy it, leaving the void quiet and the cultivators alive.

• The surviving cultivators unleashed their origins and treasures against the Black Gold Ruler Stillness as Qin Yu studied the source of its scales.
• More than ten Mystic Void Realm cultivators formed the Return to the Ruins Annihilation Formation, spreading nothingness that erased the ruler’s scales.
• The Black Gold Ruler Stillness countered with yin-yang and life-and-death judgments, destabilizing the formation and causing one cultivator to disappear in its backlash.
• Qin Yu used the Causeless Disillusionment Sword to sever the source cause supporting the ruler’s scales, allowing the cultivators to attack its weakened core.
• The ruler dispersed into scales throughout the void, but Qin Yu used the Annihilation Sword to halt their operation and cut apart their origin.
• The cultivators joined Qin Yu in striking the exposed origin, annihilating the Black Gold Ruler Stillness and restoring silence to the void.