Chapter Summaries

A disturbance in the Azure Wood Divine Forest caused its symbols to peel away and gather in the Symbol Graveyard as the forest’s rules began to reverse. After ten Hua Lineage investigators vanished and their Fate Souls were erased, the four great lineages sent forces toward the forest, where their leaders prepared to investigate together or compete for whatever had appeared.

• The Azure Wood Divine Forest’s symbols detached from its leaves and converged on the Symbol Graveyard, where the buried characters began to revive.
• Hua Nongrui learned that ten Hua Lineage investigators had vanished and their Fate Souls had been erased, then ordered Hua Jingmeng and Hua Feiting to join her in leading a thousand disciples to investigate.
• Shangguan Lingxiao ordered Shangguan Jinyan, Shangguan Xingci, and Shangguan Shuheng to each lead a thousand disciples and join forces with the Hua Lineage.
• Ju Jinyu ordered Ju Anran, Ju Junyao, and Ju Muyao to each lead a thousand disciples and meet the Chi Lineage before heading to the forest.
• Chi Boqian ordered Chi Chengyu, Chi Ruoyao, and Chi Yueyin to each lead a thousand disciples and meet the Ju Lineage before entering the Azure Wood Divine Forest.

News of a disturbance in the Azure Wood Divine Forest drew powers and cultivators from across the Eternal Nonexistence Limitless Domain, gathering them outside the forest. As the Hua, Shangguan, Chi, and Ju lineages faced off, a pair of roars from within the forest signaled that something was awakening.

• The God Clan, rogue cultivators, a black-mist sect, and other powers set out for the Azure Wood Divine Forest after hearing of the disturbance.
• Tens of thousands of cultivators gathered outside the forest, where the Holy Clan, Ancient God Clan, and Profound Heaven Clan also appeared.
• The Hua and Shangguan lineages arrived on a carrier of remnant rule-pages, while the Chi and Ju lineages arrived on a frozen river of cause and effect.
• Hua Jingmeng accused the Chi and Ju lineages of rushing to claim opportunities, but Hua Feiting silenced him before the standoff escalated.
• Shen Qingchen wished Brother Qin could witness the gathering, and Su Qingyuan reassured him that Qin was safe in the Endless Abyss.
• The forest’s symbols began to change, a fissure opened toward the Symbol Graveyard, and two roars shook the cultivators as a colossal outline appeared.

The cultivators entered the Azure Wood Divine Forest, where unstable symbols and the Symbol Graveyard erased people from existence as the four great lineages fought to hold their formations together. The arrival of the Luan Emperor, the Nameless Mystic Emperor, and a vast army of Dao Shadow Soldiers left everyone stunned and the forest in deathly silence.

• Rogue Cultivators and the four great lineages charged into the Azure Wood Divine Forest, where chaotic symbols began killing cultivators and stripping away their names and existence.
• The Symbol Graveyard awakened forgotten characters that attacked the intruders, causing panic and a battle throughout the forest.
• Hua Jingmeng, Shangguan Jinyan, Chi Chengyu, and Ju Anran organized their lineages into defensive arrays that resisted the forest's destructive forces.
• The four lineages' arrays held as thousands of other cultivators were erased, until two terrifying roars shook the forest and brought the Luan Emperor and Nameless Mystic Emperor into view.
• A vast formation of Dao Shadow Soldiers appeared beside the two Primordial Chaos Origin Beasts Huang, leaving the four lineages and all other cultivators speechless.

The Five-Colored Realm Breaking Luan and the Mystic Void phoenix unleashed attacks that shattered boundaries, erased perception, and threatened the four great lineages’ formations as Dao Shadow Soldiers slaughtered the outer battlefield. The four formations remained barely intact, with their stewards and disciples still fighting to preserve their identities and hold the line.

• The Five-Colored Realm Breaking Luan spread its wings and fractured the boundaries across the Azure Wood Divine Forest, while the four great lineages struggled to keep their formations together.
• The Mystic Void phoenix underwent First Nirvana, stripping away laws, thoughts, and existence as cultivators outside the formations vanished.
• The Dao Shadow Soldiers advanced through the forest and overwhelmed the Holy Clan, Ancient God Clan, and Profound Heaven Clan forces, absorbing their energy.
• The Realm Breaking Luan cried out without sound, causing cultivators in the formations to lose their memories, identities, and names.
• The phoenix’s next nirvana stripped away perception and devastated the four formations, but Hua Jingmeng, Shangguan Jinyan, Chi Chengyu, Ju Anran, and the others continued holding them together.

Su Qingyuan and the four great Lineages struggled to hold their formations as Dao Shadow Soldiers and the Primordial Chaos Origin Beasts dismantled the defenders’ will and defenses. The Hua, Ju, and Shangguan Lineages fell, while the Chi Lineage’s karmic wheel remained barely intact at the brink of collapse.

• Su Qingyuan suppressed her grief and poured her Fate Soul power into the Chi Lineage’s formation to keep it steady.
• The Dao Shadow Soldiers annihilated the remaining Rogue Cultivators and other races, then turned toward the four great Lineages.
• The phoenix stripped away benevolence, righteousness, propriety, faith, and virtue, disrupting the defenders’ bonds, coordination, and resolve.
• The Five-Colored Realm Breaking Luan erased its observers and weakened the Lineages’ formations as the Dao Shadow Soldiers attacked.
• The Hua, Ju, and Shangguan Lineages’ formations collapsed under the assault, while Su Qingyuan, Chi Chengyu, Chi Ruoyao, and Chi Yueyin barely kept the Chi Lineage’s cracked karmic wheel from shattering.

The two Primordial Chaos Origin Beast Huang unleashed Realm's End Mystic Nirvana, shattering the four great lineages' formations and devastating their ranks. Hua Yanzhi, Shangguan Shuheng, Ju Anran, and Chi Yueyin ordered their people to burn their origins and fight for a survivor to escape; their counterattacks opened a brief gap, but only a dozen or so figures remained standing.

• Hua Jingmeng, Hua Feiting, Hua Yanzhi, Shangguan Jinyan, Shangguan Xingci, Shangguan Shuheng, and the Ju Lineage's fighters attacked the Dao Shadow Soldiers after the formations collapsed, but could only briefly hold back the tide.
• The two Primordial Chaos Origin Beast Huang combined the luan's boundary-shattering power and the phoenix's Mystic Void power into Realm's End Mystic Nirvana, which destroyed the Chi Lineage's formation and killed many disciples.
• Su Qingyuan pushed Shen Qingchen out of the collapsing attack's center and took most of its force, while Chi Yueyin and Hua Yanzhi ordered their lineages to retreat.
• The Dao Shadow Soldiers and the two Huang trapped the surviving members of the Hua, Shangguan, Ju, and Chi Lineages, prompting Hua Yanzhi, Shangguan Shuheng, Ju Anran, and Chi Yueyin to command their people to burn their origins and unleash forbidden arts.
• The luan used Wind of Realm Breaking and the phoenix used Cinnabar Grotto Without Grotto, erasing defenses and disciples, while Hua Feiting, Shangguan Shuheng, Ju Anran, and Chi Yueyin counterattacked with their strongest techniques.
• The four lineages' combined counterattacks opened a narrow gap and disrupted the Huang briefly, but Hua Yanzhi, Shangguan Shuheng, Ju Anran, and Chi Yueyin were gravely weakened, leaving only a dozen or so figures standing.

The fused Divine Phoenix unleashed All Spirits Return to Ashes against the surviving four lineages, forcing them to fight with their final strength. Their combined techniques drove the phoenix to the ground, but the battle remained unresolved.

• The Luan Emperor and the phoenix fused into a towering Divine Phoenix, and Hua Feiting gave Hua Jingmeng a protective garment and ordered him to carry news back to the Hua Lineage.
• Shen Qingchen asked Su Qingyuan to care for his family, but she urged him to believe that they would survive and that Qin Yu would return from the Endless Abyss.
• The fused Divine Phoenix unleashed All Spirits Return to Ashes, igniting the survivors' memories and Fate Souls as Hua Feiting, Hua Yanzhi, and fighters from the Shangguan, Chi, and Ju Lineages resisted the flames.
• Shen Qingchen used the Mystic Female Return to Stillness Pill to reach the Mystic Void Realm · Middle Stage and manifested the Blank Dao Scroll, while Su Qingyuan unleashed Dao Dissolution Heavenly Burial.
• The lineages' combined techniques shattered many Dao Shadow Soldiers and forced the fused Divine Phoenix to crash to the ground with cracks across its body.

The slaughter in the Azure Wood Divine Forest left six survivors, who used their last strength to escape the battlefield. The Source Flow Guardian appeared, erased the combined Divine Phoenix, and withdrew with the remaining Dao Shadow Soldiers, leaving the battlefield empty.

• Hua Feiting, Hua Yanzhi, Feng Qingyuan, Shangguan Jinyan, Shangguan Xingci, Ju Junyao, Ju Muyao, Chi Chengyu, and Chi Ruoyao died in the final onslaught.
• Shangguan Shuheng opened a fissure in space and took Hua Jingmeng away.
• Chi Yueyin used Thoughtless Tribulation Dao Perish to remove herself, Shen Qingchen, and Su Qingyuan from the battlefield, while Ju Anran tore open an escape route and left alone.
• The Source Flow Guardian appeared at the Wuji Realm and erased the dying combined Divine Phoenix with a single finger.
• The Source Flow Guardian withdrew alongside the remaining Dao Shadow Soldiers, leaving only the shattered battlefield behind.

Shangguan Shuheng and the other survivors reported that an army of otherworldly beings had annihilated hundreds of thousands of cultivators in the Azure Wood Divine Forest. Thirty elders arrived, found no traceable remnants, and sealed the forest while concealing the catastrophe.

• Shangguan Shuheng returned to the Shangguan Lineage with Hua Jingmeng and told Shangguan Lingxiao that the otherworldly army had killed most of their forces, including Jinyan, Xingci, Hua Feiting, and Hua Yanzhi.
• Ju Anran and Chi Yueyin separately reported the massacre to Ju Jinyu and Chi Boqian, and all three lineages dispatched ten True Annihilation Realm · Supreme elders.
• Thirty elders reached the Azure Wood Divine Forest and suppressed its collapsing space, but found the battlefield destroyed and the cultivators' Fate Souls completely erased.
• A Shangguan elder blamed the Ju and Chi Lineages, while elders of those lineages accused Shangguan of drawing cultivators to the forest with rumors of a supreme treasure.
• The Shangguan elders departed, and the remaining Ju and Chi elders agreed to hide the catastrophe and sealed the Azure Wood Divine Forest from entry, detection, and accurate perception.

After breaking through to the Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage, Qin Yu entered the Realm of Light and faced the Lightblade Erasure Spirit, which judged and erased his existence. By anchoring himself with the conviction that he was still here, he interrupted the realm’s erasure and began to form an area where its light could persist.

• Qin Yu entered the Realm of Light, where the Lightblade Erasure Spirit began erasing his shadow and judging whether his existence was valid.
• Qin Yu condensed his memories, laws, and cause and effect into a core of existence that pulled erased parts of him back into being.
• Qin Yu stepped onto erased space and pressed new existence into the blank, resisting the Spirit’s increasingly relentless attacks.
• The Lightblade Erasure Spirit took form and struck at Qin Yu’s body, memories, sea of consciousness, and Fate Soul Nucleus.
• Qin Yu caught rays of light before they vanished, interrupting their erasure and leaving them suspended in an incomplete state.
• Qin Yu joined the halted rays into an area where light no longer vanished immediately, and the Lightblade Erasure Spirit showed a faint change.

Qin Yu faced the Myriad Dharmas Erasure Lord’s Concept Erasure Blade in the light domain and used its attack to expose and remove flaws in his own existence. He left the confrontation able to seize a sliver of authority over where the blade’s erasure fell, while the blade paused to judge him.

• The Myriad Dharmas Erasure Lord manifested a colossal light blade that erased parts of Qin Yu’s Dao foundation, divine soul, and Dao heart.
• Qin Yu examined the flaws and karmic remnants exposed by the blade and used Void Source Truth Command and his other powers to redefine his foundation and purify his divine soul.
• Qin Yu drew on Immeasurable Return to the Abyss: Annihilation's Other Shore to hold his core resolve steady against the blade’s attack.
• Qin Yu used Heavenly Cause Judgment Order · Six Severances Seal to redirect the blade toward his remaining karmic flaw and seized a sliver of authority over its target.
• Qin Yu stopped the Concept Erasure Blade for a breath, and the light domain’s collapsing space steadied beneath him as the blade paused to weigh him.

Qin Yu endured the Myriad Dharmas Erasure Lord’s domain of light and learned to wield its erasure against its own contradictions. He brought down the domain by rewriting the rule at the source of its erasure, then remained in the corrected emptiness after the secret realm fell silent.

• The Myriad Dharmas Erasure Lord covered Qin Yu in a net of light that negated his Dao foundation, memories, and existence.
• Qin Yu used Heavenly Cause Judgment Order · Six Severances Seal and Master Book Seal Severance · Naming Reconstruction to identify fallacies within himself, then wielded a miniature blade of erasure to remove them.
• Qin Yu redirected the Existence Deletion Blade into the net’s central fulcrum and opened a blank rift in the domain of light.
• Qin Yu crossed the rift and pressed erasure against the connection between the giant blade and the domain, briefly making the Myriad Dharmas Erasure Lord’s ultimate form lose its definition.
• As the domain became a storm that erased space, rules, and parts of Qin Yu, he anchored his existence with the Six Severances Seal and deliberately cut away inconsistencies.
• Qin Yu traced the storm’s flow to its rule-source and rewrote erasure to correct the domain’s own fallacies, causing the light, the giant blade, and the secret realm to collapse.

After the Light Domain formed an eight-line barrier around Qin Yu, he realized its final line pointed to an unrevealed Page of Darkness. He stepped through the barrier, and the Light Domain turned over around him as he entered the unseen realm beyond it.

• The Light Domain stabilized, and the fourth Mystic Void Non-Stillness Seal appeared before Qin Yu, who waited for a jade box that did not arrive.
• Eight lines appeared in the Light Domain, ending with “From this point, the Severing Forbidden Wheel opens,” then broke into patterns that formed a barrier around Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu traced the barrier’s patterns and concluded that the six-layered structure lacked a deliberately hidden Page of Darkness.
• Qin Yu approached the barrier, passed his hand through it, and stepped inside.
• The Light Domain contracted and turned over, leaving Qin Yu standing within the unseen realm beyond it.

Qin Yu entered the Dark Court and discovered that the World Creation Fountain Pen could write and erase entire worlds, while the Realm of Darkness demanded that he take the pen and define existence himself. When the True Annihilation Pen Lord attacked his memories and resolve with remnant-soul threads and illusions, Qin Yu formed the True Annihilation Cognition Imprint and broke free, though his Fate Soul remained badly wounded.

• Qin Yu entered the boundless darkness and watched the World Creation Fountain Pen create and erase spaces and worlds at will.
• Qin Yu understood that the Realm of Darkness offered no set trial or path and required him to become the one who wrote and defined everything.
• The True Annihilation Pen Lord exposed Qin Yu's past and attacked his consciousness with remnant-soul threads, distorted memories, and an illusion of turning back.
• Qin Yu compressed his will into the True Annihilation Cognition Imprint and fused insights from the first six levels into a barrier around his Fate Soul and Dao foundation.
• Qin Yu shattered the false road with Void Source Truth Command, severed the threads' false interfaces, and drove the remnant-soul threads away from his divine soul.
• Qin Yu stood firm with the True Annihilation Cognition Dao Mark established, but his Fate Soul and sea of consciousness remained deeply injured as the next step began.

Qin Yu endured the True Annihilation Pen Lord’s attacks and learned to read the old order’s rules, then claimed the authority to rewrite how its strikes worked. He left the Pen Lord frozen as its attacks veered aside, though he remained grievously wounded in the collapsing Dark Court.

• The True Annihilation Pen Lord manifested and used Slaughter the World with the Pen to dismantle Qin Yu’s Fate Soul and Dao foundation.
• Xiao Yue appeared on Qin Yu’s shoulder and urged him to study how the Pen Lord was writing rather than resist its attacks.
• Qin Yu traced the invading rules, named their point of entry, and cut away a longstanding restraint in his Dao foundation, briefly slowing the Pen Lord.
• The Pen Lord merged with the Heaven-Reaching Fountain Pen and unleashed Death by a Thousand Cuts to the Divine Soul, tearing apart Qin Yu’s memories and cultivation.
• Xiao Yue urged Qin Yu to keep writing as he redefined his injuries and the attacks as unfinished writing from the old order.
• Qin Yu formed his World Creation Writing Pen and rewrote the conditions of the Pen Lord’s attacks, causing its nibs to veer aside and the Pen Lord to freeze.

Qin Yu endured the True Annihilation Pen Lord’s layered illusions and attack on his existence, using his World Creation Writing Pen and Xiao Yue’s help to rewrite the old order sustaining it. The True Annihilation Pen Lord was extinguished, leaving Qin Yu as the sole writer of the Dark Court.

• The True Annihilation Pen Lord trapped Qin Yu in layered illusions that distorted his memories, his vision of authorship, and his judgment.
• Xiao Yue showed Qin Yu the illusions’ subtle delays, and he rewrote their flaws until all three layers collapsed.
• The True Annihilation Pen Lord fused with its heaven-spanning fountain pen and struck Qin Yu with an attack that dismantled his existence.
• Xiao Yue anchored Qin Yu’s collapsing sense of self, allowing him to use the World Creation Writing Pen to halt the erasure and alter the blade’s rule.
• Qin Yu and Xiao Yue rewrote the True Annihilation Pen Lord’s core and the old order sustaining it, causing the slaughter storm and fountain pen to disintegrate.
• The Dark Court’s darkness and space settled, and the extinguished True Annihilation Pen Lord left Qin Yu as its sole writer.

After stabilizing his Fate Soul with the Supreme Transformation Source Crystals, Qin Yu encountered the Supreme Eternal Stillness Seal in the restored Dark Court. The seal appeared in the deepest part of his sea of consciousness, leaving him with a new distance from definition but no increase in power.

• Qin Yu used the Supreme Transformation Source Crystals to stabilize his damaged Fate Soul and bring its scattered rule fragments into a new structure.
• The Realm of Darkness was restored, and a perfectly black sphere appeared at the center of the Dark Court.
• Xiao Yue identified the sphere as the Supreme Eternal Stillness Seal and explained that it predated creation and could return things to their state before definition.
• Qin Yu let a drop of origin blood fall onto the seal, and it vanished without merging with it.
• The seal appeared in the deepest part of Qin Yu's sea of consciousness, where his Dao marks and cognition shifted aside to make room.

Qin Yu integrated the Supreme Eternal Stillness Seal into his Fate Soul and gained its three divine abilities before discovering and absorbing the twelfth volume of the Beginningless Silent Origin True Scripture. As the Dark Court collapsed, he and Xiao Yue left through a mysterious barrier to check on Brother Shen, Miss Su, and the others.

• Qin Yu bonded with the Supreme Eternal Stillness Seal and incorporated its three divine abilities into his Fate Soul.
• Xiao Yue identified a newly formed ancient scroll as the Absolute Sealing Forbidden Wheel Scripture, the twelfth volume of the Beginningless Silent Origin True Scripture.
• Qin Yu absorbed the scripture into his Annihilation Devil Pupil · Final Spirit Core, where its forbidden wheel remained dormant until all thirteen volumes were gathered.
• The Dark Court began collapsing, and Qin Yu and Xiao Yue entered a mysterious barrier as he said he wanted to find out how Brother Shen, Miss Su, and the others were doing.
• The Realm of Darkness and its ancient book closed and vanished into the depths of the Endless Abyss.

Qin Yu emerged from the Endless Abyss in the Void Dharma Realm and reunited with Ye Wuhen, who invited him to the Boundless Realm Divine Sect. Ye Wuhen brought Qin Yu to the sect, whose rapid expansion had been funded by Qin Yu’s crystals, and then sent his disciples away to attend to their duties.

• Qin Yu appeared beside the Three Lives Stone, where Ye Wuhen recognized him and welcomed him after learning he had survived the Endless Abyss.
• Ye Wuhen introduced his four disciples to Qin Yu and revealed that he had reached Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme and become the sect’s grand elder.
• Ye Wuhen brought Qin Yu to the Boundless Realm Divine Sect and explained that he had spent Qin Yu’s more than one hundred million God-Level Resonance Crystals expanding and rebuilding it.
• Ye Wuhen ordered the four disciples to return to their duties while he took Qin Yu to meet the sect master.

Qin Yu met Lin Jingzhe at the Boundless Realm Divine Sect, where Lin offered him the position of vice sect master. After Qin Yu declined the restrictions of that role, he accepted the title of Unfettered Guest Heaven's Venerable and was welcomed at a grand banquet.

• Ye Wuhen introduced Qin Yu to Lin Jingzhe, who praised Qin Yu's generosity and rapid cultivation progress.
• Lin Jingzhe asked Qin Yu to become the sect's sole vice sect master, but Qin Yu refused because he preferred to travel freely.
• Ye Wuhen proposed making Qin Yu the Unfettered Guest Heaven's Venerable, a position with high status and no sect duties, and Qin Yu accepted.
• Lin Jingzhe declared Qin Yu the Boundless Realm Divine Sect's sole Unfettered Guest Heaven's Venerable and ordered a grand banquet.
• At the banquet, Lin Jingzhe announced Qin Yu's status to hundreds of thousands of disciples, and Qin Yu raised a toast with them.