Chapter Summaries

Qin Yu lured Shang Kui, three Soul Splitters, and Feng Qingyu into his ambush in the Soul Poison Remnant Realm and killed them. When two powerful Soul Hunting Army judges arrived, Qin Yu awakened the Azure Ring’s third secret move and annihilated them before returning to the sect with Zhou Yu.

• Qin Yu accepted the Soul Poison Remnant Realm purge mission and secretly prepared a three-layer ambush there.
• Shang Kui entered the realm with Zhan Hunchen, Shi Guyang, Yan Tongwang, and Feng Qingyu to kill Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu used his arrays and Zhou Yu’s Abyss Lightning Soul Shaking to defeat the group, then killed Shang Kui with a spear thrust.
• Xuan Yuankui and Hei Moxie arrived and attacked Qin Yu and Zhou Yu, injuring Zhou Yu before Qin Yu healed him with a divine pill.
• Qin Yu awakened Silent Origin · Spirit Retracing Abyss and annihilated both Soul Hunting Army judges by striking their soul origins.
• Qin Yu and Zhou Yu returned to the sect after the battle.

After Qin Yu returned to the Thousand Realms Sect, the Shang Lineage, Wind Extinction God Clan, Soul Hunting Army, and Nether Firmament Underworld Sect converged over his fate. Soul General Lin Yao arrived with twelve thousand soldiers and demanded Qin Yu’s death, while Qin Yu’s allies stood between him and the invading forces.

• Zhou Yu told Qian Ruishan and Yao Wanqing how Qin Yu had slain the powerful enemies in the Soul Poison Remnant Realm, including Shang Kui and two peak fifth-stage experts.
• Shang Haochen, Zhu Chensi, and Feng Yunzui learned of their forces’ deaths, and Feng Yunzui sent Feng Yi to confront Qin Yu.
• Shang Hao and Feng Yi arrived at the Thousand Realms Sect and demanded Qin Yu, but Qian Xuancang and the sect’s disciples refused to hand him over.
• The Soul Hunting Army’s Yan Li, Ming Sha, and Zhu E joined the standoff, while Qian Ruishan, Zhou Yu, and Yao Wanqing vowed to defend Qin Yu.
• Ming Yuan of the Nether Firmament Underworld Sect declared that Qin Yu had to remain with them, but Soul General Lin Yao arrived with twelve thousand soldiers and declared that Qin Yu must die.
• Qian Ruishan vowed Lin Yao would have to step over her corpse, and Qin Yu raised his head with unwavering resolve.

The Thousand Realms Sect prepared to defend Qin Yu from the Soul Hunting Army, the Wind Extinction God Clan, and the Shang Lineage, then fought them as their siege began. Qin Yu killed Shang Hao with one Ring Spear thrust, leaving the battle still raging.

• Ming Yuan and Qian Xuancang rallied the Thousand Realms Sect, while Qian Xuancang ordered the sect-defending arrays activated and Qian Ruishan volunteered to anchor the main array.
• The three allied armies attacked the sect, but Qian Ruishan, Zhou Yu, and Ming Ye repelled assaults on the western and eastern fronts.
• Soul General Lin Yao struck the grand array with his halberd as the Thousand Realms Sect activated its defenses and its top experts joined the battle.
• Shang Hao confronted Qin Yu to avenge Shang Kui, and Qin Yu killed him with Ring Spear · Sever Cause, Return to Silence.

The Thousand Realms Sect fought off the Soul Hunting Army, the Shang Lineage, and the Wind Extinction God Clan with help from allied sects, but Feng Jingyuan overwhelmed the defenders. Ming Zhen and Qin Yu challenged him before Ling Jingxi arrived and destroyed the enemy forces; the chapter ended with the sect rebuilding and Qin Yu reflecting on her return.

• After Qin Yu killed Shang Hao, Lin Yao ordered the Soul Hunting Army to attack the Thousand Realms Sect, and the sect raised its Qianxuan Ten Thousand Fates Formation to resist.
• Qin Yu killed Hei Wuming with Ring Spear · Ultimate Fourth Form, but Feng Jingyuan appeared and the allied armies grew to more than thirty-five thousand troops.
• The Divine Flame Radiant Realm and Thunder Prison Mystic Gate arrived to defend the sect, but Feng Jingyuan defeated Venerable Yanyou, Elder Tingjin, and Lin Yao's attack, killing the first two and gravely injuring Lin Yao.
• Qian Xuancang activated the Realm-Summoning Nine-Seal Array, while Ming Zhen emerged from seclusion and fought Feng Jingyuan, forcing him to bleed before being blasted back.
• Qin Yu struck Feng Jingyuan with Silent Origin · Eternal Severance of Heaven's Balance, but Feng Jingyuan swallowed an Annihilation Divine Pill and broke through to the second stage of Silent Origin.
• Ling Jingxi arrived and annihilated Feng Jingyuan, the Shang Lineage, and the Soul Hunting Army; afterward, the survivors rebuilt the Thousand Realms Sect as Qin Yu watched Ling Jingxi depart.

After the Thousand Realms Sect’s victory over three lineages, Qin Yu and Qian Ruishan prepared to leave for the Nether Firmament Underworld Sect to continue cultivating. As they began their journey, Qin Yu revealed the people and places he hoped to return to, while Ling Jingxi watched over him from afar and accepted her place as his fellow traveler.

• Ling Jingxi departed after promising to clear obstacles from Qin Yu’s path, and the Thousand Realms Sect drew crowds seeking refuge after its victory.
• Qian Xuancang sent Qian Ruishan, Qin Yu, Zhou Yu, and Yao Wanqing with Ming Yuan to the Nether Firmament Underworld Sect, and he gave Qin Yu a jade slip that could guide him to the true Source Realm.
• Qin Yu and Qian Ruishan confessed their feelings, and Qin Yu kissed her before they set out from the Thousand Realms Sect.
• On the journey, Qin Yu told Qian Ruishan about Mu Qingwan in the Divine Abyss Realm and his mother, Qin Yu, on the Great Yan Continent; Qian Ruishan said she wanted to meet them and accompany him.
• Ling Jingxi watched Qin Yu and Qian Ruishan from afar, acknowledged Qian Ruishan’s place beside him, and left the Thousand Realms Sect without appearing there again.

Qin Yu and his companions entered the Nether Firmament Underworld Sect, where Grand Venerable Mingxu examined Qin Yu and recognized the awakened will within Qian Ruishan. As the group settled into the sect, Qian Ruishan resonated with an ancient soul diagram, while Ming Zhen sensed that Qin Yu was impossible to peer into.

• Ming Yuan brought Qin Yu, Qian Ruishan, Zhou Yu, and Yao Wanqing into the Nether Firmament Underworld Sect and led them to meet Grand Venerable Mingxu.
• Grand Venerable Mingxu identified Qian Ruishan's twin-soul physique and saw a mysterious young woman's awakened will within her.
• Ming Yuan settled the group at the Fallen Soul Ancient Residence and brought them to the Soul Diagram Residence to test their resonance with the sect's soul diagrams.
• The Silent Fire Soul Diagram responded to Qian Ruishan, while Qin Yu concealed the faint hum of the Azure Ring within his sea of consciousness.
• Ming Zhen arrived, sensed Qian Ruishan's unusual soul and Qin Yu's impenetrable emptiness, then invited them to the Sect Master's main peak.

Qin Yu, Qian Ruishan, Zhou Yu, and Yao Wanqing faced the Nether Firmament Underworld Sect’s soul trials, each confronting a personal test and awakening or strengthening their soul powers. They emerged with new paths and bonds as the ancient trials stirred interest within the sect.

• Qin Yu, Qian Ruishan, Zhou Yu, and Yao Wanqing passed the Soul Tower’s pressure test and qualified for the sect master’s personal evaluation, while Qian Ruishan’s unusual soul stirred an ancient resonance.
• Qin Yu overcame illusions of those he had failed to save and advanced his soul consciousness to the forefront of the fifth level.
• Qian Ruishan defeated the shadow of her unawakened self after Qin Yu’s voice encouraged her, prompting her second soul to cry out for the first time.
• Zhou Yu endured Lightning Ancestor Xiao Li’s trial, earned the Key of the Lightning Soul, and perfected the third level of the Nine Abyss Silent Lightning Canon; Yao Wanqing joined him, and their lightning souls resonated.
• Yao Wanqing confronted an illusion of Zhou Yu’s death and her sect’s destruction, awakened the Resolute Heart Soul Imprint, and completed the trial with a Heavenly Vein · Shared Resolve rating.

Qin Yu dominated the Soul Bell Altar, while Qian Ruishan, Zhou Yu, and Yao Wanqing revealed rare soul powers in their trials. At the Nether Blood Soul Refining Pool, their soul marks transformed the formation, and Qin Yu’s presence awakened an ancient sealed phantom before Ming Yuan suppressed it; Ming Zhen then turned his attention to Qian Ruishan.

• Qin Yu reversed the Nether Soul Azure Bell’s soul pressure and forced it into submission, while the unseen Azure Ring devoured part of the Soul Bell’s soul-causality patterns.
• Qian Ruishan reached the eighth stage of the Soul Bell trial, and her second soul stirred during the Blood Soul Refining Pool trial before retreating into her soul palace.
• Zhou Yu pierced the Soul Bell stages with his thunder soul, then altered the formation core with his lightning oath and established a new Lightning Soul Dao inheritance.
• Yao Wanqing revealed her Moon-Folding Butterfly Fate Soul at the altar and earned an Emotion Soul Mark in the pool by reflecting on her heart and swearing to guard another.
• Qin Yu’s soul power made the formation core yield and loosened an ancient seal, releasing a dark-red phantom that Ming Yuan suppressed with the Nine Abyss Soul Suppression Talisman.
• Ming Yuan warned that Qin Yu might become unmatched in the Spirit Firmament Great Realm, while Ming Zhen watched Qin Yu and then looked toward Qian Ruishan.

Grand Venerable Mingxu revealed that Qian Ruishan’s second soul was tied to the Stele of the Silent Realm and suspected Qin Yu was an orphan beyond the soul. During the Wheel-Breaking Prison-Rending Realm trial, Qian Ruishan awakened the Soul of the Returning Wheel, while Qin Yu’s Azure Ring neutralized the realm’s soul-contract power and advanced Silent Origin; the group returned with new mysteries surrounding their souls.

• Grand Venerable Mingxu told Qin Yu and Qian Ruishan that their souls were connected to ancient secrets and ordered the group to begin the Wheel-Breaking Prison-Rending Realm trial in three days.
• Ming Zhen watched the group from the Heavenly Soul Stele Forest and expressed interest in Qin Yu and Qian Ruishan’s potential.
• Ming Yuan, Ming Ye, the elders, and the priests opened the Soul Contract Judgment Remnant Realm, where an ancient soul-contract will tested Qin Yu, Qian Ruishan, Zhou Yu, and Yao Wanqing.
• Qian Ruishan activated the Severed Realm Soul-Judging Wheel, awakening the will of her second soul, the Soul of the Returning Wheel.
• A seventh-generation soul slave’s remnant attacked Qin Yu, but he used Silent Origin: Wheel-Breaking Seal to neutralize it, and the remnant scattered.
• After the group returned, Qin Yu sensed Silent Origin’s fourth move fully engraved and its fifth move forming, while Ming Zhen studied him and Qian Ruishan from the Soul Repository.

Qian Ruishan underwent the Sealing Soul Tower’s seven-realm trial and united the seven parts of her second soul, becoming the Nether Firmament Underworld Sect’s Returning Soul Chief Envoy. She emerged with a completed Soul Return structure and stood beside Qin Yu, while Ming Zhen remained unable to discern the mystery of Qin Yu’s soul.

• Ming Zhen emerged from the Sealing Soul Tower and announced that Qian Ruishan could earn the sect’s recognition by passing the tower’s main formation trial.
• Qian Ruishan chose to take the trial for herself and entered the seven-realm heart of the Sealing Soul Tower.
• Qian Ruishan broke through the realms of obsession, sorrow and joy, resentment, devotion, betrayal, and despair by affirming her resolve and love for Qin Yu.
• Qian Ruishan rejected the fate realm’s terms, shattered the Soul Stele, and united the seven souls into one, completing the main Soul Return pattern.
• Ming Zhen recognized Qian Ruishan’s success but questioned Qin Yu’s identity after sensing an unknown trace in her soul markings.
• Qian Ruishan returned to Qin Yu’s side as a Soul Return master and told him, “I’m back.”

Zhou Yu and Yao Wanqing passed the Sealing Soul Tower’s trials, revealing extraordinary soul abilities and earning places in the Nether Firmament Underworld Sect’s battle sequence. Qin Yu then entered the soul-sacrificing formation, whose inability to record his soul awakened an ancient formation tower and established him as the sect’s future of the Soul Realm.

• Zhou Yu passed the Lightning Soul Life Return Formation’s three trials, received the Lightning Ancestor Remnant Seal, and was named to the sect’s Soul Battle Sequence.
• Yao Wanqing broke through the Heavenly Soul Reverse Mark Formation, revealed her dual-soul physique, and was appointed chief of the sect’s battle sequence.
• Qin Yu entered the soul-sacrificing formation, where the elders discovered that his formless soul root could not be recorded by the formation.
• The Azure Ring restored Qin Yu’s connection to the rebelling formation, allowing it to guide him to the ancient formation core.
• Qin Yu awakened the thousand-year-old Black Gold Three Souls Formation Tower and the sect’s oath to defend the person who awakened it.
• Ming Yuan knelt and pledged to follow Qin Yu, while the sect recognized his standing in the soul path.

Qin Yu awakened the Black Gold Three Souls Formation Tower, uncovering its connection to his unknown origins and Qian Ruishan’s previous life. Named leader of the Nether Firmament Underworld Sect’s expedition to the Silent Sorrow Ancient Soul Forest, he departed with his companions and accompanying elders aboard the Nether Soul Heavenly Boat.

• Qin Yu awakened the ancient tower and learned that entering its heart could trace his soul origin back three thousand epochs, while the Azure Ring resonated with the tower.
• Grand Venerable Mingxu welcomed Qin Yu as a main-hall elder, and the tower revealed three sealed souls and the thousand-year sacrifice of a sect daughter who had been Qian Ruishan in a previous life.
• Qian Ruishan recognized the call of her former life, and the awakened tower’s power left Qin Yu unconscious as the Azure Ring quietly loosened its seal.
• Mingxu summoned Qin Yu and his companions, announcing an expedition to the Silent Sorrow Ancient Soul Forest for Silent Origin Relic Fragments and warning of powerful beasts and the lurking Epoch Immortal Clan.
• Mingxu appointed Qin Yu to lead the sect’s trial group and assigned five Realm Lord Realm elders under Ming Tong to accompany them.
• The Nether Firmament Underworld Sect launched its Nether Soul Heavenly Boat, carrying Qin Yu’s group toward the ancient forest.

Qin Yu and the Nether Firmament Underworld Sect arrived at the Silent Sorrow Ancient Soul Forest, where rival powers gathered over the possible opening of the Silent Origin Soul Tomb. As hostile clans threatened Qin Yu and Qian Ruishan, the Divine Flame Radiant Realm and Thunder Prison Mystic Gate formed an alliance with the Nether Sect for the trial.

• Qin Yu boarded the Nether Soul Heavenly Boat with Qian Ruishan and the others, and the boat carried them toward the Silent Sorrow Ancient Soul Forest as Qin Yu sensed a stirring within the Azure Ring.
• Qin Yu and Qian Ruishan reaffirmed that they would face future dangers together, while Ming Ye watched the forest in silence.
• Ming Ye, Ming Tong, and Ming Kong led the Nether Sect's disciples into the ancient forest, where a thousand-year-old remnant formation began to revive and rival factions arrived seeking the Silent Origin relic.
• Venerable Feng Yanxing, the Xuanyuan Tower Envoy, and Yuan Jin each threatened Qin Yu or Qian Ruishan, setting the rival groups against the Nether Sect.
• Venerable Yanyou and Lei Wuyuan offered alliances to Ming Tong's group, and Lei Wuyuan pledged that the factions would face the trial together.

The group entered the Silent Sorrow Ancient Soul Forest, where Qin Yu killed the Silent Soul Ape King with one strike. A Soul-Sealing Transfer Formation then scattered them into separate deadly regions, while Qian Ruishan's second soul continued to awaken and an ancient dark blue blood source stirred deep in the forest.

• Ming Ye and Ming Kong led the group through the forest's ghost wind field as Qian Ruishan sensed a connection to her past life and Qin Yu shielded her Qi fluctuations.
• Qin Yu killed the Silent Soul Ape King with the Ring Spear, causing the other soul beasts to flee and astonishing the assembled disciples and elders.
• Qian Ruishan told Qin Yu that her second soul was calling to her from deep in the forest as the group continued onward.
• Ming Tong identified the bronze-gray mist as an Upper Origin Era Soul-Sealing Transfer Formation, which activated and scattered the group across five regions.
• Qin Yu faced a Soul Erosion Crawler Beast in an ancient valley, while Qian Ruishan, Zhou Yu, Yao Wanqing, Ming Kong, and Ming Ye encountered separate dangers in their new locations.
• Ancient clan elders recognized the formation as the Chaotic Realm Soul Seal, while a drop of dark blue blood stirred at the core of the ruined formation.

Qin Yu defeated a strange beast in the ancient forest, then followed Chi Lan and Chi Yuankui to the Abyss of Spectral Souls, where a ghostly mirror produced powerful counterparts that killed them. The Azure Ring trembled as Qin Yu watched the mirror, leaving him to face the mystery of its manufactured counterparts.

• Qin Yu used the Ring Spear to defeat a three-headed beast, then emerged in the Black Bone Abyss.
• Qin Yu hid and watched Chi Lan and Chi Yuankui kill a Rift Feather Gold Soul Zheng.
• Qin Yu followed the twins into a forbidden valley, where they found a floating stone mirror with a ghostly blue eye.
• The mirror produced counterparts of Chi Lan and Chi Yuankui, who attacked them with evolved versions of their own techniques.
• The counterparts fused and killed Chi Lan and Chi Yuankui, then devoured their remains.
• Qin Yu emerged from hiding and sensed the Azure Ring tremble as he studied the mirror.

Qin Yu defeated the mirror’s crimson counterpart with the Azure Ring, then was pulled into the Abyss of Origin Destruction and forcibly bound the World-Destroying Divine Sword, Origin Destroyer, to his soul. He learned that the mirror was a fragment of the sword and discovered its ten severance techniques.

• Qin Yu fought the crimson being reflected in the mirror, countering its soul and time attacks with his Silent Origin and Ring Spear techniques.
• Qin Yu used the Azure Ring’s Void-Breaking Extreme Slash to destroy the mirror being, causing the mirror realm to collapse and pull him into the Abyss of Origin Destruction.
• Qin Yu encountered Origin Destroyer, whose will nearly erased him, but the Azure Ring stabilized his soul and forcibly fused the sword with him.
• Origin Destroyer explained that the mirror was a fragment of its power and that Qin Yu’s altered reflection had drawn its will back.
• Qin Yu discovered the ten Origin Destroyer Severance Forms, including techniques that erased an enemy’s existence, fate, soul, power, and place in the narrative.

Qian Ruishan fought and defeated a Soul Jiao in the Soul Mist Convergence Sea, where her dormant Second Soul began to awaken. Drawn into the Ice Soul Underground Palace, she claimed Icy Cold Pierces the Realm, became its master, and joined it with her First Soul as two main souls sharing one platform.

• Qian Ruishan battled the Soul Jiao, resisting its soul attacks and briefly drawing on power from her stirring Second Soul.
• Qian Ruishan used World-Freezing Chains to suppress the Soul Jiao's soul tide, then struck it down with the Cold Stamen Ice Tassel as her Second Soul manifested.
• A vortex dragged Qian Ruishan to the bottom of the Soul Sea, where she discovered the Ice Soul Underground Palace and entered its gates.
• The Ice Soul Empress's soul shadow named Qian Ruishan a returnee of the seventh lineage and embedded Icy Cold Pierces the Realm into her soul platform.
• Qian Ruishan faced the soul source's trial in a realm of ice mirrors, accepted her own cold, and became the master of Icy Cold Pierces the Realm.
• Qian Ruishan manifested her First Soul and Icy Cold Pierces the Realm together as twin main souls and declared that the ice realm was complete.

After Qian Ruishan awakened her twin souls, a domain transfer brought her to Zhou Yu in the Lightning Abyss Soul Well, where they fought Venerable Feng Yanxing and his five followers. The Azure Thunder Lightning Hunter chose Zhou Yu, who formed a soul pact with it and became a Thunder Hunter Pact Master.

• Qian Ruishan's twin-soul awakening triggered a domain transfer that carried her into Zhou Yu's lightning-sealed soul well.
• Venerable Feng Yanxing and five Blazing Soul Clan cultivators confronted Zhou Yu and Qian Ruishan, claiming the secret domain and demanding their souls.
• Zhou Yu was badly wounded by the five cultivators, while Qian Ruishan used her awakened second soul to injure Feng Yanxing.
• The Azure Thunder Lightning Hunter appeared and forced Feng Yanxing and his followers to retreat.
• Zhou Yu resonated with the Nine Abyss Silent Lightning Canon, entered the Realm Consciousness Realm, and formed a soul pact with the Azure Thunder Lightning Hunter.

Zhou Yu and Qian Ruishan reunited with Yao Wanqing in the Soul Abyss Stele Prison, where their awakened powers triggered the release of an ancient soul remnant. After they weakened it, Yao Wanqing awakened her Fate Soul, the Mystic Mirror Ice Soul, and learned its five combat skills.

• Zhou Yu and Qian Ruishan were teleported to the stele array, where they reunited with Yao Wanqing and revealed their newly awakened souls.
• The stele array opened when the three souls converged, releasing an ancient remnant thought that threatened to destroy them.
• Zhou Yu and the Azure Thunder Lightning Hunter joined forces with Qian Ruishan and Yao Wanqing to weaken the soul shadow and drive it back into the stele abyss.
• Yao Wanqing's sealed Fate Soul awakened as the Mystic Mirror Ice Soul, and she shared a tender moment with Zhou Yu.
• Yao Wanqing discovered the Mystic Mirror Ice Soul's five combat skills and recognized that she had begun her own path forward.

Ming Kong and Ming Ye were forced by the Netherworld Ancient Lamp to fight each other in soul illusions until Qin Yu restored their recognition and destroyed the lamp. A hidden soul book then elevated their cultivation and granted them three Soul Arts before transporting all three away as the cave collapsed.

• Ming Kong and Ming Ye were drawn into the Gloomy Abyss Ancient Cave, where the Netherworld Ancient Lamp stripped their memories and set them against each other.
• Qin Yu entered the cave and used the Azure Ring to reconnect Ming Kong and Ming Ye’s memories, ending their battle.
• Qin Yu shattered the Netherworld Ancient Lamp, revealing the ancient book Soul Nether Reflection · Ethereal Realm Nether Body beneath its pedestal.
• The soul book raised Ming Ye to Realm Consciousness Realm · Fifth Stage Perfection and Ming Kong to Realm Consciousness Realm · Fourth Stage Perfection, while granting them three secret Soul Arts.
• As the cave collapsed, the soul book transported Qin Yu, Ming Kong, and Ming Ye away through a fissure passage.