Chapter Summaries

Chi Ninghua faced a terrifying True Annihilation Realm being that descended into the Trial Realm and fought back after its powers nearly crushed her. She broke its collapsing domain and seized control of their battle as deadly clashes across the floating islands continued.

• A faceless being descended through a rift in the sky above Chi Ninghua’s island, and Chi Ninghua prepared to fight it.
• Chi Ninghua used True Annihilation · Reverse Order Realm Severing, but the being countered with Silent Ring · Return Severance and wounded her.
• The being unleashed Silent Realm · Ring Domain Collapsing Core, compressing Chi Ninghua and the island around her.
• Chi Ninghua used True Annihilation · Return to Origin, Split the Realm to break the core and tear apart the being’s spatial cage.
• Chi Ninghua shattered the being’s suppression and regained control of the battlefield as other experts across the Trial Realm were crushed, erased, or drawn into deadly battles.

Qin Yu waited on a sealed floating island for his opponent while Chi Ninghua fought three powerful enemies on another island. Chi Ninghua broke through to the True Annihilation Realm · Supreme, defeated her attackers, and continued toward the ancient palace.

• Qin Yu found that an invisible barrier prevented him from leaving his island, so he waited for his opponent to appear.
• Chi Ninghua faced a True Annihilation being and two Primordial Beast Dao Divine Venerables as they attacked her together.
• Chi Ninghua raised a formation to block the beasts’ attacks, but the True Annihilation being disrupted it and left her engulfed by flames and crushing pressure.
• Chi Ninghua unleashed a concentrated burst of Dao arts that destroyed the two beasts and grievously wounded the True Annihilation being as she advanced to the True Annihilation Realm · Supreme.
• Chi Ninghua used “True Annihilation · Final Realm Judgment Descent” to erase the wounded being’s existence.
• Chi Ninghua left the settled island and headed toward the ancient palace.

Qin Yu faced the chaos Source Beast Dihuang, the Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon, and used his techniques to overcome its first two divine abilities. The battle continued as distant cultivators watched in shock and fear of Qin Yu.

• The Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon descended onto Qin Yu’s island, and nearby cultivators feared he had no chance against it.
• The beast unleashed Breath of Return to Ashes, but Qin Yu destroyed the attack with Silent Origin Stainless Sword · Undefined Destruction Sword and Void Source · Dream Stillness.
• The beast used Truth and Falsehood in One Furnace to destabilize existence around Qin Yu, who compressed his five domains into an Existence Zero Point and erased the ability with another sword strike.
• The Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon faltered after losing its second divine ability, while distant cultivators retreated and began treating Qin Yu’s island as a forbidden zone.

Qin Yu endured the Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon’s attacks by countering its Dao arts with the five domains and his Fate Soul. After the dragon revealed its final form, the surrounding floating islands fled, exposing themselves as living beings or shells of powerful Primordial Beast Dao Divine Venerables.

• The Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon unleashed Existence and Nonexistence Burn Together, and Qin Yu used an Existence Zero Point to absorb the flames and stop the ring.
• The dragon used Karma Burial to sever cause and effect, trapping Qin Yu and the other cultivators in a state where their actions could produce no results.
• Qin Yu rebuilt the logic supporting his actions, used Three Forms of Fate Construction-Existence Erasure, and slashed a rift through the karmic fault line.
• The Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon transformed into its final Source Beast form, surrounding the island with destructive pressure.
• The nearby floating islands moved away, and cultivators discovered that the islands were living beings or shells of powerful Primordial Beast Dao Divine Venerables.

Qin Yu endured the Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon’s attacks and damaged its source core, then learned that the floating islands were awakened beings testing the cultivators. The dragon revealed that the ancient castle held a supreme treasure and cultivation-method inheritance, and promised Qin Yu entry ahead of the others if he survived its final two moves.

• The Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon tried to strip Qin Yu’s name and identity, but Qin Yu rebuilt his self-definition and struck the dragon’s wing and source core with his sword.
• The dragon recognized Qin Yu’s resolve, while Qin Yu used Supreme Transformation Source Crystals to recover from his injuries.
• The dragon awakened the beings hidden beneath the floating islands, forcing cultivators across the region into battles that determined who could advance.
• Qin Yu and the dragon prepared to resume their confrontation, and the dragon told him that only it could open the ancient castle, where a supreme treasure and cultivation-method inheritance were hidden.
• The dragon offered Qin Yu a head start into the castle if he withstood its final two moves, and Qin Yu accepted before asking the senior to begin.

Qin Yu endured the Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon’s attacks and destroyed its Tide of Source Destruction, earning the dragon’s approval. The dragon sent him into the depths of the castle to seek its master’s inheritance while other cultivators entered through the opened gates.

• The Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon attacked Qin Yu with the six wheels of samsara, but Qin Yu cut into the attack’s origin and fought on despite being badly wounded.
• The dragon transformed into a Tide of Source Destruction that began erasing the world, and Qin Yu used his five domains and Undefined Destruction Sword to sever the dragon’s source and end the tide.
• The Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon praised Qin Yu and sent him directly into the castle’s deepest reaches, where he arrived in a vast inner hall.
• The floating battlefield disappeared, the ancient palace’s seals crumbled, and cultivators rushed through its open doors.
• The Source-Destruction Sacrificial Dragon hoped Qin Yu would obtain its master’s inheritance and supreme treasure before vanishing with the Demonic Bats.

Hua Yuening and Chi Ninghua led their clans into the ancient castle to search for supreme treasures, while Shangguan Lingxiao failed to break through a powerful formation. Seven True Annihilation Realm cultivators attacked him together, leaving him badly wounded and completely suppressed.

• Hua Yuening sent the Hua Lineage elders to search the castle while she rushed deeper inside, and Chi Ninghua dispatched the Chi Lineage elders before pursuing her.
• Shangguan Lingxiao tried several methods to break the golden lotus formation, but each attempt failed and its suppressive power drove him back.
• Seven cultivators confronted Shangguan Lingxiao and challenged his claim to the formation.
• Shangguan Lingxiao drew his dark-gold blade as the seven attackers unleashed their divine abilities together.
• The seven combined attacks wounded Shangguan Lingxiao and drove him into a corner, where he struggled to defend himself against their continuing assault.

Shangguan Lingxiao killed one of the six cultivators, then faced the remaining five with their primordial Dao treasures. When they unleashed their full power, he invoked the Primordial Limitless Pearl and annihilated them along with himself, leaving the passage empty.

• Shangguan Lingxiao used Name Severance and Return to Annihilation to erase one of the seven cultivators from existence.
• The remaining six cultivators summoned their primordial Dao treasures and attacked Shangguan Lingxiao together.
• Shangguan Lingxiao swallowed a dark-red pill, fought back with the World Severance · Origin-Returning Blade, and endured the sixfold assault.
• The six cultivators burned their Fate Souls and unleashed forbidden divine abilities, forcing Shangguan Lingxiao to the brink of destruction.
• Shangguan Lingxiao summoned the Primordial Limitless Pearl, reflected the annihilation powers, and dragged all six cultivators into a point of clear emptiness.
• The resulting collapse annihilated Shangguan Lingxiao and the six cultivators, and the passage reformed without leaving any trace of them.

A mutually destructive blast opened the hidden passage to the castle’s core, drawing Ju Wanning and hundreds of cultivators inside. Qin Yu studied a vast super formation elsewhere while the passage’s layered hazards killed many of those who entered.

• A blast shattered restrictions throughout the castle, and cultivators from across its halls rushed toward its source.
• The blast opened a secret passage, and Ju Wanning used karmic traces to witness Shangguan Lingxiao’s death before entering it.
• Hundreds of cultivators converged and charged into the passage, where shifting paths and lethal formations began killing them.
• Qin Yu cautiously studied the vast super formation in the castle’s deepest hall, mapping its structure without entering it.
• The passage’s overlapping powers of chaos, primordial force, the Great Dao, source power, and finality slaughtered cultivators as the survivors advanced deeper.

Ju Wanning encountered the Moonwheel Soul-Congealing Ancient Tree and underwent a vision that brought her state of mind to a stable foundation. As cultivators rushed toward the tree, its spirit appeared, froze them, and sealed the area around Ju Wanning.

• Ju Wanning approached the ancient tree, whose light resonated with her Fate Soul and drew her into a vision of her childhood courtyard.
• Ju Wanning witnessed countless possible paths and futures, then rejected a predetermined trajectory by shifting away from it.
• Ju Wanning examined powers of mastery in an empty expanse and touched a root-like thread, anchoring her state of mind.
• The ancient tree formed a willing connection with Ju Wanning as she stood motionless beneath it.
• Dozens of cultivators entered the tree's domain, but the ancient tree spirit appeared and froze them in place.
• The spirit strengthened the tree's light, shutting out the outsiders and making Ju Wanning's location the sole center of the space.

Cultivators discovered Ju Wanning beneath the Moonwheel Soul-Congealing Ancient Tree and argued over whether to attack her while she comprehended its Dao. The tree spirit crushed the assault as Ju Wanning unified her Fate Soul, leaving the remaining cultivators facing one another as the conflict remained unresolved.

• A cultivator explained that the ancient tree was tied to an unfinished Dao beyond True Annihilation, and the crowd debated whether to seize it from Ju Wanning.
• The cultivators split into attackers and defenders, while the ancient tree spirit strengthened its protection around Ju Wanning, who remained unaware.
• Several cultivators attacked Ju Wanning and the tree, but the spirit redirected their abilities, suppressed their power, and erased one attacker.
• Ju Wanning examined her past and possible paths, formed a full moonwheel, and achieved an exceptionally stable unification of her Fate Soul.
• The ancient tree accepted Ju Wanning, dozens of cultivators withdrew to seek other opportunities, and the cultivators who stayed faced off again.

Ju Wanning absorbed the ancient tree’s origin, reached True Annihilation Realm · Supreme, and restored the ancient tree spirit as her companion. As they advanced deeper into the secret passage, an unbound Dao origin secretly emerged and fled farther ahead.

• The cultivators attacked the ancient tree spirit, but she crushed their divine abilities and turned their attacks back on them.
• Six cultivators burned their Fate Soul Nuclei and destroyed the ancient tree spirit, but moonlight from the tree’s core awakened Ju Wanning with a complete soul nucleus.
• Ju Wanning suppressed and annihilated the surviving cultivators, then absorbed the ancient tree and its authority into a moonlight mark.
• Ju Wanning used a trace of the tree’s existence to restore the ancient tree spirit, who formed a stable connection with her and followed her deeper into the passage.
• After Ju Wanning and the ancient tree spirit departed, a pure Dao origin emerged where the tree had stood and fled farther into the secret passage.

Qin Yu dismantled the Chaos Origin-Tracing Formation by tracing the tendency behind its shifting structures and striking its origin node. Its collapse triggered the Hongmeng Dao Dharma Formation, which enclosed him in a primordial realm governed by an evolving Dao order.

• Qin Yu studied the Chaos Origin-Tracing Formation and let its unstable structures approach so he could record how they formed and collapsed.
• Qin Yu anticipated the formation's shifting nodes and disrupted its operation until he identified the origin-tracing node.
• Qin Yu struck the origin-tracing node, causing the Chaos Origin-Tracing Formation to collapse completely.
• The formation's backlash opened a fissure and brought forth the Hongmeng Dao Dharma Formation.
• The Hongmeng Dao Dharma Formation enveloped Qin Yu in a primordial realm and began constructing its own system of Dao order around him.

Qin Yu deciphered and broke the Formless Heavenly Emanation Formation by shattering the True Annihilation Stone, though the effort left him injured. A new True Intent Delusionless · Supreme One Dao Proving Formation then emerged and began exposing his thoughts.

• Qin Yu studied the Hongmeng Dao Dharma Formation, identified its shifting core node, and named it the Formless Heavenly Emanation Formation.
• Qin Yu defeated the beings created by the formation, striking their structural nodes before their attacks could fully form.
• Qin Yu endured the formation’s powers of annihilating form, obliterating awareness, and Return to the Ruins, then cracked the True Annihilation Stone with his Fate Soul power.
• Qin Yu unleashed Void Source · Dream Stillness and shattered the True Annihilation Stone with Undefined Destruction Sword, breaking the formation and suffering injuries.
• The True Intent Delusionless · Supreme One Dao Proving Formation appeared, and its white light began revealing Qin Yu’s thoughts and stripping away distractions.

Qin Yu passed the True Intent Formation and entered the Mystic Void Realm Middle Stage, then destroyed the formation with his newly clarified power. A new trial began as the Great Dao Formation emerged deeper in the hall.

• The True Intent Formation exposed Qin Yu’s attachments and forced him to confront who he was without the drive to advance.
• Qin Yu let go of his fixation on reaching nothingness, and his Fate Soul naturally formed the Mystic Void Realm Middle Stage.
• Qin Yu halted the formation’s confirming power, then shattered the True Intent Dao Crystal and destroyed the True Intent Formation with his sword.
• The Primordial Imperial Ultimate · Myriad Daos Return to Reverence Formation appeared, revealing a crimson-gold throne, nine dragon pillars, eighty-one auxiliary formations, and a golden seal.

Qin Yu dissolved the Myriad Phenomena Return to Extinction Formation by letting go of the need to distinguish truth from falsehood, then encountered a formation that revealed the Great Dao's origins. As he approached its primordial center and the paths of the Dao began to converge on his Fate Soul, a white-haired old man appeared and faced him.

• Qin Yu closed his eyes and stopped resisting or analyzing the Myriad Phenomena Return to Extinction Formation, causing its layers to stall and its mirrors, pearls, and black crystal to vanish.
• Qin Yu entered the deeper hall as a new formation manifested, revealing the Great Dao's paths and a point of primordial origin.
• Qin Yu let the paths of time, space, and other Great Daos pass through his consciousness as he moved toward the formation's center.
• A white-haired old man appeared before the primordial origin, and Qin Yu stopped as the formation and the Great Dao fell still.

Qin Yu entered the Great Dao formation, where the white-haired elder revealed that its trial required him to sever his own Dao. As the Shadow of the Great Dao reclaimed his cultivation, Qin Yu struck at his foundations and finally brought his third sword down along the original starting point of existence, touching the Great Dao’s deepest logic.

• The white-haired elder told Qin Yu that the formation tested whether he could sever his own Dao and warned that fully severing it would also erase the one who asked what remained.
• The elder summoned the Shadow of the Great Dao, which embodied Qin Yu’s Dao, and Qin Yu stepped into the collapsing formation’s core.
• The Shadow began reclaiming Qin Yu’s Dao trajectories, so Qin Yu’s first sword cut the trajectory that sustained continuity in his Fate Soul.
• Under the elder’s pressure, Qin Yu struck again, severing his Dao Path, his desire to grow stronger, and the foundations of his cultivation.
• As the Shadow dragged Qin Yu toward namelessness, he withdrew into the untouched root of existence and brought down a third sword, causing the origin of the Great Dao to freeze briefly.

Qin Yu destroyed the Shadow of the Great Dao by striking from the point of origin, then rebuilt his existence after losing his Dao. He entered the next trial, the Myriad Origins Compass, where a nameless silence began to redefine existence.

• Qin Yu used his undefined point of origin to sever the Shadow of the Great Dao and nearly dissolved along with it.
• A faint fluctuation of origin restored Qin Yu and unfolded the Mystic Void Realm anew as the Great Dao’s true body collapsed.
• The white-haired elder praised Qin Yu, said he was nearing the master's inheritance, and watched as the Great Dao Formation vanished.
• Qin Yu stepped into a higher domain and found himself atop the Myriad Origins Compass, where narrative connections, certainty, identity, and names began to unravel.
• A black stone stele appeared at the compass’s center with the words “A land without a master, a silence without words,” as indistinct figures emerged around the formation.
• A voice in Qin Yu’s sea of consciousness declared that all things returned to origin and silence, and that anyone entering the formation would lose their defined existence.

Qin Yu endured the Myriad Origins Return to Stillness Grand Formation’s Narrative Stripping by separating his actions from any expected progression, then faced its second layer, Causal Equalization. After the formation erased the power and identities of cultivators who entered, Qin Yu recognized its full structure and continued his confrontation with it.

• The Myriad Origins Compass activated Narrative Stripping, severing Qin Yu’s actions from their consequences and breaking apart the fragments of his past and possible futures.
• Qin Yu stopped trying to connect actions into a process, allowing each movement and segment of his Fate Soul’s circulation to exist independently.
• The formation activated Causal Equalization, making every possible outcome of Qin Yu’s actions equally probable and leaving none inevitable.
• Several cultivators entered the formation domain, where the formation stripped away their power and distinguishing features until they became ordinary passersby.
• Qin Yu saw the full structure of the Myriad Origins Return to Stillness Grand Formation, with the Nameless Abyss at its center, and continued confronting it.

Qin Yu endured the formation’s Setting Deconstruction by rebuilding his powers from a single origin, then resisted Name Deprivation by anchoring his identity within his Fate Soul. He stepped into the Nameless Abyss beneath the black stele, where his special qualities were stripped away and the next layer of suppression began to descend.

• The Myriad Origins Compass activated Setting Deconstruction, dismantling Qin Yu’s powers and reducing their foundations to ordinary phenomena.
• Qin Yu used the original book intent of the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter to rebuild his powers from a fundamental origin the formation could not fully dismantle.
• The black stele triggered Name Deprivation, stripping away Qin Yu’s appellations and severing the connection between his name and Fate Soul.
• Qin Yu wrote an unremovable anchor point in his Fate Soul and used Naming Reconstruction to establish an internal name independent of external recognition or records.
• Qin Yu stepped within three zhang of the stele, where the Nameless Abyss unfolded and began stripping away everything special about him.