Chapter Summaries

Qin Yu overcame the Myriad Origins Return to Stillness Grand Formation by confirming that existence required no additional conditions, causing the formation to dissolve. In the ancient castle, a supreme treasure of cause and effect manifested, along with a karmic projection that prepared him for a deeper inheritance.

• Qin Yu endured the formation’s final layers, which erased perspective, reduced his fortune to zero, and removed his means of escaping death.
• Qin Yu recognized that the formation stripped away the conditions for existence and used Order Adjudication to confirm that existence needed no additional conditions.
• The Myriad Origins Return to Stillness Grand Formation disintegrated, and Qin Yu returned to the real space deep within the ancient castle.
• A supreme treasure manifested amid a vast network of karmic threads, and a shadowy figure coalesced at its center.
• The figure conveyed that cause and effect had been one from the beginning, revealing Qin Yu’s karmic paths as structures and preparing a deeper karmic inheritance.

Qin Yu merged with the origin of cause and effect, gained the Seal of Return to the Abyss, and left the great hall with his power fundamentally transformed. In another part of the ancient castle, Hua Yuening confronted Chi Ninghua after the two women entered the same palace.

• Qin Yu merged his Fate Soul with the origin architecture of cause and effect and transformed his causal paths into a field.
• The supreme treasure dissolved into Qin Yu's Fate Soul, forming the Seal of Return to the Abyss in place of the Book of Fate Law and Realm Severing Origin Brush.
• Qin Yu used his thoughts to dismantle lingering cause and effect, establish the Return to the Abyss Domain, and erase the array's remaining core.
• Qin Yu left the great hall and headed deeper into the ancient castle.
• Hua Yuening entered an ancient palace, and Chi Ninghua followed her inside.
• Hua Yuening accused Chi Ninghua of following her, and Chi Ninghua replied that the ancient castle did not belong to the Hua Lineage.

Xuanling Divine Huang appeared in the palace and sealed the surrounding space, trapping Hua Yuening, Chi Ninghua, and the other cultivators. Hua Yuening’s attempt to escape failed, leaving everyone facing the Chaos Source Beast with no way out.

• Dozens of True Annihilation Realm cultivators gathered around Hua Yuening and Chi Ninghua, waiting for their confrontation to weaken them.
• Xuanling Divine Huang emerged from a rift, and the cultivators recognized it as a Chaos Source Beast of the Dihuang bloodline.
• Hua Yuening judged that direct combat would be dangerous and tried to escape through space.
• Xuanling Divine Huang used Xuanling · Eternal Void Imprisonment to seal the palace and bounce Hua Yuening’s escape attempt back.
• Several cultivators tried to tear open spatial passages, but the passages vanished or sent destructive turbulence back at them.
• Hua Yuening, Chi Ninghua, and the other cultivators stopped moving as Xuanling Divine Huang surveyed them like trapped prey.

Xuanling Divine Huang trapped the cultivators in the palace and unleashed its Wheel of Judgment and annihilating crystal feathers. Hua Yuening and Chi Ninghua resisted the judgment while Qin Yu sensed the damage spreading through the laws and rushed toward the battlefield, as the feather attack erased more than ten cultivators.

• The trapped cultivators failed to break through the sealed space, while Hua Yuening and Chi Ninghua prepared their weapons to face Xuanling Divine Huang.
• Xuanling Divine Huang summoned the Wheel of Judgment and used True and False Judgment to expose and erase cultivators.
• Hua Yuening avoided the judgment by cutting through the boundary between reality and illusion, while Chi Ninghua disrupted the wheel's laws with a chaotic blade strike.
• Qin Yu detected the spreading damage to space and cause and effect, pinpointed its source, and hurried toward the battlefield along a path of cause and effect.
• Xuanling Divine Huang released Annihilation Feather Burial, erasing more than ten cultivators and grievously injuring others as they tried to defend themselves.

Hua Yuening ambushed Chi Ninghua while Xuanling Divine Huang’s attention shifted, but Chi Ninghua survived the attack by reanchoring her broken life sequence. As Xuanling Divine Huang pressed its judgment against her, Hua Yuening struck again, leaving Chi Ninghua near collapse beneath the still-turning judgment wheel.

• Hua Yuening used Severed Life · Void Sequence Annihilation to break Chi Ninghua’s life sequence, but Chi Ninghua reanchored it with Return to Origin · Ten Thousand Sequences Reanchoring and suffered severe injuries.
• After the last cultivator vanished within Feather Burial, Xuanling Divine Huang turned its attention to Hua Yuening and Chi Ninghua, while Hua Yuening prepared to fight at full strength.
• Chi Ninghua swallowed Supreme Transformation Source Crystals to stabilize her Fate Soul as Xuanling Divine Huang targeted her injuries with Xuanling · True and False Judgment.
• Chi Ninghua used Return to Origin · True Sequence Boundary Setting to resist the judgment, but its silver light began eroding her body and weakening her energy.
• While Chi Ninghua was occupied resisting Xuanling Divine Huang, Hua Yuening struck her with Stillness Flower · Final Burial Realm Severance, cutting away part of her existence and driving her into a desperate state.

Chi Ninghua used her ancient bell to halt Xuanling Divine Huang’s erasure attack long enough to escape through a secret passage. Hua Yuening and Qin Yu followed into the passage, leaving all three in pursuit of its hidden primordial treasure.

• Hua Yuening taunted the wounded Chi Ninghua as Xuanling Divine Huang targeted her with Annihilation Feather Burial.
• Chi Ninghua summoned her ancient bell and used it to anchor her existence, interrupting the feather arrows’ power to erase her.
• Chi Ninghua forced her way into a secret passage, and Xuanling Divine Huang furiously pursued her.
• Hua Yuening sensed a primordial Dao treasure in the passage and followed Xuanling Divine Huang inside.
• Qin Yu arrived in the palace, recognized Hua Yuening, and vanished into the passage after her.

Chi Ninghua reached the Origin-Returning Annihilation Pill at the end of the secret passage, while Xuanling Divine Huang, Hua Yuening, and Qin Yu converged on it. As they prepared to contend for the pill, Qin Yu recognized that its existence had yet to be completed.

• Chi Ninghua pursued a mysterious light through the crumbling passage as Xuanling Divine Huang surged after her and Hua Yuening used a spatial rift to close in.
• Qin Yu entered the passage and steadily followed the others toward the light.
• Chi Ninghua reached the pill and realized that touching it would pull her into an undefined primordial origin rather than grant her power.
• Xuanling Divine Huang arrived and fixed its attention on the pill, then Hua Yuening appeared and prepared to strike for it.
• Qin Yu arrived last and saw that the pill represented an existence that had yet to be completed.

Qin Yu, Hua Yuening, Chi Ninghua, and Xuanling Divine Huang converged on the Origin-Returning Annihilation Pill, while Qin Yu stayed outside the clash and waited for a chance to take it. As their powers collided, the pill’s position began to loosen.

• Hua Yuening confronted Qin Yu about following them, while Chi Ninghua secretly asked him to help keep the Origin-Returning Annihilation Pill from Hua Yuening and promised to hand it to him.
• Qin Yu agreed to take Chi Ninghua out, then stepped back as Xuanling Divine Huang, Hua Yuening, and Chi Ninghua rushed for the pill.
• Xuanling Divine Huang used Causal Incineration to burn the combatants’ causal paths and disrupt their ability to complete their actions.
• Hua Yuening used Boundary Law Rejudgment to restore her ability to act, while Chi Ninghua used Return of Fate Loop to bypass the flames and charge toward the pill.
• Qin Yu used Dream Stillness to isolate himself from the fighters’ powers and waited as their clash loosened the pill’s position.

Xuanling Divine Huang used Fate Wheel Stasis against Hua Yuening and Chi Ninghua, but both fought free while Qin Yu waited for an opening to claim the Origin-Returning Annihilation Pill. Chi Ninghua's supreme treasure created that opening, and Qin Yu seized the pill, only to be trapped between attacks from Xuanling Divine Huang and Hua Yuening.

• Xuanling Divine Huang used Fate Wheel Stasis to freeze Hua Yuening and Chi Ninghua, but Hua Yuening cut through her own fate and Chi Ninghua sacrificed her Fate Soul to keep moving.
• Chi Ninghua warned Qin Yu to prepare to seize the pill while he remained unaffected by the stasis and watched for an opening.
• Chi Ninghua summoned an illusory blade and used Silent Fate · Myriad Severances Return to the End to cut off the paths of Hua Yuening and Xuanling Divine Huang.
• Qin Yu claimed the Origin-Returning Annihilation Pill and reached for Chi Ninghua to escape with her.
• Xuanling Divine Huang broke through the termination mark and lunged at Qin Yu as Hua Yuening blocked his retreat, trapping him between their attacks.

Qin Yu unleashed Return to the Abyss and escaped through a spatial rift with the unconscious Chi Ninghua, aided by Xiao Yue. Xuanling Divine Huang survived its own return to oblivion and pursued Qin Yu, while Hua Yuening escaped with a grievous Fate Soul injury.

• Qin Yu awakened Return to the Abyss, which devoured the paths of Xuanling Divine Huang's attack and disrupted Hua Yuening's sword intent.
• Chi Ninghua burned the last of her Fate Soul to seal the battlefield, collapsed, and was caught by Qin Yu.
• Xiao Yue appeared and used Logical Chain Severance to dismantle the remaining attack paths, allowing Qin Yu to flee with Chi Ninghua through a rift.
• Xuanling Divine Huang compressed itself into a gray-white star and unleashed a tide of return to oblivion as Hua Yuening escaped inside her Realm Bell domain.
• Xuanling Divine Huang re-formed from its remaining origin, found Qin Yu's faint trace, and chased him through a spatial rift.

Qin Yu used the Origin-Returning Annihilation Pill and a Fate Soul array to stabilize Chi Ninghua’s failing Fate Soul, guiding her through the pill’s dangerous stages while Xiao Yue went to confront an approaching threat. Chi Ninghua survived and entered the Eternal Silence Realm Initial Stage.

• Qin Yu brought Chi Ninghua into the Still Realm Court Domain and formed the Abyss-Returning · Soul-Stabilizing Array Domain to keep her Fate Soul from disintegrating.
• Xiao Yue left to block two approaching enemies as Qin Yu began guiding Chi Ninghua to take the Origin-Returning Annihilation Pill.
• Qin Yu fed the pill into Chi Ninghua’s Fate Soul and used his own Fate Soul power to confine the annihilation threatening to tear her apart.
• Qin Yu severed Chi Ninghua’s ability to judge truth from falsehood and removed the meaning behind her instinctive urge to survive as the pill advanced through its stages.
• Qin Yu withdrew his control during the final stage, and Chi Ninghua awakened in Eternal Silence and reached the Eternal Silence Realm Initial Stage.

Chi Ninghua recovered and left to hunt Hua Yuening, while Qin Yu and Xiao Yue ventured deeper into the ancient castle. The Demonic Spirit erased Xuanling Divine Huang, and Chi Ninghua confronted Hua Yuening, declaring that the chamber would be her burial place.

• Chi Ninghua thanked Qin Yu for saving her, gave him her soul voice talisman, and went to kill Hua Yuening.
• Qin Yu and Xiao Yue left the Still Realm Court Domain to search deeper in the ancient castle for inheritance treasures.
• The Demonic Spirit trapped Xuanling Divine Huang, erased its existence, and then took the form of an ordinary-looking young man.
• Chi Ninghua entered Hua Yuening's secret chamber and declared that it would become Hua Yuening's burial chamber.

Chi Ninghua used Eternal Silence · Void Burial to erase Hua Yuening completely, then left to explore another region of the ancient castle. Qin Yu entered a hall where cultivators had gathered around an unknown opportunity, concealed his identity, and spotted Ju Wanning.

• Hua Yuening recognized that Chi Ninghua had reached the Eternal Silence Realm and prepared to fight.
• Chi Ninghua froze Hua Yuening in a black domain and slowly erased her body, consciousness, and all traces of her existence.
• Chi Ninghua concealed her presence and disappeared into an unknown region deep within the ancient castle.
• Qin Yu entered a vast hall where more than a hundred cultivators had gathered, disguising himself as an ordinary True Annihilation Realm · Intermediate Stage cultivator.
• Qin Yu noticed Ju Wanning, who had reached the True Annihilation Realm · Supreme, but kept his identity hidden and waited for the hall's opportunity to awaken.

The cultivators gathered in the hall witnessed a multidimensional cube reveal the legendary Silent Void Sword, while Qin Yu felt an ancient resonance between the weapon and Return to the Abyss. As the cube transformed the hall’s space and existence around them, the sword remained at its center and no one dared to move.

• The Dao Source Demonic Spirit entered the hall unnoticed as Chi Ninghua arrived and Ju Wanning congratulated her on reaching the Eternal Silence Realm.
• Chi Ninghua praised Ju Wanning’s progress, then elders of the Shangguan and Hua Lineages arrived and renewed the hall’s tense atmosphere.
• A mysterious cube rose from a fissure in the hall floor, displaying countless shifting scenes, runes, and dimensions.
• The cube unfolded to reveal the legendary Silent Void Sword, and a cultivator explained its connection to the ultimate destination beyond being and nonbeing.
• Qin Yu sensed a rare origin resonance between his Fate Soul and the Silent Void Sword, which was connected to the foundations of Return to the Abyss.
• The cube rearranged its faces and destabilized the hall’s space while the Silent Void Sword remained at its center, leaving the cultivators afraid to act.

The cube unfolded into twelve origin domains, where cultivators tested their resonance with different aspects of existence. Chi Ninghua reached the underlying source of divine arts in the Face of Skills, while Qin Yu recognized that all twelve domains came from one supreme true meaning and still did not choose a face.

• The cube opened into twelve origin domains, and a Mystic Void Realm · Supreme cultivator entered the Face of Souls and resonated with its sea.
• Cultivators began entering different faces, while Qin Yu stayed back to consider the nature of the choice.
• Chi Ninghua entered the Face of Skills and withdrew her perception from individual techniques to the possibilities beneath their rules, becoming an origin node for all arts.
• Other cultivators struggled with the faces of thoughts, karma, souls, dimensions, narrative, and observation, with some expelled and others barely enduring.
• Qin Yu watched the twelve faces and concluded that they were not separate origins but forms evolved from the same supreme true meaning.

Ju Wanning was expelled from the Face of Chaos, while Chi Ninghua mastered the Face of Skills and drew a faint response from the Silent Void Sword. Qin Yu then entered the Hongmeng Face despite warnings, leaving his fate unknown.

• Ju Wanning entered the Face of Chaos, where its primordial instability dismantled her power and Fate Soul until it ejected her back into the hall, injured.
• Chi Ninghua brought the techniques in the Face of Skills into order, prompting a faint connection with the Silent Void Sword before she returned to the hall transformed.
• Cultivators emerged shaken from the formation faces, and the crowd recognized the domains as dangerous origins rather than easy opportunities.
• Qin Yu fixed his attention on the Hongmeng Face and stepped toward it, despite the crowd's disbelief and warnings about his Mystic Void Realm cultivation.
• Chi Ninghua recognized Qin Yu and urged him to stop, but he calmly said he knew his limits and entered the Hongmeng Face.

Qin Yu entered the Hongmeng Origin and abandoned his established cultivation framework to glimpse the boundary between being and nonbeing. After agreeing to risk his Fate Soul to break through to the Supreme, he formed the profound truth of Initial Division of Being and Nonbeing, but the first tribulation, the Tide of Nonbeing, began erasing him.

• Qin Yu entered the Plane of Hongmeng, endured its rejection, and sat in meditation within the Sea of Nothingness.
• Qin Yu let Hongmeng reshape his understanding and heard that reaching the Supreme required crossing the Hongmeng Origin at the risk of his Fate Soul.
• Qin Yu agreed to attempt the crossing and came to understand that being and nonbeing were points along the same unfinished origin.
• Qin Yu formed the profound truth of Initial Division of Being and Nonbeing, triggering the Tide of Nonbeing.
• The first wave erased Qin Yu's body, and the second began dismantling his Mystic Void Realm · Middle Stage cultivation.

Qin Yu endured Hongmeng’s first tribulation by letting go of the need to resist, then rebuilt his Fate Soul and broke through to the Mystic Void Realm High Stage. He overcame the second tribulation by rejecting both a remnant’s push toward existence and the Annihilation Thunder Sound’s logic of inevitable annihilation, then called for the Hongmeng Origin to continue.

• Qin Yu let the third wave of the Tide of Nonbeing pass through him, surviving the first tribulation as his Fate Soul seed was preserved.
• Qin Yu reconstructed his existence in Hongmeng and reached the Mystic Void Realm High Stage, causing the Plane of Hongmeng to tremble and shocking the cultivators in the great hall.
• Qin Yu faced the second tribulation as the emergence of being tore at his Fate Soul, and he rejected a residual image that urged him to become a true existence.
• Qin Yu endured the Annihilation Thunder Sound by choosing to exist because he was willing to, completing his Fate Soul’s reconstruction and stabilizing his Mystic Void Realm High Stage.
• Qin Yu opened his eyes and urged the Hongmeng Origin to continue.

Qin Yu endured the third tribulation, transcended Being and Nonbeing, and reached the Hongmeng Origin, where his Fate Soul was completely remade. He returned to the hall with his cultivation stabilized at Mystic Void Realm · Supreme, drawing the Silent Void Sword’s response and the graceful man’s wary attention.

• Qin Yu sacrificed his memories and possessions to the altar of Nonbeing, then offered unrealized possibilities to the altar of Being and surrendered the last trace of himself.
• Qin Yu discovered pure existence beyond Being and Nonbeing, and the Hongmeng Origin formed within him as his body and presence took shape anew.
• Qin Yu crossed into Mystic Void Realm-Ultimate, shaking the hall and drawing the shocked reactions of Chi Ninghua, Ju Wanning, and the other cultivators.
• Qin Yu’s Fate Soul was reconstructed at the Hongmeng Origin, and he demonstrated that he could bring a world into being and erase it by allowing or denying its existence.
• Qin Yu returned to the hall as the Silent Void Sword resonated with him, prompting the graceful man to regard him with a faint sense of danger.
• Qin Yu stabilized his cultivation at Mystic Void Realm · Supreme.

Qin Yu and Chi Ninghua recognized that the unusually ordinary man possessed an uncanny Fate Soul presence just as the Silent Void Sword activated and divided the hall into twelve domains. Qin Yu, Chi Ninghua, and the Shangguan Lineage were trapped where the Root of Existence, the Face of Names, and Chaos overlapped, while Ju Wanning and the Hua Lineage faced a different domain; the cultivators were left scattered across the twelve worlds.

• Qin Yu emerged from the Plane of Hongmeng, and Chi Ninghua congratulated him on comprehending Hongmeng and attaining Supreme Mystic Void.
• Qin Yu and Chi Ninghua sensed an unnatural Fate Soul presence in the dashing man and agreed to remain wary of him.
• The cube opened, and the Silent Void Sword split into twelve phantoms that activated the twelve faces and drew the cultivators into the formation.
• The hall deconstructed into twelve separate domains, and the cultivators were assigned to different faces as the Silent Void Sword phantoms held them in place.
• Qin Yu, Chi Ninghua, and the Shangguan Lineage were trapped where the Root of Existence, the Face of Names, and Chaos overlapped.
• Ju Wanning and the Hua Lineage were trapped in a domain of Hongmeng, History, and Existence, where Ju Wanning experienced countless possible pasts and the dashing man remained unnaturally stable.