Chapter Summaries

Chi Jun and the Chi Lineage group fought their way through a deadly Blue Flame Demon Wolf attack in the Desert of Forgetting. Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan wiped out much of the approaching pack with their powers, but more violent roars still advanced from the storm.

• Chi Jun refused to detour when fleeing cultivators and Blue Flame Demon Wolves appeared, warning his group not to split up.
• Chi Jun identified the beasts as Blue Flame Demon Wolves and led the Chi Lineage group in attacking the first wave.
• The Chi Lineage group defeated the first wave, but more than a hundred Blue Flame Demon Wolves charged from the sand sea.
• Shen Qingchen used Causality Severance to sever the wolves’ life-sustaining causality nodes, causing many to disintegrate.
• Su Qingyuan used Pre-Origin Tribulation Finger to erase more wolves from existence while keeping the Sheathless Blade sheathed.

The Chi Lineage encountered Breathing White Bones, a divine beast whose breath made living beings forget basic bodily functions. Chi Jun led his disciples in the Myriad Evolutions Return to the Ruins Formation and blocked its first exhalation, but several disciples were already gravely affected as the beast prepared to breathe again.

• Fleeing cultivators spotted the Chi Lineage banner and rushed toward it, while the Blue Flame Demon Wolves stopped attacking and howled together.
• A vast white mist emerged, stripping flesh from the dead and the living as Chi Jun ordered the Chi Lineage disciples to form the Myriad Evolutions Return to the Ruins Formation.
• Breathing White Bones rose from the mist, and its presence caused a fleeing cultivator to forget how to blink, swallow, and breathe before he died.
• Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan sensed that Breathing White Bones had reached True Annihilation Realm · Advanced Stage, while Chi Jun urged the disciples to stabilize their Fate Souls.
• Breathing White Bones exhaled mist toward the formation, and the twelve disciples raised the Primordial Fate Soul Wall to stop it.
• The barrier withstood the first exhalation, but three Chi Lineage disciples suffered Fate Soul damage and lost basic bodily instincts as Breathing White Bones began its second breath.

The Breathing White Bones unleashed a wave of forgetting, forcing Chi Jun and the Chi Lineage disciples to activate their formation and strike back. The beast survived the attack and transformed into a hundred-zhang skeletal figure with two lungs, leaving Chi Jun warning everyone to be careful.

• The Breathing White Bones released spores that made Chi Lineage disciples forget their names and cultivation, and Chi Jun used the Consciousness-Suppressing Ancient Mirror to stabilize them.
• Chi Jun ordered Shen Qingchen, Su Qingyuan, and Chi Linyuan to combine their Mystic Void origins and awaken the Myriad Evolutions Return to the Ruins Formation.
• Chi Jun activated the Nine Domains Void Annihilation Kill and hurled a colossal Return to the Ruins Divine Spear at the Breathing White Bones, blasting apart half its body.
• The Breathing White Bones regenerated by absorbing forgotten ones from the sand and grew to a hundred zhang tall, forming six bone limbs, a new featureless face, and a second lung.
• Chi Jun recognized that the Breathing White Bones had entered a second form and warned the Chi Lineage disciples to be careful.

Chi Jun and the Chi Lineage disciples poured their power into the Myriad Evolutions Return to the Ruins Formation to withstand the Breathing White Bones’ attacks. As the creature unleashed a power that erased the Desert of Forgetting, Chi Jun transformed the formation into its Final Return to the Ruins Form, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Chi Jun and the Chi Lineage disciples fed their origins into the formation as the Breathing White Bones began drawing in the Desert of Forgetting.
• The Breathing White Bones unleashed the Abyss of Lifelessness, tearing apart the formation and gravely injuring Shen Qingchen, Su Qingyuan, and the other disciples.
• Chi Jun slammed an ancient talisman into the formation’s core, causing the Breathing White Bones to stop its suction and expose its enormous lung.
• The Breathing White Bones coughed out its lung, which expanded and burst, sending a ripple of forgetting across the desert that erased the landscape and its laws.
• Chi Jun burned his True Annihilation Realm origin and transformed the formation into the Return to the Ruins Shattered Wheel, declaring its Final Return to the Ruins Form.

Chi Jun and the Chi Lineage survived Breathing White Bones’ devastating attack by activating the Myriad Evolutions World-Extinguishing Wheel, then recovered with Taiyan Soul-Returning Pills. They continued toward the Blank Rift Valley, entering the Desert of Forgetting’s core as the Forgetting River Bearer and Silent-Crying Kite drew near.

• Breathing White Bones sacrificed its body to unleash a ripple of forgetting that began erasing the Desert of Forgetting and its laws.
• Chi Jun pushed the Myriad Evolutions Return to the Ruins Formation to its limit and activated the Return to the Ruins Final Form: Myriad Evolutions World-Extinguishing Wheel.
• The wheel shattered the ripple of forgetting, annihilated Breathing White Bones, and crushed the Blue Flame Demon Wolves, but left the Chi Lineage severely injured.
• Chi Jun distributed Taiyan Soul-Returning Pills, and all twelve Chi Lineage members restored their Fate Soul origins and strength.
• Chi Jun led the recovered group deeper toward the Blank Rift Valley and warned that the region had entered the Desert of Forgetting’s core.

The Chi Lineage party reached the Blank Rift Valley and began collecting Fate String Mystic Liquid from its lake of myriad possibilities. When Chi Jun sensed they were being watched, a Silent-Crying Kite emerged from beneath the lake, and the disciples fled toward shore as it spread its wings.

• The Chi Lineage party saw the vast rift, its ancient corpses and blank boundary steles, and discovered the floating lake of Fate String Mystic Liquid.
• Chi Jun gave the disciples twelve Void Evolution Empty Cups and warned them to collect the mystic liquid according to the lineage’s proportions.
• Shen Qingchen, Su Qingyuan, and the other disciples used their Fate Soul abilities to guide the liquid into the cups and stabilize its many possibilities.
• After the third batch, Chi Jun sensed something watching them and ordered everyone to stop collecting.
• A Silent-Crying Kite rose beneath the lake, causing the disciples to forget their thoughts and briefly lose their sense of purpose.
• Chi Jun identified the kite and ordered a retreat, and the Chi Lineage disciples fled as it spread its wings.

The Silent-Crying Kite attacked the Chi Lineage by making its victims forget their memories and true names, but Chi Jun used the Myriad Names Soul-Returning Pearl to counter it. After the Kite emerged in its true form, Chi Jun and the others summoned the Myriad Stillness Heavenly Punishment Formation, which began dragging Blank Rift Valley into another layer of the realm.

• The Silent-Crying Kite’s first cry disrupted the Chi Lineage disciples’ memories and divine abilities, while Shen Qingchen heard a dead woman’s voice and began walking toward the lake.
• Su Qingyuan used the Pre-Origin Spirit-Awakening Art-Sever Delusion to break the Kite’s illusion and bring Shen Qingchen back to his senses.
• Chi Jun rang the Fate Soul World-Shaking Bell, stabilizing the disciples and briefly scattering the Kite’s memory-erasing influence.
• The Kite’s second cry began erasing the victims’ true names, so Chi Jun crushed the Myriad Names Soul-Returning Pearl and released its stored Fate Soul imprints to protect the Chi Lineage.
• The clash shattered the Fate String Mystic Liquid lake, revealing the Silent-Crying Kite’s true body, and Chi Jun ordered the disciples to form their killing formation.
• Shen Qingchen, Su Qingyuan, and the Chi Lineage disciples helped unleash the Myriad Stillness Heavenly Punishment Formation, which began pulling Blank Rift Valley into another layer of the realm.

Chi Jun and the eleven Chi Lineage disciples unleashed the Myriad Stillness Heavenly Punishment Formation against the Silent-Crying Kite, whose attack threatened to erase their names and memories. They destroyed the wounded beast and the Blue Flame Demon Wolves, then prepared to collect the Fate String Mystic Liquid and leave the dangerous valley.

• Chi Jun activated the formation’s first killing strike, and its Heavenly Punishment greatsword wounded the Silent-Crying Kite.
• Chi Jun discovered the kite’s Fate Soul was unstable and that it had come to heal an old, grievous injury with the Fate String Mystic Liquid.
• The Myriad Stillness Heavenly Punishment Ancient Soul emerged as the formation entered its second killing form, while the Silent-Crying Kite unleashed Eternal Silence of All Sounds.
• Chi Jun and the eleven Chi Lineage disciples activated the formation’s final form, Annihilation Heaven Severing, destroying the Silent-Crying Kite and killing the tens of thousands of Blue Flame Demon Wolves.
• After the disciples collapsed from exhaustion and Chi Jun confirmed they were safe, he ordered them to collect the Fate String Mystic Liquid and leave.

After collecting the Fate String Mystic Liquid, Chi Jun and the Chi Lineage disciples tried to leave the Desert of Forgetting but encountered the ancient Forgetting River Bearer. It recognized the presence their harvest was meant to nourish and agreed to let them go, but began to impose a condition.

• Chi Jun ordered the eleven Chi Lineage disciples to collect the Fate String Mystic Liquid in Void Evolution Empty Cups.
• After the lake was emptied, Chi Jun led the exhausted group toward the edge of the Desert of Forgetting.
• A colossal tortoise carrying a ruined city emerged from the sand, and Chi Jun identified it as the Forgetting River Bearer and ordered everyone to retreat.
• The Forgetting River Bearer confronted the group and asked why they had taken the Fate String Mystic Liquid.
• Chi Jun explained that the Chi Lineage had gathered it to nourish a hidden existence, and the Forgetting River Bearer revealed that it shared history with that being.
• The Forgetting River Bearer agreed to let the group leave, but paused before stating its condition.

The Forgetting River Bearer revealed that a mysterious army had enslaved the three divine beast supremes with talisman seals and asked Chi Jun’s group to destroy them inside the ancient city. Chi Jun learned the task required a Mortal Transformation Pill, but he had only one, and the chapter ended as Shen Qingchen stared toward a gaze within the city.

• The Forgetting River Bearer explained that it had wounded the Silent-Crying Kite and that a mysterious army had once forced the three divine beast supremes to fight each other.
• The Forgetting River Bearer revealed its breathing ancient city and asked Chi Jun’s group to tear apart three talisman seals within it.
• The Forgetting River Bearer explained that the seals were made with Annihilation-Construct Logic by someone beyond Above Limitless and reacted violently to cultivators.
• The Forgetting River Bearer said a Mortal Transformation Pill could make someone seem mortal long enough to enter the city and destroy the seals within half an incense stick’s time.
• The Forgetting River Bearer warned that going to the Chi Lineage would draw the mysterious army to them, while Chi Jun admitted he had only one Mortal Transformation Pill.
• Chi Jun privately doubted the Forgetting River Bearer’s account as Shen Qingchen looked toward the ancient city and sensed a gaze within it.

The Chi Lineage party discovered that the Forgetting River Bearer had deceived them to obtain the Mortal Transformation Pill, only for a remnant soul to reveal that it was the leader of a mysterious army. The creature shed its disguise as a Wuji Realm Source Flow Guardian and prepared to reclaim their Fate Soul origins, leaving Chi Jun and the others facing an enemy they could not defeat.

• Shen Qingchen sensed someone watching from the Forgetting River Ancient City, and Chi Jun warned the disciples to stay alert after his spiritual sense was struck by a backlash.
• The Forgetting River Bearer demanded the Mortal Transformation Pill and said Chi Jun could leave alone if the other disciples stayed behind, but Chi Jun refused and secretly prepared to fight.
• A cracked remnant soul warned Chi Jun that the Forgetting River Bearer led the mysterious army and urged him not to hand over the pill, so Chi Jun ordered everyone to retreat.
• Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan helped the Chi Lineage party escape the ancient city's range as the Forgetting River Bearer shattered its shell and city.
• A Source Flow Guardian emerged from the wreckage, revealed his Wuji Realm power, and declared that he would reclaim the party's Fate Soul origins.
• Chi Jun realized that the guardian had lured cultivators into the Desert of Forgetting to harvest them, while Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan sensed their powers being dismantled.

The Source Flow Guardian’s Origin-Returning Domain overwhelmed the Chi Lineage group, forcing Chi Jun to sacrifice his Fate Soul origin to strengthen the Myriad Stillness Heavenly Punishment Formation. As the formation neared collapse, Shen Qingchen discovered a flaw in the Guardian’s domain, Su Qingyuan drew the Sheathless Blade for the first time, and the group’s lifebound weapons began to awaken.

• The Source Flow Guardian unleashed the Origin-Returning Domain, which began erasing the Chi Lineage group’s Fate Soul structures, memories, and weapons.
• Chi Jun rallied the group and activated the seventh move of the Myriad Stillness Heavenly Punishment Formation, briefly holding back the domain.
• The Guardian’s second wave shattered the formation’s outer defenses, and Shen Qingchen used the Blank Dao Scroll to save a disciple from origin-returning erosion.
• Chi Jun burned his Fate Soul origin and infused its blood into the formation, urging the disciples to survive and tell the patriarch what had happened.
• The Blank Dao Scroll revealed a fissure in the Guardian’s domain, while Su Qingyuan drew the Sheathless Blade and the disciples’ lifebound divine weapons began awakening.

Chi Jun and the Chi Lineage disciples sacrificed themselves to unleash their forbidden formation and help Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan escape with the Fate String Mystic Liquid. The Source Flow Guardian destroyed them, then pursued the two survivors.

• Chi Jun ordered Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan to take the Fate String Mystic Liquid and retreat while the disciples handed over their vessels.
• Chi Jun used an ancient stele fragment to activate the Heaven-Burying Ancient Gate, and the Chi Lineage disciples burned their Fate Soul sources to attack the Source Flow Guardian.
• The Source Flow Guardian countered with Final Sequence of Origin Return · Myriad Dao Annihilation Flow, overwhelming the ancient gate and the formation.
• Chi Jun and the nine disciples opened a passage and forced Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan through it, urging them to return to the lineage and report what happened.
• The Source Flow Guardian annihilated Chi Jun and the nine disciples, then transformed into a golden stream and pursued Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan.

Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan fled the Source Flow Guardian through the Realm of No Time, where their injuries and the temporal chaos nearly overwhelmed them. Ju Lingyuan rescued them with healing pills, and as they escaped toward the Chi Lineage, she remained behind to face the pursuing Guardian.

• Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan entered the Realm of No Time while fleeing the Source Flow Guardian, and the unstable timelines worsened their injuries.
• Shen Qingchen urged Su Qingyuan to escape with the Fate String Mystic Liquid, but she refused to abandon him.
• Ju Lingyuan appeared, calmed the temporal rifts, and learned that the pair were disciples of the Chi Lineage who had lost Deacon Chi Jun and nine senior brothers.
• Ju Lingyuan gave Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan Temporal Sequence Life Restoring Pills, and they recovered enough to escape toward the Chi Lineage.
• The Source Flow Guardian caught up, and Ju Lingyuan faced it as it raised the Source Dao Wheel.

In the Realm of No Time, Ju Lingyuan confronted the Source Flow Guardian, who attacked her with a power that dismantled existence and returned it to its source. Ju Lingyuan halted his attack with One Finger Kong Ling, but the Guardian recovered and unleashed a second divine ability as the battle escalated.

• The Source Flow Guardian demanded that Ju Lingyuan stand aside and attacked her with Source Dao Returns to Stillness: Burial of Ten Thousand Worlds in the Flow.
• Ju Lingyuan used One Finger Kong Ling to halt the Source Dao Wheel and erase the golden source flow around the Guardian.
• The Source Flow Guardian restored his erased arm, acknowledged that Ju Lingyuan had hurt him, and prepared to fight seriously.
• The Source Flow Guardian unleashed Ten Thousand Sources Return to the Ruins, Heavenly Stillness Dao Burial, sending millions of Source Dao threads across the Realm of No Time.

Ju Lingyuan and the Source Flow Guardian fought across the collapsing Realm of No Time, each wielding power that could threaten the other. As the Guardian unleashed his Third Source Dao Unsealing, Ju Lingyuan summoned the Primordial Time Umbrella and declared that he would not leave.

• Ju Lingyuan used Fate Reverse Recitation to turn the Source Flow Guardian’s chronology backward, and their powers clashed until both were wounded.
• The Source Flow Guardian activated his Third Source Dao Unsealing and summoned the Source Court, causing the Realm of No Time to collapse.
• Ju Lingyuan revealed the Primordial Time Umbrella, a Primordial-grade temporal divine artifact refined by an ancestor of the Ju Lineage.
• Ju Lingyuan opened the umbrella, freezing time and restoring the shattered rivers of time as she confronted the Source Flow Guardian.
• Ju Lingyuan pointed the Primordial Time Umbrella at the Source Flow Guardian and declared that he would not leave.

Ju Lingyuan used the Primordial Time Umbrella to defeat and destroy the Source Flow Guardian in the collapsing Realm of No Time. After sensing that a hidden power had helped him cross the realm barrier, she left to investigate the possible involvement of the four ancient houses.

• Ju Lingyuan opened the Primordial Time Umbrella and froze the Realm of No Time, slowing the Source Flow Guardian and the Source Court’s projection.
• The Source Flow Guardian summoned the true Source Court and struck Ju Lingyuan, but her Ring of the Primordial shattered its Source Dao Wheels and grievously wounded him.
• The Source Flow Guardian unsealed his power and transformed into the Source Court True Body, then attacked Ju Lingyuan with a giant Return to the Source palm.
• Ju Lingyuan unleashed Eternal Silence Time Sea and Pupil of Silence, freezing the Source Court True Body and destroying the Source Flow Guardian and the Eye of Return to the Source.
• Ju Lingyuan sensed a distant response suggesting someone had helped the Source Flow Guardian cross the realm barrier, suspected the four ancient houses, and tore through the void to leave.

Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan reported Chi Jun and nine disciples’ deaths to Chi Boqian and showed the Chi Lineage elders the Source Flow Guardian’s power. The elders linked it to an earlier attack in the Azure Wood Divine Forest and feared it would use the Mortal Transformation Pill to infiltrate the realms, so Chi Boqian ordered a covert investigation and planned to warn the Nalan Lineage and Xuanyuan Lineage.

• Su Qingyuan and Shen Qingchen told Chi Boqian that the Source Flow Guardian had killed Chi Jun and nine disciples in the Desert of Forgetting, then presented the image crystal core and Fate String Mystic Liquid.
• The image showed Chi Jun’s final stand and the Source Flow Guardian manifesting the Source Court before the Origin-Returning torrent overwhelmed the group.
• Su Qingyuan told Chi Boqian that Ju Lingyuan of the Ju Lineage had saved them while the mysterious expert pursued them.
• Chi Boqian summoned the elders, who recognized the Source Flow Guardian’s Fate Soul presence as similar to that of the army that had wiped out Chi Lineage disciples in the Azure Wood Divine Forest.
• Chi Tianhong warned that the attackers sought the Mortal Transformation Pill to conceal their origins and infiltrate the realms, and Chi Boqian agreed that the pill must be protected.
• Chi Boqian ordered a highest-level covert investigation and decided to warn the Nalan Lineage and Xuanyuan Lineage, while Chi Tianhong planned to visit the Ju Lineage and thank Ju Lingyuan.

Qin Yu reunited with Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan in the Chi Lineage after they returned from a brutal battle, and the three went to celebrate in Stele Forest Imperial City. As they began their meal at the Heavenly Stele Divine Banquet Tower, Qin Yu sensed something within the ancient world tombstone watching him.

• Chi Ninghua told Qin Yu that Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan had returned, and they soon rushed into her garden to reunite with him.
• Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan grieved for Chi Jun and eight disciples who had fallen into Eternal Silence in the Desert of Forgetting, then marveled at Qin Yu's progress to True Annihilation Realm · Supreme.
• Qin Yu invited Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan to celebrate, and the three flew to Stele Forest Imperial City.
• Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan described the city's ancient tombstone, while Qin Yu sensed ancient narrative traces within it.
• The three entered the Heavenly Stele Divine Banquet Tower and sat down in a top-floor private room overlooking the city.
• As Qin Yu raised his wine cup, he sensed something inside the distant world tombstone glance at him.

Qin Yu reunited with Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan, who explained the Four Lineages' grand tournament and urged him to compete for the Chi Lineage. When Qin Yu sensed a presence watching him from the world tombstone, Shen Qingchen revealed it was the Chi Lineage's Dao-protecting Ultimate Beast Sovereign, Wanyan, while an inscription on the tombstone began to glow.

• Qin Yu shared a meal with Shen Qingchen, Su Qingyuan, and Xiao Yue, then asked about Shen Qingchen's family and the upcoming tournament.
• Su Qingyuan explained the tournament's purpose, named the leading prodigies, and described how the results affected the four lineages' rankings and resources.
• Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan encouraged Qin Yu to compete for the Chi Lineage and told him that Ju Lingyuan had won the Primordial Time Umbrella in the last tournament.
• Qin Yu sensed a growing presence watching him from the world tombstone and told Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan.
• Shen Qingchen revealed that the presence was Wanyan, the Chi Lineage's Source Dao Ultimate Beast Sovereign, as an inscription on the tombstone glowed again.