Chapter Summaries

Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan explained the four lineages’ Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang and revealed that they were projections of the Void Emanation Realm. They also described treasures guarded in higher domains, while Xiao Yue’s reaction hinted that she had once seen a Source Realm Primordial Source Supreme Treasure.

• Shen Qingchen told Qin Yu that the Ju Lineage guarded Boundless Abyss and the Chi Lineage guarded Wanyan, which Qin Yu sensed watching him from the world tombstone.
• Shen Qingchen described Mystic Deconstruction and Nameless, the Huang guarded by the Shangguan and Hua Lineages, and an ancient inscription on the world tombstone began to glow.
• Su Qingyuan explained that the four Huang were projections of the Void Emanation Realm and recited a warning against understanding, remembering, or naming them.
• Shen Qingchen told Qin Yu that the Supreme Transformation Primordial Domain’s four lineages guarded Source Dao Transcendence Supreme Treasures, while the Baili and Ouyang Lineages guarded Source Realm Primordial Source Supreme Treasures in the Supreme Stillness Domain.
• Xiao Yue reacted with shock and said she had seen a Source Realm Primordial Source Supreme Treasure once, recalling an ancient Realm Sea.

Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan told Qin Yu about the immense powers of the Source of Epochless Upper Layer, and Qin Yu confirmed he would enter the four great lineages’ martial tournament. Su Qingyuan then warned him against traveling to the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest and revealed that a mysterious expert had killed Deacon Chi Jun and nine senior brothers during their mission.

• Shen Qingchen described the upper layer’s divine beast, treasure, and clan hierarchies, while Su Qingyuan listed its rare pills.
• Shen Qingchen said the martial tournament was about six months away before he passed out, and Su Qingyuan clarified that it was about seven months away.
• Qin Yu said he would enter the tournament and planned to visit the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest, but Su Qingyuan urged him to stay in Stele Forest Imperial City.
• Su Qingyuan revealed that a mysterious expert had killed Deacon Chi Jun and nine senior brothers while she and Shen Qingchen were returning from collecting Fate String Mystic Liquid.
• Su Qingyuan offered to send Qin Yu the image of the unknown expert from her soul sense.

Su Qingyuan shared her memory of the Source Flow Guardian devastating the Chi Lineage, and Qin Yu arranged for her to take the sleeping Shen Qingchen back. At the Heavenly Emanation Divine Pavilion, Qin Yu and Xiao Yue studied the recording and prepared for Qin Yu to seek the Supreme Transformation Source Crystals in the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest.

• Su Qingyuan showed Qin Yu a memory of the Source Flow Guardian destroying the Chi Lineage’s forces with the Origin-Returning Domain and Source Court World-Suppressing Wheel.
• Qin Yu teased Su Qingyuan about her closeness with Shen Qingchen, and she admitted she had visited his home many times and thanked Qin Yu for bringing them together.
• Qin Yu told Su Qingyuan to take the drunken Shen Qingchen back to the Chi Lineage and said he would contact Chi Ninghua about meeting for the grand competition in seven months.
• Qin Yu took Xiao Yue to a luxurious inn and showed her the recording of the Source Flow Guardian’s appearance for the Chi Lineage’s Mortal Transformation Pill.
• Qin Yu said he needed to reach the Eternal Silence Realm within seven months and planned to search the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest for its Supreme Transformation Source Crystals.
• Qin Yu and Xiao Yue decided to buy a map of the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest the next day.

Qin Yu sought a complete map of the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest at the Heavenly Secrets Dao Pavilion and learned that many cultivators had already gone there chasing a rumor of vast Supreme Transformation Source Crystals. He discovered that none of them had returned in nearly a month, leaving him wary of what awaited in the forest.

• Qin Yu and Xiao Yue entered the Heavenly Secrets Dao Pavilion, where an attendant initially looked down on Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu asked to buy a complete map of the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest, startling the attendant and prompting him to consult the shopkeeper.
• Qian Weiyi, the pavilion’s second shopkeeper, personally brought Qin Yu upstairs to discuss the map.
• Qian Weiyi told Qin Yu that a rumor of enormous Supreme Transformation Source Crystal deposits had drawn many cultivators into the forest.
• Qian Weiyi revealed that the cultivators had left nearly a month earlier and none had returned, making Qin Yu cautious.

Qin Yu bought the complete map of the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest for ten thousand Supreme Transformation Source Crystals and set out for the forest. Three True Annihilation Realm cultivators pursued him across a swamp, and Qin Yu accelerated to escape them.

• Qian Weiyi warned Qin Yu that cultivators who entered the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest a month earlier had not returned, but Qin Yu insisted on buying the map.
• Qian Weiyi named a price of ten thousand Supreme Transformation Source Crystals, and Qin Yu paid it without hesitation.
• A mysterious woman told Qian Weiyi to keep watching Qin Yu and promised to meet him if he returned safely from the forest.
• Three black-robed cultivators watched Qin Yu leave the Heavenly Secrets Dao Pavilion, then followed him out of Stele Forest Imperial City.
• Qin Yu reached a gray-black swamp and sensed three True Annihilation Realm cultivators pursuing him, so he surged forward at several times his former speed.

Qin Yu confronted the Three Great Vajras of the Ancient God Clan, who demanded the supreme treasure he had acquired from Shopkeeper Qian. He dismantled their strongest divine ability and left the three cultivators facing him with caution and anger.

• The Three Great Vajras tracked Qin Yu to a swamp and demanded that he hand over the treasure he had traded for at the Heavenly Secrets Dao Pavilion.
• Qin Yu learned that his pursuers belonged to the Ancient God Clan and recalled his history with the clan.
• Second Brother attacked Qin Yu with the Ancient God World-Burying Seal, a divine ability meant to suppress and refine its target.
• Qin Yu used the Heavenly Cause Judgment Order · Six Severances Seal to expose and dismantle the foundations of Second Brother's divine ability.
• Second Brother suffered backlash and warned the other two that Qin Yu had erased the logic underlying his attack.
• Qin Yu mocked the Three Great Vajras, angering them as they reconsidered his abilities.

Qin Yu overcame the Ancient God Clan’s three guardians, dismantling their sacred blood and severing their Fate Soul Nuclei. As the guardians neared defeat, an ancient Devil Creature began emerging through their bodies, leaving Qin Yu facing their transformation.

• The three guardians attacked Qin Yu with their True Annihilation abilities, but he diverted their attacks and appeared unharmed.
• Qin Yu summoned the Silent Origin Stainless Sword, prompting the guardians to unleash their Ancient God Sacred Blood and grow stronger.
• Qin Yu used the Realm-Severing Source Pen to dismantle the guardians’ sacred blood and followed with the No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword, shattering their manifestations and severing their Fate Soul Nuclei.
• As the guardians lay near death, their bodies convulsed and transformed as an ancient Devil Creature began breaking free through them.
• Qin Yu recognized the Ancient God Clan’s forbidden devil transformation as the three guardians lost their reason and fixed their black eyes on him.

Qin Yu destroyed three demonized Ancient God Clan experts and continued toward the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest. There he discovered that its path would strip away parts of his self until he reached the No-Self Realm, where the forest asked whether he would keep himself or abandon himself.

• Qin Yu used the Causeless Disillusionment Sword to break the three ancient gods' forbidden attack, then severed their demonization and erased them with the Undefined Destruction Sword.
• A masked figure arrived after Qin Yu left, praised his strength, and said the head shopkeeper had judged him correctly before disappearing through a rift.
• Qin Yu followed his map to the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest, where hundreds of versions of himself appeared along the path.
• Xiao Yue emerged from Qin Yu's sea of consciousness as he realized that defeating each version would permanently strip part of his personality and emotions from his Fate Soul.
• The No-Self Realm hall appeared, and a voice from the forest asked Qin Yu whether he would keep himself or abandon himself.

Qin Yu and Xiao Yue entered the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest, where a force steadily eroded their sense of self and left past cultivators as empty remnants. After Qin Yu cut through a veil of mist, they discovered a mountain made entirely of Supreme Transformation Source Crystals and a strange figure waiting on its summit.

• Qin Yu and Xiao Yue entered the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest and realized it was stripping away their sense of self.
• A projection identical to Qin Yu questioned his reasons for cultivating, but Xiao Yue destroyed it with her Blue Ring divine ability and shielded them with starlight.
• Qin Yu and Xiao Yue found the remains of cultivators whose identities and memories had been erased, and Qin Yu's attempt to examine a Fate Soul remnant nearly blurred his own sense of self.
• Qin Yu used the Historyless Void Severance Sword to split the gray-white mist and reveal a towering mountain covered in Supreme Transformation Source Crystals.
• Qin Yu spotted a figure on the mountain's summit, and it turned toward him with a strange smile.

Qin Yu and Xiao Yue discovered that the mountain of Supreme Transformation Source Crystals was a living ancient existence, just as the Myriad Ruins Dragon Turtle and Xuanji Primal Spider descended into the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest. The three Primordial Beast Luminaries appeared to be waiting for something, and the ancient existence suggested that the newcomers talk.

• Qin Yu sensed extreme danger as the crystal-covered mountain began to rise, and he retreated with Xiao Yue to hide behind a fractured mountain range.
• The mountain opened a vast eye and revealed itself as a living ancient creature, which detected Qin Yu and spoke of being disturbed from its secluded cultivation.
• A spatial rift opened, and the Myriad Ruins Dragon Turtle emerged, throwing the surrounding space into chaos.
• The Xuanji Primal Spider appeared and spread a web of Stillness Light Threads that exposed illusions and hidden truths throughout the forest.
• Qin Yu and Xiao Yue recognized the three Primordial Beast Luminaries and watched as the crystal-covered ancient existence addressed the other two, suggesting they talk.

The Myriad Ruins Dragon Turtle and Xuanji Primal Spider confronted the divine mountain elder over an ancient map said to lead to Origin Divine Huang, then attacked him when he denied possessing it. As the three Primordial Beast Luminaries battled, Qin Yu hid from three powerful newcomers who planned to ambush the wounded beasts.

• The divine mountain elder denied having the ancient map, but the Myriad Ruins Dragon Turtle and Xuanji Primal Spider accused him of hiding it and challenged him to fight.
• The three Primordial Beast Luminaries revealed their true forms and fought, devastating the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest with their attacks.
• Qin Yu sensed unfamiliar Fate Soul presences approaching, hid Xiao Yue in his sea of consciousness, and concealed himself in super-five-dimensional space.
• Three black-robed Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme figures arrived and hid near the battlefield, planning to attack the Primordial Beast Luminaries after they were gravely injured.
• Qin Yu watched the hidden newcomers and suspected that the real conflict was only beginning.

The divine mountain behemoth defended itself against the Myriad Ruins Dragon Turtle and Xuanji Primal Spider while they fought over an ancient map. After revealing that the map was hidden in one of its Supreme Transformation Source Crystals, it fled, leaving its pursuers and Qin Yu amid a sky full of identical crystals.

• The Myriad Ruins Dragon Turtle erased spatial coordinates while the Xuanji Primal Spider attacked with its Appearance-Stripping Shuttle, but the divine mountain behemoth blocked both attacks with Wanyan Heavenly Treasury · All Realms Unfallen.
• The Myriad Ruins Dragon Turtle used Return to the Ruins Zero-Point Burial to collapse the space around the divine mountain behemoth.
• The Xuanji Primal Spider discovered that the behemoth's defense redirected attacks through a single hidden core source point and prepared a lethal strike.
• The Myriad Ruins Dragon Turtle and Xuanji Primal Spider demanded that the divine mountain behemoth hand over the ancient map, and it revealed the map was sealed inside one Supreme Transformation Source Crystal.
• The divine mountain behemoth scattered tens of trillions of Supreme Transformation Source Crystals and escaped through a void rift, leaving Qin Yu and the two Primordial Beast Luminaries to face the crystal rain.

As the Myriad Ruins Dragon Turtle fought off three Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme experts, Qin Yu noticed a strange Supreme Transformation Source Crystal that seemed to react to the ancient map in his possession. The Xuanji Primal Spider sensed something too and fixed its gaze on Qin Yu’s hiding place.

• The Myriad Ruins Dragon Turtle and the Xuanji Primal Spider searched countless Supreme Transformation Source Crystals for the sealed ancient map.
• Three Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme experts ambushed the Myriad Ruins Dragon Turtle to seize the crystals, and it retaliated with Boundless Realm Severance Abyss.
• The three attackers used defensive techniques to withstand the Dragon Turtle’s first wave of spatial severance while the Xuanji Primal Spider continued searching.
• Qin Yu and Xiao Yue remained hidden in super-five-dimensional space as Qin Yu spotted a stationary crystal containing a fine crack and pale golden light.
• The crystal trembled, and the ancient map in Qin Yu’s sea of consciousness responded as Xiao Yue noticed the connection.
• The Xuanji Primal Spider paused its search and locked its gaze on Qin Yu’s location.

The Myriad Ruins Dragon Turtle and the Xuanji Primal Spider fought over a special Supreme Transformation Source Crystal that appeared to contain an ancient map. The crystal instead held a dormant destructive logic that annihilated the Myriad Ruins Dragon Turtle and devastated the others, while Qin Yu watched from super-five-dimensional space.

• The Myriad Ruins Dragon Turtle and three Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme experts rushed toward the trembling crystal, while the Xuanji Primal Spider tried to stop them with its Stillness Light Realm-Sealing Web.
• The Myriad Ruins Dragon Turtle broke free of the experts’ seals, revealed its second form, and seized the crystal before the Xuanji Primal Spider attacked and knocked it loose.
• The Xuanji Primal Spider captured the crystal and fled, but the Myriad Ruins Dragon Turtle struck it, reclaimed the crystal, and forced its divine sense into the core.
• The Myriad Ruins Dragon Turtle discovered that the crystal contained a self-destruct divine ability rather than an ancient map, and the destructive logic annihilated it.
• The blast badly wounded the Xuanji Primal Spider and the three Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme experts, devastated the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest, and left Qin Yu shaken by how narrowly he had avoided the crystal.

The divine mountain man revealed that the special Supreme Transformation Source Crystal had been a trap, then killed the Xuanji Primal Spider with Taiyan World-Burying Mountain. He confronted three injured Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme experts, and their battle began as they attacked him together.

• The divine mountain man emerged after the destruction and revealed that he had planned to kill the Myriad Ruins Dragon Turtle and the Xuanji Primal Spider with a trap.
• The Xuanji Primal Spider tried to flee, but the divine mountain man trapped it in a formation and crushed it beneath Taiyan World-Burying Mountain.
• The divine mountain man demanded that the three Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme experts hand over their storage crystal cores before leaving.
• The three experts refused and launched their divine abilities against the divine mountain man.
• The divine mountain man summoned Taiyan Realm Suppressing Seal, whose mountain domain withstood the experts' combined assault.

The divine mountain's manifested form revealed the Taiyan Ancestral Mountain and used it to overwhelm the three Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme experts and their life-bound treasures. As the three burned their Fate Soul sources to unleash the Eternal Talisman Seal, the divine mountain's manifested form realized they intended to take him down with them.

• The divine mountain's manifested form summoned the Taiyan Ancestral Mountain, a source supreme treasure sealed away for a million epochs.
• The three experts brought forth the Nine Hells Heaven Suppressing Pagoda, the World-Ending Fading Sun Mirror, and the Myriad Tribulations Blood Wheel to confront it.
• Qin Yu and Xiao Yue watched from super-five-dimensional space and decided to wait until the battle had weakened its participants.
• The divine mountain's manifested form expanded the Taiyan Ancestral Mountain and used it to crush the three experts' treasures, leaving the men injured and desperate.
• The leading expert chose the forbidden Eternal Talisman Seal, and all three burned their Fate Soul sources to summon ancient blood-colored seals.
• The Taiyan Ancestral Mountain's power briefly dimmed, and the divine mountain's manifested form realized the three intended to take him down with them.

After destroying the three Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme experts and their ancestors’ residual images, the wounded divine mountain absorbed Supreme Transformation Source Crystals to recover. Qin Yu secretly planted a killing restriction in one crystal, then discovered that a purple-gold crystal emerging from the mountain resonated with the ancient map given to him by the Lotus Pond Fairy.

• The three experts sacrificed their Eternal Talisman Seals to summon their ancestors’ residual images, but the divine mountain destroyed them with Myriad Epochs Return to the Ruins.
• The shattered seals triggered a backlash that annihilated all three experts, while the divine mountain survived with severe injuries and cracks in its treasure.
• The divine mountain returned to its original form and swallowed Supreme Transformation Source Crystals from across the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest to heal itself.
• Qin Yu sent Xiao Yue into his sea of consciousness and planted a hidden causal killing restriction inside a crystal headed toward the divine mountain.
• A purple-gold Supreme Transformation Source Crystal emerged from the mountain, and the Lotus Pond Fairy’s ancient map flew out of Qin Yu’s sea of consciousness and resonated with it.

Qin Yu followed the divine mountain to a hidden ancient world, where it revealed one half of an ancient map while the map Lotus Pond Fairy had given him revealed the other. As the two scrolls resonated, Qin Yu secretly activated a cognitive prison inside the divine mountain and waited for it to take effect.

• After the divine mountain vanished from the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest, Qin Yu followed the causal anchor he had planted in a Supreme Transformation Source Crystal to a hidden ancient world.
• Qin Yu found the divine mountain chained atop an altar, where it broke the seals on a purple-gold source crystal and revealed the Scroll of Causal End.
• The ancient map Lotus Pond Fairy had given Qin Yu unfurled as the Scroll of Thought-Locking Void, and the two scrolls resonated across the distance.
• Qin Yu realized the two maps were halves of one ancient map and judged that he could not challenge the divine mountain directly.
• Qin Yu quietly used Causal Deconstruction to awaken and spread a cognitive prison inside the divine mountain while it recuperated, unaware of the anomaly.

Qin Yu waited for the Causal Restriction and Cognitive Cage he had planted in the divine mountain’s Fate Soul to take effect before attacking. After the Cognitive Cage disrupted the divine mountain’s perception, Qin Yu faced it as it summoned the Taiyan Ancestral Mountain.

• The divine mountain continued refining the Scroll of Causal End, unaware that the Causal Restriction was taking root in its Fate Soul.
• Qin Yu stayed hidden, waiting for the restriction and Cognitive Cage to weaken the divine mountain before striking.
• When the divine mountain discovered the Causal Restriction and tried to erase it, Qin Yu slashed at it with the Silent Origin Stainless Sword.
• The divine mountain dodged the sword strike, then found Qin Yu and dismissed him as a mere junior at True Annihilation Realm · Supreme.
• The Cognitive Cage awakened and threw the divine mountain’s thoughts, memories, and perceptions into confusion, revealing Qin Yu’s trap.
• The divine mountain suppressed the confusion and summoned the Taiyan Ancestral Mountain as it threatened Qin Yu.

Qin Yu destroyed Divine Mountain and its Taiyan Ancestral Mountain, then claimed the Scroll of Causal End. The two ancient scrolls merged and transported him to the Final Thought Annihilation Void Sea, where an ancient voice greeted his arrival and the Tower of No Birth and No Destruction began to shine.

• Qin Yu summoned the Star Wancai Key, which dismantled Divine Mountain’s Taiyan Ancestral Mountain into stardust.
• Qin Yu triggered the causal anchor in Divine Mountain’s Fate Soul and used the Supreme Eternal Stillness Seal and Silent Origin Stainless Sword to erase Divine Mountain.
• Qin Yu caught the Scroll of Causal End, and it resonated with the Scroll of Thought-Locking Void in his storage crystal core.
• The two scrolls joined and opened a blue vortex that swallowed Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu awoke beside the Final Thought Annihilation Void Sea and saw the ancient wheel and tower connected by a pillar of blue light.
• An ancient voice spoke of tens of millions of epochs, and the Tower of No Birth and No Destruction glowed with blue radiance.