Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yue was recognized as the inheritor of the Final Thought Annihilation Void Sea and began awakening within its core, while Qin Yu was expelled from the sea. He gathered the Supreme Transformation Source Crystals left in the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest and entered secluded cultivation ahead of the martial competition.

• Xiao Yue recognized the Final Thought Annihilation Void Sea and explained that its two supreme treasures had chosen her as their inheritor.
• The sea’s origin law separated Qin Yu from Xiao Yue and sent him back to the Annihilation Divine Mountain ruins while Xiao Yue began her inheritance.
• Qin Yu used the Annihilation Devil Pupil to devour every Supreme Transformation Source Crystal in the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest.
• Qin Yu inspected his immense resources, then found a hidden cave and established concealment restrictions around it.
• Qin Yu began cultivating with the Limitless Yuan Absorption Art, while Xiao Yue proceeded deeper into the Tower of No Birth and No Destruction.

Xiao Yue passed the First Stillness by recognizing that her bond with Qin Yu was part of her Fate Soul’s complete source, then faced the Second Stillness and rejected visions of power as her deepest desire. She began to grasp the Wheel of Karmic End’s power to lock the three times, while a fourth divine ability started taking shape within the Blue Ring.

• The Wheel of Karmic End tested Xiao Yue’s past, present, and future, and she recognized that her karma with Qin Yu had always belonged to her Fate Soul.
• Xiao Yue refused to sever her bond with Qin Yu, proving that it was part of her source, and the ancient will declared that she had passed the First Stillness.
• The Second Stillness revealed tributaries showing powerful future versions of Xiao Yue, but she identified them as obsessions rather than true futures.
• Xiao Yue declared that her deepest desire was to protect someone she chose to accompany, causing the false futures and the blue-haired girl to disappear.
• Xiao Yue perceived how the Wheel of Karmic End could lock past, present, and future to sever karma, while Karma-Locking Stillness began to take shape within the Blue Ring.

Xiao Yue comprehended the Wheel of Karmic End and completed the Blue Ring’s fourth form, Karma-Locking Stillness. The Tower of No Birth and No Destruction then summoned her into a primordial wilderness where the first-floor trial began.

• Xiao Yue realized karma sustained existence and understood the Wheel of Karmic End’s power to sever the past, present, and future.
• The Wheel of Karmic End manifested, locked down Xiao Yue’s three-time nodes, erased her, and then allowed her to be reborn with the wheel in her palm.
• Xiao Yue demonstrated Blue Ring · Fourth Form: Karma-Locking Stillness, severing karmic threads across the Final Silence Sea.
• The Tower of No Birth and No Destruction awakened, opened its first-floor entrance, and sent an ancient illusory figure to summon Xiao Yue inside.
• Xiao Yue arrived in a lifeless primordial wilderness filled with familiar figures, and the first-floor trial, Cease Thoughts of Attack · Domain of Non-Contention, began.

Xiao Yue overcame her inner demon of slaughter and passed the first level of the Tower of No Birth and No Destruction, then entered a second trial that forbade any thought of self-protection. As the attacks resumed and an image of Qin Yu appeared in danger, the Inner Demon Shield of the Self challenged her resolve to abandon the desire to protect herself and continue existing.

• Xiao Yue rejected her inner demon’s claim that power came from slaughter and used the Blue Ring to destroy it, passing the first level.
• Xiao Yue entered the second level, where Primordial gales and blade fragments wounded her while the Thought-Locking Law forbade her from defending or evading.
• Xiao Yue endured the attacks without trying to protect herself, but the trial paused and Qin Yu appeared with a spear through his chest, pleading for help.
• An ancient bronze shield manifested as the Inner Demon Shield of the Self, reflecting Xiao Yue’s memories and challenging her to give up self-protection and the will to survive.
• Primordial gales and blade fragments gathered again as Xiao Yue faced the shield’s question of whether she could truly abandon the desire to keep existing.

Xiao Yue passed the second trial by seeing through the false Qin Yu and trusting him to follow his own path. She entered the third trial, where an annihilation cage amplified the instinct to escape, and remained still as it closed around her.

• Xiao Yue recognized that the chained Qin Yu was an illusion and refused to use defensive abilities to save him.
• Xiao Yue summoned Blue Ring and used Logical Chain Severance to shatter the Inner Demon Shield of the Self, passing the second trial.
• The collapsing trial world formed an annihilation cage around Xiao Yue, and the markings announced the third trial, Quell the Thought of Escape · Domain Without Stagnation.
• The third trial magnified Xiao Yue’s instinct to escape as the cage contracted and visions of other people fleeing appeared in the darkness.
• Xiao Yue understood that the trial tested her urge to escape, closed her eyes, and remained immovable as the cage pressed inward.

Xiao Yue faced the third-floor trial’s visions of endless confinement and the loss of Qin Yu, discovering that the trial concealed a deeper power within the Blue Ring. She rejected the offered escape, and the exit shattered as the Thought-Locking Law reacted violently.

• Xiao Yue’s future self showed her an unending cage and urged her to give up as the annihilation barriers closed in.
• The third floor’s Thought-Locking Law appeared and declared that anyone who still wished to escape could never leave.
• Xiao Yue recognized that the cage’s power came from the origin void, and the Blue Ring began revealing its fifth form, Rule Origin Collapse.
• The trial showed Qin Yu and Xiao Yue’s other companions dissolving, then offered her an exit if she would escape the cage.
• Xiao Yue refused to let fear choose her path, saying Qin Yu would not die so easily and that their future belonged to them; the exit and illusions vanished.

Xiao Yue passed the third trial by mastering Blue Ring · Fifth Form: Rule Origin Collapse, then began the fourth trial, Cease Desirous Thoughts · Domain of No Seeking. Meanwhile, a mysterious remnant soul appeared before Qin Yu in the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest, and they faced each other in silence.

• Xiao Yue awakened the Blue Ring's origin and formed the divine ability Dao Seal, Blue Ring · Fifth Form: Rule Origin Collapse, breaking the third trial's rules.
• Xiao Yue emerged from the collapsed trial realm with the Wheel of Karmic End as the tower announced the fourth trial, Cease Desirous Thoughts · Domain of No Seeking.
• Xiao Yue arrived at an endless stone stairway lined with tempting visions of possible futures, and the fourth trial began.
• A mysterious woman in ancient black-and-white robes emerged from the darkness in Qin Yu's cavern, accompanied by black dragon Fate Soul phenomena and a golden ring.
• Qin Yu sensed danger, leapt away, and drew the Silent Origin Stainless Sword before facing the mysterious remnant soul.

Qin Yu fled the remnant-soul woman through the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest and lured her back to the cavern, where he activated his defensive formation before hiding in a rift beyond five dimensions. The formation briefly restrained her, but she broke through and charged into the cavern as Qin Yu waited for Xiao Yue.

• Qin Yu tried to leave the cavern, but the remnant-soul woman attacked him with Return to the Ruins · Stabilizing the Origin and blasted him through a rock wall.
• Qin Yu escaped into the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest, and the remnant-soul woman pursued him while using Annihilation · Sealing the Rivers and Return to Stillness Dragon Breath.
• Qin Yu realized his defensive formation remained at the cavern and changed course to lure the remnant-soul woman there.
• Qin Yu activated the formation, which bound the remnant-soul woman with golden chains long enough for him to open a rift beyond five dimensions and hide inside.
• The remnant-soul woman broke through the formation’s chains and charged into the cavern while Qin Yu waited for Xiao Yue.

The remnant-soul woman destroyed the cave’s defensive formation and waited at its entrance, leaving Qin Yu trapped in super-five-dimensional space. In the Tower of No Birth and No Destruction, Xiao Yue passed the fourth floor’s trials by rejecting fear of death and attachment to resurrection, then defeated the tower’s artifact spirit with the Blue Ring.

• The remnant-soul woman shattered the cave’s defensive formation, searched inside for Qin Yu, and waited outside the entrance when she could not find him.
• Qin Yu watched the remnant-soul woman through a higher-dimensional rift and realized she was guarding the cave entrance.
• Xiao Yue faced visions of death and tempting opportunities in the fourth-floor trials, remaining calm as she confronted the thoughts of life and desire.
• Xiao Yue rejected the chance to resurrect Qin Yu in a vision, saying she would walk his path rather than go against it.
• The Tower of No Birth and No Destruction’s artifact spirit appeared and attacked Xiao Yue with spear shadows that sealed resurrection and reincarnation.
• Xiao Yue used Karma-Locking Stillness and Rule Origin Collapse to shatter the artifact spirit’s defenses, and the spirit vanished after saying she had waited at last.

Xiao Yue passed the fifth-floor trial by letting go of the urge to think and calculate, awakening the Blue Ring’s power to end consciousness and giving rise to Yingling. The sixth-floor trial opened and began erasing Xiao Yue’s memories and sense of self as she and Yingling entered the Realm of No Self.

• Xiao Yue faced countless mysteries, choices, and possible futures in the fifth-floor Realm of Non-Discernment, where the Dharma Manifestation of Myriad Thoughts tried to overwhelm her with calculation.
• Xiao Yue stopped seeking answers, awakening the Blue Ring’s deep-blue origin and the embryonic divine ability Termination of Consciousness · Annihilation of All Things.
• Xiao Yue’s power shattered the Dharma Manifestation of Myriad Thoughts, completing the fifth-floor trial.
• Blue motes formed Yingling, who greeted Xiao Yue as her true self and stood beside her.
• The sixth-floor Realm of No Self opened, and Xiao Yue’s memories and sense of identity began to fade as she and Yingling entered it.

Xiao Yue and Yingling defeated the No-Self True Bodies in the sixth layer, then faced the four Origin incarnations as the seventh-layer gate opened. After recovering memories of her past and her goal to defeat the Dao Source Supreme Return Emperor, Xiao Yue chose to continue with Yingling at her side.

• Xiao Yue resisted the sixth layer’s attempt to erase her identity, and she and Yingling destroyed the two No-Self True Bodies with their Blue Ring techniques.
• Primordial Origin, Ultimate Origin, Return to Oneness Origin, and Void Origin appeared as the seventh-layer gate opened.
• Yingling warned Xiao Yue that the final trial was a battle of life and death and offered her the chance to leave.
• Xiao Yue recovered memories of becoming the Black Gold Ring, losing to the Dao Source Supreme Return Emperor, and growing from her original form; she resolved to continue so she could awaken Blue Ring · First Transcendent Form and protect Qin Yu.
• Xiao Yue asked Yingling to fight beside her, and Yingling agreed despite his fading body.
• Xiao Yue and Yingling advanced toward the four Origins with Annihilation Return to the Ruins · Wheel of Karmic End.

Xiao Yue and Yingling defeated Primordial Origin and Ultimate Origin in the sixth level, while Return to Oneness Origin and Void Origin remained. Yingling reflected on her fleeting existence and joined Xiao Yue in facing the two remaining Origins.

• Primordial Origin attacked with the Hongmeng Realm-Opening Primordial World-Suppressing Palm, but Yingling's Reflection Realm and Xiao Yue's karmic and ring powers dismantled their Origin structure.
• Yingling poured the Reflection Realm into Xiao Yue's Wheel of Karmic End, and Xiao Yue destroyed Primordial Origin with End Order Adjudication—Annihilation Return to the Ruins.
• Ultimate Origin descended with the Final Adjudication and Annihilation Halberd and launched Myriad Realms Return to Stillness, but Xiao Yue stopped Yingling from sacrificing herself and countered the attack.
• Xiao Yue reversed Ultimate Origin's destruction, bound their past, present, and future, shattered the halberd, and caused Ultimate Origin to fall.
• Yingling told Xiao Yue she would go farther than she had, and Xiao Yue promised to introduce her to Little Qinzi before they turned toward Return to Oneness Origin and Void Origin.

Yingling sacrificed her existence to destroy Return to Oneness Origin, Void Origin, and their supreme primordial Dao treasures, saving Xiao Yue on the sixth floor. After grieving Yingling’s loss and learning how long she had endured her pain, Xiao Yue resolved to continue to the seventh floor.

• Return to Oneness Origin summoned the Mirror of Myriad Daos Returning to One, while Void Origin raised the Nameless Void Stele, and their powers began assimilating and erasing Xiao Yue’s abilities.
• Yingling’s existence began to collapse as she awakened a power of her own, and she transformed into a sea of blue starlight to unleash Yingling's Final Rite: Myriad Thoughts Return to Stillness · Eternal Slumber in the Starry Sea.
• Yingling’s final power shattered both supreme primordial Dao treasures and annihilated Return to Oneness Origin and Void Origin, then she told Xiao Yue she was happy to have become her Yingling and vanished into blue starlight.
• Xiao Yue received Yingling’s memories of the pain she had endured, and an ancient voice announced that the origins had returned and she could enter the seventh floor.
• Xiao Yue wiped away her tears, promised Yingling she would not disappoint her, and walked toward the seventh floor.

Xiao Yue entered the seventh floor’s Realm of No Self and faced the Tower Spirit, guardian of the Tower of No Birth and No Destruction. As their battle exposed ancient powers within Xiao Yue, the Tower Spirit announced that the Gate of Transcendence was about to open.

• Xiao Yue’s memories and sense of self began to fade in the seventh floor’s trial, until the Tower Spirit appeared and identified herself as the final guardian.
• The Tower Spirit explained that the Wheel of the End and the Tower of No Birth would merge with Xiao Yue after she passed the trial, then dissipate once they fulfilled their purpose.
• The Tower Spirit attacked Xiao Yue with a consciousness spear, and Xiao Yue dodged before confronting the Tower Spirit’s Myriad Thoughts Return to Cause.
• Xiao Yue used Blue Ring’s Karma-Locking Stillness and Azure Ring’s Realm Abyss Reverse Evolution against the ocean of consciousness, but the Tower Spirit regenerated it and blasted her away.
• Gray Ring and Azure Ring manifested together around Xiao Yue, and an unfamiliar gold-and-black light awakened within her sea of consciousness.
• The Tower Spirit sensed the change and said that the Gate of Transcendence was about to open.

Xiao Yue awakened the Black Gold Ring and effortlessly defeated the tower spirit’s final attack, earning the tower spirit’s surrender and the seventh-level inheritance. As Xiao Yue faced the void’s final test, the Wheel of Karmic End fused with the Tower of No Birth and No Destruction.

• The tower spirit unleashed Final Stillness divine ability—Final Judgment of Ten Thousand Thoughts against Xiao Yue, but Xiao Yue manifested the Black Gold Ring, whose radiance erased the attack and shattered the tower’s laws.
• The tower spirit admitted defeat, bowed to Xiao Yue, and dissipated along with the Tower of No Birth and No Destruction as the seventh level began to change.
• The Wheel of Karmic End rose and transformed the seventh level into nothingness, where Xiao Yue faced Lock · Thought of Nothingness without clinging to life, death, existence, or destruction.
• Void Thought Stillness · Tower of No Birth and No Destruction appeared, and it and the Wheel of Karmic End drew together.
• The Wheel of Karmic End merged into the tower, fusing cause and effect with consciousness, end with annihilation.

Xiao Yue returned from the trial after awakening the Blue Ring’s transcendent form and reunited with Qin Yu outside the cave. The remnant-soul woman confronted them, and Xiao Yue’s teasing suggestion that the woman fancied Qin Yu triggered a powerful reaction as the woman appeared ready to speak.

• Xiao Yue awakened the Blue Ring’s First Transcendent Form, erased the Final Thought Annihilation Void Sea, and was transported back to the Heart-Questioning Ancient Forest.
• Xiao Yue sensed Qin Yu near the cave and called for him, prompting Qin Yu to leave the Transcendent Five-Dimensional Space and hurry her away.
• The remnant-soul woman appeared in their path, and Xiao Yue mistook her for a ghost while Qin Yu explained that she had nearly killed him.
• Xiao Yue confidently stepped between Qin Yu and the remnant-soul woman, then joked that the woman had taken a fancy to him.
• The remnant-soul woman’s scarlet eyes flared and ancient Fate Soul presences surged as she stepped toward Qin Yu and began to speak.

Qin Yu and Xiao Yue fought the remnant-soul woman, who mistook them for allies of Dao-Breaking Mang Mountain and believed they sought a scripture. Xiao Yue erased the woman with her Blue Ring, and the cavern’s collapse stopped when a mysterious golden light appeared, prompting Qin Yu and Xiao Yue to investigate.

• The remnant-soul woman summoned an ancient spear and attacked Qin Yu and Xiao Yue, accusing them of serving Dao-Breaking Mang Mountain.
• Xiao Yue destroyed the woman’s first spear attack and told her Dao-Breaking Mang Mountain had already been annihilated.
• The woman refused to believe them, accused them of seeking a scripture, and unleashed a devastating attack with an ancient battlefield’s remnant images.
• Xiao Yue used Blue Ring · First Transcendent Form—Consciousness Termination · Annihilation of All Phenomena—to erase the woman and her battlefield from existence.
• The cavern began to collapse, but a golden light appeared deep inside and stabilized it.
• Qin Yu and Xiao Yue flew into the cavern to investigate the golden light.

Qin Yu and Xiao Yue discovered that the cave contained the legendary Origin Silence Return to Truth Scripture, where a scripture-formed elder revealed the destruction of the Transcendent Realm Clans and Qiu Yuelan’s fate. After mourning her final passing and recognizing that Dao-Breaking Mang Mountain had been avenged, Qin Yu and Xiao Yue turned to comprehending the scripture.

• Qin Yu and Xiao Yue entered a vast cave filled with ancient scriptures, and Xiao Yue identified them as all three forms of the Origin Silence Return to Truth Scripture.
• A golden elder formed from scriptures appeared and said that Xiao Lan had chosen Qin Yu, then asked whether Qiu Yuelan had fallen.
• The elder revealed that Dao-Breaking Mang Mountain and a million Primordial Chaos Origin Beasts Huang destroyed the Transcendent Realm Clans, while Qiusheng sacrificed himself to send Qiu Yuelan away with the scripture.
• The elder explained that Qiu Yuelan’s last Fate Soul had dissipated, lifting the seal on the scripture, and Qin Yu realized that the remnant-soul woman he had met was Qiu Yuelan.
• Xiao Yue comforted Qin Yu, noting that Dao-Breaking Mang Mountain had been slain and the clans’ blood feud avenged.
• Qin Yu and Xiao Yue decided to comprehend the Origin Silence Return to Truth Scripture as its characters lit up and the river of scripture began to turn.

Qin Yu began comprehending the Origin Silence Return to Truth Scripture as Xiao Yue concealed the cavern and stood guard. The scripture’s annihilation and eternal-silence powers flooded Qin Yu’s body, and the chapter ended as a terrifying light entered the space between his brows.

• Xiao Yue concealed the cavern with a formation and watched over Qin Yu as he began circulating the scripture.
• A dark purple light pulsed from Qin Yu’s finger, awakening ancient forces, stellar remnants, and annihilation characters throughout the cavern.
• The Mirror of Eternal Silence awakened, and a void Dao-mark scripture character entered Qin Yu through his Baihui acupoint.
• Annihilation characters and ice-blue characters from the Mirror of Eternal Silence surged into Qin Yu, causing the three powers to tear through his body.
• Qin Yu’s eyes opened as smooth mirrors filled with pale nothingness, and dark purple tears froze beside his cheeks.
• The cavern was swallowed by the scripture’s radiance as a terrifying light burrowed into the space between Qin Yu’s brows.

Qin Yu encountered the Heavenly Book of End and Self-Severing in his sea of consciousness and realized that the Dao-Slaying · Annihilation Sword was still bound by the act of slaying. He struck down the heavenly book, and the chapter ended as it vanished into gray-white light.

• An ancient scroll emerged in Qin Yu's sea of consciousness and named itself the Heavenly Book of End and Self-Severing.
• The heavenly book warned Qin Yu that holding a sword and pursuing annihilation were shackles, and that he had to slay the scroll and the act of slaying it.
• Qin Yu saw the eight realms of the Dao-Slaying · Annihilation Sword collapse and glimpsed a higher sword intent called Dao-Slaying Annihilation Heavenly Sword · Supreme Finality.
• Xiao Yue saw a gray-white sword scar stretch across the sky above the cavern and wondered whether Qin Yu had comprehended something strange.
• Qin Yu understood that all nine realms depended on slaying, grasped the Silent Origin Stainless Sword, and cut the Heavenly Book of End and Self-Severing in two.