Chapter Summaries

Qin Yu sent Ye Ting back to the Holy Clan as his informant, then discovered that the ancient medicine box was sealed by a restriction made from a Primordial Origin Supreme Treasure. He used the Star Wancai Key to shatter the restriction, and an ancient medicinal fragrance emerged from the opened box.

• Qin Yu gave Ye Ting a million Supreme Transformation Source Crystals and ordered him to secretly watch the Hua Lineage, the Shangguan Lineage, and Hua Jingmeng.
• Ye Ting promised to report any unusual activity, then departed through a void rift while Qin Yu and Xiao Yue discussed using him to gather intelligence.
• Qin Yu returned to Stele Forest Imperial City and prepared to meet Qian Wenwan the next day about the Layered Realm Void and the Lord of Dimensions’ opportunity.
• Qin Yu examined the ancient medicine box and discovered that a restriction made from a Primordial Origin Supreme Treasure sealed it.
• Qin Yu summoned the Star Wancai Key, which shattered the box’s origin restrictions and released an ancient medicinal fragrance.

Qin Yu discovered the Primordial Limitless Pill, a supreme treasure capable of reversing a cultivator’s origin, and sealed it inside his Annihilation Devil Pupil · Final Spirit Core. The next day, he joined Qian Wenwan and Yuan Weizhi on a journey to the Layered Realm Void, and they passed through an ancient corridor filled with traces of past, present, and future.

• Qin Yu opened the ancient box and found the Primordial Limitless Pill, whose appearance resonated with his scriptures and sword art.
• Xiao Yue identified the pill and told Qin Yu that its value exceeded even a billion Supreme Transformation Source Crystals.
• Qin Yu recognized that the pill could let him contend with a Wuji Realm expert and sealed it inside his Annihilation Devil Pupil · Final Spirit Core.
• The next morning, Qin Yu met Qian Wenwan and Yuan Weizhi outside the Heavenly Secrets Dao Pavilion, and Qian Wenwan opened a portal to the Layered Realm Void.
• Qian Wenwan, Yuan Weizhi, and Qin Yu entered an ancient passage through time and space, where Qin Yu witnessed fragments of events from across the ages.
• The three travelers reached a huge gate of light and stepped through it together.

Qin Yu, Qian Wenwan, and Yuan Weizhi activated the teleportation altar to the Layered Realm Void and faced the first trial left by its Great Emperor. While Qian Wenwan and Yuan Weizhi resisted the Great Emperor’s pressure with their abilities, Qin Yu remained untouched, drawing the ancient phantom’s attention.

• Qian Wenwan placed a crystal core containing a hundred million Supreme Transformation Source Crystals into the altar’s first formation node and told Qin Yu and Yuan Weizhi to activate the other two.
• Yuan Weizhi and Qin Yu each formed a crystal core containing a hundred million Supreme Transformation Source Crystals and fitted them into the remaining nodes, awakening the altar.
• The altar opened the Layered Realm Void, and a figure appeared in its central vortex, declaring that anyone seeking entry had to withstand one of his thoughts.
• Qian Wenwan used her Fate Soul source and Yuan Weizhi folded the pressure through space to withstand the Great Emperor’s overwhelming Dao will.
• Qin Yu stood calmly without using a divine ability as the pressure crumbled before reaching him, shocking Yuan Weizhi.
• The ancient phantom noticed Qin Yu’s resistance, and the Dao resonance around the altar began to change.

Qin Yu, Qian Wenwan, and Yuan Weizhi entered the Layered Realm Void, the vast living world within the Layered Realm Void Great Emperor’s body. They agreed to explore separately and meet again in a month, and Yuan Weizhi left first.

• The altar activated, and a force carried Qin Yu, Qian Wenwan, and Yuan Weizhi into the Layered Realm Void.
• The three arrived in a boundless realm of overlapping worlds and learned that it was the Layered Realm Void Great Emperor’s body.
• Qian Wenwan asked whether they should explore together, and Yuan Weizhi proposed that they split up to cover more ground.
• Qian Wenwan gave Qin Yu and Yuan Weizhi voice transmission jade slips that could summon a Fate Soul puppet in an emergency.
• The three agreed to meet at the platform again in one month, and Yuan Weizhi headed south toward an ancient palace.

Qin Yu traveled into the Northern Region of the Layered Realm Void and discovered an ancient palace surrounded by enormous heavenly rings and powerful Fate Soul origins. After he approached the palace, members of the Duckweed Clan appeared and asked whether he belonged to the Blazing Erosion Clan or the Shade-Guarding Clan.

• Qian Wenwan went east while Qin Yu headed north, and Yuan Weizhi had already gone south.
• After the three departed, hidden gazes stirred within a folded dimensional gap and watched their paths before vanishing.
• Qin Yu reached a vast snowy region containing an ancient palace encircled by enormous rings and thousands of ancient Fate Soul fluctuations.
• Xiao Yue sensed that some presences in the palace shared the Layered Realm Void Great Emperor's Fate Soul origin.
• A resonance from the palace called to Qin Yu, and he flew toward it until ancient defenses awakened and a voice told him to halt.
• Figures emerged from the clouds, and their leader welcomed Qin Yu to the Duckweed Clan Ancestral Land and asked whether he belonged to the Blazing Erosion Clan or the Shade-Guarding Clan.

Qin Yu followed the Duckweed Clan to their palace after they mistook him for a lord of the Blazing Erosion Clan come to collect Ancient Origin Liquid. Seeing how deeply the clan had been conditioned to bow and obey, he helped their leader and two elders to their feet, leaving the clan stunned.

• Qin Yu and Xiao Yue sensed that the Duckweed Clan’s Fate Souls were unusual and seemed to be missing something important.
• The Duckweed Clan’s elders invited Qin Yu to their palace, believing he was a lord of the Blazing Erosion Clan, and he agreed to go with them.
• Qin Yu saw the clan’s humble palace and watched more than a thousand clansmen make way for him with nervous deference.
• The clan leader and elders welcomed Qin Yu as a Blazing Erosion lord, and the clansmen knelt in unison.
• Qin Yu told the clansmen to rise, then helped the clan leader and two elders to their feet when they were too afraid to obey on their own.
• The Duckweed Clan stared in shock at Qin Yu’s unexpected kindness, while he realized they had endured oppression for a very long time.

Qin Yu received the Source Liquid from the Duckweed Clan and discovered that it contained the origins of countless Daos. Before he could learn more, a member of the Blazing Erosion Clan arrived, and Qin Yu went out to face him.

• Fu Wansheng led Qin Yu through the Duckweed Clan’s palace, where Qin Yu saw that the clan devoted itself to venerating an ancient tree.
• Fu Wansheng presented Qin Yu with a jade bowl of Source Liquid, whose myriad origins stirred Qin Yu’s Fate Soul and Dao Fruit.
• Fu Wansheng explained that the Source Liquid dripped from the leaves of the Myriad Dao Source Root Divine Tree and was collected by the clan.
• A messenger reported that another lord from the Blazing Erosion Clan had arrived, and Qin Yu asked Fu Wansheng to put the Source Liquid away.
• Qin Yu went out to the square and saw a burly, scarred cultivator whose appearance and emotional fluctuations marked him as a member of the Blazing Erosion Clan.

Qin Yu revealed to Chi Xiao that he was an outsider, and Chi Xiao attacked him on the spot. After Qin Yu wounded Chi Xiao with Void Source · Dream Stillness, Chi Xiao transformed and declared his clan’s plan to seize the ancient tree’s Dao resonance; Qin Yu drew the Silent Origin Stainless Sword as their battle was about to begin.

• Chi Xiao confronted Qin Yu and identified him as an outsider after Qin Yu confirmed he was not from the Divine Body World.
• Chi Xiao attacked Qin Yu with his giant axe, but Qin Yu used Void Source · Dream Stillness to shatter the weapon and injure Chi Xiao’s Fate Soul origin.
• Chi Xiao recovered in a rage, transformed into a giant, and ordered the Duckweed Clan members to flee.
• Chi Xiao explained that the Blazing Erosion Clan sought to wipe out the other clans and claim the ancient tree’s Dao resonance for itself.
• Qin Yu summoned the Silent Origin Stainless Sword and prepared to face Chi Xiao.

Qin Yu shattered Chi Xiao’s wrath-based divine ability without even swinging his sword, forcing the Blazing Erosion Clan envoy to flee. He questioned Fu Wansheng about the world’s strange clans and awaited the Wordless Heavenly Book, which might reveal the world’s origins or the secrets of the Layered Realm Void Great Emperor.

• Chi Xiao unleashed the Wrath Clan origin divine ability, but Qin Yu exposed its flawed foundation and destroyed the blood-colored giant with his sword intent of stillness.
• Chi Xiao fled in fear, leaving Qin Yu to wonder whether the clans’ innate traits had been engraved into their Fate Souls from birth.
• Qin Yu summoned Fu Wansheng into the hall and asked him about the clans, the divine tree, and why they existed in this world.
• Fu Wansheng said the Wordless Heavenly Book supposedly recorded the Duckweed Clan’s origins and the secrets of the world, though no one had ever understood its blank pages.
• Fu Wansheng went to fetch the book while Qin Yu and Xiao Yue wondered whether it could reveal the truth about the world or the Layered Realm Void Great Emperor.

Qin Yu investigated the blank Wordless Heavenly Book but found that his own essence blood did not affect it. Fu Wansheng’s blood activated the book, sending a grayish-white pillar of light through the hall.

• Fu Wansheng brought Qin Yu the Duckweed Clan’s venerated Wordless Heavenly Book, which had appeared blank to every clan leader.
• Qin Yu tried to inspect the book with his divine sense while Xiao Yue suspected it was waiting for something.
• A grayish-white marking on the book’s spine flickered, prompting Qin Yu to try a drop of his own essence blood, but nothing happened.
• Xiao Yue suggested the book might require the Duckweed Clan’s essence blood, so Qin Yu summoned Fu Wansheng and asked him for a drop.
• Fu Wansheng’s essence blood merged into the first page, shaking the hall as ancient lines appeared and a grayish-white pillar of light erupted from the book.

The Wordless Heavenly Book opened its first page and revealed the characters [Sorrow] and [Fear] with two ancient verses. Fu Wansheng realized the Duckweed Clan was an emotion left by its master, then vanished as the clan’s people returned to the book, leaving Qin Yu to witness the vast homecoming of Sorrow.

• The Wordless Heavenly Book opened its first of seven pages, revealing [Sorrow] and [Fear] alongside two ancient verses.
• Fu Wansheng convulsed as the characters resonated with ancient imprints inside his Fate Soul, and Qin Yu discovered he was beginning to turn into light.
• Fu Wansheng remembered that the Duckweed Clan was Sorrow, one of the seven emotions and six desires, left behind by the master, and asked Qin Yu to help them return to their source.
• Fu Wansheng dissolved into starlight that flowed into [Sorrow], while Xiao Yue reported that the Duckweed Clan was falling into chaos.
• Qin Yu saw thousands of Duckweed clanspeople turning into light and streaming toward the Wordless Heavenly Book as [Sorrow] expanded to fill the sky.

Qin Yu and Xiao Yue witnessed the Duckweed Clan return to its source as the Wordless Heavenly Book absorbed the characters [Grief] and [Fear]. The first page revealed that the seven emotions and six desires of the Layered Realm Void Great Emperor had become clans and that the book was their ultimate source, leaving Qin Yu to wonder when the remaining clans would return.

• The Duckweed clanspeople remembered who they were and dissipated into streams of light that flowed into [Grief] and [Fear].
• The Wordless Heavenly Book absorbed both characters, and Qin Yu opened its first page to reveal an ancient painting and text.
• Qin Yu and Xiao Yue learned that the Great Emperor's emotions had formed the seven clans and that the Wordless Heavenly Book held their ultimate source.
• Qin Yu recognized Chi Xiao as the Great Emperor's original wrath and the Duckweed Clan as manifestations of grief and fear.
• Qin Yu looked toward the Myriad Dao Source Root Divine Tree and considered the five remaining clans and the book's six unopened pages.

Qin Yu stored the Source Liquid and sent Qian Wenwan and Yuan Weizhi the knowledge he had learned before heading east. Qian Wenwan arrived in the peaceful Eastern Region and discovered the Shade-Guarding Clan preparing a ceremony beneath an ancient tree.

• Qin Yu noticed the Source Liquid’s strange power and stored it in the Final Spirit Core.
• Qin Yu sent Qian Wenwan and Yuan Weizhi a message explaining the seven clans, the Dao Source Ancient Tree, and the Duckweed Clan’s return to the source.
• Qin Yu and Xiao Yue left the empty Duckweed Clan Ancestral Land and headed east to find Qian Wenwan.
• Qian Wenwan emerged in the Eastern Region and sensed that its gentle presence could nourish a Fate Soul.
• Qian Wenwan followed the sounds of children and found the Shade-Guarding Clan gathering for a ceremony beneath an ancient tree.

Qian Wenwan was swept into the Shade-Guarding Clan’s festival and felt the ancient tree’s joy and love nourish her Fate Soul, leaving her immersed in the clan’s worship. As the ritual reached its climax, the Dao Source Ancient Tree’s leaves opened to reveal new leaves emerging from within them.

• A young Shade-Guarding Clan member mistook Qian Wenwan for a clan member who had fallen behind and pulled her into the procession toward the ancient tree’s festival.
• As Qian Wenwan walked among the gentle, welcoming crowd, the clan’s joy and love gradually eased her vigilance and stirred warm emotions within her Fate Soul.
• Qian Wenwan arrived beneath the Shade-Guarding Clan’s golden-green ancient tree and watched two elders lead tens of thousands of people in a solemn worship ritual.
• Qian Wenwan joined the crowd in kneeling and worshipping, while Qin Yu’s unread message continued glowing in her storage crystal core.
• The ancient tree resonated with the worshippers, filling the plaza with a soothing melody before every leaf opened and revealed a translucent new leaf within.

During the ancient tree’s blessing, Qian Wenwan discovered that the Shade-Guarding Clan and its tree embodied the emotions of joy and love, then learned from Qin Yu’s message how they fit into the seven clans. As the elders invited her to the sacred hall, the Wrath Clan and Hatred Clan arrived to attack the gathered Shade-Guarding Clan.

• Leaves from the ancient tree bestowed origins on the Shade-Guarding Clan, while a leaf hovered around Qian Wenwan and awakened memories through her emotions of joy and love.
• Qian Wenwan saw the ancient tree’s Dao origins and learned from Qin Yu’s message that the seven clans arose from the seven emotions of the Layered Realm Void Great Emperor.
• The elders explained that the tree was observing Qian Wenwan and invited her to its sacred hall.
• The Wrath Clan and Hatred Clan descended through spatial fissures during the blessing ceremony.
• The Blazing Erosion Clan’s leader threatened the gathered clansmen as its experts unleashed their killing intent.

The Blazing Erosion Clan attacked the Shade-Guarding Clan during its festival, and Qian Wenwan revealed her overwhelming power while defending the fleeing clansmen. After she erased dozens of attackers with Eternal Silence · Heaven-Burying Song, Chi Yan and Shi You recognized her as a dangerous outsider and prepared to confront her.

• The Blazing Erosion Clan descended on the Shade-Guarding Clan and slaughtered clansmen as the two patriarchs urged everyone to flee behind the divine tree.
• Qian Wenwan annihilated a Wrath Clan cultivator who was pursuing a child, revealing her terrifying strength to both sides.
• Chi Yan and Shi You identified Qian Wenwan as an outsider, and Chi Yan offered a hundred portions of ancient tree Source Liquid for her head.
• The Blazing Erosion Clan launched a coordinated assault on Qian Wenwan while the Shade-Guarding clansmen fled toward the ancient tree.
• Qian Wenwan used Eternal Silence · Heaven-Burying Song to erase the incoming attacks and dozens of Blazing Erosion Clan cultivators.
• Shi You warned Chi Yan that Qian Wenwan could not be allowed to leave alive, and Qian Wenwan met both generals’ gazes across the sky.

Chi Yan and Shi You joined forces against Qian Wenwan, then Shi You killed the Shade-Guarding Clan’s two chiefs when they tried to help her. Qian Wenwan faced the commanders with genuine fury after the elders sacrificed themselves to protect their clan.

• Chi Yan drew his divine sword and attacked Qian Wenwan, but she held him at bay until he called Shi You to assist.
• Shi You ensnared Qian Wenwan with a net of evil thoughts while Chi Yan attacked, forcing her to retreat under their combined assault.
• The two Shade-Guarding Clan chiefs sent their divine staffs to aid Qian Wenwan, but Shi You destroyed the staffs and attacked the clan with his divine halberd.
• The chiefs burned their source power and shielded their clansmen from Shi You’s black torrent, sacrificing themselves as they vanished into motes of light.
• Qian Wenwan stopped retreating, looked toward Chi Yan and Shi You, and condemned them as despicable.

After the Shade-Guarding Clan's patriarchs vanished, Qian Wenwan fought Chi Yan and Shi You with a power of annihilation, but their clash left all three injured. Shi You summoned the Blazing Erosion Clan's Ancestral Spirit of Evil, whose attack began erasing Qian Wenwan's memories and existence, leaving her facing certain defeat.

• Qian Wenwan grieved for the Shade-Guarding Clan and unleashed her annihilation power against Chi Yan and Shi You.
• Chi Yan and Shi You combined their inherited divine abilities and collided with Qian Wenwan's attack, severely injuring all three.
• Shi You took out a black bone fragment, and it summoned the immense Ancestral Spirit of Evil.
• Chi Yan and Shi You invoked the ancestral spirit and unleashed Return to the Beginning Calamity Wrath against Qian Wenwan.
• The descending attack began erasing Qian Wenwan's powers, memories, and sense of self, while Chi Yan and Shi You expected her to disappear completely.

Qin Yu arrived as the Ancestral Spirit of Evil’s calamity was erasing Qian Wenwan, then gave her a Primordial Limitless Pill that restored her and temporarily raised her to the Wuji Realm. As the Ancestral Spirit unleashed Return of All Thoughts to Extinction, Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan prepared to fight back.

• Qin Yu halted the Ancestral Spirit of Evil’s Return to the Beginning Calamity Wrath and reached Qian Wenwan as she faced erasure.
• Qian Wenwan told Qin Yu that Chi Yan and Shi You were Wrath and Evil among the Seven Emotions.
• Qin Yu gave Qian Wenwan the Primordial Limitless Pill, which healed her and raised her to the Wuji Realm · Middle Stage.
• Chi Yan and Shi You empowered the Ancestral Spirit of Evil and ordered it to strike down Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan.
• The Ancestral Spirit of Evil unleashed Return of All Thoughts to Extinction, causing the Shade-Guarding Clan and the world around them to lose their sense of meaning.
• Qin Yu drew the Silent Origin Stainless Sword and urged Qian Wenwan to act quickly; Qian Wenwan summoned her bonded moonlight zither and prepared to fight.

Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan destroyed the Ancestral Spirit of Evil, but Chi Yan and Shi You fused their origins into the Soul of Rage and Evil. As Qian Wenwan distracted the new foe so Qin Yu could obtain its essence blood, it discovered him and struck him into a mountain range.

• Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan combined their sword and zither attacks to shatter the Ancestral Spirit of Evil, grievously injuring Chi Yan and Shi You.
• Chi Yan tore out his origin fire core and Shi You revealed his evil origin, then the two fused their powers into the Soul of Rage and Evil.
• Qin Yu told Qian Wenwan that the Wordless Heavenly Book required rage-and-evil origin essence blood to open its second page, and she agreed to hold the creature off.
• Qian Wenwan repeatedly attacked the Soul of Rage and Evil to draw its attention while Qin Yu concealed himself and approached from behind.
• The Soul of Rage and Evil sensed Qin Yu, struck him through the void, and sent him crashing into a distant mountain range.
• Qian Wenwan rushed to the ruins and called out to the injured Qin Yu.