Chapter Summaries

Qin Yu and Xiao Yue joined forces to break the Soul of Rage and Evil’s divine ability and dismantle its origins, causing it to dissolve. As it vanished, it called Qin Yu an outsider and warned that he would never be able to destroy them.

• The Soul of Rage and Evil unleashed Myriad Thoughts Burn the World, amplifying negative emotions and setting the world ablaze.
• Qian Wenwan summoned a Primordial Spirit Treasure to shield herself and the Shade-Guarding Clan, but the attack shattered the bell and forced her cultivation back to the Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme.
• Qin Yu called Xiao Yue forth, and she challenged the Soul of Rage and Evil as it prepared to attack again.
• Qin Yu used Dao-Slaying Annihilation Heavenly Sword · Supreme Finality to sever the Soul of Rage and Evil’s connections to its origins, while Xiao Yue used Blue Ring · Fifth Form: Rule Origin Collapse to dismantle its rules.
• The Soul of Rage and Evil cracked apart as the flames receded and the world began to recover.
• Before it fully dissolved, the Soul of Rage and Evil called Qin Yu an outsider and warned him that he would never be able to destroy them.

After the battle, Qin Yu revealed that the Wordless Heavenly Book held the origin of the seven emotional clans and explained that the Shade-Guarding Clan came from the Layered Realm Void Great Emperor’s joy and love. The two chiefs led their people in accepting their long-awaited return to the book’s origin, as the clan said farewell with tenderness.

• The Shade-Guarding Clan chiefs thanked Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan for saving their people from the Blazing Erosion Clan.
• The Joy Clan chief and Love Clan chief told Qin Yu that the Wordless Heavenly Book had stirred their Fate Soul origins, and Qin Yu showed them the book entrusted to him by Fu Wansheng.
• Qin Yu opened the book and explained that the seven emotional clans had evolved from the Layered Realm Void Great Emperor’s emotions and desires, and that the Wordless Heavenly Book was their ultimate origin.
• The two chiefs told the Shade-Guarding Clan that it was time to go home and that they were finally free.
• The clan members embraced their loved ones as blue-gold light rose from them and the ancient Shade-Guarding Tree scattered leaves along their road home.

Qin Yu explained that the Shade-Guarding Clan’s Joy and Love leaders were fragments of the Layered Realm Void Great Emperor’s emotions, destined to return to the Wordless Heavenly Book. After their essence blood opened its second page and restored the clan’s memories, the leaders and their people began to understand their origins and completed mission.

• Qian Wenwan asked Qin Yu whether the Shade-Guarding Clan had to return to the Wordless Heavenly Book, and he explained that Joy and Love were incomplete parts of a whole life.
• The Joy Clan leader and Love Clan leader gave Qin Yu drops of essence blood, which awakened the Wordless Heavenly Book’s second page.
• The second page revealed the ancient characters for Joy and Love, whose Dao resonances joined Sorrow and Fear from the first page.
• The two leaders regained their sealed memories and recalled that they had separated from their master’s Dao Source Ancient Tree to guard his emotions.
• More than ten thousand Shade-Guarding Clan members began recovering their memories as the ancient tree’s warm presence enveloped them.

The Joy and Love Clans returned to their source through the Wordless Heavenly Book, completing the Shade-Guarding Clan’s million-year cycle. Qian Wenwan then awakened an ancient connection to the Shade-Guarding Tree and received a divine sword that seemed to be her original natal weapon.

• The Joy and Love Clans embraced and transformed into intertwined green and crimson-gold lights that entered the Wordless Heavenly Book’s second page.
• Qin Yu saw the page solidify into a peaceful scene of life beneath the Shade-Guarding Tree, and the ancient tree’s radiance faded.
• Qian Wenwan sensed the Shade-Guarding Tree calling to her, and Qin Yu urged her to approach it and follow the resonance.
• Qian Wenwan touched the tree and immersed her consciousness in its ancient Dao imprints while Qin Yu kept watch.
• A divine sense emerged from the tree carrying a small crimson-and-green sword, which flew into Qian Wenwan and settled between her brows.
• Qian Wenwan awakened with a vast sword Dao presence and realized the divine sword felt like a natal weapon she had recovered.

Qian Wenwan awakened the divine sword Compassion and Joy and demonstrated its power to Qin Yu before leaving the Shade-Guarding Clan ruins with him. They headed south to find Yuan Weizhi and arrived in a devastated Southern Region, where the sight of endless destruction left Qian Wenwan troubled.

• Qian Wenwan summoned Compassion and Joy, a sword tied to the Shade-Guarding Clan’s million-year longing, and said it did not truly belong to her.
• Qian Wenwan demonstrated the sword technique Great Dream Returns to the Nest, whose gentle strike could make even a Wuji expert waver by giving Wuji emotion and definition.
• Qin Yu praised the technique, and Qian Wenwan put the sword away before telling him that Yuan Weizhi had gone south alone.
• Qin Yu opened a vast void rift, and he and Qian Wenwan traveled toward the Southern Region in hopes of reaching Yuan Weizhi in time.
• Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan arrived in a scorched wasteland filled with lava, ash, fire, and signs of past battles.
• Qian Wenwan surveyed the ruined Southern Region and remarked that it was utterly unlike the Eastern Region.

Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan entered Blazing Erosion Clan territory and confronted six cultivators whose attacks embodied wrath and hatred. Qin Yu silenced their divine abilities with his sword, and Qian Wenwan began her counterattack as the wounded cultivators staggered back.

• Qin Yu realized that the Wrath Clan and Hatred Clan embodied the Layered Realm Void Great Emperor's emotions and sensed Yuan Weizhi inside a distant city.
• Six Blazing Erosion Clan cultivators confronted Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan and ordered them to leave their territory.
• Qin Yu drew the Silent Origin Stainless Sword and warned the six to stay out of his path.
• The six cultivators unleashed their divine abilities together, surrounding Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan with a torrent of wrathful flames and destructive power.
• Qin Yu used the No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword to make the six divine abilities fall dormant and dissolve, leaving their wielders wounded.
• Qian Wenwan raised Compassion and Joy and struck with Great Dream Returns to the Nest, sending warm white motes drifting across the scorched earth.

Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan slaughtered most of the Blazing Erosion Clan elites who attacked them, using their opposing sword arts to annihilate and release their foes. Chi Xiao activated the clan’s ancient Wrath and Hatred Heaven-Burning Formation, leaving Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan facing a burning battlefield-wide formation.

• The six Blazing Erosion Clan cultivators began to feel compassion under Qian Wenwan’s influence, but their leader shattered a talisman to summon the clan.
• Chi Xiao arrived with hundreds of Blazing Erosion Clan elites and ordered them to attack Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan.
• Qin Yu used the Causeless Disillusionment Sword while Qian Wenwan used Great Dream Returns to the Nest, destroying more than eighty attackers.
• Chi Xiao ordered the surviving elites to retreat, then activated the Wrath and Hatred Heaven-Burning Formation with his origin essence blood.
• Volcanoes erupted across the Southern Region as the formation spread, and a vast crimson-black phantom rose at its center.

Qin Yu used the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter to trace the Wrath and Hatred Heaven-Burning Formation through time and locate its true vital point. He left Qian Wenwan ready to strike the formation’s foundation once he gave the signal.

• Qin Yu identified Chi Xiao as the formation eye and asked Qian Wenwan to disrupt the formation patterns while he advanced.
• Qin Yu countered Chi Xiao’s Wrath Prison Heavenly Ashes with Dao Severing · Annihilation Heavenly Sword, but the formation quickly restored Chi Xiao’s power.
• Qin Yu realized the formation could sense intruders throughout the world inside the Layered Realm Void Great Emperor’s body, so he planned to dismantle it directly with the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter.
• Chi Xiao activated the formation’s second layer, Nine Wraths Burn the World, sending nine wrath dragons diving toward Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu used the Time Page to alter and examine the battlefield’s past, present, and future, revealing the formation’s true vital point.

Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan dismantled the Wrath and Hatred Heaven-Burning Formation after an ancient will expanded it across the Southern Region. The formation collapsed, Chi Xiao was annihilated, and the ancient will remained deep within the altar.

• Qin Yu found the formation’s true vital point behind Chi Xiao and told Qian Wenwan to sever its main origin-power vein with Great Dream Returns to the Nest.
• An ancient will awakened in Blazing Erosion Divine City and drained the remaining Blazing Erosion Clan elites to expand the formation across the Southern Region.
• Qin Yu used the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter to enclose the formation, disrupt its origin power, and rewrite its rules.
• Qian Wenwan used Compassion and Joy to strike the vital point Qin Yu had identified, and the formation began to collapse.
• The formation’s origin power was swallowed by Qin Yu’s sea of books, and Chi Xiao disintegrated as his Fate Soul was annihilated.

After Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan destroyed the Wrath and Hatred Heaven-Burning Formation, the Blazing Erosion Clan leader and a vast army confronted them. The clan revealed that Yuan Weizhi had fallen into their hands, and Qin Yu asked whether they meant to kill him and Qian Wenwan.

• With Chi Xiao gone and the formation broken, Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan faced the Southern Region’s collapse and the arrival of a terrifying presence.
• The Blazing Erosion Clan leader appeared with two powerful experts and more than ten thousand cultivators, whose general threatened Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan.
• Qian Wenwan warned Qin Yu that they could not fight the army head-on, while Qin Yu wondered why Yuan Weizhi had not appeared.
• The Blazing Erosion Clan leader identified Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan as outsiders and suggested they had come with Yuan Weizhi.
• Qian Wenwan asked what the clan had done to Yuan Weizhi, and the Hatred Clan expert said she would never see him again.
• Qin Yu asked whether the Blazing Erosion Clan intended to kill him and Qian Wenwan.

Chi Ming unleashed the Heaven-Holding Halberd’s Silent Abyss technique to erase Qin Yu from existence, but Qin Yu countered with the Silent Origin Stainless Sword’s Causeless Disillusionment Sword. Chi Ming’s Great Dao of Return to the Abyss shattered, leaving him bleeding and staggered.

• Chi Ming asked the Blazing Erosion Clan patriarch to let him fight Qin Yu and accepted a reward of a hundred bottles of Sacred Tree Source Liquid.
• Chi Ming summoned the Heaven-Holding Halberd and attacked Qin Yu with Silent Abyss World-Sweeping Halberd, freezing time and erasing Qin Yu’s existence.
• Qin Yu invoked the Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram and Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel, then thrust with the Causeless Disillusionment Sword.
• Qin Yu’s sword dismantled the logic supporting Chi Ming’s Silent Abyss, and the two Great Daos collided across the Southern Region.
• Chi Ming’s Great Dao of Return to the Abyss broke apart, and its backlash made him spit blood and stagger back dozens of steps.

Qin Yu defeated Chi Ming’s Stillness · Boiling Abyss with the No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword, leaving the Blazing Erosion Clan army and patriarch stunned. Chi Ming remained alive but badly wounded as Qin Yu faced the silent, shaken clan.

• Chi Ming unleashed Stillness · Boiling Abyss, sending a seed of malice toward Qin Yu’s Fate Soul.
• Qian Wenwan prepared to intervene, but Qin Yu signaled her to leave the fight to him.
• Qin Yu used the No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword to nullify Chi Ming’s malice and reverse the attack’s force.
• Qin Yu struck Chi Ming with the backlash, smashing him through three rocky peaks and leaving him gravely wounded.
• The Blazing Erosion Clan’s cultivators fell silent, and the patriarch watched Qin Yu with growing wariness.

Chi Ming burned his origins to transform into a Hatred and Wrath Devil Form, but Qin Yu destroyed him and the Heaven-Holding Halberd with the No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword. As the Blazing Erosion Clan army charged under its unnervingly calm leader’s orders, Qian Wenwan summoned the Great Void Heart-Reflecting Mirror for the coming battle.

• Chi Ming unleashed the Heaven-Holding Halberd’s forbidden technique, No Life in Ten Thousand Prisons, and fused with the halberd by burning his origins of wrath and hatred.
• Qin Yu used the No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword to silence Chi Ming’s origins, disintegrating Chi Ming and shattering the Heaven-Holding Halberd.
• The Blazing Erosion Clan cultivators erupted in rage, while Qin Yu noticed that their clan leader remained strangely calm and warned Qian Wenwan that something was wrong.
• The Blazing Erosion Clan leader ordered his forces to avenge Chi Ming, and more than ten thousand cultivators charged Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan.
• Qin Yu urged Qian Wenwan to end the battle quickly, and she summoned the Great Void Heart-Reflecting Mirror as the armies advanced.

Qian Wenwan’s Great Void Heart-Reflecting Mirror briefly calmed the Blazing Erosion Clan before their patriarch shattered it with a single finger. Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan then fought back with their domains and sword, but the Blazing Erosion Clan commander charged Qian Wenwan with a devastating attack.

• Qian Wenwan used the Great Void Heart-Reflecting Mirror to suppress the Blazing Erosion Clan’s wrath and evil, disrupting their charge.
• The Blazing Erosion Clan patriarch shattered the mirror with a single finger, and the clan’s fury returned.
• Qin Yu unfolded Void Source · Dream Stillness across the battlefield, suppressing the army through five domains.
• Qian Wenwan used Great Dream Returns to the Nest to turn hundreds of Blazing Erosion Clan cultivators into warm-white radiance.
• The Blazing Erosion Clan commander roared at the outsiders and charged Qian Wenwan with Wrath and Evil World Extinguisher Slash.

Qin Yu used Rule · Grammar to redirect the Hatred Clan commander’s devastating strike, but the commander sacrificed more than a hundred Blazing Erosion Clan cultivators to empower his divine weapon. When Qin Yu revealed the Wordless Heavenly Book, the Blazing Erosion Clan patriarch abandoned his composure and rushed to seize it, forcing Qin Yu to summon Xiao Yue.

• Qin Yu used Rule · Grammar to rewrite the course of the Hatred Clan commander’s Wrath and Evil World Extinguisher Slash, and their clash devastated the battlefield and Blazing Erosion Divine City.
• The wounded Hatred Clan commander sacrificed more than a hundred nearby Blazing Erosion Clan cultivators, and their blood and Fate Souls transformed his divine weapon into a black sun surrounded by chains and vengeful souls.
• Qin Yu recognized the weapon’s gathered essence blood as a chance to open the Wordless Heavenly Book’s third page and revealed the book.
• The Blazing Erosion Clan patriarch saw the Wordless Heavenly Book and charged at Qin Yu to seize it, revealing his long-suppressed desperation to obtain it.
• Qin Yu called for Xiao Yue, who emerged from his sea of consciousness and stood before the approaching patriarch.

Xiao Yue repelled the Blazing Erosion Clan patriarch when he tried to take the Wordless Heavenly Book, but he sealed Blazing Erosion Divine City with ten soul banners and drove his people into a frenzy. As the Hatred Clan commander unleashed a vast tide of aggrieved souls, Qin Yu, Qian Wenwan, and Xiao Yue stood their ground, ready for battle.

• Xiao Yue used Logic Chain Severance to hurl the Blazing Erosion Clan patriarch away from the Wordless Heavenly Book, and Qin Yu retrieved the book and returned to Qian Wenwan.
• The demonic halberd devoured the essence blood of more than a hundred Blazing Erosion Clan cultivators and transformed into a terrifying weapon surrounded by resentful souls.
• The Blazing Erosion Clan patriarch summoned ten soul banners and sealed Blazing Erosion Divine City inside a cage of black chains.
• The soul banners inflamed the Blazing Erosion Clan army's hatred and drove its cultivators mad, while the Hatred Clan commander took up the demonic halberd.
• The Hatred Clan commander unleashed Myriad Slaughter Abyss, releasing a vast soul tide that surged toward Qin Yu, Qian Wenwan, and Xiao Yue.
• Qin Yu, Qian Wenwan, and Xiao Yue prepared to face the approaching soul tide without retreating.

Qin Yu, Qian Wenwan, and Xiao Yue countered the soul-flag array’s assault and discovered that an inconspicuous flag in the northeast was its true core. As Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan rushed to destroy it, the Blazing Erosion Clan patriarch unleashed a bloodlight transformation that began tearing apart his own remaining cultivators.

• Qin Yu’s Zero Point Offshoots devoured the vengeful souls while Qian Wenwan’s Great Dream Returns to the Nest freed them from the demonic halberd’s control.
• Xiao Yue used Logic Chain Severance to destroy more than half of the Blazing Erosion Clan cultivators leading the charge.
• The patriarch poured soul power from the ten flags into the remaining cultivators, greatly strengthening them, and Xiao Yue recognized the array as the Ten Directions Soul-Suppressing Flags.
• Xiao Yue identified the quiet northeast flag as the array’s core, and Qin Yu confirmed that the other nine flags fed their power into it.
• Qin Yu broke a path toward the main flag while Qian Wenwan charged it with her Compassionate Joy Divine Sword.
• The patriarch infused all ten flags with his blood, creating a scarlet canopy that engulfed the remaining Blazing Erosion Clan cultivators and made their bodies rupture with rage and hatred.

The Blazing Erosion Clan patriarch sacrificed his cultivators to create the Rage and Hatred Blood Demon, a giant empowered by the ten Soul-Suppressing Flags. Qin Yu, Qian Wenwan, and Xiao Yue fought back together, but the battle remained unresolved as the demon pressed its attack.

• The Hatred Clan commander absorbed the Blazing Erosion Clan cultivators, transforming into the Rage and Hatred Blood Demon as the last of them vanished.
• Qin Yu pulled Qian Wenwan back, and Xiao Yue used the Blue Ring to flee with them before the crimson pillar erupted and devastated the land.
• The ten Soul-Suppressing Flags embedded themselves in the demon and linked it to Blazing Erosion Divine City, while the Blazing Erosion Clan patriarch demanded the Wordless Heavenly Book.
• The Rage and Hatred Blood Demon attacked Qin Yu, Qian Wenwan, and Xiao Yue, who met its halberd with their swords and dharma arts.
• Qin Yu devoured the demon's surrounding origin with Zero Point Offshoots, Qian Wenwan purified it with her sword, and Xiao Yue severed its connection to the Great Dao.

Qin Yu, Qian Wenwan, and Xiao Yue unleashed their strongest abilities against the Rage and Hatred Blood Demon, severing its links to the Soul-Suppressing Flags and shattering its demonic halberd. Just as Qin Yu moved to finish it, Yuan Weizhi suddenly appeared as a mindless shield, forcing Qin Yu to withdraw his strike and suffer severe backlash.

• Qin Yu realized the Soul-Suppressing Flags were continually strengthening the Rage and Hatred Blood Demon and urged Qian Wenwan and Xiao Yue to use stronger divine abilities.
• The Blazing Erosion Clan patriarch drove the ten flags deeper into the puppet and unleashed Grief Abyss Sinfall, sending threads of grief and sin into the trio’s Fate Souls.
• Qin Yu used the Great Luo Heavenly Chapter to redefine and dissolve the sin threads, while Qian Wenwan freed the trapped souls and Xiao Yue severed the flags’ origin connections to the puppet.
• Qin Yu, Qian Wenwan, and Xiao Yue struck together, badly wounding themselves and the puppet while shattering its demonic halberd.
• Qin Yu launched a final sword strike, but Yuan Weizhi appeared in front of the puppet, and Qin Yu withdrew the attack to avoid hitting him, suffering a severe backlash.
• Qian Wenwan caught the wounded Qin Yu as Xiao Yue stood beside them, while Yuan Weizhi remained motionless and unconscious with his soul stripped of autonomy.

Qin Yu, Qian Wenwan, and Xiao Yue fought the Wrath and Malice Blood Puppet while trying to free Yuan Weizhi from the Soul-Suppressing Flags. As Qian Wenwan tried to awaken Yuan Weizhi’s remaining consciousness, the puppet unleashed World-Covering Sinful Performance, trapping the three in a world of mirrors and painful illusions.

• The old man ordered Yuan Weizhi and the Wrath and Malice Blood Puppet to attack Qin Yu and his companions.
• Qin Yu realized the Soul-Suppressing Flags had taken control of Yuan Weizhi’s divine soul, and he struggled to fight the puppet without seriously injuring Yuan Weizhi.
• Qin Yu ordered his companions to focus on the puppet while they searched for a way to break the flags’ control.
• Xiao Yue spotted a remaining trace of awareness in Yuan Weizhi, and Qian Wenwan tried to awaken him with the Compassionate Joy Divine Sword’s Dao resonances.
• The Wrath and Malice Blood Puppet unleashed World-Covering Sinful Performance, filling the world with deceptive scenes and mirror images that made Qin Yu, Qian Wenwan, and Xiao Yue stop in place.