Chapter Summaries

Qin Yu shattered the Wrath and Malice Blood Puppet’s Sin Theater, but the Blazing Erosion Clan patriarch revealed his control over the soul banners and unleashed a technique that began turning the whole world into a nest of blood puppets. The chapter ended with blood-red patterns appearing throughout the land as new horrors began to emerge.

• Qian Wenwan entered Yuan Weizhi’s sea of consciousness to awaken him, but the fused wrath and malice obsession repelled her and left her badly wounded.
• Qin Yu used the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter and Realm Severing Origin Brush to destroy the Sin Theater and its mirrors.
• Xiao Yue identified the real main banner and explained that severing its Fate Soul connections could let the third page of the Wordless Heavenly Book destroy it.
• The Blazing Erosion Clan patriarch summoned the ten soul banners, fused them into a main banner, and merged with it to become its banner master.
• The patriarch used Sin Embryo Seeds the World, causing the Wrath and Malice Blood Puppet to compress its power into a drop of natal essence blood and release a world-freezing ripple.
• Blood-red patterns appeared in rocks, plants, beasts, and cultivators, and new blood puppets began emerging across the world.

Qin Yu and Xiao Yue destroyed the Wrath and Malice Blood Puppet, but Qin Yu was wounded by its final attack. Xiao Yue and Qian Wenwan then freed Yuan Weizhi from the wrath-and-malice obsession, leaving the Blazing Erosion Clan patriarch’s soul flag cracked and Yuan Weizhi regaining his clarity.

• Qin Yu used the Supreme Eternal Stillness Seal while Xiao Yue’s Blue Ring powers erased the Wrath and Malice Blood Puppet, but its final attack wounded Qin Yu.
• Xiao Yue caught Qin Yu, who suppressed the remaining sin power and used Supreme Transformation Source Crystals to stabilize his Fate Soul.
• The Blazing Erosion Clan patriarch summoned a gray-white soul flag and threatened to bind Yuan Weizhi again, so Xiao Yue went to help Qian Wenwan.
• Qian Wenwan used Compassion and Joy and an ancient bell to awaken a fragment of Yuan Weizhi’s consciousness.
• Xiao Yue severed the puppet-thought thread and used Karma-Locking Stillness to erase the obsession’s causal ties, cracking the soul flag as Yuan Weizhi regained clarity.

Qin Yu struck the Blazing Erosion Clan patriarch as he tried to merge with the soul banner, but the patriarch used an ancient soul bell to drive Yuan Weizhi back into a frenzy. Qian Wenwan and Qin Yu tried to reach Yuan Weizhi’s remaining will as he fought the corruption within his Fate Soul.

• Yuan Weizhi begged Qian Wenwan to kill him before the anger and malice turned him into a puppet, while the Blazing Erosion Clan patriarch renewed his control with the soul banner.
• The Blazing Erosion Clan patriarch began fusing with the banner, but Qin Yu attacked with his Finality Sword Intent and forced him to tear it from his chest to defend himself.
• Qin Yu’s sword broke through the patriarch’s Ten Thousand Souls Without Masters forbidden art and wounded him severely.
• The wounded patriarch rang an ancient soul bell, causing Yuan Weizhi’s clarity to fade and his anger and malice to surge again.
• Qian Wenwan used Great Dream Returns to the Nest to soothe Yuan Weizhi, while Qin Yu urged him to remain himself and defeat the corruption.
• Yuan Weizhi’s Fate Soul clenched its fists and charged toward the remnant thoughts eroding it.

Yuan Weizhi briefly regained himself before the Blood Soul Pool’s hidden seal corrupted him again, but Xiao Yue used the Blue Ring to sever the obsession’s karmic ties and destroy the soul banner in his Fate Soul. He exposed the old man’s deception and, revealing that his tainted essence blood could open the Wordless Heavenly Book’s third page, began to help Qin Yu unlock it.

• Yuan Weizhi tore apart the remnant thoughts in his sea of consciousness and briefly regained clarity, but the old man activated the soul bell and awakened the seal in his chest, corrupting him again.
• Yuan Weizhi summoned faceless Fate Soul phantoms and sent chains toward Qin Yu’s Fate Soul, but Xiao Yue intervened with the Blue Ring’s Fourth Form, Karma-Locking Stillness.
• Xiao Yue severed the obsession’s karmic connections and destroyed the hidden soul banner in Yuan Weizhi’s Fate Soul Nucleus, restoring his clarity and making the old man lose his composure.
• Yuan Weizhi told Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan that the old man had annihilated the Blazing Erosion Clan a million years earlier and had refined him into a blood soul puppet beneath the land.
• Yuan Weizhi gave Qian Wenwan a jade slip documenting his experiences and the Blood Soul Pool, then told Qin Yu that his essence blood could open the Wordless Heavenly Book’s third page.
• Qin Yu opened the Wordless Heavenly Book as Yuan Weizhi formed a drop of grayish-red essence blood, while the old man desperately ordered them to stop.

Yuan Weizhi opened the third page of the Wordless Heavenly Book, revealing the sources of aversion and wrath before dissolving into it. The last emotion, desire, escaped after the patriarch of the Blazing Erosion Clan crumbled, and Qin Yu, Qian Wenwan, and Xiao Yue headed for the Blood Soul Pool.

• Yuan Weizhi used his essence blood to open the third page of the Wordless Heavenly Book, which revealed the ancient characters for aversion and wrath.
• Yuan Weizhi told Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan he was grateful for their journey together, then dissolved into the third page, leaving behind an imprint of his Fate Soul.
• The patriarch of the Blazing Erosion Clan crumbled, and a shifting figure made of desire emerged, blamed the outsiders, and fled.
• Qin Yu gave Qian Wenwan Supreme Transformation Source Crystals to restore her Fate Soul's source, while Xiao Yue identified the fleeing figure as desire.
• Qin Yu, Qian Wenwan, and Xiao Yue set out for the Blood Soul Pool to investigate the Devil Creature there.

Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan reached the Blazing Erosion Clan’s Blood Soul Pool, where Qin Yu sensed an ancient presence sleeping beneath it. Yuan Weizhi’s jade slip revealed how the false patriarch captured him and cast him into the pool.

• Qin Yu sent the exhausted Xiao Yue back into his sea of consciousness, then continued with Qian Wenwan toward the estate’s depths.
• Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan found a vast Blood Soul Pool filled with anguished Fate Soul fragments and bound by ancient runes.
• Qin Yu used the Ring Master Soul Diagram to trace the pool’s blood threads and sensed an ancient existence at its bottom.
• Qian Wenwan activated Yuan Weizhi’s jade slip, which displayed his past encounter with the Blazing Erosion Clan.
• A gray-white soul banner pierced Yuan Weizhi and suppressed his Fate Soul origin, allowing the false patriarch to capture him.
• The false patriarch ordered blood soul puppets to throw Yuan Weizhi into the Blood Soul Pool and seal his soul.

Yuan Weizhi’s final recording warned Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan that something hidden beneath the Blood Soul Pool was more terrifying than the pool itself. While searching for its source, they found an ancient painting showing the pool as an empty pit with an altar at its bottom, suggesting it had not originally been a Blood Soul Pool.

• Yuan Weizhi’s recording showed his ten days in the Blood Soul Pool, his discovery of the Wordless Heavenly Book, and his warning about a terrifying thing at the pool’s bottom.
• Qian Wenwan and Qin Yu decided to investigate the bottom and search the underground space for the pool’s foundation before the escaped desire origin could recover.
• Qin Yu searched the blood-stained corridors, murals, side halls, altars, and chambers but found no formation, seal, or mechanism.
• Qian Wenwan called Qin Yu to an ancient hall filled with untouched divine weapons and showed him a yellowed painting of the Blood Soul Pool.
• Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan saw that the painting depicted an empty pit with an altar at its bottom, and Qin Yu concluded that it had not originally been a Blood Soul Pool.

Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan used the ancient painting to drain the Blood Soul Pool and uncover an ancient altar at its bottom. After sealing the blood pool inside the painting and hiding it away, they approached the altar, suspecting its true secret lay beneath it.

• Qin Yu discovered a hidden seal in the ancient painting and used the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter to undo it.
• The ancient painting drew all the blood and resentful souls from the Blood Soul Pool into the pool depicted in the scroll.
• Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan found a gray-white, nine-tier altar at the bottom, covered in rootlike patterns that suggested a powerful ancient tree lay beneath it.
• The painting sealed the blood pool inside itself again, and Qin Yu hid it in a concealed rift while Qian Wenwan promised to destroy the altar that opened the way there.
• Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan stepped onto the pool's bottom and walked toward the altar to seek the secret beneath it.

Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan opened the ancient altar and discovered the Myriad Dao Source Root tree, where they received Source Dao leaves and entered separate revelations of the myriad Daos. As the tree’s ancient presence began to awaken, Qin Yu grasped the source before the Great Dao’s expression, while Qian Wenwan’s Compassionate Joy Divine Sword absorbed the myriad Daos.

• Qin Yu used the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter to unravel the altar’s root-pattern seal and turn its Dao-source chains into characters, raising the altar to reveal the hidden world.
• Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan recognized the colossal ancient tree as the Layered Realm Void Great Emperor’s Myriad Dao Source Root, which embodied and drew nourishment from the myriad Daos.
• The Myriad Dao Source Root split a chaotic Source Dao leaf between Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan, drawing both of them into visions of the Great Dao.
• Qin Yu witnessed the cycle of creation and realized that the deepest source existed before the Great Dao was expressed.
• Qian Wenwan understood that Compassion and Joy meant embracing the myriad Daos, as her Compassionate Joy Divine Sword absorbed their true meanings.
• The Myriad Dao Source Root trembled as an ancient presence awakened within its trunk and Great Dao patterns converged across its body.

Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan learned the truth about Desire and the Myriad Dao Source Root Tree from its returning Origin will. The tree restored its full presence and bestowed a Source Fruit on Qian Wenwan, leaving her with an opportunity to witness the Origin of the myriad Daos.

• The Origin will revealed that the Myriad Dao Source Root Tree was the Layered Realm Void Great Emperor’s true first lifebound supreme treasure and that Desire was his surviving obsession, not one of the seven emotions.
• The Origin will explained that Desire had secretly possessed successive Blazing Erosion Clan patriarchs for a million years, cultivating the Seven Emotions Origin so it could take the tree and Wordless Heavenly Book and impersonate the Emperor’s sole continuing will.
• The Origin will returned to the Myriad Dao Source Root Tree, which absorbed the divine thought and recovered its complete Origin presence.
• The Myriad Dao Source Root Tree produced a Source Fruit and gave it to Qian Wenwan because her Dao of Compassion and Joy aligned with its source root.
• Qian Wenwan accepted the Source Fruit, which would let her face the Origin of the myriad Daos.

Qin Yu secured the Myriad Dao Source Root Tree for his great world while Qian Wenwan used the Myriad Dao Source Fruit to enter the Wuji Realm. They then left Myriad Dao Space to seek the last of the Seven Emotions Origin, Desire.

• The Myriad Dao Source Root Tree asked Qin Yu to take it to his great world, and Qin Yu stored it in the Annihilation Devil Pupil · Final Spirit Core.
• Qian Wenwan swallowed the Myriad Dao Source Fruit, and the Compassionate Joy Divine Sword helped her break through the Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme barrier into the Wuji Realm.
• Qian Wenwan congratulated Qin Yu on gaining the tree’s recognition and explained that Wuji cultivators followed unique Great Daos.
• Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan opened a spatial rift and departed to find Desire, the last of the Seven Emotions Origin.

Desire recovered in hiding in the Western Region and vowed revenge on Qin Yu and his companions. As Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan searched the empty region, Desire activated a million-year-old network of hidden desire power beneath the land.

• Desire absorbed the Fate Soul origins stored in hundreds of orbs, healing its wounds and swearing to destroy Qin Yu, his Dao, his Fate Soul, and his friends.
• Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan found no inhabitants or clans in the Western Region and wondered whether Desire had ever had a clan of its own.
• Qian Wenwan drew the Compassionate Joy Divine Sword as she and Qin Yu guarded against Desire watching them from the shadows.
• Desire recalled secretly watching Qin Yu, Qian Wenwan, and Yuan Weizhi enter the realm, intending to use them to find the Seven Emotions Origin and open the Wordless Heavenly Book.
• Desire raised its wand and chanted, awakening hidden patterns that spread desire power throughout the Western Region.

Desire trapped Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan in illusions shaped from their deepest wishes. Qin Yu rejected his perfect Annihilation Abyss Epoch and shattered the illusion, while Qian Wenwan remained faced with the temptation of her reunited loved ones.

• Desire cast a spell that enveloped the Western Region in gray-black threads and separated Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan into individual illusions.
• Qin Yu awoke in an ideal Annihilation Abyss Epoch where Xiao Yue and his other companions were alive and welcomed him as Realm Master.
• Qian Wenwan found herself in a peaceful city with her deceased family, teachers, and friends, who urged her to stop fighting and stay with them.
• Qin Yu rejected the illusion, declaring that his true great realm included suffering, loss, and people choosing to protect one another.
• Qin Yu unleashed No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword and shattered the illusion realm.

Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan escaped Desire’s illusion and destroyed the true Desire Realm by finding and striking its source. Qin Yu then shattered Desire’s staff and gravely wounded him, leaving Desire helpless in a crater as Qin Yu approached.

• Qin Yu used the Great Luo Heavenly Chapter to break Qian Wenwan out of the Desire Illusory Realm, then challenged Desire to reveal himself.
• Desire created the Desire Realm · Myriad Beings Dream Together, an independent world formed from countless desires.
• Qin Yu analyzed the realm’s source while Qian Wenwan’s Great Dream Returns to the Nest sword technique stilled its Dao; Qin Yu found and shattered its source core.
• Desire fled after the realm collapsed, but the Myriad Dao Source Root tree told Qin Yu that Desire’s true source lay inside his staff.
• Qin Yu used the Undefined Destruction Sword to destroy the staff and strike Desire’s Fate Soul, leaving him gravely wounded and unable to resist.

Qin Yu explained to Desire that the seven emotions and six desires belonged together, and Desire accepted his end as his essence returned to the Wordless Heavenly Book. The seven emotions reunited as the Layered Realm Void Great Emperor’s origin, then Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan left through a rift as the Layered Realm Void dissolved.

• Qin Yu told the dying Desire that returning to the origin meant restoring wholeness rather than annihilation, and Desire acknowledged the value of the seven emotions before dying.
• Qin Yu placed a drop of Desire’s essence blood on the Wordless Heavenly Book, causing the fourth page to reveal the character and verse for desire.
• The seven emotion origins rose from the book and joined into a river of origin, manifesting the vast will of the Layered Realm Void Great Emperor.
• The Wordless Heavenly Book opened all seven pages and released a pillar of light before returning to Qin Yu’s palm.
• The Myriad Dao Source Root opened a passage to the outside world, and Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan entered it together.
• The spatial rift closed, and the Layered Realm Void collapsed into primordial points of light.

Qin Yu accepted Qian Wenwan’s appointment as deputy shopkeeper of the Heavenly Secrets Dao Pavilion, then returned to the Annihilation Abyss Epoch and entrusted Yingling with the Myriad Dao Source Root. After Yingling carried it to the realm’s core to plant, Qin Yu returned to the Source of Epochless to prepare for the Four Great Lineage Grand Competition.

• Qian Wenwan gave Qin Yu a deputy shopkeeper token and promised him access to the Heavenly Secrets Dao Pavilion’s resources and treasures at cost.
• Qin Yu declined to visit the pavilion immediately because he planned to prepare for the Four Great Lineage Grand Competition, where he had promised to serve as the Chi Lineage’s outside aid.
• Qian Wenwan departed through a spatial rift, and Qin Yu traveled to a hidden realm, entered the Annihilation Abyss Epoch, and summoned Yingling.
• Yingling reported that the Annihilation Abyss Epoch was peaceful and prospering, and that Ruishan, Yunyi, and the others were cultivating in seclusion.
• Qin Yu gave Yingling the Myriad Dao Source Root and ordered him to plant it at the center of the Annihilation Abyss Epoch so cultivators could comprehend the origins of the myriad Daos.
• Yingling flew off with the Myriad Dao Source Root, while Qin Yu returned to the Source of Epochless.

Qin Yu secluded himself in the mountains to stabilize his Eternal Silence Realm Dao foundation. Meanwhile, a masked man escaped three pursuers through the Heavenly Ruins Floating City and fled into a dark forest, with the three men following him inside.

• Qin Yu confirmed the mountain range was empty, then sat down to stabilize his Dao foundation in meditation.
• In the Fourth Multidimensional Universe, a masked man fled through the shifting Heavenly Ruins Floating City as three powerful men pursued him.
• The masked man escaped the city and shattered a black bead, unleashing a flood of Narrative Fragments to delay his pursuers.
• The silver-haired man cast a Narrative-Severing Divine Spear, but the masked man narrowly evaded it and continued fleeing.
• The masked man entered a dark forest, and the three pursuers followed him into it.

Hua Lingxi arrived in the dark forest and defeated the masked man who had stolen the Hua Lineage's secret scroll. After he refused to surrender it, she prepared to grant his wish to die.

• The masked man fled through the forest with three Hua Lineage experts pursuing him and demanding the secret scroll.
• A terrifying pressure forced the masked man and his pursuers to stop, and Hua Lingxi descended into the forest.
• The masked man accused the Hua Lineage of shameful deeds and threatened to expose the contents of the secret scroll.
• Hua Lingxi used Flower Burial Heavenly Abyss to shatter the masked man's divine ability and hurl him into a mountainside.
• The masked man refused to hand over the scroll even if his divine soul was destroyed, and Hua Lingxi said she would grant his wish to die.

Hua Lingxi and three allies overwhelmed the masked man after his Primordial Spirit Treasure, the ancient azure-gold boat, failed to protect him. His mask broke, revealing Ye Ting, a Holy Clan elder and Qin Yu’s soul puppet, who still clutched the secret scroll and defied his captors.

• Hua Lingxi unleashed Ninefold Flower Stillness · Burial of the Myriad Realms against the masked man.
• The masked man summoned an ancient azure-gold boat, whose artifact spirit used Nine Heavens Realm Folding to disrupt Hua Lingxi’s attack.
• Hua Lingxi ordered the three allies behind her to attack, and they joined her in striking the boat and its artifact spirit.
• The ancient boat shattered under their combined assault, and its destruction blasted the masked man into the mountains.
• The masked man’s black mask broke, revealing Ye Ting, who held onto the secret scroll and cursed Hua Lingxi and the others.

Hua Lingxi battered Ye Ting and prepared to destroy the Holy Clan to force him to reveal a stolen secret scroll. The injury awakened Qin Yu’s connection to Ye Ting, and Qin Yu arrived just as the Hua Lineage disciples were taking their captive away.

• Hua Lingxi accused Ye Ting of stealing a secret scroll and demanded he reveal where he had hidden it, but he refused and denounced the Hua Lineage.
• Hua Lingxi struck Ye Ting, grievously wounding his Fate Soul and activating the Ring Master Soul Chain Qin Yu had left in him.
• Qin Yu sensed Ye Ting’s impending death, tore open a spatial rift, and left his secluded cave to reach him.
• Hua Lingxi ordered her disciples to take Ye Ting to the Holy Clan and threatened to destroy it with her Primordial Dao Supreme Treasure.
• The Hua Lineage disciples sealed Ye Ting’s Fate Soul and carried him away as Qin Yu appeared, prompting Ye Ting to call him master.
• Hua Lingxi recognized that Ye Ting was Qin Yu’s soul puppet and became wary of the calm newcomer.