Chapter Summaries

Qin Yu rescued the wounded Ye Ting from Hua Lingxi and refused to let the Hua Lineage take him. As Qin Yu and Hua Lingxi fought, he stopped her three disciples from attacking Ye Ting and exposed that he had anticipated their plan.

• Hua Lingxi recognized Qin Yu as a possible Soul Master, and her disciples identified him as the man Hua Jingmeng had once put a bounty on.
• Qin Yu broke Ye Ting’s Fate Soul chains, brought him to safety, and gave him a pill to heal while declaring he would take him away.
• Hua Lingxi summoned her Nine Stillness Heavenly Radiance Spear and attacked Qin Yu, who met her with the Silent Origin Stainless Sword.
• Hua Lingxi secretly ordered her three disciples to kill Ye Ting, but Qin Yu used Orbital Collapse Lock-Chain Annihilation to bind them before they could reach him.
• Qin Yu mocked Hua Lingxi for thinking her ambush would distract him, and she shouted in anger.

Qin Yu overcame Hua Lingxi’s Annihilation Spear Tribulation, annihilated three Hua Lineage disciples, and shattered her Ruins Ashen Returning Light with his No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword. Hua Lingxi was badly wounded and left unable to understand Qin Yu’s power.

• Hua Lingxi used Annihilation Spear Tribulation to erase space and causal ties around Qin Yu, but Qin Yu countered it with Causeless Disillusionment Sword.
• Qin Yu used Soulless Annihilation Abyss Sword to erase the three trapped Hua Lineage disciples, provoking Hua Lingxi’s fury and shock.
• Hua Lingxi activated Ruins Ashen Returning Light, absorbing the battle’s destruction and healing her wounds as she challenged Qin Yu again.
• Qin Yu used No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword to silence and shatter Hua Lingxi’s silvery-white domain.
• Hua Lingxi was thrown back through several mountain peaks and, bleeding, demanded to know how Qin Yu possessed such a powerful divine ability.

Qin Yu defeated Hua Lingxi after the Star Wancai Key silently destroyed her Myriad Beasts Stillness Emperor Jian and he erased the foundations of her Great Dao with the Undefined Destruction Sword. Hua Lingxi vanished without a trace, while Ye Ting watched in awe of Qin Yu’s power.

• Ye Ting recovered while watching Qin Yu defeat Hua Lingxi’s Ruins Ashen Returning Light with a single sword strike.
• Hua Lingxi summoned the Myriad Beasts Stillness Emperor Jian, a Primordial Dao Supreme Treasure, and prepared to fuse it with the Nine Stillness Heavenly Radiance Spear.
• The Star Wancai Key’s Edict of Returning to Zero caused the Myriad Beasts Stillness Emperor Jian to disintegrate into primordial stardust.
• Hua Lingxi burned her Fate Soul and Great Dao to sacrifice herself and try to take Qin Yu down with her.
• Qin Yu used the fifth form of the Silent Origin Stainless Sword, Undefined Destruction Sword, to erase Hua Lingxi’s Great Dao, Fate Soul, and existence.
• Ye Ting watched Hua Lingxi disappear and praised Qin Yu’s terrifying sword strike.

Qin Yu rescued the wounded Ye Ting and asked why the Hua Lineage had hunted him, prompting Ye Ting to explain how he intercepted a secret scroll during a covert exchange with the Ancient God Clan. Ye Ting ended his account after describing his escape from the Hua Lineage, leaving Qin Yu with the scroll and the revelation of their alliance.

• Qin Yu confirmed that no Hua Lineage cultivators remained nearby, then took Ye Ting to a private room in Heavenly Ruins Floating City.
• Qin Yu asked why the Hua Lineage had pursued Ye Ting, and Ye Ting presented the sealed secret scroll he had seized.
• Ye Ting recounted how he saw six Hua Lineage disciples secretly trade a storage pouch for the scroll with a masked member of the Ancient God Clan.
• Ye Ting followed the Hua Lineage group and attacked them in a canyon, killing two disciples and taking the scroll.
• The lead disciple used a Primordial Supreme Treasure, severely wounding Ye Ting before he destroyed it and fled; Hua Lingxi then arrived.

Qin Yu received the sealed secret scroll from Ye Ting and instructed him to keep his ties to Qin Yu secret while pursuing control of the Holy Clan. Meanwhile, Hua Yin learned that Hua Lingxi and the disciples carrying the scroll had disappeared, then met a mysterious ally to organize a covert search before the four-lineage competition.

• Qin Yu carefully examined the ancient secret scroll, stored it, and praised Ye Ting for bringing it to him.
• Ye Ting reported that the Shangguan Lineage remained quiet and said he expected to take control of the Holy Clan and become patriarch within two and a half years.
• Qin Yu told Ye Ting to remain with the Holy Clan, conceal their relationship, and contact him if trouble arose.
• A Hua Lineage disciple told Hua Yin that Hua Lei and the others, along with Hua Lingxi, had not returned and could not be reached through soul communication talismans.
• Hua Yin warned a mysterious ally that the scroll's whereabouts were unknown and met him in a hidden residence in Heavenly Ruins Floating City.
• Hua Yin and the mysterious man agreed to send powerful experts to search for the scroll and keep the matter secret before the four-lineage competition.

Qin Yu asked Xiao Yue to study the sealed ancient scroll, then went out to buy a detailed map of the God-Defying Heavenly Abyss. After hearing that the Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang of the Four Great Lineages might compete in human form, he returned to the inn, where Xiao Yue announced she had found a way to break the seal.

• Xiao Yue examined the ancient scroll and took it into Qin Yu’s sea of consciousness to search for a flaw in its restriction seal.
• Qin Yu visited the Myriad Illustrations Pavilion and bought a map of the God-Defying Heavenly Abyss for ten thousand Supreme Transformation Source Crystals.
• Qin Yu overheard cultivators discussing the Four Great Lineage Grand Competition and the possibility that the Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang would take human form and compete.
• Qin Yu recalled seeing Wanyan, the Chi Lineage’s Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang, and wondered whether the new competition plans had been arranged recently.
• Qin Yu returned to the inn, where Xiao Yue told him she had found a way to break the scroll’s seal.

Qin Yu and Xiao Yue opened an ancient scroll and discovered that the Hua Lineage planned to use a poison pill against the Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huangs guarding the Chi Lineage and Ju Lineage. They decided to visit the Ancient God Clan that developed the pill, hoping to stop the plot and uncover proof of the Hua Lineage’s involvement.

• Xiao Yue identified a brief pause in the scroll’s restriction, and Qin Yu used the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter to help break the seal.
• Qin Yu and Xiao Yue read the scroll’s record of the Return to the Ruins Tribulation Descent Pill, which could destroy a Huang’s Fate Soul origin.
• Xiao Yue concluded that the Hua Lineage intended to poison the Huangs guarding the Chi Lineage and the Ju Lineage at the four-lineage martial competition.
• Qin Yu reasoned that poisoning those Huangs would let the Hua Lineage and Shangguan Lineage overpower the Chi Lineage and Ju Lineage, but the scroll alone could not prove the Hua Lineage’s collusion.
• Qin Yu and Xiao Yue decided to visit the Ancient God Clan that night, and Qin Yu opened a spatial rift and stepped through.

Qin Yu entered the God-Defying Heavenly Abyss and reached the Ancient God Clan’s heavily guarded ancestral land. Disguised as one of their disciples, he bribed a patrolman to open the gate and slipped inside, intending to kill half the clan.

• Qin Yu studied his map of the God-Defying Heavenly Abyss and identified the Ancient God Clan’s ancestral land, surrounded by natural forbidden zones.
• Qin Yu traveled through the desolate abyss and spotted the Ancient God Clan’s vast city, protected by hundreds of Fate Soul restrictions and ancient formations.
• Qin Yu changed his appearance and Fate Soul presence, then used an identity token taken from a slain Ancient God Clan disciple to pose as one of their cultivators.
• Qin Yu approached the city gate and claimed to a patrolman that he had returned late after going out for drinks.
• Qin Yu bribed the patrolman with a storage bag containing a hundred Supreme Transformation Source Crystals, and the patrol opened the gate for him.

Qin Yu infiltrated the Ancient God Clan’s ancestral ground and silently killed its patrol disciple, many disciples, and the deacons. After slipping through the elders’ restriction array, he was discovered, exposed his true cultivation, and faced the clan’s elders.

• Qin Yu killed the patrol disciple who had helped him enter the ancestral ground, then used the token to survey the clan’s layout.
• Qin Yu silently annihilated disciples in their quarters and killed the deacon in a guarded courtyard with the No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword.
• Qin Yu wiped out the deacons in their residential area and approached the elders’ temples.
• Qin Yu deciphered the elders’ restriction array with the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter and entered the elders’ area.
• An elder confronted Qin Yu, attacked him, and summoned the other elders after noticing that the restriction had been breached.
• Qin Yu dropped his disguise, revealed his Eternal Silence Realm initial-stage cultivation, drew his sword, and declared himself the King of Hell of the Ancient God Clan.

Qin Yu confronted Yuan Cangming and the Ancient God Clan elders, demanding the Return to the Ruins Tribulation Descent Pill and accusing the clan of secretly obtaining it through the Hua Lineage. The Fourth Elder revealed that the clan’s disciples and True Annihilation Realm deacons had all been killed, and Yuan Cangming led the elders in preparing to attack Qin Yu.

• Yuan Cangming and eleven elders surrounded Qin Yu after he entered the elders' district, and Luo Qingchuan recognized him from the Echo Cliff auction.
• Qin Yu revealed that he had come to obtain the Return to the Ruins Tribulation Descent Pill, prompting the elders to angrily deny the accusation.
• Qin Yu claimed that one person had secretly dealt with the Hua Lineage and offered to show evidence.
• The Fourth Elder returned and reported that all the disciples and True Annihilation Realm deacons had been slain.
• Yuan Cangming ordered the elders to kill Qin Yu, and they summoned their divine weapons and focused their killing intent on him.

Qin Yu faced eleven Ancient God Clan elders and killed one with a single Silent Origin sword strike. Yuan Cangming and the eight remaining elders formed the Nine Hells Heaven-Burying Formation, and Qin Yu studied its shifting defenses as its full power prepared to activate.

• Luo Qingchuan recognized Qin Yu from the Echo Cliff auction and accused him of killing the disciples he had sent after the Emberless Mirror.
• An Eternal Silence Realm Initial Stage elder charged Qin Yu, who annihilated him with the No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword.
• Yuan Cangming ordered the nine remaining elders to form the Nine Hells Heaven-Burying Formation and transform into ancient devils.
• The formation connected the elders' Fate Souls and raised devil prisons, chains, and dragons around Qin Yu, sealing him inside.
• Qin Yu examined the formation's shifting core and shared defenses, holding his sword ready while he waited for it to fully activate.

Qin Yu uncovered the flaw in the Nine Hells Heaven-Burying Formation and killed Luo Qingchuan with the Silent Origin Stainless Sword. He then severed the formation’s core, leaving Yuan Cangming and the other elders gravely wounded amid its ruins.

• Yuan Cangming activated the Nine Hells Heaven-Burying Formation and unleashed its devil breath and descending prison layers against Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu sealed the formation’s underlying logic, disrupting the elders’ shared Fate Soul origins and exposing cracks in the formation.
• Luo Qingchuan entered the formation’s eye, transformed into an ancient devil true form, and attacked Qin Yu while the other eight elders fed him their power.
• Qin Yu dodged Luo Qingchuan’s assault until the elders’ Fate Souls converged, then struck with the Causeless Disillusionment Sword and annihilated Luo Qingchuan.
• Qin Yu severed the formation’s core node, shattering the Nine Hells Heaven-Burying Formation and inflicting backlash on Yuan Cangming and the other elders.

Qin Yu annihilated the Ancient God Clan elders who attacked him, leaving only Yuan Cangming alive. Yuan Cangming summoned the progenitor and absorbed its devil origin, transforming into an Eternal Silence Realm-Supreme opponent who prepared to attack Qin Yu.

• Qin Yu killed the first three elders with his Silent Origin Stainless Sword and Heavenly Cause Judgment Sequence techniques.
• Qin Yu defeated the remaining elders, annihilating all eight except Yuan Cangming.
• Yuan Cangming offered to let Qin Yu leave, then threatened him with the absent clan leader; Qin Yu realized the leader was away and said he would claim the clan's foundations.
• Yuan Cangming sacrificed his essence blood and summoned the progenitor beneath the ancestral land.
• The progenitor poured devil origin into Yuan Cangming, transforming him and raising his cultivation to Eternal Silence Realm-Supreme.
• Yuan Cangming threatened Qin Yu and gathered devil Qi into his hand to attack.

Qin Yu used the Ring Master Soul Diagram to uncover the source of Yuan Cangming’s progenitor devil power and struck the ancient devil domain itself. He shattered the hidden progenitor will, leaving the domain collapsing around Yuan Cangming.

• Yuan Cangming unleashed Silent Heaven World Burial, but Qin Yu used Fate Cause Sealing Mirror · Logic Abyss Core to halt the attack’s power and break apart the progenitor devil spear.
• Yuan Cangming sacrificed his Fate Soul essence blood and summoned the Myriad Ages Devil Domain, where he drew on its power to fight Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu and Yuan Cangming clashed across the domain as Qin Yu alternated the Silent Origin Stainless Sword’s first and second forms against Yuan Cangming’s nine devil fists.
• Qin Yu studied the domain’s Fate Soul trajectories and discovered that its source, rather than Yuan Cangming, sustained the progenitor devil origin.
• Qin Yu used World Silent Judgment to attack the domain’s source, forcing the hidden progenitor will to emerge and shattering it.
• The progenitor devil origin ran out of control as the ancient devil domain began to collapse.

Qin Yu killed Yuan Cangming after the progenitor's will shattered, then returned to the Ancient God Clan's ruined ancestral grounds. As the clan's patriarch and supreme elder arrived, Yuan Xuangu proposed a conversation, and Qin Yu offered him the sealed ancient scroll to examine.

• The progenitor's will shattered, stripping Yuan Cangming of his power and causing his Fate Soul to crack.
• Qin Yu used the Causeless Disillusionment Sword to kill Yuan Cangming and blamed him for bringing the Ancient God Clan to ruin.
• Qin Yu returned to the ruined ancestral grounds and declared that he would cut off the clan's roots, but two powerful figures arrived.
• Yuan Zhanxiao and Yuan Xuangu discovered that every other member of the Ancient God Clan had been erased, and Yuan Xuangu stopped Yuan Zhanxiao from attacking Qin Yu.
• Yuan Xuangu asked Qin Yu to talk, and Qin Yu sent him the sealed ancient scroll and told him to examine it first.

Qin Yu confronted Yuan Xuangu and Yuan Zhanxiao with a secret scroll tying the Ancient God Clan’s Yuan Cangming to the forbidden Return to the Ruins Tribulation Descent Pill. He demanded that the survivors become his soul puppets and establish the Annihilation God Clan or die, and the chapter ended with Qin Yu badly injuring Yuan Zhanxiao after he attacked.

• Yuan Xuangu examined the scroll and confirmed that Yuan Cangming had left its seal, though he said he had known nothing about the pill or the secret dealings with the Hua Lineage.
• Qin Yu rejected Yuan Xuangu’s plea to let the matter end and offered him and Yuan Zhanxiao the choice of serving as soul puppets in the Annihilation God Clan or dying.
• Yuan Zhanxiao refused to submit and charged Qin Yu with a powerful saber strike.
• Qin Yu evaded Yuan Zhanxiao’s attack with a small step and struck him with one palm, severely injuring him.
• Yuan Xuangu rushed to stabilize Yuan Zhanxiao’s Fate Soul and scolded him for attacking Qin Yu.

Yuan Xuangu demanded a three-move battle to prove his strength to Qin Yu before he and Yuan Zhanxiao would become soul puppets. He burned his million-epoch Dao foundation to reach the Wuji Realm and began his first attack, Return to Origin Cleave, which erased Qin Yu’s protective Dao resonance as the axe descended.

• Yuan Zhanxiao grieved over the Ancient God Clan’s destruction and blamed himself for failing to protect it.
• Yuan Xuangu told Qin Yu he would accept becoming a soul puppet only if Qin Yu withstood three moves and convinced him of his defeat.
• Qin Yu accepted Yuan Xuangu’s challenge.
• Yuan Xuangu burned his Dao foundation, awakened the Ancient God Clan’s origin, transformed into his Origin Demon form, and broke through to the Wuji Realm.
• Yuan Xuangu summoned an ancient battleaxe and used his first move, Return to Origin Cleave, which stripped away Qin Yu’s protective Dao resonance.

Qin Yu dismantled Yuan Xuangu’s first two divine abilities by exposing flaws in their Dao, while Yuan Xuangu tested him as part of a three-move challenge. After Qin Yu dispersed the Ancient God Clan’s inherited Dao torrent, Yuan Zhanxiao began questioning whether the clan’s traditions should change.

• Qin Yu used the Fate Cause Sealing Mirror and No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword to break Yuan Xuangu’s Return to Origin Cleave at its source.
• Yuan Xuangu acknowledged Qin Yu’s strength and began his second move, Myriad Ancestors Returning Together, summoning the Ancient God Clan’s ancestral Dao.
• Qin Yu identified how Yuan Xuangu’s technique forced the ancestors’ distinct Daos into one and left Yuan Xuangu’s Fate Soul as their sole bearer.
• Qin Yu used Naming Reconstruction to separate the ancestral Daos, dispersing the technique and allowing the ancestor phantoms to depart.
• Yuan Zhanxiao reconsidered the clan’s million-epoch traditions and wondered whether becoming the Annihilation God Clan could open a new future.

Yuan Xuangu revealed his final hidden strength by summoning the Realm Devouring Heaven Burning Cauldron, a Primordial Origin Supreme Treasure. He recounted using it to slay three Myriad Heavens Beast Lords, leaving Yuan Zhanxiao stunned while Qin Yu acknowledged Yuan Xuangu’s power.

• Yuan Xuangu shed his devil transformation and told Qin Yu that his final divine ability was a secret he had used only once in a million years.
• Yuan Xuangu formed seals, tearing open the sky and summoning an ancient bronze cauldron amid vast changes to heaven and earth.
• Yuan Xuangu named it the Realm Devouring Heaven Burning Cauldron and explained that it could refine heaven and earth and burn the laws of the Dao.
• Yuan Xuangu recounted using the cauldron to fight for seven days and seven nights and slay three Myriad Heavens Beast Lords.
• Qin Yu praised Yuan Xuangu’s achievement, while Yuan Zhanxiao learned of the cauldron and the old victory for the first time and fell to his knees in shock.

Yuan Xuangu unleashed the Realm Devouring Heaven Burning Cauldron’s ultimate Primordial technique against Qin Yu, but the Star Wancai Key awakened and invoked a rule that traced the artifact back toward its origin. The cauldron and its spirit survived only after the effect stopped, leaving Yuan Xuangu and Yuan Zhanxiao shaken and the cauldron spirit cowed before Qin Yu.

• Yuan Xuangu awakened the Realm Devouring Heaven Burning Cauldron’s artifact spirit and fused their Fate Souls with the cauldron’s origin.
• Yuan Xuangu sent the united Primordial divine cauldron down toward Qin Yu, threatening to burn the world back to its pre-Primordial state.
• The Star Wancai Key awakened in Qin Yu’s sea of consciousness and unleashed the Method of Returning External Objects to Stillness against the cauldron.
• The cauldron’s history began reversing, and its artifact spirit started fading as its existence returned toward its origin.
• The ancient will halted before the cauldron and spirit vanished completely, leaving the artifact spirit terrified and unwilling to face Qin Yu.
• Yuan Xuangu trembled, Yuan Zhanxiao fell to his knees, and the artifact spirit withdrew beside the cauldron with his head lowered.