Chapter Summaries

Qin Yu convinced Yuan Xuangu to stop relying on the Realm Devouring Heaven Burning Ancient Cauldron and follow his own Dao, prompting Yuan Xuangu and Yuan Zhanxiao to become Qin Yu’s soul vassals. He renamed their ruined clan the Annihilation God Clan and tasked them with rebuilding it, while Xiao Yue explained what the cauldron would need to become a Wuji Origin Returning Supreme Treasure.

• Qin Yu explained that relying on external treasures limited Yuan Xuangu, and Yuan Xuangu’s Dao heart transformed as he accepted the lesson.
• Yuan Xuangu and Yuan Zhanxiao apologized, pledged themselves as Qin Yu’s soul vassals, and received Fate Soul connections that strengthened rather than constrained them.
• Qin Yu renamed the Ancient God Clan the Annihilation God Clan and gave Yuan Xuangu and Yuan Zhanxiao ten billion Supreme Transformation Source Crystals to rebuild it and recruit talented cultivators.
• Xiao Yue examined Yuan Xuangu’s cauldron and said it needed a Wuji Source Catalyst to become a Wuji Origin Returning Supreme Treasure.

Yuan Xuangu and Yuan Zhanxiao revealed the Ancient God Clan’s hidden treasury to Qin Yu, who searched it for the Return to the Ruins Tribulation Descent Pill. The chapter ended with Qin Yu identifying an ordinary wooden box as its likely hiding place and ordering Yuan Zhanxiao to bring it to him.

• Yuan Xuangu and Yuan Zhanxiao opened an ancient array that revealed the Ancient God Clan’s treasury hidden in another layer of the void.
• Qin Yu entered the treasury as Yuan Xuangu described its treasures and the legendary God-Defying Emperor.
• Qin Yu asked where Yuan Cangming might have hidden the Return to the Ruins Tribulation Descent Pill, and Yuan Xuangu said Yuan Cangming would not reveal its location easily.
• Yuan Zhanxiao recalled that Yuan Cangming often visited a secluded area and led Qin Yu there.
• Qin Yu sensed that the small black wooden box on a stone platform likely contained the pill and ordered Yuan Zhanxiao to bring it to him.

Yuan Zhanxiao destroyed the soul puppet guarding Yuan Cangming’s ancient box, and Qin Yu found records proving Yuan Cangming had secretly traded with the Hua Lineage. After ordering Yuan Xuangu and Yuan Zhanxiao to rebuild the Annihilation God Clan, Qin Yu discovered a hidden compartment in the box containing an ancient Soul Sound Talisman and a map.

• A soul puppet emerged from the ancient box and attacked Yuan Zhanxiao, who shattered its Fate Soul Nucleus.
• Qin Yu opened the box and found the Return to the Ruins Tribulation Descent Pill and transaction records documenting Yuan Cangming’s dealings with the Hua Lineage.
• Qin Yu sealed the pill away and ordered Yuan Xuangu and Yuan Zhanxiao to rebuild the Annihilation God Clan, giving them a Soul Sound Token Token to contact him.
• After Qin Yu left, Yuan Xuangu and Yuan Zhanxiao pledged to serve him and began preparing to restore the clan.
• Back in his room, Qin Yu found a hidden compartment beneath the ancient box’s bottom containing a dark cyan Soul Sound Talisman and an ancient map.

Qin Yu traced the soul sound talisman to a high-ranking traitor who had supplied the Hua Lineage with secrets about the Chi and Ju Lineages, then lured the contact to a hidden residence. There, he confronted Hua Yin, the Hua Lineage’s grand elder, and admitted that he had taken the secret scroll and killed Hua Lingxi and her disciples.

• Qin Yu examined the soul sound talisman and map, concluding that someone of at least elder rank in the Chi or Ju Lineage had leaked extensive secrets to the Hua Lineage.
• Qin Yu impersonated Yuan Cangming through the talisman and arranged a meeting at the usual place during the chou hour.
• Qin Yu concealed a killing and karma-trapping formation around the meeting residence and waited in the bamboo grove.
• Hua Yin arrived alone, and Qin Yu revealed himself and identified him as a member of the Hua Lineage.
• Hua Yin named himself as the Hua Lineage’s grand elder and accused Qin Yu of taking the secret scroll and killing Hua Lingxi and her disciples; Qin Yu admitted to both.

Qin Yu rejected Hua Yin’s offer to serve him and challenged the Hua Lineage grand elder instead. Hua Yin began unleashing the Great Dao of Logic and Rules as Qin Yu readied his sword and prepared to fight.

• Hua Yin questioned Qin Yu about his background, and Qin Yu revealed that Hua Jingmeng had been hunting him.
• Hua Yin dismissed Hua Jingmeng and offered to settle Qin Yu’s grievances, make him his subordinate, nurture his talent, and give him treasures.
• Qin Yu rejected Hua Yin’s offer, saying he would not be bound by anyone, and suggested Hua Yin become his soul puppet instead.
• Hua Yin took offense and revealed his confidence in his strength as the Hua Lineage’s grand elder; Qin Yu challenged him to settle their differences in combat.
• Hua Yin activated logic Dao runes that altered the courtyard’s rules, while Qin Yu gripped the Silent Origin Stainless Sword and gathered his senses for the fight.

Hua Yin used his first divine ability, Logic Reconstruction · Myriad Orders Change the Realm, against Qin Yu, who saw through its fixed Fate Soul source point. Qin Yu revealed that the ancient residence had been sealed by the Slaughter and Cause-Trapping Formation, but Hua Yin then unleashed Karma Origin Exchange, which began reversing the causal order of Qin Yu’s Fate Soul.

• Hua Yin used Logic Reconstruction · Myriad Orders Change the Realm to rearrange the space around Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu used the Ring Master Soul Diagram to deduce Hua Yin’s logic and identified the unchanging Fate Soul source point as the divine ability’s flaw.
• The Slaughter and Cause-Trapping Formation sealed the ancient residence, and Hua Yin realized Qin Yu had lured him into the formation.
• Hua Yin dismissed Qin Yu’s insight as only a surface understanding and invoked Fate Order Reverse Writing · Karma Origin Exchange.
• Ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine Fate Rings surrounded Qin Yu, and their reflected versions of him began approaching as the Great Dao within his Fate Soul started to flow backward.

Qin Yu used the Fate Cause Sealing Mirror and Causeless Disillusionment Sword against Hua Yin’s Great Dao of Logic, but Hua Yin reversed the final Fate Ring and wounded him. After identifying how Hua Yin hid his will behind each result, Qin Yu faced Hua Yin’s third divine ability, and the chapter ended as their Great Daos collided in a battle over its true result core.

• Qin Yu combined the Fate Cause Sealing Mirror with the Causeless Disillusionment Sword to break Hua Yin’s Fate Rings, but Hua Yin reversed the final ring and struck Qin Yu’s Fate Soul.
• Qin Yu analyzed the attack and realized Hua Yin hid his will behind each result, allowing him to replace severed causes.
• Hua Yin summoned a pale Dao tree and used Blossom-Cause Master Transposition, Ten Thousand Effects Bury Fate to turn Qin Yu’s past, cultivation, and future into paths toward annihilation.
• Qin Yu formed the Six Severances Seal-Orbital Collapse Lock and used dark-gold chains to bind the twelve result-transfer points in Hua Yin’s Dao tree.
• Qin Yu advanced toward the tree’s central fate cocoon as Hua Yin pressed the black flowers down, and their Great Daos collided across the sealed residence.

Qin Yu wounded Hua Yin by breaking the master fate cocoon, but Hua Yin merged with his Dao tree and trapped Qin Yu in the Ten Thousand Effects Bury Fate Realm. Qin Yu deduced a way around Hua Yin’s logic seal and narrowly evaded its fatal attack, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Qin Yu used the Causeless Disillusionment Sword to split Hua Yin’s master fate cocoon, causing their divine abilities to backlash and injure them both.
• Hua Yin merged his Fate Soul, origin, and Great Dao into the pale Dao tree, transforming the world into the Ten Thousand Effects Bury Fate Realm.
• Qin Yu began forming World Silent Judgment, but Hua Yin used Myriad Laws Halt Judgment to suppress the seal and trap him within the realm’s logic.
• Qin Yu’s Ring Master Soul Diagram found the closed loop underlying Hua Yin’s seal, and Qin Yu deduced a trajectory that bypassed it.
• Hua Yin’s death beam struck where Qin Yu’s Fate Soul would have been, but Qin Yu stepped aside and suffered only a severe shoulder wound.

Qin Yu used Order Adjudication to suppress Hua Yin’s Ten Thousand Effects Bury Fate Realm, but could not overcome the gap between their realms. He provoked Hua Yin into revealing his plan to use the Return to the Ruins Tribulation Descent Pill to seize the Ju and Chi Lineages’ clan-guarding beasts and raise the Hua Lineage to dominance.

• Qin Yu combined World Silent Judgment with the Orbital Collapse Lock, suppressing the World Origin and Logic Origin of Hua Yin’s realm and cracking the pale Dao tree.
• Hua Yin dismissed Qin Yu’s resistance, demanded his secret scroll and Fate Soul, and claimed he could complete his plan without the scroll.
• Qin Yu pretended to weaken further and accused Hua Yin’s lineage of conspiring with the Ancient God Clan to refine the forbidden pill.
• Qin Yu accused Hua Yin of planting agents in the Chi and Ju Lineages, briefly unsettling Hua Yin before he regained his composure.
• Hua Yin revealed that the completed pill would let him slaughter the Ju and Chi Lineages’ clan-guarding Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang and make the Hua Lineage rise above its rivals.
• Qin Yu recognized that Hua Yin’s confession confirmed his deductions as Hua Yin gathered his power to attack.

Hua Yin unleashed his final law and demon transformation against Qin Yu, who survived the attacks with Xiao Yue’s help and escaped the sealed Ten Thousand Effects Bury Fate Realm. The chapter left Hua Yin behind in the domain as Qin Yu vanished into the void.

• Hua Yin used Final Law Returns to Silence · Sole Final Judgment, and Qin Yu broke its lock with his Order Adjudication chains, sword, and Ring Master Soul Diagram.
• Qin Yu, gravely wounded, searched for a logic rift to escape, but Hua Yin sealed the Ten Thousand Effects Bury Fate Realm and transformed into a demon.
• Hua Yin unleashed Ten Thousand Demons Devour Souls · Return to the Ruins, Extinguish the World, sending demonic flames after Qin Yu’s Fate Soul.
• Xiao Yue used Blue Ring · Second Form-Logic Chain Severance to halt the flames, giving Qin Yu an opening to strike their weak point.
• Qin Yu tore open a crack in the void and escaped before Hua Yin could seize him.

Qin Yu lured Hua Yin into ancient ruins where he and Xiao Yue had prepared a dormant killing formation. The One Origin Name-Fixing Tribulation Formation awakened and began drawing out Hua Yin’s true name, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Hua Yin tracked Qin Yu through the void and pursued him alone to ancient ruins far from the abandoned residence.
• Qin Yu revealed that he and Xiao Yue had secretly integrated their killing formation into the ruins’ dormant ancient formation to trap Hua Yin and any followers.
• Hua Yin entered the ruins, mocked Qin Yu, and attacked with the forbidden art Ancestral Abyss of Ten Thousand Devils: Devour the Dao, Return to the Nether.
• Qin Yu and Xiao Yue activated the ancient formation as Hua Yin’s devil river descended, causing golden runes to spread across the ruins and name everything within them.
• The One Origin Name-Fixing Tribulation Formation awakened, and its Name-Fixing Pearl began drawing a dark strand from Hua Yin to form the true name that would bind him.

Qin Yu trapped Hua Yin in the One Origin Name-Fixing Tribulation Formation and attacked him with the No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword. Hua Yin summoned the Nine Nether Devil Staff, and their powers collided as the battle continued.

• The Name-Fixing Pearl activated the formation, sealing Hua Yin inside the ruin and preventing him from escaping.
• Qin Yu unleashed the No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword while the formation assaulted Hua Yin from every direction.
• Hua Yin summoned the Nine Nether Devil Staff, a Primordial Dao Supreme Treasure, and its devilish might suppressed part of the formation.
• Hua Yin swept the staff through the formation's attacks, shattering divine lights and sending torrents of devil flame against the golden runes.
• Qin Yu's sword cut through the devil Qi and wounded Hua Yin's chest, but Hua Yin blocked the strike with the staff, setting off a clash of sword intent and devil light.

Hua Yin destroyed Qin Yu and Xiao Yue’s One Origin Name-Fixing Tribulation Formation, but its backlash destabilized his Demon Transformation Taotie. After Hua Yin suppressed the rampaging demonic thoughts and challenged Qin Yu again, Qin Yu revealed the Star Wancai Key and began erasing the logic sustaining Hua Yin’s demonic staff.

• Hua Yin used Nine Skulls Open the Prison and Demon Transformation Taotie to devour the formation’s Dao origin and tear apart the One Origin Name-Fixing Tribulation Formation.
• The Name-Fixing Pearl shattered, destroying the formation and unleashing the source veins’ backlash against Hua Yin.
• Hua Yin’s Demon Transformation Taotie turned against his mind, but he swallowed a demonic pill and regained control before threatening Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu revealed the Star Wancai Key and invoked the Edict of Returning to Zero against Hua Yin’s demonic staff.
• The Star Wancai Key dismantled the staff’s underlying logic, dissolving its power and leaving Hua Yin terrified with only part of its handle remaining.

Hua Yin lost the Primordial Dao Supreme Treasure and fought Qin Yu in a prolonged battle, becoming increasingly enraged when Qin Yu’s strength showed no sign of fading. Hua Yin then revealed the Hua Lineage’s forbidden innate art, filling the battlefield with versions of himself from across his life.

• Hua Yin watched the demonic staff bone crumble, then charged Qin Yu and attacked him with a series of brutal close-range strikes.
• Qin Yu and Hua Yin traded blows across the ruined site, destroying its halls and mountains as both sustained injuries.
• Hua Yin demanded to know how Qin Yu had destroyed the supreme treasure, but Qin Yu remained silent and continued fighting.
• Hua Yin realized his demonic Source Power was running low while Qin Yu’s strength remained steady, then declared he would use the Hua Lineage’s innate divine ability.
• Hua Yin tore open his chest and activated the forbidden art Myriad Ages' Entrusted Fruit, Undying Burial of All My Selves, summoning countless versions of himself across different stages of his life.

Qin Yu used five overlapping domains and Existence Zero Point to dismantle Hua Yin’s Myriad Ages Fruit Lodging, forcing Hua Yin to sacrifice most of his past and future to escape. As Hua Yin fled, Qin Yu uncovered a bloodline Fate Soul Anchor Point leading toward an unknown place in the Eternal Nonexistence Limitless Domain.

• Hua Yin used Myriad Ages Fruit Lodging to attack Qin Yu through countless incarnations across past, present, and future.
• Qin Yu unfolded five domains and created Existence Zero Point, which erased Hua Yin’s incarnations and undermined the foundations of his immortality.
• Hua Yin tore apart the connections between his incarnations, sacrificing most of his past and future to concentrate his power in the present.
• Hua Yin compressed his remaining power into a single Fate Soul and escaped toward the edge of Qin Yu’s domains.
• Qin Yu traced a hidden dark-red thread from Hua Yin’s Fate Soul and identified it as a Hua Lineage bloodline Fate Soul Anchor Point leading elsewhere in the Eternal Nonexistence Limitless Domain.

Qin Yu nearly destroyed Hua Yin, who escaped by sacrificing countless dead souls through a mysterious soul talisman. Qin Yu preserved proof of Hua Yin’s crimes and headed to the Chi Lineage to plan their exposure and find a traitor before the martial competition.

• Qin Yu traced Hua Yin’s hidden Fate Soul anchor through the Hua Lineage’s bloodline and began devouring it with Void Source · Dream Stillness.
• Hua Yin used a dark purple soul talisman to sacrifice dead souls, strip away his position of existence, and escape after losing much of his Fate Soul origin.
• Qin Yu confirmed that Hua Yin had escaped with only a faint bloodline remnant, while Xiao Yue celebrated the battle’s end.
• Qin Yu reviewed the Soul Sound Talisman’s recordings, which captured Hua Yin confessing to conspiring with the Ancient God Clan and plotting to control the Chi and Ju Lineages’ guardian Source Beasts.
• Qin Yu explained to Xiao Yue that he had lured Hua Yin into confessing so he could secure irrefutable evidence, then set out for the Chi Lineage.
• Qin Yu resolved to work with Chi Ninghua to expose the Hua Lineage and uncover a powerful traitor within the Chi Lineage before the martial competition.

After Hua Yin returned gravely wounded, he blamed Qin Yu for colluding with the Ancient God Clan and ordered three trusted stewards to hunt him while keeping the injury secret. The stewards each launched a covert search through the Hua Lineage, secretly competing to claim the credit as their net spread across the domain.

• Hua Yin summoned Hua Ciyuan, Hua Junmo, and Hua Ziye, showed them Qin Yu’s image, and claimed Qin Yu and the Ancient God Clan had ambushed him.
• Hua Yin ordered the stewards to hunt Qin Yu and concealed his injuries from the clan, fearing rivals might exploit his weakness during the approaching grand competition.
• After the stewards left, Hua Yin revealed that he was feigning weakness and vowed to make Qin Yu pay for his wounds.
• Hua Ciyuan sent secret orders to the shadow guards, portraying Qin Yu as a traitor and erasing evidence of Hua Yin’s defeat while privately seeking the credit for killing him.
• Hua Junmo mobilized domain patrol teams and Hua Ziye dispatched intelligence disciples, each demanding that reports about Qin Yu come directly to them.
• Tens of thousands of Hua Lineage disciples began searching for Qin Yu in secret as an invisible net spread across the domain.

Hua Jingmeng suspected Hua Yin was concealing a larger plot and secretly ordered an investigation into him and his allies. Qin Yu showed Chi Ninghua irrefutable evidence of Hua Yin’s crimes, and she left to inform the Chi patriarch and help expose the traitor within her lineage.

• Hua Jingmeng learned that Hua Ciyuan, Hua Junmo, and Hua Ziye had secretly spread orders to kill Qin Yu and had met with Hua Yin.
• Hua Jingmeng sent a black-robed subordinate to investigate Hua Yin and the stewards’ meeting, while vowing to seek justice for Hua Jingyun.
• Qin Yu showed Chi Ninghua a Soul Sound Talisman recording Hua Yin confessing to collusion with the Ancient God Clan and plotting against the Chi and Ju lineages’ Beast Huangs.
• Chi Ninghua and Qin Yu agreed that their urgent priority was to find the traitor inside the lineage before the grand competition.
• Chi Ninghua took the evidence to Chi Boqian and told Qin Yu to remain in her hall until the competition.

Chi Boqian learned from Chi Ninghua’s Soul Sound Talisman that Hua Yin had conspired with the Annihilation God Clan against the Chi and Ju Lineages, and he moved to protect Qin Yu and find the hidden traitor before the grand competition. He brought the evidence to Ju Jinyu, and the two patriarchs agreed to keep the matter secret while they investigated.

• Chi Boqian viewed Chi Ninghua’s Soul Sound Talisman, which showed Hua Yin confessing to colluding with the Annihilation God Clan and planning to control the lineages’ Source Dao Ultimate Beasts.
• Chi Boqian ordered Chi Ninghua to conceal Qin Yu’s return, protect him, and bring him to a meeting about finding the traitor the following night.
• Qin Yu contacted Yuan Xuangu about rebuilding the Annihilation God Clan and offered to fund needed resources through the Heavenly Secrets Dao Pavilion.
• Qin Yu asked Chi Ninghua to arrange a meeting with Wanyan, and she said she would ask Chi Boqian after their meeting the next night.
• Chi Boqian showed Ju Jinyu the Soul Sound Talisman, and Ju Jinyu agreed that the two lineages must privately hunt for the traitor and keep the conspiracy from the other great lineages.

Chi Xiyue arrived as the Chi Lineage's guards fought Hua Lineage intruders on the outskirts of their ancestral grounds, freezing the battlefield with her Wuji Dao power. The Chi Lineage guards welcomed her as their eldest senior sister, and she turned her gaze toward the trapped Hua Lineage guards.

• A Chi Lineage patrol discovered Hua Lineage hidden guards near the Chi Lineage lands and sealed off the area.
• The Hua Lineage guards tried to fight their way out, and both sides' True Annihilation Realm · Supreme cultivators clashed in a fierce battle.
• Chi Xiyue's voice shook the Hua Lineage guards and suppressed their Fate Soul origins as she warned them for trespassing.
• Chi Xiyue froze spacetime and the battlefield, then descended from the split heavens.
• The Chi Lineage guards welcomed Chi Xiyue as their eldest senior sister, and she looked toward the Hua Lineage guards.