Chapter Summaries

Chi Xiyue used her Wuji power to annihilate dozens of Hua Lineage shadow guards, while Qin Yu and Chi Ninghua reflected on her strength. In the Hua Lineage, Hua Yin’s hatred of Qin Yu intensified, and he revealed a strange demonic pill that seemed to contain a struggling shadow.

• Chi Xiyue used Ruins Encompass All Manifestations to expose the Hua Lineage guards’ flaws, drain their cultivation, and destroy their souls, turning dozens of True Annihilation Realm cultivators to ash.
• Chi Xiyue dismissed the Chi Lineage guards and departed as they bowed and called her senior sister.
• Qin Yu and Chi Ninghua admired Chi Xiyue’s power, while Qin Yu’s Ring Master Soul Diagram traced the Dao resonance of her technique.
• Hua Yin relived his defeat by Qin Yu, suffered a violent reaction from his heart demon, and vowed to grind Qin Yu’s bones to dust.
• Hua Yin produced a pitch-black jade box containing a pulsing demonic pill with a shadow struggling inside it.

Hua Yin used the Ruin-Stabilizing Demon Transformation Pill to heal his Fate Soul, unknowingly planting a heart demon that deepened his hatred of Qin Yu. At a secret Chi Lineage meeting, the leaders appointed Qin Yu as their representative in the grand competition and reviewed evidence against Hua Yin before turning to the hidden traitor within their ranks.

• Hua Yin swallowed the demon pill, restored most of his Fate Soul, and vowed to send Qin Yu into the Return to the Ruins; a heart-demon seed silently took root within him.
• Chi Boqian convened Chi Ninghua, Qin Yu, Chi Tongyue, and Chi Xiyue in a sealed hall, where Chi Xiyue noted Qin Yu's rapid rise to the Eternal Silence Realm Initial Stage.
• Chi Boqian appointed Qin Yu as the Chi Lineage's sole outside representative in the Eternal Nonexistence Limitless Domain grand competition, and Qin Yu thanked the elders for their trust.
• Chi Boqian showed the group the Soul Sound Talisman evidence of Hua Yin's collusion with the Ancient God Clan, his schemes against the Chi and Ju lineages, and his escape after the battle.
• Chi Tongyue and Chi Xiyue called for Hua Yin to be eliminated, while Chi Boqian warned that a long-standing traitor remained hidden within the Chi Lineage.
• Chi Boqian asked the group to devise a way to expose the traitor before the grand competition, and Qin Yu and the others began considering the clues.

Chi Boqian and the others debated how to expose a traitor hidden in the Chi Lineage, and Qin Yu proposed using a decoy secret scroll to draw out traitors in both the Chi and Ju lineages. Chi Boqian accepted the plan and agreed to inform the Ju Lineage patriarch so both lineages could prepare a trap.

• Chi Boqian proposed using the five mirrors of the ancestral grounds to identify the traitor, but Chi Tongyue warned that the scheme could expose their suspicions and fail.
• Chi Xiyue suggested disguising herself as a Hua Lineage cultivator and letting the guards capture her to lure the traitor into attempting a rescue.
• Qin Yu warned that the traitor might kill the captive instead, then proposed sending two water-and-fire-aligned disciples with a booby-trapped secret scroll to the Ju Lineage.
• Chi Ninghua and Chi Tongyue endorsed Qin Yu's plan and identified a brother and sister deacon who fit the requirements.
• Chi Xiyue praised the plan, and Chi Boqian agreed to notify the Ju Lineage patriarch so both lineages could prepare to capture the traitors.

Qin Yu asked to meet the Chi Lineage’s guardian, Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang Wanyan, after his Fate Soul resonated with Wanyan in Stele Forest Imperial City. Chi Boqian led him into the lineage’s forbidden land, where Qin Yu’s Fate Soul resonated again as they reached the guardian’s layered seal.

• Chi Ninghua told Chi Boqian that Qin Yu wished to meet the Chi Lineage’s guardian, Huang Wanyan.
• Qin Yu explained that he had seen Wanyan’s phantom in Stele Forest Imperial City and felt his Fate Soul resonate, prompting Chi Boqian to take him deeper into the ancestral grounds.
• Chi Boqian led Qin Yu through an ancient passage and opened the bronze gateway to the forbidden land where Wanyan slept.
• Chi Boqian explained that the Chi Lineage’s ancestor had saved a dying Source Dao true spirit, which grew into Wanyan and protected the lineage through countless epochs.
• As Qin Yu entered the forbidden land, his Fate Soul resonated more strongly, and Chi Boqian opened the outer layer of the seal surrounding Wanyan.

Qin Yu met Chi Lanyue, the Chi Lineage’s Void Emanation Realm Grand Elder, and entered the forbidden ground to witness the Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang Wanyan. There, Wanyan’s vast net of possibilities resonated with Qin Yu’s Fate Soul, and he recognized it as the origin that gave rise to the myriad Daos.

• Chi Boqian brought Qin Yu before Chi Lanyue, whose single glance saw through Qin Yu’s Fate Soul and whose command allowed him to proceed.
• Xiao Yue recognized that the four great Lineages each had a Void Emanation Realm expert guarding their foundations.
• Chi Boqian explained that Chi Lanyue had guarded the Chi Lineage’s ancestral land through ancient calamities and had protected its legacy for millions of years.
• Qin Yu and Chi Boqian crossed the ancient seals and entered a boundless realm filled with Dao strings that generated countless worlds and possible futures.
• Qin Yu’s Fate Soul resonated with the string net, and he understood that it was Wanyan, the Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang guarded by the Chi Lineage.

Wanyan manifested before Qin Yu in the Chi Lineage’s forbidden land and revealed that Qin Yu’s Fate Soul had stirred his source since their first encounter in Stele Forest Imperial City. Wanyan sent Chi Boqian away so he could speak with Qin Yu alone, then began showing him the moments when their sources had resonated.

• Chi Boqian bowed to Wanyan and brought Qin Yu before the String Web in the Chi Lineage’s forbidden land.
• Qin Yu’s Fate Soul resonated with Wanyan’s source, and Wanyan gathered the countless possibility strings into a human form.
• Wanyan recognized Qin Yu’s unusual Fate Soul and told Chi Boqian to leave Qin Yu alone with him.
• Wanyan showed Qin Yu how his source first stirred when Qin Yu entered Stele Forest Imperial City, then resonated again at the Heavenly Stele Divine Banquet Tower.
• Wanyan explained that he had traced the resonance to Qin Yu and showed visions of Qin Yu’s different stages on his path.

Wanyan explained why his Wanyan Great Dao resonated with Qin Yu’s Fate Soul, then recognized the Star Wancai Key and the Edict of Returning to Zero within Qin Yu. The chapter left Wanyan unable to deduce the key’s origins, while the key floated in Qin Yu’s palm and the possibility strings kept their distance.

• Wanyan told Qin Yu that their Daos resonated because both touched the root of possibility, though Qin Yu gathered possibilities into himself while Wanyan encompassed them.
• Wanyan revealed that he had followed the resonance from Stele Forest Imperial City to the Heavenly Stele Divine Banquet Tower and saw Qin Yu as someone no future could define.
• Wanyan sensed a presence within Qin Yu’s sea of consciousness, and the possibility strings in his realm shook into disorder.
• Wanyan identified the presence as the Star Wancai Key and the Edict of Returning to Zero, then admitted he could never deduce Qin Yu’s future.
• Qin Yu summoned the Star Wancai Key, and Wanyan explained that it proclaimed the return of artifacts’ borrowed glory to silence and lay beyond the definition of a future.

The Star Wancai Key resonated with Wanyan’s Great Dao, revealing that its Edict of Returning to Zero could reorder and return possibilities to annihilation. Wanyan asked Qin Yu to use the key to open the Wanyan Ancient Clan’s sealed resting place and retrieve its origin inheritance, and the key showed Qin Yu a vision of the clan’s ancient sages awaiting its return.

• Wanyan told Qin Yu an ancient Wanyan clan prophecy linked the Star Wancai Key’s bearer to the clan’s sealed resting place.
• The Star Wancai Key released starlight that froze the strings of possibility and resonated with the Edict of Returning to Zero, reshaping Wanyan’s String Realm and revealing a new order within his Great Dao.
• Wanyan recognized that the prophecy’s foretold day had arrived and explained that the clan’s forbidden resting place contained its primordial roots and last origin inheritance.
• Wanyan asked Qin Yu to enter the forbidden land and retrieve the inheritance, offering to teach him the clan’s supreme core origin divine abilities in return.
• The Star Wancai Key sent starlight into Qin Yu’s Fate Soul, showing him an ancient vision of a key-bearing figure and kneeling Wanyan clan sages.

Qin Yu accepted Wanyan’s request to seek the Wanyan Ancient Clan’s inheritance after the grand competition and received a map and a protective pearl. Warned that forces from the Supreme Transformation Primordial Domain were manipulating events, he returned to the Chi Lineage and prepared to expose its hidden traitor.

• Qin Yu agreed to enter the Wanyan Ancient Clan’s forbidden ground after the grand competition and promised to return its inheritance intact.
• Wanyan gave Qin Yu the Wanyan Ancient Map and the Wanyan Life-Protection Pearl, then promised to pass on the clan’s origin divine abilities if he returned safely.
• Wanyan warned Qin Yu that an outside power linked to the Supreme Transformation Primordial Domain was secretly influencing the grand competition and cautioned him about the Hua Lineage and Hua Yin.
• Qin Yu met Chi Boqian outside the forbidden ground and told him to begin the plan to root out the Chi Lineage’s traitor.
• Chi Lanyue praised Qin Yu’s steady Dao heart after observing his meeting with Wanyan.
• Chi Ninghua told Qin Yu that Senior Sister Xiyue and Elder Tongyue had shortlisted two candidates, and Qin Yu resolved to launch the hunt the next day using evidence of Hua Yin’s collusion with the Ancient God Clan.

Qin Yu and Chi Ninghua set their plan to lure out the traitor in motion when Chi Boqian summoned Chi Zhihan and Chi Zhiwei for a secret mission. The siblings left for String Melody Sacred City carrying a sealed message for the Ju Lineage, unaware that Chi Boqian expected a killing trap along their route.

• Qin Yu and Chi Ninghua heard from Chi Boqian that Chi Zhihan and Chi Zhiwei would serve as bait to draw out the traitor.
• Chi Boqian announced a mission for cultivators with water and fire fate attributes at the Eternal Silence Realm Initial Stage, and Chi Zhihan and Chi Zhiwei were identified as the only siblings who qualified.
• A quiet onlooker watched Chi Zhihan and Chi Zhiwei depart for the patriarch's hall, then slipped away with greed in his eyes.
• Chi Boqian gave the siblings a sealed scroll for delivery to the Ju Lineage in String Melody Sacred City, explaining that their combined Fate Soul origins could unlock it.
• Chi Boqian warned Chi Zhihan and Chi Zhiwei to trust no strangers and destroy the scroll if necessary; they departed for the southern city.

Qin Yu and the Chi Lineage leaders set a trap to expose the mole, and Chi Tongyue caught Chi Junyi secretly reporting to his master. The suspected mastermind attacked Chi Zhihan and Chi Zhiwei for the secret scroll, while Qin Yu waited nearby for the prey to reveal itself.

• Qin Yu warned Chi Boqian, Chi Xiyue, Chi Tongyue, and Chi Ninghua that the mole might have accomplices, so they arranged false tasks and secretly followed Chi Zhihan and Chi Zhiwei.
• A hidden figure ordered an accomplice to accept one of Chi Tongyue’s tasks and decided to intercept Chi Zhihan and Chi Zhiwei personally.
• Chi Junyi accepted a task, then used a Soul Sound Talisman to report to his master that the assignments were ordinary and the siblings could be attacked.
• Chi Tongyue secretly recorded Chi Junyi’s report and alerted Chi Boqian, Chi Xiyue, Chi Ninghua, and Qin Yu that the mole’s lackey had appeared.
• A black-robed man ambushed Chi Zhihan and Chi Zhiwei in the void and demanded the secret scroll, while Qin Yu watched nearby, waiting for the attacker to be exposed.

Chi Zhihan and Chi Zhiwei were overwhelmed by a black-robed elder, who used a devastating divine ability against them. As Chi Zhihan burned his own origin to protect his sister, the siblings recognized the elder as someone from the Chi Lineage, and Chi Boqian, Chi Xiyue, Chi Ninghua, and Qin Yu arrived; Chi Xiyue moved to stop the elder from fleeing.

• Chi Zhihan warned Chi Zhiwei that the black-robed man was an Eternal Silence Realm Peak cultivator and urged her to escape while he held him off.
• The black-robed man unleashed the Soul-Extinguishing Realm-Suppressing Wheel, shattering the siblings’ water-and-fire defense and leaving them badly wounded.
• Chi Zhihan burned his origin, lifespan, and Fate Soul with a forbidden Chi Lineage technique to protect Chi Zhiwei.
• The black-robed man revealed a familiar voice and knowledge of their sibling relationship, leading Chi Zhihan to suspect he was from the Chi Lineage.
• Chi Boqian struck the elder with a Void Emanation attack, then arrived with Chi Xiyue, Chi Ninghua, and Qin Yu as the elder tried to flee.
• Chi Xiyue used Myriad Realms Seal the Void to block the elder’s escape.

Qin Yu and the Chi Lineage exposed second elder Chi Qianyuan as a Hua Lineage traitor and captured him in a spatial blockade. After Chi Boqian executed him, Qin Yu and Chi Xiyue set out undercover to find another traitor in the Ju Lineage.

• Qin Yu sealed the region with a spatial blockade and gave Chi Zhihan and Chi Zhiwei Supreme Transformation Source Crystals to heal.
• Chi Boqian revealed that the masked attacker was Chi Qianyuan, who admitted he had infiltrated the Chi Lineage for the Hua Lineage.
• Chi Boqian killed Chi Qianyuan with the Heaven-Judging Soul-Severing Sword and discovered a Soul Sound Talisman arranging a meeting with a traitor in the Ju Lineage.
• Chi Xiyue arranged for Chi Zhihan and Chi Zhiwei to return to the Lineage, and Chi Boqian promoted them to elders.
• Qin Yu and Chi Xiyue disguised themselves, suppressed Chi Xiyue's cultivation, and headed for the Heavenly Desert Ancient Forest to capture the Ju Lineage traitor.

Chi Tongyue exposed and killed Chi Junyi, learning that Ju Zhongying had helped him and Chi Qianyuan spy on the Chi Lineage. Meanwhile, Qin Yu and Chi Xiyue entered the Heavenly Desert Ancient Forest and watched an unidentified cultivator battle a fearsome beast as they tried to determine whether the fighter was the Ju Lineage traitor.

• Chi Boqian sent Chi Tongyue a message that the main target had been killed and the remaining traitors should be dealt with.
• Chi Tongyue confronted Chi Junyi, who admitted that Chi Qianyuan and Ju Zhongying had coerced him into leaking clan information.
• Chi Junyi attacked Chi Tongyue, but she killed him with her Stillness Void Life-Severing Finger and vowed to go after Ju Zhongying next.
• Qin Yu and Chi Xiyue entered the Heavenly Desert Ancient Forest in disguise and sensed that its beasts feared a powerful presence.
• Qin Yu and Chi Xiyue followed a roar into the forest and found a colossal three-headed lava beast fighting an unidentified cultivator.
• Qin Yu and Chi Xiyue concealed themselves to watch the battle and determine whether the cultivator was the Ju Lineage traitor.

Qin Yu and Chi Xiyue watched Ju Zhongying battle the Myriad Beasts Origin Dao Lord, then helped withstand the beast’s devastating fire attack without joining Ju Zhongying. The Dao Lord accused Ju Zhongying of slaughtering his kin and stealing their young’s origin, while Ju Zhongying demanded that the two obey him, leaving them silent and distrustful.

• Qin Yu and Chi Xiyue concealed themselves and watched Ju Zhongying fight the Myriad Beasts Origin Dao Lord in the Heavenly Desert Ancient Forest.
• The berserk Dao Lord pursued Ju Zhongying toward Qin Yu and Chi Xiyue, and Chi Xiyue recognized Ju Zhongying as an elder of the Ju Lineage’s Divine Ability and Cultivation Art Hall.
• The Dao Lord unleashed Myriad Flames World Extinguisher Meteor, and Qin Yu used the Supreme Eternal Stillness Seal while Chi Xiyue raised a spatial barrier to fend off the attack.
• Ju Zhongying moved beside Qin Yu and Chi Xiyue and ordered them to help kill the Dao Lord.
• The Myriad Beasts Origin Dao Lord accused Ju Zhongying of killing his kin, plundering their young’s origin, and trying to refine his heart demon with the bloodline.
• Ju Zhongying denied the accusation and threatened Qin Yu and Chi Xiyue for refusing to obey him, but they exchanged a glance and remained silent.

Ju Zhongying attacked Qin Yu and Chi Xiyue with Cosmic Remnants after suspecting they had exposed his betrayal, but Chi Xiyue revealed her true identity and Wuji Realm power. She annihilated the soul nails, leaving Ju Zhongying facing certain defeat.

• The Myriad Beasts Origin Dao Lord struck Ju Zhongying with Heaven-Burning Beast Origin, and Ju Zhongying blocked it with the Mysterious Heaven Ancient Defense Shield.
• Qin Yu identified Ju Zhongying as a mole, while Chi Xiyue confirmed his collusion with Chi Qianyuan and chose to wait before intervening.
• Ju Zhongying abandoned his fight with the Myriad Beasts Origin Dao Lord and attacked Qin Yu and Chi Xiyue with Cosmic Remnants.
• Chi Xiyue broke her disguise, revealed her Wuji Realm presence, and destroyed all the Cosmic Remnants.
• Ju Zhongying recognized Chi Xiyue and despaired as her Wuji Dao resonance spread across the battlefield.

Chi Xiyue sealed the Heavenly Desert Ancient Forest and erased Ju Zhongying after he unleashed a devastating sacrifice. Qin Yu recovered evidence linking Ju Zhongying to Hua Yin, and he and Chi Xiyue left to report their findings as a greater threat loomed.

• Ju Zhongying realized Chi Xiyue had laid a trap and tried to escape, but her Limitless Domain sealed the surrounding space.
• Ju Zhongying burned his Fate Soul, origin, and Dao foundation to unleash Myriad Souls Sacrificial Annihilation, but Chi Xiyue stopped and erased the attack and Ju Zhongying.
• The Myriad Beasts Origin Dao Lord thanked Qin Yu and Chi Xiyue, reclaimed the young beast's origin, and withdrew into the ancient forest.
• Qin Yu found a Fate Soul imprint bearing Hua Yin's cause and effect, and Chi Xiyue told him to deliver it to Chi Boqian.
• Chi Xiyue departed for the Ju Lineage to explain Ju Zhongying's betrayal, while Qin Yu headed back to the Chi Lineage to report what happened.

Qin Yu encountered three Shangguan Lineage cultivators demanding a toll at the Destruction Labyrinth and killed one with a single, unseen strike. The surviving two confronted him, and as the senior brother attacked, Qin Yu invoked Unnamed Initial Silence.

• Qin Yu reached the Destruction Labyrinth and was stopped by three Shangguan Lineage cultivators who demanded a hundred thousand Supreme Transformation Source Crystals or his storage crystal core.
• Qin Yu taunted the cultivators and offered them a storage bag, prompting the greedy fat cultivator to rush in and seize it.
• Qin Yu silently destroyed the fat cultivator’s Fate Soul, reducing him to dust, and asked the two survivors if they still wanted to rob him.
• The seductive woman claimed Qin Yu had used a hidden weapon or forbidden art, persuading the enraged lean cultivator that Qin Yu could be defeated.
• The lean cultivator launched a full-force attack at Qin Yu, who remained still and invoked Unnamed Initial Silence.

Qin Yu used supreme Dao and sword techniques to erase the Shangguan Deacon and his two companions from existence after they attacked him and tried to escape. With the trio gone, Qin Yu continued toward the Chi Lineage’s territory.

• Qin Yu shattered the Shangguan Deacon’s natal divine weapon with Unnamed Initial Silence, leaving him badly wounded.
• The alluring woman tried to flee through a void passage, while the Shangguan Deacon burned his Fate Soul to escape toward the Shangguan Lineage.
• Qin Yu killed the Shangguan Deacon with the No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword, erasing every trace of his existence.
• Qin Yu shattered the woman’s escape passage and destroyed her hidden weapon after she pretended to surrender and then attacked him.
• Qin Yu erased the woman with I Am Nothingness and continued toward the Chi Lineage’s territory.

Qin Yu returned to the Chi Lineage with evidence of Ju Zhongying and Hua Yin’s collusion, as the Four Great Lineage Grand Competition approached. Hua Yin realized his plans might have been exposed, while Qin Yu reunited with Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan at the Chi Lineage.

• Qin Yu told Chi Boqian that three Shangguan Lineage cultivators had tried to seize his storage crystal core and that he had dealt with them.
• Qin Yu gave Chi Boqian the Fate Soul imprints linking Ju Zhongying and Hua Yin, and Chi Boqian announced that the Four Great Lineage Grand Competition would begin the day after tomorrow.
• Hua Yin discovered that Ju Zhongying’s presence had vanished from their communication imprint and feared Qin Yu had exposed his hidden agents.
• Cultivators and ancient powers gathered across the five terminal multidimensional universes as the Four Great Lineage Grand Competition drew near.
• Qin Yu arrived at the Primordial Unity Palace with Chi Ninghua and reunited with Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan.