Chapter Summaries

Qin Yu reunited with Shen Qingchen and Su Qingyuan before reflecting on the people he missed beneath the stars. The next morning, Chi Boqian assembled the Chi Lineage and prepared its representatives, including Qin Yu, to leave for the Four Great Lineage Grand Competition.

• Qin Yu, Shen Qingchen, and Su Qingyuan shared stories and celebrated their reunion in the courtyard.
• Qin Yu gazed at the night sky and thought of his friends and Yue'er, who was in the Supreme Transformation Primordial Domain.
• Chi Boqian gathered the Chi Lineage at Primordial Beginning Square and announced its journey to the Primordial Grave for the competition.
• Chi Boqian named Chi Junxuan, Chi Yufeng, Chi Yi'an, Chi Mulin, and Qin Yu as the Chi Lineage's representatives.
• Chi Boqian appointed Chi Xiyue to oversee the lineage during the competition and ordered heightened defenses across its ancestral land.

Chi Boqian led the Chi Lineage’s expedition aboard the Grand Void Realm-Crossing Ancient Ship toward the Four Great Lineage Grand Competition in the Primordial Grave. The ship entered the Fifth Multidimensional Universe, where the assembled forces of the Eternal Nonexistence Limitless Domain had gathered on platforms in its outskirts.

• Chi Boqian summoned the Grand Void Realm-Crossing Ancient Ship and ordered the Chi Lineage expedition to depart for the Primordial Grave.
• Qin Yu admired the ruined worlds along the route and spoke with Chi Tongyue and Chi Huaping, who offered to show him remarkable places after the competition.
• Chi Huaping praised Qin Yu’s strength, and Qin Yu modestly rejected the elders’ compliments.
• A voice announced that the ship was entering the Fifth Multidimensional Universe, and Qin Yu and the others saw the Primordial Grave’s desolate ruins.
• The ancient ship reached the Primordial Grave’s outskirts, where forces from across the Eternal Nonexistence Limitless Domain had gathered on immense void platforms.

The four great lineages gathered at the Myriad Worlds Graveyard for their Grand Competition, drawing countless observers who anticipated both the young talents’ matches and a clash between the lineages’ Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang. Qin Yu arrived with the Chi Lineage as its invited competitor, attracting hostility from Hua Jingmeng and Hua Yin as tensions rose before the competition began.

• The four great lineages arrived at the Myriad Worlds Graveyard, where cultivators gathered to watch the Grand Competition and await the Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang.
• Qin Yu considered the graveyard’s forbidden regions and realized that many observers cared more about the coming clash between the four beasts than the younger generation’s matches.
• Chi Boqian led Qin Yu, four competing talents, and the Chi Lineage’s elders and guards into their viewing area as the other lineages settled into theirs.
• A young Hua Lineage member mocked the Chi Lineage for using outside help, while Hua Jingmeng and Hua Yin recognized Qin Yu and concealed their hostility under the competition’s rules.
• Cultivators from the Shangguan Lineage questioned Qin Yu’s ability, while Chi Junxuan, Chi Yufeng, and the Ju Lineage’s elders faced the taunts in silence as tension mounted between the camps.

Four Void Emanation Realm envoys arrived to oversee the Four Great Lineage Grand Competition, established its rules, and designated the Myriad Worlds Graveyard as the competition grounds. The four lineages began moving toward the graveyard as spectators gathered, setting the contest in motion.

• Nalan Yanqing, Xuanyuan Canglan, Murong Yunche, and Nangong Xingyun emerged above the Myriad Worlds Graveyard, shocking the gathered cultivators with their Void Emanation Realm presence.
• Chi Boqian and the patriarchs of the Hua, Ju, and Shangguan Lineages led their clans in welcoming the four envoys.
• The four envoys revealed a map of the Fifth Multidimensional Universe and planted an ancient battle flag in the Myriad Worlds Graveyard to mark the competition territory.
• Nangong Xingyun ordered participating lineages to enter the graveyard and spectators to remain outside, warning that violators would be annihilated.
• Cultivators from across the multidimensional universes rushed to the viewing area as the Hua and Shangguan Lineages exchanged hostile looks.
• The Hua and Shangguan Lineages set out for the graveyard, while Chi Boqian and the Ju Lineage patriarch acknowledged one another before their lineages prepared to follow.

The four great Lineages gathered at the Myriad Worlds Graveyard, where their leaders raised an ancient battle platform and revealed the rules for the grand competition. As the audience turned its attention to Qin Yu, Nangong Xingyun announced that the twenty competitors would soon be called to the stage.

• The four Lineages arrived at the Myriad Worlds Graveyard, and Qin Yu recognized that many spectators had come hoping to see their four Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang clash.
• Four Kongyan mighty experts raised a vast, nine-layer battle platform from fragments of ruined worlds.
• Nalan Yanqing, Xuanyuan Canglan, Murong Yunche, and Nangong Xingyun revealed the competition rules, including the elimination rounds and the final Wheel-Style Venerable Rank Battle.
• The rules confirmed that outside helpers such as Qin Yu could compete for a Lineage, with their results and glory credited to that Lineage.
• Nangong Xingyun forbade private interference and favoritism, then prepared to announce the twenty geniuses who would take the stage.

The four lineages’ twenty Eternal Silence Realm Initial Stage competitors were called to the Eternal Battle Platform, where their strengths and outside allies drew the crowd’s attention. With every fighter in place, the contest stood poised to begin its first round of matchups.

• Nangong Xingyun called out Shangguan Anyu, Shangguan Haoqian, Shangguan Jiayan, Shangguan Mobai, and the Shangguan Lineage’s outside aid, Lu Qi'an.
• Nalan Yanqing announced Chi Junxuan, Chi Yufeng, Chi Yi'an, Chi Mulin, and the Chi Lineage’s outside aid, Qin Yu, whose reputation caused an uproar.
• Murong Yunche called out Hua Yiyun, Hua Jingmeng, Hua Luoyuan, Hua Xizhi, and the Hua Lineage’s outside aid, Jiang Hanning.
• Xuanyuan Canglan announced Ju Gongchen, Ju Mohan, Ju Zhenyue, Ju Ruoli, and Ju Miaoting, all direct descendants of the Ju Lineage.
• All twenty competitors took their places across the Eternal Battle Platform, and the crowd awaited the first matchups.

The Heavenly Dao draw revealed all ten first-round matchups of the Four Great Lineage Grand Competition, including Qin Yu versus Shangguan Jiayan and Jiang Hanning versus Lu Qi'an. Nangong Xingyun announced the rules and called the first match, as Chi Junxuan and Ju Gongchen stepped toward the arena.

• The Heavenly Dao sphere drew Chi Junxuan against Ju Gongchen, then revealed the other first-round matchups, including Qin Yu against Shangguan Jiayan.
• The remaining draws paired Jiang Hanning with Lu Qi'an and completed all ten matches.
• Nangong Xingyun silenced the spectators and forbade serious harm, deliberate killing, and destruction of an opponent's Fate Soul essence.
• Nangong Xingyun called Chi Junxuan and Ju Gongchen to the arena for the first match.
• Chi Junxuan and Ju Gongchen stepped out from their respective lineages and advanced toward the battle platform.

Chi Junxuan and Ju Gongchen began their first-round tournament match with an honorable exchange of divine abilities. Ju Gongchen’s Time-Burying Thrust overcame Chi Junxuan’s defenses and stopped just short of his chest, leaving Ju Gongchen the victor.

• Chi Junxuan and Ju Gongchen greeted each other respectfully and agreed to test their cultivation in the tournament.
• Chi Junxuan used Mountains and Rivers Origin Suppression Seal, and Ju Gongchen countered with Rending Abyss Sky-Piercing Spear.
• Chi Junxuan’s seal gradually overpowered Ju Gongchen’s spear, but Ju Gongchen announced that he would use a new divine ability.
• Ju Gongchen unleashed Time-Burying Thrust, freezing time within three zhang and slowing Chi Junxuan’s movements.
• Chi Junxuan formed layered mountain barriers, but Ju Gongchen’s spear shattered them and stopped three inches from Chi Junxuan’s chest.
• Ju Gongchen withdrew his spear and thanked Chi Junxuan for yielding.

Ju Gongchen defeated Chi Junxuan in the first match, then Hua Jingmeng overwhelmed Chi Yufeng with an unfamiliar origin ability and advanced. The chapter ended with Chi Boqian and Ju Jinyu suspecting Hua Jingmeng had used Hua Jingyun’s unique divine ability and warning their lineages to beware of him.

• Chi Junxuan conceded to Ju Gongchen after Ju Gongchen’s time-based spear attack broke through his defenses, and Nangong Xingyun declared Ju Gongchen the winner.
• Nangong Xingyun called Chi Yufeng and Hua Jingmeng to the platform for the second match, where Hua Jingmeng coolly offered Chi Yufeng the chance to concede.
• Chi Yufeng attacked with Myriad Abyss Extermination, but Hua Jingmeng erased the spear technique with a gray-white origin and struck Chi Yufeng hard enough to threaten his Fate Soul.
• Chi Yufeng conceded at Qin Yu’s urging, and Nangong Xingyun declared Hua Jingmeng the winner.
• Chi Boqian and Ju Jinyu identified Hua Jingmeng’s attack as likely Hua Jingyun’s unique origin divine ability and cautioned their disciples to be wary of him.

Qin Yu faced Shangguan Jiayan in the fifth match of the competition and effortlessly dismantled the Shangguan heir’s Annihilation Tribulation Finger by analyzing its Dao law. Shangguan Jiayan, shaken but determined, gathered a more terrifying force for his next attack.

• Shangguan Haoqian defeated Chi Yi'an, and Chi Mulin defeated Ju Ruoli in the third and fourth matches.
• Qin Yu and Shangguan Jiayan stepped onto the battle platform for the fifth match as spectators debated the outsider’s chances.
• Shangguan Jiayan used the Annihilation Tribulation Finger, which stilled time and space and threatened to erase Qin Yu’s existence.
• Qin Yu used the Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram and Limitless Yuan Absorption Art to analyze the divine ability and return its annihilation power to its source.
• Shangguan Jiayan acknowledged Qin Yu’s skill, then gathered a stronger surge of eternal silence Dao resonance for his next strike.

Qin Yu faced Shangguan Jiayan’s supreme inheritance, the Dao Silence Heavenly Book, which sealed the laws across the battle platform. Using the Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram to analyze its structure and trace it to its origin, Qin Yu dismantled the heavenly book and prepared to show Shangguan Jiayan his own methods.

• Shangguan Jiayan invoked the Dao Silence Heavenly Book, spreading Eternal Silence across the platform and sealing its laws.
• The remaining contestants and spectators reacted to the inheritance’s power, while Hua Yin and Hua Jingmeng remained confident that Qin Yu would prevail.
• Qin Yu used the Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram and Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel to analyze the heavenly book’s Dao principles.
• Qin Yu identified the origin behind Shangguan Jiayan’s annihilation decree and began dismantling it rather than overpowering it directly.
• The Dao Silence Heavenly Book cracked and shattered, restoring the sealed laws and leaving Shangguan Jiayan stunned.
• Qin Yu told Shangguan Jiayan that he had used two divine abilities and that it was time to experience Qin Yu’s methods.

Qin Yu severely wounded Shangguan Jiayan with the No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword, but Jiayan refused to accept defeat and activated the Shangguan Lineage’s forbidden divine ability, Imperial Palace Chaos. As the annihilating darkness spread across the Myriad Worlds Graveyard, Qin Yu calmly prepared to face it.

• Qin Yu used half the power of the No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword to overwhelm Shangguan Jiayan and crack his Fate Soul origin.
• Shangguan Jiayan struggled to accept his loss and ignited his Fate Soul origin despite warnings from the Shangguan Lineage elders.
• Shangguan Jiayan sacrificed his body and Dao fruit to activate the forbidden divine ability Imperial Palace Chaos.
• The resulting Domain of Annihilation began erasing the Myriad Worlds Graveyard, while the envoys and Shangguan Lingxiao realized they could not stop it.
• Qin Yu remained tranquil and closed his hand around the Silent Origin Stainless Sword as the darkness spread.

Qin Yu defeated Shangguan Jiayan by breaking Imperial Palace Chaos and severing the power sustaining it, then Ju Mohan defeated Hua Luoyuan in the sixth match. The first round continued as the four lineages watched Qin Yu’s strength and prepared for the battles ahead.

• Qin Yu used the Causeless Disillusionment Sword to destroy Imperial Palace Chaos, then struck Shangguan Jiayan’s Fate Soul with the Historyless Void Severance Sword, leaving him unconscious.
• Nangong Xingyun declared Qin Yu the winner, and Shangguan Lineage elders carried Shangguan Jiayan away for treatment while Shangguan Lingxiao ordered them to repair his Fate Soul.
• Chi Boqian and the Chi Lineage members praised Qin Yu, while Hua Jingmeng resolved to fight him and Hua Yin concealed his knowledge of Qin Yu’s deeper reserves.
• Nangong Xingyun called Ju Mohan and Hua Luoyuan to the platform for the sixth match.
• Ju Mohan exploited an opening in Hua Luoyuan’s defenses and stopped his saber at Hua Luoyuan’s forehead, prompting Hua Luoyuan to yield.
• Nangong Xingyun declared Ju Mohan the winner and Hua Luoyuan eliminated.

After Qin Yu’s victory over Shangguan Jiayan, the remaining first-round matches concluded and ten cultivators advanced. As the contestants rested, the second-round drawing of lots began, leaving Qin Yu and Hua Jingmeng’s possible confrontation on everyone’s minds.

• Ju Zhenyue conceded to Hua Xizhi after Hua Xizhi pierced a weakness in her defense.
• Shangguan Mobai defeated Ju Miaoting by enduring her attacks and sealing her movements.
• Shangguan Anyu shattered Hua Yiyun’s flower-shadow defenses with a single punch, prompting her to concede.
• Jiang Hanning defeated Lu Qi'an by exploiting a small opening with a primordial secret art.
• Nangong Xingyun announced the ten advancing cultivators, including Qin Yu, Hua Jingmeng, and Jiang Hanning.
• Nangong Xingyun called for a short rest before the second-round lots, and the sphere of light began to spin with the contestants’ names.

Nangong Xingyun announced the competition's prizes, and the four lineage heads secretly equipped their remaining contestants with life-saving protection. The second-round draw paired Qin Yu with Jiang Hanning and Hua Jingmeng with Chi Mulin.

• Nangong Xingyun announced the Severing Cycle and Slaying Beginning Sword as the first-place prize, revealed the other rewards, and disclosed an adjustment to the second-place prize involving an item from the Supreme Transformation Primordial Domain.
• Chi Boqian warned Qin Yu and Chi Mulin that Hua Yin might resort to covert tricks and secretly gave them talisman seals to protect their Fate Soul origins.
• Ju Jinyu distributed protective ancient jade, Hua Nongrui handed Hua Jingmeng a black jade ring, and Shangguan Lingxiao gave Shangguan Haoqian a silver-white breastplate.
• Nangong Xingyun began the second-round draw, which paired Ju Gongchen with Hua Xizhi and Hua Jingmeng with Chi Mulin.
• The remaining draws paired Shangguan Haoqian with Ju Mohan, Qin Yu with Jiang Hanning, and Shangguan Anyu with Ju Miaoting.

Ju Gongchen defeated Hua Xizhi in the opening match, then Chi Mulin faced Hua Jingmeng and unleashed the Chi Lineage’s Stillness Frost Twin Deeps. Hua Jingmeng absorbed and destroyed the sword art with his Dream Stillness Flower Domain, leaving Chi Mulin staggered but still determined to fight.

• Ju Gongchen exploited a weakness in Hua Xizhi’s defenses, drove her to the edge of the stage, and won after she conceded.
• Hua Jingmeng told Chi Mulin to concede, but she refused and summoned her twin Fate Soul divine weapons.
• Chi Mulin used Stillness Frost Twin Deeps to trap Hua Jingmeng in a paradoxical ring that attacked his Dao foundation.
• Hua Jingmeng released Dream Stillness Flower Domain, whose petals devoured Chi Mulin’s sword power and broke the ring.
• Chi Mulin staggered from the backlash but raised her swords again as Hua Jingmeng taunted her.

Chi Mulin forged the twin swords Left Deep and Right Deep into Vanishing Deep and used it to sever Hua Jingmeng’s connection to heaven and earth, but he recovered and continued the fight. As Hua Jingmeng unleashed his finishing technique, Chi Mulin opened her Stillness Frost Domain despite her cracked Fate Soul.

• Chi Mulin refused to retreat and merged the opposing powers of Stillness Frost: Left Deep and Stillness Frost: Right Deep into Vanishing Deep.
• Chi Mulin’s Silent Abyss Vanished Deep weakened Hua Jingmeng’s connection to the world, but the backlash cracked her Fate Soul and Hua Jingmeng’s power soon revived.
• Hua Jingmeng declared that Chi Mulin could not sever his dream and resumed their clash within his Dream Stillness flower sea.
• The four adjudicator envoys assessed the duel, with Nangong Xingyun concluding that Hua Jingmeng controlled the battlefield unless Chi Mulin could end it with one strike.
• Hua Jingmeng unleashed Ten Thousand Dreams Bury the Realm, and Chi Mulin answered by opening her Stillness Frost Domain.

Hua Jingmeng defeated Chi Mulin and advanced, then declared to Qin Yu that they would settle their grudges. Shangguan Haoqian and Ju Mohan began their match, and their opposing Dao domains reached a stalemate.

• Hua Jingmeng shattered Chi Mulin’s defenses, forcing her to use Chi Boqian’s protective talisman before she fell from the arena.
• Nangong Xingyun declared Hua Jingmeng the victor and Chi Mulin eliminated.
• Hua Jingmeng exchanged a silent challenge with Ju Gongchen, then sent Qin Yu a killing-intent-laden message; Qin Yu replied that he was ready.
• Nangong Xingyun announced Shangguan Haoqian versus Ju Mohan, and both prodigies took the arena.
• Shangguan Haoqian used Myriad Phenomena Order Fixing to control the arena’s laws, while Ju Mohan countered with Primordial Annihilation Structure.
• Shangguan Haoqian and Ju Mohan repeatedly fixed and dismantled each other’s domains, leaving the match deadlocked.

Shangguan Haoqian and Ju Mohan’s opposing Great Daos clashed as Shangguan Haoqian transformed the arena into his Stillness Scroll Painted World. Ju Mohan began dismantling and reconstructing its underlying structure, leaving their battle raging as Qin Yu recognized Ju Mohan’s deeper grasp of origin.

• Nalan Yanqing, Xuanyuan Canglan, Murong Yunche, and Nangong Xingyun discussed how Shangguan Haoqian’s Fixed Order Dao opposed Ju Mohan’s Annihilation Structure Dao.
• Qin Yu used the Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram to see that Ju Mohan’s origin had advanced beyond existing rules, and concluded that Ju Mohan would win.
• Shangguan Haoqian realized Ju Mohan was analyzing his Dao patterns and unleashed Stillness Scroll: Myriad Forms Return to the Abyss, turning the arena into a painted world.
• Ju Mohan summoned the Primordial Annihilation Structure Domain and began dismantling the painted world’s space and rules, reshaping them through his Great Dao.
• Qin Yu watched the domains collide and understood that Ju Mohan was attacking the origin foundation behind Shangguan Haoqian’s power.

Shangguan Haoqian expanded the Stillness Scroll’s Myriad Forms Return to the Abyss to overwrite the arena, but Ju Mohan answered with his complete Primordial Annihilation Structure Domain and the Primordial Annihilation Origin Seal. Their great Daos collided at full force, and the battle remained unresolved as Qin Yu recognized how Ju Mohan’s Dao compared with his own.

• Shangguan Haoqian unleashed Myriad Forms Return to the Abyss, turning the arena and surrounding void into the Stillness Scroll’s ink-wash world and beginning to draw Ju Mohan into its order.
• Ju Mohan awakened his complete Primordial Annihilation Structure Domain, which analyzed and dismantled the scroll’s rules at their foundations.
• Ju Mohan summoned the Ju Lineage’s Primordial Annihilation Origin Seal, cracking the painted realm and strengthening his power to reconstruct origins.
• Shangguan Haoqian and Ju Mohan drove their Fate Soul origins to their peaks as the Stillness Scroll and Annihilation Structure continued to clash across the arena.
• Qin Yu used his Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram to examine Ju Mohan’s Dao and recognized its kinship with, and distinction from, his own intrinsic Dao Path.
• The judges and competing cultivators watched as the ultimate duel continued without a final verdict.