Recaps

Chu Qing waited for Tian Weidong to trade Recommendation Letters, but Tian Weidong tried to seize his letter and threaten him instead. Chu Qing attacked him, tore out four golden sinews for the second ritual, and left Tian Weidong screaming on the floor.

• Chu Qing finished cultivating with the second strange pearl and waited for a Heaven-Reaching Martial Artist to arrive.
• Tian Weidong entered with two maids and offered Chu Qing five million black gold for his Anomaly Division Recommendation Letter, but Chu Qing refused to sell it.
• Tian Weidong threatened to take Chu Qing's letter and considered killing him, while Chu Qing left to buy oranges, jade, brushes, ink, paper, and an inkstone.
• Chu Qing inscribed the jade and offered to trade two Recommendation Letters for one of Tian Weidong's, but Tian Weidong admitted he had none and threatened him.
• Chu Qing attacked Tian Weidong with soundwaves, knocked him unconscious, and tore four golden sinews from his arms and thighs for the second ritual.

Wang Qingwen learned that Chu Qing had crippled Tian Weidong and ordered another martial artist’s golden sinews grafted into him. After discovering Chu Qing had also destroyed the Unique Association’s headquarters, Wang Qingwen abandoned revenge, blamed Tian Weidong for provoking him, and ordered Tian Weidong’s body burned and his ashes scattered.

• Wang Qingwen found Tian Weidong’s martial arts foundation ruined and ordered a Third Limit martial artist’s golden sinews torn out and grafted into him.
• Wang Qingwen arranged for Tian Weidong to be placed in a coffin with his two favorite maids, then investigated who had harmed him.
• A black-robed Human World Organization representative identified Chu Qing as the killer and revealed that he had also destroyed the Unique Association’s headquarters.
• After hearing Chu Qing’s history, Wang Qingwen grew afraid and claimed Tian Weidong had deceived and attacked Chu Qing, who had treated him kindly.
• Wang Qingwen ordered Tian Weidong’s corpse burned and his ashes scattered, despite the steward warning that Tian Weidong was still alive.

Wang Qingwen recognized Chu Qing as a formidable opponent, while Chu Qing gained two bloodline traits after completing his second ritual and waited for Tian Weidong’s master to appear. At Peach Blossom Dock, Chu Qing found the Princess Consort supervising the digging of a cellar because she feared being left alone when he departed.

• Wang Qingwen let his followers defect to other aristocratic families and explained that Chu Qing was stronger than he was.
• Chu Qing completed his second ritual and gained the Boundless Strength and Immovable as a Mountain bloodline traits.
• Chu Qing waited at the Anomaly Division for Tian Weidong’s master, but the enemy did not appear before nightfall.
• Chu Qing planned to suppress Heaven-Reaching Experts the next day and returned to Peach Blossom Dock.
• Zhao Wuji organized the household slaves, Mingyue worried about her scattered family, and Zhao Hongxiu fed the golden toads.
• Chu Qing found the Princess Consort supervising muscular men as they dug a cellar for her to hide in while he was away.

Chu Qing prepared ritual materials and ambushed a large team of Heaven-Reaching Experts leaving the Imperial Capital, while the Princess Consort continued building an underground palace. After Chu Qing swept through Gu Shentong’s group, the Cui Family Daughter reported that no one was hurt, though Liu Zheng and Ma Long were missing.

• The Princess Consort ordered muscular Third Limit experts to dig a deep underground palace, while Chu Qing prepared ritual materials and opened up the Heaven-Connecting Path.
• Chu Qing waited near the Vermilion Bird Gate as Gu Shentong gathered more than twenty Heaven-Reaching Martial Artists and led a large team out of the Imperial Capital.
• The Cui Family Daughter joined Gu Shentong’s team after leaving General Liao, hoping to establish herself in the Imperial Capital by winning his favor.
• When Gu Shentong’s team approached, he ordered his followers to kill the masked Chu Qing without asking his identity.
• Chu Qing charged through the team, scattering Third Limit Martial Artists and passing the three Heaven-Reaching vanguards before the two sides moved past each other.
• Gu Shentong asked whether anyone was injured, and the Cui Family Daughter said no one was hurt but Liu Zheng and Ma Long were missing.

Chu Qing defeated Ma Long and Liu Zheng at the Vermilion Bird Gate, then left without fighting Gu Shentong. Reports revealed that the Masked Man had attacked powerful groups at the other gates, prompting them to avoid him and continue their missions; the Cui Family Daughter recognized him as Chu Qing.

• Chu Qing swiftly defeated Liu Zheng and Ma Long, while Gu Shentong hesitated to challenge him and watched him leave.
• Gu Shentong claimed he was stronger than Chu Qing, then exchanged taunts with the leader of another group as more competitors gathered at the Vermilion Bird Gate.
• White pigeons brought reports that the Masked Man had beaten fighters from the Shen, Shangguan, and Hu families at the other city gates.
• Gu Shentong predicted the Masked Man would return, but the Wang Family group and others left to complete their missions instead of waiting for him.
• Gu Shentong led his followers away and pretended not to notice that several had deserted him.
• The Cui Family Daughter recognized the Masked Man’s gaze and conduct and realized that he was Chu Qing.

Chu Qing terrorized the Martial Academy assessment teams, completing eighteen rituals in one day and growing much stronger. He followed Xiang Yun'er’s team, and when she offered to be beaten so he would spare the others, he revealed that he intended to beat up the entire team.

• The Cui Family Daughter recognized Chu Qing and feared him, while deciding to tell Gu Shentong about him after he obtained an assessment token.
• Assessment teams suspected the Wang Family was behind the ambushes, but the Wang Family leaders identified Chu Qing as the culprit and ordered their descendants to seek contact with him.
• Wang Qingwen and the other Wang Family members hesitated to approach Chu Qing, fearing his strength and temper.
• Chu Qing completed eighteen rituals across a thousand li, raising his Ancient God Bloodline’s strength and defense to twenty thousand jin as the Heaven-Connecting Path absorbed most of the ritual power.
• Xiang Yun'er approached Chu Qing and offered herself as a target if he would leave the other teams alone, but Chu Qing said he wanted to beat up everyone in her team.

Xiang Yun'er told the Heaven-Reaching team that Chu Qing intended to beat them all, and Brother Ning decided they should accept sparring rather than risk a fight. Chu Qing postponed their beating until he could gather materials, leaving the team dreading the ordeal.

• Xiang Yun'er reported that Chu Qing wanted to beat every member of the Heaven-Reaching team, and Le Shuang urged the group to fight him.
• Brother Ning judged that they could not trap Chu Qing and persuaded the team to agree to spar with him.
• The team chose Xiang Yun'er to tell Chu Qing they would take turns sparring with him, and she offered to be beaten first.
• Chu Qing said he needed to gather materials before beating Xiang Yun'er and told her to resist as fiercely as she could.
• Xiang Yun'er relayed Chu Qing's terms, and Brother Ning reassured the dismayed team that they would survive the beatings.
• That night, Chu Qing swallowed two luminous pearls and killed twenty-three great dragons while Brother Ning, Xiang Yun'er, and the others stayed awake.

Chu Qing overwhelmed several Martial Academy assessment teams to advance his ritual sequences, then left to seek stronger opponents. At the Imperial Capital Martial Academy, officials learned he had registered without choosing a mission, and some suspected he planned to take other teams’ tokens.

• Chu Qing defeated Xiang Yun'er, Le Shuang, and the other Heaven-Piercers, using the ritual materials he had arranged to advance his ritual sequences.
• Chu Qing left the remaining members of Brother Ning’s group, calling them too weak, and they continued toward the empire’s borderlands with low morale.
• The Imperial Capital Martial Academy’s higher-ups argued over whether Chu Qing’s attacks on examinees were justified or deserved punishment.
• The higher-ups recognized the Masked Man as Chu Qing and learned that he had registered for the assessment without selecting a mission or joining a team.
• One faction suggested Chu Qing intended to seize other teams’ tokens, while the others doubted he would dare.

Chu Qing crossed from the frozen Great Gan Empire into the drought-stricken Great Zhou Empire to seek a formidable opponent at the Crimson Yellow Dao. He reached its Taoist Temple and was greeted by its gaunt residents, who asked if he had come to bring them meat.

• Chu Qing realized assessment teams would head to mission sites and chose the difficult mission to wipe out the Crimson Yellow Dao.
• Chu Qing crossed into Great Zhou and found a devastated empire of cracked earth, abandoned settlements, and human remains.
• Chu Qing traveled to Crimson Yellow Mountain and found the Crimson Yellow Dao’s Taoist Temple standing empty of people outside.
• The gaunt men and women inside the temple noticed Chu Qing and asked whether he had come to bring them meat.

Chu Qing met Zhou Qingmei and traded ten top-tier secret transmissions for her life-extending Kuron Method. After learning it, he questioned why she had given him such a valuable secret transmission so readily.

• Chu Qing warned Zhou Qingmei and the withered survivors that a dozen Heaven-Reaching Experts and several hundred Third Limit experts could soon come to clear them out.
• Zhou Qingmei introduced herself and explained that the group were Third Limit experts while she had reached Heaven-Reaching; she also revealed that they traveled to the Great Gan Empire for food.
• Chu Qing offered to trade secret transmissions for Zhou Qingmei's method, and she raised her price to ten top-tier secret transmissions.
• Chu Qing gave Zhou Qingmei ten top-tier secret transmissions, and she taught him the Kuron Method in private.
• Chu Qing learned that the Kuron Method reduced lifespan consumption to one month per year and improved cultivation efficiency, then asked Zhou Qingmei what she was trying to do.

Chu Qing cultivated Zhou Qingmei’s Kuron Method and learned that it had been prepared for him by the Daoist Nun he once saved. Zhou Qingmei revealed that the Crimson Yellow Dao was the outer identity of the powerful Yellow Heaven Palace, which she believed could withstand the empire’s threats.

• Chu Qing cultivated the Kuron Method, which withered his body while concealing his strength and gradually increasing his Spirit and Energy and blood qi.
• Chu Qing asked Zhou Qingmei why she had given him the precious inheritance, and she showed him a portrait of him and explained that her Senior Sister had intended the Kuron Method as a reward for him.
• Zhou Qingmei told Chu Qing that her Senior Sister had gone to a forbidden zone and might not return alive.
• Zhou Qingmei revealed that the Crimson Yellow Dao was the outer identity of the Yellow Heaven Palace, which commanded Twelve Towers and Five Cities and was stronger than White Jade Capital in the Sky.
• Chu Qing asked whether the Yellow Heaven Palace could withstand the forces targeting it, and Zhou Qingmei claimed she could wipe out the weaklings with one hand.

Chu Qing discovered that maintaining the Kuron Method greatly increased his self-cultivation efficiency as he waited with Zhou Qingmei at the Crimson Yellow Daoist Temple. On the fifth day, Wan Lijian’s assessment party arrived near the temple, prepared to fight.

• Chu Qing learned that Zhou Qingmei could kill up to three Heaven-Piercers at once but would not fight while she was cultivating.
• Chu Qing maintained the Kuron Method and found that it raised his self-cultivation efficiency by twenty percent after a day and night.
• Zhou Qingmei told Chu Qing that five years of maintaining the Kuron Method had raised her efficiency by fifty percent, though the practice weakened her combat power and calmed her emotions.
• Chu Qing continued cultivating at the Crimson Yellow Daoist Temple while periodically reversing the Kuron Method to keep himself from losing his desire to leave.
• Wan Lijian gathered five hundred Third Limit martial artists and nearly thirty Heaven-Piercers, and delayed his march while searching ruined residences for martial manuals.
• Wan Lijian and his assessment party reached the Crimson Yellow Daoist Temple and prepared for battle.

Wanli Sword’s forces attacked the Crimson Yellow Taoist Temple, where Zhou Qingmei awakened more than a dozen sealed Heaven-Piercers to defend it. After the awakened fighters were defeated by a young man wielding a damaged divine weapon and wearing full armor, Zhou Qingmei prepared to flee with Chu Qing, who proposed killing their opponent instead.

• Wanli Sword ordered his Third Limit martial artists to destroy the Taoist Temple after they found it silent and suspected people were hiding inside.
• Zhou Qingmei opened the Underground Palace and summoned the black-robed Heaven-Piercers who had cultivated in seclusion for years.
• The awakened fighters emerged confidently, but the first one was beaten back after more than thirty Heaven-Piercers attacked him.
• The black-robed Heaven-Piercers charged outside and were soon driven back, badly wounded, by a young man with a damaged divine weapon and full armor.
• Zhou Qingmei reversed the Kuron Method, wrapped the injured fighters in ribbons, and told Chu Qing they should split up and run.
• Chu Qing questioned why they had to run and suggested that they kill the young man instead.

Chu Qing challenged Wanli Sword to test the power of his divine weapon and armor set, and their fight ended with both men locked in an even battle. Zhou Qingmei prepared to flee, believing Chu Qing would be killed.

• Chu Qing restored his strength with the Kuron Method and entered the great hall to confront Wanli Sword.
• Wanli Sword mocked Chu Qing and descended with his spear shaft, while Zhou Qingmei quietly prepared to escape.
• Chu Qing struck Wanli Sword with Eight Divine Hands: Thousand Arms, Earth Fiend, Peacock, but Wanli Sword's armor blocked most of the attack.
• Chu Qing and Wanli Sword resumed fighting, exchanging more than a hundred secret arts as neither gained the advantage.

Chu Qing fought Wanli Sword, whose half-set of divine weapon armor and broken spear made him difficult to defeat, until Wanli Sword fled. Chu Qing pursued him, and Wanli Sword turned back to fight as Chu Qing’s killing intent bore down on him.

• Zhou Qingmei and the black-robed Heaven-Reaching Experts watched Chu Qing endure Wanli Sword’s attacks, then Zhou Qingmei realized Chu Qing was targeting the unarmored parts of his body.
• Wanli Sword changed tactics and pierced Chu Qing’s arm with the broken spear shaft, whose wounds healed slowly.
• Wanli Sword fled with three surviving followers, explaining that his incomplete armor had failed to protect him from Chu Qing’s strength and that he needed to pursue another mission.
• Zhou Qingmei warned Chu Qing against chasing Wanli Sword, but Chu Qing argued that Wanli Sword had run because he feared losing.
• As Chu Qing caught up and killing intent overwhelmed them, Wanli Sword sent his followers away, repaired his internal injuries, and turned to charge Chu Qing.

Chu Qing fought Wanli Sword for three days and nights, exhausting him to death despite his armor and half-broken divine weapon. After completing a ritual that greatly increased his bloodline power, Chu Qing took Wanli Sword's equipment to examine it.

• Chu Qing refused Wanli Sword's offers to stop fighting and kept battling him through three days and nights, eventually wearing him down until he died.
• Chu Qing explained that the Outsider Bone, Dragon Tendons, and other abilities had helped him endure, then recovered and pulled out Wanli Sword's teeth as promised.
• Chu Qing arranged ritual materials around himself and completed a ritual that strengthened his Martial Arts Secret Transmission, immense strength, and defensive bloodline.
• Zhou Qingmei and the black-robed Heaven-Reaching Experts helped Chu Qing remove Wanli Sword's armor and half of his divine weapon.
• Chu Qing picked up the armor, eager to discover how it had withstood his secret transmissions.

Chu Qing tested Wanli Sword’s gear and spear shaft, then left the Crimson Yellow Dao after warning Zhou Qingmei and the others to flee. He headed toward the great desert to seek another expert, while Zhou Qingmei led her group to the Great Zhou Imperial Capital to find the Imperial Daughter.

• Chu Qing found that Wanli Sword’s gear greatly reduced incoming attacks, but he could not temper the gear or spear shaft with his Spirit and Energy.
• Chu Qing searched Wanli Sword’s corpse, took the remaining gear and spear shaft, and prepared to leave after completing his ritual and gaining strength.
• Chu Qing warned Zhou Qingmei and the black-robed Heaven-Piercers that stronger enemies might come and urged them to flee beyond the desert.
• Chu Qing challenged Zhou Qingmei to a match for his first ritual, but she refused, so he left the group.
• Zhou Qingmei decided to go to the Great Zhou Imperial Capital and seek the Imperial Daughter, while Chu Qing returned to the Great Zhou Empire and set out for the Chimon Empire.

Chu Qing returned to Peace Inn, learned that Zuo Qianqiu’s assessment group had passed through, and set out for the Chimon Empire to find him. On the way, Daoist Golden Toad warned Chu Qing that the Heaven-Reaching Prodigies were terrifying, but Chu Qing said he would beat them to death.

• Chu Qing crossed the snow-covered desert and found that its oasis and vegetation were expanding.
• At Peace Inn, Chu Qing learned from the old man that Daoist Golden Toad was planting trees to fulfill the old man’s dream of creating a corridor through the desert.
• The old man told Chu Qing that nearly a hundred young assessment personnel had passed through five days earlier, including Heaven-Reaching Prodigies.
• Chu Qing identified Zuo Qianqiu as the likely leader and resolved to suppress him to complete the ritual.
• Chu Qing found Daoist Golden Toad planting trees, and Daoist Golden Toad warned him to flee if he encountered the Heaven-Reaching Prodigies.
• Chu Qing told Daoist Golden Toad that he would beat the Heaven-Reaching Prodigies to death if he caught up with them.

Chu Qing crossed into the Chimon Empire and headed for the Lesser Thunderclap Sect, sensing that something was wrong with the sect and its people. At the mountain gate, he declared himself the sect’s benefactor and demanded a feast, while the sect prepared to face the Great Gan Martial Academy’s assessment party.

• Zuo Qianqiu entered the Chimon Empire as the assessment party received orders to exterminate the Lesser Thunderclap Sect and seize its resources and sect seal.
• The Lesser Thunderclap Sect Master learned of the coming assault and ordered his disciples to prepare, then considered releasing his dangerous eldest disciple.
• Chu Qing crossed into the Chimon Empire and realized the Natural Disasters stopped at its border, leading him to suspect that people controlled them and to consider finding Lady Shiji.
• Chu Qing reached Thunderclap Mountain, prepared himself, and sensed a Great Terror within the mountain before approaching the gate.
• Chu Qing told the gate guards that he wanted to destroy the assessment party and called himself the sect’s benefactor, demanding they invite him in and prepare a lavish feast.

Chu Qing entered the Lesser Thunderclap Sect’s great hall and faced its leaders in an illusion or warped space. When they tried to overwhelm him with the sect’s accumulated killing intent, he unleashed his own, destroying them and shattering the hall.

• Chu Qing realized the bloodstained scene beyond the hall’s doors suggested he was inside an illusion or another altered space, but he stepped inside anyway.
• The illusion of the sect’s green mountains and palaces vanished, revealing ruined buildings, corpses, and the towering leaders of the Lesser Thunderclap Sect.
• The sect’s leaders used their accumulated killing intent to crush Chu Qing, and his mountain of killing intent began to collapse.
• Chu Qing admitted he had feared unleashing his full killing intent and then let it bloom into a monstrous beast that overwhelmed the sect’s ocean of killing intent.
• Chu Qing’s killing intent destroyed the people of the Lesser Thunderclap Sect and caused the great hall and surrounding space to shatter.

Chu Qing fought through a spiritual illusion of the Lesser Thunderclap Sect and saw visions of Zuo Qianqiu’s raid on the sect. He suspected the strange vessels were materials from Anomalies as the bald giant began fighting Zuo Qianqiu.

• Chu Qing realized the grand hall was a spiritual illusion and attacked the Lesser Thunderclap Sect’s warriors when they refused to release him.
• Chu Qing used the half-length divine spear shaft to kill the warriors and the old man on the golden throne, causing the illusion to shatter.
• Chu Qing saw Zuo Qianqiu and more than thirty Heaven-Reaching Experts storm the hall, kill the sect’s warriors, and find a seal beneath the throne.
• A bald giant burst in and used gold, silver, and bronze vessels to overwhelm Zuo Qianqiu’s group before beating them to death.
• The bald giant began fighting Zuo Qianqiu while Chu Qing examined the vessels and wondered if they were materials from Anomalies.

Chu Qing fought Zuo Qianqiu inside a recurring illusion after learning that killing an outsider might free Zuo Qianqiu from a strange treasure’s obsession. Their battle escalated as both planned a life-for-life attack, and the chapter ended as they struck at each other, each convinced the advantage was his.

• Chu Qing watched Zuo Qianqiu battle a bald Little Giant until their fight shattered the illusion and returned him to the real world.
• When Chu Qing reached for the artifacts, the illusion returned, and Zuo Qianqiu attacked him, explaining that the Lesser Thunderclap Sect had trapped him in a strange treasure’s obsession.
• Chu Qing blocked Zuo Qianqiu’s damaged divine weapon with his spear shaft, and they fought as Zuo Qianqiu’s bloodline and physique awakened and began to overpower him.
• Chu Qing and Zuo Qianqiu each decided to use a life-for-life tactic, believing his own equipment would let him survive and kill the other.
• Chu Qing raised his armored left arm as Zuo Qianqiu aimed for his neck, while Chu Qing thrust his spear at Zuo Qianqiu’s chest.

Chu Qing and Zuo Qianqiu discovered that killing the figures in the illusion could change it, then realized the young Little Giant was behind the strange treasure’s deadly power. Despite Zuo Qianqiu’s warning that the giant was nearly impossible to defeat, Chu Qing approached him, apparently intending to fight alone.

• Chu Qing and Zuo Qianqiu recovered from their injuries and were pulled back into the illusion when the young Little Giant charged at Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing and Zuo Qianqiu found that their weapons passed harmlessly through the nagging figures, but they could kill those figures with their bare hands.
• The young Little Giant sat on the golden throne and declared himself sect master, while Chu Qing and Zuo Qianqiu identified him as the source of the artifacts that had killed Zuo Qianqiu’s followers.
• Zuo Qianqiu warned that the young Little Giant was extraordinarily powerful and could only be killed with complete divine weapons and armor, but proposed that they attack together.
• Chu Qing shoved Zuo Qianqiu aside and walked toward the young Little Giant, prompting Zuo Qianqiu to fear that Chu Qing intended to fight him alone.

Chu Qing fought the teenage Little Giant in a brutal battle, enduring repeated injuries while discovering that he was slightly faster and recovered more quickly. He permanently burned his Ancient God bloodline to overpower the Little Giant, and the fight ended with blood mist from the Little Giant's severed wrists transforming into Blood Peacocks that flew southeast.

• Chu Qing collided with the teenage Little Giant, then traded devastating blows with him as both fighters rapidly healed.
• Chu Qing realized that the Little Giant was a little slower than him and used that edge to attack his head and split his spine.
• The Little Giant seized Chu Qing and repeatedly slammed him into the ground, but Chu Qing tore off both of his hands by piercing his wrists.
• Chu Qing struck the Little Giant with his mastered claw and finger techniques, then burned his Ancient God bloodline and physique to increase his power.
• The Little Giant broke free and knocked Chu Qing away, but blood mist from his severed wrists formed Blood Peacocks that flew southeast.

Chu Qing performed a ritual that absorbed Zuo Qianqiu’s secret inheritances and altered the bloodline of his second profession. He began uncovering the hidden blade techniques within the Zuo Family’s Divine Blade Technique, but Zuo Qianqiu suddenly warned that someone was alive.

• Chu Qing escaped the shattered illusion, found Zuo Qianqiu weakened, and carried him and the gathered resources away from Lesser Thunder Sound Mountain.
• Zuo Qianqiu crawled into Chu Qing’s ritual to avoid being used as its sacrifice and revealed that the Zuo Family had obtained a ritual method from the Unique Association.
• Chu Qing completed the ritual, absorbing Zuo Qianqiu’s secret inheritances and changing the bloodline of his second profession.
• Chu Qing discovered that he could immediately use Zuo Qianqiu’s other secret inheritances at Perfection Level, but not the Divine Blade Technique.
• Chu Qing visualized the Divine Blade Technique and uncovered layers of beast-shaped divine blades, each revealing profound blade techniques that appeared in his Profession Slot.
• Zuo Qianqiu suddenly cried out that someone was alive.