Recaps

Chu Qing killed the Little Giant, learned its secret arts, and completed the twenty-seventh ritual track, which let him consider choosing a bloodline and physique or saving that power for his second profession. After Zuo Qianqiu recovered and challenged Chu Qing over the looted spoils, Chu Qing threatened to cut open his chest.

• Chu Qing decapitated the Little Giant after it revived, then set up a ritual track beside its corpse.
• Chu Qing absorbed the Little Giant's spiritual light and mastered its secret arts, including the Thunderclap Method.
• The twenty-seventh ritual track let Chu Qing choose a bloodline and physique, but he sent its power into his heart for his second profession instead.
• The Little Giant revived again, and Zuo Qianqiu eventually chopped off its head after several strikes.
• Chu Qing took the valuable items from Zuo Qianqiu's bundle, and Zuo Qianqiu protested once he had recovered his strength.
• Chu Qing seized the Lesser Thunderclap Sect's seal and threatened to split open Zuo Qianqiu's chest.

Chu Qing forced Zuo Qianqiu to surrender the better share of their spoils and the Lesser Thunderclap Sect token, then tested how to stop Little Giant from reviving. After burning Little Giant’s remains and collecting the strange bones left behind, Chu Qing headed to the Martial Academy while Zuo Qianqiu stayed behind to seek another token.

• Chu Qing intimidated Zuo Qianqiu into opening his chest, then demanded the better share of their spoils and claimed the Lesser Thunderclap Sect token.
• When Little Giant began reviving again, Chu Qing cut up his body, buried the largest portion, and carried the remaining limbs toward the Great Gan Empire.
• In a blacksmith shop, Chu Qing burned Little Giant’s limbs to ash and found strange, hard bones left behind.
• Chu Qing took the token and left for the Martial Academy, while Zuo Qianqiu decided to find another group to rob for a token.

Chu Qing returned to Peach Blossom Dock, then went to the Martial Academy to submit the Lesser Thunderclap Sect mission. After killing a red-haired Martial Master who refused to accept his token, he had the mission registered and headed to the building where he would receive his second examination mission.

• Chu Qing returned to Peach Blossom Dock, where Zhao Wuji trained the poor newcomers, Zhao Hongxiu cultivated, Mingyue cleared anomalies with the Gray Robes, and Zuo Yan cultivated alone.
• Zhao Hongxiu told Chu Qing that the Princess Consort had built an Underground Palace and was throwing her weight around in the underground world.
• Chu Qing entered the Martial Academy and presented the Lesser Thunderclap Sect seal, but the red-haired Martial Master insisted that only Zuo Qianqiu could submit the mission token.
• Chu Qing struck and killed the red-haired Martial Master, then forced the other Martial Masters to register his mission.
• Chu Qing kept the seal for the final day and went to the small building to receive his second examination mission.

Chu Qing secured a second assessment certificate and learned he needed more Recommendation Letters, while his success spread alarm among the Imperial Capital’s aristocratic families. Young Master Heaven took temporary control of the Unique Association and organized a large-scale operation to kill Chu Qing, leaving its forces preparing an ambush at Peach Blossom Dock.

• Chu Qing received his second assessment certificate and decided he needed at least three Recommendation Letters to enter the Martial Academy.
• News spread that Chu Qing had taken the Zuo Family’s assessment task, and Zuo Qianqiu and other aristocrats reassured themselves that Chu Qing would fail to obtain Recommendation Letters.
• Princess learned that Chu Qing had secured the first assessment token without armored gear or a divine weapon and worried about his potential.
• Young Master Heaven arrived at the Unique Association as its acting leader and ordered its members to kill Chu Qing and gather intelligence on him.
• Young Master Heaven deployed trackers, Heaven-Piercers, analysts, and martial forces, ordering an ambush at Peach Blossom Dock and authorizing attacks on Zuo Yan and the use of God-Slaying Crossbow Machines.

Chu Qing sought more Recommendation Letters and met Jin Hong and four other powerful experts at Tianxiang Tower. Jin Hong revealed that his Young Master knew Chu Qing’s history and abilities, then demanded that Chu Qing submit as the Young Master’s dog.

• Chu Qing failed to enter the twelve departments besides the Anomaly Division and asked city guards to watch for returning Heaven-Piercers.
• A gold-robed man told Chu Qing that someone wanted to trade Recommendation Letters, and Chu Qing went to meet them at Tianxiang Tower.
• Chu Qing learned that Jin Hong and the four others had prevented the Gu Family from attending and claimed they all served an unnamed Young Master.
• Jin Hong recited detailed information about Chu Qing’s martial arts, victories, secret inheritances, gear, and other possessions.
• Jin Hong offered Chu Qing the chance to submit to his Young Master and become a loyal dog.

Chu Qing faced Jin Hong and the weapons and martial arts prepared to counter his abilities, but killed Jin Hong’s companions and defeated Jin Hong himself. A hidden Divine Arrow Hand wounded Chu Qing, yet he killed Jin Hong with his broken arm.

• Jin Hong revealed weapons and secret transmissions designed to counter Chu Qing and demanded that Chu Qing become his young master's lackey.
• Chu Qing attacked the Heaven-Piercers, killing the man on the left and injuring the woman on the right despite her Star Demon Hand.
• Chu Qing broke through the man’s Grindstone Hand with Divine Blade Technique, then asked Jin Hong to identify the young master so he could kill him.
• Jin Hong attacked Chu Qing with his twin spears, but a hidden archer struck Chu Qing’s shoulder with an arrow.
• Chu Qing charged through Jin Hong’s spears, then pierced Jin Hong’s chest with his broken arm and smashed his head apart.

Chu Qing returned to Peach Blossom Dock to protect his Three-legged Golden Toads and joined forces with Zuo Yan against the divine archer One Thread Pulls. They killed him, leaving Chu Qing badly injured but victorious.

• Chu Qing escaped the Imperial Capital guards and raced back toward Peach Blossom Dock, healing his injuries as pursuers followed.
• At Peach Blossom Dock, Chu Qing found Zuo Yan and learned that One Thread Pulls, head instructor of the Imperial Capital’s divine archers, was hunting them.
• Chu Qing and Zuo Yan attacked One Thread Pulls, but his relentless arrows forced them to retreat.
• Chu Qing used rubble to pressure One Thread Pulls while Zuo Yan broke through the arrows and struck from the flank.
• One Thread Pulls wrapped his bowstring around Chu Qing and tried to cripple him, but Chu Qing crushed his bones and organs, then headbutted him to death.

Chu Qing returned to the Imperial Capital despite warnings that Young Master Heaven and the Unique Association were targeting him for breaking their rules. Young Master Heaven sent Wang Bu’er to capture or kill Chu Qing, who continued pursuing Recommendation Letters and prepared to grow stronger.

• Zuo Yan told Chu Qing that Young Master Heaven was an imperial family member and Unique Association president who meant to enforce the Empire’s rules against him.
• Chu Qing rejected the idea that anyone could set rules for him and entered the Imperial Capital again.
• Zhao Hongxiu sorted through Chu Qing’s recovered belongings and went to ask the Princess Consort whether they could help him.
• At the Anomaly Division, Chu Qing told two men to share information about him freely and ordered them to keep finding people willing to trade Recommendation Letters.
• Young Master Heaven criticized his subordinate for failing to capture Chu Qing and gave Wang Bu’er a complete divine weapon, ordering him to bring Chu Qing back or kill him.

Chu Qing followed the Princess Consort’s underground passage into the Underground Imperial Capital, where he found a deranged population and witnessed a violent fight over a corpse. He began searching for the Princess Consort as the city’s inhabitants descended into slaughter.

• Wang Bu'er took the divine longsaber Young Master Tian had given him and began gathering information on Chu Qing, hoping to capture him and earn an introduction to the Mythology Organization.
• Chu Qing returned to Peach Blossom Dock, where Zhao Hongxiu showed him the passage the Princess Consort had dug and warned that Zuo Yan had been frightened by what she saw below.
• Chu Qing followed the passage for more than ten kilometers and emerged on a platform overlooking the Underground Imperial Capital.
• Chu Qing saw the city’s residents inhale smoke, eat pale flesh, and behave like madmen, then moved down to the streets to search for the Princess Consort.
• After a burly man attacked him, Chu Qing blasted the man’s head apart with a breath, and the surrounding crowd fought over the corpse before turning on one another in a frenzy.

Chu Qing learned about the Underground Imperial Capital and heard Xiao Tianyi's plan to use its starving population to overthrow the empire. After leaving the underground city to wait for the Princess Consort, Chu Qing found her sitting by the passageway.

• Chu Qing observed red-eyed people joining the slaughter while normal-eyed people dragged away corpses and wounded victims, then met Xiao Tianyi.
• Xiao Tianyi explained that the Underground Imperial Capital had grown beneath the capital over a thousand years and that eating white flesh turned people blood-eyed and mad.
• Xiao Tianyi revealed his Yellow Heaven Dao ties and declared that he planned to unite the underground forces and lead millions of soldiers aboveground to seize the empire.
• Chu Qing dismissed Xiao Tianyi's ambitions, declined his offer to become a minister, and left the Underground Imperial Capital.
• Chu Qing reached the passageway platform and found the Princess Consort in white sitting there and gazing into the distance.

The Princess Consort refined the Little Giant’s bones into a treasure while Chu Qing used her strange pearls to open his second Heaven-Connecting Path. She gave him the Mysterious Female Pearl and promised to use it to chant the As-You-Wish Sutra for him each day, leaving Chu Qing eager to refine another pearl from the remaining corpse.

• The Princess Consort revealed that her new Strange Art let her secretly refine strange pearls, then took Chu Qing’s imitation divine weapons and examined the Little Giant’s bones.
• Chu Qing swallowed strange pearls for days to open his second Heaven-Connecting Path while the Princess Consort studied the bones.
• The Princess Consort chanted the As-You-Wish Sutra, causing more than a thousand of Chu Qing’s secret transmissions to operate together.
• The Princess Consort fused the golden bones into the Mysterious Female Pearl, which cycled through Chu Qing’s secret transmissions to help him cultivate.
• The Princess Consort let Chu Qing keep the Mysterious Female Pearl and promised to place a thought within it to chant the As-You-Wish Sutra for an hour each day.
• Chu Qing planned to retrieve the remaining half of the Little Giant’s corpse from the Chimon Empire and refine another Mysterious Female Pearl.

Chu Qing prepared to advance toward the First Limit while searching for the missing Little Giant corpse, but a barrier at Lesser Thunder Sound Mountain stopped him. Young Master Heaven planned to lure Chu Qing out with a fragment of the Eight Divine Hands, and Chu Qing and the Princess Consort agreed to deal with the corpse together after she had evaded her pursuers for a few days.

• Chu Qing left Mingyue and Zhao Hongxiu in the Princess Consort's care, and she gave him the Mysterious Female Pearl and a bell to summon her.
• Wang Bu'er failed to locate Chu Qing, and the Heavenly Staff advised him to wait at the Anomaly Division and Peach Blossom Dock for a chance to kill him.
• Chu Qing traveled to Lesser Thunder Sound Mountain, discovered the Little Giant's half corpse had crawled out of its grave, and found white mist blocking the mountain.
• Young Master Heaven told Wang Bu'er to publicize a fragment of the Eight Divine Hands to lure Chu Qing out, confident Chu Qing would not be able to learn it.
• Chu Qing summoned the Princess Consort, who agreed to help capture the corpse and make another Mysterious Female Pearl once her pursuers had stopped searching for her.

Chu Qing used strange pearls to open his second and then third Heaven-Connecting Paths, gaining dragon tendons, powerful physical traits, and a new force he named Dragon Power. After running out of pearls, he planned to obtain more resources and seek a Recommendation Letter from Zuo Qianqiu.

• Chu Qing completed his second Heaven-Connecting Path, found it offered little beyond a stronger foundation, and began trying to open a third.
• Chu Qing spent thirty strange pearls to reveal the third path, then fought its great dragons until killing one caused a dragon tendon to emerge and greatly increased his strength and physical traits.
• Chu Qing consumed his remaining pearls over several days, opening about one percent of the third path and gaining varied traits as a second dragon tendon began to grow.
• Chu Qing discovered that the second dragon tendon produced Dragon Power, which made his Hole-Piercing Wave ten times more powerful, though the power recovered only once a day.
• After running out of resources, Chu Qing decided to ask Tang Wuming for more strange pearls and trade the Anomaly Division's Recommendation Letter to Zuo Qianqiu for a Recommendation Letter.

Chu Qing learned that a move of the Eight Divine Hands had appeared at Four Seas Martial Arts Hall, apparently as a trap meant to lure him, but decided to pursue it anyway. After receiving Chu Qing’s request to meet, Zuo Qianqiu defied his family’s demands to kill him and set out to repay the favor Chu Qing had done him.

• At Peach Blossom Dock, Chu Qing asked Zuo Yan to contact Zuo Qianqiu about exchanging for a Recommendation Letter and named Tianxiang Tower as their meeting place.
• Zuo Yan warned Chu Qing that the Imperial Capital was chaotic and that someone had released a move of the Eight Divine Hands to lure him to Four Seas Martial Arts Hall.
• Chu Qing decided to go after the move despite suspecting the offer was a trap, since he wanted to complete the Eight Divine Hands.
• Zuo Qianqiu’s family rebuked him for losing to Chu Qing and ordered him to help Young Master kill Chu Qing.
• Zuo Qianqiu defended Chu Qing, saying he had saved his life, then received Chu Qing’s letter and left to repay the favor.

Chu Qing discovered that Dragon Power was transforming his body with scales and strange patterns that might help him become an Outsider. After exchanging recommendation letters with Zuo Qianqiu, he learned that a man named Wang Bu'er was waiting to kill him at the Martial Hall with a complete divine weapon.

• Chu Qing used Internal Vision and found dragon scales and Outsider Bone-like patterns forming along the path where Dragon Power had coursed through his body.
• Zuo Qianqiu visited Chu Qing at Peach Blossom Dock and exchanged a military Recommendation Letter for Chu Qing's Anomaly Division Recommendation Letter.
• Zuo Qianqiu warned Chu Qing that entering the Imperial Capital Martial Academy would require three Recommendation Letters and offered to find someone willing to trade.
• Zuo Qianqiu revealed that the Unique Association had arranged for Wang Bu'er to wait at the Martial Hall with a complete divine weapon and kill Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing asked about Wang Bu'er's secret teachings, and Zuo Qianqiu explained that the complete divine weapon could mobilize seventy-two secret teachings at once.

Chu Qing ignored Zuo Qianqiu’s warning and went to the Four Seas Martial Arts Hall to confront Wang Bu'er and test the power of a complete divine weapon. After discovering the ambush around the hall, he broke through at tremendous speed, killed Wang Bu'er, and seized the terrified hall master.

• Chu Qing prepared for a fight by taking secret medicines, then left Zhao Hongxiu and Mingyue despite Zhao Hongxiu’s worries.
• Chu Qing sensed an ambush surrounding the Four Seas Martial Arts Hall and realized the attackers had arranged watchers in every direction.
• Wang Bu'er told the Hall Master of Four Seas Martial Arts Hall that he intended to kill Chu Qing with his divine weapon.
• Chu Qing circled around the ambush, broke through at several times the speed of sound, and pierced Wang Bu'er’s head with a spear shaft.
• Chu Qing grabbed the Hall Master of Four Seas Martial Arts Hall by the head and demanded, “Bastard, look at me,” while the hall master begged for his life.

Chu Qing slaughtered the people at Four Seas Martial Arts Hall and left behind a black sword whose Sword Qi killed an investigator. Terrified officials fled the scene, but after the King learned of the massacre, the Patrol House was ordered to find the unknown murderer.

• Chu Qing wiped out Four Seas Martial Arts Hall and killed the attackers who rushed in, then continued slaughtering people outside.
• Ninth Master Xie arrived with the Martial Oversight Department, and his investigators traced the massacre to a powerful, unknown killer.
• An investigator touched the black sword and was shredded by its Sword Qi, prompting Ninth Master Xie to order his people to flee.
• The Patrol House chief and then officials from the Ministry of Justice inspected the scene, became terrified, and claimed they were sick.
• The twelve departments learned of the massacre, and the case fell to the Patrol House after Young Master Heaven and the King intervened.

Madam Shi decided to go to the Imperial Capital to rescue Chu Qing, while she urged Madam Jin to strengthen her extraordinary abilities so she could support him. In the capital, Young Master Tian pushed for Chu Qing’s arrest, and the King questioned whether the Millennial Tribulation reflected wrongdoing by the empire or himself.

• Madam Jin wanted to go to the Imperial Capital and reprimand the King, but Madam Shi told her to master her Strange Arts and become strong enough to support Chu Qing.
• Madam Shi resolved to go to the Imperial Capital and bring Chu Qing back, while Madam Jin insisted that she wanted to see him too.
• Young Master Tian learned that Chu Qing had killed Wang Bu'er in one move with a semi-divine weapon, then ordered the Patrol House to arrest him in the empire’s name.
• The King asked about Chu Qing and wondered whether the Millennial Tribulation meant officials were driving the people to rebellion or that he had offended Heaven.

The Patrol House was ordered to produce irrefutable evidence against Chu Qing, and the task fell to He Fei. Unable to judge how dangerous Chu Qing was, He Fei sought help from the Secret Alliance, whose members faced the same lack of resources and status.

• The King ordered the Patrol House to present irrefutable evidence before arresting Chu Qing, frustrating its lower and middle ranks.
• The Patrol House’s senior officials assigned the case to He Fei, a Heaven-Reaching Expert and Purple Robe constable.
• He Fei considered Chu Qing’s record, including his one-move killing of Wang Bu’er, and worried that arresting him could be dangerous.
• He Fei gathered more than a thousand Third Limit Heaven-Reaching Experts from the Secret Alliance to discuss Chu Qing.
• A Secret Alliance member stood and announced that he had an immature idea.

Chu Qing mastered Eight Divinities and met He Fei, a Purple Robe constable who invited him to join the Secret Alliance. Chu Qing agreed only to cooperate, condemning the Alliance’s fear of confronting the powerful clans and declaring it unworthy of him.

• After acquiring Eight Divine Hands: Chaos, Chu Qing’s incomplete techniques fused into Eight Divinities, which greatly increased his power and produced a force resembling Dragon Power.
• He Fei arrived at Peach Blossom Dock and told Chu Qing that the Patrol House had ordered him to arrest him.
• He Fei explained the Secret Alliance’s members and invited Chu Qing to join, revealing that its attempt to cultivate a New Realm martial artist had stalled for ten years because the noble clans controlled a crucial resource.
• Chu Qing offered to cooperate with the Secret Alliance but refused to join it.
• Chu Qing rebuked He Fei for the Alliance’s failure to seize the resource by force and told him that the Secret Alliance was not worthy of him.

He Fei’s allies debated using Imperial law against Chu Qing after he refused to join their plan, while constables sent by Young Master Tian arrived at Chu Qing’s home. Zhao Hongxiu killed one constable and offered to take the rest to Peach Blossom Dock’s peach grove, leaving their middle-aged leader to consider framing her himself.

• He Fei told the Secret Alliance that Chu Qing had refused to join because he wanted them to seize resources for a New Realm, and members proposed arresting Chu Qing under Imperial law.
• A Secret Alliance member revealed that Young Master Tian had sent Patrol House personnel to arrest Chu Qing in He Fei’s place.
• Constables arrived at Peach Blossom Dock and forced their way into Chu Qing’s courtyard, where Zhao Hongxiu killed one of them with Mantis Fist.
• Zhao Hongxiu told the constables to return outside and knock properly, then invited them to the peach grove while the middle-aged leader watched.
• The constables refused to follow Zhao Hongxiu, and their leader decided to fabricate evidence against her himself.

Zhao Hongxiu was framed for killing Imperial patrol officers, and Chu Qing arrived to stop the middle-aged constable from taking her away. Chu Qing fought and killed the constable with Eight Gods, leaving only his golden skeletal feet standing.

• The middle-aged constable killed his own men, accused Zhao Hongxiu of murdering twenty-three patrol officers, and sealed her power before trying to arrest her.
• Chu Qing entered and ordered the constable to release Zhao Hongxiu, but the man accused Chu Qing of destroying the Four Seas Martial Arts Hall and demanded he submit to Young Master Tian.
• Chu Qing attacked the constable, whose glowing forehead blocked his finger strike, and the two began exchanging secret inheritances.
• Chu Qing used Hole-Piercing Wave to nearly split the constable’s forehead, then unleashed Eight Gods and reduced him to a golden skeleton.
• The constable’s golden bones exploded as he walked, until only his feet remained standing.

Chu Qing killed the Imperial Capital constables sent to arrest him and discovered that their leader’s layered human skin might be linked to In the Red Dust. His attempt to teach Eight Gods Power nearly killed Zhao Hongxiu and the twins, while the Patrol House learned that the Qing Feng Guards had died and their scouts were asking for reinforcements.

• Chu Qing ordered Zhao Hongxiu to feed the constables’ remains to the peach tree anomalies and investigate their identities.
• Zhao Hongxiu showed Chu Qing the leader’s three layers of skin, prompting him to consider how human-skin techniques worked and whether Principal Shi Ji had ties to In the Red Dust.
• Chu Qing taught Eight Gods Power to Zhao Hongxiu, but she began vomiting blood and suffered shattered internal organs.
• Chu Qing made Mingyue practice Eight Gods Power, and the twins also vomited blood and feared they would die.
• He Fei questioned whether the Qing Feng Guards had captured or killed Chu Qing, while other Patrol House members dismissed his concerns.
• A scout’s message revealed that the Qing Feng Guards had died and urged the Patrol House to send a large force against Chu Qing.

The Patrol House and Unique Association reacted to Chu Qing’s slaughter of constables’ families, but their defenses failed to stop him. Young Master Heaven sent Guest Official Situ, armed with a divine sword, to kill Chu Qing and secretly planned to poison him afterward.

• The Patrol House received reports that Chu Qing had exterminated three constables’ families, and He Fei accused its officials of becoming Young Master Heaven’s dogs.
• Young Master Heaven learned that Chu Qing had killed the guards and wiped out Constable Ma’s family, then ordered the Qing Feng Guard to use a divine weapon against him.
• Young Master Heaven gave his spare divine sword to Guest Official Situ, the Qing Feng Guard’s deputy commander, and promised him New Realm secret medicine for Chu Qing’s head.
• Guest Official Situ boasted of his past battles and left to kill Chu Qing, while Young Master Heaven ordered poisoned wine prepared to eliminate him after he advanced.

Guest Official Situ resolved to use the divine weapon to take revenge on the powers that had suppressed him, while Chu Qing continued exterminating Patrol House families. Guest Official Situ confronted Chu Qing and proposed a fight that could let either of them claim the other’s divine weapon.

• Guest Official Situ told his son Situ Yishi that the Unique Association would never let him enter the New Realm, and sent him away to keep him safe.
• Guest Official Situ secretly met several fellow victims of the secret medicine system, took precious items from them, and then went to find Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing continued wiping out Patrol House families, declaring that he would make the Imperial Capital’s powers fear him and eventually destroy the Patrol House and Unique Association.
• Guest Official Situ stopped Chu Qing at the last Patrol House residence, carrying the black divine weapon that Chu Qing recognized.
• Guest Official Situ explained his plan to use Chu Qing’s life and special materials to erase the divine weapon’s owner mark, then challenged Chu Qing to risk the weapon in a fight.