Recaps

After Chu Qing rallied young Heaven-Piercers to loot the Gu, Hu, and Cheng Families, the Unique Association sent Zhuge Hei and Sima Zhao to stop him. The pair reached the Martial Academy but decided to wait until night to attack, while ignoring signals from their superiors.

• Chu Qing urged the young men and women to treat anyone who blocked them as an enemy and led them to loot the Hu Family after the Gu Family.
• Chu Qing's group looted the Cheng Family and fought off more than a dozen New Realm martial artists who tried to stop them.
• Young Master Heaven decided that Zhuge Hei and Sima Zhao should deal with Chu Qing, believing the other youths would back down if Chu Qing fell.
• Zhuge Hei and Sima Zhao argued over who would fight Chu Qing and agreed to attack at night, with Zhuge Hei taking the lead.
• The pair waited outside the Martial Academy as masked youths returned with loot, then ignored signals from the Grand Judge's and Minister of Ceremonies' men.

Zhuge Hei infiltrated the Martial Academy to kill Chu Qing, but discovered that the youth he had taken hostage was Chu Qing himself. After Zuo Yan struck back, Zhuge Hei extinguished the room’s lights and attacked from the darkness, leaving Chu Qing unable to reveal his figure with the divine saber.

• Zhuge Hei waited until late night before sneaking into the Martial Academy, while Sima Zhao stayed outside to back him up.
• Zhuge Hei entered a lit courtyard and grabbed a long-haired youth, then questioned him about Chu Qing.
• The youth revealed that he was Chu Qing, and Zuo Yan attacked Zhuge Hei with her saber.
• Zhuge Hei escaped into the darkness and extinguished every light in the room.
• Chu Qing took the divine saber from Zuo Yan, but its light could not reveal Zhuge Hei’s figure.

Chu Qing defeated Zhuge Hei in a fierce fight, then discovered that the assassin could rapidly regenerate and claimed to serve Gods and Devils. After Zhuge Hei refused to explain his powers, Chu Qing used Copper Coin to silence him and planned to identify and wipe out his lineage.

• Zuo Yan lit a lamp, but Zhuge Hei killed her and she began recovering as Chu Qing held his guard.
• Zhuge Hei exploited a brief opening and attacked Chu Qing, but Chu Qing countered with his thousand-arm technique and shattered Zhuge Hei's heads, arms, and body.
• Chu Qing found Zhuge Hei's remains regenerating, cut them apart, and used Copper Coin to make the flesh shriek and release black smoke.
• Zhuge Hei revealed that he was a God-Serving Follower who could resurrect among the Gods and Devils, but he refused to explain his powers.
• Chu Qing dumped Copper Coin on Zhuge Hei and stuffed coins into his mouth when he tried to reveal secrets, leaving him silent as Chu Qing vowed to find and destroy his lineage.

After Zhuge Hei’s death, Chu Qing learned that the Zhuge Family served Young Master Heaven and that demon gods from the Great Emperor Era were returning. He decided he needed more strength before confronting the Zhuge Family, while warning that he would enter the New Realm early if forced.

• Chu Qing treated Zuo Yan and learned Zhuge Hei was Zhuge Piaobo’s son, while Zuo Yan suspected the Zhuge Family had joined Young Master Heaven.
• Zuo Yan told Chu Qing that the Unique Association planned to revive the demon gods of the Great Emperor Era and that Zhuge Hei was a God-Serving Follower.
• Chu Qing recalled how the Great Emperor Era ended and resolved to destroy demon gods if they threatened him.
• Zuo Yan warned that God-Serving Followers could revive and that attacking the Zhuge Family would bring opposition from the Martial Academy and the Emperor.
• Chu Qing decided to pursue the Ancient Cultivation Method and reach the New Realm, though he still wanted to temper every minor realm first.

Sima Zhao and Grand Judge Zhuge learned that Zhuge Hei had failed to kill Chu Qing and was dead, then secretly tried to resurrect him without Young Master Heaven’s permission. The ritual ended without bringing Zhuge Hei back, leaving Grand Judge Zhuge demanding to know why the miracle had failed.

• Sima Zhao heard Zhuge Hei’s screams at the Martial Academy, realized Chu Qing had defeated him, and withdrew without attacking.
• Grand Judge Zhuge received reports of Zhuge Hei’s infiltration and fighting, then learned that Zhuge Hei had threatened Chu Qing with Gods and Devils and Young Master Heaven before dying.
• Sima Zhao told Grand Judge Zhuge that he had waited for the right moment and proposed secretly resurrecting Zhuge Hei to learn how Chu Qing had killed him.
• Grand Judge Zhuge agreed to resurrect Zhuge Hei without Young Master Heaven’s permission and arranged a ritual using more than a hundred servants as sacrifices.
• After half an hour of chanting, the Gods and Devils statue’s belly returned to normal, but Zhuge Hei did not resurrect, and Grand Judge Zhuge demanded an explanation.

After Zhuge Hei could not be resurrected, Sima Zhao realized Chu Qing had erased him using methods for clearing anomalies and fled the Imperial Capital as both Young Master and his Lineage targeted him. He reached the Martial Academy, where Zuo Qianqiu confronted the masked pursuers at its gates.

• Grand Judge Zhuge repeatedly changed the sacrifices and pleaded with the Great Strength God-Demon, but Zhuge Hei remained dead.
• Sima Zhao told Grand Judge Zhuge that Chu Qing had cleared Zhuge Hei like an anomaly, and Grand Judge Zhuge drove Sima Zhao out of the Imperial Capital.
• Grand Judge Zhuge reported the revelation to Young Master Tian, who ordered Sima Zhao silenced, Chu Qing brought in or eliminated, and anti-anomaly materials gathered.
• Sima Zhao saw the Cleaners' mobilization signal and fled toward the Martial Academy, fighting Young Master's pursuers and their anomaly-killing weapons along the way.
• Sima Zhao crashed through the Martial Academy gates, and Zuo Qianqiu warned the masked men outside not to enter under Chu Qing's protection.

Zuo Qianqiu and Sima Zhao faced cleaners sent by the Young Master of the Unique Association to kill them and Chu Qing, who had discovered how to completely kill a God-Serving Follower. Chu Qing slaughtered more than forty cleaners in ten seconds, then turned to Sima Zhao and asked his name.

• The cleaners attacked the Martial Academy, and Zuo Qianqiu and the other young fighters were swiftly defeated while Sima Zhao crawled away.
• Sima Zhao warned Chu Qing that the Young Master wanted him dead because he had discovered how to completely kill Zhuge Hei.
• Chu Qing told Sima Zhao to crawl farther away, then fought the cleaners as Sima Zhao tried to escape.
• Sima Zhao saw a cleaner's arm and head fall nearby and realized Chu Qing was killing the attackers.
• Chu Qing killed more than forty cleaners in ten seconds, despite suffering severe wounds, and walked over to Sima Zhao to ask his name.

Chu Qing spared Sima Zhao and ordered him to destroy the Zhuge family under Chu Qing’s name, taking half their resources as tribute. As Sima Zhao rallied the Martial Academy’s prodigies, Chu Qing resumed cultivating and waited for his Ancient Cultivation Method shackles to recover.

• Zuo Qianqiu and the others urged Chu Qing to kill Sima Zhao, but Sima Zhao pleaded for his life and claimed he could serve Chu Qing.
• When Chu Qing demanded a reason to spare him, Sima Zhao said he knew where Zhuge Hei’s family was and how to destroy the Zhuge Lineage.
• Chu Qing gave Sima Zhao his seal and ordered him to destroy the Zhuge family after dawn, act under Chu Qing’s name, and send half their resources as tribute.
• Sima Zhao left with Zuo Qianqiu and the others to rally the Martial Academy’s Heaven-Piercers while Chu Qing resumed cultivating with secret medicine.
• Chu Qing reflected that nourishing his Ancient Cultivation Method shackles would prepare him to break through the Second Limit and enter the Third Limit.
• Sima Zhao found that many Martial Academy prodigies who had joined the Unique Association had stayed behind, spending the night counting their loot.

Sima Zhao persuaded the Martial Academy’s young elites and their allies to destroy the Zhuge Family and seize its resources, with Chu Qing taking the blame. Chu Qing led a masked force of more than two thousand toward the Zhuge Family, but the torrent swept through another family’s residence on the way.

• Sima Zhao urged the young men and women to recruit New Realm martial artists and share the Zhuge Family’s resources, blaming Chu Qing for the attack.
• A Ma Family prodigy convinced the Vice Principal to seek his father’s help, and the Vice Principal agreed to join the scheme.
• Chu Qing addressed more than two thousand masked followers and declared that he would bear the blame for their coming raids.
• Chu Qing charged toward the Zhuge Family with the masked crowd following him through the Imperial Capital.
• The torrent swept through a family residence for several seconds, frightening its family head before moving on.

Chu Qing led the destruction of the Zhuge Family, then announced plans to target other Lineages and the Unique Association. When the Gu Head of the House challenged him, Chu Qing killed him in front of the gathered Heads of the Houses.

• More than two thousand Masked Men destroyed the Zhuge Family, while its strange individual escaped with some survivors after Chu Qing openly claimed responsibility.
• The Masked Men returned to the Martial Academy with the Zhuge Family's resources as the Heads of the Houses debated the threat Chu Qing posed.
• A masked New Realm martial artist from the Shen Family told the Heads that Chu Qing planned to destroy the Gu Family and other Lineages, confront the Unique Association, and slaughter the Emperor.
• The Shen Family martial artist urged the Heads to use Chu Qing's campaign to destroy Lineages before the Millennial Tribulation could bring them down, and they surrounded the Gu Head of the House and the other targeted Heads.
• Chu Qing arrived and brutally killed the Gu Head of the House after the Gu Head challenged his right to threaten the Lineages.

After several Lineages fell, Chu Qing focused on using their resources to advance his Ancient Cultivation Method, rejecting Sima Zhao’s proposal to build an empire. Sima Zhao decided to pursue that goal for him, while the Lineage heads celebrated their gains and underestimated the threat Chu Qing could pose in the New Realm.

• Chu Qing ordered Zuo Yan to trade the plundered resources for everything needed to advance his Ancient Cultivation Method through the Third Limit and enter the New Realm.
• Sima Zhao urged Chu Qing to establish an organization and seize the power vacuum, but Chu Qing rejected the idea and suggested Tang Wuming as an alternative leader.
• After leaving Chu Qing, Sima Zhao resolved to overturn the Great Gan Empire for him and recruit young prodigies to support Chu Qing.
• The Lineage heads discussed their spoils and dismissed Chu Qing, but the Head of the Zuo Family warned that his cultivation resources and influence over young prodigies could make him dangerous.
• The Lineage heads concluded that Chu Qing would be easy to deal with once he entered the New Realm and continued their celebrations.

Young Master Heaven dismissed Chu Qing as a minor threat while advancing plans to revive the Gods and Devils and gather Heaven-Reaching Skin. Meanwhile, the King expanded efforts in the forbidden zone to weaken the Millennial Calamity, even as he admitted his empire was nearing its end.

• Young Master Heaven told the Three Dukes and Eight Ministers to prioritize finding the Ninth Princess, reviving Gods and Devils, and building his power, and named the Third Prince of the Yimeng Empire as Grand Judge.
• Young Master Heaven ordered his agents to accelerate the Gods and Devils revival, recruit believers, and collect more Heaven-Reaching Skin; he also requested that Imperial Consort Ying Hongzhuang be sent to him.
• The King learned that three million people had lit ten thousand Fire Pits in the forbidden zone and that the empire’s wind and snow had weakened by one percent.
• The King ordered martial artists to guard Fire Pits in exchange for secret inheritances, despite warnings that the aristocratic families might rebel.
• The King said he was imitating Chu Qing’s recklessness and predicted that Chu Qing would die when he entered the New Realm.

Princess ordered her subordinates to threaten Young Master Heaven and his consorts, while discussing Chu Qing’s dangerous prospects with Consort Mei. Chu Qing prepared to forge Primordial Chaos through the Ancient Cultivation Method, seeking unusual materials to add to it.

• Princess ordered loyal subordinates to kill Young Master Heaven’s consorts and children in front of him, but refused Consort Mei’s suggestion to kill him outright.
• Princess regretted missing the chance to recruit Chu Qing and warned Consort Mei that entering the New Realm without powerful backing or a mad heart was dangerous.
• Consort Mei revealed that she had begun cultivating Heterodox Path methods so she could become Chu Qing’s background and patron.
• Chu Qing planned to enter the New Realm after settling the Third Limit, whose three minor realms were Primordial Chaos, Wind Fire Tribulation, and Square Inch.
• Chu Qing summoned Zuo Yan and Zuo Qianqiu to forge Ancient Primordial Chaos and asked Princess Consort for bright pearls and Zhao Hongxiu for Copper Coins of the Golden Toad.
• Chu Qing began searching for people to forge the outer shell of Primordial Chaos.

Chu Qing struggled to find a blacksmith willing to forge his Primordial Chaos, so he planned to make it himself until the Princess Consort emerged from the Thought Bead and offered to handle the forging. After inspecting his Divine Treasury and shackles, she ordered a long list of materials, which Chu Qing tasked Zuo Yan, Zuo Qianqiu, and Sima Zhao with gathering.

• Zuo Yan and Zuo Qianqiu told Chu Qing that the great families controlled the capital’s top blacksmiths, while the Martial Academy’s prodigies refused to help.
• Chu Qing decided to forge the Primordial Chaos himself and had Zuo Yan and Zuo Qianqiu obtain a huge furnace for refining black gold.
• The Thought Bead grew hot, and Chu Qing fed it Spirit and Energy until the Princess Consort emerged from it.
• The Princess Consort studied the Primordial Chaos design, Divine Treasury, and shackles, then requested several hundred types of materials for forging.
• Chu Qing ordered Zuo Yan, Zuo Qianqiu, and Sima Zhao to gather every listed material within a day, despite their warning that the trades would be costly.

Chu Qing ordered Sima Zhao, Zuo Qianqiu, and Zuo Yan to gather precious resources, but Zuo Yan’s demand that the other prodigies surrender theirs for free sparked a confrontation. As the prodigies united against her, Chu Qing left his discussion with the Princess Consort to handle their outrage.

• Chu Qing instructed Sima Zhao, Zuo Qianqiu, and Zuo Yan to obtain the materials he needed, regardless of cost.
• The three found four-fifths of the resources in the Martial Academy’s reserves and plundered stores, so Zuo Yan called the prodigies together to demand the rest.
• The prodigies refused to hand over their precious resources for free, and Zuo Yan drew her sword and challenged one of them.
• More than a thousand prodigies united against Zuo Yan, while Sima Zhao and Zuo Qianqiu stopped her from attacking them.
• Chu Qing heard the commotion while discussing Martial Dao Primordial Unity with the Princess Consort and went to handle the prodigies’ anger.

Chu Qing killed dozens of Heavenly Prides who confronted him, then fled as more than a thousand pursued him out of the Great Gan Empire and into the desert. Golden Cicada offered to hold off the pursuers, while hoping the rescue would make Chu Qing feel indebted to him.

• Ding Shuang taunted Zuo Yan and the others, but Chu Qing appeared and began pulling off the heads of the Heavenly Prides around them.
• The surviving Heavenly Prides attacked Chu Qing together, but he fought back, injured several, and retreated rather than face them head-on.
• More than a thousand Heavenly Prides chased Chu Qing out of the Imperial Capital, while the city’s aristocratic families celebrated his predicament and spread news of the pursuit.
• Chu Qing ran for hours into the great desert, striking back whenever pursuers drew near.
• Golden Cicada offered to hold off Chu Qing’s pursuers, but Chu Qing dismissed him and kept running.
• Golden Cicada prepared to intervene, imagining that saving Chu Qing would earn his gratitude and restore his own standing in the martial world.

A Daoist evaded a huge group of young martial artists hunting Chu Qing, who led them across many empires as they pursued him for twenty days. Most gave up the chase, but more than two hundred determined pursuers followed Chu Qing into Craggy Mountain, where one of them sensed danger.

• A Daoist pointed Chu Qing’s pursuers toward the Chimon Empire and resumed planting trees after they mocked his age.
• More than a thousand youths tracked Chu Qing through the Chimon Empire, Wu, Yue, and other lands ravaged by the Millennial Calamity.
• After twenty days of pursuit, the group argued over whether to keep chasing Chu Qing or return and pursue the New Realm.
• Most of the pursuers turned back toward the Great Gan Empire, leaving a little over two hundred who still wanted to kill Chu Qing.
• The remaining pursuers followed Chu Qing’s tracks into Craggy Mountain, where one sensed danger and recalled the warning that trouble was bound to come sooner or later.

Chu Qing fought more than two hundred prodigies who had formed an Army Formation, then revealed his ancient Shackle Realm armor when their giant began to pressure him. After effortlessly killing several attackers and resisting their weapons, he drove the survivors to flee.

• The prodigies surrounded Chu Qing among the stone pillars and formed a giant phantom to attack him.
• Chu Qing blocked waves of attacks and damaged the giant, but its power increased after two prodigies entered its head and joined it.
• The giant and the other prodigies trapped Chu Qing and explained that they blamed him for taking resources while they bore the consequences of looting the great clans.
• Chu Qing formed armor from tiny shackles and crushed a young woman into blood mist when she attacked him.
• Chu Qing withstood the giant's hammer and the prodigies' weapons, killed several attackers with his bare strength, and forced the survivors to flee.

Chu Qing destroyed the anomalous giant with his Divine Treasury and obtained nine white jade skulls that enhanced his awareness and scouting. He placed the skulls atop the Divine Treasury and used them to watch the surrounding area.

• Chu Qing turned back after hearing screams and saw the giant swallow fleeing heavenly prides, growing larger with each one.
• Chu Qing attacked the giant with golden threads, then used a heavenly pride’s Heart Blood to wound it and drew the giant after him.
• The giant swallowed Chu Qing, but he summoned his Divine Treasury and crushed it by pouring his Spirit and Energy into it.
• Nine white jade skulls fell from the giant, and Chu Qing discovered they increased his wisdom, let him multitask, and could scout great distances.
• Chu Qing placed the skulls atop the Divine Treasury, which supplied them with Spirit and Energy so they could watch the surroundings for him.

Chu Qing traveled toward Great Qian, sparing groups of prodigies who had once hunted him while punishing those who plotted against him. The survivors gathered into a fearful procession and eventually returned to Great Qian, treating Chu Qing as a taboo.

• Chu Qing killed more than a dozen fleeing prodigies, gathered weapons and armor, and continued toward the Great Gan Empire.
• Chu Qing passed a group of more than a hundred former pursuers and let them go, but they killed a prodigy who urged them to attack him.
• Chu Qing revealed he had observed the group and ordered them to protect his reputation, sparing them because they had eliminated the troublemaker.
• A group of injured Martial Academy prodigies told the newcomers that Chu Qing had returned and made them kill those who wanted to attack him.
• The surviving groups joined into a large procession and traveled through several empires until they returned to Great Qian.

Hundreds of prodigies returned to the Imperial Capital terrified after their failed hunt for Chu Qing, whose name became taboo among them. Chu Qing stayed in the desert with Daoist Golden Toad, explained how he survived the pursuit, and invited him to join him in the capital, but Daoist Golden Toad declined and offered to build him a safe house.

• Hundreds of prodigies raced back to the Imperial Capital and warned their families not to mention Chu Qing's name.
• The great families investigated the hunt, and the returning youths said Chu Qing had killed in response to more than a thousand Heaven-Connecting Martial Artists pursuing him.
• Chu Qing met Daoist Golden Toad in the desert and heard that he had aged after coming to understand some things.
• Daoist Golden Toad asked how Chu Qing had survived the hunt, and Chu Qing said he had run until the pursuers grew tired, then killed them as their group began to break down.
• Chu Qing invited Daoist Golden Toad to the Imperial Capital, but Daoist Golden Toad declined and offered to build him a safe house in the desert.

Chu Qing traveled from the desert to the Imperial Capital through a land devastated by the wind and snow, stopping to see how Tang Wuming had kept Stone Ridge Mountain productive. After entering the capital, he found himself watched by numerous spies and went to the martial academy to ask whether Princess Consort had gathered the materials for Hunyuan.

• Chu Qing gave Daoist Golden Toad secret teachings and more than three hundred Copper Coins for his future descendants before leaving for the Imperial Capital.
• On his journey, Chu Qing saw abandoned settlements, barren fields, and ordinary people struggling to survive the Millennial Tribulation.
• At Stone Ridge Mountain, Chu Qing learned that Tang Wuming's people used an underground canal from a hot spring to grow crops in the snow, and that Tang Wuming was building alliances with local clans.
• After soldiers reported Chu Qing's visit, Tang Wuming ordered them to answer his questions and notify him, then wrote to request more Silver Coin as he dreamed of serving Chu Qing as a great general.
• When Chu Qing entered the Imperial Capital, carrier pigeons spread news of his arrival and many spies began watching him.
• Chu Qing ignored the watchers and headed to the martial academy to find out whether Princess Consort had gathered enough materials to create Hunyuan.

Chu Qing and the Princess Consort forged the Primordial Chaos Realm with the help of her tiny clones, which assembled and inscribed a massive metal sphere. The realm was finished, but Chu Qing doubted he could swallow it.

• Chu Qing discovered that the Princess Consort had made two indistinguishable clones, then joined her in preparing to forge the Primordial Chaos Realm.
• The Princess Consort split into tiny versions of herself, and all three Princess Consorts directed the tiny workers as Chu Qing nourished the materials with Spirit and Energy.
• The tiny Princess Consorts assembled the materials, developed cicada-like wings, and secretly used their saliva to stick components together.
• After a day and night, the tiny Princess Consorts completed a metal sphere over ten meters tall while Zuo Qianqiu, Zuo Yan, and the prodigies watched in astonishment.
• The tiny Princess Consorts hammered scriptures into the sphere, then fused back into the three exhausted Princess Consorts, who told Chu Qing the realm was finished and to swallow it.
• Chu Qing looked at the enormous sphere, touched his stomach, and said he could not swallow it.

Chu Qing finished tempering the Primordial Chaos Realm and absorbed it into his body, bringing his powers and secret transmissions under effortless control. The Unique Association decided to leave him alone until he entered a new realm, while the three Princess Consorts studied his transformation.

• The Unique Association interrogated young prodigies and learned that a Princess Consort of Shi Ji Prefecture had helped Chu Qing forge his Primordial Chaos Realm.
• Young Master Tian and the Unique Association decided not to provoke Chu Qing and planned to let new-realm martial artists deal with him when he advanced.
• Chu Qing tempered the Primordial Chaos Realm until it shrank to the size of an egg, then swallowed it and unified the powers of his realms and secret transmissions.
• Chu Qing discovered that his martial arts and secret transmissions now flowed from instinct, and he imprinted each transmission onto the Primordial Chaos Realm.
• The three Princess Consorts studied Chu Qing with beams of light, and one feared that Others might capture and dissect her as martial artists had done in the past.

Chu Qing began cultivating the Wind Fire Tribulation by gathering gale wind at high altitude, while the Princess Consort accompanied him and studied the Divine Treasury. Outsiders speculated about the Princess Consort and the death of Outsider Seven Colors, and an outsider who hinted at hidden knowledge was found dead several days later.

• The Princess Consort told Chu Qing that ordinary gale wind and Earth Lung Yin Fire could work if gathered in sufficient quantity, and recommended collecting fire in drought-stricken Great Zhou.
• Chu Qing summoned the Divine Treasury and flew with the Princess Consort to twenty thousand meters, where he began tempering his body with gale wind.
• The Princess Consort examined the Divine Treasury’s skulls and wondered whether they could be refined into a strange treasure.
• Outsiders watched Chu Qing cultivate and debated whether the Princess Consort had killed Outsider Seven Colors.
• An outsider warned others not to ask about hidden matters, then was discovered dead three to five days later.