Recaps

Chu Qing revealed that Hou Jun had grown stronger through his Flesh and Blood Path teachings and drove off Qin Feifei without stopping her. Back at Peach Blossom Dock, he promised to rebuild Zhao Hongxiu’s foundation and help the women pursue ancient martial realms, leaving them eager for what came next.

• Chu Qing told Qin Feifei that Hou Jun had blocked her attack after learning the Flesh and Blood Path, and Hou Jun confirmed that one hour of cultivation had greatly increased his strength.
• Qin Feifei dismissed Hou Jun from Flesh and Blood Path gatherings and left after Chu Qing offered to teach her its mysteries.
• Chu Qing chose not to pursue Qin Feifei, warned Hou Jun not to bring trouble to him, and shared more Flesh and Blood Path teachings before Hou Jun departed.
• At Peach Blossom Dock, Chu Qing told Zhao Hongxiu and Mingyue about Hou Jun and promised to use his resources to replace Zhao Hongxiu’s old foundations with ancient martial realms.
• Chu Qing told the women that stepping into the New Realm carried risks, including the Dao Lineage Dispute and Millennial Tribulation, and offered to change their foundations in a few days.

Hou Jun gained a breakthrough after following Chu Qing’s guidance, while Chu Qing returned to the Martial Academy and gathered help to build his new cultivation route. He left the Princess Consort to rebel with the Princess and rewarded Zuo Yan for organizing assistants.

• Hou Jun cultivated Three Heads and Six Arms, grew a second head, and vowed to capture Qin Feifei for Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing returned to the Martial Academy and told Zuo Yan to find blacksmiths to help him reforge his previous realms.
• The Princess Consort explained that the Princess had rebelled after the Emperor forced her to marry Young Master Tian of the Unique Association.
• The Princess Consort went to the Underground Imperial Capital to help the Princess make dragon robes and recruit troops.
• Zuo Yan brought Zuo Family youths to assist Chu Qing, and he rewarded her with the Cang Tian Overlord Blood Law.

Chu Qing began cultivating his New Realm through an enormous ritual that consumed vast resources and transformed hundreds of strongmen into powerful materials for his new path. With the chains and the first ritual complete, he set out to finish the remaining rituals and told Zuo Yan to identify families holding the materials he needed.

• Zuo Yan oversaw the construction of hundreds of enormous chains, while the cost and lack of reaction from the secret medicines alarmed her.
• The Hou Family brought more than three hundred captured strongmen to Chu Qing, including Qin Family guards, after its conflict with Qin Feifei's lineage.
• Chu Qing used an Unorthodox Path ritual and scripture to strip the strongmen of independent thought and strengthen their bodies as materials for his Flesh and Blood Path.
• After several days, the transformed strongmen emerged over three meters tall, and Chu Qing told Zuo Yan that the method belonged to his new path.
• Chu Qing asked Zuo Yan to gather more materials and identify which families possessed the rest, then announced he was leaving to complete several rituals.

Chu Qing sent his strongmen to drag dragon-sinew chains around the Imperial Capital and toward the Liuli River as part of a plan to merge Unorthodox and Mechanical Path cultivation. He met Bai Wu of the Mechanical Path, who urged him to join the Unique Association and threatened him when he refused to commit.

• Chu Qing ordered 366 strongmen to haul his chains around the Imperial Capital and toward the Liuli River, intending to refine the chains and river into great sinews for his body.
• As the chains passed through the capital, members of the Hou and Qin families stopped fighting to watch, while Qin Feifei killed a Unique Association persuader who urged her to attack Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing rested on a chain until he sensed killing intent fifty li from the capital, then left it to meet Bai Wu in a roadside pavilion.
• Bai Wu discussed the Millennial Tribulation and Dao Lineage Dispute, while Chu Qing dismissed his claim that the world was already in chaos and blamed the remnants of the Great Emperor Era for the danger.
• Chu Qing accused the Unique Association of plotting against him, and Bai Wu invited him to join, warning that the snowy ground had room for a burial if he refused.

Chu Qing completed the first step of the Liuli Method by linking his great sinews to the Liuli River, then returned to face Bai Five and demanded that he serve him. Bai Five refused and unleashed Zero Five’s Mechanical Double Kill against Chu Qing.

• Chu Qing silently recited the scripture as chains entered the Liuli River, joining his great sinews to its water veins and completing the first step of his new realm.
• Chu Qing gained strength from the river and formed the Liuli Method, which he believed could let him control the Liuli River.
• Chu Qing headed toward the Imperial Capital as Masked Men killed his strongmen along the way.
• Chu Qing reached Bai Five’s pavilion and offered to make him the head dog beneath his banner, but Bai Five rejected him.
• Bai Five activated Zero Five’s mechanical arms, forming a divine blade and hand crossbow that attacked Chu Qing.

Chu Qing killed Bai Wu with his self-created path and left, while Bai Wu gave up on the jianghu and was buried. Young Master Tian learned of Bai Wu’s death, concluded that Chu Qing’s chains were ritual rites, and sent Bai Taipu to destroy them.

• Chu Qing defeated Bai Wu with a single Liuli Fist, destroyed the pavilion, and revealed that he had opened his own path.
• Bai Wu refused to learn Chu Qing’s path, lay down in a pit, and declared that he would leave the jianghu; the Masked Men buried him before riding away.
• Young Master Tian considered his growing control over the Great Gan Empire and planned to end the Dao Lineage Dispute before dealing with the Otherfolk.
• A minister told Young Master Tian that Chu Qing had killed Bai Wu, and the gathered officials struggled to understand how Chu Qing had overcome Bai Wu’s mechanical limbs.
• After hearing about Chu Qing’s chains and the Liuli River, Young Master Tian identified them as ritual rites and ordered them destroyed.
• Bai Taipu volunteered to lead the Chariot Cavalry Guard against the rites, while Sima Fengchang resented the assignment.

Bai Taipu led Chariot Cavalry Guards to the source of the Liuli River to remove Chu Qing’s chains, convinced that destroying the ritual would leave Chu Qing powerless. The chains resisted every attempt and ultimately struck Bai Taipu down.

• Bai Taipu visited Bai Wu’s grave and promised to ask the prince to deify him after taking control of Great Qian.
• Bai Taipu ordered his Chariot Cavalry Guards to pull the chains from the Liuli River, but even dozens of them could not move one.
• Bai Taipu ordered the guards to destroy the water eye and divert the river, but the water and chain defied their efforts.
• Bai Taipu used more than twenty visualized dragons to haul up the chain and declared he would destroy Chu Qing’s ritual.
• The chain coiled around and exploded the dragons, then lashed Bai Taipu across the chest and sent him flying.

Chu Qing celebrated completing the first stage of the Way of Mountains and Rivers, then sought the enormous supply of black gold needed to advance it. As he and Zuo Yan considered mining a dangerous deposit in the Great Zhou Empire, pain from his dragon sinew made him realize the Liuli River was involved, and he left to kill someone.

• Chu Qing told Zuo Yan that he had named his resource-intensive new martial path the Way of Mountains and Rivers.
• Chu Qing asked Zuo Yan to gather at least two hundred and six thousand tons of black gold, but she warned that neither the great clans nor the imperial family could be targeted safely.
• Chu Qing decided to mine the Great Zhou Empire's black gold deposit, despite its powerful guards and deadly famine conditions.
• Chu Qing felt pain in the dragon sinew along his spine, saw it tear through his flesh, and recognized the Liuli River's involvement.
• Chu Qing told Zuo Yan to wait while he went out to kill someone.

Chu Qing raced to the Liuli River, rescued his dragon tendons from Bai Taipu, and slaughtered the Chariot Cavalry Guards. As Bai Taipu kept resurrecting and reshaping his God-Serving Followers, Chu Qing used the battle to fuse the Eight Gods Method with the Landscape Method.

• Chu Qing sprinted from the Martial Academy to the Liuli River, smashing through city walls on his way.
• Chu Qing controlled his dragon tendons to shred Bai Taipu’s visualized dragons and fling him away, then charged through the Chariot Cavalry Guards.
• The God-Serving Followers and their warhorses resurrected and attacked, but Chu Qing crushed them with the Liuli River’s power.
• Bai Taipu returned and threatened to take Chu Qing’s head to the Unique Association, while Chu Qing taunted him about Zhuge Hei and continued fighting.
• Chu Qing tempered his Landscape Method against the repeatedly resurrecting followers, and after five minutes the Eight Gods Method began to fuse with it.

Chu Qing relentlessly pursued Bai Taipu toward the Imperial Capital, smashing through his visualized attacks and forcing him to lead the way to the Unique Association headquarters and Young Master Heaven. The chapter ended with Bai Taipu still fleeing as onlookers mistook Chu Qing’s strength for an Abnormality.

• Bai Taipu failed to revive the Chariot Cavalry Guards, then used visualized crows and flood dragons to escape with the weapons before Chu Qing shattered his creations and tore off his wings.
• Bai Taipu fled toward the Imperial Capital while Chu Qing broke free of his crimson pagoda and used vibrations through the ground to track him.
• Chu Qing destroyed Bai Taipu’s visualized creatures as he chased him, while Bai Taipu realized Chu Qing intended to use him to find Young Master Heaven and the Unique Association headquarters.
• Bai Taipu reached the Imperial Capital and sent a visualized tiger, giant, and venomous snakes against Chu Qing, but Chu Qing crushed his attacks and smashed through the city gates.
• Onlookers recognized Chu Qing as a Martial Academy powerhouse and called him an Abnormality, while Bai Taipu spat blood and continued fleeing.

Chu Qing pursued Bai Taipu through the Imperial Capital, defeating Sima Fengchang and Xu Dianke before Censor Miao trapped him in a net of fishing lines. As Bai Taipu fled to gather his valuables, Chu Qing declared he would destroy Censor Miao and summoned a dragon.

• Bai Taipu chose to flee to the Bai Family residence rather than endanger the Unique Association headquarters, but Sima Fengchang appeared and kicked him onward while Chu Qing pursued.
• Sima Fengchang unleashed his divine soul to swallow the capital’s wind and snow, but Chu Qing shattered it with a punch, forcing Sima Fengchang to flee.
• Xu Dianke confronted Chu Qing with his Ancient Martial Arts Path, but Chu Qing overwhelmed him and kicked his head off.
• Censor Miao trapped Chu Qing in a net of fishing lines and urged him to join the Unique Association while Bai Taipu gathered his valuables to escape.
• Chu Qing refused to surrender and raised his hands, roaring, “Dragon Come!”

Chu Qing refined his martial inheritances into the Way of Mountains and Rivers and defeated Censor Miao before killing Bai Taipu. The Nine Ministers protected the wounded Censor Miao and withdrew, leaving Chu Qing unable to attack them.

• Chu Qing combined the Great River Method, the Eight Gods Method, and his other inheritances into the Way of Mountains and Rivers, breaking Censor Miao's net and overpowering him.
• When reinforcements arrived, Chu Qing unleashed three hundred attacks, wounded Censor Miao, and rushed to Bai Taipu's residence.
• Chu Qing killed Bai Taipu, took the valuables she had packed, and told her that his path was the Way of Mountains and Rivers.
• The Nine Ministers refused to pursue Chu Qing and guarded Censor Miao, whose wounds would not heal.
• Chu Qing watched the group retreat without finding an opening to attack them.

Chu Qing challenged the Nine Ministers and learned that the Unique Association planned to wait for the temples and Law Net to trap him. Back at the Martial Academy, Zuo Yan found altered patterns hiding something in Bai Taipu’s Golden Silk White Jade, while Chu Qing’s Profession Slot began working again after his martial path fused with the Eight Gods Method.

• Chu Qing confronted the Nine Ministers, promised to challenge them in a few days, and left after the Minister of the Household refused a one-on-one fight.
• The Prime Minister told the Minister of the Household to wait for the temples and Law Net to rise, confident they would leave Chu Qing with nowhere to escape.
• Chu Qing inspected Bai Taipu’s valuables and let Zuo Yan keep the Golden Silk White Jade, which she recognized as bearing unusual, altered patterns.
• Zuo Yan took the Golden Silk White Jade to study its concealed secret while Chu Qing opened his Profession Slot.
• Chu Qing realized the Profession Slot had resumed working because the Eight Gods Method and secret inheritances had fused into his New Realm path, allowing the Great River Method to advance.

Chu Qing used the Profession Slot’s new guidance to advance the Great River Method by sacrificing Snake Tendons at the Liuli River. After gathering one million tendons and advancing again, he considered rewarding the young snake catcher who had collected a valuable dragon tendon.

• Chu Qing left Zuo Yan at the Martial Academy under the Princess Consort’s protection and traveled to Willow Province City to gather Snake Tendons.
• Chu Qing offered one jin of grain for each Snake Tendon, persuaded the local snake catchers to help, and took grain from noble families to fund the trade.
• Chu Qing sacrificed one hundred thousand Snake Tendons to the Liuli River, fused six dragon tendons, and received a new requirement to sacrifice one million more.
• Willow Province’s noble families considered attacking Chu Qing, but abandoned the plan after learning who he was.
• Chu Qing collected one million Snake Tendons in five days and found a dragon tendon among them, collected by the young snake catcher he had met earlier.
• Chu Qing decided he would offer the young man a top-tier secret teaching when he left, while letting him choose between that and the dragon tendon.

After returning three Dragon Tendons to the young snake catchers, Chu Qing offered each a choice between a tendon and a secret inheritance. A boy who chose a tendon tried to trade it to a noble family, which killed him; Chu Qing prepared to retrieve the treasure and invited the other two to watch.

• Chu Qing told the three young snake catchers that their three Snake Tendons were valuable Dragon Tendons and offered each one a choice between a tendon and a top-tier secret inheritance.
• The girl chose an inheritance, and Chu Qing taught her the Dragon Snake Method and secretly planted the Heavenly Court Method within it after sensing she would help him later.
• The second boy chose an inheritance, while the third took a Dragon Tendon and ran to offer it to Liuzhou Prefecture’s wealthiest aristocratic family.
• The Head of the House ordered the boy killed to keep the Dragon Tendon secret, and guards hacked him to death outside the estate.
• Chu Qing told the surviving boy and girl he would retrieve his Dragon Tendon and asked whether either wanted to follow him inside.

Chu Qing seized the dragon sinew from an aristocratic family in Liu Prefecture City and gave Tang Yiyi a chance to change her fate before returning to the Imperial Capital. He then went to confront the people in Minister of the Household’s estate, where he began by breaking through the gate.

• Chu Qing entered the aristocratic estate with Tang Yiyi and killed everyone who tried to stop him, including the Head of the House, then took the dragon sinew.
• Chu Qing explained to Tang Yiyi that he had killed the aristocrats to raise up commoners like her, and left after she told him her name and vowed to repay him.
• Tang Yiyi picked up a blade and joined the servants in taking the estate’s valuables, while the young man outside fled Liu Prefecture City and vowed to one day face an aristocratic family openly.
• Chu Qing returned to the Imperial Capital, learned from Zuo Qianqiu that the Unique Association had grown powerful, and ordered ten thousand iron pellets prepared.
• Chu Qing went to Minister of the Household’s estate, forced open the gate, and called for its occupants to come out and fight.

Chu Qing attacked Censor Miao’s estate and fought four powerful officials, killing the Internal Historian and the Minister of the Household despite being pierced through the heart. He still faced the Minister of the Imperial Clan and the Minister of Protocol as the battle continued.

• Chu Qing slaughtered the God-Serving Followers guarding the estate and entered the main hall, where Censor Miao waited with four officials.
• Chu Qing announced that he had come to kill, find the Unique Association’s headquarters, and learn more, but the female Minister of Protocol ordered the officials to attack.
• Jiang Wei, Tian Fei, Tian Wuqing, and Huang Wuji unleashed attacks from their respective paths against Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing countered the officials’ attacks, crushed Tian Wuqing, and seized Jiang Wei despite Huang Wuji’s spear piercing his chest and exploding his heart.
• Chu Qing crushed Jiang Wei’s head while Tian Fei and Huang Wuji remained alive.

Chu Qing survived Huang Wuji’s devastating Thunderfire attack and dragged Censor Miao into the flames. He challenged Huang Wuji to save the man she had left to burn.

• Chu Qing killed the Minister of the Household, the Internal Historian, and the Minister of the Imperial Clan, then recovered from his pierced heart as twelve chains rebuilt it.
• Huang Wuji offered Chu Qing a place in the Unique Association, but he refused and attacked her.
• Huang Wuji revealed her Mechanical Thunderfire Grotto-Heaven Path and unleashed two shells and a barrage of mechanical attacks on Chu Qing.
• Believing Chu Qing dead, Huang Wuji and the onlookers celebrated while Censor Miao approached the burning crater.
• Chu Qing’s chain seized Censor Miao and dragged him into the flames, and Chu Qing shouted for Huang Wuji to come save him.

Chu Qing survived Huang Wuji’s thunderfire, killed her, and forced the New Realm spectators to submit. He returned to the Martial Academy with a captive who would lead him to the largest temple.

• Chu Qing emerged unharmed from the fire pillar and savagely defeated Huang Wuji, tearing apart her mechanical body.
• Huang Wuji begged for her life and told Chu Qing that temples were common in the Imperial Capital, but he crushed her head anyway.
• Chu Qing demanded that someone take him to the largest temple, then chased down and killed fleeing spectators until one agreed.
• Chu Qing broke the captive’s legs, carried him back to the Martial Academy, and ordered someone to bring the iron pellets.
• Zuo Qianqiu and Zuo Yan welcomed Chu Qing back and questioned the towering captive he called cannon fodder.

The Unique Association’s leaders debated Chu Qing’s attacks while Young Master Heaven urged them to join the temples’ law net. The Emperor focused on expanding the Fire Pits and copying Chu Qing’s Mountain Water Path, secretly planning to use the next ten years to eliminate his rivals.

• Young Master Heaven dismissed the deaths of the Unique Association’s officials and Temple Servants, telling the survivors to visit temples and become Temple Servants.
• The Prime Minister warned the surviving Three Dukes and Nine Ministers to secure a place in the expanding divine-demomic law net, and they went to worship at temples.
• The Emperor ordered more people sent to light Fire Pits in the forbidden zone, despite the otherkin’s warning that the cost would be severe.
• The otherkin explained that Chu Qing had created the Mountain Water Path by refining mountains and rivers, and the Emperor ordered people to occupy the Empire’s remaining rivers.
• The Emperor privately declared that he would use ten years to destroy the otherkin, New Realm martial artists, and other threats, including Chu Qing if he refused to obey.

Chu Qing entered a temple hoping to obtain Incense Iron Pills, but its demon gods tried to make him and his companions submit. He destroyed their statues and declared a pile of iron pills to be a god, ordering the transformed believers to worship it.

• Chu Qing entered the crowded temple, killed a robed man who tried to warn him, and told the priests that the believers were his property.
• Zuo Qianqiu and Zuo Yan fell under the temple’s influence and nearly worshipped the statues, but Chu Qing jolted them awake by hurling a believer at Zuo Qianqiu.
• The demon gods accused Chu Qing and sent half-human, half-serpent creatures to attack him, while the priests retreated.
• Chu Qing destroyed the temple’s three statues, smashing the creatures and tearing apart the statues’ streamers.
• Chu Qing tossed more than ten thousand iron pills onto the Divine Seat and ordered the transformed believers to kneel and worship them as gods.

Chu Qing forced monsters and believers to worship iron pills, then ate enough incense-infused iron to advance his Great River Method and prepare for a new ritual. Meanwhile, Great Zhou’s Ninth Prince arrived, but after hearing Chu Qing’s name, he asked Young Master Heaven to choose someone else to replace him.

• A priest challenged Chu Qing’s claim that iron eggs were gods, then submitted and led the other priests in forcing the monsters to worship them.
• Zuo Yan and Zuo Qianqiu punished monsters that resisted, while Chu Qing demanded more believers and incense offerings and killed priests who tried to flee.
• Believers came to worship the iron pills, allowing Chu Qing to eat incense-infused iron until his Profession Slot advanced and his strength surged through his connection to the Liuli River’s iron chains.
• Chu Qing saw that his next Great River Method promotion required one hundred thousand iron pills and ten thousand jin of incense-infused molten copper, and he asked Zuo Yan and Zuo Qianqiu to gather the materials.
• The Three Dukes and Nine Ministers agreed to let Great Zhou’s Ninth Prince seize the temple and believers from Chu Qing, while Young Master Heaven complained to the prince about Chu Qing.
• After Young Master Heaven named Chu Qing, the Ninth Prince said he knew him and asked Young Master Heaven to choose someone else.

The Ninth Prince of Great Zhou, Feng Jiutian, met Chu Qing at the Liuli River and swore that he had fused only two paths, changing the river and Chu Qing’s related methods. He said he had come to make friends rather than oppose Chu Qing, and the chapter ended with him reflecting on the gulf between their achievements.

• Young Master Heaven tried to recruit the Ninth Prince to deal with Chu Qing, but the Ninth Prince rejected the plan and decided to inspect Great Qian’s Imperial Capital.
• The Ninth Prince saw Chu Qing receiving worship in a temple and recognized him, while Chu Qing sensed the Ninth Prince’s Witnessing Art and went to meet him outside the city.
• At the Liuli River, Feng Jiutian introduced himself as the Ninth Prince of Great Zhou and said he had fused two paths.
• Feng Jiutian swore by the Liuli River that he was telling the truth, causing the river, the Way of Mountains and Rivers, and the Great River Method to grow more powerful.
• Feng Jiutian told Chu Qing he intended to join the Unique Association but would not oppose him, and said he wanted to follow someone as formidable as Chu Qing.

Chu Qing tested the Liuli River’s response to oaths, strengthened his allies, and advanced the Great River Method by meeting its sacrifice requirement. He returned to the Martial Academy while arranging to find ten Temple Servants for his next promotion.

• The Ninth Prince agreed to share intelligence on the Unique Association with Chu Qing in exchange for future opportunities and asked Chu Qing to rescue him if he faced danger.
• Chu Qing had Mingyue, Zhao Hongxiu, and Peach Blossom Dock’s people swear oaths before the Liuli River, but the river showed no reaction.
• Zuo Qianqiu and Zuo Yan also swore oaths; afterward, Chu Qing gave Zuo Yan the White Jade Supreme Method and Zuo Qianqiu the Yin Son of Heaven Method.
• After swallowing enough iron, copper, and gold to satisfy his conditions, Chu Qing advanced the Great River Method to level 64, increasing the growth and power of the chains reflected in his tendons.
• Chu Qing sent Zuo Yan to ask the Ninth Prince where the Unique Association kept its Temple Servants, then left the temple for the Martial Academy with Zuo Qianqiu as the priests and believers mourned his departure.

Zuo Yan delivered Chu Qing’s request to the Ninth Prince, who sent him information about the God-Serving Followers and the Unique Association. Chu Qing went to a temple to attack the God-Serving Followers, where they recognized him just as he threatened the priest holding him.

• Zuo Yan left Chu Qing’s message at a tavern, and a cook sent it by pigeon to the Ninth Prince.
• The Ninth Prince sent Chu Qing information about God-Serving Follower locations, Unique Association strongholds, and a possible headquarters.
• Chu Qing told Zuo Yan to seek safety in the Underground Imperial Capital if danger arose, then left the Martial Academy.
• Chu Qing entered a temple where God-Serving Follower priests were chanting scriptures and complaining about their new cultivation method.
• A priest dragged Chu Qing inside, then recognized him and asked if he had only been joking; Chu Qing said he liked joking too and proposed they crush each other’s necks together.