Recaps

Chu Qing abducted over a thousand God-Serving Followers for sacrifice, leaving the temples empty and the Imperial Capital in turmoil. Young Master Heaven sent the old Prime Minister to kill Chu Qing and retrieve the missing followers, while the old Prime Minister feared he would not return.

• Chu Qing forced ten God-Serving Followers to go with him and sacrificed them by the Liuli River, then worked through the night to continue sacrificing followers.
• Believers found temples empty and their gates shut, while the Unique Association learned that over a thousand God-Serving Followers had vanished overnight.
• The old Prime Minister recognized Chu Qing as the likely culprit but kept quiet, hoping to avoid being sent after him.
• After others stepped back, the old Prime Minister was chosen to lead an expedition against Chu Qing, and Young Master Heaven gave him twenty experts and several hundred God-Serving Follower cannon fodder.
• Sima Fengchang and other elders saw off the old Prime Minister, who lamented being sent away to be optimized; Sima Fengchang told him that foreign superhumans would soon face the same fate.
• The old Prime Minister learned that the Grand Commandant had been killed in fewer than a hundred moves by the new Censor and that a new Grand Commandant would take office the next day.

Chu Qing continued cultivating beside the Liuli River when former Prime Minister Yue Manlou arrived and defected to him by slaughtering the Unique Association’s forces. At the Unique Association headquarters, Young Master Tian learned of the betrayal and ordered Yue Manlou’s supposed family to be found and killed.

• Chu Qing cultivated beside the Liuli River and considered how to develop the Mountain Water Path.
• Yue Manlou arrived with Dao Soldier Path experts and God-Serving Followers, then declared he had come to kill them as a pledge of allegiance to Chu Qing.
• Yue Manlou used his moon technique to destroy the God-Serving Followers and the assembled Dao Soldiers.
• A messenger told Young Master Tian that Yue Manlou had betrayed the Unique Association and slaughtered its people.
• Young Master Tian killed the messenger for making too much noise and ordered Yue Manlou’s family to be found and executed.

Yue Manlou defected from the Unique Association to Chu Qing, who ordered him to guard the Liuli River while heading toward the Imperial Capital. The Association planned to kill Yue Manlou and enlist Sima Fengchang to persuade him to return, leaving Sima fearing that he, too, would have to defect to Chu Qing.

• Yue Manlou explained that he had defected because Chu Qing’s enemies died and Young Master Tian intended to optimize him, then advised Chu Qing to grow stronger and gather followers.
• Yue Manlou offered to serve Chu Qing, who told him to call him Sir and ordered him to guard the Liuli River.
• The Unique Association seized and beheaded thousands of Yue Manlou’s followers, then decided the new Grand Commandant should kill Yue Manlou before they dealt with Chu Qing.
• Young Master Tian ordered Sima Fengchang to visit Yue Manlou and persuade him to betray Chu Qing in exchange for a place in the Association.
• Sima Fengchang realized that Young Master Tian might eventually kill him and feared his family would be taken, leaving him wondering whether he should defect to Chu Qing.

Sima Fengchang met Yue Manlou by the Liuli River, debated whether to join Chu Qing, and returned home without carrying out Young Master Heaven’s orders. As Young Master Heaven worshiped the Undefeated Demon God and Chu Qing pursued his next Great River Method condition, Zuo Yan revealed that the Golden Silk White Jade was a box whose key Chu Qing possessed.

• Sima Fengchang told his family to flee if he had not returned by nightfall, then went to meet Yue Manlou at the Liuli River.
• Yue Manlou urged Sima Fengchang to pledge allegiance to Chu Qing, and after a long debate Sima Fengchang returned home without bringing back either Yue Manlou’s or Chu Qing’s head.
• Young Master Heaven entered a secret chamber, worshiped the Undefeated Demon God, and cultivated the Undefeated Scripture.
• Chu Qing learned that advancing Great River Method 102 required him to deduce ten four-trait secret transmissions and decided to study the Heavenly Court Method and the Yin Son of Heaven Method.
• Zuo Yan told Chu Qing that the Golden Silk White Jade was a box and that he had its key.

Chu Qing and Zuo Yan opened the Golden Silk White Jade box with the original Eight Divine Hands and discovered ancient books inside. The diary revealed that Azure Netherworld’s sealed resources lay in Liuli Mansion at Liuli River, prompting Chu Qing to set out for the treasure.

• Zuo Yan deciphered the box’s hidden message, and Chu Qing opened it by performing the original Eight Divine Hands.
• Chu Qing read an ancient diary identifying its owner as a member of Azure Netherworld, a super sect destroyed by 172 Great Emperors during the early Great Emperor Era.
• Chu Qing learned that Azure Netherworld’s resources were sealed in Liuli Mansion at Liuli River, where an ancient alien still slept, and that visitors should take the treasure and leave.
• Chu Qing decided to go to Liuli River, while Zuo Yan studied ritual methods in the other book.
• Chu Qing examined the rituals and realized they could help improve his Way of Mountains and Rivers and Great River Method.

Chu Qing studied Zuo Yan’s ritual tome, sent Consort Mei instructions for the Unorthodox Path, and searched the Liuli River for Liuli Mansion without success. Seeking a way to deduce secret transmissions with four traits, he learned Yue Manlou could use the Law Net to awaken Gods and Devils for him to observe.

• Chu Qing and Zuo Yan studied the ritual tome for a day and night, and Chu Qing gained a deeper understanding of the Great River Method.
• Chu Qing had Zuo Yan copy the Unorthodox Path ritual and send it to Consort Mei in the Underground Imperial Capital.
• Chu Qing visited Yue Manlou at the Liuli River, sensed the waters, and found no trace of Liuli Mansion.
• Chu Qing tried to deduce secret transmissions with four traits, but Square Inch Land judged his knowledge and foundation insufficient.
• Yue Manlou proposed observing Gods and Devils to derive secret transmissions and revealed he could use the Law Net to awaken them ahead of time.

Chu Qing and Yue Manlou tracked a weakened God and Devil to a temple in the Imperial Capital, where Chu Qing prepared to study the awakening deity. The God and Devil revived amid terrified priests, but Chu Qing remained in control and reprimanded it for breathing too loudly.

• Yue Manlou explained how the law net worked, and he and Chu Qing located a temple in the Earth Tower in the Tenth Ring.
• Chu Qing forced a Blacksmith Shop to forge dissection tools, then killed everyone inside after they completed the work.
• Yue Manlou used his trace of law-net authority to prompt the God and Devil statue in the temple to awaken.
• Chu Qing ordered the priests to close the doors and light candles, then arranged his tools while the statue began to grow flesh.
• A priest celebrated the God and Devil's awakening, and Chu Qing killed him as the deity continued to revive.
• Chu Qing told the awakening God and Devil to be quieter, leaving it shocked that someone had scolded it in its own temple.

Chu Qing subdued and dissected Gods and Devils to study their bodies, while the God-Serving Followers and the Unique Association reacted to his actions. As the Gods and Devils grew stronger with each encounter, Chu Qing recognized that their power was recovering and turned his attention to improving his own strength through secret inheritances.

• Chu Qing forced the God-Serving Followers to hold down Gods and Devils while he dissected him, then tested what happened when a follower consumed the creature's flesh and blood.
• Chu Qing went to another shrine at dawn and dissected another God and Demon, while Yue Manlou watched the followers submit to him.
• Young Master Tian focused on cultivating the Undefeated Scripture, and the new Censor, Prime Minister, and Grand Commandant decided to use Chu Qing's actions to replace Unique Association officials and let revived Gods and Devils deal with him.
• Over several days, Chu Qing studied more Gods and Devils and learned that they had varied origins and internal structures that deepened his understanding of secret transmissions.
• When later Gods and Devils fought him and proved stronger than those before them, Chu Qing realized their power was rapidly recovering and decided he needed to strengthen himself.

Chu Qing deduced hundreds of secret transmissions, strengthened his dragon sinews, and tried to claim the Liuli River to advance his Great River Method. His declaration failed to satisfy the Profession Slot, so he turned to building strongholds along the river, while Zuo Yan revealed she planned to become Otherfolk to help him.

• Chu Qing deduced 360 secret transmissions of the four major traits, mastered 32 dragon sinews, and expanded his control of the Liuli River.
• Chu Qing declared from a stone tower that the Liuli River belonged to him, but the Profession Slot did not react.
• The Emperor chose not to confront Chu Qing and recorded an imperial edict granting him the title of Marquis of Liuli.
• Chu Qing asked Zuo Yan to arrange people to build and guard strongholds beside the Liuli River.
• Zuo Yan told Chu Qing she was studying a Heterodox Path rite so she could become Otherfolk and help him, but Chu Qing urged her to follow the path she wanted.

Chu Qing ordered Peach Blossom Dock to build estates along the Liuli River, discovering that the construction expanded his occupation of the river. As the work spread, aristocratic families and the Unique Association chose to focus on competing for the Law Net’s authority rather than provoking him.

• Chu Qing visited Peach Blossom Dock, where Mingyue, Zhao Hongxiu, and Zhao Wuji had developed its workforce and martial artists.
• Chu Qing ordered estates built along the Liuli River to guard it, and Zhao Wuji eagerly took charge after Chu Qing promised to help improve his foundation if he succeeded.
• The Profession Slot indicated that building estates could occupy the Liuli River, and Chu Qing found that placing one every five li worked best.
• Chu Qing sent Peach Blossom Dock’s seventy or eighty thousand people to build estates across the river, drawing the attention of aristocratic families and the Unique Association.
• The aristocratic families discussed the Unique Association and the Law Net’s authority, deciding not to provoke Chu Qing.

Chu Qing expanded construction across the Liuli River to fulfill his Profession Slot condition and gained a major boost in power. At the Square Inch Gathering, Bi Luo warned him that performing the Marquis Ritual could bring on a greatly strengthened tribulation.

• Chu Qing sent Zhao Wuji to gather supplies from aristocratic families and recruit workers, and the families and nearby cities readily cooperated.
• Construction began on two thousand estates in less than a month, completing Chu Qing’s condition to occupy ten thousand miles of the Liuli River and granting him thirty-two chains and a surge in strength.
• Chu Qing saw that his next Promotion Condition required the Marquis Ritual, but its warning about unknown Title Power made him decide to ask the sect disciples at the next Square Inch Gathering.
• At the gathering, Chu Qing asked what the ritual’s warning meant, and Bi Luo explained that it could trigger his tribulation early at several times its normal strength, or make it even deadlier during a Millennial Tribulation.

Chu Qing learned about the Law Net and rejected the requirement to worship a God or Devil, then traveled to the forbidden zone to trigger his tribulation. As the Unique Association tracked his journey and temple gazes followed him through the Eternal Night Empire, he wondered whether the Law Net enabled their surveillance.

• Luo Tian advised Chu Qing to trigger his tribulation early to judge whether the Marquis Ritual was safe to use, and Chu Qing named the Unique Association as his next opponent.
• Emperor explained that the Law Net could grant immense benefits to anyone who gained its authority but required its user to worship a God or Devil; Chu Qing rejected the price.
• After the Square Inch Gathering ended, Chu Qing decided to test his tribulation by approaching the forbidden zone and gave Zhao Hongxiu and the others instructions before leaving.
• The Unique Association tracked Chu Qing across several empires and assumed he was seeking another ritual weakness they could exploit.
• In the Eternal Night Empire, Chu Qing noticed temples watching him from the sky and earth and suspected their surveillance came from the Law Net.

Chu Qing reached the forbidden zone and learned from the Morning Star guild how its contamination threatened martial artists. As he stepped from a Fire Pit toward the darkness, his surroundings froze, and he realized his personal ordeal had already begun.

• Chu Qing traveled toward the forbidden zone, feeling growing unease as he approached its Fire Pit boundary.
• A woman from the Morning Star guild invited Chu Qing to join their team and explained the dangers of contamination and how to clear it.
• Chu Qing told the guild members his name and said he had come to face his own ordeal.
• Chu Qing stepped toward the darkness, where the surrounding people and the gnashing sounds froze, revealing that his ordeal had begun.

Chu Qing joined the Morning Star members as they tried to deliver a box through the restricted zone, then single-handedly slaughtered the Evil Creatures besieging them. He continued fighting for hours while the team fed corpses into the Fire Pit, which steadily expanded.

• Chu Qing joined the Morning Star members, who did not know about the New Realm or its paths, and learned that they were escorting a box said to contain something that could save the human world.
• Evil Creatures overwhelmed the group and began extinguishing the Fire Pit, while one Morning Star member became infected and turned into a monster.
• Chu Qing intervened, killing the transformed companion and then tearing through the Evil Creatures at more than ten times the speed of sound.
• Chu Qing ordered the team to collect corpses for the Fire Pit and have some members chant scriptures to strengthen its flames.
• Chu Qing fought without stopping for ten hours as the Morning Star members transported corpses and the Fire Pit expanded many times over.

Chu Qing slaughtered millions of Evil Creatures during his calamity, then discovered that the battle and the Morning Star people had been an illusory glimpse of the past. He remembered three pages from a book called humanity’s hope for salvation and left to perform the Marquis Ritual.

• Chu Qing killed millions of Evil Creatures as the Fire Pit expanded, earning Legend Points and facing creatures whose strength rose to New Realm warrior level.
• As darkness and thousands of Great Terror auras approached, Chu Qing asked the Morning Star woman to open the box she carried.
• Chu Qing read three pages of the Golden Silk White Jade book as the Morning Star people realized they were already dead and urged him to preserve its contents.
• The scene shattered, and Chu Qing found himself outside the forbidden zone, more than five hundred meters from the nearest Fire Pit.
• Chu Qing considered the experience a possible glimpse of history and decided to return to perform the Marquis Ritual.

Chu Qing performed the Marquis Ritual, but Heaven and Earth bestowed on him the title Emperor Liuli, strengthening his power and expanding his mysterious inch of land. The Emperor welcomed the rise of potential emperors as future nourishment, while the Unique Association's leaders debated whether the Emperor would move against Chu Qing.

• Chu Qing performed the Marquis Ritual at Peach Blossom Dock with his allies and Sima Fengchang in attendance, but Heaven and Earth named him Emperor Liuli instead.
• Chu Qing's combat power rose, his inch of land expanded to twenty thousand meters, and the Great River Method became part of its deductive capacity; he then asked Zuo Yan to translate something.
• The Emperor celebrated the emergence of a new emperor, hoping that more rebels would claim the title so he could devour them, and lamented that Chu Qing lacked territory and an army.
• The Unique Association's new Three Excellencies and Nine Ministers worried that the Emperor had not acted against Chu Qing and decided they could not attack him themselves.

Chu Qing discovered that an ancient scripture drained extraordinary energy and revealed lingering contamination from the restricted zone, while his search for information about Morning Star turned up nothing. The chapter left Madam Shi questioning whether the Fire Pit could truly cleanse contamination or hold back the restricted zone.

• The Emperor ignored Chu Qing and unexpectedly favored Concubine Zu'er, whose message said he hoped more rebel Emperors would appear; meanwhile, Chu Qing gained strength and a simpler Promotion Condition by building estates along the Liuli River.
• Zuo Yan deciphered a hidden pattern as an ancient scripture, and chanting it drained her, Chu Qing, and the Princess Consort of their Spirit and Energy without any apparent benefit.
• Chu Qing wrote to Madam Shi, Nangong, Cui Moyang, and others about the scripture and Morning Star, but the Princess Consort and Zuo Yan had never heard of the organization.
• Cui Moyang received Chu Qing's letter, found no information about Morning Star, failed to discover an effect from the scripture, and reported that the Great Zhou Emperor was gravely ill.
• Madam Shi chanted the scripture and expelled black smoke from her body, revealing that the Fire Pit had not fully cleansed the restricted-zone contamination.

Madam Jin discovered that Chu Qing’s scripture cleansed hidden forbidden zone contamination, while Nangong uncovered historical records about the Morning Star Organization and prepared to enter a forbidden zone. After reading their letters, Chu Qing weighed whether to spread the scripture and learned that Nangong hoped to meet him and seek his help cultivating.

• Madam Jin and Madam Shi discussed the scripture’s ability to remove contamination that Fire Pits could not detect, and Madam Jin asked Chu Qing whether it should be shared.
• Nangong entered the New Realm on the Demon God Path, searched the Thousand Eyes Alliance’s records, found references to Qi Ming Star, and mailed a marked history book to Chu Qing.
• An old nun told Nangong to prepare to enter a forbidden zone, and Nangong agreed.
• Cui Moyang told Chu Qing she would return to the Great Gan Empire amid rumors that powerful figures would gather to seize the Dharma Net.
• Chu Qing read Madam Shi and Madam Jin’s letters, recognized the scripture’s potential importance, and postponed deciding whether to spread it.
• Nangong told Chu Qing she planned to enter a forbidden zone and asked him to leave a contactable stronghold so she could find him and seek his help cultivating.

After reading Nangong’s account of Morning Star and the mysterious box, Chu Qing learned that Hou Jun and Qin Feifei had been badly injured by a powerful figure who called himself the Abnormal Path. Chu Qing could not heal their wounds and concluded that the strange force behind them was not Abnormal Path power.

• Chu Qing read that Morning Star had vanished after discovering a beam of light sealed in a box, which could supposedly save humanity and cleanse the restricted zones; Nangong had noted that the Emperor Liuli appeared in the history book only on her second reading.
• Chu Qing set aside the history book and planned to find Tang Wuming and build a manor beside the Liuli River.
• Zuo Yan told Chu Qing that Hou Jun had arrived with Qin Feifei, who had lost both legs, and that they had a secret to tell him.
• Hou Jun explained that an opponent calling himself the Abnormal Path had defeated eighteen fighters from the Flesh and Blood Path and Mechanical Path, eaten two of them, and left injuries that would not heal.
• Chu Qing tried numerous healing techniques on Hou Jun and Qin Feifei but failed, then declared that the power preventing their wounds from healing was not Abnormal Path power.

Chu Qing identified the power in Hou Jun’s wounds as the Sacred God Path and taught him a method to resist it. After Hou Jun recovered, Chu Qing ordered him to help seize the Flesh and Blood Path while Chu Qing went out to kill people.

• Qin Feifei offered several supposed secrets to persuade Chu Qing to heal her, but he dismissed them and told Hou Jun to clear her wounds later.
• Chu Qing ordered Hou Jun to join forces with Qin Feifei and take control of the Flesh and Blood Path, killing whoever stood in their way.
• Chu Qing recognized the attacker’s power as the Sacred God Path and taught Hou Jun a modified Flesh and Blood Path technique to resist it.
• Hou Jun cultivated the technique, transformed into a three-meter-tall Little Giant with Three Heads and Six Arms, and healed his wounds after consuming several Golden Cores.
• Chu Qing told Hou Jun to follow the plan to subdue the Flesh and Blood Path, then left to kill some people.

Chu Qing headed outside the Imperial Capital to confront Yuan Qingfeng, while experts from several paths attacked the Sacred God Path cultivator. Yuan Qingfeng slaughtered them and demanded to know where Chu Qing was, intending to kill him.

• Chu Qing set out beyond the Imperial Capital to test himself against Yuan Qingfeng, as experts from the Flesh and Blood Path and Mechanical Path also headed toward the Sacred God Path cultivator.
• Yuan Qingfeng cultivated by draining divine power from a captive God and Devil, then swallowed a Strong Stab Path attacker who tried to assassinate him.
• Experts from several paths confronted Yuan Qingfeng, admitting that they feared Chu Qing too much to challenge him and deciding to attack Yuan Qing instead.
• Yuan Qingfeng transformed his body and fought the assembled experts, killing three of them while their wounds failed to heal.
• Yuan Qingfeng taunted the retreating crowd and demanded to know where Chu Qing was so he could beat him to death.

Chu Qing challenged Yuan Qingfeng, who had come to the Imperial Capital to seize a treasure and kill him, and the two fought across a vast battlefield. As Yuan Qingfeng unleashed the Gods and Devils he had held in a divine statue and devoured them, he transformed into a monstrous giant and called Chu Qing to fight.

• Chu Qing arrived in the battle and challenged the fighters who had threatened to beat him to death.
• Yuan Qingfeng declared that he planned to seize a treasure and kill Chu Qing, then accepted his challenge.
• Chu Qing and Yuan Qingfeng fought fiercely, but Yuan Qingfeng could not wound Chu Qing despite repeated attacks.
• Yuan Qingfeng released the Gods and Devils trapped in his divine statue, then swallowed them.
• Yuan Qingfeng grew to more than ten meters tall, sprouted twisted bone wings, and challenged Chu Qing again.

Chu Qing fought Yuan Qingfeng of the Sacred God Path across the Imperial Capital, using the powerful opponent to perfect his Mountain Water Path. On the fourth day, Chu Qing declared the fight was over and challenged Yuan Qing to reveal any remaining trump cards before he died.

• Chu Qing summoned a vast river formed from the foundation of an exotic treasure and clashed with Yuan Qing, who transformed into a giant wielding thirty-two divine weapons.
• The battle shook the Imperial Capital, where strange people and awakened Gods and Devils watched and debated the fighters’ strength.
• The Gods and Devils judged that Yuan Qing had captured an eighth-rank God and Devil, but one of them realized Chu Qing was using Yuan Qing as a whetstone to perfect his Mountain Water Path.
• Chu Qing and Yuan Qing fought for three days and nights as more experts arrived to watch.
• At sunrise on the fourth day, a God and Devil declared Chu Qing’s Mountain Water Path had reached Perfection, and Chu Qing demanded to know whether Yuan Qing had any trump cards left.
• Yuan Qing roared that he had come to the Imperial Capital to kill Chu Qing and claimed that no one had ever dared kill him.

Chu Qing killed Yuan Qingfeng, forced the watching clan elites to pledge their service, and led them into the Imperial Capital to attack temples and dissect Gods and Devils. He left his new followers terrified and complicit after killing Niu Dali for hesitating to dissect a God and Devil.

• Chu Qing brutally killed Yuan Qingfeng after preventing him from healing his wounds.
• Chu Qing blocked the Imperial Capital clan elites from leaving and demanded that they help him conquer the city; after he killed one resister, the others pledged to serve him.
• Chu Qing chose not to provoke the aberrants in the Imperial Capital and instead led the elites to search for temples.
• Chu Qing had Yue Manlou awaken a God and Devil, slapped it down, and ordered the elites to break its limbs.
• Chu Qing ordered Niu Dali to dissect the God and Devil, then killed him when he hesitated, forcing him to carry out the dissection.

Chu Qing’s dissection of Gods and Devils inspired the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers to dissect them as well, while Chu Qing gathered a growing force of martial artists. With his strength rising, he decided to begin purging the Unique Association’s temples.

• Outsiders welcomed Chu Qing’s attacks on Gods and Devils, while the Unique Association’s Three Dukes and Nine Ministers considered dissecting Gods and Devils to strengthen themselves.
• The Censor led the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers in attacking and studying the Gods and Devils, and Young Master Heaven urged them to stop before correcting them to call her Miss Heaven.
• The Censor explained that the Association controlled the Gods and Devils’ incense offerings, while Miss Heaven privately remembered that fully revived Gods and Devils had once overcome the Great Emperors.
• Chu Qing reflected on how his growing group of martial artists could serve as cannon fodder against the Unique Association, and noted that his Great River Method and Mountain Water Path had improved.
• Chu Qing decided to gather a little more support and then purge the temples, believing they might be the foundation of the Law Net.