Recaps

Chu Qing recruited Hou Jun, Qin Feifei, and their Flesh and Blood Path experts into his growing group, then ordered everyone to destroy temples to weaken the Law Net controlled by the Unique Association. Hou Jun and Qin Feifei competed to prove their loyalty as the group set out across the Imperial Capital.

• Hou Jun arrived at the Martial Academy with Qin Feifei and several Flesh and Blood Path experts, where they joined Chu Qing's New Realm martial artists.
• Chu Qing named them all his cannon fodder and explained his plan to clear out temples, which might weaken the Law Net.
• Chu Qing promised cultivation-path guidance to whoever destroyed the most temples, then went to watch over the operation from a stone tower.
• The New Realm martial artists set off to destroy temples, though most doubted Chu Qing could guide their cultivation paths.
• Qin Feifei and Hou Jun asked the Flesh and Blood Path experts to transfer their temple-clearing totals to them so they could prove their loyalty to Chu Qing.

Chu Qing ordered his followers to destroy the Imperial Capital’s temples, crippling the Unique Association’s law net and provoking the Emperor and rival experts. When enemies tried to stop Qin Feifei’s group, Chu Qing killed several powerful challengers and dared everyone in the capital to face him, leaving the temple-clearing campaign underway.

• Chu Qing watched temples explode across the Imperial Capital and declared that he was beginning to clear out the Unique Association.
• Dong Fei initially destroyed only one temple, but after seeing others continue the work, he joined them and destroyed more.
• Hou Jun, Qin Feifei, and other followers destroyed temples in hopes of earning Chu Qing’s secret teachings, while the Emperor, Young Master Tian, and visiting experts ordered them stopped.
• An expert attacked Qin Feifei’s group, but Chu Qing killed him before he could finish speaking and urged his followers to continue.
• Three top experts charged Chu Qing atop a totem dragon; Chu Qing killed one and another, while the third fled into the darkness.
• Qin Feifei rallied her group to destroy every temple, and temple demolitions continued across the Imperial Capital.

Chu Qing fought hundreds of experts and awakened Gods and Devils across the Imperial Capital, while the battle wrecked the city and spawned abnormalities. The experts fled when one was consumed by his tribulation, leaving Chu Qing calling for them to stay and keep fighting.

• Chu Qing battled hundreds of experts who attacked him across the Imperial Capital, and Qin Feifei fled with her people to the Martial Academy.
• The Emperor watched the battle, while Young Master Heaven ordered the Gods and Devils to attack Chu Qing and incite factions to fight each other.
• The Gods and Devils carried experts into battle against Chu Qing, but his wounds healed quickly and he grew resistant to their techniques.
• The battle destroyed over a third of the Imperial Capital, caused factional clashes, and gave rise to increasing numbers of abnormalities.
• A Top Expert was consumed by his tribulation after fighting in a nonhuman form before ordinary people, prompting the other experts to flee.
• Chu Qing urged the fleeing experts to stay and keep fighting so they could destroy the Imperial Capital and avoid worsening the tribulation.

After a battle in the Imperial Capital, Chu Qing reflected on how much his Great River Method had improved while the empire’s enemies maneuvered around the coming collapse of Great Zhou. The Princess, already dressed in dragon robes, asked Chu Qing to help her kill her father so she could claim the throne.

• Chu Qing’s opponents withdrew after a calamity struck the Imperial Capital, and the Unique Association began rebuilding while Young Master Tian and the Emperor waited for their plans to unfold.
• The Princess planned to seize the Imperial Capital after Great Zhou fell apart and the Emperor left, while the Aristocratic Family Alliance discussed gaining thirteen top aristocratic families from Great Zhou.
• Chu Qing reviewed his recent battle at the Martial Academy and concluded that he could now withstand a large group of attackers for an hour and kill at least thirty.
• Three or four days later, the Princess Consort told Chu Qing that the Princess wanted his help killing someone and revealed that the target was her father.

Chu Qing joined the Princess’s ambush to kill the Great Gan Emperor in exchange for access to the empire’s resources. As the Emperor headed back from Great Zhou after devouring its Old Emperor, the Princess’s forces prepared to attack him at the border.

• Chu Qing accepted the Princess’s offer, while the Princess Consort and other Gifted Ones set out to negotiate with or delay the Emperor’s loyalists.
• The Great Gan Emperor gathered the Immovable Guards and twelve Gifted Ones, then flew toward Great Zhou; the Princess took control of the palace and led her elite forces to ambush him.
• The Princess questioned whether her plan was right, and Chu Qing told her he would kill whoever she named in return for resources.
• The Old Emperor of Great Zhou told his daughter to rule for three years and then fake her death and escape, while explaining that someone intended to eat him.
• The New Empress ascended the throne and signed away Great Zhou’s territory as the Great Gan Emperor swallowed the Old Emperor and departed for Great Gan.

The Great Qian Emperor celebrated swallowing the Great Zhou Emperor and planned to absorb more rulers to become the sole Great Emperor. As the group neared Great Qian, the Others secretly turned toward the Princess, while the emperor sensed danger and prepared to rely on the National Fortune to strengthen himself.

• The Great Qian Emperor declared his plans to seize the dharma net, swallow more emperors, and establish an era ruled by a single Great Emperor.
• The Others worried that the emperor’s growing power would cost them their status and force them into the forbidden zones.
• Others loyal to the Princess persuaded the group to support her, replace the emperor, or divide Great Qian, and the Others chose the Princess.
• The Great Qian Emperor privately planned to devour Chu Qing and other rivals after completing his ritual with Great Qian’s National Fortune.
• As the group approached Great Qian, the Great Qian Emperor sensed danger and suspected outsiders might be plotting to kill him.

Princess and Chu Qing prepared an ambush at Great Qian’s border to kill the Great Qian King before he could enter the empire. The attack began with a devastating barrage and multiple restraints, leaving Chu Qing watching as Princess unleashed every method she had.

• Princess warned the hidden experts that the enemy would arrive soon, and they prepared their weapons and abilities for battle.
• Consort Mei emerged from a mirror and set up a ritual altar while Chu Qing reassured the ambushers that he could hold the line.
• Princess enhanced the experts and armed herself as the Great Qian King sensed danger, reinforced the Immovable Guards, and vowed to resist the ambush.
• When the Great Qian King came within ten li of Great Qian, Princess ordered the attack, and the cannons fired more than a hundred empowered shells.
• The Great Qian King and his guards fell as their escorts vanished, while black-gold chains, arrows, divine swords, and Consort Mei’s ritual struck at them.

Princess rebelled against the Great Qian Emperor over his alliance with Gods and Devils and his plan to restore the Great Emperor Era, but his forces crushed her attack. Chu Qing stepped in to face the Emperor and vowed to kill him within ten moves.

• Princess charged into the flames with the ambushing experts, but the Great Qian Emperor emerged unharmed while she was left with half her body gone.
• The Great Qian Emperor asked Princess why she had betrayed him, and she condemned his rule and his plan to restore the Great Emperor Era.
• Princess argued that calamities in the Great Emperor Era had killed half the population and that ordinary people now lived longer, but the Emperor dismissed the common folk as mud-legged peasants.
• The Great Qian Emperor revealed that he could call on National Fortune and had defeated most of the more than a hundred attacking experts.
• Chu Qing reached the battlefield, tossed Princess aside, and used his blood qi to grind away the Emperor's power inside her.
• Chu Qing tore off his black robe and challenged the Great Qian Emperor to survive ten moves.

Chu Qing overwhelmed the Great Gan Emperor with a succession of powerful techniques, but Princess warned him that killing the Emperor while he was empowered by the Great Gan Empire’s National Fortune would bring a curse and worsen his future tribulations. Chu Qing paused, and Princess offered to kill the Emperor herself if Chu Qing crippled him.

• Chu Qing struck the Great Gan Emperor with successive attacks, tearing apart his arms and nearly piercing his forehead with one finger.
• Chu Qing revealed that his Eight Divine Hands technique was his own creation, then used techniques from Square Inch Land to destroy the Immovable Guards protecting the Emperor.
• The Great Gan Emperor summoned his heart as a shield and burned his bloodline to call upon the Great Gan Empire’s National Fortune.
• Chu Qing continued attacking after the Emperor protested that the ten moves were over, and the Emperor summoned a small dragon of National Fortune to protect himself.
• Princess rushed to stop Chu Qing, warning that killing the Emperor while he wielded National Fortune would curse Chu Qing and increase his future tribulations.
• Princess asked Chu Qing to cripple the Emperor so she could kill him herself.

Chu Qing killed the Great Gan Emperor despite Princess’s warnings, and she stopped the Emperor’s National Fortune from escaping before claiming the throne. Heaven’s world-destroying fury subsided once Great Gan’s new empress was born, leaving everyone to wonder who had dared kill the old Emperor.

• Chu Qing tossed Princess aside and declared that he would kill the Emperor regardless of National Fortune or the people of Great Gan.
• Chu Qing pierced the Emperor’s forehead and crushed his head, while Princess shattered her seal to keep the National Fortune from escaping.
• Princess declared herself Empress of Great Gan, and Heaven unleashed a calamity that terrified the empire’s inhabitants and revived Gods and Devils.
• Otherkin and Heavenly Pride resisted Heaven’s power as their strange treasures attacked the dark clouds, which then retreated when Great Gan’s new emperor was born.
• Powerful figures realized that someone had killed the Emperor before the Millennial Tribulation ended and wondered who had done it.

Empress Fengxue struggled to hold Great Gan together as hidden forces and a new emperor-devouring ritual destabilized the empire, while Chu Qing cultivated and faced signs of his second calamity. The chapter ended with him entering the Square Inch Land for another gathering.

• Empress Fengxue issued reforms, outlawed the Unique Association, and reclaimed control of the Imperial Capital and fifty-five major cities.
• Empress Fengxue discovered that self-proclaimed emperors were being killed and their followers transformed into monsters, and she suspected traitors within her ranks.
• Chu Qing gained the Emperor Slayer title after killing the Great Gan emperor and focused on cultivating the Great River Method.
• Chu Qing noticed increasingly frequent distortions around him and realized his second calamity was approaching.
• Chu Qing cast his consciousness into the Square Inch Land for the Square Inch Gathering.

At the Square Inch Gathering, Myth revealed that Moon God had died and asked the others to help avenge her, while Chu Qing volunteered to hunt down members of In the Red Dust. Chu Qing also asked how killing an emperor would affect his next calamity, then began to explain another problem he had encountered.

• Myth announced that Moon God had died in a Dao Lineage Dispute and revealed that they had secretly pledged themselves to each other.
• Myth asked the gathering to help investigate Moon God's death and named Daylight, Thousand Heart Knots, and In the Red Dust as possible targets.
• Chu Qing volunteered to find and eliminate high-ranking members of In the Red Dust, and Myth asked him to locate at least thirty empire headquarters heads.
• After Myth left, Chu Qing asked whether killing the emperor of Great Qian would affect his next calamity, and the others said they had killed many emperors without trouble.
• Chu Qing began asking the gathering for advice about something he had encountered during his last calamity.

After Chu Qing shared the scripture from his first calamity, the Square Inch Gathering members recognized its power to cleanse forbidden-zone contamination and offered treasures to help him recover its complete version. Chu Qing left to check his coordinates while Myth considered visiting him, still troubled by the Moon God’s unexplained death.

• Chu Qing sent the first-calamity scripture to everyone in the Square Inch Gathering, and Myth warned him that revealing such a valuable scripture was dangerous.
• Chu Qing said the scripture came from the Morning Star Organization and that he had shared it to fulfill its final wish, while Myth cautioned that the version was incomplete.
• Yin Tianzi, Myth, Yellow Springs, and the others offered treasures that might let Chu Qing revisit or align with his first calamity and find the rest of the scripture.
• Luo Tian warned that Chu Qing was unlikely to return to the same calamity or encounter Morning Star again, but the others insisted the scripture justified giving him treasures.
• Myth said he might visit Chu Qing and bring him a cross-region transportation treasure, though his plans depended on the Moon God.
• Chu Qing left the Square Inch Gathering and began checking his coordinates.

After receiving treasures from the Square Inch Gathering, Chu Qing began his second calamity and entered a world that appeared to be set in the past. In an Imperial Capital where ordinary people mysteriously gathered and demanded to know who he was, he proclaimed himself Emperor Liuli and challenged them.

• Chu Qing performed Myth’s coordinate ritual, then received forty treasures from members of the Square Inch Gathering, including life-substitution and calamity-escape items.
• Chu Qing realized the others hoped he would keep the Morning Star Organization’s cleansing scripture secret, and he decided to wait for the complete scripture before acting on it.
• Chu Qing chose to begin the second calamity, and space shattered around him as he arrived near a village.
• Chu Qing traveled to the Imperial Capital and suspected that the calamity took place in a historical period, but found no martial artists there.
• Chu Qing noticed that the ordinary people he had encountered along the way had inexplicably gathered in the Imperial Capital, where everyone demanded his identity.
• Chu Qing leaped onto a tall building, called himself Emperor Liuli, and threatened to wipe out everyone in the Imperial Capital.

During his second calamity, Chu Qing met a powerful woman named Liuli, who gave him a gemstone before he returned to the real world. The gemstone strengthened him and connected to the Liuli River, and Chu Qing asked Empress Fengxue to help him investigate In the Red Dust and find a larger Library Pavilion.

• Chu Qing entered Liuli’s dream world, introduced himself as Emperor Liuli, and learned that she could not retain memories of what he told her.
• Liuli showed interest in Chu Qing’s martial abilities, introduced herself as Liuli, and promised to befriend him despite calling him weak.
• As the calamity ended, Liuli gave Chu Qing a gemstone token and asked him to return; he woke with the gemstone in his hand.
• Chu Qing discovered that the gemstone strengthened his body and Great River Method, and that it was connected to the Liuli River.
• Chu Qing asked Empress Fengxue to identify ten In the Red Dust headquarters leaders and then asked where to find the empire’s largest Library Pavilion.

Chu Qing researched the Liuli Goddess and the Liuli River, then received a map of In the Red Dust headquarters from the Princess. He learned that people around the Princess were inexplicably sympathizing with the Unique Association, and planned to investigate while heading out.

• Chu Qing searched the Imperial Palace's Library Pavilion and found myths claiming the Liuli Goddess created the Liuli River and was buried within it after the mythological war.
• Chu Qing wondered whether the Azure Netherworld assets hidden in the Liuli River were in the goddess's tomb, and considered seeking her guidance on the Mountain Water Path.
• Chu Qing decided to cultivate the Great River Method instead of waiting for another calamity, but the Princess gave him a map marking twenty-two In the Red Dust headquarters.
• Chu Qing memorized the map and told the Princess he would be away for a few days, advising her to find the Unique Association's headquarters and Young Master Heaven.
• The Princess said her subordinates and even their surveillance personnel had begun sympathizing with the Unique Association and opposing her, seeming to have gone mad.

Chu Qing left the Imperial Palace to destroy the In the Red Dust headquarters in Crane City and collect high-ranking hearts for his friend. After killing the organization’s Great Gan Empire branch, he took its leader’s heart and headed for his next target.

• Chu Qing and Princess discussed the threat of madness spreading through the Imperial Palace, and Princess chose to wait for her enemies to act while Chu Qing went to help his friend.
• Chu Qing traveled to Crane City, where he found the In the Red Dust headquarters inside the City Lord's Manor.
• Chu Qing locked the gates and slaughtered the hidden New Realm experts who attacked him, leaving their hearts behind.
• The branch leader demanded to know why Chu Qing was killing them, and he explained that his friend suspected In the Red Dust had killed his beloved and wanted its higher-ups' hearts.
• Chu Qing took the branch leader's heart, destroyed the others, and left for his next target.

Chu Qing went to Yimeng Empire to deal with In the Red Dust, but found its headquarters abandoned and its members gathered at Lesser Thunder Sound Mountain. The mountain’s peaceful influence contaminated him, and after a bald emissary invited him to join the Future Cult, Chu Qing resisted by reciting Morning Star’s scripture.

• Chu Qing reached In the Red Dust’s headquarters in Yuan and learned that its experts and supplies had been moved to Lesser Thunder Sound Mountain.
• Chu Qing arrived at the mountain and was overcome by an urge to settle down, until pain at the thought of the Princess Consort made him realize something was wrong.
• Chu Qing recited Morning Star’s scripture, weakened the mountain’s influence, and saw black smoke rise from his body as signs of forbidden-zone contamination.
• Chu Qing discovered that his one hundred and eight cash coins had melted away, then decided the mountain was too dangerous to remain.
• The Four Directions Emissary invited Chu Qing to join the Future Cult and tried to persuade him to meet the Cult Leader, while Chu Qing recited the scripture and black smoke poured from him.

Chu Qing prepared to destroy Lesser Thunder Sound Mountain after its envoy tried to recruit him, while the Headless Little Giant and Red Dust forces planned to capture him. The chapter left Chu Qing heading for the mountain with a scripture assembled from Golden Toad Money as Red Dust experts lay in wait.

• Chu Qing escaped the envoy's endless persuasion and returned to Peach Blossom Dock, where he decided to attack Lesser Thunder Sound Mountain.
• Zhao Hongxiu brought Chu Qing two chests of Golden Toad Money, and he embedded the coins in a steel plate to form a scripture.
• The Headless Little Giant demanded stronger believers from the Red Dust and ordered its leaders to find and capture Chu Qing.
• The Hunchbacked Old Man agreed to ambush Chu Qing at the foot of Lesser Thunder Sound Mountain, confident he could capture him.
• Chu Qing carried the scripture-covered steel plate toward Lesser Thunder Sound Mountain.

Chu Qing reached Lesser Thunder Sound Mountain, where the Future God-Demon tried to ensnare him with its power, but his scripture began permanently erasing its strength. The Future God-Demon turned on the In the Red Dust experts, whose talismans began failing as white mist invaded and mutated the weaker among them.

• The In the Red Dust experts refused to accompany their old leader to capture Chu Qing, and he went down the mountain alone while the Future God-Demon watched.
• Chu Qing intercepted the old leader, who claimed to be a traitor, revealed the Future God-Demon’s presence, and begged to join him; Chu Qing spared him and headed up the mountain.
• After Chu Qing entered Lesser Thunder Sound Mountain, the old leader broke his promise and fled toward the Endless Sea, while Chu Qing noticed the money embedded in his steel plate beginning to melt.
• The Future God-Demon tried to persuade Chu Qing to stay, but Chu Qing chanted the scripture of Morning Star, and its Golden Light permanently ground away some of the demon’s power.
• The Future God-Demon ordered the In the Red Dust experts to capture Chu Qing, but they refused and discussed dissecting it; the demon sent white mist at them, breaking weaker experts’ talismans and causing them to mutate.

Chu Qing fought through the white mist on Lesser Thunder Sound Mountain and arrived at the summit, where In the Red Dust’s experts were battling the Future God-Demon. He confronted the God-Demon over the attempt to influence his thoughts and ordered him to kneel.

• Chu Qing used the Qi Ming Star scripture to empower the steel plate, repel the white mist, and destroy the monsters attacking him as he climbed the mountain.
• At the summit, In the Red Dust’s experts fought the monsters and the Future God-Demon, who demanded that they capture Chu Qing in exchange for their lives.
• The experts burned their Spirit and Energy to attack the Future God-Demon, but they began to succumb to the monsters and white mist.
• Chu Qing’s steel plate burst into the hall, burning monsters to ash and forcing the white mist to retreat as he entered.
• The Future God-Demon demanded that Chu Qing submit, but Chu Qing accused him of manipulating his thoughts and ordered him to kneel.

Chu Qing overwhelmed the injured Future God-Demon, using scriptures and Golden Toad Money to prevent its escape before studying its regenerative abilities. The Future God-Demon was left captive and broken, clinging only to its threats of future revenge.

• Chu Qing battered the Future God-Demon with powerful strikes, shattered its knee, and forced it to kneel.
• The Future God-Demon swallowed the white mist and thousands of tiny monsters to heal its wounds, but Chu Qing attacked it with a scripture-inscribed steel plate and Golden Toad Money.
• The Future God-Demon severed its connection to Lesser Thunder Sound Mountain and tried to flee, but Chu Qing pinned it down and broke its limbs again.
• Chu Qing dissected the Future God-Demon and studied its complex body and tiny healers, connecting their methods to the New Realm, martial arts, and the Unorthodox Path.
• The Future God-Demon vowed revenge, but Chu Qing slapped it repeatedly until it gave up, and Chu Qing admitted he had acted out of habit.

Chu Qing studied the Future God-Demon, obtained the Future Daylight Scripture, and learned that his Profession Slot required ten Sons of God and Demon for promotion. After collecting a heart from In the Red Dust’s new leader, he prepared to return to the Martial Academy with the organization’s experts as his cannon fodder.

• Chu Qing and the New Realm experts dissected the Future God-Demon, learned the complete Future Daylight Scripture, and developed numerous secret inheritances.
• The Future God-Demon described waking on an altar amid ruined mechanical structures, then died after Chu Qing erased its consciousness and its remains turned to ash.
• Chu Qing’s Profession Slot recorded the Future Daylight Scripture and listed ten Sons of God and Demon as its promotion ritual materials.
• Chu Qing learned In the Red Dust’s leader had gone to capture him and been killed, so he ordered the experts to choose a replacement and took the new leader’s heart.
• After gathering ten hearts from In the Red Dust’s upper ranks, Chu Qing decided to return to the Martial Academy and bring the experts along as cannon fodder.

Chu Qing brought In the Red Dust’s surviving experts to guard the Liuli River, while the Human World’s leaders argued over whether to resist him or pledge themselves to him. After learning that Chu Qing had already cleared out In the Red Dust headquarters across several empires, the neutral faction urged them to consider whether they could withstand his next move.

• Chu Qing handed dozens of New Realm martial artists to Yue Manlou to patrol the Liuli River and gave them secret teachings to copy for his other followers.
• At the Great Qian headquarters, the Human World’s surrender faction argued that Chu Qing’s strength made pledging themselves to him wiser than resisting, while the war faction insisted the Unique Association would soon prevail.
• The neutral faction initially refused to choose a side and said they would stand and watch.
• A carrier pigeon brought word that all surviving experts at In the Red Dust’s Chimon Empire headquarters had pledged themselves to Chu Qing and were now guarding the Liuli River without fleeing.
• The neutral faction’s leader warned that Chu Qing had cleared out In the Red Dust headquarters in several surrounding empires and asked whether the Human World could withstand him or should become his followers.

Chu Qing returned to the Imperial Capital and learned that Princess had lost control of the Great Gan Empire as officials, soldiers, and the Unique Association turned against her. He promised to support her, planned to destroy hostile lineages, and agreed to hold the Imperial Palace while she gathered information on the Sons of God and Demon for his ritual.

• The Human World Organization's leaders agreed they would surrender to Chu Qing and rebel against the Unique Association if he came to them.
• Chu Qing returned to the Imperial Capital, halting the city's conspiracies, and Princess contacted him for help.
• Princess told Chu Qing that her officials, soldiers, and Imperial Guards had defected, while the Unique Association had resumed building temples and demanded she give the throne to an infant with imperial blood.
• Chu Qing explained that great lineages sought to exploit the Millennial Tribulation to seize resources and power, then assured Princess he would support her rule.
• Chu Qing urged Princess to wipe out the lineages opposing her and asked her to gather information on the Sons of God and Demon for his ritual.
• Chu Qing said he would rest in the Imperial Palace and hold the fort for the next few days.