Recaps

Chu Qing contacted Mythology and agreed to perform the Sky-Piercing Realm-Crossing Blood Feud Method using the hearts of ten In the Red Dust leaders. Mythology warned him that forbidden zones were expanding and asked him to help build an alliance, while Chu Qing considered using the scripture to bring powerful martial artists under his control; he ended the chapter preparing to establish his authority.

• Chu Qing told Mythology he had obtained the hearts of ten In the Red Dust leaders and asked whether to perform the ritual.
• Mythology explained that he could not travel to Chu Qing and revealed that the extermination ritual could grant gifts and let Chu Qing broadcast his name to nearby enemies.
• Mythology warned Chu Qing about the Dao Lineage Dispute and said forbidden zones were growing more corrupt and expanding toward human settlements.
• Mythology asked Chu Qing to delay widely spreading the Morning Star Organization's scripture so they could unite powerful martial artists against the forbidden zones.
• Chu Qing considered using the scripture to control top-tier powerhouses, exchanged plans and cultivation insights with Mythology, then prepared to establish his authority.

Chu Qing planned to purge In the Red Dust to establish his authority, and Empress Fengxue announced that he would do so in three days. As the news spread and alarmed the empires, the Third Generation Dukes and Nine Ministers expected In the Red Dust to send experts against Chu Qing and planned to use the conflict to strengthen the Unique Association.

• Chu Qing told the Princess he intended to purge In the Red Dust, and she agreed to announce the purge for three days later.
• Empress Fengxue spread the news that Chu Qing would kill every member of In the Red Dust, provoking widespread disbelief and concern across the empires.
• The Princess reassured her worried subordinates and told them to stay alert to possible control attempts.
• At the Unique Association headquarters, the Ninth Prince worried about Chu Qing while the Third Generation Dukes and Nine Ministers discussed the coming purge.
• The Third Generation Censor said In the Red Dust would send experts to suppress Chu Qing, and the Third Generation Dukes and Nine Ministers planned to exploit the conflict to replenish the Unique Association.

The Five-Colored Empire's In the Red Dust headquarters sent four outsiders and a hundred experts to punish Chu Qing for destroying its branches. As they arrived, Chu Qing began the ritual given to him by his friend Myth, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• The Five-Colored Empire's In the Red Dust leaders learned Chu Qing had destroyed ten branches and dispatched four outsiders and a hundred experts to kill him.
• The Unique Association prepared to seize the Great Gan Empire after Chu Qing's expected death, while outsiders from nearby empires awaited the Gods and Devils net.
• An old man from In the Red Dust boarded a ship bound for another continent and gloated that he had escaped Chu Qing.
• The Princess prepared the finest ritual materials, and Chu Qing placed ten hearts on the altar.
• Chu Qing sensed the arriving In the Red Dust forces, told the Princess his friend was called Myth, and activated the ritual.

Chu Qing activated Mythology’s ritual, unleashing a remote killing force that wiped out members of In the Red Dust across more than three hundred empires. The ritual continued to spread as his name became known among powerful figures, though few knew who he was.

• Chu Qing prepared the ritual, and outsiders around him received warnings that their distant headquarters had sensed a Great Terror.
• An outsider rushed to kill Chu Qing as he expelled his vital blood, but the ritual activated and killed the attackers in a series of bizarre explosions.
• The sandalwood incense turned scarlet as the ritual spread to In the Red Dust members across the Five Colors Empire and killed them.
• The ritual reached an In the Red Dust elder aboard a ship at sea, and he drew a divine weapon before a red lotus appeared in someone's eye.
• Members of In the Red Dust across more than three hundred empires died as blood-colored lotuses, spreading the voice, “Killer—Chu Qing!”

After Chu Qing’s ritual erased In the Red Dust across more than three hundred empires, his name spread through more than a thousand empires and sparked fear and a scramble for ritual knowledge. The Unique Association decided to ambush him once he left the Imperial Palace, while Chu Qing smiled over the unexpected benefits he had gained.

• At Mythology’s headquarters, the young Mythology thanked Chu Qing for avenging Moon God and saving him from In the Red Dust.
• News of In the Red Dust’s sudden destruction spread across more than a thousand empires, prompting factions to investigate rituals and their countermeasures.
• Outsiders speculated about Chu Qing’s backing, but their divinations found that he stood alone.
• At the Unique Association’s headquarters, Young Master Tian reassured the Third Generation Dukes and Nine Ministers, then left to focus on the Undefeated Scripture.
• The twelve leaders of the Unique Association planned to kill Chu Qing when he left the Imperial Palace, where the Empress could no longer control the National Fortune.
• Chu Qing smiled in the Imperial Palace because the ritual had brought him far greater benefits than he expected.

After clearing In the Red Dust, Chu Qing gained the Absolute Kill title and discovered that ruby-like sandalwood incense could extend calamities. He learned that the third-generation ministers planned to attack him, then infiltrated the third-generation Censor’s banquet, where his identity was revealed.

• Chu Qing gained the Absolute Kill title, collected sandalwood incense, and learned its powers, including extending a calamity when lit.
• Princess told Chu Qing she had secured the Imperial Palace, and he offered to lend her experts he had subdued in the Chimon Empire.
• Chu Qing received intelligence that the third-generation ministers planned to move against him and studied information on their residences and cultivation paths.
• Chu Qing announced he would return to the Martial Academy, then secretly left the Imperial Capital to target the third-generation Censor’s residence.
• At the Censor’s banquet, the Censor declared that his faction would kill Chu Qing and join the Gods and Devils' Law Net, while Chu Qing ate without joining the flattery.
• The Ma Lineage attendant identified the quiet guest as Chu Qing and reported it to his master.

Chu Qing killed the third-generation censor and three Mechanical Path experts in seconds, then attacked the Thunderfire Path. When the God-Demon Path ministers rushed to support them, the third-generation Prime Minister fled after seeing the Internal Historian cut in half.

• The third-generation censor taunted Chu Qing at a banquet, but froze when he recognized him and summoned allies with a roar.
• Chu Qing ripped out the censor’s mechanical heart and destroyed it, then killed three more Mechanical Path experts in a three-second fight.
• Chu Qing vanished toward the God-Demon Path after defeating the Mechanical Path’s four great experts.
• The third-generation Prime Minister and his companions debated whether to support the Censor or join the Thunderfire Path, then hurried to the Thunderfire Path when its battle began.
• The Internal Historian charged into the battle and Chu Qing split him in two, while the third-generation Prime Minister transformed his body into a chariot and fled.

After the Unique Association’s Third Generation Grand Officials died, new experts flocked to rebuild it and accelerate the God-Demon Law Net, alarming the Princess. Chu Qing reassured her, sought information about God-Demon Children, and agreed to meet the Ninth Prince of Great Zhou at the source of the Liuli River.

• Young Master Heaven told the Unique Association’s remaining members that its setbacks were tribulations and that new experts would take the vacant posts, though some members fled before dawn.
• New experts arrived in the Great Qian Imperial Capital, fought among themselves for positions, and then pushed the Unique Association to build shrines and force ordinary people to worship gods and demons for the Law Net.
• The Princess suspected the Law Nets of other empires were ritual materials for a powerful network centered on Great Gan, but Chu Qing said they lacked the resources to purge the Association and urged her to focus on her own affairs.
• Chu Qing asked the Princess to contact the Ninth Prince of Great Zhou and learn what God-Demon Children were, since he wanted ten of them to advance his Future White Day Scripture.
• The Fourth Generation Dukes and Ministers arrived, and the Unique Association grew more powerful without invading the Imperial Palace again.
• The Princess told Chu Qing that the Ninth Prince wanted to meet him at the source of the Liuli River; Chu Qing accepted, and she offered to use the National Fortune if he encountered danger.

The Ninth Prince warned Chu Qing that the Gods and Devils Law Network would be completed through sacrifices, including the Chimon Emperor, and asked him to flee. Chu Qing instead planned to stop the ritual and sought ten God-Demon Children, leaving the Ninth Prince warning that they were nearly impossible to obtain.

• The Ninth Prince secretly met Chu Qing and revealed that princes and princesses carrying National Fortune were intended as sacrifices for the Gods and Devils Law Network.
• The Ninth Prince said Miss Heaven had warned him that the Chimon Emperor would also be sacrificed when he entered the Imperial Capital of Great Qian.
• Chu Qing proposed killing the Chimon Emperor with help from Miss Heaven and the Empress of Great Qian, while also clearing temples and possibly seizing the Law Network's authority.
• The Ninth Prince explained that God-Demon Children were born through vessels carrying a god or devil's bloodline, and that New Realm god devotees were the likeliest vessels.
• Chu Qing asked for ten God-Demon Children, and the Ninth Prince urged him to flee because obtaining them would be even harder than killing the Chimon Emperor.

Chu Qing and the Ninth Prince captured a New Realm God-Worshipper and used a scripture ritual to make him give birth to a Son of God and Demon. The newborn emerged as the Thousand-Eyed God King, while Chu Qing remained unaffected by its first cry.

• Chu Qing persuaded the Ninth Prince to help him find a New Realm God-Worshipper so they could obtain a Son of God and Demon.
• The Ninth Prince led Chu Qing to a newly built temple, where the God-Worshippers revealed that their New Realm leader was in the basement.
• The New Realm God-Worshipper tried to escape, but the Ninth Prince subdued him with nine visualized dragons.
• The Ninth Prince forced the temple's Third Limit God-Worshippers to chant a scripture, and their power transformed the captive as strange whispers filled the basement.
• A baby's first cry shattered the Ninth Prince's golden defenses, but Chu Qing was unharmed.
• The Thousand-Eyed God King tore free from the captive's belly and declared himself the Hundred-Eyed God and Demon's first son.

Chu Qing and the Ninth Prince raided temples, capturing newly born Sons of God and Demon for Chu Qing’s ritual. After collecting eight and learning that they called themselves God Kings and Demon Kings because a mysterious voice gave them those names, they reached the ninth temple, where Chu Qing faced a waiting group of experts and encountered the dangerous white-haired Wang Long.

• Chu Qing beat and sealed the first two newly born Sons of God and Demon, the Thousand-Eyed God King and the Great Red Demon King, and tied them to his waist.
• Chu Qing and the Ninth Prince visited more temples, capturing Sons of God and Demon until Chu Qing had eight and noticed they alternated between God King and Demon King titles.
• Chu Qing questioned the newly born Sons of God and Demon, who said a voice in the darkness had told them their names, but they knew nothing else.
• The Ninth Prince warned Chu Qing that the Unique Association had noticed their raids, but Chu Qing insisted they continue collecting Sons of God and Demon.
• At the ninth temple, Chu Qing found dozens of New Realm martial artists and a white-haired youth; sensing great danger from the youth, he heard him introduce himself as Outsider—Wang Long.

Chu Qing confronted Outsider Wang Long and the Unique Association’s New Realm powerhouses, then demonstrated that he could undo their God-Demon transformations. He began killing the injured fighters until one offered to become a God-Worshipper, and Chu Qing chose him to be the first to conceive a Son of God and Demon.

• Outsider Wang Long revealed that he had come to study Chu Qing’s God-Demon Children, not to fight, and explained that the New Realm God-Worshippers were all at the Unique Association headquarters.
• Chu Qing defeated Xu Ying and several other God-Demon Path fighters, forcibly reverting their transformed bodies to ordinary human size.
• The New Realm fighters retreated after realizing Chu Qing’s method countered their God-Demon transformations, while Wang Long guessed that Chu Qing had developed it by dissecting Gods and Devils.
• Chu Qing demanded three New Realm God-Worshippers and began killing the injured fighters when the others refused to provide them.
• A wounded God-Demon Path fighter offered to become a God-Worshipper and have three of his group conceive Sons of God and Demon, and Chu Qing accepted and selected him first.

Chu Qing used God-Worshippers to summon Sons of God and Demon, then prepared ten God-Demon Children to advance the Future Daylight Scripture. Meanwhile, Miss Heaven and Outsider Wang Long discussed how to summon gods and devils and seize control of the divine-demon law net.

• God-Demon Path experts became God-Worshippers to escape Chu Qing, but Chu Qing killed one with a single move and continued selecting captives for his ritual.
• Outsider Wang Long gathered low-level God-Worshippers, allowing Chu Qing to summon and subdue ten Sons of God and Demon.
• After a third Son of God and Demon, Cold Dew Demon King, was born, Outsider Wang Long took her to Miss Heaven, who wondered why Chu Qing's summons always succeeded.
• Miss Heaven suspected Chu Qing's dissections of gods and devils explained his success, then ate Cold Dew Demon King's flesh while Outsider Wang Long took her bones.
• Miss Heaven and Outsider Wang Long discussed announcing his Imperial Advisor position and his plan to seize control of the law net once it connected.
• Chu Qing began advancing the Future Daylight Scripture using ten half-dead God-Demon Children, whose bodies sparked and burned as they cursed him.

Chu Qing studied the newly initiated Future Daylight Scripture and learned its powers and costs. Zuo Yan and Consort Mei decided to enter the Restricted Zone to temper themselves, and Chu Qing prepared letters for his friends there as they set out.

• Chu Qing learned that the Future Daylight Scripture let him summon a future self, glimpse uncertain future fragments, transfer injuries, and strengthen his body, each ability carrying limits or risks.
• Chu Qing decided to seek five Sons of God and Demon to meet the first promotion condition.
• Zuo Yan told Chu Qing that she wanted to enter the Restricted Zone with Consort Mei, following the Princess Consort's advice and seeking to grow stronger.
• Chu Qing learned that Zuo Yan had refined the Bright Moon Curved Blade and that Zuo Qianqiu had entered the new realm of the Flesh and Blood Path.
• Chu Qing described the Restricted Zone to Zuo Yan and Consort Mei, told them to seek out Madam Jin and Madam Shi, and gave them letters to deliver.
• Zuo Yan and Consort Mei agreed to go, and Chu Qing said he would wait for their return.

Zuo Yan and Consort Mei entered the forbidden zone to train, where Madam Jin and Madam Shi welcomed them and began planning an expedition for an exotic flower. Meanwhile, Chu Qing asked the Princess to demand five God-Demon Children or New Realm God-Worshippers from the Unique Association, leaving her impressed by his audacity.

• Zuo Yan and Consort Mei traveled to the Eternal Night Empire, then entered the forbidden zone after learning its route from local experts.
• At the gathering place, Madam Jin and Madam Shi read Chu Qing's letter and agreed to assess Zuo Yan and Consort Mei and teach them the scriptures of Morning Star.
• Madam Jin explained the forbidden zone and planned with the other three women to seize an exotic flower on their next expedition.
• The Princess continued reclaiming authority with Chu Qing's help and welcomed him when he visited her.
• Chu Qing told the Princess to contact the Unique Association and demand five God-Demon Children or five New Realm God-Worshippers with materials.

The Unique Association debated Chu Qing’s demand for God-Demon Children and agreed to trade him a half-revived Gods and Devils in exchange. Chu Qing accepted the negotiations but demanded the additional trade, leaving the association considering how to obtain even more God-Demon Children.

• The Princess sent a letter through the Ninth Prince to the Unique Association, whose Fourth Generation Grand Officials grew furious when they read Chu Qing’s demand for five God-Demon Children.
• Miss Heaven argued that Chu Qing’s success showed the value of God-Demon Children, and the officials proposed having him create fifteen so they could obtain ten.
• Chu Qing demanded a Gods and Devils that had revived by more than half in exchange for making the God-Demon Children.
• The Fourth Generation Grand Officials agreed to meet Chu Qing’s terms after the three Dukes argued that studying God-Demon Children was worth the cost.
• The Fourth Generation Grand Stablemaster proposed trading two half-revived Gods and Devils for even more God-Demon Children, and Miss Heaven praised his idea.

Chu Qing received a half-revived God or Devil from the Unique Association and used it to advance the future Daylight Scripture to proficiency. After seeing how easily he destroyed it, the ministers withdrew, while Outsider Wang Long proposed further cooperation against the God-Demon Magic Net.

• Chu Qing accepted half of Miss Heaven's proposed terms, and the Unique Association began a costly ritual to revive a God or Devil for him.
• At the Liuli River, Chu Qing made Sons of God and Demon while a furious God or Devil revived in the Imperial Capital and attacked the Unique Association's forces.
• Miss Heaven and the fourth-generation ministers suppressed the God or Devil, then carried it to Chu Qing while secretly feeding on its flesh and blood.
• Chu Qing tossed five Sons of God and Demon to the Unique Association's representatives and turned the delivered God or Devil to ash, raising the future Daylight Scripture to proficiency.
• The fourth-generation ministers fled after witnessing Chu Qing's power, and Outsider Wang Long asked Chu Qing to help slow the God-Demon Magic Net's expansion.

The Fourth Generation Grand Officials tried to flee after realizing they might become sacrifices, but the Daylight Organization placed them under house arrest. Chu Qing learned of their capture and eagerly planned to perform another ritual to cleanse the organization and strengthen his chains.

• The Fourth Generation Grand Officials discussed the God-Demon Path’s gains from the Sons of God and Demon and feared they would be sacrificed when the law network reached the Imperial Palace.
• The Fourth Generation Grand Officials packed their specimen and Sons of God and Demon and attempted to escape, but white-robed members of the Daylight Organization blocked them.
• Chu Qing promoted the Future Daylight Scripture, gaining improved abilities that let him summon two future selves for one minute each month or one for two minutes.
• Chu Qing collected the black-gold tools left behind by Outsider Wang Long and sent them to the Martial Academy.
• The Ninth Prince told Chu Qing that the Daylight Organization had placed the Fourth Generation Grand Officials under house arrest and might use them as sacrifices.
• Chu Qing welcomed the news and decided to contact Myth for ritual implements so he could cleanse the Daylight Organization and increase his chains’ growth.

Chu Qing agreed to escort the Ninth Prince to the Cape of Good Hope after extracting secrets from him, including a myth about Morning Star and a fire seed that seemed connected to Chu Qing's past. As they prepared to leave immediately, a woman in white appeared, and the Ninth Prince recognized White Day.

• Chu Qing contacted Myth, who explained that the White Day members nearby were low-level and could not perform the ritual without higher-ups.
• Chu Qing offered to help the Ninth Prince resist the Net of Law, but the Ninth Prince insisted on fleeing because he was too weak to survive.
• Chu Qing demanded payment for escorting the Ninth Prince, so the Ninth Prince shared his resources and secrets about Great Zhou, the Unique Association, and Miss Heaven.
• The Ninth Prince recounted a myth in which Morning Star stole a world-illuminating fire seed and entrusted it to someone called Emperor, prompting Chu Qing to suspect a link to his own past as Emperor Liuli.
• Chu Qing agreed to escort the Ninth Prince and take a few divine weapons before leaving immediately, but a woman in white appeared and the Ninth Prince identified her as White Day.

Cui Moyang returned and reunited with Chu Qing, then joined him and the Ninth Prince as they explored the Imperial Capital. At the city gate, they encountered Unique Association God-Worshippers and two white-robed figures, and Cui Moyang stepped forward to test her Sword Immortal Path against them.

• Cui Moyang returned and embraced Chu Qing, who introduced no one but spent hours walking and talking with her.
• Cui Moyang asked whether Nangong had returned, and Chu Qing said she had gone to a forbidden zone.
• The Ninth Prince asked Chu Qing and Cui Moyang to help him escape Daylight, but Cui Moyang said she would protect him.
• Chu Qing, Cui Moyang, and the Ninth Prince walked through the Imperial Capital, where Cui Moyang saw starving worshippers and corpses beneath the snow.
• At the city gate, Unique Association God-Worshippers and two white-robed figures blocked their way, and Cui Moyang moved to fight them with her Sword Immortal Path.

Cui Moyang killed dozens of New Realm attackers and fought Daylight’s white-robed woman to a standstill, while the white-robed man challenged Chu Qing. The chapter ended as the man struck at Chu Qing with his Scarlet Hand.

• Cui Moyang used her hairpins and Sword Qi to kill several dozen New Realm powerhouses in ten seconds.
• The white-robed woman dismissed Cui Moyang and demanded that Chu Qing face her instead, but Cui Moyang attacked her to protect him.
• The woman’s snake-like mental attack overwhelmed the Ninth Prince, but Cui Moyang’s sword light broke the nine-headed snake in his consciousness.
• Cui Moyang and the white-robed woman, both practitioners of the Gods and Devils Path, fought evenly with their distinctive abilities.
• The white-robed man challenged Chu Qing to a fight to the death, then appeared before him and struck with his Scarlet Hand.

Chu Qing fought the man in white’s Scarlet Hand: Little Brahma while Cui Moyang battled his companion, the woman in white. As Chu Qing endured devastating injuries and reverse-deduced the secret transmission, a massive halo appeared around him with a Handsome Young Lad upon it.

• Chu Qing used Great River Water Comes From Heaven and Eight Divine Hands: Peacock to battle the man in white’s Scarlet Hand: Little Brahma, while the two relied on speed to avoid each other’s lethal attacks.
• Cui Moyang unleashed her Sword Pellet against the woman in white’s Nine-Headed Serpent and destroyed her, but the dimmed pellet could not defeat the man in white.
• The man in white sent his severed arm, transformed into Scarlet Hand: Little Brahma, to suppress Cui Moyang while he continued fighting Chu Qing with a regenerated arm.
• Chu Qing pushed Square Inch Land to its limit to reverse-deduce Scarlet Hand: Little Brahma as its power stripped away most of his flesh.
• As the man in white prepared to kill Chu Qing, space distorted around Chu Qing and a massive halo appeared with a Handsome Young Lad upon it.

Chu Qing summoned his future self with the Future Daylight Scripture, and together they killed the man in white before the future self vanished. Afterward, Chu Qing chose to return to the Martial Academy with Cui Moyang to repair her Sword Pellet, planning to face their enemies again.

• Future Chu Qing appeared on a rotating ring and joined Chu Qing in attacking the man in white with supreme secret legacies.
• The two Chu Qings killed the man in white, and Future Chu Qing cleared the Scarlet Hand's power from Chu Qing before disappearing.
• The Ninth Prince feared Chu Qing would kill him for witnessing his trump card, but Chu Qing told him to keep calling him Mr. Chu.
• Cui Moyang told Chu Qing her Sword Pellet had been badly damaged and needed materials and secret medicines to repair.
• Chu Qing decided to return to the Martial Academy to repair Cui Moyang's Sword Pellet before confronting their enemies again.

Cui Moyang completed her Sword Pellet tempering at the Martial Academy, while the Daylight organization debated how to deal with Chu Qing and her. White Robe with Long Eyebrows decided to personally intercept them when they left the Imperial Capital again.

• Cui Moyang swallowed the reforged Sword Pellet, and Chu Qing praised her Sword Immortal Path while suggesting the God-Demon Path; she said the Sword Immortal Path suited her best.
• Daylight members at the Unique Association’s underground headquarters discussed using the Ninth Prince as a sacrifice and blamed Chu Qing for disrupting their plans.
• The white-robed members argued over whether Chu Qing and Cui Moyang were injured or had returned to the Martial Academy to lure them into a trap.
• White Robe with Long Eyebrows said he would personally stop Chu Qing and the Ninth Prince when they left the Imperial Capital again.

Chu Qing and Cui Moyang fused their consciousnesses to deduce two stronger secret arts from the Scarlet Hand. Meanwhile, the Ninth Prince’s escape exposed the Unique Association’s plan to sacrifice powerful officials and royals, and Bai Mei prepared to confront Chu Qing.

• Chu Qing and Cui Moyang entered her Sword Dao Space and combined their knowledge to deduce the Scarlet Ice Soul Sword and the Eight Gods Scarlet Hand.
• The Ninth Prince realized the Unique Association had tracked him through its divinations and complained that it was pursuing him instead of finding another prince.
• Princes and princesses learned that the Unique Association planned to sacrifice them and the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers to the Gods and Devils Law Net.
• The Unique Association’s members considered fleeing but feared Daylight, whose members had arrived and could kill new-realm experts with a finger.
• Daylight members planned to wait for Chu Qing to escort the Ninth Prince out of the city, while Bai Mei prepared to stop or kill Chu Qing.