Recaps

Bai Mei prepared to fight Chu Qing at Vermilion Bird Gate while the princes and princesses secretly formed escape alliances and planned sabotage. Chu Qing set out with Cui Moyang and the Ninth Prince, leaving the chapter as they approached the gate and the Ninth Prince feared he might not survive the journey.

• Bai Mei prepared his future-self summoning materials and went to Vermilion Bird Gate to await Chu Qing.
• The princes allied, assigned escape routes, and discussed gathering in the Extreme Cold Empire after fleeing.
• The Rainbow Empire's Princess united several hundred Princesses, made a pact with the princes, and organized plans to sabotage the temples and disrupt the Gods and Devils Dharma Net.
• Bai Mei received word that the Ninth Prince was heading toward Vermilion Bird Gate and prepared for battle there.
• Chu Qing raised Scarlet Eight Divine Hands to Initiated, then left the Martial Academy with Cui Moyang and the Ninth Prince.
• Chu Qing and Cui Moyang walked through the snow with oil-paper umbrellas as the Ninth Prince worried he would not survive long enough to reach the other continents.

Chu Qing and Cui Moyang confronted Bai Mei and a host of White Day powerhouses at Vermilion Bird Gate. Chu Qing and Cui Moyang killed Bai Mei, but dozens of enemies then attacked, and the chapter ended as Chu Qing and Cui Moyang prepared to face them.

• Chu Qing and Cui Moyang approached Vermilion Bird Gate while gathering their strength, and the Ninth Prince resolved to fight rather than become a sacrifice.
• White Day powerhouses attacked from the city wall with arrows and a spear, but Cui Moyang destroyed or deflected them as the group advanced.
• Bai Mei used Golden Silk White Jade and Exotic Flowers and Herbs to unleash three cries of “Kill,” paralyzing the Ninth Prince while Chu Qing and Cui Moyang remained unaffected.
• Chu Qing summoned Future Chu Qing and used his Scarlet Eight Divine Hands against Bai Mei, while Cui Moyang’s sword power helped kill him.
• Thirty or forty White Day powerhouses leaped from the city wall to attack, and Chu Qing rose into the air as Cui Moyang pressed her back against him and Future Chu Qing moved behind the enemies.

The Ninth Prince escaped the ruined Imperial Capital carrying the badly wounded Chu Qing and Cui Moyang, while the Princess and the fleeing Princesses helped devastate the city and overwhelm Daylight. Daylight members chose to capture other fugitives instead of pursuing Chu Qing, whom they now feared as a possible sacrificer.

• The Ninth Prince regained control of his body, lifted Chu Qing and Cui Moyang, and fled as explosions and Primordial Spirit Manifestations tore through the Imperial Capital.
• The Princess spent one percent of Great Qian's National Fortune to aid Chu Qing and Cui Moyang, suffered a devastating backlash, and celebrated surviving the battle.
• Hundreds of Princesses, New Realm experts, and other fighters broke free and surged out of the Imperial Capital, forcing Daylight members to retreat or capture fleeing princes and officials.
• Daylight members saw the Ninth Prince escape with Chu Qing and Cui Moyang, but refused to pursue them because of their losses and fear of Chu Qing's abilities.
• Daylight members decided to capture other fugitives first and suspected that their leaders had treated everyone in the Imperial Capital as sacrifices, with Chu Qing as the sacrificer.

After recovering from their injuries, Chu Qing and Cui Moyang escorted the Ninth Prince to the Cape of Good Hope, then returned to the ruined Great Gan Imperial Capital. Their return alarmed the Princess, the great clans, and the Unique Association, which feared Chu Qing would challenge them for control of the Law Net.

• Chu Qing and Cui Moyang spent four days recovering, then traveled to the Cape of Good Hope with the Ninth Prince.
• At the port, the Ninth Prince urged Chu Qing to leave the continent, but Chu Qing refused and received an address and a secret box that he and Cui Moyang rejected.
• The Ninth Prince boarded a ship, while Chu Qing and Cui Moyang leisurely returned to the Great Gan Imperial Capital over six days.
• Chu Qing and Cui Moyang entered the devastated capital, where news of Chu Qing's return quickly spread.
• The Princess prepared an elaborate reception for Chu Qing, while the great clans warned their followers not to provoke him.
• Miss Heaven and the Daylight Realm members at the Unique Association wondered why Chu Qing had returned and whether he would contest their authority over the Law Net.

Chu Qing and the Princess planned to kill the Chimon Emperor in the desert before he could complete the law net’s final sacrifice. Miss Heaven offered to cooperate, but Chu Qing asked her to prove her sincerity.

• Red Eye told the Unique Association members to continue setting up the law net and avoid fighting Chu Qing unless they could win.
• Cui Moyang gave Chu Qing Nangong’s letter, and they both wrote replies; Chu Qing also wrote to Madam Jin and Madam Shi.
• The Princess told Chu Qing that the Chimon Emperor would arrive in Great Qian in three days, and they chose the desert as the place to kill him.
• Miss Heaven arrived and proposed joining Chu Qing and the Princess to stop the Chimon Emperor and delay the law net.
• Chu Qing questioned Miss Heaven’s motives and asked her where her sincerity was.

Chu Qing negotiated with Miss Heaven for help against the Chimon Emperor, demanding a Scarlet God-Demon arm, information on Qi Ming Star, and Exotic Flowers and Herbs. After receiving the arm, he discovered that ritual sandalwood incense made flesh grow on it and considered raising a Scarlet God-Demon to advance his Future White Day Scripture.

• Miss Heaven offered Chu Qing a Scarlet God-Demon arm, a Future Scripture, and a spell for entering the Law Net, but he rejected those offers as insufficient.
• Chu Qing demanded the Scarlet God-Demon arm, all information on Qi Ming Star, and Exotic Flowers and Herbs from forbidden zones, and Miss Heaven agreed.
• Miss Heaven sent two crates of Exotic Flowers and Herbs, which Chu Qing gave to Cui Moyang so she could refine her Sword Pellet.
• Miss Heaven sent a scarlet God-Demon arm in a crate made from damaged divine weapons and armor.
• Chu Qing lit ritual sandalwood incense, and its blue smoke made flesh grow on the arm as Cui Moyang and Princess watched in amazement.
• Chu Qing planned to use the incense to grow a Scarlet God-Demon and test whether it could advance his Future White Day Scripture.

Miss Heaven investigated the Qi Ming Star’s erased history, suspected Chu Qing was seeking the sun or spark mentioned in its legends, and secretly preserved a copy of the records. Chu Qing, Cui Moyang, and the Princess arrived at the Liuli River’s source, where Miss Heaven appeared as dark figures gathered behind Chu Qing.

• Miss Heaven learned that the Qi Ming Star had once helped humanity in the forbidden zones before disappearing, and she rejected official claims that it had betrayed humanity.
• Miss Heaven read conflicting unofficial histories about the Qi Ming Star, including accounts of a stolen sun, a spark meant to save humanity, and an Emperor who took it.
• Miss Heaven copied and reinforced the records, sent the originals to Chu Qing, hid her copy, and trained beneath the Undefeated Demon God’s statue.
• Chu Qing, Cui Moyang, and the Princess arrived at the Liuli River’s source, where Yue Manlou was fishing and feared the dark figures gathering behind Chu Qing.
• Miss Heaven arrived in a blaze of fire, leaving Yue Manlou stunned.

Chu Qing and his allies gathered in the frontier desert to intercept the Chimon Emperor, who had agreed to die in a ritual to prevent the Millennial Tribulation from striking Chimon early. As the Gods and Devils Web neared completion, exiled princes and Princess Rainbow’s followers moved to secure power and territory.

• Miss Heaven joined Chu Qing, and Princess's core force arrived with more than a thousand New Realm experts before they advanced toward the frontier desert.
• The Chimon Emperor told the Crown Prince that he was going to die in a ritual demanded by remnants of the Great Emperor Era and Daylight to open the Gods and Devils Web and delay Chimon's Millennial Tribulation.
• After the Chimon Emperor left, the Crown Prince invited exiled princes from Great Qian to stay and help expand Chimon once the Gods and Devils Web was born.
• Princess Rainbow and several hundred princesses seized the Extreme Cold Empire, declared themselves empresses, and rushed to expand their territory before the web's birth fixed the world's arrangements.
• Chu Qing's group waited in the desert while diviners tracked the Chimon Emperor's guards, scouts searched from the sky, and the allies prepared for battle.

Princess and the Great Qian experts prepared to intercept the Chimon Emperor, whose repeated retreats were attempts to gather enough National Fortune to reach the capital. The Emperor finally advanced with forty percent of Chimon’s National Fortune, and the chapter ended as his forces met the defenders’ artillery barrage in the desert.

• Princess repeatedly sensed the Chimon Emperor approaching Great Qian, but he withdrew across the border each time.
• The Chimon Emperor realized the Great Qian Empress had detected him and decided he had to reach the imperial capital to complete his offering.
• The Chimon Emperor swallowed forty percent of Chimon’s National Fortune, knowing its loss would bring disaster to his empire if he died.
• Princess assembled the defenders and assigned herself and Miss Heaven to hold back the Emperor while Chu Qing and Cui Moyang waited to intercept him.
• The Great Qian experts fired over ten thousand thunderfire shells at the approaching procession, but the Chimon Emperor’s forces formed a giant sand dragon and counterattacked as the defenders’ cannons began to break.

The Chimon Emperor burned National Fortune to defeat the Princess, Miss Heaven, and Cui Moyang as he fought his way toward Great Qian’s Imperial Capital. He continued onward, convinced that his sacrifice would prolong the Chimon Empire’s survival.

• The Princess and Miss Heaven identified the Chimon Emperor and pursued him as his guards fell one by one.
• The Chimon Emperor burned National Fortune and shattered the Princess with his Dragon Emperor Fist.
• Miss Heaven attacked with the Undefeated Immortal Seal, but the Chimon Emperor burned more National Fortune and blasted her aside.
• Cui Moyang struck the Chimon Emperor with her Sword Pellet and Hairpin Swords, but he defeated her and continued toward the Imperial Capital.
• The Chimon Emperor burned National Fortune three times, overwhelmed more enemies, and realized his speed and understanding had grown immensely.
• The Chimon Emperor resolved to complete the sacrifice and extend the Chimon Empire’s future.

Chu Qing used the Future Daylight Scripture to transfer his injuries into the future and hold off the Yimeng Emperor, who burned a fourth portion of National Fortune to intensify his attacks. The Princess and Miss Heaven then rushed to join the fight, convinced that their side had the advantage.

• The Yimeng Emperor charged at Chu Qing, whose Scarlet Eight Divine Hands met the Dragon Emperor Fist and nearly destroyed his body.
• Chu Qing used the Future Daylight Scripture to store his injuries in the future, healed instantly, and counterattacked the Yimeng Emperor.
• The Yimeng Emperor burned a fourth portion of National Fortune and attacked relentlessly, but Chu Qing continued fighting without showing injuries.
• The Princess, Miss Heaven, and a recovering Cui Moyang arrived; Chu Qing warned them not to approach and told them to recover while others wore down the Yimeng Emperor.
• The Princess and Miss Heaven ignored the warning and charged the Yimeng Emperor, each seeking to strike the killing blow.

Chu Qing defeated the Chimon Emperor after a brutal battle, but the Emperor began a sacrifice before he died. The incomplete ritual awakened the dormant Gods and Devils Law Nets across the empires, linking them together.

• The Princess and Miss Heaven attacked the Chimon Emperor, but he blasted them apart and left them weeping in a pit.
• The Chimon Emperor fled toward the Imperial Capital to complete his sacrifice, while Chu Qing pursued and fought him until his strength faltered.
• Chu Qing struck down the Chimon Emperor, who secretly began a sacrifice by driving a crystal into his shattered heart.
• The Chimon Emperor told Chu Qing that Heaven backed the Unique Association and had granted powers to White Day and the remnants of the Great Emperor Era.
• Chu Qing killed the Chimon Emperor before the sacrifice was complete, but the ritual stirred the Gods and Devils Law Net and awakened the dormant nets across the empires.

After surviving the battle with the Yimeng Emperor, Chu Qing, Princess, Miss Heaven, and Cui Moyang assessed their injuries and learned that the Gods and Devils Law Net had activated incompletely. Miss Heaven and Princess entered it to seize authority, and Chu Qing followed while Cui Moyang stayed behind to gather spoils and guard him.

• Chu Qing and Cui Moyang pulled Princess from the pit and set Miss Heaven's head straight as the four treated their severe injuries.
• Miss Heaven and the others worried that Daylight would retaliate after their role in ruining its plan.
• Princess sensed that the Great Gan Empire had gained something, and Miss Heaven confirmed that the Gods and Devils Law Net had activated but remained incomplete.
• Miss Heaven entered the Law Net to seize authority, and Princess taught Chu Qing a scripture that would let him enter it too.
• Cui Moyang refused to enter, choosing to gather spoils and protect Chu Qing while warning him that the Law Net might be unsafe.
• Chu Qing chanted the scripture and entered the Gods and Devils Law Net.

The Gods and Devils Law Net linked across eighteen hundred empires, and people rushed inside to claim its authority. Chu Qing discovered that the authority carried dangerous shadows, resisted claiming any himself, and used the scripture to destroy one shadow until it vanished for good.

• The Six Generations Officials performed a ritual that linked the Gods and Devils Law Net across eighteen hundred empires.
• Wang Long entered the law net to compete for authority, while Chu Qing discovered that its stars each represented a portion of authority.
• Chu Qing felt the Fish Dragon Dance warn him away from claiming authority and saw shadows burrowing into the people who seized it.
• God Demons awakened and imposed laws through the net, making the shadows within its authority clearer.
• Chu Qing chanted the scripture to destroy a shadow, repeating it 365 times until the shadow stopped returning and information appeared in its place.

Chu Qing gathered many incomplete scriptures by reciting them to clear shadows from authorities throughout the Gods and Devils Law Net, then endured the Net’s rejection long enough to obtain the profound Earth Mother Chapter. After he returned to the real world, Cui Moyang showed him their abundant spoils and admitted she had killed the cannon fodder who tried to steal them.

• Chu Qing recited scriptures at authorities to destroy shadows, saving Si Xiao and giving her a scripture to use.
• Chu Qing traveled through the Law Net, clearing shadows and collecting incomplete scriptures while the Net began to reject him.
• Chu Qing resisted the Law Net’s repulsion as new Gods and Devils were named, then obtained the Earth Mother Chapter and was forced out.
• Chu Qing awoke in the real world and found Cui Moyang with bundles of divine weapons and armored equipment.
• Cui Moyang told Chu Qing she had killed the cannon fodder who tried to steal their spoils, and Chu Qing praised her.

Chu Qing and Cui Moyang sorted the weapons and records they had collected, then discussed their dangerous calamities after Cui Moyang crossed one. They discovered that the wind and snow had vanished, but Cui Moyang became alarmed when both of them felt an urge to worship the Gods and Devils.

• Chu Qing and Cui Moyang stored the divine weapons, cultivation notes, and secret medicines they had gathered.
• Chu Qing learned that he had spent seven days in the Gods and Devils Dharma Net and that Princess and Miss Heaven had left the day before.
• Cui Moyang crossed her calamity, where versions of Chu Qing, Princess, Miss Heaven, and thousands of experts nearly killed her.
• Cui Moyang described her earlier calamities, and Chu Qing recounted his encounters with endless evil forces and Liuli's dream world.
• Chu Qing and Cui Moyang noticed that the wind and snow had disappeared and the sun had returned after the Demon King's birth.
• Chu Qing and Cui Moyang both considered burning incense for the Gods and Devils, then Cui Moyang grew pale and questioned why she had felt compelled to worship them.

Chu Qing and Cui Moyang broke free of the Law Net’s urge to worship Gods and Devils, then tested its influence on ordinary people at Peace Inn. They discovered that people’s minds twisted whenever they were forbidden to worship, and the chapter left them investigating this effect.

• Cui Moyang and Chu Qing swore they would never worship Gods and Devils, clearing the Law Net’s influence from their minds.
• Chu Qing explained that the Law Net’s laws compelled worship and that the Chimon Emperor’s incomplete sacrifice had limited its power.
• At Peace Inn, Daoist Golden Toad told Chu Qing and Cui Moyang that the locals wanted to build a temple and statues of Gods and Devils.
• Cui Moyang tried to stop the locals, but they continued insisting on worship even after she killed one of them.
• Chu Qing and Cui Moyang tested the locals’ reactions to threats and commands, finding that their minds twisted whenever worship of Gods and Devils was forbidden.

Chu Qing and Cui Moyang discovered that Ling Hao had broken free of the Gods and Devils Divine-Net’s control and developed unusual strength and a diamond physique, then left him with Daoist Golden Toad for training. Chu Qing traveled to Stone Ridge Mountain to study how ordinary people could escape the Divine-Net and to enter seclusion to deduce the next stage of the Way of Mountains and Rivers.

• Chu Qing and Cui Moyang experimented on Divine-Net captives until Ling Hao broke free of its control under threat of death.
• Chu Qing and Cui Moyang discovered that Ling Hao had developed a strength bloodline and an indestructible diamond physique, and Chu Qing assigned him to Daoist Golden Toad for martial arts training.
• Chu Qing gave Daoist Golden Toad cultivation methods and secret medicine before leaving, and Daoist Golden Toad began using Chu Qing’s methods on the remaining captives.
• Ling Hao quickly mastered Daoist Golden Toad’s martial arts, but his intelligence declined until he became a simple-minded genius who followed commands.
• Chu Qing and Cui Moyang went to the Imperial Capital, gave Yue Manlou instructions, and then traveled to Stone Ridge Mountain with Zhao Hongxiu, Mingyue, and Cui Moyang’s Exotic Flowers and Herbs.
• Chu Qing planned to have the women research how ordinary people could escape the Divine-Net while he prepared secret medicine and prepared to deduce the second stage of the Way of Mountains and Rivers in seclusion.

Chu Qing paid for his deferred injuries and studied the scriptures from the Law Net, but the Earth Mother Chapter resisted comprehension until he combined his wisdom with Cui Moyang, Mingyue, and Zhao Hongxiu. As they continued their secluded cultivation, Tang Wuming remained conflicted about building a temple after Chu Qing vanished.

• Chu Qing brought his deferred injuries into the present, reduced them to fine cracks, and paid the price for Future Chu Qing’s descent twice.
• Chu Qing and Cui Moyang comprehended the incomplete scriptures in the sword-path space, then struggled to understand the Earth Mother Chapter.
• At Chu Qing’s insistence, Cui Moyang brought Mingyue and Zhao Hongxiu into the shared consciousness, where their combined wisdom revealed some of the chapter’s mysteries.
• After Zhao Hongxiu grew weak, the group returned to their bodies, took secret medicine, and prepared to resume cultivating and develop the next stage of the Way of Mountains and Rivers.
• Tang Wuming recalled that he had begun building a grand temple with millions of quarry workers, despite Chu Qing’s prohibition, and continued after Chu Qing and the women suddenly vanished.

Chu Qing and the others emerged from seclusion after comprehending the Earth Mother Chapter and developing the Earth Scripture, while Sima Zhao reported on his efforts to free people from the Gods and Devils' Law Web. Chu Qing told him to continue researching as Chu Qing turned his attention to cultivating the next stage of the Great River Method.

• Tang Wuming devoted bright pearls to building a temple for the Gods and Devils, and Sima Zhao failed to persuade him to recognize Chu Qing's contributions.
• Sima Zhao cautiously experimented with ways to free people from the Law Web, restoring the cognition of more than five hundred people at the cost of over ten thousand experimental subjects.
• Chu Qing, Cui Moyang, Zhao Hongxiu, and Mingyue emerged from seclusion after comprehending the Earth Mother Chapter and shaping their insights into the Earth Scripture.
• Chu Qing explained that the Earth Scripture had strengthened their abilities and helped him devise the next stage of the Great River Method.
• Chu Qing told the women to help him cultivate first, then summoned Sima Zhao and ordered him to continue researching ways to break people free of the Law Web.

Chu Qing began preparing Stone Ridge Mountain as the foundation of his second cultivation realm and sent Mingyue and Zhao Hongxiu to chart its earth veins. When he set out for the Imperial Capital to obtain resources, Sima Zhao arrived with wounded martial artists to report an urgent problem.

• Chu Qing ordered Sima Zhao to intensify his experiments and told Cui Moyang to obtain more materials from the Imperial Capital.
• Chu Qing selected a thousand mountaintops in Stone Ridge Mountain for his next cultivation realm and drew a blueprint linking their earth veins.
• Chu Qing assigned Mingyue and Zhao Hongxiu to survey and guide the earth veins, and they mapped more than a hundred mountains.
• After the Princess's resources failed to arrive, Chu Qing decided to travel to the Imperial Capital despite Cui Moyang's offer to accompany him.
• Sima Zhao approached Chu Qing with wounded martial artists and announced that something terrible had happened.

Chu Qing completed the ritual to establish the second realm of the Mountain Water Path, which he named Peak of Mountains, and gained the honored position of Lord of Mountains. When his attempt to extend his control over Stone Ridge Mountain was mysteriously blocked, a strange stone statue attacked Cui Moyang.

• Chu Qing learned that the Unique Association had ambushed the Princess’s messengers, stolen some resources, and replaced its Grand President after an internal conflict.
• Chu Qing accepted the remaining resources, resolved to punish the Unique Association, and traveled to Stone Ridge Mountain with Cui Moyang.
• Chu Qing and Cui Moyang set up the ritual, and Chu Qing permeated the mountain’s earth vein to complete the second realm of the Mountain Water Path.
• The ritual granted Chu Qing the honored position of Lord of Mountains, and he named the new realm Peak of Mountains.
• Chu Qing found that a strange power was blocking his further permeation of the earth vein, then saw a human-torsoed, tiger-bodied stone statue charge at Cui Moyang.

Chu Qing discovered that gods were obstructing his Way of Mountains and Rivers and confronted the mountain god of Stone Ridge Mountain. The mountain god revealed that the Divine Court had appointed it and warned that gods controlled every mountain and river, leaving Chu Qing’s foundations under threat.

• Cui Moyang repeatedly killed the Stone Man, while Chu Qing found that the earth veins and Liuli River were obstructing the spread of his methods.
• Chu Qing stopped Cui Moyang from attacking the revived Stone Man and learned that it was the mountain god of the nameless mountain.
• The mountain god explained that it had received an Imperial Decree from the Divine Court after the Gods and Devils Law Net connected, and that it was tasked with protecting the earth veins, displaying divine miracles, and gathering treasures.
• Chu Qing demanded that the mountain god stop obstructing his spread or be killed, but the mountain god chose death and claimed it was indestructible unless the mountain was destroyed.
• The mountain god warned Chu Qing that gods controlled every mountain and river and that water gods would soon destroy his Liuli River, then revealed that its earlier sobbing had been an act.

Chu Qing and Cui Moyang hunted down the nameless mountain god after he escaped into the earth veins, while Chu Qing considered how to confront the Divine Court and its Law Net. The mountain god was repeatedly caught and killed as Chu Qing’s anger toward the Divine Court grew.

• Cui Moyang offered to kill the mountain god repeatedly, but he collapsed into the earth veins and boasted to the other mountain gods that he had outsmarted Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing ordered a search, and Cui Moyang used the Earth Scripture to find and drag the mountain god out of his hiding place.
• The mountain gods discussed Chu Qing and feared punishment under the Divine Court’s laws, then returned to their assigned duties.
• Cui Moyang repeatedly caught and shredded the mountain god whenever he fled into the earth veins, using the encounters to improve her swordsmanship and Earth Scripture.
• Chu Qing considered how the Divine Court’s Law Net depended on worship and sacrifices, and his killing intent toward its enforcers intensified.

Chu Qing planned to confront the Divine Court in the Imperial Capital while Cui Moyang stayed behind to clear the mountain gods and prepare Stone Ridge Mountain for his foundation. After Chu Qing left, Cui Moyang used Golden Toad Money to destroy the mountain god, and the Divine Court sent a replacement.

• Chu Qing summoned the Stone Man mountain god, forced him to kneel, and learned how the Divine Court operated and replaced its mountain gods.
• Cui Moyang proposed killing each mountain god sent to Stone Ridge Mountain, while Chu Qing decided to travel to the Imperial Capital and confront the Divine Court.
• Chu Qing asked Cui Moyang to have Mingyue and Zhao Hongxiu prepare the earth veins, and told her to gather Golden Toads with Sima Zhao's help.
• Chu Qing warned Mingyue and Zhao Hongxiu to flee or hide in the earth veins if danger came, then left for the Imperial Capital.
• Cui Moyang drove Golden Toad Money into the mountain god until he turned to ashes, and a new Stone Man mountain god appeared soon afterward.