Recaps

Chu Qing reached the edge of the Restricted Zone with a powerful war chariot that burned away the darkness, then learned from the Heavenly Court that the blood he had recovered was extraordinarily valuable Tyrant Blood. The Heavenly Court offered one hundred favors for it but refused to name its owner, saying it did not dare.

• The warriors at the Restricted Zone’s border watched Chu Qing’s moving Fire Pit drive back darkness and burn the earth pale as the war chariot passed.
• After Madam Jin, Consort Mei, and Zuo Yan finished chanting and took guard, Chu Qing and Madam Shi examined the sphere of blood.
• Chu Qing learned that the sphere was Tyrant Blood, which could grant its owner’s wisdom and experience or strengthen someone’s body and bloodline.
• The Heavenly Court told Chu Qing that Tyrant Blood had been used to deduce and refine thousands of paths, and offered one hundred favors for the drop.
• When Chu Qing asked who had owned the blood, the Heavenly Court said the owner had died challenging the Azure Heaven, then admitted it did not dare say more.

Chu Qing used Tyrant Blood to deduce the third stage of his Mountain Water Path, Emperor Seat, and awakened with a clear cultivation framework. He planned to gather divine weapons and imperial thrones first, leaving the difficult task of obtaining an Innate God and Demon's essence blood for later.

• Heavenly Court warned Chu Qing that Tyrant Blood and Vault of Heaven Blood were both terrifying, and that using Vault of Heaven Blood could bring great terror.
• Chu Qing and Madam Shi agreed to use Tyrant Blood once each, and Chu Qing used his share to deduce his Mountain Water Path.
• Tyrant Blood's wisdom produced many cultivation plans, but Chu Qing fused their knowledge into the framework he had personally built.
• Chu Qing awoke after less than a minute, having exhausted his Spirit and Energy, and learned that his third stage was Emperor Seat.
• Chu Qing discovered that forging his Emperor Seat required twelve thousand divine weapons, three hundred and sixty-five imperial thrones, and an Innate God and Demon's essence blood, so he planned to obtain the first two before tackling the last.

Madam Shi used Overlord Blood to gain one thousand and one transforming forms, each of which could serve as another life, while Chu Qing’s Profession Slot imprinted the Mountain Water Path. Emperor Seat inheritance. The group prepared to seek more Overlord Blood, but Madam Shi stopped them to prepare a trump card.

• Madam Shi used Overlord Blood and transformed through one thousand and one flawless God and Demon forms.
• Madam Shi explained that each form could keep fighting after another form died, though she would eventually have to face one thousand and one Innate Gods and Demons to advance further.
• Chu Qing’s Profession Slot imprinted the Mountain Water Path. Emperor Seat inheritance, whose promotion required divine weapons, armor, a throne, and God and Demon blood.
• Chu Qing, Zuo Yan, Consort Mei, and Madam Jin decided to seek more Overlord Blood so they could use it themselves.
• Madam Jin prepared to drive the chariot deeper into the forbidden zone, but Madam Shi stopped her and said she needed to prepare a trump card.

Madam Shi and the others strengthened their chariot with hundreds of fire seeds before entering the forbidden zone to search for the Tyrant Blood. At the first lake, Madam Shi escaped a spirit-like chain, and Chu Qing descended into the darkness with the Fire Pit guiding him as chains reached for him.

• Madam Shi repeatedly transformed into a Gods and Devils form and condensed fire seeds, while Madam Jin sealed the chariot's Fire Pit power.
• Consort Mei and Zuo Yan used fire seeds to reinforce the chariot, and the group entered the forbidden zone to find the Tyrant Blood.
• The group reached the lake where the Ninth Princess had been betrayed, and Madam Shi transformed into a Mermaid-form God and Demon to explore it.
• Madam Shi escaped the lake after the Fire Pit's light helped her evade a spirit-like chain that wanted to bind her.
• Chu Qing entered the lake, repelled its darkness with the Enlightenment Star Scripture, and sank toward the depths as chains reached for him.

Chu Qing freed a self-aware chain from the lake and learned it had once imprisoned the master of Tyrant Blood. The chain warned him about seeking Tyrant Blood and Azure Blood before leaving him a scripture about the sun, whose flaws puzzled him.

• Chu Qing pulled the chains from the lake, but the Fire Pit and Zuo Yan’s Moonlight Saber could not damage them.
• Chu Qing questioned the chains, which revealed that Heaven had used them to imprison the Tyrant and that Tyrant Blood had given them wisdom.
• The chain warned Chu Qing that Tyrant Blood could not be found through deliberate searching and that Azure Blood would corrupt him, then gave him a box containing information about the sun.
• Chu Qing found a four-hundred-line scripture in the box, whose first three hundred and sixty lines matched his Enlightenment Star Scripture while the remaining lines were awkward to recite.

Chu Qing discovered that Ba Liuli had preserved an incomplete scripture linked to Liuli, then left the restricted zone after spending several days with Madam Jin and the others. He found the Eternal Night Empire and neighboring empires expanding Fire Pits deep into the restricted zone, and a martial artist challenged him for standing idle.

• Consort Mei found Ba Liuli's note explaining that the scripture's first 360 lines were correct and the rest were flawed, while Chu Qing realized it was connected to a future meeting with Liuli.
• Chu Qing agreed to stay several days with Madam Jin and the others, and they planned to strengthen the war chariot Fire Pit, refine Madam Jin's strange treasure, and establish a deeper base in the restricted zone.
• Chu Qing left on the sixth day, while Madam Shi, Madam Jin, Zuo Yan, and Consort Mei began producing kindling and refining the war chariot Fire Pit.
• Chu Qing headed toward Stone Ridge Mountain, reflecting on his progress and his idea of using calamities to alter history.
• Chu Qing found Fire Pits and martial artists extending more than three thousand meters into the restricted zone across the empire's borders.
• A martial artist spotted Chu Qing and demanded to know his level and why he was not hunting evil things.

Chu Qing learned that empires across the continent had launched a campaign to clear the forbidden zone, then gave a group of frightened martial artists Evil corpses to fuel their Fire Pits. After he left, a New Realm commander warned the gathered martial artists about the Divine Court Law Net and said Chu Qing was even more terrifying.

• Chu Qing questioned the kneeling martial artists and learned that more than ten thousand empires had joined the campaign to clear the forbidden zone.
• Chu Qing left and returned dragging dozens of Evil and monster corpses, which he gave to the martial artists as Fire Pit fuel.
• Han Xuanzi asked Chu Qing's name and vowed to repay him, while the New Realm commander arrived and mistook the kneeling group for worshippers.
• After Han Xuanzi explained what Chu Qing had done, the commander warned the martial artists about the Divine Court Law Net and its ability to twist cognition.
• The commander declared Chu Qing more terrifying than the Divine Court Law Net, leaving the martial artists asking why.

A New Realm expert described Chu Qing’s brutal history and warned the crowd that even powerful experts could die from his killing intent. The crowd realized they had survived berating Chu Qing only because they were fighting the Forbidden Zone, though the expert was unsure.

• A New Realm expert claimed Chu Qing could kill even another New Realm expert with a glance.
• The expert recounted how Chu Qing slaughtered thousands before reaching the First Limit and later killed hundreds of thousands after failing to find the person who had incited accusations against him.
• The expert explained that Chu Qing exterminated aristocratic families that tried to suppress him and refused to submit to the Divine Court Law Net.
• The expert described how Chu Qing slaughtered an Imperial Capital and nine main cities, while gods and devils knelt before him and were killed.
• The crowd trembled at Chu Qing’s reputation, and Han Xuanzi suggested they survived insulting him because they had been fighting the Forbidden Zone.

Chu Qing learned that the Heavenly Court had ordered humanity to fight in the forbidden zones and warned the Princess that it far surpassed the Divine Court Law Net. As he left the Imperial Capital, the Princess told him that Miss Heaven had been claiming to be the Undefeated Demon God, and Chu Qing decided to investigate the myth.

• Chu Qing visited the ruined Imperial Capital, where the Princess explained that Yue Manlou and a powerful expert had destroyed it in battle.
• The Princess told Chu Qing that a Heavenly Court envoy had ordered humanity to send martial artists into the forbidden zones, and the Divine Court Law Net had obeyed.
• Chu Qing explained that the Heavenly Court was far more powerful than the Divine Court Law Net and said it might be Heaven's spokesperson.
• Chu Qing gave the Princess contact methods for Madam Shi and other experts who could help her forces in the forbidden zones.
• As Chu Qing departed, the Princess warned him that Miss Heaven had been claiming to be the Undefeated Demon God, and Chu Qing resolved to look up the myth in his records.

Chu Qing investigated the Undefeated God and Demon and discovered a legend linking its creation to Sixty-one Liuli. At the Martial Academy, its leader invited him to join the continent-wide alliance, but Chu Qing left the offer undecided.

• Chu Qing searched the Martial Academy's books and learned that the Undefeated God and Demon had been suppressed in the Endless Sea after feeding on Gods and Devils.
• Chu Qing read an unofficial history claiming Sixty-one Liuli created the Undefeated God and Demon by forging its bones and a blessed land, and he wondered how the Liulis were connected.
• Chu Qing searched for more records about Liuli and Sixty-one Liuli but found none, then encountered the man in power at the Imperial Martial Academy.
• The man in power invited Chu Qing to join the Martial Academy alliance and help represent its younger generation against the Heavenly Court.
• Chu Qing considered the alliance's potential as a force of his own but told the man he would think about joining.

Chu Qing returned to Stone Ridge Mountain and learned that Tang Wuming and Daughter of Stonemason Xu were studying how incense-tempered statues became gods, while Zhao Hongxiu had gathered a powerful following by offering martial paths. He inspected the mountain and its growing earth veins, then learned that Yue Manlou had fought a self-proclaimed Great Emperor and disappeared into a forbidden zone.

• The black-robed authority holder reported that Chu Qing had refused to join their side for now, and his contact urged that he be recruited to oppose Heavenly Court.
• Chu Qing returned to Stone Ridge Mountain, found statues of Tang Wuming, Sima Zhao, and Daughter of Stonemason Xu in a temple, and heard that worship had turned earlier statues into weak gods capable of granting believers' wishes.
• Tang Wuming and Daughter of Stonemason Xu explained that they had made statues of themselves to test whether they could become gods, and Chu Qing told them to continue their research and report the results.
• Chu Qing visited his altered peaks, where animals offered him prey, then learned from Zhao Hongxiu that Yue Manlou had fought a self-proclaimed Great Emperor and that their whereabouts remained unknown.
• Zhao Hongxiu told Chu Qing that she had organized thousands of New Realm cultivators to build earth veins and won over many experts by offering them access to more than three hundred martial paths.

Chu Qing discovered that the new stone-statue gods created avatars for their makers and fulfilled believers’ wishes by spending incense offerings. He proposed creating many specialized wild gods to compete with the Divine Court Law Net, and he and his allies began planning a large-scale experiment.

• Zhao Hongxiu told Chu Qing that thousands of experts had gathered to learn the paths he had shared, and Chu Qing ordered her to prepare them for a coming fight and gather weapons and armor.
• While waiting for Tang Wuming’s news, Chu Qing used the Peak of Mountains Method to taint mountains, accelerating the spread of his power.
• Tang Wuming’s white dove reported that a god had been born, and Chu Qing went to the temple, where Tang Wuming, Sima Zhao, and Daughter of Stonemason Xu explained that the stone statues had become their avatars.
• Chu Qing tested how the statues used incense offerings and discovered that they spent accumulated power to answer believers’ prayers, then resumed gathering offerings.
• Chu Qing proposed creating specialized wild gods, including Land Gods and Medicine Gods, and Tang Wuming, Sima Zhao, and Daughter of Stonemason Xu urged him to gather millions of people for the experiment.

Chu Qing gathered tens of thousands of New Realm experts and promised to honor Zhao Hongxiu’s agreements, asking what they could offer him in return. When they answered that they could bring him slaughter, he pointed to a white streak racing toward the gathering and ordered them to kill him.

• Tang Wuming and Sima Zhao set out to recruit more ordinary people for their plans to create avatars and establish a new divine court.
• Chu Qing returned to Stone Ridge Mountain to continue infusing mountains, but Zhao Hongxiu told him that the experts who had joined them wanted his personal confirmation of her promises.
• Chu Qing told Zhao Hongxiu to have the Three-legged Golden Toads fed secret medicines so they would produce Golden Toad Money, and she reported that the mountain’s beasts were growing smarter.
• Tens of thousands of New Realm experts and over a thousand Top Experts gathered on the mountain, and Chu Qing pledged to provide them paths and secret transmissions.
• When the experts offered loyalty, Chu Qing rejected it and accepted their offer of slaughter instead.
• Chu Qing pointed at a white streak racing toward the gathering and ordered the experts to kill him.

Great Emperor Sima Qingshan arrived at Stone Ridge Mountain to kill Chu Qing and reclaim his dignity, but found tens of thousands of New Realm experts standing with Chu Qing. After Sima Qingshan overwhelmed their strongest fighters and fought Chu Qing to a standstill, Chu Qing abandoned secret legacies and charged him with pure strength.

• Sima Qingshan arrived at Stone Ridge Mountain and prepared to kill Chu Qing, seize a beauty, and rebuild his Imperial Palace.
• Tens of thousands of New Realm experts formed ranks and shouted their intent to kill Sima Qingshan, who tried to suppress them and demand their worship.
• More than a thousand elite experts attacked Sima Qingshan, but his King's Descent: Emperor Treads the Abyss wounded them and shocked the gathered fighters.
• Chu Qing attacked Sima Qingshan with enhanced mountains and rivers, then summoned a future version of himself and unleashed multiple secret legacies.
• Sima Qingshan countered Chu Qing's techniques and fought him through the sky and ground, claiming that Chu Qing could not match him.
• Chu Qing tore off his tattered clothes and charged Sima Qingshan with a punch, while Sima Qingshan answered with King's Descent: Emperor's Violent Fist.

Chu Qing defeated Sima Qingshan in a brutal contest of strength and endurance, destroying his skull and shattering his remains. He ordered the New Realm experts to dispose of the corpse and left them intimidated by his power.

• Chu Qing and Sima Qingshan abandoned their secret arts and traded devastating blows, repeatedly healing from their injuries.
• As their regeneration slowed, Chu Qing seized Sima Qingshan and smashed their heads together until Sima Qingshan's skull began to break.
• Sima Qingshan pleaded for mercy, but Chu Qing continued until his skull exploded and then battered his corpse into scattered golden bones.
• Chu Qing ordered the New Realm experts to feed Sima Qingshan's flesh to beasts, boil his bones, and scatter the bone powder.
• The New Realm experts obeyed Chu Qing and lowered their heads, afraid of his brutal strength.

After killing Sima Qingshan, Chu Qing examined his belongings and uncovered secrets about the Gods and Devils and a diary filled with forbidden-zone coordinates. The diary ended with a warning about a dangerous nest that could grant immense power, and Chu Qing suspected its author had deliberately baited future readers into going there.

• Chu Qing killed Sima Qingshan, and Yue Manlou praised his strength before presenting three boxes of the dead emperor’s belongings.
• Chu Qing examined a Water-Avoiding Pearl and refined a Great Emperor’s seal, learning it could depose a grade one God or Devil and discovering the Demon Prison Law Net’s hidden purpose.
• Chu Qing opened the last box and found a diary whose author had recorded coordinates and discoveries from centuries of walking the forbidden zones.
• Chu Qing read that the diary’s female author had found a forbidden-zone overlord’s nest containing treasures, a spring that could make children Outsiders, and a cup of an Ancient God and Demon’s heart-blood.
• Chu Qing read the author’s warning not to visit the nest and suspected she had written it to lure future readers there.

Chu Qing sent Yue Manlou toward the Imperial Capital with a candle flame to aid the Outsiders against the Innate Gods and Demons, while the Princess learned that Chu Qing had killed Sima Qingshan and resolved to join him against the Divine Court. In the Demon Prison Law Net, revived Great Emperors debated their next move under the command of the ruthless Ancient and Modern Empress.

• Chu Qing remembered the name First Illumination Person, then gave Yue Manlou a candle flame and ordered him to find the Outsider Princess Consort and use it against the Gods and Devils.
• Yue Manlou set off for the Imperial Capital, while the Princess received reports confirming that Chu Qing had killed Sima Qingshan at Stone Ridge Mountain.
• The Princess learned that Chu Qing and Sima Qingshan had killed each other through a brutal headbutting contest and resolved to help Chu Qing purge the Divine Court from her empire.
• Revived Great Emperors discussed gathering more incense offerings and waiting until the Outsiders were near defeat before helping them attack the Innate Gods and Demons.
• The Ancient and Modern Empress rejected the Great Emperors’ doubts and revealed her history as a conqueror who had once joined the Outsiders to slaughter more than a thousand Innate Gods and Demons.

Yue Manlou delivered Chu Qing’s dwindling fire seed to the Princess Consort during the battle between the otherworlders and the Innate Gods and Demons. She planted it inside a wounded God and Demon, which healed its injuries before suddenly letting out a piercing scream.

• The Ancient and Modern Empress deduced a fragment of Chu Qing’s future and secretly traveled to the Imperial Capital to watch for him.
• The Innate Gods and Demons agreed to revive Hundred-Eyed to kill Chu Qing and focused their incense offerings on nurturing him.
• Yue Manlou reached the astral-wind battlefield and gave the Princess Consort Chu Qing’s fire seed, warning that it would last only ten more minutes.
• The Princess Consort contacted Chu Qing, who explained the fire seed could harm powerful evils and offered to help seal a God and Demon if it worked.
• The Princess Consort slipped the fire seed into a wounded God and Demon, which healed its wounds before screaming in agony.

Chu Qing and the Others sealed the Ghost Scorpion God and Demon beneath seven mountains, then Chu Qing reinforced the seal through the earth veins. After learning that scorpions might feed on the captive demon, he gathered followers to head for the Imperial Capital and hunt Gods and Devils.

• The Princess Consort and the Others dragged the wounded God and Demon to Stone Ridge Mountain, where Chu Qing began a ritual to seal it.
• Chu Qing used seven Cold Pond dragons and seven mountains to bring the God and Demon to its knees and suppress it.
• Chu Qing linked the mountains to earth veins, strengthening the seal and healing its cracks as scorpions emerged from the stones.
• The Princess Consort identified the captive as a Ghost Scorpion God and Demon and explained that the scorpions might feed on its flesh, though its indestructible true spirit could not escape.
• Chu Qing asked the Princess Consort to collect essence blood from Innate Gods and Demons, then told Mingyue to gather his followers for a trip to the Imperial Capital to kill Gods and Devils.

Chu Qing led more than ten thousand experts toward the Imperial Capital, prompting its Divine Court officials to prepare a defense. Before they could act, Qian Shanliu Huo arrived, took control of the Divine Court, and began gathering detailed information on Chu Qing.

• Chu Qing left Stone Ridge Mountain with more than ten thousand experts while Zhao Hongxiu and Mingyue stayed behind to guard it.
• The Divine Court’s fifth-generation grand officials decided to use God-Worshippers and Enfeoffment Gods and Devils to stop Chu Qing from reaching the Imperial Capital.
• The Divine Court Law Net summoned Qian Shanliu Huo, who announced that he would take control of Great Qian’s Divine Court.
• Qian Shanliu Huo demanded that the fifth-generation grand officials surrender their authority, then dismissed them when they complied.
• Qian Shanliu Huo took the throne and ordered the Divine Court to collect every available detail about Chu Qing.

Qian Shanliu Huo studied Chu Qing and ordered waves of Gods and Devils to intercept him, hoping to wear down his anger before preparing a killing blow. Chu Qing's party continued toward the Imperial Capital, while Qian Shanliu Huo resolved to send out fifth-rank Gods and Devils next.

• Qian Shanliu Huo examined Chu Qing's history and ordered lower-ranked Gods and Devils to intercept him, temples to be inspected, and the city's Gods and Devils to prepare for battle.
• Chu Qing's party killed thousands of Enfeoffment Gods and Demons, whose deaths became permanent, and Chu Qing let his followers keep the spoils.
• Chu Qing tried washing his divine weapons with God and Demon blood, but his Profession Slot did not acknowledge the blood.
• Chu Qing explained that the Divine Court was sending cannon fodder to drain his anger before hiding an expert among stronger attackers.
• Qian Shanliu Huo monitored the battles and their duration, then ordered fifth-rank Gods and Devils to die in the next attack before he delivered a killing blow.

Qian Shanliu Huo led an army and the sixth-generation dukes and ministers into an ambush against Chu Qing, hoping to use him as a whetstone. Chu Qing broke the trap and charged straight at Qian Shanliu Huo, who unleashed his power and rushed to meet him.

• Qian Shanliu Huo armed himself with a divine sword and armor empowered by phantom Heaven-Connecting Paths, then ordered the sixth-generation dukes and ministers to hide among an army of Gods and Devils and ambush Chu Qing.
• Qian Shanliu Huo approached Chu Qing while the sixth-generation dukes and ministers closed in, and all twelve launched attacks as Qian Shanliu Huo struck at Chu Qing's mind with battle intent and sword intent.
• Qian Shanliu Huo's thoughts wandered, allowing Chu Qing to disrupt his battle intent; he tried to recover and used a sonic art to aid the ambush.
• Chu Qing dodged the ministers' killing trap, blasted the Three Dukes away, and smashed through the army as he charged toward Qian Shanliu Huo.
• Qian Shanliu Huo summoned three hundred and sixty phantom Heaven-Connecting Paths and charged at Chu Qing, declaring that he would use Chu Qing's head to open a new path.

Chu Qing and Qian Shanliu Huo fought through the army until Qian Shanliu Huo trapped Chu Qing and his summoned future selves in his Heaven-Connecting Sword Ring. Chu Qing resolved to find a way to break the ring head-on, while Qian Shanliu Huo also sought a decisive victory to open his path.

• Chu Qing and Qian Shanliu Huo traded attacks amid the army, each using powerful secret inheritances without gaining the advantage.
• Qian Shanliu Huo realized Chu Qing could summon a future self, but Chu Qing distracted him by claiming he had opened his own spot in the Square Inch Gathering and summoned that future self.
• Qian Shanliu Huo revealed three hundred and sixty-five Heaven-Connecting Paths and formed a Sword Dao ring that trapped Chu Qing and both future Chu Qings.
• Chu Qing tried to lure Qian Shanliu Huo into a counterattack, but Qian Shanliu Huo saw through him, and the two future selves soon disappeared.
• Qian Shanliu Huo threatened to exhaust Chu Qing, but Chu Qing trusted his recovery and decided to use the ring as a trial while searching for its weakness.

Chu Qing killed Qian Shanliu Huo after exploiting the moment his Heaven-Connecting Path advanced, while Qiyue escaped with his remains. At her master’s mountain hideout, the black-robed man identified Chu Qing as the person who had defeated Qiyue’s clone and ordered her to create another one and infiltrate Myth.

• Qiyue blocked Princess and Ying Hongzhuang from disturbing Qian Shanliu Huo, then fought Princess in the sky as the armies clashed outside the Imperial Capital.
• Qian Shanliu Huo opened his three hundred and sixty-sixth Heaven-Connecting Path, and Chu Qing attacked during the brief moment when he struggled to control his new strength.
• Chu Qing shattered Qian Shanliu Huo’s sword-path mirror, used his Fire Seed and hundreds of secret inheritances to destroy Qian Shanliu Huo’s foundation, then tore off his head and spine.
• Qiyue carried Qian Shanliu Huo’s body into a forbidden zone and brought it to her black-robed master, who recognized Chu Qing’s flame as the cause of death and ordered her to make a replacement clone and send it into Myth.
• The black-robed man revealed that he had once swallowed a Martial Arts Outsider whose remaining human skin served Chu Qing, and Qiyue privately vowed to find allies and eventually kill her master.

After killing Qian Shanliu Huo, Chu Qing gained a deeper understanding of her sword path ring and went with the Princess to seek ten tons of God and Demon blood. The blood from Enfeoffment Gods and Demons proved unusable, and none of the temples’ Innate Gods and Demons answered their summons, leaving Chu Qing unsure where to find the blood he needed.

• Chu Qing explained that killing Qian Shanliu Huo had helped him grasp the framework of her sword path ring, while the Princess warned that Qiyue might seek revenge.
• Chu Qing told the Princess he needed her Emperor Seat and ten tons of God and Demon blood, and she agreed to help him.
• Chu Qing tested blood from the defeated Gods and Devils but found that it did not meet his ritual’s requirements.
• The Princess took Chu Qing to temples worshipping Innate Gods and Demons, but the priests could not summon any of them, so Chu Qing destroyed the temples one by one.
• After visiting every temple of Innate Gods and Demons in the Imperial Capital without success, Chu Qing worried that he could not safely gather the ten tons of blood he needed.