Recaps

Chu Qing went to Great Qian’s Divine Court to demand Gods and Devils blood so he could use the Emperor Seat’s Profession Slot, while Thousand Heart Knots erupted into an internal dispute over Qian Shanliu Huo’s death. The blood he received proved useless, and he ordered Princess to kill two-thirds of the remaining officials.

• Chu Qing told Princess he would demand Gods and Devils blood from the Divine Court, then brought her, Stone Ridge Mountain experts, and Imperial Guards to its headquarters.
• The Divine Court’s dukes and ministers panicked at Chu Qing’s arrival, then knelt and begged him to spare their lives.
• Thousand Heart Knots’ higher-ups argued over Qian Shanliu Huo’s death and the competing Dao Lineages, then learned Chu Qing had gone to the Divine Court for blood.
• Chu Qing examined more than thirty kinds of Gods and Devils blood, but none gained the Profession Slot’s approval.
• After Princess asked whether to wipe out the surviving officials, Chu Qing ordered her to kill two-thirds of them and leave some to do the work.

Chu Qing discovered that the Imperial Capital’s fake temple idols had become self-aware wild Gods and Devils whose blood could serve as ritual material. After collecting ten tons of their blood, he forged a divine weapon Emperor Seat, while the Empress arranged for new idols of herself to be worshipped.

• Chu Qing ordered the Empress to bring temple idols to him, and she found that the stone statues had grown astonishingly heavy.
• The Empress beheaded the surviving dukes and ministers, then struck an idol and discovered it bled golden blood and could speak.
• Chu Qing confirmed that the wild Gods and Devils’ blood counted as Gods and Devils Blood, and ordered the Empress to replace the Imperial Capital’s idols with statues she had commissioned.
• The Empress gathered more than three hundred wild Gods and Devils, who supplied ten tons of blood, and ordered twelve golden statues of herself placed in the most populous temples.
• Chu Qing sat on a bloodied divine weapon Emperor Seat as the Empress wondered about its purpose, and his consciousness examined the Profession Slot’s refreshed information.

After initiating the Way of Mountains and Rivers Emperor Seat, Chu Qing used it to speed up the recovery from his Future Daylight Scripture price and prepared to gather more Emperor Seats and raise his cultivation. He left the Princess to spread wild Gods and Devils through the empire, then set out with a thousand Stone Ridge Mountain experts for Chimon and Great Zhou.

• Chu Qing sat on the Emperor Seat and paid the Future Daylight Scripture's price, discovering that Qian Shanliu Huo's sword scar would take about ten days to heal.
• Chu Qing refused the Princess's request to stay and help, instead asking her to follow his plan to create and promote wild Gods and Devils.
• The Princess warned that the Incense Path would resist replacing divine statues beyond the Imperial Capital, but Chu Qing urged her to undermine the Divine Court's foundation with wild Gods and Devils.
• The Princess and Ying Hongzhu arranged for more than a thousand temples in the Imperial Capital to receive new statues and began training the wild Gods and Devils.
• Chu Qing gathered a thousand Stone Ridge Mountain experts and had thirty-six strongmen carry the Way of Mountains and Rivers Emperor Seat toward Chimon, planning to visit Great Zhou afterward.

Chu Qing arrived at Peace Inn in the great desert while eight factions sent their strongest rising stars to intercept him on the way to the Yimeng Empire. Daoist Golden Toad proudly revealed that he had chosen the Creation Path and challenged one of Chu Qing’s sedan bearers to demonstrate his strength.

• Thousand Heart Knots sent experts from eight factions to hunt Chu Qing, and they learned he was heading toward the Yimeng Empire.
• Chu Qing arrived at Peace Inn with a thousand new-realm guards, leaving Daoist Golden Toad dismayed by the scale of his entourage.
• Chu Qing praised Daoist Golden Toad’s inn and offered to let his subordinates spar with him.
• Daoist Golden Toad said he had chosen the Creation Path, passed his first tribulation without a scratch, and developed killing methods.
• Chu Qing arranged a spar so he could see Daoist Golden Toad’s techniques, but the chosen sedan bearer inwardly objected to fighting someone so newly advanced.

Chu Qing faced eight heavenly prodigies who came to kill him, confident that the Emperor Seat had doubled his combat power. He killed Qian Shanqian Shui with a single saber strike and challenged the remaining seven to attack.

• Eight heavenly prodigies emerged from vortices and confronted Chu Qing, while Daoist Golden Toad and the guards were overwhelmed by their killing intent.
• The prodigies argued over who would be the first to take Chu Qing's head, dismissing his objections and urging him to accept his death.
• Chu Qing drew a divine saber from the Emperor Seat as the prodigies drew lots to choose their first attacker.
• Qian Shanqian Shui won the draw and attacked Chu Qing with the Force Path, but he cut through her forces and beheaded her with a swift strike.
• Chu Qing revealed his identity to the remaining seven prodigies and challenged them to come next.

Chu Qing fought the seven Path prodigies on the Emperor Seat and killed six of them, though he suffered severe injuries and damaged the seat. The last survivor, the Incense Path prodigy, revealed that they had already opened an Incense Path before calling for a god to descend.

• The seven Path prodigies attacked Chu Qing together, combining their abilities to overwhelm him.
• Chu Qing killed the Gods and Devils Path prodigy, then used the Sacred God Path prodigy's attack to destroy the Mechanical and Sacred God Path prodigies.
• Chu Qing fought the Flesh and Blood and Gene Path prodigies, smashing the Gene Path prodigy's gemstone-like head until both were dead, even as the Emperor Seat cracked and one of his hands was bitten off.
• Chu Qing confronted the sole survivor, the Incense Path prodigy, who said they had opened an Incense Path before Qian Shanliu Huo attempted to open a Heaven-Connecting Path.
• The Incense Path prodigy cried, "God—descend!"

Chu Qing fought the descending finger of an Innate God and Demon after the Incense and Fire Path prodigy summoned it, and survived by attacking until it missed him. The battle strengthened Chu Qing and gave him the God Desecrator title, while the shattered Emperor Seat began reassembling itself.

• Chu Qing killed the Incense and Fire Path prodigy, but the prodigy's incense smoke pursued him and summoned an Innate God and Demon.
• Chu Qing hurled the Emperor Seat at the descending finger, then attacked it with divine weapons and secret arts as the Emperor Seat absorbed some divine blood.
• The finger struck the desert and formed a thousand-meter-wide crater, while Chu Qing survived by transferring his injuries into the future with the Future Daylight Scripture.
• Chu Qing gained doubled defense and recovery, and his mutated title became God Desecrator, which increased his damage to gods and reduced the damage they dealt to him.
• Fragments of the destroyed Emperor Seat grew little feet, ran together, and began reassembling into a damaged seat.

Chu Qing survived the Innate God and Demon's finger, and his blood-stained Emperor Seat recovered and absorbed the fallen prodigies. After Daoist Golden Toad chose to stay behind, he revealed that his Creation Path could animate plants, prompting Chu Qing to ask about learning it.

• Daoist Golden Toad and the other experts recovered from the attack and went to check on Chu Qing, whom they found unharmed.
• Chu Qing discovered that the divine blood had strengthened the Emperor Seat, then ordered his people to retrieve its fragments and the prodigies' corpses.
• The Emperor Seat restored itself and absorbed the corpses, gaining the prodigies' secret inheritances and bloodlines.
• Chu Qing asked Daoist Golden Toad whether he would accompany him, but Daoist Golden Toad chose to stay and plant trees.
• Daoist Golden Toad used his Creation Path to make a Euphrates poplar walk and bury itself, and Chu Qing asked to learn about the path.

Chu Qing explored Golden Toad Daoist’s unusual Creation Path and joined him and his guards in trying to develop it. As Chu Qing traveled toward the Chimon Imperial Capital, he experimented with the path on his Emperor Seat, and one of its divine weapons suddenly grew eyes.

• Golden Toad Daoist explained how his Creation Path could animate trees and gradually turn desert sand into soil.
• Chu Qing and the guards spent days deducing the Creation Path with Golden Toad Daoist, and a poplar treant demonstrated the method’s growing power.
• Golden Toad Daoist failed to affect Chu Qing’s Emperor Seat, so Chu Qing left with his experts for the Chimon Imperial Capital.
• Chu Qing practiced Golden Toad Daoist’s modified Creation Path on the Emperor Seat, but repeated attempts produced no visible change.
• An expert noticed that one of the divine weapons on Chu Qing’s Emperor Seat had suddenly grown eyes.

Chu Qing gained a boost from an eyed divine saber and led his followers toward the Yimeng Imperial Capital. After learning he had killed eight Dao Lineage prodigies, the Thousand Heart Knots leaders chose not to confront him, while Yimeng’s defenders braced for his arrival.

• Chu Qing tore an eye-bearing divine saber from the Emperor’s Seat, discovered it increased his power, and ordered his followers onward.
• The Thousand Heart Knots leaders reviewed a memory crystal showing Chu Qing killing eight Dao Lineage prodigies, including Qian Shanliu Huo and an Incense Path prodigy.
• The Thousand Heart Knots leaders refused to leave their headquarters to retaliate, citing the dangers of calamities and the Harvesters.
• Chu Qing and his followers reached the Yimeng Imperial Capital, whose defenders shut the gates and prepared for a possible attack.
• Chu Qing’s old man demanded that Yimeng either open the gates or send out its Emperor, threatening that they would otherwise fight their way in.

Chu Qing went to Chimon to obtain Emperor Seats for a ritual, and the Otherworlders guarding the empire supplied them after acknowledging their debt to him. He then asked them to help Great Qian fight the Innate Gods and Demons.

• The Chimon Emperor led his guards and Otherworlders outside the capital to confront Chu Qing and his thousand-plus experts.
• Chu Qing asked for an Emperor Seat, and an Otherworlder silenced the Chimon Emperor before he could object.
• The Otherworlders warned the Chimon Emperor not to offend Chu Qing and arranged to provide nine more Emperor Seats.
• The Chimon Emperor handed over his Emperor Seat, and nine others arrived through a mirror, giving Chu Qing ten in total.
• Chu Qing thanked the Otherworlders and asked them to help Great Qian clear out the Innate Gods and Demons.

Chu Qing sent Yue Manlou to deliver a candle flame, a scripture, and a message to the Princess Consort while asking her to find essence blood from ten Gods and Devils. After the scripture taught her to create candle flames, the Princess Consort prepared to use one against the Innate Gods and Demons, who rushed to stop her.

• Chu Qing returned to Stone Ridge Mountain and sent Yue Manlou to the Imperial Capital with a candle flame and a box, asking the Princess Consort for essence blood from ten Gods and Devils and telling her that his sealing ritual was ready.
• Yue Manlou arrived at the battlefield, where the Outsiders and Innate Gods and Demons were fighting, and the Princess Consort rescued him from White-eyed God Demon's attack.
• The Princess Consort and the Outsiders struck White-eyed God Demon with the candle flame, then used its agony as an opening to wound it with a barrage of attacks.
• Yue Manlou delivered Chu Qing's message and the box; the Princess Consort said essence blood was difficult to obtain and told Yue Manlou to leave.
• The Princess Consort read the expanded Enlightenment Star Scripture, created a candle flame, and prepared to attack the Innate Gods and Demons.
• An Innate God and Demon spotted the flame and warned the others, who turned toward the Princess Consort to stop her.

Chu Qing enhanced his Emperor Seat with Gods and Devils Essence Blood, then prepared for the next calamity. He arrived at Liuli’s point in time, found a settlement of people who revered him as a divine being, and could not understand their language.

• Yue Manlou brought the Princess’s Gods and Devils Essence Blood to Chu Qing, and Chu Qing used it to advance the Emperor Seat.
• Chu Qing learned that the Emperor Seat could exist between illusion and reality and dispel evil, while its next advancement required Innate God and Demon Essence Blood.
• Chu Qing focused on cultivation and strengthening himself, setting aside concerns about the Imperial Capital and Divine Court.
• When the calamity descended, Chu Qing prepared with treasures and secret medicine, then arrived at Liuli’s point in time.
• Chu Qing searched for Liuli but did not find her, then followed the mountains to a settlement whose people knelt before him.
• An old man told Chu Qing in the common tongue that the people did not understand his divine language.

Chu Qing reached the green-mist mountain in search of this world’s Divine Beings, only to encounter deadly poison and reunite with Liuli, who had summoned him a year earlier. After they discussed the Liuli sect and its tangled history, Chu Qing asked her for help improving his cultivation and survival skills.

• Chu Qing learned the savages’ language, taught them a revised Mantis Fist, and set off for the Divine Beings’ mountain.
• The green mist poisoned Chu Qing’s arm, so he cut it off and regrew it before deciding not to climb farther.
• Liuli appeared from the sky carrying an Incense Burner and said she had summoned Chu Qing a year earlier.
• Chu Qing explained the two versions of Liuli’s history, and Liuli decided to establish a sect that would record her legacy.
• Chu Qing told Liuli about Ba Liuli and the thirty-two Liulis, then asked her to deduce a scripture, teach him protective methods, and obtain Innate God and Demon Essence Blood.

Chu Qing received Liuli’s essence blood and learned that it could replace Innate God and Demon essence blood for the Emperor Seat ritual. He returned from the tribulation with the blood, leaving him unsure whether to use it for promotion or keep it as a weapon.

• Liuli offered Chu Qing her essence blood and explained that her Dream Weaving Method was difficult to learn.
• Liuli studied Chu Qing’s Qi Ming Star scripture, condensed a fire seed, and gave him an incantation to use her essence blood as a weapon.
• Liuli warned Chu Qing to avoid mountains and lakes inhabited by beings like her, then spoke with him about the future until the tribulation ended.
• After Chu Qing vanished, Liuli told Green Robe not to harm him, and Green Robe promised to remember the warning.
• Chu Qing returned with Liuli’s essence blood, and the Profession Slot identified it as a substitute for Innate God and Demon essence blood in the Emperor Seat ritual.
• Chu Qing debated whether to use the essence blood for promotion or preserve it as a powerful weapon.

Chu Qing attended the Square Inch Gathering, where the prodigies discussed humanity’s war against the forbidden zones and the coming new era. He offered one favor in exchange for a drop of Innate God and Demon Essence Blood and chose Moon God’s offer.

• Chu Qing put away Liuli’s essence blood, deciding to preserve it rather than use it for the Emperor Seat’s advancement.
• At the Square Inch Gathering, Heavenly Court and the other prodigies explained that humanity’s major organizations had launched a full-scale war against the forbidden zones.
• The prodigies predicted the new era would establish new realm names, a sole cultivation path, and a Great Unification organization, while Chu Qing and Luo Tian argued that becoming stronger mattered most.
• Near the end of the gathering, Chu Qing offered one favor for a drop of Innate God and Demon Essence Blood, and several prodigies made offers.
• Chu Qing chose Moon God’s proposal to obtain the essence blood.

Chu Qing joined Second Generation Moon God and a group of experts to attack the Harvesters, whom she suspected of causing her sister’s death. After arriving, he dismissed the group’s concerns and prepared to lead the assault on their fortress.

• Second Generation Moon God recruited Chu Qing to help kill a Harvester in exchange for a drop of Innate God and Demon Essence Blood.
• Moon God gathered several dozen experts outside the fortress, but they questioned whether Chu Qing would arrive and objected to waiting.
• Chu Qing set a ten-minute return limit and teleported to Moon God’s ritual altar.
• Chu Qing claimed he could kill the assembled experts in three minutes, then learned that the enemy was inside the fortress.
• Moon God warned that the Harvesters were terrifying, but Chu Qing drew his blade and prepared to attack.

Chu Qing stormed the Reapers' stronghold and slaughtered the black-robed figures who had plotted to skin Second Generation Moon God. After Second Generation Moon God stopped one of her own experts from entering the fight, she realized Chu Qing was even more ruthless than she was.

• The Reapers prepared to skin Second Generation Moon God, confident that their hidden traitors and defenses would ensure her death.
• Chu Qing burst into the stronghold and killed the black-robed figures, using the future Daylight Scripture to trade injuries for faster kills.
• Second Generation Moon God arrived with her recruited experts and ordered them to seal the stronghold instead of entering it.
• When the twin-sword expert defied her and charged inside, Second Generation Moon God cut off his head and warned the others to obey.
• Watching Chu Qing fight, Second Generation Moon God feared his strength and realized he might have meant to kill her as well.

Chu Qing helped the Second Generation Moon God destroy the trap set for her, then received Innate God and Demon Essence Blood and returned to Stone Ridge Mountain. Myth later warned the Moon God that Chu Qing was exceptionally dangerous and compared his potential to Luo Tian’s.

• Chu Qing slaughtered the black-robed figures in the fortress and joined the Second Generation Moon God in killing the escaping enemies.
• The Second Generation Moon God thanked Chu Qing for saving her from the trap, and he accepted a ruby from her that granted him Innate God and Demon Essence Blood +1.
• Chu Qing encouraged the Second Generation Moon God to tell the Square Inch Gathering about his strength so its members would not plot against him.
• Chu Qing returned to Stone Ridge Mountain, and the Second Generation Moon God contacted Myth to report what he had done.
• Myth said Chu Qing would probably never join them, described Luo Tian’s formidable reputation, and warned the Second Generation Moon God never to make Chu Qing her enemy.

Chu Qing advanced the Mountain Water Path to Emperor Seat Proficient and learned that its next promotion required Innate God and Demon kneecaps and an empire’s submission. He headed for the Great Qian Imperial Capital to seek the Princess’s help, but after seeing how the Divine Court’s Law Net shaped the rebellion across the realm, he arrived to find the capital unrecognizable.

• Chu Qing had Yue Manlou fetch ten portions of exotic flowers and strange herbs, then used them to advance the Mountain Water Path to Emperor Seat Proficient.
• Chu Qing learned that the Emperor Seat’s next promotion required Innate God and Demon kneecaps and an empire’s submission, and decided to ask the Square Inch Gathering’s prodigies and the Princess for help.
• Chu Qing visited the temple outside Stone Ridge Mountain, saw that its statues had become wild Gods and Devils, and resolved to bring down the Divine Court.
• Chu Qing traveled slowly toward the Imperial Capital, finding most cities peaceful but some Rebel Armies resisting the Divine Court after escaping the Law Net’s Twisted Cognition.
• Chu Qing reached the Great Qian Imperial Capital after four or five days and was bewildered by how unfamiliar it looked.

Chu Qing found the Imperial Capital destroyed after the Divine Court Law Net defeated the Princess and seized Great Qian’s Imperial Seal. He urged her to spread news of wild Gods and Devils to undermine the Divine Court, then remained behind to cultivate as she left and advised him to consider cultivating a second path.

• Chu Qing discovered that the Imperial Capital had been reduced to ruins and found the bloodied Princess alone in the ruined palace.
• The Princess explained that the Divine Court Law Net had destroyed the capital, crushed her forces, and taken Great Qian’s Imperial Seal after she used wild Gods and Devils to replace real ones.
• Chu Qing asked the Princess to make Great Qian submit to him so he could complete a ritual, but she refused and revealed that the empire had already lost its legal standing.
• Chu Qing advised the Princess to spread news of wild Gods and Devils throughout the empires, and she vowed to use the rumors to destabilize the Divine Court’s foundation.
• The Princess left Great Qian to spread the news while Chu Qing stayed to refine his Mountain Water Path, and she advised him to cultivate a second path because Dao lineage now stood above all else.

After the Princess departed, Chu Qing reflected on the fierce lineage struggles among martial artists and feared he would eventually be drawn into them. Lin Qingyu of the Martial Academy Alliance tried to recruit him to help secure a position in Heaven’s coming organization, but Chu Qing rejected her.

• The Princess left after revealing secrets about the Great Gan Empire, which Chu Qing expected to collapse after the Millennial Calamity.
• Chu Qing mistook a black-robed visitor for one of the harvesters he had killed, but the visitor revealed herself as Lin Qingyu, a Liaison Envoy from the Martial Academy Alliance.
• Lin Qingyu explained that the alliance sought to seize a Heavenly God Quota in Heaven’s coming organization, which she connected to Great Unification.
• Lin Qingyu promised the alliance would help Chu Qing obtain a position of influence, but Chu Qing called its members idiots and refused to join.

Chu Qing rejected Lin Qingyu’s defense of Great Unification, arguing that powerful organizations could resist it instead of surrendering to the supposed tide of the times. He left the ruined Imperial Palace and headed for the Liuli River, where he sensed the chains had tainted another thirty thousand li and drew closer to fully controlling the river.

• Chu Qing challenged Lin Qingyu to explain why the Martial Academy Alliance supported Great Unification, then argued that it could prevent the new order from arising just as he had resisted the Divine Court.
• Lin Qingyu warned that resisting Great Unification would provoke Heaven’s Millennial Tribulation, but Chu Qing said he would welcome it if fewer people meant more resources for him.
• Chu Qing told Lin Qingyu that strength was the way forward and left the Imperial Palace; Lin Qingyu reflected on her inability to advance without opening a new path.
• Chu Qing crossed the deserted Imperial Capital, passed an abandoned pavilion and a small grave mound, and continued toward the Liuli River.
• At the Liuli River’s source, Chu Qing sensed that the chains had tainted another thirty thousand li and said he was nearing complete control of the river and Perfection in the Great River Method.

Chu Qing failed to find Liuli’s former cave abode and traveled to Stone Ridge Mountain, killing Divine Court spies who monitored him. After the Seventh Generation Officials avoided confronting him and forced his critics to guard the mountain, Chu Qing ordered Zhao Hongxiu to demand golden toad secret medicine from the Divine Court and great families.

• Chu Qing searched the Liuli River for Liuli’s cave abode but found no trace of it and headed for Stone Ridge Mountain.
• Chu Qing killed more than a hundred Divine Court spies who brazenly monitored him, while the Innate Gods and Devils ordered the Seventh Generation Officials to handle the matter.
• The Seventh Generation Officials ignored the order and assigned the Enfeoffment Gods and Devils who had called for Chu Qing’s death to guard Stone Ridge Mountain.
• At Stone Ridge Mountain, Zhao Hongxiu reported that she and the maids had raised more than three thousand golden toads but lacked enough secret medicine to raise more.
• Chu Qing gave Zhao Hongxiu his seal and ordered her to make the Divine Court and great families supply golden toad secret medicine or face his wrath.

Zhao Hongxiu prepared to demand Golden Toad secret medicine for Chu Qing while encouraging Mingyue to stay useful and close to him. At the Zhu Family, Bai Tian planned her own venture and claimed to be Chu Qing’s friend, but his envoys arrived with an Imperial Decree and accused her of impersonating his friend.

• Zhao Hongxiu packed Chu Qing’s seal and set out with over a hundred Top Experts to demand Golden Toad secret medicine from noble families and the Divine Court.
• Zhao Hongxiu urged Mingyue to build earth veins near Chu Qing, and Chu Qing reassured Mingyue that he would remember her and told her to eat a Golden Toad Silver Coin each day.
• The Zhu Family’s executives welcomed Bai Tian, who ordered them to prepare for an expedition into a forbidden zone and bring her information about Chu Qing.
• Bai Tian dismissed the Zhu Family’s concerns about Chu Qing and claimed he could not escape her grasp.
• Two New Realm experts arrived at the Zhu Family with Chu Qing’s sealed decree, and Bai Tian refused to kneel, claiming she was Chu Qing’s friend.
• A New Realm expert accused Bai Tian of impersonating Chu Qing’s friend and threatened her family.