Recaps

After parting from Liuli, Chu Qing encountered a strange tavern while traveling and found two men who both claimed they would kill him. One revealed himself as Gong Qingtian, leaving the Hunchbacked Old Man alarmed and Chu Qing curious about his strength.

• Chu Qing learned that Liuli could not return to the future because an obstruction blocked the river of time, and Liuli vowed to watch for Heaven gaining intelligence.
• Chu Qing returned from the calamity and struck an expert who wondered whether he wanted to kill the waiting sect fighters.
• Chu Qing found a tavern in the wilderness, but his blood qi failed to alter it, so he suspected it was an Otherfolk obsession rather than a Great Terror.
• A middle-aged man with a divine sword and a Hunchbacked Old Man arrived separately, and both insisted they would kill Chu Qing.
• The middle-aged man introduced himself as Gong Qingtian, making the Hunchbacked Old Man's hair stand on end.

Chu Qing and Gong Qingtian fought after recognizing each other as opponents on the Mythological Path, while the Hunchbacked Old Man revealed he was a Martial Arts Myth and tried to attack them. Chu Qing overwhelmed Gong Qingtian, who called on the Hunchbacked Old Man for help as he struggled to survive.

• Gong Qingtian appeared in the tavern, and the Hunchbacked Old Man realized that time and space might have gone awry.
• Chu Qing identified Gong Qingtian as the Great Terror and challenged him, while Gong Qingtian ignored the Hunchbacked Old Man’s claim to be a Myth.
• Chu Qing and Gong Qingtian began fighting with their strongest killing moves, prompting the Hunchbacked Old Man to attack them both.
• Chu Qing and Gong Qingtian countered the Hunchbacked Old Man together, tearing apart his attacks before returning to their duel.
• Chu Qing read Gong Qingtian’s moves and repeatedly pierced his chest and forehead, but Gong Qingtian’s wounds instantly healed.
• Gong Qingtian admitted he could not hold on and called for the Hunchbacked Old Man to help kill Chu Qing.

Chu Qing fought Gong Qingtian and the Hunchbacked Old Man, growing stronger as their attacks fused his killing intent and Baleful Intent. When Gong Qingtian tried to merge with the Hunchbacked Old Man and become a Great Terror, Chu Qing tore into their fusion and challenged their claim to the name.

• Gong Qingtian and the Hunchbacked Old Man attacked Chu Qing together with their Mythological Path techniques, but Chu Qing repeatedly wounded them.
• As the battle dragged on, Chu Qing’s killing intent and Baleful Intent merged, and ten cities filled with copies of him appeared behind him as he began deducing his enemies’ methods.
• The Hunchbacked Old Man urged Gong Qingtian to risk everything, and Gong Qingtian decided to fuse their Mythological Paths into a Great Terror.
• Gong Qingtian’s Sword Path dragon clung to the Hunchbacked Old Man and burrowed into his body, while Chu Qing kicked apart the old man’s head.
• Chu Qing grabbed the dragon and pulled, asking whether a Great Terror that only wore human skin was worthy of the name.

Chu Qing fought Gong Qingtian, who had merged with the Hunchbacked Old Man’s skin and gained a trace of an Emissary of Heaven’s power. Their brutal battle continued as the Black Demon Sect evacuated its disciples to escape the fighting.

• The Hunchbacked Old Man swallowed Gong Qingtian’s Sword Dao Dragon, but Gong Qingtian took over his body and revealed that he had become an Emissary of Heaven.
• Gong Qingtian transformed into his complete form and warned Chu Qing that Heaven would not allow him to become an Ancient Mythology.
• Chu Qing’s King Quan: Hand of God dispersed when Gong Qingtian’s enormous eyeball observed it, so Chu Qing attacked him with the Killing Path Secret Transmission instead.
• Gong Qingtian’s eyeball copied Chu Qing’s Killing Path Secret Transmission, and the two fought with strength and wounds that repeatedly healed.
• The Black Demon Sect’s thirteen prodigies sensed the battle, and the Sect Master ordered the disciples to flee far from the fighting.

Chu Qing fought Gong Qingtian, whose copied power made them evenly matched, while the Black Demon Sect gathered the body parts scattered across the battlefield. After Chu Qing judged Gong Qingtian’s resolve broken, he retreated and used a Beauty’s Head, leaving its effect unknown.

• The Black Demon Sect’s monsters saw Chu Qing’s killing intent overwhelm two others, then fled when a severed hand attacked them and realized it was Chu Qing’s.
• As Chu Qing and Gong Qingtian’s battle scattered limbs and Primordial Spirit fragments across the area, the Black Demon Sect’s experts collected Chu Qing’s body parts for study.
• Gong Qingtian copied Chu Qing’s body, realms, and dragon sinews, but Chu Qing remained his equal in a two-hour fight.
• Chu Qing criticized Gong Qingtian for copying rather than inventing variations of the Killing Path Secret Transmission, and Gong Qingtian vowed to trap him instead of kill him.
• Chu Qing declared Gong Qingtian dead after his resolve faltered, retreated as Gong Qingtian pursued, and called on a Beauty’s Head to open her eyes.

Chu Qing defeated Gong Qingtian and examined the strange powers and human skin left behind by the battle. Gong Qingtian vanished after failing Heaven’s mission, while Chu Qing gained a new level in his Ancient Mythological Path but still found nothing unusual about the skin.

• The Black Demon Sect Master gathered Chu Qing’s scattered flesh and blood, then celebrated when Chu Qing returned carrying the stone form of Gong Qingtian.
• Chu Qing told the sect that the collected remains could be studied, and the Black Demon Sect swept the battlefield clean and recorded a distorted account of the fight.
• Chu Qing inspected Gong Qingtian’s petrified eyeball and human skin, learning that the eye belonged to Heaven and could copy secret transmissions and bodily structures.
• Chu Qing restored Gong Qingtian with the Beauty’s Head, then turned him to stone again as black smoke rose and Gong Qingtian begged Heaven for another chance.
• Gong Qingtian vanished after the smoke disappeared, leaving only his skin; Chu Qing concluded that he had failed Heaven’s mission and credited the battle with advancing his Ancient Mythological Path.
• Chu Qing continued studying the skin but found no unusual properties and wondered whether the hunchbacked Martial Arts Myth had deceived him.

Chu Qing asked Goddess King Bai Lu to identify the hunchbacked mythological figure and learned that he was Qiu Wushuang, a missing member of White Jade Capital descended from Fur Martial Ancestor Qiu Wudi. He realized the old man's skin might hold a secret connected to Qiu Wudi, leaving him wondering whether it could reveal her ancient power.

• Chu Qing spoke with Cui Moyang and Nangong about his Ancient Mythological Path, described its dangers, and promised to help Nangong cultivate after completing it.
• Chu Qing ordered Goddess King Bai Lu to investigate the hunchbacked expert who had mastered four paths, and she agreed to search for information.
• Goddess King Bai Lu discovered that the hunchbacked figure was Qiu Wushuang, a mythological title holder who had vanished over three hundred years earlier.
• Goddess King Bai Lu revealed that Qiu Wushuang's Old Ancestor was Qiu Wudi, the legendary Fur Martial Ancestor who established the Pelt Realm.
• Chu Qing realized that the Hunchbacked Old Man's skin concealed information about Qiu Wudi and wondered whether he could uncover her power.

After learning that Chu Qing had killed her woman, a powerful otherkin tried to mobilize White Jade Capital against him, but the current White Jade Capital ordered the Mythological Institution to stand down. The otherkin then chose a powerful Goddess Myth to kill Chu Qing, and she set out alone across the Endless Sea.

• Chu Qing spoke with Madam Jin and Madam Shi, then examined the self-repairing human skin and continued along the Ancient Mythological Path.
• An otherkin at White Jade Capital learned that Gong Qingtian had failed to kill Chu Qing and ordered experts to attack him.
• The current White Jade Capital rejected the order and directed the Mythological Institution to abandon its plans against Chu Qing.
• Enraged that White Jade Capital would not avenge his woman, the otherkin selected a Goddess Myth nearing the Overlord title and implanted a command to kill Chu Qing.
• The female warrior left the island she was helping develop and began crossing the Endless Sea to hunt Chu Qing.

Chu Qing endured the Fourth Great Terror, a lonely passage through the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and recovered before joining the Square Inch Gathering. He learned that Heavenly Court planned to stop him from walking the Mythological Path unless he hurried.

• Chu Qing survived a coffin Great Terror and strengthened his foundations and combat power.
• Chu Qing endured the Six Paths of Reincarnation, rejected its temptations and pleas to abandon his path, and emerged with his strength increased.
• Chu Qing rested, then asked Luo Tian whether he had experienced the Six Paths of Reincarnation; Luo Tian said he had not.
• Chu Qing joined the Square Inch Gathering, discussed his progress, and learned from Heavenly Court that the authorities intended to stop his journey because wild martial artists were not permitted to walk the Mythological Path.

First Illumination Person of That Year revealed that she had reincarnated and claimed to know how others could do the same, drawing the Square Inch Gathering’s attention to the Heart Blood needed from a forbidden-region nest and Stone Ridge Mountain. Her instructions sent Luo Tian and other geniuses toward the nest, while Second Generation Moon God questioned how First Illumination Person had obtained Stone Ridge Mountain’s woman’s essence blood.

• First Illumination Person of That Year arrived at the Square Inch Gathering, announced herself, and revealed that an accident had delayed her reincarnation.
• The gathering’s members assumed Chu Qing was also a reincarnator, but First Illumination Person of That Year said she was the only one and demanded they call her Mother before sharing her method.
• First Illumination Person of That Year said reincarnation required Heart Blood from a nest’s master and from the woman who had become Stone Ridge Mountain.
• Chu Qing warned Luo Tian, Heavenly Court, and Second Generation Moon God that the nest was dangerous, but Luo Tian chose to seek its Heart Blood and planned to summon her sect if necessary.
• Second Generation Bi Luo asked for the Stone Ridge Mountain woman’s coordinates, and First Illumination Person of That Year explained that awakening the mountain could revive her.
• Second Generation Moon God asked First Illumination Person of That Year how she had obtained the woman’s essence blood.

After learning that First Illumination Person had reincarnated as a one-year-old with only twenty years to live, Chu Qing agreed to find help for her. He arranged for the Princess Consort and Madam Jin to travel to her, but their journey required a large supply of Exotic Flowers and Herbs.

• At the Square Inch Gathering, Luo Tian said he would inspect the suspected nest in seven or eight years and call the others if it was real, while First Illumination Person asked to join the expedition.
• First Illumination Person contacted Chu Qing for help, explained that she had reincarnated as the child of two Otherkind, and revealed that her memory fragment would last only twenty years.
• First Illumination Person sent Chu Qing the ritual for reviving Beauty's Head and argued that reviving the woman from Stone Ridge Mountain could give her a chance to survive.
• Chu Qing decided not to tell the Square Inch Gathering about First Illumination Person's location and instead contacted the Princess Consort and Madam Jin.
• The Princess Consort and Madam Jin calculated that their trip would require fifteen thousand Exotic Flowers and Herbs, and Chu Qing said he would arrange to send them to Stone Ridge Mountain.

Chu Qing gathered Exotic Flowers and Herbs from sects and factions while continuing along the Ancient Mythological Path, despite the Heavenly Court warning that Heaven wanted him eliminated. He survived the fifth Great Terror by killing two Mythological martial artists and continued toward completing the path.

• Chu Qing ordered sects and factions to deliver Exotic Flowers and Herbs to Stone Ridge Mountain, and many sent extra gifts to curry favor with him.
• Chu Qing learned that the Divine Court Law Net had sent a thousand Exotic Flowers and Herbs and suspected the Heavenly Court was behind the offering.
• The Heavenly Court warned Chu Qing that the Lord of the Heavenly Court had ordered his elimination, but Chu Qing resolved to finish the Ancient Mythological Path and protect Liuli's secret if necessary.
• Chu Qing continued suppressing factions and advancing along the Ancient Mythological Path until he had completed two-thirds of it.
• During the fifth Great Terror, Chu Qing fought two Mythological martial artists for three days and three nights, then killed them both through his superior recovery speed.

Chu Qing continued defeating challengers and teaching martial arts as the Divine Court prepared a large force of Innate Gods and Demons to kill him. After learning that Early Summer had developed a flower pattern on her forehead, he hurried to return, while his collected teachings became prized as the Qing Dao General Outline.

• More than thirty Innate Gods and Demons agreed to join the Divine Court’s effort to intercept and kill Chu Qing.
• Ancient and Modern Empress ordered the Demon Prison Law Net to intercept twenty-eight of them, crushed a dissenting Great Emperor, and planned to aid Chu Qing when he was in danger.
• Mingyue told Chu Qing that Early Summer had developed a flower pattern on her forehead, prompting him to hurry back.
• Chu Qing pierced several New Realm prodigies’ chests with strands of his hair, then explained martial arts to them before leaving.
• Warriors compiled and sold Chu Qing’s lessons as the Qing Dao General Outline, which helped countless readers advance their martial arts.

Chu Qing raced toward Stone Ridge Mountain, unaware that Innate Gods and Demons had discovered his trail and were preparing to intercept him. As he pushed his speed higher to reach Chuxia’s God and Demon body and advance to the Emperor Seat, martial artists in an Imperial Capital learned of the threat and worried about his fate.

• Two Innate Gods and Demons tracked Chu Qing to a sect, killed one martial artist while searching for him, then learned his direction and pursued him.
• The Heavenly Court mobilized diviners and forces to locate Chu Qing, tracking his speed as it rose from thirty to fifty times the speed of sound.
• The Innate Gods and Demons used the Law Net to teleport two pursuers to an Imperial Capital ahead of Chu Qing’s route.
• An Otherkind told the Emperor that the Gods and Demons were waiting to kill Chu Qing, prompting local martial artists to fear for the man who had advanced their paths.
• Chu Qing continued racing toward Stone Ridge Mountain, using secret arts to increase his speed as he sought Chuxia’s God and Demon body and the Emperor Seat.

Chu Qing ambushed two Innate Gods and Demons in Willow Leaf's Imperial Capital, then fled when their defenses stopped his attacks. His sonic boom struck the gathered martial artists, who celebrated the promise of human martial arts rising.

• Young martial artists seized their Lineages' heavy weapons and prepared to attack the Innate Gods and Demons to warn Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing revealed himself among the martial artists, vanished, and appeared behind an Innate God and Demon to slash its neck with a divine longblade.
• Chu Qing rapidly attacked both Innate Gods and Demons, leaving them with numerous deep wounds before their force fields blocked his strikes.
• Chu Qing taunted the Gods and Devils and fled, while the two Innate Gods and Demons contacted their headquarters for help intercepting him.
• Chu Qing's returning sonic boom swept through the Imperial Capital, injuring martial artists and scattering the heavy weapons, but they cheered for human martial arts.

The Divine Court Law Net repeatedly sent Innate Gods and Devils to intercept Chu Qing, but he broke through their traps and escaped each time. After the Gods and Devils exhausted nearly all their incense offerings, the Divine Speed God and Demon called headquarters to ask for Extreme Speed, but nobody answered.

• The Divine Court Law Net teleported two Innate Gods and Devils to Chu Qing's route, then sent the Net God and Demon to build a vast net and cages.
• Chu Qing shattered the net and narrowly passed through the cages before they could close, while the other Gods and Devils failed to stop him.
• The Net God and Demon asked headquarters for a fast ally, and the Divine Speed God and Demon reported that Chu Qing had overpowered him.
• A Strength God and Demon caught up to Chu Qing, but Chu Qing pierced him with a divine spear and escaped; the Gods and Devils then sent a Defense God and Demon.
• The Defense God and Demon said Chu Qing escaped when the Divine Speed God and Demon carried him and the others, prompting headquarters to argue over whether to awaken Extreme Speed.
• The Divine Speed God and Demon repeatedly called headquarters to request Extreme Speed, but headquarters fell silent.

Chu Qing returned to Stone Ridge Mountain, completed his promotion, and gained the Emperor Seat title and its powerful abilities. The six Gods and Devils abandoned their mission to kill him, while the Ancient and Modern Empress continued watching for a chance to help him.

• Divine Court headquarters ordered the six Gods and Devils to find and kill Chu Qing at Stone Ridge Mountain, but refused to teleport them there.
• The six Gods and Devils, angered by headquarters’ silence, decided to abandon the hunt and travel toward the Cape of Good Hope instead.
• The Ancient and Modern Empress resolved to watch Chu Qing at Stone Ridge Mountain or along his Mythological Path so she could offer him help.
• Chu Qing returned to Stone Ridge Mountain, told Mingyue to stay put, and descended into the cavern to check Chuxia’s corpse.
• Chu Qing fulfilled the promotion conditions and advanced to Emperor Seat, gaining absolute invincibility, instant teleportation, weakened enemy recovery, and the power to enfeoff living beings.

Chu Qing used his Emperor Seat enfeoffment ability to improve his own foundations and then the Princess Consort’s, triggering a transformation in her bloodline. As Divine Court forces closed in on Stone Ridge Mountain, Mingyue warned Chu Qing that the enfeoffment gods would help him escape.

• Chu Qing enfeoffed himself and learned his powerful bloodline and Fish Dragon Dance had improved through nine thousand years of accumulated evolution, but he could only use the ability once per year.
• Chu Qing visited the Princess Consort in the Cold Pond, told her he had killed two Martial Arts Myths, and refused her offer to flee Stone Ridge Mountain.
• Chu Qing enfeoffed the Princess Consort, giving her eight thousand years of improvement and causing her bloodline to transform inside a black-gold sphere.
• Six Gods and Devils traveling toward Stone Ridge Mountain stopped burning their essence blood to preserve their strength for the journey across the Endless Sea.
• The Divine Court ordered its Enfeoffment Gods and Demons to withdraw and seal off Stone Ridge Mountain; many secretly warned Mingyue and offered to help Chu Qing escape.
• Mingyue contacted Chu Qing and told him that Divine Court powerhouses were coming to kill him and that the Enfeoffment Gods and Demons would conceal his escape.

Chu Qing prepared to confront the Four Heavenly Kings outside Stone Ridge Mountain while the Divine Court Law Net revived the four Innate Gods and Demons to kill him. As a vast crowd gathered, black clouds covered ten cities, marking Chu Qing’s arrival and the start of the public battle.

• Chu Qing reassured Bright Moon and told her to lead the enemy into the valley if she could not hold them off, where her Golden Core could kill them.
• Shi Tiezhu, King Shiyu, and the Chief Subordinate lamented Chu Qing’s strength and planned to leave the continent through the Cape of Good Hope to seek power and return in glory.
• The Divine Court Law Net spent its incense offerings reviving the Four Heavenly Kings, who traveled to Stone Ridge Mountain determined to kill Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing covered the Princess Consort’s black-gold egg, then headed outside Stone Ridge Mountain, confident that his strengthened power could defeat the Innate Gods and Demons.
• More than a million living beings gathered to watch as black clouds spread across ten cities and an Enfeoffment God and Demon announced Chu Qing’s arrival.

Chu Qing confronted the Four Heavenly Kings before more than a million witnesses and overwhelmed them with his Baleful Intent and extraordinary combat power. He repeatedly severed the Eastern Pole God and Demon's head, leaving the furious, bewildered God convinced that the world was fake.

• Chu Qing's Black Tide shattered the Four Heavenly Kings' black clouds, and he declared that he would represent humanity and kill the Gods and Devils.
• Chu Qing unleashed a rapid assault that wounded all four Gods and Devils, then fought through Xi Yin's resistance and the Eastern Pole God and Demon's magnetic chains.
• Chu Qing cleaved through the Northern and Southern Pole Gods and Devils' ice-and-fire dragons, severing their fingers with a divine saber.
• Chu Qing attacked the Eastern Pole God and Demon, cut off his head, and split it apart before the God regenerated.
• Chu Qing cut off the Eastern Pole God and Demon's newly grown head again, and the God cried that the world was fake and that he should be inside the Law Net.

Chu Qing fought four Innate Gods and Devils, repeatedly beheading them while surviving their attacks through rapid regeneration. The battle moved back into public view, and the Gods and Devils resolved to kill him quickly before their failed assassination further damaged their prestige.

• Chu Qing repeatedly severed Western Pole God and Demon's head, forcing the four Gods and Devils to shrink, remove their heads, and adapt their tactics.
• The Gods and Devils began striking Chu Qing more effectively, but he recovered from devastating injuries in less than half an instant.
• Chu Qing reflected that uncovering the secret of the human skin of a descendant of Piyu Martial Ancestor Qiu Wudi might improve his defense.
• The Four Heavenly Kings moved the fight deeper into Stone Ridge Mountain, but Chu Qing returned to the original battlefield and challenged them to kill him before everyone or be beheaded by him.
• The Ancient and Modern Empress suspected Chu Qing was risking death to break humanity's fear of Gods and Devils and protect the rise of the human martial path.
• The four Gods and Devils, worried that the prolonged fight would ruin their prestige, agreed to stop entangling with Chu Qing and kill him at any cost.

Chu Qing used the Beauty's Head to petrify two Innate Gods and Demons, but Heaven thwarted it against the other pair. With Princess Consort holding off the Western Pole God and Demon, Chu Qing charged the Northern Pole God and Demon, stunning the watching crowd with his battle.

• The four Innate Gods and Demons overwhelmed Chu Qing, who endured nearly two minutes of combat before grabbing the hidden Beauty's Head in Stone Ridge Mountain.
• Ancient and Modern Empress moved to help Chu Qing, while two Princess Consorts arrived and used their bright pearls to knock down the other two Gods and Demons.
• Chu Qing used the Beauty's Head to petrify Ancient and Modern Empress's two opponents, then thanked her and turned the treasure on the remaining pair.
• Heaven's eyes appeared on the remaining Gods and Demons, who resisted the Beauty's gaze and declared they had learned its secrets.
• Chu Qing discarded the Beauty's Head and attacked the Northern Pole God and Demon with divine sabers as Princess Consort blocked the Western Pole God and Demon.

Chu Qing used his Emperor Seat power and overwhelming speed to brutalize the Northern Pole God and Demon, who transformed into blessed-land ice to escape his attacks. Chu Qing’s Morning Star fire burned away the ice and its origin, leaving the Northern Pole God and Demon fleeing and begging to negotiate.

• Chu Qing carved away the Northern Pole God and Demon's flesh and bones with rapid saber strikes, reducing him to a golden skeleton.
• The Northern Pole God and Demon drew on his blessed land and transformed into cold air, believing Chu Qing could no longer harm him.
• Chu Qing used candle-sized Morning Star fire seeds to burn away the Northern Pole God and Demon's cold air and permanently destroy portions of his blessed-land origin.
• The Northern Pole God and Demon fled while Chu Qing pursued him, repeatedly hurling fire-bearing divine weapons into the cold air.
• The Northern Pole God and Demon pleaded to negotiate, and Chu Qing agreed that the fault lay with the world before asking him to stop fleeing.

Chu Qing forced Northern Pole God and Demon to kneel before millions, prompting hundreds of thousands of Enfeoffment Gods and Demons and human martial artists to worship him. Western Pole God and Demon also knelt, leaving the Princess Consort and Ancient and Modern Empress stunned as Chu Qing stood amid the crowd’s worship.

• Chu Qing drove Northern Pole God and Demon back to Stone Ridge Mountain with candle-flame weapons and forced him to kneel and apologize before millions.
• An Enfeoffment God and Demon knelt first, and hundreds of thousands of Enfeoffment Gods and Demons and human martial artists followed by worshipping Chu Qing.
• Watching the scene, outsiders and myths were shaken, while a Bai Yu Jing outsider questioned why the Innate Gods and Demons worshipped Chu Qing but had never knelt to him.
• Western Pole God and Demon resisted the urge to kneel, but after seeing Chu Qing’s gaze, he dismissed the power supporting his knees and knelt beside the Princess Consort.
• Ancient and Modern Empress and the Princess Consort criticized Western Pole God and Demon, then looked up at Chu Qing receiving the crowd’s worship.

After Chu Qing’s defeat of the Divine Court’s interception spread across the continent, the Heavenly Court and Divine Court argued over payment while other factions reconsidered how to respond to him. Chu Qing then prepared to seal the Western Pole and Northern Pole Gods and Demons, leaving the ritual underway.

• News of Chu Qing forcing Innate Gods and Demons to kneel spread across the continent, and the Divine Court demanded more resources from the Heavenly Court after its failed interception.
• The Heavenly Court paid the Divine Court, whose Gods and Demons credited Chu Qing’s Great Unification theory for their leverage and discussed demanding further resources.
• White Jade Capital’s Other cut ties with the female warrior who had crossed the sea, and she departed to return to opening up a New Continent.
• Chu Qing noticed the departing female warrior, then turned his attention to the Western Pole and Northern Pole Gods and Demons.
• The Princess Consort brought four sets of sealing ritual apparatus, and Chu Qing lit incense, bowed to the Four Directions, and asked them to help seal the fiend.