Recaps

Dongfang Shuo warned the Yellow Springs Sect that Chu Qing could erase dominators, prompting the Sect Master to investigate Emperor Liuli. Meanwhile, Chu Qing, Nangong, and Cui Moyang brought their haul back to Stone Ridge Mountain, where they identified two remarkable treasures.

• Dongfang Shuo told the Yellow Springs Sect Master that Chu Qing had erased two dominators and killed another, and the Sect Master ordered the incident recorded and sought a response.
• Dongfang Shuo received doubled resource approvals and identified the terrifying expert as Emperor Liuli, prompting the Sect Master to order a search of the historical records.
• A man and two women emerged from the Liuli River carrying huge objects, inspiring a treasure-digging craze that cost many people their lives.
• Chu Qing, Nangong, and Cui Moyang returned to Stone Ridge Mountain with Liuli Imperial City's treasures and identified only a small portion of Azure Netherworld's collection.
• Chu Qing explained that a Golden Silk White Jade mother jade could greatly accelerate Stone Ridge Mountain's production of rare resources, while the trio also examined a cup that produced Water Drop Gems.

Chu Qing and the women used Undying Gems from the Divine Spring to strengthen their foundations and protect against severe injuries, then cultivated together in Cui Moyang's Sword Dao Space. Their shared insights transformed several cultivation paths, and Chu Qing left with his next method of cultivation decided.

• Nangong and Cui Moyang swallowed Undying Gems to improve their foundations and preserve their youthful beauty, while Chu Qing distributed gems and kept reserves for emergencies.
• Chu Qing explained that the Divine Spring held 108 Undying Gems, could produce one each month, and allowed their power to be sealed for later use.
• After three days of sorting treasures, Mingyue celebrated how her Golden Core grew stronger, and Cui Moyang invited everyone to cultivate together in her Sword Dao Space.
• Over ten days, Cui Moyang organized her Sword Dao and gained a complete understanding of Mountain Dao, while she and the others helped refine one another's cultivation paths.
• Nangong transformed her Heavenly Demon Strategy, Mingyue advanced along the Golden Core path, and Chu Qing determined his next method of cultivation.

Nangong and Cui Moyang left to walk the Mythological Path while Chu Qing watched over his allies and worked on his Mountain Dao. He learned Bi Luo was killing members of her own sect, leaving him to wonder if she was rebelling.

• Nangong and Cui Moyang departed for another continent, and Chu Qing wished them a safe return.
• Madam Jin told Chu Qing that her group was being hunted after his son caused trouble, but First Illumination Person assured him they had a way to escape danger.
• Chu Qing and Mingyue gathered Silver Coin from the Three-legged Golden Toads to send to Zhao Hongxiu.
• Mingyue suppressed a Dao Lineage Dispute at Stone Ridge Mountain, while Chu Qing resolved to render Liuli Imperial City as part of his Mountain Dao.
• Chu Qing contacted Bi Luo and learned she was killing people from her own side, prompting him to ask whether she was rebelling.

Chu Qing entered Liuli Imperial City to continue saturating its special nodes while Bi Luo and Azure Netherworld forces fought to claim the city. A hidden overlord decided to attack him, confident he could kill Chu Qing and return with his head.

• Second Generation Bi Luo told Chu Qing that Bi Luo’s factional struggle had intensified and warned him that Second Generation Yin Tianzi’s behavior was suspicious.
• Second Generation Moon God revealed that the previous Yin Tianzi had disappeared and might have been killed by overlords or faked his death.
• Chu Qing told Mingyue he would cultivate in seclusion for up to five years, then entered the Liuli River and passed through the exotic treasure reef into Liuli Imperial City.
• Chu Qing killed the martial artists who followed him into the city, found the warehouse empty, and began saturating special nodes throughout the Imperial Palace district.
• A hidden overlord observed Chu Qing’s unusual method and, after speaking with headquarters, vowed to kill him within a minute.

Chu Qing rendered Liuli Imperial City until its reflected image formed in his heart, completing his Way of Mountains and Rivers. As he continued building its layers, he learned that Stone Ridge Mountain, guarded by Mingyue, had run into trouble.

• Bi Luo Sect's higher-ups forgot their plan to kill Chu Qing, then sent a tyrant skilled in assassination into the secret realm.
• Chu Qing erased the assassin with King's Authority: Hand of God and continued rendering buildings throughout Liuli Imperial City.
• The second tyrant repeatedly sensed danger, refused to attack, and eventually gave up waiting in ambush to cultivate in a rendered room.
• As Chu Qing rendered key nodes, the Imperial Capital's phantom took shape in his heart, and he declared his Way of Mountains and Rivers complete.
• Chu Qing exchanged updates with Nangong, Madam Jin, Cui Moyang, Mingyue, and the others, learning that Stone Ridge Mountain had run into trouble.

Chu Qing ordered Mingyue to enforce his authority at Stone Ridge Mountain, where factions were fighting over which path should prevail. As leaders and hundreds of thousands of New Realm powerhouses demanded that Chu Qing choose a path, he declared that he would return the next day and impose his will.

• Chu Qing told Mingyue to dismantle the arena within a day and warned that he would kill anyone who resisted her authority.
• Mingyue confronted Stone Ridge Mountain’s leaders, but many argued that Chu Qing could not rule them and should choose one of their thirty-six paths.
• A spokesman for the Gods and Devils path claimed that the era’s great trend required Chu Qing and Mingyue to choose a path, prompting most leaders to rally behind him.
• Mingyue contacted Chu Qing and reported that the leaders were rebelling, while some of his supporters prepared to flee.
• Chu Qing rejected the leaders’ demands and ordered everyone to wait for his return the next day, declaring that he was the great trend, the overall situation, and the new era.

Hundreds of thousands of New Realm martial artists and millions of Third Limit fighters gathered to overthrow Chu Qing and seize Stone Ridge Mountain. Chu Qing arrived in the ten cities above them and slaughtered the assembled forces, leaving no sign that anyone would challenge his rule.

• Mingyue and the maidservants guarded the Princess Consort and Madam Shi while some New Realm powerhouses left Stone Ridge Mountain.
• The remaining martial artists formed ranks before Chu Qing’s altar, hoping to establish a single Dao lineage and take control of the mountain.
• Chu Qing appeared above them in ten cities surrounded by black clouds and declared that the era they invoked belonged to him.
• Chu Qing descended and killed the assembled fighters, whose attempts to resist and flee proved futile.
• A Chief Subordinate begged Chu Qing for mercy, but Chu Qing stepped on him and a golden flower of evil consumed him.

Chu Qing relentlessly hunted the rebels who had tried to recruit him, while some survivors escaped Stone Ridge Mountain and died from exhaustion at the Cape of Good Hope. When news spread that Chu Qing had gone mad and slaughtered the gathered forces, a young visitor abandoned his plans to walk the Mythological Path and hurried to buy return tickets.

• Chu Qing used the corrupted Peak of Mountains and the Daylight Scripture to pursue and kill rebels across Stone Ridge Mountain for hours.
• Dozens of fleeing New Realm experts reached the Cape of Good Hope, collapsed, and died from exhaustion after burning their lifespans to escape.
• A martial artist determined that the fugitives had died after exhausting their Spirit and Energy, and locals explained that hundreds of thousands of New Realm experts and nearly ten million Third Limit martial artists had gathered around Great Lord Qing.
• More survivors said Chu Qing had gone mad and slaughtered them, and a ship owner killed one fugitive and ordered the others who escaped to be killed.
• A young man who had come to walk the Mythological Path asked the ship owner for return tickets because he did not want to face Chu Qing.

After Stone Ridge Mountain was left empty following Chu Qing’s purge, Mingyue arranged for the palace to be rebuilt with help from across the continent. She recruited Tang Wuming and Sima Zhao to supply specialized Construction Gods and Devils, while Chu Qing departed for Liuli Imperial City.

• Outsiders fled the Cape of Good Hope after hearing about Chu Qing’s slaughter and Stone Ridge Mountain’s rebellion, while a visiting Young Master complained that the rebels had fought over a Dao Lineage Dispute.
• Chu Qing told Mingyue to invite every sect and organization to send workers to rebuild the palace and to ask Tang Wuming and Sima Zhao for labor and resources.
• Mingyue spent three days with Chu Qing before he left for Liuli Imperial City, then carried his seal to the temple to request loyal workers at least at the Third Limit.
• Tang Wuming and Sima Zhao showed Mingyue several construction-specialized wild Gods and Devils, and she ordered them to cultivate more for the palace and future projects.
• Sima Zhao promised to mobilize empires across the continent to raise millions of Construction Gods and Devils, and Mingyue asked him to bring Lan Lan and the unnamed Senior Student to her.

Mingyue oversaw hundreds of thousands of Construction Gods and Devils building a vast structure at Stone Ridge Mountain, which was nearly complete after three years. Meanwhile, Chu Qing exchanged martial insights with his allies, and Nangong Xue began the Ancient Mythological Path by declaring her name to a shocked crowd.

• Empires across the continent created Construction Gods and Devils, who were taught to serve Chu Qing and sent to build at Stone Ridge Mountain.
• Over three years, hundreds of thousands of Construction Gods and Devils transformed the mountain ranges as Mingyue’s enormous building neared completion.
• Mingyue praised the many-headed Construction God and Devil and announced that eleven even grander projects would follow.
• Chu Qing spoke with Madam Jin, Nangong, Cui Moyang, and others, while Nangong explained how the Twelve Zodiac Palaces had strengthened her.
• Nangong arrived at her destination continent, set up an altar at the dock, worshiped the Four Directions, and declared that everyone must remember her name.

Chu Qing spoke with Cui Moyang about their growing strength before she challenged the sword-wielding dead aboard a decayed ship. At the Square Inch Gathering, Yin Tianzi announced that the Misty Rain Tower would disband within a year and transfer its movable wealth to the Heavenly Court, hastening the coming Great Unification.

• Cui Moyang told Chu Qing that she had strengthened her sword dao by defeating sword masters and engraving their sword dao into her foundation.
• Cui Moyang boarded a decayed sea vessel and attacked the undead swordsmen who poured out to fight her.
• Chu Qing attended the Square Inch Gathering and saw that many members had been replaced or lost amid the Dao Lineage Dispute.
• Yin Tianzi announced that the Misty Rain Tower would disband within a year and that its movable wealth would go to the Heavenly Court.
• Yin Tianzi said the Misty Rain Tower's disbandment stemmed mainly from the Dao Lineage Dispute, though it would accelerate the Great Unification.

Misty Rain Tower dissolved to turn the struggle for its territory into a bloody contest, while Chu Qing finished rendering Liuli Imperial City’s final core node and gained limited control of the vast strange treasure. He sensed another Imperial Capital beneath it and wondered whether Liuli was sleeping there.

• The Square Inch Gathering members discussed the chaos Misty Rain Tower’s dissolution would cause, and Myth invited Misty Rain Tower to join him in the forbidden zone.
• Misty Rain Tower’s master explained that the leaders planned to dissolve the sect to provoke a bloody scramble for its forces and prevent rivals from dominating Great Unification, so Misty Rain Tower left alone.
• Seven months later, Misty Rain Tower’s upper ranks announced its dissolution, and rival factions clashed across its headquarters continent and more than three thousand subordinate continents, killing millions of martial artists.
• Chu Qing stayed in Liuli Imperial City to render its core nodes while Mingyue waited for him to return to Stone Ridge Mountain.
• After nine months, Chu Qing rendered the final house’s node, appeared on the Emperor Seat, and gained limited control of Liuli Imperial City by pouring his Spirit and Energy into it.
• Chu Qing learned that fully rendering the Imperial Capital would take thousands of years and sensed a second Imperial Capital beneath it, where he wondered if Liuli was sleeping.

Chu Qing returned to Stone Ridge Mountain and toured the immense palace complex Mingyue had built there. After testing its defenses, he warned her against spending more resources on extravagant construction, while Mingyue insisted no one would dare challenge them.

• Chu Qing returned to Stone Ridge Mountain and was stunned by the vast complex of palaces, bridges, pillars, chains, and waterfalls that Mingyue had built.
• Mingyue led Chu Qing through the complex and explained that only authorized women could enter, then spent more than a month showing him its features.
• Mingyue described how the complex drew water from the Cold Ponds and used reinforced structures linked to local earth veins.
• Chu Qing kicked a pillar hard enough to crack it, and Mingyue praised his strength as greater than her Golden Core.
• Chu Qing warned Mingyue not to build more costly structures, but Mingyue replied that several hundred thousand empires shared the expense and asked who would dare attack him.

A Heaven-Piercing Heavenly Pride killed several people aboard a sea vessel to obtain a Human World draft painting, then claimed the paintings held secrets that could make someone ruler of a continent. His revelation left the passengers questioning whether the ship’s ironclad rules still mattered.

• A painter from one of the Top Aristocratic Families spent three years painting the Miracle Palace and later named his work Human World; he died less than ten days after completing it.
• A Heaven-Piercing Heavenly Pride killed people aboard a sea vessel to get a Human World draft painting, violating the first ironclad rule of the Endless Sea.
• The Heaven-Piercing Heavenly Pride described the painting’s supposed origin: a former lackey had risen to power and ordered a heavenly palace built in the Human World.
• A female Otherworlder argued that the painting was valuable for appreciation but that the buildings were ordinary creations vulnerable to a Strange Art.
• The Heaven-Piercing Heavenly Pride claimed the three drafts and original contained secret inheritances, cultivation paths, and the young man’s secrets, which could let their possessor rule a continent.
• The Heaven-Piercing Heavenly Pride mocked the passengers and declared that the secrets of Human World outweighed the ship’s ironclad rules.

The Sea Vessel Alliance traced a massacre to the Human World painting, which was rumored to reveal how to become a continental sovereign, and identified Grade 9527 as its source. Uncrowned, Scarlet, and Star-Picking set out to reach Chu Qing’s continent, though each began to suspect the others might arrive first.

• The Sea Vessel Alliance investigated the deaths of hundreds of thousands and linked them to the Human World painting and its rumored sovereign-making secrets.
• The Overlord Alliance confirmed that the painting’s scenery came from Stone Ridge Mountain on Grade 9527 and chose three overlords to investigate.
• Uncrowned, Scarlet, and Star-Picking agreed to travel by sea and arrive together in one year.
• Uncrowned secretly decided that spending resources to reach the secret sooner was worthwhile.
• Star-Picking arranged teleportation with outsiders, while Scarlet wondered whether the other two would teleport ahead and asked the sealed Scarlet God-Demon for advice.

Chu Qing went to the Great Zhou Empire after Zhao Hongxiu reported trouble and learned that a Millennial Tribulation had brought drought to the lands once protected by the Divine Court Law Net. He refused to send martial artists away or establish a Lineage, saying he would do so only after defeating his great enemy: Heaven.

• Mingyue told Chu Qing that Zhao Hongxiu wanted him to visit the Great Zhou Empire, and he left despite Mingyue’s offer to accompany him.
• Chu Qing saw that drought afflicted Great Zhou while neighboring empires were spared, and he recognized it as a Millennial Tribulation.
• Zhao Hongxiu and the Great Zhou Empress explained that the calamity had returned to empires once shielded by the Law Net and asked whether Great Zhou should send martial artists elsewhere.
• Chu Qing told the women not to send martial artists away, noting that Silver Coin farmland still outproduced ordinary farmland and that Stone Ridge Mountain’s Silver Coin supply would grow.
• Zhao Hongxiu and the Great Zhou Empress asked Chu Qing to give them an heir and establish a Lineage, but he refused because descendants would give him weaknesses.
• Chu Qing promised to establish a Lineage after defeating his great enemy, and when the women asked who it was, he answered, “Heaven.”

Chu Qing realized Heaven was using the Millennial Tribulation to force the forbidden zones open and strengthen itself, while two overlords arrived at Stone Ridge Mountain seeking the secrets of the Miracle Palace. The chapter left the Uncrowned Overlord and the Star-Plucking Overlord circling the palace and preparing ambushes against each other without meeting.

• Chu Qing told the Great Zhou Empress and another woman that Heaven was his enemy, then left the capital to inspect other empires.
• After returning to Stone Ridge Mountain, Chu Qing concluded that Heaven’s tribulations drove people to open forbidden zones and expanded its power over the sky.
• Daughter of Stonemason Xu told Tang Wuming that the empires would not dare rebel against Chu Qing, despite their growing burdens.
• The Uncrowned Overlord and the Star-Plucking Overlord arrived from opposite sides and admired the Miracle Palace, each plotting to claim it.
• The two overlords found that the palace’s carvings contained powerful inheritances and pathways to the New Realm, then searched for the continent’s Sovereign secret.
• After repeatedly failing to encounter each other, the Uncrowned Overlord and the Star-Plucking Overlord each decided to change plans and set an ambush.

Chu Qing confronted the Uncrowned Overlord and Star-Picking after catching them fighting near his Miracle Palace, and they asked him for the secret of becoming a Continental Overlord. He told them it was merely an honorific given by people they had subdued, leaving the two Overlords stunned.

• The Uncrowned Overlord realized he had discovered a secret about the Continental Overlord and went to find his opponent.
• The Uncrowned Overlord and Star-Picking fought until Chu Qing appeared and demanded to know why they had come.
• The two Overlords claimed they had visited to study the Miracle Palace and seek the Continental Overlord's secret so they could fight the Emissary of Heaven.
• Chu Qing agreed to explain how to become a Continental Overlord, delighting the two Overlords.
• Chu Qing said the title was only an honorific used by people their subordinates had frightened into submission, leaving them confused because they had subdued many continents without receiving it.

Chu Qing dismissed the Star-Picking Overlord and the Uncrowned Overlord, who disagreed over whether to target him and uncover his secrets. Meanwhile, Chu Qing completed the Mountain River Dao and named its new realm Reflection.

• Chu Qing allowed the two Overlords to inspect the Miracle Palace but warned them not to enter it.
• The Star-Picking Overlord and the Uncrowned Overlord investigated Chu Qing's background and concluded he had reached the Ancient Mythological Path through hidden opportunities.
• The Uncrowned Overlord resolved to kill Chu Qing and seize his secrets, while the Star-Picking Overlord refused to join him and departed.
• The Uncrowned Overlord headed for the Miracle Palace as Chu Qing deduced the Mountain River Dao in its highest hall.
• Chu Qing united the mountains, rivers, imperial city, and Emperor Seat, completed the Mountain River Dao, and named the resulting realm Reflection.

Chu Qing established the Reflection Realm and realized it needed to prove its strength by defeating powerful opponents. As the Uncrowned Overlord attacked Miracle Palace and Star-Picking Overlord tried to damage it, Star-Picking turned to capture three approaching women for information.

• Chu Qing named his new realm Reflection and created the Reflection Method by merging his accumulated techniques and insights.
• Chu Qing sensed that the Reflection Realm still needed recognition from the world, which he expected to earn by suppressing the two Overlords.
• The Uncrowned Overlord arrived at Miracle Palace, challenged Chu Qing, and tried to break down the doors of the highest hall.
• The Uncrowned Overlord's attack only cracked the hall doors a short distance before the damage stopped spreading.
• Star-Picking Overlord also failed to break Miracle Palace's exceptionally sturdy pillars and decided to capture three approaching women for interrogation.

Star-Picking Overlord tried to force Mingyue to reveal the palace’s weak point, but she and Princess Consort defeated him and drove him to Uncrowned Overlord. Chu Qing appeared in the palace, sat on the Emperor Seat, and announced that the reflection had been born.

• Star-Picking Overlord asked Mingyue and Princess Consort where the building was weakest, and Mingyue led him to a stone pillar that proved to be a trap.
• Star-Picking Overlord attacked Mingyue, but Princess Consort weakened his defenses as the Golden Light severed both his arms and prevented them from regenerating for ten minutes.
• Star-Picking Overlord reached Uncrowned Overlord, who had failed to break open the palace gate, and the two entered the hall after Uncrowned Overlord simply pushed it open.
• An unseen attacker slammed Uncrowned Overlord and Star-Picking Overlord into the dark hall, where Chu Qing appeared and approached the Emperor Seat.
• Chu Qing sat on the Emperor Seat, declared that he had named the New Realm and finalized its transformations, and announced that the reflection had been born.

Chu Qing fought the Uncrowned Overlord and Star-Picking, using Reflection to distort their perception and turning their attacks into practice. The two Overlords unleashed their ultimate killing move, and Star-Picking’s giant hand closed around Chu Qing.

• Chu Qing used Reflection to make the Uncrowned Overlord mistake the distance between them, then blocked his attack with one finger.
• Star-Picking regrew his arms and joined forces with the Uncrowned Overlord against Chu Qing.
• Outside the hall, Mingyue worried about Chu Qing, but the Princess Consort told her to wait because Chu Qing had said he needed no help.
• Chu Qing fought both Overlords at extreme speed and steadily gained control of his power, alarming them as they realized he was using them to hone his skills.
• Star-Picking and the Uncrowned Overlord decided to kill Chu Qing before he could become an Overlord.
• Star-Picking burned his lifespan, Spirit, and Energy to form a giant hand of starlight, seized Chu Qing, and clenched his fist.

Chu Qing used the Reflection Method to kill the Star-Picking Overlord and the Uncrowned Overlord, then revealed that he had established the Reflection Realm. He left the hall having confirmed its name, while the Princess Consort and Mingyue learned about his new path and watched him demonstrate its powers.

• The Star-Picking Overlord's starlight hand exploded, and Chu Qing used the Reflection Method to attack him as the Uncrowned Overlord joined the fight.
• Chu Qing created a miniature reflection of himself that shattered the Uncrowned Overlord's crown, then brushed past both Overlords and killed them.
• Mingyue and the Princess Consort entered the hall and found the two Overlords dead; Chu Qing announced that he had confirmed the name of the Reflection Realm.
• Chu Qing explained that he had not become a Martial Ancestor and that spreading the Reflection Realm would require countless people to cultivate the Way of Mountains and Rivers.
• The Princess Consort asked Chu Qing to demonstrate Reflection, and Mingyue volunteered to cooperate with one of its remaining techniques.

Chu Qing tested the Reflection method with the Princess Consort and Mingyue, then received a summons from a distant cultivator. The chapter revealed that Mountain Water Path practitioners had learned of the Reflection Realm and its ritual, shocking the Mythology Organization's elders.

• Chu Qing explained Reflection to the Princess Consort and demonstrated that his power weakened with distance while attacks against his reflection did not harm him.
• Chu Qing, the Princess Consort, and Mingyue found that Reflection could reach anywhere on the continent, lasted only one minute, and lost little strength across its distance.
• Chu Qing sensed someone summoning him through a Reflection ritual, though he had not told anyone how to perform it.
• After Chu Qing killed the two great overlords, Mountain Water Path cultivators learned that their path had entered the Reflection Realm, its four stages, and a ritual to summon the Reflection Old Ancestor.
• A Reflection martial artist told the Mythology Organization's elders about the new realm and ritual, leaving them stunned.

After Chu Qing named the Reflection Realm, Mythology and other powers outlawed the Mountain Water Path and hunted its practitioners. Cornered in a city, a band of practitioners summoned the Reflection Old Ancestor, just as a great omen appeared in the sky.

• The Mythology Master banned the Mountain Water Path, ordered its practitioners hunted, and proposed granting Chu Qing elder status, but officials reduced the offer to Outer Sect Steward and called for his death.
• The great powers began killing Mountain Water Path practitioners and mobilizing forces to hunt Chu Qing.
• Several Reflection Realm practitioners joined together, using their path’s mysteries to defeat pursuers before more than a dozen Mythology experts cornered them in a city.
• The trapped practitioners refused to regret their choice and performed a ritual to summon the Reflection Old Ancestor as their enemies prepared to torture and kill them.
• A brutal Mythology expert stopped at the residence’s entrance when a great omen appeared in the sky.