Recaps

Chu Qing answered the Mountain Water Path’s summons and fought Mythology Realm and New Realm forces across a vast distance, killing many of their experts. As the survivors fled, he declared that those who reached the Reflection Realm and chanted his true name would be spared the death tribulation, but the name was muted.

• The Mountain Water Path members summoned Chu Qing, and he appeared above the main city.
• Chu Qing’s first attack failed to harm a Mythology Realm expert, so he tore through layers of folded air to bring more of his power across.
• The enemy Mythology Realm experts and New Realm Army Formations charged Chu Qing as he continued breaking through the barriers.
• Chu Qing unleashed the Reflection Method, killing ten Mythology Realm experts and destroying ten Army Formations in ten seconds.
• The remaining enemies fled, and Chu Qing promised protection from the death tribulation to those who reached the Reflection Realm and chanted his true name.

Chu Qing used the Reflection Method to change how martial artists summoned him and demonstrated that he could kill across vast distances. Fearing he would threaten their control of the Great Unification Era, major factions ordered his death, while Chu Qing’s companions warned him that his achievement had made him a target.

• Chu Qing changed the summoning method so martial artists had to chant his true name for increasingly long periods, and factions feared he had altered a rule set by the world.
• News spread that Chu Qing had killed Mythologies and New Realm powerhouses across the Endless Sea and hundreds of continents through a mystery unique to the Reflection Realm.
• The current master of Mythology urged its leaders to recognize Chu Qing’s talent, but they declared that he must die because Mythology intended to control the coming Martial Ancestor and New Realm.
• Mythology’s leaders arranged to send thirty-six ancient Overlords to Chu Qing’s location within a year, while other top-tier factions also targeted him.
• At Miracle Palace, Chu Qing explained to the Princess Consort and Mingyue how his Reflection Method could summon a mindless projection of himself, and the Princess Consort warned that the great powers would attack him for naming a New Realm without a powerful backer.

Chu Qing learned that naming the Reflection Realm had made him a target for hundreds of hegemons, but he remained confident he could kill them all. The Square Inch Gathering ended with Myth asking what made the Reflection Realm profound.

• Chu Qing resolved to grow stronger until Heaven ceased to exist, then entered the Square Inch Gathering after Myth, Luo Tian, Bi Luo, Moon God, and others summoned him.
• The gathering’s members praised Chu Qing for naming the Reflection Realm and said histories across the world would record his name.
• Myth and the others warned Chu Qing that most top-tier powers planned to send dozens or hundreds of hegemons to assassinate him.
• Chu Qing dismissed the threat, said he had killed five or six hegemons who left little impression on him, and vowed to wipe out the factions targeting him.
• As the gathering ended, Myth asked Chu Qing what was profound about the Reflection Realm.

Chu Qing considered the deeper powers of the Reflection Realm and gave allies a scripture that let them summon yesterday’s slaughtering reflection of him. Meanwhile, factions revived overlords for a joint assassination, and the number assigned to the mission left them stunned.

• At the Square Inch Gathering, Reincarnation explained that Reflection could let Chu Qing descend through a connection and sense anyone who mentioned or thought of his name.
• Back at Stone Ridge Mountain, Chu Qing confirmed that Reflection could eventually let him detect people who brought his name to mind and erase their consciousness, though he still lacked the strength to do so.
• Second Generation Bi Luo, the Moon God, Myth, Yin Tianzi, and others asked Chu Qing for his true name, and he gave them a scripture to summon yesterday’s reflected self, which would spare certain exceptions.
• Chu Qing resumed deducing the realm beyond Reflection as factions revived and prepared dozens of aged overlords to assassinate him.
• When the revived overlords learned that seven hundred and twenty overlords would take part, one young overlord climbed back into his sealing coffin and asked to remain sealed.

Chu Qing and others sensed an approaching Great Terror, and Square Inch Gathering revealed that the forbidden zones had begun a large-scale counterattack across every continent. Jade Blood reported being pursued by an enormous army of forbidden-zone creatures, while the gathering warned those deep in the zones to be cautious.

• The young tyrants initially refused to assassinate Chu Qing, but the higher-up persuaded them by describing Chu Qing’s feats and explaining that 720 tyrants from over thirty factions would attack together.
• As the factions coordinated their assassination, Chu Qing felt growing unease, checked on Madam Shi and his allies, and found them all safe.
• The Princess Consort, Bright Moon, Nangong, Cui Moyang, Madam Jin, and others also reported sensing Great Terror, prompting a new Square Inch Gathering.
• Heavenly Court announced that an oracle had warned of a large-scale counterattack by the forbidden zones across every continent.
• First Illumination Person welcomed the counterattack, while Luo Tian claimed forbidden-zone creatures feared her and Jade Blood reported being chased by a vast army that had overrun strongholds.

Heavenly Court warned that the forbidden zones’ retaliation could swallow every rural continent, leaving Chu Qing to prepare his continent and protect those he could. After consulting his allies, Chu Qing considered turning Stone Ridge Mountain into a war fortress, while Zhao Hongxiu asked whether Great Zhou would be swallowed.

• Heavenly Court explained that Corrupted Ones were numerous in the depths of forbidden zones and warned that their retaliation could overwhelm the rural continents.
• Chu Qing challenged Heavenly Court to help stop the Millennial Tribulations, but Heavenly Court said it was powerless and urged the continents to prepare independently.
• The Second Generation Moon God and Second Generation Bi Luo invited Chu Qing to hide with them, but Chu Qing refused and said he was an expert of his own continent.
• Chu Qing contacted his allies, and Madam Jin and Consort Mei reported that their empowered exotic treasure could protect them inside forbidden zones.
• The Princess Consort advised Chu Qing to turn Stone Ridge Mountain into a war fortress, and Zhao Hongxiu asked whether Great Zhou would be swallowed.

Chu Qing arranged for Great Zhou’s people to move to Stone Ridge Mountain and explained why he planned to go to the border: he refused to let his continent be used as cannon fodder by Heaven and the powerful sects. He vowed to fight for a fairness of his own, then asked the Princess Consort whether resisting the restricted zones here would redirect their attack elsewhere.

• Zhao Hongxiu proposed moving Great Zhou’s people to Stone Ridge Mountain, and Chu Qing agreed despite warning that the journey was dangerous and he could not oversee it.
• Chu Qing gave Madam Jin, Nangong, and the others a way to summon his projections or true body instantly if they were in danger.
• Chu Qing told the Princess Consort he was going to the border, while insisting he sought only to survive rather than protect all humanity.
• The Princess Consort questioned his motives and suggested the border would be devastated by the restricted zones’ backlash, but Chu Qing said he could not accept the powerful forces sacrificing his continent as cannon fodder.
• Chu Qing vowed to destroy the restricted zones and make Heaven kneel, then asked whether stopping the attack here would cause the restricted zones to strike elsewhere.

Chu Qing decided to strike at the Heavenly Court’s continents in retaliation for its rulers abandoning the rural continent and sending overlords to hunt him. He agreed to take Mingyue and her entourage with him, then was stunned by the extravagant carriage and powerful beasts they brought.

• Chu Qing asked the Princess Consort for coordinates of the Heavenly Court’s main continents and said he intended to destroy them in revenge.
• Mingyue persuaded Chu Qing to let her accompany him, explaining that Stone Ridge Mountain’s maids could care for the Three-legged Golden Toads in her absence.
• Mingyue revealed that she had selected three hundred and fifteen maids to travel with Chu Qing, and they prepared an enormous carriage.
• The maids arrived with a carriage pulled by intelligent, powerful beasts, including an armored golden-furred ape carrying a staff and bell.
• Chu Qing saw the carriage and its attendants and wondered whether the world had changed during his long seclusion.

Chu Qing traveled in a heavily armed luxury carriage while his maidservants delivered his decree to the rulers of the empires along his route. At one Imperial Palace, Xing'er reunited with her father and showed that she had put her old grievances behind her before urging the King to spread Chu Qing's warning.

• Mingyue described Chu Qing's carriage as a miniature fortress and promised that her twelve palaces would eventually join to form Heaven on Earth.
• Chu Qing's procession raced across the land, and the rulers of the empires bowed and praised him as it passed.
• Xing'er volunteered to deliver Chu Qing's letter to the empire where she had once been a Princess, and Chu Qing let her lead the group.
• The King, Empress, and ministers prepared to receive Chu Qing, then knelt when his maidservant arrived with his decree instead.
• Xing'er revealed herself to her father, explained that Stone Ridge Mountain had given her a good life, and said she no longer resented the Empress.
• Xing'er told the King to spread the letter's contents quickly and warned him that Chu Qing's statements were absolutely true.

Chu Qing traveled along the border, using candle flames born from the Enlightenment Star Scripture to strengthen the Fire Pits and burn away evil. As Mingyue engraved the scripture on her Golden Core, the Restricted Zone grew more active, and experts feared an impending counterattack.

• Chu Qing arrived at the border, where martial artists mistook his carriage for a Great Figure’s and feared he would destroy the Fire Pits.
• Chu Qing’s candle flames strengthened each Fire Pit they touched, and he continued reciting the Enlightenment Star Scripture to reinforce the defenses.
• After more than a month, Mingyue gained insight, engraved the scripture onto her Golden Core, and released rosy radiance that healed martial artists and cleansed evil.
• New Realm experts observed the Restricted Zone growing darker and more active, with more evil and Lost Ones appearing near its edges.
• Chu Qing’s carriage traveled onward, leaving the reinforced Fire Pit defenses behind as experts anticipated the Restricted Zone’s counterattack.

As the forbidden zone’s counterattack threatened the border, Chu Qing gathered more than a thousand New Realm experts to accompany him deep into enemy territory. He warned them they might not return and made them sign wills before setting out.

• Reports of destroyed outposts spread as commanders at the Border Frontline General Headquarters prepared defensive lines and learned that the Blazing Fire Empire could send little help during its Millennial Calamity.
• The marshals discussed Chu Qing’s warning and his latest instruction to gather defense-specialized martial artists from the Eternal Night Empire’s border line.
• Chu Qing told Mingyue to hold the border and retreat rather than face the counterattack head-on, then met the New Realm experts who had agreed to accompany him.
• Chu Qing warned the experts that the journey into the forbidden zone could be fatal and promised their loved ones an inheritance if they died.
• When one expert protested that he did not want to write a will, Mingyue revealed she had already prepared wills for everyone and told them to sign and seal them.

Chu Qing led more than a thousand New Realm experts into the forbidden zone to test a mobile Fire Pit, killing the creatures they encountered while the experts collected and burned their corpses. After the group witnessed his overwhelming power, Chu Qing announced that he had an immature idea.

• Mingyue persuaded the experts to sign their wills and helped raise morale by praising Chu Qing’s courage and generosity.
• Chu Qing organized the experts around a mobile Fire Pit and ordered them to collect corpses and record how the pit changed.
• Upon entering the forbidden zone, Chu Qing killed attacking Evil Creatures, and the group discovered their corpses strengthened the Fire Pit more efficiently than ordinary fuel.
• Chu Qing sped the chariot through the forbidden zone, killing increasingly powerful creatures while the experts gathered the remains.
• After Chu Qing destroyed groups of Lost Ones and Fallen Ones, the experts expressed their admiration, and he said he had an immature idea.

Chu Qing helped the Mechanical Path Experts install Fire Pits inside their bodies, letting them devour evil creatures and grow stronger while cleansing themselves. After the method spread among more than three hundred experts, the group reached the vast Black Tide army, and Chu Qing led them toward the Corrupted Ones despite their fear.

• Chu Qing convinced the Mechanical Path Experts to install Fire Pits inside their mechanical bodies and feed them the flesh of evil creatures.
• A mechanical Explosive Bear tested the method by devouring Fallen Ones, growing stronger and burning away darkness within its body.
• More than three hundred Mechanical Path Experts adopted the method and began slaughtering and eating evil creatures in battle.
• Chu Qing led the New Realm powerhouses deeper into the forbidden zone as they sensed a major battle approaching.
• The group encountered the immense Black Tide army, and Chu Qing ordered everyone to charge in and kill the Corrupted Ones.
• When someone asked whether Chu Qing had written a will, he calmly said that he would survive even if everyone else died.

Chu Qing held back the overwhelming restricted zone army, turning the black tide into a red tide while the powerhouses expanded and strengthened their Fire Pit. He remained surrounded by surging enemies, fighting in all directions to keep the Fire Pit from being swallowed.

• Chu Qing's group faced a hundred-meter-high black tide, and the darkness began corrupting New Realm powerhouses before the army reached them.
• Chu Qing released thousands of candle flames to strengthen the Fire Pit, then ordered the others to collect corpses while he prepared to fight.
• Chu Qing charged the approaching tide and stopped a three-thousand-meter-wide section, turning it red with the creatures he killed.
• Mechanical Path Experts swallowed falling flesh and blood to strengthen their Fire Pits, and the powerhouses built a Fire Pit nearly three thousand meters wide.
• Black tides swept in from all directions, but Chu Qing's afterimages tore through them and kept the expanded Fire Pit from being overwhelmed.

Chu Qing built a powerful Fire Pit from the corpses of restricted zone creatures, then left the New Realm experts to defend it while he searched the Black Tide for stronger enemies. He found and burned a Corrupted One, but learned nothing about where higher-level creatures were.

• Chu Qing's Fire Pit suppressed the Black Tide creatures, growing powerful enough to hold them back after an hour of burning their corpses.
• Chu Qing ordered over a thousand New Realm experts to defend the Fire Pit and left to search for special creatures.
• A Thunder Fire Path woman rallied the experts to attack the evil and feed it into the Fire Pit while Chu Qing was away.
• Chu Qing raced through the Black Tide, leaving candle flames that burned creatures to ash, but found only common kinds at first.
• Chu Qing spotted a Corrupted One whipping the Black Tide and demanded it reveal where higher-level creatures were.
• The Corrupted One mocked Chu Qing, so he burned it and its whip with the Enlightenment Star Candle Flame.

Chu Qing burned Corrupted Ones across the Forbidden Zone, disrupting the Black Tide and drawing the attention of a Forbidden Zone Master. After the Master agreed to meet him, Chu Qing used the Reflection Method to reveal an image at the end of folded space.

• Chu Qing ignited Corrupted Ones throughout Region 125, and their absence caused parts of the Black Tide to fall into disorder.
• A Forbidden Zone Immortal One confronted Chu Qing, who demanded that the Forbidden Zone be restored or he would keep killing Corrupted Ones.
• The Immortal One reported Chu Qing’s actions to the Forbidden Zone Master, who sent coordinates and agreed to meet him.
• Chu Qing accepted the meeting, then ignited another Corrupted One before the Immortal One could stop him.
• Chu Qing activated the Reflection Method and formed a black-jade-like image in the air.

Chu Qing confronted a Forbidden Zone Master as more than seven hundred overlords raced to reach him and kill him. Meanwhile, the Forbidden Zones launched a broad counterattack, and the Scarlet Overlord and the newly crowned Great Emperor Princess moved to resist them.

• The Immortal One recognized the Forbidden Zone Master in the vast black jade formed by Chu Qing, while the Forbidden Zone Master realized Chu Qing had appeared across time and space and grew wary of him.
• More than seven hundred overlords accelerated their transmissions and agreed to kill Chu Qing in one strike when they found him.
• The Scarlet Overlord learned that the Forbidden Zones were retaliating against humanity and chose to help defend a nearby continent before searching for Chu Qing.
• Shi Tiezhu and his companions saw a Forbidden Zone invade the continent they were unifying.
• The Princess saw a Forbidden Zone sweep into her newly unified continent, then ordered her forces to kill its evils and cleanse the Forbidden Zones.

Cui Moyang and Nangong fought back against the forbidden zones with their own powerful methods, while Chu Qing confronted the Forbidden Zone Master. Chu Qing used a projection to test the Master's strength and planned to provoke him into redirecting the forbidden zone's fury toward other continents.

• Cui Moyang charged into a towering Black Tide and erased it with sword light and the Enlightenment Star Scripture.
• Nangong activated a ritual array that summoned the Twelve Palaces and endless armies to fight the forbidden zones.
• Chu Qing blasted an Immortal One apart, preventing the subordinate from recovering, and challenged the Forbidden Zone Master.
• The Forbidden Zone Master attacked Chu Qing, but Chu Qing's body shattered and then reappeared, revealing that he had used a projection to measure the strength he lost.
• The Forbidden Zone Master vowed to reach Chu Qing in one minute, and Chu Qing waited, intending to make the Master redirect his fury toward other continents.

The Forbidden Zone Master arrived to confront Chu Qing and revealed his formidable Undying Seal. Chu Qing challenged him but was overwhelmed and left bound beneath the Sovereign’s descending attack.

• The Forbidden Zone Master ignored his subordinates’ suggestions and set out in a grand chariot to face Chu Qing.
• The Forbidden Zone Master offered Chu Qing a place in the Forbidden Zone, but Chu Qing rejected him and mocked his appearance.
• The Forbidden Zone Master attacked Chu Qing with his Undying Seal, shattering his hands and driving him across the Black Tide.
• The Forbidden Zone Master struck again, and the resulting chains bound Chu Qing’s limbs as another Undying Seal descended toward his head.

Chu Qing survived the Forbidden Zone Master's Undying Seal and fought him for over an hour, gradually deciphering the master's technique despite being outmatched in strength. As Chu Qing and the master both prepared to end the stalemate, more than seven hundred overlords arrived, seeking Chu Qing's location so they could kill him in one strike.

• The Forbidden Zone Master struck Chu Qing into the Black Tide with the Undying Seal and sent Immortal Ones to retrieve his corpse.
• Chu Qing emerged atop a scarlet Emperor Seat, revealed that he had survived, and charged the Forbidden Zone Master again.
• Chu Qing wounded the master, whose injuries healed unusually slowly, and the two continued clashing with their respective techniques.
• As the fight stretched past an hour, the master's subordinates grew disillusioned and began studying his moves for ways to oppose him.
• Chu Qing figured out the Undying Seal and considered using a killing move, while the master feared his subordinates might rebel if the battle continued.
• More than seven hundred overlords teleported to the continent and ordered their people to locate Chu Qing so they could kill him in one strike.

The Restricted Zone’s Black Tide attacked the Eternal Night border as 720 human Overlords arrived to stop it and reach Chu Qing inside the Restricted Zone. They fought through the Tide in a triangular Army Formation and raced toward Chu Qing’s coordinates.

• The Black Tide overwhelmed the human Fire Pit defense line, and the human army prepared to fight as darkness approached.
• Seven hundred and twenty Overlords descended along the Eternal Night border, alarming the Corrupted Ones and the Immortal Ones.
• The Immortal Ones realized the Overlords might be heading to kill Lord Sovereign and ordered the Black Tide to stop them.
• Overlord Bu Ye urged the Overlords to cut through the Black Tide and find Chu Qing, and the group charged into battle.
• The Black Tide swallowed the Overlords, but they broke through in a triangular Army Formation and raced toward Chu Qing’s coordinates.

Chu Qing used Quan Wang. Hand of God against the Forbidden Zone Master, but an Immortal disguised by an Emissary of Heaven intercepted the strike and died. With Heaven’s involvement revealed, Chu Qing resumed his attack on the Forbidden Zone Master.

• Chu Qing and the Forbidden Zone Master tested each other while searching for a chance to land a killing blow, and Chu Qing decided to use Quan Wang. Hand of God.
• The Forbidden Zone Master was pinned by the Hand of God, but an Immortal broke through its suppression and took the strike in his place.
• The Immortal vanished, and bloody rain fell as the Emissary of Heaven’s eyeballs and body were destroyed, strengthening the Forbidden Zone.
• Chu Qing realized Heaven had targeted him to uncover Liuli’s secrets, while the Forbidden Zone Master wondered why an Emissary of Heaven had saved him.
• Chu Qing vowed to remember Heaven’s interference, then charged at the Forbidden Zone Master again.

Chu Qing fought the Forbidden Zone Master while insisting that the approaching 720 overlords were his enemies, but the master mistook them for Chu Qing’s allies and rushed to attack them. The overlords reached the battlefield and launched a pincer attack, leaving both sides charging into the same confrontation.

• Chu Qing battered the Forbidden Zone Master beneath the Black Tide and vowed to put Heaven in a dog collar, while the master learned that 720 overlords were approaching.
• The Forbidden Zone Master decided to kill the overlords and make Chu Qing despair, but Chu Qing repeatedly told him they had come to hunt him, not help him.
• The Bu Ye Overlord tracked Chu Qing’s coordinates, realized he was moving toward the group, and urged the overlords to hurry and kill him before he changed direction.
• As the Forbidden Zone Master raced toward the overlords, Chu Qing kept attacking him, while the master grew more convinced that the group was Chu Qing’s reinforcement.
• The overlords spotted the currents of air made by Chu Qing and the Forbidden Zone Master, mistook Chu Qing for the one being hunted, and launched their strongest attacks in a pincer assault.
• The Forbidden Zone Master saw the overlords attack him alongside Chu Qing and charged at them with all his power.

Chu Qing’s forces attacked the Forbidden Zone Master, and more than a dozen old Overlords sacrificed themselves in an explosion that devastated the surrounding area. The Forbidden Zone Master survived, but over two hundred more Overlords charged him, forcing him to unleash his ultimate technique, A Corner of the Forbidden Zone.

• The Forbidden Zone Master fought off more than seven hundred Overlords after they mistook him for Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing shouted for both sides to stop, but the Overlords identified the Forbidden Zone Master as his helper and attacked.
• The Bu Ye Overlord ordered more than a dozen old Overlords to bind the Forbidden Zone Master and self-destruct.
• The explosion devastated the area, while the dead Overlords’ incomplete phenomena unleashed their power and held back the Black Tide.
• The Forbidden Zone Master survived the blast, then faced a charge by more than two hundred old Overlords.
• The Forbidden Zone Master used A Corner of the Forbidden Zone, the killing move he had saved for Chu Qing.

Chu Qing and the Forbidden Zone Master survived a mass detonation by the aged overlords, but the survivors mistook their relationship and turned against one another. As the Forbidden Zone Master urged them to attack Chu Qing, more than a hundred aged overlords charged to self-detonate.

• The aged overlords self-detonated, and Chu Qing used the Reflection Method while the Forbidden Zone Master countered the blast with geometric structures.
• The surviving overlords emerged from underground as Chu Qing explained that another mass detonation would be needed to kill the Forbidden Zone Master.
• Bu Ye Overlord and the survivors realized Chu Qing was not allied with the Forbidden Zone Master, while the Forbidden Zone Master emerged badly injured and accused them of being ruthless.
• Bu Ye Overlord tried to persuade the Forbidden Zone Master to join forces against Chu Qing, and the Forbidden Zone Master claimed Chu Qing was weaker than him.
• More than a hundred aged overlords burned everything and charged at Chu Qing to self-detonate.