Recaps

Chu Qing let the Heavenly God claim the continent as a foundation, then used his title authority to return to Stone Ridge Mountain. There, he learned the Black Tide had reached the mountain’s outskirts and flew to inspect the front lines, where the sight left him stunned.

• Chu Qing agreed that the Heavenly God could use the continent as his foundation, despite Heavenly Secrets warning that Chu Qing could destroy it.
• Chu Qing departed using his title authority, and the Heavenly God ordered the Heavenly Court to develop the continent as a headquarters.
• The Heavenly Court secretly planned to turn the continent into a Floating Continent and eventually seize the foundation for himself.
• Chu Qing returned to Stone Ridge Mountain and found Madam Shi asleep, guarded by tens of thousands of maidservants.
• A maidservant told Chu Qing that Madam Mingyue had taken the others to the front lines because the Black Tide had reached Stone Ridge Mountain’s outskirts.
• Chu Qing flew to inspect the defenses and was dumbfounded by what he saw.

Chu Qing returned to Stone Ridge Mountain and found its defenders holding back the Black Tide with Golden Cores and a newly created Flesh and Blood Temple that produced explosive cannon fodder. After Tang Wuming explained how the temple worked, Chu Qing learned that the breeding God and Demon lacked incense because people were praying to Heaven instead, and he insisted the leaders had not worked hard enough.

• Twisted Path warriors used Golden Cores, fortresses, and the Flesh and Blood Temple to repel waves of the Black Tide.
• Chu Qing saw Tang Wuming, Daughter of Stonemason Xu, and Sima Zhao managing the temple and its pale, waist-clutching experts.
• Tang Wuming tried to recruit Chu Qing to strengthen the temple, but Chu Qing warned him to correct his attitude and explain what it was.
• Tang Wuming explained that Lady Mingyue had inspired them to create a God and Demon that bred self-destructing cannon fodder through incense offerings.
• Chu Qing learned that people in empires struck by the Millennial Tribulation were worshipping Heaven instead of the breeding God and Demon.
• Chu Qing told Tang Wuming that the continent should offer incense only to the breeding God and Demon, leaving Tang Wuming bewildered.

Chu Qing ordered the continent’s marshals to force every living person away from worshipping Heaven and toward offering incense to his God of Fertility and Gods and Devils, threatening to open the defensive line to the Black Tide if they refused. The marshals obeyed, and the chapter ended with armies and crowds brutally enforcing the decree.

• Chu Qing contacted the marshals and demanded that everyone not fighting on the front lines worship the God of Fertility and Gods and Devils and curse Heaven.
• Chu Qing threatened to slaughter the continent and let the Black Tide in if the marshals failed to enforce his order, then cut off the connection.
• After deliberating, the marshals agreed that Chu Qing would carry out his threat and ordered their empires to comply.
• Imperial Guards severed the emperor’s limbs when he rejected the decree, and he agreed to worship the god and curse Heaven.
• Archers killed people who declared their worship of Heaven, while the crowd beat an old man to death and declared that nobody worshipped Heaven anymore.

Chu Qing learned that the breeding God or Devil could push back the Black Tide with its self-detonating spheres, while the human defenses elsewhere had fallen back. He then discovered that Bright Moon’s enlarged Golden Core contained a life with the First Illumination Person’s aura, and asked her to protect it until it was born.

• Tang Wuming told Chu Qing that the breeding God or Devil could produce avatars and be controlled with a scripture that Bright Moon, Princess Consort, and the other madams knew.
• The breeding God or Devil’s increased firepower forced the Black Tide back, prompting Immortals within the forbidden zone to gather for an assault.
• Bright Moon explained that she had fused her two Golden Cores to imitate the missing moon, after which the fused Core began growing and was found to contain a life.
• Chu Qing sensed the First Illumination Person’s aura inside Bright Moon’s Golden Core and concluded that the First Illumination Person’s reincarnation had anchored there.
• Chu Qing told Bright Moon to guard the Golden Core and notify him as soon as the life inside was born.
• Princess Consort said Bright Moon’s Golden Core had grown powerful enough to rival a strange treasure.

Chu Qing and the Princess Consort discussed how Mingyue’s rapidly spreading Golden Core Path could become a major Dao lineage and what a future struggle among paths might mean for its creator. Their conversation raised the possibility that ancient path creators could still be alive and intervene, leaving Chu Qing and the Princess Consort uncertain about the scale of the coming dispute.

• The Princess Consort told Chu Qing that many women were cultivating the Golden Core Path, and that its growing numbers and benefits gave it a chance to become the sole path.
• Chu Qing said a Dao lineage dispute would test each path’s ability to produce talent and grow, while the Princess Consort worried that Mingyue might not withstand it.
• Chu Qing said the Black Tide was testing the many cultivation paths he had spread, and the Princess Consort predicted Madam Jin and the others would return within ten days.
• The Princess Consort speculated that the Heaven-Connecting Martial Ancestor had grown stronger as people cultivated her path, while Chu Qing explained that his Mountain Water Path only gave him experience from the Reflection Realm.
• Chu Qing and the Princess Consort considered whether the creators of ancient paths remained alive and might defend their lineages during a Dao lineage dispute.
• The Princess Consort said outsiders had recorded 36,720 paths, though many more might have existed, and Chu Qing doubted their creators could still be alive.

A second breeding God of Devils helped push back the Forbidden Zone, but raids by Immortals and Corrupted Ones kept the defenses in stalemate. When Mingyue reported that the Flesh and Blood Path had been ordained as the Mythology Realm under a Mythology Old Ancestor, Chu Qing grew angry at the title and waited for Flesh and Blood Path experts to question them.

• A second breeding God of Devils was born and bombarded the Forbidden Zone, but Immortals destroyed it and many treasures before twisted-path warriors saved the defensive line.
• Immortals raided the breeding God of Devils at Stone Ridge Mountain, but hundreds of millions of Golden Cores formed an Army Formation and drove them away.
• Chu Qing and the Princess Consort discussed the Heaven-Connecting Path, the threat of Heavenly Gods, and the limits of Chu Qing's Hand of God killing move.
• More breeding Gods of Devils appeared, but repeated ambushes by Immortals and Corrupted Ones ground away roughly half of them, leaving both sides in a stalemate.
• Mingyue told Chu Qing that the Flesh and Blood Path had been ordained as the Mythology Realm and that its warriors had received word of a Mythology Old Ancestor.
• Chu Qing, angered that the new realm used the name Mythology, told Mingyue to bring Flesh and Blood Path experts to him and waited for them.

Chu Qing learned that Luo Feifan had been named the Mythology Old Ancestor by Four Directions and sought his coordinates so he could confront him. Myth explained that Luo Feifan was a prodigy of Mythology’s largest faction and warned Chu Qing he could not kill him, while members of the Square Inch Gathering grew angry about the new title.

• Mingyue brought Flesh and Blood Path experts to Chu Qing, who asked about the person named Mythology Old Ancestor and learned he was called Luo Feifan.
• Chu Qing entered the Square Inch Gathering to ask his friends which faction Luo Feifan belonged to and where he was located.
• Luo Tian condemned Luo Feifan’s title, and Myth confirmed that Four Directions had destined the Flesh and Blood Path’s Mythology Realm.
• Chu Qing asked Myth for Luo Feifan’s coordinates so he could beat him to death, but Myth warned that Chu Qing could not kill the current Mythology Old Ancestor.
• Myth identified Luo Feifan as a prodigy of the Luo Family, Mythology’s largest faction, and Second Generation Bi Luo called for everyone to destroy the Mythology Realm.

Chu Qing learned that Luo Feifan was at Mythology’s headquarters and declared he would kill him despite the security there. As many organizations began destining New Realms for the coming struggle for orthodoxy, Mythology’s leaders sought to protect their Mythology Old Ancestor title, who defiantly demanded that all Mythologies submit or fight.

• Chu Qing asked the Heavenly Court for Luo Feifan’s coordinates, and it quickly located him on Mythology’s heavily guarded headquarters continent.
• Mythology warned that Luo Feifan had been born and trained at headquarters and had become a powerful Mythology Old Ancestor, but Chu Qing insisted he would die as long as he kept that title.
• Second Generation Moon God suggested changing Luo Feifan’s title, and Mythology agreed to pass the proposal to its leaders.
• Yin Tianzi reported that dozens of organizations had destined New Realms, prompting warnings that members would need to join their organization’s realm, flee, or become cannon fodder in the struggle for orthodoxy.
• After Chu Qing left the gathering, Mythology reported that Chu Qing had changed Reflection Old Ancestor’s title and asked whether Mythology Old Ancestor could also be renamed.
• Mythology’s leaders asked Mythology Old Ancestor for his view and received his challenge: all Mythologies had to prostrate themselves, or come fight.

After Luo Feifan challenged all Mythologies, new Destined Realms and rival bids for Martial Ancestor slots spread across the Human World. Chu Qing secretly advanced the Tong Tian Method, but the Mythology Old Ancestor’s rise weakened his influence, and he remained far from confronting him.

• Luo Feifan announced that all Mythologies must worship him or fight, and the news spread throughout the continents.
• More than a hundred new Destined Realm ancestors emerged, prompting cultivators to compete for minor-realm Martial Ancestor slots and opportunities to Destine ancient paths.
• At Stone Ridge Mountain, Chu Qing explained that he had been recultivating the Tong Tian Method rather than sitting idle, combining it with his killing intent and Reverse Dragon Great Sinews to strengthen its Heaven-Connecting Paths.
• The Princess Consort told Chu Qing that the Mythology Old Ancestor’s challenge had reduced incense offerings for breeding Gods and Devils by one hundred-thousandth and encouraged some people to worship Heaven again.
• Chu Qing said the Mythology Old Ancestor was far away on the Mythology headquarters continent, where confronting him would mean facing the entire Mythology Organization.

Madam Shi awakened from her bloodline evolution and demanded to kill Li Feiyang, the God Demon Ancestor who had been named the destined realm’s figure for the Gods and Devils path. When Chu Qing learned she could teleport across the Endless Sea and a thousand continents, he planned to use her power to kill Luo Feifan first.

• Chu Qing explained to the Princess Consort that he had delayed killing Luo Feifan because traveling to him would take years, and he was waiting for his teleportation uses to refresh.
• Mingyue told Chu Qing that Madam Shi had awakened, and Chu Qing rushed to find her.
• Madam Shi told Chu Qing her bloodline evolution was progressing well but that she had awakened in anger at Li Feiyang being named the destined figure for the Gods and Devils path.
• Madam Shi revealed that one of her God Demons could locate Li Feiyang and teleport across the Endless Sea and a thousand continents, though only twice a day in the short term.
• Chu Qing proposed killing Li Feiyang before Luo Feifan, but Madam Shi changed the plan and asked to kill Luo Feifan first.

Luo Feifan reveled in his growing mastery of the Mythology Realm and demanded that his audience spar with him. Meanwhile, Chu Qing and Madam Shi infiltrated the Mythology Headquarters Continent and headed toward Luo Feifan’s location, drawing suspicion from two martial artists.

• Luo Feifan’s Mythology Realm continued to improve rapidly, strengthening his other paths and allowing him to overpower Mythology fighters and injure two overlords.
• While lecturing a crowd of Mythology powerhouses, Luo Feifan mocked the Reflection Old Ancestor and challenged his listeners to fight him for guidance.
• Chu Qing confirmed Luo Feifan’s coordinates with the Heavenly Court, and Madam Shi used her Gods and Devils methods to transport them to the Mythology Headquarters Continent.
• Chu Qing and Madam Shi climbed the mountain toward the mountaintop, where they believed Luo Feifan was located, and Chu Qing noted the prevalence of Flesh and Blood Path martial artists.
• Two martial artists who had passed Chu Qing and Madam Shi suspected they had infiltrated the Sacred Mountain region and decided to follow them.

Chu Qing and Madam Shi reached the Mythology great hall, where Chu Qing announced that he had come to kill Luo Feifan. He killed Luo Feifan in three steps, leaving his feet unmoved and granting him the right to keep the title of Mythology Old Ancestor.

• Chu Qing and Madam Shi climbed to the Mythology headquarters and located Luo Feifan inside the great hall.
• Chu Qing forced his way through the crowd and told the guard he was going in to kill Luo Feifan.
• Luo Feifan invited Chu Qing into the hall, mistook his lack of killing intent for fear, and challenged him to attack.
• Chu Qing took three steps, unleashed the Reflection Method, and shattered Luo Feifan despite his defenses.
• Chu Qing noted that Luo Feifan's feet had never moved and said he was qualified to keep the title of Mythology Old Ancestor.

After Chu Qing killed Luo Feifan, he returned to Stone Ridge Mountain with Madam Shi while the Mythology Organization descended into turmoil and martial artists across the world received news of the execution. Four Directions publicly praised Chu Qing, leaving Realm Ancestors and powerful factions alarmed by what the announcement might mean.

• Chu Qing failed to infuse the Mythology Continent’s ley lines because Wild Gods and Devils blocked him, so Madam Shi carried him back to Stone Ridge Mountain.
• Mythology Realm martial artists received news that Chu Qing had killed Luo Feifan in three instants and learned they could compete to become the next Mythology Old Ancestor.
• Factions within the Mythology Organization moved to suppress the Mythology Realm, while its leaders spent a day and a night placating their opponents before preparing to revive powerful figures against Chu Qing.
• The one hundred and eighty newly born Realm Ancestors feared that Chu Qing might kill them as well.
• Four Directions sent martial artists across the world a message praising Chu Qing for beheading Luo Feifan, alarming high-status martial artists who wondered whether the announcement encouraged attacks on Realm Ancestors.

After killing Mythology Old Ancestor Luo Feifan, Chu Qing considered the Profession Slot’s unstable gestation and faced questions and warnings in the Square Inch Gathering. As dawn broke, Madam Shi prepared to teleport with Chu Qing and kill Li Feiyang.

• Chu Qing found that killing Luo Feifan and receiving widespread praise had calmed the Profession Slot, though its changing writing still seemed to be missing something.
• In the Square Inch Gathering, Luo Tian and the others praised Chu Qing’s victory, while Second Generation Bi Luo called him “Your Majesty” and asked how he became destined for the Reflection Realm.
• Chu Qing declared that he feared no retaliation from the Mythology Organization and told them to come to Stone Ridge Mountain if they wanted to kill him.
• Yin Tianzi asked whether Chu Qing had received a venerable position for killing Luo Feifan, but Chu Qing said he had received only praise.
• Chu Qing privately explained his path to becoming destined for a realm to Second Generation Bi Luo, who said she wanted to become a Realm Ancestor and rise above her ordinary background.
• The Princess Consort and Mingyue helped Madam Shi recover, and at sunrise she rose and announced that they would go kill Li Feiyang.

Madam Shi challenged God Demon Ancestor Li Feiyang and defeated him while Chu Qing held off the gathered martial artists. The God Demon Realm recognized her as its new Ancestor, but spatial-sealing treasures arrived to prevent the pair from leaving.

• Madam Shi teleported with Chu Qing to Li Feiyang's platform and attacked him after he confirmed his identity.
• Madam Shi used her God Demon transformations to overpower Li Feiyang while Chu Qing warned the crowd not to interfere.
• Chu Qing killed a martial artist who landed on the platform, then tried unsuccessfully to break a spatial-sealing birdcage treasure.
• Madam Shi killed Li Feiyang, and a message named God Demon Realm Yu Ji the new God Demon Ancestor.
• Madam Shi accepted the crowd's homage and prepared to leave with Chu Qing, but more exotic treasures sealed the area and a voice demanded that they stay.

Madam Shi took the God Demon Ancestor rank after killing Li Feiyang, and she and Chu Qing tried to fight their way out of the God Demon Sect’s ambush. As they fled, the sect’s exotic treasures killed their own martial artists and even wounded an Innate God and Demon, while Madam Shi’s God and Demon form grew stronger.

• Madam Shi killed Li Feiyang and claimed the God Demon Ancestor rank, while Chu Qing offered the God Demon Sect a peaceful alliance.
• When the sect demanded that Madam Shi relinquish her rank, Chu Qing crushed the birdcage exotic treasure and prepared to fight their way out.
• Madam Shi transformed into a giant God and Demon, and Chu Qing used the birdcage as a weapon to smash the pursuing exotic treasures.
• The sect’s exotic treasures tore through their own martial artists as they pursued Chu Qing and Madam Shi, who endured the attacks and searched for an escape route.
• An Innate God and Demon charged at Madam Shi, but she grew beyond two hundred meters tall and crushed it into the ground with her tail.
• Several pursuing exotic treasures pierced the Innate God and Demon as it rose, leaving it to curse the sect for attacking its own people.

Madam Shi and Chu Qing fought through strange treasures and Innate Gods and Demons, using the attackers to strengthen her cultivation. They escaped through spatial teleportation after the birdcage treasure broke, while Madam Shi vowed to destroy the God Demon Realm.

• Madam Shi crushed an Innate God and Demon as Chu Qing smashed more than thirty attacking strange treasures with Daoist Tenglong’s birdcage.
• Innate Gods and Demons blocked their path, slowing Madam Shi as they pursued her and the other strange treasures kept up their attacks.
• Madam Shi transformed through several God and Demon forms, killing Innate Gods and Demons and consuming the essence blood from their hearts while Chu Qing struck them with the birdcage.
• The birdcage shattered after Chu Qing used it to smash an Innate God and Demon’s head, leaving the space-sealing barrier broken.
• Madam Shi and Chu Qing joined hands, used a spatial bloodline power to vanish, and left the others fearing the consequences of her vow to destroy the God Demon Realm.

The Heavenly God warned Heavenly Court that Realm Ancestors risk being killed by the pioneers of their paths, and revealed that many pioneers still lived. After Heavenly Court left their nighttime meeting, the Heavenly God questioned whether the Azure Heaven was weakening or pursuing a hidden scheme.

• Heavenly Court suggested becoming a Realm Ancestor, but the Heavenly God warned that someone might kill him and leave no one to flatter him.
• The Heavenly God explained that path pioneers could survive for ages and might confront later Realm Ancestors who followed their paths.
• The Heavenly God revealed that the Skin-Shedding Dao and Golden Core Dao had emerged after the Mountain River Dao, and said their pioneers might still be alive.
• Heavenly Court secretly visited the Heavenly God at night, believing the fan strikes had signaled him to come, and happily left before dawn.
• The Heavenly God wondered whether the Azure Heaven was plotting against the forbidden zones, its former allies, or a terrifying former God.

As the top-tier powers struggled to explain Chu Qing and Yu Ji’s victories, Fangcun members overturned the Heavenly Order and replaced numerous Realm Ancestors. At Stone Ridge Mountain, Chu Qing reviewed the upheaval and found Yu Ji recovering from the strain of her battle.

• The top-tier powers debated how Chu Qing and Yu Ji had slain Realm Ancestors and planned to capture them to uncover their secrets.
• Messages reported that the Second Generation Yin Tianzi, Mythology, and Fangcun Reincarnation had each defeated an ancestor and claimed a new realm title.
• Over one day, twelve Realm Ancestors were slain and more than thirty Destined Realms gained new ancestors, forcing the top-tier powers to address the turmoil within their ranks.
• Mythology asked Chu Qing about the title Myth of Myths, then spent resources to change her title from Mythology Old Ancestor.
• Chu Qing saw that Madam Shi Yu Ji had returned weak and listless, recovering atop Golden Silk White Jade as more than a million Golden Cores aided her.

Madam Jin, Consort Mei, and Zuo Yan returned safely to Stone Ridge Mountain after a perilous journey, reuniting with Chu Qing and learning about First Illumination Person's current condition. Madam Jin then urged Chu Qing to build his own force to prepare for the Black Tide from the forbidden zones.

• Madam Shi recovered with the million Golden Cores and agreed to wait until the Black Tide retreated before using them to further elevate her bloodline.
• Madam Jin, Consort Mei, and Zuo Yan arrived at Stone Ridge Mountain through a teleportation Strange Artifact after traveling for nearly two months.
• Consort Mei and Zuo Yan placed the damaged Strange Artifact in Stone Ridge Mountain's earth veins, where they expected it to recover within a month.
• Mingyue showed Madam Jin and the others that First Illumination Person was sleeping inside a Golden Core, and Chu Qing explained her condition.
• Madam Jin warned Chu Qing that the forbidden zones might use the Black Tide to flood human continents and urged him to turn the people on his continent into his own force.

As the Black Tide continued to engulf the continent, Chu Qing decided to enter the Forbidden Zone and negotiate with its creatures, taking only Madam Jin in her extraordinary war chariot. The chariot’s immense power burned paths through the Black Tide, and Chu Qing learned that the First Illumination Person had refined it to the equivalent of a hundred-thousand-year treasure.

• Madam Shi suggested that others cultivating Chu Qing’s Mountain River Dao would strengthen his Reflection Realm, but Chu Qing insisted on gathering power unto himself and chose to speak with the Forbidden Zone creatures.
• Chu Qing brought Madam Jin into the Forbidden Zone and told Consort Mei, Zuo Yan, and Mingyue to guard Stone Ridge Mountain against the Black Tide.
• Madam Jin drove the extraordinary war chariot across the Black Tide, leaving deep, burning tracks that astonished the frontline warriors.
• Madam Jin released a great sun from the chariot that burned through the Black Tide and scorched the earth across a vast area.
• Madam Jin explained that the First Illumination Person had refined the chariot and embedded treasures in it, giving it the power of a hundred-thousand-year treasure even at one-tenth strength.

Chu Qing’s Great Sun Chariot burned through the Black Tide, prompting the newly appointed Forbidden Zone Master to confront him. After Chu Qing refused to meet the master, he appeared before him and killed him, leaving the Forbidden Zone without its new ruler.

• The new Forbidden Zone Master learned that someone was ravaging his territory and led a procession to confront the culprit, whom the Immortal Ones suspected was Chu Qing.
• The master’s group found Chu Qing’s Great Sun Chariot burning away the Black Tide and weakening the evils across a vast area.
• The master demanded to know why Chu Qing had entered his Forbidden Zone, while Chu Qing told Madam Jin he had no need to meet a minor character.
• When the master taunted Chu Qing for refusing to appear, Chu Qing said that if he saw the master, he would loathe and kill him.
• Chu Qing and a string of figures rushed out, struck the master with a hand seal, and burned his body apart.
• Chu Qing explained that he had to keep his word, and the new master died before he could finish his residence.

Chu Qing killed the Forbidden Zone Master and forced the Immortals to create a replacement so he could command the Black Tide to stop. The new Sovereign failed to halt it and contacted the higher-ups, after which an unknown power took over him.

• Chu Qing killed the Forbidden Zone Master, then demanded that the Immortals produce a new one or face death.
• The Immortals worshipped one of their own until he transformed into a Sovereign and declared himself the Forbidden Zone Master.
• The new Sovereign knelt before Chu Qing, who ordered him to stop the Black Tide from attacking the continent.
• The Sovereign said a higher authority was directing the Black Tide and began contacting the upper-level Forbidden Zone creatures.
• The Sovereign's power surged, and his fearful expression changed to an aloof, domineering gaze.

Chu Qing confronted a powerful Forbidden Zone being about the Black Tide attacking his continent and secured an end to the invasion without severing the Forbidden Zone’s connection. After Chu Qing departed, the being left the new ruler in a vacant state, and the Immortal Ones escorted him away.

• Chu Qing challenged the being possessing the new ruler, arguing that he had helped the Forbidden Zone by freeing powerful prisoners from the Heavenly Court’s Prison Continent.
• The being withdrew his consciousness to consult the Great Figures, then returned and announced that the Black Tide would end and the Forbidden Zone connection would be severed.
• Chu Qing rejected severing the connection and asked only that the Black Tide never attack his continent while he lived.
• The being invited Chu Qing to join the Forbidden Zone and become a ruler, but Chu Qing declined and left with his Godmother in the war chariot.
• The being ordered the Immortal Ones to support the new ruler, then withdrew and left him vacant and babbling; the Immortal Ones escorted him away.

Chu Qing ordered the commanders to prepare for the return of his Golden Core maids, claiming the Black Tide would soon end after he spoke with the restricted-zone creatures. The commanders doubted him, while the Purge Pavilion secretly killed a frontline soldier who criticized Chu Qing.

• Frontline soldiers watched Chu Qing's burning war chariot emerge from the restricted zone, and the Purge Pavilion ordered the death of a man who questioned him.
• Chu Qing used Investiture on Madam Jin and Consort Mei Zuo Yan, improving their bloodlines and granting them metahuman bloodlines.
• After receiving requests for reinforcements from the frontline, Chu Qing contacted the commanders and ordered them to stop requesting personnel and return the maids Stone Ridge Mountain had sent out.
• Chu Qing claimed the restricted-zone creatures had agreed to end the Black Tide, but the commanders and metahuman liaison doubted that he could stop it.
• Chu Qing told the commanders to return every one of his people after the Black Tide ended and warned that he would destroy the continent if anyone was missing.