Arc 55The Lost Martial Ancestor

Chu Qing returned from the past and discovered that Tian Buyu had vanished from history while Liu Ruyan held the title of Third Limit Martial Ancestor. As he searched for the truth and developed a New Realm, the Millennial Calamity spread, and he began forcing the empires to prepare for it.

  • Chu Qing killed Dongfang Weiwo in the past, then returned to his own time while Tian Buyu chose to remain with Liu Ruyan.
  • Chu Qing learned that ten years had passed and that Stone Ridge Mountain had become a thriving cultivation center, then discovered that history named Liu Ruyan as the Third Limit Martial Ancestor.
  • Chu Qing reunited with the Square Inch Gathering, learned that Heaven and the Harvesters threatened the world, and gained the Time Demon title, which let him travel through time more easily.
  • Chu Qing summoned Tian Buyu from the past, warned him that Liu Ruyan would replace him as Martial Ancestor, and told him to beware of Heaven.
  • Chu Qing began developing a New Realm, while the great powers avoided confronting him and the Yellow Heaven Dao expanded its influence.
  • Chu Qing opened Tian Buyu’s coffin, found his corpse and a letter apparently written by Liu Ruyan, and decided to return to the past to uncover what had happened.
  • Chu Qing helped Mechanical Path Experts create the Mechanical Emperor and gave it a thought imprint of loyalty before turning his attention to the Millennial Calamity.
  • Chu Qing ordered the empires to build waterworks and prepare for disasters, authorizing his maidservants to replace rulers who resisted.
Chapters 1351–1375 Vol. 14 Read

Ch. 1351Interlude: Dongfang Weiwo

Chu Qing slaughtered trial takers and forbidden-zone creatures to claim extra rewards, while Tian Buyu fought Dongfang Weiwo. Dongfang Weiwo sensed that Tian Buyu knew all his techniques, but he believed he was fighting a replica of himself.

  • The Four Directions announced that trial takers had to kill two opponents to return, and that killing more could bring extra rewards.
  • A young girl and a forbidden-zone human killed each other, while Chu Qing began rapidly slaughtering opponents on both sides.
  • Chu Qing continued killing despite gaining the means to return, prompting trial takers and forbidden-zone creatures to join forces against him.
  • Tian Buyu copied Chu Qing’s approach and killed trial takers, while Dongfang Weiwo chose to attack him.
  • Tian Buyu and Dongfang Weiwo began fighting, and Dongfang Weiwo realized his opponent could effortlessly counter his techniques.

Ch. 1352Interlude: Who Are You?

Chu Qing slaughtered most of the trial takers and restricted-zone creatures while Dongfang Weiwo and Tian Buyu fought, leaving only a few survivors on the platform. When the survivors heard Chu Qing and Tian Buyu speak, they realized the Great Terrors might also be taking a test, and Dongfang Weiwo asked Chu Qing who he really was.

  • Dongfang Weiwo fought Tian Buyu, who said he had failed to kill him before and now had another chance.
  • Chu Qing killed wave after wave of trial takers and restricted-zone creatures, forcing many trial takers to flee or use their permissions to return.
  • Tian Buyu kicked Liu Ruyan away from Chu Qing's battle instead of killing her, leaving her wondering whether she knew him.
  • Chu Qing asked Four Directions to reveal the final test, and Dongfang Weiwo and the other survivors realized they could hear the Great Terrors speaking.
  • Tian Buyu told Liu Ruyan that he was Buyu, while Chu Qing asked Dongfang Weiwo whether he could hear them.
  • Dongfang Weiwo asked Chu Qing whether he was a living person and demanded to know who he was.

Ch. 1353Interlude: Chu Qing's Crazy Idea

Chu Qing confronted Dongfang Weiwo, the man destined to become the Third Limit Martial Ancestor, and challenged him to a fight. Their foundations proved evenly matched, and the chapter left them locked in a brutal clash as Tian Buyu recognized Dongfang Weiwo as a rare equal to Chu Qing.

  • Chu Qing told Dongfang Weiwo that he intended to kill him, prompting Tian Buyu to realize Chu Qing might be trying to change history.
  • Dongfang Weiwo accepted that he was destined to become the Third Limit Martial Ancestor and believed Chu Qing would not dare kill him.
  • Several trial takers attacked Dongfang Weiwo, who killed them all without Chu Qing's help.
  • Chu Qing and Dongfang Weiwo charged at each other and exchanged deep wounds in a direct clash.
  • Chu Qing and Dongfang Weiwo fought with evenly matched foundations, while Tian Buyu reflected that a Martial Ancestor's foundation could rival Chu Qing's.

Ch. 1354Third Martial Ancestor's Killing Move

Chu Qing and Dongfang Weiwo fought for nine days and nights, each using the other as a whetstone to advance their martial arts. When Dongfang Weiwo revealed a strange vertical eye tied to Heaven, he hinted that he would make Angel Envoy and similar beings into Angel Envoys.

  • While Chu Qing and Dongfang Weiwo remained locked in battle, Tian Buyu and Liu Ruyan spent days together, and Liu Ruyan resolved to seal herself away until Tian Buyu returned in the future.
  • Tian Buyu suspected Four Directions had lifted its restrictions because the battle and everyone present might be illusory, but Liu Ruyan dismissed the idea.
  • As the fight continued, Chu Qing and Dongfang Weiwo grew stronger by adapting their secret transmissions, and Dongfang Weiwo declared that he had perfected the Third Limit.
  • After nine days and nights, Chu Qing recognized that Dongfang Weiwo had begun repeating his moves and said his methods were exhausted.
  • Dongfang Weiwo refused to accept defeat and revealed a vertical eye on his forehead, which Chu Qing recognized as connected to Heaven.
  • Chu Qing boasted that he would kill Angel Envoys easily, while Dongfang Weiwo ominously said he would make Angel Envoy and beings like him into Angel Envoys.

Ch. 1355Heaven's Silence Remained

Chu Qing killed Dongfang Weiwo after the Third Martial Ancestor’s killing move brought Heaven’s consciousness upon him. When given the choice to leave or remain in the past, Chu Qing returned to his own time, while Tian Buyu chose to stay and pursue the path to becoming a new Martial Ancestor.

  • The Third Martial Ancestor attacked Chu Qing, but Chu Qing’s Hand of God broke his killing move and killed him as Dongfang Weiwo.
  • The Four Directions offered Chu Qing and Tian Buyu the choice to return to their original time or remain in the past.
  • Chu Qing decided to return after sensing that staying might carry restrictions, while Tian Buyu chose to remain in the era where his loved ones lived.
  • Chu Qing advised Tian Buyu to become a Martial Ancestor under his own name and warned him to beware of Heaven.
  • Chu Qing and Tian Buyu arranged ways to communicate across time, shared secret plans and resource locations, and then Chu Qing vanished.

Ch. 1356Heaven Does Not Speak, Ancient Emperor Road

Chu Qing returned from the past after invoking Liuli to save Tian Buyu from the eyeball’s attack, but he found Tian Buyu missing. He refused to walk the Ancient Emperor Road and left the forbidden-zone creatures behind, while Tian Buyu’s fate remained uncertain.

  • Tian Buyu became a Third Limit Martial Ancestor and fought the person transformed from the eyeball, with Liu Ruyan rushing to help him.
  • Tian Buyu recited a scripture invoking Reflection Emperor Liuli, who destroyed the eyeball’s servant and drew the attack of more Vertical Eyes.
  • Chu Qing returned to the platform and learned that the forbidden-zone creatures remembered their recent battle as a dream, while Tian Buyu was nowhere to be found.
  • Azure Gold Flying Snow invited Chu Qing to walk the Ancient Emperor Road, but he refused and left to pursue his own plans.
  • Azure Gold Flying Snow vowed to make Chu Qing kneel after walking part of the road, and the other creatures noticed that the platform’s stone stele was missing.

Ch. 1357Some Changes to Stone Ridge Mountain

After returning from a ten-year absence, Chu Qing learned how his power had transformed Stone Ridge Mountain and asked for histories of the Third Limit Martial Ancestor. The chapter ended as Madam Shi prepared to explain who the Martial Ancestor was.

  • Chu Qing returned to Miracle Palace and learned from Madam Shi that ten years had passed while he was away fighting for ten days.
  • Madam Shi told Chu Qing that his power had permeated Stone Ridge Mountain, turning it into a cultivation holy land where unusual plants and bloodline-talented children appeared.
  • Madam Shi reported that Stone Ridge Mountain had gained tens of millions of Demon Race beings, many new maids, and a partially self-aware First Illumination Person who wanted to be born early.
  • Chu Qing argued that the mountain's changes came from his Reflection Realm and reassured Madam Shi that reflected mountains and rivers would remain even if the physical ones were destroyed.
  • Chu Qing asked the maids to find every history book about the Third Limit Martial Ancestor, and Madam Shi realized the question was connected to his disappearance.

Ch. 1358Third Limit Martial Ancestor Liu Ruyan

Chu Qing learned that Liu Ruyan had replaced Tian Buyu as the Third Limit Martial Ancestor and searched the historical records for an explanation. After his attempt to contact Tian Buyu failed, Madam Shi suggested that Heaven might have hidden Tian Buyu’s fate by making Liu Ruyan the Martial Ancestor.

  • Madam Shi named Liu Ruyan as the Third Limit Martial Ancestor, and Chu Qing explained that he had expected Tian Buyu or Dongfang Weiwo to hold the position.
  • Chu Qing read records about Liu Ruyan, ordered ritual materials, and sent a group of maids to search distant coordinates for a special alloy box.
  • Chu Qing used Tian Buyu’s essence blood in a ritual to contact him across time and space, but the ritual exploded and failed.
  • Chu Qing told Madam Shi that Tian Buyu had vanished from history and wondered why Liu Ruyan had taken his place.
  • Madam Shi pointed out that Liu Ruyan’s records spanned ten thousand years and suggested Heaven might have imprisoned or killed Tian Buyu before making Liu Ruyan the Martial Ancestor.
  • Chu Qing agreed to take a walk with Yu Ji after Madam Shi offered to bring Mingyue and Cui Moyang to sing opera.

Ch. 1359You Can Call Me by My Name

Chu Qing recovered from his worries about Tian Buyu and learned how the Demon Race was breeding descendants with mythical creatures, while Twisted Path martial artists experimented with creating new races. He rejoined the Square Inch Gathering after ten years away and revealed that he was alive.

  • Mingyue showed Chu Qing the powerful but often unintelligent descendants born from the Demon Race and mythical creatures, and explained that nearly extinct mythical species had come to breed their bloodlines there.
  • Chu Qing learned that Twisted Path martial artists were studying bloodline inheritance to create a new species and designate it by fate.
  • Chu Qing entered the Square Inch Gathering and found its members worried because he had been missing for ten years.
  • Second Generation Yin Tianzi joked about building a tomb for Chu Qing, and Second Generation Moon God threatened him for speaking as if Chu Qing were dead.
  • Chu Qing greeted the gathering, and when Second Generation Bi Luo asked if he was Di Qing, Chu Qing told everyone to call him by his name, Chu Qing.

Ch. 1360Great Affairs Under Heaven

Chu Qing returned to the Square Inch Gathering and heard about the spread of Reflection Realm cultivation, unrest among the top-tier organizations, and the Harvesters’ growing activity. The chapter ended when Heavenly Court told him that the Heavenly God wanted to see him.

  • Chu Qing reunited with the Square Inch Gathering and claimed he had traveled to the past and killed the Third Limit Martial Ancestor, but the others did not believe him.
  • Second Generation Bi Luo explained that top-tier powerhouses were fighting over territory to cultivate the Reflection Realm, which had become widely popular.
  • Luo Tian invited the others to render the forbidden zones, while Second Generation Bi Luo reported that the New Heavenly Court was rebelling and the Yellow Heaven Dao was suppressing it.
  • Reincarnation and Second Generation Yin Tianzi warned that Harvesters were accelerating their harvest of Martial Arts Outsiders and Innate Outsiders, with some top-tier organizations helping them.
  • Heavenly Court told Chu Qing that the Heavenly God wanted to see him.

Ch. 1361The Secret of Myth and Clues About Luo Tian

Chu Qing learned from Luo Tian that Liu Ruyan might have taken the Third Limit Martial Ancestor’s honored position, which could let Heaven seize the titles of past Martial Ancestors. After managing the twisted-path descendants at Stone Ridge Mountain, he returned to Miracle Palace and opened his throbbing Profession Slot.

  • Chu Qing told Heavenly Court that the Heavenly God would have to come to Stone Ridge Mountain to meet him.
  • Luo Tian asked Chu Qing whom he had traveled to the past with, and Chu Qing explained his journey with Tian Buyu and his encounter with Liu Ruyan.
  • Luo Tian warned that if Liu Ruyan had obtained the Third Limit Martial Ancestor’s honored position, Heaven might be able to strip honored positions from Martial Ancestors throughout history.
  • Luo Tian warned Chu Qing that present-day Heaven might use spacetime to pursue him, then promised to search for traces of the Third Limit Martial Ancestor.
  • Chu Qing ordered Mingyue to confine the twisted-path warriors and their descendants to a designated area, with death as the penalty for leaving.
  • After surveying Stone Ridge Mountain, Chu Qing returned to Miracle Palace, told the maidservants not to disturb him, and opened his throbbing Profession Slot.

Ch. 1362Time Demon, Inch of Time

Chu Qing gained the Time Demon title and discovered that its Inch of Time could let him travel through time, resist temporal restrictions, and change the past. As someone in the future summoned him, he witnessed the ruined Miracle Palace and historians searching for records of him one hundred eras later.

  • Chu Qing gained the Time Demon title, which made traveling through time easier and granted him one Inch of Time each year.
  • Chu Qing learned that an Inch of Time could extend his stay in another era, enable travel to a chosen time, and even rewind recent deaths.
  • Chu Qing considered using Tian Buyu’s essence blood and ten Inches of Time to return to the moment Tian Buyu died or disappeared and change his fate.
  • As Chu Qing prepared to enter seclusion, someone in the future summoned him, and he saw the Miracle Palace decay into ruins over the passing years.
  • One hundred eras later, historians and tomb raiders searched for Chu Qing and the Heavenly Court, finding records that referred to him as Taboo or XX.

Ch. 1363Phoenix Emperor's Dream

Phoenix Emperor compared the Miracle Palace described in the records with the one she saw in dreams of a distant era, realizing that the records matched much of what she had witnessed. As the experts reconstructed the palace, the reciter began to reveal that its mysteries had been recorded elsewhere.

  • Phoenix Emperor recalled dreams in which she inhabited a woman near an unnamed man and saw the Miracle Palace, Old Gods building it, and ancient creatures gathered there.
  • Phoenix Emperor examined the records and recognized familiar details, concluding that they described the same Miracle Palace she had seen in her dreams.
  • The experts used exotic treasures to reconstruct the Miracle Palace, beginning with its side palace and matching much of Phoenix Emperor's recollection.
  • The onlookers marveled at the palace's extravagance while Phoenix Emperor remembered that Old Gods had built it under the command of twin women.
  • The reciter announced that the records described the palace's beauty but not its mysteries, then began naming the objects that recorded those mysteries.

Ch. 1364Phoenix Emperor Pays Respects to the Old Ancestor

Phoenix Emperor investigated accounts of three mysterious paintings before returning to the Endless Sea to ask her Old Ancestor about the taboo figure connected to them. The Old Ancestor confirmed that the figure had truly existed but knew little about him, so she offered to consult her own Old Ancestor.

  • A historian read accounts of the First Miracle, the Myriad Demon Chart, and a painting said to contain the powers and secrets of countless beings.
  • Phoenix Emperor believed the extraordinary claims were credible because her dreams had shown her the ancient beings and events associated with the taboo figure.
  • While others began verifying the historical records, Phoenix Emperor left for her island home and descended into the deep sea to visit the Old Ancestor.
  • Phoenix Emperor told the Old Ancestor about Chu Qing, the erased name, and the figure’s surviving deeds.
  • The Old Ancestor insisted the figure had truly existed, admitted she did not know who he was, and offered to ask her own Old Ancestor.

Ch. 1365Nested Dolls—Eight Ancestors

Phoenix Emperor followed eight nested Old Ancestors to meet Di Xiu, the Kunpeng clan’s famed second-generation demon, hoping to learn about the man she sought. In Di Xiu’s study, Phoenix Emperor recognized that man in a painting and revealed that she could see his face, shocking the Old Ancestors.

  • The old woman transformed into a Great White Whale, carried Phoenix Emperor through a black ocean, and led her to an ancestor who turned out to be a young girl named Di Ping'er.
  • Di Ping'er had no knowledge of the man Phoenix Emperor sought, so she swallowed the group and brought them to her own Old Ancestor; after several more generations, they reached the ninth Old Ancestor, Di Xiu.
  • Di Xiu did not awaken, so the Old Ancestors searched her enormous study for records while Phoenix Emperor wandered through the palace.
  • Phoenix Emperor saw a painting of the man from her dreams and recognized him as the person she had summoned as an Ancient Person.
  • An Old Ancestor explained that almost no one could see the figure in the painting clearly, but Phoenix Emperor cried that she could, leaving the Old Ancestors stunned and demanding to know what it showed.

Ch. 1366So Lonely! What About You?

Phoenix Emperor learned that Chu Qing resembled the Kunpeng Clan’s Great Figure and chose to keep learning about him through her dreams rather than seek Ancestor Xiu’er. Ancestor Xiu’er revealed that Chu Qing had once warned her not to share his history, then lamented how lonely she had become.

  • Phoenix Emperor described the Great Figure’s appearance to the eight Old Ancestors, who recognized him as the figure Ancestor Xiu'er had described.
  • The Old Ancestors explained that Ancestor Xiu'er alone knew the Great Figure’s history and that she had ordered the Kunpeng Clan’s records about him burned.
  • Phoenix Emperor decided not to seek Ancestor Xiu'er, choosing instead to use Chu Qing’s essence blood to watch scenes in her dreams and learn his story.
  • After Phoenix Emperor and the Old Ancestors left, Ancestor Xiu'er recalled Chu Qing telling her not to give Phoenix Emperor his history or kill her.
  • Ancestor Xiu'er lay beneath Chu Qing’s portrait and mourned that fewer people knew her, asking whether Chu Qing felt lonely too.

Ch. 1367Seeing Tian Buyu Again

Chu Qing descended into Tian Buyu’s era and killed the martial artists pursuing him with the power of his name. He warned Tian Buyu that Liu Ruyan would betray him in the future and urged him to kill Heaven, leaving Tian Buyu with a new purpose and a painful reminder.

  • Chu Qing arrived beside Tian Buyu, then killed the surrounding pursuers when they heard his name and could not withstand his power.
  • Chu Qing told Tian Buyu that they had been friends and explained that reciting his true name could summon him.
  • Chu Qing asked about Liu Ruyan, and Tian Buyu said she had been killed by a terrifying creature and that he had fled without her corpse.
  • Chu Qing warned Tian Buyu that Liu Ruyan would eventually scheme against him and replace him as the Martial Ancestor.
  • Chu Qing slapped Tian Buyu, told him to beware of Liu Ruyan and kill Heaven if he survived, and Tian Buyu agreed.

Ch. 1368Cui Moyang's Suggestion

Chu Qing returned from the past after warning Tian Buyu and became troubled by a vision of Stone Ridge Mountain’s destruction and his own future injury. Cui Moyang proposed saturating every continent’s earth veins so Chu Qing could destroy the world if anyone tried to kill him, but Nangong questioned whether the plan could work before they grew old or died.

  • Chu Qing taught Tian Buyu about the New Realm, gave him Essence Blood Gemstones, and urged him to leave information and call for Chu Qing if danger threatened.
  • After Chu Qing vanished, Tian Buyu’s pursuers were gravely injured or killed merely by hearing Chu Qing’s name, and Tian Buyu decided to use the name as a weapon.
  • Back in the present, Chu Qing worried that his vision of Stone Ridge Mountain’s ruin and his wounded future self might foretell a real threat.
  • Madam Shi argued that the future was uncertain and urged Chu Qing to confront any enemies rather than fear the vision, while Nangong advised him to stop studying the future.
  • Cui Moyang suggested saturating every continent’s earth veins so Chu Qing could detonate them all if someone tried to kill him, and Chu Qing approved of the idea.
  • Nangong questioned whether the earth-vein project would take too long and whether they would survive long enough to use it.

Ch. 1369Wu Feitu and the Others, the New Yellow Heaven Dao Master

Chu Qing gathered his allies to help him refine the framework of a New Realm, and they entered seclusion in the Sword Dao Space. While they worked, the outside world changed: Yellow Heaven Dao branded the New Heavenly Court as rebels, and frustrated Twisted Mechanical Realm geniuses began searching for a way to create a race.

  • Chu Qing decided to pursue a New Realm and gathered Nangong, Madam Shi, Mingyue, the Princess Consort, Madam Jin, Red Robe, and others to help him derive its framework.
  • Red Robe offered her wisdom in Cui Moyang's Sword Dao Space, where it joined Chu Qing's wisdom and aided his cultivation.
  • During the years of seclusion, Stone Ridge Mountain prospered, while Yellow Heaven Dao occupied Misty Rain Pavilion's former continent and its new Dao Master ordered the New Heavenly Court hunted as rebels.
  • Twisted Path martial artists left their families and tried to create new lineages with other beings, while Twisted Mechanical Realm martial artists were rejected as breeding partners.
  • A Great Genius of the Mechanical Path announced that he had an idea for creating a race.

Ch. 1370Past Like Smoke?

The Yellow Heaven Dao secretly survived Heaven’s Millennial Calamity through the Ancient and Modern Empress’s Demon Prison Law Net, while Second Generation Yin Tianzi’s experiment produced powerful descendants who could not match Chu Qing. As Chu Qing’s decade-long seclusion continued, the great powers feared his eventual return, though one genius hoped he had forgotten their past grudges.

  • The Yellow Heaven Dao ordered its territories to worship Yellow Heaven instead of Heaven, and the Demon Prison Law Net intercepted Heaven’s Millennial Calamity without outsiders learning of it.
  • Second Generation Yin Tianzi’s descendants repeated Chu Qing’s path through hardship and slaughter, and many survived to become formidable martial artists, though none opened a new realm or matched Chu Qing.
  • Second Generation Yin Tianzi, Myth, Luo Tian, Heavenly Court, Second Generation Moonfall, and Second Generation Bi Luo discussed how the suppression of rising Mythological figures and Overlords could prevent new ones from emerging.
  • The great powers continued to fear Chu Qing during his seclusion, as the Human World remained quieter and they expected him to settle accounts when he returned.
  • In the tenth year of Chu Qing’s seclusion, a Great Genius worried that Chu Qing would rule the world upon emerging, while another hoped he had forgotten their old grudges.

Ch. 1371Things Tian Buyu Left Behind

After emerging from ten years of seclusion, Chu Qing reviewed his plans for the New Realm and learned that Liu Ruyan had been the Third Limit Martial Ancestor, leaving him puzzled about Tian Buyu’s fate. The maids returned with the chest Tian Buyu had left behind, and Chu Qing prepared to open it.

  • Da Congming suggested attacking Chu Qing while he was secluded, but the other powerhouses rejected the idea and decided they would flee if he came after them.
  • Chu Qing emerged from ten years of seclusion, and Hongyi led Madam Jin and the others to secure their distant base.
  • Chu Qing reviewed his New Realm frameworks and realized he needed to master more paths before settling on a direction.
  • Chu Qing read the history of the Third Limit Martial Ancestor and discovered that Liu Ruyan had held that title, raising questions about how Tian Buyu had lost his Martial Ancestor status.
  • The maids returned with Tian Buyu’s marked chest after a decade of searching, and Chu Qing granted their blood relatives and descendants the right to inherit their authority.
  • The maids said they could not open the chest, so Chu Qing prepared to see what Tian Buyu had left inside.

Ch. 1372Walking the Human World

Chu Qing discovered Tian Buyu’s corpse in the ritual coffin and suspected Heaven had manipulated his death and Liu Ruyan’s memories. He traveled from Stone Ridge Mountain into the expanding human empire to walk among its people, then spotted twisted Mechanical Path experts building a strange machine.

  • Chu Qing opened Tian Buyu’s coffin, found his corpse and a letter apparently written by Liu Ruyan, and concluded that Heaven had arranged the message.
  • Chu Qing had Tian Buyu’s coffin sealed and guarded in the cave where a female Goddess had abandoned her body of Gods and Devils.
  • Chu Qing decided he would need to return to the past to uncover the truth about Tian Buyu’s death and Heaven’s plans for the Third Limit Martial Ancestor.
  • Chu Qing rode a carriage pulled by Demon Race members from Stone Ridge Mountain into Zhao Hongxiu and the others’ expanding empire, observing humanity’s efforts to reclaim land from the forbidden zones.
  • Chu Qing saw twisted Mechanical Path experts constructing a gigantic, bizarre machine and ordered the carriage to stop.

Ch. 1373Great Genius of the Mechanical Path

Chu Qing observed twisted Mechanical Path Experts build a giant mechanical humanoid and helped them create a brain that let it understand commands. As the experts demonstrated their paths, their influence transformed nearby maidservants, and Chu Qing drove the corruption back with his Golden Core.

  • Chu Qing watched the Mechanical Path Experts animate a thousand-meter mechanical humanoid with a ritual fireseed, but it could not move because it lacked a brain.
  • Chu Qing pointed out the missing brain, and the experts studied one, built a mechanical brain, and got the humanoid moving.
  • When the humanoid struggled with complex commands, Chu Qing used a thousand nested totem eyeballs to observe a brain and guide the experts in making a more refined one.
  • The experts demonstrated their twisted Mechanical Paths and proposed teaching the living mechanical humanoid to cultivate.
  • The maidservants began transforming into mechanical parts under the experts' influence, so Chu Qing used his Golden Core to suppress the changes and sent them a thousand meters away.
  • Chu Qing wondered whether the mechanical humanoid could cultivate a path.

Ch. 1374The Birth of the Mechanical Emperor

Chu Qing discovered that the Mechanical Emperor could help him cultivate, then secretly imprinted it with loyalty to him as it set out to build a Mechanical Empire. After returning to Stone Ridge Mountain, he planned with Mingyue to create a Gods and Devils network against the Millennial Tribulation, but the Heavenly Court warned him that the Heavenly God was looking for him.

  • The Mechanical Path Experts fused themselves into their artificial robot and named the resulting thousand-meter giant the Mechanical Emperor.
  • Chu Qing examined the Mechanical Emperor’s calculating brain and realized it could help him fuse and optimize paths for his New Realm cultivation.
  • Chu Qing implanted a thought imprint that would make the Mechanical Emperor and the experts fused into it loyal to him.
  • The Mechanical Emperor set off to recruit mechanical experts and establish a Mechanical Empire, while Chu Qing continued traveling through empires and saw the Millennial Tribulation striking many of them.
  • Back at Stone Ridge Mountain, Chu Qing agreed with Mingyue to create a Gods and Devils network to resist the Millennial Tribulation.
  • The Heavenly Court warned Chu Qing that the Heavenly God had gone looking for him.

Ch. 1375Chu Qing's Order

Chu Qing ordered the empires to prepare for the Millennial Calamity through large-scale waterworks and other disaster responses, using threats of force to overcome opposition. He then contacted the alliance of otherworlders for help, but the person who answered did not recognize him.

  • Chu Qing asked Cui Moyang about Goddess King Bai Lu and learned she had left to find the seasonal Goddess Kings; Cui Moyang suggested asking the Ancient and Modern Empress to help build a law net.
  • Chu Qing rejected the idea of seeking the Ancient and Modern Empress's help and resolved to resist the Millennial Calamity with human effort.
  • Chu Qing ordered Tang Wuming to collect records of Millennial Calamities, then learned they included droughts, snow disasters, floods, wind disasters, fires, and plagues.
  • Chu Qing ordered the empires to dig canals, qanats, and other waterworks to redistribute water, and directed his maidservants to inspect conditions and adapt plans.
  • When empires, aristocratic families, and martial artists resisted, Chu Qing instructed his maidservants to kill opponents and replace disobedient rulers.
  • Chu Qing contacted the alliance of otherworlders for help, but the person who answered asked who he was, so Chu Qing demanded to speak to someone stronger.
Arc 55 of 85
Arc 55 of 85