Recaps

Chu Qing battled Number Eighteen while destroying the Myriad Kill Diagram’s killing moves, then studied and entered Number Eighteen’s fierce tiger technique. Number Eighteen unleashed more than three thousand Sovereigns into the tiger, leaving Chu Qing fighting their transformed selves inside its body.

• Chu Qing shattered killing moves and harvested their fragments, which annihilated Immortal Ones and forced the forbidden zone’s inhabitants to retreat.
• Number Eighteen pursued Chu Qing and attacked him with Sovereigns, but Chu Qing kept destroying the killing moves while they clashed.
• Number Eighteen combined four killing moves into a gigantic transparent fierce tiger, and Chu Qing entered it to study its structure.
• Chu Qing kicked Number Eighteen into a deep pit, enraging him into releasing more than three thousand Sovereigns.
• The Sovereigns transformed into Number Eighteens inside the fierce tiger, where they fought Chu Qing as the tiger thrashed and tried to expel them.

Chu Qing defeated Number Eighteen after their brutal clash, exploiting a moment when Number Eighteen lost control of the Fierce Tiger Gang. Number Eighteen surrendered and begged for mercy, but Chu Qing began peeling off his skullcap.

• Number Eighteen absorbed his many duplicates, fused with the Fierce Tiger Gang, and challenged Chu Qing in a monstrous form.
• Chu Qing transformed and overwhelmed Number Eighteen in a direct clash of heads, arms, and wings.
• Chu Qing tore pieces from the Fierce Tiger Gang and used them as weapons until Number Eighteen could no longer disperse the tiger hide.
• Number Eighteen became distracted when he realized he had lost control of the hide, and Chu Qing seized the opening to batter him and tear off his head with his spine.
• Number Eighteen begged Chu Qing to spare him and offered to become a spy, but Chu Qing started peeling off his skullcap.

Chu Qing survived Number Eighteen’s secret killing move, killed him, and declared that the forbidden zone would have to revere him as a taboo. As he resumed his assault across the Black Tide, an immense face appeared in the sky to confront him.

• Chu Qing searched Number Eighteen’s memories for the Fierce Tiger Gang secret art, and Number Eighteen unleashed a killing move powered by burning thousands of Sovereigns.
• Chu Qing survived the multicolored attack unharmed, then destroyed Number Eighteen’s consciousness and declared that he could not revive in the forbidden zone.
• Chu Qing resumed slaughtering forbidden-zone creatures and collapsing Black Tide mountain ranges, demanding that the forbidden zone and its giants revere him as a taboo.
• A vast face formed in the sky, called Chu Qing arrogant, and Chu Qing began to answer it.

Chu Qing’s title changed after he created The Showdown Between Forbidden and Forbidden Zone, and the painting became a powerful strange treasure that he ultimately chose to release. He then rejected the Twilight Overlord’s offer and vowed to destroy the Forbidden Zone for its attack on Qingzhou.

• Chu Qing’s title changed to Forbidden on the Emperor's Seat, Terror Reflected Beneath the Abyss—Emperor Liuli—Time Demon—Chu Qing, and its abilities strengthened.
• When Chu Qing announced his name, unacknowledged Forbidden Zone creatures across hundreds of thousands of miles exploded, and their blood formed The Showdown Between Forbidden and Forbidden Zone.
• The painting swallowed the Myriad Kill Diagram, struck the lightning face, and revealed that it could summon 1.2 billion Evil Creatures and powerful copies of Chu Qing and the face.
• Chu Qing sensed that the painting did not belong to the present, used an Inch of Time on it, and let it fly away rather than rely on it as an external source of power.
• The Twilight Overlord offered to stop the Forbidden Zone from attacking Qingzhou in exchange for the painting, but Chu Qing refused and vowed to invade and destroy the Forbidden Zone.

Chu Qing continued destroying the Black Tide while the Twilight Overlord watched and warned him that he would regret his actions. At Square Inch Gathering, Luo Tian revealed that the Forbidden Zone planned to destroy every human continent and that some leaders were already bargaining for a place inside it.

• Chu Qing dismissed the Twilight Overlord’s threat and repeatedly destroyed the Black Tide mountain ranges while the Overlord watched.
• At Square Inch Gathering, Chu Qing told Bi Luo and the others that only an Overlord-level Forbidden Zone creature could likely threaten him, and Bi Luo offered to bring help if he needed it.
• The group discussed the spreading Black Tide, the threat posed by Emissary of Heaven legions, and the possibility that human organizations would collude with the Forbidden Zone.
• Heavenly Court warned that some human organizations might let the Forbidden Zone swallow their continents, and Chu Qing said survivors could come to Qingzhou.
• Luo Tian reported that the Forbidden Zone intended to destroy all human continents and that some had already agreed to lower their defenses in exchange for a place in the Forbidden Zone.

After learning that some human continents planned to surrender, Chu Qing rejected the Twilight Overlord’s threat to destroy a neighboring continent and began slaughtering his way through the Black Tide. A year later, Qingzhou’s advance remained steady, while the Twilight Overlord discovered that the restricted zone was spawning far fewer living beings than before.

• Luo Tian explained that some human factions wanted to surrender because they feared the Black Tide and hoped to secure a place in the restricted zone.
• The Twilight Overlord threatened to drown the continent next to Qingzhou and blame its destruction on Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing answered that he would retaliate by destroying continents himself, then charged across the Black Tide and slaughtered restricted-zone creatures without using the rare treasure’s Sovereign beings.
• Chu Qing continued killing as Qingzhou advanced through the restricted zone; the Black Tide collapsed within minutes, and his slaughter continued unchanged for a year.
• The Twilight Overlord learned from Authority that the restricted zone was spawning far fewer living beings, with the missing number close to the number Chu Qing had killed.

Chu Qing continued slaughtering the forbidden zone for years while cultivating thousands of realms, and the Black Tide spread from rural continents to the headquarters of super organizations. Inspired by Chu Qing, Yellow Heaven Dao and other organizations deployed thousands of War Fortresses into the forbidden zone, while its Overlords debated how long Chu Qing could keep killing.

• The Twilight Overlord decided not to confront Chu Qing after finding no one in his ranks who could stop him.
• Chu Qing kept killing and cultivating, while Nangong and the Twisted Martial Artists also grew stronger through battle.
• The Black Tide spread from rural continents to mid-grade continents, swallowing some and transforming their people into evil creatures.
• The Black Tide reached the high-grade continents, and the Yellow Heaven Dao Daoist Nun sent three hundred and sixty-five War Fortresses into battle and charged them into the forbidden zone.
• After the Daoist Nun mocked their hesitation, the other top-tier organizations deployed thousands of War Fortresses into the forbidden zone.
• The Overlords worried over Chu Qing's endurance and predicted his century of slaughter would accumulate enough karma to drag him into the Great Terror.

Phoenix Emperor and her mother relived a horrific future-era war in their dreams while the Alliance prepared to breach Bi Luo Mountain. Phoenix Emperor warned the generals that the self-sealed Bi Luo was tied to a terrifying Great Unification figure, but they dismissed her and continued the standoff.

• Phoenix Emperor and her mother dreamed of more than a century of brutal frontline warfare, where they witnessed Chu Qing fight and saw the forbidden zone's Black Tide grow stronger.
• After waking, Phoenix Emperor's Mother said many warriors and even their possessed body had been excited by the slaughter, but an alarm interrupted their discussion.
• Phoenix Emperor and her mother went to the deck and found Alliance forces aiming the Starry Sky Battleship's weapons at Bi Luo Mountain.
• Phoenix Emperor confronted the generals, arguing that Bi Luo was a follower of a powerful Great Unification figure and that disturbing her self-sealing could endanger the Alliance.
• The generals rejected Phoenix Emperor's warning and insisted the excavation had Alliance approval, while the woman on Bi Luo Mountain learned Phoenix Emperor had encountered a Great Figure across time and space.

Wang Feifan invoked Alliance law to seize Bi Luo Mountain for the excavation of the sealed Bi Luo, but High Priest Bi Luo resisted and stripped him of his bloodline and physique. Shen Wuming then arrived and used the law to overwhelm the defenders, until an old woman emerged in Jade Light and shattered the chains binding the High Priest.

• Wang Feifan invoked Alliance law and accused Bi Luo Mountain of ten crimes, but High Priest Bi Luo shattered the first shackles.
• High Priest Bi Luo used her authority to turn the law chains against Wang Feifan, stripping away his bloodline and physique before three Imperial Clan generals forced the law to withdraw.
• Wang Feifan and the generals insisted they had Alliance authorization to excavate the sealed Bi Luo, but High Priest Bi Luo rejected their claim.
• Shen Wuming arrived, declared that he would take Bi Luo for the Shen Family, and used law chains to hurl the Bi Luo Sect members down the mountain and bind High Priest Bi Luo.
• An old woman emerged from Jade Light and shattered the chains restraining High Priest Bi Luo.

On Bi Luo Mountain, Phoenix Emperor and her protectors confronted Shen Wuming as he tried to dig up the ancient woman buried there. The Di Kun Family threatened an all-out killing strike over Phoenix Emperor, but Shen Wuming ordered the Starry Sky Battleship to bomb the mountain anyway.

• The old lady arrived on Bi Luo Mountain, reassured the Bi Luo High Priest, and challenged Shen Wuming over his plan to excavate the ancient woman.
• Shen Wuming revealed that the Alliance and the Shen Family wanted the woman's bloodline and physique, and he threatened Phoenix Emperor when she condemned him.
• Phoenix Emperor's Mother withdrew the law chains Shen Wuming had summoned, then an old woman's phantom warned that harming Phoenix Emperor would bring the Di Kun Family's killing strike.
• Phoenix Emperor declared that she would defend Bi Luo, while the Bi Luo High Priest laughed at her claim that she knew Bi Luo.
• Shen Wuming ordered the Starry Sky Battleship to blast a hole beneath Bi Luo Mountain and said he would restrain Phoenix Emperor.

Shen Wuming led military forces and researchers into Bi Luo Mountain’s Underground Palace to reach Bi Luo God’s sealed site, despite warnings that the palace was deadly. After the expedition lost researchers to the entrance seal, Bi Luo High Priest’s Master revealed that she planned to let the intruders find Bi Luo God and then kill them all.

• Bi Luo High Priest’s Master warned Shen Wuming that the Underground Palace was dangerous, and he brought troops and researchers inside after summoning reinforcements.
• Phoenix Emperor and Phoenix Emperor’s mother joined the expedition, and Phoenix Emperor said Bi Luo God’s man would protect her if he was alive.
• More than a dozen researchers died when they touched the sealed door, and the research institute’s leader contacted officials who ordered that Bi Luo be secured for the institute.
• Military experts dismantled the door’s restrictions while Shen Wuming assessed the ancient seal and called for additional experts.
• The group entered a passage carved with old martial marks, and Shen Wuming discovered that his own fist left a shallower mark than those on the walls.
• Bi Luo High Priest’s Master admitted that she wanted the outsiders to uncover Bi Luo God so her followers could kill them and worship Bi Luo.

The group found a throne and a platform deep in the Underground Palace, where a talking Head Relief revealed that Bi Luo lay farther below and demanded a bribe. When Shen Wuming’s group touched a guarded gate, the platform transformed into a Steel Giant, which crushed Shen Wuming and declared itself Bi Luo’s First Gatekeeper.

• The researchers found an empty hidden compartment in the throne, while Phoenix Emperor’s Mother questioned the enormous platform beside it.
• The Head Relief announced that Bi Luo was at the deepest part of the Underground Palace and demanded a cartload of Exotic Flowers and Herbs to reveal the way forward.
• Phoenix Emperor told the Head Relief that a hundred eras had passed and the forbidden zones were gone, leaving it disbelieving and frustrated.
• Two stone women at the gate cried out that Shen Wuming’s group had touched them, and the Head Relief transformed the platform into a Steel Giant.
• Shen Wuming attacked the Steel Giant, but it threw him to the ground and stomped him into the earth while identifying itself as Bi Luo’s First Gatekeeper.

Shen Wuming’s forces attacked the Underground Palace, but its gatekeepers and Steel Giant destroyed their battleship and drove them back. Shen Wuming called for reinforcements, and a Great Figure ordered the Starry Sky Thirteenth Sequence Fleet to support the excavation of Bi Luo.

• Shen Wuming ordered a Starry Sky Battleship to fire on the Steel Giant, but its first attack only cracked the underground ceiling.
• The battleship’s secondary main cannon struck the gate, and the Steel Giant blocked the beam before charging into the sky to attack the battleship.
• Shen Wuming’s experts fought the two Stone Demons while Phoenix Emperor and the Bi Luo High Priest’s group waited for a chance to enter the palace.
• The Stone Demons seized the Steel Giant’s head and fled after it destroyed the battleship, leaving Shen Wuming’s forces amid wreckage and casualties.
• Shen Wuming contacted a Great Figure for support, and the Great Figure dispatched the Starry Sky Thirteenth Sequence Fleet and threatened to mobilize a Star Fortress.

Over a hundred thousand people poured into the Underground Palace to reach Bi Luo, only to encounter gatekeeping Stone Demons who turned victims into reliefs and sent them into chaotic fights. The crowd still wanted to press on, and Shen Wuming threw a man who had urged them forward into the fray.

• News of Bi Luo spread, drawing adventurers, powerful scions, and thrill-seekers to Bi Luo Mountain despite warnings about the Underground Palace.
• More than a hundred thousand people crowded into the palace passage, pushing Shen Wuming's military personnel aside and advancing to the gates.
• Stone Demons and a mechanical head became reliefs on the gates, and the Stone Demons dragged an attacker inside, where he was beaten and transformed into a relief.
• The transformed man revived and charged the crowd, while Stone Demons abducted female and male warriors and brought them through the gates to be turned into reliefs.
• Some newcomers considered retreating, but others urged the crowd to charge onward, and Shen Wuming grabbed one instigator and threw him toward the gates.

Shen Wuming and the others attacked the palace complex, but it transformed into a Golden Core Fortress that resisted their bombardment. Realizing the nine-level Underground Palace could hold even greater dangers, Shen Wuming decided to bring in more forces while the researchers became eager to capture the fortress.

• Shen Wuming and the attacking forces charged the Stone Demons, and the palace’s animated carvings awakened to defend the forbidden zone.
• Shen Wuming summoned support from War Fortresses, whose secondary main cannons bombarded the palace complex as the Bi Luo Mountain group prepared a sneak attack.
• The palace absorbed the distant cannon fire and transformed into a Golden Core Fortress, whose radiance weakened nearby fighters.
• Phoenix Emperor's Mother explained that the fortress was an External Dao Golden Core, and the High Priest of Bi Luo said the Underground Palace had nine levels.
• Shen Wuming learned they were on the first level and decided to bring in more cannon fodder rather than abandon the expedition.
• Researchers studied the fortress’s defenses and resolved to capture it even if they could not excavate Bi Luo.

Shen Wuming’s Alliance uncovered the Underground Palace beneath Bi Luo Mountain, but their Star Fortress’s attack awakened the Bull Devil King, who declared that he was guarding the sleeping Eternal Bi Luo. Faced with a Ninth Abyss Sovereign and the unknown power behind Bi Luo’s titles, Shen Wuming realized the excavation had become far more dangerous than expected.

• The Star Fortress repeatedly jumped through space and vaporized Bi Luo Mountain, exposing the first layer of the Underground Palace.
• Shen Wuming ordered the Star Fortress to fire on the Golden Core Fortress and press deeper into the Underground Palace.
• The Golden Core Fortress split the ground and summoned an enormous Abyssal Creature, which revealed itself as the Ninth Abyss Sovereign, the Bull Devil King.
• The Bull Devil King swallowed the Golden Core Fortress and warned the Alliance that it had disturbed Eternal Bi Luo’s resting place.
• The Bull Devil King’s voice killed many people and injured the Phoenix Emperor, while Shen Wuming recognized that Bi Luo’s many titles and unnamed ally signaled grave danger.

Shen Wuming alerted the Alliance Council to the Ninth Sovereign, the Bull Devil King, guarding Bi Luo, and the Alliance sent its Star Fortress and warships to attack him. As the battle raged, Shen Wuming urged a group to enter the Underground Palace and dig up Bi Luo so they could use her against the Bull Devil King.

• Shen Wuming reported the Bull Devil King's presence to the Alliance Council, which decided to capture the Sovereign and study him.
• The Bull Devil King charged the Star Fortress, whose main cannon blasted him from the sky and crushed tens of thousands of people when he fell.
• The Star Fortress and arriving warships attacked the Bull Devil King, but his wounds healed quickly and his Abyssal Creatures destroyed multiple warships.
• Phoenix Emperor grew more determined to summon Chu Qing and considered telling him about the current era's events.
• Shen Wuming urged the gathered adventurers to dig up Bi Luo and use her to control the Bull Devil King, and they charged into the Underground Palace.

The Golden Fur Monkey awakened after Shen Wuming stole an inch of Time, and it pursued him across the battlefield. Shen Wuming entered the monkey’s mouth to attack it from within, but its body proved too powerful, and he was dissolved in its stomach.

• The Phoenix Emperor and the High Priest's master remained in place as a massive eruption destroyed ships and killed fleeing fighters.
• The Bull Devil King swallowed the magma, revealing the Golden Fur Monkey, which demanded to know who had disturbed Lord Bi Luo and stolen its Inch of Time.
• Shen Wuming fled from the monkey and realized the stolen Time could preserve life, soul, and memories through countless eras.
• The Golden Fur Monkey cornered Shen Wuming and demanded that he return the Time, but he jumped into its mouth to attack it from within.
• Shen Wuming found that the monkey’s flesh and organs were stronger than his own, failed to damage them, and was pulled into its stomach and dissolved.

As the Alliance attacked Bi Luo’s Underground Palace, Phoenix Emperor and her companions entered its third level to awaken the guardian and seek help against the Star Fortresses. The Gatekeeper White Snake awakened, revealed she had once pulled Lord XXX’s carriage, and vanished after directing them to the fourth level.

• The golden-haired monkey attacked a Star Fortress while the Bull Devil King held back another, and Phoenix Emperor proposed awakening all the Underground Palace guardians to defend Bi Luo.
• Phoenix Emperor, the High Priest of Bi Luo, Phoenix Emperor’s Mother, and their companion entered the third level and used an ancient seal to seek an audience with Bi Luo.
• A Stone Demon carried the group to the altar where the Third Gatekeeper slept, and Phoenix Emperor touched her crystal staff to awaken her.
• White Snake absorbed the treasures around the altar, rose to a new realm, and told the group to lift the altar to reach the fourth level.
• White Snake said she had once pulled Lord XXX’s carriage, then vanished and told them to tell the fourth-level Gatekeeper she would wait outside.

Phoenix Emperor and the others descended through the Underground Palace, awakening Mystic Tortoise on the fourth level and discovering a vast Stone Kingdom on the ninth. The Stone Demon inhabitants pointed them toward the gatekeeper in the kingdom’s center.

• Phoenix Emperor realized someone had read her memories, and the group found a passage beneath the altar leading to the fourth level.
• The White Snake swallowed a fortress transformed into a golden pellet and confronted the Star Fortresses as more forces joined the battle.
• Phoenix Emperor awakened Mystic Tortoise, who introduced himself as the First Charioteer and charged into battle alongside the White Snake.
• Phoenix Emperor and the others reached the ninth level, where Stone Demons revealed they lived in a vast Stone Kingdom beneath an artificial-looking sky.
• As the Stone Kingdom’s heavens shook, the Stone Demons panicked and began reproducing; Phoenix Emperor asked for the gatekeeper, and a Stone Demon pointed to the kingdom’s center.

Phoenix Emperor and her companions found the ninth level’s enormous chariot and awakened its petrified Stone Demons. The First Maidservant revealed that Lord Bi Luo remained asleep on the tenth level, and Phoenix Emperor gained the authority to activate the chariot as they prepared to face the Alliance.

• A horn summoned the Stone Demons to battle, and they formed an army and vanished across a bridge of stars and moonlight.
• Phoenix Emperor and her companions traveled to the center of the ninth level and discovered a thousand-mile chariot surrounded by petrified great demons.
• Phoenix Emperor touched the crystal staff, awakening the chariot, its demons, and the beings inside its palaces as nearby treasures fueled their power.
• The First Maidservant emerged and explained that Lord Bi Luo was still asleep on the tenth level, then asked Phoenix Emperor to lead the chariot against the Alliance.
• Phoenix Emperor received the Bi Luo Authority and activated the chariot, transforming the Stone Demons into dragons that settled across it.

The carriage’s enhancements raised Phoenix Emperor and the others’ Four Great Realms beyond the Gold level as Lord Bi Luo described an ancient Great Terror that had capped cultivators’ potential. Meanwhile, the Star Fortresses attacked the eight great demons on Extreme Joy Continent, and a fortress core smashed the Bull Devil King’s weapon and arms.

• The carriage’s ornaments strengthened Phoenix Emperor and the others, and Phoenix Emperor’s Mother noticed their Four Great Realms and Three Great Limits improving beyond the Gold level.
• Lord Bi Luo, the High Priest, explained that an ancient Great Terror had permanently reduced cultivators’ reserves and locked the Four Great Realms’ upper limit at Gold.
• As the carriage sped through the Underground Palace, the levels’ buildings, mountains, and rivers transformed into Golden Cores that pursued the carriage and strengthened its passengers.
• Across Extreme Joy Continent, Star Fortresses attacked the eight great demons while the Alliance ordered them captured to uncover how they had survived self-sealing for a hundred eras without their spirits collapsing.
• The Alliance ordered the Star Fortresses to ram the demons with their fortress cores, and one sphere shattered the Bull Devil King’s steel fork, tore apart his hands and arms, and hurled him tens of thousands of li away.

The Human Alliance’s Star Fortresses overwhelmed the great demons with coordinated attacks, leaving them badly wounded. Then more than ten thousand chained great demons emerged from the earth, followed by a mysterious being who declared herself the Phoenix Emperor before her mother interrupted her.

• The Star Fortresses analyzed a great demon’s blood and used their combined firepower to injure several great demons.
• The Bull Devil King attacked a Star Fortress, but its core’s radiation weakened him and left him unable to rise.
• White Snake lamented that she had too little time to deduce the New Realms of the present era.
• More than ten thousand powerful, chained great demons emerged from the magma, pulling taut chains toward something beneath the earth.
• A mysterious voice announced that it had been imprisoned for ten thousand eras, identified itself as the Phoenix Emperor, and was interrupted by her mother.

Phoenix Emperor used the carriage and its protections to battle the Alliance’s Star Fortress army, but the Alliance’s Vertical Eye formation overwhelmed her forces. As the formation prepared another attack, a mysterious scroll arrived, and Phoenix Emperor opened it.

• Phoenix Emperor taunted the Alliance from the carriage as its canopy blocked the Star Fortresses’ cannon fire and the restored great demons battered away their fortress cores.
• The Alliance released tens of thousands of fortress cores, and the carriage’s golden liquid strengthened Phoenix Emperor and the demons; Phoenix Emperor’s Mother pierced a sphere with an arrow.
• The fortress cores combined into a Vertical Eye that vaporized more than ten thousand great demons, while the carriage’s canopy blocked its beam and the demons revived.
• First Maidservant warned Phoenix Emperor that she could withstand only a few more attacks, and Phoenix Emperor admitted she did not want to die.
• A vortex delivered a scroll into Phoenix Emperor’s hands, and she opened it as the Vertical Eye prepared to strike again.

After a hundred years of slaughter, Chu Qing overwhelmed the Great Terror summoned by the Four Directions and proclaimed himself the terror above all others. He awakened the title Jue, which strengthened his other titles, and the chapter ended with its self-destructive power revealed.

• The Overlords expected the century of killing to summon a Great Terror that would kill Chu Qing.
• Red wind and red-haired monsters appeared, calling on everyone to join them, but Chu Qing’s killing intent swept over them and blackened the Forbidden Zone.
• Chu Qing declared himself the Great Terror and said the place where he stood was the true Forbidden Zone, killing or terrifying most creatures within ten million miles.
• The Four Directions announced the birth of the Great Terror called The Forbidden’s Contempt and gave all living beings a scripture with a tiny chance of summoning it.
• The Four Directions announced that Forbidden Qing had independently condensed the title Jue, which increased the power of his other titles by one-third and could be sacrificed to envelop the world with a designated title.