Recaps

Heaven appeared before Number Eighteen, the First Maidservant, and the others, confessed that it had lost its authority and asked Number Eighteen to find and activate its former sun and moon eyes. After Heaven vanished, the forbidden zone disappeared beneath the arrival of the Great Sun Fortress, whose voice threatened the old antiques.

• Heaven's eyeball appeared and asked Number Eighteen and the others for help, promising to make them rulers of the world.
• The First Maidservant suspected Heaven had been imprisoned or defeated, and Heaven revealed that the Heaven-Connecting Martial Ancestor had suppressed one eye while Gods and Devils had plotted against the other.
• Heaven said it had lost its authority and memories, then gave Number Eighteen locations where its former sun and moon eyes might be held.
• Number Eighteen promised to release Heaven's eyes, while the First Maidservant remained focused on Eternal Bi Luo and Heaven was dragged away by chains.
• The Phoenix Emperor decided to enter a dream and tell Chu Qing about Heaven, but the forbidden zone vanished as the Great Sun Fortress appeared and threatened the old antiques.

Number Eighteen and the First Maidservant failed to stop the Alliance’s Great Sun Fortress from burning away the newly formed Forbidden Zone and slaughtering its Masters. As the fortress threatened to destroy them, Number Eighteen told Phoenix Emperor to summon Forbidden Qing through the painting.

• The Great Sun Fortress descended and used its special flames to burn away part of the Forbidden Zone.
• Number Eighteen attacked the fortress with his ultimate killing move, but its layered defenses stopped the strike.
• Number Eighteen, the First Maidservant, Phoenix Emperor, and Bi Luo’s leaders tried to fight the fortress, but its flames forced them back and burned their giants to ash.
• Number Eighteen gathered one hundred million Masters into an Army Formation, but the fortress crushed them and continued shrinking the Forbidden Zone.
• The Great Sun Fortress demanded that its enemies kneel and join the Alliance, so Number Eighteen told Phoenix Emperor to summon Forbidden Qing through the painting.

Phoenix Emperor unfurled a scroll that summoned 1.2 billion Forbidden Zone Masters and warped the sky, while a mysterious man appeared in the vortex above. Great Sun Fortress attacked Phoenix Emperor, but looking directly at the man brought devastating strikes against its true body, leaving its enormous head struggling to identify him.

• Phoenix Emperor finished unrolling the scroll, revealing 1.2 billion Forbidden Zone Masters and twisting the sky across hundreds of thousands of miles.
• The head inside Great Sun Fortress identified Phoenix Emperor as the source of the anomalies and charged at her, killing Forbidden Zone Masters and blasting aside the defenders.
• Number Eighteen and the Forbidden Zone Masters tried to stop Great Sun Fortress, while Phoenix Emperor's Mother and others fired arrows that barely pierced its outer defenses.
• The head of Great Sun Fortress learned that a mysterious man was approaching through a vast vortex and that beings who looked at him were suffering catastrophic injuries.
• The head looked directly at the man and Great Sun Fortress was struck twice, sustaining damage that its machines could not fully repair.
• The head analyzed the attacks and concluded that they grew stronger as the man drew closer, but could not determine who he was.

Big Head drove Great Sun Fortress through a time-reversing barrier toward the man in the vortex, but the man’s power overwhelmed both Great Sun Fortress and Platinum Fortress. The two fortresses ended up spinning helplessly in the man’s palm and began to sink.

• Great Sun Fortress damaged the barriers with its strike, leaving some of the damage impossible to repair, and Big Head decided he could neither flee nor keep probing.
• Big Head charged Great Sun Fortress through layers of barriers and realized the scenery was flowing backward through time, making his true body younger and stronger.
• The man reached through the final barrier, but Great Sun Fortress’s flames failed to stop his enormous hand as Big Head found himself shrinking.
• Big Head released Platinum Fortress to attack the hand, but Platinum Fortress also shrank and began spinning out of control.
• Big Head saw that the man was spinning Great Sun Fortress and Platinum Fortress in his palm, and the two fortresses began to sink.

Chu Qing was summoned from the past into a future battlefield, where his overwhelming presence destroyed fortresses and killed those who looked at him. After Phoenix Emperor explained that the Alliance was trying to seize Bi Luo, Chu Qing entered the Alliance army and demanded that its leaders come to him within a minute.

• Chu Qing emerged from the vortex, and his presence struck down or drove mad those who tried to perceive him as Great Sun Fortress and Platinum Fortress collapsed.
• Chu Qing recognized that he had arrived in the future and placed Phoenix Emperor on his fingertip, but his voice repeatedly caused her to explode before reviving her.
• Phoenix Emperor told Chu Qing that the taboo scroll had summoned him and that the Alliance sought to dig out Bi Luo and make her a plaything.
• Phoenix Emperor explained the Alliance's reach and its exploration of the stars, while Chu Qing learned he could remain in the future for only one hour.
• Chu Qing entered the Alliance army, watched weakened Star Fortresses explode, and ordered the Alliance leaders to appear within one minute.

Chu Qing demanded that the alliance higher-ups meet him, then decided to make the alliance pay for ignoring him. The higher-ups debated how to stop him, but as he moved toward the Nine Heavens, they activated their defenses and prepared for war.

• Chu Qing ignored the alliance army’s claim that they could not contact their higher-ups and considered how his power had changed after traveling through time.
• Chu Qing surveyed the hundred continents and the Mechanical Continent that formed the alliance’s core, then decided to punish the alliance.
• The council higher-ups rejected Chu Qing’s demand and debated whether they had enough forces to trap or kill him.
• The higher-ups tracked Chu Qing as he began moving upward toward the Nine Heavens.
• The alliance higher-ups ordered all defenses activated and prepared for war as Chu Qing continued toward them.

The Alliance activated its full defenses to confront Chu Qing, but mistook his continued ascent for a retreat. Chu Qing reached a field of fortresses above the Alliance headquarters, declared that its members had offended him, and began his attack.

• The Alliance awakened its continents, Mechanical Towers, Energy Furnaces, Energy Wells, and weapons for war against Chu Qing.
• Alliance members plotted to capture and humiliate Chu Qing, while he continued rising past their headquarters.
• The Alliance contacted the 100th Reserve Legion and ordered it to crush Chu Qing, believing he was fleeing.
• Chu Qing found a vast formation of Great Sun Fortresses and Platinum Fortresses and chose the area above the Alliance headquarters as his attack position.
• Chu Qing told the Alliance that it had offended him and must pay, then began to attack.

Chu Qing attacked the Alliance Headquarters by hurling its fortresses at its defensive restrictions, then endured the Headquarters’ massive counterattack without being harmed. After exhausting the fortresses on the battlefield, he walked toward the Headquarters and demanded that it pay for its actions.

• Chu Qing seized fortresses and hurled them at the Alliance Headquarters, breaking its defensive restrictions layer by layer.
• An Alliance official ordered the 100th Legion to retreat, but Chu Qing caught its fortresses before they could escape and continued throwing them.
• The Alliance Headquarters launched a massive counterattack, but Chu Qing’s Reflection Barriers absorbed the attacks and left him unharmed.
• Chu Qing threw the last of the fortresses at the Headquarters, leaving the battlefield empty of them.
• Chu Qing walked toward the Alliance Headquarters as the might of his titles swept over it, and demanded that its people pay for their stupidity.

Chu Qing attacked the Alliance headquarters, then searched several continents before his time in the era ran out. As he prepared to be pulled back, Red Robe revealed herself as Young Master Tian, an old acquaintance he both remembered and feared.

• Chu Qing destroyed a continent with Eye Shoots Dipper Light, but the Alliance's attacks shattered only a remnant of his figure while his true body landed elsewhere.
• Chu Qing crossed five continents while operating the Earth Mother Chapter, then gray-white chains began pulling him back to his original time and space.
• The Alliance searched for Chu Qing's true body but could not locate him before Red Robe arrived.
• Goddess King Bailu asked Chu Qing to tell Cui Moyang that she missed her, and Chu Qing agreed.
• Red Robe removed her mask and identified herself as Young Master Tian, surprising Chu Qing, who recalled their past and feared her ruthlessness.

Chu Qing learned from Miss Heaven that history recorded his disappearance during the Great Unification Era and a later appearance with a hole in his chest. As space-time pulled him away, he promised the Alliance brilliant fireworks and shouted his name.

• Miss Heaven recounted a hundred eras of history, including the Rebellion of the Lineages and the revival of ancient beings.
• Chu Qing learned that he had vanished during the Great Unification Era and later appeared with a huge hole in his chest.
• Chu Qing gave Miss Heaven a method and ritual for summoning him into the future.
• Chu Qing announced that he would leave the Alliance with brilliant fireworks as the chains of space-time dragged him away.
• Chu Qing seized the vortex and shouted, “My name is—Chu Qing!”

Chu Qing’s name killed nearly everyone across the Alliance’s territories, triggering the destruction of the Alliance Headquarters and continent-wide devastation. Miss Heaven resolved to rebuild the Heavenly Court, while Phoenix Emperor hoped to summon Chu Qing again as her powerful backer.

• Chu Qing’s name swept across the Alliance’s territories, killing countless beings who lacked his authorization and causing the Netherworld’s dead to wander without refuge.
• Five continents exploded, setting off collisions that shattered and scattered continents across the human world.
• Miss Heaven told the surviving Top Experts that the Alliance was finished and proposed rebuilding the Heavenly Court to unite humanity against the races of the starry sky.
• The Top Experts rejected Miss Heaven’s proposal and left, so she vowed to build the Heavenly Court and become the new Heaven.
• On the burning Extreme Joy Continent, Phoenix Emperor watched the destruction and said she wanted to summon Chu Qing again as her backer.

Chu Qing used what he learned from the future to choose the Golden Altar Path and launch a campaign to make it dominant. He and his allies began enforcing the new order across Qingzhou while preparing to expand their control to other continents.

• Chu Qing recalled Miss Heaven's account of the future and decided to focus on one Path, choosing the Golden Core Path.
• After the others arrived, Chu Qing declared that he wanted the Twelve Thousand Path Creators dead, and the group agreed to preserve the Golden Core Path.
• Chu Qing and his allies planned to force cultivation of the Golden Altar Realm in Qingzhou, expand into other continents, and ban other Paths.
• Cui Moyang, Nangong, Ming Yue, Zhao Hongxiu, and the others took on roles in enforcing and expanding the campaign, while Madam Shi used her teleportation abilities to deploy their forces.
• Stone Ridge Mountain ordered martial artists to prioritize the Golden Altar Path and gave its cultivators better rewards, leading many practitioners of other realms to switch Paths for greater benefits.

As Qingzhou expanded and grew stronger under the diminished Black Tide, Chu Qing pondered the mysteries of the future before being asked to choose a Dao lineage in the Square Inch Gathering. He backed the Golden Core path, and the others began weighing its advantages as the struggle for Dao lineages continued.

• Zhao Hongxiu and the others promoted Golden Altar cultivation while Qingzhou’s forces used the Black Tide as a battlefield and expanded toward the forbidden zones.
• Zhao Hongxiu observed that Qingzhou and Stone Ridge Mountain were flourishing, with stronger young cultivators and increasingly potent Stone Bamboo Pearls.
• Chu Qing reflected on Miss Heaven’s revelations about the future, his missing heart, and the power that his future title still possessed.
• Bi Luo urged the Square Inch Gathering to follow Chu Qing’s choice, and Chu Qing declared his support for the Golden Core path.
• Bi Luo and Luo Tian praised Golden Core’s broad methods, low threshold, and modest resource needs, while the Second Generation Moon God teased Bi Luo for always supporting Chu Qing.

Chu Qing discussed declining martial arts resources and proposed expanding and consolidating territory to create more. After agreeing on the Golden Altar path, he resolved to purge the path founders, then learned that Former Heaven was preparing to attack him and reaffirmed that he would not retreat.

• Chu Qing learned that resources were dwindling across other continents and suggested that expanding territory could generate more resources.
• Bi Luo and the others agreed to try focusing their strength on opening up continents, then the gathering returned to negotiations over the Dao Lineage Dispute.
• Everyone outwardly acknowledged the Golden Altar path, while Chu Qing resolved to eliminate the path founders outside the Golden Altar Realm.
• Luo Tian warned Chu Qing that awakened creatures in the forbidden zones, including Former Heaven, were preparing to cause him trouble.
• Chu Qing refused to run and decided to purge the path founders first because their hidden schemes made them his greatest concern.

Chu Qing attacked a Primordial Spirit Ancestor to expose the weakness of his cultivated realm and advance the struggle of Dao lineages. The Ancestor fled, leaving his forces trapped in Chu Qing’s bronze cauldron.

• Chu Qing asked Madam Shi to use the Otherfolk to locate Realm Ancestors so he could kill them and undermine their realms.
• Madam Shi used Space God Demon avatars to teleport Chu Qing to a desert where a Primordial Spirit Ancestor held sway.
• The Ancestor’s Primordial Spirit army attacked, but Chu Qing’s footsteps shattered many Primordial Spirits and damaged their true bodies.
• Chu Qing’s ice-and-fire dragons seized and crushed the Ancestor’s dragons, leaving him badly wounded.
• The Primordial Spirit Ancestor fled while claiming he would break through, and Chu Qing trapped the remaining Primordial Spirit experts inside his bronze cauldron.

After Chu Qing announced the Dao Lineage Dispute, the Four Directions broadcast rules allowing anyone to seize Realm Ancestor venerable seats by killing their holders. The conflict erupted across the world, with hundreds of Realm Ancestors killed in a single day, while Chu Qing raised a proposal at Square Inch Gathering.

• The Four Directions announced that Reflection Old Ancestor had killed the Primordial Spirit Old Ancestor, and martial artists across the world learned of his death.
• Chu Qing declared the Dao Lineage Dispute, establishing that killing a Realm Ancestor granted their venerable seat and that holders could be sensed by other Realm Ancestors.
• The Four Directions announced that multiple venerable seats could be accumulated, then broadcast a wave of killings as Old Ancestors seized one another's titles.
• At least five hundred Realm Ancestors died in one day, leaving martial artists fearing their Paths would decline or perish.
• At Square Inch Gathering, Mythology called the Dao Lineage Dispute a feast and urged everyone to seize more benefits.
• Chu Qing said he had a suggestion, and the others asked what it was.

Chu Qing and the others targeted Realm Ancestors with two Venerable Seats, while martial artists debated which Paths offered the best prospects. At Stone Ridge Mountain, Chu Qing ordered more forces to join Cui Moyang’s campaign to spread the Golden Core Path and said he wanted to end the Dao Lineage Dispute sooner.

• Chu Qing proposed dividing the areas where Realm Ancestors were located and targeting those who had obtained two Venerable Seats, while Luo Tian refused to leave the restricted zone.
• Wu Feitu and other powerful figures killed Realm Ancestors, and observers realized that Heavenly Court, Myth, Netherworld, and their allies were harvesting Ancestors with two Venerable Seats.
• Martial artists debated the Ancient Sword Immortal, Gods and Devils, and Golden Core Paths, weighing their strength, cultivation costs, and prospects.
• Chu Qing told Madam Shi he could not accept waiting eight hundred to a thousand years for the Paths to wither and asked how to accelerate the dispute.
• Madam Shi recommended supporting Cui Moyang’s campaign to force martial artists to adopt the Golden Core Path, so Chu Qing committed Stone Ridge Mountain’s reserves and asked outsiders to join.
• Madam Shi told Chu Qing to kill more Realm Ancestors; he joked that he wanted her to gain strength but was still stronger than her, and she called him an arrogant coachman.

Chu Qing hurried to confront the Dharma Aspect Creator after the latter killed the Dharma Aspect Ancestor, whose honored title let the aliens derive his location. The Dharma Aspect Creator prepared the Imperial Capital for battle, but Chu Qing arrived within minutes and walked toward his restaurant.

• Madam Shi persuaded Chu Qing to pursue the Realm Ancestors, and he ordered the aliens to derive the Dharma Aspect Ancestor's location after hearing the Dharma Aspect Creator had killed him.
• Madam Shi's Space God Demons used a teleportation ritual to send Chu Qing across 108,000 continents toward the derived coordinates.
• The Dharma Aspect Creator warned the other Path Pioneers to begin reaping, then secretly released thousands of Dharma Aspects throughout the Imperial Capital and put on his strongest mask, Faceless.
• Chu Qing appeared in the Imperial Capital within minutes, repelling the rain around him as he walked toward the Dharma Aspect Creator's restaurant.

Chu Qing confronted the Dharma Aspect Creator in the Imperial Capital and easily overcame his three thousand Dharma Aspects before entering the tavern. The two faced off, and Chu Qing challenged the aging Creator as they prepared to fight.

• The Dharma Aspect Creator unleashed thirty-six thousand Wind God Dharma Aspects and a thunder dragon, but Chu Qing absorbed and destroyed them.
• The Creator sent warriors, transformed houses, and three thousand Dharma Aspects to attack, while Chu Qing advanced through the Imperial Capital unharmed.
• Chu Qing reached the tavern, where the three thousand Dharma Aspects returned to the Creator and the awakened warriors went home.
• Chu Qing climbed upstairs and confronted the Dharma Aspect Creator, who warned him not to throw away his life.
• The Creator admitted he had planned to harvest Chu Qing’s titles after he grew stronger, and Chu Qing mocked him as a rotten old thing and told him to prepare for his death.

Chu Qing overwhelmed the Dharma Aspect Creator with his self-created divine ability, Eye Shoots Dipper Light, and survived the creator’s strongest move, the Faceless Great Lord. The Dharma Aspect Creator realized he could not defeat Chu Qing and began wondering how to escape.

• Chu Qing unleashed his secret inheritances and Eye Shoots Dipper Light, forcing the Dharma Aspect Creator to burn through hundreds of human-skin substitutes to recover.
• Chu Qing and the Dharma Aspect Creator fought for several minutes, but the creator could not counter Eye Shoots Dipper Light and lost thousands more substitutes.
• The Dharma Aspect Creator summoned the Faceless Great Lord, combining three thousand Dharma Aspects and the faces of three million six hundred thousand prodigies into one powerful form.
• The Faceless Great Lord battered Chu Qing for a minute, but Chu Qing healed his wounds and declared the attack too weak to kill him.
• The Dharma Aspect Creator accepted that he could not defeat Chu Qing and wondered how he could run away.

Chu Qing pursued the Dharma Aspect Creator across the Endless Sea, hoping to force him to reveal other Path Pioneers' locations. Meanwhile, the Dao Lineage Dispute devastated the realms, and after three years of flight, the Dharma Aspect Creator began to despair.

• The Dharma Aspect Creator fled after Chu Qing defeated him, and Chu Qing chased him out across the Endless Sea.
• A giant sea beast tried to swallow them, but Chu Qing killed it, and the surviving sea creatures fed on its remains.
• The Dharma Aspect Creator refused to betray his companions, while Chu Qing kept pursuing him to pressure him into seeking help from other Path Ancestors.
• As the chase continued, Realm Ancestors slaughtered one another and their Paths fought brutal wars that consumed empires and continents.
• Mingyue's Stone Ridge Mountain demons killed Realm Ancestors who attempted to attack her, and Tang Wuming and the others studied their corpses.
• After three years of being pursued by Chu Qing, the Dharma Aspect Creator began to feel desperate.

Chu Qing pursued the Dharma Aspect Creator for nine years until the fleeing creator sought help from the Primordial Spirit Pioneer, who trapped Chu Qing in a vast formation. Chu Qing broke through the formation and defeated the Pioneer’s strongest attack, leaving both experts fleeing together while he continued the chase.

• The Dharma Aspect Creator tried to bargain with Chu Qing, but Chu Qing pursued him in silence for nine years.
• The Dharma Aspect Creator asked Xue Feiren, the Primordial Spirit Pioneer, to help kill Chu Qing, and Xue Feiren agreed to use his net of Heaven and earth.
• Xue Feiren raised a massive formation around his island, and Chu Qing entered it despite the Dharma Aspect Creator’s taunts.
• Chu Qing shattered the formation’s Primordial Spirits and pillars, killed the Faceless Great Lord repeatedly, and reached the central volcano.
• Xue Feiren launched his fiery Great Sun Primordial Spirit at Chu Qing, but Chu Qing’s Eye Shoots Dipper Light split it apart and forced Xue Feiren to revive by burning human skins.
• Xue Feiren fled, and the Dharma Aspect Creator followed him as Chu Qing continued pursuing them.

The Primordial Spirit and Manifestation Pioneers fled to the Yin God Pioneer, who summoned the Yin Mansion in an attempt to trap Chu Qing. The Yin Mansion spat Chu Qing back out, leaving the three Pioneers fleeing again.

• The Primordial Spirit and Manifestation Pioneers decided to seek help from the Yin God Pioneer while Chu Qing continued chasing them.
• The two Pioneers reached the Yin God Continent and persuaded the Yin God Pioneer to aid them by calling him Older Brother.
• The Yin God Pioneer used the Human Emperor Banner and the Yin God Grand Formation to summon a corner of the Yin Mansion and swallow Chu Qing.
• The Yin God Pioneer and the two Pioneers saw the Yin Mansion send Chu Qing back out, and the two Pioneers grabbed the Yin God Pioneer and fled.

Chu Qing chased the Primordial Spirit, Manifestation, and Yin God after they failed to find other Path Pioneers willing to serve as scapegoats. The pursuit carried them into the uninhabited region, where the three vowed to outlast Chu Qing and let time kill him.

• The Yin God Pioneer, Primordial Spirit Pioneer, and Manifestation Pioneer searched for the Visualization Pioneer, but she was nowhere to be found.
• The Pioneers contacted other Path Pioneers and learned that they had gone into hiding to avoid becoming scapegoats for Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing realized the three could no longer lead him to other Pioneers and decided to kill them, while Madam Shi and the others supported his plan to study their human skins.
• The three Pioneers fled for years, eventually crossing the last known human continent with Chu Qing in pursuit and entering the uninhabited region.
• After ten years of running through the uninhabited region, the three Pioneers claimed they had tens of millions of human skins and could outlast Chu Qing.

Chu Qing pursued the Primordial Spirit Manifestation and two Yin God Pioneers across the Endless Sea for over a century, eventually reaching a continent with no humans. The three Pioneers abandoned their flight to claim the discovery for history, but Chu Qing’s words turned them against one another as they faced him.

• Chu Qing pursued the three Pioneers while testing ways to kill them, and they burned through vast amounts of human skin to escape.
• After more than a century at sea, the three Pioneers and Chu Qing spotted a continent and hoped to earn fame and rewards by reporting it.
• Chu Qing followed the Pioneers onto the continent, found abundant wildlife but no humans or signs of intelligent life, and saw them gather atop a central volcano.
• The three Pioneers proposed surveying the continent and returning to the human world, but Chu Qing pointed out that only one of them could be remembered as first in history.
• The Pioneers’ formation collapsed as they eyed one another, and the Yin God Pioneer urged them to unite against Chu Qing before competing for the honor.