Recaps

Chu Qing strengthened his forces, confronted threats to the Imperial Capital, and explored the restricted zone while learning a scripture that could protect strongholds from its darkness. The arc left him fleeing with a dark yellow pearl after helping awaken a Lost One from the Heavenly Court’s Thunder Department.

• Chu Qing survived a mass ordeal on Stone Ridge Mountain, recruited the gaunt old man and other New Realm experts, and returned the Black Gold Sand and Ba Liuli’s message to the real world.
• Chu Qing met Liuli in a historical fragment, learned she would preserve the complete scripture, and returned to Stone Ridge Mountain as Sima Qingshan pursued him.
• Yue Manlou became an Outsider but was left as a human skin sustained by his obsession, while Chu Qing confirmed the Golden Age had begun and left to seek resources in forbidden zones.
• Chu Qing entered the Imperial Capital, killed Bai Qingyang, and sat on the Emperor Seat, gaining a crude insight into the next step of the Mountain Water Path.
• Chu Qing extended a calamity to learn the Fire Seed scripture, then used its candle flame to cleanse himself and destroy a Great Terror attacking the Ninth Princess’s Mirror Moon Lake expedition.
• Madam Jin recited the complete scripture and turned a Fire Pit golden, briefly cleansing the surrounding black soil and revealing its potential for establishing safe strongholds.
• Chu Qing joined Madam Shi, Madam Jin, Zuo Yan, and Consort Mei to test a mobile Fire Pit, then fought a Lost One who served in the Heavenly Court’s Thunder Department.
• Chu Qing awakened the Lost One long enough to learn his request to find his wife’s descendants, then he and Madam Shi pulled a dark yellow pearl from the lake and fled with it on the chariot.

Chu Qing strengthened his allies, built a following at Stone Ridge Mountain, and killed Sima Qingshan and Qian Shanliu Huo. He still needed an Emperor Seat and ten tons of suitable God and Demon blood, but the Imperial Capital’s temples could not summon the Innate Gods and Demons.

• Chu Qing used Tyrant Blood to deduce his Mountain Water Path and learned that forging his Emperor Seat required divine weapons, imperial thrones, and an Innate God and Demon’s essence blood.
• Chu Qing and Madam Shi explored the forbidden zone, where the chains that had imprisoned the Tyrant gave Chu Qing a scripture connected to Ba Liuli.
• Chu Qing returned to Stone Ridge Mountain, gathered tens of thousands of experts, and ordered them to kill Sima Qingshan when he arrived.
• Chu Qing killed Sima Qingshan in a brutal fistfight, then discovered a diary describing a forbidden-zone nest and its dangerous treasures.
• Chu Qing helped the Princess Consort use a fire seed to capture a Ghost Scorpion God and Demon, then led more than ten thousand experts toward the Imperial Capital.
• Qian Shanliu Huo ambushed Chu Qing with Gods and Devils and a ring of Heaven-Connecting Paths, but Chu Qing destroyed his sword-path foundation and killed him.
• Qiyue took Qian Shanliu Huo’s body to her black-robed master, who ordered her to create a replacement clone and send it into Myth.
• Chu Qing asked the Princess for an Emperor Seat and ten tons of God and Demon blood, but the capital’s temples could not summon the Innate Gods and Demons he needed.

Chu Qing strengthened the Emperor Seat, fought the Dao Lineage prodigies and a Harvester, and pursued blood and materials needed for its advancement. After the Divine Court destroyed Great Qian’s capital, he refused to join the Martial Academy Alliance and returned to Stone Ridge Mountain, where his seal set the great families against his demands.

• Chu Qing took Princess to the Divine Court, claimed its Gods and Devils blood, and ordered her to kill two-thirds of its officials while replacing temple idols with wild Gods and Devils.
• Chu Qing defeated eight Dao Lineage prodigies, survived an Innate God and Demon’s attack, and watched the Emperor Seat absorb the prodigies’ corpses and inherit their powers.
• Chu Qing obtained ten Emperor Seats from the Chimon Emperor and used Liuli’s essence blood and Moon God’s ruby to advance his own seat, while choosing to preserve Liuli’s blood.
• Chu Qing killed the Reapers threatening Second Generation Moon God and returned to Stone Ridge Mountain with the Innate God and Demon Essence Blood she had promised him.
• Chu Qing advanced the Mountain Water Path, then found Great Qian’s capital in ruins and learned that the Divine Court had taken its Imperial Seal after destroying the Princess’s forces.
• The Princess left to spread rumors about wild Gods and Devils, while Chu Qing rejected Lin Qingyu’s offer to join the Martial Academy Alliance and continued cultivating the Great River Method.
• Chu Qing ordered Zhao Hongxiu to demand Golden Toad secret medicine from the Divine Court and noble families, while Bai Tian claimed she was his friend and defied his sealed decree at the Zhu Family.

Chu Qing forced the Divine Court to yield, secured Great Zhou’s submission, and helped Nangong establish the Twelve Palaces at Stone Ridge Mountain. When strange tongues and human skins attacked the Imperial Capital, he joined forces with Madam Jin’s group and prepared to face his approaching calamity.

• Nangong reunited with Chu Qing and began building the Twelve Palaces at Stone Ridge Mountain, while Chu Qing compelled the Divine Court to provide laborers and wild Gods and Devils.
• Chu Qing confronted the Divine Court’s Seventh Generation Officials, killed those who resisted, and forced the Divine Court to rescind its order against him.
• Chu Qing secured the Last Empress’s submission and promised to support Great Zhou, then let Zhao Hongxiu go there to strengthen the empire.
• Nangong completed the White Sheep Palace and strengthened herself, while Mingyue formed a dragon sinew that wrapped around her Golden Core and developed powerful Blade Qi.
• As Great Gan continued to collapse, Shi Tiezhu recruited King Shiyu and Chief Subordinate and traveled toward the Imperial Capital, while Chu Qing and Nangong went there to find Cui Moyang.
• Chu Qing discovered that tongues from Heaven were attacking the Imperial Capital alongside human skins, and he and Nangong fought them while trying to keep the tongues from returning.
• Chu Qing took a tongue to Madam Jin’s group, where her canopy burned each new one, and arranged for the Princess Consort and Hongyi to join them at the forbidden zone.
• Chu Qing entered his calamity and found his tribe larger, its people worshipping him as a Heavenly God, while Liuli arrived carrying an Incense Burner.