Recaps

Chu Qing killed Black Gold Daoist and the schoolmaster, then demanded that the hidden Path Pioneers be found. As the Alliance refused to help, Phoenix Emperor and Number Eighteen unleashed Forbidden Zone forces, while Number Eighteen’s campaign drew the attention of a chained giant eyeball.

• Chu Qing and Black Gold Daoist fought across Qinghua Continent for years as Chu Qing mastered his New Realm and Black Gold Daoist called for help.
• Heaven’s crimson-eyed faces joined Black Gold Daoist, but Chu Qing overcame them, survived Black Gold Daoist’s secret art, and pursued him across the Endless Sea.
• Black Gold Daoist sought refuge with the Immovable Overlord, but Chu Qing struck the Overlord, then killed Black Gold Daoist and took the coordinates of other Path Pioneers.
• Chu Qing killed the schoolmaster with Eye Shoots Dipper Light and learned that the curse concealing his history weakened when he killed Cursed Ones.
• Chu Qing ordered the Square Inch Gathering to find the 120,000 Path Pioneers, but human organizations refused to help, and he resolved to find them himself.
• Phoenix Emperor released Forbidden Zone Masters against the Alliance’s Star Fortresses, while Number Eighteen led the attack and confronted Li Kuangren, who was killed after the Masked Woman withdrew her protection.
• Number Eighteen merged 1,001 core fortresses into a vast Forbidden Zone and empowered Sovereigns, then a chained gigantic eyeball appeared in the sky.

Chu Qing entered the future, devastated the Alliance, and returned with knowledge that drove him to promote the Golden Core Path and launch the Dao Lineage Dispute. He hunted the Path Pioneers for years, pursuing three of them beyond the human world to a newly discovered continent, where their alliance began to fracture.

• Heaven asked Number Eighteen and the others to recover its imprisoned sun and moon eyes, but the Great Sun Fortress appeared and attacked the Forbidden Zone.
• Phoenix Emperor summoned Chu Qing through the taboo scroll, and he crushed the Great Sun and Platinum Fortresses before turning on the Alliance.
• Chu Qing wrecked the Alliance’s forces and headquarters, then learned from Miss Heaven about the future and was dragged back to his own time.
• Chu Qing chose the Golden Core Path and organized his allies to promote it, while he resolved to eliminate the other Path founders.
• Chu Qing declared the Dao Lineage Dispute, prompting Realm Ancestors to kill one another for Venerable Seats as his allies targeted their rivals.
• Chu Qing hunted the Dharma Aspect Creator and Xue Feiren, defeating their attacks and driving them to flee with the Yin God Pioneer.
• The three Pioneers escaped with Chu Qing in pursuit for years, then crossed the uninhabited region and spent more than a century at sea.
• Chu Qing and the three Pioneers reached a continent without signs of intelligent life, where the Pioneers’ rivalry over who would be remembered as its discoverer threatened their cooperation.

Chu Qing explored the darkness consuming the Endless Sea, discovered that Golden Core Dao Fruits could clear it, and learned that a Green Hand killed anyone who cultivated the system. After returning to the Four Directions, he hunted down Pioneers while their allies prepared to ambush him, and he began building a vast Golden Core to develop a New Realm.

• Chu Qing found a burning town on a turtle-shell continent, defeated its recurring inhabitants and three Path Pioneers, and learned from the shell’s writings that darkness had swallowed other continents.
• Chu Qing entered the Dark Sea, met Li Xue and the survivors, and taught them to cultivate Golden Core Dao Fruits that pushed back the darkness and restored their bodies.
• Chu Qing spread the Golden Core Dao Fruit system across settlements and continents, but the last Emperor warned that the Great Terror would retaliate against its cultivators.
• Chu Qing fought the Green Hand, which killed cultivators of the Dao Fruit system, and returned to the Square Inch Gathering to discuss the threat with Luo Tian and the others.
• Chu Qing learned that future histories concealed the darkness and Dao Fruits, while unrest spread as younger members challenged the old authorities and the Golden Altar Path gained followers.
• Chu Qing killed Wind Cloud Pioneer and then hunted down more Pioneers, weakening his curse and frightening the survivors into planning an encirclement.
• The Founders sought help from released prisoners and powerful creatures, but their efforts went awry as creatures devoured those who tried to enlist them against Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing returned to Stone Ridge Mountain, set aside the question of producing an heir, and built a huge brain-like Golden Core for ten million maids to mark as he prepared to draw their spirits into it.

Chu Qing forged forty-nine divine ability treasures, fought the Harvesters, and prepared his allies for the coming darkness. As the Dao Lineage Dispute spread, the Golden Core system began changing the future, bringing altered histories and Stone Ridge Mountain’s war creatures into the world.

• Chu Qing designed and began forging forty-nine divine ability treasures with help from the Otherkin, Madam Shi, and the maidservants, while Madam Shi and Cui Moyang cultivated Dao Fruits and fought the Green Hand.
• Chu Qing killed the Harvesters who ambushed him, then Madam Shi, Bright Moon, and their allies used hundreds of millions of Golden Cores to kill the Pioneers who attacked them.
• Chu Qing hunted down dozens of Path Pioneers and defeated the Qi and Blood Pioneer, while ancient Pioneers learned of his unfamiliar cultivation system and went looking for its source.
• Celestial God told Chu Qing that the Harvesters had allied with Former Heaven, forbidden-zone kings, and Martial Ancestors, while Heaven revealed its plan to shelter selected beings from Annihilation and rebuild the world afterward.
• Chu Qing expanded Dao Fruit cultivation among the maidservants, who joined Mingyue and the others in repeatedly destroying the Green Hand as the Black Tide intensified.
• Chu Qing insisted that the Dao Lineage Dispute continue until it produced Great Unification and made the Golden Core Realm the primary path, and Bi Luo persuaded the Square Inch Gathering to follow his plan.
• Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er traveled to the future and found that mirages were altering records, spreading Golden Cores, and changing historical events across the Human World.
• Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er identified the strange creatures emerging from new ruins as Construction Gods and Demons, war weapons created by Stone Ridge Mountain.