Recaps

Chu Qing helped Gong Wudi fight through the great clans’ siege and secure a Heaven-Connecting Path quota, while the battle revealed that Gong Wudi had been replaced. After learning Madam Shi had been injured by an exotic treasure, Chu Qing sought an Other at a ruined temple to save her.

• King Shiyu and the great clans launched a deadly contest for the final Heaven-Connecting Path quota, and Chu Qing disguised himself to help Gong Wudi reach the Martial Academy.
• Chu Qing defeated Hua Qing and joined Gong Wudi, Nangong Xiao, and Cui Moyang as they fought through the clans’ successive blockades.
• Gong Wudi reached the Martial Academy gates with a genuine token hidden in his stomach, securing a quota alongside the Cui Family Daughter.
• The Cui Family suspected that the Gong Wudi who had won the quota was an impostor, while Shi Zhongshan’s group prepared to pursue its mission for the imperial family’s secret transmissions.
• Chu Qing treated Nangong Xiao and Cui Moyang’s wounds, then found Madam Shi unconscious at the Shi Residence.
• Madam Shi told Chu Qing that attackers had skinned Gong Wudi, disguised another young man as him, and wounded her with a strange mirror.
• The mysterious principal gave Chu Qing a Jade Pendant token and directed him to a ruined temple to find an Other who could help Madam Shi.
• Chu Qing found a white-robed woman praying in the abandoned temple, and she asked whether he had come to take her back or kill her, and he said he had come to save someone.

Chu Qing exposed the fake Gong Wudi, gained strength and allies, and used his advice to help Princess organize relief for the commoners. He completed the Overlord Spear and began muscle tempering, but the great houses obstructed his assessment and he still lacked a secret transmission for his viscera.

• Chu Qing exposed the fake Gong Wudi, recovered the real Gong Wudi’s corpse, and received a reward of Sun Gold Moon Jade from the Martial Academy.
• Chu Qing met A'nu at Mountain God Temple and told her that poverty and hunger drove ordinary people to rebellion.
• Chu Qing perfected his blood refinement and completed the Overlord Spear, naming it Domineering after killing Gong Yidao with it.
• King Shiyu and nearly a hundred aristocratic families destroyed the Gong Family, only to discover that many people had been replaced by human-skin impostors.
• Chu Qing sent the Princess extensive advice on disaster relief, and she arranged grain distribution and work-for-relief in Shi State City.
• Chu Qing learned Madam Shi had erased her emotions through cultivation and resolved to pursue the Overlord Spear’s limit and a muscle-tempering secret transmission.
• Chu Qing gained the Overlord Spear Bloodline, but the Library Pavilion’s assessment required him to defeat Zheng Zhisheng’s Rebel Army and rescue fifteen cities, while aristocratic scions’ offers of secret transmissions came with conditions he refused.
• Chu Qing began cultivating Golden Inlaid Jade, and Nangong went to seek a secret transmission for his Five Viscera and Six Bowels as winter gave way to spring.

Chu Qing obtained the Five Viscera and Six Bowels secret transmission, mastered its Golden Toad method, and pushed his training forward while confronting challengers. As the Princess acted on his advice about grain, Nangong left to compete for the Thousand Eyes Alliance’s Holy Maiden position.

• The Princess studied Chu Qing’s governance theories, while Chu Qing searched for the secret transmission and was lured into a battle at Grass Head Mountain.
• Chu Qing defeated the Round Moon Demonic Palace fighters and pursued Daoist Master Zi Qing, forcing him to surrender the Viscera Secret Transmission.
• Madam Jin deciphered the transmission, and Chu Qing began the Golden Toad Swallowing Heaven Method, whose conditions included swallowing a Three-legged Golden Toad and forging a hundred-ton bronze one.
• Chu Qing obtained Eight Divine Hands: Earth Fiend from the Cui family’s blacksmiths and trained underground, advancing his flesh tempering while new students arrived at the Martial Academy.
• Chu Qing defeated and crippled Rebel Army prodigies who challenged him, then used the ten-ton Golden Toad to destroy Lan Yichen’s boat and fulfill one of the method’s conditions.
• Chu Qing advised the Princess to buy grain from other cities and use outside merchants to pressure local grain sellers, while the Princess considered Mi Mei’s place among the female officials.
• After nearly a month of training together, Nangong told Chu Qing she would enter the Thousand Eyes Alliance trial for the Holy Maiden position and left the Martial Academy.

Chu Qing found and consumed Three-legged Golden Toads, advanced his cultivation, and violently forced the Human World to yield to him. After recruiting support and gathering information about Golden Silk White Jade, he set out for Rose City to meet Daughter of Stonemason Xu, while King Shiyu plotted to keep the jade from him.

• Chu Qing searched Stone Ridge Mountain, encountered the injured Princess Consort and Red Clothes, and eventually caught Three-legged Golden Toads that advanced his Golden Toad Swallowing Heaven Method.
• Chu Qing returned to the provincial capital and demanded gold from the Human World, then attacked its headquarters, killed its defenders, and burned its leaders inside coffins.
• Chu Qing used the gold to commission a golden toad, raised his cultivation to Iron Grade, and asked Madam Shi and Madam Jin to help him find Golden Silk White Jade.
• Chu Qing sent Zhao Hongxiu to deliver letters asking aristocratic families for the jade, while King Shiyu received her respectfully but ordered his people to keep any jade from Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing broke the limits of his Sound Wave Skills as Hua Yu told him the Gongyang Family would receive basin-sized Golden Silk White Jade in Daughter of Stonemason Xu’s dowry.
• Chu Qing demonstrated that a Three-legged Golden Toad could produce a strength-enhancing Copper Coin, then prepared to trade a toad for the jade.
• Hua Yu joined Chu Qing with fifty Third Limit experts, and they departed for Rose City to intercept Daughter of Stonemason Xu’s convoy.
• King Shiyu secretly urged family heads to contact the Gongyang Family about securing the Golden Silk White Jade.