Recaps

Chu Qing fought Luo Sheng, seized the Golden Silk White Jade, and escaped the Xu Family’s wedding procession with Hua Yu. Back in the provincial city, he drew out the Red Copper Golden Toad amid a Rebel Army uprising and completed the Golden Toad Swallowing Heaven Method.

• The Gongyang Family turned the Golden Silk White Jade mission into a trial for its youths and the Martial Academy, while Chu Qing led Hua Yu and fifty Third Limit experts toward Rose City.
• Chu Qing helped a starving woman avenge her family, gained the Eight Divine Hands: Peacock technique from her heirloom, and killed the Gongyang Family youths who confronted him.
• Chu Qing negotiated with the Daughter of Stonemason Xu for the Golden Silk White Jade, then killed Luo Sheng and demanded the jade in exchange for his head.
• The Daughter of Stonemason Xu surrendered the jade, which Chu Qing absorbed, and he fought off the Xu Family’s forces before fleeing with Hua Yu and the wedding treasures.
• Chu Qing discovered that the Red Copper Golden Toad would not move, so he worked with Madam Jin and Madam Shi to produce Golden Toad Money that might repel the ghost or god behind it.
• The Princess Consort explained that anomalies could become ghosts and gods, and Chu Qing prepared offerings and coins before arranging to move the golden toad to the moat.
• The Rebel Army incited a crowd to seize Chu Qing’s gold as he tried to draw the Red Copper Golden Toad from the river, but Chu Qing crushed the uprising by rolling the toad through the crowd.
• Chu Qing declared himself the will of the people, sent the Golden Toad into the river, and completed the Golden Toad Swallowing Heaven Method.

Chu Qing perfected his cultivation, slaughtered the Gongyang and Luo families’ forces, and returned to Shi State City seeking rare secret transmissions. He confronted the aristocratic houses over his demands and reforms, leaving King Shiyu’s faction divided after Chu Qing killed the Liu Family Head and forced the Cheng Family Head to submit.

• Chu Qing perfected the Golden Toad Swallowing Heaven Method by crushing people with the Red Copper Golden Toad, then returned to the Shi Residence and announced his plans to strengthen his viscera and bowels.
• Hua Yu offered Chu Qing the five great families’ support for his entry into the Major City Martial Academy, and Chu Qing built up his strength while the Daughter of Stonemason Xu’s arrival caused a confrontation at Hua Yu’s estate.
• After learning that Gongyang Zhanren and Luo Yong had come looking for him, Chu Qing killed them at the gates of Shi State City and traveled to Loulan to hunt members of their families.
• Chu Qing killed Gongyang and Luo family members in Loulan, then destroyed the Gongyang Knights who pursued him and returned to Shi State City after the main city gates were shut.
• Red Robe warned Chu Qing away from Stone Ridge Mountain and directed him toward a secret inheritance in Great Zhou, while Chu Qing later found Redclad’s diary and returned her token to Madam Shi.
• At the Martial Academy, Chu Qing demanded that the aristocratic houses provide secret transmissions or he would complete the reform tasks and claim the Academy’s manuals.
• The Heads of the House gathered at King Shiyu’s Mansion and agreed to kill Chu Qing, but the Cheng Family Head arrived with the severed head of the Liu Family Head after Chu Qing killed him on the road.
• The Cheng Family Head agreed to provide Chu Qing with secret manuals and implement his laws, while King Shiyu disavowed the Duan Family Head’s threats against Chu Qing’s loved ones and ordered the Forbidden Army to kill him.

Chu Qing amassed secret arts, cultivated the Pelt Realm, and crushed the Rebel Army’s forces, earning the Tyrant title while his killing intent began terrifying those around him. As Shi State City faced famine and a rampaging Red Copper Golden Toad, Chu Qing completed the gold-tier Pelt Realm but refused to help, choosing instead to seek Heaven-Connecting Resources at the Martial Academy.

• King Shiyu blamed Chu Qing for the deaths of the Duan and Jiang Family heads, while the Liu Family discovered Chu Qing had planted a hidden trick that killed Liu Yidao.
• Chu Qing collected and fused secret arts, developed the Eight Gods Secret Transmission, and cultivated at the Shi Residence with Madam Jin’s guidance.
• The Rebel Army targeted Chu Qing, who slaughtered Zheng Qingcang and devastated Feng City before returning to find the Shi Residence under attack.
• Chu Qing destroyed the Ironclad Floating Pagodas, forced King Shiyu and the great-house leaders to kneel, and declared his intent to kill nine million and become a Supreme Hero.
• Chu Qing’s killing intent overwhelmed servants and Limit-Breaking Experts, so he asked Madam Shi for help and learned that the Armored Soldier Sect had intercepted his letter.
• Chu Qing read books to accelerate his cultivation as floods and drought drove refugees toward Shi State City, while the Rebel Army’s Red Copper Golden Toad awakened and broke through the city walls.
• King Shiyu and the Heads of the Houses knelt before Zhao Hongxiu to beg for Chu Qing’s help, but Chu Qing completed the gold-tier Pelt Realm and refused to confront the toad, choosing to seek resources at the Martial Academy.

Chu Qing opened his Heaven-Connecting Path, crushed the Rebel Army in Stone Province, and learned that the Major City Martial Academy would bar him. With the Princess Consort, the Princess, and the dean arranging support, Chu Qing prepared to compete for a place at the Imperial Capital Martial Academy.

• Chu Qing gathered the great families’ hidden reserves and led them through the prefectural cities, killing Rebel Army experts and prodigies before confronting Zheng Zhixiang at Stone Ridge Mountain.
• Chu Qing defeated Zheng Zhixiang and exposed the human skins of missing prodigies, then ordered the Rebel Army’s resources seized or burned.
• Chu Qing studied Otherfolk Bai’s diary and perfected hundreds of secret transmissions while the Rebel Army collapsed across Stone Province.
• The Luo Family abandoned its assassination plan after the Princess Consort warned the major-city powers, but the Major City Martial Academy barred Chu Qing over his slaughter of Feng City.
• Chu Qing asked the Princess Consort to help him enter the Major City Martial Academy, then turned his attention to the Imperial Capital Martial Academy and demonstrated how quickly he could perfect secret teachings.
• The Princess Consort and the headmaster agreed to support Chu Qing’s journey, and Zhao Hongxiu agreed to accompany him to the Imperial Capital.
• Chu Qing wrote to Qing Feng, Mingyue, Ximen, Wang Yinyang, and others, while Human World intercepted the letters and considered his plans.
• Chu Qing gathered one hundred and eight Three-legged Golden Toads, and the Princess Consort, the woman in red, and the mysterious dean arranged resources and help for his Imperial Capital journey.