Chapter Summaries

Chu Qing tested Quan Wang: Hand of God by making a mountain disappear, then continued challenging sects while searching for beautiful hands. A sect’s leaders wondered whether his challenges concealed a secret involving White Jade Capital, while female warriors began preparing their hands to attract his attention.

• Chu Qing used Quan Wang: Hand of God to erase a mountain and learned that he could use the power again after an hour.
• Martial artists from the sect Chu Qing had just challenged found Rose Mountain gone and suspected he had taken it, but their sect master ordered them to stay away.
• The sect master asked the Old Sect Master about Chu Qing’s challenges, and the elder said past challengers had been killed by White Jade Capital.
• Chu Qing continued suppressing sects, lecturing on martial arts, and searching for beautiful hands recognized by his Profession Slot.
• Sects began gathering women for Chu Qing, and female warriors decorated and cared for their hands in hopes of earning his attention and secret medicine.

After completing the ten-thousand-faction target, Chu Qing kept walking the Mythological Path and drew the attention of White Jade Capital and Heavenly Court. White Jade Capital arranged two Outsiders to kill him, while Heavenly Court’s attempts to intervene were blocked or dismissed.

• Chu Qing defeated the ten-thousand-and-first sect, gained a small increase in combat power, and observed another pair of Beauty’s Hands before teaching the sect’s experts martial arts.
• White Jade Capital’s myth department reviewed Chu Qing’s records and decided to send two Innate Outsiders to kill him.
• White Jade Capital questioned why the Divine Court and Heavenly Court had not acted against Chu Qing, despite his being in their territory.
• Heavenly Court ordered the Divine Court’s Innate Gods and Devils to eliminate Chu Qing, but most refused or were prevented from acting.
• Heavenly Court prepared an ambush, but a monster codenamed Heavenly Court told them to leave Chu Qing to White Jade Capital.

Chu Qing continued along the Mythological Path until an underworld army and two Others converged on him, turning the wilderness into a chaotic battlefield. After the male Other was killed and Chu Qing clashed with the female Other, a mysterious road appeared beneath them, leaving both fighters bewildered as the army advanced.

• Chu Qing sensed a powerful enemy pursuing him but pressed onward, then charged toward two streaks of light that had landed nearby.
• A male and female Other headed to intercept Chu Qing, while an underworld army advanced on all three, mistaking their meeting for a conspiracy.
• The underworld general attacked as the female Other raised her cauldron and Chu Qing and the male Other unleashed their own attacks, transporting the combatants into a blood-soaked battlefield.
• The killing move given by the Other Princess Consort broke through the Others’ defenses and killed the male Other after the female Other secretly weakened her cauldron’s protection.
• Chu Qing fought the female Other with his strengthened combat power, and a desolate road appeared beneath them as the underworld army charged.
• Chu Qing and the female Other stared at the road and the approaching army, confused about whether Chu Qing’s treasure had caused it.

Chu Qing and the female Other were dragged into the underworld, where both fought off waves of increasingly powerful underworld armies. The underworld soldiers buried them beneath three-thousand-meter mountains, and the female Other demanded that her grave mound be raised another thousand meters when she saw Chu Qing’s was just as tall as hers.

• Chu Qing and the female Other mistook the underworld army’s arrival for a Great Terror and attacked each other while the soldiers were caught in their crossfire.
• The underworld army carried Chu Qing and the female Other through deeper layers until they reached a battlefield filled with endless New Realm soldiers.
• The female Other hid in her three-legged great cauldron and tried to escape, but the underworld soldiers brought it down and pursued her.
• Chu Qing stayed to fight, but the soldiers buried him beneath a mountain that grew to three thousand meters and suppressed him.
• The underworld soldiers also buried the female Other and her cauldron beneath a three-thousand-meter mountain, prompting her to demand another thousand meters be added to her grave mound.

Chu Qing endured waves of Underworld soldiers while fusing thousands of martial arts into the Killing Path Secret Transmission, and the female aberrant repeatedly tried and failed to escape. A year later, she was returned to Chu Qing, who vowed to keep killing the Underworld soldiers indefinitely and insisted that he walked the Ancient Mythological Path.

• Chu Qing burned through the Underworld armies with a spark, then stood atop the female aberrant's Yin Mountain and used the charging soldiers to practice his martial arts.
• Over ten days, Chu Qing merged his secret transmissions into the Killing Path Secret Transmission while the female aberrant's Yin Mountain grew and she lost all her hair.
• The female aberrant escaped when Chu Qing burned away her Yin Mountain, but the Underworld soldiers recaptured and resuppressed her.
• The female aberrant escaped again and flew through the Underworld for three months, but found no end to it and was captured once more.
• A year later, the Underworld soldiers brought the female aberrant back to Chu Qing, who vowed to keep killing them for hundreds of years.
• The female aberrant questioned whether Chu Qing could kill the countless soldiers across the Underworld, and he insisted that he walked the Ancient Mythological Path.

Chu Qing spent years killing Underworld soldiers and raising Yin Mountain as he perfected the Killing Path Secret Transmission. When an ancient Underworld powerhouse attacked him, Chu Qing countered with the Hand of God, leaving the old monster staring at his vanished hand.

• Chu Qing forgot time as he killed Underworld soldiers and refined the Killing Path Secret Transmission, while Yin Mountain grew to a million meters high.
• The female Otherkin realized that raising Yin Mountain might let them escape the Underworld, but she doubted Chu Qing could keep killing long enough.
• Ancient Underworld powerhouses learned that Chu Qing was walking the Ancient Mythological Path and feared he would slaughter their realm's forces.
• An old monster poked a finger down at Chu Qing, crushing Underworld soldiers and shaking Yin Mountain with its power.
• Chu Qing summoned the Hand of God and poked the descending finger, turning it and the old monster's palm into black sand.
• The old monster stared at his bare arm and asked the other powerhouses where his hand had gone.

After a one-armed giant carried Yin Mountain out of Great Terror, Chu Qing returned to the real world and found his strength and foundation greatly enhanced. He tried to question the female Outsider, but accidentally killed her before learning which faction she belonged to.

• The one-armed giant carried Yin Mountain through the barriers and sent Chu Qing back to the real world.
• Chu Qing's realms, Fish Dragon Dance sinews, and Outsider bloodline strengthened, with Fish Dragon Dance replacing thirty-six sinews.
• The female Outsider tried to flee, but Chu Qing intercepted her and struck down her flying cauldron.
• Chu Qing's poke shattered the female Outsider's body's balance, and she died while recalling her life.
• Chu Qing regretted that the female Outsider had died before telling him which faction she belonged to.

After returning from the Netherworld, Chu Qing tested the fallen Outsider’s cauldron and continued toward his next target, an organization controlling a third of the empire’s smuggling trade. His overwhelming Baleful Intent terrified the organization’s experts into immobility, and he sent them flying with a flick of his fingers.

• Chu Qing found no Outsider Bone in the burned corpse, kept the three-legged cauldron, and watched the Emperor Seat’s divine weapons fail to damage it.
• Chu Qing considered using Great Terror to strengthen his body, recovered from his Netherworld slaughter, and headed for his next target.
• The organization’s leader and members waited anxiously for Chu Qing, then arranged a grand welcome with music and young women after guessing he wanted one.
• Chu Qing arrived, and the organization’s martial artists became paralyzed with genetic terror from the Baleful Intent produced by his slaughter of Netherworld soldiers.
• Chu Qing flicked the motionless experts away, and the gang leader survived the impact and marveled at how terrifying Chu Qing was.

Chu Qing continued along the Mythological Path after killing two Outsiders, prompting Bai Yu Jing and one Outsider’s backer to investigate and seek revenge. As Chu Qing stayed on the road, Mingyue tended the golden toads, Nangong and Cui Moyang trained harder, and Madam Shi experimented on wild Gods and Devils.

• After Chu Qing left, Gene Path experts described visions of him slaughtering prodigies and feared their genes might instinctively dread him.
• Bai Yu Jing learned that two Outsiders sent to kill Chu Qing had died, raised its attention toward him, and an Outsider’s backer activated a body to pursue revenge.
• Chu Qing told Mingyue he had completed only about a third of the Mythological Path and asked the Princess Consort to send him a page recording Liuli’s history.
• Mingyue cared for more than a hundred thousand golden toads at Stone Ridge Mountain, while Nangong and Cui Moyang vowed to gain the power to kill Outsiders before beginning the Mythological Path.
• Madam Shi revealed herself as Yu Ji, subdued a wild Gods and Devils, examined its body, and ordered it to warn the others to cooperate with her.

During his tribulation, Chu Qing reunited with Liuli, advanced Quan Wang: Hand of God to Initiated mastery, and showed her the altered record of her history. Liuli learned that her legacy had faded and vowed to reinforce the Liuli River so her name would endure.

• Chu Qing entered a tribulation at the ancient tribe, where he learned more than a thousand years had passed and its people had developed new martial arts.
• Liuli arrived, noticed Chu Qing’s increased strength and Baleful Intent, and listened as he recounted his journey along the Mythological Path.
• Liuli let Chu Qing hold her hand, which advanced Quan Wang: Hand of God to Initiated mastery and revealed a new promotion condition.
• Chu Qing and Liuli discussed the profound scripture he had given her, and he showed her the Golden Silk White Jade record of her history.
• Liuli saw that the record mentioned her creation of Emperor Seat Quan Wang: My God, then vowed to strengthen the Liuli River so her name would not be forgotten.

After parting from Liuli, Chu Qing encountered a strange tavern while traveling and found two men who both claimed they would kill him. One revealed himself as Gong Qingtian, leaving the Hunchbacked Old Man alarmed and Chu Qing curious about his strength.

• Chu Qing learned that Liuli could not return to the future because an obstruction blocked the river of time, and Liuli vowed to watch for Heaven gaining intelligence.
• Chu Qing returned from the calamity and struck an expert who wondered whether he wanted to kill the waiting sect fighters.
• Chu Qing found a tavern in the wilderness, but his blood qi failed to alter it, so he suspected it was an Otherfolk obsession rather than a Great Terror.
• A middle-aged man with a divine sword and a Hunchbacked Old Man arrived separately, and both insisted they would kill Chu Qing.
• The middle-aged man introduced himself as Gong Qingtian, making the Hunchbacked Old Man's hair stand on end.

Chu Qing and Gong Qingtian fought after recognizing each other as opponents on the Mythological Path, while the Hunchbacked Old Man revealed he was a Martial Arts Myth and tried to attack them. Chu Qing overwhelmed Gong Qingtian, who called on the Hunchbacked Old Man for help as he struggled to survive.

• Gong Qingtian appeared in the tavern, and the Hunchbacked Old Man realized that time and space might have gone awry.
• Chu Qing identified Gong Qingtian as the Great Terror and challenged him, while Gong Qingtian ignored the Hunchbacked Old Man’s claim to be a Myth.
• Chu Qing and Gong Qingtian began fighting with their strongest killing moves, prompting the Hunchbacked Old Man to attack them both.
• Chu Qing and Gong Qingtian countered the Hunchbacked Old Man together, tearing apart his attacks before returning to their duel.
• Chu Qing read Gong Qingtian’s moves and repeatedly pierced his chest and forehead, but Gong Qingtian’s wounds instantly healed.
• Gong Qingtian admitted he could not hold on and called for the Hunchbacked Old Man to help kill Chu Qing.

Chu Qing fought Gong Qingtian and the Hunchbacked Old Man, growing stronger as their attacks fused his killing intent and Baleful Intent. When Gong Qingtian tried to merge with the Hunchbacked Old Man and become a Great Terror, Chu Qing tore into their fusion and challenged their claim to the name.

• Gong Qingtian and the Hunchbacked Old Man attacked Chu Qing together with their Mythological Path techniques, but Chu Qing repeatedly wounded them.
• As the battle dragged on, Chu Qing’s killing intent and Baleful Intent merged, and ten cities filled with copies of him appeared behind him as he began deducing his enemies’ methods.
• The Hunchbacked Old Man urged Gong Qingtian to risk everything, and Gong Qingtian decided to fuse their Mythological Paths into a Great Terror.
• Gong Qingtian’s Sword Path dragon clung to the Hunchbacked Old Man and burrowed into his body, while Chu Qing kicked apart the old man’s head.
• Chu Qing grabbed the dragon and pulled, asking whether a Great Terror that only wore human skin was worthy of the name.

Chu Qing fought Gong Qingtian, who had merged with the Hunchbacked Old Man’s skin and gained a trace of an Emissary of Heaven’s power. Their brutal battle continued as the Black Demon Sect evacuated its disciples to escape the fighting.

• The Hunchbacked Old Man swallowed Gong Qingtian’s Sword Dao Dragon, but Gong Qingtian took over his body and revealed that he had become an Emissary of Heaven.
• Gong Qingtian transformed into his complete form and warned Chu Qing that Heaven would not allow him to become an Ancient Mythology.
• Chu Qing’s King Quan: Hand of God dispersed when Gong Qingtian’s enormous eyeball observed it, so Chu Qing attacked him with the Killing Path Secret Transmission instead.
• Gong Qingtian’s eyeball copied Chu Qing’s Killing Path Secret Transmission, and the two fought with strength and wounds that repeatedly healed.
• The Black Demon Sect’s thirteen prodigies sensed the battle, and the Sect Master ordered the disciples to flee far from the fighting.

Chu Qing fought Gong Qingtian, whose copied power made them evenly matched, while the Black Demon Sect gathered the body parts scattered across the battlefield. After Chu Qing judged Gong Qingtian’s resolve broken, he retreated and used a Beauty’s Head, leaving its effect unknown.

• The Black Demon Sect’s monsters saw Chu Qing’s killing intent overwhelm two others, then fled when a severed hand attacked them and realized it was Chu Qing’s.
• As Chu Qing and Gong Qingtian’s battle scattered limbs and Primordial Spirit fragments across the area, the Black Demon Sect’s experts collected Chu Qing’s body parts for study.
• Gong Qingtian copied Chu Qing’s body, realms, and dragon sinews, but Chu Qing remained his equal in a two-hour fight.
• Chu Qing criticized Gong Qingtian for copying rather than inventing variations of the Killing Path Secret Transmission, and Gong Qingtian vowed to trap him instead of kill him.
• Chu Qing declared Gong Qingtian dead after his resolve faltered, retreated as Gong Qingtian pursued, and called on a Beauty’s Head to open her eyes.

Chu Qing defeated Gong Qingtian and examined the strange powers and human skin left behind by the battle. Gong Qingtian vanished after failing Heaven’s mission, while Chu Qing gained a new level in his Ancient Mythological Path but still found nothing unusual about the skin.

• The Black Demon Sect Master gathered Chu Qing’s scattered flesh and blood, then celebrated when Chu Qing returned carrying the stone form of Gong Qingtian.
• Chu Qing told the sect that the collected remains could be studied, and the Black Demon Sect swept the battlefield clean and recorded a distorted account of the fight.
• Chu Qing inspected Gong Qingtian’s petrified eyeball and human skin, learning that the eye belonged to Heaven and could copy secret transmissions and bodily structures.
• Chu Qing restored Gong Qingtian with the Beauty’s Head, then turned him to stone again as black smoke rose and Gong Qingtian begged Heaven for another chance.
• Gong Qingtian vanished after the smoke disappeared, leaving only his skin; Chu Qing concluded that he had failed Heaven’s mission and credited the battle with advancing his Ancient Mythological Path.
• Chu Qing continued studying the skin but found no unusual properties and wondered whether the hunchbacked Martial Arts Myth had deceived him.

Chu Qing asked Goddess King Bai Lu to identify the hunchbacked mythological figure and learned that he was Qiu Wushuang, a missing member of White Jade Capital descended from Fur Martial Ancestor Qiu Wudi. He realized the old man's skin might hold a secret connected to Qiu Wudi, leaving him wondering whether it could reveal her ancient power.

• Chu Qing spoke with Cui Moyang and Nangong about his Ancient Mythological Path, described its dangers, and promised to help Nangong cultivate after completing it.
• Chu Qing ordered Goddess King Bai Lu to investigate the hunchbacked expert who had mastered four paths, and she agreed to search for information.
• Goddess King Bai Lu discovered that the hunchbacked figure was Qiu Wushuang, a mythological title holder who had vanished over three hundred years earlier.
• Goddess King Bai Lu revealed that Qiu Wushuang's Old Ancestor was Qiu Wudi, the legendary Fur Martial Ancestor who established the Pelt Realm.
• Chu Qing realized that the Hunchbacked Old Man's skin concealed information about Qiu Wudi and wondered whether he could uncover her power.

After learning that Chu Qing had killed her woman, a powerful otherkin tried to mobilize White Jade Capital against him, but the current White Jade Capital ordered the Mythological Institution to stand down. The otherkin then chose a powerful Goddess Myth to kill Chu Qing, and she set out alone across the Endless Sea.

• Chu Qing spoke with Madam Jin and Madam Shi, then examined the self-repairing human skin and continued along the Ancient Mythological Path.
• An otherkin at White Jade Capital learned that Gong Qingtian had failed to kill Chu Qing and ordered experts to attack him.
• The current White Jade Capital rejected the order and directed the Mythological Institution to abandon its plans against Chu Qing.
• Enraged that White Jade Capital would not avenge his woman, the otherkin selected a Goddess Myth nearing the Overlord title and implanted a command to kill Chu Qing.
• The female warrior left the island she was helping develop and began crossing the Endless Sea to hunt Chu Qing.

Chu Qing endured the Fourth Great Terror, a lonely passage through the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and recovered before joining the Square Inch Gathering. He learned that Heavenly Court planned to stop him from walking the Mythological Path unless he hurried.

• Chu Qing survived a coffin Great Terror and strengthened his foundations and combat power.
• Chu Qing endured the Six Paths of Reincarnation, rejected its temptations and pleas to abandon his path, and emerged with his strength increased.
• Chu Qing rested, then asked Luo Tian whether he had experienced the Six Paths of Reincarnation; Luo Tian said he had not.
• Chu Qing joined the Square Inch Gathering, discussed his progress, and learned from Heavenly Court that the authorities intended to stop his journey because wild martial artists were not permitted to walk the Mythological Path.

First Illumination Person of That Year revealed that she had reincarnated and claimed to know how others could do the same, drawing the Square Inch Gathering’s attention to the Heart Blood needed from a forbidden-region nest and Stone Ridge Mountain. Her instructions sent Luo Tian and other geniuses toward the nest, while Second Generation Moon God questioned how First Illumination Person had obtained Stone Ridge Mountain’s woman’s essence blood.

• First Illumination Person of That Year arrived at the Square Inch Gathering, announced herself, and revealed that an accident had delayed her reincarnation.
• The gathering’s members assumed Chu Qing was also a reincarnator, but First Illumination Person of That Year said she was the only one and demanded they call her Mother before sharing her method.
• First Illumination Person of That Year said reincarnation required Heart Blood from a nest’s master and from the woman who had become Stone Ridge Mountain.
• Chu Qing warned Luo Tian, Heavenly Court, and Second Generation Moon God that the nest was dangerous, but Luo Tian chose to seek its Heart Blood and planned to summon her sect if necessary.
• Second Generation Bi Luo asked for the Stone Ridge Mountain woman’s coordinates, and First Illumination Person of That Year explained that awakening the mountain could revive her.
• Second Generation Moon God asked First Illumination Person of That Year how she had obtained the woman’s essence blood.