Chapter Summaries

Chu Qing visited the two remaining sects and the White Jade Capital branch, but their submission left him disappointed. He found the Human World Organization’s headquarters abandoned after its leaders had killed themselves, then ordered a continent-wide hunt for its members.

• Chu Qing visited two ordinary sects, accepted their submission, and explained martial arts before leaving without encountering a Great Terror.
• At the White Jade Capital branch, the mountain guard and Mountain Lord submitted, and Chu Qing gained strength but lamented that they would not challenge him.
• Chu Qing learned that the White Jade Capital Mountain Lord and others were exiled disciples with no ability to oppose him, explained martial arts, and left disappointed.
• Chu Qing arrived at the Human World Organization’s overgrown, bone-strewn headquarters and set it ablaze.
• Local martial artists told Chu Qing that the Human World Organization’s higher-ups had killed themselves after being trapped by surrounding forces.
• Chu Qing ordered martial artists across the continent to hunt Human World Organization members, offering Stone Ridge Mountain inheritances and cultivation methods as rewards and allowing mistaken killings.

After Chu Qing destroyed the Human World and made martial arts transmissions widely available, he declared that he would flatten the Divine Court headquarters. He arrived to find its leaders abandoned and weeping, then attacked them, mistaking their despair for a trick.

• Chu Qing’s order led martial artists across the continent to hunt down everyone connected to the Human World, while Tang Wuming distributed secret transmissions and cultivation methods without checking claims.
• Lan Lan and another Senior Student helped print the transmissions, and the Cui Lineage and other lineages began selling them cheaply, sparking a continent-wide martial arts frenzy.
• Chu Qing announced he would flatten the Divine Court headquarters, and its Grand Officials debated fleeing, blaming earlier generations, or appeasing him.
• The Grand Officials found that their attendants and guards had vanished, while the Innate Gods and Demons ignored their calls for help.
• Chu Qing entered the deserted headquarters, heard weeping, and found more than a hundred New Realm experts crying before the grand hall.
• Mistaking their grief for an attempt to deceive him, Chu Qing charged in with his divine sabers and began slaughtering them.

Chu Qing slaughtered the Divine Court headquarters’ remaining officials and challenged the Innate Gods and Demons to face him. After they debated how to respond, King Yuan the Outsider arrived with an offer to let Chu Qing behead four of their kind.

• Chu Qing killed the Divine Court higher-ups despite their pleas to follow him, then declared he would kill everyone at the headquarters.
• Chu Qing challenged the Innate Gods and Demons through the Law Net, demanding they either submit to beheading or descend and fight him.
• The Innate Gods and Demons argued over whether to confront Chu Qing, fearing both his strength and the Outsiders’ advantage if they gathered too many forces.
• Chu Qing waited for a response and privately planned to demand the Great Qian Imperial Seal, then destroy the Divine Court Law Net once he could enter and leave it freely.
• King Yuan the Outsider arrived as an envoy and offered four Innate Gods and Demons for Chu Qing to behead publicly.

After Chu Qing destroyed the Divine Court and became the continent’s greatest force, he entered his eighth Great Terror and faced a woman who challenged him to move her feet. Their battle began with her repeatedly repelling his attacks, while Chu Qing accelerated with each charge.

• Chu Qing arranged for the heads of four Innate Gods and Demons to be paraded across the continent, and the Divine Court’s defeat made him the continent’s dominant force.
• The eighth Great Terror began as flames consumed the Divine Court headquarters and opened a path to an enormous arena.
• Chu Qing met a formidable woman who promised to reveal her name if he defeated her and said he had to force both her feet to move to pass the trial.
• The woman said no Heaven could interfere with their fight, and Chu Qing attacked her with his Killing Path Secret Transmission.
• The woman repelled Chu Qing’s repeated attacks, but he used their recoil to accelerate and vowed to shake her to death while she was still alive.

Chu Qing fought a woman in the Great Terror's arena, pushing his Killing Path Secret Transmission to new heights but failing to hurt her. After his attempt to lift her also failed, she kicked his body apart, leaving his head to wonder who she was.

• Chu Qing fought the woman at tremendous speed, and the pressure drove his Killing Path Secret Transmission to twice its former power without making her move.
• In the real world, King Yuan the Outsider watched Chu Qing battle an invisible enemy as martial artists entered the ruins to train against the lingering power of his attacks.
• The woman praised Chu Qing's self-created secret transmission and challenged him to make her move one step.
• Chu Qing used Beauty's Head to petrify the woman, but she returned to normal and said he could not lift her.
• Chu Qing drew on his powers and burned his Spirit and Energy to try to lift the woman, but she remained still.
• The woman kicked Chu Qing's body into a cloud of blood mist, leaving his head to fly through the air and wonder who she was.

Chu Qing fought the woman who revealed that the Four Directions had sent her to kill him, and their battle drove his Killing Path Secret Transmission to new heights. Before vanishing, she gave him the Nine Chapters and revealed herself as Piyu Martial Ancestor Qiu Wudi, leaving him to face the ninth Great Terror.

• The woman explained that the Four Directions had recruited her and other powerful fighters to deal with Chu Qing, then challenged him with her Nine Chapters.
• Chu Qing matched the woman’s escalating attacks, exhausting Fish Dragon Dance and his Aberrant One bloodline while strengthening his Killing Path Secret Transmission.
• After five minutes, the woman struck Chu Qing’s chest, but his body recovered and he charged back into the fight.
• The woman admitted that her strength had surpassed Chu Qing’s by more than double and said she had lost again; she warned him that the ninth Great Terror would follow.
• The woman passed the Nine Chapters and another secret teaching into Chu Qing’s mind, and he recognized the Earth Mother Chapter as the ninth chapter.
• As space shattered around them, the woman identified herself as Piyu Martial Ancestor Qiu Wudi and vanished into dust.

Chu Qing learned that Qiu Wudi’s sealed essence blood could restore her or help someone reach her strongest state, then entered the Ninth Great Terror and met Lian Hongchen, the Heaven-Connecting Martial Ancestor. Lian Hongchen invited him to share a story over wine, but Chu Qing said he had none.

• Chu Qing examined Qiu Wudi’s Nine Chapters, secret pelt-reforging method, and instructions for extracting her essence blood from her brother’s descendants.
• Chu Qing learned that consuming Qiu Wudi’s essence blood could help someone reach her strongest state, while nurturing it could give her a chance to return to the Human World.
• The Ninth Great Terror appeared as a vast inn in the desert, where Chu Qing entered and found crowds of guests and identical waiters.
• Lian Hongchen arrived, introduced herself as the Heaven-Connecting Martial Ancestor, and spoke with Chu Qing about her obscure historical record and the Heaven-Connecting Path.
• Lian Hongchen offered Chu Qing wine and asked him for a story, but he said he had none.

Chu Qing learned about Lian Hongchen’s life and agreed to record her story, then asked to test her strength in a fight. As they prepared to spar, Lian Hongchen revealed her past war against Heaven and her promise to Liuli, and Chu Qing said he knew Liuli.

• Chu Qing asked whether Lian Hongchen wanted to be resurrected, and she admitted she did but had made no arrangements for a second life.
• Lian Hongchen recounted her rise from a farmer’s daughter who secretly learned to read and practice martial arts to becoming a Heaven-Connecting Martial Ancestor.
• Lian Hongchen asked Chu Qing to preserve her story, and he agreed before asking her to fight him.
• Lian Hongchen explained that she had only cultivated to the Heaven-Connecting Path and warned Chu Qing not to use a killing move Heaven might see.
• Lian Hongchen revealed that Cang Tian had betrayed her during their war against the previous Heaven, which led to her death.
• Lian Hongchen said she had promised Liuli to erase Heaven’s consciousness, and Chu Qing told her he knew Liuli.

Chu Qing learned from Lian Hongchen how Liuli had shaped her life before the ninth Great Terror ended. The tenth Great Terror placed Chu Qing before a young Lian Hongchen, and he realized he might be the one who gave her that name.

• Chu Qing and Lian Hongchen confirmed that they knew the same Liuli, who had inspired Lian Hongchen to study, cultivate, and open the Heaven-Connecting Path.
• Lian Hongchen told Chu Qing that the era before hers was called the Era of Demise and passed him information about the Heaven-Connecting Path and Liuli.
• Lian Hongchen warned Chu Qing that the tenth Great Terror would be an Otherkin, then vanished as the ninth calamity ended.
• Chu Qing appeared alone in a wilderness as his Mountain Water Path, Third Limit, and Second Limit powers were sealed.
• A barefoot young girl in red appeared, said she wanted to replace her name Cuihua, and accepted Chu Qing's suggestion of Lian Hongchen.
• Chu Qing wondered whether he had traveled into Lian Hongchen's past and whether he could change her future before she summoned a phantom Heaven-Connecting Path and attacked.

Chu Qing fought Lian Hongchen through the Tenth Great Terror, eventually gaining the upper hand and stopping her ultimate attack by revealing that he knew Liuli and had not come to kill her. The terror ended before he could finish explaining the future.

• Chu Qing and Lian Hongchen fought a devastating battle, and both suffered severe wounds as their powers continued to rise.
• In the present world, witnesses saw Chu Qing’s lingering attacks kill or injure nearby martial artists, while Others and Innate Gods and Demons speculated that he was facing a Great Terror on the Ancient Mythological Path.
• After three days and three nights, Chu Qing’s wounds healed faster than Lian Hongchen’s, allowing him to seize her and declare that she had lost.
• As Lian Hongchen prepared her ultimate killing move, Chu Qing told her he knew Liuli and had entered the place by mistake, not to kill her.
• When the space began to shatter, Chu Qing started explaining the future to Lian Hongchen, but the Tenth Great Terror ended before he could finish.

Chu Qing completed the Mythological Path, gained the Terror Ancient God of the Emperor's Seat title, and evolved his Aberrant Bloodline into Inverse Dragon. After discovering hidden observers in the sky, he struck through their concealment treasure and wounded one of the Otherfolk.

• Chu Qing received the Terror Ancient God of the Emperor's Seat title after overcoming the Ten Great Terrors and uniting powerful titles, blessings, and gems.
• Chu Qing's Aberrant Bloodline evolved into Inverse Dragon, and his foundations, titles, and traits unified as he grew immensely stronger.
• Chu Qing sensed hidden watchers in the sky and recognized that some were Otherfolk while others were Innate Gods and Demons.
• Chu Qing appeared in the air and pinpointed several dozen Otherfolk concealed by an exotic treasure.
• Chu Qing poked the concealment treasure until it cracked, then pierced through it and left an Otherfolk with a hole in his forehead.

After completing the Mythological Path, Chu Qing effortlessly pierced an Outsider's exotic treasure and offered martial artists a secret about suppressing the continent's forces if they hunted an Innate God and Demon. He explained how to weaken the Gods and Devils by destroying their temples, and left eager for them to respond after he cut off their foundations.

• Chu Qing pierced an Outsider's exotic treasure while checking whether the watchers were Outsiders or Innate Gods and Devils.
• Chu Qing returned to the martial artists and promised to reveal the reasons, dangers, and benefits of suppressing every force on the continent to those who brought him Divine Court members' heads or hunted an Innate God and Demon.
• The martial artists objected that Innate Gods and Devils recovered too quickly to kill, while the Gods and Devils in the Dharma Net mocked Chu Qing's proposal and worried he might enter their realm.
• Chu Qing urged the martial artists to research the Gods and Devils' weaknesses and team up with Outsiders to ambush them in large numbers.
• Chu Qing explained that destroying temples and suppressing believers would shatter the Dharma Net and weaken the Gods and Devils, exciting the martial artists.
• Chu Qing anticipated that the Gods and Devils would either slaughter people to gather incense offerings again or join forces against him.

The Innate Gods and Demons sought a way to kill Chu Qing, while the Six Wasteful Ones and their companions sailed away from the continent. At Stone Ridge Mountain, Chu Qing planned to share his new martial insights with Nangong and the others, then began studying his title and bloodline.

• The Innate Gods and Demons decided they needed a coordinated attack to kill Chu Qing, but discovered the Six Wasteful Ones had permanently withdrawn from the Law Net.
• The Six Wasteful Ones bragged about fighting Chu Qing aboard a ship bound for the Endless Sea, and King Shiyu proposed joining forces against him.
• Shi Tiezhu vowed to grow powerful enough to surpass Chu Qing and return to take Senior Student back with him.
• Princess told Miss Heaven she planned to seek opportunities on remote continents and one day destroy the Millennial Calamity and build another Great Qian, while Miss Heaven feared she might never return.
• Chu Qing contacted Nangong, Princess Consort, Madam Shi, and others to share his martial insights, then began studying his new title and bloodline.

Chu Qing studied the traits of his upgraded Terror Ancient God of the Emperor's Seat title and discovered that its incomplete crown let him access the Nine Chapters and Nine Questions. Using the Earth Mother Chapter, he strengthened the Peak of Mountains and prepared to test the Nine Questions next.

• Chu Qing examined his title's enhanced Emperor Seat, Mythology, Terror, and Ancient God traits, including greater invincibility, resistance to being forgotten, defense-piercing attacks, and resurrection once every thousand years.
• Chu Qing considered using his increased enfeoffment uses to evolve a Three-legged Golden Toad.
• Chu Qing inspected the incomplete crown embedded with gems containing Qiu Wudi's Nine Chapters, I Am Invincible and Lian Hongchen's Nine Questions, and the Seven Great Terrors' Terror Gems.
• Chu Qing activated the Earth Mother Chapter and used its power to adjust the earth veins beneath the Peak of Mountains, drawing strength from sealed Innate Gods and Demons.
• Chu Qing's changes increased the Peak of Mountains' power and contamination speed, and he decided to try the Nine Questions next.

Chu Qing tested Lian Hongchen’s Nine Questions, using its power to collapse two mountains before reflecting on the ancient battle against the previous Heaven. He then visited Mingyue’s valley, enfeoffed a Three-legged Golden Toad, and returned to the mountaintop to extract Qiu Wudi’s blood essence from a piece of human skin.

• Chu Qing used Nine Questions to find a mountain’s weakest point and collapsed it with a stomp, drawing thousands of onlookers.
• Chu Qing punched a taller mountain and watched cracks spread through its weak points until it collapsed.
• After Nine Questions ended, Chu Qing wondered about Lian Hongchen, Liuli, and the previous Heaven, then left the gathered martial artists.
• Chu Qing enfeoffed the largest Three-legged Golden Toad in Mingyue’s valley, increasing its bloodline by eight thousand years and causing it to grow and shed its skin.
• The transformed Three-legged Golden Toad bred with smaller females, breathed toward Mingyue’s golden cores, and spat out coins when Chu Qing caught it.
• Chu Qing returned to the mountaintop with a piece of human skin and prepared to extract Qiu Wudi’s blood essence using Qiu Wudi’s method.

Chu Qing obtained Qiu Wudi’s essence blood and chose to use a ritual to try to revive her, believing her return could disrupt the coming Great Unification Era. As the ritual began to affect Stone Ridge Mountain’s earth veins, he considered using Liuli’s essence blood too and ordered more ritual materials.

• While waiting for Qiu Wudi’s essence blood, Chu Qing examined how his Reverse Dragon bloodline was transforming his body and minor realms.
• The ritual produced a ruby containing Qiu Wudi’s essence blood, and Chu Qing weighed consuming it against attempting to revive her.
• Chu Qing decided to revive Qiu Wudi, reasoning that her return could complicate the great powers’ struggle over orthodoxy and Great Unification.
• Mingyue delivered ritual supplies, and Chu Qing built an altar on a mountaintop and began offering Qiu Wudi’s essence blood.
• As the altar trembled and Stone Ridge Mountain’s earth veins stirred, Chu Qing summoned Mingyue and asked for ten more sets of ritual materials.
• Mingyue agreed to have a hundred sets prepared, suspecting Chu Qing intended to cause trouble.

Chu Qing gathered resources and built a vast altar to perform a hundred rituals aimed at bringing Liuli back to the Human World. He found that Liuli’s history had changed, then entered it and reunited with her, where she asked what was different.

• Ming Yue ordered martial artist leaders to gather a hundred sets of ritual materials, and tens of thousands of martial artists set out to collect them.
• Qiu Wudi directed experts to build a hundred-square-kilometer altar, while the returning teams delivered the ritual materials to Ming Yue.
• Chu Qing burned a hundred sets of materials and Liuli’s essence blood on the altar; Qiu Wudi’s essence blood tried to approach Liuli’s but was blasted away before cautiously returning.
• Chu Qing found a new sheet recording Liuli’s history, touched it, and was pulled into the beginning of a calamity.
• Chu Qing reunited with Liuli, told her about the Ancient Mythological Path and his titles, and heard her reassure him that Heaven could not observe her flaw through his killing move.
• At a waterfall pool, Liuli asked Chu Qing what had changed in her history.

Chu Qing showed Liuli the history of her future, which recorded her slaying countless Heavens before they eventually killed her. Liuli accepted the account but resolved to change what lay ahead, then kept the history to investigate whether the past and future could affect one another.

• Chu Qing gave Liuli the records of her history after she insisted on learning what her future held.
• Liuli read that she had killed seventy-two named Heavens and that the revived Heavens ultimately slew her in the Western Extremity.
• Chu Qing explained that the beings who opposed Liuli may have wanted to become Heaven, and told her about his ritual for summoning her to the Human World Organization.
• Liuli said she would not let history repeat itself, and Chu Qing told her to report any reaction to his summoning ritual when he returned.
• Liuli shared the further portions of the Enlightenment Star Scripture that she had deduced, and Chu Qing memorized them before leaving the history with her.
• Liuli kept the history to study whether it was real and whether future changes, or another being's arrival, could affect the present.

After learning that Liuli had died in the historical record, Chu Qing continued cultivating the Enlightenment Star Scripture and awaited his companions’ return. Nangong, Cui Moyang, and Madam Shi returned and heard how Chu Qing had survived the Ancient Mythological Path, while Madam Shi ended the chapter boasting that she would have surpassed the legendary Martial Ancestors.

• Chu Qing learned that history recorded Liuli’s death and wondered whether her fate was connected to the Enlightenment Star Scripture or the Heavens.
• Chu Qing recited Liuli’s newly deduced scripture lines, enlarging his candle flame, though he sensed it still lacked a transformation.
• Nangong and Cui Moyang returned, and Chu Qing told them about the Ancient Mythological Path and the Great Terrors he had overcome.
• Madam Shi returned a day later and said the underworld slaughter sounded especially terrifying, while Cui Moyang offered to clear the way for her.
• Madam Shi claimed she would have been invincible in the Martial Ancestors’ era, and Nangong pointed out that she could not even beat Chu Qing.

Chu Qing brought Nangong, Cui Moyang, Madam Shi, and Mingyue to the battlefield to teach them martial arts by fighting an Innate God and Demon. After crushing the lion-headed God and Demon and driving the others away, Chu Qing praised an Otherfolk woman for identifying how his title suppressed their recovery.

• Madam Shi challenged Chu Qing to test her Demon God Path, but he overpowered her and later taught martial arts to her, Nangong, Cui Moyang, and Mingyue for ten days.
• Chu Qing and the women left Stone Ridge Mountain for the Blackwater Empire, prompting the Blackwater Emperor to fear that Chu Qing was coming to attack his capital.
• Cui Moyang carried the group by sword light to a gathering of Otherfolk and Innate Gods and Demons, where Chu Qing demanded the Gods and Demons help with a practical lesson.
• Chu Qing used the lion-headed God and Demon as a target while demonstrating the Earth Mother Chapter, beating him into pieces and suppressing his recovery.
• The other Innate Gods and Demons fled, and an Otherfolk woman explained that Chu Qing’s Four Directions title let him suppress their recovery; Chu Qing praised her insight.