Chapter Summaries

Chu Qing went to the Great Zhou Empire after Zhao Hongxiu reported trouble and learned that a Millennial Tribulation had brought drought to the lands once protected by the Divine Court Law Net. He refused to send martial artists away or establish a Lineage, saying he would do so only after defeating his great enemy: Heaven.

• Mingyue told Chu Qing that Zhao Hongxiu wanted him to visit the Great Zhou Empire, and he left despite Mingyue’s offer to accompany him.
• Chu Qing saw that drought afflicted Great Zhou while neighboring empires were spared, and he recognized it as a Millennial Tribulation.
• Zhao Hongxiu and the Great Zhou Empress explained that the calamity had returned to empires once shielded by the Law Net and asked whether Great Zhou should send martial artists elsewhere.
• Chu Qing told the women not to send martial artists away, noting that Silver Coin farmland still outproduced ordinary farmland and that Stone Ridge Mountain’s Silver Coin supply would grow.
• Zhao Hongxiu and the Great Zhou Empress asked Chu Qing to give them an heir and establish a Lineage, but he refused because descendants would give him weaknesses.
• Chu Qing promised to establish a Lineage after defeating his great enemy, and when the women asked who it was, he answered, “Heaven.”

Chu Qing realized Heaven was using the Millennial Tribulation to force the forbidden zones open and strengthen itself, while two overlords arrived at Stone Ridge Mountain seeking the secrets of the Miracle Palace. The chapter left the Uncrowned Overlord and the Star-Plucking Overlord circling the palace and preparing ambushes against each other without meeting.

• Chu Qing told the Great Zhou Empress and another woman that Heaven was his enemy, then left the capital to inspect other empires.
• After returning to Stone Ridge Mountain, Chu Qing concluded that Heaven’s tribulations drove people to open forbidden zones and expanded its power over the sky.
• Daughter of Stonemason Xu told Tang Wuming that the empires would not dare rebel against Chu Qing, despite their growing burdens.
• The Uncrowned Overlord and the Star-Plucking Overlord arrived from opposite sides and admired the Miracle Palace, each plotting to claim it.
• The two overlords found that the palace’s carvings contained powerful inheritances and pathways to the New Realm, then searched for the continent’s Sovereign secret.
• After repeatedly failing to encounter each other, the Uncrowned Overlord and the Star-Plucking Overlord each decided to change plans and set an ambush.

Chu Qing confronted the Uncrowned Overlord and Star-Picking after catching them fighting near his Miracle Palace, and they asked him for the secret of becoming a Continental Overlord. He told them it was merely an honorific given by people they had subdued, leaving the two Overlords stunned.

• The Uncrowned Overlord realized he had discovered a secret about the Continental Overlord and went to find his opponent.
• The Uncrowned Overlord and Star-Picking fought until Chu Qing appeared and demanded to know why they had come.
• The two Overlords claimed they had visited to study the Miracle Palace and seek the Continental Overlord's secret so they could fight the Emissary of Heaven.
• Chu Qing agreed to explain how to become a Continental Overlord, delighting the two Overlords.
• Chu Qing said the title was only an honorific used by people their subordinates had frightened into submission, leaving them confused because they had subdued many continents without receiving it.

Chu Qing dismissed the Star-Picking Overlord and the Uncrowned Overlord, who disagreed over whether to target him and uncover his secrets. Meanwhile, Chu Qing completed the Mountain River Dao and named its new realm Reflection.

• Chu Qing allowed the two Overlords to inspect the Miracle Palace but warned them not to enter it.
• The Star-Picking Overlord and the Uncrowned Overlord investigated Chu Qing's background and concluded he had reached the Ancient Mythological Path through hidden opportunities.
• The Uncrowned Overlord resolved to kill Chu Qing and seize his secrets, while the Star-Picking Overlord refused to join him and departed.
• The Uncrowned Overlord headed for the Miracle Palace as Chu Qing deduced the Mountain River Dao in its highest hall.
• Chu Qing united the mountains, rivers, imperial city, and Emperor Seat, completed the Mountain River Dao, and named the resulting realm Reflection.

Chu Qing established the Reflection Realm and realized it needed to prove its strength by defeating powerful opponents. As the Uncrowned Overlord attacked Miracle Palace and Star-Picking Overlord tried to damage it, Star-Picking turned to capture three approaching women for information.

• Chu Qing named his new realm Reflection and created the Reflection Method by merging his accumulated techniques and insights.
• Chu Qing sensed that the Reflection Realm still needed recognition from the world, which he expected to earn by suppressing the two Overlords.
• The Uncrowned Overlord arrived at Miracle Palace, challenged Chu Qing, and tried to break down the doors of the highest hall.
• The Uncrowned Overlord's attack only cracked the hall doors a short distance before the damage stopped spreading.
• Star-Picking Overlord also failed to break Miracle Palace's exceptionally sturdy pillars and decided to capture three approaching women for interrogation.

Star-Picking Overlord tried to force Mingyue to reveal the palace’s weak point, but she and Princess Consort defeated him and drove him to Uncrowned Overlord. Chu Qing appeared in the palace, sat on the Emperor Seat, and announced that the reflection had been born.

• Star-Picking Overlord asked Mingyue and Princess Consort where the building was weakest, and Mingyue led him to a stone pillar that proved to be a trap.
• Star-Picking Overlord attacked Mingyue, but Princess Consort weakened his defenses as the Golden Light severed both his arms and prevented them from regenerating for ten minutes.
• Star-Picking Overlord reached Uncrowned Overlord, who had failed to break open the palace gate, and the two entered the hall after Uncrowned Overlord simply pushed it open.
• An unseen attacker slammed Uncrowned Overlord and Star-Picking Overlord into the dark hall, where Chu Qing appeared and approached the Emperor Seat.
• Chu Qing sat on the Emperor Seat, declared that he had named the New Realm and finalized its transformations, and announced that the reflection had been born.

Chu Qing fought the Uncrowned Overlord and Star-Picking, using Reflection to distort their perception and turning their attacks into practice. The two Overlords unleashed their ultimate killing move, and Star-Picking’s giant hand closed around Chu Qing.

• Chu Qing used Reflection to make the Uncrowned Overlord mistake the distance between them, then blocked his attack with one finger.
• Star-Picking regrew his arms and joined forces with the Uncrowned Overlord against Chu Qing.
• Outside the hall, Mingyue worried about Chu Qing, but the Princess Consort told her to wait because Chu Qing had said he needed no help.
• Chu Qing fought both Overlords at extreme speed and steadily gained control of his power, alarming them as they realized he was using them to hone his skills.
• Star-Picking and the Uncrowned Overlord decided to kill Chu Qing before he could become an Overlord.
• Star-Picking burned his lifespan, Spirit, and Energy to form a giant hand of starlight, seized Chu Qing, and clenched his fist.

Chu Qing used the Reflection Method to kill the Star-Picking Overlord and the Uncrowned Overlord, then revealed that he had established the Reflection Realm. He left the hall having confirmed its name, while the Princess Consort and Mingyue learned about his new path and watched him demonstrate its powers.

• The Star-Picking Overlord's starlight hand exploded, and Chu Qing used the Reflection Method to attack him as the Uncrowned Overlord joined the fight.
• Chu Qing created a miniature reflection of himself that shattered the Uncrowned Overlord's crown, then brushed past both Overlords and killed them.
• Mingyue and the Princess Consort entered the hall and found the two Overlords dead; Chu Qing announced that he had confirmed the name of the Reflection Realm.
• Chu Qing explained that he had not become a Martial Ancestor and that spreading the Reflection Realm would require countless people to cultivate the Way of Mountains and Rivers.
• The Princess Consort asked Chu Qing to demonstrate Reflection, and Mingyue volunteered to cooperate with one of its remaining techniques.

Chu Qing tested the Reflection method with the Princess Consort and Mingyue, then received a summons from a distant cultivator. The chapter revealed that Mountain Water Path practitioners had learned of the Reflection Realm and its ritual, shocking the Mythology Organization's elders.

• Chu Qing explained Reflection to the Princess Consort and demonstrated that his power weakened with distance while attacks against his reflection did not harm him.
• Chu Qing, the Princess Consort, and Mingyue found that Reflection could reach anywhere on the continent, lasted only one minute, and lost little strength across its distance.
• Chu Qing sensed someone summoning him through a Reflection ritual, though he had not told anyone how to perform it.
• After Chu Qing killed the two great overlords, Mountain Water Path cultivators learned that their path had entered the Reflection Realm, its four stages, and a ritual to summon the Reflection Old Ancestor.
• A Reflection martial artist told the Mythology Organization's elders about the new realm and ritual, leaving them stunned.

After Chu Qing named the Reflection Realm, Mythology and other powers outlawed the Mountain Water Path and hunted its practitioners. Cornered in a city, a band of practitioners summoned the Reflection Old Ancestor, just as a great omen appeared in the sky.

• The Mythology Master banned the Mountain Water Path, ordered its practitioners hunted, and proposed granting Chu Qing elder status, but officials reduced the offer to Outer Sect Steward and called for his death.
• The great powers began killing Mountain Water Path practitioners and mobilizing forces to hunt Chu Qing.
• Several Reflection Realm practitioners joined together, using their path’s mysteries to defeat pursuers before more than a dozen Mythology experts cornered them in a city.
• The trapped practitioners refused to regret their choice and performed a ritual to summon the Reflection Old Ancestor as their enemies prepared to torture and kill them.
• A brutal Mythology expert stopped at the residence’s entrance when a great omen appeared in the sky.

Chu Qing answered the Mountain Water Path’s summons and fought Mythology Realm and New Realm forces across a vast distance, killing many of their experts. As the survivors fled, he declared that those who reached the Reflection Realm and chanted his true name would be spared the death tribulation, but the name was muted.

• The Mountain Water Path members summoned Chu Qing, and he appeared above the main city.
• Chu Qing’s first attack failed to harm a Mythology Realm expert, so he tore through layers of folded air to bring more of his power across.
• The enemy Mythology Realm experts and New Realm Army Formations charged Chu Qing as he continued breaking through the barriers.
• Chu Qing unleashed the Reflection Method, killing ten Mythology Realm experts and destroying ten Army Formations in ten seconds.
• The remaining enemies fled, and Chu Qing promised protection from the death tribulation to those who reached the Reflection Realm and chanted his true name.

Chu Qing used the Reflection Method to change how martial artists summoned him and demonstrated that he could kill across vast distances. Fearing he would threaten their control of the Great Unification Era, major factions ordered his death, while Chu Qing’s companions warned him that his achievement had made him a target.

• Chu Qing changed the summoning method so martial artists had to chant his true name for increasingly long periods, and factions feared he had altered a rule set by the world.
• News spread that Chu Qing had killed Mythologies and New Realm powerhouses across the Endless Sea and hundreds of continents through a mystery unique to the Reflection Realm.
• The current master of Mythology urged its leaders to recognize Chu Qing’s talent, but they declared that he must die because Mythology intended to control the coming Martial Ancestor and New Realm.
• Mythology’s leaders arranged to send thirty-six ancient Overlords to Chu Qing’s location within a year, while other top-tier factions also targeted him.
• At Miracle Palace, Chu Qing explained to the Princess Consort and Mingyue how his Reflection Method could summon a mindless projection of himself, and the Princess Consort warned that the great powers would attack him for naming a New Realm without a powerful backer.

Chu Qing learned that naming the Reflection Realm had made him a target for hundreds of hegemons, but he remained confident he could kill them all. The Square Inch Gathering ended with Myth asking what made the Reflection Realm profound.

• Chu Qing resolved to grow stronger until Heaven ceased to exist, then entered the Square Inch Gathering after Myth, Luo Tian, Bi Luo, Moon God, and others summoned him.
• The gathering’s members praised Chu Qing for naming the Reflection Realm and said histories across the world would record his name.
• Myth and the others warned Chu Qing that most top-tier powers planned to send dozens or hundreds of hegemons to assassinate him.
• Chu Qing dismissed the threat, said he had killed five or six hegemons who left little impression on him, and vowed to wipe out the factions targeting him.
• As the gathering ended, Myth asked Chu Qing what was profound about the Reflection Realm.

Chu Qing considered the deeper powers of the Reflection Realm and gave allies a scripture that let them summon yesterday’s slaughtering reflection of him. Meanwhile, factions revived overlords for a joint assassination, and the number assigned to the mission left them stunned.

• At the Square Inch Gathering, Reincarnation explained that Reflection could let Chu Qing descend through a connection and sense anyone who mentioned or thought of his name.
• Back at Stone Ridge Mountain, Chu Qing confirmed that Reflection could eventually let him detect people who brought his name to mind and erase their consciousness, though he still lacked the strength to do so.
• Second Generation Bi Luo, the Moon God, Myth, Yin Tianzi, and others asked Chu Qing for his true name, and he gave them a scripture to summon yesterday’s reflected self, which would spare certain exceptions.
• Chu Qing resumed deducing the realm beyond Reflection as factions revived and prepared dozens of aged overlords to assassinate him.
• When the revived overlords learned that seven hundred and twenty overlords would take part, one young overlord climbed back into his sealing coffin and asked to remain sealed.

Chu Qing and others sensed an approaching Great Terror, and Square Inch Gathering revealed that the forbidden zones had begun a large-scale counterattack across every continent. Jade Blood reported being pursued by an enormous army of forbidden-zone creatures, while the gathering warned those deep in the zones to be cautious.

• The young tyrants initially refused to assassinate Chu Qing, but the higher-up persuaded them by describing Chu Qing’s feats and explaining that 720 tyrants from over thirty factions would attack together.
• As the factions coordinated their assassination, Chu Qing felt growing unease, checked on Madam Shi and his allies, and found them all safe.
• The Princess Consort, Bright Moon, Nangong, Cui Moyang, Madam Jin, and others also reported sensing Great Terror, prompting a new Square Inch Gathering.
• Heavenly Court announced that an oracle had warned of a large-scale counterattack by the forbidden zones across every continent.
• First Illumination Person welcomed the counterattack, while Luo Tian claimed forbidden-zone creatures feared her and Jade Blood reported being chased by a vast army that had overrun strongholds.

Heavenly Court warned that the forbidden zones’ retaliation could swallow every rural continent, leaving Chu Qing to prepare his continent and protect those he could. After consulting his allies, Chu Qing considered turning Stone Ridge Mountain into a war fortress, while Zhao Hongxiu asked whether Great Zhou would be swallowed.

• Heavenly Court explained that Corrupted Ones were numerous in the depths of forbidden zones and warned that their retaliation could overwhelm the rural continents.
• Chu Qing challenged Heavenly Court to help stop the Millennial Tribulations, but Heavenly Court said it was powerless and urged the continents to prepare independently.
• The Second Generation Moon God and Second Generation Bi Luo invited Chu Qing to hide with them, but Chu Qing refused and said he was an expert of his own continent.
• Chu Qing contacted his allies, and Madam Jin and Consort Mei reported that their empowered exotic treasure could protect them inside forbidden zones.
• The Princess Consort advised Chu Qing to turn Stone Ridge Mountain into a war fortress, and Zhao Hongxiu asked whether Great Zhou would be swallowed.

Chu Qing arranged for Great Zhou’s people to move to Stone Ridge Mountain and explained why he planned to go to the border: he refused to let his continent be used as cannon fodder by Heaven and the powerful sects. He vowed to fight for a fairness of his own, then asked the Princess Consort whether resisting the restricted zones here would redirect their attack elsewhere.

• Zhao Hongxiu proposed moving Great Zhou’s people to Stone Ridge Mountain, and Chu Qing agreed despite warning that the journey was dangerous and he could not oversee it.
• Chu Qing gave Madam Jin, Nangong, and the others a way to summon his projections or true body instantly if they were in danger.
• Chu Qing told the Princess Consort he was going to the border, while insisting he sought only to survive rather than protect all humanity.
• The Princess Consort questioned his motives and suggested the border would be devastated by the restricted zones’ backlash, but Chu Qing said he could not accept the powerful forces sacrificing his continent as cannon fodder.
• Chu Qing vowed to destroy the restricted zones and make Heaven kneel, then asked whether stopping the attack here would cause the restricted zones to strike elsewhere.

Chu Qing decided to strike at the Heavenly Court’s continents in retaliation for its rulers abandoning the rural continent and sending overlords to hunt him. He agreed to take Mingyue and her entourage with him, then was stunned by the extravagant carriage and powerful beasts they brought.

• Chu Qing asked the Princess Consort for coordinates of the Heavenly Court’s main continents and said he intended to destroy them in revenge.
• Mingyue persuaded Chu Qing to let her accompany him, explaining that Stone Ridge Mountain’s maids could care for the Three-legged Golden Toads in her absence.
• Mingyue revealed that she had selected three hundred and fifteen maids to travel with Chu Qing, and they prepared an enormous carriage.
• The maids arrived with a carriage pulled by intelligent, powerful beasts, including an armored golden-furred ape carrying a staff and bell.
• Chu Qing saw the carriage and its attendants and wondered whether the world had changed during his long seclusion.

Chu Qing traveled in a heavily armed luxury carriage while his maidservants delivered his decree to the rulers of the empires along his route. At one Imperial Palace, Xing'er reunited with her father and showed that she had put her old grievances behind her before urging the King to spread Chu Qing's warning.

• Mingyue described Chu Qing's carriage as a miniature fortress and promised that her twelve palaces would eventually join to form Heaven on Earth.
• Chu Qing's procession raced across the land, and the rulers of the empires bowed and praised him as it passed.
• Xing'er volunteered to deliver Chu Qing's letter to the empire where she had once been a Princess, and Chu Qing let her lead the group.
• The King, Empress, and ministers prepared to receive Chu Qing, then knelt when his maidservant arrived with his decree instead.
• Xing'er revealed herself to her father, explained that Stone Ridge Mountain had given her a good life, and said she no longer resented the Empress.
• Xing'er told the King to spread the letter's contents quickly and warned him that Chu Qing's statements were absolutely true.

Chu Qing traveled along the border, using candle flames born from the Enlightenment Star Scripture to strengthen the Fire Pits and burn away evil. As Mingyue engraved the scripture on her Golden Core, the Restricted Zone grew more active, and experts feared an impending counterattack.

• Chu Qing arrived at the border, where martial artists mistook his carriage for a Great Figure’s and feared he would destroy the Fire Pits.
• Chu Qing’s candle flames strengthened each Fire Pit they touched, and he continued reciting the Enlightenment Star Scripture to reinforce the defenses.
• After more than a month, Mingyue gained insight, engraved the scripture onto her Golden Core, and released rosy radiance that healed martial artists and cleansed evil.
• New Realm experts observed the Restricted Zone growing darker and more active, with more evil and Lost Ones appearing near its edges.
• Chu Qing’s carriage traveled onward, leaving the reinforced Fire Pit defenses behind as experts anticipated the Restricted Zone’s counterattack.