Chapter Summaries

As the forbidden zone’s counterattack threatened the border, Chu Qing gathered more than a thousand New Realm experts to accompany him deep into enemy territory. He warned them they might not return and made them sign wills before setting out.

• Reports of destroyed outposts spread as commanders at the Border Frontline General Headquarters prepared defensive lines and learned that the Blazing Fire Empire could send little help during its Millennial Calamity.
• The marshals discussed Chu Qing’s warning and his latest instruction to gather defense-specialized martial artists from the Eternal Night Empire’s border line.
• Chu Qing told Mingyue to hold the border and retreat rather than face the counterattack head-on, then met the New Realm experts who had agreed to accompany him.
• Chu Qing warned the experts that the journey into the forbidden zone could be fatal and promised their loved ones an inheritance if they died.
• When one expert protested that he did not want to write a will, Mingyue revealed she had already prepared wills for everyone and told them to sign and seal them.

Chu Qing led more than a thousand New Realm experts into the forbidden zone to test a mobile Fire Pit, killing the creatures they encountered while the experts collected and burned their corpses. After the group witnessed his overwhelming power, Chu Qing announced that he had an immature idea.

• Mingyue persuaded the experts to sign their wills and helped raise morale by praising Chu Qing’s courage and generosity.
• Chu Qing organized the experts around a mobile Fire Pit and ordered them to collect corpses and record how the pit changed.
• Upon entering the forbidden zone, Chu Qing killed attacking Evil Creatures, and the group discovered their corpses strengthened the Fire Pit more efficiently than ordinary fuel.
• Chu Qing sped the chariot through the forbidden zone, killing increasingly powerful creatures while the experts gathered the remains.
• After Chu Qing destroyed groups of Lost Ones and Fallen Ones, the experts expressed their admiration, and he said he had an immature idea.

Chu Qing helped the Mechanical Path Experts install Fire Pits inside their bodies, letting them devour evil creatures and grow stronger while cleansing themselves. After the method spread among more than three hundred experts, the group reached the vast Black Tide army, and Chu Qing led them toward the Corrupted Ones despite their fear.

• Chu Qing convinced the Mechanical Path Experts to install Fire Pits inside their mechanical bodies and feed them the flesh of evil creatures.
• A mechanical Explosive Bear tested the method by devouring Fallen Ones, growing stronger and burning away darkness within its body.
• More than three hundred Mechanical Path Experts adopted the method and began slaughtering and eating evil creatures in battle.
• Chu Qing led the New Realm powerhouses deeper into the forbidden zone as they sensed a major battle approaching.
• The group encountered the immense Black Tide army, and Chu Qing ordered everyone to charge in and kill the Corrupted Ones.
• When someone asked whether Chu Qing had written a will, he calmly said that he would survive even if everyone else died.

Chu Qing held back the overwhelming restricted zone army, turning the black tide into a red tide while the powerhouses expanded and strengthened their Fire Pit. He remained surrounded by surging enemies, fighting in all directions to keep the Fire Pit from being swallowed.

• Chu Qing's group faced a hundred-meter-high black tide, and the darkness began corrupting New Realm powerhouses before the army reached them.
• Chu Qing released thousands of candle flames to strengthen the Fire Pit, then ordered the others to collect corpses while he prepared to fight.
• Chu Qing charged the approaching tide and stopped a three-thousand-meter-wide section, turning it red with the creatures he killed.
• Mechanical Path Experts swallowed falling flesh and blood to strengthen their Fire Pits, and the powerhouses built a Fire Pit nearly three thousand meters wide.
• Black tides swept in from all directions, but Chu Qing's afterimages tore through them and kept the expanded Fire Pit from being overwhelmed.

Chu Qing built a powerful Fire Pit from the corpses of restricted zone creatures, then left the New Realm experts to defend it while he searched the Black Tide for stronger enemies. He found and burned a Corrupted One, but learned nothing about where higher-level creatures were.

• Chu Qing's Fire Pit suppressed the Black Tide creatures, growing powerful enough to hold them back after an hour of burning their corpses.
• Chu Qing ordered over a thousand New Realm experts to defend the Fire Pit and left to search for special creatures.
• A Thunder Fire Path woman rallied the experts to attack the evil and feed it into the Fire Pit while Chu Qing was away.
• Chu Qing raced through the Black Tide, leaving candle flames that burned creatures to ash, but found only common kinds at first.
• Chu Qing spotted a Corrupted One whipping the Black Tide and demanded it reveal where higher-level creatures were.
• The Corrupted One mocked Chu Qing, so he burned it and its whip with the Enlightenment Star Candle Flame.

Chu Qing burned Corrupted Ones across the Forbidden Zone, disrupting the Black Tide and drawing the attention of a Forbidden Zone Master. After the Master agreed to meet him, Chu Qing used the Reflection Method to reveal an image at the end of folded space.

• Chu Qing ignited Corrupted Ones throughout Region 125, and their absence caused parts of the Black Tide to fall into disorder.
• A Forbidden Zone Immortal One confronted Chu Qing, who demanded that the Forbidden Zone be restored or he would keep killing Corrupted Ones.
• The Immortal One reported Chu Qing’s actions to the Forbidden Zone Master, who sent coordinates and agreed to meet him.
• Chu Qing accepted the meeting, then ignited another Corrupted One before the Immortal One could stop him.
• Chu Qing activated the Reflection Method and formed a black-jade-like image in the air.

Chu Qing confronted a Forbidden Zone Master as more than seven hundred overlords raced to reach him and kill him. Meanwhile, the Forbidden Zones launched a broad counterattack, and the Scarlet Overlord and the newly crowned Great Emperor Princess moved to resist them.

• The Immortal One recognized the Forbidden Zone Master in the vast black jade formed by Chu Qing, while the Forbidden Zone Master realized Chu Qing had appeared across time and space and grew wary of him.
• More than seven hundred overlords accelerated their transmissions and agreed to kill Chu Qing in one strike when they found him.
• The Scarlet Overlord learned that the Forbidden Zones were retaliating against humanity and chose to help defend a nearby continent before searching for Chu Qing.
• Shi Tiezhu and his companions saw a Forbidden Zone invade the continent they were unifying.
• The Princess saw a Forbidden Zone sweep into her newly unified continent, then ordered her forces to kill its evils and cleanse the Forbidden Zones.

Cui Moyang and Nangong fought back against the forbidden zones with their own powerful methods, while Chu Qing confronted the Forbidden Zone Master. Chu Qing used a projection to test the Master's strength and planned to provoke him into redirecting the forbidden zone's fury toward other continents.

• Cui Moyang charged into a towering Black Tide and erased it with sword light and the Enlightenment Star Scripture.
• Nangong activated a ritual array that summoned the Twelve Palaces and endless armies to fight the forbidden zones.
• Chu Qing blasted an Immortal One apart, preventing the subordinate from recovering, and challenged the Forbidden Zone Master.
• The Forbidden Zone Master attacked Chu Qing, but Chu Qing's body shattered and then reappeared, revealing that he had used a projection to measure the strength he lost.
• The Forbidden Zone Master vowed to reach Chu Qing in one minute, and Chu Qing waited, intending to make the Master redirect his fury toward other continents.

The Forbidden Zone Master arrived to confront Chu Qing and revealed his formidable Undying Seal. Chu Qing challenged him but was overwhelmed and left bound beneath the Sovereign’s descending attack.

• The Forbidden Zone Master ignored his subordinates’ suggestions and set out in a grand chariot to face Chu Qing.
• The Forbidden Zone Master offered Chu Qing a place in the Forbidden Zone, but Chu Qing rejected him and mocked his appearance.
• The Forbidden Zone Master attacked Chu Qing with his Undying Seal, shattering his hands and driving him across the Black Tide.
• The Forbidden Zone Master struck again, and the resulting chains bound Chu Qing’s limbs as another Undying Seal descended toward his head.

Chu Qing survived the Forbidden Zone Master's Undying Seal and fought him for over an hour, gradually deciphering the master's technique despite being outmatched in strength. As Chu Qing and the master both prepared to end the stalemate, more than seven hundred overlords arrived, seeking Chu Qing's location so they could kill him in one strike.

• The Forbidden Zone Master struck Chu Qing into the Black Tide with the Undying Seal and sent Immortal Ones to retrieve his corpse.
• Chu Qing emerged atop a scarlet Emperor Seat, revealed that he had survived, and charged the Forbidden Zone Master again.
• Chu Qing wounded the master, whose injuries healed unusually slowly, and the two continued clashing with their respective techniques.
• As the fight stretched past an hour, the master's subordinates grew disillusioned and began studying his moves for ways to oppose him.
• Chu Qing figured out the Undying Seal and considered using a killing move, while the master feared his subordinates might rebel if the battle continued.
• More than seven hundred overlords teleported to the continent and ordered their people to locate Chu Qing so they could kill him in one strike.

The Restricted Zone’s Black Tide attacked the Eternal Night border as 720 human Overlords arrived to stop it and reach Chu Qing inside the Restricted Zone. They fought through the Tide in a triangular Army Formation and raced toward Chu Qing’s coordinates.

• The Black Tide overwhelmed the human Fire Pit defense line, and the human army prepared to fight as darkness approached.
• Seven hundred and twenty Overlords descended along the Eternal Night border, alarming the Corrupted Ones and the Immortal Ones.
• The Immortal Ones realized the Overlords might be heading to kill Lord Sovereign and ordered the Black Tide to stop them.
• Overlord Bu Ye urged the Overlords to cut through the Black Tide and find Chu Qing, and the group charged into battle.
• The Black Tide swallowed the Overlords, but they broke through in a triangular Army Formation and raced toward Chu Qing’s coordinates.

Chu Qing used Quan Wang. Hand of God against the Forbidden Zone Master, but an Immortal disguised by an Emissary of Heaven intercepted the strike and died. With Heaven’s involvement revealed, Chu Qing resumed his attack on the Forbidden Zone Master.

• Chu Qing and the Forbidden Zone Master tested each other while searching for a chance to land a killing blow, and Chu Qing decided to use Quan Wang. Hand of God.
• The Forbidden Zone Master was pinned by the Hand of God, but an Immortal broke through its suppression and took the strike in his place.
• The Immortal vanished, and bloody rain fell as the Emissary of Heaven’s eyeballs and body were destroyed, strengthening the Forbidden Zone.
• Chu Qing realized Heaven had targeted him to uncover Liuli’s secrets, while the Forbidden Zone Master wondered why an Emissary of Heaven had saved him.
• Chu Qing vowed to remember Heaven’s interference, then charged at the Forbidden Zone Master again.

Chu Qing fought the Forbidden Zone Master while insisting that the approaching 720 overlords were his enemies, but the master mistook them for Chu Qing’s allies and rushed to attack them. The overlords reached the battlefield and launched a pincer attack, leaving both sides charging into the same confrontation.

• Chu Qing battered the Forbidden Zone Master beneath the Black Tide and vowed to put Heaven in a dog collar, while the master learned that 720 overlords were approaching.
• The Forbidden Zone Master decided to kill the overlords and make Chu Qing despair, but Chu Qing repeatedly told him they had come to hunt him, not help him.
• The Bu Ye Overlord tracked Chu Qing’s coordinates, realized he was moving toward the group, and urged the overlords to hurry and kill him before he changed direction.
• As the Forbidden Zone Master raced toward the overlords, Chu Qing kept attacking him, while the master grew more convinced that the group was Chu Qing’s reinforcement.
• The overlords spotted the currents of air made by Chu Qing and the Forbidden Zone Master, mistook Chu Qing for the one being hunted, and launched their strongest attacks in a pincer assault.
• The Forbidden Zone Master saw the overlords attack him alongside Chu Qing and charged at them with all his power.

Chu Qing’s forces attacked the Forbidden Zone Master, and more than a dozen old Overlords sacrificed themselves in an explosion that devastated the surrounding area. The Forbidden Zone Master survived, but over two hundred more Overlords charged him, forcing him to unleash his ultimate technique, A Corner of the Forbidden Zone.

• The Forbidden Zone Master fought off more than seven hundred Overlords after they mistook him for Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing shouted for both sides to stop, but the Overlords identified the Forbidden Zone Master as his helper and attacked.
• The Bu Ye Overlord ordered more than a dozen old Overlords to bind the Forbidden Zone Master and self-destruct.
• The explosion devastated the area, while the dead Overlords’ incomplete phenomena unleashed their power and held back the Black Tide.
• The Forbidden Zone Master survived the blast, then faced a charge by more than two hundred old Overlords.
• The Forbidden Zone Master used A Corner of the Forbidden Zone, the killing move he had saved for Chu Qing.

Chu Qing and the Forbidden Zone Master survived a mass detonation by the aged overlords, but the survivors mistook their relationship and turned against one another. As the Forbidden Zone Master urged them to attack Chu Qing, more than a hundred aged overlords charged to self-detonate.

• The aged overlords self-detonated, and Chu Qing used the Reflection Method while the Forbidden Zone Master countered the blast with geometric structures.
• The surviving overlords emerged from underground as Chu Qing explained that another mass detonation would be needed to kill the Forbidden Zone Master.
• Bu Ye Overlord and the survivors realized Chu Qing was not allied with the Forbidden Zone Master, while the Forbidden Zone Master emerged badly injured and accused them of being ruthless.
• Bu Ye Overlord tried to persuade the Forbidden Zone Master to join forces against Chu Qing, and the Forbidden Zone Master claimed Chu Qing was weaker than him.
• More than a hundred aged overlords burned everything and charged at Chu Qing to self-detonate.

Chu Qing bypassed the self-destructing Sovereigns and killed a young Sovereign, but the enemy forces formed a powerful encircling formation. A mysterious Emissary of Heaven’s little hands then began erasing the Sovereigns, leaving Bu Ye Overlord and the Forbidden Zone Master to plead for their lives as the Forbidden Zone Master started to vanish.

• Chu Qing rushed past the self-destructing old Sovereigns and tore a young Sovereign apart after resisting his strongest attack.
• Bu Ye Overlord ordered the old and young Sovereigns to form opposing Army Formations, linking the old Sovereigns’ phenomena to intensify their power.
• Chu Qing sensed danger and raised his hand, prompting the Forbidden Zone Master to warn the Sovereigns that Chu Qing was about to use a killing move.
• More than four hundred little hands appeared and poked the Sovereigns, making nearly all of them vanish while sparing Bu Ye Overlord and the Forbidden Zone Master.
• Bu Ye Overlord and the Forbidden Zone Master tried to persuade Chu Qing to spare them, and the Forbidden Zone Master began to kneel before realizing his feet and knees were disappearing.

Chu Qing killed Forbidden Zone Master and Bu Ye Overlord, provoking the Forbidden Zone to intensify its attacks on human continents. The great powers learned Chu Qing was responsible and ordered new Overlords to kill him and deliver his head to appease the Forbidden Zone.

• Chu Qing explained that he had killed Forbidden Zone Master to provoke the Forbidden Zone, then finished him off.
• Chu Qing pursued Bu Ye Overlord, rejected his pleas, and killed him with the Hand of God.
• Forbidden Zone creatures learned a human had slain Forbidden Zone Master and erupted in fury against Heaven and the human continents.
• Tian Wuqing sent Angel Envoys into the Forbidden Zone, where their deaths strengthened its creatures.
• The great powers traced the escalating Black Tide attacks to Chu Qing's killing of Forbidden Zone Master.
• The great powers ordered several new and old Overlords from each faction to kill Chu Qing and take his head to the Forbidden Zone.

After wiping out the Forbidden Zone’s overlords and Master, Chu Qing returned to check on the cannon fodder he had left behind. He found them and the Fire Pit transformed into powerful, bizarre fighters who were slaughtering Forbidden Zone creatures, leaving him wondering how the secular world would treat them.

• Chu Qing used the Hand of God to erase the Forbidden Zone’s overlords and Master, then decided to stabilize the continental defensive line before traveling to certain coordinates.
• Chu Qing turned back to find the cannon fodder and discovered a towering Fire Pit consuming and burning the creatures that fell into it.
• Chu Qing saw the Mechanical Path martial artists transformed into mechanical giants and beasts, fighting with platinum flames.
• Flesh and Blood Path fighters had taken monstrous forms and were using their powers to kill and consume Forbidden Zone creatures.
• A Thunderfire Path expert transformed into a wheeled cannon that fired thunderfire and created small Fire Pits, inspiring the other Thunderfire experts to mutate as well.
• Chu Qing realized that his cannon fodder had become more bizarre than Evil Creatures and wondered whether ordinary people would prejudice them when they returned.

Chu Qing agreed to bring the transformed cannon fodder’s Sacred Fire Pit back to help humanity resist the restricted zones. At the Great Zhou Empire’s front line, the Otherfolk’s ritual-powered strange treasures briefly checked the Black Tide, but its strength more than doubled and overwhelmed their plan.

• More than a thousand cannon fodder told Chu Qing that the white-gold Fire Pit had transformed them and asked to bring it back so it could change other martial artists.
• Chu Qing agreed, and the cannon fodder uprooted the Sacred Fire Pit and carried it toward the Great Zhou Empire.
• Chu Qing’s group found the Eternal Night Empire and the next empire already tainted by the restricted zones, then reached a front line where the Black Tide was forcing defenders to retreat.
• The marshal learned that the Otherfolk were preparing an attack and hoped their strange treasures could slow the Black Tide.
• Six million, six hundred and sixty thousand Otherfolk formed a ritual that empowered strange treasures, which surged forward and initially halted the Black Tide.
• The Black Tide’s intensity more than doubled, leaving the Otherfolk unable to advance and convinced they could not stop it.

As the Black Tide overwhelmed the exotic-treasure defensive line, Chu Qing arrived with a powerful Fire Pit and urged the Others and warriors to use it to resist and cultivate. He refused to flee and declared that warriors’ flesh and blood would bear the burden if exotic treasures failed.

• The Others watched their exotic treasures crack and explode as the Black Tide grew stronger, and they feared the defensive line would collapse within a day.
• The Others blamed Bai Yu Jing for failing to defend the continent and threatened to destroy its exotic treasures after the crisis.
• Chu Qing arrived with a vast White Gold Fire Pit, which the Others opened a gap in the defensive line to admit.
• Chu Qing sent the cannon fodder to find new-realm experts who could enter the Fire Pit, swallow fire seeds, and cultivate into powerful forms.
• An Other recognized Chu Qing and told him the defensive line could last at most one day, but Chu Qing refused to flee and proposed replacing part of the line with the Fire Pit.
• Chu Qing called on the warriors to learn a new method for fighting restricted-zone creatures and said that if exotic treasures could not hold, the Fire Pit and warriors’ bodies would.