Chapter Summaries

After Misty Rain Tower offered Chu Qing a Crystal Thigh Bone, he recognized it as matching the Crystal Skull and promised to destroy Heavenly Court continents. He agreed to seek the Free Overlord title and help his allies obtain theirs, but paused when Bi Luo and Moon God revealed that Angel Envoys were pursuing them.

• Misty Rain Tower gave Chu Qing the Crystal Thigh Bone in exchange for his help against Heavenly Court, and he confirmed that it matched the Crystal Skull.
• Chu Qing promised to destroy several Heavenly Court continents after about a year and said he would fuse with his Exotic Treasure Realm.
• Luo Tian persuaded Chu Qing to obtain a Free Overlord title, and he agreed to help his allies get titles as well.
• Moon God asked Chu Qing for a Free Overlord title, and he agreed on the condition that she and the others later devote their strength to a task for him.
• Bi Luo and Moon God revealed that Angel Envoys were chasing them, so Chu Qing began embedding the Exotic Treasure Realm to create a new projection that could face the pursuers.

Chu Qing fused exotic treasures throughout his body, greatly strengthening his realms and expanding his Reflection Realm with Liuli Imperial City. After returning to Stone Ridge Mountain, he contacted Nangong and prepared to act on coordinates selected by Misty Rain Tower.

• Chu Qing fused all 366 great tendon exotic treasures, increasing the power of his great tendons sixfold.
• Chu Qing fused the bone exotic treasures and then the treasures for flesh, organs, skin, hair, and the Three Great Limits, raising the Four Great Realms' power twentyfold and the Three Great Limits' power tenfold.
• Chu Qing realized his Reflection Realm was incomplete and fused Liuli Imperial City into it.
• Chu Qing reviewed three coordinates selected by Misty Rain Tower and decided to save one for last before returning to Stone Ridge Mountain.
• Madam Jin complained that the female exotic humans had taken their children with them and said the Princess Consort should give Chu Qing an heir to Stone Ridge Mountain.
• Chu Qing returned to Stone Ridge Mountain, shared a moment with Madam Jin, contacted Nangong, and asked what she wanted when she arrived.

Chu Qing and Nangong traveled to Cui Moyang’s coordinate, where Nangong used her inheritance to turn a Heavenly Court formation into their guards. They then began tampering with the continent’s earth veins as the Heavenly Court’s diviners tried to locate Chu Qing.

• Chu Qing and Nangong persuaded Madam Shi to teleport them to Cui Moyang’s coordinate, where they arrived amid a fierce battle.
• Nangong bewitched a thousand-man Heavenly Court formation into guarding them and told Chu Qing she could control up to ten million weaker beings.
• Chu Qing and Nangong altered the continent’s earth veins, though Chu Qing realized the Heavenly Court was gradually guarding them against his continent-destroying method.
• Heavenly Court diviners reported that someone was preparing to destroy another continent, and their superiors refused to provide resources for locating it.
• After a young diviner was executed, an aged diviner deduced Chu Qing’s location and reported its coordinate to the Heavenly Court’s top brass.

The Heavenly Court searched relentlessly for Chu Qing, but he and Nangong evaded even more than a hundred thousand Angel Envoys by moving through the earth veins. When diviners learned Chu Qing had reached a vital mineral-producing continent and sensed Heaven might abandon the Heavenly Court, they concealed the warning and prepared their Lineages to flee.

• Chu Qing and Nangong hid within the earth veins while Nangong bewitched Heavenly Court experts, forcing the brass to withdraw its mythic martial artists and Overlords.
• The Heavenly Court summoned tens of thousands of Angel Envoys, but they could not find Chu Qing in the earth veins, so the brass performed another ritual to request more.
• Heaven appeared but sent no further Angel Envoys or resources, leaving the Heavenly Court brass without reinforcements.
• The diviners deduced that Chu Qing had moved to a continent rich in black gold and other precious metals, and warned that its destruction would cripple the Heavenly Court.
• The diviners concluded that Heaven might abandon the Heavenly Court and prepared their descendants and Lineages to flee, but withheld their information from the brass out of resentment over the execution of a young diviner.

Chu Qing and Nangong finished preparing three continents for destruction, while the Square Inch Gathering set the detonation for three days later to lure Heavenly Court into reinforcing them. After discussing the Exotic Treasure Realm and the brutal ongoing war, Chu Qing carried Nangong into the restricted zone to find Cui Moyang, accelerating to extreme speeds as they raced toward his coordinates.

• Chu Qing told Misty Rain Tower that the earth veins on three continents were ready, and the Square Inch Gathering scheduled their detonation for three days later so the powers could reinforce them and suffer greater losses.
• Chu Qing revealed that the Four Great Realms multiplied combat strength twentyfold and the Three Great Limits multiplied it tenfold, prompting Luo Tian to decide to forge an Exotic Treasure Realm of her own.
• The gathering joked amid discussion of the immense casualties and pressure of the war before its members left to continue their own journeys.
• Chu Qing and Nangong entered the restricted zone and contacted Cui Moyang, who eventually sent them new coordinates.
• Chu Qing raced toward Cui Moyang's coordinates, accelerating beyond four hundred times the speed of sound while Nangong urged him to go faster.

Chu Qing and Nangong found Cui Moyang in the forbidden zone, where she had spent a long time killing creatures and gathering their blood and spirits into a red cloak. After Cui Moyang recovered, Chu Qing took both women to watch him detonate a continent, despite warnings that Emissaries of Heaven might discover him.

• Chu Qing and Nangong followed the red clouds across the forbidden zone and found Cui Moyang absorbing the blood, spirits, and thoughts of fleeing creatures.
• Cui Moyang reunited with Nangong and told Chu Qing she had wandered and killed for a long time, unable to find her way back before exhaustion overcame her.
• Chu Qing and Nangong cared for Cui Moyang for three days, and she woke with her mental state mostly recovered.
• When Chu Qing prepared to detonate continents, Cui Moyang and Nangong said they wanted to watch the explosions as fireworks.
• Chu Qing told the Square Inch Gathering to wait while he took the women to the continent's center, and he dismissed Bai Yu Jing's warning that Emissaries of Heaven might discover him.

Chu Qing confronted an Emissary of Heaven while preparing to detonate the continent’s earth veins, then fought it and discovered how much stronger he had become. As five more spindle-faced Emissaries arrived, Chu Qing faced a growing fight with his allies beside him.

• Chu Qing left the forbidden zone at high speed and crushed Emissaries of Heaven that tried to intercept him.
• At the continent’s center, Chu Qing prepared to set off continent-level fireworks with Nangong and Cui Moyang, but an Emissary of Heaven charged at them.
• Chu Qing struck the Emissary of Heaven and cracked its face, then rejected its threat against Stone Ridge Mountain and attacked it.
• The Emissary grew more arms and blocked Chu Qing’s hand seals, so Chu Qing grew more than sixty arms of his own.
• Five more spindle-faced Emissaries arrived, and they announced that they had both more arms and more fighters.

Chu Qing transformed into his complete, most powerful form and defeated the six spindle-shaped Emissaries of Heaven. After destroying them beyond revival, he challenged the remaining Emissaries of Heaven as he prepared to ignite the continental fireworks.

• Nangong offered to hold back one spindle-shaped Emissary of Heaven, while Cui Moyang said she could suppress two.
• Chu Qing transformed into a twelve-meter-tall form with four heads, dozens of arms, and eight pairs of wings, drawing admiration from Nangong and Cui Moyang.
• Chu Qing killed one spindle-shaped Emissary of Heaven in an instant, then watched it reform with much of its face and twelve arms damaged.
• The six spindle-shaped Emissaries of Heaven evolved and joined together, but Chu Qing overwhelmed them with rapid attacks and destroyed their blood mist with tiny wings from his Golden Core.
• Chu Qing pointed at the remaining Emissaries of Heaven and asked who dared stand in the way of his continental fireworks, but none answered.

Chu Qing destroyed three Heavenly Court continents and fought off waves of Emissaries of Heaven, while Heavenly Court’s leaders struggled to contain the fallout and ordered more legions revived. The Emissaries of Heaven retreated into a forbidden zone, where one encountered a strange composite entity and ordered it to block Chu Qing.

• Chu Qing’s commands triggered the explosions of three continents, forcing the fighters to flee as magma and underground hazards consumed the battlefield.
• Heavenly Court’s top brass blamed the Emissaries of Heaven and Heaven’s Secrets practitioners, ordered executions, and planned further cuts to resources.
• The top brass ordered three legions revived to kill Chu Qing and reduced resources for the front lines and logistics.
• Chu Qing slaughtered Emissaries of Heaven, recognized that each could evolve in only one direction, and pursued them as they retreated.
• A spindle-shaped Emissary of Heaven entered the forbidden zone, collided with a strange composite entity, and requisitioned it to block Chu Qing.

A spindle-shaped Emissary of Heaven used the Chief Subordinate’s advice to combine Emissaries with different abilities into fighting assemblages and led them back to attack Chu Qing. The assemblages slowed under their added burdens, and Chu Qing, Nangong, and Cui Moyang fought them as the battle continued.

• A spindle-shaped Emissary of Heaven asked the Chief Subordinate how to defeat Chu Qing, and the Chief Subordinate advised carrying companions with complementary abilities.
• The Chief Subordinate fled with the Innate Gods and Demons, while the spindle-shaped Emissary gathered other Emissaries and arranged them as shields, weapons, and support.
• The assembled Emissaries charged Chu Qing, but their extra weight slowed them and Nangong and Cui Moyang joined the fight.
• Chu Qing broke through the assemblages and killed a spindle-shaped Emissary, while Nangong suppressed another group with the Twelve Palaces.
• A strength-type Emissary forced its way through Cui Moyang’s red cape, but the cape swallowed both it and the damage-type Emissary helping it.

Chu Qing helped Cui Moyang and Nangong battle the Emissaries of Heaven, while Chief Subordinate advised the fleeing enemies on how to fight more effectively. Their new strategy was interrupted by two monsters that attacked the Emissaries of Heaven and spawned creatures inside them.

• Chu Qing stayed to guard Cui Moyang and Nangong, watching Cui Moyang's red cape absorb Emissaries of Heaven and Nangong's Twelve Palaces trap weaker ones.
• Nangong's summoned army failed to harm the stronger Emissaries of Heaven, so Chu Qing told her to leave direct combat to him and then smashed a strength-type enemy for her Twelve Palaces to absorb.
• The fleeing Emissaries of Heaven met Chief Subordinate, who advised them to share the burden of carrying companions so they could move faster, and they asked him to be their strategist.
• Chief Subordinate pointed out two approaching monsters as his troubles, but an Emissary of Heaven was swallowed by the Gate of the Mysterious Female monster, while the six Innate Gods and Demons fled with Chief Subordinate.
• The Emissaries of Heaven attacked the octopus monster, but it spawned dozens of Emissary-like creatures inside their bodies, and the new creatures crawled out and bit them.

Chu Qing, Nangong, and Cui Moyang returned to Stone Ridge Mountain after repelling the Emissaries of Heaven, while the Heavenly Court captured evolved Emissaries and learned that their captives had crossed Chu Qing. The Heavenly Court condemned them for targeting Chu Qing’s Senior Student.

• Cui Moyang revealed her new Dominator title and red cloak, which had helped suppress Emissaries of Heaven, and Chu Qing took her and Nangong back to Stone Ridge Mountain.
• In the Forbidden Zone, Emissaries of Heaven sealed Shi Tiezhu and King Shiyu in a bead and destroyed thousands of monsters before heading to report to their Commander-in-Chief.
• The Celestial God urged the Heavenly Court to attack its headquarters and seize women, while Heavenly Secret and Heavenly Law doubted the Celestial God’s leadership.
• After receiving information from Overlord Heaven's Head, the Heavenly Court led Heaven-Defying Envoys to intercept and capture several evolved Emissaries of Heaven.
• The Heavenly Court questioned the captives, learned they knew Chu Qing and wanted his Senior Student, and blamed them for offending Chu Qing.

Chu Qing learned that Heavenly Court had captured Shi Tiezhu and King Shiyu, then decided how they should be treated. Madam Shi prepared to pursue the Ancient Mythological Path and compete for the Overlord title, while Cui Moyang woke and began explaining her cultivation.

• Heavenly Court told Chu Qing that he had captured Shi Tiezhu and King Shiyu, and Chu Qing asked him to spare Shi Tiezhu but do as he wished with King Shiyu.
• Heavenly Court rebuked and stomped Heavenly Secrets for calling Chu Qing an enemy, insisting Chu Qing deserved priority over the captured monsters.
• Madam Shi asked when Chu Qing could bestow power again and said she would then walk the Ancient Mythological Path and pursue the Overlord title before Chu Qing.
• Madam Shi and Nangong argued over whether she could surpass Cui Moyang and find a way to open an Exotic Treasure Realm.
• Cui Moyang woke, and after Chu Qing and Madam Shi tussled over her, she began explaining her recent cultivation gains and the mysteries of the cloak.

Chu Qing granted the intelligent beasts of Stone Ridge Mountain the name Demon Race and accepted their worship. As they paid homage, his Profession Slot began burning away its inscriptions, leaving only one line.

• Cui Moyang explained that her cloak was a realm formed from countless dead beings, and Madam Shi gained insight before leaving to pursue her cultivation.
• After a month of bloodline conferrals, Madam Shi departed, and Chu Qing decided to leave as well despite Mingyue and Cui Moyang's reluctance.
• Chu Qing arranged Stone Ridge Mountain's affairs and learned that Tang Wuming and Sima Zhao had organized the intelligent beasts into tribes.
• At their request, Chu Qing named the intelligent beasts the Demon Race, and they gathered to worship him.
• As the demons paid homage, Chu Qing's Profession Slot burned away nearly all its words, leaving a single line.

Chu Qing named the painting of the Demon Race’s worship the Myriad Demon Chart, triggering worldwide signs that announced the birth of the new race. As the celebration spread across the world, ancient beings remembered their own races and mourned those they had lost.

• Millions of Demon Race members worshipped Chu Qing at Miracle Palace, and Madam Jin ordered the scene painted and recorded for history.
• Madam Jin wrote an account of the Demon Race’s birth with additions from Nangong, Cui Moyang, and Mingyue.
• After four million nine hundred thousand demons completed three days of worship, the Construction Gods and Devils finished a vast painting, and Chu Qing named it the Myriad Demon Chart.
• The naming shook the world, as bells reached every living being and announced that Chu Qing had ordained the Demon Race.
• Ten suns, stars, moons, purple qi, golden lotuses, and other phenomena appeared across the world, strengthening and transforming living things.
• Ancient mythical creatures and Gods and Devils recognized the signs of a race’s birth, while surviving members of vanished races grieved for their lost kin.

As the Heavenly Court neared collapse, Chu Qing left Stone Ridge Mountain to seek the title of Free Overlord. On his journey across the sea, a mysterious decayed fleet repeatedly appeared in his path, and he approached it to confront whatever was targeting him.

• The Heavenly Court's forces lost more than twenty core continents, while its remaining defenders revived hidden foundations and threatened to awaken the Hand of Heaven Legion.
• Chu Qing disciplined Stone Ridge Mountain's growing demon population, killed thousands of unruly newborn demons, and bound the millions of demons to the Myriad Demon Chart with an oath.
• Chu Qing studied the demons' abilities with Nangong and the others, then departed Stone Ridge Mountain after paying homage to the Four Directions.
• Chu Qing traveled across the sea on foot toward the next continent and spotted a mist-shrouded fleet of enormous, rotting ships.
• The decayed fleet appeared in front of Chu Qing again no matter which direction or speed he chose, so he walked toward it as the fog thickened.

Chu Qing entered a seemingly ordinary fleet and discovered that two scholars from the future had summoned him from the Great Unification Era. They told him he could stay for only an hour and began explaining what little they knew of his era, which was one hundred eras before theirs.

• Chu Qing explored the fleet and read its history books, finding the records unfamiliar.
• A young man and woman revealed that they had summoned Chu Qing from history and were scholars studying the past.
• Chu Qing learned that he could remain in their era for one hour and that certain important people and information could not be perceived across time.
• Chu Qing asked about the Great Unification Era, and the scholars said their era was one hundred eras after it.

A hundred eras in the future, Chu Qing told the Phoenix Emperor and Shitian Emperor about the catastrophic events of his time and asked them to search history for his companions. As he vanished, he left behind a drop of blood essence, and the two emperors resolved to verify the secrets he had revealed.

• The Phoenix Emperor explained that the Great Unification Era had begun peacefully, descended into a Dao Lineage Dispute, and ended when one lineage prevailed.
• Chu Qing recounted Heaven's Great Unification theory, the Forbidden Zones' Black Tide, his retaliation against the Heavenly Court, and the destruction of continents.
• The Phoenix Emperor and Shitian Emperor eagerly recorded Chu Qing's account and questioned him about his era, but he asked them to search for his companions' names instead.
• Chu Qing identified himself and named Cui Moyang, Nangong, Mingyue, Zhou Qingyu, Ancient Mythology, Luo Tian, and others before disappearing after spitting out his Heart Blood.
• The Phoenix Emperor recognized Chu Qing's ruby as blood essence, and she and Shitian Emperor decided to consult their teacher and use his account to verify unofficial histories.

Phoenix Emperor and Shitian Emperor’s scholars researched the Heavenly Court to identify Chu Qing, while Chu Qing reflected on his brief meeting with the future. His thoughts were interrupted when a familiar Human Skin Female Martial Artist boarded his decayed ship and called on him to fight.

• Phoenix Emperor and Shitian Emperor’s mentor gathered historians, who found unofficial records of the Heavenly Court’s war and began searching for clues to Chu Qing’s identity.
• Phoenix Emperor wondered why she could not recall Chu Qing’s appearance and what questions to ask when they summoned him again.
• Chu Qing pondered the differences between his time and the future, planning to ask the future people more about their world on his next visit.
• A Human Skin Female Martial Artist led a group of decaying martial artists onto Chu Qing’s ship, and he recognized her from Stone Ridge Mountain.
• The decayed passengers surrounded the newcomers, and the Human Skin Female Martial Artist tore them apart with streams of force before urging Chu Qing to help them escape assimilation into anomalies.

Chu Qing freed the Human Skin Female Martial Artist and the other survivors from an anomalous fleet by unleashing blood-essence rubies that destroyed more than a hundred ships. Afterward, he acknowledged that the female warrior was only a sheet of human skin, and she gave him her diary before they parted.

• The Human Skin Female Martial Artist warned Chu Qing that an anomaly spanning more than a hundred ships had eroded powerful metahumans and overlords, but Chu Qing refused to flee.
• Chu Qing summoned a decayed passenger and the pirate captain, who obeyed him but wrote that the ship's rules prevented the survivors from leaving.
• Chu Qing spat out a ruby, and its blood qi drove the pirate anomaly away before destroying the ship and the surrounding anomalous fleet.
• The Human Skin Female Martial Artist and the others recovered as the anomaly's effects faded, and Chu Qing told them it was safe to leave.
• Chu Qing told the female warrior he hoped she could one day come back to life, and she gave him her diary.