Chapter Summaries

The chapter recounted Chu Qing’s destruction of the Heavenly Court and showed historians preserving records of his deeds. One hundred eras later, researchers studying Chu Qing discovered a strange biography of [Heavenly Court] that appeared to describe someone else.

• Forbidden XX led the Allied Army against the Heavenly Court, destroyed its War Platform, killed four hundred and sixty Realm Ancestors, and brought down the Heavenly Court Headquarters Continent.
• Top historians recorded Chu Qing’s role in the war through many accounts, while Madam Shi and Yu Ji returned to Stone Ridge Mountain with him and the others.
• One hundred eras later, a growing research team that included Phoenix Emperor and Shitian Emperor investigated Chu Qing and uncovered records about the Heavenly Court.
• A top tomb raider presented an ancestral Golden Silk White Jade biography of [Heavenly Court], and the researchers debated how its square brackets distinguished the person from the organization.
• The tomb raider read a biography describing a peasant who forged the Forbidden title and destroyed the Heavenly Court Headquarters Continent, prompting a historian to question whether it was really [Heavenly Court]’s biography.

Historians deciphered a Heavenly Court biography that described a Forbidden being whose name could not be remembered or recorded, and discovered that he had traveled to the future. They resolved to search for him and his associates, hoping to learn his name and contact him across time.

• Historians debated why a Heavenly Court biography left the Forbidden being’s name blank, and an Official History scholar explained that his Forbidden Title made him impossible to describe, mention, think of, remember, or speak about.
• A tomb raider read a record saying the Forbidden being had visited the future and predicted he would meet Phoenix Emperor one hundred eras later.
• Phoenix Emperor laughed at the record, while Shitian Emperor called the Forbidden being an old lecher.
• The gathered researchers decided to search for the person who had sealed himself away for two hundred eras and investigate the Forbidden being’s history.
• The director of a historical archive added Mythology, Luo Tian, Bi Luo, the Heavenly Court, and Miracle Palace to their search, and ordered them to perform a ritual to contact the Forbidden being if they found his name.

Chu Qing settled Stone Ridge Mountain’s forces around its outskirts and began deducing a New Realm while wars spread across the world. As the Square Inch Gathering named him Emperor Qing and the Second Generation Yin Tianzi tried to retrace his path, the New Heavenly Court arose as a powerful force challenging the top-tier powers.

• Chu Qing introduced the Chief Subordinate to Tang Wuming and ordered them to stay outside Stone Ridge Mountain, then told the mythical creatures they had no need to guard anything there.
• Mingyue took the mythical creatures to meet the Demon Race so she could study whether the two groups could produce offspring, and some creatures from dwindling species agreed to try.
• Chu Qing resolved to deduce a New Realm and cultivated in seclusion, while wars erupted across the continents and the Square Inch Gathering discussed his titles and achievements.
• The Square Inch Gathering began calling Chu Qing Emperor Qing, and the Second Generation Yin Tianzi launched a plan to retrace his path and reproduce his rise.
• Tian Buyu repeatedly delayed attending the gathering while training, and Chu Qing continued cultivating as the Emperor Qing Path progressed.
• The New Heavenly Court emerged with former Heavenly Court remnants, Emissaries of Heaven, Heavenly Calamities, and Rōnin, then began attacking the top-tier powers, which sent spies to investigate its strength.

Seven years later, Chu Qing left Stone Ridge Mountain with Tian Buyu, but a spatial distortion sent him into the past to the Morning Star people’s camp. There, he tried to convince them to reveal the cleansing scriptures before the evil army arrived.

• Chu Qing prepared to leave Stone Ridge Mountain with the injured-sounding Tian Buyu and entrusted the mountain’s affairs to those who managed it.
• Chu Qing toured the expanding Miracle Palace with Madam Jin and the others before Madam Shi transported him to Tian Buyu’s coordinates.
• Chu Qing waited for Tian Buyu, but the surrounding space twisted and drew him into a tribulation from his past.
• Chu Qing recognized the Morning Star people and warned them that an evil army was pursuing them for the box containing a book of cleansing scriptures.
• The Morning Star people doubted Chu Qing, so he threatened to kill them and split the ground to prove his power.

Chu Qing learned that the Black Robe organization had betrayed Morning Star and intercepted humanity’s hope, then discovered new properties in the scripture’s candle flames. Tian Buyu arrived with greatly increased strength but a listless spirit, leaving Chu Qing to wonder how he had grown so powerful.

• Chu Qing memorized more of the Morning Star Scripture while using sound waves to destroy approaching evil, but the Morning Star members realized they had died before their spark reached humanity.
• Chu Qing told the dying Morning Star people that humanity had survived later attacks from the restricted zones, and the female warrior revealed that the Black Robe organization had killed them.
• The female warrior began to explain what the Black Robe had on the backs of their heads, then collapsed before she could finish, and Chu Qing returned to the real world.
• Chu Qing recited the scripture and found that its candle flame contained layered patterns resembling the Others’ restrictions and could burn for ten years without his support.
• Tian Buyu arrived several times stronger than before but with a listless spirit, and Chu Qing checked the back of his head before asking how he had improved so much in seven years.

Tian Buyu told Chu Qing how he had spent seven years forging an Exotic Treasure Realm with hundreds of thousands of female Otherkin, then led him toward a gathering that required eighty-one tokens. They reached the first coordinate point, where a trial began, leaving them poised to fight for its token.

• Tian Buyu explained that he had imitated Chu Qing by cultivating the Clone Path and forging an Exotic Treasure Realm, but kept his Overlord title secret.
• Tian Buyu showed Chu Qing a route with eighty-one coordinates, explaining that they needed to collect a token at each one to open the gate to the gathering.
• Chu Qing and Tian Buyu entered the forbidden zone, where darkness retreated from Chu Qing, and began racing toward the first coordinate point.
• As they traveled, Tian Buyu recounted how the Third Limit Martial Ancestor had turned the tables on him, forcing him to flee to Heavenly Court and become part of its foundation.
• Chu Qing and Tian Buyu reached a pitch-black valley, where Tian Buyu performed a ritual and a voice challenged them to fight their way to the altar and claim the token.

Chu Qing and Tian Buyu explored the gathering’s coordinate points, finding starving evils and learning that no one had walked the path since the Third Limit Martial Ancestor was born. They reached the gathering site from a hundred eras ago, where Tian Buyu was excited to find it still there and Chu Qing frowned as he examined it.

• Tian Buyu entered a valley filled with frail evils that crumbled at his touch, then found a crowned evil on an altar that begged to be killed and was starving.
• Chu Qing learned the evils had been trapped for ages and that one of the last outsiders had become the Third Limit Martial Ancestor; after Chu Qing killed the old evil, Tian Buyu found its scepter had turned into a key.
• Chu Qing and Tian Buyu visited more coordinate points, finding either no creatures or evils that longed for death, and learned no one had walked the route since the Third Limit Martial Ancestor was born.
• Chu Qing and Tian Buyu arrived at the gathering site from a hundred eras earlier, where Tian Buyu saw that the gathering was still there and Chu Qing examined it with a frown.

Chu Qing and Tian Buyu arrived at a gathering place in the Forbidden Zone, where Azure Gold Flying Snow explained that the gathered contestants were taking part in a trial. When Tian Buyu touched a stele bearing a message from a woman who had waited for him across eras, the stele transported him and Chu Qing into a phenomenon that seemed to retrace time and space.

• Chu Qing and Tian Buyu landed on the inverted mountain platform and found its young inhabitants unusually powerful.
• A young man challenged their right to be there, but Azure Gold Flying Snow introduced herself as a qualification contender from the Ninth Major Region and welcomed them.
• Azure Gold Flying Snow told Chu Qing that the gathered creatures were competing in a trial to qualify as Forbidden Zone Masters or giants.
• Tian Buyu read the stele’s message from a woman who had waited for him across eras and said he had to find her.
• Tian Buyu touched the stele, which lit up and swallowed him and Chu Qing as strange streams of light enveloped the platform.

Chu Qing and the other future-era contestants were transported a hundred eras into the past, where the Four Directions made them a trial for ancient geniuses. As the ancient figures gathered, Azure Gold Flying Snow boasted that she could kill the Third Limit Martial Ancestor with one breath.

• A strange darkness attacked the contestants, dissolving one young woman and a new Tian Buyu, until Chu Qing summoned platinum candle flames that drove it back.
• The contestants failed to contact the giants behind them, and Tian Buyu’s stone stele crumbled to ash.
• Ancient-era warriors and creatures emerged from the darkness and gathered on the platform, where Tian Buyu recognized Ru Yan and Dongfang Weiwo, the Third Limit Martial Ancestor.
• Chu Qing realized they had crossed a hundred eras into the past and become a trial for the ancient geniuses, and the Four Directions confirmed his suspicion.
• Azure Gold Flying Snow dismissed the Third Limit Martial Ancestor as an easy opponent and wondered whether killing him would alter humanity’s future martial path.

Four Directions sealed the strength of Chu Qing, Tian Buyu, and the other future arrivals, then forced them to fight experts from the past. Chu Qing killed his opponent, but the battle ended with more Future People dead than trial participants, and he recognized how formidable the gathering’s experts were.

• Four Directions bound the future arrivals in chains that suppressed their powers, prompting Tian Buyu to wonder whether they had been brought back as whetstones for Dongfang Weiwo.
• Chu Qing and the others faced Dongfang Weiwo’s group, and Four Directions ordered each side to choose an opponent, with the defeated dying.
• Tian Buyu tried and failed to communicate with Ru Yan, while Chu Qing and other future arrivals stepped forward to fight.
• Chu Qing adapted to the Third Limit and killed a woman wielding twin sabers with a single strike.
• Dongfang Weiwo killed a Mythological Creature from the future, and the battle ended with more Future People dead than trial participants.

Chu Qing slaughtered trial takers and forbidden-zone creatures to claim extra rewards, while Tian Buyu fought Dongfang Weiwo. Dongfang Weiwo sensed that Tian Buyu knew all his techniques, but he believed he was fighting a replica of himself.

• The Four Directions announced that trial takers had to kill two opponents to return, and that killing more could bring extra rewards.
• A young girl and a forbidden-zone human killed each other, while Chu Qing began rapidly slaughtering opponents on both sides.
• Chu Qing continued killing despite gaining the means to return, prompting trial takers and forbidden-zone creatures to join forces against him.
• Tian Buyu copied Chu Qing’s approach and killed trial takers, while Dongfang Weiwo chose to attack him.
• Tian Buyu and Dongfang Weiwo began fighting, and Dongfang Weiwo realized his opponent could effortlessly counter his techniques.

Chu Qing slaughtered most of the trial takers and restricted-zone creatures while Dongfang Weiwo and Tian Buyu fought, leaving only a few survivors on the platform. When the survivors heard Chu Qing and Tian Buyu speak, they realized the Great Terrors might also be taking a test, and Dongfang Weiwo asked Chu Qing who he really was.

• Dongfang Weiwo fought Tian Buyu, who said he had failed to kill him before and now had another chance.
• Chu Qing killed wave after wave of trial takers and restricted-zone creatures, forcing many trial takers to flee or use their permissions to return.
• Tian Buyu kicked Liu Ruyan away from Chu Qing's battle instead of killing her, leaving her wondering whether she knew him.
• Chu Qing asked Four Directions to reveal the final test, and Dongfang Weiwo and the other survivors realized they could hear the Great Terrors speaking.
• Tian Buyu told Liu Ruyan that he was Buyu, while Chu Qing asked Dongfang Weiwo whether he could hear them.
• Dongfang Weiwo asked Chu Qing whether he was a living person and demanded to know who he was.

Chu Qing confronted Dongfang Weiwo, the man destined to become the Third Limit Martial Ancestor, and challenged him to a fight. Their foundations proved evenly matched, and the chapter left them locked in a brutal clash as Tian Buyu recognized Dongfang Weiwo as a rare equal to Chu Qing.

• Chu Qing told Dongfang Weiwo that he intended to kill him, prompting Tian Buyu to realize Chu Qing might be trying to change history.
• Dongfang Weiwo accepted that he was destined to become the Third Limit Martial Ancestor and believed Chu Qing would not dare kill him.
• Several trial takers attacked Dongfang Weiwo, who killed them all without Chu Qing's help.
• Chu Qing and Dongfang Weiwo charged at each other and exchanged deep wounds in a direct clash.
• Chu Qing and Dongfang Weiwo fought with evenly matched foundations, while Tian Buyu reflected that a Martial Ancestor's foundation could rival Chu Qing's.

Chu Qing and Dongfang Weiwo fought for nine days and nights, each using the other as a whetstone to advance their martial arts. When Dongfang Weiwo revealed a strange vertical eye tied to Heaven, he hinted that he would make Angel Envoy and similar beings into Angel Envoys.

• While Chu Qing and Dongfang Weiwo remained locked in battle, Tian Buyu and Liu Ruyan spent days together, and Liu Ruyan resolved to seal herself away until Tian Buyu returned in the future.
• Tian Buyu suspected Four Directions had lifted its restrictions because the battle and everyone present might be illusory, but Liu Ruyan dismissed the idea.
• As the fight continued, Chu Qing and Dongfang Weiwo grew stronger by adapting their secret transmissions, and Dongfang Weiwo declared that he had perfected the Third Limit.
• After nine days and nights, Chu Qing recognized that Dongfang Weiwo had begun repeating his moves and said his methods were exhausted.
• Dongfang Weiwo refused to accept defeat and revealed a vertical eye on his forehead, which Chu Qing recognized as connected to Heaven.
• Chu Qing boasted that he would kill Angel Envoys easily, while Dongfang Weiwo ominously said he would make Angel Envoy and beings like him into Angel Envoys.

Chu Qing killed Dongfang Weiwo after the Third Martial Ancestor’s killing move brought Heaven’s consciousness upon him. When given the choice to leave or remain in the past, Chu Qing returned to his own time, while Tian Buyu chose to stay and pursue the path to becoming a new Martial Ancestor.

• The Third Martial Ancestor attacked Chu Qing, but Chu Qing’s Hand of God broke his killing move and killed him as Dongfang Weiwo.
• The Four Directions offered Chu Qing and Tian Buyu the choice to return to their original time or remain in the past.
• Chu Qing decided to return after sensing that staying might carry restrictions, while Tian Buyu chose to remain in the era where his loved ones lived.
• Chu Qing advised Tian Buyu to become a Martial Ancestor under his own name and warned him to beware of Heaven.
• Chu Qing and Tian Buyu arranged ways to communicate across time, shared secret plans and resource locations, and then Chu Qing vanished.

Chu Qing returned from the past after invoking Liuli to save Tian Buyu from the eyeball’s attack, but he found Tian Buyu missing. He refused to walk the Ancient Emperor Road and left the forbidden-zone creatures behind, while Tian Buyu’s fate remained uncertain.

• Tian Buyu became a Third Limit Martial Ancestor and fought the person transformed from the eyeball, with Liu Ruyan rushing to help him.
• Tian Buyu recited a scripture invoking Reflection Emperor Liuli, who destroyed the eyeball’s servant and drew the attack of more Vertical Eyes.
• Chu Qing returned to the platform and learned that the forbidden-zone creatures remembered their recent battle as a dream, while Tian Buyu was nowhere to be found.
• Azure Gold Flying Snow invited Chu Qing to walk the Ancient Emperor Road, but he refused and left to pursue his own plans.
• Azure Gold Flying Snow vowed to make Chu Qing kneel after walking part of the road, and the other creatures noticed that the platform’s stone stele was missing.

After returning from a ten-year absence, Chu Qing learned how his power had transformed Stone Ridge Mountain and asked for histories of the Third Limit Martial Ancestor. The chapter ended as Madam Shi prepared to explain who the Martial Ancestor was.

• Chu Qing returned to Miracle Palace and learned from Madam Shi that ten years had passed while he was away fighting for ten days.
• Madam Shi told Chu Qing that his power had permeated Stone Ridge Mountain, turning it into a cultivation holy land where unusual plants and bloodline-talented children appeared.
• Madam Shi reported that Stone Ridge Mountain had gained tens of millions of Demon Race beings, many new maids, and a partially self-aware First Illumination Person who wanted to be born early.
• Chu Qing argued that the mountain's changes came from his Reflection Realm and reassured Madam Shi that reflected mountains and rivers would remain even if the physical ones were destroyed.
• Chu Qing asked the maids to find every history book about the Third Limit Martial Ancestor, and Madam Shi realized the question was connected to his disappearance.

Chu Qing learned that Liu Ruyan had replaced Tian Buyu as the Third Limit Martial Ancestor and searched the historical records for an explanation. After his attempt to contact Tian Buyu failed, Madam Shi suggested that Heaven might have hidden Tian Buyu’s fate by making Liu Ruyan the Martial Ancestor.

• Madam Shi named Liu Ruyan as the Third Limit Martial Ancestor, and Chu Qing explained that he had expected Tian Buyu or Dongfang Weiwo to hold the position.
• Chu Qing read records about Liu Ruyan, ordered ritual materials, and sent a group of maids to search distant coordinates for a special alloy box.
• Chu Qing used Tian Buyu’s essence blood in a ritual to contact him across time and space, but the ritual exploded and failed.
• Chu Qing told Madam Shi that Tian Buyu had vanished from history and wondered why Liu Ruyan had taken his place.
• Madam Shi pointed out that Liu Ruyan’s records spanned ten thousand years and suggested Heaven might have imprisoned or killed Tian Buyu before making Liu Ruyan the Martial Ancestor.
• Chu Qing agreed to take a walk with Yu Ji after Madam Shi offered to bring Mingyue and Cui Moyang to sing opera.

Chu Qing recovered from his worries about Tian Buyu and learned how the Demon Race was breeding descendants with mythical creatures, while Twisted Path martial artists experimented with creating new races. He rejoined the Square Inch Gathering after ten years away and revealed that he was alive.

• Mingyue showed Chu Qing the powerful but often unintelligent descendants born from the Demon Race and mythical creatures, and explained that nearly extinct mythical species had come to breed their bloodlines there.
• Chu Qing learned that Twisted Path martial artists were studying bloodline inheritance to create a new species and designate it by fate.
• Chu Qing entered the Square Inch Gathering and found its members worried because he had been missing for ten years.
• Second Generation Yin Tianzi joked about building a tomb for Chu Qing, and Second Generation Moon God threatened him for speaking as if Chu Qing were dead.
• Chu Qing greeted the gathering, and when Second Generation Bi Luo asked if he was Di Qing, Chu Qing told everyone to call him by his name, Chu Qing.

Chu Qing returned to the Square Inch Gathering and heard about the spread of Reflection Realm cultivation, unrest among the top-tier organizations, and the Harvesters’ growing activity. The chapter ended when Heavenly Court told him that the Heavenly God wanted to see him.

• Chu Qing reunited with the Square Inch Gathering and claimed he had traveled to the past and killed the Third Limit Martial Ancestor, but the others did not believe him.
• Second Generation Bi Luo explained that top-tier powerhouses were fighting over territory to cultivate the Reflection Realm, which had become widely popular.
• Luo Tian invited the others to render the forbidden zones, while Second Generation Bi Luo reported that the New Heavenly Court was rebelling and the Yellow Heaven Dao was suppressing it.
• Reincarnation and Second Generation Yin Tianzi warned that Harvesters were accelerating their harvest of Martial Arts Outsiders and Innate Outsiders, with some top-tier organizations helping them.
• Heavenly Court told Chu Qing that the Heavenly God wanted to see him.