Chapter Summaries

Chu Qing and his allies used exotic treasures to redirect the Millennial Calamity and relieve disasters across the continent. The people hailed him as Great Lord Azure Sky, and historians recorded the start of the Azure Sky Era.

• Chu Qing tested exotic treasures with the women and coordinated the Otherworlder Alliance’s plan to spread news about Great Lord Azure Sky.
• The Otherworlder Alliance and the emperors sent martial artists across the empires to proclaim that Azure Sky would end the calamities.
• Madam Shi identified the afflicted empires, while Chu Qing restored his strength and the women activated exotic treasures to redirect wind, rain, lightning, fire, and plague.
• The disasters weakened or disappeared across the continent, and people suffering from drought and other calamities gave thanks to Great Lord Azure Sky.
• Emperors, aristocratic families, and otherworlders recognized Chu Qing’s power, while historians recorded the beginning of the Azure Sky Era.

Chu Qing used twelve Atmospheric Exotic Treasures to erase the Millennial Calamity across the continent, which began the Azure Sky Era and left its people praising him. After Zuo Yan failed to wield an Exotic Treasure, Madam Shi demonstrated her vast Spirit and Energy by splitting into many forms and unleashing its full power.

• Chu Qing's rule ended Dao Lineage Disputes and Great Unification efforts as people accepted life beneath Great Lord Azure Sky's shadow.
• Chu Qing activated twelve Atmospheric Exotic Treasures to counter calamities, and within ten days they erased the Millennial Calamity throughout the continent.
• People across the continent cheered for Chu Qing and built temples and stone monuments in his name, while sects and empires wondered how Heaven would respond.
• Zuo Yan tried to control an Exotic Treasure but quickly exhausted her Outsider power and had to sever her connection.
• Madam Shi took over the Exotic Treasure, transformed into a hundred Innate God and Demon forms, and used their combined Spirit and Energy to unleash its full power.
• Madam Shi told Zuo Yan that she could create more than ten thousand powerful God and Demon forms, and Zuo Yan decided to follow her own Unorthodox Path.

Chu Qing and his companions tested their Aura Exotic Treasures while powerful organizations debated whether Heaven would punish him for defying the Millennial Tribulation. At Yellow Heaven Dao, the Daoist Nun praised Chu Qing’s rise, considered making him the sect’s master, and admitted that she wanted her followers to betray her so she could break free of them; she remained anxious about Heaven’s unknown intentions.

• Zuo Yan asked whether the Princess Consort could activate the exotic treasure, and the Princess Consort concealed that she could barely do so.
• Madam Shi demonstrated that she could operate twelve Aura Exotic Treasures, while Madam Jin and the others failed to match her; Nangong regretted not cultivating the Clone Path, and Mingyue joked about using clones to play with Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing told the women to examine the exotic treasures for flaws as top-tier organizations received news that he had forged them and swept aside the Millennial Tribulation.
• The Daoist Nun praised Chu Qing and mused about making him master of Yellow Heaven Dao, then concluded he would never join and might turn the sect into Azure Sky Dao.
• The Daoist Nun summoned the Ancient and Modern Empress, complained of boredom, and explained that her followers were shackles she wanted to betray her so she could purge them.
• The Daoist Nun asked when Heaven would come after her, and the Ancient and Modern Empress admitted she did not know; the Daoist Nun feared Heaven’s pressure and wondered whether she could survive the moon falling to suppress her.

Daoist Nun refused to involve Chu Qing in Yellow Heaven Dao’s conflict with Heaven, while Heaven planned to kill Chu Qing and created thousands of nameless Heavenly Army soldiers. The chapter left Heavenly Principle leading a large force to encircle and kill Chu Qing.

• Ancient and Modern Empress suggested contacting Chu Qing, but Daoist Nun refused because she did not want to drag him into Yellow Heaven Dao’s danger.
• Heaven considered Chu Qing a major threat, but its injured limbs and the forces protecting the moon and sun limited its options.
• Heaven decided that two Heavenly Army soldiers were insufficient and sought to recruit new soldiers with two phenomena.
• More than three thousand two-phenomenon overlords accepted Heaven’s offer and became nameless Heavenly Army soldiers.
• Heaven appointed Heavenly Principle to lead more than a hundred nameless soldiers in an attack on Chu Qing and sent the rest to assist named soldiers elsewhere.

Chu Qing investigated the hidden talismans in human brains while studying with twisted Mechanical Path experts, then met Cang Shen, who invited him to join a rebellion against Heaven. Chu Qing rejected the invitation, but Cang Shen insisted that Chu Qing’s actions already amounted to rebellion.

• Chu Qing joined twisted Mechanical Path experts forging a ten-thousand-meter mechanical emperor and examined their brains with a powerful telescope, discovering three thousand talismans, including variants of one underlying pattern.
• Cang Shen arrived and mocked the experts’ chances of ordaining a new race, then told Chu Qing he wanted to discuss a major matter.
• Cang Shen revealed that the Path Pioneers had agreed to join his rebellion more than ten years earlier and invited Chu Qing to join them.
• Cang Shen promised the rebellion had a ten percent chance of success, rising to twenty percent with Chu Qing’s help, and said Chu Qing alone represented fifteen percent of the odds.
• Chu Qing declined, citing his grudge against the Path Pioneers and lack of interest in rebellion, but Cang Shen argued that Chu Qing’s actions made him a rebel already.

Chu Qing confronted Heavenly Principle and the Heavenly Army, insisting that his continent belonged to him and forcing Heavenly Principle to submit. When the Heavenly Army attacked, Chu Qing endured their blows and crushed the female soldier who had briefly sided with him, then stepped forward to fight them all.

• The Heavenly God accused Chu Qing of being the world’s greatest rebel, and Heavenly Principle arrived to condemn him.
• Chu Qing slapped Heavenly Principle, demanded to be called Great Lord Azure Sky on his continent, and tore open his face until he begged for mercy.
• A female Heavenly Army member cleaned Chu Qing’s hands, then briefly declared that she stood with him as the army charged.
• Chu Qing’s title power weakened the Heavenly Army, causing one soldier to lose his foundation and explode before reaching him.
• Chu Qing removed his title’s power from the Heavenly God, endured the army’s attacks, and crushed the female soldier’s face into a pill.
• Chu Qing stepped into the Heavenly Army and invited them to kill him.

Chu Qing overwhelmed Heavenly Principle without using his strongest killing move, but Heavenly Principle trapped him in a seemingly endless void inside his body. Outside the trap, Heavenly Principle tried to confront Celestial God and the twisted mechanical experts.

• The nameless Heavenly Army attacked Chu Qing, but their killing moves could not harm him as he advanced toward Heavenly Principle.
• Heavenly Principle transformed into a blazing sun and combined with the Heavenly Army to unleash attacks, while Chu Qing tested his strength without using his strongest killing move.
• Chu Qing declared that he had grown stronger while Heavenly Principle had stood still, then broke through Heavenly Principle's attacks as Heavenly Principle burned himself and summoned Heaven's power.
• Heavenly Principle swallowed Chu Qing into a void inside his body and boasted that he would be trapped there, while Chu Qing began studying the strange space.
• Heavenly Principle offered Celestial God two choices, but Celestial God interrupted him, prompting Heavenly Principle to grow arms from his face and tell him to shut up.

Heavenly Principle tried to send the Twisted Path Mechanical Experts to the Heavenly Prison but agreed to spare them and visit the Heavenly God's lair. After the Heavenly God revealed that he had been imprisoned for at least a hundred eras, Heavenly Principle panicked and fled.

• Heavenly Principle threatened to imprison the Twisted Path Mechanical Experts, who tried to prove their worth by demonstrating their powers.
• The Mechanical Experts' twisted radiation awakened the nameless Heavenly Army fused into Heavenly Principle, and the soldiers began corrupting his body.
• Heavenly Principle agreed to take the Mechanical Experts to the Heavenly Prison and offered the Heavenly God freedom in exchange for resources.
• The Heavenly God led Heavenly Principle toward his lair and warned that Forbidden Qing might kill him if he did not arrive alive.
• The Heavenly God revealed that he had been imprisoned for at least a hundred eras, and Heavenly Principle fled in terror.

Chu Qing revealed his control over the Heavenly Principle and killed him after the Heavenly Principle tried to flee and attack. The Heavenly God realized Chu Qing was displaying his power to him and feared Chu Qing might kill him next.

• The Heavenly Principle tried to escape but discovered he was trapped in place, while Chu Qing revealed that he had been controlling him.
• The Heavenly God claimed he had trapped the Heavenly Principle with Drawing a Circle on the Ground as a Prison, but the Heavenly Principle's body began cracking apart.
• The Heavenly Principle begged for mercy, then rejected the Heavenly God after learning he was the Heaven No. 2 rebel.
• Chu Qing emerged from the Heavenly Principle's body and shattered the black vortex the Heavenly Principle summoned with power borrowed from Heaven.
• Chu Qing crushed the Heavenly Principle beneath his foot and declared that the dying Heavenly Principle had not dared to call his name.
• The Heavenly God feared Chu Qing's show of strength was also a threat against him.

Chu Qing refused to join the Celestial God's rebel force but agreed to cooperate with him against Heaven. They made a deal: Chu Qing would help rescue living beings targeted by Heaven, and the Celestial God would provide materials for Chu Qing's Emperor Seat King Quan phenomenon in installments.

• Chu Qing and the Celestial God silently tested each other with Chu Qing's titles before Chu Qing withdrew them and refused to join the rebel force.
• The Celestial God warned that Heaven would study Chu Qing's abilities and eventually attack again, but Chu Qing declared that he intended to trouble Heaven first.
• The Celestial God proposed that Chu Qing strike at Heaven's forces while he rescued imprisoned living beings and recruited them to strengthen the rebellion.
• Chu Qing demanded materials for the promotion conditions of his Emperor Seat King Quan phenomenon, and the Celestial God balked at the scale of the request.
• Chu Qing proposed that the Celestial God provide one hundred thousand materials each time Chu Qing helped rescue a living being, and the Celestial God accepted.

Chu Qing agreed to help the Heavenly God act sooner in exchange for materials to strengthen his phenomenon, Emperor Seat King Quan. The Heavenly God then sought out a tribal High Priest with an ancient token and revealed that he had rebelled against Heaven for the sake of High Priestess Sandaidai.

• Chu Qing and the Heavenly God agreed to act in three days, though the Heavenly God had planned to wait three years.
• Chu Qing explained that he had plenty of lifespan-extending treasures and would never harvest all living beings.
• The Heavenly God traveled to a vast, sparsely civilized continent and used a praying mantis statue to gain an audience with its High Priest.
• The white-haired High Priest agreed to help the Heavenly God fulfill one matter in accordance with ancient rules.
• The Heavenly God told the High Priest that he had loved High Priestess Sandaidai, who died because of him, and that he had rebelled against Heaven for her.

The High Priest mocked the Heavenly God’s one-sided devotion to High Priestess Sandaidai before agreeing to hear his request to save several people. Over the next three years, Heaven prepared ten veteran Heavenly Army forces while Chu Qing’s Stone Ridge Mountain developed rapidly, and the First Illumination Person said she might emerge from the golden core in about a hundred years.

• The High Priest told the Heavenly God that High Priestess Sandaidai had regarded him only as a friend, then called him a bootlicker and asked what help he needed.
• The Heavenly God asked the High Priest to save several people, and she complained that he had bundled multiple matters together.
• After learning of Heavenly Principle’s death, Heaven mobilized ten veteran Heavenly Army forces, its maximum, though preparing them would take time.
• The First Illumination Person told Chu Qing she expected to break out of the golden core in about a hundred years, and Mingyue complained about carrying it.
• Over three years, Chu Qing cultivated and monitored outside news while Stone Ridge Mountain expanded; Mingyue and the maidservants set rules for maidservants leaving or joining.
• The Demon Race, Giant Beasts, and Mythological Creatures developed, while descendants created by Twisted Path martial artists caused trouble that displeased Chu Qing.

Chu Qing confronted the Twisted Path leaders over their descendants’ behavior and their demand to use his maidservants to breed a new species. He unleashed his Atmospheric Exotic Treasure and cursed the Twisted Martial Artists and their descendants, while promising the maidservants he would protect their right to refuse.

• Chu Qing summoned three Twisted Path martial artists and condemned the creatures they had bred in the valley.
• The leaders demanded maidservants to help produce more perfect descendants, and Chu Qing silently let them speak.
• Crimson clouds descended over the valley, and Chu Qing revealed that his Atmospheric Exotic Treasure could save or destroy living beings.
• Flames erupted from a Twisted Martial Artist who challenged Chu Qing, and the others begged for mercy.
• Chu Qing told the maidservants they could choose whether to consent and should tell him if anyone pressured them.
• Chu Qing invoked the Curse Realm and cursed the Twisted Martial Artists and their descendants with eternal burning, darkness, mutual hatred, violence, hunger, and thirst.

Phoenix Emperor told Shen Shisan and the research institute that her dream showed the birth of the abyss, caused by a powerful figure cursing its Progenitors. She began recounting how the curse transformed their valley, but the chapter ended before she described the figure’s final words.

• Phoenix Emperor excitedly told Shitian Emperor that she had witnessed the abyss’s birth in a dream.
• At the research institute, historians reported leads on Heavenly Court and identified more of the investigated figure’s title as “Reflection.”
• Shen Shisan questioned Phoenix Emperor about her dream and explained the historical accounts linking the abyss’s Progenitors to the Land of Abundance.
• Phoenix Emperor said the figure they called Emperor... Taboo... had cursed the Progenitors of the abyss.
• Phoenix Emperor recounted how the figure cursed the Progenitors and their descendants to endure flames, darkness, and unquenchable thirst as their valley collapsed into a bottomless hole.

Phoenix Emperor described the Abyss’s origin and curses, and Shen Shisan recognized her vision as the Land of the Abyssal Progenitors he had visited. He asked her to help remove the curse affecting his descendants, but she refused to give him the Essence Blood Gemstone and warned that he had no qualifications to speak with the Great Figure in her dreams.

• Phoenix Emperor described the Great Figure cursing the Abyssal Progenitors and their descendants to darkness and binding them to the Abyss.
• Shen Shisan said the valley in Phoenix Emperor’s vision matched the Land of the Abyssal Progenitors he had visited, where one Progenitor still knelt and endured torture.
• Shen Shisan revealed that his descendants were developing abyssal traits because he had entered the Abyss, and he pleaded with Phoenix Emperor to help lift the curse.
• Phoenix Emperor said she had not witnessed the curse being lifted and could not speak to the Great Figure in her dreams.
• Shen Shisan asked for the Essence Blood Gemstone so he could enter the dream, but Phoenix Emperor refused to hand it over.
• Phoenix Emperor challenged Shen Shisan and the others to explain what gave them the standing to approach or trade with the Great Figure.

Phoenix Emperor defended her right to hold the Imperial Taboo Essence Blood Gemstone, invoking her Di Kun Family status and warning others that they would have to defeat her Old Ancestors to take it. Later, researchers uncovered information about Second Generation Bi Luo, leaving Phoenix Emperor wondering about her connection to Chu Qing.

• Shen Shisan argued that the current era had surpassed the Great Unification Era in realm level, but Phoenix Emperor challenged whether its experts could match the ancient era’s prodigies.
• Phoenix Emperor realized her dreams of the Great Unification Era had made her look down on others, then asserted her imperial-clan status and reminded the scholars that Alliance law required them to pay respects.
• Phoenix Emperor told the crowd that anyone who wanted the Imperial Taboo Essence Blood Gemstone would have to defeat her Old Ancestors, and the scholars backed down.
• Researchers discovered that Second Generation Bi Luo had attended Imperial Taboo’s gathering but had no known Lineage or descendants.
• Phoenix Emperor believed Second Generation Bi Luo might have been close to Chu Qing and wondered whether a First Generation Bi Luo existed.

Chu Qing decreed the Abyss as a new race and gained an Abyss title that fused with his One-Party Dominance title, reshaping his displayed titles and granting new powers. After examining the Abyss’s traits and testing who could look at him safely, he left Stone Ridge Mountain.

• Chu Qing decreed the Abyss, cursed its descendants to be drawn toward it, and declared that only one in fifty who entered would have a chance to leave.
• The Four Directions announced the Abyss and its ritual, then revealed that Forbidden Qing was Chu Qing and that his Abyss title had fused with One-Party Dominance.
• Chu Qing opened the Profession Slot and found his new title, Time Demon Upon the Emperor's Seat—Abyssal Taboo—Reflection Emperor Liuli—Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing studied the Abyss title’s traits, including striking unapproved observers and sending enemies he killed into the Abyss, where they could form an army.
• Chu Qing told a maid he was human rather than a god, then whistled away and told the others to watch over Stone Ridge Mountain.

Chu Qing tested the Abyss’s new ability and settled into a peaceful year while waiting in vain for the Heavenly God’s coordinates. At a gathering, Luo Tian reported that the restricted zones were stirring and that the Azure Heaven’s Tyrant Blood lake had begun to dry up.

• Chu Qing discovered that the Abyss struck anyone who stared at him for more than three seconds, with the effect varying according to their strength.
• Chu Qing waited past the Heavenly God’s deadline, then spent a year cultivating, spending time with Nangong and the others, and studying the mechanical brain.
• Nangong told Chu Qing that the maidservant who sought him seemed to worship him like a god, and she chose to indulge the maidservant’s devotion.
• Chu Qing joined the Square Inch Gathering, where members discussed wars across the continents and the New Heavenly Court’s shrinking territory.
• Luo Tian reported that Top Experts and restricted zone Sovereigns were killing one another, bizarre creatures had awakened, and the Azure Heaven’s Tyrant Blood lake was drying up.

After receiving a coordinate from the Celestial God, Chu Qing prepared to travel to him with help from Madam Shi and the Princess Consort. Deep in the forbidden zone, the Celestial God, the High Priest, and two hooded figures waited for Chu Qing, while the High Priest scolded and beat the Celestial God for failing to send the coordinates sooner.

• Chu Qing received a coordinate from the Celestial God after waiting four years and asked Madam Shi to help him travel there.
• The Princess Consort initially refused to help Chu Qing, but she, Consort Mei Zuo Yan, and others later activated First Illumination Person's transmission treasure with Madam Shi.
• Madam Shi and the transmission treasure sent Chu Qing across the Endless Sea toward the distant coordinate.
• The High Priest sent two mantises into the darkness, and they dragged dozens of Immortals back to feed the Platinum Fire Pit.
• The High Priest learned that the Celestial God had sent Chu Qing the coordinates only more than ten days earlier and beat him for not notifying Chu Qing sooner.
• The Celestial God praised the High Priest's angry appearance, and the High Priest and two hooded figures ordered him to be quiet.

Chu Qing joined the Heavenly God, the High Priest, and two black-robed experts for an operation to rescue an Ancient God and Demon from the Sea of Death. The group learned that the prisoner had fought alongside the Heavenly God during his rebellion, before the current Heaven exterminated the Ancient Gods and Demons.

• The High Priest and the others waited for Forbidden Qing, but Chu Qing arrived through a spatial vortex six months later.
• The experts suffered repeated blows whenever they looked at Chu Qing, and the High Priest deduced that his new Abyss title caused the effect.
• Chu Qing let the group see him, and the Heavenly God had everyone explain their specialties before claiming Chu Qing excelled at killing, creating miracles, and weakening enemies.
• The Heavenly God announced that the group would go to the Sea of Death to rescue an Ancient God and Demon who had fought beside him in his rebellion.
• The High Priest was astonished to learn that the Ancient Gods and Demons had survived until the Heavenly God's rebellion, after which the present Heaven exterminated them.