Chapter Summaries

Chu Qing helped Bi Luo complete a sacrifice under the Eternal Covenant, earning her the title Bi Luo - Eternal. Afterward, Bi Luo explained that the covenant came from an ancient pact, but she did not know the being who granted its gift.

• Chu Qing's name struck the tattooed man as he fled, while Liuli's face appeared in the flames and sent him into a dream of his great-grandmother.
• Bi Luo finished chanting over the burning corpse altar, and the Four Directions announced her eternal title to every living being.
• Bi Luo celebrated with Chu Qing, who stopped her from revealing the title's powers to him or anyone else.
• Bi Luo told Chu Qing that only descendants of ancestors who signed the Eternal Covenant could offer its sacrifice, and she did not know the great being's name.

Bi Luo celebrated the title she gained through Chu Qing’s help while the continent’s top experts identified him and chose to avoid contact. She and the Second Generation Moon God discussed repaying Chu Qing and vowed to keep striving as his power outpaced theirs.

• Bi Luo regretted not learning more about the Great Figure before her sacrifice, and Chu Qing told her she could not perform another one.
• The continent’s top experts discovered a powerful figure had arrived, identified him as Forbidden Qing, and decided to pretend he was not there.
• Bi Luo boasted in the Square Inch Gathering about gaining a title from Four Directions and explained that her bloodline had enabled the sacrifice.
• Bi Luo told the Second Generation Moon God that she had used Chu Qing’s name and reflection to suppress hundreds of experts and had kissed him.
• The Second Generation Moon God urged Bi Luo to help Chu Qing with his affairs, and Bi Luo agreed that she would support him however she could.
• The Second Generation Moon God resolved to pursue the exalted position of Dominator and declared that she was no weaker than anyone.

Bi Luo decided to conquer the Extreme Evil Continent and establish the Bi Luo Sect, with Chu Qing agreeing to support her. At a gathering point, she claimed its residents as her followers, while Chu Qing demonstrated that people bearing another organization’s mark could not be recruited and had to be killed.

• Bi Luo told Chu Qing she wanted to occupy the Extreme Evil Continent and build a sect there, and he agreed to help if she met anyone she could not defeat.
• Bi Luo declared that the sect would be called the Bi Luo Sect and that she would forge an eternal title of her own.
• At a gathering point, a fat man tried to buy Bi Luo, so she killed him and challenged anyone else who wanted her.
• Bi Luo claimed the gathering point’s residents as her followers and used a jade seal to mark them.
• When a resident revealed that another organization’s mark kept returning, Chu Qing smashed his head repeatedly and concluded that anyone bearing another organization’s mark could only be killed.
• The onlookers erased the test marks they had secretly made and accepted Bi Luo as their new mistress.

Bi Luo’s seals empowered their bearers and won their loyalty, and Chu Qing urged her to conquer the continent. One hundred eras later, the Phoenix Emperor and her mother investigated Second Generation Bi Luo, uncovering documents at a suspected sealing site.

• Bi Luo’s newly sealed followers grew stronger, killed the escapees, and worshipped her.
• Chu Qing invited Bi Luo to conquer the continent and bring its living beings beneath her feet.
• The Phoenix Emperor and Phoenix Emperor's Mother discussed their dream of the Great Unification Era and planned to return to it for knowledge.
• After receiving new information about Second Generation Bi Luo, the Phoenix Emperor took her mother to the research institute.
• Researchers showed them documents found at a suspected site where Second Generation Bi Luo had sealed herself away.

A diary from Bi Luo’s first maidservant revealed that Bi Luo had sealed herself on the old Extreme Evil Continent and that Forbidden had once killed thirty-six thousand Path Pioneers. The researchers identified the continent as present-day Extreme Joy Continent and decided to search for Bi Luo, dismissing Phoenix Emperor’s warnings about the danger.

• The researchers learned from the maidservant’s diary that Bi Luo had sealed herself on the Extreme Evil Continent during the Great Unification Era, while Forbidden had once slaughtered thirty-six thousand Path Pioneers.
• The researchers concluded that Bi Luo knew the unnamed Great Figure, held an Eternal title, and had friends who could reincarnate to extend their lives.
• A professional identified the old Extreme Evil Continent as present-day Extreme Joy Continent, which Phoenix Emperor’s Mother confirmed was Alliance designation 999.
• The researchers planned to contact Extreme Joy Continent through the Alliance and have its people search for Bi Luo’s self-sealing site.
• Phoenix Emperor warned that excavating the site could anger the unnamed Great Figure, but the others dismissed the danger and doubted that he was still alive.

Phoenix Emperor and her mother investigated Bi Luo’s self-sealing site, while Phoenix Emperor feared the Alliance’s arrogance would endanger Bi Luo and provoke the taboo Great Figure. The researchers reached Bi Luo Mountain with a Super Warship, where a crowned girl barred them from entering.

• Phoenix Emperor told her mother she feared the era would mistreat Bi Luo, and her mother predicted Bi Luo might become a Great Figure’s forbidden possession or a bloodline breeding machine.
• Phoenix Emperor and her mother arrived at the Extreme Joy Continent, where researchers uncovered records describing Bi Luo’s three-hundred-year self-sealing and the construction of an Underground Palace.
• The research team found the record identifying Bi Luo Mountain as sealed by an Emperor and decided to search it despite the warning monument.
• The Alliance sent a Super Warship, and Phoenix Emperor feared its main cannon could destroy Bi Luo’s self-sealing site.
• At Bi Luo Mountain, marked inhabitants warned the researchers away, and a crowned young girl declared that not even the Alliance or the one hundred and eight continents could enter.

Bi Luo expanded her control over the Extreme Evil Continent while Chu Qing protected her, prompting more than a hundred Top Experts to seek cooperation. The experts approached Chu Qing, but his overwhelming power forced them to lower their heads before they could discuss their proposal.

• Bi Luo conquered the continent with Chu Qing's protection and ordered the construction of one hundred and eight great cities.
• Top Experts complained that Bi Luo was destroying the continent's unspoken rules, until a female expert proposed helping Chu Qing control the continent in exchange for help escaping.
• More than a hundred experts appeared before Chu Qing and Bi Luo, and Bi Luo realized she could not defeat them without the Reflection Method.
• A female expert offered to ask Chu Qing for a favor, drawing disapproval from the others, while Chu Qing calmly asked what they wanted.
• Chu Qing's unseen attack injured an expert who stared at him, and he explained that outsiders who stared at him would be attacked.
• The injured expert apologized and retreated, then privately realized his behavior had made him Chu Qing's running dog.

Chu Qing agreed to help 180 imprisoned experts leave the Extreme Evil Continent in exchange for their treasures, and promised he could take even 100,000 people at once. Bi Luo claimed the mountains of jewelry he gave her, while the Second Generation Moon God teased her about Chu Qing’s intentions.

• The 180 experts abandoned their plan to cooperate with Chu Qing and asked him to help them leave the continent, offering their accumulated treasures.
• After inspecting their treasure, Chu Qing agreed to send them away and told them to gather more people and bring everything within ten days.
• Chu Qing gave Bi Luo the mountain-sized hoard, saying Stone Ridge Mountain already had enough resources.
• Bi Luo wondered whether Chu Qing was trying to win her over with jewelry and secretly asked the Second Generation Moon God for advice.
• The Second Generation Moon God teased Bi Luo about accepting Chu Qing’s gifts and admitted she wanted him to bury her in treasure too.

Chu Qing gave Bi Luo an Inch of Time and led hundreds of thousands of continent powerhouses carrying coffins toward the shore to escape the Extreme Evil Continent. He stepped into the sea without being teleported back and began studying the restriction, leaving everyone hoping he could find a way out.

• Bi Luo cultivated alongside Chu Qing and found that she could cultivate one path each day, while Chu Qing gave her an Inch of Time to use if she ever sealed herself away.
• Chu Qing told the gathered powerhouses to rest before he took them out of the continent, then led them toward the shore with Bi Luo.
• At the ocean, Chu Qing stepped into the seawater without being teleported back, while another powerhouse who tried the same was returned to land.
• Chu Qing repeatedly crossed between the shore and the sea to study the restriction as the powerhouses watched and wondered how he had bypassed it.
• An ancient voice recalled that billions had tried for a month to escape the restriction without success, leaving the powerhouses to hope Chu Qing could solve it.

Chu Qing and the Liuli Phenomenon shattered the restriction trapping the Extreme Evil Continent, freeing its inhabitants. After the survivors thanked Chu Qing and swore to repay him, a group of elders gave him a map to a secret said to reveal the continent’s sovereign.

• Chu Qing warned everyone to retreat, and the Liuli Phenomenon struck the sky until the restriction and the exotic treasures guarding the continent shattered.
• The Liuli Phenomenon opened the coffins, freeing ancient beings, then vanished after embracing Chu Qing.
• The inhabitants rushed to the sea, celebrated their escape, and thanked Chu Qing, who reminded them that he had acted under a deal and credited the female warrior’s group.
• The survivors swore to answer Chu Qing’s future requests, and the elders gave him a map to the Extreme Evil Continent’s sovereign secret.
• The freed survivors departed in groups to seek revenge on the organizations and enemies that had imprisoned or betrayed them.

After the Extreme Evil Continent’s restrictions were destroyed, Chu Qing and Bi Luo explored an ancient underground tomb at its center. They found a vast sealed stone wall and continued investigating the mystery buried beyond it.

• Powerful organizations learned that Chu Qing had freed the Extreme Evil Continent and prepared plans to strike him with overwhelming force.
• Chu Qing and Bi Luo examined the map they had received and traveled to the continent’s central mountain, where Bi Luo proposed making the whole continent the Bi Luo Sect’s territory.
• Chu Qing opened the entrance to the underground tomb, and Bi Luo’s summoned Old Ancestor estimated that its crude excavation marks were over a hundred thousand years old.
• As they explored the long passage, Chu Qing and Bi Luo discussed becoming Sovereigns acknowledged by the Four Directions.
• They reached an enormous carved stone wall that Chu Qing recognized as a seal, and he concluded that generations of powerful experts had excavated the surrounding space.

Chu Qing and Bi Luo discovered an immensely durable stone wall and tried to uncover its secrets, but even tens of millions of maidservants could not solve it. After excavating the complete circular wall and studying it without success, Chu Qing activated the Future Daylight Scripture to seek help from his future self.

• Chu Qing and Bi Luo tested the stone wall's strength, then enlisted Moon God, Madam Shi, Mingyue, and others to study its image.
• The women found that visualizing the wall consumed enormous amounts of Spirit and Energy, while their strongest attacks barely disturbed its image.
• Tens of millions of Golden Core Realm maidservants studied each new section Chu Qing sent, but they made no progress.
• Chu Qing continued excavating beneath Bi Luo Mountain until he uncovered the complete circular stone wall, which spanned a hundred li and had a lid and sealed base.
• Chu Qing studied the complete wall for days and split into dozens of selves, but still found no explanation for its strength.
• Chu Qing declared that his future self could solve the mystery and activated the Future Daylight Scripture.

Chu Qing discovered that the stone wall recorded his past deeds and those of other people, but every record stopped when its subject reached the wall. By studying its reliefs, he found thousands of runes and began wondering whether his future self had uncovered the wall’s secret.

• Future Chu Qing appeared through a vortex, refused to reveal future events, and urged Chu Qing to cultivate instead of pursuing women.
• After Future Chu Qing vanished, Chu Qing recognized that the stone wall’s patterns depicted events from his own life and asked Bi Luo to help sort out the figures.
• Bi Luo, Madam Shi, Madam Jin, and millions of maidservants organized the wall’s depictions, which all stopped at the moment their subjects reached the stone wall.
• Chu Qing magnified the reliefs and discovered three thousand runes, which he suspected were fundamental components of the world.
• Bi Luo urged Chu Qing to smash the stone wall with his destructive phenomenon, but Chu Qing remained absorbed in investigating it.

Chu Qing and Bi Luo crossed the stone wall and found another corpse of Tian Buyu, along with a letter describing his lost position as Third Limit Martial Ancestor and a mysterious box tied to humanity’s hope. The letter left Chu Qing angry at Tian Buyu’s death and intent on finding Liu Ruyan’s hidden lair and learning what the box contained.

• Chu Qing used One-Party Dominance to take Bi Luo through the stone wall after realizing he could stop trying to understand its principles.
• Chu Qing and Bi Luo found Tian Buyu’s corpse seated on an empty throne, and Chu Qing wondered why a second corpse of the same person had appeared.
• Bi Luo asked Chu Qing to send her into the past so she could protect him, and Chu Qing promised to do so after studying time and space.
• Chu Qing found Tian Buyu’s letter in a hidden compartment, where Tian Buyu said Heaven had stripped him of the Third Limit Martial Ancestor position and that Liu Ruyan would inherit it.
• Tian Buyu’s letter described a stone screen taken from a forbidden zone, a box called humanity’s hope, and an organization named Morning Star that was later destroyed.
• Chu Qing rejected Tian Buyu’s concern about changing history and vowed to find Liu Ruyan’s true lair.

Chu Qing retrieved a mysterious folding screen from beneath Bi Luo Mountain and gave it to Bi Luo before leaving to cultivate and study time and space. Bi Luo treasured the gift and told the Second Generation Moon God that she wanted to support Chu Qing as an equal.

• Chu Qing used a passage of scripture to transform the stone wall into a folding screen, but he could not fully control it.
• Chu Qing gave the folding screen to Bi Luo as a treasure for her new sect and asked her to help hold off enemies when needed.
• Chu Qing and Bi Luo found no information about the Sovereign and discussed whether its secrets might be hidden in the screen.
• Chu Qing refused Bi Luo's invitation to stay and returned with Madam Shi so he could enter seclusion and pursue the mysteries of time and space.
• Bi Luo told the Second Generation Moon God about the folding screen and wondered whether it counted as betrothal gifts, then invited her to cultivate with her resources.
• The Second Generation Moon God said she did not want to live off Bi Luo and would use the resources she had borrowed.

After returning to Stone Ridge Mountain, Chu Qing cultivated in seclusion while the others grew uneasy over the spreading Millennial Calamities and the Forbidden Zones’ growing activity. Learning that Heaven’s fallen Emissaries had revived as vast armies within the Forbidden Zones, Chu Qing said he would defend his territory but agreed not to go there alone.

• Chu Qing returned to Stone Ridge Mountain and entered seclusion, while Mingyue and the others disposed of Tian Buyu’s second corpse and then cultivated in turns.
• Nangong reported that the new Heavenly Court had fallen, Yellow Heaven temples were spreading, the Forbidden Zones were eroding Zhao Hongxiu and the others’ empire, and Millennial Calamities were covering much of Qingzhou.
• Chu Qing dismissed those threats as manageable and said he would visit the Forbidden Zones to speak with their masters, but Nangong warned that her Twelve Palaces had begun sensing great danger there.
• Chu Qing learned from the Square Inch Gathering that the Forbidden Zones were expanding, their masters and armies were moving openly, and Heaven’s fallen Emissaries had revived there in enormous numbers.
• Luo Tian warned that Heaven was supplying corpses to the Forbidden Zones and that even a living Martial Ancestor kept a low profile there; Chu Qing agreed not to go alone and said the Forbidden Zones must not threaten his territory.

Chu Qing entered the Forbidden Zone after its darkness surged and threatened Qingzhou, using the Enlightenment Star Scripture to carve a blazing path through it. As he raced toward the Forbidden Zone’s depths, the newly appointed Forbidden Zone Master vowed to stop him and boil his Platinum Dragon into soup.

• Zhao Hongxiu told Chu Qing that the darkness was thickening like it had before the last Black Tide, and Chu Qing assured her he would handle the threat.
• Chu Qing entered the Forbidden Zone, but its darkness and curses pressed against him despite his alliance with it.
• Chu Qing recited the Enlightenment Star Scripture, summoning candle flames that drove back the darkness and let him advance through the Forbidden Zone.
• Chu Qing accelerated into a Platinum Dragon that burned a broad white path through Forbidden Zone creatures, Immortals, and Emissaries of Heaven.
• The Forbidden Zone Master learned of the Platinum Dragon’s advance and ordered his forces to locate it, declaring that he would destroy it and boil it into soup.

The newly appointed Forbidden Zone Master ambushed Chu Qing, confident he could kill him and stew him in an iron pot. Chu Qing passed through as a Platinum Dragon, killing the Sovereign, while the immortals planned to conceal what had happened from the higher-ups.

• The Forbidden Zone Master dismissed the immortals’ warnings and prepared an iron pot to stew Chu Qing.
• The immortals retreated as Chu Qing approached atop a Platinum Dragon, and the Forbidden Zone Master activated his secret arts and the Forbidden Zone’s blessing.
• The Forbidden Zone Master attacked Chu Qing, but the Platinum Dragon swallowed him and left him fatally burned.
• The Forbidden Zone Master realized the immortals had used him as a scapegoat before he crumbled into ashes and fell into the pot.
• The immortals decided to request a replacement Sovereign and reported that the previous one had died from a cultivation deviation, briefly mentioning a Qingzhou expert in the Forbidden Zone.

A new Master arrived in the Qingzhou Forbidden Zone and learned that Forbidden Qing was devastating it, but every envoy he sent was killed. Terrified, he abandoned his post and fled, leaving the Immortal Ones behind.

• A heavily wounded expert bought the vacant Master position and arrived in the Qingzhou Forbidden Zone seeking a place to retire.
• The Immortal Ones told the new Master that Forbidden Qing was ravaging the Forbidden Zone, and he was struck when he tried to think of the name.
• The new Master learned that his predecessor had been reduced to ash by Forbidden Qing and sent an envoy to ask what he wanted.
• Forbidden Qing killed each envoy the new Master sent, including one burned to ash and another stomped apart.
• The new Master abandoned his authority, ordered the Immortal Ones to report that he had died from cultivation deviation, and fled.

Chu Qing confronted the newly appointed Master of a Qingzhou Forbidden Zone corner and demanded that the Forbidden Zone honor its covenant and stop expanding. He left after warning that his next visit would bring death and destruction, as his Platinum Dragon continued burning the land into white earth.

• The newly appointed Master sent ten Immortals carrying white flags to approach Chu Qing, but the Fire Dragon burned them to ashes before Chu Qing could speak with them.
• The newly appointed Master greeted Chu Qing, who asked whether the Forbidden Zone planned to violate their covenant by expanding into Qingzhou and deploying fallen Emissary of Heaven legions.
• The newly appointed Master claimed he knew nothing of the covenant or the legions and promised to restrain the Forbidden Zone’s forces.
• Chu Qing warned the newly appointed Master to obey him and demanded that he tell his superiors Black Tide must retreat rather than expand across the continent.
• Chu Qing departed on the Platinum Dragon, warning that his next visit would bring death and destruction as the land burned into white earth behind him.