Chapter Summaries

Chu Qing and Black Gold Daoist fought across Qinghua Continent, honing their powers while their battle devastated the land. The continent’s leaders watched helplessly as its edges collapsed into the Endless Sea.

• The top experts fled as Chu Qing and Black Gold Daoist’s battle sent out shockwaves that killed anyone who stayed nearby.
• Chu Qing and Black Gold Daoist fought for three days, each using the other as a whetstone while Chu Qing mastered the Dao Field Realm and integrated new realms into his foundation.
• The battle spread across Qinghua Continent, and the leaders of top organizations lamented that its destruction would deprive humanity of a third of its known Emotion Flowers.
• The leaders failed to stop the fighters, and pieces of Qinghua Continent began falling into the Endless Sea.
• Someone asked what Forbidden Qing was doing, and the onlookers screamed in terror.

Chu Qing and Black Gold Daoist fought for three years, using Qinghua Continent’s earth veins and minerals as weapons while their combat power and New Realms grew. The continent was left in ruins, and Black Gold Daoist received a message from an old friend that changed his expression.

• Chu Qing drew out Qinghua Continent’s earth veins and turned them into a spear, while Black Gold Daoist shaped mineral veins into a Dao Field and fought him.
• A million powerhouses attacked Black Gold Daoist, but his Dao Field shattered their army formation until Chu Qing blasted it apart and the survivors fled.
• Chu Qing and Black Gold Daoist fought for three years as Qinghua Continent became magma and steadily collapsed.
• Realm Ancestors watched the battle from afar, studying the two fighters’ methods while avoiding the deadly aftershocks.
• Chu Qing and Black Gold Daoist continued to improve as their accumulated foundations shaped their New Realms, and Black Gold Daoist imagined becoming a martial ancestor of two realms.
• Black Gold Daoist received a message from an old friend, and his expression shifted as he read it.

Chu Qing and Black Gold Daoist fought for days until Black Gold Daoist’s confidence faltered after he learned reinforcements were coming. When the reinforcements arrived, a vortex released three hundred crimson-eyed commanders, leaving Chu Qing to face a threat he immediately recognized as unusual.

• Chu Qing’s attacks forced Black Gold Daoist to shed human skins to heal, while Black Gold Daoist tried to unsettle him by taunting him about his lifespan.
• Black Gold Daoist realized that expecting reinforcements had weakened his invincible conviction, and he asked his old friend to send help because he could no longer keep up with Chu Qing.
• Black Gold Daoist’s old friend warned him that Heaven’s newly modified commanders were vicious and might attack him.
• A vortex opened on the battlefield, and Chu Qing abandoned Black Gold Daoist to attack it, but Black Gold Daoist struck him while his attacks barely slowed the vortex.
• The vortex released three hundred crimson-eyed faces resembling Heavenly Principle, Heavenly Rule, and Heavenly Law, and Chu Qing sensed that something was wrong.

Chu Qing fought Black Gold Daoist and the three hundred faces, discovering that their presence had weakened Black Gold Daoist despite restoring his invincible conviction. After repeatedly destroying Black Gold Daoist’s heart, Chu Qing challenged him to attack again, leaving Black Gold Daoist drenched in sweat and afraid to speak his name.

• Chu Qing tested the three hundred faces and found that they could rapidly heal wounds by shedding and reassembling fragments.
• Black Gold Daoist and the three hundred faces surrounded Chu Qing, who unleashed his aura and attacked Black Gold Daoist instead of the faces.
• Chu Qing repeatedly fought Black Gold Daoist and destroyed his heart, forcing him to burn human skins to return to his peak.
• Chu Qing explained that the three hundred faces had introduced fatal flaws into Black Gold Daoist’s reactions, intelligence, and fighting spirit.
• Black Gold Daoist insisted he was not weaker, but Chu Qing challenged him to attack again, and Black Gold Daoist hesitated in fear.

Chu Qing fought Black Gold Daoist’s three hundred faces, learning their weaknesses and overpowering them while Black Gold Daoist struggled to recover his confidence. Black Gold Daoist tried to leave but returned to the fight, as the faces secretly swallowed the fighters’ blood and flesh.

• Chu Qing decided to leave Black Gold Daoist alive as a whetstone and attacked the three hundred faces instead.
• The faces overwhelmed Chu Qing, but he repeatedly killed one face as it revived and learned how the group fought.
• Chu Qing split into three hundred figures and attacked all three hundred faces, mocking Black Gold Daoist as he suppressed them.
• Black Gold Daoist recognized the gap between them and tried to leave, but Chu Qing pursued him and demanded he stay as a whetstone.
• Black Gold Daoist turned back to fight Chu Qing, while some faces secretly swallowed their blood and flesh; one face changed after consuming Chu Qing’s blood.

Chu Qing fought the copied faces and Black Gold Daoist, using the battle to test his strength and advance his New Realm comprehension. After defeating the fused face, he turned on Black Gold Daoist and refused to let him escape, leaving Black Gold Daoist fearing for his life.

• The faces copied Chu Qing's methods, multiplied, and sent tiny copies to infiltrate Black Gold Daoist while he was distracted.
• Chu Qing easily slaughtered the faces, taunted them, and kept fighting as they merged into a single powerful opponent.
• The fused face reached Black Gold Daoist's level, but Chu Qing fought it for ten minutes before using it as a hammer against Black Gold Daoist.
• Chu Qing defeated both opponents and demanded that Black Gold Daoist bring more challengers, but Black Gold Daoist tried to concede and promise a rematch.
• Chu Qing grabbed Black Gold Daoist by the shoulders and rejected the idea of a next time, asking why he did not say next life instead.

Black Gold Daoist merged with the face sent by Heaven, dramatically increasing his power and launching a fierce battle against Chu Qing. When Black Gold Daoist unleashed his strongest secret art, Chu Qing faced Great Terror and declared that he understood.

• The face sent by Heaven possessed Black Gold Daoist, merging with him and transforming his body and Dao Field as his power surged.
• Black Gold Daoist attacked Chu Qing, but Chu Qing recovered instantly and praised the force of his strike.
• Black Gold Daoist and Chu Qing fought for an hour as Chu Qing studied Black Gold Daoist’s collapsing Dao Field and taunted him.
• At the face’s urging, Black Gold Daoist burned hundreds of thousands of harvested human skins and unleashed his strongest secret art through a tiny figure wielding a crimson longsword.
• Facing Great Terror comparable to a Twilight Overlord, Chu Qing smiled, laughed, and said he understood.

Chu Qing completed the framework of his New Realm while Black Gold Daoist's secret art turned his body to ash. The New Realm swallowed his former realms and restored him, leaving Black Gold Daoist fleeing as Chu Qing pursued him.

• Black Gold Daoist used a secret art that made Chu Qing's body, realm, and foundation crumble into ash, and he declared the attack unstoppable.
• Chu Qing realized his New Realm's framework was complete, with the Reflection Realm as its foundation, the Three Great Limits and Four Great Realms as its framework, and the Heaven-Connecting Path as its main artery.
• Chu Qing formed the New Realm from a continent projection, three thousand runes, and his bloodline joined with his earliest dragon sinew, while recognizing that the path might be too difficult for anyone else to follow.
• Chu Qing's New Realm devoured his old realms and circulated Spirit and Energy fast enough to suppress the ash and restore his body.
• Black Gold Daoist panicked when Chu Qing survived his secret art and ran, but Chu Qing called him a whetstone and pursued him.

While pursuing Black Gold Daoist, Chu Qing mastered the New Realm’s Heaven-Connecting Path and runes, then created a new kind of secret transmission called a Divine Ability. He began cultivating Eye Shoots Dipper Light and drove Black Gold Daoist into a forbidden zone, where he continued gathering moonlight after testing the Divine Ability’s sunlight on his foe.

• Chu Qing chased Black Gold Daoist across the Endless Sea and through the clouds, while mastering the New Realm’s Heaven-Connecting Path and three thousand runes.
• Chu Qing analyzed Number Eighteen’s secret transmission and repeatedly tested his growing attacks on Black Gold Daoist, destroying the disguises covering his body.
• Chu Qing spent five days developing a new secret transmission, named it Divine Ability, and saw the Profession Slot reveal Eye Shoots Dipper Light and its initiation requirements.
• Chu Qing gathered ten dou of sunlight and splashed it from an illusory measuring scoop, forcing Black Gold Daoist to burn more than ten disguises to escape its flames.
• Black Gold Daoist fled into a forbidden zone, while Chu Qing followed and began gathering moonlight in measuring scoops.

Chu Qing pursued Black Gold Daoist into the territory of the Immovable Overlord, where the Overlord promised to kill him. When the Overlord demanded that Chu Qing apologize, Chu Qing seized him and forced his head down.

• Chu Qing froze everything across hundreds of thousands of miles with moonlight, then poured starlight over himself and felt his foundations improve.
• As Chu Qing pursued him, Black Gold Daoist sought help from his friends and followed their advice to seek refuge with an Overlord.
• Black Gold Daoist entered the Immovable Overlord's territory, begged for protection, and agreed to call the Overlord Master.
• The Immovable Overlord told Chu Qing to lower his head and apologize, while Black Gold Daoist feared the Overlord was provoking him.
• Chu Qing vanished, seized the Immovable Overlord by the scalp, and pressed down on his head while demanding an apology.

Chu Qing pursued the Black Gold Daoist after overpowering the Immovable Overlord, who vowed to fight him to the death. Cornered and abandoned by his friends, the Black Gold Daoist stopped to transfer his inheritances into his mask, then agreed to reveal the other Path Pioneers’ coordinates when Chu Qing caught him.

• The Immovable Overlord attacked Chu Qing with serpents formed from his hair, but Chu Qing crushed the serpents and slammed the Overlord’s head into the ground.
• Chu Qing promised to return and kill the Immovable Overlord, who sat down and vowed that one of them would die in their eventual fight.
• The Black Gold Daoist asked his friends for help finding a king, but they refused to rescue him and urged him to flee or accept his fate.
• The Black Gold Daoist stopped running and poured his inheritances and special abilities into his mask as Chu Qing caught up.
• Chu Qing demanded the coordinates of the other Path Pioneers, and the Black Gold Daoist agreed, prompting Chu Qing to suspect a trap.

Chu Qing killed Black Gold Daoist, used the victory to initiate his Eye Shoots Dipper Light ability, and set out to find another Path Pioneer. Black Gold Daoist’s allies learned of his death, and the chapter ended with one Path Pioneer announcing that Chu Qing had arrived at his doorstep.

• Chu Qing killed Black Gold Daoist, spared his mask, cleansed it with sunlight and moonlight, and threw it beyond the forbidden zone.
• Chu Qing initiated Eye Shoots Dipper Light and learned that killing Cursed Ones weakened the curse concealing his history.
• Chu Qing headed toward the next coordinate, seeking revenge, relief from the curse, and a chance to improve the New Realm.
• Three Path Pioneers reported that Black Gold Daoist’s Life Lamp had gone out, prompting many Path Pioneers to hide while others called for Chu Qing’s death.
• A Path Pioneer announced that Chu Qing was at his doorstep and urged those willing to fight to join him.

Chu Qing confronted a secluded schoolteacher he believed had cursed him, then defeated him after analyzing and countering his Water Mirror Dao. The schoolteacher’s foundations shattered, and Chu Qing dismissed his strength as unworthy of respect.

• Chu Qing subdued the villagers with his killing intent and confronted the schoolteacher, accusing him of being one of the Twelve Thousand Path Creators who had cursed him.
• The schoolteacher brewed tea with his Water Mirror Dao, but Chu Qing analyzed the galaxy-like tea and drank it safely.
• Chu Qing imitated the schoolteacher’s technique and served him tea made from sunlight and moonlight, nearly making his insides explode.
• The schoolteacher refused Chu Qing’s second cup and claimed the same technique would not work twice, hoping to stall until other Path Pioneers arrived.
• Chu Qing struck the schoolteacher with Eye Shoots Dipper Light and more than ten thousand secret transmissions, shattering his foundations and suppressing his consciousness.

Chu Qing defeated the schoolmaster and pursued him to the Great Tomb, where its guardians refused to let the schoolmaster enter. Chu Qing captured him and carried him away to die, while the schoolmaster’s promised secrets and pleas failed to change his fate.

• Chu Qing used the light in his eyes to injure the schoolmaster, who recognized it as an altered form of Black Gold Daoist’s ultimate killing move and fled toward the Great Tomb.
• The schoolmaster begged the Great Tomb’s guardians to let him see his master, but they refused because he had already used his chance that era.
• Chu Qing told the guardians he would kill the schoolmaster elsewhere, then seized him after an ancient Innate God and Demon smashed one group of his decoys.
• The Great Tomb’s guardians watched Chu Qing leave and returned to their stone-statue forms, choosing not to interfere.
• The schoolmaster offered Chu Qing secrets about the Great Tomb and ways to extend his lifespan, but Chu Qing said he should write a will and threw him to the ground.

Chu Qing killed the schoolmaster, who died without revealing his secrets, and the Path Pioneers grew alarmed at how quickly Chu Qing had become stronger. Chu Qing then searched the schoolmaster’s coordinates but found no one, leaving him unsure whether Black Gold Daoist had deceived him or the Path Pioneers had fled.

• The schoolmaster offered secrets and coordinates in exchange for his life, but Chu Qing refused and the schoolmaster died from Eye Shoots Dipper Light.
• Chu Qing sensed that the curse on him weakened after the schoolmaster died, and the schoolmaster’s Life Lamp went out.
• The Path Pioneers learned of the schoolmaster’s death and worried that Chu Qing had grown much stronger since killing Black Gold.
• Several cautious Path Pioneers erased their traces and hid, while the others avoided discussing how to confront Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing went to the third coordinate and searched the others, but found no Path Pioneers and wondered whether Black Gold Daoist had lied or they had fled.

Chu Qing failed to find the Path Pioneers who had cursed and ambushed him, so he asked the Square Inch Gathering for help. After learning the Pioneers were nearly impossible to locate, he threatened the organizations backing the Gathering, leaving Bi Luo convinced that Di Qing would unleash the Dao Lineage Dispute.

• Chu Qing destroyed the former homes of the Path Pioneers and asked local factions to search for them, but they had no information.
• Chu Qing asked the Square Inch Gathering to find the Path Pioneers, and Second Generation Yin Tianzi and Luo Tian explained that their Survival Path made them almost impossible to track.
• Luo Tian reported that ancient creatures were being freed from restricted zones and suggested unleashing the Dao Lineage Dispute to deal with the Path Pioneers.
• The others warned Chu Qing that the Dao Lineage Dispute would cause many deaths, while Bi Luo and Second Generation Moon God supported him.
• Chu Qing ordered the organizations behind the Gathering to locate and kill the 120,000 Path Pioneers, warning that their failure to help would make them responsible for his future actions.
• Bi Luo predicted that the organizations would refuse to help and that Di Qing would unleash the Dao Lineage Dispute.

Myth and the other Square Inch Gathering members failed to persuade their organizations to help Chu Qing find the Path Pioneers, as many leaders wanted to oppose him and welcomed a Dao Lineage Dispute. Chu Qing arrived at the gathering and said he would find the Path Pioneers himself, leaving Luo Tian to ask how.

• Myth asked several organizations to authorize contacting their former Path Pioneers, but their leaders questioned whether he was helping Forbidden Qing.
• The leaders refused to help Chu Qing, arguing that the Path Pioneers were humanity’s foundation and that Chu Qing’s growing power needed to be restrained.
• Myth warned that failing to find the Path Pioneers could drive Chu Qing to start a Dao Lineage Dispute, but the leaders welcomed the possibility.
• Second Generation Moon God, Second Generation Yin Tianzi, Third Generation Samsara, the Underworld, and others also failed to secure authorization from their organizations.
• The Square Inch Gathering members considered trying to locate the Path Pioneers themselves, but admitted they were difficult to track down.
• Chu Qing entered the Square Inch Gathering and said he would find the Path Pioneers, prompting Luo Tian to ask how.

After the Path Pioneers refused to give Chu Qing coordinates, he summoned Bright Moon, Zhao Hongxiu, Madam Shi, and the others to Stone Ridge Mountain, then answered a message calling him into the future. There, Phoenix Emperor faced an attack by more than a thousand core fortresses and invoked the Forbidden Zone creatures in the scroll.

• Chu Qing grew furious at the Path Pioneers' refusal and summoned Bright Moon, Zhao Hongxiu, Madam Shi, and the others back to Stone Ridge Mountain.
• Chu Qing received a fragmented summons from the future and connected his consciousness to its imprint.
• Phoenix Emperor realized the painting of Forbidden Taboos and Forbidden Zones had come to protect Bi Luo, as alliance fortresses turned against her.
• A core fortress attacked Phoenix Emperor's chariot, but the canopy blocked it and forced it to collide with another fortress.
• More than a thousand core fortresses formed an army formation and bombarded the chariot, while Phoenix Emperor hesitated to release the Forbidden Zone Masters.
• Phoenix Emperor invoked the Imperial Forbidden Archivist and commanded the Forbidden Zone creatures to emerge and slaughter her enemies.

Phoenix Emperor’s scroll unleashed the Forbidden Zone upon the human world, and Number Eighteen emerged to lead its assault on the Alliance. As he confronted Phoenix Emperor, she revealed that she had seen him defeated by Chu Qing a hundred eras earlier.

• Phoenix Emperor opened the scroll, sending a warning to humanity and releasing swarms of Forbidden Zone Masters.
• Number Eighteen appeared, destroyed a core fortress, killed its marshal, and turned the fortress and surrounding land black.
• The Forbidden Zone Masters hailed Number Eighteen as their king, and he shrank the fortress into a bead before ordering his forces to attack more than a thousand core fortresses.
• The Forbidden Zone Masters repeatedly revived from the bead’s Black Light and began corroding the Alliance’s fortresses.
• Number Eighteen demanded Phoenix Emperor’s rare treasure, but she said she had seen him trampled by Chu Qing a hundred eras earlier.

Phoenix Emperor and Number Eighteen unleashed vast armies of Forbidden Zone Masters against the Alliance’s Star Fortresses, while the Alliance gathered data and developed countermeasures. As Number Eighteen boasted that only Forbidden Qing could stop the Forbidden Zones, a voice asked who Forbidden Qing was.

• Phoenix Emperor told Number Eighteen she had served as Chu Qing’s secretary a hundred eras earlier and threatened to seal him in the scroll if he delayed.
• Number Eighteen ordered the Forbidden Zone Masters from his bead to attack the Star Fortresses, while Phoenix Emperor released nearly all the Masters stored in her scroll.
• Number Eighteen infected fortresses and spread the Forbidden Zones as the Alliance’s fortresses linked their databases, tested weapons, and gathered combat data.
• Phoenix Emperor’s Mother asked whether Phoenix Emperor could control the released beings, and Phoenix Emperor confirmed that she could.
• Number Eighteen claimed the Alliance could not stop the Forbidden Zones because it was not Forbidden Qing, then heard an unknown voice ask who Forbidden Qing was.