Chapter Summaries

Number Eighteen explained the conditions for Li Kuangren to compare himself to Di Qing, then mocked him for hiding behind Alliance laws and lacking Di Qing’s achievements. The First Maidservant recounted Di Qing’s rise from poverty and challenged Li Kuangren to name anything he had accomplished that matched it.

• Number Eighteen told Li Kuangren that he would first have to defeat him, then destroy a super sect and ten continents while earning the curses of 120,000 Path Pioneers to become a taboo like Di Qing.
• Li Kuangren dismissed the second condition as impossible under Alliance law and claimed that people of the Great Unification Era could not match the strength of the modern era.
• Number Eighteen ridiculed Li Kuangren for boasting under the protection of Alliance laws, while the First Maidservant and others defended Di Qing’s fearlessness.
• Li Kuangren declared that he had imperial blood and would have surpassed the Ancient People if he had lived in their era.
• The First Maidservant described how Di Qing rose from poverty to earn titles, open a New Realm, and become a Great Terror, then asked Li Kuangren what he had achieved to compare with him.

Li Kuangren repeatedly revived after First Maidservant and Number Eighteen destroyed his avatars, until Number Eighteen used a tracing technique to kill them across the continents. Li Kuangren’s teacher sealed his main body and revealed that the technique was the embryonic form of a divine ability, prompting him to ask what the first divine ability had been called.

• Li Kuangren threatened the Ancient People and Bi Luo, so First Maidservant struck him down and forced his headless body to kneel.
• Li Kuangren revived repeatedly, and First Maidservant and Number Eighteen kept attacking him as he accused them of ambushing him.
• Li Kuangren revealed that his body was a low-level mechanical avatar and claimed his high-level avatar had arrived, but Number Eighteen and First Maidservant overwhelmed him.
• Number Eighteen pierced Li Kuangren’s forehead with his killing move, which traced through and killed Li Kuangren’s avatars across the continents.
• Li Kuangren warned his masked teacher that the tracing technique was closing in, and she sealed his main body with the Minor Universe Divine Ability.
• Li Kuangren’s teacher explained that the technique was the embryonic form of a divine ability and said the first one had been created in the Great Unification Era, leaving Li Kuangren asking its name.

The Masked Woman explained that Eye Shoots Dipper Light was a primordial divine ability beyond Li Kuangren’s reach, then recognized Bi Luo as the taboo woman the Alliance was scheming against. Li Kuangren planned to continue his mission and asked his teacher for divine abilities to protect him against Number Eighteen and the First Maidservant.

• The Masked Woman told Li Kuangren that Eye Shoots Dipper Light required hundreds of other divine abilities and foundations that modern beings lacked.
• Li Kuangren argued that his many enhanced bloodlines, physiques, and other external foundations should let him learn it, but the Masked Woman said only a Great Figure’s residual blood essence had enabled the ancient Great Demon to wield it.
• The Masked Woman warned that the Great Figure’s name was taboo and could not be spoken, heard, or contemplated without causing death.
• Li Kuangren revealed that his Alliance mission involved an Ancient Person connected to a taboo Great Figure and that the Alliance wanted Bi Luo as a plaything.
• The Masked Woman recognized Bi Luo as the taboo woman and condemned the Alliance’s scheme; Li Kuangren said he planned to capture the Ancient Person and asked for divine abilities to face Number Eighteen and the First Maidservant.

Li Kuangren died after Number Eighteen's killing move reached his true body, while the Masked Woman warned her students against excavating Bi Luo. As Number Eighteen fought the alliance's fortresses, Bi Luo's servants resumed guarding her, and the Ninth Abyss Master searched for a way to break his restraints.

• The Masked Woman withdrew her protection, and Number Eighteen's attack killed Li Kuangren; mechanical spiders disposed of his body.
• The Masked Woman dismissed her students after warning them not to accept the alliance's mission to excavate Bi Luo.
• The Masked Woman changed into a scarlet robe, and a tiny goddess demon teased her about her supposed Life and Death Friendship with Di Qing.
• Number Eighteen judged the era's forbidden zone creatures weak as contaminated fortresses and revived masters battled across Extreme Joy Continent.
• The First Maidservant repaired Bi Luo's war chariot while the great demons rebuilt the Underground Palace and renewed their vow to guard her.
• The Ninth Abyss Master studied his shackles and resolved to break them so he could protect Bi Luo.

Number Eighteen expanded the forbidden zone by merging 1,001 corrupted core fortresses, while the Human Alliance debated whether to destroy the growing threat or seek it as an ally. In the forbidden zone, Number Eighteen warned its new giants to prepare for Forbidden Qing’s return, until a chained eyeball emerged through a fissure in the sky.

• Number Eighteen merged 1,001 core fortresses into the forbidden zone, which expanded more than tenfold and corrupted martial artists in nearby Star Fortresses.
• At Alliance Headquarters, members argued over whether to destroy the forbidden zone or ally with it against the Old Gods and the Abyss.
• Number Eighteen empowered several Sovereigns into new giants, who vowed to punish Forbidden Qing once their forbidden zone connected to the Origin Forbidden Zone.
• Number Eighteen warned the giants that Forbidden Qing might return and ordered them to face reality and consider how to appease him.
• A fissure opened in the sky, and a gigantic eyeball bound by chains appeared, remarking that the forbidden zone seemed familiar yet strange.

Heaven appeared before Number Eighteen, the First Maidservant, and the others, confessed that it had lost its authority and asked Number Eighteen to find and activate its former sun and moon eyes. After Heaven vanished, the forbidden zone disappeared beneath the arrival of the Great Sun Fortress, whose voice threatened the old antiques.

• Heaven's eyeball appeared and asked Number Eighteen and the others for help, promising to make them rulers of the world.
• The First Maidservant suspected Heaven had been imprisoned or defeated, and Heaven revealed that the Heaven-Connecting Martial Ancestor had suppressed one eye while Gods and Devils had plotted against the other.
• Heaven said it had lost its authority and memories, then gave Number Eighteen locations where its former sun and moon eyes might be held.
• Number Eighteen promised to release Heaven's eyes, while the First Maidservant remained focused on Eternal Bi Luo and Heaven was dragged away by chains.
• The Phoenix Emperor decided to enter a dream and tell Chu Qing about Heaven, but the forbidden zone vanished as the Great Sun Fortress appeared and threatened the old antiques.

Number Eighteen and the First Maidservant failed to stop the Alliance’s Great Sun Fortress from burning away the newly formed Forbidden Zone and slaughtering its Masters. As the fortress threatened to destroy them, Number Eighteen told Phoenix Emperor to summon Forbidden Qing through the painting.

• The Great Sun Fortress descended and used its special flames to burn away part of the Forbidden Zone.
• Number Eighteen attacked the fortress with his ultimate killing move, but its layered defenses stopped the strike.
• Number Eighteen, the First Maidservant, Phoenix Emperor, and Bi Luo’s leaders tried to fight the fortress, but its flames forced them back and burned their giants to ash.
• Number Eighteen gathered one hundred million Masters into an Army Formation, but the fortress crushed them and continued shrinking the Forbidden Zone.
• The Great Sun Fortress demanded that its enemies kneel and join the Alliance, so Number Eighteen told Phoenix Emperor to summon Forbidden Qing through the painting.

Phoenix Emperor unfurled a scroll that summoned 1.2 billion Forbidden Zone Masters and warped the sky, while a mysterious man appeared in the vortex above. Great Sun Fortress attacked Phoenix Emperor, but looking directly at the man brought devastating strikes against its true body, leaving its enormous head struggling to identify him.

• Phoenix Emperor finished unrolling the scroll, revealing 1.2 billion Forbidden Zone Masters and twisting the sky across hundreds of thousands of miles.
• The head inside Great Sun Fortress identified Phoenix Emperor as the source of the anomalies and charged at her, killing Forbidden Zone Masters and blasting aside the defenders.
• Number Eighteen and the Forbidden Zone Masters tried to stop Great Sun Fortress, while Phoenix Emperor's Mother and others fired arrows that barely pierced its outer defenses.
• The head of Great Sun Fortress learned that a mysterious man was approaching through a vast vortex and that beings who looked at him were suffering catastrophic injuries.
• The head looked directly at the man and Great Sun Fortress was struck twice, sustaining damage that its machines could not fully repair.
• The head analyzed the attacks and concluded that they grew stronger as the man drew closer, but could not determine who he was.

Big Head drove Great Sun Fortress through a time-reversing barrier toward the man in the vortex, but the man’s power overwhelmed both Great Sun Fortress and Platinum Fortress. The two fortresses ended up spinning helplessly in the man’s palm and began to sink.

• Great Sun Fortress damaged the barriers with its strike, leaving some of the damage impossible to repair, and Big Head decided he could neither flee nor keep probing.
• Big Head charged Great Sun Fortress through layers of barriers and realized the scenery was flowing backward through time, making his true body younger and stronger.
• The man reached through the final barrier, but Great Sun Fortress’s flames failed to stop his enormous hand as Big Head found himself shrinking.
• Big Head released Platinum Fortress to attack the hand, but Platinum Fortress also shrank and began spinning out of control.
• Big Head saw that the man was spinning Great Sun Fortress and Platinum Fortress in his palm, and the two fortresses began to sink.

Chu Qing was summoned from the past into a future battlefield, where his overwhelming presence destroyed fortresses and killed those who looked at him. After Phoenix Emperor explained that the Alliance was trying to seize Bi Luo, Chu Qing entered the Alliance army and demanded that its leaders come to him within a minute.

• Chu Qing emerged from the vortex, and his presence struck down or drove mad those who tried to perceive him as Great Sun Fortress and Platinum Fortress collapsed.
• Chu Qing recognized that he had arrived in the future and placed Phoenix Emperor on his fingertip, but his voice repeatedly caused her to explode before reviving her.
• Phoenix Emperor told Chu Qing that the taboo scroll had summoned him and that the Alliance sought to dig out Bi Luo and make her a plaything.
• Phoenix Emperor explained the Alliance's reach and its exploration of the stars, while Chu Qing learned he could remain in the future for only one hour.
• Chu Qing entered the Alliance army, watched weakened Star Fortresses explode, and ordered the Alliance leaders to appear within one minute.

Chu Qing demanded that the alliance higher-ups meet him, then decided to make the alliance pay for ignoring him. The higher-ups debated how to stop him, but as he moved toward the Nine Heavens, they activated their defenses and prepared for war.

• Chu Qing ignored the alliance army’s claim that they could not contact their higher-ups and considered how his power had changed after traveling through time.
• Chu Qing surveyed the hundred continents and the Mechanical Continent that formed the alliance’s core, then decided to punish the alliance.
• The council higher-ups rejected Chu Qing’s demand and debated whether they had enough forces to trap or kill him.
• The higher-ups tracked Chu Qing as he began moving upward toward the Nine Heavens.
• The alliance higher-ups ordered all defenses activated and prepared for war as Chu Qing continued toward them.

The Alliance activated its full defenses to confront Chu Qing, but mistook his continued ascent for a retreat. Chu Qing reached a field of fortresses above the Alliance headquarters, declared that its members had offended him, and began his attack.

• The Alliance awakened its continents, Mechanical Towers, Energy Furnaces, Energy Wells, and weapons for war against Chu Qing.
• Alliance members plotted to capture and humiliate Chu Qing, while he continued rising past their headquarters.
• The Alliance contacted the 100th Reserve Legion and ordered it to crush Chu Qing, believing he was fleeing.
• Chu Qing found a vast formation of Great Sun Fortresses and Platinum Fortresses and chose the area above the Alliance headquarters as his attack position.
• Chu Qing told the Alliance that it had offended him and must pay, then began to attack.

Chu Qing attacked the Alliance Headquarters by hurling its fortresses at its defensive restrictions, then endured the Headquarters’ massive counterattack without being harmed. After exhausting the fortresses on the battlefield, he walked toward the Headquarters and demanded that it pay for its actions.

• Chu Qing seized fortresses and hurled them at the Alliance Headquarters, breaking its defensive restrictions layer by layer.
• An Alliance official ordered the 100th Legion to retreat, but Chu Qing caught its fortresses before they could escape and continued throwing them.
• The Alliance Headquarters launched a massive counterattack, but Chu Qing’s Reflection Barriers absorbed the attacks and left him unharmed.
• Chu Qing threw the last of the fortresses at the Headquarters, leaving the battlefield empty of them.
• Chu Qing walked toward the Alliance Headquarters as the might of his titles swept over it, and demanded that its people pay for their stupidity.

Chu Qing attacked the Alliance headquarters, then searched several continents before his time in the era ran out. As he prepared to be pulled back, Red Robe revealed herself as Young Master Tian, an old acquaintance he both remembered and feared.

• Chu Qing destroyed a continent with Eye Shoots Dipper Light, but the Alliance's attacks shattered only a remnant of his figure while his true body landed elsewhere.
• Chu Qing crossed five continents while operating the Earth Mother Chapter, then gray-white chains began pulling him back to his original time and space.
• The Alliance searched for Chu Qing's true body but could not locate him before Red Robe arrived.
• Goddess King Bailu asked Chu Qing to tell Cui Moyang that she missed her, and Chu Qing agreed.
• Red Robe removed her mask and identified herself as Young Master Tian, surprising Chu Qing, who recalled their past and feared her ruthlessness.

Chu Qing learned from Miss Heaven that history recorded his disappearance during the Great Unification Era and a later appearance with a hole in his chest. As space-time pulled him away, he promised the Alliance brilliant fireworks and shouted his name.

• Miss Heaven recounted a hundred eras of history, including the Rebellion of the Lineages and the revival of ancient beings.
• Chu Qing learned that he had vanished during the Great Unification Era and later appeared with a huge hole in his chest.
• Chu Qing gave Miss Heaven a method and ritual for summoning him into the future.
• Chu Qing announced that he would leave the Alliance with brilliant fireworks as the chains of space-time dragged him away.
• Chu Qing seized the vortex and shouted, “My name is—Chu Qing!”

Chu Qing’s name killed nearly everyone across the Alliance’s territories, triggering the destruction of the Alliance Headquarters and continent-wide devastation. Miss Heaven resolved to rebuild the Heavenly Court, while Phoenix Emperor hoped to summon Chu Qing again as her powerful backer.

• Chu Qing’s name swept across the Alliance’s territories, killing countless beings who lacked his authorization and causing the Netherworld’s dead to wander without refuge.
• Five continents exploded, setting off collisions that shattered and scattered continents across the human world.
• Miss Heaven told the surviving Top Experts that the Alliance was finished and proposed rebuilding the Heavenly Court to unite humanity against the races of the starry sky.
• The Top Experts rejected Miss Heaven’s proposal and left, so she vowed to build the Heavenly Court and become the new Heaven.
• On the burning Extreme Joy Continent, Phoenix Emperor watched the destruction and said she wanted to summon Chu Qing again as her backer.

Chu Qing used what he learned from the future to choose the Golden Altar Path and launch a campaign to make it dominant. He and his allies began enforcing the new order across Qingzhou while preparing to expand their control to other continents.

• Chu Qing recalled Miss Heaven's account of the future and decided to focus on one Path, choosing the Golden Core Path.
• After the others arrived, Chu Qing declared that he wanted the Twelve Thousand Path Creators dead, and the group agreed to preserve the Golden Core Path.
• Chu Qing and his allies planned to force cultivation of the Golden Altar Realm in Qingzhou, expand into other continents, and ban other Paths.
• Cui Moyang, Nangong, Ming Yue, Zhao Hongxiu, and the others took on roles in enforcing and expanding the campaign, while Madam Shi used her teleportation abilities to deploy their forces.
• Stone Ridge Mountain ordered martial artists to prioritize the Golden Altar Path and gave its cultivators better rewards, leading many practitioners of other realms to switch Paths for greater benefits.

As Qingzhou expanded and grew stronger under the diminished Black Tide, Chu Qing pondered the mysteries of the future before being asked to choose a Dao lineage in the Square Inch Gathering. He backed the Golden Core path, and the others began weighing its advantages as the struggle for Dao lineages continued.

• Zhao Hongxiu and the others promoted Golden Altar cultivation while Qingzhou’s forces used the Black Tide as a battlefield and expanded toward the forbidden zones.
• Zhao Hongxiu observed that Qingzhou and Stone Ridge Mountain were flourishing, with stronger young cultivators and increasingly potent Stone Bamboo Pearls.
• Chu Qing reflected on Miss Heaven’s revelations about the future, his missing heart, and the power that his future title still possessed.
• Bi Luo urged the Square Inch Gathering to follow Chu Qing’s choice, and Chu Qing declared his support for the Golden Core path.
• Bi Luo and Luo Tian praised Golden Core’s broad methods, low threshold, and modest resource needs, while the Second Generation Moon God teased Bi Luo for always supporting Chu Qing.

Chu Qing discussed declining martial arts resources and proposed expanding and consolidating territory to create more. After agreeing on the Golden Altar path, he resolved to purge the path founders, then learned that Former Heaven was preparing to attack him and reaffirmed that he would not retreat.

• Chu Qing learned that resources were dwindling across other continents and suggested that expanding territory could generate more resources.
• Bi Luo and the others agreed to try focusing their strength on opening up continents, then the gathering returned to negotiations over the Dao Lineage Dispute.
• Everyone outwardly acknowledged the Golden Altar path, while Chu Qing resolved to eliminate the path founders outside the Golden Altar Realm.
• Luo Tian warned Chu Qing that awakened creatures in the forbidden zones, including Former Heaven, were preparing to cause him trouble.
• Chu Qing refused to run and decided to purge the path founders first because their hidden schemes made them his greatest concern.

Chu Qing attacked a Primordial Spirit Ancestor to expose the weakness of his cultivated realm and advance the struggle of Dao lineages. The Ancestor fled, leaving his forces trapped in Chu Qing’s bronze cauldron.

• Chu Qing asked Madam Shi to use the Otherfolk to locate Realm Ancestors so he could kill them and undermine their realms.
• Madam Shi used Space God Demon avatars to teleport Chu Qing to a desert where a Primordial Spirit Ancestor held sway.
• The Ancestor’s Primordial Spirit army attacked, but Chu Qing’s footsteps shattered many Primordial Spirits and damaged their true bodies.
• Chu Qing’s ice-and-fire dragons seized and crushed the Ancestor’s dragons, leaving him badly wounded.
• The Primordial Spirit Ancestor fled while claiming he would break through, and Chu Qing trapped the remaining Primordial Spirit experts inside his bronze cauldron.