Chapter Summaries

Chu Qing traveled across the darkened continents, teaching survivors martial arts and the Golden Core path so they could create safe zones with their Dao Fruits. After bringing hope to the Dao Fruit Continent, he set out to return, but the world around him suddenly transformed into a bright landscape.

• Chu Qing left Li Xue and the others after agreeing to leave them descendants, and he used the Reflection Method to place the sun and moon over their settlement for protection.
• Three years later, Li Xue and the others gave birth to Chu Qing's descendants, whose Golden Core Dao Fruits created smaller safe zones and whose presence inspired surviving humans.
• Chu Qing traveled from continent to continent, teaching martial arts and the Golden Core path as he found that the growing number of Dao Fruits seemed to thin the darkness.
• On the Dao Fruit Continent, Chu Qing created a million-meter safe zone and taught its survivors how to cultivate Golden Core Dao Fruits, allowing one expert to carve out a safe zone himself.
• After leaving the sun and moon over several settlements, Chu Qing decided to return, but the darkness vanished around him and he found himself amid blue skies, green mountains, and clear waters.

Chu Qing spoke with the last Emperor of the ancestral land, who revealed that the continent’s people were dead and warned him about the darkness and the danger of spreading the Golden Core Dao Fruit system. When Chu Qing emerged at the boundary of darkness and activated his Dao Fruit, a Great Terror attacked him with a Green Hand.

• Chu Qing met the last Emperor inside an illusion of the ancestral land, where the Emperor explained that the people there were dead and their obsessions had endured because of Chu Qing’s Golden Core Dao Fruit.
• The last Emperor warned Chu Qing not to cultivate or spread the Dao Fruit system in the human world, since the darkness’s Great Terror could retaliate against him and his clan.
• The last Emperor described how the darkness had swallowed continents, spawned powerful beings, and sent a Great Terror whose hand had taken his heart.
• The last Emperor urged Chu Qing to flee from darkness and asked him to save his life if he ever became strong enough.
• The illusion shattered, leaving Chu Qing at the boundary of darkness and light, where he activated his Dao Fruit and drew the Great Terror’s Green Hand toward his heart.

Chu Qing fought off the Green Hand, which tore through his chest and took a drop of his blood before he destroyed it. He discovered that the Golden Core Dao Fruit could weaken the darkness, then visited the tortoise-shell continent, where the three pioneers refused cultivation until he promised it would make them happier.

• Chu Qing used Reflection, divine abilities, and the Liuli-form anomaly with One-Way Pass to battle the Green Hand and drive it back into the darkness.
• The Green Hand tore through Chu Qing's chest and stole a drop of his blood, but he smashed it apart with One-Way Pass before it could recover.
• Chu Qing found five wounds around his heart that would take three days to heal and suspected the Green Hand had taken his future self's heart.
• Chu Qing sent his Golden Core Dao Fruit into the darkness and sensed it weaken the darkness as it landed on a continent among bones and broken treasures.
• Chu Qing traveled to the tortoise-shell continent and found the three pioneers alive in a town, where they agreed to cultivate after he told them it would make them happier.

Chu Qing tested the Dao Fruit cultivation system and discovered that its promise of resurrection triggered a lethal Green Hand, which he identified as a Great Terror bred by the rules. After reporting his findings to Bi Luo and the others, he learned that his time in the darkness had lasted far longer than the few days they remembered.

• The three founders of the Primordial Spirit, Dharma Form, and Yin Spirit paths formed Dao Fruits, briefly regained life, and were killed by the Green Hand.
• Chu Qing made an Immortal One cultivate the Dao Fruit system, and the Green Hand killed it as it began to revive.
• Chu Qing made ten thousand Immortal Ones cultivate at once and saw ten thousand Green Hands kill them, confirming that the Great Terror targeted anyone who cultivated the system.
• Chu Qing found that Forbidden Zone Masters could neither learn about nor cultivate the Dao Fruit system, then returned to the Square Inch Realm to consult Bi Luo and the others.
• Chu Qing explained the Dao Fruit system and the Green Hand at the Square Inch Gathering, and Luo Tian pointed out that Chu Qing had experienced at least a hundred years while only a few days had passed for them.

Chu Qing realized that the darkness he had crossed was a remnant of history, then told the others about its Dao Fruit cultivation system. In the Forbidden Zone, Luo Tian forced a Master to cultivate it, drew out the Green Hand, and fought it with her Thirty-Three Heavens.

• Chu Qing concluded that the people and settlements in the darkness were long dead and asked the others how history differed from the past.
• Luo Tian explained that history was fixed while the past could change, then asked Chu Qing about the martial realms of the people he had encountered.
• Chu Qing said the people in the darkness cultivated Dao Fruits and described the Karma Body System and the threat posed by the Green Hand.
• Luo Tian captured a Forbidden Zone Master, forced it to cultivate the Karma Body System, and watched it develop a Dao Fruit alongside her Golden Core.
• The Green Hand appeared, and Luo Tian used her Thirty-Three Heavens to fight it before merging into the rings and charging at it again.

Luo Tian destroyed the Green Hand with her Thirty-Three Heavens and discussed the dangers of cultivating the Dao Fruit system with Chu Qing and the others. She warned Chu Qing that the path pioneers’ backers, the mad Old Heaven, might come after him, and told him to invoke her name if he was in danger.

• Luo Tian used the Thirty-Three Heavens to crush the Green Hand, then had a Sovereign cultivate the Dao Fruit system while she recovered from her injuries.
• Luo Tian and Heavenly Court reported that powerful cultivators could destroy the Green Hand, while Heavenly Court warned that the master of the Green Hand was approaching with death and annihilation.
• Chu Qing advised weaker cultivators against pursuing the Dao Fruit system without protection, but argued that everyone would eventually face the Green Hand’s master.
• Luo Tian told the gathering that she could not return because she had more important work in the restricted zone, then discussed the Dao Fruit system with Chu Qing privately.
• Luo Tian warned Chu Qing that Old Heaven and the path pioneers’ backers might target him, and told him to claim he was her man if he needed protection.

Luo Tian told Chu Qing that the forbidden zone ended at the World Sea, and she planned to cross it in search of other worlds and cultivation systems. After reuniting with Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er, Chu Qing asked them how humanity in the future had overcome the forbidden zone and darkness.

• Luo Tian explained that an ancient powerhouse had reached the forbidden zone’s end, killed a formidable enemy, and left behind a scripture said to grant her inheritance.
• Luo Tian revealed that the forbidden zone ended at the World Sea, where other worlds floated, and said she wanted to reach it and seek new opportunities.
• After ending their contact, Luo Tian resolved to surpass her body’s limits, while Chu Qing pondered how humanity could resist the spreading darkness without relying on the Golden Core Dao Fruit.
• Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er revealed that they had been sharing the clerk’s body, and Chu Qing forgave them.
• Chu Qing asked Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er how humanity in the future had cleared away the forbidden zone and darkness.

Chu Qing learned that future records contained almost nothing about the forbidden zone or the darkness, while the struggle for Dao lineages drove the Path Pioneers and major organizations toward internal conflict. The Pioneers waited to claim honored positions, and young Mythology members challenged the old leadership.

• Phoenix Emperor told Chu Qing that records only said a great war ended with the forbidden zone vanishing, the sun falling, the moon withdrawing, and vast lands being destroyed.
• Di Yu'er said histories and an Alliance storage treasure contained no mention of darkness invasions or Dao Fruits, prompting Chu Qing to wonder whether someone had hidden the future’s history.
• The Path Pioneers learned that Primordial Spirit, Dharma Manifestation, and Yin Spirit had died, then argued over how they would divide honored positions held by multiple Realm Ancestors.
• An aged Pioneer urged the others to open a New Realm and kill its Realm Ancestor, while other Pioneers accepted that they would eventually compete against one another for positions.
• Leaders of Mythology and other organizations complained that young members were weakening old authorities and disrupting traditional embezzlement.
• Mythology members of the Square Inch Gathering used their strength and reflection killing techniques to seize authority and fight the older generation, spreading unrest through major sects.

Chu Qing resolved to erase other cultivation paths and considered destroying dozens or hundreds of continents to force the Golden Altar Path’s dominance. He contacted Yu Ji for help as she and her allies struggled to defeat a Wind Cloud Pioneer.

• The Golden Altar Path spread across Qingzhou and neighboring continents, attracting martial artists with its low resource costs and strong survivability.
• Chu Qing decided that he would erase the other paths after seeing that three thousand paths survived in the future and had removed his traces and the Reflection Realm.
• Chu Qing considered blowing up dozens or hundreds of continents and contacted Yu Ji for help.
• Madam Shi, Yu Ji, the Princess Consort, Madam Jin, Zuo Yan, and Consort Mei continued fighting a Wind Cloud Pioneer who had survived years of battle despite losing a million human skins.
• Madam Shi asked Chu Qing to help kill the Pioneer, and he agreed to teleport to them.

Madam Shi teleported Chu Qing from the Endless Sea to the battlefield, where he overwhelmed Wind Cloud Pioneer with devastating attacks. Chu Qing killed him, and the curse upon Chu Qing weakened further.

• Madam Shi used a spatial treasure and her ability to teleport Chu Qing to the battlefield.
• Chu Qing arrived and trapped Wind Cloud Pioneer beneath crushing pressure and attacks that destroyed thousands of his human-skin lives.
• Wind Cloud Pioneer unleashed Wind of Withering, but Chu Qing's Eye Shoots Dipper Light pierced through the attack and ravaged his body.
• Wind Cloud Pioneer fled, but Chu Qing merged with the phenomenon Liuli and pursued him with One-Way Pass.
• Chu Qing shattered Wind Cloud Pioneer's final human skin and killed him with a strike of One-Way Pass.
• Chu Qing said the Primordial Spirit Manifestation had helped him cultivate the method, and he felt the curse weaken.

After Chu Qing killed Wind Cloud Pioneer in three seconds, the Pioneers learned that his methods could overcome their human skins and that each death weakened his curse. The young Pioneers debated whether to keep hiding or unite against him, and the chapter ended with growing alarm that waiting would only make Chu Qing stronger.

• Chu Qing felt the curse weaken after killing Wind Cloud Pioneer, while Four Directions announced the kill to the human world.
• Powerful figures and Pioneers discussed Chu Qing’s earlier kills and wondered how he had returned so quickly from the Endless Sea.
• Ancient Pioneers used a strange treasure to review the battle and learned Chu Qing had killed Wind Cloud in three seconds while his human skins were still functioning.
• The Pioneers warned one another that Chu Qing’s kills weakened the curse and strengthened him, leaving many young Pioneers frightened by how quickly he had improved.
• The young Pioneers argued over whether to stay hidden or join forces, then feared Chu Qing might destroy continents to flush them out and urged action before he grew stronger.

Chu Qing rejected the plan to destroy continents and instead began hunting exposed Pioneers to force the rest into the open. He arrived on XX Continent to confront a fleeing Pioneer and establish his authority.

• Chu Qing told Madam Shi and the others about the darkness, the Dao Fruit system, and the Green Hand, then proposed blowing up continents to speed the Golden Core Realm’s spread.
• Madam Jin and the Princess Consort warned that destroying continents would provoke enemies and eliminate the people and potential geniuses needed to fight the darkness.
• Madam Jin proposed using Realm Ancestors and the Inch Association to search for Pioneers, while Cui Moyang suggested that killing enough would force the survivors to unite against Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing agreed to try hunting exposed Pioneers first, and the Princess Consort and Madam Jin coordinated with extraordinary beings to locate targets.
• Madam Shi teleported Chu Qing to XX Continent, where the Flesh and Blood Old Ancestor and the Force Old Ancestor had been fighting a Pioneer for seven years.
• The Pioneer fled when Chu Qing arrived, and Chu Qing stomped toward him, ordering him to kneel, repent, and beg.

Chu Qing killed one Pioneer after another, while the Old Ancestors and martial artists struggled to comprehend his overwhelming strength. As the younger Pioneers prepared to encircle and kill him, the ancient Pioneers advised them to recruit recently freed prisoners because they would not intervene themselves.

• Flesh and Blood Old Ancestor and Force Old Ancestor tried to look at Chu Qing, but his presence wounded them before they could see him clearly.
• Chu Qing killed the Golden Crow Pioneer in three seconds, then later killed the Force Pioneer and continued defeating Pioneers across the Four Directions.
• Martial artists and Pioneers reacted with alarm as announcements of further deaths spread, and the younger Pioneers argued that Chu Qing had to be stopped.
• The ancient Pioneers analyzed Chu Qing's mastery of at least five thousand Paths but refused to help, saying they were occupied with Old Heaven, Heaven, and the Forbidden Zone Kings.
• Flesh and Blood Pioneer urged the younger Pioneers to contact recently freed prisoners and recruit them for the planned encirclement and killing of Chu Qing.

The Founders debated how to kill Chu Qing and settled on testing an Army Formation that could rotate three thousand fighters through the battle. They also sought help from released prisoners, but one Founder’s attempt to recruit a hungry Primordial Ancient Mythology Creature ended with it devouring him.

• The Founders concluded that they needed to withstand Chu Qing’s attacks and coordinate a focused assault, but rejected sacrificing volunteers because Chu Qing might have absolute defense and could escape if their ambush failed.
• An Army Formation Founder proposed using his formation-chart exotic treasure to assemble three thousand Founders into an Infinite Army Formation, with each fighter facing Chu Qing for one second, and the Founders began selecting personnel for a drill.
• Founders used their agents and spies to search for prisoners Chu Qing had released, many of whom were active in restricted zones and consuming everything they encountered.
• A Founder offered his arm, leg, and heart to a weakened Primordial Ancient Mythology Creature in exchange for its help, but the creature demanded more food and ultimately swallowed him whole.

A Pioneer’s attempts to recruit creatures and prisoners to kill Chu Qing ended in humiliation, while Chu Qing and his companions debated whether Stone Ridge Mountain needed an heir. They then prepared a Golden Core Brain to combine the wisdom of ten million maids and help deduce a New Realm.

• A Primordial Creature ate a Pioneer who had tried to enlist it against Chu Qing, and the Pioneer escaped after losing more than thirty thousand human skins.
• The Pioneer sought help from a humanoid creature, which demanded sex before assisting him and then defiled him; he later resumed persuading prisoners to target Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing returned to Stone Ridge Mountain with Madam Shi and the others, but they found it difficult to produce a descendant because his bloodline had grown too powerful.
• Madam Shi and Cui Moyang argued that Stone Ridge Mountain needed no heir because its people were immortal and descendants could become weaknesses, so the group stopped worrying about producing one.
• The group began using Cui Moyang’s Sword Dao Space to deduce Chu Qing’s New Realm, and the Princess Consort proposed incorporating the maids’ wisdom through a mechanical Army Formation.
• Chu Qing built a brain-like Golden Core several hundred meters wide, filled it with fuel, and had ten million maids leave their marks on it before preparing to draw their spirits into it.

Chu Qing used the Golden Core brain and the maidservants’ combined intelligence to develop a New Realm based on divine abilities throughout the body. After deciding to forge forty-nine divine abilities with Exotic Treasures as vessels, he learned about Original Exotic Treasures and planned to contact the aberrants for more refining methods.

• Chu Qing and Cui Moyang used the Golden Core brain and Sword Dao Space to gather the maidservants, Madam Shi, and others in a shared deduction, where they constructed a mechanical army formation and explored the New Realm.
• Chu Qing rejected the proposed New Realm plans, then settled on filling a realm with divine abilities rooted in the Four Great Realms and Three Great Limits.
• Chu Qing opened a framework for the New Realm beyond the Reflection Realm but could not ordain it, so he decided to perfect its divine abilities first.
• Chu Qing planned forty-nine divine abilities carried by Exotic Treasures and used the gathered minds to complete the treasures’ initial designs.
• The Princess Consort explained that ordinary Exotic Treasures could not adapt well to evolving divine abilities and sent Chu Qing information about Original Exotic Treasures.
• Chu Qing decided to contact the aberrants and gather refining methods to design Exotic Treasures suited to his Forty-nine Divine Abilities.

Chu Qing contacted the Otherworlder Alliance to study a damaged Original Exotic Treasure, whose patterns and mechanisms helped him complete the design for a divine-ability Exotic Treasure. He left the valley planning to have the Otherworlders forge it, promising to provide the materials and rare flowers and exotic herbs as payment.

• Chu Qing reassured the top-tier Otherworlder, who feared the Harvesters’ attacks on the Alliance, and urged the Otherworlders to help him eliminate the Harvesters.
• The top-tier Otherworlder teleported Chu Qing to a concealed valley and showed him a damaged Original Exotic Treasure spanning one hundred and eight thousand li.
• Chu Qing studied the treasure’s patterns and mechanisms, combined them with his knowledge of the Dao Fruit, Reflection Realm, and divine abilities, and completed the design for his divine-ability Exotic Treasure.
• Chu Qing asked the Otherworlders to gather and help forge the treasure, offering rare flowers and exotic herbs from Stone Ridge Mountain as payment.
• When the top-tier Otherworlder said they lacked the materials, Chu Qing promised he would supply them, and rebuked the Otherworlder for suggesting he might destroy a top-tier sect to obtain them.

Chu Qing began constructing forty-nine divine power exotic treasures from Sun Moon Mountain and summoned Otherkin and Golden Altar maids to help. As the Golden Altars illuminated the mountain, Madam Shi told Chu Qing she wanted to cultivate the Dao Fruit so she could grow stronger and support him.

• The top-tier Otherkin announced that Di Qing would pay for the treasure-forging work with rare flowers and exotic herbs, and called Otherkin from other continents to help forge forty-nine treasures.
• Chu Qing selected Sun Moon Mountain, altered its earth veins, and summoned one hundred thousand Otherkin skilled in earthwork and carving to build according to his blueprint.
• Chu Qing instructed Madam Shi to send one hundred thousand maids to illuminate the divine power exotic treasure with their Golden Altars, while Madam Shi warned that depicting Dao Fruit characteristics might attract the Great Terror.
• The Golden Altar maids arrived and illuminated the mountain range, tempering the rocks and helping the Otherkin recover as they worked.
• Madam Shi told Chu Qing she wanted to cultivate the Dao Fruit to raise her cultivation and help him face the dangers closing in on them.

Madam Shi condensed multiple Dao Fruits and defeated the Green Hand while Chu Qing studied its runes. Their Dao Fruits improved when joined with the Golden Cores of 360,000 maidservants, and construction began on the first divine ability strange treasure.

• Madam Shi condensed her Dao Fruits in the Endless Sea and fought off the Green Hand with an endless stream of Innate Gods and Demons.
• Chu Qing observed three thousand runes on the Green Hand but could not reproduce its power, while Madam Shi condensed more Dao Fruits.
• Madam Shi and Chu Qing intertwined their Dao Fruits with the maidservants' Golden Cores and discovered that the Dao Fruits improved.
• Madam Shi brought maidservants to the continent until their number reached 360,000, whereupon the enhancement stopped and the maidservants' Golden Cores also grew stronger.
• Chu Qing oversaw construction of the first divine ability strange treasure, as the builders forged two enormous eyeballs from Sun Moon Mountain and assembled components around them.

Chu Qing expanded his plans to forge forty-nine Divine Ability artifacts while considering the powerful enemies he might face. Cui Moyang cultivated the Dao Fruit system and defeated the Green Hand’s attack, but warned Chu Qing that its true owner might still be alive.

• Chu Qing chose a vast mountain range to refine into a Lung Divine Ability artifact and resolved to crush anyone who stood in his way.
• Madam Shi teleported three hundred and sixty thousand maidservants and Cui Moyang to Chu Qing.
• Cui Moyang asked Chu Qing to guard her while she cultivated the Dao Fruit system, and he agreed.
• Cui Moyang used her Golden Core Sword Pellet to attack the Green Hand at several thousand times the speed of sound until it exploded.
• Cui Moyang recovered from exhaustion and suggested the Green Hand’s owner might still be alive, while Chu Qing insisted they first finish forging his Divine Ability artifacts.