Chapter Summaries

Chu Qing completed the embryonic forms of forty-nine divine ability treasures and arranged for Dao Fruits to strengthen them as he prepared for future battles. Meanwhile, the Harvesters’ efforts to recruit forbidden-zone prisoners strained their resources and unity, culminating in a female Harvester being forced to submit for the supposed greater good.

• Chu Qing spent a year forging forty-nine embryonic divine ability treasures while his allies cultivated the Dao Fruit system and Stone Ridge Mountain’s forces expanded.
• Madam Jin advanced the Great Sun Chariot and Platinum City Wall more than three hundred thousand li toward the forbidden zones, holding back the weakened Black Tide.
• Chu Qing discovered that his divine ability treasures affected his realm treasures and placed Dao Fruits on them to speed their growth.
• Madam Shi, Nangong Mingyue, and the other women also used their Dao Fruits to strengthen Chu Qing’s treasures.
• The Harvesters recruited forbidden-zone prisoners, but the prisoners consumed their reserves and fueled disputes among them.
• A newly arrived prisoner demanded a female Harvester as its forbidden possession, and the other Harvesters suppressed and forced her to comply.

The Harvesters began killing Realm Ancestors to seize their seats, while Chu Qing warned the Land of an Inch about the coming darkness and granted its leaders unlimited projections of himself. As the leaders prepared to hunt for seats, conflict erupted among the Harvesters because the female Harvester had betrayed her assignment.

• The female Harvester accepted a mission to persuade a prisoner, demanded human skin and resources, then used the resources for herself and attacked the Realm Ancestors of the Totem, Visualization, and Blood Qi realms.
• Chu Qing heard that the Thought Pioneer had killed three Realm Ancestors and worried that the Harvesters might target Bi Luo and the others.
• Mythology, Heavenly Court, Luo Tian, and Chu Qing declared that they would prioritize their own survival, while several leaders said they would hunt Realm Ancestors to gain seats and strength.
• Chu Qing warned the Land of an Inch that the darkness could be worse than the Black Tide and gave everyone unlimited authority to project him as protection against powerful enemies.
• The Land of an Inch leaders began searching for Realm Ancestors to kill, and conflict arose among the Harvesters because of the female Harvester.

A female Harvester betrayed her team by harvesting Realm honorific positions, sparking a wave of defections and infighting among the Harvesters. When she warned Chu Qing that the remaining Harvesters were assembling to assassinate him, he refused to hide and demanded their gathering coordinates.

• The female Harvester harvested Realm Ancestors for herself, destroyed the Harvesters' communication treasure, and hid before the ancient Harvesters could find her.
• The Four Directions announced that the Extreme Path Opener had killed two Realm Path Openers and gained eight Ancestor titles, prompting more Harvesters to harvest honorific positions for themselves.
• Harvesters abandoned the Army Formation and their prisoners, while the remaining group decided to gather experts and attack Chu Qing together.
• The female Harvester warned Chu Qing about the planned ambush and offered to remove her curse, but Chu Qing refused to hide and asked for the attackers' gathering coordinates.

The female Harvester sought refuge with Chu Qing and gave him the coordinates of a gathering of Harvesters plotting to kill him. Chu Qing teleported there and began killing the Wine Immortal Harvester, while Madam Shi punished the female Harvester by making her kneel for ten years.

• The female Harvester assured Chu Qing she meant him no harm and gave him the coordinates of the Harvesters’ gathering.
• Madam Shi used her power to crack the female Harvester’s body and true body, then ordered her to kneel for ten years.
• At the coordinates, three Harvesters waited for their allies and discussed their plan to kill Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing arrived by teleportation and seized the Wine Immortal Harvester, attacking his consciousness with Eye Shoots Dipper Light until it collapsed.
• Chu Qing stuffed the Wine Immortal Harvester’s own wine-turned Fire Dragons into his mouth and demanded that he drink and compose a lyric.

Chu Qing used his newly created Lung and Stomach Divine Abilities to kill the three Harvesters who had ambushed him, then waited for more enemies to arrive. The Harvesters and forbidden-zone prisoners listening from across the continents hesitated, knowing that whoever appeared first would likely die.

• Chu Qing killed Wine Immortal Harvester and frightened the two remaining Harvesters into paralysis.
• Chu Qing used his Lung Divine Ability on one Harvester, whose killing move crumbled before it could reach him.
• After the Harvester attacked again, Chu Qing's Lung Divine Ability destroyed him in seconds.
• Chu Qing revealed that his divine abilities combined the Dao Fruit system, martial arts, and his New Realm, then dissolved the final Harvester with his Stomach Divine Ability.
• Chu Qing challenged the enemies listening through the communication exotic treasure to descend and attack him, but the treasure self-destructed and no one appeared.
• Harvesters and forbidden-zone prisoners debated gathering elsewhere or destroying Qingzhou Continent, while others argued that Chu Qing himself had to be killed.

The Harvesters sent five Pioneers to Qingzhou to seize one of Chu Qing’s women, hoping to weaken him, but they found Madam Shi surrounded by allies and hundreds of millions of Golden Cores. When Golden Body tried to withstand Madam Shi’s attack, her golden light pierced his defenses and remained even after he restored his true body.

• The Harvesters debated whether Chu Qing cared about his women and chose Divine Wind, Ice Soul, Golden Body, Swift Movement, and Shadow to abduct people in Qingzhou.
• The five Pioneers arrived at Madam Shi’s location and found a female Harvester kneeling before her, pleading for forgiveness on behalf of the Harvesters.
• Madam Shi summoned her allies, who surrounded the five Pioneers with hundreds of millions of Golden Cores and twelve enormous exotic treasures.
• The female Harvester demanded that the five kneel or die, but Golden Body dismissed the gathered forces as weaklings.
• Madam Shi and another woman attacked Golden Body, and their golden light penetrated his defenses and remained after he restored his body.

Bright Moon and the others used a torrent of hundreds of millions of Golden Cores to trap and kill the Harvesters. Golden Body, Ice Soul, Shadow, and Divine Wind died, while the two remaining Founders were still under attack.

• Bright Moon unleashed a torrent of Golden Altars against Golden Body while Madam Shi and the others attacked the Harvesters with their divine powers.
• Divine Wind fled but was forced back by the Golden Altar encirclement, then joined Shadow in a failed attempt to break through.
• Golden Body was pierced by the Golden Altars and turned to ash, followed by Ice Soul after his defenses were overwhelmed.
• Shadow knelt and begged for his life, but the Golden Core torrent ground him into nothingness.
• Divine Wind demanded a dignified one-on-one fight, but three hundred million Golden Cores pierced him until he vanished.

After Stone Ridge Mountain’s Golden Cores killed the Harvesters who attacked Chu Qing’s women, the other Harvesters lost their nerve and abandoned plans to pursue him. Chu Qing learned that Mingyue controlled Qingzhou’s vast Golden Core forces and that the First Illumination Person considered Mingyue’s Golden Core her New Realm.

• The last Harvester sent a warning that Qingzhou’s defenders had been badly wounded, then died beneath hundreds of millions of Golden Cores.
• The Harvesters debated sending reinforcements to capture Chu Qing’s women, but none volunteered to scout or fight Chu Qing.
• A broadcast announced that a Path Pioneer had harvested a Realm Ancestor, and the Harvesters began crushing their communication treasures and giving up on hunting Chu Qing.
• After waiting for his enemies, Chu Qing contacted Madam Shi and learned that nine hundred million Golden Cores had killed the Harvesters who attacked her group.
• Madam Shi explained that Mingyue controlled Qingzhou’s Golden Cores, and that the First Illumination Person called Mingyue paired with a Golden Core her New Realm.

Chu Qing learned that the Harvesters had been deceived into targeting him and hunted down their gathering group. He used his newly mastered Bone Divine Ability on one Harvester, turning his skull into a guard as he prepared to make the others his companions.

• Chu Qing had Madam Shi force a captured female Harvester to reveal several gathering coordinates.
• A group of Harvesters learned that their companions had failed to kill Realm Ancestor Luo Tian, but chose to target her anyway to claim a realm throne.
• The Harvesters discovered they lacked materials for their ritual apparatus, then Chu Qing appeared and blocked their exit.
• Chu Qing used his Bone Divine Ability to strip a Harvester down to his bones and transform his skull into a guard.
• The transformed Harvester received the message, “Go, make them your companions!”

Chu Qing slaughtered dozens of Harvesters with his White Bone Demon Gods and other Divine Abilities, then sent their vast stockpile of resources to Madam Shi. He reached a second Harvester coordinate, where a young alien awaited him and learned that Chu Qing intended to record his disrespect as his greatest crime.

• Chu Qing turned the Harvesters he defeated into White Bone Demon Gods, then killed all forty or fifty Path Pioneers as they tried to flee.
• The Four Directions announced the deaths, leaving people shocked that Chu Qing had killed dozens of Path Pioneers.
• Chu Qing inspected the Harvesters' nests and asked Madam Shi to send avatars to collect their mountain of resources.
• Madam Shi warned Chu Qing that the remaining Harvesters would be on guard, but he teleported to the second coordinate anyway.
• Chu Qing found a young alien cooking in a deserted valley and told him his disrespect toward Chu Qing was the greatest evil.

Chu Qing rejected the Qi and Blood Pioneer's offer to join forces against Heaven and attacked the alien's avatar. The Pioneer blocked a series of Chu Qing's divine abilities while Chu Qing secretly used one to trace the location of his true body.

• The Qi and Blood Pioneer proposed that he and Chu Qing cooperate against the restricted zones and Heaven, but Chu Qing refused to share Heaven's authority.
• Chu Qing pierced the Pioneer's human-skin avatar with one finger and unleashed the White Bone Demon God divine ability.
• The Pioneer repelled the attack and used his red-vortex eyes to make Chu Qing's Qi and blood surge, revealing himself as a Qi and Blood Pioneer.
• Chu Qing used the Wind of Sighs and then unleashed more embryonic divine abilities, while the Pioneer blocked each attack and searched for their flaws.
• Chu Qing secretly used a divine ability to follow the Pioneer's consciousness and trace his true body's location.

Chu Qing fought the Qi and Blood Pioneer, whose true body narrowly survived his strange Divine Abilities. After learning that Chu Qing might have found a new cultivation system in the Endless Sea, the ancient Pioneers decided to search for the opportunity he had discovered.

• The Qi and Blood Pioneer recognized Chu Qing's concealed Divine Ability and tried to persuade him to join forces against Heaven.
• Chu Qing mocked the Pioneer for his hypocrisy and attacked with two Divine Abilities, destroying his human-skin body and sending the rest after his true body.
• The Qi and Blood Pioneer used human-skin clones and rare treasures to resist Chu Qing's Divine Abilities, then misdirected them and escaped their pursuit.
• The Qi and Blood Pioneer shared what he had learned with the other ancient Pioneers, who realized Chu Qing's Divine Abilities came from an unfamiliar cultivation system.
• The Pioneers speculated that Chu Qing found the system in the Endless Sea and resolved to follow his trail there.

Chu Qing refined his divine abilities after battling a blood-and-qi Pioneer, then returned to Stone Ridge Mountain, where Celestial God urged him to join the Harvesters against Heaven. Chu Qing refused, insisting he would kill Heaven himself, and Celestial God warned him that the Harvesters had allied with Former Heaven, the forbidden-zone kings, and some Martial Ancestors.

• Chu Qing's divine abilities improved through deduction, and he suspected Eye Shoots Dipper Light absorbed the mysteries of the others.
• Chu Qing returned to Stone Ridge Mountain, observed the maidservants investigating the abyss, and met Celestial God at an aerial palace.
• Celestial God said the Harvesters had asked him to persuade Chu Qing to join their effort to kill Heaven.
• Celestial God proposed using the Harvesters as cannon fodder before his legions wiped them out, but Chu Qing refused to cooperate with them.
• Chu Qing said he would become Heaven himself and could kill Heaven with or without Dao Fruits.
• Celestial God warned Chu Qing that the Harvesters had allied with Former Heaven, the kings of the forbidden zones, and some Martial Ancestors, and Chu Qing replied that he could die and start again.

Chu Qing spoke with Heaven, who revealed that Annihilation would eventually erase the starry sky and human world, though Heaven planned to survive in a shelter. Chu Qing rejected Heaven’s prediction, saying that in the future he had seen, there was no sign of Annihilation or the Black Tide.

• After the Celestial God left, Chu Qing prepared to inspect his forty-nine divine ability treasures, but Heaven appeared through a Reflection Method and made him sense great danger.
• Heaven explained that it had stopped suppressing its human side and now cared less about the world's fate, while still claiming to be Heaven.
• Heaven told Chu Qing it had seen Annihilation at the end of the Endless Sea and believed the darkness would eventually consume the starry sky and humanity.
• Heaven said it had built a shelter in the darkness and planned to survive with selected beings, then create a New World after Annihilation receded.
• Chu Qing challenged Heaven’s certainty and said Annihilation would not destroy humanity because he had seen no trace of it or the Black Tide in the future.

Chu Qing told Heaven that the future he visited had no Heaven, prompting Heaven to argue that Annihilation made such a future impossible. After setting aside their disagreement, Chu Qing asked Heaven about its sins and the bearers of sin, but Heaven refused to answer.

• Heaven asked Chu Qing about the future, and he said there was no Heaven there a hundred eras later.
• Heaven insisted Annihilation could not be resisted and suggested Chu Qing's future vision was a dream or delusion.
• Chu Qing decided to wait a few hundred years to learn whether Annihilation would consume the world.
• Heaven said its human consciousness had wanted to see Chu Qing and acknowledged that he had freed it from absolute rationality.
• Chu Qing asked Heaven what its sins were and why it created bearers of sin, but Heaven refused to answer in exchange for the favor of saving its human consciousness.

Chu Qing questioned Heaven about Heavenly Calamity and its plans, then inspected his divine ability treasures and realized they could preserve his knowledge and help future generations survive extinction. He arranged for maidservants to cultivate the dangerous Dao Fruit System, and as applicants signed up, Mingyue promised to protect them from the Green Hand—though she was unsure she could.

• Heaven refused to explain Heavenly Calamity or capture a Forbidden Zone King, then said it planned to leave and see the world it had guarded before creating it anew after extinction.
• After Heaven vanished, Chu Qing resolved to grow stronger and inspected his divine ability treasures, recognizing that they could preserve his martial knowledge and shelter future generations if darkness consumed the world.
• Chu Qing concluded that more Dao Fruit cultivators could accelerate the treasures' growth and asked Mingyue to arrange for ten people to cultivate the system.
• Mingyue informed the maidservants about the dangerous but powerful Dao Fruit System, and Phoenix Emperor, Di Yu'er, and many others signed up.
• Mingyue gave several maidservants cultivation methods and told them to withstand the Green Hand's attack until she could intervene, but she admitted she might not be able to block it.

Mingyue and the other women helped the maidservants cultivate the Dao Fruit system, enabling them to defeat the Green Hand attacks. As the maidservants grew stronger and their numbers swelled, the Green Hand’s repeated assaults failed, and it ended by threatening them with punishment from the Dark Sea.

• The first maidservant cultivated Dao Fruits and, with Mingyue, Cui Moyang, the Princess Consort, and the others, destroyed the Green Hand.
• Mingyue and Madam Shi selected a hundred maidservants to cultivate, and the first maidservant raised all thirty-six Dao Fruits to twelve colors.
• As more maidservants completed their Dao Fruits, the Green Hand stopped appearing, so Chu Qing ordered everyone to keep cultivating and prepare to attack together if it returned.
• Hundreds of millions of Golden Cores and hundreds of thousands of Dao Fruits destroyed the Green Hands as they repeatedly descended, without Chu Qing or Madam Shi intervening.
• The Green Hand cursed the future’s living beings and threatened them with the Dark Sea, while Chu Qing dismissed its warning.

After the Green Hand’s retreat, Chu Qing and his allies watched the Dao Lineage Dispute intensify even as the Black Tide swallowed continents. Chu Qing insisted the war must continue until the Golden Core Realm became the sole primary path, leaving the Square Inch Gathering fearful that the human world might fall before the dispute ended.

• The maids advanced to Golden Core Dao Fruit, while Chu Qing and the others warned that the Green Hand might return; Bright Moon said death in the coming battles was unavoidable.
• The Dao Lineage Dispute expanded to stronger martial artists and grew more brutal as the Black Tide intensified, rulers appeared on the front lines, and a high-grade continent fell.
• Myth told the Square Inch Gathering that the Dao Lineage Dispute could no longer be stopped, while Chu Qing argued that it had to continue until it produced a result.
• Second Generation Yin Tianzi, Second Generation Moonfall, and others urged Chu Qing to preserve the three thousand remaining Dao lineages, but Chu Qing argued that Great Unification and the Golden Core Realm as the sole primary path were necessary.
• The Square Inch Gathering fell silent as Chu Qing reaffirmed that the dispute must continue, while even its former advocates feared the Black Tide would consume the continents before the war ended.

Bi Luo and the others agreed to keep advancing Great Unification and the Dao Lineage Dispute at Chu Qing’s request. Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er checked the future for changes and found that historical ripples were causing mirages and disruptions to spread across the Human World.

• Bi Luo persuaded the Square Inch Gathering that they no longer needed to fear the Dao Lineage Dispute, and everyone agreed to follow Chu Qing’s plan.
• Chu Qing asked Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er to return to the future and see whether his actions had changed history.
• Di Yu'er sealed a memory and compared it with the future’s records, finding that the Alliance’s fall and other major events remained unchanged.
• Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er noticed news of mirages appearing on the Far East Continent and suspected that historical ripples had reached the future.
• More mirages appeared, causing people to lose knowledge of the Visualization Path and plunging the Human World into chaos.

Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er discovered that Lord Di Qing’s actions across a hundred eras were rewriting history, erasing the Visualization cultivation system and replacing it with the Golden Core Realm. As the changes spread and Stone Ridge Mountain’s ancient war weapons appeared, Di Yu'er feared the world was collapsing.

• People across the world found that the Demon Hunting Alliance had collapsed and that Visualization Realm methods and records were vanishing as Golden Cores formed in some cultivators’ bodies.
• Di Yu'er and other experts determined that mirages had affected people and records across areas roughly ten continents wide, with the impact varying by distance.
• Phoenix Emperor found that records of Yu founding the Demon Hunting Alliance had changed, while some people still remembered the original history and others accepted the altered version.
• Phoenix Emperor argued that Lord Di Qing had changed history and might bring them into the Great Unification Era, but Di Yu'er doubted it was possible.
• Over the following days, the Golden Core system spread, historical events and deaths changed, and strange creatures emerged from newly appeared ruins.
• Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er identified the creatures as Construction Gods and Demons, war weapons created by Stone Ridge Mountain, and Di Yu'er feared the world was finished.