Chapter Summaries

The Mountain-Bearing Overlord prepared his defenses against Chu Qing and called on the other Overlords for help. Wind-Drinking promised support but schemed to make the rescue seem like a life-saving favor, leaving Mountain-Bearing convinced they were sworn brothers.

• The Mountain-Bearing Overlord awakened his reserves, prepared his reinforced killing formation, and asked the other Overlords to help him fight Chu Qing.
• Wind-Drinking offered to assist, then delayed his departure so Mountain-Bearing would be desperate and grateful when he arrived.
• Wind-Drinking instructed his Sovereign to wait until Wind-Drinking was near death before bringing the Army Formation, hoping the rescue would earn the Sovereign a promotion.
• Mountain-Bearing welcomed Wind-Drinking's promised help and believed his defenses and ally had greatly improved his chances against Chu Qing.
• Wind-Drinking claimed Chu Qing had wounded him and sent Mountain-Bearing fabricated descriptions of Chu Qing's methods.
• Mountain-Bearing proposed that they become sworn brothers, and Wind-Drinking eagerly agreed while pretending to remain weak.

Wind-Drinking Overlord deceived Mountain-Bearing Overlord about Chu Qing’s strength and urged him to prepare for battle. Chu Qing destroyed Mountain-Bearing Overlord’s weakened Army Formation and neutralized his treasures, leaving the overlord confused as Chu Qing reached his lair.

• Wind-Drinking Overlord arrived at Mountain-Bearing Overlord’s lair, secretly restored his fat appearance after taking Great Medicine, and told Mountain-Bearing Overlord that Chu Qing would arrive within hours.
• Mountain-Bearing Overlord activated his Army Formation and discovered that his Sovereigns had left with many Immortal Ones, so he ordered the remaining Immortal Ones to gather treasures and reinforce the formation.
• Chu Qing detonated and controlled the earth veins, whose shockwaves shattered the Army Formation mountains and erased its defenders.
• Mountain-Bearing Overlord sent hundreds of treasures against Chu Qing, but Chu Qing split them apart with the Reflection Realm and contaminated them with the Blood Sea Divine Ability.
• Mountain-Bearing Overlord challenged Wind-Drinking Overlord about his inaccurate information, then saw Chu Qing appear before him.

Chu Qing and the Mountain-Bearing Overlord fought without restraint, trading devastating attacks as the giant unleashed his forbidden-zone divine mountains. The chapter ended with the two exchanging a furious barrage, while Chu Qing remained standing despite repeated blows to the head.

• Chu Qing attacked the Mountain-Bearing Overlord with thirteen divine powers, but the giant transformed into a ten-thousand-meter form and countered with Emperor Steps on the Sky.
• Chu Qing pierced the giant’s foot with Eye Shoots Dipper Light, grew to twelve thousand meters, and drove twenty-four banners and forty-eight divine powers into his body.
• Chu Qing summoned his Golden Core Dao Fruit to seal the Mountain-Bearing Overlord, trigger the divine powers inside him, and hinder his recovery.
• The Mountain-Bearing Overlord activated his two refined divine mountains, striking Chu Qing repeatedly and leaving him seeing stars, while thirty-three rings behind Chu Qing’s head absorbed some of the force.
• The Mountain-Bearing Overlord tried to smash Chu Qing’s protective rings, and Chu Qing retaliated with forty-eight arms as both fighters launched a furious barrage.

Chu Qing overwhelmed the Mountain-Bearing Overlord by exploiting his flaws, while Wind-Drinking withheld help until Mountain-Bearing was near death. Wind-Drinking finally attacked Chu Qing, who countered him with divine abilities.

• Chu Qing adapted to the Mountain-Bearing Overlord’s divine mountain and found a flaw, then stomped on Mountain-Bearing’s forehead with an array of divine abilities.
• Mountain-Bearing called for Wind-Drinking to save him, but Wind-Drinking refused until the danger became severe enough to earn him a great favor.
• Chu Qing discovered more flaws and inflicted wounds that prevented Mountain-Bearing from healing, eventually leaving his organs and head trapped in the Treasure Tree Divine Ability.
• As death approached, Mountain-Bearing promised to obey Wind-Drinking, who then sent one hundred and eight thousand winds toward Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing dismissed Wind-Drinking’s attack and unleashed divine abilities against him.

Chu Qing fought Wind-Drinking while Dan Shan struggled to escape the Treasure Tree Divine Ability. Dan Shan activated his unknown trump card, whose power devastated the forbidden zone and left both Chu Qing and Wind-Drinking facing an unexpected threat.

• Wind-Drinking attacked Chu Qing with Despair Wind, but Chu Qing’s Thirty-Three Heavens swallowed it, and he charged in with his Eye Shoots Dipper Light.
• Chu Qing used the First Illumination Person’s banner as a spear and wounded Wind-Drinking, while Dan Shan said he still needed nine seconds to break free.
• Wind-Drinking resumed his assault in changing forms, and Dan Shan’s analysis stalled as he found no flaws in Chu Qing’s divine abilities.
• Dan Shan began chanting ancient scripture, causing the two divine mountains to blaze and vaporize countless creatures, Immortals, and Sovereigns across the forbidden zone.
• Wind-Drinking asked why Dan Shan had attacked him, and Dan Shan said he had only meant to activate his trump card and had not known how powerful it was.

Mountain-Bearing Overlord transformed after his divine mountains burned him, then fought Chu Qing while Wind-Drinking Overlord became his weapon. Wind-Drinking unleashed a sack-shaped trump card that swallowed Chu Qing and Mountain-Bearing, but he discovered he could no longer control it or return to human form.

• Mountain-Bearing Overlord’s divine mountains burned him, then fused and reshaped him into a sacred, crystal-clear form.
• Mountain-Bearing attacked Wind-Drinking, sealed him, and turned him into a shoulder pole before charging at Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing and Mountain-Bearing fought across the land and forbidden zone as both grew stronger and Chu Qing developed new divine abilities.
• Mountain-Bearing grew hungry and began turning into a seal, then tried to eat the shoulder pole carrying Wind-Drinking.
• Wind-Drinking transformed into a sack and swallowed Chu Qing and Mountain-Bearing, but his trump card kept operating and trapped him in sack form.

Chu Qing watched Mountain-Bearing transform into a seal and escape, then fought Wind-Drinking as the latter became trapped in a bag. Wind-Drinking's promised reinforcements stalled far away, leaving him at Chu Qing's mercy.

• Mountain-Bearing realized his trump card was turning him into a seal, blamed Chu Qing, and begged to be killed before the seal escaped through the bag.
• Chu Qing escaped Wind-Drinking's bag and found the Overlord struggling as the bag pulled him inside.
• Wind-Drinking begged Chu Qing for help, but Chu Qing kicked him and attacked the bag instead.
• Wind-Drinking threatened to summon his army, but Chu Qing kept beating him while his underlings delayed their approach.
• Wind-Drinking's underlings realized they might arrive too late to help and wondered whether they should go at all.

Chu Qing questioned the Wind-Drinking Overlord about the trump card that had turned him into a treasure, and the Overlord realized that other Overlords might have been targeted in the same way. After Wind-Drinking was swallowed by the bag, Chu Qing saw that his plight could make the other Overlords afraid to use their trump cards and help him unite the restricted zone and the Far West Land against Heaven.

• The Wind-Drinking Overlord panicked when his reinforcements failed to arrive, and Chu Qing suggested they had never existed.
• Chu Qing asked how Wind-Drinking had obtained his trump card, and Wind-Drinking realized that it and similar Overlords' trump cards might be part of a long-running plot.
• Wind-Drinking concluded that he had been plotted against and wondered whether Chu Qing had also been targeted through his Profession Slot.
• Chu Qing rejected Wind-Drinking's attempt to compare their fates, boasting of his own achievements and urging him to warn the other Overlords about their trump cards.
• Wind-Drinking agreed to frighten the other Overlords into distrusting their trump cards, then the bag swallowed him and flew away after hesitating before Chu Qing.

Chu Qing pursued and fought the bag’s replicated Wind-Drinking, gaining insight into its unfamiliar cultivation system before the treasure shattered and partly escaped. He learned that its owner came from the Chaos Sea and had a teacher, leaving him wondering what had once gravely wounded Liuli there.

• Chu Qing chased the bag through the lava and battled a replicated Wind-Drinking while the Thirty-Three Heavens helped block its attacks.
• The bag produced a wiser Wind-Drinking replica, who pleaded for mercy and explained that the treasure had taken ten epochs to mature, but Chu Qing kept fighting him.
• As they fought, Chu Qing studied the replica’s bizarre methods and questioned whether he came from the Chaos Sea, another world, or the darkness.
• The replica turned back into the bag and tried to flee, but the Thirty-Three Heavens suppressed some fragments after it shattered, absorbing them to aid its own evolution.
• Chu Qing concluded the bag’s owner was not stronger than Liuli and wondered what monster in the Chaos Sea had once gravely injured her.

Chu Qing headed toward the second overlord’s coordinate as overlords discovered that their long-guarded trump cards had been planted as part of a scheme, one that had also ensnared the Dawn King. The Dawn King ordered the overlords to gather with their weapons and foundational treasures to wage war against Heaven, despite their fear that the battle would force them to use their trump cards.

• Chu Qing recovered from his thoughts, declared Heaven his greatest enemy, and led the Platinum Flame Great Dragons toward the second coordinate point.
• Overlords compared their trump cards and realized that most had received them through identical opportunities, suggesting someone had been plotting against them for many eras.
• The overlords contacted the Dawn King, who revealed that he too had obtained the same kind of opportunity and possessed an unused trump card.
• Some overlords considered hiding or killing themselves to prevent their trump cards from being turned into treasures, while the Dawn King explained that Chu Qing, Heaven, or even one another could force them to use their cards.
• The Dawn King ordered the overlords to bring their weapons and foundational treasures to him so they could wage war against Heaven, leaving them worried that the battle would force them to use their trump cards.

Dawn King explained that Chu Qing was forcing the restricted-zone Kings to stop fighting among themselves and unite against Heaven, which was also threatened by the approaching Nirvana Path. The Kings weighed their fear and pride against the danger of delay and concluded that they had to cooperate.

• Dawn King told the magnates that Chu Qing wanted to provoke them into fighting Heaven and warned that internal conflict would weaken their chances.
• Dawn King contacted the other Kings, who recognized Chu Qing’s plan but disagreed over whether to attack Heaven or eliminate Chu Qing first.
• Dawn King argued that Heaven had failed to resist the Nirvana Path and was harming humanity, so the Kings should remove Heaven before facing the foreign threat.
• Dawn King urged the Kings to act rather than keep preparing, appealing to their chance to seize Heaven’s authority and earn lasting fame.
• The Kings considered the risks of fighting Chu Qing separately and agreed that they had to cooperate.

Chu Qing prepared to attack Heaven and reached an agreement with the Dawn King to launch a joint war in one month. He began mobilizing allies and forces, while threatening the outsiders if they refused to join the fight.

• Chu Qing destroyed a forbidden-zone nest while searching for its giant, but the Dawn King emerged and announced that the Kings agreed to cooperate with him.
• Chu Qing told the Dawn King that he wanted to eliminate Heaven before a star-destroying darkness arrived, and the Dawn King condemned Heaven and agreed to fight it.
• Chu Qing and the Dawn King agreed to mobilize their forces and begin the attack on Heaven one month later.
• After the Dawn King left to rally the forbidden zones and their allies, Chu Qing told Madam Jin to prepare Golden Core experts to fight the Emissaries of Heaven.
• Chu Qing instructed the Princess Consort to contact the outsiders and threatened to eliminate them personally if they refused to act against Heaven.

Chu Qing prepared the Others, martial artists, Gods and Devils, and demons for a long war against the Angel Envoys while arranging for Qiu Wudi's heart to help him understand Heaven's techniques. He gathered everyone in the Inch Gathering and declared that he would kill Heaven in thirty days.

• Chu Qing assigned Old Ancestor Bai Ge to establish communication networks and had Lan Lan, Round Face, and the others help Hongxiu and the Empress secure Qingzhou's resources.
• Chu Qing ordered the demons to breed more of their kind and fight the Angel Envoys, while the six Innate Gods and Demons combined into a flying giant and set off to grow stronger.
• Chu Qing told Qiu Wudi's heart that he intended to kill Heaven, and she agreed to guard Stone Ridge Mountain while teaching him techniques from their ancient battles.
• After studying Qiu Wudi's remembered techniques, Chu Qing concluded that he would have to fight Heaven head-on and find a way to remove its authority.
• Chu Qing summoned everyone in the Inch Gathering and announced that he would kill Heaven in thirty days.

Chu Qing and the others discovered that the Square Inch Land had developed a consciousness and confronted the figure claiming to be the Square Inch Martial Ancestor. After beating it and examining its memories, they learned the real Square Inch Martial Ancestor had been suppressed, while the realm’s newly awakened consciousness had posed as him.

• Luo Tian and the others sensed the Square Inch Land react when Chu Qing spoke of killing Heaven, and they called for the Square Inch Martial Ancestor to appear.
• A blurry figure emerged, warned Chu Qing that Heaven was too dangerous, and threatened to bar him from using the Square Inch Land.
• Chu Qing attacked the figure, and Bi Luo and the others joined in beating it until Second Generation Moon God examined its memories.
• Second Generation Moon God discovered that the figure was a consciousness born from the Square Inch Land, while the real Square Inch Martial Ancestor had been suppressed.
• Chu Qing wondered whether a consciousness connected to the Heaven-Connecting Path could communicate with other Heaven-Connecting Paths.

Chu Qing used the Inch of Land’s method to contact the Heaven-Connecting Martial Ancestor and found Lian Hongchen’s Heaven-Connecting Path. He met a miniature consciousness first, then the true Lian Hongchen appeared and explained that she needed a suitable body or at least a limb before she could help suppress the sun and moon.

• Chu Qing learned how to send messages between realms and used the method to seek the Heaven-Connecting Martial Ancestor’s help against the sun and moon.
• Chu Qing received a reply and traveled to the Martial Ancestor’s towering, white-jade Heaven-Connecting Path.
• Chu Qing met a tiny consciousness called Lian Hongchen, who explained that she was born from the Heaven-Connecting Path and was not the original Lian Hongchen.
• The miniature Lian Hongchen revealed that the original was recovering after Heaven injured her and that she feared being erased if the original awakened.
• The true Lian Hongchen appeared and told Chu Qing that she lacked sufficient strength to suppress Heaven’s eyes without a suitable body or at least a limb.

Chu Qing learned that Lian Hongchen could fight Heaven if she had a suitable body, and he planned to prepare powerful Mechanical Emperors as vessels for her. After returning to the Square Inch Gathering, he found the Square Inch Martial Ancestor telling stories and being whipped by Second Generation Moon God.

• Lian Hongchen told Chu Qing that he needed to obtain the title of Martial Ancestor before his body could bear her Heaven-Connecting Path.
• Chu Qing explained the approaching darkness and the restricted zones, and Lian Hongchen said Heaven would flee when the darkness arrived.
• Lian Hongchen asked Chu Qing to prepare strong bodies because she could use each vessel only once, and Chu Qing decided to capture insane Mechanical Emperors.
• Chu Qing left Lian Hongchen's world and returned to the Square Inch Gathering, where the Square Inch Martial Ancestor was recounting ancient secrets to Luo Tian, Bi Luo, Heavenly Court, and the others.
• The Square Inch Martial Ancestor ordered the others to beat Chu Qing, but Second Generation Moon God whipped him until he agreed to keep telling his stories.

Chu Qing and the others rejected Square Inch Martial Ancestor’s claim that it meant to help them fight Heaven, suspecting it was hiding its true purpose. They planned new communication and teleportation treasures, then decided to abandon the Square Inch Gathering and seal off every way of entering it.

• Square Inch Martial Ancestor shared secrets about other Martial Ancestors, but Chu Qing and the others doubted its claims and demanded to know its true purpose.
• Square Inch Martial Ancestor said it wanted to help them fight Heaven, but the group dismissed its appeals and mocked its attempt to threaten them.
• Chu Qing and the others agreed to forge exotic treasures for communication, teleportation, and combat, linking them to the Atmospheric Exotic Treasures across the continents.
• Chu Qing announced that he would abandon his Square Inch title and never return to the Square Inch Gathering, and the others agreed to abandon their titles as well.
• Myth proposed sealing every method of entering the Square Inch Gathering, and Chu Qing supported the plan to make the world forget the place.

Chu Qing prepared communication and teleportation treasures as a contingency for the coming battle against Heaven, then sealed the crazed Mechanical Emperors on Stone Ridge Mountain. He went to the Endless Sea to discuss the Green Hand and the battlefield plan, but Nangong warned that it might summon the darkness instead.

• Chu Qing and the others abandoned the Square Inch Gathering after sensing something was wrong with the Square Inch Martial Ancestor, who wept over being left alone.
• Chu Qing organized the creation of communication and teleportation treasures stocked with resources, revival materials, and an Inch of Time so the group could survive and rebuild if their attempt to kill Heaven failed.
• The others added resources from their organizations to the treasures, and Chu Qing accepted them after they insisted, placing much of the surplus on Stone Ridge Mountain for the maidservants.
• Chu Qing traveled to the forbidden zone and suppressed and sealed the crazed Mechanical Emperors on Stone Ridge Mountain for possible use in the battle against Heaven.
• Chu Qing went to the Endless Sea to ask the Green Hand's guards to join the fight against Heaven's Emissaries, but Nangong warned that the Green Hand might escape or draw down the darkness.

Chu Qing chose to prioritize Qingzhou and Stone Ridge Mountain over Heaven and the Human World Organization, then brought the people suppressing the Green Hand to Qingzhou. The newcomers were stunned by Qingzhou’s prosperity and its rapid rise toward becoming a holy land.

• Chu Qing told Nangong he cared only about protecting Qingzhou or Stone Ridge Mountain, and Nangong agreed that saving Stone Ridge Mountain was enough.
• Chu Qing explained his decision to the others suppressing the Green Hand, and they agreed that Qingzhou’s safety mattered more than Heaven or the wider world.
• The group reinforced the Green Hand’s seal with specially forged treasures, steel cities, and mechanical Golden Core Dao Fruits, weakening it before departing for Qingzhou.
• The newcomers arrived in Qingzhou and marveled at its countless Golden Cores, widespread martial arts practice, cheap secret medicines, and gifted newborns.
• Visitors admired the aerial palaces above Stone Ridge Mountain and learned they were linked to Qingzhou’s earth veins.
• As more beings arrived, they praised Lord Di Qing for transforming Qingzhou from a backwater into a splendid continent within a few hundred years.

Humanity prepared Qingzhou and Stone Ridge Mountain for a massive war while Heaven discovered the rebellion taking shape among humans, the forbidden zones, and the Old Heavens. Heaven awakened its forces and declared that it would answer the coming challenge with war.

• Chu Qing, Madam Shi, Mingyue, and their allies organized Qingzhou as a command center, built teleportation arrays, and expanded the production of resources across Stone Ridge Mountain.
• Heaven's absolute rationality noticed ancient beings emerging from the forbidden zones and the Old Heavens gathering weapons across the Far West Land.
• Heaven deduced that Chu Qing and humanity were preparing to kill it, as people cursed it, destroyed its temples, and used strange treasures to counter its calamities.
• Human Heaven dismissed the rebels as weak but began adjusting its defenses and preparing to respond.
• Heaven awakened Angel Envoy legions, reclaimed some Envoys from the forbidden zones, and sent War Fortresses toward the continents.