Chapter Summaries

Chu Qing and his allies expanded the gateways into the Decaying World, where Golden Cores helped burn away decay while Qingzhou's missing landmarks raised new questions. Chu Qing continued searching for Heaven and encountered an unfamiliar legion inside a safe zone.

• Mingyue sent Golden Core cultivators the coordinates, and the Princess Consort and Madam Shi transported over a hundred billion Golden Cores into the Mantis Mark to strengthen the Enlightenment Star Candle Flame.
• Chu Qing, Yu Tian, the Dawn King, and others studied the Mantis Mark and developed a method to open gateways into the Decaying World above every continent.
• The Princess Consort and her allies returned to Stone Ridge Mountain to expand Qingzhou, while Chu Qing named the world beyond the Mantis space the Decaying World.
• Chu Qing and Madam Shi found a decayed Qingzhou, where Stone Ridge Mountain and the Liuli River were missing even though the abyss at the river's end remained.
• Madam Shi and the others left to manage the real world's Great Unification, while Chu Qing searched the Decaying World for Heaven and concluded her authority was the root of its decay.
• Chu Qing reached a Golden Core-lit safe zone and asked its inhabitants which legion they belonged to and why they had entered the Decaying World in their true bodies.

Chu Qing learned that God had helped unleash Heaven’s sins and planned to cleanse the decayed world and rule a new one. God claimed Heaven had been dragged into the abyss of despair, but after Chu Qing left, Heaven’s face appeared on God and he demanded her authority for himself.

• Chu Qing arrived at God’s territory and heard from Heavenly Court how God led them into Heaven’s dwelling, where the Mantis imprint appeared and decay spread.
• God told Chu Qing he intended to cleanse the decayed world, open a new heaven and earth, and rule it with his allies.
• God and Heavenly Court said Heaven had become the source of sins and been dragged into the abyss of despair, though Chu Qing remained doubtful.
• After staying with God for several days, Chu Qing left, and Heavenly Court took several hundred early Harvesters to clear decay and despair.
• Heaven’s face appeared on God, warned that authority would corrupt him, and God vowed to claim it no matter how many eras it took.

Chu Qing sought ways to resist the Nirvana Path and learned that the Forbidden Zone wanted him to help secure Heaven’s authority for powerful allies. As the Old Heavens prepared to flee and the Mantis lineage vowed to defend its homeland, Chu Qing insisted that those who wished to leave must first fight.

• The Forbidden Zone King told Chu Qing that the Nirvana Path’s darkness was controlled by many organizations and urged him to submit to the Forbidden Zone in exchange for help from greater powers.
• Chu Qing rejected the Forbidden Zone King’s offer and went to the Far West Land to ask Yu Tian whether the Old Heavens could resist the Nirvana Path.
• Yu Tian said the Old Heavens could not stop the Nirvana Path and might flee across the Chaos Sea, but agreed they would fight before leaving.
• Chu Qing asked the Mantis High Priest about resisting the Nirvana Path, and she said her people would stay and defend their ancestral homeland.

Chu Qing returned to Stone Ridge Mountain after agreeing with Lian Hongchen to confront the Nirvana Path, then began preparing humanity to withstand its advance. He left the story organizing vast Fire Pit walls and renewed fighting with the Forbidden Zones for fuel, while their Kings reluctantly accepted his strategy.

• Chu Qing met Lian Hongchen, who said her restored limbs were fighting Heaven's backup bodies to regain their strength, and she declared that she intended to settle life and death with the Nirvana Path.
• Chu Qing returned to Stone Ridge Mountain and told the women he planned to enter the Land of Nirvana, but they warned him that he could be surrounded and attacked.
• Madam Jin proposed training more people to cultivate Golden Core Dao Fruits and building larger walls of flame, and Chu Qing ordered continents to construct Platinum Fire Pits.
• Humanity resumed attacking the Forbidden Zones to obtain fuel for the Fire Pits, prompting a Forbidden Zone King to complain to Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing defended the fighting as a way to preserve strength and prepare for the Nirvana Path, and the Forbidden Zone Kings reluctantly accepted that the walls could protect them too.

Chu Qing tried to travel into the past to find the complete Enlightenment Star Scripture and was sent to the Gods and Demons Era. After discovering Tian Buyu had died only a few years earlier, he planned to investigate the Morning Star team's destruction and trace the scripture's path into the present.

• Chu Qing ordered Myth and other organizations to build Platinum Fire Pit walls as continents began preparing for the coming Path of Annihilation.
• Chu Qing used a ritual array and his blessings to follow a thread into the past, with Stone Ridge Mountain's consciousness helping him reach Shang Xie from the Gods and Demons Era.
• Chu Qing arrived at a desolate Stone Ridge Mountain and found that Tian Buyu did not answer his signal.
• Chu Qing traveled to Bi Luo Continent and found Tian Buyu's Underground Palace, where a message confirmed Tian Buyu was dead and the Morning Star Scripture was gone.
• Chu Qing realized the Morning Star team had been destroyed only a few years earlier and decided to trace who had taken the Enlightenment Star Scripture so he could seize it in the present.

Chu Qing froze a battlefield around a Fire Pit and questioned its fighters about the Qi Ming Star team and the scripture they had carried. By tracing witnesses across continents, he found Azure Netherworld had split the scripture and learned that its sealed half had been randomly sent away as a bronze book.

• Chu Qing stopped time around the Fire Pit, summoned lifelike figures of the dead Qi Ming Star team, and asked whether anyone knew about their scripture.
• A martial artist explained that the team had been killed there ten years earlier and hunted by evil creatures and human traitors.
• Chu Qing used the Reflection Method to seize witnesses and trace their accounts back through people and sects until he found the Azure Netherworld traitors.
• An Azure Netherworld higher-up said the team’s book had been split in two, with one half sealed and the other given to forbidden-zone creatures.
• The higher-up revealed that the sealed half had been randomly teleported away and that he had seen it turn into a bronze book.

Chu Qing learned that the other half of the Enlightenment Star Scripture had gone to Sovereign Lu Ming and used his Reflection Method to seize Lu Ming and his lair. He then killed Lu Ming and the Three Deer Overlord, leaving the restricted-zone Immortal Ones terrified and wondering where Chu Qing had come from.

• An Azure Netherworld Sect higher-up told Chu Qing that the other half of the Enlightenment Star Scripture had been given to Sovereign Lu Ming and revealed Lu Ming's coordinates.
• Chu Qing used his Reflection Method to reach Lu Ming's banquet, shattered Lu Ming's hands, and dragged him away.
• Chu Qing's giant hand returned carrying Lu Ming's lair, while the Immortal Ones fled and later found the lair's pit.
• Blood rain signaled Lu Ming's death, and the Three Deer Overlord's head fell into the pit and warned the Immortal Ones about Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing's power killed the Immortal Ones and burned the Three Deer Overlord to ashes as he wondered where Chu Qing had come from.

Chu Qing rampaged through the forbidden zone, killing countless creatures and alarming its Kings and Heaven, who could not identify or challenge him. As he searched for the complete Enlightenment Star Scripture, he wondered why Heaven’s allied Martial Ancestors had not fought alongside her in the past.

• Chu Qing unleashed his title’s power and killed forbidden zone creatures simply by walking past them, causing the Black Tide to subside.
• The forbidden zone’s Kings and this era’s Heaven observed Chu Qing but could not see through him or recognize his methods.
• Heaven decided to devour all authorities beneath the starry sky so she could grow stronger and eventually kill beings like Chu Qing.
• The forbidden zone’s Kings remained silent, while Mountain Bearer, Drink Division, and other powerful figures resolved to cultivate ultimate killing moves.
• Chu Qing wandered through the forbidden zone, seeking the complete Enlightenment Star Scripture and questioning where Heaven’s allied Martial Ancestors had gone during the past battle.

Chu Qing left deadly divine abilities beneath the forbidden zone, then returned to the human world to confront Liu Rushih, who had claimed the title of Third Limit Martial Ancestor. He forced her to kneel and demanded to know how she had taken the title from Tian Buyu.

• Chu Qing planted divine abilities where Qiu Wudi's heart would later be sealed, and a forbidden-zone King died after excavating them.
• Chu Qing returned to the human world and sought out the Third Limit Martial Ancestor, Liu Rushih.
• Chu Qing stopped Liu Rushih after she emerged from a super sect and asked how she had taken Tian Buyu's title, including whether Heaven had helped her.
• Liu Rushih denied that she had stolen the title, but Chu Qing pressed her down until she knelt and begged him not to kill her.

Chu Qing killed Liu Rushih after she accepted Tian Buyu’s alliance, and the Four Directions declared that the Emperor had punished her for breaking it. He then went to Heaven’s abode, where he learned that Heaven behaved very differently in this era, while Heaven herself fled before he arrived.

• Chu Qing asked Liu Rushih to find half a volume of the Morning Star Scripture, then killed her when she agreed too readily.
• The Four Directions announced Liu Rushih’s death and declared that alliances made in the Emperor’s name had to be upheld, frightening powerful beings across the world.
• Chu Qing wondered whether his actions had established the Emperor’s authority over alliances and whether another Third Limit Martial Ancestor would appear.
• Heaven recognized Chu Qing as the Emperor and fled her abode with valuables.
• Chu Qing reached Heaven’s abode and learned from the maids that Heaven still socialized and visited the Human World in this era.

Chu Qing traveled to the Dao Fruit World a hundred eras before its destruction, seeking its strongest beings and hoping to warn them about the future. After reaching a pair of powerful otherworldly rulers, he found that time itself prevented him from revealing what was destined to happen.

• Chu Qing searched across continents for Martial Ancestors, found none, and abandoned the contingencies he had left behind after someone cleared them away.
• Chu Qing crossed the Endless Sea and entered a continent in the Dao Fruit World, where he sensed its experts and demanded coordinates to the strongest beings.
• Chu Qing followed the coordinates from one group of experts to the next until he reached the two strongest beings beneath the starry sky, a man and a woman with serpent lower bodies.
• The pair recognized that Chu Qing had crossed through time and space, welcomed him to their palace, and stopped him from speaking about the world's future destruction.

Chu Qing warned two strange beings in the Dao Fruit World about the Nirvana Path, and they promised to leave preparations that might aid his future fight against it. After they sent him away through time and space, he arrived in an unfamiliar era and encountered a creature resembling an Innate God and Demon.

• Chu Qing tried to teach the two strange beings the Golden Core path, but the world rejected him and his explanation of the future caused permanent cracks in space.
• Chu Qing described the Nirvana Path, the Enlightenment Star Candle Flame, and a half scroll of scripture, while the two beings planned to investigate the Forbidden Zones and leave preparations for him.
• The female strange being vowed to forge an ultimate strange treasure, and the two beings gave Chu Qing their promise to prepare help for his future battle.
• Chu Qing handed the two strange beings two inches of time, embraced them, and was pulled away by time and space.
• Chu Qing awoke in a desolate land he suspected was an era inhabited by Shang Xie and found a creature resembling an Innate God and Demon, who demanded to know who he was.

Chu Qing crossed a vast, strange continent searching for Shang Xie and learned that its powerful creatures feared her but feared the God-Demons even more. He continued toward Shang Xie with a message, while the creatures offered her their tenderloin if she was defeated.

• Chu Qing met the powerful Jiu Lian, who revealed his real name was Three Hooks and directed him toward Shang Xie.
• Chu Qing traveled across the immense continent, asking bizarre creatures for directions and finding that they all feared Shang Xie.
• As Chu Qing neared Shang Xie's territory, he encountered creatures as strong as Forbidden Zone giants who asked whether he was allied with her.
• The creatures described Shang Xie's cruelty, including roasting and eating them, but said the God-Demons were worse and were moving to suppress her.
• A half-human, half-snake creature asked Chu Qing to tell Shang Xie that they would give her tenderloin if she was killed by the God-Demons.

Chu Qing searched for Shang Xie, but when strange creatures tried to capture him, he killed one and studied its remains. His discovery of Great Unification runes in the creature’s flesh left him uncertain which era he had reached, and he resumed his search for Shang Xie.

• After traveling for a hundred days without finding Shang Xie, Chu Qing introduced himself to the gathered creatures and said he was looking for her.
• The creatures tried to capture Chu Qing so they could threaten Shang Xie, and he attacked a goat-like creature.
• Chu Qing defeated the creature with physical combat, sliced it into pieces, and sealed its separated remains with divine abilities.
• The other creatures fled, calling Chu Qing more brutal than Shang Xie and accusing him of planning to boil them in hotpot.
• While examining the remains, Chu Qing found one hundred and eight thousand runes identical to those of the Great Unification Era, but stopped studying them when time and space began rejecting him.
• Chu Qing destroyed the remains and decided to find Shang Xie, but he did not know which direction to take.

Chu Qing traveled across the ancient continent searching for Shang Xie and learned that she might be headed to the mountain peak where the Human Emperor was fighting the Gods and Devils. He set out for the peak, sharing martial knowledge with human tribes and killing Gods and Devils along the way.

• Chu Qing questioned local beings about Shang Xie and gradually adjusted his course as he searched for her across the vast continent.
• Human martial artists told Chu Qing that Shang Xie might have gone to the mountain peak, where the Human Emperor planned to fight the Gods and Devils to protect humanity.
• Chu Qing accepted gemstones from the humans, called himself an outsider—Emperor, and headed toward the continent’s center.
• Chu Qing told human tribes about martial cultivation beyond sinews and bones as he journeyed toward the peak.
• Gods and Devils attacked Chu Qing as he neared the peak, and he began hunting them, killing even stronger foes with his refined techniques.

Chu Qing reached the Peak of Mountains and delivered a message from Shang Xie's future self, warning her not to wait for someone. Shang Xie recognized Chu Qing from a childhood memory in which he and Liuli had taught her.

• Chu Qing learned about the many rune abilities of the Gods and Devils by hunting them, then traveled to the Peak of Mountains.
• A man in Brocade Clothes carried Chu Qing across the mountains in a white cloud, and the people there agreed to take him to Shang Xie.
• Chu Qing met Shang Xie outside her palace and told her he had come from the future to find her.
• Chu Qing relayed the warning, “Don't wait for that person. You won't be able to wait for him,” and Shang Xie's companion doubted his story.
• Shang Xie said she had met Chu Qing long ago as a child, when he and Liuli taught her.

Chu Qing learned how Shang Xie’s messages had crossed through time and gave her an Inch of Time before the coming God-Demon War. Shang Xie prepared to meet the Human Emperor, while Chu Qing recognized her ribboned companion as the Beauty’s Head.

• Shang Xie explained that her present self had taught her younger self cultivation methods and warned Chu Qing not to inspect the methods transferred into his eyes.
• Shang Xie erased the ribboned woman’s memory of Chu Qing’s warning, then discussed the future era and its smaller continent with him.
• Chu Qing asked Shang Xie to help pass along a message, and she promised to hide what he needed in her corpse or resting place.
• Chu Qing gave Shang Xie an Inch of Time, which she handed to the ribboned woman after sensing it would be useful to her.
• Shang Xie announced that the Gods and Devils were preparing for war and took Chu Qing to meet the Human Emperor, telling him to conceal his origins.
• Chu Qing recognized the ribboned woman as the Beauty’s Head he had encountered in the future.

Chu Qing entered the Human Emperor’s war council with Shang Xie and learned that the Human race faced an invasion by the united Gods and Devils, aided by human defectors. As the enemy army advanced on the Human race’s safe zone, Chu Qing wondered whether he could change the fate he knew from the future.

• Chu Qing told Shang Xie that he recognized a girl from the future, and promised to share what he knew about others after the war.
• Shang Xie brought Chu Qing into the great hall and vouched for him, saying he bore her blessing and was no lackey of the Gods and Devils.
• Shang Xie introduced the Human Emperor, Shi Fang, and Dongtian to Chu Qing and the gathered powerhouses.
• The Human Emperor urged the assembled fighters to defend the Human race’s safe zone, and the powerhouses vowed not to fail.
• Chu Qing learned that the one hundred and eight thousand Gods and Demons races had united to destroy the Human race’s refuge, while some human experts had defected.
• Chu Qing watched the Gods and Devils march toward the Peak of Mountains and considered whether he could change history, concluding that he would have to rely on sheer strength.

Shang Xie and her forces traveled to White Jade Pass, knowing they might not survive the coming battle against the Gods and Devils. Chu Qing joined them and used the Earth Scripture to strengthen the pass's defenses as Shang Xie organized the defenders.

• The Human Emperor assigned Shang Xie and her forces to guard White Jade Pass and promised to send reinforcements if they were in danger.
• Shang Xie slowed her journey to look at the Human race's land, while Chu Qing realized that she and the tens of thousands of experts expected to die defending it.
• The group reached White Jade Pass, where Chu Qing saw its crude defenses and offered to reinforce them.
• Chu Qing used the Earth Scripture to merge earth veins into the mountain walls and reshape them into a honeycomb structure.
• Shang Xie agreed to contact the other fortresses and warn them that Chu Qing might adjust their defenses too.

Chu Qing reinforced the Human race’s defenses as a vast army of Gods and Devils approached White Jade Pass, aided by the traitor Ji Wushang. The battle began, and the Human powerhouses fought and died while others desperately deduced ways to counter their known weaknesses.

• Chu Qing linked the mountain’s earth veins to its defenses and watched the Gods and Devils advance toward White Jade Pass alongside Human traitors.
• Ji Wushang declared that the Human Emperor’s position belonged forever to his Lineage and vowed to destroy the powerhouses opposing him.
• Shang Xie challenged Ji Wushang’s claim, but he admitted he had brought the Gods and Devils to kill his rivals and seize the position of Human Emperor.
• Human powerhouses met the Gods and Devils in battle, and some sacrificed themselves to expose how their opponents exploited their weaknesses.
• Human strategists relentlessly deduced countermeasures and sent them to the fighters, while more Gods and Devils joined the battlefield.