Chapter Summaries

Chu Qing’s attack left Feng Qing mortally wounded, and Feng Qing chose to burn his bloodline to aid the Wind God Clan through the coming calamity. After learning the World Planting Method was a Wind God Lineage trap, opportunists pursued Chu Qing’s world to seize the three treasures, but their journey through the hole was slowed by chaotic time and space.

• Chu Qing’s Heaven-Connecting Path pierced Feng Qing and resisted every attempt to remove its power, leaving Feng Qing convinced he would die.
• Feng Qing gave the experts the Secret Coordinate and asked them to avenge him, but they refused; he then told them to leave a share of the World Planting Method for his descendants.
• Feng Qing offered to burn his bloodline to strengthen the Wind God Clan, and the clan agreed after warning that his descendants and their history would vanish.
• Feng Qing revealed that the World Planting Method was a Wind God Lineage trap, then burned his bloodline and died among the Love Flowers as its power reached the clan.
• After investigating Feng Qing’s history, other experts entered his withered world to find Chu Qing and seize the three treasures he had forged.
• The experts entered the hole leading toward Chu Qing’s world, but without his methods they traveled abnormally slowly through chaotic time and space.

Chu Qing, Madam Shi, and the Princess Consort explored another world through a passage and spent over half a year defeating the Chaos Sea experts who controlled its soul-sand darkness. They returned after helping the city’s inhabitants, and the women learned that the decay flowing from the passage had diminished as the world’s people began cultivating the Golden Core Dao Fruit method.

• Chu Qing brought back three [Old Heavens], who went away to sort through their memories, and told Madam Shi what he had seen beyond the first passage.
• Chu Qing entered the second hole with Madam Shi and the Princess Consort while the other women waited anxiously for their return.
• A year later, decay and despair flowing from the holes had noticeably decreased, and Chu Qing returned with Madam Shi and the Princess Consort after helping another world.
• The Princess Consort explained that soul sand had consumed the world outside a vast city and that its inhabitants were fighting to reclaim their territory.
• Chu Qing, Madam Shi, and the Princess Consort joined forces with the city’s power to destroy the Chaos Sea experts and their soul-sand treasure after more than half a year of fighting.
• Nangong performed her refined Heavenly Demon Dance for Chu Qing and the others before the Princess Consort recounted their journey.

Chu Qing and the others used a ritual to determine whether the dangerous worlds connected to them held opportunities, and Liuli confirmed that the worlds would benefit them. Nangong and Chu Qing returned from a world where Nangong cultivated as a Demon Citizen and Devil Lord, prompting the women to rush to explore their own worlds.

• After the women’s premonitions made them fear the worlds might contain traps, Madam Shi suggested they could hold fortuitous opportunities, and Madam Jin proposed a ritual to find out.
• At Stone Ridge Mountain, Liuli performed the ritual and saw scenes that led her to tell everyone to visit the worlds because they would benefit them.
• Chu Qing and Nangong entered the world connected to Nangong, where they were separated and Nangong became an infant while retaining her original power.
• Nangong chose to grow through that world’s demonic cultivation until she became a Devil Lord, then she and Chu Qing taught its inhabitants the Golden Core Dao Fruit Method to suppress decay and despair.
• Chu Qing explained that the world had wanted Nangong to cultivate there so she could help it sort out its World Rules, and the women decided to explore the worlds connected to them.

Mingyue and her Golden Core opened the Purple Mansion Realm, prompting powerful figures to question why Chu Qing had not founded it. After the women opened several more realms, they urged Chu Qing to enter the last unexplored world, where they suspected [Heaven] was hiding, and began cultivating the Purple Mansion Realm to assess its power.

• Mingyue opened the Purple Mansion Realm with the First Illumination Person, and the Four Directions crowned them Kings.
• [Luo Tian] challenged Chu Qing’s account of the breakthrough, but the First Illumination Person explained that powerful cultivators who did not rely primarily on Golden Cores suppressed the path’s Martial Ancestor candidates.
• Over the following years, Madam Shi, Cui Moyang, Zhao Hongxiu, and [Second Generation Bi Luo] each opened a New Realm, while Nangong neared one.
• Nangong and the other women suspected [Heaven] was hiding in the final world connected to Chu Qing and asked to join him there.
• Mingyue encouraged Chu Qing, Nangong, and [Luo Tian] to cultivate the Purple Mansion Realm, and they began testing its strength.

Chu Qing and the others advanced into the Purple Mansion Realm, but their stronger cultivation still did not make them a match for the gravely injured [Heaven]. After arranging for the others to wait outside, Chu Qing entered the final hollow alone, and the women saw the shifting world suddenly stop.

• Mingyue taught everyone to build Purple Mansions, and Chu Qing and the others refined their structures until their power increased a hundredfold.
• Chu Qing tested the women’s strength by attacking their Purple Mansion Golden Cores, shattering them with one of his strongest Absolute Kills.
• Chu Qing warned the women that [Heaven] could unleash a similarly terrifying attack and advised them to be careful because she had many titles.
• [Luo Tian] chose to accompany Chu Qing, while Liuli stopped Shang Xie from going and told him to guard their home.
• Chu Qing contacted the [Old Heavens] and Shang Xie, then asked the women to stay outside the final hollow while he entered alone.
• The women watched the world transform rapidly, then abruptly stop, leaving them with strange expressions.

Chu Qing grew up among the Hairy Monkeys and led them in taming fire, hunting, and using rune-marked bones in newborn rituals. As the tribe gradually became more human, Chu Qing remained unchanged and grew old.

• Chu Qing learned the world's limits, trained his body, and taught the Hairy Monkeys to make and preserve fire.
• Chu Qing led the tribe in hunting with spears after finding that bows and arrows were ineffective against the world's enormous beasts.
• Chu Qing found enlarged runes on a mammoth-like beast's ribs and placed the bones by the tribe's Fire Pit.
• The Hairy Monkeys began painting the bone patterns onto newborns, and Chu Qing later painted the patterns himself.
• Chu Qing became the tribe's oldest member, grew stooped but did not die, and received a rib as a walking stick.
• Chu Qing noticed that newborn Hairy Monkeys were growing larger and losing their hair as the tribe became increasingly human, while he stayed unchanged.

Over millions of years, Chu Qing watched the Furry Children develop extraordinary abilities and form tribes, while the world's limits and the Fire Pit's power grew. Although civilization gained writing and social classes, it remained in the Tribal Era, and Chu Qing eventually gave up trying to encourage farming.

• Chu Qing discovered that the patterns he painted on a Newborn branded the child with power, and the child soon gained the ability to control fire.
• As generations of gifted Furry Children died and were burned in the Fire Pit, more children were born with abilities, raising the world's upper limit and forcing the Lineage to split.
• Chu Qing distributed fire seeds and sacred ribs to departing groups, and tribes continued splitting while periodically returning for fire and rituals.
• Over immense spans of time, the Furry Children developed dwellings, farming, writing, and social classes, but civilization remained in the Tribal Era as tribes favored nomadic hunting.
• Chu Qing found that the Fire Pit's flames grew stronger with each tribe that split away and studied the powerful patterns he painted on himself.
• After spending more than a hundred thousand years trying to get people to make soil and farm, Chu Qing stopped managing their development.

Over tens of millions of years, the Human race tribes returned to Chu Qing’s ancestral land and united into one vast tribe, while beasts and humans grew stronger through runes. Chu Qing studied the differences in strength among rune-marked children, but the Human race remained unable to expand because the beasts kept pace with its growth.

• Chu Qing watched farming spread as tribes grew and separated, and he recorded their history in the cave where he had been born.
• Over the next twenty million years, the Furry Child race became indistinguishable from humans, runes multiplied, and the world’s upper limit rose.
• As stronger beasts overwhelmed the tribes, conflicts and migrations reduced the Human race to a dozen tribes, which returned to the ancestral land and merged into one super tribe.
• Chu Qing became the first-generation wizard and established a nine-generation hierarchy of rune-drawing wizards beneath him.
• Chu Qing hunted powerful beasts to investigate their strength, then ordered the second-generation wizards to bring him at least ten babies a day so he could study their growth.
• The Human race grew powerful, and newborns could summon lightning by age three or five, but the beasts’ growth kept the tribe from expanding its territory.

At the start of the fourth ten-million-year era, Chu Qing watched an unusually gifted generation grow as humans fought a desperate war against the beasts. He recognized the ordinary-seeming girl he had taught as the true Child of Destiny and gave her two gemstones before she went to the battlefield.

• The first child of the era became an exceptionally clever hunter and King, while one thousand gifted children were born, including an ordinary-looking girl who smiled at Chu Qing before crying.
• The girl grew up learning runes from Chu Qing, and he sensed that her strength and potential surpassed [King]'s despite her retaining her childish innocence.
• As humans expanded, allied beasts retaliated; [King] killed the strongest member of a beast clan in the tenth year, driving that species to extinction and igniting further war.
• Wizards and able-bodied adults joined the fighting, while humans increased births to replenish their forces and Chu Qing observed their growing destiny and foundation.
• At eighteen, the girl, now a second-generation wizard, told Chu Qing she wanted to fight because [King] was going to die and she did not want the Human race to lose him.
• Chu Qing gave her a Wucai Gemstone to slay enemies and a Liuli Gemstone to dispel Great Terror or utter despair, and she left with them.

A woman repeatedly reincarnated as a human girl, helping the Human race build cities while Chu Qing watched over her. After 108 lives, she regained her memories, cast off Chu Qing’s patterns, and told him that neither he nor this world belonged to its original world.

• The woman defeated the beast alliance, then refused to lead the Human race and chose to study runes with Chu Qing.
• After growing old, the woman questioned Chu Qing about his origins and said she expected to reincarnate, then died and left behind three gemstones.
• A baby girl was brought to Chu Qing, and she grew into a leader who founded Gemstone City while Chu Qing’s city became Ancestor City.
• The woman died and reincarnated repeatedly, living longer and founding another city in each life.
• After 108 lives, the woman was reborn with her memories, shed Chu Qing’s patterns, and declared that Chu Qing and his world were not from their original world.

Chu Qing, Liuli, and the world’s last living being joined forces to repair the decaying world by stitching its shattered sky and plugging its largest holes with continents. They left one opening unrepaired because the last survivor wanted to use the Chaos Sea water to forge the world into a treasure.

• The last living woman explained that her dying world had evolved the primordial past of Chu Qing’s world, and Liuli recalled later events from its history.
• As the false world collapsed, Liuli proposed mending the ruined world, and Chu Qing agreed to lift continents while she stitched the sky and the last survivor restored its Order Chains.
• Nangong, Princess Consort, Madam Jin, Consort Mei Zuo Yan, and the other women refined Earth Veins into threads for Liuli’s needle.
• Chu Qing raised continents to plug holes in the firmament as Liuli stitched and the last living woman transformed Chaos Sea water into metals to repair the world’s rules.
• The group repaired the sky until only one hole several thousand miles wide remained, but the last living woman stopped Chu Qing from sealing it and revealed their plan to forge the world into a treasure.

Chu Qing and his companions helped the nameless woman refine her world into a treasure, then watched her set off into the Chaos Sea with plans to establish a treasure race. Liuli recalled magical treasures that had once rebelled across hundreds of cultivation worlds and sent the new Spirit Treasure to find them.

• The woman explained that she had reconstructed Wind God's method for refining worlds and asked Chu Qing and his wives to help prepare her world.
• Chu Qing, his companions, and the women within the world spent more than a hundred years tempering its laws, chains, seas, and earth veins.
• Liuli carried everyone into the Chaos Sea, where they witnessed the vast river of stars and the cracked worlds floating around it.
• At the woman's request, Chu Qing and the others chanted scriptures and used their powers to shrink and temper the world until it became a round bead.
• Liuli spoke with the woman through the bead, and the new Spirit Treasure departed to search the Chaos Sea and create a treasure race.
• Liuli told Chu Qing that she had sent the Spirit Treasure to find magical treasures that had once rebelled across hundreds of cultivation worlds and invite them to settle in their world if they needed help.

Chu Qing and the others crossed the Chaos Sea aboard a Black-canopied Boat refined by the Princess Consort, following Liuli’s directions back toward their world. After more than ten years, they finally spotted it, and Cui Moyang noticed that something was wrong with it.

• The Princess Consort gathered wreckage from the Chaos Sea and refined it into a Black-canopied Boat with help from the others.
• Liuli guided the group through the Chaos Sea and warned them about the powerful beings who lived there.
• The Black-canopied Boat entered the restricted zone, where its passage frightened the giants and Kings into hiding.
• As they traveled, the women pulled Chu Qing into the boat to reproduce while Liuli watched curiously.
• After more than ten years, the group reached sight of their world, and Cui Moyang cried out that something was wrong with it.

Liuli showed Chu Qing and the others how her world absorbed and processed Chaos Sea water, explaining that Great Stars suppressed the dangerous influx. After learning that converting stars could earn them azure light from the World Rules, Chu Qing proposed returning with Stone Ridge Mountain’s forces and Star Fortresses to work more efficiently.

• Liuli told Cui Moyang that the cracks she had carved let the world absorb Chaos Sea water, and the group entered through one of them.
• Liuli showed Chu Qing and the others the dam and miniature Chaos Sea, explaining how its inhabitants converted monsters and water into Great Stars that expanded the world.
• Liuli explained that Great Stars had to suppress the Chaos Sea water because the world’s ability to break it down had weakened, and removing that suppression could flood the world.
• Wang Quan asked about the azure light, and Liuli explained that converting one hundred million stars earned a stream that strengthened a being’s foundation and could grant enlightenment.
• Chu Qing proposed returning to mobilize Stone Ridge Mountain and build Star Fortresses so the group could convert stars and fight sea monsters more efficiently.

Chu Qing and Shang Xie transformed Stone Ridge Mountain with the Black-canopied Boat’s materials and planned to revive the world and contain despair and decay. As the women set out to gather resources and strengthen the mountain, Chu Qing entered the land of imprints to investigate the source of the corruption.

• The Black-canopied Boat crossed a forbidden zone and landed on Stone Ridge Mountain, where Shang Xie swallowed it to absorb its materials.
• Shang Xie revived hundreds of Spiritual Roots of Heaven and Earth across Stone Ridge Mountain, changing its Earth Veins and increasing the world’s potential.
• Chu Qing proposed reuniting the human continents, clearing decay and despair, and gathering more Spiritual Roots to help restore the world.
• Chu Qing and the women agreed to build a Star Fortress and seek ways to seal passages through which despair and decay flowed from other worlds.
• Madam Shi, the Princess Consort, and Consort Mei Zuo Yan set out to salvage resources in the Chaos Sea, while Nangong Moyang, the Red Sleeve Empress, and others helped Shang Xie develop Stone Ridge Mountain.
• Chu Qing entered the land of imprints opened by the Mantis Martial Ancestor to investigate the source of despair and decay.

Chu Qing explored the imprint space, found no end to its vast sea of decay and despair, and planned to develop the Qingzhou continent as a refuge. After he returned to Stone Ridge Mountain, Nangong and Mo Yang reported that Shang Xie had revived thousands of Spiritual Roots of Heaven and Earth, accelerating the cultivation of new maidservants.

• Chu Qing inspected the world passages and found that they were shrinking as the decay and despair flowing through them diminished.
• Chu Qing crossed the imprint space for over a month but found no end, and he suspected it connected to the imprint spaces of worlds throughout the Chaos Sea.
• Chu Qing resolved to purify the Qingzhou continent, plant Spiritual Roots of Heaven and Earth there, and make it a possible refuge if Stone Ridge Mountain fell.
• Chu Qing explored for another year without finding the edge of the imprint space, then returned to Stone Ridge Mountain.
• Nangong and Mo Yang told Chu Qing that Shang Xie had revived more than three thousand Spiritual Roots of Heaven and Earth, and that maidservants could now become basic Golden Core martial artists in three months.

Chu Qing discovered that spiritual roots strengthened cultivators and transformed the surrounding world, while Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er learned that observing them could reveal powerful techniques and paths. The chapter ended with the two women eagerly studying the roots as the maidservants prioritized advancing their Golden Cores.

• Chu Qing tested a Peach Tree's fruit, which transformed a Monkey Demon into a much stronger form, then ate a peach himself and found its power too weak to affect him.
• Chu Qing discovered that peach pits could sprout into new trees and concluded that spiritual roots could replace Exotic Flowers and Herbs as a source of power.
• Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er examined more than three thousand spiritual roots across Stone Ridge Mountain and realized that observing their patterns could reveal Absolute Kill techniques and unusual paths.
• Chu Qing dismissed the roots' patterns as unremarkable but encouraged Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er to share their insights with the maidservants.
• The maidservants focused on becoming Golden Core martial artists, while Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er continued studying the roots and comprehended numerous techniques and paths.

Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er returned to the Great Unification Era to gather information for Chu Qing’s War Fortress design, but found that history had changed and spiritual roots had appeared on Stone Ridge Mountain far earlier than they should have. Di Xiu'er concluded that their arrival had somehow caused the change, though its consequences remained unknown, and told them to give Chu Qing the fortress blueprints.

• Chu Qing ordered Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er to research future fortresses and design a new one, so they returned their consciousnesses to the hundredth era.
• Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er found the era peaceful but noticed that history had changed, then Di Xiu'er teleported them to her palace.
• Di Xiu'er questioned the two women about what they had done, and they described their time in the Great Unification Era, including the spiritual roots on Stone Ridge Mountain.
• Di Xiu'er explained that spiritual roots should not have appeared so early, and Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er confirmed that they now covered the mountain and were multiplying.
• Di Xiu'er told Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er to give Chu Qing the War Fortress blueprints, reasoning that fortress technology would not change the overall course of history.

Di Xiu'er discovered that the moon containing Di Qing's power was close to collapsing, and Miss Heaven warned that Chu Qing was near death. Di Xiu'er and the Undefeated Demon God decided to clear the moon's lingering powers in hopes of helping him.

• Di Yu'er and Phoenix Emperor welcomed the chance to change history, hoping to prevent another war with the Chaos Sea and strengthen the future era.
• Di Xiu'er learned that the Great Unification Era's fortress was intended as a vehicle to enter the Chaos Sea, then flew to the moon to investigate its changes.
• Di Xiu'er sensed Di Qing's power within the moon and grew excited that he had appeared again, but found the moon riddled with cracks and battling remnants of Di Qing's and Chaos's power.
• Miss Heaven arrived and told Di Xiu'er that the moon's failure to recover meant Chu Qing was about to die.
• Di Xiu'er asked whether clearing the moon's lingering powers could help Chu Qing, and the Undefeated Demon God agreed to help her.

Di Xiu'er and Undefeated Demon God repaired the moons and suns, restoring the Human World's strength, while Undefeated Demon God searched for traces of Chu Qing in the changed history. She found none until she spotted a new star-forged War Fortress above the Chaos Sea and concluded that Chu Qing and his companions had made it.

• Di Xiu'er and Undefeated Demon God unraveled the moon's remaining powers, healing its surface and then its inner cracks with the moon's help.
• The restored moon revived other dead moons, and thirty-three pairs of moons and suns eventually returned to normal after decades of work.
• Di Xiu'er celebrated the flourishing Human World, while Undefeated Demon God explained that Chu Qing had cut away the foundation of living beings a hundred eras earlier.
• Undefeated Demon God searched the changed Human World, the former Blissful Continent, and the Dao Fruit World, finding that traces of Chu Qing and the past had vanished.
• Undefeated Demon God found a star-forged War Fortress above the Chaos Sea and concluded that Chu Qing and his companions had created it.