Chapter Summaries

Chu Qing, Cui Moyang, Nangong, and the others drove the Nirvana Beings back across the bridge until three powerful Firework Living Beings appeared and turned the fight against them. As the new enemies attacked, one of them tried to seize Consort Mei but found that folded space kept her beyond his reach.

• Chu Qing stopped Cui Moyang from pursuing the fleeing Nirvana Beings too far and declared the area their battlefield for training and combat.
• Cui Moyang joined Nangong and the others on the bridge and helped drive the Nirvana Beings back with her attacks.
• Three Firework Living Beings arrived, rescued the hooded Nirvana Beings, and shattered Cui Moyang’s attacks with their gaze-spears.
• Chu Qing and Nangong rejected the Firework Living Beings’ offer to join the Nirvana Dao, and both sides began fighting.
• The Firework Living Beings overwhelmed the group with their immense energy, but the women countered hundreds of attacks with their techniques.
• One Firework Living Being appeared behind Consort Mei and tried to seize her, but folded space prevented him from reaching her.

Chu Qing fought the Firework Living Beings while studying their methods and discovered a trace of the Ashes Lineage within their Nirvana Lineages. After losing focus to consider its main body, he realized he had killed three opponents, and Zuo Yan told him he was simply too strong.

• Consort Mei attacked the Firework Holy Spirit while Chu Qing's Reflection Method trapped it.
• Chu Qing switched places with Consort Mei and endured a Firework Living Being's spatial attack without being harmed.
• Chu Qing countered the Firework Living Being's analyzing eyeballs and wounded it with attacks that its lineage could not heal.
• The Firework Living Beings joined forces against Chu Qing as he studied their methods and found a faint Ashes Lineage within their Nirvana Lineages.
• Chu Qing traced the Ashes Lineage to its main body, lost focus, and killed three Firework Living Beings while fighting on instinct.
• Consort Mei told Chu Qing he had killed the three opponents, and Zuo Yan said they were not weak but he was too strong.

Chu Qing entered the Nirvana Dao headquarters, studied how its vast mountain ranges sustained the lineage, and traced the Ashes Path’s spread to a self-sealed Red Robe Being. He left having found the hidden source of the Ashes Path within the Nirvana Dao.

• Chu Qing decided to scout the Nirvana Dao headquarters and told Nangong and the others to wait while he went alone.
• Chu Qing followed the Nirvana Dao’s tracks across a bridge through space and arrived unnoticed in a remote mountain range.
• Chu Qing observed the Nirvana Dao’s enormous mountain ranges, where internal battles and the recycling of the dead strengthened the lineage.
• Chu Qing contacted Nangong and the others to report that he was safe, then traveled to the Ashes Mountain Range.
• Chu Qing traced the Ashes Path’s spreading power through the mountains and found its source: a Red Robe Being whose true body had sealed itself away while its avatars spread the path.

Chu Qing found the Red Robe Being, who had secretly cultivated the Ashes Path and established its lineage, and examined the path’s methods. After discovering that ashes would eventually consume their cultivators and could threaten entire worlds, Chu Qing warned the Red Robe Being, who still chose to pursue the path in hopes of gaining power.

• Chu Qing bypassed the Red Robe Being’s warning measures and woke him, then revealed that he knew about the Ashes Path and its lineage.
• The Red Robe Being suspected Chu Qing was the path’s true creator, but Chu Qing insisted that the Red Robe Being was its founder and asked him to demonstrate his methods.
• Chu Qing mastered the Ashes methods and deduced that their power would eventually consume cultivators and could engulf everything within a world.
• Chu Qing explained that ashes could contend with the Chaos Sea for a time but would ultimately be suppressed, and warned the Red Robe Being that ashes would consume him after he reached Chu Qing’s level.
• The Red Robe Being knelt and asked Chu Qing to teach him, choosing the Ashes Path despite its promise of eventual death.

Chu Qing gave the Red Robe Being the Ashes techniques and named him Ashes, then offered to eliminate his enemies so Ashes could grow and weaken the Nirvana Dao. After Ashes named more than a hundred targets, Chu Qing began erasing their locations, leaving the Nirvana Dao in confusion as entire regions vanished.

• Chu Qing passed the Ashes techniques to the Red Robe Being, who chose the name Ashes and became master of the Ashes Lineage.
• Chu Qing offered to eliminate Ashes's enemies and urged him to name as many as possible to hasten Ashes's growth and weaken the Nirvana Dao.
• Ashes named more than a hundred enemies and gave Chu Qing their approximate locations.
• Chu Qing appeared at one location and used a giant hand to erase a mountain range and its inhabitants.
• More regions of the Nirvana Dao vanished, leaving its beings bewildered and panicked.

Chu Qing destroyed mountain ranges and slaughtered Nirvana Dao beings with his spatial methods, then encountered the revived Bloody Giant. The giant shattered Chu Qing’s folded space through sheer physical might and advanced toward him.

• Mountain ranges vanished across the Nirvana Lineage, and Nirvana Dao experts searched for the cause.
• Chu Qing used the Reflection Method to seize and refine the experts and Firework Living Beings who attacked or fled from him.
• Chu Qing continued destroying mountain ranges until the Bloody Giant emerged and frightened the surrounding beings into fleeing.
• The Bloody Giant turned a mountain range into a staff, captured a world and embedded it in the staff, then approached Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing tried folding space to halt the Bloody Giant, but the giant broke through the reflected space, revealing its reliance on the power of its flesh and blood.

Chu Qing fought the Bloody Giants in the Nirvana Dao and discovered that their strength rivaled his own. He faced an even more formidable crowned giant, and their battle continued to devastate the Land of Nirvana.

• Chu Qing fought a Bloody Giant with brute force, and their collision injured him while destroying the giant.
• A second Bloody Giant swallowed its companion and grew larger, but Chu Qing defeated it after another clash.
• Ashes watched the giants fall and imagined his Ashes Lineage gaining power like Chu Qing's.
• Chu Qing drew out a crowned Bloody Giant with an extra eye, and both recovered instantly after their first collision.
• Chu Qing and the crowned giant traded blows, hurled worlds at each other, and fought across the Land of Nirvana, destroying everything in their path.

Chu Qing defeated and destroyed a Bloody Giant using a vast array of interwoven paths, then continued advancing through the Nirvana Lineage. The surviving Nirvana Dao entities fled as he shattered the lineage and trampled them, leaving its collapse underway.

• Nirvana Dao experts tried to attack Chu Qing but were crushed before they could reach him.
• Chu Qing displayed methods from the forbidden zones, the Nirvana Dao, and many other paths, overwhelming the Bloody Giant with a barrage of varied attacks.
• Chu Qing caught the fleeing Bloody Giant, tore out his spine, beat him into immobility, and burned his remains to ashes.
• Chu Qing challenged the surrounding entities to fight and declared that he had come to destroy the Nirvana Dao.
• Chu Qing walked across the Nirvana Lineage, breaking and burning its mountains while fleeing entities were trampled to death.

Chu Qing rampaged through the Nirvana Dao, forcing its beings to sacrifice themselves to awaken the lineage’s power. As the Nirvana Dao spent its foundations to restrain him, a powerful winged being appeared and attacked, leaving both fighters’ bodies damaged.

• Chu Qing slaughtered Nirvana Dao beings, driving them to pray, burn themselves, and awaken the slumbering powerhouses.
• The Nirvana Lineage sent chains to capture and convert Chu Qing, but he tore them apart, shattering stars and mountain ranges in the process.
• The Nirvana Dao condensed Order Chains by permanently burning its foundations, but Chu Qing snapped hundreds of them and caused more mountain ranges to collapse.
• A winged powerhouse with twelve pairs of black and white wings appeared and attacked Chu Qing in clearance mode.
• Chu Qing grabbed at the winged being’s divine-saber-like wings; the wings cut open his fists, while the opponent’s wings also burst apart.

Chu Qing fought the Winged Being until the battle awakened it from its slumber, then told it that he and his friends were trying to create a new realm. The Winged Being was stunned by Chu Qing’s account of a world with hundreds of thousands of cultivation paths, and the two resumed fighting as it began studying those paths.

• Chu Qing battled the Winged Being, whose power rose to match his and whose consciousness gradually returned.
• The awakened Winged Being declared that Chu Qing would die, while Chu Qing welcomed the chance to face a strong opponent and advance his cultivation.
• Chu Qing explained that he had reached the end of his cultivation path and needed to create a new realm, while his friends had already deduced one.
• The Winged Being recalled its failed attempt to create a realm and questioned how Chu Qing’s world could produce hundreds of thousands of cultivation paths.
• The Winged Being attacked Chu Qing again, and as they fought, it began deducing how to use the many paths Chu Qing had demonstrated.

Chu Qing learned that the Winged Being had borrowed the combined wisdom of over a hundred billion Nirvana Lineage members to deduce countless paths. Their battle led Chu Qing to decide that his world should preserve and develop many cultivation paths instead of letting the Golden Core path dominate, while the Winged Being weakened as it burned through its authority.

• The Winged Being used the wisdom of over a hundred billion Nirvana Lineage members to deduce countless paths to the Reflection Realm, astonishing Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing explained that hundreds of thousands of paths had been developed by the Heavenly Prides of his world, and the Winged Being questioned how such a world could exist.
• The Winged Being drew on more wisdom to master the paths and seek a lineage of its own, while Chu Qing realized the paths could rival the Golden Core path and should continue to flourish.
• Chu Qing began deducing paths and fighting back, envisioning a world where many cultivation paths developed together instead of the Golden Core path ruling alone.
• The Winged Being burned more authority to draw on greater wisdom, but its strength declined until it could no longer break Chu Qing's flesh, leaving Chu Qing puzzled by its sudden weakness.

Chu Qing killed the Winged Being, whose death devastated the Nirvana Lineage, then confronted the Lava Being and rejected its offer to join. The Lava Being admired Chu Qing’s strength but remained his enemy and asked how he wished to die.

• The Winged Being discovered his attacks could not harm Chu Qing and fled, but Chu Qing pursued him and killed him with an Absolute Kill.
• The Winged Being’s death caused the Nirvana Lineage’s mountains to collapse and many of its beings to perish.
• A Lava Being emerged from a mountain range, gathered shattered worlds and mountains into a ring, then appeared before Chu Qing and asked why he was attacking the lineage.
• The Lava Being restored the destroyed worlds, astonishing Chu Qing, and offered to let him join the Nirvana Lineage.
• Chu Qing refused, criticized the lineage’s reliance on permissions, and claimed his power came from his own abilities rather than external aids.
• The Lava Being praised Chu Qing’s ability, declared that they were still enemies, and asked how Chu Qing wished to die.

Chu Qing fought more than fifty Lava Beings, whose attacks and the Nirvana Lineage’s great formation trapped him. He refused their invitation to join the Nirvana Dao and charged the formation again as more enemies arrived to stop him.

• More than fifty Lava Beings appeared around Chu Qing and attacked him, but he overpowered them in direct clashes.
• The Lava Beings awakened their combat abilities, switched to ranged killing moves, and joined the Nirvana Lineage in secretly forming a great formation around Chu Qing.
• The formation sealed space and linked its mountain ranges with the Great Stars, while Chu Qing’s Reflection Method caused space across billions of miles to collapse and explode.
• The Lava Beings urged Chu Qing to join the Nirvana Dao, but he refused and declared that he alone could stand against them.
• Chu Qing charged the formation again as Bloody Giants, Winged Beings, and more Lava Beings appeared to block him and reinforce it.

Chu Qing fought hundreds of fused Nirvana Dao beings, using the pressure to improve his Reflection Realm until it could no longer advance. He concluded that he needed to comprehend paths created by others, escaped the Nirvana Dao’s formation with his title power, and returned to Stone Ridge Mountain.

• Chu Qing battled the fused Bloody Giants, Winged Beings, and Lava Beings, repeatedly recovering from devastating injuries as he deduced and merged hundreds of thousands of paths.
• Chu Qing’s Reflection Realm absorbed structures from the paths and grew rapidly, prompting the Nirvana Beings to intensify their attacks and summon more allies.
• After hours of fighting, Chu Qing’s Reflection Realm stopped improving, and he realized that only paths shaped by other beings’ different ways of thinking could help him advance.
• Chu Qing turned to leave and threatened to return after opening the next realm, but the Nirvana Beings trapped him inside their great formation and demanded that he join them or die.
• Chu Qing activated his title power to ignore all restrictions and returned to Stone Ridge Mountain.

After destroying the Nirvana Dao, Chu Qing escaped the World Will’s blockade and returned to Stone Ridge Mountain, where he prepared his followers for the coming threat. He left Nangong to cook as dark clouds gathered and he considered whether a Heavenly Dao incarnation could help raise everyone’s cultivation.

• Chu Qing sensed the World Will rejecting him after he destroyed the Nirvana Dao, then forced his way through a high-dimensional blockade using the Emperor’s Seat.
• Chu Qing returned to Stone Ridge Mountain with a minor wound, reassured Zhao Hongxiu and the others, and transferred the Nirvana Dao’s slaughter experience to Madam Jin and Madam Shi.
• Chu Qing ordered Zhao Hongxiu to distribute the stored supplies and demanded that everyone advance by one minor realm within a month.
• Chu Qing told Nangong to follow him, considered whether a Heavenly Dao incarnation could provide enough Experience Points to raise the mountain’s followers, and ordered Nangong to make extra-spicy hotpot.

Chu Qing spent Karma Points and plundered treasures to forcibly raise the life ranks and power of Nangong Xue, Madam Shi, and the others. With Stone Ridge Mountain transforming and the system warning that his life-rank load was overloaded, he prepared to lead everyone into the Chaos Sea.

• Chu Qing used Karma Points to break Nangong Xue past her rank limit, transforming her Twelve Palaces into hells and letting her touch the boundary of death.
• Chu Qing infused Madam Shi with law fragments and Karma Points, empowering her and creating real spiritual light in the phantoms of her Gods and Devils.
• Chu Qing bestowed power on the Princess Consort, Bi Luo, and the servant girls, while Consort Mei and Zuo Yan received exotic treasures to refine into their Dharma Bodies.
• Chu Qing said they had to leave Stone Ridge Mountain rather than risk becoming nourishment for others, and Madam Jin piloted the Great Sun War Chariot outside the hall.
• The system warned Chu Qing that his life-rank load was overloaded and his Karma Points were insufficient, but Nangong Xue reported that everyone was ready to depart.

Chu Qing fused the Nirvana Ember into the Great Sun War Chariot, using his essence blood to transform it into the Burning Heaven Sacred Chariot. He and Madam Jin tested its power by crossing ten thousand li in a single breath, though the speed strained Chu Qing’s Reflection Realm perception.

• Chu Qing revealed the Nirvana Ember and told Madam Jin he would use it to transform the Great Sun War Chariot.
• Chu Qing activated the Simplify System and used his essence blood to fuse the embers into the chariot’s core.
• The chariot transformed into the Burning Heaven Sacred Chariot, and Madam Jin accepted its destructive consciousness without fear.
• Chu Qing and Madam Jin rode the chariot away from Stone Ridge Mountain, leaving a dark-red shockwave in their wake.
• The chariot crossed ten thousand li in a single breath, and Chu Qing felt his soul strain under the acceleration.

Chu Qing discovered that Stone Ridge Mountain was an ancient grindstone awakening with an overwhelming hunger, and he began preparing it for the coming calamity. As the mountain’s grinding intensified, he headed to the Inner Hall to strengthen himself.

• Chu Qing sensed Stone Ridge Mountain’s chaotic heartbeat and found Shang Xie’s consciousness trembling with hunger beneath the mountain.
• Chu Qing discovered enormous gear-shaped rocks grinding beneath the Crystalline Foundation and realized Stone Ridge Mountain was a grindstone that craved something to devour.
• Nangong Xue told Chu Qing that the grinding sound was making maids in the Outer Court vomit blood, but he ordered everyone to endure it as training for the calamity.
• Chu Qing dismantled Stone Ridge Mountain’s defensive formations and planted Forbidden Runes to turn the refuge into a deadly fortress.
• Chu Qing felt the mountain’s hunger rise within him and went to the Inner Hall to become strong enough to face the Chaos Sea.

Chu Qing visualized Liuli, who warned him that Stone Ridge Mountain was bait and directed him to a hidden gate on the Star River Path in the Chaos Sea. He ordered Stone Ridge Mountain to break free of the world and travel toward the Chaos Sea, leaving with his spear sharpened and his resolve fixed on survival and conquest.

• Chu Qing entered the second layer of the Imperial Capital to visualize Liuli, enduring her overwhelming pressure until she awakened and spoke to him.
• Liuli told Chu Qing that Chaos was causing dead worlds to wander and living creatures to go mad, and warned that Stone Ridge Mountain was bait meant to lure him.
• Liuli sent Chu Qing a map of the Chaos Sea and directed him to find a hidden gate on the Star River Path and feed his enemies into his Grindstone.
• Chu Qing ordered Nangong Xue to prepare the teleportation array and activate Stone Ridge Mountain's Void Floating mode, then shared his destination with Madam Jin, Madam Shi, and Cui Moyang.
• Chu Qing sharpened the Overlord Spear as the teleportation array activated and Stone Ridge Mountain severed its connection to the current world.
• Chu Qing struck his spear against the ground, and Stone Ridge Mountain tore free and surged toward the gray void.

Chu Qing advanced Cui Moyang and reforged Consort Mei and Zuo Yan’s Dharma Bodies as Stone Ridge Mountain prepared for the Chaos Great Calamity. He ordered the mountain sealed off from outside resources and resolved to meet the coming bloodshed from its highest seat.

• Chu Qing used the Remnant Soul of the Nirvana Dao Sovereign to refine Cui Moyang’s sword, helping her break through to Ancient God Overlord.
• Chu Qing gave Consort Mei and Zuo Yan exotic treasure fragments to refine and reforge their Dharma Bodies, and Zuo Yan demonstrated her strength with her Newborn Dual Blades.
• Chu Qing surveyed Stone Ridge Mountain’s tens of millions of maidservants and judged that the mountain remained fragile despite its growing strength.
• Chu Qing ordered Nangong Xue to activate the Seal Mountain formation and stop all resources from flowing outward.
• As spring passed and autumn came, Chu Qing waited for the coming chaos and vowed to take the highest seat, whatever the cost.