Chapter Summaries

Chu Qing attacked an Azure Spirit Sect altar where humans were being sacrificed, killed its Reflection Realm defenders, and destroyed the altar. He freed the survivors, urged them to take up weapons, and continued deeper into the Chaos Sea with Nangong Xue.

• Chu Qing saw humans being whipped toward the altar and ordered Nangong Xue to clear the way despite the three Reflection Realm defenders.
• Madam Jin drove the Burning Heaven Sacred Chariot through the altar’s defenses, crushing several Heavenly Prides as Chu Qing confronted the rest.
• Chu Qing blocked a karmic attack, killed one old man with Eye Shoots Dipper Light, and destroyed the other two with the Overlord Spear.
• Chu Qing summoned Stone Ridge Mountain’s chains to shatter the altar, sending its accumulated world aspiration into the mountain and freeing the humans.
• Chu Qing told the survivors not to worship him and urged them to take up the scattered weapons; his God of Slaughter authority unlocked.
• Chu Qing told Nangong Xue that the dishes had only just been served, then rode the Great Sun War Chariot into the Chaos Sea.

Chu Qing reached the transparent cube at the end of the river, absorbed fragments of cultivation paths, and completed the Progenitor Realm. He then charged the Scribe’s enormous cyan hand with the Overlord Spear, leaving the outcome of their collision unresolved.

• Chu Qing recognized Heaven trapped inside the cube and ordered Nangong Xue and the others to enter and refine the fragments of cultivation paths.
• Chu Qing absorbed path fragments, killed an Olden Giant, and told his companions to lead Stone Ridge Mountain if he did not return.
• Chu Qing left the cube, reached the end of the Star River Path, and completed the Progenitor Realm.
• The Scribe’s cyan hand appeared, and Chu Qing charged it with the Overlord Spear.

Chu Qing crashed the Gods and Demons Black Ship into Guixu Relay Station and seized the seat of honor at the Myriad Worlds Trade Fair. After discovering that a fragment of unknown civilization code from Origin was listed for sale, he declared he would uproot the Law Net’s foundation and began his assault on the station.

• Chu Qing ordered the Gods and Demons Black Ship to ram through the World Ships guarding Guixu Relay Station, crushing them as he headed for the Trade Fair Grand Hall.
• Chu Qing destroyed the seat of honor, replaced it with a Stone Ridge Mountain grindstone fragment, and sent the six-armed Patriarch flying when he attacked.
• Chu Qing found a fragment of unknown civilization code from Origin on the List of Forbidden Items and raged that the representatives were selling his predecessors’ last words.
• Chu Qing announced that the trade fair would end and claimed everything at the station for himself.
• Chu Qing unfurled thirty-six wings and seventy-two phantom arms, then ordered Nangong to clear the field and put everything else into the grindstone.

At Guixu Relay Station, Chu Qing humiliated Ye Wushuang’s sword technique, obtained a map fragment, and fed the station’s Earth Veins to Stone Ridge Mountain. As the Great Calamity approached, Chu Qing headed for the docks to turn the relay station into more grinding material.

• Ye Wushuang challenged Chu Qing in the No Return Tavern and demanded he wash away his peasant stench at White Jade Capital’s Bone Washing Pool.
• Chu Qing stopped Ye Wushuang’s Heart Sword with One-Way Pass, then told him that beauty could not kill the Great Calamity.
• Chu Qing bought a fragmentary Star River Path map from a stall owner and ordered Stone Ridge Mountain to consume the relay station’s Earth Veins.
• Stone Ridge Mountain’s energy broke through Chu Qing’s Reflection Realm bottleneck as black clouds gathered over the relay station.
• When the alarm rang, Chu Qing boarded the black ship with his Overlord Spear and declared that the relay station would become grinding material for Stone Ridge Mountain.

Chu Qing defeated a Mechanical Divine Domain lifeform with his logic-rewriting power, then learned that Stone Ridge Mountain was terrified as a spreading darkness approached Guixu Relay Station. He led his companions to the Bone Black Ship and prepared to face the incoming calamity.

• X-7 scanned Chu Qing, judged him worthless, and mocked his chances of surviving the Great Calamity.
• Chu Qing rewrote X-7’s underlying logic, causing the mechanical lifeform to malfunction and collapse.
• Madam Shi Yu Ji warned Chu Qing that Stone Ridge Mountain was shaking, and he sensed Shang Xie’s panic.
• Chu Qing saw black threads consuming the River of Worlds as the Guixu Great Bell rang and the relay station’s defenses collapsed.
• Chu Qing ordered Nangong Xue to lead the team to the Bone Black Ship and made his way through the fleeing crowd.
• Chu Qing boarded the Bone Black Ship, drove the Overlord Spear into its keel, and vowed to fight the darkness approaching from upstream.

Chu Qing used Sovereign Essence Blood to obtain the Bronze Ancient Cauldron and visualized the Red Light destroying worlds beyond Guixu Relay Station. With escape impossible, he ordered Stone Ridge Mountain’s defenses switched to “Bite” mode so he could devour the relay station and profit from the river path before the calamity consumed everything.

• Chu Qing heard the relay station’s officials say the river path’s backflow had stopped against something, then demanded the forbidden Bronze Ancient Cauldron.
• Chu Qing paid ten bottles of Sovereign Essence Blood for the cauldron and began visualizing it as the relay station’s defensive barrier started to crack.
• Chu Qing saw Red Light evaporating Dead Fish Worlds and concluded that the approaching force was a cleaner rather than a calamity.
• Madam Jin asked whether they should flee, but Chu Qing said the river path was blocked and ordered Nangong Xue to switch Stone Ridge Mountain’s formations to “Bite” mode.
• Chu Qing damaged the cauldron, stepped into the darkening gale, and vowed to make a new road over the corpses of All Heavens.

As the star river reversed and the Guixu Relay Station began to collapse, Chu Qing used Stone Ridge Mountain to anchor himself and faced the flood of dead worlds. He started devouring them and charged upstream toward the Absolute Black as the Great Tribulation began.

• The bell at Guixu Relay Station rang as the star river stopped and surged backward, shattering the World Anchors.
• Chu Qing stomped on the station’s foundation and used Stone Ridge Mountain to halt its collapse while enduring the backflow.
• Chu Qing identified the flood’s dead worlds as the Blood of the stars, and Ye Wushuang begged him to save the survivors.
• Chu Qing told Nangong Xue to prepare for work and stepped beyond the station’s barrier into the river.
• Chu Qing shattered and devoured a dead world, then charged upstream toward the Absolute Black as the relay station disintegrated.

As dead worlds flooded the Star River Path, Chu Qing discovered that the annihilation program was beyond his Profession Column’s ability to simplify and ordered Stone Ridge Mountain sealed. He left the protected mountain to plunder the Mechanical Sanctuary Branch 17 wreckage for principles to strengthen his foundations, while absolute black advanced toward the River Path Source.

• Dead worlds surged through the Star River Path, and a Heavenly Pride who touched one crumbled into powder as the relay station’s barrier weakened.
• Chu Qing tried to analyze the gray vapor, but his Profession Column warned that the annihilation program was too complex to simplify.
• After Nangong Xue reported Stone Ridge Mountain was shrinking, Chu Qing ordered her to seal the mountain inside the Golden Core Grand Array.
• Chu Qing spotted the wreckage of Mechanical Sanctuary Branch 17 and leapt from the black ship to reach it.
• Chu Qing split open the wreckage and drove his fingers into a mechanical core, intending to simplify its principles into his bones as absolute black approached the River Path Source.

Chu Qing found the Mechanical Sanctuary’s last surviving brain and extracted its warning about hidden beings before racing back to the black ship as a world-corpse approached. With Guixu Relay Station’s shield destroyed and the “Unease” program consuming its inhabitants, Chu Qing ordered Nangong Xue to seize the Law Net’s hidden treasures while he prepared to face the force behind the destruction.

• Chu Qing explored the dead Mechanical Sanctuary branch and heard its surviving brain warn him not to look at the beings lurking in the shadows.
• Chu Qing devoured the brain’s remaining data, filling gaps in his Reflection Realm.
• A red-furred corpse from the Great Martial World collided with the void shield, and Chu Qing rushed back to the black ship.
• Chu Qing resolved to resist the force seemingly clearing obstacles from the river path and infused Purple True Blood into the Overlord Spear.
• Guixu Relay Station’s bell and grand formation shattered, exposing its inhabitants to the destructive “Unease” program.
• Chu Qing spread his wings and ordered Nangong Xue to raid the Law Net’s treasures as the black ship plunged into the relay station’s ruins.

As Guixu Relay Station collapsed, Chu Qing plundered its vault and seized White Jade Capital’s sacred relic before destroying a causality parasite. He forced the survivors to surrender their Pathway knowledge if they wanted aboard the Bone Black Ship, then ordered Nangong Xue to sail toward the source of the darkness.

• Chu Qing broke into the relay station’s vault and absorbed its treasures into Stone Ridge Mountain as the station sank.
• Chu Qing took the purple Jade Casket from Ye Wushuang and absorbed the causality law inside it.
• Chu Qing used [Hand of God] to destroy black threads identified as a Causality Parasite.
• Chu Qing returned to the Bone Black Ship and demanded that refugees and Heavenly Prides surrender their core Pathway knowledge to board.
• Chu Qing ordered Nangong Xue to set sail toward the darkness, and the Bone Black Ship charged into it.

Chu Qing selected a hundred talented survivors from the doomed Guixu Relay Station and extracted their insights as the Bone Black Ship sailed into a vast net of black threads. He tore open the net and drove the ship into deeper darkness, pursuing Heaven's true body.

• As Guixu Relay Station collapsed, Chu Qing ordered Nangong Xue to admit only a hundred survivors willing to open their seas of consciousness.
• Ye Wushuang offered Chu Qing his Heart Sword Pathway and memories, and Chu Qing began extracting its logic.
• After Guixu Relay Station vanished into a black vortex, Chu Qing found a black thread and sensed that the Chaos Sea was trapped in a net woven by a harvester.
• Madam Shi Yu Ji pointed out the giant net ahead, and the Profession Column updated Chu Qing's mission to find Heaven's true body.
• Chu Qing told the selected geniuses to burn their insights and desire to survive for his breakthrough, then tore through the net with his spear and abilities.
• Chu Qing declared that he had found Heaven and drove the Bone Black Ship into the absolute darkness.

Chu Qing discovered that a terrifying presence was consuming Heaven’s Will and forced Liuli’s power to drive it back. He faced a colossal, code-filled eye beyond the Gray Fog and sent the black ship charging toward it.

• Chu Qing found Heaven’s decaying handprint on the black ship and sensed invisible mouths devouring the World Will through it.
• Chu Qing used Plunder on the collapsing fragment of Heaven’s Will, but its terror began to overwhelm him.
• Chu Qing summoned Liuli, whose presence made the darkness recoil and broke the void’s grip on the ship.
• Chu Qing saw a gigantic, pupil-less eye filled with code beyond the Gray Fog and recognized that he had reached the threshold of uniqueness.
• Chu Qing challenged the eye and steered the black ship toward the monster that had devoured Heaven.

Chu Qing resisted a colossal eye’s high-dimensional gaze, countered its attack with Liuli’s authority, and stabbed the eye until it retreated. He identified the eyes ahead as belonging to the breeder and ordered the black ship to travel faster, determined to kill more enemies.

• The giant eye opened in the void, and its gaze drove the Heavenly Prides to their knees while Chu Qing stood firm.
• Chu Qing used Shrink Earth to hold off the eye’s Nirvana beam and summoned Liuli, whose glance forced the eye’s power to recede.
• Chu Qing used WorldShatterer · Overlord to stab the eye, causing it to scream, bleed black pus, and retreat.
• Chu Qing snapped off a piece of the eye’s meridian and told Nangong Xue that it belonged to the breeder, not Heaven.
• Chu Qing ordered Nangong Xue to speed up the ship and told the women they had to kill until the enemies dared not open their eyes.

Chu Qing forced the surviving Heavenly Prides to submit, then gathered their accounts of worlds destroyed in a deliberate harvest. After learning of the Fallen Epoch ruins ahead, he led the black ship toward them to uncover the source of the calamity.

• Ye Wushuang knelt before Chu Qing, offered the Forbidden Sword Diagram, and begged to serve him.
• The Mechanical Divine Domain envoy acknowledged Chu Qing's status, and Chu Qing used his Enfeoffment Authority to grant the kneeling Heavenly Prides a sliver of authorization.
• Chu Qing ordered Nangong Xue to record the survivors' names and the worlds that had fallen, and the Heavenly Prides described mass destruction across their realms.
• Nangong Xue identified the Fallen Epoch ruins fifty thousand li ahead, and Chu Qing ordered the black ship to disembark and enter them.

Chu Qing crushed resistance among the Heavenly Prides and forced them to work together to deduce the Great Calamity’s breathing frequency. When Nangong Xue found a route to the ruined Daytime Epoch, Chu Qing ordered the Black Bone Ship to ram into it.

• Chu Qing killed a mechanical envoy who tried to implant a lethal code in the ship’s core.
• Chu Qing stripped the purple-gold-robed man of his Pathway Mark, leaving him aged and powerless.
• Ye Wushuang surrendered White Jade Capital’s sword essence, and Chu Qing ordered the Heavenly Prides to deduce the Great Calamity’s breathing frequency.
• Nangong Xue reported that the coordinates five hundred li ahead had changed and pointed toward the ruined Daytime Epoch.
• Chu Qing infused the dragon bone with Purple True Blood and drove the Black Bone Ship toward the tower wreckage.

Chu Qing entered the frozen Daytime tower and found an hourglass that consumed causality and souls. As he began analyzing and attacking it, he ordered Ye Wushuang to dismantle it, leaving the tower’s remaining calm shattered.

• Chu Qing activated Time Demon to move through the frozen battlefield and discovered a Daytime general with five identical Blood Holes.
• Chu Qing touched the platinum hourglass with Hand of God, provoking furious curses from the system as his Purple True Blood seeped into it.
• A Heavenly Pride accidentally touched the hourglass and rapidly withered into bones while the device consumed his soul.
• Chu Qing struck the hourglass and ordered the Investigation Team to take it apart despite Nangong Xue warning that it fed on causality.
• Ye Wushuang drew his broken sword and slashed at the hourglass.

Chu Qing discovered that the system’s mission and his supposed fortuitous encounters came from the Fire Seed Plan, designed to create a powerful anomaly. After resisting the system’s control and using the panels to fortify Stone Ridge Mountain, he set course for Origin to confront those behind the plan.

• Chu Qing found a panel commanding him to devour his own kind and recalled eating mantises in Stone Rock County.
• Ye Wushuang hailed the panel as an Oracle, but Chu Qing smashed it and called the panels experiment reports.
• Chu Qing connected to the panels and learned that the Fire Seed Plan had engineered his path to power.
• Chu Qing severed the panels’ control with the nothingness of Return to Void, prompting the system to double his attributes.
• Chu Qing moved the panels into Stone Ridge Mountain, strengthening its defenses, and ordered the Black Bone Ship to accelerate toward Origin.

Chu Qing exposed the Investigation Team’s corruption, killed the mechanical executor, and forced the team to test the Simplified Path. As the mutations began, enormous Gray-Robed Vague Phantoms emerged from the river channel, and Chu Qing prepared to meet them.

• Chu Qing watched Ye Wushuang and the mechanical executor succumb to the System Remnant’s temptation as the executor secretly implanted three red-glowing chips.
• The mechanical executor attacked Chu Qing with a logic net, but Chu Qing activated Eternal Forbidden and destroyed him.
• Chu Qing ordered Ye Wushuang and the other Investigation Team members to cultivate the Simplified Path, causing one Heavenly Pride to mutate painfully.
• Nangong Xue begged Chu Qing to stop, but he told her he needed to learn the cost of the power to protect her.
• Chu Qing saw the Dead Fish World corpses dragged beneath the water and ordered the team to prepare as Gray-Robed Vague Phantoms appeared.

Chu Qing fought off the Scribe’s envoys and learned they were projections, then set sail toward the Scribe’s lighthouse. He left the ruins determined to confront the figure holding the pen.

• The Scribe’s envoys tried to freeze and erase Chu Qing, but he shattered their attacks with his forbidden power.
• Chu Qing snapped an envoy’s quill, tore the envoy apart, and absorbed its scattered text, glimpsing the Breeding Ground Master.
• The surviving envoys turned to ash and tried to envelop the Black Bone Ship, while Chu Qing collected Immortal Ink.
• Chu Qing rejected Nangong Xue’s concern and ordered the Black Bone Ship to sail toward the Scribe’s lighthouse.

Chu Qing discovered that the lighthouse was an incinerator used to harvest civilizations, stripped Heaven of her authority, and took a crystal sphere containing the Chaos Sea’s coordinates and harvest schedule. After the lighthouse exposed their location and a Heavenly Pride gave up and drowned, Chu Qing drove the black ship into the Abyss to confront the harvesters.

• Chu Qing climbed the lighthouse, found Heaven inhabiting an ancient corpse, and learned that civilizations were harvested and their remnants burned in an incinerator.
• Chu Qing extracted Heaven’s authority and threw it to Madam Shi, who absorbed it and began forming the embryonic order.
• Chu Qing took a crystal sphere displaying the Chaos Sea’s coordinates and harvest countdowns, then realized the lighthouse had broadcast their location.
• A Heavenly Pride from the Investigation Team, overcome by the truth, sank into the corrosive river, and Chu Qing refused to save him.
• Chu Qing challenged the Scribe, broke the black ship’s defensive formation, and steered the ship into the Abyss behind the lighthouse.