Chapter Summaries

Chu Qing survived the Scribe’s attempt to erase him by hiding his will in his five divine repositories, then invaded the Simplification system and took its highest permissions. He rejoined Nangong Xue and the others as their expedition shifted from survival to hunting the Scribe.

• The Scribe’s cleanup program began erasing Chu Qing, but Chu Qing concealed his will in the five void-like repositories and stopped disappearing.
• Chu Qing invaded the system through the Profession Column’s errors and broke the golden chains controlling the seeds.
• Chu Qing accepted the memories and obsessions of dead worlds, and the system transferred its highest permissions to him.
• Chu Qing confronted the Scribe through the void, declared that he would burn the laboratory down, and leaped toward the black ship.
• Chu Qing landed on the deck as the ship’s keel roared and his will stilled every wave along the Star River Path.

Chu Qing used Karma Simplification to erase an attacking Hunter World Ship, then entered the River of Ashes and absorbed the failed versions of himself. He reached Reflection Realm Great Perfection and set out to tear down the laboratory.

• Chu Qing erased the Hunter World Ship by making its sinking the fixed outcome, alarming Ye Wushuang and the Investigation Team.
• Chu Qing ordered Nangong Xue to continue investigating Origin and learned from Liuli that the River of Ashes held failed seeds.
• Chu Qing entered the River of Ashes and found countless dead versions of himself from different timelines.
• Chu Qing activated True One and absorbed the corpses' remaining spiritual light, breaking through to Reflection Realm Great Perfection.
• Chu Qing declared that he now had the qualifications to tear down the laboratory, and the Black Bone Ship continued onward wrapped in Karma Lightning.

Chu Qing uncovered the Origin civilization’s desperate purpose behind the simplification system and restored the fire seed to its complete form. After using All Things Simplified to erase the law net’s golden chains, he set out to reach the Scribe’s lighthouse and destroy the laboratory.

• Chu Qing touched the monument of rusted system panels and read how the Origin sages had compressed their civilization’s legacy into the simplification system to create an anomaly capable of piercing the Sky Curtain.
• The Investigation Team learned that their civilization had served as data for the anomaly, and Chu Qing told them the dead had no right to cry.
• Chu Qing absorbed the monument’s karmic threads, completed the fire seed, and unlocked All Things Simplified.
• The law net of All Heavens descended on Chu Qing and the monument, but he used Simplify to erase its golden chains.
• Chu Qing ordered Nangong to move the ship and declared that he would burn the laboratory and write his own name on the Scribe’s sheet of paper.

Chu Qing unleashed his monstrous true form and killed or incapacitated the Law Enforcers who attacked him, consuming their power and asserting his dominance over the Law Net. He left the freed geniuses behind and ordered the black ship to head for Origin to confront the force behind the rules.

• Chu Qing transformed, grew thirty-six pairs of wings and seventy-two arms, and deflected the Law Enforcers’ lightning attack.
• Chu Qing tore apart the first Law Enforcer and swallowed his law veins.
• Chu Qing trapped the remaining Law Enforcers with the Thirty-three Layers of Heaven, stripped Law Net fragments from one, and consumed the code.
• The freed geniuses knelt in fear as Chu Qing returned to the black ship and Nangong Xue and the other women avoided his gaze.
• Chu Qing told Nangong Xue that their next stop was Origin, and the black ship set off.

Chu Qing destroyed the Civilization Harvester and absorbed the Law Net Origin Core, becoming a new source of laws in the Chaos Sea. With Nangong Xue following, he headed to tear down the Peak of Law, smashing its guards and steps aside.

• Chu Qing endured the karmic lightning tribulation and broke into the law net fortress, where his pressure shattered its officials.
• Chu Qing used the wills of thirty-three worlds to destroy the Civilization Harvester and collected the Law Net Origin Core.
• Chu Qing realized he had become a second exit of the Chaos Sea, while Nangong Xue reported that the fortress perimeter had been cleared.
• Chu Qing ordered Nangong Xue to gather the remaining embers and declared that the Peak of Law should be torn down.
• Chu Qing smashed through the fortress dome and swept the Peak of Law’s guards and white jade steps into the primordial void.

Chu Qing fought the Chief Judge, the Chaos Sea’s highest enforcer, and destroyed him by tearing through his Absolute Order and sacrificing a layer of Heaven to bypass his defenses. The battle left Chu Qing badly hurt, but he stood among the ruins still determined to feel human.

• The Chief Judge appeared and declared Chu Qing a dangerous mutation that had to be erased.
• The Chief Judge trapped Chu Qing in an Absolute Order grid, but Chu Qing activated Lawless and ripped it apart.
• Chu Qing’s sixty-six suns and moons became grindstones, and he attacked the Chief Judge with his seventy-two arms.
• Chu Qing destroyed one layer of Heaven to gain authorization to ignore logical defenses, then pierced the Chief Judge with the Overlord Spear.
• Chu Qing impaled the Chief Judge’s karmic nodes with seventy-two spears and reduced his pseudo-god body to unrecyclable garbage data.
• Chu Qing surveyed the ruins, bleeding and exhausted, and accepted the pain as proof of what it meant to be human.

Chu Qing destroyed the All Heavens Law Net headquarters, killed the Chief Judge, and absorbed the Law Net’s accumulated reserves. He discovered that Graveyard World was the Origin civilization’s hidden shelter and declared that the Chaos Sea would now follow his rules.

• Chu Qing struck the Peak of Law and erased the Chief Judge and the surrounding headquarters.
• Chu Qing used Hand of God · Harvest to draw the Law Net’s reserves into the Progenitor Divine Treasury and Stone Ridge Mountain.
• Chu Qing found a secret report identifying Graveyard World as the Origin civilization’s shelter and the Law Net’s final harvest target.
• Chu Qing crushed the report, ordered Nangong Xue to burn the Law Net’s records, and declared himself the rule of the sea.
• Chu Qing returned to the Black Bone Ship and sharpened his spear above the ruins.

After destroying the Law Net Headquarters, Chu Qing returned to Stone Ridge Mountain with the otherworldly geniuses as his retainers, struggling to hold on to his humanity. He ordered the mountain concealed and prepared to investigate the Old Ancestor and Origin’s presence in the Graveyard.

• Chu Qing declared the captured geniuses Stone Ridge Mountain retainers and ordered them to follow him back to the Graveyard.
• Chu Qing returned to a vastly expanded Stone Ridge Mountain, sensed a lingering threat from Origin, and embraced Madam Jin to anchor himself to his humanity.
• Nangong Xue reported that the Law Net’s records had been erased and its Investigation Team renamed Stone Ridge Mountain Outer Retainers.
• Chu Qing ordered Nangong Xue to have Heavenly Slave activate the mountain’s highest-level Concealment and announced he would investigate the Old Ancestor.
• Chu Qing entered the great hall, sharpened the Overlord Spear, and sensed Origin’s lighthouse beckoning from the river channel.

Chu Qing subdued the Law Net’s remaining power and destroyed its Karma Scale, gaining permanent Law Exemption. With Nangong Xue’s warmth helping him hold onto his humanity, he ordered the Black Bone Ship toward the Graveyard to uncover the secrets of their Old Ancestor.

• Chu Qing confirmed the giant eye had dispersed and ordered the Heavenly Prides to collect the remaining divine-metal fragments.
• Nangong Xue noticed Chu Qing’s shaking hand and held it, helping him steady the purple power consuming him.
• Chu Qing seized and tore down the Karma Scale, prompting the system to grant his Eternal Forbidden trait permanent Law Exemption.
• Chu Qing ordered Nangong Xue to tell Madam Shi to activate the highest level of concealment and announced he would investigate the Graveyard for their Old Ancestor’s secrets.
• Chu Qing turned the Black Bone Ship toward the chaos.

Chu Qing broke into the Law Net's First Treasury, seized its reserves, and discovered that worlds were being raised as breeding grounds for harvest. After striking back at a higher-dimensional observer, he set the Gods and Demons Black Ship toward Return to Void.

• Chu Qing shattered the treasury's restrictions and had the black ship devour its spirit stones, divine metals, and Path Secret Manuals.
• Chu Qing found an incomplete map of Chaos Sea breeding grounds and vowed to tear down the Law Net's pigsty.
• Chu Qing killed the surviving Law Net priests, turned their souls into puppets, and ordered them to repair the ship.
• Madam Jin tested the upgraded Great Sun War Chariot, while Chu Qing gave Nangong Xue the Years Broken Sword.
• Chu Qing punched at the unseen observer recording him, then ordered Nangong Xue to sail toward Return to Void.

As the Star River Path collapsed and flowed backward, Chu Qing discovered that his Progenitor Status let him define deaths directly, while the black ship grew more powerful by consuming the wreckage. He set course for the Abyss at the source of the backflow, leaving the expedition unfinished.

• Chu Qing erased a World Fragment by declaring its outcome and shattered Ye Wushuang’s sword with a single word.
• Scavengers attacked the black ship, but Chu Qing’s Eternal Forbidden trait crushed thousands of them.
• Stone Ridge Mountain spun as Shang Xie devoured the monsters’ remains and scattered World Fragments, overwhelming Chu Qing with incoming energy.
• Chu Qing saw the Abyss at the end of the backflow and ordered Nangong Xue to set sail toward it.

Chu Qing defied the recorder’s written fate, using the Overlord Spear and his power to shatter the words declaring his death. After surviving the clash, he returned to the Black Bone Ship and asked Liuli whether he could still lose.

• The recorder imposed a final conclusion declaring that Chu Qing had died on the Star River Path, and its power began draining his life while Nangong Xue and the others were incapacitated.
• Chu Qing activated his ability to modify logic, unleashed his wings, and thrust the Overlord Spear into the golden writing.
• The spear broke part of the character [Death], and the Void of Nonexistence from Chu Qing’s five Blood Holes set the lines describing his fall ablaze.
• Chu Qing crashed into the disintegrating ink-shadow and destroyed the textual phenomenon, leaving golden fragments scattered across the river path.
• Chu Qing spoke to Liuli, saying he could simplify his fate and asking whether he would still lose, then walked back to the Black Bone Ship as his wounds healed.

Chu Qing sensed Shang Xie’s hunger and pushed the Gods and Demons Black Ship toward Stone Ridge Mountain by feeding his Purple True Blood into the furnace. He destroyed a fleeing World Ship to feed Stone Ridge Mountain, and the mountain broke through the Gray Fog as it neared him.

• Chu Qing recognized the deep Earth Vein resonance as Shang Xie calling for food and ordered Ye Wushuang to add more fire to the ship’s Power Furnace.
• Chu Qing poured his True Blood into the furnace, then spent Karma Points to calm the chaos qi as Stone Ridge Mountain moved toward his coordinates.
• Chu Qing ordered Nangong Xue to seal off the Graveyard after they returned and kill everyone there who was not from Stone Ridge Mountain.
• Chu Qing encountered a World Ship carrying the backup bloodline of Heaven and killed its commander with the Overlord Spear.
• Chu Qing summoned the phantom of Stone Ridge Mountain, which crushed the World Ship and devoured its passengers and materials, sending life essence back to Chu Qing.
• The Gray Fog was smashed apart as Stone Ridge Mountain shifted closer to Chu Qing.

Chu Qing returned to Stone Ridge Mountain, broke the Karma Scale to expand the mountain and strengthen his authority, then entered its Earth Core to question the awakened Shang Xie. He stepped into the darkness beneath the Grindstone to discover where its path led.

• Chu Qing arrived at Stone Ridge Mountain, where Nangong Xue and the Golden Core maidservants welcomed him, and he declared that the captured otherworldly Heavenly Prides would serve the mountain or become its foundation.
• Chu Qing shattered the Karma Scale and fed its remains to the Fire Pit, causing Stone Ridge Mountain to transform toward a tenth layer and recognize him as Supreme Progenitor.
• Chu Qing ordered Nangong Xue to send the Heavenly Prides to the underground Material Camp for Shang Xie to grind down, then rejected Madam Jin's attempt to comfort him.
• Chu Qing entered the Earth Core Forbidden Zone and found Shang Xie's awakened will devouring the remnants of the Karma Scale.
• Chu Qing asked Shang Xie to show him where the road beneath the Grindstone led and stepped into the Absolute Black darkness.

Thirty thousand zhang underground, Chu Qing discovered the World Will hiding in the Graveyard World Shadow and stealing energy from Stone Ridge Mountain’s grindstones. Unable to attack without endangering the mountain’s inhabitants, he began closed cultivation and planned to destroy her after reaching Ancestor Perfection.

• Shang Xie revealed that the World Will was absorbing the grindstones’ energy from a shadow beyond the reach of the Progenitor’s Golden Light.
• Chu Qing prepared to attack the World Will, but Shang Xie warned that startling her could stop the grindstones and kill everyone in the mountain.
• Chu Qing held back and decided to let the World Will grow stronger so he could use her as a target when he reached Ancestor Perfection.
• Chu Qing began simulating how to break down and devour the World Will, while Stone Ridge Mountain transformed into a Living Fortress.
• Chu Qing ordered Nangong Xue to seal the mine tunnels and began closed cultivation thirty thousand zhang underground.

Chu Qing used Stone Ridge Mountain to devour a World Ship and absorb fragments of its history, then ordered the mountain to attack everything nearby. He left the chapter dragging three red-haired Forbidden Zone Overlords into the mountain as he embraced his role as a predator.

• Chu Qing activated Stone Ridge Mountain's enormous vortex, which stopped the mountain and dragged a World Ship into its grinding barrier.
• As the mountain consumed the World Ship, its runes recorded a Bone Era Fragment and Geng Metal True Intent, while Chu Qing savored the predation.
• Nangong Xue reported that Ye Wushuang's miners had recovered three Karmic Seeds, though three miners had gone mad from the World Ship's residual will.
• Nangong Xue showed Chu Qing three red-haired Forbidden Zone Overlords attacking the mountain and accusing him of breaking the riverway's rules.
• Chu Qing ordered Nangong Xue to notify everyone that Stone Ridge Mountain would devour all living things within hundreds of millions of miles.
• Chu Qing transformed the mountain's defensive barrier into black tentacles that seized the three Overlords and dragged them into Stone Ridge Mountain.

Chu Qing purged an ancient civilization’s remnant will from a Golden Core female cultivator and cemented his absolute rule over Stone Ridge Mountain. After the forbidden zone Fallen Heaven warned him to stay away from the Chaos Sea’s riverways, he crushed its messenger and vowed to continue his expedition.

• A Golden Core female cultivator was possessed by the remnant will of an Aurora Civilization high priest, and Chu Qing erased it with his power.
• Chu Qing warned the Heavenly Prides that his words were the rules of Stone Ridge Mountain and demonstrated his authority by erasing a massive Basalt rock from existence.
• Chu Qing ordered Yu Ji to seal every mine tunnel node with her one hundred and eight thousand Gods and Devils and punish anyone whose words were unclear.
• A three-legged crow delivered Fallen Heaven’s warning that Chu Qing must not encroach on the Chaos Sea’s riverways.
• Chu Qing crushed the crow and tore up its notice, then declared that Fallen Heaven would have to bring its leader’s head if it wanted to talk.

Chu Qing sealed Stone Ridge Mountain and entered the Earth Core Forbidden Zone to refine the countless laws within himself and consume the hidden [Heaven]. As he began his seclusion, the calamity closed in and his heartbeat disappeared.

• Chu Qing ordered Madam Jin to seal the mountain and kill anyone who tried to enter while he was in seclusion.
• Chu Qing tracked [Heaven] to a mineral vein and leapt down to meet Nangong Xue at the Earth Core Forbidden Zone.
• Chu Qing’s hand began to petrify as the laws within him turned his body into a vessel for rules.
• Chu Qing entered the thirty-thousand-zhang fissure, and Stone Ridge Mountain vanished from the gods’ perception as its hidden door closed.
• Chu Qing commanded the paths and hidden [Heaven] to be swallowed by the purple vortex at his heart, then his heartbeat stopped.

Deep beneath Stone Ridge Mountain, Chu Qing tried to seize ten cultivation paths at once and endured the resulting clash of hundreds of thousands of wills. He began grinding down the remnants of ancient eras to strengthen himself, while his humanity faded and his forced movement of the Emperor Seat declared war on the dead of the Chaos Sea.

• Chu Qing attempted to seize ten paths, triggering a logic deadlock and severe pain as the System restarted its simplified logic.
• Chu Qing reached Reflection Realm · Perfection, crushed the hidden otherworldly Heavenly Prides, and absorbed their fragments and nearby path nutrients.
• Shang Xie appeared and directed Chu Qing to begin with the residue of the Flesh and Blood Martial Ancestor before tackling the Thirty-three Layers of Heaven.
• Chu Qing sat in seclusion and began passing through three hundred and sixty thousand paths, expelling karmic impurities as his humanity diminished.
• Chu Qing forced the Emperor Seat down three inches and unleashed Stone Ridge Mountain's accumulated hunger to grind the ancient paths.

Chu Qing forcibly simplified and merged countless cultivation paths in the Earth Core Forbidden Zone, turning his former fatal wounds into vessels for their power as his humanity faded. He entered three years of secluded cultivation while preparing to confront Heaven after emerging.

• Chu Qing consumed and coordinated ten thousand cultivation paths, solidifying the first layer of the Thirty-three Layers of Heaven and forcibly merging conflicting powers within his body.
• Chu Qing discovered that the five holes in his chest could contain the simplified energies, then ordered Nangong Xue to gather a billion tons of divine metal within three days.
• Nangong Xue mobilized Stone Ridge Mountain’s reserves, while its maidservants’ auras subtly became extensions of Chu Qing’s progenitor status.
• Chu Qing used a single thought to simplify and erase the thousands of monsters attacking the forbidden grounds’ perimeter.
• Chu Qing entered three years of secluded cultivation as stone markings spread over him and a deathly silence covered Stone Ridge Mountain.
• As Chu Qing became a stone statue, he sensed Heaven opening its eyes in the Chaos Sea and vowed to settle the debt after his seclusion.