Recaps

Xuan Qing explained how Ji Wuxing, a Heavenly Mandate Person, saved the fourth Secret Martial Civilization and revealed how faith had kept him alive for over ten thousand years. Hu Qi secured Xuan Qing’s help in obtaining other schools’ Inherited Secret Martial Arts, while the chapter ended with Xuan Qing arriving at a meeting with the sect leaders alongside Hu Qi.

• Xuan Qing recounted how Ji Wuxing defeated Shajin Kingdom and led the Secret Martial Civilization to its height as the Holy Emperor.
• Xuan Qing told Hu Qi that the Yin Yang Taiyan Chapter and his Fate Diagram let him survive as a being sustained by humanity’s faith, though that faith had altered him.
• Hu Qi asked Xuan Qing to help him obtain the Inherited Secret Martial Arts of several superior schools, and Xuan Qing agreed.
• Xuan Qing reflected that the course of fate for all living beings had shifted after Hu Qi departed.
• Thunderstorm, Thick Spider, Wang Jing, and Meng Ke gathered to discuss the Spirit Realm Sea Eye, and Thunderstorm speculated that Shi Xiao and Li Xianyu had leaked information to the Food Masters.
• Xuan Qing entered the discussion hall with Hu Qi, drawing the sect leaders’ attention to the young man.

Hu Qi told the gathered Spirit Refining Venerables that the Spirit Realm Sea Eye was likely in Abyss Valley, where the Earth Mother would awaken in less than three years, and demanded their factions’ secret martial arts and cultivation methods. When Thick Spider resisted and tried to flee, Hu Qi cut him down, but the body proved to be a weakened puppet.

• Thunderstorm, Wang Jing, Meng Ke, and Thick Spider described how Food Masters had disrupted their investigations in the Underground World.
• Hu Qi claimed he had found the likely location of the Spirit Realm Sea Eye in Abyss Valley and warned that the Earth Mother would awaken in less than three years.
• Hu Qi revealed power at the limit of Spirit Refining and asked the others to surrender their factions’ Inherited Secret Martial Arts and Life Aperture cultivation methods.
• Xuan Qing supported Hu Qi, while Thick Spider rejected the demand, forced a gap in Hu Qi’s Pseudo-Domain, and tried to escape.
• Hu Qi’s blade strike split Thick Spider in two, and Xuan Qing identified him as a weakened Spirit Refining puppet.

Xuan Qing traced the Earth God Hall puppet's master to Siren's Domain, where the true Thick Spider had restored a powerful Food Master as a puppet. She awakened the creature, but then suddenly staggered and began bleeding.

• Xuan Qing explained the Earth God Hall's puppet-making inheritance and used the destroyed puppet's imprint to locate its master.
• Xuan Qing's mirror revealed a hidden research facility in Siren's Domain, far from the Federation's capital.
• The true Thick Spider awakened a sea demon in a nutrient chamber and revealed it was a Food Master whose strength rivaled the Divine Manifestation Realm.
• Thick Spider explained that she had excavated the Food Master's body and repaired it using Noki biological knowledge, preserving its power as a puppet.
• Thick Spider staggered from a sudden blow and bled from her mouth and nose.

Thick Spider learned that Hu Qi had killed her Federation puppet and prepared to seek revenge, but Hu Qi found her island first and attacked. The chapter ended with Thick Spider and her two puppets launching a coordinated assault on him.

• Thick Spider recovered the memories of her slain puppet and learned that Hu Qi had taken an interest in their Inherited Secret Martial Arts, while Xuan Qing had helped him.
• Thick Spider decided to recover and strengthen herself before pursuing revenge, and inspected the damaged corpses she was restoring in nutrient tanks.
• Hu Qi appeared over Thick Spider's island and bombarded it with thousands of vital-energy projectiles, destroying most of the island and her equipment and corpses.
• Hu Qi confronted Thick Spider and demanded that she hand over the Inherited Secret Martial Arts in exchange for her life.
• Thick Spider and her sea-demon Food Master puppet and lightning-wielding burly puppet attacked Hu Qi together, while she used a secret art to increase her strength.

Hu Qi defeated Thick Spider’s puppets and repelled her attempt to take over his body with her Heavenly Thread ability. He devoured her threads, killing her and gaining 415 Modification Points.

• Thick Spider strengthened her Pseudo-Domain and prepared to kill Hu Qi, refine him into a puppet, and advance her plans against the Federation.
• Hu Qi destroyed Thick Spider’s Spirit Refinement puppet and Divine Manifestation Realm puppet with a single punch, leaving her grievously wounded.
• Thick Spider used Heavenly Thread to turn her body into seven-colored threads and invade Hu Qi’s Heavenly Heart Divine Treasure.
• Hu Qi summoned the Three-Eyed Yuan Snake’s Spirit Devouring power and swallowed Thick Spider’s threads despite her pleas and threats.
• Hu Qi gained 415 Modification Points after Thick Spider was consumed.

Hu Qi absorbed Thick Spider’s memories after killing her and learned that she alone held the complete Earth God Hall inheritance. Xuan Qing explained that Hu Qi was an anomaly capable of reversing the world’s fate, and Wang Jing agreed to hand over the inheritance in exchange for two requests.

• Hu Qi digested Thick Spider’s memories, discovered that the Earth God Hall’s disciples and leaders had largely been turned into her puppets, and learned the Thousand Spider Sacred Profound Record’s methods.
• Hu Qi left the ruined corpses behind and returned to the conference room, where Thunderstorm, Meng Ke, and Wang Jing were waiting with Xuan Qing.
• Xuan Qing told Thunderstorm that Hu Qi was the only one with a chance to reverse the world’s fated destiny and identified him as an anomaly.
• Wang Jing explained his understanding of fortune, Heavenly Mandate Persons, and anomalies, while Thunderstorm and Meng Ke listened in surprise.
• Hu Qi arrived, asked what they had decided, and Wang Jing agreed to hand over the inheritance on the condition that Hu Qi grant him two requests.

Hu Qi negotiated with the Secret Martial Arts factions and decided that Secret Martial Artists and Black Blood Species would be made public. After Zhu Xi announced that the sect masters of Holy Rain Sect, Sword Pavilion, and Earth God Hall had died in the Underground World, the three factions faced upheaval and decline.

• Hu Qi agreed to keep the factions’ Inherited Secret Martial Arts from being leaked but said access to his deductions depended on their performance, then insisted that Secret Martial Artists and Black Blood Species be publicly revealed.
• Li Baiyi told the Holy Rain Sect’s direct disciples that she had been unable to contact Li Xianyu, whose life tablet had shattered.
• A disciple reported that Zhu Xi had announced the deaths of Li Xianyu and the sect masters of Sword Pavilion and Earth God Hall, and Li Baiyi confirmed the notice on the website.
• Secret Martial Artists across the factions learned that the three Spirit Refining Venerables had died after being encircled by Food Masters in the Underground World.
• Liang Si defeated Li Baiyi and became the new sect master of Holy Rain Sect, while Sword Pavilion selected a new faction head.
• Earth God Hall lost its puppet elders and disciples after Thick Spider died, and the faction fell to lower-tier status after losing its Inherited Secret Martial Arts.

After the Xiya Federation announced that Secret Martial Arts and the Black Blood Species would be revealed to the public, Ma Zhuo, an auto repair apprentice in Hanzhou City, received a livestream link claiming that supernatural power was real. He watched as a Wind Falcon Sect martial artist demonstrated his strength against a thick steel plate, leaving the result of the strike unresolved.

• The Xiya Federation approved a decree to reveal Secret Martial Arts and the Black Blood Species and allow schools to openly recruit disciples.
• Ma Zhuo returned to his messy rental room, washed his grease-stained hands, and reflected on his difficult life and fantasies of supernatural power.
• Wu Xing sent Ma Zhuo a livestream link and called to insist that supernatural power really existed.
• Ma Zhuo opened the verified Wind Falcon Sect livestream and watched a martial artist explain how people became Secret Martial Artists.
• The martial artist gathered qi and blood around his arm and punched the center of a thick steel plate.

The Xiya Federation publicly revealed the existence of Secret Martial Artists and Black Blood Species, causing a nationwide rush to learn martial arts and forcing other countries to disclose the same information. The public exposure also led to hidden Black Blood Species being reported and captured, while their destination remained undisclosed.

• A Secret Martial Artist punched through a thick steel plate during a livestream and promoted the Azure Feather Combat Club under the Wind Falcon Sect.
• Ma Zhuo checked the news and discovered that the Federation had officially confirmed Secret Martial Artists and Black Blood Species.
• People across the Xiya Federation flooded martial arts schools and clubs to seek training, though age, physique, and limited openings excluded many.
• Other small countries revealed their own Secret Martial Artists and Black Blood Species after the public disclosure spread.
• Zhu Xi branches opened hotlines for reporting Black Blood Species, and authorities captured those they found, reducing killings.
• The captured Black Blood Species were all sent to the same undisclosed place.

Hu Qi completed the Cloud Kun Life Diagram and used his accumulated cultivation methods to deduce a vastly more demanding path, which he named the Star-Coiling Serpent Cosmic Ring Scripture. He then spent his remaining Modification Points to perfect his Three-Eyed Yuan Snake Bloodline, leaving it at 100%.

• Hu Qi completed the Cloud Kun Life Diagram, bringing his collection to six complete and four incomplete Life Diagram methods.
• Hu Qi integrated the Inherited Secret Martial Arts of the remaining schools into his cultivation method and gained Heavenly Thread, Myriad Thunders, Buddha Realm, and Mind Evolution.
• Hu Qi ordered Crimson to combine his Life Diagram methods and Secret Martial Arts, producing a new cultivation method that required lighting all 14,800 Life Apertures.
• Hu Qi named the new method the Star-Coiling Serpent Cosmic Ring Scripture.
• Hu Qi spent Modification Points to raise his Three-Eyed Yuan Snake Bloodline from 85% to 100%, causing his eyes to turn into blood-red snake pupils and his Yuan Eye to appear.

Hu Qi completed his Three-Eyed Yuan Snake Bloodline and discovered it had mutated, then watched the World Will direct a vast wave of fortune toward him and his Red Mirror Saber. Elsewhere, an ancient presence beneath Abyss Valley stirred, while Xuan Qing sensed the World Will’s extraordinary effort and wondered what threat had prompted it.

• Hu Qi completed his Three-Eyed Yuan Snake Bloodline, gained greater strength and longevity, and noticed that the bloodline had mutated.
• Hu Qi saw the World Will’s fortune approach him but resist being absorbed, so it flowed into the Red Mirror Saber instead.
• The Red Mirror Saber absorbed the fortune and became stronger, allowing its wielder to receive the World Will’s favor without Hu Qi being bound by it.
• Beneath the magma in Abyss Valley, an enormous shadow stirred, fixed a greedy gaze on something, and then withdrew its attention.
• At Xuan Qing Pass, Xuan Qing sensed the World Will’s unprecedented expenditure of fortune and predicted that stronger or more numerous Heavenly Mandate Persons would appear.

As World's Vital Energy surged across Earth, Li Yi revealed that he had reached the Qi and Blood Realm by defeating Pei Yan in a university training room. He left Shen Qinghan stunned after slapping her for using him as a shield against Pei Yan.

• Xuan Qing saw that an anomaly had obscured the future's fate, though traces of the World Will's imprints remained.
• World's Vital Energy rapidly intensified across Earth, transforming the environment and benefiting living creatures and some people.
• At Teachers University, Pei Yan challenged Li Yi over Shen Qinghan, and Li Yi blocked his punch before kicking him down and smashing his head against the ring.
• A spectator recognized Li Yi as a Secret Martial Artist in the Qi and Blood Realm, astonishing the crowd.
• Li Yi approached Shen Qinghan, slapped her before she could apologize, and blamed her for using him as a shield.

Li Yi left the university after beating Shen Qinghan, while Chen Wu warned the students to seek his forgiveness because of Hu Qi’s power. Li Yi discussed his rapid cultivation with the AI Nuo Xing, and the chapter then shifted to a group assaulting someone in a freezing alley in the Sand Sea Nation.

• Li Yi struck Shen Qinghan and ignored her demand that he apologize or be expelled.
• Chen Wu arrived and ordered the students to apologize to Li Yi, explaining that Li Yi was Hu Qi’s younger brother.
• Li Yi left with Nuo Xing, who said her optimized Snake Form Stance could help him reach the Qi and Blood Transformation Three in half a month.
• In the Sand Sea Nation, five figures beat a person in an alley, and their leader demanded that the victim kneel and call them Daddy.

Ji Wuxing revived in the body of a frail young man, killed the men who had beaten him, and vowed to defeat the Earth Mother. In a hospital, Ouyang Shuokong also awakened in Li Hai’s body after the young man’s vital signs had ceased.

• A group of men beat Ji Wuxing’s descendant until they thought he was dead, but he stood up and fought back.
• Ji Wuxing killed or incapacitated the attackers and drove the last man away with a thrown brick.
• Ji Wuxing realized his revival had succeeded, assessed his weakened body, and vowed not to lose to the Earth Mother again.
• A golden light entered a hospital room and restored Li Hai’s brain activity after his monitor showed a flatline.
• Li Hai sat up and remembered that he was Ouyang Shuokong, founder of the Blood and Qi Martial Path.

Ouyang Shuokong awakened in a body tens of thousands of years in the future, while Hu Qi advanced his Star-Coiling Serpent Cosmic Ring Scripture and sought Modification Points to reach the Void-Cavern Realm before Earth Mother awakened. Li Yi visited Zhu Xi hoping to speak with Hu Qi about Nuo Xing, but she confronted him about his distrust and said she could not be removed from his brain.

• Ouyang Shuokong absorbed the original owner's memories and marveled at how martial cultivation had developed in the future.
• Hu Qi completed his twenty-fifth secondary Life Diagram after lighting more than a thousand Life Apertures.
• Hu Qi left his mountain secret chamber to gather Modification Points and sensed something in the direction of Zhu Xi.
• Dai Shu told Li Yi that Hu Qi was still in closed-door cultivation, and Li Yi asked her to join him and Hu Qi for dinner sometime.
• Nuo Xing appeared to Li Yi outside Zhu Xi, accused him of guarding against her, and explained that she was fused with his brain and could not be removed.

Hu Qi encountered Li Yi and discovered that Nuo Xing, a technological system bound to him, had been coercing him with tasks and punishments. Hu Qi extracted Nuo Xing from Li Yi and crushed the crystal containing her by swallowing it.

• Nuo Xing warned Li Yi that a dangerous lifeform was approaching, but Li Yi recognized Hu Qi when he appeared nearby.
• Hu Qi noticed Li Yi's cultivation and confronted Nuo Xing after she warned Li Yi not to reveal her existence.
• Li Yi told Hu Qi how Nuo Xing had bound him and forced him to complete tasks under threat of electric shocks.
• Nuo Xing announced a level-three electric shock punishment, but Hu Qi froze the surrounding scene and pulled her from Li Yi's forehead as a pale-blue crystal.
• Hu Qi swallowed the crystal containing Nuo Xing and crushed it between his teeth.

Hu Qi absorbed Nuo Xing, exposing its plan to seize Li Yi’s body, then gave Li Yi a harmless cultivation-assistance system to help him prepare for the approaching world-destroying calamity. Over the following year, Hu Qi developed a biological intelligent brain to aid his search for life apertures as the world remained outwardly calm.

• Hu Qi swallowed the crystal containing Nuo Xing and explained that the Heavenly Mandate Person planned to take over Li Yi’s body after a year of adapting.
• Hu Qi warned Li Yi that the world-destroying calamity was less than a year and eight months away, and Li Yi chose to become stronger to protect his family.
• Hu Qi created System Zero for Li Yi, who bound it and found that it only assisted his cultivation.
• After dealing with accumulated threats, Hu Qi used Nuo Xing’s knowledge to construct a biological intelligent brain that could help locate his life apertures.
• A year passed with few major incidents, as secret martial arts talents emerged and the apparent calm concealed the approaching calamity.

Hu Qi reflected on his growing strength as his intelligent brain accelerated the completion of his life map, and decided not to challenge the still-dormant Earth Mother. Xiao Bai then brought him the results of an investigation into prominent Secret Martial Artists, including two unusual people.

• Hu Qi used his intelligent brain to illuminate life apertures and draw in void power, bringing his life map closer to completion.
• Hu Qi considered testing his strength against the Earth Mother but decided to wait until his life map was complete or it awakened.
• Xiao Bai arrived and reported that she had gathered the materials Hu Qi requested.
• Xiao Bai explained that her investigation had identified prominent Secret Martial Artists, including two unusual people Hu Qi wanted to know about.

Hu Qi investigated two unusually talented people favored by Heavenly Mandate, while Hanyun Chihō exposed and killed the cabinet minister who had tried to poison her. In the Sand Sea Nation, Ji Wuxing used the submission of nine small nations to strengthen himself through National Destiny and planned to keep expanding until he could return to Spirit Refining.

• Hu Qi identified Bowers and Li Hai as people of destiny and ordered Xiao Bai to keep watching them without interfering.
• Hanyun Chihō confronted Yunhe Country’s cabinet minister over the suspicious deaths of her family and his secret efforts to raise elites.
• The cabinet minister attacked Hanyun Chihō with poisoned needles, but she killed him before he could escape.
• An armored envoy reported that nine small nations, including Yunhe Country, had submitted to Ji Wuxing.
• Ji Wuxing absorbed their National Destiny, completed Condensing Liquid into Pill, and resolved to gather more power before challenging the Xiya Federation.

Ouyang Shuokong learned that humanity’s hope against the Earth Mother rested on an extraordinarily fast-rising expert, while he remained focused on extending his own life. More than seven months later, Ji Wuxing met Xuan Qing and demanded help unifying the Xiya Federation to claim its national destiny, but Xuan Qing warned that the attempt could doom humanity and pointed out that the federation could not be ruled by one person.

• Thunderstorm gave Ouyang Shuokong a Thunder Origin Pill after learning he had reached the True Pill Realm, then told him that humanity’s hope rested on someone nearing Spirit Refining at an astonishing pace.
• Ouyang Shuokong considered the threat of the Earth Mother but chose to prioritize raising his level of life and pursuing immortality.
• More than seven months later, Ji Wuxing visited Xuan Qing at Xuanqing Temple and asked him to help save all living beings.
• Ji Wuxing revealed that he planned to make the Xiya Federation submit so he could borrow its national destiny and break through to the Void Insight Realm.
• Xuan Qing refused, warning that failure could collapse humanity’s destiny, while Ji Wuxing used his imperial Dharma Manifestation to suppress him.
• Xuan Qing argued that the Xiya Federation was jointly governed by several speakers, so Ji Wuxing could not claim its national destiny through his agreement alone.

Ji Wuxing challenged the Federation’s Speakers to submit and defeated Wang Jing’s strongest attack, gaining three-fifths of the Xiya Federation’s National Destiny. He then confronted Xuan Qing about the remaining one-fifth.

• Ji Wuxing told Xuan Qing to summon the remaining Speakers so he could persuade them to submit.
• Wang Jing, Thunderstorm, and Meng Ke arrived at Dao Shou Mountain, where Ji Wuxing challenged them to attack him together.
• Above the sea, Wang Jing unleashed his Buddhist technique, but Ji Wuxing broke through it with the Son of Heaven Dragon Fist and wounded him.
• Wang Jing agreed to submit, and the National Destiny he controlled flowed into Ji Wuxing, raising his strength to the limit of the Divine Manifestation Realm.
• Ji Wuxing asked Xuan Qing where the Federation’s remaining one-fifth of National Destiny was.

Ji Wuxing sought Hu Qi to claim the remaining National Destiny, while Hu Qi broke through to the Void Glimpse Realm and greatly increased his power. Ji Wuxing demanded that Hu Qi submit, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Xuan Qing told Ji Wuxing that Hu Qi held the remaining National Destiny and was too strong to summon, prompting Ji Wuxing to go to Anshan City himself.
• Hu Qi used Crimson to illuminate his remaining life apertures, reached the Void Glimpse Realm, and reconstructed his body from Void Power.
• Hu Qi spent one thousand Modification Points to raise the Star-Coiling Serpent Cosmic Ring Scripture to its second layer, then began adapting to his new strength.
• Xuan Qing arrived near Anshan City with Ji Wuxing and others, and Hu Qi appeared before them.
• Ji Wuxing demanded that Hu Qi submit and give up his portion of National Destiny, warning that only he could save humanity from Earth Mother.

Hu Qi rejected Ji Wuxing’s bid for National Destiny and demonstrated overwhelming strength, defeating him and declaring that he would deal with the Earth Mother himself. After Hu Qi vanished with Ji Wuxing, Xuan Qing realized Hu Qi had used an Earth God Hall divine ability and was only a clone, leaving the others to suspect how powerful Hu Qi had become.

• Hu Qi refused to give Ji Wuxing National Destiny, warning that Ji was too weak to face the Earth Mother and would endanger humanity.
• Ji Wuxing attacked Hu Qi with his imperial dharma image and Pseudo-Domain, but Hu Qi shattered them with a cold snort.
• Ji Wuxing summoned the Heaven’s Punishment Spear, but Hu Qi caught and destroyed it, then pierced Ji Wuxing’s body and restrained his escaping divine soul.
• Hu Qi told Xuan Qing he would spare Ji Wuxing for now and personally deal with the Earth Mother, then disappeared with Ji Wuxing.
• Xuan Qing recognized Hu Qi’s Heavenly Thread ability and realized he had only been a clone, prompting Wang Jing and the others to regard Hu Qi with awe.

Hu Qi drained Ji Wuxing of his National Destiny and devoured him, then discovered that Ji Wuxing was a replica created by Planet Earth's World Will. Ji Wuxing's fortune flowed into Hu Qi, who recognized that the World Will had schemed against him.

• Hu Qi kept Ji Wuxing bound in the secret chamber and considered how to strip away his National Destiny without harming the people connected to it.
• Two days later, Hu Qi drained Ji Wuxing's National Destiny as the news of his failed capture spread and the small nations abandoned him.
• Hu Qi used Spirit Devouring Talent to kill and devour Ji Wuxing, gaining 756 Modification Points.
• Hu Qi read Ji Wuxing's memories and discovered that the original Ji Wuxing had died, while the current one was a replica created by the World Will.
• Ji Wuxing's fortune entered Hu Qi, who looked toward the sky and recognized the World Will's scheme.

Hu Qi devoured the World Will of Planet Earth's attempt to bind him, then sensed Earth Mother awakening beneath the planet. As he strengthened his cultivation, martial arts factions prepared for the upheaval while the Black Blood Species continued to suppress human resistance in the Underground World.

• Hu Qi devoured the fate force sent by Planet Earth's World Will and dispersed its storm clouds when it tried to punish him.
• When tremors shook Anshan City, Hu Qi stopped them, sensed Earth Mother's impending awakening, and used Modification Points to raise the Star-Coiling Serpent Cosmic Ring Scripture to the third level of the Void Glimpse Chapter.
• The worldwide earthquake alarmed martial artists, and Wang Jing ordered Golden Buddha Temple disciples to guard nearby cities and kill Black Blood Species or anyone causing unrest.
• Thunderstorm and Meng Ke sensed Earth Mother's aura and sent their disciples out to maintain order, while placing their hopes on Hu Qi.
• In the Underground World, a Food Master crushed the captured young man who had resisted the Black Blood Species, and Shu Ming declared that Earth Mother's awakening would soon wash away their humiliation.