Recaps

Zhang Qing led Great Xia through a deadly struggle in the Dark Side, securing Nirvana Marks and helping his people undergo a transformative rebirth. After strengthening himself and his allies, he confronted the powers manipulating the realm and chose to challenge them all.

• Zhang Qing and his companions entered the Dark Side, where an Authority Tide scattered them across the Flesh Zone and Zhang Qing transformed the Strange Fish to survive.
• Zhang Qing battled for Authority Crystals, stole Hao’s Blood Fist and the Flesh Divine Tree, and became the target of the regenerating Ghoul Mother, whom he recognized as the First Generation Ancestor.
• Zhang Qing bargained with the Ghoul Mother and Little Lion while his companions fought toward the Ancient Star Array, where Ji Zi attempted to alter the Nirvana Sequence’s Waypoint.
• When Ji Zi’s plan failed, Zhang Qing summoned Great Xia through portals and used Spark Armor, Flame Authority, and the Mechanical Heart to send its people into battle and through Nirvana.
• Zhang Qing and Yang Man distributed the limited Nirvana Marks, then Zhang Qing claimed the final mark and helped the Dragon Scale Army awaken its Spark Pseudo Domain.
• Zhang Qing met Sea Emperor in the Lava Zone, advanced to Sequence Six, and refined Little Lion’s tailbone into the Phoenix Blood Saber before setting out for the Sixth Floor.
• At the Sixth Floor, Fan Adkin showed Zhang Qing a chessboard representing the powers controlling the struggle, but Zhang Qing rejected its predicted outcome and chose to defeat every player.

Zhang Qing turned the ancient battlefield into a training ground for Great Xia’s players, then gathered allies and machinery to claim the Sky-Traveling Ghoul Tribe’s star array key. He defeated the Skywalker BOSS and escaped with the key as Serpent Emperor City’s Second Elder arrived.

• Zhang Qing entered the Scorpion Ancient Battlefield, seized Sky City’s intelligent machines, and built a combat system that sent Great Xia’s True Spirits to fight and train there.
• The players’ battles awakened Madblood Ancestor, which devastated the surrounding forces before the Sky City Lords drove it back and Si Bei Li withdrew her machines from the fighting.
• Zhang Qing and his allies entered Night Spirit Cavern, where Zhang Qing defeated the Night Spirit Progenitor’s sword strike and Ouyang Lin summoned the Scale Shield to protect the army.
• Zhang Qing sparred with Hu Feiyun, comprehended a powerful blade skill, and chose to delay his advancement while the Imperial City Highnesses collected several star array keys.
• Zhang Qing returned to Great Xia, resolved to keep fighting despite the possible cost, then took the Bubble Mechanical Heavenly Court to the Sky-Traveling Ghoul Tribe.
• Sky City’s forces battled She Qi’s alliance while Zhang Qing and the Highnesses disguised themselves in Gundams and moved toward the Sky Planet Array.
• Zhang Qing’s allies trapped the Skywalker BOSS inside a Flesh Leviathan, and Yang Man’s Cooperative Great Trend helped them defeat it and secure its rune stone key.
• Zhang Qing and the others escaped inside a Flame Demon as the Flesh Leviathan collapsed, just before Serpent Emperor City’s Second Elder arrived.

Zhang Qing reached Sequence Seven, bound Great Xia’s fate to his own, and resisted the forces trying to claim or destroy him. As outside powers undermined Great Xia and its people began pushing back, Yun Xiaoxi became entangled in the Sixth Floor Lord’s plan to mark Zhang Qing with humanity.

• Zhang Qing chose Survival as his Sequence Six Waypoint, refused to upload his consciousness to Sky City, and survived an assault by the Imperial Cities and Sky City.
• Zhang Qing used five star arrays to reach Sequence Seven, completed his Survival loop, and granted Great Xia’s citizens the True Spirit Authority so they could return after death.
• The Sea Emperor ended the battle, and Zhang Qing stayed in the Dark Side with Yun Xiaoxi while Great Xia regained recognition and celebrated the end of the war.
• Zhang Qing and his companions explored a Star Array Civilization ruin, where its history revealed how eleven Venerables rebelled against the Star Array Masters and gave rise to monsters.
• Fan Adkin explained the Sixth Floor’s plan to change history and erase Sequence power, but Zhang Qing rejected its intended path and left with Yun Xiaoxi.
• Sky City spread prosperity and influence through Great Xia while secretly manipulating public opinion and infiltrating its institutions, prompting Zhang Qing and Li Wannian to plan a counterattack.
• Great Xia’s false peace broke as violence, mass advancements, and resistance spread, while guardians debated political change and Bai Yuan advanced through Judgment.
• The Sixth Floor Lord revealed that he had shaped Zhang Qing’s path toward the Time Sequence, then persuaded Yun Xiaoxi to mark Zhang Qing with humanity as Hu Feiyun and the others arrived in the Dark Side.

Zhang Qing challenged Jie and Hao over Yun Xiaoxi, then sacrificed himself to disrupt their plans and put the great powers’ leaders into a deep slumber. With Zhang Qing gone and memories of him fading, Great Xia and the Imperial Cities faced a fragile balance while Si Bei Li prepared Sky City’s next moves.

• Zhang Qing refused Sky City’s demand for Yun Xiaoxi, and when her Sequence collapsed, he used the Nirvana Mark to save her from destiny.
• Zhang Qing confronted Jie and Hao, revealed that Yun Xiaoxi had been stripped from destiny, and rejected Hao’s offer to become a Waypoint.
• Zhang Qing wagered that humanity would illuminate the stars and began his advancement, but his Sequence collapsed before he ordered Ghoul Mother to activate the twelve star arrays.
• Zhang Qing reached the peak of Sequence Eight through Ultimate Sublimation, defeated Jie, shattered the death domain, and killed Sky City’s Great Venerables.
• Zhang Qing told Great Xia that its City Lords would sleep for three years, sent Fate Stones toward the country, and plunged into the River of Time as an enormous claw reached for him.
• Zhang Qing’s body became an azure mountain range, while people gradually forgot him and the Imperial City and Sky City discovered that their leaders had fallen asleep.
• Si Bei Li led Sky City against the Imperial City and prepared to invade the Dark Realm, while the Imperial Cities withdrew after brief clashes.
• Hu Feiyun and Yang Man noticed gaps in their memories, and Zhang Zhengguo restricted merchant journeys and discussion of Great Xia’s structure as ambitious figures plotted to seize power.