Chapter Summaries

Batu executed a Whale Shark Dojo envoy, prompting the dojo to plan an attack on the Wisteria Divine Kingdom. Meanwhile, Zhang Qing and Little Loli built a Martial Path training world, which Zhang Qing entered to test.

• Batu beheaded the envoy after the man arrogantly challenged him, and Yun Xiaoxi’s people rallied around the Wisteria Divine Kingdom.
• The Whale Shark Dojo received the envoy’s severed head and began pressuring nearby tribes and clans to attack the Wisteria Divine Kingdom.
• Zhang Qing asked Little Loli to help build a Martial Path world based on the Dark Realm, using her Flesh Authority to create Brain Worm servers and combat specters.
• Zhang Qing uploaded his Martial Path experience, added himself to the world in a Falling Moon Realm body, and went out to fight monsters.
• Zhang Qing returned through the Spark Giant Gate ten minutes later, and Little Loli mocked him for getting beaten.

Zhang Qing and Little Loli opened Martial Path World as a place for Great Xia’s people to fight Specters and hone their martial arts. Martial artists across the country logged in, and Zhang Qing joined them after the world’s systems stabilized.

• Zhang Qing tested Little Loli’s adjusted Specters, was quickly defeated, and asked her to balance their strength and add a powerful boss.
• Zhang Qing returned to Great Xia and found Li Wannian struggling to direct people’s energy during peacetime, while martial arts fanatics crowded the Spark Giant Gate’s prison.
• Zhang Qing opened Martial Path World, allowing martial-arts prisoners and people across Great Xia to log in without granting a general amnesty.
• Players appeared in the world with physical bodies, fought Specters, and began developing and testing their martial arts.
• Zhang Qing noticed a player creating a unique secret art, told Ghoul Mother Little Loli to record it, and prepared to enter the world himself as the Martial Path Tower rose.

Zhang Qing opened the Martial Path World to players and Dao lineages, drawing challengers to its tower while Great Xia sold access to visitors. A month later, Chu Yi reached the ninth floor, faced Zhang Qing, and gained insight into martial True Intent after being defeated.

• Zhang Qing set up the Martial Path Tower and martial arts schools, and Great Xia introduced currency so players could earn money from their secret arts.
• News of the Martial Path World spread across the Dark Realm, and Dao lineages entered Great Xia after learning that challengers on the ninth floor could fight Zhang Qing.
• Great Xia sold time cards to the Dao lineages, whose descendants struggled against the tower's monsters, while Hu Feiyun and the other Imperial City princes made major progress.
• Chu Yi reached the ninth floor and introduced himself to Zhang Qing, who challenged him to a duel using only one strike.
• Zhang Qing defeated Chu Yi with Ten Steps, One Kill, and Chu Yi returned through the Spark Giant Gate to contemplate the strike.
• A beam of light descended on Chu Yi and revealed the words True Intent, giving him insight into a new level of martial arts.

Zhang Qing summoned Jie to test why his Martial Path Extreme had reached the third level while his Martial Path remained short of the Martial God Realm. Jie defeated him by half a move in a pure Martial Path duel, and Zhang Qing stood up to challenge him again.

• Little Loli noticed Zhang Qing seemed stronger, and he said his Martial Path Extreme had reached the third level even though he had not become a Martial God.
• Zhang Qing contacted Dragon Venerable, who used the eighth Waypoint to find Jie in the past and brought him to the Martial Path Tower through a Spark Giant Gate.
• Little Loli used True Spirit Login and Flesh Authority to give Jie an immortal body, and Zhang Qing challenged him to a Martial Path duel.
• Jie and Zhang Qing fought with killing and crushing Martial Path True Intent, displaying their skills in a fierce battle.
• Jie knocked Zhang Qing away and won by half a move, but Zhang Qing got up and demanded another bout.

As the Wisteria Divine Kingdom expanded rapidly, Yun Xiaoxi established an Enforcement Razor Department and brought Guan Yutian from Great Xia to lead it. In the Martial Path World, Zhang Qing neared the Martial God Realm and began strengthening his True Spirit, leaving Jie stunned by his breakthrough.

• The Wisteria Divine Kingdom’s victories drove its population beyond three billion, and Yun Xiaoxi decided to establish Enforcement Envoys to manage the growing realm.
• Li Wannian approved transferring Guan Yutian to Sea World and ordered the Judgment Border Army restarted at full strength.
• Guan Yutian arrived in Sea World, accepted Yun Xiaoxi’s assignment, and established the Wisteria Divine Kingdom Enforcement Razor Department.
• Zhang Qing fought Jie in the Martial Path World and approached the Martial God Realm while investigating how the Martial Path could strengthen the True Spirit.
• Zhang Qing experienced an enlightenment that refined his will and raised his True Spirit’s strength, while Little Loli froze the ninth floor to protect him and Jie realized he was blazing a new trail.

Zhang Qing unified his consciousness, True Spirit, and Dragon Venerable True Body, becoming a complete Venerable Lord and discovering a way to temper his True Spirit with faith. He drew on Yun Xiaoxi’s Faith Pool and began hammering the True Spirit, leaving the process underway.

• Zhang Qing bypassed the Sequence Realm and joined his consciousness with his True Spirit, strengthening it and realizing that his connection to his body had been incomplete.
• Zhang Qing unlocked the authority sealing the Martial Path Tower’s ninth floor and absorbed the Dragon Venerable True Body, shocking Jie and Little Loli.
• Zhang Qing decided that faith could serve as the force to temper his True Spirit and asked Yun Xiaoxi to lend him power from the Faith Pool.
• Yun Xiaoxi opened Flower Lord’s Faith Pool, and Zhang Qing used the power of faith to form a giant who struck his True Spirit with a hammer.
• Zhang Qing drew in a storm of faith and continued having the giant hammer his True Spirit.

Zhang Qing completed three hundred strikes of forging his True Spirit, gaining a small increase in his Sovereign-level spell resistance and drawing Jie and Little Loli toward learning his methods. Back in the Sea World, he offered the Progenitors the same bait, sending them eagerly to battle for the power of faith.

• Zhang Qing finished forging his True Spirit after three hundred hammer strikes and found that his Sovereign-level spell resistance had increased by one percent.
• Zhang Qing told Jie that he intended to make up for the Sequence's flaws, and Jie chose to stay and train with the Great Xia youngsters.
• Zhang Qing returned to the Sea World with the Dragon Venerable True Body, and Little Loli begged him to teach her how to store her true body.
• Zhang Qing told Little Loli that he lacked enough power of faith, so she rushed off to fight and gather it.
• The Progenitors heard about Zhang Qing's breakthrough and hurried to the Wisteria Divine Kingdom battlefield, where they eagerly attacked the enemy.
• Yun Xiaoxi questioned why the Progenitors had suddenly become so motivated, and Zhang Qing hinted that he had offered them irresistible bait.

The Central Plains Island Archipelago’s dojos formed an alliance to confront the rising Wisteria Divine Kingdom and Mechanical Divine Kingdom. As the dojos prepared to fight over Sea World’s future, Zhang Qing and Hao remained unaware of the decision and focused on using Sea World to attack other great worlds.

• The Wisteria Divine Kingdom and Mechanical Divine Kingdom expanded rapidly, threatening the Central Plains Island Archipelago.
• The dojos convened an assembly and debated whether to join forces against the two divine kingdoms.
• The Sea Demon Dojo proposed splitting the dojos into two groups, one to face each divine kingdom.
• The Coral Dojo and Whale Shark Dojo representatives agreed, and the other dojos followed.
• The dojos chose sides and ended their meeting, preparing for a struggle over Sea World.
• Zhang Qing and Hao remained unaware of the alliance, while Zhang Qing planned to use Sea World’s foundation to attack other great worlds.

Zhang Qing supplied Tiger Venerable with faith power to test whether it could break the prison of time and help the Imperial City Lord make the Ultimate Leap. The power slowed the prison’s flow of time, giving Tiger Venerable hope, though he later doubted the leap would be so easy.

• Imperial City Highnesses rapidly used their reserves to reach Sequence Eight, but they could not inherit the Lord’s position while Tiger Venerable remained alive.
• Hu Feiyun asked Zhang Qing for help, and Zhang Qing told him to wait for news.
• As the Wisteria Divine Kingdom won battles in the Sea World, Zhang Qing used the Faith Pool to bring Pusan, Zhu Yi, Ouyang Lin, and others back.
• Zhang Qing visited Tiger Venerable and explained that he intended to kill the trapped Lords by repaying what they owed the cosmos.
• Zhang Qing sent faith power to Tiger Venerable, who used it to slow the prison of time and said the power might help him make the Ultimate Leap.
• Zhang Qing promised to keep supplying faith power, while Tiger Venerable later doubted he could make the leap and considered death a way to pass his position to Hu Feiyun.

Yun Xiaoxi strengthened Flower Lord while Zhu Yi and Chu Yi’s duel inspired Jie to forge a new martial path. Zhang Qing traced Tiger Venerable’s corpse through the River of Destiny and discovered the cycle that nourished the cosmos, where he met Destiny.

• Yun Xiaoxi inscribed Star Array knowledge into the faith pool’s Star Mark array rings as Great Xia’s institutes simplified what she had learned.
• Zhu Yi and Chu Yi faced off before the Martial Path Tower, each determined to climb to the ninth floor and fight Dragon Venerable.
• Jie watched their battle, entered enlightenment, and began paving a heavenly road for the Imperial Ultimate Martial Path.
• Tiger Venerable’s True Spirit perished, and Zhang Qing followed his corpse into the River of Destiny, where he found the true bodies of past Venerable Lords.
• Zhang Qing concluded that Venerable Lords’ authority nourished divine laws and helped complete the cosmos, and Destiny appeared to greet him.

Zhang Qing uncovered that the Venerable Lords’ True Spirits were nourishing a Divine Rule of Reincarnation and rejected Kid Brother’s offer to control it. Kid Brother withdrew and threatened to shatter the universe, while Zhang Qing left the River of Destiny ready to seize power by other means.

• Kid Brother arrived and Zhang Qing deduced that the Venerable Lords’ True Spirits were nourishment for a Divine Rule being born.
• Kid Brother offered Zhang Qing control of the Reincarnation Divine Rule in exchange for accepting its responsibilities.
• Zhang Qing connected Reincarnation to Blue Star, Sky City, Great Xia, and his own plans for the future.
• Zhang Qing rejected the offer, saying he would only accept the Divine Rule after the Ultimate Leap.
• Kid Brother ended the negotiations and warned that Reincarnation was imminent and it might smash the universe to pieces.
• Zhang Qing watched Kid Brother disappear, left the River of Destiny, and considered seizing Theaters instead.

Zhang Qing sent Little Lion to disrupt the Fire Divine Kingdom with the Mechanical Heart and confirmed that Hao was secretly building intelligent machines beneath the Sea World. He ordered Yun Xiaoxi to withdraw the Wisteria Divine Kingdom’s forces and attack Hao.

• Zhang Qing planned to strengthen the Flower Lord’s position while preparing a trap to expose Hao as an evil god.
• Zhang Qing gave Little Lion the Mechanical Heart and ordered him to establish a Mechanical Heavenly Court in the Fire Divine Kingdom.
• Zhang Qing explained that the attack would make the Astrology Worlds’ sacrificial spirits turn against Hao’s intelligent machines.
• Zhang Qing asked the Sea Emperor to search the Sea World, and the Sea Emperor found mechanical structures producing intelligent machines beneath the ocean.
• Zhang Qing contacted Yun Xiaoxi, who ordered the battlefield forces to retreat and then attack Hao.

The Wisteria Divine Kingdom withdrew from the dojo alliance and redirected its forces toward the Mechanical Divine Kingdom, leading Sea Demon Dojo and other factions to suspect it was the Chosen One. Hao and Kid Brother recognized Zhang Qing’s involvement and decided to brand the Wisteria Divine Kingdom as an agent of evil gods in other divine kingdoms.

• The Wisteria Divine Kingdom withdrew despite its advantage over the dojo coalition, and Sea Demon Dojo ordered its people to watch its movements.
• Sea Demon Dojo’s sea yaksha pledged to serve the Chosen One, while the High Priest realized the dojo had long expected its sacrificial spirit to become the Chosen One’s second-in-command.
• The Wisteria Divine Kingdom entered the Mechanical Divine Kingdom’s battlefield and attacked it with overwhelming force, leaving Hao stunned.
• Kid Brother told Hao that Zhang Qing was behind the Wisteria Divine Kingdom and was seeking faith to build his foundations for Ultimate Leap.
• Kid Brother proposed that Hao blame the Wisteria Divine Kingdom for serving evil gods and incite rebellion across the other divine kingdoms.

Zhang Qing turned the Sea World’s conflict to his advantage, then went to Phoenix Imperial City to meet the new Phoenix Venerable, Ji Yan Hua. He learned that the Phoenix Clan had achieved its Longevity Sequence through fusion or possession and secured Ji Yan Hua’s cooperation against Hao.

• The Sea Demon Dojo joined the Wisteria Divine Kingdom’s attack on the Mechanical Divine Kingdom, while its War Soldiers coordinated with Wisteria’s forces.
• Zhang Qing swept his mental power across the Sea World, prompting Hao to flee and leading many dojo High Priests to regard the Mechanical Divine Kingdom as the Evil God’s side.
• Zhang Qing left the Sea Emperor to guard the Sea World, sent the Progenitors to watch the Astrology Worlds, and headed for Phoenix Imperial City.
• Zhang Qing met Ji Yan Hua and learned that the Phoenix Clan had achieved its Longevity Sequence by making the Phoenix Venerable immortal through fusion or possession.
• Zhang Qing pressured Ji Yan Hua to provide information on True Spirit fusion and possession and to guard the Dark Realm against Hao; Ji Yan Hua agreed to become his partner.

Zhang Qing learned that the Phoenix Clan planned to preserve its power by passing down Phoenix Venerable’s body and True Spirit, then returned to the Martial Path Tower and found Jie had broken through to the Martial Saint Realm. Jie refused Zhang Qing’s offer to save his life if he surrendered the Time Sequence, warning that doing so could let time and fate create the Great Dao.

• Ji Yan Hua revealed that the Phoenix Clan intended to pass down Phoenix Venerable’s true body and True Spirit, with the long-term aim of matching the Imperial City Lord’s power and seizing the Forbidden Sequence.
• Zhang Qing sent the information to Great Xia’s research institute and returned to the Martial Path Tower, where he discovered Jie had become an Imperial Martial Saint.
• Zhang Qing challenged Jie to test his new strength and noticed that Jie’s True Spirit had also improved.
• Zhang Qing offered to keep Jie alive if he gave up the Time Sequence, but Jie refused because an incarnation could arise within the River of Time.
• Jie warned Zhang Qing that fate and time could create incarnations of the other divine rules and fuse them into the Great Dao, then said the universe’s ambitions were vast.

Jie revealed how the Star Array Civilization and his own entry onto the Time Sequence opened Pandora’s Box, empowering Destiny and shaping later events. He explained that he wanted to change the past to repair the Destiny Breach, but now could only occupy the Time path; Zhang Qing ended by asking whether Divine Rule incarnations were born as Lords of Forbidden Sequences.

• Jie explained that the Star Array Civilization’s actions and Zhang Qing’s preparations were tied to the dangers of the Ultimate Leap and the Divine Rules.
• Jie said the Star Array Civilization first opened Pandora’s Box, causing Destiny to manifest an incarnation, and that his later entry onto the Time Sequence opened it again.
• Jie revealed that the Imperial City Lords inherited secrets and that Hao was the one truly allied with Destiny, warning Zhang Qing that Hao guided events toward his desired future.
• Jie explained that Lords on Forbidden Sequences quickly assimilated with their Divine Rules and that he had once believed changing the past could repair the Destiny Breach.
• Jie said he now occupied the Time path to prevent a Time Avatar from arising, and Zhang Qing asked whether Divine Rule incarnations were born as Lords of Forbidden Sequences.

Zhang Qing pieced together Jie’s role in the birth of Divine Rule incarnations and suspected Hao wanted to merge with the Dao to ensure the survival of himself, his civilization, and the universe. Seeking proof, Zhang Qing went to Tiger Imperial City to question Hu Feiyun, warning him that Venerable Lords were surrounded by hidden schemers.

• Zhang Qing confronted Jie with the revelation that Jie and Star Array Civilization had helped create Divine Rule incarnations, and Jie silently acknowledged his guilt and his plan to change the past.
• Zhang Qing reasoned that Hao’s arrangements might be aimed at merging with the Dao and preserving the universe, but he decided he needed proof before trusting the theory.
• Zhang Qing chose to question Hu Feiyun, whose recent rise to Tiger Venerable made him an accessible source of hidden information.
• Hu Feiyun welcomed Zhang Qing to Tiger Imperial City and eagerly anticipated becoming a Venerable Lord so they could fight together again.
• Zhang Qing told Hu Feiyun that stronger powers and hidden plots existed beyond what he knew, and urged him to maintain his current understanding while warning that everyone on the wider path was a schemer.

Zhang Qing sent Hu Feiyun, the other Highnesses, and the Progenitors to learn Jie's Imperial Ultimate Martial Path while he prepared for hidden schemes in the Sea World. He planned to advance Hu Feiyun, strengthen the Progenitors, and make contact with the River of Time, ending with the thought that he needed to lose once.

• Hu Feiyun agreed to prepare for his inheritance and received Zhang Qing's token to learn Jie's new martial path.
• Zhang Qing sent the Highnesses to the Martial Path World, then returned to the Sea World as the Flower Lord's influence united its factions.
• Zhang Qing persuaded the Sea Emperor and the Night Spirit Progenitor to learn martial arts to temper their True Spirits.
• Zhang Qing told Yun Xiaoxi that hidden schemers might be waiting to reap the rewards, and resolved to trust no one while planning his next moves.
• Zhang Qing sent a green dragon into the River of Time and outlined plans to advance Hu Feiyun, strengthen the Progenitors, and investigate the Imperial City Lord's final words.
• Zhang Qing decided that he needed to lose once.

Zhang Qing guarded Hu Feiyun as he began ascending to become the Tiger Venerable, while uncovering how faith and the border armies sustained the Imperial City Lord inheritance. Hu Feiyun stepped onto the golden path, and Kid Brother arrived to confront Zhang Qing about the coming war and the Reincarnation Divine Rule.

• Zhang Qing oversaw Sea World's settlement, secretly released several Imperial City Lords from the Temporal Prison, and went to Tiger Imperial City after Hu Feiyun called him.
• Hu Feiyun explained that Tiger Imperial City's residents had been relocated and asked Zhang Qing to protect his ascension from Imperial Clan and Tiger Clan challengers.
• Zhang Qing saw the Tiger Clan worshipping and realized their faith gathered to summon the Lord's seat, while the border armies' strength helped preserve the inheritance.
• Tiger Might descended as a golden path, and Zhang Qing killed a Tiger Clan exile who tried to claim the Tiger Venerable's seat before Hu Feiyun.
• Hu Feiyun stepped onto the golden path as Zhang Qing guarded him, but Kid Brother arrived seeking new Provisions and argued with Zhang Qing about fate, the Reincarnation Divine Rule, and whether Zhang Qing could keep winning.

Hu Feiyun became a Venerable Lord and learned that the Venerable Lord inheritance hid a horrifying secret tied to Hao and the origins of their race. Zhang Qing promised to help him pursue the Ultimate Leap and destroy Hao, declaring that Hao’s future would never arrive.

• Kid Brother left after deciding to join forces with Hao and fight Zhang Qing in the Astrology World.
• Hu Feiyun became a Venerable Lord with a white true body and Authority of Slaughter, then fought Zhang Qing using their avatars and lost.
• Hu Feiyun told Zhang Qing that the first Tiger Venerable had discovered Star Array Civilization inheritance and created the Venerable Lord inheritance method.
• Hu Feiyun revealed that his inherited memories showed cages, leading him and Zhang Qing to visit a tiger in a zoo in Great Xia’s Imperial Capital.
• Hu Feiyun realized the Venerable Lords’ secret concerned the origin of their race and demanded the power to destroy everything.
• Zhang Qing urged Hu Feiyun to train for the Ultimate Leap and vowed that Hao was doomed and his future would never arrive.