Recaps

Zhou Qing proved his strength by defeating Empyrean God Feiyou in a spar, then helped Ten Thousand Mountains Island prepare for the demon army’s assault. When the attack began, he used his claw techniques and Space Power to wipe out the demons around him.

• Zhou Qing fought Empyrean God Feiyou barehanded and revealed that he had mastered the Eight-Nine Arcane Art and powerful Time and Space abilities.
• Empyrean God Feiyou used Three Heads and Six Arms, but Zhou Qing overwhelmed him until Feiyou called a halt and admitted defeat.
• The Empyrean Gods grew more confident that Zhou Qing would help them survive the demon army’s attack.
• Twenty-one days later, Zhou Qing and nine other Empyrean Gods took a defensible mountain pass when the demon army approached Ten Thousand Mountains Island.
• Zhou Qing sensed a vast force of green-skinned demons and used Heaven-Slaughtering Claw, Heaven-Severing Claw, and Heaven-Trapping Claw to clear the demons around him.

Zhou Qing defeated the Giant Axe General and Twin Hammers General, then used the Heavenstar Gourd and his transformed Pure Yang Jindan to overpower the Fiend King. The Fiend King was sent flying, and Zhou Qing revealed that the fighter facing him was a clone refined by the Waterflame Jindan Refining Technique.

• The Fiend King sent the Giant Axe General and Twin Hammers General to challenge Zhou Qing.
• Zhou Qing killed the Twin Hammers General with a full-powered claw strike, then used Dark World to kill the Giant Axe General.
• The Fiend King ordered the remaining Fiend Generals to fight the other Empyrean Gods and went to face Zhou Qing himself.
• Zhou Qing used the Heavenstar Gourd to unleash thirty-six Dark Worlds, sending the Fiend King flying and making him bleed.
• Zhou Qing explained that his clone wielded the transformed Pure Yang Jindan and could use the Heavenstar Gourd with power comparable to a Dao Ancestor.

Zhou Qing defeated the Fiend King and earned the Empyrean Gods’ admiration before tracking down True Immortal Dayan, who had once betrayed him, and killing him. A powerful figure appeared afterward, furious that Zhou Qing had killed one of his people.

• Zhou Qing used the thirty-six crystal worlds to defeat the Fiend King, who conceded and invited him to challenge Fiend Ice Valley.
• The Empyrean Gods praised Zhou Qing, and Empyrean God Feiyou admitted that Zhou Qing had been holding back against him.
• Zhou Qing found the disguised True Immortal Dayan at a fortune-telling stall and pursued him into a major world.
• Zhou Qing captured True Immortal Dayan, reminded him that he had sold the location of Zhou Qing’s tribulation to the Shaoyan Clan, and destroyed his golden core and soul.
• A tall, thin man appeared on a giant bamboo stalk and confronted Zhou Qing for killing one of his people.

Zhou Qing fled across the Three Realms as Dao Ancestor Ink Bamboo pursued him, while Patriarch Bodhi and Daoist Sanqing watched. After three months, an aged voice intervened and ordered Ink Bamboo to stop.

• Dao Ancestor Ink Bamboo attacked Zhou Qing, who escaped with his Void Evasion technique and asked Daoist Sanqing for help.
• Zhou Qing used his fourth-level Space Power to evade Ink Bamboo through the major worlds of the Three Realms.
• The Godking complained that Ink Bamboo’s pursuit had embarrassed the Seamless Gate instead of securing Zhou Qing as a bargaining chip.
• Daoist Sanqing and Patriarch Bodhi observed the chase, and Sanqing realized Zhou Qing had advanced to fourth-level Space Power.
• After three months of pursuit, an aged voice told Ink Bamboo to stop chasing Zhou Qing.

Elder Yuan rescued Zhou Qing from Dao Ancestor Ink Bamboo and tried to take him as a disciple, but Daoist Sanqing intervened and took Zhou Qing away. Sanqing warned Zhou Qing that Elder Yuan seemed suspicious, reinforcing Zhou Qing’s belief that he was really Heart God General.

• Elder Yuan appeared, struck Dao Ancestor Ink Bamboo into the Three Realms’ void, and drove him away from Zhou Qing.
• Elder Yuan praised Zhou Qing’s Heartforce talent and pressed him to become his disciple, but Zhou Qing repeatedly refused without his master’s consent.
• Daoist Sanqing and Patriarch Bodhi arrived, and Sanqing challenged Elder Yuan’s qualifications before taking Zhou Qing away.
• Sanqing told Zhou Qing that Elder Yuan’s behavior seemed false and advised him to stay on guard.
• Zhou Qing agreed and suspected that Sanqing had sensed something amiss about Heart God General.

After completing the Jindan refinement, Zhou Qing entered Fiend Ice Valley with a group of Empyrean Gods and used powerful illusions to clear a path through the fiends. His repeated casting advanced his Power of Illusion to the fourth level, but near the exit the Fiend King and his ten generals descended to block him.

• Zhou Qing finished refining the remaining clone's Jindan and prepared to cross Fiend Ice Valley on his way to Thousand Stars Island.
• Zhou Qing took the Empyrean Gods who asked to accompany him into his estate treasure, including several from the Seamless Gate, then reached the valley's entrance.
• Zhou Qing's Heaven-Slaughtering Claw killed countless fiends, but their numbers overwhelmed the attack, so he cast a vast illusion that made them fight one another.
• Zhou Qing piloted his flying boat through the valley under cover of his illusions and raised his Power of Illusion to the fourth level.
• The Fiend King and the guardians watched Zhou Qing approach the exit, then the Fiend King and his ten generals flew down to confront him.

Zhou Qing defeated the Fiend King and ten Fiend Generals in Fiend Ice Valley by using the Three Realms Immortal-Slaying Formation and his illusions. He reached Thousand Stars Island, selected three precious treasures, and learned that crossing the valley within a hundred years would bring him a major opportunity after he left Moonlit Pool.

• The Fiend King and ten Fiend Generals formed the Celestial Fiend True Demon Formation and attacked Zhou Qing with power at the level of an ordinary Dao Ancestor.
• Zhou Qing summoned two clones and used the Three Realms Immortal-Slaying Formation to counter the fiends' formation.
• Zhou Qing used an illusion to disrupt the Fiend King and Fiend Generals, then shattered their formation and killed them.
• Zhou Qing flew out of Fiend Ice Valley and reached Thousand Stars Island, where the Fiend King awaited him.
• The Fiend King let Zhou Qing select treasures and told him that crossing Fiend Ice Valley within a hundred years would bring him an opportunity after he left Moonlit Pool.

Zhou Qing arrived at Thousand Stars Island and found the Nuwa Faction’s Empyrean Gods besieging the Seamless Gate’s Immortal Mansion after Empyrean God Dameng killed Xujiu and tried to kill Fenghou. After hearing how Dameng stirred old grudges among the Seamless Gate, Zhou Qing advised the besiegers that they could not break through the mansion, and Fenghou began to call off the attack until Zhou Qing stopped him.

• Zhou Qing reached Thousand Stars Island and saw six Seven Luminaries Celestial God Formations attacking the Immortal Mansion where Dameng had taken shelter.
• Dameng defended his actions to the Seamless Gate’s Empyrean Gods by recalling the Nuwa Faction’s past killings, and he named their personal losses to inflame their resentment.
• Zhou Qing arrived with Nuwa Faction Empyrean Gods from his estate treasure and learned that Dameng had killed Xujiu and tried to kill Fenghou.
• Sin asked Zhou Qing to help besiege the Immortal Mansion, but Zhou Qing said its formations and restrictions made a breakthrough unlikely.
• Fenghou agreed to withdraw and settle accounts with Dameng later, but Zhou Qing told the Nuwa Faction’s Empyrean Gods to wait.

Zhou Qing destroyed the Seamless Gate’s Immortal Mansion and killed its Empyrean Gods, including Empyrean God Dameng. After a three-day welcome, Empyrean God Sin and Empyrean God Fenghou explained the Path of Ten Thousand Blades, the final trial that could let Zhou Qing leave Moonlit Pool.

• Zhou Qing used the Heavenstar Gourd’s crystal worlds and an illusion to break the Seamless Gate’s formation and kill all twenty Empyrean Gods inside.
• The Nuwa Faction’s Empyrean Gods welcomed Zhou Qing after he avenged Empyrean God Xujiu by killing Empyrean God Dameng and the Seamless Gate group.
• After three days of banquets, Empyrean God Sin and Empyrean God Fenghou brought Zhou Qing to the edge of Thousand Stars Island.
• Empyrean God Sin and Empyrean God Fenghou explained that the Path of Ten Thousand Blades challenged its entrant with ten increasingly skilled copies of themselves.
• Empyrean God Sin and Empyrean God Fenghou asked Zhou Qing to take the Empyrean Gods trapped on Thousand Stars Island out of Moonlit Pool if he passed the trial, and Zhou Qing said he would do his best.

Zhou Qing mastered fourth-layer Claw Power, defeated the ninth guardian, and returned to Thousand Stars Island, where the trapped Empyrean Gods prepared to leave with him. He brought them back to the Path of Ten Thousand Blades and faced the tenth guardian, who warned him not to disappoint their hopes.

• Zhou Qing studied and defeated the first eight guardians, refining his claw technique along the way.
• After studying the ninth guardian's technique, Zhou Qing broke through to the fourth layer of Claw Power and defeated him after using their fight to temper his moves.
• Zhou Qing watched the tenth guardian's technique but left without challenging him, then returned to Thousand Stars Island and told the Empyrean Gods he had defeated nine guardians.
• Zhou Qing said he would challenge the tenth guardian immediately, and all the Empyrean Gods chose to leave with him.
• Zhou Qing placed the Empyrean Gods in a pocket-world treasure and returned to the floating bridge, where the tenth guardian awaited him.

Zhou Qing defeated the tenth guardian, received the Fallen Moon Temple inheritance, and discovered that the Fiend King’s promised opportunity led him to Violetjewel. Though he could not become the sword’s master, Violetjewel’s item spirit let him memorize World God Beixiu’s techniques.

• Zhou Qing defeated the tenth guardian and advanced to Fallen Moon Island, where he selected three treasures and swore Lifeblood Oaths before entering the temple.
• Zhou Qing received the Withered World God and Nine Origin Annihilation techniques, then asked the silver-haired man where the Fiend King’s promised opportunity was.
• The silver-haired man directed Zhou Qing to a lake, which transported him to a dark void and a staircase leading to a jasper temple.
• Zhou Qing found Violetjewel and met its golden-armored item spirit, who explained that he could not become its master because he lacked skill in the Sword Dao.
• Violetjewel’s item spirit showed Zhou Qing a mountain-sized collection of techniques left by World God Beixiu, and he spent half a month memorizing them before murmuring, “Only True Body...”

After returning from Moonlit Pool with World God Beixiu’s inheritance, Zhou Qing prepared to strengthen himself and delayed investigating a mysterious icy chaos star until he was stronger. His clones advanced and Wu Xian’s true body broke through to True God, leaving Zhou Qing ready to merge his clones with Only True Body.

• Zhou Qing reviewed World God Beixiu’s techniques, including Only True Body and Golden Statue, then left Moonlit Pool and headed toward the Three Realms.
• Near an icy chaos star, the Thousand Winds Token reacted to something inside; Zhou Qing chose to return later, after Wu Xian’s true body reached True God.
• Back in World Prison, Zhou Qing distributed Ice Heart Marrow and Nine Flame Paste among his clones, which used the Waterflame Jindan Refining Technique to advance to Second-Tier True Immortals.
• Wu Xian’s true body met the three conditions for the Sudden Enlightenment Meditation Sutra and broke through to True God by absorbing chaos power.
• Zhou Qing tested his new strength by tearing open distant rifts with brute force, then prepared to merge his clones using Only True Body.

Zhou Qing merged seventeen Wu Xian avatars into his true body, greatly increasing his strength, then challenged True God Shiyu to prove himself. Although Zhou Qing could not defeat him, Shiyu accepted Zhou Qing as his follower, and Zhou Qing obtained the Kuitian Taihao Pagoda.

• Zhou Qing merged seventeen Wu Xian avatars into his true body and seventeen Second Primaltwin avatars into one, then cultivated his divine abilities to the limit of the True God stage.
• Zhou Qing attacked True God Shiyu in the World Prison to earn his recognition, relying on his powerful divine body and relentless offense.
• Zhou Qing and True God Shiyu fought for two hours, but Shiyu defended against every attack while Zhou Qing exhausted nearly all his divine power.
• Zhou Qing admitted he was no match for True God Shiyu and concluded that he needed to improve his Primordial Power comprehension to defeat him.
• True God Shiyu agreed to become Zhou Qing's follower, swore a Lifeblood Oath on the Oathstone, and gave Zhou Qing the Kuitian Taihao Pagoda.

Zhou Qing followed the Thousand Winds Token to a frozen star and was transported to a vast city filled with traces of powerful cultivators and mysterious statues. After breaking through to fourth-level Time Power and gaining a trace of Fireforce, he met the city lord Bai Zhi, who revealed the city belonged to Emperor Thousand Winds.

• Zhou Qing sent a clone to scout the frozen star, followed the Thousand Winds Token into a ravine, and was transported by white light to a vast city.
• Zhou Qing explored the city’s palaces and studied the traces of experts who had mastered fifth-level Primordial Power.
• After studying the palaces’ Time Dao traces, Zhou Qing broke through to fourth-level Time Power.
• Zhou Qing looked into a flame beast statue’s eyes, escaped its illusion by spitting blood, and gained a trace of Fireforce.
• Bai Zhi appeared and told Zhou Qing that the city was one of many Thousand Winds Cities created by Emperor Thousand Winds, whose power surpassed World Realm figures.

Bai Zhi explained Thousand Winds City's opportunities, Eternity Points, and authorization ranks to Zhou Qing. Zhou Qing defeated the first training puppet and chose to continue challenging stronger ones.

• Bai Zhi explained that the Statues of the Grand Dao could guide cultivators toward the World Realm and that the city offered treasures and manuals for exchange.
• Bai Zhi showed Zhou Qing the exchange catalogue and explained that Eternity Points were the city's currency and authorization determined which items he could obtain.
• Bai Zhi transported Zhou Qing to an arena and explained that defeating puppets would earn Eternity Points and authorization.
• Zhou Qing defeated the grade C, level one puppet in one exchange and earned one Eternity Point and grade C authorization.
• Zhou Qing accepted Bai Zhi's offer to challenge the grade C, level two puppet.

Zhou Qing exchanged Eternity Points for the Wanxiang Claws and contemplated a Space-Time Dao statue for nearly two hundred years, advancing his comprehension. When a new simulation became available, he drew an ordinary Divine Kingdom Human identity in the Swallowed Star World and received the goal of becoming Undying within one hundred thousand years.

• Bai Zhi told Zhou Qing that he had grade-C access and 131 Eternity Points after his puppet battles.
• Zhou Qing exchanged 50 Eternity Points for the six-claw set called the Wanxiang Claws and refined its first layer of restrictions.
• Zhou Qing found a giant tortoise statue of the Space-Time Dao and contemplated it, advancing his Power of Time and Space to the fourth layer over nearly two hundred years.
• The Infinite Simulation Panel became ready, and Zhou Qing began a new simulation in the Swallowed Star World.
• Zhou Qing drew the identity of an ordinary human born in the Cold Star Divine Kingdom and received the objective of becoming Undying within one hundred thousand years.

Zhou Qing began a new simulation as Dongfang Jue and was reborn as a Divine Kingdom Human in the Swallowed Star World. He rose through the Cold Star Empire Royal Warrior Academy but struggled to grasp the Law of Lightning, leaving him to choose whether to advance to Universe Level.

• Zhou Qing chose to start the simulation as Dongfang Jue, a True God and First-Tier True Immortal.
• Reborn as a baby in God Lord Cold Star's Divine Kingdom, he learned the cultivation levels and began martial arts training at eight.
• Zhou Qing reached Planetary Level at fifteen, then his Star Level parents died after being conscripted into an interstellar war.
• At twenty-seven, he reached Star Level and grasped the basics of the Lightning Domain, earning a place in the Cold Star Empire Royal Warrior Academy.
• Zhou Qing advanced his Lightning Domain to the third level, placed first in the academy examination, and accepted a Domain Lord professor as his teacher.
• After remaining at Star Level for three hundred years without grasping the basics of the Law of Lightning, Zhou Qing faced another choice about breaking through to Universe Level.

Zhou Qing’s simulation followed his rise from a Universe Level warrior to a Domain Lord, where he chose the Giant Axe Life-and-Death Battle as a way to earn money for entry to the Initial Universe. He won a thousand consecutive matches and became a Giant Axe Warrior.

• Zhou Qing broke through to the Universe Level, gained a basic grasp of the Law of Lightning, and killed a Domain Lord Star Pirate who had come to assassinate him.
• Zhou Qing’s simulated self found a possession secret technique but no suitable body, then spent a thousand years on mercenary missions and advanced to the ninth stage of the Universe Level.
• Zhou Qing chose to break through and became a Domain Lord, then joined the Cold Star Guard and improved his Law Comprehension.
• After learning that entry to the Initial Universe cost three hundred Hunyuan Units per slot, Zhou Qing chose the Giant Axe Life-and-Death Battle to earn the money.
• Zhou Qing defeated a thousand opponents in succession, narrowly beating his nine hundred and fifty-seventh opponent after his Law of Lightning comprehension advanced, and earned the title of Giant Axe Warrior.

Zhou Qing chose to enter the Outer Domain Battlefield in the simulation, where he advanced to become a World Lord General before an Immortal attack destroyed his squad. Years later, the same bubble-shaped Special Lifeform seized his squad, and Zhou Qing chose to use his possession secret technique against it.

• Zhou Qing rejected managing a territory and joining World Lord Life-and-Death Battles, choosing instead to travel to the Outer Domain Battlefield.
• Zhou Qing joined a World Lord General’s squad and, after a thousand years of missions, gained an initial understanding of the Time Law and became the squad’s second World Lord General.
• A Demon Race Immortal illusionist wiped out Zhou Qing’s squad, but Zhou Qing resisted the illusion and escaped after a gigantic bubble appeared and drove the Immortal away.
• Zhou Qing later returned to the battlefield and, after another thousand years, was dragged into darkness by the bubble-shaped Special Lifeform as it devoured his teammates.
• Zhou Qing chose to use his possession secret technique on the Special Lifeform rather than fight it directly.

Zhou Qing’s simulated self possessed a wounded Space Phantom, rose to prominence as a World Lord, and entered Chaos City to study the Universe Chaos Stele. After mastering the Space Origin Law and gaining recognition from the Time Origin Law, he broke through to become an Undying God at age sixty-two thousand one hundred and twenty-three.

• Zhou Qing’s simulated self defeated the wounded Space Phantom’s soul and possessed it, then spent three years mastering its body and learned its inherited techniques.
• He nurtured a Special Life Clone, returned to the Barracks Base, and later killed a demon Immortal Army Lord, earning the title Space Blade World Lord.
• After killing ten more Immortals, he exchanged military merits for a place in the Initial Universe and traveled to Chaos City.
• He chose the Universe Chaos Stele, cleared the seventeenth and then twentieth floors of the Heavenly Bridge, and received two hundred billion points from the City Lord’s Mansion.
• He mastered all three major branches of the Space Origin Law and gained recognition from the Time Origin Law before choosing to break through.
• At age sixty-two thousand one hundred and twenty-three, Zhou Qing’s simulated self transformed into an Immortal Divine Body and became an Undying God.

After completing his Swallowed Star World simulation, Zhou Qing advanced the Power of Time and Space to the fifth level and tested his strength against the arena puppets. He defeated the C-7 puppet but fell short against C-8, leaving him near the leader level and stronger in combat than Patriarch Bodhi.

• Zhou Qing built his Divine Kingdom in a Space Fragment in the Space Torrent Layer.
• In Thousand Winds City, Zhou Qing processed his memories from the Swallowed Star World and reached the fifth level of the Power of Time and Space.
• Zhou Qing challenged the C-4 puppet and defeated it with his Heaven-Exterminating Claw.
• Zhou Qing continued and defeated the C-5, C-6, and C-7 puppets before challenging C-8.
• Zhou Qing failed to defeat C-8 and concluded that his weaker divine body had held him back, though his realm was nearing the leader level.

Zhou Qing sensed the coming Three Realms tribulation, brought the Moonlit Pool Empyrean Gods back to the Three Realms, and strengthened Fengdu’s defenses. More than a century later, he met Ji Ning in the Underworld and gave him Pure Yang primordial Qi before taking him to the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

• Zhou Qing sensed the Heavenly Dao’s warning that the great tribulation was approaching and arranged for Wu Xian’s true body to defend Fengdu.
• Wu Xian returned to the Three Realms, and Zhou Qing released the Moonlit Pool Empyrean Gods, who spread news of his escape and raised his reputation.
• Zhou Qing sent his seed clone to the World Prison and had Wu Xian’s Second Primaltwin bring the Kuitian Taihao Pagoda back to the Three Realms.
• More than a hundred years later, Zhou Qing saw a bull-headed giant god bring Ji Ning to Lord Cui and visited them at Lord Cui’s residence.
• Zhou Qing gave Ji Ning a wisp of Pure Yang primordial Qi and offered to escort him to the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

Zhou Qing sent Ji Ning into reincarnation with his memories protected, then defended Fengdu City when the Seamless Gate attacked the Six Paths of Reincarnation. After Zhou Qing annihilated the attacking force, Master Huanmu and Dao Ancestor Demon Hand realized he had become a True God and wondered whether the Moonlit Pool had helped him break through.

• Zhou Qing gave Ji Ning Meng Po Soup, which failed to erase his memories, and directed him into what he claimed was the Path of Devas.
• Black dragons attacked Fengdu City in the Two Realms Tribulation Dragon Life-and-Death Formation, and Granny Meng struggled to protect the Netherworld.
• Zhou Qing rescued the ghosts awaiting reincarnation, destroyed the formation, and killed more than two hundred Seamless Gate Empyrean Gods and True Immortals.
• Master Huanmu and Dao Ancestor Demon Hand witnessed Zhou Qing's power and learned that he was a True God Dao Ancestor.
• Dao Ancestor Demon Hand connected Zhou Qing's breakthrough to his journey through the Moonlit Pool and considered whether it helped Empyrean Gods advance.

Zhou Qing killed Dao Ancestor Ink Bamboo and Swordmaster Darknorth, then fought Dao Ancestor Demon Hand while the Nuwa Faction broke through Master Huanmu’s formation. The chapter ended with Master Huanmu facing the three Nuwa Faction leaders as they pressed toward the Netherworld.

• Dao Ancestor Demon Hand sent Dao Ancestor Ink Bamboo and Swordmaster Darknorth to the Netherworld after the Seamless Gate’s Empyrean Gods and True Immortals were wiped out.
• Zhou Qing killed Dao Ancestor Ink Bamboo with a single Heaven-Exterminating Claw strike and pursued Swordmaster Darknorth.
• Swordmaster Darknorth fled, but Zhou Qing’s attack shattered his Daolord Golden Pill and killed him despite Dao Ancestor Demon Hand’s warning.
• Zhou Qing attacked the injured Dao Ancestor Ink Bamboo, but Dao Ancestor Demon Hand intervened and blocked his claws.
• Zhou Qing and Dao Ancestor Demon Hand fought evenly while the Nuwa Faction broke through Master Huanmu’s formation.
• Suiren, Tathagata, and Daoist Sanqing confronted Master Huanmu, who stood in their way as they moved to aid the Netherworld.

Zhou Qing defeated Dao Ancestor Demon Hand after Swordmaster Darknorth fell, and the Nuwa Faction’s mighty figures recognized him as a leader-level figure. With the Six Paths of Reincarnation saved, the leaders turned to planning a response to the Seamless Gate.

• The Nuwa Faction’s True Gods and Dao Ancestors entered the Netherworld and witnessed Zhou Qing slay Swordmaster Darknorth, then fight Dao Ancestor Demon Hand.
• Zhou Qing used Three Heads and Six Arms and six Wanxiang Claws to overwhelm Dao Ancestor Demon Hand, who also used Three Heads and Six Arms to defend herself.
• Patriarch Bodhi, True Immortal Yuding, and Sun Wukong joined the battle, and Dao Ancestor Demon Hand lost focus, was struck by Zhou Qing, and admitted defeat before escaping with Dao Ancestor Ink Bamboo.
• Zhou Qing reunited with Patriarch Bodhi, True Immortal Yuding, and Sun Wukong, then received congratulations from the Nuwa Faction’s mighty figures and its leaders.
• Daoist Sanqing praised Zhou Qing, Suiren thanked him for saving the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and the leaders proposed convening the Hall of Myriad Clans to respond to the Seamless Gate.