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Adapted from Ergen's novel, Beyond Time's Gaze

♪All living beings open their eyes♪

♪Heaven and Earth shift over Wanggu's realm♪

♪Endless seas of blood expand♪

♪Beyond time's gaze, boundless Heaven and Earth♪

♪Ruined mountains cannot bury white bones♪

♪A rain of blood turns mortals into dust♪

♪Cruel world turns into a sea of suffering♪

♪Carrying a blood debt through life and death♪

♪Facing a catastrophe that topples the heavens♪

♪With a mortal body, I shall...♪

♪Shatter the universe!♪

Beyond Time's Gaze Nian Fan

R E C A P

Once you meet Sixth Master,

T/N: 六爷 (Sixth Master). Sixth Peak Master of Seven Blood Eyes, specializing in artifact and furnace refining. While Seventh Master is an enigmatic grand strategist, Sixth Master is renowned for fiery ruthlessness towards enemies. Cultivators and traitors alike dread falling alive into his refining cauldrons.

you will only regret not dying by my hand.

You fell for it!

Too clever for your own good.

Episode 42 Annihilating the Starfish Clan

So it was you...

Xu Qing!

Run!

We can never fall into this lunatic's hands!

Princess, flee quickly!

With a single strike,

he wiped out all our Dao Protectors!

T/N: 护道者 (Dao Protector). In cultivation society, prestigious heirs and princesses are assigned senior elder escorts called Dao Protectors to safeguard them from mortal perils. Xu Qing eliminating an entire retinue of Foundation Establishment Dao Protectors in a single strike shows his overwhelming combat supremacy.

What do we do?!

What do we do?!

We cannot escape!

No!

Xu Qing,

I can explain!

I had my reasons too!

Grandmaster Bai had no grudge with you.

Why murder him?

Xu Qing,

I was forced into this as well, I had no choice!

What is this thing?!

My Life Fire!

T/N: 命火与废除修为 (Life Fire & Cultivation Crippling). Foundation Establishment cultivators ignite Life Fires by opening internal Dharma Apertures (30 apertures per fire). Extinguishing or devouring an enemy's Life Fire causes their foundation to violently shatter, plunging them back into ordinary mortal flesh.

My Life Fire!

First I will cripple your cultivation,

then hand you over to Sixth Master.

We must never spare the Starfish Clan.

Seven Blood Eyes Sequence disciple,

T/N: 七血瞳序列 (Seven Blood Eyes Sequence disciple). The supreme inner sequence of Seven Blood Eyes, reserved for paramount prodigies groomed as future Peak Masters. As Sequence Disciple and Director of the Seventh Peak's Violent Crime Division (捕凶司司长), Xu Qing commands full judicial authority to execute clan traitors on sight.

Seventh Peak Violent Crime Division Director, Xu Qing,

reports to the sect:

The Starfish Clan has rebelled.

I petition the sect grand array

to search for all Starfish clansmen within Seven Blood Eyes,

prevent them from teleporting away,

block them from transmitting messages outside,

and suppress them on the spot!

Approved.

Xu Qing,

what did you uncover?

Sixth Master will know once you search her soul.

T/N: 搜魂术 (Soul-Searching Technique). A severe spiritual interrogation art where a high-realm cultivator forces divine consciousness directly into a victim's sea of memories. While it inflicts irreversible soul trauma, it bypasses mental defenses to extract unvarnished truth.

That is...

The Starfish Clan Princess!

I must notify Father at once:

the Starfish Clan has rebelled!

Yunxiao!

Attack!

We cannot let him escape!

Father, your son...

At least...

at least I must get this intelligence out!

Only a prodigy such as you

can refine such a peerless pure pill!

T/N: 太阴化骄丹 (Lunar Paragon Transformation Pill). A taboo elixir from the ancient epoch. Concocted by slaughtering 18 top-tier prodigies from diverse races across six cauldrons, this sinister blood pill allows an untalented mortal to rewrite destiny and acquire supreme spiritual talent.

Father,

forgive your son, for I can no longer fulfill my filial duty.

Yunxiao!

Sixth Master!

Refine every member of the Starfish Clan within Seven Blood Eyes!

T/N: 天地炼炉 (Refining the Sect Realm). As a Four-Tribulation Nascent Soul artifact grandmaster, Sixth Master can project his colossal furnace dao across thousands of li, transforming the entire sect sky into an inescapable smelting field that incinerates conspirators into medicinal ash.

Even the sky has turned black!

Die!

The full truth of this matter,

I now know completely.

Xu Qing,

this old man owes you a debt of gratitude.

If Old Seventh does not take you in later,

I shall accept you as my direct disciple!

T/N: 亲传弟子 (Direct / Personal Disciple). Cultivators rank from Outer (外门) to Inner (内门) and finally Direct (亲传). A Direct Disciple inherits a Peak Master's core secrets and is considered family. Sixth Master had sworn off taking disciples ever since losing his son, making this offer to Xu Qing unprecedented.

Sixth Master is far too kind.

Old Seventh,

Grandmaster Bai's death has been thoroughly investigated.

It was the Starfish Clan.

My son died because of them as well.

The Starfish Clan is weak,

possessing only seven Core Formation cultivators.

Even their strongest ancestor is merely at Core Formation Full Perfection.

T/N: 金丹大圆满 (Core Formation Full Perfection). The highest peak of the Core Formation realm before crossing into Nascent Soul. Despite being only a half-step away, the power chasm between Core Formation Full Perfection and true Nascent Soul is astronomical; a Nascent Soul expert can crush dozens of Core Formation experts with a single gesture.

Relying on themselves alone,

they would never dare commit such an outrageous atrocity.

Old Seventh,

what do you say?

The Starfish Clan betrayed our covenant;

they deserve total clan annihilation.

And we must act swiftly.

Yet I am currently at the frontline

and cannot return.

No need for you to return.

Help me request permission from Grand Ancestor:

May I handle this matter according to my own temper?

I have suppressed it for many years;

I want to slaughter.

Sixth child, heed my command!

Grand Ancestor!

Greetings, Grand Ancestor!

The Starfish Clan has brazenly slaughtered our human prodigies.

Go investigate and uncover the mastermind behind the scenes,

and as for the entire Starfish Clan,

leave not a single soul alive,

execute every last one of them!

I obey...

Grand Ancestor's decree!

Sixth child...

All these years,

it has been hard on you.

Sixth Peak, heed my command!

T/N: 六峰全军出征 (Sixth Peak Full War Mobilization). Rather than a routine punitive expedition, a full peak mobilization signals total clan extermination. The Sixth Peak deploys autonomous war puppets, mechanized air fortresses, and tactical siege golems specifically engineered to scour entire island habitats.

Sixth Peak Combat Puppet Mid-Tier War Dharma Apparatus

Holy crap!

The Sixth Peak truly lives up to specializing in artifact refining!

Even while sustaining consumption on the Sea Corpse frontline,

they can still deploy so many formidable treasures!

Follow this old man...

to annihilate the Starfish Clan!

We obey...

Sixth Master's command!

Sixth Master damned well refined the entire Sixth Peak into a weapon!

War Fortress Forged from the Sixth Peak

Seventh Master,

this is a secret letter sent by Sixth Master.

Years ago, the Starfish Clan obtained the upper volume of the Lunar Paragon Transformation Pill.

Their Patriarch secretly ordered the hunting of prodigies from various races.

Now, the primary medicinal catalyst is nearly complete,

lacking only the lower volume.

This is why the assassination of Grandmaster Bai occurred.

The Starfish Princess ostensibly made a diplomatic visit,

but was in fact rendezvousing with Grandmaster Bai's assassins

to obtain the lower volume of the Paragon Transformation Pill.

Openly repairing the plank walkway,

T/N: 明修栈道，暗度陈仓 (Míng xiū zhàndào, àn dù Chéncāng - 'Openly repair the plank roads, secretly cross the Chencang'). A classical idiom from Han Xin's military campaigns during the Chu-Han Contention. It means staging an overt public diversion (the diplomatic princess visit) to mask covert illicit operations (assassinating Grandmaster Bai).

while secretly crossing through Chencang.

The mastermind behind the scenes

ought to surface soon as well.

Furthermore,

on this mission to annihilate the Starfish Clan,

the First Highness and Xu Qing accompanied Sixth Master.

The Starfish Clan harbors numerous secrets

and is bound to be fraught with peril.

Should we dispatch personnel

to protect them?

No need.

The two of them managed to retreat unharmed from the Sea Corpse Clan;

this Starfish Clan cannot trap them either.

The eldest has his own methods,

and Xu Qing has his own fortune.

What is more,

Grandmaster Bai's vengeance

must be avenged with his own hands.

Captain,

Sixth Master...

Sixth Master once endured the very same agony as you.

Back then,

Sixth Master was a peerless prodigy rivaling Seventh Master,

T/N: 并驾齐驱 (Bìng jià qí qū - 'Running neck and neck'). A classical Chinese idiom meaning two horses or chariots surging forward with equal speed and prowess. In their youth, Sixth Master and Seventh Master were revered as the 'Peerless Twin Prides of Seven Blood Eyes' before personal heartbreak altered their paths.

until...

he lost the sole love of his life.

Sixth Master's Dao companion passed away from illness,

leaving him with only a single son.

From then on,

Sixth Master poured all of his painstaking care

entirely into Senior Brother Chen.

And Senior Brother Chen did not disappoint,

Chen Yunxiao Sixth Master's Only Son Late Three-Fire Foundation Establishment

becoming the most dazzling prodigy of that generation,

unmatched among his peers.

Later,

Senior Brother Chen went to sea alone to gain experience.

Once he departed,

there was never any word from him again.

Sixth Master waited bitterly for all these years,

only to receive confirmed news of his death in the end.

Years of waiting,

shattered in a single day.

The torment and heartbreak in between can well be imagined.

No matter who the mastermind is,

I will make them pay with blood!

Things like this,

I have been through them too.

So I understand your grief and killing intent.

Little Ah Qing,

this matter,

I will bear it together with you.

Mm.

Xu Qing.

Sixth Master.

From soul-searching, I learned

that the one who ordered Grandmaster Bai's murder

was the Starfish Clan Patriarch.

Furthermore, many memories of the Starfish clansmen were erased;

there must be world-shocking secrets within.

On this trip, you need to be careful.

I give you this item for self-defense.

A Nascent Soul protective talisman!

T/N: 元婴庇护与老祖墨宝 (Nascent Soul Protection & Grand Ancestor's Inscription). Grand Ancestor Xue Lianzi's handwritten calligraphy contains condensed Soul Formation worldly laws. Releasing it unleashes catastrophic divine force capable of obliterating Nascent Soul experts, ensuring Xu Qing is fully protected during the extermination raid.

You even brought Grand Ancestor's calligraphy!

Thank you, Sixth Master.

These four characters contain Grand Ancestor's divine ability.

With Grand Ancestor's calligraphy in hand

and the protection I gave you,

follow me to the Starfish Clan this time,

and slaughter to your heart's content!

The two of us

must thoroughly vent the pent-up grief in our chests!

Reporting to Sixth Master,

Starfish Island

Starfish Island is right ahead!

Come on, drink up!

Come look over here!

Look quickly!

What is that?!

What is going on?!

This is...

That thing is heading straight towards us!

What on earth is happening?!

Look at that barrier!

We are completely trapped and sealed in!

Starfish Clan,

today...

faces total clan extermination!

Starfish Ancestor One-Tribulation Nascent Soul Realm

Sixth Master...

you...

what is the meaning of this?!

What the hell do you think I mean?!

Sixth Master,

could there be some misunderstanding?!

As expected, you concealed your cultivation,

having already broken through to Nascent Soul.

T/N: 元婴天劫 (Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation). Advancing into Nascent Soul requires withstanding heavenly lightning tribulations. Cultivators are measured by tribulations overcome (One-Tribulation to Four-Tribulation Peak). The Starfish Ancestor secretly broke through to One-Tribulation, but Sixth Master is a four-tribulation veteran far beyond him.

Very good.

Only this makes it interesting!

You made this old man endure the pain of losing a son for all these years.

Today,

I will make you taste it as well:

the agony of your clan,

your clan's homeland,

everything you possess,

all being destroyed right before your eyes!

Refine for me!

Refine your clan!

Refine your land!

Refine every trace of your bloodline!

I shall refine your Starfish Clan alive,

smelting it into a single Life Candle

T/N: 命烛 (Life Candle). A dread artifact refinement technique where the life essence, bones, and lingering souls of enemies are compressed into sacred candle wax. Burning it subjects the trapped spirits to perpetual spiritual flame, mourning a fallen child while eternally punishing the perpetrators.

to burn day and night before my son's grave!

What an impressive resurrection technique!

T/N: 海星族再生神通 (Starfish Clan Regenerative Divinity). Inspired by real starfish biological limb regeneration, Starfish Clan cultivators can regrow severed limbs and reconstitute their flesh from microscopic tissue fragments using ocean qi, requiring complete molecular incineration or soul annihilation to permanently slay them.

Today,

this old man can slaughter to my heart's content!

Kill!

Leave none alive!

Kill!

The time for reckoning has come!

The hunt...

begins.

Kill, Little Ah Qing!

Kill to your heart's content!

I went through the exact same thing back in the day.

If you don't exterminate a few clans,

how would anyone ever revere and fear you?

Shadow,

kill them.

The condition of these corpses...

is not right.

Bizarre little bugs have appeared inside their bodies.

T/N: 寄生之蛊 (Parasitic Puppetry). Xu Qing's forensic poison expertise reveals bizarre parasites burrowed within the Starfish Clan corpses. The clan was not acting purely on rogue ambition; an enigmatic foreign power secretly infected and manipulated their minds like marionettes on puppet strings.

Parasites.

Could the entire Starfish Clan

all be marionettes manipulated on strings?

The Starfish Clan's ancestral temple.

Little Ah Qing,

this rundown temple is suspicious.

The entire island is engulfed in the flames of war,

yet this place alone stands completely unscathed.

Their clan is about to be exterminated,

yet they are still in the mood to concoct pills in there!

Four Two-Fire Foundation Establishment cultivators,

and another one...

The Starfish Clan Patriarch.

He is the one.

Starfish Clan Patriarch Early Two-Palace Golden Core Stage

The Starfish Clan Patriarch?

It seems we have unexpected guests.

Truly prey delivered right to our door.

Those who trespass here

T/N: 杀无赦 (Shā wú shè - 'Execute without pardon'). A classical Chinese legal and imperial edict meaning zero mercy or clemency for treason or sacred sanctuary desecration. Here snarled by the conspirators whose secret pill refinery has been caught red-handed.

shall be slain without mercy!

Little Ah Qing,

let's strike together!

• XU QING'S FIELD JOURNAL: SIXTH MASTER'S TRIBULATED LIFE • [Profile] Four-Tribulation Nascent Soul | Grandmaster Artifact Refiner (forged an entire mountain into a War Fortress). Commanding his artifact arrays, he can battle a Five-Tribulation Nascent Soul Great Perfection powerhouse. 1. Youth: Hailed alongside Seventh Master as Seven Blood Eyes' 'Peerless Twin Prides' (Xiaoyuer & Hua Wuque parody). 2. Heartbreak: His Dao companion died young; he poured his life into his only son, Chen Yunxiao (feeding him with artifact components!). 3. Solitude: After his son vanished at sea, he drowned his sorrows in wine, fruitlessly searching and swearing off ever taking disciples. PS: (Sixth Master offered to take me as his direct disciple... did he make an exception for me?) Reflection: "He guarded duty and sect righteousness for half his life, yet failed to protect his beloved and dearest kin. In the end, only a pot of turbid wine remains, drunkenly drowning the lonely sorrow of his half a lifetime..."

• DOSSIER: LUNAR PARAGON TRANSFORMATION PILL • An ancient taboo elixir from the previous epoch, vicious and completely devoid of human conscience. • Recipe: 3 prodigies make 1 medicinal catalyst; 6 catalysts refined in unison forge 1 single Blood Pill (18 racial prodigies sacrificed). • Effect: Swallowing it allows an untalented mortal to rewrite destiny and acquire the supreme talents of slaughtered prodigies. • Conspiring Hand: The faction behind the scenes gifted the upper scroll to the Starfish Clan to harvest racial prodigies. Sixth Master's son, Chen Yunxiao, was captured and murdered as refinement fodder for this pill.

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♪Wind sweeps over the dying campfire♪

♪Someone hums that old tune once more♪

♪They say: Press forward, never look back♪

♪Yet fond laughter still lingers in my ears♪

♪From every scar, gentle blossoms bloom♪

♪Treasuring the words I never spoke aloud♪

♪I have seen so many learn to let go♪

♪Yet that tender warmth I can never forsake♪

♪It is not that I refuse to walk on♪

♪I fear losing my soul if I hasten too fast♪

♪Those gentle glimmering lights never strayed far♪

♪With every breath, I feel their presence close♪

♪This is my sacred obsession, never to forget♪