Recaps

Li Qing ambushed Yun Baishan in his bedroom and defeated him with the Qimen Dunjia Formation and his powerful techniques. While searching Yun Baishan’s consciousness, Li Qing discovered a sentient blood worm attached to his spirit and realized Yun Baishan was likely a vessel for possession by someone from the Demon Blood Path.

• Li Qing reflected on how cultivators treated ordinary humans as livestock and wondered whether his preparations would help him transcend the world’s order.
• After Yun Baishan returned to his bedroom to cultivate, Li Qing’s hidden Qimen Dunjia Formation activated and sealed the room.
• Li Qing attacked Yun Baishan, neutralized his blood techniques, and overwhelmed him with his Invincible Human Dao Dharma Body.
• Yun Baishan tried to flee, but the formation turned him back toward Li Qing, who knocked him unconscious and entered his sea of consciousness.
• Li Qing found a human-faced blood worm attached to Yun Baishan’s spiritual body and suspected that a Demon Blood Path cultivator had possessed him.

Li Qing purified Yun Baishan of the bloodworm and tested whether he could influence a Child of Destiny without provoking the world’s retaliation. After a meteor destroyed Baishan stronghold, Li Qing concluded he must avoid directly changing a Child of Destiny’s fate and instead work through their followers.

• Li Qing used the Civilization Torrent to destroy the bloodworm parasitizing Yun Baishan, who pledged himself to the Lord of Myriad Demons.
• Li Qing absorbed the hundred Curse-Grade Essence Stones from Yun Baishan’s treasury and increased his mana and essence.
• A meteor struck Baishan stronghold as Yun Baishan called on Li Qing for help, destroying much of the mountain and killing the bandits.
• Li Qing reasoned that controlling a Child of Destiny had triggered the world’s purge and decided to influence their followers instead.
• A Shadow Paper Doll emerged and headed toward the devastated Bai Shan.

The Shadow Paper Doll retrieved a meteorite from Bai Shan's depression before a mysterious Daoist arrived and failed to track the thief. Li Qing identified the metal as Galactic Divine Iron and began using the Great Ritual Artifact Curse to refine his Sword Pellet, hoping to raise it to the Dao Artifact tier.

• The Shadow Paper Doll found a fist-sized piece of metal in the crater and escaped with it using Shadow Leap.
• A mysterious Daoist arrived, discovered the meteorite was gone, and failed to find the thief's aura despite searching the area.
• The mysterious Daoist headed for Yang Province City while Li Qing examined the blue metal and recognized it as Galactic Divine Iron.
• Li Qing planned to fuse the iron into his existing artifacts and use the Ritual Artifact Technique to unlock their potential.
• Li Qing entered a cave, sealed it with restrictions, brought out his Sword Pellet, and began refining it with the Great Ritual Artifact Curse.

Li Qing's attempt to use the Jade Tablet to devise a new Sword Pellet refining method failed, so he used the Treasure Fusion Curse to fuse Galactic Divine Iron into his Sword Pellet. As the artifact's curse and the iron's starlight power clashed, Li Qing suppressed their conflict, and a new gray-silver power began transforming the curse.

• Li Qing recorded his proposed Sword Pellet refining method with the Jade Tablet, but it only restored the known method and offered no new deduction.
• Li Qing decided to risk using the Treasure Fusion Curse to fuse Galactic Divine Iron into his Sword Pellet.
• Li Qing channeled the iron's Galactic Divine Light into the Sword Pellet until the iron became black matter and the pellet glowed blue and silver.
• When the Sword Pellet's curse began clashing with the Light of the Star River, Li Qing restrained it with Doomsday Mist Extinguishing Transcendence and used Heavens Civilization Torrent to suppress the conflict.
• The curse and starlight gradually transformed one another, producing a gray-silver force that linked the curses into a cycle and began absorbing their original power.

Li Qing transformed his Sword Pellet, which began consuming mana and seemed to be changing toward a Dao artifact. As he continued toward Yang Province City, the Jade Tablet revealed the growth of his forces and a plan by the four great Dao Lineages to overturn the existing order.

• Li Qing refined the Sword Pellet until it shrank to an inch and began absorbing his mana, leaving it unusable while its transformation continued.
• Li Qing ate jerky to recover his strength, left the cave, and resumed his journey toward Yang Province City.
• The Jade Tablet reported that Li Qing's mortal gangs had expanded into nearby towns, while Ao Ming built a force of over ten thousand water monsters under the General Wave-Divider Mansion.
• Li Qing ordered the five city gang leaders to begin training a dispersed group of five thousand core members in Martial Art.
• The Jade Tablet revealed that the four great Dao Lineages planned to destroy the Hundred Schools of Thought, resist the other three great Dao Lineages, and enter the Central Plains to unify the realm.

Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to identify more than ten thousand members of evil and demonic Dao Lineages and ordered the untrained among them placed under surveillance. On the road to Yang Province City, he encountered a rat demon and attacked it, hoping to capture it and use it to infiltrate the Demon Race.

• Li Qing discovered that the four great Dao Lineages planned to destroy the Hundred Schools of Thought and use the north as a base to conquer the Great Tang, so he planned to expose their hidden agents through Children of Destiny.
• Li Qing spent two days using the Jade Tablet to identify more than ten thousand members of evil and demonic Dao Lineages across forty-eight small cities and three hundred and twenty-seven county towns.
• Li Qing ordered his subordinates to place those without cultivation under surveillance while he prepared for a possible Tribulation after reaching the Spirit Consciousness Realm.
• After traveling toward Yang Province City, Li Qing was attacked by a swarm of rats in Wild Goose Mountain and used Shadow Paper Dolls to locate their leader, a golden-furred rat demon.
• Li Qing appeared behind the rat demon and suppressed it with his techniques as it turned and struck at him with a blade infused with demonic Killing Intent.

Li Qing learned that the three Great Demon Kings of Wild Goose Mountain had invited Yang Province's demons to a banquet, likely to unite them, and sent a Shadow Paper Doll to investigate. The doll followed Mouse Little Brother into their hidden valley, where it found dozens of Monster Kings gathered; Mouse Little Brother rejected the bloody meat served at his table.

• Li Qing knocked out Mouse Little Brother and learned from his memories that three Divine Soul Realm demon kings had invited Yang Province's Monster Kings to a birthday banquet.
• Li Qing suspected the Monster Path planned to unite the demons and ordered a Shadow Paper Doll to follow Mouse Little Brother into the secret blessed land.
• Mouse Little Brother led his rats to Wild Goose Mountain, where a fox demon guided him through an array into a hidden valley.
• The Shadow Paper Doll followed Mouse Little Brother into a palace filled with feasting Monster Kings, including several at the Spirit Consciousness Realm and True Method Realm.
• Mouse Little Brother asked a little monster to replace the bloody meat at his table with fresh fruit.

Li Qing secretly watched the demons gathered at Wild Goose Mountain as Double-Horned King revealed the Southern Frontier Monster Path’s plan to unite the demons of Yang Province. The demons celebrated the coming rebellion and spoke of taking revenge on the Dao Lineage cultivators.

• Demons at the banquet discussed rumors that the Southern Frontier Monster Path planned to expand north and promised abundant human prey.
• Li Qing watched from Little Brother Mouse’s shadow and recognized that the Jade Tablet’s warning about the demons’ plans was accurate.
• Mr. Centipede, Green Snake Gentleman, and Double-Horned King arrived, and the assembled demons paid their respects.
• Double-Horned King explained that the birthday banquet concealed a meeting about a peak Divine Soul Realm figure coming to unite Yang Province’s demons.
• Double-Horned King announced plans to establish a demon kingdom at Wild Goose Mountain and plunge Yang Province into chaos, prompting the demons to celebrate and threaten revenge against the Dao Lineage.

Great Ape King arrived at Wild Goose Mountain and established the Demon Race Alliance, while Li Qing discovered that he was a mixed-blood Chosen One of Heaven meant to help build a new dynasty. Li Qing planned to use Mouse Little Brother as a spy and sent a Shadow Paper Doll into the valley to create an opportunity.

• Double-Horned King asked Great Ape King to lead the demons of Yang Province.
• Great Ape King appeared, accepted the demons' submission, and declared the Demon Race Alliance with himself as its leader.
• Li Qing used his records to learn that Great Ape King could help found a dynasty through his bloodline and that his kingly aura inspired others to submit.
• Li Qing decided to use Mouse Little Brother as a spy and devised a way to draw Great Ape King's attention.
• Li Qing sent a talisman-covered Shadow Paper Doll through the mist formation at night to target a Demon King.

Li Qing used the Shadow Paper Doll and a Force-Borrowing Talisman to take control of Poison Demon, then sent Mouse Little Brother to expose a human spy at the Demon Race Alliance council. Mouse Little Brother named Poison Demon as the spy, leaving the assembled demon kings in suspicion.

• Li Qing's Shadow Paper Doll entered Poison Demon's guest room and used Heavens Civilization Torrent to overwhelm the insect demon's spiritual defenses.
• Poison Demon submitted to Li Qing and pledged its life to the cause of the demon race.
• Li Qing told Mouse Little Brother to carry out the next part of the plan, and Mouse Little Brother sent controlled mice to observe the valley.
• At the first council meeting of the Yang Province Demon Race Alliance, Mouse Little Brother interrupted Great Ape King and warned that a human spy had exposed the alliance.
• Mouse Little Brother claimed to have proof and identified Poison Demon of Emerald Cloud Mountain as the spy.

Mouse Little Brother accused Poison Demon of spying for humans and offered himself for Great Ape King to inspect. Great Ape King found no marks on Mouse Little Brother, but Poison Demon exploded in a poisonous attack when his turn came.

• Mouse Little Brother admitted using rats to spy on the Demon Kings and reported that Poison Demon had communicated with a human agent.
• Poison Demon denied the accusation, while Mouse Little Brother argued that Poison Demon’s claim to be a naturally born Gu insect was suspicious and invited Great Ape King to inspect him.
• Great Ape King examined Mouse Little Brother and found no external restrictions or signs of control.
• When Great Ape King began examining Poison Demon, Poison Demon exploded and unleashed poisonous gas, shouting that they should die together.
• Mouse Little Brother rushed to shield Great Ape King, who protected him with golden radiance as the poison failed to break through.

Li Qing helped Mouse Little Brother earn Great Ape King's trust while secretly taking control of more demon kings, then traveled toward Yang Province City to counter the alliance's plans for chaos. As dawn approached, he spotted a huge figure hopping through the mist and suspected it was a zombie.

• Great Ape King appointed Mouse Little Brother Roving General and ordered him to gather intelligence across Yang Province.
• Great Ape King directed the alliance to spread chaos through Yang Province and use guerrilla attacks against the Dao Lineages.
• Li Qing decided to involve Yang Province's Dao Lineage cultivators, then controlled four True Method Realm monster kings and secretly linked them with Mouse Little Brother.
• Li Qing reached the outskirts of Yang Province City, found its defenses too formidable to infiltrate, and rested while recovering his mana.
• At dawn, Li Qing saw a figure at least one zhang tall hopping through the forest and suspected it was a zombie.

Li Qing killed a Baleful Intent-level Anomaly and absorbed its Essence Stone before entering a bustling city. There, he noticed that the essence energy emanating from people vanished without a trace, suggesting a powerful grotto-heaven was hidden within the city.

• Li Qing fought the Baleful Intent-level Anomaly, breaking its limbs and pounding its body until it died and left behind an Essence Stone.
• Li Qing absorbed the Essence Stone, increasing his Dharma power, and considered how he would pay for supplies and hide more stones in Peach Blossom Vale's grotto-heaven.
• A Demon Extermination Captain found the remains and remarked that Anomalies had become at least twice as common in a month; Li Qing learned of the conversation through a Shadow Paper Doll.
• Li Qing changed his appearance, presented his travel permit, and entered the city.
• Li Qing saw essence energy from nearby people disappear into the air and suspected a powerful grotto-heaven lay within the city.

Li Qing stayed at an inn in Yang Province City and used his Shadow Paper Doll to collect the city’s written records and intelligence. He discovered that the Monster Path had infiltrated the city’s constabulary and that spies from many factions were embedded among its leaders and experts.

• Li Qing surveyed Yang Province City, chose to stay at the inn named There Is an Inn, and decided to deal with the Monster Path before going to Goose City.
• Li Qing sent his Shadow Paper Doll through the city to record books and documents, greatly expanding the information stored on his Jade Tablet.
• Li Qing learned that the Great Ape King had helped Wan Yutang become prefect and secretly control about five hundred members of the city constabulary through demon arts.
• Li Qing reviewed the city’s major political and Dao lineage factions, including the King of Yang Province, the three great academies, and the Demon Extermination Hall.
• Li Qing’s Jade Tablet revealed more than thirty high-level spies in Yang Province City, including agents placed by the Eclectic School, School of Diplomacy, Monster Path, and Blood Demon Sect.

Li Qing uncovered hints of an ancient secret beneath Yang Province City and planted controlled agents among its major gangs while preparing a plan to keep the city’s forces at odds. The chapter ended as Xue Longshan suddenly received memories showing the Great Ape King’s gathering of demons and Prefect Wan Yutang writing something alarming.

• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to infer that Yang Province City concealed a secret connected to legends from 3,300 years ago, but key information was missing.
• Li Qing used Heavens Civilization Torrent to control Money Gang leader Ma Mingyue, Azure Dragon Gang leader Wang Chunhan, and Water Moon Gang leader Wu Meixiang, then recruited Wen Zhengming as his informant.
• Li Qing wrote down the Great Ape King's plans and the Demon Race spies in the city, then used his divination artifact to refine a plan that would keep them deadlocked and make Mouse Little Brother the Great Ape King's main source of information.
• Xue Longshan received memories of demons gathered around the Great Ape King and of Prefect Wan Yutang writing at a literary gathering, leaving him shocked by what he saw.

Li Qing’s fabricated memories exposed spies in Yang Province City, prompting the city’s leaders to plan a purge and an assault on Wild Goose Mountain. Li Shiyang won Emperor Kuntai’s authorization to act and was ordered to uncover the mysterious organization behind the revelations.

• Xue Longshan received apparent memories identifying spies tied to the Demonic Path and Monster Path, and hurried to report them at the Legalist Academy.
• Li Shiyang, Zheng Xingdou, Zhu Chengli, Mo Yuntian, and Zhou Yulong discussed the intelligence and agreed to target suspected spies and attack Wild Goose Mountain.
• The leaders planned to use ordinary Rogue Cultivators to probe and weaken the demons while their forces directed the assault.
• Li Shiyang identified prefect Wan Yutang as a Monster Path spy and prepared to use his authority as King of Yang Province to seize him.
• Li Shiyang briefed Emperor Kuntai, who authorized the operation and ordered him to investigate the organization behind the leaked information.

Li Qing investigated Goose City, where the Jade Tablet’s reconstruction placed Ma Bowen’s tomb, and discovered that the city’s vital essence had been mysteriously drained. He concluded that Ma Bowen’s tomb was likely hidden inside a grotto-heaven that absorbed the city’s vital essence, and began recording his theory.

• Emperor Kuntai ordered Li Shiyang to contact the mysterious Black Hand, offer amnesty if possible, and otherwise monitor them while arranging a new prefect for Yang Province City.
• Li Shiyang prepared to clean up the city before the Yang Province Demon Race Alliance made its move, unaware that Li Qing watched him through a Shadow Paper Doll.
• Li Qing left the inn and used World-Walking Star-Shifting to travel to Goose City, intending to investigate Ma Bowen’s tomb.
• Li Qing used Shadow Paper Dolls to survey Goose City and record its local histories, finding that cultivators were scarce and that the city had unusually little vital essence.
• Li Qing connected Goose City’s drained vital essence to its lack of Anomalies and Dao Lineage cultivators, and suspected Ma Bowen had hidden his tomb in a grotto-heaven beneath the city.

Li Qing investigated Ma Bowen's tomb and learned it was hidden within the grotto-heaven rooted in Goose City, but he still lacked the information needed to locate it. He intervened when Li San and his thugs attacked the Ma family, and ended the chapter sending fire serpents at them with a Flame Talisman.

• Li Qing learned from the Jade Tablet that Ma Bowen's tomb lay within Goose City's grotto-heaven, though its exact location remained unknown.
• Li San and two thugs tried to seize the Ma family's home over a fraudulent debt, revealing that someone had hired them to take everything the family owned.
• Ma Xiuwen fought the thugs with a rolling pin, while his mother offered an ancestral jade pendant to settle the debt.
• Li San struck the old woman down, and a cloaked Shadow Paper Doll appeared to warn the thugs to leave.
• Li San and his companions attacked the Shadow Paper Doll, and it used a Flame Talisman to send three fire serpents at them.

Li Qing learned that Ma Bowen’s jade pendant could summon a hidden Dream Cave Heaven in Goose City, then dealt with the cultivator who had targeted the Ma family. He withdrew to a sealed cave to prepare for entering the dangerous realm three years later.

• Li Qing questioned Ma Xiuwen and his mother, who confirmed they were Ma Bowen’s descendants but knew neither his burial place nor any cultivation legacy.
• Li Qing took the Ma family’s jade pendant and discovered its inscription revealed how Ma Bowen’s bloodline could summon a Dream Cave Heaven that would draw outsiders’ spirits into it.
• Li Qing offered Ma Xiuwen and his mother a thousand taels to help him, advised them to move to Yang Province City, and promised to handle their attackers.
• Li Qing killed Zhang Bailong, the rogue cultivator who had arranged the attack to search the Ma family for a cultivation technique.
• Li Qing withdrew to a sealed cave and began considering how to escape and survive the Dream Cave Heaven, which would appear three years later.

Li Qing deduced that Ma Bowen had hidden a way to revive inside the dangerous, four-layered Dream Grotto-Heaven and planned to enter it in search of his inheritance. To protect himself, Li Qing gathered materials and began refining a Dream Lamp that would let him explore through a projection without endangering his main body.

• Li Qing's divination showed a shadow swallowing the Dream Grotto-Heaven and Goose City, and he suspected Ma Bowen had planted a hidden move there.
• Li Qing decided to recruit powerful cultivators to delay the danger while he searched the grotto-heaven's study for Ma Bowen's inheritance.
• Li Qing wrote a plan and sent a Shadow Paper Doll to buy the materials he needed in Yang Province City's Hundred Gates Alley.
• Li Qing began refining a Dream Lamp, which could send a projection into dreams and keep damage to it from harming his main body.

Li Qing completed the Dream Lamp’s uncanny Tribulation, gathered dreams from Goose City, and used the lamp’s power to spread a false report about a grotto-heaven opening. The Blood Demon Sect’s intelligence chief received several matching reports and began to wonder who was projecting information into people’s minds.

• Li Qing protected the Dream Lamp from the mist and eerie sounds until its uncanny Tribulation ended.
• Li Qing used the Dream Lamp to collect the dreams of Goose City’s sleeping residents, filling it with a flame of dreams.
• Li Qing returned to his cave and used Wish Spell to plant a report about the Heaven-Calculating Strategist’s inheritance in the minds of more than a hundred low-ranking faction members.
• Zhang Si received the report in his memories, suspected someone knew his identity, and secretly passed the information to the Blood Demon Sect.
• The Blood Demon Sect’s intelligence chief found four similar notes and wondered who could project information into people’s minds.

After the mysterious memory-bestowing figure exposed spies in Yang Province City and announced that the Dream Grotto-Heaven would open in Goose City, factions across the region began preparing to act. Li Qing positioned himself near Goose City and sent a Shadow Paper Doll to bring Ma Xiuwen with him as cultivators gathered outside the city.

• A Blood Demon Sect spy realized the newly revealed information could disrupt the major factions and decided to contact his superiors.
• The Great Ape King learned that Wan Yutang and other spies had been captured after cultivators received memories exposing them, and he suspected a mysterious force was targeting the Monster, Demonic, Ghost, and Buddhist paths.
• Golden-Furred Rat told the Great Ape King that new memories announced the Dream Grotto-Heaven and the Heaven-Calculating Strategist's inheritance would appear on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, drawing the king's interest.
• The King of Yang Province reported to Emperor Kuntai, who instructed him to retrieve a stone stele from the grotto-heaven.
• Several hundred cultivators gathered outside Goose City as Li Qing watched from nearby through a Shadow Paper Doll.
• A Shadow Paper Doll appeared at Ma Xiuwen's home, summoned him, and led him away after he helped his elderly mother rise.

Li Qing protected Ma Xiuwen and his elderly mother while helping Ma Xiuwen open the Dream Grotto-Heaven in Goose City. The city’s inhabitants fell unconscious as cultivators gathered to investigate the newly revealed grotto-heaven.

• Huang Yulun investigated the courtyard but could not uncover who had taken the Ma family descendant, and other cultivators also found no clues.
• Li Qing used a Shadow Paper Doll to bring Ma Xiuwen and his elderly mother to the city walls and warned them that their ancestor might still be alive and hostile.
• Ma Xiuwen used his blood, the family jade pendant, and Li Qing’s incantation to open the Dream Grotto-Heaven, causing everyone in Goose City to fall unconscious.
• The jade pendant protected Ma Xiuwen and his elderly mother from having their consciousness drawn into the grotto-heaven, so Li Qing’s Shadow Paper Doll carried them away.
• Cultivators gathered in the sky and sent their thoughts into the hazy Dream Grotto-Heaven to investigate it.

Li Qing sent a dream projection into the Dream Grotto-Heaven and used the Dream Entry Technique to investigate its first layer. He observed a cultivator killed by an Anomaly and a Spirit Consciousness Realm cultivator defeat another, while searching for a route to the deeper layers.

• Li Qing sent a dream projection into Goose City and confirmed that the Dream Entry Technique could affect the Dream Grotto-Heaven.
• Li Qing created Shadow Paper Dolls to explore the first layer and search for a way into the second.
• A long-legged, faceless Anomaly chased down a cultivator, flattened him, and swallowed him as Li Qing watched and recorded what happened.
• Li Qing identified a newcomer as someone from the School of Diplomacy whose cultivation had reached at least the Spirit Consciousness Realm, with a slight Aberration already showing.
• The Spirit Consciousness Realm cultivator formed a vast starry Chessboard that drew in and sliced apart an Anomaly made of human heads.

Li Qing discovered that the Dream Grotto-Heaven’s first layer contained artificial Anomalies whose fragments could form a token to reach the second layer. After collecting Essence Stones and assembling the token, he was drawn toward a distant battle between a golden giant and a colossal spiritual entity.

• Li Qing learned that the first layer’s monsters were artificial Anomalies created by Ma Bowen, and that their fragments formed a token for the second layer.
• Li Qing sent a hundred Shadow Paper Dolls to hunt monsters, then controlled ten Anomalies with Doomsday Mist Extinguishing and Heavens Civilization Torrent.
• When the Dream Grotto-Heaven’s ripples began trying to reclaim the controlled Anomalies, Li Qing made them kill one another and collected their ten Essence Stones.
• Li Qing used the Dream Entry Technique to transfer the Essence Stones into the real world, where a Shadow Paper Doll retrieved them.
• The ten fragments assembled into a white token, and Li Qing saw a spirit-soul-level spiritual entity fighting a golden giant against a Disaster-level Anomaly.