Recaps

Li Qing tested the Orchid Cassia Teahouse’s strange flatbreads by feeding them to Guo Qingming, who transformed into a flesh maggot covered in flatbreads. He discovered that Shopkeeper Sun collected the maggots’ flatbreads and recorded his findings, while the archives revealed the source of Shopkeeper Sun’s Anomaly.

• Li Qing brainwashed the starving Guo Qingming, fed him three flatbreads, and sent him to stay at an inn while a Shadow Paper Doll followed him.
• At midnight, Guo Qingming transformed into a flesh maggot covered in lifelike flatbreads.
• Shopkeeper Sun appeared, carried Guo Qingming to a hidden room, and hung him with seven or eight other flat-maggot people.
• Shopkeeper Sun gathered the flatbreads growing on the maggots and carried them to the teahouse kitchen.
• Li Qing recorded his observations and found an archive entry identifying Shopkeeper Sun as a Baleful Intent Logic Anomaly caused by half a poisoned flatbread he had held when he died.

Li Qing killed Shopkeeper Sun and obtained his third Logic Relic, then continued building his network across Yang Province and North Province. After the Jade Tablet compiled intelligence from both provinces, he learned that Master's tribulation would coincide with a major invasion and widespread conflict.

• Li Qing used his Sword Pellet to kill Shopkeeper Sun and recovered a moldy flatbread and an Essence Stone.
• Li Qing decided to postpone collecting more Logic Relics until after the Yang Fire Great Tribulation and considered how to obtain higher-grade cultivation methods.
• Li Qing reflected that the Longevity Ritual had become the target of cultivators across the north, while his false identity Li Wushuang and rumors of Master's tribulation drew attention.
• Li Qing established a covert network across 128 cities in Yang Province and North Province, controlling more than 200 gangs through four unwitting figureheads.
• The Jade Tablet completed its first comprehensive refresh, compiling information from the two provinces into 1.38 million volumes.
• Li Qing's records predicted that seven of the world's ten greatest cultivators and fourteen Dharma Form experts would attack Master during his tribulation, while Northern Barbarians and other forces invaded North Province.

Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to uncover Emperor Kuntai’s secret intervention in his Master’s tribulation and identify thirty-seven mysterious figures across Yang Province and North Province. He then devised a plan to occupy the major powers during his own Yang Fire Tribulation and began deducing whether it would work.

• Li Qing learned that Emperor Kuntai had secretly disrupted the three Daoist Sect leaders to keep them from intervening in his Master’s tribulation.
• Li Qing assessed the forces likely to attack Dragon Path City and feared that his Master and North Province could not withstand the Heaven and Earth Killing Tribulation.
• Li Qing asked the Jade Tablet to identify mysterious figures in Yang Province and North Province, and it listed thirty-seven, including Ma Bowen, Zhang Daqian, Su Muqin, and Wang Changsheng.
• Li Qing planned to exploit conflicts among the mysterious figures and reveal information to their enemies shortly before the Great Tribulation.
• Li Qing wrote out his strategy for crossing the Yang Fire Tribulation in Yang Province City, intending to keep major powers occupied and rely on the city’s formation and cultivators against Anomalies.
• The Jade Tablet began deducing Li Qing’s Yang Fire Tribulation plan.

Li Qing arranged a ritual to alter the heavenly mechanism and drew a man named Bai Zihua into his plan to meet Master. After Bai Zihua was admitted to Jixia Academy, Li Qing took control of him and spoke to Master directly, leaving their meeting at its first tense exchange.

• Li Qing concluded that Yang Province City was destined to be destroyed and began preparing a hiding place for his tribulation.
• Li Qing used the Dream Projection to control a captive prepared by Zhang Blackskin, who performed a ritual and activated a Force-Borrowing Talisman outside Dragon Path City.
• The Dream Projection destroyed the altar, and the man returned to Dragon Path City as Bai Zihua to request a meeting with Master.
• Sun Tianxing brought Bai Zihua into Natural Abode, where Master sent him away so he could hear Bai Zihua's confidential information privately.
• Li Qing took control of Bai Zihua and greeted Master, who immediately recognized the mysterious control technique and asked who he was.

Bai Zihua warned the Master that the four factions would attack during his Tribulation Crossing and offered a plan to improve his odds of survival. The Master agreed to hear the details, and Li Qing's proposal was to take ten years of his lifespan.

• Bai Zihua gave the Master a list of spies embedded throughout the Hundred Schools of Thought, and the Master agreed to talk with him.
• Li Qing learned through Bai Zihua that the Master showed signs resembling Aberration, then warned him that the four factions planned to attack during his Tribulation Crossing.
• The Master proposed luring his enemies into Myriad Phenomena Forest, but Li Qing said his own plan could raise the Master's survival chances to at least seventy percent and delay the Heaven and Earth Killing Tribulation.
• The Master questioned how Bai Zihua could trap and kill the factions' leaders, then asked him to explain his proposal in detail.
• Li Qing told the Master that he wanted ten years of his lifespan.

Li Qing tested Master’s Heart-Questioning Ruler before agreeing to answer questions about his plan to use Master’s lifespan to power a weapon. The ruler proved lethal to anyone who lied, and Bai Zihua truthfully confirmed the plan’s purpose and claimed it could defeat the Demonic Path while stabilizing North Province.

• Master asked why Li Qing wanted his lifespan, then proposed testing Li Qing’s claims with the Heart-Questioning Ruler.
• Li Qing arranged for a brainwashed bandit to test the ruler; it killed the man after he lied about his age.
• Li Qing told Master that Bai Zihua would answer the questions and that Li Qing himself would remain silent.
• Master asked whether Li Qing intended to use his lifespan to power a weapon, and Bai Zihua answered truthfully that he did.
• Master asked whether the plan could eliminate most of the Demonic Path’s upper ranks while keeping North Province stable, and Bai Zihua answered yes.

Li Qing used Bai Zihua to lend the Master ten years of lifespan through a talisman and gave him the complete spy lists and a plan to purge the spies before the Master's tribulation. The Master accepted the plan, then revealed that the Heart-Questioning Ruler would kill anyone who later contradicted a statement it had judged true.

• The Master questioned Bai Zihua with the Heart-Questioning Ruler and confirmed that borrowing ten years of lifespan carried no other complications.
• At Li Qing's direction, Bai Zihua placed the Force-Borrowing Talisman in the Master's palm, and the Master infused it with vital essence, losing ten years of life and future.
• Bai Zihua handed the Master the complete Network spy lists for North Province and Yang Province.
• Li Qing advised the Master to purge the spies on October thirtieth, before his November first tribulation, to disrupt the four paths' invasion plans.
• The Master agreed to purge every spy before undergoing Tribulation Crossing.
• The Master told Li Qing that the Heart-Questioning Ruler would kill anyone who later contradicted a statement it had judged true.

After Master suspected Bai Zihua might be the mysterious Black Hand, Li Qing secretly used the Commander Summoning Token and Force-Borrowing Talismans to capture a powerful war general puppet for Dragon Path City. He then began investigating rivalries among thirty-seven mysterious figures, uncovering a long, bloody history of conflict between the Memorial Organization and the Evil Spirit Society.

• Master recognized Bai Zihua's methods as resembling the mysterious Black Hand's and wondered whether he was truly Li Wushuang.
• Bai Zihua's Force-Borrowing Talisman passed through a Shadow Paper Doll and a dream projection to Zhang Family Ancient Battlefield.
• Li Qing's dream projection used the Commander Summoning Token and a Force-Borrowing Talisman to capture a black-armored war general puppet, while a brief storm swept the region.
• A Shadow Paper Doll carried the sealed talisman toward Dragon Path City to release the puppet when the time was right.
• Li Qing began deducing the relationships among thirty-seven mysterious figures and found evidence of over a hundred past conflicts between the Memorial Organization and the Evil Spirit Society, including one that devastated Yang Province.

Li Qing prepared a plan to draw hostile factions away from Yang Province City before his Master's Tribulation and searched the Lockstone Well for a safe place to hide. His Dream Projection uncovered a passage filled with countless preserved corpses that opened into a vast, dark lake.

• Li Qing mapped rivalries among thirty-seven people and factions, planning to send temporary location information to lure them into fighting outside Yang Province City.
• Li Qing planned to check on the day of his Master's Tribulation whether his schemes had drawn away the mysterious figures who could threaten him.
• Li Qing sent his Dream Projection into the Lockstone Well to search for a location untouched by the outside conflict.
• Li Qing found finger-scratches gouged into the well's stone walls and discovered a blocked passage beneath the well.
• Li Qing guided his Dream Projection through the rocks and found a deep waterway packed with thousands of preserved corpses.
• Li Qing followed the widening waterway for about an hour until it opened onto a vast, dark lake.

Li Qing explored beneath Lockstone Well and discovered a corpse-filled hollow with evil black soil, then emerged into a world inhabited by countless Anomalies. After the Jade Tablet identified it as the Netherworld Dark Side, he considered hiding along the route there as a possible safe option.

• Li Qing sent a dream projection beneath the corpse mountain and found a layer of extraordinarily evil black soil at the bottom of the hollow.
• Li Qing circled beneath the hollow and rose through the ground, but emerged into an unknown world that resembled Yang Province City and had a sky filled with Anomalies.
• A glance at a gigantic, many-limbed Anomaly caused Li Qing's dream projection to twist and transform, so he severed his connection to it.
• Li Qing recorded his discoveries, and the Jade Tablet identified the space beneath Lockstone Well as the Netherworld Dark Side, where countless Anomalies lived.
• Li Qing wondered whether hiding along the path to the Netherworld Dark Side would be safer than entering it.

Li Qing tested how to enter the Netherworld Dark Side through Lockstone Well and used the Jade Tablet to confirm that Netherworld black mud formed the passage. He dug a hidden refuge at the boundary between ordinary spacetime and the passage, then prepared for the coming sacrifice and battle in Yang Province City.

• Li Qing gathered dream power, recreated his dream projection, and tested entering the Netherworld Dark Side from the side of Lockstone Well's hollow.
• Li Qing recorded his findings, and the Jade Tablet revealed that Netherworld black mud formed the passage and that heavenly-secret changes could disrupt it.
• Li Qing located the boundary between ordinary soil and Netherworld black mud and dug a hollow that straddled normal space and the Netherworld Dark Side.
• Li Qing used a Shadow Paper Doll and Worldwalker Star Shift to enter the hollow, confirming that its two sections were separated by a spacetime barrier.
• Li Qing considered using the War Soul Puppet to eliminate powerful factions gathering in Yang Province City and resolved to remain alive in his hidden refuge before handling his final matter.

Li Qing investigated Dragon Fork Mountain, a forbidden area near Qu County, while seeking a way to draw the Demon Blood Lady away from the Demonic Path resource site. Inside the mountain, he found the unsettling Sealed Gate Village and drank water offered by an old man, after which a strange force descended upon him.

• Li Qing identified the Demon Blood Lady as the Divine Soul Realm guard of the Qu County resource site and decided to investigate nearby Dragon Fork Mountain for a way to lure her away.
• Li Qing sent his Dream Projection into Dragon Fork Mountain and noticed that no animals or insects lived in its mist, though the plants grew abundantly.
• The mist vanished and revealed Sealed Gate Village, where Li Qing disguised himself as a young scholar and spoke with an old man at the entrance.
• The old man led Li Qing into the village to fetch water, and Li Qing noticed that a child stared at him as if he were food.
• Li Qing drank the water the old man brought, and a strange force suddenly descended upon him.

Li Qing tested the strange power in Dragon Fork Mountain by sending a Dream Projection and then a condemned prisoner into the village. The village’s influence erased the prisoner’s memories and life aura, while a child consumed a sugar figurine formed from him, leaving Li Qing to suspect a logical aberration.

• A strange force altered the Dream Projection into a villager named Wang San, and the child spat out the sugar figurine formed from it, causing the projection to collapse.
• Li Qing sent a new Dream Projection to Qu County, where it recruited a condemned prisoner and brought him to Dragon Fork Mountain.
• The village elder welcomed the prisoner, gave him a hut and food, and showed unusual strength while carrying a heavy basket of grain.
• The elder’s words changed the prisoner’s memories, turning him into Wang San and sending him to work in the fields as a sugar figurine appeared in the child’s hands.
• The child ate the figurine, the prisoner’s life aura vanished, and Li Qing’s spiritual imprint began to collapse as he suspected a logical aberration.

Li Qing recorded the origins and dangers of Sealed Gate Village on Dragon Fork Mountain, then devised a plan involving the Demon Blood Lady. The Demon Blood Lady pursued a mysterious figure out of Qu County toward the village, unaware of the increasingly terrifying changes in her shadow.

• Li Qing documented that outsiders who entered Sealed Gate Village and accepted something there lost their memories, became sugar figurines eaten by the Anomaly’s source, and were trapped as bodies working in the fields.
• The Jade Tablet reconstructed the village’s history: a child’s wish had connected him to an unknown existence, turning the village and its people into an Anomaly hidden in the Mist.
• Li Qing considered how to lure the Demon Blood Lady into the village and resolved to plan carefully.
• The Demon Blood Lady, stung by doubts about her abilities and considering a trip to Yang Province City, sensed an intruder in her manor’s formation and chased the fleeing figure.
• The Demon Blood Lady pursued the figure toward Sealed Gate Village, repeatedly attacking empty air as her shadow grew more frightening.
• The fleeing figure stopped at a forest, and the Demon Blood Lady taunted them while preparing to catch them.

Li Qing lured the rapidly aberrating Demon Blood Lady into Dragon Fork Mountain, where she destroyed his Dream Projection and became trapped. He then entered Qu County and infiltrated the Slaughter Demon Sect’s underground base, where he used his record book to identify the correct passageway.

• Li Qing noticed that Demon Blood Lady was undergoing Aberration and used a Dream Projection to lure her into Dragon Fork Mountain.
• Demon Blood Lady unleashed her blood light, destroyed the illusion disguising Dragon Fork Mountain, and found herself surrounded by the mountain’s white mist.
• Li Qing left a Shadow Paper Doll to watch Dragon Fork Mountain, entered Qu County, and gathered dream power from its sleeping residents.
• Li Qing sent a new Dream Projection into the Slaughter Demon Sect base, passed its restrictions, and reached an underground chamber with four passages.
• Li Qing consulted the record book to determine which passage led to the Demon Sect’s supplies.

Li Qing infiltrated the underground palace of the Demonic Path base in Qu County and looted its supply storehouse, then cleansed the stolen goods in a hidden chamber. His Dream Projection reached the sacrificial site and discovered a Stone Stele standing amid the remains of hundreds of victims.

• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet's restored information to find the eastern passage and entered the palace's supply storehouse with his Dream Projection.
• Li Qing deciphered and dismantled the Demonic Intent Soul-Chasing Array, then took its Formation Banners and all the stored supplies.
• Li Qing carried the supplies to a hidden chamber, removed their sinister power with talismans and spells, and destroyed the empty wooden chests.
• Li Qing hurried away from Qu County while his Dream Projection went to investigate the sacrificial site.
• Li Qing's Dream Projection found a vast pit filled with rotting flesh and blood and a huge Stone Stele, and Li Qing realized that hundreds of people had been sacrificed there.

Li Qing discovered that the Demonic Path planned to sacrifice Qu County’s people with the Wish Stone Stele to destroy the Law Net and cripple Liu Luoguo. He sent the warning to Master, who decided to involve Liu Luoguo and let Li Qing proceed with his plan.

• Li Qing recorded his discovery of the blood-filled pit beneath the Demonic Path base, and the Jade Tablet identified the Stone Stele as a Wish Stone Stele that distorted wishes and required sacrifices.
• Li Qing learned that the Demonic Path intended to sacrifice everyone in Qu County to destroy the northern Law Net and severely wound Chancellor Liu Luoguo.
• Li Qing considered asking Master to persuade Liu Luoguo, but his Dream Projection burst into strands of hair when it approached the Wish Stone Stele.
• A Shadow Paper Doll delivered Li Qing’s sealed letter to Master at Jixia Academy.
• Master read Li Qing’s warning and decided Liu Luoguo could not be allowed to sit out the crisis, while telling the mysterious Black Hand to carry out his plan.

Master secured Liu Luoguo’s help against the four paths during the coming Tribulation, while Li Qing gathered enough Essence Stones to reach the Skull Nourishment threshold. After a day of cultivation, Li Qing paused to recover in Yang Province City, where he listened to a storyteller.

• Master visited Liu Luoguo and warned that the Demonic Path planned to destroy the Law Net and trigger Liu Luoguo’s Tribulation.
• Master told Liu Luoguo that Emperor Kuntai would trap the three Daoist leaders on the day of the great Tribulation, and Liu Luoguo agreed to intervene on November 1st.
• Li Qing calculated the Essence Stones needed to advance, kept his surplus stones, and spent a day absorbing the rest until he reached 365 units of mana.
• Li Qing left his cavern to rest in Yang Province City and listened to a storyteller recount a tale about a Flood Dragon and the North Sea Dragon Palace.

Li Qing ate at Qing River Restaurant, considered how his gangs and the Sons of Destiny could use the refugees, and used Wish Spell to erase diners’ attention when his unusual appetite drew stares. He returned to his underground dwelling and began cultivating the Human Civilization Curse, sending its 365 curse characters into his brain.

• Li Qing observed the refugees in Yang Province City and considered having his gangs take them in while the Sons of Destiny gained credit for helping them.
• Li Qing ate the restaurant’s dishes until nearby diners stared at him, then used Wish Spell to make them forget what they had seen.
• Li Qing realized he had grown distant from ordinary people and left the city to return to his underground dwelling.
• Li Qing cultivated by transforming his Dharma power into the 365 curse characters of the Human Civilization Curse.
• Li Qing sent all 365 curse characters from his dantian into his brain, where they began to radiate throughout it.

As Li Qing endured the agony of a breakthrough, a succession of anomalies attacked him, and he suppressed them with his techniques and Heavens Civilization Torrent. He was pulled into a grotesque world where a monstrous mouth sent its claw-tipped tongues at him, and he countered with sword light.

• Li Qing endured searing and freezing pain as the curse inscriptions settled in his brain, while Heavens Civilization Torrent eased his agony.
• Li Qing ignored an unnatural dripping sound until it faded, then used his techniques to hold back spreading darkness and the unseen beings within it.
• Strange insects appeared inside Li Qing's spiritual world, and Heavens Civilization Torrent destroyed them; Li Qing sealed the strange aura they left behind.
• Li Qing was drawn into a decaying, flesh-covered room, where a huge mouth opened in the wall and sent claw-tipped tongues toward him.
• Li Qing spat out a streak of sword light to meet the attack.

Li Qing completed Skull Nourishment, reached the peak of True Law, and prepared to face his Yang Fire Great Tribulation. His divination revealed that the coming war would devastate Yang Province City, so he considered changing his plans to reduce the destruction.

• Li Qing completed Skull Nourishment as his four Great Curses merged and strengthened his body and mind.
• Li Qing traveled to the secret chamber beneath Lockstone Well and spent two days absorbing Essence Stones until his Dharma power was complete.
• Li Qing sensed Calamity Qi and realized he had reached the peak of True Law, with the Yang Fire Great Tribulation approaching.
• Li Qing divined the tribulation and saw Yang Province City in ruins, with its people dead or mutated as the city’s formation failed.
• Li Qing concluded that the war’s losses might be reduced by revising his plan and using the War Soul Puppet between Dragon Path City and Yang Province City.

Li Qing assessed the dangers of his Yang Fire Great Tribulation, prepared backup resurrection seeds and stored resources, and monitored the north for threats. When a Foundation Establishment cultivator found a hidden passage in the ancient battlefield, Li Qing possessed a Shadow Paper Doll to watch him, and the intruder discovered ripples in a rock at the passage’s dead end.

• Li Qing read the Jade Tablet’s restored records and learned that the heavenly mechanisms had summoned powerful cultivators to Yang Province to destroy everything connected to him.
• Li Qing set aside Essence Stones for his future breakthrough, sent the rest with two Shadow Paper Dolls to hidden storage, and created two Flesh Seeds as resurrection points.
• Li Qing resolved to divine every three days and closely monitor thirty-seven mysterious people and five figures drawn to Yang Province City by their karmic ties to him.
• A Foundation Establishment cultivator searching the ancient battlefield found the concealed entrance to Li Qing’s earth-vein cave, guided there by the heavenly secrets.
• Li Qing possessed a Shadow Paper Doll and watched as the cultivator explored the empty cave, kicked a rock in frustration, and saw ripples appear across it.

Li Qing used a Shadow Paper Doll and a formation to kill Dong Sanchuan, then coordinated with Master to prepare a dawn-wide purge of enemy agents before Master’s coming tribulation. The School of Diplomacy also prepared to support Master as a major conflict approached.

• Dong Sanchuan entered the blackish-red mist, lost his flying dagger, and died after mistaking a dead-end cavern for an exit.
• A Shadow Paper Doll gathered Dong Sanchuan’s bones into a pool, and Li Qing concluded that forces were erasing everything connected to him and that Peach Blossom Spring Grotto-Heaven needed protection.
• Li Qing arranged for a Shadow Paper Doll to take away the Qimen Dunjia Formation flags, then controlled Bai Zihua to meet Master at Jixia Academy.
• Li Qing and Master agreed to purge hidden agents of the Monster, Demon, Ghost, and Buddhism paths across the north at dawn and draw their leaders into a planned confrontation.
• The School of Diplomacy master pledged to eliminate spies in his jurisdiction and send support to Dragon Path City and the northern border, while worrying about the coming Heaven and Earth Killing Tribulation.

Zonghengzi uncovered deep infiltration within the School of Diplomacy and confronted Wu Zhangcheng, a fellow elder who had allied with the four paths to pursue immortality. As Zonghengzi overwhelmed Wu Zhangcheng in battle, Wu sacrificed his life to launch a final attack.

• Zonghengzi discovered that the School of Diplomacy had been infiltrated for generations and resolved to break the scheme.
• Lu Zhuangren was summoned to Yin-Yang Lodge, where he found Zonghengzi and several senior cultivators waiting.
• Zonghengzi accused Wu Zhangcheng of betraying the School of Diplomacy, and Wu admitted he had joined the four paths to pursue the pinnacle.
• Zonghengzi sealed everyone’s power and transformed the battlefield into a starry realm.
• Wu Zhangcheng sacrificed his life and merged his vitality into a black point that he sent crashing toward Zonghengzi.

Zonghengzi eliminated Wu Zhangcheng and the other traitors as the Hundred Schools of Thought purged spies across North Province and Yang Province. Yuan Zhihui told the four leaders of the monster, Buddhist, ghost, and demonic paths that Li Wushuang had likely supplied the spy list and that powerful allies would gather in Dragon Path City, then hinted that the situation was not settled.

• Zonghengzi destroyed Wu Zhangcheng after he transformed into a black hole, then killed the remaining traitors in the hall.
• The Hundred Schools of Thought secretly executed their spies, while their forces raided the bases of the monster, demon, ghost, Buddhist, temple, and Daoist paths.
• Yuan Zhihui met Black Lotus Madam, Demon Bull King, Bone Bright Venerable, and the Samsara King in an old tea house and reported the purge of their agents.
• Yuan Zhihui deduced that Li Wushuang had given the spy list to Master and was helping him prepare to resist the four paths in Dragon Path City.
• Yuan Zhihui predicted that Sima Changkong and Liu Luoguo would join Master, leaving the four paths unable to guarantee victory, and Black Lotus Madam asked whether they should continue their plan.
• Yuan Zhihui smiled and asked the gathered leaders whether they thought the matter was over.