Recaps

Li Qing refined the Myriad Spirit Mother Eye and produced three thousand Spirit Eyes for a surveillance network spanning the Nine Provinces and Four Regions. In the West Wasteland, Bone Bodhisattva analyzed Wang Mingde’s possible identity as Li Wushuang and warned that their plans might be under surveillance.

• Li Qing gathered thousands of eyes and other materials, then refined them with the Spirit Eye Tree into the Myriad Spirit Mother Eye.
• Li Qing imprinted the artifact with his mana and divine sense, and it grew three thousand Spirit Eyes.
• Li Qing sent his Divine Body to work with the Myriad Shadow Paper Dolls on deploying the eyes across three thousand cities.
• Li Qing turned his attention to sealing the Wisdom Anomaly in the Capital City and drawing down the Six Paths and Eight Immortals.
• Bone Bodhisattva told the others that Wang Mingde did not exist and considered whether he was Li Wushuang, concluding that he might gather information through contact and secretly monitor their plans.
• Bone Bodhisattva urged the group to devise an open scheme and a wager that Wang Mingde could not refuse.

Bone Bodhisattva kept his next plan secret as Li Qing investigated the imperial grand array in the Capital City. The Jade Tablet revealed an array capable of killing immortals, leaving Li Qing excited but suspicious about why such a weapon existed in this world.

• Bone Bodhisattva told Blood Demon King that he would devise a plan known only to himself, while Blood Demon King and the others left to seek the true Children of Destiny of the Four Domains.
• Li Qing used Shadow Paper Dolls to search the Capital City for the imperial grand array’s nodes and discovered a concealed array flag beneath a stone bridge.
• Li Qing mapped the array’s 365 nodes and recorded the flags’ patterns and traces in the Record Book.
• The Jade Tablet restored information about two time-space arrays, including one that could destroy time and space and kill all living beings, even immortals.
• Li Qing realized he had discovered a possible weapon against immortals and wondered why such a terrifying array existed in the world.

Li Qing studied the imperial family's Blood Sacrifice of All Beings Time-Reversing Grand Array and devised a plan to trap the Wisdom Logic Anomaly it summoned, using the upheaval to advance his Spirit Awareness. He then investigated nine hidden sites in Capital City and discovered that each held an intangible Stone Stele whose pattern joined with the others to form a single design.

• Li Qing reasoned that immortals and Wisdom Anomalies might have received their cultivation methods, arrays, and spells from beings more powerful than themselves.
• Li Qing studied the Blood Sacrifice of All Beings Time-Reversing Grand Array and planned to seize control of its Formation Banner cores with the Heavens Civilization Torrent.
• Li Qing planned to use the array to trap the arriving Wisdom Logic Anomaly, summon the Six Paths and Eight Immortals with Heaven's Secret Art, and escape before the ensuing battle reached Capital City.
• Li Qing used a Shadow Paper Doll to investigate a hidden site in western Capital City and found a palm-sized Stone Stele that he could perceive but not touch.
• Li Qing found nine such sites and drew the distinct pattern from each Stone Stele, combining them into one strange design.

Li Qing used the nine Stone Steles in the Capital City to open a passage into an unknown spacetime and discovered an altar bearing the formula for a powerful otherworldly array. As he recorded his findings, a Mosaic-like apparition continued trying to send him information.

• Li Qing used nine Shadow Paper Dolls and Force-Borrowing Talismans to trace the pattern onto all nine Stone Steles.
• A passage opened in the river, and Li Qing sent a Shadow Paper Doll into the unknown space beyond it.
• Li Qing explored the shifting spacetime and encountered a Mosaic-like apparition that tried to convey information, which he rejected.
• Li Qing climbed the altar and touched its Stone Stele, revealing the formula for the Myriad Ages Myriad Calamities Heaven-Trapping Grand Array.
• Li Qing took out his Record Book and wrote down what he had discovered about the mysterious space and apparition.

Li Qing deduced that Heaven and the Enemy of Heaven, two beings from another realm, had shaped the world's destruction and cultivation. After studying the array that imprisoned Heaven, he sent the Shadow Paper Doll into its sealed region, where it found a grotesque arm pinned to a stone platform.

• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet and his Record Book to reconstruct how Heaven and the Enemy of Heaven influenced the world and its cultivation methods.
• Li Qing concluded that the Six Paths and Eight Immortals had pursued the Investiture of Gods and the Eternal Hierarchy to prevent the world's destruction.
• Li Qing wondered whether the indistinct figure behind him was Heaven or the Enemy of Heaven, and suspected that one of Heaven's nine corpses lay nearby.
• Li Qing studied the Myriad Ages Myriad Calamities Heaven-Trapping Grand Array for a day, then had the Shadow Paper Doll perform a ritual at the Stone Stele.
• The Shadow Paper Doll entered the sealed region and found a grotesque arm pinned to a stone platform with seven black nails.

Li Qing examined Heaven’s sealed arm and concluded that Heaven might be divided among nine sealing sites, with escaped fragments becoming logical intelligent Anomalies. After failing to damage the arm or borrow its lifespan, he learned from the Jade Tablet that Heaven was composed entirely of logic, and the mosaic-like outline reappeared.

• Li Qing speculated that one or more of the nine seals on Heaven’s corpse might have failed, allowing fragments to become logical intelligent Anomalies.
• The Shadow Paper Doll tried fifteen harmful talismans on the Hand of Heaven, but none affected it.
• Li Qing created a new Borrowed Lifespan Technique and infused it into a Force-Borrowing Talisman, then tried to borrow the Hand of Heaven’s lifespan.
• The talisman collapsed into ashes, and the Jade Tablet revealed that Heaven’s flesh was composed entirely of logic, which only logic could influence.
• Li Qing considered whether cultivation’s ultimate goal was to become a principle, then noticed the mosaic-like outline had reappeared.

Li Qing tried to exploit the grand array to destroy the Logic Wisdom Anomaly, refine its Logic Relic into a Logic Artifact, and gain influence over the Heavenly Dao and reincarnation network. After speaking to the Enemy of Heaven, he reached the array’s source of power, a hazy light surrounded by countless sealed spacetimes.

• Li Qing planned to combine the two grand arrays, use the array’s power to destroy the Logic Wisdom Anomaly, and secretly turn its Logic Relic into a Logic Artifact.
• Li Qing tried the grand array’s control methods, but the Shadow Paper Doll remained in the sealed space, leading him to suspect the source of the array’s power was inaccessible by ordinary means.
• Li Qing warned the Enemy of Heaven that the Six Paths and Eight Immortals’ plan to build a Heavenly Dao reincarnation network would be opposed by the logical Wisdom Anomalies and could lead the world to destruction.
• The mosaic outline stopped transmitting information and vanished after Li Qing told it that he could help preserve the world.
• Li Qing used the hand seals and footwork again, and the Shadow Paper Doll appeared at the array’s power source, a hazy ball of light surrounded by countless sealed spacetimes.

Li Qing devised a plan to seize control of the Blood Sacrifice of All Beings Time-Reversing Grand Array, trap its power, and secretly use it to install a back door in the Heavenly Dao’s cycle of reincarnation. To gather the materials he needed, he turned to Guiyuan Temple in Brightlight Town, where he identified its master as his target.

• Li Qing concluded that he could use the array’s power to capture Emperor Kuntai and divert the sacrifice into a closed loop without anyone in the Capital City dying.
• He found the Myriad Energies Origin-Linking Forbidden Art and the Star-Shifting, Dipper-Exchange Heaven-and-Earth Reversal Array to connect the two grand arrays.
• Li Qing bought array materials through Shadow Paper Dolls, but realized he needed to harvest resource points to afford enough for two sets of flags.
• He went to Brightlight Town and sent Shadow Paper Dolls to search Guiyuan Temple, whose defenses included a Divine Soul Realm cultivator with a Dao artifact.
• Li Qing monitored the temple and selected its master, Guiyuan Daoist, who was reciting scriptures and cultivating Daoist principles.

Li Qing used Calamity Qi and a new Wish Spell to make Guiyuan Daoist’s Aberrant Contamination worsen, then set a chain of events in motion at Guiyuan Temple. He waited to see whether his plan could destroy the temple and draw powerful cultivators without exposing his involvement.

• Li Qing observed Guiyuan Daoist’s shadow transform into a tentacled Anomaly that struggled to break free from the wall.
• At dawn, Li Qing used the Wish Spell to infect Guiyuan Daoist with hidden Calamity Qi that would surge into his Aberrant Contamination during his rites that night.
• Li Qing replenished his Dharmic power and spread Tribulation Qi across Guiyuan Temple, tainting everyone inside.
• Li Qing used another Wish Spell to make the temple’s cultivators attack Guiyuan Daoist when they discovered his Aberration, leading him to devour them and attract powerful cultivators from the Capital City.
• Li Qing waited for the experiment to unfold, hoping to carry out covert harm through planned calamities and distant manipulation.

Li Qing triggered Guiyuan Daoist’s transformation into a hair Anomaly and used the resulting chaos to loot Guiyuan Temple’s treasure vault. Huang Yudong stopped the Anomaly after it destroyed the temple, while Li Qing escaped with the stolen resources and planned to reach the peak of the Three Souls.

• Guiyuan Daoist sensed danger as his shadow broke free and caused his hair to Aberrate.
• Guiyuan Daoist summoned Guiyuan Temple’s disciples, and Li Qing’s Shadow Paper Doll infiltrated the vault and took its contents.
• Guiyuan Daoist transformed into a hair Anomaly, killed the temple’s cultivators, and set Guiyuan Temple ablaze as Li Qing’s Shadow Paper Dolls spread the fire.
• The Demon Extermination Hall sealed Brightlight Town and alerted Huang Yudong, who arrived and destroyed the Anomaly.
• Li Qing left the ruins with his stolen resources, expecting them to help him reach the peak of the Three Souls.

Li Qing completed seven corporeal souls and began condensing his Human Soul, sensing the Nine Provinces’ worsening peril from Anomalies. As his Human Soul formed, an Anomaly attacked his underground chamber, and he met it with his full power and Dao artifact.

• Li Qing used the Wish Spell to refine two sets of 365 Star-Shifting, Dipper-Transposing, Cosmos-Inverting array flags and sent Shadow Paper Dolls to install them.
• Li Qing spent ten days cultivating until all seven corporeal souls were complete, gaining a defensive radiance and sensing Anomalies surrounding the Nine Provinces.
• Li Qing concluded that powerful forces had tied down the Six Paths and Eight Immortals, leaving the Nine Provinces exposed to Anomalies.
• Li Qing gathered 365 strands of mana and condensed his Human Soul, discovering that his lifespan light showed 310 years remaining.
• An Anomaly descended on Li Qing’s underground chamber, and he unleashed his spells and Dao artifact to counter its attack.

After cultivating his Human Soul, Li Qing considered the dangers of seeking his Earth Soul and reviewed political developments through the Jade Tablet. He planned to use Sun Qiankun’s network and the Divine Body to control the world’s trades, build a backup system, and quietly gather power for a larger plan.

• Li Qing completed his Human Soul cultivation and decided to rest before attempting the perilous Earth Soul realm.
• Li Qing learned that Emperor Kuntai had executed Princess Wude, the guards involved in the palace incident, and the mysterious Daoist who had aided her.
• Li Qing reviewed Sun Qiankun’s plans to place controlled gangs and industry leaders under different Sons of Destiny, keeping Dao Lineages from noticing their influence.
• Li Qing decided to use the Divine Body to control leaders across the trades and select second-in-command figures as a backup system.
• Li Qing planned to write guiding principles and use his control of the middle and lower classes to prevent resource concentration while secretly directing the realm’s resources.

Li Qing studied the Infinite Sect’s Children of Destiny and considered how to secure vital essence before the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation monopolized it. While dining at River Viewing Tower, he heard nobles discuss Emperor Kuntai’s recent actions and suspected unrest was approaching.

• Li Qing reviewed reports on the Infinite Sect’s four competing branches and their Children of Destiny, then reflected on the many Immortality Realm cultivators gathering around them.
• Li Qing went to River Viewing Tower outside the Capital City and enjoyed a river banquet while considering how monopolized resources trapped Rogue Cultivators in an unending cycle of poverty.
• A group of young masters discussed Princess Wude’s alleged theft of the Tiger Tally and the execution of several ministers, while Brother Wang angrily mourned his father-in-law, Lord Li Gangzheng.
• The young masters changed the subject to a famed courtesan at House of Red Delight, and Li Qing inferred that Emperor Kuntai had begun a performance that would bring turbulent times.

Li Qing watched Red Medicine, a Logic Anomaly born from a courtesan’s betrayal and death, devour Young Master Zhou and his companions. He destroyed her before her logic could affect him, obtained her hairpin, and continued collecting Logic Relics for Sun Qiankun’s set.

• Li Qing learned from the Record Book that Red Medicine had become an Anomaly after Young Master Zhou betrayed her and she drowned herself in the Pu River.
• Red Medicine appeared and attacked Young Master Zhou and the other young masters, who mutated under her influence.
• Young Master Zhou begged Li Qing to save him, but Li Qing refused and told him to face his own karma.
• Red Medicine devoured Young Master Zhou and the other young masters, then turned toward Li Qing.
• Li Qing struck Red Medicine with a Dao Artifact before she could speak, destroyed her, and collected her golden hairpin as his seventh Logic Relic.

Li Qing began cultivating the Earth Soul and entered a mysterious spacetime beneath the earth, where his golden Heavens Civilization Torrent protected him from hostile entities and strange cold. After reaching a vast black ocean, he sensed his Earth Soul’s connection lay deeper below and descended beneath the surface.

• Li Qing collected Red Medicine’s Baleful Intent-grade Essence Stone, left an ingot at the River Viewing Tower, and reflected on the approaching New Year and his lack of resources for the Heaven Soul.
• Li Qing sensed Anomalies across the bright and dark sides and considered the dangers of inner demons and external tribulations before returning to his underground chamber.
• Li Qing used his mana and Seven Corporeal Souls to form a wondrous structure, which entered his Human Soul and became surrounded by a golden, seven-colored halo.
• Li Qing’s Divine Body established the Myriad Forest Origin Restriction to protect his main body while his Human Soul ventured underground.
• Li Qing traveled through mysterious fog, destroyed a shadowy humanoid figure with the golden torrent, and reached a black ocean.
• Li Qing sensed his Earth Soul’s connection beneath the ocean and plunged below its surface.

Li Qing resisted the Soul-Dragging Realm’s illusions and found his Earth Soul, but Anomalies appeared outside his secluded chamber and began destroying its defenses. As the Divine Body faced the attack, Li Qing merged with the Earth Soul and was pulled back toward his body.

• Li Qing used the Heavens Civilization Torrent to expose and repel the shadows hidden in a brothel illusion.
• Li Qing resisted voices calling his name as he descended through the Soul-Dragging Realm and found an azure, universe-like Earth Soul.
• A Mist spread through the forest near Li Qing’s secluded chamber, and a giant Anomaly followed by others advanced toward the Capital City.
• The Divine Body noticed that the forest’s decline was weakening the chamber’s restrictions.
• Li Qing sensed the danger through his connection with the Divine Body, seized the Earth Soul, and merged it with his Human Soul.
• A giant Anomaly struck the ground above the chamber, shattering many restrictions as the Divine Body faced the crisis.

Li Qing used his Divine Body to fight a Disaster-class Anomaly while completing the final step needed for his Heavenly Soul, then tested whether his Sword Pellet could kill the powerful creature. He found that even a Dao Artifact could not overcome its vitality and withdrew as a giant chessboard descended over the Mist-covered region.

• Li Qing's Divine Body suppressed a Disaster-class Anomaly and drew it away from Li Qing's physical body.
• A Fierce-class Anomaly broke through the restrictions and lunged at Li Qing, who destroyed it with starlight and obtained its Essence Stone.
• Li Qing realized he had completed the requirements for his final Heavenly Soul but needed more resources.
• Li Qing poured his Dharmic power into the Sword Pellet and struck the Disaster-class Anomaly's core, but the creature survived and unleashed a vast ring of darkness.
• Li Qing and his Divine Body withdrew from the battlefield, and a gigantic chessboard descended over the Mist-covered region.

Li Qing learned that the theft of Guiyuan Temple’s resources had been traced to someone without fate, making him a suspect and forcing him to abandon easy resource theft. He headed to Hidden Dragon Mountain to use Wu De one last time, while Bone Bodhisattva deduced that Li Qing would seek a third resource source and face a major tribulation.

• Li Qing avoided a Primordial Spirit expert’s Great Starlight Chessboard, then absorbed Essence Stones underground and raised his magical power to fifty-five strands.
• The Record Book revealed that an Immortal had investigated Guiyuan Temple, and the major factions suspected Li Wushuang and fortified their resource sites.
• Li Qing concluded that his actions could not remain hidden, considered grave robbing, and checked that Wu De still knew nothing of Wang Mingde’s deeds.
• Li Qing set out for Hidden Dragon Mountain to exploit Wu De once more and replace Wang Mingde’s identity through another karma substitution.
• Bone Bodhisattva reasoned that Li Qing would seek a third source of resources and that his coming heart-demon tribulation would involve an overwhelming major event.

Bone Bodhisattva deduced where Li Wushuang might seek resources and planned to intercept him near the capital or in the Heavenly Soul. Meanwhile, Li Qing met Wu De at Hidden Dragon Mountain and joined him in exploring a dangerous tomb, sending his Divine Body while his main body stayed hidden.

• Bone Bodhisattva identified the capital, resource sites, Hidden Dragon Mountain, and the outskirts of the world's will as places to watch for Li Wushuang, then entered a mysterious spacetime to wait for him.
• Li Qing waited at Hidden Dragon Mountain for Wu De, who arrived bruised and furious after buying counterfeit Divine Spirit Incense from a Daoist priest.
• Wu De told Li Qing that he was still opening a dangerous tomb passage filled with puppets, restrictions, traps, and strange things that suppressed power to the Spirit Consciousness Realm.
• Li Qing agreed to help Wu De explore the tomb and split the gains fifty-fifty.
• Li Qing sent his Divine Body, Desire God, with Wu De while his main body hid ten li away and remotely controlled it.
• Wu De led Li Qing through dark paths to a narrow valley in the Hidden Dragon Mountain Range.

Li Qing and Wu De entered a strange underground palace in Hidden Dragon Mountain, while Li Qiuxian set out to find Li Wushuang after linking him to a tomb robbery. Li Qing’s divination revealed a new death tribulation tied to the place where the Heaven Soul was condensed.

• Li Qing and Wu De reached a black underground palace door in a valley whose runes and unusual materials suppressed cultivators’ strength.
• Li Qing told Wu De he was using an incarnation, and Wu De lit Divine Spirit Incense to send out his own illusory figure before they entered the palace.
• Li Qiuxian received Buddhist Sect intelligence that Li Wushuang might be seeking resources in Hidden Dragon Mountain and concluded he could be behind Guiyuan Temple’s grave robbery.
• Li Qiuxian departed for Hidden Dragon Mountain, and Li Qing’s surveillance network recorded his movement and alerted Li Qing’s true body.
• Li Qing withdrew a hundred li from the mountain and used Cosmic Mind Star Divination, which showed a bone-white figure seizing his illusory self before a thousand-armed Bone Bodhisattva.
• Li Qing recognized the vision as another death tribulation connected to the place above the Nine Heavens where cultivators condensed the Heaven Soul.

Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to uncover how Bone Bodhisattva had predicted his movements and prepared an open trap to capture him. He entered an ancient underground palace with Wu De, where they discovered curses that suppressed cultivation and could eventually reduce anyone to an ordinary mortal.

• Li Qing learned that Bone Bodhisattva had deduced his resource needs, cultivation realm, and plans for a tribulation, then arranged to wait for him near the Capital City.
• Li Qing resolved to break Bone Bodhisattva’s trap and harvest resources from the underground palace before moving forward.
• Li Qing and Wu De entered the passage and found their power suppressed to the peak of the True Method Realm by a curse inscribed on the walls.
• Li Qing discovered the Apocalypse Divine Curse, which gradually reduces anyone in its domain to an ordinary mortal, but can only be used three times in a lifetime.
• Wu De explained that he had found the nearly ten-thousand-year-old palace through feng shui and that its stones blocked Spirit Awareness.
• Li Qing and Wu De passed fragments of powerful ancient stone puppets, and Wu De explained how he had destroyed them by severing their internal power pathways.

Li Qing and Wu De carefully crossed a trap-filled passage and discovered a White Bone Jade Tree growing in a mass grave. After learning its ten-thousand-year fruits could grant Golden Body White Bones, they began discussing how to divide them.

• Li Qing detected a hidden needle trap, and he and Wu De used their flying swords to trigger and clear it.
• Li Qing guided Wu De past dozens of traps, and Wu De collected the weapons and poisonous materials for sale.
• Li Qing and Wu De reached a mass grave filled with white bones and found a strange fruit-bearing tree at its center.
• Li Qing used the Record Book to identify the White Bone Jade Tree and learn that eating three of its ten-thousand-year fruits could grant Golden Body White Bones.
• Li Qing told Wu De that the tree bore eighty-one fruits and asked how they should divide them, and Wu De considered the question.

Li Qing and Wu Delai took the White Jade Fruits while escaping a Disaster-level bone anomaly, then continued deeper into the tomb. Murals revealed the story of an unnamed Daoist who fought monstrosities and erased the memories of those he saved.

• Li Qing identified the bluish Divine Jade Fruits, and he and Wu Delai agreed on how to divide the fruits.
• Wu Delai used vines to probe and restrain the mass grave, discovering a powerful bone anomaly forming beneath it.
• Li Qing collected the fruits and crossed to the passage, and Wu Delai followed as the vines were torn apart by the emerging monstrosity.
• Li Qing kept six Divine Jade Fruits and gave the remaining fruits to Wu Delai, who discussed selling them and searching for ancient cultivation arts.
• Li Qing and Wu Delai found murals depicting an unnamed Daoist who cleared monstrosities from the land and erased the memories of those he saved.

Li Qing and Wu De explored an underground jade palace and began stripping it of valuable carvings and furniture. A burning bronze lamp revealed a Logic Relic that nearly trapped them, leaving their storage pouches behind as they withdrew to safety.

• Li Qing and Wu De entered a vast burial chamber filled with jade plants and a jade residence beneath a ceiling of Night-Bright Pearls.
• Wu De collected the jade garden carvings, then dismantled the residence's side rooms and packed the jade furnishings into his Universe Bags.
• Li Qing and Wu De entered the central hall and saw a bronze oil lamp still burning with a pale green flame.
• The lamp conjured illusory figures of a husband and wife, who asked Li Qing and Wu De what they wanted to eat.
• Li Qing and Wu De recognized the Logic Relic and withdrew their consciousness before answering, leaving their storage pouches on the ground.
• Wu De reappeared at the underground palace entrance, while Li Qing's new Desire God Divine Body emerged from the Divine Lamp holding a red lantern.

Li Qing and Wu De used the red lantern to defeat and capture the bronze oil lamp Logic Relic in the underground palace. After Wu De dismantled the hall, they uncovered a staircase leading deeper underground, where the temperature plunged and Anomaly auras stirred.

• Li Qing and Wu De entered the burial chamber and used the red lantern to make the groom attack the phantoms conjured by the bronze oil lamp.
• The red lantern's light overwhelmed the oil lamp's green radiance, and Li Qing extinguished the lantern before the red figure could attack it.
• Li Qing recorded the oil lamp's history and learned that the resentful spirits of a murdered husband and his wife had fused with it.
• Wu De dismantled the main hall, revealing a staircase beneath the jade house.
• Li Qing and Wu De descended into the freezing darkness and sensed Anomaly auras below.