Recaps

Li Qing planned to refine the Myriad Spell Divine Banner and secretly gathered resources and sacrifices to summon a Fierce-grade Anomaly. After setting a trap at Witch Mountain, he summoned the Anomaly while hiding outside the restrictions to watch through Shadow Paper Dolls.

• Li Qing chose the Myriad Spell Divine Banner as his next treasure and planned to use cultivators under his command to collect spells for it.
• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to select ten Fierce-grade Anomalies, but replaced three after discovering that mysterious cultivators were watching them.
• Li Qing decided to kill the Anomalies quickly while purchasing Myriad Dharma Spirit Stones, and he traveled to Witch Mountain to prepare sacrifices.
• Li Qing brainwashed more than a hundred wild beasts with Heavens Civilization Torrent and led them to a secluded valley.
• Li Qing laid restrictions around the valley, killed the beasts, and activated the Demon Summoning Technique before leaving a Sword Pellet inside to observe the summoned Anomaly.

Li Qing hunted five wild Anomalies and traded their Fierce-grade Essence Stones for a Myriad Dharma Spirit Stone. With the item secured, he returned to his underground chamber, ready to finish preparing the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger for his confrontation with Bone Bodhisattva.

• Li Qing used sword light to kill a summoned spiritual Anomaly, then continued sacrificing wild beasts and cleansing the resulting evil aura with an Evil-Extinguishing Talisman.
• After resting until nightfall, Li Qing killed the five remaining wild Anomalies and collected a complete set of ten Fierce-grade Essence Stones.
• A Myriad Shadow Paper Doll brought the Essence Stones to Myriad Treasures Pavilion and bought a Myriad Dharma Spirit Stone from Bai Yutang.
• Bai Yutang noticed the buyer had obtained ten Fierce-grade Essence Stones and decided to investigate which Dao Lineage he belonged to.
• Li Qing returned to his secret underground chamber with the Myriad Dharma Spirit Stone and declared that he would complete the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger and face Bone Bodhisattva.

Li Qing refined the Myriad Spell Divine Banner, which let him absorb ordinary spells, then prepared to summon the Pujiang Dragon King using the Commander Summoning Token. The summoning began at the entrance to the Great Kun Dynasty’s tomb grotto-heaven, where the token’s power locked onto the dragon king’s lifespan.

• Li Qing refined the Myriad Spell Divine Banner and shared the spells he could access with his cultivators so they could gather the required materials.
• Li Qing completed the banner, bound it to himself, and used it to strip away several of his independent spells while retaining his unique and frequently used abilities.
• Li Qing chose the Great Kun Dynasty’s tomb grotto-heaven as a safe place to begin a dangerous summoning.
• Li Qing gave the Commander Summoning Token to a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll, which activated it alongside a Force-Borrowing Talisman.
• The token’s dark crimson radiance entered the talisman and locked onto the Pujiang Dragon King’s lifespan.

Li Qing used a summoned battle soul to refine the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger and placed it within the Myriad Spell Divine Banner. He tested the weapon on the Anomaly beneath the underground palace, killing it, while the Dao-Achieving Artifact embedded in its body began to tremble.

• Li Qing’s use of the Borrowed Lifespan Technique sent a ripple across the world, and Bone Bodhisattva sensed an approaching danger aimed at him.
• Li Qing summoned a battle soul and used dragon, phoenix, and Qilin Blood ink to refine the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger inside its sea of consciousness.
• Li Qing transferred the completed flying dagger into the Myriad Spell Divine Banner and sealed the battle soul in a Force-Borrowing Talisman.
• Li Qing brought the battle soul to the abyss beneath the underground palace and unleashed the flying dagger against the pinned Anomaly.
• The flying dagger cut off the Anomaly’s head, and the creature decayed into black liquid without leaving an Essence Stone.
• The Dao-Achieving Artifact embedded in the Anomaly began to tremble, and Li Qing sealed the battle soul away as half its duration remained.

Li Qing avoided Li Qiuxian and Ming Shen Kong, who discovered that a Tribulation Realm expert had killed the Formless Anomaly and chose not to investigate further. After divining that Bone Bodhisattva could counter his powers and had prepared a trap, Li Qing sealed a second war soul and began planning how to conceal his true body.

• Li Qing left the area before Li Qiuxian arrived, and Li Qiuxian found the Formless Anomaly dead in the abyss.
• Li Qiuxian and Ming Shen Kong reconstructed the anomaly’s final moments and concluded that a Tribulation Realm expert had killed it, possibly because of its unusual aura.
• Li Qiuxian persuaded Ming Shen Kong not to divine the unknown expert, and the two left as Li Qing’s Shadow Paper Doll slipped away.
• Li Qing replenished his mana and used Cosmic Mind Star Divination, seeing Bone Bodhisattva seize him with a strange talisman that sealed his powers.
• Li Qing returned to the tomb grotto-heaven, consumed another year of the Pujiang Dragon King's lifespan, and sealed a second war soul.
• Li Qing decided that he needed a way to hide his true body from Bone Bodhisattva before confronting him.

Li Qing prepared False Form Talismans, gathered spells, and used the Jade Tablet to uncover Bone Bodhisattva’s hidden trump cards and growing vigilance. Convinced he could survive the coming clash but wary of reinforcements, Li Qing moved to a forest far from Capital City and began setting up a concealed underground chamber.

• Li Qing drew False Form Talismans and used repeated heavenly calculations to track battles between Bone Bodhisattva and summoned battle souls.
• Li Qing collected his subordinates’ spells, added them to the Myriad Spell Divine Banner, and obtained the Divine Concealment Art.
• Li Qing’s third calculation showed Bone Bodhisattva using his true body, a phantom, and a powerful Anomaly while the battle souls kept them occupied.
• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to deduce that Bone Bodhisattva had prepared the Bodhisattva Dharma Body, a void-tier Anomaly, and the True Spirit Relic Indestructible Body, and might seek Buddhist Sect aid.
• Li Qing decided to avoid further battle-soul summons and traveled two hundred li from Capital City to establish a hidden underground chamber in a forest.

Li Qing formed the Heavenly Path Heavenly Soul Curse and used a concealed battle soul to travel to the place where the world's will resided. There, he resisted the world's attempt to assimilate him while searching the vast expanse for Bone Bodhisattva, but found no trace of him.

• Li Qing finished building a ten-part defensive restriction system around his underground chamber and prepared to complete his Heavenly Soul.
• Li Qing formed the Heavenly Path Heavenly Soul Curse, which revealed the location of the Heavenly Soul and gave him the qualification to resist the world's will.
• Li Qing sent a battle soul carrying the Myriad Spell Divine Banner through layers of spacetime, with his own soul accompanying it under the Divine Concealment Art.
• Li Qing reached the vast expanse where the world's will resided and resisted its powerful urge to assimilate him.
• Li Qing saw that the world's will had transformed the battle soul and the Myriad Spell Divine Banner into purely spiritual entities, then searched for Bone Bodhisattva without finding him.

Li Qing used summoned war souls as bait to draw Bone Bodhisattva’s attention while his true body slipped toward the world will unseen. Bone Bodhisattva detected a faint trace and unleashed his thousand-armed form, beginning the confrontation.

• Li Qing disguised the second summoned war soul with the False Form Talisman and concealed it with the Divine Concealment Art and Phantom Art, sending it toward the world will.
• Bone Bodhisattva spotted the disguised war soul with his Bone Physiognomy Divine Eyes and suspected it was bait intended to lure him out.
• Li Qing sent the third summoned war soul as a second decoy and secretly entered the world will from another direction.
• Bone Bodhisattva detected a faint ripple, exposed the trace with his divine light, and attacked with a colossal thousand-armed form that spread corruption across the region.

Li Qing entered the world will to find his Heaven Soul while the Bone Bodhisattva fought the three war souls summoned through the Commander Summoning Token. Li Qing sensed his Heaven Soul ahead, but discovered that the Heaven Souls wandering within the world will could not be harmed.

• The first war soul clashed with the Bone Bodhisattva inside the domain of the world's will, and the Bone Bodhisattva realized Li Wushuang had summoned powerful beings to stop him.
• The Bone Bodhisattva released a monstrous anomaly, which a second war soul intercepted and fought using his World of Blades.
• A third war soul charged the Bone Bodhisattva, blocking his path as the two fought with a giant bone sword and a baleful-aura fist.
• Li Qing entered the world will and resisted its comforting pull with the Heavens Civilization Torrent.
• Li Qing followed the Heaven Soul Curse's traces toward his Heaven Soul and discovered that the Heaven Souls wandering there were protected from harm.

Li Qing struggled against the world's assimilating influence while searching for his Heaven Soul, and the Jade Tablet revealed why people from another realm were targeted. He learned that information from his soul had inspired Six Paths Investiture of Gods, a plan to let its victor become an immortal and establish Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.

• Li Qing fought the world's instinctive urge to assimilate him as he searched for his Heaven Soul.
• Li Qing recorded his observations, and the Jade Tablet explained that the world had to assimilate the Human Soul to absorb information from people from another realm.
• Li Qing suspected that Six Paths and Eight Immortals had learned about investiture of gods from information carried by his Heaven Soul and Earth Soul.
• The Jade Tablet revealed the steps of Six Paths Investiture of Gods, including its goal of making the victor an immortal and enabling Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
• Li Qing concluded that the plan had begun with his arrival and that the Six Paths and Eight Immortals had accepted another person's authority of investiture because they could not stay in the Nine Provinces for long.

Li Qing pushed deeper into the world's will to find the Heaven Soul, while Bone Bodhisattva sent a hidden spiritual projection to intercept him. They began a battle of spiritual powers, leaving the clash between the civilization torrent and Bone Bodhisattva's white-bone world underway.

• Li Qing resisted the world's assimilation and continued toward the Heaven Soul.
• Bone Bodhisattva's projection awakened inside the world's will, carrying peak Spirit Awareness power to challenge Li Wushuang.
• Bone Bodhisattva's projection found Li Qing and provoked him into fighting.
• Li Qing unleashed Heavens Civilization Torrent, which swallowed Bone Bodhisattva's white flame.
• Bone Bodhisattva transformed into a Bone Bodhisattva and spread a world of white bones to meet Li Qing's attack.

Li Qing acquired the Heaven Soul while Bone Bodhisattva broke into the world will to stop him. Li Qing’s sacrificed Myriad Spell Divine Banner unleashed the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger, killing Bone Bodhisattva, but a new anomaly began to spread around Li Qing’s physical body.

• Li Qing fused the Heaven Soul Curse into the Heaven Soul and obtained the Heaven Soul Treasure Pearl as Bone Bodhisattva’s Bone World crumbled.
• Bone Bodhisattva linked with his true body, overwhelmed the battle soul, and charged into the world will to reach Li Qing.
• The Heaven Soul Treasure Pearl entered Li Qing’s body, and Bone Bodhisattva struck at him as the world will pressed down.
• Li Qing revealed that Bone Bodhisattva had lost, and the Myriad Spell Divine Banner released the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger, which decapitated Bone Bodhisattva.
• Bone Bodhisattva and its controlled Anomalies burned away, while the surviving battle souls carried the Myriad Spell Divine Banner toward the real world.
• White mist and faceless figures spread around Li Qing’s location, but the Divine Body deployed Doomsday Mist Extinguishing Transcendence and the figures that entered the underground space were swallowed.

Li Qing completed his cultivation of the Three Souls and Seven Spirits, destroyed the Anomalies in the mist, and escaped with a trove of Essence Stones. A Legalist School cultivator arrived afterward, but his Scene Reconstruction spell failed to reveal what had happened.

• Li Qing's Divine Body slaughtered the Anomalies drawn to him while the Shadow Paper Doll collected their Essence Stones.
• Li Qing's soul returned to his body, where he sensed the dangers across the layers of time and space.
• Li Qing used his final battle soul to kill a thousand Anomalies and gather their Essence Stones before leaving with his Divine Body.
• Li Qing completed the Three Souls and Seven Spirits and confirmed he could confront the Bone Bodhisattva, though it might not be dead.
• A Legalist School Longevity Realm cultivator investigated the cleared area, but a powerful interference shattered his Scene Reconstruction spell.

The Bone Bodhisattva resurrected and investigated the power Li Qing used to kill him, then planned to pursue him in the Capital City. Yuan Zhihui emerged from an ancient tomb transformed by a demonic third eye and an aura surpassing the Longevity Realm.

• The Bone Bodhisattva resurrected from his relic and returned to the place where he had died, but could not find Li Qing.
• The Bone Bodhisattva examined the traces of his death, identified the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger as a power with severe limits, and planned to track Li Qing through the Commander Summoning Token.
• The Bone Bodhisattva resolved to keep openly opposing Li Wushuang and departed to prepare his plans in the Capital City.
• Yuan Zhihui emerged from an ancient tomb with a demonic vertical eye and an aura that surpassed the Longevity Realm.

Yuan Zhihui emerged from the tomb as a new Bodhisattva, resolved to seize Li Wushuang’s treasures and become the ninth immortal. Li Qing replenished his Dharma power and waited for the coming upheaval, while Yuan Zhihui arrived in the Capital City and began anticipating how Li Qing would use the looming siege.

• Yuan Zhihui absorbed the Destruction Vajra’s bloodline, broke into the Bodhisattva realm, and concealed his power as he left the tomb.
• Yuan Zhihui decided to take Li Wushuang’s treasures to strengthen his foundation and improve his chances of becoming the ninth immortal.
• Li Qing absorbed essence stones until his Dharma power reached 364 strands, then stopped short of completion while waiting for the unrest to begin.
• Li Qing considered finding the other Dao Lineages’ Primordial Dharma Forms and stronger divination arts, but pulled back after sensing danger.
• Yuan Zhihui gathered intelligence for half a month, came to the Capital City, and reasoned that Li Qing would exploit the coming battle around the city.

Yuan Zhihui deduced that Emperor Kuntai was preparing a catastrophic plan for the Capital City, possibly involving a mass sacrifice to summon a powerful Anomaly, and suspected Li Wushuang would exploit it. He went to the Infinite Sect outpost to meet Li Qiuxian, whom he addressed as True Lord Ten Thousand Winds, and began gathering information.

• Yuan Zhihui reasoned that Emperor Kuntai might use the deaths of people in the Capital City to summon a death-rank Anomaly and destroy the invading Dao Lineage armies.
• Yuan Zhihui decided not to warn the Dao Lineages and instead planned to locate the blood sacrifice formation and find a trace of Li Wushuang.
• Yuan Zhihui arrived unnoticed at the Infinite Sect's Capital City outpost and entered the courtyard where Li Qiuxian was staying.
• Li Qiuxian recognized Yuan Zhihui as the Unsurpassable Wisdom Arhat, while Yuan Zhihui greeted him as True Lord Ten Thousand Winds.
• Li Qiuxian served Yuan Zhihui Ten Thousand People's Blood Wine, and Yuan Zhihui praised the wine and a Nine-Turn Soul Pill.

Yuan Zhihui learned from Li Qiuxian that Li Wushuang was suspected of raiding an Infinite Sect outpost and heading to Hidden Dragon Mountain, while Bone Bodhisattva had suffered a major defeat in the world's will. After leaving the outpost, Yuan Zhihui planned an open scheme to confront Li Wushuang, as Bone Bodhisattva searched Capital City for Emperor Kuntai’s final strike and the coming Tribulation.

• Yuan Zhihui and Li Qiuxian ate soul-refining pills and Thousand-Year Human-Faced Peaches while discussing Li Wushuang.
• Li Qiuxian told Yuan Zhihui that Bone Bodhisattva suspected Li Wushuang of robbing an Infinite Sect outpost and planning to raid tombs at Hidden Dragon Mountain.
• Li Qiuxian revealed that Bone Bodhisattva had suffered a great loss in a battle within the world's will, and Yuan Zhihui suspected Li Wushuang’s supreme treasure was responsible.
• Yuan Zhihui left the Infinite Sect outpost and decided to find Emperor Kuntai’s trump card, then use an open scheme against Li Wushuang.
• Bone Bodhisattva disguised himself as an ordinary citizen and searched Capital City for Emperor Kuntai’s final strike and the Tribulation it would cause.

Li Qing watched the realm fracture after Li Qinglian called for a campaign against Emperor Kuntai, while the emperor raged over the rebellion and prepared a hidden counterstroke. Yuan Zhihui and Bone Bodhisattva failed to uncover that preparation, and Yuan Zhihui turned his attention to finding Li Wushuang.

• Li Qing read Li Qinglian’s proclamation against Emperor Kuntai and recognized that the emperor’s plan had begun.
• Eighteen regional lords answered the call, leaving Dragon Province isolated as a million Dao soldiers halted at its borders.
• Emperor Kuntai branded the eighteen lords rebels, ordered a palace maid beaten to death, and vowed to destroy his enemies.
• Yuan Zhihui searched for Emperor Kuntai’s hidden preparations but found nothing, then considered locating Li Wushuang before his breakthrough.
• Bone Bodhisattva also failed to discover Emperor Kuntai’s preparations and acknowledged the emperor’s ability to conceal them.

Bone Bodhisattva sent an avatar to the imperial palace and bargained with Emperor Kuntai over the survival of the Great Tang bloodline. Kuntai agreed to summon him when the Capital City’s disaster was imminent, while secretly planning to use Bone Bodhisattva against Li Wushuang.

• Bone Bodhisattva created a weak avatar from his fingernail and sent it to seek an audience with the Emperor of Great Tang.
• Wang Chengzhu inspected the avatar’s genuine Western Region travel permit and arranged for him to enter the imperial palace.
• Bone Bodhisattva told Emperor Kuntai that Great Tang would fall and offered to preserve a branch of the Li family in exchange for learning where the Capital City would be safest.
• Kuntai realized Bone Bodhisattva was searching for Li Wushuang and concealed his own intentions while agreeing to summon him before the disaster.
• Bone Bodhisattva gave Kuntai the Four Directions Inn as a meeting point, then his avatar crumbled to ashes.

Emperor Kuntai used the Wish Cauldron to conceal the blood-sacrifice formation flags across the Capital City, but Li Qing sensed the change and used the Jade Tablet to uncover the plans of the powerful figures gathering there. The chapter left Li Qing aware that Bone Bodhisattva was trying to force Li Wushuang to face his Tribulation without using the Battle Soul Puppet, while Yuan Zhihui possessed the Eye of Destruction.

• Emperor Kuntai entered the underground palace and used the Wish Cauldron to hide every formation flag of his blood-sacrifice grand formation.
• Li Qing sensed the shielding force and learned from the Jade Tablet that Emperor Kuntai had made a deal with Bone Bodhisattva before plotting to lure him into a trap.
• Li Qing recorded the powerful cultivators in the Capital City, including Bone Bodhisattva, Yuan Zhihui, the Evil Spirit Sect's leader, a ten-thousand-year Ancient Corpse, and the president of the Rebirth Society.
• Li Qing learned that Bone Bodhisattva intended to summon equally powerful helpers whenever Li Wushuang used a Battle Soul Puppet, forcing him to face his Tribulation at a disadvantage.
• Li Qing learned that Yuan Zhihui had obtained the Eye of Destruction of the ancient Destruction Vajra.

Li Qing devised a plan to lure away the two Bodhisattvas so he could trap the logic-intelligence Anomaly without interference. A Jade Tablet report revealed the forces assembling for the coming struggle over the Nine Provinces, with Sun Qiankun’s faction positioned to benefit.

• Li Qing concluded that the two Bodhisattvas could disrupt his plan and decided to draw them away by sending a refined version of himself to attract Bone Bodhisattva and exploiting a flaw Yuan Zhihui would believe he had found.
• Li Qing received a Jade Tablet report that the Eighteen Warlords had set out for Dragon Province and that six Hundred Schools of Thought armies had chosen their candidates.
• Sun Qiankun had maneuvered several schools and lineages into backing Pan Chengfeng, Li Qinglian, Wang Qianqiu, Zhu Yiba, Nangong Haoran, and Xuanyuan Changlong, while secretly controlling key figures in their armies.
• Li Qing assessed that the battle at the Dragon Province border would decide who could absorb the million Imperial Guards, and he expected Li Qinglian to gain the most while Emperor Kuntai pursued his own arrangements.

Li Qing planned to mislead Yuan Zhihui while gathering Logic Relics and investigating the Dao Lineages’ Primordial Dharma Forms. He planted traces at two anomalous sites in the Capital City, including a dangerous inn he intended to use as a refuge.

• Li Qing determined that he had about two months before the armies reached the Capital City and set goals for that period.
• Li Qing identified ninety-eight places with special power in the Capital City and selected three unusual sites for his plan.
• Li Qing sent a Shadow Paper Doll into a hidden temple that could not be detected by Spirit Awareness or spells, then left marks and his aura to mislead Yuan Zhihui.
• Li Qing sent the Shadow Paper Doll to a logic-based inn with twenty lethal rules and had it pay the blood price to enter a guest room.

Li Qing planted traces at three locations to mislead Yuan Zhihui and the Bone Bodhisattva about how he would survive his Tribulation, while monitoring Yuan Zhihui’s search. Yuan Zhihui found the hidden space in a ruined temple and left uncertain whether Li Qing could anticipate his next move.

• Li Qing used the blood-draining inn’s ability to summon puppets as a planned escape option and left a Shadow Paper Doll there as bait for Yuan Zhihui and the Bone Bodhisattva.
• Li Qing left another trace outside the Capital City’s Heavenly Prison, where mana and Aberration were suppressed, intending to challenge his pursuers to follow him inside.
• Li Qing monitored Yuan Zhihui as he searched the Capital City and performed mysterious calculations over several days.
• Yuan Zhihui found a faint mark behind a Land God statue in a ruined temple and discovered that the statue was hollow and hidden from Spirit Awareness.
• Yuan Zhihui reasoned that Li Qing might exploit a delay in his search, then left without placing surveillance spells so he could decide unpredictably whether to return.
• Li Qing investigated Yuan Zhihui’s thoughts as he emerged from the temple.

Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to steer Yuan Zhihui and Bone Bodhisattva toward several suspected refuges, setting traps to delay them while he prepared for his Tribulation. The Nine Provinces Four Regions information network finished updating, and its records flowed into Cosmic Mind Star Divination.

• Yuan Zhihui found Li Qing's traces at a strange inn and the Ancient Heavenly Prison, deciding to keep searching while Li Qing watched his thoughts through the Jade Tablet.
• Li Qing planned to draw Bone Bodhisattva into the same traps and make him compete with Yuan Zhihui.
• Bone Bodhisattva investigated the Imperial City Heavenly Prison, suspected Li Wushuang and Emperor Kuntai were entangled in a plan, and marked the site so he could return if his target appeared.
• Li Qing confirmed that his traps could delay both pursuers and waited to see who would prevail.
• The Nine Provinces Four Regions information network completed its update, adding countless records to the Jade Tablet and feeding them into Cosmic Mind Star Divination.

Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to compile information on powerful figures and Primordial Dharma Forms across the Nine Provinces and Four Domains. He chose Haoran Academy as his first target and began investigating its legendary headmaster, Wang Riyue.

• Li Qing completed the Jade Tablet's network and catalogued the locations, identities, and histories of experts above the Dharma Form Realm.
• Li Qing divided the world's forces into three major factions and decided the powerful figures could become candidates for the Six Paths Investiture of Gods.
• Li Qing recorded the suspected locations of Primordial Dharma Forms beyond the Six Dao Lineages and learned that several were hidden in mutated, dangerous regions.
• Li Qing decided to seek the Confucian Sect's Primordial Dharma Form first because its immortals seemed least hostile toward him.
• Li Qing investigated Haoran Academy and discovered that its headmaster, Wang Riyue, had possessed extraordinary talent and a seemingly flawless foundation.