Recaps

Li Qing learned how Wang Riyue founded Haoran Academy and how its destruction left a deadly no-man’s land. He reached the academy’s ruins in the Northern Desert and confronted the enduring spiritual force of Wang Riyue’s Dao.

• Li Qing reviewed Wang Riyue’s rise, the siege of Haoran Academy, and the cataclysm that killed many cultivators and left the academy abandoned.
• Li Qing sent the Divine Body north to the border between North Province and the Northern Desert.
• The Divine Body crossed the frontier and reached the mountain where Haoran Academy had once stood.
• Li Qing found the academy shrouded in mist and resisted the lingering Haoran Righteous Qi with the Heavens Civilization Torrent.
• Li Qing judged that Wang Riyue’s surviving principle had reached a depth beyond even Master’s Dao.

Li Qing investigated the mist-covered steps of Righteous Qi Mountain and identified the deadly claw as a derived logical Anomaly. After avoiding its trigger, he reached Haoran Academy and heard its ancient recitations of righteous qi.

• Li Qing entered the mist and climbed the mountain steps, where an unseen claw repeatedly pierced his Divine Body.
• Li Qing used the Record Book to identify the claw as an Anomaly left by a Demonic Path cultivator and learned that turning back on the steps meant death.
• Li Qing climbed past the Anomaly without turning around, ignoring the footsteps that tried to lure him back.
• Li Qing reached Haoran Academy, where he heard recitations about humanity's righteous path and enduring civilization.

Li Qing entered the strange Haoran Academy Anomaly and found himself transformed into a student inside an apparently ordinary school routine. After lessons, he joined Qin Wufeng for dinner, where leaving food uneaten caused Qin Wufeng to accuse him of breaking the rules.

• Li Qing opened Haoran Academy's gates and entered, where an invisible force changed him into a scholar's robe and an old instructor directed him to class.
• Li Qing sat in the empty center seat and read with the forty-nine students until the instructor announced that lessons had ended.
• A student called Li Qing by name and invited him to the dining hall, where Li Qing learned the young man's name was Qin Wufeng.
• Li Qing sampled little of his meal while Qin Wufeng finished everything, then Qin Wufeng gave him an eerie smile and said he had broken the rules.

Li Qing tested Haoran Academy’s lethal rules and used his Divine Body’s ability to escape death. He concluded that the academy contained a system of logic anomalies and resolved to investigate its rules to find the Primordial Dharma Form.

• The logic anomaly cook swallowed Li Qing’s Divine Body, which dispersed into desire power and reformed at the foot of Righteous Qi Mountain.
• Li Qing theorized that Haoran Academy’s coexisting logic anomalies formed a system related to Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, then returned to the dining hall and finished his meal with Qin Wufeng.
• Li Qing watched the students enter their rooms and chose one of the three unoccupied rooms in the dormitory.
• Li Qing retreated from the dark room, but the old man accused him of breaking the rules and transformed into a giant maw that tried to swallow him.
• Li Qing escaped by dispersing into desire power and concluded that students had to finish their food and enter the correct rooms.

Li Qing explored Haoran Academy and discovered that its rooms preserved books from the academy’s ancient era, offering a way to gather lost history. While secretly heading to the Library Tower to search for the Primordial Dharma Form, he witnessed two attackers strike at Haoran Academy, where Wang Riyue’s defenders confronted them.

• Li Qing entered a room on his third attempt and found many ancient books whose contents were new to his Jade Tablet.
• Li Qing realized that exploring logical Anomaly regions could reveal the Nine Provinces’ hidden history and information about Six Paths and Eight Immortals.
• Li Qing saw the instructor watching him through the window, then concealed himself and left for the Library Tower.
• A demonic claw attacked Haoran Academy as Demon Kunlun called for Wang Riyue’s death.
• Haoran Academy’s righteous qi rose from the Library Tower to counter the attack, while a green sword light joined the assault and clashed with the Haoran Sword Qi.

Li Qing returned to Haoran Academy during its reenactment of Demon Kunlun’s attack and discovered that he had to act like a student to avoid triggering its logic Anomaly. As the academy faced destruction, he sought the Confucian Sect’s first-generation Primordial Dharma Form and learned he first had to establish merit.

• A demonic formation attacked Haoran Academy, and Wang Riyue ordered its disciples to form the Haoran Grand Formation.
• An instructor’s attack forced Li Qing out of the academy, leading him to suspect the Anomaly punished him for failing to follow a student’s role.
• Li Qing returned and recited alongside the students, gathering Haoran Righteous Qi as he made his way to the Library Tower.
• Li Qing asked the solemn scholar in the Library Tower for the Confucian Sect’s first-generation Primordial Dharma Form, and the man told him to establish merit first.
• Black mist rose as someone destroyed the formation sealing the Demon Domain, and demonic winds overwhelmed the academy’s defenders.
• Wang Riyue resolved to die with his enemies rather than let them destroy his foundation.

Li Qing learned that Haoran Academy was trapped in a repeating time anomaly caused by the Demon Domain and a damaged defensive array, and he considered whether correcting its destruction could earn him the Primordial Dharma Form. His divination revealed a future in which Wang Riyue reached the Bodhisattva realm and became one of the 365 stars, suggesting the Six Paths Investiture of Gods had taken a different course.

• Wang Riyue merged Haoran Righteous Qi with the Demon Domain's demonic qi, trapping Haoran Academy in a cycle as Li Qing's Divine Body was swept into it.
• Li Qing's Divine Body shattered and re-formed, while his true body used the Record Book to document the academy's rules and investigate how its destruction might be prevented.
• The Jade Tablet identified the Demon Domain as the source of the time-based anomaly and revealed that vice dean White Character Tower had damaged Haoran Academy's defensive array after defecting to the Demonic Path.
• Li Qing realized that resolving the anomaly might restore the lives trapped in the cycle and considered Wang Riyue a potential ally.
• Li Qing's divination showed Wang Riyue standing on a star among the 365 stars of the Nine Provinces, with cultivation equal to the Bodhisattva realm.

Li Qing tried to warn Wang Riyue about the coming attack on Haoran Academy, but repeated failures showed him he could not change the academy’s fated actions through persuasion. He took control of the Haoran Celestial Gang Pure Yang Grand Formation and trapped White Character Tower inside it, where the two began to clash.

• Li Qing told Wang Riyue that White Character Tower would sabotage the formation and release the Demon Domain, but Wang Riyue swallowed him after he revealed he came from the future.
• After more than a dozen failed attempts to convince Wang Riyue, Li Qing concluded that the academy’s fate could not be changed by words and that he had to act alone.
• Li Qing studied the Haoran Celestial Gang Pure Yang Grand Formation, reconstructed its design with the Jade Tablet, and took temporary control of it.
• White Character Tower entered the underground cavern to destroy the formation core, and Li Qing recognized him as the old man who had troubled him at the academy.
• Li Qing activated the formation, trapping White Character Tower in a space cut off from the outside and engulfing him in pure yang fire.
• White Character Tower defended himself with radiant righteous qi as explosions shook the formation.

Li Qing rescued Wang Riyue and Haoran Academy from a large-scale time Anomaly, then showed Wang Riyue the state of the world and urged him to become immortal. The chapter left Wang Riyue facing the need to strengthen himself before he could contend for the world.

• White Character Tower fell into the Demon Domain grotto-heaven and was destroyed by its demonic qi.
• Wang Riyue’s power fused with Haoran Academy’s formation, and the academy’s ancient mountain and righteous aura reappeared as the time Anomaly ended.
• Li Qing emerged before Wang Riyue, who recognized him as the one who had resolved the Anomaly and saved Haoran Academy.
• Li Qing examined the Confucian Primordial Dharma Form in the Library Tower, then told Wang Riyue about the current era and its coming upheavals.
• Li Qing warned Wang Riyue that the Hundred Schools of Thought had not helped him before and advised him to step into immortality before contending for the world.

Li Qing persuaded Wang Riyue to join the struggle for the world and protect Haoran Academy, then traveled toward Heavenly Cloud Mountain to seek the Heavenly Gang Daoist Sect’s founder. The chapter ended as Li Qing approached the Anomaly region created by Heavenly Gang Master tens of thousands of years earlier.

• Li Qing urged Wang Riyue to claim a divine throne in the Investiture and preserve Haoran Academy, and Wang Riyue agreed to fight for the righteous path.
• Wang Riyue’s power awakened, and he sent a message explaining the situation to Haoran Academy’s revived students and instructors.
• Demon Kunlun learned that tens of thousands of years had passed, burned a tribe to ashes, and disappeared.
• Li Qing headed for Heavenly Cloud Mountain, where Heavenly Gang Master had once fought the Ghost Path to establish his Dao Lineage.
• Heavenly Gang Master had become a terrifying Anomaly after Yama grievously wounded him with a powerful talisman, creating the region Li Qing was approaching.

Li Qing entered the Heavenly Gang Daoist Sect, a large logical anomaly atop Thunder Peak Mountain, and survived its lightning and first trial. He reached the Guest-Welcoming Hall, where an old Daoist demanded that he offer the first incense.

• Li Qing climbed Thunder Peak Mountain through constant lightning strikes and reached the gates of the Heavenly Gang Daoist Sect.
• Li Qing entered the sect and found its courtyard transformed into a beautiful, seemingly peaceful garden.
• Li Qing avoided branches and roots that attacked him by using World-Walking Star-Shifting to reach the Guest-Welcoming Hall.
• Li Qing entered the hall and saw an old Daoist meditating before a divine statue.
• The old Daoist welcomed Li Qing to the Heavenly Gang Daoist Sect and told him to offer the first incense.

Li Qing followed the Heavenly Gang Daoist Sect’s incense ritual and discovered that the smoke let him perceive terrifying hidden scenes. After passing through an illusion-filled path, he entered Azure Spirit Hall and offered incense, where another transformation began.

• Li Qing accepted incense from the old Daoist, whose appearance became a hollow, bloodied figure as the incense smoke revealed overlapping versions of the altar and statues.
• Li Qing walked through the Guest-Welcoming Hall without stopping, avoiding the Daoist’s trap, then saw ropes and silent bodies hanging inside the hall.
• Li Qing kept the smoke within his body and advanced toward the next hall, where white phantoms emerged from fog and attacked him.
• Li Qing stopped fighting the phantoms after sensing something merge into the smoke, then used World-Walking Star-Shifting to pass through them and reach Azure Spirit Hall.
• Li Qing accepted a fresh incense stick from the smiling young Daoist and placed it in the burner, causing his surroundings to change again.

Li Qing left the second palace and climbed toward the Spirit Communion Hall while resisting the apparitions that appeared behind him. After he refused to smell the third hall’s incense, its young Daoist began transforming and preparing to attack.

• Li Qing escaped the second palace without turning back, then saw its hall and statue as a horrifying mass of flesh, bones, darkness, and creatures.
• Li Qing climbed the stairs toward the third hall as eerie Daoists appeared behind him with every step, but he kept moving until they vanished at the entrance.
• Li Qing entered the Spirit Communion Hall, accepted the incense from a young Daoist, and placed it in the burner.
• Li Qing blocked the smoke from entering his nose, and the young Daoist repeatedly ordered him to smell it as its body swelled and split open into a huge maw.

Li Qing survived the third hall, crossed a pond that concealed an Anomaly, and reached the incense-filled fourth hall. He learned that completing the offerings would let a Wisdom logic anomaly mark him and potentially descend on him later.

• Li Qing absorbed the smoke and endured the statue's dark gaze as Heavens Civilization Torrent contained the flood of information in his mind.
• Li Qing saw grotesque beings surrounding the statue and left the third hall, where he found its furnishings made of organs and hanging corpses.
• Li Qing used World-Walking Star-Shifting to cross the pond before anything beneath its surface could reach him.
• Li Qing entered the empty Incense-Listening Hall and found a divine statue, a burning incense burner, and three incense sticks.
• Li Qing used the Record Book to discover that completing the incense offerings would let a Wisdom logic anomaly mark him, with death or a later descent as possible consequences.

Li Qing endured the mysterious Wisdom Logic Anomaly’s mark and discovered it had transformed his Divine Body into a vessel capable of bearing its power, revealing the Projection Construct spell. He passed through the gate and climbed toward the final hall, hoping to find the Infinite Sect’s original Dharma Form.

• Li Qing tried to leave the main hall without offering incense, but his Divine Body exploded when he stepped through the doors and re-formed outside the mountain gate.
• Li Qing offered incense at the fourth hall and endured the black droplet’s power as it transformed his Divine Body.
• Li Qing used his Record Book and Jade Tablet to identify the Projection Construct, a spell that could alter a target to bear part of his power and spirit, with a limit of three uses.
• Li Qing passed through the great gate without incident and climbed toward the final golden hall while icy wind blades struck his body.

Li Qing entered the Heavenly Gang Daoist Sect’s grotto-heaven and found it transformed into a world of flesh and blood. At its center, he discovered Heavenly Gang Master, who had become an Anomaly, and used the Record Book to learn how the grotto-heaven fell.

• Li Qing climbed through the razor-sharp icy winds and opened the doors to Heavenly Gang Hall.
• Li Qing entered the grotto-heaven, where the doors shut behind him and a vast world of grotesque flesh and bizarre creatures stretched before him.
• Li Qing searched the grotto-heaven and found a golden palace that the creatures avoided, then entered it.
• Li Qing saw a Daoist seated beside an altar and recognized the cold, inhuman aura of an Anomaly, while a monstrous phantom loomed behind him.
• Li Qing used the Record Book to identify the Daoist as Heavenly Gang Master and learned that a Wisdom Anomaly had corrupted him and turned the grotto-heaven into a land of flesh and blood.

Li Qing gathered a hundred Anomalies to distract Heavenly Gang Master while he touched the Infinite Sect's Primordial Dharma Form. His Divine Body vanished as a mysterious figure descended, leaving the figure to find Li Qing gone.

• Li Qing learned that Heavenly Gang Master's obsession had preserved the Heavenly Gang Daoist Sect and made it a coordinate for a logical Wisdom Anomaly.
• Li Qing captured roughly a hundred Anomalies, discovering that their cold, chaotic minds were easy to control.
• Li Qing sent the Anomalies to storm the golden palace and followed them inside under the cover of his Invisibility.
• Heavenly Gang Master transformed into a flesh Anomaly and attacked the intruders, but Li Qing reached the divine altar and touched the Primordial Dharma Form.
• Li Qing's Divine Body vanished as he sensed danger, erasing the mark left by the mysterious logical Anomaly.
• A mysterious figure descended into the hall, and Heavenly Gang Master knelt before it as it remarked that Li Qing had run fast.

A mysterious silhouette deduced Li Qing’s abilities and destroyed the grotto-heaven, then warned other powers about his search for the Primordial Dharma Forms. Li Qing confirmed that the Demon Race’s copy had also been destroyed and turned to preparing a third information network before the feudal lords arrived in Capital City.

• The mysterious silhouette reconstructed Li Qing’s actions, inferred that he was seeking the Primordial Dharma Form, and annihilated Heavenly Gang Master’s grotto-heaven.
• The silhouette concluded that Li Qing would pursue the remaining Primordial Dharma Form copies and considered how to force him to infiltrate the Dao Lineages.
• A Daoist sent a jade message to an armored being, who connected with another power and caused dark-green flames to destroy a grotto-heaven in the Demon Race’s territory.
• Li Qing noted that he had collected the Primordial Dharma Forms of three factions and suspected the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord would alert the Monster Path.
• The Record Book reported that the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord had warned Demon Emperor Who Upends All Living Beings, and that the Demon Race’s scattered Primordial Dharma Form grotto-heaven had been destroyed.
• Li Qing decided to prepare a third information network before the eighteen feudal lords entered Capital City.

Li Qing planned the third information network to infiltrate the Dao Lineages and prepare for the coming Tribulations, then selected cultivators to recruit as agents. He began establishing the network and used a Tea Gang prisoner to practice the Projection Construct spell.

• Li Qing reasoned that the warlords' conflict in the Capital City would be the first stage of the Six Paths and Eight Immortals' plan to confront the Wisdom Logic Anomalies.
• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to compile information on cultivators across the Nine Provinces Four Regions and selected roughly four hundred Spirit Consciousness Realm cultivators serving Sons of Destiny as potential agents.
• Li Qing summoned a new Divine Body and sent it north of the Hundred Schools of Thought to begin building the third information network.
• The Tea Gang leader sent an imprisoned former accountant out of the Capital City, where a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll secretly delivered him to Li Qing's underground chamber.
• Li Qing cast the Projection Void Spirit Curse on the old man to practice the Projection Construct spell.

Li Qing created three projection clones from prepared vessels to lure the Bodhisattvas and Emperor Kuntai, then began secretly controlling powerful cultivators across the Dao Lineages. After taking control of Zhao Yuntai, he learned that the search for the Primordial Dharma Form had begun.

• Li Qing turned an old man into a replica of himself and prepared two more projection clones to draw the attention of the Bodhisattvas and Emperor Kuntai.
• Li Qing's Divine Body found Zhao Yuntai, an Agricultural School cultivator serving Xuanyuan Changlong, after Zhao captured a county town.
• Li Qing subdued Zhao Yuntai with the Heavens Civilization Torrent and placed a concealed mental mark in his soul.
• Li Qing ordered Zhao Yuntai to gather and periodically destroy information, cultivate toward a breakthrough, and aim to control the Agricultural School.
• At Jixia Academy, Master read a transmission from a Confucian Dao Sub-Sage and realized that the search for the Primordial Dharma Form had begun.

Li Qing learned that the upper realm had ordered a lockdown around the Primordial Dharma Forms, leaving him to seek the remaining forms by infiltrating the major Dao Lineages. He turned his attention to finding the legendary strategist Zhuge Shenji at Heaven Blade Abyss and sent his Divine Body toward North Province.

• Master warned Li Wushuang that Longevity Realm cultivators, Tribulation Realm cultivators, and immortals were searching for him.
• The immortals ordered cultivators who had encountered the Primordial Dharma Form to watch for Li Wushuang and keep its secrets, while Bone Bodhisattva and Yuan Zhihui prepared to capture him.
• Li Qing reviewed the lockdown and planned to use his planted systems and the Great Investiture of Gods Tribulation to gain access to the Dao Lineages’ Dharma Form Catalogs.
• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to locate Zhuge Shenji, whose last likely whereabouts were in Heaven Blade Abyss in North Province.
• Li Qing directed his Divine Body toward Heaven Blade Abyss, stopping first at Dragon Path City, where Master’s aura destroyed an approaching Anomaly.

Li Qing visited Dragon Path City, where Master sensed his departure and dealt with a new outbreak of grim aura, then traveled to Heaven Blade Abyss to search for the Divine Mechanism Strategist’s tomb. His Shadow Paper Dolls mapped the abyss slowly and encountered shadow-moving Anomalies that destroyed several of them.

• Li Qing entered Dragon Path City, observed its defenses and deserted streets, and contacted the Flesh Giant Tree in the Demon Suppression Palace, where Anomalies were being devoured and the Longevity Fruit Tree neared maturity.
• Master watched Li Qing leave Dragon Path City, wished him a smooth journey, and extinguished a burst of grim aura that appeared elsewhere in the city.
• Li Qing traveled to Heaven Blade Abyss and sent Shadow Paper Dolls into its depths to explore while he reconstructed a map with the Jade Tablet.
• The Shadow Paper Dolls found a dark ecosystem of luminous plants and caves, then advanced only ten li in a day through the abyss, losing several dolls to shadow-moving Anomalies.

Li Qing explored the mist-shrouded Heavenly Blade Abyss Canyon, fighting a Disaster Rank Anomaly and using Calamity Qi to draw an even stronger predator to it. After mapping nearly the entire canyon over several days, he still had not found General Shenji’s tomb.

• Li Qing reached the underground river at the border between Yang Province and North Province and continued exploring the canyon with his Divine Body and Shadow Paper Dolls.
• A Disaster Rank Anomaly emerged from the mist and attacked Li Qing, who resisted its blows with his strength and the Doomsday Mist.
• Calamity Qi pierced the Anomaly and dragged it into the Mist, where an even more powerful creature had seized it.
• Li Qing spent several days mapping the canyon floor and both cliff walls but found no place resembling a grave.

Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to learn that General Shenji's tomb lay deep beneath the underground river, then searched a vast underground lake. He found the tomb guarded by a powerful, chained Anomaly and descended toward it himself.

• Li Qing recorded his survey of Heaven Blade Abyss Canyon, and the Jade Tablet revealed that General Shenji's tomb was hidden in the underground river.
• Li Qing followed the river to its source and entered a frigid, lightless underground lake, sending Shadow Paper Dolls ahead to investigate.
• Li Qing's Shadow Paper Dolls mapped the lake and found that it was thousands of zhang deep and widened toward the bottom.
• Li Qing discovered a massive structure buried in the lakebed, guarded by a chained, octopus-like Anomaly whose tentacles formed an impassable web of currents and power.
• Li Qing descended into the lake himself, using his Dharma Body to withstand the crushing pressure as he headed toward the guarded structure.

Li Qing descended through the lake’s terrifying darkness and reached a half-buried underwater structure, where he discovered a passage that seemed to lead into a grotto-heaven world. After passing its eerie stairs and encountering armored puppets, he found that his spatial escape spell could not carry him past the passage’s fork.

• Li Qing resisted the Anomaly’s mental erosion as he descended through the dark lake and reached its bottom.
• Li Qing used the Shadow Paper Doll to locate the underwater structure, crossed the Anomaly’s dangerous field, and healed the wounds it inflicted.
• Li Qing opened the structure’s great door and entered a passage separated from the surrounding lake water by a mysterious spatial boundary.
• Li Qing descended past blue oil lamps and strange writing, sensing the effect of the End-of-Days All-Law Erasure Curse.
• Li Qing saw more than thirty armored puppets and used World-Walking Star-Shifting to reach the passage’s fork, but spatial ripples returned him to his starting point.