Recaps

Li Qing fought through a maze of Aberrated puppet soldiers, mapped its routes with the Jade Tablet, and reached a vast palace guarded by a formation of ten thousand normal puppet soldiers. He stepped toward the formation to test its power as its puppets awakened.

• Li Qing defeated the Aberrated puppet soldiers in the maze's passages and discovered they left behind Essence Stones.
• Li Qing crushed a giant puppet Anomaly and collected its Fierce-grade Essence Stone.
• Li Qing used the Record Book and Jade Tablet to restore the maze map and follow the correct route to an exit.
• Li Qing pushed open a stone door and found a palace surrounded by a formation of at least ten thousand linked puppet soldiers.
• Li Qing unleashed his full power and approached the formation, causing the puppets' eyes to light up with azure radiance.

Li Qing entered General Shenji’s underground palace and was trapped in a military formation whose puppets revived and whose shifting space could exhaust intruders. After recording the formation and identifying its flaws, he escaped and reached the palace gates, where he began pushing them open.

• Li Qing charged into the puppet army, found that the formation suppressed his power and restored shattered puppets, and realized it was trapping him in shifting space.
• Li Qing controlled his Divine Body to investigate the formation while recording its movements and structure in the Record Book.
• The Jade Tablet restored information identifying the Vacuum Spirit-Locking Dao Army Formation and explaining its effects, construction, and weakness.
• Li Qing deduced the formation’s flaws, stepped through its weak points, and escaped the puppets’ encirclement.
• Li Qing reached General Shenji’s palace and began forcing open its massive doors.

Li Qing explored General Shenji’s palace and found rare materials needed to refine a Logic Artifact, then investigated the starry array in the bedchamber. He learned it was a resurrection array that could grant another life, but its user would inevitably face misfortune in their second life’s twilight years.

• Li Qing opened the Strategy Hall, recorded its books, and found no hidden chambers or Anomalies.
• Li Qing entered the Investigation of Things hall and took Heaven’s Blood, Tears of All Beings, and the other rare materials, leaving only Earth’s Marrow missing from his Logic Artifact materials.
• Li Qing opened the bedchamber and found a starry array that kept him from reaching its central pagoda through a spatial-temporal restriction.
• Li Qing used the Record Book to identify the array as the Seven-Star Life-Locking Resurrection Array and learned that its user would face misfortune in the twilight years of their second life.

Li Qing discovered that the starry domain guarded General Shenji, Zhuge Shenji, who had sealed himself away to preserve his life, and negotiated with him for his divination art. Zhuge Shenji revealed the art’s extraordinary origins and capabilities, then hinted that it had restrictions.

• Li Qing identified the Seven-Star Treasure Pagoda and starry domain as a life-preserving array that had kept General Shenji alive for over a thousand years.
• Li Qing sent ripples into the domain, awakening Zhuge Shenji, who sensed that the Six Paths and Eight Immortals had changed the heavenly secrets.
• Zhuge Shenji left the pagoda and asked Li Qing what he wanted; Li Qing requested his art of calculation and offered several ways to extend his life.
• Zhuge Shenji named his art the Innate and Acquired Zhou Yi Eight Trigrams Method and explained that it could calculate anything without detection, while also having no hidden dangers.
• Li Qing asked whether the art had any restrictions, and Zhuge Shenji confirmed that it did.

Li Qing negotiated with Zhuge Shenji over exchanging a unique spell for a longevity-extending method, but Zhuge Shenji instead revealed how much he had deduced about Li Qing and proposed an alliance against the Six Paths and Eight Immortals. After Zhuge Shenji swore an oath never to betray him, Li Qing accepted, and they prepared to discuss their next move.

• Li Qing described four longevity-extending methods he possessed, while withholding their detailed cultivation information.
• Zhuge Shenji used his calculations to uncover Li Qing's false identity, secret treasure, information network, and plans concerning the Six Paths Investiture of Gods.
• Zhuge Shenji explained that Rogue Cultivators faced destruction under the Six Paths and Eight Immortals and proposed joining forces with Li Qing.
• Li Qing questioned whether Zhuge Shenji could be trusted, so Zhuge Shenji swore an oath staking his life, Dharma Form, and Dao on his loyalty.
• Zhuge Shenji described his principle as the Dao of utmost sincerity, and Li Qing accepted his alliance and proposed discussing their next steps.

Li Qing and Zhuge Shenji agreed to become allies in a hundred-thousand-year plan to oppose the Six Paths and Eight Immortals. Zhuge Shenji began extending his lifespan so he could reach the Longevity Realm, while Li Qing acquired his divination method and a sealed clue to an Immortal’s weakness.

• Zhuge Shenji offered Li Qing a secret army of ten thousand human-fortune puppet soldiers, along with his knowledge of a weakness in one of the Six Paths and Eight Immortals.
• Zhuge Shenji warned Li Qing that viewing the weakness in the jade would alert the Immortal, and said exploiting it would require reaching at least the Tribulation Realm.
• Li Qing accepted Zhuge Shenji as an ally and proposed extending his lifespan; Zhuge Shenji chose to cultivate the White Bone Golden Body to overcome his tribulation.
• Li Qing received the jade and Zhuge Shenji’s Innate and Acquired Zhou Yi Eight Trigrams Method, and the Jade Tablet restored the method into a new divination spell.

Li Qing examined the restored Way of Changes method while Zhuge Shenji completed his transformation and explained the dangers of cultivating logic. After the two parted ways, Li Qing planned to master the method and began searching for Human Spirit.

• Li Qing reviewed the Way of Changes method and saw Zhuge Shenji consume the Divine Jade Fruits as power stirred inside the pagoda.
• Zhuge Shenji emerged with renewed vitality, and he told Li Qing that longevity required cultivating and refining one's own Dao, or logic, which could cause Aberration in those of insufficient cultivation.
• Zhuge Shenji said he would retrieve his armory in the Northern Desert, and Li Qing offered to return some of the supplies he had taken; Zhuge Shenji let him keep them.
• Zhuge Shenji collected the puppets, transformed the Dharma Form-level Anomaly into a black tiger, and rode away from Heavenly Blade Abyss Canyon toward the Northern Desert.
• Li Qing decided to master the Way of Changes while his Divine Body continued setting up a third information system, then sent a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll to gather information in Hundred Gates Alley.
• Li Qing noted that he already had Water of Heaven and Source of Earth, but still needed to obtain Human Spirit.

Li Qing searched for a way to obtain the Spirit of Man and chose to target the School of Diplomacy’s refining site in Myriad Spirit City. After uncovering the guard Song Yifei’s plan to lure and kill a rival, Li Qing saw a way to exploit the scheme and take the Spirit of Man.

• Li Qing found that Myriad Spirit City had a guarded site refining the Spirit of Man and traveled there to investigate.
• Li Qing stayed outside the city and sent his Myriad Shadow Paper Doll to watch the pagoda where the Spirit of Man was refined.
• Li Qing learned that the next batch would be harvested in three days and that Song Yifei guarded the pagoda.
• Li Qing discovered that Song Yifei planned to lure Huang Chaotian to the pagoda and join Meng Deyu in killing him.
• Li Qing reconstructed the scheme and began considering how to use it to obtain the Spirit of Man.

Li Qing seized the Spirit of Man while Song Yifei fought Huang Chaotian, then combined it with Heaven’s Water and Earth’s Source to master a mysterious divination art. He began preparing to use it to calculate the future.

• Song Yifei lured Huang Chaotian into a battle outside the pagoda and used the city’s grand formation against him.
• The Myriad Shadow Paper Doll stole the Spirit of Man and smuggled it out of Myriad Spirit City inside a sealed wooden box.
• Li Qing caught the box downstream and returned to the Capital City with the Spirit of Man and the materials Zhuge Shenji had gathered.
• Li Qing refined the three materials into 365 golden characters and merged them with the primary stars in his sea of consciousness.
• Li Qing sensed that his soul had connected with temporal fate, confirmed he had mastered the art of deduction, and set out to calculate the future.

Li Qing used the Eye of Heaven to glimpse the future after the Six Paths Investiture of Gods, where the Heavenly Dao controlled a rigid system that drained living beings and reincarnated souls. He recorded that the Nine Provinces would expand until the world ascended into a higher dimension, offering the Six Paths and Eight Immortals a chance to eliminate their hidden dangers.

• Li Qing recited the I Ching Curse and used the Eye of Heaven to observe the future beyond the river of time.
• Li Qing saw the Heavenly Dao network draw essence qi from all living beings to expand the Nine Provinces and sustain immortal Star Gods and Nether Gods.
• Li Qing witnessed souls suffer in eighteen spaces, then be erased and reincarnated as new lives, while the number of cultivators remained restricted.
• Li Qing saw enormous traces appear beyond the expanding world's borders, seemingly connecting it to another world.
• Li Qing wrote down his vision in the Record Book and learned that the world's dimensional ascension could let the Six Paths and Eight Immortals transform and remove their hidden dangers.

Li Qing deduced that the Six Paths and Eight Immortals had distorted foundations and considered the dangers of a world ruled by logic before learning that the Great Tang Dynasty was near collapse. At Haoran Academy, Mr. Clear Stream told Wang Riyue that his debt to Li Wushuang was repaid and warned him to stay away.

• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to deduce that the Six Paths and Eight Immortals needed to repair distortions in their foundations to advance further.
• Li Qing imagined the lethal rules of a logic-filled world and decided information would be crucial to surviving the coming Dimensional Ascension.
• The Jade Tablet revealed that the Great Tang Dynasty's million imperial guards had been wiped out and the Eighteen Warlords would march on the capital within a month.
• Li Qing resolved to wait for the third system to be completed and resumed cultivating.
• At Haoran Academy, Wang Riyue told Mr. Clear Stream that Li Wushuang had saved him in exchange for the Primordial Dharma Form.
• Mr. Clear Stream conveyed Sub-Sage Meng's warning that Wang Riyue's debt was repaid and he must not get involved with Li Wushuang again.

Mr. Clear Stream explained to Wang Riyue why the Immortal Realm sought Li Wushuang, while six allied warlords prepared to march on the Capital City. As the eighteen warlords converged, Li Qing anticipated that Emperor Kuntai’s death would trigger their first battle.

• Mr. Clear Stream told Wang Riyue that Li Wushuang was a Heaven-sent anomaly and Fate-less One whose supreme treasure and unusual cultivation threatened the Dao Lineages’ plans.
• Li Qinglian revealed that he had taken command of 250,000 imperial Dao Soldiers, then led the six warlords in agreeing to march toward the Capital City together.
• Sun Qiankun urged Pan Chengfeng to ally with the other weaker warlords and let the Daoist Sect’s armies wear down Li Qinglian; he then quietly secured support from other warlords and their advisers.
• The next day, Li Qinglian led the six armies toward Dragon Province as the eighteen warlords marched and the dynasty’s impending fall became apparent.
• Li Qing studied the gathered intelligence outside the Capital City and predicted that Emperor Kuntai’s death would begin the Eighteen Warlords’ first battle.

Li Qing completed his third information system and learned that the Six Paths and Eight Immortals were searching for Heaven’s sealed remains. A vision revealed their plan to use Heaven’s corpse to lure Wisdom Logic Anomalies into a trap, and Li Qing realized the Capital City likely held one of the Sealed Lands.

• Li Qing waited in the Capital City while the Eighteen Warlords drew near and the city prepared for war.
• The Jade Tablet updated with Li Qing’s third information system, giving him access to information from higher ranks of the Dao Lineages.
• Li Qing learned that the Six Paths and Eight Immortals were searching for places where spirit consciousness could not detect something visible to the eye.
• Li Qing deduced that they sought Heaven’s sealed remains and recorded his suspicions on the Jade Tablet.
• Li Qing used the Way of Changes Curse and saw three Wisdom Logic Anomalies descend toward Heaven’s corpse before being overwhelmed by light.
• Li Qing concluded that Heaven’s corpse would be used as bait for the anomalies and suspected a Sealed Land lay beneath the Capital City.

Li Qing prepared for the chaos gathering around the Capital City as the Eighteen Warlords approached, while Emperor Kuntai promised to defend Great Tang. The chapter ended as Li Chenglong and Beichuan Feng began their duel outside the city.

• Li Qing suspected Six Paths and Eight Immortals planned to use the Wisdom Logic Anomaly to uncover Heaven's body and other seals, and expanded his network of observers.
• On May 27th, the Eighteen Warlords gathered outside the Capital City as its residents fled and the imperial court braced for the attack.
• Emperor Kuntai praised the ministers who remained and declared that Great Tang would repel the warlords, while the armies continued their march toward the city.
• Li Qing entered the Capital City and completed condensing his mana, causing karma to influence the Sons of Destiny and their armies.
• Li Chenglong challenged the rebels from the city wall, and Beichuan Feng answered Li Qinglian's call to fight him.
• Li Chenglong leaped from the wall with the power of the city's soldiers and formations, and Beichuan Feng rose to meet him with Victory in Ten Thousand Battles.

Li Qing watched Beichuan Feng and Li Chenglong clash in a battle between generals while recording the distortions their fight caused. In the imperial garden, Emperor Kuntai forced his family to drink poison, leaving all thirty-nine members dead.

• Beichuan Feng and Li Chenglong fought in midair as their armies' formations powered them, and Li Qing observed their duel and the anomalies it created.
• Emperor Kuntai gathered his relatives for a final banquet and ordered them to drink poisoned wine rather than face capture.
• The First Prince tried to lead his family out of the imperial garden but was killed by the Imperial Guards.
• Emperor Kuntai's guards forced the princes, consorts, princesses, and children to drink the poison, killing all thirty-nine members of the imperial family.
• Emperor Kuntai's power suppressed the resentment and prevented it from producing an aberration.

Emperor Kuntai buried his slaughtered family beneath the imperial garden while Li Qing concealed himself near the Heaven-Sealing Grand Array as the Capital City’s defenses weakened. Li Qinglian learned that he was descended from Great Tang’s imperial family, and after Beichuan Feng defeated Li Chenglong, he ordered the assault on the city walls.

• Emperor Kuntai mourned the eldest prince and Empress, then ordered the Imperial Guards to carry the imperial family’s corpses into a hidden underground mausoleum.
• Emperor Kuntai returned to the palace and awaited the approaching battle, while Bone Bodhisattva and Yuan Zhihui searched the Capital City for Li Wushuang without success.
• Li Qing hid beside the Heaven-Sealing Grand Array’s entrance, evading the searchers as the city’s gates came under attack.
• Li Qinglian received a message revealing his descent from Great Tang’s Li family and decided to send people into the Capital City to eliminate several enemies.
• Beichuan Feng defeated Li Chenglong, who sacrificed himself in a final attack, and Li Qinglian ordered his troops to charge the city walls.

As the warlords breached the Capital City, Li Qing met Emperor Kuntai and Bone Bodhisattva in the Golden Throne Hall to learn the secret of becoming immortal. Emperor Kuntai revealed the five divine treasuries and their role in forming a Primordial Dharma Form, while Li Qing recorded the information before it vanished from memory.

• The warlords breached the Capital City's four gates, while Li Qing held back his main army and sent only twenty thousand Dao soldiers into the city.
• Li Qing sent three projected avatars toward the imperial palace, the mysterious inn, and the Heavenly Prison as Bone Bodhisattva and Yuan Zhihui activated their preparations.
• Li Qing's projected avatar met Emperor Kuntai in the Golden Throne Hall, and Bone Bodhisattva arrived soon after.
• Bone Bodhisattva threatened to capture Li Qing and said he could summon the other three Bodhisattvas, while Li Qing challenged his confidence.
• Emperor Kuntai explained that immortality required a flawless foundation and the five divine treasuries: Wisdom, Longevity, Undying, Indestructible, and Qi-Blood.
• Li Qing recorded the secret in the Record Book as the Jade Tablet also preserved it, and the Comprehensive Record of Humanity Under Heaven began to change.

Li Qing activated a chain of formations to lure powerful cultivators away from the Capital City and trap the city in a closed loop. Emperor Kuntai sacrificed himself to start the Extinction Grand Formation, while Bone Bodhisattva and Yuan Zhihui converged on the mysterious temple to search for Li Qing.

• Li Qing triggered an aura at Hidden Dragon Mountain that drew most Longevity and Dharma Form cultivators away from the Capital City, while Bone Bodhisattva and Yuan Zhihui stayed behind.
• Emperor Kuntai sensed the powerful aura and, with many experts gone, sacrificed his life to activate the Extinction Grand Formation.
• Li Qing linked the Extinction Grand Formation, the spacetime conversion formation, and the Heaven-Sealing Grand Array into a closed loop that oppressed the Capital City.
• Li Qing's projected avatars appeared at the Heavenly Prison and the mysterious inn, prompting Bone Bodhisattva to split his forces and suspect that Li Qing's true body was at the mysterious temple.
• Yuan Zhihui also went to the mysterious temple, where he and Bone Bodhisattva recognized each other and prepared to investigate.

Li Qing’s schemes threw the Capital City into chaos while Enemy of Heaven trapped and divided the descending intelligent logic Anomaly inside the Heaven-Sealing Grand Array. Bone Bodhisattva and Yuan Zhihui realized they had been deceived and began searching the city for Li Qing, who remained hidden beside the array and prepared to kill the sealed Anomaly.

• Li Qing’s projection clone exploded to evade Bone Bodhisattva, while Yuan Zhihui and Bone Bodhisattva fought over the mysterious temple’s divine statue and found only talisman paper inside it.
• The Eighteen Warlords and their soldiers looted the Imperial City as blood-sacrifice auras surged across the Capital City.
• Enemy of Heaven sealed the intelligent logic Anomaly inside the Heaven-Sealing Grand Array, splitting it into countless weakened portions and pinning them to an altar.
• Bone Bodhisattva and Yuan Zhihui discovered that Li Wushuang had exploited Emperor Kuntai’s formations and used a detection spell to search the Capital City.
• Li Qing remained undetected at the entrance to the Heaven-Sealing Grand Array and resolved to wait out his pursuers before attacking the sealed Anomaly.

At Hidden Dragon Mountain, Heaven's aura transformed the tomb's occupant into a many-eyed Anomaly that attacked the cultivators invading the palace. Meanwhile, Li Qing used a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll to question the Wisdom Logic Anomaly, resisting its attempt to control him and recording its dubious offer before concluding it was lying.

• Heaven's aura transformed the emperor-robed figure in the tomb, and the awakened Anomaly emerged with multiple eyes and flesh-like clothing.
• The Anomaly attacked the invading Longevity and Dharma Form cultivators with black rays carrying penetrating logic, injuring one Longevity cultivator and forcing the others to dodge.
• Li Qing sent a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll to speak with the Wisdom Logic Anomaly pinned to the Heaven-Sealing Grand Array and said he intended to kill it for its Logic Relic.
• The Wisdom Logic Anomaly offered to help Li Qing return to his world, but its words nearly influenced him before the Heavens Civilization Torrent cleared his mind.
• Li Qing recorded the Anomaly's claim that it knew his point of descent, then recognized from the Jade Tablet's reconstructed information that the claim was a lie.

Li Qing learned how the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord’s Dao-attaining artifact protected him, but the Wisdom Logic Anomaly used dangerous secrets to try to influence and expose Li Qing. Li Qing stopped their conversation and began weakening the Anomaly with the Apocalypse Divine Curse while Bone Bodhisattva and Yuan Zhihui continued searching Capital City for him.

• The Wisdom Logic Anomaly told Li Qing that destroying the Chaos Yin-Yang Jade Ruyi would cause the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord to undergo Aberration, and Li Qing verified the information with his treasures.
• The Anomaly revealed that immortals periodically reincarnated to keep their minds alive, triggering a warning through the Heavenly Secrets Network; Li Qing used Way of Changes to escape the search for him.
• Recognizing the Anomaly’s attempts to manipulate and kill him, Li Qing ended their conversation and decided to destroy it.
• Li Qing’s Myriad Shadow Paper Doll wrote the Apocalypse Divine Curse around the Anomaly’s altar, and the Heaven-Sealing Grand Array replicated it across countless layers of time and space.
• Li Qing activated the curse, weakening the trapped Anomaly as he waited for it to become vulnerable enough to attack with the Battle Soul Puppet and the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger.
• Bone Bodhisattva and Yuan Zhihui continued sealing Capital City and searching for Li Qing, while his intelligence networks there remained inactive.

Li Qing devised a secret campaign against the Demonic Path to disrupt the Bodhisattvas’ judgment of his whereabouts and create the conditions for his Divine Soul breakthrough. He recruited Wang Riyue and Zhuge Shenji to help destroy the Demonic Path’s contenders and armies, leaving the campaign’s outcome to be revealed only after it was complete.

• Li Qing decided to make the Bodhisattvas believe he was not undergoing tribulation in the Capital City by staging a major event against the Demonic Path.
• Li Qing appeared in Wang Riyue’s study and proposed eliminating the Demonic Path’s Sons of Destiny and the Northern Barbarians’ army.
• Li Qing asked Wang Riyue to accept Zhuge Shenji into Haoran Academy as its vice dean, and Wang Riyue agreed.
• Li Qing met Zhuge Shenji in the northern Gobi and asked him to use his puppet army alongside Wang Riyue to destroy the Demonic Path’s contenders and forces.
• Zhuge Shenji agreed to the secret campaign and said he was confident they could defeat even one of the Demonic Path’s Four Great Devil Kings.

Li Qing arranged a plan with Zhuge Shenji to conceal what had happened in Capital City, then went to the North Province border to recruit General Chen Daolong for a trap against the Demonic Path armies. Chen agreed to cooperate with Haoran Academy, whose promised reinforcements could help destroy the three armies and their Sons of Destiny.

• Li Qing told Zhuge Shenji that traces of him should be noticed to conceal what happened in Capital City, then left as Zhuge headed for Righteous Qi Mountain.
• Li Qing observed the three Demonic Path armies approaching the North Province border and decided the conflict had to erupt within two or three days.
• Li Qing entered the border general's residence and proposed that Chen Daolong lure the Northern Barbarians into a trap and surround them.
• Li Qing said Haoran Academy had a trump card capable of wiping out the Northern Barbarians, and Chen agreed to cooperate with them.
• Li Qing left after telling Chen that Haoran Academy's people would arrive within a day, while Chen reflected on Li Qing's hidden power.

Li Qing coordinated with Wang Riyue and Zhuge Shenji to prepare a trap for Chen Daolong and the North Province army. He manipulated spies at the border pass into sending false reports, setting up a smokescreen for the coming assault and his own breakthrough.

• Chen Daolong wondered whether Li Qing's concealed Divine Body might belong to Li Wushuang.
• Li Qing met Wang Riyue and Zhuge Shenji, outlined their plan to use Zhuge Shenji's puppet army against the North Province army, and said the Northern Barbarians would attack within two or three days.
• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to uncover a way to break the deadlock and began setting his schemes in motion at the North Province border pass.
• Li Qing used Wish Spell to alter quartermaster Quan Zirui's memories, prompting him to send out a false report that military grain supplies had fallen dangerously low.
• Li Qing bewitched Zhao Cheng into believing that half the Dao Soldiers had vanished and arranged for three spies to send misleading reports about supplies, troops, and garbage disposal.
• Li Qing planned to use the chaos surrounding the border pass to conceal his actions, complete his breakthrough, and confuse Bone Bodhisattva and Yuan Zhihui.

Wang Riyue, Chen Daolong, and Zhuge Shenji prepared a trap at the Northern Province border, hiding Dao soldiers in Zhuge Shenji’s portable grotto-heaven and making the defenses appear weak. After Hai Wuya confirmed the false intelligence, Moluo Yin ordered a full assault for dusk, hoping to seize the lead among the Demonic Path’s Sons of Destiny.

• Zhuge Shenji showed Chen Daolong powerful puppet suits and revealed a plan to conceal ten thousand Dao soldiers in his portable grotto-heaven.
• Wang Riyue explained that spies had been fed false reports about the border’s weakened troops and dwindling supplies, and Chen Daolong agreed to the plan.
• Chen Daolong secretly moved more than twenty thousand people into concealment while the remaining forces maintained the appearance of a depleted garrison.
• Moluo Yin consulted Hai Wuya about the intelligence that North Province’s defenses had weakened.
• Hai Wuya used the All-Beings Vital Essence Surveying Art and concluded that the intelligence was likely credible.
• Moluo Yin ordered the Demonic Path army to attack the North Province border at dusk and assigned Hai Wuya to keep Chen Daolong occupied.