Recaps

Qu Keyin and Despairer Jackfruit prepared to exploit the weakened defenses at North Province's border pass, while Li Qing's Shadow Paper Doll watched their armies fall into his trap. Moro Yin's army launched the first assault, Qu Keyin committed his full force, and Jackfruit sent cultivators toward an undefended section of the wall as the battle intensified.

• Qu Keyin consulted Killer Daoist, then ordered all one hundred thousand troops to advance that night and seize the border pass.
• Despairer Jackfruit followed Extinction Devil Master's advice to let the other armies attack first and prepare to strike when the defenders faltered.
• Li Qing's Shadow Paper Doll observed both camps prepare for battle and recognized that they had entered the trap.
• Moro Yin's twenty thousand troops began attacking North Province's border pass, and Qu Keyin's army joined with its full force.
• As the defenders began to buckle, over a hundred cultivators from Jackfruit's camp flew toward a section of the wall that was not under attack.

The three Barbarian Tribes broke through the outer defenses of the North Province border pass and began a fierce assault on its inner city, where Chen Daolong and Wang Riyue held off their strongest cultivators. As the battle dragged on, Zhuge Shenji appeared behind the enemy army and deployed a vast formation of puppet-bodied Dao soldiers.

• More than a hundred attackers overwhelmed the outer wall, allowing the three Barbarian Tribes' army to pour into the border pass.
• Chen Daolong and Wang Riyue withdrew the defenders to the inner city and waited for Ban Haoran to act while the enemy surrounded them.
• Hai Wuya, Killer Daoist, and Extinction Devil Lord attacked the inner city's formation, but Haoran Righteous Qi and Chen Daolong's army blocked their assaults.
• Li Qing concealed himself with the Way of Changes as the battle raged for half a day across the ruined outer city.
• Zhuge Shenji appeared behind the three hundred thousand troops and deployed puppet-bodied Dao soldiers in a vast octagonal formation.

Zhuge Shenji unleashed his Eight Gates Eight Trigrams Grand Formation, trapping a three-hundred-thousand-strong Northern Barbarian army and three longevity cultivators inside its looping spacetime. With Wang Riyue and Chen Daolong, he killed all three cultivators, feeding their vital essence to his growing puppets before the formation gathered power into a golden figure and drew the attention of a gaze from beyond.

• Zhuge Shenji engulfed the Northern Barbarian army and the three longevity cultivators in his Eight Gates Eight Trigrams Grand Formation, where the forces were divided and slaughtered.
• Zhuge Shenji sent Wang Riyue and Chen Daolong to attack Hai Wuya while he kept the other two longevity cultivators trapped.
• Wang Riyue and Chen Daolong killed Hai Wuya, and the formation absorbed his vital essence to strengthen Zhuge Shenji's puppets.
• Wang Riyue and Chen Daolong killed Killer Daoist and then joined forces to defeat the Extinction Devil Lord.
• Zhuge Shenji chanted and gathered the formation's vital essence into a majestic golden figure as a pair of eyes from beyond briefly looked toward the formation.

Zhuge Shenji and his allies annihilated the Barbarian Tribe army and its cultivators, ending the northern disaster. Li Qing then used the Heaven-Sealing Grand Array and the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger to kill the Wisdom Logic Anomaly, which left behind a black gear that he recorded as a possible Logic Relic.

• Zhuge Shenji killed the remaining Barbarian Tribe soldiers, and Wang Riyue declared the northern disaster quelled.
• The Killing Demon King sensed the Demonic Path's Qi Fate decline as Longevity cultivators died, while the Demonic Path's mysterious master also sensed their fall.
• Li Qing summoned a Battle Soul Puppet and asked the Enemy of Heaven to pin the Wisdom Logic Anomaly in the Heaven-Sealing Grand Array.
• Li Qing empowered the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger with the puppet's strength, and it cut the Wisdom Logic Anomaly in half.
• Li Qing collected the black gear left by the anomaly and recorded it as a possible Logic Relic of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.

After killing the Wisdom Logic Anomaly, Li Qing secured its Logic Relic and completed his plan, while the Six Paths and Eight Immortals and the remaining Wisdom Logic Anomalies searched the Capital City for the killer. Li Qing stayed hidden and prepared to break through to the Divine Soul Realm before escaping once Bone Bodhisattva and Yuan Zhihui left.

• Li Qing read that the black gear was the foundational Logic Relic of the Wisdom Logic Anomaly, then sent it deeper into the Heaven-Sealing Grand Array and sealed the Battle Soul Puppet.
• Li Qing gathered Qi Fate as the Wisdom Logic Anomaly’s death ended its connected tribulations and the northern war concluded according to his plan.
• The Six Paths and Eight Immortals sensed that a Wisdom Logic Anomaly had vanished and ordered Longevity Realm and Tribulation Realm cultivators to search the Capital City.
• Cultivators at Hidden Dragon Mountain captured the shattered Anomaly that had emerged from the coffin, while the Capital City filled with searches and returning forces.
• Eight remaining Wisdom Logic Anomalies agreed to investigate the Black King’s death and secretly monitor the Six Paths and Eight Immortals.
• Li Qing concluded that his enemies would find no evidence, then planned to escape after Bone Bodhisattva and Yuan Zhihui departed and first advance to the Divine Soul Realm.

Li Qing studied the four steps of the Divine Soul Realm and began cultivating the first step, using his immense Qi Fate to cleanse and refine his soul. After forming a supreme mysterious-yellow True Soul, he continued pushing beyond it as a colorless, crystal-like radiance began to emerge.

• Li Qing learned that the Divine Soul Realm progressed through True Soul, Spirit Roaming, divine soul, and the Outer Demon Ruining Dao Tribulation, with each stage carrying dangers to the soul.
• Li Qing used the Comprehensive Record of Humanity Under Heaven to guide Qi Fate into his soul and began his breakthrough into the True Soul step.
• As Qi Fate cleansed his soul, Li Qing endured severe pain while his spiritual radiance advanced through the grades to pure purple.
• Li Qing continued refining his soul until mysterious-yellow radiance completely replaced the purple glow, forming an unparalleled True Soul.
• With half his Qi Fate still remaining, Li Qing pressed onward, and a colorless, crystal-like brilliance began spreading within his soul.

Li Qing’s soul was assailed by strange information and plunged into a terrifying darkness, but the Heavens Civilization Torrent and a golden light pulled him back. After seeing the torrent form a dark abyss from absorbed information, he examined a cosmic visualization diagram but had to wait forty-nine days before cultivating it.

• A formless radiance covered Li Qing’s soul, and the Heavens Civilization Torrent absorbed and cleansed the murky information appearing within him.
• Unknown darkness overwhelmed Li Qing’s consciousness, while immense beings and streams of strange information threatened to drown his mind.
• A golden eye formed from the vortex in Li Qing’s sea of consciousness and connected to his soul, helping him escape the darkness.
• Li Qing saw blackness gather into an abyss at the bottom of the Heavens Civilization Torrent and realized his spell was evolving as it absorbed information.
• Li Qing examined the universe visualization diagram in the Comprehensive Record of Humanity Under Heaven and discovered he had to wait forty-nine days before cultivating it.

Li Qing’s cultivation breakthrough shook the world as records across the major factions revealed that Li Wushuang had condensed a True Soul beyond the supreme True Soul. In the Capital City, Bone Bodhisattva and Yuan Zhihui inferred that Li Wushuang had used the northern battle to complete a vast tribulation, but they remained uncertain about his actions in the Capital City.

• Li Qing adapted to his new state while cultivation records throughout the world announced Li Wushuang’s extraordinary Divine Soul Realm breakthrough.
• Yuan Zhihui told Bone Bodhisattva that Chen Daolong, Wang Riyue, and Ban Haoran had lured the Demonic Path army of three hundred thousand into an ambush and destroyed it with a force that rivaled the Tribulation Realm.
• Yuan Zhihui connected the mysterious battlefield force to Li Wushuang’s Commander Summoning Token and suspected that his associates had helped arrange the northern campaign.
• Bone Bodhisattva concluded that Li Wushuang had engineered a major tribulation in the north and used the token to overcome it, gaining immense Qi Fate before condensing his True Soul.
• Yuan Zhihui proposed that either the Capital City or the northern border was a false tribulation meant to mislead Li Wushuang’s enemies.

Yuan Zhihui and Bone Bodhisattva concluded that Li Wushuang had used Emperor Kuntai’s plan to pursue an unknown objective, then withdrew from the Capital City. Li Qing saw that they had left and began looking for Earth’s Marrow so he could refine a Logic Artifact, discovering three possible sources.

• Yuan Zhihui reasoned that Li Wushuang had exploited Emperor Kuntai’s plan for an unknown purpose, possibly connected to the Six Paths and Eight Immortals.
• Bone Bodhisattva and Yuan Zhihui decided to stop searching for Li Qing and wait for another major event to draw him out.
• Bone Bodhisattva and Yuan Zhihui vowed to join forces and defeat Li Qing if he showed himself, then left the area.
• Li Qing saw through his all-pervading eyes and ears that Bone Bodhisattva and Yuan Zhihui had departed, and decided to refine a Logic Artifact inside the Heaven-Sealing Grand Array.
• Li Qing searched the Record Book for Earth’s Marrow and found three possible sources: the Agricultural School’s headquarters city, the True Treasure Path, and a deep tomb in True Treasure Path territory.

Li Qing sent his Divine Body to Sand Province to explore a logical Anomaly region surrounding an ancient tomb. Inside its dreamscape, he discovered that using power destroyed his body and staying for a full day and night caused certain death, leaving him to search for another way into the tomb.

• Li Qing decided to investigate the ancient tomb in Sand Province with his Divine Body while his True Soul remained in the Capital City.
• Li Qing reached the tomb’s Mist-covered dreamscape and entered a city built from the deceased cultivator’s memories.
• Li Qing used Spirit Awareness and his Divine Body shattered, revealing the first restriction: he could not use power inside the city.
• Li Qing explored the city and its bookstore, concluding that the deceased cultivator’s memory or spiritual presence might reveal the way into the tomb.
• Li Qing searched the city for a full day and night, then shattered again at dawn and identified the second rule: anyone who stayed that long would die.

Li Qing identified Yuan Haoming as the master of the mysterious underground palace and entered the tomb by trading him gold for Earth's Marrow. Inside, Li Qing discovered two coffins and recorded the curses that created the dream world, leaving the tomb’s secrets newly revealed.

• Li Qing recorded the city’s inhabitants and used the Jade Tablet to identify Yuan Haoming as the palace’s master, a Dharma Form cultivator whose peaceful dream formed the anomalous region.
• Li Qing returned to the city and found Yuan Haoming with his dog, Big Black, in a shack in a western alley.
• Li Qing traded Yuan Haoming a gold ingot for Earth's Marrow, causing a bronze door to appear inside the shack.
• Li Qing opened the door and descended through a green-lit passage into a star-lit burial chamber containing rows of stone platforms and two coffins.
• Li Qing recorded the incantations on the coffins, and the Jade Tablet revealed the Dead Man Dream Curse and Dream World techniques.

Li Qing retrieved Earth's Marrow from Yuan Haoming's dream and used it with other materials to refine a Logic Artifact. The artifact was completed, and Li Qing sensed and secretly merged his Spirit Awareness with its logic.

• Li Qing realized Yuan Haoming and Big Black had become Logic Anomalies, and he recorded the dream's rules and the materials in the underground palace.
• Li Qing took Earth's Marrow from the dream, returned to the entry point, and sent a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll to carry it away.
• Two days later, Li Qing received the Earth's Marrow and ground it with other materials, Heaven's Blood, Tears of All Beings, and his own blood to make azure ink.
• Li Qing had a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll inscribe the Great Divine Curse of Heaven's Transformation, Earth's Upheaval, and the Reversal of Human Relations onto the gear-like Logic Relic.
• Four anomalous entities appeared as the artifact transformed, but the Heaven-Sealing Grand Array helped contain the danger until the gear was successfully refined.
• Li Qing infused the Logic Artifact with his Spirit Awareness and discovered that it had merged with the artifact's intangible logic, hidden from others.

Li Qing discovered that the Logic Artifact could affect powerful opponents, then encountered a renewed Aberrant Contamination phenomenon in the wilderness. He used the Jade Tablet to reconstruct a purification ritual and began studying how to prepare it.

• Li Qing sensed the Logic Artifact’s changed activation conditions and concluded it could affect beings above his level, then stored it away.
• Li Qing and the Battle Soul Puppet used the Myriad Spell Divine Banner to leave the Capital City unseen and reach the wilderness.
• Li Qing encountered a woman in white asking, “Am I beautiful?” as the Relic Pearl failed to suppress the Aberrant Contamination.
• Li Qing consulted the Jade Tablet and reconstructed the Human Dao Civilization Sacrifice, a ritual for purging Aberrant Contamination.
• Li Qing examined the ritual’s instructions and began studying how to refine its nine-tier Five Elements altar.

Li Qing sent his Divine Body to the primeval forest on the Dragon Province–Sand Province border to find Thousand-Year Yi Wood, while his true body stayed hidden near the Capital City and prepared to reveal a Logic Artifact during negotiations. As he searched the forest, he hunted a Disaster-class Anomaly and began considering escape plans in case Six Paths Investiture of Gods failed.

• Li Qing located Thousand-Year Yi Wood in a forest cultivated by the True Treasure Path and sent his Divine Body there while his true body remained hidden.
• Li Qing ambushed and destroyed a Disaster-class Anomaly, taking its Essence Stone.
• A Daoist of the True Treasure Path inspected the battlefield and decided to search for other signs of hunted Anomalies.
• Li Qing observed widespread Aberration in the forest and worried that Six Paths Investiture of Gods had to end before the world became fully Aberrated.
• Li Qing considered exploring dangerous places such as the Pu River Water Eye and South River Grotto to prepare a way to escape if the Six Paths failed.

Li Qing obtained Thousand-Year Yi Wood and two Disaster-grade Essence Stones, then built and activated a Five Elements altar with three sacrificial animals. The ritual drew black aura from him and carried his spirit into a golden space.

• Li Qing uprooted a thousand-year-old apricot tree and cut its wood into pieces for the Five Elements altar before escaping a True Treasure Path Daoist who arrived to investigate.
• The Daoist found no trace of the thief, suspected Li Wushuang, and sent a talisman to headquarters requesting a divination.
• Li Qing killed two Disaster-grade Anomalies in Sand Province and sent their Essence Stones to his true body in the Capital City.
• Li Qing constructed a nine-tier Five Elements altar in a secluded valley and sealed the area with restrictions.
• Li Qing sacrificed a cattle, a sheep, and a pig, placing Disaster-grade Essence Stones on their heads as he chanted a mysterious Curse.
• The altar extracted essence from the stones and drew black aura from Li Qing, carrying his spirit into a golden space.

Li Qing defeated the Otherworldly Demon inside the Human Dao space, cleansing the abnormal aura from his body and mind. After shrinking and storing the Five Elements altar, he learned the Eighteen Warlords would meet in three days and devised a plan to use the gathering to release the Logic Artifact.

• The Otherworldly Demon attacked Li Qing, but he overwhelmed it with repeated strikes and destroyed it.
• Li Qing returned to his body and found that the ritual had removed the abnormal aura and cleared his mind.
• Li Qing used the Myriad Spell Divine Banner to shrink the Five Elements altar and stored it in a separate pouch.
• Li Qing learned that the Eighteen Warlords would meet in three days to negotiate who would rule the realm.
• Li Qing planned to release the Logic Artifact at the assembly and came up with a way to make a grand display without attracting suspicion.

Li Qing prepared to use the Soul-Crushing Gear to disrupt the Eighteen Warlords’ conference, while Sun Qiankun secretly kept their allies out of the Imperial City and mobilized their forces. At the assembly, the warlords began discussing how to divide Dragon Province and proposed a one-year truce, as Li Qing’s planned strike still loomed.

• Li Qing sent a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll into the palace’s underground chamber and prepared to activate the Soul-Crushing Gear during the warlords’ conference.
• Li Qing ordered Sun Qiankun to keep their planted people out of the Imperial City, and Sun Qiankun mobilized their allies through prearranged channels.
• Three days later, the Eighteen Warlords and representatives of several schools gathered in the Golden Throne Hall to discuss forming a new dynasty.
• Li Qinglian warned that fighting among themselves would benefit the Four Regions, and Xuanyuan Changlong proposed dividing Dragon Province’s territory.
• Guo Wushuang produced a sand table and proposed dividing the territories and agreeing to a one-year truce before war could resume.

The eighteen Longevity cultivators divided the realm’s provinces and agreed to leave the Capital City under its original officials for one year. Meanwhile, the Soul-Crushing Gear unleashed its logic beneath the palace, killing the people inside and triggering a battle among the eighteen cultivators; the chapter ended with the shattered black cauldron releasing the gear into the sky.

• The lords divided the provinces among their Dao lineages, then agreed that the original officials would govern the Capital City until its ownership was decided one year later.
• Inside the Wish Cauldron, the Myriad Shadow Paper Doll used the Force-Borrowing Talisman on the Soul-Crushing Gear, unleashing a mysterious logic that froze the palace and drained the souls of its occupants.
• The long-lived cultivators shielded the Sons of Destiny and escaped the palace as the logic spread, while brilliant light protected the ordinary people of the Capital City.
• Sun Qiankun realized why the others had barred entry to the palace and began planning to replace the confidants who had entered it.
• Li Qiuxian and the other long-lived cultivators found the dead inside the palace, traced the power to the underground cauldron, and fought over the Soul-Crushing Gear for half an hour.
• A black radiance struck and shattered the cauldron, sending the dark teal gear flying into the sky.

Li Qing used the azure Soul-Crushing Gear to draw the attention of the Six Paths and Eight Immortals and test whether they would claim the Logic Relic. They forbade longevity cultivators from interfering and left the warlords to fight over it, ending with Li Qinglian escaping the Capital City with the gear sealed in a box.

• Li Qing left the Capital City after throwing the gear into the sky, and the Six Paths and Eight Immortals appeared to declare rules for its custody.
• The Eighteen Warlords led their armies into the Capital City and fought over the gear while cultivators watched without intervening.
• Tang Wanshan seized the gear, became surrounded by several armies, and hurled it away before withdrawing with his troops.
• A giant general on an armored warhorse cut down the Dao soldier carrying the gear and took it, then fought a red-armored general as the battle raged around them.
• After three days of fighting, Li Qinglian led soldiers through a bloody escape with the gear sealed inside a box.

After the battle for the Capital City ended, Li Qing planned to use the Logic Artifact to uncover a mysterious outsider and prepare for his Divine Soul tribulation. The Jade Tablet revealed that Qing Province’s Seal of Heaven was in Cloud Dream Marsh, so Li Qing sent his Divine Body to search the lake while his true body remained hidden.

• Li Qinglian secured the Logic Relic, and the forces pursuing him withdrew as the battle for the Capital City ended.
• Li Qing planned to draw out a mysterious outsider, hunt Logic Anomalies, and strengthen his northern forces before the coming war.
• Li Qing wrote that Qing Province’s Seal of Heaven was in Forest Wilderness City, and the Jade Tablet restored its location to the ancient Cloud Dream Marsh.
• Li Qing decided to keep his true body hidden in Dragon Province and use incarnations and Shadow Paper Dolls while his True Soul settled.
• Li Qing’s Divine Body reached Cloud Dream Marsh and sent Shadow Paper Dolls to search the lakebed for the Seal of Heaven.

Li Qing searched Cloud Dream Marsh for Anomalies and mapped its terrain while gathering Essence Stones. After defeating an Anomaly in a battle between demons, he used Heavens Civilization Torrent to subdue the Crocodile Demon King, E Lao San.

• Li Qing sensed that Cloud Dream Marsh reflected the growing influence of the Yang Side and the Dark Side on the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• Li Qing used his Shadow Paper Dolls and Wish Spell to record Cloud Dream Marsh’s terrain in detail for reconstructing the Sealed Land.
• Li Qing killed an Anomaly and obtained his twentieth Baleful Intent-grade Essence Stone.
• Li Qing found a Crocodile Demon King and his soldiers fighting a shell-armored Anomaly, then entered the battle and killed the Anomaly for its Fierce-grade Essence Stone.
• Li Qing sent Heavens Civilization Torrent into the Crocodile Demon King’s sea of consciousness, reshaped his mind, and made E Lao San his loyal servant.

Li Qing searched Cloud Dream Marsh for Demon Kings to secure an alternative path for humanity’s future, then descended into a deep trench that might lead to a safe retreat. He encountered a strange mask and a huge Anomaly, and the chapter ended as eerie white mist appeared around the pursuing creature.

• Li Qing decided to subdue Cloud Dream Marsh’s Demon Kings so they could secretly contact the Demon Race and provide another path if humanity failed.
• Li Qing marked the trench and descended into its dark depths, where the cold water and strange noises disturbed the Doomsday Mist and threatened his mind.
• Li Qing spotted a pale, mask-like presence following him and drove it away with calamity qi.
• Li Qing sensed a huge, invisible Anomaly and fled while laying a trail of calamity qi to draw it toward danger.
• The Anomaly pursued Li Qing through the trench, and eerie white mist suddenly formed around it.

Li Qing descended through the abyss beneath Cloud Dream Marsh, passed through a strange mist, and followed an icy current into a cavern filled with the aura of logic. At the passage’s end, he saw a colossal, face-scaled serpent glide through the darkness of what seemed to be another realm.

• Li Qing used Calamity Qi to destroy the invisible Anomaly pursuing him, then continued descending into the narrowing gorge.
• Li Qing passed through the white mist at the gorge floor and found pale sand covered with humanlike faces.
• Li Qing followed the current into a dark cave where he sensed an increasingly strong aura of logic and felt unseen eyes watching him.
• After seven or eight days of travel, Li Qing reached a massive opening from which endless water poured.
• Li Qing saw a colossal serpent-like creature covered in scales shaped like twisted faces and wondered whether the darkness beyond was another realm.

Li Qing entered the passage beneath Cloud Dream Marsh and discovered that it led to a sea of the Otherworld whose logic transformed anything that entered it into an anomaly. After recording what he learned, he identified a possible route for entering foreign realms and found the location of the second Seal of Heaven, then sent Shadow Paper Dolls to investigate.

• Li Qing watched a gigantic, logic-filled creature pass the cave entrance and observed the dangerous sea of anomalies beyond it.
• Li Qing entered the Otherworld sea, where its logic warped his Divine Body and invaded his mind, forcing him to withdraw.
• Li Qing recorded that the underwater passage beneath Cloud Dream Marsh led to the Sea of Otherworld and learned that only powerful beings able to resist its logic could preserve themselves there.
• Li Qing theorized that the Southern Frontier underground caverns might allow life to pass between realms more easily, but decided to search for the hidden seal first.
• Li Qing mapped Cloud Dream Marsh, used the Jade Tablet to locate nine possible entrances to the Seal of Heaven, and sent nine Shadow Paper Dolls to search for its stone steles.

Li Qing investigated a Heaven-Sealing Array hidden inside an underwater stone hall and learned that its Seal of Heaven could trap only one Wisdom Logic Anomaly at a time. He discovered a skeleton bearing a new cultivation art, and the Jade Tablet recorded the Present Immortal Body and Past, Present, and Future Three-Life Fate Body.

• The Shadow Paper Dolls unearthed nine steles and traced their symbols, opening a vortex inside a concealed underwater mountain.
• Li Qing entered the stone hall and descended to the vortex on its lowest level.
• The Enemy of Heaven confirmed that the Seal of Heaven could not trap three Wisdom Logic Anomalies at once, so Li Qing concluded he would need multiple seals at different locations.
• Li Qing found a human skeleton on an altar, covered in connected characters, and copied the characters with his main body.
• The Jade Tablet reconstructed the Present Immortal Body and Past, Present, and Future Three-Life Fate Body cultivation arts.