Recaps

Li Qing followed a passage deep underground, where geomagnetic force interfered with magical power and luminous caverns housed strange creatures. He hunted hundreds of them as he continued along the route indicated by the Jade Tablet, leaving the underground ecosystem under investigation.

• Li Qing mapped three descending paths and chose the central passage toward Earth's Soul.
• Li Qing descended into the underground fissure and encountered geomagnetic force that disrupted magical power.
• Li Qing entered a luminous cavern, killed a human-faced creature, and collected its Curse-Grade Essence Stone.
• Dozens of similar creatures gathered, but Li Qing swiftly killed them and took their Essence Stones.
• Li Qing traveled over thirty li through the cavern, killed more than two hundred strange creatures—including a Disaster-grade one—and realized they formed an ecosystem.

Li Qing followed an underground river into a vast, thriving world and discovered a hidden city protected by a feng shui formation. He reached the city walls and prepared to enter by following people returning from a hunt.

• Li Qing drifted downstream to an enormous underground lake beneath a ceiling of glowing moss and found a normal forest filled with plants and animals.
• Li Qing spotted a youth hunting a scaled leopard-like beast and followed him through the forest.
• The youth opened a vine-covered cave entrance with a token and passed through a water curtain guarded by a feng shui formation, while Li Qing followed unseen.
• Li Qing saw a hidden city surrounded by fields and ringed by waterfalls, and sensed that the place might be connected to the ancient era.
• Li Qing used Shadow Paper Dolls to hide among returning hunters outside the city walls so he could follow them inside.

Li Qing entered Ningjiao Waterfall City and learned how its Human Dao Forbidden Law, Feng Shui Masters, and Body Tempering Art protected its people. After recording an improved version of the cultivation method, he examined the city’s organized survival system and considered how it might help humanity resist the powers controlling the Nine Provinces Four Regions.

• The city’s logic-level defenses destroyed Li Qing’s Shadow Paper Dolls, so he brainwashed the hunter Huang Wei to learn about the underground fortresses.
• Li Qing learned that the city’s Human Dao Forbidden Law suppressed supernatural powers, while residents relied on Body Tempering and Feng Shui for protection.
• Li Qing recorded the Body Tempering Art, which the Jade Tablet refined into the Human Dao Body Tempering Art, and assessed its resource demands and potential for creating vast armies.
• Li Qing controlled Huang Wei as he entered Ningjiao Waterfall City, where residents trained from childhood and hunters brought prey to a communal warehouse for processing.

After surveying Waterfall City and learning about its dangers and isolated city-state system, Li Qing decided to contact its rulers and discuss a deal. He left them with a perfected body-tempering manual, shocking the Waterfall City Lord and Grand Wizard.

• Li Qing used Huang Wei’s memories to learn that Waterfall City faced repeated Anomaly invasions and that only three underground cities were known.
• Li Qing decided to contact the underground rulers and returned to the passage to announce himself to the Waterfall City Lord as Li Wuming.
• The Waterfall City Lord and Grand Wizard put Waterfall City on alert and opened the waterfall barrier, hoping to lure Li Qing into their territory.
• Li Qing entered the city, rose to the wall, and asked the Waterfall City Lord to discuss a deal in private.
• Li Qing presented the Waterfall City Lord with a booklet titled Human Dao Body Tempering Art, and both the City Lord and Grand Wizard were astonished by its quality.

Li Qing won the trust of the great shaman and the lord of Waterfall City by sharing the Human Dao Body Tempering Art and a book on feng shui, then proposed that they build underground strength to resist the Immortal Path. They agreed to cooperate and brought him to a sealed chamber containing their collected knowledge.

• Li Qing explained how the Human Dao Body Tempering Art could help the people of Waterfall City cultivate faster and more efficiently.
• Li Qing told the great shaman and the lord of Waterfall City about the surface world's chaos and the Six Paths Investiture of Gods.
• Li Qing proposed that they develop feng shui and blood-and-qi cultivation together, eventually building strength to resist the Immortal Path.
• Li Qing gave the great shaman a book called Feng Shui, and the great shaman and the lord of Waterfall City agreed to work with him.
• The great shaman and the lord of Waterfall City led Li Qing to a sealed underground chamber containing their records and cultivation knowledge.

Li Qing studied the underground cities’ records and discovered a theory for combining feng shui with body tempering. Meanwhile, the High Wizard and Waterfall City Lord resolved to accept his help cautiously while continuing their Kindling Plan.

• Li Qing asked the High Wizard and Waterfall City Lord to leave him alone so he could gather information from the library.
• The High Wizard concluded that Li Qing was a powerful cultivator with almost no Aberrant Contamination and might help underground humanity resist the coming upheaval.
• The High Wizard and Waterfall City Lord agreed to gain as much knowledge from Li Qing as possible, spread discoveries to other cities, and preserve humanity by dividing and migrating deeper underground.
• Li Qing collected the library’s books into the Jade Tablet, enriching his Way of Changes with vast amounts of knowledge.
• Li Qing found a theory proposing that feng shui formations within the body could transform blood-and-qi power into natural forces, and he recognized it as a way to grasp the world’s logic.

Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to restore underground cultivation knowledge, producing a Feng Shui Body Tempering Art, feng shui manuals, and medicinal bath prescriptions. He presented these breakthroughs to the Waterfall City Lord and the Grand Wizard, who agreed to formally ally with him to counterattack the surface.

• Li Qing learned that the Jade Tablet had corrected flawed cultivation methods and found that feng shui body tempering avoided the failures of other paths.
• Li Qing organized more than thirty medicinal bath prescriptions and restored underground feng shui formations and the Human Path Forbidden Law.
• Li Qing concluded that combining feng shui and body tempering could help underground experts rival Spirit Consciousness Realm cultivators and eventually create a new cultivation system.
• Li Qing gave the Waterfall City Lord and the Grand Wizard three books containing the restored techniques and proposed an alliance to counterattack the surface.
• The Waterfall City Lord and the Grand Wizard accepted Li Qing's proposal and formally agreed to ally with him.

Li Qing left Waterfall City to face its crisis alone, urging its people to rely on themselves. The city rapidly strengthened its forces and feng shui formation, then joined together to kill the Extinction-class Anomaly that threatened them.

• Li Qing refused to resolve Waterfall City's Anomaly crisis for the tribe, telling the Waterfall City Lord and High Shaman to overcome it themselves.
• Li Qing left behind an incarnation in a black-robed paper effigy and departed from the underground city.
• The Waterfall City Lord sealed the passages and ordered the city's people to cultivate new body-tempering methods while the High Shaman advanced the feng shui path.
• Over half a month, Waterfall City greatly increased its strength, and the Waterfall City Lord and High Shaman completed major breakthroughs.
• The High Shaman used the city's feng shui nodes to confine the Anomaly as the people poured their vitality and blood into the formation.
• The city burned the Anomaly to ashes and claimed its Essence Stone, celebrating its first victory over an Extinction-level Anomaly through its own strength.

Li Qing discovered that White Demon Daoist had found the Blood Ocean, but his vision showed that an unseen demonic immortal would kill anyone who tried to claim its blood essence. He planned to use the Death Cavern’s lethal Land of Death against White Demon Daoist and waited near the Blood Sea as White Demon Daoist flew over it.

• Li Qing learned through his Myriad Shadow Paper Doll that White Demon Daoist had found the Blood Ocean and traveled through the rock to investigate.
• Li Qing saw Anomalies perish in the Blood Ocean and deduced that it produced the blood essence needed for the Vitality and Blood Divine Treasury.
• Li Qing used Way of Changes to glimpse a future in which a demonic immortal killed him and destroyed the Battle Soul Puppet when he tried to take the blood essence.
• Li Qing decided to lure White Demon Daoist toward the Land of Death, where fear and lingering beyond ten breaths could bring silent death.
• Li Qing returned to the Blood Sea entrance and waited as White Demon Daoist flew over the Blood Ocean and a three-headed, six-armed blood creature attacked him.

Li Qing used repeated calculations to learn how the Demonic Path immortal watched the White Demon Daoist and prepared a trap. He lured the Daoist toward the Land of Death, where the Daoist transformed and charged into the cave.

• The White Demon Daoist collected his thirty-eighth crimson crystal and resolved to gather enough to perfect the Blood-Qi Divine Treasury.
• Li Qing discovered that the Demonic Path immortal checked on the White Demon Daoist at intervals and would be alerted if he was killed, so he ruled out a direct attack.
• After waiting ten days, Li Qing sent a disguised, converted Anomaly to steal from the White Demon Daoist and draw him away from the Blood Ocean.
• The White Demon Daoist chased the Anomaly, grew suspicious of its bait, and became more agitated as it led him onward.
• The Anomaly entered the Land of Death, and the White Demon Daoist transformed into a towering, deathly white figure and charged into the cave.

Li Qing used the Way of Changes to deceive the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord after the White Demon Daoist died in the Land of Death. He stole the blood essence from the Daoist’s storage pouch and escaped, but the Devil Lord realized he had been tricked and began investigating the timeline.

• The Anomaly lured the White Demon Daoist into the Land of Death, where its Unmemorable Hat triggered the logic of death and killed him as he tried to flee.
• The Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord investigated the White Demon Daoist’s death while Li Qing used the Way of Changes to plant a misleading revelation of fate.
• Convinced the White Demon Daoist had entered the Land of Death by accident, the Devil Lord withdrew his gaze.
• Li Qing sent a Shadow Paper Doll to steal the Daoist’s storage pouch, took the 365 red-glowing crystals of blood essence, and returned the pouch to the corpse.
• The Devil Lord returned about half an hour later, discovered the blood essence was gone, and began probing the White Demon Daoist’s timeline.

The Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord suspected Li Qing was collecting blood essence and sent the Killing Demon King and Burning Heaven Demon King to watch the underground world's exits. Li Qing anticipated the danger and traveled through a deadly magma sea toward Earth's Soul, reaching an island surrounded by powerful geomagnetic auroras.

• The Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord failed to uncover the secret behind the divination and suspected Li Qing was gathering resources for the Five Divine Treasuries.
• The Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord sent the Killing Demon King and Burning Heaven Demon King to wait at Heavenly Kun Mountain and Chaotic Stone Mountain for Li Qing.
• Li Qing realized the Demonic Path immortal might be watching the exits and decided to prepare before leaving the underground world.
• Li Qing followed the location records from Waterfall City toward Earth's Soul and entered a cavern filled with magma and destructive geomagnetic auroras.
• A Disaster-level Anomaly attacked Li Qing from the magma, but he dodged it and continued through the auroras.
• Li Qing reached the depths of the lava sea and found an island enveloped in auroras that formed a natural feng shui configuration.

Li Qing found the Earthfire Immortal Light Formation and discovered that Earth's Soul lay on the island it protected. He evaded the nine-headed fire creature, studied the aurora barrier, and entered the island, where strange luminous plants grew and geomagnetic power weakened mana.

• Li Qing recognized the Earthfire Immortal Light Formation and realized Earth's Soul was on the island.
• A nine-headed fire creature emerged from the magma and attacked Li Qing with flames as it guarded the island.
• Li Qing withdrew his external power, entered the magma, and approached the island without alerting the creature.
• Li Qing studied the aurora barrier's patterns and used a restriction passage to cross it safely.
• Li Qing entered the island and found mysterious crimson luminous plants amid geomagnetic power that greatly weakened mana.

Li Qing explored a hidden island and met a Tribulation Realm cultivator who had lived underground for tens of thousands of years. After Li Qing described the Six Paths Investiture of Gods, the cultivator judged that the plan to establish Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and a Celestial Court might succeed, but warned that contact between the high-dimensional and low-dimensional worlds would cause an impact.

• Li Qing explored the island’s safe, fiery ecosystem and reached a thatched cottage at its center.
• A mysterious red-haired man emerged and invited Li Qing to share fruit and wine that cleansed the spirit.
• The man revealed that he was a Tribulation Realm cultivator who had hidden underground for tens of thousands of years to evade evil cultivators.
• Li Qing explained the current state of the outside world, including the Six Paths Investiture of Gods.
• The man said Six Paths and Eight Immortals had wagered the world’s fate on their plan, which might succeed if they could withstand the impact of the high-dimensional and low-dimensional worlds meeting.

Li Qing learned from the Flame God that the Six Paths and Eight Immortals’ plan for Dimensional Ascension could leave humanity vulnerable to terrifying higher-dimensional beings. He recognized that Heavenly Dao Reincarnation had to reach conceptual-logic power to protect the world and began considering how to use the Enemy of Heaven’s seal and the auras of Heaven and the Enemy of Heaven to buy time to grow stronger.

• Li Qing’s investigation identified the mysterious underground figure as the Flame God, an ancient mythological creature born from lava and a survivor of the war against the Immortal Dao.
• The Flame God explained that the Six Paths and Eight Immortals had misjudged the higher-dimensional world, where inhumans served great beings and humans were treated as food and servants.
• The Flame God warned that without Heavenly Dao Reincarnation strong enough to withstand the great beings’ logic, Dimensional Ascension would destroy human civilization and might doom the Six Paths and Eight Immortals.
• Li Qing concluded that Heavenly Dao Reincarnation needed to reach conceptual-logic power and that the world might use the Enemy of Heaven’s seal and the auras of Heaven and the Enemy of Heaven to deter outsiders temporarily.
• Li Qing decided he could not rely on the Six Paths and Eight Immortals and resolved to use the time bought by that deterrence to grow stronger.

Li Qing proposed using Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and the aura of Heaven and the Enemy of Heaven to deter higher-dimensional beings from attacking the Nine Provinces Four Regions. After Flame God revealed clues about a mysterious outsider and the ancient War of Heaven, he led Li Qing to a cavern and offered him the rare Earth's Soul, leaving Li Qing wondering why he was so generous.

• Li Qing asked Flame God about Heaven and the Enemy of Heaven and proposed seizing Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to conceal their world and deter outsiders.
• Flame God realized his memories of a mysterious person from beyond the domain had been altered, and Li Qing used the Record Book to record clues that the person remained in the Nine Provinces Four Regions and sought Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
• Flame God said he had seen the outsider after the War of Heaven, describing a battle among three terrifying beings and the rise of twisted immortal paths afterward.
• Li Qing told Flame God he had come to seek Earth's Soul, and Flame God led him into a cavern beneath his hut.
• Flame God offered Li Qing the Earth's Soul, and Li Qing asked why he was being so generous despite their first meeting.

Li Qing received Earth's Soul from the Flame God, who explained that he was investing in Li Qing because of his fate-free existence and pure immortal Dao. Seeking a way out after ruling out two known passages, Li Qing used the Way of Changes to identify a strange, untraveled route as his best option, then explored its dark entrance with a Shadow Paper Doll.

• The Flame God gave Li Qing Earth's Soul and explained why he regarded him as a promising investment.
• Li Qing and the Flame God parted, with the Flame God saying they might meet again and offering to help if Li Qing achieved his ambition.
• Li Qing ruled out Chaotic Stone Mountain and Heavenly Kun Mountain, then compared three other passages to the surface.
• Li Qing used the Way of Changes to see that the underground river and magma routes ended with his Divine Body being seized, while a third route led to the East Wasteland.
• Li Qing reached the mysterious passage and sent a Shadow Paper Doll through its opening, where it found a world of darkness with only a stretch of rock beneath it.

Li Qing entered the Path of Illusion and Reality, where the trial stripped him of his powers and placed him in a familiar office facing Bloody Mary. He fled down the stairs, hoping to reach safety before she caught him.

• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to learn that the passage contained a dangerous trial and chose to enter it rather than seek another route.
• Li Qing walked through the dark passage until it transformed into an office from his memories, where he realized he had entered a trial centered on Bloody Mary.
• Bloody Mary appeared at the office door, and Li Qing fled through another exit as she pursued him.
• Li Qing raced down the stairwell from the thirteenth floor, hoping to escape the building and reach a crowded area.

Li Qing escaped Bloody Mary by deliberately dying, which transported him to the East Wasteland. There, he began using Wish Spell to stir the seven emotions and six desires in Harmony Kingdom so Humanity's Fate would gather.

• Li Qing fled Bloody Mary through the company lobby and climbed to a rooftop as she pursued him.
• Li Qing leaped from the rooftop, realizing that death was the only way to escape the fixed world's deadly logic.
• Li Qing awoke in a desolate swamp in the East Wasteland and sent a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll away with Earth's Soul.
• Li Qing investigated Harmony Kingdom and learned that Humanity's Fate could be drawn by surges of the seven emotions and six desires.
• Li Qing activated Wish Spell and began intensifying love, joy, anger, fear, and sorrow among the kingdom's people.

Li Qing unleashed the city’s seven emotions and six desires through the Wish Spell, driving its people into madness while he searched for Humanity’s Fate. He continued monitoring and sealing the city as chaos spread among its residents.

• Li Qing’s wishes stirred the city’s emotions, prompting General Sun’s concubine Sanzi to flee to her former lover and a grieving widow to collapse in despair.
• A ronin gave in to his malice and brutally mutilated a commoner.
• Li Qing cast wishes for the six desires, sending nearly everyone in the city—including noble cultivators—into a frenzy.
• Li Qing spread his Spirit Awareness across the city, recorded its condition, and used the Divine Body and Way of Changes to conceal and seal the region.
• People in a restaurant gorged themselves until one man’s stomach burst, while a chef cooked and a brothel dancer performed as others indulged their desires.

Li Qing watched the Harmony Kingdom descend into madness and death, reflecting on how powerful beings could become disasters to weaker ones. He captured Humanity's Fate from the kingdom's accumulated emotions, completing the materials needed to build his Tribulation-Avoiding Grotto-Heaven.

• Li Qing saw the people of the Harmony Kingdom commit horrific acts under the influence of madness and considered how power could itself cause distortion.
• Li Qing concluded that he needed to raise his own logic beyond the logic of karma and time to become safe from Heaven.
• Li Qing used the restriction formation to gather the kingdom's seven passions and six desires into a sphere in the sky.
• After an hour, the Harmony Kingdom's people had all died, and an invisible radiance descended to devour their gathered emotions.
• Li Qing trapped the radiance, Humanity's Fate, with restrictions and Doomsday Mist Extinguishing Transcendence, then seized it in his hand.
• Li Qing recognized that he had gathered all the materials for the Tribulation-Avoiding Grotto-Heaven and completed the safe base's crucial step.

After gathering the materials for the Nine Heavens Star River Tribulation-Avoiding Grotto-Heaven, Li Qing chose Myriad Dragon Mountain as its potential location and began surveying the dangerous terrain. His exploration uncovered a maze of anomalous regions and narrow routes, leaving the mountain’s interior and underground as a formidable natural barrier.

• Li Qing received all the materials and used the Record Book and Jade Tablet to identify Myriad Dragon Mountain as the best site for the grotto-heaven.
• Li Qing sent his Divine Body to Myriad Dragon Mountain to investigate safe routes before beginning the refinement work.
• Li Qing dispatched Shadow Paper Dolls throughout the mountain, losing many as they mapped black-hole-like anomalies and narrow, perilous paths.
• A Shadow Paper Doll reached the mysterious black mountain but found it completely surrounded by black holes, so Li Qing turned to searching underground.
• Li Qing found a fissure and sent Shadow Paper Dolls into it, discovering that anomalies and dead ends also made the underground a dangerous, three-dimensional maze.

Li Qing discovered that the passages beneath Myriad Dragon Mountain shifted over time, mapped their changing layouts, and reached the black mountain’s entrance. After entering one of its black holes, he found a peaceful village whose people were suddenly threatened by an armored cultivator and his demons.

• Li Qing entered a Mist-shrouded Anomaly, but when the passages changed, he was swept into a battlefield and escaped by transforming into strands of desire power.
• Li Qing and the Shadow Paper Dolls surveyed the passages for several days, mapping eight layouts and finding that the passages shifted roughly every one to one and a half hours.
• Li Qing used his findings to reach the foot of the black mountain, where he found eight intertwined black holes and left a coordinate at the safe path’s entrance.
• Li Qing entered the nearest black hole and emerged in a village, where an old man told him that strangers were not welcome.
• An armored cultivator descended from the sky, called the villagers remnants of the dynasty, and unleashed demons throughout the village.

Li Qing entered a death-filled anomaly, where he destroyed a Demonic Path cultivator but was erased by the region’s lethal logic. He moved to a second anomaly, answered its question about how humanity could have won against the Immortal Dao, and awakened the dead general behind it.

• Li Qing used his spells to destroy fiends and dragged the Demonic Path cultivator into the Mist, where he tore him apart.
• The dead villagers formed a black anomaly whose logic disintegrated Li Qing and returned his power of desire to its origin.
• Li Qing concluded that the first anomaly’s logic could not be resisted and moved to a neighboring region.
• A face in the darkness repeatedly asked Li Qing how humanity could achieve victory, and he used the Record Book to recover information about the anomaly.
• Li Qing explained that humanity should have retreated underground, preserved its forces, and developed a cultivation path combining feng shui and qi and blood.
• The face accepted Li Qing’s answer, revealed itself as an aged general, and said that he finally understood why humanity had failed.

After helping a lost soul vanish, Li Qing climbed Black Mountain and discovered an earth vein of immense power. Preparing to refine the Nine Heavens Star River Tribulation-Avoiding Grotto-Heaven, he chose a feng shui formation to guard against heavenly lightning and possible intruders.

• The mysterious old man thanked Li Qing in silence, then shattered into motes of light and disappeared.
• Li Qing climbed Black Mountain and sensed an earth vein powerful enough to rival an immortal’s strength.
• At the summit, Li Qing decided to prepare defenses before refining the Nine Heavens Star River Tribulation-Avoiding Grotto-Heaven.
• Li Qing studied feng shui formations for two days and compared the Starry Sky Earth Dragon Configuration, Myriad Dragons Seizing Pearl Formation, and True Dragon Spirit-Gathering Configuration.
• Li Qing chose the Starry Sky Earth Dragon Configuration, intending to use it to withstand heavenly lightning and subdue potential intruders.