Recaps

Li Qing completed the Starry Sky Earth Dragon Configuration, creating a Bagua world that strengthened his combat power, then began refining the Nine Heavens Star River Tribulation-Avoiding Grotto-Heaven. As he traced its curse formation, a storm of lightning struck Myriad Dragon Mountain, and the Bagua world absorbed the thunder.

• Li Qing used ink and parasol wood to make 365 feng shui pillars, positioned them around the mountain, and linked them into the Starry Sky Earth Dragon Configuration.
• Li Qing placed a meteorite at the configuration’s core, drawing in the mountains’ momentum and starlight to form an Earth Dragon and an independent Eight Trigrams world around the mountain.
• Li Qing prepared a Battle Soul Puppet as a final safeguard and combined his materials into Star River Divine Liquid.
• Li Qing used the liquid to trace the Nine Immortals Mystic Spirit Supreme Galaxy Star Curse across the mountaintop.
• Thunderclouds and lightning swept over Myriad Dragon Mountain as Li Qing continued the formation, and the Bagua world drew the lightning into its thunder region.

Li Qing used the lightning tribulation to nourish the earth veins beneath Myriad Dragon Mountain while completing the Divine Curse. A mysterious Daoist discovered the storm and sent firebirds and a fiery clone into the mountain to investigate what he believed was a treasure.

• Li Qing’s formation gathered the tribulation’s lightning and infused its power into the earth dragon.
• A mysterious Daoist sensed the unusual storm around Myriad Dragon Mountain and sent a firebird through the gray mist.
• The firebird reached a hidden volcanic region and was destroyed, prompting the Daoist to send two more firebirds toward the lightning’s source.
• One of the new firebirds crossed the lightning barrier into a rain-filled world, and the Daoist suspected a supreme treasure was emerging there.
• The Daoist left his true body outside the mountain and sent a fiery clone into the mist while Li Qing continued inscribing the Divine Curse.

Li Qing finished writing the Nine Immortals Mystic Spirit Supreme Galaxy Star Curse while Moonlight Daoist repeatedly failed to penetrate the feng shui formation. Moonlight Daoist resisted the influence urging him toward danger, and the completed curse began merging with Myriad Dragon Mountain’s earth veins.

• Li Qing identified the intruder as Moonlight Daoist and judged that his Karma Fire incarnation could be trapped.
• Moonlight Daoist sent his Karma Fire incarnation through the lightning and into the feng shui formation, where the Eight Trigrams world swept him into its water marsh.
• Li Qing continued writing the curse by hand, while Moonlight Daoist’s incarnations repeatedly exhausted themselves without escaping the formation.
• After three days, Li Qing completed the incantations and used up the Star River Divine Liquid as the lightning intensified into violet bolts.
• Moonlight Daoist considered entering with his true body but chose to leave, resisting an invisible influence that stirred his greed.
• The completed Nine Immortals Mystic Spirit Supreme Galaxy Star Curse emitted divine radiance and began merging with the earth veins.

Li Qing completed the Nine Heavens Star River Tribulation-Avoiding Grotto-Heaven and hid it from the pursuing Karma Fire Daoist and Moonlight Daoist, then secured three Flesh Seeds inside as backups. After his soul-form stabilized, he prepared to break through to the divine soul realm and chose the Way of Changes to govern his spell systems.

• Li Qing completed the grotto-heaven by drawing in Myriad Dragon Mountain’s ley lines, causing the Eight Trigrams World to collapse.
• Karma Fire Daoist’s incarnation tried to seize the grotto-heaven, but Li Qing hid it in the starlight; Moonlight Daoist withdrew after sensing Li Qing’s power.
• Li Qing’s Myriad Shadow Paper Dolls brought three Flesh Seeds to the grotto-heaven, where he stored them with essence stones as backups.
• Two days later, Li Qing’s soul-form stabilized, and he reviewed the steps required to form a divine soul.
• Li Qing decided to make the Way of Changes the core spell that would harmonize and govern his spell systems.

Li Qing began integrating the Way of Changes spell into his soul image, using its radiance as the center for a unified system of spells. He endured intense soul pain as the spell’s information merged into the radiance, and realized the process would take more than ten days.

• Li Qing decided to use the Way of Changes as the center for integrating his spells into a single system.
• Li Qing used his Spirit Awareness to draw the stars and golden vortex of the Way of Changes into his soul image.
• The stars fused with the radiance, producing powerful fluctuations that shook Li Qing’s True Soul.
• Li Qing endured severe pain as the spell’s Principle reshaped his soul in preparation for forming a Principle seed.
• After the pain subsided, Li Qing concluded that he would need to integrate the spell gradually over more than ten days.

Li Qing took a break from cultivation by fishing and drinking tea in the rain on Cloud Dream Marsh, where he met a mysterious, powerful man. After the encounter, Li Qing’s Record Book revealed that the man was a person without destiny and a true longevity cultivator.

• Li Qing relaxed on Cloud Dream Marsh, fishing and sipping tea as he recovered from the strain of recent cultivation.
• Li Qing caught a small white fish and released it back into the lake.
• A wild-looking young master approached aboard a painted barge, and he and Li Qing sensed something unusual about each other before parting without becoming acquainted.
• Namo Nirvana Light Buddha watched the growing disorder in the heavenly secrets above Qing City and considered drawing the hidden figure out by intervening.
• Li Qing consulted the Record Book and learned that the mysterious man was a person without destiny and a true longevity cultivator.

Li Qing used Way of Changes to identify the veiled figure who had presided over the Investiture of the Gods, but the figure’s pleasure boat vanished before he could pursue him. Back at his secret base, Li Qing fused all nine innate spells into his True Soul, awakening a growing seed structure of principles that caused him immense pain.

• Li Qing activated Way of Changes and saw that the veiled figure was the one who had presided over the Investiture of the Gods.
• Li Qing found the pleasure boat had disappeared and returned to his secret base, wary of Qing City’s growing strangeness.
• Li Qing fused Heavens Civilization Torrent with Way of Changes, and their resonance revealed the first signs of a seed structure of principles.
• Li Qing fused Invincible Human Dao Dharma Body and then his remaining innate spells into the cosmic starry sky within his True Soul.
• Li Qing endured extreme pain as a network-like sphere began to emerge within his True Soul.

Li Qing stabilized his True Soul after integrating nine innate spells, then began absorbing spells from the Myriad Spell Divine Banner into his spiritual radiance. When the forty-ninth spell fused with the mysterious structure in his True Soul, a violent resonance left him in unbearable pain and threatened to overwhelm him.

• Li Qing examined the rudimentary sphere of threads in his True Soul and realized integrating the nine innate spells had shaken its foundation.
• After pausing to let his True Soul stabilize, Li Qing tested his five great spells and found that he could control powers within three zhang and influence, but not tear, spacetime.
• Three days later, Li Qing used the Myriad Spell Divine Banner to begin integrating spells, starting with the Wish Spell and the Myriad Shadow Spell.
• Li Qing continued integrating spells, each one adding a line to the structure in his True Soul, until the forty-ninth triggered an immense resonance.
• Li Qing's True Soul trembled violently under the pain, and he feared it could no longer bear the strain.

Li Qing reached a bottleneck after merging forty-nine spells into his true soul, then used the Record Book to find a route to the Dark Side for gathering Essence Stones. He crossed a spacetime passage into an underground cavern, where a monstrous creature approached as he prepared to fight.

• A mysterious force attacked Li Qing’s unstable true soul, but the radiance of his Heavens Civilization Torrent repelled it.
• After containing the forty-ninth spell, Li Qing concluded that his true soul needed time to stabilize before it could absorb more spells.
• Li Qing consulted the Record Book and chose a spacetime rift in Clear Breeze Gorge leading to the Dark Side as a safer place to collect Essence Stones.
• Li Qing’s Divine Body entered the rift and endured a day-long journey through the spacetime passage.
• Li Qing emerged in a dark-red underground cavern, where a many-eyed insect-like creature charged toward him, and he covered the area with Mist.

Li Qing hunted Anomalies in a dark crimson canyon, collecting Disaster- and Fierce-grade Essence Stones with ease. At the canyon’s end, he discovered an ancient palace marked “Demon Dragon Hall.”

• Li Qing killed a Disaster-class Anomaly in the Mist and stored its Essence Stone.
• Li Qing entered a vast dark crimson valley and began hunting Anomalies with help from his Myriad Shadow Paper Dolls.
• Li Qing ambushed and killed a massive Anomaly made of human faces, earning a Fierce-grade Essence Stone.
• Li Qing harvested four Disaster-grade and thirteen Fierce-grade Essence Stones during his hunt.
• Li Qing reached the end of the canyon and found a sprawling palace bearing the plaque “Demon Dragon Hall.”

Li Qing explored Demon Dragon Hall and used its books to learn that it had once been the estate of an ancient demonic dragon Immortality cultivator, abandoned during a widespread Anomaly attack. After finding few supplies in the ruined palace, he set off for a nearby city in search of more ruins and resources.

• Li Qing entered the ruined Demon Dragon Hall and found records and books in its halls and residences.
• The Jade Tablet revealed that Demon Dragon Hall had once flourished as the estate of Demon Dragon, an Immortality cultivator, until Anomalies overwhelmed the region and forced its inhabitants to retreat.
• Li Qing recorded books and cultivation techniques throughout the palaces, learning about the resources and history of the area.
• Li Qing searched Demon Dragon's empty palace and concluded that most supplies had been evacuated before the estate fell.
• Li Qing headed toward a nearby city associated with another Longevity cultivator, passing through land where Anomalies fought and slaughtered one another.

Li Qing crossed the dark side, hunted Anomalies, and entered a ruined city once built for cultivators. After avoiding its mysterious domains, he searched a bookshop and gathered information about the city, while an Empty Rank Anomaly remained somewhere within it.

• Li Qing hunted more than a hundred Fierce Rank and Disaster Rank Anomalies and reflected on the Six Paths and Eight Immortals holding back the threats to humanity.
• Li Qing reached a ruined black-rock city and sensed that an Empty Rank Anomaly ruled it.
• Li Qing used Gap Walking to conceal himself and explore the city without alerting its Anomalies.
• Li Qing avoided a pagoda that contained a maze-like alternate-dimensional space and an ornate hall where a fairy maiden's music held cultivators spellbound.
• Li Qing sent Shadow Paper Dolls into a ruined bookshop, copied its books, and reviewed information about the city.

Li Qing uncovered how powerful cultivators harvested logic from those who followed their lineages, and realized Wang Riyue might be under surveillance. While searching Immortal City, Li Qing found an underground warehouse, where he opened a box and was surprised by its contents.

• Li Qing inferred that ancient Longevity Realm cultivators had likely been consumed by powerful beings seeking to advance.
• Li Qing read the Jade Tablet's restored secrets and learned how Tribulation Realm cultivators used logic seeds to harvest new surface-level logic, while those who lacked the Five Divine Treasuries risked falling into Anomalies.
• Li Qing concluded that Wang Riyue's cultivation methods might let the Six Paths and Eight Immortals watch him, and resolved to find a way to warn him.
• Li Qing killed his one hundred and twenty-eighth Fierce-class Anomaly while searching the ruined city.
• Li Qing found a concealed stairway beneath a palace and entered an underground warehouse covered in flesh-like matter.
• Li Qing pulled open a box in the warehouse and was surprised by what he found.

Li Qing discovered an Otherworld Meteorite in the Dark Side before escaping a city overrun by a Death-grade Anomaly. Back in the human world, he integrated all three hundred and sixty-five spells into his True Soul, which began to tremble at its limit as pain and hallucinations threatened to overwhelm him.

• Li Qing found and sealed an Otherworld Meteorite whose dangerous power could be refined into a Dao Artifact using logic.
• A Death-grade Anomaly emerged in the city, spreading multicolored spores that parasitized Anomalies, and Li Qing fled beyond its territory.
• Li Qing hunted Anomalies across the Dark Side, gathering two hundred Fierce-grade Essence Stones and fifty Disaster Essence Stones before returning to the human world.
• Li Qing resumed cultivating and integrated the Compendium of Worldly Spells into his True Soul, reaching all three hundred and sixty-five spells.
• Li Qing's True Soul shook at its limit as unbearable pain, hallucinations, and a mysterious sphere's radiance accompanied the transformation.

Li Qing awakened the embryonic Principle of Civilization, which could absolutely restrain anyone whose information he fully understood, and began feeding it Essence Stones. He then turned to uncovering who had secretly tampered with the blood sacrifice and teleportation formations, using the strengthened Way of Changes to investigate.

• Li Qing formed the embryonic Principle of Civilization and realized it could evolve into a power that countered an opponent once he grasped all their information.
• The emergence of the principle sent a mysterious fluctuation across the Nine Provinces Four Regions, alarming powerful figures.
• Li Qing fed the principle-seed two hundred Fierce-grade and fifty Disaster-grade Essence Stones over three days, but its central radiance only doubled.
• Li Qing sent his Divine Body to the Dark Side to gather more Essence Stones while his true body reviewed his plans for Sky Azure City, Qing City, and Quicksand City.
• Li Qing deduced that an unknown person had secretly tampered with the blood sacrifice and teleportation formations, and decided to identify them before acting further.
• Li Qing entered the Principle of Civilization with Way of Changes, whose power the embryonic principle-seed greatly strengthened.

Li Qing used the Way of Changes to discover that a mysterious golden-lit outsider had found and tampered with his hidden teleportation formation in Sky Azure City. Meanwhile, the Six Paths and Eight Immortals sensed a new logic capable of reaching Underlying Logic and began to suspect Li Qing or the outsider, as Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord revealed that White Demon Daoist had died in a Death Cavern.

• Li Qing used the Way of Changes to glimpse a future in which three cities were destroyed and his Present, Past, and Future Bodies were transformed.
• Li Qing saw a golden-lit figure discover his hidden teleportation Formation Banner within a blood-sacrifice formation in Sky Azure City, and realized the outsider had interfered with his plans.
• The Six Paths and Eight Immortals gathered and discussed sensing a newly born logic that threatened their lives.
• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha suggested that someone had formed a nascent Principle Seed Structure, likely either the outsider or Li Qing.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord suspected Li Qing, while Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord reported that White Demon Daoist had died in a Death Cavern after collecting blood essence from the Blood Sea.

The Six Paths and Eight Immortals suspected Li Qing was gathering resources to form a Principle Seed and planned to hunt him at three cities while searching the heavenly secrets for clues. Li Qing detected their calculations and realized they were looking for him.

• The Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord warned that Li Qing might soon face his Heart Demon Outer Dao Tribulation and need a major event to gain Qi Fate.
• The Haoran Sage identified Sky Azure City, Qing City, and Quicksand City as likely sites of Li Qing’s tribulation, and the immortals assigned guards to the cities and the Wisdom Logic Anomalies.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord proposed tracking Li Qing by calculating unusual losses of Fierce and Disaster-level Anomalies and their Essence Stones.
• The Eight Immortals joined forces to search the heavenly secrets for information about Anomalies and Essence Stones.
• Li Qing sensed their calculations through the Way of Changes, cautiously examined what they were searching, and realized they suspected him.

Li Qing learned that the Six Paths and Eight Immortals had identified him as the likely source of a new power capable of becoming underlying logic, so he recalled his Divine Body and fled before their search could reach him. He continued gathering Essence Stones while the immortals realized he could anticipate their movements and began reconsidering where he was hiding.

• Li Qing discovered that the Six Paths and Eight Immortals were searching for places where Anomalies or Essence Stones had sharply decreased, and suspected they were tracking him.
• Li Qing recalled his Divine Body from the Dark Side with its newly gathered Essence Stones, narrowly avoiding eight figures who devastated the area moments after it escaped.
• The Supreme Yin Daoist searched a canyon in the world of the living, but found no trace of Li Qing; one of Li Qing's Shadow Paper Dolls was destroyed in the Daoist's darkness.
• Li Qing moved his cultivation forward while his Divine Body summoned and killed an Anomaly in a Dragon Province valley, obtaining a Fierce-grade Essence Stone.
• The eight figures concluded that Li Qing had escaped just before they arrived and could monitor their movements, while Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha reconsidered whether Li Qing had gone to Qing City.

Li Qing refined teleportation arrays and used feng shui to create a concealed energy source connected to the Seal of Heaven. He sent his Divine Body into Qing City to locate the Evil Spirit Society’s sacrificial formation, while powerful beings watched for his next move.

• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord ordered the immortals to watch all three Seal of Heaven locations and investigate Essence Stones linked to Fierce- and Disaster-level anomalies.
• The Wisdom Logic Anomalies suspected Li Qing had harvested anomalies and warned their organizations to be cautious.
• Li Qing gathered materials and refined three teleportation arrays to send arriving Wisdom Logic Anomalies into the Seal of Heaven.
• Li Qing used a feng shui array hidden in an underground water vein near the Seal of Heaven to build a concealed energy source.
• Li Qing sent his disguised Divine Body into Qing City to search for the Evil Spirit Society’s sacrificial formation, following information from the Jade Tablet.
• The Divine Body reached an ordinary residence where a woman and her child remained while the man of the house was away.

Li Qing completed Qing City's teleportation arrays and found Phoenix Spring as the hidden site for the Phoenix Soaring Heaven Array. He connected the array to the True Dragon Soaring Cloud Array and prepared a concealed link to a blood sacrifice flag, leaving the final connection for the moment of activation.

• Li Qing used the Eye of Reality and Illusion and his spells to attach a tiny array flag to the concealed blood sacrifice grand array without triggering its protections.
• After three days, Li Qing finished the arrays in Qing City and searched for a safe place to establish the Phoenix Soaring Heaven Array.
• Li Qing identified Phoenix Spring, a feng shui acupoint hidden beneath the city, and entered the well in the abandoned house.
• Li Qing set up the Phoenix Soaring Heaven Array at the bottom of the well, where a phantom phoenix began gathering power from the True Dragon Soaring Cloud Array in Cloud Dream Marsh.
• Li Qing extended a concealed restriction toward the blood sacrifice array flag above the well, but postponed connecting it until just before activation.

Li Qing completed the feng shui arrays in three cities and used a Record Book to find places that could hide him from Immortal Realm-level powers. He entered the tunnels beneath Quicksand City and stepped through a spacetime passage into an unknown region.

• Li Qing finished the arrays, placed 1,095 Myriad Shadow Paper Dolls at their nodes, and arranged to replenish the copies every three days so they could watch for tampering.
• Li Qing searched the Record Book and identified hidden feng shui sites in Qing City and Sky Azure City, plus shifting tunnels beneath Quicksand City, as potential refuges.
• Li Qing traveled to Quicksand City and sent Myriad Shadow Paper Dolls through the underground passages to search for a suitable route.
• After descending more than thirty zhang, Li Qing put on the Heaven-Shrouding Divine Robe and the Unmemorable Hat as he explored passages distorted by spacetime fluctuations.
• Li Qing marked a passage with the robe and hat, concealed himself with an Invisibility spell, and crossed through the spacetime boundary into an unknown region.

Li Qing searched for a stable place near the Tribulation, repeatedly losing Divine Bodies in short-lived time projections. He found a passage to a dark world where logic changed visitors into flesh-and-blood beings, and fled when a creature pursued him to the cave entrance.

• Li Qing discovered that a cave of strange pustules lay in an illusory future and watched his Divine Body perish when the time projection collapsed.
• Li Qing created a new Divine Body and continued searching near Sand Province, finding that most regions were brief time projections or paths away from the Tribulation.
• Li Qing sent a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll through a black-covered cave entrance and found a vast, dark world filled with dangerous creatures and stars that radiated power.
• Li Qing entered the dark world and found that its logic stripped away external-projection spells, leaving him reliant on his flesh-and-blood body.
• Li Qing witnessed a humanoid monster kill and devour a spider-like creature before retreating from another predator that struck the cave entrance and could not pass through.

Li Qing searched Sky Azure City's underground water veins for the hidden Seal of Heaven treasure site while Yuan Zhihui investigated the same network. Li Qing found the treasure acupoint and began preparing a formation to open it, but first planned to draw the other cultivators away.

• Li Qing examined a spacetime passage that he intended to use as a refuge for his future body's tribulation, then traveled to Sky Azure City.
• Li Qing disguised himself and entered the city's underground water veins, sending Myriad Shadow Paper Dolls to map the network.
• Yuan Zhihui, now the Buddhist Sect's Wisdom Bodhisattva, searched the water veins for the Seal of Heaven and suspected the prophetic dreams concealed a conspiracy.
• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet and his completed map to locate the treasure acupoint hidden in earth between the water veins.
• Li Qing decided to divert cultivators from the underground veins and drew an Acupoint-Pointing Formation around the site.

Li Qing used prophetic nightmares to distract cultivators while activating the Acupoint-Pointing Formation beneath Sky Azure City and entering a hidden passage. The Six Paths and Eight Immortals agreed to use the world’s power to purge their enemies, as the seal holding Heaven appeared close to breaking.

• Li Qing sent new nightmares to residents of three cities, showing terrifying beings breaking free and Anomalies destroying the cities.
• Cultivators monitored the awakened dreamers while Yuan Zhihui returned to Sky Azure City to examine one of them.
• Li Qing activated the Acupoint-Pointing Formation beneath the city, entered a black passage, and left behind a subtle change in the water veins.
• News of the prophetic dreams spread, alarming mortals and convincing cultivators that Heaven’s seal was nearing its end.
• The Six Paths and Eight Immortals agreed to mobilize the power of the world for a great purge and to crush the Seal of Heaven.
• Eight Anomalies discussed the seal’s fluctuations and prepared for the Six Paths and Eight Immortals to intervene.

Li Qing secretly mapped the Earth God Feng Shui Formation beneath Qing City and learned that it was designed to nurture an Earth God using the feng shui momentum of an entire province. After studying the Jade Tablet’s restored information, he found a way to enter and leave the formation.

• The Anomalies agreed that only three of them would descend and ordered them to leave linked coordinates so they could retreat if Six Paths and Eight Immortals mobilized the world's origin power.
• Li Qing used the Acupoint-Pointing Stone to obtain the original stone of the Acupoint-Pointing Formation and passed it to his past body.
• Li Qing traveled to Qing City, entered an earth vein, and traced the concealed network of veins surrounding the city.
• Li Qing used a feng shui nail to reveal and record fragments of the hidden formation beneath Qing City.
• The Jade Tablet identified the formation as an Earth God Feng Shui Formation that used a province's land to nurture an Earth God.
• Li Qing studied the restored information and found a way to enter and leave the formation.