Recaps

Li Qing completed a thirteen-rootstock network within his Divine Soul, then found himself surrounded by a dangerous darkness and fought off waves of grotesque monsters. As countless arms and tentacles overwhelmed his defenses, some proved resistant to his sword light.

• Qi Fate fed the Dao Principle Seed as twelve rootstocks spread through Li Qing’s Divine Soul and formed a network.
• A thirteenth rootstock grew through the center of the network, connecting every rootstock into a complete cycle.
• Li Qing opened his eyes and found himself in a dark, dangerous realm where monsters rushed toward him.
• Li Qing used his five major spells and Sword Pellet to destroy the first wave of monsters and fend off their mental attacks.
• A twisted hand attacked Li Qing from behind, but he froze it with his Mist, shattered its arm, and weakened its remains.
• Many arms and tentacles surged from the darkness, and Li Qing’s sword light blocked them, though some resisted destruction.

Li Qing fought off the Anomaly’s arms and tentacles, then endured its black radiance and hellish flames as the Principle of Civilization helped him resist and analyze its powers. He counterattacked with the Sword Pellet and, despite the giant face appearing unharmed, managed to leave a fine crack in it.

• Li Qing used World-Walking Star-Shifting to strike the arms and tentacles one at a time, destroying those that broke through the sword-light blockade.
• The Principle of Civilization spread into the Sword Pellet, causing its defensive sword light to destroy the approaching limbs and clear the Mist.
• A gigantic humanoid face emerged from the darkness and attacked Li Qing with black radiance, which his defenses and regeneration gradually resisted and analyzed.
• The face surrounded Li Qing with black-red flames that scorched his body and Divine Soul, but the Principle of Civilization and his regenerative abilities gradually suppressed them.
• Li Qing sent the Sword Pellet at the giant face, and although the strike initially appeared to do no damage, a fine crack formed where the sword light hit.

Li Qing escaped the darkness after severing the monster and gained a new understanding of logic through the power of his thirteen Dao roots. The Six Paths and Eight Immortals and the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies recognized his breakthrough and suspected he had escaped their seal, then considered tracking him by watching Essence Stones.

• Li Qing cut the monster's face away, heard mysterious bells approaching, and returned to the normal world before the enormous bell-covered entity arrived.
• Li Qing sensed the ocean of logic surrounding the world and concluded that composite logic could resist the power of singular Logic Relics.
• Li Qing's thirteen Dao roots triggered thunderous dark clouds across the world as his power began evolving toward surface-layer logic.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord showed the others Li Qing's name in the Daoist Sect Register and said he had completed his Dao roots beyond the supreme level.
• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha proposed watching Essence Stones to locate Li Qing as he gathered resources to condense his Primordial Spirit flower manifestation.

The Six Paths and Eight Immortals planned to track Li Qing by watching Primordial Spirit cultivators and the Three Disasters, then discussed how to hunt the remaining Wisdom Logic Anomalies. The five surviving anomalies met, uneasy over their losses, but still did not know the full plan against them.

• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha proposed tracking the Three Disasters and Primordial Spirit cultivators under the Sons of Destiny to find Li Qing.
• Haoran Sage warned that watching Essence Stones would be difficult and urged the immortals to focus on the Three Disasters and Primordial Spirit cultivators.
• The Six Paths and Eight Immortals agreed to monitor cultivators and sent orders to the lower realm.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord proposed searching for the five remaining Wisdom Logic Anomalies and using Logic Relics to lure them into traps, while Haoran Sage cautioned that they would suspect another deception.
• The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies gathered, feared that an unknown force was driving them to their deaths, and discussed what to do next.

The five remaining Wisdom Logic Anomalies agreed to hide, search for the real Seal of Heaven, and unleash a full-scale assault on the Nine Provinces Four Regions. Their Anomalies surged against the defenses while three Immortals guarded the region, and the Haoran Sage warned the others that the enemy had prepared for their pursuit.

• A twisted Wisdom Logic Anomaly argued that the five must survive, find the real Seal of Heaven, and pressure the Six Paths and Eight Immortals with relentless attacks.
• The five remaining Wisdom Logic Anomalies agreed to intensify the search and send every Anomaly against the Nine Provinces Four Regions while they stayed hidden.
• An unseen pulse ordered the Anomalies to abandon their positions and rush toward the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• Three Immortals guarded the region with a vast Network of Radiance of Underlying Logic that killed every Anomaly that touched it.
• Countless Anomalies pierced the essence clouds and flew toward a huge sphere of Radiance between the Bright Side and Dark Side.
• The Haoran Sage told the other Immortals that the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies had driven every Anomaly to attack.

Li Qing began cultivating the Lotus Form of Myriad Dao Civilizations, condensing its first petal and discovering that Xuanyuan Changlong was his fated tribulation. He revised his plans to use the contest of the Children of Destiny to gain Qi Fate, then sent his Divine Body to seek resources and restore his other bodies.

• The Five Immortals agreed to search for traces of the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies for one month before returning.
• Li Qing refined his magical power and traced the Lotus Form of Myriad Dao Civilizations, completing its first petal after a day.
• Li Qing sensed Xuanyuan Changlong as his fated tribulation and planned to support a chosen Child of Destiny, hoping to win the contest and claim its Qi Fate.
• Li Qing reviewed the Jade Tablet and concluded that the eight Immortals' surveillance would make finding a suitable Primordial Dharma Form target difficult.
• Li Qing set a goal to restore his Present Body and Past Body before the Longevity Fruits ripened, then sent resources to the Tribulation-Avoiding Grotto-Heaven and directed his Divine Body toward the Southern Frontier.

Li Qing restored his present self and past self with Essence Stones, then entered the Southern Frontier Grottoes to gather resources for his next plan. After collecting enough stones for their recovery, the Divine Body reached an unknown world beyond a deep rift and created a weakened duplicate of himself.

• Li Qing's present self and past self awakened after absorbing disaster-class Essence Stones, then left Myriad Dragon Mountain and overcame minor tribulations caused by their stay in the Tribulation-Avoiding Grotto-Heaven.
• The Divine Body entered the Southern Frontier caverns in disguise and used the Jade Tablet's map to navigate areas that had become less dangerous.
• Li Qing killed a peak Calamity-grade Anomaly with Formless Sword Qi and collected its Essence Stone.
• Over several days, Li Qing gathered roughly ten Calamity-grade Essence Stones, and a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll carried them to restore the present self and past self.
• Li Qing reached a deep rift leading to an unknown world and used Great Duplication Spell to create a duplicate of his Divine Body with one-tenth of its power.

Li Qing sent a replica down the Southern Frontier Cavern’s black fissure to scout for an escape route and discovered a vast, flesh-covered world beneath it. The replica emerged beside a gigantic mountain of flesh and blood beneath blood-colored clouds, where immense things writhed overhead and red beams destroyed everything they touched.

• Li Qing guided his replica into the fissure, where it encountered savage Anomalies unlike those in the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• The replica found caves carved by a colossal, snake-like Anomaly and avoided provoking the creature.
• Li Qing continued downward past walls of membranes and sinews, where organs and mouths swallowed weaker Anomalies.
• The replica reached the fissure’s bottom and climbed out into a world whose mountain and gravity seemed turned sideways.
• Li Qing saw blood-colored clouds, enormous shapes moving within them, and beams of red light that reduced everything they struck to ash.

Li Qing explored a flesh-filled world governed by rules that prevented flight and required creatures to kill Anomalies, while supernatural powers were heavily weakened. He discovered dangerous webs, contaminated air, and Anomalies with ordinary Essence Stones as he continued gathering information.

• Li Qing sensed the world’s rules: beings could not fly and had to kill other Anomalies at fixed intervals to survive.
• Li Qing descended the mountain and found an invisible web that his weakened Formless Sword Qi could not damage, drawing out a powerful segmented Anomaly.
• Li Qing realized that supernatural powers projected beyond the body were suppressed at least tenfold in the region.
• Li Qing avoided absorbing the evil essence in the air, suspecting it could cause distortion.
• Li Qing used the Great Grappling Technique to crush a small Anomaly and found an ordinary Essence Stone in its body.
• Li Qing absorbed the Essence Stone, while nearby Anomalies devoured the crushed creature’s flesh.

Li Qing explored the bizarre Flesh World beneath the Southern Frontier Grottoes, learned that killing could distort the mind but that his Heavens Civilization Torrent could remove the influence, and identified the Lord of Flesh as the world’s ruler. After recording his findings, he planned to cross the Lord of Flesh’s domain with his Divine Body after the Six Paths Investiture of Gods was complete.

• Li Qing discovered that killing an anomaly brought a mind-twisting aura, but his Heavens Civilization Torrent could strip it away.
• Li Qing traveled more than two thousand li through the Flesh World, finding countless anomalies and populations that reproduced, but no Wisdom Logic Anomaly.
• Li Qing’s Divine Body replica vanished when its time ran out, and his true body recorded the Flesh World’s rules and dangers.
• Li Qing identified the Lord of Flesh as an indescribable existence that cultivated anomalies and devoured those that developed foundational logic.
• Li Qing planned to explore across the Lord of Flesh’s domain with his Divine Body after the Six Paths Investiture of Gods, while keeping his true body safe.

After restoring all three incarnations to their peak, Li Qing devised a six-step strategy to shape the coming wars and position the Fate's Chosen. He also planned how to obtain the Primordial Dharma Forms, leaving Sun Qiankun to coordinate military details as they continued influencing events in secret.

• Li Qing restored the present and past bodies with Calamity-grade Essence Stones and purified their mana, bringing all three incarnations back to their peak.
• Li Qing assessed the Fate's Chosen and planned how to guide their growth while preventing their forces from exhausting one another.
• Li Qing outlined a six-step campaign involving Dragon Province, the three heterodox paths, the major Daoist sects, and an eventual conflict between the Hundred Schools of Thought and the Confucian Sect.
• Li Qing planned to influence commanders and Fate's Chosen to gain access to the Primordial Dharma Forms of the five great Dao sects.
• Li Qing assigned Sun Qiankun to handle military details and considered using Zhuge Shenji and Wang Riyue to influence Nangong Haoran.

Li Qing and Sun Qiankun coordinated a plan to steer the coming Six Paths Investiture of Gods while Sun Qiankun secretly expanded his control over Pan Chengfeng’s forces. They prepared to prevent the Daoist Sects from uniting with the three heterodox paths as the war approached.

• Sun Qiankun used Li Qing’s intelligence network to plant agents across major factions and gain control of many of Pan Chengfeng’s officers and Dao soldiers.
• Sun Qiankun dismissed his attendants and spoke with Li Qing through a Heart-Linking Jade.
• Li Qing told Sun Qiankun he had reached the Primordial Spirit realm and explained his six-step plan for the Six Paths Investiture of Gods.
• Sun Qiankun warned that the plan depended on keeping the Daoist Sects from joining forces with the three heterodox paths.
• Li Qing said he would handle the Sons of Destiny and monitor the Dao Lineages, offering an alliance if the Daoist Sects showed signs of uniting with their rivals.

Li Qing set his Three Lives Body in motion to plant puppets in the three great Daoist Sects while his Divine Body prepared to seize the Longevity Grotto-Heaven. He restored the Flesh Tree by devouring creatures and prisoners in the Demon Suppression Palace, leaving it ready to help him refine the grotto-heaven before the Longevity Fruit Tree ripened.

• Sun Qiankun agreed to carry out Li Qing's strategy, and Li Qing promised him one-third of the Longevity Fruit Tree's yield.
• Li Qing sent his Three Lives Body toward the territories of the three great Daoist Sects to find suitable puppets, while his Divine Body traveled to Dragon Path City.
• Li Qing used his spiritual imprint and Projection Divine Art to control the Flesh Tree and transform it into his own appearance.
• Li Qing entered the Longevity Grotto-Heaven and killed an Anomaly with Formless Sword Qi before the Flesh Tree drained it dry.
• Li Qing had the Flesh Tree devour strange creatures and imprisoned cultivators in the Demon Suppression Palace until it recovered to the peak of the spirit realm.

Li Qing’s Flesh Tree killed Blood Demon Son and advanced to a power level capable of matching the Primordial Spirit realm. Li Qing then began selecting targets across the Nine Provinces, starting with Tang Wanshan in Qing Province.

• The Flesh Tree attacked Blood Demon Son, defeated him, and absorbed his body and vital essence.
• Blood Demon Son entered the Flesh Tree’s spiritual world, but the Heavens Civilization Torrent erased and reconstructed his Divine Soul before it collapsed.
• The Flesh Tree absorbed the remains of Blood Demon Son’s Divine Soul, doubling its instinctive consciousness and growing strong enough to match the Primordial Spirit realm.
• Li Qing judged that the Flesh Tree still needed to reach the Dharma Form level before he refined the Longevity Grotto-Heaven and risked drawing the attention of the first-generation Master.
• Li Qing’s Three Lives Bodies reached the eastern, southern, and western Nine Provinces and began choosing targets.
• In Qing Province, Li Qing identified Tang Wanshan, Guo Wushuang, and Chen Shanhe as the Infinite Sect’s three sons of destiny and chose Tang Wanshan, who possessed a Logic Relic, as his first target.

Li Qing selected three Primordial Spirit cultivators to recruit as executors for his plans and visited Mysterious Truth Daoist’s camp in White Dragon City. After witnessing ten thousand Dao soldiers unleash a formation strike with Dharma Form-level power, he saw how formidable the armies being trained had become.

• Li Qing reviewed the Infinite Sect’s Primordial Spirit cultivators and chose White Cloud Daoist, One Water Daoist, and Mysterious Truth Daoist as candidates to support his plans.
• Li Qing traveled to White Dragon City, where Mysterious Truth Daoist commanded a military camp training one hundred thousand Dao soldiers.
• Li Qing observed ten thousand Dao soldiers use a mobile formation coordinated by cultivators and formation flags.
• Mysterious Truth Daoist’s formation summoned thunderclouds that scorched the land across ten li, astonishing Li Qing with its Dharma Form-level power.

Li Qing discovered that he had infiltrated much of Mysterious Truth Daoist’s army and learned the secrets of its formation, then devised a way to attack without entering the heavily watched camp himself. He left a Force-Borrowing Talisman with Qi Wanshan while Five Lotus Daoist continued scanning the camp for signs of him.

• Li Qing found that half the Dao soldiers’ lowest-ranking officers were under his control and watched Mysterious Truth Daoist train the army in the Myriad Thunder Sky-Shrouding Grand Formation.
• Mysterious Truth Daoist believed the completed formation would help him defeat longevity cultivators and pass the Primordial Spirit Tribulation.
• Li Qing reconstructed the camp’s formation with the Jade Tablet and decided to use a mole to deliver a talisman rather than risk approaching the camp himself.
• Li Qing placed a Force-Borrowing Talisman beneath Qi Wanshan’s feet using the mole, without Qi Wanshan noticing.
• Five Lotus Daoist scanned the camp for abnormalities and hoped Li Qing would enter his territory so he could capture him and take his treasures and cultivation methods.

Li Qing used Qi Wanshan to approach Deputy General Bai Kun with a fabricated report about missing military supplies, infecting Bai Kun with the Heavens Civilization Torrent and taking control of him. Bai Kun then went to report to his superior, Divine Eagle Daoist, bringing Li Qing one step closer to Mysterious Truth Daoist.

• Li Qing used Qi Wanshan’s memories to plan how to reach Mysterious Truth Daoist through the chain of command.
• Qi Wanshan visited Deputy General Bai Kun and presented an account book alleging that his troops had received too little grain and military pay.
• When Bai Kun took the account book, a Force-Borrowing Talisman released the Heavens Civilization Torrent, transforming his beliefs and allowing Li Qing to control him.
• Li Qing used Bai Kun to carry the report to his superior, Divine Eagle Daoist, and Bai Kun entered the general’s command tent.

Li Qing used the Heavens Civilization Torrent to secretly imprint Divine Eagle Daoist and then Mysterious Truth Daoist, exploiting reports of stolen military pay to make contact. The chapter ended as Mysterious Truth Daoist was overwhelmed by the golden radiance.

• Daoist Bai Kun brought Divine Eagle Daoist evidence that military pay and provisions had been skimmed, and Divine Eagle Daoist took the ledger.
• The Heavens Civilization Torrent entered Divine Eagle Daoist, reshaped his beliefs, and left a spiritual imprint without Five Lotus Daoist detecting it.
• Divine Eagle Daoist avoided contacting Mysterious Truth Daoist immediately so their communications would not attract suspicion.
• Over the next five days, Li Qing and his past and future bodies continued contacting targets in three Daoist Sects.
• Divine Eagle Daoist later reported the deductions to Mysterious Truth Daoist, who reached for the ledger and was struck by the golden radiance.

Li Qing converted Mysterious Truth Daoist into a loyal spy for human civilization and completed a network of nine peak Primordial Spirit infiltrators across the three major Daoist Sects. He then planned to build intelligence networks among the Monster, Buddhist, and Ghost paths, sending his Divine Body toward the Monster Path.

• Mysterious Truth Daoist resisted the Heavens Civilization Torrent, but it transformed his mind and made him pledge loyalty to the Lord of Human Dao as Xuan Zhen.
• The Lord of Human Dao ordered Xuan Zhen to lie low in the false immortal cultivation world and await a chance to set chaos right.
• Li Qing confirmed that his Three Lives Body had planted nine peak Primordial Spirit spies among the True Treasure Path, Infinite Sect, and Eternal Night Path.
• Li Qing assessed the Four Regions as poorly understood and decided that his true body should remain still while his Divine Body handled the risks.
• Li Qing planned to choose a Child of Destiny for each of the Monster, Buddhist, and Ghost paths and build an intelligence network through his controlled Primordial Spirit cultivators.
• Li Qing's Divine Body set off for the Monster Path.

Li Qing planned to influence the Monster Path’s conflict by controlling Azure-Eyed Snake King and drawing a Son of Destiny into a trap. His Divine Body reached Black Dragon Pass and began searching for a way to contact Azure-Eyed Snake King through the local Dao soldiers.

• Li Qing identified Azure-Eyed Snake King, White Tiger Demon King, and Centipede Demon King as targets under the three Sons of Destiny.
• Li Qing decided to control the three Primordial Spirit cultivators and coordinate a trap, while weighing the danger of his informants being exposed.
• The Divine Body arrived at Black Dragon Pass, where Azure-Eyed Snake King watched the stalled conflict and worried about the approaching Nine Provinces deadline.
• The Divine Body used the Myriad Shadow Paper Doll to slip through the forests behind the pass and search for a Dao soldier to convert.
• The Divine Body ambushed a tiger-headed Dao soldier whose awakened features indicated a pure bloodline.

Li Qing used Hu Dali and Tiger Three to infiltrate the Demon Race army and set a trap to reach its higher-ranking officers. He arranged a lavish spotted-fawn feast for Tiger Divine Power, leaving the commander of a thousand seated at the banquet.

• Li Qing controlled Hu Dali with the Heavens Civilization Torrent and sent him back to Black Dragon Pass carrying four Force-Borrowing Talismans.
• Hu Dali learned that the Demon Race army had loose hierarchies and sought favor with Tiger Three by bringing him a spotted fawn.
• A streak of golden radiance entered Tiger Three, allowing Li Qing to control him and make him prepare a feast for senior officers.
• Tiger Three invited the commander of a thousand, Tiger Divine Power, to the banquet and served him deer meat and deer blood wine.

Li Qing secretly controlled nine peak Primordial Spirit cultivators under the Monster, Ghost, and Buddhist Paths, expanding his influence while preparing to shape the Children of Destiny. As he considered his next move, the Longevity Fruit Tree ripened inside the Longevity Grotto-Heaven.

• Tiger Divine Power drank the Blood Wine and fell under Li Qing's control, then Li Qing used him and the commander of ten thousand to approach the Azure-Eyed Snake King.
• The Azure-Eyed Snake King accepted the White Snake Divine Lord's tribute and was subdued by Li Qing's golden power.
• Li Qing's Divine Body spent five days controlling the Primordial Spirit cultivators under the other Heaven's Chosen, then moved toward the Ghost Path.
• By the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, Li Qing had controlled nine Primordial Spirit cultivators across the Monster, Ghost, and Buddhist Paths, bringing his total under the Six Paths to eighteen.
• Li Qing planned to use the nine cultivators to nurture victorious Children of Destiny and obtain Primordial Dharma Forms.
• The Flesh Tree reached the Dharma Form Realm after consuming the Demon Suppression Hall's Anomalies and evil-path cultivators, and Li Qing learned that the Longevity Fruit Tree had ripened.

Li Qing learned that the First Generation Master was Sub-Sage Meng Taiqing, who was traveling to the Longevity Grotto-Heaven and would arrive on December 31st. He broke into the grotto-heaven, isolated the Longevity Fruit Tree, and confronted Meng Taiqing within its spiritual world.

• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to learn that Meng Taiqing had reincarnated through the Transmigration Tribulation and was approaching from Yang Province.
• Li Qing took control of the Flesh Tree and used its roots and the Obliteration Art to break through the Longevity Grotto-Heaven's barrier.
• Li Qing entered the grotto-heaven and used the Spirit Severing Art to isolate the Longevity Fruit Tree from the outside world.
• Li Qing entered the tree's spiritual world and found Meng Taiqing beneath its spiritual form.
• Meng Taiqing summoned the Longevity Fruit Tree's power to attack Li Qing, who countered with the Principle of Civilization.

Li Qing defeated Meng Taiqing’s spiritual imprint, seized control of the Longevity Fruit Tree, and transformed the Longevity Grotto-Heaven with the Principle of Civilization. The grotto-heaven vanished from the Demon Suppression Palace, drawing the attention of Master and Meng Taiqing.

• Li Qing’s Principle of Civilization analyzed and overcame Meng Taiqing’s Dao, while sealing off his attempt to contact his true body.
• Meng Taiqing destroyed his spiritual imprint to keep Li Qing from learning his past, but Li Qing’s power took control of the Longevity Fruit Tree.
• Li Qing spread his power through the Longevity Grotto-Heaven, reshaped it, and added the Myriad Transformation Space-Time Grand Formation.
• A scholar in azure robes noticed that he could no longer sense his mark in the Longevity Grotto-Heaven and headed toward Jixia Academy.
• Master discovered that the Demon Suppression Palace’s grotto-heaven had disappeared, then met Meng Taiqing, who asked what had happened.

Meng Taiqing investigated the vanished Longevity Grotto-Heaven and deduced that Li Qing had taken it, but arrived too late to catch him. Li Qing concealed the grotto-heaven near Myriad Dragon Mountain, where the Flesh Tree watched over thirty infant fruits on the Longevity Fruit Tree.

• Meng Taiqing searched the Demon Suppression Palace and the River of Time and Space for traces of the Longevity Grotto-Heaven, but chaotic fate obscured the trail.
• Meng Taiqing ruled out the Children of Destiny and identified Li Qing as the likely culprit because the Longevity Fruit Tree could extend his limited lifespan.
• Meng Taiqing concluded he had missed his chance to catch Li Qing and left to pursue other means of returning to the Tribulation Realm.
• Meng Taiqing asked Master whether he would assist Nangong Haoran, but Master said he followed his own Dao and sought nothing from without.
• Li Qing used the Flesh Tree to move the Longevity Grotto-Heaven near Myriad Dragon Mountain, where the Flesh Tree observed thirty infant fruits on the Longevity Fruit Tree.