Recaps

Li Qing refined Longevity Fruits into pills and sent Sun Qiankun enough lifespan-extending medicine to support their plans. After receiving the pills, Sun Qiankun told Li Qing to restrain the orthodox factions while he worked to unite the Heaven-chosen of the three heterodox paths.

• Li Qing gathered thirty Longevity Fruits and decided to refine some of their essence into pills for Sun Qiankun.
• Li Qing's Flesh Tree used the Compendium of World Alchemy to refine the fruit essence into nine Longevity Pills over seven days and nights.
• Li Qing planned to cultivate the Longevity Fruit Tree with captured Anomalies as insurance for a prolonged struggle and the world's future ascension in dimension.
• Li Qing sent three bottles of Longevity Pills to Sun Qiankun through the Black Cloud Gang headquarters in White Cloud City.
• Sun Qiankun accepted the pills and told Li Qing to restrain the three Daoist schools, the Confucian Sect, and the Hundred Schools while he worked to unite the Heaven-chosen of the three heterodox paths.

Sun Qiankun carried out Li Qing’s plan to provoke conflict among the Children of Destiny’s factions. After border patrol clashes alarmed Tang Wanshan, White Cloud Daoist warned him against being lured into a trap and offered to turn the scheme against his rivals.

• Sun Qiankun relayed Li Qing’s orders to stir up disputes and exploit rifts among the Children of Destiny.
• Patrols belonging to Tang Wanshan and Chen Shanhe clashed after something burst from the grass, leaving several soldiers dead.
• Tang Wanshan received reports of clashes along multiple borders and suspected Chen Shanhe and Guo Wushuang were conspiring against him because of his heavenly treasure.
• At a council meeting, White Cloud Daoist warned Tang Wanshan that moving troops forward could leave his capital exposed to an attack by the Hundred Schools of Thought and the Confucian Sect.
• White Cloud Daoist proposed turning the enemy’s scheme against them.

White Cloud Daoist proposed an alliance with the Hundred Schools of Thought and the Confucian Sect, while Li Qing secretly used the negotiations to advance his plans. The Five Immortals continued searching for the hidden Wisdom Logic Anomalies but found no trace of them.

• White Cloud Daoist urged Tang Wanshan to ally with the Hundred Schools of Thought and the Confucian Sect, offering them territory in exchange for help against Chen Shanhe and Guo Wushuang.
• White Cloud Daoist proposed staging a false military buildup, and Black Sun Daoist scrutinized him but found no trace of anything amiss.
• Black Sun Daoist agreed to accompany White Cloud Daoist to negotiate, while Moonwheel Daoist and Exquisite Daoist took charge of the fronts against Chen Shanhe and Guo Wushuang.
• Li Qing monitored the gathering, planned to use the negotiations to sow discord among the Daoist Sects, and turned his attention toward the Monster Path in the Southern Frontier.
• The Five Immortals searched for the five hidden Wisdom Logic Anomalies for a month but found no clues.

The Five Immortals unleashed storms across the Bright Side and Dark Side to flush out the hidden Wisdom Logic Anomalies and eliminate powerful Anomalies. The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies suspected the immortals planned to use their Underlying Logic to create gods, and agreed to lure an immortal into a trap with Li Qing’s help.

• The Myriad Treasures Undying Dao Lord proposed that the Five Immortals scour the Bright Side and Dark Side with storms, both to find their hidden enemies and to reduce resistance to Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
• The Five Immortals unleashed sweeping storms that destroyed countless Anomalies across both continents.
• The Wisdom Logic Anomalies discussed how the Six Paths Investiture of Gods might use the remnants of the Black King and the others’ Underlying Logic to change cultivators’ nature and establish the basic logic of gods.
• The five Anomalies planned to trap one immortal in the Nine Provinces Four Regions, using incarnations, concealed fate, and the Seal of Heaven as bait.
• The Wisdom Logic Anomalies agreed to claim they were working with Li Qing and quietly began putting their plan into motion.
• After the former leader of the Evil Spirit Sect died with Fish Snake, a new leader emerged to take his place.

The five great Wisdom Logics sent incarnations into the mortal world and planned to lure Li Qing into helping them target the Demonic Path immortal. They gathered in White Mist City to attract Li Qing’s attention, where their arrival began causing strange events.

• The five great Wisdom Logics took over the forces and resources of the destroyed anomalies and sent incarnations into the mortal world.
• An old-man incarnation drained the vital essence from a pool containing more than a thousand bodies, and cultivators erased the evidence after he left.
• The five incarnations chose the Demonic Path immortal as their target and planned to use the Seal of Heaven to lure him into a trap.
• The incarnations decided to cause trouble in White Mist City so Li Qing would find them through his information network.
• In White Mist City, a little-girl incarnation played with local children and offered them candied hawthorn, promising they would be friends forever.

Wisdom Logic Anomalies caused horrors to erupt across White Mist City, drawing the attention of its defenders. Li Qing learned they planned to use the Seal of Heaven’s aura to lure a Demonic Path Immortal, and arranged to provide them with a diluted trace of it.

• A candied hawthorn girl, a gambling elder, and a bewitching woman caused people across White Mist City to turn into grotesque forms.
• Yin-Yang School cultivators, Dao Soldiers, and Demon Extermination Hall Rogue Cultivators suppressed more than a dozen anomalies, though five children died as sugar figures.
• Li Qing read that five Wisdom Logic Anomalies were planning to ambush a Demonic Path Immortal using the Seal of Heaven as bait.
• Li Qing decided to give the Anomalies a diluted aura of Heaven without revealing the Seal of Heaven’s full aura.
• Li Qing sent his Myriad Shadow Paper Doll into action, and a slip of paper appeared beneath a dark courtyard gate.

The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies hid an ancient tomb beneath White Mist City and planned to use a Demonic Path pawn to lure the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord into a trap. Li Qing learned of their scheme and created a powerful Anomaly infused with Heaven’s aura, leaving the trap’s next move unresolved.

• The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies arranged to draw out the Demonic Path immortal by planting a trace of Heaven’s aura on a pawn in White Mist City.
• The five found an ancient tomb beneath the city and hid it behind layered Underlying Logics, making its entrance open only at two set times.
• Li Qing learned the five’s plan from the Jade Tablet and decided to help their scheme unfold.
• A controlled commandant carried sealed Heaven’s aura to a cavern, where Li Qing used ten wild beasts and Demon Summoning Technique to create an Anomaly.
• Li Qing infused the Anomaly with Heaven’s aura, and it rose to the Spirit Consciousness Realm before he destroyed it and left behind a purple Essence Stone.

Li Qing delivered a Heaven-tainted Essence Stone to the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies, who used it to prepare a sealing array and lure in a target. They chose Zhong Feilong, a Demonic Path spy, and secretly altered him with purple vital essence.

• A Myriad Shadow Paper Doll delivered the Essence Stone to the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies in White Mist City.
• The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies used the Essence Stone to construct the Myriad Dao Heaven-Sealing Tribulation Array around the tomb.
• The little girl went to find a target and lured the drunken Zhong Feilong into a dark alley.
• Zhong Feilong vanished into purple light, absorbed a thread of purple vital essence, and later awoke in the alley as five figures watched his transformation.

Li Qing began investigating the Monster Path’s Chosen Ones and built an intelligence network inside Earth Dragon City, home of the True Dragon Prince. After learning how the prince funded his army, Li Qing identified the Blood Spirit Copper Mine as a possible way to pressure him.

• Li Qing observed the five logical Anomalies drawing attention to a minor cultivator and began consolidating the outer regions’ Chosen Ones while seeking the Monster Path’s candidates.
• Li Qing chose to support the Great Ape King through Mouse Little Brother and target the True Dragon Prince and Qilin Prince, starting with the True Dragon Prince.
• Li Qing sent a duplicate into Earth Dragon City and converted more than twenty cultivators inside the Earth Dragon Clan’s residence into loyal informants.
• Over three days, Li Qing planted more than a hundred informants across the city’s noble houses, creating a network to monitor their movements.
• Li Qing learned that the True Dragon Prince privately funded his thirty-thousand-strong army and identified his Blood Spirit Copper Mine and its Silver Moon Metal output as a potential vulnerability.

Li Qing infiltrated True Dragon Prince’s mine and subdued the Hundred-Eyed Demon King, then turned his attention to the stalemate between the Great Ape King and True Dragon Prince’s forces. The Great Ape King’s commanders struggled to break through the pass until the Centipede Demon King offered a possible plan.

• Li Qing identified True Dragon Prince’s dependence on mineral sales and secretly infiltrated his mine.
• Li Qing used his concealed presence to capture and rebuild the Hundred-Eyed Demon King’s spiritual will.
• The Great Ape King and his three Primordial Spirit commanders discussed their failed attempts to take the pass defended by the Divine Eagle Demon King.
• The Great Ape King explained how True Dragon Prince’s campaign against the Qilin Prince and the Divine Eagle Demon King’s harassment had trapped his forces.
• The Centipede Demon King told the Great Ape King that he had a plan.

Centipede Demon King persuaded Great Ape King to target True Dragon Prince’s mine by recruiting Hundred-Eyed Demon King and baiting True Dragon Prince with news of a True Dragon Blood Pool. The scheme was approved, and Centipede Demon King reached the mine and contacted Hundred-Eyed Demon King through a swarm of centipedes.

• Centipede Demon King proposed cutting off True Dragon Prince’s wealth by secretly taking his mine with help from Hundred-Eyed Demon King.
• Centipede Demon King outlined plans to lure True Dragon Prince to the mine with a fabricated True Dragon Blood Pool and trap him there.
• Great Ape King agreed to the scheme and authorized Centipede Demon King to promise Hundred-Eyed Demon King whatever benefits were necessary.
• Centipede Demon King traveled to the mine and sent a swarm of centipedes through its defenses.
• Hundred-Eyed Demon King saw the centipedes gather in his hall as Centipede Demon King introduced himself.

The Centipede Demon King and Hundred-Eyed Demon King helped the Great Ape King secretly seize control of the mine and its defensive formation. With the mine secured, the Great Ape King asked Hundred-Eyed to lure the True Dragon Prince there.

• The Centipede Demon King persuaded Hundred-Eyed to pledge allegiance to the Great Ape King and handed him a blank letter bearing the Great Ape King's seal.
• The Great Ape King led five thousand Dao soldiers on a concealed route to the mine while Li Qing's Divine Body helped evade scouts and the Divine Eagle Demon King.
• The Centipede Demon King and Hundred-Eyed Demon King admitted the Great Ape King's army into the mine and gave him control of its grand formation.
• The Great Ape King stationed his Dao soldiers throughout the mine, boosting the formation's power more than fivefold.
• The Great Ape King asked Hundred-Eyed to lure the True Dragon Prince to the mine, and Hundred-Eyed agreed to perform his role.

The Hundred-Eyed Demon King reported a strange blood pool at the mine, and the Azure-Eyed Snake King convinced True Dragon Prince that it might be a True Dragon Blood Pool. Although eager to claim the supposed treasure, True Dragon Prince sent the Azure-Eyed Snake King to investigate first, leaving the Great Ape King and his allies concealed nearby.

• The Hundred-Eyed Demon King told True Dragon Prince that a strange blood pool had been found in the mine and that its scent seemed to cleanse his blood and marrow.
• The Great Ape King and the Centipede Demon King emerged from hiding and prepared for a decisive battle against True Dragon Prince.
• True Dragon Prince discussed the blood pool with the Azure-Eyed Snake King, who identified it as a possible True Dragon Blood Pool and urged him to seize it quickly.
• True Dragon Prince, trusting the Azure-Eyed Snake King, gave him a Spirit-Transmission Talisman and ordered him to investigate the mine before True Dragon Prince went there himself.

Li Qing’s scheme brought the Azure-Eyed Snake King to inspect a fabricated True Dragon Blood Pool while concealing an army of Dao soldiers in the mine. After the Snake King reported the pool’s apparent authenticity, the Great Ape King prepared for the True Dragon Prince to take the bait.

• The True Dragon Prince sent the Azure-Eyed Snake King from Black Dragon Pass to investigate the suspected treasure, while Li Qing watched his plan unfold.
• The Azure-Eyed Snake King contacted the Hundred-Eyed Demon King, who alerted the Great Ape King and the Centipede Demon King that the inspection was underway.
• The Great Ape King revealed that he had prepared a convincing fake True Dragon Blood Pool and kept five thousand hidden Dao soldiers concealed in the mine’s formations.
• The Hundred-Eyed Demon King led the Azure-Eyed Snake King to the pool, where the Snake King examined it and acted convinced by its power.
• The Azure-Eyed Snake King left to report his findings to the True Dragon Prince, and the Great Ape King ordered his army to remain on alert for a possible battle.

True Dragon Prince decided to investigate the reported True Dragon Blood Pool while guarding against Hundred-Eyed Demon King, prompting Great Ape King to revise his ambush plan. As True Dragon Prince marched toward the mine with three thousand Dao soldiers, Li Qing conjured rain to obscure the area, and the prince felt a foreboding that Azure-Eyed Snake King tried to dismiss.

• Azure-Eyed Snake King reported that the mine held a blood pool with an aura that could make bloodlines Revert to Root, Return to Origin, and True Dragon Prince ordered him to accompany him with three thousand Dao soldiers.
• Centipede Demon King anticipated that True Dragon Prince would take control of the mine's formation and proposed moving the Dao soldiers outside to ambush him.
• Great Ape King agreed to the revised plan, and he and Centipede Demon King concealed five thousand Dao soldiers around the mine entrance.
• Li Qing used Wish Spell to gather moisture and bring rain over the area, creating a natural barrier that could obscure perception.
• True Dragon Prince marched toward the mine with Azure-Eyed Snake King and three thousand Dao soldiers, but the sudden rain made him uneasy; Azure-Eyed Snake King called it an auspicious spring rain.

True Dragon Prince led his three thousand Dao soldiers to the mine, believing Azure-Eyed Snake King’s assurances that Heaven favored him. He fell into the trap set by Hundred-Eyed Demon King, Great Ape King, and Centipede Demon King, and the chapter ended as their forces attacked.

• Azure-Eyed Snake King persuaded True Dragon Prince that the rain and celestial signs heralded his rise, and True Dragon Prince ordered his army to continue marching.
• A scout told Great Ape King that True Dragon Prince’s troops were resting in the woods, so Great Ape King and Centipede Demon King moved their armies into position around the mine.
• True Dragon Prince’s army reached the mine, where Azure-Eyed Snake King called for Hundred-Eyed Demon King to receive them.
• Hundred-Eyed Demon King revealed the trap, and Great Ape King and Centipede Demon King’s troops surged out to surround True Dragon Prince’s army.
• True Dragon Prince ordered his soldiers to charge through the encirclement and clashed with Great Ape King, while Centipede Demon King and Hundred-Eyed Demon King attacked Azure-Eyed Snake King.

The True Dragon Prince was overwhelmed by the Great Ape King and killed, allowing the Great Ape King to absorb his destiny. Li Qing observed the change and recorded his theory that Children of Destiny could devour one another’s destiny, a power that might be essential to enfeoffing gods.

• The Centipede Demon King urged the Azure-Eyed Snake King to join the Great Ape King, but the Azure-Eyed Snake King refused while making clear he would not help the True Dragon Prince.
• The True Dragon Prince charged into the Dao Soldiers and fought to escape, but the Great Ape King held him in place as his forces dwindled.
• The Great Ape King knocked away the True Dragon Prince’s spear, severed his head, and shattered his divine soul.
• A new destiny vortex formed as the Great Ape King absorbed the True Dragon Prince’s destiny, reducing the number of vortices above the river of time and space.
• Li Qing concluded that Children of Destiny could devour one another’s destiny and recorded his theory that this power was connected to enfeoffing gods.

Li Qing learned the true purpose of the Children of Destiny and the God-Investing One as the Great Ape King defeated the True Dragon Prince and absorbed his forces. The Qilin Prince attacked Black Dragon Pass, while the Great Ape King’s allies urged him to seize it first and prevent the Qilin Prince from gaining its troops.

• Li Qing read the Jade Tablet’s restored information and understood that the Children of Destiny were meant to select a God-Investing One who could use Word Becomes Law to construct Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
• The Qilin Prince learned that one Demon Race Destiny had vanished and, urged by the White Tiger Demon King, ordered his army to attack Black Dragon Pass.
• Thirty thousand of the Qilin Prince’s Dao soldiers assaulted Black Dragon Pass, whose defenders struggled to hold back the attack.
• The Great Ape King defeated the True Dragon Prince, announced his victory, and incorporated the defeated faction’s Dao soldiers and commanders into his forces.
• Azure-Eyed Snake King urged the Great Ape King to move on Black Dragon Pass before the Qilin Prince captured its seventeen thousand Dao soldiers.

Li Qing used the Wish Spell to weaken the Qilin Prince and his demon kings while the Great Ape King rushed to Black Dragon Pass. The Qilin Prince retreated from the pass, then launched a massive attack against the Great Ape King's forces, and their blows collided above the formation.

• The Azure-Eyed Snake King urged the Great Ape King to seize the Divine Eagle Demon King's Dao soldiers, and the Great Ape King led his eight thousand Dao soldiers toward Black Dragon Pass.
• Li Qing decided to let the Great Ape King end the conflict quickly and secretly used the Wish Spell to cause Aberration backlash in the Qilin Prince, the Black Panther Demon King, and the Night Cat Demon King.
• The Qilin Prince and his allies faltered as their Aberrations disrupted their fighting, turning the battle at Black Dragon Pass into a stalemate.
• The Great Ape King arrived with reinforcements, and the Qilin Prince ordered his army to retreat beyond the pass's suppressive formation.
• The Qilin Prince gathered the strength of his thirty thousand Dao soldiers and cultivators into a meteor-like strike, while the Great Ape King met it with a crescent-shaped blow above Black Dragon Pass.

The Great Ape King seized Black Dragon Pass after killing the True Dragon Prince, leaving the Qilin Prince badly outnumbered. As the Qilin Prince prepared to delay and wear down his enemy, the White Tiger Demon King proposed a dangerous “king against king” strategy.

• The Azure-Eyed Snake King led the Dao Soldiers of Black Dragon Pass to repel the Great Ape King's attack, while the Qilin Prince withdrew to his camp and the battle ended.
• The Great Ape King took control of Black Dragon Pass, and its Dao Soldiers learned of the True Dragon Prince's death and submitted to him.
• The Centipede Demon King urged the Great Ape King to target the Divine Eagle Demon King, and the Azure-Eyed Snake King set out to confront him.
• The White Tiger Demon King advised the Qilin Prince to investigate how the True Dragon Prince had died, and the Qilin Patriarch later sent back findings detailing the Great Ape King's scheme.
• The Qilin Prince concluded that he had to rely on defensive formations and attrition because the Great Ape King's forces were twice as numerous.
• The White Tiger Demon King said he had a perilous plan that could raise their odds of victory to fifty percent and began proposing a “king against king” strategy.

Qilin Prince followed Daoist White Tiger’s plan and repelled Great Ape King’s first assault, while Li Qing’s Wish Spell quietly reinforced his resolve. The chapter ended with Qilin Prince’s army holding its defenses and Great Ape King withdrawing after a day of bloody fighting.

• Daoist White Tiger advised Qilin Prince to repel three attacks before challenging Great Ape King, and Li Qing used the Wish Spell to influence Qilin Prince to accept the plan.
• Qilin Prince ordered his army to prepare to repel three assaults, while Great Ape King gathered six Demon Kings and announced an attack with sixty thousand Dao soldiers.
• Great Ape King’s army attacked Qilin Prince’s camp, but the mist formation weakened the attackers as Qilin Prince and three Demon Kings intercepted Great Ape King and his six allies.
• The siege continued until dusk, but Qilin Prince’s forces held the city walls and prevented Great Ape King’s side from gaining an advantage in the high-level fighting.
• Great Ape King ordered a retreat after losing several thousand soldiers, and Qilin Prince celebrated having repelled the first wave.

After three days of failed assaults, the Great Ape King's army was exhausted and losing morale, while the Qilin Prince's forces prepared a new plan. The Qilin Prince challenged the Great Ape King to a decisive battle in three days, and the Centipede Demon King warned that it was a scheme.

• The Centipede Demon King explained that the Great Ape King would have to wear down the Qilin Prince's forces over time, while the True Dragon Prince's followers were reluctant to risk their lives.
• Li Qing judged that the battlefield was following his plan and decided to involve the Azure-Eyed Snake King and several Primordial Spirit cultivators without drawing suspicion.
• The Great Ape King's attacks were repelled three times over three days, leaving his army exhausted after suffering at least ten thousand deaths.
• The Qilin Prince told the White Tiger Demon King to deliver a challenge letter calling for a decisive battle.
• The Great Ape King accepted the challenge and set the battle for three days later before Black Dragon Pass.
• The Centipede Demon King warned the Great Ape King that the challenge was a scheme.

The Great Ape King saw the Qilin Prince’s challenge as a scheme, and the Azure-Eyed Snake King proposed using the White Tiger clan to sabotage the Qilin camp. The White Tiger Demon King secretly acted with Li Qing to fool the observers, but the battlefield’s outcome seemed to hinge on whether he would betray the Qilin Prince; three days later, the Great Ape King and Qilin Prince began their duel.

• The Great Ape King concluded that the Qilin Prince had challenged him to undermine his momentum, and the Azure-Eyed Snake King suggested recruiting the White Tiger Demon King to sabotage the Qilin camp’s formations.
• The Azure-Eyed Snake King contacted the White Tiger Demon King, who followed Li Qing’s instructions and staged a conversation to deceive the powerful observers.
• The Azure-Eyed Snake King urged the White Tiger Demon King to betray the Qilin Prince in exchange for preserving the White Tiger clan’s power, then left before receiving an answer.
• The Qilin Patriarch feared the White Tiger Demon King might accept the offer but could not interfere under the eyes of the watching cultivators.
• Three days later, the Great Ape King and the Qilin Prince met between their camps, and the Qilin Prince proposed that their battle end only in death and asked the Great Ape King to set a restriction.

The Great Ape King and the Qilin Prince fought to the death inside a mile-wide formation while their armies clashed outside it. The White Tiger Demon King broke the Qilin Prince’s camp formation and sided with the Great Ape King, leaving the Qilin Prince’s forces collapsing as the duel continued.

• The Great Ape King and the Qilin Prince raised restrictions around their battlefield and transformed into their powerful demon forms, revealing signs of Aberrant Contamination.
• The Great Ape King and the Qilin Prince began a fierce spear-and-halberd duel as Li Qing watched and studied their techniques.
• The Azure-Eyed Snake King called for the White Tiger Demon King, who shattered the camp’s formation and declared his betrayal of the Qilin Prince.
• The Black Dragon Pass army charged into the camp, while the White Tiger Demon King accused the Qilin Prince of nearing defeat and sought merit by turning on him.
• The Qilin Prince recognized the Great Ape King’s trap and renewed his attack, while his camp’s soldiers surrendered and his remaining allies struggled against four Primordial Spirit cultivators.

The Qilin Prince burned his life to challenge the Great Ape King, but his final attack failed to kill him. The Great Ape King absorbed the Qilin Prince’s destiny and became the Demon Race’s Child of Destiny as the Demon Race began gathering at the border for war with the Nine Provinces.

• The Qilin Prince burned his life and attacked the Great Ape King while six Primordial Spirit masters struck the barrier around them.
• The Qilin Prince unleashed his ultimate technique and pierced the Great Ape King’s chest, but the Great Ape King survived and shattered the barrier.
• The Qilin Prince succumbed to the backlash of his attack, died, and lost his destiny to the Great Ape King.
• The Great Ape King declared himself the Demon Race’s destiny, and Demon Race soldiers and cultivators hailed him.
• Li Qing sensed Demon Race forces gathering at the Southern Frontier border pass and wondered whether they were preparing to act.