Recaps

Li Qing witnessed a three-day war between the Dark Forest and the Flesh World, then used the Jade Tablet to learn that the forces fought to study and eventually devour each other’s logic. He continued traveling across the Scorched Earth, troubled by the high-dimensional world’s dangers, and stopped in disbelief at something ahead.

• Li Qing watched the Dark Forest and the Flesh World wage a vast battle, but found that exposed Essence Stones shattered before he could claim them.
• After the forces withdrew, Li Qing recorded the war and learned from the Jade Tablet that the two conceptual logics were testing each other for flaws and seeking to absorb one another.
• Li Qing wondered whether the Jade Tablet came from an ultimate logic and whether his previous life’s world had been low-dimensional, but the available information gave him no answers.
• Li Qing continued across the Scorched Earth, hunting Disaster Rank anomalies to replenish resources and concealing his duplicate as he searched for a safe haven.
• After several more days, Li Qing stopped and stared ahead in disbelief.

Li Qing discovered Gu Yi, a human from the Endless Cloud Sea, and used the Great Projection Art to take control of him and read his memories. He learned that humans belonged to the lowest class of slavefolk in the higher-dimensional world, leaving him to consider the danger facing humanity and the Nine Provinces Four Regions.

• Gu Yi lured a lizard-like anomaly across the boundary into the Scorched Earth, killed it, and extracted its Essence Stone without triggering an explosion.
• Li Qing recognized Gu Yi's skill in navigating the high-dimensional world and projected the Heavens Civilization Torrent into him through the Flesh Tree's duplicate.
• Gu Yi pledged himself to the Great Lord of Human Dao as Li Qing accessed his memories.
• Li Qing learned that Gu Yi came from the Endless Cloud Sea, ruled by the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects and the Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects.
• Li Qing learned that humans were classified as Slavefolk, the lowest of four living classes, and that exceptional slavefolk were barred from cultivating beyond Body Strengthening.
• Li Qing concluded that humanity would face annihilation if the Nine Provinces Four Regions could not withstand the higher-dimensional world's conceptual logical attacks.

Li Qing explored Gu Yi’s memories and learned how the Devouring Spirit Sect plundered lower-dimensional worlds and exploited their inhabitants. He considered infiltrating the sect through his Flesh Tree, but decided to investigate its cultivation techniques before risking it.

• Li Qing learned that the Devouring Spirit Sect captured lower-dimensional worlds from the Cloud Sea, drained their resources, and used the remaining worlds to raise slavefolk.
• Li Qing discovered that Gu Yi had fled his assignment because he hoped to escape into a lower-dimensional world and find a way to resist his brutal fate.
• Li Qing assessed the Cloud Sea, Thorn Forest, Flesh Desert, and the Devouring Spirit Sect’s place among the forty-eight thousand side paths.
• Li Qing considered joining the Devouring Spirit Sect in the identity of his Flesh Tree and concealing himself with heavenly secrets and karma.
• Li Qing decided to study the sect’s cultivation techniques for hidden dangers before allowing his Flesh Tree to cultivate them.

Li Qing examined Gu Yi's memories and learned about the Void Ocean, the high-dimensional world, and the beings that threatened it. He began planning to strengthen the Nine Provinces Four Regions while gathering information and building a foothold in the high-dimensional world.

• Li Qing learned that powerful Earth Immortals, True Cultivators, and Temporal-Spatial Heavenly Daos inhabited the Void Ocean and sometimes attacked the high-dimensional world.
• Li Qing considered hunting other low-dimensional worlds to strengthen the Nine Provinces Four Regions and make Heavenly Dao Reincarnation powerful enough to resist concept logic.
• Li Qing resolved to pursue two paths at once: gather information in the high-dimensional world and seize more of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation's fruits while dealing with the Six Paths and Eight Immortals.
• Li Qing learned that the Thorn Forest and Flesh Desert stretched far beyond the areas he had seen, and that their rulers were the Ever-Changing Indestructible Flesh Patriarch and the Undying Thorn Hierarch.
• Li Qing exhausted Gu Yi's memories and concluded that the high-dimensional world was more terrifying than he had imagined.

Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to learn about the High-Dimensional World’s conceptual powers and the conflict between it and the Void Ocean. He continued toward Devouring Spirit Island under Gu Yi’s identity, arriving at the edge of the cloud sea with a Flesh Tree copy protecting him.

• Li Qing restored information about the High-Dimensional World, its three known conceptual existences, and the Void Ocean’s attacks seeking the chance to undergo a final conceptual metamorphosis.
• Li Qing wondered about Heaven and the Enemy of Heaven, whose origins remained unknown to the Jade Tablet.
• Li Qing used the Flesh Tree’s Way of Changes to weave an ordinary future for Gu Yi, then recorded how high-dimensional spacetime corrected the influence of those without fate.
• Li Qing sent the World Pearl and a Flesh Tree copy with Gu Yi toward Devouring Spirit Island while keeping the Flesh Tree’s power restrained.
• After ten days, Gu Yi and the Flesh Tree copy reached the edge of the Scorched Earth and saw the cloud sea, floating island, and Floating Cloud Trees.

Gu Yi crossed the dangerous Sea of Clouds and reached the island under his jurisdiction, where he entered the low-dimensional world. Li Qing watched through the World Pearl as Gu Yi arrived in a farmland world guarded by an elite army.

• Gu Yi found a floating cloudwood branch and used it to cross the Sea of Clouds while Li Qing’s duplicate watched for danger.
• Li Qing’s duplicate killed an invisible Anomaly approaching Gu Yi and collected the Essence Stone it left behind.
• Gu Yi reached the island, climbed ashore at the place he had departed from, and approached the entrance to his low-dimensional world.
• Gu Yi used a token to pass through the restriction and entered the tree hollow, revealing a farmland world with an elite army guarding its entrance.

Li Qing used Gu Yi to inspect a green-skin world that the Devouring Spirit Sect had turned into a controlled breeding ground, where the population was groomed for harvest under the promise of entering the upper realm. He brought a condemned green-skin named Pilu into the World Pearl and began examining him for potential, while awaiting the next harvesters.

• Gu Yi escorted Li Qing to the capital, where the green-skin rulers and nobles knelt in unquestioning obedience.
• The emperor reported that the world had about 1.2 million people, including 200,000 young people chosen to enter the upper realm.
• Li Qing realized the green-skin population was being repeatedly harvested and considered how to cultivate resistance that could escape the low-dimensional world.
• Gu Yi ordered preparations for the upper-realm visitors and brought a death-row prisoner to his bedchamber at Li Qing's direction.
• Li Qing transported the prisoner, Pilu, into the World Pearl, where the Flesh Tree's Heavens Civilization Torrent brainwashed him.
• Li Qing began examining Pilu to determine whether he could be cultivated.

Li Qing tested whether Pilu could cultivate and discovered that the green-skinned race could use human cultivation arts. After uncovering the world’s recurring harvests and Pilu’s tangled fate, Li Qing released him outside the Imperial City to see whether he would become the world’s Child of Destiny.

• Li Qing examined Pilu’s body, gave him the Mystic Soldier Baleful Qi Art, and watched him cultivate it successfully.
• Li Qing concluded that cultivation arts were not restricted by species and decided to develop Pilu as his first chess piece.
• Li Qing used the Eye of Reality and Illusion to locate the world will and saw that its gathered heavenly souls were dim.
• After Pilu reached the peak of Foundation Establishment, Li Qing examined his karmic threads and discovered that cultivators from Devouring Spirit Island harvested two hundred thousand people every twenty years while targeting the world’s Child of Destiny.
• Li Qing arranged for Gu Yi to carry the World Pearl out of the Imperial City, then released Pilu outside the city to test whether he would become the Child of Destiny.

After observing Pilu become the Green-skins’ Child of Destiny, Li Qing deduced how a world’s will responds to internal and external threats and recorded his theories. He realized low-dimensional worlds could help him cultivate more powerful companions and build his own forces.

• Li Qing watched the world’s fortune gather around Pilu, who forged a high-grade Dao Foundation and led the Green-skins against the cultivators harvesting them.
• Li Qing deduced that the world will instinctively nurtured heroes to face recurring crises but overlooked threats it considered past, and that it could bless powerful beings against external dangers.
• Li Qing recorded his deductions about world calamities and the choices worlds made to survive and restore balance.
• Li Qing considered how ultimate logic governed worlds and living beings across dimensions.
• Li Qing concluded that low-dimensional worlds could cultivate near-perfect Dao seeds and help him gain companions, who could later advance through the World Pearl and establish his power in the Nine Provinces Four Regions.

Li Qing raised Pilu to the first level of the Divine Soul Realm, confirming that low-dimensional worlds could nurture powerful cultivators and provide a hidden base beyond the Nine Provinces Four Regions. As he prepared to begin infiltrating the Devouring Spirit Sect through slaves like Gu Yi, the upper-realm entrance was about to open.

• Li Qing sent Pilu cultivation methods and Essence Stones, and Pilu rapidly advanced through the True Method Realm and Spirit Consciousness Realm.
• The world reshaped karma and gathered its Qi Fate around Pilu, allowing him to reach the first level of the Divine Soul Realm.
• Li Qing concluded that each low-dimensional world could nurture one Child of Destiny and planned to use such worlds as a second base in the Void Ocean.
• Li Qing recalled Pilu to the World Pearl, weakening and shrinking the low-dimensional world.
• Gu Yi received a signal that the upper-realm entrance was about to open and ordered the Green-skins to gather two hundred thousand selected people there.

A Devouring Spirit Sect cultivator arrived to collect two hundred thousand Green-skins, who were unknowingly processed for their souls and bodies aboard a vast ship. Li Qing saw through the slaughterhouse and identified the cultivator’s pure dharma power, deciding to seek the world’s true cultivation methods from him.

• Gu Yi presented two hundred thousand Green-skins to the Devouring Spirit Sect cultivator, who summoned a gigantic transport ship and ordered them aboard.
• Gula entered the ship, where a mysterious force extracted his souls and spirit and sent his body into a blood pool to be dissolved.
• Li Qing used the Eye of Reality and Illusion to see that the ship processed Green-skins for their souls and bodies.
• The cultivator scanned the world with a mirror but failed to detect a Child of Destiny or the World Pearl.
• Li Qing observed the cultivator’s nine hearts and pure dharma power, resolved to obtain his cultivation method, and noticed unknown logic within it.

Li Qing discovered that the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects Patriarch used cultivation techniques to monitor cultivators and eventually harvest them, then tested whether the techniques could be studied and cultivated without triggering that surveillance. His experiment in Dragon Province revealed that a bandit practicing the Devouring Spirit methods drew vital essence from the surrounding world and developed strange curse patterns.

• Li Qing recorded that cloud sea cultivation techniques carried logic that monitored cultivators’ minds and let the Side Sects Patriarch detect prolonged mind control.
• Li Qing concluded that sect cultivators could not safely be controlled, while slave people might offer an opening, and decided to investigate the cultivation techniques instead.
• Li Qing used the Wish Spell to make a True Cultivator study his technique and recite it without disturbing the logic in his dharma power.
• Li Qing reconstructed the Devouring Spirit Qi Refining Art, Devouring Spirit Transformation Canon, and Devouring Spirit Hundred Forms Diagram, finding their contents identical.
• Li Qing had a bandit in Dragon Province cultivate the three methods, and the bandit reached the Human Tribulation realm within days.
• Li Qing observed that the bandit absorbed vital essence from the outside world and that wondrous curse patterns formed across his body.

Li Qing tested Devouring Spirit Sect techniques in a low-dimensional world and discovered that their embedded logic remained dormant without activation by vital essence from the Cloud Sea. He also learned why Nine Provinces Four Regions techniques lacked logic, then watched the treasure ship carrying two hundred thousand young people shrink into the True Cultivator’s sleeve.

• Li Qing made a man cultivate the Devouring Spirit Transformation Canon and found that its magical power contained lifeless logic in the low-dimensional world.
• Li Qing used the Record Book and Jade Tablet to determine that Devouring Spirit Sect techniques contained dormant logic-seeds activated by conceptual logic and Cloud Sea vital essence.
• Li Qing learned that Heaven had twisted and neutralized the Enemy of Heaven’s techniques, while other lineages’ methods avoided conflicts with underlying logic.
• Li Qing concluded that Heaven and the Enemy of Heaven both pursued their own aims, and that the Wish Spell could guide someone without alarming the logic if it did not directly control or twist their mind.
• The True Cultivator’s treasure ship, carrying two hundred thousand young and able-bodied people, shrank to palm size and vanished into his sleeve.

Li Qing formed two plans to build influence in the high-dimensional world: cultivate powerful seeds in low-dimensional worlds and infiltrate the Devouring Spirit Sect with a blank spy. After creating an infant vessel and sending Gu Yi to search Devouring Spirit City, Li Qing selected a female True Cultivator as a potential target.

• The True Cultivator took the selected people to the upper realm, while Gu Yi instructed the Green-skin King to keep fostering outstanding young people for the next twenty years.
• Li Qing concluded that low-dimensional worlds could supply powerful cultivators for a Second Fortress Plan, while the Devouring Spirit Sect's cultivation logic made direct control too risky.
• Li Qing created a blank infant from the Flesh Tree and sent the Heavens Civilization Torrent into its consciousness, hiding a spiritual imprint within it for the Blank Spy Plan.
• Li Qing controlled Gu Yi as he cautiously searched Devouring Spirit City for a cultivator he could influence.
• Li Qing settled on a female True Cultivator as his target.

Li Qing used the Way of Changes and Wish Spell to connect the Blank Spy’s marriage karma with Wang Linger’s, then lured her toward a baby with an extraordinary bloodline. Wang Linger rescued the infant from an Anomaly and felt an immediate closeness to it, leaving Li Qing’s plan on the verge of success.

• Li Qing observed Wang Linger, a Blood Qilin Clan disciple, and learned that her loneliness and bloodline made her suitable for his plan.
• After leaving Devouring Spirit Island, Li Qing used the Way of Changes and Wish Spell to graft Wang Linger’s marriage karma to the Blank Spy’s and conceal the connection.
• Li Qing placed the sleeping infant in a Floating Cloud Tree basket and set it adrift near the island, while Gu Yi left by another route.
• Wang Linger followed an inexplicable impulse toward the Cloud Sea and found the crying baby as Anomalies approached.
• Wang Linger killed a snake-like Anomaly that lunged at the infant, then sensed the baby’s extraordinary bloodline and felt close to it.

Li Qing used karmic bonds to arrange for Wang Linger to take in the Flesh Tree's avatar infant, then turned to his next plans and monitored the rising tensions across the Nine Provinces Four Regions. Meanwhile, Yuan Zhihui investigated Ashoka King's followers but found no sign of Li Qing's influence, leaving him uncertain how Li Qing planned to reach a Primordial Dharma Form.

• Wang Linger found the abandoned avatar infant, took him to her cave abode, and decided to raise him as her future junior brother in the Devouring Spirit Sect.
• The Flesh Tree's duplicate watched Wang Linger leave and planned to let the infant grow before beginning its next scheme.
• Li Qing used Gu Yi to explore Devouring Spirit Island's boundaries for dilapidated low-dimensional worlds where he could cultivate Children of Destiny.
• Li Qing monitored the factions preparing for conflict across the Nine Provinces Four Regions, though severed karma left major gaps in his knowledge of powerful cultivators.
• Yuan Zhihui secretly examined Corpse Treasury Master and other Primordial Spirit cultivators under Ashoka King but found no suspicious evidence of Li Qing's plans.
• Yuan Zhihui wondered whether Li Qing had abandoned the plan to control Primordial Spirit cultivators or found another way to contact a Primordial Dharma Form.

Li Qing abandoned his plan to obtain a Primordial Dharma Form through Primordial Spirit cultivators and prepared to seize one from the Ghost Path by force. His Divine Body gathered four Battle Soul Puppets and headed toward the Ghost Path’s stronghold beneath Hell Mountain, while an unexplained fluctuation began affecting the puppets and places connected to his earlier tribulation diversions.

• Yuan Zhihui’s suspicions led Li Qing to realize that Tribulation Realm cultivators were watching Primordial Spirit cultivators and might expose any attempt to obtain a Primordial Dharma Form through them.
• Li Qing decided to disrupt their expectations by targeting the Ghost Path and taking a Primordial Dharma Form by force.
• Li Qing reasoned that Hell Mountain’s lower section was less protected because many Ghost Path cultivators had left to support the Child of Destiny, though its defenses had tightened since his previous exploration.
• Li Qing sent his Divine Body to the ancient battlefield outside Two Realms City, where it summoned four Battle Soul Puppets and took them, the Myriad Spell Divine Banner, and Force-Borrowing Talismans.
• After the lifespan in the Force-Borrowing Talismans was used, a strange fluctuation surrounded the four Battle Soul Puppets as subtle changes appeared at locations linked to Li Qing’s earlier diversions.

Li Qing sent his Divine Body into the East Wasteland to infiltrate Hell Mountain and steal the scripture for the Primordial Dharma Form. After preparing an escape route and studying the Ghost Path’s defenses, he began sneaking into its grand formation.

• Yuan Zhihui speculated that Li Qing had summoned four Battle Soul Puppets to strengthen his fated tribulation during the Six Paths Investiture of Gods.
• Li Qing’s Divine Body crossed into the East Wasteland and watched its million-strong army stage a measured assault on the border pass.
• Li Qing reached Hell Mountain and set up the yang half of the Yin-Yang Void Spirit-Swapping Feng Shui Grand Formation, while his Present Body prepared the yin half in Dragon Province.
• Li Qing studied the Ten Halls Wheel-Turning Grand Formation and identified the Yama Son of Heaven Hall’s scripture pavilion as the likely location of the Primordial Dharma Form scripture.
• Li Qing summoned a Battle Soul Puppet and gave it the Myriad Spell Divine Banner to help conceal his entry into the Ghost Path’s formation.

Li Qing used concealment and his understanding of the formation to cross Hell Mountain and enter the Yama Son of Heaven Hall. He reached the Eighteen Layers of Hell and arrived at the Mountain of Blades.

• Li Qing concealed the Divine Body and followed the formation’s safe points through the mist.
• Li Qing reached Hell Mountain’s summit, where the ten palaces formed the formation’s source and defense.
• Li Qing entered Samsara Hall and found a corridor leading to the Yama Son of Heaven Hall.
• Li Qing passed through the hall’s gate into a small grotto-heaven containing the Eighteen Layers of Hell.
• Li Qing reached the central eighteen-level mountain and arrived at the first level, the Mountain of Blades.

Li Qing reached Yama Son of Heaven Hall and found the Scripture Pavilion sealed by powerful logic, so he prepared a plan to break in while distracting the Ghost Path experts. He used the Way of Changes to assess the plan, but the sealed heavenly secrets prevented him from seeing whether it would succeed.

• Li Qing crossed the mountain of blades and the eighteen hells unharmed, then entered Yama Son of Heaven Hall using Gap Walking.
• Li Qing found the Scripture Pavilion sealed by the palace’s logic and decided to force it open with the Battle Soul Puppet.
• Li Qing left a duplicated figure and Battle Soul Puppet at the Scripture Pavilion, then returned to the grotto-heaven entrance and created three more Battle Soul Puppets with Force-Borrowing Talismans.
• Li Qing sent two Battle Soul Puppets carrying his Divine Body to suppress Yama Hall’s control statue and stop the Ten Halls Wheel-Turning Grand Formation, while another puppet waited with the Myriad Spell Divine Banner for an assassination.
• Li Qing entered the Yin-Yang Void Spirit-Swapping Feng Shui Grand Formation and used the Way of Changes to examine his plan, but the heavenly secrets remained obscured.

Li Qing simulated the coming battle, then sent his Battle Soul Puppet and Divine Body clone to break into the Scripture Repository Pavilion and copy its books. The clone recorded the Ghost Path's Reincarnation Yama Record, completing Li Qing's plan to obtain four Primordial Dharma Forms, while four Tribulation Realm cultivators entered Hell Mountain and charged toward its palace.

• Li Qing simulated the battle and saw four Tribulation Realm cultivators fight the Battle Soul Puppets, with the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger apparently having been used without killing anyone.
• Li Qing ordered the Battle Soul Puppet to break open the Scripture Repository Pavilion's gates while his Divine Body clone entered and sent Shadow Paper Dolls to copy the books.
• Li Qing's Divine Body clone recorded the Ghost Path's Reincarnation Yama Record in the Jade Tablet, giving Li Qing four Primordial Dharma Forms.
• Li Qing considered using the four Dharma Forms to nurture a Dharma Form of his own and judged his main objective complete.
• Four figures tore through spacetime, entered the Ten Halls Wheel-Turning Grand Formation, and charged into the palace atop Hell Mountain.

A Battle Soul Puppet used the Myriad Spell Divine Banner to unleash the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger against the Ghost Path cultivators guarding the entrance. The dagger killed Samsara King, while Song Di King fled after his Dao artifact shattered and Aberration began to overtake him.

• Yama King led Chu Jiang King into the hall to capture the intruders while Samsara King and Song Di King guarded the exit.
• A Battle Soul Puppet struck Samsara King and Song Di King with the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger, which shattered Samsara King's defenses and Song Di King's spear.
• Song Di King suffered damage to his Dao Foundation, began to undergo Aberration, and disappeared while trying to suppress it.
• Samsara King repeatedly used reincarnation passages to escape the dagger, but it tracked him through each passage and caught up with him.
• The Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger severed Samsara King's head, Primordial Spirit, and consciousness before returning to the Myriad Spell Divine Banner.
• The Battle Soul Puppets suppressed the divine statue in Yama Hall, causing the Ten Halls Wheel-Turning Grand Formation and its mist to lose power.

Li Qing used the four Battle Soul Puppets to trap the First Yama King and the First Chu Jiang King while his Divine Body escaped through the spacetime-transference formation. With one Puppet nearing its time limit, Li Qing ordered it to self-destruct against the Chu Jiang King, and the remaining Puppets pressed their attack.

• The Divine Body caught the Myriad Spell Divine Banner and safely withdrew through the Yin-Yang Void Spirit-Swapping Feng Shui Grand Formation.
• Li Qing took control of four Battle Soul Puppets and sent them after the First Yama King and the First Chu Jiang King, while Samsara King lay slain and Song Di King was missing.
• The First Yama King fought one Puppet with a flaming emperor's sword, while the First Chu Jiang King used a vast river to battle three others.
• Li Qing used Way of Changes to process the Tribulation Realm fighters' information and direct the Puppets' overall strategy despite the strain on his mind.
• As its time ran out, one Puppet switched targets, embraced the First Chu Jiang King, and self-destructed, badly wounding him.
• The two remaining Puppets attacked the injured Chu Jiang King as he fought back with his rivers.

Li Qing’s Battle Soul Puppets destroyed the First Chu Jiang King and cornered the First Yama King, while the Chu Jiang King and Samsara King revived and the Song Di King turned his corrupted statue into an anomalous puppet. The First Yama King was grievously wounded as four figures arrived, and black light flared within the burning Battle Soul Puppets.

• The Battle Soul Puppets froze and shattered the First Chu Jiang King, then attacked the First Yama King.
• The Chu Jiang King and Samsara King revived through their statues, while the Song Di King transformed his corrupted statue into an anomalous puppet.
• Four figures arrived at Hell Mountain and entered the pocket dimension where the First Yama King was surrounded by three Battle Soul Puppets.
• Li Qing ordered the puppets to ignore the First Yama King’s flaming sword; one was pinned by the sword while the others stabbed into the First Yama King’s abdomen and chest.
• The First Yama King unleashed black flames that set the three puppets ablaze as the four figures struck, and black light ignited inside the puppets.

Li Qing destroyed the First Yama King's body and stole the Ghost Path Primordial Dharma Form, leaving Hell Mountain's four hall masters to conceal their losses and prepare for his next move. The Nether River Yama Son of Heaven veiled Hell Mountain's secrets, but Yuan Zhihui noticed the four kings' agitation and asked what had happened.

• Li Qing's attack engulfed the First Yama King, whose body exploded as the First Song Di King and the other two arrived too late to stop him.
• The First Yama King returned to Yama Son of Heaven Hall and discovered that Li Qing had taken the Ghost Path Primordial Dharma Form.
• The four hall masters decided to hide their losses, remain together, and wait for Li Qing to target another Dao Lineage.
• The Nether River Yama Son of Heaven agreed with their plan and used a heavenly secrets art to conceal what had happened at Hell Mountain.
• Yuan Zhihui noticed the kings' agitated auras and asked whether something had happened on Hell Mountain.