Arc 55The Dark Ocean War

Li Qing infiltrated the Spiritual Essence World, turned its buried resentment and resistance against its rulers, and organized an invasion while rival schemes formed around Haoran Sage. The six Immortals entered the Dark Ocean to find Li Qing, who used the Heart-Destroying Sword to test their defenses and evade their search.

  • Li Qing helped the Five Immortals establish a forward base beneath the western sea, then used the ensuing battles to learn about the Spiritual Essence World and its rulers’ slaughter of everyone over forty.
  • Li Qing entered the Spiritual Essence World, found the Dark Ocean formed from the dead’s resentment, and used Civilization Logic and the Heart-Destroying Sword to gain power over it.
  • Li Qing recruited Wu Changgui and Spiritual Rhinoceros to spread resistance, while offering Spiritual Rhinoceros a place in the Nine Provinces Four Regions and a future seat as Heavenly Emperor.
  • Li Qing persuaded the Immortals to plan an ambush in the Dark Ocean and an assault through the Space Gate, while Haoran Sage secretly allied with Sky Ghost to eliminate Li Qing and claim the Spiritual Essence World.
  • Spiritual Rhinoceros sent an avatar through the Space Gate as resistance spread, and the world’s Immortals suspected that he or agents from another world had stirred the Sea of Resentment.
  • Purple God led five Immortals into the Dark Ocean to search for Li Qing, while Li Qing wielded the Heart-Destroying Sword against their Logic Network and evaded their search.
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Ch. 1351A Two-Step Plan: One in the Open, One in the Shadows

Li Qing and the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord agreed to stage a conflict while secretly inviting Immortal Night Demon to establish a base inside their world. After hearing their explanation, Immortal Golden Light suspected the Haoran Sage possessed a large share of the power connected to the Heavenly Court and the Underworld.

  • Li Qing outlined the second step of the plan: he would approach Immortal Night Demon openly while the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord acted as though they were enemies.
  • Du Xin discovered that records of the world's recent war and the creation of the Heavenly Realm and Underworld had been erased, and Immortal Night Demon suspected a connection to the Void Investiture.
  • The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord told Immortal Night Demon to project power into the world and establish a base as part of their performance for the Haoran Sage.
  • Li Qing gave Immortal Night Demon a map of three earth-vein nodes near the world's edge and offered to let him choose one for the base.
  • Immortal Night Demon reported the plan to the other immortals, and Immortal Golden Light speculated that the Haoran Sage held much of the power gained through the Heavenly Court and Underworld.

Ch. 1352The Wrong Path, the Giant Tree Base

The Five Immortals sent a seed containing their avatars through a deliberately weakened world barrier and transformed it into a giant tree base in the western region. Li Qing and the others identified how the tree’s domain let the Five Immortals wield their full power while suppressing intruders.

  • Immortal Golden Light and the other immortals agreed to send a base seed into the Nine Provinces Four Regions while their true bodies held off its defenders.
  • The White King launched the seed as the Five Immortals fired the Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon at the world barrier.
  • Li Qing and the other immortals formed a nine-palace array to block the cannon, while Li Qing made the barrier appear cracked so the seed could pass through.
  • The seed reached an earth-vein node beneath the western sea, merged with the earth vein, and grew into a towering five-colored tree surrounded by raised land.
  • The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord recognized the Five Immortals’ avatars in the tree, and Li Qing determined that its earth-vein domain let them wield their full power while suppressing outsiders.

Ch. 1353The Secret of the Giant Tree

Li Qing learned that the invaders’ giant tree was a Devouring Giant Tree that used a world’s earth veins to create an indestructible landing zone. As the battle continued, he began devising ways to seize the tree and use its technology for future invasions.

  • Li Qing explained that the giant tree disguised the invaders’ territory and ordered his forces to suppress it while Haoran Sage held off the Five Immortals in the void.
  • Li Qing’s Divine Body duplicate gathered the strength of the Heavenly Court and Underworld forces into a vast palm and attacked the tree.
  • The five Immortal avatars fed their logic into the tree, creating a five-colored Radiance that blocked the palm and held it in a stalemate.
  • Li Qing examined the tree’s patterns and used the Jade Tablet to identify it as a Devouring Giant Tree that absorbed logic and made an indestructible safe zone for invasion.
  • Li Qing resolved to take Spiritual Essence World and began devising invasion tactics based on the tree, while Haoran Sage and the other eight defended against the invaders’ beams of light.

Ch. 1354A Spatial Passage Connecting Two Worlds

Golden Light’s group established a forward base, prompting the Spiritual Essence World to activate its Space Gate and send a million Dao Soldiers through the Devouring Giant Tree. Li Qing identified the passage and revealed that he had allowed the enemy to project more forces so he could study their world, while insisting the invaders’ Immortals would not descend in person.

  • Golden Light sent word to the Spiritual Essence World that the forward base had held against its first attack and proposed exploiting the enemy’s internal conflicts.
  • Purple God received the message and ordered a million Dao Soldiers sent to secure the base, with Sun Emperor guarding the passage and commanding the army.
  • Sun Emperor and the other six Immortals combined their logic to activate the Space Gate, opening a passage from the Spiritual Essence World through the Devouring Giant Tree.
  • Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to identify the Space Gate’s Conceptual Logic Prototype and realized the Spiritual Essence World had linked the two worlds through the tree.
  • Li Qing told the gathered projections that he had concealed the passage to draw out enemy forces and gather information, then claimed their Immortals would not descend in person.

Ch. 1355Each Side Had Its Own Plans, as the Army Pressed In

Li Qing and his allies concealed the secrets of their Three Realms System while preparing to draw the Spiritual Essence World’s forces into a trap. As the invaders’ forward base was surrounded and both armies clashed, Li Qing’s disguised Divine Body entered the battle and attacked an enemy soldier.

  • Li Qing persuaded Haoran Sage and the others to hide their advantage, let the enemy grow confident, and wait for a chance to draw the battle into their world.
  • The Spiritual Essence World established a forward base around the Devouring Giant Tree, while Li Qing used the Logic Network’s Mist to conceal it and protect the secret of the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
  • Immortal Golden Light told Immortal Sun Emperor and the other avatars to hold the base, investigate the world, and continue the invasion plan while the true Immortals occupied their opponents.
  • Zhou Tianjun led the heavenly and underworld forces and two million Dao Soldiers in an assault on the base, where the armies of both worlds met in battle.
  • Li Qing’s disguised Divine Body joined the frontline and secretly sent a Heavens Civilization Torrent into an enemy soldier during their blade clash.

Ch. 1356Infiltrating the Spiritual Essence World

Li Qing infiltrated the Spiritual Essence World through a controlled soldier and uncovered how its rulers exploited the population and suppressed centuries of accumulated resentment. He planned to use that hidden darkness against the world and began studying its forward base so he could draw away some of its Dao Soldiers.

  • Li Qing concealed himself inside an otherworldly soldier and entered territory controlled by the Devouring Giant Tree.
  • Li Qing used the soldier’s memories, the Way of Changes, and the Jade Tablet to learn about the Spiritual Essence World and its twelve rulers.
  • Li Qing discovered that the world’s rulers secretly killed everyone over forty and used their bodies and souls as cultivation materials.
  • Li Qing realized that centuries of slaughter had accumulated immense darkness that he could use to undermine the Spiritual Essence World.
  • Li Qing began gathering information about the forward base, intending to make its forces withdraw some Dao Soldiers.

Ch. 1357Three Methods, the Five Immortals on Guard

Li Qing had Zhou Tianjun make the Nine Provinces Four Regions appear to lose ground so the Spiritual Essence World might rotate its Dao Soldiers, giving Li Qing a chance to infiltrate through the Space Gate. The Haoran Sage realized Li Qing was preparing to enter the enemy world, while the others wondered if he was also ready to face the Longevity Realm tribulation.

  • Li Qing identified three ways to prompt the enemy to rotate its Dao Soldiers and chose to make the Nine Provinces Four Regions give ground while minimizing casualties.
  • Li Qing appeared beside Zhou Tianjun and asked him to ease the fighting for several days, promising to appoint fallen soldiers as heavenly or Underworld officers.
  • The Sun Emperor and the Five Immortals grew suspicious of the weaker attack, and Immortal Golden Light warned that the enemy might be setting a trap.
  • Li Qing told the Haoran Sage that he hoped the enemy would open the spatial passage so he could infiltrate their world, gather information, and cause chaos.
  • The Haoran Sage inferred that Li Qing had completed his Dharma Form and might be preparing to undergo the Longevity Realm tribulation.

Ch. 1358Secretly Watching, Creating an Opportunity

A hidden Conceptual Logic Prototype expert and the Underworld Devil Lord watched Li Qing, each plotting to seize an opportunity while the Radiant Emperor considered the rulers’ plans for the universe. After half a month of failed attacks, Li Qing took command and prepared a second plan, which began with a devastating ambush against the Spiritual Essence World’s Dao Soldiers.

  • The hidden expert behind the Life-Borrowing Talisman decided to wait for a large battle to distract Heavenly Dao Reincarnation before trying to capture Li Qing’s avatar and trace its karma to his true body.
  • The Underworld Devil Lord planned to let the Haoran Sage absorb his dormant conceptual essence so he could later take control of him.
  • The Radiant Emperor reflected that the Nine Great Rulers intended to eliminate all Conceptual Logic Prototype experts before beginning their true Void Investiture campaign.
  • For half a month, Zhou Tianjun led repeated attacks that cost the Nine Provinces Four Regions tens of thousands of Dao Soldiers, while Li Qing gathered information and saw that the immortals would not rotate their troops.
  • Li Qing took command through his Divine Body projection and used his Way of Changes to calculate the next battle.
  • The Spiritual Essence World’s Dao Soldiers entered the fight expecting another easy victory, but they suffered a crushing blow as soon as they met the enemy.

Ch. 1359Overwhelmed by Dao Soldiers, They Retreated to Set Up a Formation

Li Qing’s precise command of the Nine Provinces Four Regions army inflicted far greater losses on the Spiritual Essence World forces, even after Immortal Golden Light strengthened their front line. The enemy withdrew into the Devouring Giant Tree’s domain and raised an earth, water, wind, and fire formation to suppress the advancing army.

  • Li Qing used the Way of Changes to predict enemy moves, helping the Nine Provinces Four Regions army kill thousands of Spiritual Essence World Dao Soldiers.
  • Immortal Golden Light gathered the Devouring Giant Tree’s five-colored Radiance over the enemy front, reducing its soldiers’ casualties without stopping the losses.
  • After half an hour, thirty thousand Spiritual Essence World Dao Soldiers had died, compared with fewer than three thousand from the Nine Provinces Four Regions army.
  • Immortal Golden Light concluded that the opposing commander could simulate future actions and urged the army to retreat into the devouring domain.
  • Four Tribulation Realm commanders raised altars and banners at the domain’s four points, forming a world of earth, water, wind, and fire that merged with the tree’s Radiance.
  • The million-strong Spiritual Essence World army withdrew into the formation.

Ch. 1360Heavenly Net and Earthly Web, Cosmic Logic

Li Qing’s forces used the Heavenly Net and Earthly Web to breach the Devouring Giant Tree’s domain, gaining an advantage in the battle against the Five Immortals. When Sun Emperor summoned a falling sun, Li Qing discovered that the attack drew on logic present since the cosmos’s birth and recognized how Heavenly Dao Reincarnation tapped into cosmic power.

  • Li Qing led two million Dao Soldiers into the Devouring Giant Tree’s domain under the protection of the Heavenly Net and Earthly Web.
  • Immortal Golden Light’s clone coordinated the Five Immortals’ forces, while Sun Emperor prepared an Immortal-level attack.
  • The two armies clashed, and the Nine Provinces Four Regions’ Dao Soldiers inflicted casualties at a ratio of one to three.
  • Li Qing intercepted Sun Emperor’s Scorching Sun Divine Light with the Heavenly Net and Earthly Web.
  • Sun Emperor used his golden mirror to summon a great sun and invoked the cosmic logic of Falling Sun.
  • The Jade Tablet restored information about Falling Sun, and Li Qing realized how Heavenly Dao Reincarnation drew on logic woven into the cosmos.

Ch. 1361Supreme Spell, Second Assault

Li Qing’s Heavenly Net and Earthly Web formation stopped the Sun Emperor’s supreme spell, even after the five Immortals joined their power through the Devouring Giant Tree to strengthen it. The battle remained at a stalemate, and the Sun Emperor revealed that Li Qing had controlled hundreds of strands of logic to dissipate the attack.

  • Li Qing gathered the Heavenly Net and Earthly Web into a Logic Network space that absorbed the Sun Emperor’s first supreme spell.
  • The Sun Emperor and the five Immortals were shocked that Li Qing’s formation had stopped the attack.
  • Immortal Golden Light proposed channeling the five Immortals’ power through the Devouring Giant Tree, and the Sun Emperor agreed.
  • The Sun Emperor unleashed Great Sun Alone Supreme, strengthened to the power of three Immortals, but Li Qing’s layered space-times absorbed and dispersed it.
  • The five Immortals’ cannon fire failed to break the Haoran Sage’s formation, while the armies below continued fighting and both sides remained locked in a stalemate.
  • The Sun Emperor said he had hidden his consciousness in the spell and sensed hundreds of strands of logic that Li Qing had woven together to break down its force.

Ch. 1362The Heavy Toll Was a Trap After All

The Sun Emperor realized Li Qing was using the array’s logic to control the battle and ordered the Spiritual Essence World to rotate its Dao Soldiers. Li Qing manipulated the casualties to make the strategy seem effective, while preparing to use the enemy’s retreat to reach the world beyond the Void Gate.

  • The Sun Emperor identified Li Qing’s array-based spellcraft and ordered Immortal Golden Light to rotate the Dao Soldiers while recruiting new troops.
  • The Spiritual Essence World began cycling its soldiers through the front lines, and Li Qing adjusted the battle to make the rotations appear to reduce their losses.
  • After half a month, the Nine Provinces Four Regions had lost around 40,000 Dao Soldiers, while the Spiritual Essence World had lost around 100,000.
  • The White King expressed a desire to capture Li Qing and force him to reveal his methods, and the Sun Emperor prepared for fresh Dao Soldiers to arrive.
  • The Sun Emperor withdrew through the Void Gate as new troops entered the battle and the first soldiers rotated out; Li Qing’s Divine Body prepared to enter the world beyond the gate.

Ch. 1363Infiltrating the Spiritual Essence World, Sinking into Darkness

Li Qing entered the Spiritual Essence World with the Dao Soldiers, then secretly explored a mortal village and discovered resentment gathering beneath the world’s logic. He reached the vast ocean of darkness and called on the dead to lend him their strength so he could avenge them.

  • Li Qing arrived in the Spiritual Essence World with four million Dao Soldiers and waited until the immortals’ gaze disappeared before slipping away.
  • Li Qing’s Divine Body escaped the encampment, traveled through a forest, and sent a duplicate into a northern border village to learn about its people.
  • Li Qing learned that officials took villagers over forty, supposedly to an immortal kingdom, while secret rumors claimed the gods consumed them.
  • Li Qing used Civilization Logic to sense the twelve immortals’ control over the world and began searching for the Mandate of Darkness.
  • Li Qing followed the dead’s resentment into the deepest layer of the world’s logic and found an immense ocean of darkness.
  • Li Qing declared himself the Lord of Civilization, promised the dead justice and revenge, and asked them to lend him their strength.

Ch. 1364Dark Immortality, the Heart-Destroying Sword

Li Qing merged his Civilization Logic with the Dark Ocean, drawing the attention of the Six Paths Immortals, who suspected a Wisdom Logic Anomaly had formed. He discovered indestructible essence within the ocean and began crafting the Heart-Destroying Sword, leaving the sword seal formed into a tiny blade.

  • Li Qing's Civilization Logic spread through the Dark Ocean, stirring its tides and pressing its boundary against the three realms.
  • The Immortal Purple God and the other Immortals discussed the disturbance, suspected an intelligent being had appeared, and sent their avatars to watch for it.
  • Li Qing detected a wisp of indestructible black aura and learned it was an essence born from the grudges of the dead, comparable to a Conceptual Logic Prototype.
  • Li Qing recognized the aura as material for the Heart-Destroying Sword, one of the nine supreme heavy artifacts.
  • Li Qing wove the Spacetime Myriad Spell Destruction Sword Seal with his Civilization Logic, forming a tiny sword.

Ch. 1365Mastering Darkness, The Surviving Elder

Li Qing made the Heart-Destroying Sword resonate with the dark ocean and began preparing to use it against dangerous targets. In the Human Realm, he found a hidden survivor, gave him a cultivation method and a mission to spread it, and the chapter ended as the man contacted someone through a talisman.

  • Li Qing absorbed indestructible resentment matter into the Heart-Destroying Sword, gaining control of the dark ocean and the power to activate the sword three times there.
  • Li Qing sent duplicates into the Human Realm to find targets and gather information as he began creating chaos.
  • A duplicate found an old man living in a basement among books and learned that he had avoided the Immortal Kingdom because he believed it was a human flesh slaughterhouse.
  • The old man tried to burn himself and the basement, but Li Qing reversed the flames and healed him, then offered to cooperate in overthrowing the world's rule.
  • Li Qing gave the old man a cultivation method and told him to spread the philosophy of everyone becoming dragons.
  • The old man, identified as Wu Changgui, used a talisman to contact a figure who asked why he had called so urgently.

Ch. 1366Mythical Immortals, New Allies

Li Qing discovered that Spiritual Rhinoceros led a hidden resistance of mythical creatures and proposed an alliance against this world’s twelve Immortal Realm experts. Spiritual Rhinoceros agreed to consider cooperation after learning the Nine Provinces Four Regions’ strength, while Li Qing learned the resistance was badly weakened and had only one Immortal Realm expert.

  • Li Qing learned from the Jade Tablet that mythical creatures had joined awakened humans in resisting the rule of the three realms’ Immortal Realm experts.
  • Spiritual Rhinoceros arrived at Wu Changgui’s village, and Li Qing revealed himself and proposed a talk.
  • Li Qing offered the mythical creature resistance a place as an inside force and a seat as Heavenly Emperor in the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
  • Spiritual Rhinoceros said he was an Immortal Realm expert whose power could match two others, but asked why he should trust Li Qing.
  • Li Qing used the Way of Changes and Jade Tablet to learn that the resistance was dwindling, with Spiritual Rhinoceros as its sole Immortal Realm expert.

Ch. 1367Spiritual Rhinoceros Stirred, an Alliance Secured

Li Qing persuaded Spiritual Rhinoceros to help spread cultivation methods and join his plan to overthrow the Gods and Devils Hero Hall. After demonstrating his command over the Dark Ocean, Li Qing promised Spiritual Rhinoceros a path to become the Heavenly Emperor and offered to send a clone to his world.

  • Li Qing proposed that Spiritual Rhinoceros spread the Martial Canon and the Flesh Visualization Method to provoke resistance against the Gods and Devils Hero Hall.
  • Spiritual Rhinoceros agreed to help but demanded proof that Li Qing could oppose the Immortal Realm cultivators.
  • Li Qing took Spiritual Rhinoceros to the fourth layer of the Dark Ocean and revealed his connection to the Fate of the Dead.
  • Li Qing explained that the Dark Ocean could weaken Immortal Realm cultivators and serve as a trap for the seven cultivators guarding the world.
  • Spiritual Rhinoceros agreed to the plan after Li Qing described organizing the world’s cultivators as Dao Soldiers.
  • Spiritual Rhinoceros asked whether he would become the Heavenly Emperor, and Li Qing offered to send a clone to his world through a void route or the Space Gate.

Ch. 1368Three Final Logics, a Plan to Strike Back

Li Qing revealed the Spiritual Essence World’s structure and proposed a coordinated plan to ambush its Immortals, seize their Space Gate, and invade their world. The gathered Immortals considered his offer to make the rebel Spiritual Rhinoceros a Heavenly Emperor, and the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord agreed the plan was acceptable.

  • Li Qing promised Spiritual Rhinoceros a corresponding status through a mysterious creation, and Spiritual Rhinoceros agreed to trust him while their plan began.
  • Li Qing reflected that essence might be a Final Logic, then decided Blackwater had to become the battlefield where the Haoran Sage would be drawn into a war of attrition.
  • Li Qing gathered the Immortals in the Illusory Heavenly Palace and described the Spiritual Essence World and its vast Dark Ocean.
  • Li Qing explained that two Wisdom Logic Anomalies had been killed in the Dark Ocean, likely leaving two relics of Underlying Logic, and proposed ambushing the Immortals who entered to purge a supposed new Anomaly.
  • Li Qing outlined a broader assault through the Space Gate and revealed that he had recruited Spiritual Rhinoceros by promising him the position of Heavenly Emperor.
  • The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord supported Li Qing’s plan, arguing that gaining an entire world outweighed the cost of adding another Heavenly Emperor.

Ch. 1369Seizing Power, a Plan for Victory

Li Qing secured agreement to elevate him to Heavenly Emperor and proposed a plan to trap and kill the immortals guarding Spiritual Essence World. The plan depended on Haoran Sage joining the attack in his true body, while Li Qing led forces against the spacetime passage.

  • Li Qing asked Haoran Sage to weigh in, and Haoran Sage backed granting Li Qing greater power; all the Heavenly Emperors and Ghost Emperors except Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha and the Demon Emperor ultimately agreed.
  • Li Qing revealed half of the Temporal Resonance Teleportation Grand Formation and proposed that the others send projections or clones through enemy Dao Soldiers to inspect the other half in the Dark Ocean.
  • Li Qing outlined a trap in the Dark Ocean, using a Wisdom Logic Anomaly to lure the enemy immortals into an extinction array and then concentrating their attacks on them.
  • Li Qing asked Haoran Sage to enter Spiritual Essence World in his true body and help fight its seven immortal guards.
  • Li Qing planned to command their world's Dao Soldiers to attack the spacetime passage and keep Sun Emperor from reinforcing the immortals.

Ch. 1370A Tempting Bait, a Plan Set in Motion

Li Qing proposed a plan to lure Haoran Sage with the chance to seize the Spiritual Essence World, while secretly preparing to trap him alongside the beings on the other side. Haoran Sage accepted the plan but considered recruiting Sky Ghost as an ally, and Li Qing arranged for Spiritual Rhinoceros to send an avatar through the Space Gate.

  • Li Qing outlined a plan to deal with the immortals in the Dark Ocean, kill the Sun Emperor, and take control of the passage into the Spiritual Essence World.
  • Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha deduced that Li Qing intended to use the plan to trap Haoran Sage and potentially eliminate other immortals, then declared that it would work.
  • Haoran Sage considered betraying the others to seize the Spiritual Essence World, worried Li Qing might be targeting him, and silently eyed Sky Ghost as a potential ally.
  • Haoran Sage publicly agreed to the plan, and Li Qing deduced his hidden intentions through the Way of Changes and the Jade Tablet.
  • Li Qing proposed conferring a divine title on an avatar from the other side, then told Spiritual Rhinoceros to send an avatar through the Space Gate.

Ch. 1371The Doppelganger Arrives, A True Ally

Spiritual Rhinoceros agreed to cooperate with Li Qing after learning his ambitions and promise to protect the mythical creatures, while preparing an avatar and materials for their plans. Haoran Sage delivered the requested supplies, and Li Qing realized that he was making preparations of his own.

  • Spiritual Rhinoceros sent an avatar to infiltrate the Dao Soldiers and agreed to gather the materials Li Qing needed for an array formation.
  • Li Qing invited Spiritual Rhinoceros to become his true ally and explained that he aimed to become a conceptual logic powerhouse and transcend the universe.
  • Spiritual Rhinoceros agreed to cooperate with Li Qing, provided that he and the mythical creatures under his command could endure and that he would not be ordered to take part in destructive massacres.
  • Li Qing told Spiritual Rhinoceros that an upcoming battle would test their trust and asked him to follow his orders; Spiritual Rhinoceros agreed.
  • Haoran Sage brought Li Qing the requested materials and Essence Stones at Civilization Academy.
  • Li Qing put away Haoran Sage's Universe Bag and concluded that Haoran Sage was also making several preparations.

Ch. 1372Two Emperors Join Forces, the Devil Lord Plots

Haoran Sage secretly allied with the Sky Ghost, planning to betray Li Qing and seize the Spiritual Essence World. He then forced his way into the Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord’s conceptual essence, unaware that the Devil Lord had arranged for him to absorb it safely.

  • Haoran Sage persuaded the Sky Ghost to join him in a secret plan to eliminate Li Qing and claim the Spiritual Essence World.
  • Haoran Sage and the Sky Ghost agreed that the Sky Ghost would control the extracted Daos and follow Haoran Sage’s orders during the conflict.
  • Haoran Sage studied the trace of Concept Logic essence he had obtained from the Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord.
  • The Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord sent Haoran Sage a message through the essence, and Haoran Sage traced it and forced his power into it.
  • Li Qing sensed Haoran Sage’s disturbance and used the Jade Tablet to learn that the Devil Lord had engineered the encounter to let Haoran Sage absorb the essence safely.

Ch. 1373Clearing Hidden Dangers, Arriving at the Spread

Li Qing warned the Haoran Sage that the Conceptual Logic essence in his possession might be dangerous, while arranging to meet Spiritual Rhinoceros and prepare to move the Destruction Spacetime Grand Formations. Across the Spiritual Essence World, rebels who learned the world’s truth gathered in hiding and began organizing people over forty to evade the Divine Immortal Kingdom.

  • Li Qing warned the Haoran Sage to beware the Conceptual Logic essence, and the Haoran Sage used separate avatars to analyze and isolate it while attempting to refine it.
  • Li Qing confirmed that both Destruction Spacetime Grand Formations were complete and sensed Spiritual Rhinoceros arriving near the western front.
  • Spiritual Rhinoceros left the battlefield unnoticed, met Li Qing, and went with him to meet the others.
  • Tax collectors discovered that villagers over forty had vanished and ordered the village to search for them, threatening punishment if they were not found.
  • Rebels who had learned the truth through Li Qing’s teachings fled into the wilderness, where a True Method Realm leader told six others to secretly seek out everyone over forty.

Ch. 1374Sensing Something Amiss, They Rushed Straight to Blackwater

A resistance movement spread cultivation techniques and rebellion across the Spiritual Essence World, prompting the Gods and Devils Hero Hall to suppress the rumors. Suspecting a link between the resistance, the enemy world, and the surging Sea of Resentment, six immortals entered its depths to search for hidden beings.

  • A True Method cultivator recruited six people to spread cultivation techniques and resistance, and they agreed to serve the organization.
  • Resistance messages spread through the Spiritual Essence World, and the Gods and Devils Hero Hall ordered arrests and forgetting spells to contain them.
  • Purple God, Imperial Sovereign, and the other immortals suspected that Spiritual Rhinoceros or agents from another world had stirred the Sea of Resentment.
  • The six immortals went to the Sea of Resentment and withstood its waves of hatred and revenge.
  • Demon Spirit sensed a presence in the sea and asked the others to join forces to find it.

Ch. 1375Boundless Resentment, the Five Immortals Enter

Li Qing used the Heart-Destroying Sword to control the Dark Ocean and record how its resentment eroded the six Immortals’ Logic Network. When the Immortals entered the ocean to search for what was disturbing it, Li Qing kept out of their reach as they prepared another formation variation.

  • The six Immortals’ paths formed a Logic Network that searched the Dark Ocean, and Li Qing sent Spiritual Rhinoceros’s avatar away before merging his Divine Body with the Heart-Destroying Sword.
  • Li Qing used the sword to control the Dark Ocean, battering the Network and letting him record how resentment eroded the Immortals’ paths.
  • After three days of searching without success, Purple God led five Immortals into the Dark Ocean aboard Void Fortress Divine Shuttles and formed the Five Immortals Inverted Heaven and Earth Formation, while Bright Moon remained outside.
  • The five Immortals opened a protected region and expanded their search, enduring a flood of hateful voices as Li Qing measured the Heart-Destroying Sword’s immense power and cost.
  • Li Qing changed position to evade the search, and Purple God ordered the five Immortals to use the formation’s second variation.
Arc 55 of 127
Arc 55 of 127