Recaps

Li Qing used True-False Swap to survive Spiritual Rhinoceros’s betrayal, then escaped the Immortal Realm pursuers through the Dark Ocean as his aura faded. The Haoran Sage and the other seven Emperors failed to surround him before the final breath of his aura remained.

• The Final Logic stirred Spiritual Rhinoceros’s desire to kill Li Qing and seize his secret treasure, and Li Qing read the scheme with the Jade Tablet.
• Spiritual Rhinoceros impaled Li Qing’s Present Body and fled with him, but Li Qing’s Divine Body revealed it had taken the fatal strike through True-False Swap.
• The Haoran Sage urged the pursuers to surround Li Qing during the last three breaths of his aura, while Purple God accused the Haoran Sage of diverting the danger onto them.
• Li Qing repeatedly escaped the pursuers’ spacetime rifts, leaving the seven Heavenly Emperors and Ghost Emperors unable to catch him.
• With one breath remaining before Li Qing’s aura vanished, the pursuers sank into despair as his tribulation neared its end.

After Li Qing completed his tribulation and his Past and Future Bodies survived, the Void Council returned to defend its territories against his growing power. Li Qing tested their defenses with a massive sword strike, and the councilors considered whether to hold their ground or flee to another world.

• Li Qing’s tribulation ended in victory, while the Haoran Sage, Immortal Purple God, and others suffered a crushing defeat.
• Li Qing’s Past Body returned to the Parasol Tree Continent, and his Future Body departed into the void with a World Pearl to prepare for his Immortal tribulation.
• The seven councilors returned to their territories and combined their Dao Soldiers, cultivators, and logic into a powerful defensive network.
• Li Qing’s Faith Incarnation struck the councilors’ defenses with a hundred-li sword of Formless Sword Qi, but the two sides proved evenly matched.
• The Past Body planned to weaken the Void Council by controlling its lower-ranking officers and spreading the Martial Canon.
• Immortal Supreme God urged the councilors to reinforce their territories or move their people into a grotto-heaven and flee the region.

The Void Council fortified its territory against Li Qing as his forces advanced into the New Tang Empire. At a meeting in the heavenly palace, Li Qing and the other rulers agreed to stop their war and govern their own territories while preparing for the coming War of Void Investiture.

• Immortal Evil Dragon and the Void Council agreed to stabilize their territory, build a grand formation, and prepare to break away if necessary.
• A replica of Li Qing's Past Body reached the Void Council's border and studied its defenses, but concealed Underlying Logic kept him from examining the walls completely.
• Li Qinglian led eight million Dao Soldiers into the New Tang Empire, capturing hundreds of li as Haoran Sage and the other rulers returned to the heavenly palace.
• Li Qing met the rulers of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, thanked them for helping him reach the Longevity Realm, and heard Haoran Sage propose an end to hostilities.
• Li Qing accepted the proposal that each side govern its own territory and divide future gains according to its contribution to the fighting in the void.

Li Qing and the immortals agreed to end the war only after granting Investiture of Gods to cultivators at True Law level and above, then used Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to absorb the Spiritual Essence World and create a new world. The nations entered a temporary calm, while a strand of Underlying Logic began to glow in a distant corner.

• Purple God proposed that those wielding Heavenly Dao Reincarnation stay out of lower-world conflicts, but Li Qing rejected the restriction and agreed to halt mortal warfare only after cultivators at True Law level and above received investiture.
• Haoran Sage and Li Qing agreed to begin the Investiture of Gods, with Spiritual Rhinoceros consenting to have his mythical creatures invested as well.
• Heavenly Dao Reincarnation absorbed the Spiritual Essence World's logic and world will as the worlds merged into a sphere of fifty thousand li, with the Dark Ocean becoming part of the Netherworld.
• Haoran Sage's heavenly palace granted investiture to cultivators under Spiritual Rhinoceros, Purple God, and the other immortals, while lesser cultivators became heavenly officials or soldiers.
• Li Qing's Civilization Logic quietly absorbed the logic of his followers and came to govern more than thirty-five percent of the world's logic; he controlled thirty-five percent of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation's power, Spiritual Rhinoceros ten percent, and Haoran Sage's side the remainder.
• A strand of Underlying Logic quietly began to radiate in a corner of the new world.

The Haoran Sage regained the Conceptual Logic Prototype level through Reincarnation Transformation, alarming the other Immortal Realm powerhouses. Li Qing renewed his alliance with the Immortal Realm Spiritual Rhinoceros and laid plans to use him as a spy while preparing for wider wars.

• The Haoran Sage drew on Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and formed a Conceptual Logic Prototype, prompting Li Qing to worry that the sage’s Qi Fate would keep growing.
• Li Qing contacted the Immortal Realm Spiritual Rhinoceros and said he still wanted to work with him despite his earlier betrayal.
• Li Qing asked the Immortal Realm Spiritual Rhinoceros to infiltrate the Immortal Realm Purple God’s group, provide information, and eventually set a trap involving the Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon.
• Li Qing planned to have Li Qinglian counterattack New Tang and to wage war on three fronts while gathering resources beyond the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• The Haoran Sage told the wary Immortal Realm beings that his breakthrough would help defend the world when the Investiture of Gods War brought Space-Time Heavenly Dao Level powerhouses.

After Spiritual Essence World's defeat, Purple God proposed recruiting Spiritual Rhinoceros to restore their ability to wield the Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon. Spirit King secured Spiritual Rhinoceros's agreement, while Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha warned that the new alliance could leave the three unaffiliated cultivators caught between two powerful factions.

• Purple God said the four survivors had grown stronger but lacked enough members to use the Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon, and proposed inviting Spiritual Rhinoceros to ally with them.
• Spiritual Rhinoceros reflected on his failure to suppress his desires during the confrontation with Li Qing and resolved to fulfill his obligations to him.
• Spirit King visited Spiritual Rhinoceros and invited him to join forces against Haoran Sage; Spiritual Rhinoceros accepted.
• Spiritual Rhinoceros left a duplicate in his palace and accompanied Spirit King to join Purple God and the others.
• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha warned Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord and Wisdom Logic Anomaly of the Myriad Spirits that the renewed alliance could create two powerful factions and leave them caught in the middle.

The Light-Dark Buddha proposed an alliance with Li Qing and the three factions agreed to cooperate against their rivals, while each prepared to build a Second Base and Three Realms System. The Haoran Sage recognized the new balance forming and vowed to stop Li Qing at his next Immortal Realm tribulation, as avatars began leaving to establish systems in low-dimensional spacetime.

• The Light-Dark Buddha persuaded Myriad Spirits and the Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord to ally with Li Qing and combine their power against the other factions.
• The Light-Dark Buddha visited Li Qing at the Civilization Academy, and Li Qing accepted the alliance until his Immortal Realm tribulation.
• Li Qing sent his Divine Body to oversee the lower-realm war and considered how his Civilization Logic had absorbed logics from conquered worlds.
• The Haoran Sage saw the alliance forming and vowed to bring Li Qing down at his next Immortal Realm tribulation.
• After more than a month of peace, avatars sent by Immortal Realm experts left the world’s edge with civilians and Dao Soldiers to build Three Realms Systems in low-dimensional spacetime.

Li Qing prepared the Civilization Empire to conquer the land and unite it under his control, while the Purple God, the Haoran Sage, and their allies backed the New Tang Empire. The two ten-million-strong armies met at the border and invoked the Way of Forbidden Laws, leaving the outcome of the battle unresolved.

• The Divine Body saw the Immortals establishing outside systems of their own, making it harder for Li Qing to hunt them down through causality.
• Li Qing ordered Li Qinglian to prepare the Civilization Empire’s ten million Dao Soldiers for a war to bring the entire world under his will.
• The Purple God and the Haoran Sage agreed with their allies to support the New Tang Empire against Li Qing’s forces.
• Li Qing recruited Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha, the Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord, and their allies to send Anomaly-bodied clones into the Civilization Empire’s army.
• The Civilization Empire and the New Tang Empire assembled armies of more than ten million Dao Soldiers, with Immortal clones prepared to become Anomalies.
• Li Qinglian led the Civilization Empire’s army toward the New Tang forces, and both sides invoked the Way of Forbidden Laws when they drew near.

With supernatural power suppressed, Li Qing’s Civilization Empire gained ground through coordinated giant avatars and precise catapult fire, while the gods watched to see which side would win. The Haoran Sage and the other Immortal Realm experts faced a worsening battlefield and looked for a way to turn the tide.

• With vital essence suppressed, both armies sent out six giant Anomaly bodies, and the twelve giants clashed as the troops advanced around them.
• Li Qing directed the Civilization Empire’s catapults to intercept incoming stones in midair and strike the New Tang Empire’s forces.
• Purple God and the other experts recognized Li Qing’s superior army coordination, and the Haoran Sage took command of their army.
• Spiritual Rhinoceros secretly passed battlefield information to Li Qing, whose forces built small advantages and began overwhelming pockets of the opposing army.
• The Haoran Sage and his companions watched their forces falter, while gods across the Heavenly Realm, Underworld, and mortal world observed the war and weighed which side to support.

As the war under the Way of Forbidden Laws continued, the Haoran Sage built a fortified city to counter Li Qing’s superior command. Li Qing split off troops to attack across the border, and the Haoran Sage prepared to meet them with battle formations while guarding against a trap.

• The Haoran Sage ordered the Immortals to build a vast fortified city and withdrew nearly ten million Dao Soldiers into it.
• The Divine Body recognized that a direct siege would cause heavy losses and that he could not infiltrate the city.
• Li Qing sent 300,000 Dao Soldiers in thirty groups to attack villages, towns, and small cities along the border.
• The Haoran Sage dispatched an equal number of troops in thirty groups and warned the Immortals not to risk powerful clones.
• The Haoran Sage urged the Immortals to intercept Li Qing’s scattered forces using battle formations alone.

The Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord plotted to find Li Qing’s hidden base and ambush his future Immortal tribulation, then secretly returned to the Nine Provinces Four Regions as concealed conceptual essence. The Divine Body recognized their return and began planning a new cover identity while the Past Body oversaw the Dao Soldiers’ occupation of the Hundred Great Worlds’ outer ring.

• The Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord concluded that Li Qing had likely won and discussed ways to find his hidden base and track down his mental imprints.
• The Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord agreed to search for Li Qing’s other base, prepare a trap for his Immortal tribulation, and secretly descend through the River of Fate.
• The Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord reached the Nine Provinces Four Regions, discarded their power, and hid as conceptual essence within its logic.
• The Divine Body used the Jade Tablet to reconstruct the sovereigns’ return and resolved to keep the Past Body and Future Body hidden and create a new cover identity.
• The Past Body oversaw seventy million Dao Soldiers occupying the Hundred Great Worlds’ outer ring as a palace of civilization rose in the north.

Li Qing organized the newly formed Civilization Spreaders and infiltrated the Void Alliance’s armies while preparing to conquer the Hundred Great Worlds. Elsewhere, Xuanyuan Changlong established himself as the sole Heavenly Emperor of a world, but its Qi Fate still fell short of what he needed for his Immortal Realm tribulation.

• Li Qing’s Past Body welcomed 158 Longevity Realm cultivators and ordered them to build the Civilization Spreaders and prepare for the coming war.
• Zhang Wuqie led Dao Soldiers to force an enemy army to retreat, allowing Li Qing’s Faith Incarnation to infiltrate their city.
• Li Qing’s Faith Incarnation brainwashed the enemy’s officers and expanded his control to about three million Dao Soldiers, planning to take over the army within months.
• Xuanyuan Changlong used the Investiture of Gods List to merge his logic with a world and decree himself its sole Heavenly Emperor.
• Xuanyuan Changlong found that the world’s Qi Fate was still insufficient for his Immortal Realm tribulation, despite gaining the power to leave the world freely.

Xuanyuan Changlong and other immortals established Three Realms Systems across different worlds, spreading a new method of growth and warfare through the void. Meanwhile, darkness gathered at the bottom of the Infinite Universe, The Indescribable threatened High-Dimensional Spacetime, and a flesh-and-blood avatar used the resulting chaos to expand his intelligence network.

• Xuanyuan Changlong prepared to gather resources in the cluster of worlds and moved his Three Realms System toward a nearby world.
• Shou, Yama Son of Heaven, and Yuan Zhihui established Three Realms Systems in separate worlds, while Bright Moon, Sun Emperor, and other immortals began doing the same.
• Darkness and negative essence accumulated at the bottom of the Infinite Universe, forming a Dark Ocean, dark crystals, and an abyss that drew in Anomalies.
• The Indescribable appeared across High-Dimensional Spacetime, destroying parts of cities and forcing powerhouses to seal regions engulfed by gray fog.
• A flesh-and-blood avatar established information nodes in a damaged city, taking advantage of weakened inspections to preserve and expand his intelligence network.

The Flesh avatar uncovered Ashes of The Indescribable’s plan to infiltrate the All-Beings Dynasty with intelligent Indescribables and spread contamination across the universe. He began a two-part effort to destroy the intelligent monsters and force Ashes to descend, while the Nine Great Rulers learned of the scheme and discussed Ashes’s likely target.

• The Flesh avatar used the Way of Changes Jade Tablet to detect that The Indescribable’s contamination was shifting from the wilderness into cities.
• The Flesh avatar deduced Ashes’s plan to use intelligent Indescribables to infiltrate the All-Beings Dynasty, spread into low-dimensional spacetime, and ultimately kill Li Qing and devour the universe fragment.
• The Flesh avatar decided to eliminate all intelligent Indescribables while monitoring and disrupting Ashes’s plans until Ashes descended in person.
• The Flesh avatar used the Wish Spell to show the City Lord of Great Yu City a map identifying intelligent Indescribables, and the city lord reported it through the logical network.
• The Nine Great Rulers received the information and examined part of Ashes’s plan.
• The Lord of Myriad Sects suspected Ashes was pursuing an enemy in lower-dimensional spacetime, while the Radiant Emperor warned that they had to stop the plan to prevent the universe’s destruction.

The Nine Great Rulers erased intelligent Indescribables and sealed their essences while the Lord of Myriad Buddhas and Teachings theorized about the mysterious person behind the disaster. He suspected the Radiant Emperor and the Underworld Devil Lord were searching for someone with a powerful information-gathering treasure, but the rulers had yet to explain why they spared that person’s world.

• The Nine Great Rulers used nine kinds of conceptual logic to erase intelligent Indescribables and seal their essences apart for continued study.
• The Lord of Myriad Buddhas and Teachings gathered the rulers and said the Radiant Emperor, the Underworld Devil Lord, and Ashes were searching for the same person or object.
• The Lord of Myriad Buddhas and Teachings linked five events surrounding The Indescribable to a mysterious person who could gather and process information.
• The Lord of Myriad Buddhas and Teachings conjectured that the person used a treasure and an information network to locate Indescribables and trigger the disaster to hinder the search for him.
• The Lord of Myriad Buddhas and Teachings reasoned that the Radiant Emperor and the Underworld Devil Lord had obtained the Three Realms System from the mysterious person, yet had not destroyed his world.

The Lord of Myriad Sects deduced that a mysterious Fate-less One was connected to the Three Realms System and ordered a search across low-dimensional space-time. Li Qing realized the Sovereigns had traced the system to his worlds and warned the Nine Provinces Four Regions that discovery could bring the Nine Great Rulers down upon them.

• The Lord of Myriad Sects persuaded the Sovereigns that a mysterious Fate-less One from a Three Realms System world had attracted The Indescribable and Ashes, and that the Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord were concealing him.
• The Lord of Myriad Sects proposed searching Three Realms System worlds, expanding outposts, and testing the mysterious person's power by destroying his information-gathering network.
• The seven great Sovereigns dispatched seven armies into low-dimensional space-time and sent avatars to search high-dimensional cities for lifeforms below Foundation Establishment.
• Li Qing learned of the searches and ordered the Three Realms System hidden, warning that its discovery could prompt the Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord to expose the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• Li Qing summoned the Nine Heavenly Emperors and the Ghost Emperor, explained that the Nine Great Rulers might descend if they found them, and left them facing the danger of imminent discovery.

Li Qing proposed concealing and protecting the Nine Provinces Four Regions with a formation built from thirty-six worlds, and Haoran Sage agreed alongside the other powers. As a vast fleet led by the Eternal Holy Emperor approached, the Nine Provinces Four Regions prepared for war and sent Purple God and his companions to scout.

• Li Qing proposed using thirty-six worlds to form a barrier around the Nine Provinces Four Regions and delaying his next tribulation to buy time.
• Purple God, Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha, and Haoran Sage agreed to Li Qing's plan.
• The Nine Provinces Four Regions sensed more than a hundred approaching worlds, and the Divine Body welcomed the chance to use them to strengthen the formation.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor detected the Nine Provinces Four Regions, ordered scouts dispatched, and set his worlds in motion to prepare for conquest.
• The Divine Body assigned Purple God and his four companions to scout the approaching fleet using the Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon and the Void Fortress Divine Shuttle.

Li Qing proposed expanding the heavenly and yin gods and using Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to reward their contributions with Qi Fate, turning care for the world into a way to manage tribulations. The immortals approved the plan, and recruitment began as the ground war continued; meanwhile, Li Qing's Faith Incarnation roamed the territories of Immortal Supreme God and the others.

• The Divine Body urged the immortals to prepare for war against a vast group of worlds, but they rejected an immediate expansion to one hundred million Dao Soldiers.
• Li Qing proposed increasing heavenly soldiers and gods, and distributing Qi Fate to Mountain Gods, Land Gods, and Water Gods according to how well they served their communities and environments.
• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha, the Haoran Sage, and Purple God agreed to Li Qing's plan, and academies and Dao Lineages increased civil service examinations and recruitment.
• Newly selected candidates trained in pocket heavens before taking up posts across the world, while the New Tang Empire and the Civilization Empire remained locked in a ground war that increasingly favored the Civilization Empire.
• The Nine Provinces Four Regions entered a period of vigorous growth, and Li Qing's Faith Incarnation continued roaming the territories of Immortal Supreme God and the others.

Li Qing's Past Body launched an assault on the Void Council, using brainwashed officers to turn its Dao Soldiers against its own army and break through the border. The seven councilors held off his Hand of the Firmament and began evacuating their people through a prepared grotto-heaven, leaving the battle at a stalemate.

• Li Qing's Past Body gathered power from seventy million Dao Soldiers and the formations of many worlds, then attacked the Void Council with the Hand of the Firmament.
• The seven councilors and their forces met the attack with the Logic Network, and the resulting clash shattered the world barrier.
• The thirty million Dao Soldiers abruptly withdrew their power as ten million more charged in, while brainwashed officers betrayed the Void Council and helped Li Qing's forces seize the border cities.
• Immortal Supreme God ordered the councilors to abandon the battle and escape, and they began moving their people into a prepared grotto-heaven.
• The Past Body pressed down with his full strength as the seven councilors resisted together, leaving both sides locked in a stalemate.

The Twenty-one grotto-heavens formed an array and broke through Li Qing's barrier, escaping after trying to destroy the Hundred Great Worlds' core. Li Qing subdued the core, conquered the worlds, and began establishing Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and a new Three Realms system.

• Immortal Supreme God and the other cultivators fused twenty-one grotto-heavens into an array that broke through the Hand of the Firmament and escaped the Hundred Great Worlds.
• The escaping cultivators triggered explosions at the world's core, but Li Qing redirected his power to suppress them instead of intercepting the array.
• Li Qing's Future Body planned to conquer more world clusters, while Dao Soldiers took control of every city in the Hundred Great Worlds.
• Li Qing announced that academies and a new Three Realms system would be established, and told the gathered cultivators to leave their former divine positions for their successors.
• Li Qing used his Faith Incarnation and the world's logic to create Heavenly Dao above, Reincarnation below, and the Heavenly Realm and Underworld around the Hundred Great Worlds.

The Past Body completed the Three Realms System and moved the Hundred Great Worlds into the void, while the Immortal Supreme God and his allies sought a new home. As the Nine Provinces Four Regions prospered and the Civilization Empire gained ground in its war, the Bright Heavenly Emperor told Li Qing he was ready to enter the wider battlefield.

• The Past Body connected the Heavenly Dao and Reincarnation through Civilization Logic, completing the Three Realms System and forming a concealed world formation with the Hundred Great Worlds and thirty-six smaller worlds.
• The Past Body used the formation to travel through the void, drawing in cosmic essence while considering the limits of its power.
• The Immortal Supreme God led the seven councilors toward a vast cluster of worlds where they hoped to start over.
• The Nine Provinces Four Regions grew prosperous, and the Civilization Empire gained territory in its ongoing war against the New Tang Empire, whose covert schemes Li Qing saw through.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor visited Li Qing at the Civilization Academy and explained that his power was approaching the strength of a Conceptual Logic Prototype.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor told Li Qing that his control of logic qualified him for the real battlefield and described the universe’s five great clusters of worlds.

The Bright Heavenly Emperor explained the path to Final Logic and planned to build his foundation in the Eastern World Cluster, while Li Qing chose a separate route to avoid future conflict. He warned Li Qing that the Nine Great Rulers’ visible forms concealed most of their strength, then gave him a token before leaving.

• The Bright Heavenly Emperor explained that creating Three Realms Systems across a world cluster could help them challenge the Nine Great Rulers and pursue Final Logic.
• Li Qing learned that the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation path closed one’s logic through control of a universe, and reflected that his Civilization Logic followed a related path based on the wisdom of living beings.
• Li Qing asked whether his and the Bright Heavenly Emperor’s different paths might eventually clash, and the Bright Heavenly Emperor agreed that any conflict would end in a contest of life and death.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor planned to seize the Eastern World Cluster as his foundation, while Li Qing agreed to go elsewhere and keep a safe distance between them.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor warned Li Qing that the Nine Great Rulers’ visible forms represented only a fraction of their strength and that their true bodies had merged with high-dimensional spacetime.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor gave Li Qing a golden token for future contact and departed.

Li Qing asked the Bright Heavenly Emperor to help arrange a war in the eastern world cluster so he could complete his Immortal Tribulation, then reflected on his plan to build civilization and control his own fate. Later, the Jade Tablet revealed powerful figures who had found alternative paths to enlightenment, leaving Li Qing astonished by their methods.

• Li Qing asked the Bright Heavenly Emperor to prepare civilizations to attack the Nine Provinces Four Regions, and the Bright Heavenly Emperor agreed.
• Li Qing considered how he would use the wisdom of intelligent life to build civilization and attain the Dao, while the New Tang Empire continued to lose ground.
• As the high-dimensional spacetime grew more contaminated and the All-Beings Dynasty tightened its rule, Li Qing’s avatars struggled to gather intelligence and resorted to brainwashing mortals.
• The flesh-and-blood avatar studied Jade Tablet records about Conceptual Logic Prototype experts, including Desolate Age and his dream universe, which offered power close to Conceptual Logic.
• The flesh-and-blood avatar learned that Spirit Mountain Buddha Patriarch and the other experts also used alternative paths to enlightenment, and he marveled at their ingenuity.

Li Qing approached Desolate Age to propose an alliance against the Nine Great Rulers and explain the danger behind the Void Investiture of Gods War. Desolate Age recognized that the rulers were likely targeting the spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses, and Li Qing began outlining a plan to reach higher-dimensional spacetime.

• Li Qing considered recruiting Desolate Age and other Heavenly Dao powerhouses to challenge the Nine Great Rulers.
• Li Qing found Desolate Age in a city of the All-Beings Dynasty and introduced himself as Daoist Li.
• Li Qing claimed he had released The Indescribable and revealed that several other spacetime powerhouses had arrived.
• Li Qing proposed forming an alliance and described a plan to build a vast cosmic civilization to protect an advance into higher-dimensional spacetime.
• Li Qing explained that the Void Investiture of Gods War was meant to lure the Heavenly Dao powerhouses into a trap, and Desolate Age said this confirmed his suspicions about the rulers' scheme.

Li Qing proposed that Desolate Age ally with him, establish civilizations in separate world clusters, and buy time against the Nine Great Rulers. Desolate Age agreed to claim the Southern Region and later told Purple Jade God everything Li Qing had said.

• Li Qing outlined a non-aggression pact and a plan to establish cross-void-level civilizations across the Five Great World Clusters before confronting the Nine Great Rulers.
• Desolate Age questioned whether Li Qing could slay a Ruler, and Li Qing said there was a small chance with luck and cooperation.
• Desolate Age agreed to ally with Li Qing and chose the Southern Region, while Li Qing suggested bringing in Purple Jade God.
• Li Qing gave Desolate Age a communication item for future meetings and left his spiritual imprint in a chess piece.
• After Li Qing's controlled man departed, Desolate Age mused about the Nine Great Rulers and traveled through his Dream Universe to meet Purple Jade God.
• Desolate Age recounted Li Qing's entire proposal to Purple Jade God.