Recaps

Li Qing approached the Dimension God King to propose an alliance, revealing that he knew the God King's alternative path to attaining the Dao and the civilization he had hidden within the Infinite Dimensions. The Dimension God King agreed to cooperate but questioned Li Qing's extraordinary ability to uncover secrets.

• Purple Jade God agreed to join Desolate Age in dividing the southern world cluster and set out to seize his share.
• Li Qing used a pawn to find the Dimension God King on Celestial Immortal Island and introduced himself as Daoist Li.
• Li Qing explained his alliance proposal and showed that he knew the Dimension God King's Infinite Dimensions method of attaining the Dao.
• The Dimension God King agreed to cooperate but said he might not follow Li Qing's plan.
• Li Qing identified the cosmic civilization hidden within the Infinite Dimensions as the Dimension God King's source of confidence.
• The Dimension God King realized Li Qing had uncovered his hidden card and asked whether displaying such abilities would attract unwanted attention.

Li Qing completed an alliance’s division of the four great world clusters and prepared to expand into the north, anticipating a major war. His Future Body reached a distant world cluster and chose a Buddhist world at its outer edge as the starting point for its development.

• Li Qing left the Dimension God King a contact token, while the Dimension God King secretly deployed tiny extradimensional bubbles to observe people on the street.
• Li Qing recruited five powerful allies and assigned them territories in the south, west, and east, reserving the north for his three avatars.
• Li Qing contacted other Conceptual Logic Prototype experts, placing them in a secondary alliance and sorting such experts into three levels by their strength and accomplishments.
• At the Civilization Academy, Li Qing predicted fierce resistance and planned to use his past, present, and future selves to build separate cosmic-level civilizations in the north.
• Li Qing’s Future Body traveled faster than light as a Civilization Logic network, spotted a distant world cluster, and chose its outermost golden Buddhist world as its first foothold.

Li Qing's Future Body entered a Buddhist-ruled world to establish a new human civilization based on feng shui cultivation, then investigated its people and found an unsettling contrast between prosperity and suffering. The chapter left him observing emaciated workshop workers gathered in a Buddhist hall, their numb faces concealing intense hope.

• The Future Body chose the second invasion plan and prepared to build a human civilization isolated from the Lord of Civilization.
• He planned to develop a feng shui cultivation path that resonated with the energies of Heaven and earth and avoided vital essence Aberration, despite the danger of backlash.
• Li Qing analyzed the Buddhist world's barrier and entered through a vortex he opened into its northern ocean.
• He crossed the sea, reached Vajra City, and observed its busy fish trade and apparently prosperous residents.
• In the workshop district, Li Qing found starving, numb workers whose eyes held an inexplicable hope.
• Li Qing watched a group of workers kneel before a Buddha statue while a first-layer Essence Refining monk chanted and tapped a wooden fish.

Li Qing's Future Body uncovered how Heart Lamp Buddha used faith, debt, and corpse-processing rites to control the population and gather cultivation materials. He traced the system's origins to the Ten Thousand Buddhas Glazed World and identified the methods that kept the world stable while exploiting its people.

• Li Qing's Future Body observed believers praying to Heart Lamp Buddha and realized their faith transformed suffering into hope for the next life and yielded essences for cultivators.
• Li Qing's Future Body discovered a pocket heaven where monks processed corpses into Dharma Materials and cultivated Anomalies for Essence Stones.
• Li Qing's Future Body saw carriages carrying corpses to a white palace as Way of Changes recorded and analyzed the system.
• Li Qing's Future Body reconstructed Heart Lamp Buddha's rule: monopolize resources to create debt and hardship, spread faith to make people accept suffering, and enforce costly corpse rites to collect materials and prevent social mobility.

Li Qing's Future Body uncovered Heart Lamp Buddha's system for controlling the world and began preparing to oppose it by building an intelligence network and seeking allies among the rebels. He revealed his knowledge to Linghui Arhat and offered the Savior Organization an alliance, but Linghui Arhat remained unsure whether to trust him.

• Li Qing's Future Body learned that Heart Lamp Buddha's system harvested resources and resentment for the Ten Thousand Buddhas Glazed World, and decided to prepare across thirty-six worlds.
• He sent thirty-five Lord of Human Dao Faith Incarnations to nearby worlds and built an information network covering every city in three days.
• Li Qing's Future Body discovered the Demons, a secret rebel group, and identified Linghui Arhat as its highest-ranking member.
• He traveled to Bright City, entered the rebels' hidden base beneath a teahouse, and contacted Linghui Arhat through a golden mirror.
• Li Qing's Future Body introduced himself as an envoy of the Lord of Human Dao and claimed he could prove his knowledge of the Savior Organization's members and bases.

Li Qing's Future Body convinced Monk Linghui to meet him by revealing the Salvation Organization's structure and the human Dao geomancy cultivation path. He then approached a settlement of people living in the wilderness and offered them a chance to gain power and escape their desperate lives.

• Li Qing's Future Body showed Monk Linghui the Salvation Organization's bases and leaders, and Linghui agreed to trust him.
• Li Qing's Future Body urged the Salvation Organization to follow the Lord of Human Dao and join him in rebelling against Heart Lamp Buddha.
• Li Qing's Future Body revealed the human Dao path of geomancy, and Monk Linghui asked to meet him at Old Leaves Tea House in Bright City.
• Li Qing's Future Body traveled to an underground settlement in the wilderness, where five families struggled to survive.
• Li Qing's Future Body blasted open the cave roof with Formless Sword Qi and urged the settlers to seek power and reclaim their lives.
• The settlers cried out that they wanted to live in the city, while their leader lamented the debts that had driven them into the wilderness.

Future Body Li Qing gathered scattered settlements and Salvation Organization members in the north, building an army under the Lord of Human Dao. With Monk Linghui’s authority and the prayers of the assembled cultivators lifting the world’s suppression, Li Qing’s power recovered and the war began.

• Future Body taught more than twenty people from five households a new Martial Scripture, then led them north to join others gathering for the Lord of Human Dao.
• At Old Leaf Teahouse, Monk Linghui accepted Li Qing’s plan to defeat Heart Lamp Buddha and gave Future Body a token granting him authority over the Salvation Sect’s forces.
• Salvation Organization members converged in the north and built a crude city, where more than one hundred thousand cultivators prayed before a statue of the Lord of Human Dao.
• The cultivators’ prayers strengthened the Lord of Human Dao’s Faith Incarnation and removed the world’s suppression of Future Body, restoring Civilization Logic’s power.
• Salvation Organization members converted to feng shui cultivation, and Future Body assembled an army of one hundred and fifty thousand Dao Soldiers before declaring that the war had begun.

The Future Body organized 150,000 Dao Soldiers and launched a campaign to free humanity from Heart Lamp Buddha's rule as the Salvation Organization exposed the world's hidden truth. Heart Lamp Buddha ordered the rumors suppressed and prepared for the Buddhist tribulation, while resistance spread through the cities.

• The Future Body rallied 150,000 Dao Soldiers under the Lord of Human Dao and led them toward Heart Lamp Buddha to liberate humanity.
• Members of the Salvation Organization spread the truth about Heart Lamp Buddha and the futility of ordinary people's deaths and prayers.
• After the truth reached nearly everyone in three days, Heart Lamp Buddha sensed his tribulation and ordered the Four Great Arhats to suppress rumors, erase memories, and search for the enemy.
• Heart Lamp Buddha concluded that his timing, terrain, and unity would secure victory against the approaching foe.
• Li Qing learned of the memory-cleansing order as commoners who had learned the Martial Scripture resisted or fled, disrupting cities and supplies.

Li Qing's Future Body led an army to conquer White Jade City, where he freed the commoners and brought the city under his control. He continued preparing to unify the Northern Region and build a feng shui Dao field that could spread Civilization Logic across the world.

• Li Qing's Future Body used a hundred-zhang Formless Sword Qi to destroy White Jade City's gate and suppressed its defensive formation with Doomsday Mist Extinguishing Transcendence.
• Li Qing's Future Body defeated and sealed the Dharma Form cultivator, then captured and brainwashed the hostile Buddhist cultivators throughout the city.
• Li Qing's Future Body declared the people free and ordered their debts erased; the salvation organizations seized the wealthy's estates and redistributed land and resources.
• Li Qing's Future Body incorporated the controlled Buddhist Sect cultivators into the Dao Soldiers and arranged for Monk Linghui to delay the search while the Northern Region was unified.
• Li Qing's Future Body's replicas began constructing the Earth Dragon Calamity-Fate Cycle Formation to turn the Northern Region into a feng shui Dao field and spread his Civilization Logic.

Li Qing’s Future Body seized the Northern Region and used feng shui dragon veins to spread Civilization Logic across it, setting it against the world’s own will. He realized the emerging feng shui civilization still needed everyone to cultivate feng shui before it could form its own logic.

• Li Qing’s Future Body planned to test whether feng shui and other doctrines could guide civilizations toward new forms of civilizational logic.
• Monk Linghui secretly gathered forces in Bright City while the Future Body conquered more than thirty northern cities and suppressed news of the advance.
• At Bright City, the Future Body brainwashed the army’s commanders, and Monk Linghui ordered his three million troops to surrender, giving the Future Body control of the Northern Region.
• The Future Body seized Hell Pass and activated a feng shui formation that gathered the Northern Region’s energy and karma into a vast dragon vein.
• The dragon vein spread Civilization Logic through the Northern Region, provoking Heart Lamp Buddha and creating a struggle between two wills within the world.
• The Future Body sensed the forming feng shui civilization and concluded that its people still needed to cultivate feng shui for it to develop its own logic.

Li Qing's Future Body completed the first stage of his Civilization Logic and led the Northern Region's army against Heart Lamp Buddha. As forces from both sides gathered, the chapter ended with the two leaders facing each other before battle.

• Li Qing's Future Body confirmed that civilization could gather the strength of the masses into logic and advanced beyond Hell Pass with a million-strong army as the feng shui formation spread.
• Heart Lamp Buddha summoned four million monk-soldiers, whose march was aided by the world's forces and by animals that cleared their road and supplied food.
• In Exquisite City, Li Ergou prayed to his parents, then left to join the Northern Region's army, while people across the region marched toward the Central Region.
• The Northern Region army halted a hundred li from Heart Lamp Buddha's forces, and Li Qing's Future Body sensed that losing would leave him at a severe disadvantage.
• Heart Lamp Buddha challenged Li Qing's Future Body, calling him a heavenly demon from beyond the domain and demanding that he accept his death.

Li Qing's Future Body led the Northern army against Heart Lamp Buddha, using the anger of people across the world to overpower his momentum before the armies clashed. Heart Lamp Buddha's Bone Heart Lamp countered Li Qing's attacks with Wish Fire, and the battle continued as Li Qing's Civilization Logic enveloped him.

• Li Qing's Future Body revealed that people bearing farm tools had joined the Northern army, and their desire for vengeance overwhelmed Heart Lamp Buddha's spiritual suppression.
• The Savior Organization restored memories and spread the truth across the four other domains, gathering the world's anger into an aura that struck Heart Lamp Buddha.
• Heart Lamp Buddha used the Bone Heart Lamp to invoke hope and rally the world's forces, but Li Qing's Future Body won their first clash of momentum and ordered the army forward.
• Li Qing's Future Body unleashed all seven innate spells and attacked Heart Lamp Buddha, whose Bone Heart Lamp, White Bone Lotus Throne, and Human Skin Kasaya blocked his punch.
• Heart Lamp Buddha's Wish Fire burned away Li Qing's spells, and Li Qing's Future Body recognized that it drew power from the wishes of deceived people.
• Li Qing's Future Body enveloped Heart Lamp Buddha in Civilization Logic as flames of wish surged toward it, and the connections among living beings began to resonate.

Li Qing's Future Body turned the wishes within Heart Lamp Buddha's Bone Heart Lamp into resentment and led his army against the Buddha's forces. After Heart Lamp Buddha retreated into a city, Li Qing secretly prepared a geomantic grand formation, and Heart Lamp Buddha finally noticed the surrounding Mist.

• Li Qing's Future Body used the resentment of living people to corrupt the Bone Heart Lamp's wishes, forcing Heart Lamp Buddha to seal the lamp away.
• Heart Lamp Buddha joined his four million monk soldiers in a lotus Buddhist kingdom and held off Li Qing's attacks while their armies fought.
• After suffering heavier losses, Heart Lamp Buddha withdrew his army into a nearby city and raised its defensive formations.
• Li Qing surrounded the city on three sides and secretly had replicas establish a geomantic grand formation.
• Three days later, Heart Lamp Buddha sensed danger and spotted thick Mist covering the surrounding area.

Li Qing's Future Body used the Northern Region's feng shui power to unleash a growing sea of lightning against Heart Lamp Buddha's Lotus Buddha Kingdom, studying its flaws as it faltered. After breaking the kingdom with a concentrated strike, he attacked Heart Lamp Buddha directly, and Heart Lamp Buddha countered with a punch.

• Li Qing's Future Body drew on the feng shui formation to summon a storm of lightning that battered Heart Lamp Buddha's Lotus Buddha Kingdom.
• As the lightning weakened the kingdom, Li Qing's Future Body and the Jade Tablet analyzed its flaws and deepened his understanding of logic and Final Logic.
• Li Qing's Future Body gathered the army's power into Formless Sword Qi and pierced a flaw in the Lotus Buddha Kingdom, causing it to shatter.
• The lightning engulfed the city and its three million Dao Soldiers, while Heart Lamp Buddha escaped the storm behind his blood-red kasaya and White Bone Lotus Throne.
• Li Qing's Future Body used all seven innate spells and powerful strikes to break Heart Lamp Buddha's two defenses.
• Heart Lamp Buddha raised his hand and punched back as Li Qing's Future Body's huge fist closed in.

Li Qing's Future Body fought Heart Lamp Buddha, whose desperate self-destruction failed to prevent Li Qing from taking the world. Heart Lamp Buddha escaped through a prepared avatar, leaving Li Qing time to establish a world formation before reinforcements could arrive.

• Li Qing's Future Body shattered Heart Lamp Buddha's defenses and drove him into the ground with powerful attacks.
• Heart Lamp Buddha threw the black Bone Heart Lamp to unleash resentment and unknown logic, then burned his life to flee.
• Li Qing's Future Body intercepted Heart Lamp Buddha and suppressed him with a giant palm.
• Heart Lamp Buddha detonated his body, sending out a shockwave that Li Qing's Future Body struggled to withstand.
• Heart Lamp Buddha's consciousness returned to a reserve avatar in the Central Region, and he fled beyond the world barrier.
• Li Qing's Future Body accepted that Heart Lamp Buddha had escaped and planned to forge a world formation before reinforcements arrived.

Li Qing's Future Body conquered the Buddhist Sect's forces and reshaped the world into a Feng Shui Civilization built around world-spanning formations and a new Three Realms System. As the civilization's order took shape, his Civilization Logic transformed from surface-level logic into derivative logic, gaining the ability to split into countless incarnations.

• Li Qing's Future Body defeated and brainwashed the Buddhist Sect's surviving forces, making them his subordinates.
• His army exposed Heart Lamp Buddha's lies, erased commoners' debts, and replaced their broken faith with the worldview of human Dao civilization.
• Li Qing established a new Three Realms System in which the dead held divine positions and the living cultivated feng shui under a Human Emperor chosen through abdication.
• Feng shui formations spread throughout the world, powering farming, transport, production, and the dragon veins that supported the Three Realms System.
• Li Qing's Future Body observed that the entire world had become a vast Feng Shui formation as the new civilization's order connected to his Civilization Logic.
• His Civilization Logic transformed into derivative logic, with Feng Shui Civilization Logic forming its skeleton and enabling it to split into countless incarnations.

Li Qing’s Civilization Logic evolved until his Future Body could rival an Immortal, and he mapped out separate goals for his three bodies. He then led a Confucian army into another world, defeated its Primogenitor Emperor, and began pouring the Heavens Civilization Torrent into his mind.

• Li Qing’s Civilization Logic absorbed the Feng Shui Civilization Order Logic and numerous other logics, giving his bodies power to stand against an Immortal.
• Li Qing planned for his Past Body to devour the Three Realms System, his Future Body to develop independent civilization logics, and his Present Body to target two Concept Logic beings.
• A Faith Incarnation of the Lord of Human Dao became the Heavenly Emperor of the Feng Shui Civilization world and took charge of its feng shui.
• Li Qing’s Future Body entered a second world, rallied one million Confucian believers, and led them toward the center of the world.
• The Primogenitor Emperor marched out with five million troops, but Li Qing’s Future Body shattered his sword light with one punch and grievously wounded him.
• Li Qing’s Future Body poured the Heavens Civilization Torrent into the fallen Primogenitor Emperor’s mind.

Li Qing gathered thirty-six worlds into a concealed formation and realized that true Civilization Logic had to grow from distinct civilizations and their orders rather than be forcibly pieced together. He set the formation against a nearby world as the war of civilizations began, while a Tribulation Realm cultivator watched from a light-devouring warship.

• Li Qing made Zhang Wulong submit and ordered him to turn the conquered world into a Confucian Dao world.
• Li Qing united thirty-six worlds with different civilizations into a formation that concealed them and could unleash destructive natural forces against intruders.
• Li Qing observed how Confucian Dao civilization shaped everyday life and how the School of Mind and Heavenly Principle School developed distinct orders in separate worlds.
• Li Qing concluded that his Civilization Logic should encompass the orders naturally produced by many civilizations, correcting the path he had taken by forcibly devouring other worlds' logics.
• Li Qing sent the world formation toward a nearby medium-sized world where immortals existed, as a Tribulation Realm cultivator watched from a strange warship beyond the Nine Provinces Four Regions.

The Eternal Holy Emperor decided to abandon an attack on the Nine Provinces Four Regions after learning how formidable it was. Before his forces could withdraw, Purple God, Spiritual Rhinoceros, and three other Immortals struck the Holy Light World Cluster with a powerful cannon.

• Divine Eye reported that the Nine Provinces Four Regions contained three immense space-times protected by two powers as strong as the Eternal Holy Emperor, and remained behind to watch it.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor's scout presented a detailed survey, and the God of Light and War warned that an attack could bring disastrous losses.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor ordered his forces to recall Divine Eye and abandon the campaign against the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• Purple God and the other four Immortals reached the edge of the Holy Light World Cluster and prepared the Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon.
• The five Immortals fired the cannon, breaking the cluster's radiant barrier and revealing its many worlds.

The Five Immortals attacked the Holy Light World Cluster but discovered that its grand array and the Eternal Holy Emperor could match their power. As the cluster began to withdraw, Li Qing appeared through a token and advised the Five Immortals to study the array before attempting to breach it.

• The Eternal Holy Emperor used the Holy Light World Grand Array to absorb the Five Immortals’ attack and asked why they had attacked.
• Purple God accused the Holy Light World of approaching the Nine Provinces Four Regions to conquer it and threatened to seize its worlds.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor withdrew the cluster, and Purple God concluded that its world array and the Emperor’s power made a direct assault too risky.
• Spiritual Rhinoceros told the Five Immortals that Li Qing had identified the cluster as the Holy Light World and said it had sent a scout to investigate them.
• Purple God proposed using the Devouring Giant Tree and Void Gate to establish a foothold, but Li Qing warned that they first needed to understand the array and test it with the Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon.

Li Qing deciphered the Holy Light World Grand Array and helped the Five Immortals break into the Holy Light Thirteenth Realm. As the Eternal Holy Emperor gathered armies inside and outside the world to destroy them, the Five Immortals opened the Void Gate and unleashed Heavenly Dao Reincarnation power.

• Li Qing deciphered the Holy Light World Grand Array and explained how the Five Immortals could enter through an outer world.
• The Five Immortals charged through the cannon-blasted passage and descended into the Holy Light Thirteenth Realm, where their Devouring Giant Trees formed a vast domain.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor summoned more than a million Dao Soldiers, while over a thousand warships carrying roughly a billion more converged on the world.
• The Five Immortals prepared the Void Gate as the Eternal Holy Emperor's forces surrounded their domain and fired a thousand beams of holy light at it.
• The Five Immortals opened the Void Gate, sending a torrent of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation power into the Devouring Domain.

Li Qing’s forces repelled the Eternal Holy Emperor’s attacks in the Devouring Giant Tree’s domain, with the Haoran Sage blocking a devastating strike. The Eternal Holy Emperor ordered his fleet to evacuate its people and resources and prepare to destroy the world.

• Over a thousand warships bombarded the Devouring Giant Tree’s domain, but it remained unharmed as the Void Gate brought in Li Qing’s army.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor deployed a hundred million Dao Soldiers, and Li Qing’s forces used precise formations to inflict heavy casualties.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor combined the power of his warships into a strike that pierced the domain and targeted the Void Gate.
• The Haoran Sage emerged at the gate and used his Reincarnation Vortex to block the strike, though the blast killed or injured thousands of Li Qing’s soldiers.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor ordered his vessels to evacuate believers and resources, activated an emergency plan, and prepared to destroy the world.
• The warships began extracting people and supplies from cities, while the Radiant Holy Emperor’s incarnation vanished.

The Eternal Holy Emperor attacked the occupied world while Li Qing’s forces fought back and seized its cities. The emperor’s Faith Incarnation learned about the Three Realms System and decided to use it to strengthen his rule and power.

• The Eternal Holy Emperor combined his strength with the Holy Light Sword and the Holy Light World Grand Array to strike at the occupied world, but Li Qing’s forces met his sword beam with the Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon.
• Li Qing sent the Nine Provinces Four Regions’ forces to seize the world’s cities while Haoran Sage, the immortals, and Purple God held off the emperor’s attacks.
• Li Qing realized the Eternal Holy Emperor was limiting his attacks to investigate Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and secretly began shaping a plan to exploit his curiosity.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor’s Faith Incarnation invaded a mountain god’s mind and learned about the Three Realms System, Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, and the system of gods.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor concluded that establishing the Three Realms System could unite religious and political authority, and planned to use a Child of Destiny and a war to bring it about.

Eternal Holy Emperor planned to use Li Qing’s forces as an enemy in a Three Realms Investiture of Gods War, while Li Qing turned his preparations into a trap. After a month of pursuit, Li Qing’s occupied world reached the neighboring world where Eternal Holy Emperor had assembled his forces.

• Eternal Holy Emperor decided to invade a nearby world, establish an Investiture of Gods List, and use the resulting war to expand his influence.
• Eternal Holy Emperor gathered nearly 1.5 billion Dao Soldiers and a thousand warships for the coming battle.
• Li Qing’s projection revealed Eternal Holy Emperor’s plans to the heavenly emperors and ghost emperors, then proposed crushing the Dao Soldiers with the Human Path Forbidden Law.
• Li Qing ordered his allies to drive their occupied world toward the neighboring world, while Eternal Holy Emperor prepared its Child of Destiny and army.
• After a month of pursuit and interception, Li Qing’s world arrived at the world where Eternal Holy Emperor had gathered his forces.

The Eternal Holy Emperor pinned down Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and sent 1.5 billion Dao Soldiers against Li Qing’s much smaller army. Li Qinglian then unleashed the Way of Forbidden Laws, stripping most of the invading army of supernatural power and causing its airborne soldiers to crash to the ground.

• The two worlds collided, and Heavenly Dao Reincarnation rapidly repaired the damaged spacetime as the Eternal Holy Emperor’s Faith Incarnation led the Holy Light forces toward the boundary.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor used the Holy Light World Grand Formation, his Conceptual Logic Prototype, and the Holy Light Sacred Sword to attack, while forces from the Nine Provinces Four Regions countered with the Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor’s attack tied down the power of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, allowing his 1.5 billion Dao Soldiers to advance toward the boundary.
• Li Qing’s projection led over a hundred million Dao Soldiers to meet the invaders, while Li Qinglian waited at the center of the ground-based formation.
• At Li Qing’s signal, Li Qinglian expanded the Way of Forbidden Laws across a thousand li, stripping supernatural powers from most of the Holy Light army.
• At least 1.2 billion airborne Dao Soldiers plunged to the ground, crushing and injuring one another as the Eternal Holy Emperor stared in shock.