Arc 98Civilization and Betrayal

Li Qing used the Way of Civilization to command an alliance, conquer a universe, and complete a new Great Dao while enemies pursued him. In the Origin Universe, he exposed and defeated traitors, then warned its rulers to prepare for the coming Supreme Calamity.

  • Li Qing organized 175 Infinite Mechanism powerhouses to obstruct Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, but the Seven Supremes uncovered his sects and ordered devastating purges.
  • As the six great factions attacked the alliance, Li Qing coordinated its forces, helped stabilize the kingdoms, and led a strike that killed Primeval Unity Daoist Sect powerhouses at Five Splendors City.
  • While the battlefield spread across the Unique Universe, Li Qing’s Future Body converted the Void Spirit Race, defeated Chaos Supreme True Lord and Order Invincible Divine King, and unified the Hundred Million Races Universe under Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
  • Li Qing completed the Great Dao of Civilization Development Uncertainty as Fire Pole Heaven and Limitless Sword Immortal attacked, then escaped their pursuit with the universe.
  • The Seven Supremes exposed Li Qing to his Infinite Mechanism allies, while the Black Fire Demon God attacked the Origin Universe and forced it to jump away.
  • Li Qing uncovered Haoran Sage’s plan to betray the Origin Universe, exposed his agreement with Heaven-Severing Demoness’s forces, and stripped the traitors of their authority.
  • Heavenly Dao Reincarnation erased Haoran Sage and the other defeated traitors, while Xuanyuan Changlong awakened Three-Part Daoist’s sigils and escaped through the universe’s boundary.
  • Li Qing purged the traitors’ remaining Dao Lineages, told the Council Heavenly Palace the universe was under their control, and urged preparations for the Supreme Calamity.
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Ch. 2427Inciting a Great Power, First Taste of Loss

Li Qing persuaded the Infinite Mechanism powerhouses to unite against the seven Supreme Mechanisms’ search, but the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation power still uncovered his Netherworld and human-world followers. The chapter ended with Li Qing acknowledging his first real failure as the investigation exposed the East Sea islands and millions of lives were exterminated.

  • Li Qing urged the thirty-six Infinite Mechanism powerhouses to contact others and conceal their alliance while obstructing the search.
  • The alliance grew to 175 powerhouses, whose coordinated Infinite Mechanisms disrupted Heavenly Dao Reincarnation’s investigation.
  • The seven Supreme Mechanisms discovered Netherworld grotto-heavens and ghost entities linked to Li Qing, while the entities’ self-destruction concealed information about him.
  • Nirvana Buddha Lord concluded that Li Qing had used the Root Jade Disc to spread a synthesized Dao, and the seven Supreme Mechanisms destroyed the ghost entities, weakening Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
  • Bodhi Daoist identified nearly thirty million human-world sect followers and ordered them killed, while the search also exposed the twenty-six East Sea islands and over a hundred million inhabitants were killed.

Ch. 2428Catastrophic Losses, Civilization Hunted

After the Seven Supremes’ search destroyed much of Li Qing’s network and killed millions of his followers, Li Qing survived the sweep but lost a significant portion of his power. The Seven Supremes identified his civilization-based path and ordered a purge of unknown cultivators and civilization-founded universes, beginning a wider upheaval across Primordial Chaos.

  • Li Qing assessed his losses, including twenty-six destroyed avatars, foundations on twenty-six city-islands, and roughly forty million followers, leaving his Way of Civilization with an upper limit of 55.8-fold evolution level.
  • The combined force of more than a hundred Infinite Mechanism powerhouses blocked Heavenly Dao Reincarnation from fully searching their territories, and Li Qing’s hidden core consciousness and immortal jade pendant survived the sweep.
  • The Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Emperor and the other Seven Supremes examined the traces of Li Qing’s path and concluded that he advanced by establishing sects and spreading the Way of Civilization.
  • Daoist Immeasurable and the Bodhi Daoist proposed eliminating unknown-origin cultivators and targeting universes whose rulers’ paths matched their civilizations’ development.
  • The Seven Supremes issued their orders, prompting the six great factions to register cultivators and kill those who refused while Heavenly Dao Reincarnation’s search collided with the Network of more than a hundred Infinite Mechanisms.

Ch. 2429Confrontation Recedes, Flaw Perceived

After the seven Supreme Mechanisms withdrew from their confrontation with more than a hundred Infinite Mechanism powerhouses, Li Qing assessed his losses and planned to retaliate against the six major powers. He urged thirty-six mighty figures to strike first and investigated why their combined strength had repelled Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, but the cause remained hidden.

  • More than a hundred Infinite Mechanism powerhouses joined their national formations to resist the seven Supreme Mechanisms, which eventually withdrew without killing anyone.
  • The six major powers continued a brutal purge, killing cultivators and forcing Li Qing's followers to hide, while some practitioners of his teachings were still discovered.
  • Li Qing's Present Body acknowledged his losses, resolved to spread his Dao by replacing other Daos, and vowed to destroy forces that attacked his own.
  • Li Qing's surviving avatars captured local Daos and reconstructed cultivation methods as he concealed his Present Body.
  • Li Qing told thirty-six Infinite Mechanism mighty figures that the six major powers would target them and urged them to attack Dao-transmission-level powerhouses before the Supreme Calamity.
  • Li Qing pointed out that more than 170 mighty figures had blocked Heavenly Dao Reincarnation's power and proposed that their linked strength had undergone a transformation, though he could not verify the cause.

Ch. 2434Premature Extinction, Taking the Initiative

The seven Supreme Mechanisms launched coordinated attacks against the territories and forces of the Infinite Mechanism experts, aiming to weaken them before the Supreme Cataclysm. Li Qing recognized the plan and urged the experts to unite under his command, creating an opportunity for Stone Daoist to break through into an Infinite Mechanism.

  • The seven Supreme Mechanisms agreed to wage war against the forces under the Infinite Mechanism experts and ordered the six great factions to attack.
  • The six great factions besieged the Central Divine Continent’s border kingdoms while Heavenly Court forces attacked sects within the Infinite Mechanism experts’ territories.
  • Li Qing used Civilization Information Essence to infer that the Supremes planned to weaken their rivals before the Supreme Cataclysm, and saw the resulting chaos as a chance for Stone Daoist to break through.
  • Li Qing told the Infinite Mechanism experts that the Supremes had begun their decisive attack and urged them to let him coordinate their subordinate forces.

Ch. 2435Future Coercion, Finally Grasping the Lead

Li Qing persuaded the 175 Infinite Mechanism powerhouses that his test had revealed how to resist the Supreme Mechanisms and that he could coordinate their response to the assault on their territories. They agreed to let him direct their forces, and projections of more than ten thousand subordinate powerhouses gathered to receive orders.

  • All 175 Infinite Mechanism powerhouses arrived, and Earth Source Immortal Venerable recognized Li Qing and wondered what scheme he was pursuing.
  • Li Qing explained that the Infinite Mechanism Network could restrain the Supreme Mechanisms and warned that they could use the Unique Universe to project overwhelming power throughout Primordial Chaos.
  • Hell Daoist challenged Li Qing over the turmoil caused by his test, but Li Qing said the powerhouses had to choose whether to follow his leadership or risk being defeated piecemeal.
  • Supreme True Demon asked for Li Qing's plan, and Li Qing proposed gathering their subordinate powerhouses' projections into a command center so he could direct their forces against the six major factions.
  • Vacuum Mother accepted Li Qing's proposal, and the 175 powerhouses summoned more than ten thousand Preaching Dao and Evolution-level projections, who divided into groups and awaited orders.

Ch. 2436Quelling Internal Strife, External Threats Stalemate

Li Qing used unified information-based command to crush rebellions across the kingdoms and halt the six great powers’ offensive, creating a stalemate. He then proposed sending three thousand Dao-transmitting experts on surprise attacks, but Primordial Unity Daoist warned that the plan risked exposing them to a trap.

  • Li Qing used the Civilization Information Essence and Jade Tablet to calculate and transmit detailed commands to the Infinite Mechanism experts and their forces.
  • A coordinated strike by the Primordial Unity Kingdom’s formation and the Primordial Unity Sect killed the City God attacking the sect, as similar actions suppressed rebellions across Central Divine Continent.
  • The kingdoms stabilized, allowing their forces to hold back the six great powers’ advance and bring the battlefield to a stalemate.
  • Great Vow Daoist and Rahu Divine Lord recognized Li Qing’s intervention and decided the six great powers would wage a war of attrition while seeking to unify the universe.
  • Li Qing proposed sending three thousand Dao-transmitting experts to strike strongholds of the six major powers, and Primordial Unity Daoist questioned the plan’s risks and the threat posed by the twenty-three enemy Infinite Mechanism experts.

Ch. 2437Surprise Attack on the Daoist Sect, Luring the Snake Out of Its Hole

Li Qing organized a mobile force to counter the six major factions and ordered a surprise attack on Five Splendors City. The chapter ended with the city’s defenders crushing Dusk Cloud City’s opening assault, just as Li Qing’s larger operation began.

  • Li Qing persuaded the gathered powers to form a mobile force and redeployed experts while linked formations strengthened the kingdoms’ defenses.
  • Li Qing assembled one hundred experts on the eastern front and selected Five Splendors City as their target, identifying its five elite Dao-spreading powers and other defenders.
  • Li Qing gave the attackers their target locations and assigned groups of twenty to counter each enemy’s Great Dao.
  • Li Qing ordered Daoist Wuxin and nine other Dao-propagating powers to attack from Dusk Cloud City, drawing a response from Five Splendors City.
  • Five Splendors City’s defenders unleashed a torrent of Great Dao radiance that shattered the flames and bore down on Dusk Cloud City.

Ch. 2438Extinction Strike, Great Powers Clash

Li Qing’s forces ambushed the Primeval Unity Daoist Sect, killing five supreme Dao-transmission powerhouses and thirty more elites before withdrawing. The Mystic Spirit Daoist and other Infinite Mechanism experts blocked the Xuandu Boundless Great Dharma Celestial Master, while Li Qing continued coordinating the wider battle and the eastern front turned against the Primeval Unity Daoist Sect.

  • Li Qing’s projection ordered more than a hundred cultivators to launch a carefully coordinated, overwhelming attack on the five Primeval Unity Daoist Sect powerhouses at Dusk Cloud City.
  • The five powerhouses’ Dao arts were crushed, their Great Daos shattered, and their true bodies killed, forcing them to revive at Evolution level.
  • The other thirty Dao-transmission powerhouses retreated, but Li Qing’s forces surrounded and killed them as the ambushers pressed their advantage.
  • The Xuandu Boundless Great Dharma Celestial Master pursued the fleeing attackers, but the Mystic Spirit Daoist and twenty-two allies intercepted him and held off the Infinite Mechanism experts.
  • Li Qing’s Present Body directed more than one hundred preachers as his Past Body used Civilization Information Essence and the Jade Tablet to assess the battle; the eastern front began suppressing the Primeval Unity Daoist Sect.

Ch. 2439Gathering Troops Tactics, Combining Strength to Break the Situation

The six major factions gathered their forces into Dao formations and attacked the cities of Central Divine Continent, forcing Li Qing to reinforce the national formations with Infinite Mechanism power. The attack was repelled, locking the upper echelons into mutual restraint and leaving Li Qing to face the lower-level forces in a war of attrition.

  • Bodhi Daoist and the other Supreme Mechanism powerhouses recognized Li Qing’s tactics and decided to gather their forces into six main formations.
  • The six major factions assembled their preacher-level powerhouses and formed Dao formations to threaten cities protected by national formations.
  • Li Qing ordered the Infinite Mechanism powerhouses to reinforce the combined national formations and told the alliance to shift to defense.
  • The six Dao formations and twenty-three Infinite Mechanism powerhouses attacked, but the reinforced national formations blocked the assault.
  • The battle tied down the Supreme Mechanism, Infinite Mechanism, and Dao formation powers, leaving the lower-level forces to decide the war.
  • Li Qing told the alliance to keep the six major factions’ upper echelons restrained while he held back their lower-level forces.

Ch. 2440Micro-Operation Warfare, The Plan Begins

As the war in the Unique Universe stalled, Li Qing sent his Future Body into a powerful universe ruled by the Great Daos of chaos and order. He began a plan to seize control by harnessing its surplus power, starting with the Void Spirit Race.

  • Great Vow Daoist said the Supreme Mechanisms had broken the enemy's troop-concentration tactics and led the forces below the Evolution level into a widespread war across the Unique Universe.
  • Li Qing's Present Body and Past Body used Civilization Information Essence and the Jade Tablet to direct their armies, while the fighting reached a stalemate.
  • Li Qing's Future Body sent a Concept Logic-level avatar into a chaotic universe, where it assessed the power of the Great Daos of chaos and order and devised a plan to capture the universe's surplus power.
  • Concept Li Qing descended on a mobile fortress of the Void Spirit Race and used the Way of Civilization to bring its inhabitants under his control.
  • Concept Li Qing ordered the Void Spirit Race to capture other void civilizations and establish an empire, then sent its members revised cultivation and logical-artifact manufacturing knowledge.

Ch. 2441Blackwater Trap, Two Powers Strike

Li Qing's Future Body expanded the Void Spirit Race's territory, then gathered the universe's negative forces into a Blackwater vortex to form a path for civilization. Chaos Supreme True Lord and Order Invincible Divine King attacked the vortex, unaware that the Way of Civilization was luring them inside.

  • Li Qing's Future Body directed the transformed Void Spirit Race to conquer the Walrus Clan and more than a thousand other weak civilizations, building a northern territory and gathering information about the universe.
  • Li Qing's Future Body traveled to the universe's bottom and called on the dead to seek revenge, drawing negative forces into a Blackwater vortex.
  • Li Qing's Future Body hid inside the vortex as the Way of Civilization spread and the universe's suppression of it faded.
  • Chaos Supreme True Lord and Order Invincible Divine King sensed the new Great Dao and went to investigate the growing Blackwater vortex.
  • Chaos Supreme True Lord and Order Invincible Divine King attacked the vortex together, but the Way of Civilization stabilized it and concealed itself from their senses.
  • Chaos Supreme True Lord and Order Invincible Divine King decided to use their full strength and enter the vortex before its negative forces formed a Netherworld.

Ch. 2442Severing the Suppression, Sweeping All

Li Qing trapped Chaos Supreme True Lord and Order Invincible Divine King in the Blackwater Ocean, used Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to conquer and restructure the Hundred Million Races Universe, and became its Lord of Uncertainty. As he cultivated a civilization shaped by uncertainty, the Order Invincible Divine King's avatar considered using an outside attack to test the situation.

  • Li Qing's Future Body severed the two experts from the universe's redundant power, then used Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to absorb that power and block their concentrated attack.
  • Li Qing ordered the Void Spirit Race and its subordinate races to conquer the universe and establish Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, defeating the armies of the two experts.
  • Li Qing unified the universe, made Heavenly Dao Reincarnation its sole order, and became the Lord of Uncertainty before allowing civilizations to develop and fight freely.
  • Li Qing's Future Body used the universe's power to suppress the two experts and shield the universe from outside communication, while Li Qing spread the Uncertainty Great Dao.
  • In a distant universe, the Order Invincible Divine King's avatar considered letting the beings attacking from outside test the situation.

Ch. 2443Shifting the Blame Eastward, the Great Dao's Metamorphosis

Order Invincible Divine King misdirected Fire Pole Heaven toward Li Qing, while Li Qing’s cultivation of uncertainty culminated in a civilization-fueled Great Dao metamorphosis. The final great Tribulation’s fluctuations reached the trapped Chaos Supreme True Lord and Order Invincible Divine King, who wondered who was evolving a Great Dao.

  • Order Invincible Divine King told Fire Pole Heaven about Li Qing’s creation of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and sent him the coordinates of the Hundred Million Races Universe.
  • Fire Pole Heaven stopped attacking Order Invincible Divine King’s universe and vanished with his subordinates to investigate Li Qing.
  • Li Qing’s Future Body guided civilizations across the Hundred Million Races Universe to divide into independent, uncertain paths while suppressing Chaos Supreme True Lord and Order Invincible Divine King in Blackwater.
  • After more than ten thousand years, Li Qing merged Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and the civilizations’ great tide into his body, beginning the metamorphosis of a Great Dao.
  • Chaos Supreme True Lord and Order Invincible Divine King sensed the final great Tribulation’s fluctuations and wondered who was evolving a Great Dao.

Ch. 2444The Fire Department Descends, Joining Forces with Hunyuan

Fire Pole Heaven and Limitless Sword Immortal attacked the Hundred Million Races Universe while Li Qing was condensing a second Great Dao. Their combined Dao Arts shattered the universe’s defenses, forcing Li Qing to use Chaos Supreme True Lord and Order Invincible Divine King as a shield against Limitless Sword Immortal’s strike.

  • Fire Pole Heaven arrived outside the Hundred Million Races Universe and attacked its barrier, but Heavenly Dao Reincarnation dispersed the force.
  • Limitless Sword Immortal arrived, agreed to join Fire Pole Heaven, and prepared a Dao Art strike against the universe.
  • Li Qing watched the attackers and arranged for Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to draw the sealed Chaos Supreme True Lord and Order Invincible Divine King into the sword’s path.
  • Limitless Sword Immortal’s sword and Fire Pole Heaven’s Heavenly Dao Fire shattered the universe’s defenses.
  • The sword pierced the Blackwater sphere and exposed Chaos Supreme True Lord and Order Invincible Divine King, who detonated their Infinite Mechanism traces to resist it.

Ch. 2445Disaster Blocked, Countermeasures

Li Qing used the Order Invincible Divine King and the Chaos Supreme True Lord to blunt the attackers’ assault, then escaped with the Hundred Million Races Universe by triggering a Primordial Chaos uncertainty jump. He repaired the universal barrier and prepared the universe to divide and disperse incoming Dao arts as Fire Pole Heaven and the Limitless Sword Immortal launched a second attack.

  • The Limitless Sword Immortal’s strike shattered the Order Invincible Divine King and the Chaos Supreme True Lord, and Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation forced their fragments into Heavenly Dao Fire.
  • As the fire burned their Great Daos, the two enemies self-destructed to damage the universe, but Li Qing used Primordial Chaos uncertainty to sever the attackers’ blows and move the universe away.
  • Fire Pole Heaven and the Limitless Sword Immortal pursued the Hundred Million Races Universe as Li Qing’s Future Body restored its barrier with the power of Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
  • Li Qing ordered civilizations within one hundred billion light-years of the boundary to evacuate through void passages while stellar artificial gods activated the Universe Devouring Grand Formation to shrink the universe and prepare to disperse Dao arts through future time.
  • At the forty-fourth breath, Fire Pole Heaven, the Orthodox God of the Fire Department, their generals, and the Limitless Sword Immortal descended and unleashed Heavenly Dao Fire and Limitless Disorder again.

Ch. 2446Consume the Void, Divide the Projection

Li Qing's Future Body used Civilization Equivalent Exchange to divide and project the attackers' Dao techniques into the future, preserving the universe from their strikes. After Fire Pole Heaven and the Limitless Sword Immortal pursued him again and unleashed far stronger attacks, Li Qing consumed much of the universe to project their power across a vast span of future time, leaving the universe drastically reduced as their eightyfold Evolution-level assault descended.

  • Li Qing's Future Body spent the mass of one hundred billion light-years to send Fire Pole Heaven's and the Limitless Sword Immortal's attacks twenty thousand years into the future, splitting them into millions of strands and protecting the universe.
  • Fire Pole Heaven and the Limitless Sword Immortal launched new attacks, but the Hundred Million Races Universe vanished again before their strikes landed.
  • Li Qing's Future Body prepared to hold off one final strike while Civilization Development Uncertainty neared completion and civilizations crowded into the universe's depths.
  • Fire Pole Heaven and the Limitless Sword Immortal agreed to expend one complete trace of Infinite Mechanism each and unleashed attacks more than twenty times stronger than before.
  • Li Qing activated the Void-Devouring Grand Array, shrinking the universe by four hundred billion light-years and projecting the attacks across time up to two hundred and twenty thousand years ahead.
  • The attacks divided into more than one hundred and thirty million portions, the universe was reduced to half its original size, and the attackers' eightyfold Evolution-level power descended.

Ch. 2447Escape from Heaven, Hunters Gather

Li Qing survived Fire Pole Heaven and the Limitless Sword Immortal’s assault, completed the Great Dao of Civilization Development Uncertainty, and escaped with the Hundred Million Races Universe. He began planning Civilization Infinite Cyclical Logic while the six great powers gathered after Fire Pole Heaven linked him to Water Spirit Immortal’s encounter with the Way of Civilization.

  • Li Qing completed the Great Dao of Civilization Development Uncertainty, and the Hundred Million Races Universe vanished before Fire Pole Heaven and the Limitless Sword Immortal could attack again.
  • Fire Pole Heaven recognized that Li Qing’s Way of Civilization resembled the power Water Spirit Immortal had encountered, and he and the Limitless Sword Immortal set off to meet the others.
  • Li Qing’s Future Body considered how to create Civilization Infinite Cyclical Logic by linking the logic of life with the logic of heaven, earth, and nature across multiple universes.
  • Li Qing’s Future Body left to pursue a new target while the Order Universe, Four Gods Universe, and Indescribable Universe tracked the Origin Universe as part of the Second Unique Universe Plan.
  • The six great powers gathered in Primordial Chaos, and the Black Fire Demon God demanded that Fire Pole Heaven explain why he had summoned them.

Ch. 2448Alliance Search, Borrowing Strength in Reverse

Fire Pole Heaven and the Limitless Sword Immortal organized a coordinated search for Li Qing after reporting his immense power and spread of multiple Great Daos. In the Unique Universe, the seven supreme beings learned more about Li Qing’s ambitions and resolved to use the Infinite Mechanism powers against him, leaving Li Qing unable to stop the ensuing purge of sects.

  • Fire Pole Heaven described how Li Qing had invaded multiple universes and reached nearly sixty times the evolutionary level, prompting the group to establish a coordinated search across the Wild Domain.
  • The Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Emperor told the seven supreme beings that Li Qing had mastered at least four Great Daos and was incorporating their Daos into his civilization.
  • The Rahu Divine Lord and the other supreme beings agreed that Li Qing must not attain the Dao, and One-Line Daoist proposed using Infinite Mechanism powers to suppress him.
  • The seven leaked information about Li Qing, and the one hundred and seventy-five Infinite Mechanism great powers cut contact with him and began purging sects in their territories.
  • Li Qing’s Present Body noticed the purges but could not intervene because he was constrained by the larger situation.

Ch. 2449Origin Exposed, Reason Revealed

The Black Fire Demon God stopped the Origin Universe and demanded to search it on behalf of the six major powers of the Unique Universe. Li Qing's Past Body revealed that the searchers were pursuing him and urged the rulers to refuse, while the Universe Ark Plan gathered to reconsider its pursuit of Li Qing's secret treasures.

  • The Black Fire Demon God blocked the moving Origin Universe, and the All-Heavens Divine Emperor confronted him with the universe's gathered power.
  • The Black Fire Demon God demanded access to search the universe and threatened it with the strength of the six major powers and their hundreds of Evolution-level powerhouses.
  • The All-Heavens Divine Emperor returned to the Council Heavenly Palace and repeated the demand to the assembled rulers.
  • Li Qing's Past Body explained that the search was aimed at him and warned that allowing the Black Fire Demon God inside could expose the Origin Universe to a devastating siege.
  • Li Qing's Past Body advised the rulers to refuse, probe the surrounding Primordial Chaos, and prepare to make a coordinate jump.
  • Haoran Sage gathered the members of the Universe Ark Plan and said they had to abandon their desire for Li Qing's secret treasures.

Ch. 2450Betrayal Decision, Escape Crisis

The Haoran Sage and the All-Heavens Divine Emperor’s factions considered betraying Li Qing to the Unique Universe, but Li Qing uncovered their plans as the Black Fire Demon God attacked the Origin Universe. The Origin Universe escaped by compressing and jumping to unknown coordinates, though the All-Heavens Divine Emperor warned that they were now being hunted.

  • The Haoran Sage urged his allies to secretly sell Li Qing’s information to the Unique Universe, while the All-Heavens Divine Emperor’s faction planned to wait for the Supreme Cataclysm of Primordial Chaos Tribulation before targeting him.
  • The All-Heavens Divine Emperor’s faction unanimously voted to conceal Li Qing’s information, but Li Qing’s Past Body used the Jade Tablet to learn their plans and the Unique Universe’s response.
  • The All-Heavens Divine Emperor rejected the Black Fire Demon God’s proposal, prompting the demon god to attack the Origin Universe and summon twenty Evolution- and Dao-Transmission-level reinforcements.
  • Heavenly Dao Reincarnation dispersed the Black Fire Demon God’s attack as the Origin Universe activated its compression formation, evaded the incoming Great Daos, and jumped to unknown coordinates.
  • The Black Fire Demon God failed to track the escaped Origin Universe and offered a reward for finding it; the All-Heavens Divine Emperor told his allies that the Unique Universe would keep searching for them.

Ch. 2451Betrayal Trap, Waiting to Hunt

The Origin Universe began hunting small universes while Li Qing discovered that Haoran Sage and others planned to betray him and sell his information to the Unique Universes. Li Qing revealed their plan and a way to counter their Heavenly Dao Reincarnation authority, then allied with the powerful figures to eliminate the traitors as his four universes followed the Origin Universe, waiting to strike.

  • The All-Heavens Divine Emperor took control of the Origin Universe and set out to hunt twelve unaffiliated small universes.
  • Haoran Sage planned to contact the Unique Universes, help them capture the Origin Universe and Li Qing's Past Body, and trade information if the attack failed.
  • Li Qing's Past Body calculated that Haoran Sage and the others intended to betray the universe, and resolved to use their betrayal to restrict their Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Authorization Authority.
  • Li Qing summoned the All-Heavens Divine Emperor and the other powerful figures, revealed the betrayal plan and its weakness, and gained their agreement to remove the traitors.
  • Li Qing's four universes continued expanding and secretly followed the Origin Universe, waiting to seize a chance to join its hunts.

Ch. 2452The Demoness Appears, Crisis Arrives Suddenly

The Origin Universe devoured another small universe, but the Heaven-Severing Demoness recognized it and summoned Unique Universe powerhouses to attack. Li Qing and the Origin Universe’s defenders launched a counterattack, and the chapter left the two forces colliding as time reversed by one breath.

  • The Origin Universe seized a small universe while three hidden universes devoured nearly half of it and escaped into the Primordial Chaos.
  • The Heaven-Severing Demoness recognized the Origin Universe and summoned nearby powerhouses, including Mystic Water Demon God.
  • Mystic Water Demon God combined the Dao Preachers’ power to unleash the Dao Art Nameless Flood against the Origin Universe.
  • Li Qing’s Past Body identified the attackers as people from the Unique Universe and warned the Origin Universe to prepare to jump.
  • Li Qing gathered the power of four universes and struck the Heaven-Severing Demoness’s group from behind as the Origin Universe’s defenders blocked the flood.
  • The opposing attacks collided in Radiance, time reversed by one breath, and the Haoran Sage opened his eyes inside the Origin Universe.

Ch. 2453Betrayal Begins, Stepping into the Trap

Haoran Sage and the others escaped the Origin Universe in a miniature universe ark and struck a deal with Heaven-Severing Demoness and the six major powers to help invade it. Li Qing uncovered their betrayal, and his Past Body announced that the Origin Universe’s judgment of all living beings would begin.

  • Haoran Sage and the others launched a miniature universe ark through the Origin Universe’s barrier as Li Qing’s four incarnations disrupted Heaven-Severing Demoness and Mystic Water Demon God’s first assault.
  • Heaven-Severing Demoness and Mystic Water Demon God prepared a second attack, but Haoran Sage and the others appeared and offered to help invade the Origin Universe.
  • Haoran Sage shared information identifying Li Qing and revealed that they would use their Heavenly Dao Reincarnation authority to hinder the Origin Universe’s defenses.
  • Heaven-Severing Demoness and representatives of the other factions accepted the offer and signed a Primordial Chaos Contract with Haoran Sage and the others.
  • Li Qing’s information-gathering force exposed the agreement, and Li Qing’s Past Body announced that the judgment of all living beings in the universe would begin.

Ch. 2454The Judgment of the Universe

Li Qing used the Primordial Chaos Contract to turn the universe and its beings against Haoran Sage and the other betrayers, stripping them of their Heavenly Dao Reincarnation authority. The Origin Universe escaped the incoming flood, leaving the trapped traitors facing judgment with no path to the future.

  • Li Qing obtained the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation authority of Bright Heavenly Emperor, Spiritual Rhinoceros, and Divine Venerable Xuanyu, then used Civilization Information Essence to expose the signed contract.
  • Li Qing announced that Haoran Sage and the other named powers had betrayed the universe, and the universe’s resentment sealed and stripped away their authority.
  • Li Qing sent power from his four universes to block the incoming flood, giving the Origin Universe time to jump to unknown coordinates.
  • Heaven-Severing Demoness imprisoned Haoran Sage and the others’ avatars in their miniature Universe Ark after their promise failed.
  • Haoran Sage and the other true bodies gathered and tried to break out, but Xuanyuan Changlong foresaw that they had no future.

Ch. 2455Three-Part Daoist, Sweeping the Universe

Li Qing and the power of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation destroyed Haoran Sage and his allies, while Xuanyuan Changlong’s mysterious sigils revealed the presence of the half-crippled Infinite Mechanism powerhouse Three-Part Daoist. With the Origin Universe under his control, Li Qing began purging the defeated factions and warned his allies that a new Supreme Calamity could grow into the Immeasurable Final Calamity.

  • Haoran Sage, Heaven, Enemy of Heaven, and the other defeated powers tried to escape or self-destruct, but Heavenly Dao Reincarnation erased them and absorbed their Initial Marks.
  • Xuanyuan Changlong merged his three bodies, awakening Three-Part Daoist’s mysterious sigils and letting him tear through the universe’s boundary.
  • Li Qing used the Jade Tablet and Civilization Information Essence to learn that Three-Part Daoist was a half-crippled Infinite Mechanism powerhouse who might target him.
  • Li Qing’s Past Body made the Origin Universe jump and purged the Dao Lineages and remaining traces left by Haoran Sage and his allies.
  • Li Qing told the Council Heavenly Palace that the universe was under their control and called for continued reconstruction and preparation for a coming Supreme Calamity.
  • The All-Heavens Divine Emperor reacted to Li Qing’s warning about the Unique Universe and the possible Immeasurable Final Calamity.
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Arc 98 of 127