Li Qing built an intelligence network, recruited Sun Qiankun and several demon forces, and gathered knowledge about the Anomalies and the coming struggle over the Nine Provinces. After reaching the capital, he uncovered the Dao Lineage families’ hidden practices and turned his attention to investigating the thirty-eight Dao Lineages.
Li Qing stole imperial records, uncovered the Six Paths’ plan to build the Heavenly Dao, and infiltrated the Radiant Buddha Bone Temple in search of its primordial Dharma Form. He escaped under the alias Wang Mingde, but the Buddhist Sect began searching for him, so he planned to expand his surveillance network across the Nine Provinces.
Li Qing prepared arrays to contain the Capital City’s coming crisis, advanced his soul cultivation, and gathered resources through covert schemes. After surviving Anomalies and entering an ancient palace with Wu De, he uncovered a Logic Relic and descended toward a deeper danger.
Li Qing gathered rare blood and built an information network in the Southern Frontier, manipulating rival powers to steal Qilin Blood from the Spirit Beast Temple. The Taotie Demon God captured Li Qing’s Divine Body, forcing him to seek a hidden route through the Southern Frontier Grottoes as a deadly presence pursued him.
Li Qing investigated the Southern Sea disaster and the East Wasteland, then used Heaven’s aura to draw powerful cultivators away while helping the Pujiang Dragon King survive his tribulation. After the Dragon King attained Immortality, Li Qing’s divination revealed a mysterious god-conferer whose plans made him wary.
Li Qing completed his Heavenly Soul and used the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger to defeat Bone Bodhisattva, then prepared for the coming conflict around the Capital City while Yuan Zhihui and Bone Bodhisattva searched for him. With the Jade Tablet’s expanded network, Li Qing began identifying Primordial Dharma Forms and chose the Confucian Sect as his first target.
Li Qing resolved the time Anomaly at Haoran Academy, then braved the corrupted Heavenly Gang Daoist Sect and secured its Primordial Dharma Form before turning to build an information network and search for General Shenji’s tomb. The stretch ended with Li Qing trapped in a strange underwater passage guarded by armored puppets and an unknown spatial force.
Li Qing allied with Zhuge Shenji, gathered the materials needed to master divination, and uncovered secrets surrounding the Six Paths, Heaven, and the coming dimensional ascension. As the Eighteen Warlords captured the Capital City, Li Qing prepared to break through while concealing his plans from Bone Bodhisattva and Yuan Zhihui by engineering a false crisis at the North Province border.
Li Qing ended the northern war, advanced to the Divine Soul Realm, refined a Logic Artifact, and unleashed it during the warlords’ conference. He then explored Cloud Dream Marsh, discovered a passage to the Sea of Otherworld, and found cultivation arts beneath a hidden seal.
Li Qing evaded the Six Paths and Eight Immortals while preparing traps for the Wisdom Logic Anomalies, then cultivated his Divine Soul and sought the three spirits for his Three-Life Fate Body. He obtained the Spirit of the Past and reached the Light Domain, where he killed an Anomaly in exchange for the Spirit of the Present.
Li Qing completed the Three-Life Fate Bodies and the Longevity Ritual, then cleansed the Undying Substance and survived its attack. He gathered Star River Water and Heaven’s Blood for a Tribulation-Avoiding Grotto-Heaven and set out for the Earth’s Soul.
Li Qing allied with Waterfall City, took the blood essence and Earth's Soul, and learned from Flame God about the danger of dimensional ascension. After gathering Humanity's Fate, he reached Black Mountain and began preparing the Nine Heavens Star River Tribulation-Avoiding Grotto-Heaven.
Li Qing completed the Nine Immortals Mystic Spirit Supreme Galaxy Star Curse, integrated his spells into an embryonic Principle of Civilization, and hunted Essence Stones on the Dark Side. As the Six Paths and Eight Immortals suspected him and prepared to purge the Seal of Heaven, he secretly mapped the cities’ formations and found a way into Qing City’s Earth God Feng Shui Formation.
Li Qing countered Xuanyuan Changlong’s scheme by using Heaven’s aura and a second Great Brahma Universal Cosmos Unification Curse to seize three Wisdom Logic Anomalies. After the immortals destroyed the anomalies and the cities, Li Qing escaped and began preparing to enter the Primordial Spirit Realm before the coming war.
Li Qing advanced his cultivation, explored the Flesh World, and quietly built an intelligence network across the Daoist and heterodox paths. He seized the Longevity Grotto-Heaven and its ripened fruit tree, while Meng Taiqing failed to trace him.
Li Qing manipulated rival factions and helped the Great Ape King defeat the True Dragon Prince and Qilin Prince, consolidating the Demon Race’s destiny. The arc ended with Li Qing sensing Demon Race forces gathering at the Southern Frontier border pass.
Li Qing manipulated conflicts in the East Wasteland and Western Region, helping General Deman and the Ashoka King claim their paths’ destinies while uncovering the Ghost Path’s blood sacrifice. As the major Dao Lineages prepared for war, Blood Jade Daoist searched for the Seal of Heaven and Li Qing sought a World Primordial Stone.
Li Qing evaded the Six Paths and Eight Immortals to complete his lightning and wind tribulations, then endured the fire tribulation while preparing for the coming war. His Flesh Tree replica explored the Dark Forest and uncovered a dangerous boundary filled with Anomalies.
Li Qing built a foothold in the high-dimensional world by cultivating allies from a harvested low-dimensional world and placing a spy in the Devouring Spirit Sect. He then raided Hell Mountain, obtained the Ghost Path Primordial Dharma Form, and left the hall masters hiding their losses as Yuan Zhihui noticed their agitation.
Li Qing coordinated a war against the Demonic Path while the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies trapped and killed the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord. The Demonic Path’s remaining kings submitted to Li Qing’s plans, the Investiture of Gods War continued, and Li Qing turned his attention to the Ghost Path immortal.