Recaps

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 helped General Deman lure the Tiger and Blade Kingdom armies into Mist Gorge, where hidden explosives collapsed the peaks and killed thousands.
• General Deman defeated Ueda, invaded Blade Kingdom with help from traitors, and killed Ashikaga to claim the Ghost Path’s destiny.
• Li Qing discovered that Ghost Path’s senior cultivators were conducting a blood sacrifice around a Stone Stele to summon a conceptual logic’s will.
• Tang Wanshan accepted Cloud Feather Daoist’s plan to pressure his rivals into committing troops, while Li Qing learned that Nether River Yama Son of Heaven was tied to an entity beyond the world.
• Li Qing contaminated the oases of three Buddhist rulers and used the resulting conflict to help Ashoka King kill Veda King and Xiongnu King, unifying the Outer Realm’s paths.
• Cao Zhengde abducted Zhong Feilong for the power within him, but Blood Jade Daoist killed Cao Zhengde and took Zhong Feilong to investigate his memories.
• Blood Jade Daoist searched White Mist City for the Seal of Heaven and struck an undetectable Stone Stele, which absorbed his attacks without effect.
• Li Qing located a World Primordial Stone held by the Pujiang Dragon King and approached him in disguise to propose a trade, learning that the Haoran Sage had been watching the Dragon King.

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 concealed his lightning tribulation with scattered formations and decoys, then escaped the Geomagnetic Abyss through a feng shui formation as Yuan Zhihui’s forces attacked.
• Li Qing completed his lightning tribulation, while the Six Paths and Eight Immortals began tracking his geomantic formations and searching for his allies and intelligence network.
• Li Qing built formations in North Province to summon void storms and transform sunlight into Supreme Yin Divine Fire for his next tribulations.
• Sun Qiankun persuaded the northern Children of Destiny to coordinate attacks against powerful rivals and draw the outer domains into a plan to divide the realm.
• Li Qing passed the wind tribulation and endured the Supreme Yin Divine Fire until his Divine Soul reached perfection and began gestating his Primordial Spirit.
• Li Qing identified Xuanyuan Changlong as a dangerous destined tribulation and resolved to control the Investiture of Gods Great Tribulation before confronting him.
• Li Qing’s Flesh Tree replica explored the Dark Forest, discovered that its logic assimilated intruders, and recorded the dangers of the surrounding scorched earth and void.
• Li Qing’s replica foresaw a conflict between the Dark Forest’s Anomalies and the Flesh World, then hid as terrifying Anomalies surged out above.

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 learned from Gu Yi that the Devouring Spirit Sect harvested low-dimensional worlds and enslaved their people, then sent Gu Yi with a Flesh Tree copy to a world ruled by Green-skins.
• Li Qing cultivated Pilu as the world’s Child of Destiny, helped him lead the Green-skins against their harvesters, and later watched the Devouring Spirit Sect take two hundred thousand people to the upper realm.
• Li Qing discovered that Devouring Spirit Sect techniques carried dormant logic-seeds, then arranged for Wang Linger to find and raise his Blank Spy avatar.
• After Yuan Zhihui’s suspicions made Li Qing abandon his attempt to reach a Primordial Dharma Form through Primordial Spirit cultivators, Li Qing prepared to attack Hell Mountain’s Ghost Path directly.
• Li Qing entered Yama Son of Heaven Hall, broke into its Scripture Pavilion, and copied the Reincarnation Yama Record, obtaining the Ghost Path’s Primordial Dharma Form.
• Li Qing’s Battle Soul Puppets attacked the hall masters, killing Samsara King and badly wounding Chu Jiang King before the kings revived through their statues.
• Li Qing’s attack engulfed the First Yama King, and the hall masters learned that he had taken the Ghost Path Primordial Dharma Form.
• The hall masters agreed to conceal their losses and stay together, while Yuan Zhihui noticed their agitated auras and asked whether something had happened at Hell Mountain.

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.

• Li Qing used the Record Book and Way of Changes to prepare simultaneous attacks on the Demonic Path and Ghost Path, while an unknown force began consuming people at the Li Residence.
• Li Qing infiltrated the Demonic Path headquarters, discovered the Demon Kings’ rebirth foundations and planned to destroy them as the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies lured the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord into their trap.
• Li Qing ordered Sun Qiankun to launch the Investiture of Gods War, and Li Qinglian and Pan Chengfeng’s armies attacked Huang Wanchao’s forces at Yellow Dragon Pass and Phoenix Cry City.
• The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies sealed the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord inside the Stone Stele as Li Qing invaded the Demonic Path, destroyed the Killing Demon King’s resurrection source, and plundered the headquarters’ treasures.
• The Nether River Yama Son of Heaven’s group withdrew from the Demonic Path headquarters, while Li Qing escaped using a feng shui formation and seized control of the Grotto-Heaven with the Great Brahma Universal Cosmos Unification Curse.
• Li Qing ordered the three surviving Demon Kings to stabilize the Demonic Path, and they secretly allied with Xuanyuan Changlong’s forces through Lü Chunqiu and Mozi.
• The Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord died after failing to escape the seal, and blood rain announced an immortal’s death as the Wisdom Logic Anomalies evaded their pursuers.
• Li Qing ordered his plan to continue and named the Ghost Path immortal as his next target, while Yuan Zhihui traced the crisis to the First Yama King’s concealment of Li Qing’s earlier attack.