Recaps

Li Qing investigated the Longevity Seed and spread maps that drew powerful factions toward a supposed ritual, while secretly building forces and preparing for Master’s coming tribulation. He also obtained a dangerous Logic Relic and began investigating an Anomaly tainting bread.

• Li Qing escaped a logical Anomaly in Yang Province City and learned Yuan Zhihui had identified him as Li Wushuang, prompting him to hide and sever his connections.
• Li Qing investigated Lockstone Well, Blue Moon Bridge, and the Wordless Stele, witnessing the butcher’s immortality ritual and learning that a revised ritual using Logic Relics could grant a hundred thousand years of life.
• Li Qing planted false ancient maps concealing the Longevity Ritual, drawing cultivators and powerful factions into a search for the supposed sacrificial method.
• As news of Master’s coming tribulation spread, Li Qing learned Yuan Zhihui planned to use it to draw out Li Wushuang, while Emperor Kuntai summoned a monster to distract the Daoist leaders.
• Li Qing acquired a green jade ring containing a Logic Relic, evaded Han Yilong, and used his network to distribute Hundred Things Eyes and organize Dao soldiers across Yang Province.
• Li Qing tested the Borrowed Lifespan Technique, using a Force-Borrowing Talisman and Commander Summoning Token to create a Foundation Establishment war-soul puppet from stolen lifespan.
• Li Qing followed a mother and child after noticing an Anomaly aura on their flatbreads, then took the bread to a Money Gang dungeon to investigate its origin.

Li Qing prepared for his Yang Fire Great Tribulation while helping Master uncover the four paths’ plans and arrange a purge of their spies. The arc ended with the Hundred Schools striking the four paths, as Yuan Zhihui hinted that their confrontation was not over.

• Li Qing killed Shopkeeper Sun, expanded his covert network across Yang and North Provinces, and used the Jade Tablet to assess the forces threatening Master’s tribulation.
• Li Qing contacted Master through Bai Zihua, warned him of the planned invasion, and arranged for Master to sacrifice ten years of life to a Force-Borrowing Talisman in exchange for spy lists and a plan to disrupt the attackers.
• Li Qing found the Netherworld Dark Side beneath Lockstone Well and discovered Sealed Gate Village, where an Anomaly transformed outsiders into sugar figurines eaten by a child.
• Li Qing lured the Aberrating Demon Blood Lady into Dragon Fork Mountain, stole supplies from the Slaughter Demon Sect, and uncovered its plan to use a Wish Stone Stele to destroy the northern Law Net and sacrifice Qu County’s residents.
• Master warned Liu Luoguo about the Demonic Path’s plan, and Liu agreed to intervene on November 1st while Li Qing cultivated the Human Civilization Curse and completed Skull Nourishment.
• Li Qing reached the peak of True Law, foresaw Yang Province City’s destruction, and prepared hidden storage and resurrection points as heavenly secrets drew powerful cultivators toward him.
• Li Qing and Master coordinated a dawn purge of the four paths’ agents, while Zonghengzi exposed Wu Zhangcheng as a traitor and killed him and the other conspirators.
• The Hundred Schools of Thought executed their spies and raided the four paths’ bases, as Yuan Zhihui told the gathered leaders that Li Wushuang was helping Master and asked whether they thought the matter was over.

Li Qing drew Yuan Zhihui into Yang Province City’s catastrophe, then used the Supreme Fate Flame to survive the calamity and advance through the Spirit Consciousness Realm. He left Bright Lake Grotto-Heaven to find Yang Province City thriving again, but stopped in disbelief at what he saw in the sky.

• Yuan Zhihui tracked Li Qing through Yang Province City, while Li Qing’s letters exposed secrets and provoked conflicts across the city and beyond.
• As cultivators fought over the Longevity Ritual and Master faced four powerful attackers, Li Qing summoned the Battle Soul Puppet, which defeated the attackers and stopped Yuan Zhihui’s contamination from consuming Yang Province City.
• The Battle Soul Puppet carried the Contamination Origin Stone into the Netherworld Dark Side, where it exploded, and the ensuing calamity brought changes across the world as Yuan Zhihui departed and Li Qing formed the Supreme Fate Flame.
• Li Qing learned that the major powers were searching for him, began studying the Spirit Consciousness Realm, and theorized that Dharma Forms were shaped by Spirit Awareness and sustained their creators.
• Li Qing cultivated his Spirit Awareness and Devour-Thief Soul, drove away an unseen presence, and advanced to the second stage of the Spirit Consciousness Realm.
• Li Qing left the mysterious formation grotto-heaven, returned to Bright Lake disguised, and froze in disbelief when he looked at the sky.

Li Qing investigated the growing Anomaly crisis and traveled with Wu De to Orchid Pavilion Temple in search of the Dragon-Slaying Daoist’s inheritance. After a Buddhist question cleansed the temple, Li Qing obtained the Dragon-Slaying Treasure Art and departed with Wu De for Skywater City.

• Li Qing learned that the world was shrinking and that the Six Paths Investiture of Gods could deprive him of vital essence, so he resolved to reach the Primordial Spirit realm and prepared a way to conceal his fate.
• Li Qing traveled to Dragon Province as Wang Mingde and witnessed a bloody Anomaly outbreak, then rescued Wu De from the river and continued downstream with him.
• Wu De and Li Qing climbed Divine Mist Mountain, where Wu De traded his dangerous Logic Relics for Li Qing’s formation method and the pair entered Orchid Pavilion Temple using illusory incarnations.
• Li Qing and Wu De survived the temple’s hallucinations and hostile halls, recorded scriptures in its repository, and escaped a Pure Land vision and a pursuing horde of mummies.
• Li Qing and Wu De fled a bone army into the Sarira Garden, where an old monk asked Li Qing what Buddhism was and then cleansed the temple after Li Qing answered.
• Li Qing and Wu De found the Dragon-Slaying Daoist in a black stone pagoda, and Li Qing discovered that cultivating the Daoist’s treasure art would exchange their places in the pagoda.
• Li Qing recorded the Dragon-Slaying Treasure Art, which the Jade Tablet restored as the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger, traded Wu De the scripture and other items, and left with him for Skywater City.