Recaps

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 learned that the blood moon marked a recurring Extinction and suspected the Dao Lineages allowed civilization to be devastated, then used Wu De to enter Skywater City despite its search for Li Wushuang.
• Li Qing established a network of Hundred Things Eyes, investigated the Chosen Ones and the coming succession crisis, and learned that Emperor Kuntai’s plan involved sacrificing ten million people.
• Li Qing discovered that the Anomalies planned to disrupt the Six Paths Investiture of Gods, then heard that the Radiant Buddha Bone Temple ruins held valuable Buddhist inheritances.
• Li Qing subdued a carp demon and recruited water monsters for Coiling Dragon Lake, where he learned the Novelist School had created a dragon vein for Pan Chengfeng.
• Li Qing identified Sun Qiankun as a being born from dragon nature, revealed the approaching end of the Great Cycle, and persuaded him to join a long-term struggle against the cultivation order.
• Li Qing tasked Sun Qiankun with infiltrating Pan Chengfeng’s forces and organizing the lower ranks, then continued toward the capital and assigned Huang Silang and other demon kings to spy on a mysterious Demon Race.
• Li Qing sent Shadow Paper Dolls into the capital to copy family libraries, and the Jade Tablet compiled their findings into the Encyclopedia of World Truths, revealing the Dao Lineages’ use of vast numbers of lives in cultivation.
• Li Qing exploited Wang Shuming’s Aberrant Contamination to record the Wang Family’s library, then gathered knowledge of the capital’s hidden routes and schemes and resolved to investigate its 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 diverted the guards from the capital’s Library Towers with Anomalous trees, stole three hundred years of records, and found extensive lists of spies and information about Emperor Kuntai’s plans.
• Li Qing used Li Yukun to deliver a letter to Emperor Kuntai, then met the emperor at the Southern Mountain Hunting Grounds and negotiated access to royal records in exchange for intelligence.
• Li Qing entered the Royal Library through a beggar, copied its public and secret collections, and reviewed new records that revealed the world’s structure and the Six Paths’ plan to use Logical Anomalies to build the Heavenly Dao.
• After his divination triggered a dangerous attack, Li Qing learned more about the Six Paths’ plan, upgraded his Shadow Paper Doll spell, and sent dolls across the Nine Provinces to build an intelligence network.
• Li Qing entered the Radiant Buddha Bone Temple on Spirit Platform Mountain, survived its traps and Anomalies, and searched its inner passages for the first-generation Primordial Dharma Form.
• Li Qing defeated Yuanxin’s White Bone Arhat, obtained the Luminous Tathagata Dharma Form Record, and fought through the temple’s deadly cave heaven before reaching White Bone Hall.
• Li Qing escaped White Bone Hall while Bone Buddha seized Mingkong and Yue Wudi, then returned to his safe house as the Buddhist Sect blamed Wang Mingde for taking the primordial Dharma Form.
• Li Qing learned that the Buddhist Sect was searching for Wang Mingde and planned to expand his network with a Divine Body, Myriad Shadow Paper Dolls, and the Myriad Spirit Mother Eye.

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 made the Myriad Spirit Mother Eye, mapped the Capital City’s grand array, and discovered the time-space array and the Heaven-Trapping Grand Array.
• Li Qing entered the sealed region beneath the city and found Heaven’s hand pinned by seven black nails, then learned that logic alone could affect it.
• Li Qing corrupted Guiyuan Daoist with Calamity Qi, looted Guiyuan Temple during its destruction, and used the resources to complete his corporeal souls and form his Human Soul.
• Li Qing destroyed Red Medicine after she attacked young masters at the River Viewing Tower, then descended through the Soul-Dragging Realm and merged his Earth Soul with his Human Soul as Anomalies closed in.
• Li Qing escaped the Mist-covered region after battling Anomalies, then went to Hidden Dragon Mountain with Wu De to seek resources in an ancient underground palace.
• Li Qing and Wu De crossed the palace’s power-suppressing passage, cleared traps, collected the White Bone Jade Tree’s fruits, and found murals of an unnamed Daoist who erased the memories of those he saved.
• Li Qing and Wu De encountered the bronze oil lamp’s illusory husband and wife, withdrew from its Logic Relic, and returned with Li Qing’s Desire God holding a red lantern.
• Li Qing and Wu De used the red lantern against the lamp’s phantoms, uncovered a staircase beneath the jade residence, and descended into darkness filled with Anomaly auras.

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 and Wu De explored an ancient palace beneath Hidden Dragon Mountain, found records of the Great Gan Dynasty, and took phoenix blood and a Human Path shamanic artifact before the sleeping corpses awakened.
• Li Qing learned that a Formless Anomaly lay beneath the abyss, then left Wu De and traveled to the Pujiang Dragon King to bargain for True Dragon Blood and learn about the dangerous Pu River Water Eye.
• Li Qing established an information network across the Southern Frontier and discovered that the Great Ape King, Dragon God Prince, and Qilin Prince were competing to unite its forces.
• Li Qing infiltrated Spirit Beast City and manipulated rivalries between its leaders and Earth Dragon City, while arranging for the Azure Phoenix Patriarch to be drawn toward a false Phoenix Blood lead.
• As the Azure Phoenix Patriarch and White Tiger Patriarch clashed, Li Qing’s Divine Body stole the White Tiger Patriarch’s lampshade, extinguished the temple lamp, and took the Qilin Blood.
• The Taotie Demon God activated a vast formation across the Southern Frontier, then captured Li Qing’s Divine Body and Qilin Blood as Li Qing’s other body escaped toward the border.
• Li Qing changed course into the Southern Frontier Grottoes and mapped a route through them, but a divination showed a deathly pale face behind him and his Divine Body collapsing when it turned to look.