Chapter Summaries

Li Qing considered the Way of Civilization’s Immortal Creation and concluded that its ultimate form was an indestructible body carrying a civilization’s knowledge. He used the Heart-Destroying Sword and information from the Western Great Sect to create a new cultivation method, Civilization's Immortal Creation.

• Li Qing set aside the Indescribable path because none of his three bodies could develop it under current conditions.
• Li Qing traced humanity’s creations through seven stages and decided their ultimate purpose was immortality, indestructibility, and boundless wisdom.
• Li Qing concluded that the Immortal Golden Body represented civilization’s ultimate form and designed his path around absorbing attacks and turning them into power that erased enemies.
• Li Qing used the Way of Changes to combine the Heart-Destroying Sword’s information, his understanding of civilization, and Wu Dangjie’s information on the Western Great Sect’s Immortal Golden Body.
• After several dozen days, Li Qing created Civilization's Immortal Creation, a method that required condensing the Civilization Immortal Mantra and refining three thousand kinds of immortal materials.

Li Qing strengthened his Way of Civilization Immortality by absorbing the immortal substance in the Reason Embryo, then traveled to Fengdu City to investigate the immortal substances in the Netherworld’s hells. He entered the city disguised through Yellow Jade and began gathering information, leaving the situation in Fengdu City under analysis by his Way of Changes.

• Li Qing infused the Reason Embryo’s immortal substance into his body and had his Past Body and Future Body cultivate Civilization’s Immortal Creation.
• Li Qing decided to seek the immortal substances associated with the Ice Hell, Black Fire Hell, and Interstice Hell, and traveled to Fengdu City.
• Li Qing reshaped the ghostly being Yellow Jade’s mind and entered the city concealed within his consciousness.
• Yellow Jade passed the city gate’s mirror undetected, and Li Qing took control of him inside Fengdu City.
• Li Qing gathered information about Fengdu City while the Jade Tablet and his Way of Changes reconstructed and analyzed what he learned.

Li Qing used Yellow Jade to bribe a gatekeeper of the Eighteen Levels of Hell with a temporary black sword, then entered wearing ghost constable robes. He chose the path to Black Fire Hell and headed toward the Undying Black Fire.

• Li Qing transformed a brick into a temporary attainment-level sword using Civilization Order Logic.
• Yellow Jade watched cultivators bribe the underworld gods guarding the entrance and receive ghost constable uniforms.
• Yellow Jade offered the black sword to a gatekeeper, received ghost constable robes, and entered the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
• Li Qing saw the eighteen paths and chose the ninth, which led to Black Fire Hell.
• Yellow Jade crossed the hell of burning souls, passed ghost constables and other cultivators, and continued toward the Undying Black Fire.

Li Qing's Present Body ventured deeper into Black Fire Hell and defeated a corrupted White Jade Buddha, discovering that the Western Great Sect had left its fallen cultivators' bodies there for a larger scheme. He extracted some immortal matter from the Buddha and realized the sect intended to use the corpses as soldiers to seize the three hells.

• Li Qing replaced Yellow Jade with his Present Body when the black fire grew too powerful, then used the Way of Civilization to shield himself and travel farther into the hell.
• A black-fire Buddha attacked Li Qing, who restrained the giant and discovered its consciousness and soul had been destroyed by the fire.
• Li Qing identified the Buddha as White Jade Buddha of the Western Great Sect and extracted three types of immortal matter from his body.
• Li Qing used Way of Changes calculation and Jade Tablet restoration to deduce that the Western Great Sect's cultivators came to hell seeking immortal substances and that the sect was preparing to claim the three hells.
• Li Qing concluded that the sect planned to turn its dead cultivators into soldiers and attack hell from within and without.

Li Qing's Present Body's interference with the White Jade Buddha alerted the Divine Treasury Buddha, who sent Black-Skinned Buddha to investigate Black Fire Hell. After Black-Skinned Buddha captured the White Jade Buddha, Li Qing realized the danger and continued deeper into the hell to gather immortal black fire before escaping.

• Li Qing's Present Body broke off his deductions and released the White Jade Buddha, whose fate became chaotic and temporarily obscured from the Divine Treasury Buddha.
• The Divine Treasury Buddha noticed the White Jade Buddha's fate had vanished from his grasp and ordered Black-Skinned Buddha to investigate and retrieve the corpse.
• Li Qing marked more than a hundred black-fire-wreathed Immortal Dao cultivators while moving deeper into Black Fire Hell.
• Black-Skinned Buddha arrived, subdued the White Jade Buddha, and caused Li Qing's mark on him to collapse.
• Li Qing decided not to use the Jade Tablet, fearing it would expose him, and continued inward to take the immortal black fire before leaving.
• Black-Skinned Buddha questioned a ghost warden, who reported that nothing unusual had happened in Black Fire Hell.

Li Qing's Present Body reconstructed more than a hundred Immortal Dao scriptures and learned how immortal cultivation progressed from immortal runes to an Infinite Mechanism. In Black Fire Hell, he found the dead Glazed Great Buddha and began uncovering its Evolution-level cultivation methods.

• Black-Skinned Buddha gave the Ghost Messenger a marked palm-leaf manuscript and told him to report anything unusual, while the Ghost Messenger wondered whether Black Fire Hell held a treasure.
• Li Qing's Present Body used marks on more than a hundred burned Immortal Dao cultivators to reconstruct their cultivation methods and understand the stages of the Immortal Dao.
• Li Qing's Present Body encountered a dead Glazed Great Buddha surrounded by true immortal black fire and three thousand immortal-substance halos.
• Li Qing's Present Body suppressed the Glazed Great Buddha through flaws in its damaged immortal true nature and reconstructed the Immortal Path Glazed Candlelight Immortal True Scripture and the Great Dao Scripture of Indestructible Immortality Through Myriad Tribulations.

Li Qing's Present Body created a new Civilization's Immortal Creation method and absorbed immortal substances from the Glass Buddha, reaching the Immortal Golden Body. He learned of the deadly Immortal Source Fire and planned to target Yin Mountain Temple, then entered the Immortal Black Fire region to absorb its flames.

• Li Qing's Present Body reconstructed the Immortal Dao runes into Civilization's Immortal Creation, a method that pointed toward Evolution and could contain twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty types of immortal substances.
• Li Qing's Present Body absorbed three thousand types of immortal substances from the Glass Buddha and achieved the Immortal Golden Body without triggering a Human Tribulation.
• Li Qing's Present Body learned that the Glass Buddha had died trying to refine the Immortal Source Fire, a substance even stronger than the nine great immortal substances.
• Li Qing's Present Body decided to seek more immortal scriptures at Yin Mountain Temple and considered using the Blood Sea Demon Sect to get past its defenses.
• Li Qing's Present Body entered the Immortal Black Fire region and began drawing strands of its flames into his body.

Li Qing's Present Body refined the indestructible black fire, subdued a Black Fire Beast and turned it into a banner, then reached the heart of Black Fire Hell and found the indestructible source fire. As Civilization's Immortal Creation spread toward it, the source fire ignited even his immortal radiance.

• Li Qing's Present Body refined the indestructible black fire and gained control over far more of it through the Way of Civilization.
• A Black Fire Beast attacked Li Qing's Present Body, who subdued it and transformed it into a black banner through Civilization's Immortal Creation.
• Li Qing's Present Body absorbed the banner, raising the power of Civilization's Immortal Creation to the Evolution level.
• Li Qing's Present Body searched deeper into Black Fire Hell but found no other Black Fire Beasts before reaching its center.
• Li Qing's Present Body found the fist-sized cluster of indestructible source fire and began spreading his immortal radiance toward it.
• The indestructible source fire produced terrifying heat that ignited Li Qing's Present Body's immortal radiance.

Li Qing's Present Body absorbed Immortal Source Fire and Immortal Ice Heart, pushing Civilization's Immortal Creation to the threshold of Evolution-level immortal true nature. After harvesting immortal substances and cultivation arts in Black Fire Hell and Ice Hell, he set out for Interstice Hell in search of Interstice Void.

• Li Qing's Present Body absorbed a trace of Immortal Source Fire, and his immortal path reached the threshold of the Evolution level.
• He harvested immortal substances from Western Great Sect cultivators' corpses while leaving Black Fire Hell.
• He entered Ice Hell and refined the Immortal Ice Heart, which strengthened Civilization's Immortal Creation.
• He extracted immortal substances and cultivation arts from more than a thousand corpses in Ice Hell, raising his collected substances to thirty thousand kinds.
• Li Qing's Present Body left Ice Hell and headed to Interstice Hell to seek Interstice Void.

Li Qing's Present Body found and refined an Interstice Void in Interstice Hell, then escaped the Demon-Suppressing Buddha's pursuit by using random uncertainty. The Demon-Suppressing Buddha suspected Li Qing was an outsider and contacted Divine Treasury Buddha through the Western Great Sect's reincarnation order.

• Li Qing's Present Body used the drifting souls' positions and Way of Changes to locate an Interstice Void and refined it with Civilization's Immortal Creation.
• The Demon-Suppressing Buddha arrived, claimed the Interstice Void for the Western Great Sect, and attacked Li Qing's Present Body.
• Li Qing's Present Body fled, but the Demon-Suppressing Buddha pursued him and pressed him with his Demon-Suppressing Immortal True Nature.
• Li Qing's Present Body combined Immortal Civilization Creation, the Black Fire Banner, and Civilization Order Logic to vanish through random uncertainty.
• The Demon-Suppressing Buddha noticed chaos fading from his fate and suspected Li Qing's Present Body was a Fate-less One who had entered the Unique Universe.
• The Demon-Suppressing Buddha used the sect's cycle-of-reincarnation order to contact Divine Treasury Buddha at Yin Mountain Temple.

Demon-Suppressing Buddha told Divine Treasury Buddha about a Fate-less intruder who could extract immortal matter from corpses, prompting Divine Treasury Buddha to alert Past Maitreya Divine Buddha. Past Maitreya descended into the Netherworld, while a mysterious figure stirred inside a black coffin in the Blood Sea tombs.

• Demon-Suppressing Buddha reported that a recently arrived Fate-less person in Interstice Hell had interfered with fate and cultivated both the Immortal Dao and randomness and uncertainty.
• Black-Skinned Buddha brought White Jade Buddha's corpse to Divine Treasury Buddha, who discovered that immortal matter had been precisely extracted and that many Western Great Sect corpses had altered fates.
• Divine Treasury Buddha concluded that the intruder matched the sect leaders' target and secretly sent Past Maitreya Divine Buddha a coded warning about a change in the Netherworld.
• Past Maitreya Divine Buddha traveled cautiously from the Pure Land of Bliss and descended upon Yin Mountain Temple, where the Buddhas welcomed him.
• Wrathful-Eyed Buddha reacted to Past Maitreya's arrival as an unseen connection reached the Blood Sea, where a black coffin opened and a mysterious figure awoke.

Li Qing's Present Body devised a way to escape detection in Fengdu City by throwing local fates into chaos while Yellow Jade sought protection through an official position. Yellow Jade secured a post under Jade Ghost General, who took possession of the jade plaque without realizing its true purpose.

• Li Qing's Present Body concluded that he had to leave hell without being exposed and chose to use Civilization's Immortal Creation to disguise himself as a jade pendant carried by Yellow Jade.
• Li Qing's Present Body sent copies across Fengdu City to disrupt the fates of its Ghosts and make it harder for searchers to identify him.
• Yellow Jade bribed the gatekeeper at Jade Ghost General's estate and presented the General with the jade plaque as a gift.
• Jade Ghost General accepted the plaque, granted Yellow Jade the post of deputy general at the Ghost-Sweeping Camp, and prepared to refine the treasure.

Li Qing’s Present Body transformed into a jade tablet to hide from Past Maitreya Divine Buddha’s search through the past, but a mysterious mechanism erased every trace of his existence and the events surrounding him. Lord Shiva detected the resulting gap in the past and suspected it concerned the person or object the Demon Sect’s leader had ordered him to find.

• Li Qing analyzed the Jade Ghost General’s Concept Logic while preparing to conceal himself inside the jade tablet.
• Past Maitreya Divine Buddha traced White Jade Buddha and Demon-Suppressing Buddha’s karma toward Li Qing, bringing his Present Body close to exposure.
• The Jade Tablet erased all traces of Li Qing and the related events from the past, leaving Past Maitreya Divine Buddha unable to find him.
• Lord Shiva followed Past Maitreya Divine Buddha’s search, noticed the missing event in Demon-Suppressing Buddha’s past, and suspected it involved the existence sought by the Demon Sect’s leader.

Shiva Divine Venerable considered why the seven Supreme Logics had ordered the capture of Li Qing, while Li Qing discovered that the Jade Tablet had hidden and altered his karmic information. Li Qing suspected a Black Hand was guiding his cultivation toward the Immeasurable Final Calamity, and he began considering Jade Ghost General as a way out of his predicament.

• Shiva Divine Venerable decided to watch Yin Mountain Temple longer and investigate Maitreya Divine Buddha's past before reporting to the Sect Master.
• Jade Ghost General continued refining Li Qing's Present Body, which had taken the form of a jade token.
• Li Qing sensed the Jade Tablet tremble and realized it had concealed his information and changed the apparent record of his past karma.
• Li Qing used Way of Changes to deduce that the Jade Tablet might have an operator who intended to cultivate him into a Supreme Mechanism powerhouse for the Immeasurable Final Calamity.
• Li Qing resolved to investigate the Black Hand as he gained more information and considered Jade Ghost General a suitable target for escaping his predicament.

Past Maitreya Divine Buddha reported that he might have found the target hidden in Fengdu City, and Bodhi Mirror Great Vow Daoist sent Bodhi Daoist to investigate in secret. Bodhi Daoist’s Supreme Mechanism found no trace of Li Qing’s Present Body, whose past had been concealed by an unknown power.

• Past Maitreya Divine Buddha reported his discovery to Amitabha Extinction Immortal Buddha Lord and Bodhi Mirror Great Vow Daoist in the Pure Land of Bliss.
• Bodhi Mirror Great Vow Daoist decided to send an avatar to investigate Fengdu City without alerting Yama Son of Heaven.
• Bodhi Daoist arrived at Yin Mountain Temple and took Past Maitreya Divine Buddha, Divine Treasury Buddha, and Demon-Suppressing Buddha outside Fengdu City.
• Shiva Divine Venerable noticed their movement and arrived outside Fengdu City to monitor the Infinite Mechanisms there.
• Bodhi Daoist used the Supreme Mechanism to search the past through the White Jade Buddha’s and Demon-Suppressing Buddha’s karmic ties.
• Bodhi Daoist found that an unknown power had concealed every trace of Li Qing’s Present Body from the corpses’ pasts.

Bodhi Daoist and Amitabha Extinction Immortal Buddha Lord suspected Li Qing was hiding in Fengdu City and agreed to seal the routes into and out of the Netherworld while searching for him. Li Qing realized the danger and began planning to sever his karmic connection, while Shiva Divine Venerable reported his discovery to Rahu God Lord.

• Bodhi Daoist searched the fates around Fengdu City and concluded that the person he sought was likely inside the city.
• Bodhi Mirror Great Vow Daoist told Amitabha Extinction Immortal Buddha Lord that he was only fifty percent certain of the target’s identity.
• Amitabha Extinction Immortal Buddha Lord proposed sealing the area outside Fengdu City and every path between yin and yang before secretly investigating recent arrivals.
• Li Qing’s Present Body concluded that Western Great Sect experts might have exposed him and decided that separating his fleshly body and spirit could sever their karmic connection.
• Shiva Divine Venerable sensed a trace of a supreme mechanism and reported to Rahu God Lord that Past Maitreya Divine Buddha and the second sect leader of the Western Great Sect had arrived.

Rahu Divine Lord sent Heavenly Killing Daoist to watch Fengdu City while Yama Son of Heaven and the Western Great Sect reacted to the chaos surrounding the Jade Tablet. As the net around the city tightened, Li Qing's Present Body used the Way of Civilization to remake Jade Ghost General's fundamental consciousness.

• Rahu Divine Lord formed Heavenly Killing Daoist from innate killing intent and sent him to join Shiva Divine Venerable near Fengdu City.
• Heavenly Killing Daoist and Shiva Divine Venerable concealed themselves outside Fengdu City to wait and observe.
• Yama Son of Heaven sensed pressure, found Fengdu City's heavenly secrets and karma tangled, and began monitoring the city through the order of reincarnation.
• Bodhi Daoist approved Past Maitreya Divine Buddha's plan to search recent arrivals under the guise of Yin Mountain Temple, while Immortal Buddha Lord and Great Vow Daoist placed incarnations at the six Yin-Yang Paths.
• Li Qing's Present Body concluded the Jade Tablet was unusual and that the Western Great Sect had arrived, then decided to separate his soul body.
• Li Qing's Present Body used the Way of Civilization to reshape Jade Ghost General's fundamental consciousness until it was almost unrecognizable.

Li Qing's Present Body replaced Commander Wang and hid his consciousness within the false commander's fate, preparing to escape Fengdu City once its heavenly secrets normalized. Meanwhile, Great Vow Daoist and Buxiu Buddha Lord clouded the Heavenly Secrets Karma Fate River, prompting the other supreme mechanisms to watch the Western Great Sect closely.

• Li Qing's Present Body entered the Jade Ghost General's consciousness through the immortal jade tablet, then used the Way of Civilization to replace Commander Wang with a copy controlled by his fundamental consciousness.
• The Jade Ghost General questioned Commander Wang's loyalty, accepted his explanation, and ordered him to summon Commander Fang.
• Li Qing's Present Body returned to the Ghost-Sweeping Army as the false Commander Wang and followed the original commander's life trajectory while the Jade Ghost General continued questioning his officers.
• Great Vow Daoist told Buxiu Buddha Lord that Past Maitreya Divine Buddha would debate Yama Son of Heaven in Fengdu City, while his Bodhi incarnation secretly entered the city.
• Great Vow Daoist and Buxiu Buddha Lord disrupted the Heavenly Secrets Karma Fate River, and the Primeval Unity Daoist Sect, First Line Great Sect, Primordial Great Sect, Heavenly Court, and Demon Sect ordered their followers to monitor the Western Great Sect.

Past Maitreya Divine Buddha led Yin Mountain Temple to Fengdu City and negotiated with Yama Son of Heaven for control of the western half of the Netherworld Underworld, settling on a three-round discourse on the Way instead of war. While the first contest drew everyone’s attention, Bodhi Daoist secretly searched the newly arrived visitors for traces of the Root Jade Disc.

• Rahu Divine Lord concealed information about the Root Jade Disc and planned to wait for an opportunity to claim it.
• Divine Treasury Buddha and Past Maitreya Divine Buddha led Yin Mountain Temple’s forces to Fengdu City, where Yama Son of Heaven raised a defensive barrier.
• Past Maitreya Divine Buddha demanded the eighteen levels of hell, then the western half of the Netherworld Underworld, and Yama Son of Heaven rejected both demands.
• Past Maitreya Divine Buddha proposed three rounds of wagers through civil contests, with Dao-transmission-level powerhouses competing, and Yama Son of Heaven agreed.
• Bodhi Daoist slipped into Fengdu City and used the Way of Equivalent Exchange to search the recent arrivals while a Netherworld Yin God and a prison-suppressing Great Buddha debated on the platforms.

Li Qing hid his consciousness, body, and Way of Civilization behind four layers of isolation while the Western Great Sect searched Fengdu City. Bodhi Daoist failed to find his target and decided to investigate those who had come into contact with the people he searched.

• The Past Maitreya Divine Buddha and Yama Son of Heaven oversaw a fierce Discourse on the Way that drew attention away from the Western Great Sect’s search of Fengdu City.
• Li Qing altered Yellow Jade’s and the Jade Ghost General’s memories, erased the Heavens Civilization Torrent imprint, and replaced Commander Wang’s memories with a complete set of his own.
• Li Qing transferred his consciousness to Wu Dangjie and left his body and Way of Civilization behind as dead objects.
• Li Qing used his karmically unconnected Divine Body to hide Commander Wang’s true body and the Way of Civilization in a house as a fourth layer of isolation.
• Bodhi Daoist searched Yellow Jade’s memories but found only an apparent epiphany that had turned him into a cultivating ghost.
• After searching everyone who had entered Fengdu City without finding the Root Jade Disc, Bodhi Daoist decided to examine those who had contacted his previous targets.