Chapter Summaries

Li Qing hid his consciousness in Wu Dangjie while Bodhi Daoist searched for the holder of the Root Jade Disc, then reunited with his Divine Body and Way of Civilization once the danger passed. He planned to escape the Netherworld through Wang Canjiang’s identity and sent Wu Dangjie to test whether the route to the world of the living had been sealed.

• Bodhi Daoist searched the Jade Ghost General and his associates for the Root Jade Disc’s hidden holder without disturbing the order of reincarnation.
• Bodhi Daoist searched Assistant General Wang and other new targets but found no trace of Li Qing’s consciousness.
• The Western Great Sect lost its Discourse on the Way, and Li Qing’s consciousness returned from Wu Dangjie to the Way of Civilization.
• Li Qing reunited his Divine Body and Way of Civilization with the brand-new Wang Canjiang after the order of reincarnation spread through Fengdu City.
• Li Qing planned to leave the Netherworld using Wang Canjiang’s identity and had Wu Dangjie hunt ghosts to test the route to the world of the living.

Li Qing used Wu Dangjie to test whether someone could leave the Netherworld through the Yin-Yang Road while he prepared a second escape plan through the new General Wang. After a century of preparation, Wu Dangjie reached the passage, and Li Qing watched to see whether the Western Great Sect’s blockade would stop him.

• Hongyuan Daoist and the Immortal Buddha Lord strengthened their blockade of the Yin-Yang Passage and ordered their avatars to search everyone leaving the Netherworld.
• Li Qing planned to hide his fundamental consciousness in the new General Wang, while Wu Dangjie would serve as his first probe of the passage.
• Li Qing brainwashed a subordinate for the new General Wang, then stayed in Fengdu City as Yama Son of Heaven searched for the cause of the chaos in heavenly secrets.
• A hundred years later, Wu Dangjie reached the Underlying Logic, earned enough military merit to request a mortal-world land deity post, and received his investiture.
• Li Qing removed his influence from Wu Dangjie and monitored him through a harmless spiritual projection as Wu Dangjie stepped onto the Yin-Yang Road.

Li Qing's Present Body tested whether the Supreme Mechanism searched Wu Dangjie's mind as he left the Yin-Yang Road, confirming the search and that the Supreme Mechanism could detect hidden consciousnesses. With the test complete, Li Qing sent a newly created Commander Wang to seek a ninth-rank Land God appointment.

• Li Qing's Present Body used the Jade Tablet to monitor Wu Dangjie as he traveled along the Yin-Yang Road toward the mortal world.
• When Wu Dangjie left the road, the Supreme Mechanism searched him, but the divine radiance concealed the Jade Tablet's detection and Li Qing's spiritual imprint vanished.
• Li Qing's Present Body confirmed that the Supreme Mechanism could expose a second consciousness hidden within another consciousness and concluded that his plan was feasible.
• The Jade Tablet determined that Wu Dangjie had no lingering lock from the search, and Wu Dangjie descended into the mortal world as a true Land God.
• Li Qing sent the newly created Commander Wang from the Ghost-Sweeping Military Camp to Yama Hall to apply to exchange military merits for a ninth-rank Land God position.

A newly created Commander Wang escaped the Netherworld undetected and reached White Cloud County, where Li Qing's Present Body and the Way of Civilization joined him. Li Qing began gathering information in the county while avoiding any influence that might distort Commander Wang's fate.

• The brand-new Commander Wang stepped onto the Yin-Yang Road, passed Great Vow Daoist's supreme search, and entered the mortal world.
• Li Qing's Present Body confirmed the escape had succeeded and prepared to send his consciousness and the Way of Civilization after Commander Wang.
• Commander Wang arrived at the Land God Temple in White Cloud County, received the Land God's divine seal, and entered his divine domain.
• Li Qing's Present Body descended into the divine domain, explained the Heavenly Court's godhood cultivation method, and decided to use Commander Wang to conceal his traces.
• Li Qing's Present Body gathered information about White Cloud County and appeared among several families' book collections.

Li Qing arranged new anchors and identities to spread his influence beyond Fengdu City while disguising his actions from the Western Great Sect and its allies. His Divine Body headed for Yin Mountain Temple to uncover the Western Great Sect’s cultivation methods as Li Qing again muddied Fengdu City’s fate.

• Li Qing assessed White Cloud County’s sects and decided Commander Wang would stay there to spread Heavenly Court faith while he traveled east to establish more anchors.
• Li Qing’s Divine Body created a new Yellow Jade, gave him a treasure lamp as his natal treasure, and sent him from Fengdu City with the original Yellow Jade and Commander Wang sealed away.
• After the army traveled ten thousand li from Fengdu City, the Divine Body left Yellow Jade and set out for Yin Mountain Temple to seek the Western Great Sect’s cultivation methods.
• Li Qing planted replicas of his imprint among servants in the Jade Ghost General’s residence and used them to disrupt the fates of ghosts throughout Fengdu City.
• Bodhi Daoist and the Rahu Divine Lord’s avatar detected the renewed disorder in Fengdu City’s fate and concluded that Li Qing had acted there again.

Li Qing's Divine Body surveyed Yin Mountain Temple and the war between the Western Great Sect and the Blood Sea, then began preparing to draw the Buddhist powers' attention into the Underworld. Ten years later, his incarnations had spread across the Underworld and gathered ghosts to establish the first nodes of his civilization network.

• Li Qing's Divine Body reached Yin Mountain Temple and concluded that he needed an outside force to disrupt its defenses and draw away the Buddhas.
• He traveled to the battlefield between the Western Great Sect and the Blood Sea and assessed the forces and experts on both sides.
• Li Qing decided to use the Jade Tablet to focus the Western Great Sect on the Underworld and sent out derivative logical incarnations to gather ghosts and establish Underworld grotto-heavens.
• Over ten years, more than a thousand incarnations distributed themselves throughout the Underworld and formed a network of nodes.
• One incarnation gathered over ten thousand ghosts, reshaped their spirits, and arranged them around an earth-vein node.

Li Qing’s incarnations spread civilization among Netherworld ghosts and disrupted the Netherworld’s fate, while the Root Jade Disc gathered information on powerful beings. Great Vow Daoist and Immortal Buddha Lord recognized the disturbance and suspected Li Qing was using it to escape through the Yin-Yang Road.

• Li Qing’s incarnations linked ghost entities to earth vein nodes, founded civilization outposts, and left some rulers with hidden spiritual imprints.
• Li Qing sent information gathered in the Netherworld into the Root Jade Disc, briefly alerting powerful beings including Great Vow Daoist, Immortal Buddha Lord, Yama Son of Heaven, and Rahu Divine Lord.
• Rahu Divine Lord suspected the Root Jade Disc had entered the Unique Universe and contacted his Evolution Realm disciples for information.
• Immortal Buddha Lord concluded Li Qing was testing their Netherworld arrangements and preparing to break through their encirclement.
• Great Vow Daoist and Immortal Buddha Lord noticed that the Netherworld’s fate had become chaotic and considered launching a broad search despite the risk of exposing their pursuit.
• Hongyuan Daoist and Great Vow Daoist reasoned that Li Qing had spread a special incarnation beyond Fengdu City to create a diversion and seek an opening at the Yin-Yang Road.

Li Qing's Divine Body exploited the Western Great Sect's decision to hold Fengdu City and the Yin-Yang Road, infiltrating the battlefield to assassinate its fighters and collect previously unknown immortal substance. The Prison-Suppressing Great Buddha recognized the targeted killings and ordered the Arhats and Bodhisattvas to hunt the hidden expert, while the Blood Spirit Demon God blocked his intervention.

• Li Qing deduced that the Western Great Sect planned to hold Fengdu City and the Yin-Yang Road, and decided to exploit their inaction to spread his teachings and destabilize Yin Mountain Temple.
• Li Qing's Divine Body possessed an Indescribable Blood Sea Demonic Beast and used the Way of Civilization to borrow enough power to attack at the evolution level.
• Li Qing's Divine Body killed a Western Great Sect Vajra by targeting flaws in his immortal body and extracted a previously unrecorded wisp of immortal substance.
• Li Qing's Divine Body continued killing Yin Mountain Temple's Vajras and Venerables, turning the battlefield in the Demon Sect's favor.
• The Prison-Suppressing Great Buddha spotted the pattern of precise kills and tried to intervene, but the Blood Spirit Demon God blocked him.
• The Prison-Suppressing Great Buddha ordered the Arhats and Bodhisattvas to find and surround the hidden Evolution-level expert.

Li Qing's Divine Body exploited the battlefield chaos to kill powerful opponents and study their cultivation methods, while his Present Body considered how to develop the Way of Civilization Equivalent Exchange. After ten years of covert attacks, the war's backbone had suffered enormous losses, and the death toll was becoming suspicious.

• Li Qing's Present Body reflected on the Vow Zen Path and the Way of Great Vows, then considered commerce as the basis for a fourth path, the Way of Civilization Equivalent Exchange.
• Li Qing's Divine Body used a controlled Demonic Beast to lure an Arhat into striking, then entered the Arhat through the point of contact and extinguished his fundamental consciousness.
• Li Qing's Divine Body controlled the Arhat's body and fought a Demon Sect powerhouse, then entered that opponent during their clash and used the Way of Disorder to kill the Arhat.
• Li Qing's Divine Body absorbed the Demon Sect expert's cultivation methods and power, then continued targeting Vow Zen Path cultivators through battlefield puppets.
• Over ten years, the Demon Sect and Western Great Sect lost nearly half their backbone powerhouses, and the growing death rate began to seem unnatural.

Li Qing infiltrated Yin Mountain Temple by possessing its guardians and spent several years gathering cultivation methods and intelligence. He prepared to enter the Scripture Repository under a false trail, then controlled Cloud Dragon Arhat to gain access, leaving his true purpose concealed.

• Li Qing watched the battle and learned that three of Yin Mountain Temple’s four Great Buddhas had gone to the front lines, then decided to infiltrate the temple.
• Li Qing slipped through the temple’s Buddhist defenses by possessing a Vajra Body and secretly investigated its Vajras and Arhats for several years.
• Li Qing gathered ninety thousand perfected immortal runes and learned that Yin Mountain Temple’s Scripture Repository held most of the Western Great Sect’s cultivation methods.
• Li Qing planned to enter the Scripture Repository while creating a smokescreen to mislead the powerful figures of the Unique Universe.
• Li Qing controlled Cloud Dragon Arhat, entered the Scripture Repository, and offered his accumulated merit for access.

Li Qing used Cloud Dragon Arhat to secretly record the Scripture Repository’s contents, letting Way of Changes reconstruct vast amounts of information about the Unique Universe. The supreme beings mistook the probes for an attempt to escape the Netherworld, while Cloud Dragon Arhat reached the repository’s fourth floor and prepared to examine its most sensitive teachings.

• Li Qing sent Cloud Dragon Arhat through the Scripture Repository, where the Jade Tablet recorded the first floor and absorbed information reconstructed by Way of Changes.
• As Cloud Dragon Arhat moved to the second floor, the probes reached the information of evolved beings and the seven supreme existences.
• Great Vow Daoist and Immortal Buddha Lord concluded that the trapped intruder was searching the past for flaws, while Bodhi Daoist reported that other factions had also sensed the probes.
• The supreme beings, including Samsara Great Emperor and Rahu Divine Lord, considered the probing and took precautions, unaware that Li Qing was exploiting their mistaken beliefs about his location.
• Cloud Dragon Arhat recorded the second and third floors, then reached the fourth floor, where Divine Body focused on the Buddhist teachings and Daoist arts containing the leaders’ supreme mechanisms.

Li Qing prepared a trap at Yin Mountain Temple, contaminating the Treasure Pavilion and using a consciousness projection to record information about the Buddhist Dharma series in the Jade Tablet. The plan began to expose the essence of the supreme mechanisms as the treasury’s treasures started to rot.

• Li Qing used Cloud Dragon Arhat’s incarnation to enter the Treasure Pavilion and plant contamination in every treasure that was not made of indestructible matter.
• Cloud Dragon Arhat left the pavilion with a piece of indestructible matter and returned to the Scripture Repository without drawing suspicion.
• Li Qing withdrew his borrowed power, collapsed his Divine Body, and waited before leaving only a consciousness projection to enter information into the Jade Tablet.
• Cloud Dragon Arhat touched a jade slip from the Daoist arts series, and the Jade Tablet recorded the information as the Buddhist Dharma series changed into strange patterns.
• The contaminated treasures began rotting from within as the Indescribable’s influence spread through the Treasure Hall.

Great Vow Daoist and Immortal Buddha Lord investigated the destruction at Yin Mountain Temple and suspected Li Qing had used an incarnation to escape their surveillance. Li Qing kept his true body in Fengdu City and prepared another concealed route for his Divine Body to leave.

• Great Vow Daoist and Immortal Buddha Lord traced the information leak to Buddhist Dharma scriptures but found no sign of Li Qing in Cloud Dragon Arhat.
• Great Vow Daoist and Immortal Buddha Lord discovered that Yin Mountain Temple's treasury had been destroyed and reasoned that Cloud Dragon Arhat's incarnation had carried out the attack.
• Great Vow Daoist concluded that Li Qing's consciousness might have left Fengdu City while his true body remained hidden, and he urged the two layers of blockade to stay in place.
• Li Qing used the Divine Lamp's logic to create a lamp from his Divine Body and arranged for it to leave Fengdu City in a deputy general's hands.
• Li Qing continued calculating as ghosts in Netherworld grotto-heavens gathered information and reported it back.

Li Qing devised a way for his Immortal Golden Body to attain immortality as a treasure and escape Fengdu City's restrictions. After the Jade Ghost General unknowingly helped refine the body with immortal substances, Li Qing reached the western Underworld battlefield, where he planned to harvest more from the Western Great Sect.

• Li Qing considered hiding a thread of consciousness in his Immortal Golden Body so it could attain immortal true nature as an inanimate treasure and escape the Netherworld.
• Way of Changes recorded Yin Mountain Temple's cultivation methods, and the Jade Tablet restored Civilization's Immortal Creation into a perfect scripture of 129,600 immortal runes.
• Li Qing's Divine Body clone delivered immortal substances from fallen Western Great Sect disciples to Yellow Jade, and the Jade Ghost General led his troops out of Fengdu City without Bodhi Daoist detecting Li Qing's escape.
• The Jade Ghost General absorbed the perfect scripture and thousands of kinds of immortal substances into Li Qing's jade tablet, bringing the Immortal Golden Body to the prototype realm of immortal true nature.
• The Jade Ghost General joined the western Underworld forces at the battlefield against the Demon Sect and the Western Great Sect, while Li Qing's consciousness and Immortal Golden Body fully broke free of Fengdu City's restrictions.

Li Qing's Divine Body concealed his activities in the Netherworld while his Present Body mapped the East Sea and discovered a hidden island. At the island's center, he found the Tree of Ever-Changing Uncertainty and considered using it to create an incarnation that could conceal another of his paths.

• Li Qing's Divine Body continued reshaping ghosts, opening small spacetime realms, and disrupting the Netherworld's fate while avoiding the attention of the Western Great Sect and the Demon Sect.
• Li Qing's Present Body traveled through the East Sea and used Way of Changes and the Jade Tablet to create a map categorizing islands by danger and uncertainty.
• Li Qing's Present Body detected gravitational fluctuations around an apparently empty stretch of sea and reconstructed the power concealing a hidden island.
• Li Qing's Present Body passed through the island's barrier and found a stone treasure tree at its center.
• Li Qing's Present Body identified the tree as the Tree of Ever-Changing Uncertainty and considered refining it into an external incarnation to conceal his Way of Civilization Uncertainty.

Li Qing's Present Body bound the Tree of Ever-Changing Uncertainty to create Stone Daoist, an incarnation capable of wielding an infinite mechanism, and kept its details from the Jade Tablet. Stone Daoist established a settlement on Stone Island and began teaching the Way of Civilization, while Li Qing's Present Body prepared to investigate other gray islands.

• Li Qing's Present Body connected his consciousness and the Civilization Uncertainty Way to the Tree of Ever-Changing Uncertainty, then named its transformed incarnation Stone Daoist.
• Stone Daoist shaped the northern part of Stone Island into a city intended to support a population of one hundred thousand.
• Li Qing's Present Body spent a year gathering around ten thousand people from more than a thousand islands and brought them to Stone Island.
• Stone Daoist preached the Way of Civilization, then allowed the people to live freely on the island under rules against leaving, killing, and plundering.
• Li Qing's Present Body looked toward the other gray-marked islands and decided to seek more treasures that could become incarnations.

Li Qing established a hidden island base in the Unique Universe and prepared to spread the Way of Civilization across its other five Divine Continents. Meanwhile, his Future Body searched Primordial Chaos for a universe he could enter and discovered an unusually concealed one.

• Over a hundred years, Li Qing explored the gray islands, claimed twenty-seven of them, and built cities populated by more than a hundred million people.
• Li Qing's Way of Civilization reached the equivalent of spreading the Dao across a thousand universes, giving his Present Body four times the combat power of an ordinary evolution-grade being.
• Li Qing decided to spread the Way of Civilization across the Unique Universe's other five Divine Continents, knowing the campaign could draw the Netherworld's attention.
• In Primordial Chaos, Li Qing's Future Body found that other universes were guarded by powerful beings and could not be invaded with his current strength.
• Li Qing's Future Body followed traces recorded by the Jade Tablet and discovered a mist-shrouded universe whose presence was exceptionally difficult to detect.

Li Qing's Future Body entered the Order Universe, where the universe's strict laws suppressed his power, and devised a plan to use an Investiture of Gods War to seize control and trap its three evolutionary-level rulers. After studying the universe and its cultivation system, he entered the Main World, where an even stronger seal reduced his power nearly ten thousandfold.

• Li Qing's Future Body entered the universe and found its order weakened his power by seventy percent, so he drew on the Way of Civilization to restore his combat strength.
• He identified three powerful beings and planned to manipulate a Child of Destiny, win an Investiture of Gods War, and use the resulting Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to suppress them.
• He considered borrowing the Past Body's power to raise his available strength to 1.5 times the evolutionary level, then spent a year studying the universe's history and structure.
• He learned that the Order Universe was one-quarter the size of a complete Infinite Universe and that its people followed Buddhist, Daoist, or Confucian cultivation paths centered on the spirit.
• Outside the Main World, Li Qing's Future Body found the three rulers in separate stretches of spacetime and planned to use the Heavens Civilization Torrent to turn their people against them.
• He entered the Main World, where its seal and lack of free energy weakened his power nearly ten thousand times.

Li Qing's Future Body stirred the dead's resentments to disrupt the Order Universe and begin forming a blackwater spacetime. He took control of Icefield Province, where his forces grew as the blackwater spacetime formed beneath it.

• Li Qing's Future Body spread the Way of Civilization's call for vengeance, awakening the lingering obsessions of the dead and throwing the Order Universe's fate into chaos.
• The Spring and Autumn Sage, the Purple Qi Dao Lord, and the Light Buddha recognized the threat and sent Longevity Realm cultivators into the mortal world to investigate.
• Li Qing's Future Body left a projection to guide the forming blackwater spacetime and traveled to Icefield Province to build an intelligence network and army.
• Li Qing's Future Body brainwashed Ice City's prefect and other officials, then recruited ten thousand elite soldiers for training.
• In less than half a month, Li Qing's Future Body took control of Icefield Province and assembled an army of five hundred thousand as blackwater spacetime gathered beneath the province.

Li Qing's Future Body lured the three great progenitors into the Blackwater World and trapped them with the evolution-level Way of Civilization. The progenitors then sent their avatars and disciples north to attack the seal, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• The three great progenitors discovered an ocean of negative emotion beneath Icefield Province and ordered a Buddhist expert to investigate, but the compromised expert concealed the truth on Li Qing's Future Body's orders.
• After repeated reports found no anomaly, Light Buddha suspected their investigators had been compromised, and Purple Qi Dao Lord discovered that the Daoist cultivators' Daos could no longer be observed.
• The three progenitors descended into the Blackwater World, where Li Qing's Future Body sealed them inside a vast space-time with the Way of Civilization.
• The progenitors failed to break through the seal and realized Li Qing's Future Body was trying to trap them while striking at those outside.
• The progenitors' avatars ordered their disciples to move north and attack the seal, and streams of Radiance surged toward them.