Chapter Summaries

Li Qing trapped Purple Qi Dao Lord and the other two in the Blackwater while transforming the northern provinces and launching an invasion of the Kun Dynasty. The three experts realized Li Qing had drawn them away from the Main World as part of a larger plan, but they could not determine his ultimate goal.

• More than a million Longevity Realm experts formed a colossal deity and attacked the Blackwater, while Li Qing's Future Body used the assault to strengthen his control over the three trapped experts.
• Li Qing's incarnation reshaped the northern nine provinces through sweeping reforms, military preparations, and the spread of worship of the Lord of Civilization.
• Li Qing fused his Faith Incarnation with an incarnation of his Future Body, declared himself Heavenly King, and led the northern people in a sacrifice that made him destined by Heaven.
• Heavenly King Li Qing ordered three armies to invade the Kun Dynasty from the east, south, and west, beginning a major upheaval in the Main World.
• After a hundred days of fighting the Blackwater, Purple Qi Dao Lord, Haoran Sage, and Light Buddha saw the armies advance and concluded that Li Qing had deliberately trapped them and cleared the way for his conquest.

The three experts withdrew the Ten Thousand Immortals Grand Formation to the Imperial City after Heavenly King Li Qing exposed its weakness and threatened its cultivators. They then sent Kun Dynasty forces against Li Qing’s northern territory, but his armies broke through a city, leaving the experts scrambling to organize a counterforce.

• Light Buddha, Spring and Autumn Sage, and Purple Qi Dao Lord withdrew the Ten Thousand Immortals Grand Formation from Blackwater spacetime and moved it north to attack the invaders’ stronghold.
• Heavenly King Li Qing gathered power from the northern cities and earth veins, then fought the formation deity to a standstill while his Future Body discovered its flaw.
• Li Qing repeatedly struck the flaw, killing more than a thousand Longevity Realm cultivators and forcing the three experts to retreat to the Imperial City of the Kun Dynasty.
• Purple Qi Dao Lord proposed weakening Li Qing by sending ground forces to seize the cities and territory that supplied his power, and the Kun Dynasty Emperor ordered the army to gather.
• The Kun Dynasty army advanced on three fronts, but Li Qing’s avatar blocked the formation deity from intervening after the rebels captured the first city.
• Spring and Autumn Sage assessed the enemy’s military formation and proposed deploying at least one hundred thousand Longevity Realm cultivators to command the Kun Dynasty’s twenty million troops.

Heavenly King Li Qing’s forces overwhelmed the Kun Dynasty’s defenses, conquered a third of its territory, and prepared for a decisive battle against the much larger coalition led by Purple Qi Dao Lord and the others. The chapter ended as armies collided across the eastern, western, and central battlefields.

• The Spring and Autumn Sage proposed using Longevity Realm cultivators and gathered troops to form armies that could contend with Li Qing’s forces, and Purple Qi Dao Lord and Light Buddha agreed.
• Heavenly King Li Qing repelled the Ten Thousand Immortals Grand Formation’s attack and advanced, taking the second city without resistance.
• At the third city, Li Qing’s two-million-strong army broke the defenders’ formation, routed their million troops, and captured the city.
• Li Qing expanded into nearby regions and established control over a third of the Kun Dynasty with policies including food distribution, land equalization, schools, and lower taxes.
• Li Qing’s army grew to nearly nine million, while Purple Qi Dao Lord and the others assembled nearly seven million troops for a decisive confrontation.
• The armies clashed across the eastern, western, and central battlefields.

Li Qing’s forces drove Purple Qi Dao Lord, the Spring and Autumn Sage, and the Light Buddha to retreat, while Li Qing’s clones seized the Kun Dynasty’s Imperial City and brought its cities under Heavenly King Li Qing’s rule. As both sides prepared for a decisive battle, temples to the Lord of Civilization spread and Faith Incarnations gathered, though Purple Qi Dao Lord and the others had not noticed them.

• The Spring and Autumn Sage recognized that his army was losing badly and advised a retreat to fortified cities, so Purple Qi Dao Lord and the Light Buddha ordered their forces to withdraw.
• Li Qing’s Future Body sent more than ten thousand clones into Kun Dynasty cities, where they brainwashed officials and raised new armies under his control.
• A Li Qing clone inside a three-million-strong army attacked the Imperial City, defeated its defenders, and annihilated the Kun Dynasty’s imperial clan.
• The Imperial City fell, cities across the mortal realm surrendered, and Heavenly King Li Qing gained nearly all the Order Universe’s Qi Fate.
• Li Qing’s forces and Purple Qi Dao Lord’s retreating armies converged for a decisive battle as temples to the Lord of Civilization spread and Faith Incarnations gathered unnoticed.

Heavenly King Li Qing defeated Purple Qi Dao Lord’s allied army by unleashing the power of the Way of Civilization, then unified the universe and established the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation. He turned next to advancing Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, envisioning tools that could give civilization control over nature and the universe.

• Li Qing waited as Purple Qi Dao Lord and the other two gathered a twenty-million-strong army to face his nine-million-strong force.
• The Ten Thousand Immortals Grand Formation attacked, but the Ways of Civilization gathered across the land and empowered Li Qing to shatter the formation and absorb a million cultivators into the Heavens Civilization Torrent.
• Li Qing sealed the incarnations of Purple Qi Dao Lord and the other two, intending to study their Daos, and unified the armies and cultivators under his Way of Civilization.
• One year later, Li Qing established divine positions and the Heavenly Realm and netherworld, spreading Heavenly Dao Reincarnation throughout the universe and sealing the three powerhouses’ true bodies beneath it.
• Li Qing began developing Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, ordering the creation of tools that could control stars and weather while the Order Universe merged more closely with the Primordial Chaos.

Heavenly King Li Qing activated the completed Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation System, which gradually replaced the Order Universe’s original order. After the new system enveloped the universe, Li Qing merged his fundamental consciousness with the tangible Great Dao it had condensed.

• Heavenly King Li Qing activated the system, awakening artificial deities throughout the universe and connecting their logic to the Heavenly Dao and reincarnation subsystems.
• The subsystems gathered the universe’s information and authority into the system in Li Qing’s hand, beginning to expand the new Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
• Li Qing’s Future Body foresaw that the system’s completion would bring a final calamity from the Primordial Chaos, and began spreading the Way of Civilization.
• Over the next ten thousand years, the new order replaced the original Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and fully enveloped the Order Universe.
• Heavenly King Li Qing merged his fundamental consciousness with the new Great Dao of Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.

Li Qing used the Way of Civilization to conceal the formation of the Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Order and suppress its Final Tribulation ripples. Powerful outsiders arrived and attacked the Order Universe, but Li Qing’s Future Body held them back, revealing his identity to Dead Silence Daoist and his companions.

• Li Qing’s Future Body enveloped the tribulation ripples with the Way of Civilization while Li Qing prepared to draw on the strength of his Past Body and Present Body if needed.
• End Daoist, Dead Silence Daoist, and True Nature Daoist sensed the ripples and headed toward the Order Universe, while Destruction Ancestor also set out to investigate.
• Purple Qi Dao Lord, Spring and Autumn Sage, and Light Buddha recognized the Final Tribulation and tried to break their Netherworld seal, but Li Qing reinforced it.
• Dead Silence Daoist’s group and Destruction Ancestor arrived outside the Order Universe and joined forces to attack it.
• Li Qing gathered the Way of Civilization to block their combined strike, and Dead Silence Daoist’s group recognized his Dao and realized that Li Qing was undergoing another Final Tribulation.

The Destruction Ancestor joined Dead Silence and two other Daoists in attacking Li Qing, whose Way of Civilization had been protecting him while Heavenly Dao Reincarnation neared completion. The Destruction Ancestor used the Disordered Destruction Dao art to break through the defense, and the four pursuers entered the universe to attack Li Qing and interfere with his reincarnation.

• Dead Silence and the other two Daoists joined the Destruction Ancestor in attacking Li Qing's Way of Civilization, but its resistance held their combined power back.
• The Destruction Ancestor proposed using the Disordered Destruction Dao art and demanded half of their gains; Dead Silence and the others agreed.
• The Destruction Ancestor spent a sliver of Infinite Mechanism to infuse their combined attack with Disordered Destruction, which began tearing apart the Way of Civilization.
• Heavenly King Li Qing used Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to evade the attack while his Future Body wore down its destructive force.
• The Destruction Ancestor and the three Daoists entered the universe, surrounded Heavenly King Li Qing, and unleashed power intended to interfere with his Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.

As Heavenly King Li Qing transformed the Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, four powerhouses used a series of Dao techniques to break through his defenses and pursue him. He led their destructive attack into the Netherworld, where it struck the three suppressed experts, including the Purple Qi Dao Lord.

• Dead Silence, Destruction Ancestor, True Nature Daoist, and End Daoist spread their Great Daos to disrupt Li Qing's transformation, but his Way of Civilization held them off.
• True Nature Daoist supplied Infinite Mechanism traces, allowing Destruction Ancestor to unleash the series of Dao techniques again and restore their destructive power.
• The series of Dao techniques shattered Li Qing's Way of Civilization, forcing Heavenly King Li Qing to evade repeated attacks as his transformation neared completion.
• Li Qing led the pursuing destructive force into the Netherworld, where it struck the defensive radiance of the three suppressed experts, including the Purple Qi Dao Lord.

Purple Qi Dao Lord, Spring and Autumn Sage, and Light Buddha escaped Li Qing's trap with their Great Daos badly damaged, then decided to leave the universe and recover before joining the fight against him. As they began crossing the cosmic barrier, Li Qing secretly sent power into the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Network to keep them from escaping easily.

• Dead Silence's group and Li Qing's Future Body attacked Purple Qi Dao Lord and the other two from both sides, damaging their Great Daos before the Dao Method Series ran out of power.
• Purple Qi Dao Lord, Spring and Autumn Sage, and Light Buddha broke free from the Way of Civilization and fled into the void.
• The three decided to leave the universe, strengthen themselves, and return to hunt Li Qing if he had not yet completed his new Great Dao.
• As they rushed toward the cosmic barrier, Li Qing sensed their escape but could not spare enough power to stop them directly.
• Li Qing secretly channeled one and a half times Evolution-level power into the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Network as the three began crossing the barrier.

Li Qing's Future Body killed three Evolution-level attackers and helped Heavenly King Li Qing survive the final assault during Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation. The attackers fled after failing to stop the transformation, and Heavenly King Li Qing completed the reincarnation system and began spreading the Way of Civilization.

• Li Qing's Future Body sent hidden power through the universe's torrent, rupturing the damaged Great Daos of Purple Qi Heavenly Lord and two other Evolution-level powerhouses and killing them.
• End Daoist supplied Infinite Mechanism as Destruction Ancestor unleashed the Dao Technique Series, while Dead Silence and the others struck at Heavenly King Li Qing.
• Li Qing's Future Body used the three dead powerhouses' essential Principles to counter the attack until the Dao Technique Series and the Principles were both exhausted.
• Dead Silence, End Daoist, True Nature Daoist, and Destruction Ancestor retreated from the universe, scattering their Dao and power to spread information about the world.
• At the end of the twentieth breath, Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation was completed and merged with the Way of Civilization and Heavenly King Li Qing.
• Heavenly King Li Qing began spreading the complete Way of Civilization throughout the Order Universe, focusing on three directions.

Li Qing's Future Body used Way of Changes to erase the four powerhouses' traces from the Order Universe and confirmed that complete information could guide civilization's development. He established Way of Changes as civilization's fourth direction, then helped the Order Universe escape into Primordial Chaos, leaving Dead Silence and the others with nothing.

• Li Qing's Future Body used Way of Changes to identify and erase information that the four Dao-Transmission-level powerhouses had planted throughout the Order Universe.
• Li Qing's Future Body compared Way of Changes' calculations with the Jade Tablet and confirmed that complete information could be used to calculate and shape the future.
• Li Qing's Future Body designated Way of Changes as civilization's fourth direction and separated a portion for Heavenly King Li Qing to refine.
• Heavenly King Li Qing activated Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, compressing the Order Universe from 250 billion light-years to 100,000 light-years and sealing it off from outside forces.
• Dead Silence, Ghost Extinction Patriarch, and the other powerhouses tried to stop the Order Universe, but it broke through their blockade and vanished into Primordial Chaos.
• Dead Silence and the others watched the universe escape without leaving behind a trace, while Braised Noodle Patriarch lamented their losses.

Li Qing’s Three Bodies spread the Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Principle and pursued different forms of civilization, while his avatar reshaped Ghost entities in the Netherworld. Great Vow Daoist suspected that someone had organized the new Netherworld factions, but the chapter left their creator unidentified.

• True Nature Daoist and End Daoist considered selling information about Li Qing to the Unique Universe, but Dead Silence urged them to keep searching for the Infinite Universe instead.
• Li Qing’s Future Body assessed the Order Universe’s balanced civilization and left to seek a universe for developing Indescribability.
• Li Qing’s Present Body and Past Body received the Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Principle and drew Primordial Chaos power through their shared Dao.
• Li Qing’s avatar reshaped Netherworld Ghost entities and helped them establish factions based on different Daos.
• Great Vow Daoist told Nirvana Buddha Lord that the unusual Ghost factions were likely created by someone whose identity remained unknown.

Li Qing divided the nine directions of the Way of Civilization among his Present, Future, and Past Bodies while expanding secret Netherworld grotto-heavens and preparing to spread his doctrine. In the Infinite Universe, his Past Body began developing Civilization Equivalent Exchange as a way to gather power and advance Civilization Information Essence.

• Nirvana Buddha Lord and Great Vow Daoist sent Bodhisattvas, Arhats, and Vajras to investigate Ghost factions that Li Qing had released as bait.
• Ghost creatures in three thousand Netherworld grotto-heavens established Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, whose power strengthened Li Qing's Future Body.
• Li Qing assigned Civilization Order Logic and related paths to his Present Body, Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and related paths to his Future Body, and Civilization Information and exchange paths to his Past Body.
• Li Qing's Present Body moved toward Central Province to spread his doctrine, while his Divine Body gathered Ghost creatures to raise each grotto-heaven's population to one hundred thousand.
• In the Infinite Universe, Li Qing's Past Body considered using trade between civilizations to complete a vast exchange and absorb power.
• Li Qing's Way of Changes combined the Western Great Sect's vow and karma teachings with the School of Merchants' trade principles to deduce Civilization Information Essence.

Li Qing's Past Body developed Civilization Equivalent Exchange and used its negotiating principles to seek a truce with the All-Heavens Divine Emperor. They agreed to merge their universes and Heavenly Dao Reincarnations while retaining separate territories, but the final terms remained under discussion.

• Li Qing's Past Body compared the restored Civilization Equivalent Exchange scripture with his own version and refined the Way of Changes algorithm.
• Li Qing's Present Body cultivated Civilization Equivalent Exchange, absorbing spiritual power from others' satisfaction with a trade.
• Li Qing's Past Body secured the other powers' support to negotiate with the All-Heavens Divine Emperor and brought their forces to the front line.
• Li Qing's Past Body proposed merging the universes and their Heavenly Dao Reincarnations, while the All-Heavens Divine Emperor rejected unifying all the worlds.
• Li Qing's Past Body proposed dividing territory by the gravitational boundary, and the All-Heavens Divine Emperor agreed on the condition that neither side artificially shifted worlds to change it.

Li Qing's Past Body negotiated a binding agreement with All-Heavens Divine Emperor and persuaded both sides to avoid a Primordial Chaos Contract because it could expose Li Qing to beings beyond the supreme mechanisms. The completed exchange gave Civilization Equivalent Exchange the power to advance toward Concept Logic, and Li Qing's Past Body sent it to Heavenly King Li Qing for a breakthrough.

• Li Qing's Past Body and All-Heavens Divine Emperor agreed to sign a contract backed by their authority over Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
• Li Qing's Past Body presented the contract to the gathered powerhouses and explained that a Primordial Chaos Contract could reveal him to the existences behind the seven supreme mechanisms.
• Dead Silence questioned the contract, and Gu warned that the force behind Primordial Chaos Contracts could threaten even Evolution Level beings.
• The gathered powerhouses accepted Li Qing's contract rather than lose their remaining hope of obtaining the Jade Tablet.
• The completed exchange produced a surge of aspiration that Civilization Equivalent Exchange absorbed, and Li Qing's Past Body sent its power to Heavenly King Li Qing.
• Heavenly King Li Qing's Order Universe unified around him as Cosmic Origin cleansed Civilization Equivalent Exchange's principles during its advance toward Concept Logic.

Li Qing completed the Sentient Beings Equivalent Exchange Path and formed Civilization Information Essence, while his Past Body used Civilization Equivalent Exchange to seal an agreement with the All-Heavens Divine Emperor. The contract began merging the Heavenly Dao Reincarnations of four universes, restructuring their realms and laws.

• Li Qing completed the Cosmic Origin baptism for his Equivalent Exchange path and named the new realm the Sentient Beings Equivalent Exchange Path.
• Li Qing considered how Civilization Equivalent Exchange could draw power from transactions across an entire civilization.
• Li Qing’s Way of Changes underwent a Cosmic Origin baptism and became the foundation of Civilization Information Essence, which could calculate and reconstruct related information.
• Li Qing’s Past Body offered the All-Heavens Divine Emperor a contract formed from Civilization Equivalent Exchange instead of a Primordial Chaos Contract.
• The All-Heavens Divine Emperor signed the contract, and the Heavenly Dao Reincarnations of four universes began merging, bringing their Heavenly Realms, Netherworlds, reincarnation cycles, and laws together.

Li Qing's Civilization Equivalent Exchange completed its evolution-level breakthrough, and his Present and Future Bodies each formed a matching Great Dao coin. The three coins merged into the Past Body's Great Dao, raising its power to three times the Evolution level as the Order Universe returned to calm.

• The vows of living beings and the universe fusion's changes in fate poured power into Civilization Equivalent Exchange, allowing it to begin its final breakthrough.
• Heavenly King Li Qing used the Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Master System to contain the breakthrough's Tribulation within the Order Universe.
• Civilization Equivalent Exchange completed its evolution-level breakthrough and became a radiant Great Dao coin, which Heavenly King Li Qing carried into Primordial Chaos to spread its contract-based power.
• Li Qing's Present Body and Future Body each condensed a complete Civilization Equivalent Exchange Great Dao coin, then passed both to Heavenly King Li Qing through the Way of Civilization.
• Heavenly King Li Qing returned to the Order Universe and combined the three coins' power, raising Civilization Equivalent Exchange to three times the Evolution level before returning it to Li Qing's Past Body.
• Li Qing's Past Body noted that all three bodies now had combat power of at least three times the Evolution level, while the Future Body's Netherworld Dao spread to one hundred million ghost beings and reached six times the Evolution level.

After the universes fused, Li Qing assessed his growing power and planned to turn the new universe into a second Unique Universe by devouring others. At the Heavenly Palace, he proposed an expansion campaign, while the All-Heavens Divine Emperor warned that even smaller universes had formidable defenders.

• Li Qing's Past Body calculated that his combat strength had reached six times Evolution Realm intensity and that he controlled twenty percent of the new universe's Heavenly Dao Reincarnation authority.
• Li Qing's Past Body planned to lure the Haoran Sage and other Concept Logic beings outside the universe and kill their true bodies.
• Li Qing's Past Body resolved to make the new universe a second Unique Universe, providing another path to power independent of the Jade Tablet.
• At the Heavenly Palace, Li Qing proposed using coordinates for more than two hundred universes to invade and devour smaller ones, strengthening their Great Daos and the universe.
• The All-Heavens Divine Emperor supported the idea but warned that known universes had powerful defenders and that an invasion could provoke a combined assault.

Li Qing’s Past Body named the newly completed universe the Origin Universe and set it on a course to devour a target while the Order Universe prepared to take a share of the spoils. Meanwhile, Haoran Sage and the other powerhouses planned an ark to escape and seek a way to break through, and the Heaven-Severing Demoness reported what she had learned to Rahu Divine Venerable.

• Li Qing’s Past Body proposed naming the new universe the Origin Universe and said he would target universes without powerful backing.
• Haoran Sage warned the assembled powerhouses that they could not survive the final great Tribulation within the Origin Universe, and Xuanyuan Changlong and Universe Daoist discussed possible alternatives.
• Heaven and the Enemy of Heaven proposed building a small universe as an ark, and Haoran Sage ordered the group to gather power for it.
• Li Qing’s Past Body anticipated their plan and intended to cut off their return if they left, while the Order Universe moved to claim resources from the Origin Universe’s target.
• The Heaven-Severing Demoness returned to the Demon Sect headquarters and gave Rahu Divine Venerable her report and information from the Infinite Universe.