Chapter Summaries

Li Qing's Present Body began spreading branches of his Dao throughout the Unique Universe by converting local beings and founding new cults. The resulting turmoil alerted the great powers, and Nirvana Buddha Lord and Great Vow Daoist ordered a search for his teachings.

• Li Qing's Present Body entered a village shrine, brainwashed its snake deity, and taught it a cultivation technique and the Confucian Dao.
• Li Qing's incarnations spread different branches of his civilization across the mortal realm, recruiting beings to establish countless sects.
• The spreading teachings disrupted fate and celestial secrets, causing Calamity Qi to rise and convincing many powers that the supreme tribulation was near.
• The seven Supreme Mechanisms recognized that a force had stirred the mortal realm and suspected the Fate-less One behind the Root Jade Disc.
• Nirvana Buddha Lord and Great Vow Daoist concluded that Li Qing had evaded their blockade and ordered searches for new evil cults and Great Daos.
• Agents of the other five Supreme Mechanisms intercepted the orders issued by the Western Great Sect.

After Li Qing escaped the netherworld, the six major forces searched the Unique Universe while he concealed his Way of Civilization among disguised cults. Earth Source Immortal Venerable deduced Li Qing’s strategy and sent Evergreen Daoist to Central Province to hunt for one of his incarnations.

• The Samsara Great Emperor and the other powers realized Li Qing had escaped the netherworld, and the six major forces began searching the Unique Universe.
• Li Qing’s incarnations paused their activities and hid the Way of Civilization by presenting its teachings as branches of established sects and cults.
• Earth Source Immortal Venerable reasoned that Li Qing had spread many incarnations and planned to capture one to trace it back to its source.
• Earth Source Immortal Venerable sent Evergreen Daoist from the netherworld to Central Province to search villages alone for suspicious cults.
• Evergreen Daoist returned to the Earth Venerable Dynasty and surveyed its villages, whose vast population offered far more potential believers than actual opportunities to advance.

Evergreen Daoist tracked the spread of chaotic fate to a village teacher whose Confucian teachings carried traces of Concept Logic. He attacked with the Infinite Mechanism, freezing the village and Li Qing’s spiritual projection, but Li Qing’s Present Body sensed the trouble and severed its connection.

• Evergreen Daoist deduced that Li Qing had spread chaos through avatars centered around major cities and began searching nearby villages.
• Evergreen Daoist found a village teacher teaching a Confucian path whose principle contained faint traces of Concept Logic.
• Evergreen Daoist investigated the teacher and concluded Li Qing had influenced him after the heavenly secrets fell into chaos.
• Evergreen Daoist unleashed the Infinite Mechanism, freezing the minds of everyone in the village, including the teacher and Li Qing’s projection.
• Li Qing’s Present Body noticed the projection had been affected and severed its connection.

Li Qing learned that the Supreme Calamity would erupt after one final Primordial Chaos coordinate cycle, about 129,600 years in the Unique Universe, and planned how to use the coming crisis to pursue Infinite Mechanism. He decided Stone Daoist should join the East Sea First Line Great Sect as part of his preparations.

• Li Qing concealed his doctrine-spreading efforts after realizing Earth Source Immortal Venerable had tried to trace them through the old Master's projection.
• Earth Source Immortal Venerable failed to identify Li Qing and concluded that both his tracking method and the old Master's connection had been compromised.
• Calamity Qi spread throughout the Primordial Chaos, obscuring the futures of its universes and filling living beings with a sense of impending disaster.
• The Jade Tablet revealed that the Supreme Calamity would begin when the next five-billionth coordinate cycle ended, triggering battles among Infinite Mechanisms over Dao Fruits.
• Li Qing calculated that he needed to perfect nine directions of the Way of Civilization, prepare a Dao Protector, and help Stone Daoist reach Infinite Mechanism.
• Li Qing chose to have Stone Daoist seek admission to the East Sea First Line Great Sect and began making preparations.

Daoist Heavenly Water removed the human city from Stone Island, and Li Qing reshaped Stone Daoist’s memories so he would believe he had just taken form. Seeking protection amid the coming Tribulation, Stone Daoist asked Daoist Ten Thousand Dragons how to join the First Line Great Sect and learned where to find its entrance trials.

• Daoist Heavenly Water drew Stone Island’s human city into his sleeve, and Stone Daoist erased the city’s traces.
• Li Qing altered Stone Daoist’s memories, giving him a new identity and knowledge drawn from the River of Fate.
• Stone Daoist decided to seek a faction’s protection and traveled to Heavenly Dragon Island.
• Daoist Ten Thousand Dragons learned that Stone Daoist wanted to join a major sect and recommended the First Line Great Sect.
• Daoist Ten Thousand Dragons explained that Stone Daoist had to pass trials on three islands to earn an outer sect token.

Stone Daoist underwent the First Pass of the Three Passes, facing illusions that tested his control over desire. He passed six trials in a row, leaving the Daoists impressed and hopeful that the sect would gain a talented disciple.

• Daoist Ten Thousand Dragons brought Stone Daoist to the three islands where the sect's Three Passes were held.
• Stone Daoist entered the First Pass and resisted illusions of beautiful women by recognizing that desire should be controlled rather than suppressed.
• Stone Daoist faced an illusion of countless treasures and kept his reason by allowing greed to arise without letting it control him.
• Stone Daoist became a powerful Heavenly Emperor in another illusion and adapted to, understood, and let go of authority.
• The island Daoists revealed that Stone Daoist had passed six trials of desire, while Daoist Ten Thousand Dragons celebrated his promising assessment.

Stone Daoist passed the Trial of Comprehension and the Trial of the Heart, becoming the outer sect’s chief disciple. He revealed his name as Stone Daoist after declaring that he sought the supreme Dao.

• Stone Daoist flawlessly passed the Trial of Desire and entered the second trial.
• Stone Daoist comprehended all 108 Stone Stele Dao rhythms and gained the Scripture of Infinite Natural Transformations.
• Stone Daoist used the scripture to transform into water, stone, and wind before passing the Trial of Comprehension.
• In the Trial of the Heart, Li Qing’s Present Body influenced Stone Daoist to answer that he sought the supreme Dao.
• The gray-robed Daoist declared Stone Daoist the outer sect’s chief disciple, and Stone Daoist gave his name as Stone Daoist.

Stone Daoist traveled with Daoist Ten Thousand Dragons to Azure Cloud Heaven to meet the Sect Leader, while Li Qing’s Present Body severed its connection to him and hoped his origins would remain hidden. At Mystic Spirit Hall, Immortal Maiden Huasheng examined Stone Daoist with an Infinite Mechanism.

• Gray Mist Daoist gave Stone Daoist his identity token and examination result, telling him he could ascend Azure Cloud Heaven and meet the Sect Leader.
• Stone Daoist left with Daoist Ten Thousand Dragons, and Gray Mist Daoist speculated that Stone Daoist might be destined to answer the approaching Tribulation.
• After several months of travel, Stone Daoist and Daoist Ten Thousand Dragons arrived at Azure Cloud Heaven, where a golden-armored strongman admitted them to the island.
• Daoist Ten Thousand Dragons explained that the Sect Leader’s Supreme Mechanism made the impossible possible and allowed dead disciples to keep moving on the island.
• A purple-robed attendant led Stone Daoist and Daoist Ten Thousand Dragons to Mystic Spirit Hall, where Immortal Maiden Huasheng examined Stone Daoist with an Infinite Mechanism.

Stone Daoist entered the First Line Great Sect’s Scripture Repository and, as Li Qing, chose the Dao art Possibility Denial while planning to exploit the Repository’s records. Li Qing’s Past Body prepared to create a distraction and leave a projection behind as Stone Daoist began inspecting the first floor.

• The Immortal Maiden recognized Stone Daoist’s foundations, made him Outer Sect Eldest Senior Brother, and allowed him to choose a Daoist art.
• Purple Crane Boy guided Stone Daoist and Daoist Ten Thousand Dragons to the Scripture Repository, where an old man sent Stone Daoist to the third floor.
• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to monitor Stone Daoist, whose memories of Li Qing revived upon entering the Repository.
• Li Qing planned to gather the Repository’s knowledge and draw the Unique Universe’s powerhouses into a storm while leaving a projection behind.
• Stone Daoist selected the Dao art Possibility Denial, set it aside without cultivating it, and went to the first floor to seek records.
• As Stone Daoist passed a bookshelf on the first floor, Li Qing’s Past Body began to act.

Stone Daoist secretly probed the Unique Universe’s information while entering the First Line Great Sect, then received a mission to help two disciples in the Exquisite Kingdom. Meanwhile, the Western Great Sect began searching suspicious cults, and Divine Lord Luo Hou saw the growing chaos as a chance to condense a second Supreme Mechanism.

• Stone Daoist’s projection gathered information in the First Line Great Sect’s Scripture Repository without entering it into the Jade Tablet, then vanished when he left.
• Daoist Ten Thousand Dragons and the others discussed the widespread information probe, while Stone Daoist said he had chosen the Possibility Denial Dao art.
• Incarnation Immortal Maiden sent Stone Daoist to Radiant Wood City to aid two inner disciples and promised him one thousand merit for completing the mission.
• Stone Daoist and Daoist Ten Thousand Dragons parted ways, and Stone Daoist flew toward Central Province at full force.
• Great Vow Daoist and Nirvana Buddha Lord concluded that their containment plan had failed and ordered the Western Great Sect to investigate suspicious cults.
• Divine Lord Luo Hou viewed the turmoil as an opportunity to condense a second Supreme Mechanism before the Immeasurable Final Calamity.

Stone Daoist Li Qing arrived in Exquisite Kingdom and learned that the First Line Great Sect planned to attack Green Wood Kingdom by breaching Radiant Wood City. As his allies prepared for the assault, Li Qing sent an incarnation to Xuanhe City, where the people remained unaware that war was coming.

• The Samsara Great Emperor and the three Supreme Mechanism powerhouses watched the Unique Universe and prepared for the coming Tribulation.
• Stone Daoist Li Qing arrived in Exquisite Kingdom and met Goldwater Daoist and Silver Mountain Daoist at its border city.
• Goldwater Daoist explained the plan to seize Radiant Wood City and described the three Green Wood Kingdom preachers defending it.
• Stone Daoist Li Qing agreed to hold off White Wood Daoist while Goldwater Daoist and Silver Mountain Daoist faced the other two defenders.
• Goldwater Daoist and Silver Mountain Daoist began preparing the soldiers for an attack.
• Stone Daoist Li Qing sent an incarnation to Xuanhe City and saw that its residents did not know war was near.

Stone Daoist Li Qing and his allies launched a surprise assault on Radiant Wood City, destroying its formation and fighting its defenders while their hidden army invaded. Li Qing gained the upper hand against White Wood Daoist by using his Ever-Changing Uncertainty Dao, reinforced with Infinite Mechanism traces.

• Golden Mountain Daoist revealed that he had hidden their army in a grotto-heaven world and explained how they would attack Radiant Wood City's formation core.
• Stone Daoist Li Qing joined his Dao with Goldwater Daoist and Silver Mountain Daoist's power, pierced the city's formation, and destroyed the silver suppressing palace.
• The formation collapsed, and Goldwater Daoist and Silver Mountain Daoist engaged two defenders while Li Qing fought White Wood Daoist.
• Goldwater Daoist opened a spatial passage, sending soldiers into Radiant Wood City, where they overwhelmed the city's defenders and spread through the streets.
• White Wood Daoist's withering Dao clashed with Li Qing's Ever-Changing Uncertainty Dao, but Li Qing's Dao gained strength from Infinite Mechanism traces and began to suppress his opponent.

Stone Daoist Li Qing suppressed Radiant Wood City’s Yin Great Dao before its formation core could be restored, allowing Xuanhe City’s army to capture the city and link it to the Exquisite Kingdom’s national formation. After the victory, Li Qing returned to his palace and resolved to earn further merit for the great sect.

• Radiant Wood City’s Yin Great Dao empowered its defenders, but Stone Daoist Li Qing suppressed it while White Wood Daoist tried to hold him back.
• Stone Daoist Li Qing struck the silver palace before it could finish repairing the Moonlight Soaring Sky Formation, tipping the battle in Xuanhe City’s favor.
• Xuanhe City’s army captured or killed Radiant Wood City’s defenders, and the Exquisite Kingdom’s formation severed the city’s connection to the Green Wood Kingdom.
• White Wood Daoist, Hundred Flowers Daoist, and Mysterious Gloom Daoist retreated from the national formation’s power, leaving Stone Daoist Li Qing and his allies victorious.
• Goldwater Daoist praised Stone Daoist Li Qing, and the three entered Radiant Wood City to arrange its affairs under the Exquisite Kingdom’s formation.
• Stone Daoist Li Qing returned to his palace that night and resolved to establish more merit within the First Line Great Sect.

After the First Line Great Sect's forces took Greywood City, Yin Wood Great Divine Lord sought an alliance with Heavenly Ford Great Fate Supreme Divine Lord, warning that the Tribulation might involve the eighth Supreme Mechanism. They agreed to cooperate against the First Line Great Sect, and their forces gathered near Radiant Wood City.

• White Wood Daoist and the other two reported the loss of Greywood City to Azure Dragon Yin Wood Great Divine Lord.
• Yin Wood Great Divine Lord visited Heavenly Ford Great Fate Supreme Divine Lord and proposed an ambush against the First Line Great Sect.
• Yin Wood Great Divine Lord explained that the seven Supreme Mechanisms were searching for an eighth, which could trigger the Immeasurable Final Calamity.
• Heavenly Ford Great Fate Supreme Divine Lord agreed to cooperate with Yin Wood Great Divine Lord and seek other allies against the six great factions.
• Azure Dragon Nation and Tianjin Nation began cooperating, while mysterious experts arrived at Dragon Ancient City near Radiant Wood City.
• White Wood Daoist greeted Green Wood Daoist, one of Divine Lord Yimu's direct disciples.

The Asura True God, Green Wood Daoist, White Wood Daoist, and two allies created a death-domain grotto-heaven to lure and kill the forces of Radiant Wood City. Stone Daoist Li Qing uncovered their plan through a universe-wide information investigation and waited for news of the trap, which Goldwater Daoist then reported at a council meeting.

• The Asura True God proposed using the Death Reincarnation Flower to lure Radiant Wood City's cultivators into a deadly grotto-heaven while the five allies prepared to attack them.
• The five allies built the trap in a valley near Radiant Wood City and Ancient Dragon City, spreading an aura of death to attract nearby cultivators.
• Stone Daoist Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to investigate information across the Unique Universe and discovered that Heavenly Ford Kingdom and Green Wood Kingdom had joined forces to target Radiant Wood City.
• Stone Daoist Li Qing decided to find a way to expose the trap and turn it against its creators.
• Goldwater Daoist told Silver Mountain Daoist and Stone Daoist Li Qing that patrol cultivators had found a faint deathly aura in Sunset Glow Valley.

Stone Daoist Li Qing recognized the supposed innate treasure in Sunset Glow Valley as a possible trap and persuaded Goldwater Daoist to request reinforcements. Three powerful disciples arrived in response, while White Wood Daoist and his allies, unaware that their plan had been seen through, prepared to lure more cultivators into the trap.

• Stone Daoist Li Qing pointed out suspicious coincidences surrounding the hidden realm and convinced Goldwater Daoist to request reinforcements from the First Line Great Sect.
• Incarnation Immortal Maiden sent Divine Moon Immortal Maiden, Monster Spirit Immortal Maiden, and Hundred Years Immortal Maiden to help Goldwater Daoist in Radiant Wood City.
• Stone Daoist Li Qing, Goldwater Daoist, and Silver Mountain Daoist stayed inside Radiant Wood City and waited for reinforcements instead of entering the trap.
• After several days without a response from Radiant Wood City, White Wood Daoist asked Hundred Flowers Daoist and Mysterious Gloom Daoist whether their plan had failed.
• Hundred Flowers Daoist suggested that the first cultivator they had guided might have kept the grotto-heaven secret, so White Wood Daoist told Mysterious Gloom Daoist to lure in more cultivators.

Stone Daoist Li Qing exposed the suspected Azure Dragon Kingdom trap to the Three Moon Island Immortal Maidens, who planned to ambush the enemy at Sunset Glow Valley. Silver Mountain Daoist scouted the Death Domain Grotto-Heaven and retreated after discovering its deadly formation, leaving Stone Daoist Li Qing as the next target expected to enter.

• Mysterious Gloom Daoist departed after the group agreed to use his Great Dao to ensure their opponents sent out news of the supposed treasure.
• Divine Moon Immortal Maiden, Monster Spirit Immortal Maiden, and Hundred Years Immortal Maiden arrived in Radiant Wood City, and Stone Daoist Li Qing explained his deductions about the trap.
• Divine Moon Immortal Maiden decided to set up the Sun Moon Stars Inversion Grand Formation around Sunset Glow Valley and lure the enemy into it.
• After receiving fresh reports that Stone Daoist Li Qing identified as bait, the three Immortal Maidens left to prepare their formation, and Stone Daoist Li Qing briefed Goldwater Daoist and Silver Mountain Daoist on the next steps.
• Silver Mountain Daoist entered the Death Domain Grotto-Heaven, sensed its powerful deathly suppression, and retreated as planned.
• Green Wood Daoist and Asura True God watched Silver Mountain Daoist withdraw and prepared for Stone Daoist Li Qing to enter their trap.

Stone Daoist Li Qing, Goldwater Daoist, and Silver Mountain Daoist entered the Death Domain Grotto-Heaven trap and fought off Green Wood Daoist and the Asura True God’s formation. Even after White Wood Daoist and his companions joined the attackers, Li Qing’s Uncertainty Great Dao held firm, leaving both sides deadlocked.

• Stone Daoist Li Qing, Goldwater Daoist, and Silver Mountain Daoist entered the Death Domain Grotto-Heaven to hold off their enemies while the three immortal maidens raised their formation.
• Green Wood Daoist and the Asura True God activated their formation and attacked the three Daoists, but Li Qing used his Ever-Changing Uncertainty Dao to withstand their combined power.
• The Asura True God recognized that Li Qing’s three thousand traces of the Infinite Mechanism strengthened his formation and called for White Wood Daoist and his companions.
• White Wood Daoist and his two companions joined the attack, raising the formation’s strength to a hundred times evolution-level power.
• Li Qing, Goldwater Daoist, and Silver Mountain Daoist endured the crushing force, and the two sides remained locked in a fierce deadlock.

The three Immortal Maidens of Three Moon Island shattered the hidden space-time formation and joined Stone Daoist Li Qing’s attack from within, turning the trap against Green Wood Daoist and his allies. The enemy formation began to fail, leaving Green Wood Daoist’s side trapped between an imminent breakout and the threat of a stronger counterattack.

• Asura True God identified the weakness in Stone Daoist Li Qing and the others’ strength and urged Green Wood Daoist to wear them down before moving the grotto-heaven into Green Wood Kingdom.
• Divine Moon Immortal Maiden and the other two Immortal Maidens activated the Sun Moon Stars Inversion Grand Formation around Sunset Glow Valley and exposed the hidden space-time formation.
• The three Immortal Maidens’ combined attack shattered the space-time barrier, and Green Wood Daoist recognized them as experts from the Sole Great Sect.
• Stone Daoist Li Qing told his allies their counterattack had begun and drove the treasure tree into the Yin-Yang Life-Death Millstone Grand Formation.
• The combined attacks from inside and outside overwhelmed the formation, and Green Wood Daoist realized his side could neither hold the captives nor safely face their escape.

Stone Daoist and Li Qing escaped Green Wood Daoist's formation, then helped stop it from fleeing as Immortal Maiden Divine Moon's forces surrounded and trapped it. Yin Wood Great Divine Lord and Supreme Divine Lord intervened, but Incarnation Immortal Maiden and the Exquisite Kingdom's grand formation held them outside Radiant Wood City.

• Green Wood Daoist contracted the Life-Death Yi-Wood Turning Wheel Grand Formation and tried to break through the encirclement.
• Stone Daoist and Li Qing used their deductions and the Ever-Changing Uncertainty Dao to escape the formation and block its flight.
• Immortal Maiden Divine Moon and three allies surrounded the formation, tempered it with the Sun Moon Stars Inversion Grand Formation, and carried it toward Radiant Wood City.
• Yin Wood Great Divine Lord and Supreme Divine Lord attacked through fissures in the void, while Incarnation Immortal Maiden intercepted them with her Infinite Mechanism power.
• Stone Daoist, Li Qing, and their allies dragged White Wood Daoist's group into the Exquisite Kingdom's sphere, where its grand formation empowered Incarnation Immortal Maiden and stopped the two attackers.