Chapter Summaries

Incarnation Immortal Maiden held off the two Divine Lords while Stone Daoist Li Qing and the others tried to destroy their subordinates' formation. Divine Moon Immortal Maiden used the secrets Stone Daoist Li Qing had discovered to weaken the enemy formation, leaving Green Wood Daoist and the others facing defeat and considering self-destruction.

• Incarnation Immortal Maiden drew on the power of two kingdoms to withstand the two Divine Lords and urged Stone Daoist, Li Qing, and the others to eliminate their subordinates quickly.
• Divine Moon Immortal Maiden linked the Exquisite Kingdom's formation to her Sun Moon Stars Inversion Grand Formation, greatly strengthening its flames against the Life-Death Yi-Wood Turning Wheel Grand Formation.
• Stone Daoist Li Qing shared the flaws he had discovered in the enemy formation, allowing Divine Moon Immortal Maiden to target its weaknesses and make it begin to collapse.
• Green Wood Daoist and the others struggled to defend their failing formation as the Sun, Moon, and Stars Great Dao flames broke through.
• Green Wood Daoist proposed that they self-destruct rather than let their true bodies be refined, and Asura True God and the others faced the prospect of losing their cultivation.

Stone Daoist Li Qing anticipated the enemy's self-destruction, helping the First Line Great Sect contain the blast and win a major battle. The Incarnation Immortal Maiden praised the group, while the Supreme Divine Lord and Yin Wood Great Divine Lord began plotting to bring in outside allies.

• Stone Daoist Li Qing warned that the trapped enemies might self-destruct, and the Divine Music Daoist said the altered formations could neutralize the blast.
• The Life-Death Yi-Wood Turning Wheel Grand Formation contracted and shattered, but the Sun Moon Stars Inversion Grand Formation channeled the shockwave into the Exquisite Kingdom's formation.
• The Yin Wood Great Divine Lord and Supreme Divine Lord confronted the Incarnation Immortal Maiden, who said the First Line Great Sect was moving against them because they blocked its path to Qi Fate.
• The Yin Wood Great Divine Lord and Supreme Divine Lord withdrew to protect two cities, then agreed to seek outside aid against the First Line Great Sect.
• Back in Radiant Wood City, Divine Moon Daoist credited Stone Daoist Li Qing for the victory, and the Incarnation Immortal Maiden praised him.

Stone Daoist received provisional inner-sect status, new cultivation resources, and a treasure sword after the sect’s victory. He urged his companions to consolidate their gains before advancing, then began turning Dao arts into treasures and discovered that creating a Dao Treasure consumed Dao essence that slowly replenished.

• The Incarnation Immortal Maiden granted Stone Daoist provisional inner-sect status, ten thousand merit, the Infinite Possibilities Dao Scripture, three Dao arts, and the Doombringer Divine Sword.
• The Incarnation Immortal Maiden ordered the group to prepare to occupy Green Wood Kingdom and promised to hold back the two opposing powers when they moved.
• Divine Moon Daoist asked how the group should proceed, and Stone Daoist advised them to consolidate their gains, gather intelligence, and seek another border route into Green Wood Kingdom and Heavenly Ford Kingdom.
• Stone Daoist returned to his palace and used Myriad Arts into Treasures to form four Dao seeds, including one for the Fundamental Great Dao Scripture.
• Stone Daoist transformed the scripture seed into a Dao Treasure, spending one trace of Infinite Mechanism, and discovered that his consumed Dao essence replenished only slowly.

Stone Daoist Li Qing prepared to use the Doombringer Divine Sword and his three Dao techniques to harvest Infinite Mechanism traces from an Evolution-level expert. He sent a powerful clone into Heavenly Ford Kingdom and reached a border city, where he prepared to strike before its formation could activate.

• Stone Daoist Li Qing examined the Doombringer Divine Sword and planned to use it with Certain-Hit Sword, See Through All Arts, and Possibility Denial to kill Dao possessors and extract their Dao essence.
• Stone Daoist Li Qing concluded that he needed three complete Infinite Mechanism traces to finish three Dao treasures and decided the current battlefield was unsuitable for hunting.
• Stone Daoist Li Qing created a clone with one-third of his power and sent it toward Heavenly Ford Kingdom, avoiding Ancient Dragon City.
• The clone crossed a million li in less than three days and reached a border city, where it sensed an Evolution-level expert and observed the city’s formation core.
• Stone Daoist Li Qing’s clone entered the city unnoticed and prepared to attack during the brief moment before the formation could be activated.

Stone Daoist Li Qing ambushed the God of Nine Hells, overwhelmed him with the Doombringer Divine Sword, and sealed him before retreating to the Exquisite Kingdom. Back in Radiant Wood City, Li Qing began consuming the god’s Great Dao to extract traces of the Infinite Mechanism, while the Supreme Divine Lord vowed to remember the incident.

• Li Qing used his knowledge of the God of Nine Hells to empower Stone Daoist Li Qing with eleven times his evolution-level strength and launch a surprise attack.
• Stone Daoist Li Qing pierced the God of Nine Hells’ defenses and sealed him inside bizarre spacetime, severing his connections to the outside world.
• Stone Daoist Li Qing escaped to the Exquisite Kingdom, whose formation protected him, while the Supreme Divine Lord viewed the attack and vowed to remember the karma.
• Ten days later, Stone Daoist Li Qing returned to Radiant Wood City and used the Doombringer Divine Sword to consume the God of Nine Hells’ Great Dao and extract Infinite Mechanism traces.
• Li Qing calculated that refining a complete trace of the Infinite Mechanism could require consuming the Great Dao of an entire Evolution-level powerhouse.

Stone Daoist Li Qing killed the God of Nine Hells and refined a trace of Infinite Mechanism, then continued hunting for targets. Meanwhile, the Supreme Divine Lord and Bright Daoist planned to ambush Incarnation Immortal Maiden, but Bright Daoist secretly offered to join her in turning the plot against them.

• Stone Daoist Li Qing used the Sword of Certain Death to grind the God of Nine Hells to death and extracted a trace of Infinite Mechanism.
• Stone Daoist Li Qing formed a seed-shaped Dao Treasure and set out to hunt more targets for refinement.
• The Supreme Divine Lord told Bright Daoist that the First Line Great Sect was moving into Central Province and proposed they kill Incarnation Immortal Maiden during the coming calamity.
• Bright Daoist agreed to the plan, then secretly went to Incarnation Immortal Maiden and proposed that they exploit the scheme to refine the Supreme Divine Lord and Yin Wood Great Divine Lord.
• Incarnation Immortal Maiden accepted Bright Daoist’s proposal but warned that the two of them might not be strong enough to defeat their targets alone.

Incarnation Immortal Maiden ordered attacks to intensify the war while Li Qing uncovered Bright Daoist’s betrayal and the plan to ambush Infinite Mechanism powers in one cosmic cycle. Li Qing then approached Yin Wood Great Divine Lord and the Supreme Divine Lord in Ancient Dragon City, claiming he could save them.

• Incarnation Immortal Maiden ordered Stone Daoist, Li Qing, and the others to launch fierce attacks from multiple border cities and await her orders in one cosmic cycle.
• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to reconstruct information across the Unique Universe and discovered that Bright Daoist had betrayed Yin Wood Great Divine Lord and the Supreme Divine Lord.
• Stone Daoist and Li Qing realized the First Line Great Sect was escalating the war to prepare for a future calamity and considered using the scheme to their advantage.
• Li Qing identified roughly thirty-six Infinite Mechanism powers targeted by the six major factions and coordinated his incarnations and sects to monitor the plots against them.
• Li Qing sent a projection into Ancient Dragon City and told Yin Wood Great Divine Lord and the Supreme Divine Lord that he had come to resolve their crisis.
• Yin Wood Great Divine Lord and the Supreme Divine Lord let Li Qing’s projection into their palace, where Yin Wood Great Divine Lord remarked on its unusual nature.

Li Qing gathered thirty-seven Infinite Mechanism great powers as the Mastermind and offered verified intelligence that could help them avoid the coming calamities. He proposed an alliance built around exchanging information, favors, and opportunities to hunt the six major factions.

• Li Qing revealed that Yin Wood Great Divine Lord and the Supreme Divine Lord planned to besiege the Incarnation Immortal Maiden, then invited them to an assembly.
• Yin Wood Great Divine Lord and the Supreme Divine Lord agreed to attend after recognizing Li Qing's probing power.
• Li Qing prepared a concealed meeting place, where thirty-seven Infinite Mechanism great powers gathered three days later.
• Li Qing introduced himself as the Mastermind and gave the attendees verified information about dangers threatening each of them.
• Li Qing warned the great powers not to investigate him, then proposed an alliance to share intelligence, exchange favors, assist one another, and hunt members of the six major factions.

Li Qing withdrew after two Infinite Mechanism powerhouses probed his projection, making the others fear they had lost access to his information. After they apologized and offered favors, Li Qing returned and accepted their debts, leaving the alliance intact but on his terms.

• Li Qing’s projection vanished when the Nine Nether Profound Underworld Supreme True Demon and the Void Immeasurable Vacuum Mother probed it, and Li Qing decided to make the group wary of offending him.
• Li Qing stayed away for nearly a month while the thirty-six Infinite Mechanism powerhouses worried that their alliance and access to his information had collapsed.
• The Supreme True Demon and the Vacuum Mother each offered to help Li Qing accomplish one thing for free in exchange for his return.
• After monitoring the group’s thoughts, Li Qing sent his projection back and told the two powerhouses they owed him a favor.

Li Qing secured the thirty-six Infinite Mechanism powerhouses’ agreement not to investigate him and asked them to share information about the Unique Universe. Their memories and suspicions led them to conclude that Li Qing might be the hidden eighth Supreme Mechanism.

• Li Qing set a boundary: if the powerhouses investigated him again, he would end their alliance and reveal their information to rival factions.
• The thirty-six Infinite Mechanism powerhouses accepted Li Qing’s terms and agreed to use his projection as an information relay station.
• The completed transactions raised Li Qing’s Dao of Civilization Equivalent Exchange to thirty times evolution-level intensity, making him the strongest existence in the Origin Universe, though he could not easily kill Haoran Sage and the others.
• Haoran Sage and the others built a compressed Universe Ark as a fortress for their eventual departure from the Origin Universe, while Li Qing waited for a chance to locate them.
• Li Qing asked the thirty-six powerhouses to share what they knew about the Unique Universe, excluding personal information they wished to keep private.
• Yin Wood Great Divine Lord, Supreme True Demon, and Vacuum Mother discussed the approaching Immeasurable Final Calamity and concluded that Li Qing might be the hidden eighth Supreme Mechanism.

Vacuum Mother persuaded the thirty-six Infinite Mechanism experts to supply Li Qing with information so they could test the limits of his Supreme Mechanism treasure. After Li Qing used their data to complete a vast Unique Universe model, the Jade Tablet launched an investigation across the universe’s past and present that even the experts could not block.

• Vacuum Mother argued that Li Qing likely controlled a Supreme Mechanism treasure and persuaded the experts to accept his terms.
• The thirty-six experts compiled a Unique Universe information model, removing details that could expose themselves and adding traps to test Li Qing’s probing ability.
• Li Qing received the information and recorded it in his Past Body’s Civilization Information Essence while remaining alert for attempts to probe him.
• Li Qing spent seven days and nights using forty-eight times Evolution-level power to complete nearly seventy percent of the Unique Universe information model.
• Li Qing fed the completed model into the Jade Tablet, which began gathering information across the past and present, bypassing the experts’ defenses and traps.

Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to uncover the Unique Universe’s secrets and began preparing for his eventual breakthrough into the Supreme Mechanism. While the thirty-six Infinite Mechanism powerhouses formed an alliance to find and stop him, Li Qing secretly spread and strengthened his Way of Civilization, leaving him ready to expand its reach further.

• Li Qing told the thirty-six Infinite Mechanism powerhouses that he could reveal information to help them prepare for the coming calamity.
• The Supreme True Demon and the Primordial Unity Daoist concluded that the Jade Tablet’s probing power had no known limits and urged the powerhouses to identify Li Qing’s Dao so they could ambush him when he tried to breach the Infinite Mechanism.
• The Yin Wood Great Divine Lord proposed turning their gathering place into an information exchange and forming an offensive and defensive alliance.
• Li Qing used Civilization Information Essence to analyze the universe and created doctrines resembling the Daos of selected members of the six major powers, spreading them through his incarnations.
• Li Qing expanded four Great Dao paths to one hundred million people each, raising his three bodies’ power to the sixfold evolution level for each path and his total potential to the fifty-fourfold evolution level.
• Li Qing’s Present Body decided to let the doctrines spread further so his sect could pass them off as genuine and reach more Pathwalkers.

Li Qing's Present Body spread his Dao through hidden shrines that stole worshippers' spiritual power and gradually converted them into followers. Meanwhile, Li Qing's Past Body worked out Civilization Infinite Possibilities, leaving it with a plan to foster continual innovation across a universe.

• Zhang Wuliang noticed that the spiritual power gathered in White Cloud City had fallen by one percent and ordered an investigation into the major sects and possible cult activity.
• Poor residents began worshipping at concealed shrines whose statues secretly absorbed their spiritual power and transmitted Li Qing's Dao to them.
• Li Qing's Present Body observed that his Dao was spreading steadily across the Unique Universe while remaining difficult for the major powers to trace.
• Li Qing's Past Body concluded that Civilization Infinite Possibilities had to address internal stagnation and external dangers to help civilization keep developing.
• Li Qing's Past Body planned to establish Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation in a diverse universe, rewarding beings who created new principles and making knowledge and principles available to all.

Li Qing identified the Four Gods Universe as a suitable place to develop Civilization Infinite Possibilities and began infiltrating it. He spread his Way of Civilization across the war-torn universe and summoned its countless dead, preparing to gather their strength.

• Li Qing's Present Body sent his new model for the Way of Civilization to his Future Body, who selected a distant universe for the project.
• Li Qing's Future Body discovered the Four Gods Universe, where the Lord of Mystery, the Lord of Fear, the Lord of War, and the Lord of Nature ruled through divine systems and endless war.
• Li Qing's Future Body identified the universe's accumulated resentment and death as grounds to condense a Blackwater Ocean and obtain the Dark Heavenly Mandate.
• Li Qing's Future Body's avatar descended to the battlefield intersection and spread the Way of Civilization through the universe's logic.
• Li Qing's Future Body called to the countless dead, promising vengeance and asking them to gather their strength.

Li Qing's Future Body entered the Four Gods Universe and used the dead's resentment and obsessions to gain the universe's recognition for the Way of Civilization. The four gods gathered their forces to contain him, but Li Qing's overwhelming power broke their first formation, and he began considering how to weaken their new defense.

• Li Qing's Future Body gathered the dead's obsessions into a vast Blackwater Ocean and spread the Way of Civilization through the Four Gods Universe.
• The Lord of Mystery, the Lord of Fear, the Lord of Nature, and the Lord of War recognized the invasion and ordered the universe's divine domains to suppress the black water.
• The four gods combined their authorities into a divine domain formation, but Li Qing's five directions of civilization unleashed power at sixtyfold Evolution Grade and stopped it.
• The four gods summoned countless gods and formed the All Gods Grand Formation, redirecting Li Qing's power through the universe's logic to withstand his attack.
• Li Qing observed that the formation depended on the authorities of the gods and recognized that dismantling them would weaken its defenses.

Li Qing used Civilization Information Essence and the Jade Tablet to uncover the Four Gods’ secrets, then spread the Way of Civilization throughout their universe. He forced the gods supporting the Four Gods Formation to abandon it, leaving the Four Gods exposed to his power.

• Li Qing calculated the Four Gods Universe’s information and prepared to use Civilization Equivalent Exchange to force transactions with its inhabitants.
• The Four Gods discussed how to contain Li Qing and concluded that their formation could hold him off until they negotiated.
• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to probe the Four Gods’ information, alarming them and prompting them to guard their formation.
• After half a month, Li Qing spread the Way of Civilization throughout the universe and turned its power toward Civilization Equivalent Exchange.
• Li Qing forced the gods beneath the Four Gods to surrender their loyalty and withdraw their power, shattering the formation as his Way of Civilization surged toward the Four Gods.

Li Qing’s Future Body drove the Four Gods from their universe and used the Way of Civilization to replace its divine order with Heavenly Dao Reincarnation. He proclaimed laws that made knowledge and creation available to every living being, beginning a new era under the Way of Civilization.

• The Four Gods escaped into Primordial Chaos as the Way of Civilization engulfed their universe, and they lamented that they had not established Universal Heavenly Dao Reincarnation earlier.
• Li Qing’s Future Body declared the universe his and used the Way of Civilization to spread a projected Heavenly Dao Reincarnation system throughout it.
• The system stripped the gods of their control over universal logic, and the Way of Civilization destroyed them and turned their powers into components of the new order.
• Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation created the Netherworld, the Heavenly Realm, artificial gods, and a master system that took control of the Four Gods Universe’s logic.
• Li Qing’s incarnation addressed the universe as the Lord of Infinite Possibilities and proclaimed laws granting all beings access to knowledge, rewards for new contributions, and protection for creation.

Li Qing established Universal Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to organize knowledge, resources, and research across the Four Gods Universe, where countless independent paths flourished into a great civilizational current. As he connected with that current, he began to envision True Civilization, in which every person would become an independent, invulnerable civilization.

• Universal Heavenly Dao Reincarnation created a database and panels that let intelligent lifeforms study, contribute knowledge, and exchange verified discoveries for resources.
• Li Qing ruled the Four Gods Universe and made further cultivation depend on creating a new Principle verified by Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
• Researchers and communities developed countless paths, and their combined work formed a great current approaching the level of an evolutionary Great Dao.
• Li Qing connected Universal Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to the great current and recognized that infinite possibilities arose from Principles expanding without limit.
• Li Qing conceived of True Civilization, imagining every person as an independent civilization who could neither harm nor control another.

Li Qing realized that his path toward true freedom required transcending the Supreme Mechanism, while the Four Gods Universe’s final great Tribulation began to attract powerful beings. The Lord of Mystery and his allies persuaded King of Demon Abyss to join them in moving against the Four Gods Universe.

• Li Qing realized that a civilization without weaknesses or needs could end exploitation, but reaching that state might require surpassing the Supreme Mechanism.
• The Four Gods Universe’s final great Tribulation began to form, and its Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation sealed the universe while faint ripples spread through Primordial Chaos.
• Water Spirit Immortal sensed the Tribulation’s ripples and led her three deputy gods toward their source.
• The Lord of Mystery and the other three asked King of Demon Abyss to help conquer the Four Gods Universe and gain its preacher’s beyond-limit power.
• After sensing a karmic connection to the final great Tribulation, the four visitors told King of Demon Abyss that the preacher might have mastered multiple Great Daos, and he agreed to investigate.
• King of Demon Abyss used Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to jump toward the Four Gods Universe as its spacetime compression formation stood ready for rapid travel.

Water Spirit Immortal attacked Li Qing's Four Gods Universe while he completed his Great Dao transformation, but his defenses held until the King of Demon Abyss and the Four Gods arrived. The six joined forces and Water Spirit Immortal unleashed a powerful Dao art, leaving Li Qing facing the chapter's first attack capable of threatening his defenses.

• After thirty breaths, Water Spirit Immortal and three deputy divine generals formed a formation and attacked the Four Gods Universe with a vast ocean of power.
• Li Qing's Future Body combined Heavenly Dao Reincarnation with the Way of Civilization, raising the universe's defensive power to sixty-six times the evolution level and stopping the waves.
• Water Spirit Immortal considered retreating, but the King of Demon Abyss and the Four Gods arrived and attacked the universe with power reaching forty-three times the evolution level; their combined assault still failed to break through.
• Water Spirit Immortal persuaded the King of Demon Abyss and the Four Gods to share the cost of her Dao art, and they agreed to divide the universe if they conquered it.
• Water Spirit Immortal used Myriad Waters Divine Thunder, combining the formation's power with the Demon Abyss Universe's force and an Infinite Mechanism trace to unleash a strike that could shatter Great Daos.
• Li Qing's Future Body realized the strike posed a true danger and pushed the Way of Civilization and Civilization Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to their limits.