Chapter Summaries

Stone Daoist Li Qing built a settlement and began preaching the Dao while his combat achievements earned him standing and goodwill within the First Line Great Sect. Li Qing’s Present Body searched the Unique Universe for powerful treasures to strengthen Stone Daoist and identified three mysterious locations, beginning with the Hazy Domain.

• Stone Daoist Li Qing used his skill at analyzing Great Daos to aid the First Line Great Sect in battle, secretly arranging some rescues to build a network of goodwill.
• Stone Daoist Li Qing established a city on East Sea Immortal Island, gathered around ten thousand people from nearby islands, and began preaching his Great Dao.
• Stone Daoist Li Qing expanded the island, created farmland and villages, and began developing a community without drawing questions from the First Line Great Sect.
• Li Qing’s Present Body assessed Stone Daoist’s three paths to a breakthrough and concluded that finding powerful external treasures was the main area he could improve.
• Li Qing searched the Unique Universe’s history for ownerless Infinite Mechanism items and identified three ancient locations worth exploring, starting with the Hazy Domain and its Ash World.

Li Qing investigated the Hazy Domain, one of the Unique Universe’s three mysterious forbidden places, after deciding the other two were too dangerous to enter. His Divine Body encountered a devouring creature and broke through a strange void, then continued downward into the mist, where a powerful invisible wind threatened his defenses.

• Li Qing reviewed what was known about the Hazy Domain, the Northern Sea Return to Ruins, and the Endless Death Abyss, and chose to explore the Hazy Domain.
• Li Qing’s Divine Body entered the Hazy Domain, where the mist disrupted its connection with his Present Body until the Present Body arrived at the entrance.
• Li Qing’s Divine Body descended through the mist and emerged in a small void, where an invisible creature enveloped and tried to digest him.
• Li Qing’s Present Body lent power to the Divine Body, whose radiance of the Way of Civilization destroyed the creature, though it left behind no Principle essence.
• Li Qing’s Divine Body shattered the void boundary and continued downward through shifting time-spaces until a terrifying invisible wind battered the radiance of the Way of Civilization.

Li Qing's Divine Body crossed the Hazy Domain's dangerous layers and entered the Ash World beneath it, where even the Way of Civilization's power was restricted. After clearing away ash to inspect the strange ground, he considered the failed explorations of other experts and sought a way to uncover the world's secret.

• Li Qing endured the Hazy Domain's dangers, including a multicolored barrier that suppressed the Way of Civilization, and continued descending.
• After several days, Li Qing passed through the Hazy Domain's dividing membrane and entered the Ash World, where his power was limited to a three-foot radius.
• Li Qing landed on weightless ash and recalled that the ground beneath it was black rock that could not be dug up normally.
• Li Qing used the Way of Civilization as a fan to clear ash from a twenty-meter area and exposed the energyless, unfamiliar ground.
• Li Qing examined the strange ground and recalled how other experts' excavations had failed, with the earth healing itself and deep digging looping back beneath the surface.

Li Qing discovered that the Hazy Domain was a black box beyond the Jade Tablet’s reach, making it a possible fallback and final battlefield, though attempts to advance there could be dangerous. He spent more than ten thousand years searching its endless ashes for traces of civilization while the war and his teaching efforts remained slow, and Stone Daoist’s island population grew to thirty million.

• Li Qing found that the Jade Tablet could not restore or make sense of information from the Hazy Domain, and considered using the place as a fallback.
• Li Qing learned that past experts who attempted to attain Infinite Mechanism or Supreme Mechanism in the Hazy Domain either returned unchanged or never emerged.
• Li Qing decided to use the Way of Civilization to search the Ash World for traces that might resonate with civilization.
• Li Qing’s Divine Body explored the silent Ash World for more than ten thousand years but found nothing.
• Li Qing continued overseeing the spread of teachings as the Unique Universe’s war remained stalled and the number of people taught reached barely five hundred million.
• Stone Daoist’s island population grew to thirty million.

Li Qing expanded his civilization and tracked the shifting alliances in Primordial Chaos while his Divine Body searched the Hazy Domain. He found a mysterious stone-tablet fragment whose runes annihilated the Light of Civilization and vanished from his memory whenever he looked away.

• Stone Daoist Li Qing moved followers onto two newly approved islands after the original island’s resources were exhausted.
• Li Qing spread the Way of Civilization through three thousand universes as his Future Body searched for more, while his two hunting universes continued growing.
• Nine alliances formed across Primordial Chaos to protect thousands of universes from the two mysterious hunting universes, unaware that some of their members were targets of a hidden plan.
• Li Qing’s Past Body used the Jade Tablet to track information across Primordial Chaos as the alliances made it harder to find new universes to devour.
• After exploring the Hazy Domain for over ten thousand years, Li Qing’s Divine Body found a black stone fragment that dissolved the Light of Civilization.
• Li Qing tried to reproduce the fragment’s shifting rune, but the rune annihilated his Light of Civilization and disappeared from his memory when he looked away.

Li Qing restored a black Stone Stele bearing three thousand runes and discovered that it transformed any power touching it into a force opposite to Primordial Chaos and the Civilization Universe. He decided to investigate the runes and develop a new cultivation path, beginning an experiment that left pure void around the first simulated rune.

• Li Qing followed the resonance of the Light of Civilization to find and assemble the Stone Stele's scattered fragments over more than a hundred years.
• Li Qing placed the completed Stone Stele inside a miniature Civilization Universe and supplied power until its cracks were repaired and its runes released an opposing force.
• Li Qing realized the Stone Stele transformed the power it absorbed and considered using its runes to create a cultivation method that could help him escape the forces watching him.
• Li Qing simulated one rune in the Civilization Micro-Universe, where the rune's formation created a void without time, space, matter, energy, or soul units.

Li Qing analyzed the mysterious runes and discovered that they embodied a force opposite to Primordial Chaos. He used them to create a Counter-Way of Civilization, then wondered how he could cultivate it without his positive energy being annihilated.

• Li Qing tested the first rune against tens of millions of powers and identified it as the negative counterpart to Primordial Chaos.
• Li Qing analyzed all three thousand runes, created matching positive runes, and confirmed that each positive-negative pair perfectly annihilated.
• Li Qing arranged the positive runes into the principles of his Way of Civilization and used the anti-runes to construct a destructive Counter-Way of Civilization.
• Li Qing realized his body and incarnations could not cultivate the Counter-Way because positive and Anti-Primordial Chaos powers annihilated on contact.
• Li Qing considered using his fundamental consciousness and reasoned that intelligent life must exist in Anti-Primordial Chaos.

Li Qing balanced his fundamental consciousness between positive and negative states, then used the Counter-Way of Civilization to transform the Stone Stele into Anti-Li Qing. A mysterious azure light appeared in Anti-Li Qing’s mind and became a black bell capable of destroying matter at the level of Principle, leaving Li Qing to investigate its power.

• Li Qing repeatedly transformed wisps of fundamental consciousness into anti-consciousness until the two reached equilibrium and gave him two linked modes of thought.
• Anti-Li Qing sent the Counter-Way of Civilization into the restored Stone Stele and absorbed its Anti-Primordial Chaos power to form a new Anti-Dao.
• The Stone Stele transformed into Anti-Li Qing, whose emergence let Li Qing connect across the Ash World and revealed that the Jade Tablet was absent from Anti-Li Qing’s mind.
• A mysterious azure light appeared in Anti-Li Qing’s mental world, copied the Counter-Way of Civilization, and became a great black bell.
• Anti-Li Qing used the bell’s ripples to turn ashes into finer particles, and Li Qing began experimenting with its Principle-level destructive power.

Anti-Li Qing discovered that the Anti-Civilization Bell could destroy weaker Principles and theorized that it shared an origin with the Jade Tablet. Li Qing then experimented with the Way of Civilization and the Way of Anti-Civilization, finding a way to make their opposing powers transform into one another instead of dissolving.

• Anti-Li Qing tested the bell and found that it shattered matter and erased Principles weaker than its own without spending power.
• Li Qing theorized that an azure point of light fused with the Supreme Mechanism to create the Jade Tablet, and that the bell similarly pushed the Way of Anti-Civilization beyond its usual limits.
• Anti-Li Qing named the weapon the Anti-Civilization Bell, but found that it could not damage the Ashes spacetime because its Principle was stronger.
• Li Qing's Divine Body and Anti-Li Qing brought the Way of Civilization and the Way of Anti-Civilization into contact to study how their opposing Principles dissolved.
• Li Qing interfered with their microscopic superposition state, causing the overlapping Principles to split into positive and negative power that formed a sphere.

Li Qing and Anti-Li Qing discovered that cycling positive and negative Great Ways opened a passage from the Ash World's Hazy Domain into a realm that appeared to be Anti-Primordial Chaos. Anti-Li Qing's projection explored its reversed environment and continued searching after finding another air bubble.

• Li Qing realized that positive and negative Supreme Mechanisms might let his One-Person Civilization transcend the Supreme Mechanism and Primordial Chaos.
• As Li Qing's Divine Body and Anti-Li Qing increased their Great Way output, their cycling forces opened a hollow passage into a world suspected to be Anti-Primordial Chaos.
• Anti-Li Qing sent an illusory projection through the opening and found that darkness revealed the world while air was hard and soil was soft.
• Anti-Li Qing's projection discovered that water was scorching and solid, and that the air bubbles in the soil resembled independent worlds.
• Anti-Li Qing's projection traveled through the soil and detected another air bubble.

Anti-Li Qing explored a gaseous civilization and discovered that its lifeforms were marked by a powerful Great Dao linked to gods who periodically harvested their crops. He and the Divine Body entered Anti-Primordial Chaos to investigate its endless earth, leaving avatars behind to keep the passage open, while Li Qing’s Past Body reacted to the discovery.

• Anti-Li Qing found a village of multicolored gaseous lifeforms cultivating flesh-like crops along veins of black flame.
• Anti-Li Qing read a villager’s memories and learned that the lifeforms lived indefinitely, had limited Wisdom, and were marked by a Great Dao connected to gods who periodically harvested their crops.
• Anti-Li Qing tested the passage to Anti-Primordial Chaos and found that his Light of Civilization could resist its power only up to a limit.
• Anti-Li Qing and the Divine Body entered Anti-Primordial Chaos, leaving avatars in the Ash World to build a cycle that sustained the passage.
• Anti-Li Qing sent projected avatars across the world of earth to explore while the Divine Body endured Anti-Primordial Chaos’s erosion.
• Li Qing’s Past Body remarked that Anti-Primordial Chaos was a bizarre place.

Li Qing revealed Anti-Primordial Chaos power to the Infinite Mechanism experts, prompting Vacuum Mother and Primordial Unity Daoist to share clues and suspicions about its origins and Primordial Chaos’s past. Li Qing’s investigation uncovered buried history linking a great destruction across Primordial Chaos to the Hazy Domain.

• Li Qing used his Past Body and Civilization Information Essence to investigate Anti-Primordial Chaos and suspected it had Great Dao-level beings and its own Tribulations.
• Li Qing’s projection showed the Infinite Mechanism experts a rune made of Anti-Primordial Chaos power and asked what they knew.
• Vacuum Mother recalled seeing a statue bearing Anti-Primordial Chaos aura in a fleeting spacetime within the Spirit Domain.
• Li Qing warned the experts that the unknown world could be as powerful as Primordial Chaos and might already extend its influence into their realm.
• Primordial Unity Daoist speculated that earlier generations of powerful figures had perished in repeated cycles of destruction.
• Li Qing’s information probe revealed that a great destruction originating in the Hazy Domain had spread throughout Primordial Chaos.

Li Qing uncovered a hidden treasure at the source of the earth veins linking the Eastern Border Divine Continent and Central Divine Continent. He suppressed its complete Indestructible Great Dao of Earth-Vein Golden Qi, preparing to use the treasure as an incarnation in his plans for the Human Tribulation.

• Li Qing concluded that Primordial Chaos had won its ancient war against Anti-Primordial Chaos at great cost, and noted that his reverse self was still searching Anti-Primordial Chaos.
• Li Qing planned for the four great powers to use hidden treasures as incarnations to influence the Human Tribulation and help Stone Daoist break a future deadlock.
• Li Qing sent an incarnation into a concealed valley near the Hazy Domain and traced the earth veins beneath it to their source.
• Li Qing's incarnation passed through a powerful barrier, found a hidden grotto-heaven, and discovered a Twelve-Grade Purple-Gold Lotus containing the complete Indestructible Great Dao of Earth-Vein Golden Qi.
• Li Qing projected his power and suppressed the Great Dao within the lotus.

Li Qing created Daoist Purple Gold from the Twelve-Grade Purple-Gold Lotus and sent him to gain the Western Great Sect’s trust. Meanwhile, Anti-Li Qing discovered a vast settlement in Anti-Primordial Chaos and began quietly probing its defenses for information.

• Li Qing’s avatar transformed the Twelve-Grade Purple-Gold Lotus into Daoist Purple Gold, who chose to seek refuge with the Western Great Sect.
• Daoist Purple Gold traveled to the Western Origin Earth Province and posed as an ordinary worshipper at Vajra Temple.
• Li Qing’s Present Body left to investigate another possible supreme treasure beneath the Northern Sea.
• Anti-Li Qing found hundreds of enormous connected bubbles in Anti-Primordial Chaos, including powerful inhabitants and a terrifying Infinite Mechanism existence.
• Anti-Li Qing used Counter-Civilization Information Essence to dismantle the formation guarding a nearby bubble region and learn how it worked.

Anti-Li Qing infiltrated a Sacred Domain by taking control of an antfolk named Agu and learned about its Divine Kingdoms, believers, and the Slaughter True God’s cultivation path. After Agu passed a brutal believer selection, the chapter ended with thousands of candidates gathered before the Slaughter True God’s statue and ordered to offer their faith.

• Anti-Li Qing used Civilization Information Essence to reconstruct an incompatible formation, disguised his projection, and infiltrated a Sacred Domain.
• Anti-Li Qing possessed Agu, an ordinary antfolk, and learned that antfolk could seek entry into Divine Kingdoms by becoming believers.
• Agu joined a believer selection and killed another antfolk, earning the divine envoy’s approval and advancing as a candidate.
• Anti-Li Qing learned about the Slaughter True God’s laws and cultivation method, which combined metals and gases to produce weapons and cultivation energy.
• Agu and other candidates arrived in a vast city, where more than ten thousand antfolk gathered before the Slaughter True God’s statue.
• The Slaughter True God declared the candidates his believers, and the divine envoys urged them to praise him as the crowd offered its faith.

Anti-Li Qing completed his analysis of the Anti-Primordial Chaos’s cultivation systems and began secretly spreading the Counter-Way of Civilization to undermine its Divine Kingdoms. Meanwhile, Li Qing reached the Northern Sea Return to Ruins and approached the immense black hole beside the supreme treasure he sought.

• Anti-Li Qing studied the Slaughter True God’s cultivation method and used the Civilization Information Essence to refine the Counter-Way of Civilization.
• After infiltrating more than ten Sacred Domains and thousands of Divine Kingdoms, Anti-Li Qing concluded that he needed to spread his Dao gradually to avoid being discovered.
• Anti-Li Qing’s projections began planting tailored fragments of the Counter-Way of Civilization among antfolk believers to erode the Divine Kingdoms’ order.
• Li Qing’s Present Body reached the Northern Sea Return to Ruins after evading the searches of various forces for ten years.
• Li Qing approached the colossal black hole, whose powerful torrent of water could tear even him apart.

Li Qing's Present Body found the Water-Eye Pearl, took control of its complete Great Dao, and formed the Ten Thousand Waters Daoist. The new innate lifeform reached the Southern Wild Province to seek entry into the Demon Sect and met the Wildfire Daoist, who welcomed him as a potential ally.

• Li Qing's Present Body followed the undersea water veins to a hidden space and discovered the Water-Eye Pearl.
• He suppressed the pearl's nascent will with the Way of Civilization, took control of its Great Dao, and named its Daoist form Ten Thousand Waters Daoist.
• Ten Thousand Waters Daoist traveled to the Southern Wild Province, intending to join the Demon Sect.
• He approached Wilderness Forest Mountain and introduced himself to its master, the Wildfire Daoist, asking to learn about the world.
• The Wildfire Daoist recognized Ten Thousand Waters Daoist as an innate lifeform and welcomed the prospect of an alliance.

Wildfire Daoist explained the state of the Unique Universe to Ten Thousand Waters Daoist Li Qing and offered to bring him into the Demon Sect. After Li Qing accepted and passed Shiva Divine Venerable’s inspection, he became an outer disciple.

• Wildfire Daoist hosted Ten Thousand Waters Daoist Li Qing and explained the Supreme Cataclysm and the conflict between the six great powers and the Infinite Kingdoms.
• Wildfire Daoist proposed bringing Li Qing into the Demon Sect, and Li Qing agreed.
• Li Qing’s original will and memories were erased and replaced with flawless false memories without Wildfire Daoist noticing.
• Wildfire Daoist escorted Li Qing to meet Primordial Dark Boundless Shiva Divine Venerable at Demon Spirit Palace.
• Shiva Divine Venerable inspected Li Qing and accepted him as an outer disciple of the Demon Sect.

Ten Thousand Waters Daoist joined the Demon Sect and received battlefield guidance before being sent to the front lines. At Vajra Temple, Daoist Purple Gold was discovered by Vajra Bodhisattva, who invited him to join the Western Great Sect, and he agreed.

• Ten Thousand Waters Daoist infused the Demon Sect token with his aura and entered the sect's mind-space.
• Wildfire Daoist gave Ten Thousand Waters Daoist battlefield information, and three months later Ten Thousand Waters Daoist received a deployment order and left for the front lines.
• Daoist Purple Gold continued studying Vajra Temple's methods as a lay disciple while waiting for Vajra Bodhisattva to return.
• Vajra Bodhisattva sensed Daoist Purple Gold's powerful Dao and asked Flying Cloud Arhat about him.
• Daoist Purple Gold told Vajra Bodhisattva he was an innate being with a consummate Great Dao, and Vajra Bodhisattva invited him to join the Western Great Sect.
• Daoist Purple Gold accepted Vajra Bodhisattva's invitation.

Li Qing arranged for Daoist Purple Gold to join the Western Great Sect and sent him to its front lines, while his Present Body planned the remaining infiltrations. Anti-Li Qing's projections also mapped the boundary of Anti-Primordial Chaos and gathered intelligence from its sacred domains.

• Vajra Bodhisattva brought Daoist Purple Gold to meet the Present Infinite Buddha, who approved his entry into the Western Great Sect as an outer disciple.
• The Present Infinite Buddha gave Daoist Purple Gold an identity token, made him a śramaṇa, and ordered him to aid the front lines.
• Daoist Purple Gold thanked Vajra Bodhisattva and flew toward the front lines as Li Qing's memories returned.
• Li Qing's Present Body reviewed his four infiltrations and decided to delay sending incarnations into the Primordial Great Sect and the Primeval Unity Daoist Sect.
• Anti-Li Qing's projections found that crossing the boundary of Anti-Primordial Chaos led to another boundary and had infiltrated three hundred and sixty-five sacred domains to gather information.