Chapter Summaries

Yuan Gu Da and Li Qing’s Past Body discovered that the Anti-Primordial Chaos was expanding after a long period of contraction, while the Holy Domains prepared for a large-scale military buildup. Li Qing reconstructed part of its history and uncovered rumors of an Unsurpassed existence, as a strange event began at the boundary of Forward Primordial Chaos.

• Yuan Gu Da received the Demon Flame True God’s order to select antfolk with cultivation aptitude and nurture them, and Anti-Li Qing learned that every divine kingdom had received the same command.
• Yuan Gu Da witnessed a shockwave spread through the Anti-Primordial Chaos as its borders expanded and new matter filled the regions created.
• Anti-Li Qing sent his findings to Li Qing’s Past Body, who used Civilization Information Essence and immense borrowed power to reconstruct the Anti-Primordial Chaos’s history.
• Li Qing’s Past Body deduced that an ancient disaster had caused the Anti-Primordial Chaos to contract for more than three thousand coordinate-cycle units before it began expanding again.
• Li Qing’s Past Body learned of rumors that an Unsurpassed existence stood above the Sacred Domains and wondered whether it had devoured the ancient Supreme Mechanisms.
• A bizarre event began at the boundary of Forward Primordial Chaos.

As the Primordial Chaos’s existence began weakening, the Seven Supreme Mechanisms suspected an Era Great Calamity and agreed that Great Vow Daoist should investigate its source. His withdrawal let the Infinite Kingdoms’ forces push toward exposed border cities, while Li Qing deduced a possible cycle between Forward Primordial Chaos and Anti-Primordial Chaos.

• The Seven Supreme Mechanisms sensed the Primordial Chaos weakening and recognized it as a possible sign of the Era Great Calamity.
• Daoist Immeasurable warned that mysterious enemies could destroy Supreme Mechanisms and that three calamities might strike in one era.
• The Seven Supreme Mechanisms agreed that Great Vow Daoist would leave the battlefield to investigate the weakening.
• After Great Vow Daoist withdrew, the Infinite Mechanisms surged forward and threatened border cities across the four major continents.
• Li Qing deduced that Great Vow Daoist was investigating the Era Great Calamity and considered whether it had destroyed earlier civilization cycles.
• Li Qing’s Past Body saw a deduction suggesting a cycle existed between Forward Primordial Chaos and Anti-Primordial Chaos.

Li Qing's Past Body deduced that Anti-Primordial Chaos would invade Forward Primordial Chaos and began racing to spread his doctrine before the coming cataclysm. Meanwhile, Great Vow Daoist investigated the weakening at Forward Primordial Chaos's boundary, and Li Qing's Present Body entered the Endless Death Abyss region to find its two treasures.

• Li Qing's Past Body reasoned that Anti-Primordial Chaos's invasion was inevitable and that the coming conflict might decide whether either Primordial Chaos could transcend its limits.
• Both Li Qings accelerated the spread of their doctrine, with only a little over one hundred and ten thousand years remaining before the Supreme Cataclysm.
• Supreme Mechanism fluctuations spread inward from Forward Primordial Chaos's boundary, weakening life and making it harder for powerhouses to emerge.
• Great Vow Daoist's projection investigated the boundary's changes and wondered where the enemies would appear.
• Li Qing's Present Body arrived at the Endless Death Abyss to claim its two supreme treasures and entered a valley eroded by the abyssal Mist.
• Li Qing's Present Body sank underground beneath the valley, reaching a depth of ten thousand zhang.

Li Qing acquired a golden flame tree in the Dead Abyss, refined it into Fire Tree Daoist, and sent him to infiltrate the Primordial Great Sect by posing as a benevolent immortal on Little Spirit Mountain. Fire Tree Daoist began building his reputation after saving a woodcutter, while Li Qing's Present Body continued toward another treasure.

• Li Qing suppressed and refined the golden flame tree, then named its transformed Daoist form Fire Tree Daoist.
• Fire Tree Daoist traveled to Northern Immortal Vast Province and settled in a small temple on Little Spirit Mountain, near the Primordial Great Sect.
• Fire Tree Daoist rescued an injured boy who had fallen while searching for herbs, healing him with a touch.
• The boy returned to his village and told people about the immortal in golden robes, spreading the first rumors of Fire Tree Daoist.
• Fire Tree Daoist planned to build a reputation as a benevolent immortal to draw powerful cultivators to investigate him.

Li Qing completed his six incarnations by creating Wood Spirit Daoist from a treasure tree in the Endless Death Abyss, then sent him to the Eastern Heavenly Province. Wood Spirit Daoist reached a frontier city on the East Sea, ready to act according to his own heart.

• The Little Spirit Mountain mountain god sensed an elusive immortal, decided not to report him, and Fire Tree Daoist Li Qing chose to keep a low profile and build his reputation through chance encounters.
• Li Qing's Present Body entered a cavern in the Endless Death Abyss and found a treasure tree containing dense vitality within deathly energy.
• Li Qing's Present Body subdued the treasure tree, drew out its nascent instinct, and transformed it into Wood Spirit Daoist.
• Li Qing completed his six incarnations and planned to use them, along with his projection, to shape how the great powers viewed their destinies.
• Wood Spirit Daoist traveled to the Eastern Heavenly Province, where the Infinite Kingdoms were pressing toward the border cities, and reached a small frontier city on the East Sea.

Wood Spirit Daoist Li Qing healed an injured boy, killed the corrupt magistrate’s son in retribution, and concealed the scene while continuing to build his reputation across the Primeval Unity Daoist Sect. His actions drew the sect’s attention, and Li Qing’s Present Body began planning how to proceed without making the sect an outright enemy.

• Wood Spirit Daoist Li Qing healed a boy injured by the Government Office’s young master and sent a deathly aura that killed the young man.
• The county magistrate failed to discover who had killed his son, while Wood Spirit Daoist Li Qing erased the witnesses’ memories and left clues intended to attract attention.
• Wood Spirit Daoist Li Qing traveled through cities in the Primeval Unity Daoist Sect, punishing wrongdoers and selectively approaching suitable innate beings.
• Boundless Temple received the sect’s order to investigate strange deaths, issued after a Concept Logic disciple learned that Wood Spirit Daoist Li Qing had killed his grandson.
• Li Qing’s Present Body resolved to keep targeting weak cultivators and began planning the incarnations’ long-term efforts to build connections, merit, and preaching.

Li Qing’s bodies continued preparing for the future while Anti-Li Qing used Gu Te to uncover the Divine Kingdoms’ hidden purpose. After realizing that cultivators were being raised as food for greater powers, Anti-Li Qing began spreading the Counter-Way of Civilization among overlooked antfolk villages.

• Li Qing’s Present Body refined his teaching plans, his Past Body monitored Primordial Chaos, and his Future Body searched the Spirit Domain for Infinite Mechanism items.
• Anti-Li Qing controlled Gu Te as he defeated Mo La in a death match, devoured his power, and advanced toward Concept Logic.
• Anti-Li Qing observed a mark deepening in Gu Te’s mind and deduced that Divine Kingdom cultivators were food for their true gods, who might in turn be food for the Infinite Mechanism.
• Anti-Li Qing sent projections to overlooked antfolk villages and planted principles of the Counter-Way of Civilization in the villagers’ minds.

Anti-Li Qing expanded his Counter-Way of Civilization among the antfolk and established a first divine kingdom at the borders of Anti-Primordial Chaos. Meanwhile, his teachings began destabilizing the Slaughter Divine Kingdom, where a believer’s attack sparked further violence.

• Anti-Li Qing directed antfolk cultivators to explore newly formed bubbles, recruit believers, and gather them in one region.
• Li Qing’s projection raised an antfolk cultivator to the Evolution level, and together they established the first divine kingdom as a forward base on the border of Primordial Chaos.
• In the Slaughter Divine Kingdom, Ada grew enraged by the Counter-Way of Civilization and killed a second-level believer who insulted him.
• A golden-armored enforcer attacked Ada for disrupting order, and Ada died after charging him.
• Ada’s madness spread to nearby believers, who began attacking followers of the Slaughter True God.

Li Qing’s Counter-Way of Civilization spread through the Slaughter Divine Kingdom, provoking mass killings while Slaughter True God investigated the strange influence. A separate divine kingdom suffered a devastating plague that killed most of its population.

• Li Qing’s projection observed believers in the Slaughter Divine Kingdom slaughtering one another as the Counter-Way of Civilization grew stronger.
• Li Qing reflected that Primordial Chaos and Anti-Primordial Chaos might share a deeper foundation that he would need to trace to transcend both.
• Slaughter True God examined affected believers’ memories and discovered that an unfamiliar Principle urged the destruction of civilization and order.
• Slaughter True God spread his will throughout his divine kingdom to locate the source of the strange information.
• In the Creation True God’s kingdom, a believer engineered destructive microscopic lifeforms that spread through the population and killed nearly eighty percent of its people.

Li Qing’s Counter-Way of Civilization gained strength through turmoil in Anti-Primordial Chaos, while he coordinated a vast encirclement of Unique Universe’s Dao-spreading powerhouses. The siege was underway, but Great Vow Daoist remained the chief threat to the plan.

• The Creator True God purged the aberrant lifeforms from his divine kingdom, ending the crisis and killing the believers who had created them.
• Anti-Li Qing’s Counter-Way of Civilization surged as turmoil spread across the sacred domains, then stopped when the True Gods purged the threats.
• Li Qing reasoned that repeated cycles of counter-civilization and repair would strengthen both Ways of Civilization and help him control the timing of the invasion.
• Li Qing briefed two hundred Infinite Mechanism powerhouses on the encirclement of twelve thousand target universes and the planned attacks on the remaining thirty-six thousand.
• Li Qing warned the newly arrived powerhouses to prepare for Great Vow Daoist’s intervention and said the Infinite Kingdoms had already breached over sixty percent of the Unique Universe’s border cities.
• A battlefield of forty-eight thousand universes gathered in Primordial Chaos as rival alliances and their Evolution-level fighters clashed.

The nine great alliances launched a coordinated assault on twelve thousand universes containing Unique Universe preachers, while Li Qing prepared his forces to seize fragments from the ensuing destruction. As the battle spread into Primordial Chaos and the Unique Universe, the Western Great Sect’s leaders gathered inside a defensive formation.

• Three allied universes attacked the Azure Light Universe, and coordinated strikes hit twelve thousand universes across Primordial Chaos.
• Li Qing’s projection mobilized the Infinite Kingdoms’ armies against the six major powers and explained that the alliances were targeting universes with Unique Universe preachers.
• Li Qing’s Past Body secured the agreement of the All-Heavens Divine Emperor, Dead Silence, and other allies to claim shattered universe fragments along the battlefield’s borders.
• Li Qing prepared the Civilization Universe for covert random jumps, sealing it against detection while its Heavenly Dao Reincarnation readied for battle.
• The alliances’ attack began, shattering universes and drawing the conflict into the Unique Universe, where the six great factions resisted the Infinite Kingdoms’ assault.
• Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the Western Great Sect gathered inside a rising defensive formation as their Dao-spreading powerhouses fought back.

The Nine Great Alliances attacked universes aligned with the Unique Universe, while Great Vow Daoist and the allied forces struggled to contain the assault. Unique Universe reinforcements began rescuing besieged worlds, as the Civilization Universe and Origin Universe secretly seized fragments from a universe they helped destroy.

• Divine Treasury Buddha reported the attacks across three thousand universes, and Present Infinite Buddha said the Unique Universe would send five hundred Evolution and Dao-propagation powerhouses while the Second Sect Master confronted the enemy's Infinite Mechanism forces.
• Great Vow Daoist sent twelve thousand projections against the besieged universes, but forty-nine Infinite Mechanism forces combined into a network that resisted him and pulled his power away from the battlefield.
• Li Qing held the border cities with prepared forces as the six major powers attacked; he guided Daoist Purple Gold, Ten Thousand Waters Daoist, Jade Ghost General, and Stone Daoist to earn military merits while keeping their records mixed.
• Five hundred Unique Universe powerhouses joined the Primordial Chaos battle, and Yin-Yang Heavenly Lord strengthened Purple Spirit Universe enough for it to escape its three-universe siege.
• The Civilization Universe and Origin Universe used three manifestations of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to shatter a besieged universe and carry away more than half its fragments, leaving the three attackers to divide what remained.

Li Qing’s hidden universes made a second strike against a besieged universe, seized its fragments, and escaped before the Infinite Mechanisms and Supreme Mechanisms could intercept them. When the Infinite Mechanism powerhouses considered cooperating against him, Li Qing threatened to withdraw his support, and they chose to compromise.

• Li Qing’s Past Body used his projections and the Jade Tablet to monitor Primordial Chaos and guide the Civilization Universe, the Origin Universe, and the backup universe to safe coordinates while they digested their first haul of fragments.
• Li Qing’s Past Body selected a border universe spanning seven hundred billion light-years as the next target and warned everyone to strike quickly without getting greedy.
• The All-Heavens Divine Emperor and the others coordinated with their backup universe as three Hands of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation destroyed the target, seized its fragments, and escaped through a random jump.
• The Infinite Mechanisms and Supreme Mechanisms followed the jump traces too late and found nothing, while Great Vow Daoist and the Infinite Mechanism powerhouses considered joining forces to uncover the attackers.
• Li Qing threatened to stop managing the overall situation if the Infinite Mechanism powerhouses targeted him or cooperated with the Supreme Mechanism, and they set aside their schemes and compromised.

The Nine Great Alliances’ battlefield reached a stalemate as vast forces clashed, while Li Qing began preparing new targets for the Civilization Universe to devour. His Future Body entered the Primordial Chaos Spirit Domain and met the Sacred Light Dao Venerable, ending the chapter as they went to talk in his Daoist sanctuary.

• The Nine Great Alliances’ forces gathered thousands of universes into opposing formations, and their siege battle became a deadlock.
• Li Qing’s Past Body told the All-Heavens Divine Emperor and the others that he had found coordinates to independent universes and shared only some of them.
• Li Qing’s Future Body traveled through the Primordial Chaos Spirit Domain and discovered an island spacetime filled with sacred light.
• Li Qing’s Future Body introduced himself as the Vast-Righteous Daoist and asked the island’s master about the Spirit Domain.
• The Sacred Light Dao Venerable welcomed Li Qing’s Future Body into his Daoist sanctuary, where Li Qing sensed its extraordinary power.

Li Qing's Future Body learned about the Spirit Domain's dangers and two places that might hold a treasure of the Infinite Mechanism. He told Sacred Light Dao Venerable about the approaching Immeasurable Final Calamity and suggested that he visit the First Line Great Sect.

• Li Qing's Future Body drank Bright Dao Tea and asked Sacred Light Dao Venerable about dangerous and mysterious places in the Spirit Domain.
• Li Qing's Future Body revealed that his avatar in the Unique Universe had heard the Immeasurable Final Calamity might erupt, alarming Sacred Light Dao Venerable.
• Sacred Light Dao Venerable gave Li Qing's Future Body a map of the Spirit Domain, and the Jade Tablet restored information about its dangerous places.
• Li Qing's Future Body focused on the Chaotic Dojo and Chaotic Vortex as likely places to find a treasure of the Infinite Mechanism.
• Sacred Light Dao Venerable explained why he had delayed crossing the Infinite Great Tribulation, and Li Qing's Future Body suggested he go to the First Line Great Sect.

Li Qing's Future Body advised Sacred Light Dao Venerable to seek Stone Daoist's protection through the First Line Great Sect, then traveled to the Chaotic Vortex to investigate its structure. He mapped the vortex's outer region but found that the Jade Tablet could not reconstruct the enormous black hole at its depths.

• Li Qing's Future Body told Sacred Light Dao Venerable that joining the First Line Great Sect through Stone Daoist could help him break through the Infinite Great Tribulation.
• Sacred Light Dao Venerable thanked Li Qing's Future Body, decided to consider the path, and sent an avatar toward the Unique Universe after their meeting.
• Li Qing's Future Body arrived at the trillion-light-year-wide Chaotic Vortex and sent more than a thousand projections to explore it while recording its currents.
• Li Qing's projections followed the vortex's torrents instead of resisting them, allowing the Way of Civilization to spread across its surface and gather information.
• The Jade Tablet reconstructed the visible vortex but could not reconstruct the black hole at its center, whose darkness and pressure threatened to erase the infiltrating power.

Li Qing discovered a mysterious pyramid surrounded by a maze inside the black hole, where Anti-Primordial Chaos-like fields interfered with the Jade Tablet. Unable to bypass the maze’s deadly barrier or explore it alone, he planned to recruit powerful cultivators from the Spirit Domain.

• Li Qing sent a Future Body clone into the black hole, where it endured immense pressure and sensed fluctuations resembling Anti-Primordial Chaos.
• Using a rune to locate the strange field, Li Qing’s clone found an immortal black pyramid encircled by a vast maze.
• Li Qing’s clone tried to fly over the maze but was struck down by a force that grew strong enough to nearly crush him, so he concluded the maze had to be crossed from within.
• Li Qing decided to recruit powerful Spirit Domain cultivators and left his clone at the maze entrance as a coordinate.
• Li Qing created coordinate stones linked to the black hole and scattered them across the Spirit Domain using locations learned from Sacred Light Dao Venerable.

Li Qing spread rumors and treasure coordinates to divert powerful figures while drawing Spirit Domain experts to the mysterious pyramid labyrinth. More than a hundred experts entered to explore, and Li Qing’s incarnation gathered them in a palace to discuss the labyrinth.

• Li Qing’s Future Body sensed that the pyramid contained a force related to Anti-Primordial Chaos and decided to lure experts there for information.
• Li Qing spread rumors linking the weakening of the Endless Dead Domain to Primordial Chaos, and the seven Supreme Mechanisms sent incarnations to investigate the Endless Death Abyss.
• Li Qing distributed coordinates to scattered treasures, prompting fighters across Primordial Chaos to leave the battlefield and pursue them.
• More than a hundred Spirit Domain experts followed coordinates to the pyramid labyrinth, sending incarnations inside while keeping their true bodies outside.
• Li Qing’s incarnation invited the experts to a white palace to discuss the labyrinth, and he began by describing its mysterious structure.

Li Qing investigated a labyrinth and discovered that its monsters contained an unstable Supreme Mechanism blending Forward and Anti-Primordial Chaos. The discovery suggested a new path for him, and he turned his attention toward the pyramid at the labyrinth’s depths.

• The Spirit Domain powerhouses shared their explored routes while Li Qing's Future Body recorded and analyzed the labyrinth.
• Li Qing's incarnation fought a beetle-like monster whose body alternated between Anti-Primordial Chaos and Forward Primordial Chaos.
• Li Qing discovered that an unseen force sustained the monster's unstable balance and that his existing runes could not detect it.
• Li Qing's Past Body deduced a superposition-state sensing rune that detected a previously unknown Supreme Mechanism.
• Li Qing realized the mechanism maintained the beetle's powers and wondered whether the pyramid held a treasure or a powerful figure connected to it.

Li Qing’s Future Body investigated a mysterious pyramid maze and discovered that its guardians contained unstable Great Daos combining Forward and Anti-Primordial Chaos powers. He organized the other powerhouses into teams to push deeper, while gathering the sealed Anti-Primordial Chaos resources for his own plans.

• Li Qing’s incarnation defeated a powerful corpse emerging from a coffin and extracted its conflicting Great Dao, separating and vacuum-sealing its Forward and Anti-Primordial Chaos halves.
• Li Qing’s Future Body learned that the maze held more than a hundred Preaching-level corpses, many too strong for the explorers’ avatars to overcome alone.
• Li Qing’s Future Body advised the powerhouses against sending in their true bodies and proposed that they advance in teams of three or alone if strong enough.
• The powerhouses formed teams and suppressed the maze’s guardians, collecting their Great Daos and sealing away the Anti-Primordial Chaos portions.
• Li Qing’s Future Body planned to use the captured Anti-Great Daos and Anti-Infinite Mechanism traces as resources for Anti-Li Qing and his collection goals.