Chapter Summaries

Li Qing united the Infinite Mechanism mighty figures behind a plan to help Dao propagators reach completion, while the Civilization Universe launched its final assault on the Backup Universe. The universes collided, beginning a war between their civilizations as Li Qing raced to finish before the Seven Supreme Mechanisms found them.

• Li Qing urged the Infinite Mechanism mighty figures to share resources, develop more experts who had completed spreading the Dao, and press the war against the Four Great Continents.
• The Supreme True Demon and Earth Source Immortal Venerable supported Li Qing's plan, and the assembled mighty figures agreed to cooperate.
• Li Qing warned that resistance from those controlling the universes would slow the effort and called on the Infinite Kingdoms to provide more believers to Dao propagators.
• The Civilization Universe surrounded and suppressed the Backup Universe with Heavenly Dao Reincarnation power, then moved in to collide with it.
• Divine cultivators and celestial soldiers fought across the joined boundaries as the Civilization Universe deployed troops from its nine great civilization systems.
• An army of the Indescribable Civilization clashed with forces from the Backup Universe, until a second army of gods led by the second Root of the Indescribable arrived to fight them.

Li Qing's Civilization Universe steadily conquered the Backup Universe while Heavenly Dao Reincarnation blocked the enemy leaders from outside. After their attempt to contact their original bodies failed, the thirteen powerhouses planned to destroy the Backup Universe and escape through the resulting surge of power, unaware that Li Qing had positioned incarnations to intercept them.

• The Civilization Universe gained ground as Li Qing extended Heavenly Dao Reincarnation into the Backup Universe and used his information network to direct the war.
• The Second All-Heavens Divine Emperor and twelve other leaders gathered in the Heavenly Palace and agreed to contact their original bodies for help.
• The All-Heavens Divine Emperor failed to sense his original body or avatars because an unknown power severed their spiritual connections.
• The Second Root of the Indescribable proposed destroying the Backup Universe to generate enough power to break through Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and escape.
• Li Qing detected the leaders' plan and concealed thirteen incarnations near the Fate Wheel to wait for them.
• The Second All-Heavens Divine Emperor ordered the others to begin destroying the Backup Universe.

The Second All-Heavens Divine Emperor and twelve other experts escaped the Backup Universe’s collapse but were captured by Li Qing’s incarnations, while the Second All-Heavens Divine Emperor sent incomplete coordinates to the All-Heavens Divine Emperor. The seven Supremes arrived too late to find Li Qing’s departing universes, then split into groups to track down the correct coordinates.

• The Second All-Heavens Divine Emperor and the others triggered the Backup Universe’s collapse and directed its expanding torrent away from the Civilization Universe.
• Thirteen of Li Qing’s incarnations ambushed the escaping experts, sealed them, and returned with them to the Civilization Universe after the Second All-Heavens Divine Emperor sent incomplete coordinates.
• Li Qing absorbed the Backup Universe’s debris and prepared the Civilization Universe and three projections to jump away.
• The All-Heavens Divine Emperor sent the incomplete coordinates to the seven Supremes, and Daoist Unceasing used Infinite Possibility to reconstruct them.
• The seven Supremes reached the coordinates after Li Qing’s universes had vanished, traced several possible locations, and split into two groups to search.

Li Qing used the Supreme Mechanisms’ failed pursuit of the Civilization Universe to expand the Infinite Kingdoms and continued strengthening his universe by absorbing the Backup Universe. As the Supremes recognized the threat he posed, the All-Heavens Divine Emperor proposed that the Origin Universe seek protection from the Nine Great Alliances and surrender Li Qing.

• Daoist Unceasing and the other Supreme Mechanisms failed to track the Civilization Universe, while Li Qing’s armies captured more territory for the Infinite Kingdoms.
• The seven Supremes suspected that Li Qing had deliberately baited them into leaving the Unique Universe and feared he was building an independent universe to survive the Supreme Cataclysm.
• Li Qing absorbed the remnants and survivors of the Backup Universe, bringing the Civilization Universe to two hundred trillion light-years in scale and planning to keep searching for wandering universes.
• Li Qing sealed the thirteen second-personality avatars, including the Second All-Heavens Divine Emperor, to preserve a link to their sources and the Origin Universe.
• The All-Heavens Divine Emperor told the other twelve figures that Li Qing had corrupted their avatars and proposed surrendering the Origin Universe and Li Qing to the Nine Great Alliances for protection.

The All-Heavens Divine Emperor and the others redirected the Origin Universe toward the battlefield while Li Qing monitored their route and continued expanding his preaching. The chapter left Li Qing’s agents poised to exploit the confusion among the sects competing for believers in the Star Ring Universe.

• The All-Heavens Divine Emperor persuaded the others to move the Origin Universe toward the battlefield, create more Backup Universes, and seek support from the Nine Great Alliances.
• Li Qing’s Past Body warned them away from regions searched by the seven Supremes, and the All-Heavens Divine Emperor changed course to avoid those areas.
• Li Qing’s Present Body assessed the challenge of devouring the Origin Universe and focused on spreading the Dao across the Unique Universe and the thirty thousand universes.
• More than a thousand preaching figures arrived in the Star Ring Universe and exchanged access to teaching territories through the Infinite Mechanism’s resource exchange.
• Huang Yiming, a projection of Li Qing, continued leading the Antiquity Sect in a city where hundreds of newly arrived sects had made faith difficult to track.

Li Qing expanded the Way of Civilization by hiding its teachings within the doctrines of established sects, rapidly gaining followers across the Star Ring Great World and the Unique Universe. His projections gathered power from the growing faith, and Li Qing estimated that one could soon reach three billion followers.

• Huang Yiming distributed porridge to commoners, forming karmic connections that Li Qing used to transmit teachings of the Way of Civilization.
• Li Qing's followers spread disguised cultivation methods throughout the Star Ring Great World, growing into the tens of millions and rapidly condensing the Civilization Great Dao.
• As the six major powers opened their followers to subordinate disciples, Li Qing's projections used the new opportunities to spread the Way of Civilization across the Unique Universe.
• Xue Baoyu, a Huang Mountain Sect disciple in Dragon Lake City, opened a school and temple whose teachings secretly carried the Way of Civilization, attracting over a thousand believers.
• Li Qing sensed power flowing from his projections and estimated that three billion followers could be reached within a thousand years.

Li Qing had Fire Tree Daoist reveal his power on Little Spirit Mountain, prompting the Pill Cauldron Sect to consider recruiting him as the Supreme Cataclysm approached. Pill Spirit and Heavenly Dragon decided the sect’s ancestor should personally invite the reclusive expert.

• Li Qing calculated that the coming Supreme Cataclysm would bring unprecedented slaughter and told Fire Tree Daoist and Wood Spirit Daoist to begin acting.
• A Pill Cauldron Sect steward learned of the golden-robed immortal rumored to live on Little Spirit Mountain and reported him to the sect.
• Pill Spirit sent Supreme Elder Heavenly Dragon to investigate, but Fire Tree Daoist’s power overwhelmed Heavenly Dragon’s Concept Logic, and Heavenly Dragon fled.
• Heavenly Dragon told Pill Spirit that the Little Spirit Mountain resident was more frightening than the sect’s ancestor and likely close to completing the preaching of the Dao.
• Pill Spirit and Heavenly Dragon agreed to report the matter and have the Pill Cauldron Sect’s ancestor personally invite Fire Tree Daoist to join them.

Divine Pill Patriarch invited Fire Tree Daoist Li Qing to join the Primordial Great Sect, promising support as the world faced upheaval and the Infinite Kingdoms advanced. After accepting, Fire Tree Daoist accompanied him to meet Vice Sect Leader Spirit Vulture Lampfire Bright Daoist, while false memories replaced Li Qing’s original memories.

• Divine Pill Patriarch reviewed Heavenly Dragon’s memories of Little Spirit Mountain and decided to meet Fire Tree Daoist Li Qing.
• Divine Pill Patriarch met Fire Tree Daoist Li Qing, discussed the world’s turmoil, and invited him to become the Pill Cauldron Sect’s second patriarch and join the Primordial Great Sect.
• Fire Tree Daoist Li Qing accepted the offer, and the two traveled to the Primordial Great Sect’s main altar.
• Divine Pill Patriarch explained the sect’s entry requirements as they reached Vice Sect Leader Spirit Vulture Lampfire Bright Daoist’s palace.
• As they entered the palace, false memories replaced Li Qing’s original memories, making him the genuine Fire Tree Daoist.

Fire Tree Daoist passed verification and became an outer disciple of the Primordial Great Sect, while Wood Spirit Daoist Li Qing confronted the Spirit Root Sect over a disciple’s attempt to exploit a child’s wood marrow constitution. The chapter ended with Earth Wood Daoist confirming the disciple’s guilt and ordering him punished.

• Fire Tree Daoist passed Infinite Mechanism’s verification, joined the Primordial Great Sect as an outer disciple, and headed to the front lines with Patriarch Divine Pill.
• Wood Spirit Daoist Li Qing crippled Zhang Zequan for attempting to use a child’s wood marrow constitution in a forbidden art, then sent the child’s family to another city.
• Earth Wood Daoist confronted Li Qing, recognized his overwhelming power, and brought Zhang Zequan to apologize.
• Li Qing warned Earth Wood Daoist that the Spirit Root Sect would invite calamity by committing evil deeds, then ordered him not to cause further trouble.
• Earth Wood Daoist had Zhang Zequan interrogated and, after reading his confession, denounced his crimes and ordered him punished.

Earth Wood Daoist alerted Hundred Medicines Daoist to Wood Spirit Daoist, and Li Qing used the meeting to join the Spirit Root Sect and travel with Hundred Medicines Daoist to the Primeval Unity Daoist Sect. The Xuandu Boundless Great Dharma Celestial Master began examining Wood Spirit Daoist with his Infinite Mechanism.

• Earth Wood Daoist reported the powerful Dao-spreader to Hundred Medicines Layman, whose projection went to meet him.
• Hundred Medicines Daoist met Wood Spirit Daoist and learned that he had killed Hundred Medicines Daoist’s grand-disciple, whom Hundred Medicines Daoist condemned as a disgrace to the sect.
• Hundred Medicines Daoist invited Wood Spirit Daoist to join the Spirit Root Sect and introduced him to the Primeval Unity Daoist Sect; Wood Spirit Daoist agreed on the condition that the sect punish anyone who committed wicked crimes.
• Hundred Medicines Daoist and Wood Spirit Daoist traveled to Cosmic Divine Mountain and entered the palace of the Xuandu Boundless Great Dharma Celestial Master.
• The Xuandu Boundless Great Dharma Celestial Master examined Wood Spirit Daoist with his Infinite Mechanism.

Li Qing's Present Body confirmed that all six spies had infiltrated the Unique Universe, then set out to hunt for principle essences to refine into traces of Infinite Mechanism. He infiltrated Water Fish City and launched a concealed strike toward its formation-core banner, leaving the battle's outcome unresolved.

• The Grand Law Celestial Master accepted Wood Spirit Daoist as an outer sect disciple and sent him to the front lines, where Hundred Medicines Layman took him to reunite with his true body.
• Li Qing's Present Body confirmed that all six spies had infiltrated and arranged for a clone to maintain the passage while he left to hunt for traces of Infinite Mechanism.
• Li Qing's Present Body traveled to the border between the Infinite Kingdoms and the Primeval Unity Daoist Sect, seeking unguarded regions where he could collect principle essences.
• At Water Fish City, Li Qing's Present Body possessed soldiers from both armies in succession and quietly approached the city's formation core.
• Li Qing's Present Body focused on the formation-core banner behind Autumn Water Young Master and unleashed a powerful sword strike.

Li Qing’s Present Body destroyed Water Fish City’s array eye and killed Autumn Water Young Master, helping the Infinite Kingdoms army capture the city. The Supremes responded by monitoring battlefield cities for the attacker, but Li Qing went on to Starlight City despite sensing their surveillance.

• Li Qing’s Present Body destroyed Water Fish City’s banner and array eye, killed Autumn Water Young Master, and escaped with the principle essence.
• The Infinite Kingdoms army seized Water Fish City, slaughtering resisters and sealing those who surrendered.
• Autumn Water Young Master revived at half-step Evolution level and transmitted news of his assassination to the Primeval Unity Daoist Sect.
• Daoist Boundless and the other Supremes debated how to respond, then arranged for deputy sect masters to monitor cities across the battlefields.
• Li Qing learned through his Jade Tablet that the Supremes had begun watching the cities and decided he could still hunt targets with enough preparation.
• Li Qing’s Present Body silently descended on Starlight City and sensed the Infinite Mechanisms surrounding it.

Li Qing used the Fate Wheel to create a powerful projection, which infiltrated Starry Sky City and killed Jade Dragon Daoist before escaping Bright Daoist’s attack. After refining two Infinite Mechanism traces from Jade Dragon Daoist’s Principle essence, Li Qing began hunting across the territories of the six major powers.

• Li Qing’s Past Body used the Fate Wheel to create a projection of his Present Body and the Dao-Extinguishing Sword, then sent it toward Starry Sky City.
• The projection possessed soldiers and cultivators until it reached the formation’s core, where Jade Dragon Daoist was defending the city.
• The projection destroyed the Formation Banner and killed Jade Dragon Daoist, taking his Principle essence into the sword’s shadow.
• Bright Daoist’s Bright Dao Fire engulfed the area, but the projection and sword escaped through the Fate Wheel’s Network of fate.
• Li Qing refined two Infinite Mechanism traces from Jade Dragon Daoist’s essence and began hunting across the territories of the six major powers.

Li Qing’s attacks forced the Seven Supremes to divide their attention, but they responded by abandoning offensive operations and fortifying the four continents. Li Qing recognized that the defensive strategy would make their foundations harder to destroy and began preparing Infinite Mechanism forces for a war of attrition.

• Great Vow Daoist and the other Supremes concluded that Li Qing was using his Infinite Mechanism items to target their forces and weaken their plans.
• The Seven Supremes spread their power across battlefronts and search efforts, while Li Qing realized their surveillance would expose his projections but slow their search through Primordial Chaos.
• Rahu Divine Venerable said the Supremes had no effective way to force Li Qing out, and Daoist Unceasing proposed withdrawing their armies and kingdom formations into a defensive strategy.
• The Seven Supremes ordered fortresses built across the four continents, turning the cities into formation nodes designed to bleed Infinite Kingdoms’ forces.
• Li Qing saw that the Supremes had shifted to defense and decided to begin the next phase of his plan.
• At Barren Mountain Secluded Space’s Second Layer, Li Qing told the Infinite Mechanism mighty figures that they needed to increase their cultivator numbers to break through the coming war of attrition.

As the war in the Unique Universe intensified, Li Qing secretly prepared to cripple the Four Continents by infiltrating and destroying their supply networks. Meanwhile, rifts opened between the Forward and Anti-Primordial Chaos, and the Reversal True God prepared to cross into the Forward Primordial Chaos.

• The Infinite Mechanism powerhouses ordered more troops into the Unique Universe, while both sides spent heavily on assaults and fortress-cities, straining ordinary people and the economy.
• Li Qing nurtured believers who infiltrated commerce, aiming to seize key economic nodes and eventually sever the Four Continents' supply routes, especially those maintained by ordinary people.
• Rifts formed along the border of the Forward Primordial Chaos, where its power met the Anti-Primordial Chaos and created dangerous spaces filled with mist and ashes.
• Jin Tong emerged from a rift, tested the opposing power, and realized that entering the Forward Primordial Chaos would be perilous despite the growth he sensed it might bring.
• The Reversal True God arrived at another rift, recognized it as a path into the Forward Primordial Chaos, and put on an ancient garment in preparation for an invasion.

The Reversal True God entered the Forward Primordial Chaos, where Li Qing's Past Body detected and captured him. Li Qing revealed his knowledge of the Anti-Primordial Chaos and its leaders, leaving the Reversal True God stunned.

• The Reversal True God transformed his power with mysterious runic skin and entered the Forward Primordial Chaos to search for prey.
• Li Qing's Past Body detected a blank moving trace in the information records, predicted the intruder's path, and captured him with an Infinite Mechanism incarnation.
• Li Qing brought the Reversal True God to the Origin Universe and recognized the superposition-state power covering his body.
• Li Qing identified the captive as a true god of the Anti-Primordial Chaos and inferred that a new passage had opened near the Primordial Chaos border.
• The Reversal True God tried to recruit Li Qing, but Li Qing demanded information and revealed his knowledge of the Anti-Primordial Chaos's 365 Heavenly Lords and mysterious ruler.

Li Qing's Past Body questioned Reversal True God, who explained why the Anti-Primordial Chaos invaded and revealed that hidden Anti-Supreme Mechanism powerhouses hunted Forward Primordial Chaos experts. Reversal True God admitted he knew nothing certain about the mysterious Supreme Heavenly Lord, who reinforced the passage and whose inexplicable interference repeatedly prevented the Forward Primordial Chaos Supreme Mechanism from striking.

• Li Qing's Past Body offered to spare Reversal True God and reward him if he returned as a spy, and Reversal True God agreed to share what he knew.
• Reversal True God explained that Anti-Primordial Chaos invaders sought Principle Essence to cultivate corresponding Forward Primordial Chaos Great Daos and escape the restraints imposed by higher existences.
• Reversal True God described a past cultivator who combined Forward and Anti-Primordial Chaos Infinite Mechanisms and attempted to reach the Supreme Mechanism, but may have been destroyed or vanished.
• Reversal True God said Anti-Supreme Mechanism powerhouses had been trapped in Forward Primordial Chaos since the first invasion and later hunted its Supreme Mechanism experts.
• Reversal True God said the mysterious Supreme Heavenly Lord reinforced the passage but never acted openly, while an inexplicable force repeatedly interrupted the Forward Primordial Chaos Supreme Mechanism.

Li Qing's Past Body learned how the Heavenly Garment let Anti-Primordial Chaos forces invade Forward Primordial Chaos and drew the Reversal True God's memories from four eras. He modeled the new information separately from the Jade Tablet's Anti-Primordial Chaos data, then used the tablet to deepen his understanding of Forward Primordial Chaos history.

• The Reversal True God explained that the Heavenly Garment fused positive and negative immortal matter in a superposition state and let divine kingdoms transform incoming power to fuel invasions.
• Li Qing's Past Body calculated the dangers ahead and concluded that hidden powers, including the Supreme Heavenly Lord and the Seven Supremes, threatened his survival.
• Li Qing's Past Body covered the Reversal True God's Heavenly Garment with superposed runes, compelled him to open his mind, and examined memories spanning four eras.
• Li Qing's Past Body created a separate Anti-Primordial Chaos information model and decided not to put its data into the Jade Tablet, fearing it could expose his hidden region.
• Li Qing's Past Body injected the Forward Primordial Chaos model into the Jade Tablet, triggering a vast Supreme Mechanism investigation that clarified history across four eras.

Li Qing uncovered the strength and history of Anti-Primordial Chaos and warned the Infinite Mechanism powers that a fifth Great Extinction was approaching. He proposed reforging the Unique Universe into a second universe to strengthen their position, and the gathering agreed.

• Li Qing used the Reversal True God's information to reconstruct the powers of Anti-Primordial Chaos, judged that Forward Primordial Chaos was likely to lose, and decided to warn the other powers.
• Li Qing marked the Reversal True God, ordered him to return and lie low, and said someone would later give him instructions.
• Li Qing told the Infinite Mechanism great powers that Anti-Primordial Chaos had invaded before and that the Fifth Great Extinction could begin with the Supreme Cataclysm.
• Li Qing explained that the six major powers planned to leave the Unique Universe as the outermost defense and would not agree to a truce.
• Li Qing proposed merging the isolated universes into a reforged Unique Universe, and the gathered powers agreed to pursue the plan.

Great Vow Daoist discovered that Anti-Primordial Chaos existed beyond the Ashes Land and learned that its power could corrode the Supreme Mechanism. The seven supremes used Heavenly Garments to enter Anti-Primordial Chaos and began investigating, while Great Vow Daoist warned that Ashes Space was where the two forces met.

• Li Qing’s alliance sent news of Anti-Primordial Chaos to the Unique Universe, prompting Great Vow Daoist to investigate.
• Great Vow Daoist entered the Ashes Land, found an antfolk cultivator, and sensed a power beyond the Supreme Mechanism eroding his own.
• Great Vow Daoist shared what he had seen with the other six supremes, and the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Emperor explained how Heavenly Garments could protect their projections.
• The seven supremes created inferior Heavenly Garments and sent seven projections into Anti-Primordial Chaos while seven others stayed at the fissure as bridges.
• The projections drew in Anti-Primordial Chaos power and split up to investigate, as Great Vow Daoist identified Ashes Space as the point where Forward and Anti-Primordial Chaos met.