Chapter Summaries

Li Qing discovered that the Land of Ashes might be an invasion battlefield and warned the major forces to prepare for an enemy emerging from within. As the alliances prepared for the coming danger, he began infiltrating free universes to build influence ahead of his plans to absorb them.

• Li Qing’s seven supreme clones concealed the passage to Anti-Primordial Chaos beneath the ashes while his Present Body and Anti-Li Qing’s clone guarded it.
• The Nine Great Alliances and Infinite Kingdoms began forging secondary Heavenly Garments and preparing their universes for the plan to recreate the Unique Universe.
• Li Qing assessed the remaining universes and concluded that absorbing them would take at least seventy thousand years and require careful preparation against the seven supremes.
• Li Qing used the Fate Wheel’s Infinite Mechanism network to spread projections of his Way of Civilization into free universes and plant agents for future expansion.
• In a universe ruled by colossal beasts, Li Qing’s projection entered a dying egg, transformed into a humanoid beast, reached the Longevity Realm, and set out to establish a new civilization.

Li Qing's Past Body prepared to let Anti-Primordial Chaos's invasion proceed without exposing the rift, while his Future Body strengthened the Primeval Unity Treasure Pearl by harvesting flesh from the enormous egg. Over another ten thousand years, Li Qing's plans across the Unique Universe neared a turning point as the Dao transmission and universe preparations reached completion.

• Li Qing's Past Body outlined a long-term plan to weaken the Nine Great Alliances' authority by fostering and merging Heavenly Dao Reincarnation controllers across universes.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord ordered preparations for an invasion, and more than a hundred True Gods from Anti-Primordial Chaos infiltrated Forward Primordial Chaos to search for small universes and build forward bases.
• Li Qing's Past Body sent the Reversal True God to infiltrate the newcomers and decided not to eliminate them yet, so they would not discover that the rift had been detected.
• Li Qing's Future Body continued using the Chaos Pearl and Yin-Yang Treasure Vase to strip flesh from the enormous egg, feeding its mechanisms to the Primeval Unity Treasure Pearl, whose power reached twenty times the Evolution level.
• Over ten thousand more Unique Universe years, Li Qing's Present Body gathered roughly three hundred traces of the Infinite Mechanism while completing Dao transmission to three trillion living beings and preparing twenty-seven thousand universes for Great Dao marks.

Li Qing used his Parasite Preaching Method to condense more than twenty thousand Great Dao imprints across the universes, revealing his plan to cultivate nine Great Daos and pursue the Supreme Mechanism. The powerful factions recognized his growing threat and discussed how he had embedded his Dao in other sects, while Daoist Unceasing affirmed that such a method was possible.

• Li Qing awakened believers across the Water-Fire Universe, and their scattered Principles formed a Great Dao imprint that merged into the universe's origin as his projection vanished.
• More than twenty thousand universes condensed related Great Dao imprints, drawing the attention of the Nine Great Alliances' Infinite Mechanism mighty ones and other powerful beings.
• Earth Source Immortal Venerable explained that Li Qing planned to use nine Great Daos to reach nine Infinite Mechanisms and then pursue the Supreme Mechanism, while warning that he might target other preaching-complete powerhouses.
• The Supreme True Demon urged the mighty ones to monitor Li Qing and prevent him from gathering enough Infinite Mechanism traces to attempt advancement.
• Daoist Immeasurable concluded that Li Qing had embedded his Dao in other sects and used their believers' Principles to form his imprints, and Daoist Unceasing said the feat was possible.

Li Qing arranged a trap to kill two Primordial Great Sect experts and free cultivation quotas for his incarnations. As his scheme began in Magnolia City, he prepared to create opportunities for Fire Tree Daoist and Wood Spirit Daoist as well.

• Rahu Divine Venerable persuaded the other supreme beings to guard eight thousand experts and deny Li Qing access to Infinite Mechanism traces.
• Li Qing planned to kill North Sky Immortal Elder and South Pole Divine Venerable to free three spreading-the-Dao quotas for his incarnations.
• Li Qing chose Magnolia City as the trap site and had Jade Ghost General lure the enemy toward the city’s formation core.
• Celestial Spirit True Lord activated a willing traitor hidden inside Magnolia City while remaining wary of Li Qing’s orders.
• Li Qing’s Present Body watched from concealment and turned his attention to finding opportunities for Fire Tree Daoist and Wood Spirit Daoist.

Li Qing prepared a sweeping counteroffensive while using the chaos of the war to set up traps for powerful enemies. He sent eight Fate Projections to unexplored regions of the Primordial Chaos, where the one in the Hollow Dead Sea began investigating a force that assimilated all who entered.

• Li Qing ordered Blood Demon True Person and Mysterious Underworld Heavenly Venerable to mobilize hidden agents and prepare assaults on cities defended by Fire Tree Daoist and Wood Spirit Daoist.
• Li Qing urged the Infinite Kingdoms' great powers to attack the Supreme Mechanism during the counteroffensive and draw its attention away from the major cities.
• Li Qing decided to expose information about hidden Anti-Primordial Chaos existences and investigate eight regions the Jade Tablet could not deduce.
• Li Qing used the Fate Wheel to create eight powerful Fate Projections and sent them into the unexplored regions.
• Li Qing's Past Body's Fate Projection entered the Hollow Dead Sea and found that an unknown force assimilated intruders into its black waters.

Li Qing's Past Body found the Anti-Primordial Chaos Supreme Mechanism hidden in the Hollow Dead Sea, then his Present Body sent the Seven Supremes information about its location. The Seven Supremes diverted thirty percent of their power to investigate, where they encountered the mechanism in the form of a silver-skinned woman and launched an attack.

• Li Qing's Past Body discovered the hidden mechanism's force field, but its power destroyed his projection when he approached.
• Li Qing's Present Body sent conspicuous information about the mechanism's location through the Unique Universe's Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
• The Seven Supremes debated the risk of a trap and agreed to divert thirty percent of their power to the Hollow Dead Sea.
• Seven incarnations entered the Dead Sea and headed for the coordinates while their forces elsewhere fell silent.
• The hidden mechanism transformed into a silver-skinned woman, and her silver Radiance began annihilating the Seven Supremes' attacks.

The seven supremes committed more power to pursuing the Silver Immortal King, while Li Qing used the opening to launch a full-scale assault across the Unique Universe. At Magnolia City, a hidden traitor prepared to sabotage its national formation.

• The Silver Immortal King broke through the seven supremes’ encirclement, but they restored communication and decided to pursue her with more power, setting a half-hour limit to capture her.
• After analyzing the Silver Immortal King’s difficulty recovering power in Forward Primordial Chaos, the seven supremes sent another fifteen percent of their strength to suppress her.
• Li Qing ordered tens of thousands of experts and armies to begin a full-scale assault against the six great powers, activating plans planted throughout their war cities.
• The Celestial Spirit True Lord besieged Magnolia City while Jade Ghost General defended it from within and awaited an opening.
• Mysterious Nether Ghost General received the Celestial Spirit True Lord’s signal and prepared a high-grade Nether Baleful Yin Thunder to destroy the city’s Formation Banner.

Nether Mystic Ghost General destroyed Magnolia City’s Formation Banner, but Jade Ghost General Li Qing used his transformed arm to restore the national formation and trap Celestial Spirit True Lord. As allies rushed to Magnolia City to help kill the trapped enemy, the chapter left the other key locations under threat from Infinite Kingdoms’ agents.

• Nether Mystic Ghost General destroyed Magnolia City’s Formation Banner, allowing Celestial Spirit True Lord to break the national formation and attack the city.
• Celestial Spirit True Lord struck Jade Ghost General Li Qing down and began spreading his Dao throughout Magnolia City.
• Li Qing’s golden arm transformed into a new Formation Banner, restoring the national formation and sealing Celestial Spirit True Lord inside a world of hell and ghosts.
• Li Qing sent word to North Sky Immortal Elder and South Pole Divine Venerable, who joined forces and rushed toward Magnolia City.
• Li Qing remained in Magnolia City while Wood Spirit Daoist guarded Skywater City, where Mysterious Underworld Heavenly Venerable activated secretly converted cultivators.

Bai Wuliang and hidden spies destroyed formation banners, allowing Infinite Kingdoms' forces to break into Skywater City and Bright Jade City as the six major forces faltered. Meanwhile, the Silver Immortal King escaped the Hollow Dead Sea under pursuit by seven Supremes, and Li Qing revealed to his allies that she was an Anti-Primordial Chaos powerhouse.

• Bai Wuliang used Lawbreaking Divine Thunder to destroy the Formation Banner beneath Skywater City while Mysterious Underworld Heavenly Venerable attacked, and Infinite Kingdoms' army surged into the city.
• Prepared spies struck Bright Jade City's Formation Banner while Blood Demon True Person occupied Fire Tree Daoist Li Qing, breaking the kingdom formation and letting enemy troops storm the city.
• Wood Spirit Daoist Li Qing and Fire Tree Daoist Li Qing summoned Divine Pill Patriarch and Hundred Medicines Layman, who carried spare Formation Banners toward the two besieged cities.
• The Silver Immortal King fled the Hollow Dead Sea after her strength fell to one-tenth of its peak, and seven Supreme avatars pursued her into Primordial Chaos.
• Yin Wood Great Divine Lord questioned Li Qing about the seven Supremes' pursuit, and Li Qing revealed they were chasing a powerful being of the Anti-Primordial Chaos Supreme Mechanism.

Li Qing’s fate-projection used the Dao-Extinguishing Sword to kill North Sky Immortal Elder and South Pole Divine Venerable, while the battle for Magnolia City and Skywater City continued. Celestial Spirit True Lord remained close to defeat, and Wood Spirit Daoist Li Qing and Hundred Medicines Layman trapped Mysterious Underworld Heavenly Venerable.

• Li Qing told Earth Source Immortal Venerable and the others to focus on expanding Infinite Kingdoms’ territory while withholding the reasons behind his plan.
• North Sky Immortal Elder and South Pole Divine Venerable arrived at Magnolia City and reinforced the formation trapping Celestial Spirit True Lord.
• Li Qing’s Dao-Extinguishing Sword killed North Sky Immortal Elder and South Pole Divine Venerable, then escaped Spirit Vulture Lampfire Bright Daoist’s attack.
• Spirit Vulture Lampfire Bright Daoist struck Celestial Spirit True Lord with Bright Dao Fire, allowing Jade Ghost General and Hell World to press him toward death.
• Hundred Medicines Layman joined Wood Spirit Daoist Li Qing at Skywater City, and the two trapped Mysterious Underworld Heavenly Venerable between their Great Daos.

Wood Spirit Daoist Li Qing and Fire Tree Daoist Li Qing used hidden Formation Banners to turn the battles against Mysterious Underworld Heavenly Venerable and Blood Demon True Person. After harvesting more Infinite Mechanisms, Li Qing's Present Body attacked the Primeval Unity Daoist Sect and killed Daoist Moyun.

• Hundred Medicines Layman sent a Formation Banner to Wood Spirit Daoist Li Qing, who activated the kingdom formation and trapped Mysterious Underworld Heavenly Venerable with their combined attacks.
• Divine Pill Patriarch joined Fire Tree Daoist Li Qing against Blood Demon True Person, and Fire Tree Daoist Li Qing used a Formation Banner to activate Bright Jade City's kingdom formation and trap him.
• Li Qing's Present Body refined the gathered essence of principles and Infinite Mechanisms, bringing the number he had mastered to three hundred and sixty-five.
• Li Qing's Present Body went to Eastward City and killed Daoist Moyun with the Dao-Extinguishing Sword, erasing his Dao and absorbing its essence.

Li Qing launched a rapid campaign against the Primeval Unity Daoist Sect, harvesting Infinite Mechanism traces while forcing its armies to retreat and surrender territory. Meanwhile, the Supremes realized he had lured them into a fourfold trap, but Great Vow Daoist urged them to continue hunting the mysterious target for the potential power it held.

• Li Qing killed more than a dozen Primeval Unity Daoist Sect preaching powerhouses, prompting the Great Dharma Celestial Master to order a retreat behind the node fortresses.
• The Primeval Unity Daoist Sect lost twenty-three percent of its territory as the Infinite Kingdoms occupied the abandoned lands and advanced against the fortresses.
• Li Qing headed toward the Western Great Sect, intending to conquer the Four Great Continents before his time ran out.
• The Supremes discussed the mysterious target’s mixed Forward and anti-Supreme power and suspected Li Qing had used the hunt to draw them away and exploit the war.
• Great Vow Daoist argued that the Supremes should continue the hunt so they could study and possibly separate the target’s Forward and anti-Supreme powers.

The seven Supreme Mechanisms pursued Silver Immortal King as she struggled to escape their encirclement, while Li Qing’s forces continued fighting to hold their territory. Jade Ghost General reclaimed Magnolia City and defeated Celestial Spirit True Lord, and Wood Spirit Daoist and Hundred Medicines Layman kept Mysterious Underworld Heavenly Venerable trapped at Skywater City.

• Great Vow Daoist ordered the others to focus on capturing Silver Immortal King and discussed the benefits of obtaining her Reverse Supreme Mechanism and anti-undying matter.
• Silver Immortal King struggled to maintain the balance between her Forward and Reverse Supreme Mechanisms as the seven Supreme Mechanisms closed in on her.
• Li Qing’s Past Body watched the pursuit and declared that his plan had succeeded and that he could now pursue his intended harvest.
• Jade Ghost General Li Qing shattered Celestial Spirit True Lord’s Great Dao, killed him, and collected twenty traces of the Infinite Mechanism.
• Jade Ghost General Li Qing reclaimed Magnolia City, reported its situation to the Heavenly Court and Underworld, and planned to apply to propagate the Dao.
• Wood Spirit Daoist and Hundred Medicines Layman used the kingdom formation to keep Mysterious Underworld Heavenly Venerable trapped at Skywater City.

Wood Spirit Daoist and Fire Tree Daoist Li Qing helped their allies trap Mysterious Underworld Heavenly Venerable and Blood Demon Daoist in formation eyes, while Li Qing explained the setbacks to his allies and revealed why the seven Supreme Mechanisms were pursuing an Anti-Supreme Mechanism. The two hundred Infinite Mechanism powerhouses learned that the fugitive was weakest now and that the Supreme Mechanisms wanted to capture her for information and study.

• Wood Spirit Daoist and Hundred Medicines Layman suppressed Mysterious Underworld Heavenly Venerable in an enormous formation eye and learned their stronghold had become one of the Primordial Great Sect's foremost defenses.
• Fire Tree Daoist Li Qing and Divine Pill Patriarch dragged Blood Demon Daoist into Bright Jade City's formation eye and learned their city had become a key Primeval Unity Daoist Sect stronghold.
• In Barren Mountain's isolated space, Li Qing told the trapped Blood Demon True Person and Mysterious Underworld Heavenly Venerable that rescue was unlikely and advised them to prepare new avatars.
• Li Qing explained that the two trapped experts had fallen because Wood Spirit Daoist and Fire Tree Daoist Li Qing had allies and spare Formation Banners, while Infinite Mechanism powerhouses guarded their cities.
• Li Qing told two hundred Infinite Mechanism powerhouses that the seven Supreme Mechanisms were pursuing an Anti-Supreme Mechanism from Anti-Primordial Chaos, who was currently at her weakest.

The Silver Immortal King escaped the seven Supremes by entering the Boundless Void Region, forcing them to withdraw power and end the Infinite Kingdoms’ offensive. As the battlefield returned to a stalemate, Li Qing’s allies collected the spoils from their captured enemies and prepared for the next phase.

• The Silver Immortal King overwhelmed the seven Supremes’ interception and entered the Boundless Void Region, where the Supremes followed her.
• After the four major states lost twenty-five percent of their territory, the seven Supremes recalled most of their power and suppressed the Infinite Kingdoms’ formation.
• Li Qing stopped harvesting Dao-preaching experts after accumulating six hundred traces of the Infinite Mechanism and planned to trade and harvest more through his six avatars.
• Wood Spirit Daoist Li Qing and Hundred Medicines Layman used the restored national formation to destroy the Mysterious Underworld Heavenly Venerable and split his Infinite Mechanism traces.
• Fire Tree Daoist Li Qing and the Divine Pill Patriarch destroyed the Blood Demon True Person and divided twenty-two traces of the Infinite Mechanism.
• Flame Daoist of the Primordial Great Sect arrived in Magnolia City and told Jade Ghost General Li Qing that he would take over.

Jade Ghost General Li Qing exchanged his merits for the right to spread his Dao, while his Present Body gathered and refined seven hundred Infinite Mechanism traces. His six avatars began preaching across the stellar universes and the Unique Universe, quietly building a concealed alliance of believers.

• Jade Ghost General Li Qing spent one hundred thousand merits to obtain a slot to spread his Dao across three thousand universes, while Wood Spirit Daoist and Fire Tree Daoist secured qualifications to preach to three hundred million living beings.
• Li Qing's six projected avatars delivered seven hundred Infinite Mechanism traces to his Present Body, who erased and refined them into Civilization Infinite Mechanisms.
• Jade Ghost General's projection built a temple in a village and sent ghost soldiers out to preach the Path of Hell Ghost Gods.
• Fire Tree Daoist Li Qing established a fiery temple in Bohai City and recruited believers in the Way of Civilization to spread his teachings.
• Wood Spirit Daoist built a temple in Eastern Heavenly Province as the six incarnations secretly coordinated their believers into a hidden alliance.

Li Qing prepared a coordinated plan to make the Seven Supremes and the Infinite Mechanism mighty ones believe they understood his strategy, while positioning the Civilization Universe to devour more wandering universes. The chapter ended as six Civilization Universes descended on concealed coordinates in Primordial Chaos to begin the operation.

• Li Qing's Past Body assessed the weakening search efforts of the Seven Supremes and planned to mislead them before seizing greater authority when the Unique Universe was reforged.
• Li Qing, the Lord of Civilization, prepared five universes to help the Civilization Universe devour the wandering universes and sent six universes to separate coordinates in Primordial Chaos.
• Li Qing's Present Body projection told the two hundred Infinite Mechanism mighty ones that his next move could take another five percent of the Four States' territory, making them wary.
• Li Qing's Past Body used the Fate Wheel and Myriad-Calamity Heavenly Secrets Fate Dao to conceal six coordinate regions and obscure their fates.
• Six Civilization Universes appeared at the concealed coordinates, and the largest descended upon a sealed drifting universe.

Li Qing’s forces devoured six thousand universes, including the Divine Light Universe, then escaped into Primordial Chaos. Confronted by the Infinite Mechanism mighty figures, Li Qing explained that his seizure was meant to provoke the Seven Supremes and help complete the Reforge the Unique Universe plan before the coming cataclysms.

• The Civilization Universe swallowed the Divine Light Universe and a drifting small universe, while five other Civilization Universes devoured their targets and joined it in repeated jumps into Primordial Chaos.
• Supreme True Demon accused Li Qing of attacking the six thousand universes needed for the Reforge the Unique Universe plan, and the assembled Infinite Mechanism mighty figures turned against him.
• Li Qing admitted that he had targeted the universes to claim authority and provoke the Seven Supremes into gathering their forces, creating an opening for a full-scale offensive.
• Li Qing warned that the overlapping calamities made completing the plan their only path to survival, and he described the Land of Ashes beneath the Hazy Domain as the coming battlefield between the Unique Universe and Primordial Chaos.
• Li Qing explained that they still needed to occupy five percent more territory and urged the others to capture or intercept him in a way that drew the Seven Supremes’ attention.

Li Qing used the Fate Wheel to disrupt the fate, space-time, and karma Infinite Mechanisms monitoring the universes, allowing his six Civilization Universes to devour six more universes and jump away. The mighty ones tracked the first jump, but Li Qing had prepared multiple projection universes and scattered the six Civilization Universes across different coordinates.

• Earth Source Immortal Venerable and the other mighty ones assessed Li Qing’s strength, while Karma-Reversing Fate Myriad-Transformation Daoist began monitoring the remaining universes for changes in fate.
• Li Qing’s six Civilization Universes continued devouring newly captured universes as his Past Body prepared to disrupt the mighty ones’ tracking.
• Li Qing activated the Fate Wheel, which interfered with the fate, space-time, and karma Infinite Mechanisms and let the six Civilization Universes descend on six targeted universes.
• The Civilization Universes devoured the targets and spread Heavenly Dao Reincarnation power through them while triggering random jumps.
• Space-Time Cycle Daoist, Heavenly Venerable of Ever-Changing Fate, and Karma-Reversing Fate Myriad-Transformation Daoist sensed the disruption, and the mighty ones rushed toward the first jump’s coordinates.
• Li Qing sent the six Civilization Universes and eighteen projection universes to different coordinates, while the captured universes’ Heavenly Dao Reincarnation power overwhelmed their resistance.

Li Qing prepared another assault on the wandering universes while the seven Supremes joined forces with the Infinite Mechanism powerhouses to catch him. After more than ten years of waiting, Li Qing activated the Fate Compass and cast a network around the mechanisms guarding nearly six thousand universes.

• The two-hundred-strong pursuit force failed to track Li Qing's Civilization Universes after their second chase, while the seven Supremes learned that Li Qing was attacking the Nine Great Alliances' wandering universes.
• Great Vow Daoist proposed working with the Infinite Mechanism powerhouses, and Daoist Unceasing offered to use Infinite Possibility to reconstruct the universes' escape coordinates.
• The seven Supremes contacted the Infinite Mechanism powerhouses and agreed to lend strength to projections that would help locate Li Qing's next attack.
• Li Qing's Civilization Universe devoured six more universes, reached a scale of 4.9 quadrillion light-years, and formed seven small universes and one great universe for a simultaneous strike.
• Li Qing learned that the Supremes and Infinite Mechanism powerhouses had joined forces, then spent more than ten years gathering information on their mechanisms while preparing the eight universes.
• After the eight universes made five jumps and left projections behind, Li Qing activated the Fate Compass and sent networks around the Infinite Mechanisms and Supreme Mechanisms guarding nearly six thousand universes.