Chapter Summaries

Li Qing used information pollution to conceal the Civilization Universes as they devoured eight wandering universes, then evaded pursuit when he seized ten more. The Infinite Mechanism mighty figures and the seven Supremes began coordinating against him, but Li Qing’s universes escaped their attacks and vanished at new coordinates.

• Li Qing polluted the surveillance networks around the wandering universes, allowing eight Civilization Universes to capture eight universes and disappear before their pursuers cleared the interference.
• The seven Supremes proposed an energy-level suppression field and asked the Infinite Mechanism mighty figures to reveal the coordinates of their remaining universes, but the mighty figures refused.
• Li Qing expanded the Civilization Universe, restored the Jade Tablet, and prepared to seize ten universes at once while anticipating the Supremes’ response.
• Li Qing used information pollution to conceal a ten-universe operation, and the Civilization Universes swallowed a target universe before the Infinite Mechanism mighty figures could intervene.
• The mighty figures and seven Supreme Projections tracked the ten Civilization Universes to their next coordinates, while the universes and their projections jumped away just before the attackers arrived.

Li Qing expanded his Civilization Universe by ambushing the Infinite Mechanism mighty ones, then shifted to a long-term plan to gain control of the remaining drifting universes. The Seven Supremes and the mighty ones sealed the remaining universes and believed Li Qing could no longer interfere with their plan to Reforge the Unique Universe.

• Daoist Unceasing used Infinite Possibility to restore coordinates, but Li Qing's universes destroyed the pursuing projections and escaped after trapping the mighty ones in the Fate Wheel Infinite Mechanism.
• The Seven Supremes warned the Infinite Mechanism mighty ones that Li Qing was using them to advance his own control over Reforge the Unique Universe.
• Li Qing continued hunting in Primordial Chaos, increasing his Civilization Universe's scale to one thousand and forty trillion light-years.
• The Infinite Mechanism mighty ones and the Seven Supremes agreed to lock down the remaining five thousand nine hundred-plus universes, suppressing Li Qing's Fate Wheel mechanism.
• Li Qing sent eighteen small universes to seek drifting universes while his projections prepared to merge and take control of the Nine Great Alliances' remaining universes.
• The Seven Supreme decided to keep Li Qing suppressed and continue their plan to Reforge the Unique Universe and suppress the Infinite Kingdoms and Nine Great Alliances.

The seven Supremes reconsidered their policy after discovering Anti-Primordial Chaos’s overwhelming strength, while Li Qing began trading Anti-Immortal Matter for Infinite Mechanism traces. He collected about a thousand traces in the first round, far fewer than he had hoped.

• The Supreme Heavenly Lord reviewed intelligence from his spies and waited for the Immeasurable Root Source to emerge.
• Great Vow Daoist warned the seven Supreme avatars that Anti-Primordial Chaos had overwhelming power and a terrifying controller.
• Daoist Unceasing proposed allowing Dao-Transmitters to pursue the Infinite Mechanism and offering them protection, and Rahu Divine Venerable called for delivering Anti-Immortal Matter and spreading Heavenly Garments.
• Li Qing offered Anti-Immortal Matter to the Great Powers in exchange for Infinite Mechanism traces through the incomplete Fate Wheel.
• The first secret trades brought Li Qing around a thousand Infinite Mechanism traces, mostly from those who had perfected the transmission of the Dao.

Li Qing refined the traces of Infinite Mechanisms gained through trade, while Anti-Li Qing prepared to hunt True Gods to complete his Anti-Infinite Mechanism. Anti-Li Qing infiltrated a hidden spacetime realm near Kun Yuan True God's avatar and found a strange violet-gold tree.

• Civilization Equivalent Exchange produced one hundred traces of Infinite Mechanisms, which Li Qing refined and brought his total to seventeen hundred.
• Reversal True God's sacred domain grew as antfolk cultivated life and the Counter-Way of Civilization spread through other sacred domains, raising Anti-Li Qing's power to three hundred and sixty times the Evolution level.
• Anti-Li Qing decided to hunt True Gods for Anti-Infinite Mechanism traces and selected Kun Yuan True God as his target.
• Anti-Li Qing followed Kun Yuan True God's avatar to a star and entered a hidden material plane concealed within its burning gas.
• Anti-Li Qing discovered a violet-gold great tree with nine rune-covered branches deep inside the material plane.

Anti-Li Qing lured Kun Yuan True God into a trap and used the Anti-Civilization Bell to destroy his true body and Dao. Kun Yuan True God's avatar began repairing his Dao inside the Divine Kingdom after the Lightless Heavenly Lord sensed the true body's disappearance.

• Anti-Li Qing hid inside a metal tree and used its Dao fluctuations to lure Kun Yuan True God's avatar into a mysterious space, where the tree killed him.
• Kun Yuan True God left his Divine Kingdom and arrived at the cold gas star a month later, seeking the golden tree.
• Kun Yuan True God unleashed his perfected Dao and three Dao-level treasures, but the Anti-Civilization Bell overwhelmed and shattered his Dao.
• Anti-Li Qing preserved Kun Yuan True God's wisp of consciousness, dissolved his Dao and Infinite Mechanism traces, and sealed the mysterious space inside the bell.
• The Lightless Heavenly Lord sensed Kun Yuan True God's true body's disappearance, while an avatar in the Kun Yuan Divine Kingdom began restoring his Dao.

Anti-Li Qing used Kun Yuan True God's death to gather resources and test whether essence of Principle could repair Reversal True God's incomplete Anti-Infinite Mechanism. After deciding to hunt more True Gods, he lured Being-and-Nonbeing True God into pursuit with a Heavenly Garment-clad incarnation.

• Kun Yuan True God regained his strength and told Lightless Heavenly Lord that a mysterious power had killed his true body, prompting the Lightless Sacred Domain to warn its True Gods and stop sending out true bodies.
• Anti-Li Qing returned to Reversal True God's Sacred Domain, refined Kun Yuan True God's treasures, and used their essence of Principle to grow a small portion of Chaotic Order of Reversing Myriad Daos.
• Anti-Li Qing calculated that fully repairing the Anti-Infinite Mechanism would require nine thousand Anti-Infinite Mechanism traces and decided to target more Perfection of Preaching Dao experts.
• Anti-Li Qing chose Being-and-Nonbeing True God as his next target and used a Heavenly Garment-clad incarnation as bait.
• Being-and-Nonbeing True God spotted the apparent intruder, pursued him without informing Spiritless Heavenly Lord, and failed to realize he was the one being hunted.

Anti-Li Qing trapped and killed the Being-and-Nonbeing True God's true body, then used the spoils to repair Li Qing's Anti-Infinite Mechanism. After Anti-Li Qing attacked a third target, the Supreme Heavenly Lord alerted the other Heavenly Lords, who began to suspect the anti-civilization groups.

• Anti-Li Qing and Li Qing's Present Body incarnation lured the Being-and-Nonbeing True God into a trap, where Anti-Li Qing captured and killed his true body and incarnation with the Anti-Civilization Bell.
• The Being-and-Nonbeing True God learned of his true body's death from an incarnation and warned the Spiritless Heavenly Lord, who suspected a rival was targeting their power and called for caution.
• Anti-Li Qing refined the Being-and-Nonbeing True God's traces of Infinite Mechanism and a supreme treasure, then used the resulting essence to repair Li Qing's Anti-Infinite Mechanism.
• Anti-Li Qing set a trap for his third target and killed them, bringing the number of recently slain True Gods to three.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord noticed the deaths and warned Lightless Heavenly Lord, Spiritless Heavenly Lord, and Cosmos Heavenly Lord, who discussed inspecting the Sacred Domains and investigating anti-civilization groups.

Anti-Li Qing repaired the Reversal True God's Anti-Infinite Mechanism and strengthened the Reversal Sacred Domain, while Li Qing's Past Body prepared to hunt hidden True Gods and stop the Seven Supremes from triggering the Immeasurable Final Calamity. The Seven Supremes began searching for spies in the Forward Primordial Chaos, but had few leads.

• Anti-Li Qing restored the Reversal True God's Anti-Infinite Mechanism and made him a powerful ally.
• Reversal True God Li Qing linked the Anti-Infinite Mechanism to the Reversal Sacred Domain, greatly strengthening its defenses.
• Anti-Li Qing began searching for another perfected Dao-spreading True God to hunt.
• Li Qing's Past Body planned to hunt Anti-Primordial Chaos True Gods in the Forward Primordial Chaos and prevent anyone from triggering the Immeasurable Final Calamity before him.
• The Seven Supremes lifted restrictions on Dao-spreading to cultivate powerful beings quickly.
• Great Vow Daoist urged the Seven Supremes to find and kill hidden True Gods, while Daoist Unceasing said the search would be difficult.

The seven Supremes and the Infinite Kingdoms learned how the Anti-Primordial Chaos had used advance intelligence and targeted attacks in the fourth era, and agreed to eliminate its spies. Li Qing prepared to act, while the Supremes anticipated a counterattack and began readying for invasion.

• The Immortal Buddha Lord shared information about the fourth Era Great Calamity and proposed leaking it to the Nine Great Alliances and the Infinite Kingdoms so they could remove the infiltrators.
• The Infinite Kingdoms received images of a Supreme Mechanism being ambushed and destroyed by five attackers, and the Supreme True Demon asked how they could find the spies.
• Li Qing warned that attacking the spies could trigger a small-scale invasion, but the Infinite Mechanism mighty experts agreed to eliminate them and asked him to act.
• Li Qing told the Infinite Kingdoms to alert the seven Supremes and prepare for an Anti-Primordial Chaos counterattack.
• Daoist Immeasurable suggested holding confidential discussions in Anti-Primordial Chaos to evade Li Qing's information-gathering ability, and Rahu Divine Venerable ordered preparations for war.
• The Supremes, the Infinite Kingdoms, and the Nine Great Alliances began producing Heavenly Garments, deploying troops to the Land of Ashes, and monitoring rifts at the borders.

Li Qing's Past Body wiped out spies from Anti-Primordial Chaos, prompting the Supreme Heavenly Lord to mobilize Sacred Domains for an invasion. The Seven Supremes learned of the approaching forces and called for an alliance, including Li Qing, to prepare a defense.

• Li Qing's Past Body used the Infinite Mechanism of fate to destroy spies across more than a hundred universes and seized their Heavenly Garments and Principle essence.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord learned that his spies had been discovered and ordered more spies dispatched while Sacred Domains prepared an invasion.
• Ten Sacred Domains and their Divine Kingdoms moved toward confirmed rifts between Positive and Negative Primordial Origin.
• Great Vow Daoist informed the Seven Supremes of the mobilization, and Daoist Unceasing urged them to coordinate with the Infinite Kingdoms and Nine Great Alliances.
• The Immortal Buddha Lord proposed inviting Li Qing to use his Root Jade Disc to track the enemy, and Great Vow Daoist sent out the message.

Li Qing gathered the Seven Supreme Ones and the Infinite Mechanism powerhouses to explain the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s likely plan and propose a joint defense against Anti-Primordial Chaos. They agreed to cooperate at the borders of Forward Primordial Chaos while continuing their internal struggle for supremacy.

• Li Qing told the gathered factions that Anti-Primordial Chaos had overwhelming forces and that its Supreme Heavenly Lord likely intended to use the calamities to defeat and devour Forward Primordial Chaos’s final victor.
• Li Qing proposed exploiting the Reverse Supreme Mechanisms’ own fear of the Supreme Heavenly Lord to join forces and destroy Sacred Domains, weakening the Lord’s accumulated power.
• Great Vow Daoist questioned how the factions could cooperate while their war continued, and Li Qing proposed deploying equal proportions of their forces to separate border regions while keeping their internal contest unchanged.
• Immortal Buddha Lord and the other leaders accepted Li Qing’s plan, and Li Qing displayed a map of border rifts leading to Lands of Ashes that could serve as battlefields and be supplied through altar arrays.

Li Qing prepared Forward Primordial Chaos for war and proposed selecting new Infinite Mechanism powerhouses through merit, while secretly positioning his avatars to benefit. As the Anti-Primordial Chaos began its invasion, the Ethereal Divine Kingdom entered the Land of Ashes and faced an ambush.

• Li Qing allocated forces across the battlefields and had them prepare formations to bleed the invading enemy.
• Li Qing proposed choosing the top hundred Dao-propagation cultivators by merit to challenge the Infinite Mechanism before the Supreme Cataclysm, and the crowd agreed.
• Li Qing planned to guide his six avatars into qualifying for Infinite Mechanisms without attracting too much attention.
• The Ethereal Divine Kingdom forced open a crack in the boundary and began expanding the Land of Ashes as Forward Primordial Chaos forces waited in ambush.
• One of Li Qing's Fate Wheel avatars watched the Ethereal Divine Kingdom and calculated the Dao Essences it could yield if destroyed.

Li Qing waited for the Heavenly Evil Demon Venerable and Earth Spirit Great Buddha to engage the Ethereal Divine Kingdom, then offered to help in exchange for half the spoils. After the Calamity-Reversing All-Beings Heavenly God Venerable exposed his plan, the allied powers launched an overwhelming attack on the fissures, leaving Li Qing’s Past Body realizing they had ruined his chance to obtain the essence of Principles.

• The Heavenly Evil Demon Venerable and Earth Spirit Great Buddha attacked the Ethereal Divine Kingdom, but its immense strength let it withstand their combined assault.
• Li Qing contacted the two masters and offered assistance in exchange for half the spoils, and they accepted.
• The Calamity-Reversing All-Beings Heavenly God Venerable detected Li Qing’s presence and alerted the great powers that he planned to collect the essence of Principles.
• The Seven Supremes and the Infinite Mechanism masters agreed to destroy the incoming Divine Kingdoms with their full strength.
• The allied powers sent a devastating attack through the fissures, and Li Qing’s Past Body realized they had overturned the board before he could act.

The Supreme Heavenly Lord protected the invading forces and spread Anti-Primordial Chaos power through the boundary, but Forward Primordial Chaos suppressed its expansion. Li Qing fed part of his Anti-Primordial Chaos information into the Jade Tablet, which evolved and revealed hidden threats before reacting to the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s power.

• The Ten Sacred Domain Heavenly Lords realized that Forward Primordial Chaos’s great powers and the Supreme Mechanism had joined forces, and the Supreme Heavenly Lord ordered them to continue attacking under his protection.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord spread his power through the boundary fissures, regenerating the Lands of Ashes, but a mysterious force from Forward Primordial Chaos halted their expansion.
• Li Qing’s Jade Tablet could not identify the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s power, so he injected one-tenth of his Anti-Primordial Chaos information into it.
• The Jade Tablet evolved and revealed the approximate locations of six lurking Reverse Supreme Mechanisms, including one incomplete expert in the chaotic vortex, and detected the Hazy Domain.
• Li Qing restricted further Anti-Primordial Chaos information and focused on the boundary battlefield, where the evolved Jade Tablet touched the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s power and produced strange ripples.

Li Qing’s Jade Tablet evolved enough to reveal that the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s power surpassed the Supreme Mechanism but remained flawed. The Supreme Heavenly Lord became determined to seize the growing treasure, while Li Qing’s allies prepared a war of attrition against the Land of Ashes.

• Li Qing’s Past Body used the evolved Jade Tablet to uncover that the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s power surpassed the Supreme Mechanism but was incomplete.
• Li Qing deduced that the Supreme Heavenly Lord had completed the Immeasurable Final Calamity in Anti-Primordial Chaos and needed a Dao from Forward Primordial Chaos to perfect his own.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord identified Li Qing’s treasure as the source of the probing and suspected it could help him perfect a true Ultimate Mechanism.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord resolved to watch the treasure’s evolution and take it from Li Qing.
• Li Qing told the Seven Supremes and other mighty figures that their first phase had destroyed hundreds of Divine Kingdoms, then proposed formations and a war of attrition to drain the enemy’s strength and resources.

Li Qing’s avatars and the Primordial Great Sect joined the war at the Land of Ashes, using formation altars to establish a fortified base and repel the Divine Kingdom’s forces. The Supreme Heavenly Lord detected their advance and sent an avatar into the Forward Primordial Chaos.

• Li Qing sent his six major avatars to the Primordial Chaos border to seek merit and prepare for their eventual advancement to Infinite Mechanism.
• Fire Tree Daoist Li Qing led a hundred thousand Primordial Great Sect cultivators into the Land of Ashes and used altars powered by Daoist Immeasurable’s Supreme Mechanism to form a defensive network.
• A ten-million-strong army of antfolk believers and cultivators emerged from the Divine Kingdom and attacked the base.
• Fire Tree Daoist Li Qing ordered the cultivators to attack, and they wiped out the first wave before True Gods and their believers joined the battle.
• Li Qing’s Past Body judged that his side had a slight advantage and waited for the Supreme Heavenly Lord to notice the fighting.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord sent an avatar through a narrow fissure into the Forward Primordial Chaos, concealed by a Heavenly Garment marked with three thousand superposed-state runes.

Li Qing detected the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s concealed incarnation in the Primordial Chaos, but lost track of it after it blended into its surroundings. He warned the factions in the Unique Universe and urged them to capture the incarnation, while the Supreme Heavenly Lord secretly approached the besieged universe to search for Li Qing and monitor the threat of unified Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.

• Li Qing’s Past Body detected the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s avatar arriving in the Primordial Chaos and located its first appearance.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord transformed his power through the Heavenly Garment, blended into the Primordial Chaos, and evaded Li Qing’s scans.
• Li Qing concluded the hidden avatar posed a grave danger and decided to use others to help capture it.
• Li Qing warned the gathered factions in the Unique Universe that the Supreme Heavenly Lord had arrived and urged them to search for his incarnation.
• The Seven Supremes and the mighty figures of the Infinite Mechanism began scanning the Unique Universe for the avatar.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord’s incarnation entered the Unique Universe, sought Li Qing, and recognized the danger posed by the unification of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.

The Supreme Heavenly Lord infiltrated the Unique Universe and began hunting for Li Qing, while Li Qing’s bodies stayed hidden and planned around the threat. Li Qing’s Future Body continued harvesting the Flesh Egg to strengthen the Chaos Pearl, leaving him focused on raising it to Infinite Mechanism combat power before the Supreme Cataclysm.

• The Supreme Heavenly Lord possessed a Nine Great Alliances cultivator, entered the Unique Universe, and concealed himself while searching for Li Qing.
• Li Qing’s Past Body concluded that the Supreme Heavenly Lord had likely infiltrated the Unique Universe and ordered his incarnations to avoid returning there.
• Li Qing’s Past Body assessed the ongoing wars in the Unique Universe and the Land of Ashes, then decided to wait for a chance to expose the Supreme Heavenly Lord.
• Li Qing’s Future Body used the Yin-Yang Treasure Vase and Chaos Pearl to harvest flesh from the Flesh Egg and extract its mechanisms and superposition-state fluctuations.
• Li Qing’s Future Body noted that the Chaos Pearl had reached three thousand times evolution-level intensity and considered using Heavenly Dao Reincarnation power to strengthen it further.

Daoist Purple Gold Li Qing fought Black Gold Indestructible True God during the first major clash between Primordial Chaos and Anti-Primordial Chaos. After feigning weakness, Li Qing revealed his full strength and wounded the True God, leaving him retreating beneath a storm of sword light.

• Daoist Purple Gold Li Qing used his Dao and Formless Divine Sword to meet the advancing Divine Kingdom as the armies clashed around the Buddhist tower formations.
• Black Gold Indestructible True God emerged from the Divine Kingdom and challenged Li Qing, believing him to be weaker.
• Li Qing concealed his life cultivation and Infinite Mechanism, making his power appear far below the True God's.
• Black Gold Indestructible True God gained the upper hand, shattered Li Qing's divine dragon, and pursued him into the altar formations.
• Li Qing revealed his hidden strength, unleashing a sword strike that shattered the True God's right arm and wounded his immortal body.
• Li Qing pursued the retreating True God with a sweeping storm of sword light.

Daoist Purple Gold Li Qing destroyed and revived the Black Gold Indestructible True God, then secretly refined the fragments for valuable resources. Sixty thousand years later, with twenty thousand years left before the Supreme Cataclysm, Li Qing had traced the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s hidden pieces while the battle for the Unique Universe’s final territory reached a deadly peak.

• Daoist Purple Gold Li Qing pierced the Black Gold Indestructible True God with sword light, shattered him, and gathered his fragments within his Dao.
• The Black Gold Indestructible True God revived at full strength with fewer than seven hundred traces of the Infinite Mechanism, while Daoist Purple Gold Li Qing secretly extracted three thousand traces and essential Principles.
• Li Qing’s projections guided roaming universes into alliances and mergers, increasing his share of their Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Authority beyond fifty percent.
• Over sixty thousand years, Li Qing’s Projection Motes gathered information that let his Past Body trace the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s hidden pieces through karmic transmissions.
• With twenty thousand years until the Supreme Cataclysm, Li Qing considered drawing out the Supreme Heavenly Lord as the struggle for the final percentage of territory intensified.
• The six major powers and their opponents committed their forces to the front, where forty thousand perfected Dao-Preaching cultivators faced off.