Chapter Summaries

Li Qing persuaded the Seven Supremes, the Infinite Mechanism powers, and the Five Immortal Kings to unite behind creating the Ultimate Universe, with limited Authorization Authority granted to weaker factions. The universes began colliding and merging as preparations for the new era started.

• Li Qing explained that the Ultimate Universe could protect living beings and help resist the Supreme Heavenly Lord, though it would prevent great powers from breaking through unnoticed.
• The Seven Supremes and the Infinite Mechanism powers agreed to the plan after Li Qing warned that refusing would leave them dead or trapped in hiding.
• Li Qing proposed granting one percent of Authorization Authority over Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to the Five Immortal Kings and newly advanced Infinite Mechanism experts to prevent internal resentment.
• Gray Mist Immortal King, Silver Immortal King, Purple Qi Immortal King, Sacred Dao Immortal King, and Black-Pupil Immortal King accepted Li Qing's proposal, and the Seven Supremes agreed as well.
• Li Qing ordered cultivators to prepare for the collision, and the two universes drew together as their barriers, Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, Heavenly Realm, Netherworld, and core continents began to merge.

As the two universes fused, the Supreme Heavenly Lord ordered the Anti-Primordial Chaos forces to withdraw and pool their power for an attack. Li Qing and his allies prepared a defense to measure the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s strength, leaving a vast network of fused Supreme Mechanisms covering both universes.

• The Supreme Heavenly Lord sensed the universes merging and ordered all Anti-Primordial Chaos forces to retreat and transfer their power to him.
• Anti-Li Qing detected the mobilization, and Li Qing explained that the coming attack could reveal the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s power limit.
• The Gray Mist Immortal King asked for Heavenly Dao Reincarnation authority so the Five Immortal Kings could lead the defense.
• Li Qing analyzed the fused mechanisms and calculated the upper limits of both sides’ power.
• The Five Immortal Kings spread their fused Supreme Mechanisms across both universes, strengthening them and creating a vast defensive network.

As the two universes fused and the Supreme Heavenly Lord prepared to strike their reincarnations, Li Qing failed to win control of everyone’s Authorization Authority. Great Vow Daoist instead took charge through the Equivalent Exchange Network as the universes’ core continents collided.

• The Supreme Heavenly Lord decided to focus his attack on the merging reincarnations to reach and destroy the universes’ origins.
• Li Qing asked the experts to lend him all Authorization Authority so he could assess the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s power, but the Immortal Kings, Supremes, and Infinite experts refused.
• As the Supreme Heavenly Lord finished gathering power, Great Vow Daoist offered to coordinate everyone’s powers through transactions, and the experts agreed.
• Everyone signed a contract lending their power, allowing the Equivalent Exchange Network to bring both universes’ Heavenly Dao Reincarnations under Great Vow Daoist’s control.
• Li Qing concealed his incarnation and Present Body within Heavenly Dao Reincarnation while Great Vow Daoist noticed his concealment.
• The two universes’ core continents made contact and collided amid the cracking national formations.

The Supreme Heavenly Lord attacked the merging reincarnations, but the combined forces of the two universes stopped his strike long enough for them to unite as the Ultimate Heavenly Dao Reincarnation. As the Ultimate Universe began expanding into Primordial Chaos, Li Qing decided to hide the Civilization Universe in the Cosmic Graveyard.

• The Supreme Heavenly Lord launched a Reverse Ultimate Mechanism strike at the reincarnations as the universes began to merge.
• Li Qing warned Great Vow Daoist, who rallied the power of both universes into a network to block the strike.
• The opposing forces neutralized each other, and the Supreme Heavenly Lord and Great Vow Daoist each reclaimed about half of the resulting particles.
• The two reincarnations merged into the Ultimate Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, which began expanding the Ultimate Universe into Primordial Chaos.
• Li Qing realized the Civilization Universe would be assimilated and used randomness to lock onto the Cosmic Graveyard as a hiding place.

The Civilization Universe hid in the Cosmic Graveyard as the Supreme Heavenly Lord began Anti-Primordial Chaos’s all-out invasion through the Hazy Domain. Li Qing and his allies suppressed the assault while expanding the Ultimate Universe into Forward Primordial Chaos, leaving both sides locked in a struggle of escalating power.

• The Civilization Universe entered the Cosmic Graveyard, where its power was drained, and Li Qing’s Past Body left an avatar at the border to relay information.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord ordered all Anti-Primordial Chaos forces to converge on the Hazy Domain and began channeling their power into an ultimate invasion.
• The Ultimate Universe halted the expansion of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and used its mechanisms and the five Immortal Kings’ fusion mechanisms to suppress the Hazy Domain.
• Li Qing explained that the Supreme Heavenly Lord aimed to destroy the Ultimate Universe from within and prevent it from assimilating Forward Primordial Chaos, then ordered the forces to balance suppression with outward expansion.
• Great Vow Daoist redirected Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to spread beyond the Ultimate Universe, creating new regions and assimilating Forward Primordial Chaos.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord learned that his opponents had recognized his plan, but he could only wait for the balance between Forward and Anti-Primordial Chaos to shift.

Li Qing and the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Emperor restored order in the Ultimate Universe through a new investiture of gods, countering the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s efforts to spread fear and encourage betrayal. The chapter ends as Li Qing prepares to reveal what he has learned about the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s power.

• The Supreme Heavenly Lord continued spreading Calamity Qi and urging living beings to surrender to Anti-Primordial Chaos, while Li Qing proposed a new campaign to strengthen unity.
• The Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Emperor issued a new Investiture of Gods, assigning divine offices to conceptual-level powerhouses and creating a denser web of logic across the Ultimate Universe.
• The gods’ incarnations calmed cultivators and limited disasters, while the merit system rewarded those who gained resources and could target traitors.
• Li Qing said the new order had reduced fear and proposed merit bounties on those determined to betray Forward Primordial Chaos.
• The Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Emperor warned that Forward Primordial Chaos was shrinking as Anti-Primordial Chaos expanded, and the Gray Mist Immortal King confirmed this cycle had doomed earlier eras.
• Li Qing argued that the expanding Ultimate Universe might halt the boundary’s disappearance, then displayed the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s earlier attack on reincarnation as he began explaining the limits of his power.

Li Qing explained that the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s Reverse Ultimate Mechanism required at least fifty Supreme Mechanisms’ worth of power to fully block, while the current alliance had only twenty-seven. He proposed growing the Ultimate Universe to that strength and using himself as bait, leaving the group to prepare for the possibility that the enemy would send an incarnation while his true body attacked elsewhere.

• Li Qing calculated that Anti-Primordial Chaos’s remaining strength was about ninety-five percent of Forward Primordial Chaos’s and estimated the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s power at roughly thirty-two times the power of the Supreme.
• Great Vow Daoist and Silver Immortal King concluded that the alliance lacked enough power to kill the Supreme Heavenly Lord in a direct confrontation.
• Li Qing reassured the group that the Ultimate Universe could offset the Reverse Ultimate Mechanism’s rank suppression and proposed growing it to fifty times the power of the Supreme.
• Li Qing offered himself as bait but warned that the Supreme Heavenly Lord might send an incarnation while his true body attacked the Ultimate Universe.
• The Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Emperor ordered preparations for a trap, and the alliance continued expanding its merit system, advancement pathways, system of gods, and Heavenly Dao Reincarnation’s influence.

Li Qing devised a plan to use the Flesh Egg and the powerhouses’ combined attack to strengthen the Chaos Pearl, while urging the Ultimate Universe to connect Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to the ten great deadlands. The Five Immortal Kings and others agreed that the deadlands could offer refuge, giving the group a possible way to survive future crises.

• The Supreme Heavenly Lord lamented that the rebellious intent of Forward Primordial Chaos lifeforms had weakened and considered accelerating the Supreme Cataclysm through his incarnation.
• Li Qing calculated a plan to channel a concentrated strike into the Chaotic Dojo, shatter the Flesh Egg, and have his Future Body claim it and refine it with the Chaos Pearl.
• Li Qing concluded that his Future Body would need Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to connect to another forbidden region so it could escape after seizing the Flesh Egg.
• Li Qing proposed directing Heavenly Dao Reincarnation toward the ten great deadlands as hidden refuges for the Infinite Mechanism great powers.
• The Five Immortal Kings endorsed Li Qing’s proposal, and the Seven Supremes and other great powers welcomed the possibility of escaping pursuit during the coming calamities.

The Supreme Heavenly Lord countered the Ultimate Universe’s expansion toward the Ten Forbidden Lands by sending forces to create artificial universes along the Forward Primordial Chaos boundary. Li Qing warned that these universes would consume the Forward Primordial Chaos and hasten the reversal of its mass against the Anti-Primordial Chaos.

• Great Vow Daoist extended the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation toward the Ten Forbidden Lands after Tianyuan Daoist and the others agreed to the plan.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord recognized the expansion strategy, sent ten avatars to watch the connected Heavenly Dao Reincarnations, and redirected half his forces to the boundary.
• One hundred and eighty-two Sacred Domains and countless Divine Kingdoms sent True Gods into the Forward Primordial Chaos to create artificial universes.
• The Seven Supremes detected the incursion, and Li Qing explained that the artificial universes would devour the Forward Primordial Chaos and weaken their plan.

Li Qing organized a hunt for the True Gods and artificial universes in Primordial Chaos, while the Supreme Heavenly Lord used the chaos to spread ideas that could turn his enemies against the Ultimate Universe. The chapter ended with Ghost True Person unknowingly considering triggering an Infinite Cataclysm to escape its restraints.

• Li Qing ordered Evolution- and Dao-Transmission-level experts to destroy artificial universes and asked the Seven Supremes to protect them with Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
• Experts accepted the lucrative missions and traveled into Primordial Chaos, using Li Qing's daily coordinates to hunt True Gods.
• Ghost True Person and his four fellow disciples trapped Black Dragon True God's universe with the Five-Direction Heavenly Demon Formation and suppressed him.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord sent ten avatars to spread Forward Supreme Mechanism through Primordial Chaos and merge it into the Tribulation.
• Calamity Qi influenced Ghost True Person to consider triggering an Infinite Cataclysm and escaping the Ultimate Universe, though he did not realize the thought had been planted.

Ghost True Person considered devouring his fellow disciples as Calamity Qi stirred rebellion among Dao-propagating experts, and the Supreme Heavenly Lord promised defectors protection and refuge. Li Qing warned the Ultimate Universe's leaders that the scheme could create a new Supreme Mechanism, unleash the Immeasurable Final Calamity, and leave them unable to stop the Supreme Heavenly Lord.

• Ghost True Person secretly activated a forbidden art to invade his four fellow disciples' Great Daos and prepare to devour them.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord instructed his True Gods to promise Dao-propagating experts protection if they challenged the Infinite Mechanism and offered them refuge as Sacred Domain Heavenly Lords.
• The Black Dragon True God delivered the Supreme Heavenly Lord's offer to Ghost True Person, who felt watched and chilled by the timing of the promise.
• Li Qing's delayed intelligence revealed widespread shifts between True Gods and Ultimate Universe experts, and he warned that the Supreme Heavenly Lord was exploiting Calamity Qi to encourage defections.
• Li Qing told the Five Immortal Kings, the Seven Supremes, and other leaders that defectors could create a new Supreme Mechanism and trigger the Immeasurable Final Calamity.
• The assembled leaders grasped that the Supreme Heavenly Lord might cross into their realm without suppression, and the Five Immortal Kings turned pale while the Seven Supremes grew grim.

Li Qing proposed using the Seven Supremes’ networks and his Projection Motes to monitor Primordial Chaos and intercept anyone trying to break through to Infinity. The plan began to work, and the chapter ended as the Nine Heavens Mysterious Rain Heavenly Venerable attempted to advance under the protection of a Heavenly Sovereign.

• Li Qing asked the Seven Supremes to lend their Supreme Mechanism Networks so he could rapidly gather intelligence and coordinate defenses.
• Li Qing proposed turning the networks into public channels for shared power and luring the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s followers toward forbidden breakthroughs.
• The Seven Supremes, the Five Immortal Kings, and the Infinite powers detected Li Qing’s Projection Motes, but could not remove them all because of his Heavenly Dao Reincarnation authority.
• Li Qing restored his surveillance across Primordial Chaos, identified potential traitors, and instructed the great powers to annihilate anyone attempting to break into Infinity.
• The Nine Heavens Mysterious Rain Heavenly Venerable began raising his Great Dao, and a Heavenly Sovereign shrouded him with power from the Infinite Mechanism.

The Seven Supremes’ plan killed the Nine Heavens Mysterious Rain Heavenly Venerable before he could complete his breakthrough. The Supreme Heavenly Lord then encouraged simultaneous attempts, and the Hell Great Ghost God began considering that strategy as a path to success.

• Li Qing explained a plan to suppress the Destruction Heavenly Lord while sending nearby experts to kill the Nine Heavens Mysterious Rain Heavenly Venerable.
• The Seven Supremes suppressed the Destruction Heavenly Lord, and two experts attacked the Nine Heavens Mysterious Rain Heavenly Venerable as he tried to flee.
• The two experts shattered the Nine Heavens Mysterious Rain Heavenly Venerable’s Dao, and Tribulation Fire erased him and his Infinite Mechanism.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord judged that the Seven Supremes could stop isolated breakthroughs but might be overwhelmed by many simultaneous attempts.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord spread the idea of coordinated breakthroughs, and the Hell Great Ghost God began waiting for a chance to try one.

After Daoist Yuanyuan became the newest Infinite Mechanism expert, the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s influence drove seventy Dao Transmission Perfection experts to plot a collective breakthrough. Li Qing and his allies prepared to stop them as both sides converged on the crossing sites in Primordial Chaos.

• Over ten thousand years, more than a dozen Dao Transmission Perfection experts died attempting breakthroughs, and Daoist Yuanyuan was chosen by merit to try next.
• Daoist Yuanyuan broke through in the Heavenly Court and merged his Infinite Mechanism into the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord secretly stirred the ambitions of other Dao Transmission Perfection experts, and seventy of them agreed to break through together.
• Li Qing and Rahu Divine Venerable decided to conceal their awareness of the plot, prepare an interception, and turn True Gods and Heavenly Lords to their side.
• The seventy practitioners gathered at Sacred Domains in Primordial Chaos while Li Qing’s forces mobilized to attack them and their protectors.
• Li Qing’s Past Body calculated the power needed at each crossing site as the battle erupted across the border of Primordial Chaos.

Li Qing and the Ultimate Universe’s allies struck the twenty remaining tribulation-crossers, killing nineteen and leaving the No-Limits True God badly wounded but newly ascended. He fled into the Cosmic Graveyard, where Li Qing sent him a message claiming the Supreme Heavenly Lord had engineered his breakthrough.

• Li Qing’s projection ordered the assembled forces to attack the twenty tribulation-crossers just before they attained their Dao.
• The combined strike killed nineteen, while the No-Limits True God survived by splitting himself and completed his Infinite Mechanism.
• The No-Limits True God sensed an unseen influence, escaped into the Cosmic Graveyard, and vanished from the Ultimate Universe’s detection.
• Li Qing and the Seven Supremes agreed not to attack or recruit the No-Limits True God, while Li Qing privately considered him valuable prey.
• Li Qing’s Past Body sent the No-Limits True God a message claiming the Supreme Heavenly Lord had arranged his breakthrough to create a Supreme Mechanism artificially.

Li Qing warned No-Limits True God to hide from Supreme Heavenly Lord, then outlined a trap to lure Supreme Heavenly Lord’s incarnation into the Void Black Hole and force his true body to intervene. The plan remained to be carried out.

• Unknown warned No-Limits True God that Supreme Heavenly Lord could seize his Dao Fruit if he revealed himself, and No-Limits True God searched for the sender but found no one.
• Li Qing’s message helped No-Limits True God recover his sanity, and he resolved to be more cautious.
• The Ultimate Universe declared the traitors enemies and urged its people to earn merit, suppressing rebellious schemes among its inhabitants.
• Supreme Heavenly Lord judged that the Tribulation would need ten million years to fully cloud the reason of Dao-Teaching Perfection powerhouses.
• Li Qing told the assembled powerhouses to lure a Supreme Heavenly Lord incarnation by sending an avatar to undergo the Tribulation near the Void Black Hole.
• Li Qing described how the group would trap the pursuing incarnation and force Supreme Heavenly Lord’s true body to break the encirclement.

Li Qing persuaded his allies to prepare a mass breakthrough and rebellion against the Supreme Heavenly Lord, while secretly planning to use the resulting clash to shatter the Flesh Egg and seize Supreme-level power. He then approached Black Prison Heavenly Lord with an offer to shelter him and his True Gods as they attempted their breakthroughs.

• Li Qing proposed waiting one million years, provoking more than a hundred Infinite Great Tribulations, and striking the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s incarnations when the chaos peaked; the assembled powers agreed without knowing his true goal.
• Li Qing’s hidden objective was to channel the Ultimate Universe’s Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s concentrated attacks toward the Chaotic Dojo to shatter the Flesh Egg and refine its power.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord spread warnings through the tribulations, urging Dao Preachers to avoid defecting to the Ultimate Universe and instead join Anti-Primordial Chaos or hide in forbidden lands.
• Li Qing’s projection met Black Prison Heavenly Lord and offered the Ultimate Universe’s protection in exchange for his support in arranging simultaneous breakthroughs among dozens or hundreds of True Gods.
• Black Prison Heavenly Lord warned that the Supreme Heavenly Lord had planted flaws in their cultivation and suppressed past attempts to reach the Reverse Supreme Mechanism.
• Li Qing claimed the Ultimate Universe could sever that influence and said the True Gods’ breakthrough attempt would coincide with another event that would draw the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s attention.

Li Qing secured Black Prison Heavenly Lord’s cooperation and planned a counterattack against the Supreme Heavenly Lord by helping Reverse Supreme Mechanisms emerge. As the allies prepared for a dangerous million-year period, Li Qing’s Past Body identified No-Limits True God as a potential target in the Cosmic Graveyard.

• Li Qing persuaded Black Prison Heavenly Lord to cooperate in one million years, and Black Prison Heavenly Lord provided a list of eight possible allies.
• Li Qing reported the agreement to the leaders of the Ultimate Universe and explained that the Anti-Primordial Chaos Immeasurable Final Calamity could likely be reopened.
• Gray Mist Immortal King and the other Immortal Kings described how the Supreme Heavenly Lord had hunted Reverse Supreme Mechanisms and obstructed their breakthroughs.
• Li Qing warned that the Supreme Heavenly Lord might use Infinite Mechanism Dao Fruits to create Supreme Mechanisms, so the allies tightened their watch for traitors.
• Li Qing’s forces continued suppressing defections through the Supreme Mechanism Network while his Past Body considered hunting No-Limits True God and gathering more Supreme Mechanisms.

Li Qing’s Past Body used the Civilization Universe as bait to lure No-Limits True God into an ambush. After six avatars sealed him with their Infinite Mechanisms, Li Qing killed him with the Fate Wheel and claimed his Dao Fruit.

• Li Qing’s Past Body sent six Great Dao Fruit avatars out to conceal themselves while the Civilization Universe drew attention by consuming cosmic wreckages.
• After a thousand years of healing, No-Limits True God detected the fluctuations and sent an avatar to investigate the Civilization Universe.
• No-Limits True God recognized Li Qing and reasoned that his universe could unleash the full power of an Infinite Mechanism item.
• Li Qing’s six avatars tracked No-Limits True God’s true body, surrounded him, and sealed him with a network of six Infinite Mechanisms.
• Li Qing used the Fate Wheel, empowered by the Civilization Universe, to kill No-Limits True God and take his tenth Forward Infinite Mechanism Dao Fruit.

Li Qing used the No-Limits True God avatar as bait for traitors while his Future Body continued harvesting flesh from the Flesh Egg, which began accelerating its gestation in response to danger. As Li Qing prepared a new body to cultivate toward Great Dao perfection, a hundred thousand years passed and dissenting Dao Proclaimers prepared a collective attempt to break through the Infinite Cataclysm.

• Li Qing turned the No-Limits True God's Dao Fruit into an avatar and sent it into the Primordial Chaos to lure wild Infinite Mechanisms into his trap.
• Li Qing's Future Body struck the Flesh Egg and retreated from its counterattacking superposition-state storm, continuing to harvest its flesh.
• The Flesh Egg began trembling and emitting denser superposition-state radiance, and Li Qing deduced that its gestation was accelerating in response to danger.
• Li Qing created a mortal body to cultivate his newly formed Way of Civilization toward Great Dao perfection over the next million years.
• After one hundred thousand years, only seven people had achieved an Infinite Mechanism, while dissatisfied Dao Proclaimers secretly colluded with True Gods and Heavenly Lords to plan a collective charge.