Chapter Summaries

True Spirit Demon Heavenly Dao killed Shen Qiuling’s Dao Body and the Demon Intelligence Spirit, prompting Shen Qiuling to report the incident to the Innate Sacred Spirit Divine Demon Source Stream. The Source Streams began to react to their unseen collision while Li Qing remained unaware of the crisis gathering around him.

• True Spirit Demon Heavenly Dao searched for the location indicated by his talisman, while Shen Qiuling sensed the death of his Three Flowers Dao Body and suspected the Demon Intelligence Spirit held a valuable secret.
• Shen Qiuling reported the incident to the Innate Sacred Spirit Divine Demon Source Stream through a ritual at a divine altar.
• A mysterious existence in the True Realm failed to trace the cause behind the killings and ordered True Spirit Wan Hua to find True Spirit Demon Heavenly Dao.
• The Source Stream restored Shen Qiuling’s Three Flowers and Dao Body, giving him back the qualification to challenge for True Spirit.
• Gray gathered within the True Realm and Sea of Void, drawing the attention of the four great Source Streams, while Li Qing continued refining a Flesh Egg fragment inside the Cosmic Pearl.

Li Qing refined the Flesh Egg and began studying the incomplete Fusion Supreme Mechanism while the survivors of the Demon Intelligence Spirit’s power pursued new goals. A hundred thousand years later, the Mysterious Immortal descended from the Infinite Dead Abyss, and Li Qing noticed his return.

• The Flesh Egg Daoist cursed Li Qing before his final fragment became Superposition State power and was absorbed into the Chaos Pearl.
• Li Qing’s Future Body began refining fragments of the incomplete Fusion Supreme Mechanism, estimating that the work would take a hundred thousand years.
• The Demon Intelligence Spirit’s last incarnation secretly created Tribulation demons, while the damaged Mysterious Immortal and the Supreme Heavenly Lord contemplated their losses and the power’s essence.
• Over a hundred thousand years, Ultimate Universe powerhouses built cultivation methods and incarnations from True Script fragments, learning to merge into Tribulation but finding advancement beyond Evolution difficult.
• Li Qing avoided cultivating the source stream’s power because he feared its dangers and the Jade Tablet might reveal him, as the alliance around the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation weakened.
• An incarnation of the Mysterious Immortal emerged from the coffin and left the Infinite Dead Abyss, alerting Li Qing’s watching Projection Motes.

The Mysterious Immortal warned that the Demon Intelligence Spirit could seize power from those who cultivated fragments of the Tribulation-Fortune system, but the warning came too late to prevent a devastating attack. After the Demon Intelligence Spirit reached Infinite Mechanism strength, the Mysterious Immortal revealed that an exit from the Land of Void might appear in Dead Zones, prompting a search that changed the balance of the war while Li Qing worried about the Return to Ruins.

• The Mysterious Immortal warned the Ultimate Universe’s powerhouses to destroy their Tribulation-Fortune incarnations, explaining that higher-ranked beings could control or drain them.
• The Demon Intelligence Spirit used the power embedded in the incarnations to devour nearly six hundred evolution-level incarnations and rise to Infinite Mechanism strength.
• At the Highest Mountain, the Mysterious Immortal told the gathered powerhouses that the Demon Intelligence Spirit could escape through a boundary barrier in a Dead Zone and summon his true body from the Sea of Void.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord and other powerhouses sent forces to search the Dead Zones, temporarily easing the war between Primordial Chaos and Anti-Primordial Chaos.
• Li Qing realized the search could expose the Return to Ruins and endanger his plan to capture the Demon Intelligence Spirit, while Superposition State Radiance concealed the Anti-Primordial Chaos passage entrance.

The Council Heavenly Palace abandoned direct use of the Demon Intelligence Spirit’s cultivation method and began analyzing its underlying principles to forge a path of their own. Meanwhile, Li Qing’s Future Body refined the incomplete Fusion Supreme Mechanism, balancing its forward and reverse principles, but his attempt to complete the cycle with Superposition State principles remained unfinished.

• The Gray Mist Immortal King persuaded the powerhouses to combine the fragments they had collected and reconstruct the Demon Intelligence Spirit’s cultivation method using their own mechanisms and True Script.
• The Ultimate Universe powerhouses agreed to pursue their new path while continuing their suppression plan, and a computational Network began analyzing the collected information.
• Li Qing’s Present Body concluded that the Ultimate Universe had been reunited and considered how a newly forged path might benefit him during a future Tribulation Crossing.
• The Demon Intelligence Spirit’s incarnation sent calamity demons into the Dead Zones to search for a passage to the boundary while preparing a weaker incarnation as a means of revival.
• Li Qing’s Future Body finished refining Aguda’s incomplete Fusion Supreme Mechanism and discovered that pressure from Forward Primordial Chaos had balanced its greater share of reverse principles.
• Li Qing used the Civilization Information Essence to simulate the mechanism, bringing its forward and reverse principles into equal halves, and began adding Superposition State principles to complete their cycle.

Li Qing completed the Fusion Supreme Mechanism by balancing Forward and Anti-Primordial Chaos Principles, then formed a powerful incarnation capable of accelerating the refinement of the Flesh Egg fragments. He planned to use the finished mechanism to build a concealed network spanning both forms of Primordial Chaos and prepare for his true body's breakthrough.

• Li Qing reshaped the incomplete mechanism's Principles into a balanced Fusion Supreme Mechanism, though its power could be suppressed by the outside world.
• After ten thousand years of work, Li Qing completed the mechanism and connected it to his Way of Civilization, creating the Fusion Supreme Mechanism incarnation.
• Li Qing used the Cosmic Pearl and Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to activate the incarnation's full power and accelerate the refinement of the Flesh Egg fragments.
• Li Qing estimated that the Chaos Pearl would be fully refined within five hundred thousand years and considered advancing his ambush against the Supreme Heavenly Lord.
• Li Qing planned to use the completed Fusion Supreme Mechanism to create a concealed network across the Primordial and Anti-Primordial Chaos, gain control over their information, and support his true body's breakthrough.

Anti-Li Qing prepared the Sacred Domain Pearl and Li Qing refined the plan to trap the Supreme Heavenly Lord, but the Demon Intelligence Spirit began spreading a cultivation technique that let people become hidden demon spirits within Tribulations. Li Qing and his allies warned the powerful factions as the Calamity Qi surged throughout Primordial Chaos and Anti-Primordial Chaos.

• Anti-Li Qing decided to strengthen the Sacred Domain Pearl with the remaining million-odd years before the plan began.
• Present Body Li Qing calculated the risks of luring and suppressing the Supreme Heavenly Lord, then resolved to continue despite the uncertainties.
• The Demon Intelligence Spirit spread the Calamity Fate Demon Spirit Technique, which allowed cultivators to transform into demon spirits and hide within Tribulations.
• Abyss True God secretly cultivated the technique through an incarnation and successfully transformed it into a demon spirit.
• Li Qing warned the Council Heavenly Palace that the Demon Intelligence Spirit could use the technique to devour its cultivators and increase its power.
• Great Vow Daoist began spreading warnings and evidence of the technique's danger, while Gray Mist Immortal King cautioned that Tribulations could cloud people's judgment.

The Mysterious Immortal spread a protective spell to counter the Demon Intelligence Spirit, while the Spirit recruited cultivators to search for routes beyond the Dead Zones. Li Qing and the other powers could only warn against cooperation as the fourth million years ended and the Ultimate Universe’s strength grew.

• The Mysterious Immortal rejected the idea of building a force and spread the Immortal Spirit Demon-Subduing Heart, which formed a purple halo to protect cultivators from mental influence.
• Li Qing and the Council Heavenly Palace studied the spell and found it could reinforce the Demon-Subduing True Spirit Technique without entering the body.
• Cultivators adopted the new spell, its purple light dispelled the whispers of Tribulation demons and Demon Spirits, and the Demon Intelligence Spirit responded by ordering them to search the Dead Zones for suspicious barriers.
• The Demon Intelligence Spirit offered genuine external cultivation methods for accurate information, drawing thousands of powerful cultivators into its search.
• Li Qing and the other leaders debated how to handle the collaborators, chose to issue a warning, and remained unable to act without risking the Demon Intelligence Spirit’s recovery.
• The fourth million years ended with the Ultimate Universe’s great powers numbering 566, including 18 Heavenly Sovereigns, as Evolution-level experts continued to increase.

Li Qing prepared his forces and a plan for the coming chaos, while the Demon Intelligence Spirit narrowed its search for an exit from the Land of Void. The chapter ended with the Demon Intelligence Spirit deciding to risk investigating Return to Ruins.

• Li Qing's Past Body judged that Calamity Qi and the conversion between Forward and Anti-Primordial Chaos would reach critical levels within two million years, leaving only a million years to complete the suppression.
• Li Qing's incarnations and treasures assembled their combat power, with the completed Chaos Pearl helping them reach strength capable of contending with six Supremes under certain conditions.
• Li Qing planned to eliminate one Supreme Mechanism before Stone Daoist's incarnation broke through, and considered using the conflict to resolve the danger hidden within the Jade Tablet.
• The Demon Intelligence Spirit searched the Dead Zones for hundreds of thousands of years and identified Infinite Dead Abyss and Return to Ruins as the likeliest locations of a passage beyond the Primordial Chaos.
• The Demon Intelligence Spirit chose to investigate Return to Ruins first, accepting the risk.

The Demon Intelligence Spirit drained the Demon Spirits and Tribulation Demons to gain power approaching a Supreme Mechanism, prompting the Ultimate Universe’s mighty figures to unite against the threat. Li Qing prepared an ambush in the Return to Ruins as the Demon Intelligence Spirit entered, while a second incarnation began spreading the Chaos Pearl’s power across the barrier to the outside.

• The Demon Intelligence Spirit drained the power of every Demon Spirit and Tribulation Demon, raising his strength to fluctuations equivalent to one-third of a Supreme Mechanism’s mass.
• Li Qing warned the Council Heavenly Palace that the Demon Intelligence Spirit might have found an exit, and the Mysterious Immortal and Supreme Heavenly Lord urged the mighty figures to seal and search the Dead Zones.
• The Seven Supremes, Five Immortal Kings, and other mighty figures agreed to halt their conflicts and pool their power to investigate suspicious Dead Zones.
• Li Qing brought his fused Supreme incarnation to the Return to Ruins and concealed himself, planning to trap the Demon Intelligence Spirit between himself and a second incarnation.
• The Demon Intelligence Spirit entered the Return to Ruins and descended without noticing that Li Qing had detected his presence and followed him.
• At the bottom of the Return to Ruins, the second Superposition State incarnation used the Chaos Pearl to spread a thin membrane of power along the Primordial Chaos barrier.

Superposition State Li Qing No. 2 waited at the Primordial Chaos boundary barrier while the Demon Intelligence Spirit descended toward it, with Fusion Supreme Mechanism Li Qing and the Mysterious Immortal following. When the Demon Intelligence Spirit attacked the barrier, Li Qing and his incarnations ambushed him and sealed him between Superposition State Radiance and Fusion Supreme Mechanism power.

• The Mysterious Immortal sent a Supreme Mechanism-level incarnation into the Return to Ruins after concluding that the Demon Intelligence Spirit had found the exit.
• The Demon Intelligence Spirit descended toward the Primordial Chaos boundary barrier while Fusion Supreme Mechanism Li Qing followed behind him and the Mysterious Immortal trailed them.
• Superposition State Li Qing No. 2 sensed a collision at the barrier and moved toward it as the Demon Intelligence Spirit struck the barrier with a palm.
• Superposition State Li Qing No. 2 emerged beneath the Demon Intelligence Spirit and trapped him in rising Superposition State Radiance.
• Fusion Supreme Mechanism Li Qing struck from above, and his power combined with the Superposition State Radiance to seal the Demon Intelligence Spirit between them.

Li Qing sealed the Demon Intelligence Spirit at the bottom of the Return to Ruins, while the Mysterious Immortal’s incarnation attacked from afar. Li Qing repelled the strike and then set out to lure the incarnation away, hiding that he had reached the bottom and found the passage beyond Primordial Chaos.

• The Mysterious Immortal’s incarnation detected a clash below, deduced that Li Qing was fighting the Demon Intelligence Spirit, and launched a powerful violet attack toward them.
• As the Demon Intelligence Spirit tried to seal himself and delay his death, the Mysterious Immortal’s attack struck the Fusion Supreme Mechanism, but Superposition State Radiance absorbed the blow.
• The Demon Intelligence Spirit used the opening to charge at the seal’s weak point, but Li Qing’s strengthened Superposition State Radiance stopped him and forced him back into confinement.
• Li Qing returned the borrowed power to the Cosmic Pearl and bound the seal with Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, while his other incarnation concealed his aura and moved to lure away the Mysterious Immortal’s incarnation.

Li Qing used his Number Two Superposition State incarnation to lure the Mysterious Immortal into a clash, then escaped while his Fusion Supreme Mechanism incarnation tried to find a way out of the Return to Ruins. The powerful factions sealed the exit, and the Mysterious Immortal announced that Li Qing had finished refining the Flesh Egg and could wield power equivalent to at least three supreme mechanism levels.

• Li Qing let the Mysterious Immortal discover his Number Two Superposition State incarnation, which struck him and escaped after winning their head-on clash.
• The Mysterious Immortal lost Li Qing's trail, while the Gray Mist Immortal King rallied the powerhouses to form a layered blockade around the Return to Ruins exit.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord's avatars joined the blockade as Li Qing's Fusion Supreme Mechanism incarnation rose toward the exit and found the way sealed by hundreds of linked incarnations.
• Li Qing considered how to escape without the Jade Tablet's ability to investigate every existence and stopped before the first defensive line.
• The Mysterious Immortal announced to the Council Heavenly Palace that Li Qing had finished refining the Flesh Egg and could unleash power equivalent to at least three supreme mechanism levels.

Li Qing No. 2 breached the Primordial Chaos barrier and discovered strange grayness spreading across the True Realm, which he suspected was linked to the Demon Intelligence Spirit’s leaked information. Meanwhile, True Spirit—Demon Heavenly Dao continued searching the Sea of Void for the Positive and Negative Primordial Chaos, with True Spirit—Myriad Splendor secretly following him.

• The Mysterious Immortal revealed that Li Qing’s power was occupied suppressing the Demon Intelligence Spirit and urged the others to prevent his escape.
• Li Qing No. 2 used true scripts to push through the Primordial Chaos barrier and emerged into the sea of multicolored radiance.
• Li Qing No. 2 noticed grayness on the True Realm and suspected the Demon Intelligence Spirit’s information had caused a tribulation, so he hurried back toward the Positive and Negative Primordial Chaos.
• True Spirit—Demon Heavenly Dao rejected an unknown Land of Void as his target and continued searching on Sourceflow’s orders.
• True Spirit—Myriad Splendor detected Demon Heavenly Dao’s movements and followed him through the Sea of Void.
• The chapter ended with the Fusion Supreme Mechanism incarnation Qing maintaining a mote-like state beneath the Return to Ruins.

Li Qing prepared to break out of the Return to Ruins while concealing his strength and coordinating with the nine perfected Heavenly Lords. The Black Prison Heavenly Lord and the others let his Number Two Superposition State incarnation pass through their blockade, leaving Li Qing poised to continue his escape.

• Li Qing kept the Demon Intelligence Spirit incarnation sealed inside the Cosmic Pearl and planned to refine it into a signal beacon for the future.
• Li Qing sent the Number One Superposition State incarnation and Anti-Li Qing to the Ultimate Universe to wait near the Return to Ruins as support.
• Li Qing asked Black Prison Heavenly Lord to let him cross the first blockade, and the nine perfected Heavenly Lords debated whether to maintain their alliance with him.
• Blood Baleful Heavenly Lord agreed with Nine Nether Heavenly Lord that preserving their alliance and their chance to become a Reverse Supreme Mechanism was safer than trying to capture Li Qing.
• Black Prison Heavenly Lord told Li Qing that the nine Heavenly Lords would let him pass, and Li Qing waited for his Number Two Superposition State incarnation to return.
• Li Qing's Number Two Superposition State incarnation entered the Return to Ruins and silently passed through the nine Heavenly Lords' mechanisms while they pretended not to notice.

Li Qing prepared both Superposition State incarnations to break through the mechanisms guarding the Return to Ruins and withstand attacks from the Mysterious Immortal and the Supreme Heavenly Lord. After the Number Two incarnation was surrounded, Li Qing used the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Network to help him escape, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Li Qing prepared his Number One incarnation with nine-tenths of the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation authority and ten quadrillion light-years of Sacred Domain Pearl power, while his Number Two incarnation absorbed power from his other forms.
• The Number Two incarnation pierced the mechanism network at the exit of the Return to Ruins, alerting the powerful figures of the Ultimate Universe.
• Great Vow Daoist and the other powerful figures sent sixteen percent of the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation power and countless mechanisms against the breach, while the Mysterious Immortal and the Supreme Heavenly Lord launched their attacks.
• The Number One incarnation poured Superposition State radiance into the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Network, resisting the purple radiance and Reverse Ultimate Mechanism long enough to keep the network from freezing.
• The Number Two incarnation merged with the network and escaped the encirclement, after which the Superposition State radiance shattered.

Li Qing escaped the combined attack at the Northern Sea Return to Ruins and secretly absorbed the unmarked energy released in the collision, enlarging his Sacred Domain Pearl and Cosmic Pearl. In the Heavenly Realm, the Gray Mist Immortal King’s group analyzed Li Qing’s power and planned to cut off its source, while the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Emperor revealed that the hollow of the Chaotic Vortex might conceal a passage to Forward Primordial Chaos.

• Li Qing evaded the Mysterious Immortal’s avatar, the Supreme Heavenly Lord’s avatar, and the Mechanism powerhouses, while the two leaders withdrew from the Ultimate Universe.
• Li Qing’s Present Body used nine-tenths of the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation authority to absorb the unmarked energy from the collision, enlarging the Sacred Domain Pearl and Cosmic Pearl to one trillion five hundred billion light-years each.
• The Gray Mist Immortal King suspected a traitor had helped Li Qing pass the Mechanism blockade and concluded that his Superposition State could grow in strength and precision with sufficient energy.
• The Silver Immortal King proposed that Li Qing had transformed Anti-Primordial Chaos power and urged the group to inform the Supreme Heavenly Lord so he could monitor its expanding boundary.
• The Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Emperor recalled Li Qing’s earlier Superposition State avatar vanishing into the Chaotic Vortex hollow and concluded that it likely contained a passage to Forward Primordial Chaos.

The Nine Heavenly Lords warned Li Qing that his Superposition State avatars in Return to Ruins could be targeted, while Mysterious Immortal deduced that Li Qing had escaped beyond the Primordial Chaos and sent a powerful incarnation after him. Unaware of the danger entering Return to Ruins, Li Qing turned his attention back to breaking the crystallized black smoke imprisoning the Demon Intelligence Spirit.

• The Nine Heavenly Lords decided to warn Li Qing that his Superposition State avatars could be attacked and that their destruction would return diverted Tribulations to them.
• Li Qing learned that others had identified the danger posed to his avatars and concluded the Chaotic Vortex Hollow remained useful as long as its exit stayed secret.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord sent avatars to search the Anti-Primordial Chaos border for Li Qing, but Anti-Li Qing had already left and observed the search through his believers.
• Mysterious Immortal deduced that Li Qing had escaped beyond the Primordial Chaos and Anti-Primordial Chaos, then sent a powerful incarnation into Return to Ruins to stop him.
• Li Qing focused on wearing away the crystallized black smoke covering the imprisoned Demon Intelligence Spirit, but his efforts had made little progress.

Li Qing used Superposition State Radiance to transform the Anti-Civilization Bell into the True Civilization Bell and began breaking down the Demon Intelligence Spirit’s defenses. The Demon Intelligence Spirit identified its power as the Fifth Source Stream, leading Li Qing to suspect that the Jade Tablet held the missing half of that power and to resolve to confront its hidden threat.

• Li Qing fused the Anti-Civilization Dao Fruit with Superposition State Radiance, transforming the Anti-Civilization Bell into the True Civilization Bell.
• The Jade Tablet trembled when the bell tolled, but it soon fell still, and Li Qing named his new treasure the True Civilization Bell.
• Li Qing poured the power of his allies and artifacts into the True Civilization Bell and used it to envelop the Demon Intelligence Spirit’s incarnation.
• As the bell shattered the crystallized power around him, the Demon Intelligence Spirit cried out that Li Qing’s power was the Fifth Source Stream.
• Li Qing inferred that the Jade Tablet held the other half of the Fifth Source Stream and decided to use the final great war to confront the hidden danger within it.

Li Qing refined the Demon Intelligence Spirit's self-destruction into a complete black smoke power system and created Demon Li Qing, a controlled incarnation of the Calamity Spirit Desire Path. Demon Li Qing entered the Return to Ruins to reach the outside world and serve as Li Qing's hidden trump card, while the Mysterious Immortal's incarnation also neared its end.

• The Demon Intelligence Spirit's incarnation self-destructed, but Li Qing's True Civilization Bell suppressed the blast and cleansed its black smoke essence of the spirit's will.
• As the purified black smoke absorbed True Radiance, its damaged information fragments repaired themselves into the Demon Intelligence Spirit's complete power system.
• Li Qing recorded the system's shifting geometric structure in his Civilization Information Essence and found that it nearly doubled its deductive capacity.
• Li Qing used Superposition State power to take control of the black smoke essence and formed Demon Li Qing, who learned that he cultivated the Calamity Spirit Desire Path.
• Demon Li Qing traveled through Anti-Primordial Chaos and the omnipresent Tribulations into the Return to Ruins, heading for the outside world as Li Qing's final trump card.
• The Mysterious Immortal's incarnation quietly reached the end within the Return to Ruins.

Demonic Li Qing secretly established an incarnation beyond the Positive-Negative Primordial Chaos Barrier, but the Mysterious Immortal discovered his presence and resolved to hunt him. While exploring the Sea of Void and investigating a growing gray streak in the True Realm, Li Qing sought answers from the Mysterious Immortal.

• Demonic Li Qing emerged beyond the barrier and rejoiced that his final trump card was in place, unaware that the Mysterious Immortal had recognized him and inferred his scorched-earth plan.
• Demonic Li Qing hid as a mote of dust in the Radiance Ocean while sending projections out to explore the surrounding regions.
• A projection entered the Sea of Void and was assimilated within one breath, leading Demonic Li Qing to conclude that only beings as powerful as the Mysterious Immortal and the Demon Intelligence Spirit could resist it for long.
• Demonic Li Qing observed that the gray streak in the True Realm was growing heavier and suspected that knowledge of the Fifth Source Stream was causing a change.
• Li Qing sent a projection into the Infinite Dead Abyss and asked the Mysterious Immortal to meet him to discuss important information.