Chapter Summaries

Li Qing contaminated the water sources of the three kingdoms to drive their rulers into conflict and force them to unite. When Ashoka King's lake became polluted and its fish began dying, he discovered the crisis but did not yet know who was responsible.

• Li Qing decided to contaminate the water sources of Ashoka King, Xiongnu King, and Veda King to push the three rulers together.
• Li Qing gathered bacteria, viruses, and excrement from the tribe's cesspits and secretly sealed them with dead fish at the bottom of Ashoka King's lake.
• Li Qing planted similar contamination traps in the oases of Xiongnu King and Veda King, then waited for them to ferment.
• Three days later, Li Qing broke the restrictions, and the Wish Spell helped the polluted water spread through the lakes overnight.
• Ashoka King's fish began dying in great numbers, and Ashoka King and his followers discovered the contaminated water.

Li Qing manipulated the battle among the Outer Realm’s three Children of Destiny until the Ashoka King defeated the Veda King and the Xiongnu King, unifying their paths. He then headed to the Southern Frontier Grottoes to cultivate and hunt Anomalies, while Cao Zhengde greedily drained Zhong Feilong’s blood and received a summons.

• Li Qing used Wish Spell to make the Ashoka King and the Xiongnu King join forces against the Veda King, who died in battle.
• Li Qing’s Wish Spell weakened the Xiongnu King, allowing the Ashoka King to kill him and claim the Buddhist Path’s destiny.
• The three Fate vortices merged, unifying the Outer Realm’s paths as Li Qing prepared to cultivate in the Southern Frontier Grottoes.
• Cao Zhengde drained Zhong Feilong’s blood and demanded to know the source of the power within him.
• Cao Zhengde received a summons, grew enraged, and vowed to find the power’s source and turn his enemies into blood food.

Blood Jade Daoist gathered intelligence on the Nine Provinces and discovered the unusual bloodline aura around Cao Zhengde, which led him to Zhong Feilong. After killing Cao Zhengde and taking Zhong Feilong, he extracted information from Zhong Feilong’s soul.

• Blood Jade Daoist reviewed reports from the Nine Provinces and learned that the major Dao Lineages were preparing for war in about three months.
• Blood Jade Daoist sensed an alluring bloodline aura around Cao Zhengde and secretly followed him to his underground lair.
• Blood Jade Daoist found Zhong Feilong bound to a torture rack and declared that he would take him.
• Cao Zhengde attacked Blood Jade Daoist, who killed him and drained his vital essence and blood.
• Blood Jade Daoist took Zhong Feilong back to the palace and extracted information from his soul.

Blood Jade Daoist traced Zhong Feilong’s strange aura to a possible connection with the Seal of Heaven and searched White Mist City for its entrance. He found a hidden Stone Stele that consumed his power and even absorbed his Source of Myriad Blood Dao, leaving its nature unresolved.

• Blood Jade Daoist reviewed Zhong Feilong’s memories, recognized the aura of Heaven, and decided to investigate White Mist City for a chance to surpass the immortals.
• Blood Jade Daoist arrived in White Mist City in disguise, while Li Qing recognized him and realized the plan of the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies had partly succeeded.
• Blood Jade Daoist searched the alley and the city’s hidden spatial layers, then concluded that the Seal of Heaven might lie buried underground.
• Blood Jade Daoist spent a day examining the underground with his own eyes and discovered a Stone Stele that his Spirit Awareness could not detect.
• Blood Jade Daoist struck the Stone Stele with his dharma power and Source of Myriad Blood Dao, but the stele absorbed both without effect.

Li Qing prepared a fallback plan by refining the Longevity Grotto-Heaven into a World Pearl, but he needed a World Primordial Stone. He infiltrated the Pujiang Dragon King's palace and asked the Dragon King to trade for it, while the Haoran Sage watched the palace.

• Li Qing decided to use the Flesh Tree as an exploration incarnation and planned to refine the Longevity Grotto-Heaven into a World Pearl.
• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to locate a World Primordial Stone in the possession of the Pujiang Dragon King.
• Li Qing transformed into a carp, entered the Dragon Palace, and took control of a Shrimp Soldier to approach the Dragon King unnoticed.
• Li Qing projected a message to the Pujiang Dragon King, who revealed that the Haoran Sage had been watching him.
• Li Qing told the Pujiang Dragon King that he wanted to trade for the World Primordial Stone.

Li Qing arranged to obtain the Pujiang Dragon King's World Primordial Stone in exchange for the Longevity Spirit Curse, then used the Way of Changes and Wish Spell to divert the stone unnoticed. The stone ended up swallowed by a carp while Li Qing's Flesh Tree returned to Longevity Grotto-Heaven.

• Li Qing offered the Pujiang Dragon King the Longevity Spirit Curse in exchange for the World Primordial Stone, and the Dragon King agreed to hide it among treasures for Long'er.
• The Pujiang Dragon King gave Long'er and Ao Mingzhu a storage bag of resources and urged them to hide the treasures in case the Dragon Palace faced danger.
• Li Qing used the Way of Changes to see Ao Mingzhu hide the treasures across the Nine Provinces and confirmed that his Flesh Tree could retrieve them without interference.
• Li Qing cast the Wish Spell, causing the World Primordial Stone to merge into an Essence Stone that slipped into an underground current while Ao Mingzhu hid the treasures.
• A carp swallowed the Essence Stone after it emerged into a river, and Li Qing confirmed that the Six Paths and Eight Immortals had not noticed his plan.
• Li Qing's Flesh Tree returned to human form and arrived at Longevity Grotto-Heaven.

Li Qing refined the Longevity Grotto-Heaven into a World Pearl whose world power could devour and absorb matter. He left Flesh Seeds as an escape route and sent his incarnations toward the Southern Frontier Grottoes to explore the Flesh World.

• Li Qing inscribed the World Primordial Divine Curse on the World Primordial Stone and buried it beneath the Longevity Fruit Tree.
• The World Primordial Stone's world veins spread through the Longevity Grotto-Heaven, and the grotto-heaven condensed into a palm-sized World Pearl.
• Li Qing discovered that the World Pearl's logic was All-Things Devouring, which absorbed matter at the cost of the pearl's own strength.
• Li Qing hid three Flesh Seeds beneath the Tree of Longevity and sent the Flesh Tree incarnation toward the Southern Frontier Grottoes.
• The Divine Body entered the Southern Frontier Grottoes carrying the World Pearl, while a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll headed toward the Nine Provinces with Essence Stones.
• Inside the World Pearl, the Flesh Tree incarnation used the Great Duplication Spell to create a duplicate that stepped out toward the Flesh World.

Li Qing began exploring the Flesh World with a World Pearl-protected replica while cultivating his Divine Soul to the Flower Bloom Realm. He foresaw that his upcoming lightning tribulation would draw powerful enemies, and began considering how to divert them.

• Li Qing determined that the World Pearl could resist the Flesh World's laws if he replenished it with Essence Stones, and set rules for the replica to hunt three disaster-level Anomalies daily while exploring.
• The Flesh Tree replica entered the depths of the Flesh World under concealment, avoiding danger and recording discoveries.
• Li Qing's Divine Soul formed a thirteen-grade lotus, sharpening his perception of spacetime and revealing strange beings fighting across a temporal-spatial rift.
• Li Qing used Way of Changes to foresee a massive thunderstorm on the third day of the third month as the best chance to cross the lightning tribulation.
• Li Qing saw that revealing himself during the tribulation would draw the Six Paths and Eight Immortals, the five great Wisdom Logic Anomalies, and Tribulation Realm cultivators, so he considered using bait to lure them away.

Li Qing devised a plan to secretly gather void lightning at the Geomagnetic Abyss so he could undergo Tribulation Crossing without the Six Paths and Eight Immortals discovering him. He began building the dispersed lightning-drawing nodes, starting at Muddled Peak in Yang Province.

• Li Qing concluded that he had to hide from the many cultivators watching for his Tribulation Crossing and use feng shui to evade them.
• He chose the Geomagnetic Abyss as the hidden gathering point and planned to transmit lightning there from 108 scattered nodes linked through earth veins.
• Li Qing planned to make the nodes self-destruct if discovered and to escape the abyss using the Yin-Yang Void Feng Shui Soul-Switching Formation.
• He traveled to Muddled Peak in Yang Province and sent Myriad Shadow Paper Dolls across the surrounding mountains.
• Li Qing arranged for 108 apricot-wood trees to appear atop Muddled Peak as part of his lightning-drawing setup.

Li Qing laid a lightning-drawing formation across the peaks while the Blood Jade Daoist reported a mysterious stele to the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord. As the Devil Lord investigated the stele, Li Qing prepared to Cross Tribulation in the Northern Desert, counting on the Five Wisdom Logic Anomalies to distract him.

• Li Qing carved apricot heartwood feng shui nails, set a lightning-struck stone at Muddled Peak, and continued placing formation nodes.
• The Blood Jade Daoist failed to move the stone stele and, under the influence of five Wisdom Logic Anomalies, decided to report it to the Demonic Path Immortal.
• The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies planned to lure the Devil Lord into a trap and surround him in the layer between the Dark Side and the Nine Provinces.
• The Blood Jade Daoist summoned the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord and told him about the stele.
• The Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord examined the stele, found that his derived logic could not affect it, and suspected it was connected to the Enemy of Heaven.
• Li Qing arrived in the Northern Desert and prepared to Cross Tribulation, believing the Devil Lord was distracted by the Five Wisdom Logic Anomalies.

Li Qing completed the Void Lightning-Calling Feng Shui Grand Formation in the Geomagnetic Abyss and established a second formation to help him escape and conceal himself. When he used the Way of Changes to inspect the future, he saw powerful figures discover and destroy several lightning-channeling points.

• Li Qing entered the Geomagnetic Abyss and drove 365 feng shui nails into the earth around a convergence of earth veins.
• Li Qing placed a blood-bound bronze mirror in the earth veins, linking the formation to 108 lightning-struck stones across Yang Province and North Province.
• Master and the Pujiang Dragon King noticed unusual water vapor and lightning qi gathering, while the Taihe Dragon King sensed the change as well.
• Li Qing set up the Yin-Yang Void Spirit-Swapping Feng Shui Grand Formation beneath the earth veins, and his future self built its matching formation in Qing Province.
• Li Qing used the Way of Changes to view the future and saw powerful figures find abnormal lightning-channeling points and burn their feng shui nails to ash.

Li Qing prepared traps at Myriad Thunder Canyon and the Storm Plains to distract the cultivators hunting him, then used the Way of Changes to confirm that his plan would let him cross the lightning tribulation. As a spring thunderstorm approached, Yuan Zhihui rallied the Tribulation Realm cultivators to search the Nine Provinces Four Regions for Li Qing.

• Li Qing realized the searchers could find his lightning-calling nodes quickly, so he decided to use Myriad Thunder Canyon and the Storm Plains to divert them.
• Li Qing's future self planted a Void Lightning-Calling Feng Shui Grand Formation and a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll beneath Myriad Thunder Canyon to trigger a destructive earth-vein explosion.
• Li Qing set traps at both locations, reviewed his plan through the Way of Changes, and saw that he had successfully crossed the lightning tribulation.
• Yuan Zhihui searched Two Realms City for traces of Li Qing, then sensed that a massive spring thunderstorm was approaching.
• Yuan Zhihui summoned more than forty Tribulation Realm cultivators and urged them to deploy Longevity Realm cultivators across the Nine Provinces Four Regions to catch Li Qing during his tribulation.

The Hundred Schools of Thought and the six paths joined forces to search the Nine Provinces Four Regions for Li Qing ahead of his Tribulation Crossing, while their actions obscured his view of the future. Li Qing decided to bargain with the Pujiang Dragon King for more lifespan, offering a refuge for the Dragon King's family in exchange.

• The patriarchs agreed to coordinate their forces and watch for Li Qing's preparations when the spring thunder arrived.
• Longevity Realm cultivators took positions across more than a hundred regions while forty-nine Tribulation Realm cultivators established nodes under Yuan Zhihui's command.
• Li Qing saw the updated information and realized that the united forces were searching for his true body; his attempt to peer into the future revealed that the Eight Immortals' power was obscuring the heavenly secrets.
• Li Qing decided to offer the Pujiang Dragon King access to the Nine Heavens Star River Tribulation-Avoiding Grotto-Heaven in exchange for a hundred years of lifespan.
• Li Qing contacted the Pujiang Dragon King through a talisman and requested a hundred years of lifespan, and the Dragon King warned that lifespan was finite even for a Longevity Realm cultivator.

Li Qing traded the Nine Heavens Star River Tribulation-Avoiding Grotto-Heaven method to the Pujiang Dragon King for a hundred years of lifespan, which he secretly placed in a treasure for Li Qing to retrieve. The Dragon King sent ten generals to support Pan Chengfeng, while Haoran Sage’s avatar watched without detecting the exchange.

• Li Qing persuaded the Pujiang Dragon King to trade a hundred years of lifespan for the Grotto-Heaven method and instructed him to hide the Force-Borrowing Talisman in a reward treasure.
• The Pujiang Dragon King activated the talisman, received the method from Li Qing, and placed the talisman inside a spatial treasure in his treasury.
• The Pujiang Dragon King summoned his ten great generals and ordered them to join Pan Chengfeng’s naval forces at Coiling Dragon Lake, giving each three treasures.
• Haoran Sage’s avatar observed the Dragon King’s actions and suspected Li Qing had an extraordinary treasure for monitoring them.

Haoran Sage reflected on how his faction’s complacency had allowed Li Qing to grow beyond their reach. Li Qing summoned thirteen Battle Soul Puppets and sent them to dangerous locations as decoys, while Yuan Zhihui’s group realized he had acted again.

• Haoran Sage reviewed his extensive investigations into Li Qing and recognized that the powerful rulers’ loss of vigilance had let Li Qing rise.
• An unseen will caused Carp General to open a jade box, allowing a Shadow Paper Doll to take a talisman and vanish without his memory of the event.
• Li Qing received the Force-Borrowing Talisman and reasoned that he needed to conceal where he would undergo his tribulation from the Six Paths and Eight Immortals.
• Li Qing summoned thirteen Battle Soul Puppets, sealed them in talismans, and prepared decoys using Myriad Shadow Paper Dolls and Transformation, Lightning-Calling, and Mist Talismans.
• Li Qing sent the preparations to thirteen dangerous regions, and Yuan Zhihui’s group realized that Li Qing had summoned thirteen battle souls.

Yuan Zhihui analyzed Li Qing’s layered smokescreens and ordered the forces of the Six Paths and Eight Immortals to prepare for his Tribulation Crossing. Li Qing planned to exploit divisions among his enemies, and three days before the spring thunder, a letter was delivered to a youth in White Mist City.

• Yuan Zhihui warned that Li Qing might use multiple sets of smokescreens to hide his Tribulation Crossing and ordered the forces to investigate together without holding back.
• Yuan Zhihui’s analysis made the gathered cultivators fear losing the favor of the Six Paths and Eight Immortals if their operation failed.
• Li Qing used the Way of Changes but found the future obscured, then resolved to break the enemies’ open gambit by exposing a possible secret of the Ghost Path.
• Li Qing decided to use the Wish Spell to spread information that could create a rift among his enemies, potentially drawing the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies into action.
• Three days before the spring thunder, a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll left a letter outside a courtyard in White Mist City, and a youth opened the gate to find it.

The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies spread Li Qing’s information about the Ghost Path’s plans to divide the Six Paths and Eight Immortals. The rumors reached the Nine Provinces and the immortals, who confronted the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven, while he denied conspiring with beings from beyond the domain.

• The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies recognized that Li Qing had given them the Ghost Path information to sow discord and agreed to spread it as a favor.
• The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies mobilized cult cultivators to circulate rumors that the Ghost Path was conducting a blood sacrifice to summon a being from beyond the domain.
• Yuan Zhihui questioned the first Yama King about the rumors, and the Yama King denied them and blamed the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies.
• The immortals at the boundary between the Bright Side and the Dark Side heard the reports and grew wary of the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord demanded an explanation from the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven, who called the rumors a scheme by the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies.

As the spring thunder spread across the Nine Provinces Four Regions, Li Qing activated lightning formations and endured a lightning tribulation in Myriad Magnet Canyon. Yuan Zhihui ordered Tribulation Realm cultivators to search the many lightning strike sites, while the first-generation Yama King realized the Ghost Path cultivators had been grouped together because they were not trusted.

• The eight immortals ended their discussion, and the war between the Bright Side and the Dark Side continued.
• Yuan Zhihui warned that Li Qing might be hiding beneath the thunderclouds over North Province and Yang Province, and ordered Longevity Realm cultivators to search the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• Li Qing's decoys triggered lightning in dangerous regions, while formations at Myriad Thunder Canyon, Storm Plains, and 108 nodes in Yang Province and North Province drew down more lightning.
• In Myriad Magnet Canyon, Li Qing inhaled condensed lightning water and used the Invincible Human Dao Dharma Body and lotus manifestation to endure the destruction and restoration of his Divine Soul.
• Yuan Zhihui dispatched 34 Tribulation Realm cultivators to search the lightning strike points, Myriad Thunder Canyon, and Storm Plains.
• The first-generation Yama King realized the Ghost Path cultivators had been assigned together because the others did not trust them.

Yuan Zhihui ordered cultivators to destroy lightning strike points across the Nine Provinces Four Regions while Li Qing recovered inside the Geomagnetic Abyss. With many sites revealed as diversions and the formation’s nodes failing, the search focused on whether the cultivators could find the abyss before the next lightning wave.

• Yuan Zhihui ordered Longevity Realm and Tribulation Realm cultivators to destroy lightning strike points across Yang Province and North Province as quickly as possible.
• Bone Treasure Daoist and Green Fish Daoist destroyed a mirage in Sand Province, fought its Battle Soul Puppet, and found no sign of Li Qing.
• Yuan Zhihui learned that thirteen searched areas were diversions and redirected attention toward the strike points in Yang Province and North Province.
• The first generation Yama King and seven other Tribulation Realm cultivators searched Myriad Thunder Canyon and the Storm Plains, but Yuan Zhihui judged that the search would take at least a quarter of an hour.
• Li Qing's Divine Soul recovered inside the Geomagnetic Abyss as a third of the formation's nodes went dark, and he prepared to rely on one final massive wave of lightning.
• Yuan Zhihui displayed a map marking the lightning strike points that had been destroyed and those still intact.

Yuan Zhihui traced Li Qing’s lightning decoys through the earth veins and identified the Geomagnetic Abyss as his hiding place. Li Qing escaped the cultivators’ devastating attack with the Yin-Yang Void Spirit-Swapping Feng Shui Grand Formation and continued tempering his Divine Soul with lightning.

• Yuan Zhihui recognized that the destroyed lightning nodes were decoys arranged along earth vein nodes and traced their energy toward the Northern Desert.
• Yuan Zhihui mapped the Northern Desert’s earth veins and led more than a hundred cultivators toward the Geomagnetic Abyss, where he identified Li Qing’s location.
• Li Qing sensed the cultivators approaching and unleashed the lightning gathered by the Void Lightning-Calling Feng Shui Grand Formation.
• Li Qing activated the Yin-Yang Void Spirit-Swapping Feng Shui Grand Formation and vanished from the Geomagnetic Abyss just before the cultivators’ attack devastated it.
• Li Qing appeared on the formation’s other side and continued tempering his Divine Soul with the lightning he had absorbed.