Chapter Summaries

After surviving the lightning tribulation, Li Qing used the Record Book to confirm that Yuan Zhihui had traced his geomantic grand formation and found his location. The Six Paths and Eight Immortals recognized that Li Qing had escaped but learned more about his abilities, leaving him to prepare for an increasingly difficult life tribulation.

• Li Qing's Divine Soul adapted to the lightning's destruction, gained vitality from the lotus manifestation, and completed the lightning tribulation.
• Li Qing wrote in the Record Book that the cultivators had found him by tracing the geomantic grand formation, and learned that Yuan Zhihui had seen through it.
• Li Qing realized the Six Paths and Eight Immortals' lock on Heavenly secrets could block his future deductions and said his next life tribulation would come when his Primordial Spirit entered the Dharma Form realm.
• Li Qing's present incarnation left the area as his past and future selves rose in realm with his power.
• The Six Paths and Eight Immortals discussed Li Qing's escape, identified his geomantic formations as a revealed ability, and planned to monitor earth-vein fluctuations.

The Eight Immortals assessed what they knew about Li Qing and devised plans to find his fate-trial opponent, uncover his intelligence network, and draw hidden Wisdom Logic Anomalies into a trap. Li Qing learned of their plans through the Jade Tablet and believed his followers had already secured enough trust to keep his system hidden.

• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord listed eight known clues about Li Qing and set finding his fate-trial opponent and intelligence system as the Eight Immortals' main objectives.
• Namo Nirvana Light Buddha suspected Li Qing had engineered the three domains' unifications to draw his destined trial into the war and gain a third identity-based lead.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord identified Zhu Yiba, Wang Qianqiu, and Nangong Haoran's followers as possible places to find Li Qing, and the Haoran Sage agreed to oversee surveillance.
• The Eight Immortals said the Nine Provinces' defenses could hold for three more months and planned to use a discovered Seal of Heaven to lure out the five hidden Wisdom Logic Anomalies.
• Li Qing read the Jade Tablet's update, learned the Eight Immortals' plans through his surveillance, and trusted that his followers' ties to the Children of Destiny would keep his intelligence system concealed.

Li Qing planned to undergo the Wind and Fire Tribulations using a hidden spacetime rift and sunlight transformed into Yin fire, while Yuan Zhihui anticipated his options and turned his attention to Li Qing’s intelligence network. Li Qing began building two formations in a secluded North Province valley.

• Li Qing chose to draw a void storm into a spacetime rift for the Wind Tribulation and planned to gather sunlight and transform it into Yin fire for the Fire Tribulation.
• Yuan Zhihui assessed the likely locations and methods Li Qing might use, then decided to investigate the intelligence organization suspected of helping him obtain Primordial Dharma Forms.
• Li Qing arrived at a desolate valley in North Province with a small earth vein suitable for setting up formations.
• Li Qing began constructing the Tang Valley Flame Yin-Transformation Formation and the Chaotic Spacetime Sky-Rending Formation, driving 108 feng shui nails into the valley and linking them with ink patterns.

Li Qing established formations to cultivate Supreme Yin Divine Fire and control a dangerous spatial rift, then deliberately unleashed a void storm to temper his Divine Soul. The storm engulfed him, and his thirteen-grade lotus began repairing the damage as he endured its assault.

• Li Qing activated the Tang Valley Flame Yin-Transformation Formation, which gathered sunlight and transformed it into Supreme Yin Divine Fire, and left a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll to guard it.
• Li Qing found a weak point in underground spacetime and built the Chaotic Spacetime Sky-Rending Formation, along with layered restrictions to contain and dissipate any escaping void storms.
• After resting until he recovered, Li Qing used the formation to tear open spacetime and summon a multicolored void storm.
• Li Qing sent his Divine Soul into the storm, where its forces battered him and the thirteen-grade lotus repaired his injuries.

Li Qing endured the wind tribulation as the Principle of Civilization repaired his Divine Soul, and he ultimately passed as the spacetime rift sealed. At Pan Chengfeng’s palace, Sun Qiankun laid out a plan for the coming war and sought to coordinate the six Children of Destiny.

• The Principle of Civilization absorbed and adapted to the spacetime storms, restoring Li Qing’s Divine Soul and strengthening its defenses.
• The void storms carved into the earth fissure before fading, and Li Qing successfully passed the wind tribulation.
• Sun Qiankun warned Pan Chengfeng’s supporters that war would begin in a little over two months, with outside forces ready to invade the Nine Provinces.
• Sun Qiankun presented the Threefold Division of the Realm strategy: target the strongest Children of Destiny, lure the external domains into a trap, and then contend for territory.
• Sun Qiankun called for secret coordination among the six Children of Destiny, and Willow Leaf Hermit offered to establish communication channels and arrange a meeting.

Sun Qiankun presented the northern Children of Destiny with a plan to divide the realm among themselves by targeting the strongest heirs of the three Daoist Sects, then turning against the outer-region forces. The others weighed the proposal’s risks and benefits, and Li Qinglian decided to cooperate while Xuanyuan Changlong judged it feasible.

• Willow Leaf Hermit contacted the other five northern Children of Destiny and arranged a secret meeting at Pan Chengfeng's court.
• Pan Chengfeng introduced Sun Qiankun, who proposed that pairs of northern factions attack Tang Wanshan, Ximen Yongsheng, and Huang Wanchao, then seek peace with the remaining Daoist Sect heirs.
• Sun Qiankun proposed drawing the three outer-region Children of Destiny into attacking before the northern factions turned on them, aiming to divide the realm among three powers.
• Li Qinglian suspected Pan Chengfeng wanted to defeat him later but decided to take part, confident in his army's numerical advantage.
• Xuanyuan Changlong considered the plan a viable way to weaken the strong and advance his own goal of obtaining the Logic Relics.

Sun Qiankun coordinated the Children of Destiny’s plans to attack the three great Daoist Sects while the sects and outer domains made their own schemes. Li Qing monitored the shifting alliances, then entered the Tang Valley Flame Yin-Transformation Formation to temper his Divine Soul with Supreme Yin Divine Fire, where dangerous entities stirred beyond distorted space.

• Sun Qiankun won the Children of Destiny’s agreement to divide their forces and attack the strongest Children of Destiny of the three great Daoist Sects, then prepared detailed strategies with them.
• Sun Qiankun told Pan Chengfeng that their plan had a fifty percent chance of success, and Pan Chengfeng entrusted the operation to him.
• Moonwheel Daoist advised Tang Wanshan to consider feigning an alliance with their enemies to draw in the outer realm, then destroy it and attack the Confucian Dao and Hundred Schools of Thought.
• Li Qing monitored the Jade Tablet’s reports and waited for the Daoist Sect and outer domains to act so he could turn their schemes against them.
• Li Qing entered the Tang Valley Flame Yin-Transformation Formation and subjected his Divine Soul to the Supreme Yin Divine Fire as strange entities writhed beyond the distorted spaces around him.

Li Qing completed the transformation of his Divine Soul and began gestating a Primordial Spirit, sensing that he would need more power and resources. He also sensed Xuanyuan Changlong as his destined tribulation, while Xuanyuan detected an unknown threat and suspected Li Qing.

• Li Qing endured the Supreme Yin Divine Fire until his Divine Soul reached perfection and the Radiance of the Principle of Civilization grew stronger.
• A sinister illusion attacked Li Qing’s mind, but his Light of Civilization exposed it and the Heavens Civilization Torrent destroyed the black figure.
• Li Qing’s Divine Soul entered the Lotus Flower Aspect and began transforming into a cosmic egg that would gestate his Primordial Spirit.
• Li Qing sensed that the Primordial Spirit’s gestation required more power and resumed hunting beneath the South River Grotto with his Divine Body.
• Li Qing sensed Xuanyuan Changlong as a dangerous destined tribulation and resolved to control the Investiture of Gods Great Tribulation before defeating him.
• Xuanyuan Changlong felt an ill omen, used a mysterious spell to seek its source, and suspected either another Child of Destiny or Li Qing.

Li Qing’s Flesh Tree duplicate reached the boundary between the Flesh World and the Dark Forest, where he discovered that the black forest transformed intruders and trapped them through its rules. He recorded his findings and concluded that the forest cultivated new logic by assimilating living beings as nourishment for a conceptual logic existence.

• Li Qing’s Flesh Tree duplicate reached a cracked expanse of black earth separating the Flesh World from a towering black forest.
• Li Qing found that the black ground connected through its cracks to a void filled with unknown, terrifying presences, and that the boundary lacked vital essence.
• Li Qing entered the Dark Forest and saw his duplicate turn into a black plant; after roots immobilized it and strange logic began invading, he destroyed the clone.
• Li Qing sent out a new clone and tested the forest, discovering that movement provoked attacks while standing still too long caused roots to bind intruders to the ground.
• Li Qing recorded the forest’s four rules and deduced that its logic assimilated invaders, merging with their power to generate nourishment for a conceptual logic existence.

Li Qing learned that the scorched earth connected the low-dimensional void ocean and served as a buffer between the Flesh World and the Dark Forest. Using Way of Changes through the Flesh Tree’s replica, he foresaw a battle on the scorched earth and hid beneath the Flesh World when a flood of Anomalies emerged.

• Li Qing recorded his understanding that fissures in the scorched earth led into a low-dimensional void ocean filled with drifting worlds and hunting creatures.
• Li Qing projected Way of Changes through the Flesh Tree’s replica and saw a future war between Anomalies from the Dark Forest and the Flesh World, with a World Pearl caught nearby.
• Li Qing concluded that the high-dimensional world’s Mist obstructed celestial divination and warned himself to prepare to evade danger.
• The replica crossed the essence-draining scorched earth while the World Pearl remained protected inside its body.
• After half a day, Li Qing sensed danger, hid the replica beneath the Flesh World, and watched a flood of terrifying Anomalies surge out above.

Li Qing witnessed a three-day war between the Dark Forest and the Flesh World, then used the Jade Tablet to learn that the forces fought to study and eventually devour each other’s logic. He continued traveling across the Scorched Earth, troubled by the high-dimensional world’s dangers, and stopped in disbelief at something ahead.

• Li Qing watched the Dark Forest and the Flesh World wage a vast battle, but found that exposed Essence Stones shattered before he could claim them.
• After the forces withdrew, Li Qing recorded the war and learned from the Jade Tablet that the two conceptual logics were testing each other for flaws and seeking to absorb one another.
• Li Qing wondered whether the Jade Tablet came from an ultimate logic and whether his previous life’s world had been low-dimensional, but the available information gave him no answers.
• Li Qing continued across the Scorched Earth, hunting Disaster Rank anomalies to replenish resources and concealing his duplicate as he searched for a safe haven.
• After several more days, Li Qing stopped and stared ahead in disbelief.

Li Qing discovered Gu Yi, a human from the Endless Cloud Sea, and used the Great Projection Art to take control of him and read his memories. He learned that humans belonged to the lowest class of slavefolk in the higher-dimensional world, leaving him to consider the danger facing humanity and the Nine Provinces Four Regions.

• Gu Yi lured a lizard-like anomaly across the boundary into the Scorched Earth, killed it, and extracted its Essence Stone without triggering an explosion.
• Li Qing recognized Gu Yi's skill in navigating the high-dimensional world and projected the Heavens Civilization Torrent into him through the Flesh Tree's duplicate.
• Gu Yi pledged himself to the Great Lord of Human Dao as Li Qing accessed his memories.
• Li Qing learned that Gu Yi came from the Endless Cloud Sea, ruled by the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects and the Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects.
• Li Qing learned that humans were classified as Slavefolk, the lowest of four living classes, and that exceptional slavefolk were barred from cultivating beyond Body Strengthening.
• Li Qing concluded that humanity would face annihilation if the Nine Provinces Four Regions could not withstand the higher-dimensional world's conceptual logical attacks.

Li Qing explored Gu Yi’s memories and learned how the Devouring Spirit Sect plundered lower-dimensional worlds and exploited their inhabitants. He considered infiltrating the sect through his Flesh Tree, but decided to investigate its cultivation techniques before risking it.

• Li Qing learned that the Devouring Spirit Sect captured lower-dimensional worlds from the Cloud Sea, drained their resources, and used the remaining worlds to raise slavefolk.
• Li Qing discovered that Gu Yi had fled his assignment because he hoped to escape into a lower-dimensional world and find a way to resist his brutal fate.
• Li Qing assessed the Cloud Sea, Thorn Forest, Flesh Desert, and the Devouring Spirit Sect’s place among the forty-eight thousand side paths.
• Li Qing considered joining the Devouring Spirit Sect in the identity of his Flesh Tree and concealing himself with heavenly secrets and karma.
• Li Qing decided to study the sect’s cultivation techniques for hidden dangers before allowing his Flesh Tree to cultivate them.

Li Qing examined Gu Yi's memories and learned about the Void Ocean, the high-dimensional world, and the beings that threatened it. He began planning to strengthen the Nine Provinces Four Regions while gathering information and building a foothold in the high-dimensional world.

• Li Qing learned that powerful Earth Immortals, True Cultivators, and Temporal-Spatial Heavenly Daos inhabited the Void Ocean and sometimes attacked the high-dimensional world.
• Li Qing considered hunting other low-dimensional worlds to strengthen the Nine Provinces Four Regions and make Heavenly Dao Reincarnation powerful enough to resist concept logic.
• Li Qing resolved to pursue two paths at once: gather information in the high-dimensional world and seize more of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation's fruits while dealing with the Six Paths and Eight Immortals.
• Li Qing learned that the Thorn Forest and Flesh Desert stretched far beyond the areas he had seen, and that their rulers were the Ever-Changing Indestructible Flesh Patriarch and the Undying Thorn Hierarch.
• Li Qing exhausted Gu Yi's memories and concluded that the high-dimensional world was more terrifying than he had imagined.

Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to learn about the High-Dimensional World’s conceptual powers and the conflict between it and the Void Ocean. He continued toward Devouring Spirit Island under Gu Yi’s identity, arriving at the edge of the cloud sea with a Flesh Tree copy protecting him.

• Li Qing restored information about the High-Dimensional World, its three known conceptual existences, and the Void Ocean’s attacks seeking the chance to undergo a final conceptual metamorphosis.
• Li Qing wondered about Heaven and the Enemy of Heaven, whose origins remained unknown to the Jade Tablet.
• Li Qing used the Flesh Tree’s Way of Changes to weave an ordinary future for Gu Yi, then recorded how high-dimensional spacetime corrected the influence of those without fate.
• Li Qing sent the World Pearl and a Flesh Tree copy with Gu Yi toward Devouring Spirit Island while keeping the Flesh Tree’s power restrained.
• After ten days, Gu Yi and the Flesh Tree copy reached the edge of the Scorched Earth and saw the cloud sea, floating island, and Floating Cloud Trees.

Gu Yi crossed the dangerous Sea of Clouds and reached the island under his jurisdiction, where he entered the low-dimensional world. Li Qing watched through the World Pearl as Gu Yi arrived in a farmland world guarded by an elite army.

• Gu Yi found a floating cloudwood branch and used it to cross the Sea of Clouds while Li Qing’s duplicate watched for danger.
• Li Qing’s duplicate killed an invisible Anomaly approaching Gu Yi and collected the Essence Stone it left behind.
• Gu Yi reached the island, climbed ashore at the place he had departed from, and approached the entrance to his low-dimensional world.
• Gu Yi used a token to pass through the restriction and entered the tree hollow, revealing a farmland world with an elite army guarding its entrance.

Li Qing used Gu Yi to inspect a green-skin world that the Devouring Spirit Sect had turned into a controlled breeding ground, where the population was groomed for harvest under the promise of entering the upper realm. He brought a condemned green-skin named Pilu into the World Pearl and began examining him for potential, while awaiting the next harvesters.

• Gu Yi escorted Li Qing to the capital, where the green-skin rulers and nobles knelt in unquestioning obedience.
• The emperor reported that the world had about 1.2 million people, including 200,000 young people chosen to enter the upper realm.
• Li Qing realized the green-skin population was being repeatedly harvested and considered how to cultivate resistance that could escape the low-dimensional world.
• Gu Yi ordered preparations for the upper-realm visitors and brought a death-row prisoner to his bedchamber at Li Qing's direction.
• Li Qing transported the prisoner, Pilu, into the World Pearl, where the Flesh Tree's Heavens Civilization Torrent brainwashed him.
• Li Qing began examining Pilu to determine whether he could be cultivated.

Li Qing tested whether Pilu could cultivate and discovered that the green-skinned race could use human cultivation arts. After uncovering the world’s recurring harvests and Pilu’s tangled fate, Li Qing released him outside the Imperial City to see whether he would become the world’s Child of Destiny.

• Li Qing examined Pilu’s body, gave him the Mystic Soldier Baleful Qi Art, and watched him cultivate it successfully.
• Li Qing concluded that cultivation arts were not restricted by species and decided to develop Pilu as his first chess piece.
• Li Qing used the Eye of Reality and Illusion to locate the world will and saw that its gathered heavenly souls were dim.
• After Pilu reached the peak of Foundation Establishment, Li Qing examined his karmic threads and discovered that cultivators from Devouring Spirit Island harvested two hundred thousand people every twenty years while targeting the world’s Child of Destiny.
• Li Qing arranged for Gu Yi to carry the World Pearl out of the Imperial City, then released Pilu outside the city to test whether he would become the Child of Destiny.

After observing Pilu become the Green-skins’ Child of Destiny, Li Qing deduced how a world’s will responds to internal and external threats and recorded his theories. He realized low-dimensional worlds could help him cultivate more powerful companions and build his own forces.

• Li Qing watched the world’s fortune gather around Pilu, who forged a high-grade Dao Foundation and led the Green-skins against the cultivators harvesting them.
• Li Qing deduced that the world will instinctively nurtured heroes to face recurring crises but overlooked threats it considered past, and that it could bless powerful beings against external dangers.
• Li Qing recorded his deductions about world calamities and the choices worlds made to survive and restore balance.
• Li Qing considered how ultimate logic governed worlds and living beings across dimensions.
• Li Qing concluded that low-dimensional worlds could cultivate near-perfect Dao seeds and help him gain companions, who could later advance through the World Pearl and establish his power in the Nine Provinces Four Regions.

Li Qing raised Pilu to the first level of the Divine Soul Realm, confirming that low-dimensional worlds could nurture powerful cultivators and provide a hidden base beyond the Nine Provinces Four Regions. As he prepared to begin infiltrating the Devouring Spirit Sect through slaves like Gu Yi, the upper-realm entrance was about to open.

• Li Qing sent Pilu cultivation methods and Essence Stones, and Pilu rapidly advanced through the True Method Realm and Spirit Consciousness Realm.
• The world reshaped karma and gathered its Qi Fate around Pilu, allowing him to reach the first level of the Divine Soul Realm.
• Li Qing concluded that each low-dimensional world could nurture one Child of Destiny and planned to use such worlds as a second base in the Void Ocean.
• Li Qing recalled Pilu to the World Pearl, weakening and shrinking the low-dimensional world.
• Gu Yi received a signal that the upper-realm entrance was about to open and ordered the Green-skins to gather two hundred thousand selected people there.