Chapter Summaries

Li Qing's duplicate infiltrated the Demonic Path headquarters and uncovered how its leaders harvested powerful cultivators. He learned that the Killing Demon King hid among the palace statues, while the other Great Devil Kings hunted him and the Seal of Heaven, and saw an opportunity in the cultivators' search for escape.

• Li Qing's duplicate crossed the bone-patterned plaza and cautiously entered the giant palace, resisting the mental corruption from its strange patterns and armored statue.
• The duplicate explored the palace and identified the Treasury Hall, Pill Hall, and Scripture Hall as his targets, but logical forces protected their entrances.
• Li Qing completed his Record Book and learned that the Killing Demon King was concealed among three hundred remnants of deceased Longevity Realm and Tribulation Realm cultivators.
• The Record Book revealed that the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord extracted cultivators' logic as part of a covert harvest, while the powerful cultivators sought a way out of the food chain.
• Li Qing learned that the other three Great Devil Kings were searching the Nine Provinces Four Regions for him and the Seal of Heaven, and realized their desire to escape might present an opportunity.

Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to uncover how the Demon Palace's time-sealed remnants drew power from the grotto-heaven's earth veins, then prepared to disrupt that power with a Dragon-Suppressing Nail. He finished secretly searching the headquarters of the four great demonic sects and began another round of deductions.

• Li Qing recorded the palace's statues and used the Jade Tablet to deduce that the sealed remnants needed the Demon Palace's earth-vein essence qi to unleash their peak strength.
• Li Qing's duplicate infiltrated underground and found a major earth vein that supplied power to the Ten Thousand Demons Palace.
• Li Qing crafted a Dragon-Suppressing Nail from thousand-year peachwood, and it unexpectedly shrank to one chi long.
• Li Qing sent four replicas to investigate the four great demonic sects for the demon kings' methods of rebirth.
• Li Qing completed his search of the four sect headquarters on the seventeenth day of the fifth month in Kun-Tai Year Twenty and began new deductions.

Li Qing studied the Four Demon Kings’ rebirth methods and planned to destroy their resurrection foundations before using the resulting fight to trap the Ghost Path cultivators. He then investigated whether the Great Brahma Universal Cosmos Unification Curse could help him summon powerful puppets, but learned that the curse’s refined targets belonged to a mysterious Concept Logic existence.

• Li Qing read that each of the Four Demon Kings had a distinct rebirth method tied to a palace or grotto-heaven at the Demonic Path headquarters.
• Li Qing planned to kill one Demon King, draw the others back, and use a fifth Battle Soul Puppet to destroy their rebirth foundations.
• Li Qing considered using the Hundred Desires Demon King’s grotto-heaven to lure and ambush the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven and the Ghost Path cultivators.
• Li Qing asked the Jade Tablet whether the Burning Heaven Demon King’s Heaven-Burning Fire was a derived-logic item, and learned that it was not.
• Li Qing recorded his theory that he could draw lifespan from beings refined by the Great Brahma Universal Cosmos Unification Curse to summon Immortal Realm puppets.
• Li Qing learned that the curse’s targets belonged to a mysterious Concept Logic existence, which could influence them at any time.

Li Qing planned to reforge the three Underlying Logic Relics and prepared a Great Curse at the Demonic Path headquarters to seize its treasury. Meanwhile, the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies lured the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord's incarnation into their sealed spacetime and destroyed it.

• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to determine that he had a fifty percent chance of driving Concept Logic out of the three Underlying Logic Relics by reforging them within the Seal of Heaven.
• Li Qing decided to lay out the Great Curse at the Demonic Path headquarters and planned to plunder its treasury for other Logic relics.
• Li Qing's Divine Body inscribed the Great Brahma Universal Cosmos Unification Curse over the palace and waited for the Demonic Path immortal to enter the trap.
• The Stone Stele opened a vortex, and the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord's incarnation stepped through to investigate.
• The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies activated their formation and crushed the incarnation-projection, allowing it to witness traces of Heaven's aura.

The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies set a trap for the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord while drawing the Five Immortals away from the Nine Provinces Four Regions. Li Qing learned their plan and prepared to watch the Bright Side and Dark Side, then saw a simulated future showing powerful figures gathered at the Demonic Path's headquarters palace.

• The Wisdom Logic Anomalies planned to lure the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord into a sealed tomb trap before dragging it into the interstitial space to kill him.
• Li Qing learned through the Jade Tablet that the real battlefield would be the interstitial space, and sent Myriad Shadow Paper Dolls to spy on the Bright Side and Dark Side.
• Anomalies charged toward the Nine Provinces Four Regions, forcing its three guarding Immortals to defend it and warning the other Five Immortals to stay alert.
• The Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord saw a chance to enter the lower world and seize the Seal of Heaven, while the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven prepared a trap for Li Qing without knowing about his Ghost Path incursion.
• Li Qing used the Way of Changes and simulated a future in which seven Tribulation Realm figures and a mysterious Underlying Logic-level figure stood inside the Demonic Path's headquarters palace.

Li Qing weighed the risks surrounding the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies and ordered Sun Qiankun to prepare for the Six Paths Investiture of Gods War while the Anomaly tide surged. The immortals guarding the Nine Provinces Four Regions struggled to respond as the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies' purpose remained unclear.

• Li Qing used the Way of Changes to foresee Nether River Yama Son of Heaven and the gathering Anomalies, but decided the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies must not die yet.
• Li Qing contacted Sun Qiankun and ordered him to launch the Investiture of Gods War within half a quarter of an hour of receiving the signal.
• Sun Qiankun reported that his forces and Pan Chengfeng's troops were ready to attack Huang Wanchao and draw in the Demon Race from the Southern Frontier.
• Nether River Yama Son of Heaven, Haoran Sage, and Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha faced an Anomaly tide ten times stronger than before, leaving Nether River Yama Son of Heaven torn between guarding the region and pursuing Li Qing.
• The five immortals hunting the Wisdom Logic Anomalies noticed the assault on the Nine Provinces Four Regions, and Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord asked what the Anomalies were trying to accomplish.

The Five Immortals split up to investigate five distant auras, while Li Qing used the distraction to pursue his own goal: reaching the Seal of Heaven and uncovering the truth about Concept Logic. He sent an incarnation onward with the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord’s aura while his true body entered a secret passage leading to the Northern Desert.

• The Five Immortals detected five distant auras and agreed to investigate them separately while ordering their Dao Lineages to defend against the Logic Anomalies.
• The Immortals abandoned the barrier around the Nine Provinces Four Regions and prepared to purge the source after eliminating the five Logic Anomalies.
• Li Qing decided to use the Immortals’ distraction to investigate the Seal of Heaven and seek the sealed body’s remains.
• The Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord headed north as the other Immortals pursued their targets.
• Li Qing split off into a canyon on the Dark Side and entered a secret passage to the Northern Desert, leaving an incarnation with his aura to continue onward.

The Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Master entered the Nine Provinces Four Regions through a passage that limited his power, and Li Qing began the Six Paths Investiture of Gods plan. Li Qinglian and Pan Chengfeng’s armies attacked Yellow Dragon Pass, beginning a battle that shook the world’s karma.

• The Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Master crossed into the Nine Provinces Four Regions with his power reduced and traveled to White Mist City.
• Li Qing saw the Devil Master through the Eye of Myriad Spirits and told Sun Qiankun to begin the Six Paths Investiture of Gods plan.
• Sun Qiankun ordered the armies to join Li Qinglian’s forces in attacking Yellow Dragon Pass, while Pan Chengfeng and Willow Leaf Hermit set the Dragon-Slaying Plan in motion.
• Li Qinglian and Pan Chengfeng’s armies advanced with eight hundred thousand troops and struck Yellow Dragon Pass with their military formations.
• Huang Wanchao’s forces defended the pass with a Vermilion Bird formation, and the clash began as heaven’s workings and the world’s karma shifted.

As the Investiture of Gods War began, the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord tried to breach the Stone Stele while the Five Immortals and five Wisdom Logic Anomalies maneuvered around a set of decoys. Meanwhile, Li Qing launched his Tribulation Realm purge and treasury raid, infiltrating two Demonic Path strongholds.

• Xuanyuan Changlong ordered his army to march on the Infinite Sect as the first stage of the Threefold Division of the Realm began.
• The Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord poured his power into the Stone Stele, racing to break its seal before his fifteen-minute limit expired.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord and the other Immortals discovered that their assigned locations held only bait, then secretly headed toward the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord.
• The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies watched from a gap in space and prepared to release the Stone Stele's seal when about twenty breaths remained.
• Li Qing sent a Battle Soul Puppet carrying the Myriad Spell Divine Banner to the Demonic Path's main palace while his Divine Body infiltrated the Slaughter Palace to destroy the Killing Demon King's chance of rebirth.

As the Six Paths Investiture of Gods war erupted, Li Qing’s allies prepared a surprise attack on Huang Wanchao’s Phoenix Cry City. A two-hundred-thousand-strong army approached underwater, while planted guards prepared to open the city’s river entrance.

• The Battle Soul Puppet used Thousand Miles in a Line to reach the Demonic Path headquarters, then concealed itself and waited for its moment to strike.
• Nether River Yama Son of Heaven and the First Yama King watched the Demonic Path and prepared for Li Qing’s possible attack.
• Pan Chengfeng, Li Qinglian, and four Longevity Realm cultivators assembled two hundred thousand Dao soldiers underwater near Phoenix Cry City after hiding them there for a month.
• Pan Chengfeng ordered the army to advance through the river toward Phoenix Cry City under the cover of its military formation.
• Inside the city, a planted captain produced a talisman and signaled his men to seal off the area around the river entrance.

Phoenix Cry City was invaded by an army that slipped through the river, while Huang Wanchao led the palace troops into battle. In White Mist City, the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord fell into a trap and was dragged into the Stone Stele by the formation.

• The captain used a talisman to disable the river grating, allowing the invading soldiers to enter Phoenix Cry City under concealment.
• Longevity Realm Spirit Awareness detected the invasion, and Li Qinglian and Pan Chengfeng ordered their forces to attack the royal palace.
• Huang Wanchao led the palace army out as six Longevity Realm cultivators clashed and the city’s formations battled.
• The Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord battered the Stone Stele’s final core while the Wisdom Logic Anomaly’s five incarnations prepared the formation.
• The Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord realized the apparent aura in the Dark Side was a fake and that the opening was a trap.
• The formation erupted and forcibly dragged the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord into the Stone Stele.

The Wisdom Logic Anomalies lured the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord into a trap and dragged him away, prompting the Immortal Realm cultivators to pursue them and warn the Nine Provinces Four Regions about Li Qing. As the world descended into turmoil, Li Qing’s Battle Soul Puppet attacked the Ten Thousand Demons Palace, where the Killing Demon King welcomed the chance to capture him.

• The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies destroyed the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord’s avatar and dragged his isolated space-time away under layers of logic.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord and the other Immortal Realm cultivators traced the disturbance to White Mist City, suspected Li Qing was involved, and alerted the Haoran Sage.
• Yuan Zhihui ordered Tribulation Realm cultivators to group in fours, defend their regions, and report suspicious activity, while the Yama Son of Heaven told the First Yama King to ignore the order and seek Li Qing’s aura.
• The Battle Soul Puppet entered the Ten Thousand Demons Palace and attacked the Killing Demon King, who realized Li Qing had invaded the Demonic Path and prepared to capture him.

Li Qing attacked the Demonic Path headquarters, disabled its sealed forces, and used Battle Soul Puppets and the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger to kill the Killing Demon King and trap three more Demon Kings. Yuan Zhihui realized Li Qing had struck while the immortals and the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord were trapped, but the three surviving Demon Kings were still fighting.

• Li Qing’s Divine Body duplicate drove the Dragon-Suppressing Nail into the earth vein, stopping the three hundred sealed beings from reviving.
• Li Qing sent Battle Soul Puppets against the Killing Demon King, then killed him with the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger as the three other Demon Kings entered the palace.
• Two more Battle Soul Puppets ambushed the Burning Heaven Demon King, Blood Demon King, and Hundred Desires Demon King, while the palace’s ultimate trump card remained inactive.
• The Killing Demon King’s resurrection failed when the collapsing Slaughter Demon Palace destroyed the source of his life fluctuations.
• Yuan Zhihui realized Li Qing had attacked the Demonic Path headquarters and concluded the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord was trapped by the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies, with Li Qing involved.

Yuan Zhihui ordered cultivators to pursue Li Qing, while Li Qing’s forces raided the Demonic Path headquarters and prepared to ambush their pursuers. The Blood Demon King discovered the emptied treasure vault as the fighting turned against the Battle Soul Puppets.

• Yuan Zhihui sent Tribulation Realm cultivators toward the Demonic Path headquarters and warned other Dao Lineages to guard their own strongholds.
• Li Qing monitored the pursuers through his informants, while the First Yama King and three other Ghost Path cultivators used jade pendants to travel swiftly toward the Demonic Path.
• Li Qing’s Divine Body duplicate took the Primordial Dharma Form scripture and sent Myriad Shadow Paper Dolls to empty the Demonic Path’s treasure vault.
• The four Battle Soul Puppets fought the three Demon Kings until the Demon Kings summoned three monstrous incarnations and gained the advantage.
• The Blood Demon King searched the Ten Thousand Demons Palace, found that the treasure vault had been emptied, and wondered how it had happened so quickly.

Li Qing’s Divine Body secured the Demonic Path treasury and set a trap in the Demonic Path grotto-heaven, drawing the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven’s attention. Meanwhile, the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord remained trapped and besieged by five Wisdom Logic Anomalies.

• Li Qing’s duplicate escaped the Ten Thousand Demons Palace with the treasures and Myriad Spell Divine Banner while the four Ghost Path cultivators rushed toward the palace.
• Li Qing recovered the Demonic Path treasures, then sent a Battle Soul Puppet disguised as Li Qing into the grotto-heaven while preparing a Great Curse and waiting in a valley.
• The First Yama King informed the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven that Li Qing had taken the treasury and Primordial Dharma Form but was still inside the Demonic Path grotto-heaven.
• The Nether River Yama Son of Heaven deduced that Li Qing was baiting him and warned the others to leave the grotto-heaven at once.
• The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies continued grinding down the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord’s Infinite World-Ending Fire as he waited for rescue.

While four Immortal Realm cultivators searched for the hidden battle, Li Qing tried to lure the First Yama King and his companions into a trap but realized they had seen through it. He escaped with the derived Logic Relic, having completed most of his plan, while the four Ghost Path cultivators had already left the Demonic Path Grotto-Heaven.

• The Myriad Treasures Undying Dao Lord, Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord, Demon Emperor Who Upends All Living Beings, and Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord searched the surrounding spacetime using different methods.
• After receiving the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven's warning, the First Yama King and his companions left illusory aura projections behind and secretly headed for the grotto-heaven's exit.
• Li Qing noticed the four apparent Tribulation Realm cultivators splitting up and used the Way of Changes to deduce that they had escaped and that other cultivators were searching outside the headquarters.
• Li Qing activated the Yin-Yang Void Spirit-Swapping Feng Shui Grand Formation, sent a duplicate to destroy it, and recovered the derived Logic Relic with a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll.
• Li Qing switched locations through another feng shui formation and vanished, while the First Yama King and his companions had already left the Demonic Path Grotto-Heaven.

Li Qing destroyed the formation and used the Great Brahma Universal Cosmos Unification Curse to take control of the Demonic Path Grotto-Heaven and its three Demon Kings. The Demon Kings submitted to his orders, while the First Yama King realized Li Qing had escaped using a feng shui formation.

• The First Yama King detected a faint ripple and found unusual powder near the earth veins, realizing Li Qing had used a feng shui formation to escape.
• Li Qing's Divine Body duplicate used the Annihilation Art to destroy the formation and vanished before the First Yama King arrived.
• While Tribulation Realm cultivators searched outside the Demonic Path headquarters, Li Qing activated the Great Brahma Universal Cosmos Unification Curse and used a surface-layer Logic Relic to seize control of the Grotto-Heaven and its inhabitants.
• Li Qing ordered the Hundred Desires Demon King, Blood Demon King, and Burning Heaven Demon King to stabilize the Demonic Path after the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord died and cooperate with the force behind Xuanyuan Changlong.
• The three Demon Kings agreed to obey Li Qing, believing they had no choice and that serving him might offer a chance to escape their fate.

Li Qing monitored a mysterious incarnation in White Jade City while the Ghost Path’s early arrival at the Demonic Path drew suspicion from the other powers. After the Demonic Path sealed its headquarters, the Blood Demon King and the other Great Devil Kings secretly invited representatives of the Miscellaneous School, the Mo Family, and the School of Names to form an alliance against the Confucian Dao.

• Li Qing watched the aura from the destroyed Battle Soul Puppets reach a pulsing mass in White Jade City and planned to seize the being within once it finished gestating.
• The Blood Demon King questioned the First Yama King about the Ghost Path’s advance arrival, prompting suspicion from Wang Xiantian and the other Tribulation Realm cultivators.
• The Blood Demon King declared the Killing Demon King dead, the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord missing, and the Demonic Path’s intent to seal its mountain and keep only its basic positions.
• Lü Chunqiu and Mozi quietly left the gathering, and the Demonic Path sealed its headquarters behind formations.
• The Blood Demon King, Hundred Desires Demon King, and Burning Heaven Demon King met Lü Chunqiu and Mozi in secret, where the Hundred Desires Demon King proposed an alliance against the Confucian Dao.

The Hundred Schools of Thought agreed to ally with the Demonic Path and support Xuanyuan Changlong if the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord died. The Devil Lord destroyed himself against the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies’ seal, but could not escape it, and the anomalies emerged as the nearby Immortal Realms noticed them.

• The Three Great Devil Kings offered the Demonic Path’s support to Xuanyuan Changlong in exchange for protection, and promised not to harm the Nine Provinces’ people.
• Ming Zi, Lü Chunqiu, and Mozi agreed to form an alliance with the Demonic Path, provided that the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord truly died.
• The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies kept the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord sealed while their powers gradually drained him.
• The Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord detonated his Logic in a desperate attempt to escape, but the seal prevented his information from escaping, and he died.
• The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies left the sealed space-time to seek their next target, and the Demon Emperor Who Upends All Living Beings spotted them.

The fall of an immortal sent blood rain across the Nine Provinces Four Regions and changed how cultivators viewed the Six Paths Investiture of Gods. Li Qing continued his plan to target the Ghost Path immortal, while Yuan Zhihui confronted the First Yama King over his hidden role.

• The four immortals pursued the five Wisdom Logics into the Bright Side, but Anomalies summoned by the Wisdom Logics blocked them and the five logic Anomalies escaped.
• Blood rain began falling across the world, and the Master at Jixia Academy realized that an immortal had fallen and that chaos would follow.
• At Phoenix Cry City, Li Qinglian, Pan Chengfeng, and Huang Wanchao fought the invading army as the Longevity Realm cultivators grew cautious after sensing the immortal's death.
• The Three Great Devil Kings saw the Devil Master's death as a chance to repair their flawed foundations and cultivate a perfect Demonic Path.
• Li Qing's Present Body watched the blood rain in the Capital City and ordered his plan to continue, naming the Ghost Path immortal as the next target.
• Yuan Zhihui deduced that the trouble began with the First Yama King, who had hidden Li Qing's earlier attack on the Ghost Path headquarters.