Chapter Summaries

Yuan Zhihui exposed the Ghost Path’s role in the crisis, turning the other powers against it and raising the threat of a civil war among the immortals. Meanwhile, Li Qing’s unseen copy infiltrated Phoenix Cry City’s formation and corrupted its Formation Banner, leaving the battle poised for a sudden shift.

• Yuan Zhihui accused the Ghost Path of hiding information and causing the Demonic Path headquarters breach, the Killing Demon King’s death, and the conflict over the Six Paths Investiture of Gods.
• The Blood Demon King and other Tribulation Realm cultivators blamed the First Yama King and the Ghost Path, while the First Yama King defended their secrecy and challenged the Demonic Path to retaliate.
• The Blood Demon King warned that the remaining immortals might target the Ghost Path immortal, and the gathered cultivators feared a civil war among the Six Paths and Eight Immortals.
• At Phoenix Cry City, Li Qing’s Divine Body copy slipped through the grand formation and reached a guarded array node without being detected.
• Li Qing’s copy placed a Spirit-Suppressing Talisman on the Formation Banner, corrupting the Sun-and-Moon-Inverting Earth-Water-Wind-Fire Array before disappearing.

After the formation at Phoenix Cry City fell, Li Qinglian and Pan Chengfeng defeated and killed Huang Wanchao. Meanwhile, Li Qing's Divine Body swapped out three underlying Logic Relics and headed for the Capital City, while the True Treasure Path secured the other checkpoints and armies.

• The formation at Phoenix Cry City failed, and Li Qinglian and Pan Chengfeng led their armies into battle against Huang Wanchao.
• Li Qinglian and Pan Chengfeng trapped Huang Wanchao between their military formations and killed him with their spears.
• Li Qing's Divine Body took the underlying Logic Relic from Huang Wanchao's imperial palace, left a replica in its place, and departed with the relic for the Capital City.
• The other two Children of Destiny of the True Treasure Path took Yellow Dragon Pass and gained control of its Dao soldiers, while Huang Wanchao's remaining troops switched sides.
• Li Qinglian and Pan Chengfeng received news of the other armies changing sides and recognized that they could not prevent it.

Li Qing completed his plans against the Demonic Path and began nurturing an innate Primordial Spirit as the Six Paths Investiture of Gods started. After the Immortals learned of Nether River Yama Son of Heaven’s repeated betrayals, they debated killing him, while Demon Emperor Who Upends All Living Beings feared he might be next.

• Li Qing observed the shifting forces around Yellow Dragon Pass and Phoenix Cry City, then planned to target the Ghost Path and use its downfall to pressure Nether River Yama Son of Heaven.
• Li Qing arrived at the Seal of Heaven with resources from the Demonic Path and began using Essence Stones to nurture an innate Primordial Spirit within his Lotus Treasure Form.
• Yuan Zhihui reviewed projected events involving Li Qing and the Ghost Path, then told the Tribulation Realm cultivators he would notify the other Immortals.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord and the other Immortals discussed the intelligence and concluded that Nether River Yama Son of Heaven had become a dangerous traitor.
• Myriad Treasures Undying Dao Lord and Eternal Night Silent Dao Lord supported killing Nether River Yama Son of Heaven, while Demon Emperor Who Upends All Living Beings worried that he could be targeted next.

The Immortals debated the consequences of the Demonic Path’s fall, while the Demon Emperor refused to join a plan to eliminate the Immortal of the Ghost Path. After the Anomaly assault was quelled, the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord blamed the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven for concealing information that let Li Qing seize the Demonic Path’s treasures, but he defended his choice as self-preservation.

• The Demon Emperor Who Upends All Living Beings rejected the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord’s proposal to eliminate the Immortal of the Ghost Path and said they should first assess the aftermath.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord and the other Daoist Immortals secretly hoped to make the Immortals and Wisdom Logic Anomalies destroy each other, then rule the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• The four Immortals returned and swept away the remaining Anomalies, easing the assault on the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord recounted how the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies and Li Qing had plotted against the Myriad-Calamity World-Ending Devil Lord, and said Li Qing had collected five Primordial Dharma Forms.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord accused the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven of hiding information and costing them the chance to capture Li Qing.
• The Nether River Yama Son of Heaven replied that everyone acted in their own interest.

The seven immortals abandoned their quarrel and devised plans to investigate the Six Paths Investiture of Gods, counter the Wisdom Logic Anomalies, and block Li Qing’s advancement. After Li Qing learned of their strategy, he decided to find another way forward.

• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord persuaded the immortals to set aside their dispute and investigate why the Six Paths Investiture of Gods began when Li Qing and the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies made their moves.
• The Haoran Sage agreed to investigate the six Children of Destiny in North Province and personally supervise the Hundred Schools of Thought.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord warned that future reports of the Seal of Heaven might be traps and called for the immortals to turn such schemes against their enemies.
• The seven immortals ordered their incarnations to guard cultivators who had seen the Primordial Dharma Form and abandoned using it to lure Li Qing, instead planning to block his path to the Dao.
• An incarnation of the Haoran Sage entered Nangong Haoran’s army, while Dharma Form cultivators from the Monster Path, True Treasure Path, and Eternal Night Path gathered under immortal supervision.
• Li Qing learned of the immortals’ plans through the Blood Demon King and the other two, then resolved to find a way around the barriers they had raised.

Li Qing erased Sun Qiankun’s memories of their connection and replaced them with a plausible history, while also altering the memories of Sun Qiankun’s key subordinates. The Haoran Sage’s projected incarnation arrived in Panlong City and traced the northern plans back to Sun Qiankun, whose strategy reminded him of Li Qing’s.

• Li Qing warned Sun Qiankun that the Haoran Sage’s incarnation was investigating people connected to him and arranged to alter his memories.
• Li Qing’s Divine Body slipped into Sun Qiankun’s protected residence and used a Memory Talisman to extract memories of their contact.
• Li Qing used Wish Spell to replace Sun Qiankun’s memories with a coherent account in which he had devised the plans and recruited key figures himself.
• Li Qing altered the memories of Sun Qiankun’s key subordinates so they remembered serving Sun Qiankun, removing all traces of Li Qing.
• The Haoran Sage’s projected incarnation arrived in Panlong City, traced the northern plans to Sun Qiankun, and recognized a strategy resembling Li Qing’s.

Haoran Sage read Sun Qiankun’s carefully fabricated memories and left believing his past was genuine, while Li Qing watched to ensure the deception held. Elsewhere, the Immortal Realm powers planned new alliances and targets after the Demonic Path’s balance collapsed.

• Haoran Sage searched Sun Qiankun’s memories and found a convincing account of his life and plans to forge a new cultivation path.
• Haoran Sage suspected Sun Qiankun’s plans might be coincidental and left to investigate his past, while Li Qing monitored him through the Eye of Myriad Spirits and the Jade Tablet.
• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha and the Demon Emperor Who Upends All Living Beings agreed that killing the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven could help them form a new balance against the Daoist Sects.
• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha planned to approach Haoran Sage first and, if he refused, seek the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven’s cooperation against him.
• Three Immortal Realm projections, including the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord, convened and warned that the Demonic Path’s loss had broken the balance among them.

The immortals recognized that the death of the Demonic Path immortal had broken their balance and began considering a preemptive attack on the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven. Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha asked the Haoran Sage to join the plan, and the Haoran Sage decided that cooperating was safer than refusing.

• The Myriad Treasures Undying Dao Lord and the other immortals agreed that they had to act before their rivals could form alliances, and the Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord proposed targeting the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven.
• The Nether River Yama Son of Heaven anticipated an ambush, prepared a means of escape, and resolved to betray the other Six Paths immortals by calling on an outside force if necessary.
• The Nether River Yama Son of Heaven concealed his knowledge of Li Qing's methods and planned to leave a hidden agent among his enemies.
• The Haoran Sage's incarnation searched Zhu Yiba's camp for Li Qing's subordinates, while Li Qing's safeguards ensured captured subordinates would lose part of their memories.
• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha asked the Haoran Sage to help eliminate the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven and restore the immortals' balance.
• The Haoran Sage concluded that refusing could make him a target and chose to cooperate.

The Haoran Sage, Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha, and the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord agreed to join the other Immortal Realm powers in killing the Yama Son of Heaven when they found a justifiable pretext. Meanwhile, Li Qing investigated how the Great Curse and other Concept Logics might discover the Nine Provinces Four Regions, and concluded that extracting the Three Great Devil Kings’ lifespans would expose them quickly.

• The Haoran Sage agreed to cooperate with Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha to eliminate the Yama Son of Heaven, fearing the other powers would otherwise ally with him.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord arrived and joined their alliance, and the three agreed to wait for a justifiable opportunity to kill the Yama Son of Heaven without alarming the cultivators.
• Li Qing realized the Ghost Path Tribulation Realm cultivators had likely learned about his plan, while the Demonic Path cultivators might be saving that knowledge to use against him.
• Li Qing recorded that extracting the Three Great Devil Kings’ lifespans inside the Seal of Heaven would let two Concept Logics detect the Nine Provinces Four Regions through the Commander Summoning Token.
• Li Qing determined that reforging the Logic Artifacts would also attract the Great Curse’s master, but their vanished coordinates would make it harder for him to locate the region quickly.

Li Qing learned that other Longevity Realm cultivators were preparing to target the Yama Son of Heaven, then planted a letter that reached the Evil Spirit Lord. The chapter ended with five illusory figures gathering to discuss a surprising message from an unknown sender.

• Li Qing realized that the Great Curse and the Commander Summoning Token could expose the Nine Provinces Four Regions to the High-Dimensional World, so he abandoned his plan to summon an Immortal Realm puppet.
• Li Qing learned that Longevity Realm cultivators were seeking evidence to justify killing the Ghost Path immortals and decided to give them an opportunity to act.
• A Myriad Shadow Paper Doll delivered a letter through a temple keeper and the Evil Spirit Sect to the master of the Evil Spirit Society.
• The Evil Spirit Lord read the letter, told the society master to continue searching for the Seal of Heaven and watching the major Dao Lineages, then vanished.
• Five illusory figures gathered in darkness, where an aged voice announced that an unknown sender had sent a surprising letter.

The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies considered Li Qing’s apparent scheme and agreed to feign an alliance with the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven while abandoning him if necessary. Meanwhile, Li Qing watched the Flesh Tree’s avatar, Wang Tong’er, play with Wang Linger on Spirit Mountain.

• A woman proposed that the Wisdom Logic Anomalies truly ally with the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven, but the others warned that Li Qing might expose them to the Six Paths Immortals.
• The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies agreed to pretend to form an alliance, seek information from the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven, and abandon him if the plan turned dangerous.
• Li Qing shifted his attention to the Flesh Tree, which watched its avatar, Wang Tong’er, catch a rabbit near Wang Linger’s cave dwelling.
• Wang Tong’er brought the rabbit to Wang Linger, who cleaned his face and warned him to be careful around wolves and Anomalies.

Wang Linger began teaching Wang Tong'er the Devouring Spirit Qi Refining Art, while Li Qing secretly observed how its hidden logic affected the boy. After Wang Tong'er completed his first cultivation session, he asked Wang Linger to tell him about the outside world.

• Wang Linger agreed to teach Wang Tong'er cultivation and guided him through the Devouring Spirit Flawless Great Curse and the Devouring Spirit Spirit-Connecting Curse.
• Li Qing observed a hidden thread of logic monitoring Wang Tong'er's thoughts and considered whether techniques from different conceptual logics could be combined to cancel their influence.
• Wang Tong'er completed his first cultivation session, and Wang Linger explained the Devouring Spirit Essence Qi and its ability to consume essence qi.
• Wang Linger said she would ask a senior sister to take Wang Tong'er as a disciple once he turned ten, but promised to continue teaching him herself.
• Wang Tong'er asked Wang Linger to explain the outside world, and she agreed.

Wang Linger explained the structure and dangers of the High-Dimensional World to Wang Tong'er while Li Qing learned how outmatched the Nine Provinces Four Regions would be if it ascended. Li Qing revised his plans, deciding to build void bases and unify his world before attempting Dimensional Ascension.

• Wang Linger told Wang Tong'er about the Endless Cloud Sea, its sects, and the tribulation cycles caused by attacks from lower-dimensional worlds.
• Wang Linger named the other Border Wildernesses and Central Three Domains, described the Eternal Heavenly Domain and Ancient Underworld, and explained that major powers also fought wars for Qi Fate.
• Li Qing concluded that the Nine Provinces Four Regions could not withstand the High-Dimensional World and that Heaven and the Seal of Heaven had protected it from invasion.
• Li Qing decided to expand the Void Base Plan by capturing lower-dimensional worlds, raising Children of Destiny, and growing Heavenly Dao Reincarnation until it could oppose Concept Logic.
• Li Qing resolved that the hundred-thousand-year war must first establish void bases and then eliminate the Six Paths and Eight Immortals before the Nine Provinces Four Regions could undergo Dimensional Ascension.

Li Qing tested the limits of the logic’s surveillance and devised a way to plant Fate-less agents in the three great regions. He then took control of Lan Bai in the Blue Sea Realm and prepared to use a prisoner as another agent.

• Li Qing used subtle suggestions to question Wang Tong'er and confirmed that his probing did not trigger the logic’s warning.
• Li Qing concluded that only Fate-less Ones could safely be planted as agents, then created two embryos to grow into cultivators in separate factions.
• Gu Yi approached Lan Bai at the entrance to a low-dimensional world, used a spiritual imprint to control him, and transferred the World Pearl onto his body.
• Lan Bai entered the Blue Sea Realm, where the Blue-scaled people welcomed him as their High God and led him to Sea God City.
• Li Qing ordered a prisoner brought to the royal palace, and the Flesh Tree used the projected Heavens Civilization Torrent to bring the prisoner under control.

Li Qing established the Confucian school as the foundation for spreading the Hundred Schools of Thought across low-dimensional worlds and cultivated Blue Moon as the first seed. As the sages refined a system of governance centered on the Hall of All Sages, Li Qing sensed that spreading human civilization could advance his Principle of Civilization.

• Li Qing gave Blue Moon a Confucian cultivation technique, helped him reach the peak of the Spirit Consciousness Realm, and returned him to the Blue-Scaled People’s world.
• Blue Moon vanished from the World Pearl, shortening his world's remaining lifespan, while Lan Bai departed for the next low-dimensional world.
• The Flesh Tree traveled through low-dimensional worlds, cultivating Children of Destiny and gathering them to debate and refine systems for governing civilization.
• The sages established the Hall of All Sages as the center of a governing system in which each school controlled its own field and Li Qing held final authority.
• Li Qing’s group grew to include seventy-two Spirit Consciousness Realm Children of Destiny representing the Hundred Schools of Thought.
• Li Qing sensed that spreading human civilization could fulfill the logic of his Principle of Civilization, and Way of Changes revealed a vision of golden radiance converging into a figure resembling him.

Li Qing prepared seventy-two Children of Destiny to spread Human Dao civilization across low-dimensional worlds. After mastering a powerful combined-strike array, they set out toward the Void Ocean to establish their first Hall of All Sages.

• Li Qing taught the seventy-two Children of Destiny the Earthly Fiend Chaos Array and watched them train against the Flesh Tree until they could fight at the Primordial Spirit level.
• Li Qing ordered the Children of Destiny to find a weak low-dimensional world, establish the Hall of All Sages, spread the Hundred Schools of Thought, and take control of the world's origin.
• Blue Moon and the other Children of Destiny swore to carry out the mission and make Human Dao flourish forever.
• The Flesh Tree brought the seventy-two Children of Destiny to the Scorched Earth, where they formed their array and began traveling toward the end of the road.
• Li Qing watched the group depart and anticipated what the Children of Destiny would accomplish.

Li Qing descended into the Endless Cloud Sea in the World Pearl, hunting Anomalies and discovering how cultivators captured low-dimensional worlds. He watched a group haul up a world and strip it of essence, with enslaved people left struggling in their mouths.

• Li Qing abandoned harvesting deeper parts of Devouring Spirit Island to avoid attracting conceptual logic and took the World Pearl beneath the cloud sea.
• The Flesh Tree used the World Pearl to capture an Extinction-grade Anomaly, then killed it with one punch and fed its Essence Stone to the grotto-heaven.
• Li Qing hunted more Anomalies as the World Pearl descended, using their Essence Stones to help the grotto-heaven grow.
• The World Pearl reached the boundary between the Endless Cloud Sea and a dark void, where Li Qing saw a group casting a net to capture a low-dimensional world.
• The group hauled the world to the boundary, entered it through a funnel, and emerged hours later with enslaved people struggling inside their mouths.

Li Qing followed a sect that harvested a low-dimensional world and planted it beneath a blood-colored Flesh Tree on a mysterious island. He explored the tree’s apocalyptic inner world, the Heavenly Moon Continent, and learned that its supernatural powers and nearly all its people had been taken, leaving one city to be harvested again.

• Li Qing watched cultivators devour people from a low-dimensional world and saw them capture its world source before drawing the weakened world into the Endless Cloud Sea.
• Li Qing followed the group to a blood-misted island, where they buried the world and used a Flesh Seed to grow a scarlet tree around it.
• Li Qing duplicated the Flesh Tree to follow the group, then sent the World Pearl through the original tree into the ruined world within.
• Li Qing sent Shadow Paper Dolls into the surviving city and recorded information about the Heavenly Moon Continent and its Moon God Warrior cultivation system.
• Li Qing learned that the Moon God and powerful warriors had been captured, along with ninety-nine percent of the population, while the survivors in the central city faced future harvesting.

Li Qing drained one-fifth of a newly established world's origin into his World Pearl and planned to harvest other low-dimensional worlds for resources and cultivation knowledge. He then tested the Moon God Warrior method on Su Wang, who quickly completed its cultivation under Li Qing's guidance.

• Li Qing used the Longevity Tree to extract the world's origin, causing the world to shrink, and concluded that he could harvest low-dimensional worlds without immediately destroying them.
• Li Qing planned to gather cultivation methods and historical knowledge from many worlds to strengthen his Principle of Civilization.
• The World Pearl absorbed one-fifth of the world's origin, and Li Qing reinforced its internal spacetime instead of expanding its area.
• Li Qing chose Su Wang to test whether the Flesh Tree's blood could produce a Moon God Warrior and gave him the blood and cultivation method.
• Under Li Qing's guidance, Su Wang reached the Full Moon Realm within days, and Li Qing judged the method a useful power system for Dao soldiers.

Li Qing discovered that bloodline cultivators were ultimately harvested as food by their bloodline sources, but saw the method as a way to build a vast army for the Hall of All Sages. He planned to gather low-dimensional worlds and cultivate enough Dao soldiers to empower the Flesh Tree, while recognizing that overcoming the high-dimensional world would be a long struggle.

• Li Qing concluded that bloodline cultivators’ essence condensed into blood crystals after death and was harvested by the source of their bloodline.
• Li Qing calculated that three hundred million Full Moon-level Dao soldiers could form a military formation that gave the Flesh Tree combat strength comparable to the Six Paths and Eight Immortals.
• Li Qing planned to spread the Hall of All Sages across low-dimensional worlds and use its Dao Lineages as the core of a cultivation system with bloodline methods as its outer layer.
• Li Qing set his first goal as gathering three hundred million Full Moon Dao soldiers in the World Pearl, where they would use the Turtle Breath Technique to conserve resources.
• Li Qing recognized that the Hall of All Sages would have to defeat native inhabitants to seize low-dimensional worlds and that overturning the high-dimensional world required using the countryside to encircle the cities.