Chapter Summaries

Li Qing discovered that Man-Eating Island’s Man-Eating Path cultivated by devouring slave humans, consuming millions of people daily. He left the chapter horrified by the scale of the slaughter and the realization that the victims came from low-dimensional worlds.

• Li Qing reasoned that high-dimensional worlds trapped lower-dimensional beings below the level of true conceptual logic, and he continued harvesting the world’s resources.
• The Flesh Tree replica followed cultivators into a blood-red city and witnessed slave humans being sold and eaten alive as food.
• Li Qing observed that the city’s buildings were made from congealed blood and learned that the island was home to the Man-Eating Path, a Demonic Path that gained power by eating slave humans.
• Li Qing discovered that the Man-Eating Path consumed millions of slave humans each day, all harvested from low-dimensional worlds.

Li Qing learned how the Man-Eating Path cultivated by using slave humans as food, then continued harvesting low-dimensional worlds on the Man-Eating Island. The Flesh Tree created a second batch of seventy-two Hundred Schools of Thought seeds, led by the Confucian Wang Shi.

• Li Qing reflected on the Endless Cloud Sea’s vast population and recognized the immense power gap between it and the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• Jade drained the vital essence from the slave controlled by Li Qing’s duplicate body, but the duplicate resisted the spell’s effects.
• Li Qing used the Wish Spell to guide Jade into revealing the Man-Eating Path’s cultivation methods, which used humans as ingredients from Foundation Establishment through the Spirit Consciousness Realm.
• Li Qing withdrew his duplicate while the Flesh Tree continued infiltrating and harvesting low-dimensional worlds on the Man-Eating Island.
• The Flesh Tree created a second batch of seventy-two seeds and focused its attention on Wang Shi, a Confucian Child of Destiny.

Li Qing sent Wang Shi and seventy-two Destiny Seeds into Scorched Earth to establish the Hall of All Sages and the Blood God Warrior system, while preparing the World Pearl for long-term growth. Meanwhile, Blue Moon’s group defeated a Calamity-grade Anomaly after Fang Ping used Agricultural School powers to bind and drain it.

• Li Qing gave Wang Shi a blood-pool seed and ordered him to recruit talented people for the Hall of All Sages and foolish people for the Blood God Warriors.
• Li Qing sent seventy-two Destiny Seeds into Scorched Earth to begin spreading civilization and producing Blood God Warriors.
• Li Qing organized Spirit Consciousness Realm humans inside the World Pearl to manage its development and build an ecosystem that would generate essence energy.
• Blue Moon’s seventy-two Children of Destiny fought through a monster force and faced a Calamity-grade Anomaly in the Earthly Fiend Chaos Array.
• Fang Ping used seeds, vines, and a treant to restrain the Calamity-grade Anomaly, and the group drained it of all its flesh and blood.

After killing a Calamity-grade monster, the seventy-two Children of Destiny fled as the Flesh Desert and Thorn Forest began fighting, using their combined formations to cross the battlefield. They escaped the logic storm by a finger's breadth, but the Earthly Fiend Chaos Array shook violently under the shockwaves.

• A tremor warned Blue Moon that the battle between the Flesh Desert and Thorn Forest had begun, and she led the group across the Scorched Earth on illusory white horses.
• Anomalies from both sides clashed, while the spreading Mist smashed many of them and struggled against their growing numbers.
• Blue Moon ordered the Military School cultivators to form up, and the Green-skins led the group forward in a black, spiraling charge that crushed the Anomalies in their path.
• Blue Moon spotted the battlefield's edge ten zhang ahead as the group sensed increasingly powerful Anomalies approaching and poured all their strength into the escape.
• Two hundred-zhang figures unleashed logic that swept across the Scorched Earth, and the Children of Destiny barely burst out before the radiance reached them.
• The logic storm stopped at their backs and exploded into shockwaves that battered the Earthly Fiend Chaos Array without shattering it.

After surviving the Scorched Earth, Blue Moon and the seventy-two Children of Destiny entered the Void Ocean and prepared to search for low-dimensional worlds. Li Qing watched them depart as the first Void Seeds of his plan began a journey coordinated with the hundred-thousand-year war.

• The seventy-two Children of Destiny reached the Void Ocean, recovered their strength, and advanced to the first level of the Divine Soul Realm.
• Blue Moon directed the group to hunt anomalies near the Flesh Desert, Thorn Forest, and Scorched Earth until they reached the pinnacle of the second level of the Divine Soul Realm.
• An Agricultural School disciple grew vines into a defensive ferry, and the group concealed it with an invisibility spell.
• The seventy-two Children of Destiny launched the ferry into the Void Ocean, conserving their power as they traveled through its dangers.
• Blue Moon stayed alert aboard the ferry while the others slept, and Li Qing watched the first batch of Void Seeds enter the void.

The Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects sensed an unknown power distorting the high-dimensional world's possible futures and suspected it came from before the Annihilation Era. He secretly ordered the islands of the Endless Cloud Sea to investigate anomalies, while Li Qing continued toward the next island unaware of the coming storm.

• The Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects studied the torrent of fate and saw futures shifting in ways that concealed a danger even to him.
• The Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects suspected that power from before the Annihilation Era had entered or awakened in the high-dimensional world.
• The Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects contacted Devouring Spirit Patriarch and ordered a secret investigation of Devouring Spirit Island and the nearby Endless Cloud Sea.
• Core figures across the islands began searching for abnormal events without informing most of their people.
• Li Qing continued traveling through the Endless Cloud Sea toward the next island, unaware of the investigation and approaching storm.

Li Qing completed his innate Primordial Spirit and formed the seed of the Principle of Civilization, triggering his fated Tribulation and identifying Xuanyuan Changlong as his likely opponent. Xuanyuan anticipated Li Qing’s possible plans and prepared to search his army for planted traitors, while Li Qing set out his next priorities.

• Li Qing completed his Primordial Spirit transformation and sensed Calamity Qi connect him to the Nine Provinces Four Regions, beginning his Tribulation.
• Xuanyuan Changlong sensed he had become someone’s fated Tribulation and considered whether Li Qing or another Child of Destiny was behind it.
• Xuanyuan reasoned that Li Qing might let him win until the final decisive battle before sabotaging his army, and he resolved to find any traitors.
• Li Qing recognized that Xuanyuan had anticipated much of his plan and prepared to monitor his opponent’s response.
• Li Qing reviewed his plans to confront the Yama Son of Heaven, reforge three Logic Relics, and build the Hall of All Sages by gathering the Hundred Schools of Thought’s cultivation methods.

Li Qing infiltrated Martial Reverence City and the Military School’s Scripture Repository to study its teachings and record its history, strategies, and cultivation arts. After absorbing the repository’s materials into his archives, he left with a deeper understanding of the Military School and a changing Principle of Civilization.

• Li Qing sent his Divine Body to Martial Reverence City, where he studied the Military School’s influence on the city and its people.
• Li Qing observed the Military School’s varied strategies and reflected on the wisdom spread by the Hundred Schools of Thought.
• Li Qing entered Martial Reverence Palace unseen and followed a cultivator into the Martial Reverence Scripture Repository.
• Li Qing used Shadow Paper Dolls to record the repository’s extensive materials in the Jade Tablet.
• Li Qing integrated Military School cultivation arts and other records into the Comprehensive Record of Humanity Under Heaven, and the seed of the Principle of Civilization began to change.

Li Qing used Yan Wenming to enter the Military School’s grotto-heaven in search of Sun Tzu’s Dharma Form. As his clone explored the palace, it discovered a passage filled with a heavy, ominous resentment.

• Li Qing realized that more information could perfect the Way of Changes and strengthen his ability to calculate futures.
• Unable to find Sun Tzu’s Dharma Form in the Scripture Repository, Li Qing possessed Yan Wenming and turned him into a believer of the Lord of Human Dao.
• Yan Wenming entered the grotto-heaven with Li Qing’s hidden clone, which found the training grounds deserted and the palace watched by a Longevity Realm cultivator.
• Li Qing’s clone slipped deeper into the palace and sensed an increasingly ominous aura of resentment.
• Li Qing followed the aura into a pitch-black passage that descended beneath the palace.

Li Qing uncovered Sun Tzu of the Military School’s hidden preparations to oppose the immortals and restore the Human Dynasty. He marked the graveyard as a place he could return to, then learned that Sun Tzu had been trapped in the Tribulation Realm while waiting for a chance to strike at the Six Paths and Eight Immortals.

• Li Qing found a vast graveyard filled with generals of the Eighth Human Dynasty and used the Record Book to uncover Sun Tzu of the Military School’s terracotta warrior army.
• Li Qing placed a hidden mark in the graveyard so he could locate it and open a passage there later.
• Li Qing’s Divine Body duplicate searched the palace and slipped into a memorial hall containing tablets for the emperors of the Eighth Human Dynasty.
• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to reconstruct Sun Tzu’s plan: he had secretly studied immortal cultivation, developed his own power, and prepared soldier puppets to oppose the Six Paths and Eight Immortals.
• Li Qing learned that Sun Tzu ultimately lost his bid to become an immortal, was confined to the Tribulation Realm, and sought to rebuild the Human Dynasty.

Li Qing met Sun Tzu’s Dharma Form, offered an alliance against the Immortal Realm cultivators, and asked to borrow ten years of his lifespan, but Sun Tzu refused. Li Qing then proposed a plan to use the coming siege of the Yama Son of Heaven to isolate and kill a Wisdom Logic Anomaly, and Sun Tzu asked how he would do it.

• Li Qing’s duplicate recorded Sun Tzu’s Dharma Form and the Military School’s teachings in the Comprehensive Record of Humanity Under Heaven.
• Li Qing summoned Sun Tzu and admitted that he had come to steal the Military School’s teachings and seek an alliance.
• Sun Tzu agreed to ally against the six Immortal Realm cultivators and the eight thousand but refused Li Qing’s request to borrow ten years of his lifespan.
• Li Qing told Sun Tzu that the Immortal Realm cultivators planned to kill the Yama Son of Heaven and proposed arranging a chance for Sun Tzu to face and kill a Wisdom Logic Anomaly.
• Sun Tzu asked Li Qing how he intended to create that opportunity.

Li Qing proposed using Sun Tzu as bait to draw out a Wisdom Logic Anomaly while preparing an array capable of killing an Immortal. Sun Tzu agreed to the dangerous plan and received the array’s details, then Li Qing revealed that the Wisdom Logic Anomalies were already acting to give the Immortals a pretext.

• Li Qing outlined a plan for Sun Tzu to ambush a Wisdom Logic Anomaly with Immortal-level power and lure it toward the All Beings' Resentment Time-Space Destruction Grand Array.
• Sun Tzu suspected Li Qing might also intend to kill him and demanded to know everything about the array.
• Li Qing admitted he wanted Sun Tzu to master the array, and Sun Tzu agreed after weighing the danger against the chance to obtain an artifact left behind by Underlying Logic.
• Li Qing sent Sun Tzu the array’s details, while concealing that he could fund it with the Demonic Path’s treasury.
• Li Qing told Sun Tzu that the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies had learned of the Immortals’ plan and were creating a plausible pretext for the six Immortals, urging him to seize the opportunity.

Li Qing arranged for Sun Tzu to pose as someone who had stumbled upon the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies’ conspiracy, giving him cover to strike while they pursued him. Meanwhile, Li Qing’s Past Body forged the 365 banners for the All Beings' Resentment Time-Space Destruction Grand Array, which filled with enough power to threaten the world.

• Li Qing explained how Sun Tzu could create an alibi by claiming he had discovered the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies contacting the Yama Son of Heaven and then fled for safety.
• Sun Tzu accepted the plan, resolved to prepare for the Anomalies’ attack, and declared that he wanted an Immortal’s place.
• Li Qing assigned the array crafting to his Past Body, who used materials from the Demonic Path’s treasury to make 365 banners and inscribe the Time-Space Destruction Curse on them.
• The banners’ creation stirred heaven and earth, spreading dark clouds across Qing Province and drawing astonished Immortals’ attention.
• Li Qing poured countless Essence Stones into the banners until their growing despairing power could destroy everything in the world.

Present Body completed the All Beings' Resentment Time-Space Destruction Grand Array, and Li Qing began planning how to use it against an immortal. The Wisdom Logic Anomalies arranged contact with the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven, but their message reached White Impermanence through a dead messenger.

• Present Body finished the array using most of his Essence Stones, sealed it in a jade box, and sent it to Divine Body through the Myriad Shadow Paper Doll.
• Li Qing considered how to find a wielder for the immortal-killing array and began tracing the Wisdom Logic Anomalies and their connection to the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven.
• The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies discussed the mysterious event in Qing Province, grew wary of Li Qing, and decided to begin their plan to contact the Yama Son of Heaven.
• Guitian Xiazuo approached White Impermanence on the Wisdom Logic Anomalies' behalf and delivered a letter requesting a meeting with the Ghost Path Immortal Realm cultivator.
• White Impermanence killed Guitian Xiazuo and sensed danger in the letter he had received.

White Impermanence passed the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies’ request to the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven, who agreed to meet them on Gale Mountain in Dragon Province. Li Qing learned of the meeting and sent a mysterious letter to the Memorial Organization, whose leader delivered it to its hidden master.

• White Impermanence reported the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies’ letter to the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven, who ordered him to keep it secret.
• White Impermanence sent a message to Xuanyuan Changlong, who learned that the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies wanted to join forces with a Ghost Path Immortal Realm master.
• Li Qing learned through his spies that the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies had contacted White Impermanence and anticipated Sun Tzu’s appearance.
• The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies and the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven agreed to meet in the wilderness on Gale Mountain in Dragon Province.
• Li Qing used his Myriad Shadow Paper Doll to deliver a letter to a Memorial Organization cultist, who brought it to the organization’s leader and its mysterious master.

The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies and Nether River Yama Son of Heaven pursued a secret alliance while Li Qing’s message set events in motion. At their meeting, the Anomalies explained that the other Immortal Realm cultivators might turn against Nether River Yama Son of Heaven once they could sever his control of the source.

• The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies discussed Li Qing’s warning and decided to continue their plan despite knowing he could see through them.
• A letter reached Military School Grotto-Heaven, and Sun Tzu agreed to play along while searching for traces of the Seal of Heaven.
• Li Qing moved secretly toward Dragon Province as cultivators across the Nine Provinces Four Regions searched for clues to the Seal of Heaven.
• Nether River Yama Son of Heaven accepted the Wisdom Logic Anomalies’ approach and sent an incarnation to meet them.
• The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies met Nether River Yama Son of Heaven in a hidden pavilion and warned that the other Immortal Realm cultivators might turn on him.

The Nether River Yama Son of Heaven revealed that the Six Paths Immortals planned to use the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies as vessels for Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and control the world. Sun Tzu exposed their secret meeting and departed, leaving the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven suspicious and sensing danger.

• The aged voice offered the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven an alliance against the Six Paths Immortals in exchange for the truth about the Six Paths Investiture of Gods.
• The Nether River Yama Son of Heaven explained that the Six Paths Immortals intended to create Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, control the world's workings, and use its power against the Anomalies.
• The Nether River Yama Son of Heaven revealed that the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies had been chosen as vessels to contain the world's logic.
• Sun Tzu destroyed the mountains concealing the gathering, exposed the six figures, and immediately left.
• The Nether River Yama Son of Heaven suspected the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies had arranged the exposure and sensed that a crisis was coming.

The Haoran Sage and the other immortals attacked the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven, while two immortals stayed to guard the Nine Provinces Four Regions. As armies clashed and the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies prepared to intervene, four pursuing immortals caught the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven above Hell Mountain and unleashed their attacks.

• The Haoran Sage received Sun Tzu's message and coordinated an attack with the other five immortals, forcing the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven to flee after they suppressed his source power.
• The Haoran Sage and the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord guarded the barrier, while four immortals pursued the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven.
• The five Wisdom Logic Anomalies agreed to attack the two guardians once the fighting began, as the Divine Body waited between the Bright Side and the Dark Side for them to reveal themselves and Sun Tzu arrived on the Dark Side.
• Nangong Haoran, Xuanyuan Changlong, Guo Wushuang, and Chen Shanhe led more than nine hundred thousand Dao Soldiers against the million-strong Ghost Path army.
• The Nether River Yama Son of Heaven emerged above Hell Mountain, where Namo Light-Dark Buddha, the Demon Emperor Who Upends All Living Beings, the Myriad Treasures Undying Dao Lord, and the Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord attacked him.

The Nether River Yama Son of Heaven used the Ten Halls Wheel-Turning Grand Formation to redirect four Immortal Realm powerhouses’ attacks, then tried to draw on the world’s source to protect Hell Mountain. The other powerhouses convinced the will of the world to sever his connection to its source and began tearing up the ground around the mountain.

• The Nether River Yama Son of Heaven activated the Ten Halls Wheel-Turning Grand Formation and redirected the four Immortal Realm powerhouses’ attacks toward their strongholds.
• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha recognized that the formation twisted space-time and urged the others to attack the land and ley lines around Hell Mountain instead.
• The Nether River Yama Son of Heaven drew on the world’s source, but the Demon Emperor Who Upends All Living Beings called on the Haoran Sage and others to help sever his connection.
• Six Immortal Realm powerhouses showed the will of the world evidence of the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven’s contact with the five Wisdom Logic Anomalies, causing the source power to flow back.
• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha and the Demon Emperor Who Upends All Living Beings unleashed their power to pry up the earth around Hell Mountain.

The four Immortal Realm beings tried to sever Hell Mountain from the earth, forcing the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven to drain the lives and powers of Ghost Path cultivators. Sun Tzu prepared to fight with the Human Path Battle Armor and appeared beyond the Dark Side and Bright Side, where Anomalies were battering the Nine Provinces Four Regions’ defensive line.

• The four Immortal Realm beings drove their powers underground to sever Hell Mountain’s ley lines and destroy the Ghost Path headquarters.
• The Nether River Yama Son of Heaven went beneath Hell Mountain and, after facing the Stone Stele, unleashed a black-hole power that drained Ghost Path cultivators of their lives, souls, logic, and strength.
• The First Yama King and three companions vanished as their projections were drained, alarming the major Dao Lineages’ Tribulation Realm cultivators.
• Sun Tzu gathered one hundred thousand terracotta soldiers into a precious orb, donned the Human Path Battle Armor, and took up a bronze spear.
• Sun Tzu cut through spacetime and appeared beyond the Dark Side and Bright Side, where countless Anomalies attacked the Nine Provinces Four Regions’ defensive line.