Chapter Summaries

Li Qing met with the Haoran Sage and Master at Jixia Academy, where the Haoran Sage proposed an alliance to eliminate the world’s immortals and control the coming war. Li Qing revealed his knowledge of low- and high-dimensional spacetime and hinted that he could spread their civilization across low-dimensional worlds, then asked the Haoran Sage to answer questions before discussing the price.

• Li Qing entered Jixia Academy in a specially weakened duplicate and met the Haoran Sage and Master in Natural Abode.
• The Haoran Sage recognized that Li Qing’s spells were founded on underlying logic and inferred that Li Qing was seeking to create a uniquely perfect Primordial Dharma Form.
• The Haoran Sage proposed that he act as an insider during the coming war so they could eliminate the other immortals and claim the Six Paths Investiture of Gods and Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
• Li Qing agreed to the alliance and said he would spread the true Dao of the Hundred Schools of Thought and Confucianism throughout the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• Li Qing revealed that he knew about low- and high-dimensional spacetime, startling the Haoran Sage, who asked what he wanted in exchange for spreading civilization.
• Li Qing told the Haoran Sage to answer a few questions before they discussed the price.

Haoran Sage explained why beings from low-dimensional worlds rarely leave for the Void Ocean, and Li Qing uncovered how high-dimensional rulers used a curse to isolate those worlds. Li Qing planned to build a civilization across the Void Ocean and eventually unite countless low-dimensional worlds into a force capable of challenging high-dimensional worlds.

• Li Qing asked Haoran Sage why he had not left the Nine Provinces Four Regions world to explore the Void Ocean.
• Haoran Sage explained that the world's attraction made escape dangerous, while the Void Ocean's scarce energy, lurking creatures, and corrupting power threatened travelers.
• Li Qing noticed that his Children of Destiny had avoided the mysterious power and used the Record Book to investigate the difference.
• The Jade Tablet revealed that the Great Chaos Mental Contamination Curse targeted beings leaving low-dimensional worlds, while a high-dimensional imprint could protect them.
• Li Qing resolved to use Children of Destiny to cross the Void Ocean and establish the Hall of All Sages.
• Li Qing envisioned combining countless low-dimensional worlds into a world powerful enough to ascend and challenge high-dimensional rulers, a project that could take hundreds of thousands or even a million years.

Li Qing and the Haoran Sage negotiated exchanges involving Confucian civilization, cultivation resources, and an alliance against threatening forces. After Li Qing departed, Haoran Sage explained to Master that his dealings with Li Qing served his goal of making Confucianism the supreme doctrine.

• Li Qing offered to spread Confucian civilization across low-dimensional worlds and correct the flaws in Haoran Sage’s foundation in exchange for information about the realms from Longevity to Immortal, but they deferred that deal until Li Qing reached the peak of the Dharma Form Realm.
• Haoran Sage offered materials for the Five Divine Treasuries in exchange for a low-dimensional world whose upper limit permitted Tribulation Realm beings, and Li Qing accepted.
• Li Qing and Haoran Sage agreed in principle to an initial offensive and defensive alliance, with Li Qing acting openly and Haoran Sage working as an insider to eliminate threats.
• Li Qing disappeared, and Master warned Haoran Sage that contacting him betrayed the Six Paths Immortals and might bring calamity.
• Haoran Sage told Master he had made no promises to the Six Paths Immortals and treated the Six Paths Investiture of Gods and other events as means to establish Confucianism as the supreme doctrine.

The Haoran Sage advised the Master to incorporate human feeling into his rules, and the Master sealed Jixia Academy to pursue that path. Meanwhile, Li Qing sent his Divine Body to infiltrate Nangong Haoran’s stronghold and reached the palace storing the Underlying Logic Relic without being detected.

• The Haoran Sage told the Master that his rules needed to account for human feeling if he hoped to enter the Tribulation Realm and become a Sub-Sage.
• The Master sealed Jixia Academy in mysterious logic and sent his consciousness into the void to pursue his path.
• Li Qing learned that Nangong Haoran possessed the Underlying Logic Relic and that Karma Fire Daoist was watching the stronghold.
• Li Qing sent his concealed Divine Body into the city, where it passed the checkpoints and reached the palace holding the relic.
• The Divine Body hid by the palace doors as a searching gaze passed over it, but the Heaven-Shrouding Divine Robe kept it concealed.

Li Qing replaced the Underlying Logic Relic in Haoran Sage’s palace without alerting Karma Fire Daoist, then sent the Three Great Devil Kings to capture a mysterious being nearing its final transformation. The Devil Kings sealed off the strange courtyard where it was about to descend and began setting up a formation.

• Li Qing used the Way of Changes and the Jade Tablet to bypass the restrictions around the jade box, replace the replica with the Underlying Logic Relic, and restore the box before Karma Fire Daoist’s gaze returned.
• Li Qing sensed that the being in the mysterious town was close to completing its transformation and judged it to be powerful bait, with combat strength no greater than the Longevity Realm.
• Li Qing contacted Burning Heaven Demon King, Blood Demon King, and Hundred Desires Demon King, ordering them to secretly capture the descending being.
• The three Devil Kings arrived at the courtyard and felt its power urging them to ignore it, but Li Qing’s warning kept them wary.
• Blood Demon King concealed the courtyard from the outside with an illusion, and the three Devil Kings surrounded it with forty-nine Formation Banners to deploy the Blood Sea Heaven-Overturning Grand Formation.

The Blood Demon King and the other two Demon Kings captured a mysterious quasi-conceptual being and sealed him inside the Blood Sea. Li Qing met the captive to learn what he wanted, and the being proposed a deal.

• The Blood Sea Demon King and the other two Demon Kings surrounded the courtyard, forcing the mysterious being inside a mass of flesh to reveal himself.
• The being resisted the Blood Sea with a defensive logic, then agreed to meet Li Qing if the Demon Kings sealed him.
• The Blood Demon King compressed the Blood Sea formation around the captive, and the Hundred Desires Demon King reconstructed the courtyard to conceal what had happened.
• Li Qing decided to meet the captive, arriving in a desolate valley where the three Demon King incarnations were waiting.
• The captive asked Li Qing to let him go and stay out of his affairs in exchange for sparing Li Qing's life.

Li Qing proposed an alliance to the yellow-brown humanoid, an extraterritorial being at the Space-Time Heavenly Dao Level, and arranged to use its avatar as bait while he eliminated the world’s remaining immortals and Wisdom Logic Anomalies. The being accepted, though the Three Great Devil Kings could not remember parts of the conversation.

• Li Qing told the yellow-brown humanoid that he had killed several immortals and Wisdom Logic Anomalies using schemes that drew on the being’s power.
• Li Qing explained the being’s goal of strengthening itself before confronting the rulers of the High-Dimensional World, and the Three Great Devil Kings forgot the information after a mysterious force erased their memories.
• The yellow-brown humanoid asked why Li Qing was unharmed by the memory-erasing power, and Li Qing said that the Jade Tablet had silently protected him.
• Li Qing proposed using the humanoid’s quasi-conceptual power as bait while he killed the remaining immortals and Wisdom Logic Anomalies and took control of the world.
• The yellow-brown humanoid agreed to cooperate, and Li Qing said its avatar would have to remain as bait until he met its true body.

Li Qing prepared to use the quasi-Concept Logic entity to trap the remaining immortals, while the four Wisdom Logic Anomalies devised a plan to lure the immortals into a battlefield and kill them. The Anomalies intended to exploit the Children of Destiny and a false Seal of Heaven, knowing Li Qing might help their scheme while also posing a threat.

• Li Qing ordered the Three Great Devil Kings to suppress the ochre humanoid entity and planned to use it to deceive and kill the immortals and Underlying Logic entities.
• Li Qing counted seven immortal-level beings already gone and used the Jade Tablet to search for another opportunity to set a trap.
• Sky Ghost told the other Wisdom Logic Anomalies that the six remaining immortals held five Underlying Logic relics and would soon threaten them by establishing the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
• Sky Ghost proposed drawing the immortals into a battlefield where they would discover the Seal of Heaven, trapping them inside before attacking those left behind.
• Longevity Realm described a plan to provoke the southern Demon Race into fighting and use a grand formation and a trace of Heaven's aura to lure the immortals into the trap.

Sky Ghost and the four Wisdom Logic Anomalies agreed to use Li Qing’s stored aura of Heaven to construct a powerful trap for the six immortals. Meanwhile, Blue Moon led seventy-two Children of Destiny into a lower-dimensional world, where they concealed themselves and built an underground refuge, leaving them gathered before a statue of the Lord of Human Dao.

• Sky Ghost revealed that he had saved some aura of Heaven and proposed using the Myriad Spirits Extinction Godslaying Array to trap the six immortals, though it would consume at least half the anomalies on both sides.
• Blue Moon and the seventy-two Children of Destiny entered a dark-red world in a black vessel, survived the impact, and used Myriad Qi Return to Ruins to hide their auras from the world.
• A powerful being at the world's center sensed the meteor's arrival, failed to divine its fate, and ordered an elite squad led by a Divine Soul-level expert to investigate.
• Blue Moon led the Children of Destiny to a cavern hundreds of li from the crash site, where they established a concealed refuge using methods from the various schools.
• The seventy-two gathered in the underground palace before a statue bearing the likeness of the Lord of Human Dao.

Li Qing planted a spiritual imprint in a statue and ordered Blue Moon’s group to gather materials and information before his descent. Fang Qirui investigated the Parasol Tree World, and Li Qing learned that its rulers cultivated by transforming themselves into phoenixes.

• Li Qing used Possession Art through Blue Moon to place his spiritual imprint in a statue, intending to refine it into an external incarnation.
• Li Qing instructed Blue Moon to obtain nine Dharma Materials and gather information about the world.
• Fang Qirui infiltrated a city and learned that the Parasol Tree Continent was ruled by Children of the Phoenix, who wielded powerful fire spells.
• Fang Qirui collected and relayed information about the world to Li Qing.
• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to learn that a phoenix had created a cultivation method that transformed humans into phoenixes, producing the ruling Children of the Phoenix.

Li Qing examined a Phoenix visualization method and sent the Children of Destiny to seize it from White Phoenix City. After they captured the city and secured the cultivation methods, Li Qing analyzed how mythical-creature cultivation used the mind to transform the body.

• Li Qing recognized the Phoenix cultivation method as a possible model for giving the Destiny Seeds a path toward becoming Blood God Warriors.
• Blue Moon led seventy-two Children of Destiny to White Phoenix City to capture a Phoenix War God and obtain the Phoenix cultivation methods.
• The Children of Destiny used the Earthly Fiend Chaos Array to overwhelm White Phoenix Cloud and take control of the City Lord's Residence.
• White Phoenix Cloud surrendered, and Blue Moon planted a method in him to secure White Phoenix City as their stronghold.
• Li Qing studied the corrected Mythical Phoenix Cultivation Method and concluded that visualization let the mind influence and transform the flesh.

Li Qing used the Way of Changes to develop the Mythical Flesh Tree Cultivation Method and discovered that the Jade Tablet corrected more than seventy percent of his version. Seeking to reduce his dependence on the tablet, he gave the new method to Blue Moon, who began training a new generation of Hall of All Sages fighters in White Phoenix City.

• Li Qing reasoned that cultivation methods could be flawed and cause Aberration, then used the Way of Changes to create the Mythical Flesh Tree Cultivation Method.
• Li Qing entered the method into the Jade Tablet and found that it corrected more than seventy percent of his deductions.
• Li Qing resolved to gather more information through the Way of Changes so he could eventually rival the Jade Tablet and rely on it less.
• Li Qing gave the new cultivation method to Blue Moon, who brought the Children of the Phoenix in White Phoenix City under control.
• White Phoenix Cloud held a selection assembly, choosing more than a thousand people: over three hundred trained in the Hundred Schools of Thought, while more than seven hundred began fighter methods underground.

Li Qing created a faith-powered external incarnation and prepared the Hall of All Sages to conquer the Parasol Tree Continent. Feng Wutian sensed an approaching threat and put the continent on alert, anticipating that overcoming it might let him reach the Longevity Realm.

• Li Qing had Blue Moon inscribe the Great Curse of Incarnation Through All Beings' Faith on the divine statue, which the faith of the seventy-two Children of Destiny transformed into a golden incarnation at the Divine Soul level.
• Li Qing realized the incarnation could serve as a second retreat for his spirit and Principle of Civilization, and considered finding a way to travel across the Void Ocean and plant Flesh Seeds in other worlds.
• Li Qing ordered the seventy-two Children of Destiny to conceal their identities, reach the peak of the Divine Soul Realm, develop up to one hundred thousand fighters, and prepare to conquer the Parasol Tree Continent within a year.
• The Children of Destiny, led by Blue Moon, pledged themselves to human civilization and accepted Li Qing's orders.
• Feng Wutian sensed an unknown force and ordered the Children of the Phoenix to search for anything abnormal, while believing that the looming crisis could be his final Tribulation before the Longevity Realm.

Wang Tong'er displayed extraordinary sword-control talent, while the Flesh Tree sought deeper knowledge of the Endless Cloud Sea. When the Flowing Light Sect sent most of its powerful cultivators away, Li Qing saw a chance to investigate its Scripture Repository.

• Wang Tong'er demonstrated masterful swordplay, and Wang Linger praised him as a seed of the Sword Dao while promising to find him a suitable master.
• Wang Tong'er worried about being separated from Wang Linger, but he agreed to cultivate hard so they could stay together longer.
• The Flesh Tree reflected on its slow efforts to gather information and spread Void Seeds across the Endless Cloud Sea.
• A bell rang across the Endless Cloud Sea, and an enormous warship carrying powerful members of the Flowing Light Sect departed toward the border of the Flesh Desert.
• Li Qing realized the sect's Scripture Repository might be less guarded, but he began preparing cautiously because the Flesh Tree lacked powerful concealment artifacts.

Li Qing infiltrated Flowing Light Island’s administrative palace in a dust-sized duplicate, copying a cultivator’s mana fluctuations to bypass the palace’s logic-based defenses. He planted calamity qi on the cultivator to provoke a disturbance while he explored, and the man’s mana soon erupted.

• Li Qing sent a concealed duplicate into Flowing Light Island and guided it through the air toward the island’s central city.
• Li Qing attached the duplicate to a young cultivator’s trousers and followed him past the palace’s Spirit Awareness inspection.
• Li Qing discovered that the palace’s logic could react to anyone lacking Flowing Light Island’s mana.
• Li Qing used the Invincible Human Dao Dharma Body to copy the young cultivator’s appearance and mana fluctuations, allowing the duplicate to evade the logic.
• Li Qing planted calamity qi on the young cultivator and began exploring the palace as the man’s mana suddenly boiled, making him fear qi deviation.

Li Qing exploited a disturbance in the archive hall to copy its records, and the Jade Tablet reconstructed more than a hundred million years of high-dimensional history. Through the Way of Changes, he witnessed a catastrophic dimensional war and the four sovereigns’ subsequent corruption of low-dimensional spacetime.

• A cultivator underwent a violent cultivation deviation, drawing Huang Yuzi and the other five Primordial Spirit cultivators away as they tried to suppress his rampaging mana.
• Li Qing sent his duplicate into the archives and copied more than a hundred shelves of jade books onto the Jade Tablet.
• The Jade Tablet reconstructed the Flowing Light Island Records of High-Dimensional World History, and Li Qing used the Way of Changes to absorb their information.
• Li Qing’s consciousness reached into the river of time and witnessed three immense low-dimensional worlds ascending into the high-dimensional world and fighting the beings there.
• After the war, the four sovereigns spread their power through low-dimensional spacetime, causing mutations and decline while devouring worlds that ascended.

Li Qing learned from the Jade Tablet that the Nine Great Sovereigns had spent ninety million years suppressing low-dimensional civilizations and harvesting would-be challengers. Realizing that even reaching conceptual logic would not save him from their combined power, he saw that his plan offered no clear path to victory.

• Five colossal Anomaly factions rose in the void, then attacked the high-dimensional worlds during a conflict among its four great factions and completed their Dimensional Ascension.
• The four original rulers and five Anomaly leaders became the Nine Great Sovereigns, dividing control over the void and low-dimensional civilizations to prevent any rival from growing powerful.
• The Nine Great Sovereigns repeatedly crushed low-dimensional worlds attempting Dimensional Ascension, erased records of their quasi-concept-level challengers, and continued the cycle for ninety million years.
• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to reconstruct the history from Flowing Light Island’s incomplete records and realized how long the Nine Great Sovereigns had studied the logic they harvested.
• Li Qing concluded that reaching conceptual logic would still leave him certain to die unless his civilization exceeded the scale of all high-dimensional spacetime, a goal he considered nearly impossible.

Li Qing considered how to exploit the Nine Sovereigns’ weaknesses and found records of the mysterious Annihilation Era, which made the Jade Tablet tremble. Seeking an unpredictable force that might help him challenge conceptual-level beings, he traveled to the Light Death Domain and reached its boundary.

• Li Qing concluded that he first needed to reach the quasi-conceptual logic level before he could interfere with the Nine Sovereigns.
• Li Qing reviewed the Nine Sovereigns’ identities and learned that the Jade Tablet’s records began with the three great sovereigns’ ascension, while older history pointed to an erased Annihilation Era.
• Li Qing suspected the Jade Tablet might have come from the Annihilation Era and that the Eternal Heavenly Domain could hold records from before it.
• Li Qing decided to investigate a forbidden land that even the Nine Sovereigns could not eliminate, choosing the Light Death Domain in the Endless Cloud Sea.
• Li Qing left Flowing Light Island and reached the Light Death Domain, where sensing its twisted light caused something incomprehensible to enter his heart.

Li Qing sent duplicates into the Light Death Domain, where his Heavens Civilization Torrent absorbed its dangerous information and revealed faint impressions of ancient world collapses. After the duplicates vanished at the domain’s time limit, he sent out a new formation to explore deeper while the Flesh Tree gathered nearby anomalies for resources.

• Li Qing used the Flesh Tree to send duplicates into the Light Death Domain while protecting himself with the Way of Changes, the Heavens Civilization Torrent, and the Principle of Civilization seed.
• The Heavens Civilization Torrent filtered and absorbed the domain’s twisted information, growing as civilizations shaped by strange light appeared within it.
• Li Qing glimpsed hazy images of collapsing worlds from an ancient era and suspected they might help him learn about the Eternal Heavenly Domain.
• After a quarter of an hour, the duplicates dissolved into light, confirming the domain’s dangerous time limit and life-force drain.
• Li Qing sent ten duplicates into the domain in a spaced formation to explore its depths while the Flesh Tree lured nearby anomalies into the World Pearl and turned them into Essence Stones.

Li Qing used replicas to investigate the Light Death Domain and discovered a crystal fragment that led to a dead spacetime containing a ruined graveyard. He uncovered a bronze coffin and copied its strange sealing patterns into the Record Book.

• Li Qing repeatedly summoned replicas and studied the ancient information hidden in the Light Death Domain.
• Li Qing's exploring replicas found a crystalline fragment, and touching it transported them into a shattered, silent spacetime.
• Li Qing sent more replicas into the fragment and used them to explore the world, locating a devastated graveyard at its center.
• Li Qing found that spells had no effect on the sealed graves, so a replica pulled apart a blue-stone grave by force.
• Li Qing revealed a bronze coffin covered in strange black patterns and copied the patterns into the Record Book.