Chapter Summaries

Li Qing traced the Underworld Devil Lord’s attempt to uncover the past of every life in the Nine Provinces Four Regions and devised a plan with Haoran Sage to disrupt the investigation. Haoran Sage rallied the region’s powers and the four Wisdom Logic Anomalies, who agreed to act together as conflicts paused and cultivators received orders from the Six Immortals.

• Li Qing followed the heavenly-secret, karma, and fate rivers against the current, approaching the mysterious will while spending vast amounts of mana.
• Li Qing sent a duplicate to meet Haoran Sage and explained that a high-dimensional being was probing every life’s past and the world’s secrets.
• Li Qing proposed involving the Wisdom Logic Anomalies to disrupt the rivers and said Haoran Sage’s help would raise his chance of success to fifty-fifty.
• Haoran Sage warned the Nine Provinces Four Regions that their secrets were at risk and called for its powers and the Wisdom Logic Anomalies to work together.
• The four Wisdom Logic Anomalies agreed to intervene, and cultivators of the Longevity Realm and above received orders from the Six Immortals.

Li Qing reached the time node one hundred million years in the past and used the power of Way of Changes to gather the Mist of time-space heavenly secrets into a vast storm. As the dam downstream began to fail and the Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Master noticed the storm, Li Qing drew the ancient Mist into its vortex.

• The six immortals and the forces of the Dark Side and Bright Side formed a dam in the River of Heavenly Secrets, Karma, and Fate, reinforced by the world origin to resist the Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Master's will.
• Li Qing traveled upstream through time while collecting information in Way of Changes, passing the Devil Master's point of descent and reaching one hundred million years ago after nearly exhausting the Demonic Path's Essence Stones.
• Li Qing found an impenetrable expanse of Mist at the time node and realized his power alone could not draw it out.
• As cracks spread across the dam, Li Qing drew vital essence from the Flesh Seed in the Tribulation-Avoiding Grotto-Heaven and poured it into Way of Changes.
• Li Qing's golden radiance gathered the downstream Mist into a storm, and the Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Master noticed the strange phenomenon.
• Li Qing formed a vast vortex whose broad end plunged into the Mist at the ancient node while its narrow end extended downstream into the river of fate, time, and space.

Li Qing’s mist spread through the river of celestial secrets, karma, and fate, threatening to block the Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Master’s search. Xuanyuan Changlong and two other figures intervened to delay the Devil Master, who recognized a familiar treasure and sensed a hidden force shaping events.

• Black mist poured from Li Qing’s vortex and began obscuring the river’s past, present, and future as the Devil Master’s will approached.
• Xuanyuan Changlong deduced that the mist was meant to disrupt divination and decided to intervene before the Devil Master could stop it.
• Xuanyuan Changlong and two other figures sent their power across time and space, colliding with the Devil Master’s will and tangling countless karmic threads.
• The Devil Master recognized the aura of a treasure hidden in the Nine Provinces Four Regions and inferred that several secret treasures and ancient conceptual logics had gathered there.
• The Devil Master sensed a shapeless power influencing events and resolved to see what future it was pursuing.

Li Qing raced the Netherworld Devil Master to trigger a siphon between the mist from before one hundred million years ago and the mist he had drawn into the river of heavenly secrets, karma, and destiny. The siphon succeeded, and vast mist flooded from the past into the present and future as the Nine Provinces Four Regions witnessed the transformed river.

• The Netherworld Devil Master’s will collided three times with the mysterious power Xuanyuan Changlong had sent, then continued upstream after the obstruction vanished.
• Li Qing focused on drawing out ancient mist and counted down as the Netherworld Devil Master’s will neared him.
• At the end of Li Qing’s countdown, the Netherworld Devil Master’s will struck the mist just as the ancient mist touched the patch Li Qing had drawn out.
• Endless light erupted, Li Qing’s consciousness vanished, and people across the Nine Provinces Four Regions felt the shock of a vast, overwhelming presence.
• The light faded to reveal a transformed river as mist surged from before one hundred million years ago into the present and toward the future.

The Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord saw that Mist from a hundred million years ago had obscured the Heavenly Secrets Karma Fate River, so he turned to gathering information and sent his avatar to the Hundred Herbs Plain. There, he uncovered a hidden feng shui formation and concluded that the four great Wisdom Logic Anomalies’ true trump card lay within it.

• The Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord realized the Mist concealed the present’s heavenly secrets across the universe and decided to send an avatar into the struggle over the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• He used karmic ties and Earth Realm Anomalies to piece together most recent events in the Nine Provinces Four Regions, then sent his avatar toward the Hundred Herbs Plain.
• At the Hundred Herbs Plain, the Devil Lord’s avatar detected three hundred and sixty-five formation nodes sealed with the Underlying Logic of the Wisdom Logic Anomalies.
• The Devil Lord’s avatar traced a vast feng shui formation that gathered the force of an entire province and nurtured life within an independent spacetime.
• The Devil Lord discovered that the formation had fused with the world itself and concluded that it held the four great Wisdom Logic Anomalies’ true trump card.

The Underworld Devil Lord and the Wisdom Logic Anomalies planned to exploit the loss of divination to kill Immortal Realm-level beings and reduce the population of the Nine Provinces Four Regions. The six from the Immortal Realm concealed the Underlying Logic remnant and prepared defenses as attacks loomed, while Li Qing observed the spreading Mist.

• The Underworld Devil Lord realized the Wisdom Logic Anomalies' plan and decided to use it to eliminate another Immortal Realm-level being.
• The Sky Ghost and Dao Thief agreed to proceed with their plan, ordering attacks to reduce the population below a hundred million and identifying Li Qing as their main obstacle.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord warned the other five from the Immortal Realm that a higher-dimensional existence had noticed them, and they hid the Underlying Logic remnant behind projections.
• The six from the Immortal Realm established a warning system, ordered cities fortified with formations and Dao Soldiers, and prepared to respond together to attacks.
• The four Wisdom Logic Anomalies' forces erupted across the four directions, and the six from the Immortal Realm sent projection avatars to suppress them.
• Li Qing studied the Mist obscuring the Heavenly Secrets Karma Fate River and wondered whether it would spread to the Infinite Universe's river.

Li Qing discovered that the Devil Lord had possessed a member of Xuanyuan Changlong’s Novelist School and regained temporary immortal-level power. He sought out Sun Tzu to explain the threat and ask for help, but the chapter ended before Sun Tzu responded.

• Li Qing reasoned that the Devil Lord might seize control of part of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and learned that his possessed host had disappeared.
• Li Qing sensed the Devil Lord’s avatar at the Hundred Herbs Plain and suspected it had discovered the Wisdom Logic Anomalies’ plan.
• Li Qing sent a duplicate of his Past Body into Xuanyuan Changlong’s camp through one of his spies and found Sun Tzu’s command tent.
• Li Qing told Sun Tzu that the Devil Lord’s avatar could briefly wield immortal-level power and asked him to deal with it.
• Li Qing explained that the immortals were moving in groups and that the Devil Lord might interfere with the plan to eliminate future threats.

Li Qing laid out a revised plan to kill one Wisdom Logic Anomaly and one Immortal, but Sun Tzu refused to give him another year of his lifespan to summon a second Immortal puppet. Li Qing left with the balance of power unresolved, while both men recognized that neither could safely force the other’s hand.

• Li Qing explained that the arrival of Concept Logic’s Immortal-level avatar had changed his goal to killing one Wisdom Logic Anomaly and one Immortal, and he asked Sun Tzu for another year of his lifespan to summon a second puppet.
• Sun Tzu refused to grant more than one year of his lifespan unless Li Qing’s existing Immortal puppet had been completely used up.
• Li Qing told Sun Tzu to support whichever side the higher-dimensional being threatened and to preserve the balance between the Immortals and the Wisdom Logic Anomalies.
• Li Qing’s duplicate vanished, and Sun Tzu concluded that Li Qing had intended to use additional Immortal puppets against him.
• Li Qing’s Present Body regretted that Sun Tzu had seen through the danger and concluded that he could eliminate at most one Immortal with the information he had.

As the four Children of Destiny gathered their armies at Hundred Herbs Plain, Zhou Tianjun’s vanguard established a vast mist formation to conceal their forces and prepare the battlefield. The Demon Gods watched from beyond the border, planning to intervene only when the battle’s outcome was near and retreat if the human armies united.

• Li Qinglian led three hundred thousand Dao soldiers toward Hundred Herbs Plain while the other armies prepared to converge there.
• Zhou Tianjun ordered thirty thousand vanguard troops to build 108 ritual-altars and camps across the plain.
• Zhou Tianjun activated the altars, spreading a dense mist across the battlefield to hide the forces gathered there.
• The four Demon Gods observed the mist from beyond the Southern Frontier border and agreed to wait for an opening to strike while avoiding a trap or a war of attrition.
• The vanguard armies of the four Children of Destiny arrived and began building camps and formations, shrouding Hundred Herbs Plain in fog.

Li Qing sent his present, past, and future selves to seek three Primordial Dharma Forms while the great powers focused on Hundred Herbs Plain. At Eternal Night Path’s headquarters, his present self mapped a deadly defensive formation and arranged for a disciple to help him get past it.

• Li Qing divided his three selves among West Province, Southern Frontier, and South Province to target the Primordial Dharma Forms of Eternal Night Path, True Treasure Path, and Monster Path.
• Li Qing’s present self hid in a tree near Eternal Night Path’s headquarters and sent a concealed duplicate down into the abyss.
• Li Qing used controlled insects to probe the fog formation, recording its effects and restoring its name as the Black Heaven Annihilation Array.
• Li Qing learned that the array reduced anyone without a guiding token to ash and decided he needed help from someone in Eternal Night Path.
• Li Qing contacted Dark Nether Daoist and ordered him to send a Divine Soul-level disciple to headquarters and keep the disciple there awaiting instructions.

Li Qing infiltrated the Eternal Night Palace through Dark Nether Daoist’s disciple Mingyuede and gathered information about the True Treasure Path’s Scripture Repository through Green Jade. He weighed the risks of raiding the repository while noting that entering the Demon Race’s main hall lineage would be more difficult.

• Dark Nether Daoist sent Mingyuede back to the Eternal Night Palace to guard a nearly thousand-year-old White Jade Dragon Ginseng.
• Li Qing’s duplicate attached itself to Mingyuede, took control of him, and ordered him to follow his master’s instructions while awaiting further orders.
• Mingyuede entered the Eternal Night Palace and returned to Dark Nether Daoist’s courtyard to inspect the medicinal field and cultivate.
• Li Qing’s future body used Green Jade to investigate the True Treasure Path’s mountain headquarters, its vital-essence gathering formation, and the location of its Scripture Repository.
• Li Qing’s future self considered whether the Scripture Repository held a trap and concluded that infiltrating the Demon Race’s main hall lineage would be more difficult.

Li Qing’s past body failed to find a way into the Demon Race Ancestral Hall, while the Great Ape King’s forces debated how to break through the border pass and intervene in the battle of the four Chosen of Destiny. The Hundred-Eyed Demon King proposed mobilizing the demon race’s full strength, but a Longevity Realm cultivator warned that the apparent weakness of the defenses could be a trap.

• Li Qing found the Demon Race Ancestral Hall too heavily guarded to enter, even after sending a replica underground through the earth veins.
• At the Great Ape King’s command tent, the demon leaders discussed attacking while the four Chosen of Destiny fought their decisive battle at Hundred Herbs Plain.
• A Longevity Realm cultivator explained that the demon race had to strike during the battle, but the fortified pass and its defenders blocked their advance.
• The Hundred-Eyed Demon King proposed calling in the reserve Dao soldiers and gathering all demon Longevity Realm and Dharma Form cultivators to break through the pass.
• A handsome Longevity Realm cultivator warned that the human forces might be feigning a withdrawal and laying an ambush in the fog-covered Hundred Herbs Plain.

The Demon Race emptied its cities to prepare for the coming battle, allowing Li Qing to move closer to searching for the Primordial Dharma Form. Meanwhile, Bai Junru awoke in Flower Island’s tomb and released a mist that transformed a Flower Palace cultivator into an Anomaly.

• The Great Ape King ordered the Demon Race to send out its cultivators, activate the city formations, and leave only a small force behind in each city.
• Li Qing saw a figure leave the Demon Race Ancestral Hall and planned to infiltrate the battle once it began.
• Bai Junru awoke in her coffin as flowers and roots formed a flesh-like body beneath her neck.
• Bai Junru floated out of the tomb, and a gray mist spread through Flower Palace and beyond.
• A patrolling Flower Palace cultivator was withered by the mist, went mad, and floated into the air with an Anomaly smile.

The Mist from Immortal Flower Palace transformed Flower Island’s people and creatures into flesh-and-blood flowers, consuming the island’s largest city. A powerful being trapped Flower Island within a radiant palm, but Bai Rujun’s giant mouth began pulling the palm inward as mysterious conceptual logic stirred.

• The Mist spread from Immortal Flower Palace, twisting cultivators, plants, and animals into flesh-like flowers.
• The Mist engulfed Flower Island’s largest city, turning its millions of inhabitants into flowers and spreading across the island.
• A True Method Realm cultivator fled Flower Island and sent a transmission talisman toward the experts who had left.
• A figure surrounded by forty-eight thousand rays of light noticed the disaster and summoned a huge radiant palm that enclosed Flower Island and the surrounding hundred miles.
• Bai Rujun’s enormous head emerged from the Mist and opened a vast mouth that began drawing in the palm and its light.
• A mysterious fluctuation of conceptual logic surged within the forty-eight thousand rays of light.

The Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects sealed the indescribable power consuming Flower Island and investigated how it had emerged. He traced the incident to a mysterious Fate-less One or Child of Destiny who had entered the island’s grave, but could not identify them and suspected a ruler of the high-dimensional universe was involved.

• The Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects used his giant palm and turbid flames to compress Flower Island and resist its corrupting power.
• The island’s core survived the destruction, so the Patriarch sealed it inside a pure void within the high-dimensional world.
• The Patriarch examined the heavenly secrets surrounding Flower Island and found a trail linked to a Fate-less One or Child of Destiny.
• He traced the unknown person’s path from the Endless Cloud Sea to Flower Island and then into its grave about a month earlier.
• The Patriarch failed to identify the person and suspected that a ruler of the high-dimensional universe had sent them to harm his territory.

The Nine Sovereigns discussed a second outbreak of indescribable power and the mysterious Fate-less One linked to it, but none claimed responsibility. Fearing an unknown threat was manipulating events, they agreed to erase regions that interfered with fate and karma, despite the immense losses.

• Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects told the Nine Sovereigns that a Fate-less One had entered the tomb on Flower Island and left traces in the Endless Cloud Sea.
• Ever-Changing Indestructible Flesh Patriarch challenged the suspicion that a Sovereign had caused the outbreak, and the other Sovereigns guaranteed they had not unleashed indescribable power.
• The Sovereigns considered that a hidden lifeform or space-time Heavenly Dao might be using a Fate Chosen One or Fate-less One to spread chaos.
• The Lord of Western Heaven's Myriad Buddhas and Teachings asked whether the Fate-less One could be tracked, but Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects said the Endless Cloud Sea's Anomalies obscured heavenly secrets.
• Supreme Jade Heaven Treasure Radiant Emperor proposed that the Nine Sovereigns erase every region disturbed by those with or without heavenly fate, and the Sovereigns accepted the plan despite its immense losses.

The Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects’ Patriarch ordered the wars halted and began a coordinated purge of beings connected to the Fate-less One or Child of Destiny. Flower Island received a replacement island and its lost techniques, while Black God Island was overwhelmed by a spreading Mist and the Patriarch’s intervention left its fate uncertain.

• The Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects ordered all wars suspended, explorers recalled, and information gathered before a coordinated strike.
• The Endless Cloud Sea and Flesh Desert forces abruptly withdrew when the order reached the battlefield.
• Hua Lingzi received the cultivation techniques of Flower Island and a newly created island from the Patriarch, then thanked him as the island’s cultivators knelt.
• The Black God Palace Master found Black God Island engulfed by a strange darkness and led the cultivators in a formation against a half-bodied being made partly of Mist.
• The Black God Palace Master’s Great Black Heaven God-Extinguishing Light was swallowed, so he ordered a retreat as the Mist began consuming the island.
• A black hole and a gigantic hand of forty-eight thousand rays of light trapped the fleeing cultivators, many of whom exploded into gray Mist before the remaining power gathered into a dense mass of blackish-gray Mist.

After learning that the Nine Sovereigns planned to purge Fate-less Ones, Children of Destiny, and regions with tangled karma, Li Qing chose to spread the ancient mist across the high-dimensional universe to disrupt their search. He entered the infinite universe’s river of heavenly secrets, karma, and fate and located the Nine Provinces Four Regions at a point one hundred million years in the past.

• The Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects destroyed Black God Island and searched the other islands through the river of heavenly secrets, karma, and fate.
• Li Qing realized the Nine Sovereigns could use karmic traces to identify places he had visited and might purge Fate-less Ones, Children of Destiny, and regions with chaotic heavenly secrets.
• Li Qing learned that Wang Tong'er and Wang Linger were at risk, then weighed unleashing the indescribable power, grafting fate, or spreading the ancient mist.
• Li Qing decided to spread the mist throughout the high-dimensional universe, accepting the chaos it would cause.
• Li Qing used Great Projection Art to project Way of Changes onto the Flesh Tree and entered the infinite universe’s river of heavenly secrets, karma, and fate.
• Li Qing found the Nine Provinces Four Regions in the river and silently traveled to its point one hundred million years in the past.

Li Qing drew the heavenly-secret Mist from the Nine Provinces Four Regions a hundred million years ago into the infinite universe, then used the Record Book to investigate why the feat had gone so smoothly. He learned that the universe’s tendency arose from the game between Final Logic and The Indescribable, and watched the Mist continue to spread.

• Li Qing used Way of Changes to draw Mist from the Nine Provinces Four Regions’ river of heavenly secrets, karmic causality, and destiny into the infinite universe.
• Li Qing returned his consciousness to the Flesh Tree after spending nearly all the power in the Tribulation-Avoiding Grotto-Heaven and his Essence Stones.
• Li Qing questioned why no one else had achieved this and recorded his suspicions in the Record Book.
• The Record Book revealed that the universe’s tendency resulted from the game between Final Logic and The Indescribable.
• Li Qing concluded that both forces lay beneath his truth and decided he could benefit from the cracks in their game.
• Li Qing watched the Mist spread through the infinite universe’s River of Heavenly Secrets, Karma, and Fate, unnoticed for now.

As the four sovereigns sealed the Endless Cloud Sea and the Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects investigated the islands, mist from a hundred million years ago spread through the river of heavenly secrets, karma, and destiny. The Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord blamed Li Qing and planned to exploit the crisis, while the Nine Sovereigns learned that the mist had made finding the Children of Destiny and Fate-less Ones nearly impossible.

• The four sovereigns raised barriers around the Endless Cloud Sea, while the Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects searched its islands for contact with the Fate-less One and the Child of Destiny.
• The Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects and the nine great sovereigns sensed the ancient mist spreading across the Endless Cloud Sea and the high-dimensional spacetime.
• The Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord traced the mist to the Nine Provinces Four Regions and deduced that its second Fate-less One, Li Qing, had entered the high-dimensional spacetime with a powerful treasure.
• The Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord concluded that Li Qing was using the crisis to distract him, advance Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, and gather information for a higher existence.
• The Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord resolved to keep the Nine Provinces Four Regions under his control, persuade the Eight Sovereigns, and draw Li Qing out.
• The Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects told the Nine Sovereigns that the mist had shrouded more than half the Endless Cloud Sea's karmic threads, making the search for Children of Destiny and Fate-less Ones nearly impossible.