Chapter Summaries

After detecting a threat aimed at them, the nine Sovereigns purged suspected areas across the high-dimensional world and restored its surveillance systems. Li Qing realized the new defenses would disrupt his plans, and wondered how the Sovereigns would respond if the indescribable threat spread far enough.

• The Supreme Jade Heaven Treasure Radiant Emperor urged the Sovereigns to purge suspicious areas and restore full-domain surveillance, and the others agreed.
• The nine Sovereigns unleashed attacks across the high-dimensional world, destroying suspected regions and killing more than ten billion beings.
• The Flesh Tree realized that the Mist had concealed its location and another island, preserving Wang Tong'er and the World Pearl.
• The Sovereigns established a surveillance network across the Endless Cloud Sea, prompting Li Qing to move the World Pearl by having an Anomaly swallow it and fall under his control.
• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to learn that the high-dimensional world had restored surveillance, blockaded its nine regions, and would detect vital essence above the State-Forming level.
• Li Qing recognized that the Sovereigns' rapid, methodical response threatened his plans and wondered what they would do if the indescribable problem spread far enough.

Li Qing used his new Stone Womb avatar to carry the Unspeakable power into the Flesh Desert and spread it among the flesh anomalies. As the power began infecting them, blood-cloud eyes spotted an anomaly shrouded in gray-black mist.

• Li Qing created a grotto-heaven within the Stone Womb, giving the avatar power near the Longevity Realm at the cost of its vital essence.
• The Stone Womb avatar entered the Flesh Desert through the Southern Frontier and concealed itself as a mote of dust.
• Li Qing duplicated himself and inscribed the Unspeakable Spirit-Calling Diagram onto a towering Flesh Tree.
• Over several days, Li Qing inscribed the diagram onto several more flesh creatures, each at least a thousand li apart.
• A strange fruit on the first Flesh Tree bloomed and released gray powder that spread across a hundred-li area, taking root in flesh anomalies and covering them in gray-black mist.
• Eyes in the blood clouds spotted one of the mist-covered anomalies and reacted with alarm.

The Ever-Changing Indestructible Flesh Patriarch detected the gray mist of destruction spreading through the Flesh Desert and unleashed a devastating attack that erased a vast region before sealing the remaining mist. He ordered all his dependents to hunt for its source, while Li Qing realized the danger and made the spread of the Indescribable Spirit-Summoning Curse more cautious and unpredictable.

• A Death-class flying Anomaly spotted the giant tree and reported the appearance of the power that destroys all things to the Ever-Changing Indestructible Flesh Patriarch.
• The Ever-Changing Indestructible Flesh Patriarch traced the power to gray mist that had parasitized flesh monsters and attacked it with a colossal claw of blood mist and flames.
• The Patriarch burned away everything across a vast region, compressed the surviving gray mist into a sphere, and sealed it in an empty spacetime layer.
• The Ever-Changing Indestructible Flesh Patriarch ordered his dependents to search for the being spreading the gray mist and promised the finder the power of the Wisdom Logic Anomaly and eternal life.
• Li Qing sensed the destruction, concluded that the higher-dimensional beings would sacrifice their dependents to eliminate threats, and spread the Indescribable Spirit-Summoning Curse at greater, irregular intervals.

Li Qing spread the Unspeakable Spirit-Calling Curse through captured Anomalies in the Endless Cloud Sea, prompting the Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects to order a purge. As the other rulers monitored the growing threat, the Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord weighed whether to join or sabotage the coming war in the Nine Provinces Four Regions.

• Li Qing used the Flesh Tree to capture weak Anomalies, draw the Unspeakable Spirit-Calling Diagram on them, and release them across the Endless Cloud Sea.
• The Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects ordered his disciples to hunt tainted Anomalies and summon him after killing them.
• Five cultivators trapped a gray-mist-tainted phantom with lightning, then summoned the Patriarch to draw the remaining mist into a black hole.
• The Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects warned that the Indescribable power could damage the higher-dimensional world and the universe, and considered a major purge.
• The Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord suspected Li Qing was spreading the power to distract him from the Nine Provinces Four Regions and considered joining or sabotaging the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.

Li Qing explored the border of the Three Thousand Pure Lands and discovered that its radiant Buddhist civilization was built from the remains of countless lives. Unable to cross the sealed border, he spread The Indescribable elsewhere, where contaminated Anomalies began leaving behind mysterious Essence Stones.

• Li Qing observed the Three Thousand Pure Lands and saw that its temples, treasures, and Dharma artifacts were made from corpses and other human remains.
• Li Qing sent an Anomaly toward the border, but Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects' radiance reduced it to dust, leaving him unable to pass.
• Li Qing withdrew the Anomaly and continued spreading The Indescribable through other Anomalies.
• Over a hundred thousand monsters contaminated by The Indescribable appeared in the Flesh Desert, and Winged kin began clearing them out.
• A contaminated Anomaly left an Essence Stone behind, puzzling a Winged kin Anomaly and five Flower Island cultivators who had just slain another contaminated creature.

The Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects and Li Qing discovered that The Indescribable’s influence was spreading through Essence Stones left by contaminated Anomalies. As cultivators began destroying the stones, the Patriarch warned the other high-dimensional figures that the power might be slipping out of control.

• Senior Brother Wang reported a tainted Essence Stone to the Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects, who recognized the aura of The Indescribable and warned cultivators across the Endless Cloud Sea to destroy all traces of contaminated Anomalies.
• Contaminated Anomalies lost their gray Mist and attacked Bright Island, where a patrolling cultivator killed them and unknowingly collected their tainted Essence Stones.
• Li Qing used the Principle of Civilization Seed Prototype to reveal a hidden gray shadow inside an Essence Stone and realized The Indescribable’s power was adapting and becoming contagious.
• Li Qing accepted that his plan had unleashed a danger he could not control, while reasoning that the Void Seed Plan could continue through the ten batches already sent out of the high-dimensional world.
• The Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects told eight other figures that contaminated Essence Stones could pass information from The Indescribable to cultivators and that orthodox techniques could not reliably filter it out.

The Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Master proposed using the nine rulers’ concepts to establish Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and control the universe’s resources through the Heavenly Court, Underworld, and Investiture of Gods List. The rulers recognized the plan’s immense potential, while Supreme Jade Heaven Treasure Radiant Emperor pressed the Devil Master about where he had obtained it.

• The Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects warned that The Indescribable was spreading through hidden Anomalies and proposed destroying all life in the high-dimensional world before it grew stronger.
• The Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Master said he had a solution and proposed building Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, the Heavenly Court, and the Underworld to regulate cultivation and end the universe’s chaos.
• The Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Master shared information from the Yama Son of Heaven about creating the Investiture of Gods List and establishing divine positions.
• The eight other rulers studied the plan, which would let them merge with the universe’s origin and prevent future beings from escaping their control.
• Supreme Jade Heaven Treasure Radiant Emperor praised the plan but asked the Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Master where it came from.
• The Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Master kept his source secret and argued that the system would limit The Indescribable by controlling access to the universe’s vital essence and deploying countless celestial gods and underworld gods.

The nine Concept Logic Sovereigns approved the Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord’s twelve-step plan to unify the universe, establish Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, and advance toward Final Logic. The Devil Lord secretly intended to use the plan as cover to seize three treasures in the Nine Provinces Four Regions, target Li Qing, and eliminate the other Sovereigns.

• The Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord outlined a twelve-step plan to provoke a war between low- and high-dimensional worlds, unify the universe, establish the Heavenly Court and Underworld, and control cultivation through Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
• Supreme Jade Heaven Treasure Radiant Emperor called for a vote, and all nine Sovereigns approved the plan.
• The Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord resolved to use the agreement as a distraction while he sought three secret treasures in the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• The Devil Lord planned to use the treasures to devour the Nine Provinces Four Regions and its hidden Concept Logics, then exploit the other Sovereigns’ weaknesses during the coming upheaval.
• The Devil Lord anticipated that Li Qing would react to the Investiture of Gods plan and believed either action or inaction would expose him to danger.

The Nine Great Rulers mobilized the high-dimensional world to hunt The Indescribable while secretly building a unified All-Beings Dynasty to provoke a universe-wide Investiture of Gods war. Li Qing uncovered their plan and saw an opportunity to change the balance of the infinite universe, but knew he had to accelerate his own plan in the Nine Provinces Four Regions.

• The Nine Great Rulers ordered their factions to enlist fighters, patrol their territories, and destroy The Indescribable, establishing a high-dimensional war command center.
• The Flesh Tree learned that Wang Linger had been conscripted and saw island cultivators transformed into a vast Dao soldier army.
• Li Qing used the Record Book to discover that the Nine Great Rulers planned to create an All-Beings Dynasty and a universe-level Child of Destiny to draw low-dimensional Heavenly Dao entities into war.
• Li Qing recognized the plan as an opportunity to expose weaknesses in the Nine Great Rulers' scheme, but judged that the low-dimensional Heavenly Daos would not act without a clear opening.
• Li Qing resolved to advance the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Investiture of Gods plan in the Nine Provinces Four Regions and gain control of the region quickly.

Li Qing guided the Stone Womb Grotto-Heaven through the Endless Cloud Sea and into the Three Thousand Pure Lands to find a target for the Unspeakable Spirit-Calling Diagram. Beneath a charnel forest, he discovered a dead monk cultivating as a Corpse Buddha and recognized a chance to use the situation to his advantage.

• Li Qing concluded that information would become useless if the universe's forces unified, and resolved to keep spreading Unspeakable power.
• The Stone Womb Grotto-Heaven used Anomalies to cross the Flesh Desert and the Endless Cloud Sea after the nine Sovereigns lifted their blockade.
• Li Qing reached the Three Thousand Pure Lands and found corpses beneath the soil, drained of vital essence into a network of earth veins.
• The Stone Womb Grotto-Heaven discovered an underground charnel forest filled with corpse-built trees, caverns, and countless bodies.
• Li Qing found a lifeless monk absorbing corpse essence and realized the monk was using the Corpse Buddha cultivation method to seek the Longevity Realm.

Li Qing used the Unspeakable Spirit-Calling Diagram to spread contamination through thirty Charnel Groves beneath the Three Thousand Pure Lands. The Lord of Western Heaven's Myriad Buddhas and Teachings burned and sealed the outbreaks, forcing Li Qing to turn his attention to the surface.

• Li Qing used his Stone Womb incarnation and a duplicate to inscribe the Unspeakable Spirit-Calling Diagram on a monk cultivating the Corpse Buddha Path.
• Li Qing spread Spirit-Calling Diagrams through at least thirty contaminated sites over several days.
• The first marked monk and the surrounding corpses transformed, turning a Charnel Grove into a breeding ground for unspeakable Anomalies.
• The Lord of Western Heaven's Myriad Buddhas and Teachings sent Buddhist fire through the underground passages, burning the contaminated corpses and sealing the gray-green mist.
• Li Qing hid his Stone Womb incarnation beyond the Buddhist fire, concluded that the Lord would not permit underground contamination to spread, and went to the surface.

Li Qing spread the Indescribable’s power through the Three Thousand Pure Lands as the Lord of Western Heaven’s Myriad Buddhas and Teachings ordered a purge of the affected anomalies. Meanwhile, the nine supreme Immortal Realm beings built the All-Beings Dynasty, and the conflict on the Hundred Herbs Plain began with opposing Dao Soldier forces facing off in the fog.

• Li Qing carefully moved the Stone Womb Grotto-Heaven through gaps in the surveillance and contaminated anomalies across the Three Thousand Pure Lands.
• The Lord of Western Heaven’s Myriad Buddhas and Teachings ordered Buddhist soldiers to hunt anomalies emitting Destruction Mist.
• The nine supreme Immortal Realm beings planned the All-Beings Dynasty’s ranks and governing structure as part of their wider Investiture of Gods plan.
• Li Qing guided his Stone Womb and Flesh Tree incarnations toward other regions to spread the Indescribable’s power.
• Li Fengxian and Bai Wuxue sent Dao Soldiers to test the armies of Li Qinglian and Pan Chengfeng on the Hundred Herbs Plain.
• A squad of Li Qinglian’s Dao Soldiers faced an opposing unit in dense fog, with visibility under one zhang.

The armies of the Four Heavenly Fates clashed at Hundred Herbs Plain while the Demon Race prepared to attack the Southern Frontier border pass. As the battlefield intensified, the Great Ape King ordered a full assault after half an hour, aiming to break through and join the fighting.

• Li Qinglian observed death essence and resentment gathering beneath the battlefield as casualties mounted among the Dao soldier squads.
• The Great Ape King learned that fewer than thirty thousand soldiers defended the border pass and ordered the Demon Race to attack without breaking through until the battle at Hundred Herbs Plain reached the right stage.
• The Demon Race attacked the border pass, where three Longevity Realm cultivators used the formation and thirty thousand Dao soldiers to hold the walls while concealing their plan to reveal a flaw.
• The Myriad-Eyed Demon God detected that the war of the Four Heavenly Fates had begun, and the Great Ape King ordered the Demon Race to break through the pass in half an hour.
• The military formations of Li Fengxian, Bai Wuxue, Li Qinglian, and Pan Chengfeng manifested as enormous battle phenomena, while Pan Chengfeng and Li Qinglian joined forces against Li Fengxian and Bai Wuxue.

As the Hundred Herbs Plain battle drew the attention of powerful forces across the world, Li Qing watched the armies sacrifice hundreds of thousands of drugged mortals as cannon fodder. The Demon Race then launched its attack, with the Great Ape King’s empowered strike smashing through the city wall and formation.

• Xuanyuan Changlong prepared to attack the Infinite Sect, reinforcing his army with Demonic Path cultivators and nearly a hundred thousand sets of strength-augmenting armor.
• The Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord arrived at the Hundred Herbs Plain to watch the conflict and search for Li Qing.
• Li Qing used his replicas and the Jade Tablet to map the Eternal Night Path and True Treasure Path headquarters while monitoring the battlefield’s hidden formation.
• The fated ones’ armies drove drugged beggars and refugees onto the battlefield, where their deaths brought the total casualties to more than five hundred thousand.
• The Myriad-Eyed Demon God ordered an attack, and the Great Ape King led 1.5 million Demon Race Dao soldiers in a strike that destroyed the city gate, breached the wall, and shattered the formation.

The Demon Race broke through the Southern Frontier border and advanced toward Hundred Herbs Plain as Pan Chengfeng secretly withdrew most of his army. After Zhao Xiaoer reported the retreat to Li Qinglian, the rival forces planned to eliminate Pan Chengfeng and use the coming battle to gain control of the battlefield.

• The three Longevity Realm cultivators fled after the formation's power struck back, and the Demon Race slaughtered the border troops before the Great Ape King led his army toward Hundred Herbs Plain.
• Li Qing's Divine Body recognized that the battle had begun, while Pan Chengfeng ordered roughly three hundred thousand Dao soldiers to retreat into a mountain fortress and planned to conserve his forces.
• Zhao Xiaoer, a Military School spy embedded in Pan Chengfeng's army, sent word of the retreat to Li Qinglian.
• Li Qinglian told Sun Tzu that he intended to use the Demon Race to destroy Pan Chengfeng, then join forces with the two Heavenly Mandates against the Demon Race before turning on them.
• Li Fengxian and Bai Wuxue received orders to seize the opportunity against Pan Chengfeng, while Sun Tzu approached Tribulation Realm cultivators of the True Treasure Path to arrange an alliance.

Sun Tzu and Li Qing prepared a plan while Sun Tzu’s avatar remained behind, and armies across the Nine Provinces Four Regions moved toward war. At Hundred Herbs Plain, the Demon Race army was redirected into Pan Chengfeng’s forces, turning the battlefield into a chaotic melee as powerful observers watched.

• Li Qing’s Divine Body replica met Sun Tzu, who left his equal avatar behind and vanished in Human Path Battle Armor to carry out their plan.
• Li Qing considered Xuanyuan Changlong’s move to settle the east and judged that the Six Paths Investiture of Gods war could soon end.
• Xuanyuan Changlong and Nangong Haoran launched simultaneous attacks on Chen Shanhe’s Infinite Sect army, aiming to take a city before attacking Guo Wushuang.
• The Great Ape King led one and a half million Demon Race Dao soldiers toward Hundred Herbs Plain and attacked through the mist.
• The Military School and True Treasure Path formations redirected the Demon Race’s crescent strike into Pan Chengfeng’s army, killing more than thirty thousand of his Dao soldiers.
• Li Qing Alliance, Li Fengxian, and Bai Wuxue’s formations steered the Demon Race army into close combat with Pan Chengfeng’s retreating forces while six Immortals and four Wisdom Logic Anomalies observed.

Li Qinglian and the other Children of Destiny maneuvered the Great Ape King's army against Pan Chengfeng, whose troops were overwhelmed despite support from the Novelist School's phantom armies. Pan Chengfeng died in the attack, and Sun Tzu ordered his surviving forces placed under Li Qinglian as preparations began for another battle.

• Li Qinglian and the other Children of Destiny directed the Great Ape King's forces toward Pan Chengfeng while their own troops held the frontline.
• The Novelist School summoned three hundred thousand phantom soldiers, giving Pan Chengfeng time to retreat with fewer than sixty thousand troops.
• The Myriad-Eyed Demon God saw through the battlefield and ordered the Great Ape King to attack Pan Chengfeng with the Demon Race's full strength.
• The Great Ape King hurled his halberd, killing Pan Chengfeng and most of his soldiers; only a few Longevity Realm cultivators escaped.
• Sun Tzu told Yu Zi that Pan Chengfeng's remaining troops would join Li Qinglian's command and ordered the Novelist School to prepare to receive her army.

After Pan Chengfeng’s death, the armies of the Hundred Schools of Thought and the True Treasure Path joined forces to surround the Demon Race at Hundred Herbs Plain. As the battle activated the Myriad Blood Myriad Baleful Life-Seizing Formation, Li Qing and Sun Tzu turned the armies’ combined power against one of its underground nodes.

• Li Qinglian, Bai Wuxue, and Li Fengxian launched their forces to encircle the Demon Race after Pan Chengfeng’s fall.
• The Great Ape King charged toward the pass while Li Qinglian joined Pan Chengfeng’s army, and their combined force attacked the Demon Race.
• Nearly one million fighters died, and their vital essence, resentment, and deathly energy activated the Myriad Blood Myriad Baleful Life-Seizing Formation beneath Hundred Herbs Plain.
• Blood Baleful Qi swallowed the four armies, prompting fourteen Tribulation Realm cultivators to unite their power to resist it.
• Li Qing told Sun Tzu to make the armies attack underground; Sun Tzu rallied their combined strength and struck a formation node.

Li Qing used the chaos of the collapsing formations to secretly anchor the Thousand Mountains Myriad Waters Spacetime Shift inside a passage to the Spirit-Nourishing Formation and completed a trap for Haoran Sage. The emergence of Heaven's aura drew everyone's attention, just as the four Wisdom Logic Anomalies appeared and prepared to act.

• Li Qing waited for the Spirit-Nourishing Formation's barrier to collide with the hidden grand array, opening an unstable spacetime passage.
• Li Qing used the Thousand Mountains Myriad Waters Spacetime Shift to plant his power in the passage and prepare a route to his chosen destination.
• A cultivator under Li Qing's control set up the Rebirth Resentment Destruction Spacetime Grand Array in a Dark Side canyon, completing a trap for Haoran Sage.
• A mysterious Heaven's aura poured through the fissure, frightening and tempting cultivators across the Hundred Herbs Plain.
• Haoran Sage called the aura a trap and subtly steered the other five Immortal Realm cultivators to agree.
• The true bodies of the four Wisdom Logic Anomalies appeared at a spacetime fissure, and Sky Ghost urged them to move.

The six Immortals inferred that the four Wisdom Logic Anomalies were using a spacetime rift and a mass Anomaly assault to reach something connected to Heaven beneath the Hundred Herbs Plain. As they argued over who would descend to stop them, the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord challenged the Haoran Sage’s eagerness and insisted one of his own allies join the underground team.

• The four Wisdom Logic Anomalies entered a spacetime rift as it collapsed behind them, while Anomalies from the Bright Side and Dark Side surged toward the Nine Provinces Four Regions to delay the Immortals.
• The Haoran Sage and the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord concluded that the Anomalies were heading beneath the Hundred Herbs Plain to search for something connected to the Seal of Heaven.
• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha proposed splitting the six Immortals into a team to defend the Nine Provinces Four Regions and a team to stop the four Wisdom Logic Anomalies underground.
• The Haoran Sage volunteered himself, the Demon Emperor Who Upends All Living Beings, and Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha to descend, prompting the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord to suspect a scheme.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord demanded that one of his two elder brothers join the underground team, and Myriad Treasures Undying Dao Lord agreed to go because South Province was his territory.
• The Haoran Sage asked who among his group would stay behind as the Immortals continued to divide their forces.