Chapter Summaries

Sun Tzu helped the Wisdom Logic Anomalies seize the Life Key, restoring balance with the Immortal Realm cultivators. After escaping into the Nine Provinces Four Regions, he headed for the Hundred Herbs Plain as the factions weighed their next moves.

• Sun Tzu held off one Immortal Realm cultivator while the Sky Ghost and the other Wisdom Logic Anomalies fought the remaining two and seized the Life Key.
• The Haoran Sage, Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord, and Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord unleashed their artifacts and the world's origin power, suppressing the Dao Thief, Myriad Spirits, and Sun Tzu.
• Sun Tzu escaped through the world barrier into the Nine Provinces Four Regions, where his power fell to the Tribulation Realm, and the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord pursued him.
• Sun Tzu reached the Hundred Herbs Plain and plunged underground toward the hidden spacetime passage Li Qing had told him about.
• The Sky Ghost, Dao Thief, and Myriad Spirits chose to leave rather than attack, agreeing to preserve their strength and reconsider their plans as events unfolded.

Haoran Sage and the other Immortal Realm cultivators withdrew their forces, but an unexpected clash between the two expelled Immortal Realm cultivators and the three Wisdom Logic Anomalies drew them back into battle. As the fighting gave Li Qing time to advance the Battle of Heavenly Fate, he targeted a True Treasure Path Daoist for information about the Primordial Dharma Form.

• Haoran Sage and Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord agreed to avoid further conflict and quickly complete the Investiture of Gods plan, while Haoran suspected Li Qing’s hidden ally was a Tribulation Realm cultivator.
• Sun Tzu escaped the collapsing underground spacetime through Thousand Mountains Myriad Waters Spacetime Shift, and Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord abandoned the pursuit.
• The sealing formation beneath Hundred Herbs Plain shattered and expelled two Immortal Realm cultivators, who immediately attacked the three Wisdom Logic Anomalies.
• Haoran Sage, Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord, and Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord rushed to surround the Wisdom Logic Anomalies, while Li Qing used the distraction to press the Battle of Heavenly Fate forward.
• Li Qinglian’s seven hundred thousand Dao Soldiers gained an advantage over the depleted True Treasure Path army, and Li Qing sent his Divine Body to target Red Star’s memories for knowledge of the Primordial Dharma Form.

Li Qing used Heavens Civilization Torrent to covertly control Red Star Daoist and other True Treasure Path cultivators, turning the tide for Li Qinglian’s army. After half a day of fighting, the True Treasure Path’s forces collapsed, and Li Qinglian launched a final attack on Li Fengxian and Bai Wuxue.

• Li Qing infiltrated Red Star Daoist’s consciousness, altered his convictions, and made him secretly aid Li Qinglian’s army.
• Li Qing absorbed the fallen Myriad Treasures Undying Dao Lord’s Primordial Dharma Form into Way of Changes and completed another portion of the Comprehensive Record of Humanity Under Heaven.
• Li Qing covertly controlled True Treasure Path cultivators through Heavens Civilization Torrent, causing them to feign weakness and gradually give Li Qinglian’s forces the advantage.
• Xuanyuan Changlong continued fighting Nangong Haoran while concealing his true strength, as Li Qing judged that he would win their decisive battle.
• After half a day, the True Treasure Path’s army began an irreversible collapse, while Li Fengxian and Bai Wuxue were badly wounded against Li Qinglian.
• Li Qinglian’s strength and military formation surged, and he charged at his opponents with a final thrust.

Li Qinglian defeated Li Fengxian and Bai Wuxue, unifying the south, while Xuanyuan Changlong used a Death-Seizing Black Arrow to kill Nangong Haoran and unify the east. As the world settled into three competing powers and the final battle approached, Li Qing counted his vast spoils in Dragon Province.

• Li Qinglian killed Li Fengxian and Bai Wuxue, then demanded the True Treasure Path's remaining forces surrender.
• Li Qinglian ordered the seizure of True Treasure Path cities and the removal of Anomalies while leaving its other resources untouched.
• Xuanyuan Changlong used a Death-Seizing Black Arrow to disable Nangong Haoran, beheaded him, and forced the Confucian allied army to surrender.
• Li Qinglian and Xuanyuan Changlong attacked Zhu Yiba and Wang Qianqiu's northern and Dragon Province territories, leaving them with most of their lands in the west.
• Li Qing counted his gains near the Seal of Heaven in Dragon Province and found essence stones worth roughly 300 billion Curse-Grade Essence Stones.

Li Qing began his plan to use the Battle of Heavenly Fate to destroy Xuanyuan Changlong’s karmic ties, infiltrating both armies through three Primordial Spirit cultivators. Xuanyuan Changlong sensed that Li Qing had entered the game and planned to expose him by defeating Li Qinglian.

• Li Qing replenished the Tribulation-Avoiding Grotto-Heaven with essence and sent his present body toward Xuanyuan Changlong’s army while his past and future bodies went to Li Qinglian’s army.
• Li Qing’s present body subdued Ink Wash, grafted their past, present, and future together, and assumed his identity as Ink Wash took refuge elsewhere.
• Li Qing’s past and future bodies chose Mister Liu Sheng and Zhou Qiankun as their replacements, letting him infiltrate forces controlling about two hundred thousand soldiers.
• Li Qing spread Calamity Qi through the karma of both armies to draw their soldiers into his fate-tribulation battle with Xuanyuan Changlong.
• Xuanyuan Changlong recognized Li Qing as his fate tribulation and resolved to investigate his army, defeat Li Qinglian, and use the resulting flow of Calamity Qi to locate Li Qing.

Li Qing's Divine Body refined the Myriad Treasure Tower into a Logic Artifact and turned the Myriad Treasures Undying Dao Lord's spiritual imprint into a loyal Immortal Realm spirit body. As the Five Immortals withdrew from their fight with the three Wisdom Logic Anomalies, Li Qing continued pouring vital essence into the spirit body to prepare a powerful trump card for the Battle of Heavenly Fate.

• Li Qing's Divine Body used the Heavens Civilization Torrent to strip away the spiritual imprints inside the Myriad Treasure Tower and remake them into a loyal puppet of the Myriad Treasures Undying Dao Lord.
• Li Qing began inscribing the Curse for the Logic Artifact onto the tower, and the change caused a strange celestial phenomenon across the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• The Five Immortals sensed that someone was gaining control of the Myriad Treasures Undying Dao Lord's logic and debated whether to continue fighting the three Wisdom Logic Anomalies.
• Haoran Sage admitted that the Five Immortals could not defeat the three Wisdom Logic Anomalies and asked them not to interfere with the Investiture of Gods plan.
• The Sky Ghost and Dao Thief agreed to wait for an opportunity during the Battle of Heavenly Fate, while the three Wisdom Logic Anomalies vanished.
• Li Qing's Divine Body fed vital essence from the Tribulation-Avoiding Grotto-Heaven into the azure-and-gold Immortal Realm spirit body.

Li Qing refined the Myriad Treasure Tower into a powerful hidden trump card, then went west to obtain the Eternal Night Path's final Dharma Form. He secretly used the Heavens Civilization Torrent to take control of the Nameless Daoist, leaving the Eternal Night Path commander loyal to him.

• Li Qing finished refining the Myriad Treasure Tower, which could unleash at least ten percent of an Immortal Realm cultivator's combat power when activated.
• Li Qing decided to head west and obtain the Eternal Night Path's last Dharma Form while the Immortal Realm cultivators were away.
• Li Qing tracked the Nameless Daoist's army to Myriad Star City, where its black formation attack clashed with Wang Qianqiu's Law Net.
• Li Qing sent the Heavens Civilization Torrent into the Nameless Daoist through his mount and remade his thoughts and spirit.
• The Nameless Daoist regained clarity and became absolutely loyal to Li Qing.

Li Qing refined the Eternal Night Path’s Dharma Form into the Comprehensive Record of Humanity Under Heaven, bringing it close to completion as he prepared to shape the final stage of the war. Meanwhile, his past body, posing as Liu Sheng, led Li Qinglian’s army against White House City and began dismantling its defenses through precise control of his Dao artifact and summoned figures.

• The nameless Daoist received Li Qing’s order to keep the war balanced so neither side could win or lose.
• Li Qing absorbed the Eternal Night Path’s Dharma Form information, bringing the Dharma Form section of the Comprehensive Record of Humanity Under Heaven close to revealing its complete form.
• Li Qing concluded that he needed to personally enter the war’s final stage, break causality with causality, and defeat Xuanyuan Changlong’s army to secure victory.
• Liu Sheng led thirty thousand of Li Qinglian’s troops in an assault on White House City, seeking a major military achievement and a higher command position.
• Liu Sheng used the Lantern Record to summon hundreds of characters, then exploited the city’s formation flaws to destabilize its defenses while the figures moved toward the walls.

Li Qing used precise control of summoned characters to capture a city and planned to build his military authority gradually. Meanwhile, Sky Ghost, Dao Thief, and Myriad Spirits realized their fixation on Heaven was influencing them and agreed to avoid anything related to it until the Investiture of Gods ended.

• Li Qing controlled a Lantern Record demoness to kill a Foundation Establishment Human Tribulation cultivator and ten Dao soldiers on the city wall.
• Li Qing's summoned forces broke through the gates and captured the city within an hour.
• Li Qing decided to limit his micro-control, rise through military merit, and continue developing the Void Seed Plan and the higher-dimensional world.
• Sky Ghost, Dao Thief, and Myriad Spirits discussed their latest setback and recognized that a power tied to Heaven was intensifying their desires and clouding their judgment.
• The three Wisdom Logic Anomalies agreed not to act on anything related to Heaven until the Investiture of Gods ended, and chose to wait while advancing Six Paths Investiture of Gods.

Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha and the Demon Emperor Who Upends All Living Beings agreed to unite the Buddhist Sect and the remaining Demon forces against their rivals. The immortals then planned to identify Li Qing’s true body during the Battle of Heavenly Fate, while the Haoran Sage questioned how Li Qing had learned of the High-Dimensional World’s plan.

• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha persuaded the Demon Emperor Who Upends All Living Beings to bring the surviving Demon forces into an alliance with the Buddhist Sect.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord and the Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord concluded that Li Qing had manipulated the conflict and intended to use the Battle of Heavenly Fate to advance his cultivation.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord deduced that Li Qing had at least three incarnations and one true body, and proposed that the immortals and the Wisdom Logic Anomaly monitor every fighter at the Primordial Spirit level or above.
• The Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord agreed to contact the Wisdom Logic Anomaly, while the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord presented his plan to the other immortals.
• The Haoran Sage asked how Li Qing had learned that the High-Dimensional World was building a universe-wide Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, noting that Li Qing’s treasure required information to work.

The Haoran Sage warned Li Qing that the Immortal Realm beings planned to use the world's origin to capture him during his destined tribulation. After learning that his Past Body's identity had been exposed, Li Qing withdrew it and left Liu Sheng to return to his original life.

• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord persuaded the Immortal Realm beings to use the world's origin to suppress Li Qing and prevent his resurrection, and they agreed.
• The Haoran Sage secretly decided to warn Li Qing and manipulate the conflict among the Immortal Realm beings and Wisdom Logic Anomalies.
• The Haoran Sage met Li Qing's Divine Body in a Capital City teahouse and revealed that the Immortal Realm beings were monitoring Primordial Spirit cultivators and believed Li Qing had a way to survive in other worlds.
• Li Qing realized that his Past Body's changes to Liu Sheng's combat instincts had exposed his identity, so he withdrew the Past Body and restored Liu Sheng.
• Li Qing thanked the Haoran Sage for warning him before his Past Body could be discovered or killed.

Li Qing rejected Haoran Sage’s plan to eliminate two Immortals and leave himself dominant, but agreed to help spread Confucianism across the void. He then observed Sun Qiankun fishing beside Coiling Dragon Lake, where Li Qinglian arrived to praise his strategic plan.

• Haoran Sage revealed that he wanted to reduce the number of Immortals, complete his Confucian path, and become the sole dominant power.
• Li Qing realized Haoran Sage could speak truthfully while still changing his decision later, and concluded that three-way balance served his interests better than Haoran Sage’s plan.
• Li Qing refused to help eliminate two Immortals but offered to prepare the spread of Confucianism into other low-dimensional worlds.
• Haoran Sage agreed to set aside the elimination plan and discuss preaching across the void instead.
• Li Qing saw Sun Qiankun fishing with a straight hook beside Coiling Dragon Lake after the Novelist School’s plans had collapsed.
• Li Qinglian appeared and praised Sun Qiankun’s strategy, saying Pan Chengfeng had failed because his foundations were too shallow to use it well.

Sun Qiankun pledged himself to Li Qinglian and proposed ways to expand his realm while avoiding a vulnerable connection between north and south. Li Qinglian entrusted him with the north and Central Province, and Li Qing received news of Sun Qiankun's appointment.

• Li Qinglian promised to protect Pan Chengfeng's family, prompting Sun Qiankun to pledge his service.
• Sun Qiankun advised Li Qinglian to govern the north and south separately and join forces with other powers to attack the west.
• Sun Qiankun revealed that he had planted agents in Xuanyuan Changlong's army and that about one-tenth of Li Qinglian's generals were also his men.
• Li Qinglian gave Sun Qiankun a token and entrusted him with the north and Central Province.
• Li Qing received word that Sun Qiankun had entered Li Qinglian's service to oversee the northern lands.

Li Qing planned to exploit the approaching war in the west to gain merit, while Xuanyuan Changlong accepted Li Qinglian’s alliance and sent their armies against the western forces. In the Earth Realm, the defeated Netherworld Devil Master sent Yama Son of Heaven through a fissure toward the Nine Provinces Four Regions to prepare a new avatar and pursue Li Qing.

• Li Qing shifted his karmic scheme to Mister Minglan and planned to use the western war to earn merit and gain command of a larger army.
• Xuanyuan Changlong’s generals weighed Li Qinglian’s offer to join forces, and Xuanyuan Changlong accepted the alliance against the five Children of Destiny in the west.
• Li Qinglian’s forces and Xuanyuan Changlong’s army advanced west, bringing Wang Qianqiu and Zhu Yiba’s territories under threat as the war began.
• The furious Netherworld Devil Master marked Yama Son of Heaven and ordered him to return to the Nine Provinces Four Regions through a fissure.
• The Netherworld Devil Master sent Yama Son of Heaven onward to create a new avatar and vowed to contend for the Ninth Immortal and deny Li Qing another chance.

Nether River Yama Son of Heaven tried to escape Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord by activating a hidden Blood Altar, but the Devil Lord took over his body and returned to the Nine Provinces Four Regions. He then used his mark on Lü Shangqiu as a coordinate during Xuanyuan Changlong’s assault on Zhu Yiba’s fortified pass-city.

• Nether River Yama Son of Heaven headed for the Blood Altar, intending to sever his karma and preserve his true spirit in a blood egg.
• As Nether River Yama Son of Heaven tried to destroy his body, Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord’s mark consumed it and formed a new avatar, while Nether River Yama Son of Heaven’s consciousness vanished.
• Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord, now at the perfect Immortal level, used Lü Shangqiu as a coordinate to return to the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• Lü Shangqiu briefly froze while controlling Xuanyuan Changlong’s army, causing its assault on Zhu Yiba’s fortified pass-city to pause before resuming.
• Zhu Yiba grimly faced the battle, knowing that losing the pass would finish him.

Li Qing learned that the Underworld Devil Lord had descended again and that the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven had survived by reincarnating through a hidden Flesh Egg. As Li Qing continued fighting in Xuanyuan Changlong’s army, the Yama Son of Heaven began rebuilding his strength underground, while Yuan Zhihui concluded that Li Qing’s fate was bound to the Battle of Heavenly Fate.

• Li Qing’s observers reported that the Underworld Devil Lord had reincarnated through Lü Shangqiu and that the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven had escaped into a prepared flesh-and-blood altar.
• Li Qing realized the immortals could revive repeatedly, kept his discovery secret, and continued fighting as Ink Wash with Xuanyuan Changlong’s army.
• The Nether River Yama Son of Heaven emerged from the Flesh Egg with only Longevity Realm strength and began restoring his Dao by absorbing vital essence from anomalies.
• Yuan Zhihui reviewed reports from the battlefield and concluded that Li Qing had weakened the Wisdom Logic Anomaly and the immortals, and that Li Qing’s fated calamity lay within the Battle of Heavenly Fate.

Yuan Zhihui deduced that Li Qing had likely hidden a surviving Great Tang bloodline descendant with Forbidden Law power in Li Qinglian’s army, and resolved to investigate in secret. He created a convincing vajra incarnation to conceal his movements and began approaching Li Qinglian’s army, intent on striking Li Qing when his defenses were spent.

• Yuan Zhihui reviewed Li Qing’s past dealings and concluded that a surviving Great Tang descendant wielding the Forbidden Law might be concealed among Li Qinglian’s forces.
• Yuan Zhihui decided to identify the surviving bloodline and monitor the Primordial Spirit cultivators in Li Qinglian’s army, waiting for the Investiture of Gods to create an opening.
• Yuan Zhihui resolved to avoid all contact and investigate alone so Li Qing could not trace his plans through karmic connections.
• Yuan Zhihui used the Destruction Vajra Splitting Technique to refine a Death-level anomaly into an incarnation that copied his appearance and aura.
• Yuan Zhihui left the Buddhist Sect’s camp for Li Qinglian’s army while his incarnation remained behind, keeping his true movements hidden from the observers tracking Tribulation Realm cultivators.

Yuan Zhihui secretly investigated Li Qinglian’s army and planned to seize a rare treasure before fleeing to another world. Meanwhile, Li Qing launched his million-strong army’s Battle of Heavenly Fate on the Parasol Tree Continent, drawing the Phoenix King’s attention.

• Yuan Zhihui considered how to infiltrate Li Qinglian’s army, exploit its alliances, and expose a possible traitor among the Military School’s candidates for Ninth Immortal.
• Yuan Zhihui began quietly gathering information while preparing to steal a rare treasure and reincarnate in another world.
• On the Parasol Tree Continent, schools of thought spread among the Children of the Phoenix, and a Military School founder used more than a hundred thousand Dao Soldiers to defeat a stronger rival and take his city.
• Li Qing’s projected faith avatar grew to Primordial Spirit level as the seventy-two Void Seeds and their million Dao Soldiers strengthened in their underground stronghold.
• Li Qing ordered the seventy-two sages to march on the Imperial City and kill the Parasol Tree Continent’s Dharma Form cultivator, drawing Calamity Qi into their army formation and raising his strength to rival a peak Dharma Form cultivator.
• Li Qing led the campaign toward the Imperial City, where the Phoenix King sensed him and called him a fiend from beyond the heavens.

The Phoenix King gathered the Children of the Phoenix and their Dao soldiers, sensing that victory over the coming invasion could let him advance to the Longevity Realm. As Li Qing’s army marched toward Phoenix City, he spread dreams across Parasol Tree Continent and urged ordinary people to believe in the Lord of Human Dao.

• The Phoenix King summoned more than a thousand Children of the Phoenix and over five hundred thousand Dao soldiers to Phoenix City to face the Hall of All Sages.
• The Phoenix King used the assembled force to approach the limit of the Dharma Form Realm and realized that greater tribulations and Qi Fate could help him reach the Longevity Realm.
• Li Qing led an army that grew to 1.2 million as people joined it on its march north.
• Li Qing’s army broke through a sealed city without harming its protective formations and continued onward.
• Li Qing used the Principle of Civilization and the Dream Entry Technique to make people across Parasol Tree Continent dream of the Lord of Human Dao and call for the Children of the Phoenix to be destroyed.

Li Qing drew on the Parasol Tree Continent’s accumulated resentment against the Children of the Phoenix and realized the Principle of Civilization could unite the hopes and fury of countless lives. As the Phoenix King’s army advanced, Li Qing faced the approaching threat with confidence in the power gathered behind him.

• An old man recounted how the Children of the Phoenix had killed his mother and beaten him and his father, while countless people’s resentment began gathering across the Parasol Tree Continent.
• Resentment from the dead flowed into a black ocean behind Li Qing, and he recognized civilization as a bond linking all life and a potential weapon against the rulers of high-dimensional spacetime.
• Li Qing resolved to spread the Hall of All Sages and the Principle of Civilization throughout the worlds, believing that bringing hope to all living beings could complete his path.
• The Phoenix King sensed a growing crisis, ordered his army to march against Li Qing, and rushed toward his forces.
• Li Qing sensed the Phoenix army approaching and prepared to face it, confident in the power gathered within the dark ocean behind him.