Chapter Summaries

Li Qing deciphered a prophecy on the pale skin and learned that Dream of Chaos’s followers had altered Sumeru Mountain’s history, influencing the Bright Great Thousand Universe and giving rise to the Supreme Demon. When the skin offered him a sacrificial altar in exchange for a reward, he sealed it and began considering how to use it against his enemies, leaving replicas headed toward Sumeru Mountain.

• Li Qing used the Principle of Civilization seed to reveal the prophecy that Dream of Chaos would awaken and bring all things to nothingness.
• Li Qing recorded the statue’s origins in the Jade Tablet, learning that Sumeru Mountain was a fragment of the Bright Great Thousand Universe and that Dream of Chaos’s followers had influenced the Supreme Demon’s birth.
• The pale skin asked Li Qing whether he wanted eternal existence, then showed him an altar and promised Dream of Chaos’s reward for sacrificing everything.
• Li Qing sealed the pale skin and considered sacrificing the Borrowed Lifespan Technique’s projected incarnation, the Demonic Path’s grotto-heaven, and even Sumeru Mountain itself.
• Li Qing sent multiple Stone Womb replicas toward Sumeru Mountain, but half were destroyed while crossing the illusory realm.

Li Qing revived the Bright Heavenly Emperor through a spacetime projection and explained his plan to use the Dream of Chaos to disrupt higher-dimensional spacetime. The Bright Heavenly Emperor agreed to cooperate but warned that spreading The Indescribable too far could make the universe’s corruption irreversible.

• Li Qing used The Indescribable to transform several hundred Calamity-level anomalies into human bodies and sent them into spacetime projections.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor awakened in one of the bodies, received information about the current universe, and agreed to cooperate with Li Qing.
• Li Qing told the Bright Heavenly Emperor that he intended to sacrifice Sumeru Mountain to the Dream of Chaos and attract the Nine Great Rulers’ attention.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor warned Li Qing that The Indescribable could irreversibly erode the universe and urged him not to accelerate its spread.

Li Qing learned how The Indescribable spread through three stages and discovered that the Supreme Jade Heaven Treasure Radiant Emperor was one of the Bright Heavenly Emperor’s nine logic seeds. The Bright Heavenly Emperor agreed to cooperate with Li Qing and take Sumeru Mountain as his foundation, then asked how the Supreme Demon came into being.

• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to learn that the Radiant Emperor had created nine conceptual logic seeds, including the Supreme Jade Heaven Treasure Radiant Emperor, whose identity had changed during the Annihilation Era.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor explained The Indescribable’s adaptation, dormant, and outbreak stages, and said that the Three Realms System had failed to eradicate it.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor recognized the Supreme Jade Heaven Treasure Radiant Emperor as one of his seeds and agreed to help Li Qing, provided he received Sumeru Mountain.
• Li Qing agreed to give him Sumeru Mountain and revealed that he possessed pale skin bearing words from The Indescribable, which promised to grant wishes through sacrifice.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor asked Li Qing whether he knew how the Supreme Demon had come into being.

The Bright Heavenly Emperor told Li Qing how the Pale Skin turned the Bright Universe’s Child of Destiny into the Supreme Demon and brought the power of The Indescribable into the universe. After Li Qing left, the Bright Heavenly Emperor absorbed Sumeru Mountain’s remaining power and began his return to the peak as The Indescribable showed signs of revival.

• The Bright Heavenly Emperor told Li Qing that the Supreme Demon had once been the Bright Universe’s Child of Destiny, but became an entity of The Indescribable after enshrining the Pale Skin at the Dream Kingdom’s shrine on Sumeru Mountain.
• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to conclude that the Three Realms System had provoked an ongoing contest between Final Logic and The Indescribable, which had spread to the Infinite Universe.
• Li Qing resolved to make his own path to freedom, thanked the Bright Heavenly Emperor, and withdrew his spiritual imprint from the emperor’s sea of consciousness.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor transformed into light and absorbed the remaining origin of Sumeru Mountain and the spacetime illusion, restoring his strength to the Tribulation Realm.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor sensed that The Indescribable was reviving and declared that his return to the peak had begun.

Li Qing tested the Eyes of Myriad Spirits against the All-Beings Dynasty’s surveillance and found a way to spread them through its cities undetected. Meanwhile, the Nine Great Rulers completed the Investiture of Gods List and prepared to seek the universe’s recognition.

• Bright Heavenly Emperor left Sumeru Mountain, vowing to reclaim what he had lost.
• Li Qing sent a Flesh Tree replica carrying Eyes of Myriad Spirits into a city of the All-Beings Dynasty and recruited Wang Le to plant them.
• Wang Le fused an Eye of Myriad Spirits into his body and secretly placed phantom eyes in bricks and stones around the city.
• Li Qing confirmed that the city’s surveillance treated the phantom eyes as inanimate objects and began expanding the intelligence network cautiously.
• The Nine Great Rulers finished weaving the Investiture of Gods List and agreed to seek the universe’s final recognition.

The Nine Great Rulers created the Investiture of Gods List, triggering a universe-wide Tribulation and drawing every living being’s fate into a coming war. Li Qing and the Spacetime Heavenly Dao discovered universe-level Children of Destiny, while Li Qing’s incarnation sensed its own destiny passing to a newborn child.

• The Nine Great Rulers pledged to bear the universe’s will, then sent the Investiture of Gods List into the Cosmic Origin to establish a million divine positions.
• The List announced the coming Heavenly Dao, three realms, killing Tribulation, and struggle for an emperor, and the universe’s karmic ties sank into an uncertain future.
• The Spacetime Heavenly Dao sensed the List and found a Child of Destiny born with Underlying Logic in an ordinary farming household.
• Li Qing’s Faith Incarnation discovered another universe-level Child of Destiny on the Parasol Tree Continent, born with a flame mark and the potential to reach the Longevity Realm.
• Li Qing realized that Children of Destiny would lead their worlds into war for the title of emperor, and his incarnation’s destiny began flowing into the newborn child.

Li Qing named the Child of Destiny Wang Zhengtian and arranged for his family to be brought to the City of All Sages for his upbringing. As the Nine Provinces Four Regions rushed to unite amid the universe-wide Investiture of Gods, Desolate Age sought to investigate High-Dimensional Spacetime and confronted void contamination.

• Li Qing visited Wang De and his wife, declared their newborn son a Child of Destiny, named him Wang Zhengtian, and promised to return for him in ten years.
• Li Qing ordered that Wang De's family be brought to the City of All Sages so Wang Zhengtian could receive a comprehensive education.
• The three Wisdom Logic Anomalies and the Immortal Realm leaders agreed to set aside their conflicts and hasten the Battle of Heavenly Fate to complete the Three Realms System.
• Xuanyuan Changlong and Li Qinglian committed nearly all their forces to attacking the allied western Children of Destiny, intensifying the war of attrition.
• Desolate Age decided to send an incarnation to High-Dimensional Spacetime, then faced a wave of void contamination and raised his power to resist it.

Desolate Age infiltrated the Flesh Desert in a hidden grotto-heaven egg and witnessed the All-Beings Dynasty’s logic network destroy a creature contaminated by The Indescribable. He realized the Nine Great Rulers were preparing to suppress a threat they feared, and the chapter ended as Heavenly Dao-level beings across lower-dimensional spacetime began investigating.

• Desolate Age entered the Scorched Earth concealed inside a pale yellow egg and approached a city in the Flesh Desert.
• He shrank and disguised the grotto-heaven egg to evade an immense probing force surveilling the area.
• A flesh monstrosity transformed and spread grayish-white mist, drawing the probing force and a storm of golden lightning that destroyed it.
• Desolate Age recognized that the All-Beings Dynasty’s network combined the Nine Great Conceptual Logics to eliminate manifestations of The Indescribable.
• Desolate Age sent his discovery to his true body and resolved to investigate further as other spacetime Heavenly Dao-level beings dispatched avatars into high-dimensional spacetime.
• The lower-dimensional spacetime’s Heavenly Dao-level beings learned of the upheaval, and an undercurrent began to surge.

The Nine Great Rulers agreed to remove the force sealing the void so low-dimensional worlds could form alliances and eventually attack High-Dimensional Spacetime. When they lifted the seal, dormant anomalies across the universe began to awaken and regain their minds.

• The Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord told the Nine Great Rulers that the Investiture of Gods List and the All-Beings Dynasty were in place, and proposed the next stage of their plan.
• The Nine Great Rulers agreed to remove the shackles on the void and prepare a hidden weapon to destroy the worlds that would eventually attack High-Dimensional Spacetime.
• The Nine Great Rulers poured their Concept Logic into the origin of High-Dimensional Spacetime, causing the mysterious fluctuation that sealed the void to disappear.
• Powerful beings across low-dimensional spacetimes noticed the change as anomalies throughout the void began to awaken.
• A colossal anomaly inside a drifting meteor gained awareness, absorbed the memories of its victims, and vowed to destroy High-Dimensional Spacetime.
• Some Immortal Realm-level anomalies also regained part of their reason after the fluctuation vanished.

Desolate Age and the other Space-Time Heavenly Daos recognized that the Nine Great Rulers had lifted the void’s pollution to draw them into a deadly contest, and they formed an alliance to conquer worlds and seek ascension. Elsewhere, the Great Spirit Mountain Buddha Patriarch began turning immortal-level beings into Buddhas, intending to build Eternal Western Heaven and forge his own path to conceptual logic.

• Purple Jade God explained that the Nine Great Rulers had withdrawn the void’s pollution to provoke the emergence of super civilizations and eliminate the Space-Time Heavenly Daos.
• Desolate Age and the other Space-Time Heavenly Daos accepted the opportunity despite its danger and formally established their alliance.
• Desolate Age ordered the alliance to forge Dao troops and warships, conquer and fuse worlds, and join forces with other universal civilizations.
• A many-armed Anomaly descended on a vast world, and the Great Spirit Mountain Buddha Patriarch seized it and transformed it into the Thousand-Armed Buddha.
• The Great Spirit Mountain Buddha Patriarch declared that he would gather three thousand foundational logics in Spirit Mountain and complete his conceptual logic, Eternal Western Heaven.

The Underworld Reincarnation Devil Lord planned to claim the Ninth Immortal title by using logic crystals to decipher and take over Lü Chunqiu’s body. He presented the stones to Lü Chunqiu, who examined the suspicious gift as the chapter ended.

• The Spirit Mountain Buddha Patriarch decided to join the war across low-dimensional spacetimes to gather immortals for his logic-torrent plan.
• The Underworld Reincarnation Devil Lord, reborn as Lü Shangqiu, chose Lü Chunqiu as his target because he seemed the easiest of Xuanyuan Changlong’s six Tribulation Realm cultivators to exploit.
• The Devil Lord split his underlying logic into three logic crystals, which each contained a trace of his conceptual logic and could let him decipher and take over whoever absorbed them.
• Lü Shangqiu entered Lü Chunqiu’s tent and claimed he had found three mysterious stones that might help Lü Chunqiu win the title of Ninth Immortal.
• Lü Chunqiu inspected the opened box, which held three ordinary-looking stones.

Lü Chunqiu discovered that three stones contained derivative logics and absorbed them into his Dao, greatly increasing his power. Li Qing learned that the Underworld Devil Lord had returned and began considering whether to expose him as the battle for Heaven’s Mandate approached.

• Lü Chunqiu examined the stones Lü Shangqiu had brought and recognized three hidden derivative logics that could strengthen his Dao.
• Lü Chunqiu imprisoned Lü Shangqiu, searched his memories, and killed him, extracting his rudimentary logic and turning his body into an Essence Stone.
• Lü Chunqiu absorbed the three stones into his Dao of the Miscellaneous School, gaining four times his former power and meditating to study the derivative logics.
• The Underworld Devil Lord’s conceptual essence secretly entered Lü Chunqiu’s Dao and began learning its mysteries and searching for flaws.
• Li Qing saw the Jade Tablet’s report that Lü Shangqiu had entered Lü Chunqiu’s tent and not returned, realized the Underworld Devil Lord had reappeared, and wondered whether to expose him.

Li Qing used the Way of Changes to discover that placing his true bodies on the final battlefield would leave him trapped when Heavenly Fate was settled. He changed his strategy to control the armies from behind the scenes, but foresaw that the Five Immortals could still use the Investiture of Gods to corner and kill him.

• Li Qing examined possible outcomes and realized that his three true bodies would be captured and erased if they remained on the final battlefield after the war.
• He recalled the Primordial Spirit cultivators whose causality he had grafted, joined their ranks, and took control of their armies through further Causal Grafting.
• Li Qing considered that the Five Immortals could order the cities to surrender to Li Qinglian and perform the Investiture of Gods on the battlefield.
• He deduced that the Five Immortals could lure him out or wait until the investiture ended before killing those left behind, leaving him with no way to escape.

Li Qing analyzed the enemies waiting to strike during his fate tribulation and discovered that the Supreme Jade Heaven Treasure Radiant Emperor had secretly watched him through the Great Curse. He planned around the coming creation of the Three Realms, but remained unsure how to survive the quarter hour when artifacts would become unusable.

• Li Qing planned to use the Underworld Devil Lord, the Three Great Devil Kings, and Sun Tzu to open escape passages during the final battle.
• Li Qing realized that using the Great Brahma Universal Cosmos Unification Curse had drawn the attention of its master, the Supreme Jade Heaven Treasure Radiant Emperor, who had secretly controlled the Three Great Devil Kings and watched the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to test the possible plans of his enemies, but found that they were all waiting for the final clash before acting.
• Li Qing concluded that he would use Sun Tzu, the Underworld Devil Lord, and the Three Great Devil Kings as a false lead, while keeping the Myriad Treasure Tower as his remaining card.
• Li Qing identified the quarter hour after the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation was established as his greatest danger, when the world's power would make artifacts unusable, and considered whether the Underworld Devil Lord might break the seal by ascending to the Immortal Realm.

Li Qing devised a way to preserve a fragment of his will and spirit inside the Myriad Treasure Tower, then secretly visited Sun Tzu to warn him about rivals for the position of Ninth Immortal. Sun Tzu identified Xuanyuan Changlong as the mysterious imperial preceptor from the Human Dao Dynasty, whose ability to predict the future made him a formidable threat.

• Li Qing placed a wisp of his Primordial Spirit, the seed of the Principle of Civilization, and the Jade Tablet inside the Myriad Treasure Tower, planning to return through True Spirit Nirvana Undying Fate after his three true bodies died.
• Li Qing sent a duplicate carrying the Myriad Treasure Tower away from the siege and into Li Qinglian's main army to find Sun Tzu.
• Li Qing warned Sun Tzu that the Underworld Reincarnation Devil Lord had taken over Lü Chunqiu and urged Sun Tzu to expose and kill him during the struggle for Ninth Immortal.
• Li Qing told Sun Tzu that Xuanyuan Changlong was another rival, and Sun Tzu recognized him as the Human Dao Dynasty's former imperial preceptor.
• Sun Tzu recounted how Xuanyuan Changlong had predicted future disasters with remarkable accuracy before disappearing after a great battle.

Li Qing revealed that Li Qinglian was the last descendant of the Great Tang Dynasty and that the dynasty’s Human Dao power could help defeat the Child of Destiny. Sun Tzu renewed his resolve, but Li Qing warned him that the Radiant Emperor was a third enemy alongside the Underworld Devil Lord.

• Sun Tzu realized their opponent could become the Child of Destiny and that they had to win the coming battle without interfering in destiny’s struggle.
• Li Qing told Sun Tzu that Li Qinglian was the last surviving descendant of the Great Tang Dynasty’s Li Family, whom Li Qing had preserved through a bargain with Emperor Kuntai.
• Sun Tzu recognized that the Great Tang’s inherited Human Dao power could warp logic and serve as a decisive weapon, then vowed to restore humanity and honor its sacrifices.
• Li Qing warned that another higher-dimensional being had arrived: the Radiant Emperor, ruler of the Eternal Heavenly Domain.
• Li Qing explained that the Radiant Emperor and the Underworld Devil Lord likely sought the Seal of Heaven and the two beings of Concept Logic within it.

Li Qing revealed the Three Great Devil Kings’ identities to Sun Tzu and urged him to seize the God-Investing One position with the Myriad Treasure Tower and Sword of Destruction. Sun Tzu then confronted Li Qinglian about his Great Tang bloodline, and Li Qinglian asked him to explain.

• Li Qing told Sun Tzu that two higher-dimensional beings were among the Three Great Devil Kings and advised him to hide his strength until the final battle, then overpower them and claim the God-Investing One position.
• Li Qing gave Sun Tzu the Myriad Treasure Tower, which he combined with the Sword of Destruction as tools for the battle, while secretly planting his imprint in the tower.
• Sun Tzu agreed to work with Li Qing until he became the Ninth Immortal, and Li Qing began calculating the risks of the coming fight.
• Sun Tzu entered Li Qinglian’s command tent, sealed it against outside information, and asked whether Li Qinglian knew who he was.
• Sun Tzu revealed that Li Qinglian was the last descendant of the Great Tang Dynasty; Li Qinglian hid his alarm, then bowed and asked Sun Tzu to enlighten him.

Sun Tzu told Li Qinglian that Xuanyuan Changlong was a hidden Fate-less One and warned of two higher-dimensional enemies in his army, then devised a plan to let Li win through the Great Tang bloodline and the Way of Forbidden Laws. Xuanyuan Changlong sensed the future battle through his mysterious wheels and resolved to turn Li’s plan against him.

• Sun Tzu revealed Xuanyuan Changlong’s origins and the two higher-dimensional beings among his forces, and said Li Qinglian had only one chance to win.
• Sun Tzu instructed Li to restore the Great Tang, ascend the throne in the Capital City during the final battle, and use his bloodline to unleash the Way of Forbidden Laws.
• Li worried that invoking the forbidden power would strip away his cultivation, so Sun Tzu promised him a divine seat after victory and urged him to keep the plan secret.
• Xuanyuan Changlong and his two true bodies experienced a vision of a powerless battle sealed by the Way of Forbidden Laws.
• Xuanyuan Changlong recognized the threat, dismissed Li’s chances of killing him, and decided to turn the plan against its creators.

The Underworld Devil Lord parasitized Lü Chunqiu and prepared to help Xuanyuan Changlong win the coming decisive battle. Meanwhile, Li Qing’s forces captured and absorbed more than a hundred thousand troops as the armies converged on West Province.

• The Underworld Devil Lord used the three derivative logic stones to trap Lü Chunqiu’s consciousness, replace it, and take control of the Miscellaneous School’s treasure of attaining the Dao.
• The Underworld Devil Lord resolved to ensure Xuanyuan Changlong won the final battle and gained entry to the decisive contest without revealing too much strength.
• The Hundred Desires Demon King told the Supreme Jade Heaven Treasure Radiant Emperor that the armies were nearing West Province, where several Children of Destiny had gathered two million troops.
• Li Qing’s forces ambushed Wang Qianqiu’s thirty-thousand-strong army along a mountain road and captured it.
• Li Qinglian’s commanders captured more than a hundred thousand troops belonging to Wang Qianqiu and Meng Tianji across several armies.

Li Qing’s agents weakened the armies of Wang Qianqiu and Meng Tianji, while the Children of Destiny gathered at Dragon-Locking Pass to discuss the unexplained surrenders. Li Qing decided to use feng shui arts to destroy the pass’s terrain before the opposing armies arrived, and began preparing the Earth Dragon Baleful Surge Formation.

• Li Qing’s undercover agents guided soldiers under Wang Qianqiu and Meng Tianji to surrender, earning promotions and gaining control of roughly five hundred thousand troops within Li Qinglian and Xuanyuan Changlong’s forces.
• Meng Tianji and Wang Qianqiu told the other Children of Destiny that many of their soldiers had surrendered unexpectedly, and Ashoka King urged them to investigate their armies for infiltrators.
• Wang Qianqiu proposed replacing suspicious personnel and relying on Dragon-Locking Pass to wear down the enemy, and the five Children of Destiny agreed.
• Li Qing judged that a battle at Dragon-Locking Pass could let the Five Immortals control the final battlefield, so he resolved to shift the fighting across West Province by changing the terrain.
• Li Qing’s Divine Body found thirteen geomantic veins beneath the Dragon-Locking Mountains and began planning an Earth Dragon Baleful Surge Formation to collapse the peaks.