Chapter Summaries

Li Qing completed the Earth Dragon Baleful Surge Formation beneath the Dragon-Locking Mountains and outlined a plan to Sun Tzu for dividing the enemy armies and capturing the Capital City. As Li Qinglian’s forces engaged the investigators sent from Dragon-Locking Pass, Li Qing activated the formation, shattering the rock beneath the pass and triggering a catastrophic upheaval.

• Li Qing placed feng shui nails across the earth veins and completed a formation designed to unleash its force underground.
• Li Qing told Sun Tzu to redirect Li Qinglian’s army west, then capture the Capital City while Xuanyuan Changlong was drawn back east.
• Li Qinglian split his million-strong army into three forces and halted near the Dragon-Locking Mountains, prompting the five Children of Destiny to send Longevity Realm cultivators to investigate.
• Li Qinglian’s cultivators clashed with the investigators in the sky as Li Qing activated the formation beneath the mountains.
• The formation sent the earth veins into chaos and shattered much of the granite above a vast underground water layer, shaking Dragon-Locking Pass and forcing its flying cultivators into the air.

The collapse of the Dragon-Locking Mountains devastated the Dao army at Dragon-Locking Pass, allowing Li Qinglian and Xuanyuan Changlong to invade West Province. Li Qinglian cornered Meng Tianji’s smaller force, and the chapter ended as the two commanders clashed in a battle of destiny.

• The Dragon-Locking Mountains collapsed, killing many Dao soldiers and scattering the survivors as cultivators tried to rescue them.
• Li Qinglian and Xuanyuan Changlong ordered their armies through the ruined pass and advanced into West Province while the Children of Destiny gathered their forces and retreated.
• Li Qinglian led a million soldiers in pursuit of Meng Tianji, whose gathered troops numbered fewer than two hundred thousand.
• Meng Tianji abandoned his retreat to West Province City and ordered his army to turn and charge Li Qinglian’s forces.
• Li Qinglian and Meng Tianji met at the head of their armies, and their spear strikes crossed as their military formations collided.

Li Qinglian’s forces defeated the remaining Children of Destiny and unified the eastern and western lands, bringing the Battle of Heavenly Fate close to its conclusion. On Sun Tzu’s orders, Li Qinglian prepared to proclaim himself emperor in Capital City, setting the final plan in motion.

• Li Qinglian killed Meng Tianji, and Xuanyuan Changlong and Li Qinglian’s armies defeated the remaining forces across West Province.
• Xuanyuan Changlong killed Wang Qianqiu and Zhu Yiba, while Li Qinglian’s army killed Ximen Yongsheng.
• Li Qinglian turned his army back from the West Province border and returned to his territory with captives, while Xuanyuan Changlong took control of the western lands.
• Sun Qiankun reported that ceremonies across the land were ready, and Li Qinglian said establishing the imperial order and proclaiming himself emperor was Sun Tzu’s command.
• Li Qinglian ordered the three armies to set out for Capital City and announced he would enter before noon the next day to hold the founding ceremony.

Li Qinglian’s forces captured the Capital City and prepared to proclaim him ruler while Xuanyuan Changlong ordered his army to converge for a decisive battle. At Li Qinglian’s coronation, Emperor Kuntai’s decree named him heir to the Great Tang Dynasty, awakening the people’s recognition and drawing the dynasty’s remaining fortune into him.

• Li Qing’s plan for the Fate Tribulation began as karma and killing intent gathered around the coming battle.
• Xuanyuan Changlong learned that the Capital City had fallen and ordered the eastern and western forces to converge there for a decisive battle in three days.
• Li Qinglian stood at the altar in imperial robes as Longevity Realm cultivators projected his coronation across the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• The master of ceremonies read Emperor Kuntai’s decree naming Li Qinglian the rightful heir to the Great Tang Dynasty.
• The people recognized the dynasty’s return, and its remaining fortune and the Law Net converged upon Li Qinglian, transforming his bloodline.

Li Qinglian awakened the Way of Forbidden Laws, declared himself the eleventh emperor of Great Tang under the reign name New Tang, and prepared to confront Xuanyuan Changlong’s advancing army. While the great powers focused on the coming battle, Li Qing’s Divine Body began raiding Dao Lineages across the Nine Provinces to gather resources for the final trial.

• Li Qinglian’s cultivation fell to Essence Refining as the Way of Forbidden Laws awakened in his bloodline and connected him to the dynasty’s Network.
• Li Qinglian declared himself the eleventh emperor of Great Tang and named his reign New Tang, while Xuanyuan Changlong ordered his armies to reach the Capital City by noon.
• Li Qinglian ordered Great Tang’s troops to assemble outside the Capital City and prepare to fight Xuanyuan Changlong’s forces.
• Li Qing’s Divine Body created more than a thousand concealed copies and sent them to raid Dao Lineages across the Nine Provinces while the powerful cultivators watched the battlefield.
• Li Qing’s original Divine Body infiltrated the Buddhist Sect’s foreign-region headquarters and located its hidden realm, scriptures, and resources.

Li Qing prepared to exploit his copies’ theft of Essence Stones while the armies of Li Qinglian and Xuanyuan Changlong gathered for the final Battle of Heavenly Fate. The Five Immortals sealed the battlefield with a formation to trap Li Qing’s true body, but Li Qing had anticipated their move.

• Li Qing connected his copies and avatars, monitored events through the Jade Tablet, and prepared to transfer stolen Essence Stone essence into the Myriad Treasure Tower.
• Li Qinglian and Xuanyuan Changlong faced each other with their armies outside the Capital City and exchanged threats before returning to their forces.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord ordered the Five Immortals’ projections to establish the Spirit-Severing, Dao-Extinguishing, Heaven-Sealing, Earth-Locking Formation around the battlefield.
• Yuan Zhihui ordered Tribulation Realm cultivators to guard the formation’s thirty-six banners, and the cultivators took their positions.
• Li Qing recognized that the formation was meant to trap his true body and resolved to rely less on the Jade Tablet and more on the Way of Changes.

Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord explained how the Five Immortals would exploit Li Qing’s need to overcome his fated tribulation and gain Qi Fate during the Battle of Heavenly Fate. He proposed letting Li Qing help build Heavenly Dao Reincarnation before cleansing the treasures and gradually taking control of it.

• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord sealed spacetime around the battlefield, reasoning that Li Qing had to enter the Battle of Heavenly Fate to overcome his tribulation and gain enough Qi Fate to attain the Dao.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord told Haoran Sage and the other immortals that Li Qing’s ally likely held the treasures needed to build Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, and that killing Li Qing too soon could leave them bound to the world’s reincarnation system.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord proposed waiting for the Battle of Heavenly Fate to choose a victor, then letting the Ninth Immortal bring out the three treasures and build Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord urged the Five Immortals to remain inactive so Li Qing would not detect their plan, then cleanse his marks from the treasures with the world’s origin and gradually gain influence over reincarnation.
• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha’s eyes flickered as he listened to Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord’s plan.

The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord devised a plan to exploit Li Qing’s fated calamity and capture him, while the Haoran Sage secretly chose to warn Li Qing and offer him a way to escape. Li Qing remained suspicious of the Sage and recorded his doubts about the man’s motives.

• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord proposed using the Investiture of Gods and constant surveillance of Primordial Spirit cultivators to expose and trap Li Qing.
• The Haoran Sage decided he needed Li Qing alive as an ally and secretly went to their meeting place to leak the plan.
• Li Qing recognized the Sage was testing his treasures, but the Haoran Sage told him the full scheme and offered to open a gap in the formation.
• Li Qing confirmed he could escape if given an opening, thanked the Haoran Sage, and disappeared.
• Hidden inside the Myriad Treasure Tower, Li Qing recorded the information and noted that the Haoran Sage might still intend to kill him and take his treasures.

Li Qing analyzed the Immortal Realm’s plan to trap and erase him, identifying several possible escape windows and estimating his chances of survival. He sent Divine Body replicas to the Seal of Heaven’s nodes with a plan to destroy them, but the chapter ended before he acted.

• Li Qing learned that Haoran Sage might either help him escape or capture him, depending on circumstances.
• Li Qing mapped out the Immortal Realm’s plan and identified openings during the battle between the Underworld Devil Lord and the Radiant Emperor, the Myriad Treasure Tower’s release, and the formation of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to compare the world’s origin with the Logic Artifacts and the Myriad Treasure Tower, estimating that his final escape plan had a fifty-percent chance of success.
• Li Qing sent Divine Body replicas to the nine Seal of Heaven nodes and prepared nine black thunder beads to destroy them simultaneously.
• Li Qing’s replica reached a fist-sized Stone Stele in Capital City, where the Seal of Heaven’s hidden nodes could be seen but not detected by other means.

Li Qing prepared five possible disruptions to escape the Five Immortals’ plan to trap him during the Battle of Heavenly Fate. As the final battle approached, the Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord anticipated Li Qing’s moves and secretly prepared a way to escape the seal if his own scheme failed.

• Li Qing arranged duplicates and lightning pearls at the Seals of Heaven, ready to detonate their nodes, and planned raids on the Dao Lineages to create five chances to survive.
• The armies outside Capital City prepared for the Battle of Heavenly Fate as the Five Immortals and Haoran Sage watched, while Cavern Yin Yin-Yang Dao Lord vowed to kill Li Qing.
• Dao Thief concluded that the Five Immortals had sealed the battlefield to trap Li Qing and flush him out after the battle, and Sky Ghost and Dao Thief planned to claim his treasure and a share of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
• The Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord, inhabiting Lü Chunqiu, predicted Li Qing might use an Immortal-level ally to break the seal and planned to become the Ninth Immortal through Heavenly Fate.
• The Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord created a hidden passage in the Formation Banner so his power could escape the seal if he had to feign death.

Xuanyuan Changlong and the Radiant Emperor considered how Li Qing might survive the blockade, while Yuan Zhihui planned to ambush and kill him. The Radiant Emperor secretly altered the Formation Banners, and the three schemers prepared for the coming fight over the place of Ninth Immortal.

• Xuanyuan Changlong concluded that Li Qing might break the blockade by destroying the Seal of Heaven or relying on his Immortal Realm companion, and prepared his other incarnations to pass on his supreme treasure if he lost.
• The Radiant Emperor took control of the Hundred Desires Demon King and reasoned that Li Qing’s treasure could reveal information from the past and help him find the path to the Final Logic.
• The Radiant Emperor planned to fight for the place of Ninth Immortal, prepared to feign death if Li Qing exposed him, and secretly planted backdoors in the Formation Banners.
• Yuan Zhihui hid his true body inside a soldier under Li Qinglian’s command while leaving his incarnation to hold a Formation Banner.
• Yuan Zhihui planned to use Karmic Transposition Art to escape, kill Li Qing, devour his possessions, and reincarnate.

As the final battle approached, Li Qing learned that Sun Tzu suspected the Myriad Treasure Tower held an escape method and planned to seize or destroy it. Li Qing also discovered that Xuanyuan Changlong had seen through Li Qinglian’s Human Path Forbidden Law and warned Sun Tzu, leaving the decisive contest looming.

• Sun Tzu suspected Li Qing had hidden an escape method in the Myriad Treasure Tower and planned to find it when he forged Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to calculate his enemies’ intentions, but learned little about the Three Great Devil Kings or the Five Immortals.
• The Jade Tablet revealed that Xuanyuan Changlong had discovered Li Qinglian’s Human Path Forbidden Law and prepared his Dao Soldiers to fight like a mortal army.
• Li Qing sent a duplicate to warn Sun Tzu that Xuanyuan Changlong had seen the future and intended to lure Li Qinglian into a trap.
• Sun Tzu agreed to warn Li Qinglian and remain alert as the decisive battle approached.

Li Qinglian’s army advanced to meet Xuanyuan Changlong’s forces, despite warnings that Xuanyuan had foreseen and countered the Human Path Forbidden Law. Their formations clashed with Immortal Realm-level force while Li Qing gathered battlefield data and the two commanders waited for an opening.

• An unseen voice warned Li Qinglian that Xuanyuan Changlong had seen through the Human Path Forbidden Law and prepared his army to resist it, but Li Qinglian resolved to fight.
• Li Qing gathered battlefield information and used the Way of Changes to track the armies and calculate possible developments.
• The two armies advanced beneath gathering storm clouds, forming a black fierce tiger and a black divine general that collided.
• Dozens of Tribulation Realm cultivators maintained a seal to contain the Immortal Realm-level shockwaves from the formations’ impact.
• The armies met in brutal close combat while Li Qing observed and recorded data, and the Military School’s Longevity Realm experts adjusted their formation as Li Qinglian and Xuanyuan Changlong waited for an opportunity.

Li Qing analyzed the battle between Xuanyuan Changlong’s army and the Military School’s forces, concluding that immortal formations excelled at precise control while mortal armies relied on strategy. He decided that Li Qinglian would lose to Xuanyuan Changlong and resolved to intervene himself, even if doing so cost one of his true bodies.

• Xuanyuan Changlong used his Spirit Awareness to stabilize his army’s line and restore the stalemate against the Military School’s precisely controlled formation.
• As the battle claimed tens of thousands of lives, Li Qing observed how the formations directed Dao Soldiers and considered the contrast with mortal military command.
• Li Qing concluded that the Human Dao Dynasty had fallen after its enemies learned its strategies and destroyed the foundation of the Human Path Forbidden Law.
• Li Qing reasoned that Xuanyuan Changlong could defeat Li Qinglian in the Battle of Heavenly Fate and resolved to fight Xuanyuan Changlong himself if they were reduced to mortal bodies.

As Li Qing and Xuanyuan Changlong’s armies fought inside the sealing formation, Li Qing learned that Xuanyuan Changlong’s treasure let him lock onto the future three breaths ahead. Realizing the treasure could fall into dangerous hands after Xuanyuan’s defeat, Li Qing searched for someone who could escape the seal with it.

• Li Qinglian sensed the battle formations clash and recognized Xuanyuan Changlong’s exceptional skill at commanding his army.
• Xuanyuan Changlong used his strange treasure to glimpse the next three breaths and adjust his commands against the Military School’s formations.
• Li Qing read on the Jade Tablet that Xuanyuan Changlong’s treasure repeatedly locked onto the near future.
• Li Qing concluded the treasure must not fall to Immortal Realm experts or the two higher-dimensional beings after Xuanyuan Changlong lost.
• Li Qing began searching for someone able to escape the seal and evade the immortals’ pursuit.

Li Qing sought Yuan Zhihui's help in retrieving Xuanyuan Changlong's future-seeing treasure after Xuanyuan's death, arguing it would be safer with Yuan than with immortals or high-dimensional beings. Yuan understood Li Qing's proposal but still had to decide whether he could take the opportunity and escape.

• Li Qing used Way of Changes to identify Yuan Zhihui as the best candidate to retrieve Xuanyuan Changlong's treasure.
• Li Qing's Divine Body replica approached Yuan Zhihui's formation flag and revealed his identity.
• Li Qing told Yuan Zhihui that Xuanyuan Changlong was the other Fate-less One and planned to preside over the Investiture of Gods.
• Li Qing explained that Xuanyuan Changlong's treasure could lock onto the future and would fall after Li Qing killed him.
• Li Qing revealed that two high-dimensional beings had descended and asked whether Yuan could seize the treasure and escape.

Yuan Zhihui agreed to Li Qing’s plan to seize Xuanyuan Changlong’s corpse, while resolving to serve only himself and escape the forces controlling him. As their secret bargain awaited Xuanyuan Changlong’s death, the battlefield continued to consume thousands of soldiers and Li Qing’s three true bodies carefully avoided danger.

• Yuan Zhihui told Li Qing he would escape and later come for him, and Li Qing laid out how Yuan Zhihui should seize Xuanyuan Changlong’s corpse after Li Qinglian reclaimed the Way of Forbidden Laws.
• Yuan Zhihui accepted the plan, then vowed that he was loyal only to himself and resented Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha for treating him as a future meal.
• The battle below raged for two hours, leaving more than a hundred thousand soldiers dead as cultivators were swept along by the armies’ formations.
• Li Qing’s three true bodies used precise control and deductions from the Way of Changes to evade danger near the front lines.

Li Qing ordered his hidden pawns to rebel inside Xuanyuan Changlong's army, throwing its vanguard into chaos before the Way of Forbidden Laws suppressed the battlefield. Xuanyuan Changlong led his intact central forces toward Li Qinglian, while Li Qing's true bodies moved into position for the decisive confrontation.

• Li Qing ordered the hidden pawns within Xuanyuan Changlong's army to begin their rebellion, and former gang recruits joined the fighting.
• Xuanyuan Changlong warned his forces and sent Longevity Realm cultivators to purge rebels, killing many and limiting the rebellion's effect mostly to the vanguard.
• Li Qinglian ordered his army to switch to banner-command mode, and the Way of Forbidden Laws suppressed supernatural powers and reduced cultivators to near-mortal strength.
• Xuanyuan Changlong led his central army in a charge toward Li Qinglian, while Li Qinglian held back and let the enemy expend its strength.
• Li Qing moved his three true bodies closer to Li Qinglian and Xuanyuan Changlong, but his present self could not advance past the central army's elite guards.

As the guard armies clashed, Li Qing secretly maneuvered toward the two Children of Destiny while Xuanyuan Changlong and Li Qinglian began their duel. Xuanyuan Changlong gained the upper hand with a precisely timed halberd strike, leaving Li Qinglian’s strength briefly out of control.

• The golden and silver guard armies collided, while Xuanyuan Changlong and Li Qinglian faced each other across the battlefield.
• Li Qing fought inconspicuously among the soldiers, using the Way of Changes to read the battlefield and conceal his movements.
• Li Qing sent his future body into the fighting and stealthily advanced toward the commanders with his present body.
• Li Qinglian charged Xuanyuan Changlong on his White Tiger, and Xuanyuan Changlong dodged while sweeping at him with his halberd.
• Xuanyuan Changlong redirected his halberd along Li Qinglian’s spear, evaded Li Qinglian’s counterforce, and disrupted his control of his strength.

Li Qing appeared and challenged Xuanyuan Changlong after Xuanyuan defeated Li Qinglian in one blow. As the immortals and Wisdom Logic Anomalies watched and prepared to act, Sun Tzu realized Li Qing had used Li Qinglian and him as pieces to unleash the Way of Forbidden Laws and confront his destined tribulation himself.

• Xuanyuan Changlong knocked Li Qinglian's spear away and nearly killed him, but Li Qing intercepted the next strike and revealed himself.
• Li Qing and Xuanyuan Changlong exchanged threats, while Li Qinglian recognized the gap between them and retreated without attacking.
• The Five Immortals and three Wisdom Logic Anomalies watched Li Qing's appearance and considered how to respond once the Way of Forbidden Laws ended.
• The Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord noticed Xuanyuan Changlong's ability to lock onto the future and suspected he wielded a mysterious treasure.
• Sun Tzu deduced that Li Qing had used him and Li Qinglian to activate the Way of Forbidden Laws before making his own move against his destined tribulation.
• Countless threads of cause and effect converged on the battlefield, gathering immense Qi Fate as the war continued.