Chapter Summaries

Li Qing and Xuanyuan Changlong fought while each used a way to perceive and alter the immediate future. The Five Immortals realized Xuanyuan Changlong carried a mysterious treasure and planned to act once the battle decided the Child of Destiny.

• Li Qing and Xuanyuan Changlong exchanged attacks, each changing course after seeing how the next moments would unfold.
• Li Qinglian and the spectators realized Li Qing could also lock onto the future, while the Five Immortals suspected Xuanyuan Changlong had become a Child of Destiny through a method linked to the imperial preceptor.
• The Five Immortals concluded Xuanyuan Changlong sought to become the Ninth Immortal and intended to claim the power to command the world's destiny.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord and the other Immortals agreed to wait for the fight's outcome, then seize Xuanyuan Changlong's treasure if he died or prepare to welcome him if he won.

Li Qing and Xuanyuan Changlong fought through countless shifting futures, while the watching factions weighed whether to intervene. Li Qing forced every prediction toward one lethal exchange, and Xuanyuan Changlong realized his mortal body left him no way to escape it.

• The Underworld Devil Lord, the Radiant Emperor, Yuan Zhihui, and the Wisdom Logic Anomalies each decided to wait or pursue the treasures rather than intervene immediately.
• Li Qing and Xuanyuan Changlong clashed across more than a thousand possible futures, with Li Qing calculating several breaths ahead.
• Li Qing realized that predicting every variation was futile and decided to make every future lead to the same outcome.
• Li Qing stopped attacking and spent three breaths driving his spear toward Xuanyuan Changlong's brow, regardless of the consequences.
• Xuanyuan Changlong saw that Li Qing was willing to trade his life for a strike at his vital point and understood that, in his mortal body, he could not evade it.

Li Qing trapped Xuanyuan Changlong in a deadly duel by using a spear thrust that Xuanyuan’s visions of the future could not counter. Xuanyuan stopped trying to escape and forced a stalemate, hoping to wear Li Qing down while the armies continued to fight at a disadvantage for his side.

• Li Qing attacked Xuanyuan Changlong with a spear thrust aimed at his brow, and Xuanyuan used his halberd to keep the strike at bay after seeing that every other response led to his death.
• Li Qinglian retreated into his own formation as he realized he might interfere, while Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord and the other immortals recognized Li Qing’s strategy.
• As both fighters exhausted their vital essence and slowed, Xuanyuan offered Li Qing a deal, but Li Qing refused and said their conflict allowed only one survivor.
• Xuanyuan changed his approach, stopped moving, and used repeated halberd strikes to halt Li Qing’s spear, creating a deadlock neither could break.
• Li Qing realized Xuanyuan intended to exhaust them both and buy time to return to his army, while Xuanyuan’s forces continued losing ground to the better-commanded Military School troops.

Li Qing defeated and killed Xuanyuan Changlong with the help of two incarnations, claiming the title of Lord of Destiny as fate and Qi Fate gathered around him. Yuan Zhihui seized Xuanyuan Changlong’s corpse before the other cultivators arrived and fought off Yinyangzi’s attack with Wisdom King Fury.

• Li Qing used his present self to join his future self in attacking Xuanyuan Changlong, forcing him to dodge while onlookers recognized the two attackers as True Method Realm incarnations meant to conceal Li Qing’s true body.
• Xuanyuan Changlong charged Li Qing’s future self, but two spears pierced his head and heart as his halberd cut through both Li Qing incarnations; all three died nearly simultaneously.
• Li Qinglian’s destiny vortex devoured Xuanyuan Changlong’s, and the battlefield’s causal Calamity Qi transformed into Qi Fate that gathered within Li Qing’s Primordial Spirit.
• Li Qinglian announced that Xuanyuan Changlong was dead and declared himself the Lord of Destiny as the Human Path Forbidden Law vanished.
• Yuan Zhihui seized Xuanyuan Changlong’s corpse before more than a dozen cultivators reached the battlefield, then used Wisdom King Fury to destroy Yinyangzi’s incoming sword light.

Yuan Zhihui failed to seize the extraordinary treasure from Xuanyuan Changlong and escaped by abandoning his identity and rebirthing through a Wrathful Vajra body. The powerful cultivators concluded that Xuanyuan Changlong had sent the treasure elsewhere and turned their attention to establishing Li Qinglian’s New Tang regime.

• Yuan Zhihui used an avatar and spatial transposition to escape the attacks, but the golden treasure vanished before he could claim it, and he turned to ashes.
• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha tracked Yuan Zhihui and sensed that he had broken free of the Buddhist Sect’s restraints.
• Yuan Zhihui transferred his bloodline into the Vajra in an ancient coffin, rebirthed as a smaller Wrathful Vajra, and fled toward the world’s boundary.
• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha said Xuanyuan Changlong had likely transferred the treasure away before it could fall into Yuan Zhihui’s hands.
• Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord urged the cultivators to focus on Li Qinglian’s victory and establish the New Tang regime so the mandate of fate could descend.

After the Mandate of Heaven was settled, the Immortals ordered the Primordial Spirit cultivators seized in hopes of finding Li Qing, who prepared his first chance to escape. His copies raided and destroyed the major Dao Lineages’ headquarters, drawing the Immortals’ attention while the Tribulation Realm forces were ordered not to leave their posts.

• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord ordered the Tribulation Realm cultivators to seize every Primordial Spirit cultivator, suspecting Li Qing’s true body was among them.
• Li Qing learned of the roundup inside the Myriad Treasure Tower and decided to begin his escape plan, noting Yuan Zhihui had left without damaging the formation.
• Li Qing sent copies of his Divine Body to raid the Buddhist Sect’s treasury and the headquarters of the Hundred Schools of Thought and six Dao Lineages.
• Li Qing’s copies absorbed the Essence Stones and took the remaining treasures, gathering enough essence in the Tribulation-Avoiding Grotto-Heaven to unleash Immortal-level combat power once.
• Li Qing’s copies unleashed Formless Sword Qi and began destroying the Dao Lineages’ headquarters, alarming the Five Immortals and the Tribulation Realm cultivators.
• The Cave Yin-Yang Dao Lord ordered Yinyangzi and the other forces to hold their positions and not return to help, warning that the attacks were bait.

Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha and the other Immortals misread Li Qing’s plan and sealed the Underlying Logic Relic, while Li Qing recognized their mistake and saw an opening. Xuanyuan Changlong escaped beyond the world with two companions as the Immortals prepared to establish the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and begin the Tribulation Realm battle.

• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha reasoned that Li Qing’s attacks on the Dao Lineages were meant to gather their resources and power the Myriad Treasure Tower, while the Haoran Sage suspected Li Qing planned to activate the Underlying Logic Relic they possessed.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord and the other Immortals sealed the Underlying Logic Relic, believing this would thwart Li Qing’s escape plan, and Li Qing used the Way of Changes and Jade Tablet to discover their intentions.
• A righteous-looking man placed a golden swastika-wheel symbol into a Stone Womb, and Xuanyuan Changlong emerged in a diminished form before announcing that they had lost and must wait for another chance.
• Xuanyuan Changlong and his two companions fled beyond the world in a black divine shuttle, which the Immortals noticed but chose not to pursue.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord ordered the Immortals to prepare for the Tribulation Realm battle and establish New Tang’s system, while the Sky Ghost and Dao Thief discussed Li Qing’s victory and the escaped treasure.

The Wisdom Logic Anomalies joined the contest for the Ninth Immortal as the Tribulation Realm battle began above the Sealing Formation. Lü Chunqiu defeated Ming Zi with his overwhelming derivative logic, leaving the other contenders to fight for the remaining places.

• Sky Ghost, Dao Thief, and Myriad Spirits gathered their followers and demanded a chance to compete for the Ninth Immortal position.
• The Five Immortals agreed to include the Wisdom Logic Anomalies’ people, and the contestants were ordered to battle inside the Sealing Formation.
• The Immortals declared Li Qinglian the winner of the Battle of Heavenly Fate and announced the Ninth Immortal contest’s rules.
• Haoran Sage named Lü Chunqiu of the Miscellaneous School and Ming Zi of the School of Names as the first pair to fight.
• Ming Zi’s Dao was crushed by Lü Chunqiu’s multicolored Radiance, and Ming Zi conceded defeat.

Lü Chunqiu defeated his first opponent, while Karma Fire Daoist defeated Bone Bodhisattva in a clash of their Daos. In the next round, Lü Chunqiu faced the leader of the Memorial Organization, whose corpse powers he countered before the leader transformed and launched a powerful attack.

• Lü Chunqiu quickly recognized that he could not defeat his first opponent and won when the opponent conceded.
• Bone Bodhisattva and Karma Fire Daoist transformed into demon gods and fought with flames, summoned creatures, and a bone formation.
• Karma Fire Daoist gained the upper hand and defeated Bone Bodhisattva, while Li Qing recorded their combat abilities for analysis.
• After more than twenty matches, the second round began with Lü Chunqiu facing the leader of the Memorial Organization.
• Lü Chunqiu used death logic and a multicolored Mist to counter the leader's corpse qi and death rays.
• The leader transformed into a towering desiccated corpse, formed armor and a spear from corpse qi, and charged Lü Chunqiu, who enlarged his own body.

Lü Chunqiu, possessed by the Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord, defeated his opponents and revealed an ability to dismantle logic that drew the Radiant Emperor’s suspicion. The Radiant Emperor recognized the Devil Lord and conceded, while Li Qing realized he would need to prepare for the Emperor as well as Sun Tzu.

• Lü Chunqiu used his paths and strange wind to overwhelm a giant desiccated corpse and win their battle.
• Li Qing watched the Tribulation Realm matches and considered how paths and logic determined which fighters could counter one another.
• The Radiant Emperor, controlling the Hundred Desires Demon King, tested Lü Chunqiu with radiance that could assimilate other forces.
• Lü Chunqiu dismantled the assimilating radiance, leading the Radiant Emperor to identify him as the reincarnated Underworld Devil Lord.
• The Radiant Emperor conceded the match, and Li Qing concluded that he was pursuing Li Qing’s treasure and would need to be dealt with.

The Five Immortals and three Wisdom Logic Anomalies realized that Lü Chunqiu had been possessed by the Underworld Devil Lord and planned to trap and kill him before he could become the Ninth Immortal. They also devised a scheme to lure Li Qing into revealing himself, while Radiant Emperor prepared to project his power into the Nine Provinces Four Regions.

• Radiant Emperor sent his will through fate and spacetime to connect with the mark he had left in the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• Haoran Sage argued that Sun Tzu had long been in contact with Li Qing, citing Li Qinglian's rise and Sun Tzu's failure to report Li Qing's influence.
• Lü Chunqiu defeated the other Tribulation Realm cultivators, and Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord and Haoran Sage concluded that someone had seized his body.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord identified the possessor as the Underworld Devil Lord, and the Five Immortals decided to gather the Tribulation Realm cultivators to attack him.
• Haoran Sage proposed isolating the battlefield and channeling the formation's power into it while disturbing the sealing formation to draw Li Qing out.

Li Qing uncovered the Underworld Devil Lord’s and Radiant Emperor’s escape routes and warned the Haoran Sage, reshaping the plan to eliminate both threats. The Haoran Sage prepared to destroy their hidden exits before Heavenly Dao Reincarnation was established.

• The Haoran Sage told Li Qing that the Immortals and Wisdom Logic Anomalies planned to lure Lü Chunqiu and Sun Tzu into a temporary battlefield and use the battle to help Li Qing escape.
• Li Qing used the Way of Changes and Jade Tablet to discover that the Underworld Devil Lord planned to fake his death and seize Li Qing’s treasures if he tried to break out.
• Li Qing realized that threatening the Immortals with The Indescribable could prompt them to destroy the Nine Provinces Four Regions, so he chose to expose the hidden dangers instead.
• Li Qing told the Haoran Sage that the Underworld Devil Lord had a hidden exit in the Formation Banners and that the Radiant Emperor controlled the Three Great Devil Kings, who had hidden exits of their own.
• Li Qing urged the Haoran Sage to destroy the Underworld Devil Lord’s exit, then kill the Three Great Devil Kings and eliminate their exits before the two high-dimensional beings could escape.

Haoran Sage planned to use the final Sealing Formation battle to eliminate the Underworld Devil Lord while pursuing his own rise to power. Sun Tzu agreed to help, then exposed Lü Chunqiu as the disguised devil and called for the gathered forces to empower him.

• Haoran Sage secretly decided to leave the Radiant Emperor undiscovered and wait until Heavenly Dao Reincarnation was established before seizing Li Qing and his treasures.
• Haoran Sage created a War Time-Space for Lü Chunqiu, Sun Tzu, Ghost Valley Master, and Bian Que to fight for the position of Ninth Immortal.
• Haoran Sage found the Underworld Devil Lord's backdoor mark in the Formation Banner and told Sun Tzu to kill Lü Chunqiu, promising to destroy the escape route.
• Sun Tzu accepted Haoran Sage's plan, then announced that Lü Chunqiu was the Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord and asked the Dao Soldiers to lend him their power.

Sun Tzu and the Underworld Devil Lord clashed in War Time-Space while Haoran Sage destroyed the enemy’s hidden connection point. Haoran Sage captured a fragment of the Devil Lord’s Concept Logic, and Sun Tzu turned to Bian Que and Ghost Valley Master to ask whether they still wanted to fight.

• Li Qinglian empowered Sun Tzu with two million Dao Soldiers, and Sun Tzu attacked the Underworld Devil Lord with the Sword of Destruction and the Myriad Treasure Tower.
• The Underworld Devil Lord transformed into a demon god and used gray radiance and black whirlpools to dismantle and redirect Sun Tzu’s attacks.
• Sun Tzu unleashed the full power of his weapons, breaking through the whirlpools and forcing the Underworld Devil Lord to collapse his power into a black point.
• Haoran Sage shattered the mysterious runes in the Formation Banner, severing the Underworld Devil Lord’s hidden connection and causing his power to collapse.
• Haoran Sage seized a fragment of the Underworld Devil Lord’s Concept Logic, and the Devil Lord’s consciousness fell dormant.
• Sun Tzu asked Bian Que and Ghost Valley Master whether they still wanted to fight.

Sun Tzu defeated every opponent and declared himself the sole candidate for the Ninth Immortal, forcing the Five Immortals and the Wisdom Logic Anomalies to recognize the rules. He and Haoran Sage agreed to guard against Li Qing’s escape during the creation of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, while cities across the Nine Provinces Four Regions began pledging allegiance to New Tang and Li Qinglian.

• Ghost Valley Master and Bian Que admitted defeat after witnessing Sun Tzu’s power.
• Sun Tzu declared himself the sole candidate for the Ninth Immortal and threatened to kill anyone who challenged his victory.
• Haoran Sage and the other Immortals and Wisdom Logic Anomalies agreed to recognize Sun Tzu as the Ninth Immortal.
• Sun Tzu told Haoran Sage that Li Qing had likely hidden a means of escape inside the treasures, including the Myriad Treasure Tower, and urged them to seal every treasure during Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
• Haoran Sage ordered every city to submit declarations of allegiance to New Tang and name Li Qinglian as its ruler.

Li Qing used the Jade Tablet and the Way of Changes to uncover the Haoran Sage’s plan and devise a fourth escape strategy. As Heavenly Dao Reincarnation neared completion, Li Qinglian united the Nine Provinces Four Regions under New Tang and received the world’s Mandate of Heaven, which he struggled to relinquish.

• Li Qing learned that the Haoran Sage planned to wait until Li Qing’s existence was exposed, then use the power released by Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to seize him and establish a Spacetime Heavenly Dao.
• Li Qing calculated that he could escape by using his resources at the moment Heavenly Dao Reincarnation was nearly complete but the Immortal Realm cultivators’ power had not fully descended, while preparing illusions and reserves to counter the Haoran Sage.
• Li Qing resolved to escape if possible and otherwise destroy everything rather than accept certain defeat.
• Li Qinglian oversaw the cities’ surrender ceremonies as their rulers pledged to become subjects of New Tang.
• Li Qinglian proclaimed the New Tang celestial dynasty and the unification of the Nine Provinces Four Regions, drawing the people’s karma and Qi Fate into the Law Net.
• The Mandate of Heaven gathered upon Li Qinglian and gave him immense authority, but he grew reluctant to give up its power.

Li Qinglian appointed Sun Tzu as the God-Investing One, surrendering the power of destiny and reflecting on the difference between borrowed and truly personal power. Sun Tzu became the ninth true Immortal and began appointing the gods who would establish Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, starting with the Haoran Sage.

• Li Qinglian recognized that the power of destiny did not truly belong to him and issued a decree appointing Sun Tzu to establish Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and confer the Six Paths Investiture of Gods.
• The power of destiny and the world's Qi Fate flowed into Sun Tzu, awakening his hidden reserves and transforming his logic and Dharma Form.
• Sun Tzu reached the level of an Immortal, gained control over the world's destiny, and became the ninth true Immortal.
• The Immortals caused the Investiture of Gods List to emerge from the world's origin, and Sun Tzu received it and assigned the Heavenly Court and Underworld to their chosen rulers.
• Sun Tzu appointed the Haoran Sage as the Eastern Haoran Heavenly Emperor, giving his Dao a portion of the world's origin and logic.

Sun Tzu completed the investiture of gods, Underworld officials, and vast armies, binding them to the world's logic as the world warned of an approaching external danger. The Immortal Realm experts began preparing Heavenly Dao Reincarnation at the Main World barrier, while Sun Tzu searched the Myriad Treasure Tower for Li Qing's hidden flaw.

• Sun Tzu invested Sky Ghost as the Eastern Sky Ghost Emperor, and Sky Ghost gained power from the world and saw the road ahead.
• Sun Tzu invested himself and other powerful cultivators as Ghost Emperors, heavenly gods, Underworld yin deities, and divine soldiers and generals.
• The completed Investiture of Gods List connected the deities to the world's will, which warned them that a vast external danger was approaching.
• Li Qing used the Way of Changes and the Jade Tablet to record the world's warning, while Li Qinglian waited uncertainly for what would happen next.
• Immortal Realm experts and Wisdom Logic Anomalies brought out four Underlying Logic Relics and two Dao-Accomplishing Treasures to begin establishing Heavenly Dao Reincarnation at the Main World barrier.
• Sun Tzu took the Myriad Treasure Tower and the Sword of Destruction and searched the tower with his power for the flaw Li Qing had left inside.

Li Qing hid his contingency inside the Myriad Treasure Tower by using the conceptual essence of the Principle of Civilization to make its logic appear empty to Sun Tzu. Sun Tzu gave up searching and joined the other powers in a vast operation to send the Myriad Treasure Tower to the Dark Side and the Sword of Destruction to the Bright Side, as Li Qing watched with no apparent opening to escape.

• Li Qing merged his spiritual body with the Myriad Treasure Tower’s Logic Artifact patterns and used the seed of the Principle of Civilization to conceal their essence from Sun Tzu’s search.
• Sun Tzu failed to find Li Qing’s contingency, resolved to keep Li Qinglian and the Dao Soldiers alive for now, and ended his alliance with Li Qing.
• Sun Tzu and Haoran Sage coordinated with the Immortal Realm experts and Wisdom Logic Anomalies to prepare the Myriad Treasure Tower and Sword of Destruction for transport to opposite sides of the world.
• The four Heavenly Emperors and four Ghost Emperors formed sealed passages, while Li Qing watched from the Myriad Treasure Tower and recognized that the enemy had left him no opening.
• Sun Tzu sent the Myriad Treasure Tower through the black vortex toward the Dark Side and the Sword of Destruction through the luminous vortex toward the Bright Side.
• The six Immortal Realm experts and three Wisdom Logic Anomalies joined their logic with the world’s power and the Network raised by the celestial gods and yin gods.

Sun Tzu and the six Immortal Realm beings and three Wisdom Logic Anomalies used the world’s logic to scour the treasures, revealing Li Qing’s contingency in the Myriad Treasure Tower. Li Qing poured stored essence into the tower’s spiritual body and tried to pierce their gathered power, leaving the outcome uncertain as his plan appeared to unfold as intended.

• Sun Tzu directed the six Immortal Realm beings and three Wisdom Logic Anomalies to use the world’s power to scour the treasures and attack the Myriad Treasure Tower.
• Azure light appeared on the tower and other treasures, and Sun Tzu identified it as Li Qing’s contingency for seizing the power of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
• Li Qing activated the True Spirit Seal and sent six hundred billion units of stored essence into the Myriad Treasures Undying Dao Lord’s spiritual body.
• Li Qing drove the Dao Lord forward, firing a beam of annihilating Radiance from the tower to pierce the torrent of the world’s logic.
• Sun Tzu urged everyone to gather more power at the tower, and they concentrated over seventy percent of the torrent there as Li Qing smiled, confident his plan was working.