Chapter Summaries

Li Qing completed the three hundred and sixty acupoint deities and opened four of the Five Divine Treasuries, greatly strengthening his body and extending his lifespan. The Wisdom Divine Treasury remained incomplete for lack of Wisdom Crystals, and Li Qing realized that opening all five treasuries was essential to forming a true innate life-form and reaching the Immortal realm.

• Li Qing used logical Dharma power to form deities in his three hundred and sixty acupoints, each surrounded by a halo representing its complete power.
• Li Qing inspected the five treasures needed to open the Divine Treasuries and found that he lacked enough Wisdom Crystals to fully open the Wisdom Divine Treasury.
• Li Qing infused the five treasures with Spirit Awareness and sent their essences into the locations of the Five Divine Treasuries.
• Four Divine Treasuries opened, restoring and strengthening Li Qing's three bodies while granting them immense qi and blood, an indestructible body, and greatly extended lifespans.
• The Wisdom Divine Treasury opened only partially, leaving its deity illusory as wisdom-light nourished Li Qing's mind.
• Li Qing concluded that the Five Divine Treasuries and the acupoint deities formed the foundation for a Dharma Form to become an innate life-form and break through to the Immortal realm.

Li Qing realized that Immortal Realm cultivators had separated their Underlying Logic to avoid hidden flaws, then used Civilization Logic to transform his eleven conquered worlds and connect their power to his true body. He began collecting Wisdom Crystals across those worlds to strengthen himself and the civilizations supporting his plans.

• Li Qing concluded that Immortal Realm cultivators had opened all 365 divine points but separated their Underlying Logic to avoid hidden traps.
• Li Qing projected embryonic Civilization Logic into his eleven worlds, where it absorbed each world's logic and became real embryonic Surface Logic.
• Li Qing linked the power of his eleven worlds through Civilization Logic, giving his incarnations combat strength approaching the Longevity Realm and allowing them to support his true body.
• Li Qing's Faith Incarnation on the Parasol Tree Continent made a Wisdom Divine Banner and connected it to the Heavenly Dao Compass to gather sparks of wisdom from the continent's living beings.
• Li Qing began accumulating Wisdom Crystals in all eleven worlds for himself and the Children of Destiny under his command, while the Void Seed Plan members received instructions on collecting the Five Divine Treasuries.

Li Qing advanced his civilization logic and transformed his Primordial Spirit into a fully developed Dharma Form. He discovered that civilization logic could purify vital essence without the Jade Tablet, reducing his dependence on it as he prepared to improve the Way of Changes.

• Li Qing’s Heavens Civilization Torrent empowered the Void Seeds, while his civilization logic formed a phantom branch system and a hazy model of the universe.
• Mind Seal converted the Wisdom Crystal into wisdom power, and the deities in Li Qing’s 365 acupoints gathered in his Primordial Spirit and transformed it.
• Li Qing separated his Dharma Form from his body and sensed that it still needed to mature before merging perfectly with his civilization logic.
• After seven days and nights, Li Qing’s Dharma Form reached its growth limit, became six zhang tall, and fused with his embryonic civilization logic.
• Li Qing found that his civilization logic purified vital essence on its own and resolved to develop the Way of Changes until it could match the Jade Tablet.

Li Qing used the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to trace the Nine Provinces Four Regions’ past, uncovering a hidden history and a war beyond the Infinite Universe. As he resolved to prepare for that greater threat, his Dharma Form and logic merged into one.

• Li Qing considered how true freedom required immortality, unrivaled strength, and power generated entirely from oneself.
• Li Qing traced the Heavenly Dao’s records, learned that human supernatural civilizations had risen and fallen more than five hundred times, and identified five hidden experts who were still alive.
• Li Qing found that all information from a hundred million years ago had been erased and suspected a universe-wide upheaval had concealed the truth.
• Li Qing restored information from the Jade Tablet and learned that the mysterious battlefield he encountered during tribulation lay beyond the Infinite Universe and had endured for countless ages.
• Li Qing concluded he needed to reach at least Concept Logic and unite the Infinite Universe before the war spread there again.
• Li Qing’s Dharma Form radiated the light of civilization, and his Dharma Form and logic merged completely.

Li Qing completed his civilization logic network, using the power of The Indescribable to conceal eleven worlds from fate and detection. He split his past and future selves to pursue void conquests while preparing for a great war a thousand years later, and ended by identifying more worlds to seize as the basis of a formation.

• Li Qing's civilization logic reached the limit of a superficial logic prototype, and its mist concealed eleven worlds from the heavenly secrets and destiny torrent.
• Li Qing weighed launching his own void invasions against using the world invasion war a thousand years later to gather enough fate for his tribulation of attaining the Dao.
• Li Qing left his present self in the Tribulation-Avoiding Grotto-Heaven and transformed his past and future selves into strands of civilization logic.
• Li Qing's future self descended into the Parasol Tree World, took control of its Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, and gained a World Light comparable to a Longevity Realm cultivator.
• Li Qing's past self descended into an ocean world, and the two selves sensed each other through the network connecting their conquered worlds.
• Li Qing detected more than twenty nearby worlds and decided to use them as the core of a formation built from worlds as its formation eyes.

After the Heavenly Court and Underworld were established, Li Qing and the others set the Nine Provinces Four Regions in motion to confront an approaching invading world. Li Qing then proposed a divine system that assigned cultivators to local posts and offered them a path to become gods.

• The Heavenly Court and Underworld finished forming, purged Anomalies, and helped the Nine Provinces Four Regions expand to three times its former size.
• The four Heavenly Emperors, five Ghost Emperors, Li Qing, and the Haoran Sage agreed to move the world toward the invading world and conceal its presence.
• The Haoran Sage asked how to manage the world's mountains, rivers, lakes, seas, and vegetation, and Li Qing proposed granting divine edicts to selected cultivators.
• Li Qing outlined examinations, cultivation ranks, local divine posts, and a path for powerful cultivators to become immortal Heavenly Gods or Yin Gods.
• The assembled leaders were deeply impressed by Li Qing's advancement system and wondered what kind of world had inspired his ideas.

Li Qing and the Immortal Realm cultivators agreed to establish the Heavenly Court and Underworld while imposing loyalty tests on new gods. Li Qing secretly planned to use the system to control Heavenly Dao Reincarnation over a hundred thousand years, then set out to claim the abandoned Demonic Path Grotto-Heaven as his seat.

• Haoran Sage warned that heavenly gods and yin gods might unite to wrest control of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation from the Immortal Realm cultivators.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord proposed strict loyalty tests for anyone seeking to become a heavenly god or yin god, and the others agreed.
• Demon Emperor Who Upends All Living Beings agreed to bring the six dragon palaces into the Heavenly Court and Underworld to guard the Four Seas and two rivers.
• The Heavenly Court and Underworld began appointing gods and creating divine edicts that would let them control assigned regions.
• Li Qing secretly planned to use the Civilization Myriad-Heavens Torrent to alter the gods' memories and awaken their loyalty when he was ready to strike.
• Li Qing slowed his body's aging, prepared to refine the empty Demonic Path Grotto-Heaven as his seat, and sent his Divine Body traveling with the Myriad Spell Divine Banner and Sword Pellet.

Li Qing discovered that the Space-Time Heavenly Dao powerhouse who had been imprisoned in the Demonic Path's grotto-heaven had escaped by devouring it and evading logic's records. He began devising a trap to kill the fugitive and refined the grotto-heaven into a black pearl.

• Li Qing entered the abandoned Demonic Path grotto-heaven and found it empty, with the imprisoned powerhouse gone.
• Using Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Authority, Li Qing saw that a mist-shrouded figure had devoured the grotto-heaven and vanished through a method tied to his Conceptual Logic Prototype.
• Li Qing planned to lure the fugitive with the Borrowed Lifespan Technique and use allies and Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to erase him.
• Li Qing considered seizing a Tribulation Realm cultivator's lifespan to create a conflict that would make his use of the Borrowed Lifespan Technique convincing bait.
• Li Qing cast incantations around the grotto-heaven, shrank it, and refined it into a black pearl using the World Pearl method.

Li Qing established Civilization Academy beside Little Dragon Lake near the Capital City and announced that it would teach flawless cultivation methods to those who passed its assessment. The immortals and the Wisdom Logic Anomaly planned to infiltrate the academy, while mysterious influences sent people toward the Capital City.

• Li Qing used the World Pearl and Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to raise an island and build Civilization Academy at a northern lake outside the Capital City, then concealed it with a formation.
• Li Qing stocked the academy’s Library Tower with flawless cultivation methods from the Hundred Schools of Thought and six Dao lineages, and declared himself its headmaster.
• Li Qing posted a notice inviting aspiring students to undergo assessment, but the Capital City guards could not remove it.
• The City God of the Capital City inspected the notice and relayed news of the academy, spreading word of Li Qing’s plans throughout the cultivation world.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord, Haoran Sage, other immortals, and the Wisdom Logic Anomaly discussed infiltrating Civilization Academy and searching for Li Qing’s weaknesses.
• Mysterious wills and commands spread from the Heavenly Realm and Underworld, drawing people with no ties to the Hundred Schools of Thought toward the Capital City.

Li Qing opened the Civilization Academy’s entrance examination by asking applicants to explain what civilization was, hoping to gather perspectives from across the world. Yun Feitian passed with an essay defining civilization as a means for intelligent life to survive, while Li Qing discovered he was influenced by the Radiant Emperor; more applicants then began arriving.

• Yun Feitian and six other applicants crossed a mist bridge to the Civilization Academy and greeted Li Qing.
• Li Qing asked the applicants to write essays answering, “What is civilization?” so he could study their ideas and deepen his understanding.
• Li Qing used the Way of Changes and the Jade Tablet to assess their essays and identify Yun Feitian as influenced by the Radiant Emperor’s imprint.
• Li Qing accepted Yun Feitian as a student and dismissed the other six applicants after they failed the examination.
• The Radiant Emperor’s hidden imprint suspected Li Qing had detected its arrangement and prepared to continue their contest.
• As more applicants arrived, they sought help composing essays, giving Li Qing further perspectives to use in pursuing the essence of Final Logic.

Li Qing used the Civilization Academy to circulate revised cultivation methods that removed the backdoors the major Dao lineages had built into them. The change freed cultivators from absolute control and set the Four Heavenly Emperors, Five Ghost Emperors, and other leaders on the verge of a power struggle, while Li Qing watched Li Yulong and the Bone Bodhisattva.

• Li Qing promoted learning and civilization across his eleven conquered worlds and gathered more than two hundred students at the Civilization Academy, including spies from rival powers.
• Li Qing let the spies obtain reconstructed cultivation methods, intending to help powerful cultivators shed flaws and loosen the lineages’ control over them.
• Karma Fire Daoist secretly practiced the revised Karma Fire Dao method, regained some independence, and weakened his connection to the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord warned the assembled heavenly rulers that Li Qing had removed their methods’ backdoors and that they were losing absolute control over celestial gods and yin gods.
• Haoran Sage said the revised methods could also repair flaws in their own foundations, while Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha warned that chaos was coming.
• Li Qing reviewed the developing situation and turned his attention to Li Yulong, a Civilization Academy student backed by Bone Bodhisattva.

Li Qing recruited Bone Bodhisattva to join a future rebellion against the immortals, offering him a chance to escape their control and reach immortality. After Bone Bodhisattva signed Li Qing’s Fate Contract, Li Qing set out to recruit other cultivators disloyal to the immortals.

• Li Qing met Bone Bodhisattva through Li Yulong and asked whether he wanted to escape the six immortals’ control.
• Li Qing offered to send part of Bone Bodhisattva’s True Spirit to another world, where he could cultivate a clone and later use it to overcome his bottleneck.
• Bone Bodhisattva agreed to serve Li Qing and signed the Fate Contract, which bound them until their counterattack was complete.
• Li Qing revealed that he intended to gather a rebel army and began seeking other cultivators who lacked loyalty to the immortals.

Li Qing recruited powerful figures resentful of the Immortals, while the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord and the other Immortals discovered that their former subordinates no longer trusted them. The Immortals planned to secretly cultivate replacements and use the coming war to remove their rebellious followers.

• Li Qing signed contracts with people who might be persuaded to oppose the Immortals.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord promised his cultivators half the essence harvested from the lower world, and they pledged to serve him while privately remaining wary.
• After the cultivators left, the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord sensed their distrust and suspected Li Qing had given them another source of confidence.
• The six Immortals compared reports that their subordinates had become difficult to control and recognized Li Qing as a possible influence.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord proposed secretly raising mortal replacements and using the war in a thousand years to wear down and replace the rebellious heavenly gods and yin gods.

The six Immortals decided to ban true Dao Lineage cultivation methods and replace lower-realm cultivators’ foundations with Dao seeds, aiming to keep Sky Gods and Yin Gods dependent on them. Li Qing recognized that his apparent plan had been thwarted but said it was only a smokescreen, then watched as Haoran Sage announced the ban to the assembled gods.

• The Demon Emperor Who Upends All Living Beings proposed ending the spread of cultivation methods and using Dao seeds to control those granted godhood.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord and the Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord concluded that Li Qing’s cultivation system could threaten the Immortals’ authority, prompting Haoran Sage to call for a ban.
• Li Qing detected the Immortals’ decision through the Jade Tablet and Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Authority, and said his apparent plan had only been a smokescreen.
• Haoran Sage told the Heavenly Emperors and Ghost Emperors that Dao Lineages could teach only essential principles and that new gods would depend on Immortals’ Dao seeds.
• The Sky Ghost praised Haoran Sage’s proposal as a way to eliminate potential threats.

A new Dao Seed system stripped most cultivators of their power, leaving old Dao Lineages dependent on seeds from the Heavenly Court and Underworld. Li Qing gathered allies and began moving trusted companions toward his void territories, where he planned to build strength for a future counterattack.

• The world's cultivators and most gods lost nearly all their power as their souls returned to their rightful places, while dragon-blooded beings largely retained theirs.
• The Heavenly Court and Underworld issued edicts and distributed Dao Seeds, allowing disciples of the old Dao Lineages to regain power by earning merits and fulfilling their duties.
• Li Qing's Divine Body copies warned his former allies that their old systems were being replaced and arranged for them to send wisps of their essential spirits to him.
• Li Qing recruited Zhuge Shenji to cultivate in a world under his rule, giving him a gemstone containing his soul's essence and a seed of logic.
• Li Qing took Sun Qiankun from Capital City to the Tribulation-Avoiding Grotto-Heaven, intending for him to manage internal affairs in the void.

Li Qing sent Sun Qiankun and 123 other cultivators to Parasol Tree Continent, where their souls were remade and joined with new bodies so they could cultivate from the beginning. He planned to use their progress and future tribulations to prepare them for the Immortal Realm and a coming conflict.

• Sun Qiankun recited the Longevity Spirit Curse, and Li Qing used Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to separate his consciousness and soul and send them to another world.
• More than a hundred cultivators from Civilization Academy sent portions of their True Spirits and soul essences away under the concealment of Civilization Logic.
• The cultivators descended on Parasol Tree Continent, where Li Qing's future body promised them new bodies and a fresh start.
• Li Qing reshaped their souls and gave each of the 123 experts a new body, stripping away their old supernatural power and logical essence.
• The cultivators began cultivating anew, while Li Qing arranged future tribulations and watched Wang Riyue, Sun Qiankun, and Zhuge Shenji cultivate.

Li Qing began preparing for the coming war by secretly recruiting newly appointed gods into a hidden mission. At Wilderness Forest Mountain, Wang Bolun forgot their meeting and continued serving as its mountain god, unaware that he had been placed as a sleeper agent.

• Li Qing sent a replica to the Northern Desert, where Wang Bolun received an edict appointing him mountain god of Wilderness Forest Mountain.
• Wang Bolun discovered an earth vein beneath the mountain, built a cave abode, and planned how to use its resources and recruit subordinates.
• Li Qing’s replica used the Heavens Civilization Torrent to recruit Wang Bolun to infiltrate the false gods’ Heavenly Court and Underworld, then erased his memories of the meeting.
• Wang Bolun summoned two phantom-beast souls, named them Wolf One and Fox Two, and ordered them to patrol the mountain as Grass-Head Gods.
• Li Qing’s replica departed, planning to secretly recruit more mountain gods, earth gods, and river gods over time.

The six immortals and three Wisdom Logic Anomalies suspected Li Qing was using Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to conceal people he had controlled and prepare a future rebellion. They agreed on a three-step plan to investigate the gods, test the Jade Tablet’s limits, and expose Li Qing’s true body, then began carrying it out.

• Haoran Sage and Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord noted that Heavenly Dao Reincarnation’s power had fluctuated and that they could not locate Li Qing’s true body through their authority.
• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha deduced that Li Qing had reorganized karma to hide people he had contacted, and suspected he was controlling Mountain Gods, Earth Gods, and River Gods.
• Sky Ghost warned that Li Qing could exploit an outside invasion and a thousand years of cultivation to rebel against the immortals.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord proposed waiting until Li Qing made a major move, when the immortals might trace the collision of forces to find his true body.
• Haoran Sage outlined a three-step plan to investigate the gods, test the range of Li Qing’s secret treasure, and suddenly target his ultimate goal.
• The six immortals and three Wisdom Logic Anomalies agreed and began using Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to connect with the mountain gods’, earth gods’, and river gods’ edicts and Dao seeds.

Haoran Sage and the other Immortals discovered no suspicious memories among the gods, so they planted a destruction restriction in every Dao seed. Li Qing began studying the restriction while, elsewhere in the void, Purple God and Demon Spirit prepared to confront an approaching world.

• Haoran Sage and the others searched the gods' memories but found no evidence of Li Qing's scheme.
• Haoran Sage added a destruction restriction to every Dao seed so the Immortals could kill its bearer if they detected anything amiss.
• Li Qing reconstructed the Immortals' actions and used a replica to model the hidden restriction in a mountain god's Dao seed.
• Purple God told eleven other figures that an approaching world was shrinking its void force field and that he sensed danger.
• Demon Spirit and Purple God proposed attacking the approaching world, and Purple God suggested sending five Immortals to scout it before establishing a forward base.

Golden Light, White King, Blue Heaven, Night Demon, and Punishment Prison set out to investigate the Nine Provinces Four Regions using a powerful formation and the Void Wheel. Meanwhile, a Space-Time Heavenly Dao Level being traced the world’s strange knowledge and hidden developments back to Li Qing.

• Purple God approved the five Immortals’ mission and loaned them the Void Wheel, ordering them to keep it as the formation’s anchor and never take it into the other world.
• The five Immortals prepared five Void Fortress Divine Shuttles carrying Dao Soldier armies and Base Seeds, then linked the vessels with the Five Immortals Inverted Heaven and Earth Formation.
• Golden Light used the Void Wheel to make a spacetime leap toward the Nine Provinces Four Regions, and the five Immortals decided to rest for a year before making nine more leaps.
• A Space-Time Heavenly Dao Level being reconnected with his clone and learned about the three-realm system and the Six Paths Investiture of Gods.
• The being suspected Li Qing had used the lifespan extracted through his Borrowed Lifespan Technique to help the world acquire its unusual knowledge.