Chapter Summaries

A Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouse headed for the Nine Provinces Four Regions, hoping to seize Li Qing’s lifespan-summoning treasure. Meanwhile, Li Qing began a Wisdom Crystal collection scheme that his enemies interpreted as a smokescreen, leaving them watching for a chance to locate his true body.

• The mysterious Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouse decided to send a clone ahead and attack Li Qing if it found his true body.
• Li Qing concluded that his preparations were complete and sent Divine Body copies to recruit academy disciples to collect sparks of wisdom.
• Li Qing gave Yun Feitian a Wisdom Crystal collection talisman, and Yun Feitian reasoned that the collection was a diversion meant to conceal who was gathering the crystals.
• The Radiant Emperor took over Yun Feitian’s position and planned to track the flow of Wisdom Crystals, while the Underworld Devil Lord also suspected Li Qing was trying to manipulate his enemies.
• The hidden Spacetime Heavenly Dao clone received a talisman through a controlled disciple and decided to monitor the collection to find Li Qing.
• The Haoran Sage and Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord discussed Li Qing’s apparent scheme and doubted that he truly needed Wisdom Crystals.

The Haoran Sage and the emperors believed Li Qing was targeting the two high-dimensional beings, but Li Qing revealed that his real plan was to set random traps and make enemies wear one another down. After agreeing to help build more Immortal-Slaying formations, the Haoran Sage left with Li Qing, while the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord sought Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord's view.

• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord proposed pretending to cooperate with Li Qing so they could lure the two high-dimensional beings into his trap.
• The Haoran Sage met Li Qing in a Capital City teahouse and accused him of using an obvious deception.
• Li Qing said his target was random and that he wanted enemies from both inside and beyond the Nine Provinces Four Regions to wear one another down.
• Li Qing asked the Haoran Sage for materials and vital essence to build two more Immortal-Slaying formations, and the Haoran Sage agreed to gather them within ten years.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord appeared before Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord and asked what he thought of the matter.

The Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord and the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord suspected that the Haoran Sage had allied with Li Qing and was plotting to eliminate them. They devised a plan to build strength through reincarnation and secretly unite against the Haoran Sage, then the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord approached Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha to discuss killing him.

• The Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord told the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord that the Haoran Sage had likely been steering events and might be working with Li Qing.
• The two Dao Lords reasoned that Li Qing and the Haoran Sage intended to weaken their rivals and proposed reincarnating avatars to cultivate another path to the Immortal Realm.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord advised acting indirectly, controlling the odds, and avoiding direct dealings with Li Qing.
• The Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord agreed to quietly form an alliance with the others.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord visited Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha, shared their suspicions, and argued that the Haoran Sage had to die.

Li Qing opened a passage to the Glazed World and led a hundred thousand cultivators into an invasion meant to forge their foundations. As his army entered, the world suppressed their cultivation, and Li Qing began using Civilization Logic to analyze its laws.

• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord's projection secured the agreement of Immortal Realm cultivators and Wisdom Logic Anomalies to conspire against the Haoran Sage without alerting Li Qing.
• Li Qing discovered that the Parasol Tree World would face a war with an invading world and decided to gather experience by launching an invasion of the Glazed World.
• Li Qing told the Human Tribulation experts in the Hall of Saints to enter the Glazed World, spread the Hundred Schools of Thought and six great Dao Lineages, and build forces for a final assault.
• Li Qing used Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to open a passage, and a hundred thousand figures followed his Future Body into the Glazed World.
• The Glazed World suppressed the invaders' cultivation, forcing Li Qing down to the Primordial Spirit level as he used Civilization Logic and the Way of Changes to analyze its laws.

Li Qing established a foothold in the invaded world, using an army and formation to create Logic Spacetime and resist the world's lightning. He found that the world's scattered resentments could not grant Heavenly Fate, so he planned to conquer it by force while his agents began infiltrating its regions.

• Li Qing led one hundred thousand troops into the world's north and ordered them to build a stronghold.
• Li Qing and the gods linked their logic through the formation, creating Logic Spacetime that absorbed the world's lightning.
• Li Qing sent Sun Qiankun, Wang Riyue, Zhuge Shenji, Bone Bodhisattva, Karma Fire Daoist, and others to develop native forces across the world.
• Li Qing discovered that the world's darkness held disordered resentments and concluded that it could only be conquered through direct occupation and suppression.
• Sun Qiankun traveled through the earth veins using a traveling spell as he began his mission.

Sun Qiankun began building an army in Wild Goose Kingdom by recruiting the Bamboo Gang and forcing its members to cultivate the Martial Canon. After leaving to find more recruits, he turned his attention toward seizing the county city as the ruler of Great Dragon Kingdom met with his ministers.

• Sun Qiankun learned about the world's cultivation system and resolved to build an army to conquer Wild Goose Kingdom.
• Sun Qiankun entered the county town and determined that he would need at least a hundred Dao Soldiers to defeat its strongest cultivator.
• Sun Qiankun appeared before the Bamboo Gang and offered its members a chance to cultivate the Martial Canon.
• Sun Qiankun implanted Dragon Talismans in the gang members, binding them to him, and appointed the leader captain of the squad.
• Sun Qiankun left to find eighty more recruits, while the ruler of Great Dragon Kingdom met with his ministers in the capital.

Long Jingtian prepared the Great Dragon Kingdom to unite against the extraterrestrial demons while Li Qing investigated the northern world and encountered a dark, azure world approaching his ocean world. The Jade Tablet revealed that accumulated deaths and resentment could corrupt a world's logic and bring about its destruction, leaving Li Qing reflecting on the dangers of unequal resource distribution.

• Long Jingtian heeded his Chancellor's warning and sent envoys to the other three great kingdoms while ordering one hundred thousand imperial guards to gather in the north.
• Li Qing's future body probed the darkness of the northern world through Civilization Logic and sent Hall of Saints cultivators to gather intelligence.
• Li Qing's past body observed the fishman civilization in the ocean world, where the Three Realms system and seventy-two Dao Lineages had helped it grow to a billion people.
• Li Qing noticed a larger, deep azure world approaching the ocean world, its surface threaded with abyssal darkness.
• The Jade Tablet explained that errors in world logic and the resentment of many deaths could form a web of darkness that corrupted a world and led to doomsday.
• Li Qing connected the revelation to resource inequality and recalled the history of his former world.

Li Qing discovered that cyclicality and the River of Fate were both Final Logics, then traveled to Deep Azure World to investigate it. He reached its barrier and used Civilization Logic to contact the world’s mass of resentful dead, offering to avenge them and becoming a source of hope for their chaotic consciousness.

• Li Qing recognized cyclicality as a Final Logic and considered the limits of the Three Realms System.
• Li Qing left a Flesh Seed in Ocean World and traveled through the void toward Deep Azure World.
• Li Qing used Civilization Logic to seize Deep Azure World's force field and ride it across the void.
• Li Qing reached Deep Azure World's barrier and sensed the hatred and despair of its countless dead.
• Li Qing promised the resentful dead that he would avenge them, and their chaotic consciousness responded with hope.

Li Qing arrived in a world bound to its dead and found a village terrorized by three blood-drinking figures. He taught the villagers the Martial Canon, empowered their battle formation, and led them to confront their oppressors at a Mountain God Temple.

• Li Qing appeared near a burning village where three blood-drinking figures demanded that the villagers provide two sacrifices each month.
• After the village chief planned for the people to flee, Li Qing urged them to fight and taught the adults the Martial Canon.
• The villagers trained for half a day, and Li Qing forged magical blades for them from the village’s metal.
• Li Qing used the Great Empowerment Art to raise the villagers’ combined battle formation to True Law-level combat power.
• The village chief led the villagers to a Mountain God Temple and challenged the three figures to come out and die.

Li Qing learned how Qiong and its Bloodborn ruled the world, then rallied an oppressed village to resist after the villagers killed three Bloodborn pioneers. Qiong sensed a threat and sent a handsome Bloodborn man out of the Blood Sea.

• The village chief and villagers killed the three Bloodborn pioneers who had planned to keep their settlement for themselves, avenging their families.
• Li Qing used the dark obsessions of the dead to learn about Qiong, the Bloodborn hierarchy, and the system that enslaved humans.
• Li Qing invited the villagers to resist the world with him, and they swore to serve him and take revenge.
• Qiong awoke in the Blood Sea, sensed a danger it could not identify, and emerged in the form of a handsome man above a blood lake.

Qiong ordered the six dukes and their bloodborn to search the world for danger while Li Qing gathered wilderness villagers and hid them in an underground base. As the bloodlines sent servant armies to scour the north, Li Qing redirected migrating villagers, but a patrol led by Han Shan discovered an abandoned village.

• Qiong sensed an unknown danger, summoned the six dukes, and ordered a world-wide search for anomalies.
• Li Qing established a concealed underground base beneath a northern gorge, fortified it with formations, and instructed the villagers to cultivate.
• Li Qing sent replicas across the northern wilderness, recruited tens of thousands of villagers, and had them learn the Martial Canon before migrating to the base.
• Li Qing observed bloodline-controlled servant armies searching the north and used the Heavens Civilization Torrent to steer the migrants away from them.
• Han Shan spotted smoke in a forest, led his four squad members to investigate, and found a deserted village with a burning house.

Li Qing gathered more than two hundred thousand cultivators into hidden underground armies while preparing for the ocean world to collide with the world and destabilize the bloodline rulers. Qiong sensed the approaching danger, and the Blood Duke led her guard army into the northern lands as Li Qing's forces remained concealed.

• Han Shan inspected an empty village and ordered his squad to report its strange signs, while Li Qing watched unseen and worried the searches would expose the abandoned villages.
• Li Qing brought the northern villagers to his underground base, where more than sixty-five thousand cultivators hid beneath an expanding feng shui formation.
• Qiong sent an order to the Blood Duke, who marched with ten thousand Blood Guard Army soldiers toward the northern wilderness.
• Li Qing mapped underground passages and dispatched replicas of his past self to recruit soldiers and build hidden caverns across the four directions.
• Li Qing gathered two hundred thousand cultivators and planned to use the approaching ocean world and Dao Lineage cultivators to undermine the bloodline rulers.
• Qiong sensed a great danger and looked toward the north as the Blood Duke and Imperial Guards arrived there.

The Bloody Duke searched the abandoned villages while Li Qing monitored her and adjusted Ocean World’s course for a safer collision with Qiong’s world. His duplicates also observed life under Blood Descendant rule, where he followed Yuanyuan home to her frail mother and returning father.

• The Bloody Duke found an abandoned village with no trace of vital essence and suspected a powerful being had concealed what happened there.
• Li Qing considered the risk that the Bloody Duke would discover the Hidden Troops Cave and began arranging a possible spy near Qiong.
• Li Qing’s faith incarnation changed Ocean World’s course toward an oblique collision with Qiong’s world, leaving Qiong puzzled.
• Li Qing’s duplicate followed Yuanyuan through a Blood Descendant-controlled city as she carried firewood home and shared a pomegranate with her mother.
• Yuanyuan’s exhausted father returned to their dilapidated home and greeted his daughter.

Li Qing intervened when Wang Shi and his family were about to be taken to the Blood Food Camp, granting them strength to defeat their attackers. He recruited Wang Shi to secretly spread the idea that all beings were equal, leaving the family hidden and newly empowered.

• Patrol soldiers led by a snake-faced captain accused Wang Shi of a crime and attacked him, his wife, and Yuanyuan.
• Wang Shi fought back with a dagger, while Yuanyuan and her mother prepared to resist with stones.
• Li Qing offered the family a chance to live, then granted Wang Shi power and combat techniques.
• Wang Shi killed the captain and the remaining soldiers, while Yuanyuan and her mother helped defeat two attackers.
• Li Qing erased the bodies, concealed the family’s home, and gave Wang Shi the Martial Canon and the task of secretly teaching equality to the oppressed.

Li Qing prepared a layered plan to kill Qiong as Ocean World approached Qiong’s world and the threat intensified. Qiong awakened his slumbering blood descendants, but Li Qing converted thousands of them and set them to cultivate a blood curse while his invasion of the opposing world continued.

• Li Qing directed Wang Shi to build a resistance organization around the Lord of Civilization, and his duplicates recruited and trained opponents of the supernatural regime across the cities.
• Ocean World maneuvered around Qiong’s world and began drawing closer, while the black sun in the sky heightened Qiong’s sense of danger.
• Qiong awakened blood descendants hidden in slumber throughout the wilderness as a reserve for the coming crisis.
• Li Qing’s duplicates suppressed and converted awakened blood descendants, then taught them the Blood Curse Art as a trap intended to weaken and kill Qiong.
• Li Qing coordinated the blood-descendant curse, city guerrillas, Hidden Soldiers Cave resistance, world collision, and accumulated darkness as parts of his plan.
• At the Parasol Tree World, Li Qing’s faith incarnation linked the two worlds and sent Civilization Logic through the passage, spreading black clouds across the opposing world’s sky.

Li Qing’s forces advanced through the northern region and gathered before White Head Mountain, where the four kingdoms prepared to wear them down. Li Qing’s future body planned to exploit resistance forces in the enemy rear, while Sun Qiankun began an operation in a county town.

• Li Qing’s armies took cities across the north until the Great Wei Kingdom’s Northern Legion stopped them at White Head Mountain, as troops from the four kingdoms converged.
• The rulers of the four kingdoms and Daoist Heavenly Dragon assembled three hundred thousand troops to confront Li Qing’s fifty thousand soldiers.
• Daoist Heavenly Dragon urged the kingdoms to use the pass and their home-ground advantage to prolong the war and exhaust the invaders.
• Li Qing’s future body deduced the kingdoms’ attrition strategy and planned to disrupt their rear with Fate-less Ones and resistance forces.
• Sun Qiankun led a hundred Dao Soldiers through a county town whose defenses had weakened, frightening a night watchman into silence.

Sun Qiankun seized the county town by overpowering its officials and soldiers, then reorganized the soldiers into a Dao Soldier force. After executing corrupt officials and wealthy gentry, he proclaimed the town subject to the Lord of Civilization and left its people chanting the Lord’s name.

• Sun Qiankun broke into the Government Office, defeated the chief constable, and captured the county assistant magistrate.
• Sun Qiankun subdued the commander and three hundred soldiers at the city gate, then absorbed them into his forces and trained them as Dao Soldiers.
• Sun Qiankun put County Deputy Wang Fei and dozens of corrupt officials and wealthy merchants on trial before the gathered commoners and ordered their execution.
• Sun Qiankun declared the county town part of the Lord of Civilization’s domain and raised a statue of the Lord of Civilization.
• The county townspeople chanted for the Lord of Civilization as Li Qing’s future self felt the Civilization Logic stir.

Li Qing’s Civilization Logic spread through rebellions and new statues, weakening the world’s suppression until he could wield Dharma Form-level power again. As the rulers of the Great Dragon Kingdom and three other nations prepared for a decisive battle at Whitehead Pass, Li Qing sent Wang Zhengtian to face the Great Dragon Kingdom’s Child of Destiny and claim his destiny.

• Sun Qiankun’s forces won a county city’s support, and the Lord of Civilization’s statue blessed its people; the next day, Sun Qiankun led most of his Dao Soldiers to continue the conquest.
• Rebellions spread across more than a hundred county cities, weakening the world’s suppression of Li Qing until his future body regained Dharma Form-level combat power.
• The ruler of the Great Dragon Kingdom and Daoist Heavenly Dragon learned that rebellions had erupted behind their lines and summoned the rulers of three other nations to prepare for a decisive battle at Whitehead Pass.
• Li Qing judged that his forces had the upper hand and introduced Wang Zhengtian, a Primordial Spirit-level Child of Destiny from Parasol Tree Continent, as his chosen combatant.
• Li Qing gave Wang Zhengtian the Investiture of Gods List projection and ordered him to defeat the Great Dragon Kingdom’s ruler, then lead the army toward Whitehead Pass while Li Qing directed the formation.

Wang Zhengtian led Parasol Tree Continent’s army against the four kingdoms at Whitehead Pass while Li Qing secretly controlled the White Tiger formation and concealed his role. As the battle turned in their favor, the ruler of the Great Dragon Kingdom transformed and brought a massive spear down on Wang Zhengtian.

• Li Qing kept his identity hidden and relied on Wang Zhengtian as a Child of Destiny to lead the army.
• Wang Zhengtian ordered the White Tiger formation to attack the Flying Heaven formation, and Li Qing’s control drove it back and disrupted the enemy soldiers.
• Daoist Heavenly Dragon merged with the Flying Heaven formation and took control, but Li Qing continued to anticipate and counter his attacks.
• The ruler of the Great Dragon Kingdom attacked Wang Zhengtian, who used his battle-honed instincts to exploit the ruler’s weaknesses and counter him.
• The Solar Star Lord, Lunar Star Lord, and Purple Star Lord stopped the other three rulers from reaching the duel.
• The ruler of the Great Dragon Kingdom transformed into a giant, scaled creature and brought his spear down on Wang Zhengtian.

Wang Zhengtian defeated the Great Dragon Kingdom's sovereign, and Li Qing's forces unified the twelfth world and established its new divine order. As Qiong's world descended into widespread rebellion, Li Qing's past self assembled three hundred thousand Dao Soldiers near the world's center to begin the next invasion.

• Wang Zhengtian shattered the Great Dragon Kingdom's sovereign's power, killed him, and forced most of his army to surrender.
• Li Qing surrounded Daoist Heavenly Dragon and the three great sovereigns, who surrendered and agreed to serve as gods.
• The Nine Provinces Four Regions' forces seized the remaining territory, and Li Qing's forces unified the world.
• Wang Zhengtian used the Investiture of Gods List to appoint the world's native powerhouses as gods under the Lord of Civilization, while Li Qing formed a faith incarnation and occupied the twelfth world.
• In Qiong's world, Qiong's blood descendants consumed humans as rebellion spread, and Li Qing's past self led three hundred thousand Dao Soldiers out of the Hidden Soldiers Cave.