Chapter Summaries

Li Qing gathered the Free Warriors underground while Qiong’s forces carried out their extermination campaign across the world. With one and a half million warriors assembled and Qiong’s armies far from the continent’s center, Li Qing launched his counterattack and called upon the dead to take revenge.

• Li Qing guided resisters into the underground tunnels as Qiong’s troops drove humans away and killed those who resisted.
• Wang Bolin led four bloodkin into a cavern where Zhang Lindong and the Free Warriors received the Great Empowerment Art and defeated them at the cost of nearly twenty lives.
• Li Qing secretly gathered an expanding force of Dao Soldiers in the central gorge and waited for Qiong’s dispatched armies to move away from him.
• After the six dukes led their armies to within three thousand li of the continent’s center, Li Qing ordered one and a half million Free Warriors to move out.
• Li Qing drew on his past body and the dead’s hatred and despair, calling upon their obsessions to avenge themselves.

Li Qing gained the world’s Mandate of Heaven and received power from Ocean World, allowing him to confront Qiong at the level of the Longevity Realm. He countered Qiong’s blood-based attacks while analyzing his logic, then met Qiong’s mass of regenerating flesh in giant form.

• The living and dead rebels rallied behind Li Qing, and the world’s Mandate of Heaven descended upon him.
• Qiong led his hundred-thousand-strong army toward Li Qing, but Ocean World’s World Light connected with Li Qing’s Civilization Logic and empowered him.
• Qiong attacked with bloodlight that drained life, but Li Qing’s doomsday mist and Control of All Qi and Laws compressed and reflected it.
• Li Qing used his observation and recording techniques to analyze Qiong’s blood logic and calculate its flaws.
• Qiong transformed into a mass of flesh and blood and overwhelmed the sky, while Li Qing grew into a colossal golden giant and struck back, only for the flesh to regenerate and coil around his hands.

Li Qing overwhelmed Qiong, who drained his bloodline descendants to evolve his logic into three surface-level logics. Li Qing’s buried curse ignited inside Qiong, allowing him to tear out Qiong’s logic networks and destroy his true spirit; the hatred behind Li Qing was released.

• Li Qing resisted Qiong’s flesh-and-blood assimilation and attacks with his Invincible Human Dao Dharma Body, then began tearing Qiong apart.
• Qiong drained the strength of his bloodline descendants and evolved his logic into three distinct surface-level logics.
• Li Qing continued attacking as the battle consumed much of the darkness accumulated behind him, and Qiong’s new logics resisted his control.
• The buried curse ignited within Qiong, while Li Qing’s golden light and Doomsday Mist overwhelmed him from outside.
• Li Qing tore three logic networks from Qiong, battered his flesh into pieces, and crushed his true spirit, killing him.
• The darkness behind Li Qing boiled as the released hatred cried out for revenge.

Li Qing merged another conquered world into the Ocean World and established the Twelve Yuanchen Inverted Grand Formation to trap lower-dimensional worlds for invasion. As his forces began the hunt, five mysterious immortals arrived near the Nine Provinces Four Regions and prepared to investigate.

• Li Qing helped the Ocean World's Heavenly Dao Reincarnation devour a world's will, then appointed the dead and surviving heroes as gods.
• Li Qing merged the conquered world with the Ocean World, creating a new realm where fishfolk and humans occupied separate territories.
• Li Qing formed the Twelve Yuanchen Inverted Grand Formation with twelve worlds, trapping lower-dimensional worlds and sending dao artifacts and powerful figures to invade them.
• Li Qing moved a trapped lower-dimensional world outside the Parasol Tree World, where his Future Body began another invasion.
• Five Void Fortress Divine Shuttles carrying five immortals arrived near the Nine Provinces Four Regions, and Immortal Golden Light urged them to gather intelligence.

Night Demon sent an Infiltration Puppet into the Nine Provinces Four Regions to investigate the world and prepare for an invasion. After the puppet possessed Du Xin, Li Qing detected the intrusion and learned Night Demon’s identity and purpose.

• Night Demon created an Infiltration Puppet and projected part of it into the Nine Provinces Four Regions through the world’s darkness.
• The puppet discovered a man using a decree token to control a forest and then explored a prosperous city, gathering information about the world’s rulers and society.
• The puppet possessed the scholar Du Xin in a secluded alley to search his memories for information.
• Li Qing noticed Du Xin’s changed future through the Way of Changes and used the Jade Tablet to identify Night Demon and his plan to investigate before a vanguard invasion.

Li Qing told the Immortals and Wisdom Logic Anomalies that Night Demon's puppet had infiltrated the Nine Provinces Four Regions, and they agreed to feign weakness while gathering information about the approaching world's vanguard. They erased and altered records to mislead the infiltrator, leaving the enemy with false clues as their next move remained unknown.

• Li Qing summoned the six Immortals and three Wisdom Logic Anomalies and revealed that Night Demon's puppet had possessed Du Xin to investigate their world.
• Sky Ghost proposed luring the vanguard into a trap, but Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord argued they should first learn how the enemy fought in the void and conceal their strength.
• Haoran Sage suggested sending the former Heavenly Gods and Yin Gods to fight the vanguard, then reshaping them through the Investiture of Gods List if they died.
• Li Qing and Haoran Sage concealed their understanding from the others, while Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord and Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord suspected Haoran Sage was disguising his alliance with Li Qing.
• The group agreed to erase records about the Investiture of Gods war, show weakness, gather intelligence, and wait for an opportunity to counterattack.
• Li Qing used Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to erase and rewrite information across the world while carefully preserving what Du Xin and Night Demon's puppet had already learned.

Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord secretly contacted Night Demon through Du Xin and proposed joining forces to kill a powerful Conceptual Logic Prototype. He left Night Demon intrigued by the world’s history, its mysterious treasure, and the sealed beings beneath it, while Night Demon remained wary of the offer’s hidden malice.

• After the meeting ended, Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord and Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord agreed to approach Night Demon and seek his cooperation.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord sent a projection through the Logic Network and spoke to Night Demon while he controlled Du Xin.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord revealed that his side had nine Immortal Realm experts, including one with a Conceptual Logic Prototype, and proposed creating a chance to kill that expert.
• Night Demon agreed to consider cooperating but asked for the world's history, which Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord refused to disclose.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord claimed a mysterious person and treasure had traced Night Demon's arrival, and told him that two Concept Logic beings were sealed in the world's core.
• Night Demon sensed Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord's malice but felt greed rise at the prospect of the treasure and sealed beings.

The five invading immortals arrived near the Nine Provinces Four Regions in a powerful formation, and Li Qing learned that the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord had contacted Immortal Night Demon. Li Qing and the other defenders prepared to feign weakness, while the invaders recognized the act and decided to play along in hopes of eliminating Haoran Sage.

• Immortal Night Demon shared his information with Golden Light, Blue Heaven, Punishment Prison, and White King, and the five agreed to begin their invasion.
• The five immortals used the Void Wheel to move their formation to roughly a thousand li from the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• Li Qing deduced that Haoran Sage had been exposed and decided to use the invasion to eliminate enemy immortals and then dispose of Haoran Sage.
• Li Qing told the gathered defenders to appear weak and let him command their response, while the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord understood the plan was aimed at Haoran Sage.
• The defenders appeared outside the world barrier, and Night Demon recognized their feigned weakness as an attempt to mislead Haoran Sage.
• Golden Light and the other invaders decided to play along and seek a chance to eliminate Haoran Sage.

Li Qing’s side exchanged attacks with the Five Immortals and discovered that their formation could produce power resembling a Conceptual Logic Prototype. Li Qing used the confrontation to gather information and identify the formation’s foundations and purpose.

• The Five Immortals powered their Void Fortress Divine Shuttles and fired the Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon at maximum strength.
• Li Qing directed the six immortals and three Wisdom Logic Anomalies to form the Nine Palaces Formation, whose attack met the Five Immortals’ strike halfway between the two sides.
• Li Qing analyzed the clash and determined that the Five Immortals Inverted Heaven and Earth Formation could derive a Conceptual Logic Prototype from complementary forms of Underlying Logic.
• Li Qing told his allies to keep testing the Five Immortals while concealing their true strength, and the two sides continued trading attacks as he gathered data.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord recognized that the Five Immortals were using the battle to investigate them, and Li Qing explained that their formation relied on five Void Fortress Divine Shuttles containing grotto-heavens.

The Divine Body duplicate and the Haoran Sage’s allies chose to hold their ground against the Spiritual Essence World immortals, while Li Qing devised a plan to break the stalemate by feigning weakness and inviting the enemy to establish a base. Li Qing and the Haoran Sage both sensed that the other might be hiding a further scheme as the Divine Body duplicate called a meeting.

• The Divine Body duplicate advised defending the world's perimeter and relying on heavenly Dao reincarnation, and the immortals and Wisdom Logic Anomalies chose to hold steady.
• Immortal Golden Light and the Immortal Night Demon decided to wait while the projection gathered information and contacted traitors.
• Li Qing asked the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord to tell the Immortal Night Demon's projection that they would feign weakness and allow the enemy to establish a forward base.
• Li Qing proposed the same plan to the Haoran Sage, who agreed to support it but suspected Li Qing had another motive.
• The Divine Body duplicate summoned the nine figures to a meeting, where the Haoran Sage asked what important matter Li Qing wanted to discuss.

Li Qing and the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord agreed to stage a conflict while secretly inviting Immortal Night Demon to establish a base inside their world. After hearing their explanation, Immortal Golden Light suspected the Haoran Sage possessed a large share of the power connected to the Heavenly Court and the Underworld.

• Li Qing outlined the second step of the plan: he would approach Immortal Night Demon openly while the Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord acted as though they were enemies.
• Du Xin discovered that records of the world's recent war and the creation of the Heavenly Realm and Underworld had been erased, and Immortal Night Demon suspected a connection to the Void Investiture.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord told Immortal Night Demon to project power into the world and establish a base as part of their performance for the Haoran Sage.
• Li Qing gave Immortal Night Demon a map of three earth-vein nodes near the world's edge and offered to let him choose one for the base.
• Immortal Night Demon reported the plan to the other immortals, and Immortal Golden Light speculated that the Haoran Sage held much of the power gained through the Heavenly Court and Underworld.

The Five Immortals sent a seed containing their avatars through a deliberately weakened world barrier and transformed it into a giant tree base in the western region. Li Qing and the others identified how the tree’s domain let the Five Immortals wield their full power while suppressing intruders.

• Immortal Golden Light and the other immortals agreed to send a base seed into the Nine Provinces Four Regions while their true bodies held off its defenders.
• The White King launched the seed as the Five Immortals fired the Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon at the world barrier.
• Li Qing and the other immortals formed a nine-palace array to block the cannon, while Li Qing made the barrier appear cracked so the seed could pass through.
• The seed reached an earth-vein node beneath the western sea, merged with the earth vein, and grew into a towering five-colored tree surrounded by raised land.
• The Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord recognized the Five Immortals’ avatars in the tree, and Li Qing determined that its earth-vein domain let them wield their full power while suppressing outsiders.

Li Qing learned that the invaders’ giant tree was a Devouring Giant Tree that used a world’s earth veins to create an indestructible landing zone. As the battle continued, he began devising ways to seize the tree and use its technology for future invasions.

• Li Qing explained that the giant tree disguised the invaders’ territory and ordered his forces to suppress it while Haoran Sage held off the Five Immortals in the void.
• Li Qing’s Divine Body duplicate gathered the strength of the Heavenly Court and Underworld forces into a vast palm and attacked the tree.
• The five Immortal avatars fed their logic into the tree, creating a five-colored Radiance that blocked the palm and held it in a stalemate.
• Li Qing examined the tree’s patterns and used the Jade Tablet to identify it as a Devouring Giant Tree that absorbed logic and made an indestructible safe zone for invasion.
• Li Qing resolved to take Spiritual Essence World and began devising invasion tactics based on the tree, while Haoran Sage and the other eight defended against the invaders’ beams of light.

Golden Light’s group established a forward base, prompting the Spiritual Essence World to activate its Space Gate and send a million Dao Soldiers through the Devouring Giant Tree. Li Qing identified the passage and revealed that he had allowed the enemy to project more forces so he could study their world, while insisting the invaders’ Immortals would not descend in person.

• Golden Light sent word to the Spiritual Essence World that the forward base had held against its first attack and proposed exploiting the enemy’s internal conflicts.
• Purple God received the message and ordered a million Dao Soldiers sent to secure the base, with Sun Emperor guarding the passage and commanding the army.
• Sun Emperor and the other six Immortals combined their logic to activate the Space Gate, opening a passage from the Spiritual Essence World through the Devouring Giant Tree.
• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to identify the Space Gate’s Conceptual Logic Prototype and realized the Spiritual Essence World had linked the two worlds through the tree.
• Li Qing told the gathered projections that he had concealed the passage to draw out enemy forces and gather information, then claimed their Immortals would not descend in person.

Li Qing and his allies concealed the secrets of their Three Realms System while preparing to draw the Spiritual Essence World’s forces into a trap. As the invaders’ forward base was surrounded and both armies clashed, Li Qing’s disguised Divine Body entered the battle and attacked an enemy soldier.

• Li Qing persuaded Haoran Sage and the others to hide their advantage, let the enemy grow confident, and wait for a chance to draw the battle into their world.
• The Spiritual Essence World established a forward base around the Devouring Giant Tree, while Li Qing used the Logic Network’s Mist to conceal it and protect the secret of the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
• Immortal Golden Light told Immortal Sun Emperor and the other avatars to hold the base, investigate the world, and continue the invasion plan while the true Immortals occupied their opponents.
• Zhou Tianjun led the heavenly and underworld forces and two million Dao Soldiers in an assault on the base, where the armies of both worlds met in battle.
• Li Qing’s disguised Divine Body joined the frontline and secretly sent a Heavens Civilization Torrent into an enemy soldier during their blade clash.

Li Qing infiltrated the Spiritual Essence World through a controlled soldier and uncovered how its rulers exploited the population and suppressed centuries of accumulated resentment. He planned to use that hidden darkness against the world and began studying its forward base so he could draw away some of its Dao Soldiers.

• Li Qing concealed himself inside an otherworldly soldier and entered territory controlled by the Devouring Giant Tree.
• Li Qing used the soldier’s memories, the Way of Changes, and the Jade Tablet to learn about the Spiritual Essence World and its twelve rulers.
• Li Qing discovered that the world’s rulers secretly killed everyone over forty and used their bodies and souls as cultivation materials.
• Li Qing realized that centuries of slaughter had accumulated immense darkness that he could use to undermine the Spiritual Essence World.
• Li Qing began gathering information about the forward base, intending to make its forces withdraw some Dao Soldiers.

Li Qing had Zhou Tianjun make the Nine Provinces Four Regions appear to lose ground so the Spiritual Essence World might rotate its Dao Soldiers, giving Li Qing a chance to infiltrate through the Space Gate. The Haoran Sage realized Li Qing was preparing to enter the enemy world, while the others wondered if he was also ready to face the Longevity Realm tribulation.

• Li Qing identified three ways to prompt the enemy to rotate its Dao Soldiers and chose to make the Nine Provinces Four Regions give ground while minimizing casualties.
• Li Qing appeared beside Zhou Tianjun and asked him to ease the fighting for several days, promising to appoint fallen soldiers as heavenly or Underworld officers.
• The Sun Emperor and the Five Immortals grew suspicious of the weaker attack, and Immortal Golden Light warned that the enemy might be setting a trap.
• Li Qing told the Haoran Sage that he hoped the enemy would open the spatial passage so he could infiltrate their world, gather information, and cause chaos.
• The Haoran Sage inferred that Li Qing had completed his Dharma Form and might be preparing to undergo the Longevity Realm tribulation.

A hidden Conceptual Logic Prototype expert and the Underworld Devil Lord watched Li Qing, each plotting to seize an opportunity while the Radiant Emperor considered the rulers’ plans for the universe. After half a month of failed attacks, Li Qing took command and prepared a second plan, which began with a devastating ambush against the Spiritual Essence World’s Dao Soldiers.

• The hidden expert behind the Life-Borrowing Talisman decided to wait for a large battle to distract Heavenly Dao Reincarnation before trying to capture Li Qing’s avatar and trace its karma to his true body.
• The Underworld Devil Lord planned to let the Haoran Sage absorb his dormant conceptual essence so he could later take control of him.
• The Radiant Emperor reflected that the Nine Great Rulers intended to eliminate all Conceptual Logic Prototype experts before beginning their true Void Investiture campaign.
• For half a month, Zhou Tianjun led repeated attacks that cost the Nine Provinces Four Regions tens of thousands of Dao Soldiers, while Li Qing gathered information and saw that the immortals would not rotate their troops.
• Li Qing took command through his Divine Body projection and used his Way of Changes to calculate the next battle.
• The Spiritual Essence World’s Dao Soldiers entered the fight expecting another easy victory, but they suffered a crushing blow as soon as they met the enemy.

Li Qing’s precise command of the Nine Provinces Four Regions army inflicted far greater losses on the Spiritual Essence World forces, even after Immortal Golden Light strengthened their front line. The enemy withdrew into the Devouring Giant Tree’s domain and raised an earth, water, wind, and fire formation to suppress the advancing army.

• Li Qing used the Way of Changes to predict enemy moves, helping the Nine Provinces Four Regions army kill thousands of Spiritual Essence World Dao Soldiers.
• Immortal Golden Light gathered the Devouring Giant Tree’s five-colored Radiance over the enemy front, reducing its soldiers’ casualties without stopping the losses.
• After half an hour, thirty thousand Spiritual Essence World Dao Soldiers had died, compared with fewer than three thousand from the Nine Provinces Four Regions army.
• Immortal Golden Light concluded that the opposing commander could simulate future actions and urged the army to retreat into the devouring domain.
• Four Tribulation Realm commanders raised altars and banners at the domain’s four points, forming a world of earth, water, wind, and fire that merged with the tree’s Radiance.
• The million-strong Spiritual Essence World army withdrew into the formation.

Li Qing’s forces used the Heavenly Net and Earthly Web to breach the Devouring Giant Tree’s domain, gaining an advantage in the battle against the Five Immortals. When Sun Emperor summoned a falling sun, Li Qing discovered that the attack drew on logic present since the cosmos’s birth and recognized how Heavenly Dao Reincarnation tapped into cosmic power.

• Li Qing led two million Dao Soldiers into the Devouring Giant Tree’s domain under the protection of the Heavenly Net and Earthly Web.
• Immortal Golden Light’s clone coordinated the Five Immortals’ forces, while Sun Emperor prepared an Immortal-level attack.
• The two armies clashed, and the Nine Provinces Four Regions’ Dao Soldiers inflicted casualties at a ratio of one to three.
• Li Qing intercepted Sun Emperor’s Scorching Sun Divine Light with the Heavenly Net and Earthly Web.
• Sun Emperor used his golden mirror to summon a great sun and invoked the cosmic logic of Falling Sun.
• The Jade Tablet restored information about Falling Sun, and Li Qing realized how Heavenly Dao Reincarnation drew on logic woven into the cosmos.