Chapter Summaries

The Underworld Devil Lord and Radiant Emperor decided to keep the Nine Provinces Four Regions hidden and wait for Li Qing to reveal a weakness. Unaware of their choice, Li Qing continued building a world-spanning teleportation formation while the Haoran Sage considered how to counter Li Qing’s threat.

• The Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord discussed Li Qing’s tactics and realized their greed for his secret treasure had given him time to grow.
• The Underworld Devil Lord urged the Radiant Emperor to abandon sending their armies to the Nine Provinces Four Regions and instead watch Li Qing while keeping the region’s secret.
• The Radiant Emperor agreed to wait, temporarily halting the storm spreading from high-dimensional spacetime toward the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• Li Qing continued constructing the World Void Transmission Technique’s formation throughout the world, unaware of the two Sovereigns’ decision.
• The Indescribable—Ashes warned the Haoran Sage that Li Qing could kill him during the Dao-ascension Tribulation, prompting the Sage to consider exposing Ashes so Li Qing would have to confront everyone.

The Haoran Sage exposed the Ashes mark to the Nine Provinces Four Regions’ leaders and urged them to destroy Li Qing’s world and seize his secret treasure. Li Qing warned that flipping the board would leave them all facing four powerful forces, and the gathering ended with the crisis unresolved.

• The Haoran Sage summoned the Heavenly Emperors and Five Ghost Emperors, revealing the Ashes mark and explaining how it had tried to corrupt his mind.
• The Haoran Sage accused Li Qing of concealing the danger and claimed Ashes’s forces wanted the secret treasure in Li Qing’s possession.
• The Haoran Sage proposed destroying Li Qing’s world and dividing his treasure, prompting the gathered cultivators and anomalies to consider the plan.
• Li Qing recognized that the Haoran Sage was trying to force everyone into opposition with him and warned that the Haoran Sage could not flip the board safely.
• Li Qing revealed that four powerful forces, including a cultivator at the Space-Time Heavenly Dao Level, awaited outside and would kill them if they acted.

Li Qing stopped the Heavenly Emperors and Ghost Emperors from overturning the chessboard, warning that they had missed their chance and could not safely expose him to the rulers beyond the world. When Ashes tried to draw them toward The Indescribable, Li Qing shattered its projection, leaving everyone wary of the mark.

• Li Qing gave three reasons the others could not overturn the chessboard, including the sealed Concept Logic powerhouses and his ability to open the Seal of Heaven.
• Haoran Sage backed down, and Immortal Spiritual Rhinoceros realized Li Qing had anticipated their plans and interrupted a future of destruction.
• Sky Ghost proposed joining forces with the rulers outside, but Li Qing warned that exposing him could bring four Concept Logic powerhouses and released Heaven and the Enemy of Heaven.
• Li Qing urged everyone to focus on dealing with the mark of Ashes after the Heavenly Emperors and Ghost Emperors accepted they had lost their chance to flip the table.
• Ashes projected a phantom that began influencing the gathered beings and tempting them to serve The Indescribable.
• Li Qing destroyed the projection with Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, and the others erased their memories of it to steady their minds.

Li Qing warned the assembled immortals that The Indescribable was too dangerous to study, and they voted to destroy Ashes' Prophecy's mark. Although the mark was erased, its prophecy left behind a hidden influence of fear, which Li Qing chose not to reveal as he urged everyone to prepare for war against the Spiritual Essence World.

• Demon Emperor Who Upends All Living Beings suggested studying The Indescribable's power, but Li Qing warned that it had helped split the universe and given rise to anomalies.
• Sky Ghost and the Haoran Sage supported destroying Ashes' Prophecy's mark, and the gathered immortals voted to eradicate it.
• Ashes' Prophecy foretold that The Indescribable would descend and turn their universe into a hunting ground before its mark burned away.
• Everyone used the power of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to search for and confirm the mark's complete destruction.
• Li Qing used Way of Changes and the Jade Tablet to discover that the prophecy had planted fear that could eventually tempt the immortals to fall to The Indescribable.
• Li Qing kept the hidden danger to himself and urged the Heavenly Emperors and Ghost Emperors to prepare for war against the Spiritual Essence World.

Li Qing planned to exploit the collision of the world formation and more than a hundred worlds to overcome the dangers of his tribulation and help the Nine Provinces Four Regions conquer the Spiritual Essence World. As the collision approached, his Past Body sent agents to infiltrate the worlds and moved toward the largest one, which was protected by three Immortal Realm cultivators.

• Li Qing calculated that he would appear in the Dark Ocean during the worlds' collision, then use the ensuing war to seize control of the Spiritual Essence World and attain the Longevity Realm.
• The world formation approached a region of more than a hundred worlds that were due to collide within three months, with Immortal Realm cultivators preparing defenses.
• The Past Body summoned more than a hundred Nine Provinces Four Regions experts and gave them seeds of faith to infiltrate the worlds and prepare for the collision.
• The Past Body and Future Body advanced toward the worlds, with the Past Body reaching the largest world after three days.
• The Past Body arrived near a world thirty thousand li across, home to three Immortal Realm cultivators and covered by three kinds of Radiance.

Li Qing's Past Body duplicate infiltrated the Three Yuan World and uncovered how its three Immortal Dao Lords controlled the world through a unified system of cultivation, rotating dynasties, and vital essence management. After learning the system's origins from a Scripture Repository, he left with its four guiding principles understood.

• Li Qing's duplicate slipped past the Three Yuan World's defenses while its three Immortal Dao Lords fought three neighboring worlds.
• The duplicate entered a city and learned from brainwashed elders that the world was ruled by the Cold Soul Dao Lord, the Supreme God Dao Lord, and the Evil Dragon Dao Lord through three interconnected Dao Lineages.
• He discovered that each city had a grotto-heaven that absorbed vital essence and contained Anomalies, then bypassed its formation and entered its central palace.
• The duplicate recorded and examined hundreds of thousands of books in the palace's Scripture Repository.
• He learned that the three Dao Lords had come from outside the world, defeated invaders, and built a system founded on cultivation, rotating dynasties, balanced vital essence, and world development.

Li Qing studied the Three Yuan World's defenses, covertly brainwashed its leaders, and then infiltrated a poison-filled world during a battle between Immortals. He found that the world was overrun by deadly toxins and tiny Anomalies.

• Li Qing realized the Three Yuan World’s cultivation system prevented resentment from spawning Anomalies, but concluded that its defenses made a direct invasion impossible.
• Li Qing’s duplicate brainwashed the leaders of more than ten thousand mortal dynasties and gathered information before dissolving.
• The Past Body approached a world covered in dreamlike radiance, but its mind-warping Underlying Logic made infiltration too dangerous without further study.
• Li Qing headed to another world and waited for the Three Yuan World’s Immortals to attack its Immortal-level powers.
• During the battle, Li Qing’s duplicate entered the world through a torrent of venom and found it filled with deadly poisons and microscopic Anomalies.

Li Qing investigated the Spirit Race World and learned that the Wisdom Logic Anomaly Myriad Poisons had destroyed its civilization. The Past Body gathered the dead Spirits’ obsessions into a Dark Ocean beneath the earth, fused the darkness with the land, and transferred Dark Fate into a seed of faith.

• Li Qing’s clone explored a ruined city, recorded its books, and learned that the Spirit race’s civilization had fallen to Myriad Poisons.
• Li Qing identified Myriad Poisons as a Wisdom Logic Anomaly that used poison to control and corrupt living beings.
• The Past Body entered the world during a clash between six immortal-level beings and hid deep underground beneath the stable earth.
• The Past Body used Civilization Logic to call on the dead Spirits’ desire for revenge, drawing their dark obsessions into the underground lava.
• The replica fused the resulting Dark Ocean with the earth, gained the identity of Fate of the Dead, and placed Dark Fate into a seed of faith that absorbed the obsessions.

Li Qing’s Past Body used a dark faith incarnation and Civilization Logic to claim the remaining power of a Spirit Race world, creating an independent logic base. He then probed a curse-ruled world and turned to study its logic, while Sun Qiankun entered another dark world and was engulfed by lightning.

• The faith incarnation gathered the Fate of the Dead, linked Civilization Logic to the world’s uncontaminated logic, and drove Myriad Poisons’ influence out of a growing region.
• The Past Body’s plan established a new logic base using the world’s remaining mass, the Dark Ocean, and Civilization Logic, then the Past Body left the incarnation to oversee it.
• The Past Body approached a third world ruled by curse logic, but his replica was detected and disintegrated when it tried to infiltrate.
• The Past Body decided to study the curse logic and wait for the Jade Tablet to restore its mysteries before attempting entry again.
• Sun Qiankun, now at the Divine Soul level, flew into a dark world aboard a divine shuttle, where thunderclouds and lightning engulfed him.

Sun Qiankun landed in the Sky Eagle Divine King’s world and secretly established an underground base beneath a city. After identifying the world’s bloodline-based cultivation system, he infiltrated its central temple to begin investigating the local faith and power structure.

• Sun Qiankun used the Void Divine Shuttle to evade the world’s lightning and conceal its arrival, while the Sky Eagle Divine King sensed an intrusion and sent an army north to investigate.
• Sun Qiankun found a city and dug an underground cavern, placing a statue of the Lord of Civilization to gather resentment and mask the base from the world’s rejection.
• Sun Qiankun deployed over ten thousand Dao Soldiers to build a hidden underground base protected by illusion formations.
• Sun Qiankun surveyed the city and determined that its people followed a cultivation path based on mythical creature bloodlines.
• Sun Qiankun used an illusion to enter the central temple and reached the highest-ranking person among its bloodline cultivators.

Sun Qiankun used a token marked by the Lord of Civilization to brainwash Batu and the temple’s core bloodline cultivators, while Dao Soldiers began spreading the new faith through the city’s slums. A white-robed missionary persuaded a poor family to abandon the Sky Eagle Divine King and pledge loyalty to the Lord of Civilization, whose statue began to glow as it received their faith.

• Sun Qiankun infused the token with power and used the Faith spell to brainwash Batu, a bronze-colored eagle-headed cultivator.
• Batu gathered the temple’s core personnel, and Sun Qiankun brainwashed them before Batu confined the bloodline cultivators inside the temple.
• Sun Qiankun’s Dao Soldiers entered the city’s slums and approached impoverished households.
• A white-robed missionary entered a poor family’s home and promised that the Lord of Civilization could heal the sick woman and provide help.
• The family’s father rejected the Sky Eagle Divine King and pledged loyalty to the Lord of Civilization, and the divine statue accepted their faith.

Sun Qiankun spread faith in the Lord of Civilization across the northern city and built a growing army of Dao Soldiers as Civilization Logic and the Dark Ocean expanded. Sky Eagle Divine King sensed the gathering darkness, flew north, and began attacking it, but his first strikes barely affected it.

• A woman recovered from her illness after her family prayed to the Lord of Civilization, and the white-robed preacher gave her husband the Martial Canon and urged him to spread the faith.
• The faith spread rapidly among commoners, while Sun Qiankun led preaching Dao Soldiers into nearby settlements and recruited believers.
• Sun Qiankun reported that nearly five million people had joined the faith and that the Essence Refining Dao Soldiers numbered one hundred thousand, though a searching army was closing in.
• Sky Eagle Divine King sensed dark obsessions converging in the north and saw a vast, expanding darkness threaded with networks across the world.
• Sky Eagle Divine King flew north and attacked the Dark Ocean with golden sword lights, but the darkness barely stirred; he then gathered the logic of Gold of All Things in his wings.

Li Qing’s faith incarnation failed to permanently metallize the Dark Ocean in the Sky Eagle World but began deciphering the Sky Eagle Divine King’s logic. Meanwhile, his agents spread the Lord of Civilization’s faith and built forces across other worlds as the invasion of a hundred worlds advanced.

• The Sky Eagle Divine King unleashed a golden cross that briefly metallized half the Dark Ocean, but the darkness returned and Li Qing’s faith incarnation continued analyzing his attacks.
• Li Qing’s faith incarnation declared that it would decipher the Sky Eagle Divine King’s logic before the worlds fully collided and he died.
• Zhuge Shenji expanded the Lord of Civilization’s faith across a remote world, assembled Dao Soldiers, and planned a domain to counter its Buddhist, Dao, and Demon Longevity Realm cultivators.
• Corpse Treasury Bodhisattva quietly took control of villages and towns across the north of a chaotic, weak world while posing as a northern warlord.
• After a month of invasion, Li Qing had gained influence over more than a hundred worlds, including some containing three immortals, and left the worlds dominated by Dark Oceans untouched for now.

Li Qing activated the Dark Lifeless Grand Array across the Dark Oceans, causing more than two-thirds of the Hundred Great Worlds to resonate and drawing Heavenly Dao Reincarnation into the spreading crisis. He planned to control the worlds’ collisions, stabilize them, and use their power to reinforce the Nine Provinces Four Regions battlefield, where he expected his Dao tribulation’s fiercest fight.

• Li Qing established Dark Oceans across roughly two-thirds of the Hundred Great Worlds and spread his faith through nearly every world with life.
• Li Qing’s Faith Incarnation used Civilization Logic to build the Dark Lifeless Grand Array beneath the World of Myriad Poisons.
• The array’s pull spread through the World of Myriad Poisons, other anomaly worlds, and more than two-thirds of the Hundred Great Worlds, alarming powerful figures and halting some wars.
• Heavenly Dao Reincarnation followed the world array’s mist into the battlefield and began swallowing nearby worlds.
• Li Qing connected his main bodies, Faith Incarnations, and converted followers as the battlefield spread through the void.
• Li Qing planned to guide the worlds’ collisions, extend Reincarnation into the Dark Oceans, and later stabilize the worlds before reinforcing the Nine Provinces Four Regions battlefield.

Li Qing expanded reincarnation through Blackwater, giving it a foothold in two-thirds of the Hundred Great Worlds and frustrating Myriad Poisons. Alarmed by the spreading darkness and approaching Mist, the three immortals formed a plan to contact powerful beings, while Immortal Cold Soul approached Myriad Poisons.

• Li Qing prepared for his coming tribulation, planning to use the Heart-Destroying Sword, the Dark Oceans, and a moment of surprise against his enemies.
• Li Qing spread reincarnation's power through Civilization Logic, and Blackwater joined it, allowing it to establish a foothold in two-thirds of the Hundred Great Worlds.
• Myriad Poisons attacked Blackwater with poisonous water and anomalous insects, but the combined power of Civilization Logic, reincarnation, and darkness dissolved its forces.
• Cold Soul, Supreme God, and Evil Dragon sensed the widespread changes and the approaching Mist, and Evil Dragon suspected that the faction within the Mist planned to devour the worlds.
• The three immortals agreed to seek a wartime alliance and sent avatars to contact three Wisdom Logic Anomalies and three mythical creatures.
• Immortal Cold Soul's avatar confronted Myriad Poisons, which demanded to know what he wanted.

Cold Soul, Myriad Poisons, and the other powerful beings agreed to join forces against the darkness spreading across their worlds, beginning with the World of Myriad Poisons. Li Qing detected their attack and prepared to counter it by gathering darkness from other worlds.

• Cold Soul warned Myriad Poisons that darkness had appeared in more than two-thirds of the hundred worlds and could become catastrophic when the worlds collided.
• Nine Immortal Realm-level beings and three mythical creatures met, and Cold Soul proposed destroying the darkness together and claiming the merged world.
• Myriad Poisons and the others agreed to collaborate, and Supreme God offered to direct their combined power with the spell Supreme Unity Reversion.
• As the alliance began concentrating its attack on the World of Myriad Poisons, Li Qing sensed the change through his Faith Incarnation, the Way of Changes, and the Jade Tablet.
• Li Qing used the Reincarnation Vortex to draw darkness from other worlds into the World of Myriad Poisons while a multicolored disc gathered the alliance's powers.

The nine powerful beings failed to destroy the darkness in the World of Myriad Poisons, and Myriad Poisons warned that another attack could shatter its world. After learning that the enemy could transfer Dark Ocean between worlds, Divine Tiger proposed coordinating attacks across every affected world.

• The combined attack pierced the Dark Ocean, but Blackwater surged in from more than sixty worlds and overwhelmed the pillar, which exploded and devastated the World of Myriad Poisons.
• Myriad Poisons said the attack had multiplied the darkness in its world and warned that another powerful blow could destroy it.
• Azure Luan revealed that two-thirds of the Dark Ocean in her world had vanished during the attack and then returned, suggesting the enemy could transfer darkness between worlds.
• Immortal Evil Dragon warned that an invisible death had descended and that the darkness could bring a terrible calamity.
• Divine Tiger proposed sending avatars to urge every affected world's ruler to attack its Dark Ocean simultaneously and weaken the enemy's influence.

Li Qing learned that powerful figures planned to coordinate attacks against the Dark Oceans, so he mobilized his Faith Incarnations and began summoning rulers of nearby worlds to a meeting. As Longevity Dao Lord joined the gathering, Bone Bodhisattva prepared a mass uprising to disrupt an anticipated attack on the Dark Ocean.

• Powerful figures proposed forming a temporary alliance to attack the Dark Oceans on several fronts, while Li Qing used the Way of Changes and the Jade Tablet's records to track their plans.
• Li Qing ordered his Faith Incarnations to prepare, and Bone Bodhisattva received instructions to disrupt order and delay an attack on the Dark Ocean.
• Bone Bodhisattva ordered more than five hundred thousand Dao Soldiers to gather secretly across the world.
• Immortal Cold Soul invited Longevity Dao Lord to a meeting of powerful figures and gave him a token to enter an illusory spacetime.
• Longevity Dao Lord joined the meeting, where the gathering grew to sixty-eight figures, including nine immortals and twenty Tribulation Realm cultivators.

Cold Soul rallied cultivators from more than a hundred worlds to attack the Dark Oceans together in three days, while Li Qing ordered his Faith Incarnations to disrupt their plans. Bone Bodhisattva led a hundred thousand Dao Soldiers in an assault on North Dragon City and faced its Dharma Form guardian.

• Cold Soul explained that a mysterious force used connected Dark Oceans to control world collisions and called for simultaneous attacks on the Dark Oceans in sixty-eight worlds.
• Longevity Dao Lord and the other cultivators and mythical beings agreed to the plan, and Cold Soul set the attack for three days later.
• Longevity Realm and Tribulation Realm powers mobilized Dao Soldiers as Li Qing ordered every Faith Incarnation to begin disrupting their preparations.
• Bone Bodhisattva gathered a hundred thousand Dao Soldiers in North Dragon City, where followers of the Lord of Civilization had secretly spread among the poor.
• Bone Bodhisattva joined the battle formation and grew into a hundred-zhang bodhisattva, prompting North Dragon City's Dharma Form guardian to attack him with a dark-gold longsword.

Bone Bodhisattva and Li Qing’s forces conquered the north, linking its cities through a Civilization Logic network that drew strength from millions of believers. The Longevity Dao Lord gathered a three-hundred-thousand-strong army and marched north, where Bone Bodhisattva’s forces prepared to face him.

• Bone Bodhisattva held off a Dharma Form cultivator while four hundred thousand ambushing Dao Soldiers seized the weakened city.
• Bone Bodhisattva drove the Dharma Form cultivator to flee, occupied the city, and sent troops to conquer settlements across the north.
• Li Qing’s faith incarnation connected northern cities through a Civilization Logic network, drawing on ten million believers.
• The escaped cultivator told the Longevity Dao Lord that the north had fallen and described the enemy’s powerful military formations.
• The Longevity Dao Lord assembled more than three hundred thousand Dao Soldiers and led them north to crush the rebellion.
• Bone Bodhisattva waited in the sky above a northern city as three hundred thousand Dao Soldiers stood guard below.