Chapter Summaries

The Bone Bodhisattva fought the Longevity Dao Lord to a standstill as Li Qing maintained a dangerous balance to cultivate tribulation power. In a Buddhist Sect world, Wang Riyue launched a mass uprising across one hundred thousand villages, leaving Donglai Bodhisattva facing a spreading rebellion.

• The Bone Bodhisattva and the Longevity Dao Lord exchanged mind-targeting powers, then clashed in transformed forms without either gaining the upper hand.
• Li Qing judged that tribulations needed to remain dangerous and near eruption to yield the greatest benefit, and he maintained strategic balance across the Longevity Realm worlds.
• Wang Riyue prepared to spread the Lord of Civilization's faith across a Buddhist Sect world where believers were exploited for cultivation materials.
• Wang Riyue ordered one hundred thousand villages to rebel, using trained believers and Dao Soldier formations to attack nearby towns.
• Donglai Bodhisattva received news of the widespread uprisings and sensed an immense crisis.

As rebellions disrupted the plan to attack the Dark Ocean, the cultivators learned that the Lord of Civilization had prepared for their mobilization and formed an alliance across the void. The alliance agreed to suppress the rebellions and pressure the Dark Ocean while the nine Immortal Realm powerhouses continued their original plan.

• Donglai Bodhisattva and the other cultivators reported that rebellions and the Dark Ocean's forces had scattered their Dao Soldiers and derailed their attack plans.
• Cold Soul revealed that the Lord of Civilization had used the Martial Canon to create vast numbers of Dao Soldiers and had prepared for the alliance's moves.
• Sky Eagle Divine King proposed a Void Alliance to unite the cultivators against the Dark Ocean after the worlds collided.
• The nine Immortal Realm powerhouses agreed to lead the alliance as chairs, and the other cultivators accepted the council arrangement.
• Donglai Bodhisattva proposed suppressing rebellions in Tribulation Realm worlds and above before attacking the Dark Ocean, while the nine chairs continued their original plan.

As the Hundred Great Worlds reached a stalemate, Li Qing calculated that they would collide in thirty-eight days and turned his attention to ending the war between the Children of Destiny in the Spiritual Essence World. Tan Yuzhu and Huang Tianyu’s armies fought on the Warfire Plains under strategists secretly controlled by Li Qing, while Immortal Realm avatars watched and praised their command of the battle formations.

• Donglai Bodhisattva proposed sending investigators into the Mist, and the nine councilors and other cultivators approved the motion.
• Tribulation Realm cultivators deployed their Dao Soldiers to suppress unrest across the worlds, while experts attacked the Dark Oceans and Li Qing judged the conflict to be at a stalemate.
• Li Qing calculated that the Hundred Great Worlds would collide in thirty-eight days and decided the war between the Children of Destiny, the sacrifice to Heaven, and the Investiture of Gods had to conclude by then.
• Tan Yuzhu led a million Dao Soldiers against Huang Tianyu’s smaller army on the Warfire Plains, with both forces’ strategists secretly under Li Qing’s control.
• The armies clashed in tightly controlled battle formations, and Immortal Golden Light and other avatars praised the strategists and said they should receive titles in the Investiture of Gods.

Song Tianda’s million-strong army fought Yu Qiankun’s forces while their champions dueled in the sky, with Li Qing secretly controlling the battle. When Yu Qiankun’s left wing collapsed and his soldiers lost their strength, he abandoned them and launched an all-out attack on Song Tianda.

• Song Tianda and Yu Qiankun’s armies fought a bloody stalemate on Heavenly Wind Plains as the two leaders prepared to face each other.
• The Divine Body took control of Song Tianda, who challenged Yu Qiankun to battle; Yu Qiankun accepted and attacked with his spear.
• Li Qing monitored and manipulated the armies through the Way of Changes, aiming to defeat Yu Qiankun and then turn against Tan Yuzhu.
• Song Tianda gained the advantage in their duel by striking at flaws in Yu Qiankun’s attacks while his army gradually pressed forward.
• Yu Qiankun’s left wing collapsed, his army’s formation power faded, and the Dao Soldiers below suddenly lost their strength.
• Yu Qiankun abandoned his powerless soldiers and gathered all his strength into a final spear strike against Song Tianda.

Song Tianda defeated Yu Qiankun, and the north and south of the Spiritual Essence World united under the Children of Destiny. As the Five Immortals fought to hold the Void Gate and Li Qing’s enemies suspected he would interfere with the Three Realms Investiture of Gods, the chapter left his plan unknown.

• Song Tianda used Li Qing’s guidance to strike a weakness in Yu Qiankun’s derived logic, killing him and forcing his eight hundred thousand soldiers to surrender.
• Li Qing ordered Song Tianda to control the north, march south within twenty days, meet Tan Yuzhu for a decisive battle, and finish the fighting within a month.
• Tan Yuzhu killed Huang Tianyu and seized control of the south, uniting the north and south of the Spiritual Essence World.
• The Five Immortals and their forces blasted the Dark Ocean beyond the Void Gate, destroying more than ten thousand Dao Soldiers as Purple God and Evil Hook warned that the invaders were pressing harder.
• The Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord discussed Li Qing’s possible plans and suspected he might manipulate the Three Realms Investiture of Gods to advance his breakthrough into the Longevity Realm.

The Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord suspected Li Qing was manipulating the Three Realms Investiture of Gods War and using the Dark Ocean to infiltrate the Spiritual Essence World. After reviewing the Battle of Heavenly Fate, they warned Immortal Golden Light that Li Qing had controlled the conflict and concealed his true plans.

• The Underworld Devil Lord outlined how Li Qing could infiltrate the divine hierarchy and use the Dark Ocean to weaken the Spiritual Essence World over a thousand years.
• The Radiant Emperor said Li Qing's obvious plan must conceal another purpose, and he asked Immortal Golden Light for details about the Investiture of Gods War.
• Immortal Golden Light shared everything he knew, allowing the Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord to analyze the Battle of Heavenly Fate.
• The Underworld Devil Lord identified four unusually skilled strategists and suspected one of the victorious Children of Destiny had reached an agreement with Li Qing.
• The Radiant Emperor cited intensifying attacks at the Void Gate, the strategists' improbable talents, and the resistance forces' failure to question disguised cultivators as evidence that Li Qing had controlled the war.

The Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord warned Golden Light that Li Qing might use the Child of Destiny to establish reincarnation on his own terms, and they devised a plan to secretly control the final investiture. Golden Light planted a rune in Song Tianda, but the Divine Body within him detected it and revealed that Song Tianda was only a shell.

• The Radiant Emperor warned that Li Qing could use the Child of Destiny and the Nine Provinces’ reincarnation power to build a new cycle, giving him control over half the system.
• Golden Light proposed abandoning the Investiture of Gods War, but the Underworld Devil Lord argued that Li Qing could secretly recreate his plan if they started over.
• The Radiant Emperor advised Golden Light to secretly plant control in the Child of Destiny and wait until the final investiture to force his preferred choice.
• Golden Light’s avatar appeared behind Song Tianda and secretly embedded a rune in his body.
• The Divine Body inside Song Tianda sensed the rune, reconstructed how it had been planted, and revealed that Song Tianda was only its shell.

Li Qing prepared to exploit the Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord’s plans while their forces continued attacking the Nine Provinces Four Regions. The Bright Heavenly Emperor traveled there in a Bright Divine Shuttle and secretly approached, recognizing the Radiant Emperor’s assault.

• Li Qing anticipated that his enemies would walk into his trap and prepared to use the Heart-Destroying Sword, which could kill whoever faced it.
• Immortal Golden Light revealed that he had placed means of control on both Children of Destiny, and the Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord planned to delay their final deductions until just before the Investiture of Gods.
• The Radiant Emperor concluded that Li Qing already knew their plan and told the Underworld Devil Lord to keep their thoughts private while they watched for Li Qing’s response.
• The Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord continued attacking the Nine Provinces Four Regions, while Li Qing monitored the realm and the defenders used Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to send Dao Soldiers into the assault.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor sent a clone in a Bright Divine Shuttle toward the Nine Provinces Four Regions, recognized the Radiant Emperor’s attack, and secretly drew near.

The Bright Heavenly Emperor infiltrated the Nine Provinces Four Regions and discovered that Li Qing was behind its formidable defenses. After meeting Li Qing at the Civilization Academy, he learned why the Radiant Emperor and the Underworld Devil Lord were besieging the world.

• The Bright Heavenly Emperor noticed the siege by the Radiant Emperor, the Underworld Devil Lord, and five immortals, then cautiously infiltrated the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• He traced the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation power to Li Qing and spent days making his way through the Heavenly Realm and into the mortal world.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor gathered scattered information about Li Qing and went to the Civilization Academy, where he found Li Qing's projection.
• Li Qing recognized that the Bright Heavenly Emperor wanted to devour the Radiant Emperor's Conceptual Logic Prototype incarnation, but privately suspected the visitor might be influenced by the three Final Logics.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor asked why the attackers were targeting the world, and Li Qing explained that they sought him and two sealed Conceptual Logic existences.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor realized that the two existences strengthened the world and that Li Qing's Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Investiture of Gods system made it extraordinarily difficult to breach.

Li Qing recruited the Bright Heavenly Emperor to help ambush and kill the Radiant Emperor's avatar, then turned his attention to the approaching Battle of Heavenly Fate. In the Spiritual Essence World, Song Tianda and Tan Yuzhu prepared their armies for the final battle as the Divine Body coordinated its plans.

• Li Qing told the Bright Heavenly Emperor that he could help severely wound the Radiant Emperor's avatar, and the Bright Heavenly Emperor agreed to ambush it using a space-time coordinate.
• Li Qing gave the Bright Heavenly Emperor a talisman and one month to reach the Spiritual Essence World, while deciding to watch whether he would remain loyal to the Six Great Kingdoms.
• Li Qing's projection watched a new charge on the western front and awaited the end of the Battle of Heavenly Fate before beginning the investiture of gods.
• Song Tianda and Tan Yuzhu led armies of two million Dao Soldiers each toward the final battle, with both sides encamped on opposing plains.
• The Divine Body controlled Song Tianda, issued orders, and arranged the Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Myriad Transformations Array against Tan Yuzhu's Reverse Five Elements Extinction Grand Array.

The Divine Body controlled Song Tianda as the Spiritual Essence World’s armies clashed with Tan Yuzhu’s forces, while Li Qing watched the Hundred Great Worlds prepare for their inevitable collision. Song Tianda outmaneuvered Tan Yuzhu and stopped his sword just short of killing him.

• Tan Yuzhu and the Divine Body, controlling Song Tianda, ordered their armies to attack, and the two formations began a brutal battle on the North-South Plains.
• Song Tianda and Tan Yuzhu merged with their armies’ formation power and fought as towering giants while Li Qing’s Divine Body monitored the wider conflict.
• Cold Soul told the Cyclic Space assembly that the Hundred Great Worlds’ collision was unavoidable, and the gathered powers agreed to combine their forces against the darkness.
• Li Qing turned his attention to the Spiritual Essence World, where the armies had suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties and the duel between Song Tianda and Tan Yuzhu neared its end.
• The Divine Body used the Way of Changes to lure Tan Yuzhu into attacking an opening, then Song Tianda reappeared beside him and stopped a killing sword thrust an inch from his chest.

The Divine Body killed Tan Yuzhu through Song Tianda and seized the Spiritual Essence World's destiny, preparing to found an empire as Li Qing's wider war approached. Li Qing and his allies finalized their preparations for the Investiture of Gods, while the collision of the Hundred Great Worlds loomed.

• The Divine Body used Song Tianda to kill Tan Yuzhu, then claimed the Spiritual Essence World's gathered destiny and its power.
• Song Tianda's forces surrendered, and officials prepared the founding ceremony in Gods and Devils City for the next day.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor arrived in secret at the Spiritual Essence World after agreeing to follow Li Qing's plan.
• Mist and gravitational forces spread across the Hundred Great Worlds as their immortals, mythical creatures, and Wisdom Logic Anomalies prepared for the impending collision.
• Li Qing told the assembled Heavenly Emperors and Ghost Emperors that he had won the war for the Child of Destiny and that the Investiture of Gods would happen the next day.
• The Haoran Sage assured the gathered powers that everything would end tomorrow, while the Sky Ghost anticipated regaining immortal-level strength.

As the Investiture of Gods approached, Li Qing and his enemies prepared for a final confrontation, each trying to predict the others’ moves. A sudden arrival of twenty-three Wisdom-type entities of The Indescribable threatened to derail his plans and force the Nine Great Rulers into the conflict.

• The Radiant Emperor warned the Underworld Devil Lord to seize control of the Child of Destiny ten breaths before the Investiture of Gods and act immediately.
• The five immortals watched Song Tianda while Longevity waited outside the Nine Provinces Four Regions for a chance to learn more about Li Qing’s plans.
• Li Qing concluded that his enemies were concealing their real strategy and reviewed his plans and contingencies for the Investiture of Gods.
• Li Qing learned that Ashes had caused twenty-three Wisdom-type entities of The Indescribable to form and that they were preparing to descend on the Nine Provinces Four Regions to find him.
• Li Qing sent word of the threat to the Nine Great Rulers and decided the war had begun, hoping they could stop The Indescribable’s attack.

The Nine Great Rulers suppressed twenty-three Wisdom Logic Anomalies, but Ashes used their sacrifice to recreate his mark and send a fragment toward the Nine Provinces Four Regions. Li Qing learned that the fragment sought his true body and the secret treasure he possessed.

• The Nine Great Rulers agreed to destroy the twenty-three Wisdom Logic Anomalies and search for the mysterious person monitoring the high-dimensional realm.
• The Rulers’ avatars suppressed the anomalies in a sealed space-time layer, where a logic millstone ground them into ashes.
• The anomalies’ sacrifice helped Ashes re-condense his mark, but the Nine Great Rulers struck it and nearly destroyed it.
• A wisp of Ashes’ mark escaped by connecting with remnants of The Indescribable and headed toward the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to learn that Ashes intended to locate his true body, uncover his secret treasure, and establish coordinates for The Indescribable’s power.

Li Qing warned the Immortals and Emperors that The Indescribable had planted a path to resurrection in their memories, while Sky Ghost secretly kept his. As the worlds neared a catastrophic collision and the Investiture of Gods, the Nine Great Rulers searched a city in High-Dimensional Spacetime for the first Wisdom-type Indescribable, and Li Qing ordered those under his control to erase their memories.

• Li Qing told the assembled Emperors and Immortals to erase memories of The Ashes' final words, but Sky Ghost kept them as a possible means of survival.
• The Heavenly Emperors and Ghost Emperors completed preparations to move their world, while Dao Soldiers fought a desperate battle at the spacetime gate.
• Li Qing released Calamity Qi into the tribulation engulfing more than a hundred worlds, prompting the Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord to suspect an unknown danger was approaching.
• The Radiant Emperor ordered Golden Light to control Song Tianda and begin the Investiture of Gods immediately, and Golden Light made Song Tianda his puppet.
• The Nine Great Rulers' avatars descended on the city where the first Wisdom-type Indescribable appeared and scanned it through their Logic Networks.
• Li Qing detected the search and ordered everyone under his control among the common people to erase their memories.

Li Qing deceived the Spiritual Essence World's will into sending its power through the World-Anchoring Chains, triggering the world's collapse while the Five Immortals scrambled to understand what was happening. As the worlds neared collision, Li Qing's Present Body secretly replaced his projection at the Void Gate, and the Divine Body prepared to strike.

• Li Qing abandoned his exposed Eyes of Myriad Spirits network and secretly began rebuilding it with his Flesh Tree clone and Stone Womb incarnation.
• Through Song Tianda, Li Qing issued a command that tricked the Spiritual Essence World's will into sending its power along the World-Anchoring Chains toward the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• The Five Immortals tried to stop the power drain, but their attacks failed, and Song Tianda burned himself to ash before Immortal Golden Light could extract his memories.
• The Spiritual Essence World began consuming its own substance and shrinking as Li Qing's Divine Body waited for the collision and readied the Heart-Destroying Sword.
• Under cover of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation's power, Li Qing's Present Body secretly replaced his projection at the Void Gate battlefield.

Li Qing and the immortals began the world-crossing formation, which drained the Spiritual Essence World as its will resisted. As the immortals prepared to attack Li Qing at the crossing’s completion, the Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord pressed Immortal Golden Light for the Spiritual Essence World’s history to uncover Li Qing’s plan.

• Li Qing announced the start of the Investiture of Gods and directed the group to activate the world-crossing formation while drawing the attention of the immortals.
• The formation drained nearly a third of the Spiritual Essence World through the World-Anchoring Chains, prompting the world’s will to resist.
• Haoran Sage urged the immortals to attack Li Qing as soon as the formation was complete, and nearly everyone agreed to kill him and seize his treasure.
• Li Qing detected Haoran Sage’s plan and prepared to activate the charged Resonance Grand Formation at the dangerous moment of the crossing.
• Immortal Golden Light shared his findings with the Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord, who concluded Li Qing was consuming the Spiritual Essence World for another purpose.
• The Radiant Emperor demanded the Spiritual Essence World’s full history, and Immortal Golden Light hesitated to reveal information that could help them invade it.

Immortal Golden Light revealed the Five Immortals’ knowledge of the Spiritual Essence World’s past, allowing the Radiant Emperor to realize the world-crossing array was part of a trap. Li Qing and the Heavenly Emperors and Five Ghost Emperors cut off the invaders’ retreat, forcing them to activate the Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon as the World-Anchoring Chains were seized.

• The Radiant Emperor offered the Five Immortals peace and divine positions in exchange for information about the Spiritual Essence World, warning that Li Qing had laid a trap.
• Immortal Golden Light shared the Five Immortals’ knowledge with the Radiant Emperor, who connected the clues and realized the world-crossing array was part of the plan.
• The Radiant Emperor warned everyone to run as mysterious radiance and a spatial disturbance pulled the seven invaders toward the void rift.
• Li Qing ordered the six Heavenly Emperors and Five Ghost Emperors to use Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to block the invaders’ retreat.
• The Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord joined the Five Immortals in activating the Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon to escape into the void rift.
• At the Void Gate, the power of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and the Heavenly Net and Earthly Web seized the World-Anchoring Chains.

The Nine Provinces Four Regions hurtled through a spacetime rift toward the Spiritual Essence World while the Hundred Great Worlds neared their collision. Li Qing’s plan trapped the Five Immortals and two Sovereign avatars in the impact, and Qiong followed the moving world after realizing Li Qing intended to use the collision to overcome his tribulation of attaining the Dao.

• The Five Immortals fled as the Nine Provinces Four Regions approached the Spiritual Essence World through a rift, leaving the area in danger of becoming the impact point.
• Past Body and more than sixty Dark Oceans drew the Hundred Great Worlds together as cultivators sheltered their people and prepared for the collision.
• The Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon struck the Nine Provinces Four Regions, but its blast was erased by the world’s momentum, allowing the Five Immortals and two Concept Logic cultivators to rush toward the rift.
• Li Qing urged the other emperors to stop the escaping Immortals, while Haoran Sage directed the group to attack the Radiant Emperor and Boundary Devil Lord.
• The Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord restrained the Five Immortals as the Nine Provinces Four Regions struck all seven, while their true bodies drew power through the Heavenly Secrets Karma Fate River.
• Qiong realized Li Qing planned to use the world collision to overcome his tribulation of attaining the Dao and followed the Nine Provinces Four Regions into the rift.

As the Nine Provinces Four Regions crossed the spacetime rift, Li Qing and the others turned the power of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation against the Radiant Emperor, the Underworld Devil Lord, and the Five Immortals. The two worlds drew within a hundred li of colliding, and a blinding radiance erupted where the avatars and Five Immortals stood.

• Ashes sensed that those who remembered him had shifted across the void and raced toward their new location.
• Li Qing urged the Heavenly Emperors and Ghost Emperors to use Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to free the Five Immortals and strike the Radiant Emperor and the Underworld Devil Lord.
• The Haoran Sage secretly persuaded the others to eliminate the two Concept Logic beings before they could gain an advantage.
• The Five Immortals attacked the Radiant Emperor and the Underworld Devil Lord with the Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon, but the two compressed themselves into beads and were hurled back toward them.
• The Heavenly Dao Reincarnation power overwhelmed the Five Immortals, while the world barriers closed to less than a hundred li apart.
• The two worlds reached the brink of collision, and a universe-bright flash engulfed the point where the Five Immortals and the two rulers' avatars stood.