Chapter Summaries

Li Qing killed Myriad Poisons by exploiting a flaw in his logic, then the Void Council gathered its forces and entered the Dark Ocean to hunt the hidden enemy. Li Qing used the world formation and Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to slow the council’s advance, but its vast army and Logic Network continued to press forward.

• Li Qing’s Faith Incarnation struck a flaw in Myriad Poisons’ logic and destroyed his will, leaving behind his Underlying Logic as a venomous-insect statue.
• Myriad Poisons’ death threw his territory into chaos, and the eight councilors realized that a powerful enemy in the Dark Ocean had killed him.
• The councilors assembled thirty million cultivators and Dao Soldiers into the Eight-Direction God-Locking Formation and sent its Logic Network into the Dark Ocean.
• Li Qing sensed the council’s formation and directed the world formation’s mist and Heavenly Dao Reincarnation against it.
• The council’s Logic Network kept expanding despite Li Qing’s suppression, pushing the confrontation toward a decisive battle.

The Faith Incarnation calculated how to use the Dark Ocean and the world formation while fighting the Void Council, then launched an attack on the Heart Demon. He secretly inserted Calamity Qi into the Heart Demon’s vortex but could not follow up, leaving the clash unresolved.

• The Faith Incarnation calculated that the Logic Network could expand to a five-thousand-li diameter and planned to break through to the Longevity Realm, retreat to the world formation, and weaken the Void Council first.
• Faith Incarnations spread cities and faith in the Lord of Civilization across the Hundred Great Worlds, using Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to absorb their scattered logic into Civilization Logic.
• The Faith Incarnation restored his strength, sent more than a billion Anomalies into the Logic Network’s coverage, and had them devour a tenth of the Dark Ocean’s waters.
• The Faith Incarnation appeared beside the Heart Demon and struck with a golden fist, while Control of All Qi and Laws redirected the Heart Demon’s power back toward him.
• The Heart Demon’s vortex swallowed the incoming forces, but the Faith Incarnation secretly sent Heaven-Earth Wheel Transformation Calamity Qi into it before losing the chance to press his attack.

Li Qing used Tribulation Qi to disrupt the eight Void Council chairmen’s efforts and probe the Heart Demon’s logic. After the Heart Demon survived a mysterious black-water attack and Li Qing’s follow-up strike, Li Qing gathered the Dark Ocean, world Mist, and Heavenly Dao Reincarnation power into the Hand of the Heavens spell.

• Li Qing dodged the chairmen’s attacks with World-Walking Star-Shifting, and their strikes opened a crack in the Dark Ocean.
• Black water erupted from the crack, devoured the formation’s logic network and nearby Dao Soldiers, and dragged the Heart Demon into its vortex.
• The chairmen severed the black water with their logic networks and rescued the Heart Demon as the crack began to close.
• Li Qing struck the Heart Demon from behind, planting a second strand of Tribulation Qi before withdrawing from the counterattack.
• The Supreme God urged the chairmen to keep expanding their logic network, while the Mist and Heavenly Dao Reincarnation power resisted it.
• Li Qing gathered the Dark Ocean, world Mist, and Heavenly Dao Reincarnation power into the Hand of the Heavens spell.

The faith incarnation struck the Heart Demon with the Hand of the Firmament, and Golden Light shattered the Heart Demon’s logic vortex and wounded him. Meanwhile, Li Qing’s Civilization Logic seized nearly one-tenth of the Hundred Great Worlds, prompting the Void Council to mobilize surface forces as both sides began fighting to control the worlds and their populations.

• The Heart Demon called on the other council chairmen for power, but Golden Light shattered his logic vortex and caused him to spit golden blood.
• The faith incarnation withdrew to recover while Li Qing’s forces extended Civilization Logic across the outskirts of the Hundred Great Worlds and controlled nearly one-tenth of its logic.
• Supreme God noticed Heavenly Dao Reincarnation’s power in the Mist had risen by nearly thirty percent, and Azure Luan used the council’s combined power to investigate.
• Azure Luan discovered the enemy had seized more than ten shattered continents, and Supreme God ordered surface troops to resist the expansion.
• The Void Council mobilized reserve forces to gather survivors, while the faith incarnation assembled mortal armies to seize populations and establish forward bases.

Li Qing’s forces gained ground in the Hundred Great Worlds as his Faith Incarnations defeated enemy armies and captured a county town. Meanwhile, Li Qinglian and New Tang rapidly took control of cities in the Spiritual Essence World, where order and New Tang rule were being established.

• Li Qing’s Spirit Awareness-level Faith Incarnation led ten thousand Dao Soldiers against Supreme God’s army and fought Supreme God’s avatar.
• The Faith Incarnation used the Way of Changes to trap the opposing Dao Soldiers, inflicting heavy losses and forcing them to retreat.
• Supreme God shielded his surviving soldiers, but the Faith Incarnation’s calamity power disrupted their withdrawal and drove them from the area.
• The Faith Incarnation captured a nearby county town, while Li Qing’s forces expanded their control and faith in the Lord of Civilization across the Hundred Great Worlds.
• Li Qinglian’s New Tang forces took control of cities in the Spiritual Essence World, and New Tang officials quickly restored order and announced the empire’s laws.

Li Qing’s forces seized control of most of the Spiritual Essence World and gained enough power to challenge the twelve immortals, who gathered eight million Dao Soldiers to attack Phoenix City. As both armies advanced toward the coming battle, Li Qing’s preparations neared completion and several other powerful threats converged.

• More than two-thirds of the Spiritual Essence World’s cities rebelled, raised the Civilization Empire’s banner, and accepted Li Qing’s rule.
• Li Qing and Spiritual Rhinoceros gained control of much of the world’s Heavenly Dao Reincarnation power, bringing their share close to forty percent, or nearly fifty percent including the Dark Ocean.
• Sun Tzu received the other immortals’ authorization and assembled eight million Dao Soldiers to advance on Phoenix City.
• Divine Body sent roughly two million Dao Soldiers to defend Phoenix City and kept shifting Present Body’s location to evade the immortals’ search.
• Li Qing’s Civilization Logic neared completion as Divine Body sensed the Underworld Devil Lord, Longevity, and Ashes approaching the coming conflict.

The Divine Body planned how to spend five crucial uses of the Heart-Destroying Sword, beginning with Sun Tzu, while preparing for threats across several battlefronts. Sun Tzu’s six-million-strong army besieged Phoenix City, and Li Qinglian waited with the power to nullify supernatural abilities as the battle’s hidden trump card.

• The Divine Body calculated that he would use his first Heart-Destroying Sword strike on Sun Tzu and reserve later strikes for the Underworld Devil Lord and unexpected threats.
• The Divine Body decided that the Hundred Great Worlds battlefield had to convince the Immortal Realm experts to retreat from the Dark Ocean.
• Sun Tzu’s clone led six million Dao Soldiers in an assault on Phoenix City, where the Divine Body’s replica used Formless Sword Qi to block their attacks.
• Sun Tzu’s army began a siege and repeatedly attacked the city walls, but the Divine Body’s replica intercepted the spells.
• Li Qinglian remained with the central army, guarding the power that could nullify supernatural abilities across the battlefield.

Li Qing persuaded Li Qinglian to betray Sun Tzu by promising him a chance to rule the mortal world and pursue immortality. As Li Qing’s forces prepared to turn on Sun Tzu, Spiritual Rhinoceros attacked him in the Dark Ocean and sent him flying.

• Li Qing contacted Li Qinglian through a guard and offered him a partnership, freedom from the immortals’ control, and a path toward becoming an immortal.
• Li Qinglian agreed to betray Sun Tzu and waited for Li Qing’s signal.
• Li Qing sent orders to officers among Sun Tzu’s six million Dao Soldiers to mark their troops and attack when the Way of Forbidden Laws activated.
• Spiritual Rhinoceros appeared near Sun Tzu in the Dark Ocean and attacked him with a golden spear.
• Sun Tzu countered Spiritual Rhinoceros’s strike, but the collision sent Sun Tzu flying backward.

Sun Tzu and the Spiritual Rhinoceros fought in the Dark Ocean while the Haoran Sage and others searched for Li Qing, prompting Sun Tzu to realize they were using him as bait. At Phoenix City, Li Qinglian activated the Way of Forbidden Laws as three million Dao Soldiers rebelled, leaving Sun Tzu to lead his troops toward her through the trapped battlefield.

• The Spiritual Rhinoceros attacked Sun Tzu, who fought back while noticing the Haoran Sage and others focused on searching the Dark Ocean instead of helping him.
• Sun Tzu inferred that Li Qing might use a final strike on him and that the Haoran Sage and the others meant to use him as bait, so his clone began holding back.
• The Divine Body moved Li Qing's Present Body through the Dark Ocean and sent strands of the Network toward him.
• At Phoenix City, three million Dao Soldiers rebelled as Li Qinglian spread the Way of Forbidden Laws across the battlefield.
• Sun Tzu's clone transformed into a giant flesh puppet, rallied nearby Dao Soldiers, and attacked the rebels as Li Qing directed the rebel commanders to encircle his army.
• Sun Tzu ordered his troops to kill Li Qinglian and break the Way of Forbidden Laws, then charged toward her through the army.

Sun Tzu charged through Li Qinglian’s rebel army to reach her and break the Way of Forbidden Laws, but Li Qing’s precise control of over a hundred commanders wounded him and delayed him. Sun Tzu called for help in the Dark Ocean, and the battle widened as Haoran Sage and Spiritual Rhinoceros intervened.

• The Divine Body ordered troops to block Sun Tzu, and the rebel army buried him beneath arrows as he charged through its ranks.
• Li Qing controlled over a hundred squad leaders with precise movements, directing them to target Sun Tzu’s wounds until he roared and killed nearby soldiers.
• Sun Tzu abandoned the fight against his attackers and used evasive footwork to push through the army toward Li Qinglian.
• Sun Tzu called on the powerful figures in the Dark Ocean to help him stop Spiritual Rhinoceros and kill Li Qinglian before their plans failed.
• Haoran Sage attacked Spiritual Rhinoceros with a righteous sword light, but Spiritual Rhinoceros dodged into the Dark Ocean and then struck at Sun Tzu.
• A Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon fired at Spiritual Rhinoceros, who vanished into the Dark Ocean to escape it.

Li Qing’s forces used Spiritual Rhinoceros to distract the Immortal Realm experts while Li Qing’s Divine Body struck Sun Tzu’s clone through the Heart-Destroying Sword. Sun Tzu was killed in the Dark Ocean, and the Logic Network was left with eleven strands.

• Spiritual Rhinoceros repeatedly attacked Sun Tzu and disrupted the experts’ search for Li Qing, forcing them to leave Sun Tzu to face him alone.
• The Divine Body signaled that the time had come as Sun Tzu’s clone charged toward Li Qinglian on the battlefield.
• Li Qinglian withdrew the Way of Forbidden Laws on the guard’s count, and a hidden figure shattered the spear Sun Tzu’s clone had thrown.
• The Divine Body sent the Heart-Destroying Sword into Sun Tzu’s clone, destroying its mind and passing the strike through their mental connection to Sun Tzu.
• Spiritual Rhinoceros attacked Sun Tzu as the Heart-Destroying Sword struck his mind, and Sun Tzu was pierced by a spear and reduced to ash.
• Haoran Sage, Purple God, and the other experts realized Sun Tzu had died, and the Logic Network fell from twelve strands to eleven.

Haoran Sage realized Li Qing had misled the eleven survivors about the source of his sword power, while Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha argued that Li Qing had only a few strikes left. The survivors resolved to stay together and weave a Network across the Dark Ocean, waiting for Li Qing to break through to the Longevity Realm.

• Haoran Sage warned the eleven figures to regroup and recall their avatars after noticing the Dark Ocean had not shrunk when Li Qing killed Sun Tzu.
• Haoran Sage explained that Li Qing had concealed another source of power, tricked them into splitting up, and used their avatars to locate and kill their true bodies.
• Haoran Sage said only eleven remained with sixty percent of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation's power, while the opposing forces still held at least thirty percent of their combat strength.
• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha argued that Li Qing's hidden power had limits and that he could likely unleash only a few more strikes.
• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha urged the survivors to stay together, spread their Underlying Logic, and weave a Network to trap Li Qing when his breakthrough aura appeared.

Li Qing and Li Qinglian defeated the resisting Dao Soldiers, founded the Civilization Empire, and launched a counterattack across the Spiritual Essence World while Li Qing's power grew. In the Dark Ocean, Purple God’s faction plotted to seize the secret treasure, while the Haoran Sage’s faction secretly sought a way to kill one of their rivals and restore the balance of power.

• The Divine Body realized that Li Qing had only four usable attacks left and that someone had figured out his limits.
• Li Qinglian celebrated Sun Tzu’s clone’s destruction as Li Qing’s duplicate surrounded the resisting Dao Soldiers; the survivors surrendered, leaving seven and a half million under Li Qing’s command.
• Li Qing appointed Li Qinglian ruler of the Civilization Empire, and their Dao Soldiers began a counterattack across the Spiritual Essence World as Heavenly Dao Reincarnation devoured its world logic.
• The eleven Immortal Realm experts huddled together in the Dark Ocean and used their combined logic to search for threats.
• Purple God and five former Immortal Realm experts planned to capture Li Qing and his secret treasure, then use the Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon and Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to kill one of their opponents.
• The Haoran Sage told Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha, Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord, Wisdom Logic Anomaly Dao Thief, and Myriad Spirits that they needed to make one of Purple God’s group die to Li Qing’s attacks or their own.

The Haoran Sage and his allies weighed their dwindling options as Li Qing monitored their plans and secretly negotiated with the Purple God. Li Qing then offered the Haoran Sage a chance to kill an Immortal Realm cultivator, but the Sage rejected him, leaving Li Qing to continue playing both sides.

• The Haoran Sage warned that the war could end with Li Qing's death or force them to grow stronger and wait for another opportunity, and urged his allies to redirect Li Qing's attacks toward the Purple God.
• Li Qing used Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and the Jade Tablet to monitor both sides, then considered exploiting their distrust.
• Li Qing secretly offered the Purple God a chance to help eliminate the Haoran Sage's allies, but insisted that he would devise the plan and aim to kill two enemies.
• The Purple God agreed to create an opening when he chose, then contacted the other Immortal Realm cultivators about Li Qing's proposal.
• Li Qing offered the Haoran Sage help killing an Immortal Realm cultivator, but the Sage recognized his attempt to sow discord and refused to cooperate.

Li Qing abandoned his attempt to manipulate Haoran Sage and decided to target him for death, while devising a plan to use a false body created with a Flesh Seed. In high-dimensional spacetime, the Radiant Emperor confronted the Underworld Devil Lord over his vanished avatar and agreed to wait for a spiritual coordinate so he could descend again.

• Haoran Sage refused to cooperate with Li Qing and declared that he would focus solely on watching him.
• Li Qing chose Haoran Sage as his next target and considered creating a false body with a Flesh Seed to deceive their enemies.
• The Radiant Emperor concluded that someone had devoured the fragments of his avatar's mental imprint and suspected the Underworld Devil Lord.
• The Radiant Emperor confronted the Underworld Devil Lord, who denied killing his avatar and said he could not explain what had happened.
• The Underworld Devil Lord agreed to provide a spiritual coordinate after his imprint awakened, and the Radiant Emperor decided to wait in the Ancient Underworld.

Li Qing prepared a second Present Body and used a Heavenly Secret Karma Fate-Grafting Divine Talisman to split the aura of his impending breakthrough, making his true body harder to locate. He then instructed Spiritual Rhinoceros to kill the Haoran Sage by exploiting a flaw in the Sage’s logic, leaving the pair poised for a dangerous strike.

• Li Qing’s projection took the Present Body’s Flesh Seed from the Nine Heavens Star River Tribulation-Avoiding Grotto-Heaven and brought it to the Divine Body in the Spiritual Essence World.
• The Divine Body used dark essence and a spiritual imprint to create a new Present Body, then crafted a perfect-grade Heavenly Secret Karma Fate-Grafting Divine Talisman.
• The Divine Body attached the talisman to the true Present Body and transferred it to the new body so their karmic and aura fluctuations would be shared when either reached a new realm.
• The Divine Body explained that splitting the breakthrough aura would confuse their enemies and make Li Qing’s true body harder to find in the Dark Ocean.
• The Divine Body told Spiritual Rhinoceros to kill the Haoran Sage and shared the flaw he had discovered in the Sage’s logic.
• Spiritual Rhinoceros agreed to attack when Li Qing briefly stopped suppressing the enemy logical network, despite the risk of its expansion and the danger of the battle.

Li Qing warned Immortal Spiritual Rhinoceros that enemies might manipulate his thoughts, then replenished the Heart-Destroying Sword by absorbing more of the Dark Ocean. As the enemy forces regrouped around the Heart Demon, Li Qing prepared another attack with the Hand of the Firmament.

• Li Qing warned Immortal Spiritual Rhinoceros to distrust promises from anyone else and question any urge to betray him, and Spiritual Rhinoceros vowed to remain on his side until the war was decided.
• Li Qing drained another five thousand li of the Dark Ocean to recharge the Heart-Destroying Sword, leaving him four attacks.
• The eight councilors noticed the Dark Ocean’s shrinkage, while the Heart Demon reported that mysterious forces kept injuring it and urged the army to regroup.
• The eight councilors moved toward the center of their military formation, thwarting Li Qing’s hope of retrieving the Heart Demon’s Underlying Logic after killing it.
• Li Qing merged the power of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation into the Dark Ocean and unleashed the Hand of the Firmament against the military formation.

Li Qing’s Faith Incarnation exploited the battle against the Heart Demon to strike from within and unleash the Myriad Poisons’ Underlying Logic. The Heart Demon’s body exploded, leaving the other combatants amid the raging rot flood and ongoing clash.

• The Heart Demon used the Human Heart Black Hole to block the Faith Incarnation’s Sword Qi, but hidden Calamity Qi entered his logic.
• A rift opened in the sky, and a gigantic rotting hand poured multicolored floodwater over the Heart Demon and the military formation.
• The Heart Demon called on Tai Shan and the others to attack the arm, while the Faith Incarnation appeared behind him with a golden punch.
• The Heart Demon trapped the Faith Incarnation’s duplicate and joined the seven other speakers in attacking it, but realized too late that it was only a decoy.
• Li Qing’s true Faith Incarnation struck a flaw in the Heart Demon’s logic and detonated Myriad Poisons’ Underlying Logic inside him, causing his body to explode.

After Li Qing killed Heart Demon, the seven councilors rebuilt their army formation and changed tactics to conceal their Underlying Logic while searching for Li Qing. Li Qing chose Immortal Evil Dragon as his next target and launched a sword strike.

• Li Qing's attack killed Heart Demon and shattered the Void Council's Logic Network, forcing the seven councilors to rebuild their formation.
• Curse God collected the remnant of Heart Demon's Underlying Logic and said he would put it to use.
• Immortal Supreme God concluded that Li Qing could expose flaws in their logic and urged the councilors to hide their Underlying Logic beneath the army formation's power.
• The councilors completed the Seven Stars Investiture of Gods Formation and resumed expanding their Logic Network, while Li Qing watched from the Dark Ocean.
• Li Qing selected Immortal Evil Dragon and sent Formless Sword Qi across the Dark Ocean toward him.

Li Qing kept the Evil Dragon occupied while his forces conquered more of the Hundred Great Worlds, and his Divine Body plotted with the Immortal Purple God to exploit a moment of division among their enemies. The chapter ended as the Immortal Purple God secretly contacted the other five Immortals of the Spiritual Essence World.

• The Evil Dragon urged his allies to take turns blocking Li Qing while they searched the Dark Ocean, and the Supreme God intercepted Li Qing's next attack.
• Li Qing's armies captured territory across the Hundred Great Worlds, and Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and Civilization Logic devoured about fifteen percent of those worlds' logic.
• Eleven Heavenly Emperors and Ghost Emperors worked together to repel the Divine Body's attack on the Haoran Sage, prompting the Divine Body to seek an opening through their greed and rivalries.
• The Divine Body proposed that the Immortal Purple God use the Grotto-Heaven Destruction Cannon to block the other defenders while he attacked the Haoran Sage, and the Immortal Purple God agreed.
• The Divine Body planned for Spiritual Rhinoceros to kill the Haoran Sage while he attacked the Immortal Blue Heaven, and the Immortal Purple God contacted the other five Immortals.