Chapter Summaries

Li Qing’s deception drew Purple God and the other Immortals toward a decoy, while Longevity uncovered the trick and struck at the real target. As Longevity and the surrounding Immortals closed in, Li Qing prepared a final counterattack by channeling the Dark Ocean’s power into his Heart-Destroying Sword.

• Purple God mistook Li Qing’s Present Body for a decoy and led the others toward the body Spiritual Rhinoceros had gone to help.
• Longevity inferred that the apparent true body was a decoy and attacked it with a full-force spell.
• The Haoran Sage and Purple God recognized the deception and redirected the Immortals toward Longevity’s target.
• Li Qing’s Present Body and Past Body drew in half the Dark Ocean, and the Jade Tablet transferred its power to the Divine Body through the Mind Seal.
• Li Qing prepared to combine the Heart-Destroying Sword’s power and his remaining Immortal-level combat power as Longevity and the Immortals surrounded him on ten sides.

Li Qing used a decoy and a false protector to mislead Longevity and the other powerhouses, then helped them kill Longevity with a coordinated strike. Li Qing’s decoy revived, and he and Spiritual Rhinoceros resumed opposing Haoran Sage and the others as Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha pieced together the trap.

• Longevity destroyed Li Qing’s decoy with his supreme spell while the nine Immortal Realm cultivators attacked him.
• A Heart-Destroying Sword erupted from the decoy and pierced Longevity’s defenses, leaving him exposed to the nine powerhouses’ attacks.
• Li Qing and Spiritual Rhinoceros joined the others in unleashing Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and Underlying Logic, killing Longevity.
• Li Qing’s decoy revived through Life and Death Reversal Path Continuation, while Li Qing’s Present Body began moving again.
• Li Qing and Spiritual Rhinoceros pressed Haoran Sage and the others with Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, and their Logic Network missed again.
• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha explained how Li Qing’s decoy, false protector, and Spiritual Rhinoceros had misled the attackers into targeting the wrong body.

Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha reconstructed how Li Qing used misdirection and a hidden killing move to turn the siege against Longevity, but the surviving emperors resumed their blockade. Li Qing planned to endure four more breaths until they could no longer track him, as Ashes' descent and the final battle approached.

• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha pieced together Li Qing's scheme to lure Longevity into an attack and kill him with the hidden killing move, though he misjudged part of Li Qing's plan.
• Haoran Sage urged the nine Heavenly Emperors and the Ghost Emperor to resume their three-stage blockade before Li Qing could escape.
• Li Qing used the brief pause to confirm the blockade had resumed and resolved to survive four more breaths until his presence became too faint to track.
• Li Qing recognized that Radiant Emperor, Underworld Devil Lord, and Longevity could no longer interfere, leaving Ashes, the emperors, the Ghost Emperor, and the seven council chairs to face.
• Li Qing recited verses about enduring trials and drawing his Dao from within the sword as his thoughts reached new clarity.

Li Qing used his three bodies, Civilization Logic, and the Jade Tablet to resist the Immortal Realm beings’ encirclement and battle The Indescribable on the Eternal Battlefield. As his Civilization Logic adapted to Ashes’ power, Ashes struck with a gigantic palm that turned everything in its path to ash.

• Li Qing’s Present Body escaped Haoran Sage and Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha’s attack while Spiritual Rhinoceros of the Immortal Realm blocked it, and his decoy endured Purple God of the Immortal Realm’s assault with the Divine Body’s help.
• The Divine Body spent its remaining Immortal Realm-level power to counter the attackers, allowing the decoy to escape and leaving one use of Li Qing’s trump card.
• Li Qing merged his three bodies and charged through The Indescribable’s tide of heads, cutting a corridor of ash as the creature pursued him with black light.
• Ashes found Li Qing, whose Way of Changes and Jade Tablet recorded and analyzed Ashes’ power, enabling Civilization Logic to adapt and reveal Ashes’ form.
• Ashes sensed the change in Civilization Logic and reached across ten miles with a gigantic palm that turned everything in its path to ash.

Li Qing escaped Ashes’ deadly attack, but Ashes tracked the aura it had left in his mind and used it to mark his Present Body. As the Root of the Indescribable prepared to descend, the Haoran Sage and Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha recognized the danger and attacked Li Qing’s true body.

• Ashes filled the area with countless ash-producing palms, but Li Qing vanished just before they swallowed him and Ashes realized his escape power had run out.
• Li Qing’s Present Body, Past Body, and Future Body awakened, while the Jade Tablet and Way of Changes reconstructed what had happened and preserved the information.
• Ashes locked onto Li Qing’s Present Body and made its mark resonate with the aura it had left in Li Qing’s mind, sending a coordinate to the true Indescribable.
• Li Qing’s Present Body realized the Root of the Indescribable would descend on the next breath and changed his path, but the Haoran Sage and Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha forced him out of the Dark Ocean.
• The Haoran Sage and Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha sensed Ashes’ mark above Li Qing and recognized that the Indescribable might descend; the Haoran Sage ordered them to kill Li Qing’s true body.

Li Qing used the Destruction Sword Light, empowered by The Indescribable, to destroy Ashes' spiritual imprint and break through the attackers' assault. As his enemies prepared their final attempt to predict and intercept him, the seven councilors moved to close off the shrinking Dark Ocean.

• Li Qing's Divine Body struck Ashes' spiritual imprint with Destruction Sword Light, using The Indescribable's power to make Ashes vulnerable and obliterate the imprint.
• The sword light smashed through Haoran Sage and Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha's attack, forcing them to close the spatial passage and summon the other experts to suppress its lingering force.
• Haoran Sage realized Li Qing had saved his trump card for Ashes and ordered the experts to probe once more before descending with their true bodies for a final assault.
• Ashes vowed to establish a force near Li Qing and guide his true body there through sacrifices.
• Li Qing's Past Body and Future Body evaded the seven councilors while absorbing the Dark Ocean, shrinking it by another four thousand li.
• Immortal Supreme God ordered the Dao Soldiers to shift their Logic Network five hundred li so it would reach the Dark Ocean's boundary and divide the sphere, trapping Li Qing on one side.

Li Qing used his decoy and the pursuers’ predictions to draw the nine Heavenly Emperors and the Ghost Emperor into his plan, then merged with his Divine Body as they formed a spacetime enclosure around him. Immortal Spiritual Rhinoceros struck the Spirit King, and black swordlight flashed past his cheek.

• Li Qing’s Present Body and decoy evaded Haoran Sage, Purple God, and the others as the Past Body and Future Body supported him from the Dark Ocean.
• Purple God destroyed Li Qing’s decoy and realized it was fake, while Haoran Sage ordered the pursuers to surround Li Qing in nine groups.
• Li Qing merged with his Divine Body, regained control of the situation, and prepared to target Haoran Sage.
• The pursuers descended through six spacetime rifts and formed an enclosure around Li Qing, while Haoran Sage held back instead of entering in person.
• Immortal Spiritual Rhinoceros thrust the Spear That Pierces All at the Spirit King, whose palm clashed with the spear as black swordlight flashed past Spiritual Rhinoceros.

Li Qing’s Present Body and Spiritual Rhinoceros killed the Spirit King and escaped the immortals’ encirclement, while the Past Body and Future Body drained the Dark Ocean and vanished into mist. Purple God realized the councilors had been outmaneuvered and ordered them to attack through the mist before withdrawing to the continent.

• Li Qing’s Present Body and Spiritual Rhinoceros struck the Spirit King with simultaneous attacks, killing him as he sent his True Spirit fleeing toward a duplicate.
• The Present Body and Spiritual Rhinoceros broke through the six-sided assault and vanished as the other immortals’ power engulfed their former position.
• Haoran Sage urged the immortals to use their final breath of prediction, while Purple God accused him of using them as bait.
• The Past Body and Future Body drained the remaining Dark Ocean into the Jade Tablet and disappeared into mist as the seven councilors arrived.
• Purple God concluded that Li Qing’s bodies had used the Dark Ocean to support another battlefield and had controlled their tribulations all along.
• The seven councilors agreed to tear open the mist, attack one of Li Qing’s bodies from a distance, and retreat to the continent if they failed to kill him.

Li Qing’s Faith Incarnation attacked the seven councilors while Immortal Supreme God’s sword lights pursued the Past Body and Future Body. Immortal Evil Dragon saved the Dao Soldier army from being crushed underground, but the battle for the Hundred Great Worlds was effectively over as Li Qing’s aura neared the point at which he could no longer be predicted.

• The seven councilors attacked the Past Body and Future Body, but the world formation evaded their projected blows and repelled their power.
• Li Qing’s Faith Incarnation combined the world formation’s power into the Hand of the Firmament and struck at the councilors, who dodged and returned to their army.
• Immortal Supreme God gathered the battle formation’s strength and sent two relentless sword lights after the Past Body and Future Body, forcing them to keep evading.
• Li Qing’s Faith Incarnation sent the Hand of the Firmament toward Immortal Supreme God’s army, and their clash began collapsing the isolated spacetime beneath the earth.
• Immortal Evil Dragon used his logic to hollow out the rock and guide the Dao Soldiers into safety, preventing them from overlapping with the earth.
• Li Qing’s Faith Incarnation realized the battle for the Hundred Great Worlds was effectively over as the Past Body and Future Body faded and Li Qing’s aura neared the prediction threshold.

Li Qing's Present Body used Haoran Sage's Reincarnation Vortex to redirect the Heart-Destroying Sword and kill Imperial Sovereign. With Haoran Sage badly wounded, Li Qing and Spiritual Rhinoceros faced four pursuers closing in from every direction.

• Haoran Sage ordered the immortals to launch a final three-stage blockade against Li Qing, assigning Myriad Spirits and Evil Hook to the first two stages.
• Myriad Spirits and Evil Hook intercepted Li Qing as Spiritual Rhinoceros and six spatial-temporal rifts sealed the area around him.
• Li Qing struck Haoran Sage with the Heart-Destroying Sword, while Haoran Sage redirected the sword's target toward Imperial Sovereign.
• Spiritual Rhinoceros attacked Imperial Sovereign, and Li Qing's Heart-Destroying Sword and Spear That Pierces All killed him and destroyed his avatar.
• Li Qing and Spiritual Rhinoceros fled as Haoran Sage stopped to recover, while Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord, Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha, Purple God, and Spirit King pursued them.
• The four pursuers unleashed attacks from every direction as Li Qing and Spiritual Rhinoceros stood back-to-back, seemingly trapped.

Li Qing used True-False Swap to survive Spiritual Rhinoceros’s betrayal, then escaped the Immortal Realm pursuers through the Dark Ocean as his aura faded. The Haoran Sage and the other seven Emperors failed to surround him before the final breath of his aura remained.

• The Final Logic stirred Spiritual Rhinoceros’s desire to kill Li Qing and seize his secret treasure, and Li Qing read the scheme with the Jade Tablet.
• Spiritual Rhinoceros impaled Li Qing’s Present Body and fled with him, but Li Qing’s Divine Body revealed it had taken the fatal strike through True-False Swap.
• The Haoran Sage urged the pursuers to surround Li Qing during the last three breaths of his aura, while Purple God accused the Haoran Sage of diverting the danger onto them.
• Li Qing repeatedly escaped the pursuers’ spacetime rifts, leaving the seven Heavenly Emperors and Ghost Emperors unable to catch him.
• With one breath remaining before Li Qing’s aura vanished, the pursuers sank into despair as his tribulation neared its end.

After Li Qing completed his tribulation and his Past and Future Bodies survived, the Void Council returned to defend its territories against his growing power. Li Qing tested their defenses with a massive sword strike, and the councilors considered whether to hold their ground or flee to another world.

• Li Qing’s tribulation ended in victory, while the Haoran Sage, Immortal Purple God, and others suffered a crushing defeat.
• Li Qing’s Past Body returned to the Parasol Tree Continent, and his Future Body departed into the void with a World Pearl to prepare for his Immortal tribulation.
• The seven councilors returned to their territories and combined their Dao Soldiers, cultivators, and logic into a powerful defensive network.
• Li Qing’s Faith Incarnation struck the councilors’ defenses with a hundred-li sword of Formless Sword Qi, but the two sides proved evenly matched.
• The Past Body planned to weaken the Void Council by controlling its lower-ranking officers and spreading the Martial Canon.
• Immortal Supreme God urged the councilors to reinforce their territories or move their people into a grotto-heaven and flee the region.

The Void Council fortified its territory against Li Qing as his forces advanced into the New Tang Empire. At a meeting in the heavenly palace, Li Qing and the other rulers agreed to stop their war and govern their own territories while preparing for the coming War of Void Investiture.

• Immortal Evil Dragon and the Void Council agreed to stabilize their territory, build a grand formation, and prepare to break away if necessary.
• A replica of Li Qing's Past Body reached the Void Council's border and studied its defenses, but concealed Underlying Logic kept him from examining the walls completely.
• Li Qinglian led eight million Dao Soldiers into the New Tang Empire, capturing hundreds of li as Haoran Sage and the other rulers returned to the heavenly palace.
• Li Qing met the rulers of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, thanked them for helping him reach the Longevity Realm, and heard Haoran Sage propose an end to hostilities.
• Li Qing accepted the proposal that each side govern its own territory and divide future gains according to its contribution to the fighting in the void.

Li Qing and the immortals agreed to end the war only after granting Investiture of Gods to cultivators at True Law level and above, then used Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to absorb the Spiritual Essence World and create a new world. The nations entered a temporary calm, while a strand of Underlying Logic began to glow in a distant corner.

• Purple God proposed that those wielding Heavenly Dao Reincarnation stay out of lower-world conflicts, but Li Qing rejected the restriction and agreed to halt mortal warfare only after cultivators at True Law level and above received investiture.
• Haoran Sage and Li Qing agreed to begin the Investiture of Gods, with Spiritual Rhinoceros consenting to have his mythical creatures invested as well.
• Heavenly Dao Reincarnation absorbed the Spiritual Essence World's logic and world will as the worlds merged into a sphere of fifty thousand li, with the Dark Ocean becoming part of the Netherworld.
• Haoran Sage's heavenly palace granted investiture to cultivators under Spiritual Rhinoceros, Purple God, and the other immortals, while lesser cultivators became heavenly officials or soldiers.
• Li Qing's Civilization Logic quietly absorbed the logic of his followers and came to govern more than thirty-five percent of the world's logic; he controlled thirty-five percent of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation's power, Spiritual Rhinoceros ten percent, and Haoran Sage's side the remainder.
• A strand of Underlying Logic quietly began to radiate in a corner of the new world.

The Haoran Sage regained the Conceptual Logic Prototype level through Reincarnation Transformation, alarming the other Immortal Realm powerhouses. Li Qing renewed his alliance with the Immortal Realm Spiritual Rhinoceros and laid plans to use him as a spy while preparing for wider wars.

• The Haoran Sage drew on Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and formed a Conceptual Logic Prototype, prompting Li Qing to worry that the sage’s Qi Fate would keep growing.
• Li Qing contacted the Immortal Realm Spiritual Rhinoceros and said he still wanted to work with him despite his earlier betrayal.
• Li Qing asked the Immortal Realm Spiritual Rhinoceros to infiltrate the Immortal Realm Purple God’s group, provide information, and eventually set a trap involving the Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon.
• Li Qing planned to have Li Qinglian counterattack New Tang and to wage war on three fronts while gathering resources beyond the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• The Haoran Sage told the wary Immortal Realm beings that his breakthrough would help defend the world when the Investiture of Gods War brought Space-Time Heavenly Dao Level powerhouses.

After Spiritual Essence World's defeat, Purple God proposed recruiting Spiritual Rhinoceros to restore their ability to wield the Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon. Spirit King secured Spiritual Rhinoceros's agreement, while Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha warned that the new alliance could leave the three unaffiliated cultivators caught between two powerful factions.

• Purple God said the four survivors had grown stronger but lacked enough members to use the Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon, and proposed inviting Spiritual Rhinoceros to ally with them.
• Spiritual Rhinoceros reflected on his failure to suppress his desires during the confrontation with Li Qing and resolved to fulfill his obligations to him.
• Spirit King visited Spiritual Rhinoceros and invited him to join forces against Haoran Sage; Spiritual Rhinoceros accepted.
• Spiritual Rhinoceros left a duplicate in his palace and accompanied Spirit King to join Purple God and the others.
• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha warned Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord and Wisdom Logic Anomaly of the Myriad Spirits that the renewed alliance could create two powerful factions and leave them caught in the middle.

The Light-Dark Buddha proposed an alliance with Li Qing and the three factions agreed to cooperate against their rivals, while each prepared to build a Second Base and Three Realms System. The Haoran Sage recognized the new balance forming and vowed to stop Li Qing at his next Immortal Realm tribulation, as avatars began leaving to establish systems in low-dimensional spacetime.

• The Light-Dark Buddha persuaded Myriad Spirits and the Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord to ally with Li Qing and combine their power against the other factions.
• The Light-Dark Buddha visited Li Qing at the Civilization Academy, and Li Qing accepted the alliance until his Immortal Realm tribulation.
• Li Qing sent his Divine Body to oversee the lower-realm war and considered how his Civilization Logic had absorbed logics from conquered worlds.
• The Haoran Sage saw the alliance forming and vowed to bring Li Qing down at his next Immortal Realm tribulation.
• After more than a month of peace, avatars sent by Immortal Realm experts left the world’s edge with civilians and Dao Soldiers to build Three Realms Systems in low-dimensional spacetime.

Li Qing prepared the Civilization Empire to conquer the land and unite it under his control, while the Purple God, the Haoran Sage, and their allies backed the New Tang Empire. The two ten-million-strong armies met at the border and invoked the Way of Forbidden Laws, leaving the outcome of the battle unresolved.

• The Divine Body saw the Immortals establishing outside systems of their own, making it harder for Li Qing to hunt them down through causality.
• Li Qing ordered Li Qinglian to prepare the Civilization Empire’s ten million Dao Soldiers for a war to bring the entire world under his will.
• The Purple God and the Haoran Sage agreed with their allies to support the New Tang Empire against Li Qing’s forces.
• Li Qing recruited Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha, the Eternal Night Lifeless Dao Lord, and their allies to send Anomaly-bodied clones into the Civilization Empire’s army.
• The Civilization Empire and the New Tang Empire assembled armies of more than ten million Dao Soldiers, with Immortal clones prepared to become Anomalies.
• Li Qinglian led the Civilization Empire’s army toward the New Tang forces, and both sides invoked the Way of Forbidden Laws when they drew near.

With supernatural power suppressed, Li Qing’s Civilization Empire gained ground through coordinated giant avatars and precise catapult fire, while the gods watched to see which side would win. The Haoran Sage and the other Immortal Realm experts faced a worsening battlefield and looked for a way to turn the tide.

• With vital essence suppressed, both armies sent out six giant Anomaly bodies, and the twelve giants clashed as the troops advanced around them.
• Li Qing directed the Civilization Empire’s catapults to intercept incoming stones in midair and strike the New Tang Empire’s forces.
• Purple God and the other experts recognized Li Qing’s superior army coordination, and the Haoran Sage took command of their army.
• Spiritual Rhinoceros secretly passed battlefield information to Li Qing, whose forces built small advantages and began overwhelming pockets of the opposing army.
• The Haoran Sage and his companions watched their forces falter, while gods across the Heavenly Realm, Underworld, and mortal world observed the war and weighed which side to support.

As the war under the Way of Forbidden Laws continued, the Haoran Sage built a fortified city to counter Li Qing’s superior command. Li Qing split off troops to attack across the border, and the Haoran Sage prepared to meet them with battle formations while guarding against a trap.

• The Haoran Sage ordered the Immortals to build a vast fortified city and withdrew nearly ten million Dao Soldiers into it.
• The Divine Body recognized that a direct siege would cause heavy losses and that he could not infiltrate the city.
• Li Qing sent 300,000 Dao Soldiers in thirty groups to attack villages, towns, and small cities along the border.
• The Haoran Sage dispatched an equal number of troops in thirty groups and warned the Immortals not to risk powerful clones.
• The Haoran Sage urged the Immortals to intercept Li Qing’s scattered forces using battle formations alone.