Chapter Summaries

The Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord plotted to find Li Qing’s hidden base and ambush his future Immortal tribulation, then secretly returned to the Nine Provinces Four Regions as concealed conceptual essence. The Divine Body recognized their return and began planning a new cover identity while the Past Body oversaw the Dao Soldiers’ occupation of the Hundred Great Worlds’ outer ring.

• The Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord concluded that Li Qing had likely won and discussed ways to find his hidden base and track down his mental imprints.
• The Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord agreed to search for Li Qing’s other base, prepare a trap for his Immortal tribulation, and secretly descend through the River of Fate.
• The Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord reached the Nine Provinces Four Regions, discarded their power, and hid as conceptual essence within its logic.
• The Divine Body used the Jade Tablet to reconstruct the sovereigns’ return and resolved to keep the Past Body and Future Body hidden and create a new cover identity.
• The Past Body oversaw seventy million Dao Soldiers occupying the Hundred Great Worlds’ outer ring as a palace of civilization rose in the north.

Li Qing organized the newly formed Civilization Spreaders and infiltrated the Void Alliance’s armies while preparing to conquer the Hundred Great Worlds. Elsewhere, Xuanyuan Changlong established himself as the sole Heavenly Emperor of a world, but its Qi Fate still fell short of what he needed for his Immortal Realm tribulation.

• Li Qing’s Past Body welcomed 158 Longevity Realm cultivators and ordered them to build the Civilization Spreaders and prepare for the coming war.
• Zhang Wuqie led Dao Soldiers to force an enemy army to retreat, allowing Li Qing’s Faith Incarnation to infiltrate their city.
• Li Qing’s Faith Incarnation brainwashed the enemy’s officers and expanded his control to about three million Dao Soldiers, planning to take over the army within months.
• Xuanyuan Changlong used the Investiture of Gods List to merge his logic with a world and decree himself its sole Heavenly Emperor.
• Xuanyuan Changlong found that the world’s Qi Fate was still insufficient for his Immortal Realm tribulation, despite gaining the power to leave the world freely.

Xuanyuan Changlong and other immortals established Three Realms Systems across different worlds, spreading a new method of growth and warfare through the void. Meanwhile, darkness gathered at the bottom of the Infinite Universe, The Indescribable threatened High-Dimensional Spacetime, and a flesh-and-blood avatar used the resulting chaos to expand his intelligence network.

• Xuanyuan Changlong prepared to gather resources in the cluster of worlds and moved his Three Realms System toward a nearby world.
• Shou, Yama Son of Heaven, and Yuan Zhihui established Three Realms Systems in separate worlds, while Bright Moon, Sun Emperor, and other immortals began doing the same.
• Darkness and negative essence accumulated at the bottom of the Infinite Universe, forming a Dark Ocean, dark crystals, and an abyss that drew in Anomalies.
• The Indescribable appeared across High-Dimensional Spacetime, destroying parts of cities and forcing powerhouses to seal regions engulfed by gray fog.
• A flesh-and-blood avatar established information nodes in a damaged city, taking advantage of weakened inspections to preserve and expand his intelligence network.

The Flesh avatar uncovered Ashes of The Indescribable’s plan to infiltrate the All-Beings Dynasty with intelligent Indescribables and spread contamination across the universe. He began a two-part effort to destroy the intelligent monsters and force Ashes to descend, while the Nine Great Rulers learned of the scheme and discussed Ashes’s likely target.

• The Flesh avatar used the Way of Changes Jade Tablet to detect that The Indescribable’s contamination was shifting from the wilderness into cities.
• The Flesh avatar deduced Ashes’s plan to use intelligent Indescribables to infiltrate the All-Beings Dynasty, spread into low-dimensional spacetime, and ultimately kill Li Qing and devour the universe fragment.
• The Flesh avatar decided to eliminate all intelligent Indescribables while monitoring and disrupting Ashes’s plans until Ashes descended in person.
• The Flesh avatar used the Wish Spell to show the City Lord of Great Yu City a map identifying intelligent Indescribables, and the city lord reported it through the logical network.
• The Nine Great Rulers received the information and examined part of Ashes’s plan.
• The Lord of Myriad Sects suspected Ashes was pursuing an enemy in lower-dimensional spacetime, while the Radiant Emperor warned that they had to stop the plan to prevent the universe’s destruction.

The Nine Great Rulers erased intelligent Indescribables and sealed their essences while the Lord of Myriad Buddhas and Teachings theorized about the mysterious person behind the disaster. He suspected the Radiant Emperor and the Underworld Devil Lord were searching for someone with a powerful information-gathering treasure, but the rulers had yet to explain why they spared that person’s world.

• The Nine Great Rulers used nine kinds of conceptual logic to erase intelligent Indescribables and seal their essences apart for continued study.
• The Lord of Myriad Buddhas and Teachings gathered the rulers and said the Radiant Emperor, the Underworld Devil Lord, and Ashes were searching for the same person or object.
• The Lord of Myriad Buddhas and Teachings linked five events surrounding The Indescribable to a mysterious person who could gather and process information.
• The Lord of Myriad Buddhas and Teachings conjectured that the person used a treasure and an information network to locate Indescribables and trigger the disaster to hinder the search for him.
• The Lord of Myriad Buddhas and Teachings reasoned that the Radiant Emperor and the Underworld Devil Lord had obtained the Three Realms System from the mysterious person, yet had not destroyed his world.

The Lord of Myriad Sects deduced that a mysterious Fate-less One was connected to the Three Realms System and ordered a search across low-dimensional space-time. Li Qing realized the Sovereigns had traced the system to his worlds and warned the Nine Provinces Four Regions that discovery could bring the Nine Great Rulers down upon them.

• The Lord of Myriad Sects persuaded the Sovereigns that a mysterious Fate-less One from a Three Realms System world had attracted The Indescribable and Ashes, and that the Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord were concealing him.
• The Lord of Myriad Sects proposed searching Three Realms System worlds, expanding outposts, and testing the mysterious person's power by destroying his information-gathering network.
• The seven great Sovereigns dispatched seven armies into low-dimensional space-time and sent avatars to search high-dimensional cities for lifeforms below Foundation Establishment.
• Li Qing learned of the searches and ordered the Three Realms System hidden, warning that its discovery could prompt the Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord to expose the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• Li Qing summoned the Nine Heavenly Emperors and the Ghost Emperor, explained that the Nine Great Rulers might descend if they found them, and left them facing the danger of imminent discovery.

Li Qing proposed concealing and protecting the Nine Provinces Four Regions with a formation built from thirty-six worlds, and Haoran Sage agreed alongside the other powers. As a vast fleet led by the Eternal Holy Emperor approached, the Nine Provinces Four Regions prepared for war and sent Purple God and his companions to scout.

• Li Qing proposed using thirty-six worlds to form a barrier around the Nine Provinces Four Regions and delaying his next tribulation to buy time.
• Purple God, Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha, and Haoran Sage agreed to Li Qing's plan.
• The Nine Provinces Four Regions sensed more than a hundred approaching worlds, and the Divine Body welcomed the chance to use them to strengthen the formation.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor detected the Nine Provinces Four Regions, ordered scouts dispatched, and set his worlds in motion to prepare for conquest.
• The Divine Body assigned Purple God and his four companions to scout the approaching fleet using the Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon and the Void Fortress Divine Shuttle.

Li Qing proposed expanding the heavenly and yin gods and using Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to reward their contributions with Qi Fate, turning care for the world into a way to manage tribulations. The immortals approved the plan, and recruitment began as the ground war continued; meanwhile, Li Qing's Faith Incarnation roamed the territories of Immortal Supreme God and the others.

• The Divine Body urged the immortals to prepare for war against a vast group of worlds, but they rejected an immediate expansion to one hundred million Dao Soldiers.
• Li Qing proposed increasing heavenly soldiers and gods, and distributing Qi Fate to Mountain Gods, Land Gods, and Water Gods according to how well they served their communities and environments.
• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha, the Haoran Sage, and Purple God agreed to Li Qing's plan, and academies and Dao Lineages increased civil service examinations and recruitment.
• Newly selected candidates trained in pocket heavens before taking up posts across the world, while the New Tang Empire and the Civilization Empire remained locked in a ground war that increasingly favored the Civilization Empire.
• The Nine Provinces Four Regions entered a period of vigorous growth, and Li Qing's Faith Incarnation continued roaming the territories of Immortal Supreme God and the others.

Li Qing's Past Body launched an assault on the Void Council, using brainwashed officers to turn its Dao Soldiers against its own army and break through the border. The seven councilors held off his Hand of the Firmament and began evacuating their people through a prepared grotto-heaven, leaving the battle at a stalemate.

• Li Qing's Past Body gathered power from seventy million Dao Soldiers and the formations of many worlds, then attacked the Void Council with the Hand of the Firmament.
• The seven councilors and their forces met the attack with the Logic Network, and the resulting clash shattered the world barrier.
• The thirty million Dao Soldiers abruptly withdrew their power as ten million more charged in, while brainwashed officers betrayed the Void Council and helped Li Qing's forces seize the border cities.
• Immortal Supreme God ordered the councilors to abandon the battle and escape, and they began moving their people into a prepared grotto-heaven.
• The Past Body pressed down with his full strength as the seven councilors resisted together, leaving both sides locked in a stalemate.

The Twenty-one grotto-heavens formed an array and broke through Li Qing's barrier, escaping after trying to destroy the Hundred Great Worlds' core. Li Qing subdued the core, conquered the worlds, and began establishing Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and a new Three Realms system.

• Immortal Supreme God and the other cultivators fused twenty-one grotto-heavens into an array that broke through the Hand of the Firmament and escaped the Hundred Great Worlds.
• The escaping cultivators triggered explosions at the world's core, but Li Qing redirected his power to suppress them instead of intercepting the array.
• Li Qing's Future Body planned to conquer more world clusters, while Dao Soldiers took control of every city in the Hundred Great Worlds.
• Li Qing announced that academies and a new Three Realms system would be established, and told the gathered cultivators to leave their former divine positions for their successors.
• Li Qing used his Faith Incarnation and the world's logic to create Heavenly Dao above, Reincarnation below, and the Heavenly Realm and Underworld around the Hundred Great Worlds.

The Past Body completed the Three Realms System and moved the Hundred Great Worlds into the void, while the Immortal Supreme God and his allies sought a new home. As the Nine Provinces Four Regions prospered and the Civilization Empire gained ground in its war, the Bright Heavenly Emperor told Li Qing he was ready to enter the wider battlefield.

• The Past Body connected the Heavenly Dao and Reincarnation through Civilization Logic, completing the Three Realms System and forming a concealed world formation with the Hundred Great Worlds and thirty-six smaller worlds.
• The Past Body used the formation to travel through the void, drawing in cosmic essence while considering the limits of its power.
• The Immortal Supreme God led the seven councilors toward a vast cluster of worlds where they hoped to start over.
• The Nine Provinces Four Regions grew prosperous, and the Civilization Empire gained territory in its ongoing war against the New Tang Empire, whose covert schemes Li Qing saw through.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor visited Li Qing at the Civilization Academy and explained that his power was approaching the strength of a Conceptual Logic Prototype.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor told Li Qing that his control of logic qualified him for the real battlefield and described the universe’s five great clusters of worlds.

The Bright Heavenly Emperor explained the path to Final Logic and planned to build his foundation in the Eastern World Cluster, while Li Qing chose a separate route to avoid future conflict. He warned Li Qing that the Nine Great Rulers’ visible forms concealed most of their strength, then gave him a token before leaving.

• The Bright Heavenly Emperor explained that creating Three Realms Systems across a world cluster could help them challenge the Nine Great Rulers and pursue Final Logic.
• Li Qing learned that the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation path closed one’s logic through control of a universe, and reflected that his Civilization Logic followed a related path based on the wisdom of living beings.
• Li Qing asked whether his and the Bright Heavenly Emperor’s different paths might eventually clash, and the Bright Heavenly Emperor agreed that any conflict would end in a contest of life and death.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor planned to seize the Eastern World Cluster as his foundation, while Li Qing agreed to go elsewhere and keep a safe distance between them.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor warned Li Qing that the Nine Great Rulers’ visible forms represented only a fraction of their strength and that their true bodies had merged with high-dimensional spacetime.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor gave Li Qing a golden token for future contact and departed.

Li Qing asked the Bright Heavenly Emperor to help arrange a war in the eastern world cluster so he could complete his Immortal Tribulation, then reflected on his plan to build civilization and control his own fate. Later, the Jade Tablet revealed powerful figures who had found alternative paths to enlightenment, leaving Li Qing astonished by their methods.

• Li Qing asked the Bright Heavenly Emperor to prepare civilizations to attack the Nine Provinces Four Regions, and the Bright Heavenly Emperor agreed.
• Li Qing considered how he would use the wisdom of intelligent life to build civilization and attain the Dao, while the New Tang Empire continued to lose ground.
• As the high-dimensional spacetime grew more contaminated and the All-Beings Dynasty tightened its rule, Li Qing’s avatars struggled to gather intelligence and resorted to brainwashing mortals.
• The flesh-and-blood avatar studied Jade Tablet records about Conceptual Logic Prototype experts, including Desolate Age and his dream universe, which offered power close to Conceptual Logic.
• The flesh-and-blood avatar learned that Spirit Mountain Buddha Patriarch and the other experts also used alternative paths to enlightenment, and he marveled at their ingenuity.

Li Qing approached Desolate Age to propose an alliance against the Nine Great Rulers and explain the danger behind the Void Investiture of Gods War. Desolate Age recognized that the rulers were likely targeting the spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses, and Li Qing began outlining a plan to reach higher-dimensional spacetime.

• Li Qing considered recruiting Desolate Age and other Heavenly Dao powerhouses to challenge the Nine Great Rulers.
• Li Qing found Desolate Age in a city of the All-Beings Dynasty and introduced himself as Daoist Li.
• Li Qing claimed he had released The Indescribable and revealed that several other spacetime powerhouses had arrived.
• Li Qing proposed forming an alliance and described a plan to build a vast cosmic civilization to protect an advance into higher-dimensional spacetime.
• Li Qing explained that the Void Investiture of Gods War was meant to lure the Heavenly Dao powerhouses into a trap, and Desolate Age said this confirmed his suspicions about the rulers' scheme.

Li Qing proposed that Desolate Age ally with him, establish civilizations in separate world clusters, and buy time against the Nine Great Rulers. Desolate Age agreed to claim the Southern Region and later told Purple Jade God everything Li Qing had said.

• Li Qing outlined a non-aggression pact and a plan to establish cross-void-level civilizations across the Five Great World Clusters before confronting the Nine Great Rulers.
• Desolate Age questioned whether Li Qing could slay a Ruler, and Li Qing said there was a small chance with luck and cooperation.
• Desolate Age agreed to ally with Li Qing and chose the Southern Region, while Li Qing suggested bringing in Purple Jade God.
• Li Qing gave Desolate Age a communication item for future meetings and left his spiritual imprint in a chess piece.
• After Li Qing's controlled man departed, Desolate Age mused about the Nine Great Rulers and traveled through his Dream Universe to meet Purple Jade God.
• Desolate Age recounted Li Qing's entire proposal to Purple Jade God.

Li Qing approached the Dimension God King to propose an alliance, revealing that he knew the God King's alternative path to attaining the Dao and the civilization he had hidden within the Infinite Dimensions. The Dimension God King agreed to cooperate but questioned Li Qing's extraordinary ability to uncover secrets.

• Purple Jade God agreed to join Desolate Age in dividing the southern world cluster and set out to seize his share.
• Li Qing used a pawn to find the Dimension God King on Celestial Immortal Island and introduced himself as Daoist Li.
• Li Qing explained his alliance proposal and showed that he knew the Dimension God King's Infinite Dimensions method of attaining the Dao.
• The Dimension God King agreed to cooperate but said he might not follow Li Qing's plan.
• Li Qing identified the cosmic civilization hidden within the Infinite Dimensions as the Dimension God King's source of confidence.
• The Dimension God King realized Li Qing had uncovered his hidden card and asked whether displaying such abilities would attract unwanted attention.

Li Qing completed an alliance’s division of the four great world clusters and prepared to expand into the north, anticipating a major war. His Future Body reached a distant world cluster and chose a Buddhist world at its outer edge as the starting point for its development.

• Li Qing left the Dimension God King a contact token, while the Dimension God King secretly deployed tiny extradimensional bubbles to observe people on the street.
• Li Qing recruited five powerful allies and assigned them territories in the south, west, and east, reserving the north for his three avatars.
• Li Qing contacted other Conceptual Logic Prototype experts, placing them in a secondary alliance and sorting such experts into three levels by their strength and accomplishments.
• At the Civilization Academy, Li Qing predicted fierce resistance and planned to use his past, present, and future selves to build separate cosmic-level civilizations in the north.
• Li Qing’s Future Body traveled faster than light as a Civilization Logic network, spotted a distant world cluster, and chose its outermost golden Buddhist world as its first foothold.

Li Qing's Future Body entered a Buddhist-ruled world to establish a new human civilization based on feng shui cultivation, then investigated its people and found an unsettling contrast between prosperity and suffering. The chapter left him observing emaciated workshop workers gathered in a Buddhist hall, their numb faces concealing intense hope.

• The Future Body chose the second invasion plan and prepared to build a human civilization isolated from the Lord of Civilization.
• He planned to develop a feng shui cultivation path that resonated with the energies of Heaven and earth and avoided vital essence Aberration, despite the danger of backlash.
• Li Qing analyzed the Buddhist world's barrier and entered through a vortex he opened into its northern ocean.
• He crossed the sea, reached Vajra City, and observed its busy fish trade and apparently prosperous residents.
• In the workshop district, Li Qing found starving, numb workers whose eyes held an inexplicable hope.
• Li Qing watched a group of workers kneel before a Buddha statue while a first-layer Essence Refining monk chanted and tapped a wooden fish.

Li Qing's Future Body uncovered how Heart Lamp Buddha used faith, debt, and corpse-processing rites to control the population and gather cultivation materials. He traced the system's origins to the Ten Thousand Buddhas Glazed World and identified the methods that kept the world stable while exploiting its people.

• Li Qing's Future Body observed believers praying to Heart Lamp Buddha and realized their faith transformed suffering into hope for the next life and yielded essences for cultivators.
• Li Qing's Future Body discovered a pocket heaven where monks processed corpses into Dharma Materials and cultivated Anomalies for Essence Stones.
• Li Qing's Future Body saw carriages carrying corpses to a white palace as Way of Changes recorded and analyzed the system.
• Li Qing's Future Body reconstructed Heart Lamp Buddha's rule: monopolize resources to create debt and hardship, spread faith to make people accept suffering, and enforce costly corpse rites to collect materials and prevent social mobility.

Li Qing's Future Body uncovered Heart Lamp Buddha's system for controlling the world and began preparing to oppose it by building an intelligence network and seeking allies among the rebels. He revealed his knowledge to Linghui Arhat and offered the Savior Organization an alliance, but Linghui Arhat remained unsure whether to trust him.

• Li Qing's Future Body learned that Heart Lamp Buddha's system harvested resources and resentment for the Ten Thousand Buddhas Glazed World, and decided to prepare across thirty-six worlds.
• He sent thirty-five Lord of Human Dao Faith Incarnations to nearby worlds and built an information network covering every city in three days.
• Li Qing's Future Body discovered the Demons, a secret rebel group, and identified Linghui Arhat as its highest-ranking member.
• He traveled to Bright City, entered the rebels' hidden base beneath a teahouse, and contacted Linghui Arhat through a golden mirror.
• Li Qing's Future Body introduced himself as an envoy of the Lord of Human Dao and claimed he could prove his knowledge of the Savior Organization's members and bases.