Chapter Summaries

The Eternal Holy Emperor realized that Li Qing had trapped his 1.2 billion Dao Soldiers inside the Human Path Forbidden Law, where supernatural powers failed and his forces were slaughtered. He sent an avatar and the surviving 300 million Dao Soldiers to rescue the remnants, but Li Qing’s formations and commands kept the retreating army under relentless attack.

• Li Qing ordered his Dao Soldiers and more than 200 Anomaly avatars to kill the Holy Light Army’s scattered survivors as the Eternal Holy Emperor’s Faith Incarnation retreated.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor deduced that his enemies had anticipated his invasion and used the Human Path Forbidden Law to suppress supernatural powers and destroy most of his army.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor sent an avatar to lead the remaining 300 million Dao Soldiers into the forbidden zone to rescue the survivors.
• Li Qing used Way of Changes and students placed among the enemy units to coordinate his forces while concealing which generals he controlled.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor ordered his reachable fanatics to gather the wounded and retreat toward the rescue force as Li Qing’s army and Anomaly avatars pursued them.
• After a day and night of fighting, the exhausted remnants crossed several hundred li and finally reached the army sent to receive them.

Li Qing’s army defeated the Eternal Holy Emperor’s forces under the Human Path Forbidden Law, forcing the survivors to retreat from the world. The Eternal Holy Emperor destroyed another world rather than let Li Qing occupy it, but Li Qing’s world outpost absorbed its fragments and began racing toward the Holy Light Great World.

• The Eternal Holy Emperor took control of the remaining Dao Soldiers and formed them into a mortal-style army against Li Qing’s forces.
• Li Qing’s Anomalies, stones, and arrows battered the Holy Light Army, which suffered far more casualties in the ensuing battle.
• After the casualty ratio reached one to ten, the Eternal Holy Emperor ordered a retreat and evacuated his surviving Dao Soldiers and citizens by ship.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor split his sword strike, targeting the Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon and destroying a world that had not yet been occupied.
• Li Qing used Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to draw the destroyed world’s fragments into his outpost, which then surged toward the Holy Light Great World.

The Radiant Holy Emperor used the Holy Light Grand Array to try to stop the World Outpost Base, but Li Qing outmaneuvered him and forced him to choose between protecting small worlds and defending the Holy Light Great World. The Emperor prepared to trap the base in a siege, while Li Qing steered it toward the northernmost edge instead of the region he intended to contain.

• The Radiant Holy Emperor linked himself to the Holy Light Grand Array and formed a giant hand to seize the World Outpost Base, but the Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon held it off.
• Li Qing proposed changing course to destroy and absorb small worlds or ram the Holy Light Great World, and he steered the base toward a smaller world.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor repositioned the giant hand to block the base, but Li Qing changed course again and guided it toward the Holy Light Great World through the array's blinding light.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor realized he could not prevent the base from reaching its goal, so he focused the array on protecting small worlds and planned to besiege the base in the Holy Light Great World.
• Li Qing told Haoran Sage and the others to begin the second phase, then maneuvered the base away from the northern central region and toward the northernmost edge.

The Eternal Holy Emperor contained the World Outpost Base behind a sealed ring of walls while Li Qing studied the Holy Light World Grand Array and sent his Divine Body into the Holy Light World Cluster. After learning that the Eternal Holy Emperor's will resided in every cultivator's holy light, Li Qing's Divine Body destroyed its first target and uncovered the danger of entering believers' bodies.

• The Eternal Holy Emperor stopped the World Outpost Base's fall and surrounded it with walls, ships, Dao Soldiers, and the power of the Holy Light World Grand Array.
• Li Qing told Purple God and the Haoran Sage that they should keep attacking with the power of the Nine Provinces Four Regions while he searched the array for flaws.
• Li Qing's Divine Body passed through the Void Gate, joined Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, and studied the Holy Light World Grand Array until it found a way through.
• Li Qing's Divine Body slipped past the array and traveled to a small world in the Holy Light World Cluster.
• Li Qing's Divine Body entered a True Law cultivator, sensed a mysterious will in his holy light, and destroyed him before that will could detect the intrusion.
• Li Qing used the Way of Changes and the Jade Tablet to learn that the Eternal Holy Emperor's will lived within every cultivator's holy light.

Li Qing learned that the Eternal Holy Emperor’s believers cultivated power that flowed into him, so he abandoned his plan to incite them to rebel and began planting secret footholds across the Holy Light World Cluster. As the Eternal Holy Emperor concealed his world formation from Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, Li Qing set a trap designed to make him establish Heavenly Dao Reincarnations across more than a hundred worlds, leaving the story poised for their planned attack.

• Li Qing discovered that the Eternal Holy Emperor drew power from his believers’ cultivation and decided to pursue a different strategy.
• Li Qing’s Divine Body brainwashed ordinary believers in the city, had them build a hidden statue, and then left to establish footholds in other worlds.
• Li Qing’s projection watched Heavenly Dao Reincarnation erode the world formation, prompting the Eternal Holy Emperor to conceal its logic by merging it with his Dao Soldiers’ battle formation.
• Li Qing explained to Purple God that the Eternal Holy Emperor would likely establish Heavenly Dao Reincarnations in more than a hundred worlds and use them to attack the Holy Light Great World.
• Li Qing revealed that his Divine Body was preparing pawns who could become Children of Destiny and establish Heavenly Dao Reincarnation beyond the Eternal Holy Emperor’s control.

Li Qing continued weakening the Eternal Holy Emperor while expanding his network of bases and analyzing the Holy Light Great World's logic. Meanwhile, his Future Body received an invitation to a gathering of Northern World Cluster powers and decided to attend while planning to undermine their unity.

• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to monitor his opponents and deliberately planted doubt in Haoran Sage and Immortal Purple God, while his Divine Body continued establishing bases across the worlds.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor unleashed the Holy Light Great World's world logic against Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, forcing Li Qing and his allies into a prolonged clash.
• Li Qing analyzed the world's logic and waited for his bases to spread across every world, intending to corner the Eternal Holy Emperor and push him toward the Three Realms Reincarnation trap.
• Li Qing's Future Body completed a formation spanning 108 worlds, then met White Lotus Buddha Patriarch, who delivered an invitation from the Northern World Cluster's seven great worlds.
• After discovering that the gathering aimed to unite the cluster's Conceptual Logic Prototype powerhouses, Li Qing accepted the invitation and planned to keep the factions divided.

The Nine Great Rulers began the Void Investiture of Gods War, sending a massive force to conquer the Central World Cluster while preparing a trap for holders of Conceptual Logic Prototypes. The Lord of Myriad Sects also ordered a search for Three Realms Spacetime Systems as the Rulers pursued their own rivalry with the Radiant Emperor and the Reincarnation Devil Lord.

• The Nine Great Rulers arrived through a colossal gate and ordered the invasion of the Central World Cluster to begin.
• A thousand Immortal Realm cultivators and a hundred billion Dao Soldiers emerged from the gate and marched out to conquer nearby worlds.
• The Radiant Emperor explained a plan to lure their enemies into successive probes, conceal a withdrawal, and trap them when they attacked High-Dimensional Spacetime.
• The Lord of Myriad Sects agreed to help build forward bases and make the Void Investiture of Gods War appear to intensify.
• The Lord of Myriad Sects told six other Rulers to search for Three Realms Spacetime Systems while pushing the war forward.
• The Flesh Ancestor and the other Rulers agreed to find and claim prey for themselves, opposing the Radiant Emperor and the Reincarnation Devil Lord.

The Eternal Holy Emperor mistook Li Qing’s deception for the power of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and began creating a Three Realms system across more than a hundred worlds. Li Qing recognized that the Emperor had entered the trap and pressed the assault while World Eighty-Seven descended into turmoil.

• The Eternal Holy Emperor concluded that only a stronger Heavenly Dao Reincarnation could counter Li Qing’s forces, so he ordered Divine Servant Wan De to spread chaos in Holy Light World No. 87 and began establishing the Three Realms system there.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor used the world’s will to create an Investiture of Gods List and a God-Striking Whip, planning for favored figures to establish the system after defeating Wan De.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor repeated his plan across more than a hundred worlds, while Li Qing told Haoran Sage, Purple God, and the others that the Emperor had fallen into their trap.
• Li Qing’s forces intensified their assault on the World Outpost Base, forcing the Eternal Holy Emperor to divert more attention from completing the Three Realms system.
• Divine Servant Wan De imposed ruthless taxes in Holy Light World Number Eighty-Seven and violently suppressed Radiant Holy Church believers who resisted.

Li Qing’s Faith Incarnation used the chaos caused by the Eternal Holy Emperor’s plan to gather the dead’s resentment and form a miniature Dark Ocean. He then directed Zhang Wuming to conquer rival forces, combining the hopes of the living with the dead’s grievances to create a thread of true destiny.

• As the Radiant Holy Church’s authority crumbled, Li Qing’s Faith Incarnation secretly built up armies and warlord factions across the world.
• Li Qing’s Faith Incarnation spread Civilization Logic, calling on the dead to seek revenge against the Eternal Holy Emperor and join him.
• The dead’s obsessions gathered in Li Qing’s underground palace, forming a dark lake and a thread of dark destiny that enveloped his Faith Incarnation.
• Li Qing’s Faith Incarnation hid inside Zhang Wuming and ordered him to attack nearby forces.
• Zhang Wuming’s army defeated a small force and expanded, while the hopes of the people in his territories gathered with the dead’s resentment to produce true destiny.

Li Qing coordinated the unification of more than a hundred minor worlds and timed their Investiture of Gods ceremonies to strike at the Eternal Holy Emperor. As the Heavenly Dao Reincarnations shattered the enemy’s logic and defenses, the Eternal Holy Emperor watched his protections collapse before an army of over a billion Dao Soldiers.

• Li Qing told Haoran Sage and the others that the minor worlds would hold their Investiture of Gods ceremonies in roughly half a year and ordered preparations for the World-Anchoring Chains.
• Zhang Wuming defeated Huang Dingkun, absorbed the North King’s remaining opposition, and unified World Number Eighty-Seven.
• Li Qing’s Faith Incarnation secretly contacted the generals, while his forces helped unify the cities and secure the minor world.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor sensed that the ceremonies were happening too precisely, but Li Qing’s allies committed their power as the Investiture of Gods began across the minor worlds.
• Li Qing’s projection took control of the Heavenly Dao Reincarnations and unleashed their power, shattering the enemy’s logic, the sealing wall, and the Eternal Holy Emperor’s defenses.

Li Qing completed the Investiture of Gods in over a hundred worlds, trapping the Eternal Holy Emperor and forcing him to abandon the Holy Light Great World. The Emperor fled with his believers and Dao Soldiers while activating the world’s self-destruct device, leaving Li Qing and his allies to defend the World Outpost Base.

• The Eternal Holy Emperor restrained Heavenly Dao Reincarnation with a new battle formation, giving Li Qing the chance to begin the final investiture of gods.
• Through Zhang Wuming, Li Qing spread Civilization Logic and established Heavenly Dao Reincarnation across World Number Eighty-Seven and more than a hundred worlds.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor realized the Children of Destiny had been part of a trap, withdrew his Faith Incarnation, and decided to retreat with his followers and Dao Soldiers.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor gathered the power of his worlds into a sword strike against the World Outpost Base, but Li Qing and his allies met it with the Grotto-Heaven Soul-Extinguishing Cannon.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor escaped aboard a warship with his forces as the Holy Light Great World began to rupture.
• Li Qing warned Haoran Sage and Immortal Purple God that the Holy Light Great World was about to explode because the Eternal Holy Emperor had activated its self-destruct device.

The Holy Light Great World exploded, and Li Qing’s allies formed a world formation to conceal the Nine Provinces Four Regions. Li Qing urged the group to target the universe’s five world clusters, while Haoran Sage suspected Li Qing was preparing to use their wars as a tribulation and might already wield immortal-level strength.

• The Holy Light Great World shattered, blasting fragments across the Holy Light World Cluster, while the World Outpost Base survived by devouring the shock waves.
• The Eternal Holy Emperor fled toward the Northern World Cluster, unaware that Li Qing had brainwashed several of his followers and could track him.
• Li Qing told Haoran Sage and the others to establish a world formation, and they gathered more than a hundred worlds beneath a veil of mist.
• Haoran Sage and the Five Immortals returned to the Nine Provinces Four Regions, where Li Qing proposed that they attack one of the five world clusters to seize worlds and advance their cultivation.
• Haoran Sage privately warned the other immortals that Li Qing might be using their wars to create his tribulation and could already possess combat strength equal to an immortal’s.

Li Qing learned that Haoran Sage and the other Immortal Realm cultivators planned to establish a second world cluster, while his Hundred Great Worlds continued toward the Northern World Cluster. After reaching the immense Ten Thousand Buddhas Glazed World, Li Qing sent an avatar toward it with an invitation.

• Haoran Sage proposed that the Immortal Realm cultivators unite their avatars to hunt worlds and establish a second base apart from Li Qing's plan.
• Li Qing learned of Haoran Sage's scheme, while both sides agreed to proceed with Li Qing's plan without acknowledging their suspicions.
• Li Qing's Past Body guided the Hundred Great Worlds toward the Northern World Cluster, and Li Qing considered creating a wormhole to improve its speed.
• Li Qing's Future Body reached the Ten Thousand Buddhas Glazed World and observed its vast scale, three thousand palace-worlds, and formidable defenses.
• Li Qing created a powerful avatar, gave it an invitation, and sent it toward the Ten Thousand Buddhas Glazed World as he watched from hiding.

Li Qing arrived at the Ten Thousand Buddhas Glazed World and discovered that its vast false reincarnation system concealed deep resentment accumulated over millions of years. While gathering intelligence on the world, he received a visit from White Dragon Child, lord of the True Dragon World.

• Li Qing followed Smiling Maitreya into the Guest-Welcoming Hall and received a sacred mountain as his residence before the assembly.
• Li Qing surveyed the pocket world and found nearly a billion laborers whose joy was shaped by Smiling Maitreya's logic, while ancient resentment gathered throughout the world.
• Li Qing concluded that time and the resentment of the dead could eventually destroy even a seemingly perfect world.
• Li Qing sent concealed copies to investigate the palaces around the Ten Thousand Buddhas Glazed World but stopped probing its defenses after arrays detected them and an Immortal Realm expert took notice.
• Li Qing observed that powerful guests had arrived as avatars, then welcomed White Dragon Child, lord of the True Dragon World, when he came to speak with him.

Li Qing attended White Dragon Child’s exchange gathering to learn about the Northern World Cluster and trade information. He offered knowledge of high-dimensional spacetime in exchange for a bottom-level Logic Relic and was shown a death-inducing skull.

• White Dragon Child invited Li Qing to an exchange gathering for cultivators to trade rare items and information, and Li Qing agreed to attend.
• At the Spirit Mountain gathering, White Dragon Child welcomed Li Qing and explained that most of the Northern World Cluster’s spacetime Heavenly Dao-level immortals and world lords had arrived.
• White Dragon Child created separate mist-covered areas for item exchanges and information trades, concealing participants’ identities and preventing logic from being used inside.
• Li Qing entered the information area and offered information about high-dimensional spacetime in return for a bottom-level Logic Relic.
• A cultivator approached Li Qing and offered a black skull Logic Relic called Death Gaze, which inflicted lasting death energy on anyone it stared at but reduced its user’s perception with each use.

Li Qing’s Future Body avatar exchanged intelligence and contact information with Devouring Venerable, then investigated offers at the gathering. He acquired coordinates to ancient Netherworld Kingdom Ruins and traded for a time crystal containing Eternal Time before leaving.

• Li Qing’s Future Body avatar shared information about high-dimensional spacetime with Devouring Venerable, who identified the meeting’s goal as uniting the Northern World Cluster against high-dimensional spacetime.
• Li Qing gave Devouring Venerable a token for future contact, and his intelligence attracted the attention of other Temporal-Spatial Heavenly Dao powerhouses.
• Li Qing traded a foundational Logic Relic for coordinates to dangerous Ruins from one hundred million years ago, which the Jade Tablet identified as belonging to the Netherworld Kingdom.
• Li Qing examined trading goods and found a time crystal containing the imperishable substance Eternal Time.
• Li Qing exchanged two underlying Logic Relics for three items, including the time crystal, then left after finding no other imperishable substances.

Li Qing’s Future Body prepared to infiltrate the Ten Thousand Buddhas Glazed World, then attended its grand assembly and learned that high-dimensional spacetime faced a spreading Mist Disaster while its armies waged war in the Central World Cluster. The Glazed Buddha Lord warned the gathering that the Nine Great Rulers could eventually turn their attention to the other worlds.

• Li Qing’s Future Body sent nine Logic Relics and Eternal Time to his main body, then gathered intelligence about the Northern World Cluster and planned acts of destruction.
• Li Qing’s Future Body brainwashed a novice monk and implanted most of his power in the monk’s spiritual world to use him to infiltrate the Ten Thousand Buddhas Glazed World.
• Li Qing’s Future Body entered the Ten Thousand Buddhas Glazed World with the novice monk and took a low-ranking seat at the grand assembly.
• The Glazed Buddha Lord and six other powerful leaders appeared, while Li Qing identified the seven major factions represented at the front of the hall.
• The Glazed Buddha Lord revealed that the Nine Great Rulers faced a Mist Disaster, had sealed high-dimensional spacetime, and sent armies into the Central World Cluster, warning that they might later threaten everyone present.

Li Qing's Future Body learned that the Northern World Cluster's seven factions planned to unite and conquer the other worlds, so he set out to sabotage their alliance. After secretly agreeing to the plan, he created fifty powerful clones and infiltrated a ship near the border of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Glazed World and the Ghost God Great World.

• The Northern Alliance proposed uniting Immortal Realm experts, conquering the Northern World Cluster, and fusing its worlds into one civilization.
• Li Qing's Future Body decided to disrupt the alliance and chose the Ten Thousand Buddhas Glazed World and the Ghost God Great World as his first targets.
• At the Glazed Buddha Lord's meeting, the Devouring Venerable and the other experts agreed to form the alliance and begin subduing factions below the Immortal Realm.
• The Glazed Buddha Lord proposed gathering allied worlds near the Ten Thousand Buddhas Glazed World to form the Myriad Worlds Grand Formation and asked experts to leave clones behind.
• Li Qing's Future Body used Civilization Logic to create fifty Tribulation Realm clones and sent them to sow discord among the cluster's factions.
• Li Qing's Future Body crossed into the border region and used the Walking Between Two Realms spell to enter a patrolling ship unseen.

Li Qing's Future Body began secretly controlling warship crews, world rulers, and factions across the Northern World Cluster while the Ten Thousand Buddhas Glazed World introduced a teleportation art to unite the worlds. After adapting the art for individual spacetime travel, Li Qing's avatars spread across faction borders, leaving him ready to provoke a war before the teleportation arrays were used.

• Li Qing's Future Body took control of a warship's Arhat and crew, then moved on to the rulers of nearby worlds as his other avatars infiltrated factions.
• The Glazed Buddha Lord explained that gathering the Northern World Cluster's worlds would take hundreds of thousands of years and introduced the Universe-Rending World Teleportation Art to speed their travel.
• Li Qing's Future Body studied the teleportation art, confirmed its logic through the Jade Tablet, and realized he could use grotto-heaven worlds as fuel.
• Li Qing's Future Body and his avatars used reconstructed logic to tear through spacetime and reach new regions, where they pursued controllers of minor worlds and void fleets.
• Li Qing's Future Body concluded that he had people under his control in roughly half the factions and planned to trigger a great war before the teleportation arrays were activated.

Li Qing's Future Body triggered wars across more than two hundred worlds while secretly infiltrating the Ten Thousand Buddhas Glazed World and controlling its defenders. As leaders blamed one another for the clashes, his controlled Spirit Light Bodhisattva reached a formation node with a warning, and Divine Wind Bodhisattva questioned why the Buddha had not issued the order directly.

• Li Qing's Future Body made more than two hundred worlds erupt into war, causing small worlds to collide and their soldiers to fight.
• The Glazed Buddha Lord and Supreme Ghost God King accused each other's forces of starting the border attacks, while other faction leaders argued throughout the hall.
• One hour earlier, Li Qing's Future Body used Huineng to invade Spirit Light Bodhisattva's mind and spread control among Buddhist cultivators around the Ten Thousand Buddha Hall.
• A controlled clone of Spirit Light Bodhisattva flew to the Spirit Buddha Hall, a defensive formation node, and claimed the Buddha had ordered preparations.
• Divine Wind Bodhisattva questioned why the Buddha had sent Spirit Light Bodhisattva with the notification instead of issuing a decree himself.