Chapter Summaries

Li Qing and Haoran Sage disagreed over how to draw the great powers into a war that would trigger Li Qing’s Immortal Realm tribulation, and the group split over the plans. Haoran’s envoys began seeking allies, while Li Qing prepared to undermine their efforts; Purple God secured a meeting with the Lord of Human Dao.

• Li Qing proposed provoking the great powers from the Cosmic Storm Zone, while Haoran Sage suggested allying with four powers and drawing the remaining five into battle; six supported Haoran’s plan and four supported Li Qing.
• The ten rulers sent avatars to act on the battlefield plan, while nine Spacetime Heavenly Dao experts met and discussed Li Qing’s approaching tribulation and the threat he posed.
• Li Qing anticipated that forming an alliance would not go smoothly and watched as the four avatars traveled toward their chosen powers.
• After a year, Purple God reached the Human Dao Great World and proposed an alliance to the Lord of Human Dao.
• The Lord of Human Dao agreed that the plan could work, and Purple God left a Tribulation Realm avatar behind before departing.

Li Qing’s factions formed alliances and moved their world clusters toward the cosmic storm region while Ashes secretly spread Indescribable beings beneath cities in high-dimensional spacetime. The Flesh Tree avatar turned city rats into a hidden information network, then discovered Ashes planned to exploit the sewers and turn the Nine Great Rulers’ scheme against them.

• The Lord of Human Dao, the immortal Purple God, the Demon Spirit, the Haoran Sage, and Spiritual Rhinoceros arranged alliances among four world clusters, which began moving toward the cosmic storm region.
• The other five world clusters detected the movement and watched the four clusters as they repeatedly tore through the void.
• The Flesh Tree avatar noticed rats in a city and reasoned that they had entered high-dimensional spacetime alongside people from low-dimensional worlds.
• The Flesh Tree avatar transformed a rat into Mouse One, appointed him Rat King, and ordered him to control the swarms and spread child eyes through the city.
• Mouse One took control of the rats and planted child eyes, allowing the Flesh Tree avatar to map the city through the Eye of Myriad Spirits and Way of Changes.
• The Flesh Tree avatar found mutated rats in the sewers and learned that Ashes intended to use them to spread The Indescribable and subvert the Nine Great Rulers’ plan.

Li Qing discovered Ashes’s plan to spread the Indescribable and devised a way to exploit the Nine Great Rulers’ response. Meanwhile, a staged collision between world clusters sparked a war, and Li Qing began directing the Nine Provinces Four Regions’ escape.

• The Flesh Tree avatar learned that Ashes had secretly returned and planned to conceal controlled beings until the Indescribable could contaminate high-dimensional spacetime.
• Li Qing planned to reveal Ashes to the Nine Great Rulers at a decisive moment, then expanded his information network by controlling creatures across many cities.
• Four world clusters entered the cosmic storm region, where forty worlds dispatched by four rival powers collided with the Nine Provinces Four Regions and nearby worlds.
• The Hundred Great Worlds and Human Dao Great World retaliated against suspected avatars, while Glazed Buddha Lord killed Haoran Sage’s avatar and ordered an assault on the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• Haoran Sage and the others suspected Li Qing had caused the conflict, but Li Qing took command and began carrying out his escape plan.
• The Human Dao Great World and Hundred Great Worlds withdrew after pulling their colliding worlds back, while the Ghost God Great World and Ten Thousand Buddhas Glazed World pressed forward and were struck by the Nine Provinces Four Regions’ concealed Heavenly Dao Reincarnation power.

Li Qing’s forces repelled the Glazed Buddha Lord and Supreme Ghost God King, captured twenty worlds, and consolidated the Nine Provinces Four Regions. As the Haoran Sage warned the other powers about Li Qing’s growing strength, two Sovereigns sent incarnations to infiltrate the Hundred Great Worlds, where Li Qing’s Past Body trapped them in decoy frontier worlds.

• The Glazed Buddha Lord and Supreme Ghost God King fled the cosmic storm region by teleporting their World Clusters, while the Nine Provinces Four Regions captured twenty worlds and expanded to five hundred thousand li in diameter.
• Li Qing’s Present Body told the Haoran Sage, Purple God, and Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha to proceed with his plan.
• The Haoran Sage warned the Southern World Cluster’s leaders that Li Qing could soon fight or kill them and urged them to prepare their hidden trump cards.
• The Lord of Myriad Buddhas and Teachings and the Flesh Ancestor decided to send incarnations to infiltrate the Hundred Great Worlds and investigate its secrets.
• Li Qing’s Past Body detected the Sovereigns’ approach, allowed their incarnations to enter through parasitized cultivators, and confined them to decoy frontier worlds.

Li Qing planned to spread rumors that high-dimensional spacetime was understaffed, hoping to lure wandering spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses into an attack and use the Nine Great Rulers to eliminate them. The Radiant Emperor and the Underworld Devil Lord recognized his scheme but decided to continue their own plan and undermine the unity he hoped to create.

• Li Qing devised a plan to use rumors of high-dimensional spacetime's weakness to provoke wandering spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses into attacking.
• Li Qing's Flesh Tree incarnation explained the scheme to Desolate Age, who agreed that desperate wanderers might take the bait.
• Li Qing's allies spread the rumors through the major World Clusters, where informants passed them along to the Radiant Emperor and the Underworld Devil Lord.
• The Radiant Emperor and the Underworld Devil Lord realized Li Qing meant to use their response to remove unstable rivals and unite the remaining powers against them.
• The Underworld Devil Lord urged them to proceed while making high-dimensional spacetime seem vulnerable enough to prevent their enemies from cooperating.

The Nine Great Rulers withdrew forces from the Central World Cluster to make rumors of instability in high-dimensional space-time seem credible. After debating whether the rumors were a trap or an opportunity to attain Conceptual Logic, eight defeated powerhouses chose to spread embellished versions and wait for others to act, while Blood Frenzy saw a chance for revenge against Dimension God King.

• The Nine Great Rulers agreed to accelerate their plan and withdrew many forces from the Central World Cluster, causing the rumor of instability to spread.
• In the Eastern World Cluster, Starry Sky Divine Venerable and Hell Death Heavenly Venerable discussed whether the withdrawal was a lure to draw challengers into a trap.
• Starry Sky Divine Venerable argued that the rumor could also conceal a chance to attain the Dao of Conceptual Logic, despite the risk of pursuit by the Nine Great Rulers.
• Hell Death Heavenly Venerable proposed spreading embellished rumors so others would test the opportunity while the eight powerhouses waited to exploit the ensuing battle.
• Blood Frenzy emerged from a mass of flesh and decided the rumors offered an opportunity to take revenge on Dimension God King for destroying its world.

Blood Frenzy preserved a fragment of his Conceptual Logic essence and set out to find allies, while rumors of disorder in high-dimensional spacetime drew powerful beings toward a possible breakthrough. The Nine Great Rulers prepared to destroy the intruders, and the high-dimensional spacetime fell quiet beneath their hidden conceptual logic.

• Blood Frenzy buried his still-beating heart in a mass of flesh, rebuilt his figure, and sent the flesh mass into the void to capture worlds and form a nest.
• Li Qing discussed the rumors of an opening in high-dimensional spacetime with Haoran Sage and the other Conceptual Logic Prototype powerhouses, while Myriad Spirits decided to gamble on the opportunity.
• Myriad Spirits split into two figures, and competitors across the five world clusters began sending avatars toward high-dimensional spacetime.
• The Nine Great Rulers dismissed the rumors as bait and prepared to strike down anyone who entered and attacked.
• Li Qing warned his allies away, while the Nine Great Rulers concealed their avatars above the cities and Ashes watched the changes through The Indescribables.

Li Qing used the sewer creature system to secretly draw Unspeakable Spirit-Calling Diagrams in burial pits outside cities throughout the high-dimensional spacetime, hoping to provoke a crisis that would draw the Space-Time Heavenly Dao Level powerhouses into action. A strange wind then swept through the high-dimensional spacetime, alerting the Nine Great Rulers that something had changed.

• Ashes recognized the Nine Great Rulers’ plan and waited for their conflict to cause the Indescribable to grow stronger.
• Fifty-three Space-Time Heavenly Dao Level powerhouses gathered at the boundaries of the high-dimensional space-time but waited for someone else to act first.
• Li Qing used the Flesh Tree avatar and the sewer creature system to gather information and devise a way to provoke the waiting powerhouses.
• Li Qing controlled snakes, insects, rats, and ants to trace Unspeakable Spirit-Calling Diagrams in millions of burial pits outside the cities.
• The creatures hid in the pits as sacrifices and erased their traces after Li Qing completed the diagrams.
• A strange wind carried a hazy murmur across the high-dimensional space-time, and the Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Lord warned the Nine Great Rulers to monitor it.

The Nine Great Rulers suppressed the Indescribable Mist as monstrous creatures emerged across High-Dimensional Spacetime, while fifteen Spacetime Heavenly Dao experts broke through the weakened barrier to seize the Cosmic Origin. The rulers attacked the intruders during their dangerous transformation, and the Destruction Heavenly Lord destroyed the Flesh Ancestor’s projected power, leaving the assault unresolved.

• The Nine Great Rulers connected to their avatars and used the Logic Network and a destructive logic fire to suppress the Indescribable Mist spreading from more than a million pits.
• The upheaval reached the Five World Clusters, prompting more than a third of the Spacetime Heavenly Dao experts to attack the weakened barrier around High-Dimensional Spacetime.
• Fifteen intruders broke through and connected their Conceptual Logic Prototypes to the Cosmic Origin, where two died and the other thirteen endured its dangerous baptism.
• The Radiant Emperor and the Lord of Myriad Tribulations and Sects ordered the Nine Great Rulers to attack the intruders before they completed their transformations.
• The Destruction Heavenly Lord broke through the Flesh Ancestor’s projected flesh hand and shattered the eye attacking him.

The Nine Great Rulers wiped out the invading spacetime Heavenly Dao experts while The Indescribable spread through their cities, tying down much of their power. The Lord of Myriad Buddhas and Teachings then began the plan’s second phase, aiming to make the enemy suspect the rulers had weakened.

• Destruction Heavenly Lord’s avatar was killed by the Lord of Flesh’s bloody radiance, and Destruction Heavenly Lord realized his new Conceptual Logic Prototype was no match for a true ruler.
• The Reincarnation Netherworld Devil Master killed Myriad Spirits despite his offer to become an inside man and help capture Li Qing.
• The Nine Great Rulers erased the remaining invading spacetime Heavenly Dao experts from high-dimensional spacetime.
• The Indescribable spread across at least one-third of the cities, forcing the rulers to seal contaminated areas and tying down more than half their power.
• The Lord of Myriad Buddhas and Teachings ordered the second phase of the plan: redeploy troops, make defenses appear strong, and repeatedly address The Indescribable while sustaining its outbreaks.

The Nine Great Rulers sealed a sudden, widespread outbreak of The Indescribable Mist across the wilderness, while making it appear that their power was tied down. Observers in the cosmic void debated whether the outbreak created an opportunity to attack High-Dimensional Spacetime or was another trap, and Haoran Sage asked Li Qing to assess the situation.

• The Indescribable Mist erupted across more than a tenth of the planes in the high-dimensional wilderness, and countless creatures of The Indescribable were born.
• The Nine Great Rulers unleashed their power, shattered the Mist, and sealed its remaining essence deep in spacetime to be eroded by the universe's origin.
• The Nine Great Rulers left their wilderness seals in place to make it seem that suppressing The Indescribable had occupied most of their power.
• Pawns and avatars from the cosmic void observed the seals, and Starry Sky Divine Venerable concluded that the outbreak had weakened the Nine Great Rulers enough to make an attack seem possible.
• Hell Death Heavenly Venerable warned that the apparent opportunity could be a conspiracy, so the other Heavenly Dao powerhouses chose to observe further.
• At a meeting in the Nine Provinces Four Regions, Haoran Sage asked Li Qing what he thought of the situation in High-Dimensional Spacetime.

Li Qing and his allies spread rumors that the Nine Great Rulers of High-Dimensional Spacetime had been weakened, while preparing to seize the Northern World Cluster and begin Li Qing’s Immortal Tribulation. Li Qing then sent the Nine Provinces Four Regions toward the Supreme Mythology World, where the Myriad Kalpas Undying True Dragon Ancestor unleashed its bloodline formation to defend it.

• Li Qing, Haoran Sage, Myriad Spirits, and Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha discussed spreading news that the Nine Great Rulers had spent much of their strength suppressing The Indescribable disaster.
• Li Qing’s allies spread the rumors across the world clusters, while the Nine Great Rulers recognized the scheme and remained confident in their control.
• Li Qing took command of the forces and ordered them to focus on devouring the worlds of the Northern World Cluster while probing High-Dimensional Spacetime cautiously.
• The Nine Provinces Four Regions emerged from the Cosmic Storm Zone and charged toward the Supreme Mythology World.
• The Myriad Kalpas Undying True Dragon Ancestor activated the world’s bloodline formation and attacked the Nine Provinces Four Regions with its colossal mythical-creature avatar.

Li Qing's Present Body used Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to break through the Supreme Mythology World's bloodline formation and annex thirty worlds into the Nine Provinces Four Regions. Myriad Kalpas Undying True Dragon Ancestor transformed his formation into a golden strange bird that stopped Li Qing's advance, leaving the two world clusters locked in a renewed clash.

• Li Qing's Present Body drove the Nine Provinces Four Regions after the retreating Supreme Mythology World while Way of Changes and the Jade Tablet deciphered the bloodline formation.
• Li Qing's Present Body unleashed Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, shattering a corner of the formation and capturing thirty medium-to-large worlds.
• The Nine Provinces Four Regions transported the thirty worlds to its border, where Dao Soldiers subdued the inhabitants and the new lands joined the cluster.
• Myriad Kalpas Undying True Dragon Ancestor contracted his world cluster and transformed the bloodline formation into a golden strange bird.
• The golden strange bird's flames blocked the Nine Provinces Four Regions' world formation, though Myriad Kalpas Undying True Dragon Ancestor remained uneasy.

Li Qing's Present Body used the world formation to break through two transformations of the Myriad Kalpas Undying True Dragon Ancestor's bloodline formation, baiting him into suspecting Li Qing had a mysterious treasure or calculation technique. The enemy escaped by moving his world cluster, while Li Qing set his sights on a new target and his other bodies began forging alliances across the Northern World Cluster.

• Li Qing's Present Body analyzed the golden flames and gradually reconstructed the Divine Bird Transformation, while Haoran Sage and the others watched and discussed his plan to lure the enemy in.
• After more than ten days, Li Qing's Present Body attacked and overwhelmed the Divine Bird Transformation, then forced the Myriad Kalpas Undying True Dragon Ancestor to reveal the dark serpent's third transformation.
• The Myriad Kalpas Undying True Dragon Ancestor suspected Li Qing possessed a mysterious treasure or calculation art and used his contingency plan to teleport the Supreme Mythology World's cluster away.
• Li Qing's Nine Provinces Four Regions withdrew into the Cosmic Storm Zone and headed toward the Blue Heaven Dao World, its next target.
• Li Qing's Past Body and Future Body sent their Faith Incarnations to the other seven major powers to forge alliances and influence the coming battlefield.

The Civilization Ruler invited the rulers of the other world clusters to unite against the Nine Provinces Four Regions and discover the source of its powerful world-array amplification. Three days later, the rulers met in spiritual spacetime, but several rejected his proposal to merge their clusters into a super civilization.

• The Civilization Ruler met the Glazed Buddha Lord and argued that the Nine Provinces Four Regions possessed a special power that strengthened its world array.
• The Glazed Buddha Lord accepted a token and agreed to join a conference about attacking the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• The Civilization Ruler and the Lord of Human Dao contacted rulers across the other world clusters, and they agreed to meet.
• Three days later, nine figures gathered in a spiritual spacetime palace, where the Civilization Ruler proposed defeating the Nine Provinces Four Regions and possibly merging their clusters.
• Blue Heaven Dao Ancestor and Myriad Spirits Divine Emperor agreed to investigate the Nine Provinces Four Regions but rejected joining a super civilization.

The Civilization Ruler persuaded the nine world-cluster factions to approve a plan to encircle the Nine Provinces Four Regions World Cluster, while concealing his own intentions. Li Qing’s Present Body realized the factions had entered his trap, but the Undying Thorn Hierarch appeared in the Northern World Cluster.

• The Lord of Ten Thousand Swords warned that claims about a crisis in high-dimensional spacetime might be bait, and the factions abandoned the idea of joining forces to build a super civilization.
• The Lord of Human Dao argued that the Nine Provinces Four Regions World Cluster had used its alliance invitation to lure its enemies toward the Cosmic Storm Zone and weaken them through repeated attacks.
• The Civilization Ruler proposed a frontal assault and a secret, multi-sided encirclement that would draw the Nine Provinces Four Regions World Cluster into battle away from the storm zone.
• The nine world-cluster factions approved the plan and began discussing its details.
• Li Qing’s Present Body said the factions had entered the game and planned to erase the four Rulers’ traces.
• The Undying Thorn Hierarch’s avatar quietly descended into the Northern World Cluster.

The Immortal Thorn Sect Leader arrived at the Human Dao Great World to investigate whether it contained the Three Realms System, then tested its defenses with his Dark Roots. Li Qing’s Future Body recognized the threat and watched Civilization Logic repel the attack, leaving the Sect Leader impressed by its ability to adapt and counter his logic.

• The Immortal Thorn Sect Leader descended on the Northern World Cluster to search for the Three Realms System and chose the nearby Human Dao Great World to investigate.
• The Sect Leader found the world cluster isolated by Civilization Logic and a powerful formation, then sent Dark Roots into it.
• The formation severed the invading roots, and its many logics quickly annihilated them.
• Li Qing’s Future Body sensed the Sect Leader and decided not to use the Jade Tablet against him.
• The Sect Leader attacked again with a Thorn Hand, but Civilization Logic adapted and formed a sword that gradually split it apart.
• The Sect Leader deduced how Civilization Logic selected and concentrated countering logics, and praised its strength.

The Lord of Human Dao used the power of his World Cluster to counter the Thorn Sect Leader’s black mist, exposing the limits of Civilization Logic and the need to strengthen it. The Thorn Sect Leader withdrew but planned to infiltrate the Human Dao Great World Cluster during the coming war in the Northern World Cluster.

• The Thorn Sect Leader changed his logic to release black mist that dissolved most lower-level logic, forcing the Lord of Human Dao to find three types of logic that could restrain it.
• The Lord of Human Dao combined those three logics and poured the World Cluster’s power into them, driving the black mist out of the world formation at great cost.
• Li Qing recognized that Civilization Logic’s limited capacity to carry other logics was its greatest flaw and that breaking through underlying logic would let it grow stronger.
• The Thorn Sect Leader became intent on obtaining Civilization Logic, withdrew his power, and concealed himself near the Human Dao Great World Cluster.
• The Thorn Sect Leader planned to use the coming war in the Northern World Cluster to sneak attack the Lord of Human Dao.

Xuanyuan Changlong and the Haoran Sage’s alliance endured repeated probes from the Seven Sovereigns while the major forces prepared for a wider confrontation. The Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord secretly watched Li Qing’s world cluster, as Li Qing planned to use an impending surprise attack to trigger the tribulations of his Past and Future Bodies.

• Xuanyuan Changlong concealed the power of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation as three ruler incarnations probed his world clusters, and he concluded that the rulers distrusted one another.
• The Haoran Sage warned the other eight Time-Space Heavenly Dao powerhouses that six Sovereigns had tested their Nine Heavens cluster and told them not to reveal Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
• The nine world clusters began encircling the Cosmic Storm Zone while the four leading clusters advanced toward it.
• The Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord secretly observed the Nine Provinces Four Regions and agreed to wait for the right moment rather than act prematurely.
• Li Qing calculated that the encirclement would take at least a hundred years and planned for the Hundred Great Worlds and Human Dao Great World to surprise-attack two clusters, igniting the tribulations of his Past and Future Bodies.

Li Qing calculated how he could use the Heart-Destroying Sword and the worlds within the Ten Thousand Buddhas Glazed World and the Ghost God Great World to defeat the forces opposing him. He proposed a plan to the assembled powers: lure the enemy into greed, break through their encirclement, and devour worlds until his strength could overcome them.

• Li Qing calculated that the Human Dao Great World and the Hundred Great Worlds could fuel twelve sword strikes, while consuming the Ten Thousand Buddhas Glazed World and the Ghost God Great World could provide enough power for more.
• Li Qing warned the assembled figures that nine major powers were preparing to encircle the Nine Provinces Four Regions and asked them to devise a plan to destroy the enemy world clusters.
• Purple God and Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha urged the others to remain cautious and avoid acting rashly, suspecting Li Qing was testing them.
• Li Qing proposed using the next hundred years to seize peripheral worlds, then breaking through the rear blockade just before the encirclement closed.
• Li Qing planned to devour the pursuing world cluster, grow strong enough to face eight clusters, and use his secret treasure to provoke the enemies into fighting on rather than fleeing.