Chapter Summaries

Li Qing began his plan to draw the four outside world clusters into a costly war, while concealing Heavenly Dao Reincarnation within the Nine Provinces Four Regions’ formation. The four clusters launched landing operations, but Li Qing’s precisely coordinated first volley inflicted heavy damage on their fleets.

• Li Qing secured the others’ agreement to his plan, said he would command the opening war, and warned that he would use the clash to stoke the four worlds’ greed.
• The five world formations collided in the Cosmic Storm Zone, and the Nine Provinces Four Regions’ formation held even against the combined force of the four clusters.
• Glazed Buddha Lord, Lord of Human Dao, Civilization Ruler, and Supreme Ghost God King agreed to send half their forces on landing operations against nearby worlds.
• Li Qing sent fleets toward twenty exposed worlds and used the Way of Changes to direct their attacks at the invading fleets.
• The opening volley destroyed more than a tenth of the void fleet and caused heavy casualties across the four armies.

Li Qing's Present Body lured the allied fleets toward the twenty worlds, then used his knowledge of their formations to unleash a devastating counterattack. The surviving armies withdrew after losing a quarter of their forces, while the wreckage and casualties were absorbed by the worlds, which rapidly expanded.

• Supreme Ghost God King and Glazed Buddha Lord formed their fleets into protective formations that blocked most of the Nine Provinces Four Regions' bombardment.
• Li Qing's Present Body studied the enemy formations while retreating toward the twenty worlds, then let the four allied armies approach.
• Li Qing's Present Body directed the twenty worlds and the Nine Provinces Four Regions fleet to strike the formations' vulnerable points, destroying hundreds of thousands of warships.
• The allied armies withdrew after losing more than a million warships and suffering immense cultivator casualties.
• The twenty worlds absorbed the wreckage, corpses, and their vital essence, each growing to a diameter of one hundred thousand miles.
• Glazed Buddha Lord, Supreme Ghost God King, and the other commanders questioned how their fleet formations had been deciphered.

The Glazed Buddha Lord launched the Myriad Buddha Glaze Divine Curse against Li Qing’s twenty worlds, while Li Qing’s Present Body used a fleet formation to resist it and had the Jade Tablet analyze its logic. Meanwhile, the Lord of Myriad Buddhas and Teachings and the Flesh Ancestor remained trapped in a tightly controlled border world, unaware of the conflict’s details.

• The Glazed Buddha Lord proposed borrowing the allied rulers’ power to cast the Myriad Buddha Glaze Divine Curse and convert the beings in Li Qing’s worlds.
• Li Qing’s Present Body formed a defensive array with a million void fortress divine shuttles as the curse’s golden radiance clashed with the fleet’s silver logic.
• The Jade Tablet reconstructed the divine curse’s logic while Li Qing told the Haoran Sage and the others he would wait until he could decipher it before counterattacking.
• The Lord of Myriad Buddhas and Teachings and the Flesh Ancestor struggled to investigate their heavily monitored border world and sensed that much of its power was being drawn away.
• The Lord of Myriad Buddhas and Teachings suspected the world cluster was at war, and the Flesh Ancestor suggested bringing over two more avatars to investigate.

Li Qing's Present Body broke the Glazed Buddha Lord's divine Curse and thwarted the Supreme Ghost God King's secret art, while the Civilization Ruler and Lord of Human Dao guided their enemies toward suspecting a hidden treasure. The Supreme Ghost God King concluded that obtaining it could let them monitor and challenge the Nine Great Rulers.

• Li Qing's Present Body used Grotto-Heaven Fire-Extinguishing Cannons to shatter the Glazed Buddha Lord's golden divine Curse.
• The Civilization Ruler and Lord of Human Dao suggested that the Nine Provinces Four Regions could quickly decipher prototypes, deepening the Glazed Buddha Lord's and Supreme Ghost God King's suspicions.
• The Supreme Ghost God King proposed using Voice of Ghost Gods to awaken corpses in the twenty worlds and collapse them from within.
• Li Qing's Present Body ordered the earth deities to destroy every corpse in the twenty worlds before the secret art arrived, leaving it with no power to consume.
• The Civilization Ruler and Lord of Human Dao led the Supreme Ghost God King to suspect that the Nine Provinces Four Regions possessed a treasure or secret art that could expose their plans.
• The Supreme Ghost God King resolved that they should obtain the suspected treasure so they could monitor and undermine the Nine Great Rulers.

The Lord of Human Dao and Civilization Ruler persuaded Glazed Buddha Lord and Supreme Ghost God King to consider uniting their four world clusters into a world formation. Li Qing observed their cautious response and planned to intensify their greed by repeatedly displaying exotic treasures.

• Glazed Buddha Lord suspected the Nine Provinces Four Regions had exposed a secret weapon to lure the four worlds into a trap, and he outlined a plan to destroy them before confronting the other worlds.
• The Lord of Human Dao proposed merging the four world clusters into a powerful formation, while Civilization Ruler advised building it gradually to keep the Nine Provinces Four Regions hopeful and waiting.
• Glazed Buddha Lord and Supreme Ghost God King hesitated and chose to observe longer before deciding whether to build the formation.
• Li Qing watched through his projections and resolved to keep showing the invaders exotic treasures until their desires overcame their caution.

The four rival world clusters agreed to build the Four Directions Heaven-Sealing Formation after their attacks on the Nine Provinces Four Regions were repeatedly thwarted. Li Qing used the construction and exchange of ritual altars to infiltrate the Ten Thousand Buddhas Glazed World and the Ghost God Great World, leaving his enemies unaware of the spreading Heavens Civilization Torrent.

• The Lord of Human Dao and the Civilization Ruler of the Hundred Great Worlds failed to break through the Nine Provinces Four Regions’ defenses, and their allies realized their methods were being anticipated and countered.
• The Lord of Human Dao proposed that the four great world clusters jointly construct the Four Directions Heaven-Sealing Formation, and the Glazed Buddha Lord and Supreme Ghost God King agreed.
• The four clusters widened the battlefield and began building ritual altars across their worlds, an effort expected to take seventy or eighty years.
• Li Qing sent avatars into the Ten Thousand Buddhas Glazed World and the Ghost God Great World during the exchanges of worlds and materials.
• Li Qing’s avatars used the Heavens Civilization Torrent to reshape the outlooks of cultivators at the Tribulation Realm, Longevity Realm, and Dharma Form levels, while the Glazed Buddha Lord and Supreme Ghost God King remained unaware.

Li Qing presented a battle plan to absorb the Blue Heaven Dao World and defeat the other world clusters before they could complete their Four Directions Heaven-Sealing Formation. He also warned that the Radiant Emperor and the Underworld Devil Lord had to be dealt with first, as their avatars and spiritual imprints threatened the plan.

• Li Qing explained that the four opposing world clusters were building the Four Directions Heaven-Sealing Formation to trap the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• Li Qing proposed absorbing the Blue Heaven Dao World before the opposing worlds could surround them, then using Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to break their formations and absorb their worlds.
• The Haoran Sage, the Purple God, and Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha approved Li Qing's strategy, while wondering when he would break through to the Immortal Realm.
• Li Qing identified the Radiant Emperor and the Underworld Devil Lord as immediate threats because their spiritual imprints and avatars could monitor the worlds and interfere.
• Li Qing said they had to erase the rulers' spiritual imprints and destroy their avatars before the great tribulation, or the rulers' second avatars could reach the battlefield in about a day.

Li Qing’s Present Body demanded that Haoran Sage and the others cooperate with his plan to sweep the Nine Provinces Four Regions using Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, forcing them to choose between losing their chance at his treasure or losing their ability to find him and the Seal of Heaven. Haoran Sage argued that they should refuse, abandon the Northern World Cluster, and wait to strike later, leaving the group divided over Li Qing’s Immortal Realm Tribulation.

• Li Qing’s Present Body told Haoran Sage and the others they had to cooperate with his plan or risk losing their chance to claim his treasure.
• Li Qing’s Present Body proposed using Heavenly Dao Reincarnation from every world cluster to sweep the Nine Provinces Four Regions, requiring the others to leave unless they wanted him to expose their secrets.
• Haoran Sage and the others debated whether to accept Li Qing’s terms, weighing the risk of losing their chance to find him and the Seal of Heaven against the risk of letting him ascend.
• Purple God argued that accepting was the lesser of two evils because refusing could ruin their plans to devour the nine great world clusters and unite the Northern World Cluster.
• Haoran Sage urged the group to refuse Li Qing, leave the Northern World Cluster, and grow stronger elsewhere before attacking him in the future.
• Spiritual Rhinoceros of the Immortal Realm acknowledged Haoran Sage’s decisiveness.

The Northern World Cluster’s Space-Time Heavenly Dao powerhouses agreed to let Li Qing investigate the Nine Provinces Four Regions, while secretly preparing to kill him if they could. Li Qing activated the Heavenly Net and Earthly Web to search the world for the hidden imprints of the Radiant Emperor and the Underworld Devil Lord, and the imprints sensed his search closing in.

• Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha persuaded the other powerhouses to consider joining forces against Li Qing, and Haoran Sage and Purple God supported the plan.
• Li Qing received Spiritual Rhinoceros’s report and accepted Haoran Sage’s challenge to investigate the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• Li Qing mobilized the world’s remaining Heavenly Dao Reincarnation power and spread the Heavenly Net and Earthly Web across the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• The nine Space-Time Heavenly Dao powerhouses left their palaces and watched from beyond the world barrier as Li Qing’s search swept through the world.
• The Radiant Emperor and the Underworld Devil Lord sensed danger as Li Qing’s divided thoughts probed every particle, seeking changes that would reveal their imprints.

Li Qing destroyed Radiant Emperor’s and Underworld Devil Lord’s spiritual imprints and began searching the Cosmic Storm Zone for their avatars while preparing a Gravity Sphere network to monitor the battlefield. Meanwhile, the war continued in Li Qing’s favor as the Four Directions Heaven-Sealing Formation neared completion, with the opposing rulers still intent on seizing the suspected treasure.

• Li Qing used Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to destroy the two rulers’ spiritual imprints and seal the Heavenly Secrets Karma Fate River around the group.
• Li Qing told the gathered experts that Radiant Emperor’s and Underworld Devil Lord’s avatars were in the Cosmic Storm Zone and that he would locate them before the battle began.
• Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord concluded that waiting favored them, since Li Qing could not delay Tribulation Crossing indefinitely.
• Li Qing sent an avatar through the Cosmic Storm Zone to place Gravity Spheres that would record disturbances for the Jade Tablet to reconstruct.
• Li Qing’s armies continued defeating the other four world clusters across more than four thousand worlds, while Glazed Buddha Lord and Supreme Ghost God King remained convinced that the Nine Provinces Four Regions held a supreme treasure.
• The Four Directions Heaven-Sealing Formation reached more than eighty percent completion, with fewer than ten years remaining, as the opposing rulers watched to prevent the Nine Provinces Four Regions from fleeing.

Glazed Buddha Lord and Supreme Ghost God King planned to delay their formation until the other Five World Clusters surrounded the Nine Provinces Four Regions. Meanwhile, Li Qing’s allies prepared their own plan, but Purple God identified a flaw: the rulers could attack them after they built a super civilization; Li Qing began explaining how the Northern World Cluster’s gaps might offer a solution.

• Glazed Buddha Lord said the Four Directions Heaven-Sealing Formation would be complete in eight years, and Supreme Ghost God King proposed delaying it until just before the other Five World Clusters arrived in about thirty years.
• The Lord of Human Dao and the Civilization Ruler continued manipulating their allies, while Li Qing’s Present Body told Haoran Sage and the others that he had located the Radiant Emperor, the Dark Emperor, and the approaching clusters.
• Li Qing’s Present Body said they would eliminate the Radiant Emperor and the Underworld Devil Lord the day before their plan began.
• Purple God warned that the rulers could use the creation of a super civilization as a pretext to attack and seize control of the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• Li Qing’s Present Body revealed that the rulers’ logic left gaps throughout the Northern World Cluster and began presenting them as a possible solution.

Li Qing used his knowledge of a passage out of the Northern World Cluster to warn the other experts, but Purple God and the others dismissed his threat. Meanwhile, the Nine Heavens World Cluster left the Southern World Cluster, and rumors that the Rulers might destroy new super civilizations slowed the wars across the Five World Clusters; the Radiant Emperor suspected Li Qing had spread them.

• Li Qing told the experts he alone knew of a passage out of the Northern World Cluster and would reveal it only after surviving immortal tribulation.
• Purple God and Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha decided to ignore Li Qing's warning and continue their plan to strike after he appeared.
• In the Southern World Cluster, Haoran Sage's incarnation proposed leaving to build a super civilization in the void, and the Nine Heavens World Cluster began migrating away.
• Other world clusters learned that building a super civilization might draw the Rulers' intervention, and the resulting rumors caused wars across the Five World Clusters to ease.
• The Radiant Emperor and the other Rulers learned that the rumors could delay their plans, and the Radiant Emperor suspected Li Qing had spread the information.

The World Clusters scattered as rulers maneuvered against one another, while a terrifying lifeform developed in the Dark World and the universe drew civilizations into conflict. In high-dimensional spacetime, the Nine Great Rulers continued investigating The Indescribable, with one ruler concluding that it was fundamentally unlike logic.

• The Radiant Emperor and the Underworld Devil Lord considered why Li Qing had revealed information, unaware that Haoran Sage and the others had made the decision they attributed to him.
• Xuanyuan Changlong led three World Clusters away from the Western World Cluster and positioned his other two to ambush pursuers, while the Spirit Mountain Buddha Patriarch and the Dimension God King attacked another World Cluster.
• Yama Son of Heaven and Shou left the Eastern World Cluster, while the Bright Heavenly Emperor and the Fallen Devil Lord tracked separate World Clusters.
• Yuan Zhihui left the Southern World Cluster and welcomed a pursuing World Cluster, planning to consume it with Heavenly Dao Reincarnation once he was far enough away.
• Negative emotions gathered in the Dark World, where a mass of flesh spawned anomalies around a sleeping red humanoid lifeform as civilizations across the universe collided.
• The Radiant Emperor asked the Nine Great Rulers about their investigation of The Indescribable, and one ruler said it was a system utterly different from logic.

The Nine Great Rulers shared their findings on how The Indescribable corrupted life and reality, and concluded that preventing its return would require erasing high-dimensional spacetime after Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and the Three Realms System were complete. They agreed to wait for a third assault while continuing their preparations, as the Nine Provinces Four Regions drew in worlds nearly eighty years into its war with the Four Great Worlds.

• The Thorn Sect Leader explained that The Indescribable twisted logic and ultimately lay behind the origins of anomalies and Rulers, though conceptual logic could escape its influence.
• The Flesh Ancestor described how corruption spread from living witnesses through remains and physical reality, and how only erasing everything in an affected region stopped it.
• The Nine Great Rulers concluded that The Indescribable must not be allowed to spread and that all high-dimensional spacetime and other witnesses would have to be eliminated after their plans succeeded.
• The Radiant Emperor reported that civilizations from the Five World Clusters had moved away rather than build a super-civilization there, and the Thorn Sect Leader said they should be left alone until a third assault.
• The Nine Great Rulers continued researching and suppressing Indescribable disasters while their avatars searched for targets and they lured in a second wave of challengers.
• The Nine Provinces Four Regions dragged in dozens of worlds and devoured their logic and cultivators with Heavenly Dao Reincarnation power, nearly eighty years into its war with the Four Great Worlds.

Li Qing's Present Body led the Nine Provinces Four Regions in a planned attack against the four great world groups, then withdrew toward the Blue Heaven Dao World. The enemy's Four Directions Heaven-Sealing Formation pursued them as Li Qing prepared to accelerate the world cluster.

• Li Qing's Present Body told the Nine Provinces Four Regions' leaders to attack the four great world groups and then retreat toward the Blue Heaven Dao World.
• The Nine Provinces Four Regions unleashed a massive fist that struck at more than three thousand worlds, prompting the four great world groups to activate the Four Directions Heaven-Sealing Formation.
• The two formations collided, and their forces nearly canceled each other out.
• Li Qing's Present Body directed the Nine Provinces Four Regions to form a tornado and propel their world cluster toward the Blue Heaven Dao World.
• The four great world groups fused into a super formation and pursued the Nine Provinces Four Regions through the Cosmic Storm Zone.
• Li Qing's Present Body ordered the immortals and gods to activate the Heavenly Net and Earthly Web as he adjusted the cluster for acceleration.

The four world clusters pursued the Nine Provinces Four Regions, planning to use the Blue Heaven Dao World to delay and weaken it before surrounding it. Their attacks began to slow the fleeing world cluster, narrowing its lead and increasing the pursuers’ chances of catching it.

• Lord of Human Dao predicted that the Nine Provinces Four Regions would reach the Blue Heaven Dao World and become entangled while trying to devour it, giving the pursuing worlds time to surround it.
• The Civilization Ruler, Glazed Buddha Lord, Supreme Ghost God King, and Lord of Human Dao agreed to keep attacking and delay the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• The four leaders gathered cosmic-storm power into a logic pattern and fired a massive beam at the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• Li Qing’s Present Body projection used the world formation and Heavenly Dao Reincarnation’s power to counter the beam with a concentrated mass of energy, and the collision caused a huge void detonation without damaging the world cluster.
• Lord of Human Dao observed that blocking the attack had slowed the Nine Provinces Four Regions and argued that repeated attacks would shrink its lead over the pursuers.

As the four great world clusters attacked the Nine Provinces Four Regions, the Blue Heaven Dao Ancestor chose to slow the battle with repeated assaults rather than face Li Qing directly. Li Qing remained confident in his plan while the Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord watched, and the Lord of Myriad Buddhas and Teachings and the Flesh Ancestor stayed trapped in the Hundred Great Worlds.

• The Blue Heaven Dao Ancestor assessed the battlefield, slowed the Blue Heaven Dao World, and sent storms and Radiance attacks toward the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• Li Qing learned of the Blue Heaven Dao Ancestor’s actions through his agent and decided to let the attacks encourage the enemy’s false confidence before breaking their formations.
• The Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord pursued the conflict, predicted the other world clusters would make contact in three years, and discussed Li Qing’s chances of advancing.
• Li Qing tracked the Radiant Emperor and Underworld Devil Lord through the Gravity Sphere’s gravitational waves without their knowledge.
• In the Hundred Great Worlds, the Lord of Myriad Buddhas and Teachings and the Flesh Ancestor sensed the intensifying battle and waited for an opportunity to act.

Li Qing prepared to use the Four Directions Heaven-Sealing Formation while Thorn Sect Leader waited for a chance to strike. In the Western World Cluster, Xuanyuan Changlong foresaw a devastating attack and changed his plans as his other two true bodies hurried to join him.

• Li Qing and his Future Body converted cultivators from two world clusters, leaving him able to seize control of the Four Directions Heaven-Sealing Formation and suppress its immortals.
• Thorn Sect Leader judged the formation too powerful to approach and decided to wait for a war, unaware that Li Qing's Future Body had discovered him.
• Xuanyuan Changlong's three world clusters emerged from the Western World Cluster as the Myriad Dragon World Cluster and Heartless World Cluster pursued them.
• Xuanyuan Changlong foresaw Spirit Mountain Buddha Patriarch and Dimension God King destroying the three world clusters, so he decided to stall for time while his other true bodies rushed toward him.
• Li Qing learned of Xuanyuan Changlong's movements and began calculating his intentions.

The Dimension God King and Spirit Mountain Buddha Patriarch warned the Myriad Dragon Heavenly Lord and Heartless Divine Lord about Xuanyuan Changlong’s plan, prompting the two rulers to form a powerful alliance. Xuanyuan Changlong realized his attempt to exploit a timing advantage had failed and suspected Li Qing had anticipated his moves.

• Li Qing warned the Dimension God King and Spirit Mountain Buddha Patriarch that Xuanyuan Changlong’s three converging world clusters could overwhelm the Myriad Dragon World Cluster and the Heartless World Cluster.
• The Dimension God King contacted the Myriad Dragon Heavenly Lord and Heartless Divine Lord and proposed that their four world clusters unite against Xuanyuan Changlong.
• The Heartless Divine Lord persuaded the Myriad Dragon Heavenly Lord to merge their Main Worlds and form a yin-yang taiji formation to protect themselves and strengthen their forces.
• The Myriad Dragon World Cluster and Heartless World Cluster completed their formation as Xuanyuan Changlong’s other true bodies and the forces of Spirit Mountain Buddha Patriarch and the Dimension God King approached.
• Xuanyuan Changlong sensed the approaching three-way collision, realized his timing strategy had failed, and suspected Li Qing had anticipated his plans.

Xuanyuan Changlong began his Immortal Realm Tribulation as World Clusters fought to seize one another across the Southern and Eastern regions. By the end, four of the Five World Clusters had fallen apart, while the Northern World Cluster remained.

• Xuanyuan Changlong drew down the Immortal Realm Tribulation with his true bodies in three World Clusters as six clusters converged.
• Purple Jade God attacked the Nether River World Cluster, but the Nine Heavens World Cluster intervened and dragged away less than half of it.
• Desolate Age and Purple Jade God encircled the Nether River World Cluster’s remaining worlds as Yuan Zhihui fled toward another cluster.
• Yuan Zhihui recognized the Nine Heavens World Cluster’s Heavenly Dao Reincarnation power and suspected its experts came from the Nine Provinces Four Regions.
• The Yama Son of Heaven watched the Bright Heavenly Emperor and Fallen Devil Lord seize two World Clusters before heading deeper into the void.
• High-Dimensional Spacetime occupied the Central World Cluster, and all but the Northern World Cluster had fallen apart.