Chapter Summaries

The Eight Great Rulers reorganized their forces as the Underworld Devil Lord confronted Li Qing’s Present Body during the Cosmic Origin baptism. Li Qing prepared to feign weakness and delay exposing his true body, while the first attack began.

• The Underworld Devil Lord told the Thorn Sect Leader and Flesh Ancestor to suppress The Indescribable by drawing away power from its eruption points, while the other six Rulers attacked the Hundred Great Worlds.
• More than a thousand Ruler incarnations entered the worlds and attacked the Spacetime Heavenly Dao experts undergoing baptism, using precisely apportioned power to overcome the worlds’ suppression.
• The Underworld Devil Lord noticed that the Heavenly Secrets Daoist’s Cosmic Origin baptism was unusually intense and suspected Li Qing, but withheld his judgment because he lacked proof.
• As the third breath began, the Underworld Devil Lord sent a reincarnation vortex against Li Qing’s Present Body, and Li Qing calculated that eighteen breaths remained before his baptism ended.
• Li Qing used Way of Changes and the Jade Tablet to assess the attack, then had his Divine Body form a weakened Heavenly Secrets Karma Fate River to mislead the Underworld Devil Lord and buy time.

Li Qing's Present Body evaded the Underworld Devil Lord through deeper spacetime, while the rulers attacked the other Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses. The Haoran Sage revealed that Li Qing was the Heavenly Secrets Daoist, and the Underworld Devil Lord prepared to intensify the assault and encircle him.

• Li Qing's Present Body retreated into deeper spacetime to escape the Underworld Devil Lord, but the Devil Lord pursued him and increased his power.
• Wishful Celestial Venerable attacked the Haoran Sage, who endured the initial strike with his Heaven-Shaking Avatar before revealing that Li Qing was the Heavenly Secrets Daoist.
• The Haoran Sage retreated through a spatial rift as Wishful Celestial Venerable prepared a stronger attack.
• Spiritual Rhinoceros used his two avatars and a Concept Logic weapon to hold off the Lord of Myriad Buddhas and Teachings.
• The Underworld Devil Lord told the other rulers to finish their opponents, gather their incarnations, and encircle Li Qing by the fifth breath.
• Li Qing's Present Body continued resisting the Cosmic Origin's baptism in deeper High-Dimensional Spacetime.

Li Qing escaped through a spatial rift, but the Underworld Devil Lord's avatar pursued him and attacked as the fourth breath began. While his Present Body endured the Cosmic Origin, Li Qing assessed the combatants' power and calculated how much of the coming assault he could survive, leaving the fifth breath as the looming danger.

• Li Qing passed through a spatial rift to the north of the Nine Provinces Four Regions, but the Underworld Devil Lord's avatar followed him through.
• The Underworld Devil Lord's avatar reached newly ascended Concept Logic strength and attacked Li Qing as the fourth breath began.
• Li Qing realized the Haoran Sage had betrayed him and intended to ambush him in the final breath, while the fifth breath would bring greater danger.
• Li Qing used the Heavenly Secrets Karma Fate River to block the avatar's Dark Reincarnation Logic while the Way of Changes and Jade Tablet calculated the combatants' power.
• Li Qing determined that the Rulers could bring twenty-eight billion, two hundred million li of world volume to bear, while he could withstand only part of that force using his own power, the Probability Book Page, and the concealed Final Prison.

Li Qing endured the dark vortices with his nearly perfected Heavenly Secrets Karma Fate River while calculating how to stall the attackers until the sixteenth breath. Across the Nine Provinces Four Regions, the other defenders suffered heavy losses as Haoran Sage escaped by sacrificing Heaven-Shaking Great Sage’s avatar and weapon, while Spiritual Rhinoceros was left with only two avatars.

• Li Qing devised a plan to conceal his strength and hold out until the sixteenth breath, relying on the Final Prison to endure the attackers’ power.
• Li Qing’s Heavenly Secrets Karma Fate River resisted the dark vortices, startling Underworld Devil Lord and making him question whether Haoran Sage had deceived him about Li Qing.
• Wishful Celestial Venerable pursued Haoran Sage through spacetime with the Three Treasures Ruyi, forcing Heaven-Shaking Great Sage to detonate his avatar and weapon to save him.
• Haoran Sage escaped to reality but had little power left to resist Wishful Celestial Venerable and the Cosmic Origin’s impact.
• Spiritual Rhinoceros faced the crisis with only two avatars remaining after losing one in the previous assault on High-Dimensional Spacetime.

The ten Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses divided the power of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and the world formation to face the Eight Great Rulers after their incarnations suffered heavy losses. As the fifth breath began, the rulers redirected their attacks toward Li Qing’s Present Body, intent on testing and killing him.

• Spiritual Rhinoceros detonated an incarnation and its weapon to escape the Lord of Myriad Buddhas and Teachings, while nine other powerhouses also sacrificed incarnations and weapons.
• Haoran Sage and the others agreed to fight separately by dividing the power of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and the world formation among themselves.
• Li Qing gained control of a world volume of 2.36 billion li, while each of the other nine powerhouses controlled 849 million li.
• Underworld Devil Lord ordered the Eight Great Rulers to keep their avatars stronger than their targets and gather surplus power to attack the suspected Li Qing.
• At the start of the fifth breath, several rulers split off weaker avatars and sent their power toward Li Qing’s Present Body as he entered normal spacetime and drew on the formation.

Li Qing borrowed power from his Past Body to withstand attacks from six Great Rulers and escape into deep spacetime. The Spirit King and Demon Spirit abandoned their main bodies and shifted their essence to their second bodies, leaving the Nine Provinces Four Regions’ battle in flux.

• Li Qing calculated that he needed more power to meet the six Great Rulers’ attacks and borrowed strength from his Past Body.
• Li Qing used Heavenly Dao Reincarnation to split and evade the six attacks, then fled through deep spacetime as their avatars pursued him.
• The Spirit King spent his origin and Logic Relics to resist the Flesh Ancestor’s avatar, then transferred his essence to his second body.
• The Demon Spirit also abandoned his main body and transferred his essence to his second body.
• In the Nine Heavens World, the Spirit King absorbed his first body’s power, strengthened his second body, and continued using guerrilla tactics against the Flesh Ancestor’s avatar.
• With the Spirit King and Demon Spirit gone, the Flesh Ancestor’s avatar and the Thorn Sect Leader lost their opponents.

The Eight Great Rulers realized their scattered forces could not overcome the Spacetime Heavenly Dao experts’ guerrilla tactics, so they planned to concentrate their power and defeat their opponents in stages. As the sixth breath began, Li Qing faced another assault from the six rulers while they prepared to kill groups of experts and redistribute their strength.

• The Spacetime Heavenly Dao experts used Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and their world formations to protect their true bodies and evade the rulers’ attacks.
• At the end of the fifth breath, Li Qing’s Present Body descended into the Nine Provinces Four Regions, and the six great rulers attacked him again as the sixth breath began.
• The Underworld Devil Lord warned the other rulers that their forces were being restrained and suspected that the Heavenly Secrets Daoist was Li Qing.
• The Wishful Celestial Venerable proposed concentrating their power to kill some Spacetime Heavenly Dao experts, then redistributing the freed power among the remaining avatars.
• The rulers calculated that this plan could let them kill more than a hundred experts on the seventh breath and more than five hundred on the eighth.

The Eight Great Rulers discovered how to exploit the twenty-breath baptism to kill the Super Civilization Alliance’s Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses through rapidly redistributed avatar power. Li Qing recognized the flaw just in time and trapped six of their avatars in the Longevity Palace’s death world, leaving them on the verge of destruction.

• The Eight Great Rulers agreed to concentrate and redistribute their power, expecting to kill every Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouse by the third breath of their plan.
• The Jade Tablet warned Li Qing that the rulers had found a fatal flaw in his arrangements, and he frantically deduced a countermeasure as the sixth breath ended.
• At the start of the seventh breath, the rulers sent surplus power to a hundred avatars to attack selected battlefields.
• Li Qing combined the power of his Present, Past, and Future Bodies with the Longevity Palace, bringing his strength to eight billion li of world-scale power.
• Li Qing trapped six Great Rulers’ avatars in the Longevity Palace’s death world and redirected their attacks, causing their Concept Logic to collapse as Death Logic began consuming them.

Li Qing, disguised as Heavenly Secrets Daoist, warned the experts that the Eight Great Rulers had found a way to overwhelm their forces in successive waves. He revealed that he had identified a solution, leaving the others awaiting his plan.

• Wishful Celestial Venerable recognized Li Qing’s strategy as an attempt to devour the rulers’ power and force them to respond.
• The Eight Great Rulers suspected Li Qing’s attack was a smokescreen and searched for his true objective.
• Heavenly Secrets Daoist told the gathered experts that the Eight Great Rulers planned to use their spare power to empower avatars and crush their opponents in increasingly large waves.
• The experts realized their original plan had failed and feared they would all be wiped out.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor asked whether Heavenly Secrets Daoist had a way to break the deadlock, and Li Qing said he did.

Heavenly Secrets Daoist Li Qing proposed linking nearly a hundred worlds through reincarnation resonance to redistribute power against the Eight Great Rulers. As the worlds began connecting, Li Qing attacked the Sovereigns and rallied the dead of the Blackwater Ocean to join the fight, while the King of Chaos struggled to contain their agitation.

• Heavenly Secrets Daoist Li Qing revealed his immense power and proposed a reincarnation resonance that would weaken the Eight Great Rulers and aid the four besieged Spacetime Heavenly Dao experts.
• Primordial Void Divine Lord ordered the experts to spread the information and complete the resonance before the seventh breath ended.
• Nearly a hundred super-civilization worlds activated reincarnation together, and Underworld Devil Lord sensed their worlds had become connected.
• Li Qing combined six sources of power, destroyed his six Sovereign avatars, and tore power from the Sovereigns before sending his Divine Body into reincarnation.
• Li Qing connected his Past Body and Future Body to the Blackwater Ocean and called on the dead to avenge themselves against the Sovereigns.
• The dead in the Blackwater Ocean stirred, and the King of Chaos sensed their agitation and intensified his control over the vortex.

Li Qing used the connections between reincarnations to lend power to the weaker Spacetime Heavenly Dao fighters, disrupting the Eight Great Rulers’ attack. The rulers recognized his intervention and prepared to change their strategy by exploiting the time difference and overwhelming the borrowed power.

• Li Qing absorbed the scattered power of the six ruler avatars with the Heart-Destroying Sword while his reincarnation power spread toward battlefields across High-Dimensional Spacetime.
• Heavenly Emperor Xuan You received a surge of reincarnation power and blocked the Calamity Earth Emperor’s attack.
• The sixty targeted Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses received support through reincarnation and stopped the rulers’ attacks.
• Underworld Devil Lord realized Li Qing had lent power through reincarnation and concluded that the rulers’ original plan had failed.
• Underworld Devil Lord proposed exploiting the time difference and increasing the rulers’ power beyond what Li Qing had lent.

Li Qing uncovered the Eight Great Rulers’ plan to concentrate their power against five hundred Spacetime Heavenly Dao experts and persuaded the gathered powers to unite their Heavenly Dao Reincarnation permissions under his command. As the ninth breath began, he directed the combined power toward the endangered experts, while the Rulers remained unaware of the change.

• The Eight Great Rulers shifted the power of five hundred avatars to the other five hundred, intending to overwhelm their targets before Li Qing could protect them.
• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to learn of the plan and revealed that the power of every Heavenly Dao Reincarnation could be transmitted through reincarnation.
• Heavenly Secrets Daoist told the gathered experts that their survival required unifying all Heavenly Dao Reincarnation permissions and placing them under one commander.
• The Primordial Void Divine Lord, Xuanyuan Changlong, and the other experts unanimously approved the plan, and the Heavenly Emperors and Ghost Emperors transferred their permissions.
• Li Qing gained control of the combined power and sent it toward the five hundred endangered experts as the ninth breath began.
• The Rulers’ weakened avatars withdrew, and the Spacetime Heavenly Dao experts used their respite to pursue the universe’s origin baptism.

Li Qing used the connected power of the allied civilizations to withstand the Eight Great Rulers’ attacks, prompting Underworld Devil Lord to plan a concentrated assault on Li Qing and tempt the other Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses into betraying him. As the new attack began, one of those powerhouses received information about Li Qing and realized why his mysterious ally had sought him out.

• Li Qing distributed power from the allied worlds across five hundred battlefields, allowing their defenders to hold off the strengthened ruler avatars.
• Wishful Celestial Venerable recognized that Li Qing was coordinating the defenders’ power through reincarnation and concluded that the Rulers had lost the round.
• Underworld Devil Lord ordered the avatars’ power reduced and surplus power gathered for a concentrated attack on Li Qing’s Present Body, while the Rulers spread information about his mysterious treasure to provoke greed.
• The Rulers sent their avatars and gathered power toward the Nine Provinces Four Regions, matching the remaining avatars against the Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses.
• In Desolate Age’s super-civilization world, Flesh Ancestor’s power fell to match his opponent’s, and the opponent received information that revealed why Li Qing had approached him.

The Eight Great Rulers' scheme was exposed, but Li Qing forced the Spacetime Heavenly Dao experts to keep helping him until the final two breaths if they wanted to survive. As the six Rulers' new avatars arrived in the tenth breath, Li Qing prepared to face them while his Civilization Logic advanced toward Concept Logic.

• The Desolate Age and other experts realized the Eight Great Rulers meant to turn them against Li Qing, but feared they would die if they abandoned him too soon.
• The Primordial Void Divine Lord demanded an explanation, and Li Qing revealed that the experts had to help him withstand the six Rulers or be wiped out within three breaths.
• Li Qing's Present Body explained that he had exposed the scheme to force the experts to choose survival over greed, and urged them to hold on until the final two breaths.
• Representatives across more than a hundred Super Civilization Worlds told their Spacetime Heavenly Dao experts what had happened, and nearly all agreed not to betray Li Qing before the final two breaths.
• Li Qing's true Present Body continued advancing toward Concept Logic as the six Rulers' new avatars arrived at the start of the tenth breath and declared his time had come.

Li Qing used the Nine Provinces Four Regions’ Heavenly Dao Reincarnation power to repel the six ruler avatars and restore the world barrier. The Eight Great Rulers realized they could no longer win by force and planned to retrieve power from the edge of the universe, leaving the outcome dependent on whether they could act before Li Qing stalled them.

• The six rulers fused their Concept Logics into a palm, but Li Qing drew power from over a thousand Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses and met it with a gigantic fist.
• Li Qing’s fist forced the six ruler avatars out of the Nine Provinces Four Regions, and the world barrier repaired itself as the tenth breath ended.
• The Eight Great Rulers foresaw that more than a thousand Concept Logic powerhouses could emerge and threaten their control of the universe.
• The Lord of Myriad Buddhas and Teachings proposed recalling the power used to exile the third-party cosmic existence at the universe’s edge.
• The Eight Great Rulers planned to open a passage and retrieve that power, then decide whether to target the Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses or Li Qing based on how much time remained.

Heaven and the Enemy of Heaven watched the battle over High-Dimensional Spacetime and prepared to use their Initial Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Mark against Li Qing at the decisive moment. At the Cosmic Frontier, the Eight Great Rulers began opening a passage through the universe’s barrier while Li Qing’s Flesh-and-Blood clone relayed their location to the Bright Heavenly Emperor.

• Heaven and the Enemy of Heaven assessed the shifting battlefields and agreed to wait for Li Qing’s cosmic origin baptism to reach its final breath before acting.
• The Eight Great Rulers arrived at the Cosmic Frontier and ordered Li Qing’s Blood Demon projection to open a passage outside the universe.
• Li Qing’s Blood Demon projection touched the universe’s barrier as the Eight Great Rulers used Concept Logic to slowly construct a passage through it.
• Li Qing’s Flesh-and-Blood projection located the Eight Great Rulers and sent their coordinates to High-Dimensional Spacetime.
• In an empty city, Li Qing gave the coordinates to the Bright Heavenly Emperor, who connected with the depths underground.

Ashes prepared to enter the universe beyond the cosmic barrier while Emperor fought Dead Silence in the dream world and searched for Li Qing. Dead Silence offered to join forces with Emperor, whose attention had turned toward the Nine Provinces Four Regions.

• Bright Heavenly Emperor told Ashes that the Eight Great Rulers were opening a passage and instructed him to pull them through with his true body during the brief opening.
• Ashes connected with his true body and planned to create avatars and consume the Infinite Universe Fragments for himself.
• Emperor and Dead Silence fought across the dream world, with Dead Silence exploiting flaws in Emperor's control of six kinds of Final Logic.
• Emperor's avatar detected the Eight Great Rulers' gathered power and suspected that Li Qing was in the Super Civilization world they had targeted.
• Emperor's avatar headed toward the Nine Provinces Four Regions to investigate, while Dead Silence offered Emperor an alliance.

Dead Silence tried to recruit the Emperor, but the Emperor rejected him and continued fighting. Li Qing saw through the Eight Great Rulers' plan and mapped out how to survive their coming attacks, leaving his next moves dependent on whether he could safely unleash power from the Final Prison.

• Dead Silence offered the Emperor a path to rival Final Logic and escape the Infinite Universe Fragment, but the Emperor refused, suspecting the method would make him Dead Silence's prey.
• The Emperor unleashed more power against Dead Silence as the two giants fought on the level of dreams.
• Li Qing's Present Body continued fighting the Eight Great Rulers and used the Jade Tablet to uncover their plan to expose the Jade Tablet and lure the Root of the Indescribable into acting.
• Li Qing calculated that the sixteenth and seventeenth breaths would bring a massive assault from the Eight Great Rulers, Dead Silence, and the Emperor, forcing him to release the Final Prison and use the Reincarnation Passage.
• Li Qing planned for his Past Body and Future Body to challenge the King of Chaos, seize Blackwater Permission Authority, and gather enough power to withstand the eighteenth-breath attack.
• Li Qing concluded that he might need to open the Final Prison's seals and use the Unrecordable Gods and Devils' power, while postponing judgment about the nineteenth breath until after the coming battle.

Li Qing sent the Emperor the coordinates of the universe’s frontier and explained his plan to draw the Root of the Indescribable into opening a passage. The six Lords analyzed the Eight Great Rulers’ likely motives and considered how they might escape the dangers within the Infinite Universe Fragments.

• Li Qing’s Present Body remained trapped in a stalemate with the Eight Great Rulers behind his Heavenly Dao Reincarnation defense.
• Li Qing’s Divine Body replica gave the Emperor the frontier coordinates and said he would spread information about his treasure to lure the Root of the Indescribable into making a move.
• The Emperor passed Li Qing’s information to Final Logic.
• Lord of Ten Thousand Fates told the other Lords that the Root of the Indescribable was preparing to open a passage at the universe’s boundary.
• Lord of the Longevity Kingdom reasoned that the Eight Great Rulers could cooperate with an outsider to open a passage, project their imprints beyond the universe, and preserve a path of escape.
• Lord of Ten Thousand Fates agreed with the deduction but noted that the Eight Great Rulers would suspect either the Lords or the Root of the Indescribable was cooperating with them.

The Netherworld Lord and the Eight Great Rulers prepared to force Li Qing to open the cosmic passage, threatening to abandon their plan and kill the other Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses if he delayed. The Underworld Devil Lord delivered the ultimatum to Li Qing's Present Body, leaving the final choice with him.

• The six Kingdom Lords agreed to lure the Root of the Indescribable toward the cosmic passage and seal the Infinite Universe Fragments, or attack them outright if Li Qing reneged.
• The six Kingdom Lords saw the Indescribable Ashes attacking a fluctuating point on the cosmic barrier and concluded that Concept Logic was destabilizing it.
• The Eight Great Rulers debated cooperating with Li Qing to eliminate other Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses, while threatening to kill him if he refused or delayed opening the passage.
• The Calamity Earth Emperor and the other rulers agreed to make the trade and pursue their secondary objective.
• The Underworld Devil Lord told Li Qing that the rulers would withdraw their power after the sixteenth breath and kill the other Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses unless the cosmic passage was open.