Chapter Summaries

Li Qing agreed to let the Eight Great Rulers withdraw their power on the seventeenth breath, then devised a plan to tempt them with a star chart of the Infinite Universe and delay their attack. The rulers suspected his gift was a ploy and reasoned that he wanted to buy time for his breakthrough and weaken their assault.

• Li Qing told the Eight Great Rulers they could withdraw their power on the seventeenth breath, kill the other Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses on the eighteenth and nineteenth, and face him on the twentieth.
• Li Qing planned to reveal a star chart of the Infinite Universe on the sixteenth breath, hoping the rulers would risk sending out spiritual imprints for a chance to escape the fragments and be reborn.
• Li Qing's Flesh Tree avatar gathered cosmic dust into eight stones and told the rulers he was preparing a gift that could change their destinies.
• The Underworld Devil Lord and the Lord of Myriad Buddhas and Teachings questioned Li Qing's intentions, while Flesh Ancestor concluded that his offer was meant to buy time and tie up their strength.

Dead Silence offered the Emperor the location of a Reason Embryo in exchange for being allowed to leave. The Emperor swore to stop obstructing him at a precise moment during the Cosmic Origin baptism, and Dead Silence revealed a star chart marking the treasure’s location.

• Dead Silence worried that his sealed power was moving beyond his reach while he remained trapped fighting the Emperor in the plane of dreams.
• Dead Silence tempted the Emperor with a Reason Embryo that could refine Concept Logic and open a path toward Final Logic.
• The Emperor demanded proof, and Dead Silence offered a star chart in exchange for an oath that the Emperor would let him leave.
• The Emperor swore to cease obstructing Dead Silence at the sixteenth breath of the High-Dimensional Spacetime experts’ Cosmic Origin baptism.
• Dead Silence revealed a map marking a blue vortex where the Reason Embryo lay hidden inside a self-contained region.

The Emperor and Dead Silence confirmed that the Reason Embryo lay within the Blue Light Demon Domain and continued their fight to conceal their truce from Li Qing. Meanwhile, Li Qing prepared for the sixteenth breath as the Root of the Indescribable suspected a plot and sent power toward Ashes.

• Dead Silence showed the Emperor an image of the Reason Embryo, and the Emperor confirmed its aura matched the Blue Light Demon Domain.
• The Emperor and Dead Silence agreed to a temporary truce but kept fighting so Li Qing would not notice.
• Li Qing's Present Body tracked the battlefield and calculated an escape route, marking the sixteenth breath as crucial.
• The Root of the Indescribable suspected Ashes was working with forces inside the Infinite Universe Fragments and decided to enter through the passage they were opening.
• The Root of the Indescribable sent power from the Mist Ocean toward Ashes, forming a foglike figure several billion li away.

Li Qing used the Root of the Indescribable’s cautious movements to advance a scheme that would draw the Root and the six Final Logics into conflict. The six Final Logics agreed to launch attacks and prepare temporary avatars, while the Root remained wary of a possible trap.

• The Root of the Indescribable drew power from the Sea of the Indescribable to form an avatar at the scale of ten trillion worlds and watched Ashes for the six Final Logics’ move.
• Li Qing learned through the Jade Tablet that the Root had condensed an avatar and was waiting to ambush the six Final Logics’ power.
• Li Qing told the Emperor to inform the six Final Logics to act and draw the Root’s attention.
• The Lord of Ten Thousand Fates reasoned that Li Qing had given the Root a false account of their plans and warned that the Final Prison could block entry to the Infinite Universe Fragments.
• The Lord of the Longevity Kingdom ordered an attack and the creation of six temporary avatars, each with power capped at one trillion li-worlds.

The six Final Logics battled the Root of the Indescribable as the fifteenth breath began, while Emperor and Dead Silence fought and the Eight Great Rulers weighed the dangers facing them. The Rulers planned to eliminate the Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses before targeting Li Qing, as Ashes continued fighting the Flesh Ancestor and the Thorn Sect Leader.

• The six Final Logics launched a fierce assault on the Root of the Indescribable as the fifteenth breath began, while Li Qing's Present Body remained locked in a stalemate with six Great Rulers.
• Emperor and Dead Silence emerged from the dream layer and fought, and Emperor told Li Qing's projection that he would turn all his power against him during the sixteenth breath.
• Heaven and the Enemy of Heaven identified Dead Silence's power as likely originating from a being in the primal chaos and warned that the time for trump cards was approaching.
• The Eight Great Rulers assessed the threats from Dead Silence, the Indescribable, and the Super Civilization Alliance, then planned to eliminate the Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses at the seventeenth breath and attack Li Qing at the twentieth.
• Ashes fought the Flesh Ancestor and the Thorn Sect Leader at the borderland between the Flesh Desert and the Thorn Forest.

Dead Silence realized that Li Qing and the six Final Logics had arranged to open a passage into the Infinite Universe Fragments and lure the Root of the Indescribable inside. After confirming the plan with the Emperor, he also deduced that Ashes’ battle was helping Li Qing manage the forces opposing the passage’s opening.

• Ashes fought the Thorn Sect Leader and the Flesh Ancestor as their powers clashed near the Thorn Forest.
• Dead Silence surveyed the battles across High-Dimensional Spacetime and sensed that his sealed power was being taken to the edge of the universe.
• Dead Silence deduced that the Eight Great Rulers planned to open a passage into the Infinite Universe Fragments and exile his power through it.
• Dead Silence asked the Emperor whether he and Li Qing had agreed to open the cosmic passage, and the Emperor confirmed it.
• Dead Silence concluded that the six Final Logics planned to draw the Root of the Indescribable into the Infinite Universe Fragments, while Ashes’ battle helped Li Qing share the burden of the opposing forces.

Dead Silence realized Li Qing had used him and the factions as bait, then warned the Emperor to tell the six Final Logics the truth. As Li Qing prepared to delay the opening passage, the future of the Infinite Universe turned chaotic, and the Final Logics and Root of the Indescribable chose to continue their plans while considering what Li Qing's treasure might reveal.

• Dead Silence deduced that Li Qing had manipulated both factions and sent the Emperor his warning to inform the six Final Logics.
• At the edge of the universe, Li Qing's Flesh Tree avatar prepared to throw the stellar-map stones to the Eight Great Rulers and stall until the seventeenth breath as Ashes' power approached.
• Calamities and chaotic karmic secrets spread through the Infinite Universe Fragments, blurring the future across the Infinite Universe.
• The Lord of Ten Thousand Fates discussed the upheaval with the other Final Logics, and they rejected the Lord of the Longevity Kingdom's proposal to destroy the fragments, deciding to follow their original plan.
• The Root of the Indescribable recognized that Li Qing's treasure had thrown the future into chaos and wondered whether it could expose the unseen hand behind events.

The Mysterious Unknown traced the changes in the future to Li Qing and used the Hyperdimensional Dao Furnace to influence the Infinite Universe and draw toward the Infinite Universe Fragments. As Li Qing continued fighting the six rulers, the Unrecordable God and Devil began releasing power, which he bound and channeled into the Final Prison.

• The Root of the Indescribable and the six Final Logics watched as five figures emerged from the chaos of a vanished future, including an illusory Unrecordable God and Devil.
• The six Final Logics and the Root of the Indescribable attacked the five figures and suppressed the four Unrecordable Gods and Devils in their seals.
• The Mysterious Unknown noticed the future had changed and traced the cause to the anomaly in the Infinite Universe Fragments, identifying Li Qing and his secret treasure.
• The Mysterious Unknown infused the Hyperdimensional Dao Furnace with power, quietly merged it and a thread of his consciousness with the Infinite Universe, and drew its deepest logic toward the Infinite Universe Fragments.
• Li Qing continued fighting the six rulers as the Unrecordable God and Devil stirred inside the Final Prison.
• Li Qing used the Cross and information from Civilization Logic to bind the Unrecordable God and Devil, channeling its immense power into the Final Prison.

Li Qing released the Jade Tablet’s aura while the upheaval caused by Dead Silence altered the future and drew the attention of the Final Logics and the Root of the Indescribable. The Emperor delayed passing on Dead Silence’s warning until the sixteenth breath, when the passage between the Infinite Universe Fragments and the infinite universe opened.

• Li Qing learned that Dead Silence’s impending exposure had thrown the future into chaos, forcing the five Unrecordable Gods and Devils’ future imprints to emerge and drawing the attention of the Final Logics and the Root of the Indescribable.
• Li Qing decided to release the Jade Tablet’s aura, hoping the other powers’ distraction would help him construct a parallel Logic Relic Universe and evade Unknown’s gaze.
• The Emperor concluded that Dead Silence wanted him to warn the Final Logic, but chose to delay so he could protect his own plans and avoid suspicion.
• The Emperor sent Dead Silence a reply claiming he would inform the Final Logic, but the fifteenth breath ended before he acted.
• At the sixteenth breath, the Concept Logic of the Eight Great Rulers and the Indescribable Ashes opened the passage between the Infinite Universe Fragments and the infinite universe.

Li Qing opened the passage and offered the Eight Great Rulers a star map to help them escape into the Infinite Universe, prompting them to delay their return to High-Dimensional Spacetime. Meanwhile, the Jade Tablet released a mysterious aura that drew the attention and desire of powerful beings across the universe, leaving the Emperor and Dead Silence waiting for the frontier conflict to end.

• Li Qing hurled eight stones containing a vast star map to the Eight Great Rulers and explained that they could use it to project spiritual imprints into the Infinite Universe.
• The Eight Great Rulers agreed to delay their withdrawal and use the star map to seek opportunities beyond the Infinite Universe Fragments.
• The six Final Logics learned that Li Qing planned to use Dead Silence's power to break through the Root of the Indescribable's attack, and the Lord of the Longevity Kingdom proposed entering with the Root before closing the passage.
• The Jade Tablet's aura spread through the Infinite Universe, astonishing its powerhouses and leading the Enemy of Heaven and the Heavenly Eye God to suspect Li Qing was behind it.
• The Emperor and Dead Silence stopped fighting and became interested in Li Qing's secret treasure, while the Emperor waited for the frontier conflict and news from the six Final Logics.

The Jade Tablet’s aura shocked the six Final Logics and the Root of the Indescribable, prompting them to abandon their plans and attack the Infinite Universe Fragments. As the cosmic passage became a battlefield, the Root seized control of Ashes and Dead Silence prepared to escape with whatever power he could save.

• Dead Silence recognized the Jade Tablet as an exceedingly rare infinite mechanism item and waited for Li Qing to weaken before trying to take it.
• Ashes sensed the Jade Tablet’s aura and learned that his true body was approaching through the opened cosmic passage.
• The six Final Logics and the Root of the Indescribable attacked from the timeline to seize the Jade Tablet, while the Root’s avatar also moved to reach the passage.
• The Root of the Indescribable possessed Ashes and unleashed escalating power through him toward the passage.
• The Eight Great Rulers released their seal on the throne, and Dead Silence’s power collided with the Root’s as Dead Silence decided to flee with a surviving portion of his power.

Dead Silence and the Eight Concept Logics sacrificed their power to stop the Root of the Indescribable from entering the Infinite Universe Fragments, while the six Final Logics also forced their way through the collapsing passage. Li Qing’s deductions revealed that his plan had succeeded, but the Root had acted first to seize the Jade Tablet.

• Dead Silence burned most of his power to break through the Root of the Indescribable’s control and send his memories and spirit away, while the Eight Concept Logics projected their own essence and information.
• The Root of the Indescribable learned that the Bright Heavenly Emperor was Li Qing and discovered Dead Silence’s rebellion before its power overwhelmed the passage.
• Dead Silence self-destructed to help block the Root’s invasion, and the Eight Concept Logics severed their connection to the passage as the cosmic barrier healed.
• The Root of the Indescribable and the six Final Logics sent their wills into the Infinite Universe Fragments, where they merged with powers already entangled there.
• Li Qing gathered information about the collision, and Way of Changes and the Jade Tablet deduced that his plan had drawn the Root and the six Final Logics toward the universe to seize his secret treasure.

Li Qing discovered that the mysterious Unknown had noticed him and assessed the returning power of the Eight Great Rulers, which threatened to destroy his allies and then kill him. He revealed the danger to the gathered fighters and offered to help them survive the eighteenth breath if they cooperated, leaving their fate in the nineteenth breath up to them.

• The mysterious Unknown stole some of Dead Silence’s power to analyze it and began watching Li Qing, while the Root of the Indescribable and six Final Logics began reclaiming their power inside the Infinite Universe Fragments.
• Li Qing realized the Unknown had noticed him and foresaw growing chaos in the Infinite Universe Fragments.
• At the start of the seventeenth breath, the Eight Great Rulers sent six hundred billion li of world volume back through their Concept Logics, preparing to empower their avatars and attack.
• Li Qing told the gathered fighters that the Eight Great Rulers would destroy them in the eighteenth breath, target him in the nineteenth, and win by the twentieth.
• The Bright Heavenly Emperor asked Li Qing if he had a way to break the deadlock, and Li Qing offered to protect the others through the eighteenth breath if they cooperated with him.

Li Qing completed his preparations to use the Final Prison and the Reincarnation Passage to neutralize the Eight Great Rulers’ power and kill the King of Chaos. The six Final Logics chose to overturn their plan and attack the Infinite Universe Fragments, while the Root of the Indescribable moved to stop them.

• Li Qing’s Past Body and Future Body opened a Reincarnation Passage and attacked the King of Chaos with a tornado formed from the Reincarnation Vortex.
• Li Qing’s Present Body calculated a plan to guide the Eight Great Rulers’ power into the Final Prison, neutralize what it could, and send the remainder through the passage to suppress and kill the King of Chaos.
• The Lord of Ten Thousand Fates and the other Final Logics realized Emperor’s warning had exposed their scheme and decided to return everything to its starting point.
• The six Final Logics summoned a gigantic fist to strike the Infinite Universe Fragments, but the seal of the Unrecordable Gods and Devils and the Root of the Indescribable restrained much of its power.
• The Root of the Indescribable unleashed its own power to intercept the Final Logics’ attack and sought to regain control of the fragment.

The six Final Logics ordered Emperor to kill Li Qing while they battled the Root of the Indescribable, hoping to seize Li Qing’s treasure and weaken their opponent. Emperor attacked as Dead Silence sensed an unknown danger approaching the Infinite Universe Fragments.

• The Root of the Indescribable clashed with the six Final Logics, while Mysterious Unknown used the Hyperdimensional Dao Furnace to analyze Dead Silence’s power and sent invisible forces toward Li Qing.
• The Underworld Devil Lord and the other rulers agreed to have Emperor kill Li Qing, then exploit the time needed for someone else to master Li Qing’s treasure.
• Emperor received the order and sensed the six Final Logics’ wills entering the Infinite Universe Fragments, reclaiming control of the powers they had left there.
• Emperor charged at Li Qing, whose Present Body sensed his approach and noted that Dead Silence still had not acted.
• Dead Silence sensed the powers in the universe fragment being taken over and detected an indistinct danger approaching from within the universe.

As the eighteenth breath began, Heaven, the Enemy of Heaven, the Root of the Indescribable, and the Sovereign avatars all moved against Li Qing, each preparing to seize his power or treasures. Li Qing escaped into the Lesser Reincarnation and merged with his Divine Body, while the other Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses faced overwhelming attacks.

• Dead Silence decided to wait until Li Qing survived the final breath of Concept Logic, hoping the hidden danger would reveal itself.
• Heaven and the Enemy of Heaven agreed to conceal their return and seize the Heavenly Dao Reincarnations if Li Qing died.
• The Root of the Indescribable restored Ashes's reason and ordered him to kill Li Qing and take his secret treasure.
• Li Qing used Way of Changes and the Jade Tablet to calculate the attacks and total power aimed at him during the eighteenth breath.
• Li Qing's Present Body entered the Lesser Reincarnation and merged with his Divine Body, gaining authority over more than a hundred super-civilization worlds.
• The Emperor, Ashes, and six Sovereigns attacked Li Qing's former location as Sovereign avatars overwhelmed the other Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses.

Li Qing's Present Body used the Final Prison to redirect and grind down the combined assault from Emperor, Ashes, and the Rulers, turning part of their power to his advantage. As the eighteenth breath passed, the battle at Blackwater between the King of Chaos and Li Qing's Past and Future Bodies continued.

• The Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses merged their clones and incarnations into the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, while the Eight Great Rulers' clones and the forces of Emperor and Ashes joined the attack on Li Qing.
• Li Qing's Present Body summoned the Final Prison as the combined forces arrived, drawing them inside and making them collide with the power of the Unrecordable Gods and Devils.
• Li Qing used the Way of Changes to map a route through the Final Prison, wearing away part of the incoming power and diverting the rest through the Reincarnation Passage toward the Blackwater Ocean.
• The Final Prison absorbed power equivalent to one trillion worlds, which Li Qing expected to use to survive the nineteenth breath, while Emperor recognized the prison's danger.
• At Blackwater, the King of Chaos merged with the ocean to form a twisted vortex and clashed continuously with the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation vortex formed by Li Qing's Past Body and Future Body.

Li Qing used the Final Prison and a reincarnation passage to redirect the Emperor’s and Eight Great Rulers’ power into the Blackwater Ocean, where the torrent killed the King of Chaos and shattered his twisted logic. The Emperor realized Li Qing had absorbed more than one trillion li of world-strength and warned the rulers that he could use it to withstand their next attack.

• Li Qing’s Past Body and Future Body opened a passage from the Lesser Reincarnation and unleashed an immense torrent into the King of Chaos’s vortex.
• Ashes realized his power had been redirected to the bottom of the universe and warned the Emperor and the ruler avatars, but the torrent had already struck.
• Li Qing’s Present Body sent the Heart-Destroying Sword through the passage to pierce the flaw in the King of Chaos’s concept logic barrier, killing him.
• The Six Final Logics, the Root of the Indescribable, the Emperor, and the Eight Great Rulers reclaimed their scattered power, while the Final Prison absorbed more than one trillion li of world-strength.
• The Emperor warned the rulers that Li Qing could use the stolen power on the nineteenth breath, and the Underworld Devil Lord questioned how they should respond.

The Wishful Celestial Venerable persuaded the other powers to focus on eliminating Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses while preserving their strength for the coming war. Meanwhile, Li Qing’s bodies reconstructed a Concept Logic Relic, and his Present Body considered turning his Logic Relic Universe into a real universe as the Jade Tablet began outlining a plan.

• The Flesh Ancestor warned that rival forces threatened their advantage, and the Wishful Celestial Venerable argued they should target all Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses while leaving Li Qing for later.
• The Underworld Devil Lord and the others agreed with the Wishful Celestial Venerable’s strategy of defense, expansion of Concept Logic, and preparation for an unavoidable war.
• The six rulers told the Emperor and Ashes they would attack Li Qing from one direction while concentrating most of their strength on clearing out Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses.
• Li Qing’s Past Body and Future Body expanded their reincarnation power through the Blackwater Ocean and reconstructed the King of Chaos’s Concept Logic Relic as pure twisted logic.
• The relic traveled through reincarnation toward Li Qing’s Present Body, where it was set to merge with two Logic Relic Universes and form a simulated universe.
• Li Qing’s Present Body wondered whether Cosmic Origin could turn the complete Logic Relic Universe into a real universe, and the Jade Tablet began presenting a transformation plan.

Li Qing's Present Body discovered that he could use the Jade Tablet's restored essence to create a real universe and a refuge from the threats surrounding him. As the nineteenth breath approached, Heaven, the Enemy of Heaven, and Dead Silence prepared their own moves, while Heavenly Secrets Daoist sent the Super Civilization Alliance into the decisive moment.

• Li Qing's Present Body realized that injecting the restored foundation into the Logic Relic Universe could turn it into a real universe, giving him a safe refuge.
• Heaven and the Enemy of Heaven concluded that Li Qing had mastered the Final Prison and planned to seize his secret treasure by using Heavenly Dao Reincarnation.
• Dead Silence assessed the competing forces and decided to strike between the nineteenth and twentieth breaths, when he expected to face the fewest enemies.
• Heavenly Secrets Daoist told the nearly thousand members of the Super Civilization Alliance that the nineteenth breath would decide their fates and wished them well at the summit.
• The Spacetime Heavenly Dao powerhouses echoed Heavenly Secrets Daoist's farewell, while each retained an immortal avatar as a fallback if they failed.