Chapter Summaries

Su Luo and Kundina speculated that Ye Fan's power came from consciousness and that future information might have prompted Su Luo to investigate the Gods. Su Luo entrusted Kundina with combat resources while he pursued research, and Kundina agreed to take the Myriad Transformations Authority in exchange for her Epic staff.

• Kundina argued that Ye Fan's exceptional strength likely came from his consciousness rather than his body or soul.
• Su Luo suspected his future self had supplied Ye Zizhen with information to push him toward researching the Gods, while Kundina cautioned that future timelines were uncertain.
• Su Luo gave Kundina the [Burning Feather Phoenix Skirt] and access to his Demon Network and Dark Domain, and directed her to claim the [Myriad Transformations] Authority in the [Demon Realm].
• Su Luo explained that he needed to research the Gods while Kundina and the God of Magic held the front line.
• Kundina offered Su Luo her Epic [Sigh of the Star-glow Goddess] staff in exchange for taking the Authority, and Su Luo accepted while teasing her about the skirt.

Sai Wangli gathered purified consciousness bodies from the fallen Divine Kingdom’s sea of consciousness to cultivate a new Great Holy Spirit and strengthen himself through God’s rebirth mechanism. After discussing whether the Great Holy Spirit could dilute or lose control of his consciousness, he sealed the sea and told his companion to kill him.

• Sai Wangli fed consciousness bodies purified by the Holy Fire into the Great Holy Spirit.
• Sai Wangli reflected on how his experience fusing consciousnesses as Two Principles Daojun could help him master God’s Great Holy Spirit.
• Sai Wangli explained that God’s Great Judgment had gathered consciousnesses to restore the Great Holy Spirit and that he intended to use the mechanism to strengthen himself.
• A Survivor wearing gold-rimmed glasses asked how the Great Holy Spirit’s consciousnesses would be managed and whether powerful souls could seize control.
• The Survivor tried to leave the sea of consciousness but found it sealed, and Sai Wangli told him to kill him.

The Great Holy Spirit absorbed hundreds of thousands of souls and learned about the outside world, but could not reach the protected [Scholar]. Iron Guard survived inside the Dark Ocean and tore open a fissure in the Divine Kingdom Secret Realm to send information out, leaving a Xiao Xiao Luo poised at the opening.

• Hundreds of thousands of souls dissolved into the Dark Ocean, and the Great Holy Spirit absorbed their Talents, skills, and memories.
• The Great Holy Spirit recognized [Scholar] as a powerful expert but realized the Dungeon barrier protected his consciousness from assimilation.
• Iron Guard emerged from the Deep Sea with his [Burnt Offering Domain] and combined the Demon Flame, Scholar's Heartfire, and Jadefire on his saber.
• Iron Guard determined that his priority was to send information outside after the Xiao Xiao Luo legion and its contingencies were wiped out.
• Iron Guard struck the Dark Ocean and opened a Spatial Rift through the Divine Kingdom Secret Realm barrier, allowing the Demon Network and Dark Domain to pour through.
• A Xiao Xiao Luo poked its head through the fissure as the opening began to close.

[Hengjin Jun] forced his way through the Spatial Rift despite Iron Guard’s attacks, then escaped in a new body while hinting that Su Luo could not leave the [Demon Realm]. Meanwhile, [Jianfeng] and Kundina searched for the missing Demon Gods and headed to the [Ancient Elf Kingdom], where Kundina wondered about Scholar’s role in their movements.

• [Hengjin Jun] appeared at the Spatial Rift, and Iron Guard and Xiao Xiao Luo attacked him as he entered.
• Iron Guard exhausted [Hengjin Jun]’s protective items and struck his true body, but [Hengjin Jun] killed himself and entered in a newly formed body.
• [Hengjin Jun] told Xiao Xiao Luo that Su Luo could not leave the [Demon Realm], then vanished into the darkness.
• Kundina and [Jianfeng] found that [Raymond Caldwell] and the other Demon Gods had gone to the mortal world, so they tracked them toward the [Ancient Elf Kingdom].
• Kundina suspected Scholar had supplied the Demon Gods’ spatial teleportation technology and questioned why he was driving them out.

Red Dragon Dieyi tried to flee when a fourteenth-ring Demon God sealed off the Ancient Elf Kingdom with the Dark Domain. The Oldest Elf confronted [Raymond Caldwell], who drained the Elf Ancient Tree while his God Corpses attacked her.

• Dieyi offered the Elf royal a chance to discuss his childhood trauma for one million, but a terrifying boom interrupted them before he paid.
• Dieyi fled from the danger, only to slam into the Dark Domain after it had sealed the entire Ancient Elf Kingdom.
• Dieyi saw a nearly six-thousand-meter-tall Demon God atop the Elf Ancient Tree and realized it was a fourteenth-ring calamity.
• The Oldest Elf confronted [Raymond Caldwell], while he silently absorbed the ancient tree’s energy and summoned several thirteenth-ring God Corpses.
• The Oldest Elf and the God Corpses began fighting as Dieyi recognized her missing mother among the Demon God’s minions.

The Elf Race unleashed a Fifteenth-Ring False Star to destroy [Raymond Caldwell], sacrificing the Elf Ancient Tree and the Elf King Domain in the process. As the Oldest Elf’s soul tried to escape, a regenerating [Raymond Caldwell] seized it.

• Red Dragon Dieyi watched as the Oldest Elf fought [Raymond Caldwell], who restored himself by draining the Elf Ancient Tree.
• The Oldest Elf revealed that the ancient tree had been prepared as bait, and an enormous eye-shaped offensive megastructure activated above them.
• [Raymond Caldwell] tried to escape to the Demon Realm, but it denied him entry as the weapon fired its Fifteenth-Ring False Star spell.
• The False Star annihilated the Elf King Domain and reduced Red Dragon Dieyi to a skeleton, while the Oldest Elf’s remnant soul fled toward the [Realm Left Behind by the World].
• [Raymond Caldwell], rapidly regenerating from a small lump of flesh, caught the Oldest Elf’s soul with a bloody Dragon Claw.

Jianfeng killed Raymond Caldwell with a basic Slash and broke through the barrier in his saber path. As the seven authorities appeared together, he let Kundina take Myriad Transformations while Wu Guang claimed the Demon Realm.

• Raymond Caldwell tried to survive by devouring the miniature star’s energy, but Jianfeng defeated him with a basic Slash.
• After Raymond Caldwell died, Jianfeng’s saber-path barrier shattered, and insights toward the Apex Realm surged within him.
• Raymond Caldwell’s Myriad Transformations Authority merged with Jianfeng’s collected authority, and the complete authority appeared alongside the other six authorities.
• Jianfeng separated Myriad Transformations from the merging authorities and let Kundina take it, while the other six authorities entered the Oldest Elf’s soul body.
• Wu Guang told Kundina he would take the Demon Realm, and Kundina used Spatial Leap to enter the Dark Domain.

Kundina escaped the Elf Ancient Domain as Wu Guang gained the Demon Realm’s Six Paths Authority and unleashed his sludge army. Su Luo answered with Starry Sky Overturning, raining miniature stars on the ruined Elf homeland and crushing the forces trying to leave the secret realm.

• Kundina attempted to escape the Elf Ancient Domain, and Fate’s Choice allowed her spatial leap to succeed.
• Wu Guang revealed that the Elf Race had been wiped out and that he had turned its survivors and visitors into nourishment and Clones.
• Jianfeng left Wu Guang alone to experience the Demon Realm’s Six Paths Authority.
• Wu Guang opened the passage to the Demon Realm and sent sludge and puppets surging toward the secret realm’s exit.
• Su Luo brought down the giant eye-shaped structure and floating cities, but Wu Guang’s sludge caught them before they could strike.
• Su Luo launched Starry Sky Overturning, and countless miniature stars fell, melting the Elf homeland and crushing Wu Guang’s departing forces.

The Scholar used the Boundary-Breaking Engine 1.0 to tear open the barrier between the Demon Realm and the mortal world, flooding the world with Mana and other energy. Kundina and Su Luo discussed the Myriad Transformations authority, and Su Luo admitted he wanted it but feared that fusing with it would change his Heartfire.

• Stars fell around the Secret Realm entrance, containing Wu Guang's sludge legion while the Demon Realm's six authorities began to tremble.
• The Boundary-Breaking Engine 1.0 tore open the planar barrier, unleashing a torrent of Mana, elements, and Demon Realm creatures into the mortal world.
• Wu Guang recognized that the Scholar had used the souls of more than a trillion living beings to power the engine.
• Kundina described the nature and power of the Myriad Transformations authority to Su Luo beside Red Dragon Dieyi's skeleton.
• Su Luo said he wanted the authority for its ability to transform Mana arts and energy, but worried that fusion would make his Heartfire no longer purely his own.

Su Luo fused himself with Heartfire and established Evolution as his own Dao and instinct. As he arrived to oversee the Particle Accelerator experiment, his transformation continued while the accelerator charged toward its first test.

• Su Luo used the [Myriad Transformations] Authority to lay a foundation for Heartfire, then declared that Evolution would become his Dao and Talent.
• Kundina congratulated Su Luo but chose to learn to control [Myriad Transformations] rather than fuse with it.
• The Contemplative Pivot Scholar and Nameless Blade Lord awaited the Particle Accelerator experiment as tensions between the mortal world and Demon Realm mounted.
• Xiao Luo reported that the Demon Network was supplying energy to the Boundary-Breaking Engine 1.0 and the fully charged Particle Accelerator, which had reached 80% acceleration.
• Su Luo's Heartfire spread through his body and consciousness, merging with him as his attributes rose and [Evolution] emerged.

Su Luo completed his autonomous Evolution and prepared to use the Boundary-Breaking Engine 1.0 and Particle Accelerator to break open the Demon Realm and harvest its energy. As the accelerator finished charging, he told the Contemplative Pivot Scholar that the experiment was about to begin.

• Su Luo’s Evolution strengthened his body and Spirit, and he realized his attributes could continue growing without his intervention.
• Su Luo reviewed his Scholar career skills and concluded that his autonomous cultivation might make Skill Book Inscription unnecessary for raising attributes.
• Su Luo explained to the Contemplative Pivot Scholar how the Boundary-Breaking Engine would weaken the barriers around the Demon Realm and how the Demon Network would collect and transmit its energy.
• Su Luo looked toward the brightening particle ring and announced that the experiment was about to start.

Su Luo’s particle accelerator experiment detonated with enough energy to destroy the apparatus and everyone nearby, but he rebuilt himself and restored the Nameless Blade Lord and Contemplative Pivot Scholar. The collision created a strange spacetime collapse that Su Luo identified as a Rule Layer-influenced structure rather than a Base Space wormhole.

• Su Luo accelerated two particle beams until their collision unleashed an unprecedented burst of energy, and the Nameless Blade Lord sensed imminent death but found himself unable to flee.
• The explosion annihilated the experimental platform, the accelerator, Su Luo, the Contemplative Pivot Scholar, the Nameless Blade Lord, and the Xiao Xiao Luos.
• Su Luo reassembled his body and fashioned new bodies for the Scholar and the Nameless Blade Lord from energy and matter, while his Constitution rose to 28.1.
• The Contemplative Pivot Scholar noticed a black hole-like structure at the collision’s center and suggested it was a wormhole created by the Base Space shattering.
• Su Luo examined the structure and concluded that it was not a Base Space wormhole but a collapse influenced by the Rule Layer, likely caused by the experiment’s extreme energy.

Su Luo opened a wormhole after forcing space to warp, but everything he sent through vanished, so he left attendants to watch it while he went to the Divine Kingdom. Elsewhere, more than two hundred Survivors had been trapped in a depleted space after a Dungeon bug left them forgotten by the Era, and they fought over scraps of essence to survive.

• Su Luo explained that the Rule Layer defined how much energy was needed to warp space, then collected Primordial Mana and set it to consume and convert Silk Mana in the Demon Realm.
• Su Luo tested the pitch-black wormhole with his perception, Xiao Xiao Luo, and the Demon Network, but each vanished and contact was severed.
• Su Luo decided to go to the Divine Kingdom and assigned his attendants to monitor the wormhole while the Contemplative Pivot Scholar recorded data.
• Song Shige and a pink starfish-like Survivor sensed an abnormal explosion in the barren world but chose not to search for it because they lacked energy.
• The Survivors learned they had been stranded by a Dungeon bug after the old era's world was digested, and their attempts to kill one another for randomly distributed essence turned the resource-starved prison into a battlefield.

Survivors continued losing essence and energy in the large-scale Dungeon’s apparent digestive chamber, while Dora searched for the source of an earlier spatial disturbance. He found Silk Woman and the imprisoned [Food], but concluded there was no hope of escape or relief.

• Survivors realized that fighting only accelerated the loss of their essence, and Patrick Star withered after trying to reach the site of an explosion.
• Dora emerged from Patrick Star’s petrified shell, struck away an old Survivor who had stolen the role-playing essence, and continued searching for the disturbance.
• Dora found Silk Woman suspended in the air and [Food] hanging beneath a miniature Blood City after Survivors had crippled him for devouring energy.
• A nearby Survivor mocked Dora for staring at Silk Woman, but Dora challenged him to approach her himself.
• Dora considered whether the disturbance came from a Survivor using reserve energy or [Food]’s stomach, then gave up searching for a way out.

Song Shige realized that Silk Woman’s Rainbow Threads were draining Survivors trapped in her Illusion Realm and planned to exploit their deaths to replenish her essence. He rejected a supposed offer from Shen Haozi, but recognized that it might be Silk Woman probing him—and admitted he could not know whether he himself was still trapped in an illusion.

• Song Shige saw Rainbow Threads siphoning the Survivors’ Source and life force, while the [Wasteland] also irreversibly devoured their essence.
• Song Shige reasoned that repeated deaths could redistribute lost essence, and concluded that Silk Woman intended to farm the trapped Survivors before the era ended.
• Shen Haozi sent Song Shige a mentally encrypted message urging him to join forces against Silk Woman.
• Song Shige refused to cooperate and threatened to find Shen Haozi, prompting the supposed ally to fall silent.
• Song Shige realized Rainbow Threads still hung over Shen Haozi and suspected Silk Woman had used his message as a probe.
• Song Shige remained uncertain whether he was trapped in an Illusion Realm and had spent three days and three nights doing nothing but think.

Song Shige reflected on humanity’s losses, the rise and deaths of powerful Survivors, and the forces that shaped their strength. He clarified his path as [Demon-Seeking]: gaining the power to break down old orders and forge a source of strength defined by himself.

• Song Shige recalled his former life and mourned the near-total collapse of humanity in the Survival Game.
• Song Shige considered how Survivors such as Su Luo, Kundina, Ye Zizhen, and Tali Lang had risen from ordinary lives, while many powerful Survivors had died in trials and battles.
• Song Shige reflected on his own life and returned to Su Luo's [Source Theory] to understand how to transcend the limits imposed by the environment, rules, and order.
• Song Shige defined [Demon-Seeking] as the pursuit of power that could shatter established restraints and rebuild the world’s order.
• Song Shige resolved to become the one and only [Demon King] by claiming a source that nothing outside himself could define.

Song Shige abandoned his Martial Will and transformed as the Wasteland consumed his black Fire Domain, while Su Luo traveled toward the Fallen Divine Kingdom and analyzed Silk Mana. The chapter left Su Luo with a new form of Encrypted Mana and the Wasteland appearing to come alive.

• Song Shige integrated his Martial Will into Blood City, causing it and [Food] to collapse as black Fire Domain erupted from him and was devoured by the Wasteland.
• The Wasteland shook, and its scarlet spatial barrier began to writhe, leading Dora to fear that [Desolate Space] was alive.
• Su Luo headed for the [Fallen Divine Kingdom] and left the conflict involving Wu Guang in the [Ancient Elf Kingdom] to Kundina, the God of Magic.
• Su Luo analyzed Particle Collider data and concluded that Silk Mana consisted of [Aether Particles] woven into a stable microscopic structure.
• Su Luo used his Heartfire and Primordial Mana to imitate Silk Mana's structure and create Encrypted Mana.

Su Luo entered the Fallen Divine Kingdom, investigated Hengjin Jun’s strange restraint and the threat posed by Two Principles Daojun’s Death Possession, then encountered a colossal God rising from the Dark Sea. The chapter ended as the ten-thousand-meter giant towered over the kingdom.

• Su Luo considered how encrypted Mana could disrupt opponents and explored new ways to refine its microscopic spell models.
• Xiao Xiao Luo reported that maintaining the spatial passage cost forty million Radiant Crystals per second and that Hengjin Jun alone had entered it successfully.
• Su Luo reasoned that Hengjin Jun might have avoided attacking because he feared Two Principles Daojun’s Death Possession and its uncertain rules.
• Su Luo entered the Fallen Divine Kingdom, collected a sample of the devouring Dark Sea, and headed toward the kingdom’s interior.
• A vast disturbance shook the sea, and a ten-thousand-meter God rose from its depths.

Mu Hongyuan and the others tried to influence the Divine Kingdom’s new [God] by converting more Saints, then considered seeking help from other Survivors. Ronan Chandler arrived to propose cooperation, but revealed himself to be an unexpected addition to the Woof Woof Squad.

• Mu Hongyuan expanded the Saint Woof Woof Squad to two hundred million members, hoping their three-percent share of converted beings could affect the new [God].
• Mu Hongyuan proposed finding other Survivors and joining forces, since they could not rely on Yun Xiaoxiao’s absent master.
• Ronan Chandler appeared on Judgment Plaza and introduced himself as a tech-side Survivor who was good at making money.
• Ronan Chandler tested Mu Hongyuan by asking to lick her feet, then dropped the act and declared that he wanted her to step on him.
• Ansen pointed out Ronan Chandler and told Yun Xiaoxiao that this was normal among Survivors.

Ronan Chandler explained the Ascension Body’s structure and consciousness categories after Mu Hongyuan offered terms for cooperation. He revealed his fake-dog act, then asked Mu Hongyuan to show his sincerity, and Mu Hongyuan and Ansen agreed to begin.

• Ronan Chandler explained that Saints were Cornerstones whose loss would not cripple an Ascension Body because it could rebuild them.
• Ronan Chandler revealed his false loyalty when Mu Hongyuan offered to let him study or acquire the Ascension Body in exchange for helping everyone escape alive.
• Ronan Chandler removed his collar and described the Ascension Body’s Inspiration Consciousnesses, Hive Consciousness, Extrasensory Consciousnesses, and Heroic Consciousnesses.
• Yun Xiaoxiao asked about interstellar civilization stages and what lay above them, and Ronan Chandler answered that the next level was [Miracle].
• Ronan Chandler asked Mu Hongyuan to show his sincerity, and Mu Hongyuan and Ansen exchanged a glance and agreed to begin.