Recaps

Saine and his companions remained in Despair World, where he pursued experiments and strengthened their supplies while Gongsun Wudi and Minghua Phoenix trained and settled into a close alliance. Saine successfully restored the Magic Cube’s energy supply, but it remained a Mid-Grade World-Class Secret Treasure, and the group still had no way to leave Despair World.

• Saine and Gongsun Wudi chose to stay in Despair World because only one person could leave at a time and the exit destination was uncertain, while the world offered valuable research and training opportunities.
• Saine studied the Azure Arc Civilization’s Energy Crystals and promised to refine Gongsun Wudi’s metal slab to reinforce her Golden Armor and improve her weapons.
• After several hundred years, Saine converted Mechanical Creature Faith Power into core energy for the Magic Cube, restoring it close to its peak condition without raising its grade.
• Gongsun Wudi helped Minghua Phoenix avenge her grudge, and Minghua began trusting Saine and Gongsun Wudi, entrusting Saine with her reserve Energy Crystals and rare materials.
• Saine proposed helping Hundred Spirits Aviary join the Wizard Alliance if they returned to the Material Star Realm, and Minghua agreed.

Saine and Gongsun Wudi considered leaving Despair World with Minghua, though they planned to remain in Luanfeng Mountain for now and finish their experiments. After seven hundred years of work, Saine completed the Ashes Robe, a low-grade high-quality World-Class Secret Treasure.

• Saine warned Gongsun Wudi that the Faceless One's approaching death could bring chaos to Luanfeng Mountain and suggested they eventually explore a ruin whose coordinates they had obtained from Double-Cannon Gorilla and the others.
• Gongsun Wudi asked whether Minghua could travel with them, and Minghua agreed as long as they could feed her.
• Saine decided to stay in Luanfeng Mountain for the time being and complete some of his ongoing experiments before leaving.
• Saine spent seven hundred years crafting the Ashes Robe from Rose's Lifebound Spider Silk, phoenix feathers, and other high-grade materials.
• Saine completed the gray Ashes Robe, whose golden and silver patterns held the power of laws and whose quality reached the low-grade high-quality World-Class Secret Treasure level.

Saine completed the Ashes Robe, upgraded Gongsun Wudi’s equipment, and continued his research and cultivation during the group’s long stay in the Luanfeng Mountain Settlement Area. After exploring the Azure Arc Civilization ruins again, Saine and his companions left the settlement and headed toward the White Bone Continent.

• Saine finished the Ashes Robe and noted that the Magic Cube had lost contact with its Intelligent Robots and could no longer collect their Faith Power.
• Saine improved Gongsun Wudi’s equipment, raising the Golden Armor to a low-grade high-quality World-Class Secret Treasure.
• Saine created his second high-level Intelligent Robot, One, and equipped it with an oval energy crystal from the Azure Arc Civilization’s secret realm.
• Saine and his group spent 1,693 years in the Luanfeng Mountain Settlement Area and explored the Azure Arc Civilization ruins a second time to collect materials.
• Saine, Gongsun Wudi, and Minghua left the settlement, with Minghua carrying them toward the White Bone Continent.

Saine studied the White Bone Continent with help from his Mechanical Legion, collecting skeletal specimens and Sage's Stones as he advanced toward the Austia Civilization Relic. Near the relic, he and Gongsun Wudi encountered Double-Cannon Gorilla and his companions attacking a purple-haired girl, and Saine greeted the gorilla as an old friend.

• Saine released more than a hundred thousand Mechanical Creatures from his Magic Cube to gather bones, while Minghua asked to visit its interior and Saine declined for now.
• Saine collected ancient skeletal specimens and excavated Sage's Stones to support his research and future Body Tempering Experiments.
• Saine's research journey brought him and his companions within sight of the Austia Civilization Relic and its settlement area.
• Double-Cannon Gorilla and his two companions attacked a purple-haired girl, but her Special Purple Energy kept their coordinated assault at bay.
• Saine and Gongsun Wudi arrived on Minghua's back, and Saine greeted Double-Cannon Gorilla as the gorilla cursed under his breath.

Saine and his companions drove off the Double-Cannon Gorilla trio after they attacked Zi You, a mysterious fighter from the Abyss World. Saine introduced himself to Zi You and began to learn more about her and her unusual equipment and powers.

• Saine watched Zi You fight the Double-Cannon Gorilla trio and recognized that she concealed her true strength and carried equipment imbued with Law power.
• The Double-Cannon Gorilla ordered his companions to retreat toward the Austia Civilization Relic rather than continue fighting near Saine's group.
• Saine, Minghua, and Gongsun Wudi attacked the fleeing trio, and Gongsun Wudi's javelin pierced the Level-6 Peak dwarf.
• Saine told Gongsun Wudi not to pursue the trio because they were unfamiliar with the area, then flew over to speak with Zi You.
• Zi You introduced herself as being from the Abyss World, and Saine greeted her and said he was from the Wizard World.

Saine, Gongsun Wudi, and Minghua Phoenix met Zi You while exploring the Austia Civilization Relic and received a Lan Shen Flower from her. They continued toward the ruins, where Saine detected a hidden underground world and wondered where its core Rule Dangerous Land lay.

• Saine and Gongsun Wudi introduced themselves to Zi You, who said she had been separated from her companions while traveling to the relic.
• Zi You thanked Saine, Gongsun Wudi, and Minghua Phoenix with a Lan Shen Flower, then flew toward the main relic ruins.
• Saine decided not to pursue Zi You, though he wanted to study her, and agreed with Minghua to refine her share of the flower into a Magic Potion.
• Saine and his group reached the vast metallic ruins and discovered signs of a large underground space beneath them.

Saine and his group settled in the Austia Civilization Relic and learned that its underground Mechanical Space offered resources but was surrounded by disorder and powerful Wanderers. As they prepared for the secret realm’s opening in 421 years, Zi You became their neighbor and the injured Double-Cannon Gorilla trio stayed out of sight.

• Saine and his group claimed a steel fortress in the ruins after their Level-6 auras drove away its Level-5 Late Stage occupant.
• Saine learned from Level 4 Wanderers about Mechanical Space and received ancient Osydia Civilization remains, which he examined by removing their Protective Suits.
• Saine discovered that Mechanical Space opened every five hundred years and attracted thousands of Wanderers, but the settlement lacked stable order and hosted at least three Peak Despairers.
• Saine noted that the next opening was 421 years away and said he would rest before exploring the secret realm for his Truth Exploration.
• Zi You settled near Saine, while the injured Double-Cannon Gorilla trio disappeared and were unlikely to join the next opening.

Saine studied the technological ruins, pursued plans to build a Space Fortress, and continued developing advanced Intelligent Robots while seeking the strength of a Despairer. When the Mechanical Space secret realm opened, he and the settlement’s Wanderers gathered at its entrance.

• Saine uncovered fortress-design knowledge in the ruins and resolved to build a Space Fortress to replace his lost support and strengthen himself in Despair World.
• Saine assessed the levels of Despairers and decided to pursue advancement toward the Level-6 Peak realm, hoping to aid the fight against the Galente Federation after returning to the Material Star Realm.
• Saine used millions of Intelligent Robots as assistants for fortress construction while continuing research on the advanced Intelligent Robot Two.
• The Mechanical Space secret realm opened, and Saine, Zi You, and the settlement’s Wanderers noticed it.
• Saine and the others reached the underground entrance, where the secret realm’s turbine-like metal valve opened and impatient Wanderers went inside.

Saine entered the Mechanical Space and discovered that its technological laws could strengthen his Magic Cube, while Zi You secretly watched his group. Zi You revealed her status as the Evil Tide Supreme’s Daughter and ordered her allies to hold back as she considered the danger of other civilizations noticing the Evil Tide.

• Zi You entered the secret realm ahead of Saine, who followed with Gongsun Wudi and Minghua.
• Saine sensed that the Magic Cube and his Intelligent Robots resonated with the Mechanical Space, so he sent them to search the ruins.
• After the Faceless Mask warned Saine of a hidden observer, he fired a beam of Flames of Ash but found nothing and told his group to stay close.
• Zi You watched Saine through an elemental image, which shattered after he attacked.
• Zi You reflected on the Evil Tide Civilization’s expansion and revealed that she was the Supreme’s Daughter.
• Zi You contacted her Devil Race allies, told them not to approach, and ordered them to spare the three beings who had surrounded her.

Saine and his companions explored the Austia Civilization Relic, an ancient Osydia Civilization ruin in Despair World, and gathered valuable materials and technology for his machines and Space Fortress. After the relic closed fifteen years later, they returned to their temporary residence with no new way out of Despair World, while Saine had nearly forgotten the strange power that had watched him.

• Zi You joined the reconnaissance mission into Despair World to investigate the Austia Civilization Relic, which the Evil Tide Civilization hoped would offer lessons from the failed Osydia Civilization.
• The Evil Tide Civilization considered the relics and other top-level civilization forces in Despair World, while its leaders believed a future Dimensional Hegemony could bring an unknown opponent across time and space.
• Saine, Fumila, Wall-E, and the other Intelligent Robots excavated the Osydia war fortress's central Heart Core and useful metals for Saine's Space Fortress experiments.
• Saine acquired design components and materials for Intelligent Robots Number Three and Number Four, and his Magic Cube absorbed technological-law energy.
• Fifteen years later, the Austia Civilization Relic closed, and Saine's group returned to their temporary residence without finding a way out of Despair World.

Twenty-three years after the expedition to the Mechanical Space, Zi You visited Saine and exchanged specimens and information about the Austia Civilization Relic with him. Saine proposed that a Virus Civilization had defeated the Austia Civilization, and Zi You tried to recruit him into the Abyss World before giving him a sample of her purple energy for research.

• Zi You traded Saine strange specimens, and Saine exchanged Energy Crystals and magical Elemental Potions with her.
• Zi You shared information from the Austia Civilization Relic, and Saine argued that a Virus Civilization had defeated the Austia Civilization and caused its creatures to mutate and destroy their own facilities.
• Zi You praised Saine and the Wizard World, then invited him to join the Abyss World, hinting that it could help with his predicament.
• Saine declined to give Zi You a clear answer but privately considered her claim that the Abyss World sought to unify the Star Realm.
• At Saine's request, Zi You gave him a wisp of her origin purple energy for research and urged him to consider her offer.

After spending more than seven thousand years in the Despair World, Saine had advanced his mechanics and body-refinement arcana and nearly completed two Space Fortresses. He emerged from his Magic Cube to find Gongsun Wudi finishing training while Number Six treated her; the chapter ended with an author’s update note.

• Zi You concealed her origins in the Evil Tide Civilization because revealing them could endanger her and her civilization.
• Saine agreed with Gongsun Wudi to stay for a while and spent more than three thousand years studying the Austia relic and Zi You’s discoveries.
• Saine expanded his high-grade Intelligent Robots to Twenty-One and built two Space Fortresses in his Magic Cube.
• Saine completed an experiment with help from Xiao Jiu, then rode her motorcycle form around the White Bone Continent during breaks.
• Saine emerged from the Cube Space and saw Gongsun Wudi finish training as Number Six healed her damaged muscle tissue.

Saine learned that Gongsun Wudi’s physical evolution had brought her close to Dominator-class strength, while he continued studying the Particle Civilization and remained wary of Zi You. Zi You brought him a mysterious cube from the ruins of the Source Energy Civilization, leaving Saine startled by its origin.

• Saine assessed Gongsun Wudi’s progress and found that her physical strength was approaching that of a Dominator-class Being.
• Zi You visited Saine with specimens from other civilizations, including evidence that the Particle Civilization had destroyed the Austia Civilization through powerful viral warfare.
• Saine recalled that Zi You had repeatedly tried to recruit him, but he refused her offers and suspected she might use force if he left the settlement.
• Zi You presented Saine with a deep-blue glowing cube and said she had found it in the ruins of the Source Energy Civilization.

Zi You showed Saine a crystal from a Technology Warship’s Heart Core, sparking his interest in another Civilization Relic. Saine decided to travel with Zi You to the distant Source Energy Civilization Relic, despite the journey’s dangers and uncertain duration.

• Zi You offered Saine the cube-shaped crystal as research material in exchange for his help, and Saine examined it in his laboratory.
• Zi You drank Saine’s Body Tempering Potion while Gongsun Wudi joined her in the living room, and the two women remained wary of each other.
• Saine cut the crystal into smaller pieces and asked Zi You where she had found it.
• Saine asked Zi You to take him to the ancient Source Energy Civilization Relic, surprising both Zi You and Gongsun Wudi.
• Zi You warned Saine that the distant journey could encounter Storm Tide and require considerable time and preparation.

Saine agreed to travel with Zi You to the distant Source Energy Civilization Relic, hoping its technology could advance his research and lead him toward Level-6 Peak. After a forty-five-year journey with Zi You’s powerful subordinates surrounding the group, they reached the underground ruins, where Zi You asked Saine to investigate the civilization’s destruction and identify its enemy.

• Saine told Gongsun Wudi that the cube crystals Zi You gave him might help solve problems in his research, and Gongsun Wudi promised to protect him on the journey.
• Saine’s group traveled for fifteen years toward the Source Energy Civilization Relic, taking shelter from energy storms along the way as Zi You mentioned they would meet two more companions.
• After another twenty-odd years, two Peak Despairers joined the group and formed a triangular formation with Zi You, leaving Saine aware that withdrawing might be difficult.
• After forty-five years of travel, the group reached the ancient underground relic beneath the White Bone Continent.
• Zi You asked Saine to determine how the Source Energy Civilization had been destroyed and who its enemy was.

Saine explored an underground relic of the Source Energy Civilization and identified its enormous buried structure as a Source Energy Sub-City. Zi You planned to use his research skills before eventually demonizing him, while Saine turned his attention to a cube labeled “Sharu Test Subject.”

• Saine entered Zi You’s underground relic and examined the enormous metallic wreckage, suspecting it was a Dominator-class war fortress.
• Saine immersed himself in researching the relic and ordered Zi You’s Evil Tide subordinates to assist him.
• Zi You told Torik that Saine was capable and ordered him to give Saine the newly excavated Number Three Cube, which contained Dominator remains.
• Zi You said she intended to make Saine recognize her power before personally demonizing him.
• Saine’s Magic Cube identified the buried structure as a Source Energy Sub-City, and he read “Sharu Test Subject” on the delivered cylindrical cube.

Saine investigated the imprisoned Sharu inside a Source Energy Civilization relic and discovered that its flesh could devour energy despite appearing dead. After learning that Sharu was the remains of a Dominator, Saine saw signs that feeding it energy was reactivating its body, leaving its true condition uncertain.

• Saine examined the sealed Sharu and told No. 7 to extract a sample before opening the metal cylinder.
• No. 7 removed the final restraints after Saine used the Source Energy Sub-City Core to unlock the cylinder.
• Saine studied Sharu's flesh and found that its cells absorbed an Energy Crystal almost instantly.
• Saine learned that Sharu's body was the remains of a Dominator and noticed signs of reactivation as he fed it energy.

Saine discovered that the Light God Race had fought the Source Energy Civilization in the Despair World and hoped their relics could lead him back to the Star Realm. Further excavations revealed a different enemy: black monsters, including a Level-4 creature resembling an Orc World Lionman.

• Saine found damaged footage identifying the Light God Race as the Source Energy Civilization's enemy and told Gongsun Wudi that nearby Light God Race relics might provide a route out of the Despair World.
• Saine ordered the Abyss World creatures to excavate deeper, and they uncovered ancient biological remains from both the Source Energy Civilization and its enemy.
• Zi You visited Saine's laboratory to ask about his research and recruit him again on behalf of Abyss World.
• Saine showed Zi You the enemy remains, which were black, monstrous creatures rather than Light Angels.
• Saine recognized a Level-4 Black Lion among the remains as resembling an Orc World Lionman and examined its petrified Orc Greatsword.

Saine discovered that the Orc remains held Destruction Power similar to the force wielded by the Destruction Spring Dominator, inspiring new research into his Ashes of Flame Mystique. Zi You urged him to accept demonization and join Abyss World, but he asked to finish the ruin exploration first, leaving his decision unresolved.

• Saine recognized that the Orc corpse’s Destruction Power resembled the power of the Destruction Spring Dominator and planned to study it for his Ashes of Flame Mystique.
• Saine became absorbed in research and missed Zi You’s questions until she repeated her offer for him to join Abyss World.
• Zi You explained that demonization would alter Saine’s power, bloodline, and appearance while bringing him strength and support.
• Saine questioned the cost of demonization, and Zi You acknowledged that he would undergo changes under the Law of Balance.
• Saine asked to complete the ruin exploration before deciding, and Zi You granted him more time while expecting an answer by their next meeting.

Saine spent decades renovating the Source Energy Civilization Relic and developing robots and Space Fortresses to prepare for conflict with the Abyss World creatures. When Gongsun Wudi warned that Zi You would return in less than five years, Saine ordered the Fortress Robot Assembly Plan.

• After Zi You left, Saine focused on research and prepared contingencies rather than accepting demonization.
• Over the next fifty-seven years, Saine used the Source Energy Sub-City’s facilities to expand his fortress experiments and increase his advanced Intelligent Robots from Twenty-One to Thirty-Two.
• Saine refused the Abyss World creatures’ demands for demonization and avoided direct contact, while his conflict with Torik and the others intensified.
• Gongsun Wudi told Saine that Zi You would return in less than five years and that the Abyss World creatures had issued a final ultimatum.
• Saine ordered the Magic Cube to initiate the Fortress Robot Assembly Plan.

Princess Zi You returned to the Source Energy Civilization Relic with nearly two hundred powerful Devil Race members and demanded that Saine join the Abyss World. Saine refused, and the Magic Cube’s power triggered a violent upheaval as a colossal entity began forcing its way out of the Source Energy Sub-City.

• Princess Zi You returned to the relic with nearly two hundred Level-4-or-higher Devil Race members, increasing the hostile forces facing Saine.
• Zi You offered Saine resources and access to a Light God Race battlefield in exchange for his loyalty and demonification, but he refused and removed his Faceless Mask.
• Zi You tried to forcibly demonify Saine, while he fired ghostly green light at her and had secretly added something to the potion she drank; she resisted both attempts.
• Zi You’s aura rose to the Half-Step Peak Despairer level, and she lunged at Saine with Purple Energy Claws after demanding one final answer.
• Saine declared that he refused and activated the Magic Cube, shaking the relic and causing a colossal entity to begin emerging from the center of the Source Energy Sub-City.

Saine unveiled a gigantic fortress robot and used Mystic System arcana to restrain Princess Zi You during their confrontation. He captured her and proposed that they let each other go in exchange for safe passage from the Abyss World.

• Saine's enormous Metal Giant emerged from the ancient Source Energy Civilization ruin and stunned the nearby Evil Tide Civilization creatures.
• Saine confronted Zi You, explaining that his research into Abyss creatures had helped him develop a way to use her own Source Demon Flame against her.
• Zi You began to lose control of her body as Saine's paralysis effect took hold, and Saine vanished into the giant robot's chest.
• Saine used the more demonic power Zi You summoned to strengthen the imprisonment, then grabbed her with the robot's Mechanical Arm.
• Saine assured Zi You he did not intend to harm her and offered to leave peacefully if they agreed to forget their encounter.

Saine activated the Source Energy Sub-City Core and unveiled his unfinished Combined Fortress Robot to restrain Zi You and draw nearby fighters to the ruins. As Devil Race forces and Abyss World creatures converged, Saine joined the battle and struck a Peak Despairer giant with a single punch.

• Zi You challenged Saine to prove he could keep her confined, while law energy from her accessories strained against the Mystic System Law Domain.
• Saine activated the Source Energy Sub-City Core, sending a pillar of light into the sky to attract survivors and Wanderers.
• Gongsun Wudi, Fumila, Minghua Phoenix, and other Intelligent Robots fought the approaching Abyss World creatures and Devil Race members.
• Saine emerged in the partially assembled Combined Fortress Robot, which shed components as he struggled to control it.
• Saine punched the thousand-meter Peak Despairer giant and sent it flying.

Saine launched a desperate breakout with Gongsun Wudi, Fumila, and the others, but Zi You used her secret treasure to halt him and demanded that he accept demonification. Saine activated the Source Energy Sub-City Core and awakened the Sharu Test Subject, which broke free and set its hungry gaze on the creatures around it.

• Saine blasted away a colossal creature and fired his fortress cannons at the battlefield around Gongsun Wudi.
• Saine urged Gongsun Wudi, Fumila, and the others to gather near his Combined Fortress Robot, but Devil Race fighters clung to them and slowed their escape.
• Zi You broke free of Saine's magic, used white law halos to seize control of his metal arm, and demanded that he accept demonification.
• Saine activated the Source Energy Sub-City Core, sending an energy beam underground toward the Sharu Test Subject.
• Sharu awoke, shattered its metal restraints, and fixed its hungry gaze on the Demon Giant and Zi You.

Sharu awakened on the battlefield and began devouring Devil Race creatures, growing stronger with each kill. Zi You and her powerful subordinates joined forces to stop it after it turned its attention to stronger prey.

• Sharu attacked the Demon Giant, whose punch broke Sharu's arm, then dodged its next strike and killed a late Level-4 Devil Race creature by draining its energy.
• Saine realized Sharu's apparent weakness came from its depleted strength after awakening, and Sharu killed another Level-4 Devil Race creature as it grew stronger.
• Sharu continued hunting, targeting weaker Devil Race creatures before shifting its attention toward Level-5 opponents.
• Zi You used her white rings of laws against Sharu, and her Devil Race subordinates joined the fight to protect their Princess.
• The Eight-Headed Demon Scorpion struck Sharu in the chest with purple ghostly light.