Recaps

Nan Yang drew the Enlightenment Prophet toward Saine, who joined the Undying Supreme in blocking its advance. With Saine and the God of Machines threatening a genuine Level-9 attack, Nan Yang struck the Enlightenment Prophet with Mystic System rules that appeared to plunder fortune and fate.

• The Enlightenment Prophet sensed Nan Yang through its Pumpkin Mask and moved to pursue it, while Nan Yang called to Saine for help.
• Saine prepared the God of Machines to intervene and asked Astral Realm Overseer Su to conceal its power pressure as the Undying Supreme also set out after the Enlightenment Prophet.
• Saine reached the Enlightenment Prophet first and halted its advance with the Heavenly Planet Destroyer Cannon as the God of Machines began its ultimate fusion.
• Nan Yang swept its Rice Straw Tassel, sending invisible hands of Mystic System rules toward the Enlightenment Prophet in an attack that Saine suspected would plunder its fortune and fate.
• The Enlightenment Prophet answered with a burst of white light, drawing the attention of Di'ersi Jia and Aurora.

Saine let the Enlightenment Prophet escape rather than risk harming allied forces, while Nan Yang revealed that a shred of Burial Shroud could help track it. With the Decayed Civilization nearing defeat but the Enlightenment Prophet preparing for a transformation, Saine ordered his Mechanical Legions to withdraw to the Flowing Light Retrospective World.

• Endless light disrupted Saine's lock on the Enlightenment Prophet, and Saine chose not to pursue when it fled.
• Nan Yang showed Saine and the Undying Supreme a shred of Burial Shroud that could help him locate the Enlightenment Prophet later.
• The Undying Supreme offered to pay Nan Yang for the shred, but declined to shake his hand.
• God of Destruction Zanding's departure left the Decayed Civilization's position worse, though he had opened two Time-Space Rifts for its forces to enter the Material Star Realm.
• Saine ordered the Mechanical Legions to withdraw to the Flowing Light Retrospective World and reminded Nan Yang of their agreement.

After God of Destruction Zandin departed, the four-sided battle in Decay Time-Space ended with all sides withdrawing. Saine returned to the Flowing Light Retrospective World with Lina and Nasi Xiu, while Su promised to meet him in three years for his experiment and to bring the Rule Stones.

• Saine withdrew his Mechanical Civilization Legion after imprisoning the White-Clothed Level-9, while the Decayed Civilization, Evil Tide Civilization, and Anti-Decay Alliance forces also pulled back.
• Saine reminded Astral Realm Overseer Su that she had agreed to help with an experiment and asked for the Rule Stones; Su promised to contact him in three years and bring them then.
• Lina crossed through time-space to reunite with Nasi Xiu, and Saine returned with them to the Flowing Light Retrospective World.
• Lina scolded Nasi Xiu and forbade him from wandering off again for the next ten thousand years.

The Star Wheel Demon Ancestor killed Tianhong Eagle and claimed Swift Blade, which he fused with the Starry Sky Heavenly Wheel. Back in the Flowing Light Retrospective World, Saine expanded his research team and continued investigating the White-Clothed Level-9.

• The Star Wheel Demon Ancestor killed Tianhong Eagle on the Dimensional Battlefield and took the Civilization Supreme Treasure Swift Blade.
• The Star Wheel Demon Ancestor fused Swift Blade with the Starry Sky Heavenly Wheel, increasing his strength.
• Saine asked the Secluded Bamboo Supreme to let him study the Star Wheel Demon Ancestor's new weapon, and the Evil Tide Civilization agreed.
• Saine gathered researchers from the Wizard Civilization and other civilizations to study the White-Clothed Level-9 in the Cube Space.
• Mel reported the research progress to Saine as the researchers continued investigating Level-9 mysteries.

Saine and Mel discussed the Source Energy Remnant Clan’s contributions and planned to reward them with a nearly completed Source Energy Sub-City. Meanwhile, research on the captive level-9 being Little White advanced after Laozi gave Saine a Purple-Gold Gourd containing a golden core that strongly attracted her.

• Mel told Saine that Safina’s Source Energy Remnant Clan had turned over seventy percent of its spoils and praised their battlefield contributions.
• Saine ordered Mel to give the Source Energy Remnant Clan the Source Energy Sub-City that was ninety-seven percent complete.
• Saine and Mel entered the Experimental Base, where scientists studied Little White and the rule power on her body.
• Saine’s Holy Light Rule Thunder frightened Little White but also relieved her chronic ailments, making her more compliant with the experiments.
• After Saine sent Laozi a Tianhong Eagle Heart through Duan Ning, Laozi returned a Purple-Gold Gourd containing a golden core.
• Little White repeatedly reached her tongue toward the golden core hanging above her chamber, showing that it attracted her more than the Source Tracing Stone.

Saine oversaw experiments on Little White and advanced Wizard Civilization’s resurrection research with Master Douglas’s help. He then visited an ocean research base and outlined his vision for Wizard Civilization’s future as a coalition of many strong powers.

• Saine directed the researchers to train Little White to obey commands and warned them not to let her eat the Nine Revolutions Golden Pill yet.
• Saine and the True Spirit Magicians advanced the Gate of Resurrection using insights from the Flower of Life, enabling experiments on flesh-and-blood beings and Wizard World natives.
• Master Douglas joined Saine in the Flowing Light Retrospective World to research resurrection arcana, while the Gate of Resurrection advanced into a Quasi-Civilization Supreme Treasure.
• Saine visited an ocean research base built inside a defeated Tianhai Realm Civilization conch and reviewed its research on ocean-type civilizations.
• Saine advocated developing Wizard World’s native peoples and allied civilizations alongside its knights and magicians to create a more resilient, multipolar civilization.

Saine visited the Ocean Laboratory Base, where Bai Xing introduced him to a promising new Carp Dominator and discussed the sea races’ growing influence and trade ties. After accepting Astral Realm Overseer Su’s invitation, Saine met her in Decay Time-Space as the Flowing Light Retrospective World’s time-flow rate began to decline and the First Flame Emperor’s battle caused trouble.

• Saine praised the newly advanced Carp Dominator for its Bubble Law and suggested it exchange ideas with Illusion Spring.
• Bai Xing told Saine that the Carp Dominator had received help from Illusion Spring and Kun and had built trade partnerships with Water Element worlds.
• Saine helped Bai Xing consolidate control over the Sea Emperor Spear, then learned Astral Realm Overseer Su was coming to meet him.
• Saine traveled to Decay Time-Space and learned that the Flowing Light Retrospective World’s time-flow rate had dropped to 99.8:1 as the war’s intensity waned.
• Su complained to Saine about Evil Tide Civilization’s cross-time-space channel and the First Flame Emperor’s reckless fighting against the Soul Emperor.
• Saine offered to talk the First Flame Emperor down while watching his vast Sea of Fire blaze across the distant battlefield.

Astral Realm Overseer Su took Saine to visit her Overseer Space, where he investigated its rules and capabilities. Saine discovered that Su wielded far greater authority there, while the space remained a place for Overseers to reside and carry out their duties.

• Saine asked Su to take him to her Overseer Space, and she agreed after warning him not to disrupt the balance or touch her things without permission.
• Su explained that Overseers could enter their personal spaces from anywhere in their jurisdictions through authority granted by the Astral Realm Will.
• Saine questioned Su about Overseer Spaces and her personal life, irritating her with his detailed inquiries.
• Saine used mechanical units to survey the space and estimated that it covered about half the territory of a Top-Level Civilization.
• Saine found that the Overseer Space had complete rules, allowed him to open a subspace with Su's authorization, and gave Su far greater freedom and authority than the Material Star Realm.

Saine accompanied Su through her Overseer Space, where she showed him the vast collection of Rule Materials she had gathered over seven hundred thousand years. Su revealed she might leave her post in the future, and she had brought Saine there partly to ask him to craft equipment from her materials.

• Su explained that Overseer Space was filled with Rule Materials and planar planets, and described the duties and disruptions that kept her from tidying it.
• Saine asked about the Rule Stones Su had promised, and Su led him to a golden gate opening into her treasury.
• Su said she had personally collected the treasury’s contents over seven hundred thousand years by visiting hard-to-reach Special Rules Lands.
• Su told Saine she might leave the Overseer post in a few tens of thousands of years.
• Saine recognized the value Su’s rare materials could offer Wizard Civilization’s True Spirit Magicians, while Su intended to ask him to refine equipment for her.

Saine explored Su’s Overseer treasury and took Rule Stones and other materials within the limit she set. He decided to use attribute-less Rule Stones for the Gate of Resurrection’s new framework, while Su left him with hints that the Star Realm was more complicated than he imagined.

• Su showed Saine stores of attribute-less and elemental Rule Stones, then explained that the attribute-less stones came from special regions and were abundant there.
• Saine questioned Su about the Star Realm’s borders and expansion, but Su said the Overseer Statutes prevented her from answering and warned that the Star Realm was more complicated than he thought.
• Su allowed Saine to take materials within an agreed limit, while requiring him to consult her before taking other Law Items from the Overseer Space.
• Saine gathered many Rule Stones, taking half of them from the attribute-less stores and favoring fire and light among the elemental stones.
• Saine decided that attribute-less Rule Stones would provide a more suitable framework for the Gate of Resurrection, which would revive beings with many different attributes and specialties.

Saine studied Astral Realm Overseer Su under strict conditions while the Anti-Decay Alliance continued to grow and Twisted Void Civilization considered joining. The chapter revealed that Twisted Void Civilization had once been called something else twelve million years earlier, and ended with Su refusing Saine’s request for tears.

• Su complained that Saine’s growing troubles had disrupted her rest, then agreed to let him study her in Overseer Space because she had promised before.
• More than a dozen Large World Civilizations joined the Anti-Decay Alliance, and late Level-7 Dominator Guer Dan expressed Twisted Void Civilization’s intention to join.
• Su monitored the expanding conflict, while the narration noted that Wizard Civilization and Immortal Domain Civilization currently had no Astral Realm Overseers.
• Su required Saine to conduct the experiments alone and refused to undress or let him touch sensitive areas, though she provided samples of her hair, tissue, blood, and saliva.
• Saine asked Su to provide tears, and she retorted that she could not cry on demand.

Su left Saine in her Overseer Space to research its rule-related materials and refine a long list of semi-finished items in exchange for access to her vault. After Su departed, Saine brought his companions into the space to help investigate its unusual materials.

• Su asked Saine to refine numerous semi-finished items as payment for researching in her Overseer Space, and offered him initial access to her vault and compensation.
• Su gave Saine a one-time key to the Material Star Realm and a reusable key to her vault before leaving.
• Saine noted the space’s 20:1 time flow and began his own research before starting Su’s commissions.
• Saine released Mel, Luluenman, Master Douglas, Old Lady Mei, and others from his Cube Space, warning them not to take or disturb anything.
• Master Douglas recognized some of the rule materials from several hundred thousand years earlier, and Old Lady Mei remarked that Naige'er had missed the opportunity to visit.

Saine’s research in Su’s Overseer Space led him to uncover a hidden cache left by Xu, the previous Overseer. He found three objects, including a letter titled “A Letter to the Future,” whose contents left him stunned.

• The Wizard Civilization’s True Spirit Magicians organized Su’s Overseer Space while Saine and other researchers studied its unusual Law Items and rare Rule Materials.
• Saine’s experiments continued for two thousand years as Su remained away, and his research gradually turned toward time and Space Law.
• In the 2,173rd year, Saine detected strange time-space ripples behind Su’s Overseer Vault and uncovered a small hidden black space.
• Saine found a Fate Stone Tablet, a green Quasi-Civilization Supreme Treasure necklace, and a sheet of paper left by Xu.
• Saine read Xu’s letter, titled “A Letter to the Future,” and tightened his grip on the paper in shock.

After Su returned to her Overseer Space, she told Saine that the Twisted Void Civilization had entered negotiations at the Anti-Decay Alliance battlefield. Su showed him the civilization’s advance force, revealing that its Dominators were demons, including a powerful Demon Lord named Kil'jaeden.

• Saine gave Su the green necklace from Xu's Hidden Treasure Trove and asked about changes in the Material Star Realm.
• Su said the Twisted Void Civilization had sent Dominators to negotiate with the Dragon God Realm and the Curse Descent Civilization, and that it had occupied more than half a Star Sector.
• Su showed Saine a scene of the Twisted Void Civilization’s advance force at the Anti-Decay Alliance battlefield.
• Saine recognized Kil'jaeden as a Level-8 Peak Demon Lord and realized the Twisted Void Civilization’s Dominators were demons.
• Saine noticed that Guer Dan, a late-stage Level-7 Dominator, also had Orc blood and wore shamanic attire.

Astral Realm Overseer Su told Saine that the Dimensional Hegemony was nearing its end, with the Decayed Civilization close to collapse and the Evil Tide Civilization holding a decisive advantage. With no Dimensional Ascension Gate appearing, Su feared the remaining fighting would spill into the Material Star Realm as the Twisted Void Civilization joined the Anti-Decay Alliance.

• Su and Saine discussed the Twisted Void Civilization’s ties to Azeroth Civilization and its entry into the Anti-Decay Alliance.
• Su said several Top-Level Civilizations were supporting the Anti-Decay Alliance and urged Saine to return to the Dimensional Battlefield, where the Decayed Civilization was nearing defeat.
• Su explained that nearly twenty thousand years had passed on the battlefield, the Evil Tide Civilization held 87.51% of its territory, and hundreds of Dominators had fallen on both sides.
• Su said the missing Dimensional Ascension Gate suggested the hegemony might extend into the Material Star Realm.
• Su estimated that the Decayed Civilization had only a little over two hundred wounded Dominators left, while the Evil Tide Civilization had close to five hundred and was preparing to ascend dimensionally.

As the Evil Tide Civilization prepared to finish off the Decayed Civilization, Saine learned that Fallen Emperor remained on the Dimensional Battlefield and that Destruction Spring had advanced to Half-Nine. Destruction Spring kept absorbing Destruction Factors, growing more powerful and less rational as its destructive tides spread across the battlefield.

• Saine asked Su about Fallen Emperor and learned that he was still fighting Demon Fall Supreme on the Dimensional Battlefield.
• Su explained that Demon Fall Supreme had several possible paths after leaving the Star Realm, while Gray Mist Level-9 Cthulhu was also considering his options.
• Saine learned that Destruction Spring had advanced from Level-8 Peak to Half-Nine by absorbing the Destruction Factors left by fallen Dominators.
• Su warned that Destruction Spring had become increasingly muddled and irritable, and that its repeated destruction tides had created vast numbers of destruction beings.
• Destruction Spring continued absorbing Destruction Factors on the Dimensional Battlefield, pursuing greater power despite its growing instability.

Destruction Spring told the Spring Lords of the Myriad Springs World Cluster that it wanted to fulfill Spring Ancestor’s last wish by raising their civilization to the top level, even as it continued absorbing Destruction Factors. After leaving Overseer Space, Saine felt his life level begin to transform, signaling that he was nearing the Half-Level-9 Realm.

• Destruction Spring told Illusion Spring and the other Spring Lords that it intended to make the Myriad Springs World Cluster a Top-Level Civilization for Spring Ancestor’s sake.
• Saine learned that Destruction Spring’s growth continued despite the war cooling, while Su urged him to end the conflict so he could help with mounting troubles in the Material Star Realm.
• Saine spent over five thousand years researching in Overseer Space before preparing to return with Master Douglas and the others.
• After Saine left Overseer Space and returned to the Material Star Realm, changes in his Dominator body signaled his imminent breakthrough into the Half-Level-9 Realm.

Saine began advancing to Half-Level-9 in Decay Time-Space, using knowledge gained from his experiences to transform his level of life. His breakthrough produced a disturbance so immense that nearby powers mistook it for a Level-9 Being's advancement.

• Saine weighed the risks of advancing in Decay Time-Space, and Su assured him that his time-space imprints and accumulated knowledge would protect him.
• Saine stopped suppressing his power and transformed his Dominator True Body without summoning the God of Machines.
• Flames of Ash and multiple kinds of Source Power of Rules covered Saine as he advanced, while the God of Machines lent him its pressure from within the Magic Cube.
• Nearby Dominator-class beings felt Saine's overwhelming breakthrough aura, and Kil'jaeden turned toward the disturbance in alarm.

As Saine began advancing from Level-8 Peak to Half-Level-9 in Decay Time-Space, the Evil Tide Civilization intensified its offensive while the Decayed Civilization’s allies and unaffiliated Dominators started defecting. The Gekdraman Civilization, led by True Ancestor Dracula, secretly approached the Evil Tide Civilization to change sides.

• Saine underwent a life-essence transformation in the Star Realm, drawing attention from both civilizations as he advanced toward Half-Level-9.
• The Evil Tide Civilization seized the opportunity to intensify its advance against the Decayed Civilization.
• Unaffiliated Dominators joined the Evil Tide camp to claim the Decayed Civilization’s War Fortune, while more World Civilizations entered the Anti-Decay Alliance.
• The Gekdraman Civilization, unable to hold on, secretly negotiated with Zi You about joining the Evil Tide Civilization.
• Camilla True Ancestor told Zi You that the Gekdraman Civilization could become the Evil Tide Civilization’s weapon against the Decayed Civilization.

Camilla True Ancestor secretly sought to bring the Gekdraman Civilization into the Evil Tide Civilization’s alliance, but Zi You made acceptance conditional on destroying Decayed Civilization channels and killing Dracula. Camilla agreed to try to recruit other True Ancestors, leaving the proposed defection dependent on whether they would betray Dracula.

• Camilla True Ancestor met Zi You to offer the Gekdraman Civilization’s defection to the Evil Tide Civilization.
• Zi You demanded that the Gekdraman Civilization help destroy at least thirteen Decayed Civilization Space-Time Channels, and Camilla agreed to try.
• Zi You revealed that the Evil Tide Civilization also required the Gekdraman Vampire True Ancestors to kill Dracula and seize the Blood Cross.
• Camilla warned that she could not defeat Dracula alone, so Zi You urged her to recruit the other Level-8 and persuadable Level-7 True Ancestors.
• Camilla agreed to return and contact the others, while Zi You watched her leave.

Camilla pretended to relay the Evil Tide Civilization’s demands while secretly seeking allies to betray Dracula. Ampsa agreed to help and insisted they also needed Vlad, Dracula’s most loyal confidant.

• Dracula summoned Camilla and discussed the Evil Tide Civilization’s demand to destroy thirteen Space-Time Channels, proposing that they recruit forces from weakened allied civilizations.
• Camilla invented an additional demand for one-third of the Gekdraman Civilization’s blood pearls, and Dracula sent her to Ampsa to arrange their transfer.
• Camilla went to Ampsa, whom she trusted, and confessed that she wanted to backstab Dracula.
• Ampsa agreed they needed help and said they should recruit Vlad, surprising Camilla because he was Dracula’s most loyal confidant.

Ampsa and Camilla secretly prepared to turn against Dracula and cooperate with the Evil Tide Civilization as the Decayed Civilization weakened. Years later, rebellions erupted across the World Battlefield of Time Retracing, with several civilizations and an Eternal Soul Clan faction attacking the Decayed Civilization.

• Ampsa warned Camilla that Dracula had depleted their Blood Pearls and urged her to recruit support while keeping their plans from the other vampires.
• Ampsa and Camilla agreed to gather Blood Pearls from other True Ancestors and let those willing to oppose Dracula join them.
• Two hundred and seventy-one years after Camilla contacted the Evil Tide High-Level, a Zeus Skelton Empire Dominator-class fleet attacked a Decayed Civilization Space-Time Channel.
• A second Zeus Skelton Empire Dominator-class fleet joined the rebellion, while officers in both fleets killed severely Decayed superiors and resisted their commanders.
• The Gekdraman Civilization, Wanqiong World Civilization, and Tianhai Realm Civilization rebelled, and the Son of the Soul Emperor led Eternal Soul Clan forces into the uprising.

As Decayed Civilization withdrew from the Flowing Light Retrospective World, Fallen Emperor left command of its remaining forces to the Serpent Empress and urged her to follow her own path. When Decayed Civilization’s territory contracted to about 3.71 percent, the Dimensional Ascension Gate suddenly appeared at the center of the World Battlefield of Time Retracing.

• After two Eternal Soul Clan Dominators joined the Evil Tide Civilization camp, Fallen Emperor declined to suppress the rebellion and ordered Decayed Civilization to retreat into Decay Time-Space.
• Fallen Emperor told the Serpent Empress that he would remain in the Flowing Light Retrospective World and entrusted her with command of Decayed Civilization’s 227 remaining Dominators.
• The Serpent Empress accepted the responsibility and said she would continue leading Decayed Civilization’s legions into battle after returning to the Material Star Realm.
• Fallen Emperor and the Serpent Empress allowed dissenting Dominators and World Civilizations to leave as Decayed Civilization began its broad retreat.
• Over several hundred years, Decayed Civilization’s territorial share fell from more than thirteen percent to around 3.71 percent.
• The Dimensional Ascension Gate appeared at the center of the World Battlefield of Time Retracing.

The Dimensional Ascension Gate began forming, intensifying the Evil Tide Civilization’s resolve as the war shifted toward Decay Time-Space. Meanwhile, the Gekdraman Civilization fractured when Camilla True Ancestor and other vampires betrayed True Ancestor Dracula, who was left surrounded after trying to flee.

• Secluded Bamboo Supreme told Undying Supreme that the Dimensional Ascension Gate would take thousands of years to condense and might require the Decayed Civilization’s Source Tracing Stone.
• The emerging gate strengthened the Evil Tide Dominators’ morale while the Decayed Civilization’s forces retreated toward the Material Star Realm of Decay Time-Space.
• Several Gekdraman Civilization Dominators switched sides, and Camilla True Ancestor, Ampsa True Ancestor, True Ancestor Vlad, and other vampires turned against True Ancestor Dracula.
• Star Wheel Demon Ancestor arrived with Evil Tide reinforcements and supported Camilla True Ancestor’s faction.
• True Ancestor Dracula tried to escape, but Swift Blade’s Starry Sky Heavenly Wheel severed his bat wings, allowing Camilla True Ancestor and the others to surround him.

The Evil Tide Civilization defeated the True Ancestor Dracula after a siege lasting over twelve hundred years, leaving the Gekdraman Civilization devastated. With the Flowing Light Retrospective World's time flow slowing, the Decayed Civilization withdrew to face another war, while Saine reached the Half-Level-9 Realm.

• The True Ancestor Dracula focused his desperate counterattack on Camilla, Ampsa, and Vlad, but the Star Wheel Demon Ancestor intervened to protect Camilla and Ampsa.
• The Evil Tide Civilization killed the True Ancestor Dracula and claimed his heart and the Scarlet Cross, while Vlad died after the Star Wheel Demon Ancestor refused to aid him.
• The Evil Tide Civilization killed two Level-7 Vampire Dominators, and the Gekdraman Civilization was left with four weakened Vampire True Ancestors.
• Ampsa offered the Evil Tide Civilization a Gekdraman soul-restoration technique and used the True Ancestor Dracula's remains to produce Vampire True Ancestor Blood Beads, which the Star Wheel Demon Ancestor approved.
• As the True Ancestor Dracula fell, the time-flow ratio dropped to 23:1, and most of the Decayed Civilization's remaining main legions withdrew to their Home Star District.
• Saine replenished himself with Astral Realm Rules and completed his advancement to the Half-Level-9 Realm.