Recaps

Saine studied the Gold Essence Generator and chose to preserve it for Wizard Civilization rather than let the Magic Cube devour it. More than three hundred years after the Capricorn Empire’s destruction, Dominator-level battles had waned, though lower-level forces continued raiding across the Demon Domain.

• The Wizard Civilization High-Level Committee, including Bai Xing as the joint representative of the sea folk, demi-humans, and magical beasts, began discussing the Demon Domain’s future and the distribution of its benefits.
• Saine watched the Gold Essence Generator turn low-grade Energy Crystals into Gold Essence Energy Stones and considered its value as an energy source for Wizard Civilization.
• Saine tested the generator’s principles by making basic Magic Conductor equipment, but its efficiency offered no advantage over Wizard Civilization’s Energy Gathering Magic Arrays.
• The Magic Cube asked Saine to let it devour the Gold Essence Generator, but Saine refused and told it to analyze the treasure’s core rules so they could make another one.
• Saine left his laboratory for the Wizard Civilization Command Center as Dominator-level fighting across the Demon Domain had grown rarer and the Demon Subjugation Alliance’s lower-level forces continued raiding for resources.

Saine led Wizard Civilization's high-level meeting to decide how to develop the Demon Domain after the Demon Subjugation Alliance's main forces were driven out. Wizard Civilization and the other members of the Eight Directions Conglomerate produced a joint development declaration, with Wizard Civilization offering the largest public territory.

• Saine opened the meeting and asked the Wizard Civilization leaders to discuss a long-term development model for the Demon Domain.
• Befu proposed Star Sectors between the 5093 Star Territory, the 7708 Star Territory, and the Demon Annihilation World Cluster for development by neutral civilizations.
• Wizard Civilization's leaders agreed to offer a mix of resource-poor, moderate-resource, and resource-rich Star Sectors, despite many knights opposing the sharing of the Demon Domain's wealth.
• Wizard Civilization and the Immortal Domain led the Eight Directions Conglomerate in producing the Joint Development Declaration for the Demon Territory in fewer than two hundred years.
• Wizard Civilization offered the largest territory for public development and added a detailed explanation of how it would peacefully develop the Demon Domain with neighboring civilizations.

The Wizard Civilization and its allies opened the Demon Territory to joint development, drawing in civilizations eager for its resources as war gradually faded. Five centuries later, Nasi Xiu pursued Old Man Xuan Tian through a passage controlled by the Eight Directions Conglomerate, while Saine chose to let the younger fighter face the battle without help.

• The Wizard Civilization promoted the joint development of the Demon Territory, attracting nearby civilizations and top-level powers, including the Xia He Civilization and the Iron-Blood Civilization.
• The Iron-Blood Civilization received territory to develop despite being blocked from joining the Eight Directions Conglomerate, and the Demon Territory gradually shifted toward peaceful development.
• 537 years later, a Coricra Civilization fleet passed through a Void Barrier passage overseen by the War God Peak Civilization as its commander watched a battle in the distance.
• Nasi Xiu wielded the Decay Sword and pursued Old Man Xuan Tian, whose position had worsened as Nasi Xiu grew stronger and Yun Long joined the attacks.
• Lisa offered to help Nasi Xiu, but Saine refused, saying young people needed tempering.

Saine showed Lisa the localized rule-based transformation he had developed through his research and explained that transforming further could make him disappear from the Star Realm. He later left Wizard Civilization’s leadership in the hands of veteran powerhouses, with Green designated as his successor.

• Lisa noticed Saine’s uncertain, elusive state and asked when he planned to leave.
• Saine transformed his right hand into a rule-based state, briefly raising his aura to Half-Level-9 Late-Stage, and warned Lisa that deeper transformation could make him disappear from the Star Realm.
• Lisa revealed a silver blade extending from her hand, showing Saine her progress toward Half-Level-9.
• Saine said Wizard Civilization would need Lisa and the other veterans to lead it, and he eventually left.
• Saine designated Green as the next Civilization Leader, while his decision to entrust Wizard Civilization to veterans such as Befu and Lisa drew criticism.

Saine wandered through the Demon Domain while seeking insight, since his unstable Rule Attribute prevented him from conducting further experiments. He found a primitive, gentle blue micro planet and decided to conduct a “World Experiment” on it.

• The Wizard Civilization claimed vast stretches of the Demon Domain despite lacking the troops to occupy or develop them, leaving some weak plane civilizations to grow independently.
• Saine left Lady Lisa and wandered through the Demon Domain, avoiding alchemy experiments because his Rule Attribute was unstable.
• Saine discovered a primitive blue micro planet whose strongest creature had only reached the first level, and he judged that technology might eventually emerge there.
• Saine compared it with a nearby fire planet, where active Fire Element energy had produced second-level Flame-Type Creatures.
• Saine decided to conduct a “World Experiment” and tossed a Source Energy Crystal toward the blue planet.

Saine dropped an ancient Source Energy Crystal onto an azure Micro Plane, where it accelerated the evolution of life and civilization. After watching the planet's humans develop source energy cultivation methods, Saine left to wander the Demon Domain, while the planet continued to transform.

• Saine cast the Source Energy Crystal onto the azure planet to advance his study of the world's evolution.
• The crystal transformed the planet's lifeforms, with animals, plants, microorganisms, and mineral veins changing before its human inhabitants.
• The planet's humans developed rudimentary source energy cultivation methods and transformed some of their tools within a few decades.
• Saine watched the planet's growth, sensed that gaining knowledge was changing his condition, and decided to leave the crystal behind.
• Saine departed into the Demon Domain star region as the azure planet continued to shine and evolve.

After growing restless and wary of being drawn into dangerous conflicts by the Star Realm’s balance rules, Saine returned to Wizard Civilization. Reunited with the Wizard World, he decided to leave more treasures behind for it.

• Saine wandered through the Star Realm for decades and found little left to interest him, while his guesses about unfamiliar things triggered familiar rule fluctuations.
• Saine avoided special spacetime regions because he feared the Star Realm’s balance rules would pull him into a dangerous Dimensional Hegemony or conflict with a Level-9 Being.
• Saine abandoned his aimless flight through the Demon Territory Depths and headed back to Wizard Civilization, which he considered home.
• Saine returned to the Wizard World and felt its warm acceptance as the Star Realm’s rejection vanished.
• Saine resolved to leave more World-Class Secret Treasures for the Wizard World.

Saine traveled across the Wizard World and openly crafted hundreds of World-Class Secret Treasures, broadcasting his experiments so magicians could learn from them. His work was set to make these treasures accessible to even more of Wizard Civilization.

• Saine traveled to the Land of Ashes, the Endless South Sea, the City of Steel, Sky City, Kapeiqi, and other places to conduct alchemy.
• In the Land of Ashes, Saine crafted more than two hundred World-Class Secret Treasures and broadcast every step of his experiments to Wizard Civilization.
• Magicians and knights gathered to watch, with magicians studying his techniques and knights admiring the treasures he made.
• Saine crafted treasures across multiple grades, giving magicians of different levels practical inspiration and adding more World-Class Secret Treasures to circulation.
• Saine's public alchemy work promised to lower the barrier to owning World-Class Secret Treasures throughout Wizard Civilization.

Saine’s alchemy experiments drew powerhouses from across the Wizard World, prompting many to return from the Demon Realm Battlefield and inspiring others to conduct experiments of their own. As Saine carried on his work, hundreds of Rank Four and above powerhouses showed signs of breaking through on the spot.

• Saine conducted alchemy experiments across the Wizard World, attracting native powerhouses, sea folk, demihumans, and magical beast clans.
• Rank Four and above powerhouses rushed back from the Demon Realm Battlefield, alarming the Demon Subjugation Alliance, whose members reinforced their defenses.
• Victor Master left the front line and entrusted command and the Endless Light Device’s maintenance to Vikz so he could observe Saine’s experiments.
• Saine created more than two hundred World-Class Secret Treasures in the Land of Ashes and continued large-scale experiments in other locations.
• The Mother Plane Will trembled as Saine’s experiments left an inheritance for Wizard Civilization, and other powerhouses began imitating his work.
• At least several hundred Rank Four and above powerhouses of the Wizard World showed signs of breaking through on the spot.

Saine’s alchemy experiments became a lasting source of knowledge for Wizard Civilization, while he forged increasingly powerful World-Class Secret Treasures, including equipment tailored to individual Dominators. The chapter left the Undying Star Dragon Warlock with a growth-capable Mystic Crystal Armor and Saine working with his assistants to make several Top-Grade treasures at once.

• Wizard Civilization powerhouses and magicians gained insight from Saine’s experiments, and their holographic recordings promised to preserve his knowledge for future generations.
• Saine produced Low-, Mid-, and High-Level World-Class Secret Treasures on increasingly long schedules, tailoring many of them to specific Wizard Civilization powerhouses.
• After hearing that the Undying Star Dragon Warlock had been injured by Mad Beast Civilization, Saine forged him a Mystic Crystal Armor that could grow and matched his Rule Attribute.
• The Undying Star Dragon Warlock said the new armor was calling to him, while the other Wizard World Dominators looked on enviously.
• Saine began forging several Top-Grade World-Class Secret Treasures simultaneously, assisted by Wall-E, Yuli, Meili, Little Fox Girl, and his other laboratory assistants.

Saine began creating the Mechanical Secret Realm above the Endless South Sea, using the Faceless Mask’s Darkness Space as its core so Wizard Civilization’s Dominator-class beings could explore and temper themselves. The realm took shape as a hidden subspace attached to a Time-Space Crack, while Saine considered the attention it might draw from the Astral Realm Will and its Overseers.

• Saine flew to the Endless South Sea, negotiated with the Mother Plane Will, and began forming a new space with Rule Materials and high-level Intelligent Robots.
• Saine named the space the Mechanical Secret Realm and designed it to let Dominator-class beings explore and fight for high-level World-Class Secret Treasures.
• Saine removed the Faceless Mask and decided to use its Darkness Space as the secret realm’s core structure.
• Saine learned from the Mother Plane Will that the new Time-Space Crack posed little concern to the plane, but considered the Astral Realm Will and Overseers a greater risk.
• Saine rapidly opened a vast Mechanical Secret Realm above the Endless South Sea as nearby Wizard World powerhouses watched in shock.

Saine watched the Mechanical Secret Realm continue forming and reflected on his growing Rule-based transformation, which had reached 37% and brought him close to the Supreme realm. The Wizard Civilization then located Old Man Xuan Tian and several powerful figures from other civilizations, setting the stage for Saine to resume unfinished matters.

• Saine Master Douglas and Saine Master Naige'er admired the Mechanical Secret Realm taking shape above the Endless South Sea, and Naige'er felt kinship with fellow seekers of Truth Arcana.
• Saine considered how the Mechanical Secret Realm was evolving into a world and continued pondering the mysteries of the Star Realm and High-Dimensional Time-Space.
• After more than five thousand years of peace and development, Saine noted that his Rule-based transformation had reached 37%, leaving him able to unleash Half-Level-9 Peak strength and close to the 40% Supreme threshold.
• Saine wondered whether his unusual Rule-based transformation was unique and what might lie beyond 100%.
• Lian Xiangyan reported that the Wizard Civilization had located Old Man Xuan Tian and seven other powerful figures from different civilizations.

Saine chose three alien powerhouses to eliminate and set out alone, leaving Wizard Civilization with enemies to sustain its growth. He reached the Xuan Tian Great World, where Nasi Xiu was already attacking its barrier.

• Saine selected Old Man Xuan Tian, the Bone Crushing Emperor, and the Element Pioneer as targets, while leaving other threats for Wizard Civilization and the Eight Directions Conglomerate to handle.
• Saine left the Faceless Mask in the transforming Mechanical Secret Realm, and his right eye’s rule-based process advanced by another 1%.
• Saine declined Lian Xiangyan’s offer of help and traveled alone toward the star region of his first target.
• Saine reached the Profound Heaven World Cluster and found Nasi Xiu outside the Xuan Tian Great World, striking its barrier with the Decay Sword.
• Saine discovered that the Xuan Tian Great World had only seven Dominators, highlighting how difficult it had been for Old Man Xuan Tian to reach Level-8 Peak.

Saine arrived at the Profound Heaven World Cluster and showed Nasi Xiu the difference in their power by seizing Old Man Xuan Tian and dragging him from his lair. Saine began a final dissection experiment on the helpless Dominator, and Old Man Xuan Tian's severed right arm erupted into Ash Flame.

• Nasi Xiu left the Xuan Tian Great World and greeted his father Saine, who noted his eldest son's growth and troubled future.
• Saine seized Old Man Xuan Tian inside the Heavenly Mountain Heavenly Lake, freezing the space around him and overcoming his attempts to escape.
• Saine dragged Old Man Xuan Tian out of the Xuan Tian Great World as Nasi Xiu watched in awe.
• Saine announced that he would give Old Man Xuan Tian one last dissection experiment and removed his right arm, which turned into blazing Ash Flame.

Saine dissected Old Man Xuan Tian to study multiple rule domains, leaving him reduced to a sealed, still-living head. After his Rule-based progress rose to 42%, Saine set out toward the starry sky beyond the Profound Heaven World Cluster to face his remaining opponents.

• Saine restrained Old Man Xuan Tian and tested Ash Element and Mechanical Element powers, causing parts of his body and Dominator Omnipotent Soul to burn away or transform into metal.
• Saine continued dissecting Old Man Xuan Tian with numerous rule domains while demonstrating his abilities and guiding Nasi Xiu.
• Saine reduced Old Man Xuan Tian to a head, silenced him, and sealed him with Time-Space Power as nearby Dominators and Wizard Civilization forces watched in shock.
• Saine offered Old Man Xuan Tian as an experiment specimen, but Nasi Xiu declined, so Saine stored the head and the other transformed parts.
• Saine's Rule-based progress climbed to 42%, and he walked toward the starry sky beyond the Profound Heaven World Cluster to confront his remaining opponents.

Nasi Xiu devastated the Xuan Tian Great World as the Wizard Civilization launched its invasion, while Saine traveled to confront the Heavy Hammerer Civilization. His arrival startled both the Heavy Hammerer and Mani God System civilizations, leaving his purpose unknown.

• After Saine departed, Nasi Xiu unleashed Myriad Swords Return to One, riddling the Xuan Tian Great World's Plane Barrier with Decay Swords and killing many powerful natives.
• A True Spirit Magician ordered a full army attack, sending hundreds of millions of Wizard Civilization troops against the Xuan Tian Great World.
• Saine traveled to the Heavy Hammerer Civilization's main-force starfield, where its forces faced the Mani God System Civilization's legions.
• The Heavy Hammerer Civilization and Mani God System Civilization panicked when they recognized Saine, while the Mani God System's chief gods hurried to spread news of his arrival.
• The Mani God System Civilization's alliance with Wizard Civilization remained linked to its claim that the departed Mani Goddess had guided it, a mystery Wizard Civilization was still investigating.

Saine sought to learn how the Mani God System Civilization communicated with the departed Mani Goddess, but first confronted the Heavy Hammerer Civilization forces. He unleashed Endless Light and summoned more than twenty Source Energy Sub-Cities as the Bone Crushing Emperor and his Dominators attacked.

• Saine considered whether the Mani Goddess had contacted Locke in a higher dimension and resolved to ask the Mani God System Civilization about its cross-dimensional communication method.
• Saine decided to target the Bone Crushing Emperor rather than destroy the Heavy Hammerer Civilization alone, to avoid provoking greater backlash from the Astral Realm Rules.
• Saine fired a torrent of Endless Light energy that annihilated countless troops and left several Dominators struggling to resist.
• The Bone Crushing Emperor ordered the Heavy Hammerer Civilization Dominators to attack Saine, and they charged him despite their fear.
• Saine summoned more than twenty Source Energy Sub-Cities, which opened fire on the Heavy Hammerer Civilization forces and Dominators.

Saine helped the Mani God System Civilization defeat the Heavy Hammerer Civilization, killing the Bone Crushing Emperor and breaking the enemy’s morale. He then offered the Sun God the Sky Curtain Hammer in exchange for the secret of communicating across dimensions with the Mani Goddess.

• Saine unleashed more than twenty Source Energy Sub-Cities as the Mani God System Civilization launched an all-out assault on the Heavy Hammerer Civilization.
• Saine confronted the Bone Crushing Emperor and killed him with a barrage of rule power and cannon fire, discovering that his Dominator Heart had reached Half-Nine.
• The Heavy Hammerer Civilization’s forces lost morale and began to collapse after Saine displayed the Bone Crushing Emperor’s Dominator Heart.
• Saine approached the Sun God, who was fighting the Savage Force King, and asked for the secret of communicating with the Mani Goddess across dimensions.
• The Sun God refused to reveal the civilization’s core secret, so Saine offered him the Sky Curtain Hammer as payment.

Saine traded the Sky Curtain Hammer to the Sun God for the secret that the Mani God System Civilization received Divine Decrees from the Level-9 Mani Goddess, then traveled alone to Mani World. After entering with the Fire Worship Divine Token, he headed toward the great pyramid at the Nikladonro River and saw a vast statue left by the Mani Goddess.

• Saine gave the Sky Curtain Hammer to the Sun God, who struck the Savage Force King with it before revealing the Mani Goddess’s Divine Decrees.
• The Sun God gave Saine a Fire Worship Divine Token, and Saine decided to visit the Mani God System Civilization’s Home Starfield alone.
• Saine entered Mani World and observed its desert landscape, flame-worshipping gods, and enormous pyramids.
• Saine flew toward the largest pyramid at the end of the Nikladonro River and saw the Mani Goddess’s Sphinx-like Beauty Statue appear.

Saine visited the Mani God System Civilization and deciphered the Holy Fire left by the Mani Goddess, uncovering a method of cross-dimensional communication. After his greeting to the Mani Goddess went unanswered, he used the new method to contact the God of Machines.

• Saine examined the Mani Goddess's statue and saw the Holy Fire ignite before it.
• Saine received the Holy Fire and studied its Mystic, faith, time-space, and fire-system principles in Mani World.
• Saine deciphered the Mani Goddess's Divine Decree and derived the greeting, “Hello.”
• Saine tried to send a greeting to the Mani Goddess but received no response.
• Saine used the new communication method to send a message to the God of Machines, who made contact with him.

Saine received an encoded message and a higher-dimensional coordinate from the God of Machines, then traded with Shaquilos in Mani World for materials intended for Angle and Jormungandr. On his way to White Cloud Flowing Tuo World, he saw the Heavy Hammerer Civilization retreating and the Yan Emperor Divine Clan intensifying its invasion.

• Saine contacted the God of Machines and received a string of 01 code that seemed to indicate it was safe and provided a higher-dimensional coordinate.
• Saine traded half-Level-9 blood with Shaquilos for the World Serpent’s scales, blood, and muscle tissue, preparing resources for Angle and Jormungandr.
• Saine left Mani World and considered where he might travel in the higher dimensions, noting that the God of Machines and Locke had gone to different time-spaces.
• Saine passed through the Heavy Hammerer Civilization’s war zone and saw its legions and Dominators retreating after the Bone Crushing Emperor’s death and the defeat of its forces.
• Saine reached the White Cloud Flowing Tuo World war zone, where Yan Emperor Divine Clan Fire Element Dominators continued pursuing and slaughtering the native Elemental Creatures.

Saine arrived at the White Cloud Flowing Tuo World and used Source Energy Sub-Cities to pull Element Pioneer out from under the plane’s protections. He began disassembling the weakened Half-Level-9 powerhouse, while First Flame Emperor helped and claimed Element Pioneer’s head.

• Saine found First Flame Emperor battering the White Cloud Flowing Tuo World while Element Pioneer defended it from beneath the plane’s Rules.
• Element Pioneer called on the Guardian, the Mother Plane Will, and the Astral Realm Will for greater support after Saine arrived.
• Saine arranged dozens of Source Energy Sub-Cities into a formation that pierced the Plane Barrier and forcibly drew Element Pioneer into the starry sky.
• Saine restrained Element Pioneer and began another disassembly experiment, while First Flame Emperor offered to help.
• Saine took Element Pioneer’s Flowing Cloud Whip, Heart of Elements, and most of its other Dominator components, while First Flame Emperor took its head.

After defeating the Element Pioneer, Saine reached 49% rule-based transformation but remained just short of Level 9, so he chose to return to the Wizard World and settle its remaining affairs. The First Flame Emperor continued attacking the White Cloud Flowing Tuo World Cluster, seeking resources now that the Element Pioneer was dead.

• Saine considered using the Element Pioneer's all-element Heart Core to craft a magic staff for Master Douglas and possibly create Wizard Civilization's Guide Set.
• Saine realized the Element Pioneer had not pushed his transformation past the Critical Point and decided to return to the Wizard World rather than risk advancing to Level 9 in further battles.
• Saine left the First Flame Emperor, who vowed to catch up to him and wondered about his understanding of Level-9 Beings.
• The First Flame Emperor ordered his army to continue attacking the White Cloud Flowing Tuo World Cluster and swung his Strange Fire Cauldron at the world to seize its resources.

Saine completed the final preparations for the Mechanical Secret Realm before leaving the Wizard World, while two Eyes of the Astral Realm watched him from beyond the Plane Barrier. As he elevated the secret realm, his Rule-based process advanced to 50%.

• Saine returned to the Wizard World and noticed two Eyes of the Astral Realm fixed on him from the astral void.
• Saine inspected the nearly completed Mechanical Secret Realm and reviewed its trials, rewards, and World-Class Secret Treasures for Wizard Civilization members.
• Saine told Green and the other Dominators that he would open the Mechanical Secret Realm after leaving and place three spare cores in the Land of Ashes, Sky City, and the City of Steel.
• Saine declined a proposal to erect a statue of him in the Mechanical Secret Realm and focused instead on leaving behind contingency measures and Mechanical Element trump cards.
• Saine used the Magic Cube to carry out the final elevation of the Mechanical Secret Realm, advancing his Rule-based process to 50%.

Saine reached the conventional Level-9 threshold and discovered that the Astral Realm Will both pushed him toward advancement and restrained his deeper transformation. He began forging a Civilization Supreme Treasure Magic Staff for Douglas, while Naige'er joked about lending him the Death Crown and T-Virus.

• Saine questioned the Astral Realm Will about its intensified pressure, then declined the Wizard World Mother Plane Will’s offer to conceal him so he could remain longer.
• Saine called for the Quasi-Civilization Supreme Treasures, including the Gate of Resurrection, intending to use his Origin Power to complete their transformations and make a Guide Set for spellcasters.
• As Saine studied the Star Realm’s rules, his progression began transforming again, and the Astral Realm Will tried to prevent him from reaching 100%.
• Saine held a private Alchemy Experiment in the Mechanical Secret Realm, using the Element Pioneer’s Half-Level-9 core, a Life Tree Root, and rare Rule Materials to forge a Magic Staff for Douglas.
• Naige'er joked that Douglas would finally have his own Civilization Supreme Treasure and offered to lend him the Death Crown and T-Virus, but Douglas said he was not interested in death or Virus Element arcana.