Recaps

The Demon Fall Supreme weighed the danger of advancing to Level 9 before returning to its demonized Guangwei Planet, as the Evil Tide Civilization prepared to conquer the Minghe Empire. Several hundred years earlier, Saine and Gongsun Wudi struggled to survive inside the Gray Passage, with Saine determined to find a way back to the Wizard Civilization.

• The Demon Fall Supreme considered whether the Astral Realm Will wanted it to advance to Level 9 so it could be killed, then returned to its demonized Guangwei Planet.
• The Demon Fall Supreme accepted that the Evil Tide Civilization’s conquest of the Light Dimension Country was assured and that the Minghe Empire would soon be targeted.
• Several hundred years earlier, Saine endured the Gray Passage’s crushing pressure with Gongsun Wudi, shielding them inside the Combined Fortress Group.
• The fortress group’s defenses failed and its metal shell began breaking apart, while Saine used the damaged structure to protect everyone and collected passage fragments as specimens.
• Saine held Gongsun Wudi close, wondered where the Deep Red Passage Duan Po had entered led, and promised that they would survive.

After enduring a 127-year journey through a Space-Time Channel, Saine and Gongsun Wudi entered a world where energy was scarce and living things steadily consumed their own reserves. They arrived alongside a massive Energy Tide, drawing starving creatures that rushed to absorb it, while Saine assessed the danger and tried to understand their new surroundings.

• Saine and Gongsun Wudi endured 127 years and 6 months in the Gray Passage before rushing through an intact door while they were near collapse.
• Saine and Gongsun Wudi emerged in a gray world where Saine could not draw energy and quickly began to feel hunger.
• A massive Energy Tide followed them through the door, and more than a dozen starving creatures rushed to absorb it.
• Saine recognized a toad with the law of devouring and a gemstone-covered starfish among the creatures feeding on the Energy Tide.
• Saine and Gongsun Wudi stayed calm as Saine judged that the Level-4 and Level-5 creatures could threaten him in his weakened condition.

Saine and Gongsun Wudi arrived at an energy gathering place with Fumila, where a black man targeted the women. Saine subdued him and took his three eyes, but the toad swallowed him, leaving Saine to challenge the toad over the spoils.

• Saine and Gongsun Wudi emerged beside the wreckage of the Combined Fortress Group, drawing the attention of creatures at the energy gathering place.
• A three-eyed black man eyed Gongsun Wudi and Fumila, so Saine attacked him with Ashes of Fire.
• Saine overpowered the Level-5 black man and removed his three eyes, which contained the power of different laws.
• The toad asked Saine to spare the black man because the settlement needed him, but Saine kicked the nearly defeated creature away.
• The toad swallowed the black man, and Saine asked whether it was stealing his Spoils of War.

Saine and his companions confronted the creatures of the Gate of Penetration settlement area in Despair World, where Gongsun Wudi demonstrated overwhelming physical strength. After defeating the settlement’s leaders, Saine recovered his spoils and learned how the world’s harsh conditions passively evolve and temper its inhabitants, while leaving him and Gongsun Wudi desperately hungry.

• A toad demanded that Saine’s group leave the Gate of Penetration settlement area or pay three hundred pints of Energy Crystals.
• Gongsun Wudi struck the Heaven Swallowing Toad and overwhelmed the settlement’s creatures, prompting the Multi-Horned Elk to share information.
• Saine recovered his spoils from the toad’s shattered belly, including the mangled corpse of the Level-5 Black Man and a Heaven Swallowing Toad specimen.
• The Multi-Horned Elk explained that creatures in Despair World grew stronger through passive bodily evolution as their energy was rapidly consumed.
• Saine and Gongsun Wudi ate their fill while the settlement’s creatures submitted to them, and Saine considered how the world’s inhabitants relied on physical strength rather than energy or laws.

Saine learned that the Gate of Penetration was a dangerous source of energy in the Despair World, where stranded creatures survived by chance and had little hope of escape. After questioning the camp’s inhabitants, he found that the Poison Fire Ladybug King had been sealed and banished there, and Saine saw a possible clue to escaping in the laws that had carried him to the world.

• The Multi-Horned Elk explained that the Gate of Penetration’s unpredictable energy tides could kill even powerful creatures, leaving only weaker beings to scavenge near it.
• After eating, Saine asked the camp’s inhabitants how they had arrived, and they described being stranded through accidents, storms, or faulty teleportation.
• Saine learned that none of the creatures had heard of the Wizard Civilization, underscoring how little its fame reached across the Star Realm.
• The Poison Fire Ladybug King told Saine that the Light Snail-Ant Clan and a powerful woman had sealed and banished him to the Despair World.
• Saine questioned the Poison Fire Ladybug King about the paths of law energy involved in his banishment, hoping they might reveal a way out.

Saine established a laboratory in the Despair World and discovered that time there flowed roughly a hundred times faster than in the Material Star Realm, though returning remained uncertain. Gongsun Wudi revealed that she had heard about the world from her father, while Saine suspected it was the place where the Ai Youlan Butterfly Civilization had left the Star Realm.

• Saine promised the Poison Fire Ladybug King meat and experiments that could strengthen its fire-law power.
• Saine and Gongsun Wudi settled near the closed Gate of Penetration, claimed its scattered energy crystals, and kept most local creatures in the area.
• Saine put nearby Wanderers to work building a laboratory and salvaged useful equipment from the damaged Space Fortress Group.
• Saine told Gongsun Wudi that returning through the Gate of Penetration might be impossible, but time in the Despair World might pass about a hundred times faster than in the Material Star Realm.
• Gongsun Wudi said her father had told her about the Despair World, and Saine showed her an image of a fleet passing through a Gray Light Gate.
• Saine said he suspected the Ai Youlan Butterfly Civilization had once left the Star Realm through this world.

Saine and Gongsun Wudi discussed how the Despair World affected their resources and Saine’s theory that it served as a transit zone for the Ai Youlan Butterfly Civilization. After Gongsun Wudi revealed that a Dominator Soul might offer a way out, Saine offered her the Dominator Eye, but she refused and chose to remain with him.

• Saine explained that the Magic Cube could still supply limited energy, helping him, Gongsun Wudi, and Fumila endure the Despair World.
• Saine described how the world drained energy from most Space Equipment and why the Magic Cube, Saine’s Space Conch, and Gongsun Wudi’s bellyband resisted the loss.
• Saine used Wall-E’s evidence, Time Flow Rate calculations, and what he had learned about the Ai Youlan Butterfly Civilization to argue that the Despair World was a transit zone out of the Star Realm.
• Gongsun Wudi told Saine that her father had said Despairers hunted Dominators to escape the world.
• Saine offered Gongsun Wudi the Dominator Eye, which contained enough Dominator Omnipotent Soul for one person, but she declined and said she would stay with him.

Saine advanced to the Level-6 Late Stage after more than two years of experiments in Despair World, easing the damage he suffered in the Endless Light Energy Tide. He and Gongsun Wudi found new ways to improve their strength while stranded there, including a law-infused fist art and Blood Crystals refined from local creatures.

• Saine focused on recovering and advancing his realm, using insights from Despair World creatures to develop his body-tempering arcana.
• After more than two years, Saine reached the Level-6 Late Stage, stabilized his realm, and reduced the effects of the Endless Light Energy Tide.
• Saine found Gongsun Wudi practicing a slow fist art taught to her by her father, and she offered to teach it to him.
• Saine showed Gongsun Wudi a Blood Crystal refined from Despair World creatures and explained that these crystals could strengthen their bodies.
• Saine said he would brew Body Tempering Potions himself while they remained trapped in Despair World, supplementing the stock left by his mentor.

Saine worked to restore his Combined Fortress Group and Magic Cube while training Intelligent Robots to assist with his mechanical research. In the 547th year after arriving in Despair World, Gongsun Wudi drove off a Level-6 black dragon and brought back its blood and flesh, leaving Saine with valuable materials and plans to capture the dragon if they met again.

• Saine inspected his damaged Combined Fortress Group and decided to use Intelligent Robots to help repair and operate it while he continued repairing the Magic Cube.
• Saine carried out experiments for the Gate of Penetration settlement area and repaid Wanderers who helped him with useful items and Energy Crystals.
• Gongsun Wudi trained by sparring with settlement residents and defeated the settlement's Level-4 and Level-5 creatures in matched-strength fights.
• In the 547th year, Gongsun Wudi wounded and drove away a passing Level-6 black dragon, collecting dragon blood and flesh for Saine.
• Saine tested the dragon blood, judged it exceptionally potent, and proposed capturing the black dragon alive for its blood before sharing Blood Crystal Potions with Gongsun Wudi.

After spending 2,173 years in Despair World, Saine and Gongsun Wudi had built a stable settlement around the Gate of Penetration while Saine studied its rules and traded Energy Crystals for Wanderers’ blood. Saine decided they should leave the settlement, though he had not yet found a way out of Despair World.

• Saine spent over two thousand years conducting experiments and studying the Gate of Penetration as it opened twice and released increasingly powerful Energy Tides.
• The latest eruption drew more Wanderers to the settlement, raising its population to forty or fifty under Saine and Gongsun Wudi’s stable rule.
• Gongsun Wudi and Fumila dealt with troublemakers, and Gongsun Wudi made the Level-6 Mid-Stage Pseudo-Despairer Papabiye his follower after severing one of its paws.
• Saine extracted Wanderers’ blood through Blood Offering and gave them Energy Crystals produced by the Magic Cube in exchange.
• After finishing his latest research phase, Saine told Gongsun Wudi that they should leave the settlement.

Saine and Gongsun Wudi decided to leave the Gate of Penetration settlement after Saine concluded he had learned what he could there and that returning to the Star Realm through the Gate was almost impossible. They set out for the Ancient Wilderness Plains to investigate the source of Sage’s Stones and explore the Despair World.

• Saine told Gongsun Wudi that staying in the settlement had become risky and offered no further progress, and she agreed to leave with him.
• Saine dismantled his temporary laboratories, moved his specimens and Combined Fortress Group into storage, and prepared to depart unnoticed.
• Gongsun Wudi told Saine that the Unicorn Black Bear had identified her as a Peak Despairer-level being.
• Saine recalled that Sage’s Stones could accelerate passive evolution and proposed visiting the Ancient Wilderness Plains, where they were produced.
• Saine and Gongsun Wudi left the Gate of Penetration settlement, with Saine saying they might return if necessary.

Saine and Gongsun Wudi traveled through the storm-ravaged Ancient Wilderness Plains, searching for Sage's Stone veins. At the third mining area, three powerful creatures demanded their treasures, and Saine's group prepared to fight.

• Saine explained how violent energy storms had formed Sage's Stone as he and Gongsun Wudi sheltered from a storm that lasted three months.
• After the storm subsided, Saine used the Faceless Mask to locate Sage's Stone veins and traveled with Gongsun Wudi on an Element Black Phoenix.
• At the third mining area, a Level-6 Peak dwarf, a Level-6 Mid-Stage leopard, and a Level-6 Late-Stage gorilla blocked their path and demanded their Sage's Stones and treasures.
• Saine summoned Fumila and the Magic Cube while Gongsun Wudi prepared to fight the dwarf.
• Fumila and Gongsun Wudi charged their opponents as Saine flew toward the Double-Cannon Gorilla on the Element Black Phoenix.

Saine, Gongsun Wudi, and Fumila fought three Level-6 roadblockers across the Gobi for months, wearing them down until they tried to retreat. Saine trapped them with an Ash Power array, just as a flame-wreathed creature appeared on the horizon.

• Saine attacked the Double-Cannon Gorilla with Element Power while Gongsun Wudi and Fumila pressured the dwarf and leopard.
• Gongsun Wudi shattered the dwarf's conical-hat mask and revealed that he was a yellow chicken carrying a World-Class Secret Treasure.
• The gorilla fired his shoulder cannons at Saine, who blocked the blast with the Magic Cube's Planet Protection Shield.
• After months of fighting, the exhausted gorilla admitted defeat and tried to withdraw with the dwarf and leopard.
• Saine summoned a massive Ash Power imprisonment array to stop the three Level-6 Creatures from escaping.
• A flame-wreathed creature appeared on the Gobi horizon with a piercing screech.

Saine and his allies forced three Level-6 creatures to surrender their treasures, but the Double-Cannon Gorilla secured their release by offering information about the Austia Civilization Relic. As the creatures fled, an approaching Energy Storm Tide threatened the Ancient Wilderness Plains.

• A female Fire Phoenix joined Saine and his allies, warned them that a storm was approaching, and helped them fight the Double-Cannon Gorilla and its companions.
• Saine decided to end the battle quickly and demanded the creatures hand over their Sage’s Stones, Energy Crystals, and rare Law Items.
• The three creatures surrendered seven hundred Sage’s Stones and other treasures, including a badly damaged World-Class Secret Treasure rod, but refused Saine’s demand for one of their arms.
• The Double-Cannon Gorilla offered information and coordinates for the Austia Civilization Relic in exchange for the creatures’ freedom, and Saine accepted the bargain.
• The Double-Cannon Gorilla and its companions fled, then saw an Energy Storm Tide approaching and cursed Saine and their bad luck.

Saine and his companions took shelter from a violent energy storm with Minghua, a Level-6 phoenix from the Hundred Spirits Aviary who had entered the Despair World by mistake. As they exchanged samples and learned about each other, Saine began considering how to recruit the hungry phoenix for his research.

• Minghua told Saine that she came from the Hundred Spirits Aviary, where phoenixes were revered and the strongest being was the Hundred Spirits Immortal Phoenix.
• Minghua explained that she had entered a strange Land of Rules resembling flour and become trapped in the Despair World.
• Minghua shielded Saine and the others from the storm while Saine obtained one of her feathers and asked her for blood; she agreed, then examined his Staff of Ashes.
• Minghua recognized the phoenix bloodline imprint in Saine's staff and said it had likely come from a phoenix mother that laid an egg.
• Saine considered persuading the hungry Minghua to cooperate with his experimental research as the energy storm continued to threaten the shelter.

After the Energy Tide subsided, Saine failed to track down the Double-Cannon Gorilla and its companions, but he gained rare Shou Mountain Copper ore from Minghua. Minghua then offered to take Saine and Gongsun Wudi to another Rule Dangerous Land.

• Saine studied an information orb and learned that the Double-Cannon Gorilla had escaped an Osydia Civilization Relic with two cannons fused into its body.
• Saine and the others endured the Energy Tide for two and a half years while Minghua slept and Gongsun Wudi meditated.
• After the storm subsided, Saine searched for the Double-Cannon Gorilla and its companions, but found their shelter abandoned.
• Minghua exchanged phoenix blood and feathers with Saine for supplies, then gave him a large piece of Shou Mountain Copper raw ore.
• Minghua told Saine she knew of a Rule Dangerous Land and invited him to visit it with her.

Minghua led Saine and Gongsun Wudi to the prosperous Luanfeng Mountain settlement area, where the powerful Faceless One enforced strict rules. After arriving, Saine saw an immense field of bones stretching beyond the mountains and wondered how many creatures Despair World had buried.

• After several years of travel and three energy storms, Minghua brought Saine and the others to Luanfeng Mountain and warned them that the Faceless One ruled it.
• Minghua explained that the settlement once held more than seven hundred Wanderers, and rumors claimed a powerful rival of the Faceless One had escaped Despair World during past turmoil.
• Minghua carried Saine and Gongsun Wudi into the settlement, where she explained its rules and said the Luanfeng Mountain Rule Land would open in about 352 years.
• Saine saw the colossal peak where the Faceless One lived and learned that entering the Rule Land required three Sage's Stones and that fighting was forbidden in the settlement.
• Saine looked beyond the mountain range and saw an endless expanse of white bones.

Saine and Gongsun Wudi joined the Luanfeng Mountain Settlement Area, where Minghua Phoenix showed them the peaks and explained its inhabitants and trading district. They arrived at Minghua’s home on the Third Peak as other Level-6 Creatures reacted to their presence.

• Saine was stunned by the vast ocean of bones covering the settlement area and recorded the sight with his Crystal Ball.
• Minghua Phoenix invited Saine to visit her home after he and Gongsun Wudi completed the procedures to join the settlement area.
• Saine detected thirteen Level-6 Creatures living on the highest peaks and revealed his and Gongsun Wudi’s powerful auras to the settlement’s intermediary.
• Minghua carried Saine and Gongsun Wudi toward the Third Peak, where Level-6 Creatures reacted to the newcomers with varying degrees of calm, hostility, and goodwill.
• Minghua told Saine that the Ape Trio had once lived in the settlement area and pointed out its Trading District, where Wanderers traded supplies and scavenged resources.

After settling at Luanfeng Mountain, Saine spent two hundred years building a Level-4 Intelligent Robot named Zero and confirmed its combat strength. The successful experiment left him facing an energy shortage that threatened his future projects.

• Minghua showed Saine and Gongsun Wudi her Phoenix Nest, and they settled at the eastern edge of Third Peak while waiting for the Land of Rules to open.
• Saine postponed refining the Ashes Robe and began developing a Level-4 Intelligent Robot using Shou Mountain Copper and other materials.
• Saine, Fumila, Gongsun Wudi, and Wall-E helped excavate and outfit a laboratory in Third Peak for the robot experiment.
• After two hundred years, Saine activated Zero, whose strength proved comparable to a mid-Level-4 creature and whose Shou Mountain Copper construction minimized energy loss and corrosion.
• Wall-E warned Saine that the Magic Cube's secondary Infinite Energy device could no longer meet their experimental needs.

Saine faced a severe energy shortage in the Despair World and considered upgrading the Magic Cube’s energy systems. Before starting that research, he visited the Luanfeng Mountain Settlement Area’s trading market and exchanged a third of his Energy Crystals for seven fragments of a former Mid-Grade World-Class Secret Treasure.

• Saine recognized that the Magic Cube’s energy reserves could not keep pace with the needs of his robots, the Combined Fortress Group, and the Level-6 Creatures, and he discussed upgrading its structure and energy conversion systems with Wall-E.
• Saine reviewed his past research into converting Faith Power into energy for the Magic Cube before deciding to inspect the trading market in the Luanfeng Mountain Settlement Area.
• Saine found cyan Jade Pieces at a stall run by Level-5 Fish-head Creatures and asked their Level-6 leader where they had come from.
• The Fish-head Person said the Jade Pieces came from a Civilization Relic and demanded Energy Crystals or flesh-and-blood essence in exchange.
• Saine identified the seven Jade Pieces as fragments of a former Mid-Grade World-Class Secret Treasure and traded one-third of his remaining Energy Crystals for them.

Saine traded in the Luanfeng Mountain Settlement Area, obtaining Secret Treasure Fragments and other goods while keeping the source of his Energy Crystals secret. He also bought unusual watermelons grown by the Plant Element creature Bawanghua, and considered how his mentor Lulian might study them and their seeds.

• Saine bought all the Jade Pieces and two bone products from the Level-6 Fish-head Person, but refused to reveal how he obtained his Energy Crystals.
• Saine gave the Fish-head Person a small-dose Blood Crystal Potion and left open the possibility of future trades.
• Saine made several more deals in the market, using Energy Crystals, the Sage's Stone, and other spoils to acquire goods, including rare plant matter.
• Saine approached a Level-5 plant giant and bought several large watermelons after confirming they were ripe.
• Saine learned that Bawanghua had grown the watermelons using the flesh and blood of killed Level-4 Wanderers, and thought Lulian would be interested in studying the fruit and seeds.

After 137 years of work on his Magic Cube, Saine met with Minghua Phoenix, who invited him to join an exploration of the Rule Dangerous Land. Saine prepared to go, arriving at First Peak among a growing crowd of survivors and attracting the attention of the ancient Faceless One.

• Saine returned to his laboratory to work on replenishing the Magic Cube's energy before the secret realm opened.
• Minghua Phoenix visited Saine in humanoid form, enjoyed his special potion, and invited him to explore the Rule Dangerous Land.
• Minghua told Saine that she had found the brass lump he had received in the Rule Dangerous Land and said stronger, more numerous explorers might bring richer returns.
• Saine agreed to go and began making preparations to test the results of his recent experiments.
• Saine arrived at First Peak, where more than seven hundred Level 4 and higher survivors had gathered, and the Faceless One noticed him.

Saine entered the Azure Secret Realm and discovered that it had once been an energy-supply base built by the elemental Azure Arc Civilization for a frontline war. Rather than immediately hunting for resources or an escape from the Despair World, he began investigating the realm and its mysteries.

• The Faceless One recognized Saine and Gongsun Wudi as powerful allies and hoped to gather enough Peak Despairers to secure a way out of the Despair World before his life ran out.
• After more than eight hundred explorers assembled, three gates opened above the Luanfeng Mountain Settlement Area, and Minghua Phoenix carried Saine and Gongsun Wudi through the right-hand gate.
• The secret realm's laws quickly separated the three, leaving Saine alone amid strange lightning particles.
• Saine used his experience exploring civilizations' ruins to penetrate the realm's core and identify it as a former base of the Azure Arc Civilization.
• Saine began studying how the Azure Arc Civilization used elemental power and investigating the realm's purpose, battlefield, and enemies.

Saine spent more than a century exploring the Azure Secret Realm and learned that escaping the Despair World would require entering an immensely dangerous energy conduit. He uncovered evidence that Murphy World had attacked the Azure Arc Civilization’s base, then left with an oval crystal as the Land of Rules neared its closure.

• Saine found that the secret realm’s conflicting time records reflected its unusual spacetime laws and learned that the escape route led through the Azure Arc Civilization’s energy conduit to the Star Realm.
• Saine discovered that the Azure Arc Civilization had fought Murphy World, an Earth Elemental Top-Level Civilization, and that Murphy World had devastated the local base.
• Saine inferred that Murphy World’s stone men might have won the wider war because Earth Elementals resisted lightning, though he acknowledged that his theory was uncertain.
• Saine concluded that his exploration was ending as the Land of Rules approached closure and took an oval Thunder-powered Energy Crystal with him.

Saine escaped the Azure Secret Realm and reunited with Gongsun Wudi and the injured Minghua Phoenix. The Faceless One invited Gongsun Wudi to brave the Aurora Eye with it, but she refused, and Saine warned her against attempting the dangerous passage.

• Saine flew out of the Azure Secret Realm and found that only a little over five hundred of the original eight hundred-plus challengers had escaped.
• Saine joined Gongsun Wudi and Minghua Phoenix, who had been injured in a clash with a horned Level-6 Creature but had seized Energy Crystals.
• Saine observed the weakened Faceless One, which approached Gongsun Wudi and said it still had three chances to wait for her.
• The Faceless One invited Gongsun Wudi to join it in passing through the Aurora Eye, claiming two Peak Despairers had a fifty percent chance of success.
• Gongsun Wudi told Saine she had refused, and Saine warned her not to risk the passage and offered her the Dominator's Eye if she wanted to leave.