Chapter Summaries

The Myriad Law Thunder Emperor and the Paper Figure Dimension Lord approached the battlefield without escalating its conflicts, while Saine considered whether they would enter the war and became interested in visiting the Card Time-Space. With resources from the Eternal Day Time-Space in hand, Saine began planning new alchemy experiments and decided to make a mask called the Faceless Mask.

• The Myriad Law Thunder Emperor and the Paper Figure Dimension Lord arrived and helped ease tensions between Duolie and the Lord of Eternal Day without starting a new conflict.
• Saine wondered whether the two newcomers would intervene in the war and considered visiting the Card Time-Space to study its laws.
• Saine's Mechanical Civilization received resources from the Eternal Day Time-Space in exchange for the Destruction Divine Kingdom's territorial map.
• Saine traded most of the light-related resources to the Light God Race for precision components and Energy Cores.
• Saine began planning future alchemy experiments and decided to craft an alchemy mask named the Faceless Mask.

The Myriad Law Thunder Emperor and Paper Figure Dimension Lord arrived in the New Region, restraining the confrontation between the Lord of Eternal Day and Duolie while battles between their forces continued. As Qisha Time-Space weakened the Darkness Sword Organization’s influence in Primordial Universe Time-Space, Ebony, trapped in the war in Light Universe Time-Space, feared that Destruction Demon God Locke would keep growing stronger beyond his ability to stop.

• The Myriad Law Thunder Emperor and Paper Figure Dimension Lord arrived on the frontline, and the Paper Figure Dimension Lord urged the Lord of Eternal Day and Duolie to restrain their anger and invited them to visit Card Time-Space.
• Saine’s Destruction Divine Kingdom faction and the Darkness Sword Organization continued small-scale battles while Qisha Time-Space’s main legions fought Eternal Day Time-Space’s forces.
• Qisha Time-Space took in former vassals of the Darkness Sword Organization, while Ebony swallowed his anger because he was occupied in the war in Light Universe Time-Space.
• Ebony considered how the war had cost the Darkness Sword Organization vassal civilizations even as he gained a share of Light Universe Time-Space’s Space-Time Origin.
• Ebony feared that the growing number of Lord of Dimension-level forces would intensify the war and help Destruction Demon God Locke rise further.
• Ebony sensed that Locke’s rise was becoming impossible to stop, but he remained trapped by the Light Universe war and unable to respond.

Locke continued absorbing the Light Universe Time-Space’s Origin Power as he advanced toward becoming a Lord of Dimension, then sought Riel’s divination about the greater tide. Riel spoke of chaos returning to order and looked toward the Primordial Universe, leaving Locke wondering what was happening there and where Daoist Hongjun was.

• Locke annexed Light Universe territories and absorbed their Origin Power, strengthening himself while remaining short of the Level-13 realm.
• Locke used his will and avatars to monitor the war while his Rule True Body absorbed Destruction Factor on the frontline.
• Locke visited Riel in Paradise Lost and asked what she foresaw for the overall situation.
• Riel said that all chaos would return to order and that the greater tide followed the rules, but offered no further explanation.
• Riel gazed toward the Primordial Universe, prompting Locke to wonder whether the Creation God or Saine was involved.
• Locke abandoned his unanswered questions and wondered aloud where Daoist Hongjun was.

Sea Mirror Woman prepared to absorb Carby World into her Mirror Maze as she worked toward restoring the Dimension Supreme Treasure to its former strength. She had only one intact Top-Level Mirror World and one damaged half remaining, while Saine’s research had already used that damaged world as inspiration for his Mechanical Mirror Worlds.

• Sea Mirror Woman reached Level-9 Late-Stage and continued assisting Saine with Truth Experiments alongside Divine Venerable Miao Bo.
• Sea Mirror Woman began conducting experiments of her own and chose Carby World as a new Mirror World for her Mirror Maze.
• Sea Mirror Woman recalled that her Mirror Maze once held at least seven Top-Level Mirror Worlds but now had only one intact world and one damaged half.
• Saine had studied the damaged Mirror World and used its stability and ability to fuse with weaker worlds to design Mechanical Mirror Worlds in his Magic Cube Space.

As Sea Mirror Woman’s assimilation of Carby World reached eighty percent, a surge of pure star power erupted from the world’s center, revealing the possibility of ruins left by a top-level civilization. Saine set out with Natalia and Luna to investigate while Sea Mirror Woman awaited them.

• Sea Mirror Woman completed the assimilation of Carby World and wondered where to go next, keeping King Carby Beast sealed as a doll at her waist.
• A surge of pure, pink-tinged star power emerged from Carby World as Mirror Assimilation reached eighty percent.
• Sea Mirror Woman contacted Saine, who recognized the phenomenon as evidence of ruins left by at least a top-level civilization.
• Saine left an avatar to continue his experiments and traveled with Natalia and Luna toward Carby World to investigate the star power.

Saine, Natalia, and Luna arrived at Carby World, where the Sea Mirror Woman had already subdued its Level-8 Carby Beast King. After inspecting the Beast King and the strange Star Power surrounding the world, Saine sensed a hidden connection to an ancient ruins secret realm.

• Saine brought Natalia and Luna to Carby World, where the Sea Mirror Woman greeted them and presented the sealed Carby Beast King.
• Saine took the pink toy-like Beast King and sensed that its Star Power came from a different branch of rules than the Sky Star Race’s power.
• Saine perceived that Carby World’s rules connected to a concealed ancient ruins secret realm, while the Sea Mirror Woman could not discern its mysteries.

Saine entered the unusual secret realm hidden in Carby World and discovered a cramped starry space containing more than a dozen life-bearing worlds with surprisingly powerful foundations. When an unseen force began rejecting him, he prepared to activate the Magic Cube, prompting a hurried voice to call for him to wait.

• Saine descended into Carby World while carefully restraining his Level-11 power and told Natalia, Luna, and the others to wait outside the pink Rule Vortex.
• Saine passed through the vortex and found a small secret realm whose value he compared to a half-step Dimension Supreme Treasure.
• Saine sensed that the secret realm was rejecting his Rule True Body and discovered that its more than a dozen inhabited worlds had foundations far beyond their inhabitants' Level-6 strength.
• Saine spread his divine sense to locate the hidden source of the rejection and began awakening the Mechanical Origin Rules through the Magic Cube.
• As Saine's power threatened to shake the secret realm, an unseen voice urgently told him to wait.

Saine encountered Annie, the former Level-11 creator of the Carby Beast World, who had survived by merging her will with a hidden Subspace. Seeing her as a rare research subject, he invited her to join him and promised to help free her from her stagnant, trapped existence.

• Saine deduced that the hostile presence in the Subspace was a fallen Level-11 being whose will had merged with the space.
• Annie condensed a Rule Incarnation before Saine and timidly introduced herself, explaining that he and his companions had disturbed her sleep.
• Saine recognized that Annie's current strength had stagnated at Level-9 Mid-Stage and grew interested in studying her and the Subspace.
• Annie raised her Crystal Staff defensively when Saine's interest alarmed her, but Saine withdrew his pressure rather than risk damaging the Subspace.
• Saine invited Annie to join him and offered to repair her rule-level flaws so she could eventually leave the Subspace and gain freedom.

Saine persuaded Annie, the surviving Level-11 Being of the prehistoric Star Civilization, to cooperate and leave the Subspace to investigate what became of her civilization and its enemy, the Shadow Civilization. Annie agreed but asked that Sea Mirror Woman stop altering Carby Beast World; Saine declined to interfere, and he renamed the world Star Carby World as Star Power began awakening its native creatures.

• Saine examined the two worlds in Annie’s Subspace and discovered they were degraded remnants of Top-Level Planes.
• Annie recounted the Star Civilization’s former glory and its destruction in a long war against the Shadow Civilization.
• Saine suggested Annie leave the Subspace to seek answers about the past, and Annie agreed to cooperate with him.
• Annie asked Saine to stop Sea Mirror Woman from damaging the Subspace’s rules, but Saine said he would not interfere and explained that her Mirror Rule might help Annie regain a true body.
• Saine contacted Sea Mirror Woman, Natalia, Luna, and the others, then received Annie’s permission to research the Subspace.
• Saine renamed Carby Beast World Star Carby World as Star Power spread through it and its native Carby Beasts began awakening ancient traits.

Saine explored Carby World while suggesting that the Sea Mirror Woman and Star Annie cooperate to strengthen the world and their own powers. Meanwhile, the wider war eased as the Eternal Day and Qisha forces pulled back from major clashes.

• Saine suggested that the Sea Mirror Woman's Mirror Maze and Star Annie's Star Civilization could complement each other, prompting them to consider cooperation.
• Saine flew to a degenerated Top-Level Plane to investigate whether its World Origin preserved forgotten Rules Arcane Truths.
• Natalia and Luna admired the Carby Beasts, while the Sky Star Race's stellar power revived Carby World's Origin and strengthened its Plane Barrier.
• Saine coordinated Mechanical Civilization, Light God Race, and Destruction God Race support for Eternal Day's passage to Light Universe Time-Space.
• The Paper Figure Dimension Lord mediated between the opposing forces, while the Myriad Law Thunder Emperor guarded the area without escalating the conflict.
• The Eternal Day and Qisha main forces withdrew from the front, reducing their confrontation to minor probing and squad-level friction.

Saine emerged from five hundred years of research in Star Carby World and learned that the war in Primordial Universe Time-Space had largely subsided while the conflict in Light Universe Time-Space was about to intensify. He returned to the Mechanical Civilization, where his next priority was to summon the God of Machines across dimensions.

• Duolie withdrew Qisha Time-Space's forces after the Paper Figure Dimension Lord mediated, and the Lord of Eternal Day prepared to send troops to the Light Universe Time-Space Battlefield.
• The Paper Figure Dimension Lord gave Duolie and the Lord of Eternal Day rule cards for cross-time-space communication and invited visitors to its Card World to discuss resource cooperation.
• After five hundred years of research in Star Carby World, Saine gained new insights into the laws behind dimensional evolution and learned that the war in Primordial Universe Time-Space had eased by ninety percent.
• Saine left Star Carby World, greeted Natalia, Luna, and the other women, and headed for the Mechanical Civilization's heartland as Star Annie grew more eager to regain her strength.
• On his journey, Saine met Little Tenth, Silver Knight, Di'ersi Jia, and others, then decided that summoning the God of Machines was the foremost task awaiting him at the Mechanical Civilization's rear base.

Saine began a cross-dimensional summoning experiment to contact the God of Machines, his ancient creation that had spent an unknown span of time evolving in a Higher Dimensional Plane. As the altar activated and drew attention across the battlefield, the Heavenly Dragon Emperor considered arranging a marriage between Saine and one of his descendants.

• Saine prepared a summoning altar using the Magic Cube and the Mechanical Civilization Dominators as conduits to reach the God of Machines.
• Saine worried that the Primordial Universe Time-Space was too distant from the God of Machines and planned to try again in the Light Universe Time-Space if the summoning failed.
• The Mechanical Second Brother and the other Dominators channeled their power into the altar while the Magic Cube released a powerful Time-Space fluctuation.
• The Heavenly Dragon Emperor and other factions detected the disturbance and wondered what Saine would summon.
• The Heavenly Dragon Emperor considered finding an unmarried dragon maiden to introduce to Saine and strengthen ties with the Mechanical Civilization.

Saine’s cross-dimensional summoning of the God of Machines stalled just short of success, and he realized that upgrading Skynet would take thousands of years. The Despair Matriarch then lent him her Space-Time Origin Power, allowing the Magic Cube to receive a clear signal from the God of Machines.

• Saine pushed the summoning arrays and his resources to their limits but still could not contact the God of Machines directly.
• Saine considered upgrading Skynet into a Dimension Supreme Treasure, but estimated that the work would require thousands of years.
• Saine recognized that the ongoing wars made a long delay dangerous for Mechanical Civilization and the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction led by Locke.
• The Despair Matriarch contacted Saine and offered to help with the summoning.
• Saine directed the Despair Matriarch to strengthen key Rule Nodes, and she injected her Space-Time Origin Power into the array.
• The Magic Cube received a clear transmission signal from the God of Machines, rendered as flickering binary data.

Saine received the God of Machines’ report about its thriving civilization in Gear Time-Space, where it had reached Level-11 Mid-Stage but faced an invasion from another Higher Dimensional Plane. Learning that the God of Machines and its people wanted to return, Saine powered the Cross-dimensional summoning array and opened a passage for them.

• Saine deciphered the God of Machines’ data and learned that nearly five hundred thousand years had passed for it in Gear Time-Space.
• Saine learned that the God of Machines had reached Level-11 Mid-Stage and that Gear Time-Space was being invaded by forces from another Higher Dimensional Plane.
• Saine sensed the God of Machines and the Mechanical Civilization’s urgent desire to return to his Magic Cube Time-Space.
• Saine poured Source Power into the Cross-dimensional Time-Space Altar, strengthening its array with the Despair Matriarch’s Origin Time-Space Power of Rules.
• A spatial rift opened before Saine as the stable Cross-dimensional summoning passage formed.

Saine opened a Cross-Dimensional Channel so the God of Machines and the Mechanical Civilization branch in Gear Time-Space could return to their homeland, and their Sky Net Sub-unit began merging with his Skynet. He learned that Gear Time-Space was at war with Evil Swamp Time-Space and foresaw that the conflict might reach Primordial Universe Time-Space.

• Saine completed the Cross-Dimensional Channel with Despair Matriarch's support, and the Mechanical Beings in Gear Time-Space surged into it to return home.
• The God of Machines's Sky Net Sub-unit connected with Saine's Skynet, triggering a transformation that began advancing Skynet toward a Dimension Supreme Treasure.
• Saine received information showing that Gear Time-Space had scarce Rules beyond its Gear and Time origins, while Evil Swamp Time-Space invaded to plunder Gear Crystal Nuclei.
• Saine observed that the God of Machines and his Mechanical Civilization Legion had remained independent of the war, allowing them to answer his summons and leave Gear Time-Space.
• Saine concluded that a stable channel between the two time-spaces could carry the war into Primordial Universe Time-Space and worried that new turmoil would follow.

Saine welcomed the Mechanical Civilization branch legion returning from Gear Time-Space and reunited with a Level-9 Mechanical Being he had created long ago. The branch’s arrival promised to strengthen his Mechanical Civilization, and the chapter ended as the Mechanical Being presented Saine with a Gear Crystal Nucleus.

• Saine considered the strength of Gear Time-Space and prepared to welcome the Mechanical Civilization branch legion.
• A Level-9 Mid-Stage Mechanical Being emerged from the cross-dimensional passage and excitedly approached Saine, who calmed it with the Dimension Supreme Treasure Cube’s Origin Power.
• Dozens of Level-7 and Level-8 Mechanical Element Dominators and many other Mechanical Beings followed the giant through the passage.
• Saine recognized that the branch’s Level-9 members could encourage and strengthen the Mechanical Civilization he commanded in Primordial Universe Time-Space.
• The Level-9 Mechanical Being opened its palm and presented Saine with a Gear Crystal Nucleus.

Saine welcomed the Mechanical Civilization branch returning from Gear Time-Space and learned that its forces had grown to a formidable size and strength. The God of Machines remained behind to hold off the Evil Swamp Civilization’s invasion while its people crossed into the Primordial Universe Time-Space.

• A Level-9 Mechanical Flesh Mountain presented Saine with an exceptional Gear Crystal Nucleus, which he decided to study rather than consume.
• Saine opened a temporary station in the Destruction Divine Kingdom for the Mechanical Civilization arriving through the Dimensional Passage.
• Saine connected to the branch’s Skynet and learned it had one Level-11 Mid-Stage God of Machines, two Level-10 combatants, seven Level-9 combatants, and more than ten thousand Level-7 and Level-8 Dominators.
• Saine saw that the branch included Gear Time-Space natives, including a Level-10 Mid-Stage Gear Hub Being, and that some Mechanical Beings had developed the Power of Time.
• Saine learned that the Evil Swamp Civilization was attacking the Mechanical Civilization’s main camp and that the God of Machines had stayed behind to protect the others’ passage.

Saine prepared to travel to Gear Time-Space and help the God of Machines defend against an invasion from Evil Swamp Time-Space. He assembled a force of powerful allies while leaving newly arrived Mechanical Civilization forces and Madam Befu behind to recover and stabilize their position in Primordial Universe Time-Space.

• After learning the Gear Time-Space passage was nearly stable, Saine decided to go assist the God of Machines against the invading expeditionary army.
• Saine refused the newly arrived Mechanical Civilization Beings' request to join him because their bodies were still suffering from time-space erosion and needed to recover in Primordial Universe Time-Space.
• Gear Hub offered to guide Saine through Gear Time-Space, and Saine accepted its proposal.
• Saine gathered the Celestial Star Nether Scorpion couple, the Decepticons, Optimus Prime, Little Tenth, Di'ersi Jia, Silver Knight, and other powerful fighters for the expedition.
• The 72nd Grade Pure World White Lotus, Divine Venerable Miao Bo, Sea Mirror Woman, and Annie volunteered, and Saine agreed to bring them along.
• Saine declined Madam Befu's request to join the battle, but accepted her suggestion to bring Mechanical Civilization's major war platforms.

Saine prepared to lead the Mechanical Civilization’s forces through a Cross-dimensional Plane passage to reinforce the God of Machines in Gear Time-Space. The Light God Race and holy-powered allies from Eternal Day Time-Space offered support against the invading Evil Swamp Time-Space, and the expedition was ready to set out.

• Saine prepared to use his Mechanical Fusion with the God of Machines and the Mechanical Civilization’s war platforms if the battle in Gear Time-Space demanded it.
• Saine assembled the Mechanical Civilization’s high-level beings and prepared to travel through the opened passage to Gear Time-Space during a lull in the wider wars.
• The Light God Race offered troops to aid Saine, and the Creation God said he could join the battle after handling urgent matters.
• Saine learned that the Light God Race’s purification powers could counter the negative-energy beings of Evil Swamp Time-Space.
• The Creation God offered to bring powerful holy beings above Level 9 from Eternal Day Time-Space, whose passage and foothold in the Destruction Divine Kingdom Saine had helped establish.

Saine secured Level-9 and Level-10 light-element reinforcements from Eternal Day Time-Space while declining stronger support to avoid destabilizing Gear Time-Space. After settling his affairs in Primordial Universe Time-Space, he entered the passage to Gear Time-Space with his family as the God of Machines’ branch race traveled the other way to establish itself.

• The Creation God offered to recruit powerful light-element beings from Eternal Day Time-Space, and Saine thanked him and the Lord of Eternal Day for their support.
• The Lord of Eternal Day assigned battle-hardened Level-9 and Level-10 experts to Saine, but Saine declined the offer of Level-11 and Level-12 reinforcements to avoid provoking a dimensional war.
• Saine considered whether Gear Time-Space’s smaller scale might lower the threshold for competing over its sovereignty, but decided to assess it in person before making any plans.
• After resolving his affairs in Primordial Universe Time-Space, Saine entered the cross-dimensional passage toward Gear Time-Space with Lina, Natalia, Lu Lianman, Luna, and other companions.
• The God of Machines led the Mechanical Civilization’s branch race in the opposite direction toward Primordial Universe Time-Space, and Saine praised its development.