Chapter Summaries

As Locke, Saine, and other powerful forces entered the Demon Cave battlefield, Wuzhuo and the other Evil Swamp Time-Space temple lords retreated from the front lines and sought assurances from Saine. The chapter ended with Locke focused on the ongoing death battle between the Evil Spirit King and the Demon Cave Master.

• Wuzhuo withdrew its core origin from the Core Battlefield after sensing the threat posed by Locke, Saine, and the Limitless Golden Emperor.
• The Blue-eyed Octopus, Lian Mo, Long Ga, Agulos, and other Evil Swamp Time-Space temple lords contracted their legions and retreated from the front lines.
• The Evil Swamp temple lords secretly contacted Saine, offering samples, resources, and information while asking whether Mechanical Civilization planned to target them next.
• Saine told the temple lords that Mechanical Civilization would not initiate another war with them in the near future, while leaving the possibility of future conflict open.
• Saine noticed that Lian Mo and the other temple lords feared Locke especially, and he had Sky Net Central Hub track their reactions to him.
• Locke remained focused on the Core Battlefield, where the Evil Spirit King and the Demon Cave Master were still fighting to the death.

Locke watched the Evil Spirit King battle the Demon Cave Master in an attempt to cross the threshold to Level 13, while the forces around Demon Cave Time-Space closed in. Dao Ancestor Hongjun arrived and studied the ancient rifts torn open within the dimension.

• Locke observed the Evil Spirit King fighting the Demon Cave Master and judged that the Evil Spirit King was close to becoming a Lord of Dimension.
• Kakarot admired the Evil Spirit King's battle and asked to join in, but Locke told him the time was not right.
• The Demon Cave Master's position worsened as the external battlefield narrowed and the Evil Spirit King kept pressing him on the Core Battlefield.
• A faint wisp of Dao Rhyme parted the chaotic forces, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun appeared at the edge of the battlefield.
• Hongjun greeted Locke, watched the duel, and examined several ancient rifts deeper within Demon Cave Time-Space.

As the Demon Cave Time-Space war drew the attention of top-level powers, the Evil Spirit King fought the Demon Cave Master for another thousand years, pushing himself close to collapse. Locke and Saine recognized signs that the Evil Spirit King might be nearing a breakthrough, and Locke began considering how Destruction Divine Kingdom support could make him useful in the future struggle over Evil Swamp Time-Space.

• Hongjun watched the ancient rifts in Demon Cave Time-Space, prompting Saine to place them under high-level observation as the battlefield became a focus for powerful beings across the Multiverse.
• The Destruction Divine Kingdom and Limitless Time-Space continued capturing star sectors while local civilizations supplied information to their forces and Mechanical Civilization.
• The Evil Spirit King repeatedly returned to battle after the Demon Cave Master tore apart his Rule True Body, while the Demon Cave Master's hold over his homeland weakened.
• Saine's Magic Cube and Skynet recorded signs of high-dimensional condensation in the Evil Spirit King's rules, and Locke and Saine recognized that he might be approaching Level 13.
• The Demon Cave Master tried to escape into deep rifts, but the advancing armies, Locke's pressure, the Evil Spirit King's pursuit, and Mechanical Civilization's measures constrained him.
• Locke judged that the Evil Spirit King might die without outside support and considered that support from the Destruction Divine Kingdom could help him serve its future plans for Evil Swamp Time-Space.

Destruction Demon God Locke approached the weakened Evil Spirit King and proposed cooperation, seeking an ally and an opening into Evil Swamp Time-Space ahead of its Dimension Lord’s awakening. The two sealed their covert pact, and Evil Spirit King withdrew from his desperate assault on Demon Cave Master, leaving the battlefield’s danger newly heightened.

• Locke judged that Evil Spirit King could help the Destruction Divine Kingdom exploit divisions in Evil Swamp Time-Space and contacted him while he was gravely wounded.
• Evil Spirit King recognized Locke’s interest in the approaching Dimension Lord and agreed to cooperate rather than submit.
• Locke and Evil Spirit King made covert agreements: Evil Spirit King would provide intelligence and future access, while Locke would offer protection and support for a possible breakthrough.
• Evil Spirit King gave Locke a strand of Evil Swamp Origin, and Locke placed a Black Fire Seed inside Evil Spirit King’s Rule True Body as their covenant tokens.
• Evil Spirit King stopped fighting Demon Cave Master at any cost and took a guarded position on the battlefield, prompting Demon Cave Master to realize Locke’s involvement had brought a greater threat.

Saine received the Emperor of Stein Empire and the Jinyue Witch as the Mechanical Civilization assessed native powers seeking its support. When Locke moved against the Demon Cave Master, Saine turned his attention to the front-line battle, leaving deeper research into the Jinyue Witch for later.

• The Emperor of Stein Empire approached the Mechanical Civilization for protection, and Saine examined his Level-12 demon-energy mecha and documented its fusion system for study.
• Saine received the Jinyue Witch and considered investigating the source of her Devil Moon Rules, but delayed the research because of events on the battlefield.
• Locke appeared before the Demon Cave Master with a destructive frenzy after reaching an agreement with the Evil Spirit King.
• Saine shifted most of his attention to the front line, and his Mechanical God Rule True Body advanced as Locke attacked.

Locke and the Limitless Golden Emperor confronted the weakened Demon Cave Master, while Hongjun and other powerful beings tightened the pressure around Demon Cave Time-Space. The chapter left the Demon Cave Master facing a coordinated dimensional hunt by multiple level-13 existences and their allies.

• Locke arrived at the Core Battlefield atop Karuman, whose destruction-marked sandstorms began grinding down Demon Cave Time-Space's origin.
• The Limitless Golden Emperor appeared and spread his Golden Law Tide to suppress and mark the time-space's deep rifts, while Hongjun's presence added pressure from afar.
• The Demon Cave Master accused the outsiders of planning to carve up his time-space, and Locke challenged his claim by pointing to the damage and the Homeland Civilizations' loss of trust.
• Locke and Karuman pressed forward together, using the sandstorm to abrade Demon Cave Time-Space for Locke's Destruction Tide to erode.
• The Limitless Golden Emperor attacked alongside Locke as Saine's Dimension-Severing Cage, Hongjun's gaze, and Kakarot's readiness further cornered the Demon Cave Master.

Saine assembled the Mechanical Civilization and its allies on the Demon Cave Time-Space battlefield, coordinating their specialized roles against the Demon Cave Master and other powerful foes. With the gathered forces advancing under his command, the heroes formed a ring to hunt their targets.

• Saine entered the battle in his Mechanical God Fusion Rule True Body and deployed the Ten Thousand Mechanical Law Ring and Dimension-Severing Cage.
• Wall-E screened dangerous battlefield samples, while the Moonlight Goddess, Bing Xin, the Mountain Giant King, and Alarm Clock Girl took positions and supported the Mechanical Civilization with their specialized abilities.
• The Emperor of Stein Empire and the Jinyue Witch joined the frontline, while Zi You's Evil Tide Civilization branch clans operated along the Mechanical Civilization's flanks.
• Saine coordinated the gathered legions and battlefield systems as they spread out and formed a ring to hunt.

Locke and the Limitless Golden Emperor weakened the Demon Cave Master by attacking his ties to Demon Cave Time-Space, while Saine and allied forces tracked and restricted his escape routes. The Demon Cave Master’s native civilizations increasingly abandoned him, leaving his home-field foundation less able to support him.

• Locke used his Destruction Tide while Karuman’s destruction-infused sandstorms ground down the Demon Cave Master’s origin.
• The Limitless Golden Emperor marked the battlefield’s deep rifts with golden chains, making it harder for the Demon Cave Master to transfer damage into Demon Cave Time-Space.
• Saine recorded the bonds between the Demon Cave Master and his time-space as the Despair Matriarch and Alarm Clock Girl restricted and tracked possible escape paths.
• Bing Xin, Moonlight Goddess, Jinyue Witch, and the Emperor of Stein Empire stabilized sectors, marked hidden passages, and supplied battlefield data from the outer battlefield.
• Jinyue Witch, the Emperor of Stein Empire, and other native powers aided the hunt because they wanted their civilizations to survive beyond the Demon Cave Master’s rule.
• The Demon Cave Master tried to suppress leaking coordinates, but native civilizations had moved core data or weakened their connections, slowing his use of the local source.

Kakarot joined Locke and the Limitless Golden Emperor in battle against the Demon Cave Master, growing stronger with each collision and pushing toward Level-12 Late-Stage. As the Demon Cave Master faced mounting pressure and lost ground, the Evil Spirit King watched Kakarot’s distinct approach to challenging powerful enemies.

• Kakarot charged into the Core Battlefield and attacked the Demon Cave Master with his fists and Golden Battle Qi.
• Kakarot adapted to the Demon Cave Master's counterattacks, repeatedly returning from blows with greater speed and strength as his body cracked and healed.
• Vegeta's growth toward Level-11 Peak continued through his Fusion State with Kakarot, while Saine recorded his progress and considered the power they might wield together in the future.
• The Demon Cave Master repeatedly blasted Kakarot away, but Kakarot returned from a Shattered Star Sector with an even stronger aura.
• The Evil Spirit King watched Kakarot's battle and recognized a different way of pursuing one's limits, while Locke, the Limitless Golden Emperor, Saine, and others continued to corner the Demon Cave Master and deepen the cracks in his Rule True Body.

Saine used the Level-13 time-space thunder left from Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s tribulation to pierce the Demon Cave Master’s Rule True Body, leaving a wound that resisted rapid healing. Mechanical Civilization captured the scattered rule fragments, while faint thunder patterns appeared in ancient rifts.

• Saine prepared the sealed time-space thunder and had Wall-E ready High-Risk Sample Storage Units to collect fragments from the Demon Cave Master.
• Alarm Clock Girl calibrated the temporal scales, Despair Matriarch contained the area, and Locke, the Limitless Golden Emperor, and Kakarot helped block the Demon Cave Master’s escape routes.
• Saine struck the Demon Cave Master with Level-13 time-space thunder, opening a silver-white wound that disrupted the Demon Cave Master’s recovery.
• Mechanical Civilization’s collection units intercepted rule fragments, and Saine ordered three fragments resonating with the Demon Cave Master’s origin sealed intact.
• Faint thunder patterns briefly lit up in ancient rifts as Dao Ancestor Hongjun watched the aftermath.

Locke and his allies spent five hundred years weakening the Demon Cave Master's control of Demon Cave Time-Space while the Evil Spirit King returned to battle and neared the Level-13 threshold. The Demon Cave Master unleashed three increasingly weak trump-card eruptions, leaving his aura diminished and the deep rifts depleted.

• Locke, Saine, the Limitless Golden Emperor, and their allies spent five hundred years restricting the Demon Cave Master's movements and cutting off his connections to Demon Cave Time-Space.
• The Evil Spirit King returned to the battlefield with a Seed of Destruction stabilizing his Origin and charged the Demon Cave Master from the front.
• The Evil Spirit King touched the barrier of the Level-13 Life Realm, and Locke judged that he was close to breaking through.
• The Demon Cave Master tore deep Origin from Demon Cave Time-Space and unleashed three successive eruptions, but the Despair Matriarch, the Alarm Clock Girl, and the Dimension-Severing Cage limited their impact.
• The Demon Cave Master's repeated eruptions depleted his remaining Origin, and his aura weakened as more deep rifts fell silent.

Locke rejected the Demon Cave Master’s offer to surrender and resumed the assault, intent on killing him rather than risk letting him regain control. As the Demon Cave Master’s fate neared its end, powerful beings across the Multiverse began watching Locke and the growing Destruction Divine Kingdom.

• The Demon Cave Master offered to submit to Locke and revealed parts of Demon Cave Time-Space’s secrets, while Saine recorded his Origin fluctuations.
• Locke refused to accept the Demon Cave Master, explaining that he could cooperate with the Evil Spirit King but could not trust a former level-13 ruler of a Higher Dimensional Plane.
• Locke renewed the attack as Karuman, the Limitless Golden Emperor, and Saine pressed the Demon Cave Master, while Hongjun watched the deeper reaches of Demon Cave Time-Space.
• In Myriad Phenomena Time-Space, Chen Yuan observed Locke’s rise and marked the Destruction Divine Kingdom as a force that could upset the Multiverse’s balance.
• The Dark Nether Death God, Duolie, Ebony, and other level-13 beings also watched the battle and the approaching end of the Demon Cave Master.

The Demon Cave Master begged Locke and his allies to spare his life, but Locke and Saine refused because his death would benefit their conquest and Locke’s advancement. The Demon Cave Master abandoned his pleas and began a desperate final struggle by connecting his Rule True Body to Demon Cave Time-Space’s ancient fissures and deep origins.

• The Demon Cave Master offered submission, but Locke and Saine judged that keeping him alive posed a threat and held less value than claiming the plane’s resources and rules.
• Locke decided to kill the Demon Cave Master to absorb the destruction left by his death and advance toward Level-13 Mid-Stage, despite knowing other dimensional lords were watching.
• Locke told the Demon Cave Master that only his death had value, ending the Demon Cave Master’s hope of surviving through surrender.
• The Demon Cave Master’s pleading turned to fury, and he sank deeper into Demon Cave Time-Space while linking his Rule True Body to ancient fissures and the plane’s deeper origins.
• The Demon Cave Master risked Demon Cave Time-Space’s foundation as he prepared to make the war’s participants pay if he could not survive.

The Demon Cave Master tried to draw the Core Battlefield into the depths of Demon Cave Time-Space by opening dangerous Ancient Rifts, but Hongjun suppressed the most perilous rift with a single finger. With this escape route crushed, the Demon Cave Master faced the encirclement in icy despair.

• The Demon Cave Master opened multiple Ancient Rifts and threatened to drag the battlefield into an origin collapse.
• Saine raised the Sky Net Central Hub's observation priority while Locke, the Limitless Golden Emperor, and the other forces held back and withdrew their legions from the dangerous rifts.
• As the Demon Cave Master tried to tear open a deep Ancient Rift, Hongjun pinned it shut with a thread of green Hongmeng Dao Rhyme.
• The Demon Cave Master struggled against Hongjun's suppression, but the rift closed and the attempted Ancient Origin Backflow was stopped.
• The Limitless Golden Emperor and distant observers reassessed Hongjun, while the Demon Cave Master sank into icy despair over his lost escape route.

Saine’s Mechanical Civilization increasingly severed the Demon Cave Master’s connections to Demon Cave Time-Space, making it harder for him to draw on his origin and easier for Locke to strike. As Saine gathered valuable samples and mapped the region, he also prepared for the future development of Demon Cave Time-Space.

• Saine’s Dimension-Severing Cage, Alarm Clock Girl’s time calibration, and the Despair Matriarch’s lockdown worked together to disrupt the Demon Cave Master’s attempts to draw origin from remote rifts.
• Wall-E analyzed the Demon Cave Master’s Rule Fragments and origin traces, allowing Saine’s systems to predict and block repeated attempts to mobilize power.
• Saine cut off another backflow path, letting Locke’s Destruction Tide crash into the Demon Cave Master and crack more of his Rule True Body.
• The Mechanical Civilization’s Collection Fleet intercepted fragments while Wall-E flagged one fragment bearing a trace of the Demon Cave Master’s activation of the Ancient Rift as a highest-grade sample.
• Mechanical nodes mapped Demon Cave Time-Space’s Deep Rift Atlas, laying groundwork for the Mechanical Civilization and the Evil Tide Civilization Main Clan to develop the region after the war.

Kakarot and Vegeta’s Fusion True Body battled the Demon Cave Master, whose desperate Level-13 attacks pushed them to their limits. Vegeta broke through to Level-11 Peak, strengthening their fusion, while Kakarot’s power also began trending toward Level-12 Late-Stage.

• The Demon Cave Master unleashed dangerous attacks, and Kakarot repeatedly charged at him as Locke allowed the battle to continue.
• The Demon Cave Master struck Kakarot with a concentrated blow that severely damaged their Fusion True Body and depleted Kakarot’s Life Source Power.
• Under the shared pressure of the Fusion State, Vegeta broke through from Level-11 Late-Stage to Level-11 Peak, strengthening the Fusion True Body.
• Kakarot recovered his momentum and attacked the Demon Cave Master with greater speed and power, while his own Life Source Power showed signs of advancing.
• Saine increased observation of Kakarot and Vegeta’s fusion, and the Evil Spirit King watched Kakarot’s battle with interest as the Demon Cave Master became a whetstone for them.

As the Demon Cave Master weakened under the combined assault, the Evil Spirit King approached the threshold of Level 13, drawing the attention of Locke, Saine, and Wuzhuo. Myriad Phenomena Balance Master Chen Yuan intervened with a wisp of his aura, but Locke continued pressing the Demon Cave Master even harder.

• Vegeta's breakthrough to Level-11 Peak intensified Kakarot and Vegeta's Fusion True Body's aura as the Evil Spirit King's power began compressing toward a higher Life Level.
• Locke, Saine, and Wuzhuo each sensed the Evil Spirit King's unusual state while the coalition maintained its assault on the Demon Cave Master.
• The Demon Cave Master roared weakly as pressure from the attackers continued to rise.
• Chen Yuan sent a wisp of Level-13 aura from Myriad Phenomena Time-Space toward the battlefield, triggering Saine's alarm and drawing the attention of Locke, the Limitless Golden Emperor, and Hongjun.
• Locke continued the Destruction Tide and pressed the Demon Cave Master's Rule True Body lower despite Chen Yuan's intervention.

Myriad Phenomena Balance Master Chen Yuan descended on the Demon Cave Time-Space battlefield and urged Locke to stop, claiming the war threatened the Multiverse’s balance. Locke and his allies continued attacking the Demon Cave Master, so Chen Yuan summoned the power of the Myriad Phenomena Balance Disk.

• A portion of Myriad Phenomena Balance Master Chen Yuan’s aura arrived on the battlefield, but Locke refused to stop fighting the weakened Demon Cave Master.
• Chen Yuan warned Locke that his actions disrupted the Multiverse’s balance and proposed that the sides talk.
• Locke, Kakarot, the Despair Matriarch, Mechanical God Emperor Saine, and the Limitless Golden Emperor continued suppressing the Demon Cave Master.
• The Demon Cave Master urgently appealed to Chen Yuan for help, giving him a reason to intervene on the grounds of restoring balance.
• Chen Yuan saw that his words could not halt the attack and called down a stronger aura of balance-rule power from the Myriad Phenomena Balance Disk.

The Myriad Phenomena Balance Master used the Myriad Phenomena Balance Disk to disrupt the battle and give the Demon Cave Master a brief reprieve. Locke challenged the Balance Master’s motives, and their rule confrontation began in earnest.

• The Myriad Phenomena Balance Disk altered battlefield rule weights, disrupting Saine’s Dimension-Severing Cage, Sky Net, and the Alarm Clock Girl’s timing while restoring some of the Demon Cave Master’s source bonds.
• Locke confronted the Myriad Phenomena Balance Master, arguing that his intervention protected the existing order and served his own interests rather than justice.
• The Myriad Phenomena Balance Master remained silent as the balance rules grew stronger, and the Demon Cave Master drew on his restored source bonds.
• Locke deepened his Destruction Tide and refused to yield, beginning a direct rule confrontation between the two Level-13 Lords.

Saine studied the Myriad Phenomena Balance Master's high-dimensional Balance Rules and briefly traced them back to Myriad Phenomena Time-Space, revealing himself as a growing variable in the Multiverse. The Balance Master then strengthened his aid to the Demon Cave Master, escalating the threat to Locke's faction.

• While Locke faced the Myriad Phenomena Balance Master, Saine used the Cube and Sky Net to analyze the Balance Rules disrupting the battlefield.
• Saine caught a brief contraction in the Balance Rules as Locke's Destruction Tide battered them, and traced the anomaly to Myriad Phenomena Time-Space.
• Through Sky Net, Saine glimpsed a vast Rule Chessboard representing the Multiverse and saw his own mechanical chess piece growing more solid.
• The Myriad Phenomena Balance Master sensed Saine's insight and recognized him as a new variable capable of disturbing the Multiverse's balance.
• The Myriad Phenomena Balance Master made another move, further activating Demon Cave Time-Space's origin rules to help the Demon Cave Master.