Chapter Summaries

Saine studied a captured Level-11 Source-Devouring Strong Practitioner and found that it retained independent awareness even when cut off from the source-devouring network. The findings led him to plan the live capture of a Level-12 Ancient Emperor for further study.

• Saine reviewed battle records and found that source-devouring beasts relied on the network for coordination, while high-level practitioners showed independent judgment.
• He isolated the Level-11 specimen from outside connections, and it pretended to be helpless before exploiting a weakened Alchemy Needle to attack the seal.
• Saine restored the seal and varied the Source-Devouring Rule input, finding that it increased the subject’s power and aggression without erasing its judgment.
• He examined the subject’s consciousness and crystal core, concluding that the core influenced and stabilized its mind but was not its soul.
• Saine sent the front lines a plan to capture a Level-12 Ancient Emperor alive so he could investigate its consciousness and possible divisions among the source-devouring forces.

With Clear River Time-Space losing ground to the Source-Devouring forces, the three Super Civilizations accepted Saine’s demands for broader access, compensation, and trade rights in exchange for increased reinforcements. The sides formed a deeper wartime alliance, and Skynet began reorganizing homeland legions as new cross-dimensional channels took shape.

• The Azure Blue Sea Lord and the other representatives showed Saine the worsening battlefield situation and asked for more troops and powerful fighters.
• Saine said the Mechanical Civilization and the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction could send more support, but needed broader access and clearer cooperation terms.
• The Azure Blue Sea Lord opened core starfields and origin-tide data, while the Profound Water Celestial Pivot Civilization and Myriad Rivers Ancient Star Civilization granted further access and command authority.
• Saine presented terms requiring Clear River Time-Space to cover reinforcement costs and provide resources, compensation, and postwar trade permissions; Lady Chenglan urged the representatives to accept.
• The three Super Civilizations approved the cooperation terms, granting Skynet wider command authority and agreeing to fixed observation bases and long-term trade.
• Skynet reorganized homeland forces and guided isolated legions toward mechanical positions as new cross-dimensional teleportation channels began forming.

Locke studied the battle against the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch and ordered elite Destruction Divine Kingdom forces to reinforce Clear River Time-Space while he remained behind to oversee Destruction Time-Space. Vegeta led the assembled legions through the Cross-dimensional Passage, while Kakarot stayed in Paradise Lost to recover.

• Locke reviewed Saine's battle footage and concluded that the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch wielded Source-Devouring Time-Space's power without possessing its deep dimensional authority.
• Locke ordered elite legions to deploy to Clear River Time-Space, but kept his main body in Destruction Time-Space to oversee its source authority and the Dark Obelisk region.
• Locke refused Kakarot's request to join the campaign because Kakarot's Life Source Power had not recovered enough for prolonged battle.
• Vegeta joined the deployment and learned that the enemy force included seven Level-12 powerhouses and one Level-13 Tier being.
• Vegeta entered the Cross-dimensional Passage first, followed by Destruction warships, Destruction Behemoths, and Divine Kingdom Elite Legions.

The Destruction Divine Kingdom Legion joined Clear River Time-Space’s war against Source-Devouring Time-Space, and its arrival halted the enemy’s advance. After fierce losses on both sides, the allied forces reclaimed more than half of an occupied starfield and forced the Source-Devouring Beast Legion to retreat temporarily.

• The Destruction Divine Kingdom Legion crossed into Clear River Time-Space, and Vegeta led its forces toward the frontline.
• The Destruction Legion and the Source-Devouring Beast Legion collided in a heavily corrupted water-element starfield, suffering massive losses in brutal fighting.
• Level-10 and Level-11 experts from both sides clashed, while the Destruction Legion’s arrival curbed Source-Devouring Time-Space’s expansion.
• A Destruction Behemoth rescued a surrounded Clear River Time-Space fleet, and Skynet issued new orders for the allied forces to advance together.
• Over a dozen years, the allied forces retook more than half of the starfield and drove the Source-Devouring Beast Legion into a temporary retreat.

Saine lured the Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor away from its channel and trapped it in a coordinated assault led by Vegeta. The chapter ended with the Sword Demon severing the emperor’s connection to Source-Devouring Time-Space while the allied forces blocked the channel’s counterattack.

• Saine used genuine mechanical equipment and retreating engineers as bait to draw the Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor away from the channel it guarded.
• Vegeta transformed into a Super Saiyan and overwhelmed the emperor with golden energy and a barrage of punches, resisting its soul-extraction rules.
• The Sword Demon, Heavenly Wing Demon Lord, and Bing Xin closed off the emperor’s escape route as Destruction Divine Kingdom forces attacked the Source-Devouring Beast Legion.
• Mechanical God Emperor Saine blocked the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch from reaching the battlefield while Vegeta drove the Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor farther from its channel.
• After the Mechanical Engineering Legion completed its partitioning devices, the Sword Demon severed the emperor’s rule connections and the Heavenly Wing Demon Lord blocked the channel’s reverse erosion.

Vegeta and the Mechanical Civilization’s forces captured the Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor, while Saine used ash fire to hold off the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch. The captured Ancient Emperor was taken behind the Mechanical Civilization Frontline, and the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch remained free.

• After losing his connection to the rules, the Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor attacked Vegeta with soul threads and a Spirit-Seizing Beam, but Vegeta shattered them and destroyed his vertical eye with a punch.
• When the Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor tried to flee, Sword Demon, Bing Xin, and Heavenly Wing Demon Lord blocked his escape and suppressed his restored rule connections.
• The World-Devouring Emperor Monarch charged Saine, and the God of Machines met him head-on as Saine’s ash fire burned through the Emperor Monarch’s source-devouring power.
• Vegeta struck the Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor with a final punch, and the Mechanical Civilization sealed him in a frozen, spatially secured cage with Mechanical Chains.
• Saine withdrew after learning the capture had succeeded, and the Mechanical Civilization transported the bound Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor behind its frontline.

Saine studied the captured Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor and discovered that the level-12 specimen retained a lucid mind and could communicate with other source-devouring lifeforms. As Source-Devouring Time-Space ravaged Clear River Time-Space, Saine extracted clearer rule frequencies that could help trace and lock onto it.

• Saine brought the level-11 source-devouring specimen into the laboratory and used the Magic Cube to intercept the Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor’s orders to it.
• Saine found that the Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor remained self-aware even when his Source-Devouring Crystal Core was suppressed, and he fed Saine false information to thwart the experiments.
• Source-Devouring Time-Space continued stripping Clear River Time-Space of its life, resources, and plane origins while refugees fled toward the core regions and the Mechanical Civilization’s war zone.
• Saine recorded the Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor’s rule networks and consciousness as the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch and other Ancient Emperors questioned the Mechanical Civilization’s decision to capture him.
• Saine extracted clearer time-and-space rule frequencies from the Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor and recognized that they could help trace and lock onto Source-Devouring Time-Space.

Saine used the Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor’s rule frequency to establish vague reverse coordinates to Source-Devouring Time-Space and alerted potential allies as both sides prepared to escalate the war. Saine approved his son Saelot’s request to join the fighting, while an even larger Source-Devouring Tide began pouring into Clear River Time-Space.

• Saine combined the Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor’s origin frequency with data from several Dimensional Planes to establish vague coordinates to Source-Devouring Time-Space, then shared his findings with Locke and other Lords of Dimension.
• Saine sent rule-frequency data to Final Silence Time-Space through Envoy Jimin, and dormant war relics in the Final Silence Royal Court reacted to the enemy’s return.
• The World-Devouring Emperor Monarch continued extracting Clear River Origin and prepared the channels for more Level-12 Ancient Emperors and at least one Emperor Monarch to enter Clear River Time-Space.
• Saelot asked Saine for permission to join the war with a Death Element legion from the Minghe Empire, and Saine approved on the condition that he follow Skynet’s command and remain within the Joint Combat Legion’s controlled area.
• The Minghe Empire’s legion entered the high-load Cross-dimensional Passage as other powers considered reinforcements, while a larger Source-Devouring Tide poured into Clear River Time-Space.

Saelot led the Minghe Empire Legion into battle against Source-Devouring Beasts, using death and ash powers to destroy a medium-sized Source-Devouring Node. After the victory, he continued toward the next battlefield while Saine used the battle data to refine his conversion model.

• Saelot met Saine at the mechanical position, received information on Source-Devouring Beast weaknesses, and was warned to stay within Skynet's coverage.
• Saelot led the Minghe Empire Legion to a damaged water-element starfield, where tens of millions of Source-Devouring Beasts attacked.
• Saelot used death clouds to slow and corrupt the beasts, then ordered the Death warships to fire while local water-element forces blocked their escape routes and protected the planes.
• Saelot sent three Pharaoh King's Legions to flank the medium-sized Source-Devouring Node and hurled Ash Fire into it as the Death warships drew the beasts' attention.
• The Minghe Empire Legion collapsed the node, recovered crystal cores, and sent battle data to Saine; Saelot then led the legion toward its next battlefield.

Moluoye, the World-Eroding Emperor Monarch, began descending into Clear River Time-Space as Source-Devouring reinforcements launched devastating attacks across its war zones. The chapter ended with the Emperor Monarch still approaching and the three Super Civilizations realizing that the invasion had not yet reached its full force.

• New Source-Devouring legions and several Ancient Emperors emerged through channels and attacked Clear River Time-Space’s origin tides and civilization clusters.
• Moluoye appeared through a vast Source-Devouring Vein and began eroding Clear River Time-Space’s Dimension Barrier before completing his descent.
• The World-Eroding Emperor Monarch and the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch discussed the battlefield’s value, outside powers, and the Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor’s capture.
• Source-Devouring forces broke the Myriad Rivers Ancient Star Civilization’s defensive lines and drained the Profound Water Celestial Pivot Civilization’s heavy-water rules.
• Saine kept the Joint Combat Legion’s deployment unchanged and monitored Moluoye’s descent and the Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor’s reaction.
• The Azure Blue Sea Lord and Clear River Time-Space’s other leaders saw their fronts collapse and realized both sides still had more forces to commit.

Final Silence Time-Space entered the war and its legion curbed the Source-Devouring Legion in a Clear River Time-Space starfield, though the conflict reshaped the region’s rules. As the World-Eroding Emperor Monarch Moluoye fully arrived, the Limitless Golden Emperor prepared to enter Clear River Time-Space.

• Envoy Jimin led the Final Silence Legion through the Mechanical Civilization’s passage and accepted Saine’s assignment to attack a Source-Devouring Channel in the Homeland Star Territory.
• The Final Silence Legion silenced and destroyed source-devouring beasts, then fought off Level-11 source-devouring lifeforms as both sides clashed over control of the starfield’s rules.
• Envoy Jimin used the Final Silence Royal Court Seal to briefly freeze the Source-Devouring Channel, allowing the legion to deploy Gray Rule Anchor Points and reduce the channel’s extraction efficiency to less than half.
• Saine recorded the battle, refined his Reverse Coordinate Model, and reported that the World-Eroding Emperor Monarch Moluoye had fully arrived in Clear River Time-Space.
• The Limitless Golden Emperor decided to travel to Clear River Time-Space, and the Mechanical Civilization’s Cross-dimensional Passage began operating at full capacity.

The Limitless Golden Emperor crossed into Clear River Time-Space, whose origin and allied civilizations helped him overcome the plane’s rejection. After fully arriving, he sensed the World-Eroding Emperor Monarch and launched an attack, leaving the two on course to clash.

• The Limitless Golden Emperor’s Golden Law Tide entered Clear River Time-Space and caused widespread disturbances across its rules, star fields, and nearby battle zones.
• The Azure Blue Sacred Sea Civilization, the Profound Water Celestial Pivot Civilization, and the Myriad Rivers Ancient Star Civilization opened their origin authority to welcome him, reducing the plane’s rejection.
• Clear River Time-Space’s origin began helping stabilize the Limitless Golden Emperor, while the Source-Devouring legions faced stronger suppression and the God of Machines gained stability.
• The Limitless Golden Emperor fully crossed the passage and sensed the distant World-Eroding Emperor Monarch.
• The Limitless Golden Emperor formed golden law chains that shattered Source-Devouring Veins, then flew toward the World-Eroding Emperor Monarch’s battlefield.

The Limitless Golden Emperor suppressed the World-Eroding Emperor Monarch while Saine’s God of Machines fought the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch with Skynet’s support. As both battles continued, a captured Source-Devouring powerhouse began violently attacking its seal in response to the Emperor Monarchs.

• The Limitless Golden Emperor’s Golden Chains and golden law mountains crushed the World-Eroding Emperor Monarch’s Source-Devouring tides and forced it backward.
• Saine’s God of Machines countered the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch’s draining vortices by rotating its mechanical modules and striking with its Destruction Left Fist.
• The World-Devouring Emperor Monarch shifted its attacks to the Skynet Nodes surrounding the God of Machines.
• Saine received an alert that a captured Level-11 Source-Devouring powerhouse was attacking its seal, while its Source-Devouring Crystal Core responded to the two Emperor Monarchs.

Saine fought the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch while using Skynet to study captured source-devouring practitioners and develop a way to sever Source-Devouring Channels. A successful test weakened source-devouring forces and yielded coordinates pointing toward Source-Devouring Time-Space.

• Saine studied the Level-11 Source-Devouring Strong Practitioner and the Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor, discovering that higher-level source-devouring practitioners retained independent consciousness cores.
• Saine combined experimental data, battlefield observations, and old records to develop an initial model for severing Source-Devouring Channels from their origin network.
• Saine selected a medium-sized channel near the Final Silence Legion's combat zone and directed Envoy Jimin, the Mechanical Engineering Legion, and Clear River Time-Space practitioners in an isolation experiment.
• Saine activated the First-Generation Anti-Source-Devouring Model, briefly cutting off the channel's origin supply and weakening nearby source-devouring forces.
• Saine traced the channel's origin feedback to vague dimensional coordinates that pointed toward Source-Devouring Time-Space.

Saine deployed Anti-Source-Devouring Nodes across three ravaged Origin Star Domains, helping allied forces sever channels and reverse the local battles. As requests for more nodes arrived, the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch recognized Saine as the real threat and intensified its assault on him.

• Saine transmitted the First-Generation Anti-Source-Devouring Model's data through Skynet, and the Mechanical Civilization converted devices into Anti-Source-Devouring Nodes.
• The Mechanical Civilization, Final Silence Legion, and Clear River Time-Space forces deployed nodes in three damaged Origin Star Domains and severed many source-devouring pathways.
• The allied forces repelled attacking Source-Devouring practitioners and defeated isolated Source-Devouring Beasts, allowing displaced Homeland Civilizations to return to their star domains.
• Saine limited further node construction because supplies and high-level practitioners were scarce, and he directed Skynet to prioritize critical war zones.
• The World-Devouring Emperor Monarch sensed the growing gaps in its origin network, split its rule arm to attack Skynet Nodes and mechanical positions, and intensified its assault on Saine.

Saine and his allies battled the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch and the World-Eroding Emperor Monarch while their clashes damaged Clear River Time-Space. After centuries of fighting across the war zones, the allied forces destroyed a large Source-Devouring Channel and advanced through nearby starfields.

• Saine used Skynet, the God of Machines, and hidden Ash Generators to counter the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch's attacks on the Anti-Source-Devouring Nodes.
• The Limitless Golden Emperor bound the World-Eroding Emperor Monarch and inflicted a wound that the Emperor Monarch could not immediately heal.
• The four Level-13 combatants' continued battles caused lasting damage to Clear River Time-Space, including a diverted Water-Element Law River and unstable folded space.
• Bing Xin, the Mountain Giant King, and the Alarm Clock Girl intercepted Source-Devouring forces attacking the mechanical positions as allied legions reinforced the defenses.
• After centuries of fighting, the allied forces contracted the Anti-Source-Devouring Nodes and shattered the large Source-Devouring Channel, releasing some stolen Water-Element Origin.
• Clear River Time-Space's allied legions advanced through dozens of starfields after the channel's collapse weakened nearby Source-Devouring forces.

Saine traced the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch Hejiayin’s repairs to the Source-Devouring Channels and recorded his techniques as Hejiayin prepared to enter Clear River Time-Space. As the conflict escalated, the Source-Devouring Progenitor stirred in its Origin Sea and began to awaken.

• The Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch Hejiayin altered and repaired Source-Devouring Channels, and Saine identified him from the Spirit-Seizing Ancient Emperor’s memories.
• Saine let Hejiayin’s channel repairs continue so Skynet could collect his origin data, while the Azure Blue Sacred Sea Civilization, the Profound Water Celestial Pivot Civilization, and the Myriad Rivers Ancient Star Civilization shared additional Origin Node maps.
• Hejiayin began forming an Emperor Monarch-level channel that siphoned Clear River Time-Space’s water-element origin, and his rule true body approached from the other side.
• The World-Devouring Emperor Monarch, the World-Eroding Emperor Monarch, and Hejiayin’s growing presence stirred the dusky yellow Origin Sea in Source-Devouring Time-Space.
• The Source-Devouring Progenitor stirred in the depths of the Origin Sea, accelerating its flow and sending an ancient ripple of will outward.

The Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch forced his way through an expanding channel into Clear River Time-Space as Level-12 defenders tried to slow him. Saine allowed the arrival to continue within limits so he could study the new Emperor Monarch, and the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch’s massive hand began to emerge.

• The Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch used the Dimension-Rending Shuttle to cut open Clear River Time-Space and accelerate the expansion of his channel.
• Bing Xin, the Mountain Giant King, Alarm Clock Girl, the Azure Blue Sea Lord, and Lan Qiong attacked the channel, but their combined powers only delayed the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch.
• The Azure Blue Sea Lord reflected Lan Qiong’s arrow behind the Dimension-Rending Shuttle, and the mirrored shot struck the channel before the shuttle shattered the mirror projection.
• Saine separated the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch’s Myriad-Origin Heaven-Devouring Ring with Cube Time-Space while Skynet recorded the Rift-Splitting Rules; he chose not to commit further forces to stopping the arrival.
• The Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch’s cracked silver-yellow hand emerged from the channel, broke through Bing Xin’s Frost Rules, and forced the Mountain Giant King to retreat.

Locke emerged into Clear River Time-Space with overwhelming destructive power, damaging the surrounding space despite being an ally. He confronted the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch and wounded him with a single spear strike.

• Locke learned that three Emperor Monarch-level combatants had entered Clear River Time-Space and decided to join the battle.
• Locke crossed the passage, and his arrival unleashed a destruction tide that destabilized the passage, disrupted Clear River Time-Space's rules, and damaged nearby worlds.
• Saine isolated a War Fortress whose mechanical lifeforms were contaminated by destructive desire, while Clear River Time-Space's origin eventually allowed Locke's power to flow aside.
• Saine and the Limitless Golden Emperor sensed that Locke had grown much stronger through his gains in Destruction Time-Space.
• The Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch recognized Locke's power as comparable in depth to the Source-Devouring Progenitor and surrounded himself with spatial defenses.
• Locke attacked the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch with the God Slaying Spear, tearing open his hand and forcing silver-yellow spatial fragments from his wound.

Locke overwhelmed the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch, while Saine and the Limitless Golden Emperor fought the other two Emperor Monarchs. The three-on-three battle left the Clear River Time-Space suffering extensive, potentially permanent damage.

• Locke shattered the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch’s spatial defenses with the God Slaying Spear and damaged the Dimension-Rending Shuttle.
• The Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch tried to absorb Locke’s destruction power, but Locke’s will corrupted his rules and forced him to abandon large portions of his rule true body.
• Locke used the Destruction Black Lotus to pin down the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch and repeatedly struck him, preventing him from recovering through the Source-Devouring Channel.
• Saine used the Magic Cube and the God of Machines to resist the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch, while the Limitless Golden Emperor brought out the Golden Artifact Forging Furnace against the World-Eroding Heavenly Stele.
• The six level-thirteen combatants’ battle created permanent rule voids and widespread destruction across the Clear River Time-Space, alarming the Azure Blue Sea Lord.