Chapter Summaries

Locke overwhelmed the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch in Clear River Time-Space, damaging the Dimension-Rending Shuttle and forcing him to flee through an exploding passage. His retreat disrupted Source-Devouring forces across multiple battlefields, leaving the highest-level fight at three against two.

• The Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch used the Dimension-Rending Shuttle to create spatial rifts and attack Locke, but Locke collapsed the passages and advanced through the spatial turbulence.
• The Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch poured his plundered origin power into the shuttle and tried to drag Locke and the Destruction Black Lotus into a spatial fault.
• Locke struck the Dimension-Rending Shuttle with the God Slaying Spear, cracked it, and followed with a blow that badly damaged the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch.
• The Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch opened a narrow escape passage and fled, while Locke's spear strike caused the Source-Devouring Channel to explode.
• The explosion ruptured nearby Source-Devouring Channels and threw the Source-Devouring Beast Legion into disarray across several battle zones.
• Saine recorded the retreat through Skynet and concluded that the Source-Devouring Emperor Monarchs possessed distinct self-awareness; the highest-level battlefield shifted from three against three to three against two.

After Locke defeated the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch, Source-Devouring Time-Space's leaders ordered a retreat from Clear River Time-Space. Saine recognized that the withdrawal remained orderly and cautious, and the chapter left him wary of the enemy's next move.

• Saine and the Limitless Golden Emperor kept the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch and the World-Eroding Emperor Monarch under pressure as Locke's victory undermined their will to fight.
• The grievously wounded Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch escaped to Source-Devouring Time-Space, where Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch Misaluo judged that the campaign could not succeed and chose to withdraw.
• The World-Devouring Emperor Monarch and the World-Eroding Emperor Monarch stopped pressing their battles and began retreating after receiving Misaluo's assessment.
• Source-Devouring forces halted their advances, evacuated plundered resources, and destroyed many eroded Plane Worlds and Source-Devouring Nodes as they pulled back.
• Clear River Time-Space's native civilizations began pursuing the retreating forces and preparing to reclaim lost worlds, while Saine held back his joint legions because the enemy's withdrawal seemed too orderly.

The Source-Devouring Progenitor awakened after sensing Locke’s power of destruction and ordered the assault on Clear River Time-Space to intensify. As the battlefield turned against the allied legions again, Locke faced the Progenitor’s will through the Source-Devouring Channel.

• The Source-Devouring Progenitor stirred in the Origin Sea after detecting Locke’s destructive power in the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch and the Dimension-Rending Shuttle.
• The Progenitor rejected the four Emperor Monarchs’ withdrawal plan and ordered reinforcements and stronger source-devouring erosion in Clear River Time-Space.
• The Progenitor’s origin strengthened the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch, the World-Eroding Emperor Monarch, and the six Source-Devouring Channels, reversing their retreat.
• The Source-Devouring Beast Legion counterattacked, catching the Profound Water Celestial Pivot Civilization’s Heavy Water Legion and other allied forces off guard.
• Saine and the Limitless Golden Emperor sensed the Progenitor’s power, while Locke calmly raised the God Slaying Spear toward the Source-Devouring Channel and unleashed a destruction tide.

The Source-Devouring Progenitor’s Will strengthened the Source-Devouring forces across Clear River Time-Space as two Emperor Monarchs revealed additional Dimension Supreme Treasures against Saine and the Limitless Golden Emperor. The battles remained at a stalemate while Saine recorded the new powers, and reinforcements gathered as the Progenitor’s influence spread.

• The Source-Devouring Progenitor’s Will intensified contamination across Clear River Time-Space and strengthened the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch.
• The World-Devouring Emperor Monarch used the Origin-Returning Divine Gourd with the Myriad-Origin Heaven-Devouring Ring, but Saine countered with Ash Fire and artillery from the God of Machines.
• The World-Eroding Emperor Monarch deployed the Myriad-Erosion Divine Map against the Limitless Golden Emperor, who burned through its rule threads with a Golden Chain.
• Saine recorded the new Dimension Supreme Treasures and the Progenitor’s external enhancement through Skynet.
• Origin-Balancing Emperor Monarch Tamisa directed Source-Devouring Origin reinforcements toward the front, while Abyss-Pasture Emperor Monarch Wumoluo mobilized Source-Devouring Beast legions.
• The seventh Emperor Monarch of Source-Devouring Time-Space remained missing and did not respond to the Progenitor’s war will.

Locke fought the Source-Devouring Progenitor’s projected will across time-spaces, and their first clash ended without either side gaining a clear advantage. As the battle’s damage lingered, the Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch’s channel nearly finished forming elsewhere in Clear River Time-Space.

• The Source-Devouring Progenitor focused its Source-Devouring Vortex on Locke, but Paradise Lost and Locke’s Destruction Star Zone supplied him with power as he entered the vortex.
• Locke thrust the God Slaying Spear into the vortex, sending destructive waves through the Source-Devouring Channels and damaging Source-Devouring Time-Space’s origin network.
• The Source-Devouring Progenitor suppressed Locke’s attack and struck back, tearing away some of his rule scales, but Locke poured more Origin of Destruction into his spear.
• Locke’s next thrust tore open the vortex and created a vast region of chaotic rules, while the Azure Blue Sea Lord watched the damage through the Heavenly Water Deep Blue Mirror.
• Locke and the Source-Devouring Progenitor ended their first clash without a decisive victory, and Saine recorded the battle’s rule ripples using the Magic Cube and Skynet.
• Saine received a high-level alarm as the channel belonging to the Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch nearly took shape in another star region.

The Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch entered Clear River Time-Space and used two Dimension Supreme Treasures to drain its planes and devastate its legions. His arrival completed a coordinated source-devouring cycle that intensified the invasion, while the Mechanical Civilization warned its allies about the growing threat.

• The Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch stabilized his passage with the Withered-Origin Heavenly Wheel, draining nearby planes and their inhabitants of vitality and origin.
• He unfurled the Withered-World Divine Banner, whose rule mist aged Clear River Time-Space’s legions and forced them to retreat as Destruction Mech Soldiers covered the evacuation.
• The Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch coordinated with the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch and the World-Eroding Emperor Monarch, linking their treasures into a cycle that strengthened the Source-Devouring Beast Legion.
• The number of main Source-Devouring Channels rose to seven as the Abyss-Pasture Emperor Monarch sent more forces, prompting Bing Xin and the Mountain Giant King to contract the six Combat Clusters’ lines.
• Saine compiled the new rule data, and the Mechanical Civilization reported the Source-Devouring Progenitor’s awakening and the Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch’s arrival to the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction and Final Silence Time-Space.

The Lord of Final Silence learned that the Source-Devouring Progenitor was awakening and decided to prepare a second battlefield rather than commit all his forces to Clear River Time-Space. Final Silence Time-Space mobilized its dormant practitioners and legions as Envoy Jimin continued fighting on the front, while a vast rule rift opened north of the royal court.

• The Lord of Final Silence examined Saine’s report and determined that the Source-Devouring Progenitor had begun mobilizing deeper power, though its awakening was incomplete.
• The Silent Sea Venerable and the Fallen-Star Watcher awakened and began suppressing old Source-Devouring remnants and mapping a route for a second battlefield.
• The Lord of Final Silence ordered the Final Silence Legion to awaken and assigned the Silent Sea Venerable and Fallen-Star Watcher to support the new front, while he remained at the royal court awaiting the Progenitor.
• Envoy Jimin sent the royal court coordinates, channel data, and battlefield findings showing that some high-level Source-Devouring Beasts were resisting stillness.
• Envoy Jimin slowed millions of charging Source-Devouring Beasts, and a vast rule rift opened north of the Final Silence Royal Court.

Locke and Saine coordinated a risky plan to build a temporary Cosmic Gate between Destruction Time-Space and Clear River Time-Space. The gate began to open, preparing to bring Locke’s Surrendered Army across and expose the Source-Devouring Progenitor to the Destruction Supreme.

• Locke decided to use his authority over Destruction Time-Space to gather its native Surrendered Army and create a passage into Clear River Time-Space.
• Locke explained to Saine that he intended to make the Source-Devouring Progenitor’s power aura provoke the Destruction Supreme into attacking it.
• Saine designed the Cosmic Gate using the Bronze Gate, the Ancient Tree of the Moon, the Despair Matriarch’s Time-Space Safeguard, and the Alarm Clock Girl’s timeline anchoring.
• The Despair Matriarch identified a route that could remain stable briefly, while the Alarm Clock Girl, Ancient Tree of the Moon, and Mechanical Civilization prepared their parts of the project.
• A thin black-and-red rift opened inside the Mechanical Civilization’s ring-shaped apparatus, and Locke’s Destruction Black Lotus began expanding it.

Locke opened the Cosmic Gate and sent the Destruction Surrendered Army into Clear River Time-Space to fight the Source-Devouring Beast Legion. The Destruction Supreme and the Source-Devouring Progenitor clashed across the gate, and Locke’s Destruction Gate drew the Destruction Supreme into the war.

• Saine ordered the time window opened as Alarm Clock Girl, Despair Matriarch, the Ancient Tree of the Moon, and Locke stabilized and powered the Cosmic Gate.
• Locke guided the Destruction Tide and the Destruction Surrendered Army through the gate, where they attacked the Source-Devouring Beasts.
• The Source-Devouring Progenitor tried to devour Destruction Time-Space’s origin and pulled Destruction forces through the Cosmic Gate.
• The Destruction Supreme sent a Rules Giant Arm through the gate to strike the Source-Devouring Progenitor’s will, triggering a massive rule shockwave across Clear River Time-Space.
• The Destruction Supreme and the Source-Devouring Progenitor’s powers clashed without a clear winner, while Locke watched from the Destruction Black Lotus.

The Destruction Supreme clashed with the Source-Devouring Progenitor through Locke’s Destruction Gate, devastating parts of Clear River Time-Space. Saine exploited the Source-Devouring Beasts’ inability to digest destruction, while the gate shifted to intermittent operation; a long-dormant power then stirred at the outskirts of Source-Devouring Time-Space.

• The Destruction Supreme sent a giant rule arm through the Cosmic Gate, and the Source-Devouring Progenitor countered by devouring its power, triggering destructive explosions that killed countless creatures and damaged nearby planes.
• The clash contaminated Clear River Time-Space with intertwined destruction and source-devouring forces, leaving dangerous regions that the Azure Blue Sea Lord could not quickly repair.
• Saine used Skynet’s observations to identify the Source-Devouring Beasts’ conversion limit and ordered the Destruction Mech Soldiers and Ash Legion to make them consume hard-to-digest power.
• A Level-10 Source-Devouring Lifeform exploded from within after devouring Destruction Creatures, confirming Saine’s tactic as the internal collapses spread across the battlefield.
• Alarm Clock Girl shifted the Destruction Gate to intermittent operation as mismatched time flows threatened to tear it apart, while destruction flames destabilized Source-Devouring Channels and slowed the invasion.
• As the Source-Devouring Progenitor focused on the Destruction Supreme, a long-dormant power emerged from the outskirts of Source-Devouring Time-Space.

The Lord of Final Silence opened a second front in Source-Devouring Time-Space, where the Silent Sea Venerable and the Final Silence Legion established a battlefield and repelled the Source-Devouring Progenitor’s first response. As Source-Devouring forces redirected power and troops toward the new front, Envoy Jimin launched a counterattack in Clear River Time-Space.

• The Fallen-Star Watcher used residual rule traces to open a rift into Source-Devouring Time-Space, and the Silent Sea Venerable led the Final Silence Legion through it.
• The Silent Sea Venerable’s Stillness Rule slowed and froze Source-Devouring Beasts, while the Final Silence Legion advanced and defeated a Level-11 Late-Stage Source-Devouring practitioner.
• The Fallen-Star Watcher established rule nodes across the Second Battlefield, and the Source-Devouring forces attacked them with high-level practitioners and source-devouring tides.
• The Lord of Final Silence sent a ripple through the rule nodes that weakened the Source-Devouring Progenitor’s assault, prompting the progenitor to withdraw its will from the Second Battlefield.
• Origin-Balancing Emperor Monarch Tamisa redirected origin channels, and Abyss-Pasture Emperor Monarch Wumoluo opened more beast nests to reinforce the Second Battlefield.
• Skynet detected declining source-devouring power on Clear River Time-Space’s front lines, and Envoy Jimin ordered the Final Silence Legion to counterattack.

Source-Devouring Time-Space diverted resources to resist the Final Silence Legion, slowing its expansion into Clear River Time-Space while its beasts continued devastating the rear. Locke observed the Destruction Supreme and the Source-Devouring Progenitor clash at the Cosmic Gate, studying their command of dimensional origins for clues to his own path to greater power.

• Abyss-Pasture Emperor Monarch roused Source-Devouring Beast nests, while Origin-Balancing Emperor Monarch redirected the Origin Network to defend against the Final Silence Legion.
• World-Devouring Emperor Monarch, World-Eroding Emperor Monarch, and Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch secured their connections and defenses, halting the Source-Devouring Legion's expansion into Clear River Time-Space.
• A Source-Devouring Beast Legion bypassed the Allied Legion's defenses, devoured dozens of life-bearing planes, and evolved some beasts into Level-7 Dominators.
• Locke compared the Source-Devouring Beasts to Kerrygan's Destruction Zerg Beasts and continued watching the battle at the Destruction Gate instead of joining another Emperor Monarch fight.
• Locke studied how the Destruction Supreme and the Source-Devouring Progenitor wielded their time-spaces' origins, and dark golden patterns appeared on the Destruction Black Lotus as it recorded their rule fluctuations.

The Source-Devouring Progenitor and Destruction Supreme continued their destructive standoff, while Saine assessed how different allied legions fought the Source-Devouring Beasts. Kerrygan’s Destruction Zerg Beast Legion entered the war and began adapting as it clashed with the enemy.

• The Source-Devouring Progenitor and Destruction Supreme exchanged attacks that damaged Clear River Time-Space, then maintained a standoff across the Destruction Gate.
• Skynet’s battlefield analysis showed that Mechanical Civilization’s suppression methods, Eternal Day’s Light Rule, and Final Silence’s Power of Stillness were especially effective against Source-Devouring Beasts.
• Kerrygan’s Destruction Zerg Beast Legion arrived through a Cross-Dimensional Channel and charged into the Source-Devouring Beast army.
• High-ranking Destruction Zerg Beasts weakened and killed a Level-10 Source-Devouring Beast by targeting its beast core after it had devoured millions of insects.
• Surviving Destruction Zerg Beasts began growing deep black-yellow rules keratin between their carapace plates after consuming Source-Devouring Beast Core fragments.

Saine and Mechanical Civilization used the collision between the Destruction Supreme and the Source-Devouring Progenitor to collapse a major Source-Devouring Channel in Clear River Time-Space. The victory cut off the invading legion’s origin support, but the Heavenly Water Deep Blue Mirror showed that Clear River Time-Space had suffered severe wounds.

• Saine selected a heavily contaminated main Source-Devouring Channel and deployed Mechanical Civilization’s Node Chains and allied legions around it.
• The Limitless Golden Emperor kept the World-Eroding Emperor Monarch suppressed while Saine, through the God of Machines, pinned down the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch.
• Alarm Clock Girl opened the Destruction Gate, and the Destruction Supreme’s power collided with the Source-Devouring Progenitor’s devouring vortex near the channel.
• Saine and Mechanical Civilization redirected the collision’s shockwaves into the channel, causing it to split and collapse.
• The allied legions encircled and slaughtered Source-Devouring Beasts cut off from their origin support, while Mechanical Civilization recovered valuable remains and rule fragments.
• The Azure Blue Sea Lord and Lan Qiong observed the victory, while the Heavenly Water Deep Blue Mirror revealed Clear River Time-Space’s worsening origin wounds.

The Source-Devouring Progenitor prepared a Progenitor-Grade Channel and escalated its assault on the Clear River Time-Space, while the Destruction Supreme countered by detonating its own Origin. Locke discovered signs that Paradise Lost and the Destruction Time-Space could synchronize, but the chapter ended as the Source-Devouring Progenitor's enormous eyes opened behind the largest remaining channel.

• The Source-Devouring Progenitor began forming a vast new channel, and the Destruction Supreme responded by detonating a Rules Giant Arm after the Progenitor severed its connection to the Destruction Time-Space.
• The clash between Destruction, Source-Devouring, and Water-Element Origin destabilized Star Sectors and Plane Worlds, while the Source-Devouring forces intensified their assault on the Second Battlefield in the Final Silence Time-Space.
• Locke observed the struggle and noticed that the powers of Paradise Lost and the Destruction Star Zone were beginning to synchronize under his will.
• Saine detected the Source-Devouring Progenitor's growing power through Skynet, while Locke kept his attention on the conflict around the Destruction Gate.
• Two immense Rule Shadows appeared behind the largest remaining Source-Devouring Channel, empowering World-Devouring Emperor Monarch, World-Eroding Emperor Monarch, and Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch as the channel expanded and its defenders retreated.
• The Rule Shadows opened their eyes, revealing a pair of immense rule eyes that nearly filled the channel.

The Source-Devouring Progenitor projected part of his Rule True Body into Clear River Time-Space and attacked the Destruction Gate, shaking the dimensional plane. As the gate neared collapse and more of the Progenitor squeezed through his channel, Saine gathered data while the Final Silence Legion advanced into Source-Devouring Time-Space.

• The Source-Devouring Progenitor's projection suppressed Clear River Time-Space, drained its inhabitants, and reinforced the World-Devouring, World-Eroding, and Withered-Realm Emperor Monarchs.
• The Progenitor reached for the Destruction Gate, and the Destruction Supreme struck back with three giant arms; their clash damaged the projection and tore through Clear River Time-Space's laws and spatial barriers.
• Saine ordered nearby legions to evacuate, then shielded the machinery sustaining the Destruction Gate while the Magic Cube and Skynet recorded the Progenitor's projection.
• The Lord of Final Silence detected the Progenitor's diversion of power and sent the Final Silence Legion deeper into Source-Devouring Time-Space.
• The Progenitor's palm continued tearing apart the Destruction Gate as more of his Rule True Body entered Clear River Time-Space, bringing the gate close to collapse and causing widespread origin tremors.

Locke synchronized the powers of Paradise Lost and Destruction Time-Space, then used the God Slaying Spear to wound the Source-Devouring Progenitor’s projection and help the Destruction Supreme drive it back. The battle continued to intensify before the Destruction Gate, with neither side gaining the upper hand.

• Locke drew on Paradise Lost and Destruction Time-Space together, strengthening his Destruction Demon Body and striking the Source-Devouring Progenitor’s rule palm with the God Slaying Spear.
• Locke’s emotional rules disrupted the progenitor’s devouring power, allowing the Destruction Supreme to smash the projection’s wrist while Locke attacked its torso.
• Saine forced the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch back with the God of Machines’ Destruction Left Fist, while the Limitless Golden Emperor kept the World-Eroding Emperor Monarch pinned beneath golden flames.
• The Lord of Final Silence remained by the passage to Final Silence Time-Space and sent more origin of stillness to suppress source-devouring activity on the Second Battlefield.
• The Source-Devouring Progenitor attacked Locke with three devouring vortexes, but Locke used the Destruction Black Lotus and God Slaying Spear to counter them.
• Locke and the Source-Devouring Progenitor continued clashing before the Destruction Gate, leaving both sides without a clear advantage.

Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord opposed exploiting the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction’s entanglement in Clear River Time-Space, arguing that Source-Devouring Time-Space threatened every connected plane. He joined Paper Figure Dimension Lord and Myriad Law Thunder Emperor in contacting the Destruction Divine Kingdom, and Saine received their message while fighting in Clear River Time-Space.

• Dark Nether Death God, Ebony, and Duolie urged the Lords of Dimension to attack Destruction Divine Kingdom and Mechanical Civilization while their main forces were occupied.
• Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord showed how Source-Devouring Time-Space could spread after consuming Clear River Time-Space and argued that the Lords must first contain that threat.
• Paper Figure Dimension Lord supported Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord, and Myriad Law Thunder Emperor withdrew his support for Dark Nether Death God’s proposal.
• Dark Nether Death God, Ebony, and Duolie left angrily after Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord refused to attack the Destruction Divine Kingdom Faction.
• Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord, Paper Figure Dimension Lord, and Myriad Law Thunder Emperor sent a Communication Mark, which Mechanical Civilization detected and reported to Saine.
• Saine received Skynet’s notification while controlling the God of Machines against World-Devouring Emperor Monarch and recognized Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord’s Balance Rules.

Saine and Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord agreed to a temporary ceasefire and exchanged information about the Source-Devouring Time-Space. They also opened talks on trade and arranged for three Level-12-led legions to join the Clear River Time-Space war, while Saine continued fighting the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch.

• Saine and Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord agreed not to attack each other's territories during the Clear River Time-Space War unless the other side attacked first.
• Saine refused to release Luo Heng immediately but offered to discuss his release after the war, and both sides exchanged intelligence on the Source-Devouring Time-Space and its hidden veins.
• Saine and Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord agreed to explore trade, with Saine seeking balance materials, spatial samples, and high-purity lightning origin while the Paper Figure Dimension Lord requested spatial-folding technology.
• Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord, the Paper Figure Dimension Lord, and the Myriad Law Thunder Emperor each committed a Level-12-led expeditionary legion to the Clear River Time-Space.
• After the meeting ended, Saine returned to the battle as the God of Machines seized the Myriad-Origin Heaven-Devouring Ring and spread Ash Fire into it.

The Myriad Phenomena Community sent three Expeditionary Legions to Clear River Time-Space, where they helped stabilize two failing star sectors and pushed back the Source-Devouring Beasts. The Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord observed the greater conflict and became convinced the threat could no longer be ignored.

• Alarm Clock Girl and Despair Matriarch opened a temporary passage, and the three Expeditionary Legions entered Clear River Time-Space half a year later.
• Saine assigned the legions two star sectors suffering continuous defeats, where the Myriad Phenomena, Paper Man, and Myriad Law Thunder forces each used their distinctive rules to devastate Source-Devouring Beasts.
• When Level-11 Source-Devouring Strong Practitioners attacked, the three Level-12 commanders coordinated their powers, killing two enemies and routing many more beasts.
• Clear River Time-Space's homeland legions regrouped behind the reinforcements, and the two star sectors began showing signs of pushing the enemy back.
• The Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord observed the Source-Devouring Progenitor, the Destruction Supreme, and Locke, then reassessed the battlefield and confirmed that the Myriad Phenomena Community had to confront the threat.