Chapter Summaries

Saine and the God of Machines battled the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch while Ebony cut off the Source-Devouring Channel’s energy supply and Locke threatened the retreat route. The World-Realm Emperor Monarch negotiated a withdrawal, leaving most Source-Devouring forces in Darkness Sword Time-Space uprooted while some Deep Nodes remained under their control.

• The World-Devouring Emperor Monarch used the Myriad-Origin Heaven-Devouring Ring to drain energy from the battlefield, but the God of Machines struck it back.
• Saine used the Magic Cube to divide the Origin-Returning Divine Gourd and sent Ash Fire along the World-Devouring Emperor Monarch’s energy link, forcing him to sever it.
• Ebony withdrew Darkness Sword Time-Space’s origin support from the Source-Devouring Channel, weakening it and forcing the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch to spend power stabilizing it.
• Locke appeared outside the Main Passage with the Destruction Black Lotus, limiting the channel as the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch ordered the Source-Devouring Legions to retreat.
• Saine and the World-Realm Emperor Monarch agreed that the legions could withdraw if their route stayed open, while Source-Devouring forces abandoned most Mother Nests and Coordinate Anchors.
• The World-Devouring Emperor Monarch retreated through the opened route, and most Source-Devouring power in Darkness Sword Time-Space was uprooted while some hidden nodes remained.

After the Source-Devouring forces withdrew, Ebony negotiated a ceasefire that preserved his Mother Time-Space but left him with lost territory and reduced control. Saine later discovered a faintly responsive coordinate among the Source-Devouring Mother Nest’s records and marked it for investigation.

• The Source-Devouring legions withdrew through the passages while the Darkness Sword Organization tracked them, and Ebony and the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch entered last.
• Ebony negotiated with Saine and Locke over captured origin nodes, then joined them in formalizing a Ceasefire Contract with the Myriad Phenomena Balance Disk.
• The Dark Nether Death God, Duolie, the Myriad Law Thunder Emperor, and the Paper Figure Dimension Lord collected their gains and left, while the Myriad Manifestations Eternal Lord requested only reimbursement for his costs.
• The Destruction Divine Kingdom and Mechanical Civilization began withdrawing, but their forces and other dimensional legions still occupied parts of Darkness Sword Time-Space.
• Saine inspected the sealed Source-Devouring Mother Nest, found thousands of dimensional coordinates, and marked one distant coordinate that still gave a faint rule response.

Saine discovered that a conscious group on the far side of a distant coordinate was communicating with the Mechanical Civilization and learned that they had escaped in an ancient ark. The ark forced its way through the passage, pursued by hundreds of millions of source-devouring beasts and a level-12 life.

• Saine sent encrypted rule fluctuations through the distant coordinate, and an unknown party replied after thirteen hourglasses.
• Saine and Skynet determined that the responders had evaded the Source-Devouring Time-Space and might be survivors from a conquered plane.
• Ebony warned Saine to sever the passage if it became dangerous, while Saine prepared the coordinate with time-space stabilization devices.
• A huge, damaged ancient ark began squeezing through the passage, revealing that the creatures aboard had fled their homeland as exiles.
• Skynet sounded a war alarm as source-devouring beasts pursued the ark and a level-12 life approached.

Saine and the Mechanical Civilization helped the damaged Everbright Ark escape the Source-Devouring pursuers into Darkness Sword Time-Space. As the Flame Civilization's last Torchbearer, Miluo revealed the ark's origins, but the World-Hunting Ancient Emperor arrived to claim it, prompting Ebony to confront him.

• The Mechanical Civilization stabilized the passage, disrupted the Source-Devouring Beasts, and helped the Everbright Ark clear the rift.
• Saine identified the ark as a damaged Dimension Supreme Treasure and learned that its hull bore the name Everbright.
• Miluo emerged from the ark, introduced himself as the Flame Civilization's last Torchbearer, and agreed to provide its navigation logs and recent law information.
• Saine learned that the Flame Civilization had fled for thousands of years after Source-Devouring forces discovered it in the Suiming Remnant Domain.
• The World-Hunting Ancient Emperor entered Darkness Sword Time-Space and demanded the Everbright Ark, while Ebony challenged his right to open the passage.
• The flames on the Everbright Ark surged again as the World-Hunting Lock continued toward it.

The Mechanical Fleet and Flame Civilization repelled the Source-Devouring invasion of the Everbright Ark while Saine captured control of the Mother Nest and helped Ebony collapse the channel. The World-Hunting Ancient Emperor escaped, but many Source-Devouring forces were trapped or captured.

• The Mechanical Fleet and Flame Civilization fought off the Source-Devouring Beasts as Level-10 and Level-11 Source-Devouring Strong Practitioners attacked the Everbright Ark and its Mother Nest.
• Saine’s modifications prevented the Strong Practitioners from controlling the Mother Nest, and Skynet traced their signal to a tracking anchor inside the channel.
• Miluo and Bing Xin joined forces against the World-Hunting Ancient Emperor, with Bing Xin’s Frost Rule disrupting his supply of Origin Power and Miluo’s Flintbright Flame striking the World-Hunting Lock.
• Saine seized control of the Mother Nest while Ebony used his Mother Time-Space Authority to make the channel collapse.
• The World-Hunting Ancient Emperor retreated through the collapsing channel, leaving many Source-Devouring Beasts and Transcendence Realm practitioners trapped or captured by the Mechanical Legion.

After showing Saine the fall of Suiming Time-Space and explaining the Lost World Alliance, Miluo offered the Flame Civilization’s records and coordinates in exchange for shelter. Saine agreed to protect the Everbright Ark temporarily, leaving the survivors under Mechanical Civilization surveillance as they began to recover.

• Ebony demanded that the Flame Civilization leave, but Saine said he would decide where to send the Everbright Ark after its inspection.
• Miluo showed Saine the dwindling white fire seed and the destruction of Suiming Time-Space after its Lord fell to the Source-Devouring forces.
• Miluo explained that surviving civilizations formed the loosely connected Lost World Alliance and hid across conquered time-spaces.
• Saine compared Miluo’s records with information recovered from the Mother Nest and found most of his account corroborated.
• Miluo offered the Flame Civilization’s pasture coordinates and war records in exchange for temporary shelter and a safe place to rebuild.
• Saine agreed to provide limited shelter, and Mechanical Engineering Platforms deployed around the Everbright Ark to protect and monitor it.

After learning that the Everbright Ark had contacted the Lost World Alliance, the Source-Devouring Progenitor ordered a purge of active survivors across his territory. A warning from the Alliance confirmed that the purge had begun, and Miluo asked Saine to help.

• The World-Devouring Emperor Monarch urged the Emperor Monarchs to destroy the Everbright Ark, but the World-Realm Emperor Monarch and Source-Devouring Progenitor rejected an immediate war against Saine and his allies.
• The Source-Devouring Progenitor ordered the Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch to find active survivors and erase those who would not accept the Source-Devouring Rule.
• Miluo used the Everbright Ark's Communication Device to contact the Lost World Alliance, and Saine allowed the signal to be sent while Skynet recorded it.
• The Alliance sent replies confirming the Flame Civilization's identity and asking to speak with Saine.
• A later signal showed the Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch's forces attacking the Alliance, and its sender warned that the Alliance had been exposed.
• Miluo asked Saine to help the Lost World Alliance.

Saine agreed to rescue the Lost World Alliance in exchange for its intelligence, technology, and other compensation, and chose the Remnant Star Remnant Domain as the first target. After settling Ebony’s objections to opening a passage through the Darkness Sword Time-Space, Saine ordered the Mechanical Civilization to construct a reverse rescue passage.

• Miluo asked Saine to rescue the Lost World Alliance’s endangered civilizations, and Saine demanded their records, technologies, resources, and possible long-term service in return.
• Skynet found seventeen responsive coordinates, and Saine limited the first rescue to the Remnant Star Remnant Domain while planning to settle survivors in the Primordial Universe Time-Space.
• Miluo introduced Remnant Star King Atar, who sent the Remnant Star Civilization’s navigation records, population counts, passage coordinates, and resource list.
• Ebony objected to a cross-dimensional passage in the Darkness Sword Time-Space, but Saine cited their rule contract and agreed to remove the rescued survivors promptly.
• Atar said the Remnant Star Civilization accepted Saine’s conditions as a bright yellow tide advanced into its outer Star Sectors, and Saine ordered the Mother Nest to construct a reverse rescue passage.

Saine led the Mechanical Civilization through a newly constructed passage to Remnant Star Time-Space, where the Source-Devouring Legion had nearly destroyed the region. After Atar warned that the survivors could hold out for only thirty more years, Saine sent the Mechanical Legion into battle.

• Saine and Skynet spent over a hundred years building a stable passage to Remnant Star Time-Space using the Source-Devouring Mother Nest's tracking anchor and the Alarm Clock Girl's Stabilization Devices.
• Saine led Miluo, Bing Xin, and the Mechanical Legions through the passage, studying its time-space rules and having Skynet mark stable nodes along the route.
• The Mechanical Fleet arrived in a depleted Remnant Star Time-Space where worlds had been drained of life and the Source-Devouring Legion was attacking the survivors' defensive line.
• Atar told Saine that the outer defensive line had fallen and the Remnant Star Remnant Domain could hold out for only thirty years.
• Saine declared that he had arrived and sent a silver-gray mechanical torrent into the Remnant Star Remnant Domain.

The Mechanical Civilization organized the evacuation of the Lost World Alliance while fighting the Source-Devouring Legion, and more than a third of the survivors escaped through a silver-gray route. As the final arks approached the passage, the Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch arrived and froze the rules of the Remnant Star Remnant Domain.

• The Mechanical Legion mapped usable routes and established a silver-gray evacuation route while Atar placed the Remnant Star Civilization’s legions under Saine’s coordination.
• Mechanical forces and the Lost World Alliance held off the Source-Devouring beasts as survivor worlds and arks entered the passage, while Atar and Saine enforced the evacuation order.
• Bing Xin confronted the Vein-Eroding Ancient Emperor, and Miluo blocked the World-Hunting Ancient Emperor from reaching the route.
• Saine disrupted the Source-Devouring Beast Legions and helped the Mechanical Engineering Legion turn a Mother Nest into a second evacuation anchor, but seven world civilizations were left behind.
• As the last large arks approached the passage, the Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch arrived and declared that no one could take the Source-Devouring Time-Space’s property.

Saine used the God of Machines to overwhelm the Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch while the Mechanical Civilization evacuated survivors from the Remnant Star Remnant Domain. Locke prevented Ebony from closing the passage, and Saine withdrew with the legions and collected materials after driving the injured Emperor Monarch away.

• Saine met the Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch at the evacuation passage and repelled his attack with the God of Machines.
• Saine analyzed the Emperor Monarch’s rule core, disrupted his recovery, and repeatedly struck him while the evacuation continued.
• Ebony tried to close the passage from the Darkness Sword Time-Space, but Locke’s destructive pressure forced him to let it remain open.
• Saine blasted the Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch away, then ordered the legions to withdraw with survivors and collected materials.
• The Withered-Realm Emperor Monarch did not pursue as the God of Machines entered the passage, leaving him severely injured in the Remnant Star Remnant Domain.

Saine resettled the rescued Lost World Alliance civilizations in the Primordial Universe Time-Space and established a rule covenant requiring them to trade resources and intelligence for Mechanical Civilization support. As the alliance began sharing Source-Devouring intelligence, an ancient member offered Saine the location of a hidden pasture and requested an in-person meeting.

• Saine transferred the rescued civilizations from the Darkness Sword Time-Space to vacant star regions in the Primordial Universe Time-Space, where the Flame and Remnant Star civilizations began adapting to their new home.
• The Mechanical Civilization provided settlements, resources, and protection in exchange for future payments, and Wojin recorded the terms without Atar bargaining.
• Saine presented a covenant to the Lost World Alliance, and most members agreed to provide resources or intelligence in return for trade, shelter, and possible rescue.
• Miluo became the alliance's main liaison, while Atar organized its coordinates and war intelligence for the Skynet Database.
• Saine decided to build a new long-range extraction base in the Primordial Universe Time-Space instead of relying on the Darkness Sword Time-Space.
• Atar reported that an ancient alliance member offered to trade the location of a hidden Source-Devouring Pasture in person, and Saine agreed to meet him.

Helan of the Star Tomb Civilization arrived at the Mechanical Civilization’s reception base with ancient archives and revealed the location of the Primal Source Pasture, where six exiled civilizations faced an approaching harvest. Saine agreed to rescue them under the Lost World Covenant, and the coordinates’ verification triggered a violent resonance from the captured Source-Devouring Mother Nest.

• Helan arrived aboard the Star Tomb Ark and presented Saine with civilization archives and rule steles.
• Helan revealed that six exiled civilizations lived in the sealed Primal Source Pasture, which Source-Devouring Time-Space would soon harvest.
• Helan offered the Lord of Ancient Azure’s remains and records about the Source-Devouring Progenitor as part of the rescue price.
• Saine agreed to launch a second rescue on the condition that the civilizations sign the Lost World Covenant and pay the terms he set.
• Helan agreed that the Star Tomb Civilization would become a vassal and promised to relay Saine’s terms to the other five civilizations.
• The Magic Cube verified the Primal Source Pasture’s coordinates, and the captured Source-Devouring Mother Nest violently resonated.

After the World-Realm Emperor Monarch revealed the Primal Source Pasture’s history and offered Saine a passage mark in exchange for experimental results, Saine agreed to investigate the site. The Mechanical Civilization, Destruction Divine Kingdom, and Lost World Alliance began preparing an expedition and rescue operation.

• The World-Devouring Emperor Monarch called for retaliation against Saine, but the World-Realm Emperor Monarch warned against provoking a wider war, and the Source-Devouring Progenitor ordered the Emperor Monarchs to find the Lost World Alliance.
• The World-Realm Emperor Monarch told Saine that the Primal Source Pasture held early rule-diversion experiments and might preserve information about the Lord of Ancient Azure and the Emperor Monarch system.
• The World-Realm Emperor Monarch gave Saine a World-Realm Passage Mark in exchange for screened experimental results, and Saine added safeguards so both sides could monitor the connection.
• Saine sent the Primal Source Pasture information to Destruction Demon God Locke, who assigned Kakarot and Destruction Legion troops to join the expedition.
• Kakarot arrived with Saiyan Legion troops and Destruction Behemoths as the Lost World Alliance planned evacuation routes and the reception base began operating.

Saine led the Mechanical Civilization, the Destruction Divine Kingdom, and the Lost World Alliance into the Primal Source Pasture to rescue six exiled civilizations. As the fleets began evacuating survivors, the Ancestral Nest unleashed its forces, and the Pasture-Realm Ancient Emperor appeared, demanding to know why outsiders carried the World-Realm Emperor Monarch's mark.

• Saine opened the ancient passage and redirected the Primal Source Pasture's reverse extraction into the complete Source-Devouring Mother Nest so the expedition could enter.
• The God of Machines led the fleet through the passage while Kakarot shielded the Transport Platforms and Helan awakened the Star Tomb Marks to guide them.
• The expedition reached the Primal Source Pasture, and Saine ordered the six exiled civilizations rescued before the Ancestral Nest was confronted.
• The Mechanical Engineering Legion split into six fleets, and survivors emerged from underground refuges as transport devices descended to evacuate them.
• The Ancestral Nest released hundreds of millions of Source-Devouring Beasts, and Kakarot, the Mechanical Civilization, and the Destruction Divine Kingdom fought back.
• The Pasture-Realm Ancient Emperor appeared above the Beast Tide and questioned why outsiders possessed the World-Realm Emperor Monarch's mark.

The Mechanical Civilization and the Lost World Alliance fought back the Source-Devouring forces while Saine dismantled the Primal Source Pasture’s rule network. The Pasture-Realm Ancient Emperor was captured, the hidden worlds were evacuated, and Saine opened the deepest Seal of the Ancestral Nest, revealing an enormous ancient Rules Body.

• The Mechanical Legion and the Destruction Divine Kingdom counterattacked the Source-Devouring Beast army while Civilization Noise Suppressors disrupted the Ancestral Nest’s energy supply.
• Atar and Miluo defeated or drove back Level-11 Source-Devouring Strong Practitioners, giving the Lost World Alliance the upper hand in the direct battle.
• The Pasture-Realm Ancient Emperor summoned the Myriad Pastures Source Disc, but Kakarot grievously wounded him and tore through the treasure’s defenses.
• Saine used the Magic Cube and Mechanical Probes to sever the Primal Source Pasture’s connections and seize the Myriad Pastures Source Disc with the God of Machines.
• Kakarot shattered most of the Pasture-Realm Ancient Emperor’s Rules Body, and the God of Machines sealed him while Skynet took control of the Ancestral Nest.
• The six hidden worlds’ inhabitants were evacuated, and Saine opened the deepest Seal of the Ancestral Nest, revealing an ancient Rules Body larger than the God of Machines.

Saine and the Mechanical Engineering Legion began extracting the Lord of Ancient Azure's remains from the Ancestral Nest, uncovering evidence that the Source-Devouring Progenitor had experimented with diverting Rule Authority. As the remains were prepared for transfer, the Lord of Ancient Azure opened his Rule Eye and recognized that Saine was not from the Source-Devouring Time-Space.

• Helan explained the Star Tomb Civilization's ancient duty to protect the Lord of Ancient Azure and knelt before his remains.
• Saine's legion analyzed the Source-Devouring Veins and discovered that the Progenitor had tried to transfer the Lord of Ancient Azure's will and Rule Authority into other carriers.
• Saine ordered the remains and Ancestral Nest core sealed for transfer, while a temporary replacement node kept the Primal Source Pasture from collapsing.
• The World-Realm Emperor Monarch warned Saine that the Source-Devouring Progenitor would retaliate, and Saine prepared for the enemy's response.
• As the legion severed the final vein, the Lord of Ancient Azure's Rule Eye opened and a dormant wisp of personal will told Saine that he was not from the Source-Devouring Time-Space.

Saine and Helan confirmed that the Lord of Ancient Azure was dead, though a trace of will remained to ensure the civilizations of his time-space survived. After leaving his final legacy to the Ancient Azure Stone Steles, the Lord of Ancient Azure fell silent, and the Progenitor Source Seal triggered a surge of light throughout the Primal Source Pasture.

• Saine used the Magic Cube and Skynet to discover that the Lord of Ancient Azure's body held only a faint remnant of will.
• Helan brought the Ancient Azure Stone Steles to the Lord of Ancient Azure and told him that the Star Tomb Civilization and the other five civilizations were evacuating to the Primordial Universe Time-Space.
• The Lord of Ancient Azure confirmed that the exiled civilizations still lived, and Saine promised to take them somewhere safe in exchange for their joining his alliance.
• The Lord of Ancient Azure shared memories of the Source-Devouring Progenitor's invasion and revealed the Progenitor Source Seal hidden deep within his Rule Origin.
• The Lord of Ancient Azure passed his final memories and rule legacy into the steles, then asked Helan to take his Rules Body and protect the civilizations.
• The Progenitor Source Seal lit up, causing every bright yellow vein in the Primal Source Pasture to erupt with light.

Saine preserved the Lord of Ancient Azure's last wisp of will and evacuated the Mechanical Fleet with the Primal Source Pasture's spoils as the Source-Devouring Progenitor confronted him. Kakarot charged the Progenitor's projected power to hold the front while Saine followed, and their forces collided in the pasture.

• The Progenitor Source Seal drained energy from the evacuating platforms, and Saine ordered the Mechanical Legion to cut away their contaminated sections.
• Saine used Ash Fire and suppression rules to preserve the Lord of Ancient Azure's last wisp of will and stop the seal from reclaiming the remains.
• The Source-Devouring Progenitor projected his will into the pasture, saw what Saine had taken, and demanded that he return several captives and artifacts.
• Saine refused the demand, and the Source-Devouring Progenitor gathered surrounding energy into a giant Rule Hand.
• Kakarot charged at the Rule Hand to bear the brunt of the attack, while Saine followed with the God of Machines and their powers collided.

Kakarot and Saine held off the Source-Devouring Progenitor while the Mechanical Civilization evacuated the exiled civilizations and their spoils. As the Progenitor began preparing to descend in person, Saine ordered a withdrawal, but the Dimension-Rending Shuttle appeared ahead of the fleet and threatened its escape.

• Kakarot endured the Progenitor’s giant palm, using its power to strengthen his Rule True Body as Saine disrupted the Source-Devouring veins and protected the evacuation.
• The Source-Devouring Progenitor expanded the seal and began forming a cross-dimensional passage to bring his true body to the battlefield.
• Saine ordered the legions to withdraw, while Kakarot asked to charge once more and Locke reinforced the evacuation passage with Destruction Flames.
• The Source-Devouring Progenitor ordered the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch, Abyss-Pasture Emperor Monarch, and World-Realm Emperor Monarch to intercept the fleet and reclaim the spoils.
• The fleet’s stabilized coordinates shifted, and the Dimension-Rending Shuttle emerged ahead of the evacuating Mechanical Fleet.