Recaps

Zhang Yang explained to Qu Shang what happened to Heavenly Dao Junior Mistress and why he and Mu Shaoan never trusted each other unconditionally. He answered Qu Shang’s three questions on their wedding day, though she focused on his relationships and family rather than the secrets he hoped she would ask about.

• Qu Shang asked whether Zhang Yang had killed Heavenly Dao Junior Mistress, and he explained that he had sent her and several children to the Fifth Sequence with a clone to protect them.
• Qu Shang said she had only wanted to know that Heavenly Dao Junior Mistress was safe, but Zhang Yang insisted she ask all three questions.
• Qu Shang asked whether Zhang Yang trusted Mu Shaoan, and Zhang Yang explained that they guarded against and calculated against each other because Mu Shaoan bore an unspeakable curse and was too proud to accept unconditional help.
• Qu Shang asked why Mu Shaoan and Zhang Yang had apologized to their maternal relatives, and Zhang Yang said his maternal uncle had wished he would beat Mu Shaoan into a teddy bear.

Mu Shaoan completed a Fourth Sequence counter-curse Hunter system and presented his plan to Zhang Yang and the Sword Immortal World’s senior disciples. Zhang Yang proposed dividing the world into three subplanes to create strategic depth, and Jiang Rong and Li Guokui volunteered to govern two of them.

• Mu Shaoan surveyed the Heavenly Sword Clan, planned to recruit thirty million seventh-generation disciples, and spent six months developing a counter-curse Hunter system.
• Zhang Yang and the senior disciples received Mu Shaoan’s plan, and Tao Yao asked whether Zhang Yang feared losing control by delegating authority.
• Zhang Yang explained that he wanted hidden reserves and multiple layers of defense against threats such as the Thousand-Handed Race and Ancient God 'Game'.
• Zhang Yang proposed dividing the Sword Immortal World into three subplanes, with the true main plane moved into the current internal plane and each subplane assigned distinct resources and responsibilities.
• Jiang Rong volunteered to govern one subplane, and Li Guokui volunteered to govern another after finding inspiration in Mu Shaoan’s plan.
• Zhang Yang approved both volunteers on the condition that they obey mobilization orders during war, marking the start of the Small Account 3.0 Era.

09 Sub-Account tried to survive as massive resources began transforming the ruined Xing Clan World ahead of its dimensional descent. After testing the wave of primordial chaos, he realized he had only ten days to discover how to pass as a valuable part of the new world.

• 09 Sub-Account sensed an enormous investment flooding the doomed plane and suspected ancient god "Game" was behind it.
• Fearing the coming destruction would kill every living thing, 09 Sub-Account decided to study the transformation and create a counterfeit that could survive it.
• 09 Sub-Account dismantled his giant ax, cleaned an earth vein with a partial Plague God Seal, and used ax fragments and three Blunted True Spirit Particles to observe the resource flood.
• As the flood reached him, 09 Sub-Account recorded anomalies and watched the old plane briefly flare with life before being crushed into primordial chaos.
• The Blunted True Spirit Particles lasted less than three seconds in the chaos, and 09 Sub-Account fled with about ten days left to find a way to survive.

Mu Shaoan divided the new subplane population and land with Li Guokui and Jiang Rong, then devised four professions to strengthen Sword Immortals. After Li Guokui asked to trade for two of those forces, Mu Shaoan refused and challenged him to understand the purpose of the subplanes first.

• Mu Shaoan negotiated the division of disciples, mortals, and territory among himself, Li Guokui, and Jiang Rong.
• Mu Shaoan created the Curse Sword Immortal, Ghostly Sword Immortal, Chess Sword Immortal, and Demonic Bladesman to cover Sword Immortals’ weaknesses and support team combat.
• Li Guokui visited Mu Shaoan with liquor and offered to follow his lead, proposing to build Anti-Curse Halls in his plane.
• Mu Shaoan insisted Li Guokui build more Anti-Curse Halls, then heard his request to exchange for one thousand Chess Sword Immortals and one thousand Demonic Bladesmen.
• Mu Shaoan refused the exchange and told Li Guokui he did not understand the purpose of the subplanes or the anti-curse system.

Zhang Yang brought 1,060 carefully selected Heavenly Sword Clan disciples to an Ancient Castle, where Ancient God Li Meng would teach them the Ancient Demon Race’s inheritance. He explained the Ancient Five Races’ fates and tasked the disciples with mastering the Monster Race’s Heavenly Realm within fifty years to prepare for the Third Generation Insecticide.

• Zhang Yang led Qu Shang and 1,060 selected disciples into the Ancient Castle, the culmination of a thousand-year assessment of the clan’s inner disciples.
• Ancient God Li Meng appeared in the castle, and Qu Shang moved to protect Zhang Yang until he explained that Li Meng’s strength had fallen to the Demigod level.
• Zhang Yang assigned Qu Shang and the disciples to record and study the Ancient Demon Race’s inheritance, especially its knowledge of Plane Barriers and Heaven’s Dao Barriers.
• Zhang Yang described the Ancient Witch, Asura, Demon, Human, and Monster races, explaining how their surviving branches had fared after the Second Generation Insecticide.
• Zhang Yang said the clan had already learned key inheritances from the Ancient Asura, Witch, and Demon races, and urged the disciples to master the Monster Race’s Heavenly Realm within fifty years to prepare for the Third Generation Insecticide.

Zhang Yang reviewed the Sword Immortal World's defenses against the Ancient God "Game" and considered how the Ancient Five Races' legacies could strengthen its offense and defense. He decided to cultivate the Ancient Witch Clan's Will of the Earth and began planning a new trap involving the Ancient Demon Race.

• Zhang Yang reflected that 09 Sub-Account had become independent and that the Ancient God "Game" was preparing to attack his world.
• Zhang Yang assessed the Ancient Monster Race's Heavenly Realm defense system and considered combining it with the Sword Immortal World's layered defenses.
• Zhang Yang reviewed plans for expanding the world's defenses with Mu Shaoan's anti-curse system and Tao Yao's detection and warning system.
• Zhang Yang identified the Asura Blood Divine Seal and the Ancient Witch Clan's Will of the Earth as powerful offensive abilities, noting how the seal had weakened Li Meng's laws.
• Zhang Yang decided to cultivate the Will of the Earth as a trump card and planned to dig a prehistoric chasm related to the Ancient Demon Race.

After nine months of seclusion, Zhang Yang prepared to explore an underground ruin that might preserve the Ancient Demon Race’s lost inheritance. He left the World Tree with the Dream Root’s perimeter survey complete and was ready to assemble a small team to enter the ruins.

• Zhang Yang emerged from the ancient tree cottage and ate spirit fruits delivered by the World Tree’s farmer wood demons, converting the True Spirit he gained into Blunted True Spirit Particles.
• Zhang Yang planned to use one million Blunted True Spirit Particles to disguise a medium-sized plane as his main plane and trap enemies with the Ancient Demon Race’s power.
• Zhang Yang recalled that the Abyssal Demon Tribe and Abyssal Ghost Tribe had arisen from the Ancient Demon Race’s corpses but were not the true Ancient Demon Race, whose inheritance had vanished from the Fourth Sequence.
• The Dream Root discovered an underground ruin while boring a route for its Dream High-Speed Rail, and Li Meng recognized the artifacts as likely belonging to the Ancient Demon Race.
• Zhang Yang spent his nine months of seclusion focused on the ruin and waited for the Dream Root to seal and survey its surroundings.
• With the preparations complete, Zhang Yang was ready to form a small exploration team and enter the underground ruin.

Zhang Yang learned that the Underground Ruins were perilous and that the Dream Ancient God might retaliate for his attack on Li Meng. He postponed exploring the ruins but ordered the Dream Root to keep competing for the Dream Law Heavenly God position, then mobilized the Sword Immortal World for war and waited for an invasion.

• The Dream Root warned Zhang Yang that the Underground Ruins were unstable and dangerous, so Zhang Yang postponed the expedition until they could prepare more thoroughly.
• The Dream Root warned that attacking Li Meng could provoke the Dream Ancient God, but Zhang Yang ordered it to keep competing for the Dream Law Heavenly God position and protect the core secrets.
• Zhang Yang issued an imperial decree that brought ominous warnings and sweeping restrictions across the Sword Immortal World.
• Zhang Yang activated wartime preparations, recalling Law Heavenly Gods and Law Demigods, raising Wu County and He Yimou to Law Heavenly God status, and mobilizing troops and supplies.
• Zhang Yang sat beneath the World Tree playing chess and waited for an enemy to invade.

Zhang Yang explained that the World Tree’s root had betrayed him to seek a Dream Law Heavenly God’s position, then revealed that he had prepared to sever its connection to the Dream Dimension and counter its forces. He sent Mahayana wood demons through the World Tree to contest the root’s control, while warning his allies that the real danger was an Ancient God-level Dream invasion.

• The World Tree’s root accused Zhang Yang of hypocrisy, while Zhang Yang admitted he had cultivated it for profit and expected its eventual betrayal.
• Zhang Yang used Bind divine talismans to contain the World Tree and dull its intelligence, severing its connection to the root in the Dream Dimension.
• At Zhang Yang’s command, teams of Mahayana-level wood demons entered the Dream Dimension through the World Tree’s heartwood passage to challenge the root’s control.
• Mu Shaoan and Qu Shang questioned Zhang Yang about the betrayal and the safety of Li Meng and the disciples trapped in the Dream Dimension.
• Zhang Yang assured Qu Shang that his Dream Projection’s Ancient Castle remained protected, then said the true threat was the Ancient God-level Dream invasion.

Zhang Yang and Mu Shaoan prepared for an invasion by the Dream Ancient God’s power, which Zhang Yang monitored from the Sword Immortal Grand Hall. The invading shadow failed to find a sleeping person or animal to infect before a disguised Tribulation-Transcending Mahayana caught it.

• Zhang Yang explained that the Reality Dimension weakened the Dream Ancient God’s power, though he admitted he had no further plans or trump cards.
• Zhang Yang activated the Sword Immortal Grand Hall’s restrictions and watched the surrounding realms through hundreds of projections.
• A shadow entered a remote city and searched its pleasure quarter for a suitable person to receive a Nightmare Seed, but found it deserted.
• The shadow discovered that the city’s residents were all asleep and protected by the Dream Law, so it searched for a dog, cat, or rat instead.
• The shadow attacked what looked like a dog, but a burly Tribulation-Transcending Mahayana revealed himself and captured it with a burst of flame.

Zhang Yang watched the Sword Immortal World endure the Dream Ancient God's invasion without suffering any apparent damage, while Li Meng realized that the Nightmare Seeds had been neutralized and the Dream Ancient God had lost much of his power. Qu Shang mistook the failed invasion for a feint, and Zhang Yang ordered the Sword Immortal forces to stay vigilant.

• Zhang Yang revealed that the disciples in the Ancient Castle were illusions and that the real disciples had been hidden in the Sword Immortal Grand Hall for eight months.
• Li Meng watched the Sword Immortal World prepare for the invasion and warned Zhang Yang that resisting the Dream Ancient God was like striking an egg against a rock.
• Dawn arrived with the Sword Immortal World intact, and Li Meng realized that the Nightmare Seeds had failed to take root and that the Dream Ancient God had lost at least twenty percent of his power.
• Zhang Yang sent Li Meng downstairs and erased the projected images before Qu Shang entered the hall.
• Qu Shang called the invasion a feint, and Zhang Yang pretended to agree while ordering the forces to remain on guard.

Zhang Yang analyzed the Dream Ancient God's possible routes of attack and relied on his long-running campaign to cleanse the Sword Immortal World of filth to keep its Dream Projections safe. The chapter ended with him confident that the invader's Nightmare Seeds would fail to breach his defenses.

• The Heavenly Sword Clan's leaders put the Sword Immortal World on full alert despite the quiet night.
• Zhang Yang ran dungeons with Qu Shang, then considered how the Dream Ancient God might attack across dimensions.
• He watched the Dream Ancient God's army surround his Ancient Castle and noted that it had swallowed the tree root after its scheme failed.
• Zhang Yang explained that Dream Projections stayed safe unless their owners encountered problems in reality, which the Dream Ancient God had tried to exploit by planting Nightmare Seeds.
• Zhang Yang recalled how he had built an extensive system to eliminate filth and darkness throughout the world, leaving the Dream Ancient God unable to invade through its usual method.

Zhang Yang waited inside the Sword Immortal Grand Hall while the Dream Ancient God’s invasion stalled, using the crisis to force Li Meng to choose between her former ally and him. Li Meng pledged allegiance and surrendered the Dream Weaving Divine Art, leaving Zhang Yang relieved that his scheme had succeeded.

• Zhang Yang directly mocked the Dream Ancient God, but his eight hundred thousand dulled True Spirits kept him safe from its gaze.
• The Dream Ancient God’s invasion army withdrew on the third day, and Zhang Yang stayed hidden in the Sword Immortal Grand Hall for fifty days, waiting for Li Meng’s decision.
• Li Meng appeared haggard, knelt before Zhang Yang, and pledged the allegiance of Luo Li of the Ancient Demon Race.
• Zhang Yang accepted Li Meng’s allegiance, told her she would be safe from the Dream Ancient God, and sent her away with black and white chess pieces.
• Zhang Yang revealed that he had provoked the Dream Ancient God to destroy Li Meng’s confidence in it and make her pledge herself to him.
• Zhang Yang confirmed that Li Meng’s pledge was the Dream Weaving Divine Art, a Heavenly God Skill of the Dream Law.

Zhang Yang launched a surprise invasion of the Dream Dimension, racing to exploit the Dream Ancient God’s delayed response while his forces mobilized. He secured the Eight-Colored Spiritual Plant’s cooperation in exchange for a freely roaming clone, setting his plan to seize the Dream High-Speed Rail in motion.

• Zhang Yang obtained the Dream Weaving Divine Art and ordered the Sword Immortal Legions to invade the Dream Dimension within fifteen minutes.
• The Dream Ancient God and the Dream Law Heavenly Gods mobilized their forces, but Zhang Yang calculated that his Sword Immortal Legions would reach the Ancient Castle first.
• Zhang Yang assembled the Sword Immortal Legions in three seconds and ordered Jiang Rong and Guan Shan to ascend as Law Heavenly Gods and guard the Sword Immortal World.
• Zhang Yang secretly sent Heavenly Sword Clan disciples to install the Ancient Demon Heavenly Realm Defense System across the Sword Immortal World.
• Zhang Yang offered the Eight-Colored Spiritual Plant a freely roaming clone in exchange for the Dream High-Speed Rail and the Ancient Demon Race’s Underground Ruins.
• The Eight-Colored Spiritual Plant agreed to leave its World Tree body with Zhang Yang and demanded absolute freedom, and Zhang Yang accepted.

Zhang Yang used the Eight-Colored Spiritual Plant and the Dream High-Speed Rail to transport his forces into Li Meng’s Dream Divine Kingdom, where they seized it and began anchoring it with Hidden Sword Earth Veins. After Li Meng warned that Zhang Yang was headed for destruction, he suspected the Dream Ancient God had manipulated events to make him reveal his trump cards, then remembered he still had one left.

• Zhang Yang removed most of the seal on the Eight-Colored Spiritual Plant and followed its self-awareness into the Dream Dimension, where he built a defensive sphere and arranged for it to transport his troops and earth veins.
• As the Nightmare Storm approached, the Eight-Colored Spiritual Plant used the Dream High-Speed Rail to send the Sword Immortal Legions and Hidden Sword Earth Veins to their destination, while Zhang Yang released the rest of its seal.
• Zhang Yang arrived in Li Meng’s Dream Kingdom with tens of millions of soldiers, who swiftly attacked and began spreading the Hidden Sword Earth Veins underground to solidify the dream.
• Zhang Yang released Li Meng and offered her freedom, and she warned that his victory over the Dream Ancient God would ultimately lead to his destruction.
• Zhang Yang told Qu Shang he suspected the Dream Ancient God had manipulated him into revealing his trump cards, and Qu Shang realized the Mechanical Zombies tide might now threaten them.
• Zhang Yang regained his confidence and declared that he still had one trump card left, deciding to blood-sacrifice his little cousin.

Zhang Yang activated Li Meng’s Dream Divine Kingdom, awakened its ancient dreams, and became a Dream Law Heavenly God. He ended the chapter bankrupt in Dream Law, with one hundred million weak Dream Soldiers and no easy way to strengthen them.

• Zhang Yang reassured Qu Shang and explored Li Meng’s vast Dream Divine Kingdom, built on a massive Gray Dream Fault.
• Zhang Yang used the Dream Weaving Divine Art at the fault’s core, awakening ancient dreams and revealing the Ancient Demon Race’s inherited traditions.
• Zhang Yang stopped the expansion of the earth veins after realizing they had destroyed some of the ancient dreams.
• Zhang Yang recruited about one hundred million Dream Soldiers, mastered the Dream Weaving Divine Art, and became a Dream Law Heavenly God.
• Zhang Yang discovered that recruiting the soldiers had exhausted his Dream Law, leaving them at level one and requiring nearly one hundred thousand units of Dream Law to connect the kingdoms.

While Chaos rapidly evolved, Zhang Yang’s 09 Sub-Account survived inside it and exploited a sudden change to endure another optimization cycle. The Ancient God 'Game' hastily created a Pangu imitation to split Chaos, leaving the 09 Sub-Account alive as a flawed Chaos Lifeform was born; the chapter ends with him judging the rushed creation and predicting its wasteful aftermath.

• The 09 Sub-Account struggled to survive as Chaos optimized and evolved, despite Zhang Yang believing the process would take tens of thousands of years.
• A strange rhythm spread through Chaos, and the 09 Sub-Account absorbed it while realizing that the first lifeform was about to be born.
• The rhythm accelerated, giving the 09 Sub-Account more power but causing the impending lifeform to develop defects.
• Three days later, the Ancient God 'Game' produced a massive Chaos Lifeform through a rushed Pangu imitation and split open Heaven and Earth.
• The 09 Sub-Account criticized the crude creation, predicted that the Chaos Lifeform would die from developmental deficiencies, and anticipated disorder and wasted resources in the new world.

09 Sub-Account survived Chaos splitting open Heaven and Earth and planned to lie low as an Innate Being. In the Sword Immortal World, Mu Shaoan discovered a looming crisis but could not reach Zhang Yang, who was away in the Dream Dimension.

• 09 Sub-Account hid in the Chaos Weapon as the Chaos Lifeform split open Heaven and Earth, then became one of the Innate Beings formed from the remnants.
• The Chaos Lifeform died of exhaustion, and 09 Sub-Account noticed that a new race had been designed to counter Sword Immortals.
• 09 Sub-Account decided to take the surname Yang and the given name Chigua, intending to gather benefits and return during the war between the two planes.
• Mu Shaoan sneezed, cast Destiny Chess pieces, and saw a deathbed checkmate that suggested a crisis threatened the Sword Immortal World.
• Mu Shaoan tried to alert Zhang Yang through the Cursed Monstrous Worm, but Zhang Yang remained unreachable while trapped in the Dream Dimension.
• Mu Shaoan began using the Destiny Chessboard to investigate the crisis, while a purple wood section in the Sword Immortal Grand Hall declared that any needs should be taken to the steward—every sub-account.

Mu Shaoan took command after warning that an undetectable Ancient God-level threat was closing in on the Sword Immortal World. He forced open Zhang Yang’s hidden stronghold and ordered its vast reserves mobilized for war.

• The Heaven and Earth Decree announced that the Ancient Demon Heavenly Realm Defense System was complete, and Mu Shaoan, Li Guokui, and Jiang Rong collected their Heavenly Realm Stones.
• Mu Shaoan recognized the system’s immense defensive power and tried to conscript Pang Di and the other disciples who had installed it.
• Pang Di refused to reveal their confidential mission without Zhang Yang’s decree, but Mu Shaoan forced him to assemble everyone and persuaded Li Guokui and Jiang Rong to follow his command.
• Mu Shaoan warned that an Ancient God-level power had concealed the Sword Immortal World and that its defenses needed every available resource.
• Li Guokui and Jiang Rong broke open the Sword Immortal Grand Hall’s formation, and Mu Shaoan found its reserves and ordered the world placed on first-level war footing.

Mu Shaoan discovered Zhang Yang’s enormous reserve of resources and forced Li Guokui and Jiang Rong to help spend them on defenses. After ordering nine Myriad Phenomena Imperial Universe Celestial Cycle Limitless Profound Sword Arrays built within three days, Mu Shaoan remained worried that an Ancient God-level enemy was targeting the Sword Immortal World.

• Mu Shaoan grabbed Li Guokui and Jiang Rong and demanded they help use the resources in the Sword Immortal Grand Hall.
• Mu Shaoan persuaded Li Guokui to build his long-rejected Myriad Phenomena Imperial Universe Celestial Cycle Limitless Profound Sword Array.
• Li Guokui argued that Zhang Yang’s Ancient Demon Heavenly Realm Defense System already improved the Heaven and Earth Barrier, but Mu Shaoan ordered nine arrays anyway.
• Li Guokui said he could complete the nine arrays in three days with sufficient resources, while Jiang Rong asked whether they should connect them to the existing defense system.
• Mu Shaoan refused to connect the systems and imposed military law if the nine arrays were not ready in three days.
• Mu Shaoan reflected that an Ancient God-level power was countering them and that Zhang Yang’s resources might be needed to protect their home base.

Unable to open a passage back to the Reality Dimension, Zhang Yang told his anxious subordinates that returning to the Sword Immortal World would mean falling into the enemy’s trap. He insisted they defend the Dream Divine Kingdom while Mu Shaoan searched for one of the hidden plans Zhang Yang had prepared to save their home.

• Zhang Yang failed to open a passage between the Dream Dimension and the Reality Dimension, leaving his forces stranded in the Dream Divine Kingdom.
• Tao Yao reported that the surrounding area appeared to be under a scorched-earth blockade, while He Yimou warned that dwindling dreams, weak Dream Spirits, and approaching Nightmare Storms threatened the kingdom.
• Zhang Yang ordered his subordinates to stop worrying about the Sword Immortal World and focus on strengthening and defending the Dream Divine Kingdom.
• Zhang Yang explained that their enemies had anticipated their options and that leading a rescue force home would likely trigger an ambush.
• Zhang Yang privately hoped Mu Shaoan would find one of the ancient pits he had prepared, while he resolved to hold the Dream Divine Kingdom as their highest priority.

Zhang Yang discovered that Dream Dimension forces were entangled by hidden strands and learned that Li Meng had sided with the Thousand-Handed Race. He prepared to counter the threat with layered schemes, including impersonating Mu Shaoan and concealing Li Meng’s resurrected elder sister.

• Zhang Yang used his Dream Law perception to recognize that everyone was entangled by hidden strands reaching into the Dream Dimension, and realized reality’s incursions carried a dangerous cost.
• Zhang Yang contacted Li Meng and asked her to raise a hundred thousand units of Dream Law, but she refused and offered him a chance to surrender.
• Li Meng revealed she had found protection from the Thousand-Handed Race and threatened to expose everything about the Plague God Seal; Zhang Yang taunted her before their connection broke.
• Zhang Yang concluded that the Thousand-Handed Race would likely retaliate remotely and believed his assumed identity as Mu Shaoan would help him withstand such an attack.
• Zhang Yang examined a white chess piece containing Li Meng’s elder sister, whom the Time Coffin had resurrected alongside Li Meng, and recalled the six small and three large contingency schemes he had devised.

Zhang Yang asked Li Meng's Sister how to obtain Dream Law quickly, and she proposed developing a new version of Dream Law using her research. He agreed to give her five years and resources, while prioritizing a secure foothold in the Dream Dimension.

• Zhang Yang explained how his attack on Li Meng's Dream Divine Kingdom failed and why he urgently needed Dream Law.
• Li Meng's Sister warned Zhang Yang that his position was dangerous and suggested reverse-decomposing Chaos—Ancient Law of Black and White, but Zhang Yang refused to weaken his foundation.
• Li Meng's Sister offered to develop a new Dream Law within three years if Zhang Yang provided thirty thousand units of Dream Law and enough personnel.
• Zhang Yang agreed to give her five years to create Dream Law 3.0 and said he would not blame her if she failed, since her knowledge of the Dream Dimension was valuable.
• Li Meng's Sister agreed to teach Zhang Yang's people, urged him to attend the lessons, and revealed that she hoped to earn equity in his holdings through her achievements.

Number 09 scavenged soil and treasures to forge powerful leylines while hiding from the rapidly evolving Heavenly Dao. He discovered Ancient God Game had created a growing horde of sword-immortal-countering monsters, leaving him trapped between fleeing the plane and being devoured.

• Number 09 ate spiritually rich soil and refined it into an internal leyline, then gathered twelve strands of leyline Qi.
• When the Heavenly Dao began evolving, Number 09 hid underground, then exploited its accelerated self-check to gather treasures and build twelve top-grade leylines.
• After the Heavenly Dao completed three million years of evolution in an hour, Number 09 hid as a caterpillar and examined a newly created monster with twelve divine-patterned hearts and three heads.
• Number 09 saw the monster’s tumor-covered head hatch many offspring, which rapidly grew by devouring the land and everything around them.
• Number 09 fled the expanding horde and realized he needed Law Heavenly God strength to escape the plane, but feared Ancient God Game would kill him if he tried.

With Zhang Yang and the Sword Immortal main force still missing, Mu Shaoan’s preparations helped the Sword Immortal World brace for a possible invasion. He believed Zhang Yang was safe outside the world, but stayed behind to protect the headquarters while the enemy’s plans remained hidden.

• After six days without Zhang Yang’s return or contact, the Sword Immortal World’s leaders feared that he and the ten-million-strong main force had been lost or lured away.
• Li Guokui and Jiang Rong recognized that Mu Shaoan’s earlier orders to open the Sword Immortal Grand Hall and build the nine great arrays had prevented them from being caught unprepared.
• Li Guokui reported that he had completed the nine arrays, while Jiang Rong described building a million Sky Dome Arrays and preparing to evacuate civilians through a policy of fortifying the walls and clearing the fields.
• Mu Shaoan said the enemy had concealed the heavenly secrets and might include both the Ancient God 'Game' and the Dream Ancient God, but he believed Zhang Yang had enough resources to survive outside for a long time.
• Mu Shaoan decided he could not leave the Sword Immortal World because Li Guokui and Jiang Rong were not capable of guarding its headquarters without him.