Yin Ming located the old warlock’s hiding place and waited while Wuxiang Watson and the Mother of All Snakes prepared their ambush. The Mother of All Snakes trapped the old warlock in a bounded realm, but he emerged as a powerful Blood Cicada and faced her.

• Yin Ming used Wuxiang Watson’s information and his eight-phase thought model to find the old warlock on a Plane Fragment.
• Yin Ming asked when the others would act, and Wuxiang Watson said they would wait for their targets to arrive.
• The old warlock concealed himself within a Formless Tree on the Plane Fragment as word of his location spread.
• The Mother of All Snakes arrived and established a vast snake bounded realm to prevent the old warlock from escaping.
• The old warlock emerged from the ground as a Blood Cicada, activated his Life Domain, and unleashed a tide of blood against the Mother of All Snakes.

Yin Ming arrived as the Mother of All Snakes fought the old warlock in his Blood Cicada form, then entered the Plane Fragment containing the Formless Tree by opening the warlock’s barrier. The warlock broke away to attack Yin Ming, while the Mother of All Snakes pursued him.

• The Mother of All Snakes recognized the old warlock’s parasitic bloodline path as he clashed with her using dragon-shaped blood-energy manifestations.
• Yin Ming teleported from the Dark Plane to the edge of their battle and refused to join either side.
• The old warlock invited the Mother of All Snakes to join forces against Yin Ming, but Yin Ming told them to keep fighting.
• Yin Ming opened the blood-red barrier around the Plane Fragment and entered to approach the Formless Tree.
• The old warlock broke through the domain to attack Yin Ming, and the Mother of All Snakes let him pass before sending a giant python after him.

Yin Ming purified the old warlock’s blood insects and seized control of the barrier, while the Mother of All Snakes kept fighting the warlock. He examined the Formless Tree and discovered that it held traces of ancient progenitors and an insect parasitizing the Bloodline River, then found the Ancient Ruins.

• Yin Ming used the Golden Light Spell to destroy the old warlock’s blood insects and redirected the barrier to protect himself.
• The Mother of All Snakes rejected the old warlock’s attempt to sow distrust and continued attacking it, forcing the warlock to focus on their battle.
• Yin Ming approached the Formless Tree, deciding to investigate the Ancient Ruins while the Mother of All Snakes fought and Wuxiang Watson pursued the Mirror Demon.
• Yin Ming used his Divine Sense to discover that the Formless Tree preserved progenitors’ imprints and that an insect had long parasitized the Bloodline River.
• Yin Ming found the Ancient Ruins and realized that ruins could be as small as a stone or an unrotted corpse.

Summary of Chapter: "Perfect Creature"

1. Key Plot Points and Events

Yin Ming discovers the crystallized corpse of a massive ancient dragon (several hundred zhang long) buried beneath the Formless Tree. The corpse bears features resembling every type of dragon-descended Extraordinary Magic Beast, suggesting it was the bloodline template for the Wizard World's creatures. He taps the corpse, restoring it to flesh and blood, extracts a drop of golden blood into his Scavenger Gourd, and receives information confirming it is the blood of Yinglong — a True Dragon from the Primordial World. Yin Ming then injects magical power into the corpse to decrystallize its brain, intending to probe it with his Divine Sense for any surviving memories.

2. Character Developments

Yin Ming demonstrates his analytical genius, employing his Eight-Phase Thought Model (170,000 colliding thoughts) to reconstruct the Dragon Clan's evolutionary strategy from a single blood sample. He identifies the corpse as a "perfect creature" suited to the path of bloodlines and recognizes the Dragon Clan's essence — a race that invaded and dominated other species through its powerful reproductive ability. He concludes by noting he can use this knowledge to grant the Mother of All Snakes a favor, since she wields the law of "reproduction."

3. Significant Themes

• The Path of Bloodlines: Yin Ming explains its fundamental principle — a race must occupy territory and resources, maintaining species diversity to form a self-circulating ecosystem. He notes the inherent contradiction: no single race can refine all of heaven and earth through bloodline alone.
• The Dragon Clan's Genius: Unlike others, the Dragons solved this contradiction through reproductive ability that ignores reproductive isolation — mating with all creatures to spread their bloodline, letting offspring optimize themselves without the Bloodline Origin Ancestral Talisman becoming complex.
• The Fall of Greatness: Reflection on how the Primordial World and Wizard World both rejected the Dragon Clan, leading to their extinction.

4. Character Interactions

The chapter is primarily internal monologue — Yin Ming interacts almost solely with the corpse itself. His relationship to it is analytical and reverent: he taps its scales, injects magical power, and reads its blood like a text. The only external figure referenced is the Mother of All Snakes, whom he plans to aid using knowledge gained from the corpse.

Yin Ming read the dragon corpse’s fading memories and discovered how the pureblood dragons had been banished from the Primordial World, gaining clues to transcend heaven and earth. As the blood-colored domain swallowed the Plane Fragment, the old warlock reached the corpse, while Yin Ming remained unsettled by how difficult the clues would be to use.

• The old warlock pleaded with the Mother of All Snakes to release her domain so they could protect the dragon corpse’s memories, but she refused and moved the domain around the Plane Fragment instead.
• The Mother of All Snakes learned that Yin Ming had taken control of the old warlock’s barrier and realized it would delay their approach to the Plane Fragment.
• Yin Ming used his primordial spirit to copy the dragon’s memories as its brain uncrystallized and the memories began to vanish.
• Yin Ming saw memories of imprisoned pureblood dragons entering a rift opened by a disc-shaped radiance, and learned that one dragon had left behind an egg.
• Yin Ming recognized the memories as clues to the dragons’ banishment from the Primordial World but doubted he could achieve transcendence; the barrier then broke and the old warlock flew to the corpse.

Yin Ming and the Mother of All Snakes joined forces inside her bloodline domain to kill the old warlock after Yin Ming revealed he had recovered the dragon corpse’s memories. With the warlock dead, the Mother of All Snakes proposed that she and Yin Ming test each other’s strength.

• The Mother of All Snakes pulled Yin Ming and the old warlock into her Eighth-Ring Tier domain, where Yin Ming merged his Heaven-and-Earth Sanctum into it.
• The old warlock discovered that the dragon corpse’s brain held no information, and Yin Ming admitted he had obtained its remaining memories.
• After receiving a message that Wuxiang Watson’s target had taken the bait, Yin Ming offered the Mother of All Snakes a copy of the memories and urged her to end the fight quickly.
• Yin Ming used the Golden Light Spell to erase the old warlock’s marks from the Formless Tree, severing his connections to extraordinary magic beast species and leaving him vulnerable.
• The Mother of All Snakes used Ten Thousand Snakes to tear apart the old warlock, destroy his chance of resurrection, and consume his remnant soul and memories.
• With the old warlock dead, the Mother of All Snakes kept her domain active and challenged Yin Ming to test their strength.

The Mirror Demon pursued the old warlock’s treasures and confronted Wuxiang Watson, while Yin Ming escaped the Mother of All Snakes’ attempt to kill him. The chapter left Yin Ming and the Mother of All Snakes negotiating an exchange for the Formless Tree and dragon corpse.

• The Mirror Demon entered the Plane Fragment after Yin Ming broke through its barrier, drawn by the old warlock’s assets and the chance to gain authority.
• Wuxiang Watson confronted the Mirror Demon and challenged him inside the Mirror World with a mysterious display of red flowers.
• The Mother of All Snakes tried to test Yin Ming by attacking him within her Bloodline Domain.
• Yin Ming froze the domain for an instant, found its crucial point, and shattered it, forcing the Mother of All Snakes to abandon her attempt to detain him.
• The Mother of All Snakes offered the Parasitism Law for the Formless Tree and dragon corpse, and Yin Ming demanded the old warlock’s inheritance as well for the corpse.

Yin Ming returned to the Dark Plane with the Warlock Alliance’s payment and joined the Mother of All Snakes and Wuxiang Watson in the Nightmare World to examine knowledge from an ancient dragon and an old warlock. They learned about the True Rune Civilization and the struggle between Yuan and Xu, and Yin Ming left them with a possible refuge if Xu won.

• Yin Ming traded the dragon corpse and Formless Tree for a spatial pouch containing a Parasitism Law crystal, a Seventh-Ring True-Name Totem Rune, and extensive resources, then teleported back to the Dark Plane.
• Yin Ming entered the Nightmare World, where the Mother of All Snakes had been sorting through the old warlock’s memories, and they waited for Wuxiang Watson to arrive.
• Yin Ming told Wuxiang Watson and the Mother of All Snakes that escape from the Wizard World required becoming Taiyi or receiving help from Taiyi, and that the dragon had been banished by the one who controlled the Heavenly Dao.
• The Mother of All Snakes shared the history of the True Rune Civilization, whose four leaders were Yuan, Xu, Contract, and Blood; their disagreements over the Taiyi Dao Fruit led to the civilization’s destruction.
• Wuxiang Watson and the Mother of All Snakes discussed the threat posed by Yuan and Xu, while Yin Ming completed his knowledge of Fate Principles and advised them to seek refuge in the Dark Plane if Xu won.

Yin Ming used the old sorcerer's memories to reconstruct the Wizard World's history and clarify how Yuan and Xu rose to the Ninth-Ring Tier. Understanding the world's past eased his fear, but he knew he could not catch up to the two powerhouses quickly and needed time to grow.

• Yin Ming's Eight-Phase Thought Model combined fragments of the old sorcerer's memories into a vision of the Ancient Civilization.
• The memories formed a River of History that showed the Wizard World developing from primitive nature worship into ritual and Divine Era civilizations.
• Yin Ming saw how the True Rune Civilization rose to greatness before internal divisions destroyed it, followed by weaker successor civilizations.
• The River showed Yuan and Xu assimilating the True Rune Civilization's heritage, reaching the Ninth-Ring Tier, and establishing the Abyss and Black Tower.
• Yin Ming used this history to understand the world's development and overcome some of his fear, while recognizing that he needed time to grow before opposing Yuan and Xu.

Key Plot Points & Events

• Yin Ming completes a major Fate Studies deduction by constructing a “river of history” from the myth of the Yellow Emperor and the Luo River, then returns to the Dark Plane.
• Using the Crystal Skull, he learns the Wizard World has fallen into tense silence. The Mirror Demon—an ancient Eighth-Ring existence—has died without warning, and most Evil Gods have either submitted or gone into hiding.
• Everyone is waiting for the “Fate Judgment” between Yuan and Xu. Even Eighth-Ring beings cannot meaningfully influence the outcome due to the immense gap between Eighth-Ring and Ninth-Ring power.
• The Dark Dragon delivers the reward from Mother of All Snakes for hunting the Beast God: a giant beast corpse and a blood-red crystal containing a Seventh-Ring True-Name Totem Rune and Warlock Alliance bloodline knowledge—linked to the Destruction Law.
• The Dark Dragon relocates to the Dark Plane along with a Plane Fragment to escape the Elemental Plane’s dangers.
• Tree Ancestor Sadi delivers over a hundred crystal samples of Transcendent Microorganisms and research materials.
• Yin Ming absorbs the Beast God’s Transcendent bloodline into the Formless Tree, using the Destruction and Parasitism Laws, and begins constructing the fourth and fifth divine forms of the Eight-Nine Mystical Art.

Character Developments

• Yin Ming: Deepens his understanding of Fate Principles; remains cautious while awaiting Fate Judgment. Shows surprising guilt toward Sadi and chooses to reward loyalty with a Law Imprint. Continues advancing his physical and mystical cultivation.
• Dark Dragon: Chooses survival over continued intelligence-gathering in the Elemental Plane; demonstrates pragmatism by seeking refuge in the Dark Plane.
• Tree Ancestor Sadi: Still only Third-Ring despite major research contributions. Receives the Parasitic Law Imprint instead of the Undying one, aligning his path with his microorganism research.

Significant Themes

• Fate and helplessness: Even powerful beings can only wait for a judgment beyond their reach.
• Survival and hiding: In dangerous times, even strong entities choose concealment or retreat.
• Transformation and law: Bloodlines, Undeath, and Law Imprints represent different paths to power.
• Destruction as return to origin: The Destruction Law reframes “destruction” as recycling matter back to its fundamental state.

Character Interactions

• Yin Ming ↔ Dark Dragon: Yin Ming accepts the reward and agrees the Dark Dragon should stay in the Dark Plane; the Dark Dragon warns about the Elemental Plane’s lethal unpredictability.
• Yin Ming ↔ Sadi: Yin Ming acknowledges Sadi’s loyalty and contributions, grants the Parasitic Law Imprint, and lets Sadi depart with the Dark Dragon.
• Dark Dragon & Sadi: Leave together aboard the Plane Fragment, drifting separately to avoid leaving traceable connections.

Yin Ming emerged from his Formless Tree Cocoon stronger and studied how to advance toward the Ninth Ring while Yuan and Xu remained locked in conflict. Wuxiang Watson then began using his Illusion Law to swap a real plane with its reflection, pursuing his own breakthrough to the Ninth-Ring Tier.

• Yin Ming completed his new body, gaining greater potential and power that brought him close to the Eighth-Ring Tier.
• Yin Ming left the Blood Cicada Child and Lord of Annihilated Aspects at the Law Altar for the liches to study, then returned to the Dark Plane to research Eighth-Ring law models and domains.
• Yin Ming watched the Elemental Plane for ten years, but Yuan and Xu's conflict continued without disturbing the peace.
• Wuxiang Watson appeared in a remote plane and explained that the Illusion Law offered him a path to the Ninth-Ring Tier and potentially the Taiyi Dao Fruit.
• Wuxiang Watson transformed into a Bronze Ancient Mirror and used his Ninth Ring law model to make the reflected plane more real as the actual plane grew illusory.

Summary: Breaking Through to the Ninth Ring (Part 2)

Key Plot Points

1. Yin Ming detects the breakthrough attempt – Sensing a disturbance from the Elemental Plane, Yin Ming awakens from meditation and identifies the source: Wuxiang Watson is using the Podador Plane as a vessel to construct a Ninth-Ring law model.
2. The Illusory Realm method – Wuxiang Watson has fused the Mirror Demon's "mirror" law with her own abilities to create an "Illusory Realm" law world—a method Yin Ming notes is easy to construct but has drawbacks in everything else.
3. Xu's sabotage – The Omnipotent Eye descends power from the unseen, planting an energy core that explodes, corrupting the Podador Plane and causing her mirror phantom to lose correspondence with reality. Her breakthrough appears doomed.
4. Yuan's counter – The Abyssal Will manifests as a Chaos Swamp, leaving a drop of murky black rain that triggers a chain reaction, restoring the void. The two Ninth-Ring forces perfectly offset each other with zero energy waste.
5. First observable Ninth-Ring traces in 100,000 years – Their clash leaves visible traces in the present world, making the Ninth-Ring "knowable" and "seeable" for the first time since the True Rune civilization's destruction.
6. Yin Ming's risky observation – He descends via a Bone Puppet (not his true body) to the Podador Plane outskirts, driven by a rare madness to witness the Ninth-Ring beings up close.
7. Mass observation – Over a hundred incarnations from the Wizard World descend near the Podador Plane, as no Seventh-Ring expert can afford to miss this opportunity.

Character Developments

• Yin Ming: Shows rare intensity and ambition—willing to risk danger to observe the Ninth-Ring directly. His rationality is balanced by a "madness" when opportunity demands. He thinks strategically, using a puppet to mitigate risk while still pursuing maximal knowledge.
• Wuxiang Watson: Remains completely calm when her breakthrough is sabotaged, confident that help will arrive. Her mad primary personality is noted as a precedent for Yin Ming's own intensity.

Key Themes

• The cloud-and-mud gap: The Eighth Ring and Ninth Ring are separated by one ring yet entirely different levels of existence—the Ninth Ring operates in the "unseen," unknowable and untouchable.
• Knowable/Seeable vs. Reachable: Making the Ninth-Ring visible is harder than making it reachable. The former bridges two separate, non-overlapping levels; the latter is merely a difference in height.
• Dragging gods down: "The first step for mortals to slay gods is always to drag the lofty gods down into the mortal dust"—observation is the beginning of understanding and ultimately overcoming.
• Risk vs. reward: Even cautious experts accept near-certain death risks when the reward (glimpsing Ninth-Ring laws) is great enough.

Character Interactions

• Yuan vs. Xu: Though locked in stalemate, both act indirectly—Xu sabotages the breakthrough from the unseen; Yuan counters with a chaotic swamp. Neither leaves lasting traces; their forces cancel perfectly.
• Yin Ming's observation: He watches the entire exchange, gaining his first direct glimpse of how Ninth-Ring beings operate, while maintaining a thousand-year-old enmity's worth of caution and ambition.
• The collective awakening: The Wizard World stirs en masse, as all major powers recognize this as a once-in-a-hundred-thousand-years opportunity to study the Ninth Ring.

1. Key Plot Points

• Hundreds of avatars from throughout the Wizard World gather around the minor Podador Plane to witness a once-in-an-age event: Wuxiang Watson attempting the final step to Ninth-Ring Tier.
• Wuxiang Watson ignores all spectators and rivals, focusing entirely on constructing his Illusory Realm through an ancient mirror.
• Yuan and Xu, two Ninth-Ring beings, are locked in an invisible battle in the "unseen" realm. Only faint star-like specks leak into the observable world, both sides extinguishing each other's traces before they can grow.
• Spectators initially question whether Ninth-Ring power is actually "weak," since energy fluctuations remain below Fourth-Ring level.
• A spectator avatar is secretly controlled by Yuan and sent to test the battlefield. A single unextinguished speck triggers a catastrophic chain reaction, instantly reducing the avatar to ashes—revealing the hidden, enormous danger beneath the subtle surface.
• Yin Ming, using his Primordial Spirit perception and the Eight-Phase Thought Model, deciphers the nature of the battle: Ninth-Ring beings avoid heaven-and-earth backlash by operating through tiny, near-infinite-leverage "seeds" of power. The visible weakness is an illusion; their utilization rate is almost infinite.
• Wuxiang Watson completes the Illusory Realm: the Podador Plane becomes fully insubstantial, while the reflection within the mirror becomes increasingly real, suggesting his breakthrough is nearing completion.

2. Character Developments

• Wuxiang Watson: Shows absolute focus and transcendence of worldly concerns; he regards even Seventh-Ring spectators as beneath notice. His Illusory Realm reaches its climax, marking him as the central figure of the chapter.
• Yuan: Demonstrates manipulative power by casually taking control of an avatar, and exhibits mastery of Ninth-Ring subtle combat. His earlier "teaching" of Wuxiang Watson hints he is the one pushing the breakthrough.
• Xu: Remains mostly unseen but is shown as an equal opponent to Yuan, engaged in the same rarefied, hidden struggle.
• Yin Ming: Serves as the reader's lens; his understanding deepens from observation, and he grows increasingly alarmed as he grasps the true horror of Ninth-Ring existence.

3. Significant Themes

• Qualitative gap between tiers: The Eighth Ring and Ninth Ring are compared to "fish and dragons"—not a matter of more power, but of an entirely different plane of existence.
• "Weakness" as illusion: True strength hides in plain sight; a fingertip's movement can trigger infinite destruction.
• Knowledge as leverage: Battle is no longer about raw force but about using knowledge as a seed to snowball into unavoidable consequences—an invisible game of Go.
• Transcendence and isolation: Those at the Ninth Ring no longer share the same level of reality as ordinary powerhouses; they exist in the unseen, beyond mortal comprehension.

4. Character Interactions

• Wuxiang Watson ignores both Xu and the myriad spectators, fully absorbed in his breakthrough.
• Yuan and Xu clash entirely in the unseen; their observable interaction is limited to starlight-like specks and mutual cancellations.
• A group of spectators exchanges doubts and theories, with one Void Wizard concluding that the hidden power is beyond their understanding.
• Yuan indirectly interacts with the spectators by controlling a gaunt man's avatar as a test subject, killing him to demonstrate the danger.
• Yin Ming observes and analyzes the battle from afar, connecting it to his prior knowledge of the Law World and the unseen realm.

Wuxiang Watson completed an Illusory Realm and appeared to have reached the ninth-ring tier, but Yin Ming realized Xu had sabotaged the breakthrough and trapped him between the eighth and ninth rings. As Yuan and Xu resumed their unseen clash, Yin Ming and the other spectators fled.

• Wuxiang Watson reappeared holding the Bronze Ancient Mirror, which had become an independent Illusory Realm based on the Podador Plane.
• The spectators wondered whether Wuxiang Watson had become the Wizard World's third ninth-ring tier powerhouse.
• Yin Ming advanced his thought model to the Aspect realm and suspected that Wuxiang Watson's breakthrough had failed.
• The Bronze Ancient Mirror cracked, and Yin Ming deduced that Xu had broken the Illusory Realm's barrier, preventing Wuxiang Watson from completing his breakthrough without dying to the world's backlash.
• Yin Ming extinguished his avatar and returned to the Dark Plane as the other spectators fled the battle between Yuan and Xu.

Chapter Summary: Yuan's Message

Key Plot Points

• Wuxiang Watson fails to break through to the Ninth-Ring Tier but has touched its domain, becoming a dangerous "half-step" powerhouse who can effortlessly kill Eighth-Ring opponents.
• Yin Ming and the other assembled powerhouses immediately destroy their incarnations and flee to avoid becoming targets—or future resources—for Wuxiang Watson, who is now gathering law materials by hunting other high-tier beings.
• Wuxiang Watson abandons the Illusory Realm path and plans to construct a second Ninth-Ring Law Model by harvesting laws from others. Yuan and Xu are still locked in their unseen battle, leaving him effectively unchecked.
• Yin Ming returns to the Dark Plane, erases all traces of himself, and spends ten years in cultivation. His Primordial Spirit constructs an Eighth-Ring Tier Law Model (theoretical stage only, lacking materials).
• During this time, Yuan and Xu's prolonged clash causes widespread chaos: many wizards, Demon Gods, and Evil Gods fall—more than in the past several centuries combined.
• Yuan manifests a mud avatar and calls in Yin Ming's debt: Yin Ming must launch Undead Calamities against Black Tower Continent at a critical moment to suppress its elemental energy and potentially tip the battle.
• Yin Ming agrees, transforms into the Undying Xuanming God, and activates the skeleton kings across the Dark Plane to open Undead Calamity passages—tying up even a fraction of the Omnipotent Eye's computing power as his contribution.

Character Developments

• Wuxiang Watson: Despite failure, he treats it as a learning experience. His mental fortitude is shown—he is not driven by rage but by cold pragmatism, collecting law materials to attempt the Ninth Ring via a different route.
• Yin Ming: Demonstrates growth in cultivation (Eighth-Ring Law Model) and continued cautious pragmatism. He keeps his promise despite the danger, shows foresight in offering Yuan a potential refuge in the Dark Plane, and reveals ambition to eventually be a turning point for equals.
• Yuan: Shows the immense strain of fighting Xu, but is still maneuvering strategically, using every tool available—including his debtor Yin Ming.

Themes

• Power asymmetry and survival: The strongest beings treat lesser ones as raw materials. Safety is an illusion when half-step Ninth-Ring monsters exist.
• Transactional alliances: Yin Ming's relationship with Yuan is strictly business—knowledge for service. Even his parting offer is hedged with self-interest.
• Knowledge as a ladder: The pursuit of law models and Ninth-Ring secrets remains the core path to relevance in a world where gods and devils are dying like common soldiers.
• Chaos as opportunity and threat: The Yuan-Xu battle kills countless high-tier beings but also creates openings for those bold enough to move in the shadows.

Character Interactions

• Wuxiang Watson vs. Yin Ming and the others: Watson's menacing presence forces an immediate mass retreat—his failure terrifies them more than his success would have.
• Yin Ming and Yuan: A purely transactional exchange. Yuan arrives in a crude mud avatar, bluntly calls in the debt, and leaves. Yin Ming's offer of sanctuary is one step short of open alliance, showing his strategic calculation.

Yuan and Xu fought their decisive battle in the unseen realm as their powers caused catastrophic deaths across the Elemental Plane and the Abyss. Yin Ming’s intervention gave Yuan a chance to counterattack, but Xu had prepared a reserve of energy, and the Omnipotent Eye overwhelmed the Abyssal Will and began transforming into the Heavenly Dao.

• The Omnipotent Eye and Abyssal Will clashed, unleashing calamities that killed vast numbers of living beings and demons across both planes.
• The Mother of All Snakes sealed herself and her plane fragment inside a black hole, while Wuxiang Watson retreated to the Dark Plane.
• Yin Ming used divination to observe the unseen battle and sent the undead to disrupt the Omnipotent Eye.
• Yuan seized the Omnipotent Eye’s momentary dimming to launch a counterattack, but Xu revealed a hidden energy reserve and defeated most of Yuan’s black pieces.
• Nearly half the demons on the Abyss Planet died, the crystal containing the Abyssal Will lost its luster, and the Omnipotent Eye began transforming into the Heavenly Dao.

Yuan abandoned his confrontation with Xu and fled with the Abyssal forces to the Dark Plane, leaving the Elemental Plane exposed to Xu’s rising Heavenly Dao. Yin Ming sought out Yuan in his new refuge and declared that he could help turn the tide.

• Xu refused Yuan’s challenge and used the Omnipotent Eye to analyze Yuan’s Abyss world while preparing to transform it into the Heavenly Dao.
• Yuan chose to retreat to the Dark Plane, and the remaining demons carried the embryonic Heaven Realm through a black hole as the Abyss Planet collapsed.
• Seventh-Ring Tier observers learned of Yuan’s failure and feared that Xu’s Heavenly Dao would dominate the Elemental World.
• Yin Ming finished divining the outcome, then traveled to the Dark Plane to find Yuan and offer his help.
• Yuan questioned what a Seventh-Ring Tier evil god could do against the Heavenly Dao, and Yin Ming claimed he could mend the breach in the heavens.

Yin Ming proposed creating a Heavenly Demon Realm in the Dark Plane to exploit the rune-based Heavenly Dao’s inability to perceive desire. Yuan considered the plan’s components and heard how Heavenly Demons could invade minds, multiply, and drain the living, leaving the scheme’s success dependent on overwhelming their weakness with numbers.

• Yin Ming argued that the Dark Plane could serve as a secure base while the Black Tower transformed the Elemental Plane into the Heavenly Dao.
• Yuan warned that the Dark Plane lacked independent matter and would decay once the Omnipotent Eye cut off its supply from the Elemental Plane.
• Yin Ming proposed creating Heavenly Demons that existed as mental beings and used desire as an anchor to evade the Heavenly Dao’s perception.
• Yin Ming demonstrated that formless tree wood could anchor and move a mental body, then identified humanity’s karmic fire as a suitable vessel for sensing desire.
• Yin Ming said Wuxiang Watson would grant Heavenly Demons illusion-making and the Mother of All Snakes would grant them reproduction.
• Yin Ming explained that Heavenly Demons would invade minds, devour souls and vital essence, and overwhelm individuals through their immense numbers.

Yin Ming presented Yuan with a detailed model for creating the Heavenly Demon Realm, and Yuan agreed it could work but demanded answers before committing. Yin Ming resisted Yuan’s offer of a subordinate position, demonstrated that Yuan could not reliably predict or stop him, and demanded half the authority over the Abyssal Will.

• Yuan studied the Heavenly Demon Realm proposal and used the Abyssal Will’s computational power to assess its feasibility.
• Yuan questioned Yin Ming about the plan’s origins and risks, and Yin Ming revealed a model simulating the Heavenly Demons’ invasion of the Elemental Plane.
• Yuan recognized that the plan required him and the Abyssal Will as materials, then offered Yin Ming a Demon God position second only to his own.
• Yin Ming rejected Yuan’s offer and argued that Yuan had little leverage because the Abyss Heaven Realm had not adapted to the Dark Plane and the Abyssal Will was weakened.
• Yin Ming attempted to leave, and Yuan attacked after misjudging his movement; Yin Ming then demanded fifty percent of the authority over the Abyssal Will.

Yin Ming and Yuan negotiated the authority needed to transform the Dark Plane into the Heavenly Demon Realm, settling on a system that kept power balanced among four leaders. They then began combining their knowledge and resources to reforge the Abyssal Will as the Heavenly Demon Realm Consciousness.

• Yin Ming demanded fifty percent authority over the Abyssal Will, arguing that his power to destroy the Heavenly Demon Realm would protect him from being discarded.
• Yuan stopped three eighth-ring-tier Demon Gods from attacking Yin Ming and offered him thirty percent authority after his attempts to analyze Yin Ming's powers failed.
• Yin Ming warned Yuan that the White Bone Islands would self-destruct if their connection to the Undying Law was severed, and Yuan ultimately accepted the fifty-percent allocation.
• Yuan and Yin Ming divided authority among themselves, Wuxiang Watson, and the Mother of All Snakes to prevent any one of them from becoming a dictator.
• Yuan and Yin Ming combined the Abyssal Will, Humanity's Karmic Fire, the Undead Kin, and the four-forms eight-phase thought model to begin creating the Heavenly Demon Realm Consciousness.