Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• The strange world’s hidden system announces that B13 Zone—Mutant Furnace has been breached and begins a purge. A red lightning membrane covered in Runes descends, annihilating the landscape and sealing the Void Raiders’ ability to escape into the void.
• The membrane destroys a trapped Void Raider effortlessly, then contracts to erase everything inside it—including space itself.
• Er Dongsheng uses Flame Phoenix to cut a small opening, then transforms into his Three-Winged Demon God state and widens it with the Spear of Destruction. He and his companions escape just before the membrane finishes its purge.
• Suspecting they are being watched, Er Dongsheng attacks an apparently empty patch of space. His spear strikes a concealed black-robed man, who turns out to be Belphegor, the King of Lust.
• Belphegor escapes despite being wounded. Lilith and Alastair identify him, and Moloch confirms his identity by tasting his blood. Er Dongsheng leads the group in pursuit.
• After they leave, the system identifies Belphegor as “Escapee Number One” and announces a new extermination protocol, activating the Mutant Furnace to eliminate intruders and escapees.

Character developments and interactions

• Er Dongsheng remains composed under extreme danger, recognizes that the world has a hidden controller, and takes decisive action to save the group. He then turns from escape to pursuit once he exposes Belphegor.
• Lilith, Alastair, and Moloch are shaken by the membrane’s power. Lilith and Alastair recognize Belphegor from his appearance and aura; Moloch contributes an unsettlingly literal confirmation by eating bloodied soil.
• Belphegor’s presence is a major revelation: he has been hiding among the group’s surroundings and appears to possess powers or traits resembling those of a Void Raider.

Significant themes

• Control and surveillance: The uncanny world is governed by a hidden system that monitors and labels those inside it.
• Overwhelming danger and survival: The purge weapon threatens not just bodies but the structure of space and time, forcing the group to escape through Er Dongsheng’s strength and quick decisions.
• Hidden identities and uncertain motives: Belphegor’s concealment and resemblance to a Void Raider raise questions about what he is doing in the world and how he has changed.

Key plot points and events

• Shortly after Er Dongsheng and his companions leave, the small world begins to collapse: the ground splits, the sky turns blood-red, and space twists into shifting geometric layers.
• A mysterious voice announces, “Mutant Furnace—activate!” The transformed space forms enormous rotating gears, identified by Belphegor as the Thorn Wheel.
• Belphegor is trapped and injured by the gears. Unable to break through, he begs Baal (Er Dongsheng) to rescue him, claiming he knows the world’s secrets.
• Er Dongsheng’s ordinary attacks fail to damage the Thorn Wheel. He then combines his abilities into a powerful new technique, Demon God’s Left Arm, and uses its Phoenix Wings strike to shatter the gear imprisoning Belphegor.
• Er Dongsheng’s arm is badly strained by the blow, but he quickly heals. He recognizes that his strength is outpacing his body and that his Forbidden Energy remains difficult to control.

Character developments

• Er Dongsheng demonstrates a major increase in power by breaking a Thorn Wheel that resists his usual attacks. The feat confirms the potential of his newly forged technique, though its instability and the physical cost reveal limits he must address.
• Belphegor shifts from fleeing to pleading for Er Dongsheng’s help. His reaction to the shattered Thorn Wheel shows how extraordinary Er’s strength is—and how deeply Belphegor fears the phenomenon.
• Lilith, Alastair, Moloch, and Little Bei’er are shaken by the world’s transformation and by Er Dongsheng’s power; they all see the Thorn Wheel withstand an attack that should have destroyed it.

Significant themes

• Power versus control: Er Dongsheng’s strength has grown faster than his ability to wield it safely.
• Survival and dependence: Faced with an apparently apocalyptic threat, even former antagonists seek protection from the strongest person nearby.
• Escalating mystery and danger: The Mutant Furnace and Thorn Wheel suggest the small world has hidden mechanisms and secrets beyond the group’s understanding.

Character interactions

• Belphegor appeals to Er Dongsheng by offering information, and Er agrees to help while warning him not to lie.
• The others cluster around Er Dongsheng for safety as space becomes increasingly dangerous.
• Er’s rescue of Belphegor leaves the demon stunned, while the group witnesses both the power and physical cost of Er’s new technique.

Summary

This is an author’s note rather than a story chapter. The author asks readers to support the book during an important week by recommending it, bookmarking it, clicking, and voting for it in the Sanjiang rankings.
The note also teases what lies ahead for Er Dongsheng: he is leaving the land where his journey began and entering a larger, mysterious world of caverns, a towering pillar, an enigmatic seal, ancient ruins, and vast wreckage. He will gradually encounter other Demons, and the struggle to survive may lead to conquest.

Character and thematic notes

• Er Dongsheng: About to move beyond his familiar starting point and face a broader, more dangerous world.
• Themes foreshadowed: Exploration, ancient mysteries, survival, and conflict.
• Interactions: No character-to-character scene occurs; the author speaks directly to readers, thanking them and requesting their support.

Plot and key events

• Er Dongsheng, carrying Belphegor, initially flees deeper into a landscape of deadly Time-Space Gears, lightning, and lava. Belphegor insists they must turn back, warning that the route ahead leads to certain death.
• Er Dongsheng independently detects that space-time is growing increasingly sealed in that direction. Despite the dangers behind them, he orders the group to reverse course.
• He smashes through the gears blocking their way, using his strength and black wings to shield the others. Belphegor directs them toward underground lava channels and urges them to follow a massive Rune moving with the lava.
• Er Dongsheng reaches the Rune and uses black-flame chains to pull the others aboard, then creates a protective field around them. The Rune speeds through the perilous region, and the immediate danger subsides.
• Asked to explain their surroundings, Belphegor identifies the place as the Mutant Furnace: a furnace that mutates monsters and burns or processes refuse. He admits he does not know its full purpose. When Er Dongsheng asks what Belphegor himself is, Belphegor calls himself a “test subject.”

Character developments and interactions

• Er Dongsheng shows decisive leadership and formidable power. He does not turn back simply because Belphegor asks; he tests the space-time himself, recognizes the real danger, and chooses the route with the better chance of escape. He also protects the group throughout.
• Belphegor is frightened but proves useful as a guide, knowing how to navigate the Furnace. His warning earns little trust: Lilith suspects him of deception and threatens him, while Belphegor insists he is trying to save them. His claim to be a test subject raises new questions about his past and nature.
• Lilith remains hostile and distrustful toward Belphegor, whom she especially dislikes, but follows Er Dongsheng’s command despite her doubts.
• Alastair and Moloch follow the group and later join Lilith in demanding an explanation from Belphegor.

Significant themes

• Trust under pressure: The group must rely on Belphegor’s knowledge even though they distrust his motives.
• Leadership and judgment: Er Dongsheng’s decision to assess the environment for himself—not blindly accept either the obvious route or Belphegor’s word—keeps the group alive.
• Power and vulnerability: Er Dongsheng can withstand dangers that overwhelm the others, yet survival depends on teamwork and understanding the Furnace’s strange rules.
• Identity and exploitation: Belphegor’s description of himself as a test subject suggests the Furnace may be part of a larger process involving experimentation and mutation.

Key plot points and events

• Er Dongsheng presses Belphegor to explain his identity. Belphegor claims he was once an ordinary Devil, captured by the power behind the Mysterious Land and subjected to experiments for tens of thousands of years. The strange red lightning transformed him into a Void Walker—called a Void Raider by Baal.
• Belphegor recounts that a projection of a supremely powerful being once entered the Mysterious Land, devastated much of it, and took several mutated Devils—including Belphegor—back to Hell. After visiting the center, it emerged carrying a seven-section Mysterious Wheel and remarked that “the fruit has not yet ripened.”
• This account makes Er Dongsheng suspect a connection between the Wheel and his own Mysterious Disc, whose seven Authorities and unexplained central hollow may indicate that it is incomplete.
• Belphegor explains that the Time and Space gears were used in the Mutant Furnace’s cullings to kill most mutated Devils and supposedly force the survivors to evolve. The Thorn Wheel was the most powerful gear, though he claims not to know how it worked.
• Er Dongsheng notices Belphegor is concealing something. Confronted with the memories Er Dongsheng obtained by devouring Mephistopheles and the wills of Hell and the Material World, Belphegor admits that the powerful being entered the Mysterious Land specifically to rescue him.
• When Lilith suggests Belphegor might be Mephistopheles, he dismisses Mephistopheles as a “shadow,” substitute, and thief. Er Dongsheng then suspects Belphegor is the Former Hell Will, shocking the group.

Character developments and interactions

• Er Dongsheng shifts from listening to investigating. His knowledge of the devoured wills helps him catch Belphegor’s deception, and he links the seven-section Wheel to his Mysterious Disc.
• Belphegor presents himself as a victimized test subject, but his hesitation and eventual confession reveal that his story was incomplete. His contempt for Mephistopheles suggests a deeper history and a more significant identity.
• Lilith, Alastair, and Moloch initially accept Belphegor’s account, then turn suspicious; Alastair and Moloch move to surround him.
• Little Bei’er wakes near the end and joins the group’s speculation, while Lilith proposes the Mephistopheles connection.

Significant themes

• Identity and hidden history: Belphegor’s apparent transformation conceals a potentially ancient and powerful identity.
• Manipulation and experimentation: The Mysterious Land’s inhabitants are treated as test subjects, with slaughter framed as a means of forcing evolution.
• Incomplete knowledge and foreshadowing: The Wheel, the “unripe fruit,” and the disc’s hollow center suggest that Er Dongsheng’s powers—and the mysteries surrounding the Mysterious Land—are not yet fully understood.

Chapter Summary: “The Eerie Central Region”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Er Dongsheng realizes that Belphegor may be the original Hell Will, and suspects that the mysterious entity who created the current Hell Will came to this place searching for him.
• At the same moment, Purgatory appears to complete a major stage of its digestion and assimilation of the Material Plane’s Will. This breakthrough greatly strengthens the Magic Network and reduces the oppressive influence of the eerie space.
• Belphegor confirms that he is the original Hell Will. He explains that, shortly after Hell was born, the Overlord controlling the Mutant Furnace captured him and subjected him to brutal experiments.
• The mysterious entity later rescued Belphegor, but only to use his remaining power as the template for creating a new Hell Will—Mephistopheles. The other Six Overlords of Hell were also created using power derived from Belphegor.
• Lilith struggles to accept that her existence is connected to Belphegor, though Belphegor clarifies that the mysterious entity was still the true creator and that his power merely served as a catalyst.
• Er Dongsheng connects the seven Hell Overlords with the seven major dark emotions and notices a possible relationship between them and the mysterious Seven-Slot Disk.
• The Seven-Slot Disk within Er Dongsheng begins reacting to something nearby. The group then emerges into a vast mechanical region filled with enormous gears, magical runes, and flowing magma.
• Belphegor reveals that they are inside a projection of the Mutant Furnace. Its influence suppresses sound and external energy, forcing the group to communicate through their souls.
• They encounter the enormous inverted Mutant Furnace, surrounded by countless gears and flooded with magma. Its terrifying aura causes Lilith and the others to collapse to their knees, while Er Dongsheng remains standing.
• Belphegor warns everyone to avoid touching anything as they prepare to descend into the furnace’s central region.

Character Developments

• Er Dongsheng: Gains renewed confidence after Purgatory’s breakthrough and considers merging with its will to reproduce the immense power he once possessed under the Mechanical Will’s control. His insight into the Seven-Slot Disk and the seven Overlords deepens.
• Belphegor: Reveals his tragic true identity as the original Hell Will. His history shows that he was transformed into a Mutated Void Raider and exploited as the source for the creation of the current Hell hierarchy. His pain and resentment become more apparent.
• Lilith: Experiences shock and disbelief upon learning that her power originated partly from Belphegor. Her sense of identity is challenged, though Belphegor insists she is still an independent being.
• Moloch and Alastair: Both are stunned by Belphegor’s revelation, with Moloch reacting casually and humorously despite the seriousness of the disclosure.
• The group as a whole: Their dependence on Belphegor increases, as he understands the Mutant Furnace’s projection and warns them about its dangerous influence.

Significant Themes

• Identity and origins: The chapter questions whether beings are defined by their source, their creator, or the individuality they develop afterward.
• Creation through exploitation: The Hell Overlords’ existence is revealed to have resulted from cruel experimentation and the manipulation of Belphegor’s power.
• Transformation and loss: Belphegor’s fall from a supreme Plane Will into a mutated creature illustrates the consequences of forced mutation and the loss of one’s intended destiny.
• Hidden systems and experimentation: The seven Overlords, the Seven-Slot Disk, and the Mutant Furnace suggest a larger experiment involving emotions, authority, and artificial creation.
• Power and evolution: Purgatory’s breakthrough demonstrates how accumulated wills, emotions, and external support can lead to the evolution of a new consciousness.
• The unknown and the eerie: The mechanical furnace, distorted space, and suppressed physical laws emphasize the danger and alien nature of the central region.

Important Character Interactions

• Er Dongsheng directly confronts Belphegor about being the previous Hell Will, prompting Belphegor’s confession.
• Lilith challenges Belphegor’s account, refusing to believe she was derived from him; Belphegor reassures her that she remains an independent existence.
• Er Dongsheng silently analyzes Belphegor’s revelations, linking the seven Overlords to humanity’s seven dark emotions and the mysterious Seven-Slot Disk.
• Belphegor acts as the group’s guide, explaining the projection’s effects and instructing everyone to communicate telepathically, conserve their power, and avoid contact with the furnace’s surroundings.
• The chapter ends with the group facing the enormous Mutant Furnace and preparing to descend into its dangerous interior.

Plot points and events

• Er Dongsheng rescues Lilith and the others from the Rune, but his attempt to secure them near the enormous Mutant Furnace provokes it. The furnace shakes violently, unleashing red lightning and a Thorn Wheel.
• Er Dongsheng counters with overwhelming force. Using his Demon God’s Left Arm and Purgatory-enhanced elemental form, he smashes through the Thorn Wheel and lightning, then damages the furnace itself, breaking gears and opening a large fissure.
• The furnace’s Guardian sends out a mechanical distress signal. Er Dongsheng locates and destroys the device, after which the furnace’s external activity subsides. Belphegor warns that the Guardian’s death has removed the time-space seal and that they must flee.
• Instead of retreating, Er Dongsheng uses the World Stone to observe inside the furnace. A powerful Executor emerges: Narus, the Beast of Time and Space.
• Belphegor explains that Executors are living fusions of mutated creatures and metal, controlled by red lightning. Narus is among the strongest, able to accelerate and reverse time and space.
• Belphegor refuses to explain how to defeat Narus, then escapes through the furnace wall, leaving Er Dongsheng and the others behind. Er Dongsheng remains confident, implying he can track Belphegor through information stored in the World Stone and that the confrontation is not over.

Character developments and interactions

• Er Dongsheng reveals the full scale of his power, destroying the furnace’s defenses and confronting Narus without hesitation. He also shows calculated purpose: an intense desire to devour something drives him, and he suppresses a mysterious disk marked “Taboo.” He suspects Belphegor has concealed information.
• Belphegor shifts from alarmed adviser to self-serving betrayer. He reveals crucial knowledge about Executors only after Narus appears, then abandons the group to escape.
• Lilith and the others are endangered by the furnace’s distortion and need Er Dongsheng’s help to stay aloft; they have little agency in the ensuing fight.
• Er Dongsheng and Belphegor clash over whether to flee and over Belphegor’s withheld knowledge. Er Dongsheng stays composed despite Belphegor’s betrayal, while Belphegor acts out of fear and self-preservation.

Significant themes

• Power and recklessness: Er Dongsheng’s strength lets him challenge a vast, dangerous mechanism, but his actions also trigger escalating threats.
• Concealed motives and mistrust: Belphegor’s selective disclosures confirm Er Dongsheng’s suspicion that he has been hiding information.
• Control versus mutation: The furnace, red lightning, and Executors suggest a world where living beings and machinery are fused and governed by forces that distort reality.
• An approaching, uncertain threat: Narus’s time-space powers and Er Dongsheng’s unexplained hunger and Taboo disk foreshadow a conflict with deeper consequences.

Plot points and events

• Er Dongsheng struggles to hit Narus, a lion-headed metal monster whose time-and-space abilities let it redirect attacks, teleport among recent locations, and reverse itself to an earlier position.
• He realizes Narus is stalling him while Belphegor heads for the Mutant Furnace’s central region. Er Dongsheng has secretly placed Forbidden Energy inside Belphegor and expects it to remain undetected.
• Belphegor enters the vast, dangerous interior of the furnace. He finds a mysterious summoning array, countless seemingly living gears, and a huge, lightning-wreathed sphere of mutated magma at the center. He believes something is forming inside it.
• Belphegor senses that Er Dongsheng tampered with him and searches for the hidden influence, but cannot find the Forbidden Energy. He resolves to deal with it after reaching the central region.
• Exploring proves perilous: a gear nearly cuts Belphegor in half, and even a stray drop of sweat is instantly vaporized by magma. He regrets not having obtained knowledge from the Guardian fragment Er Dongsheng destroyed.
• After thousands of exchanges with Narus, Er Dongsheng works out that its reversal reaches places it occupied within roughly three minutes and that its movement is limited to about a thousand meters. He uses the system to record its locations, then traps it in a Time-and-Space vortex connected to his World Stone.

Character developments and interactions

• Er Dongsheng shifts from frustration to strategic confidence, studying Narus’s abilities rather than relying on brute force. He remains focused on stopping Belphegor and trusts that his hidden Forbidden Energy will eventually matter.
• Belphegor is triumphant at first, believing he has outwitted Baal and reached the furnace. His confidence gives way to caution and frustration as the furnace’s dangers slow him down, but he remains determined to reach the central sphere.
• Er Dongsheng and Narus are locked in a prolonged contest: Narus evades and counterattacks with spatial tricks, while Er Dongsheng patiently tracks its movements and ultimately captures it.
• Belphegor and Er Dongsheng remain in indirect conflict. Belphegor suspects interference but cannot identify it, while Er Dongsheng monitors his progress and has deliberately allowed him to proceed.

Significant themes

• Cunning over force: Er Dongsheng wins by understanding and exploiting Narus’s rules rather than overpowering it.
• Hidden threats and incomplete knowledge: Belphegor cannot detect the Forbidden Energy, and neither his past experience nor available information prepares him for the furnace.
• Risk and ambition: Belphegor’s drive to reach the central region pushes him deeper into a lethal, unfamiliar environment.
• Control and territory: The capture of Narus reinforces Er Dongsheng’s ability to turn an opponent’s mobility into a trap within his own domain.

Plot points and events

• Er Dongsheng traps Narus, the metal lion, inside the World Stone by placing an energy gateway at one of Narus’s likely return points. He seals the space, leaving Narus immobilized for later.
• He opens a rift to the Demon Domain and orders Lilith and Alastair to take Little Bei’er back safely. Bei’er refuses to leave, but Er Dongsheng persuades her by promising to take her to the Wizard World after they escape.
• Once they are gone, Er Dongsheng prepares to search for Belphegor. He enters the Mutant Furnace, whose red lava obstructs his ability to sense Belphegor.
• Guardian records reveal that the mysterious site is a warship testing ground. Its central area houses the ship, while surrounding regions were partitioned from a small world; some areas later shattered and became Ruins. The poisonous white mist outside arose from one such mutation and collapse.
• The warship’s creators used a “forbidden object” to mutate Devils, hoping to produce controllable Undead Creatures. Their first and most powerful result was the Void Walker—identified by Er Dongsheng as Belphegor, who had been both Hell’s Will and its strongest executor.
• Seeking a faster route to the central area, Er Dongsheng enters the lava, which is actually the energy essence of a small world used to nourish the forbidden object.

Character developments and interactions

• Er Dongsheng demonstrates strategic foresight by capturing Narus, and firm authority when ordering Bei’er to leave. He is affectionate toward her, but will not let her disobey a serious command. His discovery of Belphegor’s past deepens his understanding of his elusive opponent and fuels his curiosity about the forbidden object.
• Little Bei’er reveals her attachment to Er Dongsheng by refusing to leave. Though briefly subdued by his anger, she eagerly accepts his promise of a future trip to the Wizard World.
• Lilith and Alastair offer to stay and help, hoping to prove their loyalty, but follow Er Dongsheng’s instructions and keep their curiosity about the Wizard World to themselves.
• Narus is reduced to a helpless captive within the sealed World Stone.

Significant themes

• Authority and affection: Er Dongsheng cares for Bei’er but balances tenderness with the responsibility of command.
• Hidden history and revelation: The site’s true purpose and Belphegor’s origin reframe the dangers and mysteries surrounding them.
• Power at a cost: The warship’s experiments draw on a small world’s vital energy, suggesting the destructive price of its creators’ ambitions.
• Curiosity and risk: Er Dongsheng’s eagerness to reach the forbidden object leads him into the furnace despite its oppressive, hazardous energy.

This passage is an author’s appeal to readers, not a story chapter.

• Key events: The author notices that Qidian has raised its subscription price from two to three cents per 1,000 characters. They say the change has further reduced the already-low subscriptions for Demon God and left them with little income.
• Character development: The author presents themselves as anxious and discouraged, describing their situation as bleak and close to a dead end.
• Themes: The passage focuses on the financial precarity of independent writers, the importance of reader support, and the impact platform policies can have on authors.
• Interactions: The author directly addresses both paying and pirated-copy readers, urging them to complete tasks in Qidian’s “Gold Rush” section, use the earned coins to subscribe, and help motivate them to continue writing.

Key plot points and events

• Er Dongsheng follows the magma into the Mutant Furnace’s hidden small world. On the way, Purgatory devours much of the world’s magma and Runes, replenishing energy after consuming Luxi Anqi’s Plane Will.
• At the center, Er Dongsheng finds a pulsing sphere surrounded by magma and gears. It appears to contain the mature Taboo Object the unknown civilization had tried to cultivate.
• The Guardian’s records describe Taboo Objects as rare, rule-defying phenomena that grant immense power but often bring their owners strange deaths or disappearances. Er Dongsheng dismisses the danger, confident that he can control his own Forbidden Energy.
• When he approaches and punches the sphere, its mutated red lightning blasts him backward, breaks through his defenses, and invades his body.
• Er Dongsheng summons a seven-section disk engraved with “taboo.” It draws in both the surrounding lightning and the bolts inside him. The sphere retaliates, and the struggle transforms the disk into a small clock with seven markings.
• The clock chimes, briefly arresting the flow of Time and Space. A lightning-shaped hand appears on its face.

Character developments and interactions

• Er Dongsheng remains bold and self-assured, treating Taboo Objects as dangers that only the weak cannot master. His confidence is tested when the sphere’s lightning pierces his defenses, but he quickly counters it with his own taboo power.
• Purgatory acts on Er Dongsheng’s behalf, consuming the small world’s essence before he enters its center.
• Er Dongsheng’s main confrontation is with the sphere: its lightning attacks him, while his disk absorbs and contests that power. The resulting transformation suggests an unexpected connection between his taboo energy and the hidden object.

Significant themes

• Power and risk: Taboo Objects offer extraordinary strength but carry potentially fatal consequences.
• Control versus the unknown: Er Dongsheng believes mastery can overcome taboo dangers, yet the sphere proves more powerful than he expected.
• Transformation and discovery: The disk’s conversion into a clock hints that the encounter is reshaping or awakening something tied to Time and Space.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• Er Dongsheng awakens the clock’s power, using it to stop time and then reverse the decay of a gear. He identifies it as the Wheel of Time and Space, a Taboo object split into two parts: the clock-like disc and the Lightning Hand.
• The Wheel manipulates time and space, accelerating or reversing change. By sending matter along altered timelines, it can produce extreme mutations. Er Dongsheng realizes that the Void Raiders’ apparent invulnerability comes from their being displaced onto different timelines.
• He deduces that the Lightning Hand—the more important half of the Wheel—is developing inside the nearby sphere. Carrying the clock, he enters the sphere to reunite the two parts.
• Belphegor arrives badly injured after escaping a sudden upheaval of flying gears. He believes the Taboo object is his chance to gain enough power to challenge Er Dongsheng and eventually Baal.
• Belphegor approaches the sphere and tears it open, only to find Er Dongsheng inside. He tries to flee, but Er Dongsheng uses the Wheel to rewind him back to where he was.

Character developments

• Er Dongsheng gains a deeper understanding of the Wheel and the origin of the Void Raiders. He confidently uses the clock’s power and appears to have reunited—or be in the process of reuniting—the two halves.
• Belphegor reveals how long he has coveted the Taboo object and how his past is tied to the warship, the Executors, and his escape from the Hell Will. His confidence turns instantly to panic when he discovers Er Dongsheng waiting inside the sphere.

Character interactions

• Er Dongsheng examines and addresses the Wheel as he pieces together its history and purpose.
• Belphegor’s attempted acquisition of the sphere is abruptly interrupted by his encounter with Er Dongsheng, who stops his escape and pulls him back with the Wheel’s power.

Significant themes

• Time as a force of mutation: Altered timelines can transform matter and create extraordinary beings.
• Power and its dangers: The Taboo object’s immense abilities are linked to distortion, danger, and a history of catastrophe.
• Ambition and reversal: Belphegor’s long pursuit of power collapses in an instant when Er Dongsheng turns his attempted escape against him.

Plot points and events

• Er Dongsheng continues experimenting on the captured demon Belphegor, using the Wheel of Time and Space to study its effects. The Wheel can manipulate time and cause mutations, though its greatest potential is still unknown.
• He plans to combine the Wheel’s mutation powers with the bones of a powerful skeleton to create a third clone capable of absorbing, condensing, and plundering bloodlines.
• After six months of refining the skeleton with Flames of Destruction, only a blood-colored flower at its chest resists. Its lingering will reveals memories of Northern Frontier and his devotion to the Wizard God.
• Er Dongsheng promises, under a demonic contract, to send the Wizard God to the Yellow Springs. The flower’s will accepts, but Er Dongsheng immediately destroys the contract. The Universe’s punishment fails to affect him because he is a Demon; he recognizes the Abyss, rather than the Universe, as his true authority.
• The skeleton is fully transformed into a compact, powerful vessel. Its flower contains abundant, nearly pure Soul Essence, while its remaining will has been erased. Er Dongsheng plans to use Northern Frontier’s flesh as a template for the clone and send his team members’ souls into the Wizard World. He declares the start of a large-scale invasion.

Character developments and interactions

• Er Dongsheng grows more confident in his knowledge of the Wheel and his ability to exploit demonic loopholes. He is calculating and ruthless: he tortures Belphegor for information, manipulates the skeleton’s lingering will with a false promise, then breaks his pact without fear of cosmic reprisal.
• Belphegor remains powerless and terrified, protesting that he is being treated as a test subject. Er Dongsheng dismisses his pleas and leaves him imprisoned.
• Northern Frontier’s lingering will clings to memories of the Wizard God and resists the flames until Er Dongsheng’s promise draws it into the contract. Its sacrifice leaves Er Dongsheng with a powerful body and soul-energy resource.

Significant themes

• Demonic cunning and broken trust: Er Dongsheng uses a promise as a tool, then tears up the contract once it has served its purpose.
• Power through experimentation and synthesis: The planned clone combines time manipulation, mutation, specialized bones, bloodlines, flesh, and souls.
• The limits of cosmic authority: The Universe’s punishment cannot reach Er Dongsheng as a Demon, while the Abyss remains the true power over his kind.
• A shift from preparation to conquest: The chapter ends by turning months of research and construction into the beginning of an invasion.

Plot points and events

• Isabella has become a First-Level Wizard within six months of arriving at the Wizard Academy. Her exceptional aptitude and mysterious bloodline have made her admired and envied, and she has access to the Academy’s restricted knowledge.
• The chapter flashes back to her arrival, when the Wizard World was grieving the deaths and destruction caused as Er Dongsheng rescued the Blood Demon. Headmaster Uralk welcomes Isabella and praises Barton for bringing her to the Academy.
• In the present, Isabella continues gathering information for Er Dongsheng. She wonders whether his interest in Wizard lore signals an eventual invasion, though she has no confirmation.
• A new order arrives: “Blood sacrifice. Location: Donnitz.” Isabella immediately sets out, revealing that Donnitz Academy was behind the purge that killed her family and her principality’s ruling class. She vows revenge on the Academy—and declares the whole Wizard World her enemy.
• Elsewhere, a blood-red figure learns that a powerful visitor is approaching. Still weakened, he chooses not to confront the visitor and returns to cultivating, intending to absorb the Natural Blood Mound.
• Nesser senses that the “true master of Magic” has arrived and wonders what this will mean for the Northern Frontier.

Character developments and interactions

• Isabella has risen quickly in status, but beneath her composed public image is a deep, longstanding desire for vengeance. The new mission turns that resentment into decisive action.
• Lily, speaking from the Book of Taboo, provides Isabella with information and companionship. Her cheerful fondness for Wizard-world snacks contrasts with her powerful, destructive nature.
• Uralk appears weary but welcoming; he recognizes Isabella’s special potential and promises Barton a reward.
• The red figure treats the giant wolf, “Little Wolf,” as a trusted companion, accepting its warning that he is not yet strong enough to challenge the approaching power.
• Isabella’s Academy standing is reflected in the apprentices’ respectful salutes, while her casual dismissal of Wizard casualties shows how little she identifies with their society.

Significant themes

• Revenge and inherited conflict: Isabella’s personal loss fuels a broader hatred of Donnitz and the Wizard World.
• Power and ambition: Isabella’s rapid advancement, Er Dongsheng’s information-gathering, and the blood figure’s cultivation all point toward larger struggles for control.
• Foreboding and looming change: The sudden blood-sacrifice order and Nesser’s warning signal that a major confrontation may be near.
• Contrasting appearances: Isabella’s admired, aristocratic public image hides a ruthless resolve, while the fearsome Lily displays an unexpectedly playful side.

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Plot points and events

• Across Donnitz Academy, Isabella and Little Lily secretly complete a vast summoning array. Isabella kills a Lizard Beast during the preparations, then stands at the array’s center with the Book of Taboo.
• Elsewhere, Nesser has secretly built similar arrays under the pretense of creating defenses against the Blood Demon and the Destruction Demon God. He orders the Magic Organization’s members to gather at the array’s center, intending to use them as sacrifices.
• The Blood Demon confronts Nesser about deceiving his followers and asks whether he is truly joining the Destruction Demon God. Nesser suggests there may be no alternative, hinting that time is running out and that a Fifth-Level Grand Wizard matters to his plans. The Blood Demon remains uneasy and decides to contact Helim.
• At dawn, Isabella and Little Lily activate their array, invoking Demon God Baal through a blood sacrifice. Black Flame and a vast blood-red sphere engulf Donnitz Academy, killing and consuming the blood, flesh, and bones of countless residents.
• Survivors flee and meet leaders from Wizard Academy. As the catastrophe spreads, Isabella appears atop the sphere, shocking them.

Character developments and interactions

• Isabella moves from quiet preparation to openly carrying out a catastrophic ritual, showing resolve and a willingness to make an immense sacrifice.
• Little Lily eagerly assists and calls Baal her “great father,” revealing her personal connection to the Demon God.
• Nesser presents himself as a protector while concealing his true purpose: sacrificing his followers. His exchange with the Blood Demon suggests a complicated history between them, despite their apparent enmity.
• The Blood Demon is skeptical of Nesser’s plans and increasingly concerned about the hidden arrays. He chooses to investigate by contacting Helim.
• Mond, among the few who escape Donnitz Academy, is left terrified and grief-stricken.

Significant themes

• Deception and betrayal: Nesser disguises a sacrificial scheme as a defensive measure, while the true purpose of the arrays remains hidden.
• Sacrifice and survival: Both Nesser’s plan and Isabella’s ritual treat living beings as resources in a struggle against greater powers.
• Destruction and power: The summoning demonstrates the vast, indiscriminate cost of invoking a Demon God—and signals that larger forces are converging.

Key plot points and events

• A vast blood-red sphere consumes Donnitz Academy, absorbing living beings and converting them into Blood Energy. The surviving Wizards gather near the Wizard Academy, where calming their minds and keeping their distance reduces the drain.
• Isabella, who had disappeared from her room, emerges atop the sphere with a strange, cold presence. When a grieving Wizard attacks her, she kills him with an Ice Blade, and his remains are absorbed.
• Little Lily appears beside Isabella and declares that she is Lily Baal, seventh of the Demon God Sons and daughter of Demon God Baal. The blood-sacrifice array has hidden her from the Northern Frontier Will.
• Helim arrives with Enforcement Hall Wizards but is forced to retreat when a powerful presence within the blood sphere attacks. She realizes Nesser has betrayed them and tries to warn others.
• Nesser activates an enormous Black Flame array across the Wizard Holy Land and Tower City. It drains the population and traps members of the Magic Organization, whom Nesser intends to sacrifice to advance toward becoming a Fifth-Level Wizard.
• Nesser opens a rift and welcomes Demon God Baal. Elsewhere, Er Dongsheng’s World Stone reacts, hinting that the identity of the figure associated with it may be uncertain.
• The blood sphere collapses, revealing a skeleton that rapidly regains flesh. The newly formed man introduces himself as Diabolo, the Demon God who rules time and space.

Character developments and interactions

• Isabella is revealed as a terrifyingly powerful figure—or at least appears to be one—rather than the missing friend Emma remembers. Her killing of the attacker makes Emma and the other survivors question who she is.
• Emma moves from fear about the disaster to grief and confusion over Isabella’s transformation.
• Lily confidently reveals her demonic identity and helps oversee the sacrifice, displaying pride and delight at evading the Northern Frontier Will.
• Helim shifts from investigating Lily to recognizing the larger threat. Her attempt to stop Nesser comes too late.
• Nesser is exposed as a willing traitor, sacrificing others for power and welcoming Baal.
• Diabolo’s dramatic emergence establishes him as the chapter’s central new threat; his connection to the sacrifice and Baal’s arrival remains unclear.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice for power: Both the blood sphere and Nesser’s array consume lives to fuel a greater supernatural purpose.
• Betrayal and misjudgment: Nesser’s treachery turns supposed allies into victims, while Isabella’s apparent transformation unsettles those who knew her.
• Overwhelming forces and helplessness: Wizards and civilians alike are caught in events far beyond their control.
• Identity and uncertainty: The chapter raises questions about who Isabella has become, what Diabolo’s role is, and whether Er Dongsheng is truly the figure associated with the World Stone.

Plot points and events

• Diabolo, the long-sealed third member of the Burning Legion’s Dark Triumvirate and brother of Baal and Mephisto, breaks free. He reveals himself as the Time and Space Demon God, surrounded by scarlet lightning that distorts reality.
• Diabolo announces his return across the Magic Network, sending his presence into the minds of the Legion’s members and stirring their power. His arrival is marked by a third red Throne appearing beside Baal’s and Mephisto’s in the Devil Palace.
• Mephisto recognizes Diabolo’s arrival and welcomes him. Diabolo appears briefly in Mephisto’s palace, then rushes off to proclaim himself to the world.
• On the Abyss battlefield, Diabolo’s lightning destroys or mutates enemies, and his overwhelming display wins the immediate acclaim of the Destruction Squad. Observers from rival factions recognize the threat and flee to warn their leaders.

Character developments and interactions

• Diabolo emerges as a confident, imposing, and impatient new power. He delights in experiencing the world again and immediately seeks recognition as its new ruler.
• Mephisto remains composed and amused by his brother’s dramatic arrival, greeting him warmly while commenting on his haste.
• Agatha is surprised to learn that the newcomer is Mephisto’s brother and another giant of the Burning Legion.
• Xierjie feels deeply uneasy about Diabolo’s ominous aura and questions what Baal intends.
• Mordekaiser may be approaching Deep Awakening, while Frazer sees Diabolo’s arrival as an opportunity to strengthen the Legion’s invasion.
• The Seven Demon God Sons and other Legion members respond with excitement and worship, though their acceptance is driven partly by Diabolo’s power and his kinship with Baal.

Significant themes

• Power and legitimacy: Diabolo quickly gains followers through overwhelming strength and his connection to the established leaders.
• A changing balance of power: The appearance of a third giant signals a major shift in the Abyss and alarms rival factions.
• The destabilizing nature of time and space: Diabolo’s power distorts reality, disrupts energy, and makes his presence threatening even at a distance.

Chapter Summary: The Heavenly Demon Clan

Key Plot Points and Events

• Inside Tower City, most Wizards have already been converted into Blood Energy by Nesser’s formation, leaving the remaining Magic organization members helpless.
• Er Dongsheng binds the surviving Wizards with black chains and begins his experiment before the Northern Frontier Will can detect the disturbance.
• He releases Black Flames containing the souls of Destruction Squad members. His psychic power disables the Wizards’ mental defenses, allowing the Demonic Souls to invade their bodies.
• The Wizards’ consciousnesses are destroyed, and their bodies become vessels for the Demons, giving birth to the new Heavenly Demon Clan.
• Each transformed Heavenly Demon manifests a weapon formed from the bloodline previously fused into its body. These Bloodline Weapons are intimately connected to their wielders and allow them to use their bloodline abilities more effectively.
• The weapons can absorb superior bloodlines from enemies they kill, allowing Heavenly Demons to grow rapidly without needing to cultivate or fuse with bloodlines manually.
• One particularly powerful Destruction Squad member fuses with a Fourth-Level Wizard and becomes a unique Heavenly Demon King, entering a strange soul-like state that even Er Dongsheng cannot fully explain.
• Sensing that the Northern Frontier Will has noticed something unusual, Er Dongsheng orders the newly created Heavenly Demons to join Lord Diabolo’s forces as the Heavenly Demon Squad, separate from the Burning Legion.
• Er Dongsheng then offers Nesser a choice between becoming a Destroyer or a Heavenly Demon. To address Nesser’s fear of losing his identity, Er Dongsheng gives him a will-less Demon soul to consume and use in creating his own Demonic Soul.

Character Developments

• Er Dongsheng reveals himself as a ruthless creator and experimenter. He is pleased with the results of the transformation and recognizes that he may have created an exceptionally dangerous race.
• The Wizards lose their individual consciousnesses and become Heavenly Demons, retaining their bodies and bloodline-based abilities but gaining new demonic souls and powers.
• The Destruction Squad members are transformed into a new form of existence. Their destructive nature remains, but they gain bodies capable of using powerful Wizard bloodlines through Bloodline Weapons.
• The Heavenly Demon King emerges as a higher-level being formed from a powerful Destruction Squad soul and a Fourth-Level Wizard body. His existence resembles an Awakening but remains mysterious.
• Nesser becomes frightened and conflicted after witnessing the transformation. However, his fear is mixed with envy and ambition, leading him to seriously consider becoming a Heavenly Demon.
• The Northern Frontier Will begins to sense that something is wrong, forcing Er Dongsheng to end the experiment and leave quickly.

Significant Themes

• Creation through destruction: The Heavenly Demons are born by annihilating the Wizards’ consciousnesses and combining their bodies with demonic souls.
• Power through assimilation: Heavenly Demons grow by stealing and incorporating the bloodlines of their enemies, making slaughter central to their advancement.
• Identity and transformation: Nesser’s question about whether he would remain himself highlights the danger of gaining power at the cost of one’s original identity.
• Competing paths of evolution: The chapter contrasts Heavenly Demons with Destroyers. Heavenly Demons grow quickly through bloodline weapons, while Destroyers possess stronger bodies and potentially greater long-term power after Deep Awakening.
• Experimentation and uncertainty: Er Dongsheng understands the broad principles behind the transformation but remains unsure about the true nature of Heavenly Demons, especially the Heavenly Demon King’s soul-like state.

Character Interactions

• Er Dongsheng and the Wizards: Er Dongsheng treats the Wizards as experimental materials, forcibly opening their minds and sacrificing their consciousnesses to create the Heavenly Demon Clan.
• Er Dongsheng and the new Heavenly Demons: He presents himself as their creator and commander, assigning them to Lord Diabolo’s forces and directing them toward the Heavenly Demon Squad.
• Er Dongsheng and Nesser: Their relationship is based on usefulness and reward. Er Dongsheng acknowledges Nesser’s assistance and offers him a chance to evolve, while Nesser seeks reassurance that transformation will not erase his identity.
• Er Dongsheng and the Heavenly Demon King: Er Dongsheng observes and questions the new being, intrigued by its unusual abilities but unable to fully understand its nature.

Key plot points and events

• Er Dongsheng abandons the array and leaves Nesser to join Diabolo. The Heavenly Demons follow, passing beyond the barrier without being rejected by the Northern Frontier Will: their Wizard bodies make them seem native to the world.
• Nesser keeps the Blank Demon Soul but does not consume it yet. He leaves without responding to the Blood Demon’s taunt that he may threaten Er Dongsheng’s position.
• As the array collapses and the Northern Frontier Will floods in, the Blood Demon decides to strengthen himself by absorbing more energy from the Blood Pool. Highland City is left devastated after the battle, with much of the Wizard leadership wiped out.
• Er Dongsheng’s will takes control of Diabolo’s body, greatly enhancing its power. Diabolo tests his abilities while the surviving Wizards, including Helim, watch uneasily.
• Sancast arrives with a small group of survivors and reports that Nesser sacrificed the Wizards in blood to summon a Destruction Demon God, killing nearly everyone.
• Diabolo’s gaze traps Sancast in a terrifying time-space freeze, demonstrating a power so overwhelming that even a Fourth-Level Wizard is nearly broken by it.
• The Heavenly Demons arrive and surround the Wizards. They kneel to Diabolo, who greets them and then turns toward the trapped Wizards, leaving their fate—submission or destruction—unresolved.

Character developments and interactions

• Er Dongsheng/Diabolo: Er Dongsheng’s control of Diabolo gives him a body of immense strength and potential, with power that rivals the Northern Frontier Will. He behaves with calm, commanding confidence.
• Nesser: He remains guarded and ambitious, ignoring the Blood Demon’s insinuation that he is a rival. His earlier actions are linked to the catastrophic sacrifice reported by Sancast.
• The Blood Demon: Alarmed by the coming upheaval, he chooses self-preservation and retreats to absorb more Blood Pool energy.
• Sancast: He arrives shaken by the slaughter and is further terrified by Diabolo’s ability to suspend his senses and perception of time.
• Helim and the surviving Wizards: They are confused, fearful, and outmatched, first by Diabolo and then by the Heavenly Demon army. Little Isabella remains quietly devoted to Diabolo.

Significant themes

• Transformation and belonging: The Heavenly Demons’ Wizard bodies allow them to be accepted by the Northern Frontier Will, suggesting that physical nature may matter more than the presence or origin of a soul.
• Power and submission: The chapter contrasts the helpless Wizards with Diabolo’s near-world-shaking strength and the Heavenly Demons’ unquestioning loyalty.
• A changing era: Highland City’s ruin and the collapse of its Wizard leadership signal a major upheaval, with survivors facing an uncertain new order.