Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• The Insect Queen and Dark God King are cut off from the Independent Alliance by the Angel Empire’s war. After hearing the alliance has fallen, they refuse the Western Capital Alliance’s demand to join.
• The Western Capital Alliance surrounds the Insect Race, seeking to exploit its strength and reproductive capacity for its Flesh Puppet business. It launches an invasion despite the Angel Empire’s laws.
• The Dark God King arrives with his newly gained Great Prosperity God strength and tries to help, but his forces are badly outmatched. He urges the Insect Queen to retreat to his territory; she refuses, choosing to fight rather than flee.
• As the invasion turns into a massacre, Demon Emperor Daochen arrives and senses a dangerous presence within the Western Capital Alliance. He identifies a disguised figure near the commander as the hidden strategist.
• When Daochen grabs the figure, the presence escapes from warrior to warrior. He pursues it onto the battlefield, where it enters the Insect Queen.
• The Insect Queen collapses. When she wakes, Daochen is beside her, and an ominous aura has emerged from within her. The two appear to have fused in some way. Daochen asks whether she feels anything strange in her soul; she clutches her head and cries out in pain.

Character developments and interactions

• The Insect Queen is devastated by her people’s decline and frustrated by her inability to keep pace with cultivation-based races. Despite the Dark God King’s offer of refuge, she chooses resistance over retreat. Her encounter with the fleeing entity leaves her in agony.
• The Dark God King shows loyalty to his ally by bringing reinforcements and offering shelter, but recognizes that his clan cannot win a direct fight.
• Demon Emperor Daochen investigates the war rather than intervening immediately. His discovery of the hidden strategist leads to a pursuit and an unexplained connection with the Insect Queen.
• The Insect Queen and Dark God King debate whether to retreat or fight; Daochen’s sudden arrival shifts the crisis toward the mysterious entity inside the Queen.

Significant themes

• Decline and powerlessness: The Insect Race’s former might has given way to vulnerability, especially as cultivation-based races outpace it.
• Exploitation and shifting fortunes: The Western Capital Alliance targets the Insect Race for profit while justifying its aggression as payback for past oppression.
• Loyalty and resistance: The Dark God King offers protection, while the Queen insists on defending her people.
• Hidden power and uncertainty: The disguised strategist, its ability to move between bodies, and its apparent fusion with the Queen introduce a new, dangerous mystery.

Key plot points and events

• The Insect Queen’s mind fills with memories of Murong Qingliu, a being from the Primordial Emperor Ancient World. While traveling through a spacetime passage, Murong Qingliu was stranded, reduced to a soul, and hunted by a malicious monster.
• After entering the Insect Queen’s body, Murong Qingliu’s soul merged with hers. The painful process left gaps in their memories and caused the Insect Queen to lose consciousness.
• Demon Emperor Daochen intervenes in the battlefield, kills the Western Capital Alliance’s commander and many of its experts, and orders the rest to leave, warning that another unauthorized war will bring the alliance’s destruction. He then takes the unconscious Empress back to Insect territory.
• Once she awakens, the merged being explains that she is both the Insect Queen and Murong Qingliu; neither identity has taken precedence. Some memories may have been erased or sealed because of the trauma of the merger.
• Murong Qingliu describes a larger cosmology: her people live at a spacetime origin point and oversee nearby worlds. She suspects the Great Void World is infected by “spacetime parasites,” which are consuming its flow of time.
• She appoints Daochen an Order Administrator, claiming he must either help repair spacetime or be erased by it. Though skeptical, he agrees to accompany her.
• They reach the Sea of Illusion Gods, where they meet the Angel King and the Abyss Overlord. Murong Qingliu identifies a nearby seal as an administrator’s work and asks them to summon the Great Void God King so she can seal the area completely. The two resist, unfamiliar with her authority, but Daochen recommends summoning him.

Character developments

• The Insect Queen/Murong Qingliu awakens with a dual identity, incomplete memories, and knowledge of forces beyond the Great Void World. She becomes focused on investigating and containing the apparent spacetime infection.
• Demon Emperor Daochen moves from protecting the Empress to cautiously cooperating with her. He remains skeptical of her claims but recognizes that the threat may be real.
• The Angel King and Abyss Overlord are shown to be powerful and cautious, but they are unprepared for Murong Qingliu’s claims about administrators and spacetime parasites.

Significant themes

• Identity and memory: The merged soul raises the question of whether the character is one person or two, while missing memories complicate self-understanding.
• Cosmic scale and hidden threats: The Great Void World may be only one part of a much larger structure, vulnerable to forces its strongest inhabitants do not understand.
• Authority and trust: Murong Qingliu demands cooperation based on knowledge and status that the others cannot verify, while Daochen must decide whether to trust her intuition.
• Protection and consequences: Daochen’s overwhelming force ends the unauthorized war, but the chapter pivots from a political conflict to a potentially world-threatening one.

Character interactions

• Daochen questions the awakened Empress about her identity and the spacetime passage, while she explains her merged state and the suspected parasite infestation.
• Murong Qingliu asserts authority over Daochen by appointing him administrator; he challenges her ultimatum but agrees to follow her.
• At the Sea of Illusion Gods, Murong Qingliu questions the Angel King and Abyss Overlord about the seal. They demand an explanation for her commands, and Daochen—despite admitting he barely knows her—urges them to summon the Great Void God King.

Key plot points and events

• The Great Void God King returns to the Sea of Illusion Gods after the Abyss Lord and Angel King summon him to meet the Demon Emperor and Murong Qingliu.
• Murong explains that a Spacetime Passage accident left her with only a soul, which fused with the original owner of her current body. The God King reveals that he is likewise fused with the Great Void God King.
• He identifies himself as a Space-Time Guardian of the Milai Race. He once sacrificed his body to seal a passage and protect his world from the Spacetime Parasites.
• The parasites have now thrown both worlds’ passages into chaos and blockaded them, making a return to the Spacetime Administration impossible until the upheaval is stopped. The God King admits that he and Murong may not be strong enough to contain the threat.
• The God King says the Great Void World is preparing for the crisis by strengthening its people and trying to cultivate a new Space-Time Guardian. He sees the Demon Emperor’s potential as a source of hope.
• The Demon Emperor agrees to help, though he doubts he can master Space-Time Power. The God King points out that advancing to World King would require enormous resources and insists the Demon Emperor must repay the Great Void World’s support.
• After the God King describes the Demon Emperor’s extraordinary resource consumption, Murong is stunned and questions what kind of constitution could require so much.

Character developments and interactions

• Murong Qingliu is candid about her unusual arrival and fusion, but the revelation that the passages are blockaded leaves her shaken and grim. She and the God King recognize how perilous their situation is.
• The Great Void God King is burdened by the crisis but remains determined to find hope through preparing a future guardian. He admires the Demon Emperor’s power while treating aid as a practical bargain.
• The Demon Emperor responds modestly and offers to help, while privately resenting the God King’s stinginess. He also welcomes the possibility of broader support for his costly cultivation.
• The Angel King and Abyss Lord remain frustrated at being tied to the crisis while the God King is free to come and go, but they need his help with the seal.
• Murong’s surprise at the Demon Emperor’s resource needs creates a moment of curiosity and sets up further scrutiny of his unusual abilities.

Significant themes

• Confinement and survival: The parasite blockade traps the characters and threatens the worlds that sustain them.
• Hope under pressure: The God King looks to rising experts and the possibility of a new Space-Time Guardian despite grim odds.
• Power and obligation: The Demon Emperor’s potential could benefit the whole world, but supporting his growth comes with expectations and a cost.

Key plot points and events

• Murong Qingliu tries to see through Demon Emperor Daochen but cannot penetrate the mysterious mist surrounding him. She recognizes why the Great Void God King values him.
• The Angel King explains that the “Spacetime Parasites,” which he calls Destruction Beasts, are nearly impossible to kill. Even when reduced to tiny pieces or cells, they remain alive, multiply, and eventually reassemble. They drain a world’s power, threatening to consume it over time.
• Their current solution is to seal them or send them through spatial rifts. The Angel King eagerly gives Daochen a specimen to study, despite warning him to keep it contained and avoid splitting it into too many parts.
• Murong Qingliu and the Great Void God King propose creating a special space, using an illusion formation to put incoming beasts to sleep, and gradually drawing them through a rift. However, they warn that stronger “King Beasts” could overwhelm the containment plan.
• Daochen and the others reject using their worlds as a testing ground. Murong argues that the existing seals will likely fail within tens of thousands of years, leaving them with the choice of controlled action now or a more dangerous crisis later. The group is left uncertain.

Character developments and interactions

• Demon Emperor Daochen is intrigued by the beasts and agrees to study one, but grows wary as he realizes how dangerous it could be. He and the others resist Murong’s risky proposal.
• Murong Qingliu shifts from examining Daochen to taking a leading role in planning how to protect the Great Void and Milai worlds. She presses the urgency of acting before the seals fail.
• The Angel King explains the threat and is conspicuously eager to hand Daochen a beast, suggesting he wants to transfer the burden.
• The Great Void God King confers privately with Murong over the Sea of Illusion Gods; their discussion leads to the proposed strategy.

Significant themes

• Containment versus eradication: The beasts cannot be killed by ordinary means, so the characters must consider imperfect alternatives.
• Risk and responsibility: Acting could unleash a catastrophe, but delaying may make disaster unavoidable.
• Limits of power and foresight: Even powerful leaders lack a reliable solution, and the future threat remains uncertain.

Key plot points and events

• The Angel King, Demon Emperor Daochen, and Abyss Lord agree that the Destruction Beast threat must be addressed, but decide to delay a final decision until they understand it better. They fear that a containment space or illusion might not hold for long.
• Murong Qingliu offers to help Daochen study the beast. Meanwhile, the Great Void God King rushes to the Milai World, where spacetime rifts have also appeared and he must guard three of them alone.
• Daochen learns that Murong Qingliu and the Insect Queen have fully fused, sharing memories and abilities. Murong explains that Destruction Beasts are made of tiny, exceptionally stable particles and are nearly impossible to kill; the Spacetime Administration disposes of them with a specialized Spacetime Crusher.
• In experiments, Daochen’s world power and various destructive forces fail to harm the beast. Instead, it absorbs them and grows stronger.
• Murong explains that the beasts seem mindless, relentlessly devour worlds, and multiply and strengthen by doing so. Trying to possess one is futile: its destructive instinct would eventually consume the possessor’s will, irreversibly transforming them.
• Daochen wonders whether the beasts can devour one another. He leaves Murong to guard them while he pursues an experiment based on that possibility.

Character developments

• Daochen shifts from testing conventional ways to destroy the beast to pursuing a more unconventional solution. His curiosity and confidence return when he identifies a possible weakness.
• Murong Qingliu is established as the merged being of herself and the Insect Queen. Though still attached to Daochen, she is limited in what she knows about the beasts and in her standing within the Spacetime Administration.
• The Great Void God King is shown facing the crisis with little support, underscoring the wider spread of the danger.

Significant themes

• The cost of delay: The rulers stall because acting without certainty could be disastrous, though waiting also leaves the threat unresolved.
• Limits of power and knowledge: Daochen’s strongest attacks only empower the beast, while even the Spacetime Administration struggles to control the spreading parasites.
• Adaptation and unconventional thinking: The possibility that the beasts might destroy one another offers a new avenue when ordinary methods fail.
• Destructive instincts: The beasts’ drive to destroy is so powerful that it can overwhelm and permanently transform anyone who tries to control them.

Character interactions

• The three rulers debate whether to act immediately or wait for more information, ultimately choosing caution.
• Murong and Daochen cooperate in studying the beast; she explains its nature and warns him against attempting possession.
• Daochen’s questions lead Murong to consider an untested possibility—whether Destruction Beasts can consume one another—which becomes the basis of his next experiment.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen seeks a way to exploit the Destruction Beasts’ potential weakness: their instinctive, unintelligent souls.
• He recruits San Feng, a Grand Ancestor God of the Yin Ghost Dao who has abandoned his physical body. Daochen asks him to inhabit a Destruction Beast and suppress its instincts.
• San Feng warns that possessing a living body may permanently stall his cultivation, but agrees because the Primordial and Great Void worlds are at stake.
• At the Demon Emperor Palace, Daochen and Murong Qingliu observe a second Destruction Beast forming. Souls emerge from its cells, but they appear mindless.
• San Feng enters the still-growing Beast. After four hours, he reports that it is powerful and adaptable, but the Beast is generating new souls and resisting his control.
• Daochen orders Murong Qingliu to send her soul into the Beast and take charge of its body, while San Feng focuses on suppressing the newly born souls.
• To test the Beast’s behavior, Daochen has Murong eat the other Beast’s flesh. She enjoys it and grows stronger; the Beast she controls also gains strength. She consumes the entire creature.
• San Feng reports that feeding the Beast makes its new souls appear faster and stronger. Daochen suspects the Beasts’ splitting and rejoining reveal a deeper, unexplained mechanism.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen acts decisively and experimentally, accepting risks in pursuit of a way to control the Beasts. He directs both San Feng and Murong, and remains alert to clues that might expose their nature.
• San Feng sacrifices the security of his specialized cultivation to help. He can suppress the Beast’s instinctive souls, but cannot fully control it alone; his role shifts to supporting Murong.
• Murong Qingliu cooperates without demanding an explanation, takes control of the Beast, and tests its ability by eating its flesh—even though she initially finds the act disgusting.
• Daochen and San Feng discuss the costs and limits of possessing the Beast; Daochen and Murong coordinate the experiment, with Murong following his instructions.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and duty: San Feng risks his life’s work for the worlds’ survival.
• Control versus instinct: The Beast resists possession by continually producing new souls.
• Experimentation under uncertainty: Daochen tests the Beast through direct intervention, but each result raises new questions.
• Adaptation and transformation: The Beast can grow stronger, regenerate its inner souls, and may eventually learn the world’s laws.

Plot and key events

• The Destruction Beast grows stronger by absorbing energy, and Demon Emperor Daochen splits it in two so the group can study what it has taken in.
• Murong Qingliu and San Feng discover that it absorbs space-time power from the Great Void World. Murong recognizes the power from her former body and explains that only beings with spacetime talent can normally master it; even World Kings have only a tiny chance of becoming Space-Time Guardians.
• Murong realizes the beast repeatedly returns its soul to a spacetime origin point. San Feng can break this cycle by spitting out the soul he has devoured at the exact moment it reappears. The two versions of the same soul collide, causing the beast’s soul to collapse.
• San Feng then takes control of the beast’s body. He discovers he can use some space-time power, though Murong warns him that it is difficult to replenish. Murong returns to her own body.
• Daochen hopes this discovery will help end the Spacetime Parasite crisis. Murong cautions that Destruction Beasts are only the weakest parasites, though the group considers strengthening one by having it devour others.

Character developments and interactions

• Murong Qingliu proves crucial through her knowledge of space-time power and her insight into the beast’s soul-reversal cycle. She also reveals more about her past and the rarity of becoming a Space-Time Guardian.
• San Feng moves from uncertainty about his ability to master the power to successfully possessing the beast’s body, an exciting return to having a physical form.
• Demon Emperor Daochen directs the investigation, presses for practical gains, and shares the group’s initial optimism before Murong tempers it.
• The discovery prompts cooperation: Murong explains the mechanism, San Feng carries out the risky soul maneuver, and Daochen assesses the broader implications.

Significant themes

• Discovery through observation: Studying the beast’s growth reveals a previously unknown source of power.
• Cost and scarcity: Space-time power is potent but limited, while mastery of it is extraordinarily rare.
• Identity and temporal paradox: The plan exploits the danger of two versions of the same soul meeting in one spacetime.
• Hope tempered by reality: Gaining control of a Destruction Beast offers a possible strategy, but does not resolve the larger threat.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen concludes that San Feng’s successful possession of a Destruction Beast has produced a new kind of being, which he names an artificial spacetime body. These bodies are difficult to kill and can grow by devouring Destruction Beasts.
• The rulers consider opening the spacetime Seal to bring in more Destruction Beasts and create spacetime bodies, either by capturing them or breeding them. The Abyss Lord favors opening a small gap, while the Angel King worries that something stronger might enter.
• Murong Qingliu announces that her space-time power has returned and that she may eventually recover some of her administrator abilities. She urges the rulers to wait for her before making a decision, then retreats to the Insect Race, which feels safest to her.
• The rulers establish a military merit and noble-rank system for spacetime bodies, with titles from Baron to Prince. San Feng receives the Prince rank as the first-generation spacetime body. They also plan to raise him to World King level once the Seal is opened.
• Daochen asks San Feng to channel space-time power into him. The experience lets Daochen recognize it as the subtle force he once encountered during Pangu’s era, prompting a major step in his own understanding.

Character developments

• Daochen shifts from treating the experiment as a one-off success to planning a larger program, while also pursuing his own mastery of space-time power.
• San Feng becomes the first recognized spacetime body and a Prince, though he can use space-time power only in small amounts and cannot explain its nature.
• Murong Qingliu makes a breakthrough in her recovery, regaining the circulation of space-time power and potentially part of her former administrator ability.
• The Angel King and Abyss Lord recognize the strategic value of spacetime bodies but remain concerned about how to control the risks and preserve the existing order.

Significant themes

• Power and responsibility: The rulers intend to rely on spacetime bodies in war but also create rules to keep them from threatening the Great Void’s existing powers.
• Cooperation versus control: The new fighters are essential to survival, yet the rulers seek to regulate their status and authority.
• Discovery and knowledge: Daochen’s recognition of space-time power shows how experimentation can unlock understanding of a force’s deeper nature.
• Risk in confronting catastrophe: Opening the Seal could strengthen defenses, but it may also admit a greater danger.

Character interactions

• Daochen credits Murong Qingliu for enabling San Feng’s transformation and says her guidance will be needed to create more spacetime bodies.
• The Angel King and Abyss Lord debate with Daochen how to obtain more Destruction Beasts and manage the potential threat beyond the Seal.
• The three rulers negotiate a system that grants spacetime bodies rewards while limiting their political dominance.
• San Feng assists Daochen’s research by transferring space-time power to him, allowing Daochen to recognize the force.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen senses a trace of space-time power and repeatedly tries—but fails—to make it circulate using ordinary cultivation methods.
• Realizing the power may not exist in the present in the usual way, he seeks guidance from Murong Qingliu.
• Murong explains that sensing space-time power is only the first step. To use it, Daochen must understand its connection to spacetime and find its source during a disruption.
• Daochen enters the power’s past and explores bubbles containing recorded moments: scenes of death and violence, but also ordinary happiness.
• After viewing every fragment, he returns to his body having completed the introductory stage. He is told the next step is to gather the power of the past into himself, using a method unique to him.

Character developments

• Daochen moves from excited experimentation to a deeper understanding of space-time power. He begins to recognize that his ability to sense it may indicate spacetime talent.
• His exploration also changes his view of the Destruction Beasts: he learns they were once ordinary beings whose worlds were destroyed, and feels compassion for their suffering.
• Murong Qingliu shifts from disbelief to acknowledging Daochen’s unusual potential, then guides him through the first stage of cultivation.

Significant themes

• The past and the future: The past is difficult to change, while the future remains something one can pursue.
• Understanding before mastery: Space-time power cannot be controlled through conventional methods; it must first be experienced and comprehended.
• Suffering and transformation: The Destruction Beasts’ terrifying forms conceal lives once filled with ordinary experiences, including happiness.

Character interactions

• Daochen seeks Murong Qingliu’s advice after failing to control the power. She explains its nature and directs him to explore its past.
• Daochen’s encounters with the memory-fragments lead him to reinterpret the Destruction Beasts—not as monsters alone, but as victims of catastrophic loss.

Plot points

• Demon Emperor Daochen discovers he can draw in the tiny “bubbles” of space-time power, including power from the surrounding Great Void, and begins absorbing it.
• Murong Qingliu confirms he has gained a basic grasp of the power. Bound by the Order Administrators’ rule against influencing other beings’ futures, she refuses to teach him further, warning that her involvement carries dangerous karma.
• Daochen returns to the Primordial World and investigates space-time power within the worlds incorporated into his body. He finds that it is tied directly to each world’s origin: absorbing it weakens that origin.
• He concludes that Spacetime Parasites devastate worlds by steadily consuming their origins, eventually draining their inhabitants’ abilities and lives. Opening the seal to fight them may therefore be the wrong strategy; they may need to be stopped outside the Great Void.
• Daochen suspects Murong Qingliu and the Great Void God King have hidden motives for opening the seal, but sets aside the speculation. He recognizes that his own absorption also takes from world origins, though less brutally, and decides to study space-time-based attacks with San Feng.
• Meanwhile, Murong Qingliu resumes contact with the Spacetime Administration. Her duties are reinstated, and she reports that she is trapped in the Great Void World and targeted by Spacetime Parasites. The Administration identifies the Great Void God King as a Space-Time Guardian located in the Milai Race World.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen moves from learning basic control to developing an independent theory of space-time power and its consequences. He accepts that, as a Grand Ancestor God, he must forge a cultivation path suited to himself.
• Murong Qingliu shows both professional restraint and personal concern: she declines to guide Daochen further, but privately explains that association with her could harm him. She later resumes her formal duties.
• Daochen and Murong part respectfully despite his disappointment. Daochen understands that her refusal has reasons, while Murong keeps the full nature of her difficulties secret.
• Daochen and San Feng are set to collaborate on turning space-time power into an offensive technique.

Significant themes

• Self-directed growth: Daochen believes the strongest cultivation comes from a path one creates oneself.
• The cost of power: Space-time energy is connected to a world’s origin, making even gentler absorption potentially harmful.
• Hidden motives and uncertainty: Daochen questions the real purpose behind opening the seal, but cannot yet verify his suspicions.
• Duty versus personal attachment: Murong’s rules as an Order Administrator—and the danger of her karma—limit how much she can help a friend.

Key plot points and events

• The Great Void God King confronts Murong Qingliu after discovering she is investigating him. He admits he is consuming the Great Void World’s Space-Time Power to cultivate, arguing that the Spacetime Administration’s failures leave guardians to fend for themselves against Destruction Beasts.
• Murong acknowledges the Administration’s negligence but insists that draining a world is still immoral and violates its rules. The God King rejects her argument, immobilizes her, and compresses her into a miniature form. He then removes traces of Space-Time Power so the Administration cannot track them, leaving him free to use the world as nourishment.
• In the Primordial World, the Demon Emperor and Sanfeng’s studies help Daochen understand how Space-Time Power works. The past is fixed, but the power can reveal possible futures and help a user choose among them.
• Daochen learns that Space-Time Power is finite and drawn from the world itself. He concludes that Sanfeng’s repeated “returns” are attempts to alter an already-fixed fate: once his power is exhausted, the soul-devouring outcome will still occur.
• Daochen considers sealing Sanfeng the best way to defeat him and learns to use Space-Time Power to retrieve his own past strength or explore favorable futures. He recognizes that these abilities must be used sparingly.

Character developments and interactions

• Murong Qingliu confronts the God King directly and defends the rules despite admitting the Administration has failed in its duties. Her attempt to stop him ends in capture.
• The Great Void God King reveals his disregard for the Great Void World and its inhabitants, prioritizing his own survival and cultivation. He views the Administration as hypocritical and feels relieved after removing Murong as an obstacle.
• Demon Emperor Daochen grows more knowledgeable and cautious. Understanding Space-Time Power’s cost makes him more respectful of it, while his analysis of Sanfeng leads him toward containment rather than relying on brute force.
• Sanfeng serves as Daochen’s teacher and as an example of how a powerful ability can only delay an unavoidable fate.

Significant themes

• Power carries a cost: Using Space-Time Power consumes a world’s irreplaceable resource.
• Responsibility versus self-preservation: The God King’s survival-first reasoning clashes with Murong’s insistence on protecting the world.
• Limits of control over fate: The future may be explored, but the past cannot be changed, and some outcomes remain unavoidable.
• Caution in decision-making: Because each use of power can affect the world and future possibilities, it should not be spent carelessly.

Key plot points

• The Demon Emperor experiments with Space-Time Power and discovers how to absorb it from worlds—and from sealed Destruction Beasts. Draining the beasts’ Space-Time Power also gradually strips away their life force and ability to revive.
• He refuses to use the technique on the Great Void World, since doing so would hasten its destruction. His discoveries strengthen his opposition to opening the world’s seal and letting the Destruction Beasts in.
• The Demon Emperor suspects there is a hidden reason why Space-Time Guardians, who should be able to counter the beasts, have failed to save some worlds. He keeps his most effective technique secret.
• He turns to the next stage of his cultivation: reaching the World King realm. He learns that becoming a World King requires mastering a world’s Dao and earning its will’s recognition. He plans to begin with the Primordial World and studies the Great Dao of Strength.
• Meanwhile, the Great Void God King takes the sealed Murong Qingliu to the Milai Race’s world, where he boasts that its world will is under his control.
• Murong Qingliu recognizes that the God King has sacrificed the Milai people to the Lord of Spacetime, transforming them into strange, unnatural beings. She condemns him for sacrificing his people only to delay the Destruction Beasts’ invasion, not prevent it.

Character developments and interactions

• Demon Emperor Daochen becomes more capable and cautious: he gains a potential means of defeating Destruction Beasts but chooses not to endanger the Great Void World. He also begins pursuing World King status, while keeping his discoveries private.
• The Great Void God King reveals his pride in his control over the Milai world and his resentment of the Demon Emperor, whom he cannot suppress. He justifies sacrificing the Milai people as the price of protecting his world.
• Murong Qingliu regains her awareness, recognizes the consequences of the God King’s bargain, and challenges his claim that the sacrifice was worthwhile. Their exchange exposes the moral cost and likely futility of his actions.

Significant themes

• Power and its price: Sacrifices can grant immense abilities, but the cost falls on entire populations and can corrupt the beneficiary.
• Responsibility and restraint: Daochen’s refusal to drain the world’s power contrasts with the God King’s willingness to sacrifice his people.
• Hidden truths and failed protection: Daochen questions why Guardians have not stopped worlds from falling, while Murong points out that the God King has only postponed disaster.
• Ambition and recognition: Becoming a World King requires more than strength; it depends on mastering a world’s Dao and winning the world will’s recognition.

• The Great Void God King’s collapse: Convinced that the worlds had wronged him and that his Milai people were beyond recovery, the Great Void God King declares that he will destroy worlds and absorb their power. He rejects Murong Qingliu’s pleas to wait for his people to be reborn, insisting that the Milai World’s memories are not enough to ease his loss. His earlier attempts to recreate his race produced only soulless puppets, leaving him convinced that destruction is the only way to end his suffering.
• The Milai World is devastated: The God King’s uncontrolled absorption of space-time power damages the world and exposes him to its dark will, worsening his madness. Over tens of thousands of years, spatial chaos and rifts spread until the world nears collapse. When its Seal weakens, Destruction Beasts pour in. Murong Qingliu, having exhausted her attempts to stop him, watches the world’s end with grim acceptance.
• The God King sets out for another world: Shifting unpredictably between rage, madness, and calm, he leaves for the Great Void World, describing it as another world to consume. He appears to see his friends and family bidding him farewell, but walks away without looking back. The Destruction Beasts follow him.
• Daochen discovers Murong Qingliu is missing: Tens of thousands of years later, Demon Emperor Daochen awakens from meditation with an unusual sense of dread. Nearing a breakthrough to World King but still lacking the needed opportunity, he first investigates the danger and learns that Murong Qingliu disappeared soon after he left. Her traces and surrounding space-time have been deliberately altered, suggesting either concealment or abduction.
• Daochen suspects the Great Void God King: Since few beings can manipulate space-time power, Daochen rules out Sanfeng and himself, concluding that the former Space-Time Guardian is the most likely culprit.
  Character developments and relationships: The Great Void God King’s grief hardens into vengeance, and his isolation and exposure to dark will drive him toward becoming a destroyer. Murong Qingliu tries to reach him through compassion, reminding him that his people may one day be reborn, but cannot change his course. Daochen’s concern for Murong Qingliu shifts quickly into suspicion and action.
  Themes: The chapter explores grief turning into destructive obsession, the corrupting consequences of unchecked power, and the tension between preserving a world and consuming it. It also contrasts the God King’s refusal to hope with Murong Qingliu’s belief that time might allow renewal.

Key plot points and events

• The Demon Emperor checks the Spacetime Seal after suspecting something is wrong. It remains intact, but he realizes it feeds Space-Time Power to the Destruction Beasts beyond it, meaning the threat has only been contained, not solved.
• Determined to protect both the Great Void World and the Primordial World, he slips through the Seal alone and begins destroying the beasts. He drains their Space-Time Power, causing them to collapse, but the power carries savage dark wills that attack his mind.
• After clearing the area, the exhausted Demon Emperor returns and reinforces the Seal before collapsing. The Abyss Lord and Angel King find him and keep watch.
• The Great Void God King arrives, says the beasts are close to breaking through, and asks the two to guard him while he pursues a breakthrough. He then absorbs Space-Time Power on a massive scale.
• The Demon Emperor awakens after transferring the dark consciousnesses into a world of his own. He sees a monstrous presence around the God King and realizes the God King himself is saturated with destructive will. He also detects Murong Qingliu’s faint aura within him and concludes that she is involved.

Character developments and interactions

• Demon Emperor Daochen acts alone out of duty, showing resolve and formidable power. His battle also reveals the cost of absorbing Space-Time Power: it erodes his will, forcing him to find an unusual way to contain the dark consciousnesses.
• The Great Void God King appears increasingly suspicious. Though he claims to be preparing to stop the beasts, his indiscriminate absorption of Space-Time Power and corrupted state suggest a hidden agenda.
• The Abyss Lord and Angel King remain unaware of the deeper danger, protecting the Demon Emperor and then resuming cultivation. Their lack of Spacetime talent leaves them unable to perceive what is happening.
• The chapter ends with the Demon Emperor recognizing Murong Qingliu’s aura in the God King, setting up a confrontation and casting doubt on the God King’s motives.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and responsibility: Daochen risks himself to address a threat that endangers multiple worlds.
• Containment versus resolution: The Seal manages the Destruction Beasts by sustaining them, leaving the underlying danger intact.
• Corruption through power: Space-Time Power can strengthen its user but also carries destructive consciousness that threatens their mind.
• Deception and hidden influence: The God King’s apparent effort to protect the world contrasts with the monstrous will surrounding him, while Murong Qingliu’s presence hints at a concealed connection.

Plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen realizes the Great Void God King has been secretly absorbing the Great Void World’s power and may be turning into a Destruction Beast. The King’s dark aura and beastlike behavior suggest his mind is deteriorating.
• When the King’s threatening manner reveals his instability, Daochen secretly signals the Angel King and Abyss Lord. The three coordinate an ambush and trap him in a Seal.
• Daochen searches the captive and discovers a Space Gem hidden inside his shoulder. He opens it and frees Murong Qingliu.
• Murong confirms that the King’s transformation is tied to the destruction of the Milai Race’s world. She warns that, if it becomes a Destruction Beast King, it will be a serious danger.
• The group agrees the King must be destroyed before the transformation is complete. The Abyss Lord attacks, and the King’s body begins rapidly deteriorating.

Character developments

• Demon Emperor Daochen shifts from cautious suspicion to decisive action, using observation, concealment, and teamwork to rescue Murong and contain the threat.
• The Great Void God King is revealed as both a world-devouring threat and a mind collapsing under the influence of the world’s dark side. His apparent humanity is increasingly overwhelmed by monstrous instincts.
• Murong Qingliu is rescued but remains wary. She recognizes the danger of the King’s transformation and urges the others to act quickly.
• The Angel King and Abyss Lord demonstrate their willingness to cooperate with Daochen against a shared threat.

Significant themes

• Power and corruption: The King’s hunger for world power turns him into a danger to the world he rules.
• The cost of destruction: The Milai Race’s ruined world is driving the King toward monstrous transformation.
• Trust and cooperation: Daochen cannot defeat the King alone, so secrecy and coordinated action become essential.
• Humanity versus monstrosity: The King’s dwindling control shows how ambition and dark forces can erode reason and identity.

Character interactions

• The Angel King notices Daochen’s suspicious attention toward the Great Void God King, while the King himself questions Daochen and briefly reveals murderous intent.
• Daochen communicates secretly with the Angel King and Abyss Lord, enabling their coordinated sealing of the King.
• Daochen frees Murong, who thanks him and explains the King’s condition.
• The three leaders agree on the need to kill the King, and the Abyss Lord carries out the first attack.

Key plot points and events

• As the Great Void God King’s body decays, a small, conscious sphere bursts from it. Murong Qingliu identifies it as a lost Spacetime Administration artifact and absorbs it, claiming it is her credential.
• The Angel King challenges her for taking the sphere without sharing it. Murong explains that it is dangerous: it had enabled the untalented Great Void God King to become a Space-Time Guardian and then delighted in his downfall. She warns that it could create another threat if released.
• The group discovers that the seal at Inverted Sky Pass has cracked, allowing countless Destroyers—beings associated with destroyed worlds—to pour through.
• Demon Emperor Daochen holds the Destroyers back while Murong repairs the seal. The Abyss Lord and Angel King guard her as she works.
• After the breach is sealed, the group sees Daochen absorbing the Destroyers’ vast space-time power, forming a powerful vortex around himself.

Character developments and interactions

• Murong Qingliu reveals her knowledge of the artifact’s history and the Spacetime Administration’s taboos, but her secrecy makes the Angel King distrust her.
• Demon Emperor Daochen stays focused on the immediate danger. He restrains the invading Destroyers and demonstrates an unprecedented ability to consume their space-time power.
• The Angel King openly questions Murong’s claim and demands a fair explanation, but joins the others in protecting her once the seal becomes the priority.
• The Abyss Lord follows Murong’s request and helps defend her while she repairs the formation.
• The group sets aside their dispute over the sphere and cooperates under pressure.

Significant themes

• Power and corruption: The sphere grants immense status but manipulates its users toward spectacular ruin.
• Trust and secrecy: Murong’s justified caution clashes with the others’ suspicions.
• Cooperation amid catastrophe: The characters must work together despite distrust and competing interests.
• Unforeseen potential: Daochen’s ability to absorb space-time power suggests capabilities beyond what the others believed possible.

Key events

• After the Demon Emperor Daochen absorbs a swarm of Destruction Beasts, he releases pure, attribute-free space-time power. Murong Qingliu recognizes it as an exceptionally valuable source of power for Space-Time Administrators.
• The power provokes an intense urge in Murong to devour Daochen. She realizes this may be the Destruction Beasts’ corrupting influence and resists, fearing that surrendering to such desires could turn her into a Destruction Beast.
• Daochen explains that he absorbed the beasts’ space-time power rather than “eating” them; their drained remains simply lost their vitality. He also worries that the evil consciousness he has collected could eventually form a dangerous dark world.
• The Angel King and Abyss Lord learn that Daochen has awakened a space-time talent and hope they might do the same. At Murong’s direction, Daochen sends space-time power into them, but neither can sense or awaken it.

Character developments and interactions

• Murong Qingliu confronts her own vulnerability to corruption. Remembering her master’s warning, she regains control and treats Daochen’s power with caution rather than temptation.
• Daochen remains modest about his remarkable awakening, while showing concern about the growing dark consciousness within him. He tries to help his companions awaken as well.
• The Angel King and Abyss Lord are relieved that the Great Void World has a Guardian, but feel envious and discouraged that Daochen has advanced while they have not. Their hopeful experiment ends in disappointment.
• Murong warns Daochen about the implications of his absorption, while the others question him and then eagerly follow his suggestion to try awakening.

Significant themes

• Power and corruption: Space-time power can strengthen its users while magnifying their darker impulses and risking their transformation into Destruction Beasts.
• Self-control and vigilance: Resisting corruption requires awareness of one’s own desires and constant caution.
• Unequal talent and advancement: Daochen’s sudden awakening inspires hope but also exposes the frustration of those unable to progress.
• Unintended consequences: Daochen’s growing store of evil consciousness may create a danger even though he has defeated the Destruction Beasts.

Key events

• Murong Qingliu reveals that people without Spacetime Talent can still gain limited spacetime powers by becoming temporary workers—and temporary guardians—of the Spacetime Administration.
• The Abyss Lord and Angel King eagerly volunteer, but Qingliu warns that the role is effectively a lifelong contract: they would follow the Administration’s rules, carry out assignments, and lose much of their freedom.
• Demon Emperor Daochen urges them to consider the cost and asks whether guardians who advance independently would face the same restrictions. Qingliu explains that non-members remain free as long as they do not endanger spacetime, alter timelines or laws, or kill too many ordinary beings.
• Qingliu describes the vast, largely disconnected expanse of worlds beyond the Great Void. She suspects unusual circumstances—perhaps Spacetime Parasites—created the connection between the Great Void and the Milai world.
• Although the Inverted Sky Pass has been sealed, the Great Void remains in danger: Destruction Beasts still surround it, another seal remains, and the Endless Abyss is an ongoing threat.
• Qingliu cannot contact the Administration until she ventures into spacetime to find coordinates, but leaving could cause the seals to fail. Daochen proposes dealing with the remaining Destruction Beasts, and the four begin planning together.

Character developments and interactions

• The Abyss Lord and Angel King shift from despair to intense hope, valuing the chance to become guardians despite the sacrifices involved.
• Daochen takes a pragmatic, protective role: he cautions them about isolation and lost freedom, probes the rules, and turns attention toward the immediate threat.
• Murong Qingliu shows both compassion and commitment to the Great Void, while candidly explaining the costs and limits of the Administration’s options.
• Their discussion ends with the four cooperating on a plan, reinforcing their shared responsibility for the world.

Significant themes

• Freedom versus security: protection through the Administration demands lifelong obedience, while independent guardians retain more autonomy.
• Hope and obsession: the prospect of becoming guardians revives the Abyss Lord and Angel King, but their fervor may cloud their judgment.
• Duty and sacrifice: Qingliu’s dilemma and the group’s plan highlight the personal costs of protecting others.
• A vast, uncertain cosmos: the worlds beyond the Great Void are immense, poorly understood, and potentially connected in unexpected ways.

Key plot points

• The four decide to gather experts across the Great Void World and build a Restraining Formation to trap Destruction Beasts, allowing the Demon Emperor to dismantle them.
• Before that plan can proceed, the Demon Emperor must address the dangerous dark-side power accumulating within him.
• He visits Zhunti and Jieyin at the Great Thunderclap Temple to ask whether Buddhism can purify it. The power immediately affects them, provoking violent impulses.
• Zhunti and Jieyin summon the Buddhist Sect and establish the Ten Thousand Buddhas Formation. Its combined Buddhist power rapidly purifies the darkness.
• Purification also earns the Buddhist disciples rewards from the Primordial World: world power and, according to Zhunti, improved talent.
• After ten days, the gathered Buddhists reach their limit, having cleansed only one millionth of the Demon Emperor’s reserve. The process will need to continue for a long time, especially as he gains more power from future battles.

Character developments and interactions

• The Demon Emperor recognizes the Buddhist Sect’s purification ability, which he had previously overlooked. He is careful to protect Zhunti and Jieyin and sees the arrangement as mutually beneficial.
• Zhunti and Jieyin shift from wary observers to willing collaborators. Though unfamiliar with this particular darkness, they discover that purifying it strengthens both their cultivation and their followers.
• The Buddhist community acts collectively, with monks, Buddhas, arhats, and Bodhisattvas contributing to the formation. Their eagerness to continue reflects both their commitment and the rewards they receive.

Significant themes

• Cooperation and mutual benefit: The Demon Emperor gains help with a dangerous burden, while the Buddhist Sect grows stronger through its service.
• Hidden strengths and overlooked virtue: Buddhism’s compassion and purification powers prove valuable despite its reputation for weakness in combat.
• The cost of power: The Demon Emperor’s growing strength also brings an expanding burden of corrupt darkness, making its management an ongoing challenge.

Key events

• Demon Emperor Daochen explains the dangerous power gathering around the breach to Zhunti and Jieyin. They volunteer to channel it into the Buddhist Sect’s Buddha Realm for purification, giving the Sect a useful role in protecting the Primordial World.
• Daochen assembles a force to clear the breach: 150,000 Great Prosperity Gods from the Primordial World and more than 10,000 Great Spirit Gods from the Independent Alliance. The Angel and Abyss Empires contribute nearly a million Great Spirit God experts between them.
• Murong Qingliu opens the Seal after the armies establish Restraining Formations. A horde of bloodthirsty, nearly indestructible Destruction Beasts pours out, and the combined forces trap them while Daochen absorbs their power.
• After tens of thousands of years of nonstop work, the nearby beasts are cleared. Daochen is exhausted, so Murong restores the Seal and calls for a pause.
• Murong explains that absorbing space-time power alone will not advance Daochen’s tier: he must deepen his understanding of the Time and Space Great Dao. Under her guidance, he makes a major breakthrough, realizing that time and space depend on one another.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen shifts from relying on his own strength to coordinating the Primordial World’s allies and drawing on their collective power. He also shows exceptional stamina and talent, rapidly advancing through Murong’s instruction.
• Zhunti and Jieyin demonstrate a renewed commitment to the wider world, offering the Buddha Realm’s resources for purification. Daochen recognizes this as an opportunity to make the Buddhist Sect more useful.
• Murong Qingliu takes charge of the operation and later becomes Daochen’s teacher on space-time cultivation. She is astonished by how quickly he grasps concepts she herself learned secondhand from her teacher.
• The assembled armies cooperate effectively, though most cannot truly sense space-time power and soon leave to resume their cultivation.

Significant themes

• Collective responsibility: No single protector can guard the Primordial World at all times; its survival depends on different groups contributing their strengths.
• Hidden strength and strategic preparation: The Primordial World’s true military capacity remains concealed from rival empires.
• Power requires understanding: Accumulating space-time energy is useful, but genuine advancement depends on comprehending the underlying Dao.
• The interdependence of time and space: Neither has meaning or purpose in isolation.