Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen and Thousand-Hand Hui observe the Giant Mouth Clan keeping captured squid-like beings as livestock. Hui explains that the clan deliberately targets the strongest resisters; over generations, oppression can erode resistance, hatred, and even civilization.
• Daochen is disturbed by how easily a powerful race can subjugate others. He recognizes that the same fate could befall the Primordial World if its defenders—himself, the Avenger, and other resisters—were eliminated.
• They leave without interfering, since confronting the Giant Mouth Clan is not yet practical. Daochen concludes that the clan’s world is extraordinarily rich in chaos energy, beasts, and resources, while his own world is impoverished by comparison.
• Newly tempted by the prospect of greater resources, Daochen asks Hui about the six surrounding worlds. Hui suggests the Giant Mouth Clan may have ignored them because they are barren, occupied by other races, or simply undiscovered.
• Daochen and Hui travel to a nearby spatial barrier. Hui says it cannot realistically be broken, but a small portal may be opened. He points to Daochen’s World-Suppressing Nails as a possible tool.
• Daochen drives a nail into the barrier, but the impact rebounds violently, throwing him far away.

Character developments

• Daochen shifts from moral outrage at the prisoners’ fate to a sobering awareness of his own world’s vulnerability. He also develops ambition, hoping to access richer worlds and resources.
• Thousand-Hand Hui serves as a pragmatic guide, explaining the mechanics of oppression, the surrounding worlds, and the nature of the barriers.

Significant themes

• Oppression and resistance: Resistance can be worn down when rulers punish the strongest opponents and make submission seem survivable.
• The strong devouring the weak: Power can make domination seem almost inevitable, even for societies that believe resistance is possible.
• Scarcity and ambition: Discovering the wealth of another world makes Daochen newly conscious of his home’s poverty—and eager to claim more.
• Limits of knowledge: Worlds may be separated by barriers their inhabitants mistake for the edge of reality.

Character interactions

• Daochen challenges Hui’s bleak view of resistance, but Hui explains how time and calculated repression can extinguish it.
• Daochen questions why the Giant Mouth Clan has not conquered the other worlds; Hui offers several possibilities while acknowledging uncertainty.
• Hui directs Daochen to use the World-Suppressing Nails, and Daochen’s first attempt fails spectacularly.

Key plot points and events

• Daochen struggles to escape the sealed space. After a World-Anchoring Nail rebounds off the barrier, Thousand-Hand Hui explains that the nails must be placed at Spatial Rifts, which can be found by following a specific spacing pattern. Daochen admits he cannot manage the technique himself, but, guided by Hui’s instructions, begins searching for the rifts.
• Chaos Heaven hunts stranded Ultimate Powerhouses. Outside the Chaos Space, he finds people waiting for rescue and attacks them, enjoying the thrill of taking their weapons and armor.
• Chaos Heaven loses his bearings. Carried away in the hunt, he strays too far to sense the Chaos World. When his attempts to break the surrounding barrier reveal a rift, he enters it to investigate what is disrupting his perception.
• He discovers a strange monster habitat. Inside, countless tentacled creatures produce enormous eggs in a vast ocean. Their presence blocks divine-sense and soul perception—even across space. The creatures ignore Chaos Heaven, and he follows a rapidly grown juvenile that rushes away.

Character developments

• Daochen learns that brute force is useless against the barrier and must rely on Hui’s technical knowledge, though he remains doubtful of his ability to learn it.
• Thousand-Hand Hui acts as an instructor, correcting Daochen’s careless use of the nails and explaining how to locate Spatial Rifts.
• Chaos Heaven shifts from confident predator to uneasy explorer when he realizes he may be lost. He remains powerful and curious, but his recklessness has led him into an unknown danger.

Significant themes

• Knowledge versus force: Daochen cannot overcome the barrier through strength alone; success depends on understanding how space works.
• The dangers of overconfidence: Chaos Heaven’s delight in hunting causes him to lose his route home.
• Unfamiliar worlds and limits of perception: The tentacled creatures reveal that even a Heavenly Dao Realm powerhouse can encounter forces his senses cannot detect or explain.

Character interactions

• Hui scolds and guides Daochen, while Daochen reluctantly accepts his help.
• Chaos Heaven terrifies the stranded powerhouses, who recognize his strength and flee; he treats them as prey and takes their gear.
• The tentacled monsters largely ignore Chaos Heaven, making their indifference—and their ability to suppress perception—more unsettling.

Plot points and events

• Chaos Heaven encounters a battlefield where the Giant Mouth Clan, armed with powerful weapons and armor, is massacring a race of tentacled beings.
• He learns from Attendant 99 that this is the Giant Mouth Clan’s “feeding feast”: it devours worlds and raises entire races as food. Those who resist are eaten first because they are stronger and more desirable.
• Realizing the tentacled beings are fighting to avoid being reduced to obedient food, Chaos Heaven destroys the spatial gateway linking the battlefield to the giants’ territory.
• The Giant Mouth Clan marks him as an enemy and vows to hunt him. Chaos Heaven attacks the giants, and the tentacled beings join him. Together, they defeat the invaders.
• Chaos Heaven takes the giants’ armor and weapons. A member of the Golden Squid Clan then offers to consume the mark and hide him from pursuit, and asks him to take away their gifted young king, preserved in a golden egg.

Character developments

• Chaos Heaven moves from curiosity and horror to active resistance. Though he knows the danger, he refuses to abandon a people facing the same fate he might one day suffer.
• His moral limits become clear: he accepts that the strong may prey on the weak, but rejects the destruction of a people’s will and identity.
• The Golden Squid Clan’s survivors show both gratitude and sorrow, fearing Chaos Heaven will pay dearly for helping them while placing their hope in their young king.

Character interactions

• Attendant 99 warns Chaos Heaven about the Giant Mouth Clan and explains its feeding practices.
• Chaos Heaven’s intervention inspires the tentacled beings to fight alongside him.
• A Golden Squid Clan member thanks him, offers to conceal the mark, and entrusts him with their king.

Significant themes

• Resistance and freedom: Survival without selfhood is presented as a fate worse than death.
• Complicity and solidarity: Chaos Heaven chooses to help fellow victims despite the personal cost.
• Predation and dehumanization: The Giant Mouth Clan treats entire civilizations as livestock, turning people into food and erasing their capacity to resist.
• Hope and responsibility: The golden egg represents the possibility of the Golden Squid Clan’s future liberation.

Key plot points and events

• The Golden Squid Clan entrusts Chaos Heaven with their last surviving egg. He names the future heir Golden Squid King and vows to protect him for as long as he lives.
• The clan’s prophet—a small tentacled creature—guides Chaos Heaven through a spatial barrier and accompanies him into another microcosm. Chaos Heaven finds the world’s energy unusually weak and sees a shattered continent, suggesting that its life has been wiped out.
• Demon Emperor Daochen discovers that the World-Suppressing Nails can connect to one another, creating passages between regions. He enters a devastated world and sees its ruined continents stripped of resources.
• Daochen chooses to explore the dead world as a warning against defeat. He encounters spirits and gods of the void, learns that the place is the legendary Land of the Void, and subdues several gods to serve as his warriors.
• The void gods show him the portal used by the Void Overlord and others. Thousand-Hand Hui explains that it formed through a law linking spatial rifts created by permanent damage.

Character developments and interactions

• Chaos Heaven accepts responsibility for the Golden Squid Clan’s future and reassures them with a solemn promise. He is grateful for their trust and relies on the prophet to find his way.
• The Golden Squid Clan finds hope in preserving an heir, even as they prepare for the consequences of Chaos Heaven’s actions.
• The prophet proves a useful, fearless companion, casually returning to Chaos Heaven’s palm as they travel.
• Daochen is curious but wary, treating the ruined world as a lesson in what happens to the defeated. He quickly asserts control over the void gods, offering them a choice between obedience and death.
• Thousand-Hand Hui advises Daochen on the nails and explains the unusual spatial connections.

Significant themes

• Hope amid destruction: The Golden Squid egg represents the possibility of the clan’s eventual revival.
• Responsibility and sacrifice: Chaos Heaven accepts the danger of protecting the heir, while the clan makes final arrangements.
• The cost of defeat: The plundered, lifeless world warns Daochen of what may happen to those who lose.
• Power and survival: Daochen turns the surviving void gods into potential assets, reflecting a harsh world where strength determines who commands and who serves.

Key plot points

• In the hostile void, Demon Emperor Daochen is ambushed by a powerful stranger. The attacker’s strength and weapon put Daochen at a disadvantage, but Daochen refuses to use his Combat Art and fights on through toughness and rapid healing.
• Thousand-Hand Hui identifies the attacker as a Heavenly Dao Realm powerhouse and urges Daochen to use his Combat Art. The fight eventually reveals the stranger to be Chaos Heaven, who recognizes Daochen as well.
• Chaos Heaven explains that he became stranded after pursuing Upper Realm Ultimate Powerhouses through the dark vacuum and losing his coordinates. Daochen says he is exploring worlds, not lost.
• Daochen notices the fleshy Golden Squid Prophet accompanying Chaos Heaven. Chaos Heaven explains that the Prophet is a powerful Ultimate Powerhouse, and a Golden Squid King hatches from the egg Chaos Heaven has been carrying.
• The group discusses the Giant Mouth Clan’s slave camp. Daochen suspects Chaos Heaven destroyed it; Chaos Heaven confirms his opposition to the clan’s enslavement and consumption of Lower Realm beings.
• Thousand-Hand Hui challenges Chaos Heaven’s view, arguing that the Upper Realm’s food hierarchy is a natural cycle: the weak become food for the strong, much as prey animals do in the Lower Realm.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen proves resilient and fiercely proud, fighting a stronger opponent without relying on his Combat Art. He shifts from suspicion to familiarity once he recognizes Chaos Heaven.
• Chaos Heaven is revealed as both a formidable fighter and a compassionate rebel against the treatment of the Giant Mouth Clan. His discussion with Thousand-Hand Hui exposes a conflict between moral outrage and acceptance of natural hierarchy.
• Thousand-Hand Hui acts as an informed observer and adviser, warning Daochen about the attacker and assessing the Golden Squid King’s potential. He also serves as the voice defending the Upper Realm’s established order.
• Daochen and Chaos Heaven trade boasts and teasing after their battle, then exchange news and discuss their shared connection to the same world.
• Daochen and the Prophet have a comic moment when Daochen tries to touch the Prophet, prompting Chaos Heaven to protect his companion.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Daochen’s toughness lets him withstand a stronger foe, while the Giant Mouth Clan’s fate illustrates how weakness can invite exploitation.
• Natural order versus moral responsibility: Chaos Heaven questions whether a hierarchy that treats people as food can be justified; Thousand-Hand Hui regards it as an ordinary ecological cycle.
• Rules and justice: The chapter contrasts the Upper Realm’s prohibition on wiping out entire races with its acceptance of slavery and predation.
• Disorientation and discovery: Both Daochen and Chaos Heaven are stranded far from familiar worlds, turning chance encounters into opportunities for alliance and debate.

Key plot points and events

• Chaos Heaven questions why Thousand-Hand Hui is boldly gesturing at him. Hui retreats behind Demon Emperor Daochen and complains that Chaos Heaven is unreasonable.
• Hui argues that slavery can be a stage in a race’s rise, but Chaos Heaven challenges the theory: the Upper Realm’s powerful Giant Mouth Clan can use vast resources to produce experts, while enslaved races are denied the resources and opportunities they would need to advance.
• Hui admits the system is deliberately designed to keep Lower Realm races powerless. Gifted experts are killed before they can become a threat, and rebellion has repeatedly ended in annihilation.
• Daochen concludes that the enslaved are trapped: they are exploited if weak and destroyed if they grow stronger. Hui confirms this, explaining that he joined Daochen partly because he wanted to watch how his talented group would be crushed.
• Daochen beats Hui, then allows him to absorb void energy and recover some strength. Hui finds the near-death experience thrilling and asks for it to happen again.
• Daochen obliges, dismembering Hui and reshaping him into a crude face so he can conceal his Thousand-Hand Tribe identity. Hui accepts the disguise but teases Daochen about its crooked features.

Character developments

• Chaos Heaven rejects Hui’s explanation and exposes its practical flaw: oppressed races cannot realistically gain the resources needed to overcome their oppressors.
• Thousand-Hand Hui reveals a bitter, fatalistic view of the Upper Realm’s hierarchy, alongside a bizarre enjoyment of danger and pain. Despite his cynicism, he is intrigued by Daochen’s potential.
• Demon Emperor Daochen moves from confusion to understanding of the system’s cruelty. He responds with violence, but also gives Hui a chance to recover and creates a disguise for him.

Significant themes

• Institutionalized oppression: The Upper Realm’s “rules” preserve the dominance of powerful races by extracting the potential of weaker ones.
• Unequal access to power: Talent alone is insufficient; resources and opportunity are essential, and the ruling powers deliberately deny both.
• Resistance and despair: Rebellion is imaginable, but overwhelming force and targeted killings make success seem nearly impossible.
• Cruelty and dark humor: Hui’s fascination with fear and Daochen’s brutal punishment turn a grim discussion into grotesque comedy.

Character interactions

• Hui hides behind Daochen while arguing with Chaos Heaven, who directly challenges his justifications for slavery.
• Daochen listens to Hui’s account, recognizes the trap facing Lower Realm races, and reacts with anger.
• Hui’s enthusiasm for being harmed clashes comically with Daochen’s irritation; their exchange ends with Daochen giving him a disguise and Hui criticizing the craftsmanship.

Plot points and events

• After being beaten into submission, Thousand-Hand Hui recognizes that he cannot challenge Demon Emperor Daochen—even at his former Ultimate Powerhouse strength. He would need to devour a heavenly-dao-level being to regain his own heavenly dao realm, so he continues testing Daochen cautiously rather than resisting.
• Daochen takes Chaos Heaven to explore the worlds around the Primordial World, arguing that survival and future warfare depend on securing resources. He insists that retreating from an unwinnable fight is sensible, not cowardly.
• Daochen explains that their “Land of the Void” is only a tiny region within an immense Chaos World. Chaos Heaven is skeptical until they reach and cross a boundary between worlds.
• Chaos Heaven opens the barrier with three strikes, revealing that his power greatly exceeds Daochen’s. Beyond it lies an enormous, fertile world with dense chaos energy, developed laws, and abundant life.
• The inhabitants astonish the travelers: birdlike creatures, migrating monsters, and even ordinary-looking plants all possess Ultimate Powerhouse-level strength. The group begins to suspect the world has no life below that level.

Character developments and interactions

• Thousand-Hand Hui becomes subdued, acknowledging Daochen’s overwhelming strength while privately continuing to assess him.
• Demon Emperor Daochen shows strategic pragmatism: he values the Primordial World but is willing to flee when necessary so he can survive and seek revenge later. His widening perspective also makes him recognize the Primordial World’s relative smallness and inefficient energy system.
• Chaos Heaven moves from disbelief to acceptance as he sees the boundary for himself. His effortless destruction of it also demonstrates the enormous difference between his power and Daochen’s.
• Daochen and Chaos Heaven debate whether exploration is worthwhile and whether retreat is shameful; Daochen persuades Chaos Heaven through his reasoning. Thousand-Hand Hui adds blunt commentary about the newly discovered world’s resources.

Significant themes

• Survival and strategy: Courage includes knowing when to fight and when to retreat.
• Power and perspective: Greater strength—and exposure to wider worlds—reveals how limited one’s former understanding was.
• Resources and war: Daochen views exploration and resource-gathering as essential to sustaining future conflict.
• Scale and adaptation: The Primordial World’s systems and inhabitants seem modest beside a world where even plants and ordinary creatures possess immense power.

Key plot points and events

• Chaos Heaven and the others explore a secluded world where they can sense no malice or urge to kill. They conclude that unusual laws must keep its inhabitants peaceful.
• A voice speaks directly into their minds, introducing itself as the world’s collective consciousness—its world soul—and asking whether they come in peace or bring destruction.
• Thousand-Hand Hui explains that a world soul can wield its world’s power and may even suppress a Heavenly Dao Realm expert over time. The group realizes the world soul is an extraordinary threat, so Demon Emperor Daochen assures it they mean no harm.
• The world soul says it sealed the passage after a past invasion that cost nearly eighty percent of its population. It disputes the account in the outsiders’ records: the invaders eventually withdrew, rather than destroying the world and its soul.
• The world soul asks how the visitors reached its hidden realm, fearing that others could follow. The group hesitates, wary of revealing information that might put them at risk.
• Daochen recognizes the realm as a place where he may be able to cultivate an “invincible will.” He offers to stay in the world soul’s territory so it can observe how someone breaks past their limitations.

Character developments

• Demon Emperor Daochen shifts from caution to confidence, seeing the world as a rare opportunity for cultivation. He hints that he may already have developed ultimate will.
• Thousand-Hand Hui demonstrates knowledge of ancient records and warns the others about the world soul’s immense power. He also challenges it to consider that its supposedly inevitable defeat may only be a possible future.
• Chaos Heaven is unsettled by the unnatural absence of killing intent and surprised by Daochen’s suggestion that he has cultivated ultimate will.
• The world soul emerges as powerful yet curious and vulnerable: it can dominate the realm but cannot explain why its inhabitants are unable to break through their own laws.

Significant themes

• Power beyond established ranks: A world soul’s strength does not fit neatly into familiar cultivation levels.
• Peace and violence: The realm’s laws suppress the impulse to kill, making its peacefulness seem almost unnatural.
• History and perspective: The world soul’s account contradicts the version preserved in the outsiders’ records.
• Freedom and limitations: The world soul’s people are bound by their laws, while Daochen represents the possibility of transcending such shackles.
• Trust under uncertainty: Both sides have reason to be wary as they negotiate and exchange information.

Character interactions

• The visitors compare their experiences and jointly recognize the realm’s peace-enforcing nature.
• Daochen speaks diplomatically to the world soul, while Hui’s knowledge helps the group understand the danger they face.
• Hui questions the world soul’s account and warns it about future threats, prompting it to acknowledge its limitations.
• The world soul seeks answers from Chaos Heaven about breaking through shackles; Daochen then proposes staying in its domain as a demonstration.

Key plot points and events

• The Chaos World’s World Soul offers Demon Emperor Daochen two Heavenly Dao Realm corpses in exchange for watching him break his shackles. Though the offer alarms Daochen—suggesting the World Soul may have many such corpses—he accepts.
• Daochen asks to study the World Soul’s memories of a past war, hoping to understand the fighting will that allowed the World Soul to break through.
• The memories reveal two invasions. First, a band of Ultimate Powerhouses massacres the peaceful inhabitants, but the world’s vast population eventually drives them out. Centuries later, Heavenly Dao Realm invaders return, ultimately bringing a thousand fighters.
• Facing near-certain defeat, the World Soul mobilizes the inhabitants to reproduce and fight without retreat. Through the prolonged struggle, he comprehends Grand Momentum and uses it to suppress the invaders until their souls are exhausted. He then seals the spatial gateway to protect the world.
• Daochen repeatedly relives the battle, even experiencing the deaths of the world’s inhabitants. He finally enters the World Soul’s perspective and absorbs the unyielding momentum, strengthening his own Invincible Momentum.

Character developments

• Demon Emperor Daochen moves beyond seeking a technique to break his shackles: he comes to understand the resolve, endurance, and vigilance behind the World Soul’s power. His will becomes more unyielding and begins to transform toward the Invincible Momentum.
• The World Soul is revealed as a survivor of immense invasions whose power was forged through desperate resistance and whose present caution stems from those experiences.
• Chaos Heaven witnesses Daochen’s transformation and is astonished by the scale of his ambition and breakthrough.

Character interactions

• The World Soul bargains openly with Daochen and grants him access to its memories.
• Through the shared experience of the war, Daochen connects with the World Soul and the fallen inhabitants, taking on their suffering and helplessness.
• Chaos Heaven observes Daochen’s change and praises his terrifying resolve.

Significant themes

• Perseverance against overwhelming odds: The world survives because its inhabitants never stop fighting, even when used as expendable forces.
• Vigilance and trust: An initially peaceful encounter turns into slaughter, teaching the World Soul that apparent friendliness cannot guarantee safety.
• Power forged through suffering: Both the World Soul’s Grand Momentum and Daochen’s evolving will emerge from fully confronting the cost of war and refusing to yield.

Plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen’s true goal is revealed: he has already mastered ultimate will and is trying to elevate it into invincible will, hoping to break his personal shackles in one sudden leap.
• As World Soul, Daochen seals the Heavenly Dao Realm powerhouses inside the world and relentlessly drains their strength by denying them access to energy. His growing aura makes his normally invisible shackles appear to everyone.
• Chaos Heaven and Thousand-Hand Hui realize how dangerous Daochen is. Hui recalls that his instincts had warned him that attacking Daochen would mean approaching death.
• Chaos Heaven’s Golden Squid egg hatches. The newborn devours its shell and swiftly becomes an Ultimate Powerhouse.
• The Golden Squid King instinctively seeks Daochen’s invincible aura, which he can learn through his race’s ability to copy powerful talents. Though possessive and reluctant, Chaos Heaven releases him, recognizing this may be his only chance to gain the ability.
• Daochen forms two flying swords from his eyes and strikes his manifested chains. The blow fails completely, leaving the shackles unmarked. The World Soul fears that even Daochen’s extraordinary talent may not free him.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen is revealed as far more ambitious and formidable than others believed, pursuing a radical breakthrough rather than gradual progress. His attack on the chains exposes the limits—or immense difficulty—of that ambition.
• Chaos Heaven moves from astonishment at Daochen’s power to a reluctant act of generosity: he lets the Golden Squid King go despite feeling possessive and fearing he may lose him.
• Thousand-Hand Hui admits he underestimated Daochen and recognizes that Daochen’s presence had always triggered his survival instincts. He also says Daochen would need to be eliminated if he became an enemy.
• The Golden Squid King is born with a clear instinctive purpose: to absorb and copy Daochen’s invincible momentum. The Prophet explains this talent and persuades Chaos Heaven not to interfere.
• The World Soul shifts from observing Daochen’s breakthrough to expressing helpless disappointment when his first attempt fails.

Significant themes

• Will against constraint: Daochen tries to overcome the limits imposed by his own shackles through sheer force of will.
• Talent as both power and burden: Daochen’s exceptional gifts may have made his shackles unusually strong.
• Predation and survival: The Golden Squid face possible extinction, and their king’s opportunity to evolve comes amid danger to his entire race.
• Possession versus letting go: Chaos Heaven must choose between keeping the Golden Squid King close and allowing him to pursue his potential.
• Respect mixed with fear: Daochen’s power inspires awe, but his companions also recognize that he could become an existential threat.

Plot and events

• Trapped by invisible shackles, the World Soul fears that everyone will be confined there indefinitely. Demon Emperor Daochen’s first attempt has failed, but he next unleashes thousands of flying swords against one spot on the chain.
• The repeated strikes crack the supposedly indestructible shackles. As they break, Daochen’s accumulated power surges, and he reaches the initial stage of the Heavenly Dao Realm.
• His power continues to rise, but the world lacks enough energy for him to advance to the great-accomplishment stage. Even so, his strength is so overwhelming that a clenched fist begins shattering nearby space. Thousand-Hand Hui urges him to restrain himself so he does not destroy the world.
• Daochen focuses on adapting to his new power as golden energy flows from his heart and transforms his body. The World Soul asks how to acquire the kind of will needed to break its own shackles. Daochen points it to Chaos Heaven and Thousand-Hand Hui, crediting them with helping him develop his invincible bearing.
• An incarnation of the World Soul, a little deer called Sister Lu, welcomes the group and invites them to a banquet, especially thanking Daochen for his efforts.

Character developments and interactions

• Demon Emperor Daochen demonstrates patience and strategic power: after an initial test, he uses a relentless stream of swords to weaken the chains. His breakthrough confirms his immense potential, though he must now master and stabilize his strength.
• Chaos Heaven and Thousand-Hand Hui react with awe and discuss the implications of Daochen’s rise. Chaos Heaven reveals he has already given Daochen a Forging Crystal for a Heavenly Dao-class personal weapon, while Hui explains the realm’s hierarchy and the risks of invincible momentum.
• The World Soul moves from despair toward hope, asking how it might develop the will to escape its own confinement. It recognizes that Daochen’s companions may be the ones able to teach it.
• The group’s exchange highlights mutual respect: Daochen credits his companions’ expertise, and Sister Lu expresses gratitude and seeks their guidance.

Significant themes

• Perseverance and breakthrough: Repeated attacks turn an apparently impossible barrier into a breakable one.
• Power and its limits: Daochen achieves a major advancement, yet the world’s insufficient energy prevents a further breakthrough, and his new strength threatens the very world around him.
• The cost of invincibility: Invincible momentum can make a warrior formidable, but even one defeat may shatter the mindset that sustains it.
• Knowledge and cooperation: Strength alone is not enough; the World Soul must seek instruction, while Daochen acknowledges the role others played in shaping his will.

Key plot points and events

• The spotted-deer World Soul welcomes Demon Emperor Daochen and his companions, grateful for Daochen’s help with her world and for his breakthrough in invincible will.
• She serves them four kinds of rare World Fruits—Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire—which embody fundamental laws and can rapidly advance a cultivator’s mastery.
• Daochen claims he has no use for the fruits because he is already in the Heavenly Dao Realm, then promptly takes Thousand-Hand Hui’s share as well. He tries to get the Prophet and Little Golden Squid to hand over theirs, but the others stop him.
• The deer remarks that Daochen and his companions seem unusually relaxed and genuine compared with the stiff, imposing powerhouses she has met.
• Thousand-Hand Hui explains that many Heavenly Dao Realm experts in the Upper Realm are treated as expendable, and that even a single lineage of a powerful race could threaten the deer’s world.
• To demonstrate the gulf in strength between cultivation stages, Hui absorbs the world’s ambient energy—without harming it—and rapidly reaches the Heavenly Dao Realm’s major mastery. The deer, who had earlier considered him weak, is astonished.
• Hui hints that he could keep absorbing energy and reach perfection. Daochen warns him not to go further, threatening to fight him if he does; Hui backs down.

Character developments and interactions

• Demon Emperor Daochen shows gratitude toward the deer, but also reveals his greedy, teasing side by hoarding the World Fruits. He nevertheless protects the world by forbidding Hui from harming it.
• Thousand-Hand Hui goes from seeming weak to displaying overwhelming growth, while maintaining his bold, humorous manner. He is impressed by Daochen’s authority but knows the threat is credible.
• The spotted deer shifts from confidence in her ability to defend her world to a clearer understanding of how outmatched it may be by Upper Realm forces. She is curious and appreciative of the group’s unpretentious behavior.
• The group banters over the fruits: Daochen tries to take them, while the others protect the younger Prophet and Little Golden Squid from being swindled.

Significant themes

• Power and perspective: Strength is relative; Hui’s apparent weakness vanishes once he demonstrates the difference between cultivation stages.
• Exploitation and hierarchy: Heavenly Dao experts may still be disposable in the vast, long-established Upper Realm.
• Restraint and responsibility: Daochen allows Hui to draw energy but forbids him from damaging the World Soul’s domain.
• Genuine conduct versus status: The deer values the group’s ease and sincerity over the lofty airs of powerful figures.

• Key events: Thousand-Hand Hui agrees not to break through after the Demon Emperor threatens him. He tells Little Sika Deer that a higher realm does not automatically make someone powerful; Demon Emperor Daochen is an exception, while Chaos Heaven represents the more ordinary path. At a meal, Daochen comically takes all the fruit for himself. Little Sika Deer then asks how to attain ultimate will. Daochen explains that it requires persistence and proposes training with repeated illusion formations. He puts her into a deliberately flawed illusion without warning, prompting objections from the others. He argues that resolve cannot depend on having time to prepare, then warns that powerful beings may soon discover their location.
• Character developments: Little Sika Deer’s understanding of strength is unsettled, and she concludes that the visitors are all extraordinary compared with her. Though frightened by the risk of soul collapse, she is eager to learn and bravely asks to experience an illusion. Daochen emerges as both a capable mentor and a blunt, ruthless provocateur; his confidence comes from his own unusually firm will. Chaos Heaven resents being called ordinary, while Thousand-Hand Hui accepts a temporary limit for safety.
• Character interactions: Daochen teases Chaos Heaven by suggesting the Golden Squid King follows him because he is unremarkable, and Hui applauds Daochen’s talent for gloating. Little Sika Deer treats the visitors hospitably, while Daochen’s selfish fruit-grabbing makes her question his manners. When he abruptly tests her, the others challenge his harshness and ask why he thinks she may be “waiting to die.”
• Themes: True power is not determined by realm alone; persistence and mental resilience are essential to attaining ultimate will. Growth may require confronting fear and uncertainty, but the chapter also raises the danger of pushing someone too hard. Daochen’s final warning shifts the stakes from personal training to an approaching external threat.

Key plot points and events

• Daochen explains that the Primordial World he came from has already attracted attention. If invading warriors discover the surrounding Chaos World, they may try to conquer it for its immense resources and ability to produce powerful experts.
• Sister Lu, the World Soul, emerges from an illusory realm and says it felt real and strengthened her will. Daochen dismisses it as a crude, low-grade illusion and promises to build a hundred progressively stronger Illusion Formations for her.
• Daochen lists the materials needed. Sister Lu can supply about eighty percent, and Daochen offers to collect the rest. He also quietly includes rare materials that are not actually needed, hoping to take advantage of her wealth.
• Sister Lu gathers the requested supplies with ease, explaining that she had considered them worthless stockpiles. Daochen is embarrassed to learn his carefully chosen “rare” materials are just rubbish to her.
• When Sister Lu says her world’s truly valuable resources are World Fruits, Divine Water, and Sacred Light, Daochen eagerly asks about the water. She refuses, wary that he would take more than he was offered.
• Daochen begins constructing the formations. Chaos Heaven observes that they resemble defensive formations and asks what distinguishes them. Daochen explains that illusion spirit essence powder creates the illusion, while ores help conduct and anchor it.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen reveals both strategic concern about the danger posed by conquest-minded outsiders and his opportunistic streak: he tries to exploit Sister Lu’s resources, then becomes keenly interested in her world’s more valuable treasures.
• Sister Lu shows curiosity and openness to trying the formations, but also becomes more cautious and assertive when Daochen probes for Divine Water. Her refusal shows she is not as naïve as he assumes.
• Chaos Heaven takes an active interest in Daochen’s expertise, comparing the Illusion Formations with the defensive formations he has studied.
• The exchanges between Daochen and Sister Lu are playful and transactional: his attempted profiteering backfires, while her guarded response frustrates and intrigues him.

Significant themes

• Resource-driven conquest: Worlds are valuable not only for their own riches but for their capacity to produce experts and enable further expansion.
• Different measures of value: What Daochen regards as rare and precious may be mere rubbish to a wealthy world; its inhabitants prize growth-enhancing treasures instead.
• Caution and self-interest: Cooperation is possible, but both parties protect their interests, especially when valuable resources are at stake.
• Knowledge and craft: The chapter also explains that specialized materials—particularly illusion spirit essence powder—determine how an Illusion Formation differs from an ordinary defensive formation.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen explains the fundamentals of illusion formations to Chaos Heaven while completing a set of them. Illusions use their surroundings to distort perception and draw out a person’s deepest fears.
• Eager to try the formations, the group enters without checking their strength. Several choose the strongest and become trapped in deeply immersive illusions.
• Chaos Heaven eventually escapes by recognizing that the family members appearing in his childhood memories are long dead. He discovers the others are still caught inside.
• The Demon Emperor suspects Thousand-Hand Hui may be knowingly enjoying his illusion. Chaos Heaven storms in and drags him out; Daochen silences Hui when he complains.
• Daochen rescues the remaining participants. Sister Lu describes being trapped in repeated layers of illusion, despite knowing they were unreal.
• Daochen warns her that she has begun to doubt whether the present world is real, and teaches her to distinguish living beings from fabricated images.

Character developments

• Chaos Heaven gains a basic grasp of illusion arts, though Daochen judges his comprehension modest despite his enthusiasm. His firm will helps him escape by holding onto the truth of his past.
• Demon Emperor Daochen emerges as a patient teacher and skilled formation expert, but also keeps control of the group and takes responsibility for rescuing them.
• Sister Lu, the World Soul is shaken by the experience and struggles to separate reality from illusion, revealing her vulnerability to psychological manipulation.
• Thousand-Hand Hui appears to retain awareness inside the illusion and may have stayed because he was enjoying it. His complaint after being rescued adds comic tension.
• The Golden Squid King and the others prove especially susceptible to illusions and emerge confused and frightened.

Significant themes

• Perception and reality: A convincing illusion can make even a person who knows it is false question the real world.
• Willpower and vulnerability: Strong resolve helps resist illusions, while hidden fears and desires can keep someone trapped.
• Knowledge and aptitude: Enthusiasm does not necessarily mean talent; Chaos Heaven’s interest exceeds his ability to grasp the lessons quickly.
• Power and authority: Thousand-Hand Hui notes that breaking the world’s restrictive laws would challenge those who established them and invite retaliation.

Character interactions

• Daochen teaches Chaos Heaven the principles of illusion formations while quietly assessing his aptitude.
• Chaos Heaven and the others rush into the formations, disregarding Daochen’s implied caution about their varying difficulty.
• Chaos Heaven angrily retrieves Thousand-Hand Hui, accusing him of shirking responsibilities; Hui retorts that they interrupted his enjoyment.
• Daochen firmly silences Hui, then guides Sister Lu through questioning how she can tell real people from illusionary figures.

Key events

• The Demon Emperor teaches the World Soul to enter illusions with a clear purpose: identify how they differ from reality, starting with the weakest. Without that awareness, she risks losing herself in them.
• Thousand-Hand Hui asks to revisit an illusion in which he experienced his deceased mother’s affection. Daochen permits him, but warns him not to mistake the past for reality or neglect the future.
• While the World Soul and Hui are occupied in illusions, Daochen and Chaos Heaven explore the peaceful world for valuable materials. They discover a vast deposit of chaos-origin stone, which may be useful for forging Extreme Dao Weapons, and begin collecting it.
• Daochen observes that the world’s people have abundant resources and advanced cultivation but rely on primitive physical combat, having little need for weapons in their peaceful society.

Character developments and interactions

• The World Soul begins learning to question her experiences rather than accepting illusions as real; she is receptive to Daochen’s guidance, though she does not yet fully understand it.
• Thousand-Hand Hui reveals deep grief and loneliness. His memories of his mother provide comfort, while his estranged wife offers him no tenderness. Daochen feels sympathy but urges him to move forward.
• Daochen acts as teacher and practical leader: he sets boundaries around illusion use, keeps the group moving, and eagerly gathers resources for the Primordial World.
• Chaos Heaven is more cautious about taking the materials, questioning whether it amounts to stealing; Daochen dismisses the concern as merely clearing away unwanted “garbage.”

Significant themes

• Reality versus illusion: recognizing false experiences requires personal awareness, not merely repeating another person’s instructions.
• Grief and escapism: the comfort of cherished memories can become a trap if someone chooses to remain in the past.
• Peace and development: a society without conflict may neglect weapon-making despite its great natural wealth and high cultivation.
• Pragmatism and ambition: Daochen sees potential in resources others consider worthless and seeks to strengthen his home world.

Key plot points and events

• The Demon Emperor Daochen and Chaos Heaven discover that a supposed garbage heap is actually a trove of rare, exceptionally hard minerals. The local creatures discard these stones because they have little practical use for them.
• They witness an ostrich-like creature dig up a World Fruit and feed it to its young, which swallows it like ordinary food. The Demon Emperor is astonished at how casually such a valuable resource is treated.
• Daochen suspects the world’s abundance of World Fruits comes from its damaged boundary, where outside laws and energy flow in. He concludes that the world has a special law that attracts other laws.
• The pair visit the boundary and confirm that many holes in its barrier allow laws to enter naturally. Daochen decides to study this law, hoping it could help his Primordial World expand.
• They consider trading combat techniques for World Fruits rather than secretly taking them. Daochen also sends Chaos Heaven to collect the minerals the locals consider worthless.
• Their conversation turns to the demands of a real war: Daochen argues that victory requires resources, weapons, and organized forces, not merely a group of strong fighters.

Character developments and interactions

• Demon Emperor Daochen shows growing strategic ambition. He looks beyond immediate wealth and focuses on understanding a law that could transform his world. He also views trade and combat instruction as a fair way to obtain resources.
• Chaos Heaven is initially dazzled by the World Fruits and eager to take them, but he accepts Daochen’s more measured plan. His understanding of warfare matures as he recognizes that powerful individuals alone cannot sustain a campaign.
• Their friendship remains familiar and teasing: Chaos Heaven complains about being ordered around, while Daochen insists he will collect the minerals anyway. Beneath the banter, Chaos Heaven trusts Daochen and sees his leadership and talent as their best hope.

Significant themes

• Value depends on perspective: The world’s creatures discard rare minerals that Daochen considers precious.
• Growth through understanding: Discovering the world’s law may offer a path for the Primordial World to grow.
• Preparation for war: Lasting military success requires resources, organization, and collective effort—not just individual strength.
• Trust and cooperation: Daochen and Chaos Heaven’s complementary roles and growing confidence in each other support their larger ambitions.

Plot points and events

• Over three years, the Demon Emperor remains absorbed in studying a Law, while the World Soul, Sister Lu, trains in the Illusory Realm. She reaches the twentieth realm but cannot safely progress further, and seeks help.
• Chaos Heaven enters the trial and finds it easy to distinguish illusion from reality using his “sixth sense.” He realizes Sister Lu lacks this instinct because she has not undergone Transformation; her apparent body is only an illusion, and her power comes largely from the world itself.
• He proposes a solution: Sister Lu should refine a soulless Heavenly Dao Realm body, remove the lingering divine instincts, and use it to complete her Transformation. She begins the painstaking process with a rare female corpse.
• The Demon Emperor finishes comprehending the Law and discovers it is a complex Heavenly Dao Law of erosion, operating through both active erosion and passive absorption. He wonders why the world it governs seems so peaceful.

Character developments

• Sister Lu recognizes the limits of her training and gains a clearer understanding of the Demon Emperor’s extraordinary willpower. She also learns that her inability to advance stems from her incomplete Transformation, not simply insufficient resolve.
• Chaos Heaven demonstrates confidence and expertise by diagnosing her condition and offering a practical path forward.
• The Demon Emperor deepens his understanding of the world’s Law and begins reconsidering the World Soul’s role in shaping it.

Character interactions

• Sister Lu asks Chaos Heaven for help after he offers to test the Illusory Realm. His easy escape prompts him to investigate her body and explain the cause of her difficulty.
• Chaos Heaven guides her through selecting and refining a suitable body.
• The Demon Emperor’s reflections indirectly contrast the world’s peaceful order with the destructive potential of its Law.

Significant themes

• Transformation and growth: Progress requires more than persistence; Sister Lu must undergo a fundamental change to advance.
• Perception and self-knowledge: Chaos Heaven’s “sixth sense” reveals a capacity Sister Lu lacks, while his diagnosis helps her understand her true limitations.
• Power and responsibility: The World Soul may restrain the world’s aggression, suggesting that her influence prevents conflict even as it potentially limits the world’s development.

Key plot points and events

• After the Demon Emperor returns, he finds Sister Lu refining the corpse of a Heavenly Dao Realm expert into a puppet body. He worries that contact with the wider world will change her innocence, but accepts her choice to step beyond the world.
• He confronts Chaos Heaven, accusing him of spoiling Sister Lu. Chaos Heaven argues that her curiosity had already set change in motion, and that he simply helped her become their ally sooner. The Demon Emperor cannot fault him for respecting her choices.
• The Demon Emperor and Chaos Heaven leave for the Primordial World. Daochen intends to add a newly comprehended law, despite warnings that it could make the world uncontrollable. He values its survival and growth over controlling its future.
• Daochen integrates the law into the world. Its power causes the Primordial World to expand rapidly, devouring nearby energy, matter, and laws and converting them into spiritual power.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun, whose existence is tied to the Primordial World, surges from the Saint Realm into the Ultimate Path Realm as the world grows stronger. The people of the world also notice richer spiritual power and more active, easier-to-understand laws.

Character developments and interactions

• Demon Emperor Daochen shows respect for personal freedom even when he fears Sister Lu’s transformation. He rejects control as burdensome and chooses to empower his home world, accepting that its future may become unpredictable.
• Chaos Heaven defends his actions toward Sister Lu and supports Daochen’s decision to introduce the new law, while cautioning him about its consequences. Their exchange reveals disagreement over responsibility but mutual respect.
• Sister Lu is not present in the later events, but her decision to take form and explore marks a turning point from untouched world soul to someone entering the wider world.
• Hongjun grows dramatically stronger as the Primordial World does, demonstrating how closely his power is linked to its vitality.
• The Primordial World’s inhabitants observe the changes and connect them to Daochen’s return.

Significant themes

• Freedom and self-determination: Daochen believes people must be allowed to choose and live, even when their choices may change them.
• Growth and transformation: Curiosity inevitably brings change; the world itself also enters a new phase of rapid development.
• Power without control: Daochen seeks to strengthen the Primordial World without governing its people or dictating its future.
• Interdependence: The world’s expansion empowers Hongjun and improves conditions for its inhabitants, showing how individual strength and collective vitality are linked.

Key plot points and events

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun awakens from seclusion and apologizes for leaving himself unguarded, reflecting that the Primordial World’s recent unity had made him less vigilant.
• Hongjun explains that Demon Emperor Daochen has embedded new laws into the Primordial World. These laws let it absorb and transform the laws, energy, and matter of weaker neighboring worlds, greatly increasing its resources and potential.
• Daochen announces plans to establish 200 Illusion Formations across the world, where powerful figures can temper their will. He says this training offers a proven path toward the Heavenly Dao Realm.
• The revelation that Daochen himself has reached that realm shocks the gathered experts and renews their hopes of advancing beyond their current limits.
• Chaos Heaven announces that he will formally join the Primordial World, abandoning his previous ambition to force his way into the Upper Realm. He and Daochen agree that their shared future extends beyond the Chaos World.

Character developments and interactions

• Hongjun recognizes the risks of neglecting vigilance outside the Primordial World and describes how its new laws will strengthen it.
• Daochen takes on the role of guide and leader, offering the gathered powerhouses a concrete route toward greater cultivation and promising the world an expansive future.
• Chaos Heaven changes course after witnessing the Primordial World’s growth and Hongjun’s rapid advancement. He recognizes that he and the world are mutually strengthened, and asks to become part of its “family.”
• The assembled experts move from astonishment to renewed ambition, eager to learn how to cultivate the will needed for a breakthrough. Daochen’s confidence and Chaos Heaven’s endorsement reinforce their faith in the Primordial World.

Significant themes

• Collective growth: The Primordial World’s strength comes from unity as well as resources and exceptional individuals.
• Mutual dependence: Hongjun’s power and the world’s development advance together; the same principle underlies Chaos Heaven’s decision to join.
• Ambition and changing paths: Chaos Heaven replaces a risky, solitary bid for the Upper Realm with a shared future alongside the Primordial World.
• Progress through will and guidance: Daochen presents will-tempering as a practical route to the Heavenly Dao Realm, renewing hopes once thought unrealistic.