Chapter Summaries

Plot points

• Demon Emperor Daochen discovers Flower Soul’s power comes largely from growing parasitically on a powerful corpse. He attacks using his Golden Crow Bloodline, whose fire is especially effective against the plants.
• Flower Soul summons more than a thousand plant-covered corpses of former Heavenly Dao Realm powerhouses. Daochen realizes the world’s plants have grown by feeding on the dead from an ancient battlefield.
• Microscopic organisms that live alongside Flower Soul combine into a Heavenly Dao Realm aggregate and threaten to destroy the world if Daochen refuses to negotiate.
• Daochen rejects the threat, judging that Flower Soul itself is limited and that its corpse puppets cannot wield the power of laws. He destroys the puppets, while the plants flee underground.
• When the Primordial World’s forces arrive, they unleash formations, divine thunder, and various fires, wiping out most of the microscopic life-forms.
• Fighting beside his allies, Daochen feels newly confident in the Primordial World’s strength and recognizes that he is not alone.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen moves from initial surprise and rashness to clear judgment and growing confidence. He refuses Flower Soul’s attempt to bargain, challenges it to fight at full strength, and is encouraged by the arrival of his comrades.
• Flower Soul shifts from confident threats and calls for negotiation to panic as Daochen destroys its puppets and its microscopic allies are attacked.
• The Primordial World’s forces show loyalty to Daochen and coordinate a large-scale assault, reinforcing their role as his allies.

Significant themes

• Strength versus deception: Flower Soul’s intimidating aura and threats mask the limits of its own fighting ability.
• Collective power: The microscopic organisms and, later, the Primordial World’s forces gain strength by acting together.
• Courage and solidarity: Daochen’s resolve deepens when he realizes others have come to fight beside him.

Key events

• Under the Fallen Angel’s reforms, the Primordial World’s forces use coordinated tactics to overwhelm the enemy world. Flower Soul bluffs that it will self-destruct, then escapes with the microscopic life-forms; the Demon Emperor realizes he has been tricked.
• The Primordial forces defeat the remaining defenders. The Demon Emperor orders the world stripped of its resources and its soul-bearing plants captured for cultivation.
• Three newly advanced Ultimate Powerhouses die after being caught by surprise. Daochen honors them and, after three days of reflection, establishes the Primordial World’s Seventh Realm: the Hero Realm.
• Daochen decrees that the living must not collect faith for themselves. Instead, all faith should honor the dead heroes, with the hope that it may one day help them return. Leaders across the Six Realms endorse the decree and agree to give up faith worship.
• The decision marks a broader shift toward pursuing the Great Dao through the now-prosperous Primordial World. Daochen’s insight deepens, his cultivation advances, and he vows to enter the Upper Realm and become a pillar for his world.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen moves from grief over the fallen warriors to a sweeping reform of spiritual and political life. He accepts the cost of victory, honors the dead, and turns their sacrifice into a shared ideal.
• The Demon Emperor is briefly fooled by Flower Soul’s escape, then responds with ruthless pragmatism toward the conquered world.
• The Human Sovereign informs Daochen of the three deaths and asks him to honor the fallen; Daochen personally carries their bodies home.
• Leaders of the Demon, Buddhist, Daoist, and other realms publicly support Daochen, showing new unity across the Six Realms.

Significant themes

• The cost of victory: Overconfidence and surprise attacks claim lives even in an otherwise decisive campaign.
• Heroism and remembrance: The Hero Realm transforms mourning into a lasting communal tribute.
• Unity over self-interest: Faith is redirected from living rulers and institutions toward those who sacrificed for the world.
• Growth and changing priorities: As the Primordial World’s energy and laws improve, its people can pursue a shared path rather than competing through separate power systems.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen chooses to help the Primordial World grow, declaring himself a pillar that will support it rather than try to control or protect it alone.
• Human Sovereign Fuxi and the Primordial World’s inhabitants respond by pledging their own contributions. Inspired by Daochen, they begin devouring a world of giant flowers to gather resources.
• While they are away, Heavenly Dao Hongjun reports that the Primordial World’s primary barrier has been breached and an enemy has entered.
• Daochen returns to find Hongjun placating a Heavenly Dao Realm intruder, who has been taking valuables and demanding that the Primordial World become a vassal.
• The intruder flees when Daochen arrives, but tricks him by throwing explosive rings. Enraged, Daochen pursues him through the breach into the enemy’s world.
• The intruder explains that Daochen is now at a disadvantage because he is on foreign ground, then reveals that he has allies and intends to overwhelm him with numbers.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen has grown beyond his former self-centered outlook: he wants to inspire others to take responsibility for their world. However, when personally humiliated, his anger and pride drive him into a dangerous pursuit.
• Fuxi publicly supports Daochen’s example, accepting a supporting role and encouraging others to contribute.
• Hongjun uses politeness and appeasement to stall the intruder, hiding his anger and waiting for Daochen’s return.
• The intruder is opportunistic and deceitful: he poses as peaceful while extorting the Primordial World, then tricks Daochen and relies on home-ground advantages and allies.

Significant themes

• Shared responsibility: A world’s future depends on many people contributing, not just one powerful protector.
• Leadership by example: Daochen inspires loyalty by committing himself to the Primordial World.
• Caution and strategy: The chapter contrasts Hongjun’s careful stalling with Daochen’s impulsive pursuit—and highlights the risks of entering an unfamiliar world.
• Power and coercion: The intruder’s talk of peace masks an attempt to dominate the Primordial World.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen confronts a squad of outsiders who have explored the Primordial World and taken resources. They reveal that they come from another world, not the Upper Realm, and were assessing whether the Primordial World could be seized.
• The outsiders explain that the Primordial World is a young “Level Zero” slave world, bound to a stronger master world. To break free, Daochen must apply through a World Manager to join the Gate World War and challenge that master world.
• Though the squad initially boasts, they recognize Daochen’s strength and back down. He lets them leave after questioning them, hoping for future contact rather than conflict.
• Daochen remains unsure who or where the World Manager is. The Fallen Angels arrive and warn that the visitors have learned the Primordial World’s location; Jim Owen argues that Daochen should have captured them.

Character developments

• Daochen shifts from anger and suspicion to curiosity, then cautious diplomacy. He recognizes that the outsiders may be weaker than he is, but their knowledge reveals a much larger political and cosmic order.
• The squad’s spokesman changes from smug confidence to appeasement once Daochen’s power becomes clear.
• Jim Owen responds with alarm and a more hardline view, believing the outsiders should have been detained.

Significant themes

• World hierarchy and freedom: The Primordial World is portrayed as a subordinate world seeking independence from its master.
• Strength versus preparation: The outsiders advise Daochen to build the world’s overall power rather than rely on his own strength alone.
• Diplomacy and risk: Letting the squad go avoids an immediate fight, but exposes the world to possible future danger.
• Uncertainty and hidden systems: The Gate World War and World Manager suggest rules and powers beyond Daochen’s understanding.

Character interactions

• Daochen presses the outsiders for information and uses the threat of force to make them explain how a world can escape its shackles.
• The squad’s initial condescension gives way to cautious negotiation; neither side commits to an alliance.
• Jim Owen challenges Daochen’s decision to let them leave, highlighting tension between restraint and security.

Key plot points and events

• Jim explains that the coordinates of the Gate World could be sold to the World Pirates, creating a lasting threat.
• Demon Emperor Daochen confronts Jim with his suspicions: his world is enslaved, likely by the Angel Race, and Jim’s group has withheld important information about the Gate World War and the World Manager.
• Jim admits that the Pureblood Human Race is real and says his group intends to free slave worlds. The Angel Race has agreed to remove Daochen’s world’s shackles if it gains something in the war, though any resources won must go to the Angel Race.
• Daochen rejects the arrangement as unfair and threatens to challenge the Main World rather than risk his people’s lives for the Angel Race’s benefit.
• Jim consults his master and returns with a Little Elf, who represents the master in negotiations.
• Daochen presses the Little Elf with his theory that the group wants the World Origin Core and is constrained from destroying a developing world. The Little Elf dismisses his guesses and offers 100 Heavenly Dao Realm participation slots.
• Daochen refuses the offer and demands 10,000 slots, arguing that his talent and invincible momentum make him unusually valuable—and that the other side has few alternatives.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen shifts from guarded suspicion to open confrontation. Once he learns his world is enslaved, he uses the threat of mutual destruction as leverage and bargains aggressively.
• Jim tries to reassure Daochen but cannot offer guarantees; he refers the decision to his master and is visibly frustrated by how much the other cultivators have revealed.
• The Little Elf / Jim’s master takes a blunt, hard-line negotiating stance, offering a fixed number of slots and refusing to engage with Daochen’s theories.
• The exchanges between Daochen and Jim—and later Daochen and the Little Elf—are marked by mistrust, probing questions, threats, and attempts to gain leverage.

Significant themes

• Freedom versus exploitation: The Angel Race’s promise of liberation comes with the expectation that the freed world surrender its winnings.
• Trust and secrecy: Daochen questions the outsiders’ motives because they have concealed crucial facts.
• Power and bargaining: Rather than accept an imposed deal, Daochen uses his world’s willingness to fight—or be destroyed—as negotiating leverage.
• Unequal risk: The Angel Race can benefit whether Daochen’s world wins or loses, while Daochen’s people bear the danger.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen bargains with a little elf for Tongtian Tokens, which can remove the shackles preventing cultivators from reaching the Heavenly Dao Realm.
• The elf initially offers 1,000 tokens, but Daochen pushes for 10,000 and threatens to challenge the main world to a Gate World War. When the world administrator begins reviewing his application, both quickly cancel the threat; the elf raises her offer to 2,000.
• After receiving the tokens, Daochen argues that he never specified when he would challenge the eerie world. The elf explains that the war must begin within ten years, giving him a fixed preparation period.
• Daochen begins planning how to build a fighting force, identifying former era-kings and long-time allies—including the six world lords, Fuxi, Xuanyuan, Shennong, and especially the Lord of Darkness—as promising candidates for advancement.
• Before departing, the elf orders Jim to protect Daochen. Daochen then summons the Primordial World’s strongest cultivators and announces that he can open their path to the Heavenly Dao Realm.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen shows strategic ambition and a willingness to bluff, but his relief when the challenge nearly goes through reveals that he knows a direct war against the main world could be disastrous. Once he secures the tokens, he focuses on preparing the Primordial World.
• The elf is sharp-tongued and seemingly powerful, but she is also bound by the deal and wary of the consequences of a world war. Her final instruction to Jim suggests Daochen’s importance may be greater than he realizes.
• Jim and the Fallen Angels are presented as obedient and loyal to the elf. Daochen’s view of them softens, and he decides he can trust them.
• The bargaining is a contest of wits: Daochen tries to maximize his reward and delay the war, while the elf enforces the terms and warns him about the limits of his authority.

Significant themes

• Bargaining, bluffing, and consequences: Daochen’s threat gains him a better deal, but nearly triggers a war he cannot afford.
• Preparation and responsibility: With ten years to prepare, Daochen must turn new opportunities into real military strength.
• Hope and collective advancement: Removing the shackles offers powerful cultivators across the Primordial World a chance to grow stronger.
• Leadership and loyalty: Daochen’s announcement inspires his people, while the Fallen Angels’ obedience highlights the force of loyalty and command.

Key events

• Demon Emperor Daochen gathers the Primordial World’s strongest cultivators and offers them a chance to break through to the Heavenly Dao Realm.
• He warns that the coming World War will be brutal and that accepting advancement means accepting responsibility to fight. No one backs down.
• Daochen promises that if they die, they may be resurrected from their stored origins—provided the Primordial World survives. Resurrection would come at the cost of their memories of how they died.
• He distributes Tongtian Tokens, which dissolve the cultivators’ shackles. After absorbing them, the group feels newly freed and senses that a breakthrough is near.
• Daochen begins teaching them the progression from the Heavenly Dao Realm toward Hongmeng, and they start seeking their individual paths.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen acts as both leader and mentor: he is candid about the risks, reassures the group with the possibility of resurrection, and guides their advancement. The cultivators admire his strength, generosity, and lack of envy.
• The Lord of Darkness, once frustrated by his inability to keep pace with Daochen, eagerly accepts the opportunity to advance and fight beside him. His earlier frantic pursuit of ultimate will had only hindered his progress.
• Human Sovereign Fuxi recognizes that the Tongtian Tokens work by dissolving law-based restraints. Others share their sense of relief and excitement.
• The assembled powerhouses move from admiration and anticipation to unanimous commitment, then learn and pursue breakthroughs together.

Significant themes

• Power and responsibility: Advancement is presented as a duty to defend the Primordial World, not merely a personal reward.
• Sacrifice and resilience: The cultivators accept the prospect of death, while resurrection offers hope—though not without the cost of lost memories.
• Freedom and growth: Removing their shackles brings both physical and spiritual release, opening the way to further cultivation.
• Mentorship and collective progress: Daochen’s teaching turns the group’s admiration into practical preparation for the war ahead.

Plot and key events

• Under Demon Emperor Daochen’s continued instruction, cultivators make progress, though many remain uncertain. He supplies the strongest Saint Realm cultivators with Energy Blocks to support their attempts to advance.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun reaches the Heavenly Dao Realm, empowered by the Primordial World’s expansion. Eager to test himself against Daochen, he asks for a fight.
• Daochen invites the newly advanced powerhouses to attack him together. Roughly three hundred accept, joking about stripping him of his clothes and treasures. They bombard him for a month, eventually pushing his body close to its limit.
• Daochen then moves too quickly for the group to follow and targets the outspoken Lord of Darkness. The Lord turns into black mist and claims mastery over darkness, but Daochen’s mysterious flames burn through it, forcing him back into physical form.
• Hongjun attacks with a vast net woven from laws. Daochen shatters it with one punch and explains that Hongjun’s broad but shallow grasp of many laws is weaker than deep specialization. Hongjun takes the lesson to heart and withdraws to cultivate.
• The other powerhouses also test their signature abilities against Daochen. He defeats them while identifying their weaknesses, turning the challenges into further instruction.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen remains confident and playful, but also acts as a demanding mentor. He endures the group’s assault, retaliates against the Lord of Darkness for attacking hardest, and uses each duel to teach.
• Hongjun begins proud of his new realm and seeks a direct comparison with Daochen. After his attack fails, he recognizes that his wide-ranging study has distracted him from depth and resolves to find a path suited to him.
• The Lord of Darkness reveals a formidable transformation and confidence in his domain, but is surprised when Daochen’s flames overcome it.
• The gathered cultivators move from eager bravado and greed to serious attention as they witness the gap in strength and receive guidance.

Significant themes

• Deep mastery over breadth: Understanding a few laws profoundly can surpass superficial command of many.
• Strength as a tool for teaching: Daochen’s challenges expose weaknesses and help others progress.
• Humility and perseverance: Even powerful figures must accept correction and continue cultivating.
• Confidence versus reality: Reaching a higher realm does not necessarily erase the gulf between a student and a much stronger master.

• Preparing for the coming war: Over a year of combat training convinced the Primordial World’s experts that Demon Emperor Daochen remained far stronger than any of them. Though they improved enough for hundreds to challenge him together—and watching the fights helped many gain insights—they knew he had never even taken his Golden Crow form. Rather than lose heart, they acknowledged their weaknesses and trained harder.
• The Primordial World’s rapid growth: By the ninth year, all two thousand trainees had reached the Heavenly Dao Realm, while Saint Realm experts exceeded one hundred thousand. Daochen accelerated this progress by distributing his Energy Blocks and creating formations that concentrated spiritual energy. The abundance of energy helped many long-stalled cultivators break through.
• Daochen prepares his weapon: With the Gate World War only a year away, Daochen worried about the mysterious Weird World and set aside his other work to transform the Heaven Measuring Ruler into an exclusive Heavenly Dao-Class weapon. The ruler, his first weapon and a symbol of his own journey, already contained a space that once held the Primordial World. He hoped to expand it using fragments of the world barriers, potentially allowing the weapon to contain a world again.
• A costly forging: Following Chaos Heaven’s advice, Daochen infused the ruler with his invincible momentum, will, and Heavenly Dao laws. He also added rare materials and all nine wisps of primordial purple qi—six acquired from the Sages and three from Hongjun—giving up many Heavenly Dao-Class weapons and armors in exchange. He then began hammering fragments from the barrier into the ruler’s subatomic space.
• Consequence: The World Manager noticed Daochen damaging the barrier and stealing the world’s power, judged it punishable, and locked him in a dark room.
  Character developments and interactions: The other experts move from frustration to humility and focused self-improvement, while Daochen shows both confidence in his power and anxiety about the looming war. Chaos Heaven, now fully merged with the Attendant, provides technical guidance and is visibly excited by the possibility of a weapon that embodies Daochen’s momentum. Daochen’s dealings with the Sages and Hongjun are transactional but forceful, and his attempt to strengthen the ruler brings him into direct conflict with the World Manager.
  Themes: Collective advancement through training and shared resources; the limits of cultivation alone; ambition and sacrifice in the pursuit of greater power; and the tension between personal preparation and the rules governing the world.

Key plot points and events

• The Demon Emperor is imprisoned by the World Manager in a realm of absolute darkness. Unable to see, sense time, or fall asleep, he gains a new appreciation for overwhelming power. He emerges after six months, with less than a month remaining before the Gate World War.
• During that month, he completes the Heaven Measuring Ruler and reorganizes the Primordial World’s forces. The Demon God Pavilion spreads, while Mechanical Race robots greatly increase farming and mining output. The Human Race contributes through crafts and production, developing skilled smiths and medicine makers.
• The World Manager initiates the war preparations, separating and transporting the Primordial World to the Starry Sky Battlefield. Its opponent is identified as the Weird World.
• Outside the Primordial World, Daochen discovers that the battlefield is dominated by an immense, living tree. The world’s laws weaken his law-based abilities and innate fire, though his physical strength remains intact.
• As danger looms, Daochen goes to scout. A tiny, powerful monkey-like creature warns him not to venture farther. Daochen captures it and demands to know what it is.

Character developments and interactions

• Demon Emperor Daochen becomes more aware of the World Manager’s power after his imprisonment. He responds to the coming war by preparing the Primordial World, then approaches the unfamiliar battlefield cautiously.
• The Human Race gains importance as skilled production proves difficult for robots to handle, especially work requiring mastery of laws and principles.
• The monkey-like creature appears knowledgeable about the battlefield and wary of Daochen, but its identity and motives remain unknown. Their first exchange is tense: it warns him, while he distrusts and restrains it.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: The darkness teaches Daochen humility, while the battlefield’s altered laws limit his abilities.
• Preparation and cooperation: Mechanical efficiency and human expertise complement each other as the Primordial World mobilizes.
• The unknown: The enormous tree, unfamiliar laws, and mysterious creature establish the danger and uncertainty of the coming war.

Plot points and events

• A survivor from a previous world—whom Daochen calls Little Monkey—warns that the group is on an interworld battlefield where newly arriving worlds are forced into war. Most never escape.
• Daochen learns that his one-star world has been made to challenge a three-star dead world, the Weird World. Little Monkey suspects Daochen has been set up as a reward for another power.
• Ant Race soldiers surround them, forcing Daochen and Little Monkey to flee back through the cave entrance into the Primordial World, where the Fallen Angels are waiting.
• Daochen tells the Fallen Angels that the conflict is not the simple two-world contest their master described. Little Monkey explains that hiding in the Novice Village is only temporary: resources are limited, and the Weird World will eventually seek them out.
• Little Monkey reveals the origin bridge: each participant’s body connects the battlefield to their origin world, allowing enemies to attack that world through them. Once a world merges into the battlefield, it is sealed off—making its people the paths to it.

Character developments

• Daochen shifts from confusion to suspicion, recognizing that he and the Fallen Angels may have been deceived and used as pawns. Though cautious of Little Monkey, he accepts his help and secretly places an illusory formation on him.
• Little Monkey emerges as a knowledgeable but anxious survivor. His destroyed world and the bridge to it suggest the personal cost of losing the war.
• The Fallen Angels, including Jim, begin to question the version of events they were given and confront the reality that they may have been sent into danger without proper warning.

Significant themes

• Deception and exploitation: Worlds and their inhabitants may be maneuvered into wars for others’ benefit.
• Survival and sacrifice: The battlefield offers few safe choices, and defeat can mean the destruction of an entire world.
• Connection as vulnerability: The origin bridge turns the bond between people and their home into a route for invasion.
• Knowledge and power: Understanding the battlefield’s rules is essential, yet the newcomers have been left dangerously uninformed.

Character interactions

• Daochen questions Little Monkey about the war and the Weird World, weighing his useful information against the risk of trusting a stranger.
• Little Monkey urges Daochen to retreat when the Ant soldiers appear; the two escape together.
• Back with the Fallen Angels, Daochen challenges their assumptions and brings Little Monkey forward to explain the situation.
• Daochen’s hidden protective measure on Little Monkey shows that cooperation has begun, but trust remains incomplete.

Chapter Summary: “A Heart for Battle”

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen questions the little monkey’s motives. The monkey admits he wants to travel with the group because leaving the “beginner village” alone is too difficult.
• Daochen decides that he, Chaos Heaven, and Jim will investigate the Ant Race while the other Primordial World experts stay behind to guard their world.
• Despite the monkey’s warnings, Daochen charges outside and kills waves of soldier ants with ease. He later returns unharmed, carrying gemstones taken from them.
• Daochen judges the ants powerful but manageable, describing them as near the Heavenly Dao Realm. He captures two and deliberately taunts their queen, hoping to provoke a larger confrontation.
• The monkey warns that the queen can see through the ants’ eyes and will likely retaliate. He also explains that the gemstones contain concentrated law power and must not be absorbed directly; doing so could kill someone. In time, beings who adapt to this world can develop similar cores and use them to grow stronger.
• Daochen tells the monkey to collect the ant corpses, which can be exchanged for useful goods.

Character developments

• Demon Emperor Daochen shows boldness, confidence, and a strong appetite for combat. He treats danger as an opportunity to test himself and acquire resources, while also using provocation as a deliberate tactic.
• The little monkey shifts from cautious adviser and reluctant guide toward genuine trust in Daochen’s strength. Though he keeps protesting Daochen’s reckless choices, he stays close and tries to protect the group, guided by his conscience.
• The Primordial World experts remain mostly in the background, with the group assigned to defend their world while Daochen’s small party investigates.

Significant themes

• Courage versus caution: The monkey urges patience and avoidance, while Daochen insists on confronting danger directly.
• Trust and loyalty: Daochen doubts the monkey’s intentions, but the monkey’s warnings and protective actions gradually reveal his growing faith in the group.
• Adaptation and growth through conflict: The world’s law crystals show that fighting and adapting to a hostile environment can eventually strengthen its inhabitants.
• Moral responsibility: The monkey warns Daochen not to risk an experiment that could kill someone, even though he has little reason to care about the group’s losses.

Character interactions

• Daochen challenges the monkey’s desire to hide and questions why he wants to join them; the monkey candidly explains that he needs help escaping.
• The monkey repeatedly warns Daochen about the ants, the queen’s surveillance, and the danger of absorbing their crystals. Daochen largely ignores his caution but listens when the monkey explains the crystals’ purpose.
• Daochen taunts the queen through the captured ants, while the monkey recognizes that this may bring a retaliatory swarm.
• By the end, the monkey accepts a practical role in gathering and exchanging the ant remains, despite his frustration at being drawn into Daochen’s plans.

Plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen agrees to let the little monkey sell his world’s supplies on commission through a secluded Rule Shop, a meeting place used by lone wanderers.
• A Mad Ant Ant Queen sends waves of Soldier Ants against Daochen’s group. Daochen treats the narrow tunnel as a defensive bottleneck and fights for a full day, while his allies take turns holding the line.
• The little monkey warns that the ants’ assault is only a probe: they have discovered the world’s coordinates and are studying its Laws before launching a true invasion.
• Daochen leaves Lord Chaos Heaven in charge and goes outside with the monkey to scout for the Ant Queen’s lair. The surrounding landscape is swarming with ants, forcing Daochen to keep fighting rather than explore.
• A cry from the Divine Beast Wind God freezes the Mad Ants. The monkey explains that this creature, from a three-star world, feeds on Mad Ants and generally ignores other life.
• Intrigued rather than intimidated, Daochen uses the ants’ paralysis to slaughter them more efficiently. The monkey protests that Wind God hates being disturbed while eating, but Daochen refuses to stop.

Character development and interactions

• Daochen is confident, combative, and opportunistic. He sees the ant assault as a chance to kill enemies and gather spoils, and dismisses warnings about both the Ant Queen’s strategy and the dangers of challenging a three-star world.
• The little monkey proves useful as a guide to the world’s trade and threats, but his caution clashes with Daochen’s appetite for risk. Daochen rebukes him for what he considers excessive fear.
• Lord Chaos Heaven accepts responsibility for defending the tunnel while Daochen scouts.
• The Ant Queen appears to be testing Daochen’s world through repeated attacks rather than committing to a full battle. Wind God is introduced as a powerful predator whose arrival temporarily changes the fight.

Significant themes

• Overconfidence versus caution: Daochen’s boldness creates opportunities, but may expose his world to greater danger.
• Survival and preparation: The ant assault is part of a larger struggle involving world coordinates, Laws, resources, and the strength of entire worlds—not merely individual fighters.
• Risk, ambition, and fear: Daochen values advancement and action; the monkey emphasizes the potentially catastrophic cost of provoking stronger powers.
• Conflict as opportunity: Even the dangerous ant invasion becomes, in Daochen’s eyes, a chance to defeat enemies and claim supplies.

Plot points

• Demon Emperor Daochen and Little Monkey slaughter a swarm of soldier ants, then collect their valuable remains.
• Their raid draws the attention of Wind God, who attacks by summoning creatures made of wind.
• Daochen challenges Wind God to appear and then lands a powerful punch, knocking off several of its wings. He collects the fallen wings, but quickly recognizes Wind God as a formidable being from a three-star world.
• Daochen stops attacking and tries to defuse the confrontation. Wind God continues briefly, realizes Daochen is holding back and could kill it, then withdraws.
• Little Monkey questions why Wind God leaves and whether it might seek reinforcements. Daochen explains that he fought mainly to assess its strength and has no wish to provoke the powerful world behind it.
• Little Monkey explains the world-ranking system: one-star worlds have thousands of Heavenly Dao Realm beings, two-star worlds exceed ten thousand, and three-star worlds have over a hundred thousand, including near-perfection experts. World ratings rise through battle; some newcomers exploit the Gate World’s rules to increase their rank quickly.
• Daochen dismisses the idea that Thousand-Hand Hui could help: Hui is trapped in the Illusion Formation and has lost the resolve to fight.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen initially swallows his anger when the Demon Emperor reminds him that his world was destroyed. In battle, he proves both powerful and calculating: he tests Wind God, then restrains himself once he understands the danger of a three-star world. He believes strength should make a fighter responsible for facing consequences rather than relying on others.
• Little Monkey is puzzled by Daochen’s restraint and his confidence that Wind God will not seek help. He also serves as the source of information about world rankings and the Gate World’s rules.
• Wind God is proud and furious at first, but recognizes the imbalance in the fight and chooses survival over continued combat.
• Thousand-Hand Hui is described as having deteriorated into an illusion-addicted, defiant state, making him an unreliable potential ally.

Significant themes

• Power and restraint: Daochen’s advantage lets him end the fight, but he chooses not to escalate once he has learned what he needs.
• Survival, pride, and consequences: Wind God retreats rather than risk death; Daochen argues that truly powerful beings should accept the consequences of their own challenges.
• World strength and responsibility: A world’s standing depends on its collective cultivation and ability to endure battle; exploiting rules is presented as a practical duty to one’s world.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen considers whether he could first cultivate powerful Perfection Realm fighters, but Little Monkey warns that worlds showing too much strength may provoke a coalition attack. Daochen concludes they must grow carefully and turns to the Mad Ant tribe as an immediate threat.
• He follows the ants to their underground burrow. Their desperate efforts to stop him lead him to realize the Ant Queen is likely nearby—but the apparent swarm of weaker ants proves to be a trap. Hidden soldiers shed their carapaces, revealing thousands of Heavenly Dao Realm warriors.
• Protected by his defensive equipment, Kindling, Daochen withstands the encirclement, though the sheer number of enemies makes the fight slow and difficult. After two hours, the Ant Queen flees; Daochen pursues her.
• He finds her stopping to lay eggs and captures her, restraining her with his energy and taking her toward the Primordial World.
• The Ant Queen argues that she attacked because she feared her race’s extinction. She warns that Daochen’s world will attract creatures seeking to decipher its laws and seize it, and claims worlds can be taken over.
• Little Monkey urges Daochen to destroy the Ant Race, warning that its soldiers multiply quickly and could become a future danger. Daochen instead sees the ants as a controllable source of combat training and resources, and decides to keep the Queen alive.

Character developments

• Daochen demonstrates caution in battle but remains confident and pragmatic. Despite learning the Ant Race could become dangerous, he prioritizes its potential benefits and believes he can control it by holding the Queen.
• The Ant Queen shifts from fleeing enemy to captive negotiator. She reveals intelligence, fluency in the Primordial Language, and concern for her people’s survival, though her account is complicated by the tribe’s aggression.
• Little Monkey acts as Daochen’s strategic adviser, cautioning him against both provoking stronger powers and underestimating the ants. His alarm grows when Daochen dismisses his warning.

Themes

• Power and restraint: Growing too strong too visibly may invite destruction, so survival requires balancing ambition with caution.
• Risk versus reward: Daochen sees the ants as useful assets, while Little Monkey emphasizes the danger of letting a rapidly multiplying force grow.
• Survival and moral ambiguity: The Queen frames her attack as an attempt to save her species, raising the question of whether aggression is justified by fear of extinction.
• Control and unintended consequences: Daochen assumes capturing the Queen will contain the Ant Race, but Little Monkey suggests the threat may outgrow any single point of control.

Character interactions

• Daochen and Little Monkey disagree over how to handle the Ant Race: Little Monkey favors extermination, while Daochen intends to exploit and manage it.
• The Ant Queen challenges Daochen’s victory as dishonorable and appeals to his sympathy by explaining her motive. Daochen questions whether she was truly compelled, then probes her warning about world-taking.
• Little Monkey briefly fears Daochen suspects him of hostile intentions, then tries to steer him away from trusting the Queen.

Plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen brings the captured Ant Queen to the Primordial World and orders the Mechanical Commander to devise a system for managing and using the Ant Race. He has Fuxi assign guards to watch the relatively weak queen.
• Daochen reflects that the capture was largely luck: the Wind God had already killed many of the queen’s elite guards, though Daochen is unsure whether the ants resisted or reached an understanding with the Wind God.
• He tells Jim and the other Fallen Angels that the situation differs sharply from what they expected and warns that the Weird World will attack once the New World’s protection period ends. He asks them to produce more Tongtian Tokens.
• The Fallen Angels explain that their recovery needs limit production. With Energy Blocks, however, they can recover faster and produce about two tokens each per day. Daochen orders them to begin at once.
• Daochen then asks Little Monkey to take him to a supply-exchange site so he can trade the ant corpses. Little Monkey warns that the lone wanderers who control the area number nearly thirty thousand and are powerful enough to rival a two-star world. Daochen is undeterred, and Little Monkey agrees to help while hiding their identity.
• They disguise the Primordial World as a desolate, collapsing realm and travel through the temporarily dormant Gluttonous Flowers’ territory to reach the Rule Shop. Little Monkey warns that the route is only safe for a limited time and that traders may be watched when they leave.
• The shop exchanges their goods for 50,000 points. Worried that the rare purple token will attract attention, Little Monkey urges them to leave quickly. Daochen spends the points on World Fruits, Heavenly Dao Pills, soulwood, a Flower Maid, and Heavenly Clear Water.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen remains bold and pragmatic: he assigns captured enemies to useful roles, pushes the Fallen Angels to increase production, and accepts the risks of trading despite Little Monkey’s warnings. He also listens to Little Monkey’s advice about disguising their world.
• Little Monkey acts as a cautious guide, explaining the danger posed by the lone wanderers, the market’s rules, and the need to conceal the Primordial World. He reluctantly yields to Daochen’s insistence.
• Jim and the Fallen Angels acknowledge that they were misled and abandoned. Jim promises to make amends, while the group offers a realistic production limit and a way Energy Blocks can improve it.
• The Mechanical Commander is tasked with developing a system for managing the Ant Race; Fuxi is assigned to guard the queen.

Significant themes

• Pragmatism and resource use: Daochen turns captured enemies, corpses, and scarce energy into potential strategic gains.
• Preparation for looming war: The approaching end of the protection period drives the effort to produce Tongtian Tokens and strengthen the Primordial World.
• Risk versus caution: Little Monkey prioritizes concealment and survival, while Daochen is willing to confront powerful threats for possible rewards.
• Distrust and abandonment: The Fallen Angels’ realization that they were treated as pawns shapes their resolve to repair their standing.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen and Little Monkey exchange points for supplies, including World Fruits, Law Fruits, and a Flower Maid revealed to be the Little Elf.
• They leave openly, drawing the attention of lone wanderers eager to rob them. Daochen intends to use the ambushes against the would-be attackers.
• Little Monkey explains that some inhabitants of weaker worlds do prey on lone wanderers, but they hide their schemes—and that even wanderers may have hidden last-resort powers.
• Daochen hints that his displayed strength is only a fraction of his true ability. Little Monkey realizes that Daochen must be supremely confident to keep a potentially dangerous ally nearby.
• Daochen adds that his suppressed power is beginning to return as his world’s laws merge with the surrounding realm. This further alarms Little Monkey, who realizes Daochen has so far fought without those laws—and perhaps without using a weapon.
• A coordinated squad of lone wanderers attacks, using three taunting fighters as a distraction while others prepare the real strikes. Daochen sees through the plan, but Little Monkey asks to handle the fight himself.
• Little Monkey transforms into a giant ape and wields a twin-bladed, crescent-shaped sword. He quickly slaughters the squad, revealing exceptional speed and combat skill.

Character developments

• Daochen is shown to be calculating and confident, deliberately inviting greedy attackers while concealing the extent of his strength. His power is also growing as his world’s laws return.
• Little Monkey shifts from wary familiarity to awe and fear of Daochen, recognizing how thoroughly he has underestimated him. He also earns a chance to demonstrate his own formidable abilities and loyalty.

Significant themes

• Hidden strength and deception: Daochen’s apparent limitations conceal vast power, while the attackers disguise their real strategy.
• Greed and predation: The would-be robbers become victims of the trap they hoped to set.
• Trust and power: Little Monkey’s realization that Daochen knowingly keeps him close underscores the confidence behind their uneasy alliance.
• The value of patience and observation: Daochen detects the ambush’s structure, while Little Monkey reassesses what he knows about both his companion and himself.

Character interactions

• Daochen teases Little Monkey about his hidden trump cards and implies his own power is far greater than shown.
• Little Monkey responds with growing caution, then asks Daochen to let him fight as proof of sincerity.
• Daochen observes Little Monkey’s battle closely, recognizing that beneath his imposing, seemingly lumbering form lies extraordinary speed.

Key plot points

• Little Monkey reveals that, despite looking stronger than he is, he has a one-use racial ability that rapidly restores his stamina. The Demon Emperor senses that Little Monkey is still weakened, but the recovery surprises him.
• Ordinary fighters continue to test them. Daochen recognizes that they are expendable puppets, while a hidden enemy’s energy appears to be affecting emotions.
• A two-horned expert approaches and builds formidable momentum. Little Monkey warns that attacking him would be disastrous, so the pair flee. The expert follows at a steady pace.
• Daochen spots a vast battle and insists on investigating, despite Little Monkey’s warnings. The pursuer hesitates but eventually catches up again.
• The battlefield is a World War between two One-Star Worlds. Rather than being purely destructive, it serves as training: fighters who break through leave the battle, and both worlds are expected to advance to Two-Star status.
• Daochen learns that his own world’s people cannot use the battlefield to overcome their racial restrictions. Their Slave Shackles can only be removed with Tongtian Tokens, which are unavailable in the Rule Shop. He realizes the Primordial World is falling behind and may have been sent as cannon fodder.

Character developments and interactions

• Little Monkey proves clever and resourceful, but his recovery skill is limited to once per battle. Though wary of danger, he reluctantly follows Daochen toward the battlefield.
• Demon Emperor Daochen remains bold and opportunistic. He dismisses the risks, imagining he might profit by claiming both worlds, but is frustrated to discover how deeply his world is disadvantaged.
• Their dynamic is a contrast between Little Monkey’s caution and Daochen’s appetite for risk; Little Monkey warns him repeatedly, while Daochen ultimately drags him along.
• The momentum-wielding pursuer remains an ominous, persistent threat, but does not attack during the journey.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus ability: Little Monkey’s deceptive appearance and hidden recovery talent show that strength is not always easy to judge.
• Risk and ambition: Daochen sees opportunity where Little Monkey sees danger.
• Unequal systems and exploitation: Slave Worlds face imposed limits, lack access to the means of advancement, and may be treated as disposable by their Main World.
• Progress through conflict: For the two ordinary worlds, battle is a path to breakthroughs and collective advancement—an option denied to the Primordial World.

Key plot points and events

• Little Monkey explains that Tongtian Tokens can only be obtained through members of Upper Realm races. Daochen realizes that the Primordial World’s seven Fallen Angels are crucial to its future, though developing its strength will take time.
• Daochen considers capturing more Upper Realm powerhouses. Little Monkey says they are rare but recognizable, naming Angels, Fallen Angels, Black Abyss races, and puppet races among the known examples.
• As the Gate World War grows busier, Little Monkey identifies their persistent pursuer as Wudu, a specialist in concealment and assassination rather than open combat.
• When the two battling forces finish their training and turn on the surrounding lone wanderers, Daochen stays to watch instead of withdrawing. Wudu releases a vast, living mist that drags many fighters inside while mysteriously avoiding Daochen and his group. The two forces retreat, apparently recognizing Wudu’s ability.
• Wudu continues following Daochen. He eventually reveals a wanted notice: tracking Daochen for at least three days earns a hundred World Fruits. Daochen realizes the bounty will attract further attention and danger.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen shifts from learning about the world’s power structure to thinking strategically about how the Primordial World can grow. He remains confident during the ambush and becomes concerned once he learns he is wanted.
• Little Monkey acts as Daochen’s guide, explaining Upper Realm races, Wudu’s abilities, and the custom that makes openly tracking a target acceptable.
• Wudu is revealed not as a conventional fighter but as a dangerous pursuer who uses concealment and mist to capture enemies. His bounty-hunting motive explains why he has shadowed Daochen.
• Daochen and Little Monkey fend off attackers together, with Daochen protecting Little Monkey when he struggles. Daochen’s calm humor about the mist contrasts with the danger around them.

Significant themes

• Power and dependence: The Primordial World relies on its few Upper Realm members to improve its standing.
• Opportunity and risk: Resources and rewards can drive development, but also attract predators.
• Knowledge as preparation: Understanding the world’s rules—and why Wudu is following them—helps Daochen anticipate what comes next.
• Predatory competition: Lone wanderers and competing forces treat vulnerable targets as opportunities, making survival and vigilance essential.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen offers Wudu a deal: Wudu may finish his mission but must give Daochen half the spoils. Wudu objects that this breaks the rules; Daochen insists his rules prevail, and Wudu eventually agrees.
• Daochen reveals he wants Wudu in his service. He promises protection and claims he has seen Wudu’s future death, which only allegiance to him can avert. Wudu remains skeptical, emphasizing that death is unavoidable and that Daochen’s world is still blocked from the Main World.
• Daochen says he can lift the blockade by capturing more Upper Realm beings, and believes he can eventually reach the Hongmeng Level and challenge their powerful races. Wudu warns him that every Upper Realm race has at least one Hongmeng expert.
• The leaders and armies of two worlds, enraged by the loss of their champions, surround Daochen and his group. Although Daochen argues he did not attack their people, the armies charge without responding.
• The attackers overwhelm Little Monkey, while Wudu’s Strange Mist makes anyone who enters it vanish. Daochen holds his own and helps Little Monkey, but the sheer number of enemies makes the fight difficult.
• Daochen draws a Heavenly Dao-Class saber and uses the combat art “Sword Slash,” killing more than a hundred Heavenly Dao Realm experts. The Lone Wanderers withdraw, recognizing that the battle’s outcome has turned.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen remains confident and domineering, attempting to recruit Wudu through both an offer of protection and a warning about his supposed future death. He also learns from the battle that courage alone does not decide conflicts, resolving to pursue an “Elite Soldier Strategy” by cultivating stronger individual experts.
• Wudu refuses to be easily persuaded or intimidated. Though he doubts Daochen’s prophecy, it unsettles him briefly. His Strange Mist proves devastating against attackers.
• Little Monkey is frightened and relies on Daochen for protection, becoming shocked when Daochen reveals a combat art and kills Upper Realm fighters.
• Daochen and Wudu clash over the rules of their agreement and the realities of power beyond the Gate World. Meanwhile, the two world leaders’ anger at their fallen experts drives their forces into a direct attack.

Significant themes

• Power and loyalty: Daochen tries to turn his strength and promised protection into allegiance, while Wudu resists committing himself.
• Mortality and fear: Wudu accepts death as inevitable, in contrast with Daochen’s attempt to use fear of a foretold death as leverage.
• Courage versus strength: The armies’ fearlessness is formidable, but Daochen concludes that bravery alone is insufficient without exceptional individual power.
• Escalating conflict: The encounter shows how losses, pride, and retaliation can quickly turn a tense confrontation into open warfare.