Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen consigns ten three-star origins to the auction. They sell together for 210 million points—far above their official value of 10 million.
• He bids selectively on weapons, armor, and materials, refusing to overpay for items he considers of limited strategic use.
• The main attraction is an Origin Potion that accelerates the fusion of world origin and can bring someone to the Great Accomplishment Realm within a week. Winning the bottle grants the right to trade with its maker.
• Daochen bids 100 million points and wins, driven by his urgent need to strengthen his forces.
• He is ushered backstage to make a quick deal. The auction house’s representative says the potion maker has 1,000 doses available at one million points each. The chapter ends before Daochen accepts or declines.

Character developments

• Daochen learns how much more valuable three-star origins can be at auction and regrets previously selling one for only a million points.
• He shows strategic pragmatism: he avoids spending on nonessential gear but is willing to pay heavily for a resource that could rapidly produce a powerful ally.
• His need to reinforce his position shapes his decisions more than the general bidders’ preference for gradual, foundational cultivation.

Significant themes

• Value depends on scarcity and demand: the origins sell for many times their official price.
• Resources versus money: Daochen views points as useful only when converted into assets.
• Different priorities, different strategies: other bidders value slow, steady cultivation, while Daochen prioritizes immediate strength.
• Convenience has trade-offs: the potion promises speed, but the auction notes that slower cultivation may build a stronger foundation.

Character interactions

• Daochen deals with the registrar, auctioneer, other bidders, and an auction-house attendant as he moves from bidding to private negotiation.
• The bidders’ enthusiasm and skepticism reveal that the potion’s trade rights matter more than the single bottle itself.
• An unnamed potion maker remains offstage, but his hurried wish to complete the transaction prompts Daochen to suspect the goods may have questionable origins. Daochen proceeds regardless.

Plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen bargains with the Potion Master over a thousand supplementary potions. After rejecting the seller’s demand for an additional two hundred million points, Daochen offers 110 million points plus a four-star origin. The Potion Master accepts but insists on keeping one bottle, so Daochen leaves with 999.
• Back in the Primordial World, Daochen learns that three thousand Three-Star Worlds have united as the World Alliance Organization and are attacking the Core Region, where the Six-Person Council is struggling.
• Daochen mobilizes a thousand elites and orders Human Sovereign Fuxi to defend the Primordial World. He secretly gives Fuxi over a hundred potion-and-origin sets, which will help their recipients reach the great accomplishment stage of the Heavenly Dao Realm within a week. Fuxi is to strike the alliance’s origin worlds if the battle becomes a stalemate.
• Daochen leads his force to the battlefield and overwhelms the attackers’ Heavenly Dao Realm fighters. The council’s leaders rejoice, but the alliance’s supreme powerhouses realize they must confront him.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen proves to be a shrewd negotiator, using the Potion Master’s urgent need for points to secure a deal. He is also a strategic, confident commander: he plans both a direct intervention and a secret counterattack through Fuxi.
• The Potion Master is eager to sell because he needs funds, but tries to hold out for a higher price and then keep one bottle. He ultimately accepts Daochen’s offer.
• Fuxi obeys Daochen’s orders and is entrusted with both the world’s defense and a concealed plan to strike the enemy’s home worlds. Though concerned for Daochen’s safety, he trusts his strength.
• Xue Lier, Longhua, and the other council members welcome Daochen’s arrival, confident that he can turn the tide. The opposing leaders recognize that his intervention threatens their entire campaign.

Significant themes

• Bargaining and leverage: Daochen wins by recognizing and exploiting the Potion Master’s desperation.
• Strategic warfare: The chapter pairs battlefield force with a planned strike at the enemy’s origins, aiming to break their ability and will to fight.
• Power and confidence: Daochen’s overwhelming strength shapes both his own decisions and his enemies’ response.
• Opportunism: Daochen privately welcomes the alliance’s attack as a justification for the large-scale conflict he had been seeking to avoid initiating himself.

Summary: “Clearing the Battlefield”

Key plot points and events

• A thousand Supreme Powerhouses attack Demon Emperor Daochen together, but he uses Extreme Speed to vanish from sight. He kills many before the alliance panics and scatters, with most fleeing back to their own worlds.
• Daochen discovers that the remaining Heavenly Dao Realm fighters are still resisting. Meanwhile, the Six-Person Council’s forces continue to suffer losses.
• Daochen takes his thousand elite troops toward the enemy’s rear to destroy their Three-Star Worlds and weaken their armies. The Twin Demons and their allies send 100,000 reinforcements to support the operation.
• At the first Three-Star World, its Supreme Powerhouse flees rather than face Daochen. His troops quickly locate the world’s origin, leaving the undefended world on the verge of collapse.
• News of the attack spreads panic through the World Alliance. Some worlds hide or flee, making them harder to find, but Daochen locates and destroys around a hundred Three-Star Worlds over the course of a day.
• The alliance’s resistance collapses sooner than expected. Some survivors hide, flee to neighboring territories, or seek surrender; Daochen rejects their pleas and continues hunting them for their three-star origins.
• Just as the victors begin clearing the Silent Forest, word arrives that the Pale Blue Star Race is under attack. Daochen recognizes this as an attempt to cut off his retreat and orders Xinghui to open a World Bridge so they can return and defend it.

Character developments and interactions

• Demon Emperor Daochen is shown as overwhelmingly fast, ruthless, and strategically minded. Rather than remain trapped in a prolonged battle, he targets the enemy’s worlds to undermine their strength. He also responds quickly when the Pale Blue Star Race is threatened.
• The allied Supreme Powerhouses prove unwilling to risk their lives: they flee, abandon the battlefield, or leave their worlds undefended. Their lack of unity helps bring about their defeat.
• The Twin Demons and their allies recognize the value of Daochen’s strategy, reinforce his expedition, and take heart as enemy forces weaken.
• Xinghui, accompanying Daochen, is asked to open the World Bridge for the return to the Pale Blue Star Race.
• The fleeing enemy fighters and the beings displaced from destroyed worlds are portrayed as casualties of the conflict, scattering in search of safety.

Significant themes

• Fear and self-preservation: The alliance’s refusal to stand together turns a potentially prolonged defense into a rout.
• Speed and strategic warfare: Daochen wins not only through combat power but by striking the enemy’s worlds and supply of strength.
• The cost of war: Destroyed worlds send countless inhabitants fleeing, while the Six-Person Council’s clansmen are steadily depleted.
• Unity versus division: Daochen’s side coordinates and reinforces its efforts, while the World Alliance’s members make separate choices that undermine their collective defense.

Plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen orders Xinghui and other powerful allies to return and defend their worlds while he continues purging hidden worlds. He believes his forces can protect the threatened territories.
• After destroying hundreds of worlds, Daochen wonders why their inhabitants resist instead of submitting. He realizes they have tried to surrender—but he has often killed them before they can speak, sometimes deliberately. He decides to destroy more worlds before offering another chance to submit.
• Near the Giant Hills, Daochen finds the World Alliance fighting the Barbarian Emperor Ancient Clan. The alliance had sought refuge with the clan, but the clan intended to enslave its members and refused to let them leave.
• Daochen claims the alliance as his subjects and gives them one last chance to return to the Silent Forest under his rule. They accept and warn him about the Barbarian Emperor Ancient Clan.
• Daochen orders Chaos Heaven to lead the alliance in clearing the remaining worlds, while sparing the thousand allied worlds and the Six-Person Council.
• Barbarian God Agu challenges Daochen, using his growing Barbarian God Body. Daochen barely acknowledges him and defeats him with one casual strike of the Heaven Measuring Ruler, shattering his arms and sending him flying. The clan’s fighters decide not to fight Daochen.

Character developments

• Demon Emperor Daochen remains confident and ruthless, but briefly questions why others oppose him. His realization that he has been killing would-be surrenderers does not make him gentler; he continues his campaign and sets strict limits on who may submit.
• Chaos Heaven has become a Supreme Powerhouse after fusing with the Three-Star Origin and using the Elixir. Equipped with a Heavenly Sword and defensive armor, he is now a formidable fighter and is trusted with command.
• The World Alliance shifts from resisting Daochen to accepting his rule, having found the Barbarian Emperor Ancient Clan’s demand for slavery even less acceptable.
• Agu goes from overconfident challenger to horrified defeat, while the Barbarian clan’s fighters recognize Daochen’s overwhelming strength.

Character interactions

• Daochen’s exchanges with Chaos Heaven reveal his mistaken view of the surrender attempts and his intent to continue the purge.
• He asserts authority over the World Alliance, which welcomes his offer after experiencing the clan’s coercion.
• Agu’s challenge exposes the gulf between the Barbarian clan’s confidence and Daochen’s power; the clan ultimately withdraws rather than risk further losses.

Significant themes

• Power and coercion: Both Daochen and the Barbarian Emperor Ancient Clan demand submission, though the clan explicitly seeks enslavement.
• Miscommunication and mistrust: The worlds’ attempts to surrender are repeatedly cut short by Daochen’s own violence.
• Overwhelming strength: Daochen’s effortless defeat of Agu establishes the limits of the clan’s martial power and reinforces the danger of confronting him.
• Conditional mercy: Daochen offers submission only on his terms, and only to selected groups.

Key plot points and events

• After withdrawing from the battlefield, Demon Emperor Daochen dismisses the Barbarian Emperor’s apparent inaction but wonders whether it signals a hidden plan. He leaves with the Primordial World’s elite troops.
• The Primordial forces finish clearing the Silent Forest. Human Sovereign Fuxi reports that the mission is complete and that he and Nüwa have reached the Great Accomplishment Realm. Daochen decides not to return to check on his nephews, trusting Nüwa to watch over them.
• Daochen reveals that the Primordial World has enough Three-Star Origin and nine hundred potions to potentially create nine hundred Supreme Powerhouses. The candidates will be selected by contribution and rank, not handed places indiscriminately.
• He orders the newly advanced experts to remain hidden and train, especially in the Extreme-Speed Combat Art, so the Primordial World’s growing strength does not alarm other powers.
• The Six-Person Council formally claims the Silent Forest. Its initial membership comprises five worlds: the Primordial World, Twin Demons, Saint Dragon Clan, Snow Pear Tribe, and Death Kingdom. Other worlds may join through contributions and unanimous approval; membership and rank may also change.
• Daochen establishes rules for the territory: worlds, experts, and Lone Wanderers need permission to enter, and Great Accomplishment experts will patrol its borders.
• The council distributes spoils, reserving five hundred worlds for its four allied member worlds. They accept an equal share, recognizing how much more Daochen contributed and viewing the reward as support for their future growth.
• Daochen takes particular interest in the close alliance between the Pale Blue Star Race and the Alute race, who are researching how to fuse their worlds.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen acts as both conqueror and organizer: he secures territory, manages the council, plans how to strengthen his world, and carefully conceals its rapid rise. He is pleased by Fuxi’s and Nüwa’s advancement but masks his excitement.
• Fuxi has grown substantially stronger and now helps lead the Primordial World’s elite forces. He teases Daochen about not checking on his nephews and reassures him that Nüwa is capable.
• The allied worlds show deference and gratitude, accepting their allocation without complaint and acknowledging that they contributed far less than Daochen.
• The Pale Blue Star and Alute races are developing a closer, mutually dependent relationship through research into world fusion.

Significant themes

• Power built through merit and contribution: Access to elite status, council membership, and resources depends on achievement rather than entitlement.
• Strategic restraint: Daochen hides his growing forces and limits public displays of strength to avoid provoking suspicion.
• Collective advancement and hierarchy: The council offers followers a path to rise, but membership and rank remain conditional on performance.
• World-building as a long-term challenge: Becoming a Four-Star World requires raising the potential of entire races, not merely accumulating resources or strength. For the Primordial World, this is especially difficult because it must develop six races rather than concentrate on one.

Key plot points and events

• The Demon Emperor distributes three-star world origins to his two Slave Worlds, Jin Yang, and others to accelerate the cultivation of Great Accomplishment Realm experts.
• He encourages Jin Yang to develop his rare Golden Crow bloodline and explains his ambition to equip his people with Personal Heavenly Dao-Class Weapons. He believes these weapons—such as his own Heaven Measuring Ruler—help explain his superior strength.
• The Twin Demons are ordered to study Yin-Yang Dao in the Primordial World to unlock their potential. The Saint Dragon Clan, Snow Pear Tribe, and Death Kingdom are urged to train in combat arts, since they are comparatively weak.
• The Demon Emperor establishes weekly, nonlethal trials against three captured Three-Star Worlds. Participants who succeed gain status and opportunities; those who quit or fail to advance may return to ordinary lives, but will be expected to support the Primordial World.
• He opens the trials to the allied groups as well, warning that if they do not grow stronger, they could one day become trial opponents themselves.

Character developments and interactions

• Jin Yang demonstrates loyalty by pledging to serve the Demon Emperor without hesitation and accepting resources for his cultivation.
• The Twin Demons accept the order to investigate Yin-Yang Dao, while Longhua, Xue Lier, and Deathfire feel the pressure of their groups’ weakness.
• Those three leaders recognize that their worlds have stagnated partly because their people have lived too comfortably and lost their sense of danger. They ask to join the trials, and the Demon Emperor agrees.
• The Demon Emperor acts as both benefactor and disciplinarian: he invests in promising fighters, gives weaker factions direction, and imposes a system designed to identify and reward exceptional talent.

Significant themes

• Strength through pressure: Regular trials are meant to prevent complacency and keep the population battle-ready.
• Merit and hierarchy: Success brings status and opportunity, while those who opt out face a constrained, less privileged life.
• Leadership and responsibility: The Demon Emperor plans for the Primordial World’s long-term survival, but expects its people and allies to contribute to their own growth.
• Potential versus preparation: Innate gifts and powerful worlds are not enough; individuals must train and learn to realize their capabilities.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen strengthens the Primordial World through repeated trials, using energy crystals and a potion that lets him rapidly cultivate Great Accomplishment Realm experts. The world’s power rises substantially, though it still cannot truly face the Barbarian Emperor Ancient Clan.
• The Sacred Light Clan’s Heavenly Dao Saint King visits Daochen with news of a Five-Star World’s ship carrying nearly ten thousand origins of Three-Star Worlds as tribute to a Six-Star King World.
• The Saint King proposes secretly intercepting the shipment, partly to frame the Barbarian Emperor Ancient Clan and provoke trouble between it and the Six-Star power. Daochen recognizes the danger but agrees, attracted by the potential rewards.
• The two travel in secret to the Giant Hills. Seeing the escorted fleet, they attack the enormous lead ship. Daochen breaks its spine with a punch, then discovers it is a living creature—and that his blow drew green blood.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen shows a practical but increasingly daring side: he carefully cultivates his people, yet is eager to seize a high-risk opportunity. He admires the Saint King’s appetite for adventure and agrees to act with him.
• The Heavenly Dao Saint King reveals himself as an ambitious schemer, willing to violate established rules to gain influence and weaken the Barbarian Emperor. He recruits Daochen and explains why the fleet is unlikely to have overwhelming protection.
• Their partnership is built on mutual excitement and shared risk, though Daochen asks pointed questions about the plan’s dangers and defenses.

Significant themes

• Strength through pressure and opportunity: Daochen’s trials push people to their limits without intentionally destroying them.
• Ambition versus caution: Both leaders accept grave risks in pursuit of power and status.
• Political manipulation: The raid is intended not merely to steal valuable cargo but to frame a rival and trigger a larger conflict.
• Unexpected consequences: The “ship” proves to be a living being, complicating what seemed like a straightforward attack.

Plot points

• Demon Emperor Daochen and the Heavenly Dao Saint King ambush a fleet carrying tribute to the Saha World. They seize more than ten thousand three-star origins, divide them evenly, and escape in separate directions.
• The fleet’s survivors blame the Barbarian Emperor Ancient Clan for the theft because it happened over their territory. They issue a threat against the clan, then secretly flee to avoid punishment themselves.
• The Barbarian Emperor, focused on cultivating toward Half-Step Hongmeng, initially dismisses reports of trouble. When he learns the stolen tribute was destined for a Six-Star realm, he panics and considers fleeing.
• After hearing that witnesses saw sacred light, he concludes the Sacred Light Clan framed him. He orders his Ten-Thousand-Man Unit to attack the Sacred Light World, regardless of whether it was actually responsible.

Character developments

• Demon Emperor Daochen and the Heavenly Dao Saint King work efficiently together, then split up to evade pursuit.
• The Barbarian Emperor shifts from complacency and fear to furious resolve. His desire for revenge—and his resentment toward the Sacred Light World—overrides caution, despite the danger of provoking a greater power.
• The fleet’s survivors protect themselves by scapegoating the clan and fleeing.

Character interactions

• The Demon Emperor and Saint King coordinate the robbery and divide the spoils without dispute.
• The fleet’s survivors redirect blame onto the Barbarian Emperor Ancient Clan.
• The Barbarian Emperor learns of the crisis through his subordinate, then turns his anger toward the Sacred Light Clan.

Significant themes

• Scapegoating and self-preservation: The fleet’s officers sacrifice another faction’s reputation to buy themselves time.
• Pride and reckless revenge: The Barbarian Emperor chooses retaliation over careful judgment, even when the accusation is uncertain.
• Power and vulnerability: The stolen tribute puts the Barbarian Emperor’s clan at risk because powerful realms can demand severe consequences.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen prepares to flee with the Primordial World if danger arises, then receives an urgent plea: the Barbarian Emperor’s forces are attacking the Sacred Light World with suicidal intensity.
• In exchange for help, the Heavenly Dao Saint King promises Daochen two thousand world origins. Daochen quickly gathers a ten-million-strong army and attacks the Five-Star Barbarian World.
• Daochen’s forces overwhelm the defenders and destroy the world’s bastion, but cannot find its origin. Suspecting the Barbarian Emperor took it with him, Daochen orders the Primordial World to devour the abandoned world while Chaos Heaven oversees the process.
• Daochen heads to the Sacred Light battlefield. The Sacred Light Clan is close to being wiped out, with only one Ten-Thousand-Man Unit left. He joins the fight and cuts through the Barbarian forces, but they keep pressing their attack to exhaust the Sacred Light Clan’s strength.
• Daochen and the Heavenly Dao Saint King coordinate against the Barbarian Emperor. The Saint King restrains him while Daochen severs one arm and then one leg. The injured Barbarian Emperor escapes, ordering most of his troops to retreat while leaving one unit behind to continue destroying the Sacred Light Clan’s foundations.

Character developments

• Demon Emperor Daochen acts pragmatically and decisively: he protects the Primordial World, seizes the chance to destroy the Barbarian homeland, and aids the Sacred Light Clan to preserve a valuable ally. His confidence is evident, though he recognizes that his intervention may not be enough to save the Sacred Light Clan’s foundations.
• The Heavenly Dao Saint King is driven to desperation by the assault but cooperates with Daochen, pinning the Barbarian Emperor in place despite the strain.
• The Barbarian Emperor reveals a willingness to sacrifice his forces and homeland for a larger objective. Wounded and forced to retreat, he remains defiant and threatens revenge.

Significant themes

• Survival at any cost: Both the Barbarian forces and the threatened Sacred Light Clan fight with their existence at stake.
• Strategic sacrifice: The Barbarian Emperor abandons his world and spends his troops to weaken his enemies, while Daochen risks the Primordial World’s growth to gain an advantage.
• Alliances and self-interest: Daochen helps the Sacred Light Clan not only out of necessity but because the alliance and promised reward serve his interests.
• Escalating devastation: The conflict expands from a battlefield struggle to the destruction and devouring of entire worlds.

Character interactions

• The Mysterious Saint Son delivers the Saint King’s plea and reward offer; Daochen promises prompt aid.
• Daochen entrusts Chaos Heaven with completing the world-devouring process while he goes to the Sacred Light World.
• The Saint King and Daochen work together to attack the Barbarian Emperor, with the Saint King restraining him so Daochen can land decisive blows.
• Daochen taunts the wounded Barbarian Emperor, who responds with a threat of revenge before fleeing.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen leaves the Barbarian Emperor World’s final resistance to the Heavenly Dao Saint King and returns to the Primordial World, leading nearly a thousand Great Accomplishment Realm fighters and millions of soldiers.
• The Primordial World’s devouring of the Barbarian Emperor World is well underway. The Barbarian Emperor returns to find his world and the surrounding Slave Worlds gone, and confronts Daochen.
• Though he threatens to fight to the death, the Barbarian Emperor abruptly retreats with his remaining twenty thousand elite fighters, vowing to return. Daochen is relieved and warns his followers of the strength of a Five-Star World.
• While the Primordial World continues absorbing its prey, Daochen goes to aid the Sacred Light Clan. He and the Heavenly Dao Saint King defeat the remaining enemy forces and end the battle in the Demon River Plains.
• The Saint King admits he cannot repay the agreed two thousand world origins because the Sacred Light World has suffered heavy losses. He offers the Sacred Light Blessing instead, which accelerates the growth of fighters who have absorbed three-star origins.
• Daochen accepts, but negotiates two uses of the blessing: one for five thousand recipients and another for ten thousand. He says he has his own way to obtain the necessary origins.

Character developments and interactions

• Demon Emperor Daochen remains pragmatic and strategic: he recognizes the risks of attacking a world, uses the Barbarian Emperor’s retreat to regroup, then honors his alliance by assisting the Sacred Light Clan. He also negotiates firmly with the Saint King.
• The Barbarian Emperor is shocked by the destruction of his world and furious at Daochen, but chooses retreat over a suicidal battle, preserving his army for a possible return.
• The Heavenly Dao Saint King is powerful but overwhelmed by the number of attackers until Daochen arrives. He is candid about his clan’s losses and proposes an alternative to settling their debt.
• Daochen’s followers are shaken by the enemy’s overwhelming numbers, but his warning turns the encounter into a lesson about the power they must eventually attain.

Significant themes

• The cost and uncertainty of war: Even powerful worlds can be destroyed, and victory comes with severe losses.
• Pragmatism over pride: The Barbarian Emperor retreats despite his threats, while Daochen avoids unnecessary risk and recognizes when devouring a world is too dangerous.
• Alliance and mutual dependence: Daochen aids the Sacred Light Clan because their survival is tied to his own.
• Growth through conflict: World origins and the Sacred Light Blessing offer rapid advancement, but obtaining resources depends on surviving a brutal cycle of warfare.

Key plot points and events

• The Demon Emperor accepts the Heavenly Dao Saint King’s proposal, trading for nearly five thousand three-star origins. The Saint King needs them to rebuild a force after heavy losses; the Demon Emperor wants to rapidly strengthen the Primordial World and prepare for the possibility of the Barbarian Emperor’s revenge.
• Returning home, the Demon Emperor announces that nearly five thousand fighters can be promoted to the Great Accomplishment Realm. Candidates must first pass a military trial: each Great Accomplishment Realm leader will command 100,000 Heavenly Dao Realm fighters to clear Slave Worlds from the Giant Hills, with rewards based on the origins they capture.
• The Demon Emperor permits the forces to campaign beyond the Giant Hills, so long as they do not provoke a five-star world. He also hopes to demonstrate Primordial World’s strength and deter rival powers scouting the region.
• The troops deploy. Qingchan and Qingxuan join the campaign alongside the Twin Demons and two other Demon Race fighters, forming an alliance of six. Qingchan proposes heading to the White Horse Plains, a chaotic borderland nominally controlled by a powerful Pegasus clan, and shows that he has carefully researched the area.

Character developments

• The Demon Emperor is increasingly cautious: the Barbarian Emperor’s escape leaves a serious threat, so he prioritizes building military strength and fortifying the Primordial World. He also intends to keep Qingchan and Qingxuan out of direct major battles while helping them grow stronger.
• Qingchan and Qingxuan have reached the Heavenly Dao Realm and are candidates for further advancement. Qingchan displays strategic preparation and regional knowledge.
• The Heavenly Dao Saint King is revealed to be recovering from catastrophic losses and urgently needs new origins to rebuild his army.

Character interactions

• The Demon Emperor and the Saint King reach a mutually beneficial agreement, each driven by different military needs.
• The Demon Emperor challenges the Six Realms’ Overlords to prove themselves through action rather than confidence alone.
• Within the newly formed six-person alliance, Qingchan takes the lead in proposing a destination and briefing the others on its risks and opportunities.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Even seemingly weak forces can rise, while major leaders remain exposed to threats from rivals.
• Preparation and survival: The Demon Emperor strengthens both his army and the Primordial World’s defenses against future attacks.
• Ambition tested through action: Advancement is tied to demonstrated courage, command, and success—not merely status or boastfulness.
• Strategic risk in a crowded world: The surrounding region is full of powerful factions, making expansion both necessary and dangerous.

Key plot points and events

• Qingchan rejects expanding the group beyond six, arguing that resources are limited and the alliance should consist only of capable fighters. Qingxuan agrees. The Twin Demons, Kong Xuan, and Golden-Winged Great Peng are effectively there to support the siblings.
• The group targets Amber, a weakened Three-Star World whose Great Accomplishment Realm defender has already been killed. They travel to the White Horse Plains and quickly destroy it, gaining its three-star origin.
• As disorder spreads through the Giant Hills, many factions hunt weakened worlds or form their own alliances. The Demon Emperor watches calmly, especially pleased by the six youngsters’ early success.
• A Great Accomplishment Realm warrior from the Pegasus Clan confronts the group, demanding authorization and the three-star origin. Qingchan refuses and orders her companions to attack.
• The team overwhelms him through coordinated techniques: Qingchan knocks him back with her heavy guandao, the Twin Demons restrain him, Kong Xuan disarms him, and Golden-Winged Great Peng pins him down. Qingxuan then traps him with talismans and formations.

Character developments

• Qingchan shows confidence, decisiveness, and pride in her strength-based cultivation. She puts the Demon Emperor’s teaching of Force Gathering into practice, though her opponent sees through it.
• Qingxuan remains firmly loyal to his sister and demonstrates his skill in talismans and formations.
• The four companions reveal how effective they are when fighting together, particularly against an opponent of higher cultivation.
• The Pegasus Clan warrior shifts from arrogant confidence to shock and fear when faced with the group’s teamwork and strength.

Significant themes

• Pragmatism and ambition: The siblings choose a small, capable alliance and target vulnerable worlds to build their power.
• Teamwork overcoming individual strength: A single Great Accomplishment Realm fighter is outmatched by the group’s coordinated attacks.
• Power and entitlement: The Pegasus warrior assumes his higher cultivation gives him authority, while the siblings refuse to accept his demand.
• A world in turmoil: The absence of a powerful deterrent has turned the Giant Hills’ borders into a chaotic contest for resources.

Character interactions

• Qingchan sets the alliance’s limits, and Qingxuan publicly backs her decision.
• Kong Xuan advises the siblings on their first target and leads them into action.
• The Pegasus warrior tries to claim their spoils and punish them; Qingchan challenges him directly.
• The six fight as a cohesive unit, each contributing a distinct ability to restrain and overpower their opponent.

Key plot points and events

• Qingchan kills a Great Accomplishment Realm opponent after her allies immobilize him with multiple control techniques. The watching cultivators are stunned by the group’s power.
• Reinforcements arrive, prompting Qingxuan to urge a retreat. Qingchan resents backing down, but Peacock reminds her that she still falls short of her father, Demon Emperor Daochen.
• When a pursuing expert attacks all six companions to hold them in place, Golden-Winged Great Peng intercepts the blows and is injured.
• Peacock’s Five-Colored Divine Light freezes the attacker. Qingchan’s Blade Slash damages him and shatters his armor; Qingxuan then pierces him repeatedly with his sword technique.
• The Twin Demons trap the other five pursuers behind a Darkless Sky Curtain, buying the group about a minute. Qingchan, Qingxuan, Peacock, and the shrunken Golden-Winged Great Peng work together to kill the trapped expert before the barrier breaks.

Character developments

• Qingchan shows both formidable strength and impatience with retreat. Her great physical power complements her massive guandao, though she recognizes that her father’s mastery and combat arts remain beyond her.
• Qingxuan reveals exceptional sword skill, already approaching the creation of a distinct combat art.
• Golden-Winged Great Peng demonstrates loyalty by shielding Qingchan, then fights on despite his injury.
• Demon Emperor Daochen, observing from the shadows, is dissatisfied with the group’s caution: he believes they must risk battle to cultivate the momentum of invincibility. He is also impressed by Qingxuan’s talent.

Significant themes

• Teamwork and control: Immobilization, barriers, and coordinated attacks let the group overcome stronger opponents.
• Courage and growth: Daochen sees dangerous battles as necessary to develop an invincible fighting spirit.
• Mastery and individuality: Weapon techniques can evolve into personal combat arts through deep refinement.
• Strength has limits: Qingchan is powerful, but the chapter emphasizes the gap between raw physical might and Daochen’s broader mastery.

Character interactions

• Peacock reassures Qingchan while honestly acknowledging the difference between her abilities and her father’s.
• Qingchan’s eagerness to fight contrasts with Qingxuan’s caution, while Daochen silently judges their retreat-minded approach.
• The companions protect and enable one another: Golden-Winged Great Peng takes the first blow, Peacock immobilizes enemies, the Twin Demons contain reinforcements, and Qingchan and Qingxuan deliver the finishing attacks.

Plot points and events

• Golden-Winged Great Peng reveals a brief, exhausting transformation that greatly boosts his strength. With Kong Xuan’s Five-Colored Divine Light and the others’ abilities, the group kills two of six stronger opponents.
• The group retreats rather than sacrifice their hundred thousand soldiers. Their enemies decide not to pursue, wary of a powerful unseen presence.
• After recovering, Qingchan, Qingxuan, and their companions secretly return, hoping to defeat the four survivors and obtain a four-star origin. They kill one enemy while locating his world’s entrance.
• A million-strong army emerges from the four-star world, forcing the group to retreat. The world’s defenders, having lost another companion and exposed their location, fear other powers will attack. Unable to move their world without a Hidden World Orb, they are trapped in a dangerous position.
• Qingchan then returns alone and charges toward the distressed defenders. The chapter ends on her move.

Character developments and interactions

• Qingchan and Qingxuan show tactical judgment by ordering a retreat when victory would require unacceptable losses, but their ambition soon draws them back into danger.
• Golden-Winged Great Peng demonstrates a powerful but temporary technique, and playfully objects to being called “Roc”; Qingchan settles on “Little Peng.”
• Kong Xuan proves formidable with his divine light, though its heavy energy cost leaves him depleted.
• The group’s respect for their soldiers is emphasized: they refuse to use them as expendable bait.
• Demon Emperor Daochen observes the group’s audacity with skepticism and amusement, allowing events to unfold rather than intervening.

Significant themes

• Power comes at a cost: the Peng’s transformation and Kong Xuan’s divine ability are potent but unsustainable.
• Leadership and the value of life: the group chooses retreat over winning at the cost of mass casualties.
• Ambition versus recklessness: despite caution in battle, the group’s desire for a four-star origin leads them into a far more dangerous situation.
• Scale changes the odds: the million-strong army reveals that a four-star world’s strength lies not only in elite fighters but in its vast forces and strategic position.

Key plot points and events

• Qingchan fights alone against a million-strong army, while Demon Emperor Daochen prevents three Great Accomplishment Realm commanders from intervening. The commanders eventually flee.
• As Qingchan nears exhaustion, her Golden Crow Origin awakens. She also manifests Earth Defense, an ability linked to Nüwa’s Mother Earth power.
• Daochen secretly lends her a portion of his origin, strengthening her. Qingchan’s saber becomes wreathed in ultimate yang fire, and one powerful slash burns numerous Heavenly Dao Realm enemies to ashes.
• Her attacks break the enemy army’s morale. Qingxuan and their hundred-thousand-strong force join the fight, and the leaderless defenders flee.
• The group finds the four-star origin, then Qingchan persuades them to keep hunting. They capture two more three-star worlds before the trial expedition ends.
• Other teams return with fewer rewards; Qingchan and her companions emerge as the most successful young group.

Character developments

• Qingchan proves exceptionally courageous and powerful, awakening two inherited abilities in battle and reaching the pinnacle of her realm. Her newfound strength gives her a taste for combat and makes her eager to push further.
• Daochen acts protectively but also recognizes Qingchan’s great potential, quietly boosting her power.
• Kong Xuan remains cautious, preferring to end the dangerous expedition, but Qingchan overrides his concerns.
• Qingxuan and the others move from anxious observers to active reinforcements once the enemy begins to break.

Character interactions

• Daochen shields Qingchan from the three commanders, who flee rather than risk confronting him.
• Qingxuan’s group worries about Qingchan’s stamina and marvels at her awakened powers.
• Kong Xuan urges the party to return, while Qingchan insists they continue so the group can earn more Great Accomplishment Realm placements.
• The companions ultimately follow Qingchan’s lead and share in the expedition’s success.

Significant themes

• Courage and recklessness: Qingchan’s refusal to retreat turns an apparently impossible battle into a victory, though her boldness keeps the group close to danger.
• Growth through adversity: The battle triggers the awakening of Qingchan’s inherited powers and reveals her future potential.
• Mentorship and protection: Daochen’s intervention enables Qingchan to face danger while developing her own strength.
• The rise of a new generation: The expedition highlights the growing power of young talents and the Primordial World’s increasing strength.

Key events

• The hunting trial concluded, and participants submitted their spoils for evaluation. Those who qualified were offered advancement to the Great Accomplishment Realm, but in exchange they had to become Origin Warriors, serve the Primordial World, and join its First Origin Squad.
• The Demon Emperor established a small-squad training system rather than relying on huge units. Teams of up to ten would specialize in fighting powerful enemies, while groups of up to a hundred would handle ordinary fighters and rank-and-file forces. Especially well-coordinated six-person teams, like Qingchan and Qingxuan’s, would remain intact.
• Judges including the Twin Demons, Xinghui, and Alute assessed the results. Participants who completed the trial—sometimes by working together to destroy a Three-Star World—were selected. Those who failed were encouraged to train, cooperate, and try again; two more squads of five thousand would be formed in a year.
• The final group numbered 5,213. The Demon Emperor could provide the required Three-Star Origin, but most recruits would incur debts they would repay through service and contributions to the Primordial World.

Character developments and interactions

• The recruits eagerly accepted the obligations, viewing advancement and service as worthwhile. The Demon Emperor balanced strict selection with encouragement, urging both successful and unsuccessful participants to learn from the trial and build teams suited to their strengths.
• The Demon Emperor reflects on his preference for acting alone and his difficulty coordinating with others. Chaos Heaven remains determined to catch up with him, studying the Perfection Realm and ways to fight stronger opponents despite the widening gap between them.
• The Demon Emperor’s fighting philosophy is emphasized: overwhelming foundational strength can break through even formidable laws and techniques.

Significant themes

• Cooperation and specialization: Small, coordinated teams can outperform large, dependent formations.
• Merit and perseverance: Advancement is earned through strength or teamwork, while failure offers a future opportunity.
• Duty and sacrifice: Power comes with obligations to protect the Primordial World.
• Gaps in strength and determination: Chaos Heaven’s persistence contrasts with the Demon Emperor’s extraordinary, still-growing power.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen brings 5,213 cultivators from the Primordial World to the Sacred Light World to receive its Sacred Light Blessing, using more than half of the blessing’s roughly 10,000 available places.
• While waiting, Daochen sees the world’s people racing to grow stronger amid the constant threat of war. He also discovers enslaved races whose labor and vitality sustain the Sacred Light World’s prosperity.
• He reflects that the Sacred Light World’s apparent purity may rest on exploitation, but recognizes that his own world has also conquered and destroyed others.
• At the Holy Temple, the blessing combines with Three-Star Origin to accelerate the cultivators’ absorption of it. The process strains their bodies, causing pain and injury, while the sacred light’s restorative vitality heals them.
• After an hour, cultivators begin breaking through into the Great Accomplishment Realm, including Qingchan and Qingxuan. The sisters stabilize in the realm, though they remain far weaker than Daochen.

Character development

• Daochen remains pragmatic, arranging the blessing to strengthen his people, but his observations prompt him to confront the brutality behind the Sacred Light World’s power—and his own world’s comparable history. He also learns that Four-Star Origin cannot normally be consumed because its energy is too immense.
• Qingchan and Qingxuan demonstrate resilience, relying on their strong bodies to endure the blessing and advance.
• The Heavenly Dao Saint King accommodates Daochen’s unusually large group and oversees the blessing, while explaining the limits of Four-Star Origin.

Significant themes

• War and survival: In a world at war, strength is necessary to avoid being dominated.
• Power built on exploitation: The Sacred Light World’s prosperity may depend on enslaved peoples and the draining of their vitality.
• The victor’s morality: Daochen recognizes that conquest is often judged by who wins, and that his own side is not innocent.
• Growth and its costs: Rapid advancement comes with physical danger, even as the blessing helps repair the damage.

Character interactions

• Daochen negotiates with the Heavenly Dao Saint King for blessing places for his 5,213 cultivators.
• The Saint King explains the blessing’s capacity and why Four-Star Origin is ordinarily impossible to consume.
• Daochen watches his cultivators undergo the blessing, noting the strain they suffer and the breakthroughs they achieve.

Key plot points

• After everyone completes their breakthroughs, the Heavenly Dao Saint King warns them not to consume four-star origin, whose immense energy could kill them. The group returns to the Primordial World to stabilize their cultivation and check for problems.
• Demon Emperor Daochen experiments with a small piece of four-star origin. It affects him gently and accelerates his bodily evolution, contrary to the Saint King’s warning.
• He tests other cultivators and discovers that only a small minority can safely consume it: 30 of 6,000 Great Accomplishment Realm experts. Qingchan and Qingxuan are compatible too, and their bodies begin evolving.
• Daochen realizes he can consume all types of four-star origin, but his body—and the children’s—requires enormous quantities. He recognizes that relying on origin alone is impractical, since four-star origin is scarce.
• While continuing his own cultivation, Daochen practices weapon-based combat arts, partly out of envy of the children’s potential.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen grows more aware of his unusual nature: unlike most people, he can absorb four-star origin without harm and seems especially suited to it. He also becomes determined to develop a combat art of his own.
• Qingchan and Qingxuan prove compatible with four-star origin and begin evolving. Qingchan absorbs it cautiously, while Qingxuan confidently swallows it after hearing that it tastes like candy.
• The Heavenly Dao Saint King warns Daochen and the others, then privately recognizes that Daochen’s power has become extraordinary and advises the Sacred Light Clan not to provoke him.
• Daochen orders his followers to stabilize their breakthroughs, checks compatibility through experiments, and reassures Qingchan by standing guard while she tests the origin.

Significant themes

• Individual differences and compatibility: The same energy is dangerous to most people but beneficial to a select few.
• Power and its costs: Daochen’s potential is immense, yet his evolution demands rare resources in extraordinary quantities.
• Cultivation through multiple paths: Origin can aid progress, but it cannot replace sustained training.
• Family rivalry and ambition: Daochen’s humorous jealousy of his child’s emerging combat talent motivates him to improve.

Key plot points and events

• While practicing Sword Slash and Blade Slash, Demon Emperor Daochen realizes their power comes not just from the weapon but from the laws they embody—especially sharpness. His oddly shaped Heaven Measuring Ruler, however, cannot bring out these techniques’ full effect.
• The Human Path Fortune Golden Dragon advises him to stop relying on his laws and power. It argues that the ruler can serve as a heavy sword, and that Daochen should learn technique through basic chopping and hacking.
• Daochen seals his laws and extraordinary powers, takes the mortal heavy sword Juque, and studies a manual of human sword techniques.
• In the Primordial World, a tiger attacks him. His first attempts to defend himself and strike back fail, exposing his lack of technique.
• An old man demonstrates how a heavy sword can kill the tiger with a precise, efficient slash. Watching him, Daochen grasps that technique can make a seemingly blunt weapon devastating.
• Daochen practices the movement until he comprehends the profound essence of slashing: not merely maximizing strength, but bringing the slash itself to its greatest possible power. Beasts and humans gather to learn from his practice before he departs.
• The Fortune Golden Dragon praises his achievement. Daochen asks about the old man, learning that he was a gifted but untrained mortal who has since died.

Character development

• Daochen moves from frustration and reliance on immense power toward humility and disciplined study. By temporarily becoming ordinary, he discovers that his laws had been limiting his understanding of technique.
• The Fortune Golden Dragon acts as a perceptive guide, identifying Daochen’s blind spot and directing him toward a practical path of learning.
• The old man appears briefly but proves that mastery of technique can surpass raw strength. His mortal limitations make his achievement—and loss—especially poignant.

Character interactions

• The Fortune Golden Dragon counsels Daochen, provides Juque and the Sword Techniques Compendium, and later confirms the significance of his breakthrough.
• Daochen’s encounters with the tiger reveal the gap between strength and skill.
• The old man’s demonstration teaches Daochen through observation rather than explanation. Daochen’s practice then inspires nearby humans and beasts to develop their own techniques.

Significant themes

• Technique versus raw power: Strength alone is insufficient; skill can transform an ordinary weapon into a formidable one.
• Learning through humility: Daochen makes progress only after setting aside the power and assumptions he usually relies on.
• The universality of insight: Humans and beasts alike can learn by observing and refining movement.
• Mortality and lost potential: The old man reached great heights in technique, yet his short life and inability to cultivate left his path unfinished.

Plot and key events

• The Human Path Fortune Golden Dragon tells Demon Emperor Daochen about Genji, a man who repeatedly reincarnates, remains an ordinary swordsman, and seems destined to become a grandmaster. Attempts to help him become a cultivator only cause him to abandon sword technique for cultivation.
• Daochen visits Genji and recognizes that he lacks the Primordial World’s origin mark, suggesting he may come from elsewhere. He suspects Genji’s wooden sword may be important and decides not to interrupt his trial. Inspired by watching Genji practice, Daochen returns to the world’s origin to train with a heavy sword.
• Meanwhile, the Saha World’s envoy is investigating missing tribute in the Giant Hills. The Barbarian Emperor urges Prince Aman to punish the Sacred Light World and the Silent Forest faction. Aman dismisses the missing tribute as insignificant but orders nearby Five-Star Battle Worlds to destroy both factions because they failed to show him respect.
• Aman heads toward the Novice Zone, followed by powerful cultivators. At the same time, Qingchan, Qingxuan, and four companions venture through the Giant Hills seeking combat experience and valuable three-star origin.
• Aman notices the group and, curious about Qingchan’s enormous sword, disguises himself as a battered victim and cries for help.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen shows caution and humility: rather than interfere with Genji, he treats the swordsman’s practice as a possible gesture of goodwill and a source of insight.
• Genji remains a mysterious, gifted swordsman whose devotion to technique persists across reincarnations.
• Prince Aman is revealed as arrogant and vindictive, willing to destroy factions over perceived disrespect. He also displays curiosity about Qingchan’s weapon and uses deception to approach the group.
• The Barbarian Emperor is pleased by how easily Aman agrees to act, recognizing that the prince’s arrogance makes him easy to persuade.
• Qingchan, Qingxuan, and their companions are eager to adventure and test themselves, encouraged by the thrill of their previous dangerous battle.

Significant themes

• Technique versus power: Genji’s story contrasts mastery of swordsmanship with cultivation, while Daochen’s training shows him newly valuing disciplined technique.
• Respect and arrogance: Aman’s demand for deference turns a minor slight into a threat of destruction.
• Mystery and fate: Genji’s unknown origins and repeated reincarnations imply a larger purpose that remains unresolved.
• Adventure and growth: The younger group seeks real combat experience despite the risks ahead.