Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Jim Owen reflects on his low status among the Two-Winged Angels: the Western Frontier war is both a test and a way to use him. Failure could cost him his rank and reduce him to a breeding tool.
• Demon Emperor Daochen surrounds Jim’s Great Accomplishment God puppets with his Puppet Army, trapping them and planning to drain their energy and study their technology.
• Jim unleashes Angel Judgment, a devastating beam of sacred light that destroys nearby mechanical puppets and strips away Daochen’s armor.
• Rather than killing Daochen, the sacred light seems to cleanse him of accumulated resentment and killing intent. He adapts to it, and it no longer harms him.
• Shocked that Daochen has been recognized by the sacred light, Jim concludes the Angel Race cannot treat him as an enemy. He negotiates a truce: the Angel Empire will not attack the Independent Alliance while conquering the Western Frontier, and both sides will respect agreed borders.
• Daochen requires the Gene Alliance to leave Ant territory and demands the destruction of three enemy worlds, while allowing their inhabitants to evacuate. Jim accepts, with the understanding that Daochen will focus on the Abyss Empire and not advance east or south.
• Jim returns to the Gene Alliance and orders its forces to withdraw. The Xenomorph Overlord questions the sudden reversal but agrees to comply; Jim confirms that Enge and the others’ people may evacuate.

Character developments and interactions

• Jim Owen shifts from desperate aggression to diplomacy after Angel Judgment fails to harm Daochen. He invokes the Angel Empire’s authority to enforce the agreement, despite refusing to explain why he made it.
• Demon Emperor Daochen is revealed to possess an unusually compassionate and upright nature beneath his fearsome reputation. The sacred light’s cleansing appears to lift burdens that had influenced his violent decisions.
• Jim and Daochen move from confrontation to wary negotiation, each securing strategic limits and concessions.
• Jim and the Xenomorph Overlord clash over the unexplained withdrawal. The Overlord challenges him tactfully, then accepts his order while seeking protection for Enge and the others.

Significant themes

• Inner character versus outward reputation: Daochen’s fearsome image conceals a fundamentally compassionate disposition.
• Power and moral judgment: Angel Judgment does more than destroy; it reveals and responds to a person’s inner nature.
• Pragmatism and the cost of war: Both leaders accept compromises to avoid fighting on multiple fronts, while permitting civilians to escape.
• Coercion and hierarchy: Jim’s own vulnerability within the Angel Empire contrasts with the authority he uses to command the Gene Alliance.

Plot points and events

• The Xenomorph Overlord questions why the Angel Empire should fear Demon Emperor Daochen, but Jim argues that Daochen is too powerful and resistant to the Angels’ strongest abilities to confront safely. The Angels withdraw and make a conciliatory gesture to preserve the possibility of future friendship.
• Daochen uses the respite to consolidate territory, including Enge’s world, and expand west. He sells production lines cheaply to allied leaders so they can increase resource production and prepare for war against the Abyss Empire.
• He organizes expansion routes to keep the Primordial World, the Ant Race, and the Wisdom Race from competing directly. Meanwhile, the Gene Alliance pushes north and threatens the Ant Race’s route. Daochen tells the Ants to avoid conflict for now, promising to intervene if necessary.
• On the Angel Empire’s western frontier, the Abyss Empire launches a major invasion led by elite Ghouls. Many Angel vassal worlds are conquered, enslaved, or turned into food.
• Kevin and the Wright Race convene nearby races to coordinate a defense. With Angel forces tied up elsewhere, they must rely on local allies and supplies. Kevin arranges for Mechanical Puppet production lines to be sent from the Angel Empire, and the races begin manufacturing weapons and pooling resources.
• The Wright Race is temporarily secure, but the Meida rebellion and the broader war continue to strain the Angel Empire, leaving its western vassals with limited support.

Character developments and interactions

• Jim shows caution and strategic humility: he recognizes Daochen as a threat the Angels cannot readily defeat and favors restraint over pride.
• Daochen demonstrates long-term strategic thinking, expanding carefully, building up allies, and preventing internal conflicts while keeping the Gene Alliance’s aggression in check.
• The Ant Race Overlord accepts Daochen’s guidance and turns from confrontation toward development.
• Kevin responds pragmatically to the Ghoul invasion, organizing neighboring races and securing equipment despite the Angel Empire’s inability to send troops.
• The Angel Empire’s leadership, through its withdrawal and limited supply support, reveals both its fear of Daochen and the pressure imposed by simultaneous crises.

Significant themes

• Pragmatism over pride: the Angels retreat because provoking Daochen could be disastrous.
• Preparation and coalition-building: Daochen and Kevin both prioritize resources, production, and cooperation over reckless fighting.
• Strategic restraint: the Ant Race is urged to tolerate the Gene Alliance’s encroachment until the time is right.
• The costs of overextension: the Angel Empire’s many conflicts leave its frontier vulnerable to the Abyss Empire’s invasion.

Key plot points and events

• Jim Owen arrives in Wright territory to inspect its stability and recruit forces for the Angel Empire’s campaign to quell unrest in the west.
• Kevin explains that Wright defenses have held against the Ghoul Clan largely thanks to Angel-supplied Primordial God puppet production lines, but the Wrights lack enough lines and puppets for a larger war.
• Jim proposes establishing a research and production center to manufacture Primordial God production lines. Because the technology is classified, he applies to the Angel Empire’s Command Center and volunteers to supervise the facility.
• Despite concerns about security and a lack of available Imperial supervisors, the Command Center approves the center after Jim signs confidentiality regulations.
• Construction begins in Wright territory. Jim announces he will remain there to oversee and protect it.

Character developments

• Jim Owen moves from inspecting and coordinating military support to taking personal responsibility for a sensitive technological project. He recognizes the risks of exposing the production-line technology—especially since it could strengthen the Independent Alliance—but judges that action is necessary to stabilize the western region.
• Kevin remains deferential toward the Angel Empire but becomes more openly focused on the Wrights’ need for greater manufacturing capacity. He welcomes the research center as a major step toward defending his people.

Significant themes

• Security versus necessity: Classified technology could be dangerous if leaked, yet the crisis in the west makes expanding production seem essential.
• Imperial dependence and ambition: The Wrights rely on Angel support, while increased access to technology promises them greater military strength.
• Responsibility and risk: Jim accepts personal oversight of the center, tying his reputation and potential consequences to its security.

Character interactions

• Kevin respectfully reports the Wrights’ defenses and production shortages; Jim listens, reassures him, and offers to coordinate a solution.
• Jim negotiates with the Command Center, persisting despite its warnings and lack of staffing until approval is granted.
• Kevin praises Jim’s influence and pledges protection for the facility, while Jim insists on strict security and says he will personally remain on site.

Plot points

• Core Brain tells Demon Emperor Daochen and the Ant Race Overlord that an angel envoy has established a research center among the Wright Race, developing a production line for Primordial God Puppets.
• The Wright Race is powerful and loyal to the Angel Empire, so the Independent Alliance cannot take it on alone. But the ghouls are also preparing an assault, creating a chance for the Alliance to raid the facility amid the confusion.
• The three Overlords lead an elite force to meet Spirit Realm Teacher and the Borderland Alliance, where many races are gathering to plan an attack.
• Spirit Realm Teacher publicly announces his plan to establish the Borderland Empire and frames taking the Wright Race as its first major step.
• The coalition waits for a stronger force to create an opening. The Ghoul Clan and the Meida Race eventually launch a joint attack on the Wright Race.

Character developments and interactions

• Core Brain is eager to obtain the puppet technology and persuades the other Overlords to join the operation, while recognizing the risks of the Wright Race’s strength and possible advance warning.
• Demon Emperor Daochen is intrigued by the opportunity but remains skeptical of the Borderland Alliance’s military capacity and Spirit Realm Teacher’s ability to lead a major empire.
• Spirit Realm Teacher shifts from quiet preparations to openly declaring his opposition to the Angel Empire and inviting the gathered races to unite under a future Borderland Empire.
• Core Brain urges Daochen to respect Spirit Realm Teacher’s standing and strength, though Daochen remains unconvinced.

Significant themes

• Opportunity amid chaos: Several powers target the Wright Race, and the Independent Alliance hopes to exploit the ensuing conflict.
• Ambition and political unity: Spirit Realm Teacher seeks to turn a loose coalition of smaller races into an empire.
• Power and credibility: Grand plans and institutional recognition matter less, in Daochen’s view, than the military strength needed to realize them.
• Competing empires: The maneuvering reflects a broader struggle against both the Angel Empire and the Abyss Empire.

Key plot points and events

• The Wright Race is under pressure from the Ghouls and the Meida Race. Its large force of Primordial God puppets has held the attackers back so far, but the Ghouls exploit a weak point on the western border and head for the research and development center.
• Kevin rushes to reinforce the western front, while the Wright Overlord musters more puppets. Soon, the eastern and northern defenses also come under heavy attack from Ghouls supported by Perfect Gods and their own Primordial God puppets.
• Jim Owen goes to the eastern front, confident that his Angel Judgment can defeat the enemy’s powerful fighters. The Wright Overlord follows him, leaving the research center poorly defended.
• The Spirit Realm Teacher opens a passage, allowing Ling Jing and a group of Frontier Overlords to enter the research center and overwhelm its remaining guards. Their real target is its technical storage center.
• Demon Emperor Daochen reasons that the Angel Race may hide its most important technology in plain sight. He identifies the research hall as the likeliest location and leads the Core Brain and Ant Race Overlord in collecting conspicuous objects, including a special lamp that performs a version of Sacred Light Baptism. He suspects the storage center may be hidden among the hall’s equipment—or even inside its large display screen.

Character developments and interactions

• Kevin recognizes the danger of the western breach and acts quickly, though Jim privately faults him and the Wright Overlord for failing to prepare adequate contingency plans.
• Jim Owen remains confident in Angel power but is frustrated with the Wright leaders for hoarding production lines, which has alienated other races.
• The Wright Overlord is shocked by the simultaneous crises and joins Jim at the front, unintentionally leaving the research center vulnerable.
• Demon Emperor Daochen demonstrates careful, unconventional reasoning. The Core Brain and Ant Race Overlord trust his judgment and follow his plan, even when they initially doubt that ordinary-looking objects could be valuable.
• Ling Jing coordinates the raid, while the Ghouls’ assault serves as a deliberate feint that creates the opening.

Significant themes

• Strategic misdirection: The Ghouls’ attacks draw defenders away while the Frontier Overlords strike the real target.
• The cost of hoarding: The Wright Race’s refusal to share production lines weakens its alliances and leaves it with fewer willing allies.
• Overconfidence and vulnerability: The Angel Empire and Wright Race possess formidable power, but their commitments, assumptions, and poor preparation expose critical weaknesses.
• Technology hidden in plain sight: The search hinges on the idea that advanced technology may be concealed in ordinary or conspicuous objects.

Key events

• The other Frontier Overlords leave the small research center to search elsewhere, dismissing Demon Emperor Daochen’s scavenging.
• Once they are gone, Daochen reveals a hidden entrance. Suspecting the Wright Race has concealed researchers with valuable technical knowledge, he finds a group working below and secretly transports the researchers to another world through a spatial passage.
• The Overlords reunite without finding the technology storage center. The Spirit Realm Teacher warns that the Angel Race is returning, and everyone evacuates.
• At Borderland Alliance headquarters, the Spirit Realm Teacher announces that the Alliance will keep the roughly thousand production lines recovered during the mission and use them to make and sell Primordial God puppets. Other Overlords protest, but he threatens military punishment for defying the decision. The group disperses, and the Alliance’s unity is effectively broken.
• Daochen’s party returns to its independent alliance and examines their finds, including a measuring cup made from advanced composite material and a nurturing lamp that benefits the Ant Race.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen shows strategic foresight: he predicts the researchers may be more valuable than the storage center, conceals his plan from the other Overlords, and secures the researchers. He remains pragmatic afterward, accepting that different groups have gained different things.
• The Spirit Realm Teacher shifts from a warm, conciliatory figure to an openly authoritarian leader when challenged, enforcing the Alliance’s decision through threats.
• The Core Brain recognizes the Alliance’s exploitation of the group and criticizes its plan to turn the Overlords into customers. Daochen counters that everyone has their own opportunities, though he also predicts the Alliance’s policy will breed resentment.
• The Ant Race Overlord eagerly presents the nurturing lamp, prompting Daochen to question why Wright Race researchers possess technology associated with gene-based races.

Significant themes

• Knowledge and strategic advantage: The hidden researchers may be more valuable than the technology the Overlords originally sought.
• Power and exploitation: The Alliance uses collective danger to acquire production lines, then claims exclusive control and threatens its partners.
• Trust and fractured unity: The dispute reveals that shared missions do not guarantee shared rewards; resentment dissolves the Alliance’s cohesion.
• Curiosity and discovery: Daochen’s fascination with the recovered devices reflects the broader importance of understanding and adapting unfamiliar technology.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen gathers several hundred Wright Race scientists and demands access to their technology for producing primordial god puppets.
• The scientists refuse to reveal the secrets, warning that doing so could expose their people to destruction. They propose instead to bring in Wright Race workers to build production lines under supervision.
• Daochen accepts, but insists on a large workforce and access to core technology within a thousand years.
• The Wright Race receives approval from its Overlord and sends technicians through a spatial passage. Daochen screens them and settles them in Human Sovereign Fuxi’s territory, protected by the Human Race’s fortune and the Heavenly Dao.
• Some technicians quickly try to communicate beyond the blockade. Daochen lets them make futile attempts while the Heavenly Dao and Human Path monitor them.
• Meanwhile, their work is secretly observed and copied into the Mechanical Race. By the time the first production line is finished, Daochen has replicated the technology. He seals the workers’ area and treats them as a source of free labor.

Character developments

• Daochen shows patience and strategic cunning: he appears to compromise, but intends to obtain the technology through surveillance and replication.
• The bespectacled scientist and Wright Race technicians demonstrate loyalty to their people and resistance to coercion, though they ultimately accept a compromise to avoid worse consequences.
• Human Sovereign Fuxi acts as a reliable overseer, reporting attempts to evade the restrictions.

Significant themes

• Pragmatism and deception: Daochen’s agreement is a façade; he prioritizes results over the other side’s conditions.
• Loyalty and collective survival: The Wright Race protects its strategic secrets to avoid endangering its entire people.
• Power and surveillance: The Heavenly Dao and Human Path make escape and communication nearly impossible.
• Technology as strategic power: The production lines are valuable because primordial god puppets could alter the balance of war.

Character interactions

• Daochen confronts the scientists, who resist through negotiation rather than open defiance.
• Their proposed labor arrangement becomes a bargain: they provide workers and production lines, while Daochen grants them a controlled place to work.
• Fuxi keeps Daochen informed about the technicians’ misconduct, while Daochen relies on the world’s protective forces to contain them.

Key plot points and events

• The Demon Emperor rapidly expands production of Primordial God Puppet production lines, trading them to the Wisdom and Ant Races for resources. The resources go directly to Wright Race technicians rather than being kept as profit.
• The three allied races avoid conflicts and focus on developing their puppet forces.
• The Wright Overlord grows alarmed after more than ten million of his people sent to track the missing technology disappear without a trace. Under pressure from Kevin and Jim Owen, he considers breaking with the Angel Empire.
• Meida Race envoys persuade the Wright Race that an alliance with the Abyss Empire could help it resist both exploitation by the Abyss and an Angel Empire invasion. The Wright Overlord agrees to invite the Meida envoy to negotiate.
• Jim Owen, still concealing the loss of the confidential technology from the Angel Empire, sees the Wright–Meida contacts as a chance to blame the Wright Race. Kevin offers to manufacture or gather evidence of their alliance.
• Jim plans to request imperial reinforcements and withdraw from the border, leaving Kevin to handle the situation.

Character developments and interactions

• The Wright Overlord shifts from frustration and uncertainty toward considering defection, pressed by the Meida lobbyists and fear of the Angel Empire’s eventual reckoning.
• Jim Owen prioritizes avoiding punishment over recovering the technology. He welcomes the possibility of framing the Wright Race and admits he is exhausted and wants professionals to take over.
• Kevin supports Jim’s scheme, volunteering to produce evidence that will help transfer blame. He also expects Jim’s departure to make the Wright Race an easy scapegoat.
• The Demon Emperor acts pragmatically, supplying the production lines while directing payment to the technicians.

Significant themes

• Technology as power: The production lines represent a coveted advantage beyond ordinary Great Void technology, widening the gap between races.
• Political opportunism and betrayal: The Wright Race weighs switching sides, while Jim and Kevin exploit its possible defection for their own protection.
• Scapegoating and self-preservation: Rather than face responsibility for the lost technology, the Angel Empire’s agents maneuver to shift blame.
• Strategic restraint: The three races avoid external disputes while building strength, choosing preparation over immediate confrontation.

Key plot points and events

• The Wright Race abandons its vassal status under the Angel Empire and joins the Meida Race’s Abyss Alliance, hoping to avoid a direct clash with the Ghouls while gaining protection. It also offers to sell its primordial-god production-line technology for vast resources.
• Jim Owen reports the rebellion and requests an Angel expeditionary force. The Angel Command Center treats the loss of the western frontier as a relatively minor concern: it authorizes Jim to withdraw safely and sanctions the Wright and Meida Races, but does not send troops.
• At the height of the Angel–Abyss war, a vast divine gate appears in the Great Void, bearing images of both empires and a Yin-Yang symbol. Leaders on both sides order their armies to stop fighting and prepare for the coming divine-gate calamity.
• Centuries later, the Borderland Alliance debates buying the Wright Race’s technology. Its leaders decide that converting resources into primordial-god puppets will improve their security and preserve their future political options.
• The Independent Alliance flourishes during the pause in hostilities, expanding its territory and building a formidable mechanical army. Its leaders remain uneasy about the mysterious gates appearing across multiple worlds.
• Jim Owen arrives to tell the Independent Alliance that the divine-gate calamity—said to occur every hundred thousand years—is imminent, and that all warfare must cease.

Character developments and interactions

• Jim Owen is puzzled by the Angel Empire’s restrained response to the Wright rebellion, but follows orders and later becomes the messenger warning the Independent Alliance.
• The Wright Race’s Overlord pragmatically chooses alliance and protection over continued subordination to the Angel Empire, while seeking to profit from its technology.
• The Borderland Alliance’s leaders weigh immediate resource costs against the long-term value of self-defense and technological independence, ultimately agreeing to buy the production line.
• Demon Emperor Daochen is confident in the Independent Alliance’s growing strength, yet troubled by the gates and the possibility of hidden, powerful beings. He and the other Overlords listen gravely to Jim’s warning.
• The Angel ancestor god and a powerful figure from the Giant Mouth Tribe independently command their respective sides to end the war, underscoring that the calamity overrides ordinary rivalries.

Significant themes

• Pragmatism and shifting alliances: Races choose protection, resources, and survival over loyalty or ideology.
• Technology as leverage: Primordial-god production technology promises both military security and greater political freedom.
• The limits of power: The Independent Alliance’s expansion seems unstoppable, but the divine gates reveal a threat beyond conventional warfare.
• A shared crisis: Former enemies must suspend hostilities and prepare for a danger affecting the wider worlds.

Plot and events

• Jim Owen warns the Demon Emperor that a mysterious catastrophe called the divine gate calamity, also known as the ten-thousand-year blood debt, will threaten every race. Even powerful empires are preparing, but they reveal no details.
• Alarmed by their unusually serious warnings, Demon Emperor Daochen orders the Primordial World and its allies to halt expansion, extract resources, and greatly increase production of primordial god puppets. The Fire Barbarian Race, Fortune Clan, and Clearwater Way comply.
• A thousand years pass without the calamity arriving. In the meantime, the Borderland Empire, which has absorbed more than a thousand factions and recently taken in the Gene Alliance, threatens to invade the Independent Alliance unless it submits.
• Daochen and his allies choose to stand their ground. They believe the Borderland Empire’s puppet forces cannot match the Primordial World’s technological lead, and they prepare to test their strength in war.

Character developments and interactions

• Jim Owen is carrying out the Angel Empire’s warning mission as a chance to redeem himself; he leaves quickly to alert other regions.
• Daochen moves from uncertainty about the calamity to decisive preparation, then responds confidently to the Borderland Empire’s ultimatum. He trusts the Primordial World’s technology, weapons, resources, and growing cultivation strength.
• The Core Brain and Ant Race Overlord share Daochen’s lack of information about the calamity. When the invasion threat comes, the Ant Race Overlord supports meeting it head-on, viewing the war as a chance to assess the enemy.
• The allied races initially find Daochen’s orders bewildering, but accept them because they rely on his puppet-production technology. Over time, they come to see cultivation as essential alongside mass-produced strength.

Significant themes

• Preparation under uncertainty: No one knows what the coming calamity entails, yet the threat drives broad mobilization.
• Technology and cultivation: Puppets offer rapid, mass-produced power, but they do not replace the hard-earned strength needed to survive.
• Empire and expansion: The Borderland Empire’s growing ambition turns consolidation into open aggression.
• Confidence built on progress: Daochen’s faith rests on technological advances and the Primordial World’s steadily strengthening cultivators.

Key plot points and events

• Spirit Realm Teacher, enraged by the Independent Alliance’s defiant reply, orders the Borderland Empire to attack the Great Void Alliance, setting aside his former ties to his students.
• The Borderland Empire sends a vast army of Primordial God Mechanical Puppets toward Ant territory. The Demon Emperor and Ant Race Overlord are initially unsettled by its size, but Core Brain urges them to wait until the enemy is within range.
• The Independent Alliance unleashes its newly tested Annihilation Wave Bombs. The blasts disable and destroy huge numbers of puppets, after which precision laser strikes finish off the immobilized forces.
• The Borderland Empire’s army collapses in confusion. Its commander and surviving troops flee, while the Xenomorph Overlord, embedded among them, realizes how fortunate the Gene Alliance was not to provoke the Independent Alliance.
• The Independent Alliance wins without losing a single soldier. In the aftermath, its leaders discuss the weapon’s success and the need to broaden their military and technological development.

Character developments and interactions

• Spirit Realm Teacher shifts from anger to open hostility, choosing ambition and expansion over his former relationship with the Independent Alliance’s members.
• Core Brain demonstrates strategic patience and confidence in the Alliance’s weapons. After the victory, it cautions against overreliance on puppets and argues for wider research and stronger cultivation.
• Demon Emperor Daochen accepts Core Brain’s criticism, recognizing that he had focused too heavily on manufacturing puppets. He agrees to pursue more balanced development.
• The Demon Emperor and Ant Race Overlord trust Core Brain’s judgment and follow its plan rather than rushing into battle.
• The Xenomorph Overlord witnesses the Alliance’s overwhelming power firsthand and feels relief that the Gene Alliance avoided a conflict with it.

Significant themes

• Technological superiority and preparation: The Alliance’s research turns a seemingly formidable invasion into a one-sided defeat.
• Adaptability and balanced progress: Core Brain argues that no single approach—especially puppet production—is sufficient; technological research and cultivation must advance together.
• Arrogance and miscalculation: The Borderland Empire underestimates the Alliance and pays for it before it can understand how it was defeated.
• Cultivation’s limits and promise: Technology has bottlenecks, while cultivating individuals who reach perfect god status may be exceptionally hard to kill, making their development essential.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• As the Demon Emperor and the Core Brain prepare to attack the Gene Alliance, the Light Gate changes and casts divine light across the Great Void. The light fills the Demon Emperor with hostility toward living beings.
• The Demon Emperor discovers that the light is resurrecting the dead—including creatures who died centuries or millennia ago. The resurrected attack the living, so he orders his Mechanical Puppets to destroy them.
• Realizing the Primordial World may face the same disaster, the Demon Emperor and his allies return to their territories. Across the Primordial Earth, countless dead—including Chaos Demon Gods, Pangu, the Yin-Yang Demon God, and Devil Ancestor Luo Hou—come back to life.
• A powerful outsider, apparently a Grand Ancestor God, awakens. He identifies the Primordial World as a newly ascended microcosm and sends a colossal meteor toward it before departing to find a worthy opponent.
• The Demon Emperor, aided by the fortune golden dragon and Heavenly Dao Hongjun, stops the meteor, but is left severely weakened.
• The Primordial World remains under attack from resurrected beings. Most are manageable, but former Great Void inhabitants are far more dangerous, and the possibility of even stronger revived experts looms.

Character developments

• Demon Emperor Daochen shifts from expansion to crisis management. He recognizes the resurrection as a threat, acts quickly to defend his worlds, and risks his life stopping the meteor.
• The Core Brain and Ant Race Overlord take the disaster seriously and return to protect their own territories.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun intervenes directly, helping the Demon Emperor halt the meteor.
• The awakened outsider is revealed as an immensely powerful, detached figure: he sees the Primordial World as insignificant and leaves in search of a stronger adversary.

Character interactions

• Daochen orders his Mechanical Puppets to exterminate the resurrected within his inner worlds.
• He warns the Core Brain and Ant Race Overlord that he must return to the Primordial World; they agree to defend their own domains as well.
• Daochen calls on the human-path fortune golden dragon and Heavenly Dao for help against the meteor. Hongjun answers by manifesting the Heavenly Dao’s giant hand.

Significant themes

• Death’s instability: The mass resurrection shows that even beings dead for ages may not remain gone.
• The scale of power: The outsider’s casual attack demonstrates how vulnerable a newly ascended world is to beings far beyond its level.
• Collective defense and sacrifice: Daochen and Hongjun combine their power to avert catastrophe, though the effort leaves Daochen badly injured.
• Uncertainty and looming danger: The current crisis is containable, but the possibility of hidden or stronger resurrected beings keeps the threat unresolved.

Plot points and events

• The Primordial World fights the resurrected dead without mercy, recognizing that they are only specters rather than their former loved ones. The Demon Emperor checks whether Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Dijun have appeared, but neither is among the dead.
• The Demon Emperor deploys his mechanical army to clear the threat. When the dead spirits revive after being killed, he orders his forces to seal them instead.
• Sealing does not solve the problem: the spirits grow stronger while contained, with their rate of growth tied to the potential they had in life. One has already reached Overlord level, raising the fear that they may eventually become Primordial Gods.
• At Alliance Headquarters, the Core Brain and Ant Race Overlord report that killing the spirits only slows their growth. The divine light that revived them may be the source of the crisis, but nobody knows how to stop it.
• With no immediate solution, the Demon Emperor proposes joining forces with the Angel Empire and the other races, producing puppets and concentrating on defense to buy time. The leaders agree to take refuge in the Primordial World, accepting that this means abandoning much of their territory and may make it difficult to return to their own worlds.

Character developments and interactions

• Demon Emperor Daochen shifts from trying to eliminate the spirits to recognizing that they may be impossible to destroy by ordinary means. He stays focused under pressure, seeks advice from his allies, and advocates cooperation despite the Primordial World’s rupture with the Angel Empire.
• The Core Brain and Ant Race Overlord share their findings and support the Demon Emperor’s emergency plan. Their exchange shows that their peoples are ready to set aside rivalries to survive.
• The Primordial World’s fighters show their resolve by attacking the revived dead even when they resemble former friends and relatives.

Significant themes

• The persistence of death and memory: The dead resemble loved ones but are only dangerous revenants, forcing the living to distinguish appearance from identity.
• Escalating, uncertain threats: The spirits’ growth makes containment and combat temporary measures rather than lasting solutions.
• Cooperation over rivalry: The crisis compels former adversaries to consider pooling resources and defending together.
• Survival through sacrifice: The alliance’s plan is to buy time, even at the cost of abandoning worlds and territory.

Plot points and events

• The Demon Emperor and his people decide to survive by gathering their three races and bringing as many resources as possible to safety. The process will take centuries, so he sets out alone to reach the Angel Empire and seek a solution.
• Traveling east through the Wisdom Race’s territory, he finds the Dead growing stronger nearer the Angel Empire, with powerful kings and Primordial Gods appearing in large numbers.
• He witnesses the Wright Race fighting across scattered cities, while the more organized Meida Race concentrates its people and resources in a few major cities and uses Ghouls to help defend them. Even the Meida Race, led by someone stronger than a Perfect God, is barely holding its ground.
• At the Meida–Angel border, he finds the region abandoned. He spends a month looting valuable supplies, then continues into the Angel Empire, gathering resources for a hundred years as he avoids the Dead.
• He eventually reaches an immense Angel Empire city under siege. Its walls, air-clearing formations, and long-range weapons keep the Dead out, but he worries the defenses may fail if the monsters grow strong enough.
• Seeing other refugees approach the city, the Demon Emperor pushes through the Dead and climbs the walls. After calling out that his worlds have been destroyed and pleading for entry, the attacks shift away from him. He reaches the top and, like the other survivors, is taken into custody for examination.

Character development

• The Demon Emperor remains resourceful and determined, but his confidence is shaken by the scale of the crisis. The Meida Race’s desperate struggle convinces him that raw strength and preparation may not be enough.
• He shows restraint by leaving the abandoned border region after a month, despite the abundance of resources, and prioritizes reaching the Angel Empire over further plunder.
• His desperation becomes explicit when he pleads for a chance to live and explains the destruction of his worlds.

Character interactions

• The Demon Emperor observes how the Wright and Meida Races respond differently to the threat, comparing their strategies with his own.
• The Angel Empire’s defenders initially fire on him as he approaches, but stop targeting him after he shouts for help. They allow him to climb the wall, then take him and other refugees into custody for screening.

Significant themes

• Survival through sacrifice and preparation: The races must gather people and resources over centuries to endure.
• The spreading, escalating threat: The Dead grow stronger and more numerous, making even powerful civilizations struggle.
• Refuge and displacement: Survivors risk crossing enemy lines in search of safety, while the Angel Empire’s vast city offers protection—but only behind strict defenses and examinations.
• Uncertainty and limits of power: Even immense strength and advanced defenses may only delay the crisis, not defeat it.

Key plot points and events

• After being admitted into the Angel Empire, Demon Emperor Daochen and the other survivors are imprisoned and ordered to accept slave brands in exchange for shelter. The officials threaten to kill anyone who refuses.
• Daochen argues that the group will accept servitude only if the Empire can show a credible way to survive the Divine Gate Calamity. An official explains that the Dead can evolve no further than Perfect Gods, and claims the Empire has the technology, weapons, and powerful fighters needed to repel them.
• Convinced that survival is possible without submission, Daochen and several others break out. The Angel official dismisses their escape attempt, confident none will get away.
• While fleeing west toward his original route, Daochen is intercepted by a Two-Winged Angel who offers to take him on as a follower. Daochen responds with a punch, knocks the angel from the air, evades two more pursuers, and escapes beyond the city walls into the ranks of the Dead.
• The pursuing angels recognize his unusual strength but remain confident in the Empire’s superiority and dismiss Lone Wanderers as limited without a world’s protection. They do not make a serious effort to pursue the escapees.

Character developments

• Demon Emperor Daochen shifts from uncertainty about the calamity to cautious confidence after learning the Dead have a limit. He concludes that cooperation or strong defenses are necessary, but refuses to surrender his freedom when he believes he can survive independently.
• The Angel Empire’s officials and angels are shown as practiced, coercive, and dismissive of outsiders. Their confidence in the Empire’s defenses is matched by a sense of racial and political superiority.
• The other survivors share Daochen’s refusal to be enslaved and demonstrate their strength by breaking out and scattering.

Significant themes

• Freedom versus survival: The survivors must choose between accepting slavery for protection and risking death to remain free.
• Power and collective defense: Daochen recognizes that small groups cannot easily withstand an overwhelming threat alone; alliances and fortified strongholds may be essential.
• Arrogance and prejudice: The Angel Empire treats outsiders as potential slaves or inferiors, underestimating individuals whose abilities challenge its assumptions.
• Hope through knowledge: Learning that the calamity has a limit gives Daochen the confidence to resist rather than submit.

Character interactions

• Daochen challenges the prison official to prove the Empire can offer a genuine path to survival; the official responds with information about the threat and the Empire’s capabilities.
• The official’s coercion prompts Daochen and the others to rebel and escape.
• When an angel offers Daochen a place as a follower, Daochen rejects the condescending offer physically, expressing his contempt for the Empire’s arrogance.
• The pursuing angels acknowledge Daochen’s strength but dismiss its importance, underscoring the gulf between their confidence and their treatment of outsiders.

Plot points and events

• During his escape, Demon Emperor Daochen encounters the disturbance caused by a Grand Ancestor God appearing to challenge Apollo. The battle’s immense power disrupts the magnetic field and Daochen’s sense of direction.
• Daochen flees rather than risk being caught in the conflict. Once clear of the disturbance, he realizes he has traveled northeast and decides to continue west toward the Abyss Empire.
• A giant hand suddenly captures Daochen and several other travelers. Its owner, Hollow Old Devil, takes them to a city filled with ghouls and other races.
• Hollow Old Devil explains that he wants them to learn his cultivation art. It involves refining other souls and housing them within one’s body, a process that usually ends in death.
• Daochen identifies the art’s central obstacle: a person’s own soul instinctively resists the invading souls, making the body likely to collapse. He suggests that someone without a primary soul might succeed.
• Hollow Old Devil says even empty shells have failed. Daochen offers to help find a suitable candidate, and the Devil agrees to accompany him.

Character developments

• Demon Emperor Daochen shows caution by avoiding the clash of supreme powers, then resourcefulness and insight by diagnosing the flaw in Hollow Old Devil’s cultivation method. He turns a dangerous capture into an opportunity to gain the Devil’s cooperation.
• Hollow Old Devil is revealed as immensely powerful and cheerfully reckless: he calls captives “promising” candidates and accepts their deaths as part of the process. Daochen’s analysis intrigues him, though he remains convinced he can improve a successful candidate’s potential.

Character interactions

• Daochen witnesses the Grand Ancestor God’s challenge to Apollo but wisely keeps clear of their impending battle.
• Hollow Old Devil treats Daochen and the other captives as potential inheritors of his art, while another resident warns him about repeatedly ruining gifted candidates.
• Daochen and Hollow Old Devil engage in a shrewd exchange: Daochen explains the soul problem and offers a solution, while Hollow Old Devil responds with interest and agrees to travel with him.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Even formidable figures like Daochen are helpless before beings of vastly greater strength.
• Survival through judgment: Daochen avoids a dangerous fight and uses observation and negotiation to improve his position.
• The cost of ambition: Hollow Old Devil’s cultivation method promises power but subjects practitioners to a lethal struggle between souls.
• Legacy and exploitation: The Devil presents his actions as preserving his race’s cultivation art, while treating captives’ lives as acceptable risks.

Key plot points and events

• Hollow Old Devil threatens Demon Emperor Daochen, insisting he fulfill his promise to find someone capable of cultivating a dangerous technique—or face severe punishment.
• Daochen explains that finding a suitable cultivator will be difficult amid the Dead’s rampage, especially if they must enter the Angel Empire. Hollow Old Devil shares his grievance against the Angels, who have repeatedly blocked his attempts to take disciples.
• Hollow Old Devil gives the others the same ultimatum: cultivate the technique or find him a disciple. They reluctantly agree, hoping to avoid its more dangerous stages.
• Daochen asks whether the Dead can persist forever and how the Ten-Thousand-Year Blood War will end. Hollow Old Devil explains that the Divine Gate must be destroyed, but its divine light needs roughly ten thousand years to fade enough for that to become possible.
• At Daochen’s request, Hollow Old Devil captures several Dead. Daochen dissects one and discovers that divine light within their cells enables their regeneration and resurrection. It replaces their souls by attaching to lingering soul imprints, but is strongly repelled by vitality. Removing the divine light leaves the Dead as lifeless, desiccated corpses.

Character developments

• Demon Emperor Daochen shows caution and ingenuity: he makes a calculated promise to Hollow Old Devil, then investigates the Dead rather than accepting that they are truly immortal.
• Hollow Old Devil remains menacing but reveals a personal, almost comic desire to take disciples and pass on his legacy. He also provides crucial insight into the Divine Gate.
• The other captives agree to cultivate the technique out of fear, while hoping Daochen’s search will spare them from having to progress further.

Significant themes

• The cost of survival: characters accept dangerous obligations to escape immediate threats.
• Investigation against despair: Daochen’s experiments suggest the Dead’s apparent immortality has a mechanism—and potentially a weakness.
• Power and coercion: Hollow Old Devil uses overwhelming force to impose his demands.
• The long struggle against catastrophe: defeating the Dead ultimately depends on weakening and destroying the Divine Gate, a process that may take ten thousand years.

Character interactions

• Hollow Old Devil threatens Daochen, while Daochen responds respectfully but cautiously.
• Hollow Old Devil and Daochen bond over their distrust of the Angel Empire, though Daochen privately suspects Hollow Old Devil’s motives are strange.
• Daochen’s demands put pressure on the other captives, who resent his confidence but have little choice.
• Hollow Old Devil assists Daochen’s investigation by capturing the Dead, allowing Daochen to uncover the divine light’s role in their resurrection.

Plot points and events

• While studying the strange beings, Demon Emperor Daochen discovers that their Divine Light souls can recover after being extinguished. He concludes they cannot be truly destroyed; extinguishing the Divine Light is the only way to free them.
• Old Devil Kong urges Daochen to stop researching and find him a disciple. Daochen proposes consulting the Void Soul Race, experts in soul research.
• Daochen suspects the great powers may be concealing the Divine Gate Calamity—and wonders whether they use it to purge smaller races from the Great Void World.
• The pair travel through Angel Holy Cities. Daochen spends three days in each city reading its library, risking discovery by the Angel Empire’s powerful experts.
• In the Void Soul Race’s territory, they seize its Overlord. Daochen believes the Overlord’s unusually strong body may withstand Old Devil Kong’s cultivation technique.
• The Overlord appears to surrender his body, then reveals that his race’s souls are strongest outside their bodies. He unleashes soul power on the level of a Grand Ancestor God, while the local Heavenly Dao binds Daochen and Old Devil Kong and drags them toward a soul abyss.
• Old Devil Kong tears through the Laws with a blast of soul light and rescues them. They flee, taking the Overlord’s bodily shell with them.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen remains curious and methodical, but his investigations deepen his suspicion of the major races. He relies on knowledge and planning, though he is surprised by the Void Soul Race’s trap.
• Old Devil Kong is impatient to find a disciple, yet proves alert and powerful in a crisis. He warns Daochen about lingering in Holy Cities and saves them from the soul abyss.
• The Void Soul Race’s Overlord shifts from seeming captive to confident attacker, using his race’s soul abilities to spring an ambush.
• Daochen and Old Devil Kong bicker over knowledge and responsibility, but cooperate quickly when trapped.

Significant themes

• Knowledge and uncertainty: Daochen’s vast learning cannot prepare him for every hidden power or secret.
• Hidden threats and mistrust: The concealed calamity and the Overlord’s betrayal reinforce the danger of assuming powerful factions are honest.
• Body versus soul: The Void Soul Race treats the body as a restraint, while Daochen seeks a body strong enough to endure a powerful soul.
• Freedom and destruction: Daochen’s research raises the question of whether beings can be liberated only by extinguishing the force that sustains them.

Plot points and events

• The Demon Emperor and Hollow Old Devil escape the Angel Empire’s binding laws with a special item, then return to the Abyss Empire to test the cultivation technique they came to obtain.
• Other Grand Ancestor Gods in the Angel Empire observe Hollow Old Devil but do not interfere. They regard one another as dangerous rivals, yet are difficult to kill.
• The Demon Emperor and Hollow Old Devil work together to fill an empty vessel with souls. Hollow Old Devil guides the technique through its body, creating a cycle that continually absorbs souls and accumulates their resentment.
• Hollow Old Devil declares the technique successful and rushes off to settle a bet with Water Fiend. The Demon Emperor worries that the vessel may become a destructive monster rather than a useful living being.
• With Hollow Old Devil gone, the others discuss escaping. The Demon Emperor advises them to act quickly if they intend to leave, but stays behind to visit the Great Void God Race’s library.
• Once inside, he feels safe from the sense of being watched: the library is protected from harm and serves as a refuge, though it contains knowledge rather than valuable loot.

Character developments and interactions

• Hollow Old Devil remains eccentric and reckless, but is delighted that his untested technique works and is eager to prove himself right.
• The Demon Emperor is practical and cautious. He questions the technique’s risks, warns the others about escaping, and chooses to investigate the library before leaving.
• The other captives are anxious and divided over whether to escape or seek refuge within the Abyss Empire.
• The Grand Ancestor Gods show mutual wariness: none wants to provoke Hollow Old Devil, but each recognizes the others as potential threats.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Even nearly invincible beings can be constrained by a world’s laws and fear one another.
• Knowledge and cultivation: The technique’s success comes from an unlikely collaboration, while libraries preserve knowledge as a resource beyond material wealth.
• Risk and unintended consequences: A working technique may still produce something dangerous, as the vessel’s growing resentment could turn it into a slaughter puppet.

Key plot points and events

• The Demon Emperor hides in the Abyss Empire’s Library, using hundreds of thousands of doppelgangers to absorb knowledge while Hollow Old Devil drags would-be escapees back into Demon City.
• Hollow confronts the Demon Emperor but cannot attack in the Library, where the Great Void God Race enforces a no-fighting rule. The Demon Emperor also suspects that Hollow’s killing intent is aimed at him.
• The Demon Emperor reasons that the Divine Gate and the threats facing the Primordial World may take thousands of years to reach their worst, giving the worlds time to prepare.
• While studying Abyssal races, the Demon Emperor identifies Hollow as the last survivor of the Skyborne Race, destroyed after Hollow’s reckless attack on the powerful Ghoul Race.
• He proposes exploiting the Ghouls’ vulnerability to genetic collapse by developing a Genetic Weapon, potentially with help from the Virus Alien Race, whose Overlord is his ally. Hollow shows interest, but demands concrete terms rather than promises.

Character developments and interactions

• The Demon Emperor remains cautious and resourceful: he turns confinement into an opportunity to gather knowledge, recognizes the political limits on Hollow’s actions, and negotiates rather than offering help for free.
• Hollow Old Devil is arrogant and hostile toward the clever Demon Emperor, whom he feels made him look foolish. Yet his desire for revenge makes him willing to listen and consider cooperation.
• Their relationship shifts from threat and resentment toward a tentative bargain: Hollow wants revenge, while the Demon Emperor wants tangible compensation.

Significant themes

• Knowledge as power: The Demon Emperor treats learning as preparation and a path to future freedom.
• Cunning versus force: Hollow has immense strength but is restrained by rules and drawn into negotiation with the more strategic Demon Emperor.
• Survival and preparation: The Demon Emperor sees time and accumulated resources as crucial to resisting the Divine Gate and other threats.
• Revenge and its cost: Hollow’s past arrogance led to his race’s destruction, and his present pursuit of vengeance may depend on the very clever person he resents.