Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• The Demon Emperor refuses, for now, to fuse with the Great Void Laws or rush toward a breakthrough. He believes he needs to strengthen his foundation first.
• He agrees to help Hollow Old Devil eliminate the ghouls in exchange for great void essence.
• While studying the Librarian’s collection, he reinforces the cells in his legs. The Librarian advises him to master the Spatial Laws instead, but the Demon Emperor worries that displaying such talent too early would attract powerful enemies.
• Hollow Old Devil delivers a large supply of great void essence. The Demon Emperor selects useful varieties and directs him to capture the Virus Overlord, while sparing the rest of the Virus Alien Race.
• By incorporating the essence into his cells, the Demon Emperor gains extraordinary speed—fast enough to rival the laws themselves and even surpass that of some grand ancestor gods. Rather than flee, he waits for Hollow Old Devil to return.
• Decades later, Hollow Old Devil brings the Virus Overlord. The Demon Emperor apologizes for the coercive “invitation” and asks how work on the Genetic Weapon targeting the Ghoul Clan is progressing. The Overlord produces a bottle of liquid, though its appearance is disturbing.

Character developments and interactions

• The Demon Emperor shows patience and strategic caution: he prioritizes strengthening his foundation, conceals his ambitions, and turns Hollow Old Devil’s bargain into a way to advance his own plans. His new speed gives him a means of escape from stronger foes.
• Hollow Old Devil agrees to supply resources and capture the Virus Overlord, but remains distrustful and threatens the Demon Emperor. He is relieved to find him still waiting when he returns.
• The Librarian warns that leg strength alone cannot provide ultimate speed and offers to shelter the Demon Emperor. The Emperor respectfully rejects a life of safety and confinement.
• The Virus Overlord is frightened by Hollow Old Devil, then relieved to recognize the Demon Emperor. Their interaction suggests the Overlord is involved in developing the weapon against the ghouls.
• Members of the Great Void God Race are impressed by the Demon Emperor’s method and gather to learn from him.

Significant themes

• Strong foundations over rushed advancement: the Demon Emperor believes lasting power must be built carefully.
• Caution and concealed potential: openly displaying exceptional talent can provoke powerful rivals.
• Freedom versus safety: he rejects permanent shelter because a protected but restricted life would lack meaning.
• Power through ingenuity: rather than match stronger beings directly, he develops speed and uses negotiation, resources, and leverage to survive and pursue his goals.

Key plot points and events

• The Source Venom Overlord explains that source venom cannot destroy a species by itself. It must be combined with the target species’ genes and allowed to evolve until it matches them, at which point it can trigger genetic collapse.
• Demon Emperor Daochen orders an experiment and asks Hollow Old Devil to capture mature Ghouls as test subjects.
• Daochen tells the Overlord that they are in a Demon City library run by the Great Void God Race. Though they are prisoners, Daochen believes they are safe there.
• The librarian objects to conducting experiments inside the library, but allows the two to remain while it is temporarily closed. Daochen and the Overlord study instead, with Daochen’s calm demeanor helping the Overlord settle into his work.
• The Overlord asks whether genetic evolution can be advanced beyond its current limits. Daochen says it has inherent constraints compared with cultivation, though it still has significant potential.
• The librarian proposes that the Overlord pursue a symbiotic body: pairing source venom with a high-potential race whose strengths can complement its own. He offers access to his symbiosis experiments and help finding suitable partners if they assist his research.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen remains composed and resourceful, guiding the Overlord toward study rather than immediate experimentation. He also quietly consumes great void essence, claiming it helps him understand it while concealing his true purpose of fusing it into his cells.
• The Source Venom Overlord shifts from unease to absorption in his studies and begins thinking seriously about how his kind can continue evolving.
• The librarian reveals an unexpected enthusiasm for genetic evolution and a willingness to collaborate, especially because the Overlord’s unusual, intelligent source-venom form fascinates him.
• Hollow Old Devil is impatient to begin the experiment, but leaves to capture the Ghouls as requested.
• Daochen and the Overlord share a quiet study session, while the librarian moves from enforcing library rules to offering scientific advice and a potential partnership.

Significant themes

• Limits and new paths of evolution: Genetic evolution has a ceiling, and progress may require combining different forms of life.
• Symbiosis and mutual dependence: A successful partnership can compensate for each side’s weaknesses, but also makes each dependent on the other’s survival and improvement.
• Knowledge as power: The library’s research may provide a way forward where brute experimentation alone cannot.
• Composure amid danger: Daochen’s steadiness helps others focus even while their circumstances remain uncertain.

Plot points and events

• The librarian proposes that the Source Venom Overlord take part in experiments, believing the Overlord could be crucial to advancing gene evolution. Though eager, he offers cooperation rather than forcing the issue.
• Demon Emperor Daochen explains that his companions are wary because they are vulnerable and their lives are effectively under the Abyss Empire’s control. He stresses that they cannot promise successful results.
• The librarian reassures them that the Great Void God Race follows its own laws and seeks reciprocal, orderly cooperation. The group reaches a tentative agreement.
• He leads them to his private laboratory beneath the Library, a vast complex filled with experimental rooms and working duplicates. He warns them not to touch the delicate equipment and promises to provide a separate lab for their work.
• The librarian shares his research on gene evolution, hoping genetically evolving races can surpass the Great Void God realm without having to turn to cultivation. He also says he will handle the “old devil” and wants to make a Gene Collapse Elixir.
• The Source Venom Overlord is thrilled by the research materials, which might help his weak race evolve and compete with stronger groups. Daochen recognizes their value and memorizes them for the Independent Alliance.
• The librarian ultimately reveals that his chief interest is their help with a symbiote experiment.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen acts as negotiator and protector, voicing the Overlord’s concerns while pragmatically acknowledging their limited freedom. He also thinks strategically about how the research could benefit the Alliance.
• The Source Venom Overlord shifts from suspicion to excitement upon seeing the research, while remaining conscious of his race’s weakness and dependence on protection.
• The librarian presents himself as courteous and principled, sharing valuable knowledge and promising safeguards, but his intense curiosity—and his covertly listening in on the group—makes him seem somewhat intrusive.
• Daochen and the Overlord rely on their long-standing ties; Daochen’s words to the librarian are also meant to persuade his hesitant companion.

Significant themes

• Power and constrained choice: The group agrees partly because they are dependent on the Abyss Empire for survival.
• Trust and reciprocity: The librarian argues that fair cooperation and consistent laws can build trust, though the imbalance of power remains.
• Scientific progress and equality: His research aims to help gene-evolving races escape permanent subordination to stronger cultivator races.
• Knowledge as strategic power: The materials could strengthen not only the Source Venom race but the wider Independent Alliance.

Key plot points and events

• Lord Ying, a member of the Great Void God Race, introduces himself to the Demon Emperor and agrees to help the Source Venom Overlord carry out Hollow Old Devil’s genetic-weapon experiment.
• Lord Ying and the Source Venom Overlord work intensely on the experiment, arguing over technical details. The Demon Emperor soon leaves them to it and focuses on his own cultivation.
• He continues evolving his body by absorbing Great Void Laws, aiming to become so physically powerful that he needs little support from those laws. His approach is highly individual and difficult for anyone else to imitate.
• The genetic weapon proves effective: Ghouls begin breaking down across their clan. Hollow Old Devil, who originally sought revenge against them, is delighted by the weapon’s impact and comes to value technology, though he has no interest in conducting research himself.
• After three thousand peaceful years, the Demon Emperor has completed about eighty percent of his bodily evolution. His enormous consumption of Great Void Essence has depleted local supplies and driven prices sharply upward.
• Unable to obtain more, he decides to return to the Primordial World. He reveals that he had stayed in the Library partly because Hollow Old Devil’s supply runs were convenient—not because he feared leaving.
• The Demon Emperor departs at astonishing speed, leaving convincing afterimages. Hollow Old Devil realizes that his displayed strength may have been only a tiny fraction of his real capability.
• Three years later, the Demon Emperor reaches the Primordial World. He chooses not to open a spatial passage, since it could leave traces that might expose the world’s location.

Character developments and interactions

• Demon Emperor Daochen becomes more confident in his unique path of bodily evolution and displays far greater speed than Hollow Old Devil expected. He remains practical, using the Library’s resources while they are available, then returning home when supplies run out.
• Hollow Old Devil shifts from treating the researchers mainly as useful allies to regarding them as friends. The success of the genetic weapon also deepens his respect for technology and gives him a way to strike at the Ghouls without risking his life.
• Lord Ying and the Source Venom Overlord are portrayed as absorbed, combative researchers: they freely argue and insult each other over the science, temporarily forgetting their differences in status and cultivation.
• Hollow Old Devil warns Daochen that leaving could be dangerous and that he might capture him; Daochen brushes off the concern with humor and confidence.

Significant themes

• Technology and revenge: Scientific research gives Hollow Old Devil a devastating way to harm his enemies, changing how he thinks about technology.
• Individual paths to power: Daochen’s bodily evolution is presented as a unique method that others cannot simply copy.
• Hidden strength and misjudgment: Daochen’s speed makes Hollow Old Devil reconsider how little he may have seen of the Emperor’s true power.
• Caution and security: Daochen avoids spatial travel not because it is difficult, but because leaving detectable traces could endanger the Primordial World.

Plot and events

• The Independent Alliance is struggling against the Dead, whose leaders have reached primordial godhood and may soon become great accomplishment gods. Fuxi, the Wisdom Race’s Core Brain, and the Ant Race Overlord have kept the Alliance alive, aided by technology and the Demon Emperor’s influence and research sent from the Abyss Empire.
• Three years later, Demon Emperor Daochen returns to the Primordial World. He reunites briefly with Nüwa and their children, then thanks Fuxi and the Wisdom and Mechanical Races for sustaining the Alliance.
• Daochen brings Genetic Blueprints collected in the Abyss Empire and plans to use them to advance the Ant Race, which is poised to become the Alliance’s main fighting force. He judges that technology has reached its current ceiling, while cultivation remains slow to mature.
• He also proposes elevating the Source Poison Race within the Alliance, despite the resource burden. The other leaders agree, recognizing that the Source Venom Overlord’s research could aid their future development.
• After sending the leaders away, Daochen speaks with the cultivators of the Great Void Alliance, urging them to train relentlessly and make the most of their time.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen returns as a grateful but decisive leader: he acknowledges others’ sacrifices, prioritizes the Ant Race’s evolution, and makes room for the Source Poison Race as a long-term investment.
• Nüwa and the children welcome Daochen warmly, offering a brief family reunion amid the Alliance’s crisis.
• Fuxi and the race leaders show loyalty and pragmatism. The Ant Race Overlord readily supports Daochen’s proposal, while the Wisdom Race Overlord agrees despite receiving little immediate benefit.
• The cultivators recognize their comparative weakness and accept Daochen’s advice, grateful that his leadership has helped them survive.

Significant themes

• Cooperation and shared sacrifice: The Alliance’s survival depends on different races contributing what they can, even when a decision benefits some more than others.
• Uneven paths to power: Technology and genetic evolution advance quickly, while cultivation demands patience and sustained effort.
• Leadership and long-term planning: Daochen shifts the Alliance’s strategy toward the races and research most likely to strengthen it in the future.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen returns to the Primordial World and recounts his travels, revealing that even Primordial Gods are low-ranking in the wider universe. He urges everyone not to rush into breakthroughs: steady cultivation and a strong foundation matter more than quickly reaching a higher realm.
• The human-path fortune golden dragon detects a faint, book-scented aura left on Daochen by Lord Shadow. Daochen identifies it, dispels it, and suspects Shadow was using it to track him. Shadow, impressed that the trace was discovered, returns to his experiments.
• The Overlords report that absorbing world power through Incorporating Worlds into the Body strengthens their bodies and raises their cultivation limits. They propose adapting the method for weaker cultivators by dividing worlds into tiny Microcosms.
• Daochen approves the idea, acquires a Nine-Star World, reshapes it according to Primordial World laws, and divides its origin into tens of thousands of portions. The resulting Microcosms are distributed among the Overlords for testing on members of other races.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen shows caution and long-term leadership: he protects cultivators from reckless breakthroughs, investigates Shadow’s trace, and turns the Overlords’ proposal into a practical experiment.
• The Overlords, including Daoist Zhunti, demonstrate initiative by seeking a way to extend bodily cultivation beyond their own ranks.
• The fortune golden dragon proves especially perceptive, detecting an aura that escaped Daochen’s notice.
• Lord Shadow is revealed to have secretly marked Daochen, apparently to monitor his whereabouts; he is surprised by Daochen’s ability to uncover the trace.
• Daochen reassures the gathered cultivators, consults privately with the Overlords, and then works with them to put their proposal into action.

Significant themes

• Patience and sound foundations: progress cannot be forced, and early cultivation choices shape future potential.
• Experimentation and innovation: the Overlords adapt a powerful technique by reducing its intensity for weaker users.
• Leadership and collective effort: Daochen provides a safe environment, while the Overlords contribute ideas and expertise.
• Surveillance and hidden motives: Shadow’s subtle tracking illustrates the persistent mistrust and secrecy among powerful figures.

Key plot points and events

• The Demon Emperor and the Overlords determine that incorporating small worlds into a person’s body requires different amounts depending on both individual constitution and race. They begin applying the process to powerful cultivators in batches, allowing them to use World Power and gradually strengthen.
• Over a hundred years, the alliance captures Nine-Star Worlds to supply the Primordial World. The Demon Emperor reshapes them, but the operation creates many new Dead and becomes increasingly difficult, so the group returns once they have stored enough worlds.
• The Demon Emperor suspects the two great empires may be using the Divine Gate calamity to weaken surrounding Microcosms before launching a major expansion or war. The Primordial World responds by entering a period of quiet cultivation and preparation.
• The Ant Race completes its evolution to primordial-god level and offers to defend the Alliance’s worlds. The Demon Emperor instead directs it to mass-produce troops and conserve resources, keeping expendable puppets on the front line for now.
• The alliance also plans for the coming rise of powerful enemies. The Source Poison Race proposes controlling the Dead as puppets; the Demon Emperor approves research into the idea, despite the risk that the Dead’s growing power could break control.
• Just as preparations are underway, scouts report that remnants of the Borderland Empire are approaching the Alliance’s defenses, pursued by the Dead. Their sudden collapse surprises the Demon Emperor.

Character developments and interactions

• Demon Emperor Daochen emerges as a cautious strategist: he organizes world-gathering and cultivation efforts, anticipates a wider war, and prioritizes building reserves and forces over risking the Ant Race prematurely.
• The Ant Race Overlord expresses gratitude to the Wisdom Race and Primordial World for helping his people survive, and commits the Ant Race to large-scale troop production.
• The Source Poison Race contributes a new strategic proposal based on its Overlord’s symbiote research. Daochen responds enthusiastically and instructs the Wisdom and Mechanical Races to develop control technology together.
• The Overlords and races cooperate closely, sharing expertise and resources under Daochen’s leadership.

Significant themes

• Preparation against uncertainty: The alliance strengthens its foundations because it expects a larger conflict, even without knowing when or how it will begin.
• Cooperation and ingenuity: Different races contribute distinct strengths—cultivation, technology, genetics, and control methods—to collective survival.
• The cost of power: Capturing worlds and fighting the Dead can create further threats, while the Dead’s continual growth makes them difficult to control.
• Adaptation and survival: Both individuals and entire races must evolve in ways suited to their circumstances.

Key plot points and events

• Facing the Dead, the Demon Emperor initially refuses to rescue the Spirit Realm Race, since the Independent Alliance is struggling to survive itself.
• The Spirit Realm Teacher arrives and appeals to their former teacher-student bond. He admits he was wrong and offers to make the Spirit Realm Race a subordinate race of the Primordial World.
• The Ant Race Overlord persuades the Demon Emperor to help. The Demon Emperor accepts, though he asks what became of the other peoples of the Borderland Empire; the Teacher says they scattered and are now lost.
• The Xenomorph Overlord appears, revealing that he followed the Spirit Realm survivors to take advantage of their breakthrough through the Dead. He begs the Alliance to accept his people, offering them as a slave race.
• The Ant Race Overlord agrees to rescue the Xenomorphs as slaves, judging that he can control them and that their valuable genes could help the Ant Race overcome its evolutionary bottleneck. He offers the possibility of eventual freedom if they serve well.
• The Spirit Realm Teacher worries that his people may also have to become slaves, but the Demon Emperor confirms they can join the Independent Alliance as a subordinate race and may later become full members.
• After the groups agree, the Alliance’s Primordial God Puppets and powerful Primordial God Ants break through the Dead’s ranks, astonishing the Spirit Realm Teacher and Xenomorph Overlord.

Character developments

• Demon Emperor Daochen moves from reluctant refusal to accepting the rescue, partly because of the Teacher’s plea and the Alliance leaders’ support. He also treats his former teacher with compassion despite their troubled past.
• The Spirit Realm Teacher acknowledges his past mistakes and regrets having targeted Daochen. His people’s desperate plight has made him humble and willing to accept subordinate status.
• The Ant Race Overlord balances old hostility toward the Xenomorphs with a desire for their useful genes. He chooses control and potential benefit over extermination.
• The Xenomorph Overlord abandons his former arrogance and seeks survival at any cost, accepting slavery for his people.
• The Core Brain and Ant Race Overlord recognize that Daochen is likely to be swayed by a personal appeal, helping guide the decision.

Significant themes

• Survival and compromise: Endangered races accept subordinate or slave status to avoid extinction.
• Regret and reconciliation: The Spirit Realm Teacher confronts the consequences of his past behavior and seeks forgiveness.
• Power and responsibility: The Ant Race’s strength gives it the ability to shelter—and control—weaker peoples.
• Pragmatism amid crisis: The Alliance weighs compassion against self-preservation and strategic advantage.

Character interactions

• The Spirit Realm Teacher’s appeal to Daochen’s shared past prompts the rescue decision and opens the way to reconciliation.
• The Ant Race Overlord supports rescuing the Spirit Realm Race and negotiates the Xenomorphs’ entry under Ant control.
• Daochen reassures the Teacher that the Spirit Realm Race will be treated as an Alliance subordinate rather than a slave race.
• The Teacher and Xenomorph Overlord react with disbelief when they see how far the Ant Race has evolved.

Key plot points and events

• The Ant Race Overlord argues that the Independent Alliance needs its newly gained strength to withstand the Dead, an army of primordial gods. The Xenomorph Overlord and Spirit Realm Teacher enter the Alliance and see its unusual culture: different races cooperate as equals.
• The Alliance gives the Xenomorphs an underground city and the Spirit Realm Race the space above it. The Xenomorphs must surrender their origins, and their reproduction will be supervised by the Ant Race. They agree to hibernate when not needed, asking only that their race be preserved.
• The Spirit Realm Race is assigned to produce Primordial God Puppets using production lines, while the Spirit Realm Teacher accepts the role as atonement for his past responsibility.
• After examining Xenomorph genes, the Ant Race Overlord concludes that they could help the Ant Race reach the great accomplishment god level. Though extraction will severely harm the Xenomorphs, Demon Emperor Daochen orders it to proceed after enough eggs have been laid to preserve the species.
• The Core Brain points out that Spirit Realm Passages could help the Alliance gather resources and evacuate. Daochen proposes using them to establish hidden bases and avoid a direct fight with the Dead. Since the passages have limited range, he says he can evacuate everyone himself if needed, hinting at his secret ability to carry a world within his body. The Alliance decides to prepare a second and third base.

Character developments and interactions

• The Xenomorph Overlord accepts the Alliance’s restrictions and subordinates his people to the Ant Race, prioritizing their survival.
• The Spirit Realm Teacher willingly cooperates and frames his service as atonement.
• Demon Emperor Daochen shows ruthless pragmatism: he places the Alliance’s survival above the welfare of the Xenomorphs, while also planning flexible defenses and fallback options.
• The Ant Race Overlord sees the Xenomorphs as a major source of genetic potential but hesitates over the harm extraction will cause.
• The Core Brain contributes strategic uses for the Spirit Realm Race’s abilities, prompting Daochen to develop a broader defensive plan.

Significant themes

• Survival over individual welfare: The Alliance is willing to sacrifice a subordinate race to gain a decisive advantage.
• Subordination and obligation: Both newly joined races accept strict roles in exchange for protection and continued existence.
• Cooperation across differences: The Alliance’s relative equality and collaboration contrast with the newcomers’ more hierarchical expectations.
• Adaptation and strategic flexibility: Rather than fight the Dead head-on, the Alliance considers resource-gathering, hidden bases, and evacuation.

Key plot points

• Demon Emperor Daochen supports building additional bases, but rejects moving the entire alliance because doing so could damage the Primordial World’s intelligent Heavenly Dao—a force vital to the world’s future.
• With the Xenomorph Overlord’s consent, the alliance begins extracting Xenomorph genes to help the Ant Race evolve. The Overlord accepts the personal cost and asks that his race’s seeds be protected; Daochen promises they will survive.
• The Independent Alliance starts constructing its second and third bases. Using the Spirit Realm Race’s teleportation, it reaches former Borderland Empire territory and begins building the second base with mechanical puppets.
• Daochen questions why the Borderland Empire never used the Spirit Realm Race’s transport abilities. The Spirit Realm Teacher explains that its members hoard resources, avoid cooperation, and feud internally.
• While construction proceeds, Daochen searches the Angel Empire’s Divine Network for reliable information about the Divine Gates. He dismisses several rumors and encounters a user offering supposed evidence for payment, whom he suspects is a scammer.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen shows both strategic resolve and moral restraint: he accepts the gene experiments as necessary, but insists on protecting the Primordial World’s Heavenly Dao. He also continues his long-running investigation into the Divine Gates.
• The Xenomorph Overlord willingly sacrifices his strength for the alliance’s survival, while prioritizing the continuation of his people. His appeal reveals a desire for the alliance to recognize and safeguard his race.
• The Spirit Realm Teacher openly acknowledges Daochen’s leadership, contrasting the Independent Alliance’s cooperation with the Borderland Empire’s dysfunction. Daochen deflects the praise.
• Daochen’s exchanges with Angel Empire network users underline how difficult it is to distinguish useful intelligence from boasting and deception.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and survival: The Xenomorphs accept a painful cost to strengthen the alliance, while asking that their people endure.
• Leadership and cooperation: The Independent Alliance succeeds through trust, discussion, and decisive leadership; the Borderland Empire falters through selfishness and infighting.
• Responsibility to the wider world: Daochen’s refusal to evacuate everyone reflects his commitment to preserving the Primordial World’s Heavenly Dao.
• Truth amid uncertainty: Daochen’s search for the Divine Gates’ origins highlights the danger of relying on rumor while facing a potentially world-ending threat.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen asks an anonymous Divine Network contact why they believe the Divine Gate originated with the Angel Empire. The contact explains that the Gate resembles the Angels’ reincarnation pool: the dead return, immortal and with their memories intact.
• After Daochen pays for the information, the contact reveals a history of the Great Void. The Great Void God Race created worlds to escape its loneliness; the Angel and Abyss worlds eventually grew into powerful empires.
• According to the account, the Angel Empire and Abyss Empire joined their reincarnation pool and demon nest to create the Divine Gate, using it to purge other races. The Ten-Thousand-Year Blood War is supposedly a prelude to their later assault on the surviving peoples.
• Daochen concludes that the Angels hidden in the Angel Holy City—not merely the dead currently confronting them—are the real enemy. Though the truth makes resistance seem hopeless, he resolves not to accept extermination.
• He accelerates preparations: leaving the Spirit Realm Teacher to supervise the Second Base, he goes to establish the Third and Fourth Bases. He deploys Mechanical Puppets to build underground facilities and collect resources, captures descending Nine-Star Worlds, reshapes them into Microcosms, and has their inhabitants practice Incorporating Worlds into the Body.

Character developments

• Daochen moves from years of uncertainty to a grim understanding of the apparent threat. His despair gives way to determination and a more proactive strategy.
• He recognizes that survival will require gathering every available source of power and resources.

Character interactions

• Daochen’s exchange with the anonymous contact begins as a paid inquiry; the contact admits they first intended to swindle him but then shares what they call the real story.
• Daochen assigns the Spirit Realm Teacher responsibility for the Second Base while he expands the network of bases.

Significant themes

• Resistance in the face of overwhelming power: Daochen chooses to fight despite believing the enemy’s plan may be impossible to stop.
• Power, exploitation, and survival: The Divine Gate is presented as a tool for eliminating rival races, while the Demon Emperor’s own seizure and reshaping of worlds reflects the same harsh law of the jungle.
• Knowledge and responsibility: Learning the truth does not give Daochen an easy solution, but it changes his understanding of the conflict and drives him to prepare more urgently.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen struggles to oversee the cultivation of many people using his technique, adjusting the Microcosms they absorb and trying to train an initial group who can teach later practitioners.
• The Dead begin gathering wherever they sense living beings. Daochen evacuates his trainees, then returns to recover three test subjects who survived inside a concealed underground base.
• While establishing more bases, Daochen receives a call for help from the second base. It has been surrounded by the Dead.
• He learns that the Spirit Realm Teacher rescued Borderland Empire survivors—elite members of different races and their dependents—who were under attack. Their presence drew an ever-growing horde.
• Daochen summons Mechanical Puppets to clear the Dead, losing many Puppets in the fight.
• The Spirit Realm Teacher urges Daochen to rescue and recruit other surviving groups, even suggesting they be kept as slave races. Daochen objects that they could be disloyal or hostile.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen is shown as a resourceful but cautious leader. He prioritizes evacuation and concealment, then uses his Puppets to rescue the second base. He is also wary of accepting unfamiliar people without assessing their loyalty.
• The Spirit Realm Teacher acts out of compassion, rescuing former comrades and advocating for other survivors. His benevolence clashes with Daochen’s practical concern about security.
• Daochen and the Teacher cooperate against the Dead, but their exchange exposes a disagreement over whether survival requires broad alliances or strict caution.

Significant themes

• The costs of cultivating power: Daochen’s technique has vast potential but is difficult to master, and training large numbers requires careful supervision.
• Survival and security: The Dead multiply around living communities, making even rescue efforts dangerous.
• Compassion versus pragmatism: The Teacher’s instinct to help survivors conflicts with Daochen’s fear of admitting potential enemies.
• Leadership under uncertainty: Daochen must balance expanding his people’s strength with protecting them from threats both undead and living.

Plot points and events

• After the Angel Empire and Meida Race betray him, Demon Emperor Daochen becomes wary of trusting other races. He agrees to protect refugees if they accept the Independent Alliance’s rules and become its vassals or slave races.
• Daochen and the Spirit Realm Teacher find a small city crowded with survivors. Mechanical Puppets defeat the Dead and rescue them.
• Since taking the refugees to the Primordial World is too risky, Daochen sends the Spirit Realm Teacher to move them to the Third Base. He orders the survivors to build Mechanical Puppet production lines and use their resources to strengthen the alliance.
• Daochen continues south, establishing more bases and searching for survivors. He discovers that many races have endured the Dead through their own ingenuity and resilience.
• Curious about the powerful Dark God Clan, Daochen visits its territory. He sees that the Black-Eyed God Clan corrupts the Dead into puppets, while the Dark Insect Race devours dark ions. The two aggressive races battle along their borders and have little to fear from the Dead.
• Realizing how far beyond his own faction these races are—and believing they would see the Primordial World as insignificant—Daochen abandons plans to approach them. He instead seeks other powerful races still resisting the Dead.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen shifts from suspicion to pragmatic cooperation: he will shelter desperate races, but only under strict Alliance authority. He also grows more aware of his own faction’s limitations after witnessing the Dark God Clan and Dark Insect Race.
• The Spirit Realm Teacher acts as Daochen’s intermediary with the refugees and is entrusted with relocating and organizing them at the Third Base.
• The refugees accept vassalage or slavery as the price of survival, having lost hope of escaping the Dead alone.
• Daochen’s encounters with the two powerful dark races reinforce his caution: rather than risk contact with hostile, predatory powers, he chooses more attainable allies.

Significant themes

• Survival and compromise: The refugees surrender independence to escape extinction.
• Pragmatic alliance-building: Daochen combines protection, labor, and production to strengthen the Independent Alliance.
• Resilience and adaptation: Even under relentless attack, races find distinctive ways to endure.
• Power and humility: Witnessing the dark races’ control over the Dead forces Daochen to reassess his ambitions and his place among the wider powers.

Key plot points and events

• The Demon Emperor classifies the Great Void World’s races into eight ranks, from the Angel and Abyss Empires at the top to newly emerged and resource-gathering races at the bottom.
• While traveling, he tries to unite vulnerable races against the two empires, arguing that they control the Divine Gate Calamity and may use the Ten-Thousand-Year Blood War to clear the way for expansion.
• The Flower God Race challenges him to provide evidence. He recounts the histories of major races and the origins of the Divine Gate, convincing the Flower God Overlord to ally with the Independent Alliance.
• The Demon Emperor shares a “Technology Communicator” so the allies can stay in contact and exchange resources. He continues seeking partners, noting that many fifth-rank races survive partly because the Dark God Clan and Dark Insect Race obstruct the empires—and are themselves rivals.
• A request for help from the Spirit Realm Teacher cuts short his travels. At the Third Base, he finds an unfamiliar race living nearby, apparently unaware of the hidden base, and reports it.

Character developments and interactions

• Demon Emperor Daochen shows strategic patience and urgency: he builds a coalition through discussion, evidence, and practical communication tools, while remaining alert to the danger posed by the empires.
• Flower God Overlord moves from skepticism to trust after hearing Daochen’s account. The Overlord says the Flower God Race can sense his sincerity and pledges firm support if either ally is attacked.
• The Spirit Realm Teacher seeks Daochen’s aid and is reassured when he reports the unfamiliar race. The discovery also prompts concern that the Third Base may eventually be exposed.

Significant themes

• Survival through cooperation: weaker races have little chance alone, making alliances essential.
• Power and exploitation: the ranking system depicts a world where dominant empires consume or subordinate lesser peoples.
• Trust and evidence: shared purpose can build confidence, but claims must be substantiated to persuade others.
• Uncertainty and hidden danger: even remote refuges such as the Third Base may be threatened by unforeseen arrivals.

Plot points and events

• A swift, armored centaur race scouts ahead of a vast Beastfolk migration. When they encounter the Dead, they flee with the resources they have gathered; the undead do not pursue them, suggesting the nomadic Beastfolk have learned to survive by moving quickly and avoiding threats.
• Behind the scouts, numerous powerful Beastfolk races migrate together, including perfect gods. Demon Emperor Daochen approaches their leader, the Beast Emperor, and urges them to stop fleeing and join his forces against the Dead.
• The Beast Emperor explains that repeated disasters taught the Beastfolk that staying in one place means death. He invites Daochen to migrate with them, believing he has a Beast God bloodline.
• Daochen demonstrates his Mechanical Puppets and offers the Beastfolk access to production lines. He also explains that his alliance includes Gene Evolvers powerful enough to help repel the Dead.
• The Beast Emperor doubts puppets alone can keep pace with the Dead’s evolution, but is persuaded by the possibility of combining their forces and using Daochen’s concealed underground base as a refuge.
• The Beastfolk agree to consider settling there, with Daochen promising to help defend the territory. He says his aim is to prevent powerful Beastfolk from dying while endlessly on the run.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen shifts from observing the Beastfolk’s unusual survival strategy to actively negotiating an alliance. He respects their abilities and stresses cooperation rather than conquest, even offering to vacate his base for them.
• The Beast Emperor begins wary and convinced that migration is the only way to survive. Tired of fleeing, he gradually accepts Daochen’s proposal, while remaining realistic about the limits of technology.
• Their exchange is marked by mutual recognition: each identifies the other’s strength, and Daochen sees beyond the Beastfolk’s humble origins to their perseverance and hard-won power.

Significant themes

• Adaptation and specialization: The Beastfolk survive by developing extraordinary strengths, such as the centaurs’ speed and the behemoth’s mastery of strength.
• Cooperation over isolation: The chapter argues that even highly capable groups may need to unite against an evolving threat.
• Survival and perseverance: The Beastfolk’s rise from humble origins reflects endurance through repeated hardship.
• The limits of technology: Mechanical defenses can help, but the Dead’s continuing evolution makes lasting survival dependent on more than machines alone.

Plot points and events

• The Behemoth Beast Emperor agrees to settle the Beastfolk at the Third Base and defend it for the Demon Emperor. Though the Spirit Realm Teacher doubts that such a diverse, disorderly alliance can cooperate, Daochen argues that the Beastfolk are practiced at working together.
• Daochen gives the Beastfolk the enormous Puppet Army as a sign of trust and support. Once they are settled, Amonvich restores the Beast World’s Laws, giving the Beastfolk a stable environment in which to rebuild and grow.
• Seeing that the Dead are nearing a breakthrough to Great Accomplishment God, Daochen warns the Ant Race to accelerate its evolution. The Ant Overlord says they are close, with the Xenomorphs’ help.
• Daochen urges the Wisdom Race to develop mass-producible superweapons capable of threatening Great Accomplishment Gods. Its Core Brain explains that research has stalled for lack of technical knowledge, and suggests trading with the technologically advanced Light God Clan.
• Daochen obtains the clan’s coordinates, supplies the Primordial World’s races with Microcosm fragments for cultivation, and sets out to reach the Light God Clan—taking a dangerous route through territory controlled by the Abyss Empire.
• He crosses into the Ghouls’ territory while they are fighting the Dead. Impressed by the Ghouls’ strength, he pushes through their defensive line despite their warnings and continues onward.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen shows strategic generosity toward the Beastfolk, while recognizing the approaching danger posed by the Dead. He is willing to take personal risks to secure technology that could protect the Primordial World.
• The Behemoth Beast Emperor is initially stunned by Daochen’s gift but welcomes the chance to rebuild the Beastfolk under safer conditions.
• The Spirit Realm Teacher questions the Beastfolk’s ability to cooperate, but accepts Daochen’s judgment.
• The Ant Overlord reassures Daochen that the Ant Race is racing toward its breakthrough.
• The Wisdom Race’s Core Brain candidly explains its limits and proposes seeking outside expertise.
• The Ghouls confront Daochen as an intruder, but he ignores their threats and presses on.

Significant themes

• Alliance and trust: Daochen’s gift helps turn cooperation into a lasting commitment.
• Adaptation and collective strength: The Beastfolk’s unity is portrayed as a strength despite their many internal divisions.
• Preparation for catastrophe: The growing threat of the Dead drives efforts to evolve, develop weapons, and secure new knowledge.
• Risk for the greater good: Daochen accepts danger because the Primordial World’s future may depend on his mission.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen breaks through the Ghoul Clan’s defensive line and enters their territory, insisting he only wants to pass through. The Ghoul commander, Ghost Cat, is stunned when Daochen vanishes before the defenders can stop him.
• A powerful Ghoul attacks Daochen, but he dodges and keeps fleeing. The pursuer—Ghost Grandson, a Higher-Rank Ghoul and perfect god—cannot close the gap, despite chasing Daochen across the territory.
• After half a month of pursuit, Ghost Grandson begs Daochen to stop, worried about his reputation. Daochen mocks him with a middle finger, provoking him to risk genetic collapse in a forced attempt to advance into a great void god.
• Nearby great void gods stabilize Ghost Grandson’s failing cells, enabling his breakthrough. While Ghost Grandson admires his new power, Daochen has already disappeared; the Ghoul sets off after his lingering aura.

Character developments

• Daochen remains calm, resourceful, and focused on escape. He uses speed and misdirection to keep powerful pursuers occupied and avoid attracting other threats.
• Ghost Grandson shifts from confident hunter to frustrated pursuer, then recklessly risks his life after Daochen humiliates him. His successful breakthrough leaves him stronger but still unable to catch his quarry.
• Ghost Cat and the Ghoul defenders are shocked and angered by Daochen’s effortless breach, which challenges their confidence in their defenses.
• The great void god observers show the Ghoul Clan’s willingness to protect and cultivate promising fighters, helping Ghost Grandson survive his advancement.

Significant themes

• Power and perception: Daochen’s status as a Super Overlord belies his ability to evade much stronger enemies.
• Pride and humiliation: Ghost Grandson’s wounded ego turns a pursuit into a reckless gamble.
• Risk and ambition: His breakthrough demonstrates both the potential and danger of pushing beyond genetic limits.
• Cunning over force: Daochen survives not by defeating every opponent, but by exploiting speed, timing, and distraction.

Character interactions

• Daochen repeatedly claims peaceful intent to the Ghoul defenders and his pursuer, though his actions are driven by the need to escape.
• Ghost Grandson’s pursuit becomes personal after Daochen’s contemptuous gesture, escalating into his dangerous breakthrough.
• A great void god intervenes to stabilize Ghost Grandson, who responds with gratitude, while nearby observers quietly witness the outcome.

Plot points and events

• Ghost Grandson relentlessly pursues the Demon Emperor, enraged by the chase and the Demon Emperor’s taunts. His anger triggers rapid gene evolution, awakening demonic horns and an Abyssal aura.
• Nearby Ghoul powerhouses realize Ghost Grandson has been recognized by the Abyss. Hoping to reproduce his breakthrough, several Great Void God Ghouls join the pursuit.
• A hidden Grand Ancestor God prevents the Demon Emperor from escaping too quickly, seemingly using him to provoke the Ghouls. The Demon Emperor figures this out and plays along, insulting the pursuers, giving them the finger, and striking them with his whip.
• The Ghouls’ genuine fury stimulates their genes, briefly rekindling their stalled evolution. The Demon Emperor recognizes that he has become a “whetstone” for them, though he only wants to cross their territory safely.
• The effect fades once the Ghouls begin getting angry deliberately for the sake of improving their cultivation. Ghost Grandson remains genuinely furious, while the hidden powerhouses debate whether a hotheaded nature may benefit the Ghoul Clan more than intelligence.
• The chapter ends with the Demon Emperor attempting to accelerate beyond his limits—and succeeding.

Character developments

• Ghost Grandson: His pride and temper drive a powerful evolution. Unlike the others, his anger remains sincere and persistent.
• The Demon Emperor: Quickly reads the situation and adapts, deliberately provoking his pursuers to help them evolve while trying to avoid becoming a target.
• The Ghoul powerhouses: They shift from viewing Ghost Grandson’s temper as foolish to considering anger a useful path to gene evolution, though they fail to sustain the effect once they treat it as a technique.

Significant themes

• Emotion and growth: Genuine anger can trigger evolution, but manufactured emotion loses its force.
• Instinct versus intelligence: The Ghouls question whether a hotheaded nature may serve them better than newly acquired cleverness.
• Unintended roles and adaptation: The Demon Emperor turns an imposed chase into an opportunity to influence his pursuers, even as he remains focused on escape.

Character interactions

• The Demon Emperor humiliates the Ghouls, provoking curses and escalating their rage; Ghost Grandson recognizes why the others are so frustrated.
• A hidden Grand Ancestor God restrains the Demon Emperor whenever he tries to flee, effectively steering the chase and using him to stimulate the Ghouls.
• The observing Ghoul elders discuss Ghost Grandson’s unusual persistence and reconsider the value of his temper for their clan.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen continues fleeing through Ghouls’ territory and into Hellhound lands, hoping to cross into the Light God Clan’s territory. Hellhounds grow stronger as they gain more heads, and their attacks do little to slow him.
• Ghost Grandson stubbornly pursues Daochen, furious over the Demon Emperor’s insults and humiliations. Though Daochen remains faster overall, Ghost Grandson’s strength keeps increasing.
• Back in the Primordial World, the Independent Alliance faces a looming threat: Primordial God Kings are evolving toward the Great Accomplishment God realm, and their attacks have temporarily weakened. The Wisdom Race’s Core Brain fears they will soon return with a stronger assault, while the Ant Race still needs time to finish evolving.
• With Daochen absent, the Core Brain takes command and proposes a preemptive counterattack. Human Sovereign Fuxi supports him and leads the Alliance’s forces in sweeping away nearby Primordial Gods.
• The Alliance also clears areas around Daochen’s Third and Fourth Bases, preserving his plans for a future campaign against the Angel Empire. Fuxi learns that the Demon Race can evolve through bloodlines without taking human form, and recognizes the many Beastfolk groups as part of Daochen’s preparations.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen remains focused on escape and largely dismisses Ghost Grandson, despite having provoked him with taunts and degrading behavior.
• Ghost Grandson is driven by wounded pride and becomes steadily stronger during the chase, making him an increasingly persistent pursuer.
• The Core Brain steps into leadership in Daochen’s absence, shifting the Alliance from defense to a calculated offensive.
• Fuxi accepts the Core Brain’s strategic lead and commands the counterattack. Discovering Daochen’s hidden bases and bloodline-evolved forces broadens his understanding of the Demon Emperor’s plans.
• The Ant Race Overlord insists his people will become the Alliance’s main force, but the Core Brain judges that their evolution will not finish quickly enough to address the immediate danger.

Significant themes

• Pride and persistence: Ghost Grandson’s wounded dignity fuels a pursuit that Daochen finds irrational.
• Leadership in crisis: The Alliance must act without its strongest figure, relying on strategy, cooperation, and trust in delegated authority.
• Preparation and contingency: Daochen’s hidden bases and alternative paths for Demon Race evolution reveal the depth of his long-term planning.
• Evolution as both danger and opportunity: The Primordial Gods’ advancement threatens the Alliance, while the Ant Race’s and Demon Race’s evolution may provide ways to counter future enemies.

Key events

• Fuxi recognizes that Beastfolk may represent a slower evolutionary path for the Demon Race, potentially challenging the Demon Race’s belief that cultivating human forms and the Law of Strength is the best route to power.
• With the Kings expected to evolve soon, the Wisdom Race’s Core Brain orders the Primordial God Puppets to gather resources for building Superweapons.
• The Behemoth Beast Emperor confronts Fuxi, alarmed by the Alliance’s forces and puppets. Fuxi warns him that the Kings may become Great Accomplishment Gods within weeks.
• The Beast Emperor explains that this transformation will make the Kings far more dangerous: they will gain independent judgment, actively target those they hate, and require more than sheer numbers to oppose.
• Learning that the Demon Emperor is away seeking technology to create Great Accomplishment God puppets, the Beast Emperor urges retreat. The Core Brain argues instead for preparation and asks why the Beastfolk trusted the Demon Emperor enough to stay.
• The Beast Emperor cites the Demon Emperor’s puppet technology, production lines, possible hidden capabilities, and the Spirit Realm Race’s passages as reasons he believed they had a chance.
• The Core Brain concludes that the Demon Emperor’s deeper purpose is to protect the Primordial Heavenly Dao, which can take form and may be removed from its world.

Character developments and interactions

• Fuxi takes charge of practical preparations and warns the Beastfolk about the looming threat. He is surprised by the Beast Emperor’s panic and by the Core Brain’s insight into the Demon Emperor’s plans.
• The Beast Emperor shifts from bewilderment to fear, revealing his dependence on the Demon Emperor as a source of confidence. Despite his alarm, he explains why he had trusted the Demon Emperor’s strategy.
• The Core Brain emerges as a perceptive strategist: he rejects desperate flight, emphasizes defensive preparation, and infers the Demon Emperor’s ultimate objective. Fuxi’s subtle confirmation strengthens his theory.
• The Demon Emperor, though absent, remains central to the conversation. Both the Beast Emperor and Core Brain interpret his technology, foresight, and concern for the Primordial Heavenly Dao as reasons to keep resisting.

Significant themes

• Evolution and competing paths: Beastfolk development raises questions about the Demon Race’s chosen route to strength.
• Preparation versus flight: The characters debate whether to escape or build defenses and weapons against a rapidly escalating threat.
• Leadership and trust: The Beast Emperor’s confidence in the Demon Emperor sustains the Beastfolk’s willingness to remain.
• Strategy beyond brute force: The coming Great Accomplishment Gods will demand tactics, technology, and coordinated defenses—not merely large armies.
• Protection of a world’s core: The Primordial Heavenly Dao’s unusual capacity for form makes it a vital asset and likely the true reason the Demon Emperor stayed.