Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• The Demon Emperor reports that the Insect Queen and her race have joined the Independent Alliance. Their rapid mutations and strength make them valuable allies, and he expects war to begin soon.
• The alliance prepares for a prolonged conflict: the Wisdom Race will expand westward, absorb other factions, and convert their resources into perfect-god puppets. The Ant Race Overlord also hopes insect genes will help overcome a stalled evolutionary process.
• Daochen sends the people of the Primordial World to the newly accessible Hellhound territory, where they can form contracts with Hellhounds. These companions can share their hosts’ potential, as Nine Heads has done with Daochen.
• Before they leave, Daochen uses accumulated origin essence to advance the Primordial World from a nine-star world into a law world—a smooth transition that unlocks a higher tier of world development.
• The breakthrough also reveals a new path for Daochen: advancing the worlds housed within his body could greatly increase his World Power. He resolves to pursue this alongside his own cultivation, in preparation for the coming Dread God War.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen acts as strategist and patron, organizing the alliance’s preparations and helping the Primordial World’s people gain powerful companions. He also recognizes that his own advancement may be tied to nurturing the worlds within his body.
• The Ant Race Overlord is encouraged by access to insect genes, which may revive the race’s stalled gene-evolution program.
• The Primordial World’s people, including Human Sovereign Fuxi and his companions, eagerly welcome the chance to contract with Hellhounds, having envied Daochen’s bond with Nine Heads.
• Daochen reassesses the Insect Queen. He suspects her vulnerability and apparent innocence may be a façade, given her ability to evade the Angel Empire and unsettle powerful forces.

Significant themes

• Preparation and escalation: Current clashes are portrayed as skirmishes before a potentially all-out war.
• Growth through cooperation: Alliances, shared resources, genetic exchange, and companion bonds create new routes to power.
• Hidden strength and deception: The Insect Queen’s true abilities and motives remain uncertain, prompting Daochen to question his first impressions.
• World-building as cultivation: A world’s advancement can strengthen its ruler and open paths to even greater power.

Key plot points and events

• While Demon Emperor Daochen enters seclusion to absorb origins and strengthen the worlds within him, the Primordial World’s leaders and roughly nine thousand primordial gods visit the Hellhounds to seek contracts.
• Nine Heads explains that Hellhounds choose their partners themselves. A contract lasts for life, and a hound’s growth depends heavily on the potential of its master.
• Fuxi is initially rejected by a powerful Hellhound, but Qingchan quickly wins one over. The Hellhound recognizes her as the Demon Emperor’s daughter, and they complete a contract.
• Qingxuan also secures a contract after persistently pestering a Hellhound and emphasizing his parentage.
• When powerful Hellhounds prove selective, the visitors begin approaching weaker ones. Fuxi forms a contract with an unimpressive, wandering Hellhound whose arrogance appeals to him.
• More contracts follow, but Zhunti and Jieyin are repeatedly rebuffed—and even threatened—by every Hellhound they approach.

Character developments and interactions

• Fuxi goes from embarrassment after his rejection to success with a Hellhound whose unusual character he appreciates.
• Qingchan is surprised by how easily she is chosen, while her new partner is delighted by the prospect of contracting with the Demon Emperor’s daughter.
• Qingxuan demonstrates persistence, though others tease that his success comes from having a powerful father.
• Nine Heads acts as guide and advocate for the visitors, especially the Demon Emperor’s children.
• The Primordial World’s visitors joke about the advantage of the Demon Emperor’s family, but their envy is affectionate: they recognize that his protection has allowed their world to thrive.
• Zhunti and Jieyin are left confused and frustrated by the Hellhounds’ hostility.

Significant themes

• Compatibility and merit: A contract cannot be forced by cultivation rank; Hellhounds choose partners whose potential and nature suit them.
• Loyalty and mutual advancement: Hellhounds remain devoted to their masters, and their own strength can rise through the relationship.
• Privilege and reputation: Qingchan and Qingxuan benefit from their connection to the Demon Emperor, prompting jokes about influential parentage.
• Community and gratitude: The visitors’ teasing is tempered by their shared appreciation for the Demon Emperor’s role in protecting the Primordial World.

Key plot points and events

• Zhunti and Jieyin complain to Human Sovereign Fuxi that the Hellhounds refuse to bond with them. Nine Heads points out their questionable past, while Fuxi suggests the real obstacle is that their Buddhist cultivation conflicts with the Hellhounds’ nature.
• Qingchan proposes that they conceal or combine their Buddhist practice with another path, arguing that morality depends on the practitioner, not the cultivation method.
• The brothers refuse to change their path. They declare that abandoning Buddhism would betray the faith they founded, and affirm their commitment to its ideals of love, peace, and goodness. They credit Qingchan with helping them reach this realization.
• Returning to the Buddha Realm, they transform into immense, radiant Buddha statues. Their bodies lose all signs of life as their goodness is reborn throughout the realm as generations of twin Buddhist Scions.
• Demon Emperor Daochen arrives and recognizes the transformation as a profound enlightenment. The new generation becomes known as the Twin Buddhas; Daochen takes one pair of Scions to raise.
• The statues remain as guardians of the Buddha Realm, with their sealed evil thoughts making them formidable if the realm is attacked.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhunti and Jieyin move from wounded frustration to firm, selfless devotion to Buddhism. Though others remain wary because of their manipulative past, the chapter presents their transformation as sincere and fundamental.
• Qingchan challenges their assumptions and prompts their decisive reflection; their gratitude toward her earns her a promise of help from the Buddha Realm.
• Nine Heads openly condemns the brothers’ history, while Fuxi offers a more practical explanation for the Hellhounds’ rejection.
• Daochen, their longtime friend, responds with genuine joy and respect, interpreting their change as a rebirth rather than a loss.

Significant themes

• Commitment and identity: The brothers regard their Buddhist path as inseparable from who they are and refuse to abandon it for personal advantage.
• Transformation and legacy: Their enlightenment ends their individual lives but allows their goodness and influence to continue through the Twin Buddhas.
• Goodness and evil: The chapter separates moral character from cultivation methods and portrays the brothers’ good and evil impulses as divided between the Scions and the statues.
• Doubt and redemption: Their past makes others skeptical, but their sacrifice suggests that genuine change is possible.

Key events

• In the Buddha Realm, the Buddhist leaders mourn the apparent deaths and rebirth of Zhunti and Jieyin. The realm’s powerful figures take in newly returned pairs of Twin Buddhist Scions as disciples.
• Demon Emperor Daochen brings the two transformed children to the palace. He explains to Nüwa that their transformation represents a fresh beginning: true Buddhahood, in his view, is grounded in goodness.
• Daochen returns to seclusion, reflecting on how opposing forces and distinct traditions help sustain the Great Void World. He suspects the mysterious Great Void God Race may be responsible for maintaining its stability.
• His reflections lead him to a new understanding: Strength is more foundational and enduring than the other Great Daos. His cultivation surges—he becomes a Great Accomplishment God on the first day and a Perfect God on the second—though almost no one notices.
• A thousand years later, the Primordial World’s people return from forming contracts, many with seemingly cute Hellhound puppies. The Insect Race’s envoy, Horus, arrives to discuss the coming assault on the Angel Empire.
• The alliance’s Core Brain says Perfect God puppets and resources will be supplied, but no troops will join the first battle. Fuxi indicates that troops may be sent later, after the Insect Race has had a chance to win an initial victory.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen deepens his philosophy of balance and discovers a new path centered on Strength, prompting extraordinary advances in cultivation.
• Nüwa accepts his explanation of Zhunti and Jieyin’s transformation and agrees to care for them while he cultivates. She quietly senses his breakthroughs and trusts his ability to achieve miracles.
• Horus presses the alliance to provide soldiers, arguing that material aid alone is not enough to make them meaningful allies.
• The Core Brain handles negotiations in Daochen’s absence, while recognizing that his own standing has diminished as the Primordial World’s beings have grown stronger.
• Fuxi offers a compromise: the alliance will hold back initially, hoping the Insect Race’s first victory will demonstrate the coalition’s strength.

Significant themes

• Good and evil as complementary forces: The world needs opposing principles, but Daochen sees goodness as the enduring ideal of Buddhahood.
• Tradition and stability: Distinct races’ long-standing foundations may help preserve the Great Void World, rather than mere military power.
• Strength as the ultimate foundation: Daochen concludes that other paths have limits, while Strength is the most stable and enduring Great Dao.
• Alliance, strategy, and restraint: The coming war tests how far allies will commit and whether delaying direct involvement can still serve the coalition.

Key plot points and events

• The Independent Alliance’s leaders insist they remain loyal to the Insect Race but refuse to send troops immediately, claiming the alliance’s puppets already demonstrate support. Horus condemns their fence-sitting and warns that betrayal will bring the Insect Race’s wrath.
• After Horus leaves, the Alliance members complain about the Insect Race’s arrogance. Fuxi calms them, noting that they have followed the Demon Emperor’s orders by withholding troops.
• The Wisdom Race’s Core Brain volunteers to join the Insect Race’s expedition, but Fuxi advises sending a doppelganger instead. The Core Brain agrees, reassured that the Demon Emperor has made preparations and will soon emerge from seclusion.
• The Insect Race launches an unexpectedly successful assault on the Angel Empire. With little organized resistance, it rapidly captures cities and territory. The Insect Queen notices that only six-winged angels are present and suspects the angelic leadership has disappeared.
• Meanwhile, the Angel King and Abyss Lord confront the Great Void God King, accusing him of using them as scapegoats. He claims to be their creator and taunts them—then abruptly collapses, apparently disabled by a virus and changes to the world’s laws.

Character developments and interactions

• Horus remains fiercely loyal to the Insect Queen and openly scorns the Alliance’s evasive conduct.
• Fuxi acts as a pragmatic mediator, soothing the Alliance’s anger while protecting it from military involvement.
• The Core Brain accepts the risks of the expedition but travels only through a robotic doppelganger, balancing duty with caution.
• The Insect Queen shifts from excitement at the easy victories to suspicion about the missing high-ranking angels.
• The Angel King and Abyss Lord move from defiance to fear when the Great Void God King reveals his power, but his sudden shutdown leaves the confrontation unresolved.

Significant themes

• Political opportunism and mistrust: The Independent Alliance professes loyalty while avoiding commitment.
• Power and hidden vulnerability: The Angel Empire’s apparent weakness and the God King’s sudden failure undermine assumptions about who controls events.
• Manipulation and rebellion: The Angel King and Abyss Lord turn against the power they believe has used them.
• Technology and altered reality: The God King’s collapse suggests even a creator-like figure may be vulnerable to viruses or changes in the world’s laws.

Key plot points and events

• The Angel King, Lord of the Abyss, and Illusion God exploit a loophole to incapacitate the Great Void God King. The Illusion God emerges from the king’s head, revealing he had helped disrupt the central soul of the Great Void World.
• The three rulers seize control, destroy the Great Void God Race, and take the God King to the world’s sacred altar. Though it can grant wishes, the altar demands a costly sacrifice and carries an unknown danger.
• They offer the race’s corpses, which are consumed by an invisible force—but the altar’s threatening presence persists. To satisfy it, they sacrifice the Great Void God King, despite having hoped to use him for their own advancement.
• The altar grants three wishes. The Angel King’s wish is fulfilled: he becomes an Eighteen-Winged Angel, the legendary ideal form of his race, and gains immense power.

Character developments

• Angel King: Reveals ambition to reshape his race and realizes his long-held dream of becoming its ideal ruler. His willingness to sacrifice the God King shows how readily he puts power above past plans.
• Lord of the Abyss: Takes a pragmatic role, proposing the God King as the final sacrifice when the others are in danger.
• Illusion God: Is revealed as a key conspirator who helped bring down the God King.
• Great Void God King: Falls from supreme ruler to helpless captive and is ultimately consumed by the altar.

Significant themes

• Ambition and betrayal: The three rulers overthrow a god to seize control and pursue personal power.
• The cost of power: The altar grants wishes only after consuming enormous sacrifices, and its demands are frighteningly unpredictable.
• Myth and hidden truth: The Great Void Race misunderstood its origins; the God King himself was their creator, not the separate Creator they believed in.
• Power and potential: The Angel King’s transformation fulfills a design the Angel Race believes was deliberately weakened.

Character interactions

• The Angel King and Lord of the Abyss celebrate the God King’s collapse and work with the Illusion God to take control.
• At the altar, the three rulers hesitate and watch one another, each wary of the risks but eager to test its power.
• As the altar’s hunger threatens them, the Lord of the Abyss persuades the others to sacrifice the God King; they overcome their reluctance and agree.
• The Angel King’s transformation marks the first clear reward of their conspiracy, while the wishes of the other two remain unrevealed.

Plot points and events

• Newly empowered, the Angel King plans to lead his race toward control of the Great Void World. Though he regards the Lord of the Abyss and the Illusion God as potential enemies, the three agree to divide the world rather than risk a costly fight while each is still uncertain of the others’ strength.
• The Angel King learns that the Insect Race has taken nearly half of Angel territory. He sends the First Angel Squad to crush the invasion, dismissing the Dark Insects as a minor threat.
• Worried about the Lord of the Abyss’s unknown new powers, the Angel King declines a subordinate’s offer to test him directly. Instead, he offers the Twelve-Winged Wise Angel a chance to reincarnate as a fourteen-winged angel, potentially making him strong enough for the task.
• At the front, a Twelve-Winged Angel nearly captures the Insect Queen. A mysterious, immensely powerful being intervenes with a fiery claw, destroys the angel’s attack, and lets the queen escape.
• The Insect Queen retreats to the Independent Alliance’s border but orders her troops to intensify their assault. The First Angel Squad, frustrated by the failed capture, launches a full-scale campaign to reclaim the lost territory.

Character developments and interactions

• The Angel King is newly confident and ambitious, but remains cautious about confronting rival rulers. He also shows a growing interest in strengthening his subjects, offering the Wise Angel an unprecedented increase in potential.
• The Lord of the Abyss and the Illusion God outwardly accept an alliance with the Angel King, while privately remaining wary and hostile. Their agreement is a temporary calculation, not genuine trust.
• The Insect Queen shifts from confident conqueror to frightened fugitive after sensing danger. Once rescued, she regains her resolve and chooses to keep pressure on the Angels.
• The Twelve-Winged Angel is powerful but overconfident; his failed pursuit leaves him shaken by the possibility that other factions possess hidden champions.
• The mysterious rescuer remains unidentified, prompting the Angel to suspect the Illusion Race or another concealed force.

Significant themes

• Power and ambition: The Angel King sees his new strength as a chance to dominate the world.
• Uneasy alliances and strategic restraint: Rivals cooperate because open conflict would leave them vulnerable.
• Hidden strength and uncertainty: The unknown rescuer—and the Lord of the Abyss’s undisclosed abilities—show that apparent power rankings may be misleading.
• Immortality and sacrifice: The Angels’ reincarnation pool makes their deaths seem inconsequential to their king, while their ability to reincarnate into stronger forms reinforces their confidence.

Key plot points and events

• The Angel Empire turns the war sharply in its favor, nearly killing the Insect Queen. The front becomes a devastating slaughter, and the Independent Alliance realizes the threat is greater than expected.
• Human Sovereign Fuxi suspects the Angels had been occupied elsewhere and are now free to focus on the Insect Race.
• Demon Emperor Daochen orders the Alliance to enter Level One Alert, increase production of Perfect God puppets, expand westward, and send reinforcements to delay the Angel advance.
• The Insect Queen reaches the Alliance’s territory but keeps fleeing west. Daochen intercepts her and argues that the Angels may not be using their full strength, so the opposing forces could buy time by resisting while gradually retreating.
• Daochen also suspects the Dark God Clan is deliberately holding back: despite its ability to use corpses, it has left battlefield corpses untouched. He persuades the Insect Queen to confront the Dark God King.
• The Insect Queen accuses the Dark God Clan of abandoning its allies to serve as cannon fodder. The Dark God King emerges, claiming his clan has not concealed its strength, while privately recognizing Daochen as the greater danger.

Character developments

• Demon Emperor Daochen shows strategic composure and growing power: he has reached Perfect Godhood and focuses on understanding the alliance’s strength rather than giving in to panic.
• The Insect Queen shifts from desperate flight to guarded hope after hearing Daochen’s analysis, then turns her fear and anger toward demanding answers from the Dark God King.
• The Dark God King reveals caution behind his easygoing appearance. He considers Daochen’s rapid advancement and mastery of world power genuinely alarming.
• Fuxi provides a sobering interpretation of the Angels’ sudden dominance, while the Independent Alliance responds with urgency to Daochen’s orders.

Significant themes

• War and sacrifice: Both armies fight with terrifying disregard for death, leaving the battlefield devastated.
• Trust and hidden motives: The Insect Queen questions whether an ally has withheld its strength, threatening the coalition from within.
• Strategy under uncertainty: Daochen looks beyond the immediate defeat, assessing the enemy’s limits and the allies’ concealed capabilities.
• Power and rapid growth: Daochen’s breakthrough unsettles even the Dark God King, showing how quickly the balance of power can change.

Character interactions

• Daochen overrides the Alliance’s panic with decisive orders.
• He stops the fleeing Insect Queen, challenges her assumption that defeat is inevitable, and persuades her to investigate the Dark God Clan.
• The Insect Queen confronts the Dark God King publicly, accusing him of betrayal; he responds with a friendly façade and denies withholding strength.
• The Dark God King’s private assessment contrasts with his public manner: he is less concerned about the Queen than about Daochen.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen and the Dark God King recognize one another, prompting Daochen to suspect that the Dark God Clan’s influence and strength are far greater than it admits.
• The Insect Queen introduces the Dark God King as the Independent Alliance’s leader. He jokes that she has a male guard; she dismisses the remark and stresses that he is her ally.
• Daochen says he once met Ocks, a Dark God Clan member, and asks the clan to commit its full strength against the Angel Empire. The Dark God King refuses to reveal his forces, citing the danger of attracting the Angel King’s attention.
• The Dark God King confirms that the Angel Empire is stronger than Daochen realizes, though he does not explain exactly what lies beyond the power of its twelve-winged Angels.
• Asked how the alliance should respond, the Dark God King advises retreating rather than confronting the Angel Empire directly.
• He argues that the Angels’ reincarnation pool makes them exceptionally difficult to destroy, and that attacking them could provoke a merciless retaliation. Instead, he proposes striking the Abyss Empire, whose forces can be eliminated and whose losses would weaken it. That could set the two empires against each other and give the alliance an opportunity.

Character developments

• Demon Emperor Daochen reveals his strategic awareness: he has long suspected the Dark God Clan is secretly expanding beyond the Great Void worlds. He also shifts from demanding military support to seeking the Dark God King’s guidance.
• The Dark God King remains guarded about his clan’s true power, but shares a practical—and morally stark—strategy based on exploiting the rivalry between the empires.
• The Insect Queen shows irritation at the Dark God King’s teasing and makes clear that her relationship with him is an alliance, not a romantic one.

Significant themes

• Hidden power and deception: The Dark God Clan conceals its reach, while the empires’ true strength exceeds the alliance’s understanding.
• Strategic survival over direct confrontation: Retreat and indirect pressure may be wiser than fighting a seemingly invincible enemy head-on.
• Political opportunism and moral compromise: The proposed plan treats the destruction of Abyss races as acceptable because they are deemed evil, using one empire’s losses to provoke conflict with the other.

Character interactions

• Daochen and the Dark God King exchange wary looks and test each other’s knowledge and motives.
• The Dark God King’s teasing sparks a brief, irritated exchange with the Insect Queen.
• Daochen invokes his connection to Ocks to encourage the Dark God Clan to help; the Dark God King responds cautiously and ultimately offers strategic advice instead of committing troops.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• The group concludes that their best strategy is to exploit the conflict between the Angel Empire and the Abyss Empire, weakening both sides.
• Demon Emperor Daochen proposes a cautious retreat, preserving their forces while signaling their willingness to ally with the Abyss Empire and encouraging it to attack the Angel Empire.
• The Insect Queen offers to join the Abyss Empire, but Daochen and the Dark God King warn her that joining means being enslaved permanently by the Abyssal Will.
• The Dark God King invites them into his palace. Daochen declines and takes the Insect Queen back to the Independent Alliance, wary of the Dark God Clan’s power.
• Daochen tells the alliance that the Angel Empire’s counteroffensive is putting the Insect Race in danger, so they must divert the Angel Empire’s attention by bringing the Abyss Empire into the war.
• Human Sovereign Fuxi volunteers to approach the Abyss Empire. He argues that his human-path protection will let him communicate with its Heavenly Dao and persuade it that the Angel Empire is a threat. He believes the alliance can help destroy the Angel Empire’s reincarnation pool without becoming a serious threat to the Abyss afterward.
• Though Daochen worries that a failed mission could permanently diminish Fuxi’s cultivation and potential, Nüwa urges him to let her brother act. Daochen finally agrees, telling Fuxi to stay safe.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen acts strategically and cautiously, trying to preserve the alliance while maneuvering the two empires into conflict. He is also protective of Fuxi, even as he recognizes that the alliance has few alternatives.
• The Insect Queen remains innocent and impulsive: she misunderstands the danger of joining the Abyss Empire and is puzzled when Daochen refuses the Dark God King’s invitation.
• Fuxi shows initiative and pride, refusing to remain a protected figure on the sidelines. He offers to use his diplomatic skill and special protection to serve the alliance.
• Nüwa supports her brother, framing the mission as a chance for him to step out of Daochen’s shadow and prove himself.
• The Dark God King is cordial, but Daochen distrusts the risks of entering the Dark God Clan’s domain.

Significant themes

• Political manipulation and survival: The alliance seeks to redirect the war rather than confront the Angel Empire alone.
• Power and enslavement: Joining the Abyss Empire means surrendering freedom to the Abyssal Will.
• Agency and sacrifice: Fuxi risks his future potential to help others, while Nüwa argues that he deserves the chance to act independently.
• Protection versus independence: Daochen’s care for Fuxi may also have kept him in a subordinate role; Fuxi’s mission challenges that dynamic.

Key plot points and events

• Human Sovereign Fuxi leaves the Primordial World for the Abyss Empire with Perfect God puppets, accepting the danger of the mission in hopes of securing an ally against the Angel Empire.
• Qingxuan secretly joins him. Though those at home worry, Demon Emperor Daochen approves, believing the journey will give his son valuable experience and trusting that Fuxi can protect him.
• Daochen organizes several diplomatic efforts as backups. He sends the Core Brain to contact the Light God Clan and Nine Heads to enlist the Hellhounds’ connections, while he targets the Abyss Empire’s Giant Mouth Clan with a supply of enticing food.
• Fuxi and Qingxuan reach the Abyss Empire and negotiate directly with its Heavenly Dao. It demands the Insect Queen as the price of sending troops.
• Qingxuan offers the Queen’s genetic material instead. A Ghoul consumes it and transforms into a being resembling the Insect Queen. Satisfied, the Abyss Heavenly Dao agrees to begin the war against the Angel Empire.

Character developments and interactions

• Fuxi shows confidence and resolve despite the mission’s risks, seeking a role beyond living under Daochen’s protection.
• Qingxuan takes initiative by secretly accompanying Fuxi and negotiating with the Insect Queen’s genetic material, demonstrating independence and resourcefulness.
• Daochen balances confidence in his son with practical caution: he allows Qingxuan to go but has made preparations in case of danger. He also shows strategic flexibility by looking beyond the Abyss Empire’s central leadership to individual races.
• Qingchan and the others react with alarm when Qingxuan disappears, reflecting their concern for him.
• Fuxi and Qingxuan work together in negotiations, while the Ghoul’s transformation provides the unexpected solution that secures the Abyss Heavenly Dao’s agreement.

Significant themes

• Independence and responsibility: Powerful figures want to contribute rather than remain sheltered beneath Daochen’s overwhelming strength.
• Strategic adaptability: The Primordial World pursues multiple diplomatic routes and considers alliances through individual Abyss races.
• Courage tempered by preparation: Fuxi and Qingxuan take risks, while Daochen supports them without assuming they are invulnerable.
• Unconventional solutions: Qingxuan’s substitute offering turns an apparently impossible demand into a successful agreement.

Key plot points and events

• The Abyss Lord emerges from seclusion after the Heavenly Dao orders action and announces a final war to destroy the Angel Empire.
• The Abyss Empire’s eighteen ancient races, each led by a Supreme Demon Saint, mobilize. Their immense strength had gone unused because they were divided by infighting and the Abyss Lord’s absence.
• The Angel King receives a warning from the Heavenly Dao and correctly anticipates an annihilation war. He refuses to back down, trusting in the Angel Reincarnation Pool to preserve the empire.
• The Angel King awakens the Battle Angels and evolves them, granting each a fourteenth pair of wings and greatly increasing their combat power. Both empires assemble their forces at the border.
• In the Independent Alliance, Fuxi and Qingxuan report their experience with the Heavenly Dao. The Demon Emperor agrees that preparations for war against the Angel Empire should proceed.
• An envoy from the Abyss arrives seeking Mechanical Puppets from the Light God Clan and Independent Alliance, as well as large quantities of high-quality food for the Abyssal Maw clan.
• The envoy turns out to be the same Abyssal Maw that once met and fought Daochen in the Lower Realm—though its earlier appearance was only a doppelganger. Daochen agrees to provide the requested aid.

Character developments and interactions

• The Abyss Lord sets aside his preference for seclusion and follows the Heavenly Dao’s command, uniting the Abyss factions for war.
• The Angel King responds to the threat with defiance and practical preparation, strengthening his warriors rather than retreating.
• Demon Emperor Daochen recognizes the old Abyssal Maw and recalls their past fight. He treats the requests as manageable, though the clan’s appetite makes the food demand significant.
• The Abyssal Maw envoy is both nostalgic and threatening: it remembers Daochen as a powerful cook and once vowed to eat him, but says it has come on official business rather than to attack him.

Significant themes

• Unity versus division: The Abyss’s internal rivalries kept it from acting despite its strength; the Heavenly Dao’s intervention finally brings its races together.
• Preparation and defiance: Both empires meet the approaching war by mobilizing and improving their forces.
• Unexpected connections across time: Daochen’s past encounter with the Abyssal Maw resurfaces in the present, linking earlier events to the coming conflict.
• Practical alliances: Cooperation between the Independent Alliance and the Abyss is built around concrete needs—war machines and food—rather than shared identity.

Key plot points and events

• Abyssal Maw visits Demon Emperor Daochen and agrees to share important information in exchange for a feast. Daochen serves him the offerings originally prepared for the Abyssal Maw Clan.
• Maw reveals that the Angel Empire has awakened a new class of angels, the King Angels, whom the Angel King has raised to fourteen wings. They are powerful enough to rival true King Rank beings, and they are expected to appear in enormous numbers.
• The Abyss Empire may soon send an advance force to pressure the various races into contributing troops. Maw warns Daochen’s side to avoid the front lines and hide when possible: the conflict is not really aimed at them, and the Angel forces may eventually withdraw if they perceive no threat.
• Over three days of feasting, Maw advises that joining the Abyss could provide the time needed to grow stronger. Daochen rejects the idea of becoming an Abyssal slave but agrees to consider it after Maw argues that the Abyssal Will itself does not control or oppress its constituent races.
• Front-line intelligence confirms the danger: powerful Angel forces appear and quickly shatter the Insect Race’s defenses.

Character developments

• Demon Emperor Daochen shifts from alarm at the King Angels’ strength to a more cautious strategy. He is grateful for Maw’s warning but remains wary of joining the Abyss, seeing it as a loss of freedom.
• Abyssal Maw is shown as both a glutton and a shrewd, candid adviser. He trades information for food, offers practical survival advice, and presents the Abyss as less oppressive than Daochen assumes—while acknowledging that some abyssal races are aggressive.

Character interactions

• Daochen and Maw’s old friendship shapes their exchange: Daochen offers lavish hospitality, and Maw repays it with intelligence and counsel.
• Their conversation moves from the looming military threat to the possibility of joining the Abyss, exposing Daochen’s distrust and Maw’s more favorable view of Abyssal life.

Significant themes

• Survival versus pride: Maw urges retreat and concealment rather than confronting a vastly stronger enemy.
• Power and time: Daochen’s people have grown quickly but lack the long history and foundations of older empires; the Abyss is presented as a way to gain time at a potential cost.
• Freedom and oppression: The chapter complicates the idea of the Abyss as a single enslaving force, distinguishing its Will from the actions of particular races.
• Hospitality and reciprocity: Food becomes the basis for friendship, information, and strategic guidance.

Plot and key events

• The Insect Race alliance collapses under the Angel Empire’s advance. The Demon Emperor advises retreating to buy time, establishing heavily defended strongholds instead of sending troops into battle piecemeal.
• The Ant Race completes its evolution through the Queen’s genes. Its warriors are now strong and numerous enough to serve as frontline cannon fodder, to the satisfaction of the Ant Race Overlord.
• Daochen rallies the leaders and people of the Primordial World, warning that a devastating war is approaching. The Primordial World’s leaders privately reveal that the Heavenly Dao has authorized evacuation if the world cannot be defended. Daochen resists abandoning their home and proposes sending the younger generation away while the rest fight on.
• An Abyssal Maw envoy offers help in exchange for “delicacies.” Daochen challenges the Abyss Empire’s lack of action against the Angels. The envoy explains that the Abyss Empire is waiting for allies—the Illusion God Race—and needs the Angel Empire weakened first.
• Daochen learns that the Great Void God Race has been destroyed by the Abyss Lord and Angel King, explaining the Angels’ earlier weakness. He then recognizes that the envoy’s real interest is the Primordial World itself and refuses to bargain, daring the Abyss Empire to take it by force.
• The Abyss Empire soon attacks the Insect Race alliance rather than immediately confronting the Angel Empire, aiming to eliminate a rival before the eventual showdown.
• Over the following decades, the Primordial World steadily loses territory. The Insect Race is driven from Angel territory and retreats into the Dark God Clan’s lands; the Independent Alliance falls back to the Primordial World for a last stand. Even the Dark God King doubts his clan can hold off the Angels.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen is revealed as stubbornly determined to defend the Primordial World, even when evacuation is presented as a sanctioned way to preserve it. He rejects the Abyssal Maw’s apparent offer of help once he sees its self-serving motive.
• The Insect Queen and Ant Race Overlord are linked through the Queen’s genes, which accelerate Ant evolution. The Overlord welcomes the Ant Race’s new ability to contribute in battle.
• The Primordial World’s leaders—including Fuxi, Hongjun, the Wisdom Race’s Core Brain, and the Ant Race Overlord—support the possibility of evacuation, while Daochen argues for a final defense.
• The Abyssal Maw envoy presents the Abyss Empire as a potential ally but exposes its interest in acquiring the Primordial World. Its revelation about the Great Void God Race also shows the scale of cooperation between the Abyss and Angel powers.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice versus survival: Daochen favors fighting for the homeland, while the Heavenly Dao’s plan prioritizes preserving its people elsewhere.
• Self-interest and deception: The Abyss Empire’s offer of aid masks its desire to seize the Primordial World.
• Attrition and shifting alliances: The factions retreat, consolidate, and exploit one another’s weakness as the war expands.
• Adaptation through evolution: The Ant Race’s transformation illustrates how biological change can turn a previously ineffective people into a useful military force.

Key plot points and events

• The Primordial World is surrounded by the Abyss Empire and the Angel Empire. Demon Emperor Daochen tells his Grand Ancestor Gods to hold their ground, believing their best chance is to wait for the two empires to clash.
• The Angel King abandons his campaign against the weakened Dark God Clan and turns the War Angels toward the Abyss Empire, his true enemy.
• The Abyss Lord anticipates the Angel attack. He assigns some Abyss forces to hold the front while leading others toward the Celestial Timing Empire, and orders the Ghouls to destroy the Primordial World.
• The Illusion God Race has infiltrated an Angel city. It creates a spatial route for the Abyss Lord and prepares an ambush for the Angel King.
• Lured into Border City by a Wisdom Angel’s suggestion, the Angel King is suddenly transported outside the Great Void and surrounded by the Illusion God Race and Abyss forces. The chapter ends as the Abyss Lord orders his troops to kill him.

Character developments

• Demon Emperor Daochen remains patient and strategic, resisting pressure to act before the empires’ decisive battle.
• The Angel King reveals his priorities: defeating the Abyss Empire matters more than finishing off the Dark God Clan. Despite being trapped, he remains composed and immediately recognizes that his own entourage has been compromised.
• The Abyss Lord shows himself to be a calculating commander, relying on the Illusion God Race to avoid confronting the Angel Empire directly.
• The Illusion God displays growing mastery of deception, explaining that he exploited a Wisdom Angel’s ambition rather than magically controlling him.

Significant themes

• Patience and timing: Daochen waits for the moment when the rival empires are most vulnerable to each other.
• Deception and ambition: The Angel King is led into a trap through an apparently harmless recommendation, enabled by an ally’s greed.
• Competing priorities: The Angel King and Abyss Lord focus on eliminating their principal rivals, while the Primordial World risks destruction as a secondary target.
• Power and vulnerability: Even powerful rulers can be exposed when trust within their ranks is undermined.

Character interactions

• Daochen urges his guards to endure, presenting his strategy as their only chance.
• The Angel King rejects continued attacks on the Dark God Clan, directing the War Angels toward the Abyss Empire instead.
• The Abyss Lord coordinates with the Illusion God and assigns different Abyss forces separate targets.
• The Illusion God reveals how the Wisdom Angel’s ambition helped lure the Angel King into the trap; the Abyss Lord cuts off the explanation and orders an immediate attack.

Key plot points and events

• The Angel King splits into two powerful doppelgangers and easily withstands the Abyss Lord’s attacks while Illusion God tries to trap him with True Illusion.
• Inside the illusion, the Angel King imagines himself conquering the Abyss Empire and other races, destroying the Primordial World, and repeatedly defeating the resurrecting Great Void God King. The imagined victories reflect his immense power and ambitions, but they do not happen in reality.
• Illusion God admits he can control only one doppelganger, while the Abyss Lord cannot overcome the other. The Angel King’s eighteen pairs of wings—each representing a perfected fundamental law—make him effectively invulnerable.
• The Abyss Lord flees, leaving Illusion God facing the Angel King’s doppelganger. The illusion briefly makes it seem as though the Angel King has killed Illusion God, but the two enemies are actually observing events from outside the realm.
• Illusion God estimates the illusion can hold the Angel King for only a few days. With no way to defeat him, the Abyss Lord and Illusion God retreat with their forces to the Abyss Empire and prepare to rely on the Abyss Heavenly Dao for defense.

Character developments and interactions

• The Angel King is revealed to be vastly stronger than his enemies expect. His confidence and imagined conquests underscore his growing power and determination to eliminate threats to the Angel Race.
• The Abyss Lord recognizes that his past choice at the Great Void Altar was a mistake: he strengthened the Abyss Heavenly Dao rather than his own cultivation, leaving him without the personal strength needed to face the Angel King.
• Illusion God discovers the limits of his strongest technique. Though True Illusion can create a convincing world even the Angel King struggles to escape, it can delay him only briefly.
• The Abyss Lord and Illusion God depend on one another during the battle, but the Abyss Lord eventually abandons the fight and flees. They regroup at the Abyss Empire, where Illusion God also seeks refuge.

Significant themes

• Power and its limits: The Angel King’s overwhelming strength exposes the inadequacy of both the Abyss Lord’s combat power and Illusion God’s illusion.
• Consequences of past choices: The Abyss Lord’s decision to empower his empire instead of himself leaves him unable to protect it against a superior opponent.
• Illusion versus reality: The vast conquest depicted in the middle of the chapter is an illusion shaped by the Angel King’s thoughts, not an actual sequence of victories.
• Desperation and retreat: Faced with an enemy they cannot defeat, the two rivals abandon direct confrontation and turn to defensive measures.

Key plot points and events

• The Angel King sees through the Illusion God’s deception and confronts the supposed traitor Cherub—but the Cherub is only a projection. The real Cherub and a group of War Angels have already defected to the Abyss and become Fallen Angels.
• The Abyss Lord admits that the Angel King is extraordinarily powerful and believes the Abyss Heavenly Dao is his only hope of resisting him.
• With the Abyss and Angel Empires at war, Demon Emperor Daochen uses the absence of Abyss forces to conceal the Primordial World behind an illusion, with help from the Primordial Heavenly Dao.
• The Angel King reaches the Abyss border and provokes the Abyss Lord, who initially refuses to face him. The Angel King then storms into the empire, slaughtering Abyss forces until the Abyss Lord intervenes.
• Empowered by the Abyss Heavenly Dao, the Abyss Lord briefly restrains the Angel King. The Angel King breaks free and withdraws beyond the Abyss territory, amused by the rare chance to dominate their rivalry.
• The wider war continues. Angel armies attack relentlessly, forcing the Abyss Lord to retreat, while the Abyss Heavenly Dao begins forcibly corrupting invading angels. Many are transformed into Fallen Angels.

Character developments and interactions

• Angel King: Remains confident and ruthless, but discovers that the Abyss Heavenly Dao can exert significant pressure within its own territory. His escape shows his power is still formidable, and he leaves eager to return once he has adapted to his body.
• Abyss Lord: Moves from confidence to desperation, then briefly regains hope when the Heavenly Dao’s blessing lets him restrain the Angel King. He nevertheless struggles against the Angel Empire’s relentless assault.
• Cherub and the defectors: Their betrayal is confirmed; they have abandoned the Angel Empire and fully joined the Abyss as Fallen Angels.
• Demon Emperor Daochen: Takes advantage of the war to protect the Primordial World, showing strategic caution rather than direct involvement.
• The Angel King taunts the Abyss Lord, while the Abyss Lord refuses to respond until his people are being devastated. Their rivalry now plays out both in personal combat and in a large-scale war between their empires.

Significant themes

• Power and dependence: The Abyss Lord’s strength rises through the Heavenly Dao’s support, but his reliance on it underscores his vulnerability.
• War’s shifting fortunes: Former aggressors become besieged, and apparent victories can quickly turn into desperate retreats.
• Corruption and transformation: The Abyss Heavenly Dao can forcibly remake enemies, making spiritual and physical identity another weapon of war.
• Strategic opportunism: Daochen uses the conflict to hide the Primordial World, while both empires exploit their respective advantages.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• The Angel King halts the assault on the Abyss Empire after discovering that angels entering its territory are transformed into Fallen Angels. Though he withdraws most of his forces, the Angel Race suffers severe losses.
• The Abyss Lord celebrates the Angel Empire’s retreat and begins using the Abyssal Will to weaken it through repeated harassment and conversions rather than direct, all-out battle.
• The Angel Empire reclaims the Insect Race’s former territory, but the war has depleted its population. Angels can be revived through reincarnation pools, yet those converted into Fallen Angels are permanently lost to the empire.
• The Abyss Empire gradually erodes Angel territory. Meanwhile, the Dark King reassures the distressed Insect Queen that the Angel Empire’s own difficulties may give them room to endure.
• A War Angel leader urges the Angel King to change strategy: recruit subordinate races such as the Insects to fight, and stop suppressing the Angel Empire’s own ensouled Heavenly Dao. The King instead accuses his subjects of betrayal, prompting the leader to argue that Fallen Angels arise from oppression, not inherent treachery.

Character developments

• Angel King: His confidence gives way to confusion and anxiety. He begins to suspect that some force is influencing him, but remains rigid and increasingly paranoid when challenged.
• Abyss Lord: Gains confidence after repelling the Angel King and adopts a patient strategy of attrition, exploiting the Abyssal Will’s ability to convert angels.
• War Angel leader: Shows courage and loyalty to the Angel Race by confronting the King directly. He advocates reform and warns that the empire faces collapse if its ruler refuses to reconsider.
• Insect Queen and Dark King: The Queen grieves the loss of her people’s territory, while the Dark King offers reassurance and points to the Angel Empire’s weakening condition.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Even a mighty empire can be checked by a force it does not understand.
• Attrition and irreversible loss: Angel reincarnation can replace battlefield casualties, but converted Fallen Angels cannot be recovered.
• Authoritarianism and reform: The King’s insistence on obedience and fixed ranks threatens the empire, while the leader argues that survival requires adaptation.
• Agency and oppression: The chapter challenges the King’s claim that Fallen Angels are simply traitors, suggesting that coercion and denial of personal aspirations help create rebellion.

Character interactions

• The Angel King orders a retreat and later clashes with the War Angel leader, whose criticism exposes growing discontent within the Angel Empire.
• The Abyss Lord mocks the King’s failure and directs his forces to keep wearing down the Angel Empire.
• The Dark King comforts the Insect Queen and encourages her to hold on as the Angel Empire falters.

Plot points and events

• The War Angel leader, Melov, tells the Angel King that many Angels reject being used as instruments of conquest. Though the King insists his ambitions were for the Angel Race’s benefit, he realizes that his people do not all share his goals and withdraws to the Angel Temple, abandoning rule.
• The Seven Archangels exploit the power vacuum and establish an Angel Council. They order the Fallen Angels to return to the Angel Race and prepare a second war against the Abyss, with all seven branches contributing troops.
• The Abyss Lord learns that the Angel King has sealed himself away and that the Angels are reorganizing and seeking allies. He orders an all-out assault on the Angel Empire.
• The Abyss and Angel empires launch into renewed, fierce fighting. The Angels mobilize their technology and forces more broadly than before, while long-standing disagreements over each branch’s role remain unresolved.

Character developments and interactions

• The Angel King is emotionally broken by his people’s rejection. He recognizes that his assumption of universal support was mistaken and withdraws rather than continue governing.
• Melov confronts the King with the Angels’ desire for independent lives. Though he tries to call the King back afterward, the King’s departure leaves Melov and the other leaders to take power.
• The Seven Archangels publicly present the council as necessary leadership, but privately welcome the chance to replace the King’s centralized rule. The Seraph leader is more cautious, agreeing to cooperate while warning that the others may be wrong about ruling without him.
• The Abyss Lord is surprised and briefly encouraged by the King’s absence, but recognizes that the Angel Empire remains a formidable enemy. He responds with hostility and escalates the war.

Significant themes

• Individual agency versus collective ambition: Angels resist being treated as tools for the King’s vision of supremacy.
• Power and political opportunism: The Archangels use the King’s collapse to secure authority, raising doubts about whether their new rule will better serve the people.
• Leadership and vulnerability: Even a powerful ruler can be undone by isolation, exhaustion, and the loss of trust.
• Internal conflict as a source of weakness: Disputes over the Angel branches’ roles have long simmered beneath the empire’s military structure and now threaten its unity.

Key plot points and events

• With the Angel King sealed away, the Angel Council reshapes the Angel Empire. It recruits volunteers for war and assigns other angels work according to their wishes, while refusing to support idlers.
• The Archangel Chief visits the Dark God Clan and Insect Race, offering them an alliance based on peaceful coexistence. To prove the offer is genuine, he agrees to withdraw Angel forces and return occupied Insect territory. He also asks for their help against the Abyss Empire.
• The Insect Queen and Dark God King consult Demon Emperor Daochen in the Primordial World. Daochen attributes the Angels’ change partly to the Angel King’s absence and welcomes the chance for peace. The two leaders agree to join the Angel alliance, and Daochen supports joining as well.
• Smaller surviving races flock to Meida Holy City to discuss membership. The Angels offer alliance members access to technology, the Gene Repository, and cultivation methods in exchange for contributions such as labor, resources, knowledge, or military service.
• The Angel Council learns that the Abyssal will can secretly alter the thoughts of entire races. Though the Abyss Empire’s members believe their actions are their own, they are being controlled—and their newfound cooperation makes the empire increasingly powerful.
• The Angels condemn this violation of free thought, making continued war with the Abyss Empire inevitable.
• In a private report, the Seraph Chief tells the sealed Angel King that the altar’s backlash caused his former paranoia, controlling behavior, and mania. He suspects the Abyss Lord redirected a similar backlash onto the abyssal will.

Character developments and interactions

• The Angel Empire shifts from conquest toward voluntary service, diplomacy, and alliance-building.
• The Archangel Chief approaches former enemies with conciliatory offers and concrete concessions; the Insect Queen and Dark God King respond with caution but are persuaded by his sincerity.
• Demon Emperor Daochen reinforces his belief that the Great Void is vast enough for many worlds to coexist and endorses cooperation with the Angels.
• The Angel King remains silent as he hears the explanation of his past behavior. The Seraph Chief, concerned, asks how he can help.

Significant themes

• Freedom versus control: The chapter treats independent thought as a right and condemns the abyssal will for secretly enslaving minds.
• Peaceful coexistence: The Angel alliance offers an alternative to endless war, grounded in the belief that the Great Void can sustain many races.
• Transformation and accountability: The Angel King’s conduct is reframed as a consequence of the altar’s backlash, while the Angel Empire tries to build a fairer system after his removal.
• Unity as both strength and danger: The Abyss Empire’s coordinated development is extraordinarily effective, but it is built on involuntary mental control.