Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• The Angel King regrets his greed and orders a renewed investigation into the altar and the Great Void God King’s suspicious death. The Seraph reports that both the king’s history and the altar have vanished from reach, leaving no clear leads. The Angel King now believes the sacrifice concealed a plot—but the Great Void God Race has already been wiped out.
• Demon Emperor Daochen prepares a large group from the Primordial World to study in the Angel Empire. He urges them to learn broadly, arguing that the Angel Race’s strength comes not only from innate talent but from its pursuit of knowledge.
• The Abyss Lord, overwhelmed and increasingly delusional, confronts the Abyssal Will. He insists that the Abyss has already paid dearly by sacrificing the Great Void God Race and its king. The Will replies that those were not the offerings it wanted: it now wants the entire Abyss. Though it already rules the realm, it is tightening its control over everyone, turning Abyssal races into obedient instruments of evolution and war.
• The Angel Empire’s defenses are under severe pressure. With the Third Defense Line near collapse under renewed Ghoul suicide attacks, the War Angel commander orders its evacuation and shifts the defense to the Fourth Line.
• At the Fourth Line, the Independent Alliance deploys most of its perfect god puppets. The Wisdom Angel commander orders a counteroffensive: the puppets will lead, the Insect and Wisdom Angel armies will support them, and the Dark God Clan will infiltrate the enemy rear to convert puppets and sow confusion.

Character developments and interactions

• The Angel King moves from regret to suspicion, concluding that the altar’s backlash and the Great Void God King’s death were likely part of a hidden scheme. The Seraph supports the investigation but can offer no leads.
• Daochen shows a strong commitment to learning and self-improvement, setting an example for the students he sends abroad.
• The Abyss Lord shifts from confidence in his bargain to desperation and mental collapse as the Abyssal Will’s control grows. His pleas and accusations expose the gulf between his hopes for the Abyss and the Will’s self-serving agenda.
• The Angel commanders and the Independent Alliance Core Brain cooperate under mounting military pressure, abandoning a failing defensive posture for a coordinated offensive.

Significant themes

• The cost of ambition and bargains: The Abyss Lord’s hoped-for exchange has turned into a trap, while the Angel King’s earlier greed leaves him facing the consequences of a mysterious sacrifice.
• Knowledge as strength: Daochen presents learning as a foundation of the Angel Empire’s power.
• Control versus free will: The Abyssal Will’s rule has become domination, reducing entire races to tools and eroding the Abyss Lord’s ability to resist.
• Adaptation under pressure: The Angel Empire shifts from retreating defenses to a risky offensive as conventional lines fail.

Key plot points and events

• The War Angel commander withdraws in an orderly fashion to the Fourth Defense Line, following the Wisdom Angel leader’s directions.
• The Independent Alliance’s Core Brain army takes over the front. Its insectoid mechs form the vanguard, while humanoid mechs equipped with Superweapons provide heavy fire from behind.
• The machines initially stagger and push back the Ghouls with concentrated fire. Ant soldiers also emerge from destroyed mechs to attack by surprise, but the Ghouls adapt and begin tearing the machines apart.
• The Mechanical Army’s immense energy consumption soon exhausts its reserves, forcing it to abandon its offensive and return to defense. The Wisdom Angel commander is nevertheless impressed by the Superweapons and begins to reconsider the Angel Race’s neglect of technology.
• Elsewhere, the Demon Emperor and other leaders of the Primordial World’s peoples spread through the Angel Empire’s Holy Cities. The Demon Emperor enrolls at King Academy in King Holy City.
• A Seraph Chief lectures the leaders on the Angel Race’s cultivation hierarchy: World Kings are among the strongest known beings, while the legendary Space-Time Guardian lies beyond them. He also explains that Overlords can draw on world power.
• The leaders learn that even Grand Ancestor Gods are considered little more than cannon fodder in major wars—and that the conflict they had fought against the Angel Empire was regarded as a minor skirmish.

Character developments and interactions

• The Wisdom Angel commander shifts from dismissing technology to recognizing that Superweapons could be decisive if enough energy could be produced.
• The Demon Emperor is humbled by the scale of power in the Angel Empire, but remains determined to grow stronger.
• The Seraph Chief acts as teacher and bluntly explains the vast gap between the visiting leaders and the Angel Empire’s highest ranks.
• The Insect Queen and other Overlords are shaken by the revelation that their previous victories meant little to the Angel Race.
• The War Angel and Wisdom Angel leaders coordinate the retreat, with the Wisdom Angel emphasizing that the withdrawal must not disrupt the defenses or attack routes.

Significant themes

• Technology versus innate power: Mechanical weapons briefly give a weaker force an advantage, but their effectiveness is limited by energy demands.
• The importance of resources: Firepower alone cannot sustain a campaign without reliable energy production.
• Perspective and scale: What the newcomers considered a major war is treated by the Angel Empire as a minor engagement.
• Ambition amid humility: The Demon Emperor confronts his weakness without giving up on his future potential.

Key plot points and events

• The Seraph Chief explains that the Angel–Abyss war has lasted—and may continue—for hundreds of millions of years. Because dead angels can be endlessly reincarnated, defeating the Angel Empire is almost impossible.
• The Demon Emperor and the others accept that their earlier ambitions to challenge the Angel Empire were unrealistic. The Angels offer them protection and training, asking only that they develop their potential and perhaps prove useful in the future.
• The Seraph Chief introduces the Angel Race’s view of cultivation: adapting to a world means integrating with its laws; a cultivator learns to use those laws, a controller commands them, and a creator makes them.
• He demonstrates Word-Following Law, changing reality and perception through spoken commands. The display reveals the extraordinary power of a world king—and inspires the students to pursue that level of strength.
• The King Academy begins with exhaustive study of the world’s laws. Students spend a million years memorizing and mastering them, only to complete the basic foundation of their education.

Character developments

• The Demon Emperor moves from restless suspicion and grand ambitions to accepting the enormous power gap. He becomes motivated by the prospect of one day reaching the level of world kings and space-time guardians.
• The other students likewise abandon unrealistic plans to oppose the Angels and become inspired by the path of cultivation.
• The Seraph Chief acts as both a realist and teacher: he corrects the students’ assumptions, explains the Angel Empire’s philosophy, and gives them a glimpse of higher power.

Significant themes

• Immense differences in power and history: The younger races are insignificant beside empires whose conflicts span hundreds of millions of years.
• Cultivation as adaptation and mastery: Growth begins with understanding a world’s laws, advances to controlling them, and culminates in creating them.
• Knowledge requires patience: Even the fundamentals demand vast effort; innate talent alone cannot shortcut rigorous study.
• Hope through long-term potential: Though the students are currently weak, the Angels believe every race has strengths that can be developed.

Character interactions

• The Seraph Chief reassures and instructs the group, while the Demon Emperor and other students listen, reconsider their assumptions, and absorb his lesson.
• His demonstration of Word-Following Law turns an abstract explanation into a direct encounter with world-king power, deepening the students’ awe and ambition.
• The academy’s demanding curriculum then tests that new enthusiasm, forcing the students to confront how much work lies ahead.

Key plot points and events

• During a million years of study in the Great Void, the Demon Emperor and other Primordial World leaders learned about its laws and the Angel Race’s advanced knowledge. The experience revealed just how far behind they were, despite their own progress.
• While they studied, the Abyss expanded and grew stronger under the abyssal will. The Abyss Empire swept through Angel Alliance territory, which had lost more than half its lands, and reached the Primordial World’s defensive line.
• Responding to a plea for aid, Demon Emperor Daochen prepares to leave King Academy and return to defend the Primordial World.
• After a final lesson on overlapping laws, Daochen tells the Seraph Chief why he must go. The teacher recognizes the danger and notes that the Primordial World’s 103,000 students have nearly all become grand ancestor gods.
• The Seraph Chief suggests that abandoning the Primordial World might preserve Daochen’s exceptional potential, but Daochen refuses. He promises to stop the Abyss Empire at their defensive line.
• Before parting, Daochen asks for help adapting the Sword of Judgment to his Great Void Hammer. Their discussion leads him to devise a powerful ultimate combat art suited to his unusually large supply of world power.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen has become a highly accomplished student, mastering law fusion and earning the Seraph Chief’s particular admiration. His studies deepen his understanding of the Primordial World’s strengths, and his loyalty to it remains firm despite the risks.
• The Seraph Chief respects Daochen’s talent and cares for him enough to suggest he save himself by leaving his Origin World. Though Daochen declines, the teacher supports him by helping refine his combat technique.
• Human Sovereign Fuxi shares the group’s appreciation for their education and recognizes that even a million years has only exposed the scale of the Angel Race’s advantage.
• Daochen and his teacher part on warm, respectful terms: Daochen thanks him for his guidance and promises he will return to King Academy.

Significant themes

• Knowledge and humility: Immense study brings progress, but also reveals how vast the gap between civilizations remains.
• Duty and sacrifice: Daochen chooses to defend his home rather than preserve his potential by abandoning it.
• Adaptation and distinct strengths: The Primordial World’s abundant world power allows Daochen to develop a combat style different from the Angel Race’s more resource-efficient precision attacks.
• Escalating crisis: The Abyss’s rapid, coordinated evolution turns the war into an urgent threat to the Primordial World and the wider alliance.

Key plot points and events

• The Demon Emperor spends a year gathering the Primordial World’s scattered children from the holy cities, then brings them home as war on the front lines worsens.
• Core Brain, the Ant Race Overlord, and their allies report major advances: they can produce Great Void God Puppets, are researching Grand Ancestor God Puppets, and have developed specialized Interstellar Battle Armor.
• The Ant Race has evolved to the Great Void God realm. Equipped with armor and combat chips, its warriors can challenge stronger opponents, while support races such as the Fortune Clan are recognized as force multipliers.
• The Demon Emperor inspects the puppets and armor, then invites an Ant Race squad to attack him. He judges that the armor can threaten Grand Ancestor Gods, but its effectiveness depends on numbers and its squads lack flexibility.

Character developments

• The Demon Emperor returns as a confident, pragmatic commander, impressed by the Primordial World’s growth and focused on turning its people and technology into an effective army.
• Qingpingzi and the Fire Barbarian King have reached the Great Void God realm, though they feel their power still leaves them below the front-line elite.
• King Fu takes pride in the Fortune Clan’s support role, and the Demon Emperor affirms its importance.
• Core Brain and the Ant Race Overlord show confidence in the results of a million years of research and preparation.

Significant themes

• Preparation and collective strength: The Primordial World’s survival depends on combining many races, roles, and technologies.
• Technology alongside cultivation: Puppets and armor are valuable, but neither replaces the power of cultivation; their impact comes from efficient design and mass deployment.
• Support as a force multiplier: Support races can make allied fighters far more effective.
• The limits of power: Even advanced equipment has drawbacks, and battlefield organization and numbers matter as much as raw strength.

Character interactions

• The Demon Emperor thanks the leaders who maintained the defense and encourages the newly advanced cultivators.
• He discusses armor’s potential with Core Brain, who explains that the Ant Race’s version is specialized and that custom armor for other warriors is underway.
• During the combat test, the Demon Emperor personally assesses the Ant Race’s tactics, giving direct criticism of their formation and coordination.

Key plot points and events

• After demonstrating the Ant Race’s Auxiliary Battle Armor, Demon Emperor Daochen praises its potential despite its flaws. He urges the Mechanical and Wisdom Races to develop armor and improve how warriors use and transmit scarce world power, since Mechanical Puppets have reached their limits.
• The Core Brain warns that the Angel Empire’s defensive lines typically fall after about ten thousand years, overwhelmed by the Abyss Empire’s fearless, endlessly replenished forces. Daochen declares that the line will hold at the Primordial World and that the enemy will be decisively stopped.
• The Angel Empire has repeatedly retreated because its long, narrow front is difficult to defend. Fixed fortresses were rejected as vulnerable to encirclement, but the Primordial World cannot be abandoned because it contains a world soul.
• Daochen sends the puppet troops to reinforce the front, then rallies the Primordial World’s people. After a million years of rapid development and study through the Divine Network, most have reached the Great Void God realm, and their unusual strengths let them challenge stronger foes.
• The Primordial World’s warriors pledge to defend their home. Daochen promises to fight beside them and protect their world.
• Meanwhile, Chief Wisdom Angel oversees another orderly retreat. He initially dismisses a request to monitor the Primordial World, but recognizes its strategic value once reminded of its Superweapon contributions. He tells his forces to secure the defensive line.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen shifts from evaluator to commander: he offers practical technological guidance, projects confidence in the defense, and personally inspires the Primordial World’s warriors.
• The Core Brain is anxious about the worsening war and shrinking defensive lines, but listens closely to Daochen’s recommendations.
• The Primordial World’s people show the results of sustained learning and cultivation, and unite around their loyalty to their homeland and emperor.
• Chief Wisdom Angel is pragmatic and initially preoccupied with the wider front. His view of the Primordial World changes when its military and technological importance becomes clear.
• Daochen’s confidence strengthens the resolve of the Primordial World’s forces; the Wisdom Angel’s exchange with his staff reveals the competing priorities of protecting a broad empire.

Significant themes

• Technology and adaptation: Auxiliary Battle Armor and efficient use of world power offer a path beyond the limits of existing weapons and puppets.
• Home and sacrifice: The Primordial World’s people regard defending their homeland as essential to a meaningful life.
• Leadership and morale: Daochen’s promises and willingness to fight alongside his soldiers turn confidence into collective resolve.
• Strategic necessity: The Angel Empire must balance retreat, broad-front defense, and the protection of valuable allies and resources.

Key plot points and events

• The Abyss Empire’s first assault uses Ghouls and the Giant Mouth Clan to break through the Mechanical Puppets’ defenses. Ghouls hide inside the Giant Mouth creatures, then pour out after the line is breached.
• Following the Core Brain’s strategy, Demon Emperor Daochen lets some attackers enter the Primordial World, where they lose access to their laws. The defenders then seal the breach and turn the intruders over to the world’s warriors.
• Daochen explains that Ghouls have venom sacs on their backs: puncturing one briefly paralyzes them, and burning their bodies prevents them from being reused.
• Daochen and Human Sovereign Fuxi deploy experimental super bacteria designed to break down alien corpses so the Heavenly Dao can absorb their nutrients. The bacteria quickly consume Ghouls and spread infection among them, triggering widespread panic and violence.
• The bacteria also pose a danger to the Primordial World’s own warriors. Daochen orders everyone to keep clear, and fears the Heavenly Dao may not be able to contain them. His concern eases when the bacteria die after only a short time in the air.

Character developments

• Daochen shows strategic pragmatism: he accepts the Core Brain’s risky plan to fight on home ground and authorizes an even more dangerous weapon, while remaining alert to its consequences.
• Fuxi demonstrates scientific caution, warning that the bacteria could harm allies and emphasizing the need for controlled trials.
• The Core Brain influences the defense through its proposal to exploit the Primordial World’s laws and Heavenly Dao.
• The Heavenly Dao is presented as an active force capable of controlling the bacteria and processing the remains of the invaders.

Character interactions

• Daochen consults the Core Brain and adopts its battlefield strategy.
• He teaches the defenders how to exploit the Ghouls’ weakness, then coordinates with Fuxi on deploying the bacteria.
• Fuxi raises safety concerns; Daochen checks with the Heavenly Dao and relays its approval before giving the order.
• The infected Ghouls turn on one another, showing how the weapon disrupts the enemy as well as threatens nearby allies.

Significant themes

• Adapting to the enemy: The defenders rely on knowledge of Ghoul tactics and change where they fight rather than simply holding the original line.
• Risk and control: A powerful weapon can reverse the battle but may endanger its users; the bacteria’s brief survival outside hosts limits the threat.
• The cost of war: Both sides exploit bodies and biological traits—Ghouls to multiply, the defenders to feed the Heavenly Dao—while the battlefield becomes grotesque and chaotic.

Key plot points and events

• Super bacteria devastate the ghouls attacking the Primordial World, turning them into black ash and spreading through nearby ghouls. The bacteria remain active for about ten hours, making them an effective temporary defensive barrier.
• Human Sovereign Fuxi explains their limits: they are highly effective against the Ghoul Clan, whose bodies are rich in carrion-feeding microbes, but largely useless against the Giant Mouth Alien Race, which has few cells and requires a superweapon to defeat.
• The Angel Empire notices the Primordial World’s unusually successful defense. The Chief Wisdom Angel summons Demon Emperor Daochen to ask how the bacteria work and assigns the Primordial World one million high-level angel warriors.
• Daochen warns that the bacteria could be dangerous without a conscious Heavenly Dao to control them. He agrees to reveal the method but asks for five million angel warriors to offset the risks and urges the Angel Empire to restrict its use.
• The Chief Wisdom Angel accepts the warning, though Daochen doubts he will act cautiously. Daochen explains the method, and the Angel official remarks that the Angel Empire had previously failed to keep such bacteria alive.

Character developments and interactions

• Human Sovereign Fuxi is cautious and scientifically minded, clarifying both the bacteria’s duration and their limits.
• Demon Emperor Daochen shifts from confusion and anxiety at being summoned to practical negotiation. He protects the Primordial World’s interests while recognizing its dependence on the far stronger Angel Empire.
• The Chief Wisdom Angel is impressed by the Primordial World’s defenses and eager to apply the discovery across the war, but speaks with authority. Daochen’s warnings reveal a tension between the Angel Empire’s power and the dangers of its decisions.
• Daochen’s respectful reference to the Chief Seraph as a patron prompts the Chief Wisdom Angel to praise his honesty.

Significant themes

• Power and control: The bacteria are useful only when guided by a conscious Heavenly Dao, making control as important as weapon strength.
• Pragmatism under unequal power: Daochen shares valuable knowledge because refusing the Angel Empire could cost the Primordial World vital support.
• Limits of a weapon: The bacteria can neutralize one major threat but cannot solve the broader war or defeat every enemy.
• Risk and responsibility: The chapter raises the danger of deploying a weapon across worlds that may lack the means to contain it.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen explains that the Super Bacteria can be useful against Ghouls, but warns that their effect is strongest on Ghouls rather than exclusive to them. The Chief Wisdom Angel nonetheless mass-produces and deploys them.
• The bacteria initially stop the Ghoul offensive and cause severe losses across the Abyss Empire. In response, the abyssal will destroys most Ghoul Nests and shifts the war toward stronger, slower-breeding races such as the Abyssal Devils, Giant Mouth Clan, and Fallen Angels.
• The Abyss Empire develops its own bacteria, which spread among many kinds of beings and carry the abyssal will. Over time, they demonize infected victims—including Mechanical Puppets—and the process becomes irreversible.
• After ten thousand years of holding the line, demonization grows too severe for the Angel Race and other defenders to contain. Daochen declares that the Primordial World must not be abandoned, and calls for a plan to defend it.
• Human Sovereign Fuxi identifies the central danger: not the bacteria themselves, but the abyssal will embedded in them. He proposes using the Primordial World’s heavenly dao to destroy that will. Daochen recognizes the possibility and appeals to the heavenly dao for protection.

Character developments and interactions

• Chief Wisdom Angel admits that his people failed to make proper use of other races, then eagerly takes charge of the Super Bacteria. His refusal to heed Daochen’s cautions helps bring about the wider crisis.
• Demon Emperor Daochen moves from warning the Angel Empire about the bacteria to organizing a defense of the Primordial World. He insists it cannot be abandoned and supports Fuxi’s proposed solution.
• Human Sovereign Fuxi contributes the key insight that the bacteria are dangerous because they carry the Abyss’s will, not simply because they are infectious.
• The chapter contrasts Daochen’s warnings and strategic concern with the Wisdom Angel’s overconfidence, while the growing crisis forces the leaders to cooperate.

Significant themes

• Weapons can have unintended consequences: A tool created to counter one enemy becomes a pathway for a greater threat.
• The power of will and influence: The bacteria’s ability to carry the abyssal will lets the Abyss corrupt even beings thought immune to demonization.
• Responsibility and foresight: Ignored warnings contribute to the collapse of the defense line.
• Home and survival: Daochen frames the Primordial World as both a strategic refuge and the foundation of its people’s future.

Key plot points

• With Abyss-infected Super Bacteria spreading and the Primordial World’s Superweapons unlikely to hold forever, Demon Emperor Daochen insists on testing whether the Heavenly Dao can suppress the Abyssal Will.
• He volunteers to make contact with an infected being himself, arguing that his unusually steadfast will makes him the best test case—and that the result will determine whether the Primordial World still has hope.
• His followers initially refuse, fearing that losing him would destabilize the entire world. Human Sovereign Fuxi offers to take his place, but Daochen explains why the experiment must involve him.
• The group eventually accepts his decision. Daochen says they may have to join the Abyss Empire if he is corrupted, but privately knows that coexistence with another world’s will would likely erase the Primordial World. His real fallback is to flee to distant lands.
• The Heavenly Dao Will has agreed to help suppress the Abyssal Will. An infected being is brought in, and Daochen prepares to begin the test.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen reveals both his responsibility and resolve: he blames himself for approving the Super Bacteria’s use and is willing to risk corruption to protect his world. He also keeps his true contingency plan—escape—private.
• Fuxi and the Overlords try to protect Daochen, but ultimately recognize the logic of his gamble and stand by him.
• The Twin Buddhist Scions counsel acceptance, arguing that a person’s heart matters more than which faction they belong to. Their existence also confirms that no Scion wishes to surrender their identity to become an incarnation of Zhunti or Jieyin, suggesting those two Buddhist Sages may disappear.
• The Primordial World’s leaders reassure one another that they will remain together even if forced into the Abyss or Angel Empire.

Significant themes

• Duty and sacrifice: Daochen accepts personal risk because he feels accountable for the crisis.
• Identity and free will: The Buddhist Scions’ independence challenges the idea that one being should give up their self to become another.
• Hope amid defeat: The experiment is a desperate gamble, but its outcome may decide whether resistance remains possible.
• Loyalty over allegiance: The group finds comfort in staying together, regardless of which empire ultimately prevails.

Key plot points

• Demon Emperor Daochen deliberately lets an infected man bite him so he can study the Abyss virus. He discovers that its “infection” is really the destruction of the host’s soul by abyssal will, leaving behind a mindless puppet.
• Daochen’s unusually resilient soul withstands the attack and consumes the invading will, gaining strength from it. He realizes that a strong enough soul can resist the virus and that abyssal will can serve as nourishment.
• He explains the virus’s mechanism to the Primordial Heavenly Dao, which protects people’s souls. With that protection, the Primordial World begins purging infections, and the Heavenly Dao grows stronger by absorbing the remaining abyssal will.
• Daochen orders an offensive against the virus carriers. Though Fuxi worries that the Primordial World’s forces may be outmatched, Daochen argues that infected enemies rely only on instinct and can be handled through coordination and avoidance of large groups.
• The warriors divide into eastern and western forces and begin hunting the scattered carriers, while Daochen’s troops strike into the enemy rear.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen moves from investigating the virus to understanding and exploiting it. His confidence—and appetite for abyssal will—grows, and he presents the counterattack as both a justified effort to help the Angel Empire and a chance to seize an advantage.
• Human Sovereign Fuxi voices the group’s practical concern about the enemy’s strength, but Daochen reassures him and the other warriors.
• The warriors shift from fear and disbelief to tentative willingness to fight once they learn the virus can be resisted. Daochen leads and encourages them.

Significant themes

• The cost of infection: The virus does not transform its victims so much as erase their souls, turning them into tools of destruction.
• Knowledge as power: Daochen’s willingness to risk infection reveals the virus’s nature and changes the balance of the conflict.
• Adaptation and reversal: What once threatened the Primordial World becomes a source of strength for both its Heavenly Dao and Daochen.
• Destruction versus control: Daochen concludes that the Abyssal Will seeks annihilation, not orderly rule, because its soulless soldiers cannot plan or live as individuals.

Plot and key events

• Fearing the Abyssal Will will reclaim the soul-fragments being consumed by the Supervirus, Demon Emperor Daochen orders a rapid purge of virus carriers. He deploys every Mechanical Puppet under Heavenly Dao protection, clearing nearby Abyss forces and stabilizing the defenses around the Primordial World.
• The Wisdom Angel Chief notices the unexpected improvement and realizes Daochen may have found a way to counter the virus. The chapter explains how the Abyssal Will had previously adapted the virus by fusing it with its own Heavenly Dao Will and Soul, turning it into a more infectious weapon that helped the Abyss Empire break through Angel defenses and grow stronger by devouring souls.
• The Wisdom Angel Chief asks Daochen to share his countermeasure in exchange for compensation. Daochen demands command of one hundred million Angels, and the Chief agrees.
• The Chief warns that the alliance may abandon the ruined defensive line, but Daochen refuses to leave the Primordial World. He argues that remaining in place can restore the alliance’s confidence, and vows that his people will defend their home to the last soldier.
• Daochen’s resolve moves the Wisdom Angel Chief, who begins to question the strategy of continual retreat.

Character developments and interactions

• Demon Emperor Daochen is both strategic and self-interested: he acts quickly to protect the Primordial World and uses his success to secure a huge Angel army. Yet his determination to defend his homeland reveals a deeper devotion to his people and a belief in resistance as a source of morale.
• The Wisdom Angel Chief shifts from demanding Daochen’s method as an alliance obligation to respecting his conviction. Daochen’s challenge makes him reconsider whether retreat is weakening the Angels’ will to fight.
• Their negotiation highlights the difference between the Chief’s practical concern for resources and Daochen’s insistence that defending one’s home and preserving confidence matter as much as military survival.

Significant themes

• Greed and power: The Abyssal Will’s hunger for souls drives its reckless use of the virus; Daochen, too, bargains shrewdly for a major reward.
• Home and resolve: Daochen treats the Primordial World as inseparable from its people, making its defense a matter of identity and survival.
• Morale in war: Daochen argues that repeated retreat can destroy the confidence needed to resist, while a determined stand may strengthen an alliance even under severe pressure.

Key plot points and events

• The Wisdom Angel Commander orders the Angel Empire to retreat, not out of fear but to preserve its forces and buy time. The Abyss Empire’s magically accelerated population growth gives it overwhelming manpower, while repeated angel reincarnation gradually weakens the Angel Race’s potential.
• A hundred-million-strong angel army remains behind to defend the Primordial World. War Angel Vilochi and the Eighth War Zone pledge to follow Demon Emperor Daochen’s command, even if it means fighting to the death.
• Daochen tells Vilochi’s troops to rest and regroup before entering battle. He is quietly withdrawing the defensive line while staging resistance, hoping to control the fighting and keep the Abyss Empire from realizing that the super bacteria have been countered.
• The abyssal will notices the exposed Primordial World but underestimates it, ordering the Giant Mouth Clan to attack with only a limited force. The possessed Abyss Lord continues to focus on destroying the Angel Empire.

Character developments and interactions

• The Wisdom Angel Commander reluctantly accepts retreat as a strategic necessity, reassuring himself that the Angel Empire is buying time for stronger generations of angels to emerge.
• Demon Emperor Daochen remains calm and calculating. He welcomes Vilochi’s cooperation, is relieved to have a subordinate willing to follow his command, and uses deception as well as defense to manage the war.
• Vilochi shows disciplined resolve, accepting the possibility of death in battle. Though initially surprised when Daochen orders his exhausted troops to rest, he agrees to serve under him.
• The abyssal will displays confidence and contempt for the Primordial World, while the Giant Mouth Clan’s leader privately recognizes that the Abyss Lord’s behavior is becoming increasingly strange.

Significant themes

• Strategic retreat and endurance: Giving ground can be a deliberate way to preserve strength and create an opening for a later counterattack.
• The cost of survival: The Angel Race’s reliance on reincarnation has limits, while the Abyss Empire’s forced reproduction turns life itself into a weapon.
• Deception and underestimation: Daochen hides the Primordial World’s true position and capabilities; the abyssal will’s dismissal of it may prove costly.
• Duty and sacrifice: Vilochi and his angels accept that defending the Primordial World may mean dying there.

Plot points and events

• The Giant Mouth Clan, once a powerful ruling race, has dwindled because it reproduces by splitting, which weakens its members, and can no longer find enough food to evolve. The Abyss Empire’s wartime conditions have left it with few warriors and little hope.
• While fighting the Primordial World, the Demon Emperor notices the clan’s decline and has a Giant Mouth warrior captured.
• At Alliance Headquarters, the captive initially fears torture and rejects the idea of betraying the Abyss Empire. The Demon Emperor persuades him to pass along a proposal to the Giant Mouth Overlord.
• The Demon Emperor summons the Overlord through an Abyss altar and offers the clan food and resources for evolution. In return, the Giant Mouths must stage large attacks on the Primordial World without trying to conquer it.
• The Overlord worries that prolonged, conspicuous failure will draw the Abyss Lord’s attention and endanger his people. The Demon Emperor insists the arrangement serves both sides and hints that he is buying time, not acting from weakness.

Character developments and interactions

• The Giant Mouth Overlord shifts from despair about his clan’s survival to cautiously considering a risky bargain. He remains wary of consequences and puts his people’s safety first.
• The captive warrior is frightened and distrustful, but agrees to relay the offer after the Demon Emperor challenges him to consider whether mere survival under current conditions has meaning.
• Demon Emperor Daochen appears confident and pragmatic. He uses familiarity, pressure, and the promise of food to recruit the clan for a strategic deception.
• Human Sovereign Fuxi observes the captive and finds him unexpectedly cowardly compared with other Abyssal Maws.

Significant themes

• Decline and survival: A once-dominant race is reduced to desperation by war, scarcity, and its own biological limitations.
• Loyalty versus self-preservation: The Giant Mouths fear punishment for treason, yet their loyalty is tested by the possibility of saving their clan.
• Deception as strategy: The proposed attacks are a performance meant to buy the Primordial World time while sustaining the Giant Mouths.
• Power and agency: The Demon Emperor suggests that the Abyss Empire’s races have become puppets, raising doubts about whether they can control their own fate.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen reveals that the Primordial World is powerful enough to destroy the Giant Mouth Clan, but offers cooperation instead: the clan can help delay the Abyss Empire’s assault, and he will protect them while the Primordial World remains standing.
• He warns the Giant Mouth Overlord that the Abyss Empire will abandon the clan once it loses its military usefulness. Abandoned races are effectively erased from history and preserved only as specimens; meanwhile, other races are waiting to claim their resources.
• The Overlord recognizes that his clan is already declining and has no safe future if it continues fighting for the Abyss Empire. He worries, however, that betraying the empire will trigger the Abyssal Will’s control over his people.
• Daochen explains that the Primordial World’s world will can overwrite the Abyssal imprint carried by Abyssal races. He demonstrates this by changing the allegiance of a captured Abyssal Maw, then removing the Primordial World’s imprint rather than keeping the race under its control.
• Convinced of Daochen’s sincerity, the Overlord agrees to cooperate. He decides that, if survival is otherwise impossible, he will seize power by swallowing the races of the Abyss Empire’s Western Border Region.
• The two leaders devise a plan. The Giant Mouth Clan begins the conflict by sending forces in small increments to fight the Primordial World’s Mechanical Puppets, trading losses rather than launching a full-scale attack.

Character developments and interactions

• The Giant Mouth Overlord shifts from fear and doubt to desperate resolve. He accepts that loyalty to the Abyss Empire will not save his clan and chooses rebellion, though his cooperation is driven partly by ambition and greed.
• Demon Emperor Daochen acts as a persuasive strategist, using the Primordial World’s strength, knowledge of the Abyssal Will, and a practical demonstration to win the Overlord’s trust. He is clear that his aim is to delay the Abyss Empire, not to rule the Giant Mouth Clan.
• Their negotiations move from threat and suspicion toward a conditional alliance. Daochen offers protection and help breaking the Abyssal Will’s control; the Overlord accepts, while retaining his own plans for expansion.

Significant themes

• Power and survival: The clan’s choices are shaped by the overwhelming forces around it; cooperation becomes a means of buying time.
• The expendability of weaker races: The Abyss Empire’s loyalty is conditional, and abandoned races are left with no meaningful future.
• Control and freedom: The Abyssal Will enforces obedience, but another world will may be able to replace its hold.
• Self-interest and opportunism: Daochen and the Overlord cooperate for different ends, and the Overlord turns a survival crisis into an opportunity to seize territory.

Key events

• After three millennia of holding the defensive line, the allied forces have settled into an unusually easy rhythm, killing virus bodies and earning merit. Demon Emperor Daochen warns that the Abyssal Will has noticed the pattern and is urging the Giant Mouth Tribe to attack, signaling that a major battle is approaching.
• With five million angels expected as reinforcements, Daochen plans a counterattack and sets out to seek support from the Insect Race and Dark God Clan, whose distant territories have allowed them to expand and prosper.
• While traveling, Daochen sends the Core Brain to contact the Xenomorph Race. Though once nearly wiped out, the parasitic race has recovered by taking over a minor race’s territory. Daochen considers recruiting them as potential battlefield fighters, but recognizes that mechanical puppets are their main weakness.
• Daochen reaches the Insect Race and meets the Insect Queen, who greets him warmly. She has advanced to the great prosperity god realm through a cultivation method developed for her by the Angel Empire. Eager to fight, she says she will go to the battlefield after reaching the great spirit god realm.
• Daochen cautions her that even great spirit gods remain vulnerable, recommending that she wait until she reaches world king. He recalls how the War Angel Commander once crippled the Giant Mouth Tribe’s Overlord, demonstrating the danger posed by powerful combatants and explaining why the tribe was later abandoned.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen shifts from monitoring a stable defensive war to preparing an offensive, seeking allies and thinking strategically about which races can contribute. He treats the Insect Queen with warmth but gives her cautious advice.
• The Insect Queen is powerful, talented, and increasingly impatient with peaceful cultivation. Her affectionate reunion with Daochen contrasts with her eagerness to return to battle.
• Fuxi supports the soldiers’ need to rest and reports on the expected angel reinforcements.
• The War Angel Commander, though absent, is established as a fearsome force whose victory over the Giant Mouth Overlord reshaped the battlefield.

Significant themes

• Complacency versus vigilance: A seemingly easy war may change quickly once the enemy recognizes what is happening.
• Alliances and military dependence: Victory requires cooperation among races with different strengths, from angel armies to Insect Race production and potential Xenomorph fighters.
• Power and risk: Greater cultivation does not guarantee safety; experience and exceptional combat ability can outweigh rank.
• Uneven consequences of war: Some races prosper under protection, while others—like the Xenomorphs—struggle to survive and adapt.

Plot points

• The Giant Mouth Clan, crippled and abandoned by the Abyss Empire, declined into a minor force. Its mistreatment helped drive its leader, Abyssal Maw, to betray the Empire and vent his accumulated resentment against the Primordial World.
• Demon Emperor Daochen visits the Insect Queen to seek help as the Abyss Empire appears poised to launch a major offensive. The Primordial World is increasingly exposed as the last microcosm still resisting.
• The Insect Queen explains that the Angel Empire has claimed the Insect Race’s future soldiers, leaving her unable to support the front. She proposes breeding insects in territories Daochen controls, using broodmothers to supply his forces.
• She offers him the Insect Race’s Origin, allowing him to control those broodmothers and make that branch of the race his own. The Queen has already distributed Insects among many races—including the Angel Empire—to ensure her people’s survival.
• Daochen accepts the broodmothers and departs. The Queen privately suspects he is far stronger than he appears, perhaps comparable to a Great Spirit God, and believes the Primordial World may be seeking help to conceal its own readiness. Her guard Mays doubts Daochen could possess such hidden strength.

Character developments and interactions

• The Insect Queen emerges as shrewd and farsighted, prioritizing her race’s survival over military influence and turning increasingly toward cultivation rather than leadership. She sees through Daochen’s careful presentation and suspects he is hiding his true power.
• Demon Emperor Daochen reveals his strategic reach: he has quietly secured extensive territory, disguised under the Fire Barbarian Race’s name. He recognizes the Queen’s intelligence and is confident he can use the broodmothers to strengthen his forces.
• Mays, the Queen’s guard, challenges her assessment of Daochen, emphasizing the gap between his apparent level and the higher realms he supposedly could match.

Significant themes

• Resentment born of betrayal: The Giant Mouth Clan’s abandonment shows how perceived injustice can build until it provokes rebellion.
• Survival through adaptation: The Insect Queen disperses her people and accepts their transformation into tools of other races to preserve their existence.
• Hidden strength and deception: Both Daochen’s concealed power and the Primordial World’s possible feigned vulnerability suggest that appearances in war can be strategic.

Key plot points

• The Insect Queen tells Mace that cultivation level alone does not determine strength: survival skills, combat techniques, world power, and understanding of the Heavenly Dao also matter. She believes the Demon Emperor may soon reach World King-level strength.
• The Queen favors cultivation over gene evolution and is deliberately holding back her own breakthrough to build a strong foundation for eventually becoming a World King.
• She has learned to produce intelligent Insect Race beings by steering gene evolution. Though the success rate is low, the race’s enormous population allows these intelligent insects to multiply rapidly. She is proud of this growing community.
• The Demon Emperor visits the Dark God Clan to seek reinforcements, but the Dark God King cannot spare troops because the Angel Empire has already taken many of the clan’s elites for the front lines.
• The Dark God King suggests another possible ally: the Illusion God Race. He explains the ancient history of the major surviving races and their relationships with the Angel Empire and Abyss Empire.
• The Illusion God Race is powerful but constrained: it has no physical bodies, depends on the Illusion God Sea, and must return there annually to recover. The Heavenly Dao also limits the sea’s expansion, leaving the race unable to pursue its ambitions freely.

Character development and interactions

• The Insect Queen shows strategic patience, choosing long-term cultivation over a quick breakthrough. Her selective approach to creating intelligent insects reveals both her ambition and her sense of what makes a broodmother valuable.
• Mace accepts her lesson and pledges to focus on cultivation, hoping to catch up with her.
• The Demon Emperor seeks support pragmatically but respects the Dark God King’s refusal and does not pressure him.
• The Dark God King is candid about his clan’s limitations and offers the Demon Emperor an alternative path to aid. His account also establishes his deep knowledge of the world’s history.

Significant themes

• Power is multidimensional: cultivation rank is only one part of fighting strength.
• Long-term preparation over rapid advancement: a firm foundation may matter more than an immediate breakthrough.
• Adaptation and evolution: the Insect Queen is reshaping her species by combining genetic change with cultivation.
• Power constrained by nature and circumstance: the Dark God Clan’s defensive nature and the Illusion God Race’s dependence on its sea limit their ambitions.
• Alliance-building in war: the Demon Emperor’s search for support suggests that reconciling rival powers could be as important as military strength.

Key plot points and events

• The Dark God King explains why the Illusion God Race is seeking an alliance: after joining the Abyss Empire and Angel Empire in destroying the Great Void God Race, it escaped the Abyss Empire’s later rise to dominance. The Sea of Illusion Gods is now under attack.
• Unable to approach the Angel Empire, the Illusion God Race wants the Primordial World to open a second front, drawing Abyss forces away from its territory.
• In exchange, the race will send the Five Elements Illusion Gods. Though only five, they can deploy immense illusion formations capable of changing a battle’s outcome.
• Demon Emperor Daochen agrees in principle and asks to meet the Illusion God directly. The Illusion God appears without warning, revealing an illusion powerful enough to fool both the Dark God King and the dark heavenly dao.
• The Illusion God confirms the plan: the Demon Emperor need only withstand the Abyss Empire’s attack once the Five Elements Illusion Gods arrive.

Character developments

• Demon Emperor Daochen remains wary of hidden motives, but his curiosity and pragmatism lead him toward cooperation. He also shows a willingness to learn from other races, especially about formations.
• The Dark God King presents himself as cautious and politically calculating. Though he facilitates the alliance, the Illusion God’s unnoticed arrival unsettles him.
• The Illusion God is introduced as elusive and highly capable, focused on using the Primordial World as a diversion to protect the Illusion God Race.

Significant themes

• Alliance through shared interests: Cooperation is driven less by trust than by the mutual need to weaken the Abyss Empire.
• Caution and concealed strength: The Dark God King emphasizes that openly displaying one’s power can expose weaknesses.
• Learning from others: Daochen believes strength comes from recognizing and adopting what other peoples do well.
• The changing value of old techniques: Traditional formations have lost effectiveness as the world and its combatants have grown stronger, making the Illusion God Race’s mastery especially valuable.

Character interactions

• Daochen questions the Dark God King’s motives and asks what the Illusion God Race expects in return.
• The Dark God King explains the race’s history, predicament, and proposed military support, while stressing the strategic value of its illusion formations.
• The Illusion God’s sudden appearance startles the Dark God King and impresses Daochen, who then negotiates directly with them.

Summary

• The Illusion God forces an alliance: Concerned that the Five Elements Illusion Gods might draw the Abyss Lord’s attention, Demon Emperor Daochen objects to using them as bait. The Illusion God promises to keep them hidden, but makes clear they will be sent regardless. Daochen reluctantly accepts, recognizing that the Illusion God Race is using the Primordial World to divert the Abyss Empire while he hopes to obtain their formations. The Five Elements Illusion Gods, led by Tianyi, are placed under his command—though they will also convey the Illusion God’s wishes.
• Daochen recruits the Xenomorph Race: On his return, Daochen visits the Xenomorph Overlord and asks for a Xenomorph Mother to support the Primordial World. He also asks whether the Xenomorph Race could improve by absorbing the genes of races preserved within the Abyss Empire. The Overlord explains that evolution becomes extremely difficult at the perfect god level, and the race’s current approach is losing effectiveness.
• A new evolutionary path is proposed: Daochen suggests that the Xenomorphs become a symbiotic “bio-armor” race, attaching to other beings and enhancing their combat abilities. This could make host races dependent on them, but it would require a major change in how the Xenomorphs survive. The Overlord is hesitant, then agrees to pursue this path alongside—rather than instead of—gene evolution.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen reluctantly accepts the Illusion God’s terms, balancing their mutual interests while wary of being drawn into another race’s war. He also shows strategic ingenuity by proposing a new future for the Xenomorphs.
• The Illusion God prioritizes the survival of their own race and uses pressure as well as persuasion to secure Daochen’s cooperation.
• The Xenomorph Overlord recognizes the limits of its race’s current evolution and, after weighing the cost of dependence, cautiously embraces experimentation with symbiosis.
• The chapter’s central interactions are negotiations: the Illusion God and Daochen form a wary, self-interested alliance, while Daochen tries to persuade the Xenomorph Overlord to adapt.

Significant themes

• Pragmatic alliances: Cooperation is driven by mutual advantage, not trust or shared principles.
• Adaptation and survival: The Xenomorphs face a choice between stagnation and transforming their role.
• Dependence and identity: Bio-armor could give the Xenomorphs influence and usefulness, but at the risk of changing—or losing—their independence.