The Human Emperor's plan: Severance of Heaven and Earth, with none reduced in status! (Part one)

Indeed, this had already begun while Cheng Yu was still in the Eternal True World.

As a mighty ruler of Humankind who had witnessed the Demon Race's rise and fall, Qin Shuo had felt not only relief at its decline, but also the sorrow of seeing another suffer a fate that might one day be his own.

After all, the Heavenly Dao could abandon Humankind in exactly the same way it had discarded the Demon Race.

As the Human Emperor-and one who had led Humankind's rise-Qin Shuo could not accept such an ending.

Thus, when Shen Yu, the Demon Race Great Sage, emerged out of nowhere and overshadowed his entire generation, Qin Shuo felt some anticipation alongside his anxiety. He, too, wanted to see whether this Demon Race Great Sage could turn his people's fate around.

Everyone had witnessed the outcome: the Demon Race's destined decline had been reversed.

Though the price was that the Monster Emperor had been stripped of his divine status and become a so-called Son of Heaven.

To Qin Shuo, however, that price was an absolute bargain. If he could save his own people, never mind losing his divine status-what did it matter even if he died and his cultivation vanished?

Thus, ever since Shen Yu's Transforming Oneself into a Pass, Qin Shuo had been pondering how Humankind might escape the Heavenly Dao's control.

Around the two-thousandth year of the Peacock Calendar, one of Qin Shuo's trusted aides reported a discovery to him: a peculiar phenomenon had been found in a subsidiary world under the Great Qin Celestial Dynasty.

That world's Heavenly Dao was extremely mechanical and unfeeling, and another consciousness was intertwined with it, the two influencing one another.

This drew Qin Shuo's close attention. He even traveled to that world himself.

Through his research,