Recaps

Dongguan discovered that dissidents in the Sacred Number Civilization had helped an outside enemy activate a vast array across his Divine Kingdom, leaving much of it beyond his control. He accepted the civilization’s leaders’ proposal to fight back and ordered them to clear the array’s nodes as the Crystal Race Sacred Lord and True Shadow Venerable prepared to attack from outside.

• Dongguan examined the array’s 10,081 space-time nodes and learned that dissidents had used coded messages in the Miniature Virtual Universe to organize their plan.
• Dongguan weighed punishing the Sacred Number Civilization against preserving the civilization he had nurtured, then met with its leaders in the Miniature Virtual Universe.
• The leaders reported that the companion intelligences of 12,892 Eternity Ones had been manipulated by an outside being and that all 12,892 Eternity Ones had died.
• The head of state offered a proposal for the civilization to bear responsibility and help fight the outside enemy, and Dongguan accepted it and ordered them to clear the array’s nodes.
• Outside the Divine Kingdom, the Crystal Race Sacred Lord prepared a purple-gold sword while True Shadow Venerable anticipated regaining his status as a Universe Master.

Black Universe Founder blocked the Crystal Race Sacred Lord and Demon Ancestor from destroying Dongguan’s Divine Kingdom while the Crystal and Prison Race Universe Masters tried to break through. Dongguan confronted True Shadow Venerable and realized the hidden trouble stemmed from his earlier use of cause and effect to erase Lord Xuxing.

• Black Universe Founder stopped the Crystal Race Sacred Lord’s attack and refused to be tempted by the Duan Donghe Inheritance.
• True Shadow Venerable summoned Demon Ancestor, who questioned whether Black Universe Founder’s disciple Bai Yu Master was actually Skywatching Master.
• Black Universe Founder fought the Crystal Race Sacred Lord and Demon Ancestor as seven Crystal and Prison Race Universe Masters tried to enter the Divine Kingdom.
• The White-Armored Blade-Bearer blocked the attackers, and True Shadow Venerable recognized him as Skywatching Master.
• Dongguan recognized True Shadow Venerable as a lingering consequence of his earlier use of Tamos’s power to erase Lord Xuxing.

The Human Race fought the Three Races on several fronts while both sides held back, leaving the conflict in a stalemate. As the Human side considered reinforcements, Dongguan killed Lord Zi Sui, escalating the battle and provoking the Crystal Race.

• Giant Axe Founder confronted Dream Demon Ancestor and her force alone, while the Zerg and Machine Race forces faced other Human groups led by Luo Feng and Lord Peng Gong.
• Chaos City Lord assessed the battlefronts as a stalemate and learned that Dongguan could use support against two Universe Strongest Ones.
• Luo Feng offered his Demon Killer Clan and Nether Sea clones to help Dongguan capture a Machine Race fighter.
• Dongguan spread his Void Domain, ambushed Lord Zi Sui, and killed him with a Sixth-Order Secret Technique.
• Crystal Race Sacred Lord failed to save Lord Zi Sui, and his death enraged him.

The Crystal Race Sacred Lord confronted the Mechanical Race Father God after Lord Zi Sui died during the failed attack on the human Skywatching Master. The allied leaders agreed to make one final attempt to destroy the Skywatching Master’s Divine Kingdom by sending in Universe Masters with clones.

• The Crystal Race Sacred Lord blamed the Mechanical Race Father God’s plan for Lord Zi Sui’s death and threatened to withdraw from the operation.
• The leaders discussed the Crystal Race’s traditions and why Lord Zi Sui had been protected from taking risks, while the Mechanical Race Father God argued that the Skywatching Master’s strength made the current opportunity urgent.
• The Crystal Race Sacred Lord rejected the proposal to send Universe Masters into the Divine Kingdom because its power made entering dangerous.
• The Mechanical Race Father God proposed sending Universe Masters with clones to attack the Divine Kingdom’s core, arguing that the Skywatching Master’s original body might still be trapped in the Coiled Snake Vortex.
• The Crystal Race Sacred Lord and the Prison Race Demon Ancestor agreed to make one last attempt.

Dongguan fought the Crystal Race and Prison Race Universe Masters outside his Divine Kingdom while the Sacred Number Civilization dismantled its nodes. He targeted Lord of Prohibition, but as enemies attacked both the black-and-white cocoon and the Divine Kingdom, True Shadow Venerable sprang his trap.

• Dongguan used the Tribulation-Shattering Blade and his Void domain to pursue the fleeing enemies, realizing they were spreading toward seven remaining Divine Kingdom nodes he could not protect all at once.
• Dongguan activated Threefold Observation, Cause and Effect, and Space-time, then isolated Lord of Prohibition inside a black-and-white cocoon.
• Lord of Prohibition transformed with his fused Strongest Secret Technique, Forbidden Cuckoo, but Dongguan judged that he could counter the Prison Race fighter’s attacks.
• Lord of Prohibition called for help, and two Prison Race Universe Masters charged into the cocoon while four Crystal Race Universe Masters entered the Divine Kingdom through its cracks and holes.
• True Shadow Venerable said he had caught them and enveloped himself in a blood-colored Tower.

Dongguan watched four Crystal Race Universe Masters invade his Divine Kingdom while the Sacred Number Civilization prepared to resist them. As Mo Heng declared a Supreme War Order, Dongguan concluded that the civilization’s survival and his Divine Kingdom’s fate depended on the coming battle.

• Dongguan held back the Light-Chasing Lord and waited to see whether the Sacred Number Civilization’s forces could withstand the four invading Universe Masters.
• Dongguan dismissed the possibility that a civilization without an Immortal could defeat Universe Masters and accepted that the Divine Kingdom was likely to fall.
• Mo Heng presented Yueguang’s letter, which confessed that an outsider had manipulated the Mechanical City project and explained Yueguang’s desperation to break the civilization’s stagnation.
• Mo Heng signed the Supreme War Order, committing the World Lords to fight first, followed by the lower ranks if they died.
• The Light-Chasing Lord told Dongguan that allowing the Sacred Number Civilization to fight was an act of mercy, but Dongguan said he simply had no alternative.

Dongguan studied Wuyin’s books on cultivation, the ten great laws, and the paths beyond them before deciding he had to leave. Wuyin gave him the books’ knowledge and temporarily unlocked his Hunyuan bloodline ability, while the Wuyins prepared a gift and Tamos fled from them.

• Dongguan studied the three books, learning about the cultivation paths and Wuyin’s history, including his mastery of the Way of Cause and Effect.
• Unable to ignore the plea for help on the True Explanation of Comprehension, Dongguan decided to leave and told Wuyin he had not finished reading the books.
• Wuyin sent the books’ contents into Dongguan’s mind and temporarily suppressed his Hunyuan bloodline ability until its aura was used up.
• Dongguan bowed to Wuyin and left through the Coiled Snake Vortex, which disappeared as the sealed void shrank.
• Buddha Wuyin told Demon Wuyin that Dongguan’s return would let the supreme rule find them sooner, and the two agreed to prepare him a gift.
• Wuyin appeared before Tamos to refine an artifact, and Tamos frantically fled.

Dongguan suppressed the invading Universe Masters’ control of space-time while the Mechanical Cities and Star Worlds fought to delay them. The four attackers headed for the Star Worlds, where the Sacred Number Civilization prepared to defend the barriers and buy time.

• Lord Fu appeared above a Mechanical City and attacked, but its fragments targeted him with energy-sea attacks that damaged his divine body.
• Dongguan suppressed Lord Fu’s space-time abilities, and he crushed most of the workers as they used the Mechanical City’s terrain to delay him.
• True Shadow Venerable’s plans kept the Universe Masters from entering the Dark Universe and directed them toward the Star Worlds and the Origin World.
• Lord Beiyu ordered the four Universe Masters to hurry to a Star World, while fewer than three thousand of the million Mechanical City workers survived.
• Lord Taoyu reached a Star World’s Composite Barrier as the Sacred Number Civilization prepared to use the energy ocean and its defensive systems against him.

Lord Beiyu battered the barrier around the Star World while its defenders prepared a coordinated counterattack, and Light-Chasing Lord set out to kill Lord Fu. Outside, Black Universe Founder held his own against two foes as Luo Feng stalked the watching Universe Masters.

• Lord Beiyu repeatedly struck the Star World barrier with Starfall Divine Oracle, but it only shrank gradually.
• The defenders planned to have those below Universe Level maintain the barriers while World Lords and Domain Lords launched a combined attack once the defenses weakened.
• Light-Chasing Lord left the Star World and chose Lord Fu as his target, hoping to kill him while his strength was suppressed inside the Divine Kingdom.
• Black Universe Founder fought the Demon Ancestor and the Crystal Race Sacred Lord evenly, prompting them to suspect he had gained an inheritance or made a breakthrough.
• Luo Feng kept concealed after capturing True Shadow Venerable, who was now asleep inside the Star Tower, and crept toward the enemy Universe Masters watching the battle.

Dongguan struggled to defend his Divine Kingdom as Lord Beiyu attacked, while World Lords sacrificed themselves to test weapons against him. On Earthstar World, researchers restarted a forbidden soul experiment to help their civilization, and after its first failure, a young man resolved to continue.

• Dongguan focused on defending against Lord Beiyu and accepted that he might have to spend his energy ocean to protect the Origin World.
• World Lords assembled a warship from their worlds and used it to attack Lord Beiyu, recording the results so later teams could improve their weapons.
• Researchers on Earthstar World proposed restarting forbidden Soul Experiment No. 0, and a middle-aged man made himself its first subject.
• The experiment failed and killed the middle-aged man, but a young researcher studied the data and decided the group should continue.

Dongguan and Luo Feng helped defeat the Crystal Race invasion, killing two Universe Masters before retreating into the Divine Kingdom as the other attackers faltered. The fighting triggered unexpected breakthroughs for the Black Universe Founder and August Venerable, while Dongguan returned to Liuzhong Mountain and sought to learn what had happened during his absence.

• Lord Beiyu killed the World Lords from a third warship and confronted the Light-Chasing Lord, who admitted killing Lang Fu and attacked him.
• Dongguan coordinated with Luo Feng, whose Nether Sea Clone distracted a Prison Race Universe Master while Dongguan killed Lord Jin Juan.
• Luo Feng and Dongguan killed another wounded Universe Master, collected the Star Tower, and retreated into the Divine Kingdom as the remaining attackers held back.
• The Black Universe Founder comprehended a bottleneck breakthrough during his battle, and August Venerable comprehended the final trace of the Space Law.
• Dongguan returned to Liuzhong Mountain through the failing Coiled Snake Vortex and connected his consciousness to his clone to find out what had happened.

Dongguan and Luo Feng entered the Divine Kingdom to confront the invading Crystal Race and Prison Race Universe Masters. As their allies fought outside, a warship's soul attack struck Lord Beiyu, and his true body realized it was too late.

• The Demon Ancestor ordered two Tier 4 Prison Race Universe Masters to enter Dongguan's Divine Kingdom, and they obeyed despite their fear of losing their clones.
• Luo Feng examined Dongguan's unusual Divine Kingdom, and Dongguan asked about the Duan Donghe Inheritance's knowledge of Miniature Universe architecture.
• Dongguan told Luo Feng that three Crystal Race Universe Masters remained inside and that two Prison Race fighters had forced their way in, then led him through a spatial vortex.
• Lord Taoyu and Lord Beiyu battled Light-Chasing Lord while waiting for Skywatching Master and Galaxy Lord to arrive, and Lord Beiyu attacked an approaching warship.
• The warship released an invisible soul attack that struck Lord Beiyu, and his true body in the Prison Race homeland sensed the attack and lamented that it was too late.

The three battlefields ended with humanity trading prisoners, pursuing the Machine Race, and forcing the Crystal and Prison Races to retreat. The Black Universe Founder continued fighting for fresh insights while Dongguan’s forces contained the Sacred Number Civilization’s attack and captured Lord Beiyu.

• The Giant Axe Founder wounded the Dream Demon Ancestor, but she escaped with the Demon Race Universe Masters into the Dark Universe.
• The humans and Zerg exchanged their captured Universe Masters, ending the fighting on their battlefield.
• Luo Feng and Lord Peng Gong broke through the Machine Race’s formation; the Giant Axe Founder killed a second Machine Race Universe Master, and humanity pursued the retreating Machine Race while destroying and collecting Mechanical Puppets.
• The Black Universe Founder rejected a ceasefire with the Crystal Race Sacred Lord and Prison Race Demon Ancestor, choosing to keep fighting after Dongguan confirmed the Divine Kingdom was under control.
• The Light-Chasing Lord halted his attacks on Lord Beiyu after receiving a transmission, and the Star Tower sealed Lord Beiyu while two Crystal Race Universe Masters self-destructed.
• The Crystal and Prison Races retreated after Lord Beiyu and a Prison Race Tier 4 Universe Master were suppressed, and the Black Universe Founder let their leaders leave.

After escaping the Coiled Snake Vortex, Dongguan reunited with his clone and discovered that Wuyin’s power had left him able to use Tamos’s Hunyuan Bloodline Ability, High-Dimensional Perception. At a human council, he warned that the war could draw in the Purple Moon Holy Land and other Universe Ocean powers, leaving humanity to prepare for a much broader conflict.

• Dongguan reunited with his Light Lord Clone after the Coiled Snake Vortex vanished and found that Wuyin’s power suppressed the side effects of Tamos’s Hunyuan Bloodline, granting him a new vision ability.
• Dongguan recalled Wuyin’s task but realized that finding the distant place again without the Coiled Snake Vortex would be difficult.
• Giant Axe Founder told humanity’s Universe Masters that the five enemy races might return with their allies and other powers, while Luo Feng offered to share some inheritance information to recruit support.
• Dongguan warned the council that humanity might not win the war and that the Purple Moon Holy Land could intervene against those seeking to transcend reincarnation.
• Original Ancestor appeared and questioned Dongguan about whether the Purple Moon Holy Land had helped cause his permanent suppression, and Dongguan urged humanity to prepare for interference from every power in the Universe Ocean.

Dongguan and the other leaders discussed Black Universe Founder’s neutrality and learned that Augustus had broken through to become a Universe Master. After the war, Dongguan saw the Sacred Number Civilization reassessing its path between cultivation and technology following its heavy losses.

• Dongguan told the leaders that Black Universe Founder would remain neutral unless offered something of equivalent value, and Luo Feng considered asking Sitting Mountain Guest for help.
• Chaos City Lord announced Augustus’s breakthrough, and Giant Axe Founder said they would keep the news secret during the war.
• Augustus chose the title Stars Lord and agreed to keep his breakthrough concealed for the race’s interests.
• Dongguan stayed in his Divine Kingdom while Light-Chasing Lord helped repair it after the battle.
• The Sacred Number Civilization counted its losses and reconsidered cultivation and technology after the war revealed the overwhelming power of Universe Masters.

Dongguan reassured Wenxing that the Sacred Number Civilization had proved itself during the battle with Lord Beiyu and that its past crisis was forgiven. He offered to open the Divine Kingdom to the outside world and urged the civilization to join him in using technology to analyze the cultivation system.

• Wenxing asked Dongguan whether he had been the old mentor who guided him early in life, and Dongguan confirmed it.
• Wenxing confessed that the Sacred Number Civilization feared its technological path had failed and that the civilization might lose its purpose.
• Dongguan praised the civilization for intervening in a battle between Universe Masters without an Immortal and declared the previous matter closed.
• Dongguan promised to open a passage to the outside world while warning Wenxing to guard the civilization against depravity.
• Dongguan shared his goal of having civilizations collectively analyze the cultivation system, and Wenxing realized Dongguan wanted them to pursue the technological path.

Dongguan explained the link between cultivation and technology to Wenxing, urged the Sacred Number Civilization to remain true to its ideals, and resurrected selected fallen warriors. His insights formed the Constant Change Origin, which he tested in Liuzhong Mountain before sensing a Supreme Treasure’s emergence.

• Dongguan told Wenxing that cultivation and technology were different expressions of seeking truth, and revealed that he had inspired the Sacred Number Civilization’s faith in 10081.
• Dongguan asked Wenxing to regard the Sacred Number Civilization as a fellow seeker of the Dao, and Wenxing contacted the others to warn them not to degenerate as they opened channels to the universe.
• Dongguan reversed time and space to resurrect selected fallen warriors, bearing the Universe Operation Rules’ damage, while the Light-Chasing Lord advised him against it.
• Dongguan gained insight into constant change, forming the sixth Satellite in his Mental Space and naming it Constant Change.
• Dongguan used Hunyuan Vision to examine Liuzhong Mountain’s patterns, then sensed a Supreme Treasure emerge and flew toward it.

Dongguan found an intact Flying Palace-type Peak Supreme Treasure buried in Liuzhong Mountain's Inner Domain and dug it out as Nine-Headed Demon Lord approached. Elsewhere, Beast Ancestor developed murderous intent over a boat emerging in the Core Land.

• Dongguan waited for Divine Storm to weaken, then entered it to search for the treasure.
• Nine-Headed Demon Lord noticed the dissipating storm and entered, hoping to find a Heart of God.
• Dongguan found an ancient flying boat buried in the glacier and spent three and a half days digging it out.
• Dongguan failed to claim ownership of the flying boat immediately and hurried away.
• Nine-Headed Demon Lord found the deep pit, realized a flying palace had emerged, and gave chase.
• Beast Ancestor developed murderous intent as a boat was unearthed in Liuzhong Mountain's Core Land.

Dongguan filled and partially understood the Void-Drifting Boat, then was intercepted by the Nine-Headed Demon Lord while leaving Thundercloud Glacier. After identifying Dongguan as the Skywatching Master, the Nine-Headed Demon Lord attacked again and trapped him beneath successive layers of his Secret Art.

• Dongguan infused the ancient boat with divine power for several months until he learned it was the Void-Drifting Boat and received its First Layer control Secret Art.
• Dongguan began studying the Void-Drifting Boat’s Secret Patterns and discovered that his divine power supplied its energy.
• The Nine-Headed Demon Lord confronted Dongguan and demanded the Void-Drifting Boat, then attacked when Dongguan refused.
• Dongguan broke through a corner of the Nine-Headed Demon Lord’s Tier 9 attack with his Tier 8 Giant Axe technique and escaped its first strike.
• The Nine-Headed Demon Lord recognized Dongguan as the Skywatching Master and launched successive overlapping attacks, reinforcing the point Dongguan had breached.

Dongguan studied the Nine-Headed Demon Lord’s trapping Secret Art until the Demon Lord attacked with a powerful Supreme Treasure-assisted move. Dongguan revealed the Void-Drifting Boat, wounded the Demon Lord with a sudden burst of speed, and fled as the Demon Lord pursued him.

• Dongguan endured the Nine-Headed Demon Lord’s trapping Secret Art while observing it, and the Demon Lord grew impatient when Dongguan’s aura did not weaken.
• The Nine-Headed Demon Lord transformed into a nine-headed beast and struck Dongguan with an attack that surpassed Tier 9 in power.
• Dongguan summoned the Void-Drifting Boat, which blocked the attack without taking a mark, and the Nine-Headed Demon Lord recognized it as a Supreme Treasure.
• Dongguan used the Demon Lord’s distraction to strike at a hundred thousand times the speed of light, gouging and sealing a chunk of the Demon Lord’s flesh.
• Dongguan vanished with the Void-Drifting Boat and fled at increasing speed, while the Nine-Headed Demon Lord gave chase.

Dongguan escaped the Nine-Headed Demon Lord by entering Liuzhong Mountain’s Myriad Space-Times, then investigated True Shadow Venerable and uncovered the deception at the foundation of the Machine Race’s hierarchy. He left the secret exposed, while the fate of True Shadow Venerable remained undecided.

• The Nine-Headed Demon Lord gave up pursuing Dongguan into the Myriad Space-Times, and Dongguan followed a river deeper into the region.
• Dongguan finished his affairs in his Divine Kingdom and began examining True Shadow Venerable, formerly known as Lord Xuxing.
• Dongguan used his understanding of cause and effect and constant change to probe True Shadow Venerable’s consciousness and read its program code.
• Dongguan realized the Machine Race’s system of master-subordinate bonds had been built on a lie established by the Mechanical Race Father God.

Dongguan uncovered the biological basis behind the Machine Race’s master-acknowledgment system and realized it was a restriction rather than a necessity. He and Luo Feng considered whether exposing the secret would help humanity or create a more dangerous Machine Race, and decided to consult the others.

• After studying True Shadow Venerable and the records of the Lord of Star Refinement, Dongguan investigated how genes and life functioned across different species.
• Dongguan concluded that active genes responded to cultivation and inheritance, while Earth’s pre-Nirvana inert genes had been unusual.
• On Thunder Island, Luo Feng asked Dongguan whether the Machine Race’s acknowledgment of masters was a scam, and Dongguan explained that it was only one method imposed by a restriction.
• Dongguan considered exposing the Machine Race’s secret, weighing the chaos it would cause against the possibility that the Machine Race would break its shackles and grow more dangerous.
• Luo Feng proposed discussing the matter with the others at a Giant Axe Meeting.

Dongguan explained his theory that the Machine Race’s master-acknowledgment system originated from the Mechanical Race Father God and may have hindered the race’s potential. He offered to disrupt that system to give humanity time before a future conflict, leaving the Giant Axe Founder and the other Universe Masters to decide whether the risk was worthwhile.

• Dongguan described how intelligent life and Evolution Hearts combined to create the Machine Race, using Earth’s artificial intelligence and the Three Laws of Robotics as examples.
• Luo Feng reflected on Babata’s bond with Hu Yanbo and considered whether intelligent life truly needed to acknowledge a master.
• Dongguan theorized that the Lord of Star Refinement created the Mechanical Race Father God with a directive to grow stronger, and that the Father God later made master acknowledgment the Machine Race’s primary logic.
• Dongguan concluded that the master system made the Machine Race more flexible but suppressed its talent and comprehension, a theory the Original Ancestor silently recognized as explaining the Virtual Universe’s main server.
• Dongguan asked whether he should devise measures to disrupt the Machine Race’s system, arguing that the resulting chaos could give humanity time to prepare for its enemies.

The Universe Masters agreed to exploit conflicts within other powers to buy humanity time to assimilate the Duan Donghe Inheritance. In Machine Race territory, Dongguan prepared to unleash a program that would free Machine Race members from their master-acknowledgment directive and destabilize their hierarchy.

• The Universe Masters discussed exploiting divisions among the Machine Race, Demon Race, Zerg, and other powers, and Giant Axe Founder kept the strategy focused on buying time for humanity.
• Dongguan reflected that humanity’s strength and Chaos City Lord’s potential breakthrough meant the other powers could not easily attack as they had in the original timeline.
• In a remote Machine Race mineral planet, Dongguan emerged with a USB-like device containing his newly created “freedom” program.
• Dongguan explained that the program changed the Machine Race’s directive from serving a master to acting for itself, and included a function that allowed it to copy itself.
• Dongguan expected the program to cause initial chaos before the Machine Race formed a new order, while recognizing that it could later become a weapon against other races.

Dongguan spread the Freedom program through the Machine Race while humanity stirred internal conflicts among hostile powers and studied the Duan Donghe Inheritance. As the Freedom Alliance formed and the Anti-Human Alliance struggled to recruit members, the rival leaders faced growing unrest and uncertainty.

• Dongguan planted Freedom across 10,081 locations in the Machine Race Territory, where it could awaken infected machines to spread it and resist their masters.
• Humanity began provoking conflicts among hostile races while its powerful members studied the Duan Donghe Inheritance and waited for the Pu World to arrive.
• Island Master Shihua gathered undecided Universe Masters and formed the Freedom Alliance as a third faction.
• Lightway Master reconsidered joining either major faction and decided to explore the invitation from another Universe Master.
• The five leaders of the Anti-Human Alliance discussed recruitment difficulties and unrest within the Machine Race, Demon Race, and other powers, then agreed to keep recruiting.