Recaps

The Ant Queen decided to kill the wounded Wolong so she could become Demon Emperor if the Rock Sovereign died, while the Dark Tigas stayed united and let her act. The Spider Heavenly Emperor trapped the Rock Sovereign in a web that bound his body and soul, and Su Mo weighed whether to let Wolong die as rain began to fall over Wenhe.

• The Ant Queen resolved to kill Wolong, and the Dark Tigas chose to watch while blocking his escape.
• The Stone Heavenly Emperor struck the Spider Heavenly Emperor, but the spider trapped him in a web that bound his body and soul.
• Su Mo watched the Rock Sovereign struggle and decided not to intervene yet, though he did not want him to die.
• The Spider Heavenly Emperor covered the Rock Sovereign in black mist as Su Mo considered whether Wolong should die.
• Rain poured down, and Wenhe felt an unexplained pang of dread from across the continent.

Wolong was killed after Xu Shilun struck his soul and the ant queen attacked, but the Demon Emperor spent his final strength sending his remaining fortune to Wenhe. The demons mourned the Demon Emperor as Xu Shilun escaped pursuit, and Wenhe received the golden light and heard the Emperor’s last words.

• Wolong froze when Xu Shilun attacked his soul, allowing the ant queen to strike and the Demon Emperor to behead him.
• As he died, the Demon Emperor recalled the loyal demon marshals and sent his remaining fortune and final words to Wenhe.
• The ant queens and Dark Tigas chased the golden light while Xu Shilun fled Wolong’s body and the Dark Tigas split to pursue them both.
• The golden light entered a cloud-formed Black Dragon, whose red eyes shed tears as the demons mourned the Demon Emperor.
• Xu Shilun fled and reflected on his identity as an imperfect copy and on the Dark Tigas he had created in the previous epoch.
• Wenhe received the golden light and wept as the Demon Emperor’s words reached him.

After Wolong died, Wenhe grieved as his strength surged to Peak Third Stage, then vowed to recover Wolong’s corpse and avenge him. He gathered the surviving Starry Sky Giant Mosquitoes and prepared to create the Blood Skull Gu by merging the Demon Race into himself.

• Wolong’s final message left Wenhe mourning their shared battles and friendship.
• With power from another Demon Emperor and the Demon Race’s fortune, Wenhe rose to Peak Third Stage.
• Wenhe blamed Wolong’s death on his inability to hide his enormous Black Dragon body and swore to retrieve his corpse and avenge him.
• Wenhe summoned the surviving Starry Sky Giant Mosquitoes, the only followers he still trusted.
• Wenhe declared that he would create the Blood Skull Gu and merge the Demon Race into himself so they could live together.

Wenhe led millions of Starry Sky Giant Mosquitoes toward Fallen Dragon Pit to avenge Wolong, while the Ant Queen had Wolong’s corpse cut apart to cultivate a new body. The Stone Men remained unconscious, and Wenhe arrived to find only Wolong’s skeleton left.

• Wenhe set out to kill those responsible for Wolong’s death, believing force was the way to unite the demons against the Stone Men.
• After three days of debate, the Ant Queen decided to dismember Wolong’s body and use its nourishing flesh to cultivate a new body.
• The demons at Fallen Dragon Pit remained uncertain about the Stone Men’s rule while the Stone Men lay unconscious and Stone Heavenly Emperor did not appear.
• The Ant Clan finished carrying away Wolong’s flesh, leaving his crystalline skeleton, which tens of thousands of ants lifted.
• Dark Tiga recognized millions of approaching Starry Sky Giant Mosquitoes and identified Wenhe at their head as a peak third-stage Demon Emperor.
• Wenhe saw Wolong’s skeleton from afar as he arrived at Fallen Dragon Pit.

Wenhe attacked the Dark Tigas after finding the remains of the Wolong Demon Emperor, while the Stone Heavenly Emperor’s body and soul continued to succumb to the Spider Heavenly Emperor’s poison. Yu Jiemo escaped in a Stone Man body, and Wenhe began laughing as he faced the Tigas.

• Wenhe saw the giant ants carrying the enormous skeleton and the lake of blood, then roared in fury and pursued the Dark Tigas.
• Wenhe spread his Demon Emperor Domain over the fifty thousand Dark Tigas, preventing them from fleeing as they protested their innocence and threatened him.
• After six days of poisoning, the Stone Heavenly Emperor’s body and soul began to corrode, so he persuaded Yu Jiemo to help him escape.
• Yu Jiemo’s soul escaped into a Stone Man body through a spatial jump, and the Spider Heavenly Emperor chose not to pursue him.
• Wenhe laughed wildly and recited, “Evading heaven’s will, avoiding karma, myriad shackles bind the true self...”

Wenhe, consumed by grief over Wolong’s death, slaughtered the Dark Tigas while taunting Heaven and pushing toward the fourth stage. Su Mo watched and decided Wenhe had to die, though he waited as Wenhe’s breakthrough neared.

• Wenhe surrounded the Dark Tigas and Ant Queen, killing the creatures in a furious rampage while leaving the Ant Queen for last.
• Wenhe mourned Wolong and declared that he would finish what his brother had wanted, dismissing the mission and the Heavenly Dao as he challenged Heaven to kill him.
• Heaven struck Wenhe with lightning, but Wenhe ignored his wounds and continued his mad assault as more lightning gathered overhead.
• Su Mo watched from the starry sky and judged Wenhe’s insanity-powered breakthrough useful but too dangerous to leave alive.
• Su Mo decided to kill Wenhe, but waited because Wenhe was on the verge of reaching the fourth stage.

Su Mo returned to the real world after Wenhe’s demonic breakthrough triggered a devastating heavenly tribulation, while Yu Jiemo mourned the dead at the scorched battlefield. Su Mo then heard a call from worshippers offering sacrifices and remembered he had left them waiting.

• Wenhe broke through to the Fourth Stage, became the Demon Emperor and Devil Emperor, and transformed the Starry Sky Giant Mosquitoes into a new race Su Mo named the Heavenly Demons.
• Su Mo’s Creator God level rose to the Third Stage, allowing him to leave the Microcosm, and he destroyed Wenhe’s domain with lightning before returning to reality.
• Viewers saw Wolong’s and Wenhe’s livestreams disappear and realized both Demon Emperors had died, though they did not know how Wenhe had been killed.
• Yu Jiemo visited the scorched earth where Xu Shilun, Wolong, and Wenhe had died and shed a tear as he realized he was alone again.
• Su Mo sat in his lounge chair, then paused when he sensed people offering sacrifices and calling to him.

Su Mo considered how to stop people in the real world from summoning him, weighing executions and erasing their memories before contemplating devouring the universe. The chapter ended with him still analyzing the idea of destroying the world to silence the worshippers.

• Su Mo sensed that cultists and other groups had begun praying to and summoning him after Yu Jiemo announced their contact.
• Su Mo judged that his Divine Rank was powerful enough to draw the attention of higher beings, so he decided he had to stop the summons.
• Su Mo considered killing those who summoned him, but rejected the plan because fearless fanatics could keep trying and others would take their place.
• Su Mo considered erasing everyone’s memories of him, but worried that changing the whole world might attract attention from above.
• Su Mo spent half an hour considering whether he could devour the universe and merge it into his Microcosm.

Over ten years in the Microcosm, the Stone Men multiplied and spread while the Rock Sovereign ruled them and became the Demon Emperor. Su Mo found a solution to the crisis, but Big Pineapple, Wang Jianzhi, and Liu Dajun remained isolated in their last one-person instances.

• The Rock Sovereign rescued Yu Jiemo, found him mindlessly wandering, and left him alive as a possible successor and safeguard.
• The Rock Sovereign ruled the Stone Men and Demon Race, moved the Demons north, and promised to limit the Stone Men’s expansion.
• The Starry Sky Giant Mosquitoes vanished, and Devils began appearing in groups, driving possessed beings into destructive madness.
• The Ant Clan declined as Heavenly Demons repeatedly killed newly emerged ant queens, a pattern the Rock Sovereign allowed to continue.
• Big Pineapple, Wang Jianzhi, and Liu Dajun each remained trapped in a solitary instance, unaware of events outside.
• After thinking for half an hour, Su Mo finally devised a solution to the problem.

Su Mo chose to use mosquitoes that could turn intangible to kill people who prayed to, sacrificed to, or plotted against him, rather than destroy or absorb Earth. After he sent them into his inner world, they attacked a secret chamber, leaving eight terrified survivors who reported the deaths to their superiors.

• Su Mo decided to keep Earth intact and use mosquitoes to deal with anyone who caused trouble or formed a channel to him through prayer or sacrifice.
• Su Mo enlarged one mosquito to demonstrate its size and abilities, including turning intangible and attacking through the brain.
• Su Mo sent the mosquitoes into his inner world and returned to his recliner.
• The mosquitoes killed most of the more than eighty people in a secret chamber where black-robed people had been praying and offering sacrifices.
• Eight people survived because they had no connection to Su Mo, but they panicked as they watched bodies disappear and reported the deaths to their superiors.

A worldwide wave of inexplicable deaths was traced to an invisible life-form that attacked human brains and consumed bodies, earning the provisional name [Ghost]. As the deaths continued, another hundred years passed within the Microcosm, and the Stone Heavenly Emperor reached the peak of the fourth stage, ready to slay the Spider Heavenly Emperor and enter the universe.

• People around the world suddenly died from unexplained brain damage, with no apparent connection between the victims.
• Authorities and experts tried to investigate and prepare quarantines, but the corpses rapidly vanished until only skin remained.
• Several experts also died during examinations, and researchers concluded that an unseen life-form was consuming the victims’ flesh and blood.
• Researchers provisionally named the invisible creature [Ghost], while protective measures and prayers failed to stop the growing death toll.
• Another hundred years passed in the Microcosm, and the Stone Heavenly Emperor reached the peak fourth stage and prepared to slay the Spider Heavenly Emperor before heading into the universe.

The Rock Sovereign prepared to fight the Spider Heavenly Emperor, whose presence blocked both his ascent and the Stone Men’s path to the fifth stage. Big Pineapple realized that the Rock Sovereign had kept him, Liu Dajun, and Wang Jianzhi alive so their fragments could continue growing stronger.

• The Rock Sovereign’s Stone Men had consumed half the world, but reaching the fifth stage would require devouring everything.
• The Demon Race endured floods and meteor showers, living as wanderers or relying on powerful demons for shelter.
• The Rock Sovereign believed he could defeat the Spider Heavenly Emperor and planned to spread Stone Men across planets to gather enough matter for his breakthrough.
• The Stone Heavenly Emperor flew toward the sky to confront the Spider Heavenly Emperor.
• Big Pineapple understood that the Rock Sovereign had spared him, Liu Dajun, and Wang Jianzhi to keep their fragments producing more power.

The Rock Sovereign kept Big Pineapple, Liu Dajun, and Wang Jianzhi captive, harvesting them to strengthen the Demon Race and pursue his ambition to escape the Spider Heavenly Emperor’s cage. As the Rock Sovereign and the Spider Heavenly Emperor fought as equals, their battle shattered the sky and devastated the world.

• The Rock Sovereign imprisoned Big Pineapple, Liu Dajun, and Wang Jianzhi and repeatedly harvested them to cultivate demon kings.
• The Rock Sovereign controlled Wang Jianzhi by threatening the revived Asuras, then repeatedly enraged and harvested him until he went mad.
• The Rock Sovereign pursued his plan to break the Spider Heavenly Emperor’s cage and become the world’s one and only, unaware that everyone and the universe were destined to perish.
• The Rock Sovereign and the Spider Heavenly Emperor clashed as peak fourth-stage beings, shattering the sky and unleashing spatial turbulence.
• The battle’s aftermath killed a late third-stage tiger demon king and began destroying the world.

Stone Heavenly Emperor fought Spider Heavenly Emperor for seven days, but the battle’s devastation drove the Demon Race to the brink of extinction and left the world nearly uninhabitable. Facing the deaths below, Stone Heavenly Emperor returned to the ground without killing Spider Heavenly Emperor.

• Stone Heavenly Emperor and Spider Heavenly Emperor fought across the sky, and their attacks tore open the world and killed countless beings below.
• After seven days, Spider Heavenly Emperor remained alive, though badly wounded, while his poisonous mist corroded Stone Heavenly Emperor’s body and soul.
• Stone Heavenly Emperor looked down and saw that nearly ninety percent of the Demon Race had died, marine life was poisoned, and the land was covered with ravines and toxic swamps.
• Stone Heavenly Emperor realized the Demon Race could not survive another three days of fighting and returned to the ground, having suffered a crushing loss.

Stone Heavenly Emperor saved the surviving Demon Race from the poisonous gas while the world continued shrinking and the Stone Men consumed its matter. With the Demon Race still lacking another Fourth Stage being, he decided to kill one of his captive Fourth Stage prisoners, create a new world, and break through to the Fifth Stage.

• Stone Heavenly Emperor left after concluding that fighting Spider Heavenly Emperor would doom the Demon Race, and Spider Heavenly Emperor let him go rather than risk being killed.
• Stone Heavenly Emperor gathered the surviving Stone Men and had them build a shelter, where Rock Sovereign used Liu Dajun's protective power to drive some poison from dying Demon Race members.
• Over five years, many Demon Race members died, while survivors developed poison resistance; the Stone Men population grew to 2.5 billion as the world shrank to less than a fifth of its original size.
• Stone Heavenly Emperor brought back a planetary fragment to replenish matter, but it could feed the Stone Men for less than a week, and the rules of heaven and earth prevented Fourth Stage beings from remaining in space for long.
• Stone Heavenly Emperor considered killing one of his captive Fourth Stage beings to replenish Spiritual Qi, then creating another world, and resolved to break through to the Fifth Stage.

The Rock Sovereign sacrificed Liu Dajun to awaken the Great Dao of protection and prepare for his own breakthrough to the fifth stage. As the world received protective power and mourned Liu Dajun, Su Mo returned to watch the Rock Sovereign’s strength grow.

• Yu Jiemo continued wandering across the desolate land, barely reacting even after a spatial rift sliced off one of his arms.
• The Rock Sovereign chose Liu Dajun for sacrifice, judging that his power would help nurture a fourth-stage demon and advance the Rock Sovereign’s own strength.
• The Rock Sovereign made Liu Dajun’s body explode, and the Great Dao of protection shone across the world as blood-colored rain fell.
• The light of protection healed living beings and gave them seeds of protective power that they could use to convert their existing strength.
• The Rock Sovereign’s power surged as he neared the fifth stage, and Su Mo reentered the Microcosm and watched with satisfaction.

Su Mo watched the Rock Sovereign absorb the Stone Men and nearby matter as he neared the fifth stage, then decided to destroy the universe. Before doing so, Su Mo planned to unleash a powerful dragon, frame it as the World-Destroying Evil Dragon, and stage a battle against the Stone Heavenly Emperor for Earth’s livestream.

• The Rock Sovereign began collapsing into a black hole as he devoured matter and Stone Men, approaching the fifth stage.
• The Rock Sovereign protected Big Pineapple, Wang Jianzhi, and the Demon Race while Su Mo watched from the stars.
• Su Mo left the Microcosm, intending to destroy the universe, then remembered the captured dragon.
• Su Mo decided to strengthen the dragon to the late fifth stage and cast it as the World-Destroying Evil Dragon behind the universe’s destruction.
• Su Mo planned to turn on the livestream and stage the dragon’s battle against the Stone Heavenly Emperor, allowing the dragon to survive only if it won.

The Rock Sovereign completed his breakthrough to the fifth stage and became a black hole whose uncontrolled power devastated the world around him. Su Mo also rose to the fourth stage and prepared to livestream, telling the World-Destroying Evil Dragon not to disappoint him.

• The Spider Heavenly Emperor fled deeper into the starry sky as the Rock Sovereign approached his fifth-stage breakthrough.
• The Rock Sovereign's pull dragged in and devoured the Spider Heavenly Emperor's enormous web-filled lair.
• The Rock Sovereign fully became a black hole, devouring matter, light, and even the Great Dao of Protective Light while causing massive destruction on the ground.
• The Rock Sovereign noticed the casualties among the Demon Race and flew into the universe to avoid further damage while he learned to control his power.
• Su Mo broke through to the fourth stage, sensed his increased power, and said he was ready to livestream with the World-Destroying Evil Dragon.

Su Mo transformed the imprisoned four-legged lizard into a three-million-meter World-Destroying Evil Dragon and raised its strength to the late fifth stage. After punishing the dragon for roaring at him, Su Mo ordered it to destroy the world to earn a chance to live, then left as a livestream began featuring the Stone Heavenly Emperor.

• Su Mo transformed the four-legged lizard into a massive Black Dragon with scales, horns, whiskers, fangs, and claws, and raised its strength to the late fifth stage.
• The Black Dragon roared at Su Mo, who entered the Microcosm and snapped its spine with a blow.
• Su Mo told the wounded Black Dragon to destroy the world if it wanted a chance to live, then healed it and departed.
• Su Mo's departure connected the sealed region of the universe to the Stone Heavenly Emperor's side, and a livestream began with the Rock Sovereign announcing his breakthrough to the fifth stage.

Viewers watched the Stone Heavenly Emperor appear as a black hole and heard him claim that he had sought coexistence for the Stone Men and the other races. The livestream audience rejected his explanation, and the chapter ended with a dragon’s roar from the depths of the universe.

• Viewers and researchers discussed the significance of seeing a black hole directly and how Earth lacked the technology and computing power to use much of what it had learned from the Ultra Civilization.
• The Stone Heavenly Emperor said the Stone Men’s existence deprived other life of resources, and claimed that reaching the Fifth Stage had let him break the world’s limits and make coexistence possible.
• Viewers recognized the black hole as the Stone Heavenly Emperor, whom they blamed for killing Wolong, Wenhe, Fengchu, and many other transmigrators.
• The livestream audience accused the Stone Heavenly Emperor of lying about protecting the other races and suggested he had benefited from being Demon Emperor.
• The Stone Heavenly Emperor tried to close the livestream but found he could not, as a terrifying dragon’s roar sounded from the depths of the universe.

The Rock Sovereign taunted the unseen creator of the livestream and declared himself capable of defeating anyone in the universe, while Su Mo chose not to respond. The demons began to believe the Rock Sovereign might protect them, but a colossal Black Dragon appeared before them.

• The Rock Sovereign addressed the livestream, boasting that his mastery of black holes made him invincible and challenging its unknown creator to come face him.
• Su Mo watched the Rock Sovereign’s provocation, dismissed his claims, and left the livestream without answering.
• The Rock Sovereign continued to declare that he would break the universe’s barrier and end the dark turmoil, while ignoring the viewers’ abuse.
• The demons recalled the Rock Sovereign’s efforts to protect them and began to hope that they could live alongside the Stone Men.
• The demons roared in support of the Rock Sovereign, but Black Dragon’s louder roar drowned them out as his enormous dark form appeared before everyone.

A colossal black dragon of peak fifth-stage power appeared before the Rock Sovereign, threatening to destroy the world behind him. As the Rock Sovereign defended it, the demons watched their renewed hope collapse into despair.

• A gigantic black dragon manifested, shattering space and exploding planets as it moved through the universe.
• The Rock Sovereign recognized the dragon as another peak fifth-stage black hole and wondered how such an existence could be possible.
• The dragon roared and unleashed a cosmic storm toward the Rock Sovereign, who moved to shield the world behind him.
• The Rock Sovereign devoured the storm, spatial fragments, and dragon's roar before they could destroy the world.
• The demons saw the dragon's enormous head and, remembering their lost hopes and past struggles, feared that their world had no future.

As the demons despaired over their world's apparent end, the Rock Sovereign attacked the creature threatening them to preserve the Demon Race. The Black Dragon then struck at the Rock Sovereign and the world behind him, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The demons mourned their losses and questioned whether their choice to survive had been worthwhile.
• Yu Jiemo accepted the apparent end, buried himself with a stone marked with his name, and lay down with a poisonous flower on his chest.
• The Rock Sovereign sensed the Demon Race losing faith and realized its impending collapse threatened his path to greater strength.
• The Rock Sovereign charged the terrifying creature, identifying its power as the ability to solidify the universe’s rules onto its body.
• The Black Dragon attacked the Rock Sovereign and the Demon Race, and the Rock Sovereign vowed to protect them.

The Stone Heavenly Emperor fought the World-Destroying Evil Dragon, learning that the dragon had caused countless world destructions to pursue the sixth stage. The Stone Heavenly Emperor burned the Stone Men within him and struck the Evil Dragon down, but dragon flame hit him in return, leaving both fighters’ fates uncertain.

• The Stone Heavenly Emperor and the World-Destroying Black Dragon clashed as viewers debated which one would win.
• The Stone Heavenly Emperor broke free from the Evil Dragon and realized the dragon had caused the universe’s dark turmoil by destroying worlds to reach the sixth stage.
• The Stone Heavenly Emperor vowed to leave an eternal wound on the Evil Dragon and burned the Stone Men within him, drawing primordial glory into his body.
• The Stone Heavenly Emperor seized the Evil Dragon and slammed him to the ground, while the dragon’s strongest flame struck the Stone Heavenly Emperor.
• The barrage questioned whether either fighter had died as space burned and the outcome remained unclear.

The Stone Heavenly Emperor fought the World-Destroying Evil Dragon, sacrificing himself to stop the dragon’s clones before dying. After the dragon destroyed the main world, Su Mo seized him and declared that it was time to create the world anew.

• The Stone Heavenly Emperor attacked the World-Destroying Evil Dragon, but the dragon evaded him and devoured life essence from inhabited planets, destroying them afterward.
• The Evil Dragon absorbed a spider breaking through to the Fourth Stage, then sent clones to attack inhabited planets and showed the destruction through livestream rooms.
• The Stone Heavenly Emperor exhausted himself with three punches, then charged the Evil Dragon and trapped him inside his body, cutting off the clones’ divine power.
• The Stone Heavenly Emperor died before he could complete his stone-sealing strike, and viewers mourned him in the livestream rooms.
• The World-Destroying Evil Dragon drained the main world of its life essence and shattered it, but Su Mo seized him with an enormous hand and said it was time to create the world anew.