Chapter Summaries

Wolong gained the Dark Tigas’ support and prepared to lead his forces to the Ant Clan, while Yu Jiemo continued devouring stone men, unaware of the growing threat. The Ant Queen looked up as the Demon Race’s vast army darkened the sky above her instance.

• The Dark Tigas secretly chose to join Wolong after calculating that the stone men and other threats could destroy the world, and realizing they could only grow stronger through cultivation.
• Wolong weighed recruiting more Dark Tigas against attacking the stone men, then decided his new forces were strong enough to negotiate with the Ant Queen.
• Wolong ordered the Demon Race and the Dark Tigas to move out for the Ant Clan.
• Yu Jiemo’s twelve avatars continued devouring stone men, believing they could eventually rival Big Pineapple, Xu Shilun, and others from the previous era.
• The Ant Queen looked up as countless members of the Demon Race covered the sky and plunged her instance into gloom.

Su Mo decided to protect Wolong as the Demon Race approached the fifth stage, while Wenhe led tens of thousands of demons to Big Pineapple’s dungeon. The ant queen recognized Wenhe despite his attempt to pose as Wolong, and Big Pineapple identified him from inside the dungeon.

• Su Mo decided to grant Wolong the Creator God’s protection so he would survive until reaching the fifth stage.
• Wenhe realized Xu Shilun had filled his dungeon with thirty thousand Dark Tigas, each as strong as a mid-third-stage fighter.
• Wenhe led tens of thousands of demons to the ant queen’s nest around Big Pineapple’s dungeon.
• The ant queen greeted Wenhe by name, revealing that he had investigated the Demon Race.
• Wenhe claimed he was Wolong, but the ant queen pointed out that Wolong had six legs and Wenhe had lost three.
• Big Pineapple called out from the dungeon and declared that Wenhe was Wenhe.

Big Pineapple emerged from the dungeon after absorbing two fragments and reunited with Wenhe, who told him the stone people were growing stronger by devouring one another. Big Pineapple and the Ant Queen recognized the danger and prepared to exploit the demons’ current advantage to wipe out the stone people.

• Big Pineapple reached the mid Third Stage and left the dungeon followed by First Stage Asura soul bodies.
• Wenhe greeted Big Pineapple, admitted he had once schemed against him, and knelt to beg for forgiveness.
• Big Pineapple raised Wenhe and assured him he would honor his promise, then asked what he had come to discuss.
• Wenhe described how the stone people were devouring one another and growing stronger, alarming Big Pineapple and the Ant Queen.
• Big Pineapple considered whether Liu Dajun could use the Ultra Civilization’s collective consciousness against the stone people and decided their immediate priority was to eliminate them while the demons and Dark Tigas held the advantage.

Big Pineapple, the Ant Queen, and Wenhe agreed to join forces against the stone men, whose collective consciousness and newly created Twelve Ancestral Witches made them a growing threat. After Wolong arrived with the Dark Tigas, the allies planned a decisive extermination campaign, and the war began.

• Wenhe explained that the stone men could switch from a collective civilization to one led by powerful individuals, making them dangerous even if most were killed.
• Big Pineapple and the Ant Queen agreed to Wenhe’s proposal, while Big Pineapple reflected on his lost companions and his fading hope of resurrecting them.
• Wolong arrived beside Wenhe with countless Dark Tigas and learned that Big Pineapple and the Ant Queen had agreed to send troops.
• Wolong, Wenhe, Big Pineapple, and the Ant Queen agreed to wipe out the stone men completely and organized their forces and routes.
• The allied forces launched a world-spanning war to exterminate the stone men.

Wolong, Wenhe, the ant queen, and Big Pineapple organized the Demon Race and Ant Clan into a campaign to destroy the stone men and kill the Ancestral Witches. Su Mo assessed both sides’ growing strength and explained how the stone men advanced by proving the Dao through strength.

• Wolong, Wenhe, the ant queen, and Big Pineapple assigned forces and routes for a direct campaign against the stone men and Ancestral Witches.
• The Demon Race and Ant Clan set out with their assembled forces, while Su Mo compared their strength with the stone men’s.
• Su Mo noted that Yu Jiemo’s strength had increased nearly a hundredfold since his last death, though his clones still struggled against third-stage opponents.
• Su Mo calculated that the stone men could reach the fourth stage by devouring enough of their kind, while reaching the fifth stage required at least eighty billion.
• Su Mo explained that the stone men advanced by gathering strength and devouring others, a path described as proving the Dao through strength.

The rock people’s Supreme Will knew that breaking through to the fourth stage meant certain death, so it had long suppressed its power despite the race’s ability to grow by devouring. As the Demon Race began exterminating the rock people, the Wild Boar King led eight million boars across the land and finally encountered six strange rock people.

• Su Mo decided to let the rock people and Demon Race fight, planning to intervene only after the battle had pushed them to grow.
• The Supreme Will revealed that it feared the curse of death upon reaching the fourth stage and had avoided fusing the rock people until Yu Jiewei persuaded it.
• The Demon Race began encircling and killing the rock people across the land.
• The Wild Boar King led eight million wild boars in a vast charge, trampling rock people as he searched for the Ancestral Witches.
• After five days of charging, the Wild Boar King encountered six strange rock people.

Yu Jiemo kept devouring stone men as Marshal Tianpeng led eight hundred thousand wild boars and a vast demon army toward him. After finishing his meal, Yu Jiemo shattered the Wild Boar King’s leg with one punch and prepared to face the advancing demons.

• Marshal Tianpeng recognized Yu Jiemo’s stone men as unusual and charged toward them with eight hundred thousand wild boars.
• Yu Jiemo used his modified consciousness to keep the livestream running, then continued devouring stone men as the demon army approached.
• The demons reached Yu Jiemo, and Marshal Tianpeng leaped down to stomp him.
• Yu Jiemo swallowed his last bite and punched Marshal Tianpeng, blasting his leg into blood mist and sending his body flying dozens of kilometers.
• Yu Jiemo told the charging demons he would show them the power of stone men and make rivers of blood flow.

Yu Jiemo single-handedly slaughtered his way through the Wild Boar King's demon army, using stone men and giant beasts as weapons while their attacks failed to harm him. Marshal Tianpeng returned to command after nearly half of the eight hundred thousand demons had fallen, while Su Mo noticed something interesting elsewhere.

• Yu Jiemo hurled five stone men into the demons, killing more than a thousand before they regrouped with him.
• Yu Jiemo seized a giant wild boar and swung it through the surrounding demons, killing or injuring vast numbers.
• Yu Jiemo endured physical and energy attacks without flinching as he continued fighting amid the advancing demon hordes.
• The demons' corpses and blood piled around Yu Jiemo until they nearly buried him, but he kept swinging demonic beasts as weapons.
• Nearly half of the Wild Boar King's eight hundred thousand ground troops died before the returning Marshal Tianpeng took command.
• Su Mo watched the battlefield, then looked elsewhere and murmured that something was interesting.

Marshal Tianpeng tried to stop the Demon Race from charging Yu Jiemo, but Tribulation Qi drove the demons into a renewed assault. Big Pineapple arrived and sent Yu Jiemo crashing through several mountains as Wenhe saw the battlefield below.

• Marshal Tianpeng hesitated between fleeing and attacking Yu Jiemo, then transformed into his Demon Race True Body and ordered the Demon Race to retreat.
• Tribulation Qi overwhelmed the Demon Race, and the demons charged Yu Jiemo as Starry Sky Giant Mosquitoes descended to feed on the battlefield.
• Yu Jiemo pursued the fleeing demons, leaping into their ranks and continuing his slaughter.
• Big Pineapple appeared and struck Yu Jiemo, sending him through three mountains.
• Wenhe arrived with four Dark Tigas and saw the battlefield's corpses and blood as the king descended from the sky.

Wenhe confronted Yu Jiemo and tried to recruit him, unaware that the rockman was Fengchu, the Earthling who had killed hundreds of thousands of demons. Yu Jiemo revealed his identity, and Wenhe turned the fight over to Big Pineapple.

• The livestream viewers debated Big Pineapple's allegiance, strength, and long suffering, while misunderstandings about the Stone Men and the Evil God's factions persisted.
• Four Dark Tigas surrounded Yu Jiemo as Wenhe demanded to know why he had killed so many demons and offered to spare him if he submitted.
• Wenhe warned Yu Jiemo that the Demon Race had six hundred thousand Dark Tigas and that Big Pineapple possessed overwhelming power.
• Yu Jiemo mocked Wenhe for forgetting him and revealed that he was Fengchu, the Earthling who had killed hundreds of thousands of demons.
• Wenhe recognized Fengchu and asked Big Pineapple to handle the fight.

Yu Jiemo faced Big Pineapple and, under the Supreme Will’s plan to protect the other Ancestral Witches, fought on despite knowing he could not win. After Big Pineapple’s attacks shattered his body and soul, Yu Jiemo’s empty shell landed one final punch just short of Big Pineapple before collapsing.

• Yu Jiemo consulted the Supreme Will, which rejected a decisive attack and told him to fight Big Pineapple while concealing the group’s strength.
• Yu Jiemo told Big Pineapple he had once admired him and charged forward despite the odds.
• Big Pineapple struck Yu Jiemo twice with Soul Power, shattering his body and destroying his soul.
• Wenhe told Big Pineapple to kill Yu Jiemo with a soul attack, but Big Pineapple’s attack passed through the soulless body.
• Yu Jiemo’s empty shell reached Big Pineapple and swung a final punch, then collapsed before the blow could land.

Wenhe treated Yu Jiemo’s apparent death as part of a scheme and planned to keep advancing, while Yu Jiemo’s livestream viewers proposed a new way for him to gain power. The chapter ended with Yu Jiemo considering an assault on a dungeon to devour its fragments and awaken the Ancestral Witches.

• Yu Jiemo threw one final punch before his body shattered, and livestream viewers mourned what they believed was his death.
• Wenhe ordered Big Pineapple and the Dark Tigas to hurl Yu Jiemo’s remains into the sky, then marked a mound of dirt as his grave.
• Wenhe told Big Pineapple that Yu Jiemo might not be dead and explained that he had played along with the apparent final punch because Yu Jiemo likely had a purpose.
• Fengchu’s soul returned to the collective will after the first blow, leaving only an ordinary consciousness to be destroyed.
• A viewer suggested that Yu Jiemo enter the nearest dungeon, devour its fragments, and use the Supreme Will’s power to usher in the age of the Ancestral Witches.
• Yu Jiemo asked the viewer to explain the plan and said money was no object.

Wolong weighed whether to destroy the Stone Men or preserve them to protect his position and lifespan. He decided to allow only two Ancestral Witches to fuse, keeping their strength manageable while controlling the Stone Men's numbers.

• Wolong arrived at the battlefield and saw the devastation caused by the Stone Men.
• Wolong feared that wiping out the Stone Men would make him disposable, while letting them grow unchecked would leave the world unable to stop them.
• Wolong considered incorporating the Stone Men into the Demon Race but worried that doing so might still lead to his downfall.
• Wolong decided to let two Ancestral Witches fuse and suppress the resulting Stone Man while eliminating the others.

Su Mo monitored the rulers of the Witches, Demons, and Stone Men, deciding that neither side could be wiped out before he reached the Fifth Stage. He used his power as the universe’s creator to gather all eleven of Yu Jiemo’s clones, leaving them and the silent livestream chat stunned.

• Su Mo probed the transmigrators’ thoughts and watched Wolong, Yu Jiemo, Big Pineapple, and the Stone Men’s Supreme Will for signs of trouble.
• Su Mo judged Wolong’s plan to strengthen the Stone Men partly workable, but rejected it because it risked their extinction and held back their growth.
• Su Mo decided that both the Demon Race and the Stone Men had to survive until he broke through to the Fifth Stage.
• Yu Jiemo considered entering the instance, but Su Mo teleported all eleven of his clones into one place.
• The eleven Yu Jiemos stared at one another while the livestream chat fell silent.

Yu Jiemo wondered who had gathered his eleven clones and forced him to confront them, then chose to devour them rather than risk immediate death. After three hours, he surpassed his former peak, but his immense mass and power devastated the land around him and threatened all life nearby.

• Yu Jiemo and the livestream viewers considered who could have gathered his clones through spatial manipulation and why.
• Yu Jiemo decided that resisting the unknown being could get him killed, so he began devouring his eleven clones.
• After three hours, Yu Jiemo completed the devouring, fused his soul, and surpassed his former peak.
• Yu Jiemo's immense body cracked the ground and twisted the air around him.
• Yu Jiemo used repulsion to rise into the air, spreading his mass across thousands of li and crushing nearby animals, plants, and demonic beasts.

Su Mo uncovered the Supreme Will’s long-term plan to use the Stone Men to grow into a sixth-stage existence, and reflected on the danger of their race. As Yu Jiemo headed for a nearby Liu Dajun dungeon, Su Mo became intrigued by the Supreme Will’s hidden scheming.

• Su Mo judged the Stone Men a terrifying race whose growth could eventually let them devour universes and rules.
• Su Mo considered how Divine Rank and strength worked across dimensions, noting that he needed to develop both without pushing his body past its limits.
• Su Mo realized Yu Jiemo had survived because the Supreme Will had saved him and used him as a shield and test.
• Su Mo understood that the Stone Men shared one Supreme Will, which grew stronger as their population and quality increased and could ultimately reach the sixth stage.
• Su Mo compared the Supreme Will favorably to the schemers he had encountered before and took an interest in him.
• Yu Jiemo followed the livestream viewers’ guidance and the Supreme Will’s minimap toward the nearest Liu Dajun dungeon.

Su Mo decided to nurture the Stone Men and Demon Race with food and companions, then brought a flood of water and enormous microorganisms and creatures into their world. The flood swept through the Demon Race’s battlefield, leaving Big Pineapple and Spider Heavenly Emperor to face the colossal beings it carried.

• Su Mo read his predecessor’s notes and concluded that civilizations needed food, companions, pressure, and enemies to develop.
• Su Mo planned to feed the Stone Men with meteor showers and give the Demon Race water filled with microorganisms.
• Su Mo drew water from a nearby ditch and unleashed a flood into the small world while the Demon Race armies fought the Stone Men.
• Spider Heavenly Emperor’s web absorbed the flood’s first impact, but giant microorganisms and huge fish were swept into the world.
• Big Pineapple saw a ten-thousand-meter flood dragon enter the world after clashing with Spider Heavenly Emperor.

Big Pineapple recognized the torrent pouring from the sky as a world-ending flood, and Su Mo’s flood devastated the Demon Race while the Stone Men remained largely unharmed. The Dark Tigas sheltered Big Pineapple, Wolong, and Wenhe as the rain continued to overwhelm the realm.

• Big Pineapple remembered the old legends and warned Wolong and Wenhe that the deluge was a world-ending flood.
• Yu Jiemo saw the flood but continued toward Liu Dajun’s instance, reasoning that Stone Men could survive underwater and withstand its force.
• Su Mo watched the Demon Race suffer and revealed that he had created the flood to introduce microorganisms and eliminate weaker species ahead of a meteor shower five years later.
• The flood swept away and killed countless weaker demons, while the Dark Tigas shielded Big Pineapple and the others and tried to break apart the falling water columns.
• After twenty minutes, floodwater in low-lying areas exceeded three hundred meters, leaving Wolong, Wenhe, and Big Pineapple stunned inside the protective barrier.

A world-ending flood devastated the Demon Race, and Wolong and Wenhe organized rescue efforts while hundreds of millions died. As the aquatic races tried to save demon beast cubs, they encountered poisonous, parasitic creatures that began killing their victims.

• Wolong and Wenhe recognized the deluge as divine punishment and split up to organize shelters and recruit more Dark Tigas to protect the weaker demons.
• Wolong sent Big Pineapple to hunt down the eleven Ancestral Witches, unaware that they had gathered and learned to fly.
• The pillars of water vanished after two days, but torrential rain continued as floodwaters rose and hundreds of millions of demons died.
• Wenhe ordered the weak aquatic races to rescue demons, and they saved many demon beast cubs at first.
• Poisonous, tentacled creatures appeared in the floodwaters, devouring and parasitizing nearby life and killing the cubs they caught.

Marshal Tianpeng fought a giant loach while holding back the flood to protect the demons, but the loach broke the shelter and carried on wreaking havoc. After a month of pursuit, the exhausted Wild Boar King was rescued by Dark Tigas, and Wenhe asked Wolong whether to kill or spare the now-intelligent loach.

• Marshal Tianpeng shielded a cracked barrier from the flood as bacteria and aquatic beasts threatened the demons.
• A giant loach smashed into the Wild Boar King and the barrier, letting the flood sweep away tens of thousands of demons.
• The Wild Boar King fought the loach, then pursued it relentlessly after it fled underground.
• A month later, the Wild Boar King was badly weakened by his infected wound and the prolonged chase, while the loach awakened its intelligence.
• The loach struck the Wild Boar King down, and Dark Tigas sealed off the area as Wenhe asked Wolong whether they should kill or spare it.