Chapter Summaries

Xu Shilun reunited with Wolong and Wenhe inside the instance, pretending to welcome them warmly while refusing to heal them directly. As the mosquitoes tried to gain his power, Xu Shilun revealed how he had awakened, repeatedly attempted to escape, and discovered he was trapped without his fragments.

• Xu Shilun recognized Wolong and Wenhe after they wrote their names on the ground, then greeted them as loyal subjects.
• Wolong and Wenhe asked Xu Shilun to heal their injuries and grant them power, but he told them to absorb his soul form and cultivate for themselves.
• Wolong reported that Fengchu had fled after seeing Xu Shilun's statue, and Xu Shilun said he would speak with him later.
• Xu Shilun warned the two mosquitoes that their current spot was safest and told them not to move far from him.
• Xu Shilun recalled that he had awakened when animals first entered the instance, but could not control his power or the Dark Tigas.
• Xu Shilun explained that it had taken him over five years to reach the outside, where he learned he still could not leave without retrieving his fragment and could only switch his light on and off.

Xu Shilun cultivated in the darkness while waiting for Wolong and Wenhe, and learned that the Witch Clan’s unchecked consumption threatened to devour the world. The chapter ended as Wolong described the dangers outside, prompting Xu Shilun to fixate on the phrase “all intake, no output.”

• Xu Shilun discovered that his power leaked into the darkness, while his fragments absorbed it far more efficiently than he could.
• Xu Shilun spent his days hoodwinking animals into retrieving his fragments, and Wolong and Wenhe joined him after reaching the Transcendent realm.
• Wolong and Wenhe secretly questioned Xu Shilun’s unusually agreeable behavior while all three pretended to be cordial.
• Wolong explained that Fengchu had transmigrated into the Witch Clan, whose members consumed matter so rapidly they could devour the world within a hundred years.
• Wolong told Xu Shilun that a powerful former mount guarded the atmosphere and that enormous Transcendent demonic beasts surrounded secret realms, while Xu Shilun fixated on the Witch Clan’s “all intake, no output.”

Xu Shilun realized he needed his fragment to escape the secret realm, but the route to it was guarded by more than thirty thousand Dark Tigas. He tricked Wolong and Wenhe into accepting explosive devices disguised as protective shields, then asked them to retrieve the fragment, leaving them stunned by the impossible task.

• Xu Shilun considered how to escape with his fragment and concluded Wolong and Wenhe were unlikely to defeat the Dark Tigas guarding it.
• Xu Shilun placed devices on Wolong and Wenhe that could trigger explosions across a thousand-meter radius, claiming they were protective shields.
• Wolong and Wenhe concealed their panic, praised Xu Shilun, and offered to help him with anything he needed.
• Xu Shilun explained that someone had to retrieve his fragment from the center of the secret realm for him to leave.
• Wolong volunteered to retrieve the fragment, and Xu Shilun told him to kill all thirty thousand Dark Tigas on the way, leaving both mosquitoes speechless.

Xu Shilun tricked Wolong and Wenhe into training for a year before sending them out with the Dark Tigas, while Yu Jiemo learned Wolong had betrayed him and began seeking strength at Wang Jianzhi's dungeon. When Wolong and Wenhe begged to stay rather than leave, Xu Shilun agreed, leaving them stunned.

• Xu Shilun used fake explosive shields to intimidate Wolong and Wenhe, then assigned them to capture a stone man after a year of cultivation.
• Xu Shilun explained that the Dark Tigas would leave the secret realm in a year and attack living things indiscriminately as they expanded it.
• Yu Jiemo learned that Wolong had transmigrated and sold him out to Xu Shilun, then decided to grow stronger at Wang Jianzhi's dungeon.
• Yu Jiemo encountered a flame-wreathed giant monkey near the dungeon and sent it flying with a punch, confirming the place was suited to his training.
• A year later, Wolong and Wenhe begged Xu Shilun not to send them away, and Xu Shilun agreed to let them stay.

After escaping Xu Shilun’s dungeon, Wolong and Wenhe began hunting supernatural beasts and rapidly regaining their mosquitoes’ ancient size. Half a year later, the two over-five-hundred-meter mosquitoes appeared near one of Wang Jianzhi’s dungeons.

• Xu Shilun sent Wolong and Wenhe out through the darkness as the Dark Tigas expanded the dungeon, and they escaped after five hours of hiding and flying along its edge.
• Wolong and Wenhe lamented Xu Shilun’s self-destruct devices, then agreed to grow stronger rather than risk entering Big Pineapple’s territory.
• The two mosquitoes ambushed and killed a giant bird, then drank its blood and devoured its body, causing their bodies to grow through atavism.
• Over the next half month, Wolong and Wenhe hunted supernatural beasts and discovered that eating them increased their strength.
• Six months later, Wolong and Wenhe, now over five hundred meters tall and covered in black, white, and red markings, appeared near one of Wang Jianzhi’s dungeons.

Wolong and Wenhe investigated the stone men and discovered that their linked psychic power and strength made them impossible to defeat. Unable to provide Xu Shilun with a stone man, they decided to trick Fengchu into visiting him instead.

• Wolong and Wenhe hunted monsters for months, growing powerful enough to reach the threshold of the extraordinary first stage.
• Wolong and Wenhe attacked a stone man with psychic power, but their attacks passed through its mind before they sensed a terrifying collective consciousness and fled.
• Wolong and Wenhe and their livestream friends concluded that one intelligence might control the stone men and deliberately drive them to consume the world.
• Wenhe struck another stone man with a severed leg, which shattered, and Wolong and Wenhe failed to move it before fleeing when it turned toward them.
• Wolong and Wenhe decided they needed to strengthen themselves and the other animals, and resolved to deceive Fengchu into visiting Xu Shilun because they could not capture a stone man for him.

The Ant Queen entered Big Pineapple’s dungeon seeking help against the rapidly multiplying rock people, and killed Big Pineapple’s unconscious soul fragment at the cost of twenty thousand ants. The awakened Big Pineapple recognized the Ant Queen and asked how he had returned to life, while Su Mo considered using the promise of resurrecting Yu Ji to motivate him.

• The Ant Queen saw the rock people’s population soar past the Ant Clan’s and realized their growth threatened his colony, but he could not defeat them in battle.
• The Ant Queen cleared the animals from Big Pineapple’s dungeon and led thirty thousand ants inside, where he fought through the Soul Clan asuras.
• The Ant Queen defeated Big Pineapple’s unconscious soul body after losing twenty thousand soldiers, causing a new Big Pineapple to appear.
• Big Pineapple recognized the Ant Queen and questioned how he had returned to life, then wondered whether Yu Ji and the others could return too.
• Su Mo watched Big Pineapple’s excitement and considered promising to resurrect Yu Ji if Big Pineapple destroyed the rock people or advanced the Demon Race beyond the fifth stage.

Su Mo planned to manipulate the transmigrators with promises of resurrection and punish Xu Shilun, while Big Pineapple learned that the ant queen had returned to life. As Big Pineapple began explaining his own resurrection, the Creator God appeared before him.

• Su Mo planned to promise Big Pineapple, Liu Dajun, and Wang Jianzhi the resurrection of people they cared about, and decided Xu Shilun deserved punishment instead.
• Su Mo considered using Zhang Jiao to torment Xu Shilun and promised himself that the plan would make the Microcosm more interesting.
• The ant queen told Big Pineapple that she had come back to life without knowing how, and that ancient records had helped her recognize him.
• The ant queen recited a passage portraying Big Pineapple as a hideous, wicked Asura, and Big Pineapple protested that it was slander.
• Big Pineapple asked how the ant queen had been resurrected, then explained that his soul could restore him from its memories before his viewpoint was pulled into the universe, where he saw the Creator God.

Su Mo appeared to Big Pineapple as the Creator God and explained that the Evil God had arranged a contest between them, with the fate of the world at stake. Big Pineapple agreed to fight for a chance to resurrect his companions, then learned from the ant queen that a powerful race was threatening to destroy the world.

• Su Mo told Big Pineapple that he was the Creator God and asked him to help oppose the Evil God, explaining why civilizations faced thousand-year trials.
• Su Mo blamed the previous civilization’s defeat in part on Big Pineapple, Xu Shilun, and their allies choosing to perish together rather than hold out for his return.
• Su Mo revealed that Big Pineapple could win a five-hundred-year contest by helping a native life-form or civilization reach the Fifth Stage and then defeat the opposing race; victory would let him resurrect his companions.
• Big Pineapple learned that his lost power and outsider status were restrictions imposed under the contest’s rules, then returned to his body after Su Mo departed.
• The ant queen told Big Pineapple that a terrifying race was destroying the world and could end it within two hundred years, leading him to suspect the Evil God was trying to force a draw.

Big Pineapple learned from the Ant Queen that the stone people had grown into an overwhelming threat and planned to bring Xu Shilun into the fight. Meanwhile, Zhang Jiao was resurrected and began tormenting the powerless Xu Shilun, as Su Mo watched and the stone people continued to grow stronger.

• Big Pineapple told the Ant Queen that the Creator God had explained how its resurrection worked, then learned that the stone people numbered eighty million and threatened the world's foundations.
• Big Pineapple decided to restore his strength and sent the Ant Queen to find Xu Shilun's dungeon, take his fragment, and bring him back without trusting his words.
• Su Mo resurrected Zhang Jiao inside Xu Shilun's dungeon, where Zhang Jiao attacked and tortured Xu Shilun while Su Mo watched from the starry sky.
• Su Mo considered ways to counter the stone people and noted that the races could escape only by defeating Spider Heavenly Emperor or reaching the fifth stage.
• Yu Jiemo patted the enlarged Mimi's head outside Wang Jianzhi's dungeon as two mosquitoes entered.

Yu Jiemo rejected Wolong and Wenhe’s proposal to join forces against Xu Shilun, suspecting they intended to betray him and exploit his vulnerability to soul attacks. After their negotiations failed, Wolong and Wenhe pursued separate plans to gather allies, while Su Mo realized his alt might be exposed.

• Yu Jiemo recognized Wolong and Wenhe as fellow transmigrators and caught the wild boar carcass they had been feeding on to greet them.
• Wolong and Wenhe proposed that they kill Xu Shilun together, claiming the stone men had a collective consciousness and mental protection.
• Yu Jiemo realized he might be isolated from the stone men’s collective consciousness and hid his possible vulnerability to soul attacks.
• Yu Jiemo refused to trust Wolong and Wenhe, ordered them to leave, and returned to shield Mimi.
• Wolong headed overseas to recruit mosquitoes, while Wenhe entered instances to recruit newly intelligent animals into the Demon Race.
• Su Mo noticed that his alt seemed about to be exposed.

Su Mo discovered that his interventions had created a contradiction between the missions given by the Evil God and the Creator God, so he made divine names and outside information taboo while planning to let the people inside uncover the truth. He then stopped interfering, and three years later Wenhe controlled two dungeons while Wolong prepared to conquer the world with an army of mosquitoes.

• Su Mo realized Big Pineapple and the ant queen could expose his identity when they communicated with the current transmigrators, and he rejected killing or erasing their memories.
• Su Mo made references to the Evil God and Creator God taboo and caused livestreams to disconnect when people outside were about to learn information about gods.
• Su Mo rationalized that the Creator God and Evil God could be treated as opposing factions, then resolved to erase memories and destroy the universe if the truth became a threat.
• Wenhe recruited a large force by promising a giant wild boar strength and fine food, then occupied two dungeons.
• Su Mo watched without intervening for three years, while Wolong gathered thirty thousand mosquitoes and announced his plan to conquer the world.

Xu Shilun revealed that the Creator God and the Evil God were the same person, forcing Su Mo to erase him permanently. The chapter ended with the myriad Daos lamenting Xu Shilun’s death and everyone in the instances awakening.

• Xu Shilun told Zhang Jiao that the Creator God and the Evil God were the same person, and Su Mo decided to kill him permanently.
• Su Mo appeared in Xu Shilun’s instance, erased Zhang Jiao, and restored Xu Shilun so he could explain how he uncovered Su Mo’s identities.
• Xu Shilun traced his suspicions to Big Pineapple’s livestream, the Evil God’s attempted escape to Earth, and the memories he received with Dark Tiga’s power.
• After Xu Shilun finished explaining his deductions, Su Mo refused his offer to become a servant and struck him down as he tried to flee.
• Su Mo erased every Xu Shilun fragment across the twenty instances, after which the instances vanished, the myriad Daos mourned, and everyone inside awakened.

Xu Shilun’s death unleashed dark power across the continent, awakening animals and filling them with Tribulation Qi that drove them toward violence. As the survivors reacted to the signs of his death, Fengchu made a grave for him under both his Soul Clan and Human Race identities.

• Xu Shilun’s death spread dark power across the continent, awakening animals and advancing many of them while stirring bloodlust and violence.
• Big Pineapple mourned Xu Shilun, while Liu Dajun restored his power and Wang Jianzhi celebrated until the Great Dao struck him down.
• Su Mo identified the dark power as Tribulation Qi and decided to preserve the other Fourth Stage beings as potential resources.
• Wolong and Wenhe pretended to mourn Xu Shilun before concluding that he was truly dead, while livestream viewers speculated about his fate.
• Fengchu made a grave for Xu Shilun and inscribed both his Heavenly Emperor Xu identity and his Human Race identity.

Yu Jiemo mourned Xu Shilun while people in the real world debated the transmigrator’s sudden death and the Evil God’s motives. Su Mo watched their speculation from inside the Microcosm and reflected that Xu Shilun’s loneliness might have been a sin in his eyes.

• Yu Jiemo bowed three times toward Xu Shilun’s grave, then returned to cultivating and decided not to investigate his death.
• Viewers in Yu Jiemo’s livestream debated Xu Shilun’s death, his ruthlessness, and whether he deserved pity.
• People in the real world reconsidered transmigration after Xu Shilun’s death, while organizations secretly speculated that he had learned the Evil God’s secret.
• Su Mo sensed the outside world’s thoughts and threatened those investigating him, then reflected that Xu Shilun may have died because he had no clansmen.

After Xu Shilun’s death released his dark power, Wolong and Wenhe used the newly awakened mosquitoes and demons to conquer much of the continent, while the stone people became more aggressive and Yu Jiemo grew stronger. With only a few major strongholds left, the brothers decided to take two million demons and talk with Fengchu again.

• Xu Shilun’s death unleashed dark Tribulation Qi, awakening many mosquitoes and stirring faint emotions in the stone people.
• Wolong and Wenhe led the Mosquito Clan and demons through a series of battles, forcing the Ten Thousand Beasts Alliance to submit and eventually destroying the Flying Feather Alliance.
• Yu Jiemo reached five hundred tons and peak Transcendent cultivation, but remained unable to break through or enter the stone people’s collective consciousness.
• Over the next five years, Wolong and Wenhe reached peak First Stage and conquered more than half the continent, while the ant queen held Big Pineapple’s three dungeons.
• Wolong and Wenhe discussed the enormous web and the remaining strongholds, then agreed to visit Fengchu with two million demons.

Wolong and Wenhe discussed the threats from the stone men, the Ant Clan, and powerful beings guarding the instances as they planned their next move. Wolong sent Wenhe to negotiate with Fengchu, warning that Fengchu’s territory would be conquered if he refused.

• Wolong said they were too weak to attack the fourth-stage beings inside the instances and needed to defeat the rapidly multiplying stone men first.
• Wolong concluded that the ant queen had contacted Big Pineapple and was likely a powerful being resurrected with its strength intact.
• Wolong and Wenhe reasoned that the other ancient races could become their allies against the stone men, though they would eventually compete for control.
• Wolong told Wenhe to speak with Fengchu and said their forces would plant their banners around his instance regardless of the outcome.
• Wolong considered whether he could develop a new way to grow stronger and warned that Fengchu’s location might become Fallen Phoenix Slope.

Wenhe and Wolong gathered the Demon Race and a million mosquitoes, while Big Pineapple discussed the rising threat of the stone men and agreed to let the ant queen follow him. Half a month later, the forces arrived at Wang Jianzhi’s dungeon, where Yu Jiemo called on Fengchu to come out and talk.

• Wenhe reflected on how his quick thinking complemented Wolong’s careful planning as they prepared to lead their growing forces.
• The Demon Race and a million mosquitoes assembled, alarming the ant queen, who went to Big Pineapple for advice.
• Big Pineapple told the ant queen that the demons were unlikely to attack her first and explained that he planned to restore his strength rather than pursue Xu Shilun’s backup plans.
• The ant queen said she would follow Big Pineapple, and he urged her to prepare for a stronger rival to surpass her.
• Half a month later, a million demons and countless mosquitoes surrounded Wang Jianzhi’s dungeon, and Yu Jiemo gave Fengchu one last chance to talk.

Wenhe led the Demon Race to confront Yu Jiemo and demand that he hand over Fengchu, the stone man. After the other demons fled, Yu Jiemo stood with Mimi as the threat remained unresolved.

• The demons in Wang Jianzhi's dungeon regarded Fengchu with hostility because the Demon Race had spread warnings that the stone men would consume the world.
• Wenhe arrived with two million Demon Race members and giant mosquitoes, then demanded that Yu Jiemo bring Fengchu out or face an attack.
• Wenhe gave the other demons thirty breaths to leave, warning that he would destroy anyone who helped Yu Jiemo.
• The demons fled without Yu Jiemo trying to stop them, leaving him alone with Mimi as they met each other's gaze.

Yu Jiemo feared the Demon Race would kill him and Mimi, but Mimi stood in front of him and attacked Wenhe to protect him. Wenhe trapped Mimi with Soul Power and demanded that Yu Jiemo negotiate, while Yu Jiemo insisted he release Mimi first.

• Yu Jiemo told Mimi to leave, but Mimi instead stood between him and the Demon Race, ignited in flames, and refused to move.
• Wenhe announced that Yu Jiemo’s thirty breaths were up and demanded his choice.
• Mimi lunged at Wenhe, who caught him but flung him away when the flames spread across his leg.
• Mimi attacked again, and Wenhe trapped him in midair with Soul Power while asking Yu Jiemo to talk.
• Yu Jiemo demanded that Wenhe release Mimi, but Wenhe refused and accused him of being foolish.