Recaps

After emerging from the black hole, Zhang Yang met another Adam, who explained the virtual world and answered his questions. Yi Xuan learned from Zhang Yang’s memories about the sleeping Three-Legged Golden Crow and reconsidered fleeing the Ziwei Domain, choosing to meet Zhang Yang in the Inner World instead.

• Zhang Yang emerged from the darkness and met an Adam who explained that he and the other Adams were separate clones of the real Adam.
• Adam told Zhang Yang that the virtual world had an Outer World where digital lifeforms recovered their memories and an Inner World where they could live indefinitely.
• Adam explained that Yi Xuan valued the memories of billions of digital lifeforms, many of whom had been immortals, as an immense source of knowledge.
• Yi Xuan learned that the Demon Race had forged the supergiant star to nurture the Three-Legged Golden Crow, which remained asleep in the True Yang Nirvana Grand Array.
• Yi Xuan considered restarting the Bullet Plan to take the Mother Planet out of the Ziwei Domain, but Zhang Yang’s memories made him postpone it.
• Yi Xuan entered the Inner World to meet Zhang Yang.

Yi Xuan told Zhang Yang about the Inner World and asked for his advice on the Demon Race and whether to leave or stay. After studying the True Yang Nirvana Grand Array, Zhang Yang warned that two more planetary belts surrounded its core and urged Yi Xuan to destroy them.

• Yi Xuan visited Zhang Yang after he began cultivating in the Inner World and introduced himself as Heavenly Father.
• Yi Xuan sent Zhang Yang information about the Inner World, digital life, and the situation outside, then asked whether he should leave or stay.
• Zhang Yang asked how long it had been since the Immortal Court collapsed and examined a projection of the supermassive star at the array's core.
• Zhang Yang concluded that two more planetary belts surrounded the core and told Yi Xuan to destroy them to keep the Three-Legged Golden Crow asleep.

Yi Xuan considered fleeing the Ziwei Domain, but Zhang Yang warned that the Demon Race had turned it into a sealed breeding nest. The chapter ended with Zhang Yang revealing that escape might be possible when the grand array shut down.

• Yi Xuan rejected Zhang Yang's proposal to break the True Yang Nirvana Grand Array and decided to leave the Ziwei Domain instead.
• Zhang Yang agreed that leaving would normally be best, but warned that escaping under the current circumstances would mean certain death.
• Zhang Yang explained that the Demon Race converted conquered territories into nests where their young grew before joining the army.
• Yi Xuan realized the immature Heavenly Dog they had encountered was likely born in the Ziwei Domain and feared the nest held many more Demon Beasts.
• Zhang Yang explained that the Demon Race sealed nests with a grand array that attacked anything trying to pass through, then said they could leave when it was shut down.

Yi Xuan recognized that fear of the Demon Race and the Heavenly Dog had shaken his confidence in technology, and his original self helped him regain control. He left decisions to his original self, who began investigating the True Yang Nirvana Grand Array and the Three-Legged Golden Crow.

• Yi Xuan realized that fear had made him doubt technology and rely on Zhang Yang, despite the Bullet Plan’s success.
• Yi Xuan’s original self reminded him that the Heavenly Dog was the source of his fear, helping him recover his reason and resolve to defeat it with technology.
• Yi Xuan entrusted decisions to his original self, while the Good Corpse stayed with Zhang Yang to gather information about the Demon Race.
• Zhang Yang told the Good Corpse that three Soul Refining Grand Arrays held billions of Human Clan souls that nourished the Three-Legged Golden Crow.
• Yi Xuan’s original self began investigating the True Yang Nirvana Grand Array and planned to prevent the Three-Legged Golden Crow from being reborn.

Yi Xuan’s forces found and broke the two remaining Soul Refining Grand Arrays, severing the connection to the Three-Legged Golden Crow and restarting cultivation on the Mother Planet. The original body watched a departing light vanish into the universe while the Good Corpse remained puzzled by the Evil Corpse’s disappearance.

• Yi Xuan dispatched most of the spaceships to search for the other Soul Refining Grand Arrays, while the Dawn carried researchers to find a way to break them and the Good Corpse restarted the Dyson Sphere Project around the supergiant star.
• The spaceships found the first additional Soul Refining Grand Array after fifteen years and the second ten years later, then built space fortresses and connected them to the Mother Planet with quantum communications.
• The Good Corpse’s team built a sparse Dyson Swarm around the supergiant star, and Elder Hai and Chen Jiaping used knowledge from the Garden of Eden to devise a way to break the arrays.
• After the original body returned with Liang Shi, Chen Jiaping and Elder Hai severed the Soul Refining Grand Array’s connection to the Three-Legged Golden Crow, which cried out and fell silent.
• Yi Xuan uploaded Immortal Realm cultivation methods to the Cultivation Assistance System, and cultivation on the Mother Planet resumed.
• The Good Corpse wondered where the Evil Corpse had gone, while the original body watched a point of light speed away from the star domain map and disappear into the universe.

Yi Xuan used Unit-01, modified into a genuine member of the Demon Race, to search the universe for other demons but found none for fifty years. When Unit-01 was suddenly trapped in a giant monster’s jaws, Yi Xuan encountered a creature he recognized as Paoxiao.

• Yi Xuan explained that Unit-01 had been modified to produce genuine Yao Qi, allowing him to enter the Demon Race without being detected.
• Yi Xuan sent Unit-01 into the universe to contact the Demon Race and learn when the nest's grand array would shut down.
• After fifty years without finding demons or a habitable planet, Yi Xuan left Unit-01 to cultivate and returned his consciousness to the virtual space.
• Unit-01 warned Yi Xuan and stopped moving after a huge monster caught it in its mouth.
• Yi Xuan controlled Unit-01, roared, and recognized the monster with eyes beneath its armpits as Paoxiao.

Yi Xuan’s Evil Corpse encountered Taotie, who mistook Unit-01 for a lowly mixed-blood demon and threatened to eat him. After Yi Xuan’s true self sent the words “Human Clan,” he rushed after Taotie to ask what the term meant.

• Taotie inspected Unit-01, called him a mongrel, and lost interest in eating him after judging his bloodline impure.
• Yi Xuan told Taotie that he had no Bloodline Inheritance and did not know who his parents were.
• Taotie guessed that Yi Xuan’s parents were ashamed of his lowly bloodline, then ordered him to leave or be eaten.
• Yi Xuan sent word to his true self, who replied, “Human Clan!”
• Yi Xuan chased Taotie down and asked what the Human Clan was, explaining that he lacked the Bloodline Inheritance that might have taught him.

Yi Xuan used the Human Clan to draw Taotie into conversation, but Taotie carried him to a gathering of Demon Beasts awaiting the Three-Legged Golden Crow’s return. When Taotie led the demons toward a nearby star to feed, Yi Xuan discovered humans on its surface.

• Yi Xuan brought up the Human Clan, and Taotie clamped him in his jaws without biting down before taking Unit-01 through a space jump.
• Taotie arrived at a gathering of Demon Beasts, introduced Yi Xuan as a lowly demon, and announced that Lord Golden Crow would emerge from seclusion within at most a thousand years.
• Yi Xuan warned his true self that the demons might expose the Mother Planet, but his true self told him to follow the original plan.
• Taotie announced that the demons would fill their bellies before welcoming Lord Golden Crow, then led them toward a massive nearby star with Yi Xuan in his mouth.
• Yi Xuan used his Divine Sense to inspect the star and discovered humans living on its surface.

Yi Xuan watched Taotie attack the Human Clan across a strange star system and devour an entire city, while struggling to restrain the Evil Corpse’s urge to fight back. Taotie brought him to another city and urged him to eat as its people fled in panic.

• Taotie carried Yi Xuan toward a planet inhabited by the Human Clan and called the Demon Race to feast across the star system.
• Taotie arrived on the planet with Yi Xuan and used his suction to pull an entire city into the air.
• Taotie crushed the city and its inhabitants into a blood-red meatball, then swallowed it after chewing twenty-three times.
• Yi Xuan restrained the Evil Corpse’s urge to attack by drawing on his true self’s rationality, though killing intent poured from Unit-01.
• Taotie took Yi Xuan to another city, where its residents panicked and fought to escape as Taotie urged Yi Xuan to eat.

Yi Xuan watched Taotie devour the people of another city, then finally acted to stop him from chewing their remains. He threw the mass of flesh and blood out of Taotie's mouth, but Unit-01 disappeared between the demon's closing jaws.

• Taotie kicked Yi Xuan into the city and ordered him to gather people, so Yi Xuan tossed a dozen Human Clan members into Taotie's mouth.
• Taotie used his suction to lift the city's people into the air, compress them into a ball of flesh and blood, and swallow them.
• Yi Xuan endured his revulsion and anger because he needed to learn more about the Demon Race from Taotie.
• Yi Xuan shouted at Taotie to shut up, vanished into his mouth, and forced his jaws apart.
• Yi Xuan grabbed the half-chewed remains and threw them out, but Taotie bit down and Unit-01 disappeared into his mouth.

Taotie devoured cities while Yi Xuan’s Evil Corpse, trapped inside him, waited for his original self to authorize a dangerous unfinished move. After witnessing the deaths mount, the Evil Corpse chose to activate it, and a gigantic arm burst from Taotie’s mouth.

• Taotie realized Yi Xuan had Human Clan blood, swallowed him, then resumed devouring cities.
• Inside Taotie, the Evil Corpse contacted Yi Xuan’s original self and learned he had been reduced to the black bead vessel.
• The Evil Corpse counted the cities Taotie consumed and pleaded with his original self as the Human Clan deaths mounted.
• Yi Xuan’s original self granted the Evil Corpse full access to the unfinished move and left the choice to him.
• The Evil Corpse decided to activate the move, causing Taotie to freeze before a human arm more than a thousand meters long emerged from his mouth.

A headless giant emerged from Taotie's body, killed him, and ate his flesh before revealing that he was human. When a city elder asked his name, the giant identified himself as Xingtian.

• Taotie tried to bite the enormous arm in his mouth, but it remained unharmed.
• Two giant hands forced Taotie's jaws apart, and his thrashing devastated much of the city.
• The headless giant emerged from Taotie's body, split him in half, and sat outside the city to eat his flesh.
• A white-haired elder thanked the giant for saving the city, and he said it was his duty as a human.
• The elder asked the giant's name, and he answered, "I am... Xingtian!"

The Evil Corpse learned how Xingtian was created from the Heavenly Dog’s genes and fused with the black bead. When Taotie’s flesh and blood began corrupting Xingtian, Yi Xuan took control, flew away, and left the Human Clan with a palace and instructions to follow the Divine Hall’s arrangements.

• The Evil Corpse learned that Yi Xuan had secretly created Xingtian by combining Heavenly Dog genes with Unit-01 using low-grade Demon Race genes as a catalyst.
• The Human Clan hailed Xingtian as a great god, while the Evil Corpse discovered that the black bead had fused with him.
• Taotie’s flesh and blood corrupted nearly half of Xingtian’s Dantian, and the Evil Corpse struggled to stop it.
• Yi Xuan took control of Xingtian and flew into the sky as the Human Clan cried out in dismay.
• Xingtian dropped an enormous palace before the Human Clan, and Yi Xuan told them to follow the Divine Hall’s arrangements.

The true self drove Xingtian into the sun and absorbed solar energy to help his Demon Power overpower Taotie's. After weakening Taotie's Demon Power, he activated the Gene Furnace to refine the remaining rotten flesh.

• The true self controlled Xingtian as he plunged through the sun's atmosphere and endured its heat, gravity, and radiation.
• Xingtian advanced through the convection zone and stopped at the boundary of the radiation zone, where the true self made him sit and absorb solar energy.
• Solar energy poured into Xingtian through the mouth on his abdomen, strengthening his Demon Power as it fought Taotie's Demon Power inside his Dantian.
• Xingtian's Demon Power drove Taotie's Demon Power back into its flesh, leaving a weakened puddle of rotten flesh.
• The true self accumulated energy in Xingtian's body and activated the Gene Furnace, causing the rotten flesh to disappear.

Yi Xuan left Xingtian on the sun to absorb energy while the Gene Furnace fused Taotie's genes into him. A hundred years later, the fusion neared completion, and the Evil Corpse took control of a much larger, stronger Xingtian and headed into space.

• Yi Xuan explained that Xingtian's Gene Furnace extracted and recombined useful genes from devoured creatures, and that it needed vast solar energy to fuse Taotie's genes.
• After confirming Xingtian was safe, Yi Xuan returned to the Mother Planet to consider what to do about the Demon Race gathering at the True Yang Nirvana Grand Array within a thousand years.
• The Evil Corpse stayed with Xingtian on the sun, grew bored because he could neither cultivate nor leave, and fell asleep.
• A hundred years later, the Evil Corpse woke as the Gene Furnace stopped and Xingtian's Taotie gene fusion neared completion.
• Xingtian's solar-energy absorption had increased more than tenfold, and the Evil Corpse found that his body had grown from five thousand to eight thousand meters tall.
• The Evil Corpse took control of Xingtian, boasted that the Demon Race had waited long enough, and flew into space.

Cage Planet No. 55 had endured eight million years as a Demon Race snack farm, and its cultivators’ illusion formation failed against an Earth Immortal demon. Just as the surviving humans awaited another slaughter, a headless giant appeared and crushed the demon.

• The Demon Race had turned Cage Planet No. 55 and 114 other cultivation planets into snack farms, preventing their inhabitants from ascending and harvesting them at intervals.
• After a previous illusion formation failed against a True Immortal demon, Cage Planet No. 55’s cultivators built another and waited a century to confirm their next visitor was an Earth Immortal.
• The cultivators activated their illusion formation, and the demon believed for thirty years that he had devoured all but a tenth of the population.
• The illusion flickered, the demon detected the deception, and he smashed the formation as the remaining humans braced for slaughter.
• A mountainlike giant appeared, trampled the demon into a patty of flesh, and stood before the humans with empty space above its shoulders.

After Xingtian saved the humans on Cage Planet No. 55, Yi Xuan hunted down demons across more than a hundred planets, killing over five hundred in ten years. With the galaxy cleared, he returned to the planet where he first killed Taotie to see what had become of it under the High Antiquity Artifact Sect Great Hall’s guidance.

• The humans on Cage Planet No. 55 celebrated their survival, then resumed studying the illusion formation to prepare for another Demon Race attack.
• Yi Xuan used Xingtian to slaughter demons across more than a hundred planets, but gained only three useful gene sets from over five hundred kills.
• Yi Xuan learned that demons’ species and bloodline determined their potential, and focused on clearing the galaxy rather than obtaining more genes.
• Yi Xuan worried about the powerful demons gathering near the Mother Planet and hoped his true self would arrange for it to leave soon.
• After ten years, Yi Xuan finished killing the demons and returned to the planet where he had first killed Taotie to inspect the High Antiquity Artifact Sect Great Hall’s work.

After a century away, Yi Xuan surveyed the planet and found that its technology had flourished but stalled because its people feared exploring space against Xingtian’s orders. As scientists again debated space exploration, Origin No. 06 unexpectedly declared it would support them.

• Yi Xuan returned to the planet but stayed in space because Xingtian had grown too large to reveal without causing a panic.
• Yi Xuan used his Divine Sense to inspect the transformed planet, where a vast city had grown around the unchanged Artifact Sect Great Hall and a giant statue of Xingtian.
• Yi Xuan discovered that the planet’s technological progress had reached an energy bottleneck, while proposals to explore space were repeatedly rejected out of reverence for Xingtian.
• A lead scientist asked Origin No. 06 whether it would stop the people from exploring space, and Origin No. 06 began to say that it would.
• Origin No. 06 paused, then announced that it would unconditionally support their exploration of space, shocking everyone in the great hall.

After Xingtian appeared above the planet, he announced that the Demon Race in the Cage Galaxy had been exterminated and ordered humanity to begin exploring space. Fifty years later, Yi Xuan’s evil corpse returned to the Mother Planet’s former location and was told to enter a supermassive star to help Xingtian grow.

• Origin No. 06 declared that allowing space exploration was the Great God Xingtian’s will, then told the leaders to go outside.
• The people saw Xingtian blocking the sun and fell silent when he spoke.
• Xingtian announced that he had exterminated the Demon Race in the Cage Galaxy and ordered humanity to explore space and spread technology.
• Yi Xuan gathered the Artifact Sect Great Hall and its contents, then left the planet for the Mother Planet.
• Fifty years later, Yi Xuan’s original self ordered the evil corpse to enter a supermassive star, explaining that Xingtian had his sights set on the Three-Legged Golden Crow.
• The evil corpse questioned the good corpse’s spaceship carrier, and the good corpse vanished before the two could continue.

The Evil Corpse learned that Yi Xuan’s new cultivation spaceship had reached Golden Immortal strength and that the original self wanted him to gather Three-Legged Golden Crow genes to strengthen Xingtian. Despite fearing the danger, the Evil Corpse entered the supergiant star and plunged into its radiation zone.

• The Evil Corpse learned that the Good Corpse was controlling Yi Xuan’s prototype cultivation spaceship, which could grow stronger and had already reached Golden Immortal strength.
• Yi Xuan explained that he wanted the Evil Corpse to obtain genes from the Three-Legged Golden Crow and use them to strengthen Xingtian.
• The Evil Corpse questioned the risk, but the original self remained resolute, and the Evil Corpse accepted the task.
• The Evil Corpse passed through the completed Dyson Swarm and the supergiant star’s corona, where Xingtian’s body charred before shedding its blackened scab.
• The Evil Corpse traveled through the star’s outer layers and entered the radiation zone, where surrounding nuclear fusion eruptions trapped him in danger.

The Evil Corpse cultivated Xingtian in the sun’s radiation zone for centuries, healing and strengthening him until he surpassed a critical height and underwent a massive transformation. After Xingtian grew to 99,000 meters and the Evil Corpse regained control, he set off to confront the Three-Legged Golden Crow.

• The Evil Corpse stopped Xingtian in the radiation zone when the explosions threatened to leave him too damaged to continue, and began cultivating there.
• Xingtian absorbed solar energy as the Gene Furnace repaired injuries from nearby explosions, gradually increasing his strength.
• After a hundred years, Xingtian became immune to the radiation zone’s explosions, and the Evil Corpse continued cultivating him toward the 20,000-meter threshold.
• When Xingtian reached 20,000 meters, he grew uncontrollably to 99,000 meters, absorbing vast amounts of solar energy before the Evil Corpse regained control.
• The Evil Corpse sensed the Three-Legged Golden Crow’s location and sent Xingtian rushing toward it.

The Evil Corpse reached the Three-Legged Golden Crow’s egg inside the supergiant star and spent five hundred years dissolving the Demon Power that protected it. After Xingtian grew stronger through the ordeal, the Evil Corpse struck the egg, leaving its fate uncertain.

• The Evil Corpse entered the star’s core, found the Three-Legged Golden Crow’s egg, and discovered that its Demon Power was vastly stronger than Xingtian’s.
• The Evil Corpse began dissolving the Demon Power surrounding the egg while Xingtian absorbed solar energy and endured the process for five hundred years.
• The Evil Corpse finished removing the egg’s protective Demon Power and saw that Xingtian had grown to nearly three hundred thousand meters tall.
• The Evil Corpse punched the giant egg, which cracked and answered with a mournful screech.

The Evil Corpse entered the shattered egg and found Xingtian trapped in a strange golden liquid, with no sign of the Three-Legged Golden Crow. He discovered that the liquid resisted movement according to speed and began inching forward, leaving his search likely to take an extraordinarily long time.

• The Three-Legged Golden Crow cried out in distress, alarming the ordinary demons gathered outside the True Yang Nirvana Grand Array.
• The Evil Corpse controlled Xingtian through the broken eggshell and found him submerged in an unknown golden liquid instead of finding the Golden Crow.
• The Evil Corpse observed that the liquid grew more resistant as Xingtian moved faster and concluded it was a defense against intruders.
• The Evil Corpse determined that Xingtian could move through the liquid at only about one meter per hour and asked the original for another way forward.
• The original offered no solution, so the Evil Corpse began moving ahead at the liquid's slow pace.

The Evil Corpse discovered that the Gene Furnace could dissolve the unknown liquid trapping Xingtian. After repeatedly absorbing and processing it, he expelled a distinct substance that coated Xingtian, removing the liquid’s resistance and letting him move freely.

• The Evil Corpse struggled to move Xingtian through the unknown liquid while Yi Xuan and the Evil Corpse tried and failed to analyze it.
• The Evil Corpse accidentally swallowed the liquid when he roared, and the Good Corpse mocked him before Yi Xuan told him to listen to the Good Corpse.
• The Evil Corpse realized the Good Corpse’s suggestion was to drink the liquid, so he filled Xingtian’s belly and activated the Gene Furnace to dissolve it.
• The Evil Corpse repeated the process, then expelled a separate substance that spread over Xingtian and formed a layer between him and the unknown liquid.
• Xingtian moved smoothly again as the liquid’s resistance vanished.

The Evil Corpse discovered that the giant egg’s white was a living organism and used its properties to free Xingtian before advancing toward the center. He reached the Golden Crow’s yolk, found it was scorching liquid, and grabbed some of the Three-Legged Golden Crow, leaving part of its body missing.

• The Evil Corpse learned that the egg white was living tissue, absorbed its life energy through the Gene Furnace, and gained a gene that let Xingtian produce a similar protective liquid.
• Xingtian enveloped himself in the liquid he produced, allowing the Evil Corpse to escape the egg white and head deeper into the giant egg.
• The Evil Corpse reached a vacuum layer and saw the sleeping Three-Legged Golden Crow surrounded by flames, but Yi Xuan’s voice broke him free of its overwhelming presence.
• The Evil Corpse entered the yolk and discovered it was magma-like liquid that charred Xingtian’s skin.
• The Evil Corpse rushed toward the Three-Legged Golden Crow and grabbed a mass of fiery-red liquid, visibly removing part of its body.