Chapter Summaries

Fifty thousand years after the Demon Race was wiped out of the Ziwei Domain, Yi Xuan’s people grew stronger through cultivation and technology while he studied the formation trapping them. After a sensor detected an unprecedented change outside the formation, Yi Xuan awakened his Good and Evil Twin Corpses and mobilized the Ziwei Domain for the demons’ expected descent.

• The Human Clan reclaimed the Ziwei Domain over fifty thousand years, while Yi Xuan’s weapons and rising immortals defeated the remaining demons.
• Yi Xuan integrated Adam and the Garden of Eden’s cultivation knowledge into the Cultivation Assistance System, which helped produce many Taiyi Golden Immortals.
• Yi Xuan studied the formation around the nest with his twin corpses and the Garden of Eden’s digital life-forms, but made little progress and returned to advancing technology.
• Thirty thousand years later, Adam told Yi Xuan that a formation-monitoring sensor had detected a signal unlike any seen before.
• Yi Xuan awakened his Good and Evil Twin Corpses, told them the Demon Race might descend, and issued orders that set the Ziwei Domain in motion.

Yi Xuan ordered Liang Shi to send genetically controlled demons to gather at the border and infiltrate the Demon Race with the escort demons. As the escort prepared to depart, Xingtian appeared wearing enormous wings, and the lead demon mistook him for the Three-Legged Golden Crow.

• Yi Xuan ordered Ziwei Domain's forces to remain silent and on standby as over a hundred escort demons arrived at the border.
• The escort demons sent out a ripple to summon adult demons, and Yi Xuan told Liang Shi to activate their secret plan.
• Liang Shi's signal caused demons created and controlled by his team to appear across the domain, and Yi Xuan intended them to join the escort and infiltrate the Demon Race.
• After a hundred years, the escort demons prepared to leave with countless gathered demons, including Heavenly Dog and members of powerful bloodlines.
• The leading demon asked about the absent Three-Legged Golden Crow, and Xingtian appeared with enormous wings, prompting the demon to ask if he was Lord Golden Crow.

The Evil Corpse, disguised as Xingtian and Lord Golden Crow, left the Ziwei Domain with the Demon Race by passing through their great array. He discovered how the array’s opening worked, then followed the demons into a beast that he identified as Dijiang, their means of traveling across the stars.

• The Evil Corpse transformed into a Three-Legged Golden Crow, convinced the escorting demons of his identity, and prepared to leave with them.
• Liang Shi sent No. 01 the demons’ method for opening the great array, but No. 01 and Adam could not deduce how it worked.
• The Evil Corpse ordered the Heavenly Dog to investigate the opening, but the Heavenly Dog learned nothing and nearly destabilized it.
• The Evil Corpse pierced the opening with his Demon Power, found the key to the array, and sent his discovery to the original body, though his action injured the demons maintaining it.
• The demons crossed into a space containing a giant beast, and the Evil Corpse followed them through its chest into a dark tunnel, concluding that the creature was Dijiang.

The Evil Corpse traveled with the Demon Race toward its army and learned that the war against the Human Clan had stalled after the Great Sages awakened and the Humans used the Pillar of Creation. When Dijiang emerged from its spatial jump, the Evil Corpse saw two galaxies colliding and learned that a Great Sage was fighting a Human Clan Great Sage.

• The Evil Corpse learned that Dijiang would take a hundred years to reach the Demon Race's army and studied a star map showing the Demon Race had conquered most of the Human Clan's territory.
• The escort leader explained that the Human Clan's Great Sages had awakened and that the Pillar of Creation had ended the Demon Race's advantage in Great Sage numbers, causing a stalemate.
• During the hundred-year journey, the Evil Corpse considered the war, his plans, and the risk that someone in the Demon Race might recognize that he lacked the Three-Legged Golden Crow's memories.
• Dijiang exited its spatial jump after the space inside it trembled, and the demons reacted with panic and relief.
• The Evil Corpse saw two galaxies colliding and heard a demon wonder which Great Sage was fighting a Great Sage of the Human Clan.

Yi Xuan’s Evil Corpse witnessed a battle between Great Sages, who hurled two galaxies against each other with effortless force. While waiting for the fight to end, he gathered information about the Demon Race and the Human Clan and sent it to Yi Xuan.

• The Evil Corpse watched two galaxies collide and realized that a Great Sage’s power far surpassed that of an Immortal Emperor.
• A Demon Race leader explained that the galaxies’ collision was a Great Sage battle and warned that even distant armies could suffer heavy casualties.
• The leader said the Golden Crow Clan patriarch had survived a battle between Great Sages, and the Evil Corpse listened without revealing his interest.
• The Evil Corpse prompted nearby Demon Race members to ask the escorts questions, using their answers to learn about the Demon Race and Human Clan.
• The Evil Corpse sent the information he had gathered to Yi Xuan while the Great Sage battle continued.

After the Great Sages destroyed two galaxies and ended their battle, the Evil Corpse joined the Demon Race army as it harvested the wreckage. Using information he gathered, Yi Xuan opened the formations protecting Demon Race nests and sent mechanical spaceships to plant Seeds that could spread technology across the universe.

• The Evil Corpse and his companions survived the Great Sages’ battle and joined the Demon Race army in clearing the battlefield by eating the remains.
• The Evil Corpse reported that opening a nest’s formation required both the correct method and Essence Blood from the race of the demon sacrificed to create it.
• Liang Shi’s team used formation data to identify the sacrificed demon’s genetic sequence and produce its blood, opening the formation outside the Ziwei Domain.
• Yi Xuan sent spaceships carrying only mechanical lifeforms into the universe to spread technology, beginning with Demon Race nests.
• Liang Shi used Yi Xuan’s formation sensor to identify the Essence Blood needed for other nests, allowing the spaceships to open their formations and leave Seeds inside.
• Each Seed contained a quantum computer loaded with Yi Xuan’s technology and a liquefying shell that could become equipment to support a technological civilization.

Yi Xuan’s technology seeds spread through the Demon Race’s nests, and one chose Mu An, an elderly human in the Xuanxi Domain’s Cage Galaxy. After a lifetime of serving the Cultivation Realm with his talent for formations, Mu An awakened to the Technology Assistance System.

• Yi Xuan sowed technology seeds in countless Demon Race nests over a hundred years.
• A seed scanned the Xuanxi Domain’s vast Cage Galaxy and chose eighty-year-old Mu An as its inheritor.
• Mu An had been unable to cultivate because of his weak Spirit Root, so he became a menial servant and studied the sect’s manuals.
• Mu An discovered his exceptional talent for formations, helped cultivators improve them, and created a combined-attack formation for the coming demons.
• In his old age, Mu An declined life-extending medicine and quietly awaited death.
• Mu An woke to a voice announcing that the technology seed had implanted successfully and granted him the Technology Assistance System.

Mu An accepted the Technology Assistance System after seeing its power against the Demon Race, then secluded himself to develop technology. One year later, he had completed all level-one research and unlocked the level-two technology tree, but lacked the resources to continue.

• The Technology Assistance System showed Mu An a headless giant effortlessly slaughtering members of the Demon Race, convincing him that technology could potentially defeat them.
• Mu An asked the immortal sect's sect master to reserve abandoned peaks for him, and the sect master declared them forbidden territory.
• Mu An activated the system in a cave, where a droplet-shaped object arrived from outside the planet and buried a box underground.
• The system gathered resources and developed a multifunction industrial machine tool, a multifunction furnace, a Pangu robot, and a V2 lithography machine.
• After one year, Mu An completed the controlled nuclear fusion Arc Reactor and all level-one technologies, then unlocked the level-two tree but found he lacked resources to proceed.

Ten years after Mu An vanished, the Cultivation Realm held a cenotaph for him, and centuries later the Demon Race suddenly invaded the Cage Galaxy. As humans faced slaughter, hidden steel battle armor emerged on Mu An’s planet and opened fire, leaving the cultivators free and the world drenched in demon blood.

• The immortal sect master found Mu An gone, declared that he had passed away, and held a grand funeral with a cenotaph that a mysterious young man attended unnoticed.
• Over the following centuries, the Cultivation Realm gradually forgot Mu An and the origins of his combined attack formation.
• Five hundred years later, the Demon Race suddenly descended on more than ten thousand planets in the Cage Galaxy and began slaughtering humans.
• On Mu An’s planet, the combined attack formation destroyed the first Earth Immortal demons, but it could not stop stronger demons from overwhelming the cultivators.
• As the cultivators waited for death, enormous boxes rose from underground and opened to reveal steel battle armor, which fired on the Demon Race and released the humans from its control.

Mu An returned to the Cultivation Realm and helped the steel battlesuits wipe out the Demon Race across the Cage Galaxy. After the people recognized him as the long-lost Elder Mu, he became the Human Clan’s leader and began expanding their technological advantage, while other inheritors faced mixed success.

• The steel battlesuits slaughtered the demons who had invaded Mu An’s planet, then flew away as the people knelt in awe.
• The Cultivation Realm’s leaders gathered around the remaining battlesuit, and the immortal sect’s sect master recognized Mu An on its shoulder as Elder Mu.
• Mu An greeted the sect master, and the people bowed to him as his identity became known across the planet.
• The battlesuits and spaceships cleared the demons from the Cage Galaxy, and Mu An led the Human Clan in developing technology and hunting down the survivors.
• Some inheritors failed when the Demon Race attacked before their technology advanced, but their seeds unbound themselves and hid to await new inheritors.

Wan Changqing led his soldiers through the second wave of a catastrophic war between the Human Clan and the Demon Race, as their shield formation broke and the battlefield became a chaotic melee. After a headless winged Demon Race member appeared before him, Wan Changqing faced the creature he had seen kill a Fifth-Layer Immortal Emperor, with little hope of surviving.

• The Human Clan and Demon Race armies collided, suffering enormous casualties as their first clash ended without a victor.
• Wan Changqing urged his soldiers to stand firm, then ordered them to raise their shields as the second Demon Race wave approached.
• The Demon Race overwhelmed the Human Clan's barrier and shield formation, pouring into the ranks and crushing their own fighters along the way.
• Wan Changqing fought to kill the Demon Race and restore his soldiers' formation, but the melee made his orders useless.
• After killing a Daluo Realm Demon Race member, Wan Changqing sensed danger and found the headless winged creature that had killed a Fifth-Layer Immortal Emperor.

Wan Changqing survived the battle as a mysterious headless giant fought a Sixth-Layer Immortal Emperor before the demons withdrew. The giant was revealed to be Xingtian, the form used by Yi Xuan’s Evil Corpse, who had spent a thousand years embedded in the demon army and now entered seclusion to digest what he had devoured.

• A Sixth-Layer Immortal Emperor intervened to save Wan Changqing and fought the headless giant while demons were torn apart by the battle’s shockwaves.
• A roar from the demon army prompted the giant and the other demons to withdraw, ending the clash temporarily.
• The demons feasted on the battlefield’s dead as the Human Clan repaired its shield formation and avoided a direct attack.
• The Sixth-Layer Immortal Emperor told Wan Changqing that the unfamiliar giant was not among the known demons, and the narrative revealed he was Xingtian, inhabited by Yi Xuan’s Evil Corpse.
• After a thousand years serving among the demons and fighting the Human Clan, the Evil Corpse returned to the army and entered seclusion to digest the flesh and blood he had consumed.

The Evil Corpse explained how his Xingtian True Body and Gene Furnace could safely digest the immense amount of flesh and blood he had devoured, and he expected to reach the Seventh-Level Immortal Emperor realm. He then recounted the Immortal Emperor hierarchy and the discovery of the Pillar of Creation, whose hidden inner space terrified the Supreme Immortal Emperors who entered it.

• The Evil Corpse relied on Xingtian's powerful genes and Gene Furnace to process the flesh and blood he had devoured, and he sensed that finishing would raise his strength to the Seventh-Level Immortal Emperor realm.
• The Evil Corpse described the nine Immortal Emperor levels, how the three flowers above an Immortal Emperor's head showed their level, and how comprehending Principles led toward the Supreme realm.
• The Evil Corpse explained that Great Sages had once seemed impossible and that the Pillar of Creation was tied to their origins.
• The Supreme Immortal Emperors of the Human Clan found a vast space inside the Pillar of Creation, where a terrifying presence made them feel that their lives were at its mercy.

Ten Human Clan Supreme Powerhouses became Great Sages through crystals in the Pillar of Creation, establishing the Human Clan’s rule over the universe. After the Demon Race produced twelve Great Sages and began a prolonged war with humanity, the Evil Corpse sought to reach the Supreme Powerhouse realm to uncover how the Demon Race’s Great Sages came to be.

• The ten Supreme Powerhouses took the crystals in the Pillar of Creation and transformed into the Human Clan’s first Great Sages.
• The Human Clan ruled the universe for billions of years before ascending Demon Beasts multiplied into a powerful Demon Race.
• The ten Human Clan Great Sages fought twelve Demon Race Great Sages, suffered a grave injury, and retreated to the Pillar of Creation.
• The Demon Race rapidly replenished its forces, and the two races fought to a stalemate while the injured Human Clan Great Sage recovered.
• The Evil Corpse grew eager to reach the Supreme Powerhouse realm so he could investigate the origin of the Demon Race’s Great Sages.

The Evil Corpse completed his secluded cultivation and broke through to Seventh-Level Immortal Emperor. Zhu Yan then summoned him and began entrusting him with a task by asking what he knew about phoenixes.

• The Evil Corpse spent 150 years absorbing the flesh in the Gene Furnace and strengthening his body with Demon Power.
• His Demon Power drove nearby demons into a frenzy, and they attacked and devoured one another before recovering when the power faded.
• The Evil Corpse pushed his body beyond its limits, survived the transformation, and formed the three blood-colored flowers marking Seventh-Level Immortal Emperor.
• After consolidating his cultivation, the Evil Corpse emerged from seclusion, and the Heavenly Dog told him that Lord Zhu Yan had requested his presence.
• The Evil Corpse met Zhu Yan on the black tortoise's back, where Zhu Yan confirmed his breakthrough and asked how much he knew about phoenixes.

Zhu Yan explained that Feng Lie, the Phoenix Ancestor’s grandson, needed the rare Eternal Flame to overcome an innate defect blocking his advance to Supreme Powerhouse. Since the flame lay deep in Human Clan territory and powerful Phoenixes would attract attention, Zhu Yan chose the Evil Corpse to retrieve it.

• The Evil Corpse questioned Zhu Yan after he brought up the Phoenix Clan, whose rare members were all exceptionally powerful.
• Zhu Yan revealed that his assignment concerned Feng Lie, a Ninth-Level Immortal Emperor and Phoenix Ancestor’s grandson.
• Zhu Yan explained that an innate defect prevented Feng Lie from refining a Principle and becoming a Supreme Powerhouse.
• Phoenix Ancestor discovered the Eternal Flame in Human Clan territory and believed Feng Lie could overcome his defect by fusing with it.
• Zhu Yan explained that powerful demons would be detected in Human Clan territory, so he had chosen the flame-affine Evil Corpse for the mission.

The Evil Corpse accepted a dangerous mission to infiltrate the Human Clan’s rear and obtain the Eternal Flame after Zhu Yan offered him a drop of Great Sage Essence Blood. He was transported with nearly three hundred Demon Race competitors, and the chapter ended as he activated his Flame Golden Lotus to begin the mission.

• Zhu Yan offered the Evil Corpse a drop of Great Sage Essence Blood as the reward for obtaining the Eternal Flame, and Yi Xuan ordered him to accept.
• Half a month later, Zhu Yan brought the Evil Corpse to Feng Jiu, who gathered nearly three hundred Demon Race members for the mission.
• Feng Jiu gave each participant a Flame Golden Lotus, explaining that it would transport them behind the Human Clan’s lines and back, and that it held instructions for obtaining the Eternal Flame.
• The demons refined their lotuses, learned the mission details, and began teleporting away one by one.
• The Evil Corpse activated his Flame Golden Lotus and vanished from the hall.

The Evil Corpse arrived in the Human Clan’s rear with the other demons and watched Ninth-Level Immortal Emperors kill those who challenged their demands. He stayed behind rather than join them, then shed his demonic disguise and revealed his human presence.

• The Evil Corpse teleported with the other demons and was mocked by a Huodou for being a Seventh-Level Immortal Emperor.
• The Huodou tried to gather the demons into a group, but a Ninth-Level Immortal Emperor killed it when it failed to win the others’ cooperation.
• A Ninth-Level Immortal Emperor demanded that the weaker demons serve as front-line fighters and guards, killing another demon who objected.
• After three breaths, the Ninth-Level Immortal Emperors left with the demons who accepted their terms, while the Evil Corpse and a few others stayed behind.
• The remaining demons left without the Evil Corpse, who confirmed the area was clear, withdrew his demonic Qi, and released a human presence around Xingtian.

The Evil Corpse found a deserted planet for the original body’s plan while the original body prepared a large expedition beyond the Ziwei Domain. After No. 01 opened a passage through the great formation and completed the Stargate, the fleet began its journey, leaving the original body watching from afar.

• The Evil Corpse located an uninhabited planet in the Human Clan’s rear and told the original body it was suitable for the task.
• The original body gathered the Ziwei Domain’s spaceships at the border and had No. 01 prepare the expedition.
• The Heavenly Dogs opened a vast gap in the great formation, allowing the fleet and the Mother Planet to pass through.
• The Mother Planet deployed the Stargate, and the ships supplied golden crystals to construct a wormhole.
• Xingtian announced that the Stargate was ready, and the expedition fleet began passing through as the original body watched those he knew depart.

Yi Xuan sent a fleet toward the Longevity Domain as part of a technology-based plan to change the stalemate in the war between humans and demons. Shi Zhenghao reached the domain and struck its protective formation, leaving the Longevity Aristocratic Clan facing a spatial rift.

• Yi Xuan closed the Immortal Gate after sending the fleet through the Stargate, while the Mother Planet disappeared into the universe.
• The fleet transformed Xingtian's chosen planet into a space fortress in three days, and Shi Zhenghao told the Evil Corpse that the preparations were complete.
• Shi Zhenghao led the fleet toward the Longevity Domain to contact the Great Sage of Longevity through the Longevity Aristocratic Clan.
• After emerging from a wormhole, Shi Zhenghao ordered a weak volley at the domain's protective formation, and spatial fluctuations disrupted it.
• The Longevity Aristocratic Clan lost contact with its formation and found a terrifying spatial rift pouring out its familiar presence.