Recaps

As Locke pursued the power to become a Sovereign, the War of Faith escalated into a struggle among Sovereigns and Lord Gods, prompting the Death Overlord to establish rules and ranks. Locke killed a Lord God to claim a Sovereign Spark, while a Supreme God’s intervention ended the worst destruction and the war began to wind down.

• Locke studied Lilia’s essence blood and learned that she and the Netherworld Lord God were two halves of one being, then began strengthening his body and spatial bloodline as the War of Faith erupted across the planes.
• Locke taught the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns to fuse their Innate Divine Abilities in exchange for their protection, while Ryan and Yan Feng fled to the Underworld after Ryan killed a Blood Peak Legion captain and sought Locke’s help.
• Locke revealed his Great Perfection Destiny clone and his ability to fuse Water and Fate divine power, then sent Lilia to confront the Fate Sovereigns over a rumor about gaining strength from another Sovereign’s Godhead.
• Hurray killed Antonis and attacked the Rule Overlords, but they defeated him, and the Death Overlord convened the first Lord God Assembly to establish Sovereign ranks and the Lord God Pact.
• Locke traveled to the Heaven Realm and used the Four Divine Beasts’ fused ability to kill the White Feather Lord God and his companions, taking the Sovereign Spark while concealing their deaths.
• Reiding intervened in a battle over the Purple Thorn Lord God and her husband, but the husband died, and the ensuing conflict drew Lord Gods from across the planes into a fight over their Lord Godheads.
• After two Sovereigns destroyed a Material Plane, the Supreme God of Destruction killed them and forbade any Sovereign from causing another Material Plane’s destruction.
• Uthred challenged Ov as the Lord Gods watched, while the Death Overlord and Locke discussed the changed outlook among Sovereigns, and Lilia gave Locke essence blood collected by her soldiers as the war ended.

Locke became a Sovereign, revealed his Law Overlord strength, and established a Sovereign Legion while the other Sovereigns watched his growing power with concern. As the legion developed its Magic Battle Arrays, Ceres rose through its ranks and asked Oakes to seek Locke’s permission for Mira and him to visit.

• Locke punished Pash for Little White’s death and secured Pash’s recorded reconciliation and fifty drops of Sovereign’s Might for Ryan’s group.
• After fusing Water and Fate laws and receiving Willpower, Locke refined the Destiny Lord Godhead and became a Sovereign, then announced his strength at the Lord God Assembly.
• Ov, Vivian, and Uthred secretly spread warnings about Locke’s potential and sought to prevent a new Water Overlord from appearing, while Locke decided not to kill living Sovereigns for their Godheads.
• Locke appointed Oakes his first Sovereign Envoy, gave him a material-defense Sovereign Artifact, and began building a legion that trained recruits to cross Nether Mountain’s mist and master Magic Arrays.
• Ceres and Mira reached the Underworld, met Cole, and eventually entered Nether Mountain’s mist, where Mira continued to cultivate while Ceres joined Locke’s Sovereign Legion.
• The Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns developed a bloodline baptism technique, and Locke gathered Divine Beast Essence Blood while instructing Oakes to establish an intelligence unit.
• Figueroa tested his Magic Battle Array against Oakes, and the legion’s soldiers improved their formation through hours of attacks while Ceres studied the array methods.
• Ceres used a Magic Battle Array to defeat a Seven-star Demon’s legion and became captain of the Fifth Legion, then asked Oakes to seek Locke’s permission for Mira and him to visit.

Locke protected Ceres from Snowfall Lord God, then used his power and the Lord God Assembly to restore order across the God Planes. After punishing Snowfall and establishing duties for Sovereigns, Locke sent the Sovereign Legion to crush the Nether Sea pirates.

• Locke brought Ceres before the Sovereigns and secured Snowfall Lord God’s agreement to abandon his claim in exchange for learning World Freeze.
• Locke demonstrated World Freeze, gained promotion for his Water Element Divine Clone, and Snowfall fled the Water Element God Plane before his elevation.
• Locke stabilized the Water Element God Plane, while Mila joined the Death Overlord as a Sovereign Envoy and Figueroa proved himself in the Sovereign Legion.
• At the fourth Lord God Assembly, Locke confronted Ov over keeping Azure Wave from helping the Water Element God Plane and won support for requiring Sovereigns to maintain their God Planes.
• Locke stripped Snowfall of his Intermediate Lord God status and ordered him to regulate the Water Element God Plane for fifty million years out of every hundred million.
• Locke continued searching for rare treasures and learned that Arganis’s Nine Nether Pirates were slaughtering and replacing inhabitants across the Nether Sea’s islands.
• Locke assigned Oakes to lead the Sovereign Legion in clearing bandits from all eighty-one islands, and five battalions set out for the campaign.

Locke married Lilia, strengthened his allies and Sovereign Legion, and challenged the other Rule Overlords’ control of the Water Element God Plane. He transformed into a Space Divine Beast and created a spatial vortex, which the Rule Overlords investigated as Locke’s legion closed in on the last pirate stronghold.

• Locke defeated the pirates on the Nine Nether Islands, completed his fusion of Water and Fate, and took Lilia traveling through the planes before proposing to her in the Underworld.
• Locke and Lilia married, and their marriage certificate spread insights into Water Law across the Underworld before Locke refined it into a Soul Defense Lord Artifact for Lilia.
• Locke gave Ryan and Yan Feng Netherworld Fruits that raised their strength but ended their chances of becoming Paragons, then assigned Ryan to reinforce Oakes and Yan Feng to gather resources and watch the Four Divine Beast Family.
• Ryan rushed to Azure Peak Island, where Harald had broken Feldman’s Magic Battle Array, and killed Harald before forcing the pirates to recover the scattered legion soldiers.
• Locke realized godheads could serve as material for his Law Sovereign Artifact, while Uthred and Ov confronted Lilia outside the Water Element God Plane and Locke intervened to station his clones there.
• Locke strengthened his Di Jiang Bloodline, became a Space Divine Beast, and absorbed Space Power until a spatial vortex formed and drew the Sovereigns’ attention.
• The Sovereigns gathered around the vortex while Locke used the time to cultivate, and Ryan and Oakes cornered Arganis as the Sovereign Legion advanced on the Nether Sea’s last pirate stronghold.
• Locke withdrew his Soul Power, causing the Spatial Turbulence to erupt and open a spatial void, and Ov rushed in as Uthred tore the void open with an attack.