Chapter Summaries

Locke erased Alman’s soul aura from the Demon Castle’s wanted notices, then heard how bandits had coerced Alman into joining them and framing him. Locke showed Alman a real-time projection of the Golden Turtle Tribe, where the bandit leader was already dividing its God-level Experts into factions.

• Locke erased Alman’s soul aura from the Demon Castle’s wanted notices and warned him that his actual soul aura remained unchanged.
• Alman suspected Locke might be a Lord God, and Locke chose not to correct him or explain his ability to distort others’ perceptions of soul auras.
• Alman told Locke that bandit elders had threatened to expose the Golden Turtle Tribe, forced him to join their raids, and arranged for him to be recorded attacking merchant caravans.
• Alman asked Locke to help exterminate the bandits and free the Golden Turtle Tribe from their control.
• Locke projected the Golden Turtle Tribe in real time, and Alman saw a bandit leader persuading its God-level Experts to split into factions.

Locke punished the Golden Turtle Tribe for its generations of plunder by sealing its God-level Experts’ consciousness and sending them to hunt bandits, while shielding the tribe’s weaker members if they stayed inside its borders. After Alman left to join Oakes in Tianshan Prefecture, Locke decided the incident made it too risky to remain in Hell and planned to relocate and develop his forces in secret.

• A Golden Turtle Tribe elder killed Krold, and Locke injured Alman when he pleaded for intervention.
• Locke declared the Golden Turtle Tribe responsible for benefiting from its ancestors’ plunder and sentenced its God-level Experts to serve the Demon Castle as bandit hunters for five hundred thousand years.
• Locke sealed the God-level Experts’ consciousness and sent their bodies into Hell, then placed a barrier around the tribe that protected its lower-level members while subjecting any who left to one hundred thousand years of slavery.
• Alman thanked Locke, left the castle, and planned to register as a demon and wait for Oakes in Tianshan Prefecture while warning the tribe to stay behind the barrier.
• Locke reflected that his actions might draw the Sovereigns’ attention and resolved to leave Hell with Oakes for the Water Element God Plane, lie low, and secretly build his forces and trade in Divine Beast Essence Blood.

Oakes and Yagonia waited in Tianshan Prefecture for Demon Ryan, where Amanel found them and asked to become Oakes's subordinate. Amanel recounted Locke's overwhelming power and his intervention on behalf of the Golden Turtle Tribe, leaving Oakes and Yagonia stunned.

• Locke's attack on the Golden Turtle Tribe drew the Lord Gods' suspicion, but they could not locate him because he concealed his soul aura.
• Oakes and Yagonia collected their Demon mission rewards at the Demon Castle and left without accepting more missions while they waited for Demon Ryan.
• Amanel approached Oakes and explained that Locke had erased his wanted notice's soul aura, prompting him to change his name.
• Amanel knelt before Oakes and offered his loyalty, explaining that his worries had been resolved after meeting Locke.
• At the inn, Amanel told Oakes and Yagonia how Locke had helped him and protected the Golden Turtle Tribe, shocking them with his account of Locke's power.

Oakes revealed that he was carrying out Lord Locke’s mission and asked Amanel to watch for Demon Ryan, while Lilia visited Locke in Nether Mountain to study his perfected Water Law. Locke continued cultivating Mirror Flower Water Moon as he prepared for the coming War of Faith and sought a Lord Godhead.

• Oakes told Amanel that Lord Locke had sent him to deliver something to Demon Ryan and ordered him to report when Ryan appeared at the Demon Castle or City Lord’s Manor.
• After Amanel left, Yagonia encouraged Oakes to focus on cultivating and becoming stronger.
• Lilia visited Locke in Nether Mountain and examined the Water Mansion he had created, hoping to gain insight into her Water Law bottleneck.
• Locke reflected that Lilia could learn from his perfected Water Law but could not become a Paragon merely by observing it.
• Locke resumed cultivating Mirror Flower Water Moon, aiming to make his illusion convincing enough to deceive the lake’s creatures as he prepared for the War of Faith.

After ten thousand years, Oakes returned to Black Stone Tribe with Yagonia, Ryan, Yan Feng, and Clifford, who had been summoned to meet Locke. The group set aside the tribe’s welcome banquet and headed to see Locke first, leaving their meeting with him to come.

• Ryan, Yan Feng, and Clifford traveled with Oakes and Yagonia to Black Stone Tribe after Locke summoned them.
• Koster and Japar greeted Oakes and Yagonia and learned that Ryan, Yan Feng, and Clifford were Six-star Demons.
• Oakes introduced his old friends Koster and Japar to the three Demon Castle experts, who greeted them courteously.
• Yagonia advised the group to visit Locke before attending a banquet, and Oakes agreed.
• Koster and Japar kept the visitors’ arrival quiet while Oakes led the group to meet Locke.

Locke assigned Ryan, Yan Feng, and Clifford to gather information on Divine Beasts across Hell and rewarded them with Lord God Power. As he prepared to leave for the other planes to build a wider network, he asked Oakes whether he would go with him, and Yagonia urged Oakes not to let the Black Stone Tribe hold him back.

• Locke praised Ryan for earning Muya Lord God's personal certification as a Six-star Demon, then warned him and the others to keep striving beyond their current era.
• Locke tasked Ryan with establishing a force in Hell to record Divine Beasts and their Innate Divine Abilities, while Yan Feng and Clifford were to assist him.
• Locke promised the three men regular Lord God Power and gave Ryan a Space Ring containing one hundred drops as compensation for the next five million years.
• Locke told Oakes he planned to visit the other God Planes and asked whether Oakes would accompany him or stay in Hell.
• Yagonia answered that Oakes was willing to follow Locke, then reminded him that the Black Stone Tribe had prospered and should not hinder his growth.

Oakes agreed to leave the Black Stone Tribe and accompany Locke across the planes, while Locke continued building influence and searching for information about Divine Beasts. In the Netherworld, Lilia visited Locke and struggled with her Water Law cultivation as they fished together.

• Yagonia warned Oakes that Locke had invested in the Black Stone Tribe to secure Oakes's future, and Oakes agreed to accompany Locke to other planes.
• Three years later, Locke, Oakes, and Yagonia departed the Black Stone Tribe, leaving Amanel as its leader and providing the tribe with godheads for protection.
• Oakes chose the Wind Element God Plane as their first destination, while Locke avoided the Netherworld because he feared the Death Overlord could detect him.
• Locke's reputation as the Legendary Asura spread across the planes as he gathered factions and offered to refine Sovereign's Might for them.
• Lilia visited Locke in the Netherworld, lamented her stalled Water Law progress, and joined him in fishing on the Floating Bridge.

Lilia realized that Locke’s fishing revealed a way to sense and manipulate the Water Law, and she gained a new ultimate move from the insight. Locke effortlessly broke her attack with a power that secretly combined Water and Space, then recognized that Lilia’s technique could help him study the Law of Space.

• Lilia watched Locke’s fishing and realized his unmoving line let him sense and control the lake’s ripples, prompting her to practice protecting her bait with the Water Law.
• Lilia entered enlightenment as she sensed how Locke’s fishing line guided the creatures’ paths, and she emerged with a powerful new ultimate move.
• Lilia attacked Locke with her fishing-line technique, which stirred space around him, but Locke froze the space and shattered her line.
• Locke told Lilia he had used the Water Law to freeze space, concealing that his move also drew on the Law of Space.
• Locke studied Lilia’s technique and saw it as a valuable new path toward comprehending the Law of Space.

Locke used his Water Law insights to touch the Law of Space, then spent two million years expanding his influence and studying divine beast abilities. He discovered that the Five-step Soul Devouring Python’s innate attack used Death Rule-laced soul poison, giving him a new method to study.

• Locke froze the lake water through a vibration of the Water Law, revealing that he had touched the Law of Space.
• Locke reflected that his grasp of the Law of Space had reached the Saint Domain stage and wondered whether greater comprehension would form a space divine spark.
• Two million years passed as Ryan became a Seven-star Demon, Oakes became an Asura-level expert, and Locke’s other subordinates and allied factions advanced.
• Oakes gathered divine beast information and Essence Blood from the eleven planes and distributed Sovereign’s Might according to each faction’s contributions.
• Locke tested the Five-step Soul Devouring Python’s innate ability and found that it sent soul poison into enemies, using the Death Rule to destroy their souls.

Locke pursued a way to refine his soul after studying Divine Beast abilities, while tensions between the Sovereign factions threatened to ignite the first War of Faith. He left Nether Mountain to meet Oakes and test Mirror Flower Water Moon, leaving his soul research and the looming conflict unresolved.

• Locke rejected using Power of Faith to overcome his Law-fusion bottleneck and explored refining his soul through the Five-step Soul Devouring Python's Innate Divine Ability.
• Locke concluded that body, soul, and energy defined cultivation's limits, and that he needed to develop a method to surpass the universe's limit for the soul.
• Locke saw that clashes among Sovereign factions had made a War of Faith likely and ordered Oakes and the others to hide after receiving supplies.
• Locke decided against giving Sovereign Artifacts to Ryan and the others, then left Nether Mountain to test Mirror Flower Water Moon and find Oakes in Shadow Moon Prefecture.

Locke traveled to the Black Stone Tribe to find Oakes and Yagonia, while his original body developed a dangerous soul-tempering method and considered where to cultivate it. The chapter ended with Amanel serving three visitors in Black Stone City.

• Locke learned that Oakes and Yagonia had left Shadow Moon Prefecture with their child to celebrate the child's birthday in their homeland.
• Locke crossed the Star Mist Sea, killing bandits with his Eye of Hell, and sensed Oakes and his companions after reaching the Black Stone Tribe.
• Locke's original body created a soul-tempering method that could break his soul's limits, but required uninterrupted cultivation and a vast supply of Amethyst Crystals.
• Locke considered cultivating on his home Material Plane or at Nether Mountain, where the Death Overlord could protect him.
• Amanel, now a Five-star Demon and City Lord of Black Stone City, bowed before three visitors after concluding he was no longer strong enough to serve Oakes.

Locke subdued Oakes's arrogant son Figueroa and made Oakes swear allegiance, using the encounter to teach Figueroa that strength ruled the world. Afterward, Locke reflected on his own lost family and decided to visit his descendants, while Oakes explained that his renewed pledge had been staged to shock his son.

• Figueroa rudely dismissed Amanel, but apologized after Yagonia warned she might leave him behind as Amanel's subordinate.
• Locke suddenly pinned Figueroa, Oakes, Yagonia, and Amanel to the ground, then threatened to kill Figueroa and his parents.
• Figueroa begged Locke to spare his parents, and Locke offered to spare the family if Oakes swore allegiance to him.
• Oakes knelt and pledged obedience to Locke, who spared Figueroa and told him that strength ruled the world.
• Locke reflected on his deceased parents and estranged younger brother, then decided to visit his descendants after more than two million years.
• At Black Stone City's City Lord's Manor, Oakes told Locke that his renewed pledge had only been meant to shock Figueroa.

Locke returned to the Frost Snow Plane after more than two million years and warned Oakes to prepare for an approaching war among the Sovereign Gods. He reunited with Ceres, whose strength had grown through fusing Law Profundities, and left Ceres astonished by how powerful Locke had become.

• Locke told Oakes he needed Soul Power-restoring treasures for an upcoming period of seclusion.
• Locke warned Oakes that a war involving the Sovereign Gods could erupt within a million years and urged him to take his family to the Underworld.
• Locke arrived on the Frost Snow Plane and sensed that Ceres and another old acquaintance were still there.
• Ceres attacked Locke with an ice dragon, but Locke casually stopped the attack and recognized Ceres's fused Water Element and Ice Sharpness Law Profundities.
• Locke returned Ceres's old Identity Token, and Ceres recalled how he had been exiled to the Frost Snow Plane and discovered Law Profundity fusion through the Power of Faith.
• Ceres realized that Locke had returned from the God Planes far stronger than he was.

Locke returned to the Frost Snow Plane and explained to Ceres how dangerous the God Planes had become. After returning the Rising Sun Spear to the Light Pope, Locke went to Locke Territory to assess his younger brother's descendants and decide whether to stay.

• Locke warned Ceres that a war among the God Planes might begin within a million years and that Ceres was too weak to survive it.
• Locke told Ceres he had returned to see his younger brother's descendants and might stay in the Frost Snow Plane if one of them showed promise.
• Locke subdued the Light Pope, then returned the Rising Sun Spear and thanked him for leaving Locke Territory alone.
• Locke surveyed prosperous Locke Territory and sensed that its ruling family still descended from his younger brother's line.
• Locke judged the current Locke Family members to be poor prospects for cultivation, though he recognized that this was normal for a Material Plane.

Locke chose twelve-year-old Mira Locke as his disciple and took her to his former hometown, Pu'er Village, to train her. After visiting two old graves, he left Mira to find food and shelter, then conjured a small house for them.

• Locke selected Mira Locke, whose talent was low but who trained diligently, as his disciple.
• Mira accepted Locke's offer after he demonstrated his strength by crushing her Fireball spell.
• Locke announced Mira's new status to the Locke Family and gave Bona Locke a Space Ring before taking Mira away.
• Locke brought Mira to Pu'er Village, where he showed her two old graves and said they would live there.
• Mira hunted a Red-eyed Rabbit and offered it to Locke, then wondered where she would sleep.
• Locke conjured a small house with a courtyard for them.

Locke negotiated with the Death Overlord to find his younger brother Cole in the Undead Realm and restore his memories. Cole was reunited with Locke, though his more than a million years of undead memories left his identity divided between his former life and his existence in the Undead Realm.

• Locke let Mila rest in a house he had prepared for her after seeing how thoughtfully she had tried to find him food and shelter.
• Locke returned to Nether Mountain and used his illusion to conceal that he had been away for three years.
• Locke offered to act for the Death Overlord once in exchange for her help, and she agreed to consider the bargain after hearing his request.
• The Death Overlord used the Heart of the Netherworld to find Cole's soul, retrieve him from the Undead Realm, and restore his memories.
• Cole recognized himself as both Locke's younger brother and the undead who had lived for more than a million years.

Locke offered Cole a choice between returning to the Frost Snow Plane as a peak Saint or remaining in the Underworld and becoming a High God by refining Godheads. Cole chose the Godheads, and Locke gave him three Death Rule Godheads to refine safely in the Water Mansion.

• Locke told Cole that choosing his new name meant their bond as brothers had ended, then offered compensation for restoring Cole’s memories without consent.
• Locke explained the difference between life in the Frost Snow Plane and the Underworld, including the dangers and limits of becoming a God by refining Godheads.
• After considering his long life without progress, Cole called Locke Big Brother and chose to remain in the Underworld and refine Godheads.
• Cole chose Death Rule Godheads, and Locke gave him three and told him to refine them in the Water Mansion before venturing outside.
• The Water Mansion’s resemblance to their childhood home reminded Cole of a family conversation in which Locke had asked whether their parents and Cor would want to live again after death.

Locke trained Mila on the Frost Snow Plane and gave her an Earth-element Battle Qi Manual once she reached Rank 6. In the Underworld, Cole met Lilia, and Locke explained that Mila was his disciple and a descendant of his family; he planned to train her to the Saint Domain.

• Locke trained twelve-year-old Mila in a Water Pressure Field and used Water Therapy to help her recover, raising her from Rank 3 to Rank 6 in a year.
• Locke gave Mila an Earth-element Battle Qi Manual, and she chose to strengthen her body to the peak of Rank 6 before beginning to cultivate battle qi.
• Cole heard Locke speaking with Lilia, mistook her for the Lord God, and knelt before her until Locke clarified that she was a Divine Clone.
• Lilia asked why Locke had obtained a Battle Qi Manual, and Locke said he had taken a hardworking junior from his family as a disciple and would train her to the Saint Domain.
• Cole realized Locke had returned to care for his family’s descendants, while Lilia teased Locke about leaving behind a flaw by having descendants.

Locke left the Frost Snow Plane after teaching Mila about the wider universe, then returned to the Underworld and tempered his soul until it reached the Soul Golden Core realm. He continued his seclusion to pursue a breakthrough in fusing Water Law Profundity with the Fate Law, while Lilia resisted disturbing him.

• Locke told Lilia he had no wife or children to resurrect, and Cole remained kneeling until Lilia left the Water Mansion.
• Locke summoned Mila, revealed the Seven Great God Planes, the Four Supreme Planes, and Law Profundities to her, then departed the Frost Snow Plane.
• Locke retrieved soul-restoration materials from Oakes and began tempering his Saint-level true body's soul in the Water Mansion.
• After several hundred years, Locke's soul turned golden, his Soul Power increased tenfold, and he reached the Soul Golden Core realm.
• Locke continued cultivating until he fused his second Water Law Profundity with the Fate Law, while Lilia chose not to interrupt him.

Locke told Lilia how he had reached the limits of laws, energy, and soul, and explained that he was seeking a way to strengthen his body. Lilia offered to provide essence blood for his research, provided he kept it secret and safe.

• Lilia sensed a surge of Soul Power from Locke and congratulated him on his progress when she reached the Water Mansion.
• Locke and Lilia shared wine, and Lilia asked what he was still cultivating after reaching Paragon in his laws.
• Locke explained his four limits of cultivation and revealed that he had refined his soul into a Soul Golden Core, leaving only his body to improve.
• Locke said essence blood from powerful Divine Beasts or special lifeforms could help him create a method to strengthen his body to the level of a Sovereign Artifact.
• Lilia offered to provide the needed essence blood, but insisted that Locke keep it safe and never expose it.