Chapter Summaries

Lilia gave Locke forty drops of her Sovereign Essence Blood, and he discovered that she and the Netherworld Lord God were conjoined twin halves of one special lifeform. After another hundred thousand years of preparation, the War of Faith began with invasions between the Seven Great God Planes, while the Four Supreme Planes remained at peace.

• Lilia gave Locke forty drops of her Sovereign Essence Blood, and the Death Sovereign stopped him from swearing an oath over it.
• Locke analyzed Lilia’s essence blood and learned that she and the Netherworld Lord God were conjoined Netherworld Fruit trees, two halves of one being.
• Locke resolved to strengthen his body to the level of a Sovereign Artifact before the War of Faith and believed his three powerful selves could seize a Sovereign Spark.
• A hundred thousand years later, the Dark Moon Legion invaded the Light God Plane through its Plane Teleportation Arrays, and the Light God Sovereigns sent their legions to fight back.
• The other Sovereign Legions of the Dark God Plane joined the invasion, while the Fire and Water God Planes and the Wind and Thunder God Planes also went to war; the Great Earth God Plane and Four Supreme Planes stayed out.

Locke explained how he was creating a spatial divine beast bloodline called Di Jiang so he could connect to the universe’s spatial origin and comprehend the Law of Space. As war engulfed the God Planes, Wind Overlord Diya ordered Lord God Qingya to make Ersius rebuild the White Tiger Legion in Hell and return to the Wind Element God Plane within a thousand years.

• Oakes and Yagonia discussed the war, and Oakes suspected Locke had helped cause it to create an opportunity to become a Sovereign.
• Lilia told Locke that two Lesser Sovereigns, one of Darkness and one of Light, had fought in Spatial Turbulence.
• Locke said his body had reached the strength of a high-grade Divine Artifact after he began transforming his bloodline into the spatial divine beast Di Jiang.
• Locke asked Lilia to provide the locations of Underworld divine beasts with spatial Innate Divine Abilities so he could obtain their essence blood.
• Wind Overlord Diya blamed the White Tiger Legion’s defeat for the Wind Element God Plane’s disadvantage against the Lightning Element God Plane.
• Diya ordered Lord God Qingya to summon Ersius from Hell to rebuild the White Tiger Legion and return within a thousand years, threatening the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns if Ersius refused.

Lord God Qingya delivered Wind Overlord Diya’s threat to the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns, but Reiding and Ersius defied him, and Diya chose not to confront them. Locke explained to Lilia that he had taught the Four Divine Beasts how to fuse their Innate Divine Abilities, giving them a technique capable of killing most Law Overlords, and warned her not to underestimate its implications.

• Lord God Qingya ordered Ersius to reorganize the White Tiger Legion and threatened to strip him of his Sovereign Spark if he refused.
• Reiding and Ersius rejected Diya’s command, insulted the Wind Overlord, and warned Qingya to leave or face them.
• Qingya returned to Diya, who decided not to attack the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns because he suspected they had a dangerous hidden trump card.
• Lilia told Locke about the confrontation she had observed, and Locke called Diya clever for avoiding a fight.
• Locke revealed that he had taught the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns to fuse their Innate Divine Abilities in exchange for their protection and other rewards.
• Locke warned Lilia that the fused ability could kill Law Overlords outside the Four Great Rule Overlords, though he said the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns had otherwise reached their limit.

Locke told Lilia that others might learn the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns’ Fusion Innate Divine Ability from their essence blood, then promised to create a similarly powerful move for her. As Locke continued cultivating in Nether Mountain, the War of Faith spread, and six Sovereigns from Hell asked Destruction Overlord Uthred to launch a war of their own.

• Locke demonstrated how the Four Divine Beasts’ essence blood let him reproduce their spatial confinement ability and warned Lilia that others might use it against her.
• Lilia considered finding a Sovereign Spark for Locke, while Locke comforted her and promised to create a powerful move for her; they agreed it was a promise.
• Locke realized he had fallen for Lilia but decided to focus on surpassing the Death Overlord and continued working on his laws, spatial bloodline, and research into the Four Divine Beasts’ ability.
• The War of Faith spread, and Sovereigns learned that it had greatly increased their Power of Faith.
• Six Sovereigns from Hell asked Destruction Overlord Uthred to launch a war against the other Supreme Planes, and Uthred considered using it to test the woman in the Underworld.

As the Sovereigns dragged the planes into war to harvest Power of Faith, Locke and Lilia reflected on the hierarchy between Sovereigns and Paragons. Fifty thousand years later, Locke absorbed a third space-related bloodline and began to distort space with his fist, though his grasp of the Law of Space remained shallow.

• Destiny Overlord Ov proposed a war between the Four Supreme Planes so the Sovereigns could gain Power of Faith, and Uthred, Lilia, and Vivian agreed to the conflicts.
• Hell invaded the Heaven Realm, the Netherworld attacked the Life God Realm, and the Great Earth God Plane joined the fighting across the Elemental God Planes.
• After learning why the wars had spread, Locke told Lilia that all beneath the Sovereigns were ants except Paragons and considered the Rule Overlords' prospects of reaching that realm.
• Fifty thousand years later, Locke absorbed the bestowed bloodline of a third space-related divine beast and discovered that he could twist the space around his fist.
• Lilia tested the spatial ripples with her finger and dismissed their force as weak, while Locke explained that his understanding of the Law of Space was still shallow.

Locke discussed his early mastery of the Law of Space with Lilia, then learned how Lord Gods were recruiting powerful fighters into the ongoing God Plane wars. The chapter shifted to the Heaven Realm, where Ryan guarded a Hell encampment coveted by demons seeking Sovereign’s Might.

• Locke told Lilia that his beginner-level understanding of the Law of Space already gave his attacks great power, while Lilia admitted she could not sense Space Power on its own.
• Lilia grew angry over Inawi and Jin stealing the Netherworld Fruit, and Locke left the decision about their punishment to her.
• Lilia explained that Lord Gods were recruiting powerful experts with Sovereign Artifacts and Sovereign’s Might, but avoided giving one god three Sovereign Artifacts so the wars would continue producing Power of Faith.
• In the Heaven Realm’s Kars Mountain Range, Ryan guarded a Hell encampment repeatedly targeted by native forces and their powerful raiders.
• Hell’s Lord Gods offered a drop of Sovereign’s Might to demons who successfully defended an encampment for ten thousand years, a reward that helped many Six-star Demons retain their prefect lord positions.

Ryan and his squad guarded a Sovereign Legion base in the Heaven Realm while collecting Divine Beast Essence Blood for Locke, but the war’s casualties made Ryan and Yan Feng fear Locke had abandoned them. Locke sensed Yan Feng’s doubt, recognized it, and decided to help them later by giving them Netherworld Fruits; meanwhile, the squad continued gathering essence blood from battlefield corpses.

• Ryan and Yan Feng discussed how deadly the Plane War was and wondered whether Locke had abandoned them after years without contact.
• Locke’s Destiny Divine Clone sensed Yan Feng’s question through a fluctuation in Fate Law and realized Ryan and Yan Feng felt forgotten.
• Locke decided he would try to give Ryan and Yan Feng Netherworld Fruits later, though the war and guarded teleportation arrays made an immediate visit difficult.
• After the battle, Ryan and his squad secretly searched the battlefield for dead Divine Beasts and special lifeforms to harvest their essence blood.

After seventy thousand years of fighting in Heaven Realm, Ryan and his companions tried to leave their post, but Battalion Commander Frank attacked Yan Feng and Ryan killed him. The group headed for the Underworld to seek Lord Locke’s protection, while Blood Peak Lord God Pash waited in vain for Locke to apologize.

• Ryan and his companions collected battlefield spoils, then told Frank they were ending their mission and leaving for Hell.
• Frank blamed Ryan for abandoning him and punched Yan Feng; Ryan trapped Frank, then beat him and killed him despite Frank’s plea for mercy.
• Clifford, Bella Kex, Ismail, and Yan Feng discussed where to go, and Ryan chose the Underworld to seek Lord Oakes and contact Lord Locke.
• The five fled toward the nearest Plane Teleportation Array, and the remaining Blood Peak Legion soldiers evacuated their camp.
• Pash learned of Frank’s death but held back after recognizing Ryan, expecting Locke to explain; when no apology came, Pash vowed to make Locke regret the slight.

Ryan and Yan Feng fled to the Underworld after Ryan killed a Blood Peak Legion captain, hoping Locke would protect them from Blood Peak Lord God. Oakes brought them to the Nether Mountain Range to find Locke, who sensed their arrival at his Water Mansion.

• Oakes welcomed Ryan and Yan Feng to Shadow Moon Prefecture and introduced them to his son, Figueroa.
• Ryan told Oakes that he had killed a Blood Peak Legion captain and that the group had fled to the Underworld to escape Blood Peak Lord God's retaliation.
• Oakes decided to take Ryan and Yan Feng to the Nether Mountain Range to seek Locke's help.
• More than ten years later, Oakes, Ryan, and Yan Feng reached the Nether Mountain Range and headed for its tallest mountain.
• Locke sensed the arrival of several people under his command, and Lilia asked whether she should leave.

Locke welcomed Oakes, Ryan, and Yan Feng to Nether Mountain, reassured them after Ryan killed a captain in Pash's Sovereign Legion, and revealed his intention to hunt Lord Gods. He told Lilia that the Lord Gods might enter the war within a few hundred thousand years, once they learned that faith could not bring them to the final breakthrough.

• Locke introduced Lilia as a Lord God to Oakes, Ryan, and Yan Feng when they arrived at the Water Mansion.
• Ryan gave Locke a Space Ring containing Divine Beast Essence Blood and special lifeform essence blood gathered across several planes, then asked for protection after killing a captain under Blood Peak Lord God Pash.
• Locke reassured Ryan and Yan Feng, said Pash would not dare come to the Underworld, and revealed that he planned to kill a Water Lord God or the Sovereign of Fate to make his Divine Clone a Lord God before confronting Pash.
• Locke asked Oakes, Ryan, and Yan Feng to stay in the Underworld until the Lord Gods entered the war, and Lilia questioned why he had shared his plans with them.
• Locke explained that Lord Gods would lose interest in the Plane War after discovering that Power of Faith could not let them fully fuse a law's Profound Mysteries or become Paragons.

Locke explained that Lilia had lost the chance to become a Paragon by relying on the Power of Faith, then revealed his plan to provoke the Sovereigns with a rumor about dual-element Sovereigns. While Lilia wrestled with her feelings about Locke and her own limitations, Locke continued researching a defensive Fusion Innate Divine Ability suited to himself.

• Locke told Lilia that using the Power of Faith to overcome a bottleneck made reaching the Paragon realm impossible, then reassured her that she was still stronger than the other Rule Overlords.
• Locke decided to delay becoming a Sovereign and considered helping the Netherworld win ten consecutive Plane Battlefield victories to strengthen Lilia.
• Locke explained that a rumor about refining another Sovereign Spark could drive the Sovereigns to fight, and Lilia realized he intended to use that information to ignite a Sovereign war.
• Lilia returned to her Sovereign Palace, admired Locke's schemes, and grew anxious that he might look down on her once he became a Sovereign.
• Locke resumed studying the Four Divine Beasts' Fusion Innate Divine Ability and used Mirror Flower Water Moon to simulate their essence blood as he worked on a defensive technique.

Locke developed a time-space binding move by simulating the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns’ fused innate abilities, while a rumor he had spread heightened tensions among the Sovereigns. After Lilia witnessed the move, she mistook Locke’s experiment for a premature attempt to use its full power, leaving him confused.

• Locke’s simulated fusion failed, but the experiment deepened his understanding of the Law of Space and the Four Divine Beasts’ time-space stasis.
• Sovereign Legions across the planes grew less committed to the war, and order began to recover as a rumor about gaining extra Willpower through a divine clone spread among the Sovereigns.
• The Death Overlord recognized Fate Law in the rumor and sent her Water Element Divine Clone, Lilia, to Locke on Nether Mountain.
• Locke’s experiment bound Lilia within ten meters of him, and she used the Heart of the Netherworld to perceive the time-space fault hidden from her Spiritual Sense.
• After the binding broke, Locke explained that he had tested the move with only a strand of essence blood, but Lilia’s comment about him being hasty left him puzzled.

Locke explained that he had not spread the message warning Sovereigns about the power gained by refining another Sovereign Spark, and reasoned that a Great Perfection Fate Law Sovereign must have sent it. He revealed his own Great Perfection Fate Law and Soul Variant abilities to Lilia, leaving her stunned by his strength.

• Lilia confronted Locke about the message reaching Sovereigns, and Locke denied sending it because it would ruin his plans to hunt a Sovereign.
• Locke deduced that the sender was a Sovereign with Great Perfection in Fate Law, then revealed that his own Destiny Divine Clone had reached Great Perfection.
• Lilia questioned whether Locke had other Great Perfection clones, and Locke showed her his two divine clones and Saint Domain original body.
• Locke told Lilia about Soul Variants and demonstrated how he fused Water Law and Fate Law divine power to increase its strength tenfold.
• Locke explained that his fused Laws could make his original body comparable to a Great Perfection expert under certain conditions, prompting Lilia to marvel at his power and discuss luck.

Locke deduced that Destiny Overlord Ov had likely become a Paragon of Fate Law and discussed his motives and strength with Lilia. To make trouble for Ov without killing him, Locke sent Lilia to the Heaven Realm, where she summoned its Fate Sovereigns and overwhelmed them with her Death Rule.

• Locke reasoned that Ov had spread the news and might have used Power of Faith from the Plane War to become a Paragon of Fate Law.
• Lilia offered to kill Ov and take his Sovereign spark for Locke, but Locke refused because he wanted Ov alive and hoped to continue pursuing transcendence himself.
• Locke told Lilia to use the trace of Fate Law she had captured to implicate the Heaven Realm and identify lesser Fate Sovereigns.
• Lilia crossed Spatial Turbulence to the Heaven Realm, attracting the attention of at least sixty Sovereigns who watched her approach.
• Lilia tore open the Heaven Realm's space, ordered its Sovereigns to appear, and unleashed her aura, forcing God-level Experts to their knees and injuring the Fate Sovereigns who stayed away.
• Ov came out to meet Lilia, but she ignored him and demanded that every Fate Sovereign appear or face death.

Death Overlord confronted the Fate Sovereigns over the news that refining another Sovereign Godhead could increase a Sovereign’s strength, while Destiny Overlord Ov admitted to spreading it after glimpsing the future. With attention fixed on the Heaven Realm, Lightning Overlord Hurray killed the Lesser Sovereign Antonis, provoking Death Overlord to pursue him.

• Death Overlord summoned the Fate Sovereigns and demanded to know who had spread the news about gaining strength by refining another Sovereign Godhead; they denied responsibility, and Life Overlord Vivian and Destruction Overlord Uthred arrived.
• Uthred challenged Destiny Overlord Ov to explain the Fate Sovereigns’ actions, while Lightning Overlord Hurray secretly left for the Great Earth God Plane, hoping to gain power by hunting a Sovereign.
• Ov confessed that he had spread the message because Fate Law had shown him a glimpse of the future, but the other Sovereigns mocked his claim.
• Lightning Overlord Hurray killed Antonis, the Lesser Sovereign of the Great Earth God Plane, while the others were distracted by the confrontation in the Heaven Realm.
• Death Overlord realized Hurray had used the gathering to conceal his attack, declared her fury, and entered the Spatial Turbulence to confront him as he charged toward her.

After gaining a second Sovereign Clone, Hurray challenged the Death Overlord, believing his increased Willpower made him the strongest Sovereign. She effortlessly crushed his attack, and his attempt to flee was stopped by Vivian and Uthred, whose defense shattered his Sovereign Artifact spear.

• Hurray made his Earth God Clone an Earth Element Lesser Lord God and gained an additional 0.8 portions of Paragon Willpower for his Lightning Overlord Clone.
• Hurray attacked the Death Overlord with his Thunderclap Spear, but she caught and crushed the attack with her bare hand.
• The Death Overlord declared herself the strongest Sovereign, and Hurray fled when he realized how far he was outmatched.
• Vivian blocked Hurray’s escape and slapped apart his Thunderclap Spear attack, forcing him to flee in another direction.
• Uthred stopped Hurray’s next escape attempt, and Hurray’s frenzied spear assault shattered its own tip against Uthred’s body.

The Death Overlord summoned all Sovereigns to refute Hurray’s claim that the Rule Overlords were stronger because they possessed more Lord God Clones, then revealed the power of Great Perfection. She proposed a four-rank system for Sovereigns based on strength, ending with the Four Great Rule Overlords as the highest rank.

• Destruction Overlord Uthred kicked Hurray through the Spatial Turbulence and shattered his body and defensive Sovereign Artifact, while the Death Overlord confronted him for secretly hunting Sovereigns.
• The Death Overlord summoned every Sovereign to the first Lord God Assembly, and Azure Dragon Lord God Reiding led the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns there.
• The Death Overlord had Hurray inspect the gathered Sovereigns, whose distinct soul auras disproved his claim that the Rule Overlords had more Lord God Clones.
• The Death Overlord explained that fully fusing a law or comprehending a rule granted Great Perfection and a hundredfold increase in strength, and she said the Rule Overlords’ Sovereign Artifact-level bodies made them still more formidable.
• The Death Overlord proposed four strength-based ranks for Sovereigns, with the Four Great Rule Overlords occupying the highest rank.

The Death Overlord established the Lord God Pact, ranking Sovereigns and forbidding lower-ranked ones from attacking higher-ranked ones without provocation. After she sentenced Hurray for hunting a Lesser Earth Sovereign, he attacked Destiny Overlord Ov, who destroyed his Lightning Overlord body and left him with only his weaker Earth Sovereign clone.

• The Death Overlord announced the Sovereign ranks and the pact’s restrictions, which the assembled Sovereigns accepted.
• Wind Overlord Diya challenged the Four Divine Beasts’ Overlord ranking, and the Death Overlord explained that they qualified only while fighting together.
• The Four Divine Beasts took up formation, while Diya declined to fight them.
• The Death Overlord sentenced Lightning Overlord Hurray to death for violating the pact by killing Lesser Earth Sovereign Antonis.
• Hurray attacked Destiny Overlord Ov, who shattered his Lightning Overlord body with a single palm strike.
• Hurray reappeared as his Lesser Earth Sovereign clone, far weaker than before.

Death Overlord concluded the first Lord God Assembly by setting rules for Sovereign Envoys and Sovereign Artifacts, while the Sovereigns learned of the Invincible Paragon realm. With Lilia’s help locating four Lesser Sovereigns of Fate in the Heaven Realm, Locke prepared to hunt one before the Sovereigns turned their attention to the Law Overlords.

• Death Overlord annihilated Hurray’s Earth Lord God Clone, sent his two Lord Godheads into the Spatial Turbulence, and began the assembly’s second matter.
• Death Overlord proposed limits on Sovereign Envoys and Sovereign Artifacts, giving Sovereigns one hundred thousand years to comply or face a changed rank.
• The assembly ended after establishing the Lord God Pact and the Sovereign rules, and the title Invincible Paragon spread across the planes.
• Lilia showed Locke the locations of four Lesser Sovereigns of Fate in the Heaven Realm, and Locke planned to hunt one while they were distracted by their envoys.
• Locke decided to travel to the Heaven Realm by Plane Teleportation Array, while Lilia stayed behind to avoid drawing attention.

Locke traveled from the Underworld to the Heaven Realm to hunt the White Feather Lord God, while Lilia stayed behind to avoid alerting the other Lord Gods. During his teleportation, Locke gained a trace of Space Power in his bloodline, then infiltrated White Feather Forest and began searching for his target.

• Locke told Lilia not to go to the Heaven Realm or spread her Spiritual Sense while he hunted a Lord God, and she agreed to stay behind.
• Locke left his Water Element Divine Clone in the Underworld and used Water Walking Technique to reach the Plane Teleportation Array at Undead Sacred Mountain.
• During teleportation to the Heaven Realm, Locke absorbed Space Power that fused the eleventh divine beast bloodline into his own and formed a faint thread of Space Power.
• Locke arrived on White Feather Continent and traveled to White Feather Forest, where the White Feather Lord God resided.
• Locke disguised himself among the water elements with Mirror Flower Water Moon, slipped into the Sovereign Palace, and searched for the White Feather Lord God using the location information the Death Overlord had given him.