Chapter Summaries

Mira and Ceres learned that Locke was at Nether Mountain and set out to visit him, while Cole stayed behind in Blue Wing City. At Nether Mountain, Locke advanced his comprehension of Space Solidification before the Death Overlord arrived and disrupted the space around him.

• Cole told Mira and Ceres that Locke was at Nether Mountain and explained that Locke could conceal his presence even from Sovereigns.
• Mira and Ceres decided to visit Locke, while Cole chose to remain in Blue Wing City and let Mira rely on his reputation if he needed help.
• After Mira and Ceres left, Cole told the city guards that Mira was his descendant and enjoyed their admiration.
• Locke left Figueroa to cultivate on Nether Mountain and continued practicing Space Solidification in the Water Mansion.
• The Death Overlord entered Locke's strengthened space, shattered its spatial ripples, and triggered Spatial Rifts that Locke immediately solidified.

The Death Overlord gave Locke a Death Supreme God Mirror, and they arranged for Oakes to secretly collect its three listed treasures. Meanwhile, Ceres and Mila reached the Nether Mountain Range and learned about its deadly fog and Oakes’s Sovereign Legion.

• The Death Overlord showed Locke the Death Supreme God Mirror and agreed that he would keep it while his forces searched for its three mission items.
• Locke ordered Oakes to secretly gather the listed treasures and gave him Sovereign's Might for protection.
• Oakes left his Water Element Divine Clone at Nether Mountain and sent his Wind Element Divine Clone to begin the mission.
• Ceres and Mila entered a town near the Nether Mountain Range and listened to locals describe the disorienting fog and the challenges of traveling deeper into the range.
• Ceres and Mila learned that Oakes commanded a second Sovereign Legion in the depths of the range and was considered one of the Underworld’s strongest experts.

Ceres and Mila entered the deeper mist of the Nether Mountain Range, while Azure Dragon Lord God Reiding welcomed the birth of his son and the Four Divine Beast Family grew across generations. As the family’s bloodlines weakened, Reiding proposed using the Sovereigns’ essence blood to strengthen their descendants.

• Ceres and Mila prepared for the dangers of the Nether Mountain Range and plunged into its mist.
• Reiding celebrated the birth of his son, named Gaisreisen, and worried that Locke might eventually threaten the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns.
• Gaisreisen and the descendants of Ersius, Nemo, and Bowen grew close and established the Four Divine Beast Family.
• The four brothers devoted themselves to developing the family, but found that later generations had increasingly weak bloodlines and many descendants could not become gods.
• Reiding proposed baptizing fourth-generation descendants with the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns’ essence blood to raise their bloodline concentration.

Locke learned that Ceres and Mira had reached the third mist layer at Nether Mountain, where repeated trials helped experts improve their grasp of Profound Mysteries and Soul Power. After Oakes returned with Divine Beast Essence Blood, Locke tasked him with preparing a Divine Clone intelligence network once the Sovereign Legion was established.

• The Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns discussed creating a way to prevent Lord God Essence Blood from losing its energy so that a single drop could transform the bloodlines of many descendants.
• Locke discovered that Ceres and Mira had crossed the first two mist layers and were attempting the third; Mira emerged again after failing, while Ceres explained that each trial brought small gains in cultivation.
• Locke realized that the mist’s sensory-sealing effects briefly sharpened experts’ perceptions and helped them seize inspiration, and he wondered how Mira had advanced so far since their last meeting.
• Locke decided not to meet Ceres and Mira yet and considered reserving his limited Sovereign Envoy positions for people with exceptional potential.
• Oakes returned with Divine Beast Essence Blood gathered across the planes, and Locke instructed him to recruit people with Divine Clones as intelligence agents after the Sovereign Legion was established.

Locke organized his forces and analyzed newly collected Divine Beast Essence Blood as the Four Divine Beast Family expanded through Hell using its perfected Sacrifice Baptism technique. In the Nether Mountain Range, Ceres compared his slow progress with Mila’s and observed how the Sovereign Legion’s formations could let a weaker commander defeat a stronger one.

• Locke told Oakes to establish an intelligence unit to relay orders and collect resources more efficiently, then inspected the gathered Divine Beast Essence Blood and set aside twelve spatial-type drops for the Di Jiang Bloodline.
• Locke continued analyzing the remaining essence blood to deepen his understanding of the laws and improve his Magic Array attainments.
• The Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns perfected a bloodline baptism technique, and the Four Divine Beast Family used it to strengthen descendants and spread beyond the Sky Sacrifice Mountain Range into Hell.
• Ceres ended his cultivation in the Nether Mountain Range and lamented that he remained a Six-star Demon while Mila had become a Seven-star Demon and was approaching fusion of a fifth Profound Mystery.
• Ceres watched the Sovereign Legion’s unusual promotion and combat methods, including a Five-star Demon battalion commander whose formation defeated a force led by a Seven-star Demon.

Ceres decided to join the Sovereign Legion after concluding that he had reached his limit in fusing Profound Mysteries, while Mila continued searching for insight in the mist. Mila agreed to accompany him, and Ceres hoped his new position might help her contact Locke on Nether Mountain.

• Ceres watched the Sovereign Legion train and considered learning its formation-based combat method, but initially chose to wait until Mila became stronger.
• Mila emerged from the mist after half a day, cultivated to recover her strength, and told Ceres that her recent efforts there had brought diminishing results.
• Mila looked toward Nether Mountain, frustrated that the mist had kept her from reaching Teacher Locke for more than a hundred thousand years.
• Ceres told Mila he had decided to join the Sovereign Legion because he had reached his limit in fusing the fourth Profound Mystery of Water.
• Ceres hoped that joining the legion might let him ask Commander Oakes to pass a message to Locke, and Mila offered to accompany him to show that he had support.

Ceres joined the Sovereign Legion, where he began studying its Magic Battle Array, while Mila focused on cultivating in the Mist. Figueroa challenged Commander Oakes to demonstrate his improved array, and the chapter ended as his legion launched a massive sword attack at Oakes.

• Ceres joined the Sovereign Legion as a company captain and learned that its soldiers could study the Magic Battle Array to earn higher status through their performance.
• Malik explained that the legion's Overgod and the array's creator were unknown, and warned Ceres to respect Figueroa's superior rank.
• Ceres studied Magic Arrays while Mila repeatedly entered the Mist and steadily advanced her strength.
• Figueroa challenged Commander Oakes, drawing Ceres, Mila, and other observers to watch from a safe distance.
• Figueroa coordinated ten thousand soldiers through layered array nodes, then gathered their power into a sword aura that tore through space and struck toward Oakes.

Figueroa tested his Magic Battle Array against Oakes, whose attacks repeatedly battered the formation while its soldiers adapted and improved their defenses. After the prolonged fight, onlookers began considering whether they too could master magic arrays, and Ceres returned to the Sovereign Legion camp to study them.

• Figueroa’s sword energy failed to break through Oakes’s defenses, and Oakes’s wind attack tore apart the array’s counterattacks.
• Mila and Ceres discussed the Magic Battle Array’s power and the upheaval it could bring to the God Planes.
• Oakes struck the array’s divine power barrier, injuring soldiers and displacing its nodes, but Figueroa’s commanders kept the formation intact.
• Figueroa asked Oakes to continue attacking so the soldiers could learn to adjust the array, and Oakes began beating the formation for more than half a day.
• The soldiers improved the array’s defenses and recovery, while Figueroa became better at controlling it and occasionally counterattacked.
• After the battle, Ceres returned to the Sovereign Legion camp and studied magic array nodes and formations with the soldiers.

After more than three thousand years of study, Ceres successfully created and deployed a Magic Battle Array, then challenged for the vacant Fifth Battalion commander position. Oakes began the assessment by sending a Seven-star Demon and his army to attack Ceres’s smaller but tightly controlled force.

• Ceres used his Spiritual Sense to deploy a Magic Battle Array with more than seven hundred soldiers, greatly boosting their strength while placing their movements under his control.
• Ceres brought his army before Oakes’s command tent and applied to advance to battalion commander by defeating a unit led by a Seven-star Demon.
• Ceres’s challenge was heard across the Sovereign Legion and by independent cultivators, who compared his seamless array with Figueroa’s larger, more complex formations.
• Oakes observed Ceres’s unified Magic Battle Array and announced the start of the advancement assessment.
• The Seven-star Demon assigned to assess Ceres charged from his army and attacked Ceres and his soldiers.

Ceres won the promotion battle and became captain of the Fifth Legion, then asked Oakes for help finding Locke. Oakes recognized that Locke might be the Sovereign he served and went to Nether Mountain, where he reported that Ceres and Mira Locke had come seeking him before discussing the missing Supreme God mission treasures.

• Ceres used the Magic Battle Array to rout the Seven-star Demon’s legion, and Oakes declared him captain of the Fifth Legion.
• Ceres told Oakes that Locke’s descendant Mira Locke had come to the Underworld to see him, and Oakes agreed to ask Locke whether he would receive them.
• Oakes crossed the Thunder Chains and asked Locke for an audience at the Water Mansion.
• Locke asked whether Oakes had found clues to the three wondrous objects of heaven and earth, and Oakes said his forces had found nothing.
• Locke wondered whether Hongmeng had made the search difficult because the Death Overlord had given him the Supreme God Mirror.

Locke learned that Ceres and Mila had arrived in the Supreme Plane and agreed to meet them at Nether Mountain. After Ceres wondered whether the Thunder Chain trapped Locke inside, Mila rushed to see her teacher, determined to save him if necessary.

• Locke told Oakes to investigate other forces gathering wondrous treasures, then learned that Ceres and Mila had arrived.
• Oakes reported that Ceres had joined Locke’s Sovereign Legion and could use a Magic Battle Array to defeat the First Battalion, while Mila had become a Seven-star Demon.
• Locke asked Oakes to find out whether Ceres and Mila wanted to see him, and said to bring them if they did.
• Ceres told Mila that he suspected the Thunder Chain might keep Locke from leaving Nether Mountain.
• Mila dragged Ceres toward Oakes, saying she would save Locke if the Sovereign had imprisoned him.
• Oakes explained that Locke had approved their visit, then suspected Locke already knew they had arrived.

Ceres and Mila arrived at Nether Mountain with Oakes and entered after the Lord God opened the Thunder Chain barrier. They met Locke and the Death Overlord in Locke’s Water Mansion, where Ceres learned how differently Oakes and Mila treated Locke’s authority.

• Oakes stopped Ceres from entering the Thunder Chain barrier and warned that its lightning could kill even Seven-star Demons.
• The Lord God opened a doorway in the barrier, and Oakes led Ceres and Mila through Nether Mountain to Locke’s Water Mansion.
• Ceres and Mila knelt before Locke and the Death Overlord, then rose only after Locke ordered Oakes and Mila to stand.
• Locke greeted Ceres as His Majesty, but Ceres asked him to use his name, and the Death Overlord agreed that the honorific could bring trouble.

Locke learned why Ceres could not return to the Falling Snow Legion and sought the other Rule Overlords’ advice on his fate. Mila revealed that a Soul Annihilation Pearl had aided her advancement, giving Locke one of the Supreme God relics he had been searching for.

• Locke explained that Ceres had skimmed the Snowfall Lord God's Power of Faith and would be killed if he returned to the Water Element God Plane.
• The Death Overlord warned that sheltering Ceres could undermine trust between Sovereigns and their legions, so Locke took Ceres to consult the other Rule Overlords.
• Locke praised Mila for her achievements and invited her to explain whether anything had aided her progress.
• Mila revealed that a purple pearl had improved her comprehension of Law Profundities, and Locke identified it as the Soul Annihilation Pearl.
• Locke returned the pearl to Mila, letting her keep it until she fused five Law Profundities, and asked what she planned to do next.

Mila learned that Locke was a Sovereign and chose to join his Sovereign Legion as captain of the Sixth Battalion. Locke then took Ceres from the Underworld to a Supreme Plane, leaving the soldiers at the Undead Sacred Mountain marveling at his visit.

• Locke offered Mila a place in his Sovereign Legion, and she realized he was a Sovereign after Oakes confirmed his identity.
• Mila chose to join the legion, and Oakes welcomed her as captain of the Sixth Battalion and explained how new recruits would be assigned.
• Locke traveled across the Underworld at great speed, drawing the notice of other Sovereigns, who withdrew their Spiritual Sense when they recognized him.
• Locke arrived at the Undead Sacred Mountain, took Ceres through a Plane Teleportation Array, and departed for a Supreme Plane.
• The soldiers at the teleportation array celebrated having welcomed Locke, then wondered which Sovereign he was.

Locke arrived in Hell with Ceres and revealed himself as a Sovereign, alarming the Sovereigns who sensed his presence. He reached Wukun City and met Destruction Overlord Uthred, explaining that he had come to discuss Ceres and the Snowfall Lord God.

• Ceres realized Locke was a Sovereign, and Locke spread his aura across Hell.
• Blood Peak Lord God Pash projected himself at Iron Blade Gorge, but Locke assured him he had come to meet Uthred rather than attack him.
• Locke took Ceres to Wukun City and summoned Destruction Overlord Uthred.
• Uthred challenged Locke to a fight, but Locke said he had made no breakthrough and explained his reason for coming.
• Locke described his relationship with Ceres and Ceres's connection to the Snowfall Lord God, while Ceres learned that Sovereigns included ordinary Sovereigns and Overlords.

Lord Locke and Destruction Overlord Uthred arranged a Lord God Assembly to address Ceres’s betrayal of the Snowfall Lord God’s authority. The gathered Lord Gods learned the meeting concerned both Snowfall and Lord Locke, but they misread the situation and pitied Snowfall, who expected them to envy him afterward.

• Lord Locke proposed a way to protect Ceres while discouraging high-ranking Lord Gods from sheltering subordinates who betrayed lesser Lord Gods, and Uthred agreed to consult Snowfall before convening an assembly.
• Uthred entered the Water Element God Plane, then summoned all Lord Gods to the third Lord God Assembly.
• Lord Locke brought Ceres into Spatial Turbulence, where Ceres saw the Lord Gods and Four Overlords treat Lord Locke with respect.
• Uthred announced that the assembly concerned the Snowfall Lord God and Lord Locke, prompting the other Lord Gods to assume Snowfall would suffer.
• Snowfall sneered at the other Lord Gods’ pity, confident they would envy him once the meeting ended.

Locke defended Ceres before the Sovereigns and negotiated with the Snowfall Lord God to end his pursuit of Ceres. The assembly accepted Locke’s offer of a powerful Water Law technique, and Locke prepared to demonstrate it.

• Locke explained his history with Ceres and asked the Sovereigns to spare him, while Uthred warned that leniency could encourage other gods to betray their Sovereigns.
• Locke offered to pay a price to prevent that precedent, and the Snowfall Lord God demanded compensation for abandoning his claim against Ceres.
• Locke offered to teach the Snowfall Lord God a Water Law technique that could raise a Lesser Sovereign’s strength to that of an Intermediate Sovereign, on condition that it not be shared.
• The Snowfall Lord God accepted the terms and swore not to divulge the technique, while Uthred ruled that both parties must honor their agreement.
• Locke announced that his Water Element Divine Clone was on its way to demonstrate the technique to the Sovereigns.

Lord Locke demonstrated World Freeze at the Lord God Assembly, freezing the Snowfall Lord God and the surrounding space before explaining why he had summoned the gathering. He gave the Snowfall Lord God a crystal containing the move’s principles, leaving him eager to learn it.

• Lord Locke arrived at the Lord God Assembly and told the Snowfall Lord God he would use him to demonstrate a move that could amplify strength a hundredfold.
• Lord Locke unleashed World Freeze, freezing the Snowfall Lord God and the surrounding Spatial Turbulence, then explained the move’s demanding Water Law requirements.
• Lord Locke and Destruction Overlord Uthred explained that the Snowfall Lord God had agreed not to pursue Ceres in exchange for Lord Locke granting him a request, but had tried to change the terms later.
• Lord Locke released the freeze, and the Snowfall Lord God fled in alarm after realizing he had not sensed Lord Locke approaching while frozen.
• Lord Locke gave the Snowfall Lord God a purple crystal containing World Freeze’s principles, and the Snowfall Lord God said he believed he could learn the move within a thousand years.

At the Lord God Assembly, Locke arranged for Snowfall Lord God to be named an Intermediate Sovereign a thousand years before he could actually gain the strength, while Locke’s Water Element Divine Clone was promoted immediately. After the assembly, Locke gave the Death Overlord an Amethyst Crystal containing World Freeze, and she discovered that it made the move seem learnable within a thousand years.

• Snowfall Lord God believed Locke’s Amethyst Crystal would let him master World Freeze, and Locke persuaded Destruction Overlord Uthred to schedule his promotion to Intermediate Sovereign for a thousand years later.
• Snowfall Lord God agreed to the arrangement, and Uthred officially declared his future promotion despite the other Sovereigns knowing he was unlikely to master the move.
• Uthred promoted Locke’s Water Element Divine Clone to Intermediate Sovereign, while Destiny Overlord Ov questioned whether Locke’s Destiny Lord God Clone could use World Freeze to reach even greater strength.
• Locke denied that his Destiny Lord God Clone could wield the move at full strength, and the Lord God Assembly concluded with the other Sovereigns still wary of his power.
• The Death Overlord approved of Locke’s punishment of Snowfall Lord God, while Life Overlord Vivian suggested eventually demoting him; Locke gave the Death Overlord an Amethyst Crystal, and she found the move seemed learnable within a thousand years.

Life Overlord Vivian realized that Death Overlord had grown close to Lord Locke and worried about what his rise to power could mean. Death Overlord began explaining how powerful beings threatened the inhabitants of the Material Planes.

• Life Overlord Vivian experienced Lord Locke's World Freeze through the Amethyst Crystal and recognized how his soul abilities could make others believe they could learn the move.
• Death Overlord's Water Element Divine Clone tried World Freeze but produced a much weaker effect, and Lord Locke explained that its deeper mysteries required becoming a Water Element Paragon.
• Lord Locke returned to the Netherworld while Death Overlord went with Vivian to the Life God Realm, prompting Vivian to realize that Death Overlord's recent changes were connected to him.
• Vivian worried that Lord Locke could become unstoppable if he obtained the Water Overlord's Lord Godhead, but Death Overlord asked what Overlords meant to the living beings of the Material Planes and began describing their danger.