Chapter Summaries

After Locke and Death Overlord Lilia’s marriage certificate turned the Underworld into a center for Water Law cultivation, Locke gathered its power into a powerful Soul Defense Lord Artifact and gave it to Lilia. She refined it and discovered it could also unleash Soul Attacks, leaving her impressed by Locke’s ability to create a new kind of soul artifact.

• Life Overlord Vivian joined Destruction Overlord Uthred and Destiny Overlord Ov’s alliance to prevent Locke from obtaining Sovereign Sparks, hoping to protect her elder sister’s happiness.
• After Locke and Lilia’s wedding, their marriage certificate appeared across the Underworld’s skies, granting Water-affinity creatures insights that strengthened Water Element experts.
• Water Element cultivators from the Seven Great God Planes and the other Supreme Planes flocked to the Underworld to study the certificate’s transformations of Water Law Profundities.
• A hundred years later, Locke drew the auspicious vapors into an emerald-green scroll and revealed that he had refined the marriage certificate into a Soul Defense Lord Artifact.
• Locke gave the artifact to Lilia, who refined it and learned that its Soul Power could both defend against and unleash Soul Attacks.

Locke explained to Lilia that he wanted to forge a Sovereign Artifact capable of carrying and wielding his laws, making it almost equivalent to a second Locke. He had not yet found a way to engrave Profound Mysteries into a weapon and left the discussion still searching for a breakthrough.

• Locke told Lilia that the Marriage Certificate was only a failed byproduct of his research into a new kind of Sovereign Artifact.
• Locke explained that he wanted to forge his strongest weapon by engraving his comprehended Profound Mysteries onto it so it could wield his laws.
• Locke and Lilia discussed how the other three Rule Overlords might threaten the Water Element God Plane if they learned Locke had surpassed them.
• Locke said he had drawn his idea from Supreme Emperor Weapons in a novel from his previous life, but had yet to find a way to make a weapon carry Profound Mysteries.
• Locke considered observing the birth of a natural wonder as a possible way to learn how to engrave laws, though he had never heard of anyone witnessing one form.

Locke summoned Ryan and Yan Feng from Hell and gave them Netherworld Fruits that could rapidly raise them to Asura Prefect Lord strength, while warning that the fruits would permanently prevent them from becoming Paragons. They accepted the tradeoff and swallowed the fruits, leaving Locke to realize he had underestimated how difficult advancement was for others.

• Water-elemental beings gradually dispersed from the Underworld after Locke put away the Marriage Certificate, though some stayed in hopes of witnessing another grand gathering.
• Over time, the story of Locke and the Death Overlord’s marriage faded into legend, while the Netherworld Fruit’s power remained a secret known to only a few.
• Locke summoned Ryan and Yan Feng to Nether Mountain and gave each a Netherworld Fruit, explaining that he had obtained them from the Netherworld Lord God.
• Locke warned Ryan and Yan Feng that the fruit would make them Asura Prefect Lords but permanently remove their chance to become Paragons.
• Ryan and Yan Feng swallowed their fruits, saying they would never have reached Asura Prefect Lord strength otherwise.
• Locke realized that his own smooth progress had made him underestimate how difficult it was for others to fuse Profound Mysteries.

Locke gave Ryan and Yan Feng Netherworld Fruits, allowing them to break through their cultivation bottlenecks and reach Asura Prefect Lord-level strength. He told them he valued them as friends and wanted them to survive their assignments, then considered what tasks to give them.

• Ryan and Yan Feng consumed the Netherworld Fruits and rapidly fused their Law Profundities, growing more than ten times stronger.
• Ryan and Yan Feng thanked Locke and pledged to risk their lives to carry out his orders.
• Locke reassured them that he regarded them as friends and would rather they flee danger than die completing a task.
• Ryan and Yan Feng said their new strength could rival Renals without a Sovereign Artifact and offered to take on any tasks Locke had.
• Locke rubbed his chin and considered what work to assign them.

Locke sent Ryan to reinforce Oakes and ordered him to capture the Blood Shadow Flame from Pirate Emperor Arganis, while Yan Feng took over Oakes’s supply-gathering duties. Locke worried that even with the reinforcements, Arganis might escape the battle in the Nether Sea.

• Locke recognized Arganis’s gray flame as the Supreme God artifact Blood Shadow Flame after observing his drawn-out battle with Oakes.
• Locke appointed Ryan deputy commander of the Locke Legion and ordered him to lead five divisions to the Nether Sea, reinforce Oakes, and bring back Arganis’s flame.
• Locke assigned Yan Feng to collect Divine Beast Essence Blood and natural treasures from his hidden forces and continue watching the Four Divine Beast Family.
• Locke told Lilia that the reinforcements should destroy the Nether Sea pirates, though he was unsure whether Oakes and Ryan could capture Arganis.
• Locke assessed Oakes as a third-tier Asura Prefect Lord and Arganis as a fourth-tier one whose Blood Shadow Flame gave him defenses comparable to a Sovereign Artifact.

Locke’s Sovereign Legion fought the Mad Lord Pirates as Harald attacked an island to expand his territory and strengthen his standing among the Nether Sea’s pirate leaders. The Legion’s soldiers braced for Harald’s assault, knowing they were unlikely to survive.

• Ryan had become a five-mystery Asura, but Ailin judged him too weak to do more than restrain Arganis, whom Locke might need to bargain with for Blood Shadow Flame.
• Locke’s Sovereign Legion fought more than seven thousand pirates led by Harald, the Mad Lord, as he sought to capture an island and rise from a Lord to a King.
• The Legion’s thousand soldiers formed a Magic Battle Array and drove the pirates back despite being outnumbered.
• Harald watched the battle and decided he wanted to subdue the Legion unit and learn its method of training troops.
• When Harald advanced toward the Magic Battle Array, his pirates fled because his savage attacks could hit friend and foe alike.
• The Legion soldiers recognized Harald as one of the Nether Sea’s strongest pirate leaders and prepared for an attack they expected not to survive.

Harald attacked Feldman's thousand-man company after they refused to surrender, but their unity strengthened the Magic Battle Array until it could wield power comparable to a Seven-star Demon. Harald responded to their breakthrough with renewed killing intent and charged to finish them.

• Harald offered the Sovereign Legion soldiers their lives in exchange for their training methods, but Feldman and his company refused to surrender.
• Feldman warned Harald that reinforcements had been notified and would pursue him, prompting Harald to declare that he would defeat their battalion commanders and become the Fifth King.
• Harald attacked the Magic Battle Array, and his Fangtian Huaji clashed with the array's divine-power torrent, leaving the company shaken.
• Feldman asked his soldiers whether they regretted refusing surrender, and they reaffirmed their loyalty and resolve to fight beside him.
• Feldman's insight into the Magic Battle Array improved, allowing the company to unite more closely and reach strength comparable to a Seven-star Demon.
• Harald grew furious at the company's breakthrough and attacked again with the Fangtian Huaji.

Ryan led five elite brigades toward Lotus Rock Island when he learned that the Mad Lord Pirates had attacked Azure Peak Island, so he raced ahead to rescue the company stationed there. He and a guide set out for the island, but at their current speed the journey would take five days.

• Ryan led fifty thousand Sovereign Legion soldiers toward Lotus Rock Island, while the legion's commanders and soldiers discussed his strength and Magic Battle Arrays.
• A messenger told Ryan that Mad Lord Harald and the Mad Lord Pirates were attacking Azure Peak Island, where Captain Feldman's company was stationed.
• A soldier who knew the Nether Sea offered to guide Ryan to Azure Peak Island, and Ryan ordered the five brigade commanders to continue to Lotus Rock Island and follow Oakes's orders.
• Ryan left at full speed with the guide to support the besieged company and vowed to avenge any fallen comrades by destroying the Mad Lord Pirates.
• The guide estimated that Ryan's journey to Azure Peak Island would take five days.

Ryan learned that reinforcements would take up to five days to reach Azure Peak Island, where Feldman’s squad was fighting Mad Lord Harald. Harald revealed his Bloodthirsty Demon Ape ability and badly injured the squad, leaving the soldiers to hope Ryan arrived before their formation collapsed.

• Ryan resolved to develop a speed-enhancing Ultimate Move and flew toward Azure Peak Island as fast as he could.
• Feldman used his Magic Battle Array to match Mad Lord Harald’s strength, but the formation’s poor mobility limited the squad.
• Harald summoned the Bloodthirsty Demon Ape’s Berserk ability, doubled his power, and wounded many soldiers in a single clash.
• A soldier told the squad that a deputy commander was rushing to help and would arrive within five days, lifting the soldiers’ spirits.

Feldman and the Locke Sovereign Legion’s soldiers endured Mad Lord Harald’s siege of Azure Peak Island for five days while awaiting reinforcements. Just as the exhausted defenders sensed the deputy commander approaching, Harald unleashed a vastly stronger attack and shattered their Magic Battle Array.

• After learning reinforcements would arrive within five days, Feldman and the soldiers shifted to defense and conserved their divine power against Harald.
• Pirates watching the battle feared the Locke Legion’s strength and abandoned plans to attack its other islands.
• After five days of fighting, the wounded defenders began burning their divine bodies to keep the Magic Battle Array running.
• Feldman sensed a powerful aura nearing Azure Peak Island and told the soldiers that the deputy commander had arrived.
• Harald entered his berserk state and struck the Magic Battle Array with an attack several times stronger than before, breaking its defense.

Ryan arrived at Azure Peak Island and crushed Harald after the Mad Lord shattered the soldiers’ Magic Battle Array. Ryan killed Harald, then forced the surviving pirates to swear to rescue the scattered legion soldiers or face death.

• Harald broke through the Magic Battle Array and scattered the soldiers across Azure Peak Island and the Nether Sea.
• Ryan arrived and struck Harald with a Molten Giant Fist, gravely wounding him and ending his berserk state.
• Ryan stopped the Mad Lord Pirates from escaping with his Gravity Domain and caught Harald as he fled.
• Harald begged for mercy, but Ryan crushed him and took his Destruction High Godhead.
• Ryan ordered the surviving pirates to swear to rescue the scattered soldiers within the time it took an incense stick to burn, threatening to kill them if anyone had died or they failed.

Ryan forced the Mad Lord Pirates to help rescue Feldman’s scattered soldiers, but 137 died from Harald’s attack. After Feldman revealed Harald had another divine clone, Ryan seized 1,370 pirates and offered to spare those who could reveal its location.

• Ryan made the Mad Lord Pirates swear to rescue the scattered Locke Sovereign Legion soldiers, and spies fled to report his strength and Harald’s defeat.
• The pirates recovered just over eight hundred soldiers, leaving 137 dead, but Feldman discovered Harald’s Space Ring could not be bound and concluded another divine clone remained alive.
• Ryan told the pirates he would kill ten of them for every fallen soldier and offered to spare anyone who revealed Harald’s other clone’s location.
• Ryan used Earth Element Claw to seize exactly 1,370 pirates and began closing the stone fists around them as he demanded information.

Ryan killed the pirates who refused to cooperate and ordered Feldman to interrogate the survivors about Harald’s location. Meanwhile, Locke realized that godheads could bear Profound Mysteries and began planning to forge a Law Sovereign Artifact to protect himself and Lilia.

• Ryan killed more than a thousand pirates after identifying the ones who begged for mercy, then told Feldman to question the remaining two about Crazy Lord Harald’s location.
• Locke continued cultivating while considering the coming Plane War and the threat posed by the other Rule Overlords acquiring Supreme Artifacts.
• Locke searched through his treasures for a material capable of bearing Profound Mysteries but found nothing suitable.
• Locke spotted a black godhead and realized that godheads could serve as the material he needed for a Law Sovereign Artifact.
• Locke asked Lilia to collect Water Element and Fate Element High Godheads, and she agreed.

Lord Locke extracted Water Element and Destiny divine spark essence and began forging a spear, discovering that even fused Sovereign power would take a long time to finish it. When Lilia headed for the Water Element God Plane, the other Rule Overlords moved to intercept the Death Overlord, leaving a tense standoff in the Spatial Turbulence.

• Lord Locke ground divine sparks into powder, gathered their essence, and separated it into Water Element, Destiny, and mixed portions.
• Lord Locke shaped the Water Element essence into a spear and sped up its tempering by fusing Water Lord God Power with Destiny Sovereign power.
• Lord Locke sent Lilia to the Water Element God Plane to obtain more Water Lord God Power.
• Destruction Overlord Uthred and Destiny Overlord Ov went to intercept the Death Overlord, while Life Overlord Vivian traveled toward the Underworld.
• Uthred and Ov blocked the Death Overlord outside the Water Element God Plane, and she summoned a purple whip after Ov denied that they meant to interfere.

Locke learned that Destruction Overlord Uthred and Destiny Overlord Ov had used the Lord God Pact to obstruct Death Overlord Lilia in the Water Element God Plane, and he rushed there despite Life Overlord Vivian’s attempt to stop him. He announced that his Destiny Lord God Clone and Water Element Divine Clone would both remain in the plane, leaving Uthred and Ov alarmed by the threat this posed to their plans.

• Destiny Overlord Ov explained that he and Destruction Overlord Uthred had come to protect the Water Element God Plane’s Sovereigns under the Lord God Pact, and Death Overlord Lilia challenged his explanation.
• Locke’s Destiny Lord God Clone entered the Spatial Turbulence, and he told Life Overlord Vivian that Uthred and Ov were bullying Lilia by using Ov’s pact against her.
• Locke used Edict, Double Speed, to race past Vivian toward the Water Element God Plane, and Vivian followed but could not catch him.
• Locke told Uthred and Ov that his Destiny Lord God Clone would remain stationed in the Water Element God Plane to protect it from Sovereigns who might run wild there.
• Locke announced that he would station both his Destiny Lord God Clone and Water Element Divine Clone in the plane, and Uthred and Ov realized this could let him hunt Water Element Sovereigns for their Sovereign Sparks.

Lord Locke and the Rule Overlords negotiated over his plans in the Water Element God Plane, while Life Overlord Vivian realized that he had made a major breakthrough in Heterogeneous Law Fusion. The others agreed to let him rule the plane temporarily, unaware that he had already surpassed them in strength.

• Lord Locke refused to consider the larger balance of the universe if Lilia was wronged, though he hoped to avoid a full conflict among the Lord Gods.
• Destiny Overlord Ov agreed that Lord Locke could rule the Water Element God Plane temporarily, surprising Destruction Overlord Uthred.
• Life Overlord Vivian recognized that Lord Locke's speed revealed a breakthrough that had made him as powerful as the Death Overlord, but kept her discovery to herself.
• Destiny Overlord Ov explained that their goal was to prevent Lord Locke from refining an Intermediate Lord Godhead or higher, and proposed keeping powerful Water Lord Gods out of the plane.
• Destruction Overlord Uthred and Life Overlord Vivian accepted Lord Locke's temporary rule of the Water Element God Plane, while Lord Locke remained confident in his strength.

Lord Locke began transforming himself into a Space Divine Beast by refining the spatial bloodline he had created from Divine Beast essence blood. As the Law of Heaven and Earth descended to grant him its gift, the Death Overlord realized he had become the first Space Divine Beast in the Coiling Dragon Universe.

• Destruction Overlord Uthred, Destiny Overlord Ov, and Life Overlord Vivian left the Water Element God Plane after Lord Locke warned them away.
• Lord Locke told Lilia that his Sovereign of Fate True Body would remain in the Water Element God Plane while he continued cultivating.
• After collecting spatial Divine Beast essence blood for tens of millions of years, Lord Locke guided his forged Di Jiang Bloodline into his spine and transformed his body.
• Lord Locke comprehended the Law of Space with unprecedented clarity, and his Soul Power increased as his understanding grew.
• The Law of Heaven and Earth descended near Lord Locke's retreat, and the Death Overlord recognized that he had become a Space Divine Beast.

Locke completed his transformation into the Divine Beast Di Jiang, comprehended ten percent of the Law of Space, and advanced his soul to Soul Transformation into Infant. He discovered that Spatial Turbulence could supply the Space divine power he lacked and began absorbing it.

• The Law of Heaven and Earth revealed ten percent of the Law of Space to Locke and tempered his soul into a golden core, then into the form of a young child.
• Locke regained control of his body and found that he could form a spatial domain covering a thousand-meter radius.
• Locke concluded that his soul realm and comprehension made him comparable to a Lesser Sovereign with Willpower, and he learned that his physical strength could crack a Divine Spark.
• Locke searched for Space divine power and found countless strands within the Spatial Turbulence beyond the planes.
• The Space Power entered Locke's body and condensed into Space divine power.

Lord Locke's absorption of Space Power created a vortex in the Spatial Turbulence, drawing the Sovereigns to the Netherworld. He discovered that his Water-Space Law let him move and teleport through the turbulence, then joined the gathering as the Sovereigns waited to learn what was forming at the vortex's center.

• Lord Locke absorbed Space Power with his Soul Power, creating a massive spatial vortex that shredded the Spiritual Sense of the Sovereigns, including Destiny Overlord Ov.
• Sovereigns gathered near the Netherworld, where the Death Lord Gods watched the vortex and the Death Overlord concealed her suspicion that Lord Locke caused it.
• Lord Locke's Water Element Divine Clone entered the Spatial Turbulence and found its pressure no longer harmed him; he also discovered he could use Space Power to teleport.
• Lord Locke traveled to the Netherworld faster than the other Sovereigns and met the Death Overlord, who told him the Rule Overlords believed a powerful being or treasure was forming inside the vortex.
• Lord Locke learned that the Rule Overlords planned to wait for the formation to finish, while weaker Sovereigns feared the unknown presence.

Locke continued absorbing Space Power while the Sovereigns mistook the spatial vortex he had created for a gestating creature or treasure. As the vortex shrank, Locke withdrew his Soul Power and triggered a spatial rupture, prompting the Sovereigns to rush in and pursue what they believed was escaping.

• The Death Overlord explained the Sovereigns’ suspicions about the spatial vortex, and Locke welcomed their decision to wait because it gave him time to strengthen his Di Jiang Bloodline.
• Ryan and Oakes cornered Pirate Emperor Arganis on Flame Bone Island as Locke’s Sovereign Legion closed in on the last pirate stronghold in the Nether Sea.
• Locke refined Space Power into spatial divine power, strengthened his body with it, and stored the excess in his soul over ten years.
• The Four Great Rule Overlords surrounded the shrinking vortex while the Death Overlord concealed her knowledge that Locke had created it.
• Locke withdrew his Soul Power, making the Spatial Turbulence erupt and opening a spatial void; Destiny Overlord Ov rushed in, and Destruction Overlord Uthred tore the void open with his attack.