Chapter Summaries

After the Lord God Assembly, Theresia sought Locke’s help with his stalled progress in the Law of Space. Locke gave him White Tiger Lord God Essence Blood, and Theresia formally pledged allegiance by asking to build a palace on Nether Mountain.

• Linley agreed to let his grudge against Augusta go, ending the dispute at the Lord God Assembly.
• Theresia, discouraged by the Rule Overlords’ immense gains, traveled to Nether Mountain to ask Locke for guidance.
• Locke praised Theresia’s progress in the Law of Space and gave him a drop of White Tiger Lord God Essence Blood to help him break through.
• Theresia accepted the essence blood and asked permission to build a palace on Nether Mountain, formally joining Locke’s lineage.
• Locke approved Theresia’s request, and Theresia left to find a site for his Sovereign Palace.

Lord Locke considered how Linley might gain the Wind Element Lord Godhead while preserving the Lord God Pact, which he intended to enforce until Linley became the new Hong Meng Controller. Meanwhile, Augusta raged over the spread of recordings that mocked him, but Ov refused to help, leaving Augusta to face his humiliation alone.

• Lord Locke reflected that he would keep Linley from breaking the Lord God Pact and preserve the Sovereigns’ trust in its rules.
• Augusta destroyed objects in Ogu Garden and threatened the Sovereigns spreading recordings of his battle with the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns.
• Ov told Augusta that he dared not retaliate because Linley could kill him and Lord Locke would punish him for violating the Lord God Pact.
• Augusta asked Ov to defend them against the mockery, but Ov said others’ opinions could not affect his strength.
• Augusta realized Ov would not support him and would remain a laughingstock among the Sovereigns.

Locke mastered the Spacetime Law, entered the Primordial Space unharmed, and began creating a universe there. Hong Meng watched him and recognized that Locke had become his second brother, leaving Locke unaware of Hong Meng’s arrival.

• Bellute celebrated Augusta’s defeat by traveling across the planes with Bluefire and the others, repeatedly using the Light God Plane’s teleportation array to provoke Augusta.
• Locke completed his mastery of the Spacetime Law and found that Primordial Qi could no longer harm him.
• Locke entered the Primordial Space, resisted its currents, and chose to make his own way rather than wait for Hong Meng.
• Locke cleaved Primordial Qi apart to create an embryonic universe, then shattered incoming waves so the universe could absorb them and grow.
• Hong Meng arrived and watched Locke create his universe, recognizing that Locke had become his second brother.

Locke pushed his embryonic universe beyond the Grandmist Universe’s primary-universe limit and strengthened it by establishing the innate Eight Trigrams as its foundation. After completing the universe’s framework, he remained inside to await its final evolution and the trial from Primordial Space.

• Locke chose to expand his universe beyond the primary-universe limit, crushing the surrounding Primordial Qi and absorbing it at full speed.
• Locke decided that the universe needed stronger laws rather than diluted Spacetime Law, and he made the Eight Trigrams its fundamental laws.
• Locke filled the universe with additional laws, creating the Thirty-Three Heavens, the Eighteen Layers of Hell, and a cycle of life, death, and reincarnation governed by the Three Disasters and Nine Calamities.
• Hong Meng examined Locke’s enormous universe, recognized that its framework was complete, and saw that Locke might surpass him once it finished evolving.
• Locke chose to stay inside his universe and await Hong Meng, its completion, and the trial he sensed Primordial Space would bring.

Locke waited for his new universe to mature while Linley joined Bellute and Bluefire in preparing for a Plane War against the Light God Plane. The chapter ended with Locke confronting a new problem: his family would accompany him when he took control of his completed universe.

• Hong Meng guessed that Locke intended to create a universe and returned to his own world to wait for him.
• Bellute told Linley that the Light God Plane could draw on eighteen Sovereign Legions, and urged him to help prevent its second streak of ten consecutive Plane War victories.
• Linley agreed to send his three Sovereign Legions to support the Water Element God Plane and traveled with Dilia to seek his Sovereign Envoys.
• Locke reflected that his universe would yield twice as much Profound Yellow Qi as Hong Meng's universe once it matured.
• Locke realized that when his universe was complete and he took control of it, his family would accompany him.

Locke told Lilia and his descendants that he had transcended the Grandmist Universe and created a new universe, where only those strong enough could attain immortality. He opened a miniature universe for them to cultivate in, leaving them to face the challenge of mastering its demanding laws.

• Locke explained to Lilia that he had fused the Spacetime Law, left the Magic Universe, and begun creating a universe beyond it.
• Locke summoned Luo An, Weil, Gla, and Rena and offered them a miniature plane in the Sovereign Palace to prepare for entering his universe.
• Lilia and the descendants reacted to Locke's revelation, and Locke judged Rena the most ambitious while doubting Weil and Gla would reach the God King realm unaided.
• Locke opened a rift showing the gray Primordial Qi beyond the universe and warned that surviving outside required strength surpassing a Heavenly Venerate.
• Locke declared that his family would not have to cultivate in the Magic Universe and used the eight Laws to open a rudimentary Miniature Universe on its boundary.

Locke sent Tina, Gla, the Death Overlord, Luo An, and Weil into his prototype Miniature Universe while the Sovereigns gathered to watch the decisive Plane War between the Light and Water Element God Planes. As the battle raged, Destiny Overlord Ov asked Linley to give him Breler, and Linley refused to decide for his Sovereign Envoy, leaving Ov to wonder whether Linley might rival Locke.

• Locke opened a gateway to his prototype Miniature Universe, and Tina entered first, followed by Gla, the Death Overlord, Luo An, and Weil.
• Linley joined Bellute and Bluefire above the Plane Battlefield and noticed that Locke and the Sovereigns of his lineage were absent.
• The Light Element God Plane deployed thirteen Sovereign Legions against the Water Element God Plane's ten, and the final Plane War began at the Stellar River passages.
• Linley's Sovereign Legion and its skilled formation commander Breler fought in the fierce battle, while Destiny Overlord Ov took an interest in Breler's Magic Array expertise.
• Ov asked Linley to part with Breler, but Linley told him to approach Breler directly and warned that he would oppose Ov if Breler refused.
• Ov considered whether Linley, a Four-Law Soul Variant, could have advanced enough to challenge even Locke, though Linley's Earth Sovereign clone alone had reached Great Perfection.

Destiny Overlord Ov considered whether Linley knew Breler’s Brahma Race secret and whether Linley posed a threat, while Locke sent members of his family into his universe prototype to cultivate. As the final Plane War began, Levia led Luo An’s Sovereign Legion to support the Water Element God Plane alongside the Yulan lineage.

• Destiny Overlord Ov judged that the current Linley was too weak to threaten him, but wondered whether Breler had revealed the Brahma Race’s secret to Linley.
• Locke explained that his universe prototype could restore souls and let his family cultivate Laws without the Magic Universe’s restrictions, and Lilia, Luo An, Weil, Gla, Rena, and the Death Overlord began secluded cultivation there.
• Levia visited Locke after failing to find Luo An, learned why he had not brought her into the new universe, and accepted his decision without protest.
• Levia returned to the Water Element God Plane with Luo An’s Sovereign Legion after asking Locke about the Plane War.
• When the final Plane War began, Levia acknowledged Linley, Bellute, Bluefire, and Theresia, recognizing the Sovereigns supporting her side.

As the Plane War intensified, Linley recognized his mother Linna among the Light Sovereigns’ Angel Legion and pulled her out of the battlefield. His intervention triggered a violent reaction in the Spatial Turbulence.

• Levia watched the Water Element God Plane’s forces struggle against the opposing legions and doubted they could win.
• The Purple Thorn Legion and Blood Peak Lord God’s Sovereign Legion joined Levia’s side, restoring the balance between the armies.
• Augusta ordered the Light Sovereigns to deploy the Angel Legion, turning both Stellar River passages into deadly battles.
• Linley recognized his mother Linna among the angels and realized she had been reborn in the Angel Rebirth Pool after being sacrificed by the Radiant Church.
• Linley opened a Spatial Rift and pulled Linna out of the Plane Battlefield, prompting the laws in the Spatial Turbulence to erupt.

Linley brought his mother Linna out of the Plane Battlefield, violating the Supreme Gods’ rules and drawing the Supreme God of Destruction, who nearly killed him. Lord Locke intervened with Time Pause and Time-Space Reversal, then Linley sent Linna back into the battlefield as space-time returned to normal.

• Linley revealed that the angel he had rescued from the Plane Battlefield was his mother, Linna, and accepted that his actions might cost him his life.
• The Supreme God of Destruction appeared, destroyed Linley’s defenses with a glance, and declared that Linley would be executed for breaking the battlefield rules.
• As the Supreme God of Destruction’s power threatened to destroy Linley’s soul, Lord Locke froze time and reversed the surrounding space-time.
• Lord Locke’s reversal forced the Supreme God of Destruction’s appearance to recede, and Linley opened a Spatial Rift to return Linna to the Plane Battlefield.

Lord Locke stopped Linley from violating the Plane Battlefield’s rules again and explained that Linna was protected by a strand of time power. After warning Linley that he would not intervene for him again, Lord Locke returned to his embryonic universe, where Hong Meng arrived and praised it.

• Linley tried to reach Linna in the Plane Battlefield, but his hand passed through her because she existed outside their current timeline.
• Lord Locke stopped Linley and explained that his time power made Linna and the other beings unable to affect one another.
• Lord Locke warned Linley that this was the first and last time he would save him, while Linley accepted the warning and resolved to pursue greater strength.
• The Lord Gods reacted to Lord Locke’s confidence in Linley, and Destiny Overlord Ov privately concluded that he could still kill Linley without provoking another intervention.
• Lord Locke returned to the Underworld and focused on his embryonic universe after Hong Meng came to visit.
• Hong Meng entered Lord Locke’s universe and praised its remarkable scale and nature.

Locke met Hong Meng in the Primordial Space and learned that Hong Meng had created the Magic Universe to nurture beings who could transcend it. Hong Meng welcomed Locke as his Second Brother and promised that Locke could cultivate an even stronger Profound Yellow Body and Spirit once his universe finished evolving.

• Locke sensed Hong Meng’s overwhelming power and asked what Hong Meng meant by calling him Second Brother.
• Locke explained why he had expected other beings to transcend universes, and Hong Meng confirmed that he had created the Magic Universe.
• Hong Meng recounted finding Locke in the Primordial Space after Locke began creating a universe, and discovering Locke’s clone when Linley violated the Plane Battlefield’s rules.
• Hong Meng told Locke that he was the only being to transcend one of Hong Meng’s universes and praised the stability of Locke’s newly created universe.
• Hong Meng asked Locke to call him Big Brother and said Locke would gain stronger Profound Yellow Qi after his universe completed its evolution.

Locke visited Hong Meng’s stable pocket world while his universe continued gestating, and learned that Hong Meng had little more knowledge of Primordial Yellow Qi than he did. Hong Meng showed Locke the Hong Meng Golden Ranking, which had room for only fifty-two Hong Meng Controllers.

• Locke asked Hong Meng about other uses of Primordial Yellow Qi, but Hong Meng admitted he knew only how to cultivate the Profound Yellow Body and Spirit and strengthen a universe.
• Hong Meng moved Locke’s unfinished universe through Primordial Space to his own small world, where Locke admired its stability.
• Hong Meng welcomed Locke with osmanthus wine, and Locke praised its flavor and felt it deepen his insights into Heterogeneous Law Fusion.
• Hong Meng revealed the Hong Meng Golden Ranking, which offered four first-tier, twelve second-tier, and thirty-six third-tier Controller positions.

Lord Locke refused to place his name on the Hong Meng Golden Ranking because he wanted to pursue realms beyond Primordial Space, prompting Hong Meng to share that ambition. Meanwhile, Augusta celebrated the Light God Plane’s likely victory and planned to use his growing power to win repeated Plane Wars and take revenge on Uthred.

• Lord Locke told Hong Meng he would not join the Hong Meng Golden Ranking until he knew whether it would limit his cultivation, and he declared his goal of reaching a realm beyond Primordial Space.
• Hong Meng put away the ranking and agreed with Lord Locke that they would compete to discover a breakthrough beyond Primordial Space.
• Lord Locke surveyed the six universes and expected his own universe’s completion to greatly increase his strength.
• Augusta celebrated as the Light God Plane crushed the Water Sovereign’s forces and captured a Stellar River passage.
• Augusta vowed to earn more ten-match winning streaks, surpass Uthred, and use the Yulan lineage for amusement, while relying on his expanded forces and Lord Locke’s refusal to intervene again for Linley.

Ninisha joined Water Element God Plane’s forces and used her mastery of the Law of Time to turn the battle against Light God Plane. Her arrival left Augusta’s side facing defeat, while the Sovereigns realized her power could decide the Plane War.

• Bellute spotted Ninisha entering Water Element God Plane and told Bluefire that her arrival could make the battle’s outcome uncertain.
• Levia recognized Ninisha and became certain that Water Element God Plane would win despite having fewer Sovereign Legions at the passage.
• Ninisha accelerated time around nearby Water Element soldiers, allowing them to overwhelm Light God Plane’s formations and destroy its soldiers.
• The Sovereigns recognized that Ninisha’s ability resembled Reiding’s Dragon Roar, though her sustained Time Acceleration empowered allies rather than slowing enemies.
• Augusta identified Ninisha as Lord Locke’s trusted Lightning Paragon and realized she had lived up to his faith in her.

Ninisha’s arrival turned the Plane War against the Light God Plane, ending Augusta’s winning streak at nine victories. After the battle, Linley approached Augusta, apparently seeking the angel who mattered greatly to him.

• Ninisha devastated the Light God Plane’s forces, destroying three Sovereign Legions and badly weakening four more.
• Augusta ordered his Angel Legion to withdraw, prompting the other Light Lord Gods’ angels and the Sovereign Legions to flee as well.
• The Water Element God Plane seized the second Stellar River passage, and the Plane Battlefield declared the war a draw with each side holding one passage.
• The surviving soldiers left the battlefield, which was then swallowed by Spatial Turbulence.
• Linley approached Augusta after the war, while the Light Lord Gods recognized that Linley wanted the important angel and that they held the advantage in negotiations.

Linley confronted Augusta to secure his mother Linna’s freedom, but Augusta refused and tried to use her as leverage. Destiny Overlord Ov intervened as mediator and led them toward the Heaven Realm, where Augusta planned to bring Linley into Ogu Garden.

• Linley asked the Light Lord Gods to free the angel and offered Augusta a favor in return.
• Augusta claimed Linna was his most important subordinate and refused to release her, prompting Linley to threaten him with fused Sovereign’s Might.
• Destiny Overlord Ov arrived and offered to mediate, and Linley and Augusta agreed to travel with him to the Heaven Realm.
• The other Sovereigns departed, while Bellute and Bluefire returned toward the Yulan Plane and worried that Augusta would demand too much from Linley.
• Ov opened a Spatial Rift and invited Linley and Augusta to enter.

Linley and Augusta entered the Heaven Realm as guests of Destiny Overlord Ov, but Destruction Overlord Uthred confronted them and demanded that Ov honor their arranged battle. Ov stopped Linley from intervening and faced Uthred himself.

• Destiny Overlord Ov opened a Spatial Rift and invited Linley and Augusta into the Heaven Realm as his guests.
• Destruction Overlord Uthred appeared and accused Ov of using Linley’s dispute with Augusta to evade their promised battle.
• Uthred struck Linley with a casual attack, knocked him back, and warned him not to interfere.
• Linley prepared to confront Uthred, but Ov stopped him and said the matter was between the two Overlords.
• Ov stepped forward to face Uthred, who welcomed the long-delayed chance to fight.

Destiny Overlord Ov mediated Linley and Augusta’s dispute, allowing Linley to go to the Light God Plane and retrieve Linna while postponing their feud. Ov then accepted Destruction Overlord Uthred’s challenge and prepared to fight using Sovereign Artifacts.

• Destiny Overlord Ov negotiated a temporary truce between Linley and Augusta, arranging for Linley to retrieve Linna and settle her freedom with Augusta later.
• Augusta agreed to let Linley take Linna but warned that he could make her commit suicide if Linley failed to offer a satisfactory price.
• Linley thanked Ov and flew toward the Light God Plane, leaving Ov and Augusta relieved that their confrontation had been averted.
• Ov turned to Uthred and agreed to fight him after explaining that he had delayed to handle the dispute between Linley and Augusta.
• Uthred put away his offensive Supreme Artifact and chose a Sovereign Artifact spear so he could test his strength against Ov on equal terms.
• Ov put away his material-defense Supreme Artifact and changed into a Sovereign Artifact robe before the battle.

Destruction Overlord Uthred and Destiny Overlord Ov fought again, each choosing Sovereign Artifacts for their clash. As their battle shook the Spatial Turbulence, Augusta realized how far the strongest Rule Overlords surpassed ordinary combat strength.

• Uthred and Ov exchanged their Supreme Artifacts for Sovereign Artifacts so neither would hold an advantage in defense or offense.
• Uthred charged Ov with his spear, and Ov met him with his white longsword, unleashing a collision that obliterated the surrounding Spatial Turbulence.
• The shockwaves sent Augusta flying tens of thousands of meters before he steadied himself.
• Augusta reflected that Ov and Vivian were far stronger than Uthred, while Lord Locke had surpassed even the Supreme Gods.
• The chapter noted that Linley’s normal strength was his greatest asset, since his Blackstone Prison no longer amplified his power as dramatically as it had when he was a God-level Expert.