Recaps

Jie Ning returned to Blade City with Gould after meeting the Overgod, then prepared for a mission against Black Dragon Fortress as tensions rose. On the Bana Continent, Jie Ning gained a Destiny God Avatar and completed his first Magic Array, boosting the power of his Life and Death God Avatars.

• Gould rewarded Jie Ning with a golden leopard-shaped Metal Lifeform and ordered him to keep the Overgod meeting secret while summoning his officers.
• Jie Ning reunited with Korur and Mosang, who had become Two-star Demons, and revealed that he had completely fused three Mysteries.
• Beile arrived at Jie Ning's gathering and ordered the group to assemble in three hours for a mission to Black Dragon Fortress, warning that it was only the beginning.
• On the Bana Continent, Jie Ning confirmed that the Fire Element Overgod had abandoned the conflict with the Four Divine Beasts and gained insight into the Teleportation Array's Runes.
• Jie Ning gained a Destiny God Avatar and completed the Life-Death Battle Formation, which strengthened his Life and Death God Avatars by at least twenty percent.

Jie Ning and the Blade Army reached Black Dragon Mountain to hunt suspicious people and Black Dragon Fortress members. After Jie Ning killed three ambushers with his Sandstorm Prison, the mountain collapsed, and Jie Ning realized the Army Lord had attacked.

• Beile led tens of thousands of Blade Army members from Blade City toward Black Dragon Mountain, where Kala assigned his forces to hunt anyone without a badge.
• Jie Ning invited Daisy Lin to join their group and learned from Mosang that she and Kala had been together for decades.
• A Dark Element Middle-God ambushed Jie Ning’s group with black mist, but Jie Ning trapped the attacker and two allies inside Sandstorm Prison.
• Jie Ning used Earth Seed-infused sand to destroy the three Black Dragon Fortress members, then gathered their belongings and God Crystals.
• Black Dragon Mountain suddenly collapsed, and Jie Ning and Kala recognized that the Army Lord had made his move.

After Black Dragon Fortress fell, Jie Ning and the Blade Army helped eliminate nearby forces and expanded the army across the region. Decades later, Jie Ning took over a Teleportation Array post at the newly named Mirror Moon Cliff, where the Blade Army prepared for future operations.

• Jie Ning and his companions defeated escaped Black Dragon Fortress members and discovered that Dinar and Mosang had made progress toward fusing Mysteries.
• Jie Ning’s group reached the Black Dragon Ruins, learned the Blade Army had already looted the shops, and waited for Beile’s orders.
• Beile led the Blade Army’s campaign against nearby forces, and over five years the army absorbed many groups, grew to several million members, and promoted Jie Ning, Dinar, and their companions to Hundred Guards.
• Several decades later, Jie Ning arrived at Purple Castle to replace Mosang and take over the Teleportation Array guard post for ten years.
• Mosang told Jie Ning he had named the place Mirror Moon Cliff, and Jie Ning watched him leave beneath the Purple Moon.

Jie Ning developed a plan to use the Tree of Light and linked spirit trees to connect Bana Continent, boost its elemental density, and eventually share people’s wisdom to accelerate cultivation. After checking the temples and communication network, he ordered Communication Devices to be promoted across the continent as the first step toward his larger plan.

• Jie Ning tested the spirit trees at the temples and confirmed they could communicate across Bana Continent, then ordered Serina to ensure every household received a Communication Device.
• Years earlier, Jie Ning conceived a three-step plan to connect people’s minds without harming them and began testing whether god power could pass through the Tree of Light.
• Arannis failed to transmit her god power through the Tree of Light, but Serina succeeded, and Jie Ning used Life God Power to modify the transmitted energy.
• Jie Ning explained that the Tree of Light and its offspring would form a continent-wide Magic Array to gather elements, then help connect souls and let him draw on everyone’s wisdom.
• Jie Ning said his ultimate goal was to make Bana Continent a cradle for God-level experts, while leaving the details of his third step for later.

Jie Ning and Gru put Jie Ning’s continent-wide plan into action, using the Light Spirit Trees, Jade Spirit Trees, and the Tree of Light to complete a vast Magic Array. The array helped the Tree of Light form a Wind God Avatar and created a new Life God Power array; Jie Ning then told Gru the next step was to distribute Communication Devices.

• Jie Ning secured Gru’s support, and they planned to place temples at the array nodes and recruit guards through competitions.
• Jie Ning, Serina, and the Tree of Light activated the Magic Array by linking the Light Spirit Trees and Jade Spirit Trees across the continent.
• The array revealed the Laws and Profound Mysteries to Serina and the Tree of Light, and the Tree of Light formed a Wind God Avatar.
• Jie Ning used the completed cycle to create a second Magic Array dominated by Life God Power, which made people near the nodes feel more alert.
• Jie Ning contacted Gru and told him to begin distributing the Communication Devices, and Gru said he had already prepared for their rollout.

After ten years of spreading Communication Devices across Bana Continent, Jie Ning prepared to expand their use with two new options: a collective cultivation alliance and a Death Rule technique that linked users to undead creatures. He set safety limits for the new technique and left Gru to announce the plan.

• Over ten years, Bana Continent flourished as elemental concentration rose, while Communication Devices spread across the continent.
• Jie Ning showed Gru how people could join a Continental Alliance and contribute Soul Power to form a collective entity called Super Intelligence, which would offer cultivation assistance in exchange for Points.
• Jie Ning proposed the Spirit Seeding Technique, which would connect users' souls to undead creatures so that the creatures' devouring strengthened their hosts' souls.
• Jie Ning set restrictions for Spirit Seeding, limiting access to people with spiritual power at level six or above and banning applications from anyone under sixteen.
• Gru agreed to Jie Ning's standards and promised to announce the new Communication Device options.

Jie Ning launched the second phase of his Communication Device plan by gathering soul fragments from those who joined the Continent Alliance and combining them into a Divine Spark. He created a basic Super Intelligence that could grow stronger over time, leaving its participants’ souls connected to its development.

• Gru’s Communication Device options spread across the Bana Continent, while Jie Ning restricted the Undead Realm option to suitable targets with strong mental power.
• After learning that Jie Ning was both the God of Life and the God of Death, some upper-class figures considered choosing multiple options, but Jie Ning ruled that out.
• A month later, Jie Ning instructed Alliance members to press their Communication Devices to their foreheads and extracted a wisp of soul from each participant.
• Jie Ning placed the gathered soul fragments and a wisp of his own soul into an Earth Demigod Divine Spark, then synchronized and erased their subjective consciousness.
• The soul collective formed a basic Super Intelligence, which Jie Ning nourished with a Magic Array as its connected participants felt their souls subtly strengthened.
• Around one billion people had joined the plan, and Jie Ning concluded that Super Intelligence still had considerable room to grow.

Jie Ning began sending more than one hundred thousand volunteers into the Undead Realm as skeletons, planting Soul Seeds in them so he could share their experiences and gain insights into death and destruction. Buster survived his first encounter with stronger undead, while the volunteers’ arrival barely registered across the realm.

• Jie Ning used the Life and Death God Avatars and the Life God Avatar’s Magic Array to prepare the volunteers’ souls for the Spirit Seeding Technique.
• Jie Ning sent the first thousand volunteers into weak, remote skeleton bodies and planted a wisp of his Soul Power in each soul.
• Buster adapted to his fragile skeleton body, defeated five skeletons, and absorbed their Soul Fires to grow stronger.
• Bone Birds nearly shattered Buster’s soul, but Jie Ning’s Soul Seed stabilized it before an Undead Knight killed the birds and departed.
• More than one hundred thousand volunteer-controlled skeletons appeared across the Undead Realm, where their arrival caused little notice.

Beile gathered Jie Ning and the others to explain the Blade Army’s mission to secure positions near Hell’s Teleportation Arrays and support a campaign to spread faith across the Material Planes. Jie Ning and Mosang joined Beile’s team, which set out toward Mirror Moon Cliff, while the other teams flew in different directions.

• Beile told the gathering that the Blade Army would station teams near Hell’s Teleportation Arrays to receive soldiers returning from missions in the Material Planes.
• Jie Ning explained that the Overgod needed Faith Power and that the arrays’ return routes were random, so the Army had to cover multiple locations.
• Beile said his team would visit four nearby families with ties to multiple Overgods, and Jie Ning suspected they were the Four Divine Beasts Clan on the Blood Peak Continent.
• The group chose Mosang to accompany Beile and Jie Ning, and Beile ordered Jie Ning and Mosang to select a hundred subordinates each.
• A week later, Beile led the several hundred-person team aboard a Golden Dragon Metal Lifeform and warned them not to enter conflict with followers of another Overgod.
• Six Golden Dragons departed Blade City in different directions.

Jie Ning and his companions traveled through Hell, discussing why Highgods became bandits before their Metal Lifeform was caught in strange gravity. Jie Ning recognized that Zi Jing had appeared and identified her as an Overgod, and she asked how he had figured it out.

• Jie Ning exposed Mosang's bets on his battles, and Mosang flew off to confront the other bettors.
• Beile explained that Highgod bandits sought ambition and resources, and revealed that the Blade Army had once been bandits under their Army Lord.
• The group resumed their journey, but their Metal Lifeform was seized by strange gravity and landed in a misty area.
• Jie Ning suspected the group was in the Purple Crystal Mountain Range and sent Beile a Telepathic Message to offer their Metal Lifeform.
• Zi Jing appeared after Beile offered the Metal Lifeform, and Jie Ning identified her as an Overgod.
• Zi Jing praised Jie Ning's cleverness and asked how he had recognized her interest in the Metal Lifeform.

Jie Ning impressed Zi Jing by detecting her manipulation of gravity and demonstrating that he had fused three Mysteries. Intrigued by his Earth Doppelganger and its possible use in creating new Purple Crystal Divine Beasts, Zi Jing offered him a position as her Overgod's Envoy, and he accepted.

• Jie Ning explained that his strong soul and experience fusing Mysteries had helped him notice changes in gravity around the Metal Lifeform.
• Jie Ning revealed that he had fused Earth Element, Earth-walking Technique, and Power of Life, astonishing Zi Jing and the Blade Army's Highgods.
• Zi Jing ordered Jie Ning to demonstrate his abilities, and his Earth Doppelganger gave her an idea for creating a Purple Crystal Divine Beast clan.
• Zi Jing asked Jie Ning to become her Overgod's Envoy, and Jie Ning agreed.

Jie Ning studied Metal Lifeforms with Zi Jing and learned to awaken their bodies with Earth Element and Power of Life, then helped Zi Jing create a living Purple Crystal Monster. A century later, the Bana Continent had prospered and Jie Ning had gained new Divine Avatars, but an unknown figure appeared before him and confronted him about his actions in the Undead Realm.

• Beile reassured Mosang that Jie Ning was safe as an Overgod's Envoy, then led the Blade Army toward Tiger Flight City.
• Jie Ning studied the Metal Lifeforms with Zi Jing, discovered how to activate their bodies, and created a black bear that gained a soul when Zi Jing supplied Soul Power.
• Jie Ning helped Zi Jing activate a Purple Crystal Monster, though it was unlike a true Purple Crystal Divine Beast, and he continued cultivating Gravity Space in the Purple Crystal Mountain Range.
• A hundred years later, Jie Ning had gained Fire Element and Destruction Rule Divine Avatars, while the Bana Continent had grown stronger and its people had embraced the Four Divine Beasts Church and Communication Devices.
• An unknown figure suddenly appeared before Jie Ning and remarked that his actions in the Undead Realm were interesting.

Rias, the Death Overlord, discovered that Jie Ning’s Soul Seeds could collect the experiences of undead and their linked human souls, giving her new hope of becoming a Paragon. She tracked him to the Bana Continent and asked whether the Soul Seeds could work on God-level experts.

• Rias watched Jie Ning’s special undead through the Heart of the Underworld and noticed a Soul Seed remaining after one of them died.
• Rias examined the souls of several special undead and realized their Soul Seeds could gather their thoughts and experiences for Jie Ning.
• Rias used a Plane Projection to appear beside Jie Ning in the Forest of Life on the Bana Continent.
• Jie Ning recognized Rias as an Overgod and kept the others silent while she questioned him.
• Rias asked Jie Ning whether his Soul Seeds could be used on God-level experts.

Rias, the Death Overlord, recruited Jie Ning for his Soul Seed Secret Art and made him her Overgod’s Envoy, while allowing his Earth God Avatar to remain with Zi Jing. Jie Ning traveled to the Underworld to meet Rias, where she announced her arrival to the startled locals.

• Jie Ning explained that Soul Seeds could be planted in God-level experts only before they became gods, and Rias decided to use the art to recruit promising Death Rule practitioners.
• Rias offered Jie Ning a Nether Fruit, a vial of Sovereign’s Might, the position of her Overgod’s Envoy, and a choice of two Sovereign Artifacts in exchange for the Soul Seed Secret Art.
• Jie Ning told Rias that his Earth God Avatar already served Zi Jing, so Rias contacted Zi Jing and asked her to let Jie Ning serve as her Envoy too.
• Zi Jing agreed to Rias’s request and allowed Jie Ning’s Earth God Avatar to continue working with her in Hell.
• Rias gave Jie Ning a scroll to summon her in the Underworld, and Jie Ning suspended the Undead Realm project before traveling there.
• When a bald man approached Jie Ning in the Underworld, Jie Ning tore the scroll, and Rias’s face appeared in the sky to tell him she was coming.

Rias brought Jie Ning to Nether Mountain and gave him a Nether Fruit, which rapidly advanced his Death Rule comprehension and made his Death God Avatar a Highgod. After explaining the fruit’s lingering effect, Rias left with Jie Ning, while Bena returned to her tree and Little Gold hid from Rias.

• Rias killed Lik when he tried to speak, then took Jie Ning away while the others fought over Lik’s Space Ring.
• Rias carried Jie Ning through the Heaven and Earth Chains to Nether Mountain’s summit, then led him to Bena, the Nether Fruit Tree Overgod.
• Rias asked Bena for a Nether Fruit as the first payment she had promised Jie Ning, and Jie Ning ate it.
• The Nether Fruit greatly accelerated Jie Ning’s Death Rule comprehension, and Heavenly Law transformed his Divine Spark into a Highgodhead.
• Rias explained that the fruit’s remaining aura would continue boosting Jie Ning’s comprehension, then teased Little Gold before leaving with Jie Ning.

Jie Ning received Sovereign's Might and two defensive Sovereign Artifacts from Rias, then taught her the Heart of the Dao Seed Demon Technique. After testing it and enjoying its effects, Rias gave Jie Ning her Token and told him to refine the artifacts before returning for a task.

• Rias let Jie Ning choose six kinds of Sovereign's Might and later gave him the remaining kinds as they arrived.
• Jie Ning requested and received a Soul Defense Divine Artifact and a Material Defense Divine Artifact.
• Rias dismissed Yin Nawei and had Jie Ning explain the Heart of the Dao Seed Demon Technique.
• Rias tested the technique by planting and removing Soul Seeds in Yin Nawei and other Underworld inhabitants, and she enjoyed experiencing their perspectives.
• Jie Ning cultivated while Rias continued using the technique and collected rent from the other elemental Overgods.
• Rias gave Jie Ning her Token and ordered him to refine the two Sovereign Artifacts before returning to receive a task.

Jie Ning gathered powerful Underworld residents and assigned them to teach newcomers about Death Magic and gather Combat Projections for an Overgod’s mission. He promised Nether Stones and Sovereign’s Might as rewards, then sent the group to begin.

• Jie Ning subdued Mulixie with a soul attack, and Mulixie agreed to follow his orders after recognizing Kaile and the other experts.
• Rias watched Soul Seed hosts from Nether Mountain and wondered how Yin Nawei and Jie Ning’s travels were going.
• Jie Ning took Mulixie and the gathered experts to Undead Sacred Mountain and ordered them to teach newcomers about Death Magic, prevent them from leaving, and explain the value of Nether Stones.
• Jie Ning gave Muka the Token needed to activate the Teleportation Array and warned the group that he had completely controlled Muka’s soul for disobedience.
• Jie Ning promised ten thousand Nether Stones for each returning newcomer with a Combat Projection, plus Sovereign’s Might for the experts who completed the mission, and sent them to work.

Jie Ning spent several thousand years recruiting Saint Realm experts at the Underworld’s Teleportation Arrays and using their Soul Seeds to strengthen his divine avatars. He later showed Zi Jing his progress in the Earth Rule, while Plas began to change after cultivating in the Purple Crystal Mountain Range.

• Jie Ning returned to the Bana Continent, installed a soul-controlled Middle-God as its new Undead Realm transfer station, and then went to the Underworld to recruit subordinates.
• Jie Ning planted Soul Seeds in selected Saint Realm experts, reclaimed them when the experts returned, and paid them the promised Nether Stones.
• Over several thousand years, Jie Ning’s Death God Avatar surpassed ordinary Seven-star Demons, his Life God Avatar became a High-God, and his other avatars made substantial progress.
• Jie Ning told Zi Jing that he had comprehended Gravity Space and found points of compatibility with two Earth Mysteries, and he planned to try bringing amethyst to life.
• Zi Jing struck Plas into the earth and ordered him to cultivate, after which she and Jie Ning sensed that his aura was changing.

After Zi Jing failed to make the Purple Crystal Mountain Range nurture another Purple Crystal Beast, she took Jie Ning out to travel and relax. Two hundred years later, they protected Gnev’s merchant caravan toward Meiluo City, where the caravan’s workers mistakenly believed Jie Ning was a High-God disguising his strength.

• Zi Jing buried a Purple Crystal Beast to see whether the mountain range would nurture it like Plas, but the attempt failed.
• Zi Jing invited Jie Ning to leave the Purple Crystal Mountain Range, and he agreed that they had spent long enough cultivating in seclusion.
• Two hundred years later, Jie Ning and Zi Jing traveled as Demon guards with Gnev’s caravan, which was headed for Meiluo City.
• Gnev delivered information about Meiluo City to Jie Ning and Zi Jing, then boasted to the caravan workers about their costly food and powerful status.
• The workers praised Jie Ning for disguising his strength as a Middle-God, while Zi Jing and Jie Ning listened unseen and discussed how they would react if they knew he really was a Middle-God.

Jie Ning revealed that he had fused the Strength Mystery with three other Mysteries, then used his Earth Doppelgangers to defeat a bandit force attacking the caravan. The chapter ended with him preparing to open the Space Rings he had collected.

• Zi Jing reacted with surprise to Jie Ning's rapid progress and encouraged him to help bring about a second Purple Crystal Divine Beast.
• Jie Ning agreed to handle a bandit force approaching the caravan, and six of his Earth Doppelgangers appeared to confront them.
• Gibol recognized that the caravan might be protected by a powerful expert, but he and his High-God companions engaged Jie Ning's Doppelgangers anyway.
• Jie Ning's Doppelgangers quickly defeated the bandits, and one of them killed Gibol with a punch after trapping him with Gravity Space.
• Jie Ning collected the bandits' spoils and placed their Space Rings before himself, ready to open them.

After settling the caravan mission and choosing to stay in Meiluo City, Jie Ning and Zi Jing explored the city and discovered an account of Stone Drum Mountain in Gnev’s notebook. They became interested in visiting its mysterious stone wall, which countered attacks with the same technique, and the chapter left them considering the site.

• Gnev gave Jie Ning and Zi Jing their mission rewards, adding five hundred thousand ink stones to each as thanks for protecting his caravan.
• Jie Ning and Zi Jing left the Demon Fortress, decided to stay in Meiluo City, and rented a courtyard for ten years.
• After resting for two days, Jie Ning and Zi Jing began sightseeing, then used Gnev’s notebook to look for notable places while waiting for their meal.
• Jie Ning read about Rainbow Valley and a divine-beast sculpture gallery, and Zi Jing showed interest in visiting the gallery.
• Jie Ning found the entry on Stone Drum Mountain, and Zi Jing read that its stone wall struck back at attackers with the same technique; she became interested in it.

Jie Ning and Zi Jing visited Stone Drum Mountain to investigate its mysterious stone wall. After driving off the gathered experts, they tested the wall and discovered that it simulated Zi Jing’s attack with a slight delay.

• Jie Ning and Zi Jing finished their meal and traveled to Stone Drum Mountain after reading about its stone wall.
• Zi Jing pretended to dismiss Jie Ning, and several experts pursued him while Kalo introduced himself to Zi Jing.
• Jie Ning returned after defeating the pursuers and said they had taught him insights into Earth Pulse and their techniques.
• Kalo and the other experts left after Zi Jing and Jie Ning said they only wanted to study the stone wall.
• Zi Jing attacked the wall, which returned an identical move, and she and Jie Ning realized its simulated reflection moved a moment later.

Zi Jing and Jie Ning discovered that Stone Drum Mountain powered the Stone Wall’s ability to simulate people and techniques, then moved the mountain to the Purple Crystal Mountain Range. Meanwhile, Rias tested her Soul Control Technique on Xisha and began arranging a meeting between two people whose bodies had been swapped, while Jie Ning considered trying the Stone Wall’s counterattack without five fusions.

• Zi Jing explained how the Stone Wall gradually created a duplicate of her and reproduced her techniques, though its simulations were weaker and lacked her Soul Stone.
• Wuliqi brought a blue-haired girl with an unusually resistant soul to Jie Ning, who recognized her as Rias using a host to test her Soul Control Technique.
• Rias traded Jie Ning one bottle of Overgod Power for his Consciousness Swap Secret Art, then left Xisha in his care and used the technique to swap the bodies of a gray-haired youth and a purple-haired man.
• Jie Ning arranged for Xisha to stay safely on the Undead Sacred Mountain, while Rias watched the body-swapped pair and planned to guide them into meeting.
• Zi Jing determined that the Stone Wall’s power came from Stone Drum Mountain, uprooted the mountain, and carried it back with Jie Ning to the Purple Crystal Mountain Range.
• Jie Ning and Zi Jing installed Stone Drum Mountain outside the range’s protected layout, confirmed that the Stone Wall still produced its counterattack, and Jie Ning considered testing it without five fusions.

Jie Ning and Zi Jing used Stone Drum Mountain’s magic array to create a juvenile Purple Crystal Beast, which Zi Jing took away to be nurtured by the Purple Crystal Mountain Range. Over thousands of years of further experiments and cultivation, Jie Ning fused Power of Life with Gravity Space and became a High-God in Earth Pulse.

• Jie Ning and Zi Jing activated the magic array on Stone Drum Mountain, combining Zi Jing’s Purple Crystal Energy with Jie Ning’s Life Activation to form a Purple Crystal Beast inside the Stone Wall.
• The Stone Wall cracked and released the creature; Zi Jing identified it as a juvenile Purple Crystal Beast whose scattered Soul Power was beginning to gather into a Soul Stone.
• Zi Jing took the juvenile to the Purple Crystal Mountain Range for nurturing, while Jie Ning inspected the damaged Stone Wall and discovered his first insight into combining Power of Life with Gravity Space.
• Jie Ning continued cultivating as Zi Jing and Jie Ning created more Purple Crystal Beasts; after thousands or tens of thousands of years, Jie Ning fully fused Power of Life and Gravity Space.
• Jie Ning failed to find a point of compatibility between Power of Life and Earth Pulse, but reached great mastery in Earth Pulse and became a High-God in his Earth God Avatar.

Vivia told Rias that Utred wanted all Sovereigns to petition the Supreme God to reveal the remaining Sovereign Sparks, and the Overlords agreed to proceed while reserving control over some Sparks. Jie Ning learned that the contest was imminent and prepared to take part, but the chapter ended with him deciding which divine avatar to send.

• Vivia visited Jie Ning and reunited with Rias, who was possessing Xisha's body.
• Vivia explained that Utred wanted the Sovereigns to ask the Supreme God to reveal the remaining ownerless Overgod Sparks, and Rias agreed that they should act despite Utred's motives.
• Rias and Vivia met Utred in Hell, where they agreed to petition the Supreme God and arrange the Sparks in their respective systems.
• Rias revealed that she hoped Jie Ning would become a Chief Sovereign and said a remaining Death System Lesser Sovereign Spark might suit him.
• Utred summoned every Chief Sovereign in Hell to the Sea of Chaos, and Zi Jing warned Jie Ning to give up if the contest became too dangerous.
• Jie Ning returned to the Bana Continent with a plan to send one divine avatar to compete, but he had not yet chosen between his Life and Death avatars.