Chapter Summaries

Xuan Ye continued recovering and upgrading his Wings of Void while joking with Deliana and Lia at Mao Mao Tavern. England Nock told him that he and Marquis Mu wanted to begin rebuilding the Ronald Kingdom, which was well positioned to be restored.

• Xuan Ye worked on converting the nodes of his Wings of Void into Treasure Tools and designed a barrier powered by elements drawn from other planes.
• Xuan Ye visited Mao Mao Tavern, where Deliana and Lia teased him about the angels and his interest in Deliana.
• Yao Yao arrived, teased Lia, and told Xuan Ye that his father wanted to see him; Xuan Ye left Lia with Yao Yao and went to find England Nock.
• England Nock explained that he and Marquis Mu believed it was time to establish the framework for restoring the Ronald Kingdom.

Xuan Ye agreed to restore the Ronald Kingdom and went to Ronald to oversee reconstruction, while political disputes over its seat on the Seven Nations Council remained unresolved. As the capital rose again, Xuan Ye completed the sublimation of Wings of Void and reached Grandmaster-rank Godslayer.

• Xuan Ye agreed with England Nock to restore the Ronald Kingdom but left the struggle over the Northern Domain Marquisate’s council seat for later.
• Xuan Ye left Dream Island to govern Ronald, while Kip stayed behind to master his new Saint-rank power and guard the island.
• Ronald’s major powers launched Western Region’s reconstruction with tax breaks, land policies, support, and resources.
• Xuan Ye carved an artificial river through Royal Sea and relocated the Nation-Protecting Barrier as the capital’s general plan took shape.
• Xuan Ye linked his three Angel slaves to a statue in Royal Sea and continued converting Poseidon’s Holy Soul into an Angel.
• Xuan Ye finished sublimating Wings of Void and achieved Grandmaster-rank Godslayer.

Xuan Ye received Angel Investment representatives and their Eastern Continent companions in Royal Sea, where his commanding presence exposed the visitors’ differing intentions. He recognized that the quiet attendant with Kane was a Grandmaster and prepared for the Eastern delegation’s show of force.

• The surviving Ronald Sea Race prepared to migrate, while trade and reconstruction flourished around Royal Sea.
• Slin arrived with Mano, Kane, and an Eastern visitor, and Kane dismissed Xuan Ye’s influence while plotting to use profit and authority against him.
• Xuan Ye reflected on the costly limits of his Grandmaster cultivation before learning that Angel Investment had returned with people from the east.
• England warned Xuan Ye about the Eastern visitors, and Xuan Ye took charge of the government affairs hall while Slin quickly distanced himself from Kane.
• Xuan Ye silenced Kane and identified the apparently ordinary black-robed attendant as a Grandmaster-level envoy from the Eastern Continent.

Xuan Ye received Ulyto and Kane, envoys from the Storm Empire, and learned they had come to offer support for Ronald’s restoration. Ulyto revealed that the New King was a woman with the Ronald Imperial Family’s Royal Bloodline who held a seat on the Seven Nations Council, leaving Xuan Ye to consider the hidden Northern Domain Marquisate survivor behind the claim.

• Kane failed to speak under Xuan Ye’s presence until Ulyto pushed him aside and apologized for his behavior.
• Ulyto introduced himself as Count O'Neal’s Guest Elder from the Storm Empire and identified Kane as the count’s favored grandson.
• Xuan Ye recognized the Storm Empire’s powerful ancient lineage and invited Ulyto to explain their purpose.
• Ulyto offered Count O'Neal’s goodwill and said the New King would recognize Xuan Ye as Prince Consort and formally invest the two Marquises.
• Ulyto claimed the New King was a woman with the Ronald Imperial Family’s Bloodline who held a Seven Nations Council seat, revealing the envoys’ real point.

Xuan Ye saw through Aura and her allies’ attempt to use him to seize the Ronald throne and its imperial treasury. After Aura dismissed the surviving crown prince’s succession rights, Xuan Ye left and killed her with an unexplained power, ending negotiations.

• Xuan Ye questioned Aura’s claim that his Ronald Imperial Bloodline could be verified and listened as she offered him the throne’s benefits.
• Aura said the Seven Nations Council had been asked to annul the succession rights of the surviving crown prince, now the Heart-Guard Marquis.
• Xuan Ye asked whether Aura was from the Northern Domain Marquisate, then said he would remember her answer and that its people must not be allowed to exist.
• Ulyto covered Kane’s mouth as Aura froze, cracked apart, and vanished into specks of light.
• Xuan Ye entered the corridor’s darkness and said they could no longer continue negotiating.

After Aura vanished through a power Ulyto recognized as Saint Rank, Ulyto and Kane abandoned their original plans and discussed pressuring the Ronald Imperial Family into a political marriage. Ulyto prepared to learn more from Grandmaster Slin as they considered their next move.

• Aura disappeared completely, and Ulyto stopped Kane from speaking as the group reeled from her power.
• Ulyto and Kane went to their lodging, where Ulyto explained that Aura’s ability reflected Saint Rank foundations and resolved to invite Grandmaster Slin.
• Kane proposed overthrowing the Ronald Imperial Family or demanding its inherited foundations as compensation, but Ulyto doubted they could force the issue.
• Kane suggested using pressure from the O'Neal Family and arranging a political marriage with the Ronald Princess, and Ulyto saw promise in the plan.
• Grandmaster Slin arrived, and Ulyto decided to question him about the situation.

Slin warned Ulyto and Kane that Xuan Ye could kill Grandmasters, but they dismissed the danger and pursued an alliance and marriage proposal. Xuan Ye heard their offer to marry Kane to Aitiya and privately considered killing them.

• Slin told Ulyto and Kane that he had personally witnessed Xuan Ye kill Grandmasters with ease.
• Ulyto judged that his trump cards could protect him, while Kane decided that becoming a Divine Envoy would help him catch up with Xuan Ye.
• Slin warned them that Hand of Elements and Iron Priestess had protected Xuan Ye, then withdrew rather than get involved in their plans.
• Xuan Ye discussed the Eastern Continent nobles with England and agreed to meet them, while ruling out killing them without cause.
• Ulyto proposed an alliance with the Ronald Imperial Family, promised support for Aitiya's accession, and presented Kane as her marriage candidate.
• Xuan Ye listened to Ulyto's proposal and thought that he should kill them.

Kane and Ulyto tried to negotiate with Xuan Ye, but his uncontrolled power injured and frightened them. After Ulyto offered compensation for Xuan Ye’s crushed Metal Feather, Xuan Ye welcomed them and handed it over for inspection.

• England tried to stop Kane and Ulyto from provoking Xuan Ye as they began their proposal.
• Xuan Ye’s leaking aura cut Kane’s cheek and left Ulyto covered in superficial wounds, prompting them to reconsider their approach.
• Ulyto proposed an alliance through marriage by offering Kane’s eighteen-year-old sister, which further enraged Xuan Ye.
• England tried to calm Xuan Ye and explain that Kane and Ulyto meant goodwill, but Xuan Ye complained that they had crushed his Metal Feather.
• Ulyto promised to compensate Xuan Ye a hundredfold, and Xuan Ye immediately welcomed the pair and gave Ulyto the feather to inspect.

Xuan Ye forced Ulyto to compensate him for the O'Neal Family’s defeat and accepted a Saint Rank Edict. After Ulyto and Kane fled the capital, Xuan Ye dismissed England’s concerns and planned to rely on his connections to handle any future political pressure.

• Ulyto recognized the value of Xuan Ye’s feather and, after Xuan Ye demanded compensation, handed over a Saint Rank Edict as a down payment.
• Xuan Ye accepted the edict, explaining that he wanted to study its Saint Rank power and did not intend to strip the O'Neal Family of every last resource.
• Ulyto and Kane left the imperial palace without meeting Angel Investment and fled the capital.
• Ulyto admitted that the O'Neal Family had to accept defeat because further action against the Ronald Kingdom would cost more than it could gain.
• England tried to warn Xuan Ye about the consequences of his conduct, but Xuan Ye dismissed the concern and pointed to Angel Investment and the Free Trade Alliance as potential allies.

Xuan Ye negotiated with Slin for the Free Trade Alliance’s support before setting out to deal with the Ronald Sea Race. After repeated defeats and Poseidon’s death, the survivors began preparing to migrate, but Xuan Ye found them at their refuge.

• Xuan Ye offered Angel Investment’s loans in exchange for the Free Trade Alliance’s votes and help submitting proposals, and Slin agreed to consult the alliance’s chairmen.
• Xuan Ye told Slin he was going into the sea, then handed reconstruction duties to England and flew east.
• The Ronald Sea Race’s forces and three Light Temple reinforcements attacked Xuan Ye, but four overlords and all three reinforcements fell.
• Poseidon gathered forces and took precautions against Xuan Ye, but meteors struck again and the Sea Emperor died.
• The surviving Sea Tribe prepared to migrate under the protection of a Sea Emperor Race Grandmaster, until he saw Xuan Ye watching them from outside their Barrier.

Xuan Ye confronted the Sea Tribe at their altar and demanded that they hand over Sera and publicly clarify the past accusations. After demonstrating that he could breach their Barrier and threaten their people, he left the High Priest and the Sea Tribe facing his ultimatum.

• Xuan Ye arrived outside the Sea Tribe’s Barrier, where a Sea Emperor Race member recognized him and the High Priest came forward to meet him.
• Xuan Ye dismissed the Sea Tribe’s objections and demanded that they hand over Sera and publicly clarify what had happened before.
• When the High Priest invoked the Saintess’s importance to the Sea Tribe, Xuan Ye refused to back down and challenged their claim to honor and dignity.
• Xuan Ye struck the Barrier’s weak point, briefly breaking through its defenses and showing that he could threaten the Sea Tribe’s ordinary members.
• Xuan Ye warned the Sea Tribe to obey his demand or face the consequences, leaving the High Priest to choose between Sera and his people’s safety.

Valis arrived to mediate between Xuan Ye and the Sea Tribe, but he rejected her appeal to respect her status and threatened her when she seemed ready to interfere. He assured the Sea Tribe High Priest that he would not target ordinary Sea Tribe members unless they provoked him.

• The Sea Tribe High Priest asked Valis to mediate and agreed to her proposed conditions.
• Valis introduced herself to Xuan Ye as a representative of the Gray-Scaled Naga Clan and asked him to end the conflict for her sake.
• Xuan Ye mocked Valis’s request and refused to show her face.
• Valis warned Xuan Ye that newly advanced Saint Rank Grandmasters faced restrictions, but he locked onto her with hostility and made her fear for her life.
• Valis argued that harming civilians was taboo, and Xuan Ye said he would not use the Sea Tribe’s ordinary members as hostages unless they deliberately provoked him.

Xuan Ye attacked the Sea Tribe’s Clan Protection Barrier and killed the Sea Tribe High Priest with a spear, but the Sea God’s power revived him. The barrier began repairing itself, and Xuan Ye had to reconsider how to defeat the High Priest.

• Valis tried to demand more concessions, so Xuan Ye slapped her into a distant seabed mountain range.
• Xuan Ye struck the Clan Protection Barrier’s weakest point, forcing the Sea Tribe High Priest to defend against its collapsing surface.
• Xuan Ye used two Crystals of God to pierce the barrier and hold open a breach with Void Feathers.
• Xuan Ye threw the Blood-colored Sacred Spear through the breach, and the Sea Tribe High Priest’s body shattered.
• The Sea God’s power restored the Sea Tribe High Priest, while the barrier healed and Xuan Ye realized he had lost his chance to finish him off.

Xuan Ye overwhelmed the Ronald Sea Race by attacking its Clan Protection Barrier and forcing its High Priest to accept his terms. Valis returned to find the race had yielded, while she concluded that the Ronald Sea Race had lost its future.

• Valis reached the Barrier just as an oceanic shockwave swept her away, while Xuan Ye confronted the Sea Tribe High Priest.
• Xuan Ye used Dragon Clan runes and precise blasts to drain the Barrier's energy without breaking it, leaving the Sea Tribe unable to counterattack.
• The High Priest offered Sera's release, but Xuan Ye demanded that she be handed over unharmed, that the Ronald Sea Race clarify what happened ten years ago within three months, and that the priest give him about a thousand Faith Points.
• The High Priest accepted Xuan Ye's terms in the name of the Sea God, and Valis returned to witness the Ronald Sea Race's concession.

Xuan Ye freed Sera from the Sea Tribe, restored her memories, and brought her back toward the Kingdom. Days later, Sera was still catching up on the lost decade as she traveled aboard a luxury liner, where Captain Pike warned his bodyguard to treat the mysterious passengers carefully.

• Xuan Ye ordered the Sea Tribe High Priest to undo the seal on Sera’s memories, and Sera recognized him and swam to his side.
• Xuan Ye accepted Faith Points crystal gems from the Sea Tribe, took Sera away, and warned the High Priest to explain the tribe’s past actions.
• Aboard a sea liner several days later, Sera struggled to process the decade she had missed, and Xuan Ye urged her to return to serving Princess Aitiya.
• Captain Pike told Ah Li that the two mysterious passengers who had boarded at sea might be powerful, and instructed him to serve them well.

Xuan Ye spent his voyage to the Free Trade Alliance resting and studying, then rebuffed Britney when she tried to flirt with him. He sensed an ominous presence in her pregnant friend’s unborn child and realized that, once again, he had run into trouble by encountering a beautiful woman.

• Xuan Ye chose to travel by ship to the Free Trade Alliance so he could rest and work on his equipment and abilities along the way.
• After arriving in the Free Trade Alliance, Xuan Ye basked on deck and complained that the voyage had been slow and uneventful.
• Britney approached Xuan Ye, but he bluntly told her to move away because her perfume and scent bothered him.
• Britney’s pregnant friend joined her, and Xuan Ye noticed something strange about the life in her womb.
• Xuan Ye asked the friend how far along she was and who the child’s father was, then sensed that the unborn child carried an ominous aura rejected by the world.

Xuan Ye investigated a strange Ancient God-like aura aboard the ship and discovered that seven women who had attended its ball were affected. After Aitiya and Sera revealed that something had been watching them, Xuan Ye unleashed a storm and vowed to kill whatever threatened them.

• Xuan Ye questioned Britney and Milo about the aura surrounding Milo, but Milo said she did not know how she had become pregnant.
• Xuan Ye secretly investigated the ship and found seven women with the strange aura, all of whom had attended the ship's ball.
• Xuan Ye warned Aitiya and Sera that something foul was aboard the ship.
• Aitiya and Sera told Xuan Ye that their Divine Envoy marks had warned them someone was spying on them.
• Xuan Ye's anger stirred up a sudden storm, and he vowed to destroy whatever was watching them.

Xuan Ye attended a ball to investigate the growing number of infected people and discovered that the ballroom’s magical lamps connected to a dimensional world. In a dark corridor, he encountered Gypsy, whom he believed had died, and demanded to know what had possessed him.

• Xuan Ye went to the ball with Sera and detected a faint dimensional projection produced by the magical lamps.
• Sera knocked out a man who tried to take her from Xuan Ye, and Xuan Ye hid the incident before Captain Pike began the festivities.
• Xuan Ye noticed that Captain Pike’s dance partner was one of the infected women, but he failed to identify the culprit during the ball.
• Xuan Ye learned from Milo that her friend Britney had gone to the restroom and realized the restroom might also be part of the culprit’s setup.
• Xuan Ye entered a dark corridor and found Gypsy, whom he had thought died when Stanrose was destroyed, then demanded that the entity leave Gypsy’s body.

Gypsy revealed that he had sought out Xuan Ye to recruit him, exploiting Xuan Ye’s status as an outsider rejected by the Reizel World and tempting him with the promise of returning home. Xuan Ye resisted Gypsy’s mental influence and wounded him twice, but Gypsy escaped through gaps in the world’s rules, leaving Xuan Ye to consider the danger and turn his attention to the remaining seeds of evil.

• Sera tried to protect Xuan Ye, but Xuan Ye stopped her and faced Gypsy, who invited him to join forces and claimed Xuan Ye held a special place in his heart.
• Gypsy told Xuan Ye that the Reizel World rejected his outsider soul, stirring resentment that the Database absorbed and refined.
• Xuan Ye pierced Gypsy through the void with his Sacred Spear, and Gypsy acknowledged that Xuan Ye had surprised him.
• Gypsy offered to help Xuan Ye return to Earth, but Xuan Ye resisted the temptation and reaffirmed his bonds in Reizel.
• Xuan Ye struck Gypsy again, but Gypsy escaped through gaps in the framework of the rules after warning that Xuan Ye would eventually become his possession.
• Xuan Ye concluded that Gypsy was a dangerous Ancient Evil God and decided to deal with the remaining seeds of evil first.

Xuan Ye discovered that Gypsy had planted a rune in Britney’s mind that could turn a mental seed into physical flesh, and he narrowly avoided being influenced by it. He removed and sealed the contaminated people aboard the ship, then continued studying the forbidden art as he traveled toward the Free Trade Alliance port, hoping to find a way to counter it.

• Xuan Ye broke Gypsy’s sealed space and found Britney in the women’s restroom, where he used his Eyes of Lawbreaking to examine the abnormality in her mind.
• Xuan Ye learned that Gypsy’s rune could become physical flesh and nearly left a subtle mark on his soul before the Soul Database removed it.
• Xuan Ye warned Sera about strange runes and tried to extract the entity from Britney, who regained consciousness and teased him.
• Xuan Ye secretly removed and sealed every contaminated person aboard the ship, then concluded that the rune-made flesh could develop into evil creatures.
• Xuan Ye studied Gypsy’s techniques during the voyage and resolved to seek a way to share his findings with the gods of the Heavenly Realm or the Abyssal Demons.