Chapter Summaries

Xuan Ye rescued the Human Race from the Black Evil Beast horde and saved thousands of soldiers whose Magic Cores threatened to kill them. After accepting Obert’s thanks, he planned how to strengthen the Human Race before his mission ended.

• Obert surveyed the crater and the wiped-out Black Evil Beast horde, stunned by the magic that had saved the city.
• Xuan Ye brought Oseros and two other scouts to the high platform, then linked and hypnotized thousands of soldiers who had consumed Magic Cores to keep them alive.
• Xuan Ye considered the dangers of this era, including unrestricted Saint Rank Grandmasters and Oseros, and resolved to proceed cautiously.
• Obert thanked Xuan Ye for saving the Human Race, his soldiers, and his son, while the defenders saluted him.
• Xuan Ye planned to raise Oseros, teach the Human Race basic magic, and find them a powerful backer so they could survive after he left.

Xuan Ye took Oseros to track the source of the Black Evil Beast tide while teaching him meditation and confirming traces of hidden bloodline power in his body. At a volcanic crater, a robed figure revealed that the beasts had been transformed from geckos using a strange red slime and resumed conducting experiments.

• Xuan Ye told Obert and Oseros that he was human, then flew off with Oseros to investigate the source of the Hell Abyss-tainted creatures.
• Xuan Ye asked Oseros what he wanted to learn, and Oseros firmly chose magic despite the risks and sacrifices involved.
• Xuan Ye taught Oseros a customized Basic Meditation while tracking the Black Evil Beasts and detected Bloodline Power in him.
• A robed figure at a volcanic crater learned that the Black Evil Beasts had been wiped out and wondered whether a passerby had intervened.
• The robed figure poured crimson slime into a pit, where geckos transformed into Black Evil Beasts, then resumed stirring the cauldron and chanting spells.

Xuan Ye brought Oseros to the Abyssal Rift, where he discovered a Sacred Relic-like force had drawn the Black Evil Beasts toward the city. As a powerful black-robed figure arrived, Xuan Ye identified it as a Barbarian warlock and judged it to be a Half-Saint.

• Oseros vomited from fear of heights, so Xuan Ye chose to walk with him and teach him along the beasts’ tracks.
• Xuan Ye found corrosive, decayed soil and deduced that a Sacred Relic or its power had attracted the Black Evil Beasts.
• Xuan Ye led Oseros to the Abyssal Rift and explained its connection to the attacks on the Wall of Life and the gods and demons beyond it.
• A black-robed figure appeared above the volcanic range, and Xuan Ye recognized its Barbarian language and Abyssal warlock power.
• Xuan Ye assessed that the figure was a Half-Saint who had failed to become a Sacred Relic through the Shaman’s path.

Xuan Ye confronted Guji Jia, the historical ancestor of warlocks, in an Abyssal Rift and fought him after Guji Jia summoned a demon. Xuan Ye pinned the demon with the Sacred Spear and gained the advantage, leaving Guji Jia facing his calculated trap.

• Guji Jia recognized that Xuan Ye knew the name of the warlock profession and demanded to know who he was.
• Xuan Ye warned Guji Jia to abandon his experiments and leave, but Guji Jia summoned a Half-Saint Abyssal Demon.
• Xuan Ye drew on the Abyssal Rift’s power and attacked Guji Jia with the Sacred Spear.
• Guji Jia unleashed his Hell Demon Eye, but realized it had not absorbed any life force from Xuan Ye.
• Xuan Ye’s spear pierced and suppressed the summoned demon, and he revealed that he had anticipated Guji Jia’s trump card.

Xuan Ye defeated Guji Jia and a demon in the Abyssal Rift, sealed Guji Jia’s escaping flame, and gained Essence and copied laws. He left Oseros inspired to pursue the Saint Rank as they went to inspect their spoils.

• Xuan Ye sent the weakened demon back through a Reverse Summoning Array and used time magic to interrupt Guji Jia’s Abyssal Touch Kill.
• Xuan Ye pierced Guji Jia with his Sacred Spear, but Guji Jia abandoned his body and escaped into the Abyssal Rift.
• Xuan Ye sealed the white flame from Guji Jia’s ruined body with a sealing array and absorbed Essence from both defeated foes.
• Xuan Ye removed most of the feathers protecting Oseros, explained the Saint Rank threshold, and urged him to learn self-protection.
• Xuan Ye told Oseros that the Black Evil Beast would be no more, then led him toward their spoils as Oseros resolved to become a Saint.

Xuan Ye used Demon Blood to study the Black Evil Beasts, repaired the abyssal rift, and upgraded his Wings of Void, reaching the middle stage of Grandmaster. He returned his attention to the Human Race after Kordell learned that the Black Evil Beast calamity had been eradicated and worried about the army left at the front line.

• Xuan Ye tested the Demon Blood on a lizard, stopped its transformation, and stored the blood in his Spatial Ring.
• Xuan Ye gave Oseros basic magic books and used Rule Formulae to repair the damaged space and close the abyssal rift.
• Xuan Ye upgraded his Wings of Void with the Demon Blood and reached the middle stage of Grandmaster.
• Xuan Ye decided to take Oseros back to the Human Race and seek information about the era.
• Kordell received a report that the Black Evil Beast calamity had been eradicated and worried about the military force remaining at the Wall of Life.

After returning to Kazan City-State, Xuan Ye and Obert reported that the Black Evil Beast threat had been eliminated, but the council's leaders questioned the cost of maintaining the army. A Troll representative then demanded that the Human Race slash its forces and send the freed workers to the Troll tribe as slaves, leaving the returning soldiers outraged.

• Xuan Ye traveled with Obert and the returning generals to Kazan City-State, reflecting on humanity's humble society and its emerging hereditary leadership.
• Kordell greeted the victorious army and asked whether the Black Evil Beasts had been eliminated without major losses.
• An agriculture official complained that supporting the front-line troops burdened the Human Race, angering Obert and the soldiers.
• Obert warned Kordell that reducing the army would leave the Human Race vulnerable to the Barbarian Race.
• A Troll representative emerged and demanded that the Human Race reduce its standing army to one-tenth and send the able-bodied to the Troll tribe as slaves.

Xuan Ye intervened when the Troll envoy tried to turn the disbanded Human soldiers into serfs and slaves, then killed the envoy and Kordell after they threatened the humans. He ordered the court historian to erase the events from the record, leaving the Human Race without its former leader and facing the consequences of Xuan Ye’s defiance.

• Oseros protested the Troll envoy’s plan to enslave the disbanded soldiers, and Xuan Ye stopped him from speaking further before demanding that the Human Race’s status and rights be renegotiated.
• The Troll envoy ordered his guards to roast Xuan Ye, but Obert revealed that Xuan Ye had repelled the beast tide and destroyed its source.
• Xuan Ye stripped Kordell of his authority and killed him after Kordell tried to issue an order as Human leader.
• Xuan Ye forced the Troll envoy to consume himself and vanish after the envoy refused to back down.
• Xuan Ye told the trembling court historian to erase what had happened and not record it.

Xuan Ye rejected the Human Race cabinet’s attempt to make him take the blame for killing a troll envoy, dismissed its members, and appointed Oseros as the Human Race leader. He founded the Summit of Saints on the sacred mountain and decided to wait for the Troll Race’s negotiators.

• The cabinet members condemned Xuan Ye for killing the troll envoy and demanded that he leave or take responsibility, while Oseros and Obert defended him.
• Xuan Ye admitted he had killed the troll and destroyed the Black Evil Beast, silenced the logistics official, and refused to act for the Human Race’s approval.
• Xuan Ye dismissed the cabinet members and appointed Oseros as the Human Race leader, ordering the generals to assist him.
• Xuan Ye carved the words “Summit of Saints” into the sacred mountain and told Oseros that it would become a center where the leaders of every race received recognition.
• Obert asked how they would handle the Troll Race, and Xuan Ye said he would wait for an envoy with authority to negotiate.

Xuan Ye examined Oseros's blind sister, Osna, and discovered that her undeveloped visual system and weak Life Fire made her condition difficult to treat. While Xuan Ye went to the Peak of the Holy Mountain, White Spear prepared to confront the Human Race over a clan member's death and demand payment.

• Oseros brought Xuan Ye home, where Aunt Xiang told him that Osna was frail and had been worrying about her family.
• Xuan Ye scanned Osna and found that her visual nervous system had never developed and her Life Fire was weak, leaving her little time to live.
• Xuan Ye agreed to try to help Osna, then asked Oseros to arrange a room and gave him a feather to use if an important Troll arrived.
• Xuan Ye stepped onto a sacrificial platform at the Peak of the Holy Mountain.
• White Spear learned that a Golden Spear Clan member had died in human territory and decided to lead Trolls to the human settlement to demand compensation and slaves.

Xuan Ye discovered that the Human Race’s ancestral shrine was built around an ancient spaceship called the Ark and entered it after activating its dormant system. Meanwhile, White Spear’s attack on the Human Race was halted by the overwhelming power of the words “Summit of Saints,” and the Trolls withdrew after Oseros told him to summon their leader.

• Xuan Ye found the Ark embedded in the ancestral shrine, activated its system by speaking Chinese, and entered the newly opened passage.
• Obert learned that White Spear had arrived and called Oseros to the council hall for help receiving him.
• White Spear stormed the council hall, accused the Humans of killing a Troll, and declared the Human Race would become the Golden Spear Clan’s slaves.
• The power of the words “Summit of Saints” overwhelmed White Spear and his Trolls while leaving the Humans unharmed.
• Oseros told White Spear to summon the Troll leader as his teacher had instructed, and White Spear withdrew with his people.

After discovering the abandoned spacecraft’s role in humanity’s origins on Reizel, Xuan Ye negotiated with Troll leader Zuopan Steeltooth to secure better terms for the human race. He left Zuopan weighing the humans’ apparent harmlessness against Xuan Ye’s demands and strength.

• Xuan Ye deduced that the automated spacecraft had created Reizel’s human ancestors by adapting clones with native bloodline traits, then took its data to preserve.
• Xuan Ye emerged from the sealed spacecraft, and Oseros reported that his warning had deterred the Troll envoy, though a guard had died and the council hall had been demolished.
• Zuopan Steeltooth confronted Xuan Ye, but Xuan Ye displayed his Six Realms power and invoked the protection of the Elf Race and the Dragon Clan, earning the Troll leader’s willingness to negotiate.
• Xuan Ye demanded that the Trolls treat humans as trading partners rather than slaves or food, and fulfill their duties as a suzerain nation.
• Xuan Ye blamed White Spear for killing human soldiers and demolishing the council hall, then insisted the Trolls punish him while warning that he could abandon the humans and act freely.
• Zuopan Steeltooth found Xuan Ye’s arguments difficult to refute, while Xuan Ye privately counted on his strongest disciple eventually waking to challenge the Trolls.

Xuan Ye drove Zupan Steelfang away and inspired the Human Race to rely on its own strength. He then brought Oseros’s blind sister, Osna, to the Ark for treatment, where the cultivation pod detected a deficiency in her optic nerve genes.

• Zupan Steelfang agreed to punish White Spear himself and offered materials and possible aid in exchange for Xuan Ye’s services.
• Obert and the Human Race celebrated the end of the Troll Empire’s threat, but Xuan Ye reminded them that their survival came from their own efforts.
• Xuan Ye told Oseros he had clues about his sister and met Osna, who agreed to let him examine her.
• Xuan Ye placed Osna in the Ark’s cultivation pod to treat her blindness.
• The pod detected an optic nerve gene deficiency, and Xuan Ye wondered whether Osna was connected to the Xuan Family’s Eyes of Lawbreaking.

Xuan Ye restored Osna’s sight and continued strengthening the Human Race through teaching and building a foundational Barrier. After spending over a year on his preparations, he set out to fulfill his Pledge of Allegiance by disrupting a Barbarian Grandmaster’s attempt to reach Saint Rank.

• Xuan Ye gave Osna the potential to awaken the Eyes of Lawbreaking, and she opened her eyes and saw light for the first time.
• Osna reunited with her father and younger brother while Xuan Ye left them to share the moment as a family.
• After the Troll Race delivered its promised supplies, Xuan Ye began tempering his wings, teaching Human Mage Apprentices, and constructing a foundational Clan Protection Barrier around the Sacred Mountain.
• The Troll Great Chieftain reminded Xuan Ye that he had taken too long to show his sincerity, and Xuan Ye realized he had spent more than a year preparing.
• Xuan Ye departed with Oseros to disrupt a peak Grandmaster of the Barbarian Race who was trying to break through to Saint Rank.

Xuan Ye brought Oseros to the Barbarian Hammer Clan, where a Barbarian was preparing to reach the sacred rank. After deciding they would not sneak around, Xuan Ye led Oseros to the front seats and arranged for him to fight a Barbarian warrior.

• Xuan Ye reviewed what he knew about the Barbarians and concluded that Zupan'er Steel Fang had manipulated him into provoking them to secure the Troll Race's support.
• Xuan Ye landed with Oseros near the Barbarian Hammer Clan and told him to feel the clan's surging vitality and the sacred might of the Barbarian attempting a breakthrough.
• Xuan Ye and Oseros walked openly into the tribe, where visiting guests were welcomed and seats were arranged according to strength.
• Xuan Ye told Oseros they would sit in the front row, drawing comments from the Barbarians about their small, frail appearance.
• A green-skinned Barbarian of the Huohou Clan blocked their way, and Xuan Ye told Oseros to fight him before issuing the challenge in fluent Barbarian.

Xuan Ye led Oseros through the Barbarian gathering, where Oseros won a bare-handed challenge and earned the Barbarians’ respect. Xuan Ye then overwhelmed everyone who tried to stop them and claimed the chief seat from the Barbarian Shaman.

• Xuan Ye made Oseros fight a green-skinned Huohou Clan warrior bare-handed, and Oseros learned his opponent’s patterns before defeating him with a rank-one fire spell.
• The defeated warrior acknowledged Oseros as a worthy warrior, and the surrounding Barbarians showed him respect.
• Xuan Ye told Oseros to keep winning, then declared that it was his turn to advance toward the important figures’ area.
• Xuan Ye’s aura silenced the Barbarian gatekeeper and the Professional Rank experts, allowing him and Oseros to pass without resistance.
• Xuan Ye reached the foremost row, and the Barbarian Shaman rose and yielded the chief seat to him.

Xuan Ye seized the attention at the Barbarian ceremony, challenged Sama Barbarian Hammer, and killed a Split-Skull Troll Half-Saint to prove his strength. He held up the Troll’s severed head and asked Sama whether he would fight.

• Xuan Ye’s arrival and the respect shown to him stunned the Barbarians and other spectators.
• Sama Barbarian Hammer welcomed Xuan Ye, while a Split-Skull Troll Half-Saint questioned why a Human had come to the ceremony.
• Xuan Ye turned the Troll’s remark against him, prompting him to apologize to Sama and easing the tension.
• Xuan Ye announced that he had come to challenge Sama and shouted that he would prove himself worthy of Sainthood.
• Xuan Ye killed the Split-Skull Troll Half-Saint with a single blow and presented his severed head to Sama, asking whether he would fight.

Xuan Ye fought Sama Barbarian Hammer in a fierce duel that helped Sama Barbarian Hammer break through to Sainthood. Xuan Ye asked him to repay the favor by protecting the Human Race, and Sama Barbarian Hammer promised to do so.

• Sama Barbarian Hammer eagerly accepted Xuan Ye's challenge, and they took their duel into the sky.
• Xuan Ye and Sama Barbarian Hammer exchanged powerful blows, with Xuan Ye matching Sama Barbarian Hammer's growing strength.
• Xuan Ye called the duel his loss and congratulated Sama Barbarian Hammer as auspicious signs marked his advancement to Sainthood.
• Sama Barbarian Hammer gave Xuan Ye a Saint's fang and acknowledged his debt after realizing Xuan Ye had held back.
• Xuan Ye asked Sama Barbarian Hammer to repay him by helping the Human Race, and Sama Barbarian Hammer solemnly agreed.

After leaving the Barbarian Hammer Clan, Xuan Ye was trapped between Hal. Broken Tooth and Liu Jin Split-Skull, two Saint Rank powerhouses who planned to kill him. Their attacks collided, and a golden-flamed figure appeared beside Liu Jin Split-Skull in Deity Mode.

• After Oseros stayed behind to challenge Barbarian warriors, Xuan Ye left the Barbarian Hammer Clan and was intercepted by Hal. Broken Tooth.
• Hal. Broken Tooth accused Xuan Ye of failing to secure a Pledge of Allegiance and trapped him within a Saint Rank Innate Domain.
• Liu Jin Split-Skull appeared, and Hal. Broken Tooth and Liu Jin agreed to join forces to kill Xuan Ye rather than risk letting him escape.
• Hal. Broken Tooth and Liu Jin Split-Skull unleashed their powers, but their attacks collided and hollowed out the void around Xuan Ye.
• A figure covered in golden flames appeared beside Liu Jin Split-Skull and spoke in Deity Mode.

Xuan Ye turned the clash between two Saint Rank Grandmasters into a trap, sealing the battlefield and using his control over space and time to kill Flowing Gold. Split-Skull. Harl. Broken Tooth remained trapped and weakened, leaving Xuan Ye facing the surviving threat.

• Xuan Ye blasted Flowing Gold. Split-Skull into the Fire Elemental Plane and wounded Harl. Broken Tooth by reversing his teleportation with the Blood Pupils.
• Flowing Gold. Split-Skull returned, and Xuan Ye sealed the Innate Domain so neither Saint Rank Grandmaster could escape.
• Xuan Ye used a Dragon Clan Demonic Array and 'Scratches of Time's Flowing Sands from Claw Tips' to overwhelm Flowing Gold. Split-Skull.
• Flowing Gold. Split-Skull exchanged his body for his Natal Sacred Relic, but Xuan Ye shattered the bone scepter with his spear.
• Xuan Ye used 'Playfulness Traversing the River of Time' to evade Flowing Gold's bone maw, then struck down his unprotected Saint Body.