Chapter Summaries

Lin Xiao escaped Zhu Lien’s pursuit and continued hunting in the wasteland while planning how to advance without relying on the dangerous powers of a Soul Apostle. Zhu Lien learned Lin Xiao’s secret and recruited help to capture him, while Lin Xiao reached the edge of the ancient battlefield and prepared to pursue a different path to greater strength.

• Lin Xiao burned Zhu Lien’s black beetles and scattered phantom souls, preventing Zhu Lien from tracking him.
• Zhu Lien used Contribution Points to post a mission seeking Lin Xiao’s capture and offered another reward for a powerful Magic Item.
• Zhu Lien deduced that Lin Xiao was a Soul Apostle favored by the Lord of the Weird World and coveted that power for himself.
• Lin Xiao headed for the ancient battlefield after nearly wiping out the small Half-Scorpion Man tribes, intending to hunt powerful monsters instead.
• Lin Xiao settled in a sealed nest on the battlefield’s edge and continued training until his mental power nearly reached the First-Circle limit.
• Lin Xiao rejected the Soul Apostle advancement method and considered directly strengthening his existing mental power core, despite losing the chance to gain another innate spell.

Lin Xiao advanced to a Second-Circle Warlock, strengthened his defenses with a new spell and gained two Titan Ancient God bloodline talents. When Zhu Lien attacked, Lin Xiao destroyed his magical pet and insect swarm, but Zhu Lien escaped and asked a woman for help.

• Lin Xiao advanced to a Second-Circle Warlock, rebuilt Wind Spirit Armor into Wind Spirit Moon Shadow, and gained the Ancient God's Power and Deification talents.
• Zhu Lien tracked Lin Xiao to the Twisted Battlefield and ambushed him with the Crystal King Snake and a swarm of black beetles.
• Lin Xiao restrained and crushed the Crystal King Snake, then destroyed the beetle swarm with flames and a powerful blow.
• Zhu Lien vanished using a gemstone, while Lin Xiao searched the area and eventually left; Zhu Lien later emerged from beneath the king snake's corpse.
• Zhu Lien fled to a distant ruin and contacted a woman, admitted his failure, and accepted her offer of help.

Zhu Lien sought the Life Holy Bottle to power a weapon against Lin Xiao, while Lin Xiao completed the first stage of his Soul Apostle contract and chose to end it. The Lord of the Weird World rewarded him with a vast increase in mental power and a life-saving mark, and Lin Xiao considered how to use his remaining souls without exposing the Creation Cube.

• Zhu Lien asked a woman to lend him the Life Holy Bottle so he could unleash the Boiling Blood Spear against Lin Xiao.
• Lin Xiao paid the Lord of the Weird World one hundred thousand souls and asked to terminate their contract rather than continue as a Soul Apostle.
• Lin Xiao explained that he feared the corrupting, addictive power of soul devouring, and the Lord of the Weird World agreed to end the contract.
• The Lord of the Weird World purified the payment's remaining essence into a reward that greatly increased Lin Xiao's mental power, then left him a mark that could save his life if he accepted another contract.
• Lin Xiao devoured his remaining souls and used the Creation Cube to purify them, then rejected the idea of becoming a Soul Apostle again to use it because the Lord of the Weird World might discover the Cube.

After a Spiritfolk Descender tried to ambush Lin Xiao, Lin Xiao killed him and discovered that the man’s mirror connected to the True Underworld Progenitor. Fearing the Progenitor’s attention, Lin Xiao fled through a spatial rift into an ocean world, where he eventually spotted a populated island.

• A black-robed wizard accepted Zhu Lien’s bounty and approached Lin Xiao’s hiding place, but Zhu Lien soon learned that the wizard had died.
• Lin Xiao examined the wizard’s mirror in the Creation Cube, encountered the True Underworld Progenitor’s power, and lost more than four thousand units of Creation Energy.
• The True Underworld Progenitor issued a massive bounty for Lin Xiao, and Zhu Lien began trying to earn the reward by sharing clues.
• Lin Xiao crossed the Ancient Battlefield, fought a strange fish guarding a spatial rift, and escaped into another world.
• Lin Xiao emerged from the ocean, flew thousands of kilometers, and found a large island inhabited mainly by humans and aquatic humanoid races.

Lin Xiao spent more than ten years hiding as a bookstore owner on Vela while preparing to advance from Level 3 Warlock to Level 4 Dawn Warlock. After absorbing the Soul Power of two hundred thousand souls, he began his advancement and used the moment when the Wizard World’s suppression eased to release the remaining Titan Ancient God Bloodline from the Creation Cube.

• Lin Xiao settled on Vela, opened a bookstore, and learned that the Sea King Empire ruled the world and sought to expedition into other worlds.
• Over more than ten years, Lin Xiao reached the limit of Level 3 and prepared to leave the island for his advancement.
• Lin Xiao left Vela, restored himself, and merged the accumulated Soul Power of two hundred thousand souls into his soul.
• The surge in soul strength triggered Lin Xiao’s transformation, and a spark of dawn light began to form as he sensed the Wizard World’s will and the power of his True Spirit.
• Lin Xiao connected his will to the Creation Cube and released the remaining Titan Ancient God Bloodline while the Wizard World’s suppression had eased.

After advancing to Fourth Order Dawn Warlock, Lin Xiao joined the Sea King Empire to gain access to resources and opportunities for interworld conquest. Three years later, the Sea Emperor appointed him Deputy Division Commander of the Thirteenth Legion, where he learned he had been sent to reinforce a battered unit guarding a passage to another world.

• Lin Xiao fused the remaining Titan Ancient God Bloodline, formed a Dawn Warlock halo, and began developing the potential to condense a unique true body.
• Lan Yu invited Lin Xiao to join the Sea King Empire on behalf of the Sea Hero King, and Lin Xiao accepted.
• Lin Xiao became a senior adviser in the Imperial Military Department, rejected recruitment offers from the Sea Emperor and Sea Kings, and spent three years studying and fishing.
• The Sea Emperor promoted Lin Xiao to major general and appointed him Deputy Division Commander of the Thirteenth Division and Brigade Commander of its Third Brigade.
• Lin Xiao took command at the Thirteenth Legion's garrison and discovered that a recent secret mission had killed two of its five Fourth Order powerhouses and left the others wounded.

Lin Xiao attended the Thirteenth Legion’s final assessment of the Gray Crow People World, where the officers reviewed its strength and resources before deciding whether to conquer it. Lin Xiao and Yalin judged the world valuable chiefly for its population and bloodline resources, favoring a brutal plunder rather than settlement.

• After nearly a year without assignments, Lin Xiao noticed increased scouting activity and received a summons to a meeting of the legion’s senior officers.
• The officers reviewed a century of scouting reports showing that the Gray Crow People World had several kingdoms, a large population, abundant minerals, and possibly one or two hidden fifth-level powerhouses.
• Lin Xiao concluded that the world was worth conquering because its tens of millions of inhabitants could provide souls, flesh, and Crow God bloodline essence.
• Yalin agreed that the world’s resources were valuable but said its environment was unsuitable for the Sea King Empire, making bloody plunder followed by abandonment the best approach.

Lin Xiao’s division joined the Sea Race invasion of the Gray Crow People World, where the legion planned to conquer and plunder the kingdoms and Sethekk Temple. After the troops established their base, Lin Xiao oversaw the slaughter and plunder of Gray Crow People settlements while collecting souls and Flesh Essence to strengthen himself.

• Leo secured approval for the invasion plan, and Lin Xiao ordered his division to prepare for the expedition.
• After the Second Division established an expeditionary base, Lin Xiao led the Third Division through the Portal and set up camp in the Gray Crow People World.
• Lin Xiao’s vanguard captured a town and killed its captives, gathering their souls and refining their bodies into Flesh Essence.
• The First Battle Battalion attacked the northern Gray Crow People lord’s territory, destroyed his forces, and plundered his city while Lin Xiao watched.
• Lin Xiao arranged to acquire soul pearls and Flesh Essence, which he needed to condense a true body and advance his strength.

Lin Xiao and the Fourth Division faced a Gray Crow People army far larger than their own at White Bone Plain, and months of stalemate ended when the enemy attacked the Fourth Division’s camp. Lin Xiao chose to strike the enemy main camp instead, while the Gray Crow People commanders ordered their forces to counterattack.

• The Thirteenth Legion’s divisions advanced into the Gray Crow People kingdoms, but Sethekk Temple helped the defenders mobilize and stop the allied armies at White Bone Plain.
• Lin Xiao and Nolan’s forces entered a prolonged standoff against a larger Gray Crow People army, and Lin Xiao secretly strengthened his body by consuming purified Soul Orbs and Flesh Essence.
• After half a year of provocations, the Gray Crow People attacked the Fourth Division’s camp, and Lin Xiao ordered his troops to assault their main camp instead of sending reinforcements.
• The Gray Crow People marshal ordered Duke Huoer to hold the main camp and sent Prince Aisailan to reinforce it while he launched a full-scale attack.
• Duke Huoer and a Royal Offering saw Lin Xiao’s golden light and prepared to face him together.

Lin Xiao destroyed the Gray Crow People main camp, but their commander outmaneuvered the Fourth Division and crippled it. Nolan placed the surviving Fourth Division under Lin Xiao’s temporary command, leaving Lin Xiao burdened with its defense as he pursued the chance to restore his Titan Ancient God True Body.

• Lin Xiao transformed into a golden giant, crushed the Royal Offering, captured Duke Huoer, and swallowed him after the Gray Crow People camp collapsed.
• The Gray Crow People commander ordered a careful retreat, then used a hidden force to encircle and defeat Nolan’s pursuing Fourth Division.
• Lin Xiao arrived after the battle, found the Fourth Division devastated, and withdrew his forces after a brief standoff with the Gray Crow People.
• Nolan asked Lin Xiao to command the surviving Fourth Division until reinforcements arrived, and Lin Xiao accepted temporarily.
• Lin Xiao considered the burden of taking command and hoped that conquering more worlds would give him enough power to condense and restore his Titan Ancient God True Body.

Lin Xiao kept the Gray Crow People at bay by withdrawing more than a million logistics troops while preserving his fighting force and supplies. As the three-month deadline neared, a Fifth-Order Gray Crow Person appeared, and Lin Xiao revealed his own Fifth-Order strength as he prepared to fight and devour the enemy.

• Lin Xiao considered his path to recovering his strength and suspected that his father-in-law might have chosen to remain trapped in the Wizard World or suffered a failed contingency.
• As the Gray Crow People gathered strength and the Expeditionary Army faced dwindling supplies, Lin Xiao sent roughly one hundred thousand troops away every three days while leading the main force to defend the camp.
• Lin Xiao explained to Nolan that he had withdrawn the logistics troops to conserve food, leaving the camp able to hold out for more than half a year.
• With the auxiliary and logistics troops mostly gone, Lin Xiao repeatedly challenged the Gray Crow People, but none of their eight Fourth-Order experts dared face him.
• Shortly before the three-month deadline, Lin Xiao and Nolan sensed a Fifth-Order expert in the Gray Crow People camp, and Lin Xiao revealed that he too had Fifth-Order strength.

Lin Xiao faced the Son of Sethekk and discovered that its ultimate attack drew power from Crow God Sethekk, who had fused with the Gray Crow People World's World Origin. Lin Xiao survived the assault, leaving the Son of Sethekk and the surrounding Gray Crow People experts stunned.

• Lin Xiao left Nolan to command the allied division and stepped forward to fight the Gray Crow People’s Fifth Order expert, the Son of Sethekk.
• The Son of Sethekk transformed into a huge fire crow and attacked Lin Xiao’s Golden Titan form with burning firebirds while Nolan and the armies withdrew.
• The Son of Sethekk summoned eight Fourth Order Gray Crow People and invoked Sethekk’s power, binding Lin Xiao as a vast face appeared in the sky and struck him with a pillar of light.
• Nolan prepared to retreat after the blast, but he and the soldiers saw Lin Xiao standing unharmed beneath the pillar of light.
• Lin Xiao explained that the attack borrowed the power of Crow God Sethekk, who had fused with the World Origin, and said his soul had withstood it.

Lin Xiao absorbed the Gray Crow World’s source energy, overcame the blood crystal Crow Person, and formed his first true body as a Devouring Titan Giant God. After the Sea Emperor ordered the war to stop and the Sethekk Crow People offered surrender, Lin Xiao faced a test of whether he would obey.

• Lin Xiao endured Crow God Sethekk’s attack and used the transparent pillar to devour the Gray Crow World’s source energy, weakening the Wizard World’s suppression on him.
• Crow God Sethekk seized the Son of Sethekk’s body and sacrificed over a million Crow People and many Fourth Order powerhouses to create a blood crystal Crow Person.
• The blood crystal Crow Person pierced the Golden Titan repeatedly, but Lin Xiao’s growing power let him trap it inside his body and absorb its Flesh Essence to complete his first true body.
• Lin Xiao proclaimed himself the Devouring Titan Giant God, while the allied forces later captured the Northern Crow-Man Kingdom and continued fighting the Southern Crow-Man Kingdom.
• The Sea Emperor ordered the Thirteenth Legion to withdraw after the Sethekk Crow-Man Temple offered surrender, and Nolan told Lin Xiao he believed the order was fake.
• Lin Xiao recognized that the surrender and withdrawal order was a way for the Sea Emperor to restrain him and test his obedience, and he considered how to respond.

Lin Xiao kept clear of the Sea King Empire’s political struggles while recovering his strength and preparing to leave for other worlds once he reached the Seventh Order. The chapter then shifted to the Underground World, where Troglodyte and God of Darkness presided over a powerful, rapidly growing god system led by the Fifth Generation Troglodytes.

• Lin Xiao resigned from his military post, rejected the Empire’s envoys, and accepted a stipend as Empire Chief Advisor after reassuring the Sea Emperor that he had no ambitions for power.
• Lin Xiao studied how to condense his Second True Body and spent more than a century restoring the power suppressed in his True Spirit, drawing close to the peak of the Seventh Order.
• The Empire’s pursuit of Nora continued after he infiltrated the Empire as Hunting Shadow Dragon Vincent and stole a treasure, but Lin Xiao ignored the fugitive when his aura briefly passed near Lin Xiao’s island.
• Lin Xiao planned to leave the Sea King World and seek his opportunity in top-tier worlds after his True Body finished fusing with his First True Body.
• Troglodyte and God of Darkness oversaw an Underdark god system that had unified the region, with Dominic and God of War and Victory advancing to Intermediate Divine Power.
• The Fifth Generation Troglodytes became the foremost race of the Underdark as its population and the power of its gods grew.

After two hundred years of expanding his Underdark faith, Lin Xiao had enough followers and divine power to pursue Greater Divine Power, but he still needed to claim an exclusive Divine Profession. He chose Magic and began preparing to challenge the God of Magic, leaving to search the Astral Realm for materials to forge a fitting divine artifact.

• Lin Xiao reviewed the growth of his Troglodyte followers and his Divine Professions, noting that his abundant divine power could support a much higher Godhead Level once he mastered the necessary laws.
• Lin Xiao considered Darkness, Magic, and Matter as possible primary Divine Professions and concluded that Magic was the most practical choice, despite requiring him to defeat the God of Magic and seize the Magic Divine Profession from its other holders.
• Lin Xiao issued a Divine Revelation ordering the United Divine Kingdom's Subordinate Gods to prepare for war against the God of Magic's god system.
• The gods of Lin Xiao's god system instructed their followers to prepare for divine war.
• One of Lin Xiao's Divine Avatars entered the Gods' Graveyard Astral Realm to find materials for a divine artifact suited to the Magic Divine Profession.

Lin Xiao explored the Astral Realm, where he found a fallen Deity’s shattered remains and recovered a damaged divine artifact. He identified it as a real-time map of the Main Material Plane and reflected on how fallen Divine Domain Sons guarded humanity’s Main World.

• Lin Xiao entered the Astral Realm, marked his position, and flew toward a cluster of meteors formed from a fallen Deity.
• Lin Xiao trapped nearby Astral creatures in a mana barrier and killed them before searching the meteors.
• Lin Xiao cut open the meteors, collected immortal blood, and seized a golden light that burst from the central meteor.
• Lin Xiao suppressed the living golden object and discovered it was a damaged divine artifact shaped like a sphere depicting the Main Material Plane.
• Lin Xiao activated the sphere and realized it projected a real-time map of the plane, which could help his forces prepare for war against the Magic God System.
• Lin Xiao reflected on how fallen Divine Domain Sons descended into humanity’s Astral Realm to guard the Main World.

After years searching the Astral Realm, Lin Xiao returned to his Divine Kingdom and reforged the damaged planetary divine artifact using rare materials, enemy gods’ Divinity, the laws of magic, and his own divine blood. The result was the high-level divine artifact Magic Net Planet, which could map and affect the Main Material Plane and extend the Shadow Magic Net throughout it.

• Lin Xiao found no further divine artifacts during his two or three years wandering the Astral Realm, though he gathered immortal blood and remnants of petrified God Corpses.
• Lin Xiao sealed his Divine Palace and began reforging the damaged planetary divine artifact with an alchemical array, precious materials, and the Divinity of two True Gods.
• Lin Xiao infused the artifact with laws from his magic Divine Profession and the manifested laws of the Shadow Magic Net.
• Lin Xiao tempered the artifact with ten drops of his own divine blood, completing the forging as the array’s power dispersed.
• Lin Xiao named the result Magic Net Planet, a high-level divine artifact that could project a map of the Main Material Plane, affect locations on it, and spread the Shadow Magic Net across it.

Lin Xiao examined the new functions of his artifact and assessed the forces gathering for an expected war between the Underdark God System and the Magic God System. He began seeking allies by traveling to the Pompeii Empire, where the God of Vengeance held power and harbored a deep grudge against the God of Magic.

• Lin Xiao used his artifact to observe the Main Material Plane and learned that the God of Magic could detect its Shadow Magic Net function, making a divine war foreseeable.
• Lin Xiao surveyed the Magic God System's territories and reviewed the Underdark's preparations, including millions of troops, Legendary Experts, Cave Giants, and shadow mages.
• Lin Xiao concluded that the Underdark would need to defeat the Magic God System's mortal forces and secure allies, since other True Gods were likely to join the conflict.
• Several days later, Lin Xiao traveled from the Underdark Divine Kingdom to the Pompeii Empire, the faith region of the God of Vengeance.
• Lin Xiao considered the God of Vengeance's long-standing hatred of the God of Magic, rooted in the loss of two kingdoms more than two thousand years earlier.

Lin Xiao visited the God of Vengeance to secure an ally for his coming war against the God of Magic, then sought support from the other Greater Divine Powers. After the God of Chaos demanded ten thousand years of service or the Divine Profession of Cave Dweller, and the Sun Lord refused to help, Lin Xiao considered changing his approach.

• Lin Xiao entered Pompeii City unseen, where the God of Vengeance, Leizita, recognized him and invited him to his temple.
• Lin Xiao promised Leizita three kingdoms, two duchies, and a favor in exchange for joining the war against the Magic God System, and they swore a Nether River Oath.
• Leizita introduced Lin Xiao to the God of Chaos, who offered support only if Lin Xiao swore to serve him for ten thousand years or relinquished the Divine Profession of Cave Dweller.
• Lin Xiao rejected the terms and left Chaos Country, then sent an avatar to seek the Sun Lord's aid, but the Sun Lord refused despite Lin Xiao's offer of payment.
• Lin Xiao concluded that he could withstand attacks but needed a new strategy to seize the Divine Profession and advance to Greater Divine Power.

Lin Xiao used his accumulated authority to acquire an Order Divine Profession fragment, intending to draw the Greater Divine Powers’ attention while his war with the God of Magic kept them occupied. As the rival god systems prepared for war, Lin Xiao gathered his seventeen Subordinate Gods and promised to open the Faith Waterfall to strengthen them.

• Lin Xiao reasoned that the God of Justice and the God of Chaos would prevent either side in his war with the God of Magic from gaining too much power, so he sought a way to distract the Greater Divine Powers.
• Lin Xiao used his major general authority and accumulated resources to obtain a sealed godhead fragment containing the Order Divine Profession from the Fifth War Zone.
• Two years later, the Troglodyte God and the God of Magic declared divine war over Divine Professions, drawing the attention of the gods and prompting the God of Fear, Weidus, to plan how to profit from the upheaval.
• After a year passed without fighting, Lin Xiao recalled his Divine Avatars and gathered his Subordinate Gods in his Divine Palace to prepare for the conflict.
• Lin Xiao told the seventeen Subordinate Gods that they had to win the war and announced that he would open the Faith Waterfall to help them face the dangers ahead.