Chapter Summaries

Lei Wen joined Fier’s attack on Luo Ye’s people and secretly collected the corpses and Godheads of fallen experts. Ten years later, after keeping a low profile in Black Stone Settlement, he returned from patrol and activated his room’s isolation barrier.

• Fier led more than ten Godhead experts from Black Stone Settlement into the Black Stone Mountain Range to confront Luo Ye’s people.
• Light Mane and his men attacked, and Lei Wen killed an axe-wielding Godhead expert before secretly collecting the corpse and Godhead.
• Lei Wen moved along the battlefield’s edges, killing vulnerable enemies and collecting corpses while Fier fought Light Mane.
• Light Mane fled after about half an hour, and Fier stopped his men from pursuing as both sides counted their dead.
• Over the next ten years, Lei Wen served quietly in Black Stone Settlement and declined several chances to become a squad leader.
• After a routine patrol, Lei Wen returned to his stone house, activated its isolation barrier, and let out a slow breath.

After more than ten years of cultivating secretly, Lei Wen devoured a water-affinity High God and completed his understanding of Roundness, breaking through to become a Water-affinity High God. The breakthrough caused a vast disturbance over Black Stone Settlement, where Annia recognized that Lei Wen had advanced.

• Lei Wen reviewed his six cultivation talents and explained why he had revealed only his water- and fire-affinity god avatars.
• Lei Wen used the corpse of a water-affinity High God he had killed to deepen his understanding of Roundness.
• After half a month of enlightenment, Lei Wen’s water-affinity god avatar underwent the Laws of the world and became a High God.
• A huge vortex of Water Elements formed above Black Stone Settlement, drawing the settlement’s attention to Lei Wen’s residence.
• Annia realized Lei Wen had broken through and wondered how she would address him when they met again.

Lei Wen completed his breakthrough to Higher God, and the cleansing of Higher Divine Power strengthened his original body to the level of a Middle Godly Artifact. After estimating that his combat strength had reached the level of a seven-star fiend, he learned that the Settlement Chief wanted to meet him.

• Lei Wen merged with his Water affinity god avatar and endured the transformation of his body under Higher Divine Power.
• Lei Wen tested his new physical strength and found that his unpowered strike could tear open space.
• Lei Wen assessed that his three fused Water affinity profound mysteries and powerful body gave him combat strength on the level of a seven-star fiend.
• Xue Ke arrived and, overwhelmed by Lei Wen's presence, respectfully told him that the Settlement Chief wished to see him.

Lei Wen faced Black Stone Settlement chief Kram, proved his soul was strong enough to counter Kram’s attack, and rejected an offer to become the settlement’s second chief. He told Kram he planned to leave because he could not remain in one place for long.

• Lei Wen walked through Black Stone Settlement to the chief’s residence, unaffected by the pressure surrounding Kram’s fortress.
• Kram attacked Lei Wen’s soul with his gaze, but Lei Wen shattered the strike and nearly countered with a blade-like force.
• Kram recognized Lei Wen’s strength, dropped his hostile manner, and offered him the position of second chief along with a share of the settlement’s profits.
• Lei Wen politely rejected Kram’s offer, explaining that he intended to leave and was not suited to staying in one place.

Lei Wen left Black Stone Settlement after Klar abandoned any plan to stop him, then traveled to the Ashen Mountain Range to hide and grow stronger. In a secluded cave, he began devouring the Water-affinity corpses he had collected over the past ten years.

• Lei Wen demanded forty percent of the profits, and Klar decided it was too dangerous to oppose him, giving him an Ink Stone as a parting gift.
• Klar refused his subordinate’s suggestion to kill Lei Wen, warning that Lei Wen was no longer weak.
• Lei Wen flew away from Black Stone Settlement and used a metallic lifeform to travel quickly to the Ashen Mountain Range.
• Lei Wen found a hidden cave in a dead volcano, set up an isolation barrier, and brought out more than ten corpses of Water-affinity gods.
• Lei Wen summoned his Taotie Heaven-Devouring Beast Form and began devouring the corpses for their energy.

Lei Wen devoured the remains of divine realm experts to absorb their power and law fragments, forming destruction- and lightning-type Lower God avatars. After five years of further cultivation, his Divine Venerable body remained at its peak, his supply of corpses ran out, and he decided to leave the cave.

• Lei Wen absorbed divine power and destruction law fragments from more than ten corpses, then split his divine core and formed a destruction-type Lower God avatar.
• Lei Wen devoured lightning-type remains and, a year later, formed a lightning-type Lower God avatar after the laws of heaven and earth descended again.
• Lei Wen withdrew the lightning avatar and began devouring life-type remains to test whether his true body's physical strength could surpass the mid-stage god bottleneck.
• Over five years, Lei Wen slaughtered and absorbed the remains of more than a hundred Divine Emperor experts, but his Divine Venerable body stayed at its peak.
• Lei Wen found that his reserves of Divine Emperor remains were depleted and decided to go out for a walk.

Lei Wen left his mountain retreat and entered Luo Ye City, where he sold a large cache of godheads and registered as a demon hunter. His Upper God strength earned him a three-star Medallion without an assessment.

• Lei Wen reviewed his six god avatars and decided it was time to leave the mountains.
• Lei Wen entered Luo Ye City and went to Demon God Castle to sell his godheads.
• The purple-haired woman counted Lei Wen’s godheads and paid him 15,232,000 Ink Stones.
• Lei Wen released his Upper God aura, and the woman waived the assessment and registered him as a three-star demon Hunter.

Lei Wen accepted a five-star bounty to hunt the Black Wind Bandits despite his three-star badge, confident in his true strength. At Sunset Mountain, the bandits surrounded him, and he instantly killed one of their upper gods, leaving the rest stunned.

• Lei Wen chose the bounty to kill the Black Wind Bandits’ leader and accepted the mission despite the elder’s warning about its five-star difficulty.
• Lei Wen traveled to Sunset Mountain in a metallic lifeform and entered the bandits’ territory openly.
• A bandit spotted Lei Wen and alerted the bald leader, who gathered his forces to intercept him.
• The bandits surrounded Lei Wen, and their leader demanded his Spatial Ring and metallic lifeform.
• Lei Wen attacked and killed an upper god bandit in one move, then stored the corpse in his Spatial Ring.

Lei Wen killed Fanged-Eye Saint King and his followers after they targeted his disciples. He trapped the fleeing bandits within Sunset Mountain using Water affinity law techniques.

• Lei Wen killed a high-ranking god with a single strike, shocking Fanged-Eye Saint King and the bandits.
• Fanged-Eye Saint King attacked Lei Wen with his giant axe, but Lei Wen caught the blade with his bare hand.
• Lei Wen shattered the axe and killed Fanged-Eye Saint King, then collected his Godhead and corpse.
• The surviving gods fled, but Lei Wen spread an invisible ripple that condensed the moisture around Sunset Mountain.
• The fleeing bandits realized that no matter how fast they moved, they remained surrounded by the same mountains and gray sky.

Lei Wen devoured the gods he had killed at Sunset Mountain, absorbing their power and law insights over two years. He reached the threshold of a seven-star Infernal Realm expert and decided to settle his mission in Blackstone City.

• Lei Wen used the mist to slaughter Luo Ye and the trapped gods, then fled underground with the spoils.
• Lei Wen devoured the fierce-eyed upper god's corpse and began fusing [Mist of Snow] with his other Water laws.
• Lei Wen spent two years devouring the remaining corpses, strengthening his body and advancing his other god avatars.
• Lei Wen completed the fusion of four Water profound mysteries, reaching the threshold of a seven-star Infernal Realm expert.
• Lei Wen decided to leave and settle his mission in Blackstone City.

Lei Wen turned in Black Wind’s head, earned a five-star demon rank, and accepted a bounty to eliminate the Purple Thorn Bandit Group. He attacked the group in Demon Soul Canyon and charged toward its chief and hundreds of bandits.

• Lei Wen turned in Black Wind’s head and received a five-star demon medallion and one thousand Ink Stones.
• Lei Wen rejected an escort offer and accepted the bounty to eliminate the Purple Thorn Bandit Group, led by the six-star demon Poison Scorpion.
• Lei Wen entered Demon Soul Canyon and killed two bandits with his ice and water abilities.
• Lei Wen sensed the bandits deeper in the canyon and charged toward them as the alarm sounded.

Lei Wen spent twenty years hunting the Purple Claw Spider Clan, devouring demons to strengthen his body and god avatars until he became known as the Iceblood demon. With his growth slowing and the Spider Clan scattered, he considered seeking stronger prey in the Infernal Realm Continent as he pursued a path to becoming a Sovereign.

• Lei Wen devoured Poison Claw after crushing his Godly Artifact and defeating him at Wind Soul Gorge.
• Over twenty years, Lei Wen hunted the Purple Claw Spider Clan across the Purple Orchid Continent, raising his demon medallion from five stars to seven.
• Lei Wen assessed his greatly strengthened body and seven god avatars, including a Water affinity avatar with five fused profound mysteries and a newly awakened earth god avatar.
• With ordinary superior Gods offering little further growth and the Spider Clan scattered, Lei Wen considered traveling to the Infernal Realm Continent for stronger prey.
• Lei Wen reasoned that reaching the Great Circle with his Water affinity god avatar could qualify him to receive a Sovereign Godhead from Beite.

Lei Wen crossed the Starry Sea of Mist toward Flame Peak Continent, but a clan battle destroyed his Metal Life and drew him into a confrontation with the Akers family and the Venomous Snake clan. After rejecting the Akers leader’s inadequate compensation, Lei Wen declared that he was hungry and vanished.

• Lei Wen set out from Violet Thorn Continent for Flame Peak Continent aboard a Metal Life, crossing the dangerous Starry Sea of Mist.
• A stray sword wave destroyed Lei Wen’s Metal Life, and he spotted the Akers family and the Venomous Snake clan fighting over a Snake-Head Ink Stone.
• The Akers and Venomous Snake leaders stopped fighting when they sensed Lei Wen, an unfamiliar figure whose strength they could not read.
• The Akers leader offered Lei Wen an Ink Stone as compensation and ordered him to leave.
• Lei Wen destroyed the Spatial Ring, rejected the compensation, and said he was hungry before suddenly vanishing.

Lei Wen slaughtered the Soundwave clan’s forces and defeated their leader, but the leader revived using the Power of the Main God and struck Lei Wen hard. Lei Wen emerged from the sea in his strongest state, combining his true body with his Water affinity god avatar, ready to fight back.

• Lei Wen used mist, illusions, and water blades to kill hundreds of the Soundwave clan’s high gods.
• The leader of the Soundwave clan attacked Lei Wen with a flaming axe, but Lei Wen caught the strike and impaled him with an ice spear.
• The withered old man fled, but Lei Wen pursued him and stopped him with a crushing force and a spear of blue light.
• As Lei Wen searched the fallen enemies for spoils, the Soundwave clan leader revived with the Power of the Main God.
• The revived leader shattered Lei Wen’s ice spear and sent him crashing into the Deep Sea.
• Lei Wen returned to the surface and switched places with his Water affinity god avatar, unleashing the power of his true body and avatar together.

Lei Wen endured Luo Ye’s Sovereign-powered assault, outlasted his power, and killed him before collecting his Godhead and spatial ring. Meanwhile, elite forces from the Ares Family and Poison Snake Family arrived on the island.

• Luo Ye battered Lei Wen with Sovereign-powered punches, but Lei Wen’s body regenerated from the damage.
• Luo Ye attacked with his High God Artifact, but Lei Wen redirected most of the axe’s force and sensed the Sovereign power fading.
• Luo Ye fled, and Lei Wen killed him with Water Dragon Roar, which shattered his body, soul, and Godhead.
• Lei Wen caught Luo Ye’s Godhead, collected the battlefield, and vanished into the sea breeze.
• The elite forces of the Ares Family and Poison Snake Family arrived at the island’s center.

Lei Wen escaped to a deep-sea trench with the corpses from the battle and began devouring them to increase his strength. While the Akka Infernal Realm family and the poisonous serpent clan fought over the vanished fighters, Lei Wen’s body began evolving as he absorbed the corpses’ energy and law fragments.

• The purple-robed elder accused the poisonous serpent clan of killing Ba Ke and taking his Spatial Ring, while the clan leader demanded the return of his missing clansmen.
• The Akka Infernal Realm family and the poisonous serpent clan attacked each other over their suspicions.
• Lei Wen reached a deep-sea trench, secured a cave with warning arrays, and sorted the corpses he had collected.
• Lei Wen decided to devour the corpses before traveling to the Blood Peak Continent and seeking a Chief Godhead at the Hidden Abyss Palace.
• Lei Wen summoned a massive insect phantom that swallowed the corpses, and their energy and law fragments began strengthening his body.

After thirty years devouring godheads, Lei Wen emerged with a body as tough as a Master God Artifact and greatly strengthened divine avatars, though his Water affinity fusion remained just short of completion. He recognized that his power still fell far short of a Great Perfection expert, but possessed a drop of Water affinity Master God power.

• Lei Wen emerged from thirty years of cultivation and found his evolved body could withstand crushing seawater and shatter his Spatial Ring with a clenched fist.
• Lei Wen assessed his progress and concluded that more than a thousand devoured godheads had made his physical defense comparable to a Master God Artifact.
• Lei Wen found that five Water affinity profound mysteries had fused, while Floating Shadow Body remained stalled; he wanted to devour a suitable Infernal Realm expert for inspiration.
• Lei Wen reviewed his other avatars: Fire and Thunder had fused five profound mysteries, Light and Earth had fused four, Destruction and Life had reached seven-star Infernal Realm level, and Fate had reached five-star Infernal Realm level.
• Lei Wen judged that he still could not match a Great Perfection expert, then recalled the drop of Water affinity Master God power left by the venomous snake chief he had killed.

Lei Wen arrived on Blood Peak Continent after a ten-year journey and learned that the Purple Manor Lord was a powerful Water Affinity expert. Seeing the Manor Lord as a chance to advance his strength, Lei Wen decided to make the Purple Manor his first destination.

• Lei Wen took a strand of Main God Power from Luo Ye and left the Starry Sea of Darkness for Blood Peak Continent.
• During the ten-year journey, Lei Wen studied the Laws and drove away bandits with his upper god's pressure.
• Lei Wen reached Black Stone City, entered the Scarlet Rose tavern, and listened for news.
• A green-haired upper god told the tavern patrons that the Purple Manor Lord had crushed a seven-star demon who challenged the manor.
• Lei Wen decided to head to the Purple Manor and target the Manor Lord's Water Affinity cultivation.

Lei Wen arrived in Luo Ye and registered at Phantom Demon Castle to challenge the Estate Lord. After signing the contract, he was set to begin a gauntlet of one hundred battles against Seven-Star Phantom Fiends.

• Lei Wen entered Purple Nether City and headed for Phantom Demon Castle.
• Lei Wen showed the staff member his Seven-Star Phantom Fiend Medallion and declared his intention to challenge the Estate Lord.
• Ao Ge Suo Pu explained that Lei Wen would have to defeat one hundred Seven-Star Phantom Fiends while facing challengers drawn by a public reward.
• Lei Wen accepted the rules and signed the contract, with the arena battles scheduled to begin the next day.

At Purple Prison Martial Arena, Lei Wen faced challengers in the one-night bet and effortlessly defeated two seven-star Ice-Pattern demons. After crushing Ba Zhan Ke and Dark Shadow Blade, he called for the next challenger.

• Lei Wen stood in the packed arena as Ba Zhan Ke, a seven-star Ice-Pattern demon of the Thunder faction, challenged him.
• Lei Wen caught Ba Zhan Ke's hammer barehanded and sent him crashing into the arena barrier with a flick of his wrist.
• Dark Shadow Blade vanished into the shadows and attacked Lei Wen from behind with a poisoned dagger.
• Lei Wen caught the dagger between two fingers, crushed it, and hurled a shard through Dark Shadow Blade's chest.
• Lei Wen had Dark Shadow Blade carried out of the arena and called for the next challenger.