Chapter Summaries

Moss and his allies used Soul Attacks to let him control Gaia with a Soul Seed, but an Overgod soon expelled them from the Divine Tomb and sent them to Hell. On the Seventeenth Layer, Hanjin and four companions encountered Bamer, Mordon, Bayer, and Palhouse, leaving them facing four Paragon High Gods.

• Moss, Reynalds, and Mold overwhelmed Gaia with Soul Attacks until Moss controlled her, Kesa, and Blue with Soul Seeds.
• An Overgod used Soul Influence to erase the group's memories and transport Moss and the others out of the Divine Tomb to Iron Knife Gorge in Hell.
• Moss identified the being who had acted as a Death System Overgod and led Reynalds and Mold toward You Lan Prefecture to report.
• On the Seventeenth Layer, Bamer emerged from the Flame Abyss and ordered Hanjin and his four companions to turn back.
• Mordon appeared beside Bamer, and then Bayer and Palhouse arrived, confronting Hanjin's group with four Paragon High Gods.

Bamer and three other Paragons drove Hanjin’s group from the Seventeenth Layer, while Lota reflected on desire and the growing violence in the Qingya Plane. Uthred revealed his new soul technique, Time-Space Distortion, and announced plans to challenge Ofu before Lota wiped out the remaining visiting experts and charged Beirut with keeping the continents peaceful.

• Bamer, Palhouse, Bayer, and Mordon jointly attacked Hanjin and the other four Asuras, hurling them into Space Turbulence.
• Lota considered how even Sovereign Gods were moved by personal desires as battles spread through the Qingya Plane and Beirut’s reputation grew.
• Ten thousand years later, Uthred met Lota above the Qingya Plane and explained how he had developed the Four Divine Beasts’ Fusion Talent Divine Power, which he called Time-Space Distortion.
• Uthred told Lota he would challenge Ofu within a thousand years and asked him to gather the Dominator-level experts as witnesses.
• Lota killed nearly all the remaining god-level experts from other planes and instructed Beirut to maintain peace across the continents before returning to the Divine Tomb.

After order returned to the Qingya Plane, Lota mastered the principles of Time-Space Distortion and tested it with his own Essence Blood, discovering that its manifestation differed from the Four Divine Beasts' version. He then met Augusta, who asked where to find Mordon so he could answer for exiling Hanjin.

• Beirut confirmed that the remaining descended experts in the Qingya Plane had fallen, restored order, and planned to cultivate while Calorona stayed with him.
• Lota spent a hundred years deducing Time-Space Distortion and praised Uthred after understanding its principles.
• Lota had Ilitana seal the Divine Tomb's Eighteenth Layer, then used his own Essence Blood to produce a different-looking Four Divine Beasts Phantom.
• Lota ended the experiment, wondered what he had overlooked about the Essence Blood, and left the Divine Tomb when Augusta arrived.
• Augusta told Lota that Mordon had exiled Hanjin into Space Turbulence ten thousand years earlier and asked for Mordon's whereabouts.

Augusta investigated why Mordon and the others had become unusually strong, while Ofu concluded that Lota may have fused the Four Divine Beasts' Essence Blood into them. Ofu then met Uthred, who asked to compete again, but Ofu refused and left the terms of any agreement unresolved.

• Augusta learned from Ninisha that Mordon, Bamer, Bayer, and Palhouse had entered the Eighteenth Layer and later exiled her and Clementing, and he asked Lota to release Mordon.
• Lota told Augusta that Mordon was imprisoned in Divine Tomb, so Augusta departed without finding him.
• Ofu told Augusta he suspected Lota had used the Four Divine Beasts' Essence Blood to make Mordon and the others stronger, based on Ninisha's account of their fight.
• Ofu welcomed Uthred to Augusta Garden, where Uthred said he wanted to compete again after losing to Ofu twice.
• Ofu refused to compete, saying he could no longer withstand Uthred's attacks, and Uthred asked what would persuade him to agree.

Uthred challenged Ofu to a spar one hundred years later, wagering the principles behind their respective Ultimate moves, and the Dominators gathered to witness it. Lota arrived at Augusta Garden with Ilitana, where the other Dominators had assembled, as the spar was about to begin.

• Uthred offered to reveal the principles behind his new move if he lost to Ofu, while asking Ofu to reveal the Reincarnation Golden Body if he lost; they agreed to spar in one hundred years with the other Dominators as witnesses.
• The Dominators learned that Uthred and Ofu's spar could have consequences for the Overgod hierarchy if either of them suffered an accident.
• In the Eighteenth Layer of the Divine Tomb, Ilitana and Lota discussed Uthred's improved chances with Time-Space Distortion, and Lota anticipated that Ofu would obtain the move's principles.
• One hundred years later, Lota and Ilitana left the Divine Tomb and traveled through the Teleportation Array to the Heavenly Realm, startling Beisi and the soldiers with their speed.
• Lota arrived at Augusta Garden, where Thanatos, Ofu, Vivian, and the other Law Overlords had gathered to witness the spar.

Ofu and Uthred competed in Space Turbulence, where Uthred demonstrated his powerful new Time-Space Distortion ultimate move. Ofu blocked it barehanded, and Uthred privately urged Lota to keep the Four Divine Beasts' Essence Blood from Ofu.

• Ofu invited the Overgods to Augusta Garden before he and Uthred headed to Space Turbulence for their agreed competition.
• Thanatos announced that the match was the third contest between Ofu and Uthred, and Ofu and Uthred set limits on the use of Supreme Artifacts.
• Uthred's improved earlier ultimate move failed to overcome Ofu, whose Reincarnation Golden Body demonstrated formidable defense.
• Uthred unleashed Time-Space Distortion, a soul attack amplified by the Four Divine Beasts' Talent Divine Power, but Ofu broke through its imprisonment and blocked the attack barehanded.
• Uthred warned Lota to protect the Four Divine Beasts' Essence Blood so Ofu could not use the principles behind Time-Space Distortion.

Ofu studied Uthred’s Time-Space Distortion while Lota declined his invitation to collaborate, and Beirut rose to fame across the planes. Lota then traveled with Morit, Kakqi, and Beirut to Gobada Plane Prison to visit Leilin in Qinghuo City.

• Thanatos asked Lota to join her and Vivian in an alliance against Uthred and Ofu, and Lota agreed.
• Ofu learned how Uthred’s Time-Space Distortion fused the Four Divine Beasts’ opposing powers, then agreed not to share the technique with anyone else.
• Ofu invited Lota to Augusta Garden to discuss the Four Divine Beasts’ blood essence, but Lota declined and left with Thanatos and Vivian.
• Over the following million years, Beirut became a famed powerhouse, governed Qingya Plane, and took the position of Prefecture Lord in You Lan Prefecture.
• Lota arrived at Gobada Plane Prison with Morit, Kakqi, and Beirut to visit Leilin, and they entered Qinghuo City.

Lota and his companions visited Qinghuo City, where Morit was recognized as a former Plane Guardian by Bernas. Adkins arrived, revealed his hatred of Morit for imprisoning him, and threatened to make him suffer.

• Lota entered Qinghuo City with Morit, Beirut, and Kakqi, and they discussed the city's rules and sparse trade.
• Bernas confronted the group after learning they carried Divine Artifacts, then recognized Morit as the Plane Guardian who had once imprisoned him.
• Morit told Bernas and the gathered experts that he was no longer a Plane Guardian, while Lota let him handle the situation himself.
• Adkins arrived after being alerted and told Morit that he wanted him to experience the despair and suffering of imprisonment.

Leilin reunited with Morit in Qinghuo City and met Lota, whose power surpassed what Leilin could fathom. Lota asked Leilin to become his messenger, and Leilin left the decision to a match.

• Leilin sensed Adkins flying off, discovered Morit nearby, and hurried to the street with Burgess and Xius.
• Leilin greeted Morit respectfully, while Adkins explained that the situation was a misunderstanding.
• Lota sent everyone except Leilin away with a precise use of energy and asked Leilin to become his messenger.
• Leilin challenged Lota to a match, saying he would accept if Lota defeated him.

Leilin challenged Lota to a duel, hoping to win Morit’s freedom, but Lota’s reaction to Leilin’s flame technique gave him a new idea for his research. In the Eighteenth Layer of the Divine Tomb, Lota attempted to fuse his Origin Bloodline essence blood with the essence blood of the Four Divine Beasts, but the bloods orbited each other without merging.

• Leilin wagered that Lota would free Morit if Leilin won, while Leilin would become Lota’s messenger if he lost, and Lota accepted.
• Leilin combined his Golden-Red Flame with Qinghuo’s Cyan Flame, creating a dark-gold fire that scorched cracks into space.
• Lota laughed, extinguished Leilin’s flames, and left Morit to explain the situation to Leilin and escort everyone out of the Plane Prison.
• Lota realized that fusing bloodlines differed from absorbing them and decided to use his own essence blood as a mediator for the Four Divine Beasts’ essence blood.
• Lota tried to fuse the five drops of essence blood, but the Four Divine Beasts’ blood circled his Origin Bloodline essence blood without merging.

Lota fused the Four Divine Beasts' essence blood with his Origin Bloodline essence blood, creating a strange new essence blood that slowly began transforming his other blood. On the Qingya Plane, Leilin sought sparring to advance his cultivation, while Beirut began an experiment with the essence blood and gathered people, including the boy Linley.

• Lota watched the Four Divine Beasts' essence blood merge with his Origin Bloodline essence blood over two hundred years, forming a gray-white drop that he absorbed.
• Lota discovered the new essence blood suppressed and slowly transformed his other essence blood, but he could not use it for techniques, so he prepared to continue experimenting.
• Leilin asked Morit and Kakqi to spar with him because he was close to fusing the Sixth Profound Mystery; Morit agreed, and Beirut declined.
• Morit sparred with Leilin above the sea while Kakqi watched, and Beirut returned to the Dark Forest, deciding to research the Four Divine Beasts' essence blood.
• Beirut had a general gather people from a war-torn region and led them away, while an elderly man comforted the boy Linley.

Lota discovered that his Fusion Essence Blood had greatly increased his physical power and sensed a connection to space. He learned that Beirut had created Linley as the first Dragonblood Warrior, and Linley had since become a powerful Saint Domain expert and founded the Dragonblood Empire.

• Beirut brought Linley and other refugees to the Dark Forest and tested White Tiger Essence Blood on a captive, who exploded.
• Beirut fused Azure Dragon Essence Blood into Linley, who endured the transformation and became the first Dragonblood Warrior.
• Lota awoke on the Divine Tomb's Eighteenth Layer and found that his fused white Essence Blood had massively increased his physical power.
• Lota used his Spiritual Sense to learn that Linley had become famous and that Beirut had created him as the Dragonblood Warrior.
• Linley entered Dragonblood Castle to greet Beirut after becoming a young Saint Domain expert and founding the Dragonblood Empire.

Linley chose to pursue the difficult fusion of wind’s fast and slow Profound Mysteries, and Beirut took him to the Mudu Continent to seek an opportunity. Meanwhile, Lota arrived in the Heavenly Realm to meet Ofu and discuss something with him.

• Linley sparred with Beirut, who advised him that combining the fast and slow Profound Mysteries into the Speed Profound Mystery would be difficult and dangerous.
• Linley chose to continue studying the Speed Profound Mystery, and Beirut offered to take him somewhere that might provide an opportunity.
• Beibei asked to accompany Linley, but Linley and Beirut persuaded him to stay behind and cultivate before Beirut departed with Linley for the Mudu Continent.
• Lota arrived in the Heavenly Realm after deciding he no longer needed to focus on Linley and wanted to meet Ofu.
• Ofu welcomed Lota at Augusta Garden with five Overgods, and Lota said he had something to discuss with him.

Lota asked Ofu to teach him the principles behind Transcendence of Reincarnation, revealing that he knew Ofu’s hidden research and their shared goal of breaking through the world. Ofu agreed to test Lota’s strength, and Lota entered Space Turbulence as Ofu absorbed Augusta Garden.

• Lota asked Ofu to exchange the principles behind his incomplete ultimate move, Transcendence of Reincarnation, for Four Divine Beasts Essence Blood and other secrets.
• Ofu dismissed the other Overgods after Lota revealed that he knew about the move and understood Ofu’s goal of escaping the world.
• Lota named Augusta Garden and Augusta, convincing Ofu that he knew the secrets behind Ofu’s identity and research.
• Augusta sensed a threat from Lota and flew toward the Teleportation Array to investigate.
• Ofu asked to test Lota’s strength, and Lota accepted before entering Space Turbulence while Ofu absorbed Augusta Garden.

Ofu and Lota arranged to meet in Space Turbulence with the other Overgods as witnesses, as Lota sought the Four Divine Beasts' essence blood and Ofu prepared to reveal his hidden research. As the Overgods gathered, Ofu began explaining that Lota had uncovered his secrets, leaving everyone wondering what those secrets were.

• Ofu put away Augusta Garden and entered Space Turbulence with Lota, while five Overgods followed after suspecting a fight was coming.
• Ofu and Lota agreed that Lota would receive the Four Divine Beasts' essence blood if he defeated Ofu, while Ofu would explain his Ultimate move's principles if Lota lost.
• Uthred, Thanatos, Vivian, and other Overgods learned of the meeting and headed into Space Turbulence; a gray-haired girl also left the Divine Tomb, while Linley cautiously continued exploring its First Layer.
• After the Overgods assembled, Lota praised the Bula Clan, and Ofu told Augusta to stop glaring at him despite Augusta urging Ofu to kill Lota.
• Ofu addressed the gathered Overgods and revealed that Lota had discovered secrets he had kept for countless years.

Ofu revealed that Augusta was his avatar and that he possessed multiple Supreme Artifacts, then agreed to fight Lota. Thanatos and Vivian offered support but stepped aside when Lota insisted he could handle Ofu himself, and Ilitana arrived to merge with Lota before the battle began.

• Ofu revealed that Augusta was his avatar from the Bula Clan, explaining their connection and his extra Willpower Might.
• Uthred realized Ofu had concealed his identity and understood how he had caught Uthred’s Supreme Artifact barehanded.
• Ofu and Lota confirmed they would settle their matter in a fight, while Thanatos and Vivian moved to support Lota.
• Lota told Thanatos and Vivian that Ofu possessed multiple Supreme Artifacts and insisted on facing him alone, so they watched from nearby.
• Ofu took Augusta’s ring and longsword, revealing that he could wield both Supreme Artifacts himself.
• Ilitana appeared in human form, transformed into her true form, and wrapped around Lota as he prepared to fight Ofu.

Lota revealed a stronger form of Time-Space Distortion and fought Ofu with overwhelming physical strength, but Ofu’s three Supreme Artifacts let him withstand the attacks. Their battle continued at full power, with neither able to overcome the other.

• Lota used Time-Space Distortion, surprising Uthred and the other Overgods because Lota had sworn not to use the Four Divine Beasts’ blood essence to perform it.
• Lota’s Time-Space Distortion confined Ofu, and his punch sent Ofu flying tens of thousands of miles without injuring him.
• Ofu revealed his black armor and acknowledged Lota’s strength, then charged at him with the Supreme God Sword.
• Lota fought Ofu alongside Ilitana, and their clashes unleashed shockwaves too dangerous for Uthred, Thanatos, and Vivian to approach.
• The Overgods watched as Lota and Ofu continued trading increasingly direct attacks, neither able to defeat the other.

Lota used White Essence Blood to unleash a vastly more powerful Time-Space Distortion and escaped Ofu’s Transcendence of Reincarnation. The move froze space and time but threatened to tear the world apart, and Ofu’s redirected attack killed several Overgods before the survivors realized Lota had reappeared elsewhere.

• Lota and Ofu traded devastating attacks while the other Overgods retreated from the battle’s shockwaves.
• Ofu revealed his incomplete Transcendence of Reincarnation and launched a powerful Four-colored Sword Shadow at Lota.
• Lota used White Essence Blood to cast Time-Space Distortion, freezing the surrounding space, time, and the spectators without consuming the essence blood.
• Lota moved the sword shadow aside and withdrew Time-Space Distortion after the clash between frozen and unfrozen space began tearing the world apart.
• Ofu’s redirected attack annihilated Beiter and several other Overgods, while the others believed Lota had used Instantaneous Movement.
• Ofu stared at Lota in shock as the Four-colored Sword Shadows vanished.

Lota defeated Ofu, exchanged Four Divine Beasts essence blood for the principles of Transcendence of Reincarnation, and returned to the Divine Tomb to study his changing powers. A thousand years later, he released Bamer and the others to find the Four Divine Beast Family’s Talent Awakening Pool, while Christine also left the Seventeenth Layer.

• Lota used Instantaneous Movement to defeat Ofu, who conceded and asked to witness Lota breaking the world; Lota agreed.
• Linley found a fiery red Liuli Crystal that fell through a spatial crack into the Divine Tomb and stored it in his Space Ring.
• Lota traded his remaining Four Divine Beasts essence blood to Ofu for the principles of Transcendence of Reincarnation, then studied White Essence Blood and its effects on Time-Space Distortion.
• Lota sensed that his growing White Essence Blood sharpened his perception of space and caused resistance between his soul and Sovereign Spark, while he considered the possibility of a breakthrough through Space Law.
• A thousand years later, Lota observed that Qinghuo had reached the Paragon Realm and told Bamer, Palhouse, Bayer, and Mordon that the Four Divine Beast Family’s Talent Awakening Pool was in the Sea of Chaos.
• Bamer and the others thanked Lota and left the Divine Tomb, and Christine soon rose from the Seventeenth Layer and flew away.

After reaching Grand Perfection and transforming his essence blood, Lota prepared to leave the pre-written world, while keeping the system’s Return Opportunity unused. He told Ofu of his plan, and Ofu summoned the Overgods, including Uthred, to gather at Augusta Garden.

• Qinghuo reached the Grand Perfection Realm as Bamer and three other Paragons departed for Hell, Christine left for the Dark God Plane, and Lota summoned Morit, Kakqi, Qinghuo, and Beirut to the Divine Tomb.
• Lota gave the four messengers Space Rings containing powerful divine sparks and told them to open the rings after one hundred years.
• Lota agreed to leave the world with Ilitana, and the system’s Return Opportunity changed from zero to one.
• Lota considered the system’s rewards but chose not to use the Return Opportunity yet, then traveled from the Qingya Plane to the Heavenly Realm.
• Lota told Ofu that he was preparing to leave the world, and Ofu invited the Overgods, including Uthred, to Augusta Garden.