Recaps

After Huoxie became a Paragon, he explained his strength and how resonating with the basic Fire Element had helped him break through. He began preparing a weapon for Hodan, whose request for a hard, sharp blade led Huoxie to question what a weapon should be.

• Hodan and Silvermoon congratulated Huoxie and asked what had changed after he became a Paragon.
• Huoxie explained that his body had reached the level of a Sovereign Artifact, making him vastly stronger than other Paragons.
• Huoxie told Hodan that resonating with the often-overlooked Fire Element had helped him fuse his Mysteries and become a Paragon.
• Silvermoon took his leave, and Huoxie led Hodan into a cave filled with stone weapons that rivaled the main weapons of Seven-Star Fiends.
• Hodan asked for a hard, sharp blade, and Huoxie explained that weapons should suit their owners before asking whether a weapon could become part of its owner's living body.

Huoxie brought Hodan into the blazing depths of the cave to begin forging his blade and explained that the heat would temper Hodan’s body. After Hodan woke beside Huoxie’s furnace, he discovered a Red-Winged Flame Dragon beneath the platform, leaving him wondering how the Fire Elemental Divine Realm beast had come here.

• Huoxie warned Hodan not to rely solely on his weapon and invited him to help forge a blade.
• Hodan followed Huoxie through a searing passage and passed out from the heat.
• Hodan woke on a platform beside Huoxie, who was working at a massive furnace.
• Huoxie stopped the pillar of fire rising from the valley, and the platform began to heat up.
• Hodan saw a Red-Winged Flame Dragon below, and Huoxie identified it as a divine beast from the Fire Elemental Divine Realm.

Huoxie forged a heavy, blunt divine weapon for Hodan using Black Obsidian Gold Iron, Yingxue Star Sand, and essence from the Red-Winged Flame Dragon. Hodan struggled to lift the finished blade and was told to become its edge by growing stronger.

• Huoxie told Hodan that the Red-Winged Flame Dragon had the strength of an Asura and showed him the iron melting in its flames.
• Huoxie forged a blade from Black Obsidian Gold Iron and added Yingxue Star Sand.
• Huoxie had Hodan bring him a heavy bottle of Dragon Marrow essence and poured it over the blade, explaining that it could make a weapon capable of killing gods.
• Huoxie explained that the essence made the blade resilient but dulled its edge and increased its weight.
• Hodan struggled to pull the battered blade from the ground and could barely lift it.
• Huoxie told Hodan to name the weapon and reminded him that he had to become its edge by making himself strong.

Hodan named the blade Huoxie forged for him Zhengdu, and Huoxie gave him protective artifacts and a token before they left Flame Mountain. They arrived at Silvermoon City, where Silvermoon welcomed them to the City Lord's Mansion.

• Hodan named his new blade Zhengdu, and Huoxie explained its strength, weight, and close fit to Hodan.
• Hodan accepted Huoxie's offer to become sworn brothers and received a Soul Defense Divine Artifact, leather armor, and a token bearing Huoxie's aura.
• Huoxie and Hodan departed Flame Mountain in Huoxie's Metal Lifeform and reached Silvermoon City in less than three hours.
• Silvermoon saw Hodan and Huoxie emerge from the Metal Lifeform and welcomed them into the City Lord's Mansion.

After Huoxie announced his breakthrough to Paragon, Hodan left Silvermoon City to train while Huoxie stayed behind as news of his power spread. Chief Sovereigns visited to recruit Huoxie, but he refused them all, and his name became known throughout the Coiling Dragon World.

• Hodan disguised himself, told Huoxie and Silvermoon he was leaving to train, and departed Silvermoon City.
• Three days later, the Chief Sovereign of Black Sand appeared over Silvermoon City and offered Huoxie emissary status, Sovereign's Might, and a Sovereign Artifact.
• Huoxie declined Black Sand's offer, and Black Sand invited him to visit Si Shengya Lake before departing.
• More Chief Sovereigns came to Silvermoon City, but Huoxie refused to become any of their emissaries.
• News of Huoxie's Paragon status spread throughout the Coiling Dragon World, drawing countless Asuras to Silvermoon City to meet him.

Hodan applied to take the Fiend evaluation and spent the waiting period training with Zhengdu and strengthening his soul. He boarded a Fiend Castle Metal Lifeform for what appeared to be a large-scale evaluation mission, though its leader and difficulty remained unknown.

• Hodan carried the newly enhanced High-God Artifact Zhengdu to Fiend Castle and paid one thousand Inkstones to register for the evaluation.
• Hodan returned home to train while he waited for Fiend Castle to gather enough applicants.
• Half a month later, Fiend Castle summoned Hodan to meet outside the city the following morning.
• Hodan boarded the Fiend Castle Metal Lifeform after showing his Fiend Seal and entered the rear cabin with hundreds of other applicants.
• Hodan noticed that several Fiends had joined the group and concluded that the evaluation was a large-scale mission.

Hodan joined a thousand candidates on a Fiend assessment mission to wipe out the bandits in Howling Wind Valley and collect their wrist guards. As the assault began, a four-star fiend unleashed a devastating wind attack on the bandit camp, leaving Hodan stunned by its power.

• The silver-robed old man explained that the candidates had to collect bandit wrist guards in Howling Wind Valley while stronger fiends dealt with the three bandit leaders.
• Hodan asked whether killing a leader would raise his rank, and the old man confirmed that anyone who killed one would become a five-star fiend.
• A brownish-yellow-haired four-star fiend led the candidates and other fiends toward Howling Wind Valley, where he announced that he would attack the camp.
• The brownish-yellow-haired fiend swung a green sword and unleashed a tornado of wind blades that tore through the camp and killed weaker bandits.
• Hodan recognized the attack as possibly using the Dimensional Blade Mystery of the Wind Laws.

Hodan joined the assault on the Howling Wind Valley Bandits and slaughtered hundreds of their Mid-God members while the fiend examiners fought the leaders. After the examiners’ leaders retreated and the bandits turned on the survivors, Hodan remained behind and prepared to face the three bandit leaders himself.

• Bell announced that the fiends’ mission was to wipe out the Wind Valley Bandits, and the three Four-Star Fiends engaged the bandit leaders.
• Hodan defeated ordinary bandits with soul attacks, collected their wrist guards and Space Rings, and killed hundreds as the battle spread through the valley.
• The three bandit leaders’ coordinated defense overwhelmed the Four-Star Fiends, and the man in black fled with two wounded companions, abandoning the mission.
• The bandit leaders sent their followers after the remaining fiends, killing nearly all the prospective examinees who had not already escaped.
• The three leaders spotted Hodan still in the valley and ordered him killed, but he challenged them and knocked out nearby bandits with a wide-area soul attack.

Hodan defeated the bandit leaders in Howling Wind Valley and wiped out the bandits who pursued the Fiend exam candidates. He returned to the exam Metal Lifeform, where fewer than a third of the original group remained, and it departed after waiting half a day.

• Laska, Clisi, and Tennyson recognized the threat posed by Hodan’s powerful soul attack and prepared to face him together.
• Hodan killed Clisi with a blow from Zhengdu, then fought Laska and Tennyson with heavy strikes and soul attacks before cutting them down with Zhengdu’s released blade edge.
• Hodan collected the three Highgods’ Godheads, Space Rings, and divine bodies to support his goal of earning Five-Star Fiend rank.
• Hodan found no treasure vault in Howling Wind Valley and killed the returning bandits with a large-scale soul attack.
• Hodan returned to the Metal Lifeform and found fewer than a third of the Fiend exam candidates still there, many injured or dejected.
• After waiting half a day, the old man in silver robes ordered the Metal Lifeform to depart.

Hodan became a One-Star Fiend after completing the Howling Wind Valley test, then used the bandit leaders’ corpses to claim the Five-Star rank-up mission and become a Five-Star Fiend. Realizing he needed combat experience and a signature move, he returned to Fiend Castle to seek a mission suited to his rank.

• After arriving in Silvermoon City, Hodan gave spare bracers to candidates who had failed to obtain one and went to Fiend Castle.
• Hodan turned in the bandits’ bracers and received a Fiend Badge and a Vice Fiend Badge, becoming a One-Star Fiend.
• Hodan presented the corpses of Howling Wind Valley’s three leaders and completed the Five-Star mission to wipe out the Wind Valley Bandits.
• Fiend Castle upgraded Hodan’s Fiend Badge to Five-Star rank.
• At home, Hodan considered his lack of combat experience and planned to develop a signature move using Zhengdu’s qualities.
• The next morning, Hodan went to the third floor of Fiend Castle to seek a Five-Star or Six-Star mission.

Hodan accepted a solo Five-Star mission to suppress the Black Mountain Bandits so he could test his ultimate techniques on them. Meanwhile, Clisi sought revenge for his brothers and planned to hire Lord Taier to kill Hodan.

• Hodan asked the Fiend Castle attendant for a solo Five-Star bandit-suppression mission starting from Silvermoon City.
• Clisi learned that Hodan had killed his Darkness God Clone and his two brothers, then decided to hire Lord Taier with nearly all his wealth.
• Hodan chose the Black Mountain Bandit mission, whose objective was to kill the leader and scatter the bandits.
• Hodan handed over his Fiend Badge, and the attendant brought a purple-glowing crystal toward it.

Hodan traveled toward the Black Mountain Range while disguising himself as a Mid-God to draw out bandits and refine a personal ultimate move. After six months of testing, he completed a technique that raised his combat ability to the level of a Six-Star Fiend, though he could not yet use its physical and soul attacks at full power simultaneously.

• Hodan accepted a mission to kill Kro, the leader of the Black Mountain Range bandits, and set out in a Metal Lifeform disguised as a Mid-God.
• A gang of bandits led by a green-robed Highgod attacked Hodan, who killed them with Zhengdu and claimed their leader's spatial ring.
• Hodan traveled through Hell for six months, fighting hundreds of groups of bandits and using the battles to refine his ultimate move.
• Hodan completed an attack that combined Zhengdu's focused sharpness with a disorienting soul strike, granting him the strength of a Six-Star Fiend.
• Hodan concluded that he would need the strength of a Seven-Star Fiend to unleash both aspects of his ultimate move at full power at once.

Hodan completed his ultimate move, Present World Delusion, then fought the Black Mountain Bandits and killed Kro after discovering his strength. The battle helped Hodan reach Six-Star Fiend strength and deepen his understanding of the Destruction Rules, which allowed him to become a god through them.

• Hodan named his strongest slash Present World Delusion and continued toward the Black Mountain Range to finish his mission.
• Hodan killed two Highgod bandits who attacked him, then reflected on the importance of fusing and applying Law Mysteries.
• Kro appeared with two Divine Clones and attacked Hodan with a soul-corroding darkness domain, but Hodan tore through it and killed him.
• Hodan took Kro's spatial ring and realized his attacks had reached Six-Star Fiend strength.
• Hodan's understanding of the Destruction Rules crossed the boundary to godhood, and he chose External Godhood, creating a Destruction God Clone.
• Hodan absorbed Soul Golden Beads to restore the weakened souls of his Destruction God Clone and Saint Domain True Body.

Hodan traveled toward Silvermoon City while cultivating the Rules and assessing his strength, but Taier and fourteen Five-Star Fiends ambushed him for the wealth he had taken from the Wind Valley Bandits. Hodan survived their opening attacks and nearly killed Bazeke, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Hodan reflected on his slow progress with the Four Rules, his growing grasp of the Death Rule, and the strength he still needed to take revenge on the Four Divine Beasts Clan.
• A Highgod's divine sense reached Hodan, and he realized Taier, Clisi, and thirteen other Highgods had surrounded him.
• Taier destroyed Hodan's metal lifeform and demanded the wealth Hodan had taken from the Wind Valley Bandits before attacking him with a spear.
• Hodan endured Taier's strike with Huoxie's leather armor and defended himself against the attacks of the other fourteen Five-Star Fiends.
• Bazeke charged Hodan with a Destruction Rules axe, but Hodan nearly killed him before Taier deflected the blade with his spear.
• Taier warned his subordinates to stay alert as Hodan held his blade ready and the fight continued.

Hodan fought Taier and his fourteen Five-Star Fiend companions, relying on Huoxie's defensive artifacts to withstand their attacks. When Taier briefly let his guard slip, Hodan risked taking a barrage of blows, gained a new insight, and killed him with Zhengdu.

• Hodan used Huoxie's Soul Defense Divine Artifact to block a Soul Poison arrow, then killed Jabar with Zhengdu when the bald man attacked him.
• Taier pressed Hodan with rapid spear attacks while his companions joined the assault, and bandits in the Black Mountain Range recorded the battle with the Floating Shadow Technique.
• Hodan realized that Taier's interference made it difficult to kill the other attackers and that his injuries and limited divine power made a prolonged fight dangerous.
• Taier's confidence in his advantage caused his attacks to briefly weaken, and Hodan seized the opening by charging through the incoming blows.
• Hodan gained a new insight as he merged with Zhengdu, tore open space, and pierced Taier's head, killing him.

Hodan killed Taier, Clisi, and more than a dozen bandits with Zhengdu, but exhausted his Fate God Clone and hid in the Black Mountain Range to recover. Three months later, a brown-haired bandit attacked his cave, and Hodan killed him with a soul attack.

• Hodan killed Clisi, unleashed Zhengdu's blade attack, and brought down more than a dozen bandits before his Fate God Clone ran out of divine power.
• Hodan fled to the Black Mountain Range, hid in a cave, and began healing while his other clones continued cultivating.
• Hodan reflected on the people and events that had helped him survive the battle, deepening his understanding of the Fate Rule.
• Three months later, a brown-haired bandit found Hodan's cave and attacked, hoping to take his wealth.
• Hodan emerged unharmed and killed the brown-haired bandit by devouring his soul.

Hodan recovered from his injuries, advanced his Fate Rule to the Six-Star Fiend level, and accepted a dangerous Six-Star war mission against the Black Water Tribe. He arrived at the Thick Earth Tribe, ready to join the conflict and pursue further breakthroughs.

• Hodan's Fate God Clone recovered and reached the Six-Star Fiend level, making him a quasi-Seven-Star Fiend with Seven-Star attack power.
• Hodan returned to Silvermoon City, gathered his divine clones, and went straight to Fiend Castle to accept a war mission.
• Hodan accepted Alex's mission to help the Thick Earth Tribe destroy the Black Water Tribe and flew toward the tribe.
• During the journey, Hodan focused his Fate God Clone on travel, his Destruction God Clone on the Destruction Rules, and his original body on the Death Rule.
• Hodan reached the Thick Earth Tribe, whose chief was a Seven-Star Fiend and whose fortified castle was built from Black Brown Stone.

Hodan joined the Thick Earth Tribe’s planned assault on the Black Water Tribe, whose valuable black water the tribe sought to seize. The invasion began, and Hodan entered the battle against Wot while Alex fought Adam and Henry targeted the hired Five-Star Fiends.

• Hodan arrived at the Thick Earth Tribe’s council chamber as a Five-Star Fiend who had accepted its war mission, and the chief steward welcomed him.
• The Thick Earth Tribe prepared to invade the Black Water Tribe to take control of its weapon-hardening black water.
• Two Metal Lifeforms carried Thick Earth Tribe warriors to the Black Water Tribe, where they launched a coordinated attack and triggered an alarm.
• Alex confronted Adam, Wot, and Henry, demanding they surrender their territory, but they refused and prepared to fight.
• Alex ordered the hired Fiends to attack, and Hodan struck with a blue-green sword energy while holding back much of his strength.
• Alex fought Adam, Hodan fought Wot, and Henry attacked the Five-Star Fiends as the battle erupted.

Hodan battled Wot while Henry killed the Five-Star Fiends, then Wot and Henry joined Adam against Alex at the Black Water Tribe. Hodan concealed himself nearby, suspecting Alex had another motive, as the three defenders attacked and Alex retreated to outlast their divine abilities.

• Hodan used Zhengdu and Present World Delusion to fight Wot, while Henry transformed into the Underworld Tiger and killed the Five-Star Fiends.
• Wot unleashed Heaven-Shaking Might and struck Hodan, who fled after deciding not to risk his life for Alex.
• Wot and Henry joined Adam, and the three broke through Alex's Gravity Space to confront him.
• Hodan hid in a forest using the Fate Rule and watched the battle, suspecting Alex's attack was motivated by more than wealth.
• Adam, Wot, and Henry charged Alex, with Wot and Henry activating their innate divine abilities again.
• Alex retreated to avoid their attacks and planned to strike after their abilities weakened them.

Alex revealed that he possessed Sovereign's Might and used it to overpower the three Seven-Star Fiends who had attacked him. He killed Henry, Wot, and Adam, though Adam briefly trapped him in a desperate final assault before Alex finished him off.

• Adam transformed into a Jade Cold Toad and froze the space around Alex while Henry, Wot, and Adam launched their full-strength attacks.
• Alex used Destruction Sovereign Power to break free and temporarily reach Asura-level strength.
• Alex killed Henry with Gravity Shackles and a blade strike, then killed Wot with One Blade Separates the World despite Adam's attempt to intervene.
• Adam begged Alex for mercy, but Alex attacked him and sent him flying with a blow.
• Adam trapped Alex briefly with Ice-Sealing Heaven and Earth and attacked him wildly, but Alex broke free and tore Adam apart with a blade of energy.

Hodan killed Alex after the battle at Black Water Tribe, then attained godhood in the Death Rule and fled with the spoils. In a mountain cave, he began counting the wealth he had taken and was stunned by what he found in Alex’s Space Ring.

• Alex killed the three chiefs of Black Water Tribe, but Hodan ambushed him while he inspected their Space Rings and destroyed his remaining Divine Clone.
• Hodan chose External Godhood when the Laws of the World descended and gained a Death God Clone.
• Hodan gathered the wealth from the battlefield and fled toward Silvermoon City before settling in a secluded mountain cave.
• Hodan and Luo Feng counted the spoils, including the chiefs’ enormous stores of Inkstones.
• Hodan opened Alex’s Space Ring, froze at what he found, and left the discovery unresolved.

Hodan absorbed the crimson orb from Alex’s Space Ring and learned it was the Blood Essence of a Destruction Giant, which greatly enhanced his body and his talent for Lightning and Destruction. The Blood Essence had secretly refined Sovereign’s Might from Alex’s Inkstone and Azure Stone, revealing why he had accumulated that fortune.

• Hodan found a crimson orb beside Alex’s Inkstone and Azure Stone and felt compelled to absorb it.
• Hodan pressed the orb to a cut, and it dissolved into his body, strengthening him and greatly increasing his potential in Lightning and Destruction.
• Hodan resolved to fuse the Lightning Law’s Mysteries while still a Mid-God and develop his Destruction Rules Divine Clone.
• Hodan saw the memories of a Destruction Giant whose Material Plane had been destroyed, and learned that its Blood Essence could strengthen its bearer.
• Hodan realized Alex had possessed the Blood Essence but could not absorb it because he lacked Lightning and Destruction Divine Clones.
• Hodan learned the Blood Essence had slowly refined Sovereign’s Might from Alex’s Inkstone and Azure Stone, consuming ten trillion Inkstones for each drop.

After killing Alex and absorbing the Blood Essence, Hodan learned that he could extract Sovereign's Might from wealth and that Destruction Giants could also absorb it from the Elemental Ocean. He refined two drops and discovered his new innate defenses, leaving him with plans to use his growing power and resources to pursue greater influence.

• Hodan reflected that Alex had grown greedy after learning to refine Sovereign's Might, and that Alex had been killed after targeting Hodan and his companions.
• Hodan learned that Destruction Giants could absorb Sovereign's Might from the Elemental Ocean, though the process took a long time until they matured.
• Hodan used his innate ability to extract Sovereign's Might from an Azure Stone Slab and realized that enough Inkstone could yield it far faster.
• Hodan converted the wealth he had seized into two drops of Sovereign's Might and kept the remaining Inkstone in reserve.
• Hodan examined the Destructive Demon Thunder Body and learned that its automatic thunder attacks strengthened with his mastery of the Mysteries.

After gaining the Destruction Giant bloodline, Hodan completed his Six-Star Fiend mission and traveled to the Yulan Continent to fuse his Thunder Element Divine Clone with his original body. He settled into cultivation, and twelve years later his clones had made substantial progress.

• Hodan reflected on his new Destruction Giant bloodline, his growing Fate Rule comprehension, and his goal of becoming a Paragon so he could eventually face the Chief Sovereigns protecting the Four Divine Beasts Clan.
• Hodan returned to Silvermoon City and turned in the mission to destroy the Black Water Tribe, becoming a Six-Star Fiend despite the disappearance of the Thick Earth Tribe that had posted it.
• Hodan used his Fate God Clone to predict the safety of his journey, then traveled from Black Annihilation Heaven to the Yulan Continent.
• Hodan fused his Thunder Element Divine Clone into his original body and returned to Silvermoon City after a month, where he rested from his dangerous travels.
• Twelve years after crossing into the Coiling Dragon World, Hodan’s Thunder Element Divine Clone had fused the Thunder Element and Swiftness Profound Mysteries and comprehended the Violent Profound Mystery, while his Destruction God Clone had advanced to Mid-God.
• Hodan’s Fate and Death God Clones remained at Six-Star and Lowgod levels respectively, but all three rule clones showed a connection that could form a complete cycle once he cultivated the Life God Clone.

Hodan gained his first insight into the Life Law while resting in Silvermoon City, then watched Linley find the Coiling Dragon Ring and begin his path to power. The chapter left Linley bound to the ring after his blood awakened it, while Hodan chose not to interfere with his fate.

• Hodan contemplated the meaning of life after spotting a green shoot in the snow and made a start on the Life Law.
• Hodan watched Linley find the Coiling Dragon Ring in the Baruch Clan's ancestral hall, just as the original story had unfolded.
• Linley witnessed a mage and then Saint-level fighters in battle, and the destruction in Wushan Town left him injured while he tried to save Wharton.
• Hodan considered worsening Linley's injury but held back because Linley was a child who posed no threat to him.
• Linley's blood soaked into the Coiling Dragon Ring, awakening it and making him its master.