Recaps

Linley met Doehring Cowart after the Coiling Dragon Ring awakened, while Hodan reached peak Seven-Star Fiend strength and began preparing to continue his plans. In Silvermoon City, Hodan revealed his newfound power to Silvermoon.

• The Coiling Dragon Ring floated above Linley and released Doehring Cowart, who introduced himself as a Saint-level Magus.
• Hodan experienced countless lives in a torrent of fate and awakened with his Fate God Clone at peak Seven-Star Fiend strength.
• Silvermoon hosted Gailun, who hoped to meet Huoxie, but learned that the Paragon was in seclusion.
• Hodan visited Silvermoon and revealed that he had broken through to the Seven-Star Fiend level.
• Silvermoon sensed that Hodan had reached peak Seven-Star Fiend strength and posed a powerful threat.

Hodan reunited with Silvermoon and Huoxie after rising to the peak of Seven-Star Fiend, astonishing them with his rapid progress. After catching up, he offered Huoxie unlimited fine wine and asked Silvermoon if he wanted Sovereign's Might, leaving both brothers eager to hear his proposal.

• Silvermoon was astonished when Hodan revealed he had reached the peak of Seven-Star Fiend in only a few years.
• Hodan told Silvermoon he had come to visit and discuss something, then followed him to see Huoxie.
• Hodan gave Huoxie Golden Nectar and Golden Clarity Wine, and Huoxie thanked him while promising to forge weapons for Silvermoon to sell.
• Hodan explained his advancement as the result of successive battles and thanked Huoxie for the equipment that had helped him survive.
• Hodan offered Huoxie all the Golden Clarity Wine and Golden Nectar he could drink, then asked Silvermoon whether he wanted Sovereign's Might.

Hodan revealed that he possessed two drops of Destruction Sovereign Power and planned to sell them for Inkstones, then extract more Sovereign's Might. After demonstrating his ability, he convinced Huoxie and the others that he could extract it far faster than anyone else, and they accepted his secret explanation.

• Huoxie decided to give Hodan a drop of Sovereign's Might to protect him from powerful future enemies.
• Hodan revealed two drops of Destruction Sovereign Power, surprising Huoxie, Silvermoon, and the others.
• Hodan explained his plan to sell Sovereign's Might for Inkstones and repeatedly extract more from them.
• Hodan demonstrated that he could extract Sovereign's Might from Inkstones with extraordinary speed.
• Hodan claimed an opportunity had awakened a natural divine ability in him, and Huoxie and the others chose not to question him.

Hodan arranged for Huoxie and Silvermoon to publicize and protect an auction of Sovereign's Might extracted from Inkstones. The first Asuras reserved forty drops in advance, leaving Hodan with a profitable operation backed by a Paragon's reputation.

• Hodan proposed that Silvermoon organize an auction and Huoxie lend his Paragon status to the Sovereign's Might business, with profits split among the three of them.
• Hodan moved into Silvermoon's City Lord's Mansion while Silvermoon spread word that Huoxie could extract Sovereign's Might from Inkstones.
• Asura-level experts flocked to Silvermoon City, and Huoxie confirmed his status as a Paragon before agreeing to fulfill their orders.
• Huoxie announced that each drop would cost 150 trillion Inkstones or Azure Stone, require advance payment, and be delivered after at least a thousand years in order of arrival.
• A dozen or so Asuras reserved forty drops and paid Huoxie, trusting his reputation and valuing the Sovereign's Might as protection for their lives.

Hodan attended Silvermoon City's Star Auction, where he bid on a Life Fruit Tree sapling and watched the sale of rare Crimson Blood Demon Spider essence blood. The auction continued with more valuable items still to come, including Hodan's Sovereign's Might as the grand finale.

• Hodan sent his Destruction God Clone to refine the Sovereign's Might while his Fate God Clone went to inspect the auction.
• Hodan entered his reserved Box 88 at the Star Auction, which drew 163 attendees to its third level.
• Audi opened the auction by presenting more than a hundred items and announcing the Sovereign's Might as the grand finale.
• Hodan bid one trillion Inkstone for the Life Fruit Tree sapling and won it after no one else raised the bid.
• Bidders competed for Crimson Blood Demon Spider essence blood, which sold to Box 2 for two hundred trillion Inkstone.
• Audi continued presenting items as the auction proceeded.

Hodan bought the Death Qi Bead at the auction, while the Sovereign's Might he had supplied sold for one thousand trillion Inkstones. After returning to Silvermoon, he received the proceeds and settled into a reclusive life of cultivation and extracting Sovereign's Might.

• Hodan watched the auction's varied lots sell, then won Lot 88, the Death Qi Bead, for five trillion Inkstones.
• Audi auctioned Hodan's Sovereign's Might, which the buyer in Box One won for one thousand trillion Inkstones.
• Hogg collected the Life Fruit Tree and Death Qi Bead after paying six trillion Inkstones, then returned to Silvermoon's estate.
• Silvermoon gave Hodan the auction proceeds without charging a fee and thanked him for helping Silvermoon City's business.
• Hodan moved into the City Lord's Mansion, where he cultivated and extracted Sovereign's Might while keeping up his claim that each drop took a year.

Hodan slowed his extraction of Sovereign's Might to study the Destruction Rules and turned his attention to advancing the Life Law. He planted the Life Fruit Tree at Flame Mountain and spent ten years feeding it death energy and corpses to make it bear fruit sooner.

• Hodan stored enough extracted Sovereign's Might for Huoxie to deliver to the Commanders, then reduced his extraction to one drop a month so he could study the Destruction Rules.
• Hodan asked Huoxie to use Flame Mountain as a secluded place to grow the Life Fruit Tree, and they returned there together while Silvermoon stayed in the city.
• Hodan chose a mountain-ringed valley, dug a thousand-meter pit, and planted the Life Fruit Tree above a Golden Altar surrounded by array disks.
• Hodan slowly released death energy from the Death Qi Bead into the pit to nourish the tree without overwhelming it.
• Over the next ten years, Hodan killed bandits around Silvermoon City and fed their corpses, including those of Six-Star Fiends, to the tree, along with corpses of Saint-level magical beasts.

After ten years of slaughter, Hodan had greatly strengthened his divine clones and turned Death Valley into the Ten Thousand God Pit, while waiting for the Life Fruit Tree to bear ripe fruit. On the Yulan Continent, he intervened at a turning point in Linley’s life and saved Doehring Cowart from death.

• Hodan’s Destruction God Clone reached Highgod level and became a Five-Star Fiend, while his Death God Clone reached Mid-God level and his Thunder Element mysteries continued to fuse.
• Hodan saw that the Ten Thousand God Pit could drain creatures on its own, then checked the Life Fruit Tree and found three unripe fruits.
• Hodan reviewed how Linley had found a wind-attributed divine artifact and freed Dylan, and decided to act during the ten-thousand-year Yulan Festival to save Doehring Cowart.
• As Doehring Cowart burned his soul while Linley fought the six Special Grade Deacons, Hodan’s Saint-level magical beasts attacked and killed the deacons.
• The beasts left without harming Linley or Doehring Cowart, and Doehring Cowart stopped burning his soul.

Linley met Hodan, a god-level powerhouse who healed his wounds and stabilized Doehring Cowart’s soul. Hodan explained how souls could cultivate the Laws to become gods and gave Linley a book introducing Hell’s elemental Mysteries, while withholding information about fusing Laws.

• Linley and his companions left the dangerous area and reached Hodan, who was waiting by a campfire.
• Hodan healed Linley and revealed that he knew about Doehring Cowart, then used a Soul Golden Bead to stabilize Doehring’s soul.
• Hodan explained that Doehring could cultivate the Laws as a soul and eventually become a god with a divine body.
• Hodan described the two paths to godhood, and Doehring learned that understanding one profound mystery could make him a god.
• Hodan gave Linley a book about Hell’s elemental Mysteries but concealed the possibility of fusing Laws.

Hodan revealed himself to Linley as the Plane Overseer and returned to cultivation after changing Doehring Cowart’s fate. His insight brought him to the peak of Asura, but he postponed pursuing Paragon so he could prepare to destroy the Four Divine Beasts Clan and cultivate toward power in multiple systems.

• Hodan warned Linley to gain enough strength for revenge, said they were even, and told him to find him in the Arctic Icefield if he wanted to leave the Yulan Continent.
• Hodan revealed that he was the Plane Overseer before vanishing, while his Thunder Element Divine Clone returned to seclusion in the Arctic Icefield.
• After saving Doehring Cowart and teaching Linley about the Mysteries, Hodan’s Fate Rule insight surged to the peak of Asura, but he lost the chance to break through to Paragon.
• Hodan realized his unresolved promise to avenge his original body by killing Jiawei was blocking his Paragon breakthrough, but he chose to delay revenge to avoid starting the war with the Eight Great Clans too early.
• Hodan planned to cultivate the Destruction Rules and Lightning Law in the Starry Fog Sea, while also creating a Life Law Divine Clone and seeking to master all Four Rules.

Hodan refined Sovereign's Might for Huoxie while stockpiling more orders and advancing his Destruction Rules. After the Life Fruit ripened, Hodan consumed one, created a Life God Clone, and discovered that the Laws of the World had descended upon all his Rule clones.

• Hodan refined four quadrillion Inkstones into Destruction Sovereign Power, gave Huoxie fifty drops, and kept most of the rest.
• Huoxie gave Hodan another two quadrillion Inkstones and agreed to bring him more orders for Sovereign's Might.
• Ten years later, Huoxie entrusted Hodan with enough Inkstones to produce one hundred drops, and Hodan's Destruction Rules advanced until he became a Six-Star Fiend.
• Hodan collected the three ripe Life Fruits and the Life Spring, then swallowed a Life Fruit in his secret chamber.
• The Laws of the World descended, allowing Hodan to create a Life God Clone that merged with his body.
• Hodan discovered that mystical light from the Laws of the World had reached all four of his Rule divine clones.

After the Laws of the World granted Hodan Willpower for cultivating Divine Clones in all Four Rules, he concealed the gift and left Flame Mountain to strengthen himself. He headed toward the Starry Fog Sea, preparing to toughen his divine body and advance one of his other clones.

• The Laws of the World granted Hodan and his four Rule Divine Clones Willpower equivalent to a Paragon's, rewarding him for being the first to cultivate clones in Destruction, Fate, Death, and Life.
• Hodan realized the gift could make him invulnerable to Paragons and help his clones strengthen their divine bodies, but he kept it secret from Huoxie and the Chief Sovereigns.
• Hodan decided to leave Flame Mountain, gave Huoxie fifty drops of Sovereign's Might, and departed in his Metal Lifeform.
• Hodan controlled the Metal Lifeform with his Fate God Clone and tested its enhanced power as he traveled toward the Starry Fog Sea.
• While Hodan traveled, his Destruction God Clone extracted Sovereign's Might, his other clones cultivated, and his true body prepared to train with his Lightning Clone.

Hodan entered the Starry Fog Sea to cultivate the Lightning Law, enduring its increasingly powerful lightning while seeking to accelerate his progress. A massive Fog Sea Riot triggered an epiphany that rapidly advanced his fusion of Lightning Mysteries, and the chapter ended as the storm’s lightning rained down across the sea.

• Hodan traveled to the Starry Fog Sea after leaving Flame Mountain, hoping its lightning would help him cultivate.
• Hodan flew into the fog with his original body and Fate God Clone, then transformed into a Destruction Giant to withstand and study the lightning.
• Hodan remained at the center of a vast vortex as the fog and lightning formed a Fog Sea Riot that broke apart his protective black mist.
• Hodan experienced an epiphany as the lightning struck him, rapidly fusing the Violent Profound Mystery with his first two Lightning Mysteries and giving him an initial understanding of the Scorching Profound Mystery.
• Countless lightning bolts crashed into the sea before the Fog Sea Riot passed.

Hodan tempered his body with lightning in the Fog Sea while working to fuse his Mysteries, but his progress was interrupted when Beaumont’s death opened the Plane Prison beneath the Bosha Dike. Beirut sealed the breach, and Hodan wondered whether Bluefire had escaped.

• Hodan endured the Fog Sea’s lightning for twenty years, strengthening his Destruction Giant body as he fused his Mysteries.
• Linley and Olivier killed Beaumont, and Olivier’s strike split the Bosha Dike and broke the seal on the Plane Prison.
• Countless imprisoned figures escaped beneath the Bosha Dike and scattered across the Yulan Continent.
• Beirut appeared, froze space, and sealed the opening with a giant black palm, interrupting Hodan’s near-completed fusion breakthrough.
• Hodan accepted that he could not challenge Beirut and wondered whether Bluefire had escaped from the Plane Prison.

Hodan summoned the escaped Gebados Plane Prison experts to the Arctic Icefield and transported many of them to higher planes while deciding not to alert his clan. He returned to seclusion in the Starry Fog Sea, where he advanced his Lightning Law cultivation and refined Sovereign's Might faster.

• Hodan called the Saint-level experts and gods of the Yulan Continent to the Arctic Icefield to travel to the Supreme Planes or Divine Planes.
• A blond Second Brother chose to leave for Hell despite his Third Brother's warning about the treasures in the Necropolis of the Gods.
• A newly Saint-level middle-aged man saw the powerful experts heading north and decided to return home instead of traveling to a higher plane.
• Hodan chose not to notify the Renars Clan about the Necropolis of the Gods, unwilling to risk losing a Six-Star Fiend or reveal his strength.
• After transporting the travelers, Hodan resumed seclusion and fused three Lightning Mysteries within three months.
• Hodan continued cultivating in the Starry Fog Sea and used his Willpower to refine Sovereign's Might ten times faster.

Hodan realized his Destruction Clone had stalled because his cultivation had advanced faster than his foundation, so he stayed in the Starry Fog Sea to grow stronger. He then traveled to Tongluo Mountain hoping to persuade Bluefire to give up his Sovereign position, where he encountered Linley, Bebe, and Doehring Cowart.

• Hodan counted his accumulated Sovereign's Might and concluded that hiring Paragon High-Gods would not solve the Four Divine Beasts Clan's problems.
• Hodan recognized that his Destruction Clone's progress had stalled because he had advanced too quickly and needed time to strengthen his foundation.
• Hodan kept his original body in the thunder sea to absorb lightning and develop his Thunder Law before pursuing further breakthroughs.
• Hodan decided to try to persuade Bluefire to leave the ranks of the Sovereigns, which would weaken Beirut's side.
• Hodan arrived at Tongluo Mountain and encountered Sadi, Linley, Bebe, and Doehring Cowart.
• Linley excitedly thanked Hodan, while Bebe studied him with curiosity.

Linley and Bebe accompanied Hodan to meet Bluefire, whom Linley hoped would guide him in the Earth Laws. After revealing he was the Plane Overseer, Hodan dismissed Linley and the others so he could speak privately with Bluefire.

• Linley introduced Bebe to Hodan, and the group followed him to Bluefire's residence on Tongluo Mountain.
• Burgess allowed Linley, Bebe, and Hodan to meet Bluefire while Sadi left after being denied an audience.
• Bluefire welcomed Hodan and the others, then sent his brothers away when he sensed Hodan's strength.
• Hodan identified himself as the Plane Overseer, making Bluefire suspect he had come to arrest him.
• Hodan reassured Bluefire that he was not there to arrest him and asked Linley and Bebe to wait elsewhere.
• Hodan addressed Bluefire as the former ruler of Qinghuo City and considered how to begin their private conversation.

Hodan urged Bluefire to weigh freedom against the power of becoming a Chief Sovereign, then helped Linley and recruited Olivier for the Renars Clan. After Olivier left, the elements across the Yulan Continent Plane suddenly churned, leaving Hodan facing an unexplained disturbance.

• Hodan asked Bluefire whether freedom or power mattered more and made him consider the confinement that might come with becoming a Chief Sovereign.
• Hodan arranged for Linley and Doehring Cowart to learn from Bluefire, then returned to secluded cultivation for three years.
• Olivier came to Hodan seeking a teleport to Hell, and Hodan gave him information, books, and a Renars Clan token to help recruit him.
• After Olivier departed, Hodan stepped outside and felt the elements across the Yulan Continent Plane erupt into turmoil, with especially violent tides in the South Sea.

Hodan observed Bluefire rebuild a continent and reassessed Beirut’s strength after Beirut killed Adkins, while planning to grow stronger before confronting him. Later, Hodan guided Catherine’s Life Law cultivation and asked her for advice as she prepared to leave the Yulan Continent.

• Bluefire spent the power of his Earth Element God Clone to rebuild his sunken homeland, creating an elemental tremor that Hodan traced to the south.
• Hodan judged Beirut to be an ordinary Asura who had fused five Darkness Mysteries, and decided to wait until he was strong enough before making his move against him.
• Beirut killed Adkins, and Linley took the High Godheads and artifacts after O’Gawain and the others fought over them.
• Half a month later, Beirut allowed Bluefire to enter the Necropolis of the Gods alone, while Taros, Dylan, the War God, and Cesar decided to travel to Hell together.
• Hodan met Catherine again, recognized her self-cultivated Mid-God potential in the Life Law, and gave her guidance before she left for the Life Divine Plane.
• Hodan asked Catherine for advice on the Life Law, since his own cultivation had stalled at the Lowgod level.

Hodan sent Linley, Delia, and Bebe to Hell after Linley struggled with the conflict between his gratitude to Hodan and his ancestors’ ties to the Four Divine Beasts Clan. Linley and Hodan parted without resolving whether they would become enemies, and Linley began his journey into Hell.

• Hodan shared cultivation resources with Catherine and sent her to the Life Divine Plane, then continued cultivating the Life Law as most God-level powerhouses left the Yulan Continent.
• In late autumn of 10092 Yulan Calendar, Hodan sensed someone becoming a god through their own power and waited by the Plane Teleportation Array for Linley.
• Linley arrived with Delia and Bebe, torn between his gratitude to Hodan and his ancestors’ connection to the Four Divine Beasts Clan.
• Hodan told Linley that he owed him nothing and warned that he would not hold back if they met as enemies; Linley said he would remember Hodan’s help and leave their future to time.
• After Linley confirmed his decision, Hodan activated the array and sent Linley, Delia, and Bebe to Hell.

Hodan used Sovereign's Might to rapidly strengthen his body and repair the weak foundation caused by his accelerated maturation. He endured overwhelming pain as he forced more than ten thousand drops to temper him, pushing beyond the slower method of absorbing them over centuries.

• Hodan concluded that his weak foundation was slowing his cultivation and chose Sovereign's Might to strengthen his body.
• Hodan absorbed one drop of Sovereign's Might and felt it subtly improve his muscles, bones, blood, and organs.
• Hodan surrounded himself with a thousand drops and used his Willpower to keep their radiance contained as they nourished his body and expanded his meridians.
• Hodan summoned over ten thousand more drops and endured the destructive power and intense pain as the Sovereign's Might damaged and repaired his body.
• Hodan rejected the slow process of absorbing each drop over ten days and forced the Sovereign's Might to spin around him, making his blood boil as he continued tempering his body.

After five years of tempering his original body with Sovereign's Might, Hodan restored his foundation and reached strength comparable to a Sovereign Artifact. He began cultivating the Lightning Law in the Fog Sea, but creating a Destruction Thunder Seed rapidly consumed his remaining power.

• Hodan secretly killed passing Metal Lifeforms and used their wealth to obtain more Sovereign's Might while tempering his body in the Fog Sea.
• Hodan completed five years of tempering, raised his body to the level of a Sovereign Artifact, and used his physical strength alone to shatter space.
• Hodan assessed his strength as comparable to Huoxie's and decided to strengthen his other Divine Clones when he had enough Sovereign's Might.
• Hodan settled in the lightning-filled upper Fog Sea to cultivate the Lightning Law and attempted to form a Destruction Thunder Seed.
• The Destruction Thunder Seed drained a drop of Sovereign's Might, so Hodan spent another hundred drops to keep forming it.

Hodan cultivated the Destruction Thunder Seed in the Starry Fog Sea, growing it into a Thunder Tree that revealed how lightning’s Profound Mysteries fused. After absorbing red and silvery-white lightning, he advanced into a fiery-red region to cultivate the Violent Profound Mystery.

• Hodan fed the Destruction Thunder Seed his lifeblood essence and used the lightning at the sea’s edge to help it grow.
• The seed nearly disintegrated under the red lightning, so Hodan retreated until it sprouted into a purple Thunder Tree.
• Hodan saw the Thunder Element and Scorching Profound Mysteries fused in the tree and realized he could use that compatibility to pursue further fusions.
• Hodan returned to the red lightning zone, where the Thunder Tree absorbed red demon lightning and grew to a meter tall.
• Hodan led the Thunder Tree through silvery-white lightning, then reached a fiery-red region that manifested the Violent Profound Mystery.

A Metal Lifeform’s passengers witnessed Hodan cultivating beneath a Thunder Tree in the Fog Sea, where he endured and absorbed its devastating lightning. Hodan completed the fusion of the Thunder Element Mysteries, and his Thunder God Clone awakened on the Yulan Continent.

• A Metal Lifeform’s passengers spotted a rainbow-colored Thunder Tree absorbing lightning in the Fog Sea and steered closer to see it.
• A Thunder Element Highgod observed the tree’s fused Mysteries and gained a major breakthrough before the storm drove the Metal Lifeform away.
• Hodan continued cultivating in the depths of the Fog Sea, where he approached the golden lightning of the Judgment Profound Mystery.
• Hodan absorbed the golden lightning through the Thunder Tree and comprehended the final fusion of the Thunder Element Mysteries.
• Hodan’s Thunder God Clone opened its eyes on the Yulan Continent and laughed after the final piece of the fusion fell into place.

Hodan returned to Hell and became a Thunder-element Highgod, then completed the final fusion of his Mysteries as the Laws of the World descended again. The Black Oblivion Army watched, realizing that something extraordinary was happening to his Godhead.

• Hodan used the Plane Overseer Token to leave Yulan Continent and return to Hell, where Beirut could not interfere.
• At the Black Annihilation Heaven teleportation array, Hodan ignored Richie and began breaking through as the Black Oblivion Army gathered to watch.
• The Laws of the World transformed Hodan's Thunder-element Mid-God Godhead into a High Godhead, making him a Highgod.
• Hodan used the clarity of the Thunder Mysteries to complete their final fusion and take the last step toward becoming a Paragon.
• The Laws of the World descended again and targeted Hodan's still-floating Godhead, startling the Black Oblivion Army.