Recaps

Hodan tested his newfound power against Beirut while the Eight Great Clans fought the Four Divine Beasts Clan across Tianji Mountain Range. Hodan wounded Beirut but could not kill him, and Beirut then used his innate divine ability, God-Eater, against Hodan.

• The Four Divine Beasts Clan launched desperate attacks on the Eight Great Clans, inflicting heavy casualties as the larger force kept the fighting under control.
• Hodan kept Beirut occupied with his Lightning Clone and attacked him with his Fate God Clone, whose strength exceeded a Paragon's.
• Hodan's strike sent Beirut flying and drew blood, but Hodan concluded that Beirut's Sovereign Artifact-like body and Sovereign's Might let him recover from the damage.
• Beirut, enraged by the blow, unleashed his innate divine ability, God-Eater, which locked onto Hodan's soul and struck him with a strange energy.

Hodan banished Beirut into the Spatial Turbulence, where the Radiant Overlord killed Beirut’s Darkness God Clone despite the Destruction Sovereign’s orders. The Destruction Sovereign confronted the Radiant Overlord, who invoked Oufu’s favor and fled toward him.

• Beirut’s innate divine ability failed against Hodan, who seized him and kicked him through a spatial rift into the Spatial Turbulence, taking his Thunder God Clone with him.
• Hodan tested his ability to move against the Spatial Turbulence and found that his Fate Clone could barely force its way upstream.
• The Radiant Overlord waited within the Spatial Turbulence and annihilated Beirut’s Darkness God Clone and Godhead.
• The Destruction Sovereign sensed Beirut’s death and accused the Radiant Overlord of defying his orders.
• The Radiant Overlord defended his actions, invoked Oufu’s favor, and flew toward Oufu as the Destruction Sovereign prepared to attack.

Hodan trapped Beirut on the Yulan Continent and took Bebe hostage, while Beirut revealed himself as a Chief Sovereign to the gathered clans. Augusta intervened to protect Hodan and the Eight Great Clans, leaving Beirut unable to retaliate against them without risking the Yulan Continent’s mortals.

• Hodan asked Oufu to protect Augusta from Uterde, and Augusta revealed he had spent Oufu’s favor to secure that protection.
• Hodan seized Bebe and suppressed him, while Linley attacked Hodan but failed to land a blow.
• Beirut projected his image over the Yulan Continent, and the clans and other onlookers recognized him as a Chief Sovereign.
• Hodan taunted Beirut and declared that Bebe was in his hands, while the Eight Great Clans faced the revelation that they had opposed a Chief Sovereign.
• Augusta announced that he would protect Hodan and the Eight Great Clans from Beirut’s retaliation and threatened to slaughter mortals if Beirut attacked them through his projections.

Hodan forced Beirut to choose between revenge and protecting his descendants and the Yulan Continent, using Bebe as leverage. Beirut, Linley, and Bebe swore oaths restricting their attacks, and the Radiant Overlord agreed not to harm the continent’s gods unless provoked.

• Hodan threatened to kill Bebe unless Beirut swore not to attack the Eight Great Clans, while Linley begged for Bebe’s release.
• Beirut weighed the costs of retaliation and chose to protect his descendants and the future of the Yulan Continent.
• Beirut demanded that the Radiant Overlord also leave the continent’s gods alone unless they provoked him, and the Radiant Overlord agreed.
• Beirut swore the Supreme Oath, then Hodan ordered Linley and Bebe to swear to the same terms.
• After Linley and Bebe swore their oaths, Hodan released Bebe and dismissed the threat they posed.

Hodan prepared to destroy the Four Divine Beasts Clan but offered Linley’s Yulan Lineage a chance to leave unharmed. Beirut refused to intervene, and Linley learned that his lineage had little connection to the Four Divine Beasts Clan beyond bloodline.

• Hodan announced that the Four Divine Beasts Clan would be destroyed, while Renars celebrated the Eight Great Clans’ coming victory.
• Gaiseresen and the other Four Divine Beasts Clan leaders begged Beirut to save them, but Beirut ignored their pleas and decided he had already repaid his debt to the clan.
• Hodan offered Linley’s Yulan Lineage a chance to leave the Four Divine Beasts Clan, hoping to preserve goodwill with Linley.
• Linley questioned Hodan’s claim that his lineage had nothing in common with the Four Divine Beasts Clan, and Beirut promised to explain after they returned to Yulan Continent.
• Beirut explained that the four Ultimate Warrior Clans were natives of Yulan Continent who had gained the Four Divine Beasts’ bloodlines through his experiment.

Linley and Baruch led the Yulan Continent group out of the Four Divine Beasts Clan after Beirut said they were no longer allied with it. Dannington returned to Hodan to ask how he had become a Paragon in two elements, and Hodan gave an explanation that concealed the truth.

• Linley asked Baruch to leave the Four Divine Beasts Clan, and Baruch agreed rather than risk the Yulan Continent group’s lives.
• The Yulan Continent group gathered their belongings and moved to the safety of Beirut’s Sovereign projection.
• Dannington returned to Hodan and asked whether someone could reach Paragon in two different laws and how Hodan had cultivated.
• Hodan claimed that surviving perilous places suited to one’s element could improve cultivation, and said his Thunder God Clone had reached Paragon in the Starry Fog Sea’s lightning storms.
• Dannington accepted Hodan’s explanation and stood aside while the watching Chief Sovereigns considered his claims.

Bluefire failed to persuade Hodan to spare the Four Divine Beasts Clan, and the clan launched a desperate final attack against the Eight Great Clans. Hodan began slaughtering their forces, leaving the battle underway and the clan’s fate all but sealed.

• Bluefire asked Hodan to spare the Four Divine Beasts Clan, but Hodan refused and threatened to kill Bluefire if he intervened.
• Gaiseresen and the other leaders of the Four Divine Beasts Clan charged the Eight Great Clans with Sovereign’s Might, determined to take as many enemies down as possible.
• Hodan ordered the Eight Great Clans’ leaders to intercept the clan’s experts while he attacked their weaker forces.
• Hodan killed nearly three thousand divine experts with a single Fate Sovereign Power attack.
• Several elders of the Four Divine Beasts Clan attacked Hodan to avenge their fallen, but he swiftly killed them.

Hodan attacked the Four Divine Beasts Clan at Tianji Mountain Range, using his Paragon-level strength to slaughter its members and pursue its patriarchs. The patriarchs held him off for eighty blows, but Hodan remained dominant as the battle continued.

• Gaiseresen ordered the Four Divine Beasts Clan to use soul attacks against Hodan, but Hodan dismissed them and tore open space, killing or sweeping away thousands of experts.
• Hodan pursued Gaiseresen and bound him with Willpower, but the Great Elder took Hodan's blade strike and was severely wounded, leaving both him and Gaiseresen injured.
• Four elders rushed to protect Gaiseresen, and Hodan killed them with four quick strikes before opening another spatial rift to clear his path.
• The patriarchs fought Hodan together, hoping to cast him into the Spatial Turbulence and buy time for the clan to escape.
• After eighty blows, Hodan praised the patriarchs' endurance while they remained badly wounded and he continued to hold the advantage.

Hodan fought the Four Divine Beasts Clan leaders and Great Elder, whose fused talent divine ability managed to wound his soul. He counterattacked with Present World Delusion, overwhelmed them, and killed Gaiseresen.

• Hodan realized his divine sense still fell far short of a Chief Sovereign's reach and resolved to keep a low profile.
• The Four Divine Beasts Clan leaders and Great Elder fused their talent divine abilities into a combined attack that wounded Hodan's soul.
• Hodan unleashed Present World Delusion, striking at the souls of the fighters and spectators while leaving Gaiseresen protected by his Soul Defense Sovereign Artifact.
• Hodan targeted Gaiseresen, shattered his sword, and sent him flying with a powerful blow.
• Hodan immobilized Gaiseresen with his Willpower and sliced through his neck with Zhengdu.

Hodan killed Gaiseresen and began picking off the Four Divine Beasts Clan leaders, intending to claim their bodies and Sovereign Artifacts. He slew the Vermilion Bird Clan Leader before the others could stop him, leaving Gaia and the remaining leaders facing Hodan’s attack.

• Hodan killed Gaiseresen with a punch and collected his corpse and belongings, while Gaia and the other clan leaders grieved.
• Hodan considered the Four Divine Beasts Clan leaders’ abilities and artifacts, then used Present World Delusion to disorient them.
• Hodan appeared before the Vermilion Bird Clan Leader and severed his head with Zhengdu.
• Hodan disrupted the Vermilion Bird Clan Leader’s attempt to be reborn with a soul attack, then destroyed his divine body and soul.
• Hodan collected the Vermilion Bird Clan Leader’s corpse, Space Ring, and Sovereign Artifact.

After killing the Vermilion Bird Clan Leader, Hodan faced the Four Divine Beasts Clan's desperate attempt to overwhelm him with thousands of Sovereign's Might-enhanced attacks. He evaded their assault, slaughtered their warriors with one strike, and preserved their blood as Gaia and the two remaining clan leaders stood alone.

• Gaia ordered the Four Divine Beasts Clan members with Sovereign's Might to join forces and attack Hodan.
• Thousands of clan warriors unleashed coordinated material and soul attacks, tearing open a vast rift into the Spatial Turbulence.
• Hodan predicted where the attacks would land and dodged them, avoiding the combined assault.
• Hodan struck back with a slash that split into thousands of dragons, killing the Six-Star and Seven-Star Fiends it hit.
• Hodan gathered the warriors' blood into a sphere and stored it in a jade bottle, leaving only Gaia, the White Tiger Clan Leader, and the Black Tortoise Clan Leader standing.

Hodan annihilated the Four Divine Beasts Clan’s last powerful fighters, ending its war with the Eight Great Clans. The Eight Great Clans invaded the Tianji Mountain Range, where Hodan led a devastating slaughter as the clan’s remaining members were hunted down.

• Hodan killed the White Tiger Clan Leader and Black Tortoise Clan Leader and annihilated Great Elder Gaia’s soul, then collected their possessions.
• The Eight Great Clans’ leaders and Silvermoon led their troops into the Tianji Mountain Range to attack the Four Divine Beasts Clan’s remaining warriors.
• The Eight Great Clans overwhelmed the disorganized defenders, while Hodan let them fight before joining the assault himself.
• Hodan’s slaughter broke the Four Divine Beasts Clan’s defense and turned the Tianji Mountain Range into a scene of widespread death and destruction.

Hodan’s slaughter of the Four Divine Beasts Clan advanced his understanding of the Destruction Rules to the Asura level, while he gathered bloodlines and Death Qi from the battlefield. He then used his spiritual sense to locate fleeing survivors and guide the Eight Great Clans’ squads as they hunted them down.

• Hodan halted his pursuit of further enlightenment to avoid drawing the Chief Sovereign’s attention, then had his Fate God Clone collect bloodlines and Death Qi from the dead.
• A Wenna Clan squad confronted and attacked three hundred Four Divine Beasts Clan Highgods, accusing the clan of past atrocities and seeking to exterminate its survivors.
• The fleeing Highgods scattered, while the Wenna Clan’s Seven-Star Fiend ordered his squad to stop them from reaching the city.
• Hodan scanned Youlan Prefecture from afar, found hidden groups of survivors, and alerted the Eight Great Clans’ hunting squads through Soul Transmission.
• Guided by Hodan, the Eight Great Clans continued their organized purge of the Four Divine Beasts Clan’s survivors.

The Destruction Sovereign confronted Oufu to fulfill his promise to protect Beirut's Darkness God Clone, while Hodan watched among the Sovereigns. The Destruction Sovereign revealed his new ultimate technique and attacked Oufu with his Destruction Supreme Artifact, leaving the clash underway.

• Augusta placed Hodan inside a protective barrier so he could observe the Sovereigns without being swept away by Spatial Turbulence.
• The Sovereign of Death and the Sovereign of Life noticed Hodan, while Augusta identified the gathered Sovereigns for him.
• The Destruction Sovereign said he would fight Oufu because Oufu blocked his attempt to kill Augusta and he had promised to protect Beirut's Darkness God Clone.
• The Destruction Sovereign revealed his Destruction Supreme Artifact and transformed into a massive Wukun-like phantom as he prepared his ultimate technique.
• The Destruction Sovereign unleashed World Destruction, and his spear thrust toward Oufu's head.

The Fate Chief Sovereign, Oufu, faced Uterde’s strongest attack and stopped it, though he admitted it had tested his defenses. Uterde withdrew, while Oufu hoped he would continue developing the move.

• Uterde struck Oufu with his World Destruction move, but Oufu stopped the black spear with his bare hand.
• Uterde revealed Space-Time Disorder, a move inspired by the Four Divine Beasts, and attacked Oufu as time and space fell into disorder.
• Oufu seized the spear tip and declared that Space-Time Disorder primarily attacked the soul, claiming his soul-protecting Supreme Artifact had countered it.
• Uterde accepted defeat and said Space-Time Disorder could surpass the other Rule Chief Sovereigns if perfected.
• Uterde called off the confrontation but warned Augusta that he would attack him if they met again.

After the Sovereigns’ battle, Oufu invited Hodan to Augusta Garden and asked about his strength as the first Dual-Element Paragon. Hodan concealed his other advantages, while the chapter revealed the extraordinary origins of his Sovereign Artifact-level body and his Four Rules cycle.

• Augusta stayed silent despite his resentment as the Sovereigns turned their attention to Hodan.
• Oufu invited Hodan to visit Augusta Garden, but Hodan declined because he still had important matters to handle in Hell.
• Oufu asked whether being a Dual-Element Paragon made Hodan different, and Hodan said his strength came from his unusually powerful body.
• The Sovereigns concluded that Hodan’s body rivaled a Sovereign Artifact and made him exceptionally powerful.
• Hodan’s strength was traced to his transmigrated soul, the Blood Essence of a Destruction Giant, and his cultivation of the Four Rules cycle.

Hodan explained that a Heaven and Earth Wonder had transformed his divine body to the level of a Sovereign Artifact, easing the Sovereigns’ suspicions. After the Sovereign of Death offered him the position of her Chief Sovereign’s Emissary, Hodan asked for time to decide while he handled the Four Divine Beasts Clan’s affairs.

• Wind Chief Sovereign questioned Hodan about how his divine body reached the level of a Sovereign Artifact, and Hodan credited a droplet-shaped Heaven and Earth Wonder.
• Augusta and Oufu supported Hodan’s explanation, and the Sovereigns stopped coveting his supposed discovery.
• Oufu invited Hodan to visit his garden and then left, offering him protection through their partnership.
• Augusta offered to send Hodan’s Divine Clone back to Hell, but the Sovereign of Death arrived and invited him to become her Chief Sovereign’s Emissary.
• Hodan declined to decide immediately after the Sovereign of Death offered him a Sovereign Artifact of his choice and an unlimited personal supply of Sovereign’s Might.

Hodan declined the Sovereign of Death’s offer but received the promised Sovereign’s Might from Augusta and returned to Hell. After the Eight Great Clans defeated the Four Divine Beasts Clan, Hodan helped distribute the spoils and agreed that a defensive alliance was worth considering.

• The Sovereigns invited Hodan to become their emissary, but he said he was still thinking about it and left with Augusta.
• Augusta brought Hodan back to Hell, gave him the promised Sovereign’s Might, and left him near the Tianji Mountain Range.
• Hodan returned after the Eight Great Clans had completed their siege and destroyed the Four Divine Beasts Clan.
• The Eight Great Clans took over the Four Divine Beasts Clan’s territories, counted its spoils, and presented the inventory to Hodan, who kept only a token amount and shared the rest among them.
• Renars asked Hodan about Boling and Wenna’s proposal for a defensive alliance, and Hodan agreed it was worth pursuing.

Hodan called the leaders and elders of the Eight Great Clans together to consider their proposed alliance of offense and defense. He agreed to support the alliance but said they needed to establish rules, leaving the gathering to discuss what those rules should be.

• Hodan summoned the leaders and elders of the Eight Great Clans to the Four Divine Beasts Clan's meeting hall.
• The clan leaders and elders greeted Hodan with deference, recognizing his power as a Paragon.
• Renars asked Hodan whether he supported the Eight Great Clans forming an alliance of offense and defense.
• Hodan agreed that the clans should preserve their unity against outsiders by forming the alliance.
• Hodan said the alliance needed rules, and Boling asked him to suggest how they should be set.

Hodan established rules and a leadership structure for the Eight Great Clans’ alliance, promising to protect them and help train their members. He then invited Huoxie and Silvermoon to join the alliance as guest elders.

• Hodan rejected the alliance leader position and proposed that the eight clan chiefs take turns leading for ten thousand years, with major decisions requiring approval from more than half of the elders and higher-ranking members.
• Hodan forbade clan members from using their clans’ names to commit misdeeds, warned that the clans would punish offenders, and promised to defend them against powerful enemies.
• Hodan ordered each clan to contribute twenty Seven-Star Fiends to rotating enforcement squads and asked each clan to select one hundred talented Five- or Six-Star Fiends for instruction in the Thunder Element and Fate Rule.
• Hodan agreed to let Clan Chief Boling, Renars, and other elders attend his instruction, while noting that the final step toward becoming a Paragon depended on each person’s own talent and insight.
• After leaving the alliance’s detailed arrangements to the clan chiefs, Hodan asked Huoxie and Silvermoon whether they would join the Eight Great Clans as guest elders.

Hodan persuaded Huoxie and Silvermoon to join the Eight Great Clans as offerings, then helped the clans establish an alliance headquartered on the former territory of the Four Divine Beasts Clan. The alliance announced its formation across the planes, presenting itself as a powerful faction safeguarded by three Paragons.

• Hodan urged Huoxie and Silvermoon to join the Eight Great Clans, and both agreed to become offerings.
• The clan leaders and elders finalized an alliance and swore a Supreme Oath to support one another through every crisis.
• The Eight Great Clans established their new headquarters on the former territory of the Four Divine Beasts Clan while retaining holdings in other planes.
• The alliance required future Seven-Star Fiend elders to swear Supreme Oaths and offered its powerful members improved benefits.
• The Eight Great Clans publicly announced their alliance, its enforcement squad, its offerings, and Hodan as guardian of their fortunes.
• News of the alliance spread across countless planes, where people recognized that only the Sovereigns could safely provoke the faction.

After defeating the Four Divine Beasts Clan, Hodan settled into his new role as the Eight Great Clans’ spiritual leader and examined the spoils from the battle. He activated Gaiseresen’s Coiling Dragon Ring, resisted the Azure Dragon Sovereign’s hidden soul attack, and discovered blood essence inside.

• Hodan flew to his new mansion in the Tianji Mountain Range, where the Eight Great Clans treated him as their spiritual leader.
• Hodan selected talented Six- and Five-Star Fiends of the Thunder and Fate Elements to serve as attendants, while Huoxie and the others settled in a neighboring mansion.
• Hodan took a blue Coiling Dragon Ring from Gaiseresen’s headless corpse and bound it to himself.
• The Azure Dragon Sovereign’s stored soul attack struck when Hodan touched the ring, but Hodan resisted it and claimed the intact Soul Defense Sovereign Artifact.
• Hodan found a drop of golden blood and three blue droplets inside the ring, and suspected the golden drop was the Azure Dragon Sovereign’s blood essence.

Hodan sorted the Four Divine Beasts Clan’s spoils, keeping a Soul Defense Sovereign Artifact and thousands of drops of Sovereign’s Might while refining the clan’s blood into potent Divine Beast bloodlines. He ended with four bloodline portions for potential mass implantation and eighteen drops of Sovereign-level Essence Blood.

• Hodan collected five Sovereign Artifacts and four drops of Divine Beast Essence Blood from the clan leaders and Great Elder, then tested the artifacts and kept only the Soul Defense Sovereign Artifact.
• Hodan stored the remaining artifacts and gathered more than five thousand drops of Sovereign’s Might, countless Inkstones, and other spoils from the Four Divine Beasts Clan.
• Hodan refined a hundred-meter sphere of ordinary clan members’ blood and divided it into four potent portions representing the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise bloodlines.
• Hodan purified Essence Blood from Five-Star Fiends and stronger clan members, producing roughly three thousand drops.
• Hodan spent a month refining the clan leaders’ and Great Elder’s Essence Blood, obtaining seventeen drops equal in strength to Azure Dragon Essence Blood and bringing his total to ten Azure Dragon drops and four each of the other three.

After securing the Four Divine Beasts’ blood essence, Hodan cultivated in seclusion and advanced his Destruction Rules to Paragon. He then gave Renars the blood essence and ordered him to secretly strengthen the Renars Clan.

• Hodan stored the blood essence in his Space Ring and planned to use most of it to cultivate powerhouses for the Renars Clan.
• Hodan reflected on the battle and used his insights into destruction to reach Paragon in the Destruction Rules.
• Hodan learned that half a year had passed and decided not to pursue another breakthrough where it might draw attention.
• Hodan summoned Renars and told him he had broken through after digesting his battle insights.
• Hodan gave Renars blood essence from the Four Divine Beasts and instructed him to secretly train talented clan members without using their innate divine abilities unless necessary.

Hodan distributed spoils from the Four Divine Beasts to Renars, giving him a Material Defense Sovereign Artifact and promising to obtain a Soul Defense Sovereign Artifact later. He then gathered experts from the Eight Great Clans to train them in the Thunder Mysteries and Fate Rule, requiring the Thunder cultivators to swear a Supreme Oath to protect his secrets.

• Hodan gave Renars a Space Ring filled with spoils, including more than a thousand drops of Sovereign's Might, and told him to distribute some of the loot among the families.
• Hodan gave Renars the Material Defense Sovereign Artifact taken from the White Tiger Clan Leader and advised him to hide it as ordinary clothing.
• Hodan told Renars to carry out the cultivation plan in secret and bring the Eight Great Clans' experts to him for instruction.
• Renars brought 801 people, including Elder Muli, to Hodan, who divided them between his Thunder Element and Fate Rule Divine Clones.
• Hodan required the Thunder cultivators to swear a Supreme Oath never to disclose what they learned or risk their souls being controlled.