Recaps

Hodan refused to join Reisgyn and Linley’s group, then spent five hundred years following Linley while searching for the Crown of Wutie. When Bayer targeted Bebe after Bebe killed one of Ocarowell’s Commanders, Hodan watched from a distance, confident Bebe was protected.

• Hodan stood unharmed after blocking Benfield, Sini, and Natte, and Reisgyn’s arrival gave the trio a chance to withdraw.
• Reisgyn invited Hodan to join his squad, but Hodan declined and told Linley he would meet him again during the final battle.
• Hodan spent five hundred years trailing Linley’s group and searching for the Crown of Wutie, gaining only six more golden badges.
• Bebe killed one of Ocarowell’s Commanders, drawing Bayer’s attention and prompting Bayer to seek revenge against Bebe.
• Hodan chose not to intervene as Bayer approached Bebe, since Reisgyn and Qinghuo were nearby and Bebe could withstand Bayer’s attack.

Hodan seized the Crown of Wutie during the battle and rescued Linley and Bebe from Uman. He left Uman defeated and carried him to the surface, where Reisgyn’s side gained a powerful ally.

• Montero and six allies attacked Reisgyn’s group, while Uman drove Linley and Bebe into a desperate fight.
• A spatial rift opened, and Hodan snatched the Crown of Wutie before confronting Uman.
• Hodan struck Uman down and took him away without killing him, then led Linley and the others back to the surface.
• Reisgyn’s group saw Hodan carrying Uman, and Reisgyn realized Linley and the others had Hodan’s protection.

Hodan drove Montero and his companions away after secretly instructing Montero to pass a warning to Hankin, hoping to prevent the events that would lead to Linley’s soul mutation. He accepted Destruction Sovereign Power from Reisgyn, offered to help him in future trouble, and left tokens with Linley and Reisgyn before departing.

• Hodan asked Montero whether Hankin planned to attend the Plane War, then privately told him to warn the Radiant Overlord that the dark side would win.
• Montero understood the warning involved a Chief Sovereign, bowed, and fled with his group after Hodan dismissed them.
• Linley and the others thanked Hodan for saving them, and Hodan cautioned Linley to become stronger and more careful.
• Hodan demanded payment from Reisgyn, who gave him ten jugs of Destruction Sovereign Power and invited him to become his mother's emissary.
• Hodan said he was already the Sovereign of Death's emissary but offered to help Reisgyn in the future, then gave tokens to Linley and Reisgyn before leaving.

Hodan used the Crown of Wutie to perceive the veins of life and cultivate until his Life God Clone became a High God, gaining another portion of Willpower for his clones. A new revelation let him temporarily stack Willpower between his true body and rule clones, leading him to conclude that cultivation could reach Sovereign-level strength.

• Hodan tested the Crown of Wutie and discovered that it healed his body and let his Life God Clone see the veins of life.
• Hodan cultivated with the crown for ten years, then had his Life God Clone undergo the natural-law transformation into a High God.
• Hodan received another portion of Willpower for his true body and rule clones, and learned that their Willpower could be invoked across them once.
• Hodan tested his enhanced power in the Spatial Turbulence and concluded that he had reached at least the strength of a lower Sovereign.
• Hodan recalled the Life Supreme God's words about the Supreme God Sword and concluded that the Sovereign realm could be reached through cultivation.

Hodan reasoned that Sovereign Sparks restricted their wielders from using the full power of their authority, while his own cultivated strength was more freely accessible. He tested his ability to enter a Material Plane, considered his options against Beirut, and returned to the Plane Battlefield with plans to strengthen his clones and artifacts.

• Hodan recalled how Sovereign Sparks contained most of a Sovereign’s Willpower and concluded that they granted limited authority rather than fully usable power.
• Hodan entered an unknown Material Plane and confirmed that he could enter freely without causing it to collapse, even at Sovereign-level strength.
• Hodan decided not to confront Beirut because he was unsure of his own limits, feared punishment for a plane’s destruction, and could use his power only twice.
• Hodan returned to the Plane Battlefield and continued nourishing his Zhengdu Blade, armor, and soul-defense artifact with Willpower and Sovereign Power.
• Hodan noted that his rule clones had all reached the Highgod realm and expected to strengthen their divine bodies to Sovereign Artifact level before the Plane War ended.

Hodan intervened when Magnus pursued Linley to avenge Ramson, shielding Linley from Magnus’s attack and confronting him. Magnus then attacked Hodan directly and, shocked by Hodan’s strength, unleashed a soul attack.

• Hodan sensed that his token had been crushed and discovered Magnus was chasing Linley to avenge Ramson.
• Reisgyn crushed his token, allowing Hodan to contact Linley and direct him toward safety.
• Magnus refused Qinghuo’s request to spare Linley and launched a powerful attack at him.
• Hodan overtook Linley and blocked Magnus’s attack, then told Magnus to abandon the matter.
• Magnus attacked Hodan, but Hodan caught his Sovereign Artifact-clad claw barehanded.
• Magnus transformed into a radiant form and began unleashing a soul attack against Hodan.

Hodan defeated Magnus's soul attack and exiled him into the Spatial Turbulence, then offered Linley and Reisgyn badges before taking them to the Darkness camp to await the final battle. Qinghuo departed on his own, while Hodan's gifts left Linley and Reisgyn with enough badges to exchange for Sovereign Artifacts.

• Magnus launched a massive soul attack at Hodan, but Hodan shattered it with a soul saber and injured Magnus when he tried to dodge.
• Magnus threatened Linley and attempted to flee, but Qinghuo blocked him while Hodan kicked him into a spatial rift and exiled him into the Spatial Turbulence.
• Hodan wiped out Magnus's six accompanying Commanders, including Uman and Chegwin, and took their military merit.
• Hodan invited Linley and the others to the Darkness camp to await the final battle; Qinghuo left to watch the battle elsewhere.
• Linley said he had four Commander Badges and Reisgyn said he had two, so Hodan gave each of them three more badges.

Hodan secretly entered the Spatial Turbulence and killed Magnus's Paragon clone to protect Linley and his family from future threats. Magnus realized his clone had died and told Oufu, who took him to investigate the scene.

• Hodan gave Linley a badge, then separated his Destruction God Clone from the group and disguised himself in the Spatial Turbulence.
• Hodan found Magnus near the Plane Battlefield and killed his Paragon clone with a single slash.
• Magnus lost contact with his Paragon clone and realized he had lost his Paragon status and much of his power.
• Magnus told Oufu what had happened, and Oufu brought him to the clone's last known location to investigate.
• Hodan left the scene and returned to the Plane Battlefield.

Hodan obtained the Nine Soul Pearls and Supreme God Identification Plate from Molder in Tianshan Prefecture. Meanwhile, Oufu found Magnus dead and took the powerless emissary under his protection, unaware that Hodan was the unfamiliar Sovereign he was investigating.

• Hodan's Destruction clone returned to the Plane Battlefield after killing Magnus, and Oufu arrived to find Magnus's divine spark split in two by an unknown Sovereign.
• Oufu recognized an unfamiliar trace of Sovereign's Might, wondered who had killed Magnus, and offered Magnus shelter and a choice about how to rebuild his strength.
• Hodan located Molder in Tianshan Prefecture and appeared in his secret chamber disguised with the appearance and soul aura he had used to kill Magnus.
• Hodan crushed Molder's Space Ring and found the Nine Soul Pearls and Supreme God Identification Plate among its contents.
• Hodan stored the tokens and considered how to handle Molder without letting his other clones spread news of the encounter.

Hodan forced Molder to swear a Supreme Oath to keep the Supreme God mission secret, then returned to the Dark camp and prepared the Commanders for the final battle. As the Star River passageways blazed with seven-colored light, the long-awaited battle began.

• Hodan threatened Molder until he swore a Supreme Oath never to leak news of the Supreme God mission, then left Tianshan Prefecture.
• Hodan returned to the Dark camp headquarters, where he spoke with Commanders who sought his favor.
• At the Commanders' final gathering, Hodan said Bayer would probably not fight and volunteered to attack one passageway while the others handled the other.
• The Dark Commanders welcomed Hodan's confidence, while the Radiant camp feared facing them without Magnus and with Bayer unwilling to participate.
• The Star River passageways erupted in seven-colored light, and Hodan announced that the final battle had begun.

At the start of the final Plane War, Hodan guarded a Star River passage alone and routed the Radiant faction’s forces, while Bayer declined to challenge him. With Hodan securing the first round, the Dark faction’s concentrated forces overwhelmed the Radiant faction and won the Plane War.

• Hodan warned the Radiant soldiers not to attack him, but more than a thousand attacked under a Commander’s orders.
• Hodan used Present World Delusion to kill over a thousand soldiers, then slew the Commander with a soul-infused blade strike.
• Hodan called out Bayer, who said Magnus was stationed there and that he had no intention of fighting; Hodan then advanced through the passage as the Radiant soldiers retreated.
• Hodan reached the end of the passage, causing its seven-colored light to vanish and giving the Dark faction the first-round victory.
• The Dark faction sent coordinated waves of material and soul attacks through its other passage, breaking the Radiant faction’s resistance and winning the Plane War.

Hodan returned from the Plane Battlefield with Linley and Bebe after helping secure victory, then exchanged ten Commander Badges with the Sovereign of Death for a Soul Defense Sovereign Artifact. The Sovereign of Death agreed to search for Linley’s relatives, while Hodan considered how to strengthen Linley further and prevent his soul from mutating.

• Hodan reunited with Linley, Bebe, Reisgyn, and Lei Hong, then distributed four extra Commander Badges among their squads.
• Hodan, Linley, and Bebe traveled to Flamebone Mountain, where Gaolun directed Hodan to the Sovereign of Death.
• The Sovereign of Death praised Hodan for securing victory and Linley for his performance in the Plane Battlefield.
• Hodan exchanged ten badges for a Soul Defense Sovereign Artifact and reminded the Sovereign of Death to search for Linley’s relatives.
• Hodan resolved to add another safeguard by strengthening Linley and eliminating the possibility of his soul mutating.

Hodan fused the nine spirit pearls into the Crown of Wutie, then spent a hundred years strengthening himself before preparing to pursue the Red Diamond. He arranged a safe refuge for his clan and left them with a Soul Defense Sovereign Artifact and a Sovereign token to relocate to the Aokaren Plane.

• Hodan fused the nine spirit pearls into the Crown of Wutie and discovered that it clarified his view of life’s patterns and slowly strengthened his soul.
• Hodan spent a hundred years cultivating until his body and Sovereign Artifacts were fully nurtured and his mastery of the Laws of Death and Life Law reached the Seven-Star Fiend level.
• Hodan decided to resolve the matter of the Red Diamond and secretly summoned Renars and Elder Muli to discuss relocating clan members to a Material Plane.
• Hodan gave Renars a Soul Defense Sovereign Artifact and a Sovereign token to move some of the clan’s elites to the Aokaren Plane.

Hodan arranged protection and seclusion for his family and allies before waiting in the Kodesen Mountain Range for Brodie and the Red Diamond. After a thousand years, Brodie arrived and suffered the events of his predetermined fate, until he spotted the Red Diamond in the grass.

• Hodan gave Elder Muli the Azure Dragon Ring and a Nether Fruit, then asked him to watch for Brodie on the Aokaren Plane and kill him if he returned from the Divine Planes.
• Hodan arranged for Silvermoon and Huoxie to live in seclusion, gave Silvermoon Sovereign Artifacts, and left the Tianji Mountain Range.
• Hodan searched the Kodesen Mountain Range for the Red Diamond, found nothing, and began checking the nearby Plane Teleportation Array for Brodie.
• Over the next thousand years, Hodan cultivated the Laws of Death and Life to the Asura level and eventually spotted Brodie arriving in Hell with his wife.
• Hodan watched Brodie's wife get abducted and Brodie flee, but he did not interfere with Brodie's predetermined fate.
• After Brodie left a hidden cave, he noticed a red flash and found a diamond-shaped red crystal in the grass.

Hodan obtained the Red Diamond, completed the Supreme God mission, and asked the Supreme God of Life to send him back to his original hometown. She refused, leaving him without the return he had sought.

• Hodan took the Red Diamond from Brodie and killed the Kodesen Mountain Range bandits who threatened them.
• Brodie asked Hodan to save his wife, and Hodan rescued her, killed the clan leader, and gave Brodie supplies and a Renars Clan token.
• Hodan traveled to a Material Plane, knocked its inhabitants unconscious, and united the three tokens into the Life Crown.
• The Supreme God of Life appeared and confirmed that Hodan had completed her mission.
• Hodan asked to return to his original hometown, but the Supreme God of Life said she could not fulfill his request.

Hodan Renars learned that the Life Overgod could not send him home, but she confirmed that other paths beyond this world might exist and agreed to help him undergo Soul Mutation. She restored his Thunder God Clone to his original body and began the transformation, leaving him unconscious inside a protected Supreme Array.

• The Life Overgod refused Hodan Renars's request to affect how other worlds operated, then answered his questions about returning home, other paths beyond the world, and safe Soul Mutation.
• Hodan requested that the Life Overgod merge his Thunder God Clone into his original body and safely guide his original body and four Rule Clones through Soul Mutation.
• The Life Overgod dissolved Hodan's Thunder God Clone and returned its soul power and Godhead to his original body, greatly strengthening his soul.
• The Life Overgod weakened Hodan's soul until he lost consciousness, then used a green soul crystal to protect it and support its Soul Mutation.
• The Life Overgod placed Hodan inside a Supreme Array to prevent interference and disappeared as his transformation began.

After sixty years, Hodan awakened from his Soul Mutation with two new portions of Willpower and soul sense that Sovereigns could not detect. He began fusing his four types of Highgod divine power, but the process consumed all the power in his clones after producing only a few wisps of pale-yellow mist.

• Hodan's soul recovered and grew for decades as the green crystal poured its remaining soul power into it.
• Hodan awakened and discovered that his Soul Mutation had granted two portions of Willpower to his original body and Divine Clones.
• Hodan tested his greatly expanded soul power and found that he could observe the Bloodridge Sovereign and Oufu without being detected.
• Hodan began fusing the four types of Highgod divine power, which produced pale-yellow mist that transformed and strengthened his body.
• The fusion stopped when all the divine power in Hodan's four clones was depleted, leaving him stunned by how little mist it had produced.

Hodan discovered that fusing the Four Rules briefly strengthened his body beyond the level of a Sovereign Artifact, but consumed nearly all his stored divine power. Seeking a faster path to grow stronger and find a way home, he decided to hunt Lower Sovereigns and refine their Sovereign Sparks, naming his targets before the chapter ended.

• Hodan fused the Four Rules and found that the resulting pale yellow mist strengthened his body by a tenth, though it exhausted his divine power.
• Hodan concluded that his inefficient power fusion could not be his only route to growth and resolved to become a Sovereign by refining a Sovereign Spark.
• Hodan considered how his Paragon-level Rules, Willpower, and Sovereign-level strength might combine with a Sovereign Spark.
• Hodan decided that his limited ability to sustain Mid-level Sovereign strength made Lower Sovereigns safer targets to hunt.
• Hodan chose the Bloodridge Sovereign in Hell and Lianhuo Sovereign in the Netherworld as his targets.

Hodan began hunting Sovereigns, using his Paragon disguise and powerful soul to catch them off guard. He killed Lianhuo Sovereign on Bailian Island, while Bloodridge Sovereign remained in a chess game with Hodan’s Destruction Clone.

• Hodan chose Bloodridge Sovereign and Lianhuo Sovereign as targets because both were ordinary Lower Sovereigns who were relatively easy to reach.
• Hodan sent his Destruction Clone to Bloodpeak Continent and traveled to the Netherworld with his Death and Fate Clones.
• Hodan visited Bloodridge Sovereign in the Lianyun Mountain Range and persuaded him to play military chess, intending to exploit his lowered guard.
• Hodan entered Lianhuo Sovereign’s labyrinth on Bailian Island and reached the highest floor, where Lianhuo Sovereign was guarding the prize.
• Hodan added his Fate Clone’s Willpower to his true body and killed Lianhuo Sovereign with Present World Delusion, leaving behind a Death Lowgod Sovereign Spark.

Hodan refined the Death Sovereign Spark, killed the Bloodridge Sovereign, and became a Sovereign of two elements. He fled into the Spatial Turbulence as the other Sovereigns pursued him, confident he could escape despite the danger.

• Hodan's Death God Clone refined the Death Sovereign Spark, increasing his Destruction Clone's Willpower.
• Hodan used his final authorization to transfer Willpower to his Destruction Clone and killed the Bloodridge Sovereign with Sovereign's Might.
• Hodan refined the Destruction Sovereign Spark and became a Sovereign of two elements, alerting the Sovereigns in Hell.
• Hodan entered the Spatial Turbulence to gather his clones, while the Destruction Sovereign and the other Sovereigns pursued him.
• The Sovereign of Death confronted Hodan, who apologized before entering the Spatial Turbulence and assessed his new strength.

Hodan confronted Uterde, who demanded the secret behind a god’s ability to wield Sovereign-level power. Their weapons and ultimate moves clashed, but Hodan withstood Uterde’s attacks and challenged him to use the move he had devised against Oufu.

• Uterde accused Hodan of killing Sovereigns and refining their Sparks, while Hodan revealed that he had refined both Destruction and Death Sovereign Sparks.
• Uterde attacked Hodan with his Supreme Artifact spear, and their weapons collided, cracking Hodan’s Zhengdu Blade.
• Uterde revealed his true form and used his Innate Divine Ability, Soul Prison, before unleashing his Ultimate Move, World Destruction.
• Hodan countered with Present World Delusion, and the clash’s shockwave annihilated the surrounding Spatial Turbulence.
• Uterde was stunned that Hodan survived, while Hodan demanded to see the new ultimate move Uterde had created to fight Oufu.

Hodan waited in the Spatial Turbulence as Sovereigns gathered to learn how he had killed two of them and refined their Sovereign Sparks. He concealed the source of his power while facing the four Chief Sovereigns of the Laws, leaving his next move unresolved.

• Hodan inferred that Uterde had not completed Space-Time Disorder and waited for the other Sovereigns to arrive.
• News that Hodan had killed two Sovereigns and refined their Sparks spread, drawing Sovereigns from across the realms.
• Hodan kept his distance from the gathered Sovereigns and assessed the power of the Sovereign of Life and the Sovereign of Death.
• The Sovereign of Death questioned Hodan about his killings and Death Clone, and Hodan credited the Nether Fruit and an unnamed opportunity for his strength.

Hodan faced judgment for killing two Sovereigns and refining their Sovereign Sparks, but the Four Rule Sovereigns ruled him innocent because he had not been a Sovereign when he killed them and had not broken their agreement. The other Sovereigns departed, leaving the Sovereign of Death behind to regard Hodan as his former emissary and current equal.

• Boteier demanded that Hodan explain himself, and Hodan attacked him with a soul strike that Oufu blocked.
• The Sovereign of Life explained the agreement restricting higher-ranked Sovereigns from killing lower-ranked ones who had not provoked them.
• The Destruction Sovereign revealed that Hodan was as strong as a Rule Sovereign and even faster, startling the gathered Sovereigns.
• After conferring, the Four Rule Sovereigns declared Hodan innocent, and the other Sovereigns accepted the judgment.
• The Sovereigns left, while Hodan accepted Oufu's invitation but resolved to avoid the Rule Sovereigns' lairs until he grew stronger.
• The Sovereign of Death remained behind, troubled that his former emissary now stood on equal footing with him.

Hodan returned the Soul Defense Sovereign Artifact to the Sovereign of Death, refused to reveal his strength's secret, and warned her about Oufu. He then secured Zijing Chief Sovereign's oath to protect the Renars Clan and left to pursue greater strength.

• Hodan returned the Soul Defense Sovereign Artifact to the Sovereign of Death and offered to reveal his secret in exchange for a Lower Sovereign Spark of the Fate Element, but she refused.
• Hodan warned the Sovereign of Death to study her Sovereign Spark and watch out for Oufu, then left to create a divine plane near the Aokaren Plane for his Death Clone.
• Hodan went to the Zijing Mountain Range and demanded that Zijing Chief Sovereign swear to protect the Renars Clan if it faced annihilation.
• Hodan explained that he had received the Destruction Giant's legacy and threatened Zijing Chief Sovereign over her husband's destruction of a Material Plane.
• Zijing Chief Sovereign swore the Supreme Oath, and Hodan departed for the Tianji Mountain Range to seek more strength.

Hodan created a Creation Divine Plane and perfected the Death Rule, bringing his Death Clone to the strength of his Destruction Clone. He prepared the plane as a trial ground for the Renars Clan and began planning his next move.

• Hodan gathered his Sovereign's Might and created a divine plane, gaining insight into death until the Death Rule reached perfection.
• Hodan formed a sun and moon, surveyed the plane, and recognized that he could not create life.
• Hodan established the plane as a Renars Clan trial ground, filling it with creatures, experts, hidden treasures, and rules for those who entered.
• Hodan required the plane's overseer to be a Seven-Star Fiend and left the clan to manage the plane.
• Hodan decided he was strong enough to turn the tables and began planning to refine another Sovereign Spark.