Chapter Summaries

Hodan woke in a lake in Hell after transmigrating into the body of a dead Renars Clan member from the Coiling Dragon World. After learning how the original Hodan died, he vowed to avenge him and resolved to find a way back to his parents.

• Hodan awoke in a lake beneath an aurora, realized he was far from his campsite, and passed out when unfamiliar memories flooded his mind.
• Hodan recovered the memories of his former life and recognized that he had entered the Coiling Dragon World as another Hodan.
• Hodan learned that the original Hodan was a Mid-God of the Renars Clan traveling to Yulan Continent to become its Plane Overseer and investigate the Chief Sovereigns' Necropolis and the Four Divine Beasts Clan.
• Hodan learned that Jiawei, an Azure Dragon Clan elder, had killed the original Hodan with a soul attack after his parents had also died in the conflict with the Four Divine Beasts Clan.
• Hodan accepted the original Hodan's grudges and vowed to avenge him, while resolving to find a way back to his parents and Xiaoyan.

After transmigrating into Hodan’s body, Hodan reflected on his plans and the power he needed to survive in the Coiling Dragon world. An epiphany brought his comprehension of the Fate Rule to the threshold of godhood, though he did not know when he would break through.

• Hodan planned to learn how far the story had progressed and to grow stronger, recognizing that he had only a Mid-God Thunder Element clone and a Saint-level True Body.
• Hodan recalled that Elder Muli had sent him to the Yulan Continent to protect him, but the original Hodan had died there at Elder Jiawei’s hands.
• As Hodan reflected on fate, his fused memories and stronger soul brought him into an epiphany that let him comprehend the Fate Rule to its Saint-level limit.
• Hodan realized he could become a god at any moment, though he might also remain at the threshold for decades.
• Hodan reviewed his Thunder Element Mysteries and concluded that he could rely only on his own strength to protect himself or find a way home.

Hodan accepted that he had to serve as Plane Overseer of the Yulan Continent and focused on becoming strong enough to protect himself. He assessed his limited resources and concluded that he needed to find a way to make money quickly, while holding onto his grudge against Jiawei and the Four Divine Beasts Clan.

• Hodan decided to take up his Plane Overseer post rather than risk defying the Chief Sovereign's orders and bringing disaster upon the Renars Clan.
• Hodan resolved to cultivate his Thunder Element Mid-God clone toward Highgod strength so he could survive in Hell and eventually find a way home.
• Hodan checked his interspatial ring and found about twenty million Inkstones' worth of currency, a High-God Artifact, a few Soul Golden Beads, Amethysts, medicines, and his Overseer Token.
• Hodan blamed Jiawei and the Four Divine Beasts Clan for the original Hodan's death and vowed to repay the grudge.
• Hodan ruled out slowly refining Amethysts because only about three thousand years remained in his term, and decided he needed money for Soul Golden Beads or other soul-strengthening treasures.

Hodan realized he was in Yingxue Prefecture on Kalosha Continent and planned to reach Silvermoon City, prepare his Saint-level True Body, and travel to Yulan Continent as a Plane Overseer. As he flew, he assessed the dangers and opportunities there, especially the Purple Blood Soft Sword sealed in the Plane Prison.

• Hodan decided to leave his Saint-level True Body in Hell while his Thunder-element Mid-God Divine Clone continued to Yulan Continent.
• Hodan recalled the geography of Hell and the Renars Clan's conflict with the Four Divine Beasts Clan, then identified his location as Yingxue Prefecture on Kalosha Continent.
• Hodan flew toward Silvermoon City, noting that Yingxue Star Sand could give weapons powerful soul-corroding effects.
• Hodan concluded that the Necropolis of the Gods was a trap for outsiders and that Yulan Continent's greatest opportunities were intended for its natives.
• Hodan focused on obtaining the Purple Blood Soft Sword, which had belonged to the Purple Blood Fiend and was now sealing a weak point in the Plane Prison.

Hodan arrived in Silvermoon City, intending to trade for cultivation resources while secretly planning to obtain the Azure Dragon Ring and Purple Blood Soft Sword. He reached the city’s busiest district and identified the Black Annihilation Castle as his destination, with the Black Sand Castle and Fiend Castle nearby.

• Hodan planned to use a controlled mortal to steal the Azure Dragon Ring and to use his High-God Artifact to replace the Purple Blood Soft Sword at a planar node.
• Hodan flew for a month through Hell and finally reached Silvermoon City, a vast commercial hub in Yingxue Prefecture.
• Hodan joined the queue, paid one inkstone, and entered the city, where he admired its ancient buildings and bustling streets.
• Hodan passed Black Sand Castle and recalled how Elder Muli had found a Thunder Spirit Tree seed there, which helped him become a clan elder.
• Hodan identified Black Annihilation Castle as the place to trade for cultivation resources and recognized the nearby Fiend Castle as the site of Fiend examinations and missions.

Hodan visited Black Annihilation Castle in Di Silvermoon City to buy cultivation supplies and sell unwanted goods. After completing the costly transaction, he checked into a nearby hotel while wealthy observers tracked his purchase.

• Hodan entered Black Annihilation Castle and went to its third floor after presenting a High-God Artifact.
• Hodan bought one hundred and fifty Soul Golden Beads and a complete set of Thunder Element Godheads, selling his unused items for five million Inkstones.
• Hodan paid the remaining twenty million Inkstones with Azure Stone Slabs and chunks of Azure Stone, leaving himself about three hundred thousand Inkstones.
• Observers on the third floor learned of Hodan's transaction and sent information to their backers.
• Hodan went to a nearby hotel, where an Elven Race receptionist told him that a room cost one thousand Inkstones per year.

Hodan settled into a hotel in Silvermoon City, strengthened his soul with Soul Golden Beads, and arranged to notify Elder Muli that he was safe. He then reached the Plane Teleportation Array to travel to Yulan Continent and take up his post as a Plane Overseer.

• Hodan rented a quiet hotel room for a thousand years and absorbed Soul Golden Beads, discovering his blade-shaped soul gave him talent for the Destruction Rules.
• Hodan reached the limits of his Saint-level clone's soul, then filled his Thunder-element Mid-God clone's soul and sensed greater clarity in his cultivation.
• Hodan left his protective artifacts with his Saint Domain True Body, disguised himself to check that his pursuers had left Silvermoon City, and asked the Renars Clan to tell Elder Muli he was safe.
• Hodan traveled for three days to the Plane Teleportation Array in Black Annihilation Heaven and showed his Plane Overseer Token to the Black Oblivion Army commander.
• Hodan told the commander he was taking the passage to assume his post on a Material Plane and introduced himself as a fellow Overseer.

Hodan arrived on the Yulan Continent to begin his work as Plane Overseer, tasked by the Renars Clan with weakening the Four Divine Beasts Clan. Beirut summoned him to the Dark Forest and warned him not to disrupt the continent’s order.

• Peg escorted Hodan to the teleportation array, and Hodan promised to buy him drinks after his term ended.
• Hodan arrived on the icy Yulan Continent as its new Plane Overseer.
• Beirut sensed Hodan’s arrival and ordered him to come to the Dark Forest.
• Hodan reached Beirut’s Metal Castle and waited most of the day before Beirut appeared.
• Beirut pressured Hodan and forbade him from fighting on the Yulan Continent or disrupting its order, and Hodan respectfully agreed.

After Beirut warned Hodan not to attack Yulan Continent’s inhabitants or disrupt its order, Hodan returned to the Arctic Icefield and, driven by anger and a desire for strength, broke through to godhood. He split his soul to form a Fate Rule God Clone, leaving him with a new divine body and a growing hatred of Beirut.

• Beirut allowed Hodan to explore Yulan Continent but forbade him from attacking its people or disturbing its order.
• Hodan returned to the Arctic Icefield and, while monitoring his Thunder God Clone from Hell, resolved to grow strong enough to defy Beirut.
• Hodan crossed the boundary into godhood, and the Laws of the World formed a Lowgod Fate Rule Godhead for him.
• Hodan chose to split his soul, endured the pain, and fused one half with the Fate Rule Godhead.
• The Elemental Ocean supplied divine power that formed Hodan’s new divine body, and he merged his Fate God Clone with his original body.

Hodan developed a Soul Seed to secretly control a servant who could search the Baruch Clan for the Coiling Dragon Ring, but Beirut’s divine sense revealed that Hodan could detect scrutiny from a Chief Sovereign. Studying his soul, Hodan discovered a gray mist that concealed and altered his soul aura, giving him a talent resembling the Bula Clan’s secret art.

• Hodan returned to the Arctic Icefield, considered how to find the Coiling Dragon Ring without alerting Beirut, and decided to use a Soul Seed to control someone else.
• Hodan’s Fate God Clone learned to condense Soul Seeds and shared the method with his Thunder God Clone, which took a month to create one.
• As Hodan left his Snow House to find someone to test the Soul Seed, he sensed Beirut scanning the area and recognized the pressure of a Chief Sovereign.
• Hodan returned to the Snow House and examined his soul, discovering gray mist that blocked probing and changed his soul’s aura.
• Hodan realized the mist could let his Divine Clones disguise their soul auras as well as their appearances, making them difficult to identify.

Hodan studied his new soul talent, then traveled to the High Priest’s residence to learn about the Yulan Continent’s current era and recent events. After revealing himself as a Mid-God and reprimanding the High Priest’s disciples for attacking him, he was invited inside.

• Hodan tested his abilities, briefly gave his Fate God Clone his old Earth appearance, then decided to conceal his power to alter his soul aura and returned to cultivation.
• Hodan flew across the Yulan Continent, sensed the War God and the High Priest, and chose to visit the High Priest for information.
• The High Priest’s disciples tried to stop Hodan from flying into her residence, so he used his Divine Domain to freeze them and then sent them flying without injuring them.
• The High Priest came out after sensing Hodan’s divine power and, realizing he was at least a Mid-God, invited him inside.

Hodan shared cultivation knowledge with the High Priest, then traveled the Yulan Continent while developing his Fate Rule and preparing his plan. After three years, his Fate God Clone neared the Mid-God level, and he began testing Soul Seeds by controlling a band of robbers.

• Hodan gave the High Priest tea and explained the ranks of gods, cultivation, and the dangers of traveling to a Higher Plane before reaching Highgod.
• Hodan learned that it was 9977 on the Yulan Calendar and discovered Linley had not yet been born.
• Hodan spent three years traveling the Yulan Continent, condensing Soul Seeds and observing its people, which brought his Fate God Clone to the limit of Lowgod.
• Hodan restrained the War God with his Divine Domain and continued wandering while using his Thunder God Clone to divert Beirut's attention.
• After a warning tremor in his soul, Hodan planted Soul Seeds in a band of robbers and found they could control warriors up to the sixth level.

Hodan stole the Coiling Dragon Ring from Baruch Mansion and tried to claim it in the Arctic Icefield, but repeated soul tremors warned him that doing so could be fatal. He realized the ring held a contingency left by the Azure Dragon Sovereign for anyone without the proper bloodline, and stopped before claiming it.

• Hodan sent a Soul Seed-controlled fifth-rank warrior to get a job at Baruch Mansion and waited for an opportunity to take the Coiling Dragon Ring.
• During the Yulan Festival, the controlled warrior retrieved the ring from its hiding place and left it in a secluded patch of grass for Hodan.
• Hodan collected the ring and returned to the Arctic Icefield, where he prepared to claim it with his blood.
• Hodan felt his soul tremble each time he attempted to claim the ring and initially feared Beirut had discovered him.
• Hodan recalled that the Azure Dragon Sovereign could have left a lethal contingency in the ring for anyone without the Four Divine Beasts' bloodline, and understood that claiming it as a Mid-God might kill him.

Hodan decided to leave the Coiling Dragon Ring for Linley to find, and his Fate God Clone broke through to the Mid-God realm. He then went to Mist Valley to search for the Purple Blood Soft Sword, where he found the Spined Iron-Armored Dragon and a concealed platform in a cave ceiling.

• Hodan rejected taking the Coiling Dragon Ring to his clan and realized that observing Linley's fate could help him comprehend the Laws of Fate.
• Hodan's Fate God Clone advanced from Lowgod to Mid-God, and he resolved to compete for his own future even if he eventually became Linley's enemy.
• Hodan returned the Coiling Dragon Ring and Soul Seed to their original locations so Linley could follow the path of the original story.
• Hodan traveled to Mist Valley to find the Purple Blood Soft Sword, sampled some Blue Heart Grass, and located the cave where the sword was hidden.
• Hodan knocked the peak ninth-level Spined Iron-Armored Dragon unconscious with a soul attack and discovered a large, partly concealed black platform set into the cave ceiling.

Hodan stole the Purple Blood Soft Sword from its sealed platform in Mist Valley and secretly transferred it to his Fate God Clone in Hell. After testing its power in Silvermoon City, he decided to sell it for cultivation resources despite admiring the weapon.

• Hodan replaced the Purple Blood Soft Sword with a High-God Artifact while suppressing the magic array with his Divine Domain.
• Hodan returned to the Arctic Icefield and arranged for his Fate God Clone to collect the sword through a disguised Space Ring exchange.
• Beirut noticed the Plane Teleportation Array activating but mistook the exchange for a routine supplies transfer.
• Hodan's Thunder Element Divine Clone withdrew into his ice hut while his Fate God Clone carried the sword to Silvermoon City.
• Hodan tested the Purple Blood Soft Sword's spatial blades and sharpness, then resolved to sell it to fund his cultivation.

Hodan used the Purple Blood Soft Sword’s slaughter aura to begin comprehending the Destruction Rules, then brought the sword to Heiyan Castle to sell it for cultivation resources. His attempt to have it appraised was interrupted when the Silvermoon Fiend arrived and asked to examine it.

• Hodan repeatedly immersed his blade-shaped soul in the Purple Blood Soft Sword and finally began to comprehend the Destruction Rules.
• Hodan decided to sell the sword and went to Heiyan Castle, where he entered the third floor using his Thunder Element High Godhead.
• Hodan presented the Purple Blood Soft Sword to a silver-haired appraiser, whose reaction drew the attention of everyone on the floor.
• The Silvermoon Fiend entered Heiyan Castle, and the people present bowed to him while Hodan remained standing.
• The Silvermoon Fiend recognized the sword and asked Hodan if he could examine it.

Hodan returned Purple Blood Fiend’s sword to his brother, Silvermoon Fiend, and told him how Beirut had killed him. Silvermoon offered Hodan a hundred billion Inkstones for the weapon, and the two became sworn brothers.

• Silvermoon Fiend recognized the Purple Blood Soft Sword as his missing brother’s weapon and ordered everyone who witnessed their meeting to keep it secret.
• Silvermoon invited Hodan to his home, where Hodan explained that he had found the sword on the Yulan Continent and that Beirut had killed Purple Blood Fiend ten thousand years earlier.
• Silvermoon grieved that he had failed to stop his brother from pursuing a Sovereign Spark and asked Hodan to sell him the sword.
• Silvermoon offered Hodan a hundred billion Inkstones and warned that a higher price could put him in danger; Hodan clarified that he had only been surprised by the offer.
• Hodan called Silvermoon his big brother, and Silvermoon accepted him as his younger brother.

Hodan received a hundred billion Inkstones from Silvermoon Fiend, who welcomed him as a younger brother and offered him further help. Hodan planned to cultivate in Silvermoon City and left with Soul Golden Beads and a house, paying Silvermoon Fiend for both.

• Silvermoon Fiend gave Hodan a Space Ring containing a hundred billion Inkstones and a token granting him access to the City Lord's Mansion.
• Silvermoon Fiend advised Hodan to stay in Silvermoon City while danger over Purple Blood Fiend's weapon subsided, and Hodan said he planned to buy Soul Golden Beads and cultivate in seclusion.
• Silvermoon Fiend learned that Hodan was a Plane Overseer from the Renars Clan and offered him Soul Golden Beads and a house.
• Hodan found three or four thousand Soul Golden Beads in Silvermoon Fiend's ring, then asked to buy a hundred thousand more for his soul cultivation and plans to cultivate the Four Rules.
• Hodan paid Silvermoon Fiend ten billion Inkstones for the Soul Golden Beads and another ten billion for the house.

Hodan accepted the Silvermoon Fiend’s former home in Silvermoon City and received a large supply of Soul Golden Beads, giving him a place to cultivate in peace. After discovering a new way to think about fusing Mysteries, he resolved to fuse the Thunder Mysteries as a Mid-God before advancing his Thunder God Clone.

• The Silvermoon Fiend arranged for Hodan to receive his former home and sent a servant to buy Soul Golden Beads with Hodan’s money.
• Hodan imprinted his soul aura on the deed, ended his rental, and returned to find 114,000 Soul Golden Beads waiting for him.
• Hodan entered the house’s magic array and found its elemental density helped his Thunder God Clone and Saint Domain True Body comprehend and fuse Thunder Mysteries.
• Hodan reasoned that fusing Mysteries was easier as a Mid-God, when the foundation remained adaptable, than as a Highgod, when it had hardened.
• Hodan planned to fuse nearly all the Thunder Mysteries as a Mid-God, then advance his Thunder God Clone and fuse the rest on the way to Paragon.

Hodan watched Linley’s birth and seized an insight into the river of fate, which helped his Fate God Clone break through to the Highgod level. After strengthening his original body, Hodan left seclusion determined to gain experience and eventually take revenge on Elder Jiawei.

• In 9982 of the Yulan calendar, Hodan watched Hogg and Lina welcome their son, Linley, and sensed fate beginning to turn.
• Hodan merged his soul with the river of fate and emerged having gained the insight he needed to break through with his Fate God Clone.
• Hodan refined his original body with Highgod Power, raising it from the level of a Lowgod Artifact to a Midgod Artifact.
• Hodan resolved to leave seclusion and seek experience through battle as he pursued greater strength and revenge on Elder Jiawei.