Chapter Summaries

Hodan visited the Silvermoon Fiend after his Fate God Clone reached the Highgod level, seeking weapons and armor because he lacked equipment and combat experience. The Silvermoon Fiend was astonished by Hodan’s rapid progress and agreed to find him a master smith.

• Hodan decided to seek a blade, armor, and battle experience for his unequipped Fate God Clone.
• Hodan went to the City Lord’s Mansion and told the Silvermoon Fiend he had reached the Highgod level.
• Hodan credited his breakthrough to a sudden insight and thanked the Silvermoon Fiend for the Soul Golden Bead.
• Hodan explained that his Fate God Clone lacked Divine Artifacts, and the Silvermoon Fiend realized it had advanced with extraordinary speed.
• The Silvermoon Fiend resolved to strengthen his connection with Hodan and agreed to find him a master smith.

Silvermoon Fiend brought Hodan to meet Huoxie, a reclusive peak Asura and master blacksmith, hoping he would forge weapons and armor for Hodan. They reached Huoxie’s home on Flame Mountain, where Huoxie greeted them and asked Silvermoon for wine.

• Silvermoon Fiend offered to take Hodan to visit his old friend Huoxie, a skilled blacksmith who might make artifacts for him.
• Silvermoon Fiend recalled how Huoxie had guided him and helped him advance to Seven-Star Fiend.
• Silvermoon Fiend led Hodan up the scorching Flame Mountain to Huoxie’s forging platform.
• Silvermoon Fiend called out to Huoxie, who emerged from the mountainside and teased him for bringing a guest.
• Hodan bowed to Huoxie, who waved away the formal greeting and asked Silvermoon Fiend for wine.

Hodan presented Huoxie with Golden Clarity Wine to win his favor, and Silvermoon revealed Hodan’s extraordinary progress in the Fate Rule. Huoxie recognized Silvermoon’s request for guidance and a weapon, leaving Hodan on the verge of gaining the powerful expert’s support.

• Hodan offered Huoxie Golden Clarity Wine, and Huoxie eagerly drank it and asked for more.
• Hodan gave Huoxie the rest of his wine and introduced himself as Huoxie accepted the bottles.
• Silvermoon told Huoxie that Hodan had reached the Highgod level in the Fate Rule in less than a hundred years.
• Hodan explained that he had cultivated the Fate Rule for less than ten years, astonishing Huoxie.
• Huoxie understood that Silvermoon wanted him to advise Hodan and possibly forge him a weapon.

Hodan brought Huoxie materials to forge a saber, and their conversation about mastery and the world's resonance sparked Huoxie's sudden enlightenment. The chapter left Huoxie on the verge of a possible breakthrough to Paragon.

• Huoxie accepted Hodan's Black Obsidian Gold Iron and assessed the long saber suited to Hodan's build and fighting style.
• Hodan guessed that Huoxie lived in the barren mountains for their minerals, but Huoxie explained that he had sworn to the Overgod not to leave unless he reached Paragon.
• Huoxie said he had come to love smithing and pursued the perfect weapon through decades of experimentation.
• Hodan described gods as drifting with the current and feeling the world's resonance, prompting Huoxie to repeat the ideas of resonance and assimilation.
• Hodan and Silvermoon realized Huoxie's sudden enlightenment might lead to a Paragon breakthrough.

Huoxie became a Paragon after Hodan’s advice and gained control over space through Willpower. Hodan’s Fate God Clone deepened its understanding of the Fate Rule, and Huoxie thanked Hodan and Silvermoon by calling them his friends.

• The Laws of the World descended on Huoxie, reshaped his Godhead, and transformed his soul as he broke through to Paragon.
• Huoxie casually slashed open a vast rift in space, demonstrating his new power while Silvermoon moved Hodan to safety.
• Hodan studied the breakthrough and deepened his Fate Rule understanding to the level of a Five-Star Fiend.
• Huoxie noticed Hodan’s stronger aura, and Hodan decided he could not count on helping other experts reach Paragon.
• Hodan and Silvermoon congratulated Huoxie, who named them both his friends and offered his support.

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.