Chapter Summaries

Liewen realized Starry Night Castle was under attack by Apostles and tried to escape, while the attackers hunted the castle’s guards and leaders for mission proof. At the gates, he found Douglas fighting a powerful Black-Robed Apostle, and their clash ended with both sides landing attacks.

• Liewen found a Starry Night Ring on a dead attacker and suspected the assault was an Apostle Trial, so he set out to leave the castle.
• Liewen learned that Apostles were hunting the White-Robed Captain and the castle master, and he saw outsiders killing one another over mission proof.
• A stranger recognized Liewen as a Ron Tribe newcomer and claimed to be controlling a Fate Puppet before departing with a dead attacker’s belongings.
• Liewen reached the corridor near the gates and saw Douglas fighting a powerful Black-Robed Apostle who mistook him for a castle defender.
• Douglas sent a Midgod Divine Clone to unleash Slaughter Body Arrows and Fate Puppet Threads, but the Black-Robed Apostle’s blade light also struck him.

Liewen killed the badly wounded black-robed Highgod and left Starry Night Castle as its defenses collapsed. Inside, Ren Liwen escaped his grandfather Eric’s protection while Eric fought a White-Robed Captain, and Liewen saw the castle master being attacked by three powerful enemies.

• Douglas sacrificed two Divine Clones to badly wound the black-robed man, and Liewen killed him with a sword strike and took both opponents’ Godsparks and Interspatial Rings.
• Ren Liwen took a fourth Starry Night Ring and boasted to his grandfather, Eric Liwen, about how easy the Apostle assessment seemed.
• A White-Robed Captain attacked Ren and Eric, and Eric engaged him while Ren ran off to fight other Midgods on his own.
• Liewen left the castle as its defensive formation collapsed and saw the silver-haired castle master besieged by three powerful opponents.

Liewen killed Ren, a fast and powerful Midgod pursuing him, then fled Shattered Star Island as Eric discovered his grandson’s death and vowed revenge. With Starry Night Castle destroyed, Liewen feared both Ren’s clan and the coming struggle over the island’s mines and chose to disappear elsewhere.

• Liewen tried to escape Starry Night Castle, but Ren caught up to him and demanded a fight.
• Ren’s attack failed to penetrate Liewen’s Purification Guard, and Liewen killed him with a soul attack despite Ren’s material-defense Highgod Artifact.
• Liewen took Ren’s belongings and left, while Eric arrived, found Ren’s corpse, and vowed to investigate and avenge him.
• Eric flew toward the Liwen Clan to report Ren’s death and request an investigation.
• Realizing Shattered Star Island would descend into conflict and Ren’s clan might seek the killer, Liewen decided to leave the island and live in seclusion.

After settling on Moonlight Island, Liewen took stock of the spoils he had gained at Starry Night Castle and discovered a fortune in the Interspatial Rings. He found a Fate Puppet Thread that seemed connected to the Rules of Fate, and the chapter ended with him astonished by the Black-Robed Apostle’s wealth.

• Liewen settled into seclusion on Moonlight Island, planning to advance his Rules of Fate to the Highgod level before traveling to Blue Moon City.
• Liewen examined the two Midgods’ Interspatial Rings and found just over a million Celestial Stones between them.
• Liewen opened the young man’s ring, finding thirty million Celestial Stones, ten Soul Golden Pearls, a God-Slaying Arrow, and a Fate Puppet Thread.
• Liewen inspected Douglas’s ring and found nearly four hundred million Celestial Stones, Soul Golden Pearls, a Metal Lifeform, Shattered Star Stones, and Highgod equipment.
• Liewen opened the Black-Robed Apostle’s ring and discovered it contained more than four billion Celestial Stones.

Liewen strengthened his soul, then comprehended Fate Manipulation and became a Highgod of the Rules of Fate. After assessing his new abilities, he left his valley for Blue Moon City, leaving the nearby Saint Realm beings without his protection.

• Liewen found a map of Liuyun Prefecture among the Black-Robed Apostle's possessions and cultivated in his cave abode while Shattered Star Island descended into conflict.
• After absorbing the Soul Golden Pearls, Liewen's soul reached its limit, and his divine sense expanded to four hundred meters.
• A century later, Liewen comprehended Fate Manipulation, became a Highgod, and developed a Fate Puppet Thread that could control another person's body.
• Liewen's soul transformed, his divine sense reached one thousand meters, and he prepared to travel to Blue Moon City.
• Liewen flew away in a black panther-shaped Metal Lifeform, and the nearby Saint Realm beings feared that their safe haven would end.

Liewen arrived in Blue Moon City and searched Cloud Sea Castle for information about the Celestial Realm. He learned that the Heaven-Reaching Tower and its God Lords of Heaven-Reaching might offer a route to the Planar Battlefield, then began considering the long journey there.

• Liewen entered Blue Moon City after paying the entrance fee and saw its three castles.
• Liewen learned that White Sand Castle handled free trade, Cloud Sea Castle offered legitimate trade, and Apostle Castle assessed applicants seeking to become Apostles.
• Liewen went to Cloud Sea Castle and found an overview book about the Celestial Realm.
• Liewen read that the Heaven-Reaching Tower stood at the center of the Inner Cloud Sea and had 120 floors, each guarded by a God Lord of Heaven-Reaching no weaker than a Prefect.
• Liewen learned that reaching the Inner Cloud Sea from northern Liuyun Prefecture required crossing the Red Gold Continent and began weighing the dangers and time involved.

Liewen bought a guide to the Laws of Light and Highgod Heaven-Swallowing Beast essence blood, hoping to study the profundities and strengthen his body. Outside Cloud Sea Castle, he reunited with Royce and learned Royce had come with an unfamiliar clan group to sell artifacts.

• Liewen bought a book introducing the six profound mysteries of the Laws of Light and planned to study the Sacred Profundity and Light Shadow Clone.
• Liewen saw Divine Beast essence blood on Cloud Sea Castle's second floor and bought a portion of Highgod Heaven-Swallowing Beast essence blood on the third floor.
• Liewen left Cloud Sea Castle to find an inn and test the essence blood.
• Royce recognized Liewen outside the castle, congratulated him on becoming a Highgod, and explained that he had come to Blue Moon City to sell Median Divine Artifacts.
• Royce left his group to speak with Liewen, who noticed that most of the group did not look like members of the Ron Tribe.

Royce told Liewen how the Ron Tribe had fallen under the Liwen Clan’s control, and Liewen gave Royce Douglas’s Highgod Godspark before they parted. After hearing Royce describe his friend, Eric grew suspicious of Liewen’s connection to Starry Night Castle’s destruction.

• Royce explained that Andor had taken over the Ron Tribe, renamed it the Golden Sword Tribe, and later lost control of Shattered Star Island to the Liwen Clan after devastating wars.
• Royce told Liewen that the Liwen Clan had made the island’s tribes peripheral members and forced them to mine Shattered Star Stone.
• Liewen declined to join the Liwen Clan and said he planned to take the Apostle Trial and explore the Celestial Realm.
• Liewen gave Royce an Interspatial Ring containing Douglas’s fire-element Highgod Godspark, which Royce accepted with gratitude.
• On the departing convoy, Eric questioned Royce about Liewen and his escape from Starry Night Castle, then listened as Royce recounted their shared past.

Liewen spent twenty years using Divine Beast Essence Blood to strengthen his body until it reached the level of a Highgod Artifact. With ordinary essence blood no longer effective, he left Blue Moon City to seek stronger blood and then continued toward Apostle Castle after finding nothing genuine at White Sand Castle.

• Liewen discovered that Highgod-level Divine Beast Essence Blood strengthened his body and bought all thirty portions available at Cloud Sea Castle.
• Liewen cultivated in Blue Moon City for twenty years, spending two billion Celestial Stones on successive batches of essence blood.
• Liewen raised his body's strength to the level of a Highgod Artifact, greatly improving his speed, strength, and defense.
• Liewen concluded that ordinary Highgod-level essence blood could no longer help him and wondered how to strengthen his body further.
• Liewen searched White Sand Castle for rare Divine Beast Essence Blood but identified the goods he examined as misrepresented or too weak.
• Liewen left White Sand Castle empty-handed and headed toward Apostle Castle.

Liewen applied for the Apostle Trial in Blue Moon City, drawing the attention of Eric, who suspected him of killing Ren. After a month of waiting, Liewen joined the trial’s thousand participants and was startled to see a youth who looked exactly like someone he had killed.

• Liewen paid the fee, received an Apostle Badge, and applied for the Apostle Trial.
• Eric learned that Liewen had applied and renewed his suspicion that Liewen had killed his grandson Ren with a soul attack.
• Eric decided to join the trial, hoping to investigate Liewen while pursuing the Apostle mission he had failed years earlier.
• After more than half a month, Liewen received instructions to gather outside Blue Moon City, where he boarded the Apostle Castle Metal Lifeform.
• A thousand participants assembled, and Liewen noticed another Highgod among them: a youth who looked exactly like a young master he had killed.

Eric disguised himself as Ren and became certain that Liewen had killed Ren, while keeping his suspicions hidden. The Apostle Trial began at Biyun Lake, where Liewen and the other participants had to retrieve Pure Lotus Seeds and faced the prospect of fighting one another.

• Eric noticed Liewen's shock at seeing Ren's appearance and concluded that Liewen was Ren's killer.
• An Apostle Castle official explained that the thousand participants had to retrieve a Pure Lotus Seed from Biyun Lake to pass the One-Star Mission.
• The participants learned that the lake's freezing waters and soul attacks made the Pure Lotus dangerous to collect, and that there were fewer seeds than contestants.
• The official confirmed there were no restrictions on how to obtain a seed, prompting the participants to watch one another warily.
• After twenty-two days, the Metal Lifeform reached Biyun Lake, and the official gave the participants three days to complete the mission.
• Liewen flew toward Biyun Lake while keeping an eye on the Highgod disguised as a handsome youth.

Liewen descended into Biyun Lake to search for a Pure Lotus, but Eric found him and demanded revenge for Ren. Their opening clash revealed that Eric was a Five-Star Apostle, while Liewen prepared to draw on his full strength.

• Liewen entered Biyun Lake, resisted its freezing water and lakebed Soul Attack, and began searching for a Pure Lotus.
• Liewen sensed a powerful Highgod approaching and recognized the azure-robed old man as the leader of the Liwen Clan's group in Blue Moon City.
• Eric revealed himself, accused Liewen of killing Ren, and attacked with a flexible sword identical to the one Ren had wielded.
• Liewen countered with Nirvana Starlight, but Eric's sword energy shattered the strike and continued toward him.
• Liewen judged Eric to have the strength of a Five-Star Apostle, while Eric realized Liewen's Laws of Light and Soul Attack had been strong enough to kill Ren.
• Eric charged at Liewen with killing intent as Liewen prepared for the battle.

Liewen fought Eric beneath Biyun Lake and killed him after a strange sphere inflicted a Soul Attack on him. He discovered Eric had another Divine Clone and turned his attention to a damaged ring inside the sphere.

• Eric revealed that Biyun Lake was where Magnus had killed Crixus, then attacked Liewen with his sword.
• Liewen overpowered Eric in close combat, and their battle drove away nearby Midgods searching for Pure Lotus.
• Eric fled through the lakebed, but Liewen pursued him and repeatedly damaged his divine body with Nirvana Starlight.
• Liewen saw a transparent sphere containing a lotus and a damaged ring; the sphere entered Eric and left him vulnerable to a Soul Attack.
• Liewen killed Eric, collected his belongings, and realized Eric had another Divine Clone when the Interspatial Ring would not open.

Liewen identified the vanished lotus as Magnus’s lingering Soul Attack and learned that his damaged ring was a Soul Defense Divine Artifact. As he went to search for Pure Lotus Seeds, other Apostle Trial participants began robbing one another across Biyun Lake.

• Liewen connected the Soul Attack at Biyun Lake to Magnus’s battle with Crixus and realized Magnus’s lotus had pierced Crixus’s damaged Soul Defense Divine Artifact.
• Liewen bound the ring with blood, discovered it protected his soul, and noticed that Magnus’s lotus and the lake-bottom Soul Attack had disappeared.
• A One-Horned Man persuaded his Dragonman and Winged Person companions to wait on the surface and rob trial participants returning with Lotus Seeds.
• The trio killed a middle-aged man who had found a Lotus Seed and took his Interspatial Ring.
• Groups of weaker participants began ambushing Lotus Seed holders and fighting one another, plunging Biyun Lake into chaos.

Liewen obtained a Pure Lotus Seed during the Apostle Trial and examined a damaged Soul Defense Divine Artifact, finding that his soul power could compensate for its gap. Meanwhile, Eric returned to the Liwen Clan residence after losing his strongest Divine Clone and grandson, and requested an audience with the clan leader.

• Liewen killed a man who had stolen a Pure Lotus Seed and took the seed from his Interspatial Ring.
• Liewen returned to Apostle Castle, where he examined his damaged Soul Defense Divine Artifact and found he could defend its gap with his soul power.
• At the Liwen Clan residence on Shattered Star Island, Eric grieved his losses and worried that his branch would lose resources without a Five-Star Apostle to support it.
• Eric knocked on the clan leader's palace doors and requested an audience.

Eric persuaded Kalon Liwen to avenge his dead divine clone and Ren by killing Liewen, whom they feared would grow into an even greater threat. After the Biyun Lake trial, Liewen returned to Blue Moon City with the survivors and wondered whether anyone powerful would intercept him.

• Eric told Kalon that Liewen had killed his strongest divine clone and Ren, and warned that Liewen's rapid growth could endanger the Liwen Clan.
• Kalon agreed to kill Liewen and set out with Eric to intercept him near Blue Moon City before the Heavenly Fate Stone appeared.
• More than a hundred Biyun Lake trial participants returned to the Apostle Castle's Metal Lifeform, where survivors traded Pure Lotus Seeds.
• Liewen recalled how Ulunisen had ambushed Linley and his companions after their trial, forcing Diyi City's lord to rescue the few who survived.
• Liewen wondered whether he had angered a powerful enemy, then reassured himself that he was not Linley.

Kalon intercepted Liewen and the Apostle Trial team near Blue Moon City, then attacked Liewen to prevent him from growing stronger. Liewen survived Kalon’s first Fate soul attack and pressed him with sword strikes, but Kalon unleashed his strongest soul attack as the fight continued.

• Kalon destroyed the Metal Lifeform and let the other trial participants leave, keeping Liewen behind with Eric.
• Kalon explained that he intended to kill Liewen because he had become a threat to the Liwen Clan.
• Liewen attacked Kalon with Nirvana Starlight, but Kalon dodged and launched a Fate soul attack.
• Liewen’s soul defense divine artifact, Purification Ripple, and Fate God Clone together stopped Kalon’s attack.
• Liewen charged Kalon with sword strikes, and Kalon countered by sending a golden-feather soul attack toward him.

Liewen broke through to fuse three profound mysteries of the Laws of Light during his battle with Kalon, gaining the strength to overwhelm him. He killed Kalon and Eric, but Kalon’s surviving Divine Clone remained a threat, so Liewen headed toward Blue Moon City with a plan.

• Kalon’s golden-feather Soul Attack triggered Liewen’s breakthrough, strengthening his soul defense and physical attacks.
• Liewen used his Light God Clone and Angel Battle Sword to overpower Kalon, whose attacks and attempts to escape failed.
• Kalon unleashed a powerful golden-wing Soul Attack, but Liewen endured it and cut Kalon’s divine body apart.
• Eric fled, but Liewen killed him with a sword beam and collected his Godspark and Interspatial Ring.
• Liewen killed Kalon, collected his Godspark and Interspatial Ring, and realized Kalon’s surviving Divine Clone was still at large.
• Liewen thought of a plan and flew toward Blue Moon City.

Liewen completed his Apostle application and posted an assassination mission targeting Kalon Liwen. After Apostle Castle assessed Kalon as a Five-Star Apostle, Liewen paid six billion Celestial Stones to fund the mission, leaving Kalon's fate in the hands of whoever accepted it.

• Liewen returned to Apostle Castle, completed the required procedures, and officially became a One-Star Apostle.
• Liewen asked to post an assassination mission against Kalon Liwen, and the clerk warned that Kalon was known as a Six-Star Apostle.
• Liewen told the clerk that Kalon's strongest Divine Clone had died, then left his address for Apostle Castle to assess the target.
• Three days later, Apostle Castle rated the mission as a Five-Star Mission with a minimum reward of four billion Celestial Stones.
• Liewen added two billion Celestial Stones and paid the total six-billion reward to have the mission posted across the Celestial Realm.

Liewen accepted a normal Two-Star escort mission from Blue Moon City to Golden Wing City and prepared to leave. Meanwhile, Kalon plotted to expose Liewen’s possession of the Heavenly Fate Stone Token, and Liewen boarded the mission’s Metal Lifeform without knowing the danger ahead.

• Liewen chose a Two-Star escort mission departing in ten days, avoiding missions with unusually large recruiting groups or rewards.
• Kalon sent two Highgods to spread the news that the Heavenly Fate Stone Token was on Liewen, then fled Shattered Star Island to avoid being hunted.
• After ten days, Liewen arrived at Blue Moon City’s gate and met Luqi, the mission’s employer, who was delighted to have recruited a Highgod Apostle for a Two-Star Mission.
• Luqi invited Liewen aboard the Metal Lifeform.