Chapter Summaries

Lin Qin helped Aileen settle the dispute with the Kallen family, and she chose to leave Azure Wave City with him for Dragon Rock Territory. After several days flying on Pallas, they reached Black Wind City, where Aileen prepared to begin a new life.

• Aileen told Old Hawk she was leaving for Chaos Territory with Lin Qin, and he reluctantly accepted her decision.
• Aileen said goodbye to her father, packed a few essentials, and left the Hawk estate with Lin Qin.
• Lin Qin and Aileen left Azure Wave City and met Pallas outside the city.
• Aileen rode Pallas as it flew northwest toward Dragon Rock Territory, while Lin Qin described the work awaiting her there.
• After several days of travel, Lin Qin, Aileen, and Pallas arrived at Black Wind City.

Aileen arrived in Black Wind City with Lin Qin and saw how Dragon Rock Territory was managed. After reviewing its mages and administrative disputes, she submitted practical recommendations that earned Soros's approval and began her new role in the territory.

• Lin Qin introduced Aileen to Soros and Old Jack as an eighth-level Water Element mage who would help manage the territory.
• Aileen toured Black Wind City and observed the disciplined, orderly town before attending a council meeting where Lin Qin's officials reported on territory affairs.
• Lin Qin assigned Soros to compile reports on civil disputes and Old Jack to prepare a list of the territory's mages for Aileen.
• Aileen studied the mage roster and reports, then drafted suggestions for water allocation, public works, and trade arbitration.
• Aileen gave her organized recommendations to Soros the next day, and he praised her administrative ability and offered her more coordination work.

After receiving word that the Graveyard of the Gods would open in a year and keep entrants inside for ten years, Lin Qin decided to destroy the Dark Church before leaving Dragon Rock Territory. He assembled an elite force and led it toward the Church’s suspected headquarters in the Gloomy Mountains.

• Over more than a decade, Dragon Rock Territory absorbed Chaos Territory, while Lin Qin cultivated and its leaders strengthened the territory’s military, administration, and defenses.
• Fain told Lin Qin through the War God Token that the Graveyard of the Gods would open in a year and entrants would be unable to leave for ten years.
• Lin Qin chose to strike the Dark Church in the Gloomy Mountains before departing, and Murphy reported that its headquarters was likely in Black Abyss Canyon.
• Lin Qin assigned Hosen and Bader to lead three hundred elite soldiers, sent Pallas to provide aerial support, and ordered Murphy to gather intelligence while Soros, Old Jack, and Aileen governed the territory.
• Ten days later, Lin Qin led the soldiers north toward the Gloomy Mountains, with Pallas following overhead.

Lin Qin led a night raid on the Dark Church’s Black Abyss Canyon stronghold and shattered its defenses, leaving his forces to advance on the Dark Temple. Pallas joined the assault from above as Hosen and Bader engaged the guards on the flanks.

• Lin Qin led three hundred soldiers through the Gloomy Mountains, using his perception to guide them past or silently eliminate sentries.
• Murphy reported that the canyon’s barrier had three guarded weak points and that a teleportation array might lie deep within the canyon.
• Lin Qin sent Hosen and Bader to distract the guards at the two outer nodes while he led Murphy and one hundred soldiers against the central node.
• Lin Qin broke through the Eternal Night Barrier with a punch and killed its Saint Realm dark knight, allowing Murphy and the Dragon Rock Elite soldiers to overwhelm the guards.
• Lin Qin headed toward the Dark Temple as Pallas breached the canyon’s defenses from above with golden dragon breath.

Lin Qin confronted Morsfield in the Dark Temple, where the Dark Pope summoned a Lowgod projection of the Dark Overlord. Lin Qin defeated the projection and destroyed Morsfield, leaving the battle outside unresolved.

• Lin Qin fought through the Dark Temple’s defenders and reached Morsfield at the altar.
• Morsfield sacrificed his soul and the Dark Church’s accumulated faith to summon the Dark Overlord’s Lowgod projection into his body.
• Lin Qin withstood the projection’s Dark Annihilation with his body and broke its Abyssal Devour with a powerful strike.
• Lin Qin battered the weakened projection while the temple collapsed and the Dragon Rock Army fought the Dark Cultists outside.
• Lin Qin landed a final strike that shattered Morsfield’s body and soul, ending the God Descent Technique.

Lin Qin destroyed the Dark Church’s headquarters, returned to Black Wind City, and arranged the territory’s recovery and leadership. He left Dragon Rock Territory in his allies’ hands for ten years as he prepared to depart.

• Lin Qin’s forces routed the Dark Cultists after Morsfield’s death, and Lin Qin seized the treasury’s materials, equipment, and damaged teleportation array.
• Lin Qin ordered the Dark Church’s records collected, the bodies burned, and Black Abyss Canyon sealed; three days later, the troops departed for home.
• Lin Qin returned to Black Wind City, where Soros reported the victory and casualties, and Lin Qin ordered compensation and care for the fallen soldiers’ families and wounded.
• Lin Qin ordered the seized materials secured, useful scriptures archived, forbidden techniques destroyed, and Murphy tasked with eliminating people named on the Church’s lists.
• Lin Qin assigned responsibility for Dragon Rock Territory to Soros, Old Jack, Aileen, Hosen, Bader, Pallas, and Murphy for the next ten years, and they vowed to protect it.

Lin Qin reached godhood through External Godhood, creating an Earth Divine Clone while keeping his original body free to pursue other laws. With the clone able to protect Dragon Rock Territory, he prepared to leave for War God Mountain and pursue the Graveyard of the Gods.

• After more than half a year of cultivation, Lin Qin synchronized with the pulse of the Yulan Continent and completed his understanding of Earth Pulsation.
• The Laws descended over Dragon Rock Territory, and Lin Qin chose External Godhood when his Earth Godhead formed.
• The laws split Lin Qin's soul and created an Earth Divine Clone with Lowgod power, while his original body retained its strength and potential to study other laws.
• Lin Qin assigned the Divine Clone to protect Dragon Rock Territory and planned for his original body to explore the Graveyard of the Gods.
• Soros, Aileen, and the others congratulated Lin Qin on becoming a god, and he told them to prepare for his departure to War God Mountain.

Lin Qin's Earth Divine Clone joined Linley and the other Saint Realm experts at War God Mountain before the War God led them to the Dark Forest. There, the factions gathered for the opening of the Graveyard of the Gods, and Lin Qin's newfound godhood secured Linley's brother an extra place on the expedition.

• Lin Qin's Earth Divine Clone arrived at War God Mountain and reunited with Linley and Bebe, while Clay recognized Lin Qin as the Earth Walker.
• Olivier arrived, and the gathered experts murmured that he had killed Hederson with one sword strike.
• Fain confirmed all twenty-one members of the War God's group had arrived, and the War God appeared and congratulated Lin Qin on becoming a god.
• Linley asked the War God to allow one of his brothers to join the expedition, and the War God granted an extra place because Lin Qin had become a god.
• The War God transported everyone to the Dark Forest, where the four factions and their god-level leaders had gathered before Beirut's metal castle.

Lin Qin and the other experts traveled to the South Sea entrance of the Graveyard of the Gods, where Beirut warned them about the deadly dangers within. After arriving at the enormous graveyard and learning that the Middlegod Ba Serpent guarded its first eleven floors, Lin Qin entered the higher floors while Linley and the other human Saints took a separate passage.

• Bebe entered the Metal Castle, and Beirut explained the Graveyard of the Gods’ dangers and rewards to Lin Qin and the four other God-level experts.
• The experts gathered outside, where the High Priestess announced the South Sea entrance and Desri warned that fewer than a third might survive the expedition.
• Beirut led the group across the South Sea and through the Gate of Space to the plane containing the Graveyard of the Gods.
• Beirut identified the Ba Serpent as the Middlegod guardian and warned everyone not to awaken it.
• Beirut opened separate passages for humans and magical beasts, and Linley entered the human passage while Lin Qin followed the God-level experts toward the higher floors.

Lin Qin entered the Graveyard of the Gods’ twelfth floor with four other God-level powerhouses and helped defeat its first guardians. The group found the entrance to the thirteenth floor, guarded by two Lowgod Death Knights, and prepared to fight.

• Lin Qin and War God O'Brien, High Priestess Catherine, Dylan, and Cesar entered the twelfth floor through a portal that led to a desolate, separate space.
• Three degraded Molten Core Giants attacked, and Dylan, O'Brien, Cesar, and Lin Qin each destroyed one by striking or destroying its core.
• Catherine urged the group to stay together as they searched for the thirteenth-floor entrance and fought rock giants, scorpions, and bone birds along the way.
• The group discovered a bone altar and a black vortex across a canyon, guarded by two Lowgod Death Knights riding Nightmare Beasts.
• O'Brien assigned the Death Knights to the veterans and told Lin Qin to stay back and provide support as the battle began.

Lin Qin helped the group defeat two Death Knights, breaking one’s devastating attack with a precise, concentrated strike and gaining new insight into wielding power. After the fighters recovered at the Bone Altar, they prepared to enter the unknown Thirteenth Floor.

• Dylan fought the spear-wielding Death Knight with brute strength while Cesar harried the twin-bladed Death Knight and Catherine’s Domain of Life supported them.
• As the twin-bladed Death Knight prepared its Death Cross Slash, Lin Qin used a newly focused strike to break the attack apart.
• Cesar stabbed the exposed Death Knight’s soul core, and War God O'Brien finished it with concentrated Fire Divine Power.
• Dylan devoured the other Death Knight and its mount with his Heaven Swallower ability.
• Cesar, O'Brien, Catherine, and Dylan acknowledged Lin Qin’s combat skill, and Lin Qin recognized that the battle had loosened his bottleneck in controlling power.
• The group rested and recovered beside the Bone Altar while Lin Qin analyzed his new insight before entering the Thirteenth Floor.

Lin Qin and the four God-level experts fought their way through the Thirteenth Floor’s bone corridor, defeating its powerful skeletons at great cost. With O'Brien and Catherine too injured to continue, the group rested before the Bone Gate, leaving the exploration of the Fourteenth Floor for later.

• The five experts entered the Thirteenth Floor and were attacked by Skeleton Warriors and three powerful divine beast skeletons.
• O'Brien and Catherine led the defense while Dylan and Cesar engaged the divine beast skeletons and Lin Qin held back the Skeleton Warriors.
• Lin Qin used Pulsation Shuttle to strike the Giant Ape Skeleton’s exposed Soul Fire, allowing O'Brien to destroy it with Heaven-Burning Strike.
• Dylan devoured the wounded Giant Bird Skeleton, and Cesar destroyed the Black Iron Lizard Skeleton; the group then cleared the remaining warriors.
• O'Brien and Catherine said they could not continue, and Lin Qin gathered materials from the defeated skeletons.
• The five experts made camp before the Bone Gate to recover and prepare before entering the Fourteenth Floor.

Lin Qin spent years recovering and cultivating in the Graveyard of the Gods, fusing vibration and penetration into a powerful new technique while his original self trained and managed Dragon Rock Territory. After O'Brien and Catherine recovered enough to wake, the group prepared to face the Fourteenth Floor, leaving the still-weakened pair behind.

• Lin Qin studied his battle insights and gradually fused the Profound Mysteries of Pulsation and Point-Break, while his original self trained and oversaw Dragon Rock Territory.
• After years of cultivation, Lin Qin used his fused power to reduce a tough bone to dust and gained the confidence to face the Dark Gold Giant Ape Skeleton alone.
• Lin Qin sparred with Cesar and Dylan over the following years, refining his control of the fused power.
• Nearly nine years after entering the Thirteenth Floor, O'Brien and Catherine recovered enough to wake, though they remained weaker than before.
• O'Brien and Catherine asked Lin Qin, Dylan, and Cesar to proceed to the Fourteenth Floor without them, and the three prepared to approach the Bone Gate.

Lin Qin, Dylan, and Cesar opened the Bone Gate and entered the Fourteenth Floor, a shattered plane filled with chaotic energies and unstable terrain. After Lin Qin destroyed a powerful guardian with one punch, the group found a valuable dark-gold crystal and continued deeper into the island.

• Lin Qin, Dylan, and Cesar used objects from the Thirteenth Floor's guardians to open the Bone Gate and entered the Fourteenth Floor.
• The three explored a vast, shattered fragment of a plane where chaotic energy, spatial rifts, and unstable ground made every step dangerous.
• A Metal Rock Giant emerged from the ground and attacked all three, striking Dylan with a drill blast and targeting Lin Qin and Cesar with coordinated attacks.
• Lin Qin blocked the giant's scarlet beams with his Vibrating Light Shield, then shattered its drill and destroyed it with a single punch.
• Lin Qin found a dark-gold crystal containing powerful earth, fire, penetration, and shattering energies, and the group continued toward the island's interior.

Lin Qin, Dylan, and Cesar discovered a platform holding three Middlegod Godheads and powerful artifacts, but twelve coordinated peak Lowgod Metal Puppets forced them to retreat. They escaped into the metal forest and resolved to recover before studying the platform and its defenses.

• Lin Qin, Dylan, and Cesar survived attacks from a Shadow Monster and a quicksand vortex while exploring the Fourteenth Floor.
• Dylan spotted a golden glow in a metal-pillar forest, where the three found a platform bearing Destruction, Earth, and Darkness Godheads and Middlegod-level artifacts.
• The platform activated and summoned twelve peak Lowgod Metal Puppets that attacked the trio in coordinated formations.
• Lin Qin used powerful earth-infused punches to disrupt the first assault, creating an opening for Dylan and Cesar to retreat.
• The three escaped the puppets’ ranged attacks and decided to recover before investigating the guardians’ weaknesses and the platform’s barrier.

Lin Qin, Dylan, and Cesar destroyed three energy nodes and defeated the twelve Metal Puppets, but the battle left all three badly injured. As they approached the treasures, a powerful black spider emerged from a hole beneath the pedestals and confronted them.

• Lin Qin used his power to ease the foreign energy corroding Dylan's wounds, and the three planned to weaken the puppets by destroying their platform nodes.
• After observing the platform's energy cycle, Lin Qin drew the puppets' attacks while Dylan and Cesar targeted the nodes.
• Dylan destroyed three node pillars as Cesar distracted the ranged puppets and sacrificed himself to create an opening.
• Lin Qin's Earth Return to Ruins attack devastated the puppets, and Dylan finished off the survivors.
• Dylan stabilized the gravely injured Cesar with a life-saving pill as Lin Qin approached the Godhead and divine artifact.
• A huge black spider crawled from beneath the pedestals, confronting the wounded trio with power beyond an ordinary Lowgod.

Lin Qin fused the Earth Profound Mysteries of Pulsation and Strength under the threat of Black Erosion, breaking through to become a Midgod and defeating the Spider Divine Beast. Black Erosion accepted his victory and granted the survivors access to the treasures and the secret of the passage to the Fifteenth Floor, while Lin Qin stabilized Dylan and Cesar.

• Cesar launched a desperate shadow attack to distract Black Erosion, and Lin Qin took its venomous strike meant for Cesar while Dylan's counterattack was crushed.
• As Black Erosion prepared to kill Lin Qin, he realized how Pulsation and Strength could combine and fused their essences into the Earth Law Fusion Profundity.
• The Laws of the world transformed Lin Qin's Godhead and soul, and he recovered from his injuries as he broke through to become a Midgod.
• Lin Qin identified Black Erosion as a peak Lowgod whose talents gave it near-Midgod combat power, then destroyed its venom and attacks with his new fused power.
• Black Erosion acknowledged Lin Qin's victory and granted the group permission to take a matching Godhead and an artifact and learn the passage's secret.
• Lin Qin used his new power to stabilize Dylan's injuries and preserve Cesar's life.

After breaking through to Midgod, Lin Qin helped Dylan and Cesar recover and divided the treasures among them. He learned that the Fifteenth Floor was built for Midgods and heard the Black Erosion Spider describe the Netherworld’s dangers, leaving him intent on exploring the next floor alone.

• Lin Qin stabilized Dylan and Cesar’s injuries while they recovered from the battle, then settled his new Midgod realm.
• Lin Qin kept the Godhead of Earth, gave Dylan the Godhead of Destruction, and gave Cesar the Godhead of Darkness.
• Lin Qin chose the black leather armor from the artifacts and stored the remaining treasures in his Space Ring.
• The Black Erosion Spider explained that the Fifteenth Floor held Midgod Guardians and pointed out a one-way passage to it.
• Lin Qin decided to explore the Fifteenth Floor and asked the Black Erosion Spider about the Netherworld, learning about its seven regions, powerful rulers, and violent nature.

Lin Qin entered the Fifteenth Floor to stabilize his new Midgod realm and found a dangerous forest ruled by a pack of Leopard Cats. After killing more than twenty attackers with a single punch in his Dragonblood Warrior form, he confronted their alarmed leader.

• Lin Qin left Dylan and Cesar behind and used a teleportation array to reach the Fifteenth Floor, a deathly primeval forest.
• Lin Qin killed three Lowgod Leopard Cats with precise finger strikes, then discovered that a pack was tracking him.
• Lin Qin found the Leopard Cat pack’s clearing, where more than fifty cats, including Midgod elders and a peak Midgod leader, attacked him.
• Lin Qin transformed into a Dragonblood Warrior and killed more than twenty Leopard Cats, including two elders, with one punch.
• The dark golden Leopard Cat leader recognized Lin Qin’s unusual power, and Lin Qin challenged it to fight.

Lin Qin defeated the Dark Gold Leopard Cat leader with Void Breaker, then collected the tribe’s treasures and found three valuable Wind and Life leaves. After recovering in the clearing, he sensed more predators approaching and released his Midgod aura to warn them off.

• The Dark Gold Leopard Cat leader attacked Lin Qin, but he deflected its first strike and shattered its Wind Shadow Hijack with a shockwave.
• The leader opened its Soul-Devouring Wind Eye, but Lin Qin’s Void Breaker destroyed the black gust and killed it.
• The surviving Leopard Cats fled, and Lin Qin gathered the leader’s Godhead and materials along with the spoils from his earlier kills.
• Lin Qin searched the White Bone Nest, stored its trove of Godheads and materials, and took three leaves that radiated Wind Element energy and a rich aura of life.
• Lin Qin recovered until his divine power was nearly seventy or eighty percent restored, then sensed approaching predators and released a trace of his Midgod aura.