Recaps

After learning more about his family’s grudge against the Radiant Church, Garen stayed home while Xiao Pa scouted the Blazing Sun Desert. He began hunting its Level Nine Magical Beasts to train and strengthen his pet.

• Garen guessed that the Radiant Church had gained power by sacrificing his mother, but his parents warned him not to seek revenge yet.
• Garen learned that the Blazing Sun Desert held many Magical Beasts, including Level Nine groups and several Saint Realm beasts, and sent Xiao Pa to scout it.
• During his half month at home, Garen learned Fire-style magic skills from his mother and discovered that Xiao Pa had located powerful beasts in the desert.
• Garen avoided the Black-Armored Giant Scorpion King after recalling its great strength, then flew with Xiao Pa into the desert’s core region.
• Garen activated experience sharing and killed dozens of Golden Tail Scorpions with the God-Slaying Blade, earning experience for himself and Xiao Pa.

Garen’s Golden Sun Eagle, Xiao Pa, reached the Saint Realm, and Garen discussed moving with his parents while arranging a search for his uncle, Arthur. After hunting hundreds of Level Nine beasts and improving his equipment, Garen began a hunt for a Saint Realm Twin-Horned Flood Dragon.

• Garen killed over 130 Golden Tail Scorpions, and Xiao Pa reached the Saint Realm.
• Garen returned home with Xiao Pa and explained to his parents why moving to a large city could make them safer and help them search for Arthur.
• Garen wrote Yale asking him to investigate Arthur’s whereabouts, then began hunting Level Nine beasts in the Blazing Sun Desert.
• Garen hunted Six-Eyed Magic Spiders, Crocodile Dragon Beasts, and Desert Dragon Lizards, gaining experience and gemstones.
• Garen upgraded and socketed gemstones in the God-Slaying Blade, then chose the Saint Realm Twin-Horned Flood Dragon as his next target.

Garen and the Golden Sun Eagle killed the Saint Realm Double-Horned Flood Dragon, and Garen obtained a rare Soul Golden Bead. After absorbing a small portion of it, he strengthened his soul and improved his understanding of laws and magic, though the bead’s power remained largely untapped.

• Garen attacked the Double-Horned Flood Dragon to gain experience and harvest its sinews, while the Golden Sun Eagle prepared to assist.
• Garen used his speed and the God-Slaying Blade to wound the dragon, avoiding its Death Coil and wearing down its defenses.
• The Golden Sun Eagle struck the distracted dragon with the forbidden spell Dimensional Blade, cutting it in two.
• Garen collected a Soul Golden Bead, the dragon’s Magic Crystal Core, and its sinews.
• Garen absorbed less than one-thousandth of the bead’s power, reaching soul saturation and raising his Magic Level and law comprehension.

Garen hunted Saint Realm magical beasts in the Blazing Sun Desert, gaining experience and collecting their Magic Crystal Cores. After his mother Irene advanced through absorbing Phoenix Blood Fruits, Garen and his parents decided to move and narrowed their options to cities in the Rhine Empire or the Luo'ao Empire.

• Garen planned to contract with a Saint Realm tiger and an aquatic beast, choosing the Thunder-Winged White Tiger and the Flood Dragon as his targets.
• Garen and the Golden Sun Eagle worked together to kill a Sand Dragon, and Garen collected its Magic Crystal Core.
• Garen and the Golden Sun Eagle killed the venomous Golden Snake King, ending Garen's monster hunt in the Blazing Sun Desert.
• Irene absorbed six Phoenix Blood Fruits and reached the late seventh level as a mage, nearing the eighth level.
• Garen discussed possible destinations with Irene and his father, and they chose to settle in a city in either the Rhine Empire or the Luo'ao Empire.

Garen and his parents traveled to Light-Extinguishing City and reunited with Irene’s brother, Arthur, after twenty years apart. Arthur learned how powerful his sister, nephew, and their magical beast had become, and was left stunned.

• Irene stabilized her cultivation at the eighth level, and the family learned from Yale that her brother Arthur was a ninth-level warrior and the lord of Light-Extinguishing City.
• Garen, Irene, and Clark flew to the Luo'ao Empire on the Golden Sun Eagle and were escorted to Arthur’s City Lord’s Mansion.
• Irene and Arthur reunited emotionally after twenty years apart, and she introduced him to her husband, Clark, and son, Garen.
• Arthur recounted how he joined the Northern Legion to avenge his family, rose through its ranks, married Princess Leo, and renamed his territory Light-Extinguishing City.
• Irene told Arthur that she was an eighth-level mage and that Garen was a Saint Realm powerhouse, a Tiger-Striped Warrior, and a Level 9 Great Mage; Arthur was also astonished to learn they had a Saint Realm magical beast.

Garen settled his family in Light-Extinguishing City, upgraded his weapons and prepared to hunt powerful beasts in the Sunset Mountain Range. After defeating groups of Lion Suans and One-Horned Giant Rhinos, he faced the Frost Dragons’ snowy stronghold and its Saint Realm Frost Dragon King.

• Arthur welcomed Garen’s family to Light-Extinguishing City, provided Garen with wind magic spells, and sought Green Essence to help Clark awaken his bloodline.
• Garen gave his uncle’s Mammoth a Saint Realm Sand Dragon Magic Crystal Core, then had a blacksmith reforge his Purple Dragon Bow.
• Garen warned Yale by letter to move important assets before the approaching ten-thousandth Yulan Festival and chose the Sunset Mountain Range for his next hunt.
• After the Mammoth reached the Saint Realm, Garen left his family in Light-Extinguishing City and rode the Golden Sun Eagle to the Sunset Mountain Range.
• Garen killed more than seventy Lion Suans and nearly a hundred One-Horned Giant Rhinos, collecting experience and items from both groups.
• Garen targeted the Frost Dragons’ snowy mountain, where a Saint Realm Frost Dragon King and numerous Level Nine Frost Dragons awaited him.

Garen killed the Frost Dragon King and the Frost Dragon horde, then left the Sunset Mountain Range for the Yulan Empire after searching in vain for an enhancement stone. On the way, he spotted bandits on the System Map and began hunting them.

• Garen transformed, killed the Frost Dragon King, and fled before the Level Nine Frost Dragons could pursue him.
• Garen returned after a short wait and killed the remaining Frost Dragons, gaining 20,000 experience and collecting their cores and items.
• Garen found he was still one Primary Enhancement Stone short of upgrading the Tiger God Armor, so he continued north in search of Level Nine Magical Beasts.
• After more than a month of hunting yielded few gains, Garen left the Sunset Mountain Range and entered the southern Yulan Empire.
• Garen spotted bandits on the System Map and killed them without mercy.

Garen returned home for the millennial Yulan Festival, then traveled to Hess City in the Holy Union as magical beasts prepared to attack. There, he reunited with Yale, George, and Reynolds and learned that Yale’s father was grateful for his warning about moving the chamber’s goods.

• Garen crossed into the O'Brien Empire, missed his family, and flew home to Light-Extinguishing City for the festival.
• Garen reunited with his parents and celebrated the Yulan Festival with his uncle Arthur and cousins Abel and Angelia.
• Garen left home again, crossed the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and reached Hess City in the Holy Union.
• As magical beasts threatened Hess City, Garen ran into Yale, George, and Reynolds on the street.
• Munro Dawson thanked Garen for warning Yale to move the Dawson Chamber of Commerce's valuable goods, and Yale led the group to a nearby outpost to talk.

Garen reunited with Yale, George, and Reynolds, reassured them with news of his Saint Realm strength, and gave Reynolds Phoenix Blood Fruits that rapidly improved his magic. The brothers later reunited with Linley, who had a heavy sword forged by Vincent; a lightning strike transformed it into the weapon No Edge.

• At a meal in the Dawson Chamber of Commerce's branch, Garen told Yale, George, and Reynolds that he had reached the Saint Realm Mid-Stage and had a Saint-level magical beast, easing their fears for Linley.
• Garen gave Reynolds ten Phoenix Blood Fruits, and after absorbing one, Reynolds advanced from the early fifth rank to the early sixth rank in magical spiritual force.
• Several days later, Reynolds spotted Linley leaving a weapons shop, and the five brothers reunited.
• Munro Dawson introduced Linley to Vincent of the Hyde Clan, who began forging Linley's heavy sword from Black Obsidian.
• Lightning struck the finished sword during its quenching, transforming it into a perfectly fused, sharp-edged weapon named No Edge.

Garen kept a low profile in Hess City while waiting for the chance to save Doehring Cowart. When Linley and Bebe were trapped by six Level Nine warriors, Garen killed the attackers, completed his quest, and gained Soul Mutation before leaving with Linley.

• Garen decided to build a closer relationship with Linley and Bebe while cultivating quietly in Hess City.
• Garen sensed a battle nearby and found Linley, Bebe, and Doehring Cowart trapped inside a barrier created by six Level Nine warriors.
• Garen killed all six warriors with his God-Slaying Blade and the Laws of the Wind Element, saving Linley and Doehring Cowart.
• Garen completed the quest to save Doehring Cowart and gained Soul Mutation, which greatly strengthened his soul and formed a blade-shaped soul above his Soul Ocean.
• Doehring Cowart urged Garen and Linley to leave before more Radiant Church experts arrived, and Garen took Linley away.
• Yale, George, and Reynolds spotted Garen and Linley, but Munro Dawson told them not to approach because the group was still in Radiant Church territory.

Garen rescued Linley, helped him recover with Phoenix Blood Fruits, and joined him on a journey through the Magical Beast Mountain Range to grow stronger before confronting the Radiant Church. As Linley trained and Garen studied the Laws, Garen began considering how to develop spiritual attacks.

• Garen gave Linley Phoenix Blood Fruits, and Linley recovered from his wounds while advancing his spiritual force to Level Eight.
• Garen and Linley agreed to train in the Magical Beast Mountain Range before seeking revenge on the Radiant Church, and they reunited briefly with Yale, George, and Reynolds in Hess City.
• Garen and Linley traveled through the Magical Beast Mountain Range, where Linley practiced heavy-sword forms and Garen cultivated the Laws and demonstrated fused magic.
• Linley reached the highest level of Fire-style affinity but struggled to combine magic, while Garen explained that his Soul Mutation let him fuse magic with less strain.
• Garen reflected on his progress in the Wind Element Laws and considered training spiritual attacks with his mutated soul and Level Nine spiritual force.

Garen practiced shaping his mental power into a Soul Attack, then used it with a fused spell to kill a Saint Realm Trident Dragon in one strike. He discovered that the beast had dropped an item and remained unaware of the full extent of his power after Soul Mutation.

• Garen experimented with mental attacks and learned to concentrate his mental power into a stronger form.
• Linley called Garen down for roast beef, and the group continued through the Magical Beast Mountain Range for half a month.
• Linley warned Garen that they had entered the territory of Saint Realm magical beasts, and Garen set out to test his Soul Attack and fused magic.
• Garen pierced the Trident Dragon's mind with a Soul Attack, then killed it with Vacuum Fire-Splitting Slash after its defensive barrier vanished.
• Garen received 2,927 experience and spotted a glowing orb above the Trident Dragon's corpse, while Linley and Doehring Cowart watched in shock.

Garen and Linley traveled north through the Magical Beast Mountain Range while Garen gained a Mysteries Entry Card and improved his equipment and comprehension over the following year. The chapter left them on the trail after they passed two panicked adventurers.

• Garen received a Mysteries Entry Card from a Saint Realm magical beast and decided to save it for when he reached a bottleneck.
• Dylan noticed Garen and Linley in the Magical Beast Mountain Range but let them go out of respect for Lord Beirut.
• Garen and Linley spent more than a year traveling and cultivating, with Garen advancing his Wind Element Laws and Linley improving his warrior and magic levels.
• Garen obtained a Primary Enhancement Stone, upgraded the Tiger God Armor to Low-level Divine Artifact rank, and added a Level 2 Moon Stone to it.
• Garen and Linley encountered two frightened humans in leather armor, but continued past them.

Garen and Linley encountered the Black-Striped Cloud Leopard Haeru in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, where Linley defeated and tamed him. After gaining insights into two Wind Element mysteries, Garen challenged the injured Haeru to a spar, and both prepared to fight.

• Garen and Linley let two suspicious men follow them, then Garen killed one with a Soul Attack after a Black-Striped Cloud Leopard killed the other.
• Garen and Linley waited for the leopard, then continued through the mountain range when it failed to appear.
• Watching Linley practice with Violetblood Soft Sword gave Garen beginner-level breakthroughs in the Mysteries of Speed and Slowness.
• Haeru ambushed Linley, but Bebe intercepted him, and Linley transformed into a Dragonblood Warrior to fight the leopard.
• Linley used his mage abilities to subdue Haeru and decided to tame him as his second Magical Beast.
• Garen challenged the injured Haeru to a spar, and Haeru accepted the prospect of teaching him a lesson.

After a year in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, Garen and Linley left the forest and traveled toward the O'Brien Empire with a caravan. On the road, they met Jenny and her younger brother Keane, who was fascinated by Garen’s Golden Sun Eagle.

• Garen beat Haeru for interrupting his comprehension, then released the leopard after teaching him a lesson.
• Linley and Garen continued studying the Laws and Mysteries, sharing insights as Linley advanced in his training.
• After leaving the Magical Beast Mountain Range, Linley paid a caravan to take them toward the O'Brien Empire.
• The travelers discussed the O'Brien Empire’s genius Sword Saint Olivier, while Linley compared his talent with Garen’s.
• Keane tried to touch Garen’s Golden Sun Eagle, and its glance frightened him; Garen reassured him and encouraged him to become strong enough to contract a magical beast.

Garen and Linley effortlessly wiped out a bandit attack on Malone’s caravan, impressing Jenny, Keane, and the mercenaries. After Keane decided to ask them to teach him their techniques the next morning, the author added a note asking readers for suggestions about Jenny as a heroine.

• Jenny left with Keane, and Garen teased Linley about whether he was smitten with her.
• Garen’s System Map detected nearly a hundred approaching bandits, so he and Linley alerted the caravan.
• Garen killed dozens of bandits with Wind Blade Soaring Dance, while Linley slew the one-eyed leader with one strike.
• Garen used Gale Arrows to kill the fleeing bandits, leaving none alive.
• Malone offered Garen and Linley ten thousand gold coins, but Garen refused the payment.
• Keane watched Garen and Linley fight and decided to ask them to teach him their techniques the next morning.

Garen agreed to escort Jenny and Keane to Chier County City, and he and Linley carried them there on Xiao Pa, the Golden Sun Eagle. The group arrived above the City Lord’s Mansion, where Lady Wade was stunned to see the siblings traveling with powerful figures.

• Keane asked Garen and Linley to teach him their swordsmanship and magic, and Jenny apologized for her younger brother’s interruption.
• Jenny asked Garen to protect her and Keane on their journey to Chier County City, and Garen reluctantly accepted after Linley declined to decide for him.
• At dusk, Garen and Linley said goodbye to the mercenaries outside Blackstone City and flew toward Chier County City on Xiao Pa.
• Two Black-robed Men who had been waiting near Blackstone City watched their target leave on a Saint Realm magical beast and ran to report their failed mission.
• After an hour and a half, Garen brought the group to Chier County City, where Lady Wade saw them arrive above the city wall and recognized Jenny and Keane.

Garen brought Jenny and Keane to Chier County City and invoked Mackenzie's authority to protect them from Lady Wade. He and Linley then visited Mackenzie in Basil, and the chapter ended as Linley prepared to spar with him.

• Garen left Jenny and Keane in Chier County City, warning Lady Wade not to harm them, then flew away with Linley.
• Garen explained that he had invoked Mackenzie's name to shield the siblings and took Linley to meet Mackenzie in Basil.
• Garen and Linley introduced themselves to Mackenzie, who welcomed them and agreed to spar with them the following day.
• Garen told Mackenzie that Lady Wade had sent assassins after Jenny and Keane, and Mackenzie promised to investigate.
• Linley transformed into a Dragonblood Warrior and faced Mackenzie at a mountain outside Basil to begin their spar.

Linley sparred with Mackenzie, using his swordsmanship and Gravity Spell to fight on nearly equal terms before Mackenzie overwhelmed him with Saint Realm Momentum. Mackenzie praised Linley’s talent, and the group continued toward helping Jenny and Keane with their troubles.

• Mackenzie underestimated Linley at first, but Linley’s swift Violetblood Soft Sword attacks forced him to defend himself in earnest.
• Mackenzie unleashed his full strength with a flaming spear and suppressed Linley until Linley cast a Gravity Spell that slowed Mackenzie and let Linley gain a slight advantage.
• Mackenzie used his Saint Realm Momentum to hamper Linley, who surrendered, and Mackenzie called their spar a draw while praising Linley’s understanding of the profound truths.
• Garen praised Linley’s strength, and Mackenzie admitted that Garen and Linley’s abilities were difficult to imagine and that he felt outmatched by them.

Garen sparred with Mackenzie, demonstrating his mastery of the Wind Laws and testing how he could apply different Mysteries in combat. The fight left Garen close to fusing the Mysteries of Speed and Slowness.

• Mackenzie recovered his battle-qi while Linley reflected on his recent fight, then Mackenzie rose to spar with Garen.
• Garen flew without transforming, surprising Mackenzie with his grasp of the Laws and Mysteries.
• Garen's first slash sent Mackenzie flying, and Garen realized that his Wind Mysteries and the Fire Profundity of Explosion had not fused.
• Mackenzie activated his Fire Domain and attacked Garen with countless energy spear-shadows.
• Garen used the Mysteries of Speed and Slowness to shatter every spear-shadow, deepening his understanding as their fusion drew near.

Garen defeated Mackenzie’s limit-breaking attack, then healed him with Phoenix Blood Fruits. After the fight, all three gained insights, and they returned to Mackenzie’s residence to celebrate.

• Mackenzie unleashed a final fire-dragon strike, but Garen countered with his fused Mysteries of Speed and Slowness and sent him crashing into a hill.
• Garen fed the unconscious Mackenzie Phoenix Blood Fruits until his severe injuries were mostly healed, and Mackenzie said the fight had given him insight toward reaching the Saint Realm peak.
• Garen discovered that the battle had earned him over six million experience in the Mysteries of Velocity.
• Linley emerged from his meditation and told Garen and Mackenzie that watching Mackenzie’s Fire Domain had helped him begin learning the Mysteries of Fire Elements.
• Garen, Mackenzie, and Linley returned to Mackenzie’s residence, where Mackenzie treated the two young men with renewed respect.

Garen and Linley returned to Chier County City after Garen helped secure Keane’s position as city lord. Jenny’s feelings for Garen grew stronger, and the chapter ended with Garen giving the siblings Magic Crystal Cores.

• Mackenzie asked Oden about Chier County City, and Oden promised to deal with Wade’s control of the city.
• After spending five days with Mackenzie, Garen and Linley flew back to Chier County City on the Golden Sun Eagle.
• Jenny blushed when Garen arrived, and Linley teased her about her feelings for him.
• Keane explained that the provincial capital’s guards had arrested Wade and her brothers and delivered the Jax Family’s order appointing him city lord.
• Garen gave Jenny and Keane a pile of Magic Crystal Cores after learning they were worried about money.

Garen traveled to the Sunset Mountain Range to capture a Saint Realm Thunder-Winged White Tiger and awaken his father’s Tiger-Striped Warrior bloodline. He confronted the arrogant Tornest and left the tiger shocked after a casual strike sent him flying and wounded his paw.

• After saying goodbye to Jenny and Keane, Garen parted from Linley and set off alone for the Sunset Mountain Range.
• Garen arrived at the Thunder-Winged White Tiger’s territory with Xiao Pa and found the tiger, Tornest, who challenged him to kneel and beg for mercy.
• Garen sent Xiao Pa away and drew the God-Slaying Blade to test his newly fused Mysteries of Velocity.
• Tornest attacked Garen with a lightning-charged paw, but Garen’s casual swing sent him flying and left his paw bloodied.

Garen defeated the Thunder-Winged White Tiger and forced it to choose between death and submission, then bound it with a magical contract and named it Little White. As Little White began healing, Garen checked its status panel while Xiao Pa praised him and received a scolding.

• The Thunder-Winged White Tiger attacked Garen with a roar and lightning wings, then fled after he evaded its strikes.
• Garen transformed, caught up with the Thunder-Winged White Tiger, shattered its lightning attack, and wounded it with the God-Slaying Blade.
• Garen offered the Thunder-Winged White Tiger a chance to deepen its understanding of the Mysteries if it submitted, and it agreed to become his pet.
• Garen completed a magical contract with the Thunder-Winged White Tiger, named it Little White, and removed the Wind-element forces from its wound.
• Xiao Pa landed on Garen's shoulder and praised him, and Garen told Xiao Pa to improve his comprehension of the Laws and Mysteries.
• Garen sat on a rock and opened Little White's status panel while the tiger healed.

Garen recovered Little White, claimed the Thunder-Winged White Tiger as his mount, and headed home toward the Luo'ao Empire. Hodan, the Plane Overseer, explained the God Planes and urged Garen to travel to Infernal Realm, but Garen chose to stay in the Yulan Continent for now.

• Garen saw that Little White had made progress in the Lightning Elemental Laws and decided to use him to fight land-based Saint Realm magical beasts.
• Little White recovered from his injuries, and Garen rode him as Xiao Pa led the group toward the Luo'ao Empire.
• Hodan appeared in Garen's path, introduced himself, and explained the Material Planes, God Planes, and levels of Gods.
• Hodan revealed that he was the Yulan Continent's Plane Overseer and described taking Bolei and the Tiger-Striped Warriors to Infernal Realm.
• Garen declined to leave yet, saying he wanted to spend more time with his parents and explore the continent before seeking a bigger stage.
• Hodan told Garen he could find him on the tallest mountain in the Arctic Icefield whenever he was ready, then vanished.