Chapter Summaries

Garen cultivated during the journey and fused the Mysteries of Dimensions with the Mysteries of Speed and Slowness. When the group reached the dangerous Beisi Volcano Range, he led Linley, Bebe, and Ulunisen inside to explore and hunt for Points.

• Garen stopped competing to kill bandits and focused on cultivation while Linley, Bebe, and Ulunisen hunted them for Points.
• Garen collected the bandits’ drops through his System and continued cultivating as the Metal Lifeform traveled east.
• After more than five years of effort, Garen fused the Mysteries of Dimensions with the Mysteries of Speed and Slowness using an Experience Orb.
• Jenny alerted Garen when the group reached the Beisi Volcano Range, where Garen intended to find the powerful Volcano Giant Pusluo.
• Garen ordered the five women to stay aboard the Metal Lifeform, then led Linley, Bebe, and Ulunisen into the dangerous range.

Garen and his companions entered the Beisi Volcano Range, where the cautious Seven-Star Fiend Asquien lived, and Asquien decided to send Pusluo against them. The chapter left the group unaware that Asquien had mistaken them for Fiends on a mission to collect Fire Crystals.

• Garen asked Ulunisen, Linley, and Bebe why they were unafraid to enter a perilous place, and they cited their strength and protections.
• Garen wondered why Asquien had not sent the Volcano Giants to attack and asked Ulunisen whether he knew the Seven-Star Fiend.
• Ulunisen said he had heard of Asquien and his powerful pet, while Garen denied intending to recruit him.
• Deep beneath the volcanoes, Asquien questioned Pusluo about the approaching group and concluded they were Fiends on a mission to collect Fire Crystals.
• Asquien ordered Pusluo to deal with the group and show them they could not enter the Beisi Volcano Range freely.

Garen and his companions were drawn into Asquien’s volcanic lair, where Garen revealed his strength and Ulunisen confronted Asquien. The battle began with Garen fighting Pusluo while Ulunisen attacked Asquien.

• Pusluo sent a barrage of crimson boulders at Linley, Bebe, Ulunisen, and Garen, and they defended themselves with their weapons and abilities.
• Pusluo drew the group into a sphere of boulders that carried them deeper into the volcano, and Garen chose to go along with it.
• Garen transformed and shattered the sphere with one slash, then confronted Asquien, who ordered Pusluo to attack.
• Garen told Linley and Bebe to protect themselves and assigned Ulunisen to fight Asquien while he faced Pusluo.
• Garen destroyed Pusluo’s boulders and magma hands as Ulunisen appeared before Asquien, who put on transparent gloves and prepared to fight.

Ulunisen killed Asquien, freeing Pusluo from the volcanic range where he had been trapped. Pusluo attacked Ulunisen, and Garen intervened as their clash sent all three flying.

• Ulunisen defeated Asquien with Soul Annihilation and killed his Divine Clone, while Garen noticed the orb that appeared after Asquien died.
• Pusluo caused the volcanic range to vanish, freeing Garen, Linley, and the others from inside the Volcano Giant’s body.
• Pusluo revealed his true form, collected by Garen as a Mysteries Fusion Entry Card, and announced that he would kill Ulunisen for killing his master.
• Pusluo attacked Ulunisen with his flaming axe, but Ulunisen’s Soul Annihilation weakened the blow without stopping it.
• Ulunisen called for Garen, who struck Pusluo’s attack with Dimensional Shockwave Slash, and the resulting shock wave sent Garen and Pusluo flying.

Garen fought Pusluo after their first clash injured Ulunisen and sent Garen flying, then fused all five Wind-style Mysteries. When Pusluo unleashed his full strength, Garen used Wind-style Sovereign Power, which the Wind Stone absorbed and circulated through his body as the axe attack arrived.

• Garen told the injured Ulunisen to join Linley and the others, then used a Mysteries Fusion Entry Card to fuse the Mysteries of Dimensions with the Mysteries of Sound Waves and completed the fusion of all five Wind-style Mysteries.
• Garen judged that Pusluo far surpassed him in strength and soul defense, but chose to fight without Sovereign's Might if possible so he could learn from the powerful Fire-style expert.
• Pusluo examined the notch in his giant axe, acknowledged Garen's strength, and swung at him with his full power after Garen asked why he was attacking the people who had freed him.
• Linley, Bebe, Ulunisen, Jenny, and the others feared for Garen as Pusluo's axe descended with overwhelming force.
• Garen used a drop of Wind-style Sovereign Power, and the Wind Stone absorbed it and sent its power through his body just as Pusluo's attack reached him.

Garen effortlessly defeated Pusluo, revealing overwhelming strength to the watching group, then offered him freedom and Fire-style Sovereign Power in exchange for joining the Huaxia Faction. Pusluo accepted, becoming the faction’s first recruit before it had even been established.

• Garen overpowered Pusluo in their clash, while the shockwave sent nearby observers flying and forced the women to shelter inside their puppets.
• Garen repeatedly repelled Pusluo’s physical and soul attacks, leaving the onlookers stunned and Pusluo defeated in a crater.
• Garen explained that he was not a Paragon and offered Pusluo a drop of Fire-style Sovereign Power and freedom if he joined the Huaxia Faction.
• Garen told Pusluo to kill bandits and help if the faction faced a life-or-death crisis, and Pusluo agreed to join.

Garen welcomed Pusluo into the Huaxia Faction and led the group through the Infernal Realm, where Pusluo's overwhelming strength left the others few chances to fight. They reached the Bauhinia Mountains, where Garen hoped to obtain soul-defense artifacts, find Linley's opportunity, and gather Amethysts.

• Garen swore Pusluo would remain free in the Huaxia Faction, and Pusluo bound the Affiliated System and agreed to travel with the group.
• Garen gave Pusluo a drop of Fire-style Sovereign Power and rewarded Ulunisen with Death Sovereign's Might for helping defeat a Seven-Star Fiend.
• Pusluo told Garen he did not know how to make Soul Defense Divine Artifacts, so Garen planned to seek Reisjing's help.
• Pusluo repeatedly wiped out bandit gangs with his molten-rock attacks until Garen told him to leave Mid-level God opponents to the others.
• After months of traveling and fighting bandits, Garen's group reached the Bauhinia Mountains, where he planned to seek Reisjing and collect Amethysts.

Garen and his companions reached the Amethyst Mountain Range, paid to enter, and played a game searching for amethysts. After Linley found one, Garen persuaded him to explore the mist together, claiming something inside was calling to them and might be connected to their clan.

• Garen and his companions admired the Sea of Fog and learned that entering the Amethyst Mountain Range cost five thousand Ink Stones per person.
• Garen paid for ten entry tokens, and the group entered the mountains and wagered Points on who would find an amethyst first.
• Garen caught an amethyst, declared that it did not count, and offered to cover the Points for that round.
• Linley found the first qualifying amethyst, and Garen asked whether he sensed a mysterious calling in the mist.
• Garen suggested that something connected to their clan lay inside the mist, and Linley agreed to explore it with him.

Garen and Linley entered the Sea of Fog in the Bauhinia Mountains, where Garen’s protections helped them withstand its strange forces. As they followed a powerful attraction through the mist, Linley mastered Gravity Space, and the two reached a mountainside.

• Garen persuaded Bebe and Pusluo to remain outside, left the others in Pusluo and Ulunisen’s care, and flew into the Sea of Fog with Linley.
• Garen’s Wind Stone and soul defenses kept him alert in the howling mist, and he gave Linley Soul Golden Beads to ease his dizziness.
• After the wind died down, Garen warned Linley about a powerful force that pulled at their bodies and souls, and the two studied it as they flew.
• Garen tried to learn from the attraction to strengthen Wind Binding while shielding Linley from occasional Amethyst strikes.
• Linley entered sudden enlightenment and mastered Gravity Space, while Garen avoided a mountain peak and held them against its slope.

Garen and Linley explored the Amethyst Mountain Range, gathered amethysts, and searched for the underground place Garen sensed. Linley began cultivating the Earth Movement Technique, and five years later both men had made rapid progress but had not yet reached their goal.

• Garen led Linley down the mist-covered mountain, where they found an eruption vent and collected its enormous pile of amethysts.
• A brunette and a silver-haired High-level God encountered them, dismissed them as Mid-level Gods, and left without interfering.
• After searching for half a month without finding the place Garen sensed, Garen told Linley it lay deep underground and urged him to master the Earth Movement Technique.
• Linley began focusing on the Earth Movement Technique while Garen and his clones worked on fusing Wind and Fire Law Profound Mysteries.
• Five years later, Garen had found compatibility between Sound Waves and Music, while Linley reported that his Earth Movement Technique cultivation had advanced dozens of times faster than outside.

Linley mastered the Earth Movement Technique with Garen secretly boosting his progress, then followed Garen’s suggestion underground and found Reisjing in a sealed cavern. Reisjing trapped Linley in a crushing Gravity Space and left him to escape before its power ran out.

• Garen secretly added experience to Linley’s System Panel, helping him master the Earth Movement Technique in five years.
• Garen persuaded Linley to explore underground, and Linley used the technique to enter a hidden cavern beneath the Amethyst Mountain Range.
• Reisjing appeared in the cavern, introduced himself as a former Purgatory Commander, and learned that Garen wanted to spar with him.
• After receiving a Soul Transmission, Reisjing summoned a black stone and used it to trap Linley in a sphere of repulsive force.
• Reisjing told Linley the sphere was Gravity Space and that he had to take the black stone to escape, then fell asleep while Linley endured the crushing pressure.

Linley escaped Reisjing’s Black Stone after fusing Earth Pulse and Gravity Space, while the Chief Sovereign of Bauhinia revealed that Garen’s talent and their group’s potential had impressed her. Linley returned to Garen with a mysterious gift from Reisjing, leaving Garen curious about what it was.

• Garen reassured Linley that Reisjing’s Black Stone was a test and suggested that fusing Earth Pulse with Gravity Space could free him.
• After Doehring Cowart suggested a new approach, Linley began fusing Earth Element with Gravity Space, then fused Gravity Space with Earth Pulse and deciphered how to counter the Black Stone’s force.
• Linley reached the Black Stone, acknowledged it as his master, and received a hard, white, hook-shaped object from Reisjing to give to Garen.
• The Chief Sovereign of Bauhinia told Reisjing that Garen was a Mid-level God with Peak Asura-level strength and warned him to befriend Garen and Linley; Reisjing agreed to seek Garen out.
• Linley returned to the mountain hollow and told Garen that he had escaped and that Reisjing had given him an object, which Garen wondered might have come from the Chief Sovereign of Bauhinia.

Garen completed the fusion of all six Wind-style Laws and Mysteries and upgraded the God-Slaying Blade into a Sovereign Artifact with a severed White Tiger Claw. During the Mist Tide, he and Linley fought Amethyst Behemoths, and Garen revealed a powerful new attack before the surviving beasts fled.

• Garen used all his remaining experience to fuse the six Wind-style Laws and Mysteries, reaching Peak Asura strength without a Sovereign's Might.
• Linley gave Garen a severed White Tiger Claw, and Garen secretly used it to upgrade the God-Slaying Blade into a Sovereign Artifact.
• The Mist Tide surged across the Bauhinia Mountains, and Garen and Linley encountered three charging Amethyst Behemoths.
• Garen recognized a pattern in the Behemoth's back spikes that helped him understand how to use Wind Restraint, then fought two beasts while Linley engaged the third.
• Garen killed an Amethyst Behemoth with Dimensional Shockwave Slash, gained 820,000 experience, and collected the scattered amethyst after the other beasts fled.

After Garen and Linley encountered Reisjing amid a stampede of Amethyst Behemoths, Garen challenged him to a fight and wagered that the loser would do one thing for the winner. Reisjing accepted, and the two prepared to battle without using Sovereign's Might.

• Garen drove off Jarod and Galan after they asked to travel with him, then persuaded Linley to help him search for Reisjing.
• Garen and Linley heard a stampede and rushed toward it, where thousands of Amethyst Behemoths were chasing hundreds of people, including Bebe and Olivier.
• Garen arrived in time to save Bebe, Olivier, and the remaining survivors by destroying a dozen Amethyst Behemoths with a blue blade-light.
• Reisjing recognized Garen and Linley, while a survivor revealed that Reisjing was among the Infernal Realm's most powerful beings; Reisjing then threatened to kill everyone.
• Garen challenged Reisjing to a wagered fight without Sovereign's Might, and both drew their Sovereign Artifacts as the battle began.

Garen fought Reisjing in the Bauhinia Mountains, first suffering a devastating defeat before using Sovereign's Might to overpower him. Reisjing then trapped Garen in Amethyst Space, leaving the outcome of their battle unresolved.

• Garen struck Reisjing with his Dimensional Soul-Quaking Slash, but Reisjing's attack blasted him into an Amethyst peak and left his soul badly weakened.
• Linley urged Garen to stop fighting, while Reisjing recognized the strange pressure of the White Tiger Sovereign's presence in Garen's blade.
• Garen recovered and secretly used Sovereign's Might, restoring his defenses and greatly increasing his power.
• Garen's strengthened attack blasted Reisjing into a distant cliff, stunning him and delighting Linley, Bebe, and the other survivors.
• Reisjing unleashed Amethyst Space, slowing Garen and weakening his attacks with its powerful gravitational force.

Garen and Reisjing ended their battle peacefully, became friends, and celebrated with Linley, Bebe, Olivier, and two rescued brothers. After Reisjing gave Garen five Soul Defense Divine Artifacts and a Chief God token, the group escaped the Bauhinia Mountains but faced the danger of being noticed by the Eighteen Clans during the ongoing amethyst eruption.

• Garen used Wind Binding to weaken Reisjing, and the two agreed to end their fight in a draw.
• Garen reunited with Linley, Bebe, and Olivier, then brought two High-level God brothers to safety and invited everyone to drink with Reisjing.
• Garen introduced his companions to Reisjing, who gave him five Soul Defense Divine Artifacts; Garen also gained over 40 million experience from the food and received a black token bearing a Chief God’s aura.
• Garen and the others flew out of the Bauhinia Mountains with Black Stone, and Garen warned the two brothers not to reveal that they had escaped.
• Linley pointed out that the amethyst eruption was still underway and that the Eighteen Clans might notice them, prompting him to ask whether they should wait in the Sea of Fog.

Garen led Linley and the others out of the Sea of Fog, where the Eighteen Great Clans tried to seize their belongings. He slaughtered the clan forces, gained a breakthrough in fusing the Wind Laws, and prepared to regroup with Pusluo as the clans summoned stronger opponents.

• Garen gave Olivier and the other High-level Gods Advanced Death Reaper Puppets for protection, then led the group openly out of the Sea of Fog.
• A squad of Black-robed Men demanded the group's Space Rings, and Garen killed them when they attacked.
• Garen told Linley and Bebe to protect the others, then charged the approaching clan forces and killed a Seven-Star Fiend purple-robed elder with the God-Slaying Blade.
• Garen entered a focused state amid the battle, fused his Wind Movement Technique with the Wind Element and Mysteries of Speed and Slowness, and routed the Aowisi Clan's forces.
• Garen collected a large haul of experience and items, including a Mysteries Fusion Entry Card and eight drops of Sovereign's Might, while the surviving clan members fled to summon reinforcements.
• Olivier urged the group to leave before the clans' Asuras arrived, but Garen calmly planned to meet Pusluo and prepare for team fights.

After reuniting with Pusluo’s group, Garen recruited Olivier into the Huaxia Faction and helped him advance his Dark-style Divine Clone to Mid-level God. When the Eighteen Clans pursued them, Garen and Pusluo confronted their forces and began a battle that left the clans’ leaders badly outmatched.

• Garen gave Soul Defense Divine Artifacts to Jenny, Delia, and the other women, then invited Olivier to join the Huaxia Faction, which Olivier accepted.
• Garen used the System to give Olivier enough experience to advance his Darkness affinity, and Olivier’s Dark-style Divine Clone became a Mid-level God.
• Linley wondered whether joining the Huaxia Faction made cultivation easier, while Garen noticed the Eighteen Clans approaching and told everyone to protect themselves.
• Garen and Pusluo charged the Eighteen Clans’ forces, while Ulunisen stayed back to protect himself.
• Garen severed one of Lastos’s paws with the God-Slaying Blade, and Pusluo struck Leander hard enough to send him flying.
• Pusluo unleashed a storm of molten boulders over the black- and purple-robed ranks, causing chaos and heavy casualties.

Garen and his allies overwhelmed the Eighteen Clans in battle until the Chief God of Destruction ordered both sides to stop and let Garen leave. The Eighteen Clans suspected Garen was a Paragon, while Garen departed with billions of experience points and valuable drops.

• Pusluo’s lava barrage devastated the Eighteen Clans as Garen suppressed Lastos and Oweis, who were forced to use Sovereign’s Might.
• Linley and Ulunisen used Linley’s Black Stone Space to defeat several purple-robed men, while Bebe and the women helped wipe out hundreds of Black-robed Men.
• Lastos and Oweis discussed making peace with Garen, but the Chief God of Destruction appeared and ordered everyone to stop fighting and go their separate ways.
• The Chief God suppressed Lastos when he challenged the order, and Garen left with Pusluo after collecting loot that brought his experience total above five billion.
• Oweis, Leander, and Lastos suspected Garen might be a Paragon, regretted provoking him, and resolved to keep a lower profile; a rumor spread that the Four Divine Beasts Clan had a possible Paragon.

After slaughtering the Eighteen Clans, Garen grew stronger, traveled to Blue Maple City, and decided to challenge Hongyang Prefecture’s Prefecture Lord to establish his Huaxia Faction. He settled his group in a mansion and began studying the Prefecture Lord’s dossier.

• Bebe, Ulunisen, and Pusluo celebrated their battle, and Garen rewarded Pusluo with two drops of Fire-style Sovereign Power.
• Garen absorbed three drops of White Tiger Essence Blood, doubled his physical strength, and used Mysteries Fusion Entry Cards to advance his Wind-style fusion.
• Garen decided to challenge Hongyang Prefecture’s Prefecture Lord and planned a detour to hunt bandits before reaching the city.
• Garen and his companions arrived in Blue Maple City, and Fabian and Fabide thanked Garen before leaving the group.
• Garen bought a mansion, explained that he would establish the Huaxia Faction before traveling to Bloodridge Continent, and purchased a dossier on the Prefecture Lord.
• Garen reviewed his cultivation progress and began reading the dossier while considering whether to upgrade his Tiger God Armor or Soul Defense Divine Artifact.