Chapter Summaries

Garen learned that Milo Anders was the formidable Earth-style Prefecture Lord of Hongyang Prefecture and upgraded his Tiger God Armor before meeting Milo at Fiend Castle. After Milo granted him Seven-Star Fiend status, Garen challenged him to a public duel, and a month later Blue Maple City gathered at Blue Maple Mountain to watch.

• Garen researched Milo Anders's record and upgraded his Tiger God Armor into a Sovereign Artifact to prepare for their expected fight.
• At Fiend Castle, Garen discovered that the middle-aged man watching a battle recording was Milo Anders, the Prefecture Lord of Hongyang Prefecture and lord of Fiend Castle.
• Garen proved his strength by crushing a High-level Divine Artifact, identified himself as the White Tiger Clan fighter from the recording, and asked Milo to upgrade his One-Star Fiend Badge.
• Milo had Dawson change Garen's badge to Seven-Star Fiend rank, and Garen immediately challenged Milo for his Prefecture Lord position.
• Milo and Garen's duel was announced for Blue Maple Mountain a month later, drawing intense attention across Blue Maple City.
• A month later, nearly everyone in Blue Maple City had gone to Blue Maple Mountain to await the duel.

Garen challenged the Hongyang Prefecture Lord, Milo, before a vast crowd at Blue Maple Mountain. After Milo’s Lion’s Roar briefly caught him off guard, Garen reinforced his soul defenses and gained the upper hand in their material exchange, though Milo continued fighting and appeared to be waiting for a chance to strike decisively.

• Garen and Milo began their battle above Blue Maple Mountain, each transforming into his combat form and meeting in a head-on clash.
• Milo struck Garen with Lion’s Roar and knocked him into the mountainside, but the Tiger God Armor left Garen unharmed.
• Garen identified the weaknesses of his soul defense, restored his Soul Defense Divine Artifact, and formed ten layers of Mental Power Protective Layer.
• Garen and Milo resumed fighting, and Garen’s God-Slaying Blade broke through Milo’s armor and repeatedly wounded him.
• Milo kept resisting Garen’s attacks and watched for an opportunity to win with a decisive strike.

Garen defeated Milo and became the new Hongyang Prefecture Lord after bluffing that he still had Sovereign's Might. As Garen celebrated with Linley and his companions, a mysterious Red-Browed Man watched them before disappearing toward Blue Maple City.

• Milo used his Innate Divine Ability and a powerful Soul Attack, but Garen's counterattack sent him flying and blocked the Soul Attack.
• Garen pretended to have Sovereign's Might ready, and Milo admitted defeat rather than risk continuing the fight.
• Milo announced that Garen was the new Hongyang Prefecture Lord, then left Blue Maple City as the crowd cheered for Garen.
• Linley, Bebe, Jenny, Pusluo, and the others congratulated Garen as he reflected on his rise from the Yulan Plane and the Huaxia Order's future.
• A Red-Browed Man judged that Linley and Garen could handle danger in the Infernal Realm, then headed toward Blue Maple City and vanished in a flash of red light.

After becoming Hongyang Prefecture Lord, Garen fully activated the Huaxia Order and discovered it connected him to countless affiliated systems across the Coiling Dragon Universe, along with a Divine Beast Scripture that could awaken bloodlines and grant inherited abilities. He also absorbed a fragment of the God King of Scarlet Flame’s inheritance, gaining the fusion of the three Fire Laws profound mysteries, and left to celebrate while recovering from the strain.

• Garen returned to the Prefecture Lord's residence, asked Jiekalai about taking over, and learned that news of his victory would spread throughout the Infernal Realm and reach the Chief Sovereign of Bauhinia.
• Garen explored the activated Huaxia Order and found a universe-spanning map of living beings, including millions of illuminated affiliated systems whose experience flowed through threads to his Experience Orb.
• Garen discovered that the Divine Beast Scripture could awaken and evolve bloodlines, pass on ancient divine beasts' abilities, and accelerate law comprehension for himself and his affiliated-system subordinates.
• Garen touched a red crystal in the Huaxia Order and received the God King of Scarlet Flame's inheritance of the Great Dao of Fire, which allowed him to fuse the three profound mysteries of the Fire Laws.
• Garen withdrew from the Huaxia Order to celebrate with Linley and Pusluo, postponing further absorption of the inheritance until his painful headache subsided.

Garen activated the Huaxia Order to organize bandit suppression across Hongyang Prefecture, then cultivated in the White Tiger Space and advanced both his Wind and Fire elements to High-level God. He launched the Huaxia Faction’s recruitment and rewards program in Blue Maple City, where a young purple-robed swordsman joined as the first campaign began.

• Garen ordered Jiekalai to establish bandit-suppression campaigns, city leaderboards, and rewards for the most successful Prefecture Soldiers.
• Garen entered the White Tiger Space, absorbed its energy, and found it accelerated his bloodline growth and Wind Law cultivation, though he planned to seek an Ancestral Hall Baptism to strengthen his Soul Green Light.
• Garen advanced his Wind and Fire elements to High-level God, greatly increasing his soul and divine power, and decided to strengthen his Soul Defense Divine Artifact further.
• Garen organized the first prefecture-wide bandit campaign, erected Black Stone Steles in all twelve cities, and opened Huaxia Faction recruitment with rewards for killing bandits.
• A black-haired young man in a purple robe joined the Huaxia Faction after learning that points could be exchanged for Sovereign’s Might, and Garen watched the Prefecture Soldiers assemble at Blue Maple City’s gates.

Garen organized bandit-suppression campaigns across Hongyang Prefecture to strengthen its soldiers and build the Huaxia Faction’s Points system, while searching the Huaxia Order for unclaimed Sovereign Sparks and choosing bloodline evolutions for his pets. After a year of rapid growth and nearly completing his Wind-style Mysteries fusion, he learned that the troops had cleared the bandit gangs near Blue Maple City.

• Garen rallied the Prefecture Soldiers to hunt bandits for experience, Ink Stones, and Points, promising guidance to the top three on the kill rankings.
• Garen found four apparently unclaimed Sovereign Sparks in the Spatial Turbulence and decided to focus on reaching Paragon before pursuing them.
• Garen selected the Kui Thunder Tiger for Little White, the Azure Dragon for Little Dragon, and the Vermilion Bird for Little Pa, then sent the three pets to cultivate in the Divine Beast Scripture.
• Garen established Points exchanges across Hongyang Prefecture, and the Points became valuable currency that drew major powers into the bandit hunts.
• After a year, Garen had gained more than 580 billion experience points and nearly finished fusing the seven Wind-style Mysteries, while Jiekalai reported that the soldiers had cleared every bandit gang near Blue Maple City.

Garen prepared to leave Blue Maple City, but Pusluo unexpectedly became a Fire-style Chief God's emissary and agreed to take over as Hongyang Prefecture Lord. A month later, Garen reviewed the top three bandit hunters before departing for Bloodridge Continent and was surprised that Luomiu had claimed first place.

• Garen flew to find Pusluo and rushed toward a distant battle after sensing what seemed to be a Paragon's attack.
• Pusluo explained that his sparring partner was a Fire-style Chief God who appointed him as an emissary and gave him an Offensive Sovereign Artifact.
• Garen celebrated with Pusluo and the others, then told Pusluo to stay behind and succeed him as Hongyang Prefecture Lord while the group traveled to Bloodridge Continent.
• A month later, Garen summoned the top three Stone Stele-ranked bandit hunters: Luomiu, Felix, and Mabel.
• Garen examined their abilities and was especially surprised that Luomiu, a Lightning-style High-level God, had taken first place.

Garen cultivated promising Huaxia Faction members, stepped down as Hongyang Prefecture’s lord, and set out with his companions across the Starry Fog Sea toward Bloodridge Continent. After Luomiu gained insight from the sea’s lightning, the group encountered the Giant Python Pirate Group, and Luomiu opened the battle by killing more than a hundred High-level God bandits with one strike.

• Garen gave Luomiu over three billion experience, helped Felix break through his Earth-style laws, and watched Mabel gain an insight without assistance.
• Garen and Luomiu bonded over their hatred of bandits, and Luomiu agreed to travel with him to Bloodridge Continent to hunt them.
• Garen arranged Hongyang Prefecture’s affairs, passed the position of Prefecture Lord to Pusluo, and departed Blue Maple City with Linley and the others.
• During the voyage across the Starry Fog Sea, Garen urged Luomiu to study the lightning, prompting Luomiu to enter a state of sudden insight.
• After a month at sea, Garen’s group encountered more than ten thousand members of the Giant Python Pirate Group, and Luomiu’s Ten Thousand Thunder Prison Pull killed over a hundred High-level God bandits.

After twenty years of travel and hunting bandits, Garen and his companions arrived at prosperous Miluo Island, where Garen hoped to meet old acquaintances and visit its famous Battle Arena. They settled in at a restaurant, learning that Miluo Island allowed fights in most places but charged hefty fees when businesses were damaged.

• Garen reflected on how his companions had grown stronger during their twenty years at sea and planned to find Tarosha and the others on Miluo Island.
• Bebe spotted Miluo Island on the sea chart, and Garen said they would reach it in about three days and visit its Battle Arena.
• Garen and his companions arrived at Miluo Island, marveled at the crowds and its powerful Island Guard Private Soldiers, and headed into the city.
• Garen read a restaurant notice listing charges for fighting and breaking furniture, and Ulunisen explained that a business alliance enforced those rules across the island.
• Garen and his companions sat down at the restaurant and enjoyed a meal, while Bebe praised the Silver Shuttle Silk Fish.

Garen and his companions visited Miluo Island’s Battle Arena, where Bebe demonstrated his strength and won ten matches. They then heard that Dylan was fighting for a hundred consecutive victories and entered the Mid-level God arena to find him.

• Garen and his companions heard that pirate groups along the route from Blue Maple City to Miluo Island had been wiped out.
• Garen and his companions toured the Battle Arena, where they spotted Tarosha serving as an Island Guard captain.
• Bebe entered the High-level God division, shattered his opponent’s Divine Artifact, and won ten consecutive matches to earn a discount token.
• Garen and his companions heard the crowd chanting Dylan’s name and went into the Mid-level God arena.
• Garen and his companions recognized Dylan fighting on the platform and decided to wait so they could meet him and find Tarosha and the War God.

Dylan won a hundred consecutive battles on Miluo Island and reunited with Garen, Linley, and their companions. As the group exchanged stories and learned how powerful Garen’s team had become, they began catching up on Dylan’s life in the Infernal Realm.

• Dylan defeated his opponent in the Battle Arena, claimed his hundred-win token, and reunited with Garen, Linley, and the others.
• Garen met Cesar’s girlfriend Cecily and followed Dylan to the Island Guards’ residential area, where Tarosha was absent.
• At Tarosha’s residence, Garen described his adventures, and Olivier revealed that Garen had defeated a Prefecture Lord.
• Dylan and the others learned that Garen was the White Tiger Clan expert from the Shadow Projection Crystal and heard how extensively he had fused Laws and Mysteries.
• Bebe introduced the team’s powerful members, including Linley, Luomiu, Ulunisen, and himself, leaving Dylan and the others astonished.
• Dylan told Garen that he and Tarosha had faced danger after arriving in the Infernal Realm, and that Tarosha had since advanced to High-level God through his own efforts.

Sekla went to meet Bebe on behalf of the Bagshaw Clan, but his visit turned violent when he found Cecily with Cesar and ordered the Island Guards to seize the group. Garen’s allies struck back, and Linley revealed his dragon form as the battle began.

• Dylan and the others discussed Tarosha’s achievements while Bokewei told Sekla to befriend Bebe and recruit him for the Bagshaw Clan.
• Sekla learned that Cecily had agreed to become his girlfriend and set out for the Island Guard barracks with Tarosha and three elite guards.
• Sekla found Cecily holding hands with Cesar, accused her of deceiving him, and ordered his men to seize everyone in the courtyard.
• Garen warned Sekla not to cause trouble, but Sekla summoned the Island Guards and ordered them to attack; Tarosha joined the assault against Dylan and the others.
• Garen told his companions to fight the Island Guards, and Luomiu immediately killed more than a hundred of them with his attack.
• Linley trapped Sekla and the guards in Black Stone Space, charged at Sekla, and transformed into a scaled dragon after two black-armored guards blocked his way.

Linley and his allies slaughtered the Island Guards after Sekla provoked them, forcing Sekla to flee and summon the Bagshaw Clan. Bokewei and three Red-Robed Elders arrived as reinforcements, leaving Linley and the other fighters facing the clan’s Seven-Star Fiends.

• Bebe, Ulunisen, Olivier, Jenny, Delia, and the others cut through the Island Guards while Garen restrained Tarosha.
• Linley swept aside two black-armored warriors and used his Black Stone Space to drag Sekla back, but the patrol captain knocked Sekla beyond its range.
• Sekla activated a signal device, and Bokewei, three Red-Robed Elders, and black-armored guards flew from the Bagshaw Clan estate toward the barracks.
• Sekla called in more than ten thousand Island Guards, but Linley and his allies kept slaughtering them as they closed in on him.
• Bokewei arrived with the three Red-Robed Elders, and one of them blocked Linley’s attack before Linley and the others continued fighting amid the encircling forces.

Linley, Luomiu, Ulunisen, and Bebe overwhelmed the Bagshaw Clan’s forces on Miluo Island, while Garen confronted the clan’s old ancestor, Mosi. Their first clash showed that neither could easily defeat the other, as more Bagshaw reinforcements continued to arrive.

• Bokewei sent Pasluo to fight Linley, but Linley used Gravity Space and powerful blows to smash Pasluo into the ground.
• Ulunisen killed a Red-Robed Elder with his Asura-level Fire of Repentance, and Luomiu struck down the female elder as she tried to flee.
• Bokewei ordered Sekla to summon the old ancestor, but Garen appeared and killed Sekla before he could leave.
• Mosi arrived and challenged Garen, who revealed his White Tiger Warrior form and met Mosi’s hammer with the God-Slaying Blade.
• Mosi realized Garen’s physical attack matched his own and that his Soul Attack had no effect, while more Bagshaw fighters streamed into the battle.

Garen and his companions ended the battle on Miluo Island after Bebe revealed his God-Slaying ability, forcing Mosi to negotiate. Mosi took them to Handisai Castle’s West Sea Secret Land, where he showed them a vast collection of battle projections, including one of a Sovereign in action.

• Bebe used his God-Slaying ability to kill a Red-Clad Elder, alarming Mosi and the other Seven-Star Fiends.
• Garen pressured Mosi into stopping the fighting and agreeing to free Tarosha and let Garen’s group visit the West Island Secret Realm.
• Mosi ended the battle, and Garen’s companions reunited with the group before they traveled toward West Island.
• Mosi led Garen and the others through an underwater passage to the heavily guarded Handisai Castle.
• Mosi showed them 1,628 Shadow Projection crystals and revealed that a pillar contained a projection of a Sovereign in action.

Garen and his companions left Miluo Island for Bloodridge Continent, making progress in cultivation during the journey. After arriving in Azure Prefecture, they learned that Bebe had begun fusing two Mysteries of Darkness.

• Garen watched a Wind Laws projection and gained insight into combining Wind Space with Wind Element, while Olivier, Linley, and Luomiu made breakthroughs of their own.
• Three days later, Garen and the others departed Miluo Island for Bloodridge Continent, and Tarosha thanked Garen for freeing him from soul control.
• During the peaceful voyage, Garen continued cultivating and fused more Wind Mysteries as the group crossed the Starry Fog Sea for over twenty years.
• Garen and his companions reached Bloodridge Continent and flew inland toward Azure Prefecture, where Tarosha asked about their cultivation progress.
• Bebe announced that he had begun fusing Darkness Element and the Mysteries of Devouring, surprising Linley, Tarosha, Dylan, Olivier, and Garen.

Garen and his group reached Azure Prefecture, where they found that the Four Divine Beasts Clan was being hunted by members of the Bolin Clan. In Fance City, they learned from a detailed atlas that the Four Divine Beasts Clan had branches throughout the Higher Planes and Divine Realms.

• Beibei demonstrated that he had begun comprehending Fusion Profound Mysteries as the Metal Lifeform approached Stone Sword Mountain and Azure Prefecture.
• Garen led the group toward Fance City, where three Bolin Clan members attacked them for traveling with remnants of the Four Divine Beasts Clan.
• Ulunisen stopped the first attack, and Garen killed all three white-robed men with Azure Light after they launched another assault.
• Garen took the group to Bloodridge Castle and bought a detailed atlas of Azure Prefecture.
• Garen and the others read that the Four Divine Beasts Clan comprised the Redding, Nemo, Lierus, and Bowen Clans, with branches across the four Higher Planes and seven Divine Realms.

Garen and his companions learned that the Four Divine Beasts Clan had gathered in Azure Prefecture’s Tianji Mountain Range and traveled to the Azure Dragon Clan’s territory. There, Garen requested an audience with Gaisesen, but Elder Jiawei questioned his claim to have been Hongyang Prefecture Lord, so Garen offered to prove his strength in a spar.

• The attendant explained that the atlas was outdated and that the Four Divine Beasts Clan had gathered in the Tianji Mountain Range after a major upheaval ten thousand years earlier.
• Garen and his companions traveled to the Tianji Mountain Range and saw the immense sculptures of the Four Divine Beasts and the Azure Dragon Clan’s vast Dragon Path.
• Linley felt a powerful sense of belonging as he approached the Azure Dragon Clan’s territory with Delia.
• Garen told the Azure Dragon Clan’s patrol captain that he was former Hongyang Prefecture Lord and asked to meet Gaisesen.
• Elder Jiawei met Garen but questioned his claim because the Azure Dragon Clan had not heard of his appointment.
• Garen offered to spar with Jiawei so the elder could judge his strength for himself.

Garen demonstrated his overwhelming strength to the Four Divine Beasts Clan and received a lavish welcome, while Linley learned that the Baruch Clan had come from the Yulan Continent. Garen arranged Ancestral Hall Baptisms for himself and Linley and planned to fight the Eight Great Clans, leaving the clan leaders unaware that Ulunisen and Luomiu were also powerful enough to be Asuras.

• Garen immobilized Jiawei with Wind Binding, prompting Jiawei to concede and summon the Clan Leader.
• Jiawei told Linley that the Baruch Clan was an Azure Dragon Clan branch from the Yulan Continent, and Gaisesen reacted tearfully when he saw Linley's Coiling Dragon Ring.
• Gaisesen and the other clan leaders welcomed Garen with a banquet, and Garen asked them to arrange Ancestral Hall Baptisms for him and Linley.
• Garen told the clan leaders that the Eight Great Clans had attacked him, and Gaia suggested he retaliate through Blood War Valley.
• Garen asked Gaisesen to build a residence near the Bolei Clan, while Gaisesen agreed without realizing Ulunisen and Luomiu were also powerful Asuras.

Garen and his companions arrived at the Four Divine Beasts Clan’s Tianji Mountain Range, where Jiawei revealed Garen’s astonishing strength and brief cultivation history to Bolei. Garen reunited with the Bolei Branch and began settling in beside them, while recognizing that the clan shared his family’s bloodline.

• Jiawei escorted Garen and his companions toward the Bolei Clan’s residence while Cesar and O'Brien recalled old friends from the Yulan Continent.
• Jiawei learned that Garen had cultivated for only three hundred years and became excited that he might help the Four Divine Beasts Clan overcome the Eight Great Clans.
• After a long flight through the Tianji Mountain Range, Jiawei brought the group to the Bolei Branch, where Bolei greeted Garen, Cesar, and O'Brien.
• Jiawei announced that Garen was an Asura-level powerhouse from the Bolei Clan, shocking Bolei and the branch elders.
• Garen and Bolei agreed to address one another by name or as Clan Leader Bolei, and Bolei invited the newcomers to the clan’s residence for a banquet.
• Garen sensed that the Bolei Branch members shared his bloodline and realized the Baruch family had flourished in the Infernal Realm.