Chapter Summaries

Ailin reflected on the difficulty of fusing Water Law’s Profound Mysteries and comprehending Death Law while living in seclusion near the edge of the Brinia Plane. He recalled fleeing a High-God who planned to control him with a Soul Seed, and how cultivation in the Plane Prison eventually let him reach High-God level at age seven hundred and thirty.

• Ailin struggled to find a path through Death Law and considered how difficult it had been to fuse Water Law’s Profound Mysteries as a Mid-level God.
• Ailin became a Low God at thirty and a Mid-level God at two hundred and twenty, but his rapid progress drew the attention of the Brinia Continent’s High-God.
• The High-God tried to control Ailin with a Soul Seed, so Ailin fled and discovered that the continent’s other Mid-level Gods and Plane Guardian were also controlled.
• Ailin escaped into the Brinia Plane Prison through a crack connecting it to the plane and hid underground to cultivate.
• Ailin focused on comprehending Profound Mysteries and reached High-God level after five hundred years in the Plane Prison, at age seven hundred and thirty.

Ailin spent thousands of years strengthening his Water Law, killing the Death High God who had once controlled Brinia, and beginning to cultivate the Death Law. While investigating a sudden surge of spatial cracks at the edge of the plane, he intercepted a mysterious crystal and recognized it as a Sovereign Spark.

• Ailin fused the Water, Ice Sharpness, and Round Softness Profound Mysteries, returned to Brinia, and killed the Death High God who had controlled him.
• The three Mid-level Gods freed from their Soul Seeds left Brinia, while Ailin continued cultivating alongside the Plane Guardian and the remaining Low Gods.
• Ailin spent nearly a million years fusing five Water Profound Mysteries and began studying the Death Law, bringing his Death God Avatar close to the High-God realm.
• Ailin detected unusually frequent spatial cracks at the edge of the plane and flew there to investigate.
• A grayish-white streak shot from a large crack, and Ailin intercepted its semi-transparent crystal before the cracks calmed.
• Ailin examined the crystal's powerful aura and recognized it as a Sovereign Spark.

Ailin obtained an ownerless Death Sovereign Spark and stored it away, but his excitement kept his Death God Avatar from breaking through during thirty years of seclusion. He considered seeking battle and experience in a Divine Plane when enormous ships bearing the Duncan Family emblem appeared near his island.

• Ailin recognized the object from the spatial rift as a Death Sovereign Spark and suspected it was one of the three unrefined Sparks missing from the known count.
• Ailin placed the Spark in a jewelry box, stored it in his Space Ring, and returned to his island to cultivate his Death God Avatar.
• After thirty years without a breakthrough, Ailin realized his fixation on the Spark had disrupted his cultivation and decided bitter seclusion would not help him.
• Ailin considered traveling to the Netherworld or another Divine Plane to find battles that might help him understand the Death Law, despite the danger and difficulty of returning.
• Several enormous Grand Ships bearing the Duncan Family emblem appeared on the distant sea near Ailin's island.

Ailin encountered the Duncan Family during its century-old Island Questioning Journey and invited its members ashore, marking the first time they had been allowed onto his island. After meeting Alash and the family delegation, he asked how many people had come and how strong they were.

• Ailin saw the Duncan Family's ship arrive near his island for its ancestral journey.
• Alash recognized Ailin as the Old Ancestor, and the family members and crew knelt to pay their respects.
• Ailin lowered the divine power barrier and invited the delegation to come ashore.
• Alash ordered the offerings unloaded and led the Duncan Family members to meet Ailin.
• Ailin received Alash's greeting and asked how many people had come and how strong they were.

Ailin singled out Ladd Aiken, a young branch-line member of the Duncan Family, and asked about his cultivation. Ladd revealed that he had reached the Saint Domain at twenty-three, stunning the family leaders and descendants around them.

• Alash explained that the Island Questioning Journey included Duncan Family descendants and branch-line members, and Ailin asked to meet the fleet's young leader.
• Alash identified Ladd as an exceptional branch-line member who had passed the Duncan Family bloodline test despite his diluted lineage.
• Soro brought Ladd Aiken before Ailin, and Ladd respectfully greeted Old Ancestor.
• Ailin asked Ladd how his cultivation was progressing, prompting jealousy among the direct-line descendants.
• Ladd revealed that he had recently entered the Saint Domain at age twenty-three, astonishing everyone present.

Ailin recognized Ladd’s pendant as a fragment of a shattered High-level Divine Weapon and realized that ancient God-level battles had once taken place in the Brinia Plane. He left Ladd on Ailin Island to question him about the relic while Alash and the others waited outside.

• Alash and the Duncan Family members learned that Ladd had reached the Saint Domain, and Ailin praised his talent and affirmed the family’s identity.
• Ailin sent Alash and the others away but kept Ladd on Ailin Island, prompting Alash to rebuke his descendants for speaking jealously about Ladd.
• Alash warned the family members not to criticize Ladd and resolved to urge the family head to value him more.
• Ailin asked Ladd to show him the black fragment pendant, which Ladd said had been passed down through his branch of the Aiken Family.
• Ailin identified the pendant as a fragment of a High-level Divine Weapon and concluded that ancient God-level battles had occurred in the Brinia Plane.

Ailin identified Ladd’s ancestral pendant as a Divine Artifact Fragment and explained the Divine Planes to him. Their discussion of Ladd’s Battle Qi Manual and bloodline led Ailin to suspect the Aiken Family might descend from an ancient expert, possibly one connected to Aiken of the Hell Bauhinia Continent.

• Ailin told Ladd that his pendant was likely a Divine Artifact Fragment from a Divine Plane, and described the Material, Higher, and Divine Planes.
• Ailin advised Ladd to wait until he became a god before traveling to a Divine Plane, then declined Ladd’s offer to give him the pendant.
• Ladd explained that his ancestors had passed down the pendant and a Battle Qi Manual that had allowed him to advance beyond level three, though most earlier practitioners had failed.
• Ailin inferred that the manual might be restricted by bloodline and that Ladd’s Aiken Family ancestry could trace back to a powerful ancient expert.
• Ladd said the inheritance had lasted more than ten thousand years, and Ailin wondered whether the family was connected to Aiken of the Hell Bauhinia Continent.

Ailin sent Ladd away with a sealed attack to protect him and told him to choose Outside-the-Body Godhood if he became a god. Inspired to pursue his old ambition and confident in his strength, Ailin decided to send his Water God Avatar to a Divine Plane while keeping his main body and Death God Avatar in Brinia Plane.

• Ailin sealed an attack with the power of a Mid-level God into Ladd’s Divine Artifact Fragment and advised him to choose Outside-the-Body Godhood if he became a god.
• Ladd left Ailin Island and returned openly to the Duncan Family’s grand ship, revealing to those aboard that he had reached the Saint Domain.
• After watching the ship depart, Ailin resolved to travel to a Divine Plane to support his cultivation and pursue his old aspirations.
• Ailin chose to send his Water God Avatar to the Divine Plane while his main body and Death God Avatar stayed in Brinia Plane to cultivate in seclusion.
• Ailin weighed the risks and decided that even if his Water God Avatar faced certain death, he would still venture forth if doing so could help his Death God Avatar reach the High-God realm.

Ailin prepared his Water God Avatar to leave the Brinia Plane and traveled to Wind Thunder Mountain to use its Teleportation Array. He chose the Death Supreme Plane as his destination, and Hamdan prepared to take him there.

• Ailin left his High-level Divine Weapons and Space Ring with his other avatars and strengthened Ailin Island's defenses.
• Ailin crossed the Brinia Continent and the North Sea Region to reach Wind Thunder Mountain.
• Hamdan greeted Ailin and offered to host him, but Ailin said he had come to activate the Teleportation Array.
• Ailin told Hamdan he was finally leaving for the Divine Plane after delaying his departure for nearly a million years.
• Hamdan led Ailin to the summit's Teleportation Array, where Ailin chose the Death Supreme Plane.

Ailin arrived in the Netherworld through the Teleportation Array on Blood Spirit Island and felt the immense pressure of the Divine Plane. The chapter left him facing the Blood Spirit Island guards, who recognized him as a High-God.

• Hamdan watched Ailin leave for the Netherworld, then flew toward Brinia Continent to seek people interested in traveling to a Divine Plane.
• The chapter described the Netherworld and Blood Spirit Island, where soldiers guarded a Teleportation Array and gathered arrivals from Material Planes.
• Ailin emerged from the Teleportation Array and sensed the Netherworld's dense elemental essence and crushing pressure on both body and soul.
• A soldier preparing to explain the rules realized he could not see through Ailin and exclaimed that Ailin was a High-God.

Ailin arrived in the Netherworld at Blood Spirit Island and learned that he was in Blood Phantom Prefecture. A captain of the Sovereign's Army explained the power of Sovereigns and tried to recruit Ailin, who recognized his intention but had not yet answered.

• Ailin asked the guards where he had arrived and learned that Blood Spirit Island lay in the Nether Sea's Blood Phantom Prefecture.
• Ailin learned that Blood Nether City was about a million li south and decided to head toward the nearest city.
• A captain of the Sovereign's Army arrived after hearing that a High-God from a Material Plane had appeared and confirmed that this was Ailin's first visit to a Divine Plane.
• The captain urged Ailin to join a faction for protection and identified the Sovereign's Army as the Netherworld's most powerful faction.
• The captain explained that seven Sovereigns ruled the Netherworld, while Ailin privately recognized that the captain's claim was incomplete and understood he was being recruited.

Ailin refused a captain’s offer to join the Sovereign’s Army, explaining that he had come to the Netherworld to explore independently. He asked for the Nether Stone given to newcomers, received it, and flew south toward Blood Nether City.

• The captain offered Ailin a place in his Sovereign’s Army squad, but Ailin declined because he wanted to explore the Netherworld on his own.
• The captain urged Ailin to join for protection, but Ailin again refused, and the captain left.
• Ailin stopped the captain and asked for the Nether Stone given to God-level beings arriving from the Material Planes.
• The captain handed Ailin a Nether Stone, then flew back to the tower.
• Ailin put away the stone and flew south toward Blood Nether City.

After Aristotle returned to the Blood Spirit Tower, he learned that Ailin had rejected his invitation and turned his attention back to improving his squad before its next competition. Ailin traveled across Blood Spirit Island, found high-quality Yan Jin Shi, and began forging it into weapons for himself.

• Aristotle returned to his quarters after the High-God Ailin rejected his invitation, while Chek learned what had happened and left to escort another group from the Material Plane.
• Aristotle reminded Chek to repay the Nether Stone he had paid in advance, then considered how to strengthen his squad for the coming internal competition.
• Ailin left the Blood Spirit Tower and flew across Blood Spirit Island, surprised by its vast size as he headed toward Blood Nether City.
• Ailin spotted Yan Jin Shi among scattered rocks and used his Divine Sense to find more pieces hidden nearby.
• Ailin collected the highest-quality Yan Jin Shi and began shaping it into weapons so he could carry it more easily.

Ailin forged a breastplate and Zhanmadao from Yan Jin Shi essence, then continued traveling south toward the Blood Spirit Tower. In a mist-covered valley, he encountered a group of robbers pursuing a gaunt Mid-level God for his Godhead.

• Ailin forged a breastplate and Zhanmadao, relying on his offensive-focused fusion of five Water Law Profound Mysteries.
• Ailin set off south, traveling about two million li over two days while staying alert and searching for a way to obtain a Space Ring.
• As night fell, Ailin flew over a valley where fighting erupted beneath the blood-colored mist.
• A gaunt Mid-level God offered his Space Ring to the pursuing robbers, but they surrounded him and revealed that they wanted his Godhead.

Ailin watched bandits corner a gaunt human, who tried to draw the High-God into the fight by fleeing toward him. Ailin killed the man, took his belongings, and demanded a Metal Lifeform from the bandits in exchange for sparing them.

• The gaunt human charged at the bandits, but Third Brother transformed into a giant and smashed him apart with his hammers.
• The injured man fled toward Ailin and pleaded for help, drawing the bandits’ attacks in his direction.
• Ailin killed the gaunt human with an ice spike and shattered the bandits’ attacks with another.
• Ailin collected the man’s Godhead and Space Ring, then found little of value inside.
• Ailin told the bandit leader to hand over a Metal Lifeform or lose their lives.

Ailin traveled with a bandit tribe to obtain a Metal Lifeform, then continued toward Blood Nether City. After more than ten days of uneventful travel, he reached the crowded city rising from the Nether Sea.

• Ailin accepted the bandit leader’s offer to visit the tribe and collect its finest Metal Lifeform.
• The bandits gave Ailin a bird-shaped Metal Lifeform fitted with a God Crystal, and he set off for Blood Nether City.
• After Ailin left, the bandits planned to suspend their robberies, recover, and relocate their settlement.
• Ailin crossed Blood Spirit Island and the Nether Sea, asking a traveler for directions to Blood Nether City.
• More than ten days later, Ailin reached the mountain city and saw its busy gates, shops, and patrolling High-God soldiers.

Ailin arrived in Blood Nether City and headed for the Blood Battle Stage, aiming to fight his way toward becoming City Lord. He first went to Blood Nether Castle to sell a Mid-level Godhead and obtain Nether Stones, reaching the second floor where such Godheads were handled.

• Ailin entered Blood Nether City after paying one Nether Stone and chose the Blood Battle Stage over taking Demon Missions.
• Ailin asked three soldiers for directions and learned that the Blood Battle Stage stood near the mountaintop castles.
• Ailin heard the soldiers discuss Bens, who had won fifty consecutive battles at the Blood Battle Stage.
• Ailin surveyed the three castles and the protected Blood Battle Stage, then decided to visit Blood Nether Castle before fighting.
• Ailin entered Blood Nether Castle through its rear entrance to sell a Mid-level Godhead and went toward the second floor.

Ailin sold a Mid-level Godhead at Blood Nether Castle and went to the Blood Battle Stage to register for a fight. While waiting, he learned about the rules for continuous battles and the dangerous fighter Bens, who had won fifty consecutive matches.

• Ailin sold his Mid-level Godhead of Earth Law for seven thousand five hundred Nether Stones and left Blood Nether Castle.
• Ailin registered at the Blood Battle Stage and asked whether he could fight continuously after winning.
• The green-haired young woman explained that winners could remain onstage to accept challenges, but continuous battles left little time to recover divine power.
• A black-haired young man warned Ailin that the Blood Battle Stage might match winning fighters against Bens, a ruthless contestant with fifty consecutive victories.
• The black-haired young man explained that challengers could postpone fights, but after several byes the Blood Battle Stage could assign opponents who were unable to refuse.

Ailin watched the Blood Battle Stage’s arranged fights before facing Jiru, a Fire Law High-God. He overwhelmed Jiru with his Ice and Snow World and left him gravely wounded after a single strike.

• A black-haired youth explained that the Blood Battle Stage often matched winning streak holders against powerful opponents, then fought Glass in a close bout that ended when Glass admitted defeat.
• Ailin suspected the youth and Glass might have staged their fight, but could not determine why the Blood Battle Stage would arrange a fixed match.
• The referee introduced Jiru and Ailin, announced Ailin’s intention to fight continuously, and sent both challengers onto the stage.
• Jiru attacked immediately with a flaming spear, but Ailin’s Ice and Snow World extinguished the flames, suppressed Jiru’s Domain, and slowed him.
• Ailin struck Jiru with an Ice Blade, cutting away half his body, then stopped attacking because the Blood Battle Stage claimed the spoils from defeated fighters.

Ailin won ten consecutive matches on the Blood Battle Stage without killing his opponents, impressing the audience with his strength and soul attacks. Unable to challenge more that day, he left for an inn while Ek followed him outside.

• Jiru surrendered after Ailin defeated him, and Ailin chose to spare his life.
• Ailin accepted the referee’s offer to continue challenging and defeated his next opponents with the same move.
• The spectators and Ek realized that Ailin’s victories involved a soul attack that briefly dazed his opponents.
• Ailin completed ten consecutive victories, the daily limit for challenges on the Blood Battle Stage.
• Ailin left the arena to find an inn, and Ek followed him outside.