Chapter Summaries

Ailin refined a Mid-level Main God Spark of the Death Law and became an Overgod, gaining Will Power that also strengthened his Water God Avatar. He reassured Andre that the Petrov Family would remain under his protection, even though Andre no longer needed to concoct Soul Poison.

• Ailin refined the Death Sovereign Spark and discovered it was a Mid-level Main God Spark.
• The Brinia Plane changed as Ailin became an Overgod and gained Will Power.
• Ailin realized that his Water God Avatar in the Netherworld had also gained Will Power, bringing it to the ranks of Paragon High-Gods.
• Ailin told Andre to stop concocting Soul Poison because his breakthrough made it unnecessary.
• Ailin promised to protect the Petrov Family from the Four Divine Beast Family, and Andre thanked him.

After becoming an Overgod, Ailin felt free of his former concerns and focused on strengthening his Death Clone and advancing his Water Law. God-level experts gathered on Ailin Island after his breakthrough, and Ailin asked three Duncan Family Low Gods about Ladd’s cultivation.

• Ailin resolved to rely on Faith Power to strengthen his Death Clone and fuse the final Mirror Profound Mystery of Water Law.
• The heavenly phenomenon drew God-level experts toward Ailin Island, and Hamdan arrived first, recognizing that Ailin’s Death God Avatar had become a High-God.
• Ailin welcomed the arriving experts and confirmed to Little Rhine that he had broken through.
• The God-level experts congratulated Ailin and left after speaking with him, while he kept three Duncan Family Low Gods behind.
• Ailin asked the three Low Gods how Ladd’s cultivation was progressing.

Ailin told Laiyin and two other God-level experts that he had discovered a dangerous secret realm and planned to turn it into a Trial Ground for the Brinia Continent. After giving the Duncan Family permission to prepare members for early entry, he began considering whether creating a Divine Plane could improve his comprehension of the Death Law.

• Laiyin reported that Ladd had become the Duncan Family’s greatest genius and won first place among Saint Domain experts at the imperial exchange.
• Ailin revealed that the Heavenly Phenomenon came from a secret realm he intended to open as a Trial Ground for the living beings of the Brinia Continent.
• Ailin warned Laiyin and the others that the secret realm remained dangerous and the Duncan Family could not claim it for itself.
• Ailin allowed the Duncan Family to select members of at least Level Nine strength to prepare for early entry, while ordering them to wait until he had fully explored the realm.
• After Laiyin and the others left, Ailin considered whether creating a Divine Plane could help him comprehend the Death Law.

Youser and Kager traced Ailin’s arrival to a Material Plane Teleportation Array and traveled to the Brinia Plane to investigate. There, Hamdan sensed their arrival from the Netherworld and grew tense at the prospect of facing powerful visitors.

• Youser and Kager expanded their search to Material Plane Teleportation Array records after finding no trace of Ailin in the Divine Plane records.
• Kager found a record of a High-God arriving from a Material Plane more than a year earlier, and a soldier confirmed the visitor was Ailin.
• Youser and Kager recognized Ailin’s conjured appearance and learned that he had arrived from the Brinia Plane.
• Youser ordered the teleportation array activated, and he and Kager traveled to the Brinia Plane.
• At Wind Thunder Mountain, Hamdan sensed two visitors descending from the Netherworld and worried that they were formidable experts.

After becoming an Overgod, Ailin sensed Youser and Kager arriving in the Brinia Plane and killed them with a thought, taking their bodies and possessions to Ailin Island. Their surviving Divine Clones in Hell mistook the severed connection for a trap on the Brinia Plane and rushed to report it to the clan leader.

• Ailin detected Youser and Kager teleporting to Wind Thunder Mountain and used his Divine Sense to kill them and bring their bodies to Ailin Island.
• Hamdan found the Teleportation Array empty and could not discover what had gone wrong.
• Ailin found that Youser and Kager still had surviving Divine Clones, so he stored their possessions and corpses for later use.
• In Hell, Youser and Kager's remaining Divine Clones lost contact with their strongest Divine Clones and concluded that a powerful Magic Array had trapped them on the Brinia Plane.
• Youser and Kager decided to report the suspected trap to the clan leader immediately.

Youser and Kager reported that their divine clones had lost contact after they investigated Ailin's origins on the Brinia Plane, prompting Gaisreisen to suspect a plot involving the Augusta Family. The Four Divine Beast Family leaders went to consult their elders, while Aristotle arrived in Blood Nether City to warn Ailin about the investigation.

• Youser told the clan leaders that he and Kager had traced Ailin's origins to the Brinia Plane, where their divine clones vanished inside a powerful Magic Array.
• The clan leaders considered whether the Augusta Family was behind the array and whether Youser and Kager's divine clones had been destroyed.
• Gaisreisen refused to send the Black Tortoise Clan Leader to the Brinia Plane and told Youser and Kager to keep trying to contact their clones.
• Gaisreisen and the other clan leaders vowed to uncover who was behind the incidents and seek revenge, then headed to the Four Divine Beast Family's main hall to consult their elders.
• Aristotle arrived at Blood Nether City and went to the City Lord's Mansion to report to Ailin about Youser and Kager's investigation.

Ailin learned that the Four Divine Beast Family was tracing his origins and might target the Brinia Plane, but he remained confident that they could cause no trouble there. He welcomed Aristotle into his service and moved up his confrontation with Hamusi to three months later.

• Aristotle warned Ailin that two Four Divine Beast Family members were investigating his origins through Teleportation Array records.
• Ailin realized Youser and Kager had gone to the Brinia Plane and dismissed Aristotle’s worries about his homeland.
• Ailin invited Aristotle to stay in the City Lord's Mansion, and Aristotle agreed to follow him after finishing his rotation guarding the Teleportation Array.
• Ailin told Aristotle to work with Kengo to summon Hamusi to Black Sand Island in three months.
• Ailin decided to stop delaying his challenge and face the Four Divine Beast Family sooner.

Kengo and Aristotle informed Hamusi that Ailin had accepted his challenge and set their meeting at Black Sand Island for three months later. Hamusi agreed and planned to kill Ailin with help from Ennio and Shira.

• Kengo took Aristotle to Hamusi’s residence, where the gathered visitors received them.
• Aristotle told Hamusi that Ailin accepted the challenge and would meet him at Black Sand Island in three months.
• Hamusi agreed to the date and declared that he wanted Ailin’s position as City Lord.
• After Kengo and Aristotle left, Ennio and Shira accused Ailin of insulting the Four Divine Beast Family and speculated that he had changed the date because Youser and Kager had left.
• Hamusi dismissed the possibility that Ailin would escape and trusted that he, Ennio, and Shira could kill him.

Ailin moved his battle with Hamusi to three months away after making another breakthrough, and Linasha visited him in Blood Nether City and gave him a drop of Death Sovereign Power. As the two sides arrived at Black Sand Island, more than a hundred million God-level beings gathered to watch, though fewer spectators came because of the shortened notice.

• Linasha traveled to Blood Nether City after hearing that Ailin had moved his challenge against Hamusi to three months away.
• Ailin told Linasha that he had made another breakthrough and planned to test his strength against Hamusi.
• Linasha gave Ailin a drop of Death Sovereign Power as payment for guarding Blood Nether City, and Ailin accepted it.
• Three months later, more than a hundred million God-level beings gathered outside Black Sand Island to watch the battle.
• Hamusi arrived at Black Sand Island with Ennio and Shira, and Ennio remarked that the short notice had limited the number of spectators.

Ailin arrived at Black Sand Island to face Hamusi in a city lord challenge, while Linasha and two Four Divine Beast Family experts watched nearby. Ailin decided to draw out and kill Hamusi’s allies as well, but the chapter ended as Hamusi launched a Sovereign Artifact attack.

• Hamusi told Ennio and Shira to wait nearby and use Ennio’s Innate Divine Ability if Ailin admitted defeat or tried to escape.
• Ailin and Linasha arrived at Black Sand Island, where the enormous crowd recognized Linasha as the Prefect of Blood Phantom Prefecture.
• Linasha warned Ailin that Ennio and Shira might intervene, and Ailin assured her that nothing would happen.
• Ailin noticed Ennio and Shira and decided to use the challenge to kill them along with Hamusi.
• Ailin and Hamusi exchanged taunts before Hamusi attacked with an ice-like hammer identified by Ailin as a Sovereign Artifact.

Ailin fought Hamusi while hiding the full extent of his strength, hoping Ennio and Shira would attack first and give him grounds to kill them. When Hamusi’s hammer seemed about to strike, Ailin revealed the Sovereign Artifact Crimson Fire, leaving Hamusi to realize he could no longer expect to defeat him.

• Ailin used Bensgodo’s Dragon Subduing Whip to blunt Hamusi’s hammer strike and evade it.
• Hamusi pressed his attack, and Ailin exchanged blows while deliberately appearing to be at a disadvantage and watching Ennio and Shira for signs they would intervene.
• Ailin exposed a flaw in his defense, prompting Ennio and Shira to prepare to strike if Hamusi seriously injured him.
• As Hamusi’s hammer closed in, Ailin replaced the whip with Linasha’s Sovereign Artifact Crimson Fire and thrust it at Hamusi.
• Hamusi recognized Crimson Fire as a Sovereign Artifact and understood that defeating Ailin was no longer realistic.

Ailin gained the upper hand against Hamusi during the lord’s challenge, revealing strength that astonished the spectators. Ennio and Shira then intervened to help Hamusi, and Kengo ordered the city guards to attack those violating the challenge’s rules.

• Ennio and Shira recognized Ailin’s spear as a Sovereign Artifact and agreed to attack him directly.
• Ailin fought Hamusi on even terms and forced him to transform, leaving Hamusi and the spectators impressed by his strength.
• Ennio unleashed the Azure Dragon Clan’s Innate Divine Ability while Shira used Sovereign’s Might to support Hamusi.
• Hamusi accepted Ennio and Shira’s intervention as they shifted their goal toward stopping Ailin from remaining Lord of Blood Nether City.
• Kengo ordered the city guards to form a battle formation and kill those who violated the challenge’s rules.

Ailin used perfectly controlled Sovereign's Might and overwhelming speed to kill Hamusi, Shira, and Ennio after they attacked him during the City Lord challenge. His display of power left the spectators stunned and helped establish him as a Paragon, concealing his identity as an Overgod.

• Ailin noticed the Four Divine Beast Family had intervened and secretly used Linasha's Death Sovereign Power to control Sovereign's Might without any outward sign.
• Shira joined Hamusi, while Ennio used his Innate Divine Ability, Dragon's Roar, against Ailin.
• Ailin accelerated beyond the spectators' understanding, shattered space with his spear, and killed Hamusi and Shira in a single strike.
• Ailin pursued Ennio and pierced his brow with his spear, killing him as well.
• Ailin judged that his excessive display of strength would help convince others he was a Paragon and hide that he was an Overgod.

Ailin killed Hamusi and two members of the Four Divine Beast Family, revealing strength that the spectators believed belonged to a Paragon High-God. He returned to Blood Nether City with Linasha, where he discussed his breakthrough and gave her back the Sovereign Artifact Crimson Fire.

• Ailin crushed the Space Rings of the three men he had killed, kept Hamusi's Sovereign Artifact, and flew back with Linasha.
• God-level spectators praised Ailin's strength, while Kengo and the Petrov Family celebrated and Waldo urged Andre to follow Ailin's orders.
• Ailin told Linasha his breakthrough followed his enlightenment and later opportunities, and Linasha said the Four Divine Beast Family would think twice before coming to Blood Nether City.
• Ailin returned Crimson Fire to Linasha, explaining that he no longer needed it and might eventually nurture a saber or whip of his own.

Ailin declined Linasha’s offer to meet the Soul Lord Sovereign, then learned that the Sovereign tacitly approved her opposition to the Four Divine Beast Family. As Ennio and Shira reported Ailin’s overwhelming strength to the family leaders, they feared he was a Paragon High-God and that Ennio might have fallen.

• Linasha returned Crimson Fire to Ailin and offered to arrange an audience with the Soul Lord Sovereign, but Ailin declined becoming an Emissary.
• Linasha warned Ailin that Ennio was the Azure Dragon Sovereign’s grandson and revealed that the Sovereign tacitly approved her efforts to restrain the Four Divine Beast Family.
• Ennio concluded that Ailin was likely a newly advanced Paragon High-God and ordered the family’s clansmen recalled from Blood Nether City.
• Shira told Gaisreisen and the other clan leaders that Ailin had killed her Fire God Avatar and Hamusi despite their use of Sovereign’s Might.
• Gaisreisen feared Ennio had also been killed, while the Vermillion Bird Clan Leader suggested Ailin might have spared him because he was the eldest uncle’s grandson.

After learning that Ennio and his Wind God Avatar had fallen, Gaisreisen planned how the Four Divine Beast Family would respond to Ailin. He ordered the family to pursue Ailin’s connections, target allies of the Augusta Family, and recruit Paragons, leaving the family preparing to restore its honor.

• Gaisreisen learned from a White Tiger clansman that Ennio’s main body and Wind God Avatar had fallen, and that Ennio suspected Ailin had recently become a High-God.
• Gaisreisen told Ennio to return to Hell and decided the family’s elders should be informed but not asked to intervene.
• Gaisreisen ordered the family to continue searching the Material Plane for Ailin’s relatives and destroy any families connected to him, despite the risk of a trap.
• Gaisreisen identified the Augusta Family as a likely suspect and ordered the family to target its followers in Hell rather than declare open war.
• Gaisreisen instructed the family to contact Paragons including Aiken and Dannington, offering any terms necessary to persuade them to act against Ailin.

The Four Divine Beast Family attacked and annihilated the Tuk Family in the Soul Crystal Mountain Range, claiming they wanted the territory. After destroying the mines, they departed, leaving the region in ruins and nearby onlookers terrified.

• The Tuk Family patriarch prepared to send talented clansmen to serve the Augusta Family after their latest soul crystal mining was complete.
• A clansman warned the patriarch that experts from the Four Divine Beast Family had entered the Soul Crystal Mountain Range, and the attackers soon began destroying a mine.
• The Four Divine Beast Family surrounded the range and slaughtered the Tuk Family, while their elder said they had taken a liking to the territory.
• The Four Divine Beast Family Elder learned that seventeen of his clansmen had lost their Divine Clones, then destroyed the remaining mines and led his forces away.
• Bandits and nearby tribes cautiously approached the ruins and saw the Tuk Family’s scattered bodies.

In Cloud Blood Prefecture, Bro told Ashcroft that a Paragon High-God named Ailin had appeared in neighboring Blood Phantom Prefecture and was fighting the Four Divine Beast Family. Ashcroft decided to visit Ailin in Blood Nether City with Bro.

• Bro brought Ashcroft a Floating Shadow showing a powerful expert fighting in Blood Phantom Prefecture.
• Bro identified the expert as Ailin, a likely Paragon High-God who had killed three elders of the Four Divine Beast Family, including Ennio, and their ally Hamusi.
• Ashcroft watched the Floating Shadow and rejoiced that the Four Divine Beast Family had provoked such a formidable enemy, given his family’s long feud with them.
• Bro told Ashcroft that Ailin was Lord of Blood Nether City and that little else was known about his origins.
• Ashcroft left Lormo in charge of family matters and set out with Bro to visit Ailin in Blood Nether City.

Hanjin Augusta learned that the Four Divine Beast Family had provoked a Paragon High-God and begun destroying the Augusta Family’s affiliated forces across other planes. He suspected they were targeting the Augusta Family to recover their lost face and prepared to respond.

• Hanjin watched a Floating Shadow of Ailin killing Hamusi and concluded that Ailin was a Paragon High-God.
• Hanjin dismissed the Four Divine Beast Family’s arrogance and reflected that Hamusi had likely died for nothing.
• An Augusta Family member brought Hanjin records showing that affiliated forces across other planes had been wiped out.
• Hanjin learned that more than eighty percent of the forces destroyed by the Four Divine Beast Family were connected to the Augusta Family.
• Hanjin suspected the Four Divine Beast Family was targeting his family to regain face after provoking Ailin and resolved that they would pay.

Han Jin sent Montro to the Netherworld to deal with the Four Divine Beast Family’s attacks on Augusta-affiliated forces and to visit Ailin, whom Han Jin identified as a newly emerged Paragon High-God. Montro agreed to go with Uman, hoping the mission would give the Augusta Family a chance to befriend Ailin.

• Han Jin summoned Montro and asked what he knew about the Four Divine Beast Family’s recent actions against Augusta-affiliated forces.
• Montro volunteered to retaliate against the Four Divine Beast Family, but Han Jin told him to bring Uman and revealed they had another task.
• Han Jin showed Montro a Floating Shadow of Ailin’s battle, and Montro was shocked when Han Jin identified Ailin as a Paragon High-God.
• Han Jin explained that Ailin had killed Hamusi and members of the Four Divine Beast Family, creating an opportunity for the Augusta Family to approach him.
• Montro agreed to depart for the Netherworld with Uman once Uman arrived, while Han Jin considered whether his father, the Light Sovereign, could ask Ailin to become an Envoy.