Chapter Summaries

Wharton and Linley suspected that Mo Si had controlled Tarossa and Dylan after they refused to leave with the Yulan group. Wharton planned to seek Lei Sijing’s help and then confront Mo Si, while Kane prepared for a possible fight.

• Wharton invited Tarossa and Dylan to join the group heading to Bluefire Prefecture, but both refused and said they considered their current home in Hell.
• Olivia and the others returned, and the Yulan Mainland group reunited and drank together that night.
• Wharton told Linley he believed Tarossa and Dylan had been controlled, and Linley resolved to help rescue them.
• Wharton explained that Mo Si, Miluo Island’s master and a retired Purgatory Commander, was extremely powerful, so they would need Lei Sijing’s help.
• Wharton told Kane his suspicions and asked him to prepare for contingencies, then he and Linley headed to the Bagshaw Clan to meet Mo Si.

Linley and Wharton visited the Bagshaw Clan estate and asked to meet its ancestor, Mo Si. Powell relayed their request, and Mo Si agreed to receive them out of curiosity.

• Linley and Wharton asked the gate guard to announce their visit as elders of the Four Divine Beasts Family.
• Powell met the two with three Bagshaw Clan elders and grew wary when Wharton asked to see Mo Si by name.
• Wharton assured Powell they had not come to make enemies, and the two left while Powell reported their request.
• The Bagshaw elders judged Linley and Wharton to be formidable, with one suspecting Linley was the strongest.
• Powell told Mo Si that two powerful Azure Dragon Clan elders wished to meet him, and Mo Si ordered Powell to bring them to the secret realm.

Linley and Wharton visited Mo Si in the West Island Secret Realm to ask him to free Tarossa and Dylan from soul control. Mo Si agreed to release them if the brothers could withstand a hundred moves from him, then offered to show them his Secret Realm.

• Powell’s guards summoned Linley and Wharton, and Powell led them to Mo Si’s castle in the West Island Secret Realm.
• Linley and Wharton revealed that they were Azure Dragon Clan members who had learned of Mo Si through Lei Sijing.
• Linley asked Mo Si to free Tarossa and Dylan, whom Mo Si had personally soul-controlled.
• Mo Si demanded that Linley and Wharton withstand a hundred moves from him in exchange for their friends’ freedom.
• Wharton accepted the challenge, and Mo Si offered to show them the Secret Realm before the fight.

Mo Si showed Linley and Wharton recordings of powerful experts fighting, including High Gods, then battled Wharton to test his strength. Wharton held his own but was injured by Mo Si’s Destruction Rule attack, and Mo Si advised him to gain more combat experience and beware of top Shuras and Commanders.

• Mo Si showed Linley and Wharton recordings of experts battling, including High Gods, in his secret chamber.
• Wharton asked Mo Si to spar with him, and they fought in the Battle Arena at Mo Si Castle.
• Mo Si and Wharton exchanged hundreds of blows, astonishing Linley and Mo Si’s disciples with Wharton’s strength.
• Mo Si’s hammer strike destroyed the arena’s protective formation and caused enormous waves that swallowed nearby islands.
• Wharton thanked Mo Si for the guidance, and Mo Si praised his cultivation while warning that his combat techniques needed refinement.

Linley and Wharton left Miluo Island with their companions and headed for Bloodridge Continent, bound for the struggling Four Divine Beasts Family. Meanwhile, the family’s elders learned of their exceptional strength and decided they should be escorted back safely.

• Linley and Wharton bid farewell to Mo Si and returned to Tarossa’s residence, where the group prepared to leave after learning the truth about Hundred-Battle Victor.
• The next morning, Powell saw Linley and Wharton off as their group boarded a Metal Lifeform for Bloodridge Continent.
• Tarossa thanked Linley and Wharton for freeing him and Dylan from soul control, and Wharton said they were heading to Bluefire Prefecture to aid the Four Divine Beasts Family.
• At the Four Divine Beasts Family’s main hall, Gaisreisen questioned the elders about a scryer recording showing powerful family members on Bauhinia Continent.
• Byron reported that Linley, Wharton, and their companions came from the Yulan Mainland branch and had reached remarkable strength in only a few thousand years.
• Sophia and Elder Bro urged the family to escort the group safely back, and the elders considered their exceptional abilities and the danger posed by the Eight Clans.

Gaisreisen sent powerful elders from the Four Divine Beasts Family to escort Wharton's group home, while Wharton and Nia discussed the threat from the Eight Clans during the voyage. After years of travel and training, Cesar and Lolisa had a son in the Starry Mist Sea.

• Gaisreisen assigned Byron and elders from all four clans to receive Wharton's group, giving them Sovereign's Might and ordering them to bring everyone back safely.
• Nia worried that the Eight Clans would retaliate, and Wharton promised to defeat any pursuers who came after them.
• The group spent years aboard the Metal Lifeform, where Cesar trained hard and began fusing his third Profound Mystery in the Darkness Law.
• Four years after leaving Miluo Island, Cesar and Lolisa became pregnant, and the group celebrated the coming child.
• A year and a half later, Lolisa gave birth to a son, and Wharton gifted him Top-Grade Immortal Artifact-level weapons.

After nearly forty years at sea, Wharton and his companions reached Bloodridge Continent, where Byron Redding and four other elders welcomed the Yulan Mainland branch back to the Four Divine Beasts Family. When the Eight Clans approached, Wharton and Linley chose to fight rather than flee, leaving the group ready for battle.

• Hisse and Lolisa named their son Rossi, who reached the Saint Domain by age ten with talents in Darkness and Water Law.
• Wharton and his companions arrived at Bloodridge Continent after nearly forty years of travel and landed to rest.
• Byron Redding and four other elders arrived to receive Linley, Wharton, and their companions on the Patriarch's orders.
• Byron urged the group to leave before the Eight Clans arrived, but Wharton and Linley insisted they could defeat them.
• The elders agreed to fight, and Wharton asked Linley to use his Blackstone Prison to protect the clan's disciples.

Wharton armed the Four Divine Beasts Family with High God Power and led them into battle against the Eight Clans. The family’s surprise attack inflicted heavy losses, but the fighting continued with powerful elders locked in combat.

• Wharton told Tarossa and Corison to use their High God Power to kill enemy elders, then gave Byron drops to distribute among the family’s elders and Six-Star Demons.
• Wharton urged the assembled family members to fight without conserving their power and led them in a charge against the Eight Clans.
• Linley trapped enemy High Gods in his Blackstone Prison, allowing the family to kill dozens of Six-Star Demons as both sides clashed.
• Kate and the other Seven-Star Demons helped drive the Eight Clans’ forces into retreat, while the enemy’s elders struggled to escape the fighting.
• An Eight Clans elder used High God Power to attack Elder Eric, who answered in kind, while Byron used High God Power to keep his Bolin Family rival from aiding the enemy.

Wharton and the Four Divine Beasts Family overwhelmed the Eight Clans, killing the Sennar Family Shura and several other elders. Linley, Wharton, and their allies continued helping one another eliminate the remaining opponents.

• Wharton battered the Sennar Family Shura until his Sovereign's Might was nearly exhausted, then shattered his spear and killed both of his High God clones.
• As the Eight Clans tried to flee, Linley used Blackstone Prison to slow the Reynolds Family elder, allowing Kane to kill him.
• Kane, Kate, and Dalasser joined forces to kill another elder while the Four Divine Beasts Family's disciples finished off the Eight Clans' disciples.
• Wharton and Linley returned to the battle and helped their allies kill several elders from the Edric, Wenner, and Bolin Families.
• Wharton directed Corison and Laffrenz to help Tarossa, then flew to assist Jumein as the fighting continued.

Linley, Wharton, and their allies defeated the Eight Clans’ forces, with Tarossa killing the last Barbari Family elder. The group escaped aboard a Metal Lifeform, while Cedric’s death left Bolin’s family seeking vengeance.

• Elder Byron thanked Linley after Linley helped kill Cedric, and the remaining Eight Clans elders were trapped and killed.
• Tarossa transformed into his Ba Serpent true form, swallowed the Barbari Family elder’s Innate Divine Ability, and killed him.
• Elder Byron led the group aboard a Metal Lifeform and told Wharton that the family had been informed of their victory.
• Byron reported that the group had killed ten Eight Clans elders, a hundred Six-Star Demon elites, and over a thousand High Gods without losing an elder.
• Cedric knelt before Bolin and asked his father to avenge him, explaining that he had lost his strongest Divine Clone and could no longer reach Asura strength.

After Cedric lost his strongest Divine Clone, Bolin worried about the Eight Clans’ costly war with the Four Divine Beasts Family and joined the other clan leaders in planning their next move. The leaders agreed to prepare for another attack, while the chapter described Wierster Ersi’s deadly Tiger’s Roar and his standing as the family’s strongest attacker.

• Bolin comforted Cedric after his defeat and told him to return to cultivation while the family sought revenge.
• Bolin reflected on the Eight Clans’ heavy losses and questioned whether accepting Han Jin’s help had been wise.
• The Eight Clans’ leaders met through Grim Reaper Puppets and discussed the threat posed by Wharton, Linley, and the others’ rapid growth.
• The leaders agreed to prepare for another attack and consider asking Han Jin to send Seven-Star Demon elders and pressure Beirut.
• The chapter described Wierster Ersi as the Four Divine Beasts Family’s strongest attacker, whose Tiger’s Roar was especially dangerous to those without a Soul-Defense Overgod Artifact.

Wharton, Linley, Kane, and their companions arrived at the Four Divine Beasts Family’s headquarters in the Tianji Mountains and proved their identities to the clan chiefs. Gaisreisen welcomed the new elders and geniuses, then told Wharton and Linley about the family’s crisis.

• Byron brought Wharton and the others to the Four Divine Beasts Family’s plaza, where Gaisreisen and the clan leaders awaited them.
• Baruch asked Linley to recite the Baruch clan’s ancestral records, and Bolei asked Kane to recount the Tiger-Striped Clan’s history, confirming their Yulan Mainland lineage.
• Gaisreisen welcomed Wharton, Linley, Kane, Kate, Sally, and Barker, recognizing their strength and talent as a source of hope for the family.
• Gaisreisen directed Wierster to look after Kane and the others, while Tarossa and the remaining companions went with Baruch to the Yulan Mainland lineage’s residence.
• Gaisreisen spoke with Wharton and Linley in the main hall, learned about their journey, and explained the crisis confronting the family.

Wharton learned that the Four Divine Beasts Family faced a worsening war and warned Gaisreisen that the Augusta Family might be backing the Eight Clans. He revealed the Amethyst High God’s information and delivered Destruction High God Power, but the Amethyst High God could not intervene, leaving the family to face the crisis alone.

• Gaisreisen named Wharton and Linley elders of the Azure Dragon Clan, Kane, Kate, and Sally elders of the White Tiger Clan, and Barker an elder of the Black Tortoise Clan.
• Gaisreisen and Gaia kept Linley in the hall after the others left, and Linley emerged nearly an hour later with a grave expression.
• Wharton asked Gaisreisen about the war with the Eight Clans and raised the possibility that the Augusta Family was involved.
• Wharton gave Gaisreisen more than a dozen flasks of Destruction High God Power and explained what the Amethyst High God had told him about the conflict and the Four Divine Beasts’ deaths.
• Wharton told Gaisreisen that the Amethyst High God could not act, leaving the Four Divine Beasts Family to handle the crisis themselves.

Wharton revealed to Gaisreisen that he could help the Four Divine Beasts Family grow stronger, then showed his strength and presented a plan involving pills and cultivation manuals. Gaisreisen agreed to gather the materials and keep Wharton’s methods secret.

• Wharton told Gaisreisen he could help produce more Elders and give the family a chance to create Paragon High Gods, provided the family cooperated.
• Wharton released an aura that convinced Gaisreisen of his strength, and Gaisreisen promised to support him and offered him high status in the family.
• Wharton gave Gaisreisen a list of more than a thousand ingredients for pills that could improve talent and aid enlightenment, and Gaisreisen agreed to gather them despite the rarity of the Enlightenment Purple Lotus.
• Wharton presented manuals explaining how to comprehend and fuse Profound Mysteries, and Gaisreisen recognized their value after reading a Water Law manual.
• Wharton urged Gaisreisen to keep the manuals secret and first identify family members cultivating fused Profound Mysteries before distributing them.

Wharton’s cultivation advice helped Blue break through a long-standing misunderstanding, while Gaisreisen and the Four Divine Beasts Family secretly gathered materials for Wharton. The family delivered a vast store of ingredients, and Wharton revealed that he had developed two pills suitable for High Gods.

• Gaisreisen suspended the battles with the Eight Clans’ elders and secretly organized the family to identify talented clansmen and gather materials for Wharton.
• Wharton returned to his castle, where he met Blue and offered insights into the cultivation bottleneck blocking Blue’s fifth Profound Mystery.
• Blue found the source of his misunderstanding and began improving, visiting Wharton’s castle frequently over the next year.
• Gaisreisen and several clan leaders delivered Space Rings filled with materials they had gathered for Wharton.
• Wharton said the family had gathered more materials than he could use for tens of thousands of years and revealed that he had created the Life-Nurturing Creation Pill and the Enlightenment Pill.

Wharton refined Creation Pills, Life-Nurturing Creation Pills, and rare Enlightenment Pills, then gave most of them to Gaisreisen for the Four Divine Beasts Family to distribute. After Wharton reached the Shura level, Gaisreisen gathered the family’s thirteen Peak Shura Aces to discuss what to do next.

• Wharton spent half a year refining over a hundred thousand Creation Pills before beginning work on the Life-Nurturing Creation Pill.
• After more than a dozen failures, Wharton refined his first batch of Life-Nurturing Creation Pills and confirmed that one improved even his own condition.
• Over the following year, Wharton refined nearly ten thousand Life-Nurturing Creation Pills and, after wasting five Enlightenment Purple Lotuses, produced 134 Enlightenment Pills.
• Wharton fused five Fire Law Profound Mysteries and reached the Shura level while Linley waited and Kane and the others completed their Clan Baptism.
• Wharton kept some pills for himself and handed the rest to Gaisreisen, explaining their effects and limits and advising him on how to distribute them.
• Three days later, Gaisreisen summoned Wharton and the Four Divine Beasts Family’s thirteen Peak Shura Aces to discuss their next course of action.

The Four Divine Beasts Family gathered to hear the extent of its losses and learn that Wharton had returned as an ace and a skilled alchemist. The chapter ended with Blue taking Wharton's pill and feeling its benefits after expelling impurities.

• Gaia reported the clans' remaining Six-Star and Five-Star Demons, leaving the gathered family solemn over their losses.
• Gaisreisen announced that Wharton had reached ace strength and could help restore the family with pills that improved aptitude and eased breakthroughs.
• Voskull worried that the pills would sacrifice their users' potential, but Gaisreisen and Gaia assured him they would not.
• Gaisreisen gave Blue a Life-Nurturing Creation Pill, and Blue swallowed it.
• Blue felt lighter and found it easier to comprehend the Profound Mysteries, then cleansed the foul impurities from his body.

The Four Divine Beasts Family began cultivating with Wharton's pills and manuals while Wharton and Linley underwent the Clan Baptism. Wharton continued absorbing the Dragon-Transformation Pool's energy far longer than Linley, aided by his powerful bloodline and the Purple Mark.

• Gaisreisen distributed Wharton's pills and manuals to the family and suspended external warfare so the clansmen could cultivate.
• Blue agreed to preside over Wharton and Linley's Clan Baptism while Gaisreisen remained in seclusion.
• Blue led Wharton and Linley to the Dragon-Transformation Pool and added a Dragon-Transformation Crystal to it.
• Wharton and Linley entered the pool and began absorbing its energy as Blue added more crystals.
• Linley's absorption slowed on the second day, but Wharton continued absorbing until five Dragon-Transformation Crystals had been used.

Wharton remained in the Dragon-Transformation Pool for nearly four months, using the baptism to rapidly comprehend and fuse the Water Law’s Profound Mysteries. When he finally emerged, his bloodline and Innate Divine Ability exerted such overwhelming pressure that Linley and Blue involuntarily underwent Azure Dragon Transformation, though both resisted submitting to him.

• Linley completed his fifteen-day baptism, chose External Deification, and began advancing his Water Law while Blue marveled at the strength of his Innate Divine Ability.
• Wharton continued transforming in the pool and began comprehending the Water Law’s final Profound Mystery, Circular Gentleness.
• Linley and Blue guarded Wharton for nearly four months, and Gaisreisen ordered them to remain with him after confirming he was safe.
• Wharton burst free with multicolored Dragonblood Warrior scales, a purple-lit lightning symbol, and an Azure Dragon reverse scale.
• Wharton’s Azure Dragon phantom overwhelmed Linley and Blue with bloodline pressure, forcing both to undergo Azure Dragon Transformation as they struggled against the urge to submit.

Wharton’s Clan Baptism awakened a remarkably powerful Innate Divine Ability and revealed a mutated Azure Dragon Bloodline that surpassed Gaisreisen’s. The baptism also advanced Wharton’s Water Divine Clone to High God and greatly strengthened his cultivation, while the clan learned his talent rivaled the Azure Dragon ancestor’s.

• Wharton’s Innate Divine Ability caused Azure Dragon phantoms to appear across the Tianji Mountains, startling Gaisreisen and the Grand Elder and forcing many clansmen to unleash their own abilities.
• Gaisreisen’s and Wharton’s Azure Dragon phantoms competed, but Wharton’s bloodline proved stronger and showed faint purple radiance.
• Gaisreisen told Wharton to suppress his bloodline pressure, and the others withdrew their abilities after the Clan Baptism Hall was destroyed.
• Wharton’s Water Middle Divine Spark advanced to a High Divine Spark, and he gained five fused Water Law Profound Mysteries, further progress in Lightning Law, and greatly increased physical strength.
• Blue explained that Wharton’s Innate Divine Ability rivaled the ancestor’s talent, while Gaisreisen recognized that Wharton’s dragonblood potency exceeded his own.