Chapter Summaries

Wharton revealed that his Soul Mutation and fused golden blood had strengthened his Innate Divine Ability, prompting Gaisreisen to take him to the Four Divine Beasts Family’s forbidden inner halls. There, Gaisreisen explained the family’s vast reserves of High God Power and why ancient High God Families were difficult to destroy.

• Wharton told Gaisreisen and the others that his soul had mutated, letting him fuse Profound Mysteries, and that golden blood had made his body extremely powerful.
• Gaisreisen ordered everyone to keep the discussion secret and dismissed the guards, then asked Wharton to stay behind.
• Gaisreisen led Wharton into the forbidden area deep in the Tianji Mountains, where four ancient halls surrounded a central chamber.
• Wharton saw four pools filled with High God Power, which Gaisreisen identified as reserves left by the four ancestors to protect the family.
• Gaisreisen explained that High God Families were rarely destroyed because their immense High God Power could outlast the forces attacking them.

Gaisreisen explained why the Four Divine Beasts Family had conserved High God Power and learned that Wharton had nearly fused six Profound Mysteries in each of three laws. He introduced his eldest son William Redding, a hidden Paragon whose long cultivation in the Azure Dragon Ancestral Hall had made him the family’s strongest member.

• Gaisreisen explained that the family conserved High God Power to encourage cultivation and preserve its dwindling supply after the ancestor’s death.
• Gaisreisen asked Wharton how many Profound Mysteries he had fused, and Wharton said he had fused five in each of three laws, with the sixth nearly complete.
• William Redding appeared, and Wharton sensed that the seemingly ordinary man possessed power beyond that of a High God.
• Gaisreisen revealed that William Redding was his eldest son and had secretly reached the Paragon level.
• Gaisreisen recounted how Bolin’s soul attack left William Redding gravely injured, but companion spirit jade helped him survive and undergo a Soul Mutation.
• The clan leaders had publicly declared William Redding dead and kept him cultivating in the Azure Dragon Ancestral Hall for more than ten thousand years.

William and Gaisreisen explained to Wharton how cross-law fusion could grant Willpower Might and why Paragons wield immense power. Wharton learned that the ancestral hall was a secluded sanctuary where time flowed eight times faster, and he was invited to cultivate there with William and Redding.

• William had reached the bottleneck of his final Water Law Profound Mystery, while Gaisreisen still forbade him from joining the family's battles until he gained a second Willpower Might.
• Wharton shared the manuals and pills he received with William and Redding, hoping William would break through to Paragon level.
• Gaisreisen and William explained that fusing six Profound Mysteries across different laws could summon Willpower Might, and William described Paragons' Primordial Spirits and power over the world.
• Gaisreisen invited Wharton to cultivate with William and Redding in the protected Azure Dragon Ancestral Hall because of Wharton's Soul Mutation and potential.
• Wharton sensed that time flowed differently in the hall, and William confirmed that it passed roughly eight times faster than outside.

Wharton and Blue sparred in Death Valley, where Wharton’s superior strength and Law fusion gave him the victory. Wharton reassured Blue that the loss did not define him and urged him to cultivate the manual Wharton had given him.

• Gaisreisen spoke privately with Wharton and let him take a bottle of High God Power before they returned to the castle.
• Wharton kept his discussion with Gaisreisen from Linley, while Blue appeared to suspect there was more to it.
• Wharton and Blue met in Death Valley and fought using only their physical strength, damaging the surrounding space with their blows.
• Blue used Profound Ice, but Wharton shattered its armor with the force of the Lightning Law and gradually gained the upper hand.
• Blue admitted defeat and grew dejected, so Wharton encouraged him by praising his strength and pointing to the manual and Wharton’s Soul Mutation.
• Blue’s dim expression vanished as Wharton’s reassurance restored his confidence.

Linley and Blue sparred with Wharton, then the Four Divine Beasts Family entered a long period of cultivation while the Eight Clans also prepared for renewed conflict. Wharton trained in the Ancestral Dragon Hall and became a Paragon after fusing the sixth Profound Mystery of the Lightning Law.

• Linley joined Blue in a spar against Wharton, whose transformation and Lightning Law let him withstand their combined attacks.
• Linley and Wharton praised Blue’s progress and returned to the Yulan Mainland Branch residence.
• Gaisreisen distributed cultivation manuals by rank, and the Four Divine Beasts Family suspended missions so its members could train.
• Wharton entered the Ancestral Dragon Hall at Nia’s request while the Tianji Mountains enjoyed a thousand years of peace and both sides prepared for future battles.
• In his fiftieth year of training in the Ancestral Dragon Hall, Wharton fused the sixth Profound Mystery of the Lightning Law, became a Paragon, and evolved his soul into a Primordial Spirit.

Over eight thousand years, Wharton and William became Paragons in multiple laws, while the Four Divine Beasts Family and their allies grew dramatically stronger. The chapter ended with Linley and the others advancing in their cultivation as Wharton continued forging Divine Artifacts.

• Wharton fused the ninth Profound Mystery between different laws, and William reached the Water Law Paragon level after eight thousand years.
• Gaisreisen and other Four Divine Beasts Family High Gods fused more of the sixth Profound Mystery, while the clans gained new aces and greatly increased their ranks of elders and powerful disciples.
• Linley fused the fifth Earth Law Profound Mystery, became a High God, and created his ultimate move, Void Rift.
• Kane, Kate, Sally, Delia, Nia, Tarossa, Dylan, Olivia, Bebe, and Little Gold all advanced their cultivation and combat strength.
• Wharton forged more than a hundred Divine Artifacts using High God Power and strengthened his soul by refining Amethyst Crystals.

Blue emerged from seclusion having greatly increased his strength, and Wharton gave him a powerful longsword he had forged. A month later, the Four Divine Beasts Family gathered its experts for an assembly, leaving the family poised for what came next.

• After Blue's dragon roar, Wharton and the Four Divine Beasts Family's elders gathered outside his residence to witness his breakthrough.
• Blue thanked Wharton for helping him and revealed that he had fused five Water Law Profound Mysteries and part of the sixth.
• Wharton gave Blue a longsword he had forged and explained privately that it contained High God Power and was only slightly weaker than an Overgod Artifact.
• Gaisreisen praised Blue's cultivation, and the group entered Blue's simple castle together.
• One month later, the Four Divine Beasts Family held an assembly attended by nearly every elder and by Tarossa, Dylan, Dixie, Olivia, and Corison as guest elders.

Gaisreisen established a commander rank for the Four Divine Beasts Family and named thirty-three family Aces to the new positions. Wharton’s forged Divine Artifacts strengthened the commanders and elders as the family prepared to fight the Eight Clans.

• Gaisreisen announced the commander position, and Wierster asked whether anyone objected to the new system.
• Byron read out the list of thirty-three commanders, including Wharton, Kate, and Sally.
• Gaisreisen distributed thirty-three golden commander armor Divine Artifacts, which the commanders claimed and donned.
• Gaisreisen gave Wharton a commander uniform and distributed elder uniforms to the family’s elders.

Wharton and Gaisreisen prepared the Four Divine Beasts Family to resume its war against the Eight Clans, distributing High God Power and assigning commanders and elders to Bloodbattle Valley. The family began mobilizing for a counterattack while Gaisreisen and the other clan leaders entered seclusion.

• Gaisreisen gave High God Power to the commanders and elders, including Tarossa and Olivia, who also received commander-level treatment in exchange for fighting the enemy.
• Wharton reported that the family was ready to act after a thousand years of peace, as the Eight Clans continued hunting its disciples and intelligence agents.
• Gaisreisen declared that the Eight Clans would pay for the blood debt, and the elders cheered and volunteered to fight.
• Gaisreisen ordered Gaia, Stevenson Bowen, Bryant Ersi, Sophia Nemo, and Wharton Baruch to lead ten elders each to Bloodbattle Valley, with Gaia in charge.
• Gaisreisen told Gavi to help Byron manage the family's affairs, then he and the other clan leaders entered seclusion.
• Byron urged volunteers for Bloodbattle Valley to be late-stage or peak-level elders so they could inflict losses on the enemy.

Wharton, Linley, and Kane joined Gaia’s forces heading to Bloodbattle Valley to fight the Eight Clans. After Gaia laid out precautions for future missions, she asked Wharton how to strike the enemy while protecting their own people.

• More than a hundred elders and commanders volunteered for Bloodbattle Valley, and Gaia selected the participants.
• Linley and Kane asked to join the fighting, and Gaia approved their participation alongside Wharton’s group.
• A month later, Gaia led Wharton, Linley, and Kane into Bloodbattle Valley and brought them to the Azure Dragon Hall.
• Gaia warned that the Four Divine Beasts Family was only evenly matched with the Eight Clans and ordered teams to be led by two elders.
• After dismissing the elders, Gaia asked Wharton how to inflict the greatest damage on the Eight Clans while keeping their people safe.

Wharton’s strategy gave the Four Divine Beasts Family a decisive edge in its renewed war with the Eight Clans, but the Eight Clans sent out their powerful aces McGrady and Bro. Wharton led Blue, Linley, Kane, and a force of elders to meet them, leaving the story as Blue looked forward to the mission.

• Wharton proposed sending two Seven-Star Demons on each mission, and the Four Divine Beasts Family used the tactic to kill seventeen Seven-Star Demons while losing only two.
• The Eight Clans debated their losses, then sent McGrady and Bro with teams of elders to counter the family’s ambushes.
• Gaia and Wharton decided to answer by sending commanders, choosing Blue to face Bro of the Ashcroft Family.
• Gaia summoned Blue and ordered him to follow Wharton’s arrangements; Blue readily agreed to join the battle.
• Wharton led Linley, Kane, Blue, three clan elders, and over a hundred Six-Star Demons toward the Eight Clans’ Metal Lifeform, and Blue remarked on the family’s recent victories.

Wharton and his companions discussed the Four Divine Beasts Family’s renewed strength and Wharton’s cultivation before traveling to intercept Bro and the Eight Clans’ team. After learning the enemy would arrive in about a day and a half, they set out to meet them.

• Kane, Linley, and Wharton discussed the Four Divine Beasts Family’s growth over the past thousand years and the clan chiefs’ seclusion.
• Wharton said his Water-Fire Laws were close to a breakthrough and that he could face a Paragon without using his Lightning-Element God Clone.
• Blue and Kane discussed fighting Bro, while Wharton reminded Blue that Bro had killed more than ten clan elders.
• Wharton and the others reached an intelligence outpost, where a White Tiger Clan elder learned the Eight Clans’ team would arrive in about a day and a half.
• Wharton ordered the group to leave and meet the approaching enemy.

Kane challenged McGrady to prove his strength against the Barbari Family’s ace while Blue and Bro faced off nearby. Kane and McGrady fought to a standstill, then both used High God Power as their clash escalated.

• Bro and McGrady ordered the Eight Clans’ Seven-Star Demons to attack the Four Divine Beasts Family’s elders while they confronted Blue and Wharton.
• Kane told Wharton he wanted to fight, then flew out to face McGrady with his heavy sword.
• Kane and McGrady exchanged fierce attacks, each suffering wounds before retreating from a powerful clash.
• Kane declared that McGrady would not return alive and used a drop of Water-Element High God Power.
• McGrady answered with a drop of Death High God Power, blocking Kane’s empowered attack ten meters away.

Linley and the Four Divine Beasts Family defeated most of the Eight Clans’ fighters, and Kane killed McGrady with Linley’s help. Blue pressed his duel with Bro, who tried to escape just as Blue unleashed Dragon’s Roar.

• Linley used Blackstone Prison and High God Power to trap and help slaughter the Eight Clans’ elders and Six-Star Demons.
• At Wharton’s urging, Linley struck McGrady from the side, allowing Kane to kill him and take his Water Law High God Divine Spark.
• Blue told Wharton and the others not to interfere as he fought Bro to avenge the clansmen Bro had killed.
• Bro, badly wounded and outmatched, searched for a chance to flee from Blue.
• Blue unleashed his Innate Divine Ability, Dragon’s Roar, and Bro responded by covering himself in snake scales as a black serpent phantom appeared behind him.

Blue killed Bro, and Wharton and his companions returned to Bloodbattle Valley to a celebration after their victory over the Eight Clans. The Four Divine Beasts Family launched a counteroffensive that inflicted heavy losses, while the Eight Clans grew wary of Wharton’s potential and faced pressure to fight back.

• Blue killed Bro with a strike that froze and shattered his head, then rejoined Wharton and the others.
• The Four Divine Beasts Family welcomed Wharton and his group to Bloodbattle Valley, and Gaisreisen declared a three-day celebration for their victory.
• Bro and McGrady reported their defeat to the Eight Clans’ leaders, who discussed Blue’s increased strength and the danger posed by Wharton.
• The Four Divine Beasts Family began a counteroffensive, and over the next few hundred years the Eight Clans lost more than forty Seven-Star Demons while the Four Divine Beasts Family lost nine.
• Sainar smashed his teapot in anger and asked whether the Four Divine Beasts Family wanted a decisive battle.

The Four Divine Beasts Family and the Eight Clans responded to the rise of new Seven-Star Demons and rumors that the family had a Paragon. A battle outside the Tianji Mountains left three Eight Clans patriarchs severely injured, and the chapter ended with the Eight Clans demanding an explanation from Dern.

• Wenna and Barbari warned the Eight Clans that numerous new Seven-Star Demons had appeared and urged them to seek support and replenish their Sovereign's Might.
• Han Jin took Bolin's report of a suspected Paragon in the Four Divine Beasts Family seriously and sent support, while the High God emissaries supplied the Eight Clans with Sovereign's Might.
• Gaisreisen sent Silvis, Gaia, and Arinas to confront the Eight Clans patriarchs who had been provoking the family near the Tianji Mountains.
• Gaia and the others battled Dern, Ascroft, and Sainar for five days, severely injuring all three while returning with no obvious wounds themselves.
• Recordings of the battle spread across the planes, renewing fear of the Four Divine Beasts Family.
• Bolin asked Dern how Gaia's group had managed to injure the three patriarchs so badly.

The Eight Clans’ leaders realized that Gaia, Silvis, Arinas, and the Four Divine Beasts Family had grown alarmingly stronger, and they suspected the Tianji Mountains might hold a hidden opportunity. Bolin urged an immediate assault and warned Han Jin to stop Beirut from intervening, so Han Jin contacted Augusta, who reacted angrily to the possibility that the Four Divine Beasts Family had produced a Paragon.

• Dern, Ascroft, and Sainar reported that Gaia, Silvis, and Arinas had become much more powerful during their battles.
• Sainar suspected the Four Divine Beasts might have received a trump card from their fallen ancestors, while Bolin questioned the theory and asked Reynolds about the Tianji Mountains.
• Wenna warned that the Eight Clans could not give the Four Divine Beasts Family time to recover, and Bolin ordered battle plans while arranging for Han Jin to warn Beirut.
• Han Jin reviewed the battle recordings, recognized the danger of a possible Paragon, and sent a message to the Light Overlord Augusta.
• Augusta appeared before Han Jin in a vast face of Bright High God Power and angrily acknowledged that the Four Divine Beasts Family might have produced a Paragon.

Augusta sent Christine, Christie, and other experts to help the Eight Clans prepare a decisive attack on the Four Divine Beasts Family, while Wharton rushed to meet Linley after learning Delia was pregnant. The chapter ended with Wharton discovering Linley and his companions surrounded by more than twenty enemies.

• Augusta ordered Han Jin to send Augusta Family experts to support the Eight Clans and traveled to the Celestial Realm to secure an agreement against Beirut’s interference.
• Han Jin dispatched Christine, Christie, two Shuras, and twenty-seven Seven-Star Demon elders to Hell, prompting the Eight Clans to prepare for a decisive battle.
• After learning Delia was pregnant, Wharton hurried from Bloodbattle Valley toward Linley with Little Gold, worried by the Eight Clans’ growing activity.
• Wharton sensed a distant Shura-level battle and discovered Linley’s group of four surrounded by more than twenty enemies.
• The Eight Clans learned that Wharton had left the Tianji Mountains and sent word back to their clans.

The Eight Clans ambushed Linley and his companions with overwhelming numbers, forcing Linley to hold off multiple Shura-level enemies while Wharton rushed to help. The battle left Linley wounded but fighting, and Bebe unleashed his God-Slaying Rat Innate Divine Ability against a mid-stage Shura.

• The Eight Clans' leaders concealed themselves near Linley's location and waited for Wharton to leave the Tianji Mountains before launching their ambush.
• Wharton hurried toward the battlefield as Delia and Tana watched Linley, Bebe, Tarossa, Dylan, and Travis face more than twenty enemies.
• The Eight Clans' fighters used Sovereign's Might and attacked, while Linley held back twelve enemies with his Blackstone Prison and was blasted into the ground.
• Linley escaped the attackers' follow-up strikes, counterattacked, and killed two Eight Clans elders with his greatsword.
• Two Shura-level leaders pressed Linley from opposite sides as Bebe and the others struggled to hold off their opponents.
• Bebe used his God-Slaying Rat Innate Divine Ability against a mid-stage Shura-level leader, who recognized the attack and cried out in alarm.

Bebe killed three attackers with his God-Slaying Rat ability, while Wharton and Little Gold joined the battle against the Eight Clans’ ambush. With reinforcements arriving for the Four Divine Beasts Family, Wharton nearly killed Edric, but Sainar took the blow and was left unable to fight.

• Bebe used his God-Slaying Rat ability to kill a middle-aged Shura and two elders, then Dern intervened to hold him back.
• Wharton and Little Gold arrived, and Wharton fought four clan leaders while Little Gold joined Linley against the Eight Clans’ Seven-Star Demons.
• Pusro arrived under Bluefire’s orders and helped the Four Divine Beasts Family kill the Eight Clans’ elders.
• Dern urged the clan leaders to retreat as their forces fell, but Wharton blasted the four attackers away and shattered two of their defenses.
• Wharton charged at the injured Edric, but Sainar blocked the fatal strike with his Material-Defense Overgod Artifact and was left unable to fight.