Chapter Summaries

Wharton learned from an ancient Paragon that cultivation continued beyond Paragon through the path of laws and rules, and that his Three-Element Soul Mutation could have extraordinary potential. The old man began explaining the Controller Realm and revealed that many ancient Paragons had either died in great wars or hidden away in small worlds.

• The old man told Wharton that the Four Divine Beasts ancestors had once known the path beyond Paragon, then learned from Wharton that Redding and the other three had fallen ten thousand years earlier.
• The old man explained that Paragons who cultivated laws and rules could rival Sovereigns, and that some could match mid-level Sovereigns.
• The old man identified Wharton as a Three-Element Soul Mutation, pointed out his limited mastery of individual laws, and warned that Old Second might have killed him before he could use Fused Divine Power.
• Wharton asked to learn the path beyond Paragon, and the old man agreed to teach him in honor of Redding and the other ancestors.
• The old man explained how High Gods became Paragons by fully fusing their Profound Mysteries, then said many ancient Paragons had died in wars or retreated into small worlds to await the next war.

Gelt explained the four stages of cultivation beyond Paragon to Wharton, who learned how rare the higher realms were and how far experts could progress. Baifu invited Wharton to seek him out in the Four Saints Realm, and Wharton asked why the third stage had no records in the Supreme Planes.

• Gelt explained the Mastery, Control, Law Domain, and World stages of Paragon cultivation to Wharton.
• Wharton reflected on the gap between his own strength and the ancient experts, then reminded himself how quickly he had advanced.
• Gelt said he was at Peak Control Stage and had comprehended the Sword Dao Domain earlier than usual.
• Baifu revealed that only the clan leader and Grand Elder of the Morgan Family had reached the third stage, and warned Wharton not to provoke such experts.
• Baifu encouraged Wharton and offered to answer his questions in the Four Saints Realm.
• Wharton asked how many experts had reached the third stage and why the Supreme Planes had no records about them.

Baifu explained the ranks of powerful experts to Wharton and told him why the Morgan Family had once been close to the Four Divine Beasts. He traced their falling-out to a dispute over Sovereign Sparks and revealed that the search for a way beyond Paragon had led to the discovery of Faith Power and another wave of wars.

• Baifu warned Wharton about Third Order experts, including the demon who founded Demon Castle, and described the many second-level experts in Hell.
• Wharton asked why Baifu had been so friendly toward the Four Divine Beasts Family, and Baifu explained that the Morgan Family and the Four Divine Beasts had once been close allies.
• Baifu recounted how Morgan became a Paragon before Sovereign Sparks appeared and ignited wars across the Four Supreme Planes.
• The six allies obtained four Sovereign Sparks, but Morgan opposed the Four Divine Beasts refining them before they reached Paragon, causing the brothers to split.
• Baifu said High Gods eventually discovered Faith Power could increase their strength and began gathering it, reigniting wars that spread to Material Planes.

The old man told Wharton how the Four Divine Beasts saved the Morgan Family during the war between Paragons and High Gods, and how the Four Saints Realm was created afterward. Wharton wondered whether the Four Divine Beasts Family had inherited a Small World and asked if the ancestors had opened any other Divine Planes.

• The old man recounted how the Light Sovereign and four High Gods attacked the Morgan Family, killing many of its members.
• The Four Divine Beasts arrived, refined their Sovereign Sparks, and killed the Light Sovereign and the other attackers except for one Middle Sovereign who escaped.
• The Paragons and High Gods ended their war with an agreement that restricted both sides, ushering in the era of High God rule.
• The Four Divine Beasts helped the Morgan Family open the Four Saints Realm, a remarkably stable Divine Plane that drew attention from powerful Third Order experts.
• Wharton speculated that the Four Divine Beasts Family might possess a Small World and asked the old man whether the ancestors had opened any other Divine Planes.

Wharton learned more about the Four Divine Beasts and traveled with Aaron to visit Cini and the others. Along the way, Aaron revealed the danger posed by the Hell Demon Race in the Four Saints Realm.

• Baifu explained that the Four Divine Beasts strengthened their bodies to rival Sovereign Artifacts after their path of realm advancement was blocked.
• Aaron escorted Wharton from the hall, while Morgan revealed that Light Sovereign Augusta had killed Redding and the others and warned Baifu against seeking revenge.
• Wharton invited Aaron to visit the Planar Battlefield, and Aaron agreed to go with him.
• Aaron led Wharton toward Cini and the others’ home near the Dark Forest and described the Hell Demon Race living there, including two powerful imperial demon beasts in its depths.

Wan Lin reluctantly joined the Third Elder’s preparations for the External Competition and learned that the training would include individual sparring and three-person team battles. He negotiated compensation for his summoned beasts, then revealed that he had over a thousand of them and asked how stronger beasts would be counted.

• A-Feng told Wan Lin that the Third Elder had summoned the top three disciples for internal training, and Wan Lin agreed to attend after A-Feng explained the benefits.
• Wan Lin arrived and met Yi Chou, Dongfang Da, the Third Elder, and the other disciples who would train with the External Competition group.
• The Third Elder explained that the training would include individual matches and three-person team battles, and that invited sparring partners would receive one Low-Grade Spirit Stone every three days.
• Wan Lin asked whether his summoned beasts could receive compensation, and the Third Elder offered to count ten beasts as one sparring partner.
• Wan Lin said he had over a thousand summoned beasts and asked how stronger ones would be counted, prompting the Third Elder to question whether Wan Lin had hidden his full strength during the competition.

Wharton returned with Cini and the others to the Tianji Mountains, then discussed the family’s search and the clan leaders’ seclusion with Byron. He and William planned to enter the Planar Battlefield by arranging for a family member to challenge a Prefect, and Wharton shared secret knowledge about Paragons with William.

• Aaron left with Wharton’s group, and they reunited Cini and the others with Nia at the camp.
• Wharton told Sasha that her father and Bebe had gone to the Underworld, then introduced Aaron to the family.
• After a hundred years of travel, Wharton’s group returned to the Tianji Mountains, where the Jade Jiao Demons had reached Asura Level using Enlightenment Pills.
• Wharton learned from Byron that the family had found no trace of the items it was seeking and that the clan leaders remained in prolonged seclusion.
• Wharton proposed that he and William go to the Planar Battlefield, planning to have a promising family member challenge a Prefect for entry.
• Wharton transmitted secret information about Paragons to William, who was astonished by what he learned.

Wharton told William about a realm beyond Paragon and then traveled to Sky Mountain Prefecture to lure Molde out and seize the Nine Soul Pearls and Supreme God Mirror. Molde investigated reports of a valley filled with valuable artifacts and pills, while Wharton’s trap began drawing attention.

• Wharton told William about ancient records of a realm beyond Paragon and warned him to keep the information secret.
• Wharton left the Tianji Mountains and headed to Sky Mountain Prefecture to take the Nine Soul Pearls and Supreme God Mirror from Molde without attracting the Bloodridge Sovereign’s attention.
• After watching Molde remain in Tianshan City, Wharton set up a trapped valley outside the city and spread rumors about its weapons and breakthrough pills.
• A young man told Molde that a pill from the valley had helped him become a Seven-Star Demon, and Molde asked him to remain in Sky Mountain Prefecture.
• An old man reported that others had found High God Divine Artifacts and pills in the valley, and Molde asked what Bonin had been doing.

Molde and his attendant entered a hidden cave estate after Molde broke its formation, where Wharton revealed himself and confronted them over Molde’s deception concerning the Supreme God mission. Molde fled while his attendant charged Wharton, who killed the attendant with a lightning-fast strike.

• Molde left a Divine Clone at his estate and traveled with his attendant to attack the formation around the valley.
• Molde shattered the formation, and he and his attendant entered the cave estate and found a white jade bottle in an otherwise empty chamber.
• Wharton appeared before the two men, and Molde invoked his status as the Bloodridge Sovereign’s envoy while trying to contact the Sovereign.
• Molde realized Wharton knew about the item he had concealed and asked what Wharton wanted.
• Wharton attacked, and Molde fled as his attendant charged Wharton with his staff.
• Wharton transformed into a streak of lightning and killed the attendant.

Wharton killed Molde and his associates, obtained the Nine Soul Pearls, and returned to the Tianji Mountains. He and William proposed that the Four Divine Beasts Family enter the Planar Battlefield to strengthen its members, and the commanders considered the decision.

• Wharton killed Molde and his son, collected their possessions, and recovered the Supreme God Mirror and nine Nine Soul Pearls.
• Wharton forged the Nine Soul Pearls into a concealed bracelet and spent several years away before returning to the Tianji Mountains.
• Wharton and William convened the family commanders and asked them to consider entering the Planar Battlefield.
• Voskull questioned why the family should enter the brutal battlefield, and Wharton challenged the commanders to say whether they were afraid.
• William supported Wharton's proposal, explaining that the battlefield offered valuable rewards and the combat experience the family needed.

The Four Divine Beasts Family chose its strongest volunteers to enter the Planar Battlefield, while Wharton urged the family to prepare for looming conflicts and taught them formations. William returned to the Tianji Mountains and planned to spend time with his family.

• Wharton persuaded the family that the Planar Battlefield would help its members grow stronger and acquire Sovereign's Might, and many volunteered to enter.
• William explained that the battlefield was deadly and announced that only selected Commanders would go, with four-person formations able to greatly increase their strength.
• Wharton named the candidates from the four clans, while Bryant protested being left behind and William assigned him to guard the Tianji Mountains.
• Wharton transmitted his Four Symbols and Two Symbols formations to ten family members and ordered them to prepare to challenge a Prefecture Lord.
• William returned to the Tianji Mountains, where Cini and the others had emerged from seclusion, and decided to spend time with them.

Wharton explained Sovereign's Might to Cini, Taylor, and the others, then heard Blue's group choose the Tianshan Prefecture Lord Molde as a challenge. Wharton agreed while hiding that he had already killed Molde, and reassured William about Linley and the others entering the Planar Battlefield.

• Wharton told Cini, Taylor, and the others about Sovereign's Might, gave them Water-Element High God Power, and supplied them with Sovereign's Might for protection.
• A month later, Blue and his companions decided he would challenge Molde, the Tianshan Prefecture Lord, because Molde lacked an Offensive Sovereign Artifact.
• Wharton reacted with surprise to their choice but concealed that he had killed Molde, then approved their plan to set out soon.
• Wharton told Blue that Linley and the others would enter the Planar Battlefield from the Underworld to pursue military merit and Sovereign Artifacts.
• William questioned the danger to Linley, and Wharton reassured him that Bebe and Lei Sijing would help protect Linley and the others.

Blue became Tianshan Prefecture Lord after Molde mysteriously died, and the Bloodridge Sovereign made him a Sovereign's Emissary with a Material-Defense Overgod Artifact. Wharton, Aaron, Little Gold, Kane, and Blue prepared to enter the Planar Battlefield together.

• William left to protect Blue and the others in the Planar Battlefield, while Wharton stayed behind to pursue his breakthrough.
• Ten years later, Wharton learned Blue had become Tianshan Prefecture Lord after Molde's unexplained death, and William explained that Blue had gained the Bloodridge Sovereign's favor and a defensive Overgod Artifact.
• Wharton and William discussed Blue's fortune and planned to travel to Sky Mountain Prefecture, where Wharton would join Aaron and Little Gold on the battlefield.
• Kane asked to accompany them, and Wharton agreed to let Aaron lead the group.
• Blue welcomed Wharton and his companions, explained that Mu Bai would manage the prefecture in his absence, and prepared to depart for the Planar Battlefield.

Wharton and his companions traveled through the Chaotic Sea and entered Purgatory, where they learned they had arrived in Crimson Sun Prison. They reached Sunlight City and headed for its teleportation array to the Planar Battlefield.

• Wharton piloted the Metal Lifeform from Sky Mountain Prefecture to the Chaotic Sea in three years, and Blue used his Prefecture Lord token to reveal the route into Purgatory.
• The group passed through the teleportation gate and saw Purgatory, with its blood-red moon, great spatial pressure, and cities ruled by powerful commanders.
• Little Gold stopped a purple-haired young man, who told them they were in Crimson Sun City in Crimson Sun Prison.
• Wharton directed the group toward Sunlight City, where the Planar Battlefield teleportation array was located.
• The group arrived in Sunlight City, asked for the array's location, and went straight there.

Two Chaos Army commanders discussed the Four Divine Beasts Family’s victory over the Eight Clans and Five High God Families after Blue and his companions entered the Planar Battlefield. Red Flame recognized Blue and the black-haired youth as the family’s Paragons and warned Trance not to offend them.

• Blue presented the Sky Mountain Prefecture token, and Chaos Army soldiers escorted his group through the teleportation array to the Planar Battlefield.
• Trance questioned why Blue had replaced Molde as Lord of Sky Mountain Prefecture, and Red Flame explained that the Four Divine Beasts Family had destroyed the Eight Clans and defeated the Five High God Families.
• Red Flame recounted how two Azure Dragon Clan Paragons had banished four opposing Paragons, and he gave Trance battle-recording crystals to watch.
• Red Flame recognized Blue and the black-haired youth as the Paragons who had entered the array and told Trance not to offend them or spread news of their arrival.
• Red Flame recalled that Blue had once joined Voskull and others to kill an Eight Clans leader, though he did not know how Blue had become Lord of Sky Mountain Prefecture.

Wharton and his companions entered the Planar Battlefield, learned its rules, and split up so the others could gain combat experience. After more than ten years of watching Little Gold, Aaron, and Kane grow stronger and kill a Commander from the Radiant God Plane, Wharton left them to continue on their own.

• Wharton and his companions emerged from the teleportation passage, learned the battlefield rules from a burly man, and left the military camp.
• Wharton and William separated from the others, while Blue's group and Wharton's team split up to train independently.
• Little Gold attacked a figure he mistook for an enemy, but it turned out to be a Grim Reaper Puppet controlled by an azure-robed ally.
• Wharton warned Little Gold, Aaron, and Kane that he would intervene only in dire circumstances, then formed them into a team and kept watch from nearby.
• Over more than ten years, Little Gold, Aaron, and Kane survived enemy attacks, improved their coordination, and killed a Commander from the Radiant God Plane.
• Wharton saw that the three had become more capable and stopped following them.

Wharton completed over three hundred years of cultivation on the Planar Battlefield and greatly increased his control over the Lightning Law. After Hemmers ambushed him and was beaten badly, Wharton countered Hemmers’s renewed attack with a strike formed from his immense physical strength.

• Wharton merged the Lightning Law’s Profound Mysteries into a sphere and detonated it in the spatial currents, creating a vast vacuum.
• Wharton realized that more than three hundred years had passed and that his Lightning Law control had at least doubled.
• Hemmers ambushed Wharton with a battleaxe, but Wharton shattered the attack with a punch and drove him into a mountainside with repeated kicks.
• Wharton identified Hemmers as the first Golden Mountain of the Earth Divine Plane and warned him for attacking first.
• Hemmers used a drop of Sovereign’s Might to heal and charged Wharton again, but Wharton answered with a violet-gold dragon made from his power of blood and vitality, shattering Hemmers’s attack.

Wharton defeated Hemmers, gave him a pill that helped him break through, and warned him not to kill members of the Four Divine Beasts Family. He then discovered Hass and the others surrounded by nine Prefect-level enemies and rushed to rescue them.

• Wharton severely injured Hemmers, who realized he had provoked an opponent far beyond his understanding.
• Wharton gave Hemmers a pill that clarified the Earth Law Profound Mysteries, and Hemmers cultivated for ten years before breaking through.
• Wharton identified himself as a Supreme Elder of the Four Divine Beasts Family and warned Hemmers not to kill its disciples before departing.
• Wharton searched the battlefield for Kane, Little Gold, and the others, then found Hass and his group under attack by nine Prefect-level experts.
• Wharton saw Hass and the others nearing defeat and flew toward them at top speed to rescue them.

Wharton found Hass and the Four Divine Beasts Family surrounded in the Planar Battlefield by experts seeking revenge, while Blue and the others were already heading to Star River. He intervened by killing four attackers with a single strike, leaving five survivors facing him.

• Hass told Wharton that the Four Divine Beasts Family had obtained five Commander Badges before their enemies learned they were in the Planar Battlefield and began coordinating ambushes.
• Hass warned Wharton that Blue and the others had gone to Star River, the Light God Realm's main base, and might be in greater danger, but Wharton chose to deal with the attackers first.
• Wharton appeared above Hass's group and launched an attack that split into nine bolts of lightning.
• Four attackers were killed outright, while the cyan-haired burly man and four others survived by using Sovereign's Might and Sovereign Artifacts.
• The cyan-haired burly man asked Wharton who he was and why he had interfered.

Wharton and the Four Divine Beasts Family members trapped a group of attackers, but Abude escaped the formation with his speed and two Sovereign Artifacts. Wharton pursued him and identified his true body, leaving Abude begging for his life.

• Wharton revealed that he was a Paragon of the Four Divine Beasts Family, and the attackers tried to flee as Hass and the others blocked them.
• Hass identified Abude as a former White Tiger High God Envoy who had betrayed the family and possessed two Sovereign Artifacts.
• Hass and the others formed the Four Symbols Grand Formation, but Abude escaped its range and fled using Sovereign's Might.
• Wharton pursued Abude and attacked him, but Abude's Material-Defense Overgod Artifact split into thousands of clones to evade the blow.
• Wharton recognized Abude's true body with a glance, and Abude begged him to spare his life in exchange for his treasures.