Chapter Summaries

After years of traveling and challenging experts, Wharton left the Myriad Clans Continent for the Abyss Plane, where he encountered its slaughter-filled world as a golden Blade Demon. He discovered a Royal Bloodline black hole owned by an Abyssal Giant.

• Wharton gave the brother and sister a token, cultivation resources, and Divine Artifacts before leaving Black Crystal City.
• Wharton traveled across the Myriad Clans Continent, challenged many experts, and fought Third Order expert Pompeo to a draw.
• Wharton and Pompeo became friends and exchanged cultivation insights for a hundred years before Wharton decided to leave.
• Wharton traveled to the Abyss Plane and transformed into a golden Blade Demon upon arrival.
• Wharton used his divine sense to find a Royal Bloodline black hole owned by an Abyssal Giant.

Wharton learned from Gabriel that Slaughter City drew powerful experts from across the Abyss Continent, then traveled there to investigate. After entering the city and questioning a maid, he learned that fighting was forbidden under threat of death by the enforcers.

• Wharton controlled Gabriel and questioned him about the Abyss Continent and Slaughter City.
• Wharton killed Gabriel and took his Life Core to study.
• Wharton flew across the Abyss Continent, observing its warring races and battles, and continued toward the Central Continent.
• Wharton entered Slaughter City, explored its peaceful streets, and settled at a tavern to gather information.
• Wharton gave an Amethyst Crystal to a maid and learned that fighting in the city was forbidden and that enforcers could kill even a High God.

Wharton learned that Slaughter Prison could be entered through city trials or a Guardian’s recognition, then went to find a Guardian and request a token. The red-haired Guardian acknowledged his strength but asked why she should give him entry, leaving Wharton to answer her offer to negotiate.

• A maid explained that Slaughter City guarded the entrance to Slaughter Prison and described the trials and the Guardian’s alternative route to entry.
• Wharton decided that earning the Guardian’s recognition would be easier than completing the trials and watched the Battle Arena before locating a Guardian nearby.
• Wharton introduced himself to the red-haired woman cultivating atop the tallest building and asked to speak with her.
• The Guardian offered to give Wharton an entry token but asked what he would offer in return, noting that he was the first outside Paragon to reach her in a hundred thousand years.

Wharton entered a spatial rift with Grace and discovered that Slaughter City was home to several powerful Paragons, including Galses. After defeating Grace in a spar, Wharton began a serious battle with Galses, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Grace and Wharton entered a spatial rift, and four other Paragons from Slaughter City followed them.
• Grace explained that Wharton was an outsider seeking entry to Slaughter Prison, and the newcomers introduced themselves as Galses Dole, Blanchard Emide, Mato Dotty, and Garman Hillman.
• Wharton and Grace sparred, and Wharton overwhelmed her with his Fire Law-powered attacks until she admitted defeat.
• Grace asked how much strength Wharton had used, but he only told her to guess.
• Wharton accepted Galses's challenge, summoned his Fangtian Halberd, and clashed with Galses's Destruction Rule-powered sword, creating a black hole in the Spatial Turbulence.

Wharton comprehended a domain while fighting Galses, who also broke through and grasped a domain during their battle. After receiving a token for Slaughter Prison, Wharton chose to enter seclusion to refine his domain, while his Lightning-Element God Clone revealed a purple-gold bead containing a trace of World Force.

• Wharton overwhelmed Galses with his growing strength and began comprehending a domain during their fight.
• Galses broke through and comprehended a domain of his own, then acknowledged Wharton as a future rival.
• Grace gave Wharton a scarlet token for earning and exchanging points in Slaughter Prison and warned him about its powerful fighters and beasts.
• Wharton asked Grace for a place to enter seclusion so he could perfect his domain before entering Slaughter Prison.
• Wharton's Lightning-Element God Clone and original body shared their insights, revealing a purple-gold bead in his Soul Ocean that contained a trace of World Force.

Wharton emerged from more than a thousand years of seclusion with his Lightning domain strengthened, then entered the Planar Battlefield with Nia to watch its decisive battle. He reunited with Linley and the others and learned that Morgan Colin had reached the Awakening Realm.

• Wharton’s Lightning Law power more than doubled as he refined and integrated his domain without advancing his realm.
• Wharton learned that his Fire-Element God Clone had entered Slaughter Prison and that his Water Divine Clone had reached Control Perfection while refining a Water domain on the Azure Dragon Continent.
• Nia told Wharton that the Four Divine Beasts Family, including Cini and Taylor, had entered the Planar Battlefield, where rules barred experts above Paragon from fighting.
• Wharton took Nia through a spatial rift into the Planar Battlefield to see the decisive battle.
• Wharton reunited with Linley, Beirut, Bluefire, and William, then saw Morgan Colin and the Morgan Family’s first elder among the assembled experts.

Wharton and the others surveyed the heavy losses from the Planar Battlefield campaign as their family’s commanders returned, and he resolved to reward Alicia and settle his feelings for Sally after the expedition. The final battle began at the Star River, where the Life Divine Realm’s Angel Battle Formations drove the Destruction Divine Realm forces into retreat.

• Wharton, Bluefire, and William discussed the brutal fighting and the deaths of more than three hundred Asura Level experts.
• Wharton spotted Cini’s returning team and praised Alicia’s remarkable progress, deciding to give her a Death Law treasure.
• Nia expressed worry over Sally’s dangerous choice to join the expedition, and Wharton reassured her that he would settle the matter with Sally after they returned.
• Two passages opened beside the Star River, and forces from both divine realms poured into battle, causing thousands of deaths before the fighting settled into a stalemate.
• Two thousand-man Angel Battle Formations advanced for the Life Divine Realm and forced the Destruction Divine Realm commanders to retreat.

The Destruction Divine Realm stopped the Angel Battle Formation, and the Planar Battlefield ended with both sides holding one passageway each. A hundred years later, Dixie and Catherine arrived at the Four Divine Beasts Family to visit Linley Baruch and Wharton Baruch.

• Linley's High God emissaries and the Four Divine Beasts Family's Four Symbols Grand Formation halted the angels and helped Hell's forces counterattack.
• The Planar Battlefield ended in a draw, with Cini's side slaughtering the thousand Eighteen-Winged Angels and each side securing one passageway.
• Augusta left with the Fate Sovereign after giving Linley and Wharton a gloomy glance.
• Cini and Kane reached the Paragon level and secluded themselves in the Tianji Mountains to stabilize their power.
• Dixie and Catherine arrived at the Four Divine Beasts Family and asked to visit Linley Baruch and Wharton Baruch.
• A Seven-Star Demon elder sent word of their arrival while the guards escorted Dixie and Catherine to a reception hall.

Dixie reunited with Delia and Cini in the Tianji Mountains before returning to the Yulan Mainland with his companion. A thousand years later, Wharton continued his brutal training in Slaughter Prison, where killing a powerful beast and consuming its bead strengthened his body and Azure Dragon Bloodline.

• Delia recognized Dixie and embraced him, and Cini welcomed him back to the Tianji Mountains.
• Cini revealed that he had become a Paragon and told Dixie that Linley and Wharton were in the family's Small World.
• Linley and Wharton emerged from seclusion to meet Dixie, who later left Hell with his companion to return to the Yulan Mainland.
• Wharton spent more than seven hundred years fighting through Slaughter Prison and killed a peak Controller-level beast with his Fangtian Halberd.
• Wharton swallowed the beast's blood-red bead and felt his body strengthen and his Azure Dragon Bloodline grow purer.

Wharton refined treasures from powerful beasts in Slaughter Prison, then traveled to the Lightning Divine Plane seeking a breakthrough in the Thunder Pool. After absorbing its lightning and advancing deep inside, he encountered chains formed from the Lightning Rules.

• Wharton refined the killing aura from a ferocious beast, searched its lair, and collected Origin Crystals and a World Stone.
• Wharton killed more than a dozen Controller Realm ferocious beasts, then secluded himself to refine the World Stone.
• Wharton's Water Divine Clone continued seeking opponents, while his main body and Lightning-Element God Clone traveled to the Lightning Divine Plane.
• Wharton entered the Thunder Pool and absorbed its lightning, disrupting cultivation across a vast area and drawing the attention of nearby experts.
• Wharton advanced more than four million kilometers into the Thunder Pool, where chains of Lightning Rules struck his body.

Wharton broke through to the Awakening Realm in the Thunder Pool, then rushed to the Light God Realm after learning Linley was fighting Augusta. He joined the battle and took on the white-robed Paragon, leaving Linley free to attack Augusta.

• Wharton cultivated in the Thunder Pool for a thousand years, formed a Domain World within his body, and grew strong enough to match Late Third Order experts.
• After Linley went alone to the Light God Realm to kill Augusta, William set out to find Wharton, but Wharton's Water Divine Clone returned to the Tianji Mountains first.
• Wharton learned of Linley's danger and sent all three Divine Clones to the Light God Realm.
• Wharton arrived to find Linley defending against Augusta and a white-robed Paragon who attacked together.
• Wharton merged his Water and Fire Divine Clones, challenged the elder with his Azure Dragon Battle Saber, and urged Linley to kill Augusta.

Wharton defeated Acarola with his Time Law while Linley pursued Augusta, but Wharton revealed that Augusta and Orloff were the same person. Orloff’s overwhelming attack sent Linley flying, and Wharton joined him as they prepared to face Orloff together.

• Wharton used Time Stop to cut Acarola in half, but Acarola recovered inside his Domain World and retreated from Wharton’s attacks.
• Linley pursued the wounded Augusta toward the Celestial Realm while Wharton warned him not to let Augusta meet Orloff.
• Wharton shouted that Augusta and Orloff were the same person, shocking Linley and the watching Sovereigns and Paragons.
• Orloff interrupted Linley’s attack on Augusta and blasted Linley away despite his Supreme God Sword.
• Wharton left Acarola and stood beside Linley, urging him to acquire another Sovereign divine clone so they could challenge Orloff.

Wharton and Linley confronted Orloff, who fused with Augusta and revealed overwhelming power. While Wharton held Orloff back with an attack infused with world power, Linley seized Borte’s Lower Sovereign Spark and bound it to himself.

• Wharton and Linley accused Orloff and Augusta of hiding their identities, and Orloff prepared to fight them.
• Augusta entered Orloff’s body, and Orloff’s fused strength sent Wharton and Linley flying back with a single strike.
• Wharton told Linley to kill Borte and take his Sovereign Spark while Wharton held Orloff off.
• Wharton unleashed World Creation, channeling his three-element power and the world power from his Small World into a massive blade attack.
• Linley appeared beside Borte, shattered him and his Material-Defense Overgod Artifact, then bound Borte’s Lower Sovereign Spark with golden blood.

Linley completed the blood recognition of four Sovereign Sparks and overwhelmed Orloff, who had two Upper Sovereign Sparks. After killing Orloff with a single finger, Linley entered the black hole his attack had torn through the Spatial Turbulence.

• Linley finished refining the four Sovereign Sparks as Wharton fought Orloff and was badly injured, buying Linley time to transcend.
• Linley caught Wharton, healed his body, and restored and expanded his Small World.
• Orloff attacked Linley with a Supreme God Artifact, but Linley caught the sword between his fingers, snapped it, and sent Orloff flying.
• Orloff demanded to experience Linley's strongest attack and unleashed Four Symbols Unity, Reincarnation Golden Body.
• Linley pierced Orloff with one finger, destroying him and his Sovereign Sparks while opening a vast black hole in the Spatial Turbulence.
• Linley told Wharton and the others to return, then entered the black hole.

A thousand years after Linley achieved Transcendence and disappeared, Wharton refined the Origin Thunder Pearl and pursued a way to fuse his three law domains into a world of his own. Linley returned to the Coiling Dragon Universe as Wharton reached a critical point in his cultivation.

• After Linley left, the spatial black holes closed, and Wharton returned to Hell with William and Beirut before entering seclusion in the Four Divine Beasts Realm.
• The battle's aftermath left fewer than sixty of the Coiling Dragon Plane's seventy-seven High Gods alive, and the other three Rule Rulers intervened to calm the ensuing unrest.
• Over a thousand years, Wharton comprehended the Water Law Domain, advanced his Divine Clones, and fused all but one of the eighteen Profound Mysteries across his three elements.
• Wharton refined the purple seed into the Origin Thunder Pearl, learned it contained a shattered world from the Main World, and reached the Half-Step World-Class level.
• Wharton began fusing his three law domains with the Shattered World, intending to reshape it into a new world using the Origin Thunder Pearl's World Force.
• Linley returned to the Coiling Dragon Universe and watched Wharton reach a critical point in the Four Symbols Realm.

Linley returned to the Four Divine Beasts Family as a Controller and let the universe’s High Gods govern in his place, while Wharton advanced by fusing three domains. More than ninety thousand years later, Wharton remained determined to pursue a dangerous path, and Linley offered to create a new plane within a thousand years for him to observe.

• Linley told the Four Divine Beasts Family’s leaders that he had transcended the universe and would no longer intervene, then gave them four newly condensed Sovereign Sparks.
• Over ten thousand years, Linley distributed Sovereign Sparks and established an age of High God rule while Wharton continued his secluded cultivation.
• Wharton fused the domains of three sets of laws into a Domain World, and Linley congratulated him and advised him to persist without revealing what lay ahead.
• Linley and Wharton returned to the Skyrite Mountains, where Linley explained that Gaisreisen and the other three had become High Gods and resurrected the Four Divine Beasts, who chose to pursue the laws and became Paragons.
• More than ninety thousand years later, Linley warned Wharton that powerful Half-Step World-Class figures could threaten him, but Wharton insisted on continuing his chosen path.
• Linley agreed to Wharton’s decision and said he would create a new plane within a thousand years for Wharton to watch.

Linley created the Xuanhuang Realm as a stable world where powerful experts could fight without destroying the Four Great Planes. He announced that the Supreme God Secret Realm would open in a hundred years and offer four exalted seats, leaving the experts eager to compete for a chance to advance.

• Linley supported Wharton’s intentions and gathered thousands of powerful experts to witness him create a new realm.
• Linley shaped the growing plane into a vast world, and the assembled experts studied his use of Laws and Rules.
• Linley named the plane the Xuanhuang Realm, announced that it would open in a hundred years, and revealed that four exalted seats in the Supreme God Secret Realm could grant Willpower Might comparable to a Sovereign Spark.
• Linley confirmed Uterde’s question that the Supreme God Secret Realm contained a path to becoming a Supreme God, while saying success depended on fate and ability.
• Wharton challenged the experts to fight, and Devil Adinas and Arlas announced their own intentions to battle in the Secret Realm.
• Linley established teleportation arrays to the Xuanhuang Realm, and a hundred years later powerful experts began traveling there.

The Supreme God Secret Realm opened, and Wharton entered with the Four Divine Beasts Family to seek Sovereign Sparks and other opportunities. Separated from his companions, he fought his way toward the continent’s center as the beasts grew stronger and other entrants formed groups to survive.

• More than a dozen Sovereigns and over a thousand Paragons gathered at Hell’s entrance, where a giant gate of light appeared and Uterde led the first entrants inside.
• Wharton warned the Four Divine Beasts Family that the Secret Realm would scatter them, then entered with his group and was transported alone to a volcanic range.
• A mountain-sized beast attacked Wharton, but he killed it and collected its beast core and a plant bearing nine fiery-red fruits.
• Over the next year, Wharton traveled deeper into the Secret Realm, killing many beasts and finding Shuras who had died, including two Paragons.
• Entrants formed alliances to improve their chances of survival, while Wharton encountered increasingly powerful beasts as he continued toward the continent’s center.

Wharton led Kane and members of the Four Divine Beasts Family into the corrosive, fog-shrouded Ancient Battlefield, where they were attacked by War-Soul Wraiths. As increasingly powerful battle souls emerged, a Paragon-level wraith on a skeletal Dragon Horse appeared and attacked them.

• Wharton encountered Kane and the other Four Divine Beasts Family members outside the Ancient Battlefield and warned them to cooperate and stay alert.
• Wharton led the group into the battlefield, where the corrosive fog prevented most of them from replenishing their divine power and forced Wharton to shield them with his domain.
• Nearly a hundred War-Soul Wraiths emerged from the ground, and Wharton warned the group that soul attacks were effective while ordinary material attacks were useless.
• The group fought the wraiths, and Kane saved a Black Tortoise Clan member whose soul was badly injured by a wraith.
• Wharton realized that destroyed wraiths replenished the others as the assaults grew stronger, then saw a Paragon-level wraith arrive on a skeletal Dragon Horse and swing its halberd at them.

Kane defeated the skeletal warrior in the fog, and Wharton later reached the Secret Realm’s central ruins with William and the Amethyst High God. After the group entered the ruins, Wharton and his companions fought their way inward and caught up with Uterde’s demons after they killed three enormous beasts.

• Kane shattered the skeletal warrior and its horse, then destroyed the warrior’s soul and kept its black war halberd.
• Wharton separated from Kane and the others, reached the central ruins, and reunited with William and the Amethyst High God.
• The formation around the ruins broke, and vicious beasts attacked the people entering; Wharton killed a giant yak-like beast with one punch.
• Wharton, William, and the Amethyst High God followed the demons’ trail through the ruins, passing the corpses of beasts they had slain.
• Wharton’s group caught up with Uterde and the ten demons after they defeated three enormous vicious beasts, and Uterde greeted Wharton with a laugh.