Chapter Summaries

Wharton and Nia began a relationship after he invited her to dance, and he helped her improve her talent and cultivation. While training with Nia, Wharton refined his control of Dragonblood Battle Qi and comprehended the Force of Heaven and Earth.

• Nia blushed when she met Wharton's gaze, and Wharton ignored his brothers' teasing to ask her to dance.
• Nia accepted Wharton's invitation, and the two soon fell deeply in love and began dating.
• Wharton gave Nia a Foundation-Building Pill and helped improve her constitution, meridians, and cultivation, while asking her to keep the pill secret.
• Nia advanced from a Fifth-Level Mage to the late stage of a Sixth-Level Mage in a few months under Wharton's guidance.
• Wharton improved his Dragonblood Battle Qi through training with Nia and comprehended the Force of Heaven and Earth, increasing his strength at least fivefold.

Linley lured Clyde and his allies to his estate and attacked them to avenge his mother, whom Clyde had ordered abducted twelve years earlier. After Bebe killed Ransom, Linley confronted Clyde and revealed that Paderson had confessed the truth.

• Linley invited Clyde to tour his estate after obtaining poison from Hisse and making preparations.
• Bebe killed Ransom in a single surprise attack, then jumped onto Linley's shoulder.
• Linley told Clyde and Meritt that they would die, while Clyde found his combat qi weakened and secretly called for his Snowland Lion.
• Linley accused Clyde of ordering his mother's abduction twelve years earlier and said Paderson had confessed.
• Clyde realized that Linley's mother was the woman whose abduction had helped him gain power and the Bright Church's favor.

Linley confronted Clyde after the Snow Lion’s alarm brought powerful warriors to his residence. Linley captured Clyde alive and faced the guards who rushed in, leaving them to charge against his overwhelming strength.

• The Snow Lion roared urgently, drawing warriors to Linley’s residence, where they found two corpses, Clyde, and Linley.
• Linley transformed into a Dragonblood Warrior and told Bebe not to let Clyde escape.
• Linley shattered Clyde’s defensive scroll with a single strike, terrifying Clyde with his near-Saint Domain strength.
• Clyde tried to flee through a window, but Bebe struck him into the courtyard and left him badly injured.
• Linley warned the guards that he would kill anyone who came at him, but they charged forward to protect Clyde.

Linley tortured Clyde for information about his mother, then killed him when he refused to answer. After taking Clyde’s spatial ring, Linley prepared to flee Fenlai City with Bebe, knowing he had openly defied the Bright Church.

• Linley cut down the guards who charged him and confronted the helpless Clyde.
• Linley demanded to know who Clyde had given his mother to and who had killed her, but Clyde refused to answer.
• Linley tortured Clyde and killed the guards who rushed in to protect their king.
• Linley smashed Clyde’s head, ending his life and feeling the hatred in his heart ease.
• Linley took Clyde’s spatial ring and told Bebe they had to leave Fenlai City immediately, but something unexpected happened as they prepared to flee.

Linley tortured Clyde to learn who had taken his mother and who had killed her, but Clyde refused to answer, so Linley killed him. With his revenge complete and the Bright Church now his enemy, Linley took Clyde’s spatial ring and prepared to flee Fenlai City with Bebe.

• Linley approached the helpless Clyde while the guards backed away, then demanded to know who had taken his mother.
• Clyde refused to answer, and Linley tortured him while warning that he would die either way.
• When Clyde still would not speak, Linley smashed his head and killed him, feeling the hatred that had weighed on him finally ease.
• Linley took Clyde’s spatial ring and told Bebe they had to leave Fenlai City immediately.
• As Linley and Bebe prepared to flee, an unexpected incident occurred.

The Radiant Pope Heidens arrived as Linley attacked the Holy Church, overwhelmed him, and ordered him taken away. Linley was imprisoned in the Temple of Light, while Bebe was urged to escape.

• Heidens appeared and restrained Linley as the surrounding warriors bowed to him.
• Linley told Bebe to flee to the O’Brien Empire and find Wharton, then charged at Heidens rather than surrender.
• Heidens struck Linley aside and ordered the Inquisition deacons to take him away.
• Heidens healed the injured guards with a Grand Light Healing Spell before leaving the scene.
• The Bright Church locked Linley in a secret chamber on the Temple of Light’s ninth floor, where he struggled with severe injuries.

After Heidens seriously wounded Linley and imprisoned him, Linley believed he had lost and would die before destroying the Bright Church. The Church investigated his motive and, learning that he sought revenge for his mother, decided to use Divine Favor Descent to enslave him and turn him into a puppet.

• Linley realized that a true Saint Domain expert like Heidens vastly outmatched him, despite his attacks rivaling the Saint Domain.
• Doehring Cowart told Linley that he might not die, though Linley believed his defeat had ended his chance for revenge.
• Heidens sent Gilmor to persuade Linley to join the Church, but Linley rejected him because of his hatred for the Bright Church.
• Heidens questioned Kaiser about Linley's motive, then ordered an investigation into Linley's mother’s death.
• After learning Clyde had sacrificed Linley's mother to the Bright Church, Heidens and the Church's higher-ups decided to use Divine Favor Descent to enslave Linley.

After the Bright Church’s attempt to kill Linley through Divine Favor Descent failed, they planned to execute him on Yulan Festival. The Day of Destruction began as a horde of magical beasts attacked Fenlai City, and Linley escaped the collapsing Temple of Light.

• Heidens and eight ascetics used Divine Favor Descent on Linley, but the Coiling Dragon Ring and an azure light within his soul stopped it.
• The Bright Church decided to secretly execute Linley on Yulan Festival after the ritual failed.
• A giant Purple-Eyed Golden-Furred Ape crushed Kalan and his father as magical beasts flooded into Fenlai City.
• A powerful attacker shattered the Temple of Light, allowing Linley to escape his prison.
• Linley saw Saint-Domain Magical Beasts filling the sky and a handsome man in a dark golden robe standing before them.

Linley and Bebe looted the Fenlai Kingdom’s treasury amid the magical beast riot and fled toward the O’Brien Empire. Along the way, Shak set his sights on Linley’s interspatial ring, while Linley remained wary of him.

• Linley and Bebe hurried to the Fenlai palace, and Linley rescued Alice and left her with Director Maia of the Proulx Gallery.
• Linley and Bebe overcame the treasury guards, took the most valuable treasures and thirty-two unregistered magic crystal cards, then escaped Fenlai City.
• Karey and Shak arrived at the ransacked treasure hall, where Shak split from Karey and left with some Mad Thunder Squad members and treasures.
• Linley continued toward the O’Brien Empire and encountered Shak’s group traveling with Prince Loy of the Muhan Kingdom.
• Shak noticed Linley’s interspatial ring and decided to kill him for it, but Linley sensed something was amiss and stayed cautious.

Linley found Blackjade Stone after killing Shak and his men, then reached Hess City and met Yale and George at the Dawson Chamber of Commerce. As Linley prepared to leave for the Magical Beast Forest and seek a smith to make his heavy sword, Wharton arrived.

• Linley spotted Shak's men sneaking toward him and killed the attackers with Earth Spike Lance and Bebe after Shak recognized Clyde's ring and accused Linley of killing his father.
• Linley killed Shak with a punch, and Bebe brought him the group's belongings, including a head-sized piece of Blackjade Stone.
• Wharton arrived in Hess City and watched the Dawson Chamber of Commerce until he recognized Linley entering its headquarters.
• Linley told Yale and George that the Bright Church had killed his mother and that he planned to train in the Magical Beast Forest.
• Yale brought Linley and the others to Monroe Dawson, who offered to introduce Linley to the Hyde Clan patriarch to forge a heavy sword.
• Wharton arrived at the Dawson Chamber of Commerce headquarters just as Linley and the others were preparing to meet the Hyde Clan patriarch.

Linley reunited with his younger brother Wharton at the Dawson Chamber of Commerce in Hess City after Wharton traveled from the O’Brien Empire to find him. Wharton urged Linley to return to their family, but Linley chose to train in the Magical Beast Mountain Range before joining them later.

• Wharton arrived at the Dawson Chamber of Commerce and asked to see its young master, then Linley recognized him at the entrance.
• Linley and Wharton embraced, and Wharton explained that their father and the others were safe in the O’Brien Empire with Uncle Hillman.
• Linley introduced Wharton to Monroe Dawson, Yale, George, and Reynolds before the group gave the brothers time to talk.
• Linley described killing Clyde and concealed most of the dangers he had faced, while Wharton urged him not to risk his life alone again.
• Wharton asked Linley to return to the O’Brien Empire, but Linley said he planned to train in the Magical Beast Mountain Range first.

Linley and Wharton visited the Hyde Clan and learned that Vincent Hyde’s family was the Violet Flame Warrior Clan recorded in the Dragonblood Manual. Vincent discovered that Wharton had become a Dragonblood Warrior, leaving him hopeful but concerned about the other Ultimate Warrior clans.

• A Dawson Chamber of Commerce servant invited Linley and Wharton to visit Clan Leader Hyde, and Linley said he planned to have a heavy sword forged.
• Linley and Wharton joined Yale and the others and went to the Hyde Clan residence, where Monroe Dawson introduced them to Vincent Hyde and his sons.
• Vincent asked Linley whether he knew the Hyde Clan, and Linley recognized them as the Violet Flame Warrior Clan.
• Linley introduced Wharton to Vincent, who realized Wharton had reached the Dragonblood Warrior threshold.
• Vincent celebrated Wharton's achievement while wondering when the other Ultimate Warrior clans would produce a new warrior.

Linley asked Vincent Hyde to forge him a greatsword, and Wharton helped refine it with fire magic. Azure lightning struck the completed weapon, injuring Vincent but raising the sword's quality; Linley named it Edgeless, while Vincent recovered quickly and sensed that his body was nearing a breakthrough.

• Linley asked Vincent to forge a greatsword and presented him with rare Blackjade Stone.
• Vincent used precious materials from his clan and the Dawson Chamber of Commerce, while Wharton raised the furnace's heat with fire magic.
• Azure lightning struck the newly forged greatsword, severely injuring Vincent and further enhancing the weapon.
• Wharton helped treat Vincent, and Linley named the azure-glowing sword Edgeless.
• Vincent recovered enough to leave the backyard after just over two hours and sensed his body was close to reaching Level Seven.

Wharton revealed that he had given Vincent a Foundation-Building Pill and explained the Four Ultimate Warrior Clans’ ties to the Four Divine Beasts Family and the Churches’ persecution of them. Vincent learned that the Bright Church may have taken his father, while Wharton sought to unite the clans against both Churches.

• Vincent asked Wharton about the pill and the changes he felt in his body, and Wharton said he had developed the Foundation-Building Pill to improve aptitude and talent.
• Wharton said he had come to find the Violet Flame Warrior Clan and described the Four Ultimate Warriors as kin from the Four Divine Beasts Family in Hell.
• Wharton explained that the Churches had abducted clan elders who broke through the seventh physical level and used them for Angel Descent, destroying their souls.
• Vincent smashed a table and revealed that his father had disappeared after the Bright Church invited him to forge weapons.
• Wharton said the Tiger-Striped Warrior Clan had agreed to unite against the Churches, but Vincent doubted the clans could oppose the Bright Church without becoming Ultimate Warriors.

Wharton persuaded Vincent and the Violet Flame Clan to join his alliance by promising to awaken their bloodlines, then asked the Dawson Chamber of Commerce to oppose the Bright Church. He revealed his strength to support his proposal, leaving Monroe Dawson and his guards stunned.

• Wharton told Vincent that Saint-Domain Magical Beast blood and Orchid Heart Grass could awaken the Four Ultimate Warriors' bloodlines, and the Meteor Brothers urged their father to agree.
• Vincent agreed to have the Violet Flame Clan join Wharton's alliance if he helped awaken their bloodlines, and Wharton left Foundation-Building Pills with the family.
• At Monroe Dawson's residence, Wharton proposed that the Dawson Chamber of Commerce ally with his clan against the Bright Church.
• Monroe Dawson questioned what Wharton could offer and whether the Bright Church could truly be defeated.
• Wharton unleashed the aura of a Peak Level Eight Warrior, prompting two Level Nine guards to appear and protect Monroe Dawson.

Wharton persuaded Monroe Dawson to ally the Dawson Chamber of Commerce with the Ultimate Warrior Clans by promising a solution to their cultivation problem and providing Foundation-Building Pills. The brothers parted with plans to reunite in ten years and take revenge on the Bright Church.

• Wharton told Monroe Dawson that the Violet Flame Warrior Clan had joined their alliance and that he had found a way to address the Ultimate Warrior Clans' bloodline problem.
• Monroe Dawson agreed to ally the Dawson Chamber of Commerce with Wharton, though he would keep the alliance secret until they could challenge the Church.
• Wharton gave the gathering Foundation-Building Pills and cultivation manuals, and asked the Dawson Chamber of Commerce to collect medicinal herbs for him.
• Linley warned Wharton not to reveal all his advantages, while Wharton and Linley discussed their separate journeys.
• Wharton and Linley agreed to meet in the O'Brien Empire's imperial capital in ten years and go together to avenge their mother against the Bright Church.

After two years of growth and preparation, Wharton and the allied Ultimate Warrior clans prepared to leave the O'Brien Empire for training and to build their strength. Wharton accompanied Hogg toward the Chaotic Lands before continuing on to the North Sea, while their companions split off for the Magical Beast Forest.

• Wharton helped Vincent and the others awaken as Violet Flame Warriors, improved their cultivation manual, and strengthened a Mid Saint Domain Hellfire Phoenix with a Foundation-Building Pill.
• Over the next two years, Wharton advanced to Level Nine Warrior, and the other Ultimate Warrior clansmen also improved their strength.
• Hogg told Wharton that he and the others planned to establish a force in the Chaotic Lands with secret support from the Dawson Chamber of Commerce.
• Wharton decided to travel with Hogg through the Chaotic Lands before heading to the North Sea.
• Kane, Kate, Aaron, Meteor, and Trei set out for the Magical Beast Forest, while Wharton and Hogg led the clansmen and loyal followers toward the Chaotic Lands.

Wharton and his group traveled through the Chaotic Lands, fighting off bandits until they reached a secluded valley near Dark Canyon. After Gibbs defeated the bandit leader, Wharton claimed the bandits’ garrison and offered the survivors a chance to serve as guards.

• Wharton and his group entered the Chaotic Lands and fought off repeated bands of bandits along the way.
• Hogg, Wharton, and the others reached Dark Canyon and were surrounded by several hundred bandits.
• Gibbs charged the bandits, killed their Level Eight leader, and forced the surviving bandits to surrender.
• Gibbs ordered a surviving bandit to lead the group to the bandits’ garrison.
• Wharton claimed the valley garrison and offered the bandits the choice of serving as guards or leaving.

Wharton organized the bandits who chose to stay and began turning their valley stronghold into a base for his clan. He proposed taking in gifted orphans to build a loyal cadre for the clan’s future expansion and its struggle against the Church.

• The bandits' second-in-command chose to follow Wharton, and about 150 men stayed while the rest were allowed to leave.
• Wharton warned the new followers to abandon their bad habits and promised them battle qi manuals, while Hogg assigned them patrols and other work until they grew stronger.
• Wharton put the second-in-command under Hillman’s command and ordered him to form three squads with a deputy commander and squad leaders.
• Hillman assigned Wharton’s guards to supervise the bandits as everyone began cleaning and reorganizing the former stronghold.
• Wharton told Hogg and the clan elders that they should take in gifted orphans, train them to be loyal clan elites, and use them to help expand and govern while combating the Church.

Wharton and Hogg organized the guards and began training recruits at Four Symbols Valley before Wharton left with Little Gold for the North Sea to seek Saint Domain experts and gain combat experience. They reached the region’s frigid outskirts, where Wharton explained that its dense elemental energy made it valuable for cultivation.

• Hillman introduced Raleigh, Wote, Roger, Otto, Hertz, and Bitt as the guard leaders, and Hogg assigned them their duties.
• Wharton gave Hillman medicine and combat-qi manuals for the guards, while favoring longtime clan followers with Foundation-Building Pills.
• Hogg named the valley Four Symbols Valley, and Wharton helped build it into a guarded clan base with an underground training palace.
• Hillman, Gibbs, and Bolei brought five hundred orphans to Four Symbols Valley, where Wharton arranged their training and tested them for magical aptitude.
• Wharton left Four Symbols Valley with Little Gold and traveled north to seek Saint Domain experts for combat experience.
• After three months, Wharton and Little Gold entered the harsh North Sea, where Wharton explained that its dense elements and water magic aided cultivation.