Chapter Summaries

Hogg and Gibbs Bolei confronted the Bright and Dark Churches over their past crimes, and the Baruch Kingdom’s warriors launched a decisive attack. After the Churches’ leaders and Saint Domain experts were killed, Baruch announced it would continue its campaign as the Churches withdrew to their holy lands.

• Hogg swore to avenge Linna, while Gibbs Bolei vowed to destroy Afleck and the Churches for their attack on the Bole clan.
• Kane attacked Afleck, and the Baruch Kingdom’s forces began fighting the Bright and Dark Churches’ Saint Domain experts.
• Linley killed Heidens, while Kane, the Meteor Brothers, Barker, and their allies killed Afleck, Leaf, O'Casey, and the remaining Church forces.
• The battle ended with the Churches’ Saint Domain forces wiped out, leaving a vast flooded crater at the site.
• After the Popes failed to return for a week, both Churches withdrew to their holy lands, and Baruch announced it would continue its attacks as cities surrendered to the rat horde.

After the Baruch Kingdom destroyed the Bright Church and the Dark Church, Linley and his family traveled to the Yulan Empire to seek Delia’s hand in marriage. Wharton reunited with Nia along the way, proposed that they marry after Linley’s wedding was settled, and then went to visit the High Priest.

• News spread that Linley and his allies had killed the Bright Pope’s men, leaving the Bright Church’s remaining Saint Domain experts in fear on Holy Island.
• The Baruch Kingdom’s forces occupied the Chaotic Lands, and Wharton, Linley, and their allies divided into two groups to attack the Bright Church and the Dark Church.
• The two groups destroyed both Churches, killing their major members, and the Dawson Chamber of Commerce publicized their downfall across the Yulan Mainland.
• Linley, Hogg, and the others set out for the Yulan Empire to ask the Ryan clan for Delia’s hand, while Wharton traveled to the O’Brien Empire to bring Nia along.
• Wharton reunited with Nia, proposed that they marry after Linley’s wedding was settled, and traveled with her and Little Gold toward the Yulan Empire.
• After reaching the Yulan Empire, Wharton brought Nia and Little Gold to the island where the High Priest lived, and the High Priest sensed Wharton’s divine sense.

Wharton took Nia and Little Gold to Life Island to meet the High Priest, Catherine, and discovered Dixie was cultivating among her disciples. The chapter left Dixie shocked to learn that Wharton had become a God Level expert.

• Wharton told Nia he would take her to meet the High Priest, and she eagerly agreed.
• Wharton brought Nia and Little Gold to Life Island, where they saw the enormous Tree of Life and met Catherine.
• Catherine welcomed Wharton and led him and his companions into Life Island.
• Catherine summoned Dixie to receive Wharton, and Dixie hurried to the Life Temple without knowing who had arrived.
• Dixie recognized Wharton and reacted with shock and envy when he learned Wharton had become a God Level expert.

Wharton visited Catherine, the High Priestess, with Nia, Little Gold, and Dixie, and revealed that he had become a God Level expert. After hearing why Wharton had come, Dixie promised to help Linley and the Ryan clan’s marriage alliance succeed.

• Wharton surprised Dixie by revealing that he had become a god, then encouraged Dixie to keep pursuing the God Level.
• Catherine discussed the newly ascended gods Hisse and Fain with Wharton, who said he had met them and introduced Nia and Little Gold.
• Catherine gave Nia a rare fruit from the Tree of Life as an engagement gift, and Wharton recognized its great value.
• Wharton told Catherine that Linley had approached the Ryan clan about a marriage alliance, and Dixie promised to support the match.

Wharton exchanged insights on the Life Rule with Catherine, gave her and Dixie gifts, and left with Nia for Magnolia City. The next day, Linley and Hogg went to the Ryan clan so Linley could propose to Delia, whose family still favored a marriage to the emperor.

• Wharton and Catherine shared their cultivation insights, and Catherine said she had been stuck at the peak of the Lower God realm for over three thousand years.
• Wharton gave Catherine a Creation Pill and a Middle God Divine Artifact longsword, then gave Dixie a Divine Artifact spear.
• Catherine showed Wharton and the others the Tree of Life before Wharton left with Nia for Linley and the others' residence in Magnolia City.
• Catherine told Dixie to spend more time with Wharton and said she would enter seclusion to prepare for a breakthrough to Middle God.
• The next day, Hogg brought Wharton and Linley to the Ryan clan, where Deya Ryan and the clan's Grand Elder still hoped Delia would marry the emperor instead of Linley.

Delia’s family agreed to her marriage to Linley after Dixie supported the match and relayed the High Priest’s approval. As the Baruch Empire prepared to be founded on Yulan Festival, the celebrations grew into a gathering of powerful guests and a series of grand weddings.

• Delia insisted she would marry only Linley, and Dixie returned to support her choice and deliver the High Priest’s approval.
• Deya agreed to Linley and Delia’s marriage, and Hogg and Deya began arranging the engagement.
• Linley and Delia held an engagement ceremony, and Linley scheduled their wedding for the founding day of the Baruch Empire.
• Wharton challenged Dylan in the Magical Beast Forest; Dylan advanced to Middle God during their fight but still lost to Wharton.
• The Baruch Empire completed preparations to be founded on Yulan Festival in 10015, when Linley and Delia, Wharton and Nia, and Kane and Elizabeth were to wed.
• Envoys and Saint Domain guests arrived in Baruch City for the founding and weddings, including disciples of the Martial God Sect and the High Priest.

At Wharton and the others’ wedding, friends and powerful figures from across the Yulan Mainland gathered to celebrate. The next day, Wharton explained the stages of divine comprehension and urged the Saint Domain experts to fuse laws so they could survive beyond their home plane.

• Dixie congratulated Linley and Delia, then warned Linley not to make Delia angry.
• Olivia, Blumer, Rutherford, Hisse, Desri, and other guests arrived to celebrate Wharton’s wedding.
• After the nobles and envoys departed, Hogg brought the Saint Domain guests to Dragonblood Castle for the wedding night.
• The next day, Dylan’s three sons congratulated Wharton, who gave them two secret manuals and four Foundation-Building Pills for Dylan.
• Desri asked Wharton how a Saint Domain expert could break through to the God Level.
• Wharton used cups of water to explain divine comprehension and advised everyone to gradually fuse laws to grow stronger.

Wharton advised the Yulan Mainland’s Saint Domain experts on overcoming their cultivation bottlenecks, urging them to abandon shortcuts and pursue the laws. After twenty years of cultivation, the story moved to Yulan Festival, when the families and children of the Four Ultimate Warrior Clans gathered at Four Divine Beasts Castle.

• Wharton told Desri and the other Saint Domain Limit experts that fearlessness and reliance on shortcuts had stalled their progress, and that the Tomb of the Gods was meant to temper them.
• Wharton advised the Saint-Domain Magical Beasts to pursue the laws and explore other Profound Mysteries when their current studies reached a bottleneck.
• Desri, Tulilei, and the other experts thanked Wharton after spending two days listening to his guidance and discussing their cultivation.
• Wharton predicted that the Yulan Mainland’s experts would flourish over the coming decades, and Nia praised him.
• Twenty years later, Sally Bolei and the children arrived at Four Divine Beasts Castle for the Yulan Festival, where Barker’s family and the Meteor Brothers also gathered.

Over twenty years, Wharton and the Baruch Empire’s allies grew stronger, while the empire expanded its influence across the Yulan Mainland. The chapter left the Baruch Empire as the continent’s foremost force apart from Beirut, with many powerful figures still advancing toward godhood.

• Sasha and the others reunited with Nia and their family after Wharton and his companions arrived.
• Wharton distributed lotus seeds among the younger generation, and Linley arranged for Saint-Domain dragons to awaken the children’s bloodlines.
• Wharton advanced in the Water, Lightning, and Fire Laws, while Hogg, Jason, Gibbs, Vitus, Doehring Cowart, Desri, and Rosalie reached godhood.
• Linley, Kane, Kate, Yun Xing, Trey, Barker, and Gates continued pursuing the Fusion Law while remaining at Saint Domain.
• Saint Domain experts multiplied across the continent, and Rutherford and Tulilei remained among the few veteran experts yet to become gods.
• The Baruch Empire expanded its capital and established the Ultimate Warrior Magic Academy, while the Dawson Chamber of Commerce became the continent’s leading merchant association.

Wharton gathered the family to choose candidates for the ten-year training expedition into the Tomb of the Gods, then escorted them to the Dark Forest as other groups arrived. The chapter ended with the High Priest and the War God arriving, both now Middle Gods.

• Wharton warned his relatives about the Tomb of the Gods and confirmed Linley, Kane, Kate, Yun Xing, Trey, Barker, Gates, Little Gold, and Bebe as candidates.
• Three months later, Linley said goodbye to Taylor before Wharton led the group toward the Dark Forest.
• At the Dark Forest, Wharton greeted Hisse, Rosalie, Desri, Rutherford, Tulilei, and the Saint Domain experts waiting by the metallic lifeform.
• Bebe received a message from Beirut and entered the metallic lifeform, while Wharton warned the others to stay away from it.
• Dylan arrived with his eldest son, who had become a god, and said his other two sons were entering the Tomb of the Gods for training.
• The High Priest and the War God arrived and greeted Wharton and Linley; both had reached Middle God.

Beirut led Wharton, Linley, and the others to the Southern Sea entrance of the Tomb of the Gods. He warned them that the eleventh-floor guardian, the Middle God Ba Serpent, would likely kill everyone but Wharton, but the group chose to proceed.

• Beirut welcomed Wharton and praised the rise of God Level beings on the Yulan Mainland.
• Beirut led Wharton, Dylan, Catherine, O'Brien, Fain, and the others toward the Southern Sea, testing their ability to keep pace.
• The group followed Beirut beneath the sea and passed through a spatial gateway to reach the Tomb of the Gods.
• Wharton recognized the dragon relief as one of the Four Divine Beasts and kept its significance from the others.
• Beirut warned that Ba Serpent guarded the eleventh floor and that nearly everyone entering would die if they encountered him.
• Despite Beirut's warning, the experts continued toward the tomb.

After the Saint Domain experts entered the Tomb of the Gods, Beirut took Wharton aside to ask about the cultivation manuals Wharton had devised. Wharton explained his ideas, while Beirut remained unable to probe deeply into Wharton’s soul.

• Beirut explained that the Tomb of the Gods had eighteen levels, warned that a Ba Serpent could be anywhere in the first eleven, and separated the human and magical beast Saint Domain experts into different passages.
• After Linley's group entered the tomb, Beirut asked Wharton to accompany him to the Dark Forest while the other God Level experts departed.
• In the Metal Castle, Beirut asked Wharton where his cultivation manuals came from and why they helped people cultivate so quickly.
• Wharton gave Beirut the Destruction and Wind manuals and said he had improved the Four Ultimate Warrior Clans’ battle-qi methods using his own cultivation ideas.
• Wharton described how he reasoned that merging with heaven and earth could bring recognition from the elements and laws, making cultivation easier.

Wharton gave Beirut secret cultivation manuals and revealed that his pills could improve potential, prompting Beirut to supply rare materials for pill-making. After Wharton refined bloodline-enhancing pills, Beirut tested one on a Shadow Rat and saw it become a Saint-Domain Magical Beast with signs of ancestral reversion, so he summoned Harry and the others to try them.

• Beirut said he had already read the secret manuals but had gained new inspiration from their cultivation ideas.
• Wharton showed Beirut Foundation-Building Pills and explained that they helped his elder brother and others improve their physiques and talent.
• Beirut agreed to find the materials Wharton needed and asked to conduct an experiment with the pills Wharton refined.
• Beirut returned with a ring of abundant, rare materials, and Wharton used them and Divine Beast essence blood to make bloodline-enhancing pills.
• Beirut tested a pill on a Level Nine Shadow Rat, which broke through Bloodline Withering and became a Saint-Domain Magical Beast with signs of ancestral reversion.
• Beirut summoned Harry and the others, hoping the pills would help them achieve a breakthrough.

Wharton learned that Harry and his brothers’ bloodlines improved but did not awaken the God-Slaying Rat bloodline, then returned to Four Divine Beasts Castle to prepare his descendants for the coming Gods' Descent. He summoned the younger generation and announced that he would personally train them over the next few years.

• Harry and his brothers took the Bloodline Pills, improving their bloodlines without becoming God-Slaying Rats.
• Wharton spent another half month with the brothers, who could use a weaker form of the God-Slaying Rat’s innate divine ability and had strength comparable to Seven-Star Demons.
• Wharton returned to Four Divine Beasts Castle and decided to train the younger generation before the experts from the Baghdad Plane Prison emerged.
• Wharton summoned Cini, Taylor, Sasha, and the other descendants, watched them gather, then appeared before them.
• Wharton told his family that training would begin at the rear mountain the next day and that he would guide them personally.

Wharton returned to Four Divine Beasts Castle and took charge of training the children, warning the adults that chaos could soon threaten the continent. He began the children’s intensive training by sealing their battle-qi, while he and his other clones resumed secluded cultivation with Nia.

• Wharton told the children he would train them for the next few years and warned that the continent could soon face a major crisis.
• Delia, Anke, and the other adults approved of Wharton’s plan and returned to train themselves after he urged them to pursue greater mastery of the laws.
• Wharton chose Cini and the other children to begin training with him the following day, and his Water Divine Clone took them to the back mountain.
• Lisa joined the children’s training, while Wharton’s main body and two other clones resumed secluded training with Nia.
• Wharton sealed the battle-qi inside Cini and the other children, forcing them to rely on their physical strength.

Wharton began training the Baruch Empire’s younger generation while Sally stayed behind to learn from him. In the Tomb of the Gods, Linley’s group reached the sixth-floor passage, where three Flame Lords attacked; Linley slew one, but the other two struck back with gigantic axes.

• Wharton assigned the younger generation five years of demanding training and gave Sally separate guidance on experiencing nature and light.
• After a month, the trainees had adapted, while Linley’s group reached the fifth floor of the Tomb of the Gods and Barker’s group retreated to cultivate.
• Linley, Kane, Kate, Dixie, Olivia, Rutherford, and the others set out for the sixth floor, where they found three Flame Lords instead of one.
• Linley charged a Flame Lord and destroyed it with his heavy sword, shattering its life core.
• The two remaining Flame Lords enlarged their battle-axes and attacked Linley, who raised his Blackjade Greatsword and formed blackjade-like armor.

Linley and his companions fought through the increasingly difficult floors of the Tomb of the Gods, reaching the tenth floor after losing four allies. They spent five years cultivating there, growing stronger and preparing to attempt the eleventh floor for Divine Sparks.

• Linley survived a Flame Lord's axe strike, and his group killed the remaining Flame Lords, though four companions died in the battle.
• After recovering and finding the Divine Artifact on the sixth floor, Linley's group advanced through several harder floors and reached the tenth floor in two years.
• The group chose to cultivate on the tenth floor for several years before attempting the eleventh floor, where Divine Sparks could be found.
• Wharton trained the younger disciples, then returned them to their cultivation as their strength improved and Sally entered secluded training to break through to the God Level.
• Wharton's Divine Clones and the others advanced their cultivation, while Linley, Dixie, Olivia, Bebe, and Little Gold made especially notable progress.

Linley finally became a god, forming both an Earth Divine Clone and a Wind Divine Clone. After recovering, he learned that several of his companions had also reached godhood and accepted their congratulations.

• Olivia broke through to godhood with light and darkness Divine Clones, and Little Gold, Bebe, Kane, Kate, Rutherford, Tulilei, and Sordis became gods over the following years.
• Beirut noted the other breakthroughs and decided Linley was worth cultivating because of his talent and potential.
• The Laws of the World descended around Linley, who became a god after fully comprehending Earth Pulse and formed an Earth Divine Clone through External Deification.
• A second descent followed as Linley reached godhood in the Wind Law and formed a Wind Divine Clone through another External Deification.
• After recovering, Linley reunited with Bebe and Little Gold, learned about the others’ breakthroughs, and received congratulations from Dixie and the remaining Saint Domain experts.

After absorbing the Azure Dragon Essence Blood, Linley kept the secrets of his newfound power and the Coiling Dragon Ring hidden. He led the newly ascended gods and the Saint Domain experts into the Tomb of the Gods’ eleventh level, where Bebe seized control of the Abyssal Blade Demons and demanded to be taken to the Divine Sparks.

• Linley concealed what he had learned from the Azure Dragon Ring and encouraged the Saint Domain experts to focus on cultivation.
• Rutherford and Tulilei asked to explore the eleventh level, and Linley led the gods and Saint Domain experts there.
• A horde of Abyssal Demons attacked the newcomers, and Linley killed over ten thousand with a single Dimensional Blade.
• A Blade Demon leader ordered his forces to retreat, but Bebe captured him and took his blood-red blade.
• Bebe ordered the Blade Demons to stay put and their leaders to show the group where the eleventh level’s Divine Sparks were located.

Linley and the others divided the Divine Sparks, Divine Artifacts, and Blade Demon weapons before deciding whether to enter the twelfth level. Linley, Kane, Kate, Dixie, Olivia, Little Gold, Bebe, and Sordis went on, drawn by a mysterious call that Linley felt growing stronger as they climbed.

• Linley took an earth-element Divine Spark and distributed the others to Dixie, Rutherford, Olivia, and Dylan's two sons.
• The group divided the Divine Artifacts and collected the Blade Demons' blood-red sabers.
• Linley asked who would accompany him to the twelfth level, and Rutherford, Tulilei, and Dylan's two sons chose to stop and return to the tenth level.
• Sordis decided to continue with Linley, while Linley reminded everyone that the twelfth level held unknown dangers and God Level experts.
• Linley noticed that Kane and Kate felt the same growing call he did as the group flew toward the passage to the twelfth level.
• Linley, Kane, Kate, Dixie, Olivia, Little Gold, Bebe, and Sordis set out for the twelfth level.