Recaps

Sean learned how Buweit and Nasser had obtained the baleful Short Spear and arranged to investigate Alfons, a survivor of their siege. After spending time with the Death Sovereign and checking on Parhaus’s training, Sean’s plans continued as news arrived that Alfons would travel to Haiyue City.

• Buweit explained how he and Nasser killed a Mid God and seized the baleful Short Spear, which drove Nasser mad and helped advance his Destruction Rule.
• Sean had Buweit list the family members who took part in the siege, then selected Alfons as a potential target for a Soul Seed.
• Sean ordered Buweit to stay on the Material Plane and discard his marked Defense Sovereign Artifact into Space Turbulence.
• Sean told Nether Snake Bach to investigate Alfons and arrange an ambush to plant a Soul Seed in him.
• Sean returned to the Death Sovereign, learned that Parhaus had achieved the Third Fusion, and later encouraged him to continue toward the Fourth Fusion.
• Several hundred years later, a man told his father that Alfons would escort the next batch of Metal Life to Haiyue City.

Bach and Bro ambushed the Four Divine Beasts Family’s supply party, killing many Highgods and capturing Alfons for Sean. After the attack, Bach ordered the Nether Serpent family to stay hidden and avoid openly confronting the Four Divine Beasts Family.

• Bach offered Bro a chance to flee to a Material Plane, but Bro chose to stay and accepted one hundred drops of Death Sovereign Power.
• Sean instructed Bach to send the captured Alfons to a designated Material Plane and to keep Sean’s other recruits hidden while they trained.
• Bro ambushed the Four Divine Beasts Family’s Metal Life with Sovereign’s Might, killing many Highgods as onlookers recorded the battle.
• Bro pursued and captured Alfons after Alfons ran out of Sovereign’s Might, then brought him back to Bach.
• Bach took Alfons away and ordered Bro to relocate the group, monitor the Four Divine Beasts Family, and keep their identities concealed.

Sean used Alfons to learn the whereabouts of six Four Divine Beasts Family experts and devised a plan to lure Blood Dragon Valley’s clansmen out together. Alfons returned to the valley and told Dimit that a Material Plane held a Graveyard of Gods containing Sovereign Artifacts.

• After the attack in Blood Dragon Valley, the silver-haired elder ordered the scene investigated and required escorts for Metal Lives leaving the valley.
• The Nether Snake took Alfons through a plane rift to Sean, who learned that six targets had traveled to Hell and the Water Element God Plane and decided to leave them for later.
• Alfons suggested that Valley Lord Dimit could gather the other targets, but Sean needed a way to lure Dimit away from Blood Dragon Valley.
• Alfons returned to the valley and met Dimit, telling him that a Highgod from a Material Plane had revealed the location of a Graveyard of Gods containing Sovereign Artifacts.

Alfons persuaded Dimit that a Floating Shadow and a sworn testimony pointed to a Sovereign Artifact in the Canglan Material Plane, and the two traveled there with Riga. After Sean planted a Soul Seed in Dimit, he ordered him to arrange for people in Blood Dragon Valley to leave without revealing the plan.

• Alfons showed Dimit a Floating Shadow of a battle and argued that the weapon and soul defense shown could be Sovereign Artifacts.
• Dimit confirmed that a Sovereign had fallen in the Netherworld, questioned Riga under a Supreme God's oath, and decided to travel to the Canglan Material Plane with Alfons.
• Dimit, Alfons, and Riga arrived beneath the ocean in the Canglan Plane, where Sean attacked Dimit and planted a Soul Seed in him.
• Sean gave Dimit a list of people to gather and arrange to leave Blood Dragon Valley, directing him to use Seven-Star Demons who cultivated the Death Rule to control those who refused.
• Sean told Dimit to arrange for many more clansmen to leave as cover, and Dimit suggested using an attack on another Metal Life as a pretext.

Sean arranged with Dimit and the Nether Serpent family to ambush and eliminate the Four Divine Beasts Family members traveling to Haiyue City, using a large-scale dark Magic Array and Sovereign's Might. The ambush succeeded without survivors, and the Nether Snake reported the mission complete to Sean.

• Sean and Dimit planned a surprise attack on the Four Divine Beasts Family members, and Sean arranged for a large trapping Magic Array.
• Sean recruited the Nether Snake and Bro, equipped Bro with a Soul Defense Divine Artifact, and ordered the Nether Serpent family to gather Darkstone and prepare the array.
• Over several centuries, the Nether Snake acquired Darkstone, and Sean extracted tens of thousands of drops of Sovereign's Might for the operation.
• Dimit sent six Metal Lives carrying the targets toward Haiyue City, and the Nether Snake, Bro, and more than a hundred clan experts ambushed them with Soul Poison Gas and Sovereign's Might.
• The dark Magic Array trapped the surviving Four Divine Beasts Family members, and the Nether Serpent forces killed them all.
• The Nether Snake returned to Sean and reported that not a single Four Divine Beasts Family member had escaped.

Sean prepared Nether Snake to resist the Four Divine Beasts Family and sought the Babari Family’s help in taking revenge on them. As both sides readied for war, Parhaus achieved the Fourth Fusion and set out to seek opportunities in the Netherworld.

• Sean told Nether Snake to claim that a secret Paragon Lord God backed him, and promised to supply more experts as his forces grew.
• Nether Snake described the Babari Family’s feud with the Four Divine Beasts Family, and Sean asked him to bring Ian Babari to meet him.
• Dimit blamed the Ashcroft Family for the attack, then organized an army to destroy Nether Snake’s family at Bloodmoon Lake.
• Gaisreisen and the other Four Divine Beasts leaders approved the retaliation and decided not to inform their parents.
• Parhaus defeated his sparring partners and achieved the Fourth Fusion, so Sean gave him a Soul Defense Divine Artifact and a Space Ring before sending him to seek opportunities.

Sean sparred with Death Sovereign and learned that the Four Divine Beasts Family was preparing to fight Nether Snake Bach's forces. Destiny Master Orloff then visited to ask how Sean created the Soul Poison that had afflicted Magnus, and Death Sovereign tried to secure Sean a fair exchange for the secret.

• Sean and Death Sovereign sparred, and she asked him to restore the battle-scarred land, but Sean claimed his Life Divine Clone was elsewhere.
• Youming Main God restored the land with Life Divine Power, and Death Sovereign told Sean that the Four Divine Beasts Family was preparing to fight Nether Snake Bach after he killed some of its clansmen.
• Destiny Master Orloff arrived and explained that he and Magnus had only recently removed the Soul Poison Sean had used against Magnus.
• Orloff asked Sean how he had refined the Soul Poison, while Death Sovereign challenged him to offer something in return for the secret.
• Death Sovereign proposed that Orloff teach Sean his body-strengthening technique, but Orloff said his method could not be passed on and she suggested that he owe Sean a favor.

Sean’s Soul Poison drew the interest of Orloff and the Death Sovereign, while Wyatt failed to cure poisoned descendants of the Four Divine Beasts. Orloff took the victims and Wyatt to the Heavenly Realm to study the poison, leaving the Four Divine Beasts impressed by Sean’s skill.

• Orloff rejected Lilith’s request for a favor in exchange for Sean’s Soul Poison but invited Sean to visit Sacred Cloud Mountain and consider his own request.
• After Orloff left, the Death Sovereign asked Sean about his Soul Poison, examined a sample, and asked him to teach her the move; Sean agreed, and they went to her God Plane.
• Wyatt told the Four Divine Beasts that he could not safely remove the Soul Poison fused with their descendants’ souls, despite studying it for tens of thousands of years.
• Orloff arrived, described how he and Magnus had spent a million years purging a different strain of Sean’s poison, and asked to take the victims to the Heavenly Realm for study.
• The Four Divine Beasts agreed to let Orloff take the victims, and Wyatt accompanied him; afterward, the remaining Four Divine Beasts acknowledged Sean’s talent and decided to await Orloff’s results.

Sean discussed Soul Poison with the Death Sovereign and agreed to help develop a way for Death Rule experts to use it in their attacks. The Death Sovereign planned to search for Nether Scorpions as a source of stronger poison, leaving Sean with a possible path to improve his power.

• Orloff brought Wyatt to meet Magnus, and Wyatt questioned Magnus about how Sean's Soul Poison had affected his soul.
• The Death Sovereign tested Sean's Soul Poison techniques and learned that her own execution of them was far weaker than Sean's.
• The Death Sovereign offered to search for poisonous Divine Beasts if Sean would research how other Death Rule experts could use his Soul Poison.
• The Netherworld Main God suggested Nether Scorpions, and the Death Sovereign explained their poisonous Soul Attacks and their ability to grow stronger by devouring one another.
• The Death Sovereign agreed to send people to search for Nether Scorpions, while Sean considered studying them and Fister's essence blood.

Sean studied Hainxi’s Nether Scorpion bloodline and Innate Divine Ability while Nether Snake Bach and Bro discussed their war against the Four Divine Beasts Family. Near the Babari Family headquarters, they witnessed Shanda kill Babari members for their Essence Bones, then Bach met the Babari leader and arranged to speak with the patriarch.

• Sean questioned Hainxi about Nether Scorpions, learned they rarely encountered their own kind, and tested Hainxi’s Soul-Poison attack.
• Hainxi reacted strongly to Fister’s Nether Scorpion essence blood, and Sean ordered him to keep using his Innate Divine Ability for study.
• Bach and Bro discussed their family’s use of Sovereign’s Might and dead soldiers against the Four Divine Beasts Family, and Bach warned Bro not to endanger their plan.
• Bach and Bro found Shanda using Sovereign’s Might near Babari territory after he had killed Babari members and taken their Essence Bones.
• Colo confronted Shanda but withheld his Sovereign’s Might, and Shanda left after threatening the Babari Family.
• Bach introduced himself to Colo, who confirmed the Babari patriarch would receive him at a banquet.

Bach brought Ian Babari to Sean, who recruited the Babari Family to kill three Four Divine Beasts Family members in the Water Element God Plane. Ian’s forces ambushed their targets, and the Great Elder ordered a search for the attackers.

• Bach persuaded Ian to meet a Sovereign by offering him a chance to retaliate against the Four Divine Beasts Family.
• Sean ordered Ian to kill three designated targets and bound him with a Supreme God's oath and a soul mark.
• Ian converted his family's currency into tens of thousands of drops of Water Element Sovereign's Might, then worked with Bach to gather intelligence on the targets.
• A hundred years later, Ian's forces ambushed a Metal Life carrying the three targets and killed everyone aboard.
• The Great Elder learned of the massacre and ordered her clansmen to find the Babari Family attackers on Qinglong Continent.

The Four Divine Beasts Family and the Babari Family clashed in a battle fueled by Sovereign's Might, and the Babari Family's greater numbers turned the fight against Gaia's forces. After Furhan was killed, Gaia summoned the Azure Dragon Lord God, whose attack was challenged by the Water Element Lord Ruler.

• Gaia and Ian Babari confronted each other above a desert as their clans prepared to fight over their longstanding blood feud.
• Both families unleashed Sovereign's Might, and the Babari Family's larger force began killing Azure Dragon Clan experts and trapping Gaia.
• Gaia ordered a retreat, but Furhan rushed to help her and was struck by over a hundred Soul Attacks, killing his strongest divine clone.
• Gaia summoned her father, the Azure Dragon Lord God, who prepared to attack the Babari Family after learning Furhan had died.
• The Water Element Lord Ruler appeared to stop Leiding, arguing that direct intervention in a battle between Gods would tarnish the Lord Gods' dignity, while Leiding claimed he had reason to intervene for his grandson.

The Water Element Lord Ruler Inas protected his emissary Ian Babari from the Four Divine Beasts, while Sean used the resulting conflict to plan a new way to infiltrate their family. The chapter ended with Inas questioning Ian after hearing that a Paragon Sovereign had directed him.

• Inas confronted Azure Dragon Leiding and the other Four Divine Beasts, insisting that they could avenge Furhan but could not kill his emissary, Ian Babari.
• Leiding killed the gods he believed had slain Furhan, then withdrew with the other Four Divine Beasts, and Inas ordered Ian to report to him at Water Curtain Mountain.
• Ian told Sean that Inas possessed a Life Mid Lord God clone and was a divine beast, and Sean instructed him to claim that a Paragon Sovereign had ordered the attack.
• Sean ordered Nether Snake Bach to capture Four Divine Beasts family members, place descendants in other Material Planes, and eventually send talented Soul Seed agents back to Hell.
• At Water Curtain Mountain, Inas asked Ian in astonishment whether a Paragon Sovereign had sought him out and supplied him with Sovereign's Might.

Inas discussed the Babari Family’s attack with Ian, then joined the other Element Lord Rulers to consider who was targeting the Four Divine Beasts. The four rulers decided to supply the Four Divine Beasts’ enemies with Sovereign’s Might and provoke further chaos, hoping to force their unknown rival to act.

• Ian told Inas that a concealed Paragon Lord God had given him enough Water Element Sovereign’s Might to take revenge, and Inas let him leave without interference.
• Gaisreisen learned that Furhan had died in the Babari Family attack and suspected a Lord God was backing the Nether Serpent and Babari Families.
• The Four Divine Beasts Lord Gods discussed the attacks, but Gaisreisen recommended waiting and investigating rather than acting on uncertain suspicions.
• Inas visited Dia with Fitos and Model, and the four Element Lord Rulers discussed the possibility that a Paragon Lord God was targeting the Four Divine Beasts.
• Inas proposed giving Sovereign’s Might to many families hostile to the Four Divine Beasts, and Dia, Fitos, and Model agreed to help intensify the conflict.

Saul and other Death Rule High Gods secretly gathered Azure Dragon Clan members for their Lord God, while Sean pursued soul research and a Wind Element Lord God armed hostile clans with Sovereign's Might. The Four Divine Beasts Family faced attacks across the God Planes, and its leaders concluded they might need a Paragon to intervene.

• Saul brought over a hundred Azure Dragon Clan Mid Gods to the Heavenly Realm, where the Death Rule Lord God planted Soul Seeds in thousands of captives before Saul and Heim set out to recruit more.
• Sean watched Azure Dragon Clan members compete on the Qingyuan Material Plane and later joined the Death Sovereign in extracting soul fragments from Water Element Saint Domain experts.
• The Wind Element Lord God gave Martin Wenner Sovereign's Might and prompted him to oppose the Four Divine Beasts Family.
• Hostile clans across the God Planes attacked the Four Divine Beasts Family after receiving Sovereign's Might from Lord Gods.
• Gaisreisen consulted the Four Divine Beasts, and Azure Dragon Leiding warned that the clan leaders could not intervene directly and suggested seeking a Paragon's help.

Sean arranged to lure Immanuel away from the Heavenly Sacrifice Mountain Range by using Dimit and a Supreme God's oath to confirm the existence of ownerless Sovereign Artifacts. Immanuel believed Dimit's oath but questioned why he had been invited, leaving the scheme on the verge of its next step.

• Sean learned that other Sovereigns had joined the attacks on the Four Divine Beasts Family and ordered the remaining targets in the Heavenly Sacrifice Mountain Range killed.
• Florian became a Highgod, investigated the clan's departure restrictions, and told Sean that Immanuel handled them for Gaia.
• Sean and Bach decided that the promise of Sovereign Artifacts could lure Immanuel out, and Sean arranged for Dimit to see the artifacts before making his oath.
• Dimit swore to Immanuel that he had personally seen ownerless Sovereign Artifacts and invited him to pursue them.
• Immanuel believed the oath but asked Dimit why he had sought him out.

Sean used Soul Seeds to arrange a massacre that humiliated the Four Divine Beasts Family, then created a Death God Plane and advanced his understanding of the Death Rule. After leaving Nether Mountain to pursue his affairs, he received the person he had been searching for in Hongyang Prefecture.

• Dimit persuaded Immanuel to join him in seeking a Sovereign Artifact at the Graveyard of Gods, but Sean secretly controlled Immanuel and ordered him to arrange for three people to travel together on a Metal Life.
• Experts controlled by Sean slaughtered everyone aboard a Metal Life, provoking the Four Divine Beasts Family to launch attacks across the Blood Peak Continent, while Sean rewarded the attackers with Death Sovereign Power.
• Sean gathered Sovereign's Might to create a Death God Plane and, after a thousand years of cultivation, brought his Death Rule to the peak of the Asura level.
• Sean decided to seek further insight into the Death Rule, then left Nether Mountain after telling the Death Sovereign he needed to handle other matters.
• In Hongyang Prefecture, Sean received a Mid God who had been brought to him as the person he had been seeking.

Sean traveled to Hell to investigate the origin of the Mysterious Short Spear and searched records of mass killings for clues to another Supreme God Relic. After hundreds of years, a record mentioning Dannington caught his attention.

• Sean questioned Locke about the tribe that had known Julian and learned that its members had once traveled to Hell with their chief.
• Sean took Resbu to Blood Peak Continent, where the Blood Peak Lord God invited him to visit Lotus Cloud Lake.
• Sean asked Snow Cloud City's Demon Castle to gather records and Floating Shadows of large-scale massacres across Hell.
• Labre recognized Sean from the Plane Battlefield and arranged for him to review the records outside the city.
• Hundreds of years later, Sean found a Floating Shadow record of a battle between Dannington and Hillier in the Sea of Chaos and wondered whether Dannington was the Paragon from the original history.

Sean investigated the Seven-star Demon Dannington and traveled to Lotus Cloud Lake, where he met Blood Peak Lord God Pash and the Four Divine Beasts. After discussing the Four Divine Beasts’ conflict with other families and trading Soul Poison for Sovereign’s Might, Sean left the island and encountered Gaia and her companion.

• Sean asked Resbu to gather information about Dannington and learned that Dannington had risen from Mid God to Seven-star Demon in roughly ten thousand years.
• Sean sent Resbu to reward Labre for gathering information, then traveled with Resbu to Lotus Cloud Lake and entered Lianyun Island alone.
• Sean met Pash and the Four Divine Beasts, who had asked Pash for help; Pash agreed to consider their request before they departed.
• Sean played chess with Pash and later met Xing Yi, who said the Four Divine Beasts had sought help from other Lord Gods over their war with rival families.
• Sean told Pash and Xing Yi that he would not help the Four Divine Beasts, then traded Soul Poison to both Lord Gods for Sovereign’s Might.
• After leaving Lianyun Island, Sean found Gaia and a black-robed man waiting beside Resbu.

Sean refused Gaia’s request to help the Four Divine Beasts Family, then sought out Dannington to test his strength. Their meeting was interrupted by Alef, whose Nether Scorpion manifestation revealed a surprising power.

• Gaia and her companion asked Sean to visit the Four Divine Beasts Family, but he refused to help them and left with Resbu.
• Sean and Resbu traveled to Wukun City, learned Dannington might be on Lieyan Island, and went there to find him.
• Sean challenged Dannington, demonstrated his overwhelming physical strength, and tested Dannington’s soul attack without striking back.
• Alef arrived, and Dannington fought him while Sean and Resbu watched; both Seven-star Demons used Sovereign’s Might.
• Alef manifested a giant Nether Scorpion, startling Sean.

Sean stopped Alef from killing Dannington, learned how Alef had infused Soul Poison into his Innate Divine Ability, and sent him to merge with his distant divine clone. Dannington survived a soul mutation combining death and destruction, and Sean introduced himself as a Paragon Highgod.

• Sean destroyed Dannington's Soul Attack before it could collide with Alef's, but Alef's Innate Divine Ability struck Dannington and left him apparently dead.
• Sean controlled Alef with a Soul Seed, learned that he had infused Sean's Soul Poison into his Innate Divine Ability, and ordered him to merge with his Death Rule divine clone before traveling to the Yunyan Material Plane.
• Sean discovered Dannington's faint soul aura and detected a mutation involving the Death Rule and Destruction Rule, so he concealed him underground in a Magic Array.
• After Dannington's soul weakened for half a month, it began recovering; seven months later, he awoke with fused death and destruction divine power and tenfold stronger soul power.
• Dannington asked why he could not detect Sean, and Sean revealed that he was the Paragon Highgod Sean.

Sean sparred with Dannington for a thousand years, helping him advance, then traveled with Dannington and Resbu toward Wukun City. Back on Qingyuan Material Plane, Sean perfected a Nether Scorpion innate divine ability, and the Soul Pearl stopped absorbing Lord God Might as new memory images appeared in his mind.

• Sean met Dannington, discussed his soul mutation and cultivation, and invited him to exchange techniques in a spar.
• After a thousand years of sparring, Dannington advanced, while Sean gained insights into his techniques without reaching Death Grand Perfection.
• Sean agreed to adventure with Dannington and Resbu, and they left Lieyan Island for Wukun City.
• Sean used Feist Lord God's Nether Scorpion essence blood and Alef's research to create an innate divine ability that strengthened his Soul Attack and carried Soul Poison.
• Tens of thousands of years later, Sean sensed that the Soul Pearl had stopped absorbing Lord God Might, then saw new memory images appear in his mind.

Sean learned that the Soul Pearl sought thirteen scattered fragments of soul energy and spent a million years challenging powerful experts while pursuing a breakthrough. Meanwhile, the Abia Material Plane produced another Twelve-Winged Divine Angel, prompting Augusta and Orloff to move to claim it after discovering that Utred knew of the plane too.

• Sean understood that the Soul Pearl wanted him to recover thirteen fragments of its scattered soul energy, which would become detectable after it absorbed enough Lord God Might.
• Sean traveled with Dannington and Resbu through Purgatory and other realms, secretly challenging powerful experts for a million years while Dannington approached peak Asura strength.
• Several Sovereigns met or invited Sean during his travels, and Vivian welcomed him to her island for half a month.
• In the Light God Realm, a Twelve-Winged Divine Angel emerged from the Angel Rebirth Pool, and Steve identified the Abia Material Plane as the source of its pure soul.
• Augusta learned that two Twelve-Winged Divine Angels had come from Abia within a short span, while Orloff revealed that a Twelve-Winged Dark God Angel from the same plane had appeared three hundred thousand years earlier.
• Orloff urged Augusta to seize Abia, but revealed that Utred already knew about the plane.

Orloff and Augusta organized a contest among Paragons to control the Abia Material Plane, where Twelve-Winged Divine Angels were being born in large numbers. Sean and Leicester arrived to find Magnus, Clementing, and Bayer already there, as Sovereign-backed forces converged on the plane.

• Augusta wanted to kill Nid for revealing Light God Realm secrets, but Orloff warned against starting a Sovereign war and urged him to focus on controlling the unusual Material Plane.
• Orloff recruited Magnus, while Augusta recruited Clementing, and both warned that other Sovereigns would send Paragons to compete for the plane.
• The Death Sovereign and Destruction Sovereign summoned Sean and Leicester, asking them to seize territory and prevent the Light God Plane from sacrificing souls.
• Sean and Leicester arrived at the Abia Material Plane and discovered that Magnus, Clementing, and Bayer had already reached it.

Sean and the other Paragons gathered in the Abia Material Plane to investigate the birth of Twelve-Winged Divine Angels and decide who would control the plane. When they finally began a free-for-all, Sean stunned the others by hurling Hamlin away with a single material attack.

• Sean and the Paragons agreed to wait for more Twelve-Winged Divine Angels before deciding how to fight over the Abia Material Plane.
• After 800,000 years, the Death Sovereign told Sean and Leicester that a Bright and a Dark Twelve-Winged Divine Angel had been born from souls in the plane.
• Sean asked the Dark Lord for permission to inspect the newly formed angels, then gathered the Paragons to discuss the births.
• The Paragons agreed to a free-for-all, and Sean struck Hamlin with a material attack that tore open space and sent him crashing into a mountain range.
• The other Paragons stared in shock as Sean called for Hamlin to come out, saying the attack could not have hurt him.