Chapter Summaries

An Kai mastered the Dark Magic Element, which reversed the merciful effects of his Light Magic Element on Goodness Home’s inhabitants and boosted his attributes and Divinity Ranking. Confident in his new strength, he ordered Goodness Home to march out and slaughter gods, while the God of Radiance discovered that his own ranking had fallen to 984.

• An Kai mastered the Dark Magic Element, whose malice restored many Goodness Home inhabitants to their crueler natures; Bruts-Jackhol tortured and killed a Storm Mouse pup he had briefly tried to help.
• An Kai viewed his updated Character Panel, gained 3,000 points in each of his four attributes from mastering light and darkness, and rose to the 985th place on the Divinity Ranking.
• An Kai contacted Wayne and ordered Goodness Home to prepare to slaughter gods, and Wayne announced the command to the cheering inhabitants.
• The God of Radiance continued leading 87 Fifth-Rank Divinities in destroying the Chaos Sea and expected to finish in about two days.
• The God of Radiance checked the Divinity Ranking and froze when he found himself ranked 984th.

The God of Radiance and 87 Fifth-Rank Divinities were halted outside [Chaos Sea: Good People Island] by its scorching aura, unable to find a way through. An Kai led more than ten thousand humans out of the island to confront them, and the chapter ended as he enveloped the divinities in chaos aura.

• The God of Radiance discovered that his rank had fallen to 986 and ordered the divinities to force their way through [Chaos Sea: Good People Island].
• The 87 Fifth-Rank Divinities and the God of Radiance found that the island’s heat could burn away their perceptions, leaving them unable to advance.
• An Kai gathered more than ten thousand humans as a cheering squad, then waited to see whether the island could hold off the divinities.
• After confirming the island repelled the Fifth-Rank Divinities, An Kai led the humans onto Good People Island and concealed his identity before heading toward the God of Radiance.
• The God of Radiance saw An Kai and the humans emerge unharmed from the island and could not understand how they had entered it.
• An Kai released his chaos aura and enveloped the divinities while they were still stunned.

An Kai killed the [God of Radiance] and the other eighty-seven [fifth-rank divinities] after using chaos aura and his [light] and [dark] magic elements against them. Back in Goodness Home, the [God of Radiance]'s true spirit recognized Lei and began explaining who he was.

• An Kai confirmed that the [God of Radiance] served the [God of Light], then trapped the [fifth-rank divinities] in Chaos Space.
• An Kai disrupted the [God of Radiance]'s devotion to the [God of Light] and killed him with a [Fireball].
• An Kai blasted the remaining eighty-seven [fifth-rank divinities] with eighty-seven [Fireball] spells, while [Good People Island] and Goodness Home celebrated.
• An Kai returned to Goodness Home with the divinities' true spirits; Lei and Wayne took the eighty-seven divinities to the [Divinity Breeding Center].
• The [God of Radiance]'s true spirit recognized Lei as the founder of the [Divine Court] and began telling An Kai about him.

After learning about Lei’s past, An Kai sent him into the newly awakened [divine court seventh layer] to meet Giant Vertical Eye, where their reunion turned hostile. Back at Goodness Home, An Kai arranged for Dong Lin’s True Spirit to assist Wayne and then pressed the [God of Radiance] to reveal the [God of Light]’s mission.

• The [God of Radiance] told An Kai that Lei had founded the Divine Court, associated with Supreme Gods, and disappeared after the [God of Magic] killed a First-Tier Deity who had injured him.
• An Kai connected Lei’s one-eyed lackey to Giant Vertical Eye and decided Lei was the best person to explore the [divine court seventh layer]; Wayne confirmed he could operate the Ten-Life Reincarnation Method in Lei’s absence.
• An Kai sent Lei into [Divine Court Academy], where Giant Vertical Eye recognized him and threatened to kill him, but a stern voice silenced Giant Vertical Eye before another figure approached.
• An Kai summoned Dong Lin’s Spell True Spirit to help Wayne, who recognized Dong Lin as the one who had turned his father into an undead; An Kai let Wayne decide Dong Lin’s fate.
• An Kai returned to the [God of Radiance] and demanded details of his mission, and the [God of Radiance] began by criticizing the [God of Light].

An Kai learned the God of Light’s blood-sacrifice plan and had Wayne reshape it into a scheme for obtaining Abyss Cores and Divinity Cores. Goodness Home launched the Black Curtain Plan, sending its divinities to stage evolutionary wars among Abyss races while secretly preparing selected victors.

• The God of Radiance explained that the God of Light planned to sacrifice Abyss beings to force the Divine Court Eighth Layer to appear and accelerate the Divine Realm’s revival.
• An Kai summoned Wayne, who recognized that the sacrifice plan could be altered to produce the Abyss Cores and Divinity Cores his teacher needed.
• Wayne modified the plan in an hour, and An Kai named it the Black Curtain Plan and ordered it to begin immediately.
• Goodness Home’s divinities departed in pairs to organize evolutionary wars, where Abyss beings would kill one another and victors would absorb bloodlines to form impure Divinity Cores.
• Two divinities staged an evolutionary war among the Colossus People and secretly selected its intended victor, while another divinity began fusing Goodness Home cores into captured Stone People.

Goodness Home implemented the [Black Curtain Plan] across the Divine Realm while An Kai struggled to master his thirteenth spell element and keep Chris at a distance. When the Abyssal aura began trying to summon him back, Wayne warned that it might eventually overpower him, prompting An Kai to order an all-out slaughter of Abyssal creatures.

• Goodness Home's divinities began using the [Black Curtain Plan] to control Abyss creatures and harvest [Abyss Cores] and [Divinity Cores], while An Kai's strength was set to improve.
• An Kai failed to make progress on his thirteenth spell element, then coldly urged Chris to go explore the world; Chris realized she had mistaken his kindness for love.
• Abyssal aura formed a portal that tried to drag An Kai into the Abyss, and he discovered it reacted excitedly when he considered organizing his physical talents.
• An Kai worried that physical talent organization could keep him away for centuries and decided to build his strength before entering the Abyss.
• Wayne warned An Kai that the growing Abyssal aura might eventually seize control and force him back into the Abyss.
• An Kai ordered Goodness Home's divinities to advance the War of Evolution and slaughter Abyssal creatures, prioritizing rapid killing over breeding.

As fifty Fourth-Rank Divinities attacked Good People Island while the Abyss Aura Portal threatened to drag An Kai away, he sent Wayne, Chris, and Orc Twenty-Eighth Prince Gulair to escape. An Kai entered the portal, but it immediately reappeared and he emerged again, looking as though he had endured countless years.

• An Kai upgraded all four spells to Lv201, but the portal’s pull grew so strong that he had to use his full strength to resist it.
• Fifty Fourth-Rank Divinities descended, surrounded Good People Island, and began bombarding it on the God of Light’s orders.
• An Kai told Wayne, Chris, and Orc Twenty-Eighth Prince Gulair to follow their escape plan and conceal his name after leaving.
• Chris bid An Kai farewell, and An Kai silently vowed to avenge her before telling the three of them to stay alive.
• An Kai stopped resisting the portal and was pulled into the Abyss, but the portal reappeared moments later and he emerged looking weathered by countless years.

An Kai discovered that he had spent only two seconds in the Divine Realm while experiencing nearly 199 years in the Abyss, where he created two unique physical talents and greatly increased his strength. After confirming his friends were safe and reflecting on the possibility of the time spell element, he left Goodness Home to confront the Fourth-Rank Divinities attacking Good People Island.

• An Kai realized his reunion with Chris was real when he sensed her emotions, then learned from Wayne that only two seconds had passed while he was in the Abyss.
• An Kai checked his panel and sensed his attributes increasing again, while wondering whether the Abyss's distorted time was connected to the time spell element.
• An Kai explained that he had created the unique talents Heaven and Earth Manifestation and Hearts in Harmony during his nearly 199 years in the Abyss.
• An Kai told Wayne he had completed his task, assured everyone at Goodness Home was safe, and departed to attack the Fourth-Rank Divinities.
• The Fourth-Rank Divinities attacking Good People Island sensed An Kai's powerful aura approaching and stopped their assault.

An Kai used his upgraded abilities to trap and kill the Fourth-Rank Divinities who had descended near Good People Island, ending the immediate threat to the Divine Realm. Afterward, he felt relieved, while the God of Light waited in Chaos Space to learn how his forces had fared.

• An Kai appeared in Heaven and Earth Manifestation and used chaos aura and Forced Summoning to pin the Fourth-Rank Divinities in place.
• An Kai created Square Domains with Ten Thousand Bodies from a Single Thought, then battered spell-focused divinities with his fists and bombarded physically focused ones with Fireballs.
• An Kai killed the Fourth-Rank Divinities one after another, while Wayne and the others in Goodness Home realized he was resolving the crisis.
• Nurnexius arrived and learned from Gulair that An Kai had ordered everyone to flee, then berated Gulair for being included while Nurnexius was left behind.
• An Kai finished off the Fourth-Rank Divinities and concluded that no more divinities could descend unless the Divine Court Eighth Layer was summoned early.
• The God of Light waited in Chaos Space, eager to check on the Fourth- and Fifth-Rank Divinities acting under his orders.

An Kai forced the newly summoned fourth-rank divinities to renounce the [God of Light], then sent them to the [Divinity Breeding Center] as slaves. He used the [Summoning Gate] to reach back through two hundred years and summon Will-Bukelin, leaving the gathered residents waiting as a fierce gale erupted.

• An Kai made a fourth-rank divinity who had threatened him beg for mercy, then forced the divinities to call the [God of Light] a bastard and break their reverence for him.
• The [God of Light] sensed an unsettling premonition but dismissed it, failed to contact the [God of Magic], and returned to seclusion expecting the Divine Realm to be his.
• Dong Lin took charge of the fourth- and fifth-rank divinities at the [Divinity Breeding Center], where they were transformed into Abyss creatures and sent to reproduce.
• An Kai announced that he would use the [Summoning Gate] to find Will-Bukelin, and his friends and companions gathered in the courtyard to welcome him.
• An Kai commanded, “Come!” and a fierce gale erupted around the [Summoning Gate].

Sally Bukelin was resurrected through the [Summoning Gate], and her return unsettled Chris as she waited to reunite with An Kai. An Kai avoided Sally and went to the [Lord of Life], but the [God of Light] soon descended into the Divine Realm, forcing An Kai to turn his attention to the [God of Radiance].

• Sally Bukelin emerged from the [Summoning Gate], and Wayne recognized her as Will-Bukelin's older sister while An Kai left before she appeared.
• Wayne explained that he was the aged son of the King of the Shak Kingdom and arranged Sally Bukelin's accommodation as Chris watched her anxiously.
• An Kai left Chris a note and went to the [Lord of Life]'s residence, while Sally waited in vain for him the next day.
• Chris visited Sally Bukelin and proposed that they talk about themselves and An Kai, beginning their confrontation.
• The [God of Light] descended into the Divine Realm and confronted the [God of Radiance], prompting An Kai to send his consciousness to the [God of Radiance]'s location.

An Kai used the [God of Radiance] and another god to taunt the [God of Light], who restrained his anger and searched the Divine Realm for answers. He finally reached the [Chaos Sea], where he found his trusted [God of Sunflame] had become a captive at a divinity breeding center, and An Kai waited to confront him.

• An Kai controlled the [God of Radiance], who insulted the [God of Light] while the Supreme God suppressed his anger to avoid harming the Divine Realm's recovery.
• An Kai sent the Divine Realm's gods a task to report the [God of Light]'s location, then descended into a Western Region god and provoked him again.
• The [God of Light] lost his composure, left for the [Chaos Sea], and found the ocean restored after mistaking its earlier wasteland for evidence of the [God of Sunflame]'s success.
• The [God of Light] recognized the [Divinity Breeding Center: Chaos Sea Island No. 62] and saw that his trusted [God of Sunflame] had become a captive there.
• An Kai, having descended into the [God of Sunflame], taunted the [God of Light] for hesitating to approach.

The [God of Light] enlisted the [God of Magic] to unseal the [Divine Court Academy] as a weapon against An Kai, while Chris brought Sally Bukelin to An Kai’s Castle. The academy engulfed the Divine Realm overnight, and the next morning An Kai discovered something shocking after dismissing his [Domain].

• An Kai hid inside the [God of Sunflame] as the [God of Light] recognized the [Goodness Home] as the force behind his defeat and left without attacking.
• The [God of Light] contacted the [God of Magic], who agreed to fully unseal the [Divine Court Academy] in return for benefits.
• Chris invited Sally Bukelin to the Castle and gave her Elf-Handwoven Black Stockings, and An Kai welcomed the arrangement when he learned of it.
• The [God of Magic] awakened the [Divine Court Academy], which began swallowing the Divine Realm and pulling divinities inside.
• The next morning, An Kai dismissed his [Domain], saw something outside, and shouted in alarm.

The Divine Court Seventh Layer swallowed the Divine Realm and began a deadly entrance trial, while the God of Magic manipulated the God of Light into sending a doppelganger inside. The doppelganger reached the Mountain Gate ahead of the others and met a young man named Hanks.

• An Kai failed to stop the Divine Court Seventh Layer from swallowing him, Chris, Sally Bukelin, Goodness Home, and the entire Divine Realm.
• Wayne found himself in the academy’s misty world and ran toward the Mountain Gate after being given a twenty-four-hour entrance trial, but discovered that running did not close the distance.
• The God of Magic told the God of Light that the Divine Court Seventh Layer had swallowed the Divine Realm and created a doppelganger for him.
• After the God of Light left, the God of Magic threatened the doppelganger, explained how to pass the first trial, and sent it into the Divine Realm.
• The God of Light’s doppelganger reached the Mountain Gate by following the God of Magic’s instructions and met a young man roasting meat who introduced himself as Hanks.

An Kai, posing as Hanks, tested the [God of Light]'s avatar and recruited Wayne to mislead him and gather students around him. When the first trial ended and the mountain was shrouded in fog, an enormous gate of light appeared, and An Kai recognized the figure emerging from it.

• An Kai discovered that the [God of Light]'s avatar, who named himself [Light-Taker], was weaker than expected and provoked him without breaking the academy's rules.
• An Kai concluded that Light-Taker feared the consequences of attacking, then ordered Wayne to pretend not to know him and investigate Light-Taker.
• Wayne won Light-Taker's trust and recruited arriving students from Goodness Home into his group, while An Kai pretended to be rejected by them.
• In Chaos Space, the [God of Light] grew suspicious that the [God of Magic] had tricked him, but chose not to send another strand of perception into the Divine Realm.
• An Kai worried when Chris, Sally Bukelin, and other Goodness Home members had not arrived before the first trial ended.
• A gate of light appeared after the trial ended, and An Kai smiled when he recognized the enormous vertical eye of the figure emerging from it.

An Kai, Light-Taker, the Giant Vertical Eye, and the Abyssal beings entered the Divine Court Academy, where the first lesson presented a choice between betrayal and resisting betrayers. Light-Taker secretly knew that resisting betrayal was necessary to claim the academy, but his warning to Wayne hinted that Wayne had his own hidden loyalties.

• The Giant Vertical Eye explained that students had to pass seven examinations to graduate and warned that anyone who escaped would bring punishment on everyone.
• An Kai rejected the Abyssal beings’ attempt to recruit him, provoked Light-Taker and the Abyssal group, and entered the academy without being attacked.
• Light-Taker, Wayne, and the Goodness Home group entered after An Kai, while the Abyssal beings followed last.
• Inside the bamboo pavilion called Betrayal, An Kai and the others received badges marked with the number 1 and sensed other badge holders.
• Light-Taker recalled that students could learn to betray or defend against betrayal, and that only the second choice could let him claim the academy.
• Light-Taker privately warned Wayne not to betray, but Wayne was secretly a different kind of betrayer.

An Kai rejected the academy’s choices of learning or resisting betrayal and used his [Summoning Gate] to take control of all 108 Bamboo Men. As Light-Taker began commanding one against “Hanks,” the Bamboo Man turned on Light-Taker instead.

• An Kai decided to control betrayal through overwhelming strength and secretly drew the Bamboo Men into his [Summoning Gate], cleansing all 108 of them before summoning them back.
• Light-Taker ignored An Kai and studied how to resist betrayal, planning to command the Bamboo Men to attack him.
• Wayne and the other beings from the Goodness Home trusted An Kai and watched, while the Abyss beings followed their leader’s order to stay outside the Bamboo Tower.
• The Abyss leader told the high-rank succubus that the Giant Vertical Eye was their guardian god and that they should wait for An Kai and Light-Taker to fight before taking the test.
• The [God of Light] learned that the [God of Darkness] had also lost contact with a doppelganger created by the [God of Magic], so the two Supreme Gods agreed to join forces.
• Light-Taker sent a Bamboo Man after “Hanks,” but it leaped toward Light-Taker with its Bamboo Saber instead.

An Kai secretly controlled the Bamboo Men to torment Light-Taker, who mistakenly believed their attacks came from changes to the Divine Court Academy. When Light-Taker fled the hut and tried to use Abyss creatures to escape, An Kai sent twelve Bamboo Men after him.

• An Kai secretly directed Bamboo Men to attack both himself and Light-Taker, while Light-Taker blamed the academy's rules and his own incomplete understanding of [Betrayal].
• An Kai hid in his [Domain] and watched Light-Taker struggle as more Bamboo Men appeared and coordinated their attacks.
• Light-Taker fled the bamboo hut, but five Bamboo Men pursued him into the forest, where An Kai declared he would kill the God of Light's doppelganger.
• Light-Taker ran past the Abyss creatures' leader and a High-Rank Succubus, and An Kai ordered the Bamboo Men to kill them; the attackers crumbled but reappeared in the hut.
• An Kai revived the two Bamboo Men and sent twelve after Light-Taker, who realized his plan to use Abyss creatures to reduce their numbers had failed when their auras surged behind him.

An Kai used Bamboo Men to drive Light-Taker to the brink, but the academy's towering enforcer intervened and exposed An Kai's role. Light-Taker learned that their shared group put him at risk too, and the chapter ended with the enforcer poised to punish An Kai while Light-Taker refused to give him a Token.

• The [God of Magic] revealed that he had deceived the [God of Light] and [God of Darkness] doppelgangers to use them to seize control of the [Divine Court Academy].
• An Kai sent increasing numbers of Bamboo Men after Light-Taker, who tried to survive by luring them into Abyss creatures while An Kai watched from the bamboo house.
• After Wayne asked when Light-Taker would die, the towering figure appeared, destroyed thirty Bamboo Men, and prepared to strike Light-Taker for harming fellow students.
• Light-Taker used the Token from the [God of Magic] to stop the attack, and the towering figure then exposed An Kai as the one behind the Bamboo Men.
• Light-Taker realized that An Kai's actions had implicated them both, while An Kai warned Light-Taker that his death could take Light-Taker down too.
• An Kai demanded a Token from Light-Taker to save himself, but Light-Taker refused and declared they would die together.

An Kai forced Light-Taker to surrender his [Divine Court Direct-Line Token] by threatening to destroy the Bamboo Men, then used a private exchange to make the towering figure withdraw. An Kai suspected the figure was a dangerous, darkened version of his Teacher, but a new passage opened with a demand for the Token.

• An Kai threatened to destroy the Bamboo Men, and Light-Taker hesitated to hand over his remaining Token as the towering figure waited.
• An Kai began detonating Bamboo Men, prompting the towering figure to turn on Light-Taker and force him to offer the [Divine Court Direct-Line Token].
• Light-Taker threw the Token to An Kai, but An Kai kept it instead of giving it to the towering figure.
• An Kai privately called the towering figure "Teacher," and the figure vanished after recognizing that An Kai had guessed his secret.
• An Kai told Wayne that their grandteacher seemed to resent him, then a passage opened and a voice demanded, "Give me back the Token!"