Recaps

Jiang Yuu and Alanmonlos created a flawed Three Realms and simulated nine thousand years of conflict to test their paths to transcendence. The simulation ended without a victor, and Jiang Yuu resumed their life-or-death battle with a sword strike forged from Heaven and the Abyss.

• Jiang Yuu manifested his path of holiness, created the Angel Race, and sent its members into Heaven and the Shadow Abyss while Alanmonlos left the Embers Holy Grail to guide the Emberfolk.
• Across the first three millennia, the Emberfolk, Heaven Divine Race, and Abyss Demonfolk built civilizations, and the Divine Race's miracles drew Emberfolk into a civil war.
• The Emberfolk who worshipped the Heaven Divine Race won the war and formed an empire, then fought the Abyss and later Heaven as they sought control of the Three Realms.
• In the ninth millennium, every faction perished in the flawed Three Realms, which collapsed without a victor.
• Jiang Yuu and Alanmonlos reappeared, acknowledged what they had learned from the simulation, and Jiang Yuu attacked Alanmonlos with a strike incorporating the Heaven and Abyss forged over nine thousand years.

Jiang Yuu and Alanmonlos unleashed their full power against each other in a clash that disrupted the laws of reality across Paradise Mountain and the Ash Continent. When the ten-thousand-year storm finally cleared, the True Kings saw a scene that left them shocked and afraid.

• Jiang Yuu poured the shattered Seven-Layer Heaven and Shadow Abyss into a sword strike aimed at Alanmonlos.
• Alanmonlos shattered the Gray Mist Mortal World, drew its River of Time and Emberfolk into his power, and answered with the Sacred Eye of Embers and chains of gray snow.
• Their attacks collided, unleashing a storm that suppressed the forces on both landmasses and disrupted time, concepts, and the laws of the multiverse.
• The storm raged for ten thousand years, forcing the Supremes and True Kings to shield the troops below Supreme.
• When the haze cleared, the True Kings on the Ash Continent saw the battlefield and reacted with shock and panic.

After Jiang Yuu defeated Alanmonlos, two legions of the Emberfolk and Illusionfolk charged toward the battlefield to die alongside their emperor. Alanmonlos forced them back to the Ash Continent and pleaded with Yuliel to spare his subjects in exchange for his own life and the Endless Planes.

• The Emberfolk and Illusionfolk legions charged from the Ash Continent, determined to die with Alanmonlos.
• Nockburn admitted that he could not join the doomed charge because he had his own people to protect.
• Alanmonlos ordered the armies to return and used his remaining power to prevent them from crossing beyond the Ash Continent.
• Alanmonlos confessed his failures as monarch to Yuliel and offered his life and the Endless Planes, asking him not to harm a single subject.

Jiang Yuu killed the dying Ember Emperor, Alanmonlos, after promising to spare the surrendered forces of the Endless Planes and protect them from the Eye Emperor. As Alanmonlos died, he remembered the original history he had changed and the Crystal Emperor who had encouraged him.

• Jiang Yuu and Alanmonlos acknowledged their mutual respect, and Jiang Yuu offered to spare the Endless Planes' forces if they surrendered.
• Alanmonlos revealed that the Eye Emperor had created the Endless Planes and might destroy them when he awoke.
• Jiang Yuu promised to suppress the Eye Emperor if he achieved Transcendence, and Alanmonlos accepted his coming death.
• Jiang Yuu severed Alanmonlos's head with the Platinum Holy Sword, destroying his soul and true spirit.
• Alanmonlos remembered that he had changed history to revive his ancestors and recalled the Crystal Emperor encouraging him at the academy.

Jiang Yuu killed Ember Emperor Alanmonlos, whose death plunged the Endless Planes and its inhabitants into grief and ended the Ember Court. After a century of contemplation, Jiang Yuu collected Alanmonlos's remains and brought Paradise Mountain and the Ash Continent together.

• Alanmonlos's true spirit dissipated, and his body became a vast world of Embers as his death erased the ash and oppressive presence across the battlefield and the Ash Continent.
• The Endless Planes mourned Alanmonlos, while the sleeping Eye Emperor remained trapped beneath the weight of the flourishing cosmos they had helped preserve.
• Jiang Yuu contemplated the battle as the Ash Continent's True Kings awaited his decision and kept their followers under control.
• A tearful female Quasi-True King accused Lord of Heaven Yuliel of killing her father despite his surrender, and Jiang Yuu killed her with a flash of sword light.
• The Ash Continent's True Kings killed others who tried to challenge or morally blackmail Jiang Yuu, and the oppressive atmosphere continued for a hundred years.
• Jiang Yuu ended his contemplation, collected Alanmonlos's remains to give him a burial ground within the Endless Planes, and brought Paradise Mountain and the Ash Continent together.

After defeating Alanmonlos, Jiang Yuu preserved the Three Realms battlefield inside the Ember Emperor’s eye and forged it into a divine artifact combining Embers with holy power. He summoned Lionheart, Anwyn, Gael, Lucifer, and Michael to choose a master for it.

• Jiang Yuu sealed the Three Realms Ruins inside one of Alanmonlos's eyes so the Supremes could study the battle's mysteries.
• Jiang Yuu gathered the scattered power and concept of Embers, giving the sealed eye a spark of spiritual essence and hope.
• Jiang Yuu added holy radiance to the eye and forged the Ember Emperor's Divine Eye, which joined Ember power with holy power.
• Jiang Yuu summoned Lionheart, Anwyn, Gael, Lucifer, and Michael to his side to choose a master for the divine eye.
• Annatania told Anwyn and Gael that their father had likely summoned them to receive a task, while Lucifer, Lionheart, and Michael hurried to Jiang Yuu.

Jiang Yuu offered the Ember Emperor's Divine Eye to one of five Angel Supremes in exchange for ruling the Endless Planes for ten million years. Lucifer refused because she would not leave Jiang Yuu, and she claimed she could become a Seventh-Realm Supreme without taking the treasure.

• Jiang Yuu explained that the Ember Emperor's Divine Eye held a portion of Sovereign Grade power and could grant its wielder insights into the Sovereign Realm.
• Jiang Yuu offered the Eye to Lionheart, Anwyn, Gael, Lucifer, or Michael, on the condition that its wielder govern the Endless Planes for ten million years and maintain order there.
• The five Supremes hesitated at the prospect of being away from the Multiverse for ten million years, though Lionheart showed some resolve.
• Jiang Yuu asked Lucifer if she would take the Eye, but Lucifer firmly refused because she did not want to leave him.
• Lucifer told Jiang Yuu she wanted to spend her life serving him and added that she could become a Seventh-Realm Supreme within ten million years even in the Multiverse.

Jiang Yuu asked his family and angels who would govern the Endless Planes for ten million years, and Lionheart volunteered. Jiang Yuu accepted his eldest son’s offer and placed the Ember Emperor’s Divine Eye in his forehead.

• Lucifer declined to rule the Endless Planes, and Michael followed her example, saying he wished to remain by Jiang Yuu’s side.
• Gael left the choice to her father, while Anwyn admitted he did not feel capable of governing the Endless Planes.
• Lionheart volunteered to rule the Endless Planes, explaining that he wanted to repay Jiang Yuu and shoulder his responsibilities as the eldest son.
• Jiang Yuu accepted Lionheart’s offer, reassured him of his love, and pressed the Ember Emperor's Divine Eye to his forehead.
• The divine eye appeared on Lionheart’s forehead as its power of embers surged and flowed into his body.

Lionheart gained control of the Ember Emperor's Divine Eye and prepared to leave for the Endless Planes, while Jiang Yuu organized forces to subdue the Ash Continent. Annatania and Gael set out to join Jiang Yuu, anticipating his plans for the defeated armies.

• Jiang Yuu awakened Lionheart when the power of Embers threatened to overwhelm him, and the holy power of the Ember Emperor's Divine Eye helped Lionheart contain it.
• Lionheart thanked Jiang Yuu and agreed to guard the Endless Planes for ten million years; he asked to bring willing warriors, his mother, and some family members, and Jiang Yuu approved.
• Jiang Yuu ordered Lucifer to gather loyal Supremes and elites, Michael and Anwyn to deploy Angel legions over the Ash Continent, and Gael to tell Annatania what had happened.
• Lucifer raised the Blazing Heaven Holy Banner and summoned the Supremes, while Michael and Anwyn led Angel armies into the Ash Continent's skies.
• Gael told Annatania about the events, and Annatania decided to go with her to the Ash Continent, noting that Jiang Yuu likely had plans for the defeated armies.

Jiang Yuu arrived on the Ash Continent after the Multiverse armies took control and gathered the defeated forces of the Endless Planes. As the True Kings hesitated before him, Lucifer rebuked those who dared look directly at the Monarch.

• Annatania led the Angel Supremes and angel legions to the Ash Continent, where the Multiverse forces began taking control of the territory.
• The True Kings and their elite armies were assembled on a central plateau and surrounded by the angels and Multiverse Supremes.
• Jiang Yuu arrived with a blonde-haired, purple-eyed Supreme as the Multiverse armies knelt and praised him.
• Jiang Yuu raised a White Gold Divine Throne, invited Annatania to sit beside him, and looked down at the gathered forces.
• Lucifer stepped forward with the Black and White Holy Sword and rebuked the kings and armies who dared gaze directly at Jiang Yuu.

Jiang Yuu subjected the defeated people of the Endless Planes to overwhelming pressure, but Ming Ruo challenged him to honor Alanmonlos’s promise and then took his own life to defend the Ember Court’s dignity. Moved by Ming Ruo’s sacrifice, Jiang Yuu lifted the pressure and ordered that people be judged individually, pardoning those who had committed no sins.

• Jiang Yuu’s aura forced nearly all the defeated kings and warriors to kneel, while Ming Ruo alone continued to resist.
• Ming Ruo demanded that Jiang Yuu honor the promise he had made to Alanmonlos and asked for a dignified fate for the defeated.
• After Jiang Yuu confirmed he would keep his word, Ming Ruo shattered his soul and took his own life, declaring himself the Ember Court’s final backbone.
• Some of Ming Ruo’s clansmen, Emberfolk, and Illusionfolk followed his example and killed themselves, while Jiang Yuu withdrew his aura and ordered Lionheart to give Ming Ruo a grand burial.
• Jiang Yuu changed his decision to brand everyone as sinners and announced that sacred judgment would punish the guilty while pardoning the innocent.

Jiang Yuu used the concept of holy judgment to examine the Endless Planes' armies and divide them into nine ranks according to their guilt, assigning Lionheart and the Angel Supremes to awaken or punish them. After seven days, the survivors regained consciousness, and Jiang Yuu announced that the judgment had passed before preparing to introduce someone.

• Jiang Yuu warned the assembled armies and kings not to move, then used Conviction to make them relive their pasts as colored lights revealed their guilt.
• Jiang Yuu told Lionheart to record those shining holy white or pale green and release them from the great dream.
• Jiang Yuu assigned Anwyn and the Angel Supremes to awaken and judge those marked by the other colors.
• Jiang Yuu ordered Lucifer to execute everyone glowing blood-red, and she cut them down with the Platinum Holy Sword.
• After seven days, the survivors awoke to find almost half their companions gone, and Jiang Yuu declared that holy judgment had passed before saying he wished to introduce someone.

Jiang Yuu named Lionheart regent of the Endless Planes and gave him the Ember Emperor’s Divine Eye, while Lionheart announced plans to replace the Ember Court with the Golden Lion Holy Court. The chapter ended with a female True King asking how the condemned would atone.

• Jiang Yuu summoned his eldest son, Lionheart, and praised his virtues before the gathered powers of the Endless Planes.
• Jiang Yuu bestowed an Ember Emperor’s Divine Eye on Lionheart and appointed him to wield Holy Paradise Mountain’s authority as regent.
• Lionheart activated the Divine Eye and declared that he would govern the Endless Planes for ten million years, establish the Golden Lion Holy Court, and punish resistance.
• Jiang Yuu approved Lionheart’s speech and invited the assembled powers to ask questions before they departed for the Endless Planes.
• A gray-haired female True King asked Jiang Yuu how the sinners were to atone.

Jiang Yuu laid out paths of atonement for the conquered powerhouses of the Endless Planes, including imprisonment in a new Abyss for those with grave sins. He declared that the full moon would mark the Lion Court’s departure for the Endless Planes.

• Jiang Yuu said the Light of Holy Judgment would reveal the sinners’ guilt, but warned that most had only admitted it out of fear.
• Jiang Yuu announced that he would establish an Abyss in the Endless Planes, where the gravely sinful would be confined and judged every hundred thousand years.
• Jiang Yuu ordered sinners with lesser offenses to serve the Lion Court or make amends, and said voluntary submission to Lionheart would reduce their sins by one degree.
• The powerhouses of the Endless Planes knelt and thanked Jiang Yuu for giving them a path to atonement.
• Lionheart thought Jiang Yuu’s punishments would help preserve the order left by Ember Emperor Alanmonlos.
• Jiang Yuu created a platinum crescent moon over the Ash Continent and said the Lion Court would depart for the Endless Planes when it was full.

Lucifer wrote a self-flattering account of the conquest of the Endless Planes, then joined Jiang Yuu and Paradise Mountain’s Supremes as they prepared to depart for the Ash Continent. Jiang Yuu ordered the army to march and explore how the Endless Planes differed from their Multiverse.

• Lucifer recorded the victory over the Ember Court and embellished her role in securing the kings’ and armies’ submission.
• Ainiyar told Lucifer that the Ash Continent’s holy moon was full, prompting Lucifer to prepare to leave Paradise Mountain.
• Lucifer went to the Golden Hall and told Jiang Yuu she had recorded the latest events in her Annals of the Holy Calendar.
• The Supremes gathered at the Golden Hall, and Jiang Yuu ordered the army to march into the Endless Planes.

Alanfamos enslaved the people of Kainuo Continent and forced them to build a blood altar to advance to True King. When a Crystal Emperor descendant confronted him over the Ember Emperor's promise, Alanfamos declared that the Emberfolk were now the nobility and rulers of the Endless Planes.

• The narration described the Crystal Firmament and the Endless Planes, as Jiang Yuu had learned from surrendered True Kings of the Ember Court.
• Alanfamos watched hundreds of millions of enslaved beings build a vast altar that absorbed the dead and their blood energy.
• Gray-armored overseers beat the slaves, while Alanfamos forbade delays to his plan to use the altar for his advancement to True King.
• A Crystal Emperor descendant broke free of his restraints and demanded to know why Alanfamos had broken the Ember Emperor's promise to treat the old nobility equally.
• Alanfamos recalled that the Ember Emperor had spared the defeated peoples, then proclaimed the Emberfolk the new nobility and rulers of the Endless Planes.

Alanfamos dismissed the Crystalfolk powerhouse’s appeal for justice and ordered him buried alive as a blood sacrifice, confident that the Emberfolk would protect him. As the people of Kainuo Continent despaired, a winged goddess broke through the Endless Planes and called on all living beings to hear her sacred teachings.

• Alanfamos told the yellow-crystal-robed Crystalfolk powerhouse that no one would avenge the enslaved people and ordered guards to bury him on the blood altar.
• The gray-armored guards dragged the powerhouse away while Alanfamos celebrated the Emberfolk’s rule and anticipated becoming a True King.
• The Crystalfolk and forced laborers mourned their dead and pleaded for rescue, but the guards whipped them back to work.
• The continent trembled as brilliant holy light pierced the blood-colored sky and drove away the Ember Emperor’s aura.
• A winged goddess entered the Crystal Firmament through a vast fissure and proclaimed, “All living beings! Hear the sacred teachings!”

Lucifer announced the arrival of Yuliel, an emperor from the Multiverse, as his armies poured through a rift into the Endless Planes. Yuliel’s radiance overwhelmed the realm, and Lucifer demanded that its inhabitants kneel and accept his rule.

• A golden-haired winged goddess emerged from the rift, prompting the powerhouses of the Endless Planes to wonder whether she came from the Multiverse.
• Thousands of Supremes and an immense army of Transcendent powerhouses and angels marched through the rift into the Crystal Firmament.
• A silver-haired sovereign with thirty-six radiant wings approached Lucifer as a platinum moon rose behind him and cast its light across the Endless Planes.
• The True Kings in the Ember Court recognized the sovereign as an unfamiliar emperor and feared that the Ember Emperor was absent.
• Lucifer identified herself as the War Chief Angel and proclaimed the sovereign to be Yuliel, the Celestial Emperor of the Multiverse.
• Lucifer called on all living beings to kneel, promising justice and protection to those who praised Yuliel and warning that judgment would fall on injustice.

Lucifer’s holy proclamation awakened courage among the oppressed across the Endless Planes, and enslaved laborers in the Kaino Empire began praising Yuliel and calling for judgment. As Emperor Alanfamos started a mass sacrifice to ascend as a True King, a foot shattered the Ember Emperor Greater Plane and a voice announced holy judgment.

• Lucifer’s sacred voice and the White Gold Moon rekindled courage among oppressed beings throughout the Endless Planes.
• At the altar beneath the Heaven-Reaching Tower, Arno Vanra broke his silence, struck his shackles against a rock, and prayed to Yuliel for judgment.
• The laborers and slaves joined Arno in praising Yuliel and pleading for mercy as the gray-armored guards beat him.
• Alanfamos ordered the guards to slaughter everyone on the altar and used their lives to begin his ascension to True King.
• A foot smashed through the Ember Emperor Greater Plane as a voice declared that holy judgment would decide the fate of all who praised its name.

Jiang Yuu’s Holy Judgment swept across the Endless Planes, killing Alanfamos and freeing the oppressed while marking other sinners for future punishment. As the Radiant Sovereign and his vast forces entered the Ember Emperor Greater Plane, the remaining Ember Court True Kings recognized their returning expeditionary True Kings among the invaders.

• Jiang Yuu’s radiance shattered Alanfamos’s path to becoming a True King and marked him and the gray-armored figures for judgment.
• Jiang Yuu’s Sword of Judgment killed Alanfamos and every other red-marked sinner, wounded or marked the others, and broke the oppressed people’s chains.
• Holy Judgment spread to places throughout the Endless Planes where people prayed, while the Sacred Wind carried Lucifer’s teachings and gave her a glimpse of Sovereign Realm Authority.
• The Ember Emperor Greater Plane’s barriers shattered as the Radiant Sovereign approached with thousands of Supremes and the Angel Legion.
• The Ember Court True Kings recognized familiar auras among the forces entering the plane and realized they belonged to True Kings sent on the expedition.

Jiang Yuu entered the Ember Court after defeating Alanmonlos, and Alianmel recognized her husband’s presence in the unfamiliar sovereign. He judged that she was innocent and offered to release her, but her request remained unheard as Annatania urged him to agree.

• The Ember Court’s ministers and Alianmel saw the returning True Kings among the invading army, most of them shackled as prisoners.
• Alianmel recognized Alanmonlos’s presence in Jiang Yuu and concluded that her husband had died.
• Jiang Yuu entered the Ember Court with Annatania, Lucifer, and his forces, then confirmed to Alianmel that he had killed Alanmonlos.
• Jiang Yuu judged Alianmel free of personal sin and offered to release her if she surrendered her authority and began a new life.
• Alianmel acknowledged Jiang Yuu’s victory and asked to make a request, while Annatania urged him to hear her out.

Alianmel asked how Jiang Yuu would dispose of Alanmonlos’s remains, and he explained that he would use them to create an Endless Abyss to imprison evil and protect order. After Jiang Yuu let her see her husband’s body, Alianmel chose to die beside him, leaving Annatania to suppress the transformation of her corpse.

• Alianmel asked whether Lionheart had received one of Alanmonlos’s eyes, and Jiang Yuu confirmed that he had turned it into an Ember Emperor’s Divine Eye for his son.
• Jiang Yuu told Alianmel that he planned to bury Alanmonlos’s body in an empty Crystal Firmament and use his other eye as the Abyss Will of a prison for sinners and evil.
• Alianmel agreed that Alanmonlos would have accepted this use of his remains, then asked to see him one last time.
• Jiang Yuu brought Alanmonlos’s corpse into the hall, where Alianmel knelt beside it and remembered their love.
• Alianmel destroyed her life force, true spirit, and divine soul, dying on Alanmonlos’s body.
• Annatania suppressed the transformation of Alianmel’s corpse before it could engulf the Ember Emperor Greater Plane.

After Alianmel died beside Alanmonlos, Jiang Yuu claimed the Endless Planes and declared them subject to Holy Paradise Mountain’s order. He appointed Lionheart to govern the conquered realm, then prepared to create a new Abyss.

• Annatania suggested burying Alianmel beside Alanmonlos, and Jiang Yuu put away both bodies.
• Jiang Yuu judged the Ember Court’s remaining True Kings, allowing the innocent to return home and requiring those with minor sins to atone.
• Jiang Yuu ascended the Ember Emperor’s Divine Throne and proclaimed himself lord of the Endless Planes, renaming the Ember Emperor Greater Plane the Holiness Great Plane.
• Jiang Yuu appointed Lionheart to oversee the Endless Planes and ordered everyone to cooperate with him.
• Jiang Yuu left the Divine Throne and announced that he would begin creating a new great Abyss in the Endless Planes.

Jiang Yuu created the Endless Abyss from Alanmonlos’s remains at the edge of the Endless Planes, shaping his body into layers of planes and his head into a source of evil. He elevated the Abyss into a half-transcendent dimension and made Alanmonlos’s eye its will.

• Jiang Yuu captured populations of Crystal Firmament creatures to serve as prototypes for demons and moved inhabited planes away from the chosen region.
• Jiang Yuu placed Alanmonlos’s remains at the center of the region and guided them to absorb ash, darkness, and sin.
• Jiang Yuu transformed Alanmonlos’s body into the Abyss, with his heart as its core, his head as the source of evil, and his limbs as bulwarks.
• Over ten thousand years, the Abyss grew into a vast structure of layered, chaotic planes at the border of the Endless Planes.
• Jiang Yuu drew on the powers of spacetime, energy, and matter to raise the Abyss halfway into a transcendent dimension.
• Jiang Yuu sent Alanmonlos’s eye into the Abyss’s core, where it became the Abyss Will.

Jiang Yuu gave the newly born abyss will authority to send abyssal creatures across the Endless Planes and set limits on where it could spread, while imprinting it with radiance that would suppress the Abyss. He created the Sea of Alianmel in the Abyss’s core realm, let the abyss will form its first creatures, and placed a feather of light in the blood river as hope for those who fell into the Abyss.

• Jiang Yuu granted the abyss will the ability to send abyssal creatures across planar barriers wherever sin was born, but barred it from places of eternal light and pure goodness.
• Jiang Yuu’s radiance frightened the rebellious abyss will and left a mark that would allow Paradise Mountain’s power to suppress the Abyss.
• Jiang Yuu placed Alianmel’s corpse in the Abyss’s core realm, where it became the deep-blue Sea of Alianmel and brought new vitality to the barren land.
• Jiang Yuu brought the Crystal Firmament Behemoths and other creatures into the core realm, and the abyss will marked and corrupted them as the first abyssal creatures.
• Jiang Yuu dropped a feather of light into the Abyss Blood River to give every being that fell into the Abyss a chance to survive.