Ch. 601Who won in the end?

Jiang Yuu survived his battle with the Star Saint of Time and empowered worlds born from their conflict. The battlefield armies sensed the Star Saint’s death but could not tell which side had won.

  • Jiang Yuu used the White Gold Crown to restore his appearance, then left the shattered battlefield without repairing its spacetime.
  • Jiang Yuu discovered worlds formed around the battlefield, whose inhabitants carried his angel bloodline or the Star Saint of Time’s dragon bloodline; the angel-blooded beings had prevailed.
  • Jiang Yuu connected the worlds worshipping Judgment and Radiance to the Sixth Paradise Mountain and raised the largest world’s transcendent potential with a feather of light.
  • Oracle Momaste and the inhabitants of the largest world thanked their Creator God after a White Gold Moon appeared in the sky.
  • The Star Saint of Time’s death stopped the armies of Paradise Mountain and the Cosmic Dragon Crown, but the fighters could not see the highest battlefield or determine who had won.

Ch. 602Welcoming His Triumphant Return

Everyone across the Astral Realm waited to learn whether Jiang Yuu or the Star Saint of Time had won their battle, knowing the result would decide the fate of their races. A platinum Sun appeared, and Jiang Yuu emerged seated on a Heavenly Throne.

  • Annatania and Lucifer prepared to welcome Jiang Yuu, while Astral Realm Dragons and Hall of Time Sovereigns insisted their Monarch had won.
  • Lucifer and the Astral Realm Dragons exchanged taunts as everyone watched the battlefield in the Highest Heaven.
  • The battlefield rippled with energy, signaling that the victor was about to emerge.
  • A platinum Sun broke through the battlefield’s boundary and shone over the Astral Realm.
  • Jiang Yuu appeared as a Fourteen-Winged Angel Monarch, seated on a Platinum Heavenly Throne with his sword planted in the void.

Ch. 603The Last of Their Defiance

Jiang Yuu declared victory over Temtatos, and the defeated Astral Realm Dragons faced surrender or annihilation. After Nomahat made one final charge, Jiang Yuu killed him and warned the remaining Dragons against further resistance.

  • Jiang Yuu announced that Temtatos was dead and Paradise Mountain had won, prompting celebration among his forces while the Astral Realm Dragons trembled at the Time Saint Star Dial forged from Temtatos.
  • Lucifer ordered the defeated Dragons and their auxiliary troops to kneel and surrender, and most obeyed.
  • Some Dragons urged their kin to resist, but Michael and the Angels silenced their calls with a united demand that they accept judgment.
  • Nomahat declared himself the last remnant of Dragon defiance and charged Jiang Yuu with the Rule of Silence.
  • Jiang Yuu drew his sword and killed Nomahat with a single slash, then warned that any further resistance would bring the Astral Realm Dragons' extermination.

Ch. 604Taking Your Own Life Is Also a Form of Judgment

After defeating the Astral Realm Dragons, Jiang Yuu demanded that their Rule Sovereigns surrender their Rule Stars in exchange for their lives. When the Sovereign of Melody tried to bargain and flee, Jiang Yuu killed them, and the remaining seven surrendered.

  • Jiang Yuu subdued the Astral Realm Dragons after killing their ancestor, Dragon of Silence Nomahat, and threatened to exterminate their race.
  • Jiang Yuu offered the eight Rule Sovereigns in the opposing camp their lives if they surrendered authority over their Rule Stars.
  • The Sovereign of Melody asked to retain their authority, arguing that they and the other members of the Group of Space had only served Temtatos.
  • Jiang Yuu ordered the Sovereign of Melody to take their own life, and when they tried to flee, he killed them with a sword strike.
  • The remaining seven Rule Sovereigns knelt and agreed to surrender their Rule Stars.

Ch. 605The beginning of Bahamut and Tiamat's rise to fame in the Astral Realm

After conquering the Astral Realm Dragon Race, Jiang Yuu gathered Paradise Mountain’s forces, praised them for winning the ten-thousand-year war, and ordered trials for the defeated dragons. He appointed Bahamut to govern the Cosmic Dragon Crown and Tiamat to assist him, promising them the power of rules if they served well.

  • Seven Rule Sovereigns submitted to Jiang Yuu, bringing the number of rules he had suppressed in one day to eleven, and he granted each a limited share of their rule’s power.
  • Jiang Yuu thanked Annatania and the other High Angel Chiefs for their efforts, then returned to the Platinum Heavenly Throne with Annatania beside him.
  • Jiang Yuu praised Paradise Mountain’s gods and warriors for winning the war and promised rewards for those who had served with merit.
  • Jiang Yuu decreed that every Astral Realm Dragon who had fought in the war would stand trial, and he appointed Michael to oversee the proceedings fairly.
  • Jiang Yuu appointed Bahamut to govern the Cosmic Dragon Crown and Tiamat to assist him, promising to grant them rule powers if they proved themselves.

Ch. 606The source of the Variant Dragons' rise

Bahamut worried that he and Tiamat lacked the strength and recognition to command the Astral Realm Dragons, but Tiamat proposed creating Variant Dragons to secure their future influence. She planned to alter Astral Realm Dragon eggs and raise a new generation loyal to them, leaving Bahamut uneasy about the cost.

  • Bahamut told Tiamat that the Astral Realm Dragons might refuse to obey them because they were stronger and looked down on dragons from Feland.
  • Tiamat said their backing from the Lord of Heaven mattered more than the Astral Realm Dragons' recognition and proposed dividing them.
  • Tiamat planned to create second-generation Metallic Dragons and Five-Colored Dragons from Astral Realm Dragons, weakening their descendants' talents and strength.
  • Tiamat proposed replacing the dragons' souls in their eggs with souls from other intelligent races and using mutagenic spirit seeds from Lord Silvanus to alter them.
  • Tiamat named the resulting dragons Variant Dragons and said they would become the foundation for ruling dragonkind across the Astral Realm.

Ch. 607The war ends

Bahamut and Tiamat agreed to work together to spread second-generation and variant dragons, then received orders to govern the Cosmic Dragon Crown under Paradise Mountain. Three months after the war ended, the gates to the Lord of Heaven and Queen of Heaven’s garden opened.

  • Tiamat persuaded Bahamut that they could spread new dragon kinds and earn the Lord’s favor, and Bahamut agreed to her plan.
  • Bahamut proposed building a good relationship with Chief Angel Michael before they refined the rest of their plan.
  • The Divine Master declared the war won, ordered the armies home, and assigned Raphael to oversee the angels taking over the Astral Realm Dragons’ worlds.
  • The Divine Master placed the Cosmic Dragon Crown under Paradise Mountain and ordered Bahamut and Tiamat to handle its transfer.
  • The Divine Master announced that all holders of the Blazing Heaven Divine Throne must gather at Paradise Mountain in three years, then returned there with Divine Queen Anna.
  • Three months later, the gates to the Lord of Heaven and Queen of Heaven’s courtyard garden opened.

Ch. 608Wolpis's growth

Jiang Yuu appointed his youngest son Wolpis the Greater God of Oversight and Roads after hearing about his mortal-world trials and asking his views on Paradise Mountain’s rule. Three years later, Jiang Yuu announced that he planned to subdue all three thousand Astral Realm Rules and asked who should be the first target.

  • Wolpis recounted his adventures with his mortal companions, his ascension to godhood alongside them, and his later fight on the Nullity Battlefield.
  • Jiang Yuu praised Wolpis’s growth and asked how he viewed Paradise Mountain’s rule over the worlds.
  • Wolpis said that Paradise Mountain’s holiness order bound the myriad worlds together and allowed them to endure.
  • Jiang Yuu appointed Wolpis the God of Oversight and Roads, and Sophia announced the appointment by ringing the Divine Bell.
  • Three years later, Jiang Yuu told the assembled gods he planned to subdue all three thousand Astral Realm Rules and asked them to choose a first target.

Ch. 609A new order for the Astral Realm

Annatania proposed using diplomacy to gather the Astral Realm’s active Rule Sovereigns and suppress their rules before confronting the Star Saints. She suggested inviting the superpowers to Paradise Mountain to discuss forging a new order for the Astral Realm.

  • Annatania asked Jiang Yuu whether they should suppress the Star Saints’ rules before or after dealing with the three thousand Rule Sovereigns.
  • Jiang Yuu said they should target the Rule Sovereigns first, explaining that he could withstand the seven Star Saints but could not protect his allies if one attacked them.
  • Annatania agreed that the Rule Sovereigns should be dealt with together, while noting that gathering every one of them would be difficult.
  • Annatania proposed sending envoys to the Astral Realm’s superpowers and inviting them to Paradise Mountain for a meeting about forging a new order.

Ch. 610A new level system

Jiang Yuu and Annatania planned a new Astral Realm order and a revision of Paradise Mountain’s Heavenly Law. Jiang Yuu laid out how he would deal with the Rule Sovereigns and proposed a new hierarchy of divine ranks.

  • Jiang Yuu agreed that Annatania should draft a new Astral Realm plan and revise Heavenly Law, with Uriel assisting in the lawmaking.
  • Lucifer offered to help revise the laws, but Jiang Yuu rejected her offer and teased her about the Hell provisions she had written.
  • Jiang Yuu decided to invite the Rule Sovereigns to Paradise Mountain and use the Power of Judgment to suppress their rules, granting different levels of rule use to those who submitted or surrendered sovereignty and death to those who resisted.
  • Jiang Yuu proposed replacing Rule Sovereigns with a hierarchy of Blazing Heaven Divine Thrones, eternal divine power, supreme divine power, and origin divine power.
  • Jiang Yuu and Annatania said they would launch a punitive campaign against Rule Sovereigns who refused to attend, and Jiang Yuu warned that killing their envoys would bring his wrath.

Ch. 611Lucifer, bold and resolute like me

Jiang Yuu praised Lucifer’s loyalty and boldness, then received Annatania’s plans for ordering the new Astral Realm and discussed the accelerating merger of worlds and his future confrontation with a Quasi-Supreme. Months later, Uriel sent angelic messengers across the star domains to invite the Rule Sovereigns to a meeting on Paradise Mountain.

  • Jiang Yuu praised Lucifer for her courage, loyalty, and initiative, while the Blazing Heaven Divine Thrones admired how she had made herself part of his family.
  • In Year 20116, Annatania and the knowledge deities and sages completed two plans for establishing order in the new Astral Realm, and Jiang Yuu praised her work.
  • Annatania worried that the merging worlds would affect Jiang Yuu and leave him unprepared for a Quasi-Supreme, but he said he would suppress the Astral Realm Will and become a Quasi-Supreme in time.
  • Jiang Yuu estimated that the merger would take hundreds of thousands of years, and he and Annatania discussed the birth of their child, expected in a few decades.
  • Months later, Uriel led several thousand angels from the Sixth Paradise Mountain through the Gate of Spacetime to invite the Rule Sovereigns to a meeting on Paradise Mountain.

Ch. 612The Astral Realm Seethed

Angels delivered Yuliel’s invitation for the Astral Realm’s Rule Sovereigns to meet at Paradise Mountain and discuss a new order, stirring opposition and speculation across the realms. The Stone Lord of Creation and the other Star Saints considered Yuliel’s intentions, and a hundred years later more than half of the invited Rule Sovereigns had arrived.

  • Angels traveled to the Astral Realm’s superpowers and announced Yuliel’s invitation for the Rule Sovereigns to meet at Paradise Mountain in a hundred years.
  • Rule Sovereigns across the Astral Realm debated whether Yuliel intended to establish Paradise Mountain’s hegemony or unify the realms against a powerful enemy.
  • Dalaslie asked the Stone Lord of Creation whether they should attend, and the Stone Lord suspected Yuliel might seek the Rule Sovereigns’ rules but gave Dalaslie a stone to summon him if danger arose.
  • The Stone Lord of Creation reflected that gathering more rules could hinder the Star Saints’ pursuit of becoming Quasi-Supreme, while the other six Star Saints chose to let Yuliel stir things up.
  • A hundred years later, more than half of the Rule Sovereigns from the notified superpowers arrived at Paradise Mountain.

Ch. 613White Gold Crown!

Jiang Yuu prepared to host the Astral Realm’s Rule Sovereigns in the newly completed White Gold Crown conference hall. The hall was raised above Paradise Mountain as the gathering began, while Jiang Yuu looked ahead to the remaining Star Saints.

  • Uriel reported that 1,784 of the invited Rule Sovereigns had arrived, and Jiang Yuu ordered him to record those who had not come.
  • Jiang Yuu learned that Raphael had completed the conference hall, named White Gold Crown by Annatania, and that Amoriel had finished its arrangements.
  • Jiang Yuu instructed Uriel to notify the Rule Sovereigns that the conference would begin the next day and to have Raphael move White Gold Crown above Paradise Mountain.
  • Jiang Yuu named the remaining Star Saints and told them to wait for him.
  • At dawn, White Gold Crown rose above Paradise Mountain and shone like a crown over its summit.

Ch. 614Do not look directly upon the Monarch!

Jiang Yuu summoned the Rule Sovereigns of the Astral Realm to the White Gold Crown for a conference on its new order. Aimeiluosha watched Yuliel descend onto his throne and realized his radiance was too powerful to look at directly.

  • Jiang Yuu willed the White Gold Sun to rise over Paradise Mountain, and more than seventeen hundred Rule Sovereigns and their followers traveled toward the White Gold Crown.
  • Aimeiluosha joined the Eternal Day Dome delegation, where she saw Aisikadier treat the angelic escort with deference and approved of attending the conference.
  • Aisikadier and the other Eternal Day Dome Rule Sovereigns entered the White Gold Crown, hoping to recognize Yuliel's authority and seek his support against the Ancient Blood Altar.
  • The Rule Sovereigns took their places around Yuliel's empty throne and waited in silence until a golden-haired angel commanded them to be quiet.
  • Yuliel descended onto the White Gold Divine Throne, and Aimeiluosha lowered her eyes after his radiance made them sting.

Ch. 615Enemy of the Astral Realm

Jiang Yuu used the New Astral Realm Order Conference to reveal that the Astral Realm was only one realm within Nothingness and to call for a united alliance against threats from beyond it. He ended by proposing the Astral Realm Alliance and a redefinition of the realm’s transcendent levels.

  • Aimeiluosha and the gathered Rule Sovereigns heard a hymn honoring Jiang Yuu, then bowed before him in the White Gold Crown.
  • Jiang Yuu noted traces of the Star Saints’ power among some attendees and declared that he had summoned them to forge a new order against an enemy beyond the Astral Realm.
  • Jiang Yuu projected a map from Amoriel showing the Astral Realm among other cosmic-grade spacetimes in Nothingness.
  • Jiang Yuu explained that the Endless Abyss had fallen into the Astral Realm from Nothingness, prompting many Rule Sovereigns to praise him for eradicating it.
  • Jiang Yuu proposed establishing an Astral Realm Alliance and redefining the transcendent levels of the entire Astral Realm.

Ch. 616Who agrees? Who objects?

Jiang Yuu proposed an Astral Realm Alliance and a new hierarchy that required the Rule Sovereigns to surrender control of their Rule Stars. After a Sovereign tried to flee and was struck down, Jiang Yuu demanded that the remaining Sovereigns choose whether to agree or object.

  • Jiang Yuu explained that he would redefine the realms above grand divine power, placing origin divine power, supreme divine power, eternal divine power, and Blazing Heaven Divine Throne beneath Rule Sovereign.
  • Jiang Yuu offered the gathered Rule Sovereigns different ranks and degrees of freedom in exchange for surrendering sovereignty over their Rule Stars, and said he would reclaim the stars of those who had not attended.
  • A Rule Sovereign refused to surrender his rules and tried to escape the White Gold Crown, but Jiang Yuu sealed the hall and struck him down with a sword slash.
  • Jiang Yuu's sword light shattered the fleeing Sovereign's throne on the Rule Star representing cloud and sent the star around the White Gold Sun.
  • Jiang Yuu faced the remaining Rule Sovereigns and demanded to know who agreed and who still objected.

Ch. 617Rule Resonance!

Jiang Yuu proposed stripping the Rule Sovereigns of their Thrones while allowing them to keep using the rules, and waited for opposition to emerge. Dalaslie, the “Primordial Bedrock,” urged the Sovereigns to unite against him, claiming they could trigger rule resonance and that Lord Modoruis would strike during the opening.

  • The Rule Sovereigns silently weighed Jiang Yuu’s proposal, while some attendants began to anticipate the Sovereigns losing their status.
  • Dalaslie, the “Primordial Bedrock,” stood and called on the Rule Sovereigns to resist Yuliel, the Star Saint of Judgment.
  • Lucifer moved to punish Dalaslie, but Jiang Yuu stopped her and let him continue as part of his plan.
  • Dalaslie revealed that he was descended from the Star Saint of Stone, Lord Modoruis, and displayed the aura his ancestor had left on him.
  • Dalaslie said that a thousand Rule Sovereigns could combine their rule power through rule resonance, giving Modoruis a chance to strike, and more than a dozen Sovereigns rose.

Ch. 618Bow Before Judgment!

Dalaslie rallied more than fifteen hundred Rule Sovereigns to oppose Yuliel's decision, believing their linked rules could force the Star Saint of Judgment to yield. Yuliel revealed that his Rule of Judgment was independent of the Astral Realm's rules and raised his sword to suppress the assembly.

  • Dalaslie and a dozen Rule Sovereigns invoked the support of the seven remaining Star Saints, prompting more than fifteen hundred Sovereigns to stand against Yuliel.
  • Dalaslie led the assembled Sovereigns in demanding that Yuliel take back his words as their linked rule power disrupted spacetime in the hall.
  • Yuliel refused to abandon his decision and declared that he had established the Rule of Judgment himself rather than becoming a Star Saint through the Astral Realm's rules.
  • Yuliel proclaimed that all rules must bow before judgment, then raised his Platinum Longsword and commanded the Sovereigns to be suppressed.

Ch. 619Stop waiting!

Jiang Yuu, the Lord of Judgment, overwhelmed the Rule Sovereigns’ combined Rule Resonance and erased the chaos it unleashed. Dalaslie’s attempt to summon seven Star Saints failed, and Jiang Yuu told the assembly that they would not come.

  • Dalaslie ordered more than fifteen hundred Rule Sovereigns to combine their rules, shaking the Astral Realm and drawing the attention of its Will.
  • Jiang Yuu’s sword force crushed the Rule Resonance, knocking the Rule Sovereigns out of their connection to the rules and leaving their powers in chaos.
  • Jiang Yuu struck again and swept away the chaotic rule powers while cutting off the Astral Realm Will within the hall.
  • Dalaslie urged a dozen Rule Sovereigns to summon seven Star Saints, whose auras appeared but who did not arrive.
  • Jiang Yuu told the waiting assembly that the Star Saints would not be coming.

Ch. 620Too late

Jiang Yuu sealed the White Gold Hall’s spacetime with the Time Saint Star Dial, cutting the rebellious Rule Sovereigns off from their allies outside. He offered the rebels a chance to submit, but as he drew his sword against those who refused, some begged for mercy and he declared it too late.

  • Jiang Yuu used the Time Saint Star Dial to isolate the White Gold Hall from the outside spacetime and prevent the seven Star Saints from contacting the rebels.
  • Jiang Yuu offered the Rule Sovereigns a choice between Supreme Divine Power and death, and nearly half of the fifteen hundred rebels accepted the third option.
  • Of the seven hundred who remained standing, five hundred also submitted and were granted Supreme Divine Power while retaining Rule Sovereign Grade power.
  • Jiang Yuu drew his Platinum Longsword against the two hundred Rule Sovereigns who continued to resist.
  • Some of the remaining rebels begged to submit, but Jiang Yuu said it was too late and slashed his sword down.
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