Chapter Summaries

Blood Moon mutations divided the Morgan People into distinct races, and Apas united them as the Demonfolk under his rule as Demon King. The Demonfolk spread across the New Homeland Coast, where a Feather Demon hunting party awakened a Gutel Behemoth.

• Jiang Yuu watched the Blood Moon mutate the Morgan People, giving them Demonic Sacrifice organs and a new power they called demonic power.
• Apas saw the mutated groups drifting apart and reorganized them into separate races, naming them collectively the Demonfolk and making himself their Demon King.
• The blood-sacrifice Morgan People remained apart as the Demonfolk adopted new racial names and pursued the goal of returning to the World of Radiance.
• The Demonfolk expanded along the Outer Ring Sea and settled the New Homeland Coast, drawing the attention of the Gutel Clan.
• A Feather Demon tribe entered a Gutel Behemoth’s coastal territory, waking it; the behemoth roared and scattered the hunters with its enormous wings.

Nuogeer discovered the Winged Demonfolk on the Dark Continent and reported their presence to his chieftain, prompting Demon King Apas to prepare for contact with the Gutel Behemoths. Two months later, Gutel led the behemoths to the New Homeland Coast, where the gathered Demonfolk saw them arrive.

• Nuogeer questioned the Winged Demonfolk, forgave their trespass, and said he would report their arrival to his chieftain.
• The Winged Demonfolk chieftain told Demon King Apas about the Gut Giant Beast Race, and Apas asked Cambeld to summon the Demonfolk chieftains.
• The Demonfolk chieftains gathered on the New Homeland Coast, though many doubted Cambeld’s account of the behemoths.
• A month later, Gutel led a group of enormous Gutel Behemoths toward the coast, shocking the assembled Demonfolk.
• Gutel surveyed the green, thriving lands and the herds of animals as the small humanoid creatures waited below.

Gutel and the Demonfolk king Apas discovered their peoples shared origins in the Wild Giants, and Gutel recounted the Blood Moon’s creation and his clan’s history. After learning that the Demonfolk had fled the Gaen Giants and had nowhere else to go, Gutel allowed them to remain in the Dark Continent on the condition that they continue planting vegetation.

• Gutel led the Gutel Behemoths down to meet the Demonfolk, and Apas withstood Gutel’s oppressive presence.
• Apas explained that the Demonfolk had descended from An Bi’s flesh and blood, and Gutel confirmed that his clan also originated from a Wild Giant.
• After Apas mentioned the Moon-Devouring Dragon, Gutel told the Gutel Behemoths that Braiduk had brought the moon from the World of Radiance and that the Creator’s punishment had made the Wild Giant the source of the Gutel Clan.
• Modier asked to visit the World of Radiance, but Gutel forbade him and warned him not to go there.
• Apas explained that the Gaen Giants had slaughtered the Morgan Clan, forcing the last branch to flee to the Dark Continent.
• Gutel permitted the Demonfolk to live on his land if they continued planting vegetation and creating forests and grasslands.

Gutel secured Demon King Apas’s promise to honor the Creator and Blood Moon and to cultivate the Dark Continent, then left Modier behind to oversee the Demonfolk. Over tens of thousands of years, the Demonfolk spread and developed the daimon system; Apas eventually led an expedition to reclaim the Anbis Mountains, with Modier and young Gutel Behemoths joining him.

• Gutel instructed Apas to expand the Dark Continent’s plants and animals and to revere the Creator and Blood Moon, then left Modier and Nuogeer nearby to supervise the Demonfolk.
• After Nuogeer departed, Modier asked Apas whether he intended to return to the Continent of Radiance, and offered to help him fight the Gaen Giants.
• The Demonfolk spread across the Dark Continent, while imported plants flourished rapidly under the Blood Moon’s light.
• Ten thousand years later, Apas perfected the Demonic Sacrifice Method’s cultivation system, named it the daimon system, and became a dark demon wielding the law of darkness.
• After twelve Demons emerged among the Demonfolk, Apas prepared an expedition against the Gaen Giants, and Modier secretly brought more than a dozen young Gutel Behemoths to join it.
• Several hundred years later, Apas led the Demonfolk army across the Outer Ring Sea to begin their first war against the Continent of Radiance since the Genesis Era.

Aismart warned the Titans that Blood-Colored Meteor Mitier was approaching and predicted that the Morgan People, possibly led by their missing monarch Apas, would bring the coming calamity. The Titans prepared to face the threat, though Aismart worried that their distance from ordinary Gaen Giants was weakening their kinship.

• Jiang Yuu watched as Titan King Aismart summoned the twenty-six Titans to a stone hall.
• Aismart told the Titans that his daughter Weimiya had observed Mitier moving toward the continent and that it might arrive within decades.
• Aismart recalled that Mitier's previous appearance had coincided with the war against the Morgan People, and he urged the Titans to prepare for another calamity.
• Wende declared that the Titans would not back down, while Aismart reflected on how the Titans' growing power and long lives had weakened their ties to the Gaen Giants.
• Aismart told Funa that he suspected the Morgan People were returning and revealed that their missing monarch, Apas, might have come back.

As the Gaen Giants prepared for war against the Morgan People and the threat of Apas, Natiya prayed for seven years until the Creator finally answered her. He explained that the conflict arose from ambitions and greed inherited from their progenitor, An Bi, and left Natiya questioning whether her people could be saved.

• Aymast appointed Lunfu'er to lead the vanguard if Apas returned, then urged the Titans to prepare for the coming calamity.
• Natiya feared the Gaen Giants would suffer a devastating defeat and sought advice from Tyrande, who warned that the Creator might not appear and that no race ruled forever.
• Natiya prayed in her forest for seven years as the Titans mocked her, while her father eventually allowed her to continue.
• During a winter storm, the Creator spoke to Natiya and acknowledged her perseverance.
• The Creator said that the Gaen Giants and Morgan People inherited ambition and greed from An Bi, and that peace required cleansing those desires.
• Natiya asked what her people could do if they could not cleanse their desires, fearing the Gaen Giants would perish.

Natiya planted and tended a sapling that the Creator said would become hope for the Gaen Clan, while Jiang Yuu reflected on creation as the path to Transcendence. Meanwhile, Dark Demon Apas led a vast fleet and Gutel Behemoths toward the World of Radiance, arriving at Nupas Island to see what had become of his eldest son’s people.

• Natiya found a tiny seed in her hair, planted it at the Creator’s urging, and promised to nurture it into the Gaen Clan’s hope for the future.
• Jiang Yuu considered how the creatures of his world reflected his own past and recorded Natiya’s planting of the tree on his stone tablet.
• Dark Demon Apas and his Demonfolk fleet entered the sunlit World of Radiance, where Apas declared his intention to reclaim the Anbis Mountains and rule the world.
• Modier and the Gutel Behemoths welcomed the sunlight and pledged to make the World of Radiance their second home.
• Apas led the fleet along its old route toward Nupas Island, hoping to see what had become of his eldest son Nupas’s people.
• After several years at sea, the fleet reached Nupas Island.

After returning to Nupas Island, Apas searched for Nupas and found short islanders living across the plains instead. A prince revealed that the islanders were descendants of Nupas, leaving Apas and the Demonfolk stunned.

• Apas arrived at the Nupas Twin Islands with the Demonfolk fleet and worried that Nupas and his companions had disappeared.
• Apas led a group of powerful Demonfolk inland while the rest of the fleet stayed to rest and refit.
• Apas found settlements of short islanders and saw a rider summon them to fight the invading Felo People.
• Apas recognized Nupas's horn and ordered Rodi to capture the rider.
• The captured prince said the horn was a relic of Nupas the Pioneer and that the Nupas People and Felo People descended from him.

Apas learned that the Nupas and Felo People descended from Nupas and recruited members of both peoples for his expedition. Years later, Apas’s Demonfolk army reached the Continent of Radiance, where Titan King Aisimate ordered his forces to confront them.

• The captured Nupas prince recounted how Nupas’s sons Feiluo and Arangda split their people after a succession struggle, beginning a war between the Nupas and Felo People.
• Apas recognized the horn as a dagger he had given Nupas and told the prince he was Nupas’s father, ordering him to recruit Nupas People for an expedition.
• Apas used the Law of Darkness to demonstrate his power, then went to the Felo settlement and recruited people there as well.
• Several years later, Apas’s fleet reached the Continent of Radiance, and the Gaen Giants reported the arrival to Titan King Aisimate.
• Titan King Aisimate mocked the returning Morgan People and ordered the Titans and Gaen Giants to assemble for battle.

Jiang Yuu watched the laws of war form as the Morgan People’s return brought the Gaen Giants to the brink of war. Natiya sent her tribe’s young warriors to join Aismart while guiding the rest north for safety, then traveled to the Anbis Mountains.

• Jiang Yuu observed the coming war between Titans and Demons and watched Natiya tend a rapidly growing tree in Natiya Forest.
• A messenger told Natiya that King Aismart had summoned the Titans because the Morgan People had returned under Dark Demon King Apas.
• Natiya told her tribe to send its young and able-bodied members to fight and lead the remaining giants north to seek refuge.
• The tribe began traveling north, while Natiya led its warriors south toward the Anbis Mountains.
• Natiya arrived at the mountains, settled her warriors, and climbed to meet her father, Aismart.

Natiya defended her Creator-bestowed saplings when Fire Titan Lunfu'er challenged her, then learned the Titans would meet the Morgan People and their allies on the plains beside Lokade Lake. The battle lasted for years, devastated both races, and ended with the Titan King sending many young Gaen Giants across the Heavenly Land as a final act of mercy.

• Natiya calmly answered Lunfu'er's accusations, and Titan King Aisimate rebuked them both while favoring his daughter.
• Aisimate told the Titans that the Morgan People, mutated Demonfolk, and giant beasts were advancing toward the Anbis Mountains, so they agreed to fight at Lokade Lake.
• After the meeting, Natiya told Aisimate that the Creator had said the body could decay while the soul lived forever.
• The next day, Aisimate led the Titans and Gaen Giants west, where their army met Demon King Apas and the Morgan forces on the plains beside Lokade Lake.
• The battle spread across the land and continued for years, filling Lokade Lake with corpses and killing large numbers of both peoples.
• As the Gaen Giants ran short of young and able-bodied fighters, Aisimate sent many underage giants to scatter across the Heavenly Land.

As spirituality spread across the Heavenly Land World, Jiang Yuu saw signs that its gods would soon emerge. The battle for the Land of Radiance ended with the Titans victorious, but Modier and Apas escaped, and the Fire Titan Lunfu'er pursued Apas into the sea.

• Jiang Yuu observed new life beginning to form wherever spirituality gathered and predicted that the gods of Heavenly Land would soon appear.
• The battle beside Lokade Lake continued until the Titans, Demons, and Gutel Behemoths suffered devastating losses, leaving only a handful of fighters alive on each side.
• After the Titans killed Terence, Modier gathered the bodies of his kin and flew toward the Outer Ring Sea, telling Apas he had done right by him.
• Apas fled west with the surviving Demonfolk and vowed to return to the Land of Radiance and destroy the Gaen Giants.
• Aismart called off the pursuit, but Lunfu'er refused to stop and followed Apas into the sea.

Natiya died after the war and warned Aismart that the Blood-Colored Meteor’s presence meant the calamity was not over. Aismart buried her beside the Creator’s wondrous tree, while a surviving Gutel Behemoth sacrificed himself with his fallen companions in hopes of creating a new race.

• Natiya collapsed and told Aismart she had endured the war to protect the remaining Titans from further conflict.
• Natiya warned Aismart that Blood-Colored Meteor Mitier had not gone far and asked him to bury her beneath her forest after she died.
• Natiya died in Aismart’s arms, and he buried her beside the wondrous tree in Natiya Forest.
• Aismart resisted the tree’s spiritual pull and left to care for the surviving Gaen Giants.
• A surviving Gutel Behemoth carried his dead companions to an island and resolved to create a new race from their remains.
• The Gutel Behemoth prayed to the Creator, tore apart his own body, and mingled his blood with his companions’ remains.

Lunfu'er reached the island and found Modier dead among the Gutel Behemoths. When Lunfu'er died and his blood ignited the corpses, their progenitors’ bloodlines mingled and gave birth to the first Dragons.

• Jiang Yuu watched Modier’s blood flow over the Gutel Behemoths and dismissed his dying cries.
• Lunfu'er, the Fire Titan, arrived on the island after tracking Modier and Apas through the sea.
• Lunfu'er found Modier dead atop the corpses and, weakened, cut himself open to burn the behemoths with his blood.
• Lunfu'er died, and his blood set the mountain of corpses ablaze.
• The mingled bloodlines of Gutel and An Bi gave rise to winged, fire-breathing behemoths, whom Jiang Yuu identified as Dragons.

The Ancient Dragons expanded beyond their island as new powers rose among the Felo People, the Demonfolk, and the Morgan People. The Gaen Giants continued to decline, and the chapter ended with the sky over the Heavenly Land World shaking with a thunderous boom.

• The Ancient Dragons pursued different laws and began expanding their territory toward the surrounding islands.
• The Felo People conquered the Nupas Twin Islands, enslaved the surviving Nupas People, and destroyed much of their heritage; the enslaved Nupas People preserved a statue of Demon King Apas.
• Aismart buried Natiya beside the Tree of Life, whose roots drew her body beneath the earth.
• Demon King Apas returned to the Dark Continent and reassured the Demonfolk, while the Ghost Race began feeding on Demonfolk souls and Apas spread their blood sacrifice system among his people.
• As the Gaen Giants failed to recover, Tyrande told Aismart their age had ended and that they must start anew or perish.
• The spirituality of the world grew to an extreme, and the sky over the Heavenly Land World shuddered with a thunderous boom.

Luosi Karl emerged as the God of the Sky, followed by Ruiyawei as the Goddess of the Earth, marking the beginning of the Initial Era. As Aismart and Apas reckoned with the changing age, spiritual lights appeared in the Outer Ring Sea and Inner Ring Sea, hinting that more gods were awakening.

• Luosi Karl mastered the law of the sky and proclaimed himself God of the Sky, bringing the Heavenly Land World under his dominion.
• Aisimate, the Felo kings, and Apas felt Luosi Karl’s overwhelming power and recognized the arrival of the age of the gods.
• Jiang Yuu recorded Luosi Karl’s birth and the beginning of the Initial Era on the stone tablet.
• Ruiyawei emerged from the earth, formed the Underground World, and proclaimed herself Goddess of the Earth.
• Aismart considered whether the Tree of Life could offer the Gaen Giants a future, while Apas recognized that the age of the gods had begun.
• Spiritual orbs appeared in the depths of the Outer Ring Sea and the Inner Ring Sea.

The deep-blue and azure spiritual lights divided the ocean’s laws and gave birth to Saifina, Goddess of the Ocean, and Ansaixi, God of the Sea, who each claimed one of the two seas. As four Greater Gods’ powers spread through the world, some creatures began awakening to transcendent power.

• The two oceanic spiritual lights contended for authority, stirring storms across the Outer Ring Sea and the Inner Ring Sea.
• Luosi Karl considered how to challenge the Goddess of the Earth and become the Creator’s representative, while the Goddess of the Earth prepared to contain the seas’ turmoil.
• The ocean’s laws split into deep-blue laws of the oceans and azure laws of the seas.
• Saifina emerged from the Outer Ring Sea and claimed authority over the oceans, while Ansaixi emerged from the Inner Ring Sea and claimed authority over the seas.
• Ansaixi called Saifina his elder sister and said he looked forward to meeting her.
• The powers of the four newly born Greater Gods spread through the world, awakening transcendent abilities in some creatures.

Divine radiance transformed creatures across the world as the gods’ birth ushered in a new age. The Tree of Life gathered enough spirituality to become a supreme deity, but instead gave up that power to bear life-filled fruits and nurture a new race.

• The ocean, earth, and sky deities’ divinity transformed deep-sea creatures, shallow-water fish, bears, eagles, and Gaen Giants into new intelligent beings and races.
• The Tree of Life in Natiya Forest gathered spirituality from plants and nature, beginning its sublimation into a Goddess of Life.
• Sky God Luosikaer, the Goddess of the Earth, the Goddess of the Ocean, and the God of the Sea sensed the coming deity, while the God of the Sea considered drawing her to his side.
• Demon King Apas reacted with weary disbelief at the growing number of gods, while the Giant King became excited about the Tree of Life.
• The Tree of Life rejected supreme godhood and used its gathered spirituality to grow life-filled fruits, causing the nascent Goddess of Life to fade and leaving behind fundamental life divinity and its orb of spirituality.

The Goddess of Life chose to give up becoming a god so she could use the souls of Natiya and the Gaen Giants to create a new race, with Jiang Yuu’s permission. Natiya and the primordial Elves were born from the Tree of Life’s fruits, beginning a new life on earth.

• The Goddess of Life told Jiang Yuu she would relinquish her Authority over life to resurrect Natiya and create a new race from the Gaen Giants’ souls.
• Jiang Yuu warned that the choice would dilute her Divinity and prevent her from becoming a god of life again, but he granted permission.
• The Goddess of Life shaped her fruits with life divine power and Divinity, and the first fruit fell and opened to reveal a woman.
• The newly born woman heard the name Natiya and recalled fragments of the Giant’s memories; Jiang Yuu told her she was a new being with some of Natiya’s memories.
• The remaining Fruits of Life fell, and humanoid beings emerged from them.
• The Tree of Life, Anweinuoya, told the newborns that they were Elves, another form of spirit rather than gods.

After giving birth to the first Elves, the Tree of Life warned them to respect the Creator, avoid conflict with the gods, and spare the Gaen Giants before falling into a long sleep. Natiya accepted her role as queen, and the Elves began building a homeland beneath the Tree of Life.

• The first Elves united in a collective will, and Luosi Karl sensed they could become his enemies in the future.
• The exhausted Tree of Life instructed the Elves to revere the Creator, remain friendly with the gods, and avoid making things difficult for the Gaen Giants.
• The Tree of Life named Natiya queen of the Elves and then fell into a long slumber.
• Natiya pledged to lead the Elves and build a prosperous nation beneath their mother's shelter, and her siblings trusted her.
• Natiya struggled to build a stone house, while Yafeier impressed the Elves with a beautiful treehouse and inspired them to create their homeland.