Recaps

Roger and his companions continued their patrol after avoiding a fight with Bell, then discovered a mysterious woman hiding by a giant tree. The woman summoned a thousand-meter fox phantom, and Roger prepared to fight her.

• Roger chose not to provoke Bell, who likewise avoided attacking after sensing Roger's unusual soul strength.
• Bell and his companions continued fleeing Hermann, while Roger vowed to train until he reached the Highgod level.
• After six months of uneventful patrol, Roger, Hagson, and Beverly approached Nightshade Canyon and found a strange life fluctuation near a giant tree.
• Roger and his companions surrounded the tree and confronted a cold-faced woman who claimed the land was not theirs to claim.
• The woman refused Roger's offer to join the tribe and summoned a thousand-meter fox phantom as Roger readied his soul attack.

Roger defeated the Nether Fox Mia’s soul attack and enslaved her with a Soul Seed, making her his first divine beast servant. Mia revealed her origins and ability, while Hagson and Beverly reacted to Roger’s strength.

• Roger let Mia attack him, then shattered her Soul Shatter ability and struck back with his Soul Javelin.
• Roger subdued Mia with Mind Gray Mist and planted a Soul Seed in her soul core, gaining control over her.
• Mia woke and knelt before Roger, apologizing and pledging her service as his master.
• Mia told Roger she was the first Nether Fox, had become a Lowgod through the death edict, and could kill stronger foes with Soul Shatter.
• Hagson and Beverly congratulated Roger, while Hagson privately wondered whether Roger could have enslaved them too.

Roger finished his year-long patrol with Mia, Hagson, and Beverly, then returned to the Nether Luo Tribe and introduced Mia as a capable Lowgod. Allen reported that a fast-moving group led by someone wielding the Laws of Light had secretly approached the tribe, and Roger recognized the leader as Bell.

• Roger and his companions completed six months of patrol without meeting any unusual experts, while Mia killed several unaffiliated Lowgods and Roger studied her divine abilities.
• Roger, Hagson, Beverly, and a recovered Mia returned to the Nether Luo Tribe, where they found Allen and the tribe safe and dozens of Sanctuary soul-filled crystal balls collected.
• Roger introduced Mia to the tribe as a capable Lowgod he had brought back to nurture, keeping her identity as a Nether Fox and his soul slave secret.
• Allen told Roger that a group had secretly approached the tribe months earlier, led by someone whose Laws of Light power greatly increased the group's speed.
• Roger recognized the leader in Allen's account as Bell.

Roger strengthened Allen’s authority in the Nether Luo Tribe, rewarded Mia, and spent decades cultivating the laws of wind and the death edict. When the Jade Disc evolved again after a century, its energy helped Roger feel that his Soul Space bottleneck was within reach.

• Roger warned Allen to flee if he encountered Bell and gave him two Godheads to create a loyal Midgod subordinate.
• Roger gave Mia an Interspatial Ring containing Soul Gold Beads and Midgod Artifact armor before returning to secluded cultivation.
• Roger refined Sanctuary souls into Soul Gold Beads, shared some with his subordinates, and cultivated the remaining branches of the death edict.
• Over several decades, Roger fused the Fast and Slow mysteries of wind and gained an initial understanding of the Profound Mystery of Dimensions, but remained stuck on Soul Space.
• After a hundred years of nourishment, the Jade Disc evolved again, and its energy made Roger feel his Soul Space bottleneck was no longer an obstacle.

Roger awakened an affinity for the water law after the Fortune Jade Disc transformed, then advanced his death edict enough to comprehend the soul space branch and create soul poison. He tested the poison on three Sanctuary Black Dragons, killing them with a single sword thrust each.

• Roger sensed that the Fortune Jade Disc had awakened his affinity for the water law and resumed cultivating while pursuing his other studies.
• Two and a half years later, Roger comprehended soul defense and the material branch, and gained an initial understanding of the soul space branch.
• Roger created a soul space that could store Soul Seeds and produce Mind Gray Mist, then infused the mist with his soul-attack insights to make soul poison.
• Roger coated his Divine Sword with soul poison and asked Mia to bring him Sanctuary Magical Beasts for a test.
• Roger killed three Sanctuary Black Dragons with sword thrusts that sent soul poison through their defenses and destroyed their soul cores.

Roger advanced his soul space comprehension and broke through to Highgod, then used Soul Gold Beads to strengthen his soul to its limit. He reunited with Mia and encouraged her cultivation before inviting her to explore the mysteries of life with him.

• Roger tested his newly created soul poison by killing three black dragons, then returned to seclusion while Mia continued cultivating.
• Three years later, Roger gained a Water Element divine clone, developed new soul space techniques, and continued advancing his soul branch comprehension.
• Roger's water clone comprehended the Profound Mystery of Roundness, reached Midgod, and began fusing it with the Water Element Profound Mystery.
• After more than a decade, Roger fully comprehended the soul space branch and became a Highgod as his death clone's Godhead and soul transformed.
• Roger consumed more than five hundred Soul Gold Beads, extending his death clone's divine sense to ten thousand meters, then left seclusion and reunited with Mia.

After reaching the Highgod level, Roger announced plans to expand the Nether Luo Tribe into a city and chose Frostwhisper Plain as its site. As construction began, he withdrew to cultivate the death edict, finding that he had to rely mainly on his own understanding.

• Allen learned that Roger had reached the Highgod level and asked whether he planned to build a city.
• Roger summoned the tribe’s Lowgods and higher-ranked members, announced his plan, and received their support.
• Roger named the city Netherlo and chose Frostwhisper Plain as its location.
• The tribe relocated and began building an inner city, while Roger left the work to Allen and entered seclusion.
• Roger explored the death edict’s second layer and found that Charles’s recorded insights rarely matched his own approach.

Roger advanced his death-edict and other law fusions while Netherlo City was built over two centuries. After inspecting the completed inner city, he met with its leaders and heard Starr ask to bring fourteen tribes under Roger’s command.

• Roger chose to focus on fusing the death edict’s soul attack branch with its other branches, and over a hundred years raised his understanding to roughly the level of a Five-Star Fiend.
• Roger’s wind and water clones progressed toward three-mystery fusions while his original body continued powering the growing Jade Disc Fragment.
• After another hundred-odd years, Mia told Roger that Netherlo City’s inner city was complete and that more than a dozen tribes sought to join them.
• Roger inspected the city, praised Allen and the others, and ordered Mia to provide a hundred Soul Gold Beads for distribution according to their contributions.
• Starr, chief of the Star Tribe and representative of thirteen other tribes, asked Roger to accept them under his command.

Roger accepted Starr and his fourteen tribes into a thousand-year trial, continued building Netherlo City while cultivating, and found evidence that teleportation arrays had not yet appeared in the Netherworld. He left the question of the world’s early timeline unresolved.

• Roger accepted Starr’s fourteen tribes into a thousand-year trial and directed them to report to Deputy City Lord Allen.
• Roger refined Netherlo City’s plans and newcomer system with Allen, Hagson, and the others before returning to secluded cultivation.
• Over two hundred years, Roger accepted more nearby tribes, advanced his Wind and Water Law comprehension, and reached Six-Star Fiend strength in the Death Edict.
• Roger delayed exploring the Netherworld with Mia until one of his divine clones became a Highgod and a clone could oversee the city.
• Roger reviewed Allen’s records and found no evidence of visitors from material planes or Netherworld deities using teleportation arrays, leading him to suspect that the arrays had not yet appeared.

Roger’s water clone reached the Highgod level, allowing him to leave it in charge of Netherlo City while he and Mia traveled to seek the Undead Sacred Mountain. They flew southeast, guided by reports of the distinctive bone-white peak.

• Roger mastered the ice edge profound mystery, and his water clone broke through to the Highgod level.
• Roger stabilized his water clone’s strength and left it to guard Netherlo City while Allen managed the city’s affairs.
• Roger told Allen that he planned to explore the Netherworld with Mia, and Allen wished them a safe journey.
• Roger and Mia left Netherlo City late at night and flew southeast toward the Undead Sacred Mountain.
• Mia offered to take her true form so Roger could ride on her back and travel faster.

Roger and Mia reached the Undead Sacred Mountain after decades of travel and found a group of powerful residents occupying it. When Roger asked to speak with whoever was in charge, the castle’s guards summoned reinforcements, setting up a possible confrontation.

• Roger rode on Mia’s back toward the Undead Sacred Mountain while studying divine beasts and refining his death-edict abilities.
• After several decades, Roger and Mia spotted the mountain and flew for three more days before landing on its bone-white summit.
• Roger found no teleportation array but discovered an imposing Bloodstone Ancient Castle on the summit.
• A cold-looking Highgod ordered Roger and Mia to leave, but Roger asked to speak with whoever was in charge.
• The cold-looking Highgod summoned more Midgods and another Highgod, who arrived asking whether someone was causing trouble.

Roger and Mia defeated the defenders of the Ancient Castle, then Roger used his Soul Seed to enslave Shelly, a Blood Serpent divine beast. Shelly revealed her race, Blood Blade ability, and recent rise to Highgod, leaving her as Roger’s new soul slave.

• Roger killed the sinister man and the Highgod with Soul Annihilation Blades while Mia fought the Midgods.
• Mia slaughtered the Midgods, but Shelly struck off her left shoulder with Blood Blade.
• Roger pursued Shelly and pierced her soul defenses with an improved Soul Annihilation Blade, planting a Soul Seed within her.
• Shelly submitted to Roger, and she and Mia traded jealous insults as Roger called them sisters.
• Shelly told Roger that she was the first Blood Serpent born from heaven and earth, cultivated the destruction edict, and had recently become a Highgod.

Roger took Shelly, the Blood Serpent divine beast, under his wing and traveled with her and Mia to the Undead Realm. After searching more than a hundred Lowgods’ souls, he found evidence that divine beasts and teleportation arrays were absent from the material planes in recent generations.

• Roger learned that Shelly was a nearly three-hundred-thousand-year-old Highgod who had taken over Bloodstone Castle and gathered subordinates to guard it.
• Shelly asked to join Roger and Mia on their travels, and Roger agreed.
• Roger, Shelly, and Mia flew south and arrived in the Undead Realm several years later.
• Roger searched the souls of Lowgods across the realm, hoping to find information about material planes.
• After searching more than a hundred Lowgods, Roger concluded that few divine beasts had been born in current material planes and that no teleportation arrays had appeared there.

Roger investigated the Undead Realm and confirmed that divine beasts had not yet appeared in the Material Planes, then traveled with Mia and Shelly into the depths of the Nether Sea. On a remote island, they encountered two young, unascended divine beasts.

• Roger searched the souls of Lowgods for decades and confirmed that the Material Planes were still relatively peaceful and lacked divine beasts.
• Roger speculated that Orloff and the Four Divine Beasts might not yet have appeared, then decided to explore the Nether Sea before returning to the Undead Sacred Mountain.
• Mia carried Roger and Shelly across the Nether Sea while Roger and his clones continued cultivating and surveying their surroundings.
• Mia spotted a small island deep in the Nether Sea, and Roger agreed to investigate it.
• Roger detected a turtle-like divine beast and a crab-like divine beast on the island, and both chose to relax rather than flee from the newcomers.

Roger learned that a red-haired powerhouse named Lilith had visited Canglan Island and was likely the future Sovereign of Death. After decades flying across the Nether Sea, Roger and his companions returned to land without encountering her.

• Roger questioned the divine beasts Sanchez and Kumas on Canglan Island and learned that a red-haired woman called Lilith had visited with two followers.
• Sanchez and Kumas said Lilith had gone north to the continent to seek powerful opponents, and Roger rewarded them with Soul Gold Beads.
• The Soul Gold Beads strengthened Sanchez and Kumas's souls to the Saint Domain Limit, inspiring them to seek the continent and cultivate further.
• Roger told Shelly that the encounter confirmed powerful beings lived in the Nether Sea and considered how strong Lilith and her companions might be.
• Mia carried Roger and Shelly across the Nether Sea for several decades, and they returned to land without meeting Lilith's group.

After several thousand years of secluded cultivation, Roger’s Jade Disc awakened his aptitude for earth and fire, and he advanced to the Asura level in the Death Edict, wind, and water. He reunited with Mia and Shelly, learned about their progress, and resumed their intimate life.

• Roger and Mia and Shelly returned to Bloodstone Castle and began a long period of secluded cultivation.
• The Jade Disc transformed Roger’s comprehension, granting him aptitude for earth and fire while continuing to absorb his power.
• Roger reached the Seven-Star Demon level in the Death Edict, wind, and water, refined a Soul Leech, and upgraded Mia and Shelly’s Soul Seeds.
• Three thousand years later, Roger reached the Asura level in the Death Edict, wind, and water, while his earth and fire cultivation reached the Seven-Star Demon level.
• After emerging from seclusion, Roger reunited with Mia and Shelly and heard that Mia had reached the Five-Star Fiend level while Shelly remained an ordinary Highgod.

After waiting thousands of years for the teleportation array, Roger learned that powerful beings were becoming more common and Netherlo City had grown into a major force. He crafted ten Soul Defense Divine Artifacts called Netherlo Rings and gave some to Mia and Shelly, leaving them with stronger protection.

• Shelly and Mia told Roger that unfamiliar Highgods had appeared more often, while his Water Clone had overseen Netherlo City’s growth to tens of millions of residents and over a million Lowgods.
• Roger asked Mia for the heavenly soul crystals she had gathered so he could craft Soul Defense Divine Artifacts for himself and his companions.
• Roger used his soul insights to craft ten artifacts, then named them Netherlo Rings and added one to his own soul defense.
• Roger called Mia and Shelly to his chamber and handed them Netherlo Rings, which Mia recognized as Soul Defense Divine Artifacts.

Roger extracted soul fragments containing peak law comprehension from Sanctuary beings and prepared to help Allen advance to Highgod. The chapter ended with Allen eager to use the fragments, while Mia and Shelly received fragments for their own cultivation.

• Roger helped Mia and Shelly bind their Netherlo Rings, then asked them to find Sanctuary beings with peak comprehension of laws or edicts.
• Roger summoned Allen from Netherlo City and asked him to bring subordinates to the Undead Sacred Mountain for a promised reward.
• Over several decades, Roger extracted and assembled soul fragments containing limit-level comprehension across the elemental laws and edicts.
• Roger explained that Allen could merge three earth-law fragments to bring his comprehension to the limit and advance to Highgod through independent cultivation.
• Roger helped Allen prepare to bind a Netherlo Ring and gave Mia and Shelly soul fragments to study.

Roger discovered that Bell, a Highgod soul mutant, was hiding in the Snowwind Mountains and confronted him. After piercing Bell’s soul defense, Roger enslaved him with a Soul Leech.

• Allen bound the Netherlo Ring, received soul fragments, and began cultivating to reach Highgod strength.
• Several hundred years passed as Allen mastered two profound mysteries, while Mia and Shelly continued deepening their edict insights.
• Mia reported a suspicious Highgod with both light and earth divine power hiding in the Snowwind Mountains, and Roger suspected he was Bell.
• Roger and Mia found Bell outside his cave, where Roger attacked with the Soul Annihilation Blade.
• Roger pierced Bell’s soul defense and enslaved him by forming a Soul Leech inside his soul.

After enslaving Bell, Roger studied his mutated soul but could not yet understand its structure. As Netherlo City grew and powerful individuals gathered near Undead Sacred Mountain, Roger captured and researched divine beasts while preparing for the arrival of teleportation arrays and Sovereign Sparks.

• Roger made Bell his third Soul Slave and spent half a month examining Bell's mutated soul, but found its structure too complex to replicate or study further.
• Over several thousand years, Roger dissected Sanctuary Souls while Netherlo City expanded, and Allen broke through to the Highgod level.
• Mia, Shelly, and Bell patrolled near Undead Sacred Mountain, confronting intruders and bringing Godheads back to strengthen Netherlo City's forces.
• Roger learned that powerful individuals were emerging across the realms and expected teleportation arrays and Sovereign Sparks to appear, so he began secluding himself more often.
• Bell reported a Highgod divine beast with a suction-based ability; Roger sent him and Mia to capture it, but Mia failed to enslave the Bashé and killed it.
• Roger took the Bashé's Godhead for Mia to distribute and brought its corpse to his laboratory to extract its blood essence for research.

Roger continued researching divine beast essence blood and the replication of innate abilities, while his clones advanced in cultivation. After fifty thousand years, the Jade Disc transformed again, greatly improving Roger’s comprehension and bringing the Paragon level within reach.

• Roger extracted 180 drops of essence blood from a Bashé and continued studying soul fragments and divine beast abilities.
• Roger’s attempts to transplant divine beast essence blood failed because ordinary Netherworld humans and his own body contained mixed bloodlines.
• Over tens of thousands of years, Roger’s death clone reached the Asura-level bottleneck, while his earth, fire, water, and wind clones also advanced to the Asura level.
• After fifty thousand years, the Jade Disc transformed and improved Roger’s comprehension more than ever before, though it granted him no new cultivation talent.
• Roger’s death clone swallowed a Soul Gold Bead but could not absorb its soul essence, then realized the Paragon level was within reach.

After tens of thousands of years of cultivation, Roger fully comprehended the Death Edict and became a Paragon, gaining Willpower and greatly strengthening his soul. He then perfected his ultimate techniques and created Tracking Marks that let him see through the eyes of Mia, Shelly, Bell, and his patrol members from afar.

• Roger seized the final insight into the Death Edict, and the Laws of Heaven and Earth transformed his soul and Godhead as he became a Paragon.
• Roger tested his new Willpower by shattering and restoring the Netherworld's space, then absorbed Soul Gold Beads until his soul reached saturation and his perception spanned a thousand li.
• Roger told Mia and Shelly that he had reached the Paragon level after they came to congratulate him.
• Roger perfected his ultimate techniques and created the Tracking Mark, then secretly imprinted marks in Mia, Shelly, Bell, and several subordinates.
• After the patrol moved beyond soul communication range, Roger activated the Tracking Marks and saw everything they could see.

Roger traveled to Nether Mountain disguised as an ordinary Midgod, hoping to find Lilith and prepare to reach Hell. While he examined the mountain, Teleportation Arrays appeared at the summit of the Undead Sacred Mountain.

• Roger recalled Mia and the other two, ordered them to guard Bloodstone Castle, and left his wind clone behind before setting out for Nether Mountain.
• Roger flew for two years, placing Tracking Marks on two unusual divine beasts along the way.
• Roger disguised his aura and reached the foot of Nether Mountain, where he saw the mountain’s colored mists and lightning chains block access until the full moon.
• Roger began circling the mountain, and a vast fluctuation spread across the Netherworld.
• Roger’s wind clone rushed out of Bloodstone Castle and saw three Teleportation Arrays materialize at the summit of the Undead Sacred Mountain.

Roger and Mia traveled through the newly formed Teleportation Arrays to the Infernal Realm and searched for the Skyrite Mountains. After reaching the mountains, they learned the Four Divine Beasts were still Midgods, and Roger decided to watch them while considering whether his death clone could enslave them.

• Roger examined the three Teleportation Arrays, then took Mia through the array leading to the Infernal Realm and ordered Shelly and Bell to guard the others.
• Roger and Mia repeatedly teleported between the Infernal Realm and the Celestial Realm, using Mia's Soul Search to find the Blood Peak Continent and learn the route to the Skyrite Mountains.
• Roger and Mia flew for three years before reaching the Skyrite Mountains, where Mia used Soul Search to gather information from the local Deities.
• Mia learned from a concealed dark Midgod that the Four Divine Beasts lived in the mountains' depths and were still Midgods, though their innate abilities could kill ordinary Highgods.
• Roger decided his death clone could try to enslave the Four Divine Beasts, and he and Mia settled on the mountains' outskirts to monitor them.

Roger discovered Lilith and Inawei at a lake on Nether Mountain, but decided not to risk trying to enslave Lilith. On the full moon, he entered Nether Mountain, suspected its power came from the Heart of the Netherworld, and found nothing after searching the White Mist Zone for three days.

• Roger found Lilith fishing beside a lake with Inawei and secretly placed Tracking Marks on both women before leaving.
• Roger weighed enslaving Lilith against the risks and chose to focus on the Four Divine Beasts instead.
• When the full moon rose and the mountain mist thinned, Roger entered Nether Mountain and found his divine sense severely suppressed.
• Roger suspected the Heart of the Netherworld caused the suppression and searched the White Mist Zone in a spiral pattern.
• After three days of searching, Roger found nothing in the White Mist Zone.