Chapter Summaries

Roger awakened in the Netherworld as a Sanctuary native with no grasp of the laws and discovered that the Fortune Jade Disc he had brought from his former life had followed him as a shattered fragment. After reuniting with his friend Lei Allen, Roger accepted that he did not know the world’s timeline and resolved to focus on cultivation to survive.

• Roger woke in an unfamiliar stone house, absorbed the memories of his parallel self, and learned he was a Sanctuary native in the Netherworld whose Lowgod parents had died in battle.
• Roger searched his soul ocean and found a shattered fragment of the Fortune Jade Disc he had owned in his former life.
• Roger spoke with Lei Allen, who had watched over him during his two-and-a-half-day unconsciousness and warned him against recklessly approaching godly battles.
• After Allen left, Roger looked out at the blood-red moon and tried to determine whether the Four Divine Beasts had fallen or Linley had been born.
• Roger recalled what little he knew about the Fire Rhinoceros tribe, then decided that improving his cultivation was essential to surviving the Netherworld.

Roger worked as a Fire Rhino herder in the Netherworld and discovered that eating Fire Cloud Tree heartwood made energy flow into the damaged Jade Disc in his consciousness. The Jade Disc absorbed the energy and released a profound aura, leaving Roger eager to see what it would do next.

• Roger accompanied Allen to take their Fire Rhinos to graze and respectfully answered Shaluba, who warned him to avoid places where Deities were sparring.
• Roger and Allen felled Fire Cloud Trees in a valley to feed their four Fire Rhinos, and Allen ate some of the heartwood himself.
• Roger ate a piece of heartwood and felt its energy surge into the Jade Disc fragment in his consciousness.
• Roger devoured the remaining heartwood, and the Jade Disc absorbed its energy and released a profound aura through his consciousness.

Roger absorbed several Fire Cloud Tree cores and experienced a breakthrough, comprehending the soul attack aspect of the death edict. Allen realized Roger’s insight could make them stronger and promised to take on their chores while Roger continued cultivating.

• Allen chopped down Fire Cloud Trees and gave their cores to Roger, whose Jade Disc absorbed their energy and transformed his soul.
• Roger’s perception of an edict sharpened, and he sat down to cultivate while Allen fed the four Fire Rhinos and kept watch.
• Roger emerged from his epiphany near nightfall and identified his insight as the soul attack aspect of the death edict.
• Allen explained that the soul-refining aspect could produce valuable Soul Gold Beads, but Roger said he had comprehended soul attacks instead.
• Allen accepted that Roger’s insight would still help them in battle and offered to handle their chores so Roger could cultivate.

Roger cultivated the death edict for six months and reached the peak of the Saint level, then broke through to become a Lowgod. Allen guarded him throughout his cultivation and witnessed the breakthrough.

• Roger and Allen returned to the Fire Rhino Tribe and decided to spend a year cultivating after their Fire Rhinos absorbed enough energy from the fire cloud tree hearts.
• Allen stayed behind to guard Roger while Roger studied the death edict, and Roger cultivated in seclusion for six months.
• Roger awoke and told Allen he had reached the peak of the Saint level, then resumed cultivating to break through to godhood.
• Roger studied the Jade Disc Fragment and refined his understanding of Soul Attack until he reached a sense of completeness.
• The laws of heaven and earth descended, and Allen realized that Roger had become a god.

Roger became a Lowgod by forming an external Death Godhead and a death divine clone. The Fire Rhino Tribe welcomed him into its leadership, giving him troops, a vote in major matters, and time to cultivate.

• Roger chose external godhood, endured the splitting of his soul, and formed a death divine clone that could perceive the death edict more clearly.
• Allen congratulated Roger on becoming a god and celebrated that the brothers would no longer have to bow to Shaluba.
• Chief Hagson praised Roger, invited him to a banquet, and asked him to call him big brother Hagson.
• At the banquet, Shaluba joined the other deities in congratulating Roger despite his past hostility toward Roger and Allen.
• Hagson assigned Roger four hundred Sanctuary experts and one thousand Fire Rhinos, gave him a vote in major matters and a share of the proceeds from Fire Rhino horns, and welcomed him into the tribe's leadership.

At the banquet celebrating Roger’s ascension, Hagson gave him two Lowgod Artifacts and asked whether he could refine soul essence to heal Hagson’s damaged soul. Roger accepted the legacy of a Death Edict Highgod, giving him a wealth of soul-refining knowledge to study.

• Hagson presented Roger with a divine artifact longsword and armor, which Roger accepted and bound with his blood.
• Colette and the other Lowgods congratulated Roger and invited him to spar so they could learn about the death edict.
• After the banquet, Hagson asked Roger which aspect of the death edict he had mastered and revealed that Black Bat’s Soul Attack had damaged his soul.
• Roger told Hagson he had some understanding of soul refining and would study it now that he had become a deity.
• Hagson gave Roger an interspatial ring containing books and a crystal ball left by a Death Edict Highgod, and Roger discovered that the legacy included extensive soul-refining research and details about the death edict.

Roger moved into the Fire Rhino Tribe’s Deity residential area and began cultivating with Hagson’s books. He discovered that the Jade Disc Fragment could absorb his soul power and divine power, then learned that the Death Edict contained six interconnected branches.

• Roger thanked Hagson for the cultivation books, and Hagson invited Roger and Allen to move into the Deities’ residential area.
• Roger and Allen packed their belongings and moved to the River Valley Residential Area, where Roger was assigned 400 Saints and 1,000 fire rhinos.
• Roger gave Allen responsibility for managing the Saints and fire rhinos, then entered seclusion to cultivate.
• Roger’s Jade Disc Fragment began absorbing his soul power and divine power after he reached Lowgod.
• Roger read Charles’s Overview of the Death Edict and learned about its six branches and the stages of comprehension needed to advance.

Roger studied Charles's books on the Death Edict, then spent a year cultivating until he grasped the basics of the Soul Refining branch. He asked Hagson to gather Saint-level souls for him and began refining the large supply Hagson delivered.

• Roger spent several days memorizing Charles's books while his true body nourished the Jade Disc Fragment with divine power.
• After a year of secluded cultivation, Roger gained an initial understanding of the Soul Refining branch, aided by Charles's insights and the Jade Disc Fragment.
• Roger visited Hagson and asked him to collect Saint-level souls, giving him a Soul Crystal Ball.
• Hagson sent his subordinates into the wilderness and delivered a crystal ball filled with twenty or thirty thousand Saint-level souls ten days later.
• Roger confirmed the souls were high quality and told Hagson to return in three months to collect more refined soul essence.

Roger refined Sanctuary souls into soul essence, absorbed some to strengthen his soul, and advanced his understanding of the Death Edict’s Soul Refining branch. He delivered the remaining essence to Hagson, agreed to split it evenly, and showed him how to absorb it.

• Roger used the Jade Disc’s help to refine the Sanctuary souls over seven days, losing only three souls in the process.
• Roger absorbed over six thousand wisps of soul essence, growing his soul by five percent and greatly speeding up his thoughts.
• Roger spent two and a half months cultivating and comprehended the Soul Refining branch to its limit, leaving him one bottleneck away from becoming a Midgod.
• Roger brought the remaining soul essence to Hagson ahead of schedule and agreed to divide it equally.
• Roger transferred half the soul essence into a crystal ball for Hagson and explained how to absorb it with soul power.

Roger traded soul essence with Hagson, shared some with Allen to strengthen his soul and accelerate his cultivation, then continued his own training. Unable to break through the Soul Refining bottleneck, Roger made rapid progress in Soul Control and came close to condensing a Soul Seed.

• Hagson gave Roger four crystal balls of Sanctuary souls in exchange for soul essence, and Roger agreed to meet him again in a year.
• Roger gave Allen half of his soul essence, and Allen absorbed it, greatly strengthening his soul and improving his chances of reaching the Sanctuary limit and becoming a deity.
• Roger absorbed and refined the remaining soul essence, gaining insight into Soul Control and learning to condense soul threads that could influence weak-souled Sanctuary beings.
• After three months of failing to break through the Soul Refining bottleneck, Roger shifted his focus to Soul Control.
• Several months later, Roger had reached the late stage of Soul Control and was nearing the ability to condense a Soul Seed.

Roger traded soul essence with Hagson, strengthened his Death God Divine Clone by refining Saint-level souls, and continued his cultivation despite reaching bottlenecks. The chapter ended when Allen became a god.

• Hagson traded Roger ten crystal spheres of Saint-level souls for half of the soul essence Roger had produced and shared his plan to unite neighboring tribes against the Black Bat Tribe.
• Roger learned that Allen had nearly comprehended earth essence to its limit, shared his cultivation experience with him, and returned to seclusion.
• Roger refined the Saint-level souls, increasing his Death God Divine Clone's soul strength to about 2.4 times its original level, and calculated how many souls he would need at later stages.
• Roger spent the following years trying to break through the soul refining and soul control bottlenecks while the Jade Disc Fragment grew only slightly.
• A fluctuation in the laws of heaven and earth revealed to Roger that Allen had become a god.

Allen became an earth Lowgod, and Roger and Hagson shared Soul Essence and divine artifacts with him. As the Fire Rhino Tribe focused on gathering Saint souls, Roger warned Allen that war with the Black Bat Tribe might be near and hoped to reach Midgod before it began.

• Roger congratulated Allen after Allen emerged as an earth Lowgod, and they celebrated with Purple Flame Dew.
• Hagson arrived, and Roger gave him five of ten crystal balls filled with Soul Essence.
• Hagson postponed Allen’s celebration, gave him divine artifact armor and a saber, and arranged to collect twenty crystal balls of Saint souls in three years.
• Roger gave Allen a bottle of Soul Essence to heal his split soul and strengthen him for the approaching tribal war.
• Allen urged Roger to focus on cultivation and break through to Midgod before the war began.

Roger spent years strengthening his souls and trying to break through his cultivation bottleneck, while the tribe’s worsening situation suggested another war was approaching. After the Jade Disc absorbed divine and soul power for ten years, it grew to twenty percent of its original size.

• Roger strengthened his true body's soul with soul essence, then spent years trying and failing to break through by studying the Soul Refining and Soul Control branches.
• Hagson brought Roger twenty-five soul crystal balls and rushed toward the Black Wolf Tribe with two injured deputies as tribal tensions rose.
• Roger refined the souls and strengthened his Death Divine Clone's soul to its limit, nearly ten times its original strength.
• Roger failed to form a complete Soul Gold Bead, reviewed his insights, and then spent the next few years developing signature soul attacks.
• Roger sensed the Jade Disc had grown to twenty percent of its original size after ten years of absorbing divine and soul power.

After the Jade Disc Fragment transformed Roger’s soul, he mastered the Soul Refining branch and became a god, then discovered he could comprehend the Wind Elemental Profound Mysteries. He refined his first Soul Gold Bead from Saint soul essence and found it strengthened his soul by twenty percent.

• Roger received a surge of mysterious energy from the Jade Disc Fragment, which greatly improved his comprehension.
• Roger comprehended the Soul Refining branch completely, became a god, and found his divine power and soul had grown tenfold.
• Roger discovered he could sense the Wind Elemental Profound Mysteries and began cultivating them while continuing to nourish the Jade Disc Fragment.
• Roger used soul essence collected by the Fire Rhino Tribe to refine his first Soul Gold Bead.
• Roger swallowed the Soul Gold Bead and strengthened his Death Divine Clone’s soul by twenty percent.

Roger refined Soul Gold Beads to strengthen his death Divine Clone’s soul, then devised a powerful Soul Attack called Soul Annihilation Blade. After half a month in seclusion, he prepared to emerge and await Hagson’s next delivery of Sanctuary souls.

• Roger told Allen to guard his chamber while he consolidated his cultivation, and Allen kept curious Lowgods from disturbing him.
• Roger refined his soul essence into forty-nine Soul Gold Beads and absorbed them, strengthening his death Divine Clone’s soul to its limit and extending his divine sense to three thousand meters.
• Roger studied the Soul Attack principles in Charles’s notes and spent half a month adapting them to his own strength and insights.
• Roger created Soul Annihilation Blade, a soul-powered javelin whose spinning blade could pierce an enemy’s soul core and potentially kill an ordinary Highgod.
• Roger dispersed the javelin, ended his seclusion, and prepared to emerge, expecting Hagson to bring more Sanctuary souls soon.

Roger emerged from secluded training as a Midgod and celebrated his breakthrough with Allen and the tribe’s Lowgods. Afterward, Hagson gave him twenty Sanctuary Souls and agreed to prepare an alliance against the Black Bat Tribe while Roger consolidated his strength.

• Roger told Allen he had reached Midgod and resolved to grow stronger, eventually exploring other planes to learn how much time remained before the Sovereign Sparks descended.
• Roger and Allen celebrated with wine, and Colette and the other Lowgods arrived to congratulate Roger.
• Hagson returned and joined the celebration, explaining that he had been capturing Sanctuary beings with the leaders of the Black Wolf Tribe and the Night Wind Tribe.
• After the celebration, Hagson gave Roger an Interspatial Ring containing twenty Sanctuary Souls and proposed putting their plan against the Black Bat Tribe into motion.
• Roger asked for half a year to consolidate his strength, and Hagson agreed to form an alliance with the Black Wolf Tribe and the Night Wind Tribe.
• Hagson asked Roger which aspect he had broken through in to become a Midgod.

Roger refined Soul Gold Beads, strengthened his original body's soul, and built up divine power while preparing for war. He then created Soul Seeds through the Death Edict and considered whether he might one day enslave the Four Divine Beasts.

• Roger told Hagson he had comprehended the Soul Refining branch and agreed to refine Sanctuary souls into Soul Gold Beads for a sixty-forty split.
• Roger consumed twelve Soul Gold Beads, more than doubling the strength of his original body's soul, then spent three months accumulating divine power.
• Roger comprehended the Soul Control branch and created Soul Seeds that could enslave the souls of defenseless targets weaker than himself.
• Roger learned that each Soul Seed consumed about one-sixtieth of his soul power and decided to keep only two spares.
• Roger speculated that he might be able to enslave the Four Divine Beasts if they were born before he became powerful enough to control them.

Roger considered the opportunities and dangers awaiting him in the Netherworld, then resumed cultivating the Death Edict. His seclusion ended when the Black Bat Tribe attacked, and Hagson led Roger and their allies toward the battlefield.

• Roger planned to search for the Heart of the Netherworld and the Sovereign of Death once he grew stronger, while prioritizing the Four Divine Beasts as potential targets.
• Roger concluded that branches of the Death Edict could not be fused and suspected Highgods could deepen their understanding by studying further layers of each branch.
• Allen warned Roger that the Black Bat Tribe was attacking, and Roger armed himself before leaving his chamber.
• Hagson introduced Beverly of the Black Wolf Tribe and Croya of the Night Wind Tribe, whom he had invited to help defend against the attack.
• Roger and the others flew toward the battle, where the Fire Rhino Tribe's Lowgods retreated from a powerful black humanoid bat.

Roger fought the Black Bat Tribe’s Lowgods and demonstrated overwhelming strength by killing them with soul attacks. As the battle continued, Shaluba was killed while Roger ignored his calls for help, and Roger left the fight intent on killing more enemies.

• Hagson assigned Croya to engage the Black Bat Tribe’s other God while he and Beverly faced Black Bat, and Roger agreed to support them.
• Roger used his God-level domain and soul attacks to kill a Lowgod, while Allen killed another enemy Roger had restrained.
• When more than ten Lowgods gathered to counter Roger’s domain, Roger dodged their attacks and killed ten of them with a single volley of soul blades.
• The surviving Black Bat Tribe Lowgods scattered, and Shaluba called to Roger for help while battling an enemy.
• Roger ignored Shaluba, who was struck by four Lowgods and killed, and Allen cheered at his death.

Roger killed the Black Bat Tribe’s Lowgods, then used his Soul Annihilation Blade to kill Black Bat and another Midgod, ending the battle. Hagson and Beverly gave Roger Black Bat’s spoils, while Roger left the rest for Hagson to divide.

• Roger killed fifteen Lowgods and drove the survivors from the battlefield.
• Roger joined Hagson and Beverly against Black Bat, then chased him as he tried to escape.
• Roger killed Black Bat with his Soul Annihilation Blade, piercing the defenses of both his divine clone and original body.
• Roger killed another Black Bat Tribe Midgod who was trapped by Croya, bringing the battle to a halt.
• Hagson and Beverly agreed that Roger should receive Black Bat’s spoils, and Roger let Hagson divide the other spoils.