Recaps

Lucas challenged a sixth-level Earth Baboon King to test his strength, but the fight drew the attention of a Wind Wolf pack that had surrounded him before. Outnumbered, Lucas tried to break through the wolves’ coordinated standoff and launched a powerful spear sweep.

• Lucas attacked the Earth Baboon King, wounded it, and drove off two fifth-level baboons, but the baboons began striking him with magic from a distance.
• A Wind Wolf King arrived and killed the wounded Baboon King and the two injured baboons.
• The Wind Wolf pack surrounded Lucas, and he realized he needed to thin their numbers before more wolves arrived.
• Lucas took a defensive stance and waited, but the wolves refused to attack and tried to stall until nightfall.
• Lucas baited the wolves by charging toward the wolf king, then planted his feet and swept his spear at the pack.

Lucas killed the level six Wind Wolf King after using sweeping strikes to thin its pack, then escaped toward the baboons’ former route. Two hours later, the female Wind Wolf King arrived and left with some of the wolves, while Lucas continued east through the Hemonxi Mountains.

• Lucas used Wielding Something Light as Though It Were Heavy to kill two Wind Wolves and drive back the rest, then the wolf king bit through his armor and scratched his belly.
• Lucas charged at the injured wolves, turned to strike their reinforcements, and killed two more while injuring two others.
• Lucas fought the Wind Wolf King and killed it with a strike using Wielding Something Light as Though It Were Heavy; the remaining injured wolves fled.
• Lucas ran toward the route the baboons had taken, having no strength left to pursue the fleeing wolves.
• The female Wind Wolf King arrived with her subordinates, suppressed the wolves’ unrest, and left to seek another territory, while several males stayed to contest the dead king’s Magic Beast Core.
• Lucas headed east to avoid the deeper, more dangerous parts of the Hemonxi Mountains.

Lucas reflected on how life-and-death combat had sharpened his instincts and strength, then focused on mastering control of his power. When he encountered four warriors fighting a seventh-level Velocidragon, he joined the battle and helped drive the beast away.

• Lucas reviewed his combat experience and resolved to develop greater control over his strength through martial practice and studying nature.
• Lucas heard fighting after crossing a valley and found a Sixth-Rank Warrior and three Fifth Rank Warriors retreating from a seventh-level Velocidragon.
• A female warrior warned Lucas to stay away, but he charged in and struck the Velocidragon with his spear.
• The Velocidragon's tail was injured by Lucas's attack, and the Sixth-Rank Warrior's pressure eased after Lucas joined the fight.
• The Velocidragon judged the humans' strength, roared at them, and retreated.

Lucas saved a tribe’s warriors from a Velocidragon and learned that their trial involved stealing its egg. His search for a way to force a magical-beast contract failed, and he left after a woman from the tribe proposed having a child with him.

• Lucas let the Velocidragon retreat, and the Sixth-Rank Warrior thanked him for saving the group.
• The warriors revealed that their trial involved stealing a Velocidragon egg, and Lucas offered to trade his strength secret for information about magical-beast contracts.
• The Sixth-Rank Warrior could not tell Lucas how to impose a contract on a fully grown magical beast.
• A female Fifth Rank Warrior proposed having a child with Lucas, but he refused and said he loved someone else.
• Lucas excused himself and left the group.

Lucas escaped the tribe members, reflected on the danger of revealing his secret, and continued training in the wilderness. He left the Velocidragon territory, found shelter from an approaching storm, and ended the day washing in the rain.

• Lucas fled before the warriors could question him, while the deputy chief warned that their group could not defeat him without the tribe's Seventh-Level Earth Armored Dragon.
• The muscular girl admitted she had hoped to have a strong child with Lucas, and the silent boy considered following him but stayed with the tribe.
• Lucas realized that his desire to learn how to contract magical beasts had nearly led him into a trap, and he resolved to be more cautious.
• Lucas left the valley, continued challenging magical beasts, and sought shelter when he predicted rain.
• Lucas checked an empty cave, gathered dry wood, cooked magical beast meat, and stood outside to wash in the rain.

Lucas gained insight into a faster, more defensive spear technique while training in the rain, then continued his journey through the mountains. After spotting a dangerous black bear and suspecting it had found a treasure, he followed it but decided to retreat when it disappeared behind a tree.

• Lucas practiced his spear in the rain, striking falling drops until he developed a mist-like weave of spear shadows and improved his attack speed.
• Lucas reflected on his sixth-rank Battle Qi, prepared for a new journey, and sensed that he had not yet gained a true understanding of the earth's laws.
• Lucas spotted a black bear-like magical beast and guessed it was an eighth- or ninth-rank beast, then followed it from a distance because he suspected it had found a treasure.
• Lucas watched the black bear approach a rocky cliff hidden behind a tree and prepared to retreat when he could no longer see it.

Lucas fled a black bear and a swarm of venomous bee-like magical beasts after the bear tricked him into taking the swarm’s honey. After escaping with the help of a mud pool, Lucas left with the bear cub that kept following him.

• Lucas saw the black bear run toward him, but it swerved away after he knocked down a chunk of honey and drew the bee-like magical beasts’ attention.
• Lucas ran from the swarm with the black bear cub following him, fighting off some of the pursuing beasts with his spear.
• Lucas and the cub hid in a rainwater pool and covered themselves in mud until the bees lost the scent of honey and flew away.
• Lucas left the cub behind, but it continued following him despite his attempts to change direction.
• After waiting for the mother bear to appear and hearing nothing, Lucas covered the cub in more mud, picked it up, and ran in a new direction.

Lucas escaped with the black bear cub by masking their scents, then began taming it with food while cultivating in a valley. After ten days, the cub had grown attached enough to insist on sitting beside him at mealtimes.

• The mother bear followed Lucas and the cub until mud and other magical beasts’ scents obscured their trail, then rampaged after losing them.
• Lucas subdued the resisting cub and fled with it for five days before settling in a valley and killing several sixth-level magical beasts.
• Lucas fed the hungry cub raw meat and kept the better roasted meat for himself, while the cub edged closer to him for safety that night.
• Lucas began cultivating battle qi and continued rationing food to make the cub gradually depend on him.
• Over the next ten days, Lucas hunted several times, and the cub began insisting on sitting beside him at mealtimes.

Lucas formed an Equal Contract with a black bear cub and named it Anton, then took it along as he trained. When Anton rushed a seventh-level Velocidragon and was injured, Lucas defeated the beast with his spear techniques.

• Lucas earned the black bear cub’s trust by feeding it and scratching its belly, then pretended to leave the cave.
• The cub chased after Lucas, bit his thigh, and formed an Equal Contract with him while asking for meat.
• Lucas learned the cub had no name and later named it Anton after discovering its mother was a darkness-attribute Level Nine Magical Beast.
• A year later, Anton charged a seventh-level Velocidragon and was knocked aside, so Lucas fought it using his Thousand Layers, Myriad Shadows Spear Technique.
• Lucas killed the Velocidragon with Wielding Something Light as Though It Were Heavy, and Anton dug out its Magic Beast Core before they left.

Lucas used Anton to steal honey from a bee nest, then shared honey-roasted Bloodthirsty War Boar with him while cultivating toward the seventh rank. The next day, Lucas discovered a vast cavern behind a waterfall and continued exploring its depths.

• Lucas smoked out a third-level bee nest and sent Anton to draw away the swarm while he cut off honeycomb.
• Lucas and Anton ate honey and shared a roast Bloodthirsty War Boar, which Anton had hunted.
• Lucas cultivated overnight and nearly accumulated enough battle qi for a breakthrough to the seventh rank.
• Lucas found a towering waterfall and discovered a cave behind it.
• Lucas followed a draft deeper into the cave with Anton and entered a vast, lofty chamber.

Lucas and Anton fought a level nine snake-type magical beast near a spatial rift, and Lucas knocked it into the Planar Prison before escaping. After recovering from their injuries, Lucas reached the seventh rank and left the story wary of returning to the rift.

• Lucas realized the snake-type magical beast guarded a spatial rift and had Anton ask it to let them leave, but it declared that anyone who learned its secret had to die.
• Anton took the snake's first attack, and Lucas struck it twice with his spear, knocking it into the spatial rift before the snake's counterattack knocked him unconscious.
• Lucas woke beside Anton, learned the level nine beast had been sucked into the Planar Prison, and left the waterfall with Anton after recovering enough to travel.
• Lucas and Anton hid in a valley and spent three months healing, during which Lucas's Battle Qi advanced to the seventh rank.

Lucas returned to the Stans Tribe with Anton and reunited with his family and Windsor after years away. He shared stories of his dangerous journey with his mother, who saw through his attempt to hide how much danger he had faced.

• Lucas returned to the Stans Tribe with Anton and reunited with Benny, who told him the tribe had prospered using the battle qi Lucas left behind.
• Lucas met his younger sister and brother, then embraced Windsor when she arrived and cried after seeing him again.
• Lucas caught up with Windsor and declined to train with Eric and Benny so he could spend time with his family.
• Selina asked Lucas whether he had been hurt, and he admitted some of the dangers he had faced, including meeting Anton's mother.
• Anton complained that Lucas had tricked him into leaving with honey and roast meat, and Lucas flicked his head while Selina asked why he had hit him.

Lucas returned to the tribal training grounds and inspired the children by pulverizing a huge rock with one punch. He then sparred with his father, Abuda, and explained that his speed and insight into the ways of heaven and earth let him overcome stronger attacks.

• Lucas visited the morning training grounds, where his former teacher asked him to encourage the children.
• Lucas shattered a van-sized rock into powder with one punch, then encouraged the cheering children to train.
• Abuda challenged Lucas to a spar on the mountain behind their home, and Lucas easily countered his attacks with rapid spear thrusts.
• Abuda used Battle Qi, but Lucas still handled his attacks without using his own Battle Qi.
• Lucas explained that his speed let him exploit the broadsword's broad movements and that his insight had come from watching rain strike the ground.

Lucas explained the higher realms and the importance of comprehending the force of heaven and earth, then encouraged Abuda to develop his own form of force control. He turned to Anton and ended the bear’s hopes of a meal by ordering him to practice magic and train.

• Lucas told Abuda that higher realms existed beyond the sixth rank and that comprehending the force of heaven and earth mattered more than simply accumulating battle qi.
• Lucas demonstrated his spear techniques and advised Abuda to pursue Heavy as Light, then asked him to teach Mother as well.
• Abuda left with his broadsword, and Lucas decided Anton needed more discipline after realizing he had spoiled the bear.
• Lucas tricked Anton into thinking they would make honey-steamed bear paw, frightening him before revealing that the bear needed to train.
• Lucas ordered Anton to practice magic and train instead of giving up on him.

Lucas trained Anton relentlessly while Windsor and four others departed to gain experience, then prepared a large sculpture to seek a breakthrough in spiritual power. The chapter left Lucas beginning his carving while Anton guarded the stone house.

• Lucas made Anton absorb magical energy and spar with him daily, while Anton stood watch at night and enjoyed the roast meat Lucas cooked.
• Windsor, Eric, Benny, and two young tribesmen set out to gain experience, and Lucas warned them about dangers and urged the tribesmen to reach the sixth level.
• Anton offered to follow Windsor and protect her, but Lucas refused, explaining that she needed to follow her own path, then made Anton train harder.
• Half a year later, Lucas had reached the sixth level in body tempering and the peak of the seventh level in battle qi, while his spiritual power neared a breakthrough.
• Lucas planned to carve the moment he had faced a ninth-level snake-type magical beast near a spatial rift, hoping to gain insight into the Death Edict and reach the seventh level in spiritual power.
• Lucas told Anton to guard the stone house while he carved, and Anton was pleased to have several days without sparring.

Lucas completed a sculpture of his battle with a Level Nine Magical Beast snake and, through his contemplation of death, advanced his spiritual power to level seven and began comprehending the Death Edict. He then shared a roast Bloodthirsty War Boar with Anton while reflecting on his breakthrough.

• Lucas carved a sculpture showing himself, Anton, and the enormous snake, while Abuda waited nearby for several days.
• After completing the sculpture, Lucas contemplated his experience of death, liquefied his spiritual power further, and saw a golden lotus bud appear in his sea of consciousness.
• Lucas told Abuda he had finished carving, and Abuda praised the sculpture and carried it back to their tribe.
• Lucas asked Anton to catch a magical beast for a roast, and Anton returned with a Bloodthirsty War Boar.
• Lucas roasted the boar with salt and honey while Anton eagerly urged him to add more honey.

Lucas tried using blood-based talismans to connect with natural elements, but the results were weak and temporary, so he set aside his experiments and focused on training. He traded the method for forming magical-beast contracts to Master Drake for the secret of dissolving Magic Beast Cores and forged a heavy sword, leaving to pursue his next training goal.

• Lucas found that his talismans only worked when he mixed his blood into the pigment, and their connection to natural elements faded once the blood dried.
• Lucas’s younger sister succeeded at meditation on her first attempt and discovered her affinity for wind.
• Lucas decided to focus on cultivating Battle Qi and to forge a heavy weapon before going out to train.
• Master Drake showed Lucas a sword made with the Wind Wolf’s Magic Beast Core, and Lucas asked to learn the core-dissolving technique.
• Lucas traded Drake the method for forming magical-beast contracts for the technique, then used a Seventh-Level Magical Beast Velocidragon core to forge a heavy sword for comprehending Heavy as Light.

Lucas attempted to refine a dark-attribute snake into a zombie while training at the waterfall, and the two years of cultivation strengthened both the corpse and Lucas. When he opened the coffin, the snake zombie attacked Anton.

• Drake completed his exchange with Lucas and decided to enjoy his remaining years in the tribe.
• Lucas gathered beast cores and hides, then returned with Anton to the waterfall and prepared a stone coffin with talismans for corpse refinement.
• Lucas sealed an unconscious dark-attribute snake in the coffin after destroying its hearts, then built a cabin and trained while renewing the talismans every two months.
• Over two years, the snake’s soul and bones grew stronger, while Lucas comprehended Heavy as Light and raised his battle qi to the eighth level.
• Lucas had Anton open the coffin, and the muddleheaded snake zombie charged at him through the light from the spatial rift.

Lucas’s corpse-refining experiments failed because his undead could not develop soul fire or replenish their souls, and he learned that the Undead Realm’s guiding light did not yet exist. After reaching the ninth rank, he set out with Anton for home, but they sensed a fast, unknown magical beast following them.

• Lucas found that his first refined zombie’s soul had dissipated and decided to test the process on an eighth-level magical beast.
• Lucas refined a Saber-Toothed Tiger, but its liquid soul eventually dissipated without forming soul fire or receiving guidance from the Undead Realm.
• Lucas accepted that corpse refining had failed for now, cleared his experimental materials, and stayed in the cave to train.
• Lucas and Anton reached the ninth level, and Lucas decided to return home before traveling the continent to gain experience.
• As Lucas and Anton crossed tall grass, Lucas sensed danger and had Anton search for the creature following them.
• Anton sensed a magical beast moving too fast for him to locate, and Lucas asked what kind it was.

Lucas and Little Bear Anton encountered a fast, black-and-white cat that attacked Lucas with soul magic, but Lucas survived both strikes and joined Anton in capturing it. The wounded cat faced Lucas’s demand to submit or die.

• Lucas warned Little Bear Anton that a cunning, speedy magical beast might be stalking them, and they searched for a safer place while covering each other.
• A black cat with white paws and ears ambushed Lucas with a soul attack, but he defended himself and recovered while Anton guarded him.
• Lucas and Anton attacked the cat, wounded it, and blocked its escape after Lucas ordered Anton to help capture it.
• The cat struck Lucas with a second soul attack, but he remained unharmed, and Anton told the cat that Lucas demanded its submission or death.

Lucas secured Rihanna’s submission by explaining that his understanding of the Death Edict had protected him from her soul attacks, and the two formed a contract. He discussed Divine Beasts and cultivation with Rihanna and Anton, leaving both beasts eager to learn how to become gods.

• As Lucas prepared to kill Rihanna, she agreed to submit if he explained how he had survived her soul attacks, and he accepted.
• Rihanna and Lucas completed a blood contract, then Lucas told her he had used the Death Edict to protect his soul.
• Lucas learned that Anton had both darkness and destruction attributes, and concluded that Rihanna was likely a Divine Beast because she could use powerful soul attacks while young.
• Lucas explained how Divine Beasts matured and described the steps humans and magical beasts took toward becoming gods.
• Anton asked how to become a god, and Lucas advised him to focus on darkness essence instead of trying to comprehend several mysteries at once.
• Rihanna asked for guidance, but Lucas told her that he could not teach her how to comprehend the Death Edict.

Lucas returned to his tribe after recovering from his journey, reunited with his family, and met his younger brother Allen. He spent a romantic evening with Windsor and proposed that they marry before traveling together around the continent.

• Lucas explained the Laws' Profound Mysteries to Anton and Rihanna, then rested while he recovered and Rihanna healed.
• After a month, Lucas returned to his tribe, where he learned that his sister Grace had gone out to train and met his younger brother Allen, whom he gave an Eighth-Level Magic Beast Core.
• Lucas visited Windsor, who told him she had reached the seventh level and intended to keep pursuing him.
• Lucas kissed Windsor, then promised they could marry and travel around the continent together; Windsor happily kissed him.

Lucas married Windsor in a tribal ceremony, then left with her and his magical beasts to continue his journey east and pursue the Saint realm. Along the way, Lucas met a wary twelve-year-old boy and had Anton and Rihanna investigate the direction the boy had glanced toward.

• Lucas asked Windsor's parents for her hand, and Anton and Rihanna later brought four eighth-level saber-toothed tiger cubs as wedding gifts.
• Lucas and Windsor married according to tribal customs, celebrated with the tribe, and began their wedding night after Lucas sent Anton and Rihanna away from the bridal chamber.
• After staying with his family for a month and failing to meet his training younger sister, Lucas set out east with Windsor, Anton, and Rihanna.
• Lucas continued training by studying the mountains, rivers, earth, and laws, while guiding Windsor in her own training.
• Lucas met a wary twelve-year-old second-level warrior and invited him to follow, warning him about the magical beasts nearby.
• After the boy followed, Lucas used Soul Transmission to send Anton and Rihanna to investigate the direction the boy had looked.

Lucas accepted the tribal boy as his student after the boy’s old uncle died, renaming him Zanghun and telling him to earn power by passing a test. At a new tribe, Lucas began recruiting young students to spread his faith and prepare followers for his future nation.

• The dying old uncle asked Lucas to save his young master and make the boy his student, and Lucas agreed.
• After the old uncle was buried, the boy told Lucas that he was a chieftain’s son whose tribe had been overthrown, and he begged Lucas for power.
• Lucas renamed the boy Zanghun, told him to leave his past behind, and said he would have to pass a test to gain power.
• Lucas traveled with his party for about half a month and traded Sixth-Level Fire-Tail Ox meat for salt and other necessities at a tribe.
• Lucas asked the tribal chieftain to gather the tribe’s seven- and eight-year-old children so he could take students.

Lucas searched the tribe for gifted students but found that its children could not withstand his spiritual pressure. He discovered that Aurora, a dying six-year-old, had exceptional magical talent, took her as his student, and left her family with sword techniques.

• Lucas told the tribal chief that he would wait briefly for any children who wanted to learn, and the chief brought them to him.
• Lucas tested the children with his spiritual pressure, causing them all to faint, then explained that they would recover.
• Aurora's mother asked Lucas to examine her sick daughter, and Windsor persuaded him to take a look.
• Lucas discovered Aurora's powerful, untrained spiritual energy and promised to take her as his student and save her.
• Lucas took Aurora in, promised her father and older brother martial training, and spent a week teaching them sword techniques.