Recaps

Lucas advanced to Saint after comprehending the Life Law and the earth’s Life Force Profundity during a moment of sudden enlightenment. He began developing a spear technique using his new insight while his wife and students continued their cultivation.

• Lucas settled with his wife and nine students in a canyon, where he taught them meditation and Battle Qi cultivation.
• Aurora quickly mastered Lucas’s meditation and regained her health as she grew more confident in her teacher.
• Lucas saw seedlings resist the mountain wind and dewdrops fall onto the soil, prompting him to comprehend life and advance to Saint.
• Lucas flew before Windsor, Anton, Rihanna, and his students, then took Windsor flying and encouraged her to pursue Saint advancement.
• Lucas found the Life Law harder to comprehend than the Death Edict and chose to focus on incorporating the earth’s Life Force Profundity into his spear technique.
• After a month of developing his new attack method, Lucas laughed with delight.

After breaking through, Lucas trained with Anton and Rihanna, then challenged a Saint Snow Lion to sharpen his understanding of the laws. He later found that his carving helped him glimpse the earth element’s laws, while the lion eventually abandoned its territory to avoid him.

• Lucas celebrated his breakthrough by sparring with Little Bear Anton and Kitty Rihanna, then urged Anton and Windsor to work harder on comprehending the laws.
• Lucas challenged a Saint Snow Lion in the snowy mountains but could not defeat it, and used a spiritual attack to drive it back before leaving.
• Lucas carved an image of the Snow Lion and discovered that it carried a trace of the earth’s life force profundity.
• Lucas repeatedly returned to fight the Snow Lion, which grew tired of the challenges and moved its family to the other side of the mountain.
• Lucas returned to his companions and continued carving to comprehend the earth element’s foundational laws.

Lucas took his students to train near a lake, where the Saint-level Black Dragon Augus attacked them. After Windsor evacuated the students, Lucas fought Augus and faced his powerful evil-attribute breath.

• Lucas sent his students out in three teams to gain combat experience, assigning Anton, Rihanna, and himself and Windsor to protect them.
• Aurora approached a lake, and Augus burst from the water before Lucas drove him back with a spear strike.
• Lucas asked Augus to let him and his companions leave, but Augus refused and insulted humans.
• Windsor led the students away while Lucas questioned Augus about not attacking him during the retreat.
• Augus attacked Lucas, but Lucas injured him with a storm of spear strikes.
• Augus unleashed an evil-imbued magical breath, and Lucas answered with his strongest earth-attribute life-force technique.

Lucas killed the Black Dragon Augus, escaped the resulting beast frenzy with Windsor and his students, and later gave Augus’s core to Anton to help him advance. The chapter ended as Anton began devouring the core and suffered severe pain from the Saint-level energy.

• Lucas resisted Augus’s soul attack, closed in, and killed the Black Dragon with his strongest spear strike, though Augus’s tail injured him.
• Lucas took Augus’s Magic Beast Core and ended the students’ training expedition, sending them back to the canyon.
• Augus’s husband arrived, found the slain Black Dragon, and vented his fury, driving nearby magical beasts to flee.
• Lucas reunited with his students and gave Anton Augus’s darkness-type Magic Beast Core, advising him to wait until Lucas recovered before devouring it.
• Two months later, Anton began devouring the core, and Lucas felt his magical beast’s intense pain as the Saint-level energy surged through his body.

Lucas watched Anton survive the dangerous absorption of a Saint-level beast core and advance to Saint, then sent his students home to establish a faith-based religious order. He and Windsor continued traveling beyond the snowy mountain into milder lands, where human tribes became more common.

• Anton endured the clash between darkness and destruction energies, controlled the power of the Magic Beast Cores, and became a Saint Magical Beast.
• After recovering, Anton asked Lucas for honey-roasted meat, and Lucas shared a roasted wild bull with Anton, Rihanna, and his students.
• Lucas told Aurora and the other students to return to their tribes, establish a religious order that worshiped him, and spread the power he had taught them.
• Lucas escorted the students to a safer area, then traveled with Windsor, Anton, and Rihanna beyond the snowy mountain.
• Lucas and Windsor continued downhill through milder, more humid territory, passed increasingly numerous human tribes, and finally went by an enormous tribe.

Lucas settled in a large tribe to await the birth of his child with Windsor, but he killed a Feilin Family retainer who tried to take his sculpture for three copper coins. The retainer’s young master learned about the sculpture, leaving Lucas’s family at risk of retaliation.

• Lucas stayed in the tribe with pregnant Windsor, opened an ironworking shop, and spent his days caring for her.
• A neighbor brought a Feilin Family retainer to Lucas’s home, where the retainer offered three copper coins for Lucas’s Snow Lion sculpture and tried to take it.
• Lucas killed the retainer with Battle Qi after the man insulted him, and he told the frightened neighbor to leave.
• Windsor worried about the consequences, but Lucas reassured her and said she was safe with him.
• The dead man’s sister told the Feilin Family’s second young master that her brother had planned to present him with an interesting stone carving.

The Feilin Family's second young master went to Lucas's home to claim the stone sculptures and tried to kill Lucas, Windsor, and their unborn child. Lucas killed him and his lackeys, then summoned Anton and Rihanna to protect his family from retaliation.

• The Feilin Family's second young master learned that Pula had been killed while trying to take Lucas's sculptures, then ordered the woman and her attendants killed before leaving.
• The next morning, the second young master arrived at Lucas's home and ordered his eighth-level guardian to kill Lucas and Windsor's unborn child so he could take Windsor.
• Lucas disarmed the guardian, pinned him to the wall with his own sword, and killed the second young master when he tried to bargain.
• Lucas killed the remaining lackeys and threw their bodies out of the courtyard.
• Lucas summoned Anton and Rihanna because he feared the Feilin Family would retaliate while Windsor and their child were unprotected.
• Anton returned from roaming, asked Lucas what had happened, and became furious when Lucas told him about the Feilin Family's second young master.

Lucas and Anton attacked the Feilin Family manor to avenge Lucas’s humiliation, while Rihanna stayed behind to protect Windsor. Lucas confronted the Feilin Family’s Saint ancestor and prepared a killing strike as Anton fought the family’s other members.

• Lucas agreed with Anton to attack the Feilin Family and told Rihanna to protect Windsor.
• The Feilin Family’s eldest young master said he would avenge his younger brother, while his father warned him that the dead guard had been an eighth-level fighter.
• Lucas arrived at the manor, and Anton killed an eighth-level expert who attacked him.
• The Feilin Family’s Saint ancestor rushed out, so Lucas confronted him while Anton went after the eldest young master and the others.
• Lucas recognized that the old man’s fire attacks carried a trace of the Profound Mystery of Explosion, then announced that his next strike would kill him.

Lucas and Little Bear Anton destroyed the Feilin Family, killing its leaders and gathering the family members for execution. Lucas left with several treasures and manuals, while the scattered gold drew commoners and nearby powers to the estate the next morning.

• Lucas killed the Feilin Family's old Saint with a spear strike that carried a soul attack, then helped Little Bear Anton defeat the eldest son.
• Lucas found a Heaven and Earth Wonder stone on the eldest son's body and took it, along with the Feilin Family's Battle Qi cultivation manual.
• Little Bear Anton killed the fleeing father and brought a servant to Lucas, who ordered Anton to help gather everyone in the family estate.
• Lucas identified and killed the Feilin Family members, released their servants, and took several unusual stones and another cultivation manual.
• Lucas scattered the family's gold outside the estate before leaving with Anton, and commoners and nearby powers moved in the following morning.

Lucas studied an earth-attributed Heaven and Earth Wonder that helped him comprehend the Laws of the Earth, then reforged his spear with obsidian and blood-patterned gold ore. After seven days of work, he finished the new spear and made a repaired dagger and protective gear for Windsor before learning that people had come looking for him.

• Lucas found that the Heaven and Earth Wonder could not be bound, but its earth-attribute power helped him comprehend the Laws of the Earth.
• Lucas decided his old spear was no longer suitable and gathered obsidian and blood-patterned gold ore to forge a new one.
• Lucas bought forging materials and an ox cart, then returned to his smithy and had Anton work the bellows.
• Lucas spent seven days reforging his spear with obsidian and blood-patterned gold ore, producing a heavier weapon with a black shaft and blood-colored patterns.
• Lucas repaired his father's carving dagger and forged gauntlets and bracers for Windsor.
• Windsor took Lucas to wash after his long time at the furnace and told him that people had come looking for him.

Lucas arranged for a religious order to worship him and spread Battle Qi cultivation among the people, planning to strengthen their faith and prepare them for his eventual departure. Three months later, Windsor gave birth safely to their first child, a son.

• Lucas accepted the tribe leaders' offerings and told their representatives to establish a religious order devoted to him, promising not to interfere with their rule.
• Lucas chose children to train as the first followers of Qingxuan and taught them Battle Qi cultivation methods from the Feilin Family.
• Lucas explained to Windsor that spreading Battle Qi would help the people survive after his family left and would encourage them to believe in him.
• Three months later, Lucas waited anxiously as Windsor gave birth, and the midwife announced that mother and son were both safe.
• After the midwife cleaned Windsor and the baby and Anton rewarded the women, Lucas went to Windsor's bedside and thanked her.

Lucas left the tribes where he had founded religious orders and returned home with Windsor and their five-year-old son, Clinton. He reunited with his family and teased his talented younger sister about finding a husband, but she dismissed his suggestions.

• Windsor gave birth to a son, and Lucas named him Clinton before spending the following years raising him and remaining with his family.
• Lucas let the tribal rulers take control of his religious orders, hoping the battle qi methods he had spread would help commoners survive a future beast tide.
• Lucas, Windsor, Clinton, Anton, and their companions left the tribes, prompting the nobles to plan how to claim the Feilin Family's wealth and cultivation methods.
• Clinton rode Anton through the air for the first time, and Lucas followed after Anton sped ahead.
• Lucas returned to his birthplace, where his parents welcomed him and he met his younger brother's family and unmarried younger sister.
• Lucas suggested Eric and Benny as possible husbands for his younger sister, but she rejected both men.

After returning from his travels, Lucas founded the Qingxuan Principality and began comprehending the laws of the earth element in seclusion. He left his studies to take his son Clinton to his first day at the Royal Academy.

• Lucas reunited with his family, then answered Eric and Benny's cultivation questions the next morning.
• Lucas searched west for a suitable site, gathered his students and their tribes, and led about two hundred thousand people to settle there.
• After three months of construction, Lucas declared the Qingxuan Principality established, founded the Qingxuan Church and Royal Academy, and made his younger brother Allen the first emperor.
• Lucas moved into a mountain villa and used an earth-attribute Heaven and Earth Wonder to deepen his comprehension of the earth-element laws over two years.
• After Anton reminded him that Clinton's first day of school had arrived, Lucas returned and took his seven-year-old son to register at the Royal Academy.

Lucas sent Clinton to the Royal Academy under Aurora’s supervision and returned to secluded cultivation. Meanwhile, a Tree of Life’s fruits triggered a Beast Tide that threatened the Qingxuan Principality and the neighboring tribe where Clinton was born.

• Lucas introduced Clinton to Aurora, asked her to watch over him at the academy, and returned home.
• Lucas brought Windsor to his mountain villa to supervise her cultivation before entering seclusion again.
• The Tree of Life’s fruits drew magical beasts into a struggle, and the Snow Lion defeated a Purple-Striped Black Bear to claim a fruit.
• The fleeing magical beasts formed a Beast Tide that swept toward Lucas’s plains-based capital and attacked human settlements.
• Lucas’s younger sister and Eric, both ninth-level cultivators, could handle the beasts, but the Feilin Family’s tribe lacked widely shared Battle Qi methods.

After learning that magical beasts had attacked the Qingxuan Principality, Lucas suspected a clash between Saint-level beasts in the Hemonxi Mountains and went to investigate with Little Bear Anton. They found the Snow Lion, which had grown much stronger after eating a Fruit of the Tree of Life, and Lucas began fighting it.

• Lucas's younger brother and Grace told him that low-level magical beasts had attacked the Capital but had been driven back.
• Lucas suspected that a battle between Saint-level magical beasts in the Mountain Range Core had caused the attacks and set out with Little Bear Anton to investigate.
• Lucas and Anton flew to the valley where Anton had advanced to Saint, hoping the Snow Lion could explain what had happened.
• The Snow Lion, having eaten a Fruit of the Tree of Life, attacked Lucas and Anton when it sensed them approaching.
• The Snow Lion badly injured Anton in their first exchange, so Lucas stepped in and used the Laws of the Earth Element against it.

Lucas learned that a Deity guarded the Tree of Life and its Fruit of Life, making it too dangerous for him to pursue the fruit. He returned with Anton and kept the truth from Windsor, leaving her to continue cultivating toward the Saint level.

• Lucas defeated the Snow Lion again, then asked how its body had grown stronger; the Snow Lion explained that the Fruit of Life was guarded and pointed out the valley where it grew.
• The Snow Lion told Lucas that a Saint Magical Beast had died before reaching the fruit and that the contest for it happened once every thousand years.
• Lucas concluded that a Deity owned or guarded the Tree of Life, abandoned the idea of seeking fruit for Windsor and his younger sister, and searched the area with Anton before giving up.
• Lucas returned to Windsor and claimed that the Snow Lion knew little about the natural treasure, then told Anton through Soul Transmission to keep the truth secret.

After the Snow Lion nearly killed Little Bear Anton, Lucas guided Anton toward cultivating the dark element while continuing to pursue breakthroughs of his own. Ten years later, Lucas and Windsor left seclusion to see their son Clinton off on practical training, and Lucas reflected on the principality’s growth.

• Little Bear Anton admitted that its defeat by the Snow Lion had made it determined to become stronger, and Lucas suggested shaping dark elements as a path to understanding their laws.
• Lucas resumed carving and cultivation, seeking a convergence between earth and vitality while Windsor continued training without reaching Ninth-Rank Warrior.
• Over ten years, Lucas advanced his earth-law comprehension to about seventy percent, made limited progress in vitality, and found a point of convergence between the two.
• Aurora visited Lucas to ask him to advise Clinton’s year before their practical training, but Lucas declined to give a formal address.
• Windsor persuaded Lucas to return home with her to see Clinton off, and Lucas admired the principality’s growth as they traveled through it.

Lucas returned home and reunited with his family, while Paya and the injured Otto hid in the city after she sensed Lucas’s Saint aura. The next morning, an elven party arrived to negotiate for Otto, and the city guards stopped them at the gates.

• Lucas returned home, shared dinner with his parents, siblings, and son Clinton, then spent the night drinking with his younger brother.
• Paya told Otto that she had sensed a human Saint in the city and suggested they submit to him for protection.
• The next morning, one ninth-rank elf and four eighth-rank elves reached the duchy's Capital, where one identified Otto as the fallen elf who had tricked the holy maiden.
• The ninth-rank elf ordered the group to seek the human leader and negotiate before taking action.
• The city guards saw the elves approach and raised their weapons to stop them.

Eric and Zanghun drove off a group of elves after they attacked the city guards, but Lucas remained unaware of the clash. Lucas gave Clinton the dagger and armor inherited from his own father, sharing his hopes for his son’s happiness.

• An eighth-level elf demanded that the city leader come pay his respects, and a guard’s attack sparked a fight at the south gate.
• Eric and Zanghun fought the elves, killing one before the ninth-level elf used vines to help the survivors escape.
• Eric chose not to pursue the elves, buried the fallen guards, and did not report the incident to Lucas.
• Lucas told Clinton how his father had given him a dagger and passed the reforged weapon to his son as a token of fatherly love.
• Lucas gave Clinton his old armor and reflected on wanting his sons to be happy rather than forcing them to follow his ambitions.

Paya and Otto sought Lucas’s protection after fleeing the elves, and Lucas agreed to meet them. When Otto offered the Elf Race’s Life Deprivation technique in exchange for protection, Lucas asked whether humans could learn it.

• Lucas sent Clinton off with travel advice and returned to the Hilltop Villa with his wife, unaware that elves had come to his Capital.
• Grace caught Paya lurking near the Lucas Clan residence and learned that she wanted an audience with Lucas for protection.
• After Lucas agreed to meet her, Paya fetched the injured Otto, and Grace led them to Lucas’s retreat.
• Lucas met the two elves, learned about their long lifespans, and noticed signs of injury to Otto’s body and soul.
• Paya revealed that Otto had been struck by the Elf Race’s Life Deprivation technique, and Otto offered to trade it for Lucas’s protection.