Recaps

Lartai contracted with a Yellow-striped Marten named Nawen and discovered that her den contained sculptures recording Lucas’s path to godhood. After Lartai activated the divine power Lucas had left behind, Lucas reflected on how his rise to godhood had unsettled the plane’s balance and made him reconsider the danger posed by the Elf Goddess.

• Lartai found two Level Nine Magical Beasts fighting, killed the serpent, and forced the Yellow-striped Marten Nawen to submit to a contract.
• Nawen led Lartai to the Stone Sculpture Cave, where he recognized the sculptures as records of someone comprehending the Force of Heaven and Earth.
• Lartai entered the final chamber, activated Lucas’s message about becoming a god, and asked Nawen to guard the entrance while he studied it.
• Lucas sensed that someone had activated the divine power he had left in the cave and explained that the sculptures depicted his life and journey to godhood.
• Lucas resumed his soul experiments and admitted to Rihanna that the Elf Goddess’s ambush had shown him that he and Rihanna had little power in the plane’s conflicts.

After the Elf Goddess attacked Lucas and Rihanna, Lucas resolved to grow stronger quickly and spread his faith to gain power. He gathered his trusted family and followers in his valley, sent Grace and Zanghun to seize the Aiton Tribe, and Zanghun killed its Saint.

• Lucas returned to his valley, sent his Earth Divine Clone into seclusion, and decided to experiment on the Elf Race to strip laws from Saints once he became a God.
• Windsor, Clinton, Grace, Aurora, and Zanghun arrived to cultivate with Lucas, who ordered Grace and Zanghun to kill the Saint ruling the Aiton Tribe and restore its worship of him.
• Lucas sent Little Bear Anton to tell Lartai to unite nearby tribes, establish a duchy, and spread Lucas's faith, while Aurora reported that Eric had replaced her at the Royal Academy.
• Grace and Zanghun reached the Aiton Tribe, where Saint Aiton insulted Grace and offered wealth to Zanghun after he wounded him.
• Zanghun rejected Aiton's offers and killed him with another attack, then wiped his blade as Grace agreed that they should not waste words on him.

Lartai united the surrounding tribes under Lucas’s faith and established the Holy Duchy, while Lucas’s experiments remained unsuccessful. After returning home to visit his family, Lucas lost his mother Selina and, eight years later, his father Abuda, who urged him to live happily.

• Anton told Lartai that Lucas wanted him to establish a duchy and spread his faith, then Lartai returned to his tribe with Nawen and Nawen’s family.
• After learning that Aiton had been killed, Lartai led the Church members in taking control of the Aiton Tribe and won the commoners’ support by distributing the nobles’ property.
• Lartai gathered nearby tribes and proclaimed a Holy Duchy devoted to Lucas, spreading Lucas’s faith among humans across the Northern Continent.
• Decades later, Lucas returned to the capital with his family and learned that his mother Selina was dying; she comforted him before passing away that night.
• Lucas arranged Selina’s funeral and stayed with his declining father Abuda, but Abuda reached the end of his lifespan eight years later and told Lucas to live happily.

After Abuda died, Lucas attained godhood through the death edict and arranged his father's funeral. He rejected Otto and Paya's request to remain with him, then visited his younger brother before leaving to cultivate.

• Lucas promised Abuda he would live happily, and Abuda died holding his hand; Lucas then attained godhood through the death edict.
• Lucas arranged Abuda's funeral and spent several days recovering before meeting with his students and followers.
• Lucas told Paya and Otto that the Elf Race was his enemy and refused to let them stay, though he agreed to spare Paya's older sister.
• Paya and Otto left for the Ice Continent, while Lucas decided to visit his younger brother before beginning a long period of cultivation.
• Lucas's younger brother remarked that Lucas had not changed, and Lucas advised him to set aside his duties and cultivate toward the Saint level.

Lucas visited his brother Allen before returning to his experiments, where he successfully inscribed a Soul-Nourishing Talisman on a magical beast’s soul. After learning that an elf had attained godhood and fearing a coming wave of conflict, he continued his work, but the beast’s soul could not withstand a second talisman.

• Lucas said goodbye to Allen and left the duchy with Clinton.
• Lucas began fusing Earth Element with Earth Pulsation and sensed someone attaining godhood on the Elf Continent.
• Lucas asked Yalta, the God of Life, who had attained godhood and learned it was a junior elf.
• Lucas told Rihanna that the new deity would not affect their plans, then worried that the rise of new deities signaled a coming calamity or destiny-driven upheaval.
• After a year of experiments, Lucas inscribed a Soul-Nourishing Talisman on a Sixth-Level Magical Beast rat’s soul, but the rat died when he tried to add a Soul-Burying Talisman.

Lucas’s attempts to create undead first failed, but he later succeeded in raising a ninth-rank serpent as an undead creature. He then began studying how to control his creations, wondering whether he could derive a Master-Servant Contract from the Equal Contract.

• Lucas failed to create undead from seventh- and eighth-rank rodent magical beasts and concluded that he needed a deeper understanding of the death edict.
• Lucas asked Clinton to bring four talented descendants of his third uncle to be trained, and ten years later they had become Sixth-Rank Warriors.
• Lucas returned with Rihanna to the cave where he had found the planar connection and prepared a stone coffin, formation, and talisman for another attempt.
• Lucas successfully created a serpent undead, which had to rest in the coffin after battle to replenish its depleted soul power.
• Lucas decided to research contract scrolls and asked Rihanna to explain her inherited knowledge of the Equal Contract.
• Lucas asked Rihanna whether a Master-Servant Contract could be derived from the Equal Contract.

Lucas sparred with Windsor and learned that her prepared Absolute Zero attack could rival a Peak Saint’s strike. He then sparred with Rihanna, whose speed-based feints failed against his Earth Pulsation, and explained how it tracked her true body.

• Lucas used his Life Law to defend against Windsor’s ice attacks and explained how his strengthened Saint Domain True Body let him fight her.
• Windsor unleashed Absolute Zero using ice she had planted in advance, forcing Lucas to protect himself with Death Divine Power and concede the match.
• Lucas praised Windsor’s attack, and she asked whether her insights into Ice Power were on the right track.
• Rihanna challenged Lucas with her Wind Divine Clone, using speed to create afterimages and an Earth Element clone to draw him out.
• Lucas tracked Rihanna’s true body with Earth Pulsation, countered her attack, and explained how the technique revealed her position.

Lucas advised Rihanna to pursue the profound mystery of slowness and its fusion with speed, then sparred with her before sharing a meal with his family and the God of Life. After the God of Life gave Windsor and Clinton divine artifact armor, Lucas and Rihanna entered seclusion to seek breakthroughs within ten years.

• Lucas explained that Rihanna could combine speed and slowness into the Speed Edict and described why a flexible sword suited the wind path’s profound mysteries.
• Rihanna told Windsor that Lucas had won their spar, and Lucas flew with Windsor to meet Anton and Clinton.
• Lucas arranged a meal with Mighty Magical Bull, prepared fruit-wine steaks, and welcomed the God of Life when she arrived.
• The God of Life ate with Lucas’s family, gave Windsor and Clinton defensive divine artifact armor, and left with new wine.
• Worried about the God of Life’s intentions, Lucas and Rihanna decided to enter seclusion and hoped to make breakthroughs within ten years.

After ten years of seclusion, Lucas had made progress fusing Earth Pulsation but remained far from the Godhood he wanted, so he visited his family and principality to relax. He left his brother Allen training with medicinal herbs and a Fruit of Life before returning to seclusion with his Saint Domain True Body.

• Lucas kept the Eighth-level Warrior among his third brother’s descendants and sent the others away, then spent ten years advancing his Earth Pulsation fusion without nearing Godhood.
• Lucas emerged from seclusion and spent several days with Windsor and Little Kitty Rihanna before deciding to visit his principality and a student’s Holy Duchy.
• Lucas and Windsor visited a wonton stall, where the vendor explained that he had bought the recipe from a student who learned it at the Qingxuan Principality.
• Lucas visited his younger brother Allen, who had passed the throne to his son, and gave him combat advice and a medicinal regimen.
• Lucas prepared herbs for Allen and gave him a Fruit of Life, then returned to seclusion with his Saint Domain True Body to aid his Earth Divine Clone.

After more than a dozen years of cultivation, Lucas fused Earth Pulsation with the Laws of the Earth Element and advanced his Earth Divine Clone to God. Three years later, he went with Rihanna to confront the Elf Goddess, whose past attempt to kill him had made him an enemy.

• Lucas's Earth Divine Clone fused Earth Pulsation and the Earth Element, then advanced to God under the protection of the Laws of the World.
• The God of Life Yalta congratulated Lucas, while the Elf Goddess's Divine Sense was blocked by his Earth Divine Clone.
• Three years later, Lucas and Rihanna visited Yalta, and Lucas explained that he intended to kill the Elf Goddess for attacking him and his family.
• Lucas and Rihanna confronted the Elf Goddess and her two Lowgod allies, the Golden Dragon God Oliusor and a female elf.
• Rihanna attacked Oliusor as Lucas sent his Death Divine Clone to fight the female elf and engaged the Elf Goddess himself.
• Lucas's fused Earth attack shook the Elf Goddess's sword arm, and his soul withstood her Laws of Life attack.

Lucas and Rihanna defeated the Elf Goddess and confronted the surviving Elves, while Zhou Qingzheng endured the goddess’s soul-burning secret art. Lucas collected the Elf treasures and left with Rihanna, carrying Divine Sparks that could help his family cultivate.

• Rihanna killed the Golden Dragon Olisole with her Innate Divine Ability, and Lucas and Zhou Qingzheng prepared to face the Elf Goddess.
• The Elf Goddess used Life Deprivation, but Zhou Qingzheng withstood the soul attack while Lucas blocked her attempted ambush.
• Lucas killed the Elf Goddess’s Saint Domain True Body and original body, then accepted the treasures she offered in exchange for sparing the other Elves.
• Lucas found the Elf Race’s life-law inheritance object, Life Pearls, and Water of Life, but the inheritance object had lost its power after the Elf Mother Tree died.
• Lucas and Rihanna flew away, and Lucas returned to his valley with the Divine Sparks and other collected treasures.

Lucas searched the continents and Dragon Island for a planar teleportation array, then concluded that the Divine Planes had not yet been created and that Sovereign Sparks might still be attainable. He arranged cultivation for his family and prepared his Earth Divine Clone to enter secluded cultivation while considering how to grow stronger and pursue Sovereign Sparks.

• Lucas sent Clinton to the Imperial Capital to bring his third uncle back.
• Lucas searched the Ice Continent, Dwarf Continent, Dragon Island, and Northern Continent but found no planar teleportation array.
• Lucas concluded that the Divine Planes had not yet been created and became excited at the possibility of obtaining a Sovereign Spark.
• Allen thanked Lucas after advancing to Saint with the Fruit of Life, and Clinton arrived with Lucas's third brother.
• Lucas gave Life Pearls to his younger brother, Clinton, and the two magical beasts, then prepared his Earth Divine Clone for secluded cultivation.

The Four Overgods created the Four Edicts Divine Planes, and Lucas’s Death Edict Divine Clone advanced to God as the planes appeared. Lucas explained Sovereign Sparks to his family and companions, then prepared to travel to a Divine Plane with them.

• The Four Overgods gathered the power of the Four Edicts and created four Divine Planes, while Hongmeng began making their first inhabitants.
• Lucas’s Death Edict Divine Clone advanced to God, and he, Rihanna, and Windsor investigated an unusual power on the Ice Continent, where four Plane Teleportation Arrays had appeared.
• The God of Life demanded that Paya and Otto hand over the supposed treasures, but Lucas vouched for them and said there were none.
• Lucas summoned his family and companions, offered Divine Sparks to those who chose to refine them, and gave Allen a Lowgod Life Divine Spark and a God Divine Spark.
• Lucas explained the origins of the Edict Planes and the limits and number of Sovereign Sparks, then set out with Rihanna and Windsor for a Divine Plane.

Lucas and the God of Life investigated the newly appeared teleportation arrays, then Lucas led his family and companions through one to an unknown Divine Plane. After establishing a base and arranging for a descendant to protect the family, Lucas set out with his group to explore the plane.

• Anton refined a Death Edict Divine Spark, while Lucas gave a Fruit of Life and a Lowgod Light Divine Spark to a Saint chosen from his brother's descendants.
• The God of Life brought Paya and Otto to Lucas to ask about a mysterious array, and Lucas proposed exploring it after ten years.
• The God of Life tested a teleportation array with a Saint Magical Beast, which vanished, and the group realized the arrays led to other planes.
• After ten years, Lucas told a descendant who had refined a darkness Divine Spark to stay behind and protect the family, then took his companions to the Ice Continent.
• Lucas and his family used an array to reach a Divine Plane, where Zanghun sensed that the Destruction Edict was active and Lucas chose a mountain range as their territory.
• Lucas's group left the mountain range to explore, while the God of Life and the remaining Saints activated another array.

Lucas established a tribe in the Divine Plane, gathering Saints and recruiting newcomers while preparing his followers to compete for Sovereign Sparks. Seventy years later, Zanghun and Rihanna attained godhood, and the tribe continued expanding under Lucas’s orders.

• Windsor used her Lowgod aura to make a Saint plant sign an Equal Contract, while Lucas sent deities to subdue other Saints in the mountain range.
• Lucas assigned Anton and Allen to recruit Lowgods arriving with Saints, ordered them to kill Highgods who refused to join, and gave them a Death Edict Orb and Soul Defense Divine Artifacts.
• Lucas prepared Rihanna to cultivate the Death Edict and instructed her to comprehend and fuse the wind mysteries, then entered seclusion to advance his Death Edict cultivation.
• Ji Fanxin organized the group to build homes, while Windsor bestowed High Godheads on selected Saints and assigned them to guard the tribe.
• After seventy years, Zanghun attained godhood through the Destruction Edict, and Rihanna later attained godhood through the Death Edict.
• Anton and Allen confronted a newly arrived Highgod and his Saint Magical Beasts at the Plane Teleportation Array; when the Highgod refused to join the Qingxuan Tribe, they killed him.

Lucas and Rihanna prepared to ambush Gods traveling from the Plane Teleportation Array, while Lucas tested a new soul-based arrow attack. After waiting for a target, Lucas struck a Destruction Edict God with his Netherworld Flame.

• Lucas told Rihanna to send her Death Edict Divine Clone to the Plane Teleportation Array and arranged for their clones to ambush Gods who refused to join their tribe.
• Lucas planned to use captured Saints to test Rihanna's Innate Divine Ability for extracting Edict Fragments and to test his Master-Servant Contract.
• Lucas created the Netherworld Flame by combining Death Edict divine power with the power of the soul, using the Elves' Life Deprivation technique as a reference.
• Rihanna's Death Edict Divine Clone reported that a Magical Beast God was approaching, and Lucas and Rihanna hid along his route.
• Lucas detected the God with a Highgod and eight Saint elders, then shot the God with an arrow carrying Netherworld Flame, which burned and froze his soul.

Lucas and Rihanna killed a God and captured several fleeing deities, then Lucas organized Highgods and Saints into a monitoring network near the Plane Teleportation Array. The chapter ended with Rihanna stripping souls from captured Saints as the new surveillance system was assembled.

• Lucas killed a God with his Netherworld Flame, took the God’s divine spark, and used his domain to restrain six fleeing Saints.
• Rihanna fought the Lowgod, while Lucas’s clones and Rihanna’s attacks stopped him from escaping.
• Rihanna gave the captured Saints to Su Yuruo, who arranged for them to be used in a soul-stripping attempt.
• Lucas recognized that he and Rihanna needed monitors to track Gods approaching from the Plane Teleportation Array.
• Lucas recruited Highgods and assigned them groups of eight Saint magical beasts to watch designated regions for Mystic Coin rewards.
• Rihanna stripped the souls from a captured Saint and the Saint’s divine spark, then received Lucas’s warning not to rely too heavily on her innate divine ability.

Lucas explained that a Strongest God had perfected and fused all the profound mysteries of one system, while Rihanna discovered she could not extract edict fragments from souls. Ten years later, Rihanna fused the wind mysteries of Slow and Fast and became a God, as she and Lucas prepared to face another enemy.

• Rihanna failed to extract edict fragments from the souls of Saints, so Lucas suggested they try again after her Death Edict reached the Highgod level.
• Lucas explained that a Strongest God had perfected and fused all the profound mysteries of one system, and Rihanna noted that the wind system had nine mysteries to combine.
• Ten years passed, and Rihanna warned Lucas that another God was approaching; they located the target and prepared for battle.
• The fire God attacked Lucas and Rihanna, knocking Lucas down with a hammer strike while Rihanna could not find an opening to use her innate divine ability.
• Rihanna recalled how she had fused the wind aspects of Slow and Fast, and the laws of the world descended as she attained godhood.

Lucas and Rihanna defeated a Fire-type God, and Lucas used a bronze bell to absorb the flames of the God’s original body. He brought the flames under control and discovered that he could sense fire elements, while the tribe paused its hunts so Rihanna could reflect on her advancement.

• Lucas and a Lowgod attacked the Fire-type God, and Lucas struck his soul with Netherworld Flame after the God deflected their blows.
• Rihanna used her Innate Divine Ability to kill the wounded Fire-type God, whose original form was a wisp of flame.
• Lucas’s Big Bronze Bell absorbed the flame’s core, while the remaining flames burned inside his soul and resisted his attempts to control them.
• After about a month, Lucas devoured the remaining flames and refined the God’s original-body flames, changing both his souls.
• Lucas discovered that he could sense fire elements, kept the discovery secret, and told Rihanna to suspend the tribe’s hunts while they recovered and studied their insights.