Chapter Summaries

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.

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.