Chapter Summaries

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.