Chapter Summaries

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 fusing Earth Pulsation with the earth element, Lucas advanced his Earth Divine Clone to God and later confronted the Elf Goddess with Rihanna. The battle began with Lucas fighting the Elf Goddess while Rihanna and Lucas’s Death Divine Clone engaged her allies.

• Lucas and his Earth Divine Clone spent more than a decade fusing Earth Pulsation with the earth element, and Lucas’s clone advanced to God.
• Lucas told the God of Life about his advancement, while he kept the details of his fusion secret.
• Lucas visited Yalta with Rihanna’s Wind Divine Clone and said he intended to kill the Elf Goddess because she had tried to kill him.
• Lucas and Rihanna arrived at the God of the Elves’ territory, where they faced the Elf Goddess, Golden Dragon God Oliusor, and an unfamiliar female elf.
• Rihanna attacked Oliusor, Lucas’s Death Divine Clone fought the female elf, and Lucas clashed with the Elf Goddess, blocking her Soul Attack with his soul’s pulsating waves.

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.