Recaps

Loa, Wangcai, and Selena arrived in Adonis City, where Loa rented a home and Selena prepared to return to her family. Selena reunited with her original body and went to see her father, Kailuosa, who quietly welcomed her home.

• Loa, Wangcai, and Selena entered Adonis City and ate an extravagant meal at the Sea Tide Pavilion, while Selena kept Bodoka Adonis from revealing her identity.
• Loa rented a quiet residence for a thousand years, and Selena awkwardly said goodbye to Wangcai before returning to her family estate.
• Selena merged with her original body in her tower and went to Kailuosa's study.
• Kailuosa checked that Selena's Lightning Divine Clone was unharmed and welcomed her back, and Selena left without mentioning the affection she had seen in his eyes.

Loa and Wangcai explored the Sea of Ruins, where Wangcai learned that Soul Beasts resisted material attacks but could be defeated with soul attacks. After hunting several weak beasts, they descended into the dark, perception-suppressing depths, where two powerful Soul Beasts approached them.

• Loa and Wangcai flew into the Sea of Ruins and encountered a Soul Frog that Wangcai defeated with a soul lightning attack.
• Loa explained that Soul Beasts dissipated much of the force of material attacks and were most effectively harmed through their souls.
• Wangcai killed several more coastal Soul Beasts, and the pair collected their mediocre Soul Crystals.
• Loa and Wangcai entered the Sea of Ruins, where darkness, rising pressure, and the Death Law weakened their perception and drained their divine-power membranes.
• Wangcai sensed two approaching Soul Beasts at least at the Four-Star Fiend level, and Loa confirmed their presence with his divine sense.

Loa and Wangcai descended into the Sea of Ruins, where Loa refined a Soul Crystal and spotted Talos being chased by a powerful serpent Soul Beast. Loa killed the serpent with one strike and recognized Talos, who remained stunned by the encounter.

• Loa and Wangcai killed two Soul Beasts, collected their Soul Crystals, and continued deeper into the Sea of Ruins.
• Loa refined a Soul Crystal and increased his soul strength as he and Wangcai detected Talos fighting a Six-Star Demon-level serpent Soul Beast.
• Talos fled toward Loa and Wangcai, warning them about the serpent as it chased him through the deep water.
• Loa used Great Annihilation · Return to the Void to kill the serpent instantly, carefully directing the sword light past Talos.
• Loa collected the serpent's Soul Crystal and greeted Talos by name.

Loa and Wangcai learned from Talos that a High-Grade Soul Treasure might be forming near the Eye of the Ruins. After hearing that no one had found it yet, Loa decided to head there with Talos.

• Loa led Wangcai and Talos away from the Soul Beasts and asked Talos why he had entered the Sea of Ruins alone.
• Talos explained that he had rushed into the sea without finding a soul-attack specialist to accompany him, and asked to travel with Loa and Wangcai.
• Talos revealed that he had heard a High-Grade Soul Treasure might be forming near the Eye of the Ruins, drawing Loa and Wangcai's interest.
• Talos said the rumor began nearly three months earlier after a Seven-Star Demon sensed a powerful soul storm, and that experts had gathered near the Eye without finding the treasure.
• Loa decided that the group would go straight to the Eye of the Ruins.

Loa, Talos, and Wangcai reached a brilliantly illuminated gemstone seabed, where a prefect-level octopus Soul Beast ambushed them. Loa fought and apparently killed the beast, while a nearby black-robed old man sensed the sudden end of the battle and left to search the newly opened area.

• Loa and his companions descended ten million meters into clear water and found an immense seabed covered in glowing gemstones.
• Loa warned Talos and Wangcai to stay close because powerful Soul Beasts inhabited the depths, but Wangcai sensed danger beneath their feet.
• A giant octopus Soul Beast erupted from the seabed and attacked with tentacles that unleashed a soul shock, nearly bringing Talos to his knees.
• Loa drew the Hidden Abyss Sword and fought the octopus while Wangcai collected pieces of its severed tentacles as ingredients.
• A black-robed old man fifty kilometers away sensed the battle stop abruptly and confirmed that the octopus emperor's soul fluctuations had vanished.
• The old man decided the killer was likely recovering and left to search the area for the High-Grade Soul Treasure.

Loa killed the Octopus Emperor with a single sword strike, then recovered with Wangcai and Talos in a hidden cave. Meanwhile, Edmund Howa examined the carcass and continued toward the High-Grade Soul Treasure, confident in his new Prefect-level strength.

• Loa split the Octopus Emperor in half, took its Prefect-level Soul Crystal, and flew away with Wangcai and Talos to avoid attracting other enemies.
• Loa sealed a secluded cave and replenished his divine power and soul while Talos recovered and Wangcai kept watch.
• Wangcai learned that Talos came from Hell and promised to visit his taverns with Loa when they reached Hell.
• Edmund Howa inspected the Octopus Emperor's remains and decided the High-Grade Soul Treasure would be his.
• Edmund Howa left the Gemstone Plains, confident that his breakthrough to Prefect-level strength would let him face the other treasure seekers.

Loa, Wangcai, and Talos traveled deeper into the Sea of Ruins, where Wangcai and Talos detected an unusual energy fluctuation in the same direction. Despite Talos’s warning that it meant trouble, Loa decided to investigate, suspecting it might be something valuable.

• Loa finished absorbing a prefect-level Soul Crystal while Wangcai and Talos reported finding little during their search.
• The three continued deeper through an undersea canyon, hunting Soul Beasts and searching for Soul Treasures.
• Talos and Wangcai worked together to defeat a Seven-Star Demon-level Soul Ape, and Talos gave its Soul Crystal to Wangcai.
• Wangcai sensed a powerful, pure energy fluctuation while Talos’s intuition warned of trouble in the same direction.
• Loa concluded the fluctuation might signal something good and rushed toward it with Wangcai and Talos inside his god’s domain.

Loa, Wangcai, and Talos waited for a Middle-Grade Soul Treasure to form, then killed the ten Soul Beast Kings guarding it and claimed the treasure and their Soul Crystals. As they prepared to leave, an arrogant stranger appeared and demanded their Space Rings.

• Loa identified the forming treasure as a Middle-Grade Soul Treasure and waited for it to finish forming before attacking the Soul Beasts.
• The Middle-Grade Soul Treasure formed, and the ten Soul Beast Kings charged toward it.
• Wangcai, Talos, and Loa attacked together, with Loa’s sword intent erasing all ten Soul Beasts.
• Loa took the Soul Treasure and divided the ten Soul Crystals among himself, Wangcai, and Talos.
• An arrogant stranger appeared and demanded that Loa and Talos hand over their Space Rings.

Loa confronted Talos’s sworn enemy Miller, who used Destruction Sovereign Power to survive Loa’s annihilating sword strike. Miller then launched his strongest fire attack, leaving Talos bracing to protect Loa and Wangcai.

• Miller and his three companions mocked Talos for serving Loa and demanded their Space Rings.
• Talos warned Loa that Miller carried Destruction Sovereign Power, but Loa judged its mismatch with Miller’s fire laws would limit its amplification.
• Loa’s Great Annihilation · Return to the Void erased Miller’s three companions and left their High Godheads and Space Rings behind.
• Miller used his Sovereign’s Might to withstand Loa’s sword strike, then unleashed Soul-Incinerating Spear Rain at Loa and his companions.
• Talos stepped forward to cover Loa’s retreat as Miller’s spear shadows descended.

Loa fought Miller, a Highgod wielding Sovereign's Might, and overcame his attacks with the Hidden Abyss Sword and Wangcai's soul protection. Loa killed Miller and flew back to Wangcai and Talos.

• Loa sent Talos away with divine power, and Wangcai persuaded him to retreat with her.
• Loa stopped Miller's spear rain with a sword strike and split his next attack around him.
• Loa immobilized Miller with Electromagnetism, but Miller survived behind Sovereign's Might.
• Miller's soul attack failed against the protection Wangcai shared through their soul contract, and Loa launched a rapid assault on his defenses.
• Miller begged Loa to spare him and threatened revenge through his uncle, but Loa continued attacking until his Sovereign's Might faded.
• Loa pierced Miller's brow and destroyed his body, then took his Divine Spark and flew back to Wangcai and Talos.

After Miller lost his fire divine clone in a fight with Loa, he sought help from his father Batur and uncle Tie'emu'er, a Sovereign's Emissary. Tie'emu'er learned Loa was a Middle God with blue-black fused divine power and decided to go to the Netherworld to kill him and investigate his abilities.

• Miller rushed to Batur and revealed that his fire divine clone had been killed and his Destruction Sovereign Power had been spent.
• Miller told Batur that a group had ambushed him and his friends in the Sea of Ruins and taken their Middle-Grade Soul Treasure.
• Batur brought Miller to Tie'emu'er, who initially warned them not to provoke the man because he might be a Paragon.
• Miller admitted that his opponent was a Middle God, and Tie'emu'er identified the blue-black divine power as belonging to a soul mutation mutant.
• Tie'emu'er decided to travel to the Netherworld to avenge Miller and learn the secrets of the soul mutation mutant.

Loa decided to search the Ruins Sea for three more months before withdrawing, despite Talos's warning that Tie'emu'er might be a Paragon. In Spirit Rock Prefecture, Tie'emu'er planned to visit a friend before going after Loa, while Miller waited impatiently for revenge.

• Loa gave Talos the Low-Grade Soul Treasure they had found and asked how powerful Tie'emu'er was; Talos said Tie'emu'er had defeated an Asura ten thousand years earlier and received a Sovereign Artifact.
• After weighing the danger, Loa chose to search the Ruins Sea for three more months for a High-Grade Soul Treasure and additional Low-Grade Soul Treasures for Talos and Wangcai.
• Miller asked Tie'emu'er when he would leave to pursue Loa, but Tie'emu'er said he would wait a month for a visiting friend before setting out.
• Tie'emu'er rebuked Miller for losing to a Middle God and wasting Sovereign's Might, then told him that he and Miller's father would work on improving Miller's strength.
• Miller left, hoping Tie'emu'er would capture Loa alive so he could torture him.

Loa made progress fusing his Wind and Thunder laws while Wangcai and Talos discovered a Low-Grade Soul Treasure. Nearby, Kailuosa fled after Edmund Howa and Sikaly ambushed and badly wounded him, heading toward the treasure and the unfamiliar figures around it.

• Loa advanced his Wind and Thunder law fusions, while postponing further comprehension of the Destruction Rule to preserve his balanced divine power.
• Wangcai told Loa that he and Talos had found a Low-Grade Soul Treasure in an unexplored undersea rift, and Loa sped toward them.
• Edmund Howa revealed that he had reached the Prefecture Lord level and taunted Kailuosa during their battle with Sikaly.
• Kailuosa, wounded by Sikaly's attack and outnumbered, fled toward the area where Wangcai and Talos had found the Soul Treasure.
• Kailuosa sensed two unfamiliar, powerful figures ahead and another presence approaching, but continued toward them because he had no better escape route.

Wangcai and Talos raced to claim a newly formed Low-Grade Soul Treasure, but a wounded middle-aged man crashed down on Wangcai and knocked the treasure into a crevice. As Loa rushed to help, Wangcai purified the death law divine power poisoning the unconscious stranger’s wound.

• Wangcai and Talos found a Low-Grade Soul Treasure forming near a Gemstone Vein after hunting Soul Beasts, while Loa remained too far away to arrive in time.
• A battle between Edmund and Kailuosa shook the seawater, and Sikaly noticed the Soul Treasure and considered taking it.
• Wangcai and Talos charged the treasure, with Talos striking a guarding Soul Beast King aside as Wangcai reached for the bead.
• A deep-purple-robed man fell from above onto Wangcai, driving them into the Gemstone Vein and knocking the Soul Treasure into a crevice.
• Wangcai called Loa for help, and Loa promised to arrive in ten minutes using his Xunzhen Wind and Thunder Flowing-Light Wings.
• Wangcai used Evil-Suppressing Divine Thunder to purge the death law divine power from the unconscious man’s chest wound.

Wangcai used Evil-Suppressing Divine Thunder to save the wounded Kailuosa, prefect of Ghost Soul Prefecture, and discovered that Kailuosa was Selena Adonis’s father. Rather than flee, Wangcai decided to stay because his boss was arriving to confront Kailuosa’s enemies, Edmund and Sikaly.

• Wangcai purified the death law divine power in Kailuosa’s wound, allowing him to recover and awaken.
• Kailuosa introduced himself as the prefect of Ghost Soul Prefecture and urged Wangcai and Talos to escape while he held off Edmund and Sikaly.
• Wangcai recognized Kailuosa’s resemblance to Selena, and Kailuosa revealed that his daughter was Selena Adonis.
• Wangcai decided they would stay, saying his boss would arrive in five minutes and was a prefecture lord-level expert.
• Edmund called for Kailuosa to come out, while Sikaly waited nearby and admired the soul treasure he had taken.

Kailuosa fought Edmund and Sikaly to buy time until Loa arrived, then began recovering while Loa faced the two Prefecture Lord Level opponents. Loa’s first exchange overwhelmed them, and Sikaly demanded to know who he was.

• Kailuosa cleared Edmund’s Death Law corrosion with Wangcai’s Evil-Suppressing Divine Thunder and fought Edmund and Sikaly while trying to stall for five minutes.
• Edmund spotted Loa approaching and mocked Kailuosa’s apparent hope for help, but Loa arrived with Wangcai and Talos.
• Loa gave Kailuosa a Soul Crystal and Recovery Potions, telling him to restore his divine power for two minutes, then confronted Edmund and Sikaly.
• Loa struck Edmund with Great Annihilation · Return to the Void, dissolving his Death Law defense and sending him flying.
• Loa used his Xunzhen Wind and Thunder Flowing-Light Wings to evade Sikaly’s attack and strike his water armor from above.
• Edmund and Sikaly regrouped, wary of Loa’s strength, and Sikaly asked who he was; Loa answered by raising the Hidden Abyss Sword.

Kailuosa and Loa fought Edmund and Sikaly, with Kailuosa recovering and joining the battle while Loa pressed Sikaly with the Hidden Abyss Sword. Kailuosa pinned Edmund to the seabed, and Sikaly tried to bargain with Loa for permission to leave.

• Kailuosa recovered with Loa’s aid and returned to the fight beside him.
• Loa attacked Sikaly, who repeatedly escaped by transforming into water, while electromagnetic deflection turned aside Sikaly’s counterattack.
• Loa pierced Sikaly’s defenses with Return to the Void sword intent, but Sikaly escaped again at the cost of divine power and suffered a graze to his soul essence.
• Kailuosa overwhelmed Edmund with spear and lightning attacks, then pinned him to the seabed with Thunder Tribulation Annihilation Strike.
• Sikaly chose not to risk his life for Edmund and asked Loa to let him withdraw in exchange for leaving Edmund behind.

Loa and Kailuosa trapped Sikaly and Edmund inside a lightning field so Loa could strike. Loa killed Sikaly, while Wangcai rescued the exhausted Kailuosa; the chapter ended with the battle between Loa and Edmund already over.

• Kailuosa chose to kill Sikaly and Edmund, and Sikaly urged Edmund to fight alongside him.
• Loa and Kailuosa combined their lightning-magnetic fields to expel the seawater and seal the battlefield, while Kailuosa used a Burst Pill to maintain the fields.
• Loa rushed through Sikaly's ice attacks and shattered his rapier with the Hidden Abyss Sword.
• Loa pierced Sikaly's Divine Spark and annihilated his soul, leaving his Space Ring and Highgod Spark behind.
• Kailuosa's fields collapsed, and Wangcai pulled him to safety before the seawater surged back in.
• Wangcai looked toward the distant water, where the fight between Loa and Edmund had ended.

Loa defeated Edmund, but Edmund unleashed a Death Curse that struck Wangcai as he used his Auspicious Omen Talent to draw it away from the others. With Wangcai unconscious and his soul being eroded, Loa flew toward the Undead Sacred Mountain, hoping to find a way to save him.

• Loa defeated Edmund, sealed his Death Law divine power, and brought him before Kailuosa and Wangcai.
• Edmund detonated his soul essence and sent four Death Curses toward Loa, Kailuosa, Wangcai, and Talos.
• Wangcai drew all four curses to himself with his Auspicious Omen Talent, then collapsed as the curse entwined with his soul.
• Kailuosa said only Paragon-level strength could purify the curse, and Loa decided to take Wangcai to a planar teleportation array.
• Loa flew north toward the Undead Sacred Mountain with Wangcai in his arms.

After three years of flying through the Netherworld, Loa reached the Undead Sacred Mountain to return to the Yulan Continent Plane with the unconscious Wangcai. The teleportation array sent them toward home, where Loa had not been for more than forty years.

• Loa continued racing through the Netherworld while Wangcai's soul remained protected by Auspicious Omen and a Soul Treasure, locked in a stalemate with the death curse.
• Loa arrived at the Undead Sacred Mountain and told its guards he wanted to use the teleportation passage to return to a Material Plane.
• Loa revealed that he was a Middle God and paid two hundred billion Nether Stones for himself and Wangcai.
• The teleportation array opened a passage, and Loa chose the Yulan Continent Plane before entering with Wangcai.
• After Loa disappeared, the white-robed captain wondered which great family the powerful Middle God came from.

Forty-three years after Loa and Wangcai left the Yulan Continent, Linley departed for Hell with Delia and Bebe. Hodan watched a traveler return from the Netherworld and recognized him as Loa.

• Wharton and the others gathered to say goodbye as Linley, Delia, and Bebe prepared to leave for Hell.
• Doehring Cowart stayed behind with Bob to explore the Yulan Plane, while Linley and his companions flew north.
• Linley, Delia, and Bebe entered the teleportation passage to Hell as Hodan watched from the Arctic Icefield.
• After Linley left, Hodan relaxed and planned to travel around the Yulan Continent, but a Netherworld teleportation array suddenly lit up.
• A black-robed young man emerged carrying a purple-haired youth, and Hodan froze when he recognized the young man as Loa.

Loa returned to the Yulan Continent after forty-three years and killed Hodan for sending him to the Netherworld. He brought the unconscious Wangcai home and sought help from Beirut, then reunited with his descendant Xini.

• Loa confronted Hodan and erased him with a strand of sword intent, then collected his Space Ring.
• Loa traveled to the Dark Forest and learned from Harry, Harvey, and the other brother that Beirut was away at the Necropolis of the Gods with Bluefire.
• Loa told the three brothers that Wangcai had blocked a Prefecture Lord's Death Curse and remained unconscious, and Harry agreed to inform Beirut when he returned.
• Loa carried Wangcai to his home in the Xunzhen Republic Empire and met Yiyi, who mistook him for an intruder.
• Xini rushed in to protect Yiyi, recognized Loa, and greeted his long-lost uncle.

Loa returned to the Xunzhen Republic Empire and reunited with his family and old companions while Wangcai remained unconscious under a deadly curse. After visiting Tulilei and Grandpa Jack’s grave, Loa heard that Beirut had returned and was coming to help Wangcai.

• Xini and Xiao Yiyi welcomed Loa, and he explained that he and Wangcai had traveled to the Netherworld rather than Hell.
• Wuzhui reunited with Loa, learned that their Master-Servant Contract had been dissolved, and volunteered to care for the unconscious Wangcai.
• Wharton, Mia, Bob, Doehring, Barker, and his brothers arrived to celebrate Loa’s return, and Loa told them Wangcai’s condition was stable while they awaited Beirut’s help.
• Loa learned about changes on the Yulan Continent and that Linley had recently left for Hell with Delia and Bebe.
• Loa visited Tulilei, who had become a Lowgod, then paid his respects at Grandpa Jack’s grave while mourning Wangcai’s absence.
• Beirut contacted Loa and said he was coming to help Wangcai, prompting Loa to leave immediately.

Beirut explained that Wangcai could be freed either by waiting for life sovereign power or by reaching Highgod and breaking the Death Curse with his racial talent. Wangcai chose to advance on his own, leaving the chapter with him ready to train using Loa's Soul Treasures.

• Beirut examined Wangcai and told Loa that life sovereign power could awaken him, while Bluefire explained that the Death Curse had left him asleep but not in danger.
• Beirut proposed that Wangcai could break through to Highgod and overcome the curse, and Loa offered two Soul Treasures to help speed his progress.
• Beirut used his Sovereign's will to reach Wangcai's soul and explain the situation and both options to him.
• Wangcai chose to reach Highgod by himself and asked Beirut to tell Loa not to worry.
• After Beirut left, Wangcai and his divine clone stopped playing cards and resolved to focus on training.

Selena traveled from Ghost Soul Prefecture to the Yulan Continent to find Loa and Wangcai after learning that Qilin had saved her father and was unconscious. After learning Loa had founded the Xunzhen Republic Empire, she flew there to continue her search.

• Tie'emu'er obtained a High-Grade Soul Treasure after killing the experts who had come to claim it, then hurried toward Hell to protect his prize.
• Selena paid to teleport to the Yulan Continent and recalled how her father Kailuosa had promised to repay Qilin for saving his life.
• Selena searched the far north and used her God's Domain to stop Lannode, a Saint, then asked him where Loa could be found.
• Lannode told Selena that Loa had founded the Xunzhen Republic Empire and pointed her southeast, warning that it had Deity-level experts.
• Selena gave Lannode a water-type Lowgod Divine Spark and flew toward the Xunzhen Republic Empire, while he merged the gift and headed south.