Chapter Summaries

Loa completed the conquest of the Chaotic Territory and began planning a new nation with Victor Lopez. The proposal for the Xunzhen Republic Empire placed Loa as Head of State, and he considered the foundation he would leave for Bob and Mia.

• Olivier left to visit home before traveling north to train among secluded Saint experts.
• Wuzhui led the siege of the last city, and its defenders surrendered after it demanded that they open the gates.
• Loa brought all forty-eight duchies of the Chaotic Territory under his control, while former lords fled, died, or surrendered.
• Victor Lopez presented Loa with a proposal for the Xunzhen Republic Empire, including a charter abolishing noble privileges and naming Loa Head of State.
• Loa reviewed Victor's proposal and reflected on founding the Xunzhen Republic Empire as a lasting foundation for Bob and Mia.

Loa and Victor established plans for the Xunzhen Republic Empire while Loa secretly developed the magic crystal vein beneath the future capital. Loa discovered the Miniature Plane within the vein and began cultivating in its unusually dense energies.

• Loa listened as Victor and others debated the empire’s proposal, then approved it and told Victor to carry it out.
• Victor surveyed the future capital site and discovered the enormous magic crystal vein, which Loa had already confirmed and ordered mined in secret.
• Loa entered the vein’s deepest region and found a doorway to the Miniature Plane, identified from his memories as Beirut’s former cultivation chamber.
• Loa crossed a passage of air blades, which shattered his battle-qi barrier and tore his clothes but could not injure him.
• Loa explored the Miniature Plane, sensed dense elemental energies and the power of destruction, and made the space his cultivation chamber as his spiritual force neared a breakthrough.

Loa oversaw the construction of Xunzhen City and secured the magic crystal vein while Victor prepared the new capital. On January 1, year 10003 of the Yulan Calendar, the Xunzhen Republic Empire was founded, and visitors arrived with congratulations and gifts.

• Loa ordered the planners to leave Xunzhen City without walls, and Victor supervised the circular city’s design and named its central square Republic Square.
• Loa placed the magic crystal vein under the empire’s direct jurisdiction, stationed Wuzhui there, and sent Wangcai into the miniature plane to cultivate.
• As construction progressed, Loa told Wangcai that they were building a nation of their own and rejected Wangcai’s idea of putting up a statue.
• Victor completed Xunzhen City’s main framework, and the Xunzhen Republic Empire was officially founded on January 1, year 10003 of the Yulan Calendar.
• Casrot, Bulgood, members of the Ryan Clan, Bob, and Mia attended or sent congratulations, and Mia’s teacher presented Loa with the Water of Life on behalf of the High Priest.

After three years in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, Linley learned that Loa had founded the Xunzhen Republic Empire and driven the Radiant and Dark Churches from the Chaotic Territory. He joined a caravan heading to New Wushan Town, hoping to find his family and friends and make it his new home.

• Linley traveled east with a caravan and told merchant Luya that he had come out of the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Luya told Linley that Loa had founded the Xunzhen Republic Empire after defeating the Radiant and Dark Churches and bringing order to the Chaotic Territory.
• Linley learned the caravan was heading to New Wushan Town, built after Wushan Town was destroyed during the Day of Destruction.
• Linley offered to guard the caravan for free in exchange for a ride to New Wushan Town, and Luya agreed.
• Linley told Bebe that New Wushan Town might become their new home.

Linley returned to New Wu Mountain after a month-long journey and was welcomed by the town’s residents before reaching the recreated Baruch Mansion. He reunited with Old Hiri, learned that Wharton was doing well at O'Brien Academy, and sent urgent letters to Yale and Loa.

• Linley sent Haeru to kill a group of bandits who attacked the caravan, impressing Luya and the other merchants.
• Linley left the caravan in New Wu Mountain and was recognized by Osen, whose shout drew the town’s residents to welcome him.
• Linley entered Baruch Mansion and reunited with Old Hiri, who told him that Yale and Loa had arranged for the home to be rebuilt.
• Old Hiri told Linley that Wharton was at O'Brien Academy with Hillman and was doing well in his studies and training.
• Linley visited the Dawson Chamber of Commerce Branch and sent urgent letters to Yale and Loa.

Heidens sought bodies for angel descents and negotiated with the Dark Church for the Flesh and Blood Potion as the Radiant Church prepared to regain strength. At Baruch Mansion, Linley reunited with Yale and welcomed Wangcai and Wuzhui, who visited on Loa’s behalf before departing with a promise of a surprise.

• Heidens ordered the Church’s intelligence agencies to find or dig up bodies of warriors at Level Six or above for angel descents.
• Heidens exchanged a treasured sacred-item formula with Affleck for the Dark Church’s method of making the Flesh and Blood Potion.
• Linley read Hillman’s letter reporting that Wharton had won O’Brien Academy’s seventh-year tournament and become an earl.
• Yale arrived at Baruch Mansion, embraced Linley, and drank with him until he passed out.
• Wangcai and Wuzhui arrived from Loa, and Linley learned that Wuzhui had reached the Saint level.
• Wangcai and Bebe said goodbye the next day, with Wangcai promising Bebe a surprise if he visited the Xunzhen Republic Empire.

Linley rescued Sessler from the Radiant Church’s escort and killed or crippled the guards, then learned that Sessler was a Great Necromancer with knowledge of the Church’s other stops. The two agreed to join forces against the Radiant Church, though Linley asked Sessler to explain what he knew.

• Linley received a report that Cardinal Lampson and several Church members were escorting a mysterious prisoner, so he went to Chier County City with Bebe and Haeru.
• Linley followed Lampson’s party to their hideout and discovered that the restrained old man wore Magic-Sealing Handcuffs.
• Linley silently killed the Kosasates brothers, freed the prisoner, and learned that his name was Sessler and he was a ninth-level Great Necromancer.
• After the alarm was raised, Bebe killed one guard while Linley severed the limbs of Lampson and the other two fleeing Church members.
• Sessler summoned a Zombie Dragon, but Linley challenged him, and Sessler dismissed it before proposing that they join forces against the Radiant Church.
• Sessler offered to reveal the Church’s other escort stops, and Linley agreed to hear what he knew.

After Sessler helped Linley uncover the Radiant Church’s plan to use five eighth-level bodies as vessels for angels, they set out to intercept the shipment. The Church learned that Lampson’s party had been killed and sent Steller to Decker County City to secure the bodies.

• Lampson and the others confessed that the Radiant Church was collecting five eighth-level bodies for angelic vessels, so Linley and Sessler decided to intercept the convoy.
• Sessler used necromancy to erase the battlefield traces, then rested with Linley and the others beside a mountain stream.
• Sessler learned that Linley Baruch was a twenty-one-year-old dual-element Level 9 Great Mage and Dragonblood Warrior, and agreed to follow his lead toward Decker County City.
• A Radiant Church spy found signs of battle in Chier County City and reported that Lampson and his group were missing, with no bodies left behind.
• Heidens ordered Steller to travel to the O'Brien Empire’s Northwest Province, join another escort squad, and bring the five brothers to Holy Island, killing any Saint who obstructed him.

Linley and Sessler prepared to ambush the Radiant Church's gathering in Decker County City and free five captured brothers before Steller could act. Linley cut the brothers loose, but the commotion alerted the guards and left the confrontation poised to begin.

• Linley and his companions hid in an abandoned mill while Sessler drew a summoning formation and Linley mapped the Church's rendezvous point.
• Linley counted the Church's reinforcements and warned Sessler that a Saint was expected; Sessler summoned undead creatures and hid a Bone Dragon outside the city.
• Steller arrived at the rendezvous point, where Sikaro reported that five eighth-rank brothers were captured and no one had followed them.
• Linley signaled Sessler that Steller had arrived, then prepared to infiltrate the building and free the prisoners.
• Linley crept into the courtyard, cut the lock and the ropes binding the five brothers, and told them to follow him.
• Barker and his four brothers jumped down from the carriage and gathered behind Linley as a guard shouted at the noise.

Linley and Sessler prepared to rescue the five brothers from a Radiant Church party led by a powerful Saint. Linley freed the brothers, but Barker sensed that a formidable expert was nearby as they tried to escape.

• Linley watched the Church party arrive in Decker County City and identified its silver-haired leader as a Saint.
• Linley and Sessler agreed to attack that night, with Sessler summoning an old corpse demon to help hold off the Saint.
• Linley, Bebe, and Haeru silently killed the guards at the courtyard entrance and the room holding the five brothers.
• Linley cut the Dark-gold Rope binding Barker, Ankh, Babo, Bruce, and Gates, then led them toward the exit.
• Barker sensed an incredibly powerful expert nearby and urged the brothers to hurry.

Steller ambushed Linley and Sessler, but Linley wounded him with a scroll and stayed behind to face him. Just as Steller prepared to deliver a final blow, time stopped and an unseen speaker greeted Linley.

• Steller entered the courtyard and killed Sessler’s old corpse demon.
• Bebe and Haeru attacked Steller, but he struck them back and demanded that Linley surrender.
• Linley used a scroll to pierce Steller’s lung with a grayish-white Sword Ray, then sent Bebe, Haeru, Sessler, and the five brothers away.
• Linley fought Steller’s Frozen World with three strikes of the Profound Mysteries of the Earth-Triple Wave, shattering the frozen space.
• Steller prepared to strike Linley, but everyone and everything froze as a voice from the alley greeted Linley.

Cesar arrived just before Steller could kill Linley, revealing that he had become a Deity and ending the confrontation. He identified Barker and his brothers as members of the Undying Warrior clan and promised to bring them their secret manual, while hinting that Loa was pursuing him.

• Cesar stopped time in the courtyard, rescued Linley from Steller, and revealed that he had reached the Deity level two years earlier.
• Cesar refused Steller’s invitation to join the Radiant Church and stopped him from taking Linley and the five brothers.
• Cesar sensed Loa approaching from the southeast, then ordered everyone to disperse and let Steller leave.
• Cesar recognized Barker and his brothers as descendants of the Armand clan, the Undying Warrior Family, and promised to retrieve their secret manual.
• Cesar asked Linley to tell Loa to slow down, then vanished; Linley and Bebe looked toward the Xunzhen Republic Empire before Linley led everyone away.

Loa underwent a transformation in the Miniature Plane that compressed his Spiritual Force and turned his soul crystal into a Tricolored Soul Sword. After reaching the utmost limit of the Saint level and bringing his Wind and Thunder Element Laws close to perfection, he prepared to begin breaking through to godhood.

• Four days after the founding ceremony, Loa sensed a change within his soul and returned to the Miniature Plane to meditate.
• Over thirty-six days, Loa’s Spiritual Force compressed and grew denser as an unknown force synchronized his Battle-qi, Path of Destruction, and Spiritual Force.
• Loa’s tricolored soul crystal became a sword, which dissolved into streams of light and merged with his soul as the Tricolored Soul Sword.
• Loa reached the Saint-level Peak in Battle-qi, the Saint level in body, and the Saint Magus level in Spiritual Force, leaving no weakness in his cultivation.
• Loa found his comprehension of the Wind and Thunder Element Laws nearing perfection and noticed that the laws had become clearer and easier to understand.
• Loa inspected the Spatial Turbulence outside the Miniature Plane and resolved to begin breaking through to godhood.

Loa broke through to godhood, gaining Wind and Lightning Divine Sparks and clones, then discovered that his mutated soul let him fuse the two elements’ divine power. After sensing the other Deities in the Yulan Plane, he met O’Brien’s gaze, while Doctor Chen’s message left him wondering why he had been sent to the world of Coiling Dragon.

• Loa crossed into godhood, and the Laws of the World created Wind and Lightning Lowgod Divine Sparks for him.
• Loa chose External Godhood, and a hidden scalpel divided his soul into three; Doctor Chen’s recorded message addressed him as Guo Luo and said sending him to this world had been the right decision.
• Two of Loa’s sword souls fused with the Divine Sparks, which formed his Wind and Lightning Divine Clones and connected him to the corresponding Elemental Seas.
• Loa drew on both kinds of divine power and fused them into power about ten times stronger than a single element’s divine power.
• Loa sensed five other Deity auras in the Yulan Plane, and O’Brien met his gaze before reflecting on the arrival of a Deity in his twenties.

Five years after Loa became a Deity, he had built a life around cultivating and helping run the Republic Imperial Magic Academy, while Linley and their companions grew stronger. Loa left the Radiant Church and Dark Church alive so Linley and Mia could pursue their own revenge, and he continued preparing for a future journey to a Higher Plane.

• Linley became a Saint Dragonblood Warrior at the start of Year 10004, then accepted Loa's offer to become the Republic Imperial Magic Academy's first dean, with Sessler as vice dean.
• Sessler took Rebecca and Lina as disciples, while Barker and his four brothers taught combat at the warrior academy and improved their own fighting skills.
• Loa cultivated the Path of Destruction and the electromagnetic profound mystery, while his wind Divine Clone studied the wind laws with Beirut, who advised him to wait before visiting a Higher Plane and to delay revealing himself to Bebe.
• Loa's wind-law cultivation advanced as he worked to fuse the profound mysteries of fast and slow into speed, and his electromagnetic comprehension also progressed.
• Linley asked Loa to leave the Radiant Church for him to destroy because it had caused his parents' deaths, and Loa agreed.
• Mia asked to take revenge on the Dark Church herself with Bob, and Loa agreed to let her grow strong enough to settle the score.

Emperor Joanne O'Brien tried to secure Wharton Baruch’s loyalty by proposing that he marry Princess Nina, but Wharton refused because he already loved someone. After leaving the Martial Arts Hall, Wharton decided to say goodbye to Headmaster Fein and join his elder brother, Linley.

• Joanne introduced Nina to Wharton and asked whether he would marry her.
• Wharton said he needed to consult Linley, but Joanne offered to arrange matters with him herself.
• Wharton revealed that he had already pledged himself to someone he loved, leaving Nina heartbroken and Joanne displeased.
• Joanne ended the meeting, and Wharton left the Martial Arts Hall.
• Wharton decided to bid farewell to Headmaster Fein and go to Linley, wherever his elder brother was.

Mia and Wharton’s long-standing love was revealed when they reunited secretly outside the city, where Bebe caught them and demanded meals in exchange for keeping quiet. Wharton promised Mia that Bebe would keep his word, then realized Bebe had spoken and was hovering as a Saint-level magical beast.

• Mia recalled meeting Wharton at Baruch Mansion as a child, growing close to him during her visits, and secretly agreeing to marry him.
• Mia studied wind magic under Linley at the Xunzhen Magic Academy while continuing her water-magic training in the Republic Empire.
• Wangcai arranged for statues of Wuzhui, Bebe, and himself to be erected in Republic Square with Victor’s help.
• Mia left Linley’s lesson and traveled to the city gates to meet Wharton, who had returned to the Republic Empire.
• Bebe surprised Mia and Wharton as they embraced, then agreed to keep their romance secret in exchange for twenty meals.
• After Bebe departed, Wharton reassured Mia that he would keep quiet, then realized Bebe was a hovering Saint-level magical beast.

Loa discovered Wharton and Mia’s secret relationship and suggested that Doehring Cowart could regain a physical body by becoming a god. After Wharton and Mia confessed their romance, Loa approved their marriage on the condition that Wharton reached the ninth level within four years.

• Loa sensed Bebe spying on Wharton and Mia’s date and realized they were in love.
• Loa told Linley and Doehring Cowart that becoming a god could give Doehring a Divine Body, and Doehring began studying the Earth Law Profound Mysteries.
• Loa, Linley, Bob, Bebe, and Wangcai confronted Wharton and Mia, who recounted how their relationship had developed over several years.
• Bob became angry that Wharton and Mia had kept their relationship secret, but he lowered his hammer and accepted their account.
• Loa set their wedding for the Xunzhen Republic Empire’s tenth anniversary, provided Wharton became a ninth-level warrior within four years.
• Wharton and Mia left together, while Linley thought of Delia and Bob watched them go with a smile.

Wharton and Mia married during the Yulan Festival celebrations, while Dixie told Linley that Delia had been confined for refusing to marry the emperor and was still waiting for him. Linley resolved to go to Delia and broke through to the Saint level, becoming an ultimate Dragonblood Warrior.

• Wharton trained relentlessly for three years and reached the Saint level as a Dragonblood Warrior.
• Mia became a dual-element Level Seven Mage, and the empire prepared to celebrate its anniversary, the Yulan Festival, and her wedding.
• Loa witnessed Wharton and Mia's wedding in Republic Square as guests from across the continent attended.
• Dixie told Linley that Delia had refused to marry Land, had been confined by her parents, and wanted to see Linley.
• Linley resolved to find Delia and spontaneously condensed a Saint core, reaching the Saint level.

Land admitted to George that he liked Delia but could not marry her because the Ryan Clan’s growing power threatened the Yulan Empire’s interests. George understood Land’s intentions and Linley accepted George’s message, preparing to approach the Ryan Clan with his betrothal gifts.

• Land asked George what he thought of Delia, then admitted that he liked her but could not marry her because the Ryan Clan had become too influential.
• Land explained that marrying Delia could let the Ryan Clan dominate the empire, while refusing her could win the friendship of the Xunzhen Republic Empire.
• George understood that Land wanted him to tell Linley he had no designs on Delia, and he accepted Land’s explanation.
• Linley received George’s urgent letter in Xunzhen Main City and decided to accept the goodwill without asking Loa to intervene.
• Linley prepared Saint Realm Magic Crystal Cores, rare treasures, and a Nature Painting as betrothal gifts, then hoped the Ryan Clan would treat him with respect.