Chapter Summaries

Wangcai, Bebe, and their allies attacked Mother Empress Lashabel in the Seventh Layer and destroyed her Life Source Pearl. Lashabel died, her offspring withered, and the group stood victorious beside the vast crater left by Wangcai’s attack.

• Wangcai led the group to Lashabel’s black pyramid, where she commanded a vast green sea of offspring and launched an all-out attack.
• Rosalie froze Lashabel’s vines with Absolute Zero, while Desri’s soul attack failed to harm her.
• The Six-Eyed Golden Lions immobilized Lashabel, and Bebe broke through her defenses as Tulilei, Fain, and the others held back her vines.
• Bebe exposed Lashabel’s Life Source Pearl, then Wangcai struck it with the Spear of Judgment and shattered it.
• Lashabel vanished in the resulting lightning blast, and her offspring withered as the group gathered at the crater.

After clearing the Seventh Layer, Olivier, Wangcai, and the others entered the seemingly empty Eighth Layer and discovered the Evil Eye King guarding the passage to the Ninth. The Evil Eye King froze Olivier and Wangcai with soul attacks, but both broke free, and Olivier struck the giant ice body before learning that the king’s true body was its golden eye.

• After Lashabel’s death, the Seventh Layer’s Offspring withered, and nine challengers entered the Eighth Layer while the others stayed behind to train.
• Desri and the others flew across the empty ice field for nearly two hours and found the passage to the Ninth Layer.
• As Fain approached the passage, the Evil Eye King emerged from an iceberg, sealed the entrance, and declared that he would kill five of the nine.
• The Evil Eye King’s gray beams froze Wangcai and Olivier, but Wangcai’s golden light nullified the soul attack and Olivier’s Light-Dark Divine Sword broke through the freezing.
• Olivier shattered the Evil Eye King’s ice body with his sword, and the Six-Eyed Golden Lion warned that the giant was only condensed energy and that the golden eye was his true body.

Olivier fought the Evil Eye King on the eighth floor while Wangcai guarded him, and his fused light-dark sword art ultimately destroyed the King. Wounded but alive, Olivier left with Wangcai for the ninth floor, where Desri and the others were waiting.

• Olivier sent Desri and the others ahead, while Wangcai stayed behind to support him and revealed that the Evil Eye King's soul attacks vanished inside him.
• Olivier used Light-Dark Sword Intent to sever the Evil Eye King's ice arm and break through his ice defenses, even as he resisted repeated soul attacks.
• Olivier learned to target the laws within the King's ice, landing wounds on the golden eye and forcing the King to form an enormous ice body.
• Olivier unleashed Light-Dark Disintegration, erasing the Evil Eye King's golden eye, soul, and giant ice body.
• Wangcai checked Olivier's injuries and sent lightning through him; Olivier then set off with Wangcai for the ninth floor.

Olivier and Wangcai returned from the Eighth Layer, and the group entered the Ninth Layer, where they met the exile Ruyi, who tried to keep them from reaching the passage. When Ruyi attacked, the group discovered he was a Thorium Demon vulnerable to lightning, making Wangcai their ideal counter as the confrontation began.

• Olivier gave Rosalie an Ice Element Staff, while Bebe lent Tulilei the Blood-Red Curved Blade.
• The nine experts crossed the peaceful Ninth Layer and found Ruyi waiting beside a wooden house on the island's hilltop.
• Ruyi said he would not attack them if they stayed with him, but refused Desri's offer to remain behind while the others passed.
• Rosalie spotted the passage to the tenth layer, and the group stood to face Ruyi when he would not let them through.
• Ruyi transformed into a Thorium Demon and attacked Tulilei, who knocked him back with a destructive slash.
• The Six-Eyed Golden Lion explained that lightning could counter Thorium Demons, and the group eagerly turned to Wangcai, a master of lightning.

Tulilei and Fain unleashed their ultimate attacks to destroy Ruyi the Thorium Demon, overcoming his seawater-enhanced body and the Life Source Pearl’s recovery. The group recovered the pearl, while Tulilei and Fain fell into deep sleep, and Desri saw that the passage to the tenth floor was open.

• Ruyi transformed into a vast thorium sheet, but Tulilei, Fain, Wangcai, Bebe, and the Six-Eyed Golden Lions attacked it and revealed that the lions also cultivated the Path of Destruction.
• Ruyi absorbed seawater into his giant body and used the Life Source Pearl to recover from the group’s attacks, leaving them unable to damage his core.
• Wangcai led the others away as Tulilei used his Near-God Strike to break Ruyi into metal granules and hold them apart with the Power of Destruction.
• Fain unleashed his Thunder Dragon Descent, whose lightning bound and vaporized the granules, destroying Ruyi and leaving the Life Source Pearl behind.
• Desri caught the Life Source Pearl and gave it to Fain and Tulilei to restore their bodies, but both men fell asleep from soul exhaustion.
• Desri put away the Life Source Pearl and saw that the passage to the tenth floor was open.

Fain received the Life Source Pearl, and the group spent nine years preparing to face the Eleventh Layer’s Abyss Blade Demons. Outside the Necropolis of the Gods, Loa advanced from Lowgod to Midgod in both wind and lightning, astonishing the waiting Deities and Beirut.

• Tulilei gave the Life Source Pearl to Fain, who absorbed it and recovered.
• The group encountered an Abyss Blade Demon near the Eleventh Layer’s entrance, and Bebe killed it; Tulilei took its back saber.
• The group reconnoitered the Eleventh Layer, found nearly a million Abyss Blade Demons, and lost one of the Six-Eyed Golden Lion brothers while retreating.
• The survivors trained on the Tenth Layer for nine years before preparing to enter the Eleventh Layer again.
• Loa’s wind and lightning Divine Sparks advanced to Midgod, and Dylan, Cesar, O’Brien, Catherine, and Beirut congratulated him.

After the Necropolis of the Gods opened its exit, the surviving experts reunited, divided the treasures from the Eleventh Layer, and learned that Taraosha was the Ba Snake who had overseen the early layers. Beirut led the survivors back toward the Yulan Continent, where they parted ways for home and training.

• The survivors emerged from the Necropolis of the Gods, and Wangcai reunited with Loa while Bebe greeted Beirut and Barker, Olivier, Desri, and Tulilei joined them.
• The group recalled how they defeated the Abyss Blade Demons on the Eleventh Layer and divided its Divine Sparks and divine artifacts among the survivors.
• Taraosha introduced himself to the Deities and Dylan before Beirut revealed that he was the Ba Snake, overseer of the Necropolis's first eleven layers.
• Beirut led six Deities and thirty Saints toward the Yulan Continent, while Cesar said he would take Rosalie to the Ice Goddess Temple.
• Loa returned toward the Xunzhen Republic Empire with Wangcai, Bebe, Barker, and Desri, Olivier went with O'Brien, and Tulilei returned to the Far East Prairie to train.

Loa returned to Xunzhen City after ten years in the Necropolis of the Gods and reunited with Linley, Bebe, and their family. After sharing gifts and catching up on the empire’s affairs, Loa told Linley he would leave again on the ninth of the next month.

• Desri parted from Loa at the border, and Bebe rushed into Linley’s arms when Loa reached Xunzhen City.
• Loa reunited with Delia, Taylor, Sasha, and Xini, and learned that Xini was married and had been left to act as Head of State.
• Bebe gave the young people Divine Artifacts and presented Xini with one thousand Abyss Blade Demon battle sabers for the border troops.
• Loa learned that Wharton and Mia were away inspecting trade routes and that Bob was traveling around the continent.
• Barker returned home and reunited with his wife and brothers.
• Loa and Linley watched the city together, and Loa said he would leave on the ninth of the next month.

At a family banquet, Beirut took Bebe and Wangcai to the Dark Forest to prepare for their imminent ascension to Deity level, while Loa announced his intention to leave for a Higher Plane after the Necropolis. The next morning, Loa joined Catherine, O'Brien, Cesar, and Dylan to enter the newly opened twelfth layer, which Beirut warned was intended for Deities.

• Beirut arrived at Linley's family banquet and explained that Bebe and Wangcai were nearing adulthood and needed to cultivate under his guidance.
• Bebe and Wangcai agreed to leave with Beirut, and Loa encouraged Wangcai to become a Deity before they traveled to a Higher Plane.
• Loa told Linley he had decided to seek greater challenges on a Higher Plane because the Yulan Continent could no longer help him advance.
• The next morning, Loa checked his original body, then joined the others at the Dark Forest and learned Taraosha had chosen to remain behind.
• Beirut led Catherine, O'Brien, Cesar, Dylan, and Loa through the portal, and all five entered the newly opened passage to the twelfth layer.

Loa and his companions searched the twelfth floor of the Infernal Realm and found its guardian, a Midgod-level Hellhound. The beast awakened as the five prepared to face it.

• Catherine recalled that she and O'Brien had barely survived the twelfth floor three thousand years earlier, when its guardian was a Volcano Giant.
• The five split into three groups to search the vast lava world, with Loa traveling alone.
• Loa, Catherine, and O'Brien found signs that the floor’s inhabitants had been wiped out, and O'Brien concluded the guardian was responsible.
• The five reunited before a black stone tower and saw a massive three-headed beast sleeping beside it.
• Dylan identified the beast as a divine Hellhound with three independent heads and an innate ability linked to death.
• The Hellhound opened all six eyes and stood, awakening as the twelfth-floor guardian.

Loa and the others attacked the three-headed Hellhound on the twelfth floor, wounding him with coordinated strikes and forcing him to unleash powerful Death-Attribute attacks. The Hellhound then used his innate divine ability, Death Call, a soul attack that swept across the battlefield.

• The Hellhound confronted Loa, Dylan, Catherine, Cesar, and O'Brien, while his three heads argued over whether to kill or keep them.
• Loa and the others launched a coordinated assault, cutting the Hellhound's neck and injuring Second's face, foreleg, and knee.
• Loa used Wind Threads Turn to Dust to cover the Hellhound in countless cuts as the others defended themselves against his counterattacks.
• The Hellhound ordered Second and Third to recover while he focused on Loa, then attacked with a Death-Attribute sphere that Loa deflected into the magma sea.
• The Hellhound abandoned his defense and unleashed Death Call, spreading a gray-white soul-destroying halo across the battlefield.

Loa resisted the Hellhound’s Death Call with the combined power of his Lightning and Wind Divine Clones, then counterattacked as the beast lunged at him. He left the Hellhound badly wounded by severing the lower jaw of its eldest head.

• Dylan stunned the Hellhound for an instant and swallowed Cesar, Catherine, and O'Brien into his abdomen, but Loa refused to retreat with them.
• Loa endured Death Call as his Lightning Judgment Profound Mystery and Wind Divine Clone’s soul power drove back the deathly mist.
• The Hellhound realized Loa had survived the attack and charged while Loa appeared to be stabilizing his soul.
• Loa opened his eyes and used Wind Threads Turn to Dust to cut through the Hellhound’s eldest head’s lower jaw.

Loa used fused wind and lightning divine power to summon the Nine Heavens Execution Platform and kill the Hellhound. He took its Fire Element Intermediate Godhead and death intermediate godhead, while Dylan and the others watched from safety.

• The Hellhound’s three heads pretended to gather Death Call, planning to dive into the lava river and use the lion’s swallowed companions as leverage.
• Loa fused his wind and lightning divine powers and summoned the Nine Heavens Execution Platform, suppressing the Hellhound and piercing its death-law canopy.
• The platform bound all three of the Hellhound’s souls and sealed its divine power, leaving the beast unable to move or continue Death Call.
• Loa commanded the platform to execute the Hellhound, killing its bodies and souls with one strike and leaving two divine sparks behind.
• Loa collected the Fire Element Intermediate Godhead and death intermediate godhead, while Dylan released Cesar, Catherine, and O’Brien and confirmed that Loa had won.

After Loa killed the Hellhound, the group found three Middle-Level Divine Artifacts in the Stone Tower and divided them among Dylan, Cesar, and O'Brien. Catherine led them through the gate to the thirteenth floor.

• Loa recovered after killing the Hellhound while Dylan, Cesar, Catherine, and O'Brien joined him beneath the Stone Tower.
• O'Brien silently hoped for the Hellhound's Fire Element Intermediate Godhead, but Loa waited for him to offer something in exchange.
• The group climbed the empty tower and found a suit of fiery red armor, destruction gloves, and a Death Law short blade on a stone platform.
• Loa and Catherine passed on the artifacts, while Dylan took the gloves, Cesar chose the short blade, and O'Brien claimed the armor.
• Catherine stepped through the Space Gate to the thirteenth floor, and the others followed.

Loa’s group explored the unknown thirteenth floor, where an elf attacked them from the primeval forest. Catherine searched the captured elf’s memories and warned that things were looking bad.

• The five cautiously entered the forest, where a venomous green snake struck O'Brien and an arrow nearly hit Catherine before Dylan caught it.
• Cesar tracked the arrow to its source, captured an unconscious male elf, and brought back his low-level artifact shortbow.
• Catherine identified the attacker as an elf from an ancient race that had disappeared from the Yulan Plane, and explained how the Gnomes had once ruled it before being destroyed.
• Catherine performed Soul Search on the elf, who died as she extracted his memories.
• Catherine told the others that things were looking bad.

Loa and his companions retreated to the Twelfth Layer to train before challenging the Thirteenth Layer’s three Middle God elders and Lowgod chief. After eight years, Dylan broke through to Middle God, and Loa received a message that prompted the group to prepare to return sooner than planned.

• Loa proposed that the group train for nine years, and the companions returned to the Twelfth Layer to strengthen themselves and their newly acquired divine artifacts.
• Dylan repeatedly sparred with Loa, while Catherine mastered the emerald-green shortbow, O'Brien improved his fire attacks, and Cesar advanced his shadow-clone technique.
• In the eighth year, Dylan pushed himself through an intense fight with Loa and broke through from Lowgod to Middle God.
• Loa told the others that they would not need to wait nine years and ordered them to prepare to return to the Thirteenth Layer the next day.

Loa completed his Lightning Divine Clone’s fusion of three profound mysteries, then comprehended the first layer of the Destruction Rule and formed a Destruction Divine Clone. As he prepared to reunite with Wangcai, eight escapees from the Gebados Planar Prison emerged in Mist Canyon and scattered across the Yulan Continent.

• Loa’s Lightning Divine Clone fused Lightning Judgment, Electromagnetism, and the Thunder Element Profound Mystery, then merged with his Wind Divine Clone.
• Loa’s original body comprehended the first layer of the Destruction Rule, endured the pain of splitting his soul, and formed a Destruction Divine Clone while Linley watched.
• Loa thanked Linley, learned that his children might have had children, and sent Wangcai a transmission announcing his breakthrough and planned visit.
• Eight battered people escaped from the Gebados Planar Prison through a spatial rift in Mist Canyon and rejoiced at returning to the Yulan Continent.
• The eight escapees parted ways and flew off in different directions.

A Green-Robed Gaunt Elder drained the souls of everyone in New Wushan Town to restore his strength, then fled toward the Luo'ao Empire. Loa and Linley discovered the massacre and began searching the continent for the unknown Deity.

• The Green-Robed Gaunt Elder activated a magic array that tore the souls from more than ten thousand people in New Wushan Town, restoring some of his strength.
• After reading information from the victims' memories, the Green-Robed Gaunt Elder decided to avoid places watched by Deities and flew toward the Luo'ao Empire with his nine servants.
• Loa and Linley sensed the divine power and Death Law, hurried to New Wushan Town, and found everyone dead, including Old Hiri, Old Henry, and Old Mund.
• Loa and Linley mourned the dead, and Loa used Destruction Divine Power to make the bodies disappear peacefully.
• Loa warned Fain about the unknown Deity, then he and Linley began searching the continent while the Green-Robed Gaunt Elder continued toward the Luo'ao Empire, unaware they were pursuing him.

Loa and Linley searched the Yulan Continent for the Grand Warlock, then learned from Beirut about the spatial weak points linking the Gebados Planar Prison to the continent. While the two returned to search the Luo'ao Empire again, Beaumont found the weakened Grand Warlock and agreed to help him gather souls in exchange for Soul Gold Beads.

• Fain mobilized the Saints under War God Mountain and ordered them to watch for the unknown Deity after New Wushan Town was slaughtered.
• Loa and Linley searched the continent for seven days, found no trace of the killer, and went to the Dark Forest to consult Beirut.
• Beirut told Loa and Linley that the Grand Warlock had headed toward the Luo'ao Empire and explained the sealed spatial weak points, including the danger to the Bosha Dike.
• The Grand Warlock hid in the former Dark Alliance territory, afraid to gather enough souls to restore his strength while Loa and Linley hunted him.
• Beaumont approached the Grand Warlock and proposed that he refine Soul Gold Beads from souls Beaumont would provide.
• The Grand Warlock negotiated for half the souls, and Beaumont accepted while secretly planning to take advantage of him later.

Loa and his allies attacked the Elf Clan, whose elders and queen fought back beneath the mother tree. Loa's Lightning Divine Clone overwhelmed the elves' defenses and blocked Fiona's empowered Life Flame arrow, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Elisthe, Aurelian, Fiona, and Elisda gathered before the mother tree after sensing Loa's group, and Dylan struck the Elf Clan's barrier in his true form.
• Elisthe assigned Aurelian to fight Dylan, Fiona to fight Loa's Wind Divine Clone, Elisda to occupy the Lowgods, and herself to face Loa's Lightning Divine Clone.
• Loa's Lightning Divine Clone slashed the mother tree's barrier, forcing Elisthe to pour more Life Law power into repairing it.
• Dylan intercepted Aurelian, while Loa's Wind Divine Clone slowed and scattered Fiona's flame arrows with Wind Space barriers.
• Elisthe launched her Life Deprivation Spear at the Wind Divine Clone, but Loa's Lightning Divine Clone intercepted it with Thunder-Magnetic Cone and pierced through its center.
• Elisda empowered Fiona with the Life Law, and Fiona's Life Flame arrow began assimilating the Wind Space barriers before Loa's Lightning Divine Clone shielded both Loas and met it with a lightning-law shield.