Chapter Summaries

Wangcai and Selena counted the Cloudmist Bandit Group’s spoils, totaling nearly eighty billion Nether Stones, but Selena refused her share. They then inspected the caravan’s cargo, and Selena discovered valuable Netherbone flowers and ghostweed.

• Wangcai and Selena examined the bandits’ Space Rings and found that the four chiefs alone possessed more than sixty billion Nether Stones.
• Wangcai calculated the total value of the bandits’ money and remaining goods at nearly eighty billion Nether Stones.
• Wangcai offered Selena half the spoils, but she refused because he had rescued her and she had already helped him in battle.
• Wangcai promised to treat Selena to a feast at the next settlement, and she accepted.
• Selena inspected a cargo ring taken from Mambo’s Space Ring and found Netherbone flowers and ghostweed.

Selena explained how the Sea of Ruins produced Soul Treasures and Soul Beasts, and why Netherbone Flowers and Ghostweed were used to make incense that lured them. Her original body learned that the Reese Family’s shipment included rare high-grade plants and ordered Haina to inform the lord, while Loa and the others continued toward Ghost Soul Prefecture.

• Selena explained that souls were drawn into the Eye of the Ruins, where their essence could form Soul Treasures under the death law.
• Loa revealed that he had come to Ghost Soul Prefecture seeking Soul Treasures, and Selena described their rarity and benefits.
• Selena’s original body told Haina that her Lightning Divine Clone had found high-grade Netherbone Flowers and Ghostweed in the Reese Family’s shipment, and Haina went to report it to the lord.
• Selena explained that Soul-Attracting Incense made from the plants could lure powerful Soul Beasts, whose Soul Crystals strengthened souls.
• Selena warned that excessive incense could attract deadly Soul Beast Kings and said Kailuosa Adonis strictly regulated its use.
• Loa considered the opportunities in Ghost Soul Prefecture as Selena examined the shipment and then changed the subject while they continued their journey.

Kailuosa destroyed the Reese Family to enforce Ghost Soul Prefecture’s restrictions on high-grade netherbone flowers and ghostweed, while Edmund Howa prepared to challenge him after reaching prefecture lord strength. The chapter ended with Selena learning that the captured shipment belonged to her friend and looking forward to Wangcai’s reaction to its value.

• Kailuosa obliterated the Reese Family’s estate and warned Howa City’s residents not to grow or transport large quantities of high-grade netherbone flowers and ghostweed without authorization.
• Edmund Howa told his grand elder to keep the Howa Family quiet and suspend material shipments until he refined a middle-grade soul treasure and reached prefecture lord strength.
• Edmund declared that he intended to take Kailuosa’s position and rule Ghost Soul Prefecture by the strength of his own fist.
• Haina gave Selena a report about the Reese Family’s destruction and told her Kailuosa had said the captured shipment belonged to her friend.
• Selena accepted that her father would not claim the shipment and looked forward to Wangcai learning how much it was worth.

Loa, Wangcai, and Selena traveled toward Adonis City, discussing cultivation before stopping to watch two Seven-Star Demon-level fighters clash. As the life-law swordsman weakened, he fled toward their vessel, and Loa suspected he meant to involve them in the battle.

• Wangcai and Selena played cards aboard the vessel until Loa scolded them for neglecting their cultivation.
• Loa told Wangcai and Selena to focus on improving their strength as they neared Ghost Soul Prefecture.
• A surge of divine power revealed two powerful fighters battling ahead, and Selena explained that experts from many prefectures hunted souls in the Sea of Ruins.
• Loa, Wangcai, and Selena watched a horned axe wielder fight an elf-like swordsman wielding the Law of Life.
• When the swordsman's life aura dimmed and he was wounded, he fled toward Loa's vessel, and Loa suspected he was trying to drag them into the fight.

Loa killed Yas’s Life Divine Clone with one sword strike after the elf tried to use him as a distraction from Talos. Loa continued toward Adonis City while Talos fled the area, and Yas realized his clone and its fortune were gone.

• Yas’s Life Divine Clone attacked Loa with a soul strike, but Loa was unaffected and killed him with Great Annihilation · Return to the Void.
• Talos stopped advancing, surrendered his axe, and watched Loa return to his Metal Flying Vessel and depart for Adonis City.
• Talos decided Loa must be a concealed prefect-level expert, then traveled toward Adonis City by a different route in his metal rhinoceros.
• Wangcai asked about the Seven-Star Devil’s loot, and Loa explained that he could not open the Space Ring while Yas’s other Divine Clones remained alive.
• Yas felt his Life Divine Clone’s death, grieved the loss of its possessions, and angrily wrecked his tea table.

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.