Recaps

Atezi swore a Supreme Oath and left the Infernal Realm after the gathered leaders decided the danger of fighting him was too great. Rhodes then challenged Chris Ding, the Demon King, and nearly killed him with three rapid strikes before Chris Ding escaped into another space using his Innate Divine Ability.

• Lei Jialie ordered Atezi to leave the Infernal Realm, and Atezi swore a Supreme Oath before flying toward a Teleportation Array.
• After Atezi departed, Rhodes warned Pash about Solo Ross and prepared to fight the Demon King, while Lei Jialie and Zijing moved to restrain Solo Ross.
• Rhodes challenged Chris Ding, and Lei Jialie and Zijing used Amethyst Space to envelop Solo Ross.
• Rhodes struck Chris Ding with three powerful attacks, sending him flying and destroying half his head before Chris Ding escaped into another space.
• Chris Ding roared in fear after realizing Rhodes’s second strike had nearly killed him, while Rhodes regretted that he could not finish the Demon King off.

Rhodes and the Demon King, Chris Ding, fought to a standstill after Chris Ding fused the Destruction and Death rules, and they agreed to a truce. Lei Jialie then proposed a King's Agreement to halt wars of conquest for ten thousand years, leaving Rhodes to consider the factions’ dispute over the continent.

• Lei Jialie and Solo Ross watched as Rhodes’s sword strikes seriously wounded the Demon King, and Solo Ross secretly planned to aid the Demon King if needed.
• Chris Ding fused the Destruction Rule and the Death Rule, matching Rhodes’s power, but Rhodes’s speed forced him to defend rather than counterattack.
• Chris Ding challenged Rhodes to fight head-on, and after exchanging blows, the two agreed that neither could kill the other and called a truce.
• Lei Jialie withdrew the Amethyst Space, and the group returned to the mountain peak, where Lei Ding was no longer present.
• Lei Jialie told Rhodes that the factions had drafted a King's Agreement to suspend wars of conquest for ten thousand years, but Chris Ding had opposed it.

After the four major powers agreed to a ten-thousand-year truce and opened the continents to travel and trade, Rhodes withdrew to cultivate while Pash expanded the Hall of the Gods. The Four Divine Beasts began training to become Highgods, as Deities secretly vanished from both Rhodes’s and the Demon King’s forces.

• Rhodes told Pash that Lei Jialie had changed and gave the Four Divine Beasts amethyst to strengthen their souls.
• Rhodes explained that the four powers had sworn to avoid war for ten thousand years, open the teleportation arrays, and exchange resources, with a future war deciding who would set the Infernal Realm’s rules.
• Rhodes entered seclusion, while Pash led Highgods to subdue nearby forces and recruit Deities into the Hall of the Gods.
• The Four Divine Beasts discovered that Vermilion Bird’s Sparrow Flame could refine amethyst quickly, and they began frenzied soul training while preparing to break through to Highgod.
• The Kings’ Agreement brought a temporary lull in warfare and rapid growth across the Infernal Realm, while Deities under both the Hall of the Gods and the Demon King disappeared at regular intervals.

After unifying the continent, Rhodes and Pash sent Hall of the Gods deities to occupy Material Planes and force their inhabitants to worship the six Eminences, gathering Power of Faith to speed their cultivation. The chapter ended with Rhodes reflecting that the Laws would soon fade, making comprehension far more difficult.

• Rhodes and Pash discussed their progress after the continent’s unification, including Pash’s Seven-Star Demon strength and the Four Divine Beasts’ approach to becoming Highgods.
• Lei Si reported that five Highgods and a hundred Midgods were ready to serve the Hall of the Gods, and Rhodes instructed them to swear Supreme Oaths.
• Rhodes ordered the five Highgods to lead the group to Material Planes, subdue or kill their deities, establish halls, and compel humans and magical beasts to worship the six Eminences.
• Pash led the deities toward the Teleportation Arrays while Rhodes considered their growing devotion and the role of Lei Si’s management.
• Rhodes explained that targeted worship generated Power of Faith, which accelerated the Eminences’ comprehension of the Profound Mysteries.
• Rhodes reflected that the Laws and Edicts were already fading and that comprehending their Profound Mysteries would become increasingly difficult.

Rhodes oversaw the growing Power of Faith and checked his own progress as the Four Divine Beasts advanced to Highgods. He urged them to strengthen themselves and develop their combined divine ability, then promised them more amethysts.

• Over the centuries, Rhodes's group occupied more than four hundred Material Planes and steadily gathered Power of Faith.
• The Four Divine Beasts broke through to Highgod, and Rhodes reviewed his strength and planned to advance his Wind Divine Clone to Highgod.
• Lei Ding told Rhodes that the four had begun comprehending Profound Mysteries more quickly and had made progress combining their Innate Divine Abilities, with Bowen's ability binding the others together.
• Rhodes warned the four to keep improving because the Power of Faith might eventually provoke a war across the Four Supreme Planes.
• Lei Ding asked for more amethysts to replenish the soul power they spent using their Innate Divine Abilities, and Rhodes promised ten spatial rings full of them.

Rhodes reflected on how Lei Ding’s recordings had made him famous across the Infernal Realm while the major factions maintained a fragile peace and expanded their trade and territories. He planned the Hall of the Gods’ future growth and watched his followers increasingly believe he was the Infernal Realm’s strongest, though Watrod remained a concern.

• Lei Ding’s Floating Shadows of Rhodes’s battles with Atezi and Chris Ding spread across the Infernal Realm, bringing Rhodes fame and provoking the two opponents’ anger.
• The four major factions kept their cities safe and promoted trade through their own castles after agreeing to a period of peace.
• Rhodes considered cultivating his Wind Element to Highgod and later traveling, while the Four Divine Beasts’ Fusion Innate Divine Ability continued to develop.
• Rhodes surveyed construction around the Skyrite Mountains and planned to send Saints and Lowgods to conquered Material Planes, while Highgods led further campaigns.
• The Hall of the Gods guarded Blood Peak Continent’s Teleportation Arrays and recruited arriving deities and Saints, as Rhodes’s followers embraced rumors that he might be the strongest in the Infernal Realm.

The Four Divine Beasts successfully fused their Innate Divine Abilities into a devastating attack, and Rhodes warned them to keep it secret while the Hall of the Gods continued to grow. The brothers celebrated their breakthrough together.

• The Four Divine Beasts unleashed their fused ability, and Rhodes and Pash sensed that its power could kill them.
• Lei Ding and his brothers told Rhodes they had succeeded after years of research, aided by his advice and amethysts.
• Rhodes praised the brothers but warned them that the attack drained their soul power and that they should keep it as a secret trump card.
• Rhodes said the Hall of the Gods was already sending Deities to Material Planes to gather more Power of Faith.
• Pash invited his brothers to celebrate with Divine Beast meat, and Nimo called Bowen to help prepare it.

Rhodes told Lei Si he planned to leave the Infernal Realm and entrusted him with managing the Hall of the Gods, while promising a powerful friend would help guard it. When Pash eagerly agreed to travel with him, the Four Divine Beasts also asked to come, leaving Rhodes to weigh their request against the hall’s need for strong defenders.

• Rhodes praised Pash’s progress in fusing Profound Mysteries and had the Four Divine Beasts spar with him while he spoke privately with Lei Si.
• Rhodes told Lei Si he planned to visit the other Supreme Planes and assigned him responsibility for managing the Hall of the Gods and its efforts to occupy Material Planes.
• Rhodes assured Lei Si that a powerful friend would guard the hall in his absence and said he would leave only after that friend arrived.
• After the sparring ended, Rhodes told Pash and the Four Divine Beasts about his planned journey and urged them to focus on cultivation.
• Pash asked to accompany Rhodes, and Bowen then asked for the Four Divine Beasts to join as well, but Rhodes worried that the hall would lack powerful defenders if they left.

Rhodes and Pash arrived in the Netherworld and intimidated the Highgods guarding its Teleportation Array. After learning they stood at the edge of the Undead Realm, they flew off to explore it before heading south toward the Netherworld.

• Rhodes brought Pash through the Teleportation Array and faced a crowd of wary Highgods.
• Rhodes demonstrated his power with a sword slash that tore open a spatial rift, then told the Highgods not to provoke him or expect him to join their factions.
• Rhodes learned that the Teleportation Array stood at the boundary between the Undead Realm and the Netherworld.
• Rhodes and Pash flew toward the center of the Undead Realm to see the Undead Calamity, while a Highgod went to report their arrival to the Alliance.

Rhodes and Pash discovered two undead armies fighting on the plains and watched as their creatures grew stronger by devouring the dead. After hearing the Lich and Makajila mention a mysterious Domain, Rhodes told Pash to capture the Lich alive so they could learn why the undead were gathering in the north.

• Pash spotted a vast gathering of undead and flew ahead with Rhodes to investigate.
• Rhodes and Pash watched the Lowgod Lich and Dark Knight Makajila command their armies to attack one another.
• The undead devoured their fallen enemies, and several Saint-level creatures reached peak strength without advancing to deity level.
• The Lich warned Makajila about the Domain, while Makajila dismissed him and claimed he would take a place there.
• Rhodes ordered Pash to keep the Lich alive after the decisive battle, and Pash agreed.

Teks enslaved Makajila and ordered him to gather souls, but Rhodes and Pash arrived and forced the lich to reveal what he knew about the Undead Realm. After Rhodes reduced Teks to a head and spared his life, he and Pash flew north to seek the Undead Lords.

• Teks used Soul Control to enslave Makajila and ordered him to collect the souls of the remaining Saint-level undead.
• Over seven days, the low-level undead died, and Makajila killed the surviving Saint-level undead and brought their souls to Teks.
• Rhodes and Pash approached, so Teks fled and ordered Makajila to stop them; Pash killed Makajila and intercepted Teks.
• Teks told Rhodes about the Undead Realm's domains and the eighteen Undead Lords in its outer domains, and warned that its undead might be hostile to them.
• Rhodes turned Teks's body to ash with a Light Sword, spared his head, and flew north with Pash to meet the Undead Lords.

Rhodes and Pash reached a Dreadlord’s castle at the boundary of the Undead Realm’s Outer Region and Central Region after decades of travel. Pash killed a Skeleton Clan Highgod, and the brothers called on the Dreadlord to come out so they could question him.

• Rhodes and Pash continued toward the Central Region on a Bone Dragon, collecting Soul Gold Beads from the deities they defeated along the way.
• Rhodes spotted a castle guarded by several Highgods and ordered the Bone Dragon to approach it.
• A Skeleton Clan Highgod attacked Rhodes and Pash with Bone Spears, then sent word to the Dreadlord that outsiders were approaching.
• Pash shattered the Highgod’s Bone Spears and Bone Shield with his Battle Blade and killed him with one slash.
• Pash challenged the other Highgod defenders and called for the Dreadlord to emerge from the castle.

Pash defeated and captured the Dreadlord, while Rhodes questioned him about the Undead Realm. The Dreadlord revealed that four emperors ruled its center and that undead creatures were drawn there by a rumored sacred artifact.

• Pash fought the Dreadlord, overcame his halos and poisonous mist, and captured him after severing his horns.
• The Dreadlord said he served the Nether Emperor and asked Rhodes and Pash to spare his life in exchange for information.
• Rhodes killed the remaining Highgods with Heavenly Tribulation after Pash urged him to frighten the Dreadlord into talking.
• The Dreadlord explained that four emperors ruled the center of the Undead Realm, each guarding one direction.
• The Dreadlord said undead creatures were drawn toward the realm's center, where a sacred artifact of the undead race was rumored to be located.

Rhodes and Pash continued toward the core of the Undead Realm after interrogating the Dreadlord and taking his spatial ring. While inspecting its contents, Rhodes found a strange indestructible object whose purpose he could not identify.

• The Dreadlord told Rhodes that the Four Kings guarded the core, where the Nether Emperor and many powerful undead had vanished, and that an unknown expert had fought into the realm.
• Rhodes spared the Dreadlord but took his spatial ring, and he and Pash set off on Ka Ji toward the core region.
• Pash inspected the spatial rings they had collected and found that the Dreadlord's ring held 43,826 Soul Gold Beads and many divine artifacts taken from his subordinates.
• Rhodes examined the Dreadlord's remaining possessions and found an object resembling a ring setting that resisted his sword strike and could not be investigated with divine or soul power.
• Rhodes stored the mysterious object and Soul Gold Beads in his own spatial ring, then destroyed the items that showed no unusual properties.

Rhodes and Pash fought their way through the Undead Calamity toward the center of the Undead Realm, suspecting the undead were hiding a major secret there. After resting and recovering, Pash returned with a captured Highgod, ready to learn what was happening in the central region.

• Rhodes gave Ka Ji a High Godhead and urged the Bone Dragon to refine it and fly faster.
• Pash recounted how he had defeated the First Underworld General in a deadly duel, while Rhodes recalled the relentless undead attacks that followed.
• Rhodes and Pash changed course to escape their pursuers and landed at a barren mountain to rest before heading for the Nether Emperor.
• Rhodes and Pash suspected the undead were trying to keep outsiders from the central region, so they planned to capture a Highgod and uncover the secret.
• Pash went out to search for a deity while Rhodes recovered and studied the Thunder Crystal; after two days, Pash returned carrying a Highgod.
• Rhodes called softly to the system that had accompanied him to the universe.

Rhodes’s second innate divine ability fully awakened, raising his strength to the Asura level and giving him confidence to enter the Undead Realm’s core region. After Pash captured Yakeluo, Rhodes learned that the four undead kings were still fighting an intruder who had seized the Undead Orb.

• Rhodes examined his system panel and realized his fully developed second innate divine ability had raised his strength from Seven-Star Demon to Asura.
• Rhodes tested the gray divine lightning on the Tribulation-Breaking Divine Sword, which created spatial rifts with a casual swing.
• Pash brought the captured zombie Highgod Yakeluo to Rhodes and explained that deities were searching for them in groups.
• Yakeluo told Rhodes and Pash that the four undead kings were still battling a powerful intruder who had taken the Undead Realm’s supreme treasure.
• Yakeluo identified the supreme treasure as the Undead Orb.

Rhodes and Pash traveled to Undead Valley, where they discovered a battle over the Undead Realm’s supreme treasure. The Nether Emperor revealed that Rhodes and Pash had fought their way into the realm and killed his Nether General, leaving the confrontation poised to draw them into the conflict.

• Rhodes questioned Yakeluo about the Undead Orb, learned it had been stolen by a Death Rule Highgod wielding a whip-shaped divine artifact, and spared him after he swore an oath.
• Rhodes and Pash headed toward Undead Valley, concealing their presence and silencing Deities who discovered them.
• Rhodes and Pash entered the strangely lush, silent valley cautiously and sensed no life beyond its plants.
• Rhodes used Willpower to detect four Deities attacking a fifth powerhouse, who was likely the thief of the Undead Orb, and told Pash not to intervene.
• The Nether Emperor identified Rhodes and Pash to his companions as the intruders who had killed his Nether General and evaded his Infernal Three-Headed Hound.

Rhodes saw the beautiful Highgod Hathaway trapped by four Deities and decided to intervene, then fought the Nether Emperor Hades. Their battle left Hades badly pressured as Rhodes landed a powerful lightning-dragon strike.

• The Nether Emperor Hades and his allies focused on recovering their sacred relic and demanded that Hathaway surrender it.
• Rhodes saw Hathaway and told Pash they should save her, then flew toward the battlefield to confront Hades.
• Hades left the others to deal with Hathaway and attacked Rhodes, but their first clash ended evenly.
• Rhodes’s gray divine lightning severed Hades’s sword, forced him to retreat, and shattered his armor despite Hades’s poisonous mist.
• Rhodes sent a lightning dragon at Hades with a powerful strike, and Hades met it with his fist.

Rhodes and Hades fought fiercely, but Hades’s attacks and ultimate soul strike failed to harm Rhodes. Hades tried to end the fight, but Rhodes prepared to unleash his full-power Annihilation Divine Thunder.

• Hades regenerated his arm and used his speed and strength to keep Rhodes on the defensive, while the other three kings stayed with Hathaway to protect the Undead Realm’s supreme treasure.
• Hades condensed a soul attack into a green snake and sent it at Rhodes, but Rhodes’s sword shadows weakened it and his Willpower prevented it from harming him.
• Hades retreated from Rhodes and proposed that they end the fight, offering to let Rhodes leave without consequences for trespassing.
• Rhodes rejected Hades’s offer and summoned a huge divine bird phantom as he began his Innate Divine Ability, Annihilation Divine Thunder.

Rhodes killed Nether Emperor Hades with Annihilation Divine Thunder, then confronted the remaining undead kings and demanded to see the Netherworld’s supreme treasure. The kings introduced themselves and asked him to leave, but Rhodes’s demand left the confrontation unresolved.

• Rhodes used Annihilation Divine Thunder to destroy Hades despite his bone shield and Nether Emperor’s Will, killing the Nether Emperor in one strike.
• Pash praised Rhodes’s strength but became discouraged about falling behind, and Rhodes comforted him before secretly replenishing his soul power with Soul Gold Beads.
• Rhodes and Pash approached the three remaining undead kings, who threatened to fight until Rhodes reminded them of Hades’s fate.
• Lucifer identified himself as King of the Fallen and named Lilith and Stian, then asked Rhodes to leave the undead forbidden grounds and promised they would not avenge Hades.
• Rhodes demanded to see the Netherworld’s supreme treasure and asked the three kings who opposed or supported him.

Rhodes forced Lucifer, Stian, and Lilith to retreat from the valley after defeating Hades, at Hathaway’s request. Hathaway then agreed to show Rhodes the Undead Orb, though he made clear that he and Pash might keep it if they found it useful.

• Rhodes demanded to see the Netherworld treasure, but Lucifer said the Undead Orb had been stolen by Hathaway and offered to let him see it if he helped retrieve it.
• Rhodes refused Lucifer’s terms and threatened the three rulers with his sword, leaving them afraid to fight.
• Lucifer, Stian, and Lilith decided to retreat, and Rhodes let them go after Hathaway secretly asked him not to interfere because she planned to take revenge herself.
• Rhodes introduced himself to Lucifer as the master of the Hall of the Gods in the Infernal Realm Overgod Plane, and Lucifer left the valley with Stian and Lilith.
• Hathaway promised to show Rhodes the Undead Orb, and Rhodes said he and Pash would return it only if it was of no use to them.

Rhodes kept the Undead Orb after learning its powers from Hathaway, then agreed to travel with her and Pash to the Netherworld. As the three headed south, Lucifer and the other undead leaders abandoned their pursuit and began forming opposing alliances.

• Hathaway threw the unclaimable Undead Orb to Rhodes and explained that it strengthened souls and protected against soul attacks.
• Rhodes decided to keep the orb, and Hathaway attacked him before agreeing to travel with him and Pash toward the Netherworld.
• Hathaway offered to guide Rhodes and Pash and promised to tell them where the Netherworld's strongest fighter was.
• Rhodes, Pash, and Hathaway left the valley and flew south, while Lucifer, Stian, and Lilith discussed the orb and their inability to reclaim it.
• Stian and Lilith drew closer as allies against Lucifer, who flew east before the two departed separately.

After realizing he had discovered something important about his Innate Divine Ability, Rhodes hurried to leave the Undead Realm and study it. On the way, Pash began fighting the Infernal Three-Headed Hound, and Rhodes waited with Hathaway while asking her about powerful experts in the Netherworld.

• Rhodes recalled a detail from his battle with Hades and decided to leave the Undead Realm before entering seclusion to investigate his Innate Divine Ability.
• Over a decade later, Pash found a powerful three-headed hound and asked to make it his mount.
• Hathaway identified the creature as the Infernal Three-Headed Hound, Hades's former mount, and warned that Pash might not be strong enough to defeat it.
• Pash and the Infernal Three-Headed Hound fought in a close battle while Rhodes and Hathaway watched.
• Rhodes asked Hathaway which powerful experts currently lived in the Netherworld.

Rhodes questioned Hathaway about the Netherworld and learned that the secretive Nether Mountain was home to a powerful figure he hoped to meet. After Pash subdued the Infernal Three-Headed Hound and formed an Equal Contract with him, the group set off for the Netherworld on the hound’s back.

• Rhodes asked Hathaway about powerful figures in the Netherworld and questioned her about Nether Mountain, which she described as a dangerous, mist-shrouded peak.
• Hathaway confirmed that Nether Mountain matched the mountain Tomato had described, while Rhodes said he wanted to meet its powerful resident.
• Pash defeated the Infernal Three-Headed Hound, and the hound agreed to form an Equal Contract rather than be enslaved.
• Rhodes reflected on the Hall of the Gods’ strength and his Wind Divine Clone’s progress toward mastering the Clone Technique and becoming a Highgod.
• Pash asked the enlarged Infernal Three-Headed Hound to carry the group, and they flew toward the Netherworld.

Rhodes, Pash, and Hathaway traveled toward Nether Mountain after taking the Dreadlord’s Soul Gold Beads, while Rhodes puzzled over the apparent Overgod Token and his Annihilation Divine Thunder. Along the way, they spotted two Seven-Star Demon-level fighters, but the battle ended when both men fled, and the group continued toward Nether Mountain.

• Rhodes and Pash visited the Dreadlord, learned that Hades had been killed, and took the Dreadlord’s spatial ring and nearly ten thousand Soul Gold Beads.
• Rhodes discovered that the Undead Orb and the damaged setting had joined together into what appeared to be part of an Overgod Token, then wondered whether Hathaway was connected to the Sovereign of Death.
• Rhodes considered whether his Annihilation Divine Thunder had destroyed or absorbed Hades’s Divine Spark, but decided to investigate after reaching Nether Mountain.
• Pash asked Cerberus to fly at full speed toward Nether Mountain, and Rhodes shared wine with Hathaway as they traveled through the Undead Realm and into the Netherworld.
• Pash spotted two powerful men fighting and wanted to challenge them, but the black-haired man fled and the purple-haired man pursued him after they noticed the group.
• Rhodes, Pash, and Hathaway resumed their journey, expecting to reach Nether Mountain in about twenty or thirty years.