Recaps

Lei Ding reported that he had successfully created an Alternate Space inside a body by triggering an explosion within it, giving Rhodes hope for his experiment. Rhodes planned to run more tests before trying it himself, with Pash supplying more Divine Beast Essence Blood.

• The Planar Wars drew every Sovereign, while Rhodes continued to miss wars that did not involve the Water Divine Plane.
• Annie grew into a Deity with eight Divine Clones and developed the Sovereign Summoning Technique using hundreds of Sovereign Scrolls.
• Rhodes waited in the garden while Hathaway and Annie visited the Material Planes.
• Lei Ding arrived and told Rhodes that two experiments had successfully opened small, functionless Alternate Spaces inside bodies.
• Lei Ding explained that powerful attack energy had recreated an explosion like the one in the Creation Divine Plane, and Rhodes decided to conduct more experiments before testing it on himself.

Rhodes tested whether spaces opened inside Divine Beasts could absorb Hongmeng spiritual energy, then began opening one in his own body using Pash's blood essence. A second, full-powered collision of sacred flame and Annihilation Divine Thunder left all his divine clones unconscious as a grain-sized black hole formed.

• Rhodes found that artificially opened spaces could absorb and convert Hongmeng spiritual energy, and that they had greater potential than innate spaces.
• After the experimental Divine Beasts died, Rhodes stopped testing and gathered Pash's blood essence for his own attempt.
• Rhodes reassured Hathaway, entered his Miniature Plane, and began refining Pash's blood essence while his Sovereign clones guarded him.
• Rhodes used Pash's innate divine ability, Devour, and collided Annihilation Divine Thunder with sacred flame to open a space within his body.
• Rhodes powered the flame and thunder to their maximum and caused a second collision, knocking the consciousnesses of all his divine clones into chaos as a grain-sized black hole formed.

Rhodes’s soul aura vanished while he was opening a Miniature Plane, leaving Hathaway, Annie, and Pash convinced he had fallen but unwilling to abandon his secluded realm. Countless years later, Hathaway had become a Paragon of the Death Rule, while Rhodes remained missing and his family continued to wait at Heaven-Reaching Peak.

• Hathaway and Annie sensed that something had happened to Rhodes, and Hathaway struck Pash back when he tried to enter Rhodes’s place of seclusion.
• Pash, Hathaway, and Annie remained on Heaven-Reaching Peak, grieving and waiting for Rhodes to emerge from the Miniature Plane.
• Ten thousand years later, Pash forbade everyone from setting foot on Heaven-Reaching Peak, while Lei Ding suspected a grave secret and chose not to investigate.
• In the years that followed, Annie became the Darkness Sovereign and Xingyi became a Destruction Sovereign, while Rhodes stayed absent and the Wind Element Divine Plane lost several Planar Wars.
• Hathaway naturally became a Paragon of the Death Rule more than ten trillion years later, and she continued to refuse Pash’s requests to enter the Miniature Plane.

Rhodes awoke to find he had created a small world filled with Xuanhuang Qi, then formed a new body and returned to his family after countless years. He explained his transformation to Hathaway and offered to show her the world that had opened a new path toward transcendence.

• Rhodes discovered that his soul occupied an expanding world and found that he could shape its landscape and sense the Xuanhuang Qi within it.
• Rhodes realized his soul had transformed, left the small world, and used its energy to form a new body after discovering that his original body and clones had fallen.
• Hathaway, Pash, Annie, and the Sovereigns arrived when Rhodes's aura returned, and Hathaway wept with relief as she embraced him.
• Hathaway slept in Rhodes's arms for thirty days, then woke to his promise that he would never leave her again.
• Rhodes told Hathaway that his failed attempt to create an internal space had instead opened a small world, costing him his Sovereign clones but granting him a developing path to greater power.
• Rhodes offered to take Hathaway into the small world so she could see what had happened for herself.

Rhodes showed Hathaway the Small World where his Sovereign powers had vanished but his strength could continue to grow, then returned with her to the Skyrite Mountains after a thousand years. After reuniting with Annie and the other Sovereigns, the story shifted to two figures fleeing a pursuing group of Deities, with Danniton and his companion blaming each other for the trouble.

• Rhodes showed Hathaway that she could not use Willpower or divine power in his Small World, and explained that his Sovereign clones and former rank were gone while his new power could grow.
• Rhodes and Hathaway embraced and kissed, while Annie and the other Sovereigns waited outside the Miniature Plane for a thousand years.
• Rhodes and Hathaway emerged in the Skyrite Mountains and reunited with their waiting family and the Wind Element Sovereigns.
• Annie tearfully embraced Rhodes, then learned through Hathaway that her father had lost his Sovereign clones and mistakenly believed he had become an ordinary Highgod.
• Rhodes sent the Sovereigns back to their peaks, including Pash, who agreed to rest before hearing the full story.
• Two fleeing figures were pursued by Deities, and Danniton and his companion accused each other of causing the pursuit.

Bebe and Danniton fled across the Infernal Realm after a bounty was placed on Bebe, puzzling over who wanted him captured. They crossed the Star Mist Sea to seek refuge on another continent, while Bebe remained confident he could defend himself with his Innate Divine Ability.

• Bebe and Danniton argued as they fled the Deities pursuing them, blaming each other for their predicament.
• Bebe reasoned that the bounty was aimed specifically at him, while the narrator revealed that Rhodes had allowed the search to continue because he still wanted Bebe's cooperation.
• Bebe and Danniton fought off pursuing Deities and learned from prisoners that a powerful figure had ordered Bebe's capture in exchange for a reward.
• Bebe and Danniton boarded a Metal Lifeform and crossed the Star Mist Sea to hide on another continent.
• Bebe considered returning to the Material Plane but chose to remain in the Infernal Realm, trusting his Innate Divine Ability against any enemies they might face.

Bebe and Danniton crossed the Star Mist Sea, where Danniton tricked Bebe into flying into a deadly Fog Sea Riot, before they continued toward the Blood Peak Continent. As they neared land, Bebe sensed danger, and an enemy who had waited eighty years was ready for them.

• Bebe and Danniton flew into the Star Mist Sea, and Danniton lured Bebe into the fog as a vast Fog Sea Riot formed around them.
• Bebe and Danniton dodged lightning and sparred inside the storm, then Bebe knocked Danniton toward the lightning and fled into the sea.
• Lightning pursued Bebe into the depths, and both men eventually emerged from the storm with their hair and beards singed.
• Bebe and Danniton traveled for eighty years until Danniton recognized the Blood Peak Continent and anticipated testing himself against its experts.
• Bebe sensed a terrifying presence ahead, while an unnamed man who could resist even a Paragon waited by the sea for them.

Bebe and Danniton were intercepted in the Star Mist Sea by Hemmers, an immensely powerful expert ordered to capture them. After failing to defeat or escape him, they agreed to go with him.

• Hemmers identified Bebe and Danniton and told them he had been waiting years to take them with him.
• Danniton recognized Hemmers as an undefeated expert, and Bebe and Danniton attacked him rather than surrender.
• Hemmers withstood their physical and soul attacks, protected by Sovereign Artifacts, and wounded both of them.
• When Bebe and Danniton tried to flee, Hemmers used Earth Sovereign Power and his Material Attack Sovereign Artifact to overpower them.
• Bebe and Danniton realized they could not defeat Hemmers and agreed to accompany him.

Hemmers brought Bebe and Danniton to the Skyrite Mountains after revealing that a Sovereign wanted to meet them. They reached the Hall of the Gods and stood before Sovereign Rhodes, who told Hemmers to leave and said he would make arrangements for them.

• Hemmers told Bebe and Danniton that a Sovereign wanted to see them, and Danniton explained to Bebe what Sovereigns were rumored to be.
• Hemmers guided the pair through the guarded, mist-covered entrance to the Skyrite Mountains using a token.
• Bebe and Danniton saw the immense peaks and dragon statue, then followed Hemmers to the Hall of the Gods.
• Sovereign Rhodes emerged from the hall, dismissed Hemmers, and told Bebe and Danniton to raise their heads.

Bebe arrived at the Skyrite Mountains and learned that Rhodes would take him as a Sovereign Emissary only if he won the upcoming tournament. As the tournament drew near, Gaiseresen worried about two rising challengers, while the clans prepared to host a much larger field of competitors.

• Lei Si brought Bebe and Danniton to Rhodes, where Hathaway appointed Danniton her Sovereign Emissary and granted him a soul-defense Sovereign Artifact.
• Rhodes learned that Bebe was a God-Slaying Rat and offered to make him his Sovereign Emissary if he won the Skyrite Mountains tournament and represented Heaven-Reaching Peak.
• Rhodes told Annie he expected Bebe to defeat most of the competing Deities, then arranged for the Sovereigns to attend the tournament.
• Lei Si told Rhodes that Bebe and Danniton had become renowned in the Infernal Realm, with some people suspecting they were Paragons.
• Gaiseresen met with Quick Bowen and other clan members, learned that 108 participants were entering the tournament, and worried that his father would beat him again if the Azure Dragon Clan ranked poorly.

The Skyrite Mountains Tournament drew 108 competitors after more than ten Sovereigns announced they would attend, and the Sovereigns gathered to watch the contest. Bebe defeated Danniton in the final and was announced as the tournament champion, while the crowd cheered his name.

• Gaiseresen and the other Sovereigns’ children learned that 108 competitors had entered, including many who had Sovereign Artifacts, and agreed to field their clans’ strongest fighters.
• Rhodes and the other Sovereigns watched as Bru defeated Deandre Quinn’s Sovereign Emissary with the Azure Dragon Clan’s Dragon Roar.
• Bebe, Danniton, Guido Rigo, and the four children of the Four Divine Beasts advanced to the final eight, while the other competitors were eliminated.
• Bebe and Danniton joined forces to eliminate Guido Rigo, then fought each other for the championship as the Sovereigns watched.
• Bebe shattered Danniton’s sword and stopped his staff above Danniton’s head, winning the final exchange.
• Hemmers announced Bebe as the champion, and nearly a million Deities cheered as Danniton withdrew.

Rhodes’s Small World reached its limit, then shattered and formed a vast universe that continued absorbing Hongmeng spiritual energy. More than two hundred thousand years later, Rhodes emerged from seclusion and set out with Hathaway and Annie to visit the Material Plane where Bebe lived.

• After Bebe revealed that he had a soul-defense Sovereign Artifact, Danniton realized Bebe had tricked him into blocking soul attacks and chased him out of the Skyrite Mountains.
• A thousand years after the tournament, Rhodes sensed a change in his Small World and returned to seclusion.
• Rhodes shattered the Small World and transformed it into a universe with four enormous planes, countless Material Planes, and spatial turbulence.
• Rhodes left the newly formed universe to develop on its own and continued strengthening himself with Xuanhuang qi.
• More than two hundred thousand years later, Rhodes learned that Bebe was living with his family on a Material Plane and emerged from seclusion.
• After reuniting with Hathaway and Annie, Rhodes invited them to visit Bebe’s Material Plane, and they agreed to go.

Rhodes visited Bebe on the Material Plane and announced that he would build a Sovereign Cemetery there, promising Bebe a chance to become a Sovereign. The chapter left Bebe setting off to gather guards while Rhodes prepared to construct the cemetery.

• Rhodes toured the Material Plane with Hathaway and Annie, then met Bebe and his family on the continent that would later be called the Yulan Continent.
• Rhodes told Bebe he planned to build a Sovereign Cemetery filled with Sovereign treasures and assured him that the continent and his family would be protected.
• Rhodes promised Bebe a chance to become a Sovereign with a Darkness Sovereign Spark if he carried out his orders.
• Rhodes appointed Bebe guardian of the cemetery's seventeenth floor and instructed him to gather Saint-level and weaker races as guards, then obtain Deity guards from Lei Si.
• Bebe accepted the assignment and headed for the Teleportation Array to carry out Rhodes's orders.

Rhodes created a vast new plane above the South Sea and began shaping it into an eighteen-level Sovereign Cemetery. He planned to give Bebe the Darkness Sovereign Spark and have him oversee the cemetery, which Rhodes left unfinished as its levels took shape.

• Rhodes told Annie and Hathaway that he would give Bebe the Darkness Sovereign Spark, explaining only that he owed him.
• Rhodes, Hathaway, and Annie went to the South Sea, where Rhodes opened a stable plane in the Spatial Turbulence.
• Rhodes planned to summon Faburisi Dichi to install Magic Arrays and use Bebe as the cemetery's overseer.
• Rhodes expanded the plane and formed its levels, reserving the first eleven for Saint-level cultivators and beginning Deity battlefields on the twelfth.
• Rhodes shaped the cemetery like an inverted pyramid, making even its lowest level spacious and its spatial barriers strong enough to bar those below the Asura level.

Rhodes completed the Sovereign Cemetery and arranged for Bebe to guard it, while news of its Sovereign Spark drew powerful Deities to the Yulan Continent. Five thousand years later, as the continent’s history unfolded, Rhodes searched for humans who could bear the Four Divine Beasts essence blood.

• Rhodes placed the dead Light Element Sovereign’s body in the cemetery’s lowest floor, set three Sovereign Artifacts above the coffin, and took Sovereign power from Annie for Bebe and the challengers’ rewards.
• Bebe returned with Deities from the Hall of the Gods, and Rhodes gave him ten thousand drops of dark element Sovereign power to use and distribute.
• Over five thousand years, powerful Deities arrived to challenge the cemetery; Bebe guarded the seventeenth floor, while Danniton visited, recognized the Hall of the Gods’ role in spreading the news, and then returned to the Infernal Realm.
• After the first exploration ended, O'Brien found and refined a fire element Lowgod Divine Spark, founded the O'Brien Empire, and fought the High Priest above the Yulan River, dividing the continent between their powers.
• Rhodes strengthened his body with Xuanhuang Qi and used his divine sense to search the Yulan Continent for humans capable of bearing the Four Divine Beasts essence blood.

Rhodes secretly gave Baruch, Hayd, Amanda, and Bolei Sovereign bloodlines, creating the Four Ultimate Warriors while ensuring their lives followed the original course. After they became famous and the Baruch Clan flourished, Rhodes sent its Saint-level Dragonblood Warriors to the Infernal Realm to preserve the future story, as the plot’s beginning drew near.

• Rhodes identified Baruch, Hayd, Amanda, and Bolei as candidates for the Four Ultimate Warriors, brought them to the Sovereign Cemetery, and infused them with Sovereign essence blood.
• Amanda returned to Cesar after vanishing for half a day and discovered that her strength had risen to the ninth level; Rhodes checked that all four were safe and warned the continent’s Deities not to attack Saints.
• In year 4560, Baruch slew a frost dragon and a black dragon outside Linnan City, while Hayd, Amanda, and Bolei also became famous as the Four Ultimate Warriors.
• In year 4579, Baruch killed the Hydra Emperor and founded the Baruch Clan; Bebe killed Deities who tried to capture the Four Ultimate Warriors.
• The Baruch Clan produced more Dragonblood Warriors, including Ryan Baruch and later Diberio Baruch, as Rhodes arranged for Lei Si to take Saint-level members of the Four Ultimate Warriors to the Infernal Realm.
• With the fifth Dragonblood Warrior appearing and the story’s beginning about a thousand years away, Rhodes anticipated the arrival of the familiar characters.

Linley joined Wushan Town’s morning training for the first time and held the Qi Accumulation Stance alongside Ross and the unexpectedly capable Hadley. As the children trained, Rhodes detected subtle spacetime fluctuations nearby, suggesting someone was crossing worlds.

• Linley left breakfast to join Hillman’s morning training, where Hillman taught the children the Qi Accumulation Stance.
• Hillman noticed that Ross held the stance perfectly, while most of the youngest children soon tired and collapsed.
• Hadley performed the stance far better than he had the previous day, and he, Ross, and Linley were the only youngest children still standing.
• Rory asked Hillman about Linley’s first day and Hadley’s sudden improvement, and Hillman said he did not know what had changed with Hadley.
• Rhodes detected faint spacetime fluctuations from his courtyard and realized that someone was crossing worlds nearby.

Hadley, a transmigrator with a quest system, trained alongside Linley and Ross in Wushan Town while Rhodes decided to observe him before capturing him for research. After Hillman taught the children about Battle Qi, Ross invited Linley home, Hadley regretted missing a chance to advance his quest, and Ross returned home to find Rhodes preparing to visit Hogg.

• Rhodes chose to watch Hadley for a few years before capturing him to study, while wondering where his own system had gone.
• Hadley checked his daily quest to defeat Linley five times and counted lasting longer than Linley during training as one completed victory.
• Ross and Linley spoke during their rest, and Hadley decided to approach Linley later so he could seek help testing his magical aptitude.
• Hillman led the children through physical exercises, explained how a strong body helped cultivate Battle Qi, and told them a story about the Four Ultimate Warriors and Saint-level experts.
• Ross invited Linley to his home, while Hadley regretted getting distracted and failing to earn another quest victory.
• Ross returned home looking for Hathaway, learned she was buying food, and left Rhodes to visit Hogg.

Hadley, Linley, and Ross continued their training while Rhodes helped the financially troubled Baruch Clan by buying its Fierce Lion sculpture. Linley found and named the Coiling Dragon Ring, then hurried to evening training as a Velociraptor approached Wushan Town.

• Hadley, Linley, and Ross held Static Tension Training until Hadley collapsed, while Hadley reflected on his Saint-level bloodline and system rewards.
• Rhodes visited Hogg with Ross, bought the Baruch Clan's Fierce Lion sculpture, and later sent Hogg ten thousand gold coins through Hillman.
• Linley asked Hogg to teach him stone sculpting so he could help the family, but Hogg warned him about the difficulty and sent him to clean the ancestral hall.
• Linley accidentally knocked over an old cabinet, found a black ring near the ancestral hall, and named it the Coiling Dragon Ring.
• Linley rushed to evening training after finding the ring, and the ground began to tremble as a Velociraptor approached.

After a Saint-level battle threatened Wushan Town, Annie revealed her power, erased the attackers’ forbidden magic, and forced them to leave. Hadley’s system went dormant from detecting high-level energy, while Linley’s blood activated the Coiling Dragon Ring without anyone noticing.

• Linley watched a magus destroy a mercenary squad and asked Hogg whether Dragonblood descendants could become magi; Hogg told him that he could try the royal capital’s recruitment test in six months.
• During dinner, Ross asked Rhodes about Saint-level strength, and Annie hit him for asking too many questions.
• Hillman ordered the children to flee when Rudy and Tiron’s Saint-level battle began above Wushan Town, and house-sized boulders threatened the town.
• Rhodes erased Rudy’s forbidden magic and sent Annie to stop the battle; Annie confronted the two experts and warned them to leave Wushan Town.
• Tiron and Rudy fled after Annie released her pressure, while Hadley’s system entered dormancy and Linley accidentally stained the Coiling Dragon Ring with his blood.
• Annie returned to Rhodes and teased him that he would soon lose his peaceful days.

Rhodes’s family watched as Doehring Cowart appeared to Linley, while Hadley recovered from losing his system and plotted to approach Linley. After months of training, Linley cast Earth Spike for the first time, just as Hadley arrived and saw him.

• Tiron destroyed the object he and Rudy were fighting over, then escaped while Rudy abandoned the pursuit.
• Hogg learned that Annie had protected Wushan Town’s residents and arranged a gift to thank Rhodes’s family.
• Doehring Cowart appeared from the ring beside Linley and began teaching him earth magic as Rhodes explained his long-term involvement to Annie.
• Hadley recovered from his shock at losing his system and decided to befriend Linley by pretending to discover his magic practice while hunting.
• Linley trained intensely under Hillman, Hogg, and Doehring Cowart, while Hadley gradually moved his hunting grounds closer to Wu Mountain.
• Linley successfully cast a small Earth Spike, and Hadley appeared with a hare and asked whether Linley had just used magic.

Linley began teaching Hadley Earth Magic and tried to tame an infant Purple Shadow Mouse using Doehring Cowart’s advice. As magic admissions in Fenlai City drew near, Linley, Hadley, and Ross trained together on Wu Mountain.

• Hadley asked Linley to teach him magic, and Linley agreed to discuss it with Doehring Cowart before deciding.
• Doehring Cowart tested Hadley the next day and found that he had Earth Magic aptitude, so the two friends began practicing magic together each afternoon.
• Linley discovered an infant Purple Shadow Mouse and, unable to tame it by force, learned Doehring Cowart’s patient method for befriending it with roasted meat.
• Ross, Linley, and Hadley trained and hunted together on Wu Mountain; Ross had become a Second-Rank Warrior and defeated the other two.
• Ross asked Linley and Hadley whether they would take part in the magic testing and admissions in Fenlai City, which began in a week.

Linley, Ross, Hadley, and Hillman traveled to Fenlai City so Linley and Ross could take the magic admissions test, and Linley formed an Equal Contract with Bebe along the way. After the group checked into an inn, Hadley heard the familiar sound of his system returning.

• Doehring Cowart persuaded Linley to take the magic admissions test and consider a broader future at Ernst Magic Academy.
• Linley left Wushan Town with Hillman, Ross, and Hadley, while Ross’s family discussed his training and their plans to leave town.
• Linley reunited with the Shadow Mouse, Bebe, and signed an Equal Contract with him before the group departed for Fenlai City.
• The group arrived in Fenlai City and checked into an inn, where Linley marveled at the busy streets and Hadley thought about visiting Bishui Paradise.
• Hadley heard a familiar sound in his mind and realized that his system had returned.

Hadley’s system returned and compensated him with exceptional affinity for every element, while Linley and Ross also displayed extraordinary magical talent at Fenlai City’s admissions test. All three accepted invitations to Ernst Academy, leaving the unlikely trio set to study there together.

• Hadley heard his system restart in Fenlai City and fell asleep while it upgraded.
• Doehring Cowart warned Linley that survival in a large city depended on personal strength, and Linley vowed to protect his family.
• At the Church of Light’s admissions test, Linley showed exceptional earth and wind affinity and high spiritual power, earning an invitation to Ernst Academy.
• Hadley’s system compensated him with top-tier talent, and his test revealed exceptional affinity for every element and exceptional spiritual power; he accepted Ernst Academy’s invitation.
• Ross displayed exceptional all-element affinity and the highest spiritual power yet, then accepted Ernst Academy’s invitation alongside Linley and Hadley.

Linley, Hadley, and Ross earned admission to Ernst Academy, but their extraordinary talents drew dangerous attention on the road home. After Lei Si eliminated their pursuers and secured the Radiant Church’s cooperation, the boys trained for several months, left Wushan Town, and reached Ernst Academy.

• Hillman hurried Linley, Hadley, and Ross toward Wushan Town after realizing their talent assessments could attract hostile factions.
• Rhodes sent Lei Si to kill the people following the boys, and Lei Si forced Heidens to protect Ross and launch a holy war against the Dark Alliance.
• Linley, Hadley, and Ross told their families they had been admitted to Ernst Academy, and their families celebrated their success.
• Over the following months, Linley, Hadley, and Ross trained together while preparing to leave for the academy.
• In year 9991 of the Yulan calendar, the three boys, a little Shadow Mouse, and Lei Si departed Wushan Town for Ernst Academy.
• Linley, Ross, Hadley, and their companions arrived at Ernst Academy and admired its imposing entrance.