Chapter Summaries

Rhodes was reborn as the Wind-Thunder Divine Roc, the first life-form in the newly formed Coiling Dragon Universe, and discovered that heaven and earth had granted him fifty percent Willpower. After deciding to build strength and seek a Sovereign Spark in the future, he searched Heavenly Thunder Mountain for treasures and found a few unusual objects.

• Rhodes awakened inside an egg and, after hatching, learned from his bloodline that he was a peak Saint-level Wind-Thunder Divine Roc with command over wind and thunder.
• Rhodes discovered that he was the first life-form born in the universe and had received fifty percent Willpower, which activated a rudimentary system displaying his status.
• Rhodes recognized the Coiling Dragon Universe and reasoned that its timeline had only just begun, then resolved to cultivate, build a faction, and seize a Sovereign Spark when the Sovereign Era arrived.
• Rhodes gathered the pieces of his eggshell and searched the mountaintop, naming it Heavenly Thunder Mountain.
• The first Divine Beasts appeared across the four continents as Rhodes complained about the mountain’s meager resources, despite holding a few clearly unusual objects.

Rhodes cultivated beside a lightning pillar on Heavenly Thunder Mountain, seeking to comprehend the Laws of Lightning and Wind while other beings across the realms began reaching godhood. After a flash of inspiration, he crossed the boundary between Saint and god, and a vast power lifted him into the air.

• Rhodes failed to bind the strange stones with his blood and studied his Wind-Thunder Divine Roc inheritance, deciding to cultivate the Laws of Lightning and Wind.
• Rhodes reasoned that his Willpower could give him overwhelming strength after he became a god, then flew to a lightning pillar to cultivate and explore his speed.
• As life spread across the Infernal Realm, Light King Atez became a god in the Celestial Realm and demanded the nearby factions submit or leave.
• Atezi used his God's Domain to confront three divine beasts, while newly godlike figures appeared in the Netherworld, Divine Realm, and Infernal Realm.
• Rhodes sensed that he had crossed from Saint level into godhood, and a vast power enveloped him and raised him into the air.

Rhodes became a Lowgod by forming an external lightning divine spark, splitting his soul, and creating a divine clone. After exploring his new abilities and transforming his original body with divine power, he continued examining the changes that came with godhood.

• Rhodes formed a lightning Lowgod divine spark and chose to keep it outside his body, causing his soul to split and one half to fuse with the spark.
• Rhodes sensed the lightning elemental sea and used the world's bestowed willpower to draw divine power from as deep as fifty meters, then formed a human-shaped divine body and stored additional power in it.
• Rhodes merged his original body into his divine clone, then summoned his Wind-Thunder Divine Roc body and examined his soul space and two innate divine abilities.
• Rhodes found that his lightning clone could comprehend the Lightning Law easily but struggled with the Laws of Wind, so he resolved to use his original body for wind comprehension.
• Rhodes used divine power to transform his original body, which became tougher than his lightning divine clone, and then continued examining his changes after becoming a god.

After becoming a Lowgod, Rhodes forged a spatial ring, refined a Lightning Element treasure, and made the divine sword Calamity Breaker while continuing to cultivate. As he worked on inner armor, his original body began rising into the air, signaling that it might soon become a god.

• Rhodes checked his changed system panel and planned to leave Heavenly Thunder Mountain after preparing a spatial ring and divine artifacts.
• Rhodes forged and bound a spatial ring, then refined the Lightning Element crystal and discovered it could aid his cultivation of the Lightning Law.
• Rhodes forged the purple lightning sword Calamity Breaker and drew it into his body to nurture it as a Lowgod artifact.
• Rhodes began forging inner armor and found that working with the eggshell material also helped him comprehend the Lightning Law.
• Rhodes noticed his original body rising into the air again as the Wind Element around it grew dense.

Rhodes’s Wind Element attainment made him a god in two elements, and he spent years cultivating before deciding to leave Heavenly Thunder Mountain and explore the Infernal Realm. He crossed the Thunder Region safely with his divine roc body and extreme speed, reaching the outside world.

• Rhodes attained godhood in the Wind Element, formed his Wind Divine Clone, and found that his soul orbs had divided equally.
• Rhodes’s Wind Divine Clone spent ten years refining a bluish-purple jade flute, then merged into his Lightning Divine Clone.
• Rhodes decided to leave cultivation behind for a time, checked his system status, and considered the dangers of the world outside.
• Rhodes transformed into his divine roc form and flew through the Thunder Region, where the Thunder Crystal protected him from the lightning.
• Rhodes activated Heaven and Earth Extreme Speed, reached the edge of the Thunder Region, and emerged into the Infernal Realm.

Rhodes emerged from the sea of lightning into the Infernal Realm and set out to explore, hoping to meet other beings. After a Lowgod attacked him in territory ruled by Di'ers, Rhodes killed him, found little of value among his spoils, and flew off to seek Di'ers.

• Rhodes left the sea of lightning with his Lightning Divine Clone and flew across the unfamiliar Infernal Realm.
• A Lowgod claimed the area belonged to Di'ers and demanded to know why Rhodes had come, then attacked him.
• Rhodes dodged the Lowgod's soul attack and killed him with a lightning-charged sword strike.
• Rhodes collected the Lowgod's Divine Spark, divine artifact, and spatial ring, but found the ring nearly worthless.
• Rhodes flew away, intending to find Di'ers and ask for directions.

Rhodes tracked down Di'ers after a Saint-level beast pointed him toward the Ten Thousandfold Thunder Prison, seeking an explanation for Ahaner's attack. Di'ers refused to settle matters peacefully, and the chapter ended as he charged Rhodes into battle.

• Rhodes forced Sahanandis to give him directions to Di'ers, then flew to the castle in half a day.
• Rhodes confronted three Lowgods at Di'ers's castle and showed them Ahaner's divine artifact, revealing that he had killed Ahaner.
• Di'ers emerged after hearing that Rhodes had come to demand an accounting and agreed to fight rather than explain himself.
• Rhodes drew the Tribulation-Breaking Divine Sword, and Di'ers charged at him wreathed in purple lightning.

Rhodes and Di'ers fought until Rhodes’s overwhelming final power prompted Di'ers to concede, after which they discussed the Infernal Realm’s expanding territory and its competing powers. Learning that Midgods such as the Demon King and a possible figure in the Sea of Chaos were active, Rhodes considered forming a force of his own.

• Rhodes and Di'ers exchanged powerful attacks, and Di'ers used a soul attack that briefly robbed Rhodes of his senses before his Willpower broke it.
• Rhodes began gathering Willpower for a final strike, and Di'ers sensed the danger and conceded rather than risk severe injury.
• Rhodes introduced himself and asked Di'ers about the Infernal Realm, so Di'ers invited him into a nearby castle and described the region.
• Di'ers explained how five rival alliances divided the Thunder Region and avoided venturing deep into the Ten Thousandfold Thunder Prison.
• Di'ers told Rhodes about a possible Midgod in the Sea of Chaos and confirmed that Chris Ding, the self-proclaimed Demon King, was a Midgod controlling the Infernal Realm’s central territory.
• Rhodes weighed the strength of the realm’s experts and asked Di'ers for more information about local forces as he considered establishing his own.

Rhodes took control of Di'ers's faction and began secluded cultivation, aiming to master the Lightning Law before confronting the four rival factions. After forty-eight years, he fused the Profound Mystery of Judgment with the Lightning Element and became a Midgod.

• Di'ers explained the strength of the four neighboring factions and offered to follow Rhodes, who ordered him to arrange a meeting with their leaders after his seclusion.
• Di'ers declared Rhodes the faction's leader and had the bald Lowgod guide him to a secluded cultivation chamber.
• Rhodes cultivated the Lightning Law with the Thunder Crystal while continuing to develop his Wind Elemental Laws.
• After forty-eight years, the laws of heaven and earth descended as Rhodes's Lowgod Divine Spark transformed into a Midgod Divine Spark.
• Rhodes fully fused the Profound Mystery of Judgment with the Lightning Element and reached the Midgod realm, while Di'ers and Shuini'er waited outside.

After fusing two lightning profound mysteries, Rhodes perfected Ten Thousand Layers Thunder Domain and became powerful enough to challenge the surrounding factions. He summoned their leaders to his castle, intending to defeat them and bring their forces under his control.

• After becoming a Midgod, Rhodes continued cultivating and decided to seek amethyst to strengthen his soul.
• Over more than twenty years, Rhodes perfected Ten Thousand Layers Thunder Domain by fusing the Profound Mystery of Judgment with the Lightning Element Profound Truth, repeatedly testing it on Di'ers.
• Rhodes checked his system and found that his overall strength had reached the Five-Star Fiend level despite his Midgod realm.
• Rhodes ordered Di'ers to summon the leaders and Lowgods of the other four powers, while his Saint-level subordinates searched for purple crystals.
• When Di'ers reported that more than thirty Lowgods were approaching, Rhodes went out to meet them and prepared to overpower them with his ultimate technique.

Rhodes defeated Pulide and the other factions’ Lowgods with the Ten Thousandfold Thunder Prison, then accepted Pulide’s offer to follow him. As the battle ended, Rhodes sensed something arriving.

• Pulide and the other faction leaders chose to attack Rhodes and Di'ers after learning Rhodes was a Midgod.
• Rhodes dodged the Lowgods’ opening attacks and trapped them in the Ten Thousandfold Thunder Prison.
• Rhodes struck down the other Lowgods with falling thunder, leaving Pulide as the sole one still standing.
• Pulide surrendered, thanked Rhodes for showing mercy, and asked to follow him; Di'ers worried the factions might split into opposing camps.
• Rhodes sensed something arriving just as the groups considered what would happen next.

Rhodes became a Wind Element Midgod and directed his followers to expand their territory while searching for the Amethyst Mountains. After advising Pulide on Earth laws and sending Di'ers into seclusion to pursue a breakthrough, Rhodes also began cultivating in his courtyard.

• Rhodes's Wind Divine Clone broke through to Midgod, and the awakened Lowgods congratulated him and accepted his authority.
• Rhodes ordered Di'ers and Pulide to expand their territory and search for the dangerous Amethyst Mountains, promising amethysts to those who helped.
• Pulide described his Earth-law cultivation, and Rhodes explained how to cultivate the earth element profound mystery.
• Rhodes told Di'ers to stop fighting and enter seclusion to pursue a Midgod breakthrough.
• Rhodes checked his system panel, then summoned his Wind Divine Clone and contemplated the Laws of Lightning and Wind.

After five hundred years of seclusion, Rhodes had strengthened his Lightning Law, grown the Thunder Region, and learned where the Amethyst Mountains lay. He left alone to cultivate there, leaving Di'ers and Pulide to develop the faction and follow later.

• Rhodes made progress toward fusing three Lightning Law profound mysteries, while his Wind Divine Clone barely advanced in the Wind Law.
• Di'ers and Pulide expanded the Thunder Region until it had hundreds of deities and several hundred castles.
• A Lowgod reported finding the Amethyst Mountains across the Star Mist Sea, where a Midgod couple ruled over the mountain range that produced amethyst.
• Rhodes easily defeated Di'ers and Pulide in a spar, reinforcing the faction's respect for him.
• Rhodes told Di'ers and Pulide he would travel to the Amethyst Mountains alone and ordered them to foster more Midgods before following him.
• Di'ers and Pulide agreed to guard and grow the Thunder Region as Rhodes flew away toward the horizon.

Rhodes flew across the mainland and into the Star Mist Sea, growing stronger and earning fame as the Lord of the Thunder Region. On a medium-sized island, he met the red-haired Midgod Monty Pash and began sharing wine with him while remaining wary of his intentions.

• Rhodes combined the Lightning Speed Profound Mystery with the Profound Mysteries of Thunder as he flew, defeating deities who attacked him and collecting Divine Sparks.
• Rhodes's sparring and conspicuous travels spread his reputation as the Lord of the Thunder Region and drew deities to the Thunder Region's forces.
• After reaching the Star Mist Sea, Rhodes flew deeper through its empty waters, intent on reaching the mainland and the Amethyst Mountains.
• Rhodes stopped when Monty Pash called to him from a medium-sized island, and the two Midgods introduced themselves and discussed their journey toward the mainland.
• Pash offered Rhodes wine, and Rhodes drank two cups while using his Willpower to suppress it and watch for any hidden motive.

Rhodes recognized Pash as the future Blood Peak Sovereign and eagerly accepted his invitation to spar. Their evenly matched battle escalated into a contest of Destruction and Lightning laws, leaving their powerful attacks colliding.

• As they drank, Rhodes recognized Pash as the future Blood Peak Sovereign and offered him thunder-infused wine.
• Pash proposed a spar, and Rhodes agreed; both revealed their divine weapons and clashed auras.
• Rhodes and Pash exchanged repeated sword and saber strikes without either gaining a clear advantage.
• Pash gathered Destruction Divine Power on his saber as Rhodes summoned thunder and lightning around his sword.
• Their weapons collided in a fierce exchange, with Rhodes's illusory sword phantom traveling toward Pash.

Rode and Pash agreed to travel together toward the Amethyst Mountains, where Rode hoped Pash would help him face two powerful Gods. As they flew across the continent, they approached Gray Mist Canyon, where Kadia and his brother’s forces prepared an ambush; Rode noticed the unusually frequent presence of deities and warned Pash to be careful.

• After sparring with Pash, Rode shared Heavenly Thunder Liquid with him, and Pash asked to travel alongside him.
• Rode told Pash about a soul-strengthening treasure guarded by two powerful Gods with an ability to control others, and Pash eagerly agreed to go with him.
• Rode and Pash flew east toward the continent, expecting the journey to the Amethyst Mountains to take about a hundred years.
• Kadia learned that two Gods were approaching Gray Mist Canyon and ordered his concealed Lowgods to prepare for an ambush.
• Rode and Pash noticed that they had encountered several deities in a short distance, and Rode warned Pash that something might be happening.

Rod and Pash were ambushed by Kadia in Gray Mist Canyon, but Rod and Pash overwhelmed him and his controlled followers. After defeating a second group led by Kadik, Rod spotted Amethyst Monsters nearby, suggesting they were close to the Amethyst Mountains.

• Kadia ambushed Pash, but Pash survived the blow and sent Kadia flying with a counterattack.
• A group of hundreds of controlled Lowgods attacked Rod and Pash from the gray mist, and Rod killed them with Ten Thousandfold Thunder Prison.
• Kadia emerged from the mist and tried to deny knowing Rod and Pash, while his younger brother Kadik arrived with more Lowgods and surrounded them.
• Pash killed Kadia with a slash, and Rod used Ten Thousandfold Thunder Prison to wipe out Kadik's group.
• Rod noticed Amethyst Monsters nearby and said they must be close to the Amethyst Mountains.

Rhodes and Pash encountered Bollet of the Amethyst Alliance while seeking soul amethyst and a spar with the Zijing Couple. Bollet agreed to guide them only if Rhodes defeated him, and Rhodes prepared to fight while Pash watched the Amethyst Monsters.

• Rhodes detected Bollet approaching with three Amethyst Monsters and checked his system, which showed he had reached Six-Star Fiend strength.
• Rhodes told Pash that the newcomers held the soul-strengthening amethyst they sought, and Pash recognized the group as members of the Amethyst Alliance.
• Bollet asked whether Rhodes and Pash had seen Kadia and his brother, and Rhodes showed him their divine artifacts and said they were dead.
• Bollet introduced himself as an elder of the Amethyst Alliance and invited Rhodes and Pash to join.
• Pash said they wanted soul amethyst and a sparring match with the Zijing Couple, while Bollet refused to guide them unless they could defeat him.
• Rhodes decided to fight Bollet himself and told Pash to keep watch over the three Amethyst Monsters.

Rhodes defeated Bollet with one sword strike, then followed him and Pash to the Amethyst Alliance headquarters. There, Rhodes and Pash waited as Zijing and her husband arrived to hear why they had come.

• Rhodes struck Bollet with a powerful lightning sword attack, severely injuring him despite his true Earth Giant form and innate defense.
• After recovering, Bollet admitted he could not defeat Rhodes and escorted Rhodes and Pash toward the Amethyst Alliance headquarters.
• Rhodes and Pash reached the mist-shrouded Amethyst Mountains after about a month of travel and landed at a castle near the Mist Sea.
• Bollet summoned more than a dozen Midgods to surround Rhodes and Pash while he waited for the alliance leaders to arrive.
• Rhodes warned Pash to watch for Zijing and her husband's gravity control, and the two discussed their plans for amethyst and a possible fight.
• Zijing and her husband arrived with the Midgods behind them, and Zijing asked Rhodes and Pash why they wanted to see them.

Pash challenged Lei Jialie, leader of the Amethyst Alliance, and broke free of his Gravity Space before the two exchanged devastating blows. As Lei Jialie transformed and Pash revealed his Swallow Heaven Python form, their battle was poised to intensify.

• Rhodes and Pash challenged Zijing and her husband to a spar, and Pash began fighting Lei Jialie.
• Lei Jialie trapped Pash in Gravity Space, but Pash broke free with Destruction Divine Power and counterattacked.
• Lei Jialie used Amethyst Space and struck Pash with his fist and sword, while Pash countered with Voidbreaker; both were injured and recognized the danger of taking a blow to a vital point.
• Lei Jialie covered himself in Amethyst Armor and declared he would defeat Pash with his greatest strength.
• Pash revealed the image of his blood-colored Swallow Heaven Python and began transforming as he faced Lei Jialie.