Chapter Summaries

Over five centuries, Rhodes and Pash advanced their cultivation while the Four Divine Beasts endured Rhodes’s increasingly powerful Heavenly Tribulation Thunder Region. The chapter ended with all four Divine Beasts becoming Midgods at the same time.

• Rhodes expanded the Thunder Region into a grueling training ground, and the Four Divine Beasts grew stronger as they fought its lightning figures and attacks.
• Rhodes’s wind divine clone and Pash swept through the Skyrite Mountains, earning Pash a fearsome reputation and refusing Aksu’s invitation to join the Light Alliance.
• Rhodes forged the wind divine clone a new sword called Whirling Rise and made progress comprehending and fusing profound mysteries.
• Pash fought the leader of the Light Alliance and killed several Highgods, worsening the feud while Rhodes continued cultivating.
• Rhodes withdrew the Heavenly Tribulation Thunder Region as a soul-shaking power enveloped the Four Divine Beasts, who all advanced to Midgod together.

Rhodes and Pash watched the Four Divine Beasts advance to Midgods, then faced them when they attacked. Rhodes overwhelmed them with his strengthened Heavenly Tribulation Thunder Region, leaving both sides silent as Azure Dragon addressed him.

• Rhodes explained to Pash that the Four Divine Beasts would likely challenge them after advancing, and Pash recalled the ordeal of experiencing Rhodes's Heavenly Tribulation Thunder Region.
• Rhodes checked his system panel and resolved to master his Profound Mysteries before advancing to Highgod.
• Azure Dragon, Lei Ding, Laius, and the other sibling celebrated their advancement to Midgods after five hundred years of battling and comprehending Profound Mysteries.
• The Four Divine Beasts charged at Rhodes and Pash, with Lei Ding using Dragon Roar and Laius using Tiger Roar, but the effects barely troubled their opponents.
• Rhodes enveloped all four in the Heavenly Tribulation Thunder Region, which left them unable to move and battered them with lightning before releasing them.
• The six stood facing one another in silence until Azure Dragon called, “Big brother.”

Rhodes and Pash welcomed the Four Divine Beasts as their younger siblings and celebrated together in the Skyrite Mountains. As the feast and sparring continued, Rhodes weighed how to strengthen the four and alter their future fate.

• Azure Dragon Leiding, Nimo, Laius, and Bowen called Rhodes their big brother, then called Pash their second brother.
• Rhodes and Pash took the Four Divine Beasts to their birthplace in the Skyrite Mountains, where Bowen formed a table and Vermilion Bird roasted Divine Beasts for the feast.
• Pash told the four about the Infernal Realm and its wars, while Rhodes considered their future training and whether to help them develop their fused divine ability.
• Rhodes considered learning Dislocated Space-Time and changing the Four Divine Beasts' fate, while keeping open the possibility of letting events follow their original course.
• Five years passed as Pash sparred with the Four Divine Beasts, helping them adapt to their Midgod strength.

Rhodes explained to Lei Ding and the other Four Divine Beasts how fusing profound mysteries could strengthen them and suggested they explore combining their innate divine abilities. The Light Alliance then approached with Aksu, and Rhodes prepared to destroy it.

• Rhodes reflected on the dangers and challenges of becoming powerful before the Sovereigns appeared, then renewed his determination to cultivate.
• Rhodes stopped Pash, Lei Ding, and the others and explained that fusing profound mysteries while still Midgods was easier than doing so after becoming Highgods.
• Rhodes told the Four Divine Beasts that their innate divine abilities might be fused, potentially multiplying their power by a thousand or more.
• Pash sensed Aksu and a force from the Light Alliance approaching, and Rhodes warned the Four Divine Beasts to avoid the Highgods' attacks.
• Rhodes rose to face the invaders and declared that the Light Alliance would be wiped out.

Rhodes and Pash counter-encircled Aksu’s force, trapping its main group in Rhodes’s Heavenly Tribulation Thunder Prison while the Four Divine Beasts fought the attackers left outside. Aksu’s troops struggled to escape the domain as the chapter ended with the battle still underway.

• The Four Divine Beasts sensed Aksu approaching with more than a dozen Highgods and nearly a thousand Midgods, and Rhodes and Pash decided to keep Aksu alive for a fight.
• Aksu arrived and demanded to know where Rhodes’s wind-element Highgod was, while Pash taunted him and urged him to summon his backer.
• Rhodes unleashed Heavenly Tribulation Thunder Prison, trapping Aksu’s main force and leaving about ten Midgods outside for Lei Ding, Nimo, Laius, and the others to fight.
• Aksu ordered his troops to attack the prison, but Rhodes’s magnetic force field diverted the Midgods’ material attacks and made the domain difficult to escape.
• The Four Divine Beasts quickly killed several of the remaining Midgods and gained the advantage, while Aksu’s trapped force struggled against the oppressive, constantly rebuilding lightning above them.

Rhodes used Heavenly Tribulation to eliminate the Midgods and cripple most of Aksu’s Highgod allies, then let Aksu fight Pash for a chance to live. Aksu was swallowed by Pash’s innate divine ability, and Rhodes expected him to die before the Light King could arrive.

• Rhodes’s Heavenly Tribulation killed every Midgod and left fewer than five Highgods standing, with Aksu in the best condition.
• Aksu contacted Atezi, the Light King, for help, and Atezi set out to rescue him while berating him for his failures.
• Rhodes offered Aksu a chance to live if he fought Pash, and Aksu agreed as the other trapped Highgods pleaded for help.
• Pash and Aksu fought, with Pash enduring Aksu’s attacks and driving him into the ground with a saber strike.
• Aksu transformed and used Light-Speed Slash, but Pash swallowed him with Endless Devouring, leaving Rhodes to believe he would die before the Light King arrived.

Rhodes spared Aksu’s surviving Highgods and decided to unite the continent by founding an organization with Pash and the Four Divine Beasts. The six named it the Hall of the Gods, swore brotherhood before the Overgods, and set their sights on growing powerful enough to challenge the Demon King.

• Pash told Rhodes he had swallowed Aksu and was occupied suppressing him, while Rhodes said he wanted to subdue the remaining Highgods rather than kill them.
• Rhodes released his domain and offered the five Highgods their lives if they pledged loyalty, explaining that Aksu’s death would soon invalidate their previous oaths.
• Rhodes and his companions agreed to establish their own organization and compete against the Demon King and other forces in the Infernal Realm.
• After rejecting proposed names, Rhodes named the group the Hall of the Gods, and the six chose the titles Thunder God, War God, Water God, Wind God, Fire God, and Earth God.
• Rhodes, Pash, Lei Ding, Laius, Nimo, and Bowen swore before the Overgods to become brothers and sisters and share prosperity and ruin.

Rhodes organized the new force around the Skyrite Mountains while waiting for Aksu’s powerful backer, Light King Atez, to arrive. Atez and Rhodes fought to a standstill, with Atez believing Rhodes was weaker and identifying the Demon King of the Infernal Realm as the greater threat.

• Rhodes assigned the five surviving Highgods to Pash and the Four Divine Beasts, then had them subdue gods around the Skyrite Mountains.
• Atez arrived alone and demanded that Rhodes submit to the Light Alliance; Rhodes countered by offering Atez a position under his command.
• Atez attacked Rhodes, but Rhodes dodged his opening charge and punched him into a mountainside.
• Atez used countless light clones and a sword attack against Rhodes, while Rhodes countered with his Heavenly Tribulation Thunder Region and Tribulation-Breaking Divine Sword.
• Rhodes struck Atez with black lightning and used Humanoid Heavenly Tribulation against his clones, but both fighters rapidly recovered and continued exhausting their divine power.
• Atez judged Rhodes weaker than himself and thought the Demon King of the Infernal Realm remained his greatest threat.

Rhodes and Atezi fought to a standstill until Rhodes detected the Demon King Chris Ding and the Amethyst Alliance couple watching nearby. The rivals paused their battle and prepared to meet the newcomers.

• Atezi and Rhodes exchanged powerful sword strikes, battling for days without either gaining the upper hand.
• Rhodes scanned the Skyrite Mountains and discovered Chris Ding, Lei Jialie, Zijing, and another powerful figure approaching.
• Rhodes warned Atezi that old acquaintances were watching, and Atezi used his Fate Divine Clone to find the concealed spectators.
• Rhodes and Atezi agreed to wait for Chris Ding before deciding whether to resume their fight.
• Rhodes called on Lei Jialie, Zijing, and Chris Ding to reveal themselves and join the gathering.

The rulers of the Infernal Realm’s continents gathered as Rhodes and Atezi’s battle drew the Demon King, Lei Jialie, Pash, and Solo Ross to the mountaintop. After Solo Ross’s failed surprise attack revealed Atezi’s golden flames, the gathered rulers considered whether to let the Light King leave.

• Lei Jialie and Pash openly joined Rhodes, while the Demon King stopped hiding and flew to the mountaintop.
• Solo Ross, the King of the Dark Night, arrived, and Lei Jialie warned Rhodes that he excelled at concealment, speed, and lethal strikes.
• The Demon King identified Atezi as Light King Atez of the Celestial Realm’s Light Alliance, and the rulers recognized him as an outside invader.
• Solo Ross attacked Atezi from behind, but Atezi blocked him and burned the attacker’s body with golden flames; the real Solo Ross reappeared unharmed.
• Lei Jialie asked the Demon King and Solo Ross whether they should keep Atezi in the Infernal Realm or let him go.

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.