Chapter Summaries

After Watrod’s dying attack trapped Lei Jialie, Rhodes negotiated with Zijing over whether to spare him. Zijing swore to give Rhodes a Soul Stone, and Rhodes agreed to spare Lei Jialie’s Saint Domain true body if his destruction divine clone died and he swore never to return to the Blood Peak Continent.

• Rhodes went to Zijing after killing Watrod and considered how to deal with Lei Jialie, who remained trapped in black light.
• Zijing asked Rhodes to spare Lei Jialie, but Rhodes refused to let him go without consequences for his attack on the Hall of the Gods.
• Zijing offered to do anything Rhodes demanded, and Rhodes required Lei Jialie’s destruction divine clone to die and Zijing to swear to give him a Soul Stone in the future.
• Zijing took an Overgod Oath promising to give Rhodes a Soul Stone whenever he needed one.
• Rhodes agreed to spare Lei Jialie’s Saint Domain true body on the condition that Lei Jialie swear never to set foot on the Blood Peak Continent again.

After escaping Watrod’s Soul Cage, Lei Jialie lost his Destruction Element Divine Clone to Rhodes and left for the Amethyst Mountains with Zijing. The Four Divine Beasts killed Atezi with their Fusion Innate Divine Ability, and Rhodes waited for the strange White-Gold Sacred Flame to condense.

• Lei Jialie escaped Watrod’s Soul Cage, but Rhodes killed his Destruction Element Divine Clone and took its Divine Spark.
• Zijing persuaded Lei Jialie to return with her to the Amethyst Mountains and live on.
• Atezi tried to escape Hathaway as Rhodes approached, then revealed a White-Gold Sacred Flame that burned through space.
• Rhodes ordered Lei Ding, Laius, Nemo, and Bowen to use their Fusion Innate Divine Ability, which froze the area and killed Atezi’s Fate Divine Clone, Light God Clone, and Divine Beast true body.
• Rhodes checked on Hathaway, sent the Four Divine Beasts to rest, and waited as the White-Gold Sacred Flame shrank and condensed.

After the Hall of the Gods and the Netherworld defeated the invading alliances, Rhodes returned to Heaven-Reaching Peak with Hathaway and began arranging the pursuit and rebuilding. He left the Hall of the Gods in the Four Divine Beasts’ hands, while warning them not to neglect their cultivation.

• Krus failed to stop the severely wounded Demon King Chris Ding from escaping through a Teleportation Array, while Deia also escaped.
• Pash, Lei Si De, and the Netherworld gods hunted the scattered invaders for two days before returning to regroup.
• Rhodes thanked Hathaway for coming to his aid and held her hand as they returned to Heaven-Reaching Peak.
• Rhodes praised the Four Divine Beasts, then instructed Lei Ding to reorganize the Hall of the Gods, recruit Deities, and secure the Infernal Realm’s Teleportation Arrays.
• Rhodes entrusted the Hall of the Gods to the Four Divine Beasts, urged them to include Lei Si in spreading their faith, and reminded them to keep cultivating.

Rhodes gathered the Four Divine Beasts, Pash, and Lei Si after the Hall of the Gods’ battle and promised Lei Si a place in spreading their faith. He revealed that Hathaway possessed a treasure that could summon an expert far beyond Highgods, and the group prepared to travel to a Material Plane to use it.

• Pash returned to Heaven-Reaching Peak Castle and told Rhodes that Lei Si was arranging matters for the Hall of the Gods.
• Rhodes invited Pash, Hathaway, and the Four Divine Beasts to accompany him to a Material Plane, while Lei Si and Krus would oversee the Hall of the Gods.
• Lei Si arrived, and Rhodes promised that Lei Si’s divine name would spread across countless Material Planes as the Hall of the Gods spread its faith.
• Rhodes told Lei Si to rest before reorganizing the Hall of the Gods and sent him away before discussing the trip further.
• Rhodes said they would meet an expert far stronger than Highgods, and Hathaway explained that she had a treasure capable of summoning one.

Rhodes and the others traveled to the Starting Point Continent to complete the Overgod Mission, then assembled the Death Scepter and summoned the Death Overgod. The chapter ended with the Overgod appearing before them, leaving Rhodes poised to ask his questions.

• Lei Ding arranged for the group to travel from the Hall of the Gods to the Starting Point Continent, where Rhodes met his subordinate Ai Li Ke Bo Luo.
• Rhodes told Ai Li Ke Bo Luo to return to the Infernal Realm and keep his identity concealed if he arrived on another continent.
• Rhodes led Hathaway and the others to an uninhabited island, where he asked Hathaway about the wish she wanted granted by the Death Overgod.
• Hathaway gave Rhodes the two Overgod Tokens, and he bound them to himself and combined them with the wooden stick to form the Death Scepter.
• The Death Scepter summoned the Death Overgod, whose presence astonished Rhodes, Hathaway, Pash, Lei Ding, Nimo, and the others.

Rhodes completed the first Overgod Mission and received one request from the Death Overgod, but she rejected his attempts to obtain power beyond the rules. He secured a shapeshifting Overgod Artifact for Hathaway, then began asking her an important question.

• The Death Overgod appeared before Rhodes and confirmed that he had completed the mission, granting him one request.
• Rhodes asked to make everyone present Overgods, grant them ten thousand portions of Willpower, and make them the strongest beings beneath the Overgods, but the Death Overgod refused each request as against the rules.
• Rhodes asked Hathaway what kind of Overgod Artifact she wanted, and she chose one for Material Attack.
• Rhodes requested an artifact usable at the Highgod level that could change shape and defend against Soul Attacks and Material Attacks, and the Death Overgod created a ring and gave it to him.
• The Death Overgod vanished after fulfilling the request, and Rhodes turned to Hathaway and began asking if she would be willing to...

Twenty years after returning from the Starting Point Continent, Rhodes and Hathaway studied the Death Overgod’s flawed but versatile Sovereign Artifact while their strength remained largely unchanged. After hearing how difficult it was to unify the Infernal Realm, Rhodes proposed that the Hall of the Gods focus on the Blood Peak Continent and guard the seven Teleportation Arrays instead.

• Rhodes proposed to Hathaway, and she accepted as he placed the Sovereign Artifact Ring on her finger.
• Hathaway explained that the Sovereign Artifact could defend against either material or soul attacks at a time, and Rhodes complained that the Death Overgod had fulfilled his request only through loopholes.
• Rhodes and Hathaway spent twenty years studying the Sovereign Artifact’s transformations, while the Four Divine Beasts, Pash, and the others slowly expanded the Hall of the Gods’ control over the Teleportation Arrays.
• Lei Ding and the others told Rhodes that the Hall of the Gods lacked enough Deities to secure the arrays and that ruling the Infernal Realm would require a lengthy campaign.
• Rhodes advised them to give up ruling the other continents, occupy the Blood Peak Continent, guard the seven Teleportation Arrays, and recruit Deities to strengthen the Hall of the Gods.

Rhodes and Hathaway entered a long seclusion to improve their strength while the Hall of the Gods pursued steady expansion. After two thousand years, Rhodes completed the fusion of five lightning profound mysteries and emerged with Hathaway, who had discovered that strengthening a divine body beyond a hundred drops of divine spark essence required much greater investment.

• Rhodes persuaded the Four Divine Beasts and the others to develop the Hall of the Gods' Gods' Legion instead of launching a continent-wide war, and Pash returned to his peak to sleep and recover.
• Rhodes and Hathaway began seclusion, with Hathaway refining divine spark essence and Rhodes studying the Thunder Crystal to fuse five lightning profound mysteries; the Four Divine Beasts coordinated the Hall of the Gods' affairs.
• Over the following centuries, Rhodes and Hathaway repeatedly emerged to celebrate their progress and study the Overgod artifact before returning to seclusion.
• After a thousand years, Rhodes completed the fusion of five lightning profound mysteries and reached Asura-level strength through his own power.
• Hathaway emerged after fusing a hundred drops of divine spark essence and told Rhodes that her divine body had changed dramatically at that threshold.
• Rhodes and Hathaway decided to relax and meet Pash and the others, while Hathaway arranged for Ina Lisi and Youming to keep collecting divine sparks.

Rhodes met with Hathaway and the Four Divine Beasts, discussed the Hall of the Gods and the growing difficulty of comprehending the Rules and Laws, and prepared to return to seclusion. He left the Hall’s affairs to Lei Ding and the others while he pursued compatibility among his final Profound Mysteries.

• Rhodes learned that Pash remained in seclusion, possibly consolidating his strength toward the limits of ordinary Deities.
• Rhodes gave the Four Divine Beasts Divine Spark Essence and warned them that comprehending and fusing Profound Mysteries would become harder over time.
• Lei Ding reported that the Four Divine Beasts were close to fusing their fourth Profound Mystery and that the Hall of the Gods had become the Infernal Realm’s leading faction.
• Rhodes learned that most Material Planes had dense world elements, but he stopped Lei Ding from launching a broader investigation.
• Rhodes announced that he would resume seclusion until he established compatibility with all the Profound Mysteries, leaving Krus or Pash to handle problems for the Hall of the Gods.

Rhodes began a prolonged seclusion to comprehend the Thunder Crystal and pursue becoming a Paragon, while Hathaway and Pash also remained secluded. A hundred thousand years later, the Hall of the Gods had expanded its control across the Infernal Realm and still had no news of Chris Ding.

• Lei Ding, Nimo, and the others wished Rhodes well as he and Hathaway entered seclusion to study Overgod Artifacts before he began cultivating.
• Rhodes made comprehending the Thunder Crystal his top priority and planned to study the Golden Sacred Flame to investigate the gray current he had seen while fighting Atezi.
• After ten thousand years, Krus had raised his soul to the Highgod limit and strengthened his Divine Body, while the Hall of the Gods still could not locate Chris Ding.
• Over a hundred thousand years, the Hall of the Gods grew stronger as Krus handled its affairs, the Four Divine Beasts campaigned across the Infernal Realm, and its legions defended the Teleportation Arrays.
• The Hall of the Gods built and expanded cities, transported arrivals from Material Planes in Metal Lifeforms, and purged forces that attacked its transports until other factions began protecting them.

Rhodes became a Highgod and Lightning Paragon, gaining immense strength but losing the Thunder Crystal that he had hoped to use to help others become Paragons. After emerging from his hundred-thousand-year seclusion, he met with the Four Divine Beasts and planned a celebration and sparring match while discussing the growing difficulty of comprehending the laws.

• Rhodes completed his breakthrough to Highgod and became a Lightning Paragon as the Thunder Crystal crumbled into powder.
• Rhodes examined his new power and found that his Lightning Divine Clone could conceal its aura and scan others without being detected.
• Rhodes emerged from seclusion, and Lei Ding and the other Divine Beasts congratulated him on his breakthrough.
• Rhodes said Hathaway and Pash were still refining Divine Spark Essence and planned to make them stop when they finished their current drops.
• Lei Ding told Rhodes that the Four Divine Beasts had fused five Profound Mysteries, but had made no progress for nearly ten thousand years as the laws grew harder to perceive.

Rhodes emerged from seclusion as a Paragon Highgod and explained willpower to Lei Ding, Nimo, Laius, and the others. After Hathaway and Pash emerged, Rhodes borrowed Hathaway’s Overgod Artifact so he could test the Four Divine Beasts’ Fusion Divine Ability, and they gathered on Heaven-Reaching Peak to begin.

• Rhodes urged Lei Ding and the others to remain patient, then joined them in the garden for wine and conversation.
• Rhodes confirmed he had fused all six Profound Mysteries of the Lightning Law and explained that becoming a Paragon granted willpower, which he demonstrated by breaking and controlling space.
• Lei Ding and the others discussed how the growing indistinctness of heaven and earth made fusing Profound Mysteries increasingly difficult.
• After Hathaway and Pash emerged from seclusion, Rhodes asked Hathaway to lend him her ring-shaped Overgod Artifact so he could withstand the Four Divine Beasts’ Fusion Divine Ability.
• Rhodes and the Four Divine Beasts flew to Heaven-Reaching Peak, where Rhodes protected his soul with willpower and his Innate Divine Ability before the test.

Rhodes tested the Four Divine Beasts’ Fusion Innate Divine Ability and survived its spacetime-stopping soul attack only because Hathaway’s Soul Overgod Artifact protected him. He warned Lei Ding and the others not to rely on the technique alone, then led them back to drink.

• Rhodes asked Lei Ding, Nimo, and the other two to unleash their strongest attack while Hathaway, Pash, and Cerberus retreated.
• The Four Divine Beasts transformed and combined their innate abilities, freezing spacetime within a thousand miles and sending a soul attack at Rhodes.
• Rhodes’s willpower resisted the attack briefly, and Hathaway’s Soul Overgod Artifact ultimately stopped it from reaching his soul.
• Rhodes told the Four Divine Beasts that their attack could be dodged and warned them not to underestimate opponents or themselves.
• Lei Ding acknowledged Rhodes’s advice, and Rhodes invited everyone to return and continue drinking.

After returning to Little Garden, Rhodes and the Four Divine Beasts celebrated and discussed how the Hall of the Gods had changed during their hundred thousand years of seclusion. Rhodes proposed new ways to expand its trade and settlements while advising against conquering the Infernal Realm or the Netherworld, and the chapter left Lei Ding ready to carry out his suggestions without hesitation.

• Rhodes and the Four Divine Beasts drank together after their battle, while Hathaway and Pash marveled at the increased power of the Four Divine Beasts' Fusion Innate Divine Ability.
• Lei Si joined the gathering and described how the Hall of the Gods had grown, with its Deities managing Material Planes, Teleportation Arrays, and the Blood Peak Continent.
• Rhodes and Pash listened to the reports and suggested expanding Freedom Castles, using merit points to support trade, and establishing cities for the Hall of the Gods' members and their families.
• Rhodes advised Lei Ding not to unify the Infernal Realm and told Hathaway to focus on controlling the Netherworld's Teleportation Arrays rather than ruling more territory.
• Lei Ding committed Rhodes's suggestions to memory and showed that he intended the Hall of the Gods to follow his eldest brother's orders without testing them first.

Rhodes and Hathaway decided to return to the Netherworld while Pash set out to travel, and the Four Divine Beasts planned an expedition into the Celestial Realm. The chapter ended with Lei Ding ordering the Hall of the Gods to assemble an army for the invasion.

• Rhodes decided to accompany Hathaway to the Netherworld so she could visit Green Leaf Castle and settle its affairs before their next seclusion.
• Pash chose to travel through the Life Godrealm, the other Overgod Planes, and the material planes in search of insight into the destruction rule.
• Lei Ding told Rhodes that the Four Divine Beasts planned to travel and asked whether they should get involved in the Celestial Realm; Rhodes left the decision to them.
• Rhodes and Hathaway began a leisurely journey toward the Netherworld aboard a metal lifeform, while Pash traveled to the Life Godrealm.
• Lei Ding ordered Lei Si to gather Highgods from the Gods' Legions for an expedition into the Celestial Realm, and rallied Laius, Nimo, and Bowen to prepare for war.

Over hundreds of thousands of years, the Hall of the Gods and the Infernal Realm’s forces fought the Celestial Realm while Rhodes and Hathaway lived and traveled together. On the day five hundred thousand years had passed since Rhodes arrived in the universe, the Four Overgod Planes shook, their Rules and Laws became harder to sense, and a Heaven-reaching Light Pillar erupted from Ji Lei Mountain.

• Lei Ding led the Hall of the Gods and allied Infernal Realm forces into the Celestial Realm, where they seized its Teleportation Arrays and fought for control against its experts.
• Pash traveled through the Overgod Planes, briefly joined the Four Divine Beasts in battle, then left them to continue his travels.
• Rhodes and Hathaway returned to the Infernal Realm, renamed Heavenly Thunder Mountain as Ji Lei Mountain, and spent hundreds of thousands of years living and traveling together.
• On the five-hundred-thousandth anniversary of Rhodes’s arrival, the Four Overgod Planes trembled and their Rules and Laws became much harder to comprehend.
• A Heaven-reaching Light Pillar burst from Ji Lei Mountain, spreading an immense surge of purple divine power.

Rhodes recognized the Heaven-reaching Light Pillars as signs of newly emerged Sovereign Sparks and realized they were appearing across the realms, including at the Four Divine Beasts’ homes. He ordered Pash to secure a pillar and began preparing his forces for a major conflict, leaving Pash to deliver instructions to Lei Si.

• Rhodes stood stunned for a day after a purple Heaven-reaching Light Pillar appeared near his birthplace, until Hathaway punched him awake.
• Rhodes concluded the pillar contained Lightning Element Sovereign’s Might and accepted that Sovereign Sparks had appeared earlier than expected.
• Hathaway told Rhodes that two more pillars had appeared on Nether Mountain, and Rhodes ordered Pash to find and secure a pillar matching his element in the Sea of Chaos.
• Rhodes saw four differently colored pillars rise from the Four Divine Beasts’ residences and ordered Pash to summon Lei Ding, Laius, and the others, abandon their Teleportation Arrays, and gather their forces in the Skyrite Mountains.
• Pash went to Lei Si and began delivering Rhodes’s orders.

Rhodes ordered the Hall of the Gods to abandon its holdings and withdraw to the Infernal Realm after pillars of light appeared, believing they contained priceless Sovereign Sparks. The Four Divine Beasts returned from the Celestial Realm and sensed earth, wind, water, and fire divine power radiating from the pillars.

• Pash told Lei Si that Rhodes had ordered Lei Ding and the others to return from the Celestial Realm and abandon their occupied territory.
• Pash instructed Lei Si to withdraw the six Deity legions to the Skyrite Mountains, abandon every Infernal Realm Teleportation Array except the one there, prepare for war, and investigate the pillars of light.
• Rhodes told Pash that the treasures inside the pillars mattered more than the Teleportation Arrays and could determine whether they remained among the strongest gods.
• After receiving the withdrawal order twice, the Four Divine Beasts sent elders to manage the retreat and returned through a Teleportation Array to the Infernal Realm.
• The Four Divine Beasts arrived near the Skytrace Mountains, saw the four pillars of light, and sensed earth, wind, water, and fire divine power far beyond Highgod Power.

Rhodes summoned the Four Divine Beasts back to the Infernal Realm and explained that the Heaven-reaching Light Pillars could contain treasures capable of surpassing Paragon High-Gods. He left them to absorb the revelation as the group prepared to guard the pillars and compete for the Sovereign Sparks.

• Lei Ding and the other Divine Beasts returned to the Infernal Realm, where Lei Si told them that the legions and forces were being withdrawn from their holdings and Teleportation Arrays.
• The Four Divine Beasts flew to Heaven-Reaching Peak and met Rhodes and Pash, who were waiting for them.
• Rhodes explained that the Heaven-reaching Light Pillars might contain Sovereign Sparks that could let their holders surpass Paragon High-Gods.
• Lei Ding and the others were shocked and asked whether a path beyond Highgod truly existed, recalling that faith had failed to advance their fusion of the Profound Mysteries.
• Rhodes confirmed his certainty and said Hathaway was returning to guard Nether Mountain while he watched over the pillar on Ji Lei Mountain.

Rhodes learned that Lei Ding and the other Divine Beasts had found partners, including Nimo’s husband, Kun Li, a Kunpeng from the Life Godrealm. After a thousand years of waiting for the Heaven-reaching Light Pillar to change, Rhodes revealed the pillars’ treasures to Kun Li, who returned to the Life Godrealm to claim one.

• Lei Ding told Rhodes that all four of the Divine Beasts had found partners, and Nimo explained how Kun Li had rescued her in the Celestial Realm.
• Rhodes advised the couples about having children and bloodline awakening, then the group waited for reports about the Heaven-reaching Light Pillars.
• Pash found a destruction-aura pillar in the Sea of Chaos, so the Hall of the Gods sent three Deity armies to support him and investigate.
• The partners returned with the armies, and Rhodes met Kun Li, tested him with his wind divine clone, and secured his Overgod Oath to remain devoted to Nimo.
• Rhodes learned that Kun Li was a Kunpeng and told him about the treasures inside the pillars of light, prompting Kun Li to return to the Life Godrealm to seize one.