Chapter Summaries

Rhodes and Lei Ding waited for reports to confirm their theory that the heaven-reaching pillars contained Sovereign Sparks. The reports confirmed exactly seventy-seven pillars with the expected attributes, giving the group hope of reaching the next level.

• Rhodes told Lei Ding to wait for reports from the other Overgod Planes, while Lei Ding said they had made no progress comprehending Profound Mysteries.
• Rhodes ordered Lei Ding to watch the two Wind Element pillars and keep searching for Deia, but Lei Ding explained that the Hall of the Gods had few forces left in the Infernal Realm.
• Lei Si reported that each of the other three Overgod Planes had nineteen pillars, bringing the total across the Four Overgod Planes to seventy-seven.
• Lei Si confirmed that the pillars’ attributes matched Rhodes’s prediction: seven for each of the Four Edicts and seven for each of the Seven Laws.
• Nimo, Laius, and Bowen arrived, and Rhodes and Lei Ding told them the reports confirmed the pillars’ number and attributes, exciting them with the prospect of advancing to the next level.

Rhodes prepared the Hall of the Gods for conflict as the Heaven-reaching Light Pillars nurtured Sovereign Sparks, while waiting to confront his old enemy Chris Ding. Nearly a hundred thousand years later, a Divine Spark Incubation Site began contracting, and rival Deities rushed to seize the treasure before it had finished forming.

• Rhodes warned Lei Ding, Laius, and the others that the emerging Sovereign Sparks would provoke battles and challenges to the Hall of the Gods’ power and faith.
• Rhodes hoped Chris Ding, the Demon King who had fled after his defeat, would reappear so he could kill him before the struggle over the Sovereign Sparks began.
• Over nearly a hundred thousand years, the Heaven-reaching Light Pillars grew transparent as their power nurtured treasures, while factions fought to occupy them across the Four Overgod Planes.
• Powerhouses repeatedly tried to enter Ji Lei Mountain, but Rhodes’s Lightning Divine Clone killed those who reached its depths, while his Wind Divine Clone guarded another pillar.
• Rhodes noticed that the nearby pillar was contracting around its hazy core, and the Deities gathered there as Jisa Asifu claimed the treasure.
• A Deity attacked Jisa Asifu, prompting a chaotic barrage of material and soul attacks as battles erupted across all Four Overgod Planes.

The Four Overgod Planes descended into brutal battles as Deities fought to seize Divine Sparks nearing completion. In the Celestial Realm, former allies turned on the lone powerhouses who had once led the resistance against the Infernal Realm, but Feng Lan and another Water Element practitioner slaughtered their attackers with devastating techniques.

• The Hall of the Gods’ Deities abandoned their posts guarding the Teleportation Arrays, while Lei Ding and the other Four Divine Beasts divided their forces to defend their lairs and Lei Si organized the outer defenses.
• Green Leaf Castle occupied the two pillars of light nearest Nether Mountain, while Kun Li summoned his Water Element Divine Clone to guard a nearly completed Divine Spark alongside his other clone.
• Celestial Realm factions sent Deities to obstruct the strongest solitary powerhouses, hoping to prevent them from claiming treasures and later eliminate them.
• Feng Lan unleashed his Wind and Water powers to kill the Deities surrounding him, leaving his attackers dead and the survivors afraid to approach.
• A blue-robed Water Element practitioner used “A Misty Rain, Half a Lifetime of Bewilderment” to confuse and kill the Deities attacking him.
• Battles spread across the Overgod Planes, leaving vast numbers of Deities dead as the struggle for Divine Sparks continued.

Rhodes fought through the battle around a forming Divine Spark and seized the Wind Sovereign Spark after Deia arrived. The Wind Sovereign Spark merged with Rhodes, making him a Sovereign.

• Rhodes waited safely at the Lightning Divine Spark site while his Wind Divine Clone searched the battlefield for Deia.
• As the Divine Spark neared completion, Rhodes unleashed his Wind techniques, killed the hidden instigator directing the crowd, and slaughtered the gathered Deities.
• Rhodes and several powerful fighters moved toward the completed Spark, but Deia flew in from the outskirts as the pillar of light vanished.
• Rhodes used his Roc Innate Divine Ability to overtake Deia and claim the Wind Sovereign Spark, then bonded with it using his blood.
• Azure Wind Sovereign power filled the Infernal Realm and the Wind Sovereign Spark entered Rhodes's forehead, making him a Sovereign.

Rhodes refined a Wind Sovereign Spark and discovered that his soul and power had grown beyond those of ordinary Sovereigns. After learning that his allies had also become Sovereigns, he confronted a newly ascended Light Sovereign who demanded his treasure, and set out to take the man’s Light Sovereign Spark.

• Rhodes refined the Wind Sovereign Spark, gained Willpower, and spread his Divine Sense across the Infernal Realm.
• Pash and the Four Divine Beasts told Rhodes that they had become Sovereigns, and he directed them to gather at the Skyrite Mountains.
• Hathaway remained on Nether Mountain with Sovereign Sparks, while Ina Lisi refused the Life Sovereign Spark Youming offered her.
• Rhodes headed toward his Lightning Divine Clone on Ji Lei Mountain, but a newly ascended Light Sovereign projected himself and demanded Rhodes’s treasure.
• Rhodes smashed the Light Sovereign’s projection twice and prepared to confront him, hoping to take his Light Sovereign Spark.

Rhodes ambushed and killed the Light Element Sovereign Akejin, demonstrating that his own power far surpassed the other man’s. After collecting Akejin’s Sovereign Spark, Rhodes headed to the Skyrite Mountains to test his rank, while the other twelve Infernal Realm Sovereigns began to gather in alarm.

• Rhodes waited in spatial turbulence for the Light Element Sovereign, then merged his purple figure into his Wind Sovereign Clone before confronting him.
• Akejin mistook Krus for the Hall of the Gods’ grand elder and demanded that he hand over Rhodes and the Sovereign Spark.
• Akejin attacked Rhodes with Holy Light Slash, but Rhodes’s single sword strike shattered the assault and severed Akejin’s arm.
• Akejin fled and begged for his life, but Rhodes caught up and killed him, taking his divine spark.
• Rhodes flew toward the Skyrite Mountains to compare his power with the four Lower Sovereigns there, while the other twelve Infernal Realm Sovereigns began moving to gather together.

Rhodes discovered that he had refined a High-level Sovereign Spark and that Pash had obtained another High Sovereign Spark, then planned to hunt down the Infernal Realm’s other Sovereigns for their sparks. The eleven Sovereigns fled toward the Celestial Realm and Life Godrealm, while Rhodes and Pash pursued them and found those realms already growing stable under powerful rulers.

• Rhodes tested Lei Ding’s strength against his own and Pash’s, discovering that his and Pash’s Sovereign Sparks were vastly stronger than Lei Ding’s.
• Rhodes told the Four Divine Beasts that their Fusion Innate Divine Ability might offset the difference in strength, then agreed with Lei Ding to hunt the other Sovereigns for their sparks.
• Eleven Infernal Realm Sovereigns fled into spatial turbulence toward the Celestial Realm and Life Godrealm, while Amethyst stayed behind in the Amethyst Mountains.
• Rhodes and Pash pursued the fleeing Sovereigns and warned Lei Ding and the Four Divine Beasts not to split up.
• A Fate Edict Sovereign stopped battles in the Celestial Realm, the Goddess of Life imposed peace in the Life Godrealm, and Hathaway secured the Netherworld after defeating a Dark Sovereign.
• Rhodes and Pash continued chasing the Sovereigns, who believed the Hall of the Gods intended to kill them and seize their Sovereign Sparks.

Rhodes pursued the Sovereigns fleeing the Infernal Realm toward the Celestial Realm, then diverted his attention to an injured Dark Element High-level Sovereign who crossed his path. Rhodes killed him inside his own dark Domain and claimed his Dark Element Sovereign Spark, though the Whirling Rise Divine Sword was destroyed.

• Rhodes chased the fleeing Sovereigns while Pash left to summon Hathaway and the Netherworld Sovereigns as reinforcements.
• As Rhodes closed in on the fleeing group near the Celestial Realm, an injured Dark Element High-level Sovereign appeared in his path.
• Rhodes recognized the newcomer’s familiar aura as belonging to a survivor of Hathaway’s Death Overgod Artifact and decided to kill him for his Sovereign Spark.
• The Dark Element Sovereign used Shadow Clone to evade Rhodes’s first strike, then unleashed his Innate Divine Ability, Great Dark Heaven, engulfing them both in darkness.
• Rhodes killed the Dark Element Sovereign with Annihilation Divine Thunder inside the dark Domain and took his Sovereign Spark, while the Whirling Rise Divine Sword broke.

Rhodes defeated the Dark Element Sovereign and traveled toward the Celestial Realm, where Orloff and the Celestial Sovereigns investigated the arrival of Infernal Realm refugees. The two groups met in the spatial turbulence, and Orloff returned to the Celestial Realm to learn why they had come.

• Rhodes emerged unharmed after killing the Dark Element Sovereign, recovered his Dark Element High-level Sovereign Spark, and set off toward the Celestial Realm with Lei Ding and the others.
• Orloff established rules for the Celestial Realm and gave a Light Element Sovereign Spark to his friend, who became the new Light Element Sovereign.
• Feng Lan urged Orloff and the Celestial Sovereigns to kill the four arriving Infernal Realm Sovereigns and retaliate against the Infernal Realm, while Augusta and Yan Yu opposed an invasion.
• Rhodes told the Celestial Sovereigns that he and the other three had fled the Hall of the Gods, whose Sovereigns were pursuing them to seize their Sovereign Sparks.
• Orloff led all nineteen Celestial Sovereigns into the spatial turbulence, where they saw Rhodes and his companions, then returned to the Celestial Realm to question the refugees.

Orloff welcomed four Sovereigns fleeing the Infernal Realm, who revealed that the Hall of the Gods had killed a Light Element Sovereign and that the conflict was spreading. Rhodes, Hathaway, and the assembled Netherworld and Life Godrealm Sovereigns entered the Celestial Realm, leaving more than fifty Sovereigns gathered there and the possibility of a wider conflict unresolved.

• Orloff promised the four Infernal Realm Sovereigns safe shelter, and they told the Celestial Realm’s Sovereigns that the Hall of the Gods had killed a Light Element Sovereign.
• Rhodes and the Four Divine Beasts waited in Spatial Turbulence, while Rhodes suspected the unfamiliar leaders Orloff and Augusta were the two-in-one members of the Bula Tribe.
• Lei Ding alerted Rhodes that Hathaway and the Netherworld Sovereigns had arrived, and Rhodes spotted Kun Li among the approaching Life Godrealm Sovereigns.
• Hathaway told Rhodes that the Netherworld Sovereigns had submitted to her and explained that she had previously fought the Dark Element Sovereign he killed.
• Vivian led the Life Godrealm Sovereigns into the Celestial Realm, where the assembled groups brought the number of Sovereigns present to more than fifty.

The Sovereigns of the Celestial Realm, Life Godrealm, Infernal Realm, and Netherworld gathered in the Celestial Realm, where Rhodes demanded that Orloff return four Sovereigns who had defected from the Infernal Realm. Orloff refused, and their battle moved into Spatial Turbulence while Hathaway and Vivian also went there to fight, leaving the factions waiting as the Sovereigns’ conflict remained unresolved.

• The Sovereigns of the three factions gathered on a nameless mountain, and Kun Li left the Life Godrealm’s group to join Rhodes’s side.
• Rhodes demanded that Orloff return four Sovereigns to the Infernal Realm, but Orloff refused and insisted they were now Sovereigns of the Celestial Realm.
• Rhodes and Orloff clashed auras, and Rhodes realized that Orloff was a Paragon; their factions prepared to fight until Vivian ordered them to wait.
• Rhodes challenged Orloff, and the two began fighting while Vivian and Hathaway agreed to battle separately in Spatial Turbulence.
• Hathaway and Vivian entered Spatial Turbulence, followed by Rhodes and Orloff, who continued fighting as Rhodes tried unsuccessfully to persuade Orloff to hand over the defectors.

Rhodes returned to the Celestial Realm after defeating Orloff, revealing that his Lightning Divine Clone had become a Sovereign and demanding the four defectors be handed over. As Pash and Lei Ding prepared to act, an unexpected disturbance arose inside the Celestial Realm's Sovereign camp.

• As the battle dragged on, Feng Lan considered killing a Celestial Realm Wind Sovereign to claim his spark and defecting to the Infernal Realm.
• Rhodes smashed through the Celestial Realm's barrier with Orloff, who was bloodied and gravely injured, following behind him.
• Rhodes revealed his Lightning Divine Clone had become a Sovereign, then ordered the Celestial Realm to kill the four Infernal Realm Sovereigns who had joined its camp.
• The four defectors pleaded with Orloff and the Celestial Realm Sovereigns to honor their agreement, while Orloff tried to respond but spat blood.
• Rhodes explained that he had refined a high-level Lightning Element Sovereign Spark during the battle, then overwhelmed Orloff with his Lightning Sovereign Clone.
• As Pash and Lei Ding moved to act, something unexpected happened within the Celestial Realm's Sovereign camp.

Feng Lan killed a Wind Sovereign, refined his Sovereign Spark, and fought Augusta to a standstill while Rhodes’s forces battled the Celestial Realm’s Sovereigns. The Four Divine Beasts killed three opponents and lost one Sovereign Spark, and Feng Lan agreed to join the Hall of the Gods before Hathaway and Vivian returned.

• Feng Lan killed a Wind Sovereign and refined the Sovereign Spark, then blocked Augusta’s attack with his fused powers.
• Rhodes ordered Pash and Lei Ding to attack four Sovereigns while Youming held the Life Godrealm’s Sovereigns at bay; Orloff’s request to spare the four was refused.
• Laius killed the Fire Element Sovereign, and Lei Ding killed a Destruction Sovereign; Nimo then killed a Fate Sovereign, while Bowen’s opponent sent his Sovereign Spark into spatial turbulence before dying.
• Feng Lan asked Laius to join the Hall of the Gods, and Laius welcomed him.
• Hathaway and Vivian returned from the temporal-spatial turbulence as the Four Divine Beasts prepared to leave with Feng Lan.

After the battle, Rhodes helped restore order among the Sovereigns and attended a meeting arranged by Vivian. The chapter ended with Rhodes asking Vivian to state her proposal, while the balance between the realms depended heavily on his decisions.

• Vivian returned to find five Celestial Realm Sovereigns dead, while Hathaway joined Rhodes and the Netherworld and Infernal Realm Sovereigns gathered at his side.
• Orloff agreed to Rhodes's demand and reunited the Celestial Realm Sovereigns, though suspicion remained among them.
• Vivian had an Earth Sovereign shape a central mountain into a round-table meeting place with eleven seats.
• Rhodes invited Feng Lan to join the meeting, and the gathered Sovereigns looked to him to speak first.
• Rhodes defended the Infernal Realm's actions with a strained explanation and invited Vivian to state her purpose.

At the first Sovereign council, Vivian proposed creating the seven Divine Planes and prohibiting Sovereigns from killing one another. Rhodes argued that a total ban was impossible and proposed rules allowing only same-level Sovereigns to fight to the death, which the council adopted.

• Vivian called for the Divine Planes to be created soon and raised the need to restrict Sovereign killings.
• Rhodes rejected a complete ban on Sovereign conflict, while supporting the creation of the Divine Planes.
• After most Sovereigns resisted Vivian’s proposal, Rhodes proposed that only Sovereigns of the same level could fight to the death, with lower-level Sovereigns forbidden from offending higher-level ones.
• Vivian, Augusta, Orloff, and the other Sovereigns agreed to Rhodes’s rules.
• The council established that Sovereigns who violated the rules would be hunted down by the ten seated Sovereigns until killed.

After ending the Sovereign Council, Rhodes gathered the Wind Sovereigns to plan the creation of the Wind Element Divine Plane and explained that the process could help them advance toward becoming Paragons. Five hundred years later, the Wind Sovereigns joined Rhodes in Spatial Turbulence to begin creating it.

• Rhodes secured the Sovereigns’ agreement to protect anyone creating a divine plane and ended the council.
• Rhodes returned to the Skyrite Mountains with four Wind Sovereigns and arranged to create the Wind Element Divine Plane in five hundred years.
• Rhodes explained that creating the plane would help the Wind Sovereigns fuse their Profound Mysteries and described what it meant to become a Paragon.
• Rhodes hosted a banquet to welcome Feng Lan into the Hall of the Gods, and Feng Lan resolved to support the Hall of the Gods.
• Five hundred years later, Rhodes and the Wind Sovereigns prepared to enter Spatial Turbulence and create their divine plane.

Rhodes and the six other Wind Sovereigns gathered Wind Element Sovereign Power for 150,000 years until it compressed and exploded, revealing the Laws of Wind. Rhodes seized the opportunity to comprehend and fuse his Wind Law Profound Mysteries so he could become a Wind Element Paragon.

• Rhodes led the Wind Sovereigns into Spatial Turbulence, where Orloff, Vivian, and other Sovereigns had gathered to watch them create the Wind Element Divine Plane.
• Rhodes ordered the seven Wind Sovereigns to draw in Wind Element Sovereign Power, while Sovereigns gradually left and Orloff remained to watch.
• After 150,000 years, the gathered Wind Element Sovereign Power reached its limit and began compressing, so Rhodes warned Hathaway, Pash, Lei Ding, and Orloff to retreat to the Infernal Realm.
• The compressed azure sphere exploded, clearing a vast stretch of Spatial Turbulence and revealing the Laws of Wind to Rhodes and the other protected Sovereigns.
• Rhodes immersed himself in the Laws of Wind, intending to fuse all his Wind Law Profound Mysteries and become a Wind Element Paragon.

Rhodes used the final influx of Power of Faith to fuse the Wind Law Profound Mysteries and become the world’s first Dual-Element Paragon as the Wind Element Divine Plane was completed. After the Wind Sovereigns divided its territories and its Teleportation Arrays appeared, Rhodes hurried back to the Infernal Realm to reunite with Hathaway.

• As the Wind Element Divine Plane formed and the Laws of Wind began to fade, Rhodes struggled to finish fusing the Wind Law Profound Mysteries while the other six Wind Sovereigns reached their own limits.
• When the Spatial Turbulence storm vanished, the Hall of the Gods’ accumulated Power of Faith surged into Rhodes and helped him become a Wind Paragon, making him the first Dual-Element Paragon.
• Laius and the other Wind Sovereigns congratulated Rhodes, while Laius resolved to gather more Power of Faith after his own attempt to break through failed.
• Rhodes and the Wind Sovereigns divided the completed Divine Plane into territories, with Laius and Feng Lan choosing lands bordering Rhodes’s territory near the Infernal Realm.
• After four Teleportation Arrays appeared and completed the Divine Plane, Rhodes tore open a Spatial Rift and rushed back to the Infernal Realm to see Hathaway.

After spending five hundred years away with Hathaway, Rhodes returned to the Skyrite Mountains and discussed the turmoil among the Sovereigns with the Hall of the Gods. He called a Sovereign Council meeting in the Infernal Realm to address Divine Planes, the Power of Faith, and Teleportation Arrays.

• Rhodes tore through the Infernal Realm's spatial barrier, found Hathaway, and left with her for five hundred years of travel together.
• Rhodes returned to the Hall of the Gods and learned from Lei Ding that Sovereigns were fighting over territory and spreading faith in Material Planes controlled by the Hall.
• Rhodes ordered the Hall of the Gods to kill Deities who tried to seize its Material Planes and declared that Sovereigns who retaliated would also be killed.
• Rhodes decided to convene a Sovereign Council to discuss creating Divine Planes, regulating the Power of Faith, establishing currency, and sharing Teleportation Arrays.
• Rhodes told Lei Ding to send Deities to notify Orloff and Vivian that the council would be held in the Infernal Realm.

The Sovereign Council established rules on Sovereign artifacts, currency, territories, faith, and the use of Sovereign Power, while agreeing to create the Lightning and Water Divine Planes. After the council ended, Rhodes arranged to meet Orloff and planned to travel with Hathaway once their affairs were settled.

• The Sovereigns passed Rhodes's proposals, including rules allowing children with two Sovereign parents two Sovereign Artifacts and approving currency containing traces of Sovereign Power.
• Rhodes proposed that the Lightning Element Sovereigns and Water Sovereigns create their Divine Planes, and they thanked him for his support.
• The Sovereigns agreed to share Overgod Plane Teleportation Arrays and prohibit large-scale divine wars over them while leaving small-scale battles unrestricted.
• The Sovereigns refined rules limiting how much Sovereign Power they could grant, then concluded the three-day council.
• Rhodes asked Orloff to visit him at Heaven-Reaching Peak, and Orloff agreed to return to the Infernal Realm after reaching the Celestial Realm.
• Rhodes and Kun Li led the Lightning Element Sovereigns and Water Sovereigns into Spatial Turbulence to create their Divine Planes, while Rhodes told Hathaway he planned to travel with her after meeting Orloff.