Chapter Summaries

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.

Linley, Reynolds, Ross, and Hadley enrolled at Ernst Academy and met their new roommates, while Hadley quickly took charge of his dormitory by force. Ross discovered that his sister Annie had become the academy’s vice principal, and Andrew moved into the room next door to get close to Ross and Annie.

• Linley met Reynolds at enrollment, and they discovered they had been assigned to the same dormitory as Yale and George.
• Ross and Hadley found their separate dormitories, where Hadley beat Land, Ruisen, and their roommate into accepting him as their boss.
• Linley, Reynolds, Yale, and George discussed the exceptional new students Ross and Hadley, as well as the academy’s famed genius Dixie.
• Ross found his older sister Annie waiting in dormitory 2023 and learned she was a Saint-level Magus and Ernst Academy’s new vice principal.
• Andrew Ishudale arrived at dormitory 2024, planning to get close to Ross and Annie and compete with Hadley for Linley’s and Ross’s affection.

Ross befriended Andrew, whose uncontrollable Sunny Boy smile made everyone feel as if they were staring at the sun, and reunited with Linley, Hadley, Yale, George, and Reynolds at Ernst Academy. After Annie revealed herself as a Saint-level Grand Magus during a remarkably brief welcome speech, Ross and Andrew chose wind and lightning classes together, while Hadley chose earth and wind to stay close to Linley; the chapter ended as wind class was about to begin.

• Ross met Andrew, a transmigrator with an uncontrollable Sunny Boy skill, and brought him to meet Hadley and the boys in Linley's dormitory.
• Ross, Andrew, Hadley, Linley, Yale, George, and Reynolds toured Ernst Academy and shared a meal, while Hadley worried that he had become a loner.
• Andrew urged Ross to attend the new-student assembly, where Ross confirmed that Vice Principal Annie was his sister and learned she was a Saint-level Grand Magus.
• Annie gave a brief welcome speech and dismissed the students, making the assembly the shortest in Ernst Academy's history.
• Ross chose wind and lightning magic classes with Andrew, while Hadley chose earth and wind magic to spend time with Linley.
• The chapter ended at four thirty the next afternoon, as Ross and Andrew's wind magic class was about to begin.

Nearly a year after arriving at Ernst Academy, Ross and his friends had advanced far beyond most first-year students while Andrew kept his transmigrator identity hidden. As the annual Grade Competition approached, the group declined to enter, though Hadley insisted first place would not go to anyone else.

• Trey introduced Wind Element magic to the new students, and Andrew's sunny smile startled him during the introductions.
• Over the year, Linley, Hadley, and Andrew became Level Two Mages, while Ross reached fourth-rank warrior and third-rank mage; Andrew grew closer to Ross as Hadley continued testing him.
• Delia sat beside Linley in class and chatted with him, while Ross, Hadley, and Andrew watched from behind.
• Trey announced the Grade Competition and invited students to sign up, but Ross, Hadley, and Andrew refused to compete.
• While walking with the boys from Dormitory 1987, Reynolds complained that they would leave first place to someone else, and Hadley confidently said it would not happen.

Hadley and Linley entered the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts to train, but Rhodes secretly unleashed a beast tide that separated them and left Hadley struggling to survive for more than fifty days. Linley completed his training and headed home, then heard a fierce battle nearby and went to investigate.

• Hadley revealed that he planned to enter the first-year tournament with Land, whom he considered one of his little brothers.
• Bebe visited Rhodes to ask about the other God-Slaying Rat, and Rhodes told him not to interfere with Bebe or Linley.
• By spring of year 9997, Ross, Linley, Hadley, and Andrew had become level five mages, and Linley and Hadley left Ernst Academy to train in the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts.
• Rhodes caused a beast tide that separated Linley and Hadley; Linley survived and completed his training, while Hadley spent more than fifty days fleeing magical beasts.
• Linley returned through the forest outskirts and, after hearing fierce roars and human shouts, moved toward the battle.

Linley rescued Alice and her companions from a Bloodthirsty War Boar, then escorted them to Fenlai City and grew attracted to Alice. After returning to the road to Ernst Academy, Linley unexpectedly reunited with a battered Hadley, who clung to him and wept.

• Linley killed the Bloodthirsty War Boar just before it could crush Alice, then agreed to guide her, Kalan, Niya, and Tony out of the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts.
• Hadley escaped the forest after Rhodes stopped tormenting him, while Linley and Alice grew closer as they talked about magic during the journey.
• Linley refused the Debs Clan's offer of a hundred gold coins after bringing Kalan and the others safely to Fenlai City.
• Rhodes teleported himself and Hathaway back to Wushan Town after watching Linley leave.
• Linley met Hadley on the road near Ernst Academy, and Hadley ran to him in tears and sobbed against his shoulder.