Recaps

Jiang Yang learned that Angelica and Illya were Players from the First Era who had once created worlds as Pangu. Illya explained that they gave up their authority and reincarnated to escape the worlds that had trapped them.

• Jiang Yang asked Angelica and Illya about Huang An, whom he had met in Animo World hundreds of thousands of years earlier.
• Angelica and Illya explained that they called people who sank into oblivion Players and that Huang An might have reincarnated or died.
• Illya said their civilization came from the First Era, when the game Dawn of Epoch selected tens of thousands of humans to create perfect worlds.
• Illya explained that after the Players created nine perfect worlds, the game operator trapped them in the game, gave them talents, and eventually sent them to their own worlds.
• Illya said the Players became world-creating beings called Pangu but could not leave their worlds while retaining their authority.
• Illya said Players began relinquishing their authority and reincarnating as ordinary people so they could leave their original worlds.

Illya recounted how she, Angelica, and their companion endured countless reincarnations across the worlds before becoming powerful enough to reunite. She revealed that returning to Earth would end their endless rebirths, then turned the conversation to Jiang Yang’s identity as Lucifer Morningstar.

• Illya explained that the players’ first lives in the Great Thousand World ended in widespread deaths, beginning the first sinking.
• She said players began sealing away their memories after repeated failures, until only she, Angelica, and one companion remained lucid.
• Illya recounted how the three eventually became powerful and reunited, learning about the epochs and the Angel and Immortal Clans.
• Their companion later asked whether they wanted to return to Earth and warned that they would have only one life there.
• Illya said she and Angelica chose to return, but declined to explain the details to Jiang Yang.
• Illya called Jiang Yang Lucifer Morningstar and invited him to tell his story.

Jiang Yang told Illya and Angelica how the Divine Clan survived the Fifth Epoch’s apocalypse, rebuilt civilization, and eventually left Earth to establish the Divine Realm. The three discussed the First Era’s unknown fate and the hidden operator of the game “Dawn of Epoch,” but could not uncover the operator’s identity.

• Jiang Yang revealed that he came from the Divine Clan of the Fifth Epoch and that his real name was Jiang Yang, the emperor of the Divine Realm.
• Jiang Yang recounted how the Divine Clan’s technology-based civilization suffered an apocalypse, lost nearly ninety-nine percent of its people, and later rebuilt Earth after survivors awakened supernatural powers.
• Jiang Yang explained that the Divine Clan created the Golden Humans, then left Earth for the Myriad Worlds of the Heavens as Earth increasingly rejected them.
• Jiang Yang, Illya, and Angelica discussed how little the epoch civilizations knew about the First Era and its enemy from the depths of the stars.
• Illya suggested that the operator of “Dawn of Epoch” might know the First Era’s secrets, but Angelica and Illya could not recall identifying details about the operator or game company.

Jiang Yang finished his visit with Illya and Angelica, who chose to remain in the Witch Forest and offered to help if the Solar System or Human Civilization faced calamity. He returned to the Mortal Realm without Princess Illya, carrying a message and keepsake for her father, and promised Ated he would explain the situation to Baldwin.

• Jiang Yang gave Illya and Angelica a Golden Crow Crest and discussed their plans to live in the Witch Forest while searching for old friends.
• Illya and Angelica declined to meet the other Lords of Civilization but agreed to help Jiang Yang if danger threatened Human Civilization.
• Illya gave Jiang Yang a wooden statue and letter for her father, explaining that she was safe and would visit him in a few years.
• Jiang Yang said farewell to the witches and flew out of the Sky Tree Court.
• Jiang Yang emerged from the Witch Forest with the Green Veil Witch and told Ated that Illya had chosen not to return.
• Jiang Yang agreed to explain the situation to Baldwin as he and Ated headed back.

Jiang Yang and Ated returned from the Witch Forest and stopped at Dracula’s castle, where Jiang Yang reassured the vampire count about his pregnant human wife and their unborn child. The pair then continued south.

• Ated praised Jiang Yang for meeting Angelica, and Jiang Yang encouraged him to pursue the Witches God after his Advancement Ritual.
• Dracula warmly welcomed Jiang Yang and Ated to his castle, mistaking Ated for Jiang Yang’s servant.
• Dracula introduced his pregnant wife, Mera, and said she had been carrying their child for thirteen months.
• Jiang Yang assured Dracula that Mera and the child were healthy and told him to wait patiently for the birth.
• Jiang Yang and Ated spent the night at the castle and continued south the next day.

Jiang Yang returned to Jerusalem by sea after meeting Illya, who chose to remain away from her father, and gained renown for slaying a giant sea beast. Baldwin I accepted Illya’s letter and carving, then promised Jiang Yang a fief, while a priest announced that the Holy See would grant him the title of baron.

• Jiang Yang and Ated sailed from Venice toward Jerusalem, where an enormous octopus attacked their ship and Deep Sea Naga sounded a conch.
• Jiang Yang killed the octopus, and the Naga fled after their leader recognized his golden eyes as a sign of the gods.
• Jiang Yang arrived safely in Jerusalem and parted ways with Ated as his fame spread along the Mediterranean coast.
• Jiang Yang told Baldwin I that Illya had chosen not to return and gave him her letter and the wooden knight she had sent.
• Baldwin I said Jiang Yang had fulfilled his commission and promised him a fief, while a priest announced the Holy See would make him a baron.

Jiang Yang built a castle and a loyal guard, then spent more than a century serving as a noble and completing missions for the Holy See. Ated visited him as an old mortal with his son Dante and asked him for a favor.

• Jiang Yang captured Turkic Cavalry and dark creatures to make them build his castle, which rose on a hill a few years later.
• Jiang Yang trained orphaned wanderers into a loyal guard and led them into battle when Jerusalem called for aid.
• Jiang Yang completed missions for the Holy See and received an estate in the Kingdom of the Franks, where he stayed each winter.
• More than a hundred years later, Ated arrived at Jiang Yang's castle with a young boy named Dante.
• Ated told Jiang Yang that he had destroyed the power within him after failing to advance as a witcher, leaving him mortal, and introduced Dante as his son with the witch Aligi.

Ated asked Jiang Yang to protect his son Dante before leaving to finish an undisclosed final task, and Jiang Yang agreed to raise the boy. Ten years later, Dante asked to follow his father's path and become a Witcher, and Jiang Yang agreed to help him obtain a powerful legacy.

• Ated told Jiang Yang that Dante's mother, Aligi, had been taken to Hell by a Devil Lord's projection and asked him to shelter Dante.
• Jiang Yang agreed to raise Dante, but Ated refused to stay and left after bidding his son farewell.
• Ten years later, Dante completed his swordsmanship practice at Faslu Castle and told Jiang Yang he wanted to become a Witcher.
• Jiang Yang warned Dante that Ated had hoped he would live as an ordinary mortal, but Dante insisted on his choice.
• Jiang Yang agreed to help Dante obtain the finest Witcher legacy and methods.

Jiang Yang brought Dante to the Witch Forest to ask Angelica for help finding Damon, the progenitor of the Witchers, so Dante could train as a Witcher. Angelica gave Dante a bloodline-purifying potion and revealed that Damon was guarding Amun’s temple in Egypt.

• Jiang Yang flew with Dante into the Witch Forest and told him that he had once taken the form of an Angel called Lucifer.
• Jiang Yang met Angelica and Illya at the Sky Tree Court and explained that Dante, the son of his former companion, wanted to follow his father’s path as a Witcher.
• Angelica gave Dante a bloodline-purifying potion that Damon had also drunk, and Dante accepted it with Jiang Yang’s approval.
• Angelica told Jiang Yang that Damon was in Egypt guarding Amun’s temple, also called Karnak Temple.

Jiang Yang and Dante traveled to Karnak Temple, where they found Damon, the progenitor of the Witchers. After revealing himself as a god, Jiang Yang asked Damon to take Dante as his apprentice and guide him along the Witcher's path.

• Jiang Yang remembered that Amun had been one of Ra's names in the Mortal Realm.
• Jiang Yang and Dante traveled from France to Egypt and reached Karnak Temple after five months.
• Jiang Yang met Damon beneath Amun's statue and revealed his divine identity, prompting Damon to bow to him.
• Jiang Yang told Damon that Angelica had directed him there and asked Damon to train Dante as a Witcher.

Jiang Yang gave Dante a Bloodline Potion, awakening his Divine Clan bloodline and setting him on the path to becoming a Witcher under Damon’s training. Months later, Jiang Yang left his Mediterranean territory, intending to return to the East after hearing that its ruling dynasty had changed again.

• Jiang Yang gave Dante Angelica’s Bloodline Potion, and Dante awakened the Divine Clan bloodline and the power of thunder.
• Damon agreed to train Dante as a Witcher Master, and Jiang Yang revealed that his divine name was Jiang before leaving the temple.
• Dante learned that Jiang Yang had departed and began his Witcher training under Damon.
• Jiang Yang reflected on how his territory had remained untouched by invading armies and decided it was time to leave for the East.

After the Crusader Kingdom fell, Jiang Yang left his territory and visited Dante in Egypt before heading east. He gave Dante a meditation manual and asked him to look after his manor in the land of the Franks.

• In AD 1291, Jiang Yang left his territory with his guards and servants after the Crusader Kingdom fell, then settled them at his manor in the land of the Franks.
• Jiang Yang took his guards of Eastern descent and traveled to Egypt to visit Dante, who had seen the seven layers of Hell and was preparing to go to Europe to write the Divine Comedy.
• Jiang Yang warned Dante to stop hunting demonic projections for a while and digest the demonic power he had absorbed, but Dante insisted he needed his current state to write.
• Jiang Yang gave Dante a meditation manual bearing his image as Lucifer and advised him to be cautious around demons.
• Jiang Yang asked Dante to look after his manor in the land of the Franks and told him he was leaving for the East.

The Demon Race Civilization flourished for long ages while Jiang Yang neared the pinnacle of the ninth step. In the East Sea, the Ninth Crown Prince welcomed his daughter Xuanming, whose birth stirred Jiang Yang’s heart, though he remained just a little short of his breakthrough.

• Jiang Yang sensed that he would soon reach the pinnacle of the ninth step as the Demon Race Civilization continued to thrive under his rule.
• The Play It Safe Demon King received a deep-sea territory and became neighbors and close friends with the Ninth Crown Prince, his former comrade in the Immortal-Slaying Army.
• The Ninth Crown Prince married a woman from the Western Continent’s Winged Dragon Clan, and they later invited the Play It Safe Demon King to celebrate her pregnancy.
• The Ninth Crown Prince’s daughter was born amid falling snow in the sea, and he named her Xuanming, predicting that she would become a wise female Demon Lord.
• Jiang Yang felt a stirring from deep within the Imperial Court, looked toward the East Sea, and said he was still just a little short.

Xuanming agreed to consider marrying Kong Ling, but the Imperial Bell decreed that she would become the Demon Emperor’s consort. Jiang Yang revealed that he had created false memories for her and then granted Demon King Gou a promotion and a post in the Imperial Court.

• The Ninth Prince struggled to refuse Kong Ling’s marriage proposal, which the Sea Dragon King’s Eldest Prince supported.
• Xuanming emerged and agreed to her father’s proposed match with Kong Ling.
• The Imperial Bell decreed that Xuanming would become the Demon Emperor’s consort, leaving Kong Ling and the other suitors heartbroken.
• Jiang Yang said he had strengthened Xuanming’s false memories and decided to give Demon King Gou an opportunity.
• The Imperial Bell appointed Demon King Gou a Demon Lord and granted him a post in the Imperial Court, despite his confusion about being praised for guarding his kingdom.

Jiang Yang made Xuanming his consort and reflected on his long rule over the Demon Race, resolving not to claim its Supreme Position and instead to focus on cultivation. After Lao Jun rewarded Demon King Play It Safe for tending the furnace, Jiang Yang arrived in the eastern world of the Sixth Epoch, where a vast dynasty already ruled.

• Jiang Yang decreed that Xuanming be invested as Demon Emperor Consort, then helped her rise and led her into the imperial court.
• Jiang Yang stood atop Zhou Mountain and decided he would not become the Demon Race's Supreme, since his roots remained with the Divine Clan.
• Jiang Yang vowed to devote himself to reaching the pinnacle of the Ninth Step, having gained precious time.
• Lao Jun promised to expound the Dao to Demon King Play It Safe for six hours on the first day of each month after three hundred years of tending the furnace.
• Jiang Yang arrived with his guards in the eastern lands of the Sixth Epoch, where a vast dynasty already ruled.

Jiang Yang visited Mount Kongtong and learned that Bai Weiwei had left to pursue the defecting Star Lords Greedy Wolf, Seven Killings, and Army Breaker, who had stolen the Heavenly Court’s Demon-Suppressing Mirror. He left word for Bai Weiwei and continued his travels, eventually reaching Dadu, the Yuan Dynasty’s capital.

• Jiang Yang visited the Heavenly Court Secret Realm on Mount Kongtong and spoke with the Four Mo Brothers.
• The Four Mo Brothers told Jiang Yang that Bai Weiwei had emerged from seclusion and gone after Greedy Wolf, Seven Killings, and Army Breaker, who had defected after injuring Lei Zhenzi and stealing the Demon-Suppressing Mirror.
• Jiang Yang learned that the Demon-Suppressing Mirror was the treasure he had brought down from Kunlun and reassured the Four Mo Brothers that Bai Weiwei could handle the pursuit.
• Jiang Yang asked the Four Mo Brothers to tell Bai Weiwei that he had visited and said he would leave secret marks so she could find him.
• Several months later, Jiang Yang entered Dadu with guards and several cartloads of goods.

Jiang Yang and his guards fought their way into Dadu after a Han Army Hereditary Lord ordered their arrest, then continued slaughtering the troops sent to stop them. As they headed toward the imperial palace, Temür ordered the gates shut, summoned reinforcements, and called for Master Heavenly Wolf.

• A Han Army Hereditary Lord ordered Jiang Yang and his companions arrested at Dadu's gate, and Jiang Yang killed him and dozens of soldiers in the ensuing fight.
• Jiang Yang sheathed his sword and led his guards into the city, while the gate guards rushed off to report the disturbance.
• Temür ordered the Commission for the Defense of the Capital to capture the intruders, but reports soon said the small group was cutting through the city and heading for the palace.
• Temür ordered troops summoned from outside the city and the gates closed, then sent attendants to summon Master Heavenly Wolf from the Buddha Hall.

Bai Weiwei traced Greedy Wolf Star Lords’ betrayal to his discovery of a buried battlefield and the Mirror of Sin, which he used to devour his companions and gain devil power. The chapter ended with Bai Weiwei arriving in the Yuan Dynasty Capital to purge him.

• Greedy Wolf Star Lords, Seven Killings Star Lords, and Army Breaker Star Lords uncovered an ancient battlefield beneath the Far North Icefield.
• Greedy Wolf Star Lords used the Demon-Suppressing Treasure Mirror to draw power from a Great Devil Lord’s corpse and revealed that the mirror held the Devil Lord’s Law Heart.
• Greedy Wolf Star Lords offered to share the devil power, then defeated and devoured Seven Killings Star Lords and Army Breaker Star Lords.
• Greedy Wolf Star Lords cultivated in seclusion, then joined a rising northern tribe and urged it to wage campaigns so he could cultivate devil arts.
• Greedy Wolf Star Lords became the Yuan Empire’s imperial preceptor, and Bai Weiwei arrived in the Yuan Dynasty Capital to purge him.

Bai Weiwei entered Dadu’s imperial city and discovered that Jiang Yang and his men had fought their way into the palace. As she recognized her lord, the Yuan state preceptor arrived and prepared to confront the intruders.

• Bai Weiwei found Yuan soldiers dead and the imperial gates smashed open as she entered the city.
• Bai Weiwei drew her sword, suspecting supernatural forces had attacked the palace.
• Jiang Yang and a dozen armored men, empowered by medicinal liquid, defeated the Yuan forces and reached the palace hall.
• Bai Weiwei recognized Jiang Yang on the palace steps, and he turned toward her.
• Temür and his ministers received the state preceptor, who identified the attackers’ strength as coming from potions and pills and vowed to stop them.

Jiang Yang reached the Yuan palace after leading a small force through Dadu, where he confronted the former Heavenly Court member Greedy Wolf. As Greedy Wolf revealed his overwhelming power, Bai Weiwei arrived and offered to fight him.

• Jiang Yang reached the palace and reflected that his troops had defeated the Yuan forces without intending to overthrow the empire.
• Greedy Wolf emerged from the palace hall and challenged Jiang Yang, claiming that Jiang Yang’s mortal body could not match his power.
• Greedy Wolf summoned a gigantic spectral-blue Heavenly Wolf, alarming the city’s residents and inspiring the Mongols.
• Jiang Yang realized he could not defeat Greedy Wolf in his current body and remembered seeing Bai Weiwei inside the palace.
• Bai Weiwei arrived beside Jiang Yang, accused Greedy Wolf of defecting from the Heavenly Court and stealing the Supreme Treasure, and offered to fight him.

Jiang Yang let Bai Weiwei fight Greedy Wolf so she could gain combat experience, but she was badly injured and defeated. He then took control of her body to face Greedy Wolf himself and show her how to fight above her rank.

• Jiang Yang encouraged Bai Weiwei to fight Greedy Wolf while warning her to be careful against a stronger opponent.
• Greedy Wolf attacked Bai Weiwei, and their battle drew the attention of Dadu's people, some of whom recognized her as the White Lotus Female Immortal.
• After four hours, Greedy Wolf defeated Bai Weiwei, who crashed into the imperial palace with severe injuries.
• Jiang Yang gave Bai Weiwei a healing potion and explained that she lacked Greedy Wolf's combat experience and awareness.
• Jiang Yang linked his will to Bai Weiwei's body, took control, and rose to fight Greedy Wolf while telling her to watch and learn.

Jiang Yang took control of Bai Weiwei during her battle with Star Lord Greedy Wolf, using precise predictions and swordplay to defeat him. After Greedy Wolf was slain, Bai Weiwei admitted she could not yet understand how to reproduce Jiang Yang’s fighting methods, and he told her to keep practicing.

• Bai Weiwei resumed her fight with Heavenly Wolf, dodging every attack and wounding him repeatedly with Sword Qi.
• Heavenly Wolf’s blood transformed people in Yuan Dadu into wolf-like monsters, who later became the ancestors of the eastern Werewolf Race.
• Jiang Yang explained his tactics to Bai Weiwei from within her inner world as he used her body to anticipate and counter Greedy Wolf’s attacks.
• Jiang Yang guided Bai Weiwei through Greedy Wolf’s attempted escape and severed the wolf’s head, killing him.
• Bai Weiwei confessed that she could not yet understand the techniques well enough to use them herself, and Jiang Yang encouraged her to practice.

Jiang Yang led his group into the Yuan imperial palace, spared the emperor, and left the city with Bai Weiwei. After Bai Weiwei returned to Mount Kongtong to train, Jiang Yang continued south and arrived at Haozhou.

• Jiang Yang encouraged Bai Weiwei to review what she had learned from the battle, then led the guards into the Yuan imperial palace.
• A Han Chinese minister who had surrendered from the Song challenged Jiang Yang, who told the Yuan emperor to ensure the minister disappeared from history.
• Jiang Yang spared the Yuan emperor, saying mortals should handle mortal affairs, and led his group out of the palace.
• A few days later, Jiang Yang's party left the Yuan capital, and the emperor and ministers breathed a sigh of relief.
• Bai Weiwei parted from Jiang Yang to return to the Heavenly Court Secret Realm on Mount Kongtong and train until she reached the Emperor-Rank Second Step.
• Jiang Yang traveled south with the others, crossed the Yellow River and the Central Plains, and stopped at Haozhou.

Jiang Yang settled in Haozhou after Yashan and reunited with Dante, who had married the Blood Clan woman Alice. Decades later, as the Yuan Dynasty weakened, Zhu Chongba was born in the village where Jiang Yang lived.

• Jiang Yang settled in Haozhou north of the Huai River and bought a ship to maintain contact between the eastern and western worlds.
• More than a decade later, Dante arrived with Alice, a Blood Clan woman he had found in an ancient ruin, and Jiang Yang welcomed their marriage.
• Dante stayed with Jiang Yang for a year, then sailed west with Alice after Jiang Yang warned him that Hell’s influence was overwhelming his divine bloodline.
• Several decades later, uprisings spread as the Yuan Dynasty began to weaken.
• Zhu Chongba was born in Jiang Yang’s village to a family descended from Yashan soldiers and one of Jiang Yang’s former guards.

Jiang Yang left the village with Bai Weiwei after decades there, then traveled west to visit Dante’s Manor and learned Dante had gone to Hell with Alice. He met Dante’s young daughter Lilith and decided to stay for about ten years to care for her.

• Bai Weiwei told Jiang Yang that Zhu Chongba would become an extraordinary historical figure, but Jiang Yang chose to let the child’s life unfold naturally.
• Jiang Yang and Bai Weiwei departed the village, after he distributed his wealth among the villagers; Bai Weiwei gave Zhu Chongba her Lotus Hairpin, and Jiang Yang urged him to remember his roots.
• Jiang Yang and Bai Weiwei traveled by sea to Venice and then France, where Nid welcomed Jiang Yang back to the Manor.
• Nid told Jiang Yang that Dante had gone to Hell with Alice a year earlier to avenge his parents.
• Nid introduced Lilith, Dante’s human and blood clan hybrid daughter, and Jiang Yang decided to stay at the Manor for about ten years to protect her.