Recaps

Jiang Yang spoke with the gods about the emperor-rank third step, then learned that Filiya had no interest in the young man courting her. Meanwhile, Qing Fengxi researched the Hexagram Magic Array and began considering whether demonic element could power magic arrays better than divine element.

• The gods of Kunlun asked Jiang Yang about the emperor-rank third step, and he answered some of their questions.
• Jiang Yang asked Filiya about her suitor, but she said she had no thoughts of romance and felt she would never find love.
• Qing Fengxi studied the Hexagram Magic Array and investigated the God War Forest, where Jiang Yang and Samael had once fought.
• After seeing magic beasts cast magic in the forest, Qing Fengxi wondered whether magic arrays worked better with demonic element than with divine element.

Qing Fengxi sought an assistant skilled in Demonic Element to help research Magic Arrays, and Jiang Yang suggested finding a wise Silver Folk person. They visited Midsummer Town and heard a bard describe its Sage, whom they decided to seek out.

• Qing Fengxi began researching Magic Arrays and called Jiang Yang to ask for an assistant skilled in Demonic Element.
• Jiang Yang suggested Qing Fengxi seek a wise person among the Silver Folk.
• The Dragon-Slaying Team’s former members founded Midsummer Town, whose prosperity and reputation grew with the Sage’s plans and advice.
• Jiang Yang and Qing Fengxi entered Midsummer Town and admired a statue of the War God.
• A Bard sang of the Sage’s wisdom, town-building, healing knowledge, and talent for inventing spells by observing Magic Beasts.
• Jiang Yang identified the Sage as a possible assistant, and Qing Fengxi agreed to seek him out.

Jiang Yang and Qing Fengxi visited the Sage in Midsummer Town and discovered that he wore glasses from the Fifth Epoch. The Sage, Li Zhe, recognized Jiang Yang as the person he had been sent to help, but introduced himself as someone who had heard of Jiang from Li Zhi.

• Jiang Yang and Qing Fengxi asked for directions and reached the Sage’s residence in Midsummer Town.
• The guards let the visitors wait while they informed the Sage, and Jiang Yang noticed the carefully tended courtyard.
• Li Zhe came out wearing glasses from the Fifth Epoch, prompting Jiang Yang and Qing Fengxi to wonder whether other shelters had existed.
• Li Zhe recognized Jiang Yang as the person he had been ordered to influence and recalled being taken from his own time to awaken supernatural power in the Fifth Epoch before arriving in the Silver Age.
• Jiang Yang asked whether Li Zhe knew him, and Li Zhe said that Li Zhi had described him as the God King of the Kunlun Divine Court.
• Qing Fengxi asked Li Zhe where he came from and whether he had companions.

Li Zhe revealed that he came from another era and agreed to help Qing Fengxi study magic arrays that might extend the Silver Folk’s lifespans. In the future, the Heroic Spirit Throne’s blood-red “0” changed to a green “1,” prompting celebration as a supreme sovereign watched a radiant figure upstream in time.

• Li Zhe explained to Jiang Yang and Qing Fengxi that he had awakened in this era after falling unconscious during the apocalypse, while Qing Fengxi decided to keep observing him.
• At the bonfire, Qing Fengxi invited Li Zhe to study magic arrays, explaining that they might strengthen the Silver Folk and help them surpass their lifespan limits; Li Zhe agreed.
• Jiang Yang greeted the Dragon-Slaying Team, and the group shared stories until Li Zhi asked whether Li Zhe could be with a member of the Divine Clan; Jiang Yang reassured her that gods and mortals could unite in the Silver Age.
• In the future, the Heroic Spirit Throne’s blood-red “0” disappeared and a green “1” appeared on its screen, prompting people throughout the hall to celebrate.
• A purple-haired woman praised the endurance of Human Civilization, and a supreme sovereign looked upstream in time at a radiant, flickering figure before praising the Heroic Spirit Throne.

Qing Fengxi and Li Zhe developed the Demonic Element into a new Path of Magic, allowing practitioners to reach the Saint Domain and giving the Divine Clan a way to advance beyond King-Rank. The Divine Clan debated whether to share the system with the Silver Folk, but news arrived that forced them to agree to its spread.

• Jiang Yang returned to the Kunlun Divine Court to pursue the Emperor-Rank Fourth Step, while Qing Fengxi stayed in Midsummer Town to study magic with Li Zhe.
• Qing Fengxi and Li Zhe analyzed Magic Beasts’ spells and established a magic system whose highest level, the Saint Domain, matched Emperor-Rank First Step strength.
• Members of the Divine Clan reached the Saint Domain over the following decades, and the Dragon-Slaying Team did so under Qing Fengxi and Li Zhe’s guidance.
• The Divine Clan shared the Path of Magic with the Seven Divine Courts and shelters, and some Silver Folk who worshipped the Divine Clan also learned it.
• Most members of the Divine Clan opposed spreading the Path of Magic to all Silver Folk, but news arrived that forced them to agree.

The Seven Divine Courts and their allied refuges gathered on Mount Olympus after devil-like creatures appeared across the Olympian Region. Artemis warned that the creatures might signal a world-ending invasion, and Ra asked why they believed the threat was so grave.

• The God Kings of the Seven Divine Courts and representatives of their refuges convened on Mount Olympus.
• Artemis presented a dead creature with horns, black scales, and an aura resembling the Demon King Jiang Yang had fought.
• Artemis said similar creatures had appeared throughout the Olympian Region and identified them as the Devil Race.
• Jiang Yang confirmed the creature shared the Demon King's aura, while Brahma questioned why the Divine Courts needed to gather over a threat they could handle.
• Artemis said the Devils were evidence of a powerful evil force seeking to destroy the world, and Ra asked why she believed the danger rivaled the Fifth Epoch apocalypse.

Artemis reported that the Horned Demons were part of a powerful Devil Civilization planning an invasion of Earth, and Chief Scientist Aulisel announced plans to arm the Silver Folk and place the Divine Courts under unified command. Her demand met resistance from five of the seven God Kings, who had held power for two thousand years.

• Artemis told the Divine Clan that the Horned Demons came from Hell, where a Devil Overlord and seven Demon Kings ruled a powerful civilization preparing to invade Earth.
• The gods learned that they could neither explain nor predict when or where spatial rifts would form.
• A researcher from the Norse Refuge presented Aulisel to the gathered gods through a screen of light.
• Aulisel announced that the Silver Folk would receive the New Magic System to help resist the devils.
• Aulisel asked the Divine Courts to fight under her unified command if the Devil Civilization invaded, and five God Kings furrowed their brows at the demand.

The gods debated Aulisel’s proposal to place the Seven Divine Courts under a unified authority, with Divine Court loyalists rejecting the idea and arguing that the God Kings had safeguarded the world. Qing Fengxi defended the Refuge Research Institute and challenged the gods to remember that the Divine Courts were founded to protect, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• A long-faced man behind Ra argued that the Divine Courts and God Kings had protected the world and demanded that Aulisel explain why they should submit to another authority.
• The gods answered his questions by declaring that the Divine Courts had maintained order and the God Kings had led them.
• Jiang Yang signaled Qing Fengxi to respond after Aulisel stayed silent.
• Qing Fengxi defended science and the researchers, citing their role in cultivation, preserving civilization, and assessing threats.
• Ares claimed that the age of the gods had replaced the era of Chen Ping'an, but Qing Fengxi overpowered him with his emperor-rank first-step aura.
• Qing Fengxi reminded the God Kings that the Divine Courts had been founded to protect rather than rule.

Qing Fengxi and Aulisel argued that the Seven Divine Courts needed unified leadership to face an invading devil civilization, but several God Kings opposed Aulisel’s authority. Zeus called for a vote, leaving the gods to decide whether she would lead them.

• Qing Fengxi praised Aulisel’s impartiality and scientific ability, persuading some gods to support her leadership.
• Mar opposed Aulisel’s proposals, warning that the Silver Folk could gain power, rebel, and repeat the upheavals of the Fifth Epoch.
• Odin argued that the Divine Courts had grown powerful while science had made little progress, and rejected Aulisel’s leadership.
• Aulisel defended unified command and declared her duty as Chen Ping'an's successor to protect her civilization and compatriots.
• Zeus questioned whether the Silver Folk would accept Aulisel because her strength was below that of the other God Kings, then proposed a vote.

The gods and God Kings voted on Aulisel’s proposal, and Zeus declared it defeated. Jiang Yang then revealed that he supported a new era where strength reigned supreme and challenged the gods to choose whether to stand with him or become his enemies.

• The gods split evenly between supporting and opposing Aulisel’s proposal.
• Ra, Mar, Zeus, Odin, and Brahma opposed the proposal, Isa abstained, and Jiang Yang supported it.
• Zeus declared that the majority had rejected Aulisel’s proposal and called for another method.
• Jiang Yang rose from his throne and insisted that his support meant strength should reign supreme in the Primeval Era.
• Jiang Yang unleashed his divine power and warned the gods that those who opposed him would be his enemies.

Several hundred years after Jiang Yang forced the gods to prepare for the devils’ invasion, the Divine Clan spread the New Magic System among the Silver Folk, whose kingdoms later endured wars and recurring devil attacks. Midsummer City became the capital of a powerful kingdom, and the chapter ended with a girl telling Jiang Yang that Aulisel wanted to see him.

• After the gods’ assembly, Aulisel directed the Divine Clan’s preparations and spread the New Magic System by training gifted Silver Folk children.
• Over several hundred years, the Silver Folk population grew into the tens of millions, and wars between their city-states eventually gave way to a period of peace.
• As low-rank devils appeared across the world, Saint Domain mages defended their communities and became known as Tower Mages.
• Tower Mages in former Midsummer Town formed a mutual aid organization that later became the Tower Mage Association.
• Midsummer Town grew into Midsummer City, capital of the Holy Midsummer Kingdom, ruled by a descendant of Li Zhe and Li Zhi.
• A girl climbed Kunlun Mountain and told Jiang Yang that Aulisel was looking for him.

Jiang Yang learned that the mid-rank devil Yue Dan had escaped Ares and secretly spread a devil-worshipping church among the Silver Folk. The chapter ended with Yue Dan and thousands of followers sacrificing an entire city in Thales Kingdom to summon a Devil Lord.

• Jiang Yang heard from Aulisel about a mid-rank devil that had evaded capture for several years and whose church had become a serious threat.
• Yue Dan appeared near Takaya's capital, killed its Saint Domain expert, and slaughtered all one hundred thousand people there.
• Ares fought Yue Dan until the devil began to lose, but Yue Dan fled and disguised itself as one of the Silver Folk in a prosperous city.
• Yue Dan's Devil-Worshipping Church spread among the Silver Folk by promising power in exchange for sacrifices.
• Yue Dan and thousands of church followers sacrificed a city in Thales Kingdom and summoned a Devil Lord.

Devil Lord Akanoz ravaged the Olympian Region, slaughtering its people and defeating Zeus, while Jiang Yang led the Kunlun Divine Court toward him. Akanoz devoured Yue Dan, rejected Satan’s plan to summon a devil army, and broke through to emperor-rank fourth step as Jiang Yang’s airship approached.

• Aulisel told Jiang Yang that Akanoz had defeated Zeus and was burning cities across the Olympian Region, so Jiang Yang ordered the Divine Court to prepare for battle.
• Akanoz mocked the Silver Folk praying for rescue and declared that slaughtering mortals would let him become a Demon King and Devil Overlord.
• Yue Dan urged Akanoz to summon a devil army in accordance with Satan’s plan, but Akanoz seized and devoured him.
• Akanoz announced that he would claim the world for himself and broke through to emperor-rank fourth step, becoming a Great Devil Lord.
• Jiang Yang and the armored warriors of the Kunlun Divine Court arrived by airship near Akanoz’s city.

Jiang Yang and the Kunlun Divine Court arrived as Akanoz’s devils burned a city in the Vana Kingdom, and Jiang Yang challenged the Devil Lord while his warriors rescued the people. Princess Yuna learned that Olympus had fallen but that Kunlun and God King Jiang still stood.

• Yuna refused to flee with her parents and stayed in the capital to help evacuate its people.
• Akanoz’s army attacked the city, trapping hundreds of thousands as Yuna and the temple priests struggled to protect them.
• Jiang Yang and the Kunlun warriors descended, bringing rain, fighting the devils, and rescuing survivors.
• Jiang Yang confronted Akanoz, entered the Forbidden Domain, and began gaining the advantage despite Akanoz’s greater strength.
• Yuna asked a Kunlun warrior where they came from and learned that the deity fighting Akanoz was God King Jiang.

Jiang Yang battled Akanoz, using his superior swordsmanship and combat awareness to overcome the newly ascended Great Devil Lord. After Akanoz tried to bind him with a flame Law Chain, Jiang Yang seized an opening and beheaded him, leaving the city’s survivors and Kunlun Divine Court warriors celebrating his victory.

• Jiang Yang’s sword attacks repeatedly wounded Akanoz and overcame the flame laws and devil arts around him.
• Yuna finished settling the surviving Silver Folk and watched the battle from the ruins of the Vana Kingdom’s capital.
• Akanoz endured Jiang Yang’s strikes to move closer and cast a crimson flame Law Chain at him.
• Jiang Yang evaded the chain, sheathed his sword, and drew it in a dazzling strike that severed Akanoz’s head.
• The severed head crashed into the city as the crowd hailed King Jiang’s victory.

After Jiang Yang defeated Devil Lord Akanoz, Yuna called for a statue of him to honor Kunlun’s role in saving the city. Aulisel arrived with Gungnir after the battle, and she and Jiang Yang went down to talk.

• Jiang Yang killed Devil Lord Akanoz, and the people of the city celebrated the victory as Kunlun’s flag was raised.
• Yuna asked the high priest to build a statue of God King Jiang, but he suggested waiting for the king and queen to return.
• Yuna challenged the high priest to say whether Kunlun or Olympus had saved the city.
• Aulisel arrived with Divine Clan warriors and praised Jiang Yang for defeating the Devil Lord.
• Jiang Yang explained that Akanoz had only recently broken through, and Aulisel said she had brought Gungnir in case he needed it.
• As Jiang Yang and Aulisel prepared to go down and talk, startled cries rose from the ground.

Jiang Yang stopped Akanoz from reuniting his severed head and body, discovering that the Devil Lord had survived through the devils’ Immortality Trait. Akanoz begged for his life and offered information about Hell in exchange.

• Jiang Yang and Aulisel arrived after Akanoz’s headless corpse began moving, and Jiang Yang rebuked the frightened Divine Clan warriors.
• Akanoz’s head opened its eyes and drew his body toward it, but Jiang Yang pulled the head away and pinned it beneath his foot.
• Jiang Yang threatened to destroy Akanoz’s head, prompting Akanoz to plead for mercy and offer to serve him.
• Akanoz revealed that Great Devil Lords possessed the devils’ Immortality Trait, which he had only recently gained and did not yet understand.
• Akanoz offered Jiang Yang information about Hell in exchange for his life.

Jiang Yang questioned the captured Akanoz about Hell’s rulers, its invasion of Earth, and the spatial rifts bringing devils into their world. Akanoz revealed that Satan called Earth the devils’ former homeland, leaving Jiang Yang with a troubling new clue about the invasion.

• Jiang Yang forced Akanoz to explain that Beelzebub was one of Hell’s seven Demon Kings and that Satan ruled above them as the Devil Overlord.
• Akanoz told Jiang Yang and Aulisel that Hell and Earth were gradually converging, a process expected to take roughly two thousand years, and that unstable spatial rifts let weaker devils cross early.
• Akanoz explained that a Magic Formation had strengthened a spatial rift enough for him to cross into Earth, and admitted he had eaten Yue Dan, a devil skilled in Magic Formations.
• Akanoz claimed he had killed mortals out of respect for Jiang Yang and asked to become his subordinate, while Jiang Yang suppressed his killing intent.
• Akanoz recalled that Satan had said the devils were not invading Earth but returning to their former homeland.

Jiang Yang killed Akanoz by taking the law heart that sustained the Devil Lord, and realized it could reveal the path to the emperor-rank fourth step. Observers from another epoch watched him and concluded that he was the Fifth Epoch figure who should have become a Supreme but had fallen in the future.

• Jiang Yang spared Akanoz's head but drew his sword again to cut the law heart from the Devil Lord's headless corpse.
• Jiang Yang took the red crystal and explained to Aulisel that it contained the Devil Lord's power of Law and might show him the path to the fourth step.
• Jiang Yang told Aulisel he needed to study the law heart before choosing his path, and silently vowed not to follow the devils' path.
• People in black watched from a distant hill and said Jiang Yang was the Fifth Epoch figure who should have become a Supreme but had fallen in the future.
• A red-haired young man watched Jiang Yang and wondered whether he was the person his sister had spoken of.

After Jiang Yang defeated Akanoz, the Divine Clan faced the prospect of a devil invasion in two thousand years. At a meeting in the Olympian Shelter, Aulisel explained how the Seven Great Refuges could preserve their civilization, and Odin asked how they could fight.

• Jiang Yang's victory over Akanoz relieved the Seven Divine Courts, but his warning about the Devil Civilization's powerful leaders left them fearful.
• A month later, Aulisel and Jiang Yang met with the Divine Clan's leaders in the Olympian Shelter to discuss how to prepare for the invasion.
• Aulisel presented fighting or hiding as their two options, and Zeus asked what hiding would involve.
• Aulisel revealed that the Seven Great Refuges were advanced, mobile shelters designed to preserve civilization and conceal themselves from the devils.
• Odin asked Aulisel how they would fight.

Aulisel and Li Zhe presented the gods with a divine core method that could reduce the dangers of the Power of Faith and strengthen the Divine Clan. Jiang Yang then proposed provoking mortal wars to increase sincere faith, accepting that he would bear the guilt for the gods’ deeds.

• Aulisel urged the gods to prepare to fight Devil within two thousand years and named the Power of Faith as a way to strengthen themselves.
• Li Zhe explained that magic arrays could forge divine cores from the light of faith, and Aulisel said the Seven Great Refuges had confirmed the method was feasible.
• Qing Fengxi praised Li Zhe’s divine core method and trusted him despite his secrets.
• Jiang Yang told the gods that mortal suffering produced the strongest faith and proposed creating wars so the gods could later save people.
• Jiang Yang privately resolved to bear the sins if the world discovered the gods’ deeds.

The gods’ struggle for Faith drove wars across the mortal world, while the Midsummer Kingdom grew into a great power under the Kunlun Divine Court. Aulisel and Jiang Yang forged Divine Cores that strengthened their power but could not fully cleanse Faith’s mental contamination, and Jiang Yang decided to investigate reports that Zeus had abandoned his duties.

• Wars broke out among nations as the gods competed for Faith, and chief gods rose across the Divine Courts.
• The Midsummer Kingdom expanded across the Eastern Cang Land, where Jiang Yang became known as Haotian Shangdi and Filiya became the Nine-Heavenly Lady.
• Aulisel became the first goddess to cultivate a Divine Core, and Jiang Yang later forged one of his own, discovering that it left some mental contamination unpurified.
• Filiya reported that Zeus had withdrawn from cultivation and Divine Court affairs and had recently pursued a mortal princess.
• Jiang Yang grew concerned about Zeus and decided to go see him.

Jiang Yang and Filiya traveled through the Midsummer Dynasty to see how the mortal world had changed, witnessing its magical technology and a battle against magic beasts. In Midsummer City, a report arrived that the Sea Tribe had breached Seaside City.

• Jiang Yang summoned Filiya and set out on horseback to travel through the mortal world toward Olympus.
• Jiang Yang and Filiya journeyed across the Midsummer Dynasty, seeing magical farming, airships, and adventurers fighting magic beasts.
• Jiang Yang and Filiya helped defend a town from a magic-beast horde, and the town lord and Divine Temple Knights commended them.
• Jiang Yang and Filiya reached prosperous Midsummer City and saw its magical devices, city walls, troops, and mage towers.
• A red-armored knight reported that the Sea Tribe had come ashore in the Sea of Storms region and breached Seaside City.

Jiang Yang and Filiya learned that the Sea Tribe had overrun Seaside City and decided to seek an airship at the Divine Temple in the royal capital. After touring the city, they entered the temple in the rain and saw a Priestess praying before the gods’ statues.

• Jiang Yang and Filiya overheard young mages discuss the Sea Tribe’s attacks and the Ninth Princess’s fate after Seaside City fell.
• Jiang Yang and Filiya decided to investigate the Sea Tribe and planned to get an airship through the Divine Temple.
• Jiang Yang and Filiya toured the royal capital, where Jiang Yang reflected on the old civilization’s passing.
• Filiya bought a magic umbrella, and she and Jiang Yang walked to the Divine Temple in the western part of the capital.
• Jiang Yang and Filiya entered the temple and saw a white-robed Priestess praying before the statues of the gods.

Jiang Yang entered the Divine Temple and saw how the Shengxia Dynasty honored him and the other founding figures. A priestess named Yuna revealed herself and asked whether he still remembered her.

• Jiang Yang saw his divine statue displayed at the center of the temple beside those of Qing Fengxi and Li Zhe.
• He observed statues honoring the Dragon-Slaying Team and the chief Gods whose Faiths had prevailed.
• Jiang Yang noticed a white-robed priestess kneeling before the statues and recognized that she was a Silver Saint Domain being.
• Filiya greeted the priestess as Yuna, and Jiang Yang followed her without manifesting his divinity.
• Yuna lifted her hood, revealed her familiar face, and asked Jiang Yang if he still remembered her.