Recaps

Jiang Yang rebuked Zeus and the Olympian gods for neglecting their duties and indulging in the mortal world while the Divine Clan prepared to resist the Devil Civilization. His words left the gods ashamed and stirred Zeus to consider overcoming his old defeat by slaying a Devil Lord.

• Jiang Yang's mood darkened at the wedding banquet, and the gods fell quiet as the mortals hurried away.
• Jiang Yang publicly explained that Zeus's defeat by a Devil Lord had become a sickness of the heart, then criticized Zeus for failing to restrain the Olympian gods.
• Jiang Yang accused the gods of using Zeus's example to justify indulging in the mortal world and named Poseidon, Apollo, and others for having mortal children.
• Zeus focused on Jiang Yang's suggestion that he could overcome his defeat by slaying a Devil Lord.
• Jiang Yang urged the gods to prepare for the coming catastrophe and protect the world, leaving them silently ashamed and nodding.

Jiang Yang restored the Olympian Gods’ resolve and secured their agreement to return to the Divine Court to resist the Devil. After bidding them farewell, he set out with Filiya for the Far North Shelter to visit Aniya.

• Jiang Yang urged the Olympian Gods to settle their affairs in the mortal world and rejoin the Divine Court, and they agreed to fight the Devil.
• Jiang Yang celebrated with the gods, while black-clad figures praised him and left to do their part.
• Zeus thanked Jiang Yang for rekindling his fighting spirit, then said he still could not accept Jiang Yang as his son-in-law.
• Jiang Yang and Filiya bid farewell to the Olympian Gods, and Jiang Yang announced that they were heading north to the Far North Shelter to see Aniya.

Jiang Yang visited Isa in the Far North before beginning a long seclusion to attempt the emperor-rank fourth step, and he went with her to see Aniya frozen in the Far North Shelter. As Jiang Yang and Filiya prepared to return to Kunlun, Aurora arrived with news that spectacular northern lights were about to appear.

• Jiang Yang met Isa at the Far North Ice and Snow Divine Court and told her he planned to visit Aniya before entering seclusion.
• Isa asked Jiang Yang about cultivation as they walked together to the Far North Shelter.
• Jiang Yang and Isa stood silently before Aniya, who remained asleep within the ice, and Isa lamented that their civilization could not yet save everyone frozen there.
• The next day, Jiang Yang and Filiya prepared to leave for Kunlun when Aurora arrived and predicted the most brilliant northern lights in years.
• Isa invited Jiang Yang and Filiya to stay and watch the northern lights.

Jiang Yang, Isa, and Filiya traveled through the far north and reached its northern reaches to watch the aurora with Aurora. As a tremendous force spread across the sky above the North Pole, the aurora began to appear.

• Isa led Jiang Yang and Filiya to the Ice Giants' royal capital, where they observed the city from atop its temple.
• Jiang Yang visited the far north's Dwarven ramparts, Snow Beastmen tribes, Snow Sprite mountain dwellings, and Icefield People cities.
• As the aurora's arrival neared, Jiang Yang, Isa, and Filiya traveled to the far north's northern reaches and found Aurora waiting on the roof of a small house.
• Aurora told them to watch the sky, and the three sat with her as a tremendous force spread above the North Pole and a wondrous aurora appeared.

Jiang Yang watched the northern lights with Isa, Filiya, and Aurora, and drew a new insight about the choice before him on the path to Emperor-Rank Fourth Step. Aurora sketched the shifting lights and named their dog-shaped display Heavenly Dog.

• Aurora brought Jiang Yang, Isa, and Filiya to watch a brilliant display of the northern lights, which delighted the three women.
• Jiang Yang perceived the aurora as a wind from the distant sun and gained insight into the power and law of flames.
• Watching the aurora, Jiang Yang felt he had found the direction for the choice required to reach Emperor-Rank Fourth Step.
• Aurora sketched the lights as they formed a shape resembling a dog running through the snow.
• Aurora named the display Heavenly Dog.

After saying farewell to Isa and Aurora in the Far North, Jiang Yang returned to Kunlun and prepared for a major breakthrough that he believed could affect all civilization. As he began cultivating under heavy protection, progress on research projects across the refuges continued.

• Jiang Yang and Filiya said farewell to Isa and Aurora before flying back to Eastern Cang.
• Jiang Yang visited the Great Snowfield Shelter, where researchers advanced technology based on data from the Angels and Devil and worked on Karl’s Divine Clan Evolution Plan.
• Qing Fengxi reported that Li Zhe had declined to join the research project and was acting mysteriously again.
• Jiang Yang received Artemis’s message that Zeus had entered seclusion and the Olympian Gods had turned to proper business.
• Jiang Yang returned to Kunlun, established powerful formations, and began his breakthrough while Divine Court warriors guarded the site.

Jiang Yang remained in cultivation on Kunlun Peak for a thousand years and traced the rise and fall of Fifth Epoch civilization. As he sought the civilization’s defining trait, he turned his gaze toward the future.

• A Kunlun Divine Court warrior wondered whether Jiang Yang would awaken after a thousand years.
• Jiang Yang cultivated on Kunlun Peak as a golden divine ring and a Flame World formed around him.
• Jiang Yang witnessed Fifth Epoch humanity progress from primitive tools to spacefaring technology before civilization fell to catastrophe and monsters.
• Jiang Yang recalled the Morgan People’s civilizational trait of immortality and considered what defined the Fifth Epoch.
• Jiang Yang recognized that the Fifth Epoch had advanced through fighting spirit, ingenuity, and ordinary people’s wisdom, then looked toward the future.

Moved by the Fifth Epoch’s people and their struggle to preserve civilization, Jiang Yang awakened the epoch’s shared civilizational trait and broke through. The hymn settled into him as the power named Hymn of Glory.

• Jiang Yang was moved by the remnants of the Fifth Epoch, who united to protect the world and build a new civilization.
• Jiang Yang’s will rose, and a vast power drawn from everyone who had lived in the Fifth Epoch converged on him.
• People across the world, including a Divine Clan member, a researcher and the rulers of the six Divine Courts, heard the hymn and wept without understanding why.
• Atop Kunlun, Jiang Yang saw that the countless figures singing to him all bore his own face and had become his strength.
• The hymn returned to Jiang Yang, the barrier that had held him for a thousand years opened, and he ascended.
• A golden spiritual light entered Jiang Yang’s mind, and he recognized the power within his heart as the Fifth Epoch’s civilizational trait, Hymn of Glory.

After a thousand years of cultivation on Kunlun, Jiang Yang awakened at emperor-rank fourth step, named the towering tree he had nurtured Jianmu, and gained the confidence to oppose the Devil Civilization. His new Hymn of Glory trait was joined by a surprise: the Fourth Epoch trait of immortality.

• A hooded woman and her black-clad companions heard the Hymn of Glory echo across the world and discussed its power and the fallen Supreme who had reflected it.
• Jiang Yang awoke from deep cultivation on Kunlun after the Hymn of Glory faded, having broken through to emperor-rank fourth step and inscribed the Fifth Epoch trait mark.
• Jiang Yang recognized the great tree that had grown beside him over a thousand years and named it Jianmu, hoping it would one day connect heaven and earth.
• Jiang Yang flew to the crown of Jianmu and declared that he could protect the world’s living beings and contend against the Devil Civilization.
• Jiang Yang summoned three pairs of wings and discovered that he had also gained the Fourth Epoch trait of immortality.

At the top of Jianmu, Jiang Yang awakened the Fifth Epoch’s civilization trait, Hymn of Glory, and discovered it could create multiple equal versions of himself to fight alongside him. He realized that as his will strengthened, his projections could multiply into an army, each empowered by the Forbidden Domain.

• Jiang Yang stood atop Jianmu and contemplated the meaning of glory and the Fifth Epoch’s civilization trait.
• He sang the epoch’s song in his heart as human figures filled the stars and took on his appearance.
• Two figures identical to Jiang Yang emerged from the sea of stars, giving him three bodies with equal abilities and a shared mind.
• Jiang Yang realized that stronger will could summon more projections and multiply his combat power.
• Jiang Yang understood that each projection could use the Forbidden Domain to fight above its tier, explaining how the few Divine Clan survivors became armies unto themselves.

After a thousand years of seclusion, Jiang Yang emerged from Kunlun Summit having broken through and learned that Karl and Qing Fengxi had completed research on the First-Generation Divine Clan Evolution Physique. He flew to the Great Snowfield Shelter to learn what the new physique could do.

• Jiang Yang emerged from seclusion at Kunlun Summit and met He Yi, who was guarding the Divine Court.
• Jiang Yang learned from He Yi that the First-Generation Divine Clan Evolution Physique had recently been completed by researchers including Karl and Qing Fengxi.
• Jiang Yang thanked He Yi and flew directly to the Great Snowfield Shelter to find the researchers.

After a thousand years in seclusion, Jiang Yang returned to the Great Snowfield Shelter as an Emperor-Rank Fourth Step and visited Karl’s laboratory. He learned that Qing Fengxi had gone to the Storm Sea to help Li Xiaowa research a new mythical creature called Yinglong.

• Jiang Yang arrived at the Great Snowfield Shelter, where the Kunlun Divine Court warriors recognized him and celebrated his return and breakthrough to Emperor-Rank Fourth Step.
• Jiang Yang entered the Refuge and met Karl, who explained that he was using a robot body until a Divine Clan divine body was ready.
• Jiang Yang asked where Qing Fengxi was, and Karl said he had gone to the Storm Sea to assist Li Xiaowa.
• Karl told Jiang Yang that Li Xiaowa was developing a mythical creature called Yinglong.

Jiang Yang inspected the Divine Clan’s newly developed Divine Body and learned that it could release law-based Phenomena. Karl demonstrated one called Lights of Ten Thousand Homes, leaving Jiang Yang impressed by its potential.

• Jiang Yang asked Karl to explain the Divine Clan’s Divine Bodies, and Karl described their combined strengths and lack of Devil Body side effects.
• Karl showed Jiang Yang a Divine Body clone cultivated from tissue donated by Li Zhe.
• Karl activated the clone, which projected a city scene filled with lights and a faint power of hope and light.
• Karl explained that the Divine Clan’s affinity for laws had inspired Li Zhe to suggest using programming to make Divine Bodies release tailored forms of law.
• Karl named the trait Phenomenon and identified the demonstrated effect as Lights of Ten Thousand Homes.

Jiang Yang oversaw the Divine Clan’s first Divine Body modifications and discovered that his own Deep-Space Sun phenomenon could attack enemies across a wide area. As the Clan’s members completed their upgrades, he learned that Yinglong, an artificial lifeform, was expected to appear in seven days.

• Jiang Yang learned from Karl that Divine Body modifications could begin in a month, but resources initially allowed only a hundred people to undergo them.
• Jiang Yang arranged for the Seven Divine Courts and the Refuges to select the first candidates, and Karl prepared the modifications.
• At Kunlun, Jiang Yang addressed the gathered Divine Clan elites and urged them to honor the researchers’ work and fight bravely in the wars to come.
• Jiang Yang completed his modification first and discovered that his Deep-Space Sun phenomenon could direct its damaging light wherever he wished.
• After the Divine Clan completed its modifications, Jiang Yang recorded insights to help others break through, and Filiya invited him to see Yinglong, whose creation was nearing success.

Li Xiaowa and the researchers prepared to awaken five artificial mythical creatures at a laboratory on the Storm Sea Region’s coast. Jiang Yang agreed to observe the laws within their bodies as they emerged.

• Jiang Yang, Li Xiaowa, Qing Fengxi, and the gathered researchers assembled before five experimental chambers containing creatures in white, blue, black, green, and red.
• Jiang Yang sensed that the creatures’ combined features gave them immense power and seemed to follow a mysterious law of nature.
• After the researchers completed their final adjustments, Li Xiaowa told Jiang Yang the preparations were ready to awaken the creatures.
• Li Xiaowa asked Jiang Yang to observe the laws generated within the creatures’ bodies because their creators did not understand the mysterious force behind them.
• Jiang Yang agreed, and Li Xiaowa announced that they would begin.

Jiang Yang and Li Xiaowa witnessed the birth of five Yinglong, who gained sovereign auras and rapidly rose to the peak of the emperor-rank third step. When the dragons demanded that everyone submit, Li Xiaowa attacked them, setting up a fight between her and all five creations.

• The five Yinglong awakened with golden, vertical-pupil eyes as Dragonkin watched in excitement.
• A mysterious blessing amplified the dragons’ sovereign auras, making all five grow to the peak of the emperor-rank third step and expand to hundreds of meters long.
• The Yinglong tried to force everyone in the laboratory to submit, and the azure dragon offered Li Xiaowa first place among their followers.
• Li Xiaowa angrily rejected the dragons’ demand and attacked all five with her spear.

Li Xiaowa defeated the five Yinglong after they tried to claim followers, while Qing Fengxi collected their valuable blood for research. The dragons were left battered and silent as Li Xiaowa demanded to know whether they still wanted followers, and another figure approached them.

• Li Xiaowa fought the five Yinglong and overwhelmed them with her spear, drawing blood from the dragons.
• Qing Fengxi directed the Researchers to collect the spilled dragon blood, while Jiang Yang watched the battle.
• The dragon blood fell into the sea, where a school of fish absorbed it and began the emergence of a new race.
• Li Xiaowa knocked the five Yinglong out of the sky and demanded to know whether they still wanted followers.
• The five dragons remained silent as Li Xiaowa's anger began to rise again, and a radiant figure came to stand before them.

Jiang Yang subdued the five Yinglong with his aura and told them to protect Earth as members of the Divine Clan. At Li Zhe’s base, a visitor from the Heroic Spirit Throne’s future team sensed Jiang Yang’s aura and concluded that he could become the second Human Emperor.

• Li Xiaowa told Jiang Yang that the five Yinglong’s pride seemed rooted in something they relied on.
• Jiang Yang confronted the dragons, and his Supreme aura made them bow their heads.
• Jiang Yang forgave the newly born Yinglong, named Li Xiaowa their mother, and charged them with protecting Earth and its living beings.
• At Li Zhe’s base, a black-haired visitor asked him to build a formation intended to protect the Divine Clan’s future.
• The visitor sensed Jiang Yang’s aura, wept, and said the Heroic Spirit Throne’s deduction was right and Jiang Yang could become the second Human Emperor.

Li Xiaowa and Jiang Yang established the Yinglong as leaders of the Dragon Clans, which flourished across the East and West. Centuries later, the five Dragon Kings guarded the seas, while Jiang Yang and the God Kings advanced in power and prepared for a future war.

• Jiang Yang persuaded the five Yinglong to submit, and the western Dragonkin accepted them as kings.
• Li Xiaowa ordered the five dragons to create many descendants, and the resulting Dragon Prosperity Period spread dragonkind across the East and West.
• The five Dragon Kings took their closest descendants to guard the four seas and received the surname Ao from Li Xiaowa.
• Ao Qing, Ao Bai, Ao Hei, Ao Lan, and Ao Hong agreed to bring their followers to fight alongside the God Kings in a future war.
• Jiang Yang taught the God Kings, who advanced to the fourth step and gained the Hymn of Glory, allowing them to summon shadow selves.
• Jiang Yang discovered that his Hymn of Glory had no fixed limit on shadow selves, while the Mortal Realm continued to develop.

The Silver Folk developed a steam-and-magic civilization as the Divine Courts created holy spirits by empowering devout believers. When the first devil army appeared in the Olympian Region, Zeus led the Gods and mortal armies to victory and learned that a full-scale invasion would begin in one hundred years.

• The Silver Folk advanced into the early steam age, building magical airships, expanding education and trade, and preparing for war.
• Jiang Yang answered a devout clergyman's prayer by granting him power, raising his strength from the Saint Domain to the Emperor-Rank Second Step.
• The Seven Divine Courts established the holy spirit profession and revealed to mortals that seven Divine Courts ruled the world, with Jiang Yang as the greatest God King.
• The first devil army descended into the Olympian Region under a Great Devil Lord, and Zeus led the Olympian Gods and mortal armies in a seven-day battle on the Blood-Weeping Plains.
• Zeus's forces annihilated the devils, and captured devils revealed that the full-scale invasion would begin in one hundred years.

Feng Xiu, a Holy Spirit of the eastern Kunlun God King Church, arrived in Belia to exchange knowledge with the Moon God Church. After meeting its Attendant Saintess Helena, he found himself falling in love at first sight, while exchanges between the continents continued to grow.

• Feng Xiu arrived in Belia’s Royal Capital and traveled to the Moon God Church’s cathedral.
• A priestess led Feng Xiu into a Divine Temple, where he met Helena, the Moon God Church’s Attendant Saintess and Azure Moon Holy Spirit.
• Feng Xiu introduced himself as the Yellow River Holy Spirit and announced his visit for a church exchange.
• Helena welcomed Feng Xiu, and he immediately felt he had fallen in love with her.
• Churches, kingdoms, and people across the continents continued exchanging knowledge and traveling, accelerating cultural and technological development.

Jiang Yang named Wumingshi’s book the Classic of Mountains and Seas and recruited him to gather an army of Strange Beasts for the coming Devil invasion. Wumingshi accepted a new name, Gou Chen, and agreed to serve the Divine Clan.

• Wumingshi presented his book of gods and Strange Beasts to Jiang Yang on Kunlun Mountain.
• Jiang Yang named the book the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
• Jiang Yang told Wumingshi that the Devils would invade in a hundred years and asked him to gather an army of Strange Beasts.
• Jiang Yang named Wumingshi Gou Chen and welcomed him into the Divine Clan, and Gou Chen accepted.

As the devil invasion approached, Jiang Yang and the Divine Clan prepared for war while the mortal kingdoms mobilized and developed new ways to fight. A hundred years of tense preparations passed, with the Devils’ attempts to undermine the world’s unity repeatedly thwarted.

• Jiang Yang named the nameless author of the Classic of Mountains and Seas Gou Chen, gave him a Divine Clan body, and sent him with Lu Wu to contact intelligent Strange Beasts.
• Jiang Yang watched over Kunlun and vowed to grow stronger before the Devil Army arrived.
• The Divine Clan warned mortal rulers and religious institutions about the coming devil calamity, prompting kingdoms to reorganize society and prepare their armies.
• Silver Mortals ventured out to grow stronger, and mortals developed the fast but destructive Magic Potion system.
• Devil advance parties tried to sabotage the world’s unity and corrupt mortals and Gods, but Divine Temple Priests and the Divine Clan stopped them.
• A hundred years passed amid preparations and confrontation.

After a century of final cultivation, Jiang Yang remained atop Jianmu as Hell’s devils prepared to invade Earth. Satan clashed with the Immortal Lord and vanished with him, leaving Beelzebub to lead the devil army through portals toward Earth as the war began.

• Jiang Yang spent the hundred years cultivating Canopus and pushing every aspect of himself to its limit.
• Satan’s devil army gathered in Hell, where Beelzebub reported that the stable teleportation formation was ready to send them to Earth.
• Satan delayed the invasion while he waited for a final result, and the Immortal Lord appeared to challenge his claim to the Supreme position.
• Satan and the Immortal Lord fought, then disappeared from Hell after Satan ordered his devils to attack Earth.
• Beelzebub took Satan’s banner, commanded the devil army, and led the troops through portals as the invasion began.

Devil armies poured through portals across Earth, devastating the Silver Folk and forcing the Seven Divine Courts to mobilize their prepared forces. On the far northern continent, the allied armies faced Leviathan and his Devils as the first great battle began.

• A black portal opened above Asule, and Devils emerged to burn the Bovian Duchy and kill most of its inhabitants.
• Devil armies invaded regions across the world, and the Seven Divine Courts gathered mortal and Divine Clan forces to counter them.
• The Seven Divine Courts moved survivors to shelters and concentrated their forces in the far east to defeat the scattered invaders separately.
• A golden-eyed presence atop Jianmu in eastern Kunlun called for battle.
• On the far northern continent, the allied armies of many races and Divine Clan warriors assembled against Leviathan and his Devil army.
• Leviathan roared that he would grant them death, and his Devils charged.