Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yang returned to the Golden Humans' tribe with Apollo and Poseidon and rescued the golden-eyed girl he had come to take away. He exchanged a sword forged from stone for her, leaving the tribe with a powerful heirloom as he departed with the child.

• Jiang Yang, Apollo, and Poseidon entered the damaged tribe, where the Golden Humans knelt in awe before them.
• Jiang Yang cut down the dying girl from the wooden frame and showed Apollo and Poseidon her humanlike features and golden-brown eyes.
• Jiang Yang asked the white-haired elder to let him take the girl and offered a gift in exchange.
• Jiang Yang forged a sword from a stone with golden flames and bestowed it on the tribe.
• Jiang Yang named the heirloom the Sword in the Stone.

Jiang Yang rescued Filiya from the shattered tribe and brought her with him, remembering how he had once taken in Ania. After the Sword King's legend spread through the Olympian Region, he and Poseidon, Apollo, and Filiya rode Sphinx toward Mount Olympus.

• Jiang Yang asked Filiya to come with him, and she agreed to serve him for life.
• Jiang Yang remembered rescuing Ania over a thousand years earlier and taking her in.
• Jiang Yang, Poseidon, and Apollo set out for Olympus with Filiya aboard the flying Sphinx.
• News of Sphinx's defeat spread, and the Golden Humans revered Jiang Yang as the Sword King and formed the powerful Sword Tribe.
• Several days later, Sphinx carried the group through the clouds toward Mount Olympus.

Jiang Yang attended a banquet on Mount Olympus, where a dispute between Hera, Artemis, Apollo, and Ares erupted. As he tried to calm the gathering, a familiar Titan Giant rose from Olympus and roared beneath the starry sky.

• Hera welcomed Jiang Yang to Olympus and explained that Zeus remained in seclusion while the gods celebrated.
• Artemis reunited with Jiang Yang, angering Hera, and Apollo confronted Ares when he defended his sister.
• Jiang Yang supported Artemis, who embraced him and said she had missed him and Ania.
• Apollo and Ares began grappling, smashing the banquet tables as Jiang Yang prepared to intervene.
• Mount Olympus shook, and a huge Titan Giant rose up, wreathed in lightning, and roared.

Zeus returned to Mount Olympus after breaking through to the Emperor-Rank Second Step and reunited with Jiang Yang, mistaking Artemis’s embrace for a romance. Their conversation turned to Gilgamesh’s talent and Zeus’s plan to forbid unions between gods and humans, before the gods resumed celebrating together.

• Zeus transformed into a Thunder Giant, then returned to his usual form and greeted Jiang Yang at Gods' Plaza.
• Zeus saw Artemis embracing Jiang Yang and accused his brother of courting his daughter, but Artemis eventually stepped away.
• Jiang Yang asked about Zeus’s breakthrough, and Zeus credited research and the video of Jiang Yang fighting Gilgamesh for inspiring it.
• Zeus proposed that the seven shelters prohibit unions between gods and humans to prevent another demigod like Gilgamesh from emerging.
• Jiang Yang and Zeus joked about the Forbidden Domain and fighting, while Zeus said he would make Jiang Yang his son if he explained how to enter it.
• The gods celebrated on Mount Olympus, with Artemis beside Jiang Yang and Filiya sleeping in a side hall.

Jiang Yang explained the Forbidden Domain to Zeus, whose researchers developed a combat-enhancing technique called Berserk Form. Later, Jiang Yang taught Filiya the Divine Clan's script and considered her future at the Norse Refuge before Artemis arrived at the temple.

• The Seven Great Refuges announced that Gods and humans could no longer enter into unions.
• Jiang Yang described the Forbidden Domain to Zeus, and Medis explained that its invincible mindset could not be replicated by most people.
• Medis told Zeus that researchers had developed Berserk Form to increase combat power, and Zeus looked forward to fighting Jiang Yang after learning it.
• Jiang Yang taught Filiya to read and write the Divine Clan's script because he planned to send her to the Norse Refuge.
• Artemis knocked at the temple door, and Jiang Yang greeted her with a knowing smile.

Jiang Yang and Artemis shared a playful visit before Zeus challenged Jiang Yang to test his newly learned Berserk Stance. After Zeus lost, he said he was confident they could defeat Typhon, leaving Jiang Yang asking what Typhon was.

• Artemis visited Jiang Yang and Filiya late at night, and Jiang Yang agreed not to reject Artemis yet.
• Zeus confronted Jiang Yang about Artemis sleeping in his room, transformed into a Thunder Titan Giant, and attacked him.
• Jiang Yang entered the Forbidden Domain and wounded Zeus, prompting Zeus to activate the Berserk Stance and fight him evenly.
• Zeus and Jiang Yang battled across the sky, and their mingled blood transformed a tribe of Golden Humans into giants.
• After the Berserk Stance ended, Zeus lost to Jiang Yang but said he could now help defeat Typhon, whom Jiang Yang did not know.

Jiang Yang, Zeus, and Ra lured Typhon to the shore to kill it, only to discover that it had reached the emperor-rank second step. As Typhon attacked the tribe and reached for the bait, Jiang Yang and Zeus launched their ambush.

• Jiang Yang, Zeus, and Ra watched a tribe that had abandoned the Divine Clan prepare a sacrifice to summon Typhon.
• Horus worried about the bait, and Hermes expressed concern for Luna as the Sea Flute's call continued without drawing Typhon out.
• Typhon emerged from the sea with an enormous army of marine beasts, and Jiang Yang confirmed that it had reached the emperor-rank second step.
• Typhon devoured hundreds of Golden Humans and reached for Luna, who was bound as the sacrifice.
• Jiang Yang severed Typhon's arm with Sword Qi as Zeus leaped into the air, and Jiang Yang challenged Typhon to fight.

Jiang Yang and Zeus fought Typhon until Typhon fled into the ocean, where Jiang Yang destroyed him with Gungnir. While retrieving the spent spear from the seabed, Jiang Yang discovered endless sleeping Apocalypse Monsters beneath the ocean floor and realized the catastrophe had only gone dormant.

• Zeus and Jiang Yang attacked Typhon while Ra, Sphinx, and the Divine Clan warriors battled sea beasts along the coast.
• Jiang Yang and Zeus weakened Typhon, but Typhon escaped into the ocean, and Jiang Yang pursued him despite Zeus's warning.
• Jiang Yang used Gungnir to detonate a powerful attack underwater, destroying Typhon and creating an enormous whirlpool.
• Jiang Yang found Gungnir in a crater on the seabed and noticed black blood beneath the spear.
• Jiang Yang uncovered endless sleeping Apocalypse Monsters beneath the seabed and concluded that the catastrophe had never truly ended.

Jiang Yang returned from killing Typhon and left Olympus for the Norse Divine Court to recharge Gungnir. Artemis confessed she would wait for him, but Jiang Yang remained devoted to the memory of Ania.

• A woman from the Heroic Spirit Throne was assigned to send Jiang Yang from the Fifth Epoch into the Silver Age so he could remain present in history.
• Jiang Yang emerged from the sea with Gungnir and showed the gods Typhon’s Heart, earning their cheers for defeating Typhon.
• Zeus teased Artemis for admiring Jiang Yang, while Jiang Yang and Zeus decided to leave the mortals who had betrayed the gods to fend for themselves.
• The surviving snake-tailed people later fled into the deep sea, where the Naga Clan eventually established its own civilization.
• After months of learning from Zeus, Jiang Yang set out with Filiya on Sphinx for the Norse Divine Court to recharge Gungnir.
• Artemis called after Jiang Yang that she would always wait for him, while he continued to remember Ania.

Jiang Yang hurried to the Norse divine domain after receiving the Norse Divine Clan’s plea for aid and found Fenrir’s Demon Wolf pack attacking it. Just as Fenrir prepared to kill the survivors, Jiang Yang intervened and challenged him.

• Jiang Yang traveled toward the Norse Refuge and learned that Odin had been wounded in a past battle with Fenrir, who had since become the Demon Wolves’ new king.
• The Norse Divine Clan sent Jiang Yang a plea for aid, and he rushed to find its domain surrounded by Fenrir’s pack and strewn with dead warriors.
• Fenrir demanded that Odin face him, while a young man with a war hammer taunted Fenrir and said his father would avenge them.
• Fenrir prepared to slaughter the Norse Divine Clan, but Jiang Yang appeared before the survivors and declared that he had come to beat Fenrir to death.

Jiang Yang fought Fenrir in the Norse Divine Court and killed the world-destroying wolf, breaking the demon wolves’ assault. He returned to Asgard Palace, where Frigga welcomed him.

• Jiang Yang confronted Fenrir, countered its darkness with his flame domain and Forbidden Domain, and fought it in the sky.
• Golden Human youths watched the battle from a nearby mountain and praised Jiang Yang as a golden-flamed god of war.
• Fenrir wounded Jiang Yang, but Jiang Yang severed Fenrir’s head after its confidence faltered.
• Seeing their king slain, the demon wolves fled north while Jiang Yang returned to the Divine Court with Fenrir’s head.
• Jiang Yang entered Asgard Palace, where Frigga greeted him.

Jiang Yang saved the Norse gods by slaying Fenrir, and Odin emerged from seclusion after breaking through to Emperor-Rank Second Step as the World Tree. Odin thanked Jiang Yang and announced plans to clear the Norse region and rebuild the Divine Court as Asgard.

• Frigga thanked Jiang Yang for saving the Norse gods and killing Fenrir, while lamenting the Divine Clan’s losses.
• Jiang Yang asked about Odin, and Frigga explained that he had been in seclusion for six months.
• A towering World Tree grew beneath Asgard Palace as Odin completed his breakthrough.
• Odin transformed from the World Tree, apologized to the gods for arriving too late, and embraced Jiang Yang in gratitude.
• Odin announced that the gods would clear the Norse region and rebuild their Divine Court, which he named Asgard.

Jiang Yang entrusted Gungnir to Aulisel, who used a crystal left behind by Typhon to speed up its recharging. After agreeing to protect the researchers, Jiang Yang prepared to tell Aulisel about the terror he had witnessed beneath the sea.

• Jiang Yang brought Gungnir to Aulisel at the Norse Refuge and asked her to recharge it, but she warned that it could take a thousand years.
• Jiang Yang gave Aulisel a powerful blue-violet crystal from Typhon, and she said it would greatly shorten the recharging time.
• Jiang Yang invited Aulisel for a drink, and they spent the night talking on the refuge dome.
• Aulisel explained that the Divine Court and the research institute had separated, and she asked Jiang Yang to become the researchers' protector.
• Jiang Yang agreed and began to tell Aulisel about something he had witnessed in the depths of the sea.

Jiang Yang learned that countless Doomsday Monsters remained beneath the ocean and visited Aulisel’s human settlement, where she was breeding descendants of true humans to eventually replace the Golden Humans. Months later, he set out with Filiya for the Far North Shelter to visit Isa and the frozen Ania.

• Jiang Yang told Aulisel that the ocean floor held endless Doomsday Monsters, and she asked him to inform the seven God Kings while keeping the discovery from the wider Divine Clan.
• Aulisel showed Jiang Yang a village of about three thousand humans created through a thousand years of work, explaining that their descendants would gradually replace the Golden Humans.
• Aulisel suggested leaving Filiya in the settlement to reproduce, but Jiang Yang decided to keep her with him because she reminded him of Ania.
• Jiang Yang praised Aulisel’s work and said he hoped billions of humans would one day live across the land.
• Several months later, Jiang Yang left Odin and Aulisel and rode Sphinx east with Filiya toward the Far North Shelter to visit Isa and Ania, who had been sealed in ice.

After leaving Northern Europe, Jiang Yang agreed to return to the Great Snowfield Shelter after visiting the Far North, where he found Isa waiting for him. He saw the sorrow in her face and asked when she had last smiled.

• Jiang Yang and the Seven God Kings discussed their discoveries in the Deep Sea but found no solution, while Li Xiaowa asked Jiang Yang to return to the Great Snowfield Shelter.
• Jiang Yang agreed to visit Li Xiaowa after going to the Far North to see Isa and Ania, who remained encased in ice.
• Jiang Yang and Filiya arrived at the Far North Divine Temple, where the Divine Clan welcomed him and told him Isa was waiting inside.
• Jiang Yang found Isa standing at the palace entrance and asked how long it had been since she last smiled.

Jiang Yang reunited with Isa in the Ice and Snow Divine Court, reassured her that he never blamed her, and visited Ania, who remained frozen in the Far East Shelter. After helping Kefu obtain materials from an emperor-rank dire bear, Jiang Yang left the Far North to return to his old home, while Isa watched him go with a smile.

• Jiang Yang told Isa he had never blamed her for what happened to Ania and encouraged her to grow stronger and smile each day.
• Isa took Jiang Yang to the Far East Shelter, where he saw Ania preserved in an ice coffin and promised to bring her back.
• Jiang Yang stayed beside Ania's ice coffin for three days and three nights before speaking with Kefu, the Far East Shelter's head.
• Kefu asked Jiang Yang to help obtain materials from an emperor-rank dire bear, and Jiang Yang killed the beast and brought it back.
• Jiang Yang spent another month in the Far North, then said farewell to Isa and set off for his old home.
• Isa watched toward the southern horizon and thanked Jiang Yang with a lovely smile.

Jiang Yang established the Kunlun Divine Court, brought peace to the expanding territory he named Eastern Cang, and finally broke through to Emperor-Rank Second Step as a Golden Crow. The chapter ended when a researcher arrived with an urgent message from Li Xiaowa.

• Jiang Yang took over as leader from Li Xiaowa, who returned to her laboratory, and later established the Kunlun Divine Court on Kunlun Mountain.
• The six major Divine Courts sent representatives to congratulate Jiang Yang, and he led Kunlun’s gods in driving away or killing dangerous mutant beasts.
• Over several centuries, the population and settled lands expanded, so Jiang Yang named the region Eastern Cang as members of the Divine Clan reached Emperor-Rank Second Step.
• After half a year in seclusion, Jiang Yang broke through to Emperor-Rank Second Step and revealed his God Form as a magnificent Golden Crow.
• A researcher arrived at Kunlun Mountain and told Jiang Yang that Director Li Xiaowa urgently needed to see him.

In the Sixth Epoch, Aulisel warned the Divine Courts and shelters that a faster-than-light asteroid would strike Earth and cause a devastating flood in three months. The meeting ended with orders to protect Earth’s species and help the Golden Humans reach high ground.

• Twenty years before the apocalypse, a hooded girl and two teammates arrived in Jade Capital during the Fifth Epoch and headed toward Tianhai University to carry out their mission.
• Jiang Yang arrived at the Great Snowfield Shelter and joined a meeting with the other Divine Courts and shelters, which Aulisel convened to discuss a threat to Earth.
• Aulisel revealed that an asteroid traveling faster than light was headed for Earth and would land in the ocean, causing an unprecedented flood rather than destroying the world.
• The gods argued over whether to save mortal lives until Jiang Yang ordered them to listen to Aulisel.
• Aulisel directed the shelters and Divine Courts to protect Earth's species and help the Golden Humans find high ground, warning that the flood would arrive in three months.

A Great Flood devastated the world, and Jiang Yang led the gods in planting seeds and restoring life. Over the following thousand years, new races spread across the land, ushering in the Silver Age as the Golden Humans withdrew.

• A blue meteor struck the ocean, unleashing a month-long flood that killed most living beings and reduced the Golden Humans to a few tens of thousands.
• Jiang Yang and the gods emerged after the flood and found the land devastated, then Jiang Yang planted a fiery-red tree seed and urged them to revive the world.
• The gods of the Seven Divine Courts began restoring the land, while Aulisel released Golden Humans from the Norse Refuge to live and multiply.
• Over a thousand years, the descendants of the Golden Humans formed races including elves, dwarves, gnomes, fairies, demi-humans, orcs, and the Silver Human Race.
• The silver folk spread and worshipped the gods as the Golden Humans withdrew, marking the beginning of the Silver Age.

In the Silver Age, faith empowered the gods but drove them to compete and break the ban on personal intervention. Jiang Yang punished Rain God Cao Man and Grain God Yun Han, then heard from Filiya that Li Xiaowa’s latest research had found faith was poisonous.

• The gods discovered that the Silver Folk’s faith made them stronger, leading to rivalries and God Wars among the Divine Clans.
• Jiang Yang ordered Cao Man and Yun Han to the Thunder Terrace for intervening in a war between two city-states, and warned the gods he would punish future violations severely.
• Cao Man and Yun Han agreed they had better behave after Jiang Yang left the hall in anger.
• Filiya met Jiang Yang at his palace, where he complained that the gods kept testing his patience.
• Filiya told Jiang Yang that Li Xiaowa’s latest research had found faith was poisonous.