Chapter Summaries

The chapter introduced Ferland, a continent ruled by humans and Transcendent Knights, and traced the Knights’ origins in wizard experiments and their rise to power. After a group of Knights lost a sparring match to a young man, the narration began recounting the ancient Knight named Ferland.

• The narration described Ferland’s kingdoms, its powerful Knight civilization, and its expansion into the Star Realm.
• A young Knight defeated Aila, Land, Hafra, and Lennig in a manor’s sparring match and mocked them.
• The chapter explained that the first Knights were humans implanted with Magic Beast bloodlines by wizards.
• Knights’ bloodlines gradually changed, but those with less Magic Beast blood were still regarded as inferior.
• The narration recounted how other races attacked the human kingdoms and many Knights died before the great Knight Ferland was born.

The chapter recounted Ferland’s rise from a baron’s second son with a weak bloodline to the King of Knights, ruler of the Ferland Continent. In the present, young knights celebrated the Wende Lineage’s plans to explore another world before a vast golden breach opened in the sky.

• Ferland overcame his weak Wind Bird bloodline, learned wizarding knowledge, and forged a path as a knight, eventually reaching the Fifth Step and defeating the world’s wizards.
• Ferland led the Transcendent Knights to victory in another War of Ten Thousand Races and became the revered King of Knights.
• On a manor’s training field, Karami defeated his younger brother Aila, then revealed he would soon join Great-Uncle Edward on an expedition to conquer another world.
• Karami told the young knights that Edward’s lineage had bought an Astral Realm Battleship to travel to another world.
• A terrifying boom rang across Ferland as an enormous golden opening tore through the sky, and people looked up in alarm.

A golden rift opened over Ferland, and the Azure Sky Kunpeng’s corpse fell from it as thousands of Sky Cities appeared. A powerful voice then demanded that Ferland submit or face death.

• The Azure Sky Kunpeng fell from the rift and crashed into the earth, forming a vast lake of blood.
• Great-Uncle Edward summoned eight Pillars of Gale that suppressed the impact’s tremors.
• The Knights recognized the dead Azure Sky Kunpeng as Knight King Ferland’s longtime companion and wondered where the Knight King was.
• Thousands of Sky Cities emerged from the rift, including an enormous Cloud Sea City surrounded by hundreds of powerful figures.
• A voice resounded throughout Ferland and demanded, “Submit, and I won't kill you!”

The Knights of Ferland faced an invasion after Knight King Ferland was defeated in the Star Realm, but he refused to surrender and ordered his forces to fight. The Knights launched an attack on the Sky Cities as Aila and the other young Knights watched, convinced Ferland would prevail.

• Transcendent Knights across Ferland feared their world would be destroyed after unknown enemies breached its barrier and defeated Knight King Ferland in the Star Realm.
• Knight King Ferland declared that he would never submit and ordered the Knights of Ferland to drive out the invaders.
• The Knights of Ferland answered his command and charged toward the Sky Cities.
• Aila pointed out that her great-uncle had taken to the sky to attack the enemy, while the young Knights vowed to defeat the invaders and conquer their homeworld.

Karami watched the battle between Ferland and the Divine Clan, fearing that the Knight King had lost. Ferland rose to face Jiang Yang again and called for Deep Blue to add points, leaving his hidden trump card unrevealed.

• Karami stopped the young knights from rushing into the city and asked Master Ned to protect his younger brothers while he went to help.
• Ferland crashed from the sky into the continent, making the knights fear that their king had been defeated.
• Jiang Yang appeared above the world and declared that Ferland had lost.
• Ferland rose from the earth, confronted Jiang Yang, and shouted, "Deep Blue, add points!"

Ferland recovered and unleashed a tremendous surge of power, but Jiang Yang revealed hundreds of identical Radiant Shadows and asked him to surrender. Faced with overwhelming odds, Ferland gave up the fight.

• Ferland healed completely and greatly increased his power, inspiring his Knights to cheer for him.
• Ferland challenged Jiang Yang to submit, but Jiang Yang asked again whether he would surrender.
• Ferland attacked with his lance after declaring that Jiang Yang would die.
• Jiang Yang summoned a silver Milky Way and hundreds of Radiant Shadows identical to himself.
• Ferland withdrew his lance and surrendered when he realized he could not fight hundreds of Jiang Yangs.

Jiang Yang accepted Ferland’s surrender and bound the Ferland Continent’s Knights to the Divine Clan for a hundred thousand years. After consolidating the conquest, he ordered them to prepare for an expedition against Viren World, which would begin in ten years.

• Jiang Yang accepted Ferland’s surrender and required him to swear a Great Dao oath of submission to the Divine Clan for a hundred thousand years.
• Ferland swore the oath, and the Transcendent Knights across his world gave up their resistance.
• A month later, Jiang Yang held court at Ferland’s Supreme Knight Royal Court while Odin demonstrated the Divine Clan’s strength to defiant World-Destroying Knights.
• Ferland reported that he had gathered forty-five World-Destroying Knights, ten thousand Calamity Knights, and five hundred thousand Sky Knights for the Divine Clan’s next campaign.
• Jiang Yang announced an expedition against Viren World in ten years and ordered the Knights to finish their preparations.

Jiang Yang prepared to merge Ferland World with Mayi World while planning an expedition to the Villen Great World. Ferland privately resented the plan but urged his World-Destroying Knights to accept Jiang Yang’s rule and conceal their anger.

• Qing Fengxi told Jiang Yang that the teleportation array for merging the worlds was ready and asked whether Ferland’s people would object; Jiang Yang said Ferland had already agreed.
• Jiang Yang assigned Odin and Zeus to join his expedition, while Qing Fengxi, Ra, and Isa stayed behind to oversee the world merger.
• Ferland’s World-Destroying Knights worried that the Divine Clan might harm their families while they were away, and Ferland reassured them that Jiang Yang would not do so.
• Ferland privately admitted that he opposed the merger and hoped Deep Blue would eventually let him defeat Jiang Yang, but he told the knights to address Jiang Yang as God Lord and hide any resentment.

Karami arrived at the Pantheon Hall in Feren City to join the Divine Clan’s expedition to Vilen, where the God Lord and Knight King would lead the campaign. While waiting, he learned that the Divine Clan planned to conquer countless Great Thousand Worlds and that his friends’ Lineages were seeking favor with its rulers.

• Karami rode through Feren City, observing the Divine Clan’s presence and the changes the God Lord’s will had brought to the skies.
• Karami reached the Pantheon Hall to answer the recruitment order and join the expedition to Vilen.
• Karami reunited with Gina and Charlie, who said their Lineages expected the campaign to be safe and planned to cooperate with the Divine Clan.
• Charlie told Karami that the Divine Clan intended to conquer every Great Thousand World within its reach and that his ancestor had sought favor with a Divine Clan God King.
• Karami wondered whether every world within the Gods’ sight would become a target for conquest.

Jiang Yang led Ferland’s forces on an expedition to conquer the Villen Great World while Li Xiaowa and Aulisel began merging Mayi World with Ferland. After decades of the worlds’ Wills devouring one another, a new Divine Realm emerged.

• Jiang Yang rallied the Star Realm expeditionary force and set out to conquer the Villen Great World.
• Li Xiaowa and Aulisel used the Divine Clan’s resources and teleportation array to move Mayi World beside Ferland.
• Divine Clan God Kings ordered the Calamity Knights who remained in Ferland to protect its people as the two worlds began merging.
• With support from Jiang Yang’s Sky Divine Throne, Ferland’s Sun was devoured first, followed by the sky, atmosphere, oceans, and continents.
• Fifty years later, Li Xiaowa, Aulisel, and the others declared the newly merged world a Divine Realm.

Li Xiaowa, Aulisel, and the Divine Clan expanded the Divine Realm by integrating worlds as islands and stars, while Jiang Yang’s expedition conquered Villen Great World. The chapter ended with Jiang Yang wondering whether Ferland’s “Deep Blue, add points!” was a Transcendent Knight technique, though only Ferland had shown that power.

• Li Xiaowa, Aulisel, and the others fused Mayi World and the World of Ferland into one world with two separate continents.
• Li Xiaowa, Aulisel, and the Divine Clan integrated Green World into the Divine Realm as a star and offered the Transcendent Knight lineages a choice between making their worlds islands or stars.
• Most of the lineages chose to turn their worlds into stars, accepting the duty of guarding the Divine Realm’s outer space.
• Over the next fifty years, the lineages moved their worlds into the Divine Realm, greatly expanding its population and resources.
• Jiang Yang’s expeditionary army defeated the ruler of Villen Great World after Ferland had already beaten its strongest fighter by shouting “Deep Blue, add points!”
• Jiang Yang wondered whether Ferland’s sudden power was a Transcendent Knight technique, but no one else had displayed it.

Jiang Yang’s Divine Clan conquered Viren World and fused it into the Divine Realm, then expanded across more than a hundred Great Worlds. After settling on the Sky Divine Throne, he sensed a stirring as a baby was born on Earth beneath a celestial vision.

• Jiang Yang watched Knight King Ferland kill the unyielding Overlord of Viren World, after which the Villen people resisted fiercely before surrendering to the Divine Clan.
• Li Xiaowa, Aulisel, and other Divine Clan members arrived in Viren World to continue the Divine Realm Fusion Plan, and the world became the Villen Continent a hundred years later.
• Transcendent knights discovered that their worlds and resource realms had joined the Divine Realm, and they worried that their civilization would eventually be absorbed by the Divine Clan.
• The Divine Clan conquered more than a hundred Great Worlds, gained the submission of over fifty Sixth Step powerhouses, and spread Jiang Yang’s fame throughout the universe.
• Jiang Yang settled on the Sky Divine Throne and sensed a stirring while cultivating as a baby was born on Earth beneath a vision of the sun descending into an embrace.

After ruling for a thousand years, Jiang Shennong adopted Jiang Linkui as his son and successor, then withdrew to Mount Kongtong to cultivate. Linkui established the Flame Emperor Lineage and, after a thousand years of rule, chose Jiang Cheng to succeed him.

• The Shennong Clan flourished as the five grains spread, while its people worried that Jiang Shennong had no son to inherit his position.
• After a thousand years of rule, Jiang Shennong decided to step down and searched the clan for a worthy successor.
• Jiang Shennong adopted Jiang Linkui, taught him Qi Refining, and passed the chief's position to him after more than twenty years.
• Emperor Kui adopted the title of the second Shennong and Flame Emperor, beginning the hereditary Flame Emperor Lineage and honoring the Fuxi ancestor as the Azure Emperor.
• After ruling for a thousand years, Emperor Kui chose Jiang Cheng, a descendant with some cultivation talent, as his successor and taught him for twenty years.
• Emperor Kui died, and Jiang Cheng succeeded him.

The Flame Emperor line continued its eastward migrations as the Shennong Tribe grew, fought northern invaders, and absorbed allied tribes. Under Di Yuwang, two remarkable infants, Xuanyuan Clan and Shaoyang Clan, were born beside the Ji River.

• Emperor Cheng led the Shennong Tribe east after surveying fertile lands, and his successors Emperor Ming and Emperor Zhi continued its expansion and migration.
• Emperor Mao tamed descendants of Divine Beasts, including a young Yinglong, while Emperor Ai presided over further growth.
• Emperor Ke led the Shennong Clan against northern mixed-blood tribes, then settled the Fangfeng Clan in southern marshlands and the Longbo giants on the northern coast.
• A Youxiong Clan branch settled beside the Ji River, where Yinglong helped its leader raise Divine Beasts.
• Under Di Yuwang, Shaodian named his newborn son Xuanyuan Clan after a vision of the northern lights.
• The finest archer's son was born the next day, and Shaodian named him Shaoyang Clan after a vision of the Great Sun descending into an embrace.

The chapter followed Xuanyuan, Shaoyang, and Limu as they grew up together in the powerful Youxiong Clan tribe and became close companions. At twelve, they ventured deep into the wilderness and entered a jade-filled river, where Xuanyuan’s impulsiveness led the others into the water despite Limu’s warning about a possible beast guarding the treasure.

• Di Yuwang struggled to govern as the Shennong Tribe weakened and independent tribes fought over people, land, and resources.
• Xuanyuan and Shaoyang were born in the Youxiong Clan tribe and grew up as close friends, with Xuanyuan skilled with a sword and Shaoyang talented with a bow.
• A herding tribe’s chief left his son Limu with Xuanyuan and Shaoyang, and the three boys became friends.
• At twelve, Xuanyuan, Shaoyang, and Limu traveled deep into the Great Wilderness to hunt and found jade in a clear river.
• Limu warned that a vicious beast might guard the treasure, but Xuanyuan jumped into the river, followed by Shaoyang and then Limu.

While fishing by a river, Xuanyuan, Jiang Yang, and Limu were attacked by a Gudiao and fled toward the Youxiong Tribes. Yinglong’s cry drove the beast away, and she flew out to ask Xuanyuan where it had gone.

• Xuanyuan shared his ambition to pacify the Great Wilderness, and Limu vowed to fight for him while Jiang Yang agreed to help.
• A Gudiao sprang from the grass, and Xuanyuan recognized it as a beast usually found near Luwu Mountain.
• Jiang Yang wounded and blinded the Gudiao while Xuanyuan struck it from below, and Limu arrived on a horse to carry them away.
• The Gudiao pursued the three toward the Youxiong Tribes as Xuanyuan talked about inventing a weapon for them to fight together.
• Yinglong’s cry stopped the Gudiao near the tribes, and Jiang Yang’s glare sent it fleeing.
• Yinglong flew up beside the youths and asked Xuanyuan where the Gudiao had gone.

Yinglong transformed and reprimanded Xuanyuan and his companions for provoking Gudiao, warning them about the dangers of the Great Wilderness and recalling the Divine Clan’s role in protecting it. She approved of Limu’s reverence, disapproved of Jiang Yang’s indifference, and privately resolved to make him a vanguard when war came.

• Yinglong decided Gudiao was not worth pursuing and considered visiting Kunlun to ask about the four great vicious beasts.
• Yinglong transformed into a woman, approached Jiang Yang, Limu, and Xuanyuan, and questioned Xuanyuan about provoking Gudiao.
• Xuanyuan claimed the group had merely lost their way, and Yinglong warned the youths to respect the dangers of the world.
• Yinglong praised the Divine Clan’s protection of the primordial land, while Limu listened sincerely and Xuanyuan remained unconvinced.
• Yinglong privately resented Jiang Yang’s lack of reverence and planned to make him a vanguard when war came.

Years after Xuanyuan, Shaoyang, and Limu became formidable warriors, Di Yuwang tried to rally the Youxiong Clan against Chiyou’s expanding southern tribe. Shaodian refused to obey Shennong’s commands and revealed his ambition to make his son the next Shennong, while Xuanyuan burned with ambition of his own.

• Xuanyuan, Shaoyang, and Limu grew into the strongest warriors in the Youxiong Clan as the tribes across the Great River Basin fought one another and Chiyou’s bronze-wielding tribe expanded through the south.
• Di Yuwang sent Rongcheng to ask the Shaodian Clan to submit again to Shennong and join against Chiyou.
• Shaodian told Rongcheng that the Youxiong Clan faced a powerful enemy in the north and could not obey Shennong’s commands.
• After Rongcheng left, Shaodian declared that he would become Jiang and that his son would become the next Shennong.
• Jiang Yang privately found Shaodian’s ambition absurd, while Xuanyuan’s eyes kindled with his own desire to contend for dominion.

The Divine Realm had grown into a vast world ruled by God Lord Jiang Yang and the powerful Divine Clan, whose legends spread throughout its civilizations. Jiang Yang opened his eyes on the Sky Divine Throne and looked beyond the Divine Realm’s Domain.

• The Divine Realm expanded for ten thousand years as worlds and civilizations joined it under the Divine Clan’s rule.
• The gods of the Divine Clan grew to the fifth and sixth steps, and even Aulisel became a fifth-step Main God under Li Xiaowa’s supervision.
• Bards across the Divine Realm sang of Jiang Yang’s supremacy and the submission of gods, kings, and warriors.
• Jiang Yang opened his eyes on the Sky Divine Throne and gazed beyond the Domain containing the Divine Realm.

Jiang Yang saw an immense Star Realm ship arrive carrying powerful Sixth Step experts and the heads of six Divine Realm True Kings, prompting him to issue a golden decree. On Earth, Xuanyuan became lord of the Youxiong Clan, and Di Yuwang sent troops against it during the leadership transition.

• A Star Realm ship arrived, and Jiang Yang sensed hundreds of Sixth Step experts aboard while recognizing the six severed heads as the True Kings who had served the Divine Clan.
• Jiang Yang issued a golden divine decree that spread throughout the Divine Realm.
• The man in blue reassured Jiang Lingling that he would defeat the Divine Realm’s God Lord, while his nine disciples teased one another and he privately resolved to win them all over after his conquest.
• Xuanyuan led the Youxiong Clan’s armies through years of campaigns, while Di Yuwang worked to restore the Shennong Clan’s authority over nearby tribes.
• After Shaodian died, Xuanyuan formally became lord of the Youxiong Clan.
• Di Yuwang, the ninth Shennong, seized the moment of transition and dispatched troops against the Youxiong Clan.