Chapter Summaries

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.

Jiang Yang reunited with Filiya and Yuna in the Divine Temple and learned how devoted Yuna had been to spreading his faith. Concerned that her Silver Folk lifespan was limited, he gave her his divine blood and made her his kin, leaving her newly transformed with golden eyes and greater strength.

• Jiang Yang recognized Yuna as the princess he had met in the ruins of a kingdom's capital centuries earlier.
• Filiya praised Yuna for tirelessly spreading Jiang Yang's faith and affectionately embraced her.
• Jiang Yang noticed a frost-white strand in Yuna's hair and asked about her years in Midsummer and her feelings toward her homeland and hardships.
• Yuna declared that she had never regretted her choices and devoted her life to spreading Jiang Yang's glory.
• Jiang Yang offered Yuna his blood so she could become his kin and endure beyond her Silver Folk lifespan.
• Yuna accepted Jiang Yang's divine blood, awakened with golden eyes, and felt her body filled with strength.

Jiang Yang accepted Yuna as his Divine Blood Kin and gave her a token to visit him at Kunlun Divine Mountain. He, Filiya, and Yuna then flew aboard the Divine Temple’s airship toward Seaside City on the Sea of Storms, where they were nearing their destination.

• Yuna thanked Jiang Yang for extending her lifespan and allowing her to cultivate Divine Law, then accepted his token to visit him at Kunlun Divine Mountain.
• Jiang Yang asked Yuna to take him and Filiya to Seaside City to investigate the Sea Tribe incident.
• Yuna led Jiang Yang and Filiya through the Divine Temple, where clergy recognized the God King and later spread stories of his visit.
• Yuna showed them the Divine Temple’s finest airship, the Divine Envoy, and they set off toward the Sea of Storms.
• Filiya spotted the Sea of Storms on the horizon as the airship approached.

Jiang Yang, Yuna, and Filiya arrived by airship at war-torn Seaside City, where the Midsummer Dynasty’s Ninth Princess was leading the defenders against the Sea Tribe. The Sea Tribe withdrew when the Saintess’s vessel landed, but a commanding young man emerged from it before the Priestess did.

• Jiang Yang, Yuna, and Filiya spotted the battle for Seaside City from their airship and saw the Ninth Princess rallying the defenders.
• Yuna piloted the airship down toward the ruins to investigate the Sea Tribe warriors.
• A knight told the Ninth Princess that the Saintess’s airship was arriving, and the white-haired Saint Domain knight sensed that the Saintess had grown stronger.
• The Sea Tribe troops withdrew as the airship settled among the ruins.
• A staircase extended from the airship, and a golden-haired, golden-eyed young man descended before the Priestess in white.

Jiang Yang, Filiya, and Yuna arrived at Seaside City, where Ninth Princess Li Mingyue welcomed them as Saint Domain experts. As Li Mingyue led them to a meeting, she began explaining the Naga Clan’s invasion and the mystery of why its superior forces had not attacked decisively.

• Jiang Yang, Filiya, and Yuna descended from their airship onto the ruins of Seaside City, impressing Li Mingyue with their presence.
• Yuna introduced Jiang Yang and Filiya to Li Mingyue as her friends and fellow Saint Domain experts.
• The Borli Lineage knight recognized Jiang Yang as Haotian Shangdi, but obeyed Yuna’s request not to reveal his identity.
• Jiang Yang introduced himself and Filiya as Yang Jiang and Yang Xi, siblings who had left seclusion to investigate the Sea Tribe.
• Li Mingyue welcomed the three and led them toward a meeting room, noting that the Sea Tribe had not used its superior Saint Domain strength to win quickly.
• Li Mingyue explained that the Sea Tribe called itself the Naga Clan and claimed to be forsaken by the gods.

Otus led a rebellion against his sister, the naga chief, arguing that the Naga Clan should leave the deep sea and seize land rather than seek the gods’ forgiveness. He swam toward the surface with most of the naga, while the chief and her remaining followers decided to go see what happened.

• The naga chief confronted Otus for attacking land-dwellers and violating their ancestors’ teachings.
• Otus rejected the idea that the naga needed to atone, saying their ancestors had fled to the sea out of fear and that the clan deserved to live in sunlight.
• Otus urged the naga to seize fertile land by force, and more of them rallied behind him.
• The chief warned that Otus’s rebellion would defy the gods and bring disaster, but Otus dismissed the gods as powerful creatures and left for the surface.
• Most of the naga followed Otus, and the chief decided to go up with her remaining followers to see his fate.