Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yang’s scientific advances with Karl and Qing Fengxi eased his concerns about the Devil invasion, and he set off with Filiya for Olympus to meet Zeus. During the flight, he reflected on his journey to the Fourth Epoch and remembered Aniya, still sealed in ice.

• Karl and Qing Fengxi began researching a Divine Clan evolution method that combined Devil body modification with Angel energy modification.
• Jiang Yang decided to resume his journey to Olympus and meet the current Zeus.
• Jiang Yang and Filiya boarded an airship heading west, and he told her that his original goal for traveling had already been achieved.
• Jiang Yang reflected that his experience in the Fourth Epoch had overcome his cultivation bottleneck, and that holding back his breakthrough had allowed him to return.
• Jiang Yang thought of Aniya, still frozen in the far north, and wondered when he could wake her.
• The airship reached sight of the sacred Divine Mountain of Olympus before nightfall.

Jiang Yang visited Mount Olympus and learned that most of its gods had gone to watch the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. A rumor that their Golden Apple would go to Olympus’s most beautiful goddess had drawn the gods there, and Jiang Yang was left wondering what would happen.

• Jiang Yang arrived on Mount Olympus with Filiya and asked Amenchios why so few Divine Clan members were there.
• Artemis greeted Jiang Yang, and she and Filiya chatted while Amenchios slipped away.
• Artemis explained that many Olympian gods had descended to the mortal world after Zeus’s secret marriage and children were exposed.
• Artemis told Jiang Yang that Peleus and Thetis were holding a wedding, where Jason had presented a Golden Apple.
• Artemis said a rumor claimed Peleus and Thetis would give the Golden Apple to the most beautiful goddess on Olympus.

Jiang Yang, Artemis, and Filiya traveled to Thetis's wedding, where they found the feast already underway. A Golden Apple inscribed for the most beautiful goddess was presented to the guests, setting up the contest.

• Filiya urged Jiang Yang to attend Thetis's wedding and see which goddess would be chosen as the most beautiful.
• Artemis criticized the Olympian Gods for neglecting their training but agreed to accompany Jiang Yang and see the Golden Apple's selection.
• Jiang Yang, Artemis, and Filiya flew to the wedding venue, a waterfront square filled with gods and mortals celebrating.
• The wedding feast was underway when a Golden Apple bearing the words “For the most beautiful goddess” was presented to the guests.

At Thetis and Peleus's wedding feast, Zeus put Paris in charge of choosing the fairest goddess, and Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite each offered him a reward. Just as Paris began choosing Aphrodite, Artemis arrived with a powerful golden-haired man and demanded that Paris choose her instead.

• Thetis asked the gods to decide who should receive the Golden Apple, and Zeus nominated Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite as candidates for the fairest goddess.
• Zeus summoned Paris to judge the three goddesses after the assembled gods accepted his proposal.
• Hera offered Paris power, Athena promised him wisdom and strength, and Aphrodite promised him the world's most beautiful mortal woman as his wife.
• Paris began to choose Aphrodite, but three figures descended in golden light and interrupted him.
• Artemis promised Paris that he and his descendants would live in peace and safety if he chose her, leaving him alarmed and uncertain.

Artemis rebuked Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena for competing to be named the most beautiful goddess, and Jiang Yang arrived at Peleus and Thetis’s wedding. After the couple married, Jiang Yang’s expression darkened, leaving the gods to face whatever serious matter he had come to address.

• Artemis interrupted the beauty contest and scolded Aphrodite and Hera for caring about Paris’s choice.
• Artemis challenged Athena, and the sisters bickered until Jiang Yang told them to stop.
• Jiang Yang arrived at the wedding and became the center of attention as the gods welcomed him enthusiastically.
• Thetis told Peleus that Jiang Yang was the God King of the Kunlun Divine Court and the King of All Gods, revered for his strength and for protecting the world.
• Jiang Yang congratulated Peleus and Thetis, and they completed their wedding proceedings.
• As the gods prepared to celebrate, Jiang Yang’s expression darkened.

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.