Chapter Summaries

Pawa progressed through ranked battles in [World Tree Space] as it spread across the continent and brought Xiluo millions of gold coins. The chapter ended with Pawa watching Gordon Kenneth defeat Archdevil Laines in a public Legendary battle.

• Pawa reached Gold Rank Tier 1 before the five-hour limit forced him to leave [World Tree Realm], and he told his companions about his rank.
• People across the continent praised [World Tree Space], while subjects in nations without World Tree Offshoots pressured their rulers to invite the Nature Elves.
• Over the next month, [World Tree Space] spread through more than sixty to seventy percent of the continent's nations and earned Xiluo three million gold coins as [Continent Hero Legend] card sales boomed.
• Pawa advanced to Platinum Tier 1 but clarified to onlookers that he had not reached Diamond.
• Pawa examined the Legendary Rankings and watched Gordon Kenneth challenge the ninety-seventh-ranked Archdevil Laines.
• After a battle lasting two hours, Gordon Kenneth won at great cost, and Pawa returned to where he had been.

After [World Tree Space] introduced currency exchanges and paid spectating, more people joined to earn gold, and competition on the rankings intensified. Xiluo Utrasis fought his first Legendary Rank battle against a Pit Fiend, revealed a colossal bloodline-powered dragon form, and won in minutes.

• [World Tree Space] announced that users could buy and exchange game currency, purchase spells and combat techniques, and earn fees from paid spectating.
• Aite Finis and Ao Jin Eternal decided to seek permission to introduce a World Tree Offshoot after learning how much ranked fighters could earn.
• As [World Tree Space] gained users and competition intensified, Gordon Kenneth fell off the [Legendary Rank] leaderboard and Xiluo Utrasis began fighting more often.
• Xiluo faced a Pit Fiend in his first battle since entering the Legendary Rank leaderboard and gathered lightning across the battlefield.
• Xiluo grew into a dragon over four hundred meters long, struck the ground with tremendous force, and defeated the Pit Fiend in about five minutes.

After failing to obtain the Sub-Iron Dragon God's blessing directly, Xiluo paid five million gold coins for an Ancient Dragon to grant it instead. The blessing completed his set of four Dragon God blessings and changed his status to the blessing of Dragon God Io, leaving him wondering about Io's connection to the Four Dragon Gods.

• After winning another short battle, Xiluo reviewed the legendary rankings and considered the strength of the top ten fighters.
• Xiluo decided to buy the final Dragon God blessing and asked Baphomet to contact the Sub-Iron Dragon God, but the attempt failed.
• Xiluo asked Bahamut to intercede with the Sub-Iron Dragon God, but Bahamut said the hostility between the gods made it impossible.
• Bahamut revealed that one of the Sub-Iron Dragon God's children could grant the blessing for five million gold coins, and Xiluo paid the price.
• An unnamed Iron Dragon Ancient Dragon appeared through a spatial wormhole and bestowed the blessing on Xiluo.
• Xiluo saw that his status now showed the Blessing of the Dragon God Io and wondered whether Io had become the Four Dragon Gods.

After receiving all four Dragon Gods’ Blessings, Xiluo learned that he could keep growing beyond the usual limits of Dragonkind. He spent eight million gold coins on materials to complete his Primal Dragon progress, then watched a Titan who had been challenging Dragons lose to Gordon as his forces continued to grow stronger.

• Bahamut told Xiluo that the blessings had greatly extended his lifespan and let him grow without stopping, potentially to the size of a mountain.
• Xiluo exchanged eight million gold coins with Archbishop Xiwel for materials, devoured them, and advanced his Primal Dragon progress to 100%, growing to nearly sixty-nine meters long.
• Xiluo read about Eudora · Land of Extreme Frost, a Titan with a perfect record against Dragons who humiliated her defeated opponents, and heard from Alicia that Eudora had beaten and insulted her.
• Xiluo told Alicia he would deal with Eudora when their paths crossed, then continued competing until his ranking rose to seventy-sixth.
• Eudora challenged Gordon and lost narrowly, ending the attention she had gained; Xiluo reflected that his forces had grown strong enough to handle most situations without him.

The Three Gods Church accused the World Tree of being an evil god that drained people’s mental power through [World Tree Space] and began spreading rumors to turn the public against the elves. The Elf Queen revealed that the World Tree was the fallen God of Nature’s incarnation and drew people in to absorb their faith, leaving Xiluo and his allies facing a likely war with the churches.

• Radamanti Tyr's Hand, Cocaine Pelor's Light, and Boliulisi Shantia's Love told the clergy that the nature elves and the World Tree threatened Domirank Star, and the clergy agreed to oppose them.
• The Three Gods Church spread rumors that [World Tree Space] drained mental power and that the World Tree might revive as an evil god.
• Xiluo, the dragons, and the elves gathered on World Tree Island to discuss the churches’ accusations, and the Elf Queen revealed that the World Tree absorbed faith as the incarnation of the fallen God of Nature.
• Alicia and the Red Dragon Whelp pledged to defend the elves, while Karl warned that the churches could muster many powerful allies.
• The Elf Queen said the Nature Elves Clan would seek help from ancient bloodline allies, but Xiluo and the other dragons doubted those allies would all fight in earnest.

Xiluo and the Nature Elves countered the Three Gods Church’s accusations and gathered allies as both sides prepared for war. With the conflict spreading across Domirank Star and forces assembling around the World Tree, Dragons and Titans argued while awaiting the coming battle.

• Xiluo advised the Elf Queen to restore the Elves’ reputation and appeal to those who benefited from World Tree Space.
• The Elves published an account of the World Tree’s origins, prompting the Three Gods Church to issue a rebuttal and worsening their public dispute.
• Aite Finis and other ranked powerhouses received requests for support; Aite chose to wait and see, while others considered their options.
• The Three Gods Church formed a Gods’ Allied Army, demanded that groups near the World Tree Offshoots relocate within three months, and began preparing for war.
• The Nature Elves mustered their forces as the conflict became a major topic on Blue Star’s Forum and Descenders began traveling toward the likely battlefields.
• Dragons, Titans, and other creatures gathered around the World Tree with the Nature Elves, but the Dragons and Titans traded insults.

Xiluo addressed the summoned allies, detailed his reputation, and organized their defenses against the Three Gods Church’s allied forces. The armies divided to defend the World Tree Saplings as the approaching holy war began.

• The Elf Queen stopped the dragons, Titans, and White Tiger king from fighting, and Xiluo explained that their forces needed to defend twenty-eight World Tree Offshoots against the Three Gods Church.
• A gem dragon described Xiluo’s achievements, and the Elf Queen confirmed his reputation as an exceptionally powerful young dragon; the gathered leaders also learned about Gordon’s strength.
• Xiluo assigned the summoned forces to defend the World Tree Saplings, while the Elf Queen promised World Tree Branches and Leaves as rewards for their service.
• Xiluo sent Gordon and Karl with dragons and elite Descenders to one island, and assigned Abel, Alicia, Koraman, and Baphomet to lead forces to another; he warned Alicia and Koraman that the Goddess of Pleasure might reclaim their powers.
• Xiluo told the dragons to prioritize survival and acquire lifesaving supplies, and both allied armies split up and marched toward their assigned destinations.

The Gods' Allied Army, led by Kezan Shafora, attacked the World Tree Offshoot, but the barrier weakened its cannon fire and the defenders intercepted the opening barrage. Gordon, Karl, Long Hair, Pawa, the dragons, Descenders, and Nature Elves joined the battle, and the defenders appeared to gain the upper hand.

• A scout spotted the Gods' Allied Army approaching, and the Nature Elves and Gordon rallied their forces to defend the World Tree Offshoot.
• Kezan Shafora ordered the fleet to fire its arcane cannons, but the barrier weakened the blasts and the defenders intercepted them.
• Kezan Shafora and Gordon clashed in the air, while Karl fought the legion's deputy.
• Long Hair led five hundred Descenders against two thousand members of the Divine Punishment Holy Warrior Legion, and Pawa used the Wrathful Thunder Spear to hold off another force.
• The Nature Elves provided suppressing fire from within the barrier, disrupting the legion's attempt to encircle the dragons as the defenders began to gain the upper hand.

Niro City’s forces fought the allied church legions while Xiluo battled Radamanti, Pope of the Church of the God of Justice. After Xiluo unleashed his full strength and the Pope summoned Angels, Xiluo rallied Niro City’s people to rely on themselves, restoring their resolve as the fighting continued.

• Gordon, Karl, Abel, Alicia, Koraman, Baphomet, and Niro City’s armies held their ground against powerful church legions, though defenders elsewhere in the city were being pushed back.
• Xiluo fought Radamanti and revealed his [Heavenly Extreme Thunder Overlord Dragon] power, blasting the Pope apart before Radamanti re-formed.
• Radamanti summoned Angels, and their arrival caused some of Niro City’s people and soldiers to doubt whether they should oppose divine beings.
• Xiluo urged Niro City’s people to create their own future and sang the Song of Niro, rallying them to fight the Angels and the church forces.
• Niro City’s people regained their resolve and began matching the clergy, while Radamanti wondered how they could oppose a God despite still having faith in one.

Xiluo destroyed the Angels’ gate after six hundred Angels descended, then retreated into the World Tree’s Barrier, where its power weakened the Gods’ Allied Army and let his forces hold them off. Across the other battlefields, the World Tree Offshoots turned the tide with animated trees, and the Allied Army’s first assault ended in retreat as people across the world discussed the elves’ strength.

• Radamanti summoned Angels through a gate, but Xiluo’s lightning attack destroyed the gate after six hundred Angels had arrived and overwhelmed him.
• Xiluo retreated into the World Tree’s Barrier, which weakened the Angels and the Gods’ Allied Army enough for Niro City’s soldiers and Dragons to counterattack and hold the enemy at the barrier’s edge.
• On a distant island, a green dragon considered abandoning the retreating elves until the World Tree Offshoot revived trees as War Giant Trees and empowered the elves’ forces.
• The green dragon joined the elves’ counterattack, and the Allied Army withdrew when it could no longer make progress.
• People across the world discussed the Allied Army’s failed assault and the strength of the elves, the World Tree Offshoots, and Xiluo.

After the Elves repeatedly defeated the Gods' Allied Army, Xiluo warned the Elf Queen that the enemy was deliberately draining the World Tree's divine power and still had unused strength. He proposed that the Elves needed a truly decisive powerhouse, but the chapter ended with him judging that even legendary Ladder powerhouses would not be enough.

• The church leaders agreed to prepare for a prolonged war after their first defeat, while the Elf Queen privately revealed that the World Tree spent its gathered divine power whenever it awakened Ancient Trees.
• The Elves won successive battles, but Xiluo and other powerful allies realized the Gods' Allied Army was provoking the World Tree to intervene and recovering most of its soldiers' bodies for resurrection.
• The Elf Queen reported that the Metal Dragons and other Elven peoples refused to join the war, while the Dark Council's price was too high.
• Xiluo told the Elf Queen that their allies might flee if the war turned against them and warned that the Gods' Allied Army likely still had trump cards.
• Xiluo said the Elves needed a supreme powerhouse capable of breaking the enemy line, but explained that even Salas Star Soul, Faraday Tarode, and the King of the Nine Hells would not be enough.

Xiluo persuaded the Elf Queen to give him and Gordon the World Tree’s remaining branches and leaves so they could grow powerful enough to help defeat the Gods' Allied Army. After consuming them, Xiluo set out to advance his bloodlines at the Heaven-Piercing Pillar, where he completed his Storm Dragon advancement.

• Xiluo convinced the Elf Queen that he and Gordon could become powerful enough to turn the war around if she supplied them with World Tree branches and leaves.
• The Elf Queen agreed to the gamble, and Xiluo and Gordon consumed the available branches and leaves until their bloodlines were ready for advancement.
• The Elf Queen named distant sites of ultimate elemental power for their remaining advancements, and Xiluo and Gordon set out separately to reach them.
• Xiluo traveled for two days and nights to the Heaven-Piercing Pillar, absorbed its storm elements, and completed his Storm Dragon advancement.
• Xiluo examined his dragon body and found that its length had grown beyond seventy meters.

Xiluo advanced his Hurricane Dragon and Thunder Sea Dragon bloodlines, gained powerful elemental retainers, and traveled to Vortex Volcano to find Gordon. He arrived as Gordon fought a Double-Headed Firebird and a Fiendkin, and his presence alarmed both opponents.

• Xiluo advanced into a Hurricane Dragon, gained a Wind Jewel, and attracted more than a dozen Raging Hurricane Elements.
• Xiluo traveled to the Netherworld Abyssal Sea, advanced his Thunderfall Dragon bloodline into a Thunder Sea Dragon, and gained a group of Deep-Sea Elements.
• Xiluo tried to advance his already-evolved elemental bloodlines again with World Tree Branches and Leaves, but the attempt failed.
• Xiluo headed for Vortex Volcano and found Gordon fighting a Double-Headed Firebird and a Fiendkin.
• Gordon complained that Xiluo had advanced faster, and Xiluo's arrival caused Gordon's opponents to become wary.

Xiluo helped Gordon advance both his Magma Dragon and Earth Core Dragon bloodlines while defeating powerful creatures that tried to stop them. After explaining his plans against the Gods' Allied Army, Xiluo challenged Nefis Bamu in the World Tree Space, where Nefis saw how much Xiluo's appearance had changed.

• Xiluo swiftly defeated a Double-Headed Firebird and a Fiendkin, then protected Gordon as he absorbed fire elements and advanced his Magma Dragon bloodline.
• Xiluo carried Gordon to the earth mineral veins, where Gordon completed his Earth Core Dragon bloodline advancement and reached Level 23.
• Gordon fought several Legendary creatures underground before Xiluo carried him back to the surface, and Xiluo said Gordon remained slightly weaker than the Crimson Queen.
• Xiluo revealed his plans against the Gods' Allied Army, giving Gordon confidence that their enemy would be forced to intervene.
• Xiluo and Gordon waited in the World Tree Space for Nefis Bamu, and Nefis accepted Xiluo's private challenge after reading his messages.
• Nefis saw Xiluo's changed appearance and learned that the Elf Queen had supplied him with enough World Tree Branches and Leaves to advance his bloodline.

After Xiluo and Gordon defeated Naifeisi, Xiluo convinced him that the World Tree’s destruction would end his chance to advance his bloodline. Naifeisi sought permission for younger dragons to aid the elves and arrived with five others, while the Elf Queen promised them World Tree branches and leaves.

• Xiluo defeated Naifeisi in five minutes and explained that he had advanced both major Mutated Bloodlines.
• Xiluo told Naifeisi that Gordon had also advanced two bloodlines, and Naifeisi accepted Gordon’s challenge.
• Gordon fought Naifeisi for several hours, and Naifeisi could not defeat him.
• Naifeisi told Sairwusi what had happened, and Sairwusi permitted Naifeisi, Yulis, and other young dragons to help the elves.
• Naifeisi led six legendary dragons to World Tree Island, where the Elf Queen welcomed them and promised them World Tree branches and leaves as repayment.

The Elf Queen persuaded Naifeisi and the other five Legendary dragons to help defend against the Gods' Allied Army, while the enemy reinforced its assault on Niro City. Xiluo's transformed strength and more than thirty Elements Creatures overwhelmed the attackers, and Pope Radamanti ordered a retreat after admitting they would return empty-handed.

• The Elf Queen explained that the World Tree had no branches and leaves left, so Naifeisi agreed to help defeat the Gods' Allied Army with the other five dragons.
• The Saintess brought the [God-Serving Legion] to reinforce Pope Radamanti's forces attacking Niro City.
• The Gods' Allied Army launched another offensive, and the six Legendary dragons slowed its attacks on the World Tree Offshoots.
• The Saintess and the Gods' Allied Army advanced on Niro City, where Xiluo appeared in a changed form as thunder, wind, and water gathered around him.
• Xiluo and more than thirty Elements Creatures overwhelmed the enemy forces and blasted Pope Radamanti and the Saintess away.
• Pope Radamanti admitted that Xiluo's increased strength had upended his expectations and ordered the Gods' Allied Army to retreat.

After Niro City repelled another assault, Xiluo persuaded the Elf Queen to redistribute troops and began raiding the Gods' Allied Army’s supply lines. The starving army was driven into distant waters, where fishmen surfaced around them.

• Niro City celebrated its victory as the Gods' Allied Army retreated, while the Red Dragon Whelp held off another attack on Gordon's side.
• The Elf Queen estimated that the World Tree could withstand the siege for about three years, and Xiluo persuaded her to transfer some troops away from World Tree Island.
• Xiluo attacked the clergy's fleet at sea, killing many and driving away the marine life they relied on for food before escaping Justice Pope Radamanthys.
• The Gods' Allied Army tried to attack Niro City while Xiluo was away, but the elementals and elves defending it repelled them.
• After relocating to find food, the army finally ate its fill, but fishmen carrying harpoons began emerging from the surrounding sea.

Ten years into the war, the Gods' Allied Army and the Elf Allied Army remained locked in conflict, while Xiluo’s strategy gave the World Tree another ten to twenty years. Facing heavy losses, the Three Gods Church decided to hire the Dark Council and Mercenary Guild, and the chapter ended with two undead discussing the war and Xiluo’s allies.

• Radamanti restrained the Fishmen of the Wa-Bola Ocean Empire after their leader demanded compensation, and the Fishmen conflict escalated into a prolonged war that eased pressure on the Elf Allied Army.
• The Three Gods Church struggled to overcome the Elves as other churches contributed little, while hired bloodline creatures and Ladder powerhouses shifted the battlefield without giving either side a decisive advantage.
• After ten years of war, the Three Gods Church argued over how to strengthen its forces, and the three popes approved hiring the Dark Council and Mercenary Guild.
• A lich and a deathly human discussed the Three Gods Church’s offer and the ongoing war, as the latter praised Xiluo Utrasis, Gordon Kenneth, and Naifeisi before the lich rebuked him for defending his former dragon kin.

Ten years into the war, Xiluo had grown into Domirank Star’s strongest creature while Niro City’s people sheltered in Abyssal Hell. Little Pake pleaded to join his coming counterattack against the Gods' Allied Army, but Xiluo refused, leaving her determined to fight despite her father’s doubts.

• A dragon lich showed Laliren a powerful undead dragon puppet made by his lord, and Laliren told him about the elves’ proposal before they left together.
• Little Pake flew over the ruined city and declared she would defend the World Tree and help defeat the Gods' Allied Army.
• Little Pake woke Xiluo and asked him to take her on a counterattack, but he mocked her strength and blew her into the sky with a storm.
• Xiluo reflected on his growth, Niro City’s losses, and his confidence that his power and four Faith Armaments made him the strongest on Domirank Star.
• Little Pake returned and begged to join him, but Xiluo refused, saying she was too weak.

Xiluo learned that the Dark Council and Mercenary Guild had joined the assault on the elves, so he sent the elves to reinforce Niro City and flew to Bolata to begin an all-out war. The Church of the God of Justice pursued him, while Gordon Kenneth fought several Legendary Holy Light Church fighters over the sea.

• Little Pake argued with Xiluo after he called her weak, while Xiluo decided it was time to end the war.
• The Elf Queen told Xiluo that the Dark Council and Mercenary Guild had sent more than a dozen Legendary fighters and a million troops to attack the elves.
• When Bolata came under attack by two powerful Legendary fighters, Xiluo promised to handle it and told the Elf Queen to prepare for all-out war.
• Xiluo summoned seven or eight Legendary fighters and elite elves to defend Niro City, then flew toward Bolata as Little Pake shouted after him.
• The Church of the God of Justice prepared to fight Xiluo, but he passed their fleet without attacking, and the Pope ordered his forces to pursue him.
• Gordon Kenneth fought at least four Legendary fighters from the Holy Light Church above the sea, taunting them as he attacked.