Recaps

Han Shuo entered the strange region deep in Talaga Gorge and discovered an island where horned creatures worshipped an altar surrounded by slaughtered super-tier beasts. He recognized twelve orbs on the altar as containers of pure elemental and other powers, including an exceptionally pure death element.

• Han Shuo entered the region alone, while National Preceptor Stassom and two other powerful figures followed him through its barrier; later adventurers were unable to pass.
• Han Shuo concealed his presence and moved through the area, finding the remains of high-level magical beasts that explained why the beasts had fled Talaga Gorge.
• Han Shuo reached a clear lake and saw pale-green, horned, tail-bearing creatures worshipping an altar on an island.
• Han Shuo observed that the creatures' strength corresponded to the number of horns they had, and identified four five-horned leaders as formidable threats.
• Han Shuo saw twelve orbs rise above the altar and sensed pure death, light, dark, wind, fire, water, electric, and earth elements, along with destruction, battle aura, and powers linked to spatial and summoning magic.

Han Shuo watched four demigod creatures create twelve spheres and joined forces with Tiana, Stassom, and Reno to seize them. After learning the spheres could transform souls and help their users pursue godhood, the group prepared to move against the creatures.

• Han Shuo spotted twelve spheres, including one filled with death elements, but held back because the four five-horned creatures were demigods.
• Han Shuo drew three approaching experts to him, and Stassom, Reno, and Tiana recognized one another before learning he was Brian of the Lancelot Empire.
• Tiana proposed that the four join forces to take the spheres, and Reno asked for the lightning crystal of origin in exchange for handling the aftermath.
• Stassom explained that the spheres could create elemental souls, law souls, or battle souls, while Tiana said these offered a foundation for becoming gods.
• Tiana summoned an azure magic wand and urged the group to move.

Han Shuo and Old Monster Stassom charged the outsiders’ island while Reno and Tiana supported them with magic. They fought their way toward the altar but were held up by powerful outsiders as Tiana prepared a spell that froze the lake.

• Tiana directed Reno to attack the outsiders and sent Han Shuo and Old Monster Stassom to retrieve the Origin Crystal.
• Old Monster Stassom unleashed colorless battle aura against the outsiders, while Han Shuo used his Heavenly Demon Blades to cut down dozens of them.
• Reno cast Lightning Everywhere, killing most of the weaker outsiders and injuring the three-horned fighters.
• Four-horned outsiders surrounded Han Shuo and Old Monster Stassom, while two five-horned leaders advanced from the altar.
• Tiana asked the fighters to hold on for two minutes as the temperature plunged and a thick layer of ice formed across the lake.

Han Shuo absorbed the aliens’ soul attacks and wounded their fighters more severely, while Tiana unleashed a spell that froze the island and its defenders. Han Shuo and Old Monster Stassom raced toward the Water Element Origin Crystal as the chapter ended.

• The five-horned alien leader and seven four-horned aliens attacked Han Shuo’s Divine Sense, but Han Shuo’s Demonic Nascent Soul devoured the seven aliens’ soul forces.
• Han Shuo’s Heavenly Demon blades grew more powerful, deepening the wounds on the seven aliens and driving them back.
• Han Shuo saw Old Monster Stassom fight among the aliens while avoiding their five-horned leader.
• Tiana froze the lake and immobilized the aliens, including the four five-horned leaders, with her absolute-cold spell.
• Tiana called for them to take the Water Element Origin Crystal, and Old Monster Stassom and Han Shuo raced toward the altar.

Han Shuo and Old Monster Stassom tried to seize elemental origin crystals from the altar, but a terrifying shriek destroyed Han Shuo’s twelve Xuan Demons and injured Stassom. They fled as a six-horned alien began emerging, leaving Reynold behind with the remaining crystals.

• Han Shuo and Old Monster Stassom reached for the altar’s spheres as the tentacles stirred and green mist spread across the island.
• A powerful shriek injured Han Shuo’s divine sense and annihilated his twelve Xuan Demons, but he recovered enough to take the death, dark, and destruction origin crystals.
• Old Monster Stassom warned Han Shuo to run after a six-horned alien began forcing its way out of the altar’s maw.
• Han Shuo and Stassom fled, leaving seven origin crystals behind as the four five-horned aliens helped free the larger alien.
• Stassom warned Reynold to escape, but Reynold remained fixated on the lightning origin crystal, and Han Shuo left him behind.

Han Shuo, Old Monster Stassom, and Tiana escaped underground after the six-horned Hun Gua king sealed their path, while leaving Reno behind. Learning that the king could track their souls until they fused with their origin crystals, they decided to head for the Church of Light and make the Hun Gua king confront its powerful defenders.

• Tiana and Stassom failed to break the strengthened barrier, and spatial turbulence prevented them from using their escape scrolls.
• Han Shuo sent the Earth Armor Zombie through the ground to open a tunnel, and the three escaped through it while sealing Reno out.
• Stassom gave Tiana her water element origin crystal, and Han Shuo warned that the pursuing pressure still followed them after they emerged.
• Tiana explained that the six-horned king belonged to the Hun Gua Clan and could track their souls until they fused with their origin crystals.
• Tiana proposed leading the king to powerful beings who might fight him, and Han Shuo chose the Church of Light as their destination.

Han Shuo, Tiana, and Old Monster Stassom escaped to Saint Luo City near the Church of Light’s headquarters, where they planned to rest before their pursuer caught up. Han Shuo restored his damaged Divine Sense and then began investigating the city.

• Han Shuo followed Tiana and Old Monster Stassom toward the Church of Light, while considering the dangers awaiting them there.
• Old Monster Stassom used tokens to take the group through the Bart Trade Alliance’s and Auden Empire’s Teleportation Arrays, helping them reach Saint Luo City.
• The three rented adjacent rooms at an out-of-the-way inn to recover before the Hexagon Clan King could catch up.
• Han Shuo concealed his aura, set up a Magic Array, and used his Natal Blood Essence to restore his injured Divine Sense.
• After his Divine Sense recovered, Han Shuo spread it through Saint Luo City to investigate their surroundings.

Han Shuo, Old Monster Stassom, and Tiana fled to the Church of Light Holy Mountain to draw the pursuing Hexagon Clan King into a fight with the Church. Tiana betrayed them by sealing them inside a cave, and a divine presence arrived as the pursuers neared.

• Han Shuo sensed the Church of Light's beguiling divine power and realized the Hexagon Clan King's soul lock was growing stronger.
• Tiana led Han Shuo and Old Monster Stassom to hide halfway up the Holy Mountain, warning them about its powerful defenders.
• Tiana trapped Han Shuo and Stassom in a cave behind a slab of ice, then met the God of Magic and God Knight Bergson outside.
• Bergson offered to spare Stassom if he surrendered the Battle Aura Crystal Ball and pledged allegiance to the God of Light, while Tiana admitted she had betrayed them.
• The Hexagon Clan King approached as a divine presence descended before the cliff and a gentle song sounded from the summit.

Han Shuo and Old Monster Stassom were trapped under the Holy Maiden’s Divine Domain as the Church of Light and Hun Gua Clan clashed outside. After the Golden Armored Corpse failed to dig through the sacredly reinforced rock, Han Shuo considered using a dangerous escape technique, but the corpse brought out the Ruyi Jingu Bang.

• The Holy Maiden’s Divine Domain nearly overwhelmed Han Shuo and Old Monster Stassom until the Hun Gua Clan King’s cry shattered its influence.
• The Holy Maiden appeared and confronted the Hexagon Clan King while four five-horned Hun Gua clansmen attacked Tiana and the other Church of Light Demigods.
• Han Shuo tried to escape with the Golden Armored Corpse, but it could not tunnel through the sacredly altered rock.
• Han Shuo realized Tiana had exposed his tunneling ability to the Church of Light and considered using the Heavenly Demon Blood-Escape Art.
• The Golden Armored Corpse produced the Ruyi Jingu Bang, which began growing into a towering golden pillar.

Han Shuo and Old Monster Stassom escaped the Church of Light’s Holy Mountain after the Golden Armored Corpse used the Ruyi Jingu Bang to break through Tiana’s ice barrier. In Tarik City, Stassom prepared to evade the six-horned Hun Gua king, while Han Shuo promised to spare the people of the Seven Grand Duchies and then left with Elizabeth for Brettel City.

• The Golden Armored Corpse smashed through the cavern’s ice barrier with the Ruyi Jingu Bang, allowing Han Shuo and Stassom to escape.
• Tiana noticed their escape, but she and the other Church of Light fighters were too occupied battling the Hun Gua clansmen to stop them.
• Han Shuo and Stassom fled the Holy Mountain, traveled through several Teleportation Arrays, and arrived in Tarik City.
• Stassom said he would hide and fuse the Battle Aura Source Crystal with his soul to escape the six-horned clan king’s pursuit.
• Stassom asked Han Shuo to treat the people of the Seven Grand Duchies well if Stassom died, and Han Shuo agreed.
• After Stassom departed for Thorn Valley, Han Shuo found Elizabeth and took her toward Brettel City.

Han Shuo discovered that the Death Cemetery’s Barrier hid his soul from the Hexagon Clan King, then found his divine sense rejected the elemental powers in the spheres he had seized. He gave the death Origin Crystal to Little Skeleton, and the Demon-Slaying Edge began fusing with the Destruction Orb.

• Han Shuo entered the Death Cemetery and realized its Barrier blocked the Hexagon Clan King’s ability to sense his soul.
• Han Shuo tried to fuse with the death Origin Crystal and the Destruction Orb, but his divine sense rejected both powers.
• Han Shuo gave the death Origin Crystal to Little Skeleton, who eagerly accepted it and vowed to grow stronger in the Undead World.
• Han Shuo considered the dark Origin Crystal for Emily but could not decide how to use the Destruction Orb.
• The Demon-Slaying Edge’s main soul took form, then plunged into the Destruction Orb and began fusing with its destructive power.

Han Shuo mastered a technique that concealed his divine sense, allowing him to evade the Hun Gua Clan's Hexagon Clan King. He prepared Brettel City to invade the Seven Grand Duchies, then traveled to Osen City and went to meet Emily at the Dark Curtain Headquarters.

• The Demon-Slaying Edge's main soul absorbed the sphere's destructive energy, and Han Shuo learned that the Hidden Sense Technique could conceal his divine sense from the Hexagon Clan King.
• Han Shuo tested the technique by leaving the Death Cemetery and confirmed the Hexagon Clan King could no longer sense him.
• Han Shuo ordered Dokes to prepare an invasion of the Seven Grand Duchies, assigned Gilbert to protect him, and told Elizabeth to watch over Brettel City.
• Dokes and Jack reported that Brettel City had grown to 530,000 residents and fielded 80,000 well-equipped soldiers.
• Han Shuo used the Teleportation Array to travel to Osen City and went to the Dark Curtain Headquarters to visit Emily.

Han Shuo reunited with Emily in Osen City and gave her a Dark Element Origin Crystal that could help her form an Elemental Soul and pursue godhood. After Candida sensed its power, Han Shuo concealed the gift and diverted Candida’s questions by mentioning Old Monster Stassom.

• Emily welcomed Han Shuo into her chamber, and the two reunited intimately after three years apart.
• Han Shuo gave Emily a Dark Element Origin Crystal and explained how merging her soul with it could greatly advance her Dark Magic and give her a path to become a god.
• Candida sensed the crystal’s immense, pure Dark Element and questioned Emily through the magical device.
• Han Shuo urged Emily to hide the crystal and calm down, then teleported to meet Candida.
• Han Shuo claimed he had used his Martial Technique to help Emily sense Dark Element, then changed the subject by saying he had met Old Monster Stassom.

Han Shuo told Candida about the powerful figures he had encountered and revealed that he had reached demigod strength. He then urged King Lawrence to seize the chance to conquer the Seven Grand Duchies, leaving Lawrence eager to mobilize the Lancelot Empire.

• Han Shuo told Candida about Tiana, the Church of Light’s surviving figures, and the Hun Gua Clan; Candida identified Tiana as a guardian deity of the Kasi Empire and a contemporary of Almeric Cotton.
• Candida realized Han Shuo was on the same level as Stassom, and Han Shuo confirmed that he possessed demigod strength.
• Han Shuo warned Candida that troubles in Talaga Gorge had left the Bart Trade Alliance distracted and argued that this was the best opportunity to attack the Seven Grand Duchies.
• Han Shuo went to the Imperial Palace and told Lawrence that his grand gift was the Seven Grand Duchies; Lawrence learned Han Shuo was a demigod and pledged the empire’s full support.
• Han Shuo recommended Dokes as commander for the campaign, and Lawrence agreed to arrange it before Han Shuo left to visit his women.

Han Shuo’s suppressed desire for Fanny destabilized his cultivation, so he told her that yielding was the only way to calm it. After Fanny agreed, Phoebe and Emily joined them, leaving the four together in Han Shuo’s room.

• Han Shuo’s demonic essence and Demonic Nascent Soul began to destabilize when he tried to restrain his desire for Fanny.
• Han Shuo explained his condition to Fanny, and she chose to give in to him.
• Han Shuo’s demonic essence settled when he embraced Fanny.
• Phoebe and Emily heard Fanny’s moans, teased each other, and went to Han Shuo’s room.
• Han Shuo welcomed Phoebe and Emily, and the four resumed their passion together.

Han Shuo returned to Brettel City, tested Bolands’s progress in the Godslaying Demonic Path, and taught him basic demonic cultivation knowledge. When Gilbert learned that a calamity threatened the Black Dragon Clan, Han Shuo promised to go with him to the Underground World, leaving Dokes to lead the campaign against the Seven Grand Duchies.

• Han Shuo returned to Brettel City and entrusted Dokes with military command of the coming campaign.
• Bolands told Han Shuo about his progress, attacked him with his sword, and was overwhelmed by Han Shuo’s Ghost Face technique.
• Han Shuo shared fundamental Demonic Cultivation Arts knowledge with Bolands to help him avoid losing control.
• Gilbert pleaded with Han Shuo to save the Black Dragon Clan after his grandfather warned that a calamity threatened their clan.
• Han Shuo assigned Bolands and Elizabeth to duties in Brettel City, instructed Dokes to spare civilians, and left with Gilbert for the Underground World.

Han Shuo and Gilbert reached the Black Dragon Clan’s canyon and found several dead dragons, including Gilbert’s father, while the surviving clan members were imprisoned and tortured. Han Shuo confronted the Ice and Snow God Temple’s leader, Keli, who revealed that he was Snow God Tiana’s junior sister’s senior and demanded to know whether Han Shuo was friend or foe.

• Gilbert led Han Shuo through the Underground World toward the Black Dragon Clan, explaining its three levels and the dangers below.
• Han Shuo and Gilbert reached the canyon, where Gilbert heard his grandfather warning them to go back.
• Han Shuo and Gilbert found four dead Black Dragons, including Gilbert’s father, and Gilbert broke down in grief and rage.
• Han Shuo entered the largest canyon and saw seventeen Black Dragons held in a white cage while six white-clad people watched them.
• Keli identified himself as an Ice God from the Ice and Snow God Temple, and Han Shuo asked if he knew Tiana.
• Keli confirmed that Tiana was his junior sister and demanded to know who Han Shuo was and whether he was friend or foe.

Han Shuo confronted Ice God Keli and the Ice and Snow God Temple members who had imprisoned the Black Dragon Clan. After his attack failed to break their goddess-blessed cage, he summoned an army of Undead to fight back, and the battle began in the icy canyon.

• Han Shuo learned from Keli that the Ice and Snow God Temple was a powerful religious organization tied to the Kasi Empire and the Church of Light.
• Han Shuo tried to break the cage holding the Black Dragon Clan with five beams, but the goddess-blessed barrier remained unscathed.
• Keli and his five companions spread out to surround Han Shuo, while two Saint-level Water Element Mages began casting ice spells.
• Han Shuo summoned a large army of Undead and secretly ordered Earth Armor Zombie and the other Four Elements Armored Corpses to prepare the Heavenly Corpse Five Elements Formation.
• Keli ordered the mages to attack, and their combined ice magic shattered more than a thousand low-level Undead while the surviving high-level Undead formed ranks and advanced.

Han Shuo confronted Ice God Corey and rescued the imprisoned Black Dragons while Corey’s ice powers trapped Han Shuo’s demonflame attacks. As Corey pursued him in a massive shell of ice, Han Shuo’s Golden Armored Corpse and Fire Armored Corpse rushed in with powerful elemental treasures.

• Corey attacked Han Shuo’s undead forces with an ice cone, but Han Shuo shattered it with demonflame and challenged him directly.
• Han Shuo sent two demonflame balls after Corey, then ordered the Earth Armor Zombie to open tunnels beneath the Black Dragons’ cage and Gilbert, allowing them to escape underground.
• Corey froze the demonflame balls inside a huge mass of ice, drained their Demonic Essence, and pursued Han Shuo while Han Shuo’s undead attacked Corey’s strongest subordinates.
• Han Shuo could not break through Corey’s ice and dodged his pursuit until the Golden Armored Corpse and Fire Armored Corpse volunteered to attack with the Ruyi Jingu Bang and Fire Lotus.

Han Shuo wounded Ice God Corey and drove the Ice and Snow God Temple survivors to escape through the snow, then reunited Gilbert with the imprisoned Black Dragon Clan. He could not break their cage with the Ice and Snow Goddess's power, but thought of someone who might help.

• The Golden Armored Corpse and Fire Armored Corpse shattered Corey's ice barrier, and Han Shuo attacked him from a hidden tunnel made by the Earth Armor Zombie.
• Corey used a Magic Scroll to vanish with five surviving temple experts into the snow, escaping Han Shuo's pursuit.
• The Earth Armor Zombie brought Gilbert and the Black Dragon Clan out of the underground passage, and Gilbert reunited tearfully with his grandfather, Gilges.
• Han Shuo tried several Demonic Cultivation Arts but could not break the cage's divine enchantment, and he avoided using the Ruyi Jingu Bang for fear of killing the imprisoned dragons.
• Han Shuo suddenly thought of someone who might be able to help free the Black Dragon Clan.

Han Shuo sought Gilges’s help in understanding the Skeleton Magic Staff, the Death Cemetery, and the Calamity Church. Gilges revealed that the Black Dragon Clan had guarded the passage to the Underground World’s third layer for five thousand years, and Han Shuo left with a clearer account of the Calamity Church’s origins.

• Han Shuo proposed asking Elizabeth to remove the Ice and Snow Goddess’s power from the cage, while Gilges thanked him for rescuing the Black Dragon Clan and explained why the Ice and Snow God Temple had imprisoned them.
• Gilges revealed that the Black Dragon Clan had fought alongside the Skeleton Magic Staff’s previous master five thousand years earlier and had been ordered to guard the passage to the third layer of the Underground World.
• Gilges recounted that a devastating war five thousand years ago had driven the Black Dragon Clan into hiding and that they were promised they could leave after surviving a foretold calamity.
• Han Shuo asked Gilges about the Death Cemetery, and Gilges explained that its notorious necromancers had occupied it but had not built it.
• Gilges told Han Shuo that surviving necromancers later founded the Calamity Church, making the Death Cemetery their birthplace and holy land.

Han Shuo helped Gilbert and Gilges bury the Black Dragon dead, then left the canyon with Gilbert and the cage. At the passage exit, Xialan insisted he take a beautiful young Dark Elf with him, and Han Shuo agreed despite a strange sense that he already knew her.

• Han Shuo learned that Gilges knew nothing about why the Death Cemetery and Skeleton Magic Staff had disappeared, then ordered the Earth Armor Zombie to help Gilbert bury his father and the other dead Black Dragons.
• While waiting in the canyon, Han Shuo mastered the Fear Barrier but failed to cast the Aging Barrier.
• After five days, Gilbert carried the cage and followed Han Shuo away from the canyon, while Gilges stayed behind to arrange the cage's opening and guard against the Ice and Snow God Temple.
• Han Shuo and Gilbert found Xialan and a group of Dark Elves waiting at the passage exit; Xialan explained that Bat People and Goblins had reported Han Shuo's movements.
• Xialan insisted that Han Shuo accept a beautiful, untouched young Dark Elf as a gift, and Han Shuo agreed after feeling strangely familiar with her.

Han Shuo suspected that Cloyi had been sent to attack him and sent her away with his badge. He left the Black Dragon Clan with the Forest Trolls and returned alone to the Death Cemetery.

• Han Shuo questioned Cloyi about being assigned as his servant, while Gilges and Han Shuo both sensed something familiar and suspicious about her.
• Han Shuo recognized the aura of Lolth, the Spider Goddess, on Cloyi and suspected she was part of another attack against him.
• Han Shuo gave Cloyi his badge and directions to Brettel City, then sent her ahead alone.
• Han Shuo decided not to reveal the Death Cemetery's location to the Black Dragon Clan and settled them with the Forest Trolls instead.
• Han Shuo returned alone to the Death Cemetery as Trunks's growing alliance strengthened around Sun Radiance Valley.

Han Shuo tried to help Elizabeth absorb the divine power inside the Ice Jade Cage, but Ice God Corey and the Ice and Snow God Temple turned the cage into a source of deadly cold. As Han Shuo and the Fire Armored Corpse struggled to protect the Forest Trolls and Black Dragons, the Fire Armored Corpse proposed moving the battle to the Fire-Extreme Land.

• Han Shuo brought Elizabeth to the Forest Trolls Tribe and ordered her to test whether her God-Graced Body could absorb the divine power in the Ice Jade Cage.
• Elizabeth began drawing in the cage’s power, but a sudden surge of supernatural cold trapped her hands and threatened the Black Dragon Clan and the Forest Trolls.
• Han Shuo stopped Gilbert from attacking Elizabeth, ordered the Forest Trolls to evacuate, and used the Fire Armored Corpse’s flames and his own Demonic Essence to fight the cold.
• At the Ice and Snow God Temple, Ice God Corey and the other figures chanted together and intensified the attack through the Ice Jade Cage.
• As the cold overwhelmed Han Shuo and the Fire Armored Corpse, the Fire Armored Corpse urged Han Shuo to move the battle to the Fire-Extreme Land.

Han Shuo and the Fire Armored Corpse raced to save Elizabeth and the Black Dragon Clan from the Ice and Snow God Temple’s freezing attack, but Gilbert sacrificed his life to get them to the Fire-Extreme Land. As Han Shuo mourned Gilbert, Little Skeleton urgently told him to preserve Gilbert’s soul.

• Han Shuo lifted Elizabeth and the Ice Jade Cage onto Gilbert and sent the Black Dragon toward the Fire-Extreme Land while the Fire Armored Corpse warmed the cage.
• Han Shuo saw that the cold had killed many Forest Trolls, while Ice God Corey and the Ice and Snow God Temple’s experts continued strengthening their attack.
• The Fire Armored Corpse, Elizabeth, and the Black Dragons began nearing exhaustion before reaching the Fire-Extreme Land, and Han Shuo warned Gilbert that they would die if he could not fly faster.
• Gilbert used his life force to double his speed despite Han Shuo’s and Gilges’s pleas to stop, carrying them to the valley before collapsing and dying.
• As Han Shuo grieved over Gilbert’s final words, Little Skeleton urgently asked him to preserve Gilbert’s soul.