Chapter Summaries

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.

Han Shuo and the Fire Armored Corpse used the Flame Lord and the Fire-Extreme Land to break the Ice Jade Cage and defeat Ice God Corey’s forces. After the cage shattered, the Flame Lord absorbed the land’s power and evolved into a crimson-skinned woman.

• Han Shuo preserved Gilbert’s soul inside the Demon-Slaying Edge and descended with Elizabeth and the Black Dragon Clan into the Fire-Extreme Land.
• The Fire Armored Corpse reunited with the Flame Lord, and they drew on the Fire Lotus and the land’s fire essence to counter the Ice Jade Cage.
• Ice God Corey ordered the Ice and Snow God Temple’s experts to pour their full strength into the cage, while Han Shuo sensed their souls through its connection.
• The Flame Lord and the Fire Armored Corpse overwhelmed the cage with fire, and Han Shuo struck the connected souls, leaving Corey and his followers unable to resist as the cage shattered.
• The Black Dragon Clan was freed, and the Ice and Snow God Temple began melting as heat reached it.
• The Flame Lord absorbed the Fire-Extreme Land’s power, grew and shrank, then evolved into a crimson-skinned middle-aged woman.

Han Shuo met the Flame Lord after she evolved into a fifth-stage Flame Emperor, and she decided to visit the human world with Elizabeth. He promised Gilges he could revive Gilbert, declared vengeance on the Ice and Snow God Temple, and began plotting after sensing the Hun Gua Clan's hatred.

• The Flame Lord transformed into a human woman, revealed she had reached the fifth stage, and thanked the Fire Armored Corpse for helping her evolve.
• Han Shuo and the Flame Emperor awkwardly argued over being the Fire Armored Corpse's parents before she agreed to visit the Lancelot Empire.
• Han Shuo told Gilges he had collected Gilbert's soul and would bring him back to life, though his new body might be different.
• The Black Dragon Clan vowed revenge on the Ice and Snow God Temple, and Han Shuo buried Gilbert's remains for use in rebuilding his body.
• Han Shuo sensed the Hun Gua Clan's Hexagon Clan King and conceived a plan against the Ice and Snow God Temple, then sent Elizabeth to guide the Flame Emperor around the empire.
• The Flame Emperor left with Elizabeth after telling Han Shuo to take good care of their child, while the Fire Armored Corpse stayed with Han Shuo.

Han Shuo sent the Fire Armored Corpse back to the Undead World, then learned that the Black Dragon Clan planned to recover and seek revenge for its people. He traveled to Ice Ridge City to lure the Hexagon Clan King toward the Ice and Snow God Temple, but when the king did not come, Han Shuo headed there himself to investigate.

• Han Shuo sent the Fire Armored Corpse back to the Undead World and told Little Skeleton to focus on merging with the Origin Crystal of Death.
• Gilges vowed that the Black Dragon Clan would avenge its people, and Han Shuo warned him that the Ice and Snow God Temple would likely avoid the Black Dragon Gorge for a while.
• Han Shuo arrived in Ice Ridge City and released his divine sense to lure the Hexagon Clan King to the Ice and Snow God Temple.
• When the Hexagon Clan King stayed in Talaga Gorge, Han Shuo suspected he was recovering from injuries suffered at the Church of Light.
• Han Shuo set out alone for the Ice and Snow God Temple, keeping his divine sense released as he crossed the snowy region.

Han Shuo infiltrated the Ice and Snow God Temple’s Central Ice Peak, intending to ambush the recovering Ice God Corey. While tunneling through the mountain with the Golden Armored Corpse, he discovered a massive Ice and Snow Goddess Statue containing a lifeless young woman, then hid as temple followers arrived above.

• Han Shuo concealed his presence, matched the temple followers’ low body temperature, and slipped onto an unguarded cliff on the Central Ice Peak.
• After spotting Corey in a summit building and sensing surveillance magic across the peak, Han Shuo used the Golden Armored Corpse to cut a passage through the mountain’s rock.
• The Golden Armored Corpse stopped after about a hundred meters, and Han Shuo saw a vast hollow containing a sixty-meter-tall Ice and Snow Goddess Statue.
• Han Shuo noticed a beautiful, naked young woman inside the statue’s abdomen and found no sign of life or a soul in her.
• When temple followers arrived on a ledge above the statue, Han Shuo ordered the Golden Armored Corpse to close their passage until only a slit remained.

Han Shuo discovered that the Ice and Snow God Temple was using its God-Making Plan to turn a God-Graced One into a god and decided to destroy the statue containing her before she became a threat. When the Water Armored Corpse reached the statue undetected, he became fixated on the girl inside and embraced her.

• Han Shuo overheard the Ice and Snow God Temple followers explain that their God-Making Plan was nearing completion and aimed to make a God-Graced One into a god.
• The followers placed water-element energy crystals inside the Ice and Snow Goddess Statue, then left after checking that it was functioning normally.
• Han Shuo resolved to destroy the statue and the potential god within it, but realized its ice-and-water barriers would make an unnoticed approach difficult.
• Han Shuo summoned the Water Armored Corpse and asked him to take them to the statue without alerting anyone.
• The Water Armored Corpse stared at the girl inside the statue, told Han Shuo, “Father, I want her!”, and received permission to proceed quietly.
• The Water Armored Corpse passed through the barriers, entered the statue, and embraced the lifeless girl inside.