Chapter Summaries

Han Shuo explained how the Nine Earth Profound Yin Spirit-Gathering Formation concealed his group, then guided Donna and the others in ambushing Alder’s party from their safe position. As Caesar and Erickson struggled under the attacks, Han Shuo urged the group to focus on killing Erickson, leaving them ready to follow his advice.

• Han Shuo showed Donna, Livy, Borton, and the others how patterns in the formation kept Alder’s group from seeing them, then baffled them with a deliberately nonsensical explanation.
• Donna, Livy, Borton, Cobert, and Bowen launched ranged attacks from the blind spot at Caesar and Erickson, while Alder stopped the brothers’ attacks against him.
• Donna’s assaults opened gaps in Caesar and Erickson’s defenses, allowing the others to wound them until they were close to retreating.
• Han Shuo said he had held back because he was weak, and Borton praised him for keeping watch instead of fighting.
• Han Shuo told the group to concentrate on Erickson because Alder might protect Caesar but had no reason to save Erickson, and Livy teased him for claiming he disliked killing.

Han Shuo left Donna and the others in the Stone Forest to explore the Nine Earth Profound Yin Spirit-Gathering Formation, whose arrays did not harm him because he practiced the Demonic Cultivation Art. Drawn by a mysterious call to his divine sense, he reached the formation’s core, where a force pulled him into an opening beneath it.

• Donna and the others concentrated their attacks on the exhausted Erickson while Alder ignored Caesar’s plea for help.
• Han Shuo told Donna’s group to stay in the Stone Forest, then slipped into the formation to investigate its mysteries alone.
• Alder spotted Han Shuo and pursued him, but a space-twisting array widened the distance between them as Han Shuo walked safely deeper into the formation.
• Han Shuo discovered remains suggesting a battle had taken place there five thousand years earlier and that many deities had died in the arrays.
• A strong call led Han Shuo to the formation’s core, where more than a dozen Xuan Demons emerged and then cleared a path for him.
• As Han Shuo approached the core’s opening, a force burst out and sucked him inside.

Han Shuo discovered that he was inside the Myriad Demon Cauldron and learned that Demon Venerable Gu Tianxie had arranged for his soul to be brought to this universe as a successor. The Cauldron Spirit began passing him stored Profound Yin Qi and Gu Tianxie’s demonic insights, leaving Han Shuo poised to gain power.

• Han Shuo realized that he had shrunk and was inside an object filled with Profound Yin Qi and glowing runes.
• The Cauldron Spirit identified itself as the spirit of the Myriad Demon Cauldron and named Demon Venerable Gu Tianxie as its former master.
• The Cauldron Spirit explained that Gu Tianxie had arranged the Five Elements Extreme Lands and brought Han Shuo’s soul to this Plane to inherit his legacy.
• Han Shuo accepted that he was the Myriad Demon Cauldron’s new master and asked what Gu Tianxie had left for him.
• The Cauldron Spirit gathered and refined the stored Profound Yin Qi, then urged Han Shuo to accept the power and some of Gu Tianxie’s demonic insights.

Han Shuo absorbed the Profound Yin Qi in the Myriad Demon Cauldron, comprehended Gu Tianxie's insights, and broke through to the Heavenly Demon Realm. The cauldron spirit warned that the site must be destroyed and helped Han Shuo conceal his Demonic Cultivation Art while preparing to redirect impure energies into his Spirit Demons.

• Under the cauldron spirit's guidance, Han Shuo absorbed the Profound Yin Qi while his body and Demonic Nascent Soul transformed.
• Han Shuo endured the pain and comprehended the insights Gu Tianxie had placed in his Divine Sense.
• After the Profound Yin Qi was exhausted, Han Shuo awoke having broken through to the Heavenly Demon Realm and recognized that he had surpassed Chu Canglan.
• The cauldron spirit warned Han Shuo that the formation and surrounding site had to be destroyed to deter future investigators from other Planes.
• The cauldron spirit cautioned Han Shuo to conceal his Demonic Cultivation Art from the powerful foe who had fought Gu Tianxie.
• Han Shuo confirmed he could borrow the power of his External Incarnations, and the cauldron spirit offered to transfer their impure energies and weak Death Souls to his three Spirit Demons.

Han Shuo claimed the Myriad Demon Cauldron, learned that its spirit could control the formations and refine powerful souls into demons, and discovered the trapped gods’ locations. He entered the illusion holding Erickson and Caesar and prepared to test his new Heavenly Demon realm by killing Erickson.

• Han Shuo left the Myriad Demon Cauldron, gave it his blood, and became its master as the Cauldron Spirit entered his body.
• The Cauldron Spirit warned Han Shuo that the Nine Earth Profound Yin Spirit-Gathering Formation would be destroyed within two hours and revealed that Han Shuo had spent nine days inside the cauldron.
• The Cauldron Spirit explained that it could control the formation’s prisoners and refine sufficiently powerful souls into demons, then absorbed the nearby Xuan Demons into the cauldron.
• Han Shuo used his connection with the Cauldron Spirit to locate Donna, Livy, Alder, Kaili, Erickson, and Caesar, who remained trapped in different formations.
• Han Shuo appeared before Erickson and Caesar, and Erickson threatened to kill him before Han Shuo declared that he had come to kill Erickson himself.

Han Shuo used his newly attained Heavenly Demon Realm strength to kill Erickson and Caesar, capturing both of their divine souls in the Myriad Demon Cauldron. Afterward, the Cauldron Spirit assessed Han Shuo’s strength and identified Alder as the only person nearby he could not yet reliably defeat.

• Han Shuo approached the exhausted Erickson and pierced his chest with the Heavenly Demon Blade, shattering his ice armor.
• Han Shuo used Erickson to intercept Caesar’s attack, then manipulated Erickson into lunging at Caesar and struck Caesar from behind.
• The Cauldron Spirit drew Erickson’s divine soul into the Myriad Demon Cauldron, killing him permanently.
• Han Shuo used Space Transformation to crush Caesar’s body, and the cauldron captured Caesar’s divine soul.
• The Cauldron Spirit told Han Shuo he could easily defeat either Middle God alone, could overcome them together with help, and still struggled against Alder.

Han Shuo led Donna and the others out of the Stone Forest as the Nine Earth Profound Yin Spirit-Gathering Formation began to collapse, while Alder escaped with Kaili and joined them. Watching the formation’s destruction gave Han Shuo’s purified Destruction Element External Incarnation a new insight, and he sensed that the collapse marked his own rebirth.

• Han Shuo decided to spare Alder so he could report that the formation had been destroyed, then followed the Cauldron Spirit’s directions to rescue Donna, Borton, Livy, and the others.
• Han Shuo guided Donna’s group out of the sealed Stone Forest and warned them that the formation was collapsing.
• The Cauldron Spirit opened Alder’s escape route, and Alder carried Kaili through the collapsing formation while rocks battered and injured him.
• Han Shuo signaled Donna, Borton, and Livy not to attack Alder, and Donna’s group backed away as Alder recovered his Divine Power.
• The Nine Earth Profound Yin Spirit-Gathering Formation crumbled, and Han Shuo’s purified Destruction Element External Incarnation gained an insight into the Law of Destruction.

After the Nine Earth Profound Yin Spirit-Gathering Formation was destroyed, Han Shuo concealed what he knew while his External Incarnation studied the destruction to deepen its understanding of the Law of Destruction. Donna’s group found no clues and prepared to report their findings, while Han Shuo planned to handle matters on the Qio Continent before possibly traveling to the Continent of the Gods.

• Han Shuo stayed behind as Donna, Alder, and the others investigated the ruined formation, while Livy chose to remain beside him and Alder asked him to look after Kaili.
• Han Shuo’s External Incarnation used his Divine Sense to examine the destruction in detail and began to comprehend the Law of Destruction.
• Alder returned without finding anything and departed with Kaili; Donna, Borton, and the others also found no unusual traces.
• Han Shuo told Donna he did not know what had happened, and she decided to report the events to the Calamity Church and said the Qio Continent would likely come under his control.
• Donna, Borton, and Livy invited Han Shuo to visit them on the Continent of the Gods, and he agreed before flying toward Sun Radiance Valley.

Han Shuo told his loved ones he planned to leave Qio Continent for the Continent of the Gods, promising to return for them once he was established there. Alder later informed him that the other churches had agreed to leave Qio Continent to Han Shuo’s side, then left to investigate a site Han Shuo had described.

• Han Shuo spent several days with Jiebier, Haimanna, the third woman, and Blood Spirit before explaining that he would leave them behind until he could establish himself on the Continent of the Gods.
• Han Shuo told Emily, Phoebe, the other woman, and Lisa about his plan, promised to bring them to him later, and shared his insights into becoming a god.
• Alder found Han Shuo in Osen City and explained that the Church of Light and the Ice and Snow God Temple would stop recruiting followers, while the Nature Church and Han Shuo’s side could compete for new ones.
• Alder asked to see Han Shuo’s miraculous power, but Han Shuo denied being able to use it, and Alder’s secret examination revealed nothing.
• Han Shuo told Alder about miraculous bones beneath an island in the Boundless Sea, and Alder hurried away after promising to repay Han Shuo if the information proved true.

Han Shuo settled his affairs in Buleiteer City and visited the Calamity Church headquarters, where Donna confirmed that the Qio Continent belonged to him. He declined to leave with Donna and the others, choosing to cultivate before traveling to the Continent of the Gods.

• Han Shuo told Gilbert that the Black Dragon Clan had been destroyed and left him alone to grieve after explaining that the culprits had died by Han Shuo's hand.
• Han Shuo used a Magic Teleportation Array to reach the Calamity Church headquarters, where Kiron Luo accused him of violating the church's rules.
• Han Shuo attacked Kiron Luo in front of Donna and the other Divine Messengers, and Donna let him kill Kiron Luo.
• Donna declared that the Qio Continent belonged to Han Shuo and ordered the Calamity Church Elders to obey him, while Han Shuo reassured the Pontiff that he would retain control of the church.
• Donna explained the situation and agreements to Han Shuo, and Livy invited him to visit her family and Lizard Progenitor King Daxiaxi.
• Han Shuo declined Donna's offer to leave with them, saying he would cultivate before going to the Continent of the Gods.

Han Shuo refined three Demonic Artifacts, learned that Qio Continent was settling as he had planned, and traveled to the Water-Extreme Land to obtain the final Five Elements Treasure. With the Water Spirit Jade secured and Qio Continent’s affairs handled, he activated the Plane Teleportation Array to travel to the Continent of the Gods.

• Han Shuo completed the Flood Dragon Poison Cloud Net, Green Phosphorus Sand, and Illusion Veil Banner, while his External Incarnation cultivating the Law of Destruction advanced to the Middle Stage Lower God realm.
• Han Shuo learned through the Calamity Church’s informants that the Church of Light and Ice and Snow God Temple had withdrawn, and the Lancelot Empire, Angela Empire, and Barton Trade Alliance were defeating their rivals.
• Han Shuo followed the Cauldron Spirit to the Water-Extreme Land and summoned the Water Armored Corpse to find the Water Spirit Jade.
• The Water Spirit Jade entered the Water Armored Corpse, who absorbed the Water Essence Pearls and gained the last of Qio Continent’s Five Elements Treasures.
• Han Shuo returned to Gourd Island, activated the Plane Teleportation Array, and set off for the Continent of the Gods.

Han Shuo arrived on the Continent of the Gods, where he discovered its dense elemental energy and heavy gravity before seeking a Divine Token. At the reception office, he recognized that the old clerk was overcharging him, just as a badly wounded young deity demanded credit and drew the Divine Guards’ attention.

• Han Shuo emerged from the Plane Teleportation Array, sensed the Continent of the Gods’ dense elemental energies, and adjusted to its much stronger gravity.
• The Darkness Department guards directed Han Shuo to the reception envoy, where he asked the old clerk for a Divine Token.
• The old clerk demanded eighty Blue Crystal Coins instead of the usual fifty, and Han Shuo realized he was trying to fleece a newcomer.
• A badly wounded young man arrived and asked for a Divine Token on credit, but the old clerk refused and mocked him.
• The young man challenged the clerk, who whistled for the Divine Guards; their leader arrived and asked who was causing trouble.

Han Shuo used Donna’s connection to divine guard captain Dolores to secure his divine tablet and help the injured Akelie avoid punishment, then paid for Akelie’s tablet as well. After learning Han Shuo had helped him, Akelie invited him to join a plan to make a fortune, but Han Shuo refused.

• Akelie collapsed while resisting the divine guards, and Dolores ordered his arrest.
• Han Shuo introduced himself as Brian from the Qio Continent and invoked Donna’s name, prompting Dolores to hear his requests.
• Han Shuo asked Dolores to spare Akelie and questioned Jeff about charging eighty blue crystal coins for a divine tablet; Dolores ordered Jeff to waive the fee.
• Han Shuo paid Jeff one purple crystal coin to process both his and Akelie’s divine tablets, and Dolores explained how to reach Shadow City and find Donna.
• Jeff revived Akelie and gave him his divine tablet, while Han Shuo learned Akelie came from the Hailan Continent and cultivated the Law of Destruction.
• Akelie asked Han Shuo to help him make a fortune, but Han Shuo immediately refused.

Han Shuo agreed to help Akelie search for an ancient scroll’s hidden divine crystal mine and promised to protect him while he recovered. When Akelie’s pursuers arrived, Han Shuo dragged him away from the waterfall before he could finish recovering.

• Han Shuo rejected Akelie’s proposal until Akelie showed him an ancient scroll describing a remote divine crystal mine.
• Han Shuo agreed to search for the mine with Akelie, who proposed that they divide any crystals sixty-forty in his favor.
• Han Shuo gave Akelie a Vitality-Recovery Pill, and Akelie began stabilizing his injuries in the pool beneath the waterfall.
• Han Shuo observed Akelie’s use of the Law of Destruction and tried to imitate its circulating vortices.
• Han Shuo sensed a late-stage Lower God and two middle-stage Lower Gods approaching, then grabbed Akelie and fled with him.

Han Shuo fled with the injured Akelie and weighed his prospects amid the Continent of the Gods’ rival factions. A Xuan demon then revealed a godhunter attacking five deities, one of whom was flying toward Han Shuo.

• Han Shuo carried Akelie across remote mountains, then set him down to recover while his Death Element external incarnation cultivated in the Myriad Demon Cauldron.
• Han Shuo considered the Continent of the Gods’ factions and worried that he might not return home before everyone he knew had died.
• The Cauldron Spirit warned Han Shuo that powerful people were approaching, so Han Shuo sent a Xuan demon to scout them.
• The Xuan demon spotted a silver-haired old woman hunting five lower gods, who fled toward a valley with a plane teleportation point.
• Han Shuo recognized the old woman as a godhunter and saw one fleeing death-element deity heading straight toward him.

Han Shuo lured a Godhunter away from Akelie and let her believe she had trapped and begun draining him. He revealed that he had concealed his death-element incarnation and turned her power-draining attack against her, leaving her screaming in pain.

• Han Shuo refused to help a fleeing death-element cultivator and tried to escape the pursuing Godhunter, but the man followed him and pleaded for help.
• Han Shuo dropped Akelie in a rocky forest and told him to run onward while he lured the Godhunter away.
• Han Shuo released Xuan Demons to watch the area, then stood on a cliff and faced the Godhunter as she drained the fleeing man's Divine Power.
• The Godhunter struck Han Shuo with Death Rays and began draining his death-element Divine Power, but Han Shuo remained calm.
• Han Shuo revealed that he had hidden his death-element External Incarnation inside the Myriad Demon Cauldron, stopping the Godhunter from absorbing more power.
• Han Shuo activated his Demonic Cultivation Art, causing the Godhunter to scream in agony.

Han Shuo killed a godhunter before Dolores could discover he was devouring her, then rescued Akelie from Bonnie’s pursuing group. He escaped with Akelie, but learned the pursuers had placed a tracking mark on him.

• Han Shuo drained the old godhunter’s death divine power, then had the Myriad Demon Cauldron take her soul while he burned her body and threw it over a cliff.
• Dolores found the godhunter’s charred corpse and ordered his Divine Guards to return with it rather than search recklessly for her killer.
• Bonnie and his men surrounded Akelie and demanded the contents of a torn scroll, while Akelie prepared to use a mutually destructive technique rather than surrender.
• Han Shuo used the Illusion Veil Banner to confuse Bonnie’s group, seized Akelie, and escaped through the mist.
• Bonnie tracked Han Shuo’s direction with a horn, and Han Shuo realized the group had marked Akelie and continued flying away with him.

Han Shuo and Akelie escaped their pursuers, removed the tracking mark on Akelie, and searched for an inhabited settlement to learn where they were. They reached a village, where Han Shuo began making contact with the locals while Akelie revealed his plan to find the divine crystal mine and avenge his master.

• Han Shuo told Akelie that Dolores had driven off their pursuer and that he had used a hallucinogenic potion to escape Bonnie.
• Han Shuo found Bonnie's mark inside a bone in Akelie's back, and Akelie destroyed it with his destruction power.
• Akelie revealed that the divine crystal mine lay within the Dark Main God's Divine Domain, and Han Shuo carried him across the barren plain toward a settlement.
• Han Shuo and Akelie found a village where the inhabitants were praying to the Calamity Church's three Main Gods, and Akelie explained why villages had few powerful deities.
• Akelie told Han Shuo that Bonnie's family had killed his master and that he sought the mine's crystals to grow stronger and avenge him.
• Han Shuo gave trinkets to the village children, and several adults welcomed him as he and Akelie entered the village.

Han Shuo and Akelie learned that Demons Peak might be their destination and reached the mountain range after avoiding two godhunters. Han Shuo withdrew to overcome his growing addiction to absorbing others’ divine power, then emerged with his desire under control and progress in the Heavenly Demon Realm.

• A village elder directed Han Shuo and Akelie toward Demons Peak and warned them that nonhuman races lived in the mountain range.
• Akelie explained the nonhuman races’ place on the Continent of the Gods and why Demons Peak likely matched the scroll’s description.
• Han Shuo and Akelie reached the mountain range in three days, and Han Shuo avoided two Middle God godhunters.
• The Cauldron Spirit warned Han Shuo that his desire to absorb divine power was unsettling his state of mind, so Han Shuo postponed entering the mountain range while Akelie recovered.
• Han Shuo secluded himself in a cave and struggled against his greed for five days until he overcame the abnormal desire.
• The Cauldron Spirit congratulated Han Shuo on controlling his desire and making progress in the Heavenly Demon Realm.

Han Shuo sent Earth Armor Zombie and Golden Armored Corpse underground to search Demons Peak for the Divine Crystal mine, reassuring Akelie that his new ally would not endanger their agreement. After Earth Armor Zombie spoke aloud and called Han Shuo his father, Han Shuo had the Cauldron Spirit conceal the pair’s auras so they could approach the mine undetected.

• Han Shuo told Akelie that a friend would help find the Divine Crystal mine, but Akelie objected to trusting a Deity who cultivated Earth Element power.
• Han Shuo revealed Earth Armor Zombie, who threatened Akelie for speaking badly of his father and stunned them both by speaking aloud.
• Han Shuo reassured Akelie that Earth Armor Zombie would never betray him, while Akelie accepted that the creature was Han Shuo’s son.
• Han Shuo watched through a Xuan Demon as Earth Armor Zombie and Golden Armored Corpse traveled underground toward Demons Peak to search for the mine.
• The Cauldron Spirit used demonheads to conceal the pair’s auras, and Han Shuo ordered them to enter Demons Peak.