Chapter Summaries

Han Shuo fought Saras on Celestial God Peak and was nearly overwhelmed when Saras drew on the faith of his billions of believers. In the midst of a breakthrough, Han Shuo triggered the Heavenly Annihilation Realm tribulation, leaving him to face forces that threatened to destroy him and the mountain.

• Han Shuo recalled the Myriad Demon Cauldron and the Seventeen Flying Swords and fought Saras with his full strength, but Saras's lightning domain kept him on the defensive.
• Saras drew faith power from his followers across several planes, killing them all and greatly increasing his strength.
• Saras's empowered lightning battered Han Shuo until his Heavenly Demon Indestructible Body began to fail.
• Han Shuo gained an insight into the annihilation of heaven and earth, and Saras suddenly lost control of the lightning around Celestial God Peak.
• Elemental and other forces converged on the mountain as the Cauldron Spirit identified Han Shuo's Heavenly Annihilation Realm tribulation.
• A meteorite struck Han Shuo, who realized the gathering powers had targeted him and that surviving them was his only path to a breakthrough.

Han Shuo endured the demonic tribulation on Celestial God Peak, surviving successive elemental attacks and an assault on his mind that tested his resolve. After the tribulation ended, he escaped as Saras hesitated nearby.

• Saras lost control of the lightning and realized the upheaval was targeting Han Shuo, so he stopped trying to attack and watched from the sidelines.
• Han Shuo used the Seventeen Flying Swords and Demon-Slaying Edge to shatter a giant meteorite, then replenished his strength with Vitality-Recovery Pills.
• Han Shuo fused his destruction and death divine domains, which weakened the gathering attacks and drew death and negative energies into a protective barrier.
• As the tribulation continued, Han Shuo exhausted his demonic essence and burned the Demon Heads' soul power to withstand the attacks.
• Han Shuo overcame inner demons by fighting the vengeful ghosts without power, and his strength gradually returned as the tribulation ended.
• Han Shuo found Saras watching him atop the ruined Celestial God Peak, told him they would meet again, and vanished in a cloud of blood mist.

After escaping Saras, Han Shuo hid in a mire to recover and consolidate his breakthrough while news of his attack on Celestial God Peak spread across the Chaos Lands. As Saras hunted him and Osoe chose to remain neutral, Han Hao moved to unite the Godhunters, confronting Boro with a demand for submission.

• Saras ordered his surviving subordinates to find and kill Han Shuo, then sought help from Vasias and Rogg.
• Han Shuo concealed himself in a mire, where his Demonic Essence slowly recovered and his state of mind continued to break through.
• Luolong reported Saras's losses to Osoe, who ordered a search for Han Shuo but told his forces to remain neutral.
• The devastation at Celestial God Peak spread through the Chaos Lands, making Brian the region's most talked-about name.
• Han Hao visited Boro and demanded that he submit, then attacked when Boro challenged his authority.

Han Hao defeated Boro and brought his Godhunters under his command, while Demon-Hidden Valley prepared for an attack after Saras learned its location. Saras gathered his forces, and the chapter ended with him arriving near the valley.

• Han Hao overwhelmed Boro with his Bone Spikes, then persuaded him to submit after revealing that Brian was his father.
• Boro ordered Kediya and his other subordinates to put away their weapons, placing his people under Han Hao's command.
• At Demon-Hidden Valley, Lomon, Lolth, Zoqi, Gelong, and the Five Elements Armored Corpses decided to stay and defend the valley while Han Shuo was missing.
• Luolong told Osoe that Saras had learned the valley's location and planned to attack; Osoe decided to go there himself and assess the situation.
• Saras gathered five or six hundred subordinates on a mountain near Demon-Hidden Valley, then arrived there half a month later.

Saras led nearly a thousand subordinates to attack Demon-Hidden Valley and destroy Han Shuo’s forces, while the defenders trusted the valley’s protections. The first wave died in its poisonous miasma, and when Saras’s wind cultivators tried to disperse it, the Five Elements Armored Corpses made the cloud spread across the attackers.

• Saras ordered his subordinates to charge into Demon-Hidden Valley and kill everyone inside.
• Han Huo, Han Mu, and Han Tu reassured Lolth, Lomon, Zoqi, and the others that the valley’s arrays would stop Saras’s forces.
• Saras’s cannon fodder descended into the poisonous miasma and died despite their protective potions and armor.
• Saras’s wind cultivators summoned hurricanes and tornadoes, but the miasma gathered over Demon-Hidden Valley again.
• Han Mu made the poisonous cloud miasma spread outward, and the messy-haired old man ordered Saras’s subordinates to retreat as the cloud engulfed them.

Han Shuo’s defenses at Demon-Hidden Valley killed dozens of Saras’s Middle God subordinates, but Saras began bombarding the valley with Heavenly Thunder Annihilation. Han Mu then made the Poison Cloud Miasma appear to vanish, luring Saras and his forces into the valley.

• The Poison Cloud Miasma killed fifty or sixty of Saras’s Middle God subordinates, while several Upper Gods escaped.
• Osoe examined the poisonous vapors, recognized their extraordinary danger, and decided not to make Han Shuo his enemy.
• Saras gathered lightning power and bombarded Demon-Hidden Valley with Heavenly Thunder Annihilation.
• Han Mu used the ancient trees in the magic arrays to make the Poison Cloud Miasma stream into holes in the valley.
• Believing Saras’s lightning had destroyed the defenses, Saras ordered his forces to charge into Demon-Hidden Valley.

Saras’s troops entered Demon-Hidden Valley and were slaughtered by its illusionary Magic Arrays, forcing Saras to descend and destroy the traps himself. As Osoe watched Saras unleash his full strength, he left hiding and flew toward the valley.

• Saras ordered his men to attack Demon-Hidden Valley after its poisonous clouds and miasma disappeared, unaware that the exposed buildings were an illusion.
• Saras’s men landed in the valley and became trapped in strange Magic Arrays that confused their minds and killed them.
• Han Mu, Han Tu, and the Five Elements Armored Corpses watched the attacks through mirror surfaces while Lolth, Lomon, Zoqi, and Gelong reacted to the slaughter.
• Osoe observed the valley’s defenses and resolved not to become Han Shuo’s enemy.
• After the screams grew louder, Saras ordered his men to retreat, but they could not escape the arrays.
• Saras entered the valley, resisted the arrays’ attacks, and destroyed three of them, while Osoe flew out of hiding toward Demon-Hidden Valley.

Saras was trapped in Demon-Hidden Valley’s essence-draining array, but Han Jin and the others knew the valley could hold him for only half an hour and prepared to retreat. Han Shuo emerged from his long absence and, finding Celestial God Peak deserted, rushed toward Demon-Hidden Valley.

• Saras entered the God-Leaking Essence-Draining Reverse Demon Magic Array and was forced to defend himself against its attacks without access to the valley’s lightning elements.
• Han Jin explained that the array could drain Saras for only half an hour, so Han Tu opened an underground passage for the group to escape.
• Han Mu detected Osoe’s hidden soul projection and learned that Osoe had come to help deal with Saras.
• Han Jin ordered the group to retreat while asking Osoe to hold Saras back, and Osoe agreed to help.
• Han Shuo burst from the dried mud after months underground and flew to Celestial God Peak, where he found no one and hurried toward Demon-Hidden Valley.

Saras’s forces suffered heavy losses in Demon-Hidden Valley, but he ordered the place destroyed after finding it empty. Osoe intervened to protect the valley, and their battle began as Han Shuo and the other Great Monarchs headed toward the area.

• Han Mu, Han Huo, Lolth, Lomon, and the others withdrew through the underground passage while Saras endured the valley’s arrays.
• Saras discovered that most of his followers had been killed and ordered the survivors to search the valley, then destroy it when they found no one.
• Osoe emerged and told Saras to leave the valley intact until Brian was dead, but Saras refused and attacked him.
• Osoe and Saras fought near Demon-Hidden Valley, unleashing lightning and earth powers that devastated the surrounding landscape.
• Han Shuo raced toward Demon-Hidden Valley, while Tyr, Rogg, and Vasias also set off after sensing the battle.

Osoe and Saras fought fiercely in Demon-Hidden Valley, drawing powerful figures from across the Chaos Lands. As Han Shuo’s allies and Han Hao’s forces returned toward the valley, Monarch Rogg arrived while the battle remained unresolved.

• Han Tu sensed that Osoe and Saras were fighting, told Gelong that Saras would be occupied, and headed back toward Demon-Hidden Valley with Han Mu, Han Huo, Lolth, and the others.
• Han Hao and Boro led an attack on Rogg’s subordinates, killed their upper-god leader, and left with their forces for Demon-Hidden Valley ten minutes later.
• Osoe continued fighting Saras, seeking to prove his strength and gain influence among the monarchs, while factions from nearby regions gathered to watch from a distance.
• Wind Spirits reported that the valley was strewn with the corpses of Saras’s subordinates, prompting the arriving observers to grow wary of Demon-Hidden Valley.
• After another day of fierce fighting, Monarch Rogg arrived, and the gathered deities recognized him and moved away from his vicinity.

Han Shuo arrived at Demon-Hidden Valley after Osoe and Saras halted their fight, and he stopped the gathered spectators from leaving. He confronted Saras and the other monarchs, leaving them uncertain how to respond.

• Rogg and Vasias watched as Osoe turned the tide against an exhausted Saras, who had spent much of his Divine Power before the battle.
• Osoe withdrew rather than risk being attacked by Rogg and Vasias, and Saras agreed to end the fight for the day and ordered his followers back to Celestial God Peak.
• Rogg refused to help Saras fight Osoe, explaining that he had only promised to help deal with Brian.
• Han Shuo arrived and declared that no one could leave, then killed more than a dozen fleeing spectators with the Seventeen Flying Swords.
• Han Shuo sensed the Five Elements Armored Corpses underground and reassured himself that Demon-Hidden Valley remained intact.
• Saras accused Rogg and Vasias of promising to help kill Han Shuo, while the two monarchs studied Han Shuo's power warily.

Han Shuo confronted Saras at Demon-Hidden Valley and revealed terrifying power after entering the Heavenly Annihilation Realm. Saras survived Han Shuo’s Godslaying Slash by sacrificing his believers, then fled, leaving Han Shuo in control of the valley.

• Han Shuo killed more than a dozen onlookers who tried to escape, while Osoe welcomed him and thanked him for returning.
• Rogg and Vasias hesitated to help Saras after sensing Han Shuo’s power, and Han Shuo declared that he would not flee.
• Han Shuo unleashed his evil aura and attacked Saras with the Godslaying Slash of the Avici Godslaying Sword Formation.
• Saras sacrificed the souls of his believers to restore his lightning power and block Han Shuo’s attack, then fled without his subordinates.
• Rogg and Vasias departed, and Han Shuo allowed Saras’s abandoned men to leave so they could spread news of the battle.
• A mysterious man on a distant mountain remarked that the Chaos Lands were due for upheaval, then vanished in a surge of destruction power.

Han Shuo defeated Saras and protected Demon-Hidden Valley, leaving Saras’s standing among the Chaos Lands’ rulers badly shaken. Han Shuo reassured his family that they no longer had to fear anyone, while Han Hao set out to plunder what remained of Saras’s forces.

• Han Shuo thanked Osoe for helping defend Demon-Hidden Valley, and the Myriad Demon Cauldron gathered the divine souls of Saras’s fallen followers.
• Osoe said Saras would lose prestige and offered Han Shuo a share of authority over Deep Valley, which Han Shuo accepted.
• Han Shuo’s sons, Lolth, Lomon, Zoqi, and the others emerged from the underground Palace, and Han Shuo told them Saras had fled and they no longer needed to fear anyone in the Chaos Lands.
• Han Shuo and the Five Elements Armored Corpses began repairing and strengthening Demon-Hidden Valley.
• Han Hao learned from a captured Wind Spirit that Han Shuo had defeated Saras, then ordered his followers to spare the messenger and turned toward Saras’s stores to seize his wealth.

After a year of cultivating and strengthening Demon-Hidden Valley, Han Shuo entered Deep Valley and asserted that he would no longer pay its toll. The guards backed down once they recognized him as Brian, whose standing in the Chaos Lands had risen alongside Han Hao’s.

• Han Shuo tested his perfected Heavenly Demon Indestructible Body, and its counterattack sent Lomon flying.
• Han Shuo fortified Demon-Hidden Valley as the Five Elements Armored Corpses and other cultivators made progress, while Lolth prepared to advance to the Upper God Late Stage.
• Han Shuo’s reputation spread across the Chaos Lands, and he let Zoqi and Gelong decide which promising newcomers could stay in Demon-Hidden Valley.
• Han Hao hunted Saras’s scattered subordinates and seized much of Saras’s wealth, while the other Great Monarchs’ factions avoided provoking him.
• Han Shuo arrived at Deep Valley and told Rogg’s guards he would pay no Black Crystal Coins; Haruli identified him as Brian, and the guards respectfully let him pass.

Han Shuo entered Deep Valley, rejected Haruli’s belated offer to follow him, and learned that the other monarchs had divided Saras’s shops. He focused on building his Celestial Pivot Pharmacy by refining more than two thousand pills, drawing customers and pharmacists to his shop.

• Haruli reminded Han Shuo of his earlier offer to follow him, but Han Shuo pretended not to remember and left him behind.
• Haruli complained that Han Shuo was overrated, while his subordinates regretted their leader’s missed opportunity.
• Han Shuo learned that the other Four Great Monarchs had taken over Saras’s ten Monarch Shops and decided to deal with them one at a time.
• Han Shuo went to his Celestial Pivot Pharmacy and began refining medicinal pills to improve the shop’s business.
• After ten days, Han Shuo had refined more than two thousand pills, and customers and pharmacists arrived after smelling their fragrance.

Han Shuo sold his newly refined medicines in Celestial Pivot Pharmacy and decided to recruit the Poison Potion Masters who doubted them. Luolong then told him that Osoe would give him two of Saras's former shops and was trying to secure his place in Deep Valley, leaving Han Shuo to consider how the other monarchs might block him.

• Han Shuo announced that his medicines would be sold in limited daily quantities, and many deities gathered to buy them.
• Several Poison Potion Masters questioned the medicines and planned to test them, so Han Shuo told his assistant to sell to them and resolved to recruit them for Celestial Pivot Pharmacy.
• Luolong visited Han Shuo on Osoe's behalf and explained that Saras had vanished and his ten Monarch Shops had been divided among others.
• Luolong said Osoe would transfer two of those shops to Han Shuo and was negotiating with the other monarchs to help him claim Saras's place in Deep Valley.
• Han Shuo learned that Deep Valley's shop owners and Great Monarchs both had to recognize a new master, and suspected the other monarchs might use the owners to obstruct him.

With Han Shuo missing, Hofus and Laklison joined forces to attack the Han Family in Berglas Fortress, believing Wallace would not intervene. The Han Family learned of the threat and prepared to defend the fortress while calling on their allies for help.

• Wallace allowed the Han Family to relocate to Berglas Fortress and distanced himself from them, while Hofus and Laklison identified the family as a target for revenge.
• Hofus and Laklison agreed to attack Berglas Fortress after Laklison said Wallace would turn a blind eye to the assault.
• The Han Family used Celestial Pivot Pharmacy's network to learn of the alliance and suspect that Hofus and Laklison planned to attack Berglas.
• Phoebe, Emily, Almerick, Stassom, Blood Spirit, Bolands, Gilbert, and the other senior members gathered to discuss their defense.
• Stassom urged the family to hold Berglas Fortress and seek help from Heitian, Qinglin, Kamelita, Andrei, and their other allies, and Phoebe sent messengers to summon them.

With Kamelita, Andrei, Heitian, and Qinglin unreachable, the Han Family suspected Wallace was isolating them and prepared Berglas Fortress for an attack while awaiting allied reinforcements. Laklison and Hofus's forces reached the fortress and began their assault, as Ralph's Second Division waited nearby to ambush anyone who escaped.

• Phoebe, Stassom, and the others learned that Kamelita, Andrei, Heitian, and Qinglin were unreachable, and they suspected Wallace had arranged their absence.
• Emily told the Han Family that allies from the Death and Destruction Divine Domains were sending reinforcements, and Stassom ordered preparations to leave Shadow City.
• Bolands, Blood Spirit, and the Han Family fortified Berglas Fortress with Energy Towers, cannons, formations, and supplies.
• Ralph and the Second Division secretly took positions near Berglas Fortress, planning to kill Han Family members who slipped past the attackers.
• Laklison and Hofus brought their forces to Berglas Fortress and launched a ferocious attack.

Laklison and Hofus attacked Berglas Fortress, where the Han Family used Energy Crystals Cannons and an energy barrier to devastate the invading Divine Guards. Hofus and Laklison then ordered a joint assault on the barrier, while Gilbert told the defenders to keep feeding crystals into the Energy Towers and promised the attackers worse to come.

• Laklison and Hofus led their forces to Berglas Fortress and ordered an assault, assuming Han Shuo was its only capable defender.
• Phoebe and the Han Family used concealed Energy Crystals Cannons and the Energy Towers’ barrier to kill more than a hundred and fifty of Hofus’s Divine Guards.
• Hofus ordered his surviving men to attack the energy barrier from a distance, while Laklison eyed the Han Family’s wealth.
• Gilbert ordered the Han Family’s guards to load more energy crystals into the Energy Towers and hold off the attackers.

Gilbert and the Han Family guards used Berglas Fortress’s Energy Towers to inflict heavy losses on Hofus’s forces before retreating to the Han Family compound. As Hofus and Laklison advanced on the compound, Phoebe and the others prepared their activated magic arrays for the coming attack.

• Gilbert and the guards burned through a huge stock of energy crystals to fire the Energy Towers, killing many of Hofus’s men and forcing Laklison and the other experts to expend divine power on a barrier.
• When their energy crystals ran low, Gilbert led the guards back to the Han Family compound while the Energy Towers continued firing.
• After the bombardment stopped and the barrier failed, Hofus sent a subordinate to check the fortress, then entered with Laklison and found it stripped of valuables.
• Hofus ordered his forces to attack the Han Family compound, while dark clouds and mist concealed it from the rest of Berglas Fortress.
• Phoebe confirmed that the magic arrays were active, and Stassom said the uninvolved residents had already left the fortress.
• Gilbert returned and reported that his side had killed two hundred Divine Guards; Blood Spirit vowed to fight the attackers himself.