Recaps

Chief Lieshan launched a planned assault on the Heavenly Wind Tribe, and Leijia joined the battle as its newly advanced Highgod. The attackers killed one of the tribe’s Highgods, another deputy chief fled, and Chief Tianfeng remained occupied fighting Lieshan.

• Chief Lieshan learned that a Heavenly Wind Tribe Midgod had advanced to Highgod and ordered preparations for an attack in one year.
• A year later, Chief Lieshan and allied Highgods attacked the Heavenly Wind Tribe while Leijia was researching in his courtyard.
• Chief Lieshan’s forces surrounded the tribe’s four Highgods, and a staff-wielding Highgod offered Leijia a chance to escape while pretending to fight.
• Chief Lieshan overpowered Chief Tianfeng, while three attackers destroyed a deputy chief’s defensive artifact and killed him.
• A Blazing Mountain Tribe Highgod claimed the dead deputy chief’s High Godhead and artifacts, and the other deputy chief fled the battle.

Leijia killed seven Highgods with one sword and quickly overwhelmed Chief Lieshan, turning the battle against the Blazing Mountain Tribe into a decisive victory. He accepted Lieshan’s surrender, while Chief Tianfeng also submitted, and sent both chiefs to collect the fallen Highgods’ belongings.

• Leijia shattered the staff-wielding Highgod’s weapon and killed him with a lightning-infused sword strike.
• Leijia killed seven Highgods at once, while Chief Lieshan escaped by switching to his hidden Divine Clone.
• Chief Lieshan fled, but Leijia caught up and struck him down, leaving him unable to fight or escape.
• Leijia offered Chief Lieshan the choice to surrender or die, and Lieshan bowed and pledged his submission.
• Chief Tianfeng bowed to Leijia, who ordered both chiefs to gather the fallen Highgods’ interspatial rings and divine artifacts.

Leijia ordered the Heavenly Wind and Lieshan tribes to unite the twelve tribes, while Redding and his companions reached the Amethyst Mountains and found a vast deposit of Amethyst. The group began collecting the treasure and strengthening their souls.

• Leijia took the Heaven and Earth Wonders from Chief Lieshan's ring, gave Chief Tianfeng the High Godheads and divine artifacts to distribute, and ordered Chief Lieshan to announce an alliance of the twelve tribes.
• Chief Lieshan warned Leijia that the larger tribes might resist, and Leijia said he would make them agree.
• After thousands of years of travel, Redding, Laius, Bowen, Nemo, and Pash entered the Amethyst Mountains' Mist Sea and pressed deeper despite its poor visibility, soul-attacking sound, and increasing gravity.
• A month later, Redding and his companions found a massive pit surrounded by piles of Amethyst, and Bowen rushed to collect it while Redding began absorbing its energy to strengthen his soul.

After a thousand years of gathering Amethysts, Nemo, Laius, Pash, and Bowen shifted their focus to absorbing them while Redding continued cultivating. Redding attained godhood in the Fate Element, adding a new divine clone and leaving Bowen at his side.

• Nemo tracked a thousand years of cultivation as Laius, Pash, and Bowen gathered a huge harvest of Amethysts from the pit.
• The three filled their spatial rings, returned to the Amethyst mountains, and joined Nemo in deciding to stop gathering and absorb their stockpile.
• Bowen took the first guard shift while the others began absorbing Amethysts, leaving his earth elemental divine clone on watch.
• Ten years later, Redding attained godhood externally in the Fate Element and formed a Fate Divine Clone.
• Redding considered the strength of his five bodies, and Bowen flew to his side as the others continued cultivating undisturbed.

Redding and Bowen met Leiyuan, an Amethyst Divine Beast and husband of Sovereign Zijing, in the Amethyst Mountains. Months later, Redding and Leiyuan fought in their true forms while their companions watched.

• Redding's Fate Divine Clone warned him that the approaching visitor meant no harm, so he and Bowen went to meet him.
• The visitor introduced himself as Leiyuan, and Redding and Bowen learned that he and Zijing were both Amethyst Divine Beasts.
• Over the following months, Leiyuan and Redding trained together in the Amethyst pit and exchanged more than a hundred weapon strikes.
• Leiyuan transformed into his Amethyst Divine Beast form, and Redding revealed his Azure Dragon Saint Domain True Body.
• Redding and Leiyuan fought without dodging, while Laius, Pash, Bowen, Nemo, and Zijing watched and Nemo remarked on the Amethyst Divine Beasts' tough bodies.

After becoming a Highgod, Redding joined his companions to investigate a mysterious pillar of divine light said to be nurturing a Heaven and Earth Wonder. They reached the site and found over a hundred Highgods gathered, while the wonder remained hidden inside the impenetrable light.

• Redding and Leiyuan fought in their true divine beast forms for over a thousand exchanges before withdrawing and calling a truce.
• Fifty thousand years later, Redding's Fate Element Divine Clone broke through to become a Highgod.
• Laius, Pash, Nemo, Zijing, and her husband joined Redding to celebrate, and Leiyuan told them about a strange pillar of divine light outside the Amethyst Mountains.
• Redding and his companions set out to investigate the Heaven and Earth Wonder, leaving Bowen behind to comprehend Profound Mysteries.
• Five days later, Redding and the others reached the pillar and found more than a hundred Highgods gathered around it.

Redding and the others waited for the divine-light pillar around a heaven and earth wonder to fade, while he struggled to fuse a sixth profound mystery. When the barrier vanished, two crystals appeared, and Redding suspected they were Sovereign Sparks.

• Redding and the others learned from an Earth Elemental System Highgod that the pillar of divine light was steadily weakening and would eventually disappear.
• Redding chose to wait for the barrier to fade, and his group took turns keeping watch and cultivating as more God Level experts gathered.
• After a thousand years, Redding still could not find a way to fuse his final profound mystery with the five he had already combined.
• Black Tortoise Bowen joined the group, and several years later the pillar of light vanished, revealing two dark-purple crystals above a stone platform.
• Redding recognized the crystals' powerful auras and wondered if they were Sovereign Sparks, which his four siblings would need in four elements to use their Fusion Innate Divine Ability as Sovereigns.

Redding and his companions fought through a crowd of God Level experts to seize two crystals, which Redding recognized as Sovereign Sparks of the Destruction Element. Pash refined one and discovered the power of the Sovereign’s Might of the Will, using it to kill the Highgods attacking them.

• A Wind Element Highgod raced for the crystals, but lightning tore apart his wings, and the gathered God Level experts began attacking one another amid the scramble.
• Redding led Bowen, Leiyuan, Zijing, Nemo, Laius, and Pash through the attackers, using Bowen’s Seal and his own Dragon Roar to shield the group and slow their pursuers.
• Nemo pulled both crystals from the stone platform, and Redding identified their destructive aura before telling Pash to bind one.
• Pash’s blood triggered the crystal, which entered his forehead and was revealed to him as a Sovereign Spark; Redding recognized what it was.
• When Highgods called for a joint attack, Pash unleashed the Sovereign’s Might of the Will, stripping their souls from their Divine Sparks and causing their attacks to dissipate.

Redding gave the remaining Destruction Sovereign Spark to Zijing, who refined it and became a mid-level Sovereign. After returning to the Amethyst Mountains, Redding learned that four Sovereign Sparks suited to him and his siblings had been found in the Star Mist Sea, and he hurried to secure them.

• Pash explained how refining a Sovereign Spark had let him kill over a thousand Highgods with a thought, and Redding gave the remaining spark to Leiyuan and Zijing.
• Leiyuan chose to let Zijing refine the Destruction Sovereign Spark because she had only one Divine Clone and might not get another spark suited to her.
• Zijing refined the spark and became a mid-level Sovereign, while Redding identified Pash's spark as lower rank.
• Zijing and Pash used their Might of the Will to carry Redding and the others back to the Amethyst Mountains, where Redding resumed fusing the Water Law's profound mysteries.
• Two and a half years later, Laius reported that a Highgod had brought four Sovereign Sparks—earth, fire, water, and wind—to Crimson Island.
• Redding told Laius to keep the sparks secure on Crimson Island and said they would leave at once to meet Pash there.

Redding and his three siblings refined four Sovereign Sparks on Crimson Island, becoming Lower Sovereigns and joining Pash and Zijing in a powerful new faction. The group tested the Sparks’ effects, while Leiyuan prepared to challenge Laius’s Will-empowered Divine Clone.

• Pash escorted Redding and his siblings to Crimson Island with Zijing and Leiyuan, where Laius had prepared four Sovereign Sparks.
• Redding distributed the Sparks by element, and he and his siblings refined them simultaneously, becoming Lower Sovereigns.
• Redding recognized that the Sparks’ ranks matched what he remembered and considered forming a Sovereign faction with his allies, despite the risk of antagonizing Uhtred.
• Laius and Bowen described the Might of the Will and its boost to their Divine Clones, while Leiyuan asked to test the effect.
• Laius sent out his Destruction Element Divine Clone, and Leiyuan raised his Highgod Artifact staff after sensing the clone’s threat.

Leijia’s forces retreated from a chaotic battle over Sovereign Sparks in the Life Divine Realm, and he encountered the powerful woman Vivian. Recognizing her as the future Life Sovereign, he faced her request for help as enemies pursued her.

• Leiyuan attacked Laius’s Destruction Divine Clone, but Laius stopped his staff with one hand and sent him reeling.
• Redding and Laius reassured Leiyuan that the group could find him a compatible Sovereign Spark or hunt down a Sovereign.
• Leijia led his injured followers away after a battle for ten Sovereign Sparks, having seized two and lost three to a spatial rift.
• A group of God Level experts pursued Vivian, and she asked Leijia to let her pass.
• Leijia recognized Vivian as the woman who would become the Life Sovereign.

Leijia drove off the Highgods pursuing Vivian, then learned she had two Life Element Sovereign Sparks. He chose to seek an exchange rather than attack her, and after they secured their conduct with an Overgod Oath, he began revealing the Sparks’ secret.

• A leading Highgod asked Leijia not to interfere in his dispute with Vivian, but Leijia surrounded him and his followers with his own God Level experts.
• The Highgod led his group away, and Vivian thanked Leijia for protecting her.
• Vivian explained that the Highgods had hunted her for the crystals from the pillar of light and said she had obtained two.
• Vivian showed Leijia the two emerald-green Life Element Sovereign Sparks, and he considered but rejected attacking her to take them.
• Leijia proposed a deal to tell Vivian what the crystals were for, secured an Overgod Oath from both of them, and then told her everything about the Sovereign Sparks.

Leijia and Vivian refined the Life Sovereign Sparks, becoming Sovereigns, and Leijia gained a Mid-level Life Sovereign Spark while Vivian received a High-level one. Vivian declined Leijia’s offer of a Dark Sovereign Spark but accepted his invitation to travel with him to his tribe.

• Leijia and Vivian each refined a Life Sovereign Spark, and the pressure of their new Sovereign power overwhelmed the Highgods nearby.
• Leijia discovered that his Life Sovereign Spark was Mid-level and realized Vivian had refined the High-level Spark.
• Leijia offered Vivian a Dark Sovereign Spark, but she refused it because she already had a Life Sovereign Spark and felt Leijia had helped her enough.
• Leijia invited Vivian to his tribe, and after considering the value of having trusted companions, she accepted.

Redding returned with his siblings to the Skyrite Mountains, their birthplace, and decided to establish a city there as a home and stronghold for the Four Divine Beasts. With help from the other Sovereigns, he built a fortified city near the mountains in ten days.

• Redding surveyed the Skyrite Mountains and found only a little over a hundred Highgods, a scarcity caused in part by the Four Divine Beasts driving away or killing the range’s powerful inhabitants.
• Redding proposed building a city near the Skyrite Mountains, and Laius, Pash, the Four Divine Beasts, Zijing, and her husband supported the plan.
• The six Sovereigns chose an open plain near the mountains and raised the city walls using earth, wind, fire, water, and Destruction Sovereign’s Might.
• Redding led the others in building residential districts and planning marketplaces, and they completed a city for tens of millions of people in ten days.

Redding and the other Sovereigns completed Heavenly Sacrifice City, which prospered over the next two hundred thousand years. When the Laws of the Universe summoned all Water Sovereigns to create the Water Divine Plane, Sovereigns across the Four Overgod Planes entered the Spatial Turbulence.

• Redding and the others named their new city Heavenly Sacrifice City.
• Over two hundred thousand years, Heavenly Sacrifice City grew to tens of millions of residents, and Redding established Inkstone currency, a Fiend Castle, and a garrison.
• Leiyuan refined the Mid-level Earth Elemental System Sovereign Spark that Leijia had found in the Life Divine Realm.
• The Laws of the Universe ordered all Water Sovereigns to gather in the Spatial Turbulence and create the Water Divine Plane.
• Redding gathered Laius, Pash, and the other Four Divine Beasts, then led them into the Spatial Turbulence with Zijing and Leiyuan to follow.
• Vivian and Leijia entered the Spatial Turbulence, as did Uhtred and nearly all the other Sovereigns of the Four Overgod Planes.

Redding gathered with Zijing and her husband before leading the Four Divine Beasts toward the place where the Water Divine Plane would be created. Vivian and Leijia met the Sovereign of Death and joined her group, while Leijia kept his connection to Redding secret.

• Redding and the Four Divine Beasts met Zijing and her husband in the Spatial Turbulence and followed the Universe’s guidance toward the Water Sovereigns.
• Leijia and Vivian set out toward the Water Divine Plane, and Vivian sensed the nearby Sovereign of Death.
• Leijia and Vivian met the Sovereign of Death, whom Leijia addressed as big sister after their earlier dealings.
• Leijia told the Sovereign of Death they were going to watch the Water Divine Plane’s creation and concealed his relationship with Redding.
• The Sovereign of Death joined Vivian and Leijia, bringing their group to twelve as other Sovereigns kept their distance.

Redding and the Four Divine Beasts' faction arrived at the gathering of Sovereigns assembled for the creation of the Water Divine Plane. Redding recognized Tristan, a former enemy who had become the Water Sovereign, while more than sixty Sovereigns gathered without either man daring to start a fight.

• Redding arrived with six other Sovereigns, and the gathered groups kept their distance from the powerful party.
• Laius told Redding that Tristan, whose Darkness Divine Clone Redding had destroyed long ago, had become a Sovereign.
• Tristan recognized Redding and recalled fleeing to the Celestial Realm, where he obtained a High-level Sovereign Spark, but he hesitated to attack Redding's larger group.
• Redding spotted Leijia with the Life and Death Sovereigns, Uhtred with three followers, and the other elemental Sovereigns among the gathering.
• More than sixty Sovereigns assembled in Spatial Turbulence for the establishment of the Water Divine Plane.

Tristan urged the six other Water Sovereigns to cooperate in creating the Water Divine Plane, reminding them that defying the Laws of the Universe and the Four Overgods would mean destruction. After thirty thousand years of gathering Sovereign's Might, the seven Water Sovereigns completed the plane’s material foundation.

• Tristan called on the Water Sovereigns to begin creating the Water Divine Plane, but none followed his lead until he warned them of the consequences of disobeying the Laws of the Universe and the Four Overgods.
• The Sovereigns backing the Water Sovereigns ordered their followers to cooperate, and Redding flew over to join Tristan.
• A Water Element Intermediate Sovereign bluntly asked Tristan whether they should begin gathering Sovereign's Might, and Tristan silently marked him as his second target after Redding.
• The seven Water Sovereigns gathered Sovereign's Might from the Spatial Turbulence for thirty thousand years.
• The seven Water Sovereigns finished gathering the immense quantity of Sovereign's Might, and Redding pretended to struggle to conceal his strength.

Redding, Tristan, and the other five Water Sovereigns created the Water Divine Plane, gaining major advances in their comprehension of the Laws as they worked. After eighty thousand years, the plane was completed, and the Laws of the Universe established teleportation arrays connecting it to the Four Overgod Planes and countless Material Planes.

• The seven Water Sovereigns detonated Sovereign's Might and began shaping the Water Divine Plane while the other Sovereigns kept one another in check.
• Redding and the other Water Sovereigns gained insights into the Profound Mysteries of the Laws, accelerating the plane’s construction.
• The seven Sovereigns formed seven continents around an inland sea, with Tristan’s continent largest and Redding keeping his own smaller than those of the Mid-level Sovereigns.
• As construction continued, Redding neared fusion of his six Profound Mysteries, while Tristan fused his fourth and partially fused his fifth.
• Eighty thousand years later, the Water Sovereigns completed the plane, and four beams from the Laws of the Universe created teleportation arrays on three continents and an island.
• The Laws of the Universe caused arrays leading to the Water Divine Plane to appear in the Four Overgod Planes and countless Material Planes.

After the Water Divine Plane was opened, Tristan claimed most of its territory while Redding secured a large share. As the Sovereigns prepared to leave, Norman called them to witness his duel with Bryan, whose loser would surrender all territory in the Celestial Realm.

• Tristan urged the Water Sovereigns to settle in the new plane, but most gave up their claims and returned to their backers.
• Redding claimed his own continent, a neighboring continent, and nearby sea, while another Lower Sovereign took a smaller territory; Tristan claimed everything left.
• Tristan decided to postpone killing Redding until after Redding had developed his territories.
• Nemo checked that Redding was safe, while he and the others had been ready to fight Tristan if he attacked.
• Norman asked the Sovereigns to witness his duel with Bryan, declaring that the loser would surrender all territory in the Celestial Realm.

The Fate Sovereign Norman and the Light Sovereign Bryan fought over their territories in the Celestial Realm after years of conflict. As Bryan grew frustrated by Norman’s strange defense, he prepared to use a more powerful move.

• Norman challenged Bryan to fight for their Celestial Realm territories, and both swore Overgod Oaths to stake their lands and prevent interference.
• Norman and Bryan exchanged attacks, but neither could seriously harm the other with their initial strikes.
• Norman used the Edicts of Fate to transfer the damage from Bryan’s attacks to his future self, and Redding recognized the technique.
• Bryan attacked hundreds of times without effect while Norman cut him with his strange saber, leaving Bryan increasingly frantic.
• Bryan decided to use a powerful move and warned Norman not to blame him if he fell to it.

Bryan and Norman ended their battle in the Spatial Turbulence after badly injuring each other, then returned toward the Celestial Realm. Leijia stayed behind to meet Uhtred, who had sent him a Soul Transmission.

• Bryan restrained Norman with golden light, but Norman broke free and struck Bryan while losing an arm to Bryan's spear.
• Bryan called the battle a draw and fled toward the Celestial Realm, and Norman departed with his followers soon afterward.
• The other Sovereigns declined to pursue Bryan or Norman because killing either would be difficult and risk provoking retaliation.
• Redding led the Sovereigns of the Four Divine Beasts' lineage through the Water Divine Plane to the Infernal Realm.
• Leijia refused the Sovereign of Death's offer to send Vivian with him and stayed in the Spatial Turbulence to meet Uhtred.

Leijia met Uhtred in the spatial turbulence, and their old friendship helped Uhtred regain his resolve to strengthen his position in the Infernal Realm. As Leijia returned toward the Life Divine Realm, he found and kept a fragment of a shattered Sovereign Artifact.

• Leijia met Uhtred, and they greeted each other after hundreds of thousands of years apart.
• Uhtred praised Leijia's strength, while Leijia explained that he preferred the relative peace of the Life Divine Realm to the Infernal Realm's conflicts.
• Leijia urged Uhtred to rely on strength rather than fear the Sovereigns allied against him, and Uhtred thanked him and promised him a place in the Infernal Realm.
• Leijia and Uhtred shared insights into their Profound Mysteries before departing for their respective realms.
• Leijia traveled through the spatial turbulence toward the Life Divine Realm and caught a fragment of a Sovereign Artifact, which he stored in his interspatial ring.

The Earth and Fire Divine Planes began taking shape at the same time, forcing Redding to split the Four Divine Beasts' faction so the Sovereigns could guard both sites. As Nemo helped establish the Fire Divine Plane, Tristan prepared to eliminate Redding, who noticed someone approaching and believed his bait had worked.

• Redding led the faction's Sovereigns to the Spatial Turbulence, where the seven Earth Sovereigns began establishing the Great Earth Divine Plane.
• When the Fire Sovereigns were summoned to create their plane, Redding left Zijing, Pash, and Laius to guard Leiyuan and Bowen while he accompanied Nemo to the Fire Divine Plane.
• Leijia traveled through the Spatial Turbulence to join Redding and Nemo as they headed for the Fire Divine Plane.
• Tristan learned that Redding was at the Fire Divine Plane, obtained its location, and dismissed his Lower Sovereign while planning to kill Redding.
• As the Fire Sovereigns formed their plane, Redding moved away from the scorching energy while keeping Nemo under watch, then sensed a figure approaching and said it had taken the bait.

Tristan pursued Redding through the Spatial Turbulence, while Oliver followed, hoping to claim Redding’s Water Element Sovereign Spark. Redding confronted Oliver first and pretended to be outmatched, leaving Oliver confident as their fight began.

• Tristan found Redding and threatened revenge, while Redding feigned fear and fled at deliberately reduced speed.
• Nemo noticed Tristan’s pursuit and worried as she worked on creating a Divine Plane.
• Oliver followed Redding, believing his displayed strength made him an easy target, while Tristan trailed farther behind.
• After a month of pursuit, Oliver blocked Redding’s path and declared that he would take Redding’s Sovereign Spark.
• Redding and Oliver clashed, and Redding let Oliver’s hammer blow send him flying so Oliver would believe he had the advantage.