Recaps

Liermons challenged Fafnir, the Prefect of Eternal Night, to a duel at the Ember Mountains, and Luo Ao and Echidna stayed to watch. The chapter ended with the two fighters facing off, just before their battle began.

• Liermons left Luo Ao and Echidna after declaring that he would defeat Fafnir before challenging Luo Ao.
• Liermons issued a challenge to Fafnir, who accepted and set their match for three months later at the Ember Mountains.
• Luo Ao and Echidna decided to remain in Eternal Night City to watch the duel.
• Three months later, Liermons and a vast crowd gathered at the Ember Mountains, where Fafnir made his entrance.
• Liermons and Fafnir exchanged warnings and faced each other in the air as the spectators fell silent.

Liermons and Fafnir fought fiercely above the Ember Mountains, with Liermons's fused divine power and skill in the Edicts of Destruction pressuring the Lord of Evernight Prefecture. After taking several minor injuries, Fafnir unleashed a terrifying aura of destruction and vowed to kill Liermons.

• Liermons opened the battle with a giant sword of destructive energy, and Fafnir met it with a flaming lion that exploded on impact.
• Their first exchange ended without either gaining a clear advantage, though Fafnir recognized the strength of Liermons's fused divine power.
• Liermons attacked with thirty-six sword shadows, and Fafnir countered with a divine bird of flame that blocked them.
• Fafnir and Liermons clashed at close range, and Liermons repeatedly wounded Fafnir while Luo Ao watched their movements.
• After Liermons struck him again, Fafnir released Sovereign's Might, cloaked himself in black light, and threatened to kill Liermons.

Fafnir and Liermons both unleashed Destruction Sovereign Power and fought a brutal close-range battle above the Ember Mountains. Liermons fell to the ground nearly exhausted as Fafnir hurled his spear at him to finish the fight.

• Fafnir used Destruction Sovereign Power to strengthen his attacks and pressed Liermons with a black flame strike.
• Liermons revealed and ignited his own drop of Destruction Sovereign Power, blocking Fafnir's attack despite being wounded.
• Fafnir and Liermons exchanged attacks at close range, while Luo Ao judged that Liermons was losing because Fafnir had greater mastery of the Profound Mysteries.
• Liermons was knocked to the ground nearly unable to fight, and Fafnir hurled his spear toward him.

Liermons perfected the fusion of the Profound Mystery of Explosion during his battle with Fafnir and broke through to Asura-level strength. He drove Fafnir into a desperate fight, then unleashed a terrifying soul attack that left Fafnir with no apparent way to escape.

• As the Prefect of Eternal Night's spear raced toward him, Liermons realized he had mastered the perfect fusion of the Profound Mystery of Explosion.
• Liermons switched to his Fire Divine Clone and deflected the spear with his fist, shocking Fafnir and Luo Ao.
• Liermons drew his Black Longsword and attacked Fafnir at astonishing speed, overpowering him in their clash.
• Liermons formed a black, transparent sword phantom to launch a soul attack, while Fafnir struggled to understand his opponent's sudden strength.

Liermons defeated and killed Fafnir to become the new Prefecture Lord of Eternal Night. Inspired by Liermons’s breakthrough punch, Luo Ao returned to Eternal Night City to cultivate the Profound Mystery of Explosion.

• Liermons pierced Fafnir’s Soul Attack with his illusory sword shadow, then struck and killed him with the Black Longsword.
• Long'erke announced Liermons as the new Prefecture Lord of Eternal Night, and the people of the Ember Mountains cheered for him.
• Luo Ao admired Liermons’s victory, while Echidna worried that Liermons might challenge him next.
• Luo Ao told Echidna he would stay in Eternal Night City to cultivate after witnessing Liermons’s explosive punch.
• Back at his courtyard, Luo Ao repeatedly recalled Liermons’s punch and explored how to fuse the Profound Mystery of Explosion.

Liermons watched a Floating Shadow of the Greenfield Plains battle and judged the black-haired Luo Ao to be an unfathomably powerful expert. Meanwhile, Luo Ao fused four Fire Law Profound Mysteries and reached the Seven-Star Fiend level in their fusion, while Echidna remained close to fusing her second.

• Liermons watched the Floating Shadow and saw the black-haired Luo Ao defeat the Wisteria Fiend with a single sword strike and kill a Darkness Law expert with a Soul Attack.
• Liermons wondered whether Luo Ao was stronger than Fafnir and resolved to develop a powerful ultimate move of his own.
• Long'erke told Liermons that Luo Ao had stayed in his room to cultivate, and Liermons returned to working on his ultimate move.
• Luo Ao cleared his mind, punched a black hole into space, and realized that his fourth Fire Law Profound Mystery had fused with the other three.
• Echidna asked Luo Ao whether he had succeeded, and he confirmed it before encouraging her to keep cultivating.

Luo Ao agreed to meet Liermons for their promised duel and effortlessly stopped his sword strikes by controlling space. Liermons and Long'erke believed Luo Ao was a Paragon.

• Long'erke found Luo Ao and Echidna and asked him to meet Liermons for their duel.
• Luo Ao sent his Fire Divine Clone with Long'erke to the purple lake where Liermons waited.
• Liermons drew his Black Longsword and attacked Luo Ao with several streaks of black sword light.
• Luo Ao punched open a spatial rift and let it swallow Liermons's sword strikes without harming him.
• Liermons and Long'erke were stunned, and Liermons asked whether Luo Ao was a Paragon.

Luo Ao revealed himself as the new Water Element Sovereign and appointed Liermons as his emissary. Liermons accepted the position and chose an Offensive Sovereign Artifact, while other experts gathered to witness the Sovereign’s emergence.

• Liermons realized Luo Ao was a Sovereign when Water Sovereign Power gathered above Silent Violet Lake.
• Kuman hurried from his palace to meet the newly appeared Water Element Sovereign.
• Luo Ao asked Liermons to become his emissary, and Liermons accepted.
• Luo Ao promised Liermons two hundred drops of Sovereign’s Might and asked what kind of Sovereign Artifact he wanted.
• Liermons chose an Offensive Sovereign Artifact.

After becoming the Water Element Sovereign, Luo Ao met Sovereign Muja, who welcomed him, explained the current state of the Sovereigns, and offered him gifts and advice. Luo Ao accepted Kuman’s help and learned the rules governing Sovereign Artifacts before continuing his journey.

• Luo Ao told Liermons to wait in Eternal Night Prefecture for about a hundred years before receiving an Offensive Sovereign Artifact, and Liermons and Long'erke departed.
• Kuman introduced himself as Sovereign Muja and offered to entertain Luo Ao on Muja Continent.
• Kuman answered Luo Ao’s questions about the Sovereigns, including that only the final Fate Sovereign position remained unfilled and that four new Lower Sovereigns had emerged from the Four Divine Beasts Clan.
• Kuman presented Luo Ao with a Space Ring containing more than twenty Sovereign Artifacts and explained the rules limiting who could receive them.
• Kuman recommended places for Luo Ao to visit in the Infernal Realm and invited him to return to Muja Continent.

Luo Ao and Echidna set out for Miluo Island while Luo Ao arranged missions for people he had freed from the Planar Prison. He sent Zennard to deliver a sword to Liermons and assigned Aifiya’s group to protect his sister Nicole as she gained experience in the Infernal Realm.

• Luo Ao equipped three Sovereign Artifacts, reunited with Echidna, and left Eternal Night City with her on a Fiend Mission to Miluo Island.
• Luo Ao’s Water Sovereign Clone gave Zennard a blue-green divine sword and ordered him to deliver it to Liermons within a hundred years.
• Zennard left the Planar Prison and flew toward the Nightmare Forest, looking forward to completing his mission and exploring the Infernal Realm.
• Luo Ao assigned Aifiya and her group to protect Nicole in the Infernal Realm and gave them Sovereign’s Might as an advance reward.
• Luo Ao reflected on Feiwenli’s rare Soul Mutation and hoped that she would motivate Nicole to cultivate.

As the Metal Lifeform traveled through the Star Mist Sea toward Miluo Island, Echidna celebrated her recent breakthrough and learned about the island from Monica. When bandits attacked, Echidna used her fused Water Element Profound Mysteries to unleash a devastating new technique.

• Echidna told Luo Ao she expected it would take centuries to fuse a third Water Element Profound Mystery, and Luo Ao explained that her current method was much faster than mastering each mystery before fusing them.
• Monica described Miluo Island's Freedom Castle and Martial Arena, drawing Echidna's interest in visiting Freedom Castle.
• Nuada noticed a bandit attack, and Echidna joined the defenders as he fought two Highgod bandits amid the outnumbered group's battle.
• Echidna used Water Dragon's Roar to bind and crush numerous God bandits, giving the other Fiends an opening to kill them.

Echidna used her Divine Ability to destroy many God bandits and drive off their leaders. Years later, as the caravan neared Miluo Island, a much larger force from Feixue Island trapped them, leaving the outnumbered travelers preparing for a desperate fight.

• Echidna froze more than twenty God bandits with her Divine Ability, then killed them with a water dragon, prompting the Highgod leaders and surviving bandits to flee.
• The caravan traveled for several years toward Miluo Island before Nuada sensed an approaching Metal Lifeform bearing Feixue Island's emblem.
• Teresa and the other Fiends realized Feixue Island's several-hundred-member squad vastly outnumbered their group of forty.
• Nuada warned that they were unlikely to escape and resolved to stake his life on getting Monica out alive.
• The Fiends prepared to rely on their own luck as Feixue Island's forces approached.

Luo Ao and the caravan were ambushed by Feixue Island bandits, but Xide arrived and revealed overwhelming strength as a Seven-Star Fiend. He killed Aogesai with a single attack, leaving the surviving bandits facing him.

• Feixue Island’s forces destroyed the caravan’s Metal Lifeform and Aogesai demanded their wealth, then ordered his bandits to attack.
• Xide appeared behind Luo Ao’s group and used a river of destructive sword energy to kill dozens of charging bandits.
• Luo Ao recognized Xide, who descended to protect the caravan and warned that he had arrived just in time.
• Aogesai challenged Xide, who revealed his Seven-Star Fiend strength and cut him apart with a devastating sword strike.

Xide rescued Luo Ao's group from the bandits with a devastating sword strike, then warned Luo Ao that the Infernal Realm was dangerous and left. The group reached Miluo Island, where Luo Ao and his companions explored Freedom Castle and bought Echidna an expensive outfit.

• Xide killed the bandit leader and dozens of bandits with one sword strike, then wiped out nearly all the rest as they fled.
• Teresa thanked Xide, and Xide warned Luo Ao not to be careless before disappearing into the Mist Sea.
• The group continued to Miluo Island, where Nuada began fusing his Profound Mysteries and the others decided to let him cultivate without taking missions.
• Monica led Echidna, Nuada, and Luo Ao around Miluo Island and into Freedom Castle.
• Echidna tried on a rare outfit, and Luo Ao bought it for eight million Inkstones before the group continued to the fourth floor.

Xide won one hundred consecutive battles at Miluo Island’s Battlefield and was invited by the Bagshaw Clan to view the West Island Secret Realm’s Floating Shadows. After learning that a Seven-Star Fiend could skip the entrance test, he followed Youlai into a sealed chamber to meet the castle lord.

• Luo Ao, Monica, Echidna, and Nuada watched Xide defeat the snake-woman and then win ten battles without drawing his weapon.
• Xide continued his winning streak for nine days, defeated his final challengers, and earned a hundred-win victory.
• The Bagshaw Clan invited Xide to Zhuoyang Peak, where Secla led him and the other victors to the clan’s undersea castle.
• Youlai explained the secret-realm rules and allowed Xide, a Seven-Star Fiend, to enter the first secret chamber without taking a test.
• Youlai led Xide through Hendsey Castle to a blood-red door, where the unseen castle lord invited him inside.

Xide escaped Mosi’s Soul Control and challenged him, but Mosi easily defeated him and brought him to meet Luo Ao beneath Hendsey Castle. Luo Ao and Mosi discussed how Xide’s exceptional willpower had let him break free of the soul technique.

• Xide resisted Mosi’s command to submit and escaped the secret chamber, destroying part of Hendsey Castle as he fled.
• Mosi intercepted Xide, whose strongest sword attack failed to harm him, and Xide accepted that he could not escape.
• Mosi brought Xide to meet Luo Ao, whom Xide recognized from a recent encounter.
• Luo Ao asked whether Mosi had held back, and Mosi explained that Xide’s strong willpower had helped him withstand Soul Control.

Xide studied Mosi’s collection of Floating Shadows, then received three drops of Sovereign’s Might from Luo Ao before leaving Miluo Island. Echidna stayed behind to train with talented Gods while Luo Ao met Star Sovereign Xing Yi, whose lightning divine clone had fused four Profound Mysteries.

• Mosi showed Xide 1,628 Floating Shadows, including three recordings of Sovereigns in battle, and Xide watched them for a day to gain insights.
• Luo Ao gave Xide three drops of Sovereign’s Might as he departed, while Mosi learned that Xide was a Sovereign and waited respectfully for Luo Ao.
• At Luo Ao’s request, Mosi summoned more than ten talented Gods to serve as sparring partners for Echidna, who began training on Miluo Island.
• Echidna sparred with Luosaina and studied how her Mist Vortex neutralized Water Dragon’s Roar, forming a plan to fuse her Water Law Profound Mysteries.
• Luo Ao met Xing Yi above the Star Mist Sea, and Xing Yi revealed that his lightning divine clone had fused four Profound Mysteries.

Luo Ao and Xing Yi discussed how soul strength and power of faith affected Sovereigns’ cultivation before sparring at full strength above the Star Mist Sea. Luo Ao gained insights from the fight, while Xing Yi admitted defeat and departed.

• Xing Yi explained to Luo Ao that divine clones had weaker souls and could harness less power of faith than sovereign divine clones, limiting their fusion of profound mysteries.
• Xing Yi proposed a spar, and Luo Ao agreed to test himself against Xing Yi’s lightning divine clone.
• Luo Ao and Xing Yi clashed evenly at first, then activated Sovereign’s Might and fought with full strength as distant experts watched in alarm.
• Xing Yi trapped Luo Ao with 108 black lightning dragons, but Luo Ao broke free and staggered Xing Yi with an explosive punch.
• Xing Yi conceded the fight, and Luo Ao reflected on the insights he had gained as Xing Yi departed.

Luo Ao perfected a new fusion of Fire Profound Mysteries on Miluo Island, then left with Echidna as his Destruction Divine Clone reached the Highgod level. Elsewhere, two newly arrived Lowgods, Lubbock and Yousilia, killed the Blackwater Tribe chief Meililong with their combined innate Divine Ability and fled.

• Luo Ao fused the Fire Element and Burning Profound Mysteries with the Fire Body Technique, while Echidna advanced her water-mystery cultivation.
• Echidna asked Mosi to free Luosaina, and she and Luo Ao left Miluo Island after staying two more days; Luo Ao's Destruction Divine Clone had reached the Highgod level.
• Lubbock and Yousilia arrived at the Blackwater Tribe, where Chief Meililong demanded that Yousilia become his woman and Dukadi threatened Lubbock.
• Lubbock and Yousilia unleashed their combined innate Divine Ability, Soul Storm, and destroyed Meililong's soul despite his Highgod strength.
• Dukadi fled using more than a dozen clones, and Lubbock urged Yousilia to leave before their exhausted soul power left them vulnerable.

Lubbock and Yousilia escaped the Blackwater Tribe’s pursuit by asking a passing Metal Lifeform for help, and Luo Ao killed their pursuers with a single elemental attack. After learning about the pair’s fused Divine Ability and their origins in Kaland, Luo Ao let them travel with him and warned them not to use the ability unless their lives were in danger.

• Dukadi gathered a Blackwater Tribe patrol and pursued Lubbock and Yousilia, hoping to capture them and claim their powerful Divine Abilities.
• Lubbock and Yousilia appealed to the people aboard a passing Metal Lifeform, which stopped to hear them.
• Luo Ao killed the pursuing Blackwater Tribe warriors with an enormous hand of fire elements, leaving their Divine Sparks behind.
• Lubbock and Yousilia entered the Metal Lifeform and told Luo Ao and Echidna about their divine-beast forms, their fused Divine Ability, and how Kesuoluo had concealed the dangers of the Infernal Realm.
• Luo Ao allowed Lubbock and Yousilia to travel with him and ordered them not to use their Fusion Innate Divine Ability unless facing a lethal crisis.
• Lubbock and Yousilia began cultivating inside the Metal Lifeform while Luo Ao considered the danger their ability could attract from the Sovereigns.

Luo Ao brought Echidna, Lubbock, and his companion to Azure Sky Chain Cliff to investigate the route to the top of the Infernal Realm. After killing Gaelbert, Luo Ao sent his Fire Divine Clone farther up the cliff to inspect the dangerous heights, leaving Hilvin and the others behind.

• Luo Ao explained that Azure Sky Chain Cliff led to the top of the Hell Plane, where rare treasures such as Ethereal Jade Crystals could be found.
• The group encountered Hilvin and Gaelbert fighting as they climbed, but Gaelbert stopped pursuing Hilvin when the spatial dangers grew worse.
• Gaelbert attacked Luo Ao and threatened his companions, so Luo Ao shattered Gaelbert's body and destroyed the core containing his soul.
• Hilvin saw Luo Ao's strength and prepared to surrender his Ethereal Jade Crystal, but Luo Ao did not approach him or demand it.
• Luo Ao told the others to wait below the spatial rifts and sent his Fire Divine Clone higher up the cliff, astonishing Hilvin.

Luo Ao explored the Azure Sky Chain Cliff, collected an Ethereal Jade Crystal, and considered whether he could master the Space-Time Law in another world. After several hundred years of travel and training, he underwent a Three-element Soul Mutation at Violetflame Island and began seeking insight during its eruption.

• Luo Ao climbed through spatial rifts on the Azure Sky Chain Cliff and collected an Ethereal Jade Crystal near the planar membrane.
• Luo Ao showed Echidna a Floating Shadow recording of the cliff and considered mastering the Space-Time Law in another world.
• Over several hundred years, Echidna reached Highgod in the Edicts of Fate, while Lubbock and Yousilia advanced their cultivation.
• At Violetflame Island, Luo Ao underwent a Three-element Soul Mutation that greatly increased his soul strength and potential.
• Luo Ao closed his eyes as Violetflame Island erupted again, seemingly having gained an insight.

After perfecting the fusion of five Profound Mysteries on Violetflame Island, Luo Ao departed with Echidna, Lubbock, and the others. On the Frostsnow Plains, Nicole and Feiwenli joined a Fiend mission against the master of Snowpeak Cave, but their group’s attack ended with Roze’s death and the master turning his power on the remaining Fiends.

• Luo Ao perfected the fusion of five Profound Mysteries, recognized Violetflame Island’s volcanic arrangement, and left with Echidna, Lubbock, and the others.
• Nicole and Feiwenli traveled with a Fiend mission to the Frostsnow Plains, where Roze planned to kill the master of Snowpeak Cave and claim a Six-Star Fiend advancement.
• Nicole and Feiwenli fought a squad of ten Highgod guards and completed their mission, though three Fiends died in the battle.
• Roze unleashed a blue storm dragon against the master of Snowpeak Cave, who revealed himself as Xiboruisi, a Two-Headed Winged Serpent, and used Fire Element Sovereign Power to destroy Roze and all his clones.
• Xiboruisi declared that the remaining Fiends would die for killing his subordinates, leaving Nicole, Feiwenli, and the others terrified.

Fasaina rescued Nicole and Feiwenli by killing Xiboruisi’s Destruction Divine Clone, though he disguised the rescue as a mistaken revenge attack. Xiboruisi blamed a plot against the Lawrence Clan and set out with Ansen and Tilafa to find the attacker.

• Xiboruisi used Sovereign’s Might to threaten the fleeing Fiends, but Fasaina appeared and falsely accused him of being Keluoyede.
• Fasaina used Sovereign’s Might and killed Xiboruisi’s Destruction Divine Clone, allowing Nicole, Feiwenli, and the other Fiends to escape.
• Nicole and Feiwenli returned from the assessment as newly qualified Four-Star Fiends, while Xiboruisi’s surviving Fire Divine Plane body vowed revenge.
• Xiboruisi concluded that an enemy of the Lawrence Clan had arranged his clone’s death and told Clan Leader Jones what happened.
• Jones assigned Ansen and the powerful Tilafa to accompany Xiboruisi, and the three departed toward the Fire Divine Plane’s teleportation array.

Xiboruisi and his companions tracked Fasaina to Clouddark Prefecture, where Tilafa attacked Fasaina and his allies. Tilafa’s silvery-white lotus shattered Aifiya’s defensive barrier, leaving the four under a devastating assault.

• Xiboruisi learned that Pula had encountered the fire-element Seven-Star Fiend again in Clouddark Prefecture and hurried there with Ansen and Tilafa.
• Xiboruisi and his companions caught up with Fasaina’s group and destroyed their tiger-shaped Metal Lifeform to draw out the Seven-Star Fiend.
• Fasaina, Aifiya, and their two companions arrived and faced Xiboruisi, Ansen, and Tilafa, while Floyd and the others watched in confusion.
• Tilafa rushed the four allies and attacked with his white longsword, but they used Sovereign’s Might to force him back.
• Tilafa released Fire Element Sovereign Power and formed a silvery-white lotus attack that overwhelmed Aifiya’s Deep Sea Barrier.