Chapter Summaries

Skadi searched the Nafeite Material Plane, Fire Divine Plane, and Celestial Realm for Balumeng and the Fate High-level Sovereign Spark, but found no trace of him. After learning that the other Sovereigns knew about the Spark, she gave up the hunt, while Luo Ao and Echidna headed toward the Nila Plane, where Balumeng might still have a chance to evade capture.

• Skadi searched the Nafeite Material Plane and learned that Balumeng had returned briefly before heading to the Celestial Realm.
• Skadi secretly investigated Balumeng’s whereabouts from the Fire Divine Plane and the Celestial Realm but found no sign of him.
• Ying confronted Skadi about pursuing the Fate High-level Sovereign Spark and warned that the other Sovereigns had joined the hunt.
• Skadi reluctantly decided to stop pursuing the Spark, while Ying said others could already guess she had been investigating Balumeng.
• Luo Ao and Echidna learned that Balumeng was being sought by the Sovereigns and reasoned that a Material Plane offered his best chance to escape.
• Luo Ao and Echidna traveled toward the Nila Plane to see what would happen in the struggle.

Luo Ao and Echidna realized Balumeng’s painting riddle depended on the history and legends of his homeland, the Fite Plane, and traveled there to find its meaning. Echidna discovered the matching story, and Luo Ao identified the likely hiding place of the Fate Sovereign Spark.

• Luo Ao arrived at the Nila Plane and learned Balumeng had hidden the Fate Sovereign Spark there with a painting as a riddle.
• Luo Ao brought native experts into the search while keeping watch over the gathered Paragon High-Gods.
• Echidna’s observations about Material Planes’ distinct histories and cultures led her and Luo Ao to conclude the riddle pointed to Balumeng’s homeland, the Fite Plane.
• Luo Ao and his companions traveled to the Fite Plane, followed by other factions who realized the same clue.
• Echidna found a local story depicting a hero slaying a dragon, and Luo Ao used it to identify the likely target containing the treasure.

Luo Ao solved the riddle, retrieved a Fate High-level Sovereign Spark from Nightmare Valley, and brought it to Echidna in Spatial Turbulence. Echidna became a Fate Sovereign, while Luo Ao reflected that the other Sovereigns had given them no resistance.

• Luo Ao raced to Nightmare Valley after identifying the riddle’s answer, and Albert approached him but chose not to fight.
• Luo Ao found the hidden Space Ring on a Nightmare Beast and discovered it contained a Fate High-level Sovereign Spark.
• Luo Ao entered Spatial Turbulence and met his Water Element Sovereign Clone, deciding he no longer needed the Sovereign of Death’s help.
• Luo Ao gave the Sovereign Spark to Echidna, who refined it and became a Fate Sovereign.
• The other Sovereigns sensed Echidna’s ascension, but Luo Ao’s party had already secured the spark beyond their reach.

Luo Ao and Echidna discussed disputes between the new and old Sovereigns over status, emissaries, and participation in Planar Wars. Luo Ao remained calm about the conflicts and wondered how things were going in another world.

• Echidna explained that new Sovereigns with multiple clones wanted more Sovereign Sparks, while older Sovereigns resisted their claims to status.
• Echidna described disputes over recruiting former Sovereign's Emissaries, whose unreclaimed Sovereign Artifacts could give them unusually powerful equipment.
• Echidna asked whether Luo Ao had agreed to Lilith's request, and Luo Ao said he would wait to see whether she could persuade Uhtred and Viviah.
• Luo Ao considered how his powerful Fire Divine Clone could win Planar Wars and strengthen the Water Sovereign faction, but other Sovereigns opposed letting him participate.
• Luo Ao told Echidna that overwhelming strength was the only answer to factional disputes, then wondered about his distant self in another world.

Luo Ao summoned Parhaus to spar in a private Water Divine Plane, hoping to gain insight that would help him become a Water Element Paragon. Their fight gave Luo Ao a glimpse of Parhaus’s distinctive defensive technique and clarified how different paths through the Water Law could lead to breakthroughs, but he had not yet broken through.

• Luo Ao summoned Parhaus, a Water Element Paragon High-God, to spar with him.
• Luo Ao brought Parhaus through a spatial gateway into a private Water Divine Plane he had created to keep their battle hidden.
• Luo Ao and Parhaus fought above the sea, tearing open space and unleashing massive waves across the plane.
• Luo Ao praised Parhaus’s Water Law attainments after their first exchange, while Parhaus believed Luo Ao still could not match a true Paragon High-God.
• Luo Ao reflected on Parhaus’s defensive technique and realized that different profound mysteries could serve as the core of distinct paths toward becoming a Paragon.

Luo Ao learned the ultimate essence of the Water Law while sparring with Parhaus and reached Paragon in Water, receiving more than two portions of Paragon Willpower. After rewarding Parhaus with Sovereign’s Might, Luo Ao left with him, keeping the breakthrough and its circumstances from the other Sovereigns.

• Luo Ao asked Parhaus to repeat his defensive technique so he could sense the Water Law’s unique rhythm.
• As Luo Ao attacked, he grasped the ultimate essence of the Flowing Water Profound Mystery and began to break through.
• Luo Ao reached Paragon in the Water Law, and the Laws of the World granted his Water Sovereign Clone more than two portions of Paragon Willpower.
• Parhaus congratulated Luo Ao, who thanked him for helping make the breakthrough possible.
• Luo Ao gave Parhaus an azure bottle of Sovereign’s Might and agreed that their encounter would be described as a spar.

Luo Ao planned to use his dual-element Paragon attainment and soul mutation to pursue a new path of Profound Mysteries fusion that might lead to transcendence. In the Sea of Blazing Sun, a green longsword emerged from a spatial rift, revealed itself as a Sovereign Artifact, and resisted the tigerman’s attempt to bind it.

• Luo Ao reasoned that a soul mutator who reached Paragon in two elements might fuse two complete Laws and leap toward the unprecedented 6+6 fusion.
• Luo Ao recalled how Liermons had fused Profound Mysteries from the Fire Laws with his Path of Destruction, gaining enough strength to kill Fafnir after a near-death breakthrough.
• Luo Ao concluded that balanced fusion was essential and that reaching Paragon in two elements might overcome the difficulties of more advanced fusion.
• In the Sea of Blazing Sun, Angela trapped a blue-faced tigerman with her Spiderweb Heavenly Prison and prepared to strike him with her Nether Spike.
• A green longsword flew from a spatial rift, cut through Angela’s web, and shattered her spike Divine Artifact when the tigerman used it to block her attack.
• The tigerman recognized the sword as a likely Sovereign Artifact and tried to bind it with his blood, but the blood would not seep into it.

Kawen used the green longsword to kill Angela’s strongest Divine Clone and set out to confront Hannibal, while the surviving Angela plotted to expose him to powerful experts. Byrons recognized that the sword was actually a Life Overgod Divine Artifact and decided not to claim it for himself.

• Kawen’s green longsword cut through Angela’s defenses and killed her strongest Divine Clone, and he crushed her Space Ring after failing to bind it.
• Kawen left to settle accounts with Hannibal, while Angela’s surviving Death Divine Clone planned to spread word of the sword through Firelighter Castle and draw veteran experts after him.
• Rumors of the green longsword spread through the Fire Divine Plane, bringing Kawen and the ensuing battles to the attention of the Sovereigns.
• Byrons examined the sword and recognized it as the Life Overgod Divine Artifact that had once been lost in Spatial Turbulence.
• Byrons decided that claiming the artifact would invite danger from other Sovereigns, so he chose to go with the current and do someone a favor.

Luo Ao remained stuck at the final bottleneck of fusing his Fire and Water Laws and decided that obtaining the Fire Element Sovereign’s High-level Sovereign Spark might help him break through. He enlisted Lilith’s help, and her challenge to Uhtred drew the Sovereigns’ attention as Amatis prepared to watch.

• Luo Ao concluded that his stalled Fusion Law might require his Fire Divine Clone to refine a High-level Sovereign Spark, and he planned to target the Fire Element Sovereign, Amatis.
• Luo Ao contacted Lilith and asked her to cooperate with his plan, and she agreed to use the favor he was owed.
• Luo Ao’s operative Xia showed him reports and Floating Shadows about a green longsword that Amatis had obtained, which Luo Ao recognized as an Overgod Divine Artifact.
• Lilith challenged Uhtred to a contest, surprising the other Sovereigns and prompting them to anticipate the rare battle between Edict Sovereigns.
• Amatis decided to attend the contest, confident that his newly acquired sword had raised him among the second-tier Sovereigns.

The Sovereign of Death, Lilith, faced Uhtred in a spar before the watching Sovereigns and revealed a powerful attack with her Netherworld Vine true form. Her strength shocked the spectators and led them to suspect she had perfected the Edicts of Death, possibly through unraveling soul mutation; Luo Ao was pleased that their speculation was progressing as hoped.

• Lilith and Uhtred led the Sovereigns into spatial turbulence to begin their spar.
• Lilith transformed into her enormous Netherworld Vine true form and unleashed hundreds of millions of vines, including her Overgod Divine Artifact of Death, in Netherworld Entanglement.
• Uhtred countered with his Overgod Divine Spear of Destruction and World Destruction, and the two attacks collided with nearly equal force.
• Uhtred asked whether Lilith had reached Paragon in the Edicts of Death, and she answered without confirming or denying it.
• The watching Sovereigns speculated that Lilith might have unraveled soul mutation, while Luo Ao privately approved of their suspicions.

Lilith and Uhtred tested their strength after Lilith’s breakthrough to Paragon, and her Netherworld Drain briefly overwhelmed him. Uhtred countered by using Soul Prison on himself, and they ended the battle in a draw.

• Uhtred warned Lilith that becoming a Paragon still did not make her a match for him, but he chose not to use Space-Time Chaos.
• Lilith attacked with Netherworld Drain, combining roots and vines with soul threads that shattered Uhtred’s soul-defense artifact and began draining his Soul Ocean.
• Uhtred revealed his true form and used Soul Prison on himself, forcing Lilith’s invading soul threads out of his Soul Ocean.
• Lilith withdrew her attack and conceded, but Uhtred acknowledged her increased strength and called the battle a draw.
• The watching Sovereigns were surprised that Uhtred had not used Space-Time Chaos and recognized how much stronger Lilith had become.

Luo Ao lured Amatis into a private Divine Plane and revealed his overwhelming strength, killing the Fire Element Sovereign with a soul attack. Amatis’s Fire High-level Sovereign Spark remained behind as his body drifted in the spatial turbulence.

• After the battle, Luo Ao joined Amatis instead of returning to the Celestial Realm with Echidna, while the Sovereign of Death told Luo Ao that one of her promised favors had been fulfilled.
• Amatis brought Luo Ao to his private Divine Plane, hoping to gain Luo Ao’s innate ability and become a Paragon himself.
• Luo Ao attacked Amatis with his Primordial Divine Weapon, grievously injuring him and revealing strength far beyond what Amatis expected.
• Amatis tried to flee, offered Luo Ao the Life Overgod Sword, and used his Burning Silence ability, but Luo Ao continued his pursuit.
• Luo Ao’s soul attack destroyed Amatis’s soul, killing him and leaving his Fire High-level Sovereign Spark behind.

Luo Ao created a Fused Divine Plane to complete the fusion of the Fire and Water Laws, while Amatis plotted revenge after losing his strongest bodies. When the Laws fused, the World Laws descended and Luo Ao’s Sovereign Sparks and bodies exploded, leaving Echidna to believe he had died.

• Luo Ao refined the Fire Sovereign Spark, gained Fused Sovereign Power, and judged himself strong enough to face Judgment, though he still could not bind the Overgod Divine Artifact.
• Amatis, reduced to little more than an ordinary Lower Sovereign, considered using his surviving Dark Lord God Clone as bait but realized his oath of secrecy blocked him from reporting Luo Ao’s victory.
• With Echidna guarding him, Luo Ao began creating Water and Fire Divine Planes, intending to construct a Fused Divine Plane as the final step in his cultivation.
• After thousands of years, Luo Ao completed the Fused Divine Plane and fully fused the Elemental Laws of Fire and the Water Law.
• The World Laws descended, Luo Ao’s two Sovereign Sparks left his body, and his Sovereign Divine Clones, Destruction Divine Clone, and Saint Domain True Body exploded as Echidna cried out in alarm.

Luo Ao revealed that he had transcended the Sovereign realm, formed a new body from the powers of the Four Edicts, and brought Echidna to the Hell Plane. He arrived among the gathered Sovereigns, whose reaction suggested that he had reached the same mysterious realm they had glimpsed before.

• After Echidna mourned Luo Ao’s apparent death, he reappeared as a vastly more powerful being and told her he was fine.
• Luo Ao condensed the powers of the Four Edicts into a cocoon and formed a new physical body, which he identified as an acquired Pseudo-Hongmeng Body.
• Luo Ao embraced Echidna and transported her to the Hell Plane, where the Sovereigns were debating the fall of Amatis’s Fire Element Sovereign clone.
• Luo Ao and Echidna appeared above the Chaotic Sea, and the gathered Sovereigns sensed his terrifying aura and realized he had reached that realm.

Luo Ao demonstrated his new Overgod power to the Sovereigns, then explained to Echidna what his path to this realm required. He created a Fate Overgod Sword and left the story in the Celestial Realm with Echidna, possessing power beyond even the Four Overgods.

• Luo Ao revealed that he had become an Overgod, and Uhtred tested him by striking him with the Overgod of Destruction Spear, which could not harm him.
• Luo Ao froze the Sovereigns with a Stasis Domain and melted Uhtred's spear into four-colored currents before reshaping it into a war blade.
• Uhtred and the other Sovereigns bowed to Luo Ao, who dismissed them and left the Hell Plane with Echidna.
• At Dona Castle, Luo Ao told Echidna that his path required soul mutation, specific element combinations, Paragon mastery, and the complete fusion of two elements' Laws.
• Luo Ao created a Fate Overgod Sword out of thin air, and Echidna confirmed that it was an Overgod Divine Artifact.

Luo Ao gave Echidna three Overgod Divine Artifacts and entrusted her with two Sovereign Sparks before traveling to the Land of Origin to study how to form a true Hongmeng Body. Beyond the world, Hongmeng and Linley discussed Luo Ao’s approaching transcendence and accepted him as their future third brother.

• Luo Ao crafted an Overgod Divine Artifact necklace and gown for Echidna, who happily wore them.
• Luo Ao gave Echidna two Sovereign Sparks to use herself or save for Sharon, explaining that the world allowed anyone to fulfill a Sovereign’s duties.
• Luo Ao entered the deepest reaches of Spatial Turbulence and reached the Land of Origin, where he examined the eleven Elemental Sea Planes.
• Luo Ao concluded that he could not directly merge with Hongmeng Spiritual Energy and would instead restore his pseudo Hongmeng Body step by step until it became innate.
• Hongmeng and Linley discussed Luo Ao’s likely transcendence, speculated that he possessed unusual secrets, and accepted him as their future third brother.

Luo Ao transformed his body with Hongmeng Spiritual Energy, broke through his universe, and entered Hongmeng Space, where he met Hongmeng and Linley. Hongmeng explained the universes and the Hongmeng Golden Ranking, and Luo Ao received a leaf containing methods for creating a universe.

• Luo Ao’s body and soul were reforged by the gray energy until he could break through his world.
• Luo Ao pierced the world’s boundary with a gray longsword and entered Hongmeng Space.
• Hongmeng and Linley welcomed Luo Ao as their third brother and explained that he had transcended a universe.
• Hongmeng showed Luo Ao the Main Universe and its four Subordinate Universes, then gave him a leaf containing universe-creation methods.
• Hongmeng showed Luo Ao the Hongmeng Golden Ranking and explained that those listed as Hongmeng Controllers could use the energy of any universe and calculate the fates of nearly all living beings.

After joining the Hongmeng Golden Ranking, Luo Ao became a First-Level Hongmeng Controller and prepared to create the Luo Meng Universe. He invited several Sovereigns to leave their world, then discovered that the Myriad Worlds Pearl had returned as he began his creation.

• Luo Ao entered his soul power into the Hongmeng Golden Ranking, gained new abilities, and took the name Luo Meng as the third First-Level Hongmeng Controller.
• Luo Ao returned to the Celestial Realm and reunited with his family and friends, planning to take them with him after creating his universe.
• Luo Ao gave Liermons a High-level Fire Sovereign Spark, making him the new Fire Element Sovereign.
• Kuman and Lilith accepted Luo Ao's invitations to explore the new world, while Bamer and Parhaus arranged for their sons to become Sovereign's Emissaries.
• Luo Ao returned to Hongmeng Space, saw the Myriad Worlds Pearl return with his memories, and prepared to establish the Luo Meng Universe.

Luo Ao created the Luo Meng Universe in Hongmeng Space using the Hundred Thousand Heavens and Beginning of One Yuan, then filled it with life and laws. The creation also gave him Xuanhuang Energy, an Xuanhuang Indestructible Body, and the complete Hongmeng Path of Life, leaving Hongmeng and Linley astonished.

• Luo Ao began building a universe from Hongmeng Energy while Hongmeng and Linley watched.
• Luo Ao formed the Hundred Thousand Heavens, then linked them into the Beginning of One Yuan, allowing the planes to regenerate if destroyed.
• Luo Ao expanded the Beginning of One Yuan into the stable, growing Luo Meng Universe without adding more Hongmeng Energy.
• Luo Ao created star regions, Cosmic Secret Realms, planets, the universe's races, and eight Beast Gods able to control space-time.
• Luo Ao established the Cosmic Rules and an independent administrator, then used Xuanhuang Energy to condense his Xuanhuang Indestructible Body.
• Luo Ao's creation of the universe brought forth the complete Hongmeng Path of Life, surprising Hongmeng and stirring Linley's sword intent.

Luo Ao completed the Path of Life, allowing Linley to resurrect lives whose souls had scattered. Linley brought Grandpa Doehring back in the Yulan Continent, while Hongmeng and Luo Ao discussed how Linley had perfected the Path of Destruction.

• Luo Ao explained that the completed Path of Life let Hongmeng Controllers restore the original lives of beings whose souls had scattered.
• Linley returned to the Magic Universe with Bebe and traveled back to the Yulan Calendar year 10000, shortly before Grandpa Doehring's death.
• Linley used Grandpa Doehring's life imprint to resurrect him, and Grandpa Doehring recognized Linley and Bebe.
• Hongmeng and Luo Ao watched the reunion from afar and discussed how Linley's destruction sword soul had helped him complete the Path of Destruction.