Chapter Summaries

Lady Betty changed the Sacred Spring contest into an arena challenge and offered the winner a Divine Artifact or Divine Spark. The new prize stirred both sides to fight seriously, and Whitehead, a powerful Saint-level Tyrannosaurus, claimed the arena first.

• Lady Betty appeared between the human and dragon groups and told them to replace their fixed five-match contest with an open arena challenge.
• Betty promised the winning side a Divine Artifact or Divine Spark, exciting the Saint-level fighters and making Luo Ao anticipate a brutal contest.
• Betty marked out the arena and asked which side would go first.
• Whitehead, a Saint-level Tyrannosaurus who had comprehended some of the Darkness Law, stepped forward to claim the arena.

Miss Shelley defeated Whitehead with her holy light techniques and faced Elton, whose speed-based attacks and doppelgangers made him a difficult opponent. She evaded his strike with a convincing afterimage, and the battle continued with neither able to defeat the other yet.

• Whitehead challenged the human Saints, and Miss Shelley stepped forward to fight him.
• Shelley evaded Whitehead’s attacks and dissolved the dark energy on his claws, eventually battering him until he conceded.
• Elton challenged Shelley and filled the sky with more than a hundred light-and-shadow doppelgangers using his Holy Dragon Phantom technique.
• Elton struck what appeared to be Shelley, but she had escaped and left an afterimage in her place.
• Elton acknowledged Shelley’s speed but resolved to keep fighting, relying on his technique’s speed and defensive capabilities.

Shelley defeated Elton after a daylong battle but conceded her next round, and Wayne stepped forward to face the frost dragon Valko. Valko froze Wayne with Absolute Zero and killed him while Betty’s power prevented the humans from intervening, leaving Luo Ao and the others furious and helpless.

• Shelley fought Elton at high speed for nearly a day and slowly subdued him, then conceded the next round because she had fought two battles in succession.
• Wayne volunteered to fight Valko, and Luo Ao warned him to be careful despite Wayne’s confidence.
• Wayne attacked Valko with Momentum of Raging Fire, but Valko froze him in midair with a Dragon’s Breath imbued with Absolute Zero.
• When Valko moved to strike Wayne, Betty’s power immobilized Luo Ao, Lawson, Shelley, and the other human Saint-level experts.
• Valko smashed Wayne’s frozen body with one claw, and Betty told the furious humans that competing for her treasures meant accepting death and soul annihilation.

Lawson challenged Valko for a chance to avenge Wayne and earn a Divine Spark, but Valko overwhelmed him with his Frost Domain until Lawson admitted defeat. Luo Ao refused to fight Valko, and the humans withdrew; Luo Ao resolved to cultivate until he became a deity.

• Betty offered an additional reward if anyone killed Valko, and Lawson accepted the challenge.
• Valko trapped Lawson in his Frost Domain and repeatedly drove him back with powerful attacks.
• Lawson admitted defeat after realizing he could not beat Valko.
• Lawson asked Luo Ao to defeat Valko, but Luo Ao refused because fighting would risk exposing his strength and provoking Betty.
• Lawson led the humans away after admitting their defeat, while Luo Ao resolved to become a deity through secluded cultivation.

After the Sacred Spring contest ended in defeat and Wayne’s death, Luo Ao returned to Helen City and secluded himself to cultivate. Ten years later, he crossed into the Divine Realm, and the chapter ended as the world’s Laws offered him a choice about where to place his Divine Spark.

• Lawson gave Luo Ao the remaining Sacred Spring, and the two parted ways to pursue secluded cultivation.
• Luo Ao returned to the Bourne family estate in Helen City and gave the Sacred Spring to his parents before withdrawing to cultivate.
• Luo Ao spent ten years refining the fusion of Fire Element and the Fire Body Technique, with the Myriad Worlds Pearl improving his comprehension.
• Luo Ao crossed the boundary into the Divine Realm as the world’s Laws descended, alerting Wind God Darren, Steven, and Bourne to his breakthrough.
• The Laws of the World formed a fire-attribute Lowgod Divine Spark above Luo Ao and offered him the choice of placing it inside or outside his body.

Luo Ao split his soul and became a fire-element Lowgod, forming a Divine Clone and discovering that he could still comprehend the Water Law. After examining his new abilities, he tested the Crimson Annihilation Divine Sword and found that it could unleash soul attacks.

• Luo Ao endured the agony of splitting his soul, and the divided portion merged with his fire-element Divine Spark.
• Luo Ao sensed the Fire Elemental Sea and drew divine power from it to form a Divine Clone, which he then merged with his original body.
• Luo Ao discovered that his Fire Divine Clone could no longer clearly sense the Edicts of Destruction but retained an affinity for the Water Law.
• Luo Ao decided to pursue godhood in the Water element and considered how fusing the divine powers of his two clones could strengthen his attacks.
• Luo Ao infused the Crimson Annihilation Divine Sword with fire divine power and discovered that its black flames could perform soul attacks.

Luo Ao revealed his Fire Divine Clone to his parents, then met Wind God Darren, who asked him to help kill Korno and avenge Helen. Luo Ao agreed to meet Darren again in ten years, after strengthening his power, and accepted the Wind Shadow Armor.

• Luo Ao showed Bourne and Mansha his Fire Divine Clone and explained how he had become a deity through the Fire Law.
• Darren flew to Helen City and offered Luo Ao the Wind Shadow Armor, then asked him to help kill Korno, who had sacrificed Helen’s soul to the Darkness Sovereign.
• Darren explained that he had spent more than sixty thousand years seeking revenge, but had been unable to kill Korno alone or find another deity willing to help.
• Luo Ao warned that the Dark Church might have other deities and asked Darren to return in ten years, when Luo Ao expected to have advanced in the Water Element.
• Darren gave Luo Ao the Wind Shadow Armor and offered to guard the Bourne Clan while Luo Ao cultivated.

Luo Ao mastered the essence of water and became a Water Element deity, adding a water divine clone to his fire clone. After resting to recover from splitting his soul, he and Darren prepared to set out against Korno.

• Luo Ao immersed himself in the water elements beneath the waterfall and gradually learned to form powerful, lifelike elemental creatures.
• Luo Ao grasped the final secrets of the essence of water, and the Natural Laws formed a Water-attribute Divine Spark for him.
• Luo Ao created a water divine clone and reunited it and his fire divine clone with his original body.
• Darren congratulated Luo Ao and asked about the strain of splitting his soul, while Luo Ao said he would recover in a few days.
• Luo Ao told Darren they would rest for ten days or half a month before setting out, and Darren thought of his long-awaited revenge on Korno.

Luo Ao and Darren confronted Korno at his secluded mountain home to settle Darren’s grudge over Helen’s death. Luo Ao trapped Korno with overlapping water and fire God's Domains, leaving Korno pleading for his life.

• Luo Ao recovered from splitting his soul and agreed to accompany Darren to hunt Korno.
• Darren and Luo Ao reached the Xiuyisi Mountain Range, where Darren’s sword slash triggered an avalanche and drew Korno out.
• Darren attacked Korno over Helen’s death, but Korno dodged with his Shadow Clone Technique and mocked them.
• Luo Ao unleashed two overlapping God's Domains, restraining Korno and weakening his ability to escape with clones.
• Korno realized he could not get away and begged Luo Ao to spare him.

Darren killed Korno with Luo Ao’s help and took revenge for what Korno had done to Helen. As they returned, Darren asked whether Helen’s soul could be rescued from a Sovereign, and Luo Ao said there might still be a little hope.

• Luo Ao restrained Korno while Darren attacked him, overcoming his Shadow Clones and wounding him severely.
• Darren struck Korno again with his strongest attack, leaving him gravely injured and unable to fight back.
• Darren killed Korno with a final sword strike, and Luo Ao collected Korno’s Divine Spark, Space Ring, and Divine Artifacts.
• Darren thanked Luo Ao and asked whether a mortal whose soul had been sacrificed to a Sovereign could be rescued.
• Luo Ao said there might still be a little hope.

After killing Korno, Luo Ao gave the recovered darkness Divine Spark to his father, Bourne, and planned to protect him while he refined it. Meanwhile, Gu'en investigated Korno’s death and decided to alert the Shadow Courtyard, hoping the Dark Church could avoid further conflict.

• Darren thanked Luo Ao for helping him fulfill his long-held wish and considered following him in the future.
• Luo Ao searched Korno’s Space Ring, found no second Divine Spark, and returned to Helen City with the materials he collected.
• Luo Ao gave Bourne a darkness Divine Spark containing the Shadow Clone Technique and explained that Bourne could refine it because he had reached Saint-level.
• Bourne accepted the Divine Spark despite the limits it would place on his future cultivation, while Luo Ao planned to continue fusing his Fire Law profound mysteries and guard his father.
• Gu'en arrived at the Xiuyisi Mountain Range, concluded Darren alone could not have killed Korno, and decided to inform the Shadow Courtyard about the unknown expert.

Luo Ao advanced his fusion of Fire Element and the Fire Body Technique while discovering properties linked to other fire mysteries. Meanwhile, Gu'en alerted Shadow about Korno’s killer, and Xide learned of the report while living undercover as an adventurer.

• Luo Ao continued fusing Fire Element and the Fire Body Technique and realized he had begun understanding and fusing two additional fire mysteries.
• Gu'en visited the Shadow Courtyard and asked Alpha to inform Mr. Xide about the expert who killed Korno.
• Xide traveled with Nicole’s adventuring party in the Triel Mountains, pretending to be an ordinary, carefree novice.
• Alpha met Xide at night and reported the events surrounding Korno’s death, and Xide said he already knew.

Xide secretly watched Luo Ao’s rise and later visited him to test the continent’s new expert. After their brief clash, Shadow left, and Luo Ao returned to cultivating, aware that another powerful God lived on the Boya Continent.

• Xide decided he would meet the newcomer after finishing his adventurer stint and returned to camp in the guise of a novice.
• More than ten years later, Shadow approached Luo Ao as he cultivated on the mountain behind his residence.
• Luo Ao sensed Shadow and struck with Star Flame Thrust, but pierced only a clone.
• Shadow surrounded Luo Ao with deceptive clones, and Luo Ao answered by transforming into a flame divine dragon and destroying them.
• Shadow produced more clones, revealing that he had fused profound mysteries, then identified himself as Shadow and denied belonging to the Dark Church.
• Shadow said he had come to see Luo Ao and departed through the shadows, while Luo Ao resumed cultivating.

Luo Ao reached the God realm by completing the fusion of two Fire Laws, and his soul grew to the potential of a Highgod. After learning that the continent’s recent upheavals involved a newly ascended God, he asked Bourne and Darren what had happened.

• While Luo Ao cultivated in seclusion, several experts across the Boya Continent independently ascended to deityhood, and Bourne worried about the growing upheaval.
• Luo Ao completed the fusion of the Fire Body Technique and Fire Element profound mysteries, transforming his Lowgod Divine Spark into a God Divine Spark.
• The Divine Spark’s transformation raised Luo Ao’s soul-growth limit to the Highgod level, though his Water Element remained at Lowgod.
• Bourne and Darren arrived after sensing the Natural Laws and asked Luo Ao how strong he had become; Luo Ao said an ordinary God could not defeat him.
• Darren began explaining that one of the two Natural Law fluctuations from ten years earlier had marked someone’s breakthrough to God.

Darren and Bourne told Luo Ao that Aogemate had seized control of much of the Boya Continent and was forcing its experts to submit, flee, or die. With the ten-year deadline nearly over, Luo Ao agreed to confront Aogemate and set out to find him.

• Darren explained that Aogemate had secretly built the Tower of Black to recruit talented Saint-level experts and had gathered many followers before becoming a God.
• Darren and Bourne described how Aogemate killed a Lowgod, took control of more than ten empires, and amassed a dozen or so Lowgod subordinates.
• Bourne said Aogemate had given all Saint-level and Deity-level experts ten years to submit or leave the Boya Continent, and that many had already fled to avoid enslavement or death.
• Luo Ao assured Bourne that he could defeat the newly advanced Aogemate and asked where he was.
• Luo Ao decided to go confront Aogemate himself, wondering why Shadow had not acted.

Shadow chose not to intervene against Aogemate, believing Luo Ao could defeat him, while Echidna and Betty worried about the danger Aogemate posed to the dragons. The chapter ended with news that Aogemate had been killed in a fiery attack, leaving Betty to wonder whether an old acquaintance had acted.

• Shadow told Alpha that the Shadow Courtyard would not intervene because Luo Ao could handle Aogemate, and he praised Luo Ao's Soul Mutation and talent for Fusion Profound Mysteries.
• Echidna asked Betty to protect Aogemate's potential victims, but Betty said she could not fight him safely or shelter the dragon race's many Saint-level members.
• Betty warned Echidna that her innate divine ability could not kill Aogemate while she was only a Lowgod, and Echidna vowed to defeat him once she became a God.
• After the old Dragon God prepared to take the dragons to the Light God Plane, news arrived that Aogemate had been killed by a blazing strike and all his lackeys had been slaughtered.
• Betty heard that fire had killed Aogemate and wondered whether the person she remembered from thirty thousand years earlier was responsible.

Luo Ao confronted Aogemate at the Supreme Divine Court and killed his strongest Divine Clone. He then decided to eradicate Aogemate’s subordinates, leaving the Divine Court in flames.

• Luo Ao flew north while Aogemate ruled the continent and demanded that three remaining Deity-level factions submit or leave.
• Luo Ao appeared before Aogemate and refused his offer to divide the world.
• Aogemate attacked Luo Ao, but Luo Ao’s Soul Attack killed him before the Crimson Annihilation Divine Sword burned away his body.
• Luo Ao discovered Aogemate had another clone and resolved to eliminate his subordinates to prevent further threats.
• Luo Ao destroyed the Supreme Divine Court and eradicated every Deity-level and Saint-level expert inside.

Luo Ao gained faith as the Guardian God of Boya while traveling the continent and comprehending the Water Law. When Echidna traced a new godhood ripple to him, she discovered that the mysterious expert who killed Aogemate was far stronger than she had realized.

• Stories exaggerated Luo Ao's defeat of Aogemate into a legendary battle, and nations across the continent established temples to him as the Guardian God of Boya.
• Luo Ao toured the continent and worked to comprehend a second profound mystery of the Water Law.
• Echidna sensed a new godhood ripple from the south and left the Forest of Dragons to investigate.
• Echidna found Luo Ao in a nameless valley and recognized him from the Sacred Spring Water contest, while Luo Ao identified her as the mysterious dragon.
• Echidna thanked Luo Ao for killing Aogemate and asked how he had become so powerful, but he kept his secret and bluntly admitted he was looking at her.

Luo Ao and Echidna traveled across the Boya Continent and investigated rumors of Weiersi, a supposed God of Life. Luo Ao discovered that Weiersi was truly a God and feared the implications, leaving the pair to meet him in the Forest of Nature.

• Echidna explained that Betty had favored Luo Ao because she wanted to befriend a divine beast like Echidna.
• After struggling to master the Water Body Technique, Luo Ao paused his secluded cultivation and traveled across the Boya Continent with Echidna.
• In Xierdiluoke, Luo Ao and Echidna heard that a Temple of Life had appeared and that its followers worshiped Weiersi, the God of Life.
• Luo Ao and Echidna followed the rumors to the Forest of Nature, where Weiersi sensed their arrival and worried that the powerful visitor might be a Highgod.
• Luo Ao recognized Weiersi as a God and grew troubled by what that meant; Weiersi waited outside his wooden house as Luo Ao and Echidna entered the forest.

Luo Ao learned that Weiersi had escaped from the Stalag Planar Prison through a spatial weak point near the Gloomy Gorge. He traveled there with Weiersi to inspect the damaged seal, worried that more dangerous prisoners could escape.

• Weiersi introduced himself to Luo Ao and confirmed that he had come from the Stalag Planar Prison.
• Weiersi explained that he had escaped through a weak point in space, and Luo Ao realized that the prison's seal might have failed.
• Weiersi offered to lead Luo Ao to the Gloomy Gorge, where he had emerged.
• Luo Ao asked Weiersi about the prison's inhabitants as they flew toward the gorge, concerned that powerful Highgods might escape.