Recaps

Andrew asked Bandeni to test Ling'er’s magical affinity, then discovered his own exceptional fire and lightning affinities. He agreed to study magic alongside martial arts, leaving Janice delighted and Howard quietly concerned that Andrew might neglect his warrior talent.

• Andrew returned to the campfire with Bandeni and Polite, and introduced his family to the instructors.
• Andrew asked Bandeni to test Ling’er’s magical affinity, and the crystal ball revealed her high-grade fire affinity.
• Andrew tested his own affinity and produced dazzling purple and red light, showing exceptional-grade lightning and fire affinities.
• Bandeni urged Andrew to study magic and predicted he could become a Saint-level magus.
• Andrew agreed to study magic with Ling'er while continuing his martial training, pleasing Janice and leaving Howard uneasy.

Andrew and his companions traveled toward Lefen City, showcasing their different ways of moving before Andrew challenged Polite to a spar. Andrew’s explosive speed and attacks astonished Polite, while Polite’s precise defense stopped the fight with a sudden halt.

• Bandeni consulted a rough map and led the group toward Lefen City, about nine hundred li to the west.
• Bandeni traveled effortlessly by moving the earth beneath him, while Polite strode forward in long, precisely controlled steps; Howard eventually rode the golden tiger to keep pace.
• The group rested after traveling nearly three hundred li, and Andrew asked Polite to spar with him in a nearby clearing.
• Andrew used Explosive Steps to attack from multiple directions, but Polite read his movements and blocked each strike with his greatshield.
• Andrew's blows carried explosive force that shook Polite through his shield and shattered nearby rocks before the impacts stopped abruptly.

After sparring with Polite, Andrew gained a new insight into handling heavy weapons and reached Lefen City, where the strange behavior of its people and a child’s story about God deepened his unease. He entered the city lord’s manor with his companions and Milly, then sensed something chilling in the city lord’s eyes.

• Andrew’s spar with Polite broke his saber, but Polite’s shield techniques helped Andrew find a direction for understanding Wielding Heavy Weapons as Though They Were Light.
• The group rested overnight, traveled to Lefen City, and Andrew felt the city’s atmosphere was strangely lifeless.
• Andrew met Milly, whose mother had gone to the city lord’s place to sacrifice herself for God, and learned that Milly believed God was there.
• Andrew decided to take Milly to find her mother and went with Bandeni and the others to the city lord’s manor.
• The city lord welcomed the party, and Andrew felt a chilling sensation when their eyes met, confirming his suspicion that something was wrong.

Andrew sensed a sinister presence in the city lord's manor, and the city lord later revealed that he intended to sacrifice Ling'er to the Nether God. The chapter ended with the city lord identifying Ling'er as the pure soul he had searched for.

• Andrew felt a cold aura in the manor, and Ling'er also grew cold while Milly and Howard felt nothing; the city lord's smile briefly left Andrew unable to feel his body.
• Andrew shielded Ling'er from the city lord's stare, then watched him closely during the garden feast while Ling'er refused to eat.
• The city lord returned with guards carrying Milly's bound mother on a cross and announced a sacrifice to the Nether God; Andrew carried Milly away and knocked her unconscious.
• Bandeni confronted the city lord, who claimed the Nether God had raised him from a fourth-rank warrior to great power and said he could defeat the High Priest.
• The city lord showed a glowing bead that supposedly revealed pure souls and declared that Ling'er was the person he had been seeking.

Andrew and his companions were captured by the lord of Lefen City, who intended to sacrifice Ling'er, Milly, and Milly's mother to a divine power. Andrew broke free of the Darkness Magic, killed the city lord, and rescued the captives, then discovered a mysterious black statue and something promising on the corpse.

• Andrew recognized that the city lord's sacrifices might be meant for a Darkness Sovereign, but the lord's gaze and Darkness Magic left Andrew and his companions unable to move.
• The city lord took Ling'er and struck Andrew with a black arrow, freezing his soul; Andrew later broke free and found himself and his companions tied to a pillar near the altar.
• Andrew saw Ling'er, Milly, and Milly's mother bound to crosses as the city lord prepared to sacrifice them.
• Andrew attacked the city lord, pierced his heart, and crushed his still-living head beneath his foot.
• Andrew freed Ling'er, Milly, and Milly's mother, then left the estate with the others after they awoke.
• Andrew inspected the altar and the city lord's corpse, finding a black statue and another object that filled him with anticipation.

Andrew escaped Lefen City with his companions and discovered that the city lord’s spatial ring contained a vast fortune, Inkstone, corpses, and a mysterious statue. Reading the city lord’s notes, he learned that the statue had granted the man power after he worshipped it, and he began investigating its origins.

• Andrew claimed the dead lord of Lefen City’s spatial ring, took Milly and her mother, and fled the city with Bandeni, Janice, and Golden Tiger.
• The group traveled west and rested in a secluded valley while Andrew and Golden Tiger kept watch.
• Andrew found that the ring held ten thousand cubic meters of space, nine million gold coins, and more than twenty million pieces of Inkstone, which he recognized as Infernal Realm currency.
• Andrew discovered modified corpses, dried bodies, the city lord’s notes, and a half-height statue inscribed with a command to sacrifice to it for power.
• Andrew learned from the notes that the city lord had begun worshipping the statue after his lover was killed and he was hunted, seeking strength for revenge.

Andrew learned from the city lord of Lefen's notes how the Nether God statue had granted power through worship and human sacrifices, then put the statue away and vowed to reach Saint-level within ten years. After traveling west with Milly and Aida, his group reached the imperial capital, where Bandeni explained that powerful magic formations protected the city.

• Andrew read that the city lord of Lefen had used the Nether God statue and sacrifices to gain strength, destroy his enemy's family, and eventually seek people with pure souls.
• Andrew decided not to worship the statue, put it away, and swore to reach Saint-level within ten years so he could protect his family.
• After the incident in Lefen City, Bandeni became more cautious, and Janice took in Milly and her mother, Aida, as the group continued west.
• A month later, Andrew's group saw the imperial capital, and Bandeni told Andrew that Saint-level experts could sense the magic formations protecting it.
• Andrew's group entered the imperial capital through its eastern gate, where Bandeni offered to take everyone to the city's best restaurant.

Andrew settled his family in a former earl’s courtyard residence in the imperial capital and arranged for Ling’er to be tested at Divine Grace Academy. He planned to access the academy library independently and asked Bandeni to find Howard the best earth-element battle-qi manual.

• Bandeni took Andrew and his family to view a courtyard residence near Divine Grace Academy, and Andrew bought it for three million gold coins.
• Andrew deposited four million gold coins at the bank, received a Magic Crystal Card, and moved his family, Milly, and Milly’s mother into the residence.
• Three days later, Bandeni brought Andrew and Ling’er to Divine Grace Academy, where Ling’er’s spiritual power tested nearly a hundred times that of an ordinary person.
• Andrew told Bandeni he wanted access to the academy library rather than to study as a student, and agreed to pay one hundred thousand gold coins for entry.
• Andrew asked Bandeni to find Howard the best earth-element battle-qi manual, and Bandeni promised to help.

Andrew settled into a routine of studying magic arrays and cultivating, while his father Howard decided to become a mercenary after breaking through to the seventh rank. Andrew persuaded Golden Tiger to protect Howard by agreeing to an Equal Contract and promising to help it reach the ninth level.

• Howard received the Saint-level battle-qi manual Earth's Fissure and secluded himself to pursue a breakthrough, while Ling'er began attending Divine Grace Academy.
• Andrew advanced to the middle stage of the seventh rank and studied magic arrays at the academy library, eventually setting up a defensive array for his home and a fire-element array for Janice.
• Howard broke through to the seventh rank and told Janice he wanted to go out as a mercenary; Andrew supported his decision, though Janice worried about his safety.
• Andrew asked Golden Tiger to accompany and protect Howard, then persuaded it to accept an Equal Contract by promising to obtain a ninth-level wind-element magic core for its advancement.

After Andrew broke through in battle-qi, he went searching for a weapon suited to his lightning-fire fusion. At the Blood Peak shop, he met a Saint-level drunk who revealed a hidden chamber filled with divine artifacts.

• Howard signed an Equal Contract with Golden Tiger, joined a mercenary squad, and left to capture an Earth Dragon Beast, leaving Janice distressed.
• Andrew broke through in battle-qi while refining it, then left the residence to find a weapon despite Janice's sadness.
• Andrew searched the imperial capital for a suitable saber but found nothing that met his expectations.
• Andrew entered the Blood Peak shop, where its drunk owner demonstrated Saint-level strength and invited him to choose a weapon.
• The drunk opened a concealed passage and showed Andrew a chamber containing racks of weapons, claiming every one was a divine artifact.

Andrew chose a black Saint Warrior’s saber from the drunkard’s collection and named it the Godslaying Saber. After leaving home to seek battle and improve his understanding of force, he traveled toward the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts and confronted a passenger who shoved him aboard the boat.

• The drunkard let Andrew choose a weapon from his secret chamber, and Andrew selected a black saber despite being told that better weapons, including divine artifacts, were available.
• Andrew named the saber the Godslaying Saber, and the drunkard gave him a matching scabbard.
• Andrew returned home and shared a cheerful dinner with Janice and Ling'er, who had become a third-level mage at Divine Grace Academy.
• After Ling'er returned to the academy, Andrew left Janice a letter and traveled west toward the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts, seeking battles to advance his comprehension.
• On a passenger boat crossing the Yulan River, a pale young man shoved Andrew, fell backward, and then hurried away after Andrew warned him not to try again.

Andrew entered the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts to seek powerful opponents and gathered magic cores while navigating its dangerous outskirts. After ten days, he reached a lake, where a huge magical beast surfaced and attacked him with water arrows.

• Andrew traveled west from the river and confirmed at sunrise that he had reached the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts.
• Andrew entered the ancient forest, killed a Patterned Winged Serpent, and collected its magic core.
• Andrew evaded and killed an ambushing Wind Badger, then continued deeper while gathering magic cores and adapting to the perilous terrain.
• Andrew spent ten days crossing the outskirts, collecting more than a hundred magic cores and improving his control over his strength.
• Andrew reached a lake, but a large aquatic magical beast sent water arrows toward him, forcing him to leap back from the shore.

Andrew lured the One-Horned Ice Python away from the lake and fought the level nine magical beast in a dense forest. After being injured by its tremendous strength and battling its ice magic, he shattered its ice pillar with the Godslaying Saber, but the fight continued.

• Andrew recognized the One-Horned Ice Python as a powerful level nine magical beast when it emerged from the lake.
• Andrew retreated a kilometer into the forest, and the One-Horned Ice Python pursued him, freezing the ground and crushing trees and rocks along the way.
• The One-Horned Ice Python attacked with ice arrows, which Andrew blocked with his fusion battle-qi barrier.
• The python swept its tail at Andrew, sending him crashing through a tree and injuring him, so he drew the Godslaying Saber.
• Andrew and the One-Horned Ice Python reached a stalemate as he blocked its ice pillar, but he unleashed a second strike that shattered it.

After killing the One-Horned Ice Python, Andrew realized that his path was to wield something light as though it were heavy. He tested his insight against a pack of Crimson Flame Wolves and left their wolf king charging toward him.

• Andrew killed the One-Horned Ice Python, took its Magic Crystal Core and corpse, and stayed behind to reflect on the battle.
• Andrew concluded that wielding something light as though it were heavy suited his limited strength better than the path of wielding heavy weapons as though they were light.
• The next day, Andrew was surrounded by more than thirty Crimson Flame Wolves, whose intelligent wolf king directed their coordinated attack.
• Andrew used his strength and the Godslaying Saber to knock the wolves down without killing them, and realized he had grasped the essence of using strength.
• Andrew turned to leave, but the wolf king howled and charged toward him.

Andrew accepted the Crimson Flame Wolf King as a cultivation companion named Flame Wolf, and the two grew stronger together in the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts. After reaching the late stage of the eighth rank and deciding to pursue the path to Saint level, Andrew left to visit his family but remembered his promise to Golden Tiger and turned back to find it a ninth-level wind-element magic crystal core.

• The Crimson Flame Wolf King offered to become Andrew's master, and Andrew refused a servant contract but agreed to help it grow stronger, naming it Flame Wolf.
• Over three months, Andrew and Flame Wolf hunted high-level magical beasts and cultivated at a secluded valley where Andrew had built formations for them.
• Andrew advanced to the late stage of the eighth rank and concluded that mastering momentum was his next step toward reaching Saint level.
• After resting for three days, Andrew left the valley with Flame Wolf to visit his family.
• Andrew remembered that he had promised Golden Tiger a ninth-level wind-element magic crystal core, then turned back to make amends.

Andrew found a level nine Golden-Crowned Wind-Thunder Peng and decided to subdue it for its extraordinary flying speed. He ambushed it while it was resting, severely injuring it and leaving it unable to resist.

• Andrew tracked a powerful wind-element beast to a solitary peak and climbed toward its summit while hiding his aura.
• Andrew identified the beast as a Golden-Crowned Wind-Thunder Peng and decided its speed made it more valuable alive than as a source of a Magic Crystal Core.
• Andrew waited for the peng to stop cultivating, then used Explosive Steps to reach it and slash its right wing with the Godslaying Saber.
• The peng raised a Wind Shield against Andrew's follow-up attack, but he broke through it and struck its back, severely injuring it and preventing it from resisting.

Andrew subdued the Golden-Crowned Wind-Thunder Peng and returned home after four days away. There, he met a beautiful stranger, and he immediately felt he had fallen in love with her.

• Andrew persuaded the injured Golden-Crowned Wind-Thunder Peng to accept a Soul Contract, named it Golden Peng, and learned it would need a little over three months to recover.
• Andrew placed Golden Peng on his shoulder and left the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts with the Flame Wolf, putting off his search for a Wind Element Magic Crystal Core for Golden Tiger.
• Andrew returned home after four days and found Janice, Ling'er, Aida, and Milly laughing with an unfamiliar young woman in the garden.
• Andrew bumped into the young woman and accidentally held her hand before Janice pointed it out and he apologized.
• The young woman introduced herself through conversation, and Andrew became spellbound by her beauty, realizing he had fallen for her at first sight.

Andrew and Han Yue grew closer after their first meeting, but their developing romance was interrupted when Janice brought news that Howard’s mercenary squad had been ambushed and was fleeing through the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts. Andrew resolved to rescue his father despite the presence of a ninth-level warrior among the pursuers.

• Ling'er teased Han Yue about liking Andrew, and Han Yue blushed as Andrew’s family noticed his feelings for her.
• Andrew escorted Han Yue to Divine Grace Academy, then learned from Ling'er about her noble background and magical talent.
• Andrew stayed home instead of training, and he and Han Yue grew more familiar as she visited every few days.
• Janice brought Andrew Howard’s letter, which said another mercenary squad had ambushed them after they captured an Earth Dragon Beast.
• Andrew learned that Howard and six others were hiding with Golden Tiger, then vowed to find and rescue them.
• Janice warned Andrew that a ninth-level warrior was hunting Howard and asked whether he could handle the danger.

Andrew rushed to Mithril City to find out what happened to his father, Howard, and forced his way into the city lord’s residence. A young wind magus denied knowing anything and fought him, leaving Andrew threatening to kill her Earth Dragon Beast to make her come down.

• Andrew left for Mithril City with Flame Wolf and Golden Peng after learning that Howard had been ambushed there by a ninth-level warrior.
• Andrew reached the city before dusk and charged into the city lord’s residence, scattering the guards and dodging a Wind Blade.
• Andrew identified the attacker as a wind magus protected by an Earth Dragon Beast, then split her Wrath of the Whirlwind with the Godslaying Saber.
• Andrew asked the magus about Howard’s ambush, but she claimed the city lord was away and ordered him to leave.
• The magus attacked Andrew with Wind Blades while flying, and Flame Wolf fought her Earth Dragon Beast as both sides reached a stalemate.
• Andrew charged at the Earth Dragon Beast to force the magus to descend, startling her.

Andrew learned that the battle outside Mithril City had taken place east of the city, then followed Flame Wolf into the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts to find Howard. He reached Howard and Golden Tiger during their fight against a Wind Dragon and wounded the beast with a strike that pierced its Wind Shield.

• Andrew defeated the mage's Earth Dragon Beast, learned where the recent battle had occurred, and paid for the damage before leaving the city lord's manor.
• Andrew found traces of Golden Tiger's Wind Tiger Roar at the battlefield and sent Flame Wolf to track the scents into the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts.
• Flame Wolf led Andrew to a deep valley, where Andrew climbed down and followed signs of battle and the scent of a level nine magical beast.
• Andrew discovered Howard and Golden Tiger fighting a Wind Dragon alongside more than twenty mercenaries.
• Andrew joined the battle and slashed through the Wind Dragon's Wind Shield, wounding it and calling out to Golden Tiger.

Andrew rescued Howard and his companions from the mercenaries hunting them, then left their captain to fight the surviving pursuers while Golden Tiger battled the wounded Wind Dragon. Howard’s companions learned Andrew was his son and marveled at his strength, while their captain appeared close to a breakthrough.

• Andrew wounded the Wind Dragon’s wings, then rushed to Howard’s aid when the mercenaries turned against him and his companions.
• Andrew ordered Flame Wolf to protect Howard and killed the four enemy mages and many warriors, reducing the pursuers to a ninth-level warrior and two seventh-level warriors.
• Howard’s captain and Golden Tiger kept the remaining enemies occupied, while Andrew stopped fighting and covered the captain as his aura grew stronger.
• Andrew sent Golden Tiger to suppress the recovering Wind Dragon and promised it the beast’s ninth-level Magic Crystal Core.
• Bernie, Rhein, and Lester learned that the powerful Andrew was Howard’s son and congratulated Howard on being the father of a legend.

Andrew returned safely to the imperial capital with Howard, and Golden Tiger began advancing after swallowing the Wind Dragon’s Magic Crystal Core. The advancement’s enormous wind-element fluctuations drew powerful figures to the Lance residence, where Headmaster Meyer arrived as Andrew prepared to greet him.

• Andrew killed the injured Wind Dragon, took its Magic Crystal Core, and gave it to Golden Tiger, while Daniel killed Helu.
• Andrew and Howard returned to the imperial capital, reuniting with Janice, and Howard devoted himself more intensely to cultivation.
• Two months later, Golden Tiger fell into a deep sleep, and Andrew used a wind-element magic formation to gather energy for his advancement.
• Meyer and other powerful figures sensed the fluctuations, while Adonis’s soldiers surrounded the Lance residence.
• Andrew recognized Headmaster Meyer when he appeared and greeted him as Golden Tiger’s advancement continued.

Andrew was cornered when three Saint-level experts discovered his unusually powerful soul and tried to take him away, believing he could help them break through to Deity-level. When Baird attacked, the drunkard who had given Andrew the Godslaying Saber appeared and stopped him effortlessly.

• Andrew had moved his family and companions to Divine Grace Academy, and Meyer asked Bart, Baird, and Augustine not to harm him.
• Baird examined Andrew and confirmed that the young warrior’s soul had reached Saint-level, drawing the other experts’ interest.
• Baird, Augustine, and Bart agreed to take Andrew, while Meyer warned them against abducting him in the imperial capital.
• Andrew took out the Godslaying Saber to defend himself, and Augustine recognized it as the War God Gojir’s weapon.
• Baird attacked Andrew with black battle-qi, but the drunkard appeared, dissolved the attack, and made the Saint-level experts retreat.

A powerful drunk protected Andrew from Baird and revealed that Meyer’s teacher, Dempsey, had died fighting over a divine spark. After Golden Tiger completed his advancement, Andrew went with Adonis to meet the Yulan Empire’s Emperor, hoping to gain imperial protection while resolving to reach Saint-level.

• The drunk drove off Baird and Augustine with a soul attack, while Meyer learned that Dempsey had died more than ten years earlier fighting an expert from another plane over a divine spark.
• The drunk left Andrew under his protection and urged him to train until he reached Saint-level, while Meyer departed with the unconscious Bart.
• Golden Tiger completed his advancement, and Andrew brought him out of Lance Manor to meet General Aluqi, who had been guarding the residence.
• Andrew saw a chance to seek the Yulan Empire’s protection against Baird, and Adonis arrived to summon him to the Emperor.
• Andrew followed Adonis and Golden Tiger to the imperial palace, reflecting on the Empire’s strength and his need to reach Saint-level.

Andrew secured imperial protection for the Lance family and learned that his Saint-level spiritual power did not mean he had reached the Saint-level. After four years of focused cultivation, he became a Peak Ninth-level Warrior and Level 9 Great Mage, then left his residence wondering how to reconnect with Han Yue.

• Andrew met the emperor, who named him an earl and promised to protect the Lance family for ten years.
• Andrew asked Meyer about his Saint-level spiritual power and learned that reaching the Saint-level also required touching the laws.
• Andrew bought higher-level lightning- and fire-element magic incantations and cultivated in seclusion for four years.
• Andrew emerged as a Peak Ninth-level Warrior with Level 9 Great Mage strength, while Golden Peng remained a ninth-level magical beast.
• Janice and Milly teased Andrew about caring more for Han Yue than Ling'er, and Andrew fled before admitting he had neglected Han Yue.