Recaps

Andrew rushed toward the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts after learning that Ling'er and Han Yue had gone there, but Baird ambushed him on the way. Andrew fought Baird to a standstill, blocking the Saint-level warrior’s attack with his peak ninth-rank Fusion Battle-qi.

• Andrew went to the Divine Grace Academy to ask Bandeni about Han Yue and learned that she and Ling'er were training in the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts with Bandeni’s Saint-level teacher.
• Andrew took Bandeni’s map and flew southeast with Golden Peng to find them.
• About seven hundred li from the imperial capital, Baird attacked Golden Peng, and Andrew challenged him to fight.
• Andrew and Baird exchanged attacks without either gaining the upper hand, and Andrew regained his confidence against the man who had intimidated him four years earlier.
• Andrew struck Baird’s spear with his peak ninth-rank Fusion Battle-qi, and their powers clashed evenly before fading away.

Andrew fought Baird, a Saint-level warrior, and survived by breaking free of Baird’s momentum with his fusion battle-qi. After escaping with Golden Peng, Andrew reflected on the battle and headed for a volcano in the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts to pursue his new insight.

• Andrew attacked Baird with nine saber strikes, but Baird shattered them and trapped him beneath the pressure of his momentum.
• Andrew raised a battle-qi barrier, broke free of Baird’s suppression, and used more than a dozen slashes to withstand Baird’s powerful spear thrust.
• Andrew taunted Baird and promised to fight him again within a year, then escaped on Golden Peng.
• Andrew assessed Baird’s speed, concealment, and mastery of the Stealth Technique, concluding that comprehending momentum was key to reaching Saint-level.
• Andrew noticed flames and lightning stirring in his eyes and told Golden Peng to fly to the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts and find a volcano.

Andrew studied a volcanic eruption to comprehend the momentum of fire and lightning, and the spectacle led to twelve days of enlightenment. He emerged with stronger, more deeply fused battle-qi and far greater control over it.

• Andrew sent Golden Peng to find Ling'er and Han Yue and protect them, then climbed the largest volcano to study its energy.
• Andrew sensed the volcano's approaching eruption and cultivated the momentum of lightning until his lightning and fire battle-qi were balanced.
• A massive lightning bolt struck the volcanic vent just before the volcano erupted, and Andrew watched the lightning and magma together.
• Andrew realized the eruption revealed the momentum of lightning and fire, and his battle-qi grew stronger as its fusion deepened.
• Andrew remained in enlightenment amid the magma for twelve days, then opened his eyes with a more restrained aura and precise control over his battle-qi.

Andrew reunited with Ling'er and Han Yue in Mithril City, then revealed his plan to duel Baird in a year and promised to marry Han Yue afterward. After the emperor agreed to publicize the duel, Andrew resolved to reach the Saint-level and use the fight to attract Beirut’s attention so he could seek the essence blood of the Four Divine Beasts.

• Andrew flew to Mithril City, where Ling'er and Han Yue had been waiting for him, and spent several million gold coins buying them magical equipment.
• On the journey back to the imperial capital, Andrew told Han Yue and Ling'er about his agreement to fight Baird in a year and promised to marry Han Yue after winning.
• Han Yue insisted she wanted to face the danger with Andrew, while Ling'er approved of their renewed closeness.
• Andrew told the emperor about Baird’s ambush and asked him to publicize the duel so Baird could not avoid it; the emperor eventually agreed.
• Back home, Andrew resolved to reach the Saint-level within a year and planned to display his fusion battle-qi and Soul Mutation during the duel to attract Beirut’s attention.

As Andrew cultivated for a year, news of his planned duel with Baird spread across the continent, alarming his parents and stirring the Keli Tribe’s hopes. On the day of the duel in Kaobis City, the emperor wondered why Andrew had chosen a location and time that favored Baird.

• Andrew considered how his soul-mutation talent might win Beirut’s attention, then continued cultivating in seclusion.
• News spread that Andrew had challenged Baird, and people across the continent discussed whether the young earl could defeat the Saint-level warrior.
• The grand elder told Baru that Andrew was likely confident and urged him to travel out, temper himself, and watch the duel.
• Howard and Janice worried about Andrew’s challenge, but he reassured them before a year passed in cultivation.
• The emperor arrived in Kaobis City and told Adonis that the Dark Forest’s dense darkness elements and the nighttime duel favored Baird.

Andrew arrived in Kaobis City for his promised duel with Baird, drawing a vast crowd and numerous Saint-level experts. He revealed that he had reached Saint-level and faced Baird on the mountaintop, where he prepared to test his strength with a single saber strike.

• The emperor and Adonis discussed Andrew’s unknown progress and hoped the duel would help Adonis reach Saint-level.
• Crowds and Saint-level experts gathered outside Kaobis City, and Baru waited among the spectators.
• Andrew arrived with Howard, Han Yue, and Golden Peng, then joined the emperor and other experts on the hill.
• When Baird appeared, Andrew flew to the mountaintop under his own power, revealing that he had become a Saint-level expert.
• Andrew and Baird traded accusations and drew their weapons as Andrew declared that Baird must survive one strike of his saber.

Andrew killed Baird with a single saber strike, accepted the emperor’s offer to become Duke Lance, and asked for Han Yue’s hand in marriage. A month later, Duke Daina agreed to the marriage, and they set the wedding date for the fifteenth day of the eighth month, year eighteen of the Yulan Calendar.

• Andrew drew the Godslaying Saber and killed Baird with one swift strike, leaving his body outwardly intact but shattering his internal organs.
• The emperor announced Andrew’s victory, named him Duke Lance, and Andrew accepted the title in gratitude for the Yulan Empire’s protection of his family.
• Andrew asked the emperor to help him propose to Han Yue, and the emperor agreed to visit Duke Daina.
• A month later, Andrew asked Duke Daina for Han Yue’s hand, promised to protect her, and received his approval.
• Andrew and Han Yue’s wedding was set for the fifteenth day of the eighth month, year eighteen of the Yulan Calendar.

Andrew and Han Yue married, and Andrew obtained the Chaotic Territory from the emperor to establish his domain. He intended to use the region for cultivation and to pursue plans connected to Beirut and the Azure Dragon Ring.

• Andrew and Han Yue held a wedding attended by nobles, Saint-level experts, and Baru, whom Andrew warmly welcomed.
• After the guests left, Andrew comforted Han Yue and celebrated their wedding night, though he had briefly been thinking of loved ones far away.
• Andrew visited the emperor and asked permission to establish a duchy in the Chaotic Territory rather than accept wealthier territory in the east.
• The emperor granted Andrew the Chaotic Territory, and the news sparked widespread discussion.
• Andrew left the palace confident that the territory’s proximity to Beirut, its cultivation resources, and the possible presence of the Azure Dragon Ring would help advance his plans.

Andrew chose the Chaotic Territory as his fief, unified its thirty-six cities, and established the foundations of the Lance Duchy. After building an army that drained his funds, he sent out prospectors to find a magicrystal vein, and news came that they had succeeded.

• Andrew left the imperial capital with his family and Han Yue, then went ahead to bring the Chaotic Territory's thirty-six cities under his control.
• Before departing, Andrew fought the senior drunkard and gave him guidance on cultivating the Laws.
• Andrew imposed laws across the territory, and the Lance family settled into their new home.
• Andrew tasked Ferreira and Angis with recruiting troops, provided ten million gold coins, and watched the duchy's army grow to a hundred thousand soldiers.
• As the army depleted his fortune, Andrew sent troops and workers east to search for the magicrystal vein.
• When he heard the vein had been found, Andrew flew east at once.

Andrew discovered a vast magic crystal deposit and a miniature planar space where he cultivated and established formations for his family. After Golden Peng found the ring Andrew sought, he learned that it had belonged to the missing mage Doehring Cowart.

• Golden Peng led Andrew to an enormous magic crystal deposit, where Andrew sealed the area and searched for the Azure Dragon Ring while Ferreira secured the site.
• Andrew entered the miniature planar space at the deposit, cultivated there, and collected rare magic crystals before arranging cultivation formations for his family.
• Andrew gave the Yulan Empire one-third of the deposit to secure peace, then brought his family to the area and set up formations for them.
• Andrew cultivated in the miniature space for two months, sharpening his understanding of the Laws of lightning and fire.
• Golden Peng and Angis told Andrew that a sixth-level mage who had greatly increased his magical power had obtained the ring years earlier, but was now missing.
• Andrew learned that the mage's name was Doehring Cowart.

Andrew searched for Doehring Cowart to find the Azure Dragon Ring and followed his trail west to Pearl City. There, he recognized a darkness mage named Hamlin as Doehring Cowart’s old rival.

• Andrew asked the drunkard to guard the Lance Duchy and protect his family while he traveled, and the drunkard agreed in exchange for access to Andrew’s cultivation space.
• Andrew left the duchy and searched cities along the western route, learning that Doehring Cowart had passed through Drifting Cloud City and continued along the southern edge of the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts.
• Andrew followed Doehring Cowart’s trail to Pearl City, where he sensed a powerful aura of darkness in a tavern.
• Andrew identified the black-robed mage Hamlin as Doehring Cowart’s old rival and suspected that Hamlin had been responsible for the threat of soul torment.

Andrew followed Hamlin, discovered that he was collecting and absorbing the souls of beasts and humans, and decided to kill him if he could not find Doehring Cowart within three months. The chapter left Andrew and Hamlin watching a mage battle a giant bear in the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts.

• Andrew followed Hamlin from Pearl City into the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts and watched him kill beasts to collect something in a black crystal ball.
• Andrew realized that the mist in the ball contained soul power and that Hamlin was absorbing it to increase his spiritual energy.
• Hamlin began killing humans as well as magical beasts, and Andrew decided to kill him if Doehring Cowart did not appear within another three months.
• Andrew sensed an earth-magic battle nearby, and Hamlin secretly approached it, with Andrew following.
• Hamlin and Andrew saw a six-meter-tall giant bear fighting a human mage amid erupting earth spikes and crumbling hills.

Andrew found Doehring Cowart battling Hamlin and killed the darkness mage before taking the Azure Dragon Ring. He told the fearful Doehring that he wanted the ring but did not intend to kill him, proposing a transaction instead.

• Doehring Cowart defeated the giant bear Kutuman and bound it to him with a Soul Contract.
• Hamlin ambushed Doehring, and the two mages fought until Andrew stepped in and stopped them.
• Andrew killed Hamlin with a Spear of Elements and took the Azure Dragon Ring from Doehring.
• Doehring offered to accept his death if Andrew spared Kutuman, but Andrew said he wanted the ring in a transaction and would not kill him.

Andrew traded the Azure Dragon Ring for Doehring Cowart’s service and protection, then returned to the Lance Duchy and began investigating the ring’s power. After developing his territory and preparing experiments on essence-blood fusion, he went to the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts to capture a Saint-level Fire Dragon.

• Andrew offered Doehring Cowart a mage tower and the position of chief mage in exchange for the Azure Dragon Ring, and Doehring accepted.
• Andrew returned to the Lance Duchy with Doehring Cowart, appointed him chief mage, and oversaw the prosperous development of the magic crystal deposit.
• Andrew bound the Azure Dragon Ring and discovered that it greatly reduced the spiritual energy needed to cast spells, but he failed to reach its core after four hours of effort.
• Andrew invested the duchy’s wealth in rebuilding cities, roads, and academies, then recruited condemned prisoners for experiments on fusing essence blood.
• Andrew rode Golden Peng to the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts to seek a Saint-level Dragon Clan beast and found a Fire Dragon bathing in a volcano.
• Andrew sent Golden Peng to lure the Fire Dragon away from the volcano, and the enraged dragon chased him until Andrew confronted it.

Andrew hunted Saint-level dragons for their blood essence, returning to the Lance Duchy with five captive dragons and nearly five hundred drops. In his mage tower, he began testing whether dragon blood essence could be fused into a human, and his first subject suffered a horrifying reaction.

• Andrew fought Ulysses, a fire dragon, and killed it with the Godslaying Saber after resisting its flames and forbidden spell.
• Over nearly half a year, Andrew killed around thirty Saint-level dragons and subdued five, including a dragon that surrendered after a group attack failed.
• Andrew returned to the Lance Duchy with five dragons, then took the blood essence he had collected into his mage tower for experiments.
• Andrew fed fire dragon blood essence to a seventh-rank prisoner and observed as it spread through the man’s blood and caused him intense pain.
• After half an hour, the result of Andrew’s first blood essence fusion experiment emerged.

Andrew spent years investigating why attempts to fuse people with dragon essence blood ended in death, eventually identifying soul repulsion as the cause and inventing a gauge to measure it. After testing more than a hundred thousand soldiers, he found four with low readings and kept them for further experiments.

• Andrew's experiments killed twenty-five prisoners before he concluded that conflict between their souls and the dragon souls in the essence blood was likely causing the fatal reactions.
• Over three years, Andrew failed to overcome soul repulsion and decided instead to measure whether a subject's soul was compatible with essence blood before attempting fusion.
• Andrew created the Soul Repulsion Gauge and tested death-row prisoners, but none had readings below twenty.
• Andrew tested batches of soldiers and, after screening over a hundred thousand, found four whose soul repulsion readings were below twenty.
• Andrew kept the four compatible soldiers, all Mid-Level Warriors, for further experiments.

Andrew gave four subordinates the choice to risk death fusing with dragon essence blood, and Kleiman, Fendi, and Ted successfully became powerful half-dragons. Toby began fusing with Black Dragon blood, but his soul rejection reading quickly exceeded fifty, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Andrew explained the risks and potential benefits of fusing with dragon essence blood, and Kleiman, Fendi, Ted, and Toby all chose to participate.
• Kleiman fused with Golden Dragon essence blood and became a Golden Dragon Warrior whose physical strength rivaled a Seventh Rank Warrior.
• Fendi fused with thunder dragon essence blood and became a half-dragon whose aura reached the peak of the seventh rank.
• Ted endured a dangerous fusion with tyrant wyrm essence blood and succeeded despite his rejection reading nearing sixty.
• Toby swallowed Black Dragon essence blood, and his soul rejection reading rapidly passed fifty as Andrew watched anxiously.

Andrew’s successful creation of Dragonblood Warriors drew attention across the continent, including Beirut’s, while Andrew warned his family to avoid the Dark Forest. After sensing an unusual fluctuation, Andrew went to his magic tower and waited for Beirut to appear.

• Toby survived the fusion with black dragon essence blood, and Andrew concluded that the safe soul-fluctuation limit was sixty.
• Andrew formally named Kleiman and the other three Dragonblood Warriors and publicized his achievement across the continent.
• Beirut learned about Andrew’s soul mutation and dragon-blood fusion experiments and considered him a potential candidate for future plans.
• Janice reproached Andrew for not having a child with Han Yue, and Howard revealed that he had trained in the Dark Forest.
• Andrew warned Howard, Janice, and Han Yue that Beirut was the true strongest being on the continent and cautioned them not to provoke him.
• Andrew sensed an unusual fluctuation, went to his magic tower, and waited as Beirut appeared before him.

Beirut visited Andrew after hearing about his Dragonblood Warrior research and offered him a chance to fuse with one of the Four Divine Beasts' essence blood. Andrew tested his compatibility with each sample and discovered an unusually low rejection value for White Tiger, while Azure Dragon remained untested.

• Beirut praised Andrew's soul talent and asked why he wanted to create Dragonblood Warriors, and Andrew explained that he wanted to strengthen his body and eliminate his weaknesses.
• Andrew admitted he knew Beirut had won the world-destroying battle, but Beirut said he was not interested in Andrew's secrets and revealed that he wanted to nurture him.
• Beirut offered Andrew essence blood from the Four Divine Beasts, and Andrew asked to test his soul rejection values before choosing one.
• Andrew tested Vermilion Bird essence blood and got a value of thirteen, then tested Black Tortoise essence blood and got eighteen.
• Andrew tested White Tiger essence blood and got a value of nine, leaving him excited by his strong compatibility before he opened the Azure Dragon sample.

Andrew chose Azure Dragon essence blood to pursue the Azure Dragon’s time-related divine ability and discovered he was perfectly compatible with it. After fusing with the blood, he transformed into a dragon and gained a greatly strengthened body and soul, while Beirut invited him to visit the Dark Forest once he became a deity.

• Andrew decided that Azure Dragon essence blood was his best path toward studying the Laws of Time and breaking free of the universe’s constraints.
• The testing device showed no reading for Azure Dragon essence blood, and Andrew and Beirut realized he was perfectly compatible with it.
• Andrew swallowed a drop of the essence blood and endured a painful transformation of his body and soul as Beirut sealed the area with his God's Domain.
• Andrew completed the fusion, discovered he had transformed into a dragon, and then returned to his human form.
• Andrew learned that his soul power had increased by two hundred percent and was nearing Deity-level, while his body had reached Peak Saint-level.
• Beirut congratulated Andrew and told him to find him in the Dark Forest after becoming a deity.

After gaining power from the Azure Dragon Essence Blood, Andrew focused on cultivation, welcomed his son Herbert, and learned that the rising Muhan Tribe threatened the Keli Tribe. The chapter left Andrew aware that the tribe might soon face war.

• Andrew sensed the Elemental Sea and the Azure Dragon Ring within his soul, but could not access its essence blood, remnant soul, or Sovereign's Might.
• Andrew granted Ferreira and Angis the title of earl, then gave up managing the duchy to study the Laws and encourage his family to cultivate.
• Han Yue gave birth to a son, and Andrew named him Herbert Lance.
• The Lance family celebrated Herbert's birth, and the emperor of the Yulan Empire granted him the title of marquis.
• The grand elder and Baru visited from the Keli Tribe, and Andrew learned that the expanding Muhan Tribe planned to attack them.

Andrew went to the Muhan Tribe to stop its expansion and killed one of its Saint-level warriors, then challenged the grassland powers to meet him at Moon Lake. He faced Doge and fourteen other Saint-level experts, declaring they would all die.

• Andrew rejected Baru’s warning and said he would confront the Muhan Tribe because its expansion threatened his Lance Duchy.
• Andrew found the Muhan Tribe and killed one of its two Saint-level warriors with a single punch.
• Andrew identified himself as the Duke of Lance and agreed to meet the grassland experts at Moon Lake in three days.
• Andrew waited at Moon Lake as a hundred thousand cavalry and fifteen Saint-level experts arrived.
• Doge introduced himself and the experts with him, but Andrew said they would all die, enraging the barbarians and driving several into Berserk Transformation.

Andrew faced Doge and the barbarian army, then fought their Saints to test his strength after the seven Behemoths arrived. He killed four Saints before Doge ordered a retreat into the army, intending to wear Andrew down with the cavalry and Behemoths.

• Doge asked Andrew to wait for reinforcements, and Andrew provoked the barbarians while agreeing to wait.
• Seven Behemoths arrived, and Andrew declared that he would claim them as spoils if he won.
• Doge and fourteen other barbarian Saints attacked Andrew after Doge used a vibrating saber strike based on the Pulsation of the World.
• Andrew knocked Doge back and broke his saber, then fought off the other Saints and killed four of them.
• Doge ordered the remaining Saints to retreat into the barbarian army, planning to exhaust Andrew with the cavalry and Behemoths.

Andrew faced Doge’s hundred thousand cavalry and seven Behemoths, using the battle to test his strength and deepen his understanding of explosive force. When Geluodiya interrupted his comprehension by ordering an attack, Andrew turned on the charging cavalry, leaving the battle raging.

• Andrew drew the Godslaying Saber and confronted the cavalry as seven Behemoths emerged from their ranks.
• Andrew seized and threw one Behemoth, then repelled the other six with a barrage of battle-qi punches, crushing many cavalrymen in the process.
• Andrew entered a state of comprehension and considered how the Fire Element’s Explosion and the Lightning Element’s Shattering might strengthen him.
• Doge hesitated to attack Andrew while he was comprehending, but Geluodiya ordered the cavalry to charge and ruined any chance of reconciliation.
• Andrew began cutting through the cavalry with the Godslaying Saber, using explosive physical strikes that sent powerful wind blades across the battlefield.

Andrew deepened his comprehension of the profound mysteries while slaughtering the grassland cavalry, then let the surviving cavalry withdraw before killing the Saint-level barbarians who attacked him. He transformed into a dragon-like form and cleaved a Behemoth in two as Doge and the remaining Behemoths faced his strongest form.

• Andrew grew stronger as he fused the profound mysteries of “Burst” and “Shattering,” killing more than ten thousand cavalrymen in fifteen minutes.
• Doge ordered the remaining cavalry to withdraw and return to their tribes, and Andrew allowed them to leave the battlefield.
• The ten Saint-level barbarians attacked Andrew, but he shattered their weapons and killed them all in an instant.
• Doge ordered seven Behemoths to charge Andrew and launched his own strongest attack.
• Andrew transformed, revealing scales, dragon horns, claws, and a tail, then used a dragon claw to cleave a Behemoth in two.