Chapter Summaries

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.

Andrew defeated Doge and the Behemoths, helping the Yulan Empire take control of the Far East Prairie, then left with Han Yue to travel the continent. In a western city, he defended Han Yue from a noble and began carving a new sculpture from a gallery’s prized stone statue.

• Andrew killed Doge and all fifteen Saint-level experts and Behemoths of the Far East Prairie, leaving only three young Behemoths behind.
• The Yulan Empire claimed the Far East Prairie and ordered a city built for the Keli Tribe to show goodwill toward Andrew.
• After Herbert turned one, Andrew left him with Janice and traveled with Han Yue, visiting the Northern Region and the City of Ice and Snow before heading west.
• At a western sculpture gallery, a purple-robed noble insulted Han Yue’s taste, so Andrew demanded an apology and overwhelmed the nobles with his Saint-level aura.
• Han Yue asked Andrew to let the dispute go, but he destroyed the gallery’s prized Dragon statue and began carving a magical beast from the stone.

Andrew and Han Yue returned from their travels, and Andrew spent years cultivating while the Lance family prospered. Ten years later, Andrew began teaching their son Herbert how to wield the laws through his sword techniques.

• Andrew carved a lifelike Behemoth statue, and the nobles identified his signature as Duke Andrew Lance and hailed him as a grandmaster sculptor.
• Andrew and Han Yue traveled for more than half a year before returning to the duke's residence, where their son Herbert had grown old enough to run around.
• Andrew cultivated the fire and lightning profound mysteries in his miniature planar space, reached the Saint realm mid-stage, and focused on fusing profound mysteries.
• Longgedosi left to seek a breakthrough, while the Lance family members and recruited experts advanced in strength under Andrew's steady leadership.
• Ten years later, Herbert demonstrated a powerful saber technique, and Andrew showed him how to perform Wildfire Sweeps the Plains using the laws of fire.

Andrew completely bound the Azure Dragon Ring, merged with the Azure Dragon’s remnant soul, and reached a Deity-level soul. He then absorbed the Azure Dragon’s essence blood and began transforming near the Dark Forest, where Beirut watched with anticipation as Andrew’s bloodline continued to improve.

• Andrew broke through the Azure Dragon Ring’s core barrier, gained its soul-defense power, and took complete control of the ring.
• Andrew merged with the Azure Dragon’s remnant soul, strengthening his soul until it reached Deity-level.
• Andrew swallowed the Azure Dragon essence blood and transformed into a dragon more than ten meters long, while his released draconic might knocked the five Dragons unconscious at the duke’s estate.
• Andrew flew to the Dark Forest while enduring the painful changes, and Beirut appeared after detecting his aura.
• Andrew told Beirut he was absorbing Azure Dragon essence blood, and Beirut wondered whether Andrew could become a second Azure Dragon.

Andrew underwent a painful transformation after fusing with Azure Dragon Essence Blood, becoming a golden dragon whose soul reached the Deity level. Beirut tested Andrew’s Innate Divine Ability and discovered that it combined time manipulation, physical attacks, and Soul Attacks, leaving Andrew asking how strong those powers were.

• Andrew’s soul became a miniature azure dragon as his body grew and transformed into a golden divine dragon.
• Andrew discovered that he had reached the Deity level and believed his golden-dragon form was at least as powerful as an azure dragon.
• Beirut asked Andrew to use his Innate Divine Ability, and Andrew’s Dragon Roar briefly affected Beirut before leaving Andrew exhausted.
• Beirut explained that Andrew’s Dragon Roar could alter time and contained both physical attacks and Soul Attacks.
• Andrew asked Beirut how much he could alter time and how powerful the other effects were.

Andrew became a Water Lowgod after his bloodline awakened, gaining an external Divine Spark and a water divine body. Beirut then took him to the Dark Forest castle and began explaining the planes beyond the Yulan Continent.

• Beirut examined Andrew’s unusual Dragon Roar and speculated that his soul and the Azure Dragon’s compatibility had shaped it.
• Andrew unexpectedly began becoming a deity, and the Laws of the World formed a blue-green Water Lowgod Divine Spark.
• Andrew chose external godhood, split his soul, and formed a water divine body from divine power.
• Andrew explored his Elemental Sea and discovered that his soul could sense divine power thirty meters below its surface.
• Beirut congratulated Andrew, then brought him to the Dark Forest castle and began describing the Higher Planes, Seven Divine Planes, and other Material Planes.