Chapter Summaries

After Andrew killed four members of the Eight Great Clans, the Four Divine Beasts Clan celebrated his victory and resolved to protect him and his family. The other clans learned of the attack and prepared to retaliate, while the Nether Serpent Patriarch vowed to hunt Andrew down.

• Furhan told the Grand Elder that Andrew had helped his squad, and she identified him as the new Prefecture Lord of Bloodflame Prefecture who had joined their clan.
• News that Andrew had killed Kelo, Mosli, Joshua, and Bulo reached the Four Divine Beasts Clan, whose leaders praised his strength and decided to support him and protect his family.
• Andrew flew east through the mountains in a Metallic Lifeform as news of the deaths reached the Ashcroft Clan.
• The Nether Serpent Patriarch reported Andrew's attack to the other seven patriarchs, and Barbary and the Nether Serpent Patriarch called for unrestricted retaliation against the Four Divine Beasts Clan.
• The Nether Serpent Patriarch vowed to take revenge on Andrew for killing members of his clan.

Andrew lured the Nether Serpent Patriarch into attacking him alone, but their battle was interrupted when the Ashcroft Clan’s forces joined in. Andrew survived the joint assault and wounded the clan’s ranks, while Nether Serpent realized his attacks could barely penetrate Andrew’s defenses.

• Andrew waited near the Skyrite Mountains, expecting Nether Serpent to come after him and weighing the risks of provoking the Eight Great Clans.
• Nether Serpent arrived with nearly a hundred Metallic Lifeforms and attacked Andrew, coiling around him and using his strength and soul-affecting gaze.
• Andrew broke free and fought Nether Serpent, trading blows as the other members of the Ashcroft Clan assembled with five thousand Highgods.
• The Ashcroft Clan launched a combined Soul Attack at Andrew, but Andrew shattered it with golden beams from his eyes, killing over a thousand warriors.
• Nether Serpent struck Andrew while he was attacking the formation, but the blow only cracked a few scales, and Nether Serpent recognized that he lacked the means to overcome Andrew’s material defense.

Andrew defeated Ancestor Nether Serpent, seized the Soul-Devouring Rod, and routed the Ashcroft Clan warriors, though Nether Serpent escaped with five elders. Andrew later reunited with the White Tiger Clan Leader near the Skyrite Mountains and warned that the Eight Great Clans might retaliate.

• Ancestor Nether Serpent used the Soul-Devouring Rod to attack Andrew's soul, but Andrew resisted and pretended to be caught by its power.
• Andrew seized the Soul-Devouring Rod, deflected Nether Serpent's tail strike with Sovereign's Might, and sent him crashing into a deep crater.
• Andrew crushed the Ashcroft Clan's formations and killed hundreds of Highgods while Ancestor Nether Serpent fled with five elders.
• Andrew left for the Skyrite Mountains without pursuing Nether Serpent, judging that killing him would be difficult and admitting he could not yet control his full soul power.
• Two days later, Andrew reunited with the White Tiger Clan Leader, warned him of possible retaliation, and heard that Eldest Brother had already issued instructions.

After returning to the Four Divine Beasts Clan, Andrew studied Nether Serpent’s Soul-Devouring Rod and discovered it amplified Soul Attacks. As the Eight Great Clans’ assaults wore down the clan, Andrew’s cultivation advanced, leaving Gaiseresen wondering whether he had made a breakthrough.

• Andrew attended the clan’s celebration, then entered secluded cultivation with the Soul-Devouring Rod.
• Andrew learned the rod could amplify his Soul Attacks by thirty percent and began expelling Nether Serpent’s aura to claim it.
• Gaiseresen and the other clan leaders chose to retreat rather than risk a decisive battle against the Eight Great Clans.
• The Eight Great Clans’ attacks suppressed the Four Divine Beasts Clan for two hundred years, while Gaiseresen restrained his elders from fighting back.
• Andrew combined the Profound Mystery of Roundness with the Mystery of Shattering and punched thirty-six lingering black holes into the void.

Andrew completed the fusion of the Water Profound Mystery of Roundness and the Fire Element Mystery of Shattering, then agreed with Gaiseresen to pursue a decisive battle against the Eight Great Clans. After the Four Divine Beasts Clan approved the plan, Andrew laid out how their seven Asuras would confront the enemy leaders.

• Andrew emerged from two hundred years of secluded training after fusing the Water Profound Mystery of Roundness with the Fire Element Mystery of Shattering, while reflecting that his future cultivation would become much harder.
• Gaiseresen asked whether Andrew could defeat the Eight Great Clans, and Andrew said his new strength could not overcome all eight leaders and their Sovereign Artifacts alone.
• Andrew proposed a decisive battle to suppress the Eight Great Clans' leaders and buy time for the Four Divine Beasts Clan, and Gaiseresen agreed to consult the other leaders.
• Andrew reunited with Han Yue and promised they would visit the Yulan Continent after resolving the Four Divine Beasts Clan's troubles.
• Three days later, Gaiseresen and the other leaders approved the battle plan, and Andrew assigned Pusluo to hold off Deen while he took on Nether Serpent and Barbary.

Andrew and the Four Divine Beasts Clan challenged the Eight Great Clans to a decisive battle at the Ashcroft Clan’s encampment, setting the fight for one year later. As countless experts gathered at the Skyrite Mountains, Beirut arrived and praised Andrew’s strength.

• Andrew and six companions reached the Ashcroft Clan’s encampment, where he carved “Decisive Battle Platform” into a boulder and announced a battle against the Eight Great Clans one year later.
• The Nether Serpent Clan elders recognized Gaiseresen and the other clan leaders, while Andrew sensed Barbary fleeing with more than twenty Seven-Star Fiends.
• Three days later, all eight clan leaders met at the Ashcroft Clan’s encampment, where Nether Serpent described Andrew’s power and his subordinate Pusluo before the leaders agreed to fight.
• A year later, experts from across Indigo Prefecture gathered at the Skyrite Mountains to witness the decisive battle.
• Beirut arrived with several hundred people, and he told a woman in black that Andrew was far more powerful than she imagined.

Andrew fought Nether Serpent and Barbary during the Four Divine Beasts Clan’s decisive battle against the Eight Great Clans. He struck Barbary through the head with his purple sword, but Barbary’s Divine Spark did not fall out, leaving Andrew unsure whether he had killed him.

• The Four Divine Beasts Clan and the Eight Great Clans arrived at the dueling platform, where the White Tiger Clan Leader and Saint-Nair nearly began fighting.
• Andrew challenged Nether Serpent, and the Asura experts from both sides paired off while Barbary joined Nether Serpent against Andrew.
• Nether Serpent and Barbary coordinated their attacks, forcing Andrew to fight defensively as Barbary’s whip injured his left palm.
• Andrew transformed into a golden dragonman, used Dragon Roar to slow Barbary, and struck him in the head with his purple sword.
• Barbary’s Divine Spark did not fall out, and Andrew wondered whether Barbary was still alive.

Andrew nearly killed Barbary and used the Soul-Devouring Rod to suppress the Nether Serpent, but Edric’s intervention turned the battle into a stalemate. Beirut stopped the fighting in Indigo Prefecture, and Andrew demanded that the Eight Great Clans leave the Infernal Realm before the Four Divine Beasts Clan would agree to peace.

• Beirut explained that Barbary had survived by using Laws Manifestation, though the attack had badly damaged his mastery of the Water Profound Mysteries.
• Andrew used the Soul-Devouring Rod to bind the Nether Serpent’s soul, then attacked the weakened Barbary as he tried to retreat.
• Edric struck Andrew’s sword to save Barbary, and the battle devolved into a melee as Barbary withdrew to safety.
• Andrew and Pusluo pressured the Nether Serpent and Deen but could not overcome their defensive Sovereign Artifacts, so Andrew asked Beirut to intervene.
• Beirut declared the battle over, and both sides separated; Andrew then demanded that the Eight Great Clans leave the Infernal Realm or face a fight to the death.

Beirut ended the battle by imposing a thousand-year truce between the Four Divine Beasts Clan and the Eight Great Clans, and Andrew’s victory made him one of the Infernal Realm’s greatest experts. After traveling with Han Yue for three centuries and studying soul techniques, Andrew was intercepted by the Bloodridge Army as he left the Blood Peak Continent.

• Beirut refused to join the war and made both sides agree to cease hostilities for a thousand years, warning that he would personally punish any violation.
• Andrew’s fame spread across the Divine Planes, and the Four Divine Beasts Clan celebrated its victory for three days.
• Andrew and Han Yue left the Skyrite Mountains and toured the Blood Peak, Muya, and Bifu Continents together.
• Andrew studied soul cultivation, learned to create Soul Leeches capable of controlling ordinary Seven-Star Fiends, and began forging a Soul Defense Divine Artifact.
• As Andrew’s Metallic Lifeform neared the Star Mist Sea, the Bloodridge Army surrounded and stopped it, and Andrew recognized Youyindier as the one behind the interception.

Andrew confronted Youyindier, who had come on the Fate Sovereign Orloff’s orders to claim Digelunsi’s corpse. Andrew refused and subdued Youyindier with a Soul Leech, leaving him alive but in agony.

• Youyindier told Andrew that Orloff wanted Digelunsi’s corpse, and Andrew guessed the Sovereign wanted to study Digelunsi’s innate ability.
• Andrew realized Youyindier was pursuing Orloff’s reward and prepared to fight while protecting Han Yue from the Bloodridge Army.
• Andrew attacked Youyindier, endured the Bloodridge Army’s physical and soul assaults, and drove back soldiers threatening Han Yue.
• Andrew used a Soul Leech to incapacitate Youyindier, then restrained him and threatened him with more of them instead of killing him.
• Youyindier, shaken by the pain, asked Andrew how he had become so strong so quickly.

After traveling through the Bifu Continent and into the Chaotic Sea, Andrew was summoned by Dunnington, the Infernal Realm’s Paragon. Beirut had arranged for Dunnington to teach Andrew soul techniques, and Andrew eagerly accepted the opportunity.

• Andrew overpowered Youyindier, who withdrew with his subordinates rather than risk attacking him again.
• Andrew and Han Yue traveled through the Bifu Continent and entered the Chaotic Sea, where Andrew explained its dangers and powerful inhabitants.
• After visiting the Eternal City, Andrew received Dunnington’s invitation and left Han Yue to meet him.
• Dunnington tested Andrew with a Soul Attack delivered through his footsteps, revealing the gap between their soul attainments.
• Dunnington told Andrew that Beirut had asked him to teach Andrew soul techniques, and praised Andrew’s strength and potential.

After learning soul techniques from Dunnington, Andrew traveled to Miluo Island to meet Mosi and exchange insights. He forced his way past the island’s guards and reached West Island, prompting the Bagshaw Clan leader to appear.

• Andrew spent a hundred years learning soul techniques from Dunnington, greatly increasing his soul power and divine sense.
• Andrew decided to seek Beirut’s Fire Element Sovereign Spark and began planning how to obtain a third Sovereign Spark later.
• Andrew and Han Yue traveled to Miluo Island, where they spent more than two months exploring before Andrew headed for West Island.
• Andrew subdued the soldiers guarding West Island with his soul power and passed through eight Bagshaw Clan red-robed elders without harming them.
• The eight elders recovered their senses as the Bagshaw Clan leader arrived and asked where the man who had forced his way onto West Island was.

Andrew visited Mosi to exchange insights about their three-element soul mutations and later partnered with him to extract Sovereign's Might from Inkstones. While staying on Miluo Island, Andrew learned Han Yue was pregnant, and their child was born safely after three years.

• Baokewei confronted the red-robed elders but left after Mosi told him Andrew was visiting.
• Andrew met Mosi at Hendsey Castle, and they discussed their three-element soul mutations and extraordinary soul potential.
• Andrew and Mosi began sharing the Sovereign's Might extracted from Inkstones, and Han Yue discovered she was pregnant.
• Andrew decided to remain on Miluo Island until the child grew up, and Mosi reassured him that the unusually long pregnancy was normal for a Divine Beast's offspring.
• Han Yue gave birth safely in the third year, and Andrew felt a shackle deep within his soul break.

Andrew broke through by fusing the Mysteries of water, fire, and lightning, then defeated Mosi in a test of their strength. After his son Xuanyuan showed extraordinary talent and grew into a Midgod, Andrew's family left Miluo Island for the Blood Peak Continent, where Andrew planned to let Xuanyuan practice against any bandits they encountered.

• Andrew named his newborn son Xuanyuan, and Mosi arrived after sensing Andrew's breakthrough.
• Andrew demonstrated his new strength by matching Mosi's Sovereign Artifact with his bare hand and then knocking aside Mosi's ultimate hammer strike with his purple sword.
• Before age six, Xuanyuan became a deity, impressing Andrew and making Mosi envious of the boy's potential.
• Twenty years later, Andrew's family left Miluo Island, and twenty-six-year-old Xuanyuan traveled with him toward the Blood Peak Continent.
• Near Bloodflame Prefecture, Andrew slowed their golden dragon-shaped Metallic Lifeform and concealed his aura so Xuanyuan could practice if they met bandits.

Andrew gave Xuanyuan the Azure Dragon Ring and sent him to gain combat experience, then returned with his family to Bloodflame City. After learning that Molder possessed the Nine Soul Pearls and a Supreme God Token, Andrew planned to draw him out by capturing his son Bonin while hiding his identity.

• Andrew gave Xuanyuan the Azure Dragon Ring and told him to fight the bandits attacking their Metallic Lifeform.
• Xuanyuan killed the bandits, including their one-eyed leader, and Andrew told him to collect their possessions as part of his training.
• After more than thirty years of travel, Andrew, Han Yue, and Xuanyuan returned to Bloodflame City, where the family celebrated Xuanyuan's arrival.
• Andrew questioned Pusluo about the Eight Great Clans and learned they had kept the thousand-year agreement.
• Andrew investigated Molder and planned to capture Bonin to lure him out, then kill him while concealing his identity.

Andrew killed Molder and his Divine Clones to obtain the Nine Soul Pearls, then spent centuries preparing for the coming war between the Four Divine Beasts Clan and the Eight Great Clans. He arrived in the Skyrite Mountains and confirmed to Gaiseresen that he had broken through.

• Andrew captured Bonin to lure Molder into the Yushi Mountain Range, then killed Bonin and defeated Molder to take the Nine Soul Pearls.
• Andrew killed Molder's Light God Clone with his Lightning Divine Clone and safely bound Molder's interspatial ring, while leaving behind the Material Defense Sovereign Artifact to avoid the Blood Peak Sovereign's notice.
• After a hundred years of studying the Nine Soul Pearls without discovering their secrets, Andrew put them away and waited through the passing years.
• As the thousand-year agreement neared its end, Gaiseresen and the other clan leaders discussed their prospects and awaited Andrew's arrival.
• Andrew entered the Skyrite Mountains and met Gaiseresen at the top of the Dragon Path, where Gaiseresen realized Andrew had broken through.

The Four Divine Beasts Clan and the Eight Great Clans prepared for a decisive war, while Deen arranged to enlist two estranged Sovereign's Emissaries against Gaiseresen. Three months into the standoff, Andrew and the others gathered with their Asura-level allies, confident in Andrew’s strength as Beirut set out to meet him.

• Gaiseresen and the other Four Divine Beasts Clan leaders assembled their forces and agreed to face the Eight Great Clans in a decisive battle.
• Nether Serpent, Edric, and the other Eight Great Clans leaders debated the threat posed by Andrew, and Deen revealed he had contacted Lairdman and Hoss to recruit them against Gaiseresen.
• Gaiseresen recalled that only Castled had fought for the Four Divine Beasts Clan, while Andrew privately considered the reasons the other Sovereign's Emissaries had abandoned the clan.
• Beirut learned that war was approaching and decided to visit Andrew in person after Andrew had failed to come to him.
• After three months of restraint, the clans formed a large-scale standoff, and Pusluo urged Andrew and the Four Divine Beasts Clan to attack the Eight Great Clans.

Andrew confronted the Eight Great Clans alone as the final battle erupted, quickly killing Barbary and overpowering Nether Serpent and the clan leaders. While Andrew fought their strongest warriors, the Four Divine Beasts Clan gained the upper hand in the battlefield’s bloody melee.

• Andrew sensed that Hoss and Lairdman had joined the Eight Great Clans but dismissed the two additional Asuras as little threat.
• Five days later, the Four Divine Beasts Clan and the Eight Great Clans assembled their forces and began the final battle.
• Andrew killed Barbary, wounded Nether Serpent, and called the warriors of the Four Divine Beasts Clan to attack.
• Saint-Nair, Edric, Deen, Wenner, Reynalds, and Bolin coordinated their attacks against Andrew, but he drove them back and nearly banished Nether Serpent before Edric intervened.
• Gaiseresen, Pusluo, and the other leaders led the Four Divine Beasts Clan's smaller force as it gained the upper hand and swept through the Eight Great Clans' ranks.

The Four Divine Beasts Clan fought the Eight Great Clans while Gaiseresen and his allies confronted their former Sovereign’s Emissaries. Andrew overwhelmed the clan leaders, killed Deen, and left the remaining opponents without their only Soul Defense Sovereign Artifact.

• Hoss and Lairdman arrived to aid the Eight Great Clans, and the Black Tortoise Clan Leader accused Lairdman of betraying Castled and the Four Divine Beasts Clan.
• Gaiseresen attacked Lairdman while the Black Tortoise Clan Leader engaged Hoss, and Pusluo returned to fighting the Eight Great Clans’ elders.
• Blu and Garvey fought together as the enormous battle devastated the Skyrite Mountains, while Beirut told Donia that Andrew was close to Paragon strength.
• Gaiseresen killed Lairdman, and Hoss fled the battlefield as the White Tiger Clan Leader pursued him.
• Andrew used his Innate Divine Ability to immobilize his opponents, shattered Deen’s body, and collected his Divine Spark and Soul Defense Sovereign Artifact.
• Edric and the remaining clan leaders panicked after Deen’s artifact was lost.

Andrew helped the Four Divine Beasts Clan destroy the Eight Great Clans, then secretly searched the Muya Continent for the Redbud Diamond. He left the search underway through controlled bandits while weighing his future plans, including the Planar War and whether to become a Sovereign.

• Andrew killed Wenner, Bolin, Edric, Saint-Nair, Reynalds, and Nether Serpent, ending the Eight Great Clans' resistance.
• The Four Divine Beasts Clan wiped out the Eight Great Clans after three days of slaughter, and Andrew returned to Bloodflame Prefecture with Pusluo.
• After news of Andrew's strength spread, his Lightning Divine Clone traveled alone to the Muya Continent to search for the Redbud Diamond.
• Andrew found nothing in the Kodesen Mountains, so he used Soul Control to make bandits search the region and Kelo Prefecture for the diamond.
• Andrew considered Beirut's request to return to the Yulan Continent and decided he still intended to participate in the Planar War for military merits and Sovereign Artifacts.