Recaps

Jason claimed the Coiling Dragon Ring, gave Doehring Cowart a Highgod wooden shield, and sent Monica to deliver Doehring and the ring to Linley. Linley reunited with Doehring in Fenlai City and hosted Monica, who planned to stay a few days before returning to the Rhine Empire.

• Jason found Water Sovereign Power and Azure Dragon blood inside the Coiling Dragon Ring, took one drop of the power, and gave Doehring Cowart a Highgod wooden shield as his life-bound Divine Artifact.
• Doehring Cowart regained his connection to the Laws of the Earth and pledged loyalty to Jason, who decided he would later take the ring and Doehring to Linley.
• After Linley returned to Fenlai City from his father's funeral, Monica visited him and gave him the wooden shield and Coiling Dragon Ring.
• Linley reunited with Doehring Cowart, claimed the Coiling Dragon Ring, and welcomed Monica, who left him books compiled by Jason and asked to stay for a few days.

Jason organized the surviving Four Ultimate Warrior Clans in the Rhine Empire, binding them to basic moral rules and preparing to form a knight order. He explained that humane principles could help gifted cultivators remain strong without turning against the weak.

• Jason sensed that Cesar had become a Deity and credited the breakthrough to the beating he had given him.
• Jason gathered representatives of the Baruch, Hyde, and Bolei Clans at a castle in the Rhine Empire and demanded their loyalty in exchange for protection and bloodline awakening.
• Jason announced the formation of the Four Directions Knight Order and appointed Felix Bolei as its acting commander.
• Jason ordered the clans to raise their descendants and study the Rhine Clan's educational books, then left the gathering.
• Veronica questioned Jason's moral education efforts, and Jason explained that preserving humanity helped experts maintain their resolve and grow stronger.

Jason learned that the Radiant Church had gathered four Lowgods and a Demon Lord’s projection in Fenlai City, where Monica was being held. The God of Yellow Sand offered to help rescue her in exchange for Jason’s aid entering the Necropolis of the Gods, but Cesar then threatened Monica and challenged Jason to come die.

• Jason sensed a Saint-level presence and identified its speaker as the God of Yellow Sand, who directed him to inspect the Radiant Temple.
• Jason found that the temple’s formation concealed its occupants, while the God of Yellow Sand revealed that Monica was hidden there and that a Demon Lord’s projection backed the four Lowgods.
• Jason considered the threat of a Demon’s descent and learned the God of Yellow Sand wanted his help stealing treasures from the Necropolis of the Gods.
• The God of Yellow Sand promised to help rescue Monica and reward Jason with a High Godhead if Jason let him descend inside the Necropolis.
• Cesar interrupted their conversation and told Jason that Monica was in his hands, demanding that Jason come and die or she would be killed.

Jason tried to rescue Monica while confronting the War God, the High Priest, Cesar, and the Demon Lord’s forces. After the Demon Lord’s projection attacked Monica and Jason fought back, he discovered the projection was far weaker than he expected.

• Jason asked Lord Beirut to spare Monica, sent Linda to seize the Saints serving the Deities, and flew to the Radiant Temple.
• Linda captured the Saints in the Dark Forest, killed several of them, and released half after Jason negotiated with the four Lowgods.
• Cesar threatened Monica, but a blood-red figure attacked him and a light giant targeted Monica, forcing Jason to use Arc Flash to reach his daughter.
• Jason shielded himself and Monica from the attackers, then struck the Demon Lord’s projection and sent it flying.
• Jason and the others realized the Demon Lord’s projection was only at Midgod level at most, while the God of Yellow Sand appeared beside Jason’s Fate Clone.

The God of Yellow Sand’s projection attacked Jason and targeted Bebe, but Beirut intervened and destroyed the threat before summoning Jason to his castle. After rescuing Monica and restraining the fleeing Lowgods, Jason used Sovereign’s Might to search the Yulan Plane and found the remains of 173 gods.

• The God of Yellow Sand’s projection crushed Jason’s Fate Clone with gravity and sent a mountain-like hand toward Linley and Bebe.
• Jason attacked the hand with Water Sovereign Power, but Beirut froze the battlefield with Wind Sovereign’s Might and then destroyed the hand and wave.
• Beirut shattered the Radiant Temple’s Highgod projection and killed the Demon Lord’s Projected Clone, then ordered Jason to deal with the survivors and come to his castle.
• Jason withdrew his badly injured Fate Clone, had Linda capture the Saint-level experts, woke Monica, and froze four fleeing Lowgods.
• Jason tested Sovereign’s Might and searched the Yulan Plane with his divine sense, finding the remains and belongings of 173 gods.

Jason questioned the captured Deity-level experts and Saint-level fighters after the battle, then chose to spare most of them and assign the four Lowgods to deal with the remaining threats. He seized the Radiant Church’s Divine Artifacts and left its leaders unconscious for Linley to judge.

• Jason ordered Linda and Monica to restore order in the city and punish religious charlatans and looters.
• Dylan and the others revealed that the Demon Lord had proposed capturing Monica to secure permission to preach in the Luo'ao and Rhine Empires.
• Jason made the four Lowgods swear an Overgod Oath to serve him for one hundred thousand years, then freed them and sent them after demon warlocks and the God of Yellow Sand’s followers.
• Jason dismissed the Saint-level experts and took the Radiant Church’s Holy Bible and other Divine Artifacts.
• Jason knocked out the Pope of Light, Kuye, Useno, and Leiming, sealed them inside the Radiant Temple, and left their fate to Linley.

Jason recovered a vast trove of divine artifacts and Sovereign's Might from the remains on the Arctic Icefield, then met Beirut to report on the God of Yellow Sand's scheme. Beirut warned Jason to avoid the Earth and Lightning Element Divine Planes and gave him Divine Beast materials, leaving Jason relieved as he flew away.

• Jason found thirty-eight drops of Sovereign's Might among the remains and claimed an ice-blue Water Element Highgod Artifact for his Water Clone.
• Jason visited Beirut at the Amethyst Castle and reported that O'Brien and the others were alive, while worship of the God of Yellow Sand, the Demon Lord, and the Radiant Sovereign had mostly been eliminated.
• Beirut revealed that the God of Yellow Sand was a Sovereign who had sought a supreme treasure from the Necropolis of the Gods by using Bebe as leverage.
• Beirut warned Jason to stay away from the Earth and Lightning Element Divine Planes and offered to grant him a request.
• Jason asked for Divine Beast essence blood, and Beirut gave him an Interspatial Ring containing a strange Highgod and a bottle of God-Eater Rat blood.
• Beirut asked Jason to keep an eye on Bebe, and Jason left the Dark Forest relieved that Beirut had not pursued the matter further.

After returning to Fenlai City, Jason discussed the Radiant Church, Linley’s revenge, and the Four Directions Knight Order with his family and Linley. He sealed the church’s remaining leaders, sent Hogg to the Rhine Empire, and invited Linley to join a trip around the continent while he trained.

• Jason reunited with Veronica and Monica in Fenlai City, where Linda reported that nothing unexpected had happened during his absence.
• Monica showed Jason a Battle Projection of the recent fighting, and Jason warned her not to investigate Beirut’s attack further.
• Linley and Hogg thanked Jason, and Linley said he intended to destroy the Radiant Church because Clayde had offered his mother’s soul to the Radiant Sovereign.
• Jason directed Linley and Hogg to join the Four Directions Knight Order’s campaign against the two churches, and he explained that Linley needed to grow stronger before breaking his seal on the Radiant Church’s leaders.
• Hogg agreed to visit Wharton in the Rhine Empire, while Jason invited Linley to travel with him and promised Linda he would arrange for the knight order to gather believers for her.

More than a decade after forming the Green Crystal Mercenary Group, Jason and his companions had slain a Lich and gathered several characters from the original story into their ranks. After Clear Spring entered a breakthrough, Monica led the younger members back to the Rhine Empire so Linley could consolidate his Saint-level insights, leaving Jason, Veronica, Linda, and Ivan to wait in the cave.

• Jason’s Green Crystal Mercenary Group killed a Lich that had once been a rank-nine necromancer from the Rhine Clan, prompting Cesar to worry that he might become a Lich himself.
• Jason had rescued Cesar, Jenny, Lina, Rebecca, and Haeru and brought them into the group, while Barker and his brothers had joined the Four Directions Knight Order; Jenny had a rare affinity for the Edicts of Fate.
• Linda told the group that Clear Spring had made a breakthrough and was staying in the cave while shrouded in Elemental Darkness.
• Veronica proposed a break from their travels so Linley could consolidate his insights after reaching the Saint level half a year earlier.
• Jason suggested that some members stay with Clear Spring while the younger group returned home, and Monica reluctantly left with them for the Rhine Empire.
• Jason, Veronica, Linda, and Ivan remained in the cave, where Veronica noted that Linley and Bebe were already powerful enough to hold their own against her.

After Clear Spring became a Lowgod, Jason equipped her and gathered the Four Directions Knight Order’s leaders to discuss the changing balance of power and the upcoming Necropolis of the Gods. He selected twelve clan members to join the expedition and entrusted Linley with copying two books on the Laws for the Four Ultimate Warrior Clans.

• Clear Spring emerged from eleven years of seclusion as a Lowgod, chose divine artifacts, and learned that the Necropolis of the Gods would soon open.
• Jason reviewed how the Four Directions Knight Territory and Rhine Empire had expanded, while worship of Jason spread and strengthened his soul through the Power of Faith.
• Wharton and the other leaders gathered at Dragonblood Castle, where Jason urged the clans to avoid internal conflicts and focus on cultivation.
• Jason proposed sending three members from each of the four clans to the Necropolis of the Gods.
• Jason gave Linley two books explaining the Laws and instructed him to copy and distribute them among the clans.

Jason organized the Saints under his command for the Necropolis of the Gods, while Linley, Bebe, Veronica, and others prepared to enter. After Beirut revealed that the Ba-Serpent guarded the passage taken by the human Saints, Jason was left anxiously watching from outside.

• Jason distributed the Necropolis places among the Four Ultimate Warrior Clans, the Rhine Empire, the Luo'ao Empire, the Blazing Sun Desert, Linda, and Clear Spring, and arranged a place for Doehring Cowart inside Linley's shield.
• Jason lent Linley an earth-attribute divine shield, while Linda urged Bebe to obtain the divine spark on the eleventh floor and Clear Spring told him to prioritize safety.
• Jason tried to persuade Veronica to stay behind and cultivate, but she chose to enter the Necropolis with Linley and the others.
• The Saints entered the Necropolis of the Gods through its two dragon-carved entrances as Jason watched with concern.
• Beirut told Jason that the Ba-Serpent guarded the passage the human Saints had entered, and Jason asked to go in and kill it, but Beirut refused.

Ten years after the Necropolis of the Gods reopened, Jason returned to the Yulan Continent, explained the paths to becoming a Deity, and prepared to eliminate the two churches. He entered the Necropolis’s fourteenth floor, where he was attacked by a vampire while setting up warning formations near the entrance.

• Jason reunited with Veronica and learned that five of the thirty Peak Saints under his command had died during the ten years of fighting.
• Jason told Linley and Doehring Cowart about divine sparks, the risks of refining one, the two ways to become a god independently, and how divine artifacts formed.
• Jason announced that the two churches would be destroyed, then removed the Radiant Temple’s seal and destroyed the Dark Church’s formation before leaving for the Necropolis of the Gods.
• Guided by Beirut, Jason entered the fourteenth floor, explored a primitive kingdom ruled by five castles, and chose to secure the entrance before approaching the Midgod guardians.
• A winged, fanged attacker struck at Jason with a rapier, but his water shield blocked the attack and revealed the assailant as a vampire.

Jason confronted five vampires guarding the way through the Necropolis of the Gods and exploited their disunity to attack. He killed four of them, including Braul and Claudia, while the remaining vampire faced him amid the ongoing battle.

• Braul and four other Deity-level vampires confronted Jason, but their quarrels showed they were not working together.
• Jason lured the vampires upward, confirmed they had left the passages unguarded, and killed the destruction-and-wind vampire with his Bible and saber.
• Jason pierced Braul's Shadow Clones, injured his soul with the Bible, and killed him while the other vampires refused to help.
• The remaining three vampires attacked together, but Jason used his Water Element Shield and vines to withstand their assault.
• Jason's Bible slowed the attackers, then froze Claudia's flaming gauntlet and arm, allowing his saber to kill her and her clones.

Jason fought the three remaining vampires in the Necropolis of the Gods, using his clones and Water Element Shield to overcome their teamwork. He killed two vampires, watched the last escape, destroyed the five castles, and collected the fifteenth-floor rewards before moving on.

• The three vampires attacked Jason, but their combined domains only slowed him, and Jason used his Bible to withstand an attack while conserving his remaining Fate Divine Power.
• Jason trapped the Death-and-Water Midgod in his Water Element Shield, dragged him away from the others, and killed him and his Death Clone.
• Jason used his remaining Fate Divine Power to stop and kill another vampire, but the Wind Element Midgod escaped toward the boundary of the small plane.
• Jason destroyed all five vampires’ castles after finding only simple warning formations in them.
• Jason collected the Highgod Artifacts and four High Godheads from the fifteenth-floor altar, then dismantled the altar for its materials.

Jason reached the fifteenth level and found its guardian, Pan, a Red-Fruit Green Willow who let him claim the treasure without a fight. Jason discovered that one ring was a Soul Defense Divine Artifact and the other contained a hundred Floating Shadows of battles between top-tier Highgods, which he watched with Pan.

• Jason entered the fifteenth level, secured the mountain entrance with defensive formations, and followed a path through the forest to its giant tree guardian.
• Pan introduced himself and agreed to let Jason take the level's treasure if Jason showed him what it was.
• Jason reached the altar without being attacked and found two rings on its platform.
• Jason identified the black ring as a Soul Defense Divine Artifact that shielded and nourished his soul and clones.
• Jason found a hundred Floating Shadows of top-tier Highgod battles in the other ring and watched them with Pan.

Jason inspected the guardian of the sixteenth floor, a giant octopus who attacked his soul through the passage, then returned to Pan and discovered that the tree had been plotting to kill him. Pan revealed himself as a Red-Flame Green Willow and began fighting Jason on the sealed altar.

• Pan explained that Lord Beirut had assigned him to guard the fifteenth floor after he survived a battle five thousand years earlier.
• Jason approached the sixteenth-floor entrance and saw a giant octopus, who tried to infiltrate his soul with an attack through the passage.
• Jason escaped back to Pan, carrying a Floating Shadow of the octopus, and realized Pan had sealed the exits and intended to attack him.
• Pan admitted he had been waiting for an opportunity to fight Jason, and both prepared to battle at full strength.
• Pan revealed his Red-Flame Green Willow form and attacked Jason with sixteen roots and sixteen flaming fruits.

Jason fought Pan, the Red-Flame Green Willow, while struggling against his opponent’s superior divine power and relentless attacks. After Jason’s Water Clone became a Midgod, he continued the duel and trapped both of them inside a sphere of water with a new technique.

• Jason and Pan exchanged attacks, and Pan’s blazing transformation intensified their battle while Jason relied on his defensive artifact and healing abilities.
• Pan pursued Jason when the Laws of Heaven and Earth descended, hoping to stop him from fusing with a Water Mid Godhead.
• Jason’s Deathgod Golem intercepted Pan long enough for Jason’s Water Clone to fuse with the Mid Godhead and become a Midgod.
• Jason used his increased strength to force Pan back, and Pan proposed that they call the fight a draw.
• Jason challenged Pan to continue fighting and used blue streams of water to enclose them both in a huge sphere.

Jason trapped Pan briefly with a new water-element technique, then retreated into the passage between floors to recover his divine power. There he met Dylan, who had become a Midgod and killed the guardian of the fourteenth floor, before Dylan returned to that floor.

• Jason enclosed Pan in a shifting sphere of water and ice, but Pan melted through its barriers and broke free.
• Jason sent the Deathgod Golem ahead to clear a fire-element formation at the passage, then entered and blocked Pan out with an ice wall.
• Jason named the water-element trapping technique Crystal Space and judged that it consumed too much divine power to be useful against Pan.
• Jason decided to recover in the passage for the rest of the year because his clones were nearly or completely out of divine power.
• Dylan met Jason and revealed that he had broken through to Midgod and killed the wind-element Midgod on the fourteenth floor.
• Jason told Dylan that Pan had fought him to a draw, and Dylan abandoned the idea of challenging Pan before returning to the fourteenth floor.

After leaving the Necropolis of the Gods, Jason learned that O'Gavin and four Lowgods were attacking Dragonblood Castle, where Monica and Linley were fighting. Jason killed the four Lowgods and defeated O'Gavin, leaving the battle with Monica and the others safe.

• Beirut told Jason and the others that experts from the Gebados Plane had attacked Dragonblood Castle, where Monica, Linley, and others were defending it.
• Jason raced to Dragonblood Castle and found Monica, Linley, Olivier, and Desri fighting O'Gavin and four Lowgods.
• O'Gavin demanded the Four Way Territories, but Jason attacked him and used his water and lightning techniques to reach the Lowgods.
• Jason killed the four Lowgods as they tried to flee, then told Monica and the others to leave.
• O'Gavin attacked Jason in a rage, but Jason sent out his clones and drove O'Gavin into the ground.

After Dragonblood Castle survived O’Gavin’s attack, Jason welcomed the displaced leaders and Deity-level experts into the Four Way Territories. He distributed divine artifacts and godheads among his allies, then asked Linley to stay behind.

• Jason questioned Monica and Linley about why they had risked fighting O’Gavin instead of retreating or using the Rhine Empire’s Blood-colored Golem.
• Catherine asked Jason to shelter the surviving leaders, and he allowed them and Tarosse to remain in the Four Way Territories and help guard it.
• At a banquet, Jason explained that Olivier’s ability to fuse Light and Dark Divine Power came from a rare Soul Mutation.
• Jason distributed divine artifacts to Olivier, O’Brien, Desri, Monica, Delia, Linley, Dylan, the High Priestess, and Tarosse.
• Jason gave O’Brien, Dylan, Catherine, and Linda divine sparks and godheads; Dylan and Catherine pledged lifelong loyalty to him.
• Jason explained the low status of those who refined divine sparks in the Higher Planes, then dismissed the group and asked Linley to stay.

Jason explained Sovereign Power to Linley and repaid him with a drop of Earth Element Sovereign Power. He then continued preparing a cultivation formation at Dragonblood Castle and learned that Monica had made rapid progress studying the Laws since becoming a god.

• Jason told Linley that the red liquid was likely the essence blood of his divine-beast ancestor and identified the blue liquid as Water Sovereign Power.
• Jason explained how Sovereign Power enhanced a deity and gave Linley a drop of Earth Element Sovereign Power as repayment for the drop he had used in Fenlai City.
• Jason asked Linley to reserve him a place in the small Divine Plane, where his Fate Clone could cultivate safely toward becoming a Highgod.
• Jason completed an energy-gathering formation above the small Divine Plane by installing a Midgod Artifact rapier at its center.
• Monica told Jason that watching the Floating Shadows had given her insight and that her progress in understanding the Laws had accelerated since she became a god.
• Jason confirmed Monica had not achieved Internal Godhood and then invited her to spar.

Jason sparred with his daughter Monica, discussed her cultivation and family, and gave her Soul Gold Beads. The chapter ended with Monica deciding she would reject Olivier because she was not ready for a relationship and did not like him.

• Monica fought Jason with her sound-based weapon, and they discussed her strengths, physical defense, and progress with the Life Law.
• Jason gave Monica Soul Gold Beads and advised her not to refine a Life Lowgod Spark.
• Monica asked why Jason had not given Veronica a Divine Spark, and Jason said he would talk to his wife about her progress.
• Monica told Jason that she had encouraged the Four Ultimate Warrior Clans to nurture children's affinity for the Four Edicts, especially Life.
• Jason asked about Olivier pursuing Monica, and she said she planned to turn him down because she was not ready for a boyfriend and did not like him.

Jason returned to the Rhine Empire to deal with Gebados escapees who had settled there, recruiting some and punishing those who abused and killed people. He gathered the remaining Saints and left Shelley and Muba to oversee them while Linley, Monica, and Clear Spring continued their training.

• Jason accepted Shelley’s pledge and gave her two provinces in the former Luo'ao Empire as her parish.
• Jason ordered Clear Spring to attack Jerome, then sent Linley and Monica to help when Clear Spring fell behind; together they killed him.
• Jason met Muba in the Blazing Sun Desert, accepted his pledge, and assigned him the oases he had created while warning him not to let the God of Yellow Sand’s faith revive.
• Jason summoned the remaining Saints in his territory to Bloodshadow Valley, where all fifty-seven pledged loyalty and promised to obey the Rhine Empire’s rules.
• Jason asked Shelley and Muba to keep watch over the Saints until his other subordinates could take over, so Linley, Clear Spring, and Monica could focus on improving their strength.

Jason defended the Rhine Empire from seven Midgods sent by Adkins and Erwin, killing several with ease and driving the survivors away. He spared their leader to avoid provoking Adkins, but another Highgod was approaching from the west.

• Jason and his allies flew out to confront seven Midgods led by Bernas, who demanded Highgod Artifacts and Rhine Empire territory on behalf of Adkins and Erwin.
• Jason killed the mace-wielding Midgod and another attacker, while his Water Element Shield deflected the enemies’ physical strikes.
• Jason killed an Earth Element Midgod despite a threat from the man’s father, and three of the remaining attackers fled toward their Highgods.
• Jason ordered the fugitives to leave the Yulan Continent through the Arctic Wasteland, but they ignored him and fled toward their allies.
• Jason stopped Dylan and Tarosse from killing Bernas, then watched a Highgod approach from the direction of the Yulan Empire.

Jason fought Erwin, a Highgod who sought revenge for his sons, and used his Crystal Space to suppress and injure him. He left Erwin dead and flew toward the Rhine Empire, while Erwin’s two subordinates escaped north.

• Erwin attacked Jason after accusing him of killing his sons, and Jason trapped him inside the Crystal Space.
• Jason and Erwin exchanged attacks as Erwin struggled against the space’s turbulent currents, which disrupted his senses and direction.
• Erwin enlarged his werewolf body to break the Crystal Space, but Jason froze it into a solid sphere and inflicted heavy damage before Erwin shattered it.
• Jason ambushed the injured Erwin with Arc Flash and attacks from his clones, then killed Erwin’s fleeing Midgod clone and destroyed his wolf head.
• Jason confirmed Erwin was dead, saw Tarosse and the others keeping their distance, and flew toward the Rhine Empire.