Chapter Summaries

Mosato and Lorraine brought five Tribal Leaders to the Hunting Spear Tribe and revealed their plan to free the tribes from the temple’s rule. Yang Yuanhong bestowed a blessing on Nuta, breaking him through to the third level of the Incarnation Realm, and told him to return and claim the king’s promised reward.

• Mosato told Nuta and four other Tribal Leaders that he had brought them to join the Venerable Lord and overthrow the temple’s rule.
• Nuta rejected Mosato’s offer, citing his loyalty to the king and the reward promised if he advanced to the third level of the Incarnation Realm, then attacked Mosato and fled.
• Lorraine bound the four remaining Tribal Leaders with golden rings while Mosato defeated Nuta and dragged him back.
• Yang Yuanhong met the five Tribal Leaders in his Black Dragon Variant Body and released them from Mosato and Lorraine’s spells.
• Yang Yuanhong blessed Nuta, who immediately broke through to the third level of the Incarnation Realm, then told him to return and claim his reward from the king.

Yang Yuanhong’s generosity and the royal capital’s empty promises led Nuta to reject the barbarian rulers and join the Venerable Lord. After blessing the returning tribal leaders, Yang Yuanhong left the Hunting Spear Tribe with Lorraine and the others to advance farther inland.

• Yang Yuanhong let Nuta return to his tribe, and Nuta promised not to reveal what had happened.
• Nuta reported his breakthrough and his tribe’s hardship to the royal capital, but its reply offered only a distant future reward and raised his tribute quota by twenty percent.
• Angered by the royal capital’s treatment, Nuta returned to Yang Yuanhong, apologized, and asked to follow him.
• Four other Blood Pattern Realm tribal leaders also returned after receiving blessings and pledged to follow Yang Yuanhong.
• Nalran and the Hunting Spear Tribe saw Yang Yuanhong off as he and Lorraine led their group into the air and flew inland.

Yang Yuanhong established a new base in Nuta’s tribe and prepared to expand the Saint’s influence before the temple could respond. Daggus arrived with his gravely ill son Mont, and Yang Yuanhong cured him and awakened his potential with divine fire.

• Nalran encouraged Amingu to cultivate diligently and prepare to help build the Saint’s cause.
• Yang Yuanhong moved his base to Nuta’s tribe, blessed its people, and assigned tasks to expand their influence before the temple learned the truth.
• The Immortal Venerable detected Daggus, a fourth-tier Incarnation Realm cultivator, approaching with his weakened son Mont.
• Daggus explained that Mont had developed a mysterious illness after visiting the royal capital and begged Yang Yuanhong to cure him.
• Yang Yuanhong healed Mont, and Chen Yang recognized the young man’s talent and sent divine fire into his body as a gift of enlightenment.

Mont recovered from his affliction and pledged himself to Yang Yuanhong, who sent three Incarnation Realm powerhouses to recruit more Tribal Leaders. When Judgment Divine Envoys attacked Nuta's tribe, an unknown force erased their fire and stripped two of the envoys of their cultivation.

• Mont awoke with his cultivation restored to the first stage of the Blood Pattern Realm, embraced Daggus, and pledged loyalty to Yang Yuanhong.
• Yang Yuanhong asked Daggus to let Mont join him, then sent three Incarnation Realm powerhouses to recruit Tribal Leaders in similar circumstances.
• The priests in the White Wolf Royal Capital learned that Lorraine and Mosato had rebelled and ordered six Judgment Divine Envoys to purge the heretics.
• Two fourth-stage Judgment Divine Envoys unleashed a rain of fire on Nuta's tribe, but an unknown force erased the flames before they could strike.
• Mosato and Nuta confronted the envoys, and Nuta exposed the royal family's empty promise of a reward.
• An unknown force drained the two fourth-stage envoys of their power and life force, reducing them to cultivation-less old men before Mosato and Nuta caught them.

Yang Yuanhong revealed the truth about the temple to three Judgment Divine Envoys after demonstrating that they could neither resist nor escape him. One envoy pledged loyalty to Yang Yuanhong, while the other two had yet to choose.

• Mosato invited the four remaining Judgment Divine Envoys to meet Yang Yuanhong, and three accepted while one fled toward the temple.
• Yang Yuanhong’s white beams destroyed the fleeing envoy in body and soul, and the Return Decree failed to save him.
• The three envoys followed Mosato into the tower, where Yang Yuanhong showed them visions of his experiences and explained the gods’ descent and the temple’s corruption.
• The envoys reconsidered their loyalty after recognizing that the temple’s greed, not the common people’s lack of devotion, had caused their suffering.
• The highest-ranked envoy thanked Yang Yuanhong for revealing the truth, knelt before him, and swore loyalty as his sharp blade.

After gaining the allegiance of three Judgment Divine Envoys, Yang Yuanhong launched a campaign to seize the White Wolf Royal Capital and rapidly expanded his forces. The chapter leaves his main army advancing toward a decisive battle with the Divine Temple, while the Lion and Iron Eagle Divine Temples refuse to intervene.

• Yang Yuanhong gathered eight Incarnation Realm barbarian cultivators and led his forces toward the White Wolf Royal Capital, subduing tribes and taking a city whose nobles surrendered.
• The White Wolf Divine Temple joined forces with the royal family and summoned an army, but the Lion and Iron Eagle Divine Temples rejected its request for aid.
• After learning about the rival capitals' divisions from Mosato, Yang Yuanhong realized they would not unite against his campaign.
• Yang Yuanhong divided his forces among Daggus, Mosato, and himself, assigning them to expand the front, win over potential allies, and advance toward the capital.
• Chen Yang advised Yang Yuanhong to unite every possible faction, and the two prepared for a frontal battle that could determine whether the great nobles would support them.

The opposing armies assembled for their first major battle, as Lorraine and Mont prepared to carry out Venerable Lord’s orders and Yang Yuanhong arranged his forces to face the Divine Temple’s stronger troops. Mont also recalled how a noble had secretly caused the illness that ruined his chance to become a Judgment Divine Envoy.

• Young tribal cultivators asked Amingu about Venerable Lord, then returned to their formations when the enemy army appeared.
• Mont identified the brown-haired Judgment Divine Envoy he blamed for his illness, and Lorraine agreed to help kill him after they completed Venerable Lord’s task.
• Mont recalled how a noble had marked him and caused calamity power to infect him after Mont refused to give up his testing place.
• A former Judgment Divine Envoy warned Yang Yuanhong that two Divine Temple Knight Commanders were the opposing army’s strongest fighters.
• Yang Yuanhong assigned Incarnation Realm cultivators to hold off the Knight Commanders and prepared to use his variant body and the Immortal Venerable’s stone avatar in battle.

Yang Yuanhong exposed the Divine Temple’s role in the gods’ descent period and led the rebels into battle against the Divine Temple’s knights. His armor, attacks, and healing powers turned the tide as Lorraine and Mont cut down the enemy’s Knight Candidates.

• The Divine Temple Knight Commanders criticized the priests and prepared to suppress the rebels, with the burly commander summoning his armor to signal the battle’s start.
• Yang Yuanhong told the gathered cultivators that the Divine Temple had seized divine blessings and caused the gods’ radiance to dim, enraging the tribal cultivators and making some opponents hesitate.
• The two Knight Commanders charged into battle, and Yang Yuanhong led the rebels forward under a storm of attacks that failed to pierce his armor.
• Yang Yuanhong’s beams swallowed approaching Totem Incarnations as green healing light restored wounded rebels and helped them drive back the Divine Temple’s forces.
• Lorraine and Mont killed six of the Divine Temple’s twelve Knight Candidates as the battle continued.

Chen Yang found the dying white wolf Bai Que beneath the Barbarian Lands and learned that resentment from the growing barbarian population had overwhelmed the three Divine Path creatures. After Chen Yang rescued and healed him in the Cambang Divine Palace, Bai Que agreed to help the Holy Son reshape the dynasty and turned his attention to the battlefield.

• Chen Yang discovered that the three Divine Path creatures had fused their true forms with the land beneath the royal capitals, where they endured the resentment of the barbarians.
• Chen Yang found the dying white wolf Bai Que, who lamented that the population's prayers and resentment had become more than he could bear.
• Chen Yang brought Bai Que's spirit body to the Cambang Divine Palace, where Bai Que recognized the Divine Dao and greeted Fu Yin, Shenwu, and Ku Yun.
• Chen Yang removed the resentment from Bai Que and ordered him to assist the Holy Son in breaking the failing system and establishing a new dynasty.
• Bai Que returned to his body, stopped the wind and snow outside his cave, and located the battlefield.

Lorraine and Mont attacked a temple divine envoy as the temple forces began to lose hope and retreat. Mont confronted the envoy who had cursed and tormented him in the past, and he and Lorraine killed him, leaving his soul burned away.

• With the battle turning against the temple, Lorraine and Mont flew to another battlefield to attack a retreating Judgment Divine Envoy.
• The divine envoy fought back and used a curse on Mont and Lorraine, but Chen Yang's mental protection blocked it.
• Mont recognized the envoy as the person who had tormented him and removed the protection so he could endure the curse himself.
• Mont trapped the envoy in his black flames, while Lorraine and the others prevented temple cultivators from reaching him.
• The envoy tried to escape with the Return Decree, but it failed, and Lorraine beheaded him as Mont's flames consumed his soul.

After the Divine Temple Knight Commanders summoned powerful divine lightning, Bai Que released the resentful power he had secretly gathered across the White Wolf Royal Capital. The force eroded the Commanders’ divine protection, and they realized the priests had apparently arranged to eliminate them along with the tribal cultivators.

• The death of a Judgment Divine Envoy weakened the Divine Temple cultivators’ morale, so the two Knight Commanders summoned Lightning Spirit Incarnations to reverse the battle.
• Yang Yuanhong judged that he could not withstand repeated lightning strikes and contacted Chen Yang through the Immortal Venerable’s avatar.
• Bai Que withdrew his suppression of the resentful power he had gathered and released it across the battlefield.
• The released power shook the battlefield and began eroding the Lightning Spirit Incarnations’ divine protection.
• The Knight Commanders recognized the force as evil power and concluded that the priests had released it to destroy them and the heretics together.

Yang Yuanhong used the gathered faith of his followers to create a sanctuary against the black mist trapping both armies. He welcomed and healed Divine Temple cultivators, then called on everyone to unite against the calamity, and several of them pledged to follow him.

• Sinister power formed solid barriers around the battlefield and spread as black mist, afflicting Divine Temple cultivators and weakening the divine fire protecting Yang Yuanhong's side.
• Yang Yuanhong summoned his followers, whose gathered flames of faith created a sacred curtain that drove back the black mist.
• At Yang Yuanhong's command, several suffering Divine Temple cultivators entered the sanctuary, where the sinister power was drawn from their bodies.
• Yang Yuanhong healed the rescued cultivators and increased their cultivation, surprising both them and his own followers.
• Yang Yuanhong explained that the calamity threatened everyone and called on both sides to unite; several Divine Temple cultivators pledged to follow him.

Yang Yuanhong rescued the Divine Temple cultivators from the calamity, won their allegiance, and persuaded two exhausted Knight Commanders to join him. With the survivors rallied around the divine fire, he warned that the real battle was only beginning.

• Lorraine, Mont, and the other cultivators rescued their fallen brethren from the black smoke, and Yang Yuanhong cleansed and blessed those who survived.
• Yang Yuanhong blamed the priests for the disaster, prompting nearly all the rescued Divine Temple cultivators to defect to his side.
• Yang Yuanhong approached the two failing Knight Commanders and convinced them that the priests had betrayed them and that they were Knights of the Deity, not servants of the false Divine Temple.
• Yang Yuanhong dispelled the calamity from the Knight Commanders and blessed them, awakening their golden armor and renewed strength before he collapsed from exhaustion.
• The Knight Commanders caught Yang Yuanhong and brought him beneath the light barrier, where he rallied everyone to pour their strength into the divine fire.

Mosato and the tribal cultivators arrived at the battlefield, where a vast barrier of calamity power trapped both armies and the Divine Temple Knight Commanders. Daggus and a pursuing Knight Commander joined them, and the group waited for the Venerable Lord to confront the barrier.

• Mosato told two grand nobles that the black barrier was calamity power caused by the Divine Temple priests, and they chose to wait before taking sides.
• Daggus arrived with his cultivators after leading a Knight Commander away from the northern disturbance.
• The Knight Commander reached the battlefield, recognized the barrier, and struck it with divine lightning, which failed to break it.
• Mosato assured the Knight Commander that the Venerable Lord would save those trapped inside, prompting the tribal cultivators to recount his miracles.

Yang Yuanhong and his followers broke the curtain of evil power by joining their divine fires with divine lightning, then won the allegiance of nobles and a Divine Temple Knight Commander. With his forces strengthened, Yang Yuanhong led them toward the White Wolf Royal Capital to destroy the Divine Temple and save the Deity.

• Mosato explained that the Venerable Lord’s followers were like sparks whose united strength could overcome the vast darkness.
• Cultivators added their fireseeds to the flames, and divine fire and lightning shattered and burned away the curtain of evil power.
• Mosato, the two great nobles, and the Divine Temple Knight Commander knelt before Yang Yuanhong and pledged their loyalty.
• Yang Yuanhong advanced the Knight Commander into the Golden Armor Knights.
• Yang Yuanhong pointed toward the White Wolf Royal Capital and ordered his followers to destroy the Divine Temple, kill the priests, and save the Deity.

The Venerable Lord’s forces surrounded the Divine Temple, while its priests and the royal family sought protection through prayer and the Eye of God. Yang Yuanhong entered the temple, destroyed its divine-power barrier and Eye of God, and revealed his connection to the god as the priests faced him in terror.

• The royal capital’s nobles, divine envoys, and three Knight Commanders surrendered to the Venerable Lord as the Divine Temple’s defenses collapsed.
• The White Wolf God forbade the bishop from leaving the Land of the Gods, and the bishop promised to obey.
• The priests brought out the Eye of God and rallied the remaining royals and divine envoys to defend the Divine Temple.
• Yang Yuanhong burned through the temple’s divine-power barrier and entered with Lorraine, Mosato, Nuta, Daggus, Mont, the Knight Commanders, and other cultivators.
• The priests activated the Eye of God against Yang Yuanhong, but he destroyed its beam and crushed the Eye into fragments.
• Yang Yuanhong declared himself the incarnation of the god as three phantom beasts appeared behind him.

Yang Yuanhong’s forces overthrew the White Wolf Royal Capital’s Divine Temple and royal rule, then mobilized quickly for war. He chose Lion King Capital as his first target, and a knight commander led a midnight surprise attack on its western frontier.

• Yang Yuanhong revealed the White Wolf God’s phantom and left the priests and royals to face judgment from the barbarian cultivators.
• The knight commanders rejected the priests’ pleas, executed the priests and royals, and later eliminated the remaining royal bloodline.
• More than twenty days later, the knight commanders had purged the Divine Temple’s remnants, and Yang Yuanhong ordered full mobilization across White Wolf Royal Capital.
• Yang Yuanhong chose the weaker, nearby Lion King Capital as his first target and prepared to attack before its rulers could react.
• At midnight half a month later, a Divine Temple Knight Commander led a surprise attack on Lion King Capital’s western frontier.

Yang Yuanhong’s army conquered Lion King Capital with help from the Venerable Lord’s blessings and Chen Yang’s intervention, while the Iron Eagle Dynasty misread events and prepared to invade White Wolf territory. The chapter left Iron Eagle’s forces discovering that their cultivators lost their power upon crossing the border.

• Yang Yuanhong’s vanguard crushed Lion King Capital’s border defenses, and the Venerable Lord’s blessings won over soldiers and tribal leaders.
• Lion King Capital’s temple belatedly rallied its forces, but its army repeatedly lost battles and dwindled to fewer than thirty percent of its original strength.
• Yang Yuanhong besieged the royal capital and offered blessings to those who surrendered, prompting nearly everyone except the temple and royal family’s core members to leave the city.
• Chen Yang resolved the problem with the bishop, and Yang Yuanhong destroyed the temple’s Eye of God before Lion King Capital’s cultivators killed the priests and royals.
• Yang Yuanhong’s forces conquered all of Lion King Capital in a little over three months, leaving only the Iron Eagle Dynasty among the three great powers.
• The Iron Eagle Dynasty tried to invade White Wolf territory but discovered that its cultivators lost their power after crossing the border.

Yang Yuanhong brought the Iron Eagle Royal Capital under his control, ended the barbarian divine temples’ rule, and established a new council-based government. Half a year later, three Divine Path creatures completed a treasure they hoped would help the Divine Lord’s undertaking.

• After learning that the Lion Divine Temple had fallen, the Iron Eagle Royal Capital’s leaders distributed their reserves as blessings, removed the old gods’ totems, and went to welcome Yang Yuanhong.
• Yang Yuanhong accepted the Iron Eagle Royal Capital’s surrender, pardoned its leaders, and ended the royal family’s privileges and divine temple rule.
• Yang Yuanhong abolished the three royal capitals and established the Barbarian Affairs Council, dividing the Barbarian Lands into forty-eight regional districts.
• Yang Yuanhong declared that divine radiance would be shared equally across the Barbarian Lands, completing his reforms after nearly a year.
• Half a year later, a wolf, a lion, and an eagle finished forging a pitch-black armguard and hoped the Holy Son would be pleased with it.

Bai Que, Huang Ding, and Cang Jue brought Yang Yuanhong a spirit treasure armguard they had forged with their Divine Artificer Technique. Yang Yuanhong accepted it and learned its abilities, including three powers that aided cultivation, healing, and survival.

• Bai Que, Huang Ding, and Cang Jue left the Barbarian Lands and entered Chen Yang's grotto-heaven with the completed armguard.
• The three gods met Yang Yuanhong, who greeted them and accepted the treasure they presented.
• Yang Yuanhong put on the armguards, and they merged with his body and could be summoned by thought.
• Bai Que explained that the armguards enhanced strength and defense and could raise a shield.
• Bai Que described the armguards' special abilities: Tidal Surge aided cultivation, Sweet Rain healed injuries and illnesses, and Life Extension helped Yang Yuanhong seek fortune and avoid calamity.