Recaps

Rog visited Jiafeng Island to study Tyrant, a Light Jade Beast whose body grew stronger by absorbing light energy. After finding that he could not fuse with Tyrant’s essence blood, Rog considered imitating the beast’s flesh-and-blood structure.

• Abraham greeted Rog on Jiafeng Island and allowed him to study Tyrant as long as he did not endanger his brother.
• Rog settled on the island, leaving Tyrant apprehensive about being studied again while Claude hoped to receive Rog’s guidance.
• Rog watched Tyrant absorb Light Divine Power and realized that the Light Jade Beast’s bodily strengthening might be possible to replicate.
• Rog tried fusing with a drop of Tyrant’s essence blood but found that his body was incompatible with the Light Jade Beast’s bloodline.

Rog learned that Beirut had appeared on the Blood Peak Continent and sent others to find him. Bulwo Redding used Sovereign's Might to locate Beirut, setting up a confrontation.

• Elmira told Rog that a hidden mission had uncovered Beirut, who had defeated Seven-Star Fiend Tuya with a long staff.
• Rog watched the battle and concluded that Beirut's powerful body, rather than superior mastery of the Laws, had secured his victory.
• Rog decided to travel to the Blood Peak Continent while Beirut wondered why so many powerful experts were searching for him.
• Bulwo Redding searched the area with his companions and used Sovereign's Might to find Beirut hiding in a cave residence.
• Bulwo found Beirut and prepared to capture him, hoping to earn Rog's favor.

Beirut fought off Azure Dragon Clan experts who had come to capture him, killing their leader Bulwo with his God-Eater ability and several others with his staff. He decided to flee the Blood Peak Continent, but a familiar golden figure appeared before him.

• The Azure Dragon Clan experts demanded Beirut surrender, and Beirut decided to attack before they could use Sovereign's Might against his soul.
• Beirut used God-Eater to strip Bulwo of his Godspark and kill him, then charged the remaining clan members.
• Daina and the others attacked Beirut with Dragon Roar, but their soul assaults only slowed him briefly and their material attacks failed to injure him.
• Beirut killed several Azure Dragon clansmen with his staff, while the survivors scattered and escaped using Sovereign's Might.
• Beirut resolved to leave the Blood Peak Continent, then confronted a golden figure whose face seemed familiar.

Rog approached Beirut and commissioned a spear forged as a four-element fusion Divine Spark Weapon, offering Sovereign’s Might in exchange. As Rog considered how the weapon might help him understand four-element fusion, he also wondered whether his arrival would alter Linley’s fate.

• Rog revealed that he had been seeking Beirut to ask him to forge a Divine Spark Weapon.
• Rog specified a spear made from earth, wind, water, and fire High Godheads and gave Beirut a spatial ring with materials and three drops of Sovereign’s Might.
• Beirut agreed to forge the spear after Rog promised two more drops and protection from the Azure Dragon Clan’s retaliation.
• Rog reflected that a four-element fusion Divine Spark Weapon might help him study the path to transcending the universe.
• Rog wondered whether his arrival would affect Linley’s birth and future Four-Element Soul Mutation.

Rog demonstrated his new Lightning Law move, Extreme Point Instant Lightning, to Claude and explained how his Paragon strength and powerful soul let him compress vast lightning power into a single point. The chapter ended with Rog considering how Abraham could use his Three-element Soul Mutation to develop similarly powerful techniques, though Abraham remained far below a Paragon.

• Claude asked Rog for advice on combining the Profound Mystery of Electromagnetic Space with the Judgment Profound Mystery.
• Rog gathered lightning across a three-thousand-li sphere and instantly compressed it into a point, unleashing an attack that tore a vast rift through the sky and drew up the Divine Prison Sea.
• Rog named the technique Extreme Point Instant Lightning and left Claude marveling at its precise control.
• Rog considered how his powerful soul let him unleash and control the technique instantly, while other Lightning Paragons such as Ninisha could not match his precision with Sovereign's Might.
• Rog thought Abraham could develop formidable ultimate moves because his Three-element Soul Mutation had strengthened his talent across the Life, Water, and Light Laws.

Rog received the Divine Spark Weapon Beirut forged from Godsparks of four elements and named it the Black Serpent Spear. When he tested it against the Bronze Door, its faint reaction confirmed his suspicion that the door required Origin Energy.

• Abraham recalled Claude’s ultimate attack and concluded that only becoming a Paragon could overcome the gap between him and Paragon High-Gods.
• Rog reflected on his progress in the Laws of Light, with the Profound Mysteries of Holiness remaining the hardest obstacle to fuse.
• Beirut presented Rog with the exceptionally sharp Divine Spark Weapon he had forged from earth, wind, water, and fire Godsparks.
• Rog named the spear Black Serpent and rewarded Beirut with two drops of Sovereign’s Might, after which Beirut left Tianhua Prefecture.
• Rog brought the Black Serpent Spear to the Bronze Door and observed it react faintly, suggesting the weapon carried an aura of Origin Energy.

Rog considered ways to obtain Origin Power and prepared to pursue the seventh Overgod Artifact. In the Netherworld, Hayden, driven by revenge after Kazilote destroyed his Death Divine Clone, decided to expose the Death Demonic Tome to draw powerful enemies against Kazilote.

• Rog concluded that fusing four elemental energies would be difficult and considered whether treasures such as the Heart of the Netherworld contained Origin Power.
• Rog judged the seventh Overgod Artifact the most promising path and had already made preparations to track the Nine Spirit Orbs and other related treasures.
• In the Moore Mountains, Hayden swore to kill Kazilote, who had destroyed his strongest Divine Clone and ruined his hopes of advancing further.
• Hayden decided to publicize the Death Demonic Tome so experts, including Sovereigns, would target Kazilote.
• Hayden planned to spread some of the tome’s patterns first to prove that it was real.

Hayden sent a hundred Highgod warriors across the Netherworld to spread mysterious patterns from the Death Demonic Tome, promising their freedom if they succeeded. As his squads departed, Hayden decided to abandon the Moore Mountains and hide in an unfamiliar Material Plane.

• Hayden threatened his Highgod subordinates and promised to free them if they spread the patterns successfully.
• Hayden distributed ten patterns from the Death Demonic Tome and ordered the squads to deliver them to powerful figures throughout the Netherworld.
• Hayden assigned each squad a destination and a list of recipients, including Prefects and Sovereign's Emissaries.
• Hayden ordered the ten captains to leave Divine Clones behind so he could monitor the mission.
• Jerryan and the other Highgods boarded ten Metallic Lifeforms and set out from the Moore Mountains.
• Hayden decided to leave the Moore Mountains and conceal himself in an unfamiliar Material Plane.

Hayden arranged for Jerryan's squad to spread ten diagrams of the Death Rule across the Netherworld, where they drew the attention of powerful experts and Sovereigns. The chapter ended with the Snowmist Sovereign and Harrington speculating that the diagrams might be connected to the approaching seventh Overgod Mission.

• Hayden left the Moore Mountains with Jerryan's Wind Divine Clone and arranged for Jerryan's Earth Divine Clone to coordinate future orders.
• Jerryan and the surviving members of the Moore Mountains squad devised a plan to spread their diagrams after reaching Bloodcloud Prefecture.
• Copies of the ten diagrams circulated through cities, and Crimson Shadow used them to gain insight and kill an old rival.
• The diagrams attracted Seven-Star Demons, Prefect-level experts, and several Sovereigns, and began spreading to other Divine Planes.
• Yindisi visited the Snowmist Sovereign, who discussed the diagrams and the possible Overgod Mission with Harrington.

Hayden arranged for Jerryan to offer the Death Demonic Tome to anyone who killed Kazilote, after spreading designs that aided practitioners of the Death Rule. The bounty drew attention across the Netherworld, and Kazilote decided to flee to Snowmist Island while several Sovereigns watched the situation.

• Hayden told Jerryan to spread word that whoever killed Kazilote would receive the Death Demonic Tome.
• Wende showed Rog the designs, and Rog recognized their resemblance to designs left by Makenrich.
• Haidisi urged Rog to stay out of the affair because Sovereigns were watching, but Rog chose to wait and see what happened.
• Jerryan posted a Fiend Castle mission offering the Death Demonic Tome for Kazilote's death.
• Kazilote smashed the ornaments in his study and decided to flee to Snowmist Island for protection.
• Several Sovereigns had already located Kazilote but held back from killing Snowmist Sovereign's emissary themselves.

Kazilote fled Black Mountain Prefecture, but Chiwei intercepted him in the Keermo Mountain Range and fought him with his spear. After more than a hundred clashes, Kazilote was badly shaken and injured, while Chiwei remained poised to finish the fight.

• The Snowmist Sovereign left Kazilote's fate to Harrington, who had already begun arranging for people to intercept him.
• A white-robed figure searched Black Mountain Prefecture for Kazilote, found he had fled, and disappeared.
• Kazilote disguised himself as a golden-haired young man and flew through the Keermo Mountain Range to escape pursuit.
• Chiwei and several Seven-Star Demons blocked Kazilote's path, and Kazilote attacked Chiwei with his Thunder Riot technique.
• Chiwei met Kazilote's saber with his Sovereign Artifact spear, then repeatedly turned aside his attacks while waiting for his burst of power to fade.
• After more than a hundred exchanges, Kazilote suffered internal and soul injuries, and Chiwei asked whether his power had run out.

The Sovereign of Death sent Rog to kill Kazilote and obtain the Death Demonic Tome, while Chiwei nearly defeated Kazilote with his strongest attack. As Chiwei moved in to finish him, Rog fired his Light of God-Slaying from afar, leaving its strike racing toward the battle.

• The Sovereign of Death ordered Rog to kill Kazilote and offered him Sovereign's Might as a reward for obtaining the Death Demonic Tome.
• Rog left Haidisi and hurried toward Kazilote's battle with Chiwei.
• Chiwei unleashed Soul Burns the Void to Exhaustion, breaking Kazilote's arms and knocking his Sovereign Artifact war saber into Spatial Turbulence.
• Rog and the black-haired Francis approached as Chiwei prepared another attack, but Rog realized Kazilote might not survive until they arrived.
• Rog gathered Lightning Sovereign's Might and fired Light of God-Slaying, sending a purple beam racing toward Chiwei and Kazilote.

Rog retrieved Kazilote’s corpse and delivered it to Jerryan at the Fiend Castle in Bloodcloud City, receiving the Death Demonic Tome as his reward. The Sovereigns discussed Rog’s Paragon breakthrough while he departed for Nether Mountain.

• A violet beam killed Kazilote before Chiwei could finish him, and Chiwei fled without taking the corpse.
• Rog recovered Kazilote’s body and met Francis, who introduced himself before leaving without challenging Rog.
• The Sovereigns discussed Rog’s long-range attack and his Paragon breakthrough, while the Sovereign of Death clarified that Rog had relied on sudden enlightenment rather than a Nether Fruit.
• Rog presented Kazilote’s corpse to Jerryan at the Fiend Castle in Bloodcloud City and received the Death Demonic Tome.
• Rog put the tome in his interspatial ring and set off toward Nether Mountain.

Rog brought the Death Demonic Tome to the Sovereign of Death, and its changing patterns gave him insight into the death rule. When the Sovereign studied the tome’s eighty-second page, she lost consciousness and reached perfection in the death rule.

• The Sovereign of Death paid Rog 110,000 drops of Sovereign's Might and examined the Death Demonic Tome he had brought.
• Rog gained insight into a new part of the death rule after seeing the black moon pattern on the tome’s second page.
• The Sovereign studied the tome’s patterns through the eighty-first page and found they reached the peak Commander level.
• The Sovereign opened the eighty-second page, whose changing images revealed fundamental mysteries of the death rule, and became completely absorbed.
• The Sovereign’s Water Element Divine Clone went to the palace to guard her original body as the Natural Laws descended and Lilith’s death rule reached perfection.

Lilith reached the Paragon level in the Death Rule with the Demonic Tome’s help and let Rog study it in her palace. Five hundred years later, Rog faced Francis in the Star Mist Sea and launched the first attack of their duel.

• Lilith’s bloodline reacted to the Demonic Tome, helping her reach the Paragon level in the Death Rule and become possibly the strongest person in the world.
• Lilith thanked Rog and allowed him to study the Demonic Tome in her palace, where he began gaining insights into the Death Rule.
• Rog spent five hundred years studying the tome’s first seventy-two pages before using its seventy-third page to deepen his understanding of soul burning and improve his Fire of Repentance technique.
• Francis went to the Infernal Realm after learning Rog was a Soul Mutator and challenged Rog’s golden-haired divine clone in the Star Mist Sea.
• Rog accepted Francis’s challenge, drew the Black Serpent Spear, and thrust it at Francis amid a surge of lightning.

Francis and Rog fought in the Fog Sea Riot, using their powerful techniques and the storm’s energy to escalate the battle. Luomiu entered the riot and witnessed their ultimate attacks collide, leaving him awed by their strength.

• Francis used his destruction sword technique against Rog, while Rog countered with the Black Serpent Spear and the Laws of Lightning.
• Francis and Rog invoked Sovereign's Might, and Rog’s speed and the Fog Sea Riot’s environment gradually gave him the advantage.
• Luomiu ventured into the Fog Sea Riot, drawn by the chance to challenge another powerful expert.
• Francis urged Rog to use his ultimate technique, and Rog gathered the storm’s thunder into Extreme Point Instant Thunder.
• Francis answered with All Ten Directions Annihilated, and the two attacks collided as Luomiu watched, feeling weak and insignificant beside them.

After eight thousand years, Rog remained just short of reaching the Paragon realm in the Death Rule as tensions rose over the reported deaths of the Four Divine Beasts. Harrington and the Wenner Clan prepared to attack the Four Divine Beasts Clan, and Wenner declared that the clans would fight until one side was dead.

• Luomiu reflected on the lightning god's battle and gained new insight into lightning, believing he could soon challenge a Seven-Star Fiend.
• Rog's Death Divine Clone mastered the first eighty-one pages of the Death Demonic Tome but could not comprehend the eighty-second page or reach the Paragon realm.
• Harrington told Nether Serpent Ashcroft that the Four Divine Beasts were dead and gave him three thousand drops of Sovereign's Might to act against their clan.
• Wenner gathered his clan after receiving confirmation from Sovereign Xiaofeng and five thousand drops of Sovereign's Might.
• The Wenner Clan called for vengeance, and Wenner declared war on the Four Divine Beasts Clan until one side was dead.

After the Four Divine Beasts Clan’s four Sovereigns died, clans across the Divine Planes seized their chance to take revenge, driving the clan toward destruction. Rog chose to watch from the sidelines as the survivors fled to the Infernal Realm, where eight super-clans attacked them.

• The Wenner Clan ordered its members to wipe out the Four Divine Beasts Clan in the Divine Wind Plane.
• Elmira told Rog that seven clans were pursuing the Four Divine Beasts Clan to the Infernal Realm, where the Reynas Clan had joined the assault; Rog asked her to monitor events.
• Ashcroft used Soul Annihilation to kill Walter as Walter shielded Gaia, who resolved to lead her surviving clan members toward the Skyrite Mountains.
• The Barbary, Deen, Edric, Wenner, Ashcroft, Saint-Nair, and Bolin Clans pursued the Four Divine Beasts Clan from other planes into the Infernal Realm.
• The eight clans overwhelmed the Four Divine Beasts Clan, killing many Six-Star and Seven-Star Fiends and shrinking its territory until it faced possible destruction.

Gray chose to join the Eight Great Clans’ war against the Four Divine Beasts Clan to avenge his Fire Divine Clone, despite his family’s pleas. After thousands of years of battles and retreats, the Four Divine Beasts Clan was cornered in the Skyrite Mountains, with the Eight Great Clans close to victory.

• Gray revealed that his true body had become a fire-type Highgod and left to fight, promising to protect his remaining Light God Clone.
• Bolin and others who had suffered at the Four Divine Beasts Clan’s hands seized the chance to fight back after the clan’s four Sovereign protectors were gone.
• At the Komol Mountains, two Eight Great Clans experts killed a Seven-Star Fiend of the Azure Dragon Clan with coordinated attacks and their Innate Divine Abilities.
• The Eight Great Clans repeatedly defeated and drove back the Four Divine Beasts Clan over several thousand years, forcing it into the Skyrite Mountains as its final stronghold.

The Eight Great Clans prepared to attack the Four Divine Beasts Clan in the Skyrite Mountains, while Gaiseresen and the clan leaders resolved to fight rather than retreat. With the Four Divine Beast Sovereigns confirmed dead, their descendants faced the final battle without help, though some clan heirs had already been sent away with their inheritances.

• Elder, the patriarchs, and experts of the Eight Great Clans gathered outside the Skyrite Mountains and prepared to destroy the Four Divine Beasts Clan.
• Edric warned that the Four Divine Beasts Clan might have hidden weapons, but Reynas declared that their forces had the mountains surrounded.
• Gaiseresen learned that the Eight Great Clans were closing in and that the clan's eight Sovereign's Emissaries had disappeared.
• Gaiseresen and the other clan leaders accepted that their fathers had likely fallen and vowed to fight the Eight Great Clans to the death.
• The Four Divine Beasts Clan had sent Saint-level juniors and their inheritances to distant Material Planes to preserve their bloodline.
• Sovereign Zijing told Leisjing that the Four Divine Beast Sovereigns had fallen and that a Sovereign was searching for their killer.

The Eight Great Clans launched a full-scale assault on the Four Divine Beasts Clan at the Skyrite Mountains, setting off a devastating battle. The fighting remained undecided among the armies, but the Nether Serpent's Soul Annihilation struck down the first of the fourteen Asura experts.

• The Eight Great Clans surrounded the Skyrite Mountains with their forces, and Gaiseresen and the other clan leaders prepared to fight.
• Saint-Nair ordered his forces to charge, and Gaiseresen led the Four Divine Beasts Clan into the battle.
• The Asura experts fought above the mountains as the armies below suffered enormous losses on both sides.
• Rog, Keluoyin, Dimont, and Baturu watched from afar, and Baturu said the outcome depended on the Asura battle.
• Edric urged Nether Serpent Ashcroft to use his ultimate move, and Ashcroft unleashed Soul Annihilation on the Black Tortoise Clan Leader's younger brother.
• The Black Tortoise Clan Leader tried to retaliate, but his younger brother fell as the first Asura casualty.

The Eight Great Clans completed the destruction of the Four Divine Beasts Clan before a Sovereign ordered them to leave the Skyrite Mountains. Rog reflected that his arrival had changed history, while Beirut continued investigating the Four Divine Beasts' essence blood.

• After the Eight Great Clans killed the Four Divine Beasts Clan's remaining experts, Patriarch Saint-Nair tried to burn the Skyrite Mountains, but a Sovereign stopped him and ordered everyone to depart.
• Patriarch Edric and the other patriarchs led the Eight Great Clans away, leaving the clan's ancestral grounds empty.
• Rog watched the clan's destruction, noted that Beirut had not intervened, and decided to focus on the approaching Overgod Tokens.
• News of the Four Divine Beasts Clan's fall spread across the planes, where people discussed the battle's casualties and the Eight Great Clans' losses.
• In the Yulan Plane, Beirut studied the Four Divine Beasts' essence blood and began experiments to understand its power.

Rumors that a Sovereign Artifact from the fallen Four Divine Beasts had appeared in the Yulan Plane drew powerful experts from across the Divine Planes. Rog explained that Beirut had spread the news to attract attention and find help against Augusta, while preparing the Necropolis of the Gods.

• The rumor of a Sovereign Artifact in the Yulan Plane spread, and experts from the Divine Planes and Higher Planes traveled there hoping to claim it.
• The Purple Blood Fiend considered going to the Yulan Plane but decided to keep cultivating his Fusion Law instead.
• Elmira told Rog that Keluoyin, Baturu, and the others had not gone to the Yulan Plane.
• Rog recognized that Beirut had started the rumor and explained that the Necropolis of the Gods was a burial place for the Four Divine Beast Sovereigns.
• Beirut anticipated that the influx of experts would draw the other Sovereigns' attention and help him find an ally against Augusta.

After completing the Light Jade Golden Body method, Rog left Jiafeng Island and traveled to a Material Plane to begin his plan. Light Sovereign Hermela noticed his movements and watched him from the Infernal Realm, while Rog wondered whether he had enough Light Sovereign's Might to use his new method.

• Rog completed his Light Jade Golden Body body-refining method after a sudden insight and said he was leaving Jiafeng Island to visit other planes.
• Rog bid farewell to Claude, Abraham, and Tyrant, who discussed the essence blood he had taken from Tyrant during his research.
• Fate Sovereign Orloff wondered whether Rog had made a breakthrough and decided to watch him more closely.
• Hermela visited Sovereign Zijing in the Infernal Realm and covertly monitored Rog as he traveled to a Material Plane.
• Hermela became suspicious of Rog's sudden return to a Material Plane, while Rog wondered whether his supply of Light Sovereign's Might would be enough.

Rog strengthened his body with Light Sovereign's Might, then mastered the final profound mystery of the Laws of Light and prepared to pursue his plan to become a Sovereign. Helme grew suspicious of Rog's movements, but his clones slipped away to their destinations as he committed to taking the risk.

• Rog spent nearly twelve days absorbing Light Sovereign's Might, making his body tougher than a Highgod Artifact and able to shatter one with a blow.
• Rog realized he lacked enough Sovereign's Might to strengthen his body to the level of a Sovereign Artifact and considered becoming a Light Sovereign.
• Rog mastered Divine, the final profound mystery of the Laws of Light, and his Light God Clone separated from him as the Natural Laws descended.
• Helme asked Zijing about Rog and revealed that his Lightning Divine Clone had spent time in the Radiant Divine Realm, deepening her suspicion.
• Rog's Lightning Divine Clone went to the Divine Lightning Plane while his light-element Divine Clone went to the Radiant Divine Realm, and Rog resolved to take his chance at becoming a Sovereign.