Recaps

Rog traveled to the underwater palace beneath Sangqiu Island to seek an audience with Hermela, the Radiant Sovereign. After learning he was not the Sovereign of Death’s emissary, Hermela’s expression changed, and the meeting ended with an ominous threat.

• Rog crossed the Divine Prison Sea and descended to the underwater palace beneath Sangqiu Island.
• Mitchell’s guards recognized Rog as a Paragon, and Hermela returned from the Infernal Realm to receive him.
• Rog entered Hermela’s palace and faced the Sovereign, whose Willpower far surpassed his own.
• Hermela asked whether Rog was the Sovereign of Death’s emissary, and Rog said he was not.
• Hermela raised an eyebrow, and the encounter turned threatening as only one of them was said to be destined to leave alive.

Rog lured Sangqiu Sovereign Hermela into the Bronze Door’s Void, where her powers failed and he killed her, taking her Sovereign Spark. He refined it and became a new Light Sovereign, while the other six Light Sovereigns realized Hermela had fallen and suspected Rog.

• Hermela confronted Rog about his research into the Light Jade Beast’s ability and offered him Light Sovereign’s Might in exchange for the method.
• Rog rejected Hermela’s offer and used the Bronze Door to bring them both into the Void.
• Inside the Void, Hermela lost her connection to her powers and laws, and Rog killed her with the Black Serpent Spear.
• Rog returned to the palace, refined Hermela’s Sovereign Spark, and became a Light Sovereign.
• The other six Light Sovereigns sensed Hermela’s disappearance and learned from her Water Element Divine Clone that Rog was likely involved.

Rog killed Hermela’s last Divine Clone, then traveled to the Netherworld and killed Sovereign Lianhuo to take his Sovereign Spark. After refining it, Rog became a fused Sovereign stronger than the Lightning Element Sovereign and set his sights on one final Sovereign Spark.

• Rog tracked down Hermela’s fleeing Water Element Divine Clone and killed her despite Augusta’s warning.
• Rog vanished before the other Sovereigns could find him and appeared in the Netherworld at Sovereign Lianhuo’s Lianhuo Mountain Range.
• Rog revealed that his Light God Clone had become a Sovereign and attacked Sovereign Lianhuo, killing him and taking his Sovereign Spark.
• Rog refined the Death Sovereign Spark, gaining another portion of Willpower and the ability to fuse Sovereign’s Might from two elements.
• Rog recognized that he had surpassed the Lightning Element Sovereign in combat strength, then contacted his last clone in the Divine Lightning Plane to pursue another Sovereign Spark.

After killing Sovereign Lianhuo and refining his Sovereign Spark, Rog used his fused two-element power to search the Divine Lightning Realm for the Lightning Sovereign. The other Sovereigns realized Rog was likely there to hunt a Lightning Sovereign and began fleeing toward Material Planes, while Rog continued toward Cold Moon Lake.

• Rog avoided hunting the dangerous Sovereign Ku Shi and Snowmist Sovereign, choosing Sovereign Lianhuo as a safer target.
• Rog's clones regrouped on an island in the Divine Lightning Plane, and he used his fused Sovereign Power to locate the Lightning Sovereign at Cold Moon Lake.
• The Sovereign of Death told Augusta that Sovereign Lianhuo had died, and the Sovereigns suspected Rog was responsible.
• Orloff warned that Rog's Lightning Divine Clone meant he was probably in the Divine Lightning Plane, prompting three Lightning Sovereigns from Material Planes to flee toward teleportation arrays.
• Rog continued toward Cold Moon Lake at light speed, unconcerned that the Sovereigns had begun discussing their escape.

Rog lured Hurley, the Lightning Sovereign, into the Void with the power of the Bronze Door, where their Innate Divine Abilities and Sovereign Artifacts could not function. Hurley was shocked to find Rog’s physical strength matched his own, and their fight began with both still standing.

• The Lightning Sovereigns debated fleeing as Rog hunted them, while the Thunder Abyss Sovereign headed for a teleportation array to seek Orloff’s protection.
• Rog spotted a Sovereign fleeing toward Cold Moon Lake and continued toward Hurley, relying on the Bronze Door to isolate his target.
• Hurley sensed Rog’s approach too late, and Rog transported them both into the Void, where Hurley vanished from his temple along with his Sovereign Spark’s aura.
• Hurley realized he could not use his Innate Divine Ability or Sovereign Artifact in the Void, but challenged Rog over the advantage of being a special Divine Beast.
• Rog and Hurley clashed with their weapons and retreated several steps, leaving Hurley stunned by Rog’s strength as gray-purple power gathered in Rog’s eyes.

Rog killed the Lightning Sovereign Hurley with Soul Attacks, then refined Hurley’s Lightning Sovereign Spark and became a Sovereign with three fused elements. Orloff appeared to question Rog about his power and asked him to uphold the agreement against Sovereigns fighting one another.

• Rog launched two Soul Attacks that pierced Hurley’s Soul Defense and destroyed his soul, then killed Hurley’s fleeing Earth Sovereign clone with two more swords.
• Rog refined the Lightning Sovereign Spark and gained stronger Willpower and Fused Sovereign Power from three elements.
• Rog assessed his new strength and concluded that, aside from Orloff, he no longer feared the other Sovereigns.
• Orloff’s projection appeared in Hurley’s temple, asked Rog about his fused power, and heard Rog demonstrate his new divine power.
• Orloff asked Rog to help maintain the agreement that Sovereigns must not fight and kill one another without a grievance.

After killing Hurley, Rog promised the Sovereigns that he would not kill without reason, leaving them wary of his immense strength and mysterious methods. At their gathering in Augusta Garden, the Four Rules Sovereigns discussed how to prevent him from growing stronger, while Orloff doubted they could stop him if he entered the Planar Battlefield with his true body.

• Rog told the Sovereigns that he was not bloodthirsty and would not kill without a personal reason, and the Fate Sovereign urged him to keep his promise.
• The Sovereigns recoiled from Rog after Hurley’s death and worried that he might continue killing them, but his promise eased their fears.
• At Augusta Garden, the Sovereigns debated how Rog had killed Hermela and traced his later killings of Lianhuo and Hurley.
• Uhtred questioned Lilith about Rog’s secrets, while Lilith said she knew nothing beyond his visit to Nether Mountain and his breakthrough as a Lightning Paragon.
• Orloff warned that Rog could become even stronger if he obtained another Overgod Artifact or won ten consecutive victories, prompting Uhtred and others to call for stopping his growth.
• Orloff privately concluded that Rog’s true body had so much Willpower that the Sovereigns would struggle to stop him in the Planar Battlefield.

Rog strengthened his Light Jade Golden Body, welcomed Sovereigns who came to pay their respects, and visited Beirut in the Yulan Plane. Beirut suspected Rog had been a Sovereign all along, while Rog hinted that he had killed a Sovereign and taken the Sovereign Spark.

• Rog circulated Light Sovereign's Might through the Light Jade Golden Body technique and expected to reach its major accomplishment stage within a few months.
• Yinya, the Gold Lightning Sovereign, visited Rog, who promised to leave the Divine Plane's affairs as they were; Alf and other Sovereigns then came to pay their respects.
• Rog decided to ask the Sovereign of Death to see the Death Demonic Tome again after strengthening his body, and sent a projection to the Yulan Plane to meet Beirut.
• Beirut recognized Rog's soul aura and assumed he had been a Sovereign when they first met, while Rog found the theory amusing.
• Rog said he had killed a Sovereign and taken the Sovereign Spark, but Beirut doubted him and suspected Rog was teasing him.

Rog offered Beirut a safe way out of the Yulan Plane in exchange for most of the Four Divine Beasts' Essence Blood, claiming Augusta would comply rather than risk a fight. Unsure whether Rog was telling the truth, Beirut went to ask Pash about Rog and learned that other Sovereigns addressed him as Lord Rog.

• Rog told Beirut to ask the other Sovereigns about his rise and offered a deal for the Four Divine Beasts' Essence Blood.
• Rog proposed taking eighty percent of the Essence Blood in exchange for protecting Beirut so he could leave the Yulan Plane safely.
• Beirut said he would verify Rog's claims and consider the terms, then Rog told him he was staying at Cold Moon Lake before dispersing his projection.
• Beirut sent his consciousness to the Blood Peak Continent to ask Pash what was happening with Rog.
• Pash warned Beirut to address Rog respectfully as Lord Rog, leaving Beirut to wonder whether Rog could truly make Augusta fear him.

Rog strengthened his original body with Light Sovereign's Might, then traveled to the Netherworld to meet Lilith and reclaim the Death Demonic Tome. Lilith recognized that Rog's power now made him capable of killing her before she could react, as he prepared to uncover the tome's secrets.

• Beirut told Pash that Rog had asked him for the Four Divine Beasts Essence Blood, hoping the news would reach Uhtred and improve his bargaining position.
• After five months of absorbing Light Sovereign's Might, Rog reached his body's current limit and considered whether stronger light energy could strengthen it further.
• Rog reflected on the special properties of Godsparks and nurtured the Black Serpent Spear with violet-gold divine power.
• Rog traveled to the Netherworld using the Sovereign Medallion given to him by the Sovereign of Death.
• Lilith welcomed Rog at Nether Mountain and offered her real name, while Rog asked for the Death Demonic Tome.
• Rog controlled Lilith's attendants and made clear that he had come to uncover the tome's secrets; Lilith understood that he could kill her with a soul ambush.

Rog reclaimed the Death Demonic Tome from Lilith and learned that she wanted him to help with her next Overgod Mission, which he refused. After examining her Scythe of Death in hopes of activating the Bronze Door, he returned it and left Lilith fuming.

• Rog took back the Death Demonic Tome from Lilith, and she reminded him that he still owed her help several times.
• Lilith asked Rog to help her complete her next Overgod Mission, but he refused and asked to borrow her Overgod Artifact instead.
• Lilith handed Rog the Scythe of Death, and he tested its aura against the Bronze Door but found that it could not provide the energy needed to activate it.
• Rog returned the Scythe of Death to Lilith and teased her before flying away.
• Lilith warned her attendants not to reveal what they had witnessed, and they acknowledged that Rog had bested the Sovereign of Death.

Rog brought Haidisi to the Milo Clan and revealed that he had become a Sovereign. He made Kingsley his Sovereign’s Emissary and bestowed an Offensive Sovereign Artifact and other treasures on him.

• Rog brought Haidisi from the Yatlan Plane to the Milo Clan’s residence to repay the favor he owed Kingsley.
• Rog offered Kingsley a Sovereign Artifact, but Kingsley initially chose to preserve his chance to call on Rog for help.
• Rog revealed his Sovereign status, stunning Kingsley, Haidisi, and the Milo Clan members.
• Kingsley accepted Rog’s offer to become his Sovereign’s Emissary and requested an Offensive Sovereign Artifact.
• Rog bestowed the Profound Spirit Light Sword, a thousand drops of Sovereign’s Might, and a Sovereign Medallion on Kingsley.

Rog gave Haidisi the Heart of the Ocean, a Soul Defense Sovereign Artifact, then returned to cultivating the Death Rule. After perfecting it, he created a nine-variation soul attack called Ghostly Child and gained the ability to separate soul fragments safely.

• Rog told Haidisi that he had become a Sovereign by killing three Sovereigns and refining their Sovereign Sparks.
• Rog gave Haidisi the Heart of the Ocean, which she refined despite already serving as the Sovereign of Death's Emissary.
• Rog studied page 82 of the Death Demonic Tome and perfected the Death Rule, prompting the Natural Laws to transform his souls and granting him more Willpower.
• Rog spent nine days developing Ghostly Child, an ultimate Soul Attack with nine variations for striking, freezing, poisoning, controlling, and tormenting souls.
• Rog realized that perfecting the Death Rule let him separate soul fragments while preserving their stability.

Beirut gathered powerful experts from across the planes and led them into the Necropolis of the Gods, claiming he was fulfilling a Sovereign’s task. He revealed that the supposed contest for a Sovereign Artifact was a trap, leaving the experts facing him inside the tomb.

• Beirut finished creating the Necropolis of the Gods and prepared to receive the experts who had gathered on a North Sea island.
• Duoluosa, Anjita, Nielsen, and the other experts waited for the promised Sovereign Artifact after a decree had kept them in the Yulan Plane for a thousand years.
• Beirut arrived, identified himself as a Sovereign’s Emissary, and opened a spatial portal with a cyan medallion.
• Beirut led the experts through the portal to another plane and showed them the enormous Necropolis of the Gods, where they recognized the Azure Dragon relief.
• When the experts demanded the Sovereign’s decree, Beirut said the tomb needed gods to be buried with the Four Divine Beast Sovereigns.
• The experts realized Beirut had lured them into a trap and demanded he send them out, while Beirut drew a black iron staff to confront them.

Beirut defeated the Highgods in the Necropolis of the Gods, traded half of the Four Divine Beasts Essence Blood to Rog for his Darkness Divine Clone’s safe passage, and became famous across the planes. He told Rog that four humans had survived his essence-blood experiment, and Rog instructed him to send their descendants to the Skyrite Mountains.

• Beirut killed the Highgods in the Necropolis of the Gods and made their servants guards for the necropolis.
• Beirut gave half of the Four Divine Beasts Essence Blood to Rog, who made Beirut’s Darkness Divine Clone his Sovereign’s Emissary.
• Beirut gained fame after defeating Agni, who was secretly a Divine Clone of the fire Sovereign Adkins.
• Beirut told Rog that Baruch, Amanda, Hyde, and Bolei had fused with the Four Divine Beasts Essence Blood and become the Four Ultimate Warriors.
• Rog told Beirut to send the Four Ultimate Warriors’ descendants to the Skyrite Mountains.

Rog arranged for Bast to spread his faith in the Yulan Plane without interfering in mortal affairs, hoping to spare Linley the loss of his mother and the grudges that followed. Later, Rog and Dimont searched for new Sovereign’s Emissaries on the Crimson Cloud Continent, where two unusual candidates awaited them.

• Beirut agreed to send escorts to the Skyrite Mountains so the four youngsters could receive the baptism and awaken their innate talents.
• Rog ordered Bast to go to the Yulan Plane and spread his faith without interfering in mortal affairs, then gave him several items.
• Rog reflected that Bast’s mission could replace the Radiant Church and keep Lina alive, changing Linley’s childhood and future path.
• Rog and Dimont traveled across the Crimson Cloud Continent while seeking candidates for Rog’s Sovereign’s Emissaries.
• Lambert reported two candidates in Black Fang Prefecture: a Soul Mutator and a rare Divine Beast, prompting Dimont to look forward to testing them.

Rog assessed Chase and Flying Star as candidates for Sovereign's Emissary by having them fight Dimont. Chase was badly outmatched in a direct exchange, but used his speed to evade Dimont and counterattack.

• Lambert told Dimont that Chelstaff, the Prefect of Black Fang Prefecture, was a powerful bovine Divine Beast as Rog's party traveled toward Black Fang Prefecture.
• Lambert reported that Chase and Flying Star had accepted Rog's assessment, and the two experts arrived to meet the Sovereign.
• Rog ordered Chase and Flying Star to fight Dimont one at a time, with their performance determining whether they passed.
• Chase fought Dimont barehanded, but Dimont's first punch injured him and revealed his superior physical strength.
• Dimont covered his body in black matter and attacked Chase with twenty percent of his strength, forcing Chase to retreat and rely on his speed to dodge and counterattack.

Chase and Kolen passed Dimont’s combat test and became Rog’s Sovereign’s Emissaries, each receiving a Sovereign Artifact and Thunder Sovereign Power. Lambert reflected that the new Sovereign had made their appointments possible and that their new weapons greatly increased their strength.

• Dimont ended his fight with Chase, praised his physical strength, and asked Rog to let him pass.
• Rog appointed Chase as his emissary and gave him a golden warhammer and Thunder Sovereign Power.
• Kolen used a black glove to withstand Dimont’s blows and reveal his unusual strength in one arm.
• Dimont recommended that Kolen pass, and Rog appointed him as an emissary, giving him dark-purple armor and Thunder Sovereign Power.
• Lambert thought that Chase and Kolen’s new Sovereign Artifacts made them at least as strong as he was.

Rog continued recruiting Sovereign’s Emissaries and then used his Light Sovereign Clone to create the Light God Plane. The creation gave him new insight into the Laws of Light and led him to decide that his other Sovereign Divine Clones should create planes as well.

• Rog and his companions traveled through several Divine Planes in search of candidates, recruiting a Frost Giant and a Medusa as his fifth and sixth emissaries.
• Rog’s Light Sovereign Clone gathered Sovereign’s Might in the Void for several hundred years and began creating a Divine Plane.
• As the Light God Plane took shape, Rog gained insight into the fusion of the Profound Mysteries of Holiness and Regeneration and fused five profound mysteries of the Laws of Light.
• Rog created a sun and a moon for the new plane, then completed its land, mountains, and seas, leaving it without life.
• Rog decided that his other Sovereign Divine Clones should create Divine Planes to improve how he applied his perfected laws and rules.

Rog and Dimont traveled to the Earth Divine Plane so Dimont could challenge Hemus and Rog could recruit suitable Sovereign’s Emissaries. After arriving, they asked the Blazing Rock Sovereign for guidance and learned that Kede might be a worthy candidate.

• Jieluosi told Dimont that Hemus on the Earth Divine Plane could give him the fight he wanted, and Dimont eagerly agreed to seek him out.
• Rog decided to travel with Dimont and recruit Breler, a Bula Clan master of magic formations who had no master.
• Rog and Dimont arrived at the Blazing Rock Continent, where Mitande greeted them at the teleportation formation.
• Rog contacted the Blazing Rock Sovereign, Alvin, who sent Truman to guide them toward potential Emissaries.
• Truman recommended Kede, the Violet Star Prefect, describing him as a powerful rock-based Asura-level expert.

Kede fought Dimont to prove himself worthy of becoming Rog’s emissary, and Rog accepted him and granted him a Soul Defense Sovereign Artifact and Sovereign’s Might. Truman then suggested they travel to Qinglun Prefecture to seek another god with a special ability.

• Kede transformed into a lava man and fought Dimont, holding his own until Dimont unleashed his black-armored innate ability and sent him flying.
• Dimont praised Kede as the strongest god he had faced and said Rog should let him pass the test.
• Rog offered Kede the role of emissary, and Kede accepted and requested a Soul Defense Sovereign Artifact.
• Rog gave Kede a purple bracelet and two hundred drops of Lightning Element Sovereign’s Might, which Kede accepted.
• Truman told Rog that Kede was the only Blazing Rock Continent expert he knew who came close to the requirements, and Rog said exceptional abilities could also qualify.
• Truman proposed going to Qinglun Prefecture to meet a god with a special ability, and the three set off.

Rog sent Dimont to test his physical strength against Hemus, the Sinking Earth Sovereign’s emissary, after the Sinking Earth Sovereign summoned Hemus at Rog’s request. Their fight ended with Dimont’s strongest punch splitting Hemus’s skin slightly, though the wound healed almost immediately.

• After touring several more places in the Blazing Rock Continent, Rog decided to head to the Sinking Earth Continent and told Truman to leave.
• Rog sent his divine sense to the Sinking Earth Divine Palace, and the Sinking Earth Sovereign agreed to summon Hemus.
• Hemus recalled that the Sinking Earth Sovereign had told him to hold back and preferably lose, and suspected Dimont had powerful connections.
• Dimont met Hemus at the Whirling Rock Mountain Range and challenged him to a contest of fists.
• Dimont and Hemus exchanged blows evenly, then Dimont used God Splitter and briefly split the skin on Hemus’s fist.

Dimont and Hemus fought to a standstill and parted as newfound rivals. On the Black Tortoise Continent, Rog offered Breler the position of Sovereign’s Emissary and a Sovereign Artifact, and Breler eagerly accepted.

• Hemus and Dimont resumed their battle, trading blows until neither could claim victory and both came to respect each other.
• Rog and Dimont continued their journey to the Black Tortoise Continent after Dimont arranged to spar with Hemus again.
• William guided Rog and Dimont to Breler’s home and explained that Breler was known for his strong defenses and skill with magic formations.
• Breler greeted the visitors, knelt when William identified Rog as a Sovereign, and offered to serve him.
• Rog offered to make Breler his Sovereign’s Emissary and grant him a Sovereign Artifact, and Breler accepted.

Rog completed a new Death Divine Plane and planned to create another with his Lightning Element Sovereign Divine Clone, while the Four Ultimate Warriors settled in Indigo Prefecture under Beirut’s protection. In Wushan Town, the Baruch patriarch returned with the next generation of Dragonblood Warriors for their ancestral awakening rites.

• Rog granted Breler a Soul Defense Sovereign Artifact and Sovereign’s Might, then brought him to the Divine Lightning Plane to help with magic formation research.
• After more than a thousand years, Rog completed the Death Divine Plane and refined his Ghostly Child to thirty-six transformations.
• Beirut became Prefect Indigo and helped protect Baruch and the other first-generation Four Ultimate Warriors as they established themselves.
• The Baruch patriarch arrived in Wushan Town with Owen, Jenny, Linley, and other children to prepare them for their Dragonblood Warrior awakening ceremony.
• Hillman welcomed the children, while the chapter noted that the ceremony required blood from Saint-level dragons.

Linley and the other Baruch children learned about their Dragonblood Warrior ancestors and underwent the painful awakening ceremony by drinking dragon blood. The children began transforming, and Linley fainted as gemlike scales appeared on his body.

• Gap Baruch showed the children their ancestors’ deeds and explained that Baruch descendants could awaken their dormant Dragonblood Warrior blood by drinking living dragon blood.
• Gap led the children to choose among the Saint-level dragons, and Linley chose the Gem Dragon.
• The dragons filled eight wooden buckets with blood, and Gap gave each child Blue Heart Grass to eat before drinking.
• Owen drank first, collapsed in agony, and fainted as golden dragon scales appeared on his body.
• Jenny, Lampas, and Linley also suffered through the transformation, and Linley passed out as gemlike scales emerged on his skin.