Chapter Summaries

Linley and Olivier ended their spar after a fierce exchange, and Linley later discovered that bandits had taken over the Cloudtea Mountains. When the bandits attacked Linley and Bebe, their assaults had no effect, and Linley offered to spare their leader if he survived one sword strike.

• Elder Jason and the other Byzantine Clan elders praised Linley and Olivier's formidable fused powers as the two ended their spar.
• Linley stayed with the Byzantine Clan for nearly half a month before departing with Bebe.
• Linley and Bebe saw that the Cloudtea Tribe's markings had vanished from the Cloudtea Mountains and realized bandits had taken over the area.
• A purple-robed bandit leader and hundreds of Highgod bandits surrounded Linley and Bebe and demanded their Inkstones.
• The bandits attacked, but their material and Soul Attacks had no effect on Linley or Bebe.
• Linley told the purple-robed leader he would spare him if he survived one strike of Linley's sword.

Linley and Bebe pursued a bandit gang to Verdant Mountain, where Linley confronted its leader, Gibran. Linley identified himself as the bandits gathered around Gibran.

• Linley killed the purple-robed elder and several bandits with a sword strike, then cut down six fleeing Divine Clones with a second attack.
• Bebe killed bandits as the survivors fled, and Linley followed them to find the stronger mastermind behind the gang.
• The bandits reached Gibran’s lair on Verdant Mountain and warned its residents that enemies were attacking.
• Linley advanced through the gathered bandits, withstanding their attacks and killing more than thirty with a sword strike.
• Gibran appeared with nearly a hundred Highgods and challenged Linley, who gave his name as Linley Baruch.

Linley and Bebe confronted Gibran, a bandit leader whose Redbud Crystal Diamond let him recover from devastating wounds and resist Linley’s attacks. Bebe killed Gibran with his God-Eater ability, and Linley took the crystal diamond, discovering its power to protect the soul.

• Linley challenged Gibran and attacked him with his strongest material strike, but Gibran’s body quickly recovered from the damage.
• Gibran used Life Explosion to strengthen himself and endured Linley’s sword attacks, healing even after Linley cut open his chest.
• Gibran secretly used the Redbud Crystal Diamond to reinforce his soul defense and prepared to strike Linley with his enchanted sword.
• Linley tried a soul attack, but Gibran resisted it and mocked its weakness.
• Bebe used his God-Eater innate divine ability to extract Gibran’s Godspark and kill him.
• Linley picked up the Redbud Crystal Diamond and felt its energy protect his soul.

Xide and Beifa settled in the Black Rain Tribe, where Yakelong abducted Beifa and forced Xide to flee. Xide traveled through the wilderness seeking someone powerful enough to rescue her, but bandits surrounded him in a cave and left him with no way out.

• Xide and Beifa arrived in the Infernal Realm and decided to settle in the Black Rain Tribe.
• Yakelong abducted Beifa, while she pleaded for Xide’s life and urged him to run.
• Xide hid in the wilderness and planned to trade his Supreme God Token to a powerful figure to save Beifa.
• A band of more than twenty Midgod bandits found Xide in a cave and refused his pleas to join them.
• Xide realized he had little chance of escaping the bandits’ encirclement.

After Xide was killed and the bandits took the Nine Spirit Orbs and Overgod Token, Xavier delivered the treasure to the Canglang Prefect, who passed it to Reinas. Reinas gave the tokens and orbs to Rog, leaving him with the advantage as he searched for the remaining Overgod Artifact.

• The bandits killed Xide after discovering the Nine Spirit Orbs were sustaining him, then seized the orbs and the Overgod Token.
• Xavier decided to take the treasure to Azure Wave Prefecture and offer it to the Canglang Prefect.
• The Canglang Prefect presented the Supreme God Token and Nine Spirit Orbs to the Bifu Sovereign, earning a Sovereign Artifact and Sovereign's Might.
• Reinas chose to give Rog the Supreme God Token and Nine Spirit Orbs rather than deliver them to Uhtred, and Rog assured her Uhtred would not challenge the decision.
• Rog considered how to obtain the Redbud Crystal Diamond, uncertain whether it would still appear on the Ocalan Material Plane.

Rog’s search for the Redbud Crystal Diamond alerted other Sovereigns that a new Overgod Mission had begun, and Uhtred feared Rog might become unstoppable if he obtained an Overgod Artifact. Uhtred proposed a wager to Orloff and led him into the Spatial Turbulence to fight.

• Rog’s followers posted a bounty for the Life Crystal Diamond, prompting Sovereigns to suspect it was the latest Overgod Token.
• Uhtred learned of the bounty and worried that Rog would become impossible to restrain if he obtained an Overgod Artifact.
• Uhtred decided to visit Orloff, believing they needed to act before Rog gathered the tokens.
• Uhtred challenged Orloff to fight in the Spatial Turbulence and proposed a wager.
• Orloff accepted the tempting wager, and Uhtred opened a spatial rift for them to enter.

Orloff faced Uhtred’s newly developed ultimate move and defeated him without apparent injury, revealing that his strength exceeded expectations. He agreed to fight Rog, hoping the battle would reveal secrets beyond their world, though he feared Rog might gain another Overgod Artifact first.

• Uhtred unleashed his strengthened World Destruction attack, and Orloff deflected the spear with a golden palm strike.
• Uhtred used his newly developed strongest move, but Orloff remained standing unharmed and won their wager.
• Uhtred realized Orloff had concealed his true strength and asked him to fight Rog; Orloff agreed but admitted he was unsure he could win.
• Orloff reflected that Uhtred’s move had inspired him, but the Overgod Mission left him little time to perfect his own ultimate move.
• Orloff considered the mysterious force that ensured Overgod Missions were completed and hoped fighting Rog would reveal what lay beyond the world.

Rog accepted Orloff’s challenge and followed him into the Spatial Turbulence, where Orloff revealed the Fate Overgod Sword and attacked with Unpredictable Disturbance. Rog countered with Instant Lightning, and their clash left the outcome undecided.

• Orloff asked Rog about the Supreme God Tokens and challenged him to a sparring match.
• Rog agreed, and he and Orloff entered the Spatial Turbulence as the other Sovereigns followed to watch.
• Orloff revealed that he had borrowed Augusta’s Fate Overgod Sword and attacked Rog with Unpredictable Disturbance.
• Rog recognized how Orloff’s Fate technique affected space and launched Instant Lightning with his Black Serpent spear.

Rog faced Orloff, who unleashed the Four Divine Beasts’ combined ability, Space-Time Chaos, to lock spacetime and strike with his Fate Overgod Sword. Rog resisted the lock using the Bronze Door’s authority over spacetime and blocked the sword, leaving Orloff’s attack defeated.

• Rog pierced Orloff’s Unpredictable Disturbance with Extreme Point Instant Lightning and drove him backward despite his Overgod Sword.
• Rog challenged Orloff to use his strongest move, and Orloff warned him before casting Space-Time Chaos.
• Orloff’s attack froze spacetime across ten million miles and sent a transparent streak toward Rog as the Sovereigns watched in alarm.
• Orloff rushed in with the Fate Overgod Sword, expecting the Spacetime Lock to leave Rog unable to react.
• Rog resisted the lock and blocked Orloff’s sword with the Black Serpent Spear, surprising Orloff and Uhtred.
• Rog explained that the Bronze Door’s authority over spacetime had canceled the attack’s effects, aided by his strengthened soul and deeper connection to the door.

Rog defeated Orloff despite the Fate Sovereign’s Space-Time Chaos, then learned the technique’s principles and discovered that fused essence blood might let him extract Origin Energy. Orloff and Rog ended their discussion considering whether a power above their world controlled its planes.

• Rog defeated Orloff in the Spatial Turbulence, and Orloff conceded that Space-Time Chaos could not overcome him.
• Rog returned with Orloff to the Zijing Continent and asked him to explain the principles behind Space-Time Chaos.
• Orloff revealed that the technique relied on Four Divine Beasts Essence Blood spontaneously fusing in a particular proportion.
• Rog realized he might refine the fused essence blood to extract its Origin Energy.
• Orloff proposed that a being above their world had arranged its planar teleportation arrays, Planar Battlefield, and Overgod Missions, and Rog agreed that the conjecture could be right.

Linley and Bebe presented Rog with the Redbud Crystal Diamond, the final token he needed to complete the Crown of Life. Rog offered Linley a lower Earth Sovereign Spark, and Linley considered the consequences before announcing that he had made his decision.

• Linley and Bebe traveled to Tianhua Prefecture to meet Rog after learning the crystal diamond was a treasure sought by a Sovereign.
• Rog received them and recognized the Redbud Crystal Diamond as the last missing part of the Crown of Life.
• Bebe asked whether Rog could make them Sovereigns, and Rog offered Linley a lower Earth Sovereign Spark.
• Rog warned Linley that refining the spark would make him a Lower Sovereign of Earth forever, while Linley asked whether a Sovereign could grow stronger through cultivation.
• Linley weighed the offer, then told Rog he had made his decision.

Rog summoned the Life Overgod and asked for energy capable of nurturing an Overgod Artifact, receiving a bottle of Life Overgod's Might. When he used a drop to activate the Bronze Door, a cosmic passage appeared and shook every plane, drawing powerful figures toward its source.

• Rog assembled the three Overgod Tokens in the Spatial Turbulence and summoned the Life Overgod.
• The Life Overgod granted Rog a bottle of Life Overgod's Might as his reward for completing her mission.
• Rog used a drop of the energy to activate the Bronze Door, which opened a vast, dark cosmic passage.
• The passage's appearance shook the planes and alarmed beings ranging from ordinary inhabitants to Sovereigns.
• The Sovereign of Death and Orloff rushed toward the upheaval, while Orloff declared that other worlds existed beyond their own.

Rog entered a cosmic passage to explore another universe, leaving the Bronze Door with his other clones. He arrived in a universe that accepted outsiders, gathered information from a local warrior, and learned that its Legendary experts could even kill gods.

• Rog decided to send his original body and Death Divine Clone through the passage while his Lightning Divine Clone and Light Sovereign Clone kept the Bronze Door.
• Rog crossed into another universe, found that his Willpower no longer worked, and discovered that its rules accepted him and allowed him to absorb the power of heaven and earth.
• Rog concealed his aura and searched for life, then found a small town inhabited by mortals and a few cultivators.
• Rog used Soul Bewilderment to control Lusi, a woodcutter and Eighth-level Warrior, and obtained information about the Medidas Duchy, the Black Crow Duchy, and the Flying Snow Empire.
• Rog learned that warriors advanced through nine levels to Holy Spirit and then Legendary, whose powerful experts could slay gods.

Rog examined Joseph’s memories and learned that the Holy Spirit mage had extended his life by transforming into a blood clan creature through a technique granted by the so-called Blood God. Joseph’s memories also revealed that most gods in this world were false gods, while becoming a true god required surviving a divine tribulation.

• Rog studied the memories of a mage and compared this world’s spell models with the magic incantations of the Coiling Dragon World.
• Rog visited Joseph’s mage tower in the Night Crow Forest, where thousands of Night Crows guarded the traps and a powerful creature held inside.
• Joseph tried to attack Rog, but Rog subdued him with a strand of soul force and examined his memories.
• Rog discovered that Joseph had become a blood clan creature through a secret technique granted by the Blood God, allowing him to live for centuries.
• Rog learned that most gods were false gods who had not survived a divine tribulation, and that some beings could approach godhood through powerful bodies or inherited bloodlines.

Rog investigated the Blood God Temple and discovered that Xiuyinsi and his master had entered the Cloudheart Continent from another universe through a spacetime weak point. As more beings crossed the passage, it began to thin, and Orloff and Teresia found their Willpower no longer worked in the new world.

• Rog entered the Blood God Temple unseen and overheard Xiuyinsi explain that the Cloudheart Continent's powerful legendary experts kept him from acting freely.
• Rog realized Xiuyinsi and his master had crossed over from another universe and suspected the Cloudheart Continent was a weak point connecting universes.
• The Sovereign of Death told Rog that Orloff and Teresia had entered the passage, then prepared to travel to the new universe with Vivya.
• More Sovereigns and gods crossed the passage, but it gradually grew thinner, raising fears that they might be unable to return.
• Orloff and Teresia arrived in the new world and discovered that their Sovereign and Paragon Willpower had vanished, leaving them with strength comparable to Highgods supplied with Sovereign's Might.

Emperor Cloudheart sent Duoye through a newly appeared universe passage to scout the outsiders while he watched them from the Cloudheart Continent. There, Teresia killed Gong Liang, acquired secret rune equipment and diagrams, and began analyzing the system as a new path to power.

• Emperor Cloudheart ordered Duoye to investigate the new universe passage, and Duoye entered it.
• Emperor Cloudheart observed the outsiders on the Cloudheart Continent and waited to see what they would do.
• Teresia examined Gong Liang's secret rune armor before killing him with a spatial blade and a soul attack.
• Teresia found secret rune diagrams, a weapon, and armor, then concluded that secret rune equipment could channel laws and let users fight above their level.
• Teresia recognized that he could study the runes to understand this world's laws faster, but he could not become a god there because he could not summon a Divine Tribulation.

Rog subdued Xiuyinsi and learned that the Blood God Temple collected beings from other universes as experimental materials for witch cultivators. He decided to focus on the Witch Cultivation System, while an emissary from this universe arrived to visit the Coiling Dragon Universe.

• Rog appeared before Xiuyinsi and took control of his soul.
• Rog learned from Xiuyinsi’s memories that witch cultivators studied the essence of the world and needed rare materials for their research.
• Rog discovered that the Blood God Temple gathered outsiders like him to use as experimental materials, and recognized the potential of beings such as Soul Mutators.
• Rog examined Xiuyinsi’s rudimentary inheritance, connected witch cultivation to his research into the Laws of Matter, and understood the special matter-energy conversion property of his Light Jade Golden Body.
• Rog decided to devote most of his effort in this universe to the Witch Cultivation System.
• While Rog, Orloff, Teresia, and the others sought opportunities in another universe, an emissary from that universe went to visit the Coiling Dragon Universe.

Duoye wandered through the Coiling Dragon Universe’s Spatial Turbulence and rescued Milton, a powerful being banished there. After they escaped into the Bubars Plane, Duoye asked Milton for a Fire Lowgod Godspark so he could become a god as an outsider.

• Duoye traveled through Spatial Turbulence using his innate ability and encountered Milton, who mistook him for a Sovereign.
• Duoye learned that Milton did not know the way out, so he carried him through Spatial Turbulence while asking about the universe.
• Milton tried to control Duoye with Soul Bewilderment, but Duoye’s Center Tower protected him.
• Duoye and Milton found an exit and emerged over the eastern sea of the Bubars Plane, where Milton celebrated his freedom.
• Milton agreed to take Duoye to meet a Sovereign, but Duoye first requested a Fire Lowgod Godspark to refine because he believed an outsider could not become a god naturally.

Duoye refined a High Godhead and realized that its Godspark granted outsiders eternal life in a universe that might be an Eternal Universe. He sent a clone to inform Emperor Cloudheart, who began consulting others about the discovery.

• Milton escaped Spatial Turbulence and unleashed an undead calamity across the Bubars Plane by guiding locals toward the Death Rule.
• Duoye spent three months refining a Godspark and learned that it revealed the Fire Elemental Law’s profound mysteries but not how to apply them.
• Duoye concluded that Godspark techniques could be learned from secret techniques and that refining the Godspark connected him to the universe and granted eternal life.
• Duoye suspected the universe was an Eternal Universe created by a supreme existence far more powerful than Emperor Cloudheart.
• Duoye sent a clone back to his home universe to report the discovery, and Emperor Cloudheart began consulting others about its implications.

Emperor Cloudheart convened the rulers of his universe to discuss the newly discovered universe and the mysterious supreme existence behind it. After Leticia questioned Teresia, she approached Rog to learn more, but her attempt to influence his soul failed.

• Emperor Cloudheart showed the other Emperors information about the new universe, and they agreed to gather information before entering it.
• Leticia questioned Teresia and learned about the Sovereigns, Rog, and the different levels of power in his universe.
• Rog completed a Heartless Puppet using knowledge from the Witch Cultivation legacy.
• Leticia met Rog and failed to influence his soul, then began indirectly asking him about the supreme existence behind the Coiling Dragon Universe.