Chapter Summaries

After confirming that he had reached Asura-level strength, Rog learned why Fulaite would be difficult to target and began seeking a way into the Aoqi Plane expedition. He decided to challenge a Prefect and bought confidential intelligence on the Infernal Realm’s Prefects and Purgatory’s Commanders.

• Rog and Flame ended their sparring match, and Rog confirmed he could hold his own against a veteran Asura.
• Rog asked Flame about Fulaite and learned that the Death Rule cultivator had powerful allies and protection from a Sovereign’s child.
• Rog decided to seek another chance to deal with Fulaite and planned how to enter the expedition in the Aoqi Plane.
• Rog concluded he would challenge a Prefect to gain authority and access to the expedition, though he considered challenging a Purgatory Commander if necessary.
• Rog and Dimont visited Black Sand Castle, where Rog bought the most confidential intelligence on all 216 Prefects and Commanders.

Rog challenged Makenrich, the Lord of Tianhua Prefecture, to a duel and followed him to the Anbuli Mountain Range. With spectators gathering and both men confident enough to fight without weapons, the battle was about to begin.

• Rog reviewed the Infernal Realm's Prefects and judged that his abilities made him a strong counter to Makenrich's soul attacks.
• Rog arrived at the Tianhua Prefecture residence and publicly challenged Makenrich, who warned that his fights ended with one combatant dead.
• Rog demanded an immediate duel, and Makenrich chose the Anbuli Mountain Range as their battlefield.
• News of the challenge spread, and spectators hurried to watch, most expecting Makenrich to defeat Rog with a single glance.
• Rog and Makenrich arrived above the range's highest peak, declined to use weapons, and agreed to begin the fight.

Rog survived Makenrich’s deadly soul attack and killed him with Azure Thunder, winning the challenge for Tianhua Prefecture. The spectators and soldiers hailed Rog as their new Prefect, placing him among the Infernal Realm’s 108 Asuras.

• Makenrich attacked Rog’s soul, but the Soul-Suppressing Celestial Crystal and Rog’s soul-defense secret art kept him safe.
• Makenrich used a drop of Destruction Sovereign Power and strengthened his soul attack, but Rog’s defenses withstood it.
• Rog detonated his own drop of Destruction Sovereign Power and summoned vast thunderclouds over the Anbuli Mountain Range.
• Rog struck Makenrich with Azure Thunder, killing him completely.
• Rog declared himself the new Lord of Tianhua Prefecture and flew to the Prefect’s residence as the thunderclouds dispersed.
• The spectators and hundreds of thousands of prefecture soldiers hailed Rog as Prefect, marking his place among the Infernal Realm’s 108 Asuras.

Rog mastered Thunderbolt and became a Lightning Highgod, triggering a transformation in all three of his souls. He discovered Sovereign's Might in the depths of the Elemental Sea but could not draw any of it.

• Rog ordered Elmira to have Mandel continue managing the Prefecture Army and to turn away visitors while he cultivated.
• Rog worried that Makenrich might still have a Saint Domain True Body and considered how to obtain Sovereign's Might before the expedition.
• Rog cultivated Thunderbolt for three years, completing his mastery of the final Lightning profound mystery.
• Rog's Lightning Divine Clone became a Highgod, and the Natural Laws transformed the souls of his true body and Death Divine Clone as well.
• Rog probed the Elemental Sea and sensed its vast stores of Sovereign's Might, but his soul power could not draw any out.

Rog visited Aiken to ask him to refine another drop of Sovereign's Might after using his previous one against Makenrich. Aiken offered him three drops in exchange for a small favor and suggested two places where Rog might deepen his understanding of lightning.

• Rog found that even after advancing to Highgod, he could barely stir the Sovereign's Might in his Inkstone and could not extract it himself.
• Rog traveled to the Aiken Clan's headquarters in the Pahorshi Mountains and met Aiken and his wife, Helena.
• Rog asked Aiken to refine more Sovereign's Might, and Aiken praised Rog's Azure Lightning technique and discussed its connection to the Fog Sea Riot.
• Rog explained that he had not mastered Electromagnetic Space and was still far from becoming a Paragon.
• Aiken recommended Nether Mountain and Thunder Abyss as places with extraordinary lightning power, and Rog resolved to visit them.
• Aiken offered Rog three drops of Sovereign's Might in exchange for a small favor.

Rog gathered Haidisi and several other ambitious experts to join him on an expedition to the Aoqi Plane, then began the long journey toward Purgatory in the Chaotic Sea. The group traveled by Metallic Lifeform while Rog studied intelligence on powerful experts, and Dimont remained behind to pursue ways to strengthen himself.

• Aiken asked Rog to take younger members of his clan to the expedition plane, and Rog agreed after warning them of the danger.
• Lady Helena said an affectionate farewell to Haidisi, and Rog promised to do what he could to keep her safe.
• Rog invited the Prefecture Army officers to join him, and Colin and Gu Rory volunteered to accompany the expedition.
• Rog left Elmira instructions for managing Tianhua Prefecture and departed with Haidisi's group, Colin, and Gu Rory.
• Dimont stayed behind, reflected on his limited usefulness against Asura-level enemies, and considered strengthening his body through his innate ability.
• Rog's group crossed the Star Mist Sea and entered the Chaotic Sea, while Rog cultivated and reviewed intelligence during the journey toward Purgatory.

Rog and his companions arrived at Purgatory and entered the Aoqi Plane to join its expedition. They emerged in a smaller castle, where Rog discovered that the plane’s restrictive force greatly reduced his divine sense.

• Rog and his companions landed on Fiend Island and flew to the central Fiend Castle.
• A guard captain brought them to Anpusha, the Sovereign’s Emissary responsible for the expedition’s teleportation array.
• Anpusha gave Rog a Golden Commander Badge and the others black Soldier Badges, then explained the rules for earning military merits and Sovereign’s Might.
• Rog and his companions entered the teleportation array and arrived in the Aoqi Plane.
• Rog sensed that the Aoqi Plane’s restrictive force limited his divine sense to a few hundred meters.

Rog met Remy Gaius at Sovereign Qifeng’s camp, learned about the expedition’s commanders and rewards, then led his companions into the Aoqi Plane’s mist zone. There they encountered Bainite’s squad, and the chapter left their Seven-Star Fiends fighting a group battle.

• Rog met Remy Gaius, Sovereign Qifeng’s Emissary, and learned that Lord Odris was the strongest Commander on their side and that no Paragon High-Gods had joined the expedition.
• Rog asked Colin, Gu Rory, and Haidisi whether they wanted to fight, and they chose to enter the mist zone with him.
• After traveling for three days, Rog’s group met Bainite’s enemy squad, and the two Commanders agreed to have six Seven-Star Fiends from each side fight without interference.
• Haidisi led her family’s six fighters into a group battle against Bainite’s people, who used Wind-Sand World while Haidisi countered with Deep Sea Space.
• The twelve fighters exchanged powerful techniques, and Bainite’s earth-law cultivator injured three opponents.

Rog watched Haidisi’s group defeat Bainite’s companions, then sparred with Bainite and tested their material and soul attacks. Bainite acknowledged Rog’s strength, invited him to Crimson Fortune Gorge, and the two groups parted ways.

• Haidisi’s squad held Hunt back while a Lightning Law practitioner killed two of Bainite’s fighters with Soul Attacks.
• Bainite stopped the battle before Hunt was overwhelmed, then challenged Rog to spar.
• Bainite’s Annihilation Wind Wheel clashed with Rog’s Azure Thunder, and both men demonstrated powerful material attacks.
• Bainite struck Rog with Howling Wind Sound Waves, but Rog’s soul defenses prevented the attack from harming him.
• Bainite praised Rog, invited him to Crimson Fortune Gorge, and the two groups went their separate ways.

Rog sparred with Lampard and other commanders in the Aoqi Plane while continuing to cultivate, and Gray’s past troubles caught up with him after he killed an Azure Dragon Clan descendant who tried to take Connie. Gray, Domir, and Connie fled toward Tianhua Prefecture, hoping Rog would protect them with the help of a treasure Domir had kept.

• Rog met Lampard in the Aoqi Plane and sparred with him, finding that Lampard’s Water Law excelled at defense while Rog had stronger attacks.
• Rog continued meeting commanders and improving his combat experience, including suffering a setback against an expert who cultivated the Laws of the Earth.
• After a hundred years of secluded cultivation, Rog fused his thundering profound mystery with four others and prepared to fuse all five together.
• Gray passed the Fiend examination, rose to Five-Star Fiend strength, and later became a Highgod with the strength of a Six-Star Fiend after failing to fuse a fourth profound mystery.
• Gray killed Aiwen, a direct descendant of the Azure Dragon Clan, after Aiwen tried to seize Connie, and Gray sacrificed his Fire Divine Clone to help the three escape the clan’s pursuers.
• Domir reassured Gray and Connie that Rog might protect them in Tianhua Prefecture because they were old acquaintances and Domir still possessed a valuable treasure.

Gray and Domir sought Prefect Rog’s help against the Four Divine Beasts Clan and offered him the Heart of Light Awakening. Rog used its final charge and discovered it had transformed him into a three-element soul mutant, so he began absorbing Light elemental energy cautiously to control the change.

• Valk stopped Gray, Domir, and their companion at the prefect’s residence, but let Dimont identify them as old acquaintances from the Deen Tribe.
• Dimont brought the three to Rog, who agreed to intervene against the Four Divine Beasts Clan after hearing what had happened to Gray.
• Domir gave Rog the Heart of Light Awakening, explaining that it could awaken Light aptitude and had one use remaining.
• Rog used the treasure and sensed a change in his soul that allowed him to absorb Light elemental energy and understand how souls were restricted.
• Rog realized he had become a three-element soul mutant and chose to transform his soul gradually before pursuing the Laws of Light further.

Rog completed his three-element soul mutation after becoming a god in the light element, gaining the power to extract and control Sovereign's Might. In the Aoqi Plane, he encountered Ernest pursuing William and struck at William with his ultimate move after Ernest offered a reward.

• Rog formed a Light Divine Clone and fused its power with his Death Divine Power, completing his three-element soul mutation.
• Rog extracted Destruction Sovereign Power from an Inkstone, then ordered Elmira to have the Prefecture Army sweep Tianhua Prefecture for bandits so he could obtain more Inkstones.
• After several hundred years of slaughter in the Aoqi Plane, two members of the Aiken Clan had died, while Colin and Gu Rory had drawn Rog's attention with their strength.
• Rog's group came upon Ernest chasing William, and both Ernest and William asked Rog for help, with Ernest offering a thousand drops of Sovereign's Might.
• Rog unleashed his ultimate move, summoned vast thunderclouds, located William's true body despite his Thousand Shadow Illusions, and sent black lightning toward him with Azure-lightning.

Rog killed William with a lightning attack after William repeatedly used his clones to evade him. After the battle, Ernest rewarded Rog with Sovereign's Might and offered him a Sovereign's emissary position, but Rog declined.

• Rog pursued William beneath the thunderclouds, forcing him to flee and repeatedly swap places with his clones to avoid the lightning.
• Rog unleashed Azure Thunder, and its lightning dragon attacked William again after he switched places, killing him and leaving behind a black Godspark.
• The commanders who witnessed the fight feared Rog's strength and resolved to warn Langsiluo about him.
• Ernest thanked Rog for helping him kill William and gave him a crystalline flask containing Sovereign's Might.
• Ernest offered Rog a vacant Sovereign's emissary position, but Rog declined because he wanted to remain free.

Rog’s group encountered Commander Daphne and Claire of the Silver-Eyed Witch Clan, and Gu Rory fought Claire to a stalemate. After Claire lost her temper and briefly revealed her monstrous transformation, Daphne apologized and challenged Rog to spar.

• A thousand years passed, leaving Haidisi and Difan as the only surviving members of the Aiken Clan, while Difan reached the Asura level by fusing seven Wind Law profound mysteries.
• Gu Rory volunteered to face Claire, a Silver-Eyed Witch Clan member who wielded a greatsword and cultivated the Path of Destruction.
• Claire attacked relentlessly, but Gu Rory defended himself with his Water Law technique, Flowing Dance, and held his ground.
• Rog observed Daphne’s golden eyes and learned that the Silver-Eyed Witch Clan’s abilities included powerful perception and a monstrous form triggered by extreme anger.
• Claire’s face briefly took on demonic markings before Daphne rebuked her; Claire apologized and withdrew.
• Daphne apologized for Claire and challenged Rog to spar, and Rog accepted while preparing to rely on his mastery of the Laws of Lightning and Azure Lightning.

Rog fought Daphne and discovered that her armor nullified his Azure Lightning while her swordsmanship and spatial attacks far outmatched him. After the duel ended, Claire broke through to Asura level by cutting open space.

• Rog unleashed Azure Lightning at Daphne, but her Material Defense Sovereign Artifact absorbed the attack without harming her.
• Daphne used Flower of Condemnation to surround Rog with spatial cracks, and Rog realized he could not match her strength or swordsmanship.
• Daphne called the fight a draw, but Rog acknowledged his defeat.
• Claire, inspired by the duel, struck through space with her greatsword and reached Asura level.

After Claire broke through, Rog continued sparring with commanders while Makenrich plotted revenge for the destruction of his Death Divine Clone. Makenrich traveled to the Infernal Realm, intending to enlist a powerful figure and target Rog at Starfall Peak.

• Claire thanked Rog for the inspiration that helped her break through, and Daphne invited him to visit the Abyss Plane.
• Rog reflected on his shortcomings and continued meeting and sparring with commanders in the Aoqi Plane.
• Makenrich lamented that Rog had destroyed his strongest Death Divine Clone and considered rebuilding his strength by refining three Death Rule Godsparks.
• Makenrich suspected Rog had an ownerless Sovereign Artifact protecting him from the Soul Attack, but knew the accusation would be hard to prove.
• Makenrich took his mysterious grimoire and traveled through a teleportation array to the Infernal Realm, where he learned Rog was at Starfall Peak.
• Makenrich sped away from the teleportation array, and the Sovereign's army soldiers guessed he was a Seven-Star Fiend.

Makenrich visited Miluo Island to bargain with Mosi, offering a page from the Demonic Tome in exchange for help killing Rog. Mosi agreed to the plan, which would lure Rog out by revealing Makenrich’s identity.

• Makenrich subdued the Bagshaw Clan’s guards and asked Baokewei to arrange a meeting with Castle Lord Mosi.
• Baokewei sent Youlai to escort Makenrich to Hendsey Castle, and the onlookers were disappointed when no battle broke out.
• Mosi recognized that Makenrich had come in his original body after using Refine Divine Spark to become a god again.
• Makenrich showed Mosi a Demonic Tome design and claimed the complete tome could help someone become a Paragon.
• Mosi agreed to help Makenrich lure Rog out and kill him, with the option of recruiting another helper.

Rog traveled to Dawen Island after learning Makenrich’s location and discovered that Makenrich had arranged an ambush with Mosi and Gustav. Rog struck first with his strengthened Soul Attack, killing Gustav and destroying one of Mosi’s bodies before Makenrich could act.

• Elmira told Rog that Makenrich had been found on an island in the Puze Sea Region, and Rog set out with his Death Divine Clone.
• Mosi, Gustav, and Makenrich positioned themselves around Dawen Island to ambush Rog.
• Rog used his divine sense to locate all three and launched Soul Attacks at Mosi and Gustav before they detected him.
• Gustav’s soul collapsed, while Mosi lost his Divine Beast Saint Domain True Body and Destruction Divine Clone.
• Rog recognized Mosi and Gustav after their true bodies reverted to their original forms, while Mosi flew into a rage at Hendsey Castle.

Rog killed Makenrich and collected the bodies and treasures of the three prefecture-lord experts he had ambushed. Back in Tianhua Prefecture, he studied Makenrich’s diagrams and began improving his understanding of the Death Rule.

• Rog killed Makenrich with a soul attack and claimed his interspatial ring.
• Rog found Gustav’s hidden body and recognized his true form as a Storm Elemental Spirit, then collected his remains and possessions.
• Rog collected Mosi’s Blood-Veined Titan body and treasures, along with Makenrich’s belongings, and left the area.
• Rog decided not to pursue Mosi’s remaining Death Divine Clone, who had fled after Rog killed his other bodies.
• Rog returned to Tianhua Prefecture and found diagrams among Makenrich’s belongings that contained Death Rule techniques.
• Rog studied the diagrams and gained new insights into the Death Rule.

Hayden celebrated Makenrich’s death and kept the Death God's Demonic Codex, while Rog examined the spoils and discovered a pearl that nourished his soul. When the final battle began on the Aoqi Plane, Rog stayed back as Colin and Gu Rory joined the deadly melee.

• Hayden realized Makenrich had died, freed him from his control, and decided to keep the Death God's Demonic Codex for himself.
• Rog found that Mosi's armor was a Sovereign Artifact he could not use, and took a fine weapon and rare material from Gustav.
• Rog discovered that Gustav's spherical pearl restored and nourished the soul, named it the Soul-Nourishing Pearl, and continued studying the Death Rule.
• Six seven-colored beams signaled the start of the final battle, and soldiers from both camps poured through the three passageways into a brutal melee.
• Rog, Difan, and Haidisi stayed out of the fighting, while Colin and Gu Rory entered the battlefield to seek a chance to advance.