Chapter Summaries

Wuma Xiu revealed himself as the Goddess of Beauty and declared his domains to be strength, freedom, and beauty rather than love or lust. He left 01 and the gathered believers facing the truth of his identity, after asking 01 to help him.

• Wuma Xiu returned the scroll to the Evil God and asked what they should do about the believers and Federation ships.
• Wuma Xiu approached 01 and said he had done him a favor, so 01 should help him in return.
• 01 realized Wuma Xiu was a god and felt grateful and ashamed that he had imprisoned him and tried to sacrifice him.
• Wuma Xiu transformed into his adult form and revealed himself as the Goddess of Beauty.
• Wuma Xiu declared that he presided over strength, freedom, and beauty, while leaving love and lust to the Love God.

Wuma Xiu ordered 01 and the other believers to atone for their sins, while the Evil God remembered how a punch from the Goddess of Beauty had changed his outlook. The Fanatics accepted the divine oracle under the Evil God’s threatening pressure, though it was nothing like the oracle they had expected.

• Wuma Xiu told 01 to continue living by human rules and atone for the believers’ sins.
• The Evil God recalled how the Goddess of Beauty had punched him through eighteen walls and inspired him to restrain his destructive impulses.
• The Evil God noticed the believers had not responded to Wuma Xiu and threatened them for disrespecting the Goddess of Beauty.
• The Fanatics shouted that they obeyed the divine oracle of the Goddess of Beauty and the Evil God, surprised by how unlike their expectations it was.

Wuma Xiu recognized Si Lin as the young patriarch of the Jade Qilin Clan and gifted him the captured Evil God Fanatics. Si Lin resolved to claim the patriarch’s position, while the Fanatics were spared execution and sentenced to serve according to their crimes.

• Wuma Xiu summoned Si Lin with Dark Night and revealed that wielding the weapon marked him as the next patriarch of the Jade Qilin Clan, a clan under his protection.
• Wuma Xiu learned that Si Lin had not known about the clan’s guardian deity because he had run away before the clan could pass down its secrets.
• Wuma Xiu gave the captured Fanatics to Si Lin as a first-meeting gift, and Si Lin accepted on behalf of the Jade Qilin Clan.
• Si Lin decided to return home, take up the young patriarch’s duties, and remove his father from the patriarch’s seat.
• 01 and 02 reflected on Si Lin’s connection to Wuma Xiu, and 01’s guilt eased after he understood his devotion as a way of honoring the Evil God’s affection for the Goddess of Beauty.
• Si Lin’s fleet captured every Evil God Fanatic without losses, and the Federation spared them execution but required them to serve according to their crimes.

Mu Li returned to Landon Star and reunited with his desperate parents, while Wuma Xiu and the Goddess of Beauty transformed the polluted planet with a spectacular shower of golden light. The chapter ended as the Starfolk marveled at the beautiful change.

• Mu Dad and Mu Mom returned to their home and feared Mu Li was still missing when they found the door open but the house empty.
• Mu Li ran home and embraced his parents, who realized their son had truly returned.
• Wuma Xiu watched the family reunion from a tower crane as the Evil God stood beside him.
• The Goddess of Beauty unleashed divine power that covered Landon Star in golden auroras and shimmering light.
• A starving child caught a golden speck that turned into a butterfly, and she smiled at its beauty.

Wuma Xiu and the Evil God departed Landon Star after Wuma Xiu blessed the planet with golden snow, restoring its air, sky, and waters. Mu Li recognized the Goddess of Beauty as his protector and promised not to waste his blessing, while the gods wondered who had earned the Goddess’s favor.

• Wuma Xiu and the Evil God walked into the sky as golden snow fell over Landon Star, and Wuma Xiu noticed Mu Li had spiritual aptitude.
• Mu Li asked Wuma Xiu who he was, and Wuma Xiu revealed himself as the Goddess of Beauty before vanishing with the Evil God.
• Mu Li told his reunited parents that the Goddess of Beauty had protected him and that the golden snowfall was a miracle.
• The Starfolk of Landon Star discovered that the polluted air and water had been restored and that the sky had turned clear and blue.
• The gods sensed the outpouring of divine power and speculated that an unknown lucky person on Landon Star had attracted the Goddess of Beauty’s favor.

News of the Goddess of Beauty’s appearance and Landon Star’s miraculous restoration spread across the Star Network, prompting the Jade Qilin Clan to buy the planet and announce an open succession. The chapter ended with the clan affairs officer questioning why the patriarch would step down just as the goddess had awakened.

• Reports from Federation personnel spread news of the Goddess of Beauty’s true form and the Evil God's descent across the Star Network.
• The Jade Qilin Clan’s fleets traveled to Landon Star, whose polluted landscape had been transformed into a pristine wilderness.
• The Jade Qilin Clan bought Landon Star and guaranteed its inhabitants permanent residence while banning unauthorized commercial development.
• The Jade Qilin Clan announced that its patriarch would step down and that every clan member could compete to succeed him.
• The clan affairs officer asked the patriarch why he would give up serving at the goddess’s side now that she had awakened.

Si Ting arranged to draw his runaway son Si Lin back to the Jade Qilin Clan after the clan announced that its leader would step down. Wuma Xiu told the Evil God he would personally crown the clan’s next leader, leaving the succession ceremony ahead.

• Si Ting showed the clan affairs officer intelligence about Wuma Xiu’s awakening and the Jade Qilin Clan’s announcement, predicting Si Lin would return.
• The clan affairs officer asked whether Si Lin should learn that Si Ting had secretly supported his military career and helped him escape with Dark Night.
• Si Ting said he would reveal the truth only after Si Lin returned and took over as clan leader.
• Wuma Xiu asked the Evil God to stop following him, then explained that the Jade Qilin Clan would soon choose a new leader.
• Wuma Xiu said he would personally crown the successor and promised he would not neglect his responsibilities.

Wuma Xiu discussed the Love God’s resentment with the Evil God and reflected on his past as the God of Wine, whom the Goddess of Beauty had regarded as a kindred spirit. He learned that the God of Wine had not awakened yet, and the system reassured him that their shared identity would not expose him.

• The Evil God told Wuma Xiu that the Love God had awakened and was searching the Evil God Palace for him.
• Wuma Xiu recalled how people’s red threads broke after encountering the Goddess of Beauty and concluded that the Love God probably hated him.
• The Evil God said that the one Wuma Xiu cared about had not awakened, and Wuma Xiu replied that he would sense it when he did.
• Wuma Xiu remembered playing as the God of Wine and spending time with the Goddess of Beauty, including singing for him and unlocking the [Wine and Song] CG.
• The system told Wuma Xiu that the God of Wine had always been one of his alternate identities, so meeting himself could not expose him.

The Evil God watched Wuma Xiu remember the God of Wine with tenderness and left, jealous that the Goddess of Beauty’s affection was not for him. Si Lin told Carl he planned to resign from the Federation military and return to the Jade Qilin Clan, and they prepared to leave that day.

• The Evil God saw the gentle expression on Wuma Xiu’s face as he mentioned the God of Wine, felt both happiness and jealousy, and reluctantly left.
• Si Lin told Carl he intended to resign as a Federation major general and return to his home planet to inherit the Jade Qilin Clan’s family business.
• Carl protested Si Lin’s decision, then listened as Si Lin explained that he belonged to the Jade Qilin Clan and had run away from home ten years earlier.
• Carl agreed to leave his military career and follow Si Lin, worrying that his major general would face trouble without his support.
• Si Lin showed Carl the Jade Qilin Clan’s announcement and said they would leave that day to reach his home planet before the date listed.

Si Ting waited confidently for Si Lin to arrive at the Jade Qilin Clan's patriarch selection, while Si Lin and Carl were delayed by Wuma Xiu joining their ship. Wuma Xiu shifted into his youthful form and teased Si Lin about preferring him that way, leaving Si Lin flustered.

• At the patriarch selection, Si Ting assured the clan affairs officer that Si Lin would come despite the ceremony nearing its end.
• After dealing with space pirates, Si Lin and Carl encountered Wuma Xiu, who appeared on a cloud and asked to hitch a ride to their shared destination.
• Si Lin restrained Dark Night when it trembled as if it wanted to fly toward Wuma Xiu again.
• Si Lin recalled how he had tried to protect Wuma Xiu when they first met, and Wuma Xiu praised his courage.
• Wuma Xiu changed into his youthful form, pinched Si Lin's cheek, and asked whether Si Lin liked him better that way.
• Si Lin blushed and admitted inwardly that Wuma Xiu's youthful form made him feel more protective.

Wuma Xiu teased Si Lin aboard the spaceship, leaving the young major general flustered and regretting that he had never taken Beauty Training. Meanwhile, Si Ting was about to declare Si Yan the winner of the Jade Qilin Clan’s selection when Si Lin arrived on the trial platform and challenged the result.

• Wuma Xiu transformed into a five-year-old and asked Si Lin for a hug, prompting Si Lin to embrace him before Dark Night flew excitedly through the cockpit.
• Wuma Xiu returned to his adult form, teased Si Lin about preferring younger people, and told him he was too young.
• Wuma Xiu asked whether Si Lin had taken Beauty Training, and Si Lin silently regretted missing the course after realizing how badly he had blushed and faltered.
• After the clan’s day-long selection, the affairs officer presented Si Yan as the final victor, and Si Ting prepared to announce his victory.
• Si Lin appeared in the center of the trial platform, drove his spear into it, and declared that he was still there.

At the Jade Qilin Clan’s coronation, Wuma Xiu revealed that he had worried the clan had forgotten him, then chose to stay with Si Ting. Si Ting eagerly agreed to appoint a new clan leader so he could serve Wuma Xiu.

• Si Ting arrived at the trial platform carrying Wuma Xiu, startling the clan affairs officer.
• Wuma Xiu said Si Lin’s behavior had made him think the Jade Qilin Clan had forgotten him, and Si Ting angrily demanded to know who had spread such a rumor.
• Wuma Xiu explained that Si Lin had been working a side job when they met, so he had assumed the clan was poor and given him a gift.
• Si Ting apologized for raising Si Lin poorly, then asked Wuma Xiu what he thought of him.
• Wuma Xiu said Si Ting was not bad and agreed that Si Ting could stay by his side.
• Si Ting pointed to the two candidates on the platform and announced that he was choosing a new clan leader.

Si Ting watched Si Lin win the clan trial and prove he was ready to take responsibility for the Jade Qilin Clan. He formally named his son the clan's one thousand six hundred and eighty-third head.

• Si Ting held Wuma Xiu and reflected on the private diaries kept by past Jade Qilin Clan heads, realizing he could begin writing his own.
• The clan affairs officer and the Jade Qilin clansmen recognized Wuma Xiu as their god and marveled at his beauty.
• Si Lin defeated Si Yan in the trial while looking toward Wuma Xiu, and Si Yan said Si Lin still had to earn the clan's respect.
• Si Lin swore to take responsibility for the clan, invoking his honor as a former Federation major general.
• Si Ting stepped onto the trial platform and declared Si Lin the one thousand six hundred and eighty-third head of the Jade Qilin Clan.

Si Lin accepted the Jade Qilin Clan leadership in a coronation presided over by the returning Goddess of Beauty, Wuma Xiu. Wuma Xiu renewed his protection of the clan, sealing their ancient covenant with divine power.

• Wuma Xiu transformed the trial platform into a radiant coronation stairway and presented a crown to Si Lin.
• Si Ting and the Jade Qilin clansmen knelt before Wuma Xiu, while Si Lin climbed the stairs to accept his role.
• Si Lin knelt before Wuma Xiu with Dark Night and received the crown as the 1,683rd clan leader of the Jade Qilin Clan.
• Si Lin swore to serve his clansmen and repay the god's grace, and Wuma Xiu said he believed in him.
• Wuma Xiu raised the kneeling clansmen and declared that the Jade Qilin Clan would remain under his protection.
• Wuma Xiu renewed the clan's ancient covenant, marking every Jade Qilin clansman with a golden halo of divine power.

After Wuma Xiu chose Si Ting to serve at the Goddess of Beauty’s Palace, Si Lin confronted his father and learned why Si Ting had accepted the role. Si Ting welcomed Si Lin home and arranged for him to resume his clan training while he continued managing the Jade Qilin Clan.

• Si Lin asked Wuma Xiu to let him serve, but Wuma Xiu said he had chosen Si Ting instead.
• Si Lin confronted Si Ting and argued that, as the new clan leader, he was best suited to serve their god.
• Si Ting explained that the clan’s affairs were too demanding for Si Lin to abandon and admitted he had wanted to make up for being absent as a father.
• Si Ting said Wuma Xiu had called Si Lin too young and had asked Si Ting to serve at the Goddess of Beauty’s Palace.
• Si Lin accepted his clan leader duties, and Si Ting told him to make up his missed lessons while Si Ting handled the clan’s affairs.
• Si Ting allowed Si Lin to keep his outsider companion and welcomed him home; Si Lin replied that he was home.

Si Lin struggled through his first day as Jade Qilin Clan leader, then drafted a plan to aid neglected frontier planets. He and Carl agreed the aid would require recipients to praise My God, while Carl realized Si Lin had probably never formally resigned from the Federation military.

• The clan affairs officer brought Si Lin three carts of documents and told him ten more were coming, leaving Si Lin overwhelmed before he accepted the workload.
• Carl wondered whether Si Ting had helped shield Si Lin from harsher punishments in the Federation, then joined Si Lin in reviewing the clan documents.
• Si Lin dismissed Carl’s news about a possible Federation promotion and claimed he had submitted his resignation by leaving a note, prompting Carl to suspect he had skipped the formal process.
• After they finished the documents late at night, Si Lin showed Carl a detailed plan to aid frontier industrial planets through the Jade Qilin Clan.
• Si Lin said he wanted the aid recipients to believe in and praise My God, and Carl promised to support him.

At the Federation's supreme council, Bai Zhuyu appointed Yang Zhi to the seat left vacant by Si Lin, who had returned to lead the Jade Qilin Clan. Meanwhile, Wuma Xiu flew toward Perching Flower Star to see its blooming flowers, unaware of whom he would meet there.

• Bai Zhuyu arrived at the council with Yang Zhi and announced that Si Lin had left and that he recommended Yang Zhi for the vacant major general position.
• Bai Zhuyu told the council that the Moon God had personally invited Yang Zhi into the Moon God Palace, winning the members' acceptance, and directed him to take Si Lin's seat.
• Bai Zhuyu showed the council Si Lin's note saying he had gone to inherit the family business, then explained that Si Lin had returned to become patriarch of the Jade Qilin Clan.
• Yang Zhi reflected on the gods and resolved to prove himself, unknowingly making Si Lin his rival.
• Wuma Xiu checked that his protection still covered the Jade Qilin Clan's home planet, then flew toward Perching Flower Star to see its flowers.

Wuma Xiu encountered the Love God while visiting Perching Flower Star, where the Love God confronted him over the red threads that kept breaking around him. The Love God blamed Wuma Xiu for disrupting his work and wondered why the Goddess of Beauty had powers and a divine office so unlike what he expected.

• Wuma Xiu arrived on Perching Flower Star and found the Love God waiting among the flowers with a red thread in hand.
• The Love God explained that he tied red threads to give people chances to fall in love, but that the threads broke when people missed their chance or died.
• The Love God recalled discovering that his threads broke whenever they encountered the Goddess of Beauty, and concluded that Wuma Xiu was his natural enemy.
• The Love God told Wuma Xiu that he had waited for him on the planet after guessing he would visit its beautiful scenery.
• Wuma Xiu greeted the Love God casually, while the Love God worried that he was too weak to fight the Goddess of Beauty.
• The Love God wondered why Wuma Xiu wielded strength and why [sexual desire] had been added to his divine offices.

The Love God confronted Wuma Xiu about avoiding him, but Wuma Xiu's attempted apology and challenge left the Love God flustered. When Wuma Xiu walked away, the Love God followed and proposed that he wear a veil whenever he went out.

• The Love God demanded to know why Wuma Xiu had been avoiding him, and Wuma Xiu asked why he should approach someone who hated him.
• Wuma Xiu offered the Love God a flower as an apology, but the Love God refused and watched him tuck it into his collar.
• Wuma Xiu raised a fist and suggested they fight, so the Love God backed away and claimed he had only come to look at flowers.
• The Love God accidentally stripped a flower bare, then used his red thread to make it bloom again and claimed it was thanking him.
• Wuma Xiu walked away, and the Love God chased after him, proposing that he wear a veil whenever he went out.

Wuma Xiu awakened a flowering tree’s sentience while the Love God struggled with his growing feelings for him. He stopped the Love God from destroying more trees and had the red thread bind him on Flowing Cloud.

• Wuma Xiu put on a scarlet veil, and the Love God panicked over his attraction to him and smashed a flowering tree with his head.
• Wuma Xiu repaired the tree and used divine power to grant it sentience.
• The Love God tried to ram another tree, but Wuma Xiu stopped him and warned the newly sentient tree not to retaliate.
• Wuma Xiu caught the Love God’s red thread, pulled the Love God away from the trees, and placed him on Flowing Cloud.
• Wuma Xiu told the red thread to tie up the Love God, and it bound him tightly with a bow on his chest.