Chapter Summaries

Lu Yao agreed to join the expedition to the ruins of Western Extreme Country after learning that Song Shiyi’s mentor was the Kitchen God, and he heard how Ketu Star Lord was cooperating with the committee over Rahu Star Lord’s sentence. As he prepared for the trip, King Wuji reported that she had collected all 99 suns, plus three extra.

• Song Shiyi told Lu Yao that the committee and the Imperial Guard Department were excavating Western Extreme Country, and that her mentor Teacher Zao was the Lord of Fate known as the Kitchen God.
• Lu Yao agreed to Isabelle’s invitation to join the expedition, and Song Shiyi said Mary and Huang Jia could come as well.
• Song Shiyi explained that Gandharva had turned herself in after carrying a message from Ketu Star Lord to Rahu Star Lord, and that Ketu Star Lord was cooperating with the committee while staying outside the country.
• Lu Yao learned that the Wish Seed smuggling incident had ended for the time being and prepared for the Western Extreme Country trip two days later.
• After Isabelle returned to the Void Universe, King Wuji prayed to Lu Yao and reported that she had collected all 99 suns, along with three extra.

Lu Yao made Atum his Subordinate God, freed him from his curse, and tested the sun-based Miracles [Sun Herding] and [Twilight Hour]. The chapter ended with Mao Cao reporting a suspected entrance to Luofu Cave, Zhao Gongming’s Voyage Origin, prompting Lu Yao to investigate its potential treasures.

• Lu Yao fed 102 suns to Black Bull Monul, earning his loyalty and accepting his vassalage as a Subordinate God.
• Atum’s Old God’s Curse was lifted, and Lu Yao learned that the bull could not communicate but possessed powerful sun-based Miracles.
• Lu Yao tested [Sun Herding], repairing and strengthening a Broken Sun with World Stones and a Kindling Item.
• Mao Cao prayed to Lu Yao and reported finding a suspected entrance to Luofu Cave in Mystic Arts Country.
• Lu Yao recognized Luofu Cave as Zhao Gongming’s Voyage Origin and became eager to investigate its possible treasures.

Jian Xin traveled across many lands to investigate traces of the old gods after witnessing a divine phenomenon in the desert. When his girlfriend Ao Shen reported the appearance of an invisible dragon in Mystic Arts Country, he went there to investigate and learned it might be an old Evil Dragon god.

• Jian Xin inherited an advanced Charm Technique that made women especially drawn to him, then left his swordsman work to travel and attend Old Gods Society gatherings.
• After witnessing strange patterns and divine power reshaping the desert, Jian Xin told the Old Gods Society and began collecting crystal images of possible old-god traces.
• Jian Xin traveled to Mystic Arts Country after Ao Shen told him enormous dragon tracks and signs of Divine Might had appeared there.
• Ao Shen warned Jian Xin that an invisible dragon had destroyed the Black Chapel headquarters and might be an old Evil Dragon god tied to the Lord of the Holy Hall.
• Ao Shen took Jian Xin toward the Four Seas Temple so the Dragon Ancestor could bless him, and Jian Xin said he did not know whether the altar's Sacred Artifact was held by the Yao Tribe.

Jian Xin investigated the mysterious dragon clawprints appearing around Dragon Flag Island and concluded that they were an illusion created by a being that might not be a dragon. After he exposed an entity possessing Ao Shen, a powerful shadow appeared and the Immortal Crane recognized it as the True Lord.

• Jian Xin visited Dragon Flag Island with Ao Shen and saw that the Four Seas Temple had begun enshrining Lord Yao beside the Dragon Ancestor.
• Ao Shen told Jian Xin that an Evil Dragon had left clawprints across the nearby islands and that Dragonborn were fleeing; she asked if she could go to his home if the danger continued.
• Jian Xin examined the clawprints and found that they did not match the tracks of a physical dragon, so he suspected that someone had deliberately created the image of one.
• Jian Xin and Ao Shen investigated flocks of birds near the marks, and Maji later confirmed that the collected soil contained traces of Wind Element and Water Element.
• Jian Xin confronted the person controlling Ao Shen, and a black shadow emerged as the Dragon Binding Rope appeared and the Immortal Crane attacked.
• The black shadow overwhelmed the Immortal Crane, which fell to its knees and begged the True Lord for forgiveness.

Lu Yao learned that Mysterious Dragon was likely tied to Luofu Cave and acquired the Mystic Arts Country to investigate. There he captured Crane Taoist, who revealed that he served True Lord Yellow Dragon and had pursued the Dragon Binding Rope to avenge his master.

• Mao Cao reported that Long Ji and Mystic Star Raven identified Mysterious Dragon as a likely Dragon Language Sorcery presence connected to Luofu Cave and the Dragon Binding Rope.
• Lu Yao summoned the Dragon Binding Rope, learned it remembered nothing, then bought the Mystic Arts Country from the Messenger for 3 million faith.
• Jian Xin uncovered that Ao Shen was controlled by a hidden power and reported suspected Mysterious Dragon traces near Dragon Flag Island.
• Lu Yao sent Atum to confront the Immortal Crane emerging from Ao Shen, but Crane Taoist surrendered before the fight began.
• Lu Yao interrogated Crane Taoist, who said he was a Daoist child of True Lord Yellow Dragon and sought revenge for the Dragon Binding Rope’s past attack on his master.

Lu Yao learned how Crane Taoist had used the Four Seas Temple’s prayers to open Magu Cave, Huanglong Zhenren’s ruined cultivation site and Voyage Origin. After collecting its Wonder and hearing Crane Taoist’s account of the ancient war between Kunlun Mountain and Penglai Island, Lu Yao made the crane his sixteenth apostle to guard the cave.

• Isabelle questioned Crane Taoist, who explained that it had tried to seize the Dragon Binding Rope and could open Magu Cave through the Four Seas Temple’s prayers.
• Crane Taoist opened Magu Cave, and Lu Yao sent Divine Offspring Giant Forrest inside to inspect it; Marquis Sui’s Pearl found no treasures beyond the damaged Dragon Head statue.
• Lu Yao identified the statue as the LV7 Exquisite Wonder Two Immortals Mountain Magu Cave and converted it, gaining a Dragon Qi cultivation site and a Divine Altar.
• Crane Taoist told Isabelle that Huanglong Zhenren had once been Yinglong and had fought for Kunlun Mountain against Penglai Island during King Wu’s Campaign Against Zhou.
• Crane Taoist recounted Huanglong Zhenren’s defeats by enemy treasures and his own survival as a ghost after Huanglong Zhenren fell.
• Lu Yao offered Crane Taoist the choice to become an apostle or be expelled, and Crane Taoist accepted the Apostle’s Mark to guard Magu Cave as Lu Yao’s sixteenth apostle.

Lu Yao questioned Crane Taoist and Baroye about Kunlun, Penglai, and the Spirit Realm, learning that the two immortal lands were districts of one world built for ascension. After gathering information about True Lord Yellow Dragon and arranging for Crane Taoist to watch Magu Cave, Lu Yao prepared to repair Cloud Temple.

• Lu Yao questioned Crane Taoist, who explained that Kunlun and Penglai faced a calamity as the realms collapsed.
• Lu Yao summoned Baroye, and the two confirmed that Kunlun and Penglai were districts of one Spirit Realm world used to help people ascend as Feathered Ones rather than become gods.
• Baroye struggled to recall deeper information about the Feathered Ones and the Spirit Race, while Crane Taoist said True Lord Yellow Dragon had been an Honored Dragon of the Yinglong clan.
• Crane Taoist revealed that True Lord Yellow Dragon had facilitated an alliance between Kunlun and the Yinglong clan and received incense offerings from the clan.
• Lu Yao put Baroye away and assigned Crane Taoist to monitor Magu Cave and the Altar of Gods, then set out to repair Cloud Temple.

Lu Yao repaired Cloud Temple’s rain rule and expanded its Rule Traction range, while preparing for the Resurrection Kingdom’s first Era Update by entrusting Mao Cao with the Mystic Arts Country. The update began before Lu Yao could observe its effects, leaving him to gather resources and await what would happen.

• Brain Worm reported that Sun Ship · Noon had been seized by the Assyrians and that Menes would alert them if it found further information.
• Lu Yao spent 940 World Stones to restore Cloud Temple’s rain rule, bringing rain to the desert and delighting Sand City’s residents.
• Lu Yao used his remaining World Stones to increase Cloud Temple’s Rule Traction range from 3 to 4, extending its reach over nearby Grit Worlds.
• Lu Yao learned that the Resurrection Kingdom would undergo an Era Update and appointed Mao Cao to govern the Mystic Arts Country while respecting its beliefs and customs.
• Lu Yao granted Mao Cao the Dianke Warrior for protection, but the Era Update began and barred Lu Yao from entering or observing the Resurrection Kingdom.
• Lu Yao researched Era Updates, then returned to Abyss Layer Seven to gather resources with Rock King for Cloud Temple’s future repairs.

Nitou witnessed Iron Foot die while saving Farenka from a blood sacrifice, then saw the Harvest Brotherhood vow revenge against the Black Chapel. Later, Camilla left for Resurrection Kingdom, and Nitou accompanied Golden Fist to a negotiation where the Brotherhood registered with the kingdom.

• Nitou and Iron Foot confronted a Beast Head Priest and his followers at an altar in Brotherhood territory, where Farenka was bound for sacrifice.
• Nitou ran to fetch Golden Fist, but when they returned, Iron Foot had died after offering himself in Farenka’s place.
• Golden Fist vowed to kill anyone from the Black Chapel who entered his territory until the murderer was handed over.
• Nitou gave Camilla a clay cat, and she later left Mystic Arts Country with a Goblin Merchant bound for Resurrection Kingdom.
• Golden Fist brought Nitou to a negotiation hosted by Xidar, introduced the Harvest Brotherhood, and registered it with Resurrection Kingdom.

At a meeting with Resurrection Kingdom officials, the major societies of Mystic Arts Country stated their positions and learned they would have to register and obey the kingdom’s laws. Afterward, Golden Fist assigned Nitou to lead the Brotherhood’s team to the Resurrection Kingdom and seek a place for them there.

• Ao Li of Four Seas Temple expressed support for Lord Yao and the Resurrection Kingdom, offered deep-sea fish maw as an apology, and was told the gift could not be accepted.
• Tatar of Green Forest asked whether her people’s territory, beliefs, and customs would change, and Xidar assured her they would be protected while suggesting that her people perform in the kingdom’s theater.
• White Dove represented Black Chapel and agreed to register after Xidar cut short his statement about the Chapel’s beliefs.
• Xidar ordered the societies to register their names, territories, businesses, structures, and members, and stated that all organizations in Resurrection Kingdom had to obey Lord Yao’s decrees and its laws.
• Golden Fist ordered Nitou to lead the Brotherhood’s team to the Resurrection Kingdom, build relations, and find a role for the Brotherhood there.

Nitou helped Zaha, chief of the dwindling Temporal Tribe, secure a physician by accepting the tribe’s Hair Whip as collateral, then delivered Zaha’s Calamity Chest to Lord Yao’s Temple. Three years later, Nitou received a divine Blessing and became a Hero, and Lord Yao summoned him.

• Nitou lent Zaha 2,400 Sea Shell Currency against the Temporal Tribe’s Hair Whip and sent Douzi to help him find a Yao Clan Physician.
• Nitou reflected on the Brotherhood’s role connecting groups in the Resurrection Kingdom, the Green Forest Dance Troupe’s success, and the Black Chapel’s ban from the kingdom over counterfeit medicine.
• Nitou watched Tatar’s final performance in Resurrection City, exchanged gifts with her, and said goodbye as she left for Sand City.
• Zaha returned to say the physician had cured his tribesmen and gave Nitou the Calamity Chest, which he said contained a world-destroying monster.
• Nitou brought the Calamity Chest to the Temple and prayed before Lord Yao’s Divine Statue.
• Three years later, Nitou received a divine Blessing and became a Hero, and Lord Mao Cao’s Dragon Cat arrived to take him to meet Lord Yao.

After an era update brought Light Element creatures to Resurrection Kingdom, Lu Yao watched its forces capture a sun-powered Gathering Light Beast. He investigated Nitou’s Calamity Chest in Magu Cave and released a yellow being called Gathering Spirit, leaving its connection to the Wish Spirit unclear.

• The era update accelerated natural growth, introduced Light Element creatures that harmed the Undead, and reduced the Undead birth rate.
• Lu Yao watched Resurrection Kingdom’s army exploit the Gathering Light Beast’s weakness after sunset and capture it.
• Lu Yao found that Nitou had offered a Calamity Chest, made him a Hero, and learned that Nitou had helped avert a disaster in the Mystic Arts Country.
• Lu Yao took the Calamity Chest to Magu Cave and opened it, releasing a yellow Dragonfly Man identified as Gathering Spirit.

Lu Yao captured the Gathering Spirit Zhou Wei by using Baroye as bait, and Baroye merged with it and became an apostle with its abilities. Baroye then revealed that Zhou Wei had been trapped by Hermes during the ancient God War over Mystic Arts Country, which the gods had fought over because of a cave.

• Lu Yao examined Yellow Dragonfly and learned that the Gathering Spirit could reproduce through living beings and collect information from worlds and their rules.
• Baroye explained how to control the Gathering Spirit by letting it symbiotically enter a loyal bearer, so Lu Yao used Baroye as bait and marked it as an apostle.
• Baroye and Yellow Dragonfly merged, leaving Baroye's self-awareness in control and granting it the Gathering Spirit's abilities alongside its Wish Corridor.
• Baroye identified the Gathering Spirit as Zhou Wei and recounted how it had collected worlds before losing contact with its hive and being sealed by Hermes in the Calamity Chest.
• Baroye described the gods' thousand-year struggle over Mystic Arts Country and revealed that they had been fighting over a cave.

Lu Yao discovered that the Creation Cave, an ancient site containing a Nature God, still existed beneath Mystic Arts Country and swallowed everyone who entered. After several explorers vanished, Baroye volunteered to enter the cave, leaving Lu Yao ready to break it open if the Wish Spirit could not return.

• Baroye explained that the gods once fought over Mystic Arts Country’s Creation Cave, but no one who entered it ever returned.
• Lu Yao sent Baroye and Marquis Sui’s Pearl to locate the cave, while Mao Cao assembled an advance team to explore it.
• Baroye and Marquis Sui’s Pearl found the intact Creation Cave beneath a magma pool, but even Lu Yao’s True Sight Curse could not reveal more about it.
• Lu Yao sent Forrest and several explorers into the cave, and each one vanished without a trace, so he stopped the advance team.
• Lu Yao considered forcing the cave open with biochemical waste, but Baroye volunteered to enter and finally leapt inside after Lu Yao urged it to act.

Baroye investigated the frozen Mud Sea in Creation Cave and learned that a Feathered One had impaled the Creation Goddess, leaving her to be devoured by Curse Worms that hunted every intruder. After two years of gathering information and chaos, Baroye approached the Goddess’s husk and prepared to turn the awakened Curse Worms’ ambush against them.

• Baroye entered Creation Cave, found a frozen Mud Sea and a gigantic Divine Statue pinned by a Long Spear, and saw no trace of the other groups that had entered.
• Baroye watched the statue and the exit for two years, then collected the Mud Sea and absorbed the memories recorded within it.
• Baroye learned that a Feathered One had impaled the Creation Goddess and that Curse Worms had devoured her and hunted later visitors to the cave.
• Baroye flew onto the Goddess’s husk, awakening the Curse Worms, and faced their coordinated attack as a Gathering Spirit.

Lu Yao learned that Baroye had cleared Creation Cave, where the Feathered One Lahab had attacked a weakened Creation Machine. After collecting Brionac and absorbing the machine’s remains, Baroye discovered that Creation Machines came from the Spirit Race’s Spirit Foundation Mythology.

• Baroye reported defeating the Curse Worms in Creation Cave and brought Lu Yao 9.44 million Flames of Faith.
• Lu Yao learned that the Curse Worms were Lahab’s molts and descendants, and that Lahab had ambushed the Creation Machine while it was weakened by creating a world.
• Lu Yao inspected the Creation Machine’s remains and found Brionac, a living demon spear that had helped subdue it.
• Following Baroye’s advice, Lu Yao used fresh blood and sleeping potions to calm Brionac and collect it.
• Lu Yao ordered Baroye to gather the Creation Machine’s remains, and Baroye deciphered that the machine came from the Spirit Race’s Spirit Foundation Mythology.

Baroye explained how Spirit Foundation Mythology gathered life information and used it to create worlds for the Spirit Race, while the Messenger of the Gods revealed why Hermes had left Mystic Arts Country undeveloped. Lu Yao arranged care for the fallen Vanguard and learned that surviving Spirit Foundations might let him restore lives.

• Baroye described Spirit Foundation Mythology, its four stages, and the roles of Yellow Dragonfly-type and Chameleon-type Gathering Spirits in collecting spirit foundations.
• Lu Yao contacted the Messenger of the Gods, proposed cooperating to develop dangerous worlds, and heard that Hermes had severed a hidden connection from Mystic Arts Country before dying in the Dragon Sealing War.
• The Messenger explained that he had moved Hermes's Goblin believers to the Twin Snake Empire and had avoided investigating Mystic Arts Country's risks further.
• Lu Yao asked Mao Cao to ensure the fallen Vanguard received proper compensation and care.
• Baroye reported that some spirit foundations remained usable and that Lu Yao could use them to restore lives, changing his plans to rest.

Lu Yao used Spirit Foundations to create several new species in Cloud Temple and the Yao Clan World, then overcame a missing prototype by spending World Stones to bring the Treasure Mimic into existence. He went to sleep after confirming the new species had been born.

• Lu Yao rejected the arson-prone Fire-starting Bird and chose the Big-eared Fox as his first Spirit Foundation.
• Lu Yao spent 60,000 Flames of Faith to add the Big-eared Fox to Cloud Temple's rules, and watched the species begin to appear and form packs.
• Lu Yao created Sand Fish and Diving Camels, then introduced the predatory Swamp Tentacle into the main Yao Clan World.
• Lu Yao tried to create the Treasure Mimic in Cloud Temple, but its rule connection failed because the world lacked a corresponding prototype.
• Lu Yao supplied two World Stones, completed the Treasure Mimic's creation, and went to bed.

The Sand Treasure King struggled to find a way for Treasure Mimics to survive as the Yao Tribe learned to avoid their traditional ambushes. After Blood Fang’s illness left him trapped inside the chest, the Blood Knight advised the Sand Treasure King to join the humans, and he began selling treasure-box openings in Immortality City.

• The Sand Treasure King discussed Treasure Mimics’ declining hunting success with the Ice Mist Box and concluded that the Yao Tribe knew their tricks too well.
• Two young people left water and Sea Shell Currency beside the Sand Treasure King, who took them after they had gone.
• Blood Fang asked the Sand Treasure King to eat him, but the Sand Treasure King tried to take him to the cold Mist Country to preserve him.
• Blood Fang dissolved into poisonous blood inside the Sand Treasure King’s chest, and the Blood Knight advised the Sand Treasure King to join the humans.
• The Sand Treasure King began charging 10 Sea Shell Currency for people to open his chest and take one treasure, quickly attracting a line of customers.

The Sand Treasure King turned the Treasure Mimics’ hunting into a profitable box-opening business and opened the Treasure Box Association in Immortality City. After Blood Fang returned as a Blood Elf and helped launch the shop, the Sand Treasure King offered a Universal Key to Lord Yao and vowed to lead the clan toward its ambitions.

• The Sand Treasure King taught the Ice Mist Box how Treasure Mimics could lure customers into paying to open chests, and Treasure Mimics across the region adopted the approach.
• Blood Fang emerged from her long transformation as a Blood Elf and agreed to help the Sand Treasure King bring the new business to Blood Hill and Ice Lake City.
• Blood Fang proposed combining paid box openings with a fixed shop, and seven days later the Treasure Box Association opened in Immortality City, drawing a crowd of customers.
• The Sand Treasure King and Blood Fang thanked the Blood Knight at the Inexhaustible Spring, where the Sand Treasure King offered a newly born Universal Key to Lord Yao.
• Blood Fang questioned the Sand Treasure King about giving away the key, and the Sand Treasure King declared its ambition to become the Box God before Mayor Baras told it to keep quiet.