Chapter Summaries

The Deer Spirit from the Heart-Binding Nation arrived on Continent Island, and Nefeli visited its highly advanced, peaceful civilization. After returning, Nefeli warned Chi Lian that suspiciously perfect Heart-Citizens and calls for the Sun Kingdom to imitate them could signal a deeper problem, leaving Chi Lian to recognize the issue Lord Yao had asked him to handle.

• The Bird Spirit’s long-awaited visitor arrived at the Star-Gazing Altar in a Pot Burial, and the Deer Spirit introduced itself as an envoy of the Heart-Binding Nation.
• Nefeli arranged for the Deer Spirit to stay on Continent Island for twenty years after Chi Lian received Lord Yao’s approval.
• The Deer Spirit took Nefeli and the Bird Spirit through its Taming Field Jar to Deer City, where they met the orderly, welcoming Heart-Citizens and learned that the nation no longer worshipped Gods.
• Nefeli told Chi Lian she distrusted the Heart-Binding Nation’s flawless citizens and wondered how such a vast, peaceful civilization maintained order.
• Nefeli reported that voices in the Sun Kingdom were urging citizens to copy the Heart-Binding Nation, and Chi Lian realized this was what Lord Yao had asked him to handle.

Deer Spirit tried to turn Continent Island’s discontent into support for the Heart-Binding Nation, but the minority-race leaders rejected its plan to overthrow the Sun Kingdom because they trusted Lord Yao’s promise that anyone could become a God. Deer Spirit realized Bird Spirit had concealed how strongly faith in Lord Yao shaped the people’s loyalty.

• Deer Spirit built an idealized image of the Heart-Binding Nation, encouraged Continent Island residents to apply for citizenship, and met warmly with the King of Light and Nefeli.
• At Heart-Binding Academy, Deer Spirit gathered Fox You, Bei Feng, Cha Gao, and Liang Chen, whose representatives argued over their grievances and rivalries.
• Deer Spirit urged the four leaders to transform the Sun Kingdom and offered the Heart-Binding Nation’s support, safety, and a chance to become heart-citizens.
• Fox You explained that the leaders would not destroy the Sun Kingdom because they believed following Lord Yao offered everyone a chance to become a God, and the other representatives agreed.
• Deer Spirit realized Bird Spirit had deliberately obscured Lord Yao’s influence and the people’s faith in him.

Deer Spirit discovered that the Sun Kingdom’s people genuinely believed Lord Yao might raise them to godhood, then saw the Yao Clan’s advanced civilization for itself. It accepted that Heart-Binding Nation could worship Lord Yao and said it would return home to discuss the choice with its people.

• Deer Spirit questioned Bird Spirit about why the Sun Kingdom’s leaders believed they could become Gods, and Bird Spirit explained their faith in Lord Yao and the King of Light.
• The King of Light sent Deer Spirit with Apostle Nefeli to see the worlds of the Yao Clan.
• Nefeli showed Deer Spirit Cloud Temple’s Sand City, the Wind Speed Public Road, and the thriving Mist Country.
• Deer Spirit traveled beyond Cloud Temple aboard a Crystal-Constructed Airship and learned how the Yao Clan used Magnetic Element technology to build a ring road through the Void Universe.
• Nefeli took Deer Spirit to the Sleepless Civilization, where it saw the Bone Ancestors’ developed society and the Apostle Asi running across the land.
• Deer Spirit asked whether Heart-Binding Nation could worship Lord Yao, and Nefeli said it could; Deer Spirit promised to return and discuss the decision with its people.

Lu Yao learned that Heart-Binding Nation had tried to recruit and absorb people from Continent Island, but its citizens overwhelmingly remained loyal to him. Heart-Binding Nation then pledged allegiance to Lu Yao, who accepted it and placed it under the King of Light; the Deer Spirit explained how the civilization had grown by absorbing people from other worlds.

• The Deer Spirit explained that its first visit had used a disposable branch jar, and Lu Yao allowed it to return to Heart-Binding Nation for further consultation.
• Lu Yao reviewed Chi Lian's account of Continent Island and learned that the Deer Spirit had tried to sway citizens into becoming Heart-Citizens, while Chi Lian, the Bird Spirit, and Nefeli monitored and contained its efforts.
• Lu Yao found that many Continent Island citizens wanted war with Heart-Binding Nation, but he did not issue a war order.
• The level 99 Deer Spirit returned and announced that Heart-Binding Nation wished to worship Lu Yao and join the Yao Clan Civilization.
• Lu Yao accepted Heart-Binding Nation's allegiance and ordered it incorporated into Continent Island under the King of Light.
• The Deer Spirit described how Heart-Binding Nation's collective consciousness had formed through Pot Burial and expanded by recruiting elite outsiders from civilizations across the worlds.

Lu Yao welcomed Heart-Binding Nation into Sun Kingdom and learned how its collective civilization worked. The Messenger then offered to arrange Lu Yao’s support for the besieged Obsidian Butterfly Goddess, and Lu Yao agreed to provide thirty million faith with conditions still to come.

• Heart-Binding Nation merged with Sun Kingdom, and Lu Yao inspected the Taming Field Jar and learned about the Deer Spirit and the nation’s four million absorbed citizens.
• Lu Yao ordered Isabelle to ensure citizens were told the truth about Heart-Binding Nation before joining, and the Deer Spirit pledged to obey him and assist Sun Kingdom.
• The Messenger told Lu Yao that the Gods of Aztec were hunting the Obsidian Butterfly Goddess and admitted that he had already revealed Lu Yao’s identity to her.
• The Messenger described possible levels of aid and repayment, claiming the Butterfly Goddess could swear loyalty if Lu Yao provided twenty million faith.
• Lu Yao offered thirty million faith and said he had conditions.

The Obsidian Butterfly Goddess accepted God Yao’s offer to join Kunlun, escaped her Aztec pursuers, and began repairing and strengthening herself at the Jade Pool. Lu Yao discovered that Nan Ding’s new Sea of Heart-Binding had inspired fanatical worship in the Sun Kingdom and considered converting a believer into a Prophet.

• God Yao gave the Obsidian Butterfly Goddess thirty million Flame of Faith and directed her to work under the Queen Mother of the West in Kunlun.
• The Butterfly Goddess spent more than fourteen million Flame of Faith to outrun her pursuers and enter the Boundary Zone, where she escaped them.
• The Butterfly Goddess arrived at ruined Kunlun, met Shen Gongbao, and learned that she was assigned to maintain the Jade Pool.
• The Butterfly Goddess used the Jade Pool to reshape and strengthen her Divine Body.
• Lu Yao saw prompts that Nan Ding had invented the Sea of Heart-Binding and that the Sun Kingdom had developed fanatical worship, then switched perspectives to investigate.

Nan Ding pursued several beautiful women, but each romance ended in rejection or betrayal. After Xue Zhen’s thefts were exposed and the Heart-Binding Academy rejected his application, he resolved to create a way for everyone to meet and change their appearance.

• Nan Ding confessed to Laura and Maoning, but Laura told him he was too young and Maoning said he was not her type.
• Nan Ding grew close to Xue Zhen while helping her sketch North Continent City, but she left as Continent Island’s travel restrictions tightened.
• After Xue Zhen departed, a series of valuable thefts struck North Continent City, and the Heart-Binding Nation was officially incorporated into the Continent Island World.
• Nan Ding discovered stolen gems and a drawing from Xue Zhen, realizing she had been the thief and had used her sketching as cover to investigate the city.
• Nan Ding tried to join the Heart-Binding Nation but was rejected because he did not meet its requirements for Heart-Citizens.
• Nan Ding decided to connect people through the Heart-Binding Nation so they could temporarily change forms and choose more attractive appearances.

Nan Ding invented the Sea of Heart-Binding, using red coral and Blood Element crystal structures to let many people access the Heart-Binding Nation remotely. After meeting the King of Light, he received the Transformation Technique he had wanted, but his new effortless romantic success left him missing the uncertainty of his former confessions.

• Nan Ding investigated why women from other races disliked Zhouzhou People and began developing Appearance Equality to help people connect despite appearance and other barriers.
• Nan Ding realized red coral might extend access to the Heart-Binding Nation, then worked with Shibao to stabilize Blood Element through coral and create the Sea of Heart-Binding.
• Nan Ding presented the invention to the King of Light and explained how it could ease regional and racial barriers and help people form relationships.
• The King of Light granted Nan Ding the Transformation Technique, letting him take on faces he had encountered and adjust them into new appearances.
• Nan Ding used his new appearance-changing ability to win the affection of many women, but he missed the suspense and anticipation of his earlier confessions.

Lu Yao explored the Sea of Heart-Binding and saw how its encyclopedia, discussion forums, and private residences could support the Yao Clan and Continent Island. After praising Deer Spirit and offering funding support, he returned to the screen and looked up the Sea of Heart-Binding’s inventor, Nan Ding.

• Lu Yao entered the Sea of Heart-Binding incognito and had Deer Spirit explain its Work, Discussion, and Residential zones.
• In the Work Zone, Lu Yao searched the Complete Book of Heart-Binding and learned that scholars were adding and verifying knowledge from the Yao Clan and Sun Kingdom.
• Lu Yao explored the Discussion Zone, read debates and friend-making posts, left a comment, and learned that Deer Spirit’s team removed harmful or useless foundations.
• Lu Yao visited the Residential Zone and learned that qualified users could buy and customize houses, with the proceeds strengthening the Taming Field Jar.
• Lu Yao offered to help the Heart-Binding Nation obtain Omnipotence Stones, then returned to the screen and examined inventor Nan Ding’s profile.

Lu Yao made Nan Ding a Prophet and learned how the Sea of Heart-Binding had turned Continent Island into a tourism and leisure destination. In the Resurrection Kingdom, Long Ji’s Arcane Research Institute overcame years without major results by creating the White Bone Earth Dragon.

• Lu Yao made Nan Ding a Prophet, raised his level, and tasked Chi Lian with serving as his direct God while Nan Ding improved the Sea of Heart-Binding.
• Chi Lian reported that the Heart-Binding Nation had become a shared library and communication hub, and that Continent Island was developing into a world for tourism and leisure.
• Lu Yao decided to seek more Godheads in Dog City so he could appoint additional Subordinate Gods.
• Long Ji, the Mystic Star Raven, and Mao Cao founded the Arcane Research Institute, where Long Ji later formed a small research squad with Meilebu and Haoge.
• After five years of teamwork, Long Ji, Meilebu, and Haoge invented the White Bone Earth Dragon, an artificial bone dragon built for combat.

Lu Yao promoted Long Ji to apostle and learned how the White Bone Earth Dragon united several technologies, inspiring the Arcane Research Institute’s other research teams. The chapter ended with Mao Cao reporting that Dog City had offered ten Godheads in exchange for assistance.

• Mao Cao described how the White Bone Earth Dragon’s chassis was built and how the institute established a Dragon Maker branch and squad-based research teams.
• Lu Yao promoted Long Ji to the nineteenth apostle, and Long Ji explained the five technologies behind the White Bone Earth Dragon and reported that the Resurrection Kingdom supported Bone Dragon Manufacturing.
• Lu Yao observed Pasha and Asi criticize the Dragonborn’s clumsy Paper Folding Dragon, while Baifei argued it could scout dangerous areas and draw enemy attention.
• Norland led his students in developing the Fairy Village item, while Crane Taoist trained his students and directed them to make remotely controlled puppets.
• Lu Yao saw that the institute’s lecturers were pursuing different research projects, then Mao Cao reported that Brain Worm had returned from Dog City and Charles had conveyed Sacred Scarab’s offer of ten Godheads for assistance.

The Sacred Scarab asked Lu Yao to trade World Stones and black jackals to repair the Head of the Black Jackal, while Lu Yao found a way to obtain World Stones by capturing Galazhu. After recruiting Galazhu as King Wuji’s apostle, Lu Yao learned that the demon king could harvest World Stones from suns and moons repeatedly.

• The Brain Worm learned that the Sacred Scarab had inherited the Head of the Black Jackal from Anubis and needed black jackals and World Stones to restore it.
• The Sacred Scarab offered ten Godheads for 1,000 World Stones and faith for Dog City-type black jackals, but Lu Yao had no World Stones available.
• Lu Yao found King Wuji fighting Galazhu, a demon king who swallowed and spat out suns and moons, and captured him with the Dragon Binding Rope and Brionac.
• King Wuji explained that Galazhu’s attacks had weakened suns, and Lu Yao helped her subdue him and recruit him as an apostle.
• Galazhu revealed that he could extract World Stones from suns and moons and repeat the process after they recovered, giving Lu Yao a renewable source of World Stones.

Lu Yao tested Galazhu’s ability to harvest World Stones and found a way to conceal his identity so more Sun Hunters could work in shifts. He then exchanged World Stones for Godheads, elevated Slaimod and Salina to Gods, expanded his Subordinate God network, and decided to visit Dog City for its official opening.

• King Wuji had Galazhu devour a sun, yielding 101 World Stones, and learned that he needed three years to rest before eating another sun.
• Lu Yao gave Galazhu the Copper Mask, which hid his identity and could help attract other Galazhus for a sun-harvesting squad.
• The Brain Worm exchanged World Stones in Dog City for ten Godheads, and Lu Yao used one to make Slaimod a God.
• Salina initially refused her Godhead in favor of Blood Knight, but accepted after Lu Yao said the opportunity would go to Isabelle.
• Lu Yao expanded his Subordinate God roster to eight and assigned Apostle’s Marks to support them.
• Mao Cao told Lu Yao that Dog City was opening and the Sacred Scarab had invited him, so Lu Yao decided to attend.

Lu Yao visited Dog City with Isabelle and the Brain Worm, where Menes revealed his immense power and asked for help defeating Whistleblower. Lu Yao agreed to join the effort and looked forward to personally bringing Whistleblower down.

• Charles gave Lu Yao the Heart Key, and Lu Yao used it to travel through a portal to Dog City with Isabelle and the Brain Worm.
• Charles explained that the portal connected to the tomb of the Underworld Judge and described the ongoing effort to clear Dog City of divine monsters.
• Lu Yao toured the cemetery-like city and met Menes at the palace above the central pyramid.
• Lu Yao's White City Battleground effect weakened Menes's abilities by 98%, while Menes's panel revealed his enormous reserve of Flames of Faith.
• Menes asked Lu Yao to help finish off Whistleblower alongside the Wolf God and Melancholy Goddess, and Lu Yao decided to join the attack.

Lu Yao agreed to join the Sacred Scarab’s planned war against the Whistleblower and learned why the Feathered Ones feared White Fire. The Sacred Scarab also explained how Old Gods could arise and revealed that Godhead contamination was known as the Black Lamp, leaving Lu Yao wondering whether it had caused the Old Gods at Kunlun Mountain.

• The Sacred Scarab asked Lu Yao to help eliminate the Whistleblower and offered him 200 million Flames of Faith, and Lu Yao agreed.
• The Sacred Scarab described the Whistleblower’s forces and gave Isabelle an Ultra-Long Range Portal and a Location Card to help reach the battlefield.
• The Sacred Scarab explained that White Fire consumed Feathered Ones who failed to shed parts of themselves, forcing them to return weakened and with lost memories.
• The Sacred Scarab said Old Gods could persist through special means, remain in the true Underworld, or arise through Godhead contamination called the Black Lamp.
• Lu Yao thought of the Old Gods at Kunlun Mountain and wondered whether the Black Lamp was connected to them.

Lu Yao learned that Black Lamp had likely devastated Kunlun, but he chose to investigate ways to manage its effects while preparing to support the war against [Whistleblower]. He established a rear base near the fighting and watched as the Wolf God led an assault on [Divine Favor Duchy].

• The Sacred Scarab explained that Black Lamp corrupted a world's rules, created regenerating Old Gods, and could not be eliminated, but Lu Yao resolved to keep purging the Old Gods and study it cautiously.
• Lu Yao warned Kunlun's gods about Black Lamp, and Weituotian revealed that he had encountered something similar before.
• Lu Yao rejected costly close-combat weapons and bought [Bone Summoning LV10] to raise skeletons from battlefield remains.
• Lu Yao prepared a rear base and support plan, sending Baroye, Lucky Rat, Isabelle, and the Marshal of the Long Cavalry to the nearby [Capricorn Duchy].
• Lu Yao watched the Wolf God lead twelve worlds in a wedge formation against [Divine Favor Duchy], with [City of Wolves] at the front.

Lu Yao observed the Wolf God’s assault on the Divine Favor Duchy and the Melancholy Goddess’s blockade of Wilsow, learning how their forces used world-spanning abilities and Commands to conquer worlds. He then received Isabelle’s report that Sui Zhu and Bi had found a Capricorn Herder and a musical instrument with the potential to influence listeners; Lu Yao welcomed the discovery.

• Lu Yao inspected the Divine Favor Duchy, where Wolf Guards battled Iron Knights, Iron Warriors, Expulsion Beasts, and Black Water Mites.
• Lu Yao identified the Wolf God’s Pathfinder ability as the source of the Wolf Guards’ deployments and saw that the surrounding Divine Kingdoms were also under attack.
• Lu Yao examined Wilsow and discovered the Melancholy Goddess was enclosing it with Underworld Dust and the Ark of Judgment and Command, whose Commands could gradually constrain and break a world’s inhabitants.
• Isabelle told Lu Yao that Sui Zhu and Bi had found a treasure in the Capricorn Duchy: a Capricorn Herder named Jiejie and a Capricorn.
• Lu Yao inspected Jiejie’s Jiejiao Wooden Zither Box and recognized its ability to bring joy and potentially increase listeners’ favorability toward the performer.

Jiejie learned to care for Capricorns and invented a stone zither that revived Dabai, but Werewolf invaders destroyed his home and forced them into hiding. A Golden Rat brought Jiejie and Dabai to the Yao Clan, where Isabelle welcomed them and promised protection from the Werewolves.

• Jiejie's father explained that connections, not skill at raising Capricorns, had made him a Capricorn Official and warned Jiejie to trust Capricorns more than people.
• Jiejie discovered that music from his stone zither restored Dabai's vitality, improved the nearby Capricorns' spirits, and inspired him to develop melodies that might help them become Capricorn Kings.
• Werewolves invaded the pastureland, slaughtered the Iron Knights and Iron Warriors, burned settlements, and captured survivors, while Dabai carried Jiejie into the clouds to escape.
• Jiejie and Dabai hid and scavenged for food as they fled the Werewolves, and Jiejie played the wooden zither box to comfort them both.
• A Golden Rat claimed Jiejie and Dabai for Lord Yao and took them to an unfamiliar camp, where Isabelle welcomed Jiejie into the Yao Clan and assured him that the Wolf God could not reach them there.

Jiejie learned about the Resurrection Kingdom’s egalitarian society and helped Luca recruit refugees into the Yao Tribe. When Werewolves attacked the group, Bone Dragons arrived and drove them off, leaving Jiejie inspired to become a protector.

• Luca explained to Jiejie that the Resurrection Kingdom had no social ranks and that commoners could rise to leadership or even become gods.
• Jiejie and Luca set out to find refugees, and Jiejie persuaded Jie Chong and six others to join the Yao Tribe.
• More than thirty Werewolves surrounded the refugees and attacked after Luka refused to hand them over.
• A formation of Bone Dragons descended, killed five Wolf Guards, and forced the rest to retreat.
• Commander Xidar praised Luka and assured the refugees that the area would be made safe, while Jiejie prayed to Lord Yao and hoped to become a Dragon Knight.

Lu Yao investigated the Capricorn refugees’ livestock, learned that Capricorns could evolve into powerful Capricorn Kings or rare Golden Sheep, and arranged to test a Golden Sheep’s needs. When Ground Snakes were found hiding Capricorn Seeds underground, he launched a search-and-capture operation, beginning the Yao Clan’s war to recover them.

• Lu Yao learned from Isabelle that Capricorns produced magic qi, a vital fuel for the Whistleblower’s civilization, and asked Ju God to investigate their evolution.
• Ju God simulated two possible forms: the magic-qi-producing Capricorn King and the rare Golden Sheep, whose Golden Fleece could transform recognized beings into god-descended Talos.
• Lu Yao arranged for Jiejie to play music for Dabai, feed it pickled greens, and provide wind, while authorizing Jiejie to seek out other refugees under military protection.
• Isabelle reported that organized Ground Snakes were active underground, and Lu Yao discovered that their caves contained Capricorn Seeds.
• Lu Yao ordered Isabelle to capture the Ground Snakes, sending Mobile Fortresses, White Bone Chariots, the Dragon Cavalry, and search teams to seize them and recover their stolen goods.