Chapter Summaries

Aiseni explained that Water Mold Grass had poisoned the Mystic Arts Country’s waters and that clearing most of it was helping aquatic life recover. Meanwhile, Kali described Hell, Underworld Soil, and the Demon God Pillars, then accepted Yao Tribe’s offer of 100 million Flame of Faith as the start of a friendly relationship.

• Aiseni told Lu Yao that Water Mold Grass poisoned fish and shrimp, harmed those who ate them, and likely contributed to people’s illnesses and hallucinations; she had the Rusalkas clear most of it, and aquatic life was recovering.
• Kali returned after driving off Tiamat and explained that it had become a Demon God after obtaining a Proof of Exile and entering the still, gray world called Hell.
• Kali explained that demons used Flame of Faith to move Underworld Soil, forge Forbidden Stone, and build Demon God Pillars that let them travel outward from Hell and fight other demons.
• Kali described how demons competed for faith and Forbidden Stones, using their pillars to dismantle rivals’ structures or, more rarely, attack their true bodies.
• Isabelle offered Kali long-term cooperation and 100 million Flame of Faith as a friendly sponsorship, and Kali accepted the gift.

Lu Yao learned more about demons from Kali, then investigated how Divine Principle Compatibility affected access to the Spirit Realm’s Divine Nexus. After discovering that high compatibility could reveal sealed spaces, he decided to visit the wasteland.

• Kali gave Lu Yao an exclusive Demon God Emblem, explained how Demon God Pillars used Underworld Soil and Worker Spirits, and marked the Demon Projections in his territory.
• Bifrons, the Police Station, and the Resurrection Kingdom garrison captured the demons in Mystic Arts Country; Buer joined the Demon Association, and Kali found no demons in the Resurrection Kingdom.
• Lu Yao chose to develop the Crawling Zone and sent Cloud Temple deeper toward the Repulsion Zone to look for intact dimensional-reduced worlds.
• Lu Yao distributed supplies for resettlement, then drew a Divine Principle Test Paper and learned that Baroye had 81% compatibility while other tested individuals had lower scores.
• Baroye explained that high Divine Principle Compatibility granted access to hidden spaces through the Divine Nexus, and Lu Yao decided to visit the wasteland.

Lu Yao sent Baroye to two destroyed worlds in Wasteland No. 7, where it uncovered Spirit Inns, collected psionic items, and absorbed Wish Spirits for information. Back in Mystic Arts Country, Lu Yao dismantled the remains of the Creation Machine and discovered a Psionic Valve linked to the Divine Nexus Spirit Duke.

• Lu Yao sent Baroye to a destroyed world in Wasteland No. 7, where it found a hidden Spirit Inn and collected Psionic Encapsulation Cards and a bottle of Spirit Wine King.
• Baroye drank the Spirit Wine King and learned it carried information from the Divine Nexus; Lu Yao then approved Baroye's coexistence with the world's Wish Spirits.
• Baroye searched a second world, found an empty Spirit Inn, and absorbed its Wish Spirit before returning with 196 Psionic Encapsulation Cards.
• Lu Yao drew a Decomposition Hammer and a Spirit Selector from the cards, then used the Spirit Selector on the remains of the Creation Machine in the Creation Cave.
• Lu Yao used the Decomposition Hammer to break down a Psionic Component and obtained a Psionic Valve, learning that the Spirit Realm's Divine Nexus was called Spirit Duke.

Lu Yao discovered that the Psionic Valve let a Spirit Harvester mine psionic energy, and Baroye proved far more efficient than he was. While searching for more psionic equipment, Lu Yao bought a Wish Gathering Platform and learned that a devastating Turbulent Tide threatened Divine Kingdoms across the Leap Zone.

• Lu Yao entered the Spirit Mine and mined 401 Psionic Energy, but the Spirit Duke’s 1% compatibility rate reduced his reward to four World Stones.
• Lu Yao tested Baroye’s compatibility by having him mine, and Baroye returned with 597 World Stones in half an hour.
• Lu Yao concluded that Psionic Valves let the Spirit Race draw vast resources from the Spirit Mine and ordered Baroye to keep mining.
• Lu Yao asked Menes and the Messenger of the Gods about acquiring psionic equipment, then bought a Wish Gathering Platform for nineteen million.
• The Messenger of the Gods warned Lu Yao that a Turbulent Tide was sweeping across the Leap Zone and could destroy the main civilizations in Divine Kingdoms.

Lu Yao learned that a Level X Turbulent Tide was devastating the Leap Zone and prepared the Resurrection Kingdom and Mystic Arts Country for its arrival. The tide reached the Resurrection Kingdom overnight, extinguishing its sun, but Lu Yao remembered he could replace it with one of his suns from the Abyss.

• Lu Yao read the committee's Level X alert and learned that the Turbulent Tide threatened the Leap Zone with repeated, potentially catastrophic impacts.
• Messenger told Lu Yao that disaster-stricken Gods would need dark Wisdom species and Undead life, while he planned to profit from his stockpiles and underground refuges.
• Lu Yao shared three survival strategies with Messenger, then warned Mao Cao and the water Fairy and arranged preparations for their civilizations.
• Lu Yao dismantled the Wish Gathering Platform, recovered a Psionic Valve, and sent Luka to mine alongside Baroye.
• The next morning, Lu Yao found the Resurrection Kingdom plunged into darkness and saw a warning that the Turbulent Tide had arrived.
• Lu Yao realized he could replace the kingdom's missing sun with one from the Abyss and relaxed.

As the Turbulent Tide devastated the Messenger Civilization, Seven Seas Demon argued that the civilization should seek help and formal incorporation into God Yao’s Yao Clan Civilization. The Messenger of the Gods agreed to take him to the Resurrection Kingdom, leaving Martyr God silent as Seven Seas Demon believed his careful study of God Yao had given him the advantage.

• Seven Seas Demon struggled to keep Twin Snake Country functioning as the Turbulent Tide wrecked its economy and left civilians facing shortages, flight, and disorder.
• Butterfly Lord, Mountain Shaman, King Muwu, and Martyr God reported worsening conditions across their realms during the Divine Palace meeting.
• Seven Seas Demon proposed seeking an alliance with the Yao Clan Civilization for food, shelter, and help against demons, then urged the Messenger Civilization to request formal incorporation.
• Martyr God objected that God Yao was unlikely to accept their entire Civilization Chain, but Seven Seas Demon argued that their commercial network gave them unique value.
• The Messenger of the Gods approved Seven Seas Demon’s proposal and ordered him to accompany him to the Resurrection Kingdom.

The Seven Seas Demon and the Messenger turned the Messenger Civilization’s alliance with God Yao into a profitable solar repair business during the Turbulent Tide. After earning enormous profits, the Messenger urged the subordinate gods to expand into buying endangered civilizations and Spirit Ruins resources.

• The Seven Seas Demon saw that the Resurrection Kingdom’s sun was being guided by the Voyager and observed its protected farmland and refugee shelters.
• The Messenger told the Seven Seas Demon that God Yao had declined to take the Messenger Civilization under his direct control but had appointed it as an agent for trade and negotiations.
• The Messenger began selling repaired suns through Blue Bridge, and the Seven Seas Demon helped manage the business as it grew to include large-scale solar repairs.
• The Messenger announced at the Divine Palace that Solar Restoration had earned one billion in net faith profit, with 334 million going to the Messenger Civilization.
• The Messenger called on the subordinate gods to buy endangered races and civilizations and acquire Spirit Ruins resources while the Turbulent Tide continued.

Lu Yao repaired the Resurrection Kingdom’s damaged sun and turned the work into a profitable Sun Repair service for other Gods. After buying a Mythical Item and a magical sailboat and distributing dividends to his Subordinate Gods, he received a prompt about Feng Huan’s invention of Magic Box Garden.

• Lu Yao used Atum’s [Sun Herding] and the [Sun Ship] to restore the Resurrection Kingdom’s sun and help melt the ice and snow caused by the Turbulent Tide.
• Messenger asked to join the Yao Clan Civilization, and Lu Yao instead gave him the right to sell Yao Clan suns before they agreed to offer a Sun Repair service.
• King Wuji, Atum, and the other Subordinate Gods helped establish the repair plan, which earned Lu Yao 660 million Flame of Faith in half a day.
• Lu Yao bought the Purple Lightning Hammer and Skidbladnir from the Exchange, then distributed dividends among his nine Subordinate Gods.
• Lu Yao received a Hero conversion prompt after Feng Huan invented Magic Box Garden and United Friendship University invented Spellology.

After prison labor ruined his plan to retire behind bars, Feng Huan used a magical trick to recruit the young dwarf Chek as his student. Four years later, Chek turned Feng Huan’s invented [Magic Box Garden] into a real spell-testing device, leaving Feng Huan terrified that God Yao had intervened.

• Feng Huan left prison after the Resurrection Kingdom imposed strenuous labor on inmates and sought a new way to secure a comfortable place to live.
• Feng Huan met Chek, a young dwarf barber, and used a hair trick and the [Trick Box] to impress him.
• Feng Huan described the supposedly stolen [Magic Box Garden], and Chek eagerly asked to build a replacement under his guidance.
• Four years later, Chek unveiled a working [Magic Box Garden], made with researchers and help from Lord Mystic Star Raven, after selling his underground shelter and testing more than a hundred boxes.
• Feng Huan realized his fabricated description had become reality and prayed to God Yao, fearing the invention was a divine warning.

Feng Huan fled the fame surrounding the Magic Box Garden and built a quiet life as a sugar artisan, but news of Chek and the succession of people using his name drew him back to the Resurrection Kingdom. After Lord Yao’s blessing restored Chek’s mind and eye—and enveloped Feng Huan in holy light—the old Trickster vowed to keep serving the Yao Tribe.

• Overwhelmed by interviews and scrutiny, Feng Huan left Resurrection Kingdom and wrote Chek a letter claiming that Feng Huan was a title passed down through generations and that Chek should inherit it.
• Feng Huan settled in North Continent City as Grandpa Jiru, earning fame for his divination and intricate sugar models.
• Feng Huan read reports saying Chek had been injured in an elemental explosion and that Master Inventor Feng Huan had recovered to resume work on the Magic Box Garden, then realized Chek was using his name.
• After seeing reports of Feng Huan’s death and return, the old Trickster went back to Resurrection Kingdom and found Chek working in a construction tunnel, injured and struggling with his memory.
• Feng Huan invited Chek to travel with him and began teaching him sugar molding, but Chek could not follow the steps.
• At the border, Lord Yao’s blessing restored Chek’s eye and sharp mind and surrounded Feng Huan with holy light; Feng Huan knelt and declared that he would never retire.

Lu Yao examined how Feng Huan and Chek’s Magic Box Garden transformed elemental research and rewarded both inventors. He then inspected a damaged Spirit Race Star Casting Wheel acquired by Dog City, which revealed a new Star Mythology system.

• Lu Yao learned that Feng Huan and Chek had created the Magic Box Garden, inspiring the Yao Clan to study elemental spellcraft at United Friendship University and the Arcane Research Institute.
• Mao Cao showed Lu Yao that the Sand Garden had produced Green Sandstorm, the Yao Clan’s first Elemental Composite.
• Lu Yao raised Chek to Level 50, restoring his sight and healing his head injuries, then made Feng Huan a Hero.
• Menes presented Lu Yao with a damaged Star Casting Wheel from the Spirit Race, whose description revealed the Star Mythology system and its star-forging abilities.

Lu Yao learned how the Star Casting Wheel worked, forged 42 artificial stars in Resurrection Kingdom, and heard Aiseni warn that purging Tidal Creatures was awakening stronger monsters. After learning the Lord of Tides was driving the threat, Lu Yao decided he would fight back if the god came to Yao Tribe territory.

• Lu Yao paid 33 million for the Star Casting Wheel, and Baroye explained how Star Mythology and the wheel’s world-spanning projections worked.
• Lu Yao restored the Star Casting Wheel, forged an Orbiting Star in Resurrection Kingdom, and then created 42 stars that flashed in sequence.
• Aiseni warned Lu Yao that powerful Tidal Creatures and a Tidal Lord had appeared in Mystic Arts Country after Resurrection Kingdom’s people began purging them.
• Aiseni explained that killing Tidal Creatures provoked the Lord of Tides, while waiting out the threat or relocating people could prevent further chaos.
• Aiseni revealed that the Lord of Tides was an undead wandering god who appeared with a Blue Moon, and Lu Yao resolved to confront him if he came to Yao Tribe territory.

Lu Yao watched the Resurrection Kingdom contain Tidal Creatures, accept three Tidal Lords who surrendered, and destroy the remaining hostile leaders with the Crystal Structure Phase Dissolution Cannon. The Lord of Tides then descended, mistook Xing Tian for a Feathered One, and attacked him while urging the Tidal Creatures to flee.

• Mao Cao reported that the Resurrection Kingdom had confined Tidal Creatures and developed a Magic Potion that suppressed their aggression, with Armor Beetle toxin helping control Xipu.
• Three Tidal Lords led by Velir arrived with over a hundred Tidal Creatures and offered to join the Yao Clan, and Mao Cao accepted them.
• Velir and the other Tidal Lords revealed the locations of five more leaders, and the Resurrection Kingdom destroyed the holdouts with Crystal Structure Phase Dissolution Cannons.
• The Simulator announced that the Lord of Tides was descending, and Lu Yao summoned Xing Tian to confront him.
• The Lord of Tides mistook Xing Tian for a Feathered One, ordered the Tidal Lords and Tidal Creatures to flee, and charged into battle.

Lu Yao captured the Lord of Tides and learned that he had come to rescue the Tidal Creatures, not to attack the Yao Clan. When the Tidal Lords chose to remain loyal to God Yao, Slaimod invited the Lord of Tides to bring other Tidal Creatures to the Mystic Arts Country, and the Lord of Tides considered the offer.

• Lu Yao found that the Lord of Tides kept attacking Xing Tian without using the powerful treasures and abilities described in the committee’s records.
• Lu Yao used Brionac and the Dragon Binding Rope with Xing Tian to seal, bind, and imprison the Lord of Tides, then sent Slaimod to question him.
• The Lord of Tides drank the medicine that curbed tidal power, apologized, and asked to take the Tidal Creatures away; Lu Yao allowed it if they chose to go willingly.
• The Lord of Tides summoned the four Tidal Lords, but Xipu and the others declared their loyalty to God Yao and refused to leave the Yao Clan.
• Slaimod invited the Lord of Tides to bring other Tidal Creatures to settle in the Mystic Arts Country, and the Lord of Tides questioned why the Yao Clan would welcome the risk.

Lu Yao welcomed the Lord of Tides and the Tidal Creatures to Mystic Arts Country, where they established Tide City, and learned that a Void Mirror would amplify an approaching tidal impact. After Marshal of the Long Cavalry identified the Lord of Tides as Finn MacCool, Lu Yao offered him a mining job, which he accepted after hearing the pay.

• Lu Yao invited the Lord of Tides to build a temple in Mystic Arts Country, and the Lord explained how he guided Tidal Creatures away from worlds threatened by the Turbulent Tide.
• The Lord of Tides and the Tidal Creatures built Tide City, and he warned Lu Yao that a falling Void Mirror would amplify the next tidal impact.
• Lu Yao warned Song Shiyi, the Messenger, and the people of Kunlun about the coming impact.
• Marshal of the Long Cavalry identified the Lord of Tides as Finn MacCool and explained his history in Celtic Mythology.
• The Lord of Tides told Lu Yao about Haraber and Amer, then questioned Lu Yao's tolerance of demons.
• Lu Yao offered the Lord of Tides a share of the proceeds from mining Spirit Mine, and the Lord agreed to try it.

Lu Yao recruited Finn MacCool, the Lord of Tides, as a Subordinate God after discovering his exceptional Spirit Mine yields and learning about his past. As Lu Yao prepared to sleep, Mao Cao brought him a girl from another world whose world was in imminent danger, asking him to decide whether to rescue it.

• Lu Yao sent Finn MacCool to mine through the Psionic Valve and collected World Stones from him every half hour.
• Finn gave Lu Yao a Tide Horn, which let him see and summon migrating Tidal Creatures to settle in Mystic Arts Country.
• Finn revealed that Purple Ore could be obtained by making Spirit Mine monsters fight each other and could activate a Carefree Journey.
• Slaimod persuaded Finn to accept vassalage in exchange for continuing to govern the Tidal Subjects and guide Tidal Creatures, and Lu Yao accepted him as a Subordinate God.
• Finn told Lu Yao that the God of Love and Youth had exiled him from Celtic Mythology after Diarmuid's fall, and Lu Yao granted him a ten-percent share of mining proceeds.
• Mao Cao brought a frightened girl from another world to the Temple of Resurrection City and asked Lu Yao to decide whether to rescue her world.

Mia went hunting with Old Jero in Dagas, where they brought back food and found evidence of an underground settlement destroyed by a monster. She urged Tree Village to worship God Yao and build his statue, leaving her worried about the graduation assessment taking place in her own body back home.

• Mia and Old Jero prayed to the Thousand-Faced God, then hunted in the Death Qi and harvested a Horned Lizard's tail before a hidden predator dragged the creature underground.
• Mia brought back a recording tablet depicting a magic well and a huge serpent, along with a tanned hide showing people fleeing the monster and an Ehwaz rune.
• Mia told the elders that Tree Village needed to leave the threatened Magic Tree and proposed that a new God lead them to safety.
• After Mia described God Yao and his miracles, the villagers eagerly agreed to build his Divine Statue, and Mia drew up its plans.
• Mia wrote a journal entry for Shirley and worried that Shirley might ruin Mia's graduation assessment while occupying her body.

Shirley was mistaken for Mia and taken to a Nursing Home, where she met patients including Hua Zheng, an agent who recognized that her account of Dagas mattered. After Shirley prayed at the Temple, she hoped to return to her village and help its people survive the winter.

• Therese found Shirley hiding at home, but Skeleton Soldiers suspected she had Tidal Sickness and took her to the Nursing Home for examination.
• Shirley was diagnosed as ill and placed under observation, where an old man claimed to be a god and a woman offered to help her escape for 1,000 bonds.
• A boy named Hua Zheng questioned Shirley about Dagas, its runes, and her hunting practices, then revealed he was an agent and took her to the Temple.
• A Cat Person Apostle told Shirley to pray to Lord Yao, and Shirley prayed to return to Tree Village and asked for her people to survive the winter.

Shirley learned that Lord Yao had ordered a rescue of the Dagas world, while Mia and the people of Tree Village faced an escalating disaster. The Yao Clan Rescue Army reached the village, attacked the Void Mirror, and began transferring the world to safety as it shook.

• Through Mao Cao, Lord Yao questioned Shirley about Dagas and ordered an emergency rescue of the world, assigning Xiao Zhi to remain with her.
• Xiao Zhi explained why Lord Yao was helping Dagas, and Shirley recalled how she had seen the Resurrection Kingdom through the stars.
• As snow stopped falling normally and a mirror appeared overhead, Mia concluded that the safe area was shrinking and persuaded the villagers to gather and prepare for danger.
• A Monster broke into the villagers' shelter, but Yao Clan Rescue Army soldiers led by Hendrick killed it and told Mia their forces had arrived.
• Hendrick's soldiers defended Tree Village while the Yao Clan army attacked the Void Mirror and purged Monsters from the Death Qi.
• The Vortex Cannon pierced the Void Mirror, the snow began falling again, and Hendrick ordered the villagers to brace themselves as Dagas began shaking during its transfer to a safe zone.

Lu Yao learned about Dagas’s endangered civilization and its Magic Wells, then rescued the world by anchoring it and moving it away from the Void Mirror. He left the Red Void burning through the Mirror after deciding not to pursue a fight to the death.

• Lu Yao read Shirley’s account of Dagas, discovered that its Thousand-Faced God was Odin, and decided to rescue the world for its Runes, Magic Bottles, and Magic Wells.
• Mia offered Lu Yao a Magic Bottle from Tree Village, and Lu Yao saw that monsters and Magic Wells threatened the scattered human settlements on giant trees.
• Lu Yao ordered Mao Cao to organize a rescue force and opened a portal to Tree Village, but discovered that a nearby Void Mirror had stopped time and was preventing Dagas from being anchored.
• Lu Yao sent a Red Void world through the road sign and fired ten Grit Cannons at the Void Mirror, damaging it and clearing the way to anchor Dagas.
• Lu Yao moved Dagas into Cloud Temple’s Ring of Worlds and watched the Red Void continue spreading through the damaged Void Mirror.