Chapter Summaries

Lu Yao investigated Dagas’s history, learned how its Magic Wells and Runes worked, and discovered that Odin had used the world to lure Leviathan. After Xing Tian killed Leviathan and stabilized Dagas, Lu Yao assigned Cloud Temple to oversee its recovery, then learned the Void Mirror had temporarily stalled and decided to take a day off.

• Lu Yao studied Dagas’s backend and learned that magic wells drew energy from Rule Turbulence, while Leviathan’s damage to them had caused the Great Cataclysm that destroyed most of the civilization.
• Lu Yao discovered that Odin had given the Dagas people Runes and sent Fugin and Munin to help manage the Magic Wells and watch Leviathan.
• Lu Yao summoned Xing Tian, who killed the Leviathan in Dagas; the Magic Wells’ eruptions then became less frequent and the world grew more stable.
• Lu Yao ordered Slaimod to have Cloud Temple administer Dagas and coordinate research into its Magic Wells and Runes while resettling its people.
• Lu Yao learned from the Kunlun Public Channel that the Void Mirror had stalled after a mysterious intervention, agreed to the Messenger of the Gods’ temporary Sun Repair discount, and logged off to play ball at his alma mater.

Lu Yao completed the Sun Ship set, traveled to Heliopolis, and revived the ruined Sun City with four suns. He chose the rune of Amun, the secretive fourth Sun God, to claim its title and abilities.

• Lu Yao met Zhou Qiang for skewers and beer after they lost a pickup basketball game to younger players.
• Lu Yao bought Sun Ship · Noon through the Exchange, completing the set and locating Heliopolis.
• Lu Yao gave Isabelle Heaven and Earth Longevity, then boarded the Noon with her and sailed to Heliopolis.
• Lu Yao placed four suns into the dark hollows above the ruined city, restoring Heliopolis and revealing four Sun God runes.
• Lu Yao identified the runes as Kephri, Ra, Atum, and Amun, then grabbed Amun's rune.

Lu Yao claimed Sun City, awakened Sekhmet as a subordinate healing goddess, and assigned Pinkman to cultivate flowers there. The chapter ended when the Messenger of the Gods reported that Wuyou Township had surrounded his Divine Kingdom and might invade.

• Lu Yao used the Hidden One title to claim Heliopolis and close Sun City to outsiders.
• Lu Yao placed three sun boats in the Sun Temple, which awakened Sekhmet, and recruited her as a subordinate God.
• Lu Yao assigned Sekhmet to heal patients in the Sun Temple and promoted Pinkman to a subordinate God to cultivate flowers in Sun City.
• Lu Yao's Nurturing All Life ability reached level two after his Faith surpassed one billion.
• The Messenger of the Gods repeatedly contacted Lu Yao and warned that Wuyou Township had gathered Gods near his Divine Kingdom and might launch an invasion.

Lu Yao learned that Wuyou Township was targeting the Messenger’s territory to seize its unusual civilizations and God-Monster cultivation process. As Mr. Smile’s New Rome approached, Lu Yao hired a Grand Array of renowned war gods and ordered them to drive out every god nearby except his own forces and the Messenger’s.

• The Messenger told Lu Yao that Wuyou Township had sanctioned Roman Mythology after Miss Sweet Dream disappeared and had ordered him to sell or relocate his Divine Kingdoms within ten years.
• The Messenger explained that Wuyou Township coveted Mystic Arts Country’s mixed faiths and the Windflow Realm’s God-Defilers, who created God-Monsters, and offered Lu Yao his God-Monsters and cultivation technology.
• Lu Yao agreed to protect the Messenger, ordered Mao Cao to prepare for war, and readied the Vortex Cannon, Wasteland Bomb, Crimson Void Bullet, and Xing Tian.
• Mr. Smile’s concealed Divine Kingdom, New Rome, approached the Messenger’s region as other gods gathered nearby to await an opportunity.
• Lu Yao hired Ghost Gulu’s 4.99 billion Grand Array, assembled from Yang Jian, Quetzalcoatl, Ares, and Skanda, and ordered it to drive out every nearby god except his own faction and the Messenger’s.

Messenger sought God Yao’s help when Wuyou Township threatened the Messenger Civilization with relocation, and God Yao’s intervention brought four war gods to attack the surrounding Divine Kingdoms. Wuyou Township’s Mr. Smile then asked for peace talks and an introduction to God Yao, leaving Messenger convinced that a powerful backer was essential.

• Messenger and the Subordinate Gods assessed their weak military resources and concluded that they could not defeat Wuyou Township, so Messenger decided to ask God Yao for help.
• Messenger’s appeal to the Roman Gods brought no support, but God Yao agreed to take action after hearing about Wuyou Township’s threat and the nearby gods waiting to prey on the civilization.
• Messenger told the Subordinate Gods that God Yao would act against Wuyou Township, strengthening their confidence as they prepared to preserve the civilization’s assets.
• Four war gods—Skanda, Ares, Quetzalcoatl, and True Lord Qingyuan Miaodao—appeared and attacked Divine Kingdoms around the Messenger Civilization, driving Wuyou Township’s New Rome into retreat.
• Mr. Smile sent Messenger a message proposing peace talks and asking to meet God Yao, and Messenger took this as proof that having a powerful backer mattered.

Lu Yao drove back the invading Gods with four hired War Gods, then agreed to consider Halo’s cheaper Death God team. Mr. Smile met Lu Yao under the War Gods’ protection and revealed that the region was slated for a catastrophic Dark Tide, leaving the threat confirmed but negotiations just beginning.

• Lu Yao watched Erlang Shen, the Feathered Serpent God, Ares, and Six-Faced Sky destroy or drive away the Gods threatening the Messenger Civilization.
• Halo described the difficulties Death Gods faced and offered to arrange protection from Hela, Thanatos and Hypnos, and Morrigan for 1.5 billion; Lu Yao agreed to consider hiring them.
• The Four Great War Gods withdrew into luminous symbols that continued guarding the area, and Lu Yao accepted Mr. Smile’s request to meet.
• Lu Yao met Mr. Smile at a hill within the protected zone, where the envoy explained that the Feathered Ones planned to remodel the region and that a large-scale Dark Tide would soon annihilate its remaining worlds.

Lu Yao learned from Mr. Smile that the Void Mirror’s damage to the Divine Domain caused Black Matter to flood the Time Stop Zone, where Feathered Ones’ reconstruction work produced the Dark Tide. After explaining Wuyou Township’s mission and its approach to matching gods with civilizations, Mr. Smile gave Lu Yao a Name Card and warned him to relocate before the coming Dark Tide.

• Mr. Smile explained that Wuyou Township’s sanctions targeted Juno for unpaid debts and that its information from the Time Stop Zone linked the Void Mirror’s destruction to the Dark Tide.
• Mr. Smile told Lu Yao and the Messenger that damaged cavities in the Time Stop Zone were being rebuilt, and the work’s impacts on Black Matter created Dark Tides in the Divine Domain.
• Mr. Smile described Wuyou Township as a refuge for displaced gods that bought and adapted worlds, matched gods with civilizations, and let both sides choose each other.
• Lu Yao proposed that civilizations needed breadth as well as height and depth, and Mr. Smile praised his ideas about involving Apostles in secular development.
• Mr. Smile gave Lu Yao a Wuyou Township Name Card, warned that a severe Dark Tide was approaching, and departed.

Lu Yao relocated the Sleepless Civilization and Mystic Arts Country to the Boundary Zone, then sent the Long Cavalry Army into the Repulsion Zone to explore its hazards. The Marshal of the Long Cavalry crossed a Void Eye and discovered a civilization near the Dark Star, while a believer's invention of an Elemental Magic Well brought Lu Yao unexpected news.

• Lu Yao used Road Goddess's Crossroads to move the Divine Kingdoms to the Boundary Zone, where Messenger began settling them among the nearby Grit Worlds.
• After the Marshal of the Long Cavalry warned that Cloud Temple had reached the Repulsion Zone, Lu Yao fueled its descent and studied the Red Voids and smaller Vortex Worlds below.
• The Marshal of the Long Cavalry volunteered to scout ahead with the Long Cavalry Army, navigating the dust storms and crossing the dangerous Void Eye by testing its radiation with world fragments.
• The Long Cavalry Army discovered a civilization around the Dark Star, and Lu Yao ordered the Marshal of the Long Cavalry to observe it from a safe distance.
• The Simulator reported that the Arcane Research Institute had invented an Elemental Magic Well, surprising Lu Yao with a breakthrough before the Runes were decoded.

Joseph failed to become an airship pilot after getting airsick, but his work at Maintenance Station No. 77 led him to invent a Magnetic Probe and earn recognition from Fahai. He befriended Lia, learned that rumors had exaggerated her illness, and married her a month later—then regretted it.

• Joseph joined Maintenance Station No. 77 as a repair worker after airsickness ended his pilot ambitions, and Captain Kepler welcomed him.
• After a year of isolation and discouragement, Joseph met senior safety inspector Lia and regained his drive, then heard from Kepler that she was going blind from damage caused by an accident at the Magic Well.
• Joseph entered Flow State while running and spent three months developing the Magnetic Probe, which made inspecting airship circuits easier and safer.
• Fahai praised Joseph's invention and offered him a researcher position, which Joseph accepted while requesting to remain at the station.
• Joseph learned Lia was blind but not terminally ill, asked her to marry him, and agreed to start as friends; they married a month later, and Joseph regretted it.

Joseph struggled with renewed emptiness and worried as Lia returned to dangerous Magic Well research, but he supported her mission to record the collapsing wells and develop new energy sources. After Lia came home with a Copper Prosthetic, its unruly living replacement hand attacked Joseph, leading them to its maker, Shuai Zai, who explained that Xenomorph Prosthetics had thoughts of their own.

• Joseph learned that his long Flow State could not be sustained and let Lia continue researching Magic Wells despite the risks.
• Half a year later, Lia returned from a survey with her right hand replaced by a Copper Prosthetic and explained the urgency of studying the disappearing small Magic Wells.
• Lia described how replicating Magic Wells could provide energy for expanding the Airship Ring Road and Ripple Valley, and Joseph told her he believed she could succeed.
• Lia woke Joseph when her prosthetic left hand began acting on its own, so he took her to Sand City to confront its maker, Shuai Zai.
• Shuai Zai explained that the Xenomorph Prosthetic was living tissue with thoughts of its own, then recognized Joseph and eagerly asked him to inspect an invention inspired by the Magnetic Probe.

Joseph’s celebrated invention, the Magnetic Probe, was combined with Shuai Zai’s Stretchy Hand to make magic well surveys safer, but the praise and pressure led Philes and Black Forge to reveal that Lia was Joseph’s imagined companion and that he had lost his right arm in a magic well accident. After treatment at the Sun Temple, Joseph accepted his past and recovered his ambition, leaving determined to conquer the Magic Well and pursue Lady Daughter of the Sun.

• Shuai Zai demonstrated his heavy, awkward Stretchy Hand, and Lia realized it could be adapted to extend the Magnetic Probe into magic wells.
• Lia and Shuai Zai worked with Philes and Black Forge to integrate the Stretchy Hand, Magnetic Probe, and Magic Box Garden into a successful survey system that reduced casualties.
• Philes and Black Forge praised Joseph’s role and asked for advice, but Joseph said his main concern was Lia’s safety.
• Philes and Black Forge took Joseph to the Sun Temple, where Philes revealed that Lia had never existed and that the maintenance workers had played along with Joseph’s delusion.
• Joseph recovered memories of losing his right arm and creating Lia as a way to cope, then thanked Lord Yao and Lady Daughter of the Sun for his treatment.
• After confirming that Lady Daughter of the Sun was real, Joseph declared that he would become an apostle and conquer the Magic Well to win her favor.

Lu Yao learned how the Yao Clan had replicated Magic Bottles and developed Elemental Magic Wells, while Philes reported the dangers and progress of investigating Magic Wells. After turning Joseph into a Hero and checking on Sekhmet, Lu Yao heard Long Ji suggest that Runes and Dragon Tongue belonged to the same language system.

• Slaimod told Lu Yao that Qian Yuan Mountain University had developed a Crystal Structure Magic Bottle with far greater capacity and faster charging than Dagas's Magic Bottle.
• Philes described the Magic Well survey team's losses and explained how Joseph's Magnetic Probe helped create a model for the Elemental Magic Well.
• Philes reported that Elemental Magic Wells had passed limited safety testing but still required long warm-up periods and caused pollution that prevented use near cities.
• Lu Yao converted Joseph into a Hero, and Joseph vowed to conquer the Magic Well for Lu Yao and the Daughter of the Sun.
• Sekhmet told Lu Yao that she was treating Magic Well patients and developing a healing potion, while she considered Joseph's condition peculiar.
• Long Ji told Lu Yao that Runes resembled Dragon Tongue and seemed to belong to the same language system.

Long Ji reported that runes were derived from the Dragon Seal, and Lu Yao authorized Ju to oversee the technology’s development and safeguards. While observing Dark Star, Lu Yao learned from Halo that it was a God-Tier Civilization where ordinary citizens reached LV99.

• Long Ji explained that Dragon Language and Dragon Seals arose from dragon element, and that runes on Dagas Magic Bottles mimicked the Dragon Seal.
• Long Ji asked whether the Yao Clan should use the powerful Dragon Seal, and Lu Yao approved its development while assigning Ju to manage it and create safeguards.
• Lu Yao observed Dark Star from afar and found that the committee database classified it as an extremely dangerous area that absorbed worlds and distorted natural laws.
• Lu Yao asked Halo whether Death Gods could investigate Dark Star, and Halo warned that even Gods had vanished there, including Skye and six other great Gods.
• Halo consulted the Underworld and told Lu Yao that Hela had learned from the fallen God Ghulwig that Dark Star was a God-Tier Civilization, where average civilians had reached LV99.

Lu Yao learned how civilizations cultivated heroes and heard Halo’s warning that Dark Star was a deadly forbidden zone for Gods. He sent Pasha, protected by a special ability, to investigate Dark Star, but lost the ability to observe him after he vanished.

• Lu Yao studied the four civilization tiers and learned that Gods produced heroes through trials, wars, and natural disasters.
• Halo warned Lu Yao that Gods who entered Dark Star could die, citing Skye and Ghulwig’s failed expeditions and explaining the Dark Star Will’s control over local rules.
• Lu Yao decided to send Pasha, the Dragon of the Dark Sun, to investigate Dark Star because Dark Descendants could enter it safely.
• Lu Yao granted Pasha Heaven and Earth Longevity with a Queen Mother's Peach, then sent him toward Dark Star using the Goddess of Roads' road sign.
• Pasha vanished upon approaching Dark Star, and Lu Yao could no longer access his entry in the Fragmented World backend.

Pasha arrived at Dark Star, chose the [Evil Dragon] role, and learned that its residents had to act out assigned identities during prompted scenes. After struggling to understand the peaceful role-playing society, Pasha joined Sid during a monster siege and embraced its role as an evil dragon.

• Pasha entered Dark Star, chose its largest region, and selected [Evil Dragon] as its identity.
• Pasha attacked a town during a prompted scene, but its Dragon Breath and collisions barely harmed the high-level residents or their buildings.
• After the attack ended, Sid explained that Dark Star residents had to perform their roles during scenes or risk losing their identities and place in the world.
• Pasha followed Sid, a [Wall Builder], to watch it build a wall and learned that residents competed over their acting, with exceptional roles potentially earning Godhead.
• When a monster siege began, Sid fled as a civilian, and Pasha took to the sky and gloated over the chaos as an Evil Dragon.

Pasha explored Dark Star civilization and learned how its roles and countries worked before receiving a prompt to fight a Brave. After their staged battle ended, he met the newly ascended Bourne and advised him on playing his role.

• Pasha found Sid bathing in a lake and learned that Dark Star civilization consisted of separate countries where Dark Descendants performed assigned roles.
• Pasha questioned the [Messenger] and the [vagrant], who explained how roles advanced and how Dark Star selected candidates for godhood.
• The [vagrant] deduced that Pasha had a powerful backer and asked him for help escaping Dark Star.
• Pasha received a prompt to begin The Brave Versus the Evil Dragon and fought a one-eyed Brave in the southern region.
• After the fight ended, Bourne told Pasha that he had been warned about his role-playing, and Pasha advised him to change his dialogue and appearance.

Pasha staged his final Evil Dragon scenario, but completing the role unexpectedly granted him a Godhead and promoted him to God. As a catastrophic invasion began, the Snow Monster realized Pasha’s faction had come for Lord Dark Star.

• Pasha gave a speech calling on the Dark Descendants to fight for their dignity before Bourne defeated him in their staged Death of the Evil Dragon scenario.
• Pasha explained his role-playing approach to Bourne, who was promoted from [Brave] to [Legendary Hero].
• Pasha decided to leave, thanked Vagrant, and watched Sid from afar before heading into a remote forest.
• A notification declared that Pasha had passed the trial, and [Evil Dragon] was promoted to God, granting him a Godhead, Divine Might, Miracle, and a Flame of Faith.
• The sky turned crimson as spatial cracks tore through the world, and a winged, neckless figure appeared above the nation.
• The Snow Monster recognized the figure as a force connected to Pasha and realized it had come to target Lord Dark Star.

After the Dark Star Will promoted Pasha to a God of Dark Star and erased its ability to return, Pasha refused to serve it and declared its loyalty to Lord Yao. Lord Yao intervened and rescued Pasha, leaving Dark Star engulfed in flames as the bombardment stopped.

• The Dark Star Will appointed Pasha to guide Dark Descendants through Ascension and gave it a Dark Star Mark that would revive it if it fell.
• Pasha refused the Dark Star Will’s orders, declared its allegiance to Lord Yao, and explained why it valued life in the Yao Clan Civilization.
• The Dark Star Will began crushing Pasha, but stopped to ask about Lord Yao as Xing Tian attacked the Dark Star forces.
• Pasha described Lord Yao’s tolerance and the Yao Clan’s freedom, and urged the Dark Star Will to trust Lord Yao for the Dark Star Civilization’s sake.
• Xing Tian fought through the Dark Star Gods as Lord Yao’s attack overwhelmed the region, then vanished with Pasha into the void.
• Pasha reported to Lord Yao, while the crimson bombardment around Dark Star stopped and the cross-shaped void rift began to close.

Lu Yao attacked Dark Star to force the Dark Star Will to return Pasha, then negotiated Pasha’s safe release. After Pasha described Dark Star’s role-based civilization, Lu Yao opened talks with its ruler and learned the Dark Star Will was a Star Lord, not a God.

• Lu Yao discovered that Pasha had integrated a Godhead, lost Heaven and Earth Longevity, and disconnected from synchronization and the world.
• Lu Yao fired Crimson Void Bullets at Dark Star and sent Xing Tian to attack it, then demanded Pasha’s return.
• Lu Yao threatened to destroy Dark Star’s Ascension channels, and the Dark Star Will agreed to a transaction after he offered cooperation in exchange for Pasha’s safe return.
• The Dark Star Will returned Pasha, who recounted how Dark Star forced entrants to fuse with roles and survive within its rigid civilization template.
• Lu Yao began discussing population growth and cooperation with the Dark Star Lord, who told him it was a Star Lord rather than a God.

Lu Yao negotiated a civilization partnership with the Dark Star Lord, creating an ascension channel and a joint country while learning that Dark Star’s ruler was a Saprophytic Star Lord. The Dark Star Lord then asked Lu Yao to teach it how to build civilizations.

• Lu Yao offered the Dark Star Lord a long-term ascension channel through the Mystic Arts Country in exchange for 30 Godheads.
• Lu Yao and the Dark Star Lord agreed to establish an ascension system in the Mystic Arts Country and create the joint Dark Yao Country on Dark Star.
• Lu Yao appointed Pasha as the civilizations’ liaison, and the Dark Star Lord deployed a level-10 Dark Sun with a Dark Star Mark in the Mystic Arts Country.
• The Dark Star Lord revealed that it fed on the destruction of worlds, confirming that it was a Saprophytic Star Lord.
• The Dark Star Lord praised Lu Yao’s skill at creating civilizations and asked him to teach it, offering equivalent payment.