Chapter Summaries

Tian Tu fought thirteen Magic Potion Monarch Great Emperors and died defending the living, while Xu Zhi suspected that the hero’s reputation had been deliberately cultivated. The faith of the people then revived Tian Tu as a powerful figure wielding a golden staff, and he returned to battle.

• Tian Tu faced thirteen Magic Potion Monarch Great Emperors alone and killed several before his age and injuries overwhelmed him.
• Tian Tu died after declaring his refusal to accept defeat, and the people mourned the Witch Ancestor and recounted his deeds.
• Xu Zhi and Hila watched from afar as Xu Zhi suspected Tian Tu’s heroic persona and biography had been deliberately promoted.
• The people’s grief and faith gathered into a divine figure of Tian Tu, alarming the Magic Potion Monarch Great Emperors.
• Tian Tu returned wielding a golden staff, announced his revival, and charged back into battle.

Fighting War God revived at the height of the battle against the Magic Potion Era, shocking both its Great Emperors and the forum users who had mourned his apparent death. Meng Mei revealed that she had orchestrated the campaign and commanded the Immortal World, leaving the players stunned by her hidden role.

• Fighting War God died after battling the Magic Potion Era’s Monarch Great Emperors, while Meng Mei’s livestream led forum users to mourn his sacrifice.
• Fighting War God revived in golden armor and returned to battle, revealing that his apparent tragic death had been staged to gather incense offerings.
• The forum users realized they had been tricked into grieving and angrily flooded the comments with complaints.
• Meng Mei announced that she had secretly orchestrated the war and commanded the Immortal World, with the Heavenly Dao, Red Name Players, and Ancient Heavenly Emperors carrying out her orders.

Meng Mei revealed that she had secretly developed the Dragon Vein system and shaped the incense Dao path, while using her influence to restrain the Red Name Players. She left the crowd marveling at her long-term plans—and jokingly worshipping her as a goddess of luck.

• Meng Mei explained that she had helped resurrect Bell by mastering incense and had made him dependent on the offerings sustaining his new divine position.
• She revealed her Dragon Vein maps and described how she adapted the Underworld Refinement Array to gather incense rather than souls, with help from Mount Akina Speed and the Alchemy Emperor.
• Meng Mei said she had created the incense Dao system, guiding Xu You Nian and Hu Renong through the first and second Incense Eras.
• She claimed that she was the foundational Dragon Vein supporting the Great Zhou Dynasty and Immortal World, and that the Red Name Players depended on her Dragon Vein technology.
• Meng Mei posted a picture calling herself the Lucky Emperor, and people began jokingly worshipping her for luck and resurrection.

Meng Mei revealed that the Great Zhou Dynasty had spent decades expanding its population and educating its children to strengthen its incense-based power against the enemy. She left the group with the dynasty’s population at three hundred million and its growing ordinary people as the foundation of its Heavenly Emperors’ strength.

• Meng Mei announced that she would command the Ancient Wilderness World and explained that the Great Zhou Dynasty could offset its shortage of powerful fighters by increasing its population and incense.
• Meng Mei revealed that she had guided Hu Renong to implement a policy subsidizing large families, while Imperial Court agencies addressed farming and other population needs.
• Meng Mei showed statistics and classroom screenshots indicating that the Ancient Wilderness World had reached a population of three hundred million and was educating children to become Confucian scholars.
• The group joked about the dynasty’s intense schooling, and Meng Mei’s plan clarified that the Heavenly Emperors depended on the dynasty and its people to endure.

Meng Mei explained that Dragon Vein Version 3.0 could resurrect her while preserving her Divine Soul, but repeated deaths and gathered incense gradually assimilated worshipped figures into the public’s image of them. She revealed that she was establishing Dragon Veins in the Wizard World to become Mother Earth there and ultimately unite both worlds, while Bell raced to become a god before losing himself.

• Netizens questioned how Meng Mei had survived beside Medusa and ventured into the demon world, and Meng Mei said she could be resurrected through the Wish Power gathered by her Dragon Veins.
• Meng Mei explained that Dragon Vein Version 3.0 preserved her Divine Soul, but incense slowly assimilated divine figures into the collective image held by their worshippers.
• Meng Mei warned that Bell’s self-written biography was turning him into its Fighting War God, and said he had about two hundred years to become an Eighth-Order God before losing himself completely.
• Meng Mei said she had entered the Wizard World to establish Dragon Veins, expecting Medusa might capture her and demand that she build a system there.
• Meng Mei revealed her plan to become Mother Earth in both worlds, end their war, and manage them together before exploring other worlds in the Myriad Realms.

The Demon World launched a full-scale invasion, threatening the Great Zhou Dynasty and Nanzhao Kingdom as their defenders struggled to protect their people. Zhou Chang'an chose to lead the Great Zhou army himself, while Nanzhao’s ruler merged with the dragon vein and faced Youke in battle.

• Meng Mei Evolves into Dragon livestreamed the invasion and described the conflict between the two worlds as a new era for the players.
• Demon forces besieged Pingyang City, where Shushan disciples fought to defend a key dragon-vein node while Governor Shangguan Jiucheng remained unconscious.
• Emperor Zhou Chang'an decided to lead an expedition despite his ministers’ warnings that the Demon World might be luring him into an assassination.
• In Nanzhao Kingdom, the young woman merged with the dragon vein to protect her people and confronted Youke, who revealed that deathsworn fighters were targeting Zhou Chang'an.
• Youke transformed into a blazing fire demonic beast and began fighting the dragon-vein woman as the people of Nanzhao fled.

As The Legend of the Fighting War God rallied the Barren Ancient World’s people and helped Tian Tu revive, Xu Zhi explained that the Magic Potion Era had hidden powerful fighters. Three ancient Monarch Great Emperors joined the battlefield and revealed a plan to exploit the Heavenly Emperors’ limited ability to revive, leaving Bell and his allies facing a serious threat.

• The Barren Ancient World’s people drew strength from The Legend of the Fighting War God as Tian Tu returned to battle, fueled by their Wish Power.
• Hila became absorbed in the novel, and Xu Zhi explained that its story was embellished but broadly reflected history.
• The Blood Emperor appeared, followed by Brom and the Vampire Progenitor, whose strength matched Bell’s.
• Brom and the Vampire Progenitor ordered the Blood Emperor to hold off Tian Tu while they targeted Heavenly Emperors who could not revive.
• The Blood Emperor explained that resurrections depended on limited Wish Power, and Bell and the distant Heavenly Emperors realized their side was in danger.

Three Ancient Heavenly Emperors arrived from the Time River to turn the battle in the Barren Ancient World’s favor. Hila watched in shock as the Saintess of Light asked Messiah who he really was.

• The Demon World’s hidden fighters overwhelmed the front lines, and the people of the Barren Ancient World mourned their lack of time.
• The people’s sorrow gathered into a force that summoned the Time River above the Blood Domain Great World.
• The Azure Emperor and Severing Heavens Emperor appeared from the past, followed by Long Hong, Emperor Qi the Great.
• The three Ancient Heavenly Emperors entered the battle, leaving Hila stunned by the Barren Ancient World’s sudden reversal.
• The Saintess of Light stepped out of her carriage and asked Messiah who he was.

Meng Mei revealed the truth behind the Heavenly River and identified Xu Zhi as the God of Wisdom, while Xu Zhi recognized her as Azure Vine Earth Mother. She asked him to join her effort to stop the coming disaster and surrender All Knowing Scholar so she could make him the true God of Wisdom Hermes.

• Meng Mei explained that the Heavenly River was a river of incense that created battle spirits modeled on ancient Great Emperors, not a real Time River.
• Meng Mei inferred that Xu Zhi was the God of Wisdom Hermes, and Xu Zhi identified her as Azure Vine Earth Mother.
• Hila learned that Meng Mei was the Azure Vine Earth Mother and believed Xu Zhi was the Church of Light's supreme god.
• Azure Vine Earth Mother invited Xu Zhi to join her stage and help stop the disaster threatening both worlds.
• Azure Vine Earth Mother asked Xu Zhi to give All Knowing Scholar to her so she could make him the true God of Wisdom Hermes.

Meng Mei revealed her plan to protect mortals in both worlds by establishing Dragon Vein incense systems that would make powerful beings fight for divine positions instead of slaughtering common people. As she traveled with All Knowing Scholar, she remembered the loved ones she had lost and resolved to carry on her work.

• Xu Zhi gave All Knowing Scholar to Meng Mei, who left the Blood Domain Great World with Hu Haihan while the Heavenly Emperors continued fighting.
• Meng Mei explained that she planned to establish Dragon Veins in Magic Potion Land, allowing powerful beings to compete for followers and divine positions while mortals remained safe.
• Meng Mei told Hu Haihan that incense offerings could provide an endless supply of energy and keep the powerful fighting among themselves rather than causing calamities for mortals.
• Meng Mei remembered Dao Changsheng and Brother Qinglian, whose deaths had left her grieving and alone, and recalled how Mu Yuan Cheng and his children helped her regain her will to live.
• Meng Mei reassured Hu Haihan that her luck and hard work would help her succeed in protecting mortals.

Meng Mei used All Knowing Scholar to summon an imagined God of Wisdom through the Church of Light’s faith, while Xu Zhi recognized the process as a chance to comprehend his Dao Heart. The deity descended with an androgynous appearance, frustrating Meng Mei’s plan to make him wear women’s clothing.

• Meng Mei brought All Knowing Scholar to the Church of Light’s underground dragon-vein formation and prepared to summon the God of Wisdom Hermes.
• Meng Mei gathered the Church’s faith to transform All Knowing Scholar into a divine incarnation, and Xu Zhi realized the process might help him comprehend his Dao Heart.
• Meng Mei posted about her plan to control the Church and protect ordinary people from powerful factions’ wars.
• Meng Mei revealed that netizens expected the God of Wisdom to appear in women’s clothing, prompting Xu Zhi to alter All Knowing Scholar’s appearance into an androgynous form.
• The Church of Light’s clergy rejected Meng Mei’s suggestion to dress the descended God of Wisdom in women’s clothing.

As ancient Great Emperors fought for godhood in the Blood Domain Great World, Black Prison Great Emperor Boqike began slaughtering mortals in his own world to harvest their energy. Youke returned to find the Feideqi Kingdom under attack, fought Boqike to protect it, and died with the Feideqi Queen as Earth Mother Azure Vine realized the calamity had begun.

• Ancient Great Emperors secretly agreed to harvest mortals for energy while continuing to fight at the front lines.
• Black Prison Great Emperor Boqike and his beast companions attacked an outpost and slaughtered its defenders, including a fleeing Quasi-Emperor.
• Youke returned from the Ancient Wilderness World, discovered the massacre, and realized Boqike was attacking the Feideqi Human Kingdom.
• Youke transformed into a lava giant and confronted Boqike as the Feideqi Queen refused to surrender.
• The Feideqi Queen remembered Youke's diary entry about loving Miss Mili and protecting her ideal nation.
• Earth Mother Azure Vine witnessed the destruction of Feideqi's capital and understood that the war's calamity had begun.

The God of Wisdom Hermes had become a special existence formed from the All Knowing Scholar, the wisdom of living beings, and their incense offerings. As the Black Prison Great Emperor Boqike’s destruction spread, Hermes set out to confront him.

• The Black Prison Great Emperor Boqike destroyed a Human Kingdom, prompting people across the land to fear that every nation would fall.
• In Holy Light City Dandis, Hu Haihan and Meng Mei watched Hermes read beside the fountain and discussed how the faith of his followers had made him a special existence.
• Meng Mei explained that Hermes could integrate and deduce knowledge like a supercomputer but could not innovate like Di Qi because he was not a true living being.
• Hu Haihan argued that Hermes’s perfection made him seem more alive than ordinary people, and Meng Mei reminded her that he was still the All Knowing Scholar.
• Hermes sensed the others’ arrival, promised his believers they would be spared, and went to meet Boqike.

Black Prison Great Emperor Boqike attacked a small half-orc country, but God of Wisdom Hermes descended and crushed him. The believers were saved, and Meng Mei livestreamed the historic event.

• Black Prison Great Emperor Boqike sent monstrous birds to slaughter a small half-orc town and dismissed its praying people as pitiful mortals.
• Hermes appeared beside Boqike and explained that the people prayed because they had no other way to save themselves.
• The believers recognized Hermes and fervently worshipped him as he faced Boqike.
• Meng Mei arrived and livestreamed Hermes’s descent as a historic turning point.
• Boqike tried to flee, but Hermes opened his luminous book and crushed him into a mist of blood.
• The people rejoiced and prayed, while the Magic Potion Historical Records later recorded Hermes’s rescue of his believers in the year 1103.

Blood Emperor and Brom played chess as ancient Monarch Great Emperors investigated Black Prison Great Emperor Boqike’s death. Three rulers of the current era chose to let the killer go, but Hermes appeared and offered Mokory and Kaguya Empress forgiveness, leaving them kneeling in prayer.

• Blood Emperor told Brom that he had made peace with the suffering and deaths of mortals.
• Pale King, Kaguya Empress, Mokory, and Orc Great Emperor Peter went to investigate Boqike’s death and found the slaughtered sentry posts.
• Pale King, Kaguya Empress, and Mokory admitted they had deliberately avoided searching for the culprit because they could not bring themselves to harm their people.
• Peter did not return, while Mokory broke down, blaming himself for failing to protect the era he had once ruled.
• Hermes appeared, comforted Mokory with scripture, and Kaguya Empress recognized the Gray Crystal Necklace associated with Peter.
• Mokory and Kaguya Empress knelt before Hermes and prayed for forgiveness.

Hermes, a deity formed from the Blood Domain Great World's collective Wish Power and empowered by the All Knowing Scholar's book, faced the ancient Monarch Great Emperors. He overwhelmed them all, leaving the world to witness a new figure comparable to Di Qi.

• Blood Emperor and the other Monarch Great Emperors recognized Hermes as an incense deity and prepared to kill him for his power.
• Kaguya Empress, Mokory, and the Pale King arrived as the Monarch Great Emperors attacked Hermes, while Meng Mei rushed to bring reinforcements.
• Hermes used the book's wisdom-based powers to compress space, restrain his enemies, and exploit their techniques and weaknesses.
• The Ancient Wilderness World Heavenly Emperors arrived and watched Hermes send Brom flying, allowing Fighting War God to subdue him.
• Mokory declared Hermes the hope of the world's people, and Liu Wenjian realized that Hermes wielded his system and asked whether he was the All Knowing Scholar.
• Hermes defeated the surrounding Monarch Great Emperors, and news of the white-robed deity's victory spread throughout the world.

Hermes's mortal incarnation ended the slaughter of mortals and left the Monarch Great Emperors trapped between the Ancient Wilderness World’s forces and the threat behind them. Earth Mother Azure Vine offered the Great Emperors Dragon Vein Contracts that could give them a chance to become gods.

• Hermes appeared in the Blood Domain Great World, suppressed the Great Emperors, and ordered them not to harm the masses before departing.
• The Church of Light celebrated Hermes's arrival, spread the news, and declared the start of Year One of Light.
• Earth Mother Azure Vine explained that Hermes was neither side’s ally but would prevent the Great Emperors from slaughtering mortals.
• The Vampire Progenitor accused the Ancient Wilderness World of keeping mortals in a different kind of cage, and Earth Mother Azure Vine agreed that all beings lived within cages.
• Earth Mother Azure Vine distributed Dragon Vein Contracts to the Great Emperors, offering them a possible path to godhood.

Earth Mother Azure Vine offered the Monarch Great Emperors a path to godhood through dragon veins, faith, and Wish Power, ending the world’s reliance on catastrophic mass slaughter. Xu Zhi assessed the changes as the beginning of the Age of Gods and recognized that Hermes had upgraded All Knowing Scholar into a powerful knowledge-integration and deduction system.

• Earth Mother Azure Vine offered the Monarch Great Emperors contracts granting dragon-vein access and a path to immortality through believers’ incense and Wish Power.
• Earth Mother Azure Vine explained that immortal Great Emperors could repeatedly kill and revive one another to gather energy, and the Monarch Great Emperors accepted her proposal.
• A day later, Earth Mother Azure Vine assigned dragon veins to the Monarch Great Emperors and celebrated with Hu Haihan and Little Fox.
• History later recorded that the Magic Potion Era ended in year 1104 with Hermes’s descent, beginning the Age of Gods.
• Xu Zhi recognized that the divine system could advance the Sandbox World and that Hermes could integrate cultivation techniques using the thoughts and Wish Power of living beings.
• Xu Zhi clarified that Hermes did not rival Di Qi, but had upgraded All Knowing Scholar from a learning machine into a supercomputer for integrating knowledge and deduction.

As the gods’ war intensified, Meng Mei and Little Fox Hu Haihan traveled to Holy Light City Dandis, where Meng Mei said she had gathered enough energy to become a god. Medusa warned her that she was facing an inevitable death and might survive only by breaking through to become an Eighth-Order God.

• After the demon invasion ended, Earth Mother Azure Vine traveled freely between the worlds while ordinary people celebrated peace and Meng Mei declared her world-building goal complete.
• The Monarch Great Emperors began competing for believers and land, creating churches and new professions as wars among gods resumed and spread between the worlds.
• Mokory founded the Church of Mechanics and Steam and created the Magic Gunner profession, but rival churches later ambushed him and seized his believers.
• Meng Mei and Little Fox Hu Haihan rode a train to Holy Light City Dandis, where Meng Mei said she had gathered enough energy to become a god and wanted to protect ordinary people.
• Medusa said she did not plan to become a god, then warned Meng Mei that her death was inevitable unless she became an Eighth-Order God.

Medusa warned Meng Mei that the world’s suppression of disaster would eventually rebound into a calamity capable of threatening even the gods. Meng Mei resolved to give her gathered energy to Dao Changsheng first, while Hila continued traveling with the sleeping Messiah and encountered farmers blocking her road.

• Medusa explained to Meng Mei that suppressing the world-ending calamity would only increase the force of its eventual return.
• Meng Mei said she wanted Dao Changsheng to become a god first, then protect her while she continued gathering energy and developing her world.
• Medusa left with Hu Haihan and warned that the transforming world could become a higher-dimensional realm where a future calamity threatened the gods.
• Hila traveled through the Barren Ancient World with the sleeping Messiah, believing she might never live to see him awaken.
• Hila’s carriage stopped when several farmers blocked the road, and she stepped down to find out what had happened.