Recaps

Lu PingAn pursued a path to create new life, expanded his Courtyard, and helped Ancient City win a major transport contract. As he prepared to enter Mercury 42, he sought help with his curses from Liu XiYan, who gave him a mask to hide from Lady Lin and a task to remember.

• Lu PingAn returned to Ancient City, recognized how its prosperity depended on the Voyage project, and set out to help the Development Zone sell its Land Arks.
• Lu PingAn gained the Forest Goddess Church’s attention, negotiated a partnership through the Trading Ground, and worked with Old Deer to develop his Rebirth Law Decree.
• Lu PingAn recruited Life-type Professionals to share their knowledge, advanced to Tier 5, and created a new white cat from Cat Cat’s gold coins.
• Lu PingAn named his profession Bestower of Blessings and granted sub-bodies and new abilities to members of his group, while Ancient City Shuttle Factory One won the water transport contract.
• Lu PingAn studied Mercury 42 and learned that its war opposed the Lord of the Octopi’s expansion, then decided to address the curse that would endanger his team there.
• Lu PingAn asked Liu XiYan for help with his curses, rejected a bargain requiring an unspecified favor, and agreed to deal with a fugitive in return for documents about him.
• Liu XiYan gave Lu PingAn an ancient mask that could hide him from Lady Lin and warned Big Cat not to draw others into her conflict with her sister.

Lu PingAn arrived on Mercury 42 and built a local force by recruiting Long-Hand Tribe members and fishfolk, adapting professions to their strengths and opening trade with underwater communities. After establishing a supply route and the Rebirth Merchant Group’s presence, he set course for White Ape City.

• Lu PingAn reached Mercury 42, learned about the Three Gods Association and local Divine Graces, and began exploring the world’s trade and resources.
• Lu PingAn established Hometown Dishes and negotiated a deal to exchange Long Sleep Potions for Spirit Holy Water.
• Lu PingAn trained his crew for underwater combat, survived repeated fishman attacks, and recognized that his small force needed local recruits.
• Lu PingAn offered Long-Hand Tribe members and fishfolk a paid path to becoming Professionals, then developed the Long-Hand Javelin Thrower to suit their abilities.
• Lu PingAn negotiated with Lord Shakeda and the Fishmen, opening trade and offering training, equipment, and supplies in exchange for deep-sea goods and spoils.
• The Long-Hand spearmen defeated the Fishmen Royal Guard in a martial display, and Lu PingAn healed the wounded before offering Shakeda their training and equipment for sale.
• Lu PingAn left Long-Hand Tribe members and fishfolk warriors at the Deep-Sea Branch, established an underwater supply route through five cities, and headed for White Ape City.

Lu PingAn built a foothold in White Ape City while uncovering the Fishmen World’s ancient past and the World’s Will’s designs. After learning that its bargains had shaped the Long-Hand Tribe’s suffering, he began preparing Lu'er to become its avenger and sent her to seek the Abyss Insectoids’ trust.

• Lu PingAn’s forces destroyed a Gray Dwarf warship, and he raised a Conqueror’s War Banner declaring war on the Abyss Insectoids, the Lava Clan, and Eight-Clawed’s Fishmen.
• Lu PingAn established his business in White Ape City, hired Long-Hand Tribe mercenaries, and ordered Cat Cat to kill the city’s gang bosses after they threatened his shop.
• Lu PingAn and Guan Xinxian discovered that the world’s luck favored the Long-Hand Tribe and rewarded killing outsiders, and Guan warned that the Fishmen World likely had an awakened World’s Will.
• Lu PingAn followed a Water Sphere to an abandoned insectoid city, where he learned that the Abyss Insectoids’ ancestors had been destroyed by a Great Flood unleashed by a god.
• Mr. Liu revealed that human forces and demigods had made a deal with the planetary being, and Lu PingAn learned that outsiders’ deaths nourished the New World as the World’s Will sought to cultivate native powers.
• Lu PingAn rescued Lu'er and other enslaved Long-Hand Tribe members after Prince was killed, then told Lu'er that the World’s Will had arranged her people’s fates and offered her a dangerous path to power.
• Lu PingAn showed Lu'er a vision of a peaceful human city and explained that the ruler’s plans treated native races as tools, prompting her to vow not to give up.
• Lu PingAn expanded the Long-Hand Tribe’s mercenary force and offered Lu'er an envoy mission to the Abyss Insectoids, which she accepted in hopes of earning their trust.

Lu PingAn helped prepare the Long-Hand Tribe and humanity for the coming conflict, then returned to a world where the gods had been cut off and the World's Will had fallen. He reunited with Mei Yuge and set out to investigate the fallen fragments as new invaders and threats emerged.

• Lu PingAn watched Lu'er sail off to rob slave ships and rescue her people, then accepted his reward from the World's Will for cultivating promising individuals.
• Lu PingAn learned of the Sun-Swapping Plan to isolate Mercury 42 and accelerate its time, and accepted the task of raising Long-Hand Tribe youths.
• Deep Vein Dragon Liquid accelerated growth across the world, while ancient beasts and the awakened Ancient Heroes emerged as the World's Will's forces.
• Lu PingAn asked Mudar to help him oppose the World's Will, then left Mercury 42 with most of his team while entrusting Guan Xinxian with the Redemption and its resources.
• Humanity accelerated Mercury 42 by severing six world connections, and Lu PingAn later found the Long-Hand Tribe and other factions fighting amid growing chaos.
• Lu PingAn hid his identity while investigating the region's books and culture, then Mei Yuge found him and told him how their old team had been scattered and hurt.
• The God of Breeding and Watching fell, the sky shattered, and Lu PingAn learned that Old Liu had poisoned the World's Will with his Natural Curse.
• Lu PingAn and Mei Yuge set out to investigate the fallen fragments, but pirates attacked their ship and Mei Yuge defeated them as they realized Divine Grace was weakening.