Recaps

Lu PingAn returned to Earth, helped his allies advance, and used their strength to restore order in Ancient City. He then pursued cooperation with the Phosphorus People and prepared to raise Mercury 42’s profile in Wanjing, where Big Cat drew him into her laboratory project.

• Lu PingAn entrusted the Fire Seed Project’s early work to Guan Xinxian, accepted the Rescue Team’s letter, and returned to Earth with his companions aboard the Shenzhou.
• Lu PingAn’s Demon Vines fused with him as a second nervous system, and he mentored Lu Lu while learning that she was a Tier 8 War Emissary.
• Lu PingAn welcomed his Rule-level companions in Ancient City, introduced Lu Lu to the officials, and arranged for Mayor Li Xingwu to support negotiations and Xia Qin’s crackdown.
• Lu PingAn and Xia Qin led a sweeping assault on Ancient City’s criminal forces, then installed citywide cameras and suppressed the resulting unrest until crime fell sharply.
• Lu PingAn met Wang Sixiang and proposed that the Phosphorus People relocate to Mercury 42, then offered Wang Xi'er a role in a project that could give her independence from the royal family and Ancient City.
• Lu PingAn studied the Moon God Knights and concluded that the Twin Gods’ power came from observing and recording each other, while resolving to pursue a separate pair of Mirror Eyes.
• Lu PingAn arrived in Wanjing with Lu Lu and Wang Xi'er, triggered multiple supernatural security warnings, and realized that he needed to raise his and Mercury 42’s profile.
• Lu PingAn met Big Cat at Wanjing University’s Biological Disaster Defense Laboratory, where she promised the worried doctoral students that her unfinished project could help them graduate.

Lu PingAn helped Chris regain a body, secured the Savior Army’s alliance and foothold on Mercury 42, and began pursuing the Moon God’s relic in Siberia. He found the wilderness crowded with rival forces seeking a divine inheritance and focused on preparing his team and collecting local extraordinary species.

• Lu PingAn learned that Chris had infiltrated Wanjing University and found Kerdales’s surviving body in the restricted laboratory.
• Lu PingAn agreed to help Chris inhabit a new body, and Big Cat later took form as the golden-haired child Kerdales.
• Lu PingAn and the Eastern Kingdom signed an alliance treaty, while he negotiated with the Moon God and other factions over territory on Mercury 42.
• Lu PingAn advanced plans for a Gu City University branch campus and entrusted Catherine with managing the team’s growing territory and investments.
• The Moon God sent Lu PingAn the location of her severed fragment in Siberia, and he set out to pursue the God's Relic.
• Lu PingAn survived mercenary ambushes and confronted an assassin in the Siberian Demonic Domain, where Fang Wen identified Grey Mountain Company and Aus Company as connected to the bounty on him.
• Lu PingAn found Red Star Republic forces and other groups converging on the north, then ordered his Exploration Team to avoid combat and gather extraordinary species.
• Lu PingAn cultivated cold-resistant magical plants and turned the frozen wilderness into a Botanical Garden for the team’s research.

Lu PingAn pursued the Moon God’s fragment in Siberia and fought Barn, trapping him in a curse that drove him to consume his own beast legion. As Barn became a monstrous nest, Chris joined Lu PingAn in a giant fused form and struck at the Moon God’s stone head.

• Lu PingAn dragged the Eternally Hunted Holy Maiden Maria into a painting, creating the cursed item Redemption and gaining the Desperate Painter profession.
• Lu PingAn entered the international fight over the Moon God’s Legacy, survived Zhu Dakai’s attack, and recruited Tie Hao to help locate the fragment.
• Barn offered Lu PingAn the title of Holy Son, then revealed his ambition to become the only god and fought Lu PingAn and Chris.
• Lu PingAn summoned allies and used his paintings to curse Barn as a traveler who had frozen to death, then made a weeping woman and monsters torment him.
• Lu PingAn withdrew with his allies and harried Barn as the curse worsened, while the Little Guy helped direct the search for the divine treasure.
• Barn consumed his magical beasts and became the Million Beast Nest, while Lu PingAn recognized that the monster contained rules he needed.
• Lu PingAn and Chris merged with their allies into a giant Ghost Knight, and Chris used Eve’s Golden Country to battle Barn.
• Chris severed the Moon God’s stone head and resolved, with Lu PingAn and Zhi Xi, to end the mistakes of the past.

Lu PingAn rebuilt his strength and Chris, returned to Mercury 42, and expanded his territory while weighing the dangers of ascension for Guan Xinxian. After traveling to the front, he witnessed the war’s human cost and chose to intervene as Red Star King charged into battle.

• Lu PingAn and Chris wore down Barn until his regeneration failed, then Lu PingAn used the remains to create Chris a living body and fled across the border after gaining new powers.
• Lu PingAn returned to Mercury 42 with Earth’s support, expanded his businesses and territory, and learned that Redemption had become a Holy Sun Tree under the world’s blessing.
• Guan Xinxian asked Lu PingAn to help him ascend as the God of Redemption, and Lu PingAn urged him to wait while they sought divine authorities that could preserve his humanity.
• Lu PingAn organized investments, commerce, industry, and war logistics across his territory while postponing his own departure and refusing rotational frontline duty.
• Lu PingAn traveled with Wang Xi'er and fought off repeated pirate attacks, then visited the front and summoned a Tree of Salvation to aid the wounded.
• Lu PingAn and Xue En fought powerful enemy monsters, after which he ordered his team to prepare Dragon-Slaying Weapons and potions for the next battle.
• Lu PingAn witnessed the front line’s losses, rejected pushing himself beyond his limits with Deferred Payment, and intervened when an octopus-like monster attacked.
• The Three-Headed Dragon chose to hold position rather than fight to the death, but its attendant reported that Red Star King had charged out alone.