Recaps

Lu PingAn transformed the Black Flame into an immortal life network, led the Burning Legion across the Octopus World, and helped shape a long-term resistance to the invaders. He then traveled to a blazing world, where he began studying its Elemental Plane and the origins of its elemental life.

• Lu PingAn urged Black King’s followers to revolt against Eight-Clawed, then used the camp’s divisions and Black Flame avatars to sabotage its supply lines and send the Burning Legion into the New World.
• After Caso and Si Da Er shattered his body, Lu PingAn completed his transformation into an immortal being whose existence persisted through Black Flame, Life Points, and the Courtyard.
• Lu PingAn developed Black Flame professions and weapons, while Lu Lu embraced the dangerous new path and the Eastern Kingdom’s campaign advanced ahead of schedule.
• Lu PingAn worked with Lu Lu and his disciples on Teacher's Discourse, a guide to domestic cooperation, military reform, and a protracted war against the invaders.
• Lu PingAn arranged to travel to the flame world, created Moon Spring, and set out with members of the Courtyard and the Rebirth Merchant Guild.
• In Phoenix City, Lu PingAn encountered the Elemental Plane, killed attacking Fire People, and learned that humans struggled to fight there because their usual techniques failed.
• Lu PingAn studied the Thousand Layer World’s elemental creatures and harsh environment, tested local plants and lifeforms, and cultivated a crystal vein as he investigated the world’s underlying logic.

Lu PingAn used the Martial God Church’s resources to create and develop an adaptable local race, the Phoenix Ape Descendants. As they grew into a powerful, human-shaped people preparing to leave his fields, he joined the broader Xuan Wu Plan and feared they could become a planar Natural Disaster.

• Lu PingAn negotiated research and logistics contracts with the Martial God Church and Tyrannical Three-Faced Church, receiving a city, staff, and extensive research materials.
• Lu PingAn studied the plane’s energy-based lifeforms and concluded that he could create a true, evolving race suited to its conditions.
• Lu PingAn experimented with plants, crystals, animals, and emotional modules, eventually producing the first hybrid descendants and securing increased funding from the Martial God Church.
• Lu PingAn’s Phoenix Ape Descendants formed villages around Crystal Tree Holy Pillars, while Church officials inspected their unusual traits and the Martial God Church committed to further investment.
• Wanjing officials invited Lu PingAn to join the Xuan Wu Plan, and Director Zhao revealed that the Eastern Kingdom had secretly founded cities on more than a dozen habitable worlds.
• Zhao Qian trained as a Phoenix Ape warrior and bargained with researchers for colorful equipment, while Lu PingAn assessed the race’s strengths and limits.
• Lu PingAn and Chris used genetic modules and cultural materials to make Phoenix Apes increasingly human, and their third-generation warriors gained abilities by replacing limbs with parts from other creatures.
• When the Phoenix Ape population exceeded five thousand, Lu PingAn blessed them with Black Flame, and they began forming legions as he worried they might become a planar Natural Disaster.

As the Phoenix Origin People became Lu PingAn’s growing legion, the invasion of Australia and attacks across the Pacific drew him into coastal defense. He built up Ancient City as a shipbuilding and industrial hub while officials asked him to help transform the city and deter the coming threats.

• Lu PingAn helped the Phoenix Origin People evolve into the Burning Legion, then created Phoenix Fire and a new group of bodyguards able to travel across planes.
• After Australia fell and coastal attacks spread, Lu PingAn prepared his legions and accepted command roles in the mobile coastal defense forces.
• Lu PingAn took Guan Xinxian in after he damaged himself to leave Mercury 42, and sought help from the authorities, the Forest Goddess Church, and Lady Lin.
• Lu PingAn patrolled the coast, killing sea monsters and otherworldly creatures while urging residents to evacuate and keeping public morale steady.
• Lu PingAn planned a warship hub at Su Nan Mountain, secured a port project in Ancient City, and sought to build ships and a sea battle training base.
• After Liu Yu described looming steel-industry layoffs, Lu PingAn decided to bring production lines and military-industrial enterprises to Ancient City while rejecting unrestricted competition with the Phosphorus People.
• As Phantom Rays and Giant Soldiers attacked the Sakura Kingdom, Ancient City officials proposed a Special Zone and Direct Port, asking Lu PingAn to attract investment, protect the city, and help residents transform safely.

Lu PingAn built his Earthly Heaven and used the Courtyard to strengthen allies as the Otherworld invasion spread across the seas. After the Third Fleet rescued survivors in Hengyu City, it prepared to withdraw from occupied Sakurajima while planting obstacles for the invaders and pursuing valuable artifacts.

• Lu PingAn negotiated with Lady Lin, gained her Wooden Staff, and secured permission for Guan Xinxian to become a subordinate god.
• Lu PingAn rejected the World’s Will’s choice between submitting to or killing Lady Lin, then created the Earthly Heaven and completed his Tier 8 transformation.
• Wanjing made Ancient City a directly governed municipality, while researchers and Gardeners established institutes around Lu PingAn’s holy land and he began building Log Battleships.
• The failed assault on the Aus ruins and attacks on Sakurajima widened the war, as Lu PingAn learned that other countries had rejected Eastern Kingdom’s offer to form a united front.
• Lu PingAn released adapted Sea Tigers into the ocean and later used his expanding Courtyard and domain to aid combatants, evacuate civilians, and fight invading forces.
• Lu PingAn led the Third Fleet to Sakurajima, defeated an ambush, and rescued survivors from Hengyu City, where only fifty or sixty thousand people remained out of more than four hundred thousand.
• After learning that Sakurajima was sinking and occupied by overwhelming forces, Lu PingAn accepted Shuichi’s request to plant seeds and eggs, retrieve listed items, and send a ship toward the royal family’s divine artifacts.