Recaps

After Sakurajima fell, Lu PingAn unleashed the Awakening Disease against the Fishmen while the Eastern Kingdom prepared for a prolonged war. Three years later, he returned to wartime affairs and brought assurances of protection to New Tokyo as its people prepared to reclaim their homeland.

• Lu PingAn searched the fallen Sakurajima for the imperial family, found Princess Yizi missing, and later discovered she had betrayed her family to the Fishmen and become their captive.
• Lu PingAn created the Awakening Disease from infected Fishmen, and its parasites transformed hosts into creatures that spread the plague through the invaders.
• Lu PingAn’s infected duplicate fought a Fishmen demigod and spread the disease among the Octopus Race, while Lu PingAn documented the outbreak and received Rule-level Kusanagi Sword replicas as spoils.
• Major General Su explained the Eastern Kingdom’s wartime mobilization, and Lu PingAn called for humanity and civilization to endure.
• Lu PingAn withdrew his fleet, urged preparations for a long ocean war, and returned to his faction’s affairs as he reviewed military plans and helped Ancient City address security problems.
• As the Eastern Kingdom prepared its Great Counterattack, Lu PingAn traveled to New Tokyo, where Sakurajima leaders pressed him for a date and offered their fighters as a vanguard.
• Lu PingAn assured New Tokyo’s demigods that the Eastern Kingdom would protect their people and culture, then discovered Sakurajima’s underground forces had prepared one hundred thousand Living Corpses for the war.
• Lu PingAn warned Cat Cat to show restraint as she waited to pursue her brother, whose wanted status kept the siblings apart.

Lu PingAn helped prepare the Eastern Kingdom for war by drawing Sakurajima’s people toward its cause, expanding his Woodland and Life Transaction Pathway, and strengthening Ancient City’s industry. After the First Earth Defense War began and early offensives exposed the enemy’s strength, the Eastern Kingdom assembled its forces for a counteroffensive led by Dragon Moon Island.

• Lu PingAn recruited Baishi Wuling as a disciple after discovering her Soul Hacker ability, and tasked her with finding Scholars to help her handle his forbidden knowledge.
• Lu PingAn encouraged Sakurajima’s superhumans to enlist by promising land and military rewards, while the Eastern Kingdom cultivated ties with the refugees and their leaders.
• Lu PingAn returned to Ancient City, helped Xia Qin punish abusive Rule-level visitors, and watched the city expand its industries and shipyards for wartime production.
• The Song Clan elder announced that the Eastern Kingdom was ready to fight, and the First Earth Defense War began as the nation mobilized its forces.
• Lu PingAn expanded Woodland and its Life Transaction services, supplying the war effort with healing professions, Divine Grace cards, Log Arks, and other resources.
• After attacks began across several fronts, Lu PingAn concluded that the Eastern Kingdom was using the offensives to study the enemy while preparing a larger counterattack.
• Lu PingAn signed Your Excellency Xiu Yi’s war contract, and the assembled commanders chose Mountain Country as their strategic objective.
• Liu XiYan revealed that he had fused with Dragon Moon Island and moved it toward the ocean, leading the New Era Human Revival Fleet into the counteroffensive.

Lu PingAn helped Mountainous Country and the Eastern Kingdom turn back the Fishmen, while his life-force inheritance and Dragon Moon Island’s assault on Australia shifted the war. After the island survived a devastating attack, the humans gained the initiative and prepared for a war of attrition.

• Lu PingAn joined Dragon Moon Island’s defenders and summoned the Black Fire Legion to support the island’s advance and the Eastern Kingdom’s counterattack in Mountainous Country.
• Lu PingAn opened the Land of Life to Mountainous Country’s desperate people, creating ways for them to trade lifespan for strength and pass life force to their heirs.
• Lu PingAn’s life-force inheritance helped Mountainous Country win a major battle, but the Grey King lost control after inheriting her father’s power and walked into the sea.
• Lu PingAn and the Eastern Kingdom chose to sail Dragon Moon Island toward Australia as allied nations attacked the Fishmen, and the Lord of the Octopi struck the Western fleet.
• As the fighting intensified around Australia, Lu PingAn aided wounded fighters and studied the Fishmen’s adaptations while human forces struggled against powerful gods and demigods.
• Lu PingAn and Chris fought the Snake Monster until code 7612 sent Lu PingAn back to Dragon Moon Island, where he used Deferred Payment to restore its damaged defenses.
• Old Liu transformed into Dragon Moon and fired a devastating beam at the enemy, then Lu PingAn deferred the island’s new damage and forced the enemy commander to retreat.
• Human forces attacked the retreating Outland Visitors as Western airships landed on Dragon Moon Island for repairs, and Lu PingAn warned Old Liu and his allies against overusing their powers.

As the God Above Gods threatened the world, Lu PingAn uncovered a way to exploit its hunger and joined the assault on Australia. He recruited Zhu Xinran, led his Black Flame Legion against the Fishmen, and defeated the Obscure Death Serpent, leaving his forces poised to press the campaign further.

• Lu PingAn recognized that the God Above Gods could destroy the world, then found that its avatar ignored him when it judged him unappetizing.
• Lu PingAn identified Akadisha, the Brain-Chewing Claw, and planned to alter its summoning rituals by offering it unfamiliar intelligent beings.
• Lu PingAn found Zhu Xinran and her dwindling Resistance Army, healed her, and recruited her for a mission to alter the enemy’s altars.
• As the Eastern Kingdom launched a major assault on Australia, Lu PingAn led his wolves and other forces toward the Fishmen Territory.
• Lu PingAn taught Zhu Xinran to use her Exchange talent and specialized weapons while his Black Flame Legion swept through the Fishmen forces.
• The Obscure Death Serpent attacked Lu PingAn’s army with temporal powers, but he trapped it and repeatedly disrupted its attempts to recover or escape.
• Lu PingAn killed the Obscure Death Serpent after sixteen minutes and forty-two seconds, while Zhu Xinran witnessed his victory and the command center celebrated.