Vol. 18Life Preservation and New Worlds

Lu PingAn fought the Calamity Dragons, rebuilt after his rebirth, and expanded his organization through affordable equipment and humanitarian work. He left Catherine overseeing his industries and led an expedition that founded Returning Home City in a world where his powers behaved differently.

  • Lu PingAn created Wu Yin from dragon-serpent flesh, and she devoured Calamity Dragons while the Little Guy could control only weaker Tier 7 offspring.
  • Lu PingAn and humanity battled the God Above Gods’ monsters as returning New Gods helped coordinate the hunt.
  • Lu PingAn and Wu Yin trapped the Xing Tian Evil Beast, and the Golden Crow helped kill it.
  • After a months-long rebirth, Lu PingAn returned to a changed Earth and made affordable supernatural equipment his organization’s priority.
  • Lu PingAn founded the Life Preservation Warband, whose scripture let believers punish those who wasted or plundered life.
  • Lu PingAn traced the campaign against Chris to Lady Lin and expanded his intervention as Majila joined the warband.
  • Lu PingAn led an expedition to the New World, leaving Catherine in charge of his industries and establishing Returning Home City.
  • Lu PingAn found that his powers behaved unpredictably in the new world and prepared his rookies as his companions studied ways to develop their abilities.
Chapters 1707–1807 Read from ch. 1707

Arc 69The Mother Goddess Project

As the God Above Gods unleashed world-ending monsters, Lu PingAn and humanity fought to contain the catastrophe and created new life to counter the multiplying dragon-serpents. The newborn Wu Yin could devour the Calamity Dragons, while the Little Guy could control only their Tier 7 offspring, leaving the group to keep battling the stronger monsters.

  • Lu PingAn lured the God Above Gods into Earth’s grasp, and the creature’s fall transformed Australia and triggered a worldwide upheaval that killed gods and created New Gods.
  • Lu PingAn recruited a newborn goddess into his Courtyard as Earth’s disasters spread, then saw the God Above Gods release three colossal Sons of Evil God.
  • Humanity struggled against the Golden Crow, Steel Forged Xing Tian, and the multiplying World-Extinguishing Snakes until returning New Gods supplied powers for a coordinated hunt.
  • Lu PingAn proposed creating a new Mother Goddess from dragon-serpent flesh, then merged his Life Cauldron into the Courtyard and built an Incubation Pool with help from life gods and potion masters.
  • Traders and allies supplied Life Points, knowledge, and rare materials, and Lu PingAn added dragon-serpent flesh and the Golden Crow’s blood to accelerate the incubation.
  • Lu PingAn named the successful newborn Infinite Boundless Mist Sound, or Wu Yin, and she devoured Calamity Dragons by making life of the same origin return to one.
  • Lu PingAn and the group gave a coreless dragon-serpent a core and artificial soul, creating the Little Guy, who controlled Tier 7 dragon-serpents but could not command stronger ones.
Chapters 1707–1732 Summaries Read

Arc 70Rebirth and the Blue Sea

Lu PingAn helped defeat the Xing Tian Evil Beast, then entered a long rebirth that reshaped his body and the Courtyard. After returning to a changed world, he turned to rebuilding and expanding his organization’s business in affordable supernatural equipment.

  • Lu PingAn used Wu Yin’s fusion dragons to trap the Xing Tian Evil Beast, and the Golden Crow’s attacks helped kill it after a prolonged battle.
  • After the war, Lu PingAn returned to Dragon Moon Island, then used the Incubation Pool and materials from the Golden Crow, Dragon Serpent, and Xing Tian to begin his rebirth.
  • Lu PingAn slept for months while Earth recovered and changed, then emerged from the expanded Courtyard with a temporary childhood appearance.
  • Lu PingAn learned about the postwar population and political situation, met Xiu Yi, and helped Guan Xinxian gain approval as a righteous god.
  • Lu PingAn toured Wanjing with Wang Sisi and examined supernatural markets, where he saw affordable but low-quality equipment aimed at ordinary people.
  • Lu PingAn decided his organization would enter the lower-end equipment market, sell armor and blunted weapons under a new trademark, and make the business its main priority.
Chapters 1733–1757 Summaries Read

Arc 71The Life Preservation Warband

Lu PingAn built a low-cost equipment industry, then led the Rebirth Merchant Guild’s humanitarian intervention in Southeast Asia and established the Life Preservation Warband. His new scripture granted believers the power to punish those who plundered life, while Lady Lin’s campaign against Chris brought a larger conflict into view.

  • Lu PingAn won support for standardized novice equipment, helped establish the Legislative Committee, and launched PingAn production across several regions.
  • Lu PingAn declined an eastern campaign and sailed to Southeast Asia, where he confronted pirates and weighed the region’s rival powers and the Sakurajima group’s request for help.
  • After the God of Redemption asked him to establish the Hand of Redemption, Lu PingAn assembled the Life Preservation Warband and began an intervention to aid people across the islands.
  • The warband defeated attackers and warlords, rescued residents, and built safe zones, while Lu PingAn turned foreign invasion spaces into the Land of Redemption.
  • Lu PingAn wrote a canon defining sin as wasting or plundering life, and believers awakened with the Divine Grace Life Balance to take life force from sinners.
  • Lu PingAn learned that more than a dozen countries had put Chris on their wanted lists, identified Lady Lin as the likely instigator, and warned his allies that their conflict could become a God War.
  • Lu PingAn created a Holy Land that punished those who initiated killings, and the oppressed gained Life Points and formed the Self-Rescue Army as the warband and merchant group expanded their work.
  • Majila manifested Life Preservation after reciting the scripture, and Lu PingAn agreed to equip him and let him join the warband on missions.
Chapters 1758–1782 Summaries Read

Arc 72The New World Expedition

Lu PingAn expanded his Life Value faith and prepared the Courtyard for an expedition to a new world, leaving Catherine to oversee his industries. After establishing Returning Home City, he explored the surrounding settlements with his team and began studying the world’s unusual powers and possibilities.

  • Lu PingAn’s faith spread through Southeast Asia as his followers aided survivors, while a coalition attacked his Trading Grounds and he drove it back with the Wu Yin Giant Beasts.
  • Lu PingAn accepted the Eastern Kingdom’s invitation to the New World after securing protection for his businesses, and he exchanged the offered godhood opportunity for development resources when his cadres declined it.
  • Lu PingAn assembled an expeditionary force, left Catherine in charge of the industries, and began the Courtyard’s planar migration as Lady Lin’s God's Ark moved to intercept Chris’s group.
  • Lu PingAn trained with Big Cat, prepared supplies and equipment, and led the expedition into the New World, where he established a defensive camp and organized research and logistics.
  • Lu PingAn and his allies founded Returning Home City, overcoming unfamiliar construction materials, dangerous wildlife, and illness while local Explorers began venturing out.
  • Lu PingAn visited New Luo Town with Cat Cat, Xia Qin, Miss Lu, and Hua Xueyi, then welcomed Fen Ke and the other Little Guys into the team for their difficult Labyrinth mission.
  • Lu PingAn discovered that his Wave techniques behaved unpredictably in the New World, taught the Little Guys safer combat methods, and studied his Black Flame Legion’s changing powers.
  • Lu PingAn’s attempt to transform ordinary life into Black Flame exploded, so he gave the rookies protective charms and considered sending more people to the world as his companions investigated ways to develop their abilities.
Chapters 1783–1807 Summaries Read
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