Recaps

Lu PingAn passed the Secret Keepers and Explorer examinations, then began assembling people and supplies for an expedition to the Land of Twilight. He left with the Courtyard being prepared as the group’s base and its true nature kept secret.

• Lu PingAn discussed using the Courtyard to bring goods back from the Other World and arrived in Changping to take the qualification examinations.
• Hua Xueyi told Lu PingAn how mutations and discrimination had harmed her hometown’s survivors, and he offered to visit and find ways to employ them.
• Lu PingAn struggled through the Secret Keepers exams, scored 675 points, and passed while Cat Cat scored 88.
• Lu PingAn and Xia Qin entered the Explorer Examination’s Rule-level contamination test, and Lu PingAn later used his ability to halt worsening mutations in several dozen candidates.
• Lu PingAn passed the Explorer interview and combat assessment, then heard Premier Song explain the Mending the Heavens Plan.
• Lu PingAn recruited for an expedition to the Land of Twilight and offered Hua Xueyi work and housing for Mutants in his mobile Demi-Plane.
• Lu PingAn and Fang Wen began establishing farmland and workshops in the Courtyard, while Fang Wen demanded a future divine position in exchange for her service.
• Lu PingAn borrowed against his Explorer qualification and bought equipment with Guan Xinxian as his group prepared for departure and priced four Ship Tickets.

Lu PingAn led the Rebirth Merchant Guild into Valastarod to study its Sealing Techniques and trade for valuable local powers. In Schlei Territory, the group discovered that buried pollution was waking a colossal force beneath the world and began learning how its knights wielded supernatural abilities.

• Lu PingAn assembled a mixed expedition, including mercenaries, students, and new arrivals, and set out for Valastarod.
• The explorers entered the Holy City, studied its Sealing Techniques, and Simir mastered the basic seals before the group departed for Schlei Territory.
• Lu PingAn traded food with Catherine and negotiated with the lord for intelligence about a fallen god and Holy Temple Ruins, while warning Catherine that the Sun God had fled.
• Lu PingAn led the group and thirty-seven knights into Gray Forest, where they encountered mutated wolves and a newly born Lord-level Wolf King.
• Feng Luanhua found numerous pollution sites, and Lu PingAn’s party investigated one where corrupted trees regenerated after attacks and resisted the knights’ sealing technique.
• Lu PingAn concluded that buried pollution had corrupted the planet and awakened a colossal pollutant beneath it, while the knights managed to seal the corrupted stream.
• Catherine showed the group her Holy Fire scars, and Lu PingAn recognized the local knights’ supernatural knowledge as an opportunity for his people.

Lu PingAn’s group entered the Divine Tomb as pollution revived the dead and rival factions fought over its treasures and the Beast God’s resurrection. Catherine uncovered her ties to the Beast God Believers, while Xue En’s transformation and Marian’s ritual triggered escalating chaos that left the tomb shifting and its factions under attack.

• Lu PingAn’s group reached the Place of God’s Fall, where murals foretold calamities and the polluted dead rose under the Wolf King’s command.
• Zhi Xi destroyed the Wolf King, and Lu PingAn concluded that the Third Calamity had begun and that they needed to reach the Divine Tomb.
• Catherine opened a hidden passage and recovered memories revealing that she was Marian T. Dora’s daughter and had been sent to infiltrate the Knight Order.
• Lu PingAn’s group fought through the tomb as Xue En fell into a trap, escaped pursuers by rolling through the ruins, and transformed into a Panda Man.
• Xue En found Aksuun’s Holy Relic in the golden palace and witnessed the resurrection ritual awaken it, spreading mutations and chaos among the Beast God Believers.
• Lu PingAn’s group learned the factions’ positions and Catherine warned Marian that the resurrection could bring another disaster, while Marian told her to escape.
• Evil Bone and Captain Lute joined forces, roused a giant snake, and sent it toward the Divine Tomb, where Marian linked with it and turned it against them.
• The Underground Palace shook and its passages shifted as people began to mutate and fall, while two hidden attackers found an opening near Marian.

Lu PingAn’s group defeated the Beast God Puppet, expanded the Life Courtyard, and strengthened its forces while exploring Schlei Territory. After a Sand Dragon ritual brought back the Sun God only for it to flee, the sun vanished again and Lu PingAn began planning for the territory’s uncertain future.

• Marian’s ritual awakened a Beast God Puppet in the Underground Tomb, and the revived dead and gathered believers fed its power as Lu PingAn’s group fought to escape the collapsing ruins.
• Catherine’s Sacred Fire and Zhi Xi’s armor helped Lu PingAn’s fighters wear down the puppet, while he used Blood Mark to overwhelm the giant snakes and take the puppet’s Divine Power Crystal before fleeing with Catherine.
• Lu PingAn restored Zhi Xi enough to speak, recruited allies under long-term agreements, and used Aksuun’s Severed Hand to establish the Hall of Life and share its rewards with the team.
• Lu PingAn returned to Schlei Territory, recruited Holy Fire Priests and other allies, and made plans to search the region while the former Beast God High Priest provided the sect’s training materials.
• Lu PingAn accepted the Old Lord’s proposal to become the Eldest Son’s adoptive father and Supreme Lord, then organized expeditions and developed shields, beast transformations, Sacred Fire training, and new potions.
• After Sindak visitors attacked Xia Qin and left for Gray Forest, Lu PingAn sent Cat Cat to follow them while his teams continued exploring the area.
• The Sand Dragon king sacrificed captives to create a new Sun God, but the newborn god fled beyond the world’s restraints and plunged the Silent Mountain Range into darkness.
• As the sun’s disappearance sparked unrest and God Wars, Lu PingAn’s Knight Order maintained order in Schlei Territory, and he estimated the territory had at most two months before it became unstable.