Chapter Summaries

Lu PingAn’s group fought through a vast undead horde, then established a temporary camp so their exhausted people could rest. At a meeting with the other leaders, Catherine revealed the truth behind the calamities, and Lu PingAn prepared to propose a way forward.

• Lu PingAn easily defeated the revived Evil Bone and realized that the endless tide of undead would eventually overwhelm the living.
• Lu PingAn planted Flame Flowers around a temporary camp and ordered everyone to rest for four hours while warriors took turns keeping watch.
• At a meeting with the leaders, Lu PingAn warned that his group could leave and abandon the others, silencing the arguing crowd.
• Lu PingAn asked Catherine to explain the Seven Calamities, the Beast God, the Earth Sealing Technique, and the fleeing Sun to the gathered leaders.
• After the revelation sparked furious debate, Lu PingAn stood and told the group to hear his proposal if they wanted to survive.

Lu PingAn explained the world's coming calamities and the few desperate ways ordinary people might survive, while admitting that his tickets could save only a fraction of them. He chose to help the refugees reach an escape route before his team departed.

• Lu PingAn described the Third through Seventh Calamities and said the world could not be saved.
• Lu PingAn offered three possible paths to survival: become a demigod's sacrifice or believer, travel an astral route, or hope to be absorbed into another world after the Sixth Calamity.
• Lu PingAn's team and the local powerhouses struggled with guilt as they considered the people who would be left behind.
• Lu PingAn decided that his team would help the refugees reach the nearest major spacetime node, likely the Holy Capital, before leaving.

As the convoy struggled to hold together, a world-devourer attacked the Twin Moons, causing widespread panic and gravely injuring Ya Qian. The Spring Moon was devoured and the Autumn Moon fled, leaving civilization without its protectors as the world’s crisis worsened.

• Lu PingAn sold Ship Tickets on steep terms and used debt contracts to restore the convoy’s morale.
• A scream rang across the world as the Spring Moon turned red and developed a bite mark.
• Ya Qian, a Moonlight Guardian, collapsed in pain as the attack on her deity wounded her; Lu PingAn used [Installment Plan] to bring her back to consciousness.
• The Rainbow Prophet explained that Moonlight Guardians reflected the Moon God's power and suffered when that source was damaged.
• The world-devourer consumed the Spring Moon, while the Autumn Moon grew smaller as she moved away and left the world.
• Lu PingAn warned that towns would no longer have safe zones without the Twin Moons protecting civilization.

After the White Moon vanished, the Moon God's seals broke and undead poured across the world, forcing Lu PingAn and Schlei Territory to flee through an endless night. As refugees gathered on the road to Duke York Territory, a survivor warned that a monstrous beast aggregate had destroyed a city wall in a single step.

• The White Moon disappeared, the Moon God's seals shattered, and undead and mutated creatures erupted across the world.
• Lu PingAn and Schlei Territory continued north through the darkness, joining refugees from Glewen Territory after its defenses collapsed.
• The survivors encountered more refugee groups and learned that lords and senior defenders had vanished from many territories.
• The growing escape route led toward Duke York Territory, where Lu PingAn hoped to reach the Traveler God’s church and secure a way to leave.
• A refugee reported that an aggregate of countless beasts had destroyed his city's wall in one step.

Lu PingAn’s group secured a Traveler God church in Tieke Fortress and confirmed they could teleport, then urged refugees to continue north toward the Holy Capital. Most chose to remain in the crowded fortress, while Deputy Commander Benn led a group north as the city’s brief calm seemed to herald another storm.

• Lu PingAn’s group reached the Traveler God church in Tieke Fortress and confirmed that the church could serve as a teleportation origin.
• Lu PingAn learned that other God Favored One squads remained in the city and that several powerful figures had gathered there.
• Lu PingAn told refugees that reaching the Holy Capital was their only hope, but most refused to leave the fortress.
• Deputy Commander Benn led several knights and most of the willing Schlei Territory people north, while Lu PingAn provided food for those who stayed.
• The final fortress remained briefly calm as refugees crowded its streets and Lu PingAn’s group awaited the next crisis.

As the final fortress prepared to evacuate, Lu PingAn profited from selling magical plants, animals, and Ship Tickets while gathering information about a God Descendant Monster bearing crimson vines. Convinced the vines could aid his evolution but unable to take them himself, he offered a bounty and waited to see who would answer.

• Lu PingAn's team completed its preparations for evacuation, earning over three thousand points by trading magical plants, local creatures, and Ship Tickets.
• Lu PingAn killed another bandit and reflected on the violence, scams, and desperate groups exploiting the collapsing city.
• Lu PingAn heard that the Hundred Beasts god corpse was covered in crimson vines and suspected they were the Blood Vine he had left in a forest.
• Big Cat warned Lu PingAn that even his strongest combination of abilities would not let him safely fight the god's corpse.
• Lu PingAn offered ten Ship Tickets for a live specimen of the vines or three for a dead one, then stayed in the city to await replies and gather information.

As the Beast God's corpse, the Nightmare of Ten Thousand Beasts, approached the fortress, Lu PingAn prepared to flee while hoping to obtain Blood Vines. A hunter squad was wiped out fighting the god corpse, but a mutated local arrived at the church with broken red vines for Lu PingAn.

• Lu PingAn continued trading Ship Tickets for treasures as refugees and powerful survivors reached the fortress.
• Scouts discovered that the Nightmare of Ten Thousand Beasts was approaching, and Lu PingAn prepared to leave.
• A powerful hunter squad assembled at the Traveler God's church, and Lu PingAn moved into the church to wait out their battle.
• The hunters were killed by the Beast God's corpse, and Lu PingAn prepared to depart as the fortress faced destruction.
• A mutated local staggered into the church carrying broken red vines and offered them to Lu PingAn.

Lu PingAn rescued La Geluos, whose extraordinary luck and Nightmare Beast transformation had let him survive the divine corpse’s battlefield and obtain a Blood Vine. After bringing La Geluos’s family to the Holy Capital, Lu PingAn left as the enraged divine corpse moved toward the city.

• Lu PingAn healed La Geluos enough to postpone his fatal injuries and ordered his people to bring La Geluos’s family to safety.
• La Geluos told Lu PingAn that he was the only person to survive scavenging the battlefield for a Blood Vine.
• Lu PingAn learned that a divine corpse was approaching and sent scouts to retrieve La Geluos’s wife and children.
• Lu PingAn and his group transported La Geluos and his family to the Holy Capital as the divine corpse roared outside.
• Lu PingAn recognized that La Geluos’s rare Nightmare Beast transformation had helped him survive and secure the Blood Vine.

Lu PingAn returned to the Holy Capital, where the looming apocalypse had shattered order beyond the Traveler God Church’s peaceful-looking streets. After helping a family that had survived the darkness, he prepared to leave early and found alarming reports of gods falling and new gods appearing, along with information about gods joining the Earth Faction.

• Lu PingAn learned that a man had followed a group seeking ship tickets into the darkness, where a Nightmare Beast ignored him, and rewarded him with ten spots for bringing back a living specimen.
• Lu PingAn handed the man’s family to Catherine and saw an explosion and screams disrupt the Holy Capital’s apparent peace.
• Lu PingAn decided to leave before his planned stay was over and bought a cheap intelligence sheet while noticing people watching returnees.
• Lu PingAn read that seven gods had fallen and nineteen had appeared in less than a month, then noticed information about new gods joining the Earth Faction and recommended class paths.

After returning to the Holy Capital, Lu PingAn learned that Earth forces had won a week-long Night War and brought the Moon God into their alliance. He dismissed the larger political struggle as beyond his reach and focused on reaching the third tier.

• Lu PingAn killed two would-be robbers and interrogated the survivor about recent events in the Holy Capital.
• Lu PingAn learned that Earth people and the Sang Mang People had fought a week-long Night War over the Moon God's resources and allegiance.
• Lu PingAn learned that Earth had won and that the Moon God had become an Earth God, adding revenge and judgment to her divine domains.
• Lu PingAn considered the movement of people and resources between worlds, then decided to focus on entering the third tier.

With only days left before returning to Earth, Lu PingAn hurried to sell local assets and buy valuable plants and creatures, while the local currency and Ship Ticket market collapsed. Just before departure, three royal heirs approached him to discuss something.

• Lu PingAn booked the nearest Ship Ticket, fearing that the increasingly dangerous Holy Capital would soon become even more perilous.
• Lu PingAn and his agents tried to liquidate local money and goods, but the collapsed currency and chaotic barter market made selling difficult.
• Lu PingAn required people who wanted to leave the Courtyard early to sign confidentiality agreements, but none accepted.
• Lu PingAn bought local magical plants and creatures in bulk, and the Life Courtyard grew enough to produce several additional Ship Tickets.
• As departures drew near, desperate travelers sold tickets cheaply or traded them for long-term service contracts.
• Three princes and princesses from the royal family sought out Lu PingAn for a discussion.

Lu PingAn and his team boarded the God Country Ark, navigating cargo limits, customs checks, and steep taxes. After declaring Bane's Wishbone and other items, Lu PingAn paid over three hundred thousand in taxes while keeping most of his gains smuggled.

• Lu PingAn organized his people and cargo for boarding, while other passengers negotiated for cargo space at Customs.
• Explorers entering the God Country Ark received steep Customs Tax Bills, which the chapter explained funded the Eastern Kingdom's footholds and protections abroad.
• Lu PingAn declared Bane's Wishbone, adding one hundred and fifty thousand to his tax bill and drawing attention for possessing a Rule-level Item.
• Lu PingAn's group declared enough goods to incur more than three hundred thousand in taxes, while smuggling most of their gains.
• Lu PingAn's companions celebrated their profits from smuggling and said they should get a smuggling ship for future trips.

Lu PingAn reviewed the reduced taxes on Truth-level Items and agreed to shelter three royal heirs in exchange for their kingdom’s training materials. The chapter ended with him examining Princess Ya Qian’s Moon God inheritance and learning that Moon God and Sun God powers worked together.

• Lu PingAn calculated his tax bill and noted that Truth-level Items were taxed at low, standardized prices to benefit the First Batch of Explorers.
• Xia Qin worried that valuable Truth-level Items could fuel crime and public disorder as Earth entered an age of great voyages.
• Princess Ya Qian and two other royal heirs asked Lu PingAn to shelter them on Earth so they could escape political control and start new lives.
• Lu PingAn agreed to protect the heirs for three to five years after they offered the royal collection of class-system books, training methods, and secret formulas.
• Lu PingAn studied Princess Ya Qian’s Moon God inheritance and discovered that Moon God and Sun God powers had synergistic effects.

Lu PingAn studied royal textbooks about the Twin Moon God and discovered how its powers supported the Sun God's defenses and attacks. He saw a way to improve his Sun Holy Fire, though doing so might require a high-level profession in the Eternal Motion System.

• Lu PingAn accepted the royal family's offer of books containing useful knowledge about the Silent Mountain Range World.
• Lu PingAn studied the Twin Moon God's mirror-based Divine Grace, which created nested reflections that made its users nearly impossible to touch or kill.
• Lu PingAn learned that the Twin Moon Satellites could extend the sun's reach and focus reflected light into powerful attacks.
• Lu PingAn recognized that the Twin Moon God's abilities worked closely with the Sun God's powers and considered using them to improve his Sun Holy Fire.
• Lu PingAn concluded that he might need a high-level profession in the Eternal Motion System.

Lu PingAn considered how the Silent Mountain Range World’s Sealing Techniques and celestial gods shaped the Eternal Motion System, then explored whether Zhi Xi could use Sacred Fire through a Moon-type technique. Zhi Xi learned to concentrate the fire into a devastating arrow, and her mirror-based ability appeared far beyond an ordinary Moon God Knight’s.

• Lu PingAn concluded that the world’s chief gods and defensive system were deeply tied to the Eternal Motion System, and noted that new Eternal Motion professions could soon emerge on Earth.
• Lu PingAn considered switching to a local Eternal Motion Knight path, but chose to test another possibility using his Tier 1 Fire Prayer’s Sacred Flame.
• With Lady Princess Ya Qian unable to appear, Zhi Xi volunteered to test the Sacred Fire despite her instinctive resistance to purification.
• After several explosions burned her hands, Zhi Xi learned to use a silver mirror to condense the Sacred Fire into a powerful arrow that blasted through the ground.
• Lu PingAn and the others saw mirror shards covering Zhi Xi and realized her Moon-type ability had become extraordinary.

Lu PingAn developed a Sun Moon Star tactical combination with Little Flame and Zhi Xi, then prepared to fuse a powerful seed created from Lamp Fire Grass and a Beast God Bloodline Blood Vine. The fusion began as he trusted his Life Courtyard and his own resistance to protect him.

• Lu PingAn decided to adapt the Holy Fire Knights’ and Moon God Knights’ coordination into a Sun Moon Star system with Little Flame as the sun and Zhi Xi and himself as moons.
• Lu PingAn recognized that his own fire output was weaker than Little Flame’s and considered ways to strengthen his role in the combination.
• Lu PingAn’s experiments combining Lamp Fire Grass with Beast God Bloodline Blood Vine produced two successful seeds from seven, including one Gold Low Rank seed.
• Lu PingAn chose to use the Gold Low Rank seed on himself and began the fusion by bleeding onto it.

Lu PingAn completed the Parasitic Tree’s final Self-Curse, binding a hybrid magical plant to himself as a Life Attachment. He chose to let it grow naturally while he trained and adapted to his new limb.

• Lu PingAn performed the soul ritual, fusing the blood-soaked seed with himself and completing the Parasitic Tree’s three Self-Curses.
• The seed sprouted tiny vines around Lu PingAn’s right hand, which he sensed as an extra limb that was still weak and painful.
• The Life Bank identified the plant as a hybrid of Lamp Fire Grass and Blood Vine, with a potential limit of Gold Low Rank.
• Lu PingAn learned he could spend Life Points to accelerate the plant’s growth, repair it, or revive it, but decided not to rush its maturation.
• Lu PingAn chose to let the plant grow naturally while he trained and learned to coordinate with it.

Lu PingAn and his team arrived on Earth and faced a lengthy customs process for registering people and screening dangerous goods. He learned that the new system had brought millions of outsiders into the world, and that authorities were relying on powerful experts and church enforcers to manage them.

• Lu PingAn learned that returning Explorers had to undergo quarantine, qualification reviews, registrations, and numerous other checks that could take up to three days.
• Lu PingAn's team secured a lounge, where he asked a monitor about contraband screening and learned that newcomers had to register their identities and sign contracts.
• Lu PingAn estimated that the returning Explorers' groups and ticket holders could bring at least a million outsiders into the world, while a staffer said the registration workload seemed manageable across the states.
• The staffer explained that stowaways were registered like other passengers, while Explorers caught smuggling people faced a warning and fine the first time and could lose their qualification if caught again within a year.
• The staffer said confiscating dangerous items had sparked fierce fights, including a brawl between Rule-level experts, and revealed that churches had sent high-ranking enforcers to help maintain order.

Lu PingAn and his group waited at the Transit Station while returnees traded goods, but the market stalled because buyers and sellers lacked a trusted common currency. He learned that the Eastern Kingdom government and the True God Churches had begun issuing Joint Coin together, marking the government's recovery of authority as New Gods and recognized True Gods reshaped the balance of power.

• Lu PingAn and his group settled into the Transit Station, where returnees could trade and use the building's shops while awaiting screening.
• Lu PingAn saw that trading Taboo Items was difficult because buyers and sellers distrusted the official currency and feared market prices would collapse.
• Lu PingAn learned that the government and the True God Churches had jointly issued Joint Coin, backed by their previous internal currencies.
• Lu PingAn heard that New Gods kept arriving and True Gods recognized by the government had joined its ranks, pressuring the churches to cooperate.
• Lu PingAn realized the government had regained control over currency, fiscal policy, and the appointment of high-level Professionals, and he welcomed the change.

Lu PingAn realized that the officials had used outer-realm exploration as leverage to reclaim the churches’ Credit Coin issuance rights and establish the Joint Coin as the central currency. The churches were outwardly cooperating for now, while the new currency tied their economic interests to the officials and left open the possibility of future conflict.

• Lu PingAn concluded that the officials had used profits and appointments from outer-realm exploration to bring the churches into line and reclaim their currency issuance rights.
• The officials issued the Joint Coin, which was valued far above the old Credit Coins and could only be exchanged for certain churches’ currencies.
• Lu PingAn learned that the Joint Coin was not pegged to East Country Coin and that officials expected Black Market exchanges to remain limited.
• Lu PingAn recognized that the Joint Coin used church assets as backing, weakened their internal markets, and bound most True God churches to the officials’ economic system.