Chapter Summaries

Lu PingAn learned that Zhi Xi had rapidly developed six professional Paths and was close to Tier 3, with her Rider Path complementing her Living Armor body and his combat system. The chapter then described how Lu PingAn’s research, manufacturing, and merchant operations converted gathered resources into equipment and supplies for his team and other Professionals.

• Lu PingAn discovered that Zhi Xi had reached Tier 2 in several professions and was nearing Tier 3, and he praised her hard work.
• Zhi Xi explained that she had chosen the Su-Style Driver Path and could control Armor Plates, including her own body and external armor.
• Lu PingAn recognized how Zhi Xi’s professions and armor-control abilities could combine with his combat system, and he agreed to cook for her and obtain more shimmering maintenance oil.
• Lu PingAn’s team focused on research, development, exploration, and converting Spin Force Stones and Divine Bone weapons into usable resources and equipment.
• The Rebirth Merchant Guild’s stores sold large quantities of inexpensive goods as Lu PingAn’s Factory, Assembly Line, and workers mass-produced them.

As the war entered a quiet period, Lu PingAn’s team converted its battlefield gains into equipment, resources, and rapid advancement, while its craftsmen exchanged technology with other groups. Lu PingAn’s search for a breakthrough for his new gear stalled, but he learned that Ke Ya, head of Horde Company’s Research Department, had been found.

• Xia Qin prepared to advance as a Sword Saint and Weapon Master, so Lu PingAn approved priority supplies for her weapons and equipment.
• Hua Xueyi and Cat Cat worked to cultivate king beasts, while Hua Xueyi’s debts mounted and Cat Cat refused to check what she owed.
• The team forged bone-based equipment and sold failed bone-powder products, while the Merchant Guild’s industrial capacity gave it an edge in technology exchanges.
• Fang Wen told Lu PingAn that his gloves and boots exceeded the team’s materials and technology, and their prototypes were worse than his old gear.
• Lu PingAn sought technical help from other teams and heard that Ke Ya, Horde Company’s Research Department head, had been found.

Lu PingAn learned that Ke Ya had escaped a battle badly wounded and decided to hunt her before she could flee into the wilderness. He flew out with his team to search for her, but after six sweeps he had found no trace.

• Lu PingAn's team discussed Ke Ya's strength, noting that she had killed two Law Decree-level fighters, wounded another, and escaped while injured.
• Lu PingAn reasoned that Ke Ya would avoid the wilderness because leaving human society would make further advancement difficult, and he set out with his people to find her.
• Lu PingAn flew through the sky on the silver knight and remarked that the Dance Shoes would lose much of their flight ability when taken back to Earth.
• Lu PingAn searched the area of the conflict six times but found no sign of Ke Ya.

The Lamp Lord carried Phosphorus People toward the Green Planet while Lu PingAn searched for the missing Ke Ya. When the Blood Vines forced hidden Aus underground, Lu PingAn detected Divine Bone fluctuations and found their trail.

• The Lamp Lord brought Explorers and Phosphorus People from the New World aboard His Divine Realm and said they would reach their people's God's Rise Land in a month and a half.
• Lu PingAn and his companions searched the area where Ke Ya had disappeared but found no trace of her.
• Chris advised Lu PingAn to destroy the area where Ke Ya had vanished to flush out anyone using concealment.
• Lu PingAn unleashed the Hungry Ghost Blood Pool, and its Blood Vines spread across the land, devouring and demonizing the surroundings.
• An explosion sounded from a neighboring mountain, and Lu PingAn sensed Divine Bone fluctuations beneath the ground.

Lu PingAn used the Blood Vines to corner and kill Ke Ya, the East Country People’s Research Department head, then captured a surviving researcher. He left the prisoner’s fate to chance, driven by his anger at Ke Ya’s experiments.

• Lu PingAn tracked Ke Ya to her underground basement, where the Blood Vines attacked her and destroyed her refuge.
• Ke Ya fought the vines with weapons, prosthetic limbs, and healing items, while Lu PingAn watched and recorded her struggle.
• Ke Ya blew apart the vines around her, but they quickly returned, and Lu PingAn appeared with the Blood Vines following him.
• Lu PingAn killed Ke Ya and displayed her headless corpse in A3 District.
• Lu PingAn brought a surviving researcher to the Great Library and said he would let her go, though he expected her enemies might kill her.

With the Shenzhou ship delayed, Lu PingAn prepared for the possibility that an Aus ship might arrive and resolved to become Law Decree-level as soon as possible. He found that his missing Tier 3 Lawyer profession required an exceptionally difficult exam, though he seemed to have a possible shortcut.

• Lu PingAn and the others worried that the delayed Shenzhou ship might mean trouble or that an Aus ship could arrive first.
• Lu PingAn decided he could not rely on luck or an enemy's rationality, so he aimed to reach Law Decree-level and protect himself.
• Lu PingAn reviewed his professions and realized he still needed a Tier 3 Lawyer to complete his foundation.
• Lu PingAn struggled with the Lawyer exam, which required understanding thirteen law decree techniques and finding their loopholes.
• Lu PingAn recognized that becoming a Lawyer was extraordinarily difficult, but he had compelling reasons and a possible shortcut.

Lu PingAn learned how Law Decrees and Law Users worked, and concluded that the Sophist had advanced by consuming other people’s lives and Laws. Inspired by the Sophist’s shortcut, Lu PingAn decided he could acquire the Law User’s rules to build his own Law, and hinted that he was learning quickly.

• Lu PingAn distinguished rigid curses from Law Decrees, which let powerful Professionals impose their own rules on a domain.
• Lu PingAn learned that advancing to Tier 4 required refining many curses into a specialized Law Decree, while Law Users accumulated knowledge to manipulate, counter, and create Laws.
• Lu PingAn reasoned that the Sophist had consumed other people’s lives and Laws, gaining their abilities without truly understanding or digesting them.
• Lu PingAn concluded that the Sophist’s accumulated lives would eventually overwhelm him and cause him to lose control.
• Lu PingAn decided to use the Sophist’s shortcut to acquire the Law User profession’s rules and build his own Law, then said he learned quickly.

The Red Star Republic’s ship arrived at Green Planet, bringing a potential route home and easing tensions with the Eastern Kingdom survivors. As more survivors emerged and the Red Star soldiers pursued the Aus people, Lu PingAn’s group focused on gathering supplies and preparing to leave.

• The Mirror and Ice God arrived with Red Star soldiers, and Anfiya welcomed them as people from her homeland.
• Anfiya and other survivors helped explain the Aus people’s actions, allowing the Red Star soldiers and Eastern Kingdom survivors to avoid conflict and cooperate under the Nirvana Plan.
• The Eastern Kingdom and Red Star groups discussed their devastating losses and realized Shenzhou could provide a route home for the survivors.
• Professionals from other countries emerged from the mountains and negotiated with the Red Star soldiers to buy Ship Tickets.
• The Red Star soldiers began hunting Aus people to capture some for an internal accounting, while Lu PingAn’s group continued scavenging and prepared to depart.

As allies arrived and the Red Star People continued their retaliation against the Aus, Lu PingAn expanded access to his library and Trading Hall, drawing in high-level professionals eager to trade for knowledge. Studying an expensive Law Decree-level profession guide revealed gaps in his own training, but also gave him ideas for strengthening the foundation of his personal law.

• The Red Star People killed another Hunter Department minister and stayed to support the Eastern Kingdom until its God's Ark arrived.
• Lu PingAn let more high-level combatants learn about the Trading Ground, and professionals began visiting the library and Trading Hall to trade knowledge and professions.
• Lu PingAn studied a costly Puppet Trump Card profession guide, which drew on at least four foundational laws but required prerequisites he lacked.
• Lu PingAn realized that comparing laws from different paths could help build the foundation for his own law.
• Lu PingAn decided to review his fundamentals before studying the next profession guide, a Little Sword Saint.

Lu PingAn used Life Points to absorb knowledge from self-created Tier 4 Law Decrees, seeking the accumulation needed to choose his own path. He concluded that Chris’s Mother Goddess Church grew from her original Law and began treating her life as a template, prompting her to acknowledge that he might be her future—or her end.

• Lu PingAn rejected Big Cat’s advice and spent Life Points on self-created Law Decrees to build knowledge and experience.
• Lu PingAn explained that absorbed Tier 4 fragments had strengthened his foundational professions and helped him understand previously confusing professional knowledge.
• Lu PingAn told Big Cat he needed more accumulation before choosing the Law best suited to him.
• Lu PingAn described how curses could produce Law Decrees, which could develop into a nation’s rules and eventually become Logic recognized by the world.
• Lu PingAn inferred that the Mother Goddess Church’s philosophy came from Chris’s initial Law and decided her life and profession could guide his own choice.
• Chris asked where Lu PingAn had found evidence, then called him her future and possibly her end.

Lu PingAn explained why the Black Holy Grail had power beyond its tier and confronted Chris about her failed apotheosis and her fear-driven pursuit of godhood. He offered to help her pursue a future beyond the God Seat, asking her to join him and promising to take her farther.

• Lu PingAn learned from Fang Wen that a normal Black Holy Grail was much weaker, then deduced that the cup’s power came from collecting the lives of thousands of dead Professionals.
• Lu PingAn connected the Black Holy Grail to Chris’s Mother Goddess Statue and concluded that both treated life as a resource for apotheosis.
• Lu PingAn told Chris that her path to apotheosis was unacceptable to the world and that his presence proved the world was preventing her success.
• Chris revealed her hope that the Courtyard would become a divine kingdom and that she would regain a physical body, while Lu PingAn promised not to pull her out early.
• Lu PingAn challenged Chris to look beyond apotheosis and offered her safety, freedom, and a chance to go farther with him.

Lu PingAn rejected Destiny’s script and invited Chris to combine their Logics, then asked her about the origins of her power. Chris explained how her life as a wartime Healer shaped her doctrine of Flesh Balance, leaving Lu PingAn with a clearer understanding of their opposing paths.

• Lu PingAn proposed exchanging and merging Logics with Chris rather than fighting over a single God Seat.
• Chris explained that her first abilities were Wound Mending and Flesh Stitching, which she used to repair soldiers with flesh taken from the dead.
• Chris described beginning this work at six and continuing until eighteen, treating flesh as currency that let lives survive and armies replenish their ranks.
• Chris revealed that her Law, Flesh Balance, made the victor consume the weak and use them as nourishment for further evolution.
• Lu PingAn recognized the danger in Chris’s worldview, thanked her, and said her explanation had helped him greatly.

Lu PingAn settled on building his own decree path around investment, combining shared growth with the principle embodied by Big Cat and Chris. While searching the Forbidden Library for suitable professions, he nearly exhausted the points he had earned from selling his world-origin knowledge and realized he needed a way to make more money.

• Lu PingAn decided that investment would be the core of his decrees, with the aim of achieving shared rather than solitary victory.
• He concluded that Lawbearer professions were essential to his plan and began searching for more decree professions and rare high-tier Scholars.
• Lu PingAn expanded his business so more people from his hometown could use the Life Courtyard while he analyzed professions in the library.
• Lu PingAn recalled that selling his nine-volume work on the world's origins had earned him 3,700 points, but the knowledge was now a costly centerpiece of the Forbidden Library.
• After spending most of his points on analysis, Lu PingAn realized he needed to find a way to earn more money.

Lu PingAn found a way to earn Life Points by offering intelligence based on his analyses of other Professionals. He left the Courtyard with three satisfied clients and more than five hundred points earned.

• Lu PingAn concluded that the bank's liquidity and total assets limited its purchases, and that the Courtyard's market and library still lacked enough goods and customers.
• Lu PingAn approached Rhyme Blade as White Dove, identified his bottleneck, and offered intelligence through equal-value contracts.
• Rhyme Blade recognized Lu PingAn's Investment ability and chose a Conscience Contract after signing a Confidentiality Contract.
• Lu PingAn made similar offers to two more targets whose Law Decrees he had purchased, and all three accepted Conscience Contracts.
• The next day, Lu PingAn earned more than five hundred Life Points, while his clients were pleased and referred more customers to him.

Lu PingAn studied the combat techniques of Law Decree-level fighters, recreating Tang Daoyi’s Void Surfing ability through practice and analysis. After understanding the technique and guiding Tang toward a more suitable Fighter path, Lu PingAn began studying another powerhouse’s Primal Chaos Staff.

• Lu PingAn reflected on how his information and career guidance had brought his companions aboard the pirate ship and earned them substantial debts under the Conscience Contract.
• Lu PingAn copied Tang Daoyi’s blade routine with bone daggers and gradually reproduced a crude version of Void Surfing by passing through a higher-dimensional space.
• Lu PingAn judged that Tang Daoyi could not progress further along his current path and said the Fighter path would suit him better.
• Lu PingAn recorded his understanding of Tang Daoyi’s Law Decree in his book, then began practicing the Primal Chaos Staff with a log.
• Lu PingAn smashed a crater into the ground with the undamaged log and filled another page of his book.

Lu PingAn attended a meeting where Wang Xi'er struggled with postwar camp administration and asked for his help. He revealed that he was nearing completion of a Law User side profession, astonishing the assembled Professionals by reproducing Ding Lan's signature ability.

• Wang Xi'er complained that the camp's postwar disputes and administrative work had left her exhausted, while Lu PingAn refused to get involved.
• Lu PingAn explained that wartime authority had faded and that the Professionals were increasingly driven by competing interests, so his prestige would not solve the camp's problems.
• Wang Xi'er asked Lu PingAn to help with matters he was suited to handle, and he said he was busy advancing and completing a side profession.
• Lu PingAn revealed he was becoming a Law User while remaining a Gardener, shocking the Professionals in the conference room.
• Lu PingAn created a violet-blue Purgatory Fire Rose and handed it to Ding Lan, who recognized her signature ability and reacted with fear and disbelief.

Lu PingAn revealed that his Talent Ability let him imitate other professions, convincing powerful professionals that he had the potential to become a Rule-level powerhouse. He used the display to secure allies and investors, and the chapter left a faction alliance beginning to form around him, his Rebirth Merchant Guild, and the Trading Ground Courtyard.

• Veteran Law Users recognized that Lu PingAn's ability to imitate other professions came from his Talent Ability, Investment, and realized he was pursuing an unusual Law User advancement path.
• Lu PingAn said he might complete his Law User advancement soon, and the gathered powerhouses began to regard the seventeen-year-old as a genuine Rule-level prospect.
• Lu PingAn decided to stop hiding his potential and use his reputation, the Courtyard, and its Trading Ground to attract support and protect himself from future pressure.
• After the meeting, powerful professionals gave Lu PingAn their contact information, and some who had previously received Investment asked him for another round and offered points for more information.
• High-level figures from the Four Cities began forming a communication channel and a loose faction alliance centered on Lu PingAn, his Rebirth Merchant Guild, and the Trading Ground Courtyard.

As the war wound down, Lu PingAn focused on research, equipment, and gathering Law Decrees to strengthen his professions. After collecting thirty-seven Law Decrees, he advanced to third-tier Law User, and the codex at his waist became a true Taboo Item.

• Lu PingAn extracted Ke Ya’s research knowledge, then had her leave the Courtyard, where she died soon afterward.
• Fang Wen completed a silver Endoskeleton Armor that Lu PingAn tested, while he realized it would need to become a Taboo Item to retain its power outside the world.
• Lu PingAn studied difficult Law Decrees, including artisan Gear Studies, and gathered knowledge and connections as his team prepared for departure.
• Wang Xi'er remarked that Lu PingAn seemed to have changed; he brushed off her concern and continued working.
• After collecting thirty-seven Law Decrees, Lu PingAn completed his advancement to third-tier Law User, and his codex became a true Taboo Item.

Lu PingAn advanced to Tier 3 as a Law User and gained new Scholar abilities and a growing bound Taboo Item, Lu PingAn's Lawful Notes. After testing the book and his new skills, he left to try them on Tier 4 Professionals, making two powerful figures cry.

• Lu PingAn advanced to Tier 3, awakened Scribe Shorthand and Ma Liang's Brush, and gained his silver-and-gold Lawful Notes.
• Lu PingAn tested the book's Strange Thoughts function on Cat Cat, causing her to lose her human speech and behave like a cat until he took the book away.
• Lu PingAn learned that the book could deepen his understanding of recorded law decrees and that its pages could be written on or torn out.
• Lu PingAn gained abilities that helped him analyze opponents' law decrees and share brief records with allies for use in battle.
• Lu PingAn tested his new abilities on several Tier 4 Professionals and made two of them cry, spreading more strange rumors.

Lu PingAn explained Cat Cat’s instinctive behavior after the curse and returned to testing his Law User abilities against other Professionals. As he reached a bottleneck in his pursuit of fourth rank, another God's Ark arrived, carrying unexpected passengers.

• Lu PingAn reassured Cat Cat that the curse had stripped away her knowledge and left her acting on instinct, then suggested she reuse the book to lure out her brother.
• Lu PingAn sent the onlookers back to work and warned that God's Ark would arrive within the week.
• Lu PingAn tested his Law User abilities in sparring matches, defeating two Professionals by using his information advantage against their mastered laws.
• Lu PingAn found that copying Core Abilities during combat was weak without the matching profession, skills, and experience, and continued experimenting with ways to develop his laws.
• Lu PingAn continued devouring other people's laws while struggling to advance to fourth rank.
• Another God's Ark appeared, carrying more unexpected passengers than the Lantern God had anticipated.