Chapter Summaries

Lu PingAn sent the Luca People’s new mechanical bodies and Mu Mu against the Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflowers after their abilities were suppressed. He collapsed from exhaustion before he could learn whether the vanguard would win.

• Lu PingAn rejected bait tactics as the Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflowers closed off the group’s escape route.
• Kasuola summoned the Ghost Warriors, whose Luca People had fused with gemstones to become living mechanical bodies immune to the Sunflowers’ ability-suppressing field.
• The Ghost Blades’ chainsaws also became living weapons, and both squads charged the Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflowers.
• Lu PingAn, exhausted from sustaining the Energy-Devouring Field, ordered Mu Mu to help the vanguard before he lost consciousness.
• Mu Mu transformed into a giant tree and advanced alongside the eleven Ghost Knights and eleven Ghost Blades.

Lu PingAn and the New Luca People escaped the planet after defeating the Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflowers, only to discover a colossal one coiled around the world. With Kasuola and his followers transformed beyond recognition and unable to safely return home, Lu PingAn offered them a place with the mercenary group.

• Lu PingAn woke while the survivors fled and learned that Prince Kasuola had fused permanently with powered armor to fight alongside his people.
• Kasuola and the survivors reached the ship, which launched and escaped the planet as a giant Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflower encircled it.
• The captain and crew of the Glory pledged loyalty to Kasuola, then argued with him over where the transformed New Luca People should go next.
• Kasuola realized that his people could be treated as degenerate and erased if they returned home, and that none of them could reverse their transformation.
• Lu PingAn invited Kasuola and his people to join the mercenary group.

Lu PingAn negotiated with Kasuola over bringing the New Luca People to Earth, offering a place to develop and access to the Professionals system in exchange for skilled workers and cooperation. Three days later, ten craftsmen arrived at the Courtyard, and Kasuola’s people asked Lu PingAn to seek the Eastern Kingdom government’s protection for them as secret refugees.

• Lu PingAn offered Kasuola’s people a chance to settle on Earth and explained the benefits and risks of seeking ties with the Eastern Kingdom.
• Lu PingAn proposed recruiting New Luca People craftsmen and technicians, offering advancement opportunities through the Professionals system and presenting contracts as a basis for fair trade.
• Kasuola considered Lu PingAn’s proposal and, three days later, agreed to send ten craftsmen to the Courtyard.
• Kasuola’s people formally asked Lu PingAn to act as an intermediary and seek the Eastern Kingdom government’s protection for them as secret refugees.

Lu PingAn reported his encounter with the Luca People, then listened as officials agreed to pursue the opportunity while managing the risks. After learning about the Seventh District’s failed trade fair and the Homeworld Games, he heard that an evil god had seized a city in Changping Province.

• Lu PingAn gave government officials his account of the Luca People, praising their potential while pointing out risks so he would not bear sole responsibility.
• After the formal questioning, officials discussed the Luca People over dinner and agreed to take advantage of their technology and conceal their origins if necessary.
• Lu PingAn learned that the Seventh District’s exposition had produced widespread scams and that the government planned to compensate victims where possible.
• Director Zhao told Lu PingAn that Changping City had won the Homeworld Games and Ancient City had placed fifth.
• Director Zhao revealed that an evil god had ascended to the throne and a city in Changping Province had disappeared.

Lu PingAn learned that the Bird Delicacies Cooking Sharing Association had sacrificed most of Xiacuan City to create Blood Crow, a new god who had stolen authority from the Lord of the Blood Banquet. As the authorities launched a worldwide hunt for the culprits, Lu PingAn and Big Cat discussed the dangers of Self-Eating, and he concluded that Blood Crow had to die.

• Lu PingAn reviewed the wanted orders for Blood Crow, formerly Yao WenYun, and other Blood Feast figures involved in the destruction of Xiacuan City.
• Big Cat explained that Self-Eating could greatly strengthen Life-types but often caused severe mental instability.
• Big Cat described how the Bird Cooking Association turned victims into Bird Feed and used them as avatars to absorb their life and evolve.
• Lu PingAn decided that he would kill the Blood Feast fugitives if he encountered them.
• Lu PingAn saw that security had tightened at Entering the Pass and heard that Blood Crow, a Rebirth god, had to die.

After returning from Green Planet, Lu PingAn gave his team time off and discussed their plans, including Xue En’s attempt to advance his Family Tradition. He later met the New Luca People, who asked about developing Green Planet, and learned that Earth had already begun cultivating supernatural systems on several other worlds.

• Lu PingAn gave his team three days off and allowed them to request more leave for training or advancement.
• Xue En said he planned to return to his Homeworld and attempt the fourth tier of his Family Tradition, then left with his luggage.
• Lu PingAn and Chris wondered whether Xue En’s fate-related ability grew stronger through Sacrifices or whether deaths caused it to grow stronger.
• Lu PingAn visited the New Luca People, who asked for more information about Green Planet as a possible world for their technology and development.
• After Lu PingAn submitted their request, officials told him that several worlds were already being developed and that the Luca People’s application would probably be approved.

After returning to Earth, Lu PingAn rested at home and discovered that low-tier potions were being sold to ordinary people, including a stimulant popular with students preparing for exams. He reported his concerns to the Bureau of Anomalous Affairs but left the difficult decision about regulating the potion to them.

• Lu PingAn woke in the afternoon, found Xia Qin's prepared lunch and note, and ate before taking two low-tier potions to reset his body clock and boost his alertness.
• Lu PingAn read that the potions were being marketed as an exam-preparation combination and realized students and parents were already buying them.
• Lu PingAn worried that prolonged use could seriously harm ordinary people, but recognized that banning the potion could create unfairness and fuel smuggling and counterfeit drugs.
• Lu PingAn called the Bureau of Anomalous Affairs to report the potion without recommending a policy, then ate an early dinner and began working.

Lu PingAn considered how to address his poor attendance and used his new position as a Gu City councilor to draft proposals about Explorers, Professionals, and Outsiders. After Big Cat urged him not to discard them, he submitted the proposals and received commendation from the Bureau of Anomalous Affairs the next day.

• Lu PingAn worried that his terrible attendance might keep him from graduating and considered asking officials for help.
• As a newly appointed Gu City councilor, Lu PingAn drafted proposals about support for Explorers who were away from home, regulation of Professionals' items, and exploitative employment of Outsiders.
• Big Cat told Lu PingAn to keep the proposals, saying they showed his concern for the city and could help his psychological evaluation.
• Lu PingAn submitted his proposals as his councilor's homework.
• The Bureau of Anomalous Affairs commended Lu PingAn and officially praised him the next day.

The chapter explained how Lu PingAn had gone from a monitored, distrusted quasi-weapon to one of Ancient City's most valuable future leaders after proving his judgment and strategic ability. As political resentment threatened Changping City's authority and Ancient City sought stronger protection, Lu PingAn and his team became the city's public face, and he was asked to meet foreign guests.

• The Bureau of Anomalous Affairs ended Lu PingAn's supervised residence after the battle against the Sophist convinced them that he had chosen their side and possessed a stable personality.
• Experts concluded that Lu PingAn's leadership during the Green Planet Campaign had transformed a near-certain defeat into victory and revealed his strategic ability.
• Cities across Changping Province demanded Changping City's removal as provincial leader, blaming its neglect and past conduct for leaving the region vulnerable to Blood Feast.
• Kun Ba judged that Lu PingAn would reach Rule-level within a few years, strengthening the case for Ancient City to protect and retain him.
• Ancient City gave Lu PingAn honors and responsibilities that tied him more closely to the city, and he learned that he and his team were expected to meet foreign guests.

Lu PingAn used Ancient City’s new support and resources to consider raising his side professions, while Big Cat recommended the Circus path to strengthen his reflexes, balance, and beast-taming abilities. He decided to apply for access to the Circus legacy and seek out groups connected to it.

• Lu PingAn reviewed the intelligence, secret-realm access, and professional-path options Ancient City offered his team.
• Lu PingAn considered raising his side professions to the fourth rank and chose Reflection as his first priority.
• Big Cat warned that he needed better reflexes and physical balance, and suggested the Circus path to address those weaknesses and his lack of beast-taming abilities.
• Big Cat explained that the authorities had seized the Laughing Sisters Circus’s legacy after defeating the organization forty years earlier.
• Lu PingAn decided to apply for the Circus materials and intelligence, while Big Cat suggested he also search for churches and organizations with ties to the Circus.

Lu PingAn distributed resources, reviewed his team’s progress, and tested Xue En’s new strength in a disastrous Secret Realm expedition. He later prepared to advance into the Dancer subspecies Circus Odd Jobs, which he could unlock after completing an advancement ritual.

• Lu PingAn distributed hard-to-trade resources and reviewed reports showing that Xue En had reached Law Decree-level as the Profession Tai Sui Kid.
• Xue En explained why he had returned from his family home, and Lu PingAn invited him to test his combat strength in a former warzone Secret Realm.
• Lu PingAn and Xue En encountered earthquakes, rampaging monsters, and collapsing passages in the Secret Realm, which ended with an official No Entry notice barring someone from returning.
• Lu PingAn complained through the club channel that people should avoid exploring Secret Realms alongside a certain someone unless they were extremely confident in their strength.
• Lu PingAn received the materials and knowledge needed for the Dancer path and prepared to take up the Circus Odd Jobs subspecies after completing an advancement ritual.

After completing the Circus Odd Jobs profession change, Lu PingAn tested his new skills in a duel with Hua Xueyi and learned how her Dancer and Weapon Master abilities worked. He gained new profession skills and began weighing the circus path’s advancement choices.

• Lu PingAn fought Hua Xueyi in the Gymnasium without his usual gear or abilities, and she killed him with a strike from her ponytail spear.
• After reviving, Lu PingAn collected his betting winnings and explained that he had expected to lose while testing himself against Hua Xueyi’s combat specialty.
• Lu PingAn converted Dance Skill into Clumsy Steps and Music into Rhythm Perception, gaining insight into the rhythms behind Hua Xueyi’s fighting style.
• Hua Xueyi explained that she combined Dancer and Weapon Master, and that Metal Slime cells had let her cultivate both body control and rhythm perception.
• Lu PingAn considered how to develop the Circus Odd Jobs path, which let him combine two of Trapeze Artist, Acrobat, and Playful Clown.

Lu PingAn learned that the Circus path was a composite profession connected to several powerful sources, then considered which professions to take as side paths. He chose Acrobat for Tier 2 and Playful Clown for Tier 3, and Big Cat suggested seeking the Church of the Playful Kid for fuller information.

• Big Cat explained that the Circus path had multiple sources and that higher-tier professions often combined several traits.
• Lu PingAn wondered whether the Playful Kid was connected to the Joyful Sisters Circus, but set aside the speculation.
• Lu PingAn compared Trapeze Artist, Acrobat, and Playful Clown as possible side professions.
• Big Cat advised Lu PingAn to prioritize useful abilities, and he chose Acrobat for Tier 2 and Playful Clown for Tier 3.
• Big Cat said the two professions might combine into Joyful Dancer at Tier 4 and suggested Lu PingAn look for the Church of the Playful Kid.

Lu PingAn tried to improve his Reflection through acrobat training but remained constrained by his slow reflexes and rejected Fang Wen’s invasive surgical solution. Meanwhile, an insider exposed Blood Crow’s location, and the authorities issued a sweeping bounty that turned the pursuit into a political mission with the potential to spark a God War.

• Lu PingAn struggled to raise his Reflection and trained on a tightrope to learn the Dancer on the Reins trait.
• Lu PingAn found that Hua Xueyi, Cat Cat, and available Dancers could not provide the Experience he needed, while Fang Wen’s proposed surgery involved extensive mechanical implants that he declined.
• The authorities learned from an extremist insider that Blood Crow had fled to a high-magic world under the territory of a dependent race of one of the Twelve Pillars.
• Lu PingAn realized that capturing Blood Crow was also a political mission that would likely fall to the Explorers of Changping Province.
• Two days later, a bounty went to every Explorer in Ancient City, promising religious or territorial privileges to whoever killed Blood Crow and raising the prospect of a God War.

Lu PingAn considered joining the hunt for Blood Crow but followed Big Cat’s advice to wait while powerful churches and the Twelve Pillars’ dependents tested each other. As more than ten churches mobilized, a Gu City Official deployment order sent Lu PingAn’s group to another realm, tying them to the conflict despite their hesitation.

• Lu PingAn considered taking part in the hunt for Blood Crow because the Eastern Kingdom offered extravagant rewards, including Free Dioceses and the title of True God.
• Big Cat warned Lu PingAn that the conflict would involve powerful churches and the Twelve Pillars’ dependents, and advised him to let others test the waters first.
• Big Cat suggested the authorities might use the hunt as a chance for humanity to prove itself on the interstellar stage under the cause of revenge.
• Within a week, more than ten churches of frontline gods announced that they would send their main forces to the region in God’s Arks.
• A commission from the Gu City Official ordered Lu PingAn’s group to deploy to another realm, linking them to the conflict and its rewards.

Lu PingAn spent three weeks undercover in World B4571, posing as a Winged Person while adapting to its customs and gathering intelligence for a mission connected to the conflict in neighboring World B4579. He learned that supernatural powers were suppressed there, but its many ordinary inhabitants were naturally formidable fighters.

• Lu PingAn walked through a rural town in his Winged Person disguise, where vendors repeatedly mistook him for a wealthy outsider and tried to sell him things.
• Lu PingAn returned to his lodging, removed his disguise, and discussed his infiltration mission with Chris.
• Chris explained that World B4571 was a rural starting point for adapting to the cultures of the region and contrasted it with World B4579, the conflict's frontline world.
• Lu PingAn considered whether Blood Crow fugitives might have escaped to a neighboring world, while focusing on fitting into local society and collecting intelligence.
• Lu PingAn sensed that high magic was present but suppressed, then recognized that ordinary members of the local races possessed the strength of skilled fighters.

Lu PingAn gathered information in Lai Ke Town while trying to stay undercover, but local women mistook him for a desirable marriage prospect. His investigation uncovered a peaceful, isolated society full of unusually realistic supernatural legends, and he ended the chapter sensing Silver-Rank power in the weapons of arriving Tax Officials and knights.

• Lu PingAn grew suspicious that local women were watching and repeatedly encountering him while he gathered information.
• Hu Anna Mrs. tried to arrange several matches for Lu PingAn, who rejected them and endured teasing from Big Cat and the others.
• Lu PingAn studied the featherfolk’s customs and history, finding their long-lived, prosperous agricultural society unsettlingly stable.
• Lu PingAn questioned whether spying in the town was worthwhile, then noticed that its supernatural myths described powers with a strikingly realistic system.
• Tax Officials and knights carrying Demon Guns arrived from the city, and Lu PingAn sensed Silver-Rank fluctuations from their standard-issue weapons.

Lu PingAn learned that the local world suppressed supernatural abilities projected outside the body, leaving him vulnerable and pushing him to seek a way to adapt. Big Cat pointed him toward the Horse-Face knights, whose use of local supernatural power might offer a path to protection.

• Lu PingAn observed the Horse-Face knights’ steam-powered weapons and learned that their bodies used a force similar to battle qi.
• Lu PingAn assessed how the local environment weakened his abilities and magical plants, then realized the knights posed a serious threat while he remained suppressed.
• Big Cat explained that outsiders struggled against local advantages, while powerful beings and territorial abilities could resist or counter those effects.
• Lu PingAn considered advancing along the Joyful Dancer path, which suited his Featherfolk body and received a local bonus.
• Big Cat suggested that Lu PingAn could learn to use supernatural abilities like the Horse-Face knights, and questioned why doing so would conflict with his own abilities.

Lu PingAn learned how the local knights cultivated by consuming processed magical beasts, then investigated why their bloodline pollution remained stable. His gaze pierced through the worlds to one of the Twelve Pillars, whose presence explained the ordered Dragon Blood inside him, and he emerged unharmed with system notifications.

• Lu PingAn used his intellectual persona to question the knights and learned about their training with beast blood and meat, while a female knight pursued him.
• Lu PingAn drank a drake’s raw blood and found that its supernatural factors flowed through his body without resisting him.
• Lu PingAn questioned how this world could constrain pollution and followed his inspiration by gazing upward through the worlds.
• Lu PingAn saw a vast being of fire and birdlike form, recognized her as one of the Twelve Pillars, and understood that her wings made primordial pollution orderly and sluggish.
• Lu PingAn returned to himself unharmed, realized the Pillar had seen and protected him, and heard repeated system notifications.

Lu PingAn discovered that Firebird’s protection had made him part of the worlds beneath her wings, granting him a spark of Phoenix Fire and safe access to the world’s filtered pollution. He realized that local creatures could grow stronger by eating magical beasts and decided to obtain a knight’s cultivation method.

• Lu PingAn found that Firebird’s Retinue had removed the rejection he felt and fully digested his Dragon Blood.
• Lu PingAn concluded that Firebird had filtered the world’s pollution and its matter, spirit, and energy, then manifested a spark identified as Phoenix Fire (Pseudo).
• Big Cat stopped Lu PingAn from glimpsing reality again after he ignited the flame on his fingertip.
• Lu PingAn learned that creatures beneath Firebird’s wings could strengthen their bloodlines by eating magical beasts and training.
• Lu PingAn decided to get hold of a local knight’s cultivation method.