Chapter Summaries

Lu PingAn used a lavish banquet to integrate Refugee Camp factions into his business while expanding his influence and considering how to draw Zhao Yan into a trap. When Zhao Yan’s unstable condition became apparent, Lu PingAn hinted that the Mother God could help him.

• Lu PingAn introduced Dao Zhong, Da Mu, and other Refugee Camp figures as the new Factory’s executives, then interrupted their speeches with laughter to keep the banquet lively.
• Lu PingAn watched his coin progress grow and judged that he had gained control over the city’s factions, though Zhao Yan remained difficult to influence.
• Lu PingAn weighed whether to confront Zhao Yan but held back because failure could drive Zhao Yan away and leave no second chance.
• Zhao Yan praised Lu PingAn’s gift of an armor fragment while eyeing the formidable Security Puppet and lamenting that the city’s protections kept him from attacking his kin.
• Lu PingAn noticed Zhao Yan’s worsening imbalance and asked whether his advancement had affected his flesh and spirit.
• Lu PingAn offered to help Zhao Yan and asked whether he knew the Mother God, revealing a familiar connection that made Zhao Yan recognize him as a fellow cultist.

Zhao Yan met the Mother God beneath An Nan Manor and learned that she could heal the three bodies created by his unstable transformation. She offered to evolve him further in exchange for what he could provide, leaving him eager to accept.

• Zhao Yan and Mr. An Nan passed murals depicting the Lion-like Clan’s fall and entered the chamber where the Mother God’s Holy Image stood.
• The Mother God demanded that Zhao Yan reveal who could make decisions, and Zhao Yan split into three distinct bodies: a mud-like creature, a bat, and a girl.
• Big Cat recognized that the three Zhao Yans had been Law Decree-level before becoming Rule-level, which had given their separate personalities complete bodies and left them divided.
• The three Zhao Yans recognized Lu PingAn’s Spirit Fusion constitution and asked the Mother God why she had summoned them.
• The Mother God offered to heal Zhao Yan by integrating or separating his bodies, and Zhao Yan immediately offered to become her believer.
• The Mother God explained Zhao Yan’s unstable evolution and offered to complete it and make him a divine envoy, then asked what he could bring her.

Lu PingAn used Mother Goddess’s guidance to draw Zhao Yan deeper into his influence while arranging to turn the city’s War Machine into a theme park attraction. The War Statue became the foundation of a giant slide, leaving Zhao Yan fearful that the cultists’ plans would endanger the city.

• Mother Goddess reprimanded Zhao Yan for using too many lower lifeforms in his Blood Feast and taught him about the dangers of consuming excessive Life Currency.
• Zhao Yan mistook Lu PingAn for a powerful cult leader and eagerly accepted Mother Goddess’s advice, hoping to resolve his hidden dangers.
• Lu PingAn took Zhao Yan to an inn, gave him money, and encouraged him to stay out of trouble while secretly drawing him deeper into the web.
• Lu PingAn arranged for the city’s War Statue to be declared beyond repair so it could be used as the centerpiece of his theme park’s giant slide.
• Zhao Yan watched the War Machine become a public attraction and worried that Lu PingAn’s plans would harm the city and make him share the blame.

Lu PingAn harvested valuable resources from the remote world and manipulated Zhao Yan’s growing blood hunger to push the Blood Feast and Evil Wolves toward war. He planned to use the crisis to bring a Rule-level power into negotiations with a demigod, betting everything on one opportunity.

• Lu PingAn ordered his group to take portable Strange Objects and Rare Items and dismantle local puppets for materials, while planning to have Fang Wen refashion the War Golem into a heavy unit.
• Zhao Yan visited Lu PingAn’s manor repeatedly, grew hungrier as he used his power, and asked to buy Dao Zhong; Lu PingAn kept him dependent by supplying blood meals.
• Lu PingAn and Big Cat discussed Zhao Yan’s promised transformation, which Big Cat estimated would not arrive for about thirty years under his former habits.
• After a Blood Feast member tried to flee the city and became Zhao Yan’s blood meal, Lu PingAn issued a death certificate and let the killing fuel a furious break between Zhao Yan and Dao Zhong.
• As the Evil Wolves and Blood Feast neared war, Lu PingAn worked to suppress the conflict while arranging to invite a Rule-level figure to negotiate with a demigod.

Lu PingAn used his reputation to attract investment, expand his businesses, and acquire the city's valuable treasures. He prepared resources for war while waiting for another major target to arrive.

• Lu PingAn confirmed the plan and announced that he and An Nan would increase investment, expand their industries, and build a Steam Railway to sell goods in other cities.
• Investors poured money into Lu PingAn's ventures, trusting his reputation despite the city's limited market and the obstacles to selling goods elsewhere.
• Lu PingAn spent the influx of money through discounts and prize draws, which made people believe he was distributing wealth and brought him even more funds.
• Big Cat discussed how Lu PingAn's ability could influence a city or even seize political power, and explained that his ability was a slow-acting, regional threat below T0 world-destruction level.
• Lu PingAn gathered precious metals, extraordinary materials, and rare treasures for his museum, sorting high- and medium-value items for later transport while displaying low-value goods.
• Lu PingAn patiently collected resources and prepared for war as he waited for another big fish to come to him.

Sun Yi and Su Xingying traveled to meet Zhao Yan, hoping to find a faction willing to take in Blood Feast’s outcast members. Sun Yi nearly attacked civilians before his companion brought him back to his senses, and he continued toward the meeting with Zhao Yan.

• Sun Yi and Su Xingying entered the Featherfolk region and questioned why Zhao Yan had invited them to its quiet, barren world.
• Sun Yi explained that Blood Feast’s members were losing patience and needed an evil god willing to trade with them, since their path left them unable to fit into peaceful factions.
• Sun Yi and the other Blood Feast members resented Blood Crow for abandoning them while transforming into a guardian deity of another race.
• Sun Yi reflected on his decades in Blood Feast and his inability to imagine life without slaughter.
• As Sun Yi walked through the street, he nearly attacked nearby mortals, but Su Xingying called him back to his senses.
• Sun Yi headed to the agreed meeting place and threatened to crush Zhao Yan’s throat if Zhao Yan was wasting his time.

Lu PingAn used a transaction to take Liu Ku’s Celestial Fox Perception, leaving the former assassin gravely injured in the greenhouse. He arranged for Zhao Yan to carry Liu Ku out of the city, and the returning Blood Feast discovered the bloodshed and became furious.

• Lu PingAn watched Liu Ku describe his peaceful life as a gardener, despite his past as a Blood Feast assassin.
• Lu PingAn offered Liu Ku two gold coins and claimed his Sky Fox Trait, forcing Liu Ku to tear off his own face as the Celestial Fox Trait was extracted.
• Lu PingAn absorbed Celestial Fox Perception and gained its subsidiary abilities, including Life Activation, Threat Perception, and Bloody Olfaction.
• Lu PingAn summoned Zhao Yan to collect the injured Liu Ku and arranged for him to leave the city without inspection.
• The Blood Feast found bloodstains in the greenhouse and grew furious after learning Zhao Yan had taken an injured person out of the city.

Lu PingAn used his new sensory ability and carefully chosen words to inflame the Blood Banquet Members against Zhao Yan while appearing to urge restraint. The group seized on the news that another Rule-level figure was coming as a chance to act.

• Lu PingAn sensed the Blood Banquet Members’ foul, corpse-like stench through the Sky Fox Trait he had obtained from Liu Ku.
• Dao Zhong said the group could no longer endure Zhao Yan’s crimes and would rather fight him than be picked off one by one.
• Lu PingAn provoked the Blood Banquet Members by stressing their weakness against Zhao Yan and the danger of becoming Wanted Criminals.
• Lu PingAn mentioned that Zhao Yan expected a powerful companion to arrive, and the Blood Banquet Members saw the newcomer as an opportunity to change their situation.

Zhao Yan learned that his divided nature had squandered his potential, but the Mother Goddess explained how he might repair it. Realizing Mr. An Nan and the Mother Goddess were far stronger than he had assumed, Zhao Yan formed a risky plan and asked the Mother Goddess for help.

• Zhao Yan thanked the Mother Goddess for teaching him how to address his flaws and revealing a path toward higher tiers.
• Zhao Yan wondered about Mr. An Nan’s strength, then watched him revive a withered ancient tree and recognized him as a high-tier Gardener.
• Zhao Yan realized his three fused selves had wasted their separate talents and lacked the foundation needed to reach Tier 8.
• The Mother Goddess warned Zhao Yan that repairing himself would take too long and that hunting a million lives would bring hidden dangers.
• The Mother Goddess suggested Zhao Yan create a new avatar to serve as his core, ideally using someone stronger who followed the same path.
• Zhao Yan decided to pursue his plan in the remote region and asked the Mother Goddess to lend him her strength.

Zhao Yan met Sun Yi and Su Xingying in a public hotel lounge to arrange a meeting with a demigod’s representative, but their tense conversation was interrupted by an angry Blood Feast group carrying red coffins. Lu PingAn revealed that he had quietly manipulated the parties’ fears and resentments, then created a small accident to provoke a clash.

• Zhao Yan met Sun Yi and Su Xingying at a hotel tea lounge, where they exchanged wary questions about the demigod’s representative.
• Zhao Yan said he could take Sun Yi and Su Xingying to meet the representative, whose identity prevented him from appearing in public.
• A grieving and furious Blood Feast group arrived carrying blood-red coffins and demanded to speak with Sun Yi.
• Lu PingAn told Xia Qin that he had amplified the parties’ emotions and nudged them toward extreme choices without openly intervening.
• Lu PingAn used a gold coin to create an accident, and someone in the Blood Feast group screamed that Sun Yi’s tea was poisoned.

A poisoned-tea accusation and the discovery of Liu Ku’s belongings turned Zhao Yan, Sun Yi, and the Blood Feast Professionals against one another. Sun Yi tried to mediate, but Zhao Yan suddenly struck him with a potentially fatal attack, while a man in a distant manor watched and urged Zhao Yan to follow through.

• A cup shattered, and its tea became a Blood Feast curse that made Sun Yi suspect Zhao Yan had poisoned it.
• A Professional accused Zhao Yan of poisoning the tea and killing Liu Ku, while Dao Zhong confronted him with Liu Ku’s bloodstained clothes and demanded an oath.
• Sun Yi judged that he could profit by mediating between Zhao Yan and the Professionals, then began defending Zhao Yan.
• Zhao Yan pierced Sun Yi’s heart and sent deadly Fluid through his body, attacking him with a killing blow.
• A man in a manor noticed two gold coins vanish and told Zhao Yan to finish what he had started.

Zhao Yan’s attack left Sun Yi badly mutilated, but the two rule-level powerhouses continued fighting as Blood Banquet’s Last Survivors tried to contain Zhao Yan. From his manor, Lu PingAn used his influence to mobilize the Peace Officers and city garrison, then activated the city’s War Colossus.

• Zhao Yan’s clone attack nearly killed Sun Yi, but Dao Zhong and Blood Banquet’s Last Survivors kept Zhao Yan from escaping or finishing him off.
• Zhao Yan blamed An Nan for the events, but the others rejected his claims and the battle escalated as he fought back.
• Sun Yi recovered enough to see Su Xingying mortally wounded, then revealed his true form and unleashed his full killing intent against Zhao Yan.
• Lu PingAn called in the Peace Officers and city garrison, arranged military-grade weapons and new Wanted Orders, and ordered the city’s War Colossus activated.

Sun Yi and Zhao Yan fought a destructive battle between two Rule-level beings, while Lu PingAn watched and judged Zhao Yan’s chances of losing. Lu PingAn ordered the Peace Officers to make Zhao Yan and his allies wanted criminals, then offered Zhao Yan a false promise of help to spur him to keep fighting.

• Sun Yi transformed the battlefield into a crystal domain with his Rainbow Light rule, while Zhao Yan fought back with three powerful avatars.
• The battle devastated the city, and Peace Officers and other bystanders were killed or driven into hiding.
• Lu PingAn observed that Zhao Yan’s immense avatar attacks consumed far more energy than Sun Yi’s domain-powered attacks.
• Big Cat warned Lu PingAn that Zhao Yan was likely to lose and might flee once his strength ran low.
• Lu PingAn ordered the Peace Officers to declare Zhao Yan and his companions wanted criminals and falsely promised Zhao Yan help reaching the eighth rank if he captured Sun Yi.
• Zhao Yan responded with violent explosions and fought with growing madness.

Lu PingAn’s scheme trapped Zhao Yan and Sun Yi in a city sealed by the military and Peace Officers, forcing the two Blood Banquet People to keep fighting. As the battle escalated into an apocalyptic disaster, Lu PingAn waited for them to destroy each other.

• Zhao Yan hesitated to reject the Mother Goddess’s promises and lost his chance to escape as the military sealed off the area.
• War knights and Peace Officers attacked the wanted Zhao Yan and Sun Yi, marking them as dangerous criminals across the multiverse.
• Zhao Yan and Sun Yi refused to trust each other and resumed their deadly fight despite briefly discussing cooperation.
• Lu PingAn deployed the Peace Guardian, escalating the clash into a citywide disaster and drawing further reinforcements and hunters.
• Lu PingAn waited patiently as the battle dragged on and the two Blood Banquet People’s bounties continued to rise.

The Peace Guardian reached its god-level fourth phase and overwhelmed Zhao Yan and Sun Yi as An Nan’s forces fortified the battlefield. Dao Zhong escaped the holy light, realized his emotions and trust in An Nan had been manipulated, and faced a human who confronted him over the Blood Feast’s victims.

• The Peace Guardian entered its fourth phase, using divine power to expel the opponents’ domains and repeatedly kill Zhao Yan.
• The military and Peace Officers reinforced the battlefield with old weapons, runes, and Featherfolk fighters while the Holy Image grew stronger.
• Dao Zhong escaped through underground pipes and realized that the Blood Feast’s emotions and his trust in An Nan had been wrong.
• A human confronted Dao Zhong, who pleaded to be allowed to live, and asked whether the Blood Feast had given the 370,000 people of Xiacuan City the same choice.

Lu PingAn confronted Dao Zhong over his betrayals and killed him after exposing his fear and summoning ghostly reminders of his past. He left the room carrying three gold coins and hoped his next opponent would put up more of a fight.

• Lu PingAn condemned Dao Zhong’s past crimes and showed him his Special Task Force Police Badge, claiming jurisdiction over his case.
• Dao Zhong attacked Lu PingAn with his blood sea, but Lu PingAn countered with a blood sea of his own and unsettled him with the apparition of Qian Fu.
• As Dao Zhong aged and panicked, Lu PingAn distracted him with another ghostly figure, stepped onto his shadow, and drained his blood.
• Lu PingAn tore Dao Zhong apart and left the room with three gold coins.

An Nan Mr. supplied the frontline forces with equipment, provisions, and gold while urging them to kill Zhao Yan, then returned to his estate. Lu PingAn examined the Perfect-quality third gold coin taken from Dao Zhong, recognized that his Soldier Path had advanced to Tier 4 Conqueror, and used the coin despite its potential.

• An Nan Mr. arrived at the blockade with the head of his former servant, a wanted criminal who had nearly escaped.
• An Nan Mr. distributed supplies and gold to the Peace Officers and military, offering extra rewards for killing Zhao Yan brutally.
• Lu PingAn examined Dao Zhong's third gold coin and saw that its Perfect quality confirmed his successful conquest.
• Lu PingAn's Soldier Path activated the Tier 4 Conqueror Job Change Ceremony, requiring him to plan and command a supernatural war against a group.
• Lu PingAn designated Blood Feast as his target and recognized that the completeness of the conquest determined the grade of the life-force gold coins he could obtain.
• Lu PingAn tossed Dao Zhong's gold coin into the air and used it, deciding that better ones would come soon.

Lu PingAn gathered Soldier and War abilities, then completed his Conqueror profession through a trial guided by the Life Bank. He turned the city and battlefield into a war domain, trapping his Rule-level opponents as the story left them surrounded and ready to be sacrificed.

• After confirming the Soldier Path lacked key components, Lu PingAn collected abilities and knowledge from missing War Path members and the Library's stockpile.
• Lu PingAn chose abilities including Fervor Blessing, Child of War, War Banner Bearer, and Impregnable Defense to connect war with plunder and control.
• The Life Bank guided Lu PingAn through a war trial, completing his transformation from an ordinary commander into a Conqueror.
• Lu PingAn converted city property into gold coins and distributed the money to support the troops and increase his influence over them.
• After declaring war, Lu PingAn turned the battlefield into his domain, marked its participants as pieces, and encircled the Rule-level beings for sacrifice.

Lu PingAn coordinated a war against Zhao Yan and another Rule-level enemy from behind the scenes, weakening them with local forces and carefully placed allies. As refugee warriors entered the battle seeking revenge, the fighting intensified and Lu PingAn declared the enemy checkmated.

• Lu PingAn stayed away from the front lines while local forces deployed weapons and tactics designed to weaken the Rule-level enemies.
• Sun Yi’s fierce attacks kept Zhao Yan occupied, giving the War Colossus time to unlock and the locals time to prepare their defenses.
• Lu PingAn sent a messenger bird to summon the refugee warriors he had previously held back.
• Da Mu led the warriors to the blockade, presented Mr. An Nan’s letter, and asked to join the fight against Zhao Yan.
• The officers let the warriors through, and their advance into battle inspired others at the blockade to risk their lives.
• As fighting erupted, Lu PingAn announced that the Rule-level enemies were checkmated.

Sun Yi died after consuming poisoned blood, and the Anti-Blood Banquet Potion X7 let the Holy Image crush him before he could recover. Zhao Yan tried to flee, but Da Mu stopped him with a forbidden greatsword that countered his Blood Mist Transformation.

• Da Mu and the foreign warriors poisoned Sun Yi and Zhao Yan with the Anti-Blood Banquet Potion X7, which coagulated their blood and weakened their regeneration.
• The Holy Image repeatedly struck Sun Yi until he shattered, ending the crystal terrain and prompting the Peace Officers and military to advance.
• Zhao Yan tried to escape by sacrificing part of himself and transforming into mist, but Da Mu blocked his path.
• Da Mu wounded Zhao Yan with Dao Zhong's Resentful Last Words, a Quasi Rule-level Forbidden Relic that ended his Blood Mist Transformation and pierced his mist-form body.