Chapter Summaries

Da Mu wielded Dao Zhong's Demon Sword to seize control of Zhao Yan's blood and drive him into a desperate fight. As the two wounded enemies battled, Lu PingAn considered what to do with the Third Gold Coin he had obtained.

• Da Mu used the Demon Sword's Blood Feast wraith to control the blood around him and severely injure Zhao Yan.
• The sword's history and powers revealed that it grew more dangerous against Blood Feast users, but drained its wielder's blood, stamina, and life force.
• Zhao Yan recognized that Da Mu was losing life force and tried to outlast him, but his own poison and the sword's attacks left him near death.
• Da Mu and Zhao Yan fought an ugly deathmatch, each insisting the other deserved to die.
• Lu PingAn toyed with the Rule-level Third Gold Coin and decided not to turn Dao Zhong's coin into a Spirit Ghost.

Lu PingAn used his Artisan Workshop to turn Life Coins into a potential source of mass-produced relics, but Sun Yi’s low-quality coin was unsuitable. He sold it and a pile of other low-grade coins to the Life Courtyard, while keeping the better materials for later.

• Lu PingAn assessed Sun Yi’s Third Coin and concluded its poor quality made it unsuitable for creating relics or Spirit Ghosts.
• Lu PingAn established the Workshop, where coins could be used with Taboo Items or Quasi-Polluted Items to produce relics.
• The Life Courtyard offered Lu PingAn 889 points for Sun Yi’s coin in exchange for unlocking the Blood Spring Rule Building.
• Lu PingAn sold Sun Yi’s coin along with other low-grade coins collected from the Blood Feast victims.
• Lu PingAn kept the higher-quality coins for future use and hoped Zhao Yan would keep improving.

Da Mu resisted the Demon Sword’s erosion and regained his resolve, turning the battle against Zhao Yan in the hunters’ favor. Lu PingAn watched the checkmate become inevitable and prepared to claim the spoils.

• Zhao Yan exhausted his blood while Da Mu repeatedly blocked him with the Demon Sword, leaving Zhao Yan unable to defend himself from the hunters’ attacks.
• Da Mu fell into a dream of his dead kin, but remembered An Nan Mr.’s warning and chose to live for his people.
• The Demon Sword’s Dao Zhong’s Regret drained life from its wielder while nourishing him near death, making Da Mu a relentless counter to Zhao Yan’s blood control.
• Lu PingAn revealed that he had spent a gold coin to restore Da Mu’s sanity, choosing a living man over an immortal puppet.
• Lu PingAn saw Zhao Yan’s defeat as certain, closed his book, and set off to reap the harvest.

Lu PingAn subdued Zhao Yan and decided to keep him alive for a public execution. He ordered the mayor to hold the trial the next day amid the city’s ruins.

• Mr. An Nan used a gold coin to question Zhao Yan and found him too weakened to resist.
• Lu PingAn revived Da Mu and took control of the Demon Sword, then cut through Zhao Yan’s final blood attack.
• The Demon Sword pierced Zhao Yan and drained his life, but Lu PingAn kept him pinned alive.
• Lu PingAn confronted the mayor for abandoning the city and ordered a public trial and execution for Zhao Yan the next day.

Lu PingAn and Xia Qin tried Zhao Yan in a temporary summary court and sentenced him to death, then left his victims to torment him through the night. As Zhao Yan faced execution the next morning, Lu PingAn hinted that death would not free him and revealed that Zhao Yan’s soul had been sealed in a cursed coin.

• Lu PingAn revealed himself to Zhao Yan as a Special Task Force officer and taunted him over the deaths of Dao Zhong, Liu Ku, and the others.
• Xia Qin, Lu PingAn, and Lei Shui Yun formed a temporary summary court, found Zhao Yan guilty, and sentenced him to death.
• Lu PingAn handed Zhao Yan over to survivors from the Refugee Camp for a night of revenge, keeping him alive with a blood-clotting toxin.
• At dawn, Zhao Yan was brought to the execution ground, where Lu PingAn warned that death might not bring release.
• Lu PingAn’s coin appraisal identified Zhao Yan’s third coin as a cursed artifact containing a sinful and sorrowful soul.

After wiping out the Blood Feast forces in the region, Lu PingAn completed an exceptionally successful Job Change Ceremony and gained powerful Conqueror abilities and enhanced attributes. With stronger Blood Feast figures likely to investigate, he prepared to leave and digest his spoils elsewhere.

• Lu PingAn and Xia Qin discussed the pile of reports they would need to write after the mission.
• Lu PingAn decided to leave before stronger Blood Feast figures arrived to investigate the deaths of Sun Yi and Zhao Yan.
• The Job Change Ceremony received a 141% completion rate after Lu PingAn’s victory and sacrifices, greatly strengthening his physique and Reflection.
• Lu PingAn obtained the Conqueror abilities Lu PingAn's Conquest Declaration and Conqueror's War Banner, along with other class rewards.
• Lu PingAn recognized that he needed time and resources to digest his spoils, especially the complete Life Coin, but chose to flee first.

Lu PingAn sold off his businesses and gathered people, machinery, and treasures before leaving the Featherfolk world. He returned to Earth with his companions and acquisitions, leaving the city to deal with the aftermath.

• Lu PingAn offered Da Mu and the others the choice to stay and inherit his businesses or travel with him, and Da Mu chose to leave.
• Lu PingAn gave Da Mu and the others work contracts to repay their passage fees on Earth.
• Lu PingAn bought and collected valuable relics, production equipment, Hounds, medicines, raw materials, and rare creatures.
• Lu PingAn finished transferring his assets in a day and departed under the pretense of procuring goods, taking his wife and sister-in-law with him.
• Lu PingAn arrived home and declared that he was finally back.

The standoff between the Featherfolk and the People of the Blood Banquet stalled until Lu PingAn’s group killed two Rule-level targets, drawing the attention of the highest authorities. After verifying the feat, a Rule-level powerhouse approved Lu PingAn’s results and urged him to consider his reward.

• The Hunting Squad struggled to pursue the People of the Blood Banquet because Featherfolk guardians intervened, leaving both sides trapped in an exhausting standoff.
• News reached Command HQ that a Tier 4 private hunter and several Law Decree-level fighters had killed two Rule-level targets, prompting the People of the Blood Banquet and official hunters to move again.
• The Shenzhou changed its route to collect Lu PingAn’s group, and a Rule-level powerhouse arrived to verify their achievement using the two skulls of Zhao Yan and Sun Yi.
• Lu PingAn considered how to fuse his Soldier and Life-type abilities with the Runner Path, which Big Cat had thought incompatible with life.
• The Rule-level powerhouse approved Lu PingAn’s abilities, promised to report directly to Command HQ, and advised him to ask for a substantial reward.

Lu PingAn reunited with the Male Dancer Trio aboard the returning God's Ark and learned that Lu FeiFei still suffered from egg-hatching symptoms. Recognized for his battle record and dubbed “Red Gloves,” Lu PingAn realized his public prominence required him to make new preparations.

• Lu PingAn teased Liu Xing, Lu FeiFei, and their companion about leaving work, then reminded them to repay their loans even as he welcomed them back.
• Lu PingAn explained how he had used the trio as scouts and backup pieces before sidelining them once his plan succeeded.
• Lu PingAn heard that Lu FeiFei's nursery had triggered persistent parenting hormones, leaving him attached to an unfertilized practice egg.
• Big Cat suspected Lu FeiFei's condition came from a conceptual power and advised letting it fade rather than forcing treatment.
• Passengers recognized Lu PingAn for his three Rule-level kills and called him “Red Gloves,” prompting him to plan for his new public standing.

Lu PingAn convened the Rebirth Society’s founding shareholders to plan for the attention and changes their successful attack on Blood Feast would bring. He proposed turning the society into a commercial company that supplied Professionals with equipment, logistics, and battlefield services.

• Lu PingAn persuaded the cat to attend the board meeting by promising to eat her share of Zhi Xi’s cooking.
• Lu PingAn warned the shareholders that news of their operation against Blood Feast would draw attention and suggested using that publicity to establish the society as a company.
• Lu PingAn proposed having the company claim responsibility for the operation, its merit, and its rewards rather than making the deeds and consequences personal.
• Lu PingAn invited Hua Xueyi, Xue En, and Miss Rou to discuss the company’s new scope of business.
• Lu PingAn proposed making the society a mobile battlefield logistics base that sold and delivered arms, supplies, and other services to Professionals.

Lu PingAn rolled out new projects for the Rebirth Merchant Guild, turning its growing operations into departments with assigned leaders and resources. The Ark Plan and Wolf King Project began as the guild’s major strategic and commercial initiatives.

• Lu PingAn proposed the Ark Plan, using a Divine Power Crystal to strengthen Guan Xinxian’s Ancient Wood Ark into a mobile frontline base and rescue platform.
• Lu PingAn established the Transportation and Rescue Department under Guan Xinxian and committed company resources to upgrading the Ark and acquiring transport equipment.
• Lu PingAn announced the Wolf King Project under White Claw and appointed Lei Shui Yun as Executive Deputy Minister, surprising Cat Cat.
• Cat Cat accepted the role after Lu PingAn offered minister-level benefits and permission to hire an acting deputy.
• Lu PingAn described the Wolf Beasts’ three grades—Wolf king, Wolf Knight, and Wolf Soldier—and outlined the guild’s broader military-industrial expansion.

Lu PingAn explained that he was using projects and a company to build an industry, create rules of trade, and improve life for everyone, while pursuing a path that could let him live longer and reach greater heights. He revealed that advancing too quickly might cost him the chance to climb higher, and ended by considering how Eternal Motion Ten Thousand Spirits and Big Cat could help him.

• Lu PingAn told Xia Qin that he had assigned projects so his team could build resources and demonstrate their management skills, rather than to establish himself as a warlord.
• Xia Qin asked why Lu PingAn had been acting strangely, and he said seeing the Firebird had shown him a higher vista and made him want to live longer and better.
• Lu PingAn explained that the company would create rules of trade and protect employees and their families, while helping everyone live well.
• Lu PingAn revealed that he could advance to Tier 5 and likely complete his Tier 6 combination within three months, but feared that doing so would close off a path to greater heights.
• Lu PingAn considered Eternal Motion Ten Thousand Spirits and said he needed to stand on Big Cat's shoulders to have a chance to go further.

During a long journey, Lu PingAn reflected on Firebird’s existence and realized that stable rules, rather than blindly accumulating professions, had to bind the pollution within his vessel. He resolved to forge a path beyond Big Cat’s, though his attempt to define a new principle revealed that he still needed more foundations.

• Lu PingAn recalled witnessing Firebird and concluded that her existence embodied pure rules capable of encompassing infinite worlds.
• Lu PingAn examined the Courtyard’s three cores and realized they were built on Big Cat’s foundations, which would limit him to her path if he relied on them alone.
• Lu PingAn decided he needed to master the Perpetual Motion system by raising Dancer and Rider before combining them with Runner.
• Lu PingAn drafted a new principle treating life as a tradable form of existence and as a state akin to energy, but found his knowledge insufficient to finish it.
• Big Cat objected to Lu PingAn rejecting her principle, then enthusiastically promised to support him as he pursued the scenery ahead.

Lu PingAn discussed his path forward with Big Cat, who advised him to strengthen his Gardener foundation by pursuing a high-ranking profession in the Maiden of the Forest Church. He agreed to learn from the extensive information Big Cat had gathered, leaving him with a new path to develop his abilities.

• Cat Cat complained about being overworked as Lu PingAn pushed her to get up and work on the Wolf King Plan.
• Lu PingAn and Big Cat discussed how their different blueprints had led them toward opposing paths, with Big Cat describing the Maiden of the Forest's harmonious approach to nature.
• Big Cat told Lu PingAn that his Gardener accumulation was too weak to support his foundation and recommended he seek a God-Given Profession in the Maiden of the Forest Church.
• Lu PingAn worried that the church would discover his motives, but Big Cat dismissed the concern and offered her extensive knowledge of its professions and Gardeners.
• Lu PingAn agreed to study the material Big Cat had collected, including information on more than seventy percent of the church's Tier 1 to Tier 3 branch professions.

Lu PingAn’s execution of two Rule-level traitors made him famous as “Bare Hand Gloves” and “All the Way Peace.” Aboard the ship, he and his friends passed the time with games and pranks while preparing to return home.

• People watched footage of Zhao Yan’s public execution and saw it as a warning to anyone considering treason.
• Stories spread that Lu PingAn had killed two Rule-levels, earning him the names “Bare Hand Gloves” and “All the Way Peace.”
• Lu PingAn cheated at cards with his friends, using his Professional ability to improve his skill and win household chores from them.
• Cat Cat lost a punishment game and walked on her hands, then fled when Lu PingAn offered to treat her to Sister Zhi Xi’s cooking.
• Lu PingAn’s group spent their monotonous days aboard the ship playing games and preparing for their return, and they finally arrived home.

After returning to Changping Province, Lu PingAn received official praise, recruitment offers, and a valuable rule-level Taboo Item as officials sought to secure his allegiance and presence. He also obtained permits for a wide range of businesses, clearing the way for his industry to take root locally.

• Lu PingAn returned to Changping Province, where officials from the province, Ancient City, and the Bureau of Anomalous Affairs praised him and signaled that his past would not be scrutinized.
• Lu PingAn assured the officials that he would serve the people, and the Ancient City representatives left satisfied with his allegiance.
• Changping Province offered Lu PingAn additional compensation and gave him Sindar's Black Dragon Gloves, a Gold Low Rank Taboo Item that suited him.
• Lu PingAn asked for business and operating permits, and officials agreed to speed up the applications so he could establish his industry in the area.
• Lu PingAn secured more than a dozen permits covering fields including medicine, military, smelting, and food.

After returning to Ancient City, Lu PingAn joined Xia Qin in a sweep of local criminal forces, using his greatly increased strength to help an understaffed Special Task Force. As they finished the operation, he suggested using their soon-to-open company to help the local team and recruit its members as customers.

• Lu PingAn arrived in the city and helped Xia Qin arrest a fleeing robber, but she warned him to control his strength and spare her more repair reports.
• Lu PingAn and Xia Qin spent the day and night raiding criminal hideouts, capturing gang members and rescuing schoolgirls.
• Lu PingAn sent the captured criminals to fill the lines in secret realm war zones under the new public security regulations.
• After their sweep, Xia Qin accepted the team's invitation to a late-night meal, though she remained upset about the Special Task Force's staffing problems.
• Lu PingAn suggested that their upcoming company could offer help to the local Special Task Force and make its members their first customers.

Lu PingAn was dragged back to work by Xia Qin and helped the city’s Special Task Forces handle a Gray Casino, while arguing that he should expand his influence to improve cooperation. After leaving the force, he returned to Gu Da to advance his studies and turn the Rebirth Society into a company, hoping to recruit more people.

• Xia Qin broke into Lu PingAn’s home and forced him to report for work on Sunday.
• Lu PingAn helped Xia Qin visit other districts’ Special Task Forces and secured promises of favors in return for his help.
• Lu PingAn and Xia Qin entered a Gray Casino, where Lu PingAn shielded their car and compressed and returned an explosive against the gunmen.
• Lu PingAn urged Xia Qin to expand his influence so every Special Task Force could benefit, and she promised to decide by the day after tomorrow.
• Lu PingAn left the Special Task Force and returned to Gu Da to sort out his studies and transform the Rebirth Society into a company.
• Lu PingAn wondered whether he could recruit directly from the university because he needed more people.

Lu PingAn returned to campus and proposed recruiting student interns through his company to provide auxiliary support to Special Task Forces. He offered intensive training backed by Urban Legend Trading Ground resources, leaving teachers and students stunned by his promise that recruits could reach Tier 2 within six months.

• Lu PingAn gave freshmen directions to Building Number One with Big Cat's help, then checked his enrollment and found he was a sophomore in Logistics Team, Special Class One.
• Lu PingAn explained to school staff that his registered social organization and company would hire student interns and assign them to auxiliary duties with local Special Task Forces, not send them to the front lines.
• Lu PingAn described how his company could train interns for future roles in his business, Otherworld development, or Special Task Forces.
• Lu PingAn presented Mei Yuge, Tian Xi, and Simir as examples, saying they had advanced from ordinary people to Tier 2 in six months under his guidance.
• Lu PingAn offered recruits a month of intensive training and promised Tier 2 within six months if they kept pace, with training resources to be repaid if they left.

Xia Qin handed Colonel Li Lu PingAn’s detailed report and Rebirth Company’s plans, confirming that Lu wanted to cooperate with the government. Colonel Li outlined the Bureau’s favorable approach to promising Rule-level beings, then gave Xia restrictions and advice intended to guide Lu’s growth.

• Xia Qin gave Colonel Li Lu PingAn’s report, abilities, and company plans, explaining that Lu had asked her to share them.
• Colonel Li said the Bureau favored cooperation with powerful, good-willed people and described its policies for Rule-level seeds.
• Colonel Li explained that Lu’s contradictory psychological assessments both pointed to a rational, stable person who preferred negotiation and trade to confrontation.
• Colonel Li showed Xia a list of restrictions barring Lu from promoting himself, broadly Bestowing Grace, or expanding his company beyond the supernatural field.
• Colonel Li said the rule of trade had great potential and urged Xia to keep Lu on a balanced path.