Chapter Summaries

Lu PingAn returned to his industrial hometown after a long journey and found it crowded with extraterrestrial visitors drawn by the new Development Zone. After a brief misunderstanding with the Special Task Force, he was intercepted by Wang Xi'er before he could go home.

• Lu PingAn arrived at the station and noticed that the Development Zone had brought many foreign species into the city.
• Lu PingAn used his special sight on a powerful six-armed Special Task Force officer, causing the officer to collapse in fear.
• Lu PingAn showed his identification and explained the misunderstanding to the officers.
• Eve emerged and remarked that Lu PingAn's hometown seemed ordinary, though she promised to try to like it.
• Lu PingAn called for a ride, but Wang Xi'er intercepted him and told him to report in.

Wang Xi'er explained that the Development Zone's rapid growth depended heavily on Land Ark production, but local trade barriers and rising costs threatened its future. She asked Lu PingAn to use his standing with the Forest Goddess Church to help secure orders, and he agreed to try.

• Wang Xi'er reported that the Development Zone drove most of Ancient City's economic growth, while Lu PingAn listened aboard a Land Ark.
• Wang Xi'er explained that other cities' trade protection and the Development Zone's expenses left its businesses short of orders and at risk of collapse.
• Lu PingAn realized Wang Xi'er wanted him to approach the Forest Goddess Church about buying the Development Zone's amphibious Land Boats.
• Lu PingAn agreed to try to use his connection to the Church to win orders, though he questioned whether his influence would help.

Lu PingAn reflected on how his battles and the arrival of Outsiders had transformed Ancient City into a rapidly growing, prosperous hub. He realized the city’s future depended on continued growth and decided to keep working to protect the people whose lives had improved.

• Lu PingAn saw that Ancient City’s wages, property values, and residents’ prospects had risen sharply over the past year.
• He recognized that his victories, the capture of Green Planet, and the resulting investment and resources had helped drive the city’s growth.
• Lu PingAn understood that the Voyage project supported hundreds of thousands of people and that a collapse could trigger a severe economic and social crisis.
• Although he could leave Ancient City if disaster struck, Lu PingAn decided to try harder for the people whose smiling faces made the effort worthwhile.

During his vacation, Lu PingAn visited his parents, who praised his success and asked about Captain Xia, leaving him awkwardly promising to invite her to dinner. He then dismantled a Land Ark to study its construction and devised a sales project that would involve renovating the Rebirth Society’s mobile base.

• Lu PingAn reassured his parents that his recent work had been relatively safe and visited them at their government-provided residence.
• His parents discussed their improved benefits and asked about Captain Xia after Lu PingAn mentioned meeting adorable girls.
• Lu PingAn promised to invite Captain Xia to dinner, then reflected on his parents’ hopes for the two of them.
• Lu PingAn studied a dismantled Land Ark, examined its runes and sealing techniques, and considered converting it into a ship.
• Lu PingAn contacted Wang Xi'er about a major renovation project to help sell the Land Arks.
• Lu PingAn told Senior Brother Guan that he had found a sponsor to help repair and renovate their mobile base.

Lu PingAn visited the Steam Factory secret realm’s Black Market to buy vehicle-modification materials, and the local bosses hurried to appease him. He added wanted criminals and other enemies of Ancient City’s public security to his list, forcing the Black Market to help locate them.

• Lu PingAn walked openly through the Steam Factory secret realm, and the Black Market bosses rushed to greet him, afraid he might shut down their operations.
• Lu PingAn assured the bosses he had not come to cause trouble and handed them a list of rare materials for his vehicle modifications.
• The bosses gathered most of the requested materials but hesitated over the list’s final pages, which named wanted criminals and other fugitives.
• Lu PingAn told the bosses to gather the remaining targets or reveal where they were, and they agreed to cooperate with the Gu City Official and the Bureau of Anomalous Affairs.

Lu PingAn deterred criminals across Ancient City and returned to Special Task Force Three, where Xia Qin put him to work despite his paid leave. He agreed to accompany the mayor and Deputy Director to Changping while his Ark project advanced with extensive institutional support.

• Lu PingAn spent two and a half days gathering information from local criminals, killing those who challenged or tried to assassinate him before leaving.
• The Bureau of Anomalous Affairs told Lu PingAn to avoid patrolling unless necessary, and Xia Qin teased him while continuing to clear major cases at the office.
• Xia Qin explained that Lu PingAn’s presence deterred crime in Zion District, which had become one of Ancient City’s safest districts.
• Lu PingAn agreed to accompany the mayor and Deputy Director to Changping for a meeting the next day.
• Lu PingAn learned that more than two hundred engineers were modifying Ark with factory and government support, then visited the office to watch Xia Qin and the others work overtime.

While resting from battles and political events, Lu PingAn reflected on how to advance his Life Investor profession from Tier 4 to Tier 5. After searching for direction in knowledge and society, he ended with one word in his notebook: “Reborn.”

• Lu PingAn endured political gatherings and official speeches while maintaining friendly relations with influential people.
• He considered how Rule-level beings perceived the polluted world and why they rarely involved themselves in ordinary affairs.
• Lu PingAn concluded that advancing his unique Life Investor profession required more than casually reaching Tier 5; he needed to choose a path that could shape his future rules.
• He studied materials from Lady Lin's daughter and observed society, hoping to find inspiration for his profession's next stage.
• Lu PingAn repeatedly filled and tore apart his pollution-filled notebook until only “Reborn” remained.

Lu PingAn returned to plan a high-tier rule project with Big Cat and prepare for a visit to the Forest Goddess Church. He and Wang Xi'er began reviewing the Land Ark tender, with Lu PingAn pushing an extravagant design to secure the order.

• Lu PingAn asked Big Cat to assess his proposed rule, and she said it might work but would require high-tier materials and likely a Tier 6 Profession Module.
• Lu PingAn learned Qian XiaoMu was staying at the hospital with her Grandpa and decided to visit her later.
• Lu PingAn told Wang Xi'er they would travel to the Forest Goddess Church, and she hurried over to review the tender materials with him.
• Wang Xi'er warned Lu PingAn not to provoke the church, while he admitted that people who openly challenged him rarely survived.
• Lu PingAn reviewed the Land Ark designs, rejected the cost-effective versions, and argued that they should pitch the extravagant fourth-version plan to secure the order.

Lu PingAn traveled to Dragon Moon Island to represent Gu City Development Zone Shuttle One Factory at the Forest Goddess Church’s procurement fair. Deer High Priest had expected the fair to favor the church’s shell companies, but Lu’s arrival opened the way for a direct discussion.

• Deer King Xi learned that central authorities still barred the faction from acquiring an Earth shipyard, though he expected the procurement fair to proceed without obstruction.
• Deer King Xi arranged for church-owned shell companies to supply products and technologies, reserving most lucrative orders for internal transactions.
• Deer King Xi was told that Lu PingAn had arrived and instructed his staff to receive the new church member.
• Lu PingAn introduced himself as Shuttle One Factory’s representative and said he had come to support its bid at the fair.
• Deer High Priest questioned whether the converted car factory’s jetskis were reliable, while Lu PingAn recognized that his presence had secured the chance to compete.

Old Deer and the other officials examined Lu PingAn’s record and debated how to receive him, then Old Deer sensed the immense, ominous power hidden behind Lu PingAn when they met. He agreed to negotiate Lu PingAn’s business proposal and hoped he would leave quickly.

• Old Deer heard that Lu PingAn was a young newcomer who had reached Tier 4 and reportedly killed two Rule-level beings, so he asked to see his file.
• The officials read out Lu PingAn’s many suspected Tier 4 classes, and Old Deer argued that Lu PingAn was carefully building toward the Cloud Top rather than wasting his potential.
• A report revealed that Lu PingAn had suppressed an opportunity to advance during the Thirteen Consecutive Battles and had won against Holy Son Li Fan while Akul possessed him.
• Old Deer ordered the officials to treat Lu PingAn like a Rule-level gentleman, then learned that Akul had later met Lu PingAn as an equal.
• When Lu PingAn met Old Deer to discuss a business proposal, Old Deer sensed a vast, twisted world and a sealed demonic presence behind him, then agreed to negotiate.

Lu PingAn warned Wang Xi'er that the arms contract offer was a trap designed to make their company shoulder the risk of poor early products, then advised her on securing real frontline requirements and competing through quality. After Wang Xi'er set to work, Lu PingAn turned to seeking the Maiden of the Forest’s knowledge, but Old Deer avoided him, so he opened the Trading Ground.

• Wang Xi'er celebrated receiving the internal requirements and an engineer’s contact information, but Lu PingAn warned her that the opportunity could conceal a costly trap.
• Lu PingAn explained that the client could cancel the contract after testing an initial batch and leave their company with losses and a damaged reputation.
• Lu PingAn told Wang Xi'er to consult the designated engineer and frontline soldiers for genuine requirements, while emphasizing that product quality would determine their success.
• Wang Xi'er went to work on the order, and Lu PingAn tried to obtain knowledge from Old Deer but found that he was avoiding him.
• Lu PingAn decided ordinary routes to advanced knowledge were too slow and opened the Trading Ground.

Lu PingAn opened the Trading Ground to senior members of the Forest Goddess Church and negotiated trade and cooperation with Old Deer. He left the gathering with new partners and plans for training, research, and acquiring materials.

• Lu PingAn welcomed the Forest Goddess Church leaders into the Trading Ground and explained that they could visit only while he was present.
• Old Deer recognized the Trading Ground as a developed Land of Rules and said it was compatible with the Maiden of the Forest’s rules.
• Lu PingAn and Old Deer negotiated orders, prices, and kickbacks, then turned to trading rules.
• Lu PingAn introduced Phil, whose presence confirmed his strength, and opened his Garden for the visitors to use.
• The professionals discovered the Courtyard’s services for trading abilities and knowledge, and Lu PingAn proposed cooperation on training, research, enchanting, and materials.

Lu PingAn visited the Southern Petrel School to make up for gaps in his self-taught Gardener knowledge, and Old Deer recognized the independence behind his unusual path. With the school willing to share its expertise, Lu PingAn began studying treant abilities as a potential core component of his new Law Decree, Grant Life.

• Lu PingAn admitted that he had mostly taught himself the Gardener path and lacked the knowledge and support needed to advance further.
• Old Deer examined Lu PingAn’s garden and concluded that he had rebuilt the Calamity Beast’s damaged divine kingdom rather than relying on an inherited path.
• Old Deer invited Lu PingAn to exchange knowledge as a fellow founder, and offered to teach him the Southern Petrel School’s many versions of Summon Lesser Treant.
• Lu PingAn explained that he wanted to study treant abilities because they could become a core component of his new Law Decree, Grant Life.

Lu PingAn asked Old Deer for guidance on developing a Law Decree that could grant a complete new life, and Old Deer agreed to help with the Gardening aspects. The chapter ended with Lu PingAn suggesting Phil’s younger sister might help solve the problem of creating a new life inside a living body.

• Lu PingAn explained that his Tier 5 Law Decree was a logistical ability intended to grant life, and asked Old Deer for guidance.
• Lu PingAn demonstrated his Life Network, astonishing Old Deer with its ability to connect the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
• Old Deer considered Lu PingAn’s plan and said it could not be achieved through Gardening alone, but offered to guide him and pointed him toward other sources of knowledge.
• Old Deer identified the challenge of making a new life coexist inside an existing living body without causing it to collapse.
• Lu PingAn looked toward Phil and said her younger sister might be the key to solving the problem.

Lu PingAn revealed that he could create new life and proposed using his abilities to awaken another self within a living being, offering Life-type Professionals a chance at rebirth in exchange for their knowledge and cooperation. He ended by inviting them to become friends and trade partners.

• Lu PingAn explained his theory that Professionals' innate abilities came from an awakened second self that struggled to assimilate them.
• Lu PingAn claimed he could create life and introduced his family of strange living beings to the gathered Life-type Professionals.
• Lu PingAn used two gold coins as soul seeds to create a Spirit Ghost with an imitation of the coin owner's former abilities.
• Lu PingAn asked the Life-type Professionals to contribute knowledge and instruction, proposing that they sell it through the Forbidden Library.
• Lu PingAn offered the Professionals new life and abilities through their cooperation, then raised his glass to welcome them as friends and trade partners.

Lu PingAn drew life-type experts into helping him develop Rebirth, and their intensive research pushed him into Tier 5 and produced an unverified prototype. With the Arms Fair approaching and the project’s research paused, he tried to test the prototype on Cat Cat, who scratched him and fled.

• Lu PingAn persuaded senior life-type professionals to help research Rebirth by offering them the chance to study the creation of life.
• Experts from Dragon Moon Island and the Southern Petrel School shared knowledge and abilities with Lu PingAn, rapidly advancing his Gardener system.
• Lu PingAn unexpectedly reached Tier 5 after learning a Silver Middle Rank version of Summon Treant, while the Rebirth research continued.
• The experts produced an unverified Rebirth prototype, then realized the Arms Fair would begin the following week and they had neglected their other duties.
• Lu PingAn found that the prototype could not affect a Rule-level expert, then tried to test it on Cat Cat, who scratched his face and ran away.

Lu PingAn used Cat Cat and two gold coins to create a new life, awakening a floating white cat named Lei Shui Yun. The Arms Fair went ahead, and Lei Shui Yun was classified as a rule-level super threat despite behaving like an ordinary cat.

• Lu PingAn chose Cat Cat as his experimental subject and used two of her gold coins to begin creating a new life in a great cauldron.
• Lu PingAn used the Life Encyclopedia and his power to awaken the newborn, which emerged as a small white cat.
• The Arms Fair proceeded after the upper ranks returned to find that the remaining staff had already completed their work.
• Lu PingAn walked with Cat Cat and the new kitten, while Lei Shui Yun's abilities earned her a Tier Z threat rating.
• Lei Shui Yun fought with other cats over grilled squid and lost, complaining that the Little Guy was bullying her.

Lu PingAn watched Cat Cat train with her newly revived Hairball, whose Negator ability combined with her Spirit Fusion to create a devastating assassin. The chapter ended with the pair’s immense potential drawing attention while Cat Cat struggled through training, and Lu PingAn held off on expanding Revive until he had more data.

• Lu PingAn explained that Revive had produced three different life forms, including Cat Cat’s Hairball, and offered bonuses to encourage Cat Cat to train.
• Cat Cat used Spirit Fusion to enter a metal puppet and Negator to erase a cavity inside it, demonstrating the lethal combination of her two abilities.
• Big Cat revised Cat Cat’s training plan to focus on improving her base attributes, while observers evaluated the Hairball’s stability and growth.
• The Hairball grew larger and doubled its negation range over three days, suggesting its ability could grow as well.
• Cat Cat forgot to hold her breath during training and was swept away by the flood, prompting Lu PingAn and Big Cat to consider the risks her power might attract.

Lu PingAn explained the powers and dangers of his new Bestower of Blessings profession, which let him create sub-bodies linked to other Professionals. The chapter left his allies’ combat abilities greatly enhanced and his broader project underway.

• Lu PingAn explained that he could sense, empower, and retrieve sub-bodies, while warning that retrieving one would severely damage its main body.
• Lu PingAn named his profession Bestower of Blessings and explained that its prerequisites drew on the foundational rules of Gardener, Beast Tamer, and Healer.
• Veterans assessed that the three Professionals with sub-bodies had gained roughly two tiers of combat power and reached the average strength of Tier 6.
• Xia Qin gained a wooden parasitic sub-body with external armor, multi-armed sword, and protection forms.
• The Panda Man obtained a strange Forbidden Weapon that became dangerous even to Quasi Rule-level opponents in his hands.
• Lu PingAn continued writing up his project as the people around him benefited from his progress.

Lu PingAn celebrated Ancient City Shuttle Factory One’s successful bid while preparing the Courtyard for an expedition to Mercury 42 and managing the benefits of his growing influence. When Phil used his Life Coin ability, she and Qian XiaoMu appeared together as a sixth, unexpected result.

• Ancient City Shuttle Factory One won the small-scale water transport contract, and Lu PingAn told Wang Xi'er that his intervention had cleared the contract’s traps.
• Lu PingAn invited Wang Xi'er to explore Mercury 42, but she declined because she could not leave her work unattended.
• Lu PingAn expanded the Courtyard by recruiting a grand Potion Master, Gardeners, craftsmen, and a team from Ancient City Shuttle Factory One.
• Lu PingAn refused invitations from powerful figures seeking his favor and explained that the birth of Life Coins had little to do with him.
• Phil used Lu PingAn’s ability with Qian XiaoMu, and Phil and Xiao Mu appeared together as an unexpected sixth result.