Chapter Summaries

Long Xike and Wang Rui learned that the connection between worlds had reopened and struggled to decide whether to return or defend their village as its people faced an attack. Meanwhile, Lu PingAn and Mei Yuge discovered that Divine Grace had weakened for ordinary soldiers and that Long Xike, Wang Rui, and Tao Song were on nearby Lin Kui Island.

• Long Xike told Wang Rui that time acceleration had stopped and the worlds were connected again, while local leaders asked him to help defend against threats.
• Long Xike and Wang Rui discussed whether to return home or stay in the village with their young child, and he admitted he did not know what to do.
• A villager rushed in to warn Long Xike that the village was on fire and under attack.
• Lu PingAn and Mei Yuge tested Divine Grace and found that ordinary soldiers had lost much of its external support, while Professionals retained most of their abilities.
• Mei Yuge reported that a meteor had fallen on nearby Lin Kui Island, where Long Xike, Wang Rui, and Tao Song were living as civilians.

Long Xike, Wang Rui, and Tao Song fought off a pack of unusually intelligent Spider Monkeys, only to be trapped by multiple Beast Kings. The monkeys fled when Regiment Commander Lu appeared outside the village.

• Long Xike fought the Spider Monkeys with a stone door shield, but their fireballs shattered it and drove him back.
• Wang Rui and Tao Song joined Long Xike, and Wang Rui passed him a saber and shield.
• The trio spotted a silver-eyed Spider Monkey they believed was the Beast King and fought their way toward it.
• The trio discovered they had been lured into a trap surrounded by multiple mutant Beast Kings readying fireballs.
• The Spider Monkeys abruptly fled, and Long Xike, Wang Rui, and Tao Song saw Regiment Commander Lu outside the village.

Lu PingAn rescued the three former soldiers from the Spider Monkeys and offered to help them return to Earth or find safer lives. After Mei Yuge arrived, Tao Song chose to rejoin the Rebirth Merchant Guild, and the others faced the possibility of returning to the team.

• Lu PingAn killed the Spider Monkeys that had cornered the three former soldiers and brought them back to their home.
• Lu PingAn asked the three whether they wanted to return with him or remain and start over somewhere safer.
• Lu PingAn realized he had left Mei Yuge at the docks and sent someone to bring her to the village.
• Mei Yuge reunited warmly with her friend, easing the awkward mood in the house.
• Tao Song asked to return to the Rebirth Merchant Guild, saying he could serve despite his missing arm and Tier 2 combat class.

Lu PingAn brought former mercenaries back into his team and began investigating the Spider Monkeys, whose sudden intelligence and fire-wielding abilities could not be explained by ordinary methods. At the monkeys’ mountain stronghold, the group found towers, arrow platforms, and a crude castle that made their supposed recent origins as ordinary beasts hard to believe.

• Lu PingAn agreed to test a former mercenary for a place on the team and offered Long Xike’s family shelter, while Xiao Tao urged her husband to return to combat work.
• Lu PingAn revealed that he had bet Mei Yuge the couple would choose to fight again, then offered the three middle-aged former mercenaries new opportunities while warning them not to waste time.
• Lu PingAn assigned his logistics team to investigate the local anomaly, and the team concluded that the Spider Monkeys showed no detectable mutation despite their intelligence and fire abilities.
• Big Cat judged that the change affecting the Spider Monkeys likely came from a force beyond Rule-level, prompting Lu PingAn to lead the team to their nest.
• Lu PingAn and the locals found towers, arrow platforms, and a crude castle in the mountains, leaving them stunned by the Spider Monkeys’ apparent civilization.

Lu PingAn sent Fang Wen to infiltrate the Spider Monkey kingdom and investigate its rapid evolution. Fang Wen found a monstrous King and a hidden black stone fragment, which Lu PingAn suspected the World's Will was concealing.

• Fang Wen volunteered to investigate the Spider Monkeys, and Lu PingAn agreed to let her infiltrate them using a living specimen.
• Fang Wen possessed a Spider Monkey, learned its movements, injured its body to feign a desperate return, and entered the kingdom.
• Lu PingAn watched through Fang Wen's broadcast as she moved through a society with specialized duties and growing social structure.
• Lu PingAn warned Fang Wen to keep her head down near a pool where a gigantic, polluted Spider Monkey King communicated with others through tentacles.
• Fang Wen let her infiltrating body die in front of the King, preventing it from extracting useful information from the corpse.
• Lu PingAn spotted a black stone fragment beneath the monster and suspected the World's Will was blocking its detection.

Cat Cat stole a fragment of the Authority of Wisdom from the guarded pool, triggering the monster’s rampage. Lu PingAn learned the fragment could greatly enhance intelligence and mental power, and resolved to defeat its parasitic host and reclaim the authority.

• Cat Cat failed to spirit fuse the black stone, then used an explosion to distract the pool monster and stole it.
• The monster destroyed Fang Wen's Silver Tier avatar and later went berserk when it discovered the stone was gone, attacking Spider Monkeys and other nearby creatures.
• The Courtyard identified the stone as Fragment A of the Wisdom Spring Stele, offered to absorb it, and warned that its parasitic organism would pursue it.
• Lu PingAn learned the fragment was a piece of World Authority that could unlock intelligence and mental power, and decided to eliminate its host.

Lu PingAn uncovered the danger posed by the World Origins and decided the World's Will could not be allowed to regain control. As his probes gathered intelligence about the weakening monster, it began moving toward the village.

• Lu PingAn realized the Forest Goddess Church's theft of World Origins could provoke the World's Will and create a world-ending crisis.
• Lu PingAn decided to stop the World's Will from making a comeback, even if it meant putting it to sleep forever.
• Lu PingAn began the sixth probe and used Fang Wen and the wolf pack to study the monster's abilities and weaknesses.
• The team learned the monster could immobilize targets with its eyes, spread poison, and regenerate, while targeted antidotes and protective suits were prepared.
• The monster left the depleted pool and headed toward the village.

As the giant monster moved toward a village, Lu PingAn bought time by arranging the evacuation of more than a thousand civilians and preparing the battlefield. His attacks barely pierced the creature’s defenses, but a tainted war mark let him begin assimilating a portion of its flesh, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• The giant monster abandoned its remaining Pond Water and headed toward the nearest settlement, prompting Long Xike, Wang Rui, and Tao Song to fear a massacre.
• Lu PingAn contacted his companions and ordered them to raise the relocation allowance until the villagers agreed to board the boats, securing more time before the monster arrived.
• Lu PingAn released more demonic wolves, magical beasts, and plant traps along the monster’s route to test its strength and gather intelligence.
• Lu PingAn declared war on the Spider Monkey race and used Spider Monkey corpses as explosive traps, but the blast caused no obvious damage to the monster.
• Lu PingAn realized that his Tainted Child of War ability had marked the monster and was assimilating its poisoned flesh, giving him control over a portion of its body.

Lu PingAn used his Life-type war abilities to turn the island’s corpses into endlessly revived flesh-and-blood Slimes and trap the mutated monster in a death loop. He kept feeding the battle with the island’s remaining life, waiting for the monster’s energy to run out; by the third day, a change finally came.

• Lu PingAn used Black Holy Grails to revive the Spider Monkeys and wolf packs as war pieces to attack the monster.
• Lu PingAn reshaped the revived creatures into flesh-and-blood Slimes after realizing he could not mold a creature powerful enough to counter the monster directly.
• Lu PingAn repeatedly revived and reshaped the Slimes, forcing the monster to kill them again and again.
• Lu PingAn fed additional wolf packs into the loop and relied on the monster’s constant movement and fighting to drain its energy.
• After several days of the battle, a long-awaited change finally occurred.

Lu PingAn used his war domain and life-shaping powers to exhaust a monstrous beast that had swallowed part of an authority. After the monster finally collapsed, he received confirmation of a glorious victory.

• Lu PingAn explained that his Soldier profession turned his faction into the pieces of a battlefield and drew strength from his Life-type abilities.
• He judged the authority-driven beast too dangerous to fight directly and used wolf packs to keep the cycle of life and death attacking it.
• For three days, the beast evolved and consumed flesh, but Lu PingAn dissolved its stolen life essence and drove its body toward collapse.
• Lu PingAn stopped his companions from approaching the apparently dying beast and continued the war until it attacked again.
• The beast rampaged across the island until nightfall, then collapsed, and Lu PingAn received confirmation of victory.

After defeating the overwhelming monster, Lu PingAn claimed new war traits and had the Courtyard absorb a Wisdom Fragment, leaving it dormant while his people rebuilt the village. When the Courtyard awakened, Lu PingAn discovered that Chris had a body.

• Lu PingAn received six war traits, including Desperate Courage and Lord of Corrosion, after his decisive victory.
• Lu PingAn used the black stone to absorb the monster’s remains and chose to have the Courtyard absorb Fragment A of the Wisdom Spring Stele.
• Lu PingAn learned that villagers feared returning because they thought he would demand their money back, then sent his wolves and assassins to exterminate the Spider Monkeys.
• Lu PingAn and his companions took two days off to rebuild the village while the Courtyard remained dormant, and they witnessed another meteor shower.
• Lu PingAn entered the restored Courtyard and was surprised to find that Chris had a body.

Lu PingAn inspected the Courtyard after it absorbed a World Fragment and evolved into a vast, natural Small World. Chris explained that gods had entered the contest for the fragments, while Lu PingAn received the Rule Building Lake of Dreams as the Courtyard continued transforming.

• Lu PingAn confirmed that Chris remained bound to the Courtyard, while Eve repeatedly hugged her despite Chris kicking her out.
• Lu PingAn explored the enlarged Courtyard and learned that its new world was still evolving as it absorbed the World Origin Fragment.
• The Courtyard reported that its Forbidden Library, Beast-Taming Area, and Gymnasium had been greatly enhanced.
• Chris identified the gentler meteor shower Lu PingAn had seen as God Descent, with gods abandoning parts of themselves or sending powerful agents to seek World Origin Fragments.
• Chris warned that the fragment could become a Natural Disaster if left alone and suspected the World's Will had acted deliberately.
• The Courtyard announced that Lu PingAn had obtained the Rule Building Lake of Dreams.

Lu PingAn explored the Lake of Dreams and Forgetfulness Spring, discovering that they could enhance wisdom and erase memories, pollution, and even professions. The discoveries opened new possibilities for reshaping people and items, while the lake’s wisdom authority also gave Lu PingAn a path to advance his Scholar profession.

• Lu PingAn stopped Cat Cat from jumping into the Lake of Dreams and found that its water restored and increased mental power while improving Scholar abilities and the chances of breakthroughs.
• Lu PingAn examined Forgetfulness Spring and learned that it could remove memories, curses, pollution, and professions, potentially letting Professionals rebuild their abilities.
• Lu PingAn considered using the spring to alter pathways and innate abilities, but decided to wait for someone else to test its effects.
• A craftsman put a Quasi-Pollution Weapon into the spring and retrieved an unfinished blank stripped of its enchantment, revealing that the spring could affect nonliving items.
• Lu PingAn realized the Lake of Dreams’ wisdom authority had opened a path for his Scholar profession to advance and wished for more World Fragments.

The demigods used Shuichi’s Message Board to coordinate trades and prevent conflict while the World’s Will remained asleep. They agreed to hunt the Descended Wills and deal with other threats, but a wisdom fragment had already been absorbed by an unexpected low-level individual.

• Shuichi warned Akul not to provoke conflicts, and Akul urged the demigods to keep trading fair for the sake of their factions and younger generations.
• The big shots exchanged offers for fragments suited to their paths, while one anonymous participant reported that the personified wills might have descended into the mortal realm.
• Lord Liu explained that a Descended Will returning could awaken the World's Will, so Shuichi and the others agreed to prioritize eliminating them.
• Fighters reported pressure from demigod-level divine envoys and Volcano Giants as Otherworld Invaders threatened their positions.
• Anonymous 03 reported that a wisdom fragment had disappeared, and Shuichi confirmed it had been absorbed without revealing who had taken it.
• The demigods suspected their fellow scholars, but the chapter revealed that someone below demigod level had absorbed the fragment.

Lu PingAn learned that the demigods and Tier 8s were exploiting the newborn World's Will, then used Forgetfulness Spring to help Mei Yuge regenerate her foot. The chapter ended with Fang Wen proposing to forget that he had lost his body and have Lu PingAn use Revive to restore him.

• Lu PingAn realized the Forest Goddess Faction had united powerful forces to seize the world's Origin and authority after deceiving its inexperienced World's Will.
• Lu PingAn avoided asking about the secret fragments and focused on helping Mei Yuge regain her missing foot.
• Mei Yuge used Forgetfulness Spring to erase the reality of her old injury, then Lu PingAn helped regenerate her foot for over five hundred points.
• Lu PingAn offered Tao Song the possibility of using Revive to restore a missing limb, though he would first need to earn goodwill and provide two Life Coins.
• Fang Wen suggested forgetting that he had lost his body and asking Lu PingAn to use Revive so he could regain a flesh-and-blood body and return to the mainland.

Lu PingAn considered whether to advance his Scholar path and took an old aptitude test to clarify his direction. The results suggested he would have avoided becoming a Professional and had almost no affinity for his current Gardener path, while Craftsman scored highest.

• Lu PingAn reflected on Chris's failed ascension and resolved to keep his path aligned with his own values and goals.
• Lu PingAn sensed he could advance his Scholar profession to Tier 5 or even Tier 6, but chose to wait rather than rush.
• Lu PingAn asked Big Cat for guidance, and she gave him an old test designed to help powerful people clarify their convictions.
• Lu PingAn completed the test, which showed he would have preferred an ordinary career if not for a fortunate coincidence.
• Big Cat revealed that Lu PingAn had very little affinity for Gardener or Life-type paths, while Craftsman received a perfect score.

Lu PingAn’s affinity investigation showed that his strongest aptitude lay in crafting and scholarship, prompting him to reconsider how his Life-type abilities and creation skills fit together. He headed toward the Forbidden Library to advance as a craftsman and considered using his new Awaken Intelligence ability to give life to ordinary materials.

• Lu PingAn reviewed his low affinity for combat and Life-type professions and discovered that craftsman and Scholar were his strongest paths.
• Lu PingAn argued that crafting Taboo Items could count as Life-type practice, and Kerdales asked whether this idea formed part of his Logic.
• Lu PingAn connected life, crafting, and scholarship, reasoning that granting souls and selves to objects might create life.
• Lu PingAn advanced his craftsman path with ease by developing his enchanting, pollution-inflicting, and life-granting abilities.
• Big Cat suggested Mechanical Awakening, and Lu PingAn considered using Awaken Intelligence to grant wisdom to ordinary materials.

After absorbing a fragment of wisdom, Lu PingAn’s Scholar abilities advanced, and he created two new Tier 5 professions while working in the Forbidden Library. He and Chris then weighed whether to seek another fragment or meet Redemption, leaving Lu PingAn uneasy about the front lines being neglected.

• Lu PingAn realized that Scholars inherited humanity’s power to understand and alter reality, and the absorbed fragment of wisdom raised his Forbidden Knowledge to Level 33 and his Scholar potential to Tier 6.
• Lu PingAn spent four days in the Forbidden Library and created the Tier 5 professions Stay-Behind Student and Greedy Artisan, with Chris helping choose their knowledge and tendencies.
• Lu PingAn explained that he had awakened Little Flame at Zhi Xi’s request and had Mu Mu wrestle with her to burn off her excess energy.
• Chris suggested meeting up with Redemption or going to the front lines, but Lu PingAn argued that they should search for the next fragment before someone else claimed it.
• Lu PingAn felt chilled as he wondered what would happen to the front lines if powerful people kept prioritizing fragments.

Lu PingAn adjusted to a noisier household and began work on a sturdy ship with his team. Elsewhere, people received strange boons amid the world’s crisis, and Sword Saint Xia encountered an extraordinary sword after the Savior Army captured Kutler City.

• Lu PingAn felt satisfied with the wisdom fragment and the leap in potential he had gained, while other people across the world found unusual treasures and auspicious encounters.
• The Savior Army captured Kutler City, and Sword Saint Xia watched its general rally the troops and organize the victory effort.
• Sword Saint Xia reflected on missing Lu PingAn and received a fine sword that seemed to contain an unyielding battle spirit.
• Lu PingAn continued digesting his gains and started building a sturdy Big Ship with his team.
• A steel ship assembled in the harbor, giving Lu PingAn a chance to test his master-level crafting skills.

Lu PingAn used his artisan abilities to name a pile of junk as a living ship, sustaining it with Life Points and extra investment. As the vessel became faster and wiser, Fang Wen watched in awe and asked Lu PingAn for a sip of the waters of enlightenment.

• Lu PingAn explained that artisans used specialized knowledge to modify reality and said his broad Forbidden Knowledge left him without a particular craft specialty.
• Lu PingAn named a heap of scrap metal as a ship, and the naming transformed it into a living vessel at the cost of nearly a thousand Life Points.
• Lu PingAn paid to sustain the ship for two months and tipped extra, giving it fuel to improve itself.
• The artisans examined the ship as it sounded its whistle and raced across the sea at more than thirty knots.
• Fang Wen inspected the vessel and reflected on how Lu PingAn’s creation differed from her Mechanical Awakener abilities.
• Lu PingAn poured waters of enlightenment from Lake of Dreams over the ship, making it wiser, and Fang Wen asked him for a sip.