Chapter Summaries

Lu PingAn, Lu Lu, and Wang Xi'er arrived in Wanjing to arrange talks with the Eastern Kingdom about Mercury 42. They prepared to meet the External Affairs Department and legislators, while Lu PingAn kept his powerful senses under control in the dangerous capital.

• Lu PingAn and Lu Lu toured Wanjing and learned that the capital had been rebuilt repeatedly after major disasters.
• Wang Xi'er joined them as a representative after taking leave from her Development Zone post, and Lu PingAn handed her a drink.
• Lu PingAn sensed a demigod and a stronger unidentified being nearby, so he reduced the range of his supernatural senses.
• The group arranged a meeting with the External Affairs Department in three days and planned to contact legislators beforehand.
• Lu Lu questioned why Mercury 42's representatives could not meet the national leader, and Lu PingAn said their low profile could benefit him.

Lu PingAn’s arrival at Shanjing triggered every warning system at the airport, prompting a heavily armed response and questions about the threats he was carrying. The officials cautiously let him pass without a search, while the unexplained golden light revealed that he carried a mobile Demi-Plane, a privilege often associated with gods.

• Lu PingAn set off every warning light while passing through the superpowered-individuals checkpoint, and armed officers surrounded him.
• Lu PingAn showed his Special Task Force badge and identified himself as a member from Ancient City, easing the customs officer’s fears.
• An official explained that the lights indicated a dangerous beast horde, an extraordinary lifeform, Taboo Items, and concealed Rule-level military force, but agreed not to inspect Lu PingAn.
• Wang Xi'er pointed out the golden warning light, and Lu PingAn recognized that the officials had been ignoring it.
• An official explained that the golden light meant Lu PingAn carried a mobile Demi-Plane, also called a Kingdom of God on Earth.

Lu PingAn arrived in Wanjing seeking support for a remote world and learned that official agreements alone would not guarantee meaningful aid. He left the chapter planning to build attention and backing by proving the world’s potential.

• Lu PingAn was questioned after triggering a newly installed God Detection checkpoint, then registered his documents with Rule-level officer Li Li.
• Lu PingAn accepted Li Li’s offer of help and later reached his hotel after a lengthy traffic jam.
• Lu PingAn sent Gu City Official and the Desert Phosphorus People to meet local contacts and explore ways to approach powerful councilors.
• Mayor Li explained that written agreements were only useful if Lu PingAn could make them effective and secure real support.
• Lu PingAn realized he needed to raise his own and the remote planet’s profile, even if that meant going out to stir up trouble.

Lu PingAn fielded recruitment calls in Wanjing and discussed the difficulties Rule-level beings faced in having descendants. Big Cat then revealed that she had a super laboratory for him to inherit, but said he must prove himself as a Life-type Professional by mastering true creation.

• Lu PingAn unplugged the hotel phone after a barrage of powerful organizations called to recruit him.
• Lu PingAn abandoned plans to sightsee and discussed political marriage and descendants with Big Cat.
• Big Cat explained how Rule-level beings struggled to reproduce and described the Octopus Child’s divine children.
• Lu PingAn refused to rush into having descendants before he crossed into Rule-level.
• Big Cat told Lu PingAn she had a super laboratory for him to inherit and demanded that he demonstrate true creation.

Lu PingAn visited Big Cat’s former laboratory at Wanjing University, where he learned about her academic career and met her anxious doctoral students. After Big Cat promised them a major project could secure their graduations and rewards, the students eagerly believed her.

• Lu PingAn learned that Big Cat had earned a doctorate and maintained a laboratory at Wanjing University.
• Lu PingAn traveled to the university’s Biological Disaster Defense Laboratory and learned that Big Cat had caused several accidents that led to its rules.
• Fang QiongNian and two other doctoral students feared their mentor, Zhang Hui, was missing and worried they could not graduate without her signature.
• Big Cat told Lu PingAn to promise the students that her half-completed project could help them graduate and earn rewards.
• The doctoral students brightened and eagerly accepted Lu PingAn’s promise, prompting Big Cat to call them easy to fool.

Lu PingAn learned how Chris had secretly used her position at Wanjing University to advance her research and protect the city through dangerous-creature projects. He entered her hidden laboratory chamber and found a living, lifeless human whose face was identical to Chris’s.

• Chris admitted that a password-protected room in the lower laboratory held something Lu PingAn needed to see.
• Lu PingAn learned that Chris had infiltrated Wanjing University as a human Scholar about ten years earlier and used its resources to study biotechnology and pursue her own aims.
• Chris revealed that she had created or modified several university projects, including a creature-detection radar and an oral deworming agent, for her own purposes.
• Chris explained that powerful people in the city had discovered her identity but tolerated her because confronting a quasi-god-level being would risk catastrophic destruction.
• Lu PingAn entered the restricted laboratory chamber and found a seemingly dead but still beating human whose face looked exactly like Chris’s.

Lu PingAn discovered that Chris had let his identity as the Evil God’s successor be exposed, but accepted her offer of compensation. Chris proposed using Kerdales’s soulless body as a vessel for her, leaving Lu PingAn to decide whether to help create a long-term puppet body.

• Lu PingAn confronted Chris for exposing his identity, then agreed to hear her promised compensation.
• Chris explained that the half-body in the cultivation tank was Kerdales, a failed resurrection backup whose soul had been consumed by Lu PingAn’s Foundation of God and the Courtyard.
• Chris admitted she had no chance to resurrect within the next ten years and asked Lu PingAn to consider letting her use the body.
• Chris proposed that Lu PingAn create a Rule-level creature doll from Kerdales’s body so she could inhabit it and serve as a restricted combat trump card.
• Lu PingAn agreed to try and asked Chris whether she preferred tentacle limbs or tire limbs.

Lu PingAn learned that Kerdales’s apparent death had drawn attention to him, then agreed to help Chris build a body that could contain her soul. As Chris listed the materials she needed, Lu PingAn realized they could use wishes to improve the body.

• Demigods investigated Lu PingAn’s connection to Kerdales, but concluded he was not her after learning he had joined the Forest Goddess Church.
• Chris explained that she needed Lu PingAn’s help to obtain a body and preserve herself, and Lu PingAn agreed to help.
• Chris said her body needed Holy Son-level strength and custom materials, rejecting Cat Cat’s blood because Cat Cat’s rank was too low.
• Chris explained that the body needed Lu PingAn’s genes to fuse their shared spirit and flesh, prompting Lu PingAn to joke about being its father.
• Lu PingAn realized they could use wishes to further perfect Chris’s new body.

Lu PingAn studied Big Cat’s research so he could build her an avatar, while the two considered using his wish to make her his Mirror Eyes. As his preparations continued, powerful figures gathered against Big Cat, and Lu PingAn was summoned by leaders of the Mother Goddess Church.

• Lu PingAn accepted the laboratory’s Experiment Records and discussed using his Wish CD to create Big Cat’s avatar.
• Big Cat proposed becoming Lu PingAn’s Mirror Eyes, but warned that his knowledge and research materials were not yet sufficient to make the wish safely.
• Big Cat assigned Lu PingAn her research papers, and he studied life sciences while learning to evaluate the laboratory’s projects.
• Lu PingAn shut down several dead-end projects, moved useful materials into the Courtyard, and gained demonic plant seeds and two new scenery scenes.
• Lu PingAn sensed growing hostility toward Big Cat, while the External Affairs Department reassessed the situation involving “ten years.”
• Lu PingAn learned that Bishop Lady Lin and the leader of the Mother Goddess Church wanted to meet him.

Lu PingAn received a visit from Barn and Ke Xuequan, two powerful church representatives who were probing his ties to Chris and the Mother Goddess. Big Cat revealed herself through Lu PingAn to drive them away, leaving him determined to finish Chris’s doll within half a month and strengthen his position.

• Lu PingAn met Barn and Ke Xuequan, who questioned him about the Princesses and the Mother Goddess.
• Ke Xuequan read and destroyed a letter from Xiu Yi and Akul, while he and Barn sized each other up in Lu PingAn’s reception room.
• Lu PingAn crushed a scroll and let Big Cat take control of his body, startling both visitors with her presence.
• Big Cat mocked Barn and Ke Xuequan until they left, and Lu PingAn realized his residence might soon face assassins or other tests.
• Lu PingAn told Chris to get ready because he would finish making her doll within half a month.

Lu PingAn used Mercury 42’s Eastern Kingdom cultural assimilation to revive stalled negotiations with the Eastern Kingdom government. He then revealed that Big Cat would soon give birth to their daughter, and the news spread across Wanjing, leaving Big Cat furious.

• Lu Mouren explained that the Eastern Kingdom government was hesitant to invest more resources in Mercury 42, while Lu PingAn argued that the planet’s ten years of Eastern Kingdom cultural influence made it a valuable model of cultural assimilation.
• Lu PingAn presented Teacher's Discourse and pointed out that East Country Language and Eastern Kingdom culture had become deeply embedded among Mercury 42’s residents, prompting the government negotiators to regain their enthusiasm.
• When asked about the Balance Calamity Beast, Lu PingAn said Chris Kerdales was dead and that he had killed her himself.
• Lu PingAn revealed that he and Big Cat would have a daughter inheriting both their genes, due to be born in half a month.
• News of Big Cat’s defeat and impending daughter spread through Wanjing, and Big Cat shrieked Lu PingAn’s name in the Courtyard.

Lu PingAn studied Big Cat’s research and learned how her methodology treated extraordinary knowledge as ordinary material, while his disciple Lu Lu was pushed into fame as an Image Ambassador. The chapter left Lu PingAn overseeing Lu Lu’s embarrassing television appearance and planning to train her to make more mistakes for laughs.

• Lu PingAn explained that his Quasi Rule-level state let him study several things at once because his brain was no longer essential to his existence.
• He explored Wanjing University’s research and learned how Big Cat had reduced extraordinary knowledge to ordinary, accessible subjects.
• Big Cat taught Lu PingAn her research methods and warned him to reinterpret what he learned so his profession would not control him.
• Lu Lu appeared on a variety show, performing tongue twisters as the fake East Country People of Mercury 42 gained attention.
• Lu PingAn and Big Cat watched Lu Lu’s awkward appearance, and Lu PingAn planned to give her special training to make her stumble for better reactions.

Lu Lu continued promoting her homeland through awkward television appearances while Lu PingAn explained why Mercury 42 mattered to the Eastern Kingdom’s expansion. As their approval and alliance agreement moved closer, Lu PingAn prepared to visit the Grand Bazaar with Chris and meet the forces interested in them.

• Lu Lu returned from a variety show appearance and nearly destroyed the television after Lu PingAn teased her.
• Lu PingAn explained that Mercury 42 offered the Eastern Kingdom a rare chance to test how well its culture could take root beyond its borders.
• Lu Lu agreed to seek more publicity opportunities as official procedures advanced toward approval and an alliance-signing broadcast.
• Lu Lu told Lu PingAn that churches and local groups had already shown interest in them at the Grand Bazaar.
• Lu PingAn said he and Chris would visit Chris's old friends once Chris's new body was ready.

Lu PingAn and Big Cat visited Wanjing’s Grand Bazaar to shop and recruit mercenaries, but an assassin’s attack revealed that powerful enemies were already targeting him. At the War Hall, Lu PingAn found that nobody had accepted his group’s commission to fight evil gods, so he considered offering a city as a reward.

• Lu PingAn killed a disguised dwarf assassin who tried to stab him with a venomous Soul Binding Spider fang, then took the valuable dagger.
• Big Cat explained that the dagger could kill anyone below Rule-level and trap souls, and Lu PingAn decided not to investigate who had sent the assassin.
• Lu PingAn and Big Cat explored the Grand Bazaar and went to the War Hall, where mercenaries traded contracts for major wars and campaigns.
• Lu PingAn found his commission seeking mercenaries to fight evil gods had drawn no takers, so he suggested raising the reward to a city.

Lu PingAn tried to recruit powerful factions to help secure Mercury 42 by offering them territory and negotiating directly at Wanjing’s Grand Bazaar. He also searched the bazaar for rare materials to build Big Cat a divine body, but the essential components remained out of reach.

• Lu PingAn ordered the Savior Army staff at the Grand Bazaar to raise the recruitment stakes, offer cities and islands, and arrange direct negotiations with interested factions.
• Lu PingAn told Lu Lu to negotiate more forcefully while they took turns manning the recruitment post.
• Lu PingAn left the post early to search the bazaar for materials for Big Cat’s new body.
• Lu PingAn asked a church’s Holy Son for essence blood, but the Holy Son refused and warned him not to come closer.
• Lu PingAn gathered information about other rare materials, then learned that Big Cat had no friends willing to contribute priceless treasures to its resurrection.

Lu PingAn used his life research and scarce materials to create a temporary, child-sized body for Big Cat, who was reborn as Kerdales. Kerdales immediately demonstrated her power in the Grand Bazaar, then attacked Lu PingAn for laughing at her.

• Big Cat explained that Lu PingAn needed to build a life system from his own understanding rather than copy her blueprint.
• Lu PingAn combined Hua Xueyi, Zhi Xi, Mu Mu, and other materials to develop a durable body for Chris, but realized his supplies could not make even one-third of a full-sized Big Cat.
• Lu PingAn proposed starting with an evolving, smaller body, and Big Cat agreed after checking the materials he had available.
• Big Cat was reborn as the golden-haired child Kerdales, and Phil and Eve laughed at how cute she looked.
• Kerdales smashed a shop sign and forced out an eighth-rank expert, then attacked Lu PingAn for laughing, destroying half a street in the Grand Bazaar.

Lu PingAn created a Tier 6 Blood Puppet as the first of three bodies intended to form Big Cat’s complete vessel, and Big Cat possessed it despite complaining about the childlike form. The chapter ended with Big Cat putting Lu PingAn through another training session, which raised his Fighting skill to level 20.

• Lu PingAn used creation studies and the Life Illustrated Handbook to make a blonde Blood Puppet with the concepts of transformation, blood, and metal.
• Big Cat controlled the puppet from the Courtyard, while Lu PingAn explained that the body was only the first of three components and that he lacked the resources to make another.
• The puppet attacked a building, and Lu PingAn calmed Big Cat by giving her a towel and agreeing to take the remaining components slowly.
• Lu PingAn planned to combine three Quasi Rule-level bodies through wishing, fusion, and separation to build a true top-tier body for Big Cat.
• Big Cat began another training session by beating Lu PingAn, and his Fighting skill reached level 20.

Lu PingAn and Chris dealt with rumors about Chris being mistaken for Lu PingAn’s daughter after she beat Shan Daer, while their staged clash conveyed her return and limited strength to the powers in Wanjing. Lu PingAn then sensed that linking with his newly created clone could push his Life-type Quasi-Rules into true Rule-level.

• Rumors spread that Shan Daer had been beaten by the young daughter of Kerdales and Lu PingAn, and Chris angrily confronted Lu PingAn over the mistaken identity.
• Cat Cat complained that people had mistaken her for Lu PingAn’s daughter, while Lu PingAn struggled to explain that the supposed daughter was actually Chris herself.
• Lu PingAn explained that Chris’s fight with Shan Daer had been meant to demonstrate her strength and signal that she had revived in an unusual, weakened condition.
• Lu PingAn rejected low-quality commissions and considered the authorities’ response evidence that his public stance had reassured them.
• Lu PingAn realized that completing and linking with his new clone could advance his Life-type Quasi-Rules to Rule-level.

Lu PingAn celebrated the alliance treaty between the Eastern Kingdom and the Savior Army, then began negotiating with powerful churches and factions about Mercury 42. As more players entered the talks, Kitten accompanied him to meetings and punched a negotiator who asked where her mother was.

• The Eastern Kingdom and the Savior Army signed an alliance treaty, letting Lu PingAn report that he had completed his assignment.
• Lu PingAn and Big Cat assessed incoming offers, rejecting the Central Roman Kingdom of Heaven and an anonymous Ocean God while considering other factions.
• The Winter Solstice God Church revealed interest from the Moon God, who sought temporary cooperation without signing a God Contract.
• More churches, companies, and powerful figures joined negotiations over territory, licenses, and population zones, keeping Lu PingAn and Lu Lu busy.
• Lu PingAn brought Kitten to work after negotiators repeatedly asked about his daughter, and Kitten punched someone who asked where her mother was.

Lu PingAn asked Big Cat for advice on establishing a settlement on Mercury 42, after Ancient City's officials rejected his proposal for a sub-city. They developed a new plan to disguise the settlement as a university branch campus, and Lu PingAn then asked whether he should privately contact the Moon God.

• Lu PingAn and Big Cat grumbled about his new title, “Cat Herder Lu PingAn,” and wondered who had spread it.
• Lu PingAn explained that Ancient City's officials had rejected his proposal to build a sub-city on Mercury 42, though he still wanted a settlement there as a safeguard and future colony.
• Big Cat advised Lu PingAn not to antagonize the officials over the proposal and suggested that they would stall rather than openly support an outer-realm shelter.
• Lu PingAn proposed establishing a branch campus of Gu City University, with the first settlers arriving as faculty and staff, and Big Cat thought the reframed plan might win approval.
• Lu PingAn named the proposed school New East Technical School and then asked Big Cat whether he should privately contact the Moon God.