Chapter Summaries

Lu PingAn learned that his Siberian trip had become an international military and political crisis because he and his powerful team were treated as an invading force. He chose to avoid contacting home for now and shared sensitive information with Tie Hao, who agreed to help him obtain resources.

• Tie Hao explained that Lu PingAn's arrival had drawn in powerful combatants and turned the search for Moon God's Legacy into a major international incident.
• Lu PingAn agreed that contacting the Eastern Kingdom would likely force him to return, then crushed his satellite phone to prevent contact.
• Tie Hao offered to help Lu PingAn secure resources overseas and reassured him that the authorities would accept the benefits of his actions.
• Lu PingAn told Tie Hao that he had spoken with the Moon God in Wanjing, that she was now on Mercury 42, and that the relic was a kickback that could let him advance within a year.
• Tie Hao recorded Lu PingAn's sensitive information for the relevant departments, while Lu PingAn aimed to keep growing and prove his value.

As Lu PingAn searched Siberia for the Moon God's legacy, political leaders decided to support him while challengers tested his strength. Guided by Tie Hao, he approached a legendary frozen lake and encountered an eighth-rank opponent who forced him to fight at full strength.

• Eastern Kingdom officials judged Lu PingAn's rapid growth and leadership worth supporting, and the Northern Frontier military district joined exercises to deter Red Star.
• Lu PingAn recognized that he had to face the challengers himself and fought a Rule-level Element Driver without either side winning.
• After Lu PingAn released Big Cat's avatar against difficult opponents, one Professional chose to self-destruct, and Lu PingAn teased the cat about Chris's fearsome reputation.
• Tie Hao used intercepted radio traffic and local clues to guide Lu PingAn toward a lake where the ice had thawed and life had returned.
• Lu PingAn completed further Profession advancement during his journey and met an eighth-rank opponent two kilometers from the lake.

Lu PingAn and Chris confronted Barn, the Mother Goddess Church’s bishop, after he betrayed them to pursue a chance at eternal life. With both sides unwilling to yield, they began a fight to the death in the frozen forest.

• Lu PingAn recognized Barn as the Mother Goddess Church’s highest authority in the Eastern Kingdom, and Barn offered him the position of Holy Son in the Father God Church.
• Barn revealed that he wanted to become the only god and admitted he sought a way to keep living.
• Chris asked whether Barn’s time had come, and he shed his human disguise to reveal his mutated form.
• Lu PingAn stepped in front of Chris and declared that he wanted to live too, accepting that he had to kill Barn.
• Lu PingAn and Barn unleashed their full strength, invoking “Redemption” and “World Devouring” as their battle began.

Lu PingAn and Chris faced Barn and his enormous monster legion, with Chris fighting the strongest threats while Lu PingAn summoned allies to support the battle. As Barn’s army attacked, Lu PingAn raised his flagpole and became the core of the war.

• Chris fought Barn’s giant devouring monster while Lu PingAn protected himself with Sacred Flame and prepared a Replicate spell to support her.
• Lu PingAn and Chris followed their planned strategy, with Chris guarding him as Barn tried to provoke her and summoned monsters from the forest.
• Lu PingAn called for his allies, and Panda Man, Hua Xueyi, Xue, Mei Yuge, and the young Sword Saint entered the battle against Barn’s legion.
• Catherine attacked Barn, but Lu PingAn warned her to retreat before a Dimensional Slash cut through the space where she had been.
• Lu PingAn raised his skull-adorned flagpole and unleashed his auras as Barn’s endless beast horde advanced.

Lu PingAn fought Barn’s vast beast legion and discovered that Barn’s Divine Grace could counter the Black Knights’ corpse-based powers. Seeing that the battlefield and a drawn-out war favored Barn, Lu PingAn opened the canvas he had been saving.

• Lu PingAn detonated Corpse Bombs against Barn’s monsters, and Barn recognized him as a Black Holy Grail Holder and Chris’s successor.
• Barn spread his Realm of Delight over his pets, weakening Lu PingAn’s explosions with a Divine Grace designed to counter the Black Knights.
• Chris confirmed that Barn had once considered joining Lady Lin’s side, and she searched the battlefield for his hidden main body.
• Lu PingAn used his Eye of the Sky to survey Barn’s immense, cold-weakened beast legion and judged that a prolonged battle could favor Barn.
• Lu PingAn rejected fighting on Barn’s chosen battlefield and opened the canvas he had been reluctant to use.

Lu PingAn used a cursed painting trilogy to define Barn as a traveler destined to freeze to death, while Chris and Phil attacked him. Barn survived their powerful strikes and regeneration, but an exotic woman appeared behind him as he turned toward her crying.

• Lu PingAn used the paintings “Traveler Under the Great Snow Mountain” and “Survivor of the Snow Mountain” to create an avalanche and summon Evil Wolves against Barn’s forces.
• Barn blocked the avalanche with Sacred Land, then met Chris’s attack and knocked her back with the mammoth’s impact.
• Lu PingAn revealed “Traveler’s End,” defining Barn as a traveler who froze to death, while Barn transformed to expel the curse.
• Chris used her Kerdales Style Mimicry Fist to tear Barn apart and destroy his head, but Barn regenerated and transformed into a giant.
• Chris summoned Phil, whose black hole swallowed some of Barn’s flesh, while Barn used a six-armed serpent demon to escape and regenerate.
• Barn turned toward the sound of crying and found an exotic woman standing less than a meter behind him.

Lu PingAn trapped Barn in the fourth installment of his painting, turning Barn into its protagonist and viewer. Barn destroyed wave after wave of spider monsters, but the curse grew stronger and left him rapidly aging as Lu PingAn withdrew to the edge of the battlefield.

• Barn became confused as Lu PingAn's painting redefined him as the long-lost husband of a crying woman.
• Lu PingAn summoned the ghost and spider monsters, dragging Barn fully into the painting as its second protagonist.
• Barn regained control and destroyed the spider monsters with death magic, but each time he saw the woman, the curse returned and made her more vivid.
• Barn summoned four Single-Mouthed Strong Monsters to devour another wave, while the woman became more human and Barn aged further.
• Barn tore off part of his flesh to escape the curse, but the woman appeared on his new flesh and another wave of monsters returned.
• Barn realized the curse could not be stopped by killing Lu PingAn, who had moved to the battlefield's edge and waved at him.

Lu PingAn retreated from Barn’s Beast Tide and explained that a direct battle would cost his group too much, so he planned to weaken Barn with a parasitic curse and relentless attacks. He left the story determined to make the snowy wilderness Barn’s graveyard as the curse activated again.

• Lu PingAn fled with his group while Barn was blocked by a swollen spider monster, and he taunted Barn before escaping.
• Lu PingAn used a potion and his Courtyard to evade the pursuing Magical Pets, then told his teammates that Barn’s resources and transformations made a direct fight too costly.
• Lu PingAn explained that the curse would be difficult to remove and planned to keep Barn under pressure until its torment weakened him.
• Lu PingAn pointed out that Barn’s battlefield was full of buried Hibernating Demon Monsters and said his group now held the initiative to harass and attack him.
• Lu PingAn vowed that Barn would die in the snowy wilderness, and the curse activated again.

Ku Da La Na, a Kuda mercenary, survived a deadly clash between two godlike Professionals in Siberia. When the battlefield fell quiet, she discovered she had been hiding in the target’s camp and fainted when he invited her to breakfast.

• Ku Da La Na sensed a terrifying battle consuming Siberia and learned that the World Devourer and “All the way Peace” were fighting over divine authority.
• The mercenaries learned that both combatants wielded power above Tier 8, and the appearance of a flaming treant and monstrous beasts sent them fleeing.
• Ku Da La Na hid in a tree hollow as her fellow mercenaries were killed by monsters and demonic plants.
• After the fighting stopped, Ku Da La Na emerged from hiding and found that the target, All the way Peace, was standing before her.
• All the way Peace invited Ku Da La Na to breakfast, and she fainted, convinced he meant to eat her.

After surviving a night-long battle with Barn, Lu PingAn recruited the terrified Gray Rock soldier to help locate a divine treasure. He sent her with Cat Cat to Tie Hao, ordering that the treasure be delivered to Barn first as powerful observers closed in.

• Lu PingAn found the Little Guy, who had spent the night hiding in a cabinet, and identified her as a potentially useful wide-area radar.
• Lu PingAn and Barn’s relentless battle escalated into a devastating war that killed countless combatants, while Barn’s curse continued to worsen despite his efforts to remove it.
• The Little Guy woke to find the battlefield’s destruction and begged Lu PingAn not to take her life; he agreed to hire her, joking that her payment would be her life.
• Cat Cat refused to return to the battlefield after Barn had nearly torn off her tail, so Lu PingAn told her to take the Little Guy to Tie Hao and hasten the search for the divine treasure.
• Lu PingAn warned that powerful people were watching and instructed the Little Guy to tell Tie Hao to deliver the treasure to Barn first.

As Lu PingAn’s battle with Barn dragged into its fourth day, officials prepared to rescue him, only to learn that Barn was near death and Lu PingAn was winning. On the battlefield, Lu PingAn reflected on the curse binding Barn and prepared to finish the exhausted powerhouse.

• Wanjing officials learned that Lu PingAn had survived more than ninety hours against Barn, and they decided to prepare a rescue and fallback plan.
• After contact was established through intelligence officer Tie Hao, officials learned that Barn was about to die and Lu PingAn was going to win.
• Officials ordered a small squad from the military district to retrieve Lu PingAn and clean up the battlefield.
• Lu PingAn considered how his Scholar abilities and the sealed Doomsday Hatred had trapped Barn in an inescapable curse.
• Lu PingAn drew his long blade and prepared to kill the weakened Barn.

Lu PingAn and Chris encountered Barn after the former World Devourer had fused with his entire legion and become a gigantic, deranged monster called the Father God. Lu PingAn realized the creature could threaten nearby cities if left unchecked and prepared to confront it.

• Lu PingAn and Chris saw Barn transformed into a towering mass of flesh that searched for Lu PingAn while its many parts fought among themselves.
• Lu PingAn explained that the Mother Goddess Church’s tamers cultivated magical beasts for fusion, and that Barn had lost himself after consuming his legion.
• The Father God attacked the summoned Doomsday Spiders, but they turned to ash, leaving the monster with nothing to feed on.
• Lu PingAn recognized that Barn could become a near-demigod disaster and destroy nearby cities before eventually collapsing.
• As the Father God screamed Lu PingAn’s name, Lu PingAn calmly accepted that he would have to face the beast.

Lu PingAn tested the monstrous Barn with expendable snow wolves and discovered that a Moon God fragment he had thrown at it had formed a powerful statue head. He prepared to kill the beast, seeing the fused nest and its rules as the foundation he needed for his next advance.

• Lu PingAn sent batches of snow wolves against Barn, then detonated them to test the monster's abilities and judgment.
• Chris identified the statue head as a possible Moon God power that had formed after Barn absorbed the fragment Lu PingAn had thrown at it.
• Lu PingAn and Chris discussed how Red Star's fighters had wounded Barn and cut off its escape, leaving it trapped and mindless.
• Lu PingAn concluded that Barn lacked the resolve to ascend and had become merely part of the Million Beast Nest.
• Lu PingAn called the nest a gift containing the rules he needed, transformed into a giant, and began merging with more than his Magical Pets.

Lu PingAn and Chris joined their powers with Eve’s Yellow Crystal domain to face Barn’s monster of myriad beasts in a battle between beings who shared the same origin. Their knight struck first and tore through the beast, leaving the fight’s outcome poised on the fatal blow.

• Lu PingAn assembled Zhi Xi, Little Flame, Mu Mu, and Ajiu into a Ghost Knight to face Barn’s beast of myriad beasts.
• Chris recognized Barn and, resolving to end the path she had once followed, used Breathing of All Things to merge with Lu PingAn’s body.
• Chris summoned Eve, whose Yellow Crystal domain formed armor around the Ghost Knight and drew life force from the Professionals, creatures, and demonized pine trees across the snowy mountains.
• The Yellow Crystal knight grew to rival the beast’s strength, then raced forward and tore through the roaring myriad beasts.

Chris fought Barn, the monstrous embodiment of the Mother Goddess Road, and recognized that her past rejection of its law of survival had begun when she could not devour her daughters. Linked with Eve, Lu PingAn, and Zhi Xi, she resolved to end the mistakes of the past.

• Chris used Eve’s Golden Country and her coordinated giant body to cut apart Barn’s regenerating flesh, while Barn’s many heads and tentacles attacked chaotically.
• Barn unleashed an immense energy storm that tore away Chris’s golden armor and exposed the vast difference between its accumulated power and hers.
• Barn recognized Chris as Kerdales and called her a traitor, while Chris said she had abandoned the old path but not the present.
• Chris recalled how Lu Mouren had challenged her belief that survival was all that mattered, and she admitted she had been wrong from the moment she refused to devour her daughters.
• Chris leaped onto Barn and severed the Moon God’s stone head with a golden sword, then called Barn—and her former self—ugly.
• Linked with Eve, Lu PingAn, and Zhi Xi, Chris resolved to end the mistakes of the past.

Lu PingAn and Chris fought the endlessly regenerating Beast Nest Thing through the night, using their combined skills and the Golden Knight’s evolving body to overcome its vast advantage in strength. At dawn, the monster began turning to ash, and they confirmed that they had won.

• Observers expected the Golden Knight to lose, but Chris’s flawless combat skills kept her from taking a fatal blow.
• Lu PingAn and his companions upgraded the Golden Knight with Deferred Payment, Sacred Flame, and Crystal Body, restoring and strengthening her.
• Lu PingAn and Chris joined their voices and resolve, then continued attacking the Beast Nest Thing as it regenerated and evolved.
• The prolonged battle drained the monster’s Life Currency, weakening its regeneration and Rebirth until dawn arrived.
• The Golden Knight stood over the monster as it turned to ash, and Lu PingAn and Chris realized they had won.

After Lu PingAn defeated Barn, the Eastern Kingdom’s leaders assessed his strength and approved special support and a Major General rank for him. At the battlefield, Lu PingAn could no longer suppress his advancement and considered using Barn’s fresh corpse as material.

• A top-secret report detailed Lu PingAn’s Siberian battle, his suspected Rule-level power, and his Trading Ground’s use of life energy.
• The Eastern Kingdom’s decision-makers judged Lu PingAn’s finance-oriented ability to be service-oriented and approved policy support for him and his team, including a special Major General rank.
• Lu PingAn watched Barn’s colossal body turn to ash as his exhausted allies collapsed and Little Flame rushed to him for a hug.
• Lu PingAn realized his adverse fate had brought him into conflict with one of the Mother Goddess Church’s last powerhouses and that he could no longer suppress his level.
• Lu PingAn looked at Barn’s corpse and considered using the fresh remains as material for advancement.

Lu PingAn completed the creation of Chris’s new Rule-level body, but realized it lacked true life. He broke through the boundary between life and death and granted the sleeping woman life.

• Lu PingAn prepared a lake of blood from the remains of myriad beasts as the material for Chris’s new body.
• Lu Mouren confirmed that all of his professions had reached Tier 6, with War Commander nearing the Rule-level.
• Lu PingAn poured life force into the lake, planted the seed of Rebirth, and used Life Weaving to grow Chris’s body inside an oak tree.
• Chris’s body matured into a young woman, but Lu PingAn sensed that the creation was still incomplete.
• Lu PingAn realized that he needed to grant the doll true life, tore through the rules of life and death, and called for her to come alive.

Lu PingAn revived Chris as a truly living person and advanced to the Tier 7 Gardener (Life), Malicious Acquirer class. After leaving Red Star without a fight, he learned the Eastern Kingdom had protected him by awarding him the rank of Major General.

• Lu PingAn used his power to reverse life and death, reviving Chris in a living body.
• Chris marveled at her new body, while Lu PingAn explained that his accumulated powers and the Wish Granter fragment had let him rewrite life and death at a cost of more than six hundred points.
• Lu PingAn gained the Tier 7 Gardener (Life), Malicious Acquirer class and four awakened support abilities, then decided to flee before his watchers could attack.
• Lu PingAn traveled south to the border, where the Red Star demigod and military watched but did not intercept him.
• Lu PingAn learned the Eastern Kingdom had named him a Major General and reinforced border exercises, then thanked the military personnel who welcomed him across the border.

Lu PingAn tested his new Fictional Assets ability on the return trip to Wanjing, learning how it could give objects and weapons temporary life. He left the train with a better grasp of his growing power and began negotiating with the Decapitation Sword Lady over the cost of empowering her.

• Lu PingAn animated toy soldiers and tableware, while the quasi-god escort watched warily from the next carriage.
• Lu PingAn tested the ability on roadside trees, turning them into treants that soon ran out of power and collapsed.
• Lu PingAn discovered he could set the identities, targets, and operating budgets of the temporary lives he created, but they could develop their own desires and might rebel.
• Lu PingAn negotiated with the Decapitation Sword Lady over her demands for blood and souls, threatening to replace her with a backup weapon.
• Lu PingAn considered turning his stockpile of Forbidden Weapons and Taboo Items into his own legion and realized how much stronger he had become.