Chapter Summaries

The Red Star King charged into battle and attacked Lu PingAn, who answered with a legion of demonic trees. As the Three-Headed Dragon set out to rescue her, a black-and-white Big Bear blocked his path.

• The Red Star King abandoned the Three-Headed Dragon and attacked the battlefield, eager to slaughter and evolve.
• Lu PingAn summoned a demonic tree that drained and burned the Red Star King, then raised nine more trees to surround her.
• The Three-Headed Dragon learned that Yellow Crystal monsters and several Kings were attacking the front and Plane Gate, and sent two Kings to reinforce them.
• The Three-Headed Dragon headed to rescue the Red Star King, but a black-and-white Big Bear stopped him and invited him to talk.

Lu PingAn fought the giant octopus by uncovering its reproduction rule and turning its regenerative instincts against it. He repeatedly forced the creature to explode, leaving it greatly reduced and trying to flee as he prepared another shot.

• Lu PingAn used treants, cannons, and a protective umbrella to bombard the octopus and survive its explosive attacks.
• Lu PingAn identified the octopus’s rule as reproduction after watching its destroyed limbs become young that rejoined its body.
• Lu PingAn created awakened arrows through his Assembly Line and used the rule of Investment to make the octopus reproduce uncontrollably.
• The octopus’s explosions grew stronger, while Lu PingAn lost his treants and spent another protective item.
• The octopus rebuilt itself at a third of its former size and tried to escape, but Lu PingAn raised his bow and fired again.

Lu PingAn used Beast Tamer abilities to kill Red Star, then faced the Three-Headed Dragon during the ensuing battles. The fighting eased after the enemy’s leaders staged a limited revenge, while Xue En remained lost after falling into a spatial rift with the dragon.

• Lu PingAn amplified Red Star’s reproductive instincts until her body split apart and she died, then confronted the enraged Three-Headed Dragon.
• The battle continued until midnight, when the Three-Headed Dragon withdrew after his rear positions came under threat.
• The next day, Eight-Clawed forces attacked with lightning, tsunamis, and venom, but their high-level fighters held back when facing Lu PingAn.
• Big Cat explained that Eight-Clawed was a conglomeration of rival tribes, so its leaders had little reason to unite over Red Star’s death.
• Lu PingAn learned that Xue En had fallen into a spatial rift with the Three-Headed Dragon and had not returned.

Lu PingAn learned that Xue En had survived by falling into a nearby Other World, and he considered how the world’s rules and growing Lamp Tree Network could reshape the Plane War. As he continued facing the Three-Headed Dragon at the battlefield’s edge, rumors and legends began awakening more Professionals among the native people.

• Xue En returned after falling into Eight-Clawed’s nearby water world, where a small humanoid species served as logistical slaves and invading enemies came from other Other Worlds.
• Lu PingAn explained that military strength and competing interests shaped whether Plane Wars continued, while Chris questioned whether the wars could be stopped.
• Lu PingAn recognized that Guan Xinxian’s contract had made Lamp Grass and Lamp Trees native species, strengthening their growth and reproduction across the world.
• Lu PingAn continued expanding the Lamp Tree Network, while battlefield rumors and legends caused ordinary people to awaken as Professionals.
• Lu PingAn kept playing games against the Three-Headed Dragon as the native side’s strength grew and sparks spread across the world.

Lu PingAn reported his success on the front line while the Savior Army prepared to found a nation amid internal power struggles. He planned to attend the ceremony, but feared the new nation and its founding would immediately draw attacks.

• Lu PingAn told Overlord Akul and other powerful figures that he had killed a Tier 7 enemy and that the front line was under less pressure.
• Lu PingAn discussed the Savior Army’s preparations for nation-building and its leaders’ disputes over military control and government posts.
• Lu PingAn promised Marshal Lu that he would attend the founding ceremony and considered bringing her a gift to mark her promotion.
• Lu PingAn recognized that Lu Lu’s ties to the Eastern Kingdom had made other Savior Army leaders wary of her and threatened her political standing.
• Lu PingAn suspected the new nation would become a target for the Otherworld Invaders and feared the founding ceremony would not be peaceful.

Lu PingAn studied the Red Star King's rule crystals and used the Life Cauldron to help Little Flame absorb them and the God Blood Lampwick. Little Flame evolved into a Gold Low Rank Creature, leaving Lu PingAn to find her clothes for her new form.

• Lu PingAn learned that his Courtyard had expanded and grown more stable, making it harder to smuggle pollution into God's Ark.
• Researchers reported that the Red Star King's crystals contained the rules of breeding and self-heating, alongside lesser self-healing and devouring rules.
• Lu PingAn decided the breeding rule was too difficult to use safely and fed the crystals to Little Flame in the Life Cauldron with God Blood Lampwick.
• Little Flame absorbed the materials and evolved into a Gold Low Rank Creature with a new pseudo-human form.
• Lu PingAn hurried to find clothes for Little Flame, who eagerly tried to leap onto him.

Little Flame completed her evolution into a Rule-level creature, gaining powerful flame abilities that made her a battlefield weapon. As Lu PingAn considered hunting more powerful enemies, he was warned to preserve the battlefield balance, then swallowed poison flame Little Flame offered him.

• Little Flame's evolution replaced her former bloodlines and abilities with Sacred Fire Blood and Eternal Blazing Heat.
• Little Flame gained the abilities to assimilate flames, split into sub-bodies, and unleash explosive attacks, so Lu PingAn ordered her not to self-destruct near him.
• Little Flame split into four centauresses and repeatedly asked Lu PingAn for fire to eat.
• Lu PingAn considered killing one of the Kings beneath the Overlord, but the veteran warned that doing so could provoke a larger battle and draw reinforcements.
• Little Flame offered Lu PingAn green abyssal flame, and he swallowed it, leaving one fewer guardian watching the battlefield.

Shi Xiaoyou entered Lu PingAn’s glowing forest and realized that the young Gardener and Beast Tamer had already crossed boundaries he had thought were reserved for demigods. Lu PingAn greeted him and invited him to meet the Three-Headed Dragon.

• Shi Xiaoyou returned to his front and found the wasteland transformed into a vast forest of Lamp Flowers, Lamp Grass, and towering Lamp Trees.
• Shi Xiaoyou sensed the forest’s powerful life force and recognized that Lu PingAn was far beyond an ordinary newcomer.
• As Shi Xiaoyou walked through the forest, he saw numerous tamed magical creatures and wondered whether Lu PingAn had begun combining the paths of Gardeners and Beast Tamers.
• Shi Xiaoyou found Lu PingAn surrounded by his magical family, including a Rule-level Fire Beast, a giant snake, a treant, a centaur, and a Living Doll.
• Shi Xiaoyou accepted Lu PingAn as an equal, and Lu PingAn invited him to meet the Three-Headed Dragon.

After handing over the front line, Lu PingAn resumed his journey toward the founding ceremony of the world's first nation. He reflected on his Magical Pets' advancement needs and sparred with his companions along the way.

• Lu PingAn and Shi Xiaoyou completed the handover after the Three-Headed Dragon retreated, and Shi Xiaoyou advised him to find a High-Tier Gardener to maintain the forest.
• Lu PingAn set off again, lamenting that he had missed out on valuable materials from the enemy and still needed resources to help his Magical Pets advance.
• Lu PingAn acknowledged Zhi Xi's wish to advance and considered adjusting his pets' evolution paths to improve the talents he could share.
• Lu PingAn sparred with Xue En and Eve during the journey, winning consistently against Eve and usually beating Xue En when he withheld his Misfortune Aura.
• Big Cat asked where her wages and bonuses were, and Lu PingAn promised to pay her and make up for the past few years.

Lu PingAn weighed the costs and benefits of using the Wishing Well to turn ordinary people into Professionals, then prepared to use the results as leverage in negotiations with the Savior Army. As the new nation’s founding approached, disputes over citizenship and sweeping privileges for Eastern Kingdom lords threatened to cause trouble.

• Mr. Shi Xiaoyou saw the Lamp plants thriving and noted that Lu PingAn’s Wishing Well could turn ordinary people into Professionals without large-scale deaths unrelated to battle.
• Lu PingAn recognized that desperate people willingly traded years of lifespan for power, and that their life transactions had strengthened the Courtyard.
• Lu PingAn decided to add the Wishing Well’s ability to the Savior Army negotiations as a bargaining chip.
• Lu PingAn anticipated resistance to demands that East Country People receive automatic citizenship in the New Country while keeping their Eastern Kingdom citizenship.
• Lu PingAn noted that Eastern Kingdom lords also sought absolute control over their territories and a hundred years of tax exemption, and hoped the founding process would cost fewer lives.

Lu PingAn vacationed on an artificial island in the Mingxi Islands while Lu Lu asked him to persuade the Forest Goddess Church to soften its demands. He discussed Guan Xinxian’s chances of becoming a god tied to the New Kingdom or the Fishmen, and the chapter ended with trouble seeking him out.

• Lu PingAn arrived at a resort on an outer artificial island in the Mingxi Islands while his ship underwent repairs and resupply.
• Lu Lu asked Lu PingAn to persuade the Forest Goddess Church to reconsider its demands for dual citizenship and a hundred years of tax exemption, but he refused to break ranks with the signatories.
• Lu PingAn and Lu Lu discussed how Guan Xinxian’s current status left him unable to compete for the God of Guardianship position.
• Lu PingAn considered the Fishmen God as an alternative divine role for Guan Xinxian because the Fishmen feared being enslaved by the Eight-Clawed again.
• Trouble came looking for Lu PingAn while he tried to stay out of the political struggle on the main island.

After Lu Lu’s entry application was denied, Lu PingAn explained that rival factions feared her growing influence and revealed that he had secured Earth’s and the Forest Goddess Church’s support for her to lead the new government. Lu Lu accepted the responsibility, then realized Lu PingAn’s backing had made her exclusion from meetings even worse.

• The authorities denied Lu PingAn entry, and Lu Lu nearly attacked in anger before he calmed her and took her back to the hotel.
• Lu PingAn explained that the local faction distrusted Lu Lu because of her ties to Earth and her growing prestige, while other leaders had already aligned themselves with Eastern Kingdom lords.
• Lu Lu considered giving up her ambitions and serving as an ordinary soldier, but Lu PingAn told her that her role was only beginning.
• Lu PingAn revealed that the Forest Goddess Church and Eastern Kingdom authorities would support Lu Lu alone, and she promised she would win.
• Lu Lu realized that Lu PingAn’s maneuver had caused her to be excluded from meetings, and she angrily confronted him for not warning her.

Lu PingAn explained that he had deliberately let Lu Lu endure political hostility while waiting for the right moment to act. After Hua Mansheng became Military Department Minister, Lu Lu understood that the appointment would likely make him a scapegoat, and she trained while preparing for the crisis ahead.

• Lu Lu confronted Lu PingAn after realizing he had hidden her situation and guided the hostility she faced.
• Lu PingAn revealed that he had no intention of entering the main island and continued training with Lu Lu in the Courtyard.
• Over several days, Lu PingAn used sparring with Lu Lu to improve his combat skills and learn her martial techniques.
• Lu Lu learned that Hua Mansheng had become Minister of the Military Department and objected that he lacked the political ability for the role.
• Lu PingAn explained that the appointment would make Hua Mansheng a scapegoat while the factions remained divided, and Lu Lu went to train in frustration.
• Lu PingAn predicted that the failed counteroffensive or collapsing front lines would eventually give Lu Lu a chance to act.

Lu PingAn explored the prosperous Mingxi Islands and learned how ancient Abyss Insectoids had broken from their hive mind to become a new race. He suspected Lady Lin’s faction was hiding information and concluded that he needed reliable allies, while his disciple prepared for the difficult role she had chosen.

• Lu PingAn learned that some Abyss Insectoids had resisted their hive mind with help from Ancient Heroes and become a new race.
• Lu PingAn considered how defectors among the enemy races served as traders, spies, and sources of intelligence, then suspected local leaders were concealing information.
• Lu PingAn decided he needed to build closer alliances among the quasi-deities and identified Chief King and Old Mr. Liu as likely allies.
• Lu PingAn felt sympathy for his disciple, patted her head, and encouraged her to do her best; she remained focused on military concerns.

Lu PingAn killed a group of Military Department officers who confronted him after his entry to the main island was approved. He and Lu Lu discussed how Popular Sentiment would force Minister Hua into a disastrous counterattack, while Lu Lu learned the officers had tested Lu PingAn because they feared he would use his influence as the “Mentor” to put her in power.

• After Lu PingAn entered the main island, Long-Hand Tribe officers insulted him, and he killed them in the street.
• Lu PingAn explained that factions were maneuvering over military command while Hua Mansheng struggled to unite the forces under his authority.
• Lu PingAn told Lu Lu to contact other branches of the Savior Army and prepare to stabilize the war after the first administration’s defeat.
• Lu PingAn and Lu Lu watched citizens demand a counterattack, which would force Minister Hua to risk a minor or crushing defeat.
• One of Lu Lu’s people reported that the officers had tested Lu PingAn because they knew he was the “Mentor” and feared he would support Lu Lu’s rise to power.

Lu PingAn advised Lu Lu to withdraw from the Military Leader contest while publicly questioning Minister Hua, expecting the pressure to force him into a counterattack. Lu Lu agreed, increasingly convinced Hua could not be trusted with power, while the Teacher’s identity had to remain an unplayed source of influence.

• Lu PingAn decided that revealing the Teacher’s identity would risk diminishing the spiritual authority that supported Lu Lu and the Savior Army.
• Lu PingAn told Lu Lu to issue a letter withdrawing her candidacy, supporting Minister Hua, and warning him against an overly aggressive counterattack.
• Lu PingAn explained that publicly questioning Hua would pressure him to prove himself and test the enemy’s strength through a counterattack.
• Lu Lu accepted the plan, recognizing that the counterattack was militarily necessary even if it was likely to fail.
• Lu Lu reflected that Hua’s faction had bought hostile articles targeting the Teacher and concluded that Hua’s shortsightedness made him unfit to lead the nation.

Lu PingAn watched the Kingdom of Dawn struggle to form a government while public demonstrations grew increasingly frenzied. The chapter ended with news that the West Hill Mountain front had collapsed and eleven cities had fallen.

• Lu PingAn watched crowds and demonstrators from a teahouse while his watchers declined his invitation to join him.
• Lu PingAn observed that the Kingdom of Dawn’s leaders had failed to agree on a national system, head of state, or government structure.
• Cat Cat reported that marching groups were growing frenzied as demonstrators argued over whether the new country should use a parliamentary system or an empire.
• Lu PingAn concluded that infighting and self-interest were weakening the country, and that defeat might be needed to force its leaders to act.
• A report arrived that the West Hill Mountain front had collapsed, with eleven cities fallen and possibly facing massacres.

After the West Hill Mountain Defense Line collapsed, rumors blamed Minister Hua for weakening it by transferring its top combatants. As the Savior Army’s government teetered toward collapse, Lu PingAn joined the young Marshal’s unauthorized march to the front, while Minister Hua’s political fortunes swiftly fell apart.

• The Abyss Insectoids attacked the weakened West Hill Mountain Defense Line, which collapsed after its remaining forces refused to fight a hopeless battle.
• Rumors accused Minister Hua of causing the collapse by transferring core combatants, and factions within the Savior Army condemned him as he refused to apologize or resign.
• The young Marshal told Lu PingAn she was heading to the front with her assembled forces to respond to the falling cities, despite the political consequences.
• Lu PingAn stopped the young Marshal from leaving alone and decided to join her, encouraging her to act as the Savior Army’s Marshal.
• Lu PingAn and the Marshal departed by warship, and Minister Hua learned that Lu PingAn had gone with his people.
• More than a dozen marshals jointly impeached Minister Hua, who announced his resignation on the third day.

Lu PingAn prepared Lu Lu’s forces for war against the Abyssal Swarm by producing specialized anti-insect weapons and empowering the soldiers through the Courtyard. As they approached the front, Lu PingAn spotted Senior Brother Guan and the Redemption arriving aboard their wooden Big Ship.

• Lu Lu asked whether Lu PingAn had arranged Minister Hua’s removal, and Lu PingAn said he had only expected the former minister’s fall.
• Lu PingAn reviewed reports that the Abyssal Swarm had overwhelmed the West Hill Mountain Defense Line and discussed the swarm’s tactics and the lack of military orders.
• Lu PingAn commissioned and mass-produced specialized anti-insect weapons, including Insecticide No. 2, while preparing to commit the Courtyard’s resources.
• Lu Lu’s soldiers traded property and lifespan for professions and other enhancements, rapidly increasing the number of Professionals in her forces.
• At dawn, Lu PingAn saw Senior Brother Guan and the Redemption approaching aboard their familiar wooden Big Ship.

Lu Lu led the mortal legion against the Infinite Beast Horde, using her battlefield powers to strengthen, heal, and revive her soldiers until they overwhelmed the insect swarm. A distant Overlord retreated without joining the fight, leaving Lu PingAn and the others aware that the battle was only the beginning.

• The Infinite Beast Horde erupted from underground and attacked the mortal legions, using coordinated ambushes to throw their formations into chaos.
• Lu Lu charged into the horde and killed a giant worm, then used her war banner to bolster nearby soldiers and drain life from their enemies.
• Lu Lu strengthened the legion, revived fallen soldiers, and protected them with silver armor, enabling them to push the Infinite Beast Horde back.
• Lu Mouren questioned whether Lu Lu was a true Battlefield Commander, while Big Cat recognized that Lu Lu shared strength with the army and was nearly impossible to kill on the battlefield.
• Lu PingAn saw that the Rule-level demonic insect retreated, and the giant hornet Overlord observed from seven kilometers away before flying off.