Chapter Summaries

Lu PingAn showed Eastern Kingdom officials how much of his cultural and industrial development plan had succeeded, then learned that they wanted his city to support two gods and become a pilot site for large-scale immigration. The chapter left him wondering whether they were also relying on his “No Danger Professionals” ability.

• Eastern Kingdom officials praised Lu PingAn for fulfilling most of the promises he had made while seeking Investment.
• Lu PingAn guided the visitors through local schools, cinemas, bookstores, Factories, and companies to show their cultural and industrial progress.
• The visitors asked Lu PingAn to sign copies of Teacher's Discourse, and he agreed without revealing his confusion.
• The officials told Lu PingAn that the Eastern Kingdom was willing to support two gods.
• They proposed making his city a pilot city for the First Batch of large-scale immigration, prompting Lu PingAn to wonder if they wanted to use his “No Danger Professionals” ability.

Lu PingAn negotiated with the Eastern Kingdom over its plans for Mercury 42, learning that its investment was driven by the safe path to becoming a Professional and a plan to attack Eight-Clawed. The chapter left him considering the scale of the threat as the Eastern Kingdom proposed turning the connected world into a route for a counterattack.

• Lu PingAn questioned why the Eastern Kingdom was investing so heavily in Mercury 42, and its official first described plans for a tourist city and independent communities.
• After Lu PingAn demanded candor, the official explained that the Eastern Kingdom wanted access to Mercury 42's safe route to becoming a Professional and its training resources.
• The official told Lu PingAn that the Eastern Kingdom intended to attack Eight-Clawed because rising sea levels, floods, and tsunamis were devastating Earth.
• Lu PingAn read a top-secret report detailing widespread disasters, including Pacific island nations that had been almost entirely wiped out.
• The Eastern Kingdom proposed using Mercury 42's connection to Eight-Clawed's world as a route for a counterattack.

Lu PingAn agreed to cooperate with Eastern Kingdom officials on a counteroffensive against the Eight-Clawed and the creation of a frontline buffer country. He began coordinating plans for military investment and local cooperation, then faced the task of persuading the New Country and Lady Lin’s people.

• Lu PingAn agreed to cooperate with the Eastern Kingdom’s national strategy without promising to take the initiative.
• The officials explained that their long-term plan included more than fifty projects and aimed to establish a buffer zone against the Eight-Clawed.
• Lu PingAn held an internal meeting to align his people with the Eastern Kingdom’s plans and prevent them from disrupting its missions.
• Lu PingAn and the Eastern Kingdom planned to break through the Fishmen’s defenses, enter the Eight-Clawed otherworld, and establish a country there for training, intelligence gathering, and military operations.
• Lu PingAn recognized that the Eastern Kingdom intended to invest in military industry and logistics, with the New Country’s people likely to fight using the resulting weapons.
• Lu PingAn decided to continue discussing cooperation and prepare to persuade the New Country and Lady Lin’s people.

Lu PingAn and the Rebirth Merchant Group agreed to support Eastern Kingdom’s expansion beyond Earth, likely targeting the Octopus Race. The plan moved forward with veteran demigods’ cooperation, while Eastern Kingdom and the New Kingdom settled on a tacit arrangement for migration and citizenship.

• Lu PingAn accepted Eastern Kingdom’s request to expand outward, and the Rebirth Merchant Group members agreed to support the strategy.
• Lu PingAn predicted that Eastern Kingdom would target the Octopus Race to demonstrate humanity’s strength and prepare for war beyond its homeland.
• Lu PingAn informed demigods in Lady Lin’s faction, and they agreed to cooperate after revealing that Eastern Kingdom had already consulted them.
• The demigods said expansion could benefit them by bringing resources and people, even as they considered giving up their tax exemptions.
• The investigation team approved a plan to avoid public disclosure of large-scale migration while making tacit deals with the New Kingdom’s upper ranks.
• Eastern Kingdom arranged for migrants to be treated as Mercury People on Mercury 42 and as Eastern Kingdom people when they returned to Earth.

Lu PingAn watched a huge wave of migrants arrive in the New World under the protection of Sea God Winter's Demise, a True God capable of carrying over a million people. He learned that oceanic disasters and invasions had devastated island nations, leaving the future of Earth increasingly uncertain.

• Lu PingAn saw Sea God Winter's Demise arrive and realized the True God had severed his ties to his original world, sacrificing power and believers to carry migrants.
• Lu PingAn learned that the arrivals included Red Star People and Pacific islanders displaced by rising seas, while the Os Independent State had suffered catastrophic flooding and invasions.
• Lu PingAn heard that many Aus had relocated to the United States through companies that changed their registration, while others remained amid the ruined homeland.
• Lu PingAn learned that the Archipelago Alliance had lost many people to migration and that Sakurajima had suffered flooding, unrest, and regions declaring independence.
• Lu PingAn recognized that the First Batch included disaster victims and military soldiers, and felt that the end of the world was approaching.

Lu PingAn oversaw the New Kingdom’s use of disaster refugees as construction laborers and confronted the economic and social problems their arrival caused. Officials devised a token wage and plans for a new currency, while Lu PingAn agreed to delay the refugees’ access to the Courtyard and prioritize Eastern Kingdom personnel.

• Officials explained that Eastern Kingdom would bring in refugees from neighboring countries to provide labor and uphold its leadership in the Nirvana Plan.
• Lu PingAn urged officials to send heavy machinery to the construction site and worried that unequal wages and competition with local workers could spark conflict.
• Officials paid the foreign workers in site-only tokens and negotiated with the New Kingdom to create a currency initially pegged to East Country Coin at one hundred to one.
• Lu PingAn learned that twelve refugees had died after forming a gang and collecting protection fees, and officials noted that local murder and disappearance rates were already high.
• Officials stopped Lu PingAn from opening the Courtyard to the refugees, saying Eastern Kingdom military personnel should get priority, and Lu PingAn offered to raise the entry threshold and fees.

Lu PingAn reviewed the agreement that opened New Country to tens of millions of Eastern Kingdom citizens, then urged Lu Lu to leave the military academy and take charge of the military. Lu Lu agreed to prepare for the transition as reports of front-line defeats and Military Department failures spread across the media.

• Lu PingAn examined the cooperation agreement and its provisions granting Eastern Kingdom visitors citizenship while allowing lords to offset taxes through infrastructure investment.
• Lu PingAn told Lu Lu to prepare to take office within half a year, and she explained that Parliament and Lady Lin's allies had urged her to return because the front lines were in dire condition.
• Lu PingAn argued that the incoming aid created an opportunity for a real Great Counterattack and warned that an incompetent commander might otherwise claim the victory and command the army.
• Lu Lu agreed to settle the military academy's affairs before returning, though the planned arrival of East Country Active Duty Military Officers as instructors made her uneasy.
• The next day, major media outlets reported front-line defeats, corruption, logistical failures, and wounded soldiers left without rescue, directing blame toward the Military Department.

The Kingdom of Dawn, the Eastern Kingdom, the Forest Goddess Church, and the Free Fishmen aligned their interests around a coming war, seeking victory, influence, and liberation. After Qian Haoshu was detained, fighting broke out on multiple fronts, and the chapter ended with the arrival of another God's Ark as world war began.

• The Eastern Kingdom and the Kingdom of Dawn sought a Great Counterattack, while the Eastern Kingdom aimed to deepen its influence and advance its economy through war.
• Lu Mouren and the Forest Goddess Church’s leaders sought merit, military authority, and industrial growth through the conflict.
• The Free Fishmen agreed to fight for the restoration of their homeland and a country of their own.
• Qian Haoshu was detained on charges of corruption and dereliction of duty.
• The Abyss Insectoids and Awakened Insectoids entered full-scale war, while the Lava Clan front also erupted under divine and demigod scrutiny.
• Another God's Ark arrived that autumn, and world war began.

Lu PingAn entered the Fishmen's deep-sea front and found that the foreign ocean severely weakened many of his abilities, though his Ripple Slash worked exceptionally well. After cutting down Fishmen attackers, he sensed an old enemy beyond the spatial rift and considered settling accounts.

• Eastern Kingdom soldiers and commoners learned that Lu PingAn could help them become Professionals at the cost of only one to five years of lifespan, and they readily accepted.
• Lu PingAn entered the Fishmen's main battlefield and struggled to manage the surrounding sound waves before Fishmen riders surrounded him.
• Lu PingAn used his Sacred Flame to burn most of the attacking Fishmen and sea beasts, but the flame's power and precision were greatly reduced underwater.
• Lu PingAn ambushed Fishmen with his remaining abilities and found his Gardener powers largely unusable in the deep sea.
• Lu PingAn used Ripple Slash to destroy Fishmen and sensed that the Silver Rune made it especially effective against Eight-Clawed and its world.
• Lu PingAn looked toward the deep-sea spatial rift, sensed malice and an old enemy beyond it, and considered settling accounts.

Lu PingAn decided to buy warships to prepare the Rebirth Merchant Guild for the underwater war against the Octopus Sea Race. The chapter ended with him arranging a major order while planning to rely on Eastern Kingdom military vessels once they became available.

• Lu PingAn noted that the Rebirth Merchant Guild's Ark ships excelled at trade but were not suited to war.
• Fang Wen offered to replicate warships, but Lu PingAn rejected the idea to avoid provoking powerful industrial factions.
• Lu PingAn ordered Lao Zhao to provide one air carrier, three destroyers, and ten underwater vessels within half a year, agreeing to owe him a favor.
• Lu PingAn concluded that underwater vessels and equipment were essential for advancing safely against the Octopus Sea Race.
• Lu PingAn planned to use the private warships temporarily and later replace them with Eastern Kingdom military vessels.

Lu PingAn observed the Eastern Kingdom’s costly underwater push-line preparations and fulfilled a major order to develop underwater Lamp Flowers. He had already created a working variety and continued improving it for deep-sea survival and defense.

• Lu PingAn reflected on Fishmen’s underwater advantages and the weapons humans had developed to fight them.
• He watched cargo ships unload diving bells and other structures, then sink themselves to form underwater cover and a defensive line.
• Lu PingAn noted that the Eastern Kingdom’s military buildup had driven up demand and prices for materials, equipment, and his products.
• He worked to develop underwater Lamp Flowers by collecting aquatic varieties and adapting their biological traits.
• Lu PingAn continued improving his working Underwater Lamp Flowers, hoping to make them more adaptable and capable of protecting themselves underwater.

Lu PingAn welcomed the ancient Sea God Winter's Demise into the New World and learned that his observation had helped anchor the god. Winter's Demise rewarded him with powerful Divine Grace, including the chance to take up the Sea Undead profession.

• Lu PingAn watched Winter's Demise embed Himself into the world as the war escalated.
• Lu PingAn reflected on how different beings sought to consume the world's resources, while Big Cat regarded this as natural.
• Lu PingAn prayed to Winter's Demise and used his eyes to observe and depict the god in a holy image.
• Winter's Demise thanked Lu PingAn for anchoring Him and granted him a Divine Grace Gift Pack.
• Lu PingAn discovered the pack contained Gold Low Rank Ocean Blessing and an offer to take up the Sea Undead profession at Silver Low Rank.

As the conflict expanded into an all-out war, Lu PingAn and the joint Military Committee organized recruits, designed a new profession, and developed equipment and creatures for the front. Lu PingAn concluded that he needed to visit another world to properly test his research.

• The Eastern Kingdom, New Kingdom, and Forest Goddess Faction formed a joint Military Committee to direct the expanded war, and Lu Mouren joined as an adviser with speaking rights.
• Lu Lu asked Lu PingAn to provide training and equipment for over a hundred thousand recruits, and he agreed to offer a massive discount.
• Lu PingAn advised against accelerated training for Fishmen and the Long-Hand Tribe, while exploring ways to transform Fishmen and awaken the recruits' extraordinary talents.
• Lu PingAn and the Military Committee settled on the Storm Javelin Thrower as a Tier 1 profession, designed for group combat and specialization.
• Lu Mouren handled mass training and logistics while Lu PingAn worked on research projects for underwater warfare and tested their results at the front.
• Lu PingAn decided that local tests were insufficient and considered traveling to the world where his developments would be used.

Lu PingAn decided to visit Octopus World despite the Military Committee’s objections and prepared Fishman bodies so he could travel without entering as a human. He left with Big Cat Chris and Lei Shui Yun, beginning his limited trip to scout the Fishmen and gather what he needed for their transformation.

• Lu PingAn insisted on visiting Octopus World, and the Military Committee limited his trip to three days.
• Lu PingAn used Life Weaving to create a Naga Fishman body, then climbed inside and connected to it.
• Lu PingAn explained that he needed Fishman transformations and a richer gene pool, ideally from a divine artifact or Rule-level Fishman Kings.
• Lu PingAn created another Fishman body and put Lei Shui Yun inside it after rejecting Cat Cat’s mermaid idea.
• Lu PingAn set off with Big Cat Chris and Lei Shui Yun, while Big Cat Chris coached him on swimming.

Lu PingAn entered Eight-Clawed's world, where the toxic environment harmed Fishmen, and infiltrated a patrol squad to gather information. After finding Lord Broken Blade and forcing him to talk, Lu PingAn learned they were in a man-made Isolation Belt connected to several Fishmen worlds, just as its owner arrived with hostile intent.

• Lu PingAn discovered that heavy metals in Eight-Clawed's world were rapidly corroding his Fishman shell, while Chris remained unaffected.
• Lu PingAn and Big Cat used control techniques to join Lord Broken Blade's patrol squad and learned its soldiers had recently been transferred there.
• Lu PingAn followed the patrol to Lord Broken Blade and turned the gray giant Fishman into a reluctant source of information.
• Lord Broken Blade revealed that the region was a funnel-shaped Isolation Belt connected to at least four Fishmen worlds and used for defense and military staging.
• Lu PingAn heard someone knocking outside and sensed the Isolation Belt's hostile owner approaching.

Lei Shui Yun, known as Cat Cat, ambushed the Small World's ruler, Thousand-Giga Stone King, and helped devastate its core despite the vast difference in their strength. After the Dominator pierced her, she used Forced Bankruptcy Protection to survive long enough to stab it repeatedly with Phoenix's Death, a godslaying weapon that inflicted Certain Death.

• The team’s core members explained that Lei Shui Yun was a gifted combatant trusted with dangerous solo missions, despite appearing carefree and spoiled.
• While hidden inside the stone, Cat Cat spotted the eight-tentacled Thousand-Giga Stone King attacking the cave where Lu PingAn and the others were sheltering.
• As Lu PingAn’s flaming figure confronted the ruler, Cat Cat used Little Snowball’s Meow Rejection to tear through Stone King’s heart, head, and spinal system from within.
• Stone King survived the injury, ripped open the Rejection space, and impaled Cat Cat with its tentacles.
• Cat Cat activated Forced Bankruptcy Protection, then drove Phoenix's Death spears into Stone King’s exposed core and invoked its Certain Death effect.

Lu PingAn and Cat Cat assassinated the small plane’s overlord, Stone King, then looted its residence and fled as a demigod arrived. Lu PingAn returned through the abyssal rift, deciding to keep a low profile before attempting to investigate the plane again.

• Lu PingAn used Bankruptcy Protection and additional Investment to keep Cat Cat alive while she used Phoenix's Death and Spirit Fusion to drive eighteen nails into the overlord.
• Lu PingAn followed the Godslaying Spear’s guidance to Stone King’s residence and found the overlord dead.
• Lu PingAn opened the Courtyard and had his staff strip the residence of valuable ores, suspected Taboo Items, and other resources.
• Lu PingAn spotted a massive newcomer, activated Plan Zero, and fled with the Godslaying Spear set.
• Lu PingAn returned to his own world through the abyssal rift as a demigod arrived, then decided to lie low.

After reporting his failed exploration and the death of an Overlord, Lu PingAn learned that returning to the foreign realm could draw a demigod’s attention. Seeking a way to act without risking his own departure, he found a promising puppet-based path, but divination pointed him toward an unexpected fusion with the Death Soldier Path.

• Lu PingAn reported destroying a spatial passage and killing an Overlord-class creature, while explaining the Eight-Clawed bloodline to the Command HQ.
• Big Cat concluded the Eight-Clawed demigod had mistaken Lu PingAn for a deserter, and Cat Cat complained about her work until Lu PingAn promised a bonus and paid leave.
• The Trading Ground reopened, but Lu PingAn decided he could not safely return to the foreign realm while a demigod might be waiting for him.
• Lu PingAn sought advice on how to leave safely while keeping the Courtyard running, and Xiu Yi suggested the puppeteer branch of the artisan field.
• Lu PingAn recognized that inhabiting a puppet could let him act at a distance, then divined that he might need to fuse this path with the Death Soldier Path.

Lu PingAn accepted the Military Committee’s warning and gave Cat Cat the credit and a medal for killing an overlord. As Cat Cat advanced and trained under Chris, Lu PingAn explored puppetry and realized it might help evolve Zhi Xi, Mu Mu, and his Magical Pets.

• Lu PingAn agreed to behave after Lu Lu and the marshal warned him that his death could endanger the world’s plans and cooperation between the major powers.
• Lu PingAn reported Cat Cat’s achievement and ensured she received a First-Class War Medal, becoming one of the New Kingdom’s first war heroes.
• Longinus gained a new description after two immortals fell to it, and Lu PingAn arranged for Cat Cat to receive a javelin pouch.
• Cat Cat advanced into the sixth rank and began touching rules, while Chris gave her extra training in Cliff Walker combat.
• Lu PingAn experimented with creating living dolls, failed to make the process work, and decided to study the Puppeteer path more seriously.
• Lu PingAn hoped puppetry would help Zhi Xi, Mu Mu, and his Magical Pets evolve and bring him closer to the eighth rank.

Lu PingAn integrated the Soldier Path into his Ideal Country, building a War Game System that joined logistics production with frontline combat. By forging his Paths into a unified war machine, he completed his own supernatural path and realized that he had become war itself.

• Lu PingAn recognized that his Ideal Country lacked conflict and that its ban on battle left it without offensive power.
• Lu PingAn decided he needed an army to preserve peace and integrated the Soldier Path into his Courtyard as the War Game System.
• Lu PingAn combined the War Chessboard with his logistics abilities and developed a method to create War Chess Pieces.
• Lu PingAn united his Artisan, Scholar, Soldier, Beast Tamer, and Gardener Paths into a complete war machine.
• Lu PingAn realized his Gardener Path was merging with war and Puppeteer domains, turning him into an assembly line for war resources and war itself.