Chapter Summaries

Lady Lin’s leaders learned that Lu PingAn’s avatar had become a warlord and might soon unify the New World, while Lu PingAn strained to maintain his war domain and drove his army onward. His forces evolved through battle, and the chapter ended with them pursuing the fleeing overlord as their King’s conquest continued.

• Xiu Yi told Lady Lin’s leaders that Lu PingAn’s situation was delicate and that they should accelerate their progress, then clarified that he might unify the world before they arrived.
• Lu PingAn watched his nine Kings defeat an overlord and ordered them to kill their next opponents if they refused to obey.
• Lu PingAn maintained his war domain despite the strain, while the Soldier and Knight chess pieces granted two warriors powerful new templates.
• Lu Mouren sensed that he could advance toward becoming an overlord, and Lu PingAn’s flames spread across the battlefield, strengthening his forces.
• A subordinate called for the army to offer the world to their King, then evolved into a Bishop chess piece and pointed the army toward the fleeing overlord.

Cat Cat experimented on the Black King's army while Earth forces transformed Octopus World with giant forest trees and planned to reshape its ecosystem. Lu PingAn refused protection from Xiu Yi, and she recognized that he wanted to be beheaded just as an enemy arrived.

• Cat Cat used high-level superhumans in the Black King's army as test subjects, creating powerful monsters and spreading tales of the Black Flame and its king.
• Old Mr. Liu and the other Gardeners deployed Great Forest Trees across Octopus World, forming floating islands and gradually making the hostile environment habitable.
• Earth's leaders planned to replace the Free Fishmen nation's original ecosystem with an Earth-like environment as part of their southern strategy.
• Xiu Yi offered Lu PingAn support from the Eastern Kingdom government and the Forest Goddess Faction, but he refused and dismissed the need for bodyguards.
• Xiu Yi sensed the monster within Lu PingAn and realized he welcomed the possibility of being beheaded; she announced that the enemy had arrived.

Lu PingAn learned that powerful reinforcements from Eight-Clawed’s world had entered the plane, but their invasion met fierce resistance and began suffering losses. He turned their arrival into an opportunity, urging Black King’s followers to rebel and seize the richer world for themselves.

• Lu PingAn sensed the arrival of two deities, three demigods, and six Overlord-level fighters as battles erupted between the Eastern Kingdom coalition and the Eight-Clawed forces.
• The Eight-Clawed coalition suffered casualties and ran short of its cannon fodder after underestimating its opponents.
• An arrogant envoy ordered Black King to send fighters to the war, and an ocean giant crushed him when Black King’s servants acted on their king’s desire.
• Lu PingAn persuaded Black King’s followers that the invaders’ world held greater wealth and that Eight-Clawed was vulnerable, then Black King called on them to follow him and claim new lands and thrones.

Lu PingAn persuaded the Black Fire Legion’s Kings to keep expanding and rebel, while growing hostility weakened the allied Fishmen force. When the higher-ups sent the newly arrived Black King to watch the front lines, Lu Mouren accepted the order with a laugh.

• Lu PingAn explained that the Black Fire Legion could not stop expanding without risking its own collapse, and urged its Kings to rebel.
• The Kings accepted his call for war because their growing power and appetite for battle made them unwilling to stop.
• Lu PingAn’s forces and the allied reinforcements remained poorly organized, while old grudges and magically stirred resentment intensified their disputes.
• An explosion drew the Fishmen higher-ups outside, where they saw the foreign invaders provoking another battle.
• The higher-ups ordered the newly arrived Black King to watch the front lines, and Lu Mouren replied that he had always been there.

Lu PingAn used his Black King identity and hidden flame avatars to sabotage the coalition camp while its leaders fought outside, then launched an expedition through a gateway fortress into another world. The chapter left the coalition’s supply lines cut off and the Black army advancing.

• Lu PingAn found that the coalition leaders had accepted him and his Black Fire Army with little scrutiny, then used Excitement Grass Oil and his legion to worsen tensions in the camp.
• Lu PingAn revealed that Black King was a flame avatar while his true body remained elsewhere, and his avatars spread throughout the camp.
• Black Flame soldiers attacked the camp’s beast pens, granaries, hospitals, and other key areas as the potion drove defenders into panic and violence.
• A furious demigod destroyed the Black King Army’s camp, but Lu PingAn’s avatar mocked him because the real body was absent.
• The Black King ordered his army through a gateway fortress into another world, while the Black army destroyed Eight-Clawed’s supply granary and severed routes through the spatial checkpoints.

Lu PingAn sent the Burning Legion to spread Black Fire across the worlds, turning it into a multiversal natural disaster. When two demigods arrived to kill him for betraying the front, he remained seated and ordered his army to attack them.

• Lu PingAn's Undying vanguards overran unprepared fortresses, trading their lives for enemy casualties and growing stronger through the battlefield leveling system.
• Lu PingAn named his forces the Burning Legion and ordered them to scatter across the New World, spreading Black Fire through slaughter, destruction, assimilation, and corruption.
• Lu PingAn realized that the flames across different worlds could be understood as parts of his own life and that he had become the Trading Ground.
• Two demigods tracked down Lu PingAn to stop his betrayal from disrupting the front and its supply lines.
• Lu PingAn ordered the Burning Legion to attack the two demigods.

Black King endured the quasi-gods’ full-force assault by revealing that his true existence was the Black Flames spread throughout the world. The quasi-gods abandoned their attempt to kill him and returned to their battlefield, while Black King taunted them from the scattered flames.

• The Black Fire Army attacked Caso and Si Da Er with Black Flame, provoking the quasi-gods to unleash their full power.
• Caso tore open space and Si Da Er covered the ocean in chain lightning, killing many Black Fire warriors as they attacked Black King’s position.
• The quasi-gods believed Black King had been destroyed, but his mocking laughter emerged from the Black Flames that still burned across the sea.
• Black King manifested as flames, faces, and a colossal ghostly silhouette, then reassembled after Si Da Er’s lightning tore him apart.
• The quasi-gods wrecked the sea in fury, then returned to their battlefield after realizing they could not kill Black King’s energy spread throughout the world.
• Black King explained that his physical body was only an expendable interface and that he could perish only if every existence carrying his Life Points was erased.

Lu PingAn completed his evolution into a high-level Life-type being after the demigods killed him, turning Black Fire and Life Points into expressions of his true essence. He gained a way to recreate himself through the Courtyard, leaving his physical body no longer central to his existence.

• The demigods realized they had killed the Black Fire King's main body and inadvertently helped him complete his transformation, then withdrew as Black Flame spread across the Octopus World.
• Chris awakened and recognized how far Lu PingAn had come, while he thanked her for teaching him before she asked him to stop bringing up her death.
• Lu PingAn discovered that the Courtyard could produce new incarnations of him and the Black Fire King, making his continued existence independent of his current body.
• Lu PingAn understood that high-level Life-type beings were aggregates of life rather than fixed individuals, and saw All Spirits as a reflection of his true self.
• Lu PingAn connected the Battlefield Commander's life field, Black Fire, and Life Points, realizing that he could release and reclaim life as part of his own essence.
• When the demigods shattered his body, Lu PingAn let go of his final attachment to it and attained true immortality.

Lu PingAn learned that his life had transformed into a vast, interconnected system, making him exceptionally difficult to kill and able to grow rapidly. Your Excellency Xiu Yi then offered to teach him how powerful Life-types fought, warning that foreign demigods might otherwise target him in a God War.

• Your Excellency Xiu Yi explained that Lu PingAn had reached a rare stage of Life-type transformation that even Little Chief King had not attained.
• Lu PingAn and Your Excellency Xiu Yi discussed how damaging Eight-Clawed's worlds could weaken it and force it to retreat.
• Lu PingAn realized that his Life Points, Black Fire, and expanding networks formed a complete life system that could keep evolving as they circulated life.
• Lu PingAn asked whether his safety restriction could be lifted, and Your Excellency Xiu Yi agreed that he was now difficult to kill as long as he did not exhaust his points.
• Your Excellency Xiu Yi offered to teach Lu PingAn how Life-types above the demigod level fought, warning that foreign demigods might target him in a God War.

Lu PingAn realized that his transformed existence possessed the traits of a god, including immortality, a vast network of influence, and the ability to interfere with the mortal world. After examining his new powers and the gifts left by the demigods, he established the War Hall in the Courtyard as a place to endow Black Fire-type Professionals.

• Lu PingAn, the Black Fire King, and his puppet incarnation practiced multitasking by playing mahjong, while Cat Cat lost repeatedly and accused Lu PingAn of cheating.
• Lu PingAn grew accustomed to operating through multiple clones and concluded that his soul was central to his transformation into a higher-dimensional being.
• Lu PingAn recognized that the demigods’ attacks had left him with Lei Element Resistance and Space Perception, while his Life Perception had surpassed the system’s rank assessment.
• Lu PingAn understood that his body was only a small part of his greater existence and that normal reproduction was no longer possible for him.
• Lu PingAn sensed a spiritual network linking his soul through the Lamp Trees and created the War Hall in the Courtyard to endow Black Fire-type Professionals.

Lu PingAn created and released Black Flame professions as an exclusive pathway, while Your Excellency Xiu Yi explained how divine beings differed from True Gods. The chapter ended with Lu Lu becoming a Tier 8 Black Flame Professional and winning a great victory.

• Lu PingAn adapted the Burning Legion’s Black Flame system into a new Profession Module and released three professions for testing.
• Lu PingAn’s Black Flame professions gained popularity after factions discovered their effectiveness against Fishmen, especially underwater.
• Your Excellency Xiu Yi explained that True Gods gained power by making their rules part of the world’s logic, but became bound by its demands.
• Lu Lu advanced directly to Tier 8 as a Black Flame Professional and achieved a great victory.

Lu Lu used an incomplete Black Flame power to strengthen her army, accepting its lethal costs because she believed her country had only one chance. Her trust in Lu PingAn forced him to confront the ideals embodied in his power, and he began refining Teacher's Discourse.

• Lu Lu combined a third-tier Black Flame Rider with her Soldier Warlord path and used it to empower her troops, despite the casualties and risks.
• Lu Lu told Lu PingAn she had no time to wait and believed this was her race's, country's, and world's only chance; he offered to develop safer flames and urged her to consult the Forbidden Library.
• Lu Lu embraced Lu PingAn, affirming her devotion to his ideals, and left to return to her duties as Minister of the Military Department.
• After Lu Lu left, Big Cat pointed out that she trusted Lu PingAn more than he trusted himself.
• Lu PingAn considered how his ideals of peaceful trade and ruthless plunder shaped his power and the world around him, then opened Teacher's Discourse to make its supernatural and theoretical foundations more complete.

Lu PingAn’s Black Fire weapons and professions devastated the Fishmen and helped the Grand Strategy advance ahead of schedule, earning him recognition as an equal among the world’s powerful. After the Black Fire disaster subsided and his gains in the current conflict dwindled, he received a lucrative offer to support another Plane Battlefield.

• Lu PingAn expanded Black Fire production by creating a line of forged weapons and Black Fire professions, including the lethal Black Flash Burst Hand.
• The Military Committee reported that the front-line campaign had advanced at least half a year ahead of schedule while using less than thirty percent of its projected resources, and the home country awarded Lu PingAn its highest-grade military merit medal.
• The Black Fire disaster temporarily ended, the anticipated Fishman nation began to take shape, and Guan Xinxian turned his attention toward it.
• Lu PingAn received an offer to provide Professional employment services, conduct experiments, and sell military equipment on another Plane Battlefield.
• Lu PingAn agreed to consider the offer after learning the New World was a realm of flames and high temperatures that could benefit him and offer better prospects than the current battlefield.

Lu PingAn considered a request from the Eastern Kingdom to rescue a world at war, while preparing to leave Mercury 42 and finish his work there. He had not decided whether to accept the mission, and continued writing the promised second volume of Teacher's Discourse.

• A diplomatic official told Lu PingAn that the Eastern Kingdom considered him the best candidate to rescue a world whose elemental-bloodline natives struggled to take professions.
• Lu PingAn asked whether the commission was an order, and the official said it was a private request that he could decide on within half a year.
• Lu PingAn weighed the mission against the stalemate on Mercury 42 and his desire to explore the XJ Domain, but said he would finish his current projects first.
• Lu PingAn began activating the Beacon Network, announced a possible extended maintenance period, and saw a surge in supernatural evolution and retaliatory spending.
• Guan Xinxian's Redemption and Resistance Church became established, while the God of Resistance emerged as an early candidate deity spanning both realms.
• Lu PingAn decided to complete what he had promised Lu Lu and continued writing Teacher's Discourse, Volume Two: On War and Peace, and the Inevitable Hundred Years' War.

Lu PingAn wrote the second part of Teacher's Discourse, arguing that the war against Eight-Clawed would be prolonged and that the nations of this world needed unity, economic development, and a rotation system for their forces. He left the manuscript to be reviewed and revised by professionals, having sown ideas whose eventual effects he could not predict.

• Lu Lu asked Lu PingAn to complete Teacher's Discourse and offer strategies for the world's united resistance against Eight-Clawed and other invaders.
• Lu PingAn consulted local experts and Homeworld politicians while writing, and Lu Lu hoped his authority would temper calls for an immediate full-scale counteroffensive.
• Lu PingAn set out ideas about domestic cooperation, economic development, and preparing for a war that might take a hundred years to drive out the invaders.
• Lu PingAn proposed that frontline forces rotate to the rear for rest and reorganization, despite resistance from warlords who would not accept administrators' orders.
• Lu PingAn left the manuscript to professional teams for review and revision, unsure what his ideas would grow into.

Lu PingAn’s teachings became the guiding doctrine of the New Kingdom, offering ordinary people a practical way to support the war without demanding that everyone be a hero. As Lu Lu began writing military supplements with his approval, the unfinished canon grew into a tool for reform whose future influence exceeded its authors’ intentions.

• Lu PingAn’s practical teachings gained popularity by acknowledging human weakness while urging people to fight for themselves and their descendants.
• Lu Lu offered to write a supplementary booklet on tactics, combat experience, and survival to address gaps in Lu PingAn’s doctrine.
• Lu PingAn approved her proposal and gave his disciples authority to add expertise in military affairs and other fields.
• The New Kingdom’s scholars continued compiling Teacher's Discourse Second Volume and Disciples' Supplement as a reference for reform.
• The sacred canon later became renowned as a guide to civilization and war, though its contributors had only intended to make a useful reference book.

Lu PingAn agreed to join the Eastern Kingdom’s expedition to a world of flame and prepared the Rebirth Merchant Guild for his departure. He then began creating a newborn from the world’s spiritual seawater, leaving the creature’s final bodily foundation undecided.

• Lu PingAn agreed to set off for the world of flame within the month, since his evolution had slowed and his Black Flame needed new factors.
• Lu PingAn arranged for the Courtyard and part of the Rebirth Merchant Guild’s leadership to leave with him while established businesses remained behind.
• Lu PingAn planned to recruit experts and move selected production and research projects to the new world.
• Lu PingAn opened his Big Pot and used spiritual seawater as the blood foundation for a newborn, filling the Life Cauldron with the fused Cores of Wisdom.
• Lu PingAn considered what material to use as the newborn’s foundation of flesh and blood.

Gan Qianyun and the other defenders of Phoenix City hoped for reinforcements as the Phoenix War ground on. Meanwhile, Lu PingAn began creating an intelligent Water Elemental to complement his abilities.

• Gan Qianyun discussed the defenders’ poor prospects in Phoenix City and hoped the Eastern Kingdom would send capable reinforcements.
• A tavern patron revealed that the Eastern Kingdom had selected several military officers for the mission, including a supernova under twenty.
• Lu Mouren questioned Lu PingAn’s choice to use ordinary seawater as the Foundation of Flesh and Bone, but Lu PingAn ordered him to proceed.
• Lu PingAn poured seawater into the Life Cauldron and began creating a female-identified elemental life-form with the self-awareness of an intelligent creature.

Lu PingAn left the local chamber of commerce to travel to the New World, where he planned to help the Martial God’s church, while studying Life-type professions and caring for his new Magical Pet, Moon Spring. As he reviewed the front-line records, he grew more confident that the difficult assignment suited him.

• Lu PingAn wrapped up meetings with Lu Lu and the others, promised to return within half a year to a year, and set out, though his immense existence made boarding the ship a transport problem.
• Lu PingAn studied Life-type professional books and tried to find food that would help Moon Spring develop, but she only ate and showed no obvious evolution.
• Lu PingAn left Moon Spring in Zhi Xi’s care, and Zhi Xi teased him for neglecting his family to work and study.
• Lu PingAn read official records about the New World and learned that the threatened front lines belonged to the church of the legendary Martial God.
• Lu PingAn compared the information and concluded that the job ahead suited him.

Lu PingAn arrived in the Martial God's sphere of influence as a discreet Eastern Kingdom reinforcement and tested whether locals could become Professionals. He left the airport to explore the hostile world, where he discovered six suns in the sky.

• Lu PingAn learned from Colonel Ma Luotian that his identity and abilities had not leaked, and that he could choose his own targets and methods.
• Lu PingAn asked whether the local volunteers were ready, and Colonel Ma Luotian brought two locals for him to test.
• Lu PingAn found that one volunteer succeeded and one failed, while Wish Copper Coins could not grant them professions and Life Silver Coins were needed instead.
• Lu PingAn arranged to visit the base later and left the airport to look around on his own.
• Lu PingAn saw six suns in the sky and learned that ten to twenty suns generally appeared during the daytime.