Chapter Summaries

Humanity’s leaders discussed the Tier 11 monster threatening their world, while Xiu Yi explained what she knew about beings beyond Tier 10. They learned that the creature was an offspring of Eight-Clawed rather than a true Tier 11, though its weaknesses remained to be identified.

• The decision-makers recognized that the monster’s arrival might be a test of humanity, but agreed that humanity was currently the one being judged.
• Lu PingAn considered the vast difference between ordinary life, demigods, and higher-tier beings as the group asked about confronting Tier 11s.
• Xiu Yi said she had survived encounters with beings above Tier 10 and explained that the monster could not fully enter without tearing the world apart.
• Xiu Yi described the Grave Digger and Sun Scorpion as examples of the varied, unusual beings found beyond Tier 10.
• Shuichi reminded Lu PingAn that the Sun Scorpion had eaten the Twin Moons when the Silent Mountain Range World was destroyed.
• Xiu Yi said the monster was part of Eight-Clawed’s existence and that independent offspring like it had weaknesses.

The God Child’s presence spread an insatiable hunger across the world, boosting strength while accelerating metabolism, shortening lifespans, and threatening famine and civilizational collapse. As humanity struggled to understand how to fight Eight-Clawed, Lu PingAn suspected its hunger might reveal a way to repel it.

• Outland lords summoned their forces after the God Child’s white lights killed thousands, fearing Eight-Clawed’s avatar would consume them if they refused.
• The God Child’s hunger spread throughout the world, increasing food needs and letting Professionals grow stronger by eating.
• Lu PingAn and other Life-type Professionals’ experiments showed that accelerated metabolism shortened lifespans and could cut humanity’s lifespan in half.
• Humanity’s probes confirmed that Eight-Clawed’s white light consumed its tentacles, but its range and limits remained unclear.
• Lu PingAn wondered whether Eight-Clawed could be repelled by something it found unappetizing.

Lu PingAn prepared to face the God Above Gods, whose tentacles and presence rendered most supernatural abilities useless, while Marshal Fang urged humanity to fight despite the likely cost. After a planned ally failed to arrive, Lu PingAn summoned Zhi Xi as armor and dove into the sea to approach the enemy unseen, but something in the water detected him.

• Lu PingAn watched the approaching monster and realized that most of his abilities could not harm it.
• Marshal Fang broadcast that humanity had no choice but to counterattack, even if the battle demanded sacrifices.
• Lu PingAn waited on Small Boat for a planned ally, but the fighter never arrived, and he dismissed the high-level combatants who had fled.
• Lu PingAn summoned Zhi Xi, who armored him in a compact but enormously heavy metal form.
• Lu PingAn dove into the sea to evade detection, but something beneath the water caught his scent.

Lu PingAn infiltrated the Fishmen’s defensive line in Australia by disguising himself as a patrol creature, while investigating the Tier 11 monster’s white-light ability. He concluded that he had likely guessed correctly about how the monster’s appetite worked and entered Australia Main Island without being detected.

• Lu PingAn killed the surrounding Fishmen, sea beasts, Naga, and a Shadow Ray with black flames, then resurrected their ashes as a creature he named Patrol No. 1872.
• Lu PingAn hid inside Patrol No. 1872 and sent it along the patrol route toward the Fishmen’s defensive line in Australia.
• Lu PingAn studied the monster’s white light and suspected it was a feeding ability whose appetite could be triggered by unfamiliar food.
• Lu PingAn tested his theory by infiltrating Australia Main Island, and the enemy’s failure to react suggested he had guessed correctly.

Lu PingAn sensed the higher-dimensional monster’s nature and discovered that it had noticed him but dismissed him as inedible. He realized his Spiritual Intuition and past encounter with the Octopus Child had revealed a destiny tied to Earth, then chose to treat fate as a tool as he approached his target.

• Top-tier Professionals discussed dragging the monster into their world and making it vulnerable to attacks imbued with divinity.
• Lu PingAn entered Australia, sensed the monster observing him, and feared it had discovered him.
• The monster judged Lu PingAn not tasty and let him pass, confirming his theory that it behaved like a child seeking food.
• Lu PingAn linked his Spiritual Intuition to his past encounter with the Octopus Child in the Salvation Secret Realm and suspected Earth’s fate had placed him in this role.
• Lu PingAn rejected the idea of being fate’s slave and walked openly toward his target, intending to use destiny for his own purposes.

Lu PingAn investigated an alienized region of Australia and found a Fishmen tribe whose altar connected to the Eight-Clawed gods. After his attempt to identify one of the gods killed the priest, he planned to use the tribe’s rituals to summon, weaken, and drag the entity overhead into a lower dimension.

• Lu PingAn observed that Australia had become an ocean-like alienized region where the Fishmen were stronger on their home ground.
• Lu PingAn found a Fishmen tribe’s altar and recognized its bone patterns and totems as a ritual connected to the Eight-Clawed gods.
• Lu PingAn touched the Fifth Claw to identify the entity and learned its name: Fang of Ashen Oblivion, Scaleless King.
• The priest’s head exploded after he began reciting the god’s name, so Lu PingAn left to seek more people for his experiments.
• Lu PingAn concluded that he could reverse the summoning ritual to pull the god down, weaken it, and force it into a lower dimension.

Lu PingAn identified Akadisha as a civilization-devouring God Above Gods and concluded that it favored intelligent life and civilizations it had never consumed. After Big Cat warned him not to provoke the god, Lu PingAn received a radar showing living people nearby, including members of the local Resistance Army.

• Lu PingAn gathered the god’s titles from altars and inferred that its many avatars shared one existence across dimensions.
• Lu PingAn tracked and killed Fishmen across Australia while evading the high-level combatants pursuing him.
• Lu PingAn synthesized his findings and identified the god as Akadisha, the Brain-Chewing Claw, a natural enemy of intelligence and civilization.
• Lu PingAn told the Drone that the rear should prepare intelligent creatures, especially those from alien civilizations, as offerings the god had never tasted.
• Big Cat warned Lu PingAn that the god might target him and the Courtyard, and Lu PingAn reconsidered his impulse to test its abilities.
• The Drone gave Lu PingAn a radar that revealed several nearby lifeforms, including survivors from the local Resistance Army.

Lu PingAn learned that a small, scattered Resistance Army still survived in Australia and decided to investigate a possible rescue. After finding the survivors, he spotted a black-haired, black-eyed leader and changed his plans.

• Lu PingAn learned from classified intelligence that past rescue attempts in Australia had been betrayed and that the remaining Resistance Army was difficult to trust.
• Lu PingAn decided to investigate the survivors, while a Naga Sword Saint and a Storm Priest searched for him and chose to leave after failing to find him.
• The Fishman patrol continued recruiting people and gathering food for its master, unknowingly allowing Lu PingAn and the resistance forces to escape danger.
• Lu PingAn used his perception abilities and drones to find the hidden survivors, then reconsidered his plan when he saw their leader had black hair and black eyes.

Lu PingAn entered a hidden Resistance Army camp in Australia and recognized its leader, Zhu Xinran, as a powerful Child of Destiny. As Zhu Xinran rallied her people to strike a nearby Fishmen tribe, she detected Lu PingAn and quietly arranged to surround him.

• Lu PingAn observed how Fishmen tribes had pushed Australian survivors into forests and caves, leaving the Resistance Army with few places to hide.
• Zhu Xinran urged the Resistance Army to seek supplies and escape by attacking a nearby Fishmen tribe or capturing a patrol squad.
• Lu PingAn identified Zhu Xinran as a twenty-two-year-old East Country People who had gone missing three years earlier and risen from an ordinary student to a Rule-level fighter.
• Zhu Xinran detected Lu PingAn despite his concealment, signaled her people, and had them surround him while vulnerable camp members quietly left.
• Lu PingAn considered whether to make another Investment in Zhu Xinran.

Zhu Xinran used Spirit Sight to identify Lu PingAn, but his presence overwhelmed her and left her near death. Lu PingAn restored her, warned her about Spirit Sight, and requisitioned her people as she advanced through the ordeal.

• Zhu Xinran spotted the cloaked metal humanoid among her people and ordered her guards to attack, but they could not perceive him.
• The humanoid confronted Zhu Xinran, crushed her knees, and nearly killed her as she resisted with defiance.
• Lu PingAn interrupted the attack, healed Zhu Xinran, and scolded her for keeping Spirit Sight open without guidance.
• Lu PingAn realized Zhu Xinran had inherited divine power and was a child of the plane, then noticed that she had advanced.
• Lu PingAn introduced himself as a lieutenant general of the Eastern Kingdom and requisitioned Zhu Xinran's people, ordering her to come with him.

Lu PingAn met an Eastern Kingdom guerrilla squad led by a strangely powerful woman and learned they planned to rescue her captured younger sister, Zhu YuYue. After receiving an order to send the squad on a dangerous mission, he offered them identities, medals, homes, and pensions if they completed it.

• Lu PingAn questioned the woman and learned that her squad had dwindled from 160 people to fewer than 30, with only eleven fighters remaining.
• The squad explained that they planned to raid a nearby village to rescue Meatmen and recruit fighters, while also hoping to earn a Ship Ticket.
• Lu PingAn assessed the squad as unusually elite and learned that the woman's younger sister, Zhu YuYue, had been captured but was still alive.
• A Drone delivered an order for the squad to dig holes across the world, build altars, and summon evil gods.
• Lu PingAn offered the squad Eastern Kingdom identities, War Hero medals, a house, and lifetime pensions if they completed the dangerous mission.

Lu PingAn briefed a six-person squad on a plan to secretly strengthen the enemy’s foreignization rituals while powerful operatives served as a smokescreen. After Zhu Xinran chose the mission over rescuing her sister, Lu PingAn decided to go find her sister and confront the lord guarding her.

• Lu PingAn recruited six volunteers and explained that their mission was to alter Eight-Clawed altars using a new sacrificial ritual.
• Lu PingAn told the squad to avoid the powerful operatives’ attacks and use his rare beasts as offerings to the monster above them.
• Lu PingAn gave the squad business cards that could help them escape or replenish their sacrifices.
• Lu PingAn explained that the plan would begin in six hours, alongside a major Eastern Kingdom drone and landing operation.
• Zhu Xinran struggled over whether to rescue her sister but ultimately chose the greater good.
• Lu PingAn asked where Zhu Xinran’s sister was and decided to go confront the lord near her.

As the invasion of the island began, Lu PingAn watched the human forces attack amid a world whose altered natural laws were destroying technology and threatening ordinary people. He deployed his vast wolf pack against the Fishmen, leaving the island’s battle underway.

• Your Excellency Xiu Yi confirmed that the assault had begun as the human forces launched a full-scale attack across the island.
• Lu PingAn watched drones, landing craft, artillery, and elite combatants strike the island while his tablet repeatedly failed under the altered physical laws.
• Your Excellency Xiu Yi explained that forced alienation could immediately kill more than ninety-seven percent of the population, while drone protective coatings failed rapidly in the hostile environment.
• Lu PingAn said goodbye to Shuichi's avatar and summoned the wolf pack he had accumulated over several years.
• The Wolf King greeted Lu PingAn, who ordered the pack to attack everything nonhuman as black flames spread across the wolves.

Lu PingAn led his Black Flame legion toward the Fishmen Territory while Zhu Xinran followed, hoping to learn from him and save her younger sister. Cat Cat raced ahead into the enemy camp and called for help when a hegemon-class creature chased her, as Lu PingAn sensed that an existence beyond the world had begun to act.

• Lu PingAn raised an army of Black Flame treants, war machines, and otherworldly monsters, then marched toward the Fishmen Territory with mixed formations of werewolves and war beasts.
• Zhu Xinran apologized for following him but accepted his challenge to keep up in hopes that he would teach her.
• Cat Cat volunteered to protect Zhu Xinran, then flew ahead to hunt Fishmen scouts and seek opportunities to advance as a Death-type.
• Cat Cat sent a desperate message asking for help after venturing deep into the enemy camp and drawing the attention of a hegemon-class creature.
• Lu PingAn prepared to rescue Cat Cat, then looked toward the sky and sensed that an existence beyond the world had begun to act.

Lu PingAn’s army advanced through Australia as a God Above Gods tore open a rift and devoured a mountain range, while Lu PingAn considered the danger facing Zhu Xinran. At the Lord’s castle, a Fishmen general provoked Lu PingAn’s group and was killed by a sudden strike of lightning.

• A God Above Gods reached into the world, destroyed a tentacle, and swallowed a mountain range along with the human demigods atop it.
• Lu PingAn ordered his army onward, using the life-type Lords and their cultivated creations as bait to draw the monster’s attacks.
• Lu PingAn and Big Cat discussed Zhu Xinran’s Life-type Ability Exchange talent, and Lu PingAn quietly raised her survival priority.
• Lu PingAn’s group reached the Lord’s castle, where a Nine-Headed Dragon general taunted them by chewing on a human head.
• Lu PingAn warned Zhu Xinran not to provoke opponents without strategic reason, then a bolt of thunder killed the Nine-Headed Dragon general.

Lu PingAn gave Zhu Xinran dragon-slaying and other race-specific weapons while teaching her how preparation and specialized abilities could decide a war. He recognized her potential as a rule-holder and planned to develop her into a subordinate god who could help complete the Country of Reason.

• Lu PingAn gave Zhu Xinran the weapon "Multi-Headed Dragon Must Die!" and explained how its curses targeted multi-headed dragons.
• Lu PingAn taught Zhu Xinran to combine her innate "Exchange" talent with production-type abilities and gave her a collection of specialized weapons.
• Zhu Xinran watched Lu PingAn's forces use prepared, race-specific curses against the Fishmen and concluded that wealth could win battles.
• Lu PingAn explained that victory depended on preparation and national strength, and urged Zhu Xinran to exchange people with objects and Fishmen.
• Lu PingAn recognized that Zhu Xinran's undeveloped abilities could help complete the Country of Reason and support his advancement as a subordinate god.

Lu PingAn unleashed the full power of his Black Flame Legion, turning the battlefield into a self-sustaining domain where fallen allies revived as fire elementals. He waited for the overlord-class enemy to challenge him, while telling his new disciple that life was currency to be collected.

• Lu PingAn revealed that his hidden combat abilities included mastery of flame, life, and death as his troops surged into battle.
• His legion overwhelmed the Fishmen and ocean creatures, using Black Flame to burn away their life and moisture while drawing strength from the fallen.
• Lu PingAn opened a strange book and revived dead wolves, warriors, and treants as Black Flame Riders.
• The Black Flame Legion evolved into fire elementals, making the battle increasingly difficult for the Fishmen to survive.
• Lu PingAn watched the overlord-class lord behind the city wall, waiting for it to attack and break his domain.
• Lu PingAn told Zhu Xinran that if the enemy did not attack, he would kill every living thing to strengthen his legion, and that life was currency.

Lu PingAn watched the battle while explaining the dangers of Life-type powers to the girl, who chose to study the battlefield’s flow of life. When the Obscure Death Serpent appeared and attacked with time-based powers, Lu PingAn blocked it and sent the Black Flame Legion to fight it.

• Lu PingAn told the girl that powerful Life-type beings often used living creatures as resources and described the costs of following that path.
• The girl decided to study the flow of life on the battlefield.
• The Obscure Death Serpent emerged on the city walls and spread decay, killing nearby humans and Fishmen.
• The serpent fired a beam of red light at Lu PingAn, who blocked it with a round red shield and recognized its power over time.
• Lu PingAn ordered the Black Flame Legion to attack, and its forces resisted the serpent’s temporal erosion and drove it back.
• As the serpent tried to escape by accelerating its own time, Lu PingAn appeared atop its head and called it material.

Lu PingAn used spatial barriers and Great Flame Purgatory to counter the Obscure Death Serpent’s time powers and overpower it. The serpent tried to bargain, but Lu PingAn kept attacking, while Zhu Xinran realized his stockpiled weapons had decided the fight.

• Lu PingAn sensed the Obscure Death Serpent’s Time Power and recognized it as a chance to evolve his Main Body Courtyard.
• Lu PingAn trapped the serpent in Great Flame Purgatory and used Annihilate Space to tear its body and disrupt its temporal abilities.
• The Obscure Death Serpent reversed time to recover, then offered Lu PingAn peace and a treasure chest.
• Lu PingAn rejected the offer, replaced his shattered Hellfire Divine Cover, and continued to restrain the serpent with his reserves of weapons.
• Zhu Xinran watched Lu PingAn dominate the fight and understood how preparation and supplies could decide a war.

Lu PingAn used his control over space, Black Flame, and a vast supply of Taboo Items to defeat the Obscure Death Serpent, a time-wielding overlord. After the victory, Zhu Xinran and the command center learned that he had killed one of humanity’s most notorious enemies in under twenty minutes.

• Lu PingAn repeatedly shattered space to interrupt the Obscure Death Serpent’s Time Vortex and trap it in a Flame Cage.
• The Obscure Death Serpent cursed Lu PingAn with Without Descendants, then tried to prepare another deathbed curse as its strength waned.
• Lu PingAn overwhelmed the serpent with Space Quakes, Black Flame, Purifying Flame, and Taboo Items while his forces gained strength from the battlefield.
• After sixteen minutes and forty-two seconds, Lu PingAn killed the Obscure Death Serpent and its remains disappeared.
• Zhu Xinran questioned how easily her master had won, while the command center celebrated his rapid victory over the eighth-rank lord.