Chapter Summaries

Lu PingAn’s advisers concluded that his Tier 8 Life Cauldron could not nurture a deity, so they devised a way to combine it with the Tier 10 Courtyard and new potion-making rules. He created a life Incubation Pool, but the advisers were still disputing its materials, and Lu PingAn ran short of Life Points.

• The big shots explained that Lu PingAn’s Tier 8 Life Cauldron was too weak to affect the Tier 11 fragments and proposed using the Courtyard’s Tier 10 authority.
• The big shots advised Lu PingAn to merge the cauldron into the Courtyard and add potion-making knowledge to build a stronger World's Logic.
• Two potion masters taught Lu PingAn through the Library, while other high-tier experts shared knowledge and helped him rapidly advance as a Potion Master.
• Lu PingAn absorbed the cauldron into the Courtyard, creating a life Incubation Pool with feed ports filled with dragon and serpent flesh and other materials.
• The big shots argued over the materials for the new life, and Lu PingAn found that he did not have enough Life Points.

Lu PingAn poured Life Points and precious materials into the Courtyard’s grotesque Incubation Pool as the community’s sacrifices strengthened his understanding of life’s circulation. After absorbing vast resources, the pool finally cracked and began to hatch.

• Lu PingAn discovered that his Courtyard had formed a Zerg-like Incubation Pool from his concepts and the life-nurturing items it absorbed.
• Lu PingAn sold and traded for knowledge and rule items, strengthening his Courtyard while struggling to cover its heavy Life Point costs.
• A flood of Traders made repeated transactions and paid taxes with their lifespans to support Lu PingAn’s project and improve their chances of surviving the coming crisis.
• Lu PingAn recognized that people were willing to give up life for others and for the lives they hoped to reclaim, deepening his understanding of life’s circulation.
• Lu PingAn poured hundreds of thousands of Life Points, rare materials, dragon and serpent flesh, and rule-level equipment into the Incubation Pool.
• The Incubation Pool cracked open, and the newborn inside began to hatch.

Lu PingAn’s team accelerated the Incubation Pool project with the delivered Golden Crow’s blood while humanity struggled to hold back the multiplying dragon-serpents. As the newborn began breaking free from its cocoon, Lu PingAn said he was certain it would succeed, though he did not believe in miracles.

• The Incubation Pool began to boil as humanity shifted into strategic defense against the multiplying dragon-serpents.
• A sealed case containing the Golden Crow’s still-burning blood arrived, and Lu PingAn sensed that the Golden Crow was alive and in good condition.
• Researchers examined the Golden Crow’s blood, and its addition accelerated the Incubation Pool’s incubation process.
• Lu PingAn watched the newborn start to break free from its cocoon and said he kept investing because he considered its success certain.

Lu PingAn’s new dragon beast, Infinite Boundless Mist Sound, appeared to be a powerless newborn, but she revealed herself as the natural enemy of the Calamity Dragons. After devouring several of them, she gave the researchers hope that their altered principle could help them survive.

• Lu PingAn named the newborn dragon Infinite Boundless Mist Sound after confirming that her creation had succeeded.
• The crowd released her into the sea, where she climbed onto a Calamity Dragon and devoured it while the creature remained frozen.
• After sleeping and growing to the size of an adult wolf, Wu Yin summoned and devoured another dragon-serpent with only a few bites.
• The researchers celebrated Wu Yin’s success as Big Cat explained that the revised principle made life of the same origin return to one.

Lu PingAn gave the Little Guy an artificial core that let her command lower-tier dragon-serpents, but a tyrant-class monster exposed the limits of her ability. He urged the group to eliminate the higher-tier threats themselves until only Tier 7 dragon-serpents remained.

• Lu PingAn explained that All Spirits embraced both the merging and separation of life, and gave the coreless dragon-serpent a core filled with the Mother Goddess's fusion instinct.
• The group used a Mechanical Awakener-like process to give the dragon-serpent an artificial soul, creating the Little Guy.
• The Little Guy grew enormous and seemed able to control dragon-serpents, raising the group's hopes that she could save the world.
• A tyrant-class monster attacked, but the group quickly defeated it and realized the Little Guy could only command Tier 7 dragon-serpents.
• Lu PingAn reassured the group and said they could kill the higher-tier monsters until only Tier 7 dragon-serpents remained.

With Little Guy’s power offering a path to victory, the world mobilized to hunt the Dragon Serpents, while Lu PingAn kept fighting despite growing political suspicion and danger. He received new research commissions concerning the Golden Crow and Xing Tian Evil Beast as the final war continued.

• News that the planet could be saved spread worldwide, and top-tier combatants began hunting the demigod and overlord-class Dragon Serpents.
• Lu PingAn remained a target for possible political betrayal, but more than ten demigods accompanied Little Guy while it grew stronger.
• Lu PingAn joined the difficult front-line hunts with Chris, whose combined power allowed them to reliably kill demigod-class Dragon Serpents.
• Lu PingAn received a top-secret commission to study the humanization of a top-tier lifeform using a sample of fierce flaming blood, which he suspected belonged to the Golden Crow.
• The Lu PingAn Laboratory received tissue samples from the Xing Tian Evil Beast in hopes of finding a way to defeat it.

At a gathering of powerful Professionals, Lu PingAn’s connection to Wu Yin and her Mother Goddess-like powers became clear, while the leaders assessed his potential and discussed the approaching end of the war. Lu PingAn learned that reaching the God Above Gods might require holding the world in his hand.

• Wu Yin split into more than twenty bodies, revealing to the gathered experts that she had absorbed the Mother Goddess’s power and embodied Lu PingAn’s Logic.
• The experts concluded that Lu PingAn’s All Spirits Truth surpassed the Mother Goddess and could reproduce the paths once provided by the Calamity Beast, though he had no need to found a church.
• Powerful Professionals sought friendly meetings and long-term cooperation with Lu PingAn as reports confirmed the Golden Crow had been dealt with and hinted that the Dragon Serpent could be stopped.
• Lu Mouren received restricted intelligence about the strongest quasi-gods, Earth’s hidden strength, and Big Cat’s standing among her peers.
• Lu PingAn received a hint that becoming a God Above Gods might require holding the world in his hand.

After Wu Yin’s creation brought Lu PingAn close to demigodhood, he repeatedly refused the world’s urging to ascend and considered the changing war. As the Dragon Serpents dwindled and the Otherworld Invaders became trapped, the undefeated Xing Tian Evil Beast continued killing demigods and gods, prompting Lu PingAn to propose sending Wu Yin against it.

• Wu Yin’s birth and evolution loosened Lu PingAn’s bottleneck, and the world repeatedly urged him to ascend, but he refused.
• Wu Yin’s divided flesh hunted Tier 7 Dragon Serpents while a part of her stayed in the Courtyard, leaving Lu PingAn confident she could survive unless he died and the Courtyard was destroyed.
• The Dragon Serpents increasingly preyed on the isolated Otherworld Invaders, whose escape portals had been blocked by the God Above Gods.
• The war improved as the Dragon Serpents were cleared out, but the invulnerable Xing Tian Evil Beast kept causing heavy losses among the defenders.
• After learning that three demigods and two gods had died, Lu PingAn submitted a report proposing that Wu Yin try fighting Xing Tian Evil Beast.

Lu PingAn analyzed the Steel Forged Xing Tian, a near-invulnerable War Machine that had been slaughtering gods and demigods, and concluded that conventional attacks could not stop it. After noticing Xing Tian ignored the Dragon Serpent, he gained a possible opening and prepared to send Wu Yin into battle.

• Lu PingAn learned that the Golden Crow, Dragon Serpent, and Xing Tian were three world-ending trials designed to test humanity’s resilience.
• Reports and battlefield footage showed that Xing Tian could kill even divine incarnations in moments, regenerate rapidly, and withstand the world’s strongest attacks.
• The hunting teams discovered that Xing Tian relied on vibrations to sense targets and prioritized gods and other powerful beings, but using them as bait was costing too many lives.
• Lu PingAn noticed in a recording that Xing Tian ignored the Dragon Serpent while the two beasts fought nearby.
• Lu PingAn proposed sending Wu Yin to test a possible way to stop Xing Tian, and his application was approved as Wu Yin began gathering from around the world.

Lu PingAn tested whether a Dragon Serpent body could pass as the same species to Steel Forged Xing Tian and avoid its attacks. The disguise worked until Little Guy’s dragon breath provoked the beast, killing Lu PingAn but confirming his theory and giving humanity a possible path toward victory.

• Lu PingAn fused with Little Guy and Wu Yin’s clones to form a giant Dragon Serpent made from Dragon Serpent flesh and genes.
• Lu PingAn blocked Steel Forged Xing Tian’s path, and the beast ignored the giant dragon and tried to go around it.
• Lu PingAn ordered the giant dragon to slap Steel Forged Xing Tian repeatedly, and the beast did not retaliate.
• Little Guy fired a lethal dragon-breath storm into Steel Forged Xing Tian’s mouth, and the beast immediately killed Lu PingAn.
• Lu PingAn revived at the resurrection point and realized the test had confirmed that the same-species disguise could keep Steel Forged Xing Tian from attacking until provoked.

As disasters spread across the world, Lu PingAn gained approval for a strategy to exploit a loophole rather than defeat the Xing Tian Evil Beast through a costly direct battle. He began the operation by confronting it as the core of a Wu Yin fusion while seven weaker dragon fusions took positions around it.

• Reports described Pingdu City’s fall, catastrophic flooding, and Fishmen claiming the flooded coastal states as their Ze Kingdom.
• Lu PingAn and his allies concluded that humanity could not endure much longer and proposed a plan that offered better odds than brute force.
• The rear approved Lu PingAn’s plan the next day and sent the requested support as troops and resources assembled.
• More than twenty quasi-gods joined the strategic deployment, while Lu PingAn prepared to serve as the plan’s core rather than a sacrificial piece.
• Lu PingAn fused with Wu Yin using Life Resonance, and seven other Wu Yin fusion dragons arrived to block the Xing Tian Evil Beast.

Lu PingAn used dragon-serpent avatars to exploit the Xing Tian Evil Beast’s rules and trap it, then called in the Golden Crow to strike it. After the Golden Crow’s sun-like attack engulfed the battlefield, Lu PingAn revived and rejoiced, though the beast’s fate remained uncertain.

• Lu PingAn surrounded the Xing Tian Evil Beast with giant dragons formed from dragon-serpent flesh, exploiting its refusal to attack its own kind and trapping it in place.
• Lu PingAn explained that the headless beast’s rule-bound behavior made it vulnerable to a deliberate attack from one of its own kind.
• A gigantic Golden Crow appeared above the battlefield, and Lu PingAn assured the spectators that it was an ally.
• The Golden Crow gathered nine suns into a single blazing mass while the trapped beast’s defenses failed to activate against its own kind.
• The Golden Crow dropped the sun onto the Xing Tian Evil Beast, shaking the Pacific and killing Lu PingAn again.
• Lu PingAn completed his progress bar, revived, and felt joyful.

Lu PingAn discovered that dying in the Golden Crow’s attack let his Flame Absorption constitution absorb its divine fire, while the strike badly wounded Steel Forged Xing Tian. He exploited a flaw in the beast’s behavior to help the Golden Crow attack again, then died once more as the battlefield’s leaders began to believe victory was possible.

• Lu PingAn revived after letting the Golden Crow’s first attack burn him and gained a wisp of Unnamed True Blazing Flame.
• He entered Command HQ and saw that the Golden Crow’s strike had left Steel Forged Xing Tian severely wounded and slowly regenerating.
• Lu PingAn concluded that Steel Forged Xing Tian could not retaliate against colleagues or hold a grudge, and used that flaw to help contain it.
• The Golden Crow struck Steel Forged Xing Tian again while Lu PingAn controlled the attack, and he died after lasting one second longer than before.
• Lu PingAn revived with a seed of Unnamed True Blazing Flame as the others cheered at the prospect of victory.

Lu PingAn’s forces fought the gravely wounded Evil Beast as Brain-Chewing Claw pulled the battlefield into its dimension. Human allies redirected the battlefield into another Octopus Domain, cutting off the God Above Gods’ interference, and the enemy’s retreat brought the Plane Defense War to the brink of victory.

• Lu PingAn continued sacrificing lives and reinforcements to attack the Evil Beast, but the battlefield began sinking into another world.
• Brain-Chewing Claw’s gaze transformed the battlefield into its dimension, disrupting communications and weakening Lu PingAn’s confidence as the Golden Crow seemed ready to flee.
• Divine incarnations and demigods redirected the battlefield into another Octopus Domain, severing Brain-Chewing Claw’s line of sight.
• The dying Evil Beast sighed as the God Above Gods withdrew, leaving behind a curse that strengthened Lu PingAn’s God Power.
• The Golden Crow unleashed a powerful attack on the Evil Beast as the Plane Defense War reached its dawn of victory.

After the God Above Gods fled, Lu PingAn and his allies continued fighting the Xing Tian Evil Beast in the Octopus Secret Realm. On the fourth day, the beast collapsed, securing victory in the Plane Defense War.

• The God Above Gods abandoned part of Himself and fled, while Lu PingAn sensed that polluted zones and minor secret realms had been wiped away.
• The Golden Crow broke the dragon's blockade and attacked the Xing Tian Evil Beast, fighting it fiercely at close range before returning to aerial assaults.
• Lu PingAn supported the battle with the dragon and Deferred Payment, which reduced some of the beast's injuries despite its god-level strength.
• The allied high-level fighters joined the prolonged battle as Lu PingAn gathered the Golden Crow's flames and supplied support, even dying twice while contributing.
• After three days of fighting, the Xing Tian Evil Beast collapsed on the fourth day, and the defenders celebrated their victory in the Plane Defense War.

After humanity defeated the Xing Tian Evil Beast and drove back the God Above Gods, Lu PingAn returned to Dragon Moon Island and faced the urgent need to advance alongside a mountain of postwar responsibilities. He summoned the association officers to arrange matters before preparing to use his newly acquired materials.

• The Xing Tian Evil Beast fell, and humanity celebrated its victory while Lu PingAn contacted Command HQ and was told to rest until the next day.
• Lu PingAn learned that the remains of the God Above Gods were nourishing the world, while the crater where Australia had been remained a deadly abyss and the damaged sky still needed to heal.
• Lu PingAn considered the remaining Dragon Serpents, the New Gods, the world's social and technological upheaval, and the Golden Crow's likely permanent presence as future problems.
• Lu PingAn returned to Dragon Moon Island, saw the survivors celebrating, and summoned association officers back from vacation for overtime meetings.
• Cat Cat clung to Lu PingAn when he said he would leave, and he reassured her that he only needed to advance and planned to use his God Above Gods-series materials while they were fresh.

After the Plane Defense War, Lu PingAn’s group gained influence and new business opportunities, but he made clear he did not want a senior government post. He organized his companies for overseas trade and prepared to leave Earth behind to pursue greater power.

• Lu PingAn’s allies concluded that his disappearance meant he was advancing, while his intact Courtyard and Trading Grounds reassured people that he had survived.
• Officials and business contacts discussed using Lu PingAn’s wartime reputation and trading network to sell supplies abroad, but Lu PingAn rejected espionage and mercenary work.
• Lu PingAn signaled that he wanted to avoid a government appointment and divided departments to establish international freight and foreign trade companies.
• Lu PingAn learned that the war had devastated the world’s population and reshaped the Americas and Europa, while the Eastern Kingdom remained comparatively strong.
• Lu PingAn ordered the Earth Branch to manage the Courtyard and Trading Grounds conservatively, avoid debt, and prepare for his long sleep.

Lu PingAn bid farewell to Old Liu, then began preparing to remake his body and carry out his Rebirth. After his companions contributed flesh and blood to the Incubation Pool, he ordered the addition of divine materials to begin the transformation.

• Lu PingAn visited Old Liu on Dragon Moon Island and watched him spend his final hours with old friends, accepting his impending end as the release he had chosen.
• A branch delivered Lu PingAn a primitive wooden mask appraised as above god-tier, and he left the island for his Courtyard.
• Lu PingAn activated the Incubation Pool and explained that he needed to unify his body and paths to create a stronger vessel for his World's Logic.
• Zhi Xi and Lu PingAn's other family members and Magical Pets contributed their flesh, blood, and genes to the pool, providing the foundation for his Rebirth.
• Lu PingAn ordered the addition of Golden Crow blood, Dragon Serpent flesh, and Xing Tian bones to begin the transformation.

Lu PingAn used the Incubation Pool and his life laws to reshape himself, seeking a stronger body and a higher ceiling for his future advancement. He entered the Blood Pool to fuse his humanity and self-awareness with the materials for a new body, leaving his rebirth—and whether it would amount to death—uncertain.

• Lu PingAn considered how his human template limited his physical strength and concluded that humanity’s innate racial stats could be a disadvantage in the multiverse.
• Lu PingAn decided to use his Creation Ability and the Incubation Pool to reshape himself rather than rely on ordinary advancement projects.
• Lu PingAn chose Steel Forged Xing Tian’s bones as the Foundation of Bone, Golden Crow flames as the Essence of Blood, and Dragon Serpent flesh as the Karma of Flesh for his new body.
• Lu PingAn entered the Blood Pool with his memories, wisdom, and humanity as the Core of Wisdom, declaring that he was human and Lu PingAn before beginning his rebirth.

As Lu PingAn hibernated in the Rebirth Nest to rebuild himself, the world adjusted to its victory in the Plane War and prepared for the troubles still ahead. Three months later, as the stars returned, Lu PingAn’s heartbeat stirred and he began to awaken.

• Lu PingAn entered a long hibernation to absorb his Magical Pets’ power and build a new humanoid template from the God of Extinction’s materials.
• The war’s outcome favored humanity, but Special Task Force guardians continued policing supernatural incidents and invasions as Earth’s weakened barrier attracted new dangers.
• The Eastern Kingdom saw more people become supernatural beings, while Professionals stabilized, advanced, and awakened Profession Abilities more easily.
• Ordinary people also gained strength and longevity, so researchers paused the planned evolutionary leap while they studied the world’s changes and the God Above Gods’ knowledge.
• Dragon Moon Island’s sinking forced refugees to relocate and Pacific Theater forces to rotate, while the chaos from Dragon Serpents, Outland Visitors, and New Gods diminished.
• Three months later, the stars returned and Lu PingAn began to awaken from his slumber.