Chapter Summaries

Lu PingAn traveled aboard the Redemption Merchant Guild’s flagship, reassured its passengers when a tamed Dragon Serpent appeared, and sent Cat Cat to destroy two pirate ships. Cat Cat uncovered that a Mountainous Country major was behind the disguised pirates, leaving Lu PingAn suspecting his former ally planned to seize control of Southeast Asia.

• Lu PingAn’s fleet sailed toward Southeast Asia, and he calmed frightened passengers by showing them the tamed Little Guy.
• Lu PingAn sent Cat Cat to deal with two pirate ships, and she sank them without leaving any survivors.
• Cat Cat reported that the pirates came from Mountainous Country and that a major was involved.
• Lu PingAn learned that the ships had been targeting the Eastern Kingdom–Southeast Asia route and suspected Mountainous Country wanted to take over the region.

Lu PingAn discussed how the military-merit land policy made restoring Sakurajima and other East Sea countries unlikely, as powerful people from many nations claimed the reclaimed territory. A former royal descendant instead planned to establish a small country in Southeast Asia, where Mountainous Country’s ambitions threatened to obstruct them.

• Lu PingAn explained that the military-merit land policy had given reclaimed territory to individuals, making it difficult for the Eastern Kingdom to support restoring countries in the East Sea.
• The client acknowledged that the East Sea region was unlikely to reunite under Sakurajima and said they planned to build a small country in Southeast Asia.
• Lu PingAn considered the Eastern Kingdom’s willingness to support the plan, since it had little interest in Southeast Asia and the client had offered an Outland planet.
• Lu PingAn learned that Mountainous Country wanted to unify Southeast Asia as its Inland Sea and regarded the client’s group as a threat.

Lu PingAn questioned a captured Mountainous Country warrior about interference with Eastern Kingdom shipping and influence in Southeast Asia. The exchange revealed that the region’s powers feared not only Eastern Kingdom policy but the ambitions of its people and private forces.

• Lu PingAn learned that the Mountainous Country and Starmen Federation were competing to dominate Southeast Asia and South Asia.
• Lu PingAn told the bound Mountainous Country warrior that the Eastern Kingdom sought stability and had no interest in ruling Southeast Asia.
• The warrior said his country still feared Eastern Kingdom people who might pursue their own interests in the region.
• Lu PingAn admitted he could not guarantee that Eastern Kingdom people would stay out of Southeast Asia and had the warrior taken away.
• Lu PingAn considered how Eastern Kingdom churches, corporations, and private legions could exploit the crisis, then decided to focus on his work.

Lu PingAn weighed whether to join the struggle for overseas territory or follow the God of Redemption’s call to establish a neutral humanitarian aid organization. He chose to use his fleet and power to pursue relief work, despite expecting every faction to oppose him.

• Lu PingAn ordered warning shots fired at a vessel tailing his fleet and sank the pursuers who refused to leave.
• He warned Asahi that Sakurajima’s group might be attacked as soon as they landed, while refusing to join their campaign for territory.
• The God of Redemption contacted Lu PingAn and instructed him to establish a Red Cross-style organization called the Hand of Redemption.
• Lu PingAn accepted the plan and recognized that his fleet and resources made him powerful enough to act as a warlord abroad.
• Lu PingAn called the leaders of every faction aboard to a meeting, excluding the Sakurajima people.

Lu PingAn proposed that the Rebirth Merchant Guild guarantee basic living conditions across a sea and its islands, and the guild’s leaders worked to find practical returns that could sustain the effort. They began assembling a plan combining the Salvation Church, supernatural resources, and refugee camps, though the proposed rent and debt schemes raised objections.

• Lu PingAn insisted that the Rebirth Merchant Guild help people across the sea and islands, despite having no motive beyond wanting to do it.
• The guild’s leaders agreed to explore the project and sought benefits that could keep the costly humanitarian effort viable.
• The strategists considered expanding the Salvation Church and using its Knight Order as a justification for intervention.
• The leaders discussed the region’s proximity to the Octopus World and possible supernatural resources, while others warned that it could face another Plane War.
• The guild proposed establishing refugee camps and charging refugees rent through labor and debt, arguing that owing the guild money would make them easier to manage.

Lu PingAn prepared the Rebirth Merchant Guild to enter a widening conflict under the Salvation Church’s humanitarian banner, hoping to limit diplomatic fallout while still fighting those who threatened them. The convoy completed its transformation into the Life Preservation Warband and prepared to intervene, though Lu PingAn remained unsure whether the choice was right.

• Lu PingAn sent surrounding factions and nations formal notices that the Rebirth Merchant Guild would conduct commercial operations while providing humanitarian aid for the Eastern Kingdom Red Cross.
• Lu PingAn ordered his veterans to prepare for battle and warned Gu Da’s students and Ancient City’s newcomers that they could train safely or face the risk of dying in combat.
• The Sakurajima People’s mercenaries complained about the prospect of facing regular armies and demanded to terminate or renegotiate their contracts.
• Lu PingAn’s team distributed white-and-red uniforms, adopted the name Life Preservation Warband under the Salvation Church, and marked their ships with Hand of Salvation insignia.
• The convoy remained in international waters for two days as Lu PingAn drafted the warband’s code of conduct and watched its members train before the intervention.

In the war-torn Hass Islands, Majila tried to protect his mother and sister from starving thugs, but a Red Cross-marked drone from the Eastern Kingdom’s Life Preservation Warband rescued them at the last moment. Majila wondered whether the God of Redemption could still save them.

• Majila decided to leave the wild zone with his family after Lao Ruan’s gang was killed, but saw no safe place to go and considered enlisting to keep them alive.
• Poison Dog and other thugs broke into Majila’s home, seized Mara, and demanded his gun.
• Uncle Liao joined the attackers as they overwhelmed Majila, while he begged them not to hurt his sister.
• A Red Cross-marked drone fired rubber bullets to drive the thugs back and warned them that further resistance would bring live ammunition.
• The thugs fled after a live shot, and Majila collapsed, asking whether the Eastern Kingdom and the God of Redemption could save them.

Lu PingAn’s Life Preservation Battle Group launched a Drone-led intervention on Farro Island, rescuing civilians while killing rioters, criminals, and warlord soldiers who resisted. After choosing locations for safe zones, Lu PingAn ordered the battle group to take the entire area he had marked.

• The battle group used Drones to clear dangerous routes and rescue victims while killing criminals who threatened them.
• Lu PingAn’s Drones wiped out a warlord force after it attacked, and the Salvation Church broadcast warnings and promised aid to residents.
• Battle group officers and Ancient City recruits carried out careful rescues and sniping operations across Farro Island.
• Lu PingAn reviewed candidate locations for land camps and safe zones as the intervention continued without any Rule-level opponent appearing.
• Lu PingAn circled the proposed area and declared that he wanted it all, and Catherine went to carry out the order.

Lu PingAn oversaw the Eastern Kingdom’s expansion and the creation of Safe Zones while using the resulting pressure to draw experts and smaller nations into its orbit. He began turning foreign invasion spaces into secret realms for locals, which his followers called the Land of Redemption.

• Lu PingAn dismissed accusations from the defeated powers and ordered their territory marked as a future target.
• A staff member reported that regional nations were seeking cooperation with the New Earth United Government, and Lu PingAn inferred that Wanjing tacitly supported his actions.
• Lu PingAn explained that few powerful opponents resisted because most capable experts had left the region, while his victories drove other scattered experts toward the Eastern Kingdom.
• Lu PingAn learned that the Safe Zone Life Preservation Area was progressing smoothly and that refugees and new believers were joining the effort.
• Lu PingAn began eroding foreign invasion spaces into secret realms that could serve as safe havens for locals, and his followers named the project the Land of Redemption.

Lu PingAn’s Life Preservation Warband crushed the warlords but found that removing them only brought new chaos, while its efforts to aid refugees faced shortages and practical limits. As the warband focused on establishing the Land of Redemption, Lu PingAn realized he needed a fuller doctrine to guide its followers and answer what they should fight for.

• Lu PingAn’s warband overwhelmed the warlords with advanced weapons and punished criminals, but Lu PingAn complained that the expected resistance had never appeared.
• Lu PingAn’s group struggled to provide ordinary medicine and food for refugees, and Lu PingAn ordered large-scale screening so those who qualified could receive extraordinary healing.
• The Life Preservation Warband stopped expanding after its intervention on other islands showed that killing warlords led to factional infighting and required too many resources to contain.
• Lu PingAn’s group invested in the Land of Redemption, schools, and the teachings of the God of Redemption to give ordinary people the means to protect themselves.
• Lu PingAn realized he lacked a complete doctrine and needed to define what the warband should fight for and how it should act.

Lu PingAn began writing a holy canon to define how his followers should punish evil and reshape the mortal world, realizing that it needed a complete worldview and a path for development. His first rule granted him Divine Grace and awakened his believers with powers that seized life force from sinners to compensate victims and the deserving.

• Lu PingAn wrote that life was neither sacred nor inherently superior, and that those who abused life for selfish ends should be punished.
• As he considered how gods guided and rewarded believers, Lu PingAn realized he had underestimated the holy canon's role in expressing a god's worldview and shaping its evolution.
• Lu PingAn divided his canon into Past, Present, and Future Chapters, then defined sin as wasting or plundering life.
• Lu PingAn wrote that sinners should lose their Life Currency, which should return to victims and those who punished evil.
• Lu PingAn gained the Divine Grace Life Balance, and members of the Life Preservation Warband, devout believers of the God of Redemption, and premium consumers of the Life Courtyard awakened with powers to seize life force from sinners.

Lu PingAn learned that Chris had been placed on wanted lists, including one issued by the Eastern Kingdom, after being implicated in a recent evil god sacrifice case. He identified Lady Lin as the force behind the move and recognized that their opposing doctrines had brought a God War closer.

• Big Cat told Lu PingAn she had been put on the wanted list, though she insisted she had only organized materials and raised young beasts in her laboratory.
• Lu PingAn reviewed the warrants and found that more than a dozen countries, including the Eastern Kingdom, were seeking Chris.
• After contacting Shuichi, Lu PingAn learned that a recent sacrifice case tied to the Mother Goddess Church had provided the stated evidence against Chris.
• Lu PingAn and Chris identified Lady Lin as the likely instigator, and Lu PingAn concluded that the wanted notice was a declaration of war.
• Chris explained that Lady Lin's doctrine of rule and hierarchy directly conflicted with Lu PingAn's rejection of royal and divine authority, making them destined enemies.

Lu PingAn recognized that Lady Lin had become his enemy because their opposing forms of life and growing power made them potential prey for each other. He began rallying former Forest Goddess Church demigods to his side, while Chris urged him to accept two prospective recruits.

• Lu PingAn concluded that Lady Lin would try to harvest him and that he could likewise benefit from absorbing her Woodland.
• Lu PingAn warned his allies to watch out for Lady Lin, especially beyond the domain, where their rivalry could turn lethal.
• Lu PingAn contacted former Forest Goddess Church demigods, and most promised to stay neutral or oppose Lady Lin.
• Chief King and Chou Sheng offered to join Lu PingAn's side for a high price, and Chris urged him to accept them.
• Lu PingAn joked that a God War against an established True God was unfair to a newcomer, then got his revenge on Chris that night.

Lu PingAn established a Holy Land and defined the Life Preservation Warband’s mission as protecting people from having their lives forcibly consumed, while allowing voluntary sacrifice and wars fought for national interests. As safe zones, a self-rescue army, and trade took root, he began expanding his influence and sought a reliable source of profit to sustain the effort.

• Lu PingAn wrote a True God scripture that defined sin as forcibly plundering or wasting others’ life value, and the Life Preservation Warband received a group-wide Divine Grace after acting on it.
• Lu PingAn transformed a Polluted Secret Realm into a Holy Land where those who initiated killings paid with their own life value, then leaked information about it to two nations.
• The oppressed gained Life Points, weapons, and combat professions, and the Self-Rescue Army formed to revive the region.
• The Life Preservation Warband began decapitation operations while the Rebirth Merchant Group built housing, supplied food, and developed local trade.
• Lu PingAn found that arms sales could fund the effort, but he continued searching for a stable source of growing profits.

Majila left school and asked to join the Life Preservation Warband so he could protect and support his family. After receiving the Divine Grace Life Preservation, he was accepted for a trial and sent to join the warband’s missions.

• Majila decided to leave school because he needed to become strong enough to support his sick mother and malnourished younger sister.
• Majila asked to join the Life Preservation Warband, but its members initially told him they were not recruiting.
• Majila recited the holy scripture and manifested Life Preservation, revealing that he had become a devotee and received Divine Grace.
• A warband member reported Majila’s achievement to Lu PingAn, who was surprised that an outsider had understood his doctrine so quickly.
• Lu PingAn agreed to let Majila try the warband, give him standard equipment, and take him on missions.

Lu PingAn’s self-rescue doctrine spread among disaster survivors, who joined his Life Preservation Warband and followed a new Life Merchant advancement path. As his followers rebuilt order through work and trade, their actions helped Lu PingAn approach the evolution from a Tier 9 quasi-deity to a Tier 10 god.

• Lu PingAn discovered that more than six hundred survivors joined his faith in one day and that many understood its ideals because his people had come to their aid.
• Believers calling themselves Self-Rescuers joined the Life Preservation Warband, fought warlords and rioters, and some received Divine Grace.
• Lu PingAn granted followers access to the Life Merchant path, whose practitioners used Life Points to heal, strengthen themselves, and support Courtyard transactions.
• The Eastern Kingdom approved Lu PingAn’s enterprises and rescue efforts and sent another Rescue Team after his scriptures were verified.
• Lu PingAn established safe zones where survivors could live, work, and contribute to the growing Land of Life and its factories.
• As believers put his ideals into practice and society was rebuilt, Lu PingAn’s divine laws grew and his Tier 10 evolution neared completion.

Lu PingAn’s Life Transaction faith spread through Southeast Asia as his forces established safe zones and weakened local warlords, while he avoided claiming territory. After the warlords’ coalition attacked, Lu PingAn revealed the Wu Yin Giant Beasts, and his influence continued growing through relief, reconstruction, and the support of ordinary people.

• Life Transaction and Lu PingAn’s holy zones spread across Southeast Asia, giving disaster victims a way to trade their lives and futures for a chance to change their fate.
• Lu PingAn’s forces supported relief and reconstruction while local Life Merchants and Self-Rescuers spread his faith and helped undermine warlords’ military power.
• Warlords and two nations formed a coalition and attacked the Trading Grounds, prompting Lu PingAn to lead his warband in a decisive counterattack.
• More than a hundred Wu Yin Giant Beasts appeared across the battlefield, revealing their allegiance to Lu PingAn and deterring the two nations from pursuing him.
• Lu PingAn continued operating hospitals, schools, and refugee camps rather than seizing territory, arguing that winning people’s hearts mattered more than owning land.

Over six months, Lu PingAn’s Life Value faith and its followers reshaped Southeast Asia, while his growing influence led foreign governments to restrict his activities. After being called back, he learned that the Earth Government had been established, though humanity’s real unity and future expansion remained ahead.

• Lu PingAn’s Life Value faith grew into a twin-god church with Guan Xinxian’s God of Redemption, spreading its doctrines and public welfare work.
• Seventeen countries barred Life Transactionists, and Earth Government negotiators restricted Lu PingAn’s overseas activities and construction of safe zones.
• Majila led the Life Freedom Warband, while other civilian warbands helped overthrow warlords and spread self-rule across Southeast Asia.
• The Eastern Kingdom and other civilian factions advanced superhumanity, while the Earth Government formed three branches in Asia, Europa, and Flower Flag.
• Lu PingAn returned and learned that humanity had entered the New Era, where he was expected to play an important role.

Lu PingAn returned home and learned how much his power and businesses had grown since the war. As Catherine briefed him on the company’s expansion and dangers, he realized staying behind had helped protect and secure his interests.

• Lu PingAn reflected on how the elevated world and the war had made advancement easier and produced many new gods.
• Lu PingAn saw PingAn Brand advertising flashy enchanted gear and ordered the enchantments removed, but Catherine dismissed his suggestion.
• Catherine reported the company’s allies, market losses, recruits, and public recognition while Lu PingAn avoided reading the lengthy report.
• Lu PingAn recognized that his influence had grown into a major force across business, foreign waters, and the world’s Life Value movement.
• Lu PingAn asked Catherine about terrorist attacks against Lady Lin’s side and noted that his presence had helped protect their base.

Lu PingAn considered an offer to explore and develop a distant, potentially world-changing planet, but chose to consult his associates before deciding. Back at his Wanjing residence, he assigned work and planned to target Lady Lin’s nearby bases while sharing a quiet dinner with his household.

• Eastern Kingdom officials asked Lu PingAn to lead an expedition to a distant realm, promising that its development could benefit both humanity and his church.
• Lu PingAn hesitated because Lady Lin’s ongoing madness left his businesses vulnerable, though the prospect of a promising new world appealed to him.
• Lu PingAn told the officials to let his advisory group consider the offer and requested a list of Lady Lin’s bases and high-ranking personnel near Wanjing so he could attack them.
• Lu PingAn returned to his company and assigned tasks before settling into the Wanjing residence he shared with Chris, her sisters, Cat Cat, and his Magical Pets.
• Lu PingAn read the newspaper as Chris prepared dinner and his catlike household gathered around the table.