Chapter Summaries

Lu PingAn established himself as the God of Eternal Life and used his new Faith Connections to understand how believers could strengthen a divine faction in the battlefield world. He and Big Cat decided not to call in outside gods, and Lu PingAn began planning ways to equip and empower his followers.

• Lu PingAn chose the God Name God of Eternal Life, defining his divine doctrine as believers praised him and formed direct Faith Connections.
• Lu PingAn activated his administrator panel and sensed faith flowing into his divine body, giving him power through the physical links between gods and mortals.
• Lu PingAn reasoned that mortals and warriors could increase a god's quantity of power, while subordinate gods could improve its quality.
• Lu PingAn considered summoning reinforcements, but Big Cat warned that outside gods' impure power would dissipate and their transformed bodies would leave them vulnerable.
• Lu PingAn identified life poison, enchanted weapons, godslaying curses, and life currency as ways to empower his followers.

Lu PingAn organized his forces for the gods’ war game, building an army and logistics system while using Beast Tamers to control people who had lost themselves to beast instincts. With recruits and workers leaving the Courtyard and equipment coming off the production line, he prepared to begin the war.

• Lu PingAn and Chris divided their roles, with Chris building the army and Lu PingAn preparing logistics and armaments.
• Lu PingAn restricted his forces’ initial blessings to God Blade Enchantment and Life Coins while they assessed their needs and the powers of nearby gods.
• Lu PingAn’s group discovered that Beast Tamer abilities could control humans transformed into beasts, allowing them to be trained and used as combatants.
• The group devised a way to keep clerical staff, low-tier Professionals, and ordinary workers growing inside cages with fragments and Spirit Awakening Art.
• Large numbers of people passed beyond the Courtyard, supplying recruits to the army and workers to the Factory as weapons and armor began production.
• Lu PingAn considered beginning the War Game.

Lu PingAn mobilized the Courtyard’s industries and training facilities to prepare an army for the war, but a probing attack revealed how badly his forces were outnumbered. He resolved to make up for their weaknesses by combining local orc bloodlines with career paths and equipment from his world.

• Lu PingAn’s Courtyard prepared potions, weapons, tamed beasts, training, healers, and fire-elemental artillery to equip its troops.
• The First Batch of steel warriors completed their training and received armor, weapons, and Magical Pets.
• Chris and Zhi Xi led more than three hundred legionnaires in a probing attack, winning a small initial success before withdrawing from three thousand defenders to avoid casualties.
• Lu PingAn assessed his force of roughly sixteen hundred to eighteen hundred allied outsider orcs and recognized that his side could not afford a war of attrition or many deaths.
• Lu PingAn proposed a localized industrial revolution that combined orc bloodlines with his world’s career paths to create specialized hybrid troops.

Lu PingAn learned that the warriors longed for honor, victory, and a place in the Hall of Heroes, and he began shaping a new path that would let them become heroes. He drew on stories from his homeland to create the seeds of a Legendary Hero profession and promised to guide his warriors toward becoming heroes in their own right.

• Lu PingAn saw that the warriors were skilled, intelligent, and eager for good food, victory, and the honor of entering the Heroic Spirit Land.
• The warriors told Lu PingAn that they wanted to win honor, gain immortal lives, and have their names remembered in the Hall of Heroes.
• Lu PingAn realized he could not simply adapt existing heroic epics, since different regions had their own stories and celebrated different heroes.
• Lu PingAn decided to create heroic stories of his own, drawing on the legends of Hercules, King Goujian of Yue, and Yu the Great Taming the Flood.
• Lu PingAn shaped his ideas into seeds for a Legendary Hero profession and told his warriors that each of them could become a hero through their will.

Lu PingAn created the Hero profession, a combat path that rewarded fighting for others and growing through trials. He established its core abilities and left its promise open to all life: anyone could become a hero with his help.

• Lu PingAn decided to create a combat profession within the scope of his existing professions rather than waste power on an unrelated path.
• He designed the Tier 1 Hero profession with Guardian Spirit.Hero and Desperate Miracle.Hero, which strengthened its users when they fought for others or faced desperate danger.
• He gave the profession Apocalypse. Hero Trial, an active ability that granted growth-based rewards for completing trials.
• He added Singing Epic. Hero as the profession's core ability, allowing users to draw on heroic souls despite its Law Decree-level power.
• Lu PingAn declared that everyone had the potential to become a hero and that he would help them do so.

Lu PingAn created the Hero profession, then unexpectedly advanced to its highest tier because he embodied its ideals and possessed every Profession Module. Orcs quickly adopted the profession and developed powers based on legendary Heroes, while Lu PingAn considered how recognition could make it useful for police, soldiers, and the Special Task Force.

• Lu PingAn learned that his self-created Hero profession had advanced him to Tier 6, making him a Hero who saved the world.
• Lu PingAn decided the profession could benefit police and the Special Task Force, and considered adding inherited heroic souls to help its users grow.
• Orc warriors took up the Hero profession, while Lu PingAn spread Earth Hero stories that could provide templates for virtual heroic souls.
• The Orcs rapidly developed abilities such as Salon Dun's Strength and component-based heroic-soul enhancements, and some reached strength comparable to Tier 4 or Tier 5.
• Lu PingAn realized that gaining recognition from soldiers and warriors could make the profession a battlefield power.

After the Beast Taming Ritual restored Xue En to a powerful, panda-like humanoid, he sparred with Lu PingAn and discovered that he could now direct misfortune at his opponents. Xue En had also reached Tier 7 as a Rule-level Hero, and the chapter ended with the two considering his combat performance.

• Xue En regained his humanoid form through the Beast Taming Ritual and found his body more than twice as strong as before.
• Lu PingAn teased Xue En about riding him, and Xue En answered with a punch whose force had increased more than tenfold.
• Lu PingAn's flames burned away his clothes, drawing cheers from the spectators, and he called off the spar.
• Xue En told Lu PingAn that he could now attach misfortune to opponents and make it trigger when they met certain conditions.
• Lu PingAn realized Xue En's powers had merged into his body and that he could threaten Tier 8 beings.
• Lu PingAn learned that Xue En had broken through to Tier 7 and become a Rule-level Hero.

Xue En discovered that his new Hero Profession shared the Soldier Pathway’s focus on survival, but offered immense growth through desperate trials. He became wary of using Heroic Soul Summoning after it repeatedly called dangerous members of his own family, and refused Lu PingAn’s offer to try again.

• Xue En explained that his Hero Profession’s core skills and Desperate Miracle strengthened his combat abilities and life force, making the pathway a good fit for him.
• Xue En said his physique had increased several times over and that his combat power now approached the standard for Tier 8, especially in desperate situations.
• Xue En told Lu PingAn that Heroic Soul Summoning nearly killed him when he tried it.
• Xue En revealed that his first summons was his father, whose misfortune combined with his own to summon a quasi-god-level vicious beast.
• Xue En said his next summons were his uncle and grandfather, and Lu PingAn offered him another attempt.
• Xue En refused to summon again, fearing that his father, uncle, and grandfather might appear together, and Lu PingAn urged him to stay alive.

Lu PingAn promoted the Hero profession while improving Orcs’ lives through modern goods, entertainment, and historical records. His growing, increasingly attractive nation drew Orcs from nearby territories, provoking surrounding lords into war.

• Orcs flocked to the Hero profession, which let them grow stronger through combat, aspiration, and personal bonds without extensive study.
• Lu PingAn developed his nation with major construction projects and introduced modern entertainment and goods to the Orcs.
• Lu PingAn promoted a better quality of life and compiled historical records honoring the Orcs’ sacrifices and achievements.
• Orcs from neighboring territories began seeking refuge in Lu PingAn’s nation for its food and entertainment.
• Neighboring lords launched repeated wars against Lu PingAn’s rapidly growing nation.

Lu PingAn faced a large siege force led by Gorena, Gore Kui, and their spider kin, and chose to let his defenders fight while he watched their capabilities. The invaders began using divine powers to enhance their Orc troops as they assaulted the fortress walls.

• Lu PingAn had steadily expanded his population and army after his probing attack failed, preparing for a prolonged campaign.
• Gorena's army of more than twenty thousand troops approached the fortress, and Lu PingAn identified the Spider Orcs as her elite forces.
• Gore Kui arrived with an even larger legion, followed by three more giant spider gods and their forces.
• Lu PingAn's cannons and magical weapons opened fire while he held back, allowing his troops to gain experience and complete class trials in battle.
• Gorena's allies empowered the Orcs with metal-like bodies and wind, enabling them to tear down fortifications and climb the fortress walls.

Lu PingAn's forces endured a prolonged battle against the Spider Gods, but neither side gained an advantage as Chris and other fighters grew exhausted. With specialized anti-spider weapons and countermeasures ready, Lu PingAn transformed into his divine body and began the real assault by detonating corpses across the battlefield.

• Chris refused Lu PingAn's offer of a Deferred Payment, despite her serious wounds and exhaustion.
• Lu PingAn assessed the enemy's disciplined reinforcements and realized that his side lacked enough powerful fighters to overcome the Spider Gods directly.
• The Courtyard supplied new warriors and anti-spider equipment as Fang Wen delivered Lu PingAn a flaming Spider-Extermination Scythe.
• Fang Wen and the others reported that antidotes, protective equipment, sensory disruptors, and other spider countermeasures were ready.
• Lu PingAn transformed into his divine body and triggered a chain reaction that made corpses explode across the battlefield.

Lu PingAn and his allies used specialized weapons, battlefield traps, and coordinated attacks to fight the Spider Gods, but the enemy sacrificed its own Spider Orcs to recover and overpower Chris. Lu PingAn healed Chris with Deferred Payment as the battle continued.

• Lu PingAn deployed Spider-Extermination weapons, Corpse-Bone Bombs, and resurrected Orc corpses to weaken the invading legion.
• Lu PingAn fought one Spider God while Chris used her poison resistance and a misfortune curse to wound another.
• Chris tore away the wounded Spider God's web-spinning organ and drove it close to death before smaller Spider Gods surrounded her.
• The Spider Gods consumed their kin's life force to recover, then crushed Chris and damaged the city as they fought.
• Lu PingAn healed Chris with Deferred Payment and challenged the Spider Gods' double standard.

Lu PingAn turned the Spider Gods’ army against them by offering the Orcs better treatment and a chance to defect, then exploited the resulting collapse to attack. His forces had the Spider Gods cornered in a decisive battle.

• Lu PingAn condemned the world’s system of raising mortals as cannon fodder and prepared to destroy the Spider Gods.
• Lu PingAn revealed that he had infiltrated the Spider Gods’ territories and offered Orcs food, entertainment, power, and a place in his society.
• Orcs rebelled against the Spider Gods, and many transferred their faith to Lu PingAn after the gods drained their followers’ life force when the battle turned against them.
• Lu PingAn and his allies attacked the weakened Spider Gods while Deferred Payment healed wounded fighters on his side.
• Lu PingAn’s forces lured the Spider Gods away from their nest and drove them toward defeat.

Lu PingAn won his first God War by turning the dead into Black Flame warriors, fulfilling his promise that they would live again. He discovered that the world let the Burning Legion endure with little fuel, then used its foundational rules and Life Points to restore a warrior to living flesh.

• Lu PingAn summoned the Burning Legion, and the returned dead weakened the Spider Gods' forces by proving that death was not the end.
• The male Spider God fled, the Spider God Queen died, and the remaining Spider Gods were killed, wounded, or escaped as Lu PingAn defeated King and won the battle.
• Lu PingAn realized that the world's rules allowed the Black Flame warriors to keep burning with negligible consumption and preserve their souls and memories.
• Lu PingAn touched a Black Flame warrior and spent Life Points to extinguish its flames and transform it back into a living person.
• Lu PingAn declared himself the bearer of Eternal Life and vowed that his warriors would never perish or be defeated.

After the war, Lu PingAn organized the newly born Burning Legion and entrusted Little Flame with its leadership and a portion of Black Flame’s power. With the battlefield littered with divine remains, he prepared to create a creature capable of assimilating the Spider Gods’ incompatible Logic and God Name.

• Lu PingAn recognized that the world’s rules for preserving and converting life could strengthen his power system, while the Fire Elemental Creatures showed unusual compatibility with professions.
• Lu PingAn placed Little Flame in charge of the Burning Legion and entrusted her with part of Black Flame’s rules, setting her on the path to becoming a subordinate God of War.
• Lu PingAn urged Little Flame to rein in the legion’s eagerness for battle and focus on growing stronger instead of provoking nearby lords.
• Lu PingAn collected divine bones and teeth from the fallen Spider Gods, finding their Logic incompatible with his own.
• Lu PingAn decided to create a creature able to assimilate the Spider God’s Logic and God Name.

After defeating the Spider Gods, Lu PingAn claimed their territory and began absorbing their remains and rule-based resources into his courtyard. He started incubating a divine creature from the Spider Gods’ power, while his forces expanded and adjusted their options for transforming Orcs.

• Lu PingAn sent Zhi Xi and her knights to take over a Spider God's Territory.
• Testers identified the Wet Venom Echo Swamp and Despair Death Spring, and Lu PingAn began integrating their rules into his courtyard.
• Lu PingAn placed the Spider Gods’ essential remains in the Incubation Pool, which connected to the two rule environments and began incubating a divine creature.
• The Beast Transformation Statue gained a Spider Orc option, but Lu PingAn banned it after his people objected to transforming humans into Spider-people.
• Newcomers reorganized into larger legions, and their victory established the Rebirth power as a force capable of developing in the region.

After Lu PingAn defeated the Spider God System, his faction claimed new territories and discovered three Rule Buildings that could strengthen its Orcs. Zhu Zhu, a newborn Spider God with exceptional divine potential, was clingy and unruly, so Zhi Xi kept punishing her while Lu PingAn considered how to assign his growing Magical Pet children their duties.

• Lu PingAn's faction claimed the blank territories and found three Rule Buildings that offered beneficial boosts to Orcs.
• Lu PingAn wondered whether certain Lands of Rules could produce gods and considered that Spider Gods might have evolved from local Spider Orcs.
• Newborn Zhu Zhu clung to Lu PingAn and bit him to exchange venom, following Spider God family customs.
• Zhi Xi dragged Zhu Zhu away and repeatedly punished her for teasing her sisters and misbehaving.
• Lu PingAn reviewed Zhu Zhu's divine abilities and potential, then watched Zhi Xi punish her again for trying to eat something and inject it with venom.

After their victory over the Spider God, Lu PingAn and Chris decided to slow their progress toward the trial’s victory conditions so they could claim more resources and rule environments. Lu PingAn identified three possible paths through the trial, but his group’s direction was already clear: cultivate more subordinate gods by dividing his power among his children.

• Lu PingAn and Big Cat agreed that their group should delay completing the trial’s victory conditions and seek greater gains from the available territory.
• Lu PingAn explained that rule environments could help Professionals learn rules, Orcs evolve, and the team develop potions, Profession Modules, weapons, and equipment.
• Lu PingAn proposed that the three victory conditions offered separate paths: individual strength through conquest, technological accumulation through occupying rule environments, or collective power through cultivating subordinate gods.
• Big Cat agreed that participants could focus on a single condition to avoid completing the promotion mission, and Lu PingAn said it was too early to choose a path while they built a solid foundation.
• Lu PingAn told Chris to have more children and divide up his power, because their group needed more subordinate gods.

Lu PingAn established a fortress-based territory and prepared to rebuild its trading district under a policy of long-term neutrality. After meeting the Martial Arts Priest, he remained determined to trade with Orcs and other factions, even if the plan attracted enemies.

• Lu PingAn worked from the White Stone Tower, where he regretted putting the administrative offices at the top and called for elevator research.
• The Martial Arts Priest arrived by giant bird, and Lu PingAn greeted him at the tower’s landing platform.
• The Martial Arts Priest asked about Lu PingAn’s plan to rebuild the trading district.
• Lu PingAn explained that his territory would remain neutral and welcome trade from any faction or deity.
• Lu PingAn said trade could attract enemies, but he was prepared to defeat them and negotiate afterward.
• Lu PingAn asked the Martial Arts Priest whether he planned to join the trade effort.

Lu PingAn opened his authority to potential subordinate gods, hoping they would strengthen his faction and cultivate the World's Logic. As his side continued adapting to the world, a fifth god unexpectedly ascended with the unusual divine office of God of War and Peace.

• Lu PingAn and the Martial God faction finalized an alliance focused on trade and exchanging intelligence about their Inner Domains.
• Lu PingAn discussed how the world's manifested rules gave newcomers opportunities to grow and told his allies to recruit subordinate gods.
• Lu PingAn explained that he wanted ordinary members of his faction to have a fair path to advancement instead of filling every subordinate-god position with Magical Pets.
• Lu PingAn's faction welcomed its fifth god, whose divine office prompted the exclamation, "God of War and Peace—what the hell?!"