Chapter Summaries

Phil became the God of War and Peace, choosing to serve as Lu PingAn and Chris’s executor and intermediary rather than pursue a separate path. Her new role gave the pantheon a Crown Prince candidate as its divine family prepared to expand.

• Phil completed her transformation and became the God of War and Peace, the pantheon’s third god in practical standing.
• The chapter contrasted Phil’s broad, versatile abilities with the more specialized growth paths of Zhi Xi and Little Flame.
• Phil told Lu PingAn and Chris that she would become their supplement, executor, and agent rather than forge an independent path.
• Chris tried to dissuade Phil from repeating her own troubled journey, but Phil said her path was different because she embodied both war and peace.
• Chris accepted Phil’s choice after recognizing the potential of her role in the pantheon’s system.
• Lu PingAn declared the pantheon’s dynasty stable and called for its members to compete for the remaining divine positions as it expanded.

Lu PingAn learned that many outsiders had come to Silver City seeking a better life and the Burning Legion’s promise of a second life, but the flame warriors wanted greater power and true immortality. He decided he could create a professional advancement path for them, even if combining it with elemental evolution risked creating a new Natural Disaster.

• Zhi Xi reported that outsiders had named Lu PingAn’s prosperous territory the City of Silver and that rumors of its safety and abundance were drawing people there.
• Lu PingAn and Zhi Xi discussed how reincarnated Orc warriors still longed for the comforts of their former lives, despite the heroic ideals they professed.
• Zhi Xi explained that at least thirty percent of outsiders had come for the Burning Legion and its promise of immortality through a second life.
• Lu PingAn realized the flame warriors wanted greater strength and true immortality, not merely another chance at life.
• Lu PingAn considered designing advanced professional paths that combined elemental bloodline evolution with professional advancement.

Lu PingAn and Little Flame created the first three tiers of a new profession path for the Burning Legion, beginning with Flame Beast Hunters and leaving the Flame Melder and Fireless One paths for future development. The new path strengthened Lu PingAn’s World’s Logic and marked the beginning of the Three Holy Fires that would later burn countless worlds.

• Lu PingAn and Little Flame deduced three profession paths for the Burning Legion, aiming to let its flame creatures control their own lives and fires.
• Lu PingAn created the Flame Beast Hunter path, in which Igniters nurtured fire seeds into Flame Beasts that fought alongside them.
• The First Batch of practitioners tested the path, using ground and aerial Flame Beasts and customized Gunfire launchers in combat.
• Lu PingAn’s World’s Logic grew stronger as the Flame Beast path affirmed the principle of life division, and he sensed he might someday make another Magical Pet a subordinate deity.
• Lu PingAn left the Flame Melder and Fireless One paths undeveloped, hoping the Burning Legion would discover their forms through future conquests.

As gods arrived in the three-realm world, many abandoned their divine status to regain their humanity and find room to develop, while others brought powerful forces and pursued ascension. Lu PingAn learned that the Heavenly World might be dangerous, despite some gods managing to ascend again.

• Earth Gods entered the world, with some choosing to become mortals and begin again.
• The gods’ divine kingdoms sent them to seek new territory because Earth lacked resources and room for further growth.
• Lu PingAn learned that established gods could bring divine envoys, Heroic Spirit Warriors, and veteran forces with them.
• Chris told Lu PingAn that his diverse forces and potential gave him advantages over the gods’ specialized legions.
• Some gods entered the Heavenly World to ascend again, but reports suggested the realm could be poisonous.

Su Xi discovered that the Heavenly World was a vast battlefield under attack by multiple multiversal disasters and warned the Surface World not to ascend. Lu PingAn and others received the warning through the Twin Birth Diary and questioned how long the world could survive.

• Su Xi described the Heavenly World’s beauty and resources, then learned that its Black Zones were repeatedly breached by visitors from other realms.
• Su Xi joined the fighting and saw more than a hundred rifts and several God Above Gods trying to swallow the world.
• Su Xi’s Twin Birth Diary transmitted a warning to the Surface World that newly ascended gods were little more than cannon fodder.
• Lu PingAn heard that several god seniors had independently sent back similar reports and decided not to ascend for now.
• Lu PingAn learned that the Heavenly World faced multiple universe-level disasters, including corrupted races, and wondered how long it could hold on.

Lu PingAn expanded his faction by gathering and applying knowledge from rule environments, while considering how Hua Xueyi could develop a distinctive metal-life path and ascend as his subordinate god. He and Chris discussed ways to accelerate Hua Xueyi and Zhi Xi’s growth, with metal and rock lifeforms becoming a strategic focus.

• Lu PingAn’s Forbidden Library expanded as he collected knowledge and used it to support his faction’s growth.
• Hua Xueyi asked for more metal-related knowledge and sources that could produce metal lifeforms.
• Lu PingAn considered Hua Xueyi and Zhi Xi potential pioneers of a metal-life path, noting Hua Xueyi’s Beast Tamer experience and Metal Slime bond.
• Hua Xueyi doubted her ability to advance, but Lu PingAn said she was the most likely to ascend.
• Chris proposed that she and Lu PingAn repeatedly empower Hua Xueyi, while Lu PingAn also considered fusing her with Zhi Xi after both grew stronger.
• Lu PingAn planned to prepare for the Heavenly World’s metal and rock enemies by studying and understanding them.

Lu PingAn persuaded Hua Xueyi to abandon her mortal iron body and join his divine system by being reborn in the Incubation Pool. Her transformation began with Zhi Xi’s genetic module, Chris’s blood, and Lu PingAn’s own genetic module, leaving her evolving into a new metal lifeform.

• Hua Xueyi revealed her unusual forms and admitted she felt unworthy of joining Lu PingAn’s divine system.
• Lu PingAn explained his planned hierarchy of gods and lifeforms, with Hua Xueyi among the candidates to lead metal and mechanical life.
• Lu PingAn persuaded Hua Xueyi to trust his judgment and enter the Incubation Pool.
• Zhi Xi placed part of herself in the pool, Chris added her blood, and Lu PingAn contributed his genetic module.
• Hua Xueyi abandoned her mortal iron body and began reshaping herself with Zhi Xi’s genetic module as Lu PingAn watched her evolve.

Lu PingAn welcomed Hua Xueyi as a newly born Divine Child and wondered whether the isolated world had deliberately invited outsiders in. He suspected a world-ending crisis was approaching and considered preparing to flee.

• Lu PingAn confirmed Hua Xueyi was a newly born Divine Child and formed an alliance with her, gaining power over her life and death.
• Lu PingAn reflected on the dangers of abandoning humanity and becoming a foreign god’s puppet or a resonance point that could guide invaders.
• Lu PingAn realized there were no local evil gods, cultists, or traitors, and wondered whether the world’s isolation had been maintained by its unusual customs.
• Lu PingAn suspected the world had actively opened its doors to outsiders and might be nearing its end.
• Lu PingAn recalled intelligence about a God Above Gods, considered carving out territory so he could escape, and received a bad feeling from his Spiritual Intuition.

Lu PingAn’s side began reshaping Orc society through education and peaceful trade, using goods and stories to introduce Earth’s ideas. The chapter ended with rumors spreading about the prosperous Holy Capital of the God of Guardianship of Eternal Life.

• Lu PingAn’s allies recognized that the Orcs’ doubts about their old beliefs made them receptive to new ideas and began educating them.
• The outsiders established trade routes and presented Hua Xueyi, God of Guardianship of merchant caravans and metal life, as a peaceful trader to a leopard-shaped god lord.
• Lu PingAn’s side offered foreign food, clothing, entertainment, and Sound Recording Stones filled with stories and knowledge.
• Fairy tales and other propaganda introduced Earth’s ideas into the world through the new trade channels.
• Stories spread of a peaceful, prosperous Holy Capital where people could find abundant food, goods, and freedom from war and pain.

Lu PingAn used merchant caravans as a cover to gather intelligence and map safe trade routes, while Hua Xueyi expanded the effort through multiple avatars. The caravans brought back promising leads, including Cat’s Forest, as Lu PingAn awaited news of the Land of Life.

• Lu PingAn explained that commerce had little value in a world of war but made an effective disguise for his faction’s intelligence gathering.
• Hua Xueyi reported that her avatars had set out in six directions and described how her metal body could split into as many as twelve caravan-leading avatars.
• Lu PingAn learned that two merchant caravans had been destroyed, but ordered more caravans sent out and asked whether the trade-route network blueprint was ready.
• Chris returned after a brief confrontation and reported that the opposing forces had fled before she could fight properly.
• Lu PingAn told Chris that the caravans had found Cat’s Forest, whose rules could help produce rare cat-transformed Orcs, while he continued waiting for news of the Land of Life.

Lu PingAn concluded that the peaceful world was under threat from multiversal plunderers and accelerated his forces’ growth by exploiting its abundant paths to power. After two or three months of preparation, winter arrived and the entire world split apart.

• Lu PingAn learned about the Multiverse Drowning Theory and considered how powerful civilizations plundered worlds that survived the multiverse’s disasters.
• Lu PingAn decided the world’s stability would not last and ordered his allies to use every resource to grow, offering support to those who could become subordinate gods.
• Lu PingAn’s forces mass-produced divine envoys and cultivated extraordinary races such as Orcs along multiple evolutionary paths.
• Two or three months passed, and Lu PingAn’s team gained combat power while the Forbidden Library accumulated crucial knowledge and foreign caravans brought probes and envoys.
• When winter arrived, everyone saw the sky—and then the entire world—split apart.

Lu PingAn watched the world suffer a catastrophic Great Rift as shadowy forces tore open its planes and the Courtyard activated its defenses. The world survived without disintegrating, but a God Above Gods appeared and brought multiversal newborns into it.

• Lu PingAn heard the world's cracks forming and realized that the catastrophe had already made shelter preparations pointless.
• The Great Rift spread across the world, tearing open all three planes and unleashing earthquakes and other disasters.
• Lu PingAn activated the Courtyard's Protection System and considered whether the world's collapse might let his group claim valuable assets.
• The world stopped short of complete disintegration, but rifts exposed the starry void and the forces pressing against the planet.
• A God Above Gods emerged through a rift, and its gaze caused vast numbers of multiversal newborns to appear.

As the world’s layers fractured and foreign creatures invaded, Lu PingAn assessed the collapse and chose to gather intelligence while positioning himself to profit from the crisis. After Zhu Zhu successfully absorbed part of a Rule Building, Lu PingAn realized that the gods’ scramble for such treasures could spark civil war before the world itself fell.

• Lu PingAn examined the tearing world and concluded that the Surface World was being overwhelmed while breaches connected it to the Underground World.
• Lu PingAn decided not to risk himself rescuing the world and considered selling Ship Tickets once the crisis offered a suitable opportunity.
• Lu PingAn ordered Hua Xueyi’s scattered clones to keep gathering intelligence and mapping safe routes instead of returning.
• Lu PingAn sent Zhu Zhu to the swamp to try absorbing more, and the attempt succeeded in consuming part of a Rule Building.
• Lu PingAn worried that the gods would fight over the newly accessible treasures, starting civil war amid the world’s collapse.

As the Plane War spread, Lu PingAn sent his legions to intervene in nearby conflicts and expand his territory under the banner of peace. After his forces subdued Water God Su Ke and mediated peace among the neighbors, a distant ally requested his help.

• The Plane War erupted across the world, while Lu PingAn's growing Courtyard remained sheltered in its remote territory.
• Lu PingAn ordered the mechanical Peace Legion to mediate nearby battles, but the neighboring factions rejected the offer and plundered his caravans and outposts.
• Lu PingAn sent the Burning Legion into battle and let his forces take the lead in the ensuing war.
• Water God Su Ke surrendered within a day, and Lu PingAn pardoned him and offered him a place as a subordinate god.
• Lu PingAn's forces mediated peace among the surrounding neighbors in less than half a month, gaining three territories and rule environments.
• A distant ally sent Lu PingAn a Letter of Request for Assistance.

Lu PingAn weighed the risks of helping the besieged Martial God Tyrannical Three-Faced and chose to provide logistical and intelligence support rather than join the fight. Meanwhile, the neighboring powers united against him, and an allied army gathered before his silver fortress.

• Lu PingAn learned that Martial God Tyrannical Three-Faced had descended to support the war and discussed the risks with Chris and Cat Cat.
• Lu PingAn decided not to enter the battlefield himself and arranged for Hua Xueyi to carry logistical aid and intelligence support to the Martial God Church.
• Lu PingAn learned that at least four true gods were trying to kill Tyrannical Three-Faced and recognized that outsiders in the region faced growing pressure.
• Lu PingAn saw the neighboring forces unite and gather an allied army before his silver fortress.

Lu PingAn’s forces fought a much larger allied army, using organized mechanical legions and a volcanic ambush to turn the battlefield against them. The allied gods were forced to join the fighting early, leaving Lu PingAn confident the battle would end within half a day.

• Lu PingAn watched the allied army advance while Fang Wen commanded the mechanical legions from above the city walls.
• Fang Wen’s machines supported Lu PingAn’s Orc warriors with artillery, drones, and coordinated fire, pushing the enemy’s front line back.
• The Burning Legion erupted from the volcanic zone beneath the battlefield, filling the allied army’s flank with fire, lava, and Flame Giants.
• The allied gods entered the battle earlier than planned and became priority targets for Lu PingAn’s forces.
• Lu PingAn judged that his side had forced out the enemy’s god-level lords in less than two hours and said the battle would be settled within half a day.

Lu PingAn watched the Burning Legion dominate the battlefield as its fire creatures grew stronger through fusion and slaughter, while he restrained Little Flame from joining the fight. When foreign gods entered the field, he finally sent Little Flame and her sisters to attack.

• Lu PingAn explained how the Three Holy Fires Path and the Courtyard let fire creatures grow and fuse into powerful fighters.
• The Burning Legion slaughtered the enemy Orcs, gaining life force and rapidly upgrading through the War Game’s rules.
• Little Flame complained that Lu PingAn would not let her fight, and he warned her to stay back while god-level enemies remained.
• As foreign gods entered the field, Lu PingAn gave Little Flame permission to lead her sisters into battle.

Lu PingAn’s forces defeated the allied gods, with Zhu Zhu killing Avenger and Little Flame overpowering the strongest Spider God. After the hunt, Lu PingAn found his life force overflowing and considered creating another subordinate god.

• Lu PingAn sent Zhu Zhu and Little Flame to fight the allied gods, with Zhu Zhu first killing a Giant God beast.
• Little Flame’s flames weakened the Spider God’s webs as she kept the strongest Spider God from escaping.
• Zhu Zhu killed Avenger and consumed most of his body, bringing down the allied army’s second core.
• The allied gods fled, and Little Flame and Zhu Zhu pursued them while Zhu Zhu began evolving.
• Lu PingAn noted that his abundant harvest had left him with enough life force to catalyze another subordinate god.

Lu PingAn handled the aftermath of victory by granting his daughters independent territories, while learning that Phil and Eve’s fight was real rather than a staged bid for independence. He reconciled the sisters and decided that Eve would become a subordinate god, leaving the family’s next divisions underway.

• Lu PingAn sent Zhu Zhu to establish an independent Spider God system in the territories left vacant by the defeated gods.
• Lu PingAn learned that Phil and Eve had fought for real after Big Cat rebuked him for favoring their more studious sisters.
• Lu PingAn went to reconcile Phil and Eve, and the sisters made peace.
• Lu PingAn decided that Eve would join Mu Mu as a subordinate god and develop her Yellow Crystal Hive powers in this world.

Lu PingAn developed Zhi Xi’s Living Armor into a powerful race and combat profession by adapting the Wave-Cut Axe into a vibration-based martial art. He learned that Zhu Zhu and Eve had fused with local rules, while the loosening of the World’s Logic offered his subordinate gods new possibilities and threatened to spark another world war.

• Lu PingAn reviewed Zhi Xi’s progress as she completed a new combat system and opened two profession paths.
• Zhi Xi’s Living Armor mastered a hybrid Wave-Cut Axe art that let them store and amplify sound waves into powerful shockwaves.
• Lu PingAn recognized the Living Armor’s techniques as an emerging Eternal Motion System profession and designated them as Zhi Xi’s race.
• Lu PingAn helped his subordinate gods grow while preparing to enlighten new ones, despite their reluctance to study.
• Zhu Zhu and Eve reported that they had absorbed local rules and devoured the World’s Logic, creating new opportunities for evolution and the risk of another world war.