Chapter Summaries

Lu PingAn recognized that the Underground World was sacrificing its inhabitants to cultivate a powerful being, so he focused on protecting those he could while holding the City of Silver. As attacks intensified, Chris descended to fight an enormous Godkin, and Lu PingAn asked her to stay with him until the end.

• Lu PingAn concluded that the Underground World could not be redeemed and resolved to keep an escape route open for mortals and deserters.
• As dragon attacks renewed, Lu PingAn sent his exhausted warriors to defend the expanding City of Silver, while spies and his children moved against the attackers.
• Eve and Phil hunted a powerful Godkin among the troops dropped by the dragons, while Little Flame and Hua Xueyi fought in the sky.
• An enormous Godkin climbed toward the city, and Chris revealed her divine body and stepped forward to face it.
• Lu PingAn urged Chris not to die and asked her to stay with him until the end; she promised she would, then clashed with the giant.

As the world fell into apocalypse, Lu PingAn kept the lighthouses burning while his City of Silver expanded through a war that drove its inhabitants to evolve. He entrusted the fighting to his allies and finally found what he had been searching for.

• Lu PingAn watched lighthouses light up as monsters, war, and the void devastated the world, drawing desperate mortals toward the lights.
• Lu PingAn learned that his City of Silver had expanded several times over, though war raged across the floating island.
• The Burning Legion fought to protect others, while Dragonkin and Lu PingAn’s forces evolved through repeated battles and revival.
• The Balance Calamity Beast grew larger and developed wooden wings and armor as the fighting continued.
• Lu PingAn entrusted the battle to his friends and family, closed his eyes, and said he had finally found what he sought.

Lu PingAn launched the Ark’s second phase, abandoning the doomed Underground World to bring tens of thousands of survivors to the Surface World. The Ark reached its destination, but Lu PingAn found another battlefield of human purgatory and wondered whether its inhabitants could be saved.

• As the Lamp Trees failed and attackers gathered, Lu PingAn ordered the survivors who could board to prepare for the second phase.
• A seventh local god joined Lu PingAn’s side and was assigned to prove themself on the battlefield.
• After the lights went out, Lu PingAn began the Ark’s reverse teleportation toward the Surface World, forcing it through the world’s spatial barrier.
• The Courtyard entered the void, carrying tens of thousands of people as the Ark completed its mission.
• The Ark stabilized over black earth, and Lu PingAn saw another battlefield but believed its many lives could still be saved.

Lu PingAn and his group returned to the Surface World, where the apocalypse had drawn monsters and invaders into a world already weakened by war. He began merging his divine kingdom with the land and spreading ancient Lamp Trees, leaving his Courtyard to absorb the Surface World’s powerful rules of reproduction and growth.

• Lu PingAn found the Surface World overrun by invaders and monsters, while the world’s suppression weakened him and his companions.
• Lu PingAn invoked his divine authority of Redemption, reducing the world’s rejection and easing his group’s entry.
• Lu PingAn began merging the Ark with the earth and started integrating the Surface World into his divine kingdom.
• Lu PingAn sent the group to plant ancient Lamp Trees, which spread through the earth veins and extended his network for sensing the world.
• Lu PingAn recognized the Surface World as a Land of Life rich in reproduction and growth rules, and began expanding his Courtyard to absorb it.

After awakening from his divine sleep, Lu PingAn assessed how the Underground World had changed his body and learned that Chris and the other Subordinate Gods were still recovering. He ordered rescue missions to begin soon, aiming to bring survivors to the Land of Redemption before the world's weakening restrictions failed.

• Lu PingAn woke after twelve hours and found that he remained stronger than before entering the Underground World, though some of his divine traits no longer worked.
• He learned that Chris needed another day or two to recover, while the other gods had fallen asleep and were reverting to people after leaving the Underground World.
• Lu PingAn considered why the world suppressed powerful beings and learned that the invaders had been weakened to around the Rule-level threshold, though some regions had already fallen into the void.
• He ordered his Subordinate Gods to lead rescue teams in all directions and bring back as many survivors as possible.
• Lu PingAn foresaw refugees following white-robed sages toward the Land of Redemption and worried that survivors would portray him as a savior with holy disciples.

Lu PingAn removed the Underground World’s remnants of power from his subordinate gods so the desperate World's Will could not conscript them as cannon fodder. He declared himself the God of Redemption to give surviving mortals hope, then considered how to plant Lamp Trees in the shattered world.

• Lu PingAn warned his gods that the World's Will might seize control of them and force them to fight the Outland Visitors, so they removed the remnants of Underground World power.
• After the conversion, the gods became mortals again and gained a clearer path for future evolution.
• Lu PingAn looked toward the Water Blue Planet, decided to treat saving the world as practice, and declared himself the God of Redemption to offer survivors hope.
• Lu PingAn explained that planting Lamp Trees was difficult because the world's ley lines were broken and its remaining power was being used against the enemy.
• A newly joined subordinate god offered to use the knowledge and profession of a high-level Dancer to mobilize the ley lines.

Lu PingAn offered the newly joined deities access to the Courtyard and Life Points loans while asking them to lead the redemption of their people, using the crisis to test their abilities and commitment. With nine of the eleven entering their homelands and preparations for war underway, Lu PingAn decided to grant subordinate deities fiefs to develop the vast, sparsely populated Courtyard Trading Ground.

• Lu PingAn recognized that the ancient deities were powerful but would not become loyal through strength or empty promises, and he offered Lady Suren resources to help her become a high-level Dancer.
• Lu PingAn opened the Courtyard’s facilities to the subordinate deities, offered low-interest Life Points loans, and urged them to help save their homeland’s lifeforms.
• Lu PingAn planned to judge the deities by how they handled the apocalypse, knowing that helping people flee would draw a backlash from the invaders.
• Nine of the eleven newly joined subordinate deities entered their homelands to begin redeeming their people, while Lu PingAn’s direct lineage prepared for war.
• Lu PingAn saw that the expanded Courtyard Trading Ground remained sparsely populated and decided to grant fiefs to subordinate deities for independent development.

Lu PingAn watched the Surface World’s lives and souls get consumed by invading forces while his subordinate gods tried to rescue people, often through force. In White Mud Kingdom and elsewhere, leaders kept sending doomed Heroes into danger and suppressing warnings, leaving Lu PingAn to question whether direct plunder was the only way to save anyone.

• Lu PingAn saw otherworldly wounds spread across the Surface World and recognized that its broken natural cycle was turning intercepted souls into invaders.
• Lu PingAn allowed his subordinate gods to use force to evacuate settlements, while he noted that the Sheep God chose to send messengers and offer people a path to safety.
• The king of White Mud Kingdom appointed a rabbit Orc as a Hero and sent him out with companions, but the gods offered no guidance.
• The king sent successive groups of backup Heroes after the first group failed, while other cities across the world also dispatched doomed Heroes.
• Kings ordered the execution of people spreading warnings about the apocalypse and the God of Redemption, obstructing Lu PingAn’s attempts to spread information.
• Lu PingAn concluded that the world’s leaders and poor communications might make direct plunder the only effective way to rescue its people.

Lu PingAn and Phil devised a plan to persuade or replace Heroes so they could lead people from the Surface World's safe zones to shelter. The plan moved toward implementation under a new name, though Lu PingAn found Phil's proposed title even worse than the original.

• Lu PingAn struggled with how to convince the stable safe zones to accept the apocalypse and evacuate.
• Phil proposed using the world's Heroes and Demon Kings system to influence communities through their Heroes.
• Lu PingAn approved a plan to recruit Heroes or replace those who refused, using Hero's Swords to verify identities.
• Phil requested the craftsmen's support to build a scouting device based on the Hero's Sword.
• Lu PingAn objected to Phil's proposed plan name, then learned she had renamed it "Fallen Hero."

Lu PingAn reviewed the Fallen Heroes’ persuasion plan and decided to delegate more routine work so he could strengthen the Courtyard. He made upgrading the Lamp Trees his top priority, but Mu Mu refused his suggestion to create a follower race from her bloodline.

• Lu PingAn read Phil and Catherine’s procedures for persuading Heroes and accepted their ruthless focus on results.
• Lu PingAn reflected that his subordinates could handle ordinary conflicts, freeing him to focus on developing the Courtyard and its people.
• Lu PingAn planned new industrial zones and plantations across the Courtyard’s wastelands and chose upgrading the Lamp Trees as his highest-priority project.
• Lu PingAn asked Mu Mu to work overtime on the project, but she dozed off and then refused to spread her bloodline as a follower race.

Lu PingAn reflected on how his faction had grown into a major power, sustained by its industries and longtime companions. He pushed the reluctant Mu Mu to establish her own race, leaving her to begin the work of breeding it.

• Lu PingAn assessed his faction’s strength, influence, industries, and core personnel, and concluded that its longtime companions kept it on course.
• He recognized that his followers’ growth potential allowed his faction to cultivate powerful individuals, races, and kingdoms.
• Lu PingAn urged Mu Mu to develop a race of her own, citing her potential as a progenitor of Energy Creatures and Ancient Trees.
• Mu Mu reluctantly agreed to take root and breed a dependent race after Lu PingAn reminded her that the world needed her strength.

Rabbit Seventy-Three lost contact with the ancestor whose power flowed through her Hero’s Sword, then was imprisoned after warning that the apocalypse was real. Lu PingAn appeared in her cell and urged her to join the cultists and help remove the lord who was suppressing the truth.

• Rabbit Seventy-Three wondered why her ancestor no longer answered through the Hero’s Sword, despite having once guided and empowered her.
• After witnessing the Beast Tide, insect swarms, and a City Destroyer, Rabbit Seventy-Three warned that the apocalypse could not be stopped and returned to her starting point.
• The lord had Rabbit Seventy-Three arrested and stripped of her Hero’s Swords, but she and other prisoners exchanged information confirming that cities were falling and officials were hiding the truth.
• Rabbit Seventy-Three realized that the authorities were deliberately blocking news but struggled to decide how to act without bringing further chaos to the city.
• Lu PingAn entered Rabbit Seventy-Three’s cell, introduced himself as an ordinary savior, and invited her to join the cultists and help remove the lord.
• Lu PingAn’s cadres mobilized Heroes who had fallen to evil, and he promised Rabbit Seventy-Three a path where everyone could survive.

Lu PingAn’s forces used heroes and public opinion to spark rebellions while rescuing refugees and exploiting the Evolution World’s rules. As his retainers and populations expanded, Chris urged him to aim beyond carrying a million people and work toward carrying an entire world.

• Lu PingAn’s cadres formed intervention teams and guided heroes to lead rebellions against kingdoms and lords.
• Lu PingAn’s teams rescued refugees and used riots, abductions, and other methods to remove obstacles, while he ordered them to hurry and gather local resources.
• Lu PingAn and his allies gained retainers through the local rules, and their followers expanded their populations using outsiders as recruits.
• Lu PingAn worried that his growing population might reach a million, and Chris told him to set his sights on carrying an entire world.

Lu PingAn inspected Mu Mu’s new followers and learned why she had created snake-shaped Tree Snakes instead of conventional treants. He left her to continue developing them but insisted that she evolve the Lamp Tree as soon as possible.

• Lu PingAn found that Mu Mu’s First Wave of creations were Tree Snakes rather than humanoid treants.
• Mu Mu explained that snake-like bodies were cheaper to create, more mobile, and better suited to the needs of plants.
• Cat Cat called the branch-covered Tree Snakes tentacle monsters, prompting Lu PingAn to consider how their appearance might affect their presentation.
• Mu Mu said trees did not need human-style societies, and Lu PingAn watched two Tree Snakes fight over resources.
• Lu PingAn stopped interfering with Mu Mu’s work and told her to finish evolving the Lamp Tree quickly.

After Rabbit Qi Shan led her people to the Courtyard, she began a secure factory job and struggled to adapt to their new life and education. When she heard the Courtyard was recruiting local warriors for high pay, she eagerly volunteered.

• Rabbit Qi Shan reflected on killing the King and learned how the former rulers had controlled and exploited their people.
• Rabbit Qi Shan led her clansmen to the Courtyard, where they were offered freedom, factory jobs, housing, meals, and other benefits.
• Rabbit Qi Shan and her people began working in the military factory, while some locals attended night school to learn new skills.
• Rabbit Qi Shan became a model worker but worried that the outsiders might abandon the locals if they failed to prove their worth.
• Rabbit Qi Shan heard that the Courtyard was recruiting locals as warriors for three thousand a month and rushed to sign up.

As the Courtyard expanded into a nation, Lu PingAn ordered a complete industrial and agricultural framework to support its growing population. He also began recruiting local warriors to develop Hero Professions and provide military aid to the Resistance Army.

• Lu PingAn discussed expanding farmland and factories as the Courtyard’s population and territory grew, and reflected on his possible approach to Tier 10.
• Lu PingAn told the Secretary Team to send the latest industrial plan to Phil and establish a self-sufficient industrial chain, beginning with light industries.
• Lu PingAn explained to Chris that he was recruiting local warriors to test and develop his Hero Profession and to provide military support to the Resistance Army.
• Lu PingAn ordered material support and access to goods at cost price for the Resistance Army.

Lu PingAn weighed the limits and benefits of saving the Silent Mountain Range World, then equipped local fighters and urged them to prioritize rescuing refugees. He sent former Heroes and other Professionals toward the front lines, hoping their efforts would help survivors and develop his Hero Profession.

• Lu PingAn argued that people had to rely on themselves, and that the world’s inhabitants would determine what could be saved from its approaching destruction.
• He told Big Cat that the worse the world’s situation became, the more valuable salvation would be, but he still wanted to help despite the costs.
• Lu PingAn equipped resistance fighters with weapons, equipment, and intelligence support, while their main work remained guiding refugees past the lords’ forces.
• He advised a gathered group of former Heroes, militia, and guards to make rescuing refugees their primary mission.
• Lu PingAn offered the recruited Professionals preserved identities and access to products at internal prices, and promised to remember those who returned alive from the front lines.

Lu PingAn sent heroes and soldiers on rescue missions across the Surface World, offering loans, blessings, and counterfeit Hero's Swords to aid them. After the heroes departed, Orcs volunteered to join for the benefits, and Lu PingAn accepted, curious to see how they would fare.

• Lu PingAn let most of the heroes who wanted peaceful lives withdraw, while offering those who took missions three hundred Life Points in interest-free loans and a customized Evolution Blessing.
• Lu PingAn sent heroes out with counterfeit Hero's Swords, while Big Cat bestowed a blessing of martial fortune on them.
• Lu PingAn expanded the rescue effort by involving Dragonkin and people from the Underground World, dispatching teams to save whoever they could across the Surface World.
• The day after the heroes left, Orcs protested that they wanted to become heroes and save their native compatriots because they had heard about the loans.
• Lu PingAn agreed to let the Orcs join, expecting his blessing of fate to draw them into the apocalypse and reveal their potential.

Rabbit Qi Shan entered the Wasteland and confronted how primitive and oppressive the society she once served had been, while recalling victims she had killed and resolving to recover hidden records and find Scholars. Lu PingAn watched his unsupported Heroes and warriors pursue their own goals, then ordered greater airship support as the world neared destruction.

• Rabbit Qi Shan arrived at a poor city and recognized how its lord monopolized trade and kept commoners trapped in poverty.
• Rabbit Qi Shan remembered killing people whose scraps of writing she had once mistaken for evidence of cult activity, and felt guilt over their deaths.
• Rabbit Qi Shan resolved to gather the scraps, uncover the world's hidden writing, and search for Scholars in hiding.
• Lu PingAn explained that he was investing in the Heroes and warriors to see what they could uncover, despite giving them no specific orders.
• Lu PingAn told his people to mobilize airships and increase support for the teams because time was running short.

Lu PingAn surveyed the rapid collapse of the Heavenly, Underground, and Surface Worlds as the Outland overwhelmed them and resistance faltered. Meanwhile, his Courtyard surpassed two million permanent residents and still had room to grow.

• The Heavenly World crumbled under the assault of powerful outsiders, and its Pantheon dwindled as gods fought and died or fled.
• The Underground World’s breeding ground consumed ancient gods, mortals, and armies, while Outland forces turned it into a spawning ground for their creatures.
• Lu PingAn judged the divided world’s defenses and leadership incapable of stopping its collapse, and concluded that its attempt to create a God Above Gods would fail.
• The Surface World suffered refugee tides, fallen kingdoms, and scattered resistance despite heroes receiving divine aid.
• Lu PingAn’s Courtyard surpassed two million permanent residents, and its vast wastelands left him room to expand toward becoming a world.