Chapter Summaries

Lu PingAn’s group developed Radiant Stone into fortress materials and investigated the remains of the Underground World’s ancient battlefield. Their discovery that the giant statues shared Radiant Stone’s structure raised the possibility that the God Above Gods was a returning ancient giant and the conflict was revenge rather than an outside invasion.

• Lu PingAn’s group coated the fortress’s gates, walls, towers, and spires with self-repairing Radiant Stone and found that feeding it Life Points accelerated its growth.
• The Research Department determined that Radiant Stone worked better as construction material than as weapons or armor, while Courtyard’s Living Armor and Metal Humanoids benefited from using it in their bodies.
• The Hunting Squad and researchers recovered dragon egg fossils and other ancient battlefield remains, and the team began trying to integrate possible Elemental Ancient Dragon genes into the Dragonkin population.
• Researchers found that fragments of giant statues had a structure highly similar to Radiant Stone, suggesting the God Above Gods might be a returning ancient giant and the conflict might be revenge by escaped giants.

Lu PingAn learned that the stone giants were descendants of the Ancient Giants and chose a volcanic landmass with an unusually large number of Stone Men as his next destination. On arrival, the team found the world’s largest Great Cemetery, and a dragon egg fossil began to revive.

• Lu PingAn reconstructed how the Ancient Giants might have returned to their former world, while noting that their descendants had become mindless, soul-devouring stone monsters.
• Researchers identified multiple giant subspecies and ancient ruins, and Lu PingAn considered which landmass to explore before the remaining sites disappeared.
• An intelligence exchange revealed that one Fire Giant capital contained more than ten times as many Stone Men as other ruins, so Lu PingAn selected landmass A117 for the team’s final journey.
• After arriving in the volcanic region, the team’s lamps reacted to what appeared to be the world’s largest Great Cemetery.
• The dragon egg fossil suddenly showed signs of reviving.

Courtyard struggled to assimilate the strange land, while Lu PingAn considered how to keep wartime supplies from falling under private control. As the battle against the Active Radiant Stones began, mass-produced Soul-Devouring Greatswords proved effective against the Rock Giants and hinted at a new possibility for their captured spirits.

• Courtyard could assimilate only part of the volcanic surface, and its inability to reach deeper suggested something underground was resisting it.
• Lu PingAn accepted that warriors could profit from selling Radiant Stones but considered setting limits on private control of military supplies and establishing official channels.
• After Lu PingAn ordered the forces to proceed, ground and airborne legions entered the region and fought the Active Radiant Stones.
• Soul-Devouring Greatswords made from Radiant Stone seized the Rock Giants’ scattered spirituality and stopped them before their bodies were destroyed.
• Lu PingAn observed that the enhanced weapons might offer a new possibility for the spirits taken from the stone monsters.

Silver Fortress defeated the surface stone monsters while Lu PingAn sent Xue En and Cat Cat to investigate the Gravekeepers' Great Cemetery. As reports from the volcano remained unreliable and the Burning Legion could not enter its depths, Lu PingAn decided to investigate the place himself.

• Silver Fortress opened its gates, and its warriors quickly defeated the surface stone monsters with specialized weapons.
• Lu PingAn tasked Xue En with leading a small group, including Cat Cat, to search for the Gravekeepers' Great Cemetery.
• Lu PingAn learned that the dragon egg was warming and showing signs of spiritual feedback, and considered whether it might be a god returning to its pre-birth state.
• Lu PingAn considered recruiting more high-ranking gods to support his expanding faction, but decided the organization was not yet ready to grow recklessly.
• Lu PingAn received conflicting reports from the volcano, learned that the Burning Legion could not enter its depths, and decided to explore them himself.

Lu PingAn's squad explored the ancient Fire Giants' Capital City and discovered that the dungeon was inside a giant's body. After Xia Qin sensed danger but received no confirmation, stone giants attacked the group.

• Lu PingAn and Zhi Xi found that the city's walls were made of Radiant Stone, and Zhi Xi mined some to make an enchanted arm.
• Zhi Xi, two Imperial Guards, Xia Qin, Miss Rou, and Lu Mouren joined Lu PingAn's exploration squad.
• Xia Qin warned the group that enemies were nearby, but they saw nothing for three minutes.
• Lu PingAn explained that the giant's walls might interfere with his detection methods, and Xia Qin prepared to move on.
• Stone giants surged into the passage, and Xia Qin cut them apart while silently adding the incident to Lu PingAn's tab.

Lu PingAn’s team explored an ancient giant production facility while another team uncovered the truth behind the giants’ extinction: a heavenly Petrification Disease that stole their emotions and turned them to stone. Lu PingAn realized the crude facility was an apocalypse fortress and became eager to find the giants’ final inheritance below.

• Lu PingAn’s Exploration Team reached a colossal magma-powered furnace and began studying the ancient production lines.
• Lu PingAn judged that the crude, chaotic facility had been hastily built as a frontline production base for war, not as part of a prosperous city.
• Xue En’s team discovered that the supposed Great Cemetery was a burial place for remnants of knowledge left by massacred ancients.
• The Gravekeepers told Lu PingAn that the giants had been wiped out by the Petrification Disease, which stripped away their emotions and motivation before turning them to stone.
• Lu PingAn learned that the Fire Giants’ king, Samudingke, had become a stone statue and sunk into magma to resist the disease with his flesh-and-blood Divine Realm.
• Lu PingAn realized the facility was an apocalypse fortress protecting the giants’ inheritance and resolved to search below.

Lu PingAn uncovered how the giants’ curse virus drove them to erase their emotions and become mechanized beings, and he rejected the path of becoming like the God Above Gods. After Fang Wen suggested awakening the stone demon monsters, Lu PingAn agreed to try creating a new dependent race.

• Lu PingAn learned from the giants’ records that a world-level virus had caused the race’s extinction and that some were forced to become emotionless logical machines.
• Lu PingAn recognized the Rock Demon Monsters as beings whose selves had been extinguished and refused Spiritual Intuition’s hint that he could follow the God Above Gods’ path.
• Lu PingAn resolved to free the sorrowful living dead rather than condemn them for their existence.
• Fang Wen asked whether the stone demon monsters could be awakened into beings with their own selves and lives.
• Lu PingAn agreed to try recreating life and awakening a new dependent race.

Fang Wen successfully awakened a spirit inside a Stone Giant using her Mechanical Awakener ability, and Lu PingAn recognized it as a newborn life. The World's Curse soon petrified the creature, but Lu PingAn concluded the experiment had succeeded and began planning to gather more Giant Remains.

• Lu PingAn considered how Earth's adaptable Professional system could combine accumulated knowledge into new paths.
• Fang Wen used Mechanical Spirit Awakening Art on a Stone Man, and it stood up under her commands.
• Fang Wen and the Explorers realized the Stone Giant had a newly awakened spirit rather than a virtual soul.
• The newborn Stone Giant's awareness vanished when the World's Curse and Petrification Disease struck.
• Lu PingAn declared the attempt a success, asked for more Giant Remains, and conceived a plan for the world's eventual collapse.

Lu PingAn halted the descent into the Giant Clan’s labyrinth after learning that powerful Rule-level monsters made exploration increasingly dangerous and sensing that a God Above Gods was watching him. He withdrew with the teams that obeyed, leaving several profit-seeking groups below, and ordered everyone to prepare for evacuation as the world’s collapse approached.

• Lu PingAn coordinated exploration and intelligence gathering as teams encountered stronger monsters, including Rule-level creatures that could pass through walls and pursue targets relentlessly.
• After hearing that the labyrinth was dangerous and that something below had drawn a God Above Gods’ attention, Lu PingAn ordered the teams to stop descending and prioritize gathering supplies.
• Lu PingAn realized the watched deity valued what lay below, but chose not to investigate further or risk direct interference.
• Lu PingAn activated Plan C and ordered the teams to retreat, though at least three teams remained below to seek one last haul.
• Lu PingAn turned back, and the eye watching the teams disappeared; he then ordered preparations for evacuation and told everyone to await the apocalypse.

As the world’s ley lines collapsed and the apocalypse began, Lu PingAn recorded its destruction and ordered the Courtyard to retreat. He then spent its life force to help Fang Wen awaken the Ancient Giant, hoping to make the labyrinth itself move and bring its treasures within reach.

• Lu PingAn documented the collapsing ley lines and concluded that the world had reached its end.
• Lu PingAn ordered a full retreat, but nearly a hundred people had gone missing and could no longer be retrieved.
• The sky shattered, the world lost its colors, and the Giant Gods began fighting as the apocalypse spread.
• Lu PingAn ordered the Courtyard’s conduits to send life force into the labyrinth while Fang Wen merged with the ancient heart to awaken the Ancient Giant.
• The Ancient Giant began to stir as Lu PingAn used the awakening to make the labyrinth itself move toward him.

Lu PingAn and Fang Wen briefly awakened a colossal being in the labyrinth, allowing God's Ark and the Courtyard to escape the God Above Gods. The Courtyard faced the pursuing invaders in Lu PingAn's Divine Realm, but the enraged super demon soon found them again.

• Lu PingAn and Fang Wen awakened the colossal labyrinth being, drawing the God Above Gods' attention as God's Ark began its dimensional jump.
• A flaming hand grabbed God's Ark, but Fang Wen caught up, and the Courtyard escaped into dimensional transit with the giant climbing aboard.
• Lu PingAn declared the Courtyard their Divine Realm and made the invading puppets frenzied and irrational, causing them to attack one another.
• The giant stopped moving, and its weight triggered a mountain collapse that buried many weaker beings.
• The sky of the Divine Realm tore open as the enraged super demon arrived.

Lu PingAn faced a powerful Giant God who invaded his Divine Realm to hunt him, and used the Courtyard’s defenses and his allies to wear the intruder down. The battle continued as Lu PingAn rallied his subordinate gods and legions to fight together.

• Lu PingAn identified the invading Giant God as a powerful being, but not a God Above Gods, and resolved to fight to the death within his Divine Realm.
• The Giant God crushed the Rock Giant and sent Chris crashing into a building as the two divine domains began to collide.
• Lu PingAn’s drones swarmed the Giant God, using Life Draw to drain his strength before lightning destroyed many of them.
• The Giant God advanced toward the Bank Building, but Fire Elemental Creatures and the Courtyard’s defenses confronted him.
• Lu PingAn sent his subordinate gods and their legions into battle, declaring that his forces would hunt the Giant God together.

Lu PingAn granted emotions and freedom to the invading rock demons, turning them against one another, while the immense Giant God kept advancing through the Courtyard. When the Giant God attacked, the labyrinth’s ancestor struck back and pinned it down, leaving both sides in a desperate struggle to outlast each other.

• Lu PingAn used his authority as the God of Life to grant emotions and a sense of freedom to the rock demons, causing them to fight among themselves.
• Lu PingAn tested his ability to use death against the ancient god and found that its resistance was exceptionally high.
• The Giant God advanced through the Courtyard, shattered the first city wall, and overwhelmed the defenders, though Chris held out against it for more than ten seconds.
• The labyrinth’s Giant God struck the Four-Armed Tentacle Demonic Monster twice and pinned it beneath its hands.
• Lu PingAn and Fang Wen worked to sustain the Giant God while the warriors attacked and Lu Mouren tightened his fist to crush the trapped monster.

Lu PingAn used the awakened giant’s hand and his forces to kill the Four-Armed God-Devil after a three-day battle. He recovered, inspected the spoils and losses, and turned toward rebuilding while relieved that his companions had survived.

• Lu Mouren ordered Fang Wen to awaken the giant and make it crush the Four-Armed God-Devil with one enormous hand.
• Lu PingAn’s Drones inflicted Life Draw curses as the giant restrained the god-devil, and the battle continued until the giant stopped moving.
• After three days, the Four-Armed God-Devil’s remains lost their life and will, ending the hunt.
• Lu PingAn slept for a day and a half, then discovered new Rock Giant and Variant Treant species templates among the spoils.
• Lu PingAn reviewed the losses, confirmed that no one he knew had permanently died, and resolved to keep moving forward.

Lu PingAn digested the ancient god and gained a huge number of Life Points, then began planning how to recruit the awakened giant descendants and manage his rapidly growing faction. As the Explorers traveled back through the multidimensional universe, the Gravekeepers uncovered a possible source for Heroic Spirit Warriors.

• Lu PingAn gained 165,531 Life Points from digesting the ancient god and confirmed that its remains and divine traces had been cleared.
• Lu PingAn decided to give the surviving giant descendants elementary school Teaching Materials and let them consider long-term employment contracts.
• Lu PingAn left the remaining monsters in the labyrinth for his faction to deal with gradually and rested during the Explorers' journey through the multidimensional universe.
• Hua Xueyi, Fang Wen, and other managers struggled to plan services and administration for metal lifeforms and a population of more than two million newcomers.
• Lu PingAn recognized that his faction needed a larger organizational framework and more managers to meet the standards of a True God Church.
• Lu PingAn learned that the Gravekeepers had found the technological source of the Heroic Spirit Warriors.

Lu PingAn uncovered the secret behind Heroic Spirit Warriors: they were permanently bound to the gods as parts of their divine bodies, making them endlessly revivable but limiting their growth. He considered using the discovery to develop new giant followers and Heroic Spirit technology, while Chris took charge of recreating the Shadow Beast.

• Lu PingAn traced Heroic Spirit Warriors' apparent immortality to records about the Netherworld Beast and its regenerating parts, the Shadow Children.
• Lu PingAn concluded that the gods had merged with their believers during ascension, turning them into parts of the gods and fixing their growth in exchange for revival.
• Lu PingAn considered adapting the technology to create a new race of giant followers and possibly rebuild a Hall of Heroic Spirits in his Courtyard.
• Chris took over the project from Lu PingAn and began trying to recreate the Shadow Beast, suggesting a hybrid race of giants and beasts.

During Lu PingAn’s absence, Earth rebuilt after the Plane War, forming a global True God system and expanding extraordinary development while constructing a defensive star ring. When Lu Mouren and his group returned, they judged the ring too weak to stop a serious threat, and Earth’s representative admitted its main purpose was to make people feel protected.

• Earth constructed two intersecting metal rings and at least thirty Sky Elevators, moving supplies, guards, and special zones into space.
• After the Plane War, Earth began putting a global government framework into practice and integrating military forces and resources.
• The True God System spread worldwide, with more than seven hundred True Gods and 2,900 registered first-rank gods on Earth.
• Lu Mouren’s Trading Ground helped expand extraordinary development by offering people a relatively affordable way to become Professionals.
• A month after returning, Lu Mouren and his group saw Earth’s new defensive star ring and said it could not stop threats capable of causing a world crisis.
• Earth’s representative agreed that the star ring’s main purpose was to make people feel protected.

After returning from Evolution World, Lu PingAn delegated much of the Courtyard’s work to Phil and Chris before entering godslumber to integrate his newfound power. He awoke transformed into a calm, youthful form, handed a report to visiting officials, and learned that Evolution World’s coordinates had become completely empty.

• Lu PingAn assigned Phil to handle routine decisions and passed his remaining work to Chris before going to sleep to recover from his advancement toward True Godhood.
• After godslumber, Lu PingAn awoke in the form of a handsome sixteen-year-old, and Chris observed that he had always considered himself human.
• Lu PingAn gave a visiting official his report, and the official sealed it in a portable safe after reading only two pages.
• Lu PingAn asked about Evolution World and learned that its original dimensional coordinates were completely empty.
• Lu PingAn asked for a meeting to discuss his additional gains.

Lu PingAn waited in space while the Eastern Kingdom debated whether to accept his species-transformation service, which could advance humanity but also threaten its existing identity. He agreed to restrict the service to his followers and secretly sent the decision-makers a Dragonkin Plan to help prevent civil war.

• Lu PingAn surveyed the Pan-Multidimensional Defense System and noticed powerful foreign realm nodes beneath the oceans, but declined Deputy Minister Liu's offer to file for classified information.
• Lu PingAn explained that his ability to replace species could make it possible for him to abandon humanity, giving his service enormous political leverage.
• Decision-makers argued over whether the Xuan Wu Plan's New Human evolution and species-transformation service would strengthen the race or destroy its civilization.
• Lu PingAn remained in space, where his presence gave the authorities time to negotiate without forcing them to make an immediate public decision.
• Deputy Minister Liu relayed the recommendation to limit species transformation to Lu PingAn's followers and require official approval for outsiders; Lu PingAn agreed and privately delivered the Dragonkin Plan to the decision-makers.

After returning from the alien realm, Lu PingAn faced political risks from the valuable discoveries he had brought back. He avoided becoming the center of public controversy by offering the Dragonkin Plan and a possible New Human template for authorities to debate, leaving the scale of implementation unsettled.

• Lu PingAn's advisors warned that returning to the surface with his alien ties and discoveries could invite an assassination attempt and turn him into a target of public opinion.
• Lu PingAn chose to stay out of the political fight, offering the species-alteration materials while avoiding the spotlight so he could preserve his low-profile life.
• Lu PingAn's advisors explained that the Dragonkin data could serve as a versatile foundation for the Xuan Wu Plan, but warned him not to present it as the work of the Father of New Humans.
• Lu PingAn let the authorities consider a complete New Human template without making himself its advocate, reducing the risk of being branded an enemy of humanity.
• Lu Mouren expected the Xuan Wu Plan to begin with a small pilot program and require new and old humans to remain reproductively compatible.