Chapter Summaries

Alijeh rewarded Su Yu for his service by giving him the priceless Chain of the Gorse Flower Plane, a necklace containing a damaged small plane and powerful space abilities. She then revealed that the empire’s next war would target the neighboring powers that had exploited its crisis.

• Alijeh gave Su Yu the Chain of the Gorse Flower Plane and taught him its activation incantation.
• Su Yu was astonished by the necklace’s value, and Alijeh asked him to keep it safe and survive the coming battles.
• Alijeh promised Su Yu the Xifan's Soul Fragment after the next stage of the war and ordered Kelderon to have Master Shalan extract it.
• Alijeh explained that the empire would next punish the Kunk Kingdom, the Luman Kingdom, and the Hills Commercial Federation for their opportunism.

Su Yu and Princess Alijeh planned to punish the neighboring small nations that had supported the Cutler Rebel Army and recover wealth for the Golden Flower Empire. As Tina gathered the army’s leaders to plan the campaign, Lanster urged restraint and proposed collecting overdue tribute instead of imposing heavier restrictions.

• Princess Alijeh told Su Yu the empire faced a severe fiscal deficit and asked him and Tina to seize wealth from the small nations’ royal families and nobles.
• Su Yu offered to waive the empire’s weapons debt and provide Apuxi City’s weapons for free, then warned that nobles might shift confiscation costs onto commoners; Alijeh agreed to forbid tax increases and large-scale plunder of the people.
• Su Yu received a mission to attack the Kunk Kingdom, Luman Kingdom, Hills Commercial Federation, and other nations with Tina Garcia, and confiscate 30 billion Psionic Coins.
• Su Yu informed Tina of the plan, and she summoned the senior generals, staff officers, and Antonidas to a strategy meeting.
• Lanster objected to Su Yu’s proposed restrictions, citing the empire’s weakness, and suggested demanding thirty years of unpaid tribute at double value while staging a show of force and looting a few towns.

Su Yu rejected Lanster’s proposal to avoid a costly campaign and dismissed him after he argued that the commoners’ welfare no longer mattered. After planning with Tina and the officers, Su Yu chose Sea Rock City as the army’s first target to prevent the neighboring kingdoms and duchies from moving their assets out of reach.

• Lanster and several officers opposed a long campaign, but Su Yu challenged Lanster over his disregard for commoners and Tina removed him from his post.
• Su Yu warned the officers to follow his and Tina’s commands and study Her Highness the Princess’s governing principles.
• Su Yu, Tina, and the officers studied a map and discussed troop deployments, routes, and objectives.
• Su Yu selected Sea Rock City as the first target, despite Lucas’s concerns about its distance and defenders.
• Tina realized Su Yu planned to seize Sea Rock City before the neighboring rulers could transfer their assets overseas, and Su Yu confirmed her reasoning.

Su Yu planned to use Antonidas’s Mass Teleportation to send 10,000 players to Sea Rock City for a raid mission, then invited Antonidas to his residence to ask him to teach Space Magic. Antonidas agreed on the condition that Su Yu ask the Princess to shorten his time under control.

• Su Yu decided Antonidas could teleport 10,000 first-tier adventurers 3,785 kilometers to Sea Rock City and set the army’s departure for three days later.
• Su Yu recruited 10,000 players through Guild Chatroom for a raid-homes Main Quest, promising rewards better than those from previous campaigns.
• Su Yu invited Antonidas to his residence that night, prompting confusion among the people in the tent.
• Su Yu showed Antonidas the Chain of the Gorse Flower Plane and asked him to teach Space Magic from the basics.
• Antonidas agreed to teach Su Yu if he pleaded with Her Highness the Princess to reduce the time Antonidas remained under control.

Su Yu learned all Tier 0 and Tier 1 Space Element spells from Antonidas in seven days and prepared to lead an elite force against the Skrull Star. He left Maple Leaf City with three legendary experts and 23 Sanctuary experts, arranging to reunite with Antonidas at Sea Salt Town the next day.

• Su Yu mastered the Tier 0 and Tier 1 Space Element spells, including Enhanced Blink, and planned to learn Portal before traveling to the Skrull Star.
• Tina led 8,000 troops and 200,000 players toward the Kunk Kingdom while Su Yu and the other high-tier experts waited for their mission.
• Three Tier 7 experts and 23 Tier 6 experts gathered at Su Yu's courtyard, and Roland pledged to follow his command.
• Su Yu ordered Antonidas to bring the Otherworld Adventurers to Sea Salt Town the next morning, then led the assembled experts toward Sea Rock City.

Cecilia Nightblade uncovered Derek Gesang’s plan to betray the Hills Federation’s suzerain state and join the Rhine Empire’s war against the Golden Flower Empire. She captured Derek and took him away to answer to Lord Nemesis.

• Derek Gesang met Zakri, a Light Travelers assassin, who delivered a letter from Emperor Sean Violet asking the Hills Federation to side with the Rhine and Wind Chime Empires against the Golden Flower Empire.
• Derek wrote a reply agreeing to join the Rhine Empire if it offered sufficient benefits and expanded trade.
• Cecilia Nightblade seized Derek’s letter and killed Zakri and the hidden Tier 5 Mage guarding the meeting room.
• Derek recognized Cecilia and tried to explain his actions, but she dragged him out the window and into the sky to face Lord Nemesis.

Cecilia and Su Yu’s force confronted Sea Rock City over Derek’s betrayal and began confiscating the city’s wealth. Mosby Gessang kept the city’s Experts from resisting as the players carried out the sweep.

• Cecilia exposed Derek’s letter to Sea Rock City’s Experts, weakening their resolve after they saw his betrayal.
• Su Yu arrived with Roland, Cecilia, Fanstor, and other Experts, then announced that Alijeh had ordered them to recover the Empire’s losses.
• Su Yu brought ten thousand players into Sea Rock City and ordered them to search the major families’ properties for valuables.
• Roland killed a Sea Rock City Warrior who challenged the confiscation, and Mosby told the other Experts not to resist.
• Cecilia executed Derek, while the players began systematically sweeping the city’s castles, mansions, and estates.

Su Yu reassured Sea Rock City’s civilians as the players advanced toward Sea Serpent Fortress to confiscate the property of nobles and wealthy merchants. Snowflake Leopard and Crimson-Eyed Black Dragon broke through the fortress gate with help from Hamilton, leaving Mosby Gessang unable to intervene.

• Mosby Gessang ordered the city’s people not to resist the Golden Flower Empire’s adventurers, and Su Yu promised the civilians would be left alone.
• The players split into teams and headed for assigned targets, with Snowflake Leopard and Crimson-Eyed Black Dragon leading elite teams toward Sea Serpent Fortress.
• Civilians crowded Rambla Street to watch the players, slowing their advance, and a little girl called Snowflake Leopard an idiot.
• Snowflake Leopard led his team to the locked fortress gate, but their attacks failed against its defensive Magic Array.
• Hamilton smashed through the gate, and Snowflake Leopard led the players into Sea Serpent Fortress while Mosby Gessang remained occupied by Roland and the other Saint Domain Warriors.

Players plundered Sea Rock City's noble estates, banks, and merchant guilds, while Snowflake Leopard uncovered a Blazing Flame Dragon Egg in a Gesang Family vault. Su Yu took the egg and promised to give it to the Princess, and Snowflake Leopard learned the mission's Contribution Value could be exchanged for Psionic Coins.

• Snowflake Leopard sent Crimson-Eyed Black Dragon to search Derek Gesang's study while he hunted for hidden vaults.
• Snowflake Leopard used Hamilton to smash open a vault, and he and Crimson-Eyed Black Dragon gathered valuables from the Gesang Family's rooms and vaults.
• Players raided locations across Sea Rock City, overcame NPC resistance, and brought their stolen valuables to Su Yu in the central square.
• Snowflake Leopard presented a Blazing Flame Dragon Egg, prompting astonishment from the experts and anger from Mosby Gessang.
• Su Yu took the egg and said he would let the Princess decide what to do with it.
• Snowflake Leopard received 14.53 million Contribution Value and learned it could be exchanged for Psionic Coins at a ratio of 1,000 to 1.

Su Yu finished looting Sea Rock City and offered its High-tier Experts a share of future spoils in exchange for helping raid other kingdoms. Mosby Gessang accepted, agreeing to cooperate with Su Yu’s campaign.

• Snowflake Leopard announced how players could earn and use Contribution Value, prompting them to loot the nobles’ homes for valuable items.
• Players delivered their loot to Su Yu, whose mission progress rose to 21.13 billion Psionic Coins as he collected wealth from Sea Rock City’s major institutions and families.
• After two hours of looting, Su Yu confronted Sea Rock City’s resentful High-tier Experts and proposed that they help raid other kingdoms in exchange for thirty percent of the loot.
• Su Yu argued to Mosby Gessang that the spoils would strengthen the Hills Federation and help it dominate the Western Continent.
• Mosby Gessang accepted Su Yu’s terms after Su Yu mentioned that Tina Garcia had already attacked the Kunk Kingdom.

Su Yu secured Sea Rock City’s cooperation, helped unify the players through a fairer Contribution Value plan, and led a sweeping campaign across the Western Continent alongside Tina. They met in the Luman Royal Capital after the campaign raised Su Yu’s mission progress to 213.2 billion Psionic Coins, seven times the Princess’s target.

• Su Yu signed a cooperation agreement with Mosby Gessang and added clauses protecting civilians from extra taxes and property seizure.
• Su Yu warned Snowflake Leopard that uneven Contribution Value rewards could divide the players, and Snowflake Leopard issued a redistribution plan that players praised.
• Su Yu led the players eastward from Sea Rock City, then brought Hills Federation troops into the campaign and arranged for players to supervise them and collect their spoils.
• Tina led elite troops and players into the Kunk Kingdom while the Hills Federation obstructed efforts by neighboring nations to form an alliance.
• Su Yu and Tina swept the Western Continent for two and a half months and met in the Luman Royal Capital, where Su Yu’s mission progress reached 213.2 billion Psionic Coins.

Su Yu and Tina forced Jessiah III to surrender and imposed an agreement protecting Luman’s civilians from tax increases before visiting a waterfall outside the city. There, Tina revealed that her family’s loyalty to the Gorse Flower family came from a Special Bond she could not explain, hinting that she might otherwise have been required to marry Alijeh if Alijeh were a prince.

• Jessiah III surrendered to Su Yu and Tina, and Su Yu required him to sign an agreement barring tax increases on civilians for ten years.
• Su Yu warned Luman’s civilians to report any officials who violated the tax agreement, while players entered the palace to seize its wealth.
• Tina and Su Yu left the palace to visit a waterfall, where they discussed the value of the spoils collected during their journey.
• Su Yu asked Tina why she was so loyal to the royal family, and Tina said a Special Bond linked her family to the Gorse Flower family.
• Tina told Su Yu that if Alijeh were a prince, she might have been required to marry Alijeh and could not be with him.

Tina Garcia chose to travel with her father and sister before settling in Su Yu’s territory, and gave him a badge to summon her if he needed help. After the players looted the Luman Royal Palace, Su Yu arranged for them to collect their rewards and decide for themselves whether to return home or keep exploring the western continent.

• Tina told Su Yu she wanted to travel with her father and sister, then settle in his territory, and he welcomed them to Apuxi City.
• Tina gave Su Yu a Plane Communication Badge so he could contact her if the otherworld invasion put him in need of help.
• Snowflake Leopard messaged Su Yu to return because the players’ inventories were full, so Su Yu and Tina flew back toward the Luman Royal Capital.
• The players finished looting the Luman Royal Palace, and Su Yu collected spoils worth 2.312 billion Psionic Coins.
• Antonidas said he could transport Su Yu, Tina, and up to 8,000 otherworld adventurers, but not the entire group.
• Su Yu announced that players could claim quest rewards according to their contribution points and then return home or remain in the western continent to explore.

Su Yu and Tina returned to Broom City after the Western Continent opened, and players collected their quest rewards before rushing off to explore. At the Gorse Flower Imperial Palace, they reunited with Alijeh, where Finance Minister Brian Monk anxiously asked whether the operation’s spoils could offset the Empire’s debts.

• Players learned that the Western Continent was open, then rushed to Su Yu in Luman Royal Palace to turn in their quests and collect rewards.
• Su Yu earned commissions from the players’ rewards as many players leveled up and set off for dungeons, the Auction House, and Hidden Quests.
• Su Yu and Tina returned to Broom City through Antonidas's Teleportation Array and rode through the cheering streets to the Gorse Flower Imperial Palace.
• Kelderon welcomed Su Yu and Tina and escorted them to the grand hall, where Alijeh greeted them as they reunited.
• Brian Monk asked Su Yu whether the operation’s spoils could offset the Empire’s debts, then worried aloud that Su Yu might have botched the operation.

Su Yu and Tina reported that their Western Continent operation had seized 336.7 billion in spoils, far exceeding the Gorse Flower Empire’s target. Alijeh rewarded each of them with ten billion, and Su Yu completed his main story mission as Alijeh put on the Chain of the Gorse Flower Plane.

• Su Yu pretended that the operation had brought in only a small amount, alarming Brian and the ministers before revealing the total was 336.7 billion.
• Alijeh confirmed the figure, and Tina explained Su Yu’s strategy, including raiding Sea Rock City and hiring the Hills Alliance.
• Brian celebrated that the empire’s debts could be paid and funds could go toward reconstruction and Alijeh’s coronation.
• Alijeh awarded Su Yu and Tina ten billion each, and Su Yu received a notification that his main story mission was complete.
• Alijeh accepted the Chain of the Gorse Flower Plane from Su Yu and placed it around her neck.

Su Yu and Tina returned with resources that enabled Alijeh to fund the Golden Flower Empire’s reconstruction, while foreign envoys gathered for her coronation amid declarations of war from Wind Chime and Ryan. At the ceremony, Alijeh received her ancestors’ blessings, became a fifth-tier mage, crowned herself Empress, and promised her subjects a brighter future.

• Su Yu and Tina returned with spoils, and Alijeh used the resources to fund reconstruction across the Golden Flower Empire.
• Foreign envoys arrived for Alijeh’s coronation, while Wind Chime and Ryan warned her and declared war on the Golden Flower Empire.
• Princess Arwen thanked Su Yu and proposed marriage, but Su Yu politely declined; Bartok Ironbeard arrived as the Dwarf Kingdom’s envoy.
• On July 31, Alijeh held her coronation ceremony in Gorse Flower Central Square, where prayers to her ancestors helped her become a fifth-tier mage.
• Alijeh took the crown from Shalan and placed it on her own head, proclaiming herself Empress before the cheering crowd.
• Empress Alijeh promised to lead the Golden Flower Empire toward a brighter future.

After Alijeh’s coronation, she rewarded the Empire’s war heroes, granting Tina the title of Duke and Pearl City and naming Su Yu a Duke and Foreign Trade Minister. Su Yu completed the Golden Flower Empire Main Storyline, and the chapter ended with the Empire celebrating its victory while preparing for possible threats from the two great Empires.

• Alijeh granted Tina the title of Duke and Pearl City, though she intended for the city to return to royal control when Tina resigned.
• Alijeh awarded Su Yu the title of Duke and the position of Foreign Trade Minister for his contributions to the Empire.
• Su Yu received the Glory of the Golden Flower accessory and completed the Golden Flower Empire Main Storyline.
• Alijeh allowed Roland to keep Silver Pine Spire, judging that his wartime merits balanced his mistakes in Forest City.
• Alijeh rewarded the other meritorious subjects, and the Empire held a month-long celebration while officials prepared for possible military incursions.

After completing the Main Storyline, Su Yu returned to Apuxi City to begin secluded cultivation and discussed research, territory investments, and an upcoming Illusionary Duel with Snowflake Leopard. When the event was announced, Su Yu decided not to participate, leaving Snowflake Leopard to consider joining.

• Su Yu returned to Apuxi City, started research on Wireless Communication, and flew toward the Mage Tower to cultivate.
• Snowflake Leopard told Su Yu that his guild had failed to find treasures like the Jade Dragon Statue and the Temple of Heaven, and Su Yu encouraged him to keep searching.
• Su Yu suggested Snowflake Leopard discuss investing in Apuxi City's Mage Tower-like building slots with Winged God Dragon.
• The system announced that the first Illusionary Duel would begin that evening, and Su Yu explained its battle royale format to Snowflake Leopard.
• Snowflake Leopard asked whether Su Yu would compete, and Su Yu declined because he had already gained substantial rewards from the Main Storylines.

Su Yu explained his absence from the event on the forums, then logged out to watch an Illusionary Duel while cultivating. In the real world, Morning Star reported her recovery progress, and Xue Wenli confirmed that she appeared to carry no alien microorganisms, though she should stay in Donghai City.

• Su Yu told Snowflake Leopard he had skipped the event to spare other players, then posted the same explanation on the forums and received widespread praise.
• Su Yu logged out before entering the Mage Tower, and Kacie lamented that Morning Star had vanished with him.
• Morning Star reached Tier 4 and predicted she would recover to newly advanced Tier 6 before Su Yu traveled to the other plane.
• Morning Star let Su Yu pet her in Astral Cat form while continuing to play on his phone.
• Xue Wenli told Su Yu that tests had found no alien bacteria or viruses along Morning Star's activity route and advised him not to take her outside Donghai City.

Su Yu took Morningstar out, bought her a new phone, and discovered that her ghost-sensing range let them eliminate dozens of ghosts across Donghai City. Back home, Morningstar played a mobile game until Su Yu stored her in Pet Space and logged in for Illusionary Duel.

• The Relevant Department confirmed that Morningstar could safely breathe outside, and Su Yu persuaded her to leave home by promising to buy her a new phone.
• Su Yu bought Morningstar a high-end phone, took her to eat grilled fish, and showed her the nearly deserted city.
• Morningstar detected ghosts within two kilometers, helping Su Yu kill sixty-one ghosts during their outing.
• After returning home, Su Yu sent Xue Wenli their ghost-hunting results while Morningstar played a MOBA game on her new phone.
• Su Yu stored Morningstar in Pet Space and entered the game, leaving her teammates baffled when she went AFK.