Chapter Summaries

Emperor Fuxi and the other Sovereigns passed Chen Changsheng’s asset-appraiser exam, earning places in his new committee. Chen Changsheng then proposed restructuring the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation by turning the Three Realms into a Heavenly Dao holding group and selling karma bonds, leaving the Sages to assess the plan.

• Emperor Fuxi persuaded Shennong and Xuanyuan to pay the registration fee and take Chen Changsheng’s asset-appraiser exam.
• Fuxi answered a question about a mass killing by arguing that its damage to Human Dao goodwill made the project’s return negative infinity.
• Chen Changsheng passed the Three Sovereigns, issued their certificates, and appointed them honorary standing committee members with access to the Heavenly Dao IPO.
• At a meeting in Purple Sky Palace, Chen Changsheng presented a prospectus to restructure the Three Realms as Primordial Heavenly Dao Holdings Group.
• Chen Changsheng proposed selling redemption bonds so cultivators could repay karmic debts in installments and share in merit dividends; the Sages silently considered whether the plan could work.

Chen Changsheng turned the Investiture of the Gods into a Heavenly Dao Group, replacing a bloody war with negotiations, recruitment, and assigned divine positions. Years later, he retired as the system’s administrator, confident that its rules kept the Three Realms safe, and fell asleep in the world he had built.

• Emperor Fuxi argued that Chen Changsheng’s securitization plan would benefit the Heavenly Dao more than violent purges, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun approved it.
• Chen Changsheng made the Six Sages bid for founding shares by offering Merit, luck, and other assets.
• Over the following centuries, the Investiture of the Gods War became a Three Realms-wide business negotiation and recruitment drive, with Jiang Ziya assigning divine positions at the Investiture Platform.
• The Heavenly Dao Group established new roles across the Three Realms, while Shen Gongbao became its public relations chief and Tongtian celebrated his sect’s rising profits.
• Chen Changsheng retired from his posts and became a system administrator, allowing the system to enforce rules such as freezing the Western Sect’s Merit accounts.
• Chen Changsheng reflected on how he had made the world’s rules his protection, then fell asleep in the peaceful Primordial World.