Chapter Summaries

The Mud Monster devised a plan to turn Blue Star against Fang Yuan and divide the territory he had conquered, while Dragon Nation officials debated how to respond to his capture of Gandor. The chapter ended as news that Fang Yuan had taken the kingdom spread worldwide, threatening the political crisis the Mud Monster hoped to exploit.

• The Mud Monster agreed to the Yin Aspect Holy Son’s orders but warned that he would report the Holy Son to the Main God if he was summoned again.
• The Mud Monster planned to smear Fang Yuan, stir up demands that he share Gandor, and use foreign lords to destabilize his territory.
• Ren Yuan learned Fang Yuan had taken Gandor’s royal capital and argued that Dragon Nation should focus on developing and defending the kingdom.
• Ren Yuan’s subordinate warned that people might pressure Fang Yuan to divide Gandor and drive him away, so Ren Yuan decided to protect him.
• A subordinate rushed in and announced that the whole world knew Fang Yuan had taken the Kingdom of Gandor.

Ren Yuan moved to protect Fang Yuan from a campaign that could provoke him into breaking with Blue Star, while Fang Yuan prepared for outside interference and sent Christian to explore the Evil God Maze. After the maze opened and Christian’s team entered, Liu Zhenhan reported discovering ancient Mage Tower Ruins near the Norton Mountain Range.

• Ren Yuan concluded that the online praise calling Fang Yuan King of Gandor was a scheme to seize Gandor, and ordered restrictions on access to the territory while declaring the Censorship Department’s support for Fang Yuan.
• Fang Yuan read Zhao Zixiao’s warning and dismissed the threat, but chose to stay in Gandor rather than lead the expedition to the Evil God Maze.
• Fang Yuan assigned Christian to lead the expedition, and she entered the newly opened maze passage with most of the heroes to hunt the Evil God High Priest and obtain a Godhead Fragment.
• Fang Yuan left Yasis to guard the passage, returned to the Lord’s Hall, and began organizing war spoils and compensation for the Four Alliances.
• Liu Zhenhan sent Fang Yuan a message reporting Old Continent Era Mage Tower Ruins with a damaged Teleportation Array near the Norton Mountain Range in the Bloody Wasteland.

Fang Yuan learned that Berserk Orcs had been found near a ruined Mage Tower in the Bloody Wasteland, potentially giving him a route to the Sub-deity Altar and a second Godhead. He ordered Liu Zhenhan to explore the ruins and prepared to deal with an Orange Legion of ten thousand Blue Star troops heading toward his territory.

• Fang Yuan connected the Berserk Orcs and ruined Mage Tower to the God of Hunt and asked Lilith whether she could repair the tower’s damaged Teleportation Array.
• Lilith explained that the Mage Tower likely belonged to an evil sorcerer, whose specialized magic would be needed to repair the array.
• Fang Yuan offered Orange Items, gold, and resources as rewards for exploring the ruins, and Liu Zhenhan agreed to lead the expedition himself.
• Liu Zhenhan warned Fang Yuan that two White Eagle lords had turned west and that an Orange Legion of about ten thousand troops was advancing toward his territory.
• Fang Yuan sent a Dragon Eagle Knight to tell Yasis to dispatch Griffon Knights to scout the Windy Grassland and locate the approaching legion.

Fang Yuan sorted through the Orange Items from Gandor and found equipment and treasures that could aid his magic rune profession, heroes, and Noble Reputation. After deciding to study the heraldry book and use the treasure maps to search near his secondary city, he set out with Lilith and a twenty-thousand-man army.

• Fang Yuan kept the Armguards of the Glorious Warrior, discovered that the Court Mage's Rune Pen improved magic rune drawing, and chose Madam Dubi's Poison Crossbow for Vanas.
• Fang Yuan gave Lilith the Phantom Clone and Mana Surge scrolls, and Lilith explained the scroll's rarity and possible connection to Gandor's Court Mage.
• Fang Yuan learned from Lilith that mastering Noble Heraldry Studies increased Noble Reputation, gaining one hundred points after mastering 0.1% of the book.
• Fang Yuan examined the Royal Treasure Map and the Delong Family's Treasure Map, noting that both led near his secondary city and that a Mage Tower Ruins lay in the area.
• Fang Yuan assembled twenty thousand troops, including five thousand gold-tier troops, and teleported with Lilith to his secondary city to excavate the treasure maps.

Fang Yuan excavated a Purple treasure chest and obtained a Guardian Golem, then sent Magic Warriors to explore the dangerous Mage Tower Ruins. While he considered asking Wu Dan about safe routes through the ruins, Lilith successfully excavated a Royal Treasure Map and obtained a Magic Crystal from the Naval Battle Secret Realm.

• Fang Yuan and Lilith excavated the first treasure site, where a +10 Purple Treasure Map yielded the Delong Family's Guardian Golem.
• Lilith explained that the golem could repair and reinforce city defenses, and Fang Yuan stored it before heading toward the next sites.
• Fang Yuan split from Lilith, sending her to excavate an Orange treasure while he led the legion to the Mage Tower Ruins.
• Fang Yuan sent a thousand Magic Warriors into the ruins, but spatial rifts, summoned creatures, and traps killed them all within fifteen minutes.
• Fang Yuan realized Wu Dan might know safe routes through the ruins and considered contacting her for the information.
• Lilith killed the Royal Treasure Map's guardian and obtained a Guardian's Contract and an orange-tier Magic Crystal from the Naval Battle Secret Realm on Giant Tooth Island.

Fang Yuan discussed exploring the Floating City with Wu Dan, who wanted to find a device that could change her profession, and received a guardian contract from Lilith. After learning about a naval battle secret realm tied to Cape City, he ordered the Zixiao Alliance to advance south and prepare a route toward the city.

• Fang Yuan agreed to help Wu Dan explore the Floating City within three months to a year and received her map of a safe passage through its outer perimeter.
• Lilith returned with a Guardian's Contract scroll and a secret realm crystal, and Fang Yuan used the scroll to contract a guardian.
• Lilith warned Fang Yuan that the Floating City held deadly weapons and traps, then explained that its class-changing device involved a dangerous transformation.
• Fang Yuan examined a crystal that opened the Giant-toothed Island Naval Battle Secret Realm and learned it required an ocean-going warship.
• Fang Yuan ordered the Zixiao Alliance's main force south to attack the strongholds outside Cape City and open a marching route to it.
• Fang Yuan postponed the remaining treasure-map expedition and ordered his legion back to the main city so he could ask Yasis about enemies on the grasslands.

Fang Yuan sent Yasis and Lilith to destroy the Orange Legion’s hidden outposts, and their overwhelming attack shocked Little Laurent and the Holy Spear Alliance. Little Laurent realized his intelligence about Fang Yuan was wrong and asked the Main God for new instructions.

• Fang Yuan went to the Northern Territory Defense Line, where Yasis explained that the Orange Legion had established three Outpost Camps in a concealed river valley.
• Fang Yuan ordered Lilith to lead ten thousand Flame Magi and instructed Yasis to attack the camps with the Griffon Knights and Dragon Eagle Knight Legion.
• Little Laurent ordered three thousand orange wolf riders to scout Fang Yuan’s territory after learning the camps had reached Level Ten.
• Jess reported that all three Outpost Camps had been destroyed in less than ten minutes, with their forces wiped out by Flame Magi and Griffon Knights.
• Little Laurent concluded that the Holy Spear Alliance could not continue its mission and ordered a report sent to Blue Star for new instructions from the Main God.

The Mud Monster plotted to destroy Fang Yuan’s reputation on Blue Star and use the resulting crisis to seize Gondor. Fang Yuan refused to yield, threatened his enemies with Forbidden Spells, and learned that his territory had absorbed a True God's Curse.

• The Mud Monster ordered Little Laurent to publicize Fang Yuan’s defeat and make him a villain on Blue Star.
• Ren Yuan learned that White Eagle was demanding Fang Yuan return to Blue Star for an investigation, while officials feared Gondor would be divided among his enemies.
• Zhao Zixiao warned Fang Yuan that Blue Star forces were moving against him, and Fang Yuan instructed him to lure his loudest critics into Gondor and send them to Cape City to fill the moat.
• Fang Yuan refused Ren Yuan’s request for a face-to-face meeting and warned that he would cast Scourge-level Forbidden Spells against anyone who attacked him.
• Christian slew the Harvest Evil God's priest and gained a Godhead Fragment and a dark-gold Forbidden Spell Scroll; after the Harvest Goddess cursed Fang Yuan’s territory, its Guardian Spirit absorbed the curse and granted him a True God's Curse.

Fang Yuan learned that the Book of Curses fragment had absorbed a True God-level curse and ordered it used against every lord in Coastal City. As he turned to rebuilding Marigold Pioneer Fortress, the curse struck Blue Star and plunged White Eagle Country—and the world—into panic.

• Lilith explained that the Book of Curses fragment could absorb external curses, and Fang Yuan went to Golden Flower Pioneer Territory to inspect the newly acquired curse.
• The Guardian Spirit identified the curse as the Harvest Goddess's Curse—Barren Land, which reduced a territory's output and could only be removed by a True God-level unit.
• Fang Yuan chose Coastal City, where White Eagle, Goryeo, and Sakura had built a joint city, as the target for the one-use curse.
• Fang Yuan supplied five Golden Source Crystals, and the Guardian Spirit released the curse across Coastal City, exhausting the Book of Curses' power for a while.
• The Guardian Spirit urged Fang Yuan to establish an industrial and mining district at Marigold Pioneer Fortress, and he began planning its construction.
• The curse caused chaos throughout White Eagle Country and terrified the entire world.

White Eagle’s leaders learned that Coastal City’s curse could not be lifted by its caster and considered abandoning the territory. They chose instead to make Coastal City’s lords join the Magic Goddess’s faction, while preserving some High-level Lords elsewhere.

• Vitru told the White Eagle magnates that investigators had found evidence linking the Laurent Family to the Adventists, leaving room for reconciliation with Fang Yuan.
• Ryan’s report revealed that only a god could lift Coastal City’s curse, so the leaders concluded that the territory might have to be abandoned.
• Maffice proposed joining the awakened sub-deity faction and seeking the Magic Goddess’s help to remove the curse.
• The magnates agreed to move some High-level Lords elsewhere and have Coastal City’s remaining lords join the Magic Goddess’s faction.

Ren Yuan and Zhao Zixiao argued over Fang Yuan’s response to the Adventists and the widening divide between Blue Star and Mist World lords. White Eagle’s plan to transfer Coastal City’s lords into the Evil God Faction shocked Ren Yuan, while Fang Yuan remained unaware as he headed to the Northern Territory Defense Line to prepare his city’s upgrade.

• Ren Yuan attributed the Laurent Tower deaths to a Mist Creature and ordered investigations and crackdowns on Adventists.
• Zhao Zixiao rejected Ren Yuan’s offer to settle the dispute and demanded Dragon Nation send Adventists to help Fang Yuan conquer Cape City.
• Zhao Zixiao warned Ren Yuan that Mist World lords had grown alienated from Blue Star and increasingly willing to abandon its defense.
• A subordinate told Ren Yuan that White Eagle planned to transfer Coastal City’s lords into the Evil God Faction to dispel the True God curse.
• Ren Yuan feared the transfer could divide Blue Star, while Zhao Zixiao immediately warned Fang Yuan of the news.
• Fang Yuan, unaware of the upheaval, brought source crystals to the Northern Territory Defense Line to activate his heroes’ faction skills and fulfill his Level 10 Main City upgrade condition.

Fang Yuan reviewed the heroes’ maze spoils, then awakened Helen’s faction skill, Soul Shattering Song, which could kill targets with weaker souls. He paid lords across Blue Star for Golden Source Crystals so Qing Feng and Kubo could awaken their skills, but a shocking message about the Magic Goddess and the Evil God Faction interrupted the process.

• Christian reported that the Harvest Evil God had vanished after awakening and that the maze altar had been destroyed, leaving the maze unusable.
• Fang Yuan learned that Helen had awakened Soul Shattering Song, a skill that could kill weaker-souled targets and weaken stronger ones.
• Fang Yuan offered a hundred-million-gold subsidy per Golden Source Crystal and quickly traded for twenty Dark- and Physical-type crystals.
• Fang Yuan gave the crystals to Qing Feng and Kubo so they could awaken their faction skills.
• Fang Yuan received a message demanding that everything be put into the Evil God Faction, specifically the Magic Goddess’s faction, and Christian reacted in shock.

Fang Yuan learned that Coastal City’s roughly four hundred thousand lords could awaken the Magic Goddess, who might invade Blue Star and seize its Civilization Fire. With less than a year to reach Level 20, he resolved to slow her awakening by stopping as many of Coastal City’s lords as possible, then received news that several Golden Heroes had awakened their faction skills.

• Fang Yuan explained to Christian that Coastal City held about four hundred thousand lords and had likely joined the Evil God Faction to protect its territory from Harvest Evil God’s curse.
• Christian warned that the lords’ allegiance could awaken the Magic Goddess, whose return threatened Blue Star, and said Fang Yuan had to become a true god within a year to stop her.
• Fang Yuan admitted he lacked confidence in reaching Level 20 but resolved to take the risk rather than let the Magic Goddess gain control of Blue Star.
• Fang Yuan considered using the Dark Gold Forbidden Spell Scroll, Plague of Magic Locusts, to destroy Coastal City, but Christian warned that this would not stop the three countries from seeking evil gods’ protection.
• Fang Yuan abandoned the shortcut and decided to stop as many Coastal City lords as possible, then several Golden Heroes simultaneously awakened their faction skills.

Fang Yuan reviewed Qing Feng and Kubo's newly awakened faction skills, then used Source Crystals to awaken six more Orange Heroes. The chapter ended with their skills revealed, paving the way for Fang Yuan to upgrade his Main City to Level 10.

• Qing Feng awakened Twin Phantom, granting her an invisible clone with Demigod Level Shadow Poison, and warned Fang Yuan that the skill had counters.
• Kubo awakened Sky-Piercing Slash, an area attack that shattered armor and dealt increased damage to lightly armored units.
• Fang Yuan distributed suitable Source Crystals to Meg, Aisha, Hom, the Barbarian High Priest, Heidi, and Solan.
• Meg awakened Sacred Sword, Aisha Trade Contract, Hom Slow Ray, the Barbarian High Priest Ancestral Summon, Heidi Demon Eye, and Solan Shatter Strike.

Fang Yuan reviewed the heroes’ newly awakened faction skills, then prepared to upgrade his main city to Level 10. After gathering and fusing the required items into the territory, he unlocked the Miracle Building Slot and began the upgrade.

• Fang Yuan assessed the heroes’ skills, praised Mage Meg’s Sacred Sword, and ordered Aisha to use Trade Contract to keep the Golden Commerce Guild open.
• Heidi and Breni explained that their cult hunted other demons because they believed in the Spirit Flame Lord and considered rival demons enemies.
• Fang Yuan ordered the heroes to return to their defensive zones, assigning Breni to Bloodline Castle and Aria to Golden Flower Pioneer Castle.
• Fang Yuan checked the Level 10 Main City requirements and confirmed that his territory met all ten conditions and had gathered the required upgrade items.
• Fang Yuan fused the items into the territory, unlocked the Miracle Building Slot, and confirmed the upgrade of the Wasteland Territory to Level 10.

Fang Yuan upgraded his main city to Level 10, earned the Dark Gold Limit Territory achievement, and gained massive boosts to its defenses, population, and production. As he began preparing to conquer the Windy Grassland, a report arrived that Cape City had annihilated the Zixiao Alliance's southbound army and was advancing on its headquarters.

• Fang Yuan used low-tier Mobilization Orders to upgrade his main city to Level 10 and triggered the Limit Territory achievement with a Wonder Shard and Godhead Fragment.
• Fang Yuan discovered that the upgrade raised his main city's durability, prosperity, population, building slots, and faction value to their limits, while multiplying Resource Territory and Military Territory output.
• Fang Yuan accepted the 20-million daily maintenance cost, reasoning that his territory's resource production and reserves could easily cover it.
• Fang Yuan decided to upgrade his barracks, Military Territories, Resource Territories, and defenses before marching north to seize the Windy Grassland.
• A Griffon Knight reported that Cape City had ambushed and annihilated the Zixiao Alliance's southbound army and was advancing on its headquarters; Yasis asked Fang Yuan whether to send troops to help.

Fang Yuan learned that Cape City had annihilated the Zixiao Alliance’s Ten Thousand Realms Orange Legion and sent its forces north. He decided to intercept Cape City’s main force before marching on the Windy Grassland.

• A report told Fang Yuan that Cape City had ambushed and destroyed the Zixiao Alliance’s cavalry and infantry after the legion split its forces.
• Lilith and Christian criticized the Zixiao Alliance’s commanders, while Christian suspected Adventists had sabotaged the alliance.
• Fang Yuan learned that Cape City’s army was clearing the Zixiao Alliance’s Outpost Camps and forcing nearby lords to migrate.
• Christian proposed attacking Cape City’s departing main force, and Fang Yuan ordered him to mobilize the cavalry, aerial heroes, and fast-moving troops to encircle and destroy it.

Zhao Sheng exposed and crushed Adventist traitors in the Zixiao Alliance while Fang Yuan’s forces destroyed the army besieging Cape City. In the north, Yin Aspect Holy Son learned that his plan to delay Fang Yuan had failed and feared the army would now march against him.

• Zhao Sheng calmed the Zixiao Alliance, where lords demanded Fang Yuan send reinforcements or they would leave, and learned from Fang Yuan that Adventists had helped cause the army’s defeat.
• Zhao Sheng identified the dissenters as Adventists, ordered their arrest and execution, and told them Fang Yuan had dispatched three hundred thousand troops and reached Level 10.
• The Undead Archmage reported that Adventist operations on the Windy Grassland had faltered, the Forbidden Creature had gone into hiding, and Blue Eagle might join the Evil God Faction.
• Yin Aspect Holy Son planned to capture the Windy Grassland Empire’s royal capital within five days, relying on the Other God to hold Fang Yuan at Cape City while he prepared to cast a forbidden spell.
• The Undead Archmage reported that Fang Yuan’s cavalry had annihilated the Other God’s army at Field of Hills and that the Adventists inside the Zixiao Alliance were all dead.
• Yin Aspect Holy Son realized his plan and trump cards had failed and feared Fang Yuan’s army would march north immediately.

Fang Yuan planned the capture of Cape City after Christian’s forces routed its army, while upgrading his territory’s buildings. After Cape City fell, the Evil God abandoned the continent and ordered his warriors to settle on the Shadow Isles, believing they could rebuild there.

• Fang Yuan reviewed Christian’s victory over Cape City’s forces and ordered Helen to send half the Magic Crystal Cannons and the entire Magic Crystal Gun Legion south as support.
• Fang Yuan upgraded his territory’s important buildings to level ten while Cape City’s surviving commander reported the defeat to the Heretic God’s envoy.
• The Heretic God’s envoy asked whether Cape City could hold out, then returned to report the situation to the Evil God.
• The Evil God refused to send reinforcements and decided to abandon the continent for the Shadow Isles, where he hoped to develop in safety.
• The Evil God received notice that Cape City had been breached and the Shadow Isles had become his territory, then ordered his warriors to conquer the islands.

The Beast God ordered the Windy Grassland Empire’s forces to evacuate through the Beast God Maze and destroy their capital rather than let the Yin Aspect Holy Son claim it. The Yin Aspect Holy Son watched the city explode, then learned that Fang Yuan had conquered Cape City and was heading north, and fainted from rage.

• The Beast God healed the badly injured Behemoth King and ordered him to evacuate the forces into the Beast God Maze and detonate the capital.
• The Yin Aspect Holy Son expected the weakened capital’s shield to fall and planned to seize the city, its Golden troops, and the Behemoth King’s body.
• The Yin Aspect Holy Son realized the shield had been shut down from within and warned that the city might be destroyed.
• The Windy Grassland Empire’s capital exploded, leaving the Yin Aspect Holy Son furious that he had lost the territory.
• The Alien God told the Yin Aspect Holy Son that Fang Yuan had conquered Cape City, taken the Shadow Isles, and was leading his army north.
• The Yin Aspect Holy Son roared in anger and plunged from the sky after a wave of dizziness overcame him.