Recaps

Yu Sheng'an spread the Internet Divine Art across the Kevil Empire and negotiated an alliance with Dendall, while opening new paths to education and crop research. The arc left Yu Sheng'an developing the apprentices’ agricultural proposal and caring for the revived Dragon Egg, Dillon Adam.

• Yu Sheng'an created the Internet Divine Art, and Morm pledged his barren village’s loyalty to the God of the Internet.
• Justin discovered the Internet’s Library and Forum, while Lucia and Desova helped draw users into its growing community.
• Dendall and the Empire’s mages tried to contain the Internet, but Yu Sheng'an refused to shut down its courses and negotiated an agreement with Dendall.
• Yu Sheng'an exposed Redmond’s fraudulent Magic school and recruited him and his accomplices into the Penance Group.
• Yu Sheng'an secured the Empire’s support for spreading the Internet and opening literacy schools, while requiring it to cultivate other gods as Heretics unless Dendall conceded one of his demands.
• Yu Sheng'an recruited Felix’s Wood Spirit Apprentices to develop hardier, higher-yield crops, despite ridicule and opposition from plantation owners.
• Dorothy apologized to Yu Sheng'an and gave him a nearly lifeless Dragon Egg, which he saved through a Life-Sharing Contract and named Dillon Adam.
• Yu Sheng'an reorganized the forums, considered adding a flashlight function for illiterate users, and began reading the apprentices’ crop proposal.

Yu Sheng'an’s crop experiments made Erin famous, while his growing influence reshaped magic research and the Empire’s food strategy. The arc ended with Yu Sheng'an proposing an alliance to Aphnora and offering to share his believers.

• Asheff praised Erin’s cultivation notes, appointed her his assistant, and began experiments that produced startling crop mutations, drawing Doman and other apprentices into the research.
• Erin developed non-bitter Winter Mallow, but Marchie crushed her sample, so Yu Sheng'an led a crowd to Marchie’s plantation and destroyed it before defeating Marchie’s attack and leaving him gravely injured.
• Yu Sheng'an used shared Vitality to revive Church and Balo, while Winter Mallow spread across the Empire and brought fame to Erin and Asheff.
• Asheff demonstrated that electricity could produce light, astonishing the Felix Magic Research Council, and Pous passed Erin’s interview to become his assistant.
• Yu Sheng'an persuaded Dendall, Zimor, and Bethany to sell cheap grain abroad as a strategy to make other nations dependent on Kevil, then told Erin to expand her cultivation research.
• Yu Sheng'an watched Redmond use an Abyssal Shadow Demon against villagers, then escorted the Vias delegation and helped villagers use the Internet’s Lighting Function to rescue lost youths.
• In Vias, Yu Sheng'an met Aphnora, questioned her demand for high-yield seeds, proposed an alliance, and offered to share his twenty million believers before asking whether she had heard of NetEase Cloud.

Yu Sheng'an drew Aphnora into an alliance, expanded Conquest of Sub-Plane and the Internet, and prepared Dorphy Plane against Bruman’s Orcs. As the Five Great Gods plotted an attack on Kevil, the Internet spread into Vias and impressed the Saint Todd delegation, while Yu Sheng'an sensed the Young Dragon was about to hatch.

• Yu Sheng'an failed to persuade Aphnora to share Source Essence through an online music section, but his love song stirred her and Vias residents before the crowd turned against him.
• Aphnora fought Bruman’s Orc invasion, then allied with Yu Sheng'an after he proposed using Players as soldiers and expanding into the plane.
• Justin entered Conquest of Sub-Plane as a Mud Golem, while Yu Sheng'an bet Aphnora that the Players would drive the Orcs away within a month.
• Yu Sheng'an expanded the game with transformations, paid equipment, and plans to reward commoner Players, while the Three Magic Gods offered to help him.
• Yu Sheng'an and Aphnora signed a contract and exchanged Virtual Godheads, becoming allies and creating a Music Sanctuary together.
• The Five Great Gods planned to attack Kevil, while Yu Sheng'an and Aphnora recorded songs and launched the Music Sanctuary.
• Bailier stopped the City Guard from mistreating Yvonne and the Awakening Society by announcing Aphnora’s alliance with Yu Sheng'an, and the crowd explored the Internet’s new music features.
• Clementine challenged Keshan’s views on commoners, and the Saint Todd delegation arrived in Willis to find Black Grain growing and citizens using the Internet as Divine Art before Yu Sheng'an sensed the Young Dragon was about to hatch.

Yu Sheng'an took the Contract Godhead, discovered a new world, and fought the Five Great Gods’ invasion of Kevil with help from the Players and his allies. After Kevil survived the war, he planned a banking system and pursued new power while Benjamin’s movement sought machinery from Sir Baird.

• Yu Sheng'an reclaimed the Contract Godhead from Thorne, who died after his magic array sent dangerous fluctuations across the world.
• Yu Sheng'an explored an unknown Prime Plane and reached a city where he encountered a Werewolf, then learned about workers organizing against the Empire.
• Yu Sheng'an backed research into magical plants, learned Saint Todd was preparing for war, and Kevil faced invasions by the God of Death, the God of Life, and the God of War.
• Yu Sheng'an and the Players intervened in the battles, routing the forces of Death and Life, then attacked Spada and forced the War God Legion into retreat.
• Aphnora allied with Yu Sheng'an, showed the other gods the defeat of their enemies, and secured their withdrawal from the conflict.
• After the war, Yu Sheng'an sold Spada and proposed national debt and banks to fund Kevil’s reconstruction, while Clementine and other noblewomen joined his teller training.
• Yu Sheng'an rejected the noblewomen’s unsuitable training arrangements and planned to become the hidden Swordholder of the Vilia Prime Plane.
• Benjamin brought Archid to Sir Baird, who offered a Bicycle Production Line, and Archid demanded an Ironclad Production Line as well.