Chapter Summaries

Yu Sheng'an laid out sweeping economic reforms for Infer, then visited Aphnora and discussed Gu Weimeng, the Dragon Race, and plans for the Vilia Local Area Network. Aphnora ended by asking what he thought of the newly appeared Ethernet.

• Yu Sheng'an ordered Infer to consolidate its banks, fund public works, strengthen state-owned enterprises, and distribute Electronic Vouchers to stimulate the economy.
• After the meeting, Yu Sheng'an appeared at Kober Palace's rear garden and corrected Aphnora's shooting posture as he stood close behind her.
• Aphnora asked who Gu Weimeng was, and Yu Sheng'an explained that she was the new Science Education Director after the Dragon God asked him for help.
• Aphnora questioned Yu Sheng'an about cooperating with the Dragon Race and Cornelia, and he said Cornelia's arrangement was an individual partnership.
• Yu Sheng'an asked about Cornelia's progress, discussed launching more Vilia Local Area Network sections, and Aphnora asked his opinion of the new Ethernet.

Yu Sheng'an revealed that he had created Ethernet and learned from Aphnora that the God of the Sea might be working with the other Righteous Gods on a new network. After Aphnora left, Yu Sheng'an prepared to act against Vilia Prime Plane.

• Yu Sheng'an told Aphnora that he had created Ethernet and given Duke responsibility for operating it against the Dark Web.
• Aphnora confronted Yu Sheng'an for keeping Duke's role secret and revealed that the God of the Sea had created a network of his own.
• Aphnora warned Yu Sheng'an that the God of the Sea was closely associating with the Goddess of the Earth, the God of Life, and the God of War, who might join forces to create a new network.
• Aphnora teleported away, and Yu Sheng'an realized she was jealous before picking up her Modified Sniper Rifle.
• Yu Sheng'an appeared on an orbiting meteor, fired toward Vilia Prime Plane, and decided that he should deal with it soon.

Yu Sheng'an negotiated with the Four Primal Gods for an alliance over Vilia, offering them a share of its Internet Source Essence and protection in exchange for recognizing the Internet and joining a military alliance. After the God of Mechanical Steam backed the God of Death and sabotaged the negotiations, Yu Sheng'an vowed to drive the God of Death out of the Underworld and destroy the Fifth Calamity.

• The God of Death asked the Four Primal Gods for support, offering them half of the future Dark Web Source Essence and later proposing an exchange of divine authorities.
• The God of Mechanical Steam urged the other Primal Gods to support the God of Death, arguing that the God of the Internet threatened Vilia and that they needed population and military strength.
• Yu Sheng'an arrived at the Four Primal Gods' temple and confirmed that the Goddess of Night concealed Vilia while the God of Space's authority suppressed magic there.
• Yu Sheng'an proposed an alliance limited to Vilia, offering a fifty-percent share of its Internet Source Essence and promising that the Infer Dynasty would not expand outward.
• The God of Mechanical Steam resisted the proposal and revealed that the God of Death had offered to exchange the Underworld Authority, prompting Yu Sheng'an to demand his removal from any cooperation.
• The God of Mechanical Steam threatened the other Primal Gods and tried to curse Yu Sheng'an, who silenced him and vowed to expel the God of Death from the Underworld and bury the Fifth Calamity forever.

The Goddess of Wisdom arrived at Yu Sheng'an’s tower and invited him to help hunt the Goddess of the Earth, aiming to grant intelligence to the Gaia Prime Plane. The chapter left Yu Sheng'an questioning her choice of target as he considered redirecting her toward the God of the Sea.

• The Goddess of Night concealed the God of Mechanical Steam’s attack on Yu Sheng'an, and the God of Mechanical Steam vanished after condemning the alliance between Yu Sheng'an and the God of Death.
• Yu Sheng'an promised the Three Primal Gods that he would drive the God of Death out of the Underworld before they chose whom to support.
• The God of Space found Yu Sheng'an’s announcement warning Internet users away from the Underworld as he prepared military sanctions against the God of Death.
• The Goddess of Wisdom arrived at Yu Sheng'an’s rooftop wearing Titan armor and invited him to hunt the Goddess of the Earth.
• The Goddess of Wisdom confirmed that she intended to grant intelligence to the Gaia Prime Plane, and Yu Sheng'an asked why she had chosen the Goddess of the Earth.

Yu Sheng'an and the Goddess of Wisdom agreed to a Betting Agreement over the Earth Godhead while the Goddess of the Earth attended a meeting about the gods uniting against the God of the Internet. The chapter ended with the Goddess of the Earth reporting a surprise attack as the other gods rushed to Gaia Prime Plane and saw something terrifying.

• Yu Sheng'an teased the Goddess of Wisdom about possible targets before she proposed that he take the Earth Godhead when she converted Gaia Prime Plane.
• Yu Sheng'an and the Goddess of Wisdom agreed that he would pay her five hundred billion units of Source Essence if he obtained the Earth Godhead, with no payment if he failed.
• The Goddess of the Earth focused on a discussion in which the God of the Sea urged the Four Righteous Gods to cooperate against the God of the Internet.
• The Goddess of the Earth suddenly screamed that the Internet had launched a sneak attack on her.
• The God of the Sea, the God of Life, and the God of War rushed to the Gaia Prime Plane and were horrified by what they saw.

Yu Sheng'an attacked the Goddess of the Earth on the Gaia Prime Plane, while the Goddess of Wisdom tried to seize the earth Godhead with Gaia’s newly awakened soul. The God of the Sea carried off the Godhead amid the Three Main Gods’ assault, leaving Yu Sheng'an’s fate unclear.

• The Goddess of Wisdom found the Goddess of the Earth's coordinates, and Yu Sheng'an lit up the Gaia Prime Plane to locate and strike her.
• Yu Sheng'an's attack vaporized the Goddess of the Earth and injured Gaia Soul, while the Goddess of Wisdom ordered Gaia to seize the earth Godhead.
• The Goddess of Wisdom fought to control Gaia Soul, but the God of War and the God of Life sealed the space around Gaia and attacked Yu Sheng'an and Gaia Soul.
• Yu Sheng'an emerged from a teleportation array into the sealed space and defended himself with a magic shield from his Floating Airship.
• The God of the Sea swallowed the battle in a giant whale phantom and vanished with the earth Godhead, enraging the God of War and the God of Life.

Yu Sheng'an outmaneuvered the God of the Sea and reclaimed the Gene Godhead by using a Divine Projection and a method copied from Thorne. He secured the Godhead in Eastern City and began examining it, while remaining wary of hidden tracking powers.

• Yu Sheng'an confronted the God of the Sea in the depths of Hela Prime Plane and revealed that the Goddess of the Earth was alive and the Godhead he held was not hers.
• Yu Sheng'an made the Gene Godhead vanish from the God of the Sea's Divine Perspective, then self-destructed the Floating Airship as a distraction.
• Yu Sheng'an's true body retrieved the Gene Godhead in the Ancient Castle Divine Palace, sent it away with a Divine Projection, and relocated the castle to conceal his location.
• Yu Sheng'an's Divine Projection appeared in his Eastern City office with the Gene Godhead, which he had reclaimed by copying Thorne's use of the Inheritance Contract and networked anchors.
• Yu Sheng'an reflected on Thorne's precautions and began carefully sensing the Gene Godhead.

Yu Sheng'an tested the Gene Godhead and discovered that its bloodline edits caused fatal genetic collapse when its Source Essence supply stopped. After merging it with the Appraisal Godhead, he found that the combined authority could stabilize some edited genes, offering a way to overcome the flaw, while the multiverse mistakenly believed the God of the Internet had been defeated.

• Yu Sheng'an experimented on animals and plants, finding that bloodline edits required enormous amounts of Source Essence and caused organisms to die when the supply stopped.
• Yu Sheng'an realized the Gene Godhead was too dangerous for battlefield use but could make targeted gene-expression changes without immediately damaging an organism's genetic framework.
• Yu Sheng'an fused the Gene Godhead with the Appraisal Godhead, and the fusion revealed information that prompted him to test another mouse.
• After Source Essence was cut off, the second mouse partially recovered instead of dying, retaining a small amount of Swine Gene.
• Yu Sheng'an concluded that the Appraisal Godhead could stabilize edited genes and might eventually preserve them completely through long-term genetic editing.
• Aphnora messaged Yu Sheng'an to encourage him, unaware that he had found a way to address the Gene Godhead's flaw, while the multiverse regarded him as a failed loser.

After the Goddess of Wisdom transformed the Gaia Prime Plane, gods across the multiverse worried about her rise and mocked the God of the Internet for his failed attempt to gain the Earth Godhead. Yu Sheng'an convened the Internet Pantheon and launched its final assault on the Underworld.

• The Goddess of Luck reassured the gods of Kaman about the cost of granting intelligence to a plane, while the gods worried about the God of the Sea’s growing power.
• The gods ridiculed the God of the Internet for failing to claim the Earth Godhead and empowering the God of the Sea, even as they recognized his influence on the multiverse.
• Yu Sheng'an gathered the Internet Pantheon’s leaders to plan how to defeat the God of Death and take control of the Underworld.
• The high-ranking members proposed a multidimensional strategy, and Yu Sheng'an kept his space weapons secret as a trump card.
• Yu Sheng'an ordered the Internet Pantheon to begin its final assault on the Underworld.

The Goddess of the Earth confronted the God of the Sea over the missing Godhead, but learned that the God of the Internet had launched a full-scale assault on the Underworld. Players surged toward the God of Death’s defenses, and the God of Death began organizing a countermeasure with the Goddess of the Earth’s support.

• The Goddess of the Earth demanded that the God of the Sea return her Godhead, but he insisted the God of the Internet had escaped with it.
• The God of War and Life accused the God of the Sea of lying, while the God of the Sea offered to let them reverse time to prove his claim.
• The Goddess of the Earth learned that the God of the Internet had launched a full-scale assault on the Underworld and decided she needed to help the God of Death.
• Player Guilds mobilized, and countless Players formed three armies that charged toward the God of Death’s defensive lines.
• The God of Death organized his defenses and contacted the Four Righteous Gods, then vowed that the God of the Internet would pay for his arrogance.

Yu Sheng'an answered the Four Righteous Gods’ invasion by revealing that he had seized the Bloodline Godhead and turning Fourth Calamity players into Undead Dragons across the battlefields. As the God of Death and the allied gods struggled to respond, Yu Sheng'an declared that the dragons were not his trump card, and stars began flashing overhead.

• Caesar led an airdrop assault on Kademena City, but Sawyer captured him and the other infiltrators before they could attack a Resurrection Pool.
• The Four Righteous Gods sent armies through Teleportation Arrays to attack the Fourth Calamity’s strongholds, including Twit in the Kevil Divine Kingdom.
• Yu Sheng'an confronted the Goddess of the Earth and revealed that he had the Bloodline Godhead, then used it to transform players into thousands of Undead Dragons.
• Conquest of Sub-Plane announced that its transformation system had been activated, while the allied gods struggled to contain the new dragon force.
• At Kademena, Yu Sheng'an said the Undead Dragons were not his trump card, and a sky full of stars began flashing above every battlefield.

Yu Sheng'an devastated the God of Death’s Underworld territory with orbital weapons, then used rewards to drive the Fourth Calamity to capture what remained. He offered the Four Righteous Gods a choice between war and joining a new Pantheon, while preparing for either outcome and receiving a message from Dragon God Hypotina.

• Yu Sheng'an’s orbital weapons carpet-bombed the God of Death’s respawn points, while Phoebus fought Sawyer above Cademena City.
• Yu Sheng'an announced leaderboards offering Virtual Godhead control rights and other rewards, driving Player Guilds and Mercenary Corps to invade the God of Death’s territory.
• Yu Sheng'an showed the Four Righteous Gods his space-based weapons and offered them the choice of attacking his Missionary Zones or joining a Pantheon he would establish in five days.
• The Goddess of the Earth, the God of War, and the God of the Sea favored attacking Yu Sheng'an, while the God of Life remained silent.
• Yu Sheng'an returned to his hidden Divine Palace Castle, prepared contingency plans, and received a message from Dragon God Hypotina.

Yu Sheng'an proposed a Main God Space to help Hypotina search for clues about the vanished Titan by sending recruited souls to explore worlds. Hypotina praised his approach, and the two were left considering a plan that would be difficult to put into practice.

• Hypotina told Yu Sheng'an about the assassinations of Oasis Nobility families and asked whether his control of nanobots involved the Titan; Yu Sheng'an said it did not.
• Hypotina explained that she was searching for the Titan because she feared the multiverse would eventually become ruins, but her servants had struggled to explore weakened worlds.
• Yu Sheng'an suggested that poor oversight and incentives made Hypotina's servant system ineffective, then proposed creating a Main God Space to recruit souls for dangerous plane exploration.
• Yu Sheng'an outlined how contracts, the Internet, Godheads, banks, factories, and Space-Based Weapons could manage and equip the explorers.
• Hypotina praised Yu Sheng'an's unique thinking, and Yu Sheng'an cautioned that turning the Main God Space into reality would be difficult.

Yu Sheng'an proposed a new order for the multiverse and asked Hypotina to help stabilize it, while the Four Righteous Gods debated whether to attack him. The God of Life rejected a costly war, and news of the planned Pantheon spread, leaving the gods shaken.

• Yu Sheng'an explained that his Main God Space required more Source Essence and proposed building a new multiversal order with the Dragon Race’s help.
• Hypotina agreed to help Yu Sheng'an but demanded half the control rights over the Main God Space.
• The God of Life argued that the Four Righteous Gods could not defeat Yu Sheng'an without risking everything and urged them to hear his vision for the Pantheon.
• The Goddess of the Earth accused the God of Life of retreating, but the God of Life, the God of the Sea, and the God of War left her behind.
• News that the God of the Internet intended to establish the Pantheon and reforge the multiverse spread across the world.

Yu Sheng'an and Hypotina agreed to work together on the Main God Space, with Hypotina taking responsibility for its headquarters. Meanwhile, shoemaker Les watched news announcing a peaceful coexistence agreement between Archid and the Four Primal Gods, one day before the Pantheon conference.

• Yu Sheng'an agreed to let Hypotina handle the Main God Space headquarters, which she planned to build by transforming a plane using Dimensional Force.
• After leaving Dragon Island, Yu Sheng'an told Lucia to prioritize finding Titan bloodlines, flesh, or remains so he could restore Titan blood through gene authority.
• Yu Sheng'an headed to Vilia Prime Plane to discuss an alliance with the Three Primal Gods.
• Les used the Internet's lighting and Soul Login features while working late to support his twin sons' tuition at the Royal Academy.
• Les watched the daily news, which reported that Archid and the Four Primal Gods had reached a Peaceful Coexistence Agreement and that the Pantheon conference was one day away.

God of Mechanical Steam, abandoned by his former allies, published Vilia's coordinates on the Dark Web. Yu Sheng'an explained to Aphnora that he planned to establish a new order for the multiverse rather than conquer it outright, and revealed that he intended to publicize Vilia's location himself.

• God of Mechanical Steam offered Vilia's coordinates to God of Death, but God of Death refused to pay for them.
• The Four Righteous Gods also rejected God of Mechanical Steam's offer, so he published Vilia's coordinates on the Dark Web in anger.
• Aphnora questioned Yu Sheng'an about forming an alliance with the Three Primal Gods before the Pantheon meeting.
• Yu Sheng'an told Aphnora that he planned to limit his authority and establish a new order to govern the multiverse.
• Yu Sheng'an explained that conquering the multiverse would exhaust his forces and leave him with ruined territory to rule.
• Yu Sheng'an revealed that he would publish Vilia's coordinates regardless of what God of Mechanical Steam did, then posted a prepared comment on the internet homepage.

Yu Sheng'an’s territorial convention proposal stirred the gods’ fears and debate, while Space-Based Weapons kept the multiverse from starting a war. At the Pantheon meeting in Eastern City, the Goddess of the Forest watched more than a hundred gods and Demigods gather as the God of the Internet took the podium.

• Yu Sheng'an published rules for dividing multiverse territory and declared ownership of the Underworld, the Vilia Prime Plane, and the Dorphy Plane.
• The God of Mechanical Steam assumed Yu Sheng'an had exposed Vilia to provoke an invasion, but no gods attacked.
• The gods argued over Yu Sheng'an’s territorial claims and ambitions, and their caution brought a brief peace across the multiverse.
• The Goddess of the Forest arrived early at the Pantheon meeting in Eastern City and reflected on her modest power and the Source Essence she had earned through the Internet.
• More than a hundred gods and Demigods gathered as the God of the Internet appeared at the podium.

Yu Sheng'an proposed a Pantheon to curb wars between gods by dividing authority and offering new ways to earn Source Essence, but the God of Life rejected the plan and left the other gods reconsidering their support. The Goddess of Wisdom watched Yu Sheng'an for a sign and made her choice as his expression turned dangerous.

• Yu Sheng'an proposed the Pantheon, promising to divide Internet Film and news revenue while assigning seats and arbitration powers to gods who controlled Prime Planes.
• The God of War challenged the proposal, but Yu Sheng'an offered him a Permanent Elder seat if all Permanent Elders agreed; the Goddess of Wisdom and God of the Sea supported the offer.
• The God of Life questioned how Yu Sheng'an would prevent the Pantheon from becoming a scheme to control the multiverse, and Yu Sheng'an said the gods could unite against him if he broke its rules.
• The God of Life rejected both the Pantheon and war, after which the God of War and God of the Sea withdrew their support.
• The Goddess of Wisdom studied Yu Sheng'an's solemn, dangerous expression and made her choice.

God of Death tried to seize control of the Pantheon by rallying the gods against Yu Sheng'an, but Yu Sheng'an intimidated his opponents with threats to their powers and won the Dragon Race’s support. The gods began debating the Pantheon’s rules as Yu Sheng'an’s new multiverse order took shape.

• God of Wisdom challenged Yu Sheng'an to provide a practical plan for a Pantheon without God of Life, God of War, and God of the Sea.
• God of Death urged the gods to form a rival Pantheon, overthrow Yu Sheng'an, and divide the Source Essence among themselves.
• Yu Sheng'an rejected God of Death’s proposal and threatened God of the Sea, God of Life, and other gods with the consequences of his authorities.
• Dragon God Hypotina appeared, announced that the Dragon Race would join the Pantheon, and departed after warning Yu Sheng'an against further escalation.
• Yu Sheng'an left God of Prophecy Phoebus to answer questions, and the gods began negotiating the Pantheon’s rules while God of Life, God of War, and God of the Sea watched helplessly.

Darnell emerged from seclusion as a Saint Archmage and learned from Iden that the Kevil Empire and multiverse had been transformed under the God of the Internet. After exploring modern Winfred and studying the changes online, Darnell resolved to announce his breakthrough and honor his agreement with Asheff.

• Darnell broke through to Saint Archmage and emerged from seclusion, where Iden told him that Kevil had become a Divine Kingdom ruled by the God of the Internet.
• Iden described the God of the Internet’s rise, the Industrial Revolution, the Pantheon, and the multiverse’s upheavals, while Darnell struggled to believe him.
• Darnell teleported away without announcing his return and walked through Winfred, marveling at its vehicles, Magic signs, airships, and busy streets.
• Darnell ate offal noodles and used the Book of Omniscience to learn how Asheff and the Magic Forest had helped make them famous.
• After learning about the Mana Bank and the Pantheon, Darnell decided to announce that he had become a Saint Archmage and Demigod and to fulfill his agreement with Asheff.