Recaps

Cheng Han used the Calamity Midge attack to frighten the Green Basket People into accepting conscription, then secured a powerful position in the Conscription Office. The chapter ended with him becoming the city’s Deputy Director after persuading hidden youths to emerge.

• A Space-Time Sac released over two thousand Calamity Midges, which attacked the city atop the Sky Tower Green Basket and killed or injured thousands of residents.
• Cheng Han sheltered Ai Luo during the attack and used the deaths to persuade her that opposing the Myriad Radiance People was unwise.
• Cheng Han joined the Conscription Office and used Mental Suggestion to become an employee before taking part in a recruitment operation led by Kam.
• Cheng Han exposed Green Basket youths hiding in a Tree Hollow cluster and pressured them to accept conscription by appealing to fear, duty, and benefits.
• Secretary Hart appointed Cheng Han Deputy Director of the Conscription Office after witnessing his recruitment speech.

Cheng Han recruited more than two hundred Green Basket People and persuaded the Director and City Governor to improve their families’ prospects in exchange for military service. He proposed a Green Basket Legion of three thousand and left the banquet with Ai Luo after the City Governor promised to establish a factory within five days.

• Cheng Han recruited more than two hundred Green Basket People, promised their families stable factory jobs, and arranged a hearty meal for the recruits.
• Cheng Han told the Director that he would fulfill promises to the Green Basket People, earning the Director’s trust and admiration.
• At a banquet hosted by the City Governor, Cheng Han proposed rotating recruiters to the battlefield and establishing fair rules and generous treatment for conscripts.
• Cheng Han explained that he had joined the Conscription Office to seek a new way forward and argued that Green Basket People should receive meaningful returns for their sacrifices.
• The City Governor promised to establish a factory within five days, and Cheng Han pledged a Green Basket Legion of three thousand for five days later.
• A Green Basket noble tried to introduce Cheng Han to his cousin, and Cheng Han hurried out with Ai Luo.

After facing hostility at the Conscription Office, Cheng Han used the Mutual Aid Cooperative to improve Green Basket settlements and recruit volunteers. Five days later, he delivered 4,800 Green Basket Race soldiers and saw the City Governor's office establish mushroom farms to support their families.

• Cheng Han moved into an ordinary Green Basket neighborhood and faced resentment at the Conscription Office over his proposal to send conscription officers to the battlefield.
• After someone sabotaged Cheng Han's chair, he had it repaired and visited a Green Basket settlement, treating residents and proposing a Mutual Aid Cooperative.
• Cheng Han offered settlement improvements in exchange for volunteers, prompting the Director to investigate and then arrange a deal with him to promote the cooperative through the Conscription Office.
• Five days later, Cheng Han delivered 4,800 Green Basket Race soldiers, while the City Governor's office established two mushroom farms to support impoverished families of enlisted soldiers.

Cheng Han’s avatar hunted down and killed Butte, a Green Basket Mystic Supervisor, using puppets empowered by Minute Law. Cheng Han resurrected Butte as a puppet and ordered his forces to clear out Butte’s Mystic Adepts and Mystic Masters.

• Butte fled through the wilderness, but two of Cheng Han’s black-robed puppets ambushed him.
• Butte’s wind arts pierced one puppet, but the puppet regenerated and attacked him with streams of Black Qi.
• Cheng Han’s String Tremor killed Butte, and his Minute Law Power broke down and reassembled Butte as a puppet.
• Cheng Han explained that Minute Law let his puppets regenerate and survive injuries that would kill ordinary Mystic Supervisors.
• Cheng Han ordered three Mystic Supervisor puppets to clear out Butte’s Mystic Adepts and Mystic Masters.

Cheng Han used his Law of Life to unleash bloodthirsty worms on a Resistance Organization hideout and a nearby settlement in Water Wood City. The Raging Wind God General recognized the massacre as an invitation and headed toward the source of the strange power.

• Cheng Han accelerated microorganisms inside his victims into worms, killing more than three hundred people at a Resistance Organization headquarters.
• Worms erupted from residents and a Green Basket Mystic Master in Water Wood City, killing them and horrifying witnesses.
• A Mystic Supervisor arrived, found Law Power at the scene, and suspected a Foreign Race God-level Expert had entered the realm.
• The Mystic Supervisor summoned the Raging Wind God General, who identified the massacre as an invitation and followed the aura toward its source.

Raging Wind God General met a mysterious Foreign Race Deity who called himself the Worm King and proposed drawing the Calamity Insect Swarm toward the Red Eye Race. After testing the Worm King’s unusual powers, the God General recognized the plan’s potential, while Cheng Han became more confident in the Minute Law’s path.

• Raging Wind God General froze a swamp and killed a giant worm, discovering that its life core could split into thousands of pieces.
• The Worm King’s three figures proposed luring the Calamity Insect Swarm toward the Red Eye Race by bringing more insects into the Green Basket Realm.
• Raging Wind God General saw the strategic value of diverting the swarm but questioned whether the Worm King meant to provoke conflict between the races.
• The Worm King dispersed into Black Mist and redirected the God General’s attack through microscopic creatures, impressing him with his strange power.
• The Worm King gave his name, and Raging Wind God General treated him with greater respect after their exchange.
• Cheng Han concluded that the Minute Law had great potential and believed powerful God Generals would consider the plan to open a second front.

Cheng Han attended a Celestial Craft Hall meeting as Great Craftsman Liu Yidao, where the Hall Master gathered craftsmen to discuss increasing production and making Drones for the incoming Green Basket Legion. The meeting took an unexpected turn when a member of the Red Eye Race entered the Council Hall.

• Cheng Han watched the Heaven Banyan Light Shuttle deliver the first batch of more than five million Green Basket People, who would train before fighting the underground swarm in the Bewildering Sand Realm.
• Cheng Han traveled to the Celestial Craft Hall under the name Liu Yidao, escorted by Red Armor Soldiers and welcomed by a Mystic Adept.
• Cheng Han correctly guessed that the Hall Master planned to raise factory output and produce Drones, equipment he had helped develop for the Green Basket Legion.
• Cheng Han took the center seat in the first row as the Great Craftsmen gathered, and Zhang Xi entered as Hall Master of the Celestial Craft Hall.
• A towering, red-eyed member of the Red Eye Race entered the Council Hall, and Cheng Han recognized the race as one known for craving blood.

At the Celestial Craft Hall, Cheng Han faced down Red Eye Race observer Blood Thorn while the Hall prepared to demonstrate its new drones. The argument ended with Blood Thorn demanding a demonstration, intending to destroy the drones and humiliate the Myriad Heavens Race.

• Hall Master Zhang Xi introduced Blood Thorn and announced that some Celestial Craft Hall factories would begin producing drones.
• Blood Thorn asked to see the Spirit Wing, Spirit Spider, and Spirit Mastiff Drones tested against him inside the Council Hall.
• Cheng Han offered to demonstrate the drones and explained that their simple operation and industrial production could let the Myriad Heavens Race field a vast army.
• Blood Thorn challenged Cheng Han's claims, insulted him as a Blood Slave, and threatened him, prompting Cheng Han to warn him against insulting the Myriad Radiance People and their God Emperor.
• Hall Master Zhang prepared to intervene, but Blood Thorn backed down and demanded that Cheng Han begin the demonstration, planning to destroy the drones and mock the Myriad Heavens Race.

Cheng Han thwarted Blood Thorn’s attempt to test the drones himself, then recognized a hidden threat among the Blue Blood Knights chosen for a wagered drill. As the exercise was about to begin, Cheng Han grew certain Blood Thorn was seeking his own death.

• Cheng Han proposed using War Hawks and up to ten Intermediate Profound Weapons against a Mystic Master, prompting Blood Thorn to withdraw and nominate Blue Blood Knights instead.
• Blood Thorn transformed into purple mist and left the hall, while Cheng Han decided to advance his plan to draw the Calamity Insect Swarm against the Red Eye Race so he could observe the God Blood Overlord’s Blood Transformation Art.
• Half an hour later, Blood Thorn arrived at the Underground Training Ground with three Blue Blood Knights, and Cheng Han detected that one had a hidden power capable of exceeding Warrior-level strength.
• Blood Thorn wagered the Master Artisans’ blood against twenty Source Profound Crystals, and Hall Master Zhang accepted.
• Cheng Han suspected Blood Thorn intended to use the abnormal Blue Blood Knight to destroy the drone squads and resolved to deal with Blood Thorn.

Cheng Han’s Spirit Wing Drones impressed the Vampires, but Blood Thorn secretly altered a Blue Blood Knight to win their wager. After Blood Thorn drank Cheng Han’s blood and used a secret technique on it, the Minute Law turned microorganisms inside him into Blood Lizards that devoured him.

• Spirit Wing Drones displayed exceptional mobility and coordination in the Divine Banyan training ground, impressing Blood Thorn and the other Vampires.
• A Blue Blood Knight overwhelmed the drone formation after secretly awakening his bloodline, allowing Blood Thorn to win the wager against Hall Master Zhang.
• Hall Master Zhang arranged for the Master Artisans’ blood to be drawn and ordered them to undergo examinations every three days until the Vampires left the Cloud Sea Realm.
• Blood Thorn drank Cheng Han’s blood and used a Holy Blood Secret Technique to create a Blood Pearl intended to turn Cheng Han into a bloodthirsty madman.
• Blood Lizards burst from Blood Thorn’s body and disrupted his Blood Transformation Secret Technique, then swarmed and killed him as Cheng Han watched through a Halo.

Cheng Han used the Minute Law to turn Blood Thorn’s Blood Lizards against the Red Eye Race delegation, then framed the Green Sheep Race for a second attack on Blood Fang. Blood Fang survived with a divine Blood Pearl, while Cheng Han returned to inspecting his factory, having concealed his role.

• Blood Lizards attacked the vampires at Blood Thorn’s hall, killed several Blue Blood Knights, and overwhelmed three Red Blood Nobles when they used the Blood Transformation Secret Technique.
• A Gold Blood Noble named Blood Fang arrived and slaughtered the remaining Blood Lizards with golden needles, then recognized signs of Law Power at the scene.
• Palace Lord Long Tai disputed Blood Fang’s claim that the killer was in the Profound Palace, and Blood Fang could not rule out that the Red Eye Race had provoked retaliation.
• Blood Lizards formed from the black liquid lunged at Blood Fang, but he destroyed them with a Blood Pearl after sensing that his flesh was under attack.
• Blood Fang identified the attacker’s phrase as belonging to the Green Sheep Race, and Long Tai suggested they were responsible for revenge against the Red Eye Race.
• Cheng Han revealed that he had launched the attack using the Minute Law’s Aggregation Power and had arranged to blame the Green Sheep Race, then resumed inspecting his factory.

Cheng Han reached the Green Sheep Realm, discovered that a power struggle had killed the Great Elder and his allies, and suspected the Red Eye Race had engineered the unrest. He revived the Great Elder’s second son, Mu Zhi, by taking over his body and set out to begin his revenge.

• Cheng Han arrived in the Green Sheep Realm and headed toward a Green Sheep tribe marked by a Totem Pillar.
• He saw the corpse of a Green Sheep drifting down a stream and deduced that it belonged to the Great Elder’s second son, killed in a factional purge.
• Cheng Han inferred that an outside force, possibly the Red Eye Race, had stirred up the tribe’s internal conflict and decided to turn the Red Eye Race’s attention toward the Calamity Insect Swarm.
• Cheng Han used the Law of Life to revive the corpse and merge with its Life Imprint, becoming the Green Sheep named Mu Zhi.
• Mu Zhi launched toward a nearby hill, preparing to begin his revenge.

Cheng Han disguised himself as Mu Zhi and returned to the Thorn Tribe, using the Totem Pillar’s power to turn two Black Birds into Thorn Birds. The Totem Pillar recognized him and joined his attack on the Second Elder, whose followers began to waver.

• Cheng Han examined the Thorn Tribe’s Totem Pillar and realized it contained the tribe’s inherited Totem Power.
• Cheng Han mastered and refined Totem Power, then transformed two Black Birds into Thorn Birds with Thorn Spears and Thorn Silks.
• Cheng Han announced that Mu Zhi had returned from death, and the Totem Pillar glowed and writhed in response to his power.
• The Green Sheep People saw the Totem Pillar’s reaction as a rejection of the Second Elder’s rise, dividing the crowd and unsettling his supporters.
• Cheng Han commanded the Thorn Birds to attack and drew power from the Totem Pillar to create two Light Thorn Birds.
• The four Thorn Birds swooped toward the Second Elder from different directions.

Cheng Han used the Totem Pillar to defeat the Second Elder, then appeared above the Thorn Tribe as Mu Zhi and declared his revenge. He fabricated evidence that the Second Elder had colluded with the Red Eye Race, convincing the tribe by revealing a fake Parasitic Blood Bat.

• The Second Elder attacked the Thorn Birds, but Cheng Han used the Totem Pillar to bind and strip him of his skin, draining his Totem Power.
• Cheng Han studied the Second Elder’s Totem Shadow, improved it eightfold, and condensed a massive Totem Shadow of his own.
• Cheng Han flew above the Thorn Tribe, declared that Mu Zhi had come for revenge, and ordered the Thorn Pillar to kill the fleeing rebels.
• Cheng Han accused the Second Elder of colluding with the Red Eye Race and murdering the Great Elder, then pierced him and produced a creature resembling a Parasitic Blood Bat.
• The Green Sheep People believed Cheng Han’s accusation after recognizing the creature as the Red Eye Race’s puppet-controlling parasite.

Cheng Han destroyed the Thorn Tribe’s Totem Pillar, then used Deduction to investigate how faith and tribal rituals harness the Green Sheep Realm’s laws. He decided to establish a new tribe and study those laws to strengthen his Law Strings.

• Cheng Han rejected the three elders’ offer to become Great Elder and accused them of staying silent about the Second Elder’s betrayal.
• Cheng Han used thorns to snap the Thorn Tribe’s Totem Pillar, stripping it of its power and crippling the tribe’s future.
• Cheng Han left the Thorn Tribe and reflected that the Totem Pillar had let him study the realm’s laws of aggregation.
• Cheng Han used Deduction to observe a band of Green Sheep People rebuilding their tribe through a blood-and-faith ritual.
• Cheng Han concluded that the Green Sheep Realm’s laws could help believers aggregate power and decided to build a new tribe to study them.

Cheng Han learned how the Thorn Tribe used blood sacrifices to empower its Totem Pillar, then adapted the method in the Green Basket Realm to create a Moth Fly Brand. He sent the Brand into the void as a lure for the Calamity Nest, aiming to draw the Calamity Insect Swarm toward the Red Eye Race.

• The Eye of Omniscience showed the Thorn Tribe repeatedly sacrificing Green Sheep People to strengthen its Thorn Vine, enabling its Great Elder and later Totem Masters to advance.
• Cheng Han judged that dependence on blood sacrifices and the Totem Pillar had stunted the Green Sheep People’s power, then decided to adapt the pillar’s principles.
• In the Green Basket Realm, Cheng Han captured dozens of Moth Flies and used their flesh and blood to grow a Thorn Vine into a Totem Pillar that carried their aura and Brand.
• Cheng Han destroyed the Totem Pillar, sent its remaining Brand into the void, and planned to use it to attract the Calamity Insect Swarm toward the Red Eye Race.

Cheng Han traced the Red Eye Race’s role in the Thorn Tribe’s conflict and tracked down and killed a Vampire agent in the Green Sheep Realm. He left the Vampire’s head displayed for the Green Forest Tribe, hoping to escalate the incident into a Divine War between the Green Sheep Race and the Red Eye Race.

• Cheng Han discovered that the Thorn Tribe’s Second Elder had received a potion from a Vampire before condensing his Totem Shadow, then deduced that a Purple Blood Venerable One was behind the plot.
• Cheng Han pursued the Vampire to a forest near a giant lake and forced him to use the Blood Transformation Secret Technique.
• Cheng Han used the Minute Law to stop the Vampire’s transformation and kill him, leaving only his head intact.
• Cheng Han raised a giant Thorn Pillar and hung the Vampire’s head at its top as a warning to the Green Forest Tribe.
• A Green Sheep Totem Master retrieved the head and flew toward his tribe, while Cheng Han hoped the discovery would reach a Totem King and help spark a Divine War.

Cheng Han discovered that Totem Power manifested the Green Sheep Realm’s World Will and used that insight to create and combine Totem Shadows. After leaving to study the world’s laws, he came upon a tribe burning after a devastating attack, where a flock of birds arrived as the sole survivor faced the destruction of his tribe.

• Cheng Han tricked the Green Forest Tribe’s Great Elder into believing the Vampire’s head had vanished, then caused it to explode and collapse the building around him.
• Cheng Han realized Totem Shadows were manifestations of World Will and used his power to create a towering Thorn Vine bearing Blade Tree and Bird Control Totems.
• Cheng Han declared he would lead the Green Sheep Race against the coming swarm, then left to establish a new tribe and study the world’s Law Power.
• Cheng Han sensed a distant fire and cries, then found the Iron Maple Tribe destroyed and its Totem Pillar shattered after a battle with the Green Wolf Tribe.
• Tie Niu, the injured survivor of the Iron Maple Tribe, heard a large flock of birds calling overhead in the middle of the night.

Tie Niu survived the Green Wolf Tribe’s destruction, joined the Dawn Tribe through the Thorn Pillar, and learned that Cheng Han had set a plan in motion to bring the swarm to the Green Sheep Realm. Cheng Han expected the coming war to create an opening for him to ascend the Godhood Road.

• A flock of Light Birds killed the Green Wolf Tribe’s Great Elder and wiped out the tribe’s fighters, while Tie Niu watched from hiding.
• Tie Niu found a powerful Thorn Pillar where the old Totem Pillar had stood, and the Black Bird guided him to touch it.
• The Totem Pillar showed Tie Niu visions of the swarm’s invasion and the Green Sheep Race’s resistance, then offered him membership in a tribe that rejected living sacrifices and oppression.
• Tie Niu gave three drops of blood, was accepted into the Dawn Tribe, and went to build a house.
• Cheng Han watched the conversion through the Halo and detected Void Slugs heading toward the Green Sheep Realm, then resolved to use the coming war to create a chance to become a Deity.

Cheng Han showed Steel Rock how the Green Sheep People could grow metal tools from Blade Trees, then persuaded him to defect and join the newly formed Dawn Tribe. Steel Rock killed his former subordinates, freed the sacrifices, and followed a white bird that appeared to guide them.

• Steel Rock stopped his subordinate from pursuing the young female sacrifice and prepared breakfast before returning the captives to the tribe.
• Cheng Han appeared behind Steel Rock and explained that Blade Trees absorbed iron from the soil to make their leaves sharp.
• Cheng Han grew a Blade Tree containing a metal blade in one of its leaves, fashioned the metal into a knife, and explained its potential for making tools.
• Steel Rock accepted the knife and cut the sacrifices' ropes, after which Cheng Han disappeared and ordered him to kill everyone else.
• Steel Rock killed his former subordinates, declared himself and the freed captives members of the Dawn Tribe, and set off with them.
• A white bird arrived overhead, and Steel Rock realized it might be their guide.

Cheng Han attacked the Steel Horn Tribe to end its living sacrifices and annex its people into the Dawn Tribe. He destroyed the tribe’s leadership and Totem Pillar, then ordered Spirit Birds to screen the survivors and guide suitable Green Sheep People to his tribe.

• Cheng Han used a Halo to track Spirit Birds as they guided over a thousand Green Sheep People toward the Dawn Tribe, then set out to confront the Steel Horn Tribe.
• Steel Spear attended the tribe’s ceremony, accidentally exposed his bare backside while dodging bird droppings, and watched a giant figure warn the tribe to stop its living sacrifices.
• The Great Elder attacked the figure with his Totem Shadow, but Cheng Han’s overwhelming strike split the river, shattered the Totem Pillar, and killed the Great Elder and the tribe’s other leaders.
• The Steel Horn Tribe’s people fled in panic, and Cheng Han ordered the Spirit Birds to screen them and lead suitable candidates to the Dawn Tribe.

Cheng Han destroyed the Iron Wall Tribe and began framing the Red Eye Race for attacks on Green Sheep tribes to gather population for the Dawn Tribe. After transforming himself to resemble a Vampire and erasing traces of his disguise, he headed for the Cloud Eagle Tribe, where his attack on its flock began drawing attention.

• Cheng Han toppled a Super Thorn Vine onto the Iron Wall Tribe, killing its Great Elder and crushing its Totem Pillar.
• A Totem King from the Luan Wood Tribe investigated the ruins but declined to pursue the attacker, while Cheng Han abandoned his plan to lure him out.
• Cheng Han transformed himself into a Red Eye Race figure using a Vampire corpse and used Radiant Flame of Fire to erase most traces of the transformation.
• Cheng Han traveled toward the Cloud Eagle Tribe, posing as a Vampire and leaving behind a Purple Mist aura.
• At Cloud Eagle Cliff, Cheng Han's Purple Mist pursued the cloud eagles and shot them down, alarming the Green Sheep civilians.

Cheng Han destroyed the Cloud Eagle Tribe’s Totem Pillar and killed its Great Elder while setting up a trail for the Golden Armor God to follow. He then located the Vampire responsible for attacks on two Green Sheep tribes, preparing to begin the main confrontation.

• The Cloud Eagle Great Elder kept his warriors from pursuing the retreating purple blood mist, believing the Vampires were trying to lure him into an ambush.
• Cheng Han revealed himself as a Vampire, took control of the Totem Spirit, killed the Great Elder, and destroyed the Totem Pillar, causing the Cloud Eagle Tribe to flee.
• A Green Sheep scout found the Great Elder’s remains and identified the attacker as a Vampire, prompting a God Clone to arrive and track the scent north.
• Cheng Han watched the God Clone pursue the trail and reflected on how reliance on external power could undermine a deity’s control.
• Cheng Han showed that the same Vampire had attacked another Green Sheep tribe, then revealed the Vampire praying to the Lord of Dark Blood as Cheng Han prepared to confront him.

Cheng Han manipulated a Divine War between the Green Sheep Race's Golden Armor God and the Red Eye Race's Lord of Dark Blood to study the Blood Transformation Divine Technique and improve his Law Strings. He then attacked the Lord of Dark Blood while it was occupied with its opponent, causing its giant python form to collapse.

• The Golden Armor God and the Lord of Dark Blood began fighting after the vampire and statue were destroyed, devastating the surrounding land.
• Cheng Han observed the Lord of Dark Blood use its Blood Transformation Divine Technique and completed an analysis that strengthened his two Law Strings.
• The Lord of Dark Blood swallowed the Golden Armor God, and Cheng Han approached while disguised as a subordinate of the Red Eye Race.
• Cheng Han used his Law Strings to disrupt the Lord of Dark Blood's control over its body as the Golden Armor God struggled from inside.
• Blood Serpents emerged from the python's body and devoured it until the Lord of Dark Blood's giant form collapsed.

Cheng Han used Lord of Dark Blood’s blood mist to kill the Golden Armor God and seize its Law Flame. He obtained the key needed to advance the Radiant Flame of Fire.

• Lord of Dark Blood split into blood mist and sent hundreds of Mist Orbs to distract the Golden Armor God while its hidden blood shadow fled.
• Cheng Han intercepted the blood shadow and destroyed Lord of Dark Blood’s clone with Blood Serpents.
• Cheng Han turned the remaining blood mist against the Golden Armor God, then used Hidden Power to ambush it with Giant Serpents.
• The Giant Serpents tore off the Golden Armor God’s limbs and crushed its head before Cheng Han used Law Power to make its body collapse.
• Cheng Han grabbed the Law Flame from the Golden Armor God’s collapsing body, obtaining the key to advance the Radiant Flame of Fire.