Chapter Summaries

Lin Xiao led the Gray Mist Fishmen to defeat a group of Lobsterfolk, then offered the spoils in a sacrificial ceremony and used the occasion to promote two warriors. The promotions strengthened the Fishmen and increased their devotion, leaving Lin Xiao satisfied with the growth of his faith.

• Lin Xiao fought alongside the Gray Mist Fishmen, killing Lobsterfolk and rescuing allies as the Fishmen defeated the remaining enemies at the cost of six dead and eight wounded.
• Lin Xiao checked his interfaces and discovered that two Gray Mist Fishmen had accumulated enough combat experience to be upgraded.
• Lin Xiao led the Fishmen in a sacrificial ceremony, offering the Lobsterfolk corpses to the Lord of Gray Mist.
• Lin Xiao spent 200 Faith Points to promote the two eligible Fishmen into Level 1 Grey Mist Warriors, strengthening them before their tribe.
• The promotions turned the two Fishmen into Devout Believers and inspired other Fishmen to become more devoted, increasing Lin Xiao’s daily Faith Points.

After his Golden Finger, the Creation Cube, finally activated, Lin Xiao planned to use it to improve the Cards he had saved for his weak Murlocs before the upcoming Placement Test. He asked his mother to send him the money she had saved for him, and she appeared as a projection to ask whether he had come to his senses.

• Lin Xiao reviewed his report card, which showed his Murloc performance was failing, and learned that the final Placement Test would take place next Monday.
• Lin Xiao worried about the final exam and class assignments, then discovered that the progress bar for his Golden Finger had completed and summoned the Creation Cube.
• Lin Xiao took out a Three-Star Resource Card and two Skill Cards, intending to use the Creation Cube to combine or improve them.
• Lin Xiao messaged his parents to request his saved New Year and red envelope money, and his mother, Jin Yunzhu, replied with a projection and asked if he had come to his senses.

Lin Xiao retrieved the cards his parents had saved, then entered his Divine Domain and used his Magic Cube to dismantle cards into Creation Energy. He began by sacrificing Fertile Black Soil and then fed the Thrust card into the Cube.

• Lin Xiao learned that his father had exchanged his old cards for a Four-Star Gray Mist Fishmen Species Card and a Five-Star Species Reproduction Card.
• Lin Xiao reviewed the rules for card use and entered his Divine Domain with eight accumulated card-use opportunities.
• Lin Xiao surveyed his barren Divine Domain and found the Gray Mist Murloc Tribe fishing as usual.
• Lin Xiao chose to dismantle Fertile Black Soil with his Magic Cube, turning it into what he named Creation Energy.
• Lin Xiao placed the Two-Star Skill Card Thrust into the Magic Cube.

Lin Xiao fused Thrust and Severe Pain into the five-star Salted Fish Thrust skill, then combined the Gray Mist Fishman and Species Propagation cards to create a new Epic species card. After preloading the skill and species card into his Divine Domain, he demonstrated the skill to his tribesmen and gained ten new True Believers.

• Lin Xiao fused Thrust and Severe Pain with Creation Energy, chose the fivefold burst-damage enhancement, and named the resulting skill Salted Fish Thrust.
• Lin Xiao fused the Propagation Rule from the Species Propagation Card into the Gray Mist Fishman card, creating an Epic species card that doubled the fishmen’s fertility and offspring survival rates.
• Lin Xiao preloaded Salted Fish Thrust and the new species card into his Divine Domain, setting the skill to activate for Kinfolk who reached True Believer status.
• Lin Xiao descended into the Murloc Chieftain and demonstrated Salted Fish Thrust by shattering a stone pillar with his Bone Blade.
• The Gray Mist Fishmen prayed at the tribe’s Altar, and ten Light Believers became True Believers.

Lin Xiao strengthened the Gray Mist Fishmen’s faith, gave the whole tribe the Salted Fish Thrust skill, and brought four hundred refugees into the tribe as new kinfolk. After confirming the groups had begun integrating, he logged off and realized their growing population might soon outstrip the Divine Domain’s food supply.

• Lin Xiao demonstrated the power gained through faith, prompting all remaining False Believers to become True Believers and raising the tribe’s ranks of Devout and Fanatic Believers.
• Lin Xiao loaded the Salted Fish Thrust skill for every Kinfolk member, then used a Species Card to bring four hundred Gray Mist Fishmen to the beach.
• Lin Xiao sent a Divine Revelation to the Murloc Chieftain, who led the tribe north and met the starving newcomers without fighting.
• The Murloc Chieftain brought the refugees to the tribe, where many worshipped at the altar and formed Faith Threads with Lin Xiao.
• Over the next ten days, the refugees recovered and more than two-thirds became Light Believers, while Lin Xiao’s Kinfolk began expanding the tribe.
• Lin Xiao logged off and calculated that the growing Murloc population might soon exceed the Divine Domain’s food supply, so he considered buying cards to feed them.

Lin Xiao spent seven years in his Divine Domain guiding his Gray Mist Fishmen, whose population grew beyond six hundred and neared the limits of their food supply. He joined his classmates for the final first-year Placement Test, where Class Teacher Wu Hai announced that it was their last chance to improve their standing before the final exam.

• Lin Xiao watched over his Gray Mist Fishmen for seven years, preserving food for the elderly believers as the population exceeded six hundred.
• Lin Xiao entered the school’s golden class palace for the Placement Test and observed his classmates, including the high-ranking Yuan Hong and other powerful students.
• Class Teacher Wu Hai arrived with tutor Zheng Wenzhuo and announced that the Placement Test was the students’ last chance to overtake one another before the final exam.

Lin Xiao learned that the Placement Test would offer powerful Card rewards and entered his Divine Domain to prepare. He reviewed his Murloc tribe’s growth and faith income, then issued a Divine Revelation to all 654 Murlocs.

• Wu Hai announced the Placement Test’s increased difficulty and offered designated Cards as rewards, including a Five-Star Card for first place.
• Lin Xiao resolved to compete for the top prize despite feeling overlooked by Wu Hai.
• Lin Xiao entered his Divine Domain and found that new Murlocs had replaced those who had died, leaving the tribe at 654 members.
• Lin Xiao assessed the tribe’s believers and calculated that they generated around 270 to 280 Faith Points each day, bringing his reserves above 500,000.
• Lin Xiao spent 654 Faith Points to issue a Divine Revelation to every Murloc.

Class Teacher Wu Hai sent an invasion card into Lin Xiao’s Divine Domain, where twenty-two powerful Snake-Men emerged to attack his Gray Mist Fishmen. Lin Xiao sent more than five hundred murlocs to meet them, and the Snake-Men enhanced themselves with the Boiling Blood Spell as both sides prepared to clash.

• Class Teacher Wu Hai secretly observed Lin Xiao’s Divine Domain and sent it an invasion card, triggering a warning that invaders would arrive in fifteen minutes.
• Lin Xiao rallied the murlocs and led nearly all the trained believers out of their tribe, leaving the weaker Nominal Believers behind.
• Twenty-two Snake-Men emerged from the Portal on the beach, with their leaders declaring that they would kill the murlocs in the name of Gelas.
• Lin Xiao’s chieftain avatar led more than five hundred Gray Mist Fishmen toward the Snake-Men, who formed a line to face them.
• The Snake-Man carrying a Bone Staff cast the Boiling Blood Spell, strengthening the Snake-Men and sharpening their spears as the two forces closed in.

Lin Xiao used his Murlocs to defeat the invading Snake-Men and finished the Placement Test first. Wu Hai praised him and offered him a chance at a difficult extra trial, whose challenge and reward Lin Xiao asked to hear about.

• Lin Xiao raised a wave that scattered the Snake-Men, then led his Murlocs in a charge that killed their leader and the other invaders.
• Wu Hai and Zheng Wenzhuo watched Meng Hui's Kobolds battle Skeletons before Wu Hai discovered that one student had already defeated all the invaders.
• Wu Hai and Zheng Wenzhuo reviewed the battle in Lin Xiao's Divine Domain and praised the power of his Murlocs' skill.
• Wu Hai told Lin Xiao he had placed first and would receive a random Two-Star Card and a Five-Star Card of his chosen type.
• Wu Hai offered Lin Xiao the first-place extra trial, and Lin Xiao asked about its difficulty and reward.

Lin Xiao weighed the danger of an additional trial against the chance to win a Legendary Divine Domain expansion card. He chose a weapon reward and a food resource before preparing to roll the trial die.

• Wu Hai revealed a Five-Star Legendary Fertile Land card as the prize for an additional trial whose enemy numbers depended on Lin Xiao’s twenty-sided die roll.
• Lin Xiao considered the risk of a severe defeat and injury to his True Body, then asked whether he could claim his Placement Test rewards before attempting the trial.
• Wu Hai offered Lin Xiao four Five-Star reward cards, and Lin Xiao chose the Short Spear Weapon Card instead of the Bugbear Boar Riders.
• Lin Xiao requested a food Resource Card, and Wu Hai gave him a Two-Star Cod Card before holding out the Crystal Dice.

Lin Xiao accepted the extra trial despite rolling eleven times the difficulty and used his month of preparation to arm and train the Murlocs. The trial began as stronger Snake-Men emerged from the Portal and Lin Xiao’s Murlocs advanced to meet them.

• Lin Xiao accepted the extra trial, rolled an eleven on the Crystal Dice, and learned he had one month to prepare.
• Lin Xiao decided the chance to obtain a Five-Star Divine Domain Card was worth the risk and summoned the Murlocs to warn them of the coming invasion.
• Lin Xiao staged a divine weapons ceremony, distributing a thousand Short Spears and prompting many Murlocs to swear oaths to the Lord of Gray Mist.
• Lin Xiao trained the Murlocs for a month until they could use their Salted Fish Thrust skill with the Short Spears.
• The Portal reopened, Snake-Men led by stronger Snakemen Leaders marched out, and Lin Xiao’s Murlocs advanced toward the northern beach.

Lin Xiao descended into the battlefield to lead the Murlocs against Gelas’s Snake-Men, risking an attack from the opposing demigod. His tidal wave flooded the beach and the ensuing clash killed many Murlocs, whose souls he sent through a Gate of Light into his Divine Kingdom plane.

• Lin Xiao revealed his true body above the Murlocs, inspiring many to advance in faith, but Gelas’s malicious intent immediately locked onto him.
• Lin Xiao summoned a massive tide that swept both armies into shallow water, where the Murlocs gained an advantage in mobility.
• A Murloc and a Snake-Man killed each other, and the battle erupted across the flooded beach.
• The Snake-Men killed more than seventy percent of the Murlocs near their ranks in under ten seconds, while the Murlocs wounded more than thirty Snake-Men with Salted Fish Thrusts.
• Lin Xiao opened a Gate of Light and sent the dead Murlocs’ souls into his Divine Kingdom plane, where believers could become Petitioners or reincarnate.

Lin Xiao helped his Murloc believers become more devout and watched them fight the Snake-Men using Salted Fish Thrust. He healed the Murlocs from afar, but both sides suffered heavy losses as the battle continued.

• Lin Xiao guided the souls of dead Murloc believers into his Divine Kingdom, causing many True Believers to become Devout Believers and dozens of Zealous Believers to appear.
• The Murloc Chieftain rallied his warriors against the Snake-Men, then charged and struck down a Snakemen Priest.
• Murlocs used Salted Fish Thrust and Fine Iron Short Spears to overwhelm Snake-Men, killing a Snakemen Leader through repeated attacks while suffering casualties themselves.
• Lin Xiao spent a hundred thousand Faith Points to cast Essence of Sea Water, easing the Murlocs’ exhaustion and healing some of their wounds.
• More than six hundred Murlocs continued attacking in groups, and Snake-Men and Murlocs died in large numbers as Lin Xiao assisted from the air without entering melee combat.

Lin Xiao’s Murlocs fought the summoned Snake-Men in a costly battle, using their numbers and Salted Fish Thrust to defeat them. With the last Snakemen Leaders nearly finished, Wu Hai and Zheng Wenzhuo recognized Lin Xiao’s potential and discussed his prospects.

• Lin Xiao’s Murlocs traded heavy casualties for Snake-Men deaths, gradually turning the battle in their favor.
• Lin Xiao spent Faith Points on Essence of Sea Water to restore his Murlocs, who gained combat experience and advanced toward higher levels.
• Zheng Wenzhuo praised Lin Xiao’s exchange tactic, while Wu Hai noted that victory would earn Lin Xiao a land-expanding Divine Domain Card.
• Zheng Wenzhuo assessed Lin Xiao’s potential at four stars, saying a future Bloodline Card could strengthen his race.
• The Murloc Chieftain speared the last Snakemen Leader, while the final Snakemen Priest’s spell shield neared breaking.

Lin Xiao stopped a Snakemen Priest from becoming an avatar for a demigod, but Class Teacher Wu Hai took the remaining sliver of Divinity. Lin Xiao passed the additional trial and received the Divine Domain Card, then used his Creation Cube on the battlefield corpses.

• The Snakemen Priest sacrificed himself and absorbed the souls of dead Snake-Men to summon a demigod avatar, but a golden finger destroyed him and took the sliver of Divinity.
• Class Teacher Wu Hai judged Lin Xiao's additional trial a success and awarded him the Divine Domain Card, while keeping the sliver of Divinity.
• Lin Xiao reflected on how hard Divinity was to obtain and watched his surviving Murlocs clean up the battlefield after the Diagnostic Exam.
• Lin Xiao used his Creation Cube to swallow the piles of Snake-Man and Murloc corpses, while the Murloc Chieftain proclaimed that the fallen had entered the Lord of Gray Mist's kingdom.
• Lin Xiao returned to his Divine Kingdom, where only a crude palace and a few dozen Murloc Petitioners occupied the otherwise chaotic expanse.

After returning to his Divine Kingdom, Lin Xiao extracted the bloodline components from the murloc and Snake-Man corpses but postponed deciding which species to develop. Elsewhere, a student lost a test after goblins overran his Lizardmen, while another Divine Domain’s Swamp Lizardmen fought a Two-Headed Crocodile.

• Lin Xiao disassembled the murloc and Snake-Man corpses, extracted their bloodline sources and life imprints, recovered the murlocs’ Propagation Rule, and converted a Two-Star Cod Card into Creation Energy.
• Lin Xiao weighed whether to make murlocs or Snake-Men the foundation for a fused species, then decided to ask his father for advice after the exam.
• Goblins breached the oasis defenses and overwhelmed a student’s Desert Lizardmen, prompting him to concede defeat to Class Teacher Wu Hai.
• Wu Hai ended the test by recalling the goblins, and Zheng Wenzhuo remarked that the student’s exam prospects had suffered.
• Several hundred Swamp Lizardmen surrounded and attacked a Two-Headed Crocodile in another Divine Domain.

Lin Xiao finished strengthening his Murloc forces and returned to the Artifact Palace after becoming the first student to pass the Placement Test. Wu Hai announced that Yan Huan had withdrawn, seven students had failed, and Lin Xiao had taken first place, drawing the attention of his classmates.

• Yuan Hong passed his trial after his Swamp Lizardmen defeated the Two-Headed Swamp Crocodile, then vanished with a cold expression.
• Lin Xiao spent 49,100 Faith Points upgrading his remaining 282 Murlocs, including promoting forty-four to Level 2 Murloc Warriors.
• Lin Xiao arrived at the Artifact Palace and waited as other students returned from the Placement Test.
• Wu Hai announced that Yan Huan had withdrawn from school and that forty-two of the class's forty-nine students had passed the test.
• Wu Hai revealed that Lin Xiao had been the first to pass and had placed first, prompting surprise and hostility from some classmates.

Lin Xiao accepted his Placement Test reward, a Five-Star Divine Domain Card, and refused Yuan Hong’s attempts to trade for it. Wu Hai then announced that a bit of Divinity would reward the top performers in next month’s final exam, with Lin Xiao receiving a more favorable ranking requirement because he had helped obtain it.

• Wu Hai praised Lin Xiao for winning the Placement Test and its additional trial, then gave him a Five-Star Divine Domain Card.
• Yuan Hong offered Lin Xiao up to three Five-Star Cards and his friendship in exchange for the card, but Lin Xiao refused and stored it in his Divine Domain.
• Wu Hai announced that the final exam would determine class assignments and that its best reward would be a bit of Divinity for the class’s first-place student who ranked in the school’s top five.
• Wu Hai said Lin Xiao only needed to rank in the school’s top ten because his Divine Domain had contributed to obtaining the Divinity.
• Yuan Hong objected to Lin Xiao’s preferential treatment and offered to compensate him, so Wu Hai asked Lin Xiao to decide whether the competition should be made fair.

Lin Xiao traded Yuan Hong and Wan Chuan a chance to compete for the Divinity in exchange for cards, then told his mother he had taken first place and asked his parents to help him prepare for the final exam. His mother agreed to speak with his father about supporting him with better cards.

• Lin Xiao offered Yuan Hong and Wan Chuan priority chances to compete for the Divinity in exchange for a Five-Star Card and a Four-Star Card, while three other top students declined his offer.
• Yuan Hong gave Lin Xiao a Five-Star Goblin Tribe Species Card, and Wan Chuan gave him a Four-Star Wild Buffalo Herd Resource Card.
• Lin Xiao showed his mother, Jin Yunzhu, the Divine Domain Card he had earned by taking first place and passing the teacher's additional trial.
• Lin Xiao asked Jin Yunzhu to discuss giving him better cards to help him prepare for the final exam, and she agreed to speak with his father.

After taking first place in the end-of-month test, Lin Xiao celebrated with a meal and a trip through Dongning City while reflecting on the world’s God-Sealing system and his privileged family background. He returned to his studies as his immediate priority, hoping to earn family sponsorship and rare cards if he continued to show exceptional potential.

• Lin Xiao left his apartment to celebrate his first-place test result and traveled by aircraft through Dongning City.
• He visited Second Brother Beef Noodles, ordered his usual meal, and enjoyed the bustling commercial street afterward.
• Lin Xiao observed that common people filled the city while promising Deities tended to live in the outer realms.
• He recalled that his parents and most of his family were stationed in a Plane Cluster within the AX-14 Crystal Wall System, where the family had attacked a plane ruled by Native Gods.
• Lin Xiao decided that studying and qualifying for university came first, since strong performance could earn him family sponsorship and rare cards.