Chapter Summaries

Lin Xiao chose the War Stream and received four Five-Star cards from his parents, but he planned to use them differently from his father's intended strategy. After expanding his Divine Domain, he began decomposing cards in his Creation Cube and was about to process the Black-Backed Gnoll card.

• Jin Yunzhu told Lin Xiao to choose between the Academy Stream and War Stream, and he chose the War Stream.
• Lin Xiao opened the box from his father and found a Black-Backed Gnoll card, a large shallow-sea fish school card, and two Species Reproduction cards.
• Lin Xiao loaded the Legendary-grade Divine Domain Card, expanding his domain with new land along its western edge.
• A Murloc discovered the new land and ran back to alert the tribe.
• Lin Xiao kept the food cards, decomposed the Goblin Tribe card in his Creation Cube, and then threw in the Black-Backed Gnoll card.

Lin Xiao gambled on fusing Murlocs, Snake-Men, Goblins, and Gnolls to create a new species and gain the Creation Godhood. The Creation Cube began the fusion, and Lin Xiao lost consciousness after experiencing the mysteries of creation.

• Lin Xiao weighed strengthening one existing race against fusing all five Race Imprints, knowing the attempt could fail and the cards might not be recoverable.
• Lin Xiao chose to fuse the species, hoping to gain the additional Creation Godhood and expand his future growth limit.
• Lin Xiao made Murlocs the foundation so the new species could integrate with his existing Kinfolk and inherit the Salted Fish Thrust skill.
• Lin Xiao added the other four Race Imprints, two Propagation Rule Threads, and the remaining Creation Power to the enhanced Bloodline Source.
• The Creation Cube began its transformation as Lin Xiao received the secrets of the four species' creation and fusion.
• Lin Xiao felt an impulse to create something from the void, pointed into it, and lost consciousness after a thunderous explosion.

Lin Xiao discovered that creating a new species had earned him a guaranteed point of Divinity and the Creation Divine Profession, though he still needed Faith Points to manifest the Divinity. He examined the powerful amphibious species he had created and saw that it could strengthen his prospects in the final exam.

• Lin Xiao woke on the God Seat and found his Divine Power and Faith Points depleted, with a new, unmanifested point of Divinity and the Creation Divine Profession displayed on his interface.
• Lin Xiao realized his successful species creation had earned him a guaranteed point of Divinity that required only one hundred million Faith Points to manifest.
• Lin Xiao inspected the new Five-Star species and found it had exceptional physical attributes, four Talents, the Bloodthirst Skill, and three Specialties.
• Lin Xiao compared the new species with the Gray Mist Fishmen and saw that it surpassed them in nearly every respect, even underwater.
• Lin Xiao concluded that the new species was suited to Berserkers or Warriors, but noted that Class Cards were extremely difficult to obtain.

Lin Xiao replaced the Gray Mist Fishmen with a newly created species, the Blackscale Naga, and discovered they could be enhanced five times. He stopped the Murlocs and Blackscale Naga from fighting and appointed a faithful Naga as an Apostle.

• Lin Xiao summoned two hundred Blackscale Naga and decided to make them the Divine Domain’s main species.
• Lin Xiao learned the Blackscale Naga had five enhancement opportunities and resolved to conceal most of their potential from others.
• The Blackscale Naga were born as True Believers of Lin Xiao, who could become their racial chief god.
• The Murlocs and Blackscale Naga prepared to fight after the Murlocs approached with weapons.
• Lin Xiao’s divine roar halted both groups, and his revelations sent them back to their respective places as he appointed a faithful Blackscale Naga as an Apostle.

Lin Xiao gradually brought the Murlocs and Blackscale Nagas together, then made the Nagas his Divine Domain’s primary combat race. After realizing their potential as a newly created species, he left the Divine Domain eager to tell someone, but could not find a way to explain his achievement.

• Lin Xiao issued a Divine Revelation and gradually had Murloc and Blackscale Naga leaders and groups train, fish, and spend time together until both species accepted each other.
• After half a year, Lin Xiao had the Murlocs and Blackscale Nagas form a mixed tribe along the Coral Reef and allowed the Nagas to learn Salted Fish Thrust.
• Lin Xiao made the Blackscale Nagas his main combat race and assessed their advancement potential, reproduction, and lifespan.
• Lin Xiao left the Divine Domain and decided to cultivate the Blackscale Nagas further with a combat-oriented Class Card.
• Lin Xiao felt restless after creating a powerful new species, but he could not decide how to explain it to his mother.

Lin Xiao developed his Divine Domain over fifteen years, choosing a balanced path and expanding its population and food supply. As the chapter ended, more than 2,100 Murlocs and over 480 Blackscale Naga lived there, while a newly summoned buffalo herd provided another source of food.

• Lin Xiao inspected his Divine Domain, assessed its resources, and decided that he preferred a balanced development path over a combat or farming specialization.
• Lin Xiao focused on breeding Blackscale Naga, instructing them through a Divine Revelation to reproduce so their population would exceed five hundred before the final exam.
• Lin Xiao let the Murloc population grow until it exceeded 2,100, then had the Murloc Chieftain organize daily training to slow its growth.
• Lin Xiao activated the Wild Buffalo Herd card after grass covered the Fertile Land, and the Blackscale Naga captured and penned the buffalo as breeding cattle.

Lin Xiao received notice that his final exam was approaching and spent the remaining days preparing in his Divine Domain. At school, he learned the exam’s elimination and ranking rules while keeping his ambitions hidden from his classmates.

• Lin Xiao received the final exam notice, forwarded it to his mother, and promised to surprise the family at his grandfather’s birthday celebration.
• After six days of preparation, Lin Xiao arrived at Dongning City Fifth Middle School and admired the sealed Abyssal Demon Dragon head above the gate.
• Lin Xiao greeted Zheng Wenzhuo and Meng Hui, then heard Sang Ping say that Wan Chuan had condensed a second point of Divinity and might surpass Yuan Hong.
• Lin Xiao denied planning to compete for the Divinity Card and privately decided to keep a low profile until the exam.
• Lin Xiao read the exam announcement and learned that students would face elimination and ranking stages, with those who failed the first stage expelled.

Lin Xiao learned that the first-year final exam would eliminate students who failed and rank the rest for class placement. He entered the school’s supervised Divine Domain exam platform, where he saw projections of the teachers and a True God vice principal.

• Lin Xiao reviewed the exam rules, including the elimination assessment and the ranking that would determine Elite and Ordinary Class placement.
• Yuan Hong and Wan Chuan faced off in class after Wan Chuan condensed a second point of Divinity, while Lin Xiao watched from the sidelines.
• Wu Hai warned the class that roughly half might fail and explained that the school’s resources required prioritizing outstanding students.
• Proctors led the students to login pods, and Lin Xiao was assigned Room 41 to enter his Divine Domain under the school’s anti-cheating safeguards.
• Lin Xiao arrived on a golden platform in Subspace and recognized Wu Hai’s sphere among the class teachers’ projections, with a True God vice principal’s projection above them.

Lin Xiao joined the first-year elimination assessment, which sent students’ Kinfolk projections into separate Demiplanes. He deployed his Fishmen and Blackscale Naga and watched them gather and pray as the test began.

• The Artifact Spirit announced the elimination assessment and displayed its rules to the gathered first-year students.
• Lin Xiao learned that students would compete using Kinfolk projections, preserving their real forces for the later ranking stage.
• The countdown ended, and Lin Xiao arrived in a barren Demiplane alongside nearly a thousand Gray Mist Fishmen and over five hundred Blackscale Naga.
• The Blackscale Naga organized the confused Fishmen, sending scouts out while the rest gathered and prayed to Lin Xiao.
• Lin Xiao reflected on how a future Divine Profession would restrict his God Name and how incompatible believers’ convictions could harm his Divinity.

Lin Xiao prepared his followers for the trial and watched them annihilate the first wave of enemies with ease. As the second wave began, he saw the creatures emerging from the portal and realized trouble was coming.

• Lin Xiao delayed answering his followers’ prayers, then urged them to defend his glory and cast Essence of Sea Water to bolster their confidence.
• The first trial wave began, sending one hundred Goblins, ten Hobgoblins, and five Bugbears toward the Kinfolk settlement.
• The Class Teachers discussed how many students might pass and declined Qiao Liang’s proposed wager until the Old Headmaster announced rewards for the top ten in Endless Mode.
• More than five hundred Murlocs charged the first wave and annihilated it in less than half a minute.
• Half an hour later, the second wave emerged from the portal, and Lin Xiao reacted with alarm.

Lin Xiao’s Murlocs overwhelmed the Lizardman Archers in the second elimination stage, and Wu Hai reflected on Lin Xiao’s exceptional talent for cultivating faith. As the Pigge Orcs arrived for the third stage, Lin Xiao sent his Blackscale Naga forward to meet them.

• Lin Xiao’s Murlocs endured the Lizardman Archers’ volleys and overwhelmed them with their superior numbers.
• The Blackscale Naga Leaders regrouped the Murlocs behind the Portal while the Naga main force remained in reserve.
• Wu Hai judged another student’s poorly trained believers and recognized Lin Xiao’s unusual talent for cultivating faith.
• Wu Hai changed course to watch Lin Xiao’s performance in the final exam.
• Three hundred Pigge Orcs and thirty elite Orc Warriors emerged and charged toward Lin Xiao’s gathered Murlocs.
• Lin Xiao issued a Divine Revelation, and several hundred Blackscale Naga advanced with Fine Iron Short Spears to meet the Pigge Orcs.

Lin Xiao tested his newly created Blackscale Nagas in battle and watched them defeat the Pigge Orcs with ease. Their performance inspired him to consider a powerful melee-focused evolutionary path, while Class Teacher Wu Hai reacted with intense interest to the Nagas and asked where they came from.

• Lin Xiao ordered the Blackscale Nagas to fight the Pigge Orcs without using skills so he could assess their combat abilities.
• The Nagas used their strength, agility, dual-wielded spears, and flexible physiques to overpower the Orcs, though some suffered injuries from blunt attacks and charges.
• Lin Xiao judged the Nagas' melee strengths and weaknesses, then imagined evolving them into a six-armed race like the Six-Armed Snake Demons.
• The Nagas routed the remaining Pigge Orcs, and Lin Xiao lamented that the trial projections could not gain experience.
• Wu Hai appeared, stared eagerly at the Nagas, and asked Lin Xiao where the new race had come from.
• Lin Xiao told Wu Hai that he had created the Blackscale Nagas and named them for their appearance.

After Lin Xiao revealed that he had created the Blackscale Naga, Wu Hai urged him to aim for the top three in the upcoming Endless Mode challenge and catch the Old Headmaster’s attention. Lin Xiao passed the elimination round, accepted the challenge, and inspired his Kinfolk to prepare for the monsters’ return.

• Lin Xiao confirmed that he had condensed Creation Godhood, and Wu Hai explained the rewards for the top ten and top three in Endless Mode.
• Wu Hai estimated that Lin Xiao’s forces ranked around the top twenty in the grade and encouraged him to pursue a place in the Super Freshman Summer Camp.
• Sang Ping’s Pixies were routed by the Pigge Orcs, while contestants in other Demiplanes narrowly passed or were eliminated.
• Lin Xiao’s Kinfolk killed the final Pigge Orc, and Lin Xiao accepted the additional Endless Mode challenge.
• Wu Hai left the Demiplane, and Lin Xiao gave his Kinfolk a Divine Revelation urging them to take up their weapons.

Lin Xiao’s Murlocs fought waves of Quppits in the Endless Mode trial as he observed without intervening. After they overcame the Quppits, Abyssal Brutal Boars emerged from the Portal and scattered the Murlocs.

• Lin Xiao used a Divine Revelation to rally his Kinfolk, and the Murlocs prepared for battle near the Portal.
• About five hundred Quppits emerged and fought the Murlocs, proving tougher than Lin Xiao expected as more Quppits arrived to reinforce them.
• Yuan Hong’s Swamp Lizardmen, including over a thousand archers, cut down waves of Quppits with volleys of arrows.
• Wu Hai had reminded Lin Xiao, Yuan Hong, Wan Chuan, and Meng Hui to continue the trial because they had a chance to compete for the Super Freshman Summer Camp Spot.
• After Lin Xiao’s Murlocs dealt with a group of Quppits, Abyssal Brutal Boars charged out of the Portal and scattered them.

The Naga and Murlocs fought increasingly powerful abyssal invaders, struggling against a wave of Berserk Demons that outclassed them. Lin Xiao watched the uncertain battle as Meng Hui realized the fifth wave threatened to end his hopes for the final exam.

• The Naga used their agility and Salted Fish Thrust to fight the Abyssal Brutal Boars, developing evasive tactics as they took the beasts down.
• The Portal opened and sent two hundred Berserk Demons onto the battlefield, and the Murlocs' attacks barely pierced their armor.
• The Naga coordinated with the Murlocs to attack the Berserk Demons, but the demons killed many Naga and Murlocs despite being brought down by groups of spear-wielding Naga.
• Lin Xiao watched from above and saw that the Berserk Demons' strength made the battle's outcome unclear, while most Naga could not use Salted Fish Thrust again because of its cooldown.
• Meng Hui watched his own plane and realized the fifth wave of Endless Mode was likely to ruin his hopes of excelling in the final exam.

Meng Hui’s Kobolds were routed by the Berserk Demons, while Yuan Hong and other students used archer forces to survive the wave. As the next round approached, Lin Xiao prepared his Naga for battle by sending strategy to their leaders.

• Meng Hui’s Kobold army collapsed against the Berserk Demons, leaving hundreds of Kobolds hunted across his demiplane.
• Yuan Hong’s Lizardman Archers killed the Berserk Demons at the cost of most of his melee Lizardmen, leaving his forces vulnerable to the next wave.
• Qiao Liang and Zheng Yifan bet on which student would take third place, with Zheng Yifan choosing Yuan Hong.
• Yan Renjie’s Lava Archers finished off the Berserk Demons using armor-piercing attacks and fire damage.
• Lin Xiao’s Naga used Murlocs as bait and attacked when Salted Fish Thrust came off cooldown, defeating the Berserk Demons.
• During the rest period, Lin Xiao sent instructions to the Naga Leaders through a Divine Revelation and urged them to rely on their strengths.

Wan Chuan, Yuan Hong, and the other students faced the sixth wave of three hundred elite Half-elf Archers, whose superior ranged attacks devastated most of their Kinfolk. While Yan Renjie and Wan Ying managed to defeat the Half-elves, Lin Xiao’s scattered Naga and Murlocs continued to buy time with guerrilla tactics.

• Wan Chuan sent his Stoneheart Halflings against the Half-elves, but their crossbow bolts failed to penetrate the Half-elves’ armor and shields.
• The Half-elf Archers killed hundreds of Stoneheart Halflings, forcing Wan Chuan to accept defeat.
• Yuan Hong’s Lizardman Archers lost a shooting duel against the Half-elves, while Yan Renjie’s Lava Lizard Archers won narrowly with fewer than fifty survivors.
• Wan Ying’s Harpy Queen used Chain Lightning to kill and cripple the Half-elf Archers, helping Wan Ying defeat the wave.
• Lin Xiao’s Naga and Murlocs scattered around the plane and used guerrilla tactics to delay the Half-elves as they began hunting down the groups.

Lin Xiao's Naga and Murlocs turned the battle around and cleared the sixth wave, earning him third place before the exam rules stopped him from continuing. He used the survivors' victory to raise their levels and strengthen their faith.

• The Naga Leader rallied the scattered Naga and Murlocs, who launched a sudden coordinated charge against the Half-elves.
• The Naga and Murlocs overwhelmed the Half-elves with explosive attacks and killed the remaining defenders, allowing Lin Xiao to pass the sixth wave.
• Wu Hai watched a replay of the battle and realized how Lin Xiao had reversed the fight.
• Lin Xiao learned he ranked third, then used 1.31 million Faith Points to advance every surviving Naga and Murloc by one level.
• The exam officials disqualified Lin Xiao from further trials for violating the rules, and he left the Demiplane after deciding his score was sufficient.

Lin Xiao’s investment turned 128 Blackscale Naga into Fanatic Believers, promising him a huge long-term return in Faith Points. Back at school, he revealed how far he had advanced in the final exam, and the Vice-Principal announced the rewards and summer camp opportunity for the top students.

• Lin Xiao calculated that his 128 Fanatic Believers could provide millions of Faith Points over their lifetimes, making his promotion cost worthwhile.
• Lin Xiao returned to the platform after surviving Endless Mode, surprising his classmates and prompting them to make room for him.
• Yuan Hong questioned Lin Xiao’s success, while Wan Chuan and Yuan Hong had earlier discussed how many Half-elves they had killed.
• Yan Renjie and Wan Ying returned shortly after Lin Xiao, and the Vice-Principal announced the final exam rewards and a Super Freshman Summer Camp Spot for one of the top three students.

Lin Xiao received his reward for placing third in the extra Endless Mode and chose two Five-Star Skill Cards for his Nagas. He left the rankings uncertain and planned to build up a collection of basic skills for a powerful future card.

• Vice-Principal Xu Yundong said the top ten could choose their Five-Star Card rewards and that students would learn who received the summer camp spot after the final exam.
• Yan Renjie asked Xu Yundong who had received the spot, but Xu said he did not know and urged him to focus on upcoming assessments.
• Lin Xiao considered the available cards and selected Momentum Strike and Basic Footwork to improve his Nagas' combat abilities.
• Lin Xiao imagined gathering basic weapon skills and fusing them into an ultra-rare All-Weapon Card.
• After the selection period ended, Lin Xiao learned that the school had not announced the rankings, leaving him unsure whether Yan Renjie or Wan Ying placed first.