Chapter Summaries

Lin Xiao took over Outpost Base CY-00801 and reviewed the records left by the Greedy Wolf Warband. He learned that the world faced several competing Divine Domain Civilizations and Native True Gods, and that it connected to the Toril Multiverse.

• Lin Xiao traveled with his subordinates to Outpost Base CY-00801 and met Major General Dan Jianfeng, who agreed to assist with the handover.
• Lin Xiao inspected the battle-scarred Outpost Base and received its ships, supplies, and war machines.
• Lin Xiao met the twenty-four surviving True Gods and several thousand Reserves from the Greedy Wolf Warband, whose morale remained low after their defeat.
• Lin Xiao spent nearly half a month studying the base’s records and learned that five Divine Domain Civilizations and the Native True Gods were competing over the world.
• Lin Xiao discovered that Crystal Wall Universe CY-00801 was a subsidiary universe of the Toril Multiverse, with multiple passages connecting them.

After the Greedy Wolf Warband’s defeat, Lin Xiao searched for a way to establish a foothold on the Main Material Plane and chose the Underdark. Disguised as a powerful mage, he traveled to the trade city of Laide and joined a merchant group bound for the Underground World.

• Lin Xiao reviewed the Greedy Wolf Warband’s records and decided the Underdark offered the best place to begin his campaign.
• Lin Xiao descended in disguise into a cave near Bu Meng'er City, killed a bandit leader, and freed the women held captive there.
• Lin Xiao traveled to Laide, where he contacted a merchant group preparing to trade with the Gray Dwarves.
• Lin Xiao joined the Flame Flower Merchant Group as it assembled a large caravan for the journey into the Underdark.

Lin Xiao traveled with Marin’s caravan into the Underdark, learning about its layers, peoples, and powerful native gods. He planned to establish himself there by having his incarnation truly ascend as a native True God, then join the First Layer’s loose pantheon and harvest the world’s origin and rules for Gaia’s Main World.

• Marin arranged a comfortable carriage and a maid for Lin Xiao, who relaxed and learned about nearby realms while chatting with him.
• The caravan passed City Lord Ryder’s checkpoint and descended into the Underdark through a maintained passage.
• Lin Xiao learned that the Underdark had seven shifting continental layers, with the First Layer relatively safe and the Troglodytes of the Second Layer repeatedly raided by other races.
• He learned that the Drow Elves dominated parts of the Third Layer under the powerful Lord of the Underdark, whose reach was limited by the vastness of the world.
• Lin Xiao planned to disguise himself, truly ascend his incarnation as a native True God, and join the First Layer’s pantheon against the Lord of the Underdark.
• He intended to use his ascension to draw on the foreign world’s source sea and bring its harvested origin and Divine Profession rules back to Gaia’s Main World for the Gaia Will’s feedback.

Lin Xiao traveled with the Flame Flower Merchant Group through the Underdark, defeated a pack of Terrorclaws, and reached the Gray Dwarf fortress of Stone Hammer Castle. The caravan began trading its surface goods for valuable underground wares, while Lin Xiao planned to learn about the region before choosing his next destination.

• The caravan camped at a rockfall blocking the passage, and Noel brought Lin Xiao roasted meat from the Halfling cooks.
• After two days of digging and nearly a week of travel, the caravan reached the first layer of the Underdark and headed toward a Gray Dwarf fortress.
• Terrorclaws attacked the caravan in a narrow valley, and Lin Xiao killed them with a flash of light and Chain Lightning.
• Marin negotiated with a Gray Dwarf patrol and led the caravan into Stone Hammer Castle after paying the entrance fee.
• Marin set up a stall in the trade square, where Gray Dwarves eagerly bid armor and weapons for the caravan’s ale.

Lin Xiao traveled through the Underdark with Qiao Ni La, investigated the Troglodytes, and weighed whether to spread his faith among them or the Drow Elves. After establishing a hidden teleportation point near a Cave Dweller tribe, he continued toward the third layer to investigate the Drow.

• Lin Xiao revealed his Mana Aura to Marin, who arranged for the level-thirteen Tauren warrior Qiao Ni La to guide him through the Underdark.
• Lin Xiao and Qiao Ni La crossed the second-layer continent, where they found Troglodyte tribes living in fear of Drow raids.
• After Qiao Ni La lost the marker for the passage, Lin Xiao won the Troglodytes' trust with food and learned where the passage to the third layer was.
• Lin Xiao investigated Troglodyte tribes and reconsidered their potential as a source of believers, while deciding to investigate the Drow before choosing a race for his faith.
• Two months later, Lin Xiao and Qiao Ni La reached a passage to the third layer, and Lin Xiao left a concealed teleportation coordinate near a Cave Dweller tribe.

Lin Xiao discovered the Drow slaughtering Gray Dwarves and turned his attention to the Drow force, killing everyone in the ruined city with his divine power. The Lord of the Underdark began sending down an avatar in response.

• Lin Xiao and Qiao Ni La encountered Manticores and two Drow rogues in the Underdark Third Layer, and Lin Xiao captured the Manticores and interrogated a female Drow.
• The female Drow led Lin Xiao to a Gray Dwarf fortress where thousands of Drow were killing Gray Dwarves and making Soul-Binding Corpses.
• Lin Xiao sent Qiao Ni La back to the Underdark Second Layer and killed the female Drow who had guided him.
• Lin Xiao revealed his godhood to the Drow force and used Life Deprivation to extinguish the life of every Drow and servant in the ruins, gathering their souls.
• The Lord of the Underdark noticed the deaths of Its Priests and began sending down an avatar to confront Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao decided to shelter the Cave Dwellers and build his path to godhood on their faith, protecting them from Drow raids while researching how to strengthen them. After six years, he successfully reconditioned their genes, giving them greater combat potential while preserving their appearance and rapid reproduction.

• Lin Xiao escaped the Lord of the Underdark, who arrived too late and unleashed a destructive divine shockwave on the Gray Dwarves' fortress.
• Lin Xiao and Qiao Ni La found Drow raiding a Cave Dweller Tribe, so Lin Xiao summoned Fire Elementals to drive them away and guard the survivors.
• Lin Xiao decided to establish faith among the Cave Dwellers and settled near the tribe to study their bodies and develop a way to strengthen them.
• When Drow patrols returned, Lin Xiao appeared as a Cave Dweller and drove them off, gradually gaining the tribe's faith by protecting it from raids.
• After six years of research and repeated protection, Lin Xiao successfully reconditioned Cave Dweller genes using traits from other races and monsters while preserving their identity and reproductive speed.

Lin Xiao guided the Troglodytes’ growth and expanded their faith, but a Drow coalition threatened their enormous tribe. He evacuated the young and able-bodied, then learned that the Drow had slaughtered everyone left behind, leaving the survivors silent as they continued their flight.

• Lin Xiao declared himself the god of Troglodytes and Protection and empowered the first generation of stronger Troglodytes.
• Over the following decades, Lin Xiao’s modified Troglodytes multiplied, and the tribe grew to more than four hundred thousand.
• After a beast tide caused food shortages, four Drow cities assembled an army to raid the Troglodytes for food.
• Lin Xiao decided not to fight the Drow himself and ordered more than one hundred thousand adult and young Troglodytes to evacuate.
• Five days into the march, Lin Xiao sensed Faith Threads snapping as the Drow slaughtered the more than two hundred and forty thousand Troglodytes left behind.

Lin Xiao used most of his avatar’s divine power to build a defensible settlement for the Cave Dwellers, then traveled into the deeper Underdark to seek Mind Flayers for research. After forcing a Drow girl to lead him to a passage, he entered a valley where the route to the Fourth Layer lay.

• Lin Xiao raised Hope Plateau and four surrounding platforms with Reality Alteration, then helped the Cave Dwellers establish underground shelters, walls, and farmland.
• Lin Xiao moved his laboratory into a colossal stone pillar and sent collected genes to his true body for study.
• Lin Xiao disguised himself as a Drow rogue and searched the Third Layer for a passage to the Fourth Layer.
• Lin Xiao knocked out a Drow girl who attacked him, repeatedly subdued her when she tried to escape, and made her lead him to the nearest passage.
• The Drow girl warned that the passage led to a nest of monsters, but Lin Xiao bypassed the guarded wall and found a vast cavern opening into the Fourth Layer.

Lin Xiao explored the Underdark Fourth Layer, studied its strange pulses and river creatures, and found a Mind Flayer hidden within a massive stone pillar. He attacked the creature, whose psychic assault failed to affect him.

• Lin Xiao descended into the Underdark Fourth Layer and sensed that its strange pulses could affect living minds.
• He used Mind Vision to explore the underground river through a large fish, watching it encounter a tentacled predator before he ended the spell.
• Lin Xiao flew toward a powerful distortion in the pulses and discovered a Mind Flayer concealed inside an enormous stone pillar.
• The Mind Flayer attacked Lin Xiao with psychic force after he pointed at it, but its assault could not shake his True God avatar.

Lin Xiao discovered that a Mind Flayer Kingdom was controlled by an enemy Divine Domain Son, then strengthened and expanded the Cave Dwellers while preparing for the coming conflict. The Third Generation Troglodytes began resisting Drow raids, and their growing tribes started to change the balance in the Underdark.

• Lin Xiao demanded twenty Mind Flayers and twenty Mind Flayers from the Brain Pool, then discovered that one captive worshipped an Unknown Existence and fled when a True God emerged from the Brain Pool.
• Lin Xiao learned that the True God was an insectoid Divine Domain Son and sent word to his true body, which ordered Lin Hong and Lin Bao to prepare avatars and golems for the Underdark.
• Lin Xiao used the Creation Cube to combine traces of Mind Flayer soul essence with Cave Dweller souls, creating stronger Third Generation Troglodytes.
• Third Generation Troglodyte missionaries spread Lin Xiao's faith, gathered scattered tribes, and produced stronger offspring to accelerate the race's growth.
• As Troglodyte tribes grew into cities, they began defending themselves against Drow raiders, with some large tribes killing careless Drow.

After Troglodyte hero Ao Na De founded a kingdom, Lin Xiao helped it resist a Drow invasion that ended in a costly victory and exposed him to the Underdark’s powers. Lin Xiao joined an alliance against the Lord of the Underdark, while Lin Hong revealed another divine rival hidden in the Mind Flayer Kingdom.

• Ao Na De became a Troglodyte hero after defeating a Drow raiding party, and Lin Xiao crowned him king and gave him two Demigod Artifacts.
• Ao Na De established the Troglodyte Kingdom, expanded its settlements, and advanced its metalworking while Lin Xiao’s believers and resources grew.
• After eight Drow Cities formed a coalition against Hope Plateau, Ao Na De assembled one million Troglodytes, and Lin Xiao sent Qiao Ni La and powerful golems to aid the defense.
• The Troglodytes annihilated the Drow coalition at the cost of more than 250,000 dead, while Lin Bao’s subordinate Divine Avatar was seriously wounded and went missing.
• Qiao Ni La secured the Troglodyte and God of Protection’s entry into the alliance against the Lord of the Underdark.
• Lin Hong exposed an insectoid Divine Domain Son inside the Mind Flayer Kingdom, drawing the Lord of the Underdark’s attention away from the alliance.

After the Lord of the Underdark and the God of Mind Flayers became locked in battle, Lin Xiao accelerated the Cave Dwellers’ expansion and chose to ascend before establishing a Divine Kingdom. His ascension granted him the ancient god Divine Profession of Matter, and he entered the Hall of Gods as a new True God with powerful rivals already watching him.

• The God of Mind Flayers joined the First Layer alliance, whose gods sent avatars to fight the Lord of the Underdark’s forces on the Fourth Layer.
• While the gods fought, Lin Xiao ordered Troglodyte King Onad to expand the Cave Dwellers and search for more Troglodyte Tribes.
• After rumors branded him an invader, Lin Xiao decided to ascend to godhood before completing his Divine Kingdom.
• During his ascension, the Creation Cube drew the origin law of matter from the source sea, granting Lin Xiao the ancient god Divine Profession of Matter and its abilities.
• Lin Xiao appeared in the Hall of Gods, where the Lord of the Underdark, the God of Mind Flayers, and other True Gods with the protection Divine Profession regarded him as a rival.

Lin Xiao focused on growing his faith and replacing the Cave Dwellers with stronger Fourth Generation Troglodytes while the gods’ alliance besieged the Lord of the Underdark. As the alliance increasingly shut him out, he accumulated more than 790 million believers and prepared to become strong enough to withstand its threat.

• Lin Xiao expanded his faith and worked to establish a Divine Kingdom, but learned that his avatar had fallen in a battle where the Lord of the Underdark also lost three avatars.
• Lin Xiao secretly sent a projection to the Underdark Fourth Layer and deduced that surface True Gods, including an Intermediate Divine Power, had intervened.
• Lin Xiao avoided joining the siege and completed the Fourth Generation Troglodytes, giving them stronger bodies, souls, and real-time mental communication.
• While the alliance attacked the Lord of the Underdark and its Drow Elf cities, Lin Xiao’s growing population reached more than 790 million Cave Dweller believers, including over 150 million Fourth Generation Troglodytes.

Lin Xiao established a small but rigorously structured Divine Kingdom and assessed the Outpost Base’s prospects as civilian adventurers began returning. At the base, he unexpectedly reunited with Gu Cheng, Tang Ling, Bai Ze, and Dai Ling Tong, his former companions from the Super Freshman Summer Camp.

• Lin Xiao used 20 million divine power to create a Micro Divine Kingdom with the framework of an entire world’s Bottom-Layer Rules.
• Lin Xiao reviewed the sparse adventurer activity at the Outpost Base and considered how civilian explorers could help the Giant God Warband expand.
• A civilian Void Ship docked at the base, bringing a group of adventurers and youths who discussed the Claw Dragon Warband’s ability to defend it.
• Lin Xiao walked through the plaza and reflected on the base’s trade, taxes, and stock of Steel Golems.
• Lin Xiao recognized Gu Cheng, Tang Ling, Bai Ze, and Dai Ling Tong from the Super Freshman Summer Camp, and greeted them after they congratulated him on entering Radiance.

Lin Xiao continued adjusting the Fifth Generation Troglodytes while the Lord of the Underdark was forced to awaken and flee his besieged Divine Kingdom. Lin Xiao waited in the sixth layer of the Underdark for the Lord’s escape and confronted him when he arrived.

• Lin Xiao reunited with Gu Cheng and his companions, shared a meal with them, and later learned about their circumstances from Lin Shiyi.
• Lin Xiao continued his final genetic adjustments to the Fifth Generation Troglodytes, aiming to improve their strength without sharply reducing their reproductive rate.
• The God of Mind Flayers used four powerful avatars and more than thirty Deity avatars to destroy the Lord of the Underdark’s remaining two avatars, forcing His true body to awaken.
• Lin Xiao led his subordinate avatars into the sixth layer of the Underdark, killed a Divine Abomination along the way, and positioned his group near the Lord’s Divine Kingdom to await His escape.
• The Lord of the Underdark emerged into the sixth layer, and Lin Xiao approached Him; the Lord recognized Lin Xiao and warned that he was seeking his own death.

Lin Xiao killed the Lord of the Underdark and claimed his godhead, leaving the Underdark’s gods to fight over the Drow Elves and their lost faith. After six years of refining the godhead, Lin Xiao gained new Divine Professions and chose to retain only darkness and Shadow Magic Net.

• Lin Xiao used his subordinates’ collapsing avatars to restrain the Lord of the Underdark, then invoked Authority, Balance and killed him with the Titan Sword.
• Weidus learned that the Lord of the Underdark had died and grew furious after discovering his godhead had been taken by an unknown outsider.
• The Underdark’s gods fought over the Drow Elves’ faith, and their alliances broke apart as the conflict spread.
• Lin Xiao refined the Lord of the Underdark’s godhead in his Micro Divine Kingdom for six years, eventually erasing its divine imprints.
• Lin Xiao extracted eight Divine Professions from the blank godhead, dispersed six of them, and retained darkness and Shadow Magic Net.

Lin Xiao’s Cave Dweller faith grew to over one billion as he neared Intermediate Divine Power, while the God of Mind Flayers rose to dominance in the Underdark. Lin Xiao prepared a hidden Earth Giant bloodline to create Cave Giants, and the chapter ended with an avatar of the God of the Wilds visiting him just before his advancement.

• Lin Xiao’s Godhead Level reached Level Nine, but he delayed advancing because his divine power was barely sufficient to maintain an Intermediate Divine Power godhead and Divine Kingdom.
• During the holy war, the God of Gray Dwarves and the Goblin God were killed, while the God of Mind Flayers gained the Tauren God and Slime God as Subordinate Gods.
• The Fourth Generation Troglodytes replaced the Third Generation, and Lin Xiao’s Cave Dweller believers surpassed one billion.
• Lin Xiao embedded dormant Earth Giant genes into the Fifth Generation Troglodytes so they could awaken as Cave Giants without reducing Troglodyte reproduction.
• The God of Mind Flayers subdued the Shadow God and God of the Underground, then drove back the alliance led by the Ogre God.
• An avatar of the God of the Wilds visited Lin Xiao shortly before he was about to advance to Intermediate Divine Power.

After the alliance collapsed, Lin Xiao exploited the God of Mind Flayers’ assault on the Ogre God to attack five enemy gods’ sanctuaries with powerful avatars and Cave Dweller armies. He entered the Reptile God’s sanctuary and began his assault, while the Tauren God prepared to fight him with a Demigod Artifact.

• The Spider God fell, the God of Mind Flayers gained control of the Legendary Giant Spider Monsters, and the alliance suffered a crushing defeat.
• The God of Mind Flayers led his army into the First Layer of the Underdark to attack the Ogre God’s kingdom and sanctuary.
• Lin Xiao entered the Reptile God’s sanctuary and revealed an avatar with Godhead Level five, frightening the Reptile God.
• Lin Xiao tore open a rift and sent Cave Dweller troops into the sanctuary to hold back its Petitioners as he advanced on the Reptile God.
• Lin Xiao sent avatars and Cave Dweller armies to attack the sanctuaries of the Reptile God, Tauren God, Slime God, Shadow God, and God of the Underground.
• The Tauren God raised the Demigod Artifact Axe of Almafa and challenged Lin Xiao’s invading avatar.

Lin Xiao defeated the Underdark’s remaining gods, unified their territories under his rule, and established the Underdark God System. With the Mind Flayers’ deity fleeing and the new faith spreading, the Underdark began to stabilize and produce aspiring gods.

• Lin Xiao altered the Tauren God’s Sanctuary Rules and killed the Tauren God, then executed four other True Gods in quick succession.
• The God of Mind Flayers’ avatar confronted Lin Xiao, recognized him as the one who had killed the Lord of the Underdark, and detonated herself to escape.
• The God of Mind Flayers abandoned her Divine Kingdom and followers, while the Ogre God and the God of the Wilds submitted to Lin Xiao.
• Lin Xiao distributed dismantled Godheads among his subordinates and formally founded the Underdark God System with the two surviving gods.
• Lin Xiao expanded his Divine Kingdom, reorganized the Underdark’s settlements and Drow customs, and introduced the completed Fifth Generation Troglodytes.
• The Underdark’s races began to reconcile under the unified faith, and Demigods increasingly gained enough power to attempt ascension.