Chapter Summaries

Lin Xiao stripped the Blackscale Naga down to their Murloc bloodline and fused selected talents and specialties into powerful new abilities. He created the Greater Naga, a new high-rank demi-human species, and gained another point of potential Divinity from the Creation Laws.

• Lin Xiao removed every bloodline from the Blackscale Naga except the Murloc one, and the Naga kept their faith in him despite their sudden loss of strength.
• Lin Xiao fused several abilities into the talents Child of Nature and Super Armor, then combined movement-related specialties into Lightning Reflexes while keeping Ape Arms.
• Lin Xiao reserved Glimmer of Goblins for a future support race and began merging the purified Naga bloodline with the new abilities.
• The Creation Laws blessed Lin Xiao during the transformation, raising his Divinity from 4+1 to 4+2.
• Lin Xiao created the Greater Naga, a high-rank demi-human species with powerful physical traits and resistance to harsh environments.

Lin Xiao transformed his Naga into the higher species Greater Naga, greatly increasing their strength while reducing their fertility. He then upgraded the Bloody Arena into the Ancient Arena, which could grant combat experience and might help its fighters surpass their species limits or become Heroes.

• Lin Xiao used an Ancient God Card to strip the Naga of their mixed bloodlines and transform them into Greater Naga, easing their pain with Essence of Sea Water.
• Nearly one thousand Greater Naga completed their evolution, while Slarda continued transforming and advanced toward the Sixth Order Transcendent level.
• Lin Xiao considered using the arena to train his Kinfolk and spent one unit of Creation Energy to strengthen the Bloody Arena.
• The upgraded Ancient Arena gained the ability to host battles of up to 1000 VS 1000, feed combat experience back to Lin Xiao, and give fighters a small chance to break their species limits or advance into Heroes.

Lin Xiao placed the Ancient Arena in his Divine Domain and ordered the newly awakened Slarda to prepare for an invasion by training elite warriors. As Slarda organized the kinfolk around the arena, he began building a city, leaving Lin Xiao pleased by the civilization’s unexpected progress.

• Lin Xiao summoned the Ancient Arena in the Divine Domain, and the kinfolk praised the miracle before gathering outside it.
• Slarda emerged from his Blood Cocoon with greatly improved attributes, a wider Lifesteal aura, and stronger skills.
• Lin Xiao warned Slarda that evil would arrive and commanded him to train warriors in the arena during the coming half year.
• Slarda gathered the Nagas and Murlocs, sent some Nagas to train, and organized the others to clear paths and gather building materials.
• Lin Xiao saw that Slarda was using the gathered stone and timber to build a city rather than expand the tribe.

Lin Xiao selected the medium-difficulty Blood Castle mission and gathered his trained Murlocs and Greater Naga to face the Vampire Earl Alemend’s invasion. After Alemend threatened them through the spatial rift, the first ranks of his Blood Legion emerged, and Slarda prepared the Kinfolk for battle.

• Lin Xiao chose the Blood Castle mission after rejecting the low- and high-difficulty options, and he warned Shen Yuexin to be careful about her own mission.
• Slarda gathered 14,400 adult Murlocs and 921 adult Greater Naga and led them toward the spatial rift in the northwestern corner of the Divine Domain.
• Alemend appeared through the blood-red vortex, demanded that the creatures submit, and threatened them when a stone was thrown at his face.
• After the portal remained quiet for several minutes, Slarda ordered the Kinfolk to prepare for battle as thousands of Blood Slaves and Blood Thralls appeared.

Lin Xiao’s Murlocs overwhelmed the first Blood Legion forces, while Slarda sent Greater Naga Whale Hunter Knights to confront their two Blood Knights. Blood Earl Alemend answered the Blood Knights’ call for help by sending Master Anselm, his Mage Corps, and Blood Knight Garcia through the Portal.

• Slarda sent Murloc brigades under Seawater Barriers against the Blood Legion’s armored vanguard and archers.
• The Murlocs killed more than two thousand vanguard infantry, but a Sixth Order Blood Knight slew dozens of them before Slarda dispatched two Greater Naga Whale Hunter Knights.
• A second Blood Legion force arrived, and Slarda sent four more Whale Hunter Knights and five thousand Murlocs to meet it.
• The Murlocs formed a defensive formation that resisted the Blood Legion’s attack, forcing both Blood Knights to retreat and request reinforcements through the Portal.
• Blood Earl Alemend agreed to send Master Anselm and his Mage Corps, escorted by Blood Knight Garcia, to support Knight Klass.

Lin Xiao stopped the Blood forces’ reinforcements by killing Anselm with a Divinity Spear, then chose to focus on securing five Mythic Quality Cards rather than risk a costly counterattack. Xie Yufei increased the invasion’s difficulty, and Blood Earl Alemend arrived as the enlarged Portal prepared to send more enemies through.

• Anselm used the Blood Mage Corps and a Blood Crystal Skull to stabilize and expand the Space Rift, but Lin Xiao’s Divinity Spear killed him and destroyed more than half the corps.
• Blood Knight Garcia ordered the knights to stand guard and report Anselm’s death, while Lin Xiao’s Kinfolk wiped out most of the forces already across the plane.
• Lin Xiao decided against attacking Blood Castle and chose to defend for the five Mythic Quality Cards instead.
• Xie Yufei enlarged the Space Rift so it could transport two knight orders at once, with only three minutes between transports.
• Slarda ordered the Kinfolk to prepare for battle as Blood Earl Alemend arrived with a large army and learned that Anselm had been killed by a Divinity Spear.

Blood Earl Alemend sent his forces through the portal to invade Lin Xiao’s Divine Domain, but Lin Xiao’s Murlocs and Nagas routed them. Alemend withdrew rather than enter the battle himself, and Lin Xiao destroyed the troops trapped inside before the portal collapsed, leaving the Earl shaken by the apparent power of a demigod.

• Alemend ordered Garcia and the Blood Legion to invade the other plane and kill its inhabitants.
• Slarda’s Murlocs and Greater Nagas overwhelmed the first Blood Slave forces while Murloc Warlocks summoned Water Elementals to support the defense.
• Lin Xiao ordered Slarda to slow the advance in hopes of luring Alemend into the Divine Domain, but Garcia recognized the trap and Alemend ordered a withdrawal.
• Lin Xiao attacked the portal with a golden strike, and Alemend blocked it by sending a giant bloody hand through the vortex.
• Lin Xiao spent five million Faith Points to manifest a golden hand that wiped out Garcia and the Blood Legion soldiers near the portal.
• Alemend identified Lin Xiao’s power as that of a demigod, while Lin Xiao let the portal collapse and believed he had frightened the Blood Earl.

After defeating the Blood Legion, Lin Xiao salvaged its equipment and chose to reincarnate the four Transcendent commanders as Greater Naga believers. He assessed his growing Faith Point income and decided to save it until he could condense two more points of Divinity.

• Lin Xiao captured the surviving Blood Slaves, collected the Blood Legion’s steel weapons and shields, and stored the fallen Transcendents’ remains.
• Lin Xiao burned away the consciousness of four Transcendent souls and arranged for them to be reincarnated as Greater Nagas with exceptional potential.
• After Slarda organized a sacrifice, Lin Xiao guided the fallen believers into the Divine Kingdom and received millions of Faith Power from the gathered believers.
• Lin Xiao calculated that his Murlocs and Greater Nagas could provide up to twenty-six thousand Faith Points daily, with the Greater Nagas contributing as much as all the Murlocs combined.
• Lin Xiao saw that he had accumulated over eighty-five million pure Faith Points and decided to save them until he could condense two points of Divinity.

Lin Xiao chose five Mythic Quality cards to establish Goblins as a support race focused on crafting and engineering. After two days, he joined the remaining students at the gathering, where he stood beside Shen Yuexin and assessed his chances of competing for a Golden Throne.

• Lin Xiao applied for his reward and chose a Goblin Species card, two Talent cards, and two Specialty cards to develop Goblins into a support race.
• Lin Xiao put the cards away because he lacked extra card slots and was still waiting for the other students to finish their trials and qualify for additional rewards.
• Two days later, Lin Xiao received his instructor’s message and flew to the Playground to gather with the remaining students.
• Lin Xiao spotted Shen Yuexin and joined her, while most of the other students offered only faint acknowledgments.
• Lin Xiao judged that he was now strong enough to compete for a Golden Throne, though his Kinfolk still lacked suitable armor.

Lin Xiao flirted with Shen Yuexin before Instructor Xie Yufei announced the results of the internal elimination and distributed rewards to those who passed. As team PK began, Lin Xiao read the rules and noticed that people were looking at him strangely.

• Lin Xiao teased Shen Yuexin while they talked about the Summer Camp, until Instructor Xie Yufei arrived and silenced the students.
• Xie Yufei announced that 120 soldiers had been eliminated and gave those who passed a chance to choose two designated Mythical Five-Star Cards.
• Lin Xiao selected Basic Exotic Mechanical Constructology and Basic Exotic Alchemy as his rewards.
• Xie Yufei sent the surviving soldiers back to the main venue, where Lin Xiao noticed many empty seats and fewer than a thousand contestants remained.
• The host explained the team PK rules, including challenges for Mythical cards, seat changes, and card slots; Lin Xiao then noticed the crowd looking at him strangely.

Lin Xiao faced hostility after being traded into the Stone tier and proactively challenged the Silver contestant Li Xiangyang. Their battle began in the Virtual Plane, where both sides deployed their forces as academy observers watched.

• Lin Xiao received worried messages from Lin Xu and Shen Yuexin but decided to handle the challenges himself.
• Lin Xiao challenged Li Xiangyang before Li Xiangyang could challenge him, and Li Xiangyang accepted.
• Lin Xiao and Li Xiangyang entered the Virtual Plane, where academy observers evaluated them.
• Lin Xiao prepared thirteen thousand Murlocs and eight hundred Naga, while Li Xiangyang fielded Tauren, Rabbitmen, Lizardmen, and Crossbow Carts.
• Both armies advanced toward each other as the observers discussed the impending battle.

As Lin Xiao’s Murlocs and Greater Nagas fought Li Xiangyang’s Tauren army, powerful academy representatives secretly marked Lin Xiao as a student they wanted to recruit. The battle left Li Xiangyang’s central formation shattered by the Greater Nagas’ overwhelming strength.

• Several powerful wills debated the unusual size of Lin Xiao’s Greater Nagas and secretly placed academy recruitment marks on him.
• Li Xiangyang’s Tauren and Lizardmen opened the battle with a charge and volleys of arrows, but Lin Xiao’s Murloc Warlocks blocked the attacks with Essence of Sea Water.
• Slarda split the Murloc vanguard to let the Greater Nagas collide with the Tauren, whose armor could not overcome the Nagas’ strength and regeneration.
• Li Xiangyang tried to slow his forces and bring up Crossbow Carts, but Lin Xiao’s thirteen Whale Hunter Knights charged into the formation and unleashed Thunder Strike.
• The Whale Hunter Knights scattered the Tauren center, while the Lizardman Archers failed to pierce their scales and Li Xiangyang’s central army was broken.

Lin Xiao’s Greater Nagas defeated Li Xiangyang’s army, and one survived a barrage of armor-piercing bolts thanks to its Super Armor Talent, forcing Li Xiangyang to concede. After emerging from the Virtual Plane, Lin Xiao drew interest from academy observers while Huo Yaji chose not to challenge him, and Lin Xiao began responding to the attention around him.

• Li Xiangyang’s forces collapsed under the Greater Nagas and Whale Hunter Knights, and he ordered his Crossbow Carts to fire at an advancing Greater Naga.
• The Greater Naga survived more than two hundred armor-piercing bolts, and Li Xiangyang surrendered after seeing its Super Armor Talent in action.
• Academy observers sent Lin Xiao private chat invitations as he emerged from the Virtual Plane, while the hall reacted to his sudden replacement of Li Xiangyang.
• Li Xiangyang warned Huo Yaji that Lin Xiao could not be beaten, and Huo Yaji decided not to challenge Lin Xiao because they had no personal grievance.
• Huo Yaji challenged a bronze-ranked heckler who mocked him, while Lin Xiao exchanged looks with the other contestants and accepted messages from observers and acquaintances.

Lin Xiao rejected special admission offers from lower-ranked Higher Academies and completed three challenges to earn rewards. He then challenged a former Gold-tier contestant, seeking an Ancient God Card and an extra card slot.

• Lin Xiao declined special admission invitations from Azure Sky Advanced Academy and Dark Moon Advanced Academy, set Eternal Ancient Advanced Academy aside as an option, and rejected the remaining offers.
• Lin Xiao replied to Lin Xu and Shen Yuexin that his earlier team elimination trial had been a real invasion, then decided to initiate challenges himself.
• Lin Xiao challenged a Bronze-tier contestant, who surrendered after one round and fell to the Black Iron tier.
• Lin Xiao defeated another Bronze contestant in one round, completing three challenges and earning six Mythic cards and an extra card slot.
• Lin Xiao sent a challenge request to a Silver contestant who had previously fallen from the Gold tier, aiming to win an Ancient God Card and another card slot.

Lin Xiao challenged Li Shengyuan, whose army of Ogres, Gnolls, and Gray Dwarves outnumbered Lin Xiao’s forces and included ten Transcendent Two-Headed Ogre Mages. Their armies met on the plains, and the battle left both sides locked in a brutal melee.

• Li Shengyuan angrily accepted Lin Xiao’s challenge, while Lin Xiao discovered his opponent commanded thousands of Ogres and ten Two-Headed Ogre Mages.
• Lin Xiao rallied his Murlocs and Greater Naga, and both armies advanced across the plains as observers watched.
• Lin Xiao’s Little Fishmen charged Li Shengyuan’s Gnoll vanguard, scattering its formation and forcing Li Shengyuan to send in his Ogres.
• The main forces collided, and Greater Naga Champions fought Ogre Chieftains amid the wider melee.
• Lin Xiao’s Greater Naga proved stronger on average, but the more numerous Ogres swarmed them, and the fighting spread into tangled, violent struggles.

Lin Xiao’s Greater Nagas and Li Shengyuan’s forces fought to a bloody stalemate as the Two-Headed Ogre Mages’ spells devastated Lin Xiao’s Murlocs. With most fodder troops dead, both sides gathered their surviving elites for the final battle, and Lin Xiao’s skills had cooled down.

• A Greater Naga killed an ogre, while observers assessed the Nagas and considered whether to offer Lin Xiao a Special Enrollment Quota.
• Slarda charged a Two-Headed Ogre Mage and killed it with a single anchor strike, prompting Li Shengyuan to gather his remaining mages and bombard Lin Xiao’s forces.
• The Whale Hunter Knights charged the mages, but Bloodthirst-enhanced ogres, Gnolls, and Gray Dwarves held them back as both sides’ extraordinary units slaughtered the fodder troops.
• Lin Xiao realized his Murloc Warlocks could not match powerful spellcasters and considered adding a stronger spellcasting Kinfolk to his Divine Domain.
• After the fodder troops were nearly wiped out, Li Shengyuan protected his eight remaining Two-Headed Ogre Mages while Lin Xiao spread his surviving forces into a line, ready for the final battle.

Lin Xiao defeated Li Shengyuan in their first battle, then surrendered when Li Shengyuan chose canyon terrain that made a fight impossible. In the decisive round, their terrain choices combined into a flooded, fragmented map that favored Lin Xiao, and he won, securing his place and valuable rewards.

• Lin Xiao's Greater Nagas overwhelmed Li Shengyuan's ogres, though the victory cost Lin Xiao many troops and exposed Salted Fish Thrust's weakness against huge, resilient foes.
• Li Shengyuan chose Goat Intestine Canyon for their second round, and Lin Xiao surrendered because the narrow canyon would let the Two-Headed Ogre Mages bombard his forces without opposition.
• Lin Xiao chose water terrain for the third round, and its combination with Li Shengyuan's mountain terrain produced a flooded map that countered the ogres.
• Slarda led Lin Xiao's forces through winding waterways and used thousands of Water Elementals and Murloc Warlocks to send two tidal waves through Li Shengyuan's valley.
• Lin Xiao's forces drowned or killed Li Shengyuan's remaining Kinfolk, and the victory moved Lin Xiao into Li Shengyuan's former position while Li Shengyuan fell to the bronze tier.
• Lin Xiao secured six Mythical-quality Five-Star Cards, one Ancient God Card, and two additional card slots, though some contestants' challenges remained unfinished.

Lin Xiao accepted Aether’s Special Enrollment offer as the Summer Camp’s second stage ended. Instructor Mo then announced that the final stage would pit the campers against victors of the Ivy League University Alliance’s Super Freshman Championship.

• Lin Xiao considered Aether’s benefits and his limited alternatives, then accepted its Special Enrollment invitation.
• The second stage ended with Lin Xiao, Gu Cheng, Shen Yue Xin, and Lin Xu among the remaining contestants, while many others, including Bai Ze, Shang Xiaoxue, and Tang Ling, had been eliminated.
• Instructor Mo congratulated the contestants and announced that the final stage would be an exchange with the Ivy League University Alliance’s championship victors.
• The campers reacted with surprise as Lin Xiao learned that the Ivy League University Alliance was one of the Main World’s four major factions, second in strength only to the Huaxia District.

Lin Xiao claimed an Ancient Frost Warlock class card and six mythic cards, then loaded the class into his Divine Domain. After surveying his growing domain and its thriving populations, he began extracting the Goblins' Bloodline Source with the Creation Cube.

• Instructor Mo announced that defeating the Ivy League University Alliance's exchange students would earn the contestants Special Enrollment Quotas or Letters of Intent, and said the tournament would take place in two days.
• Lin Xiao claimed the Frost Warlock class card and six mythic cards, including four knowledge cards, a meditation skill card, and a resource card containing one million tons of iron-rich ore.
• Lin Xiao returned to his dormitory, received source power that strengthened his Divine Domain, and used his two extra card slots to enter it.
• Lin Xiao found that Slarda had protected and sustainably managed a settlement of more than five hundred Lobsterfolk, and he was pleased with Slarda's work.
• Lin Xiao loaded the Frost Warlock card, giving newly born Greater Nagas a class option at Level 5, then began breaking down a Goblin Card with the Creation Cube to extract its Bloodline Source.

Lin Xiao created and summoned two thousand Wise Goblins, then had Slarda escort them to Naga City as a servant race. After leaving the Divine Domain, Lin Xiao joined a group chat with other students from Yunmeng Province, where Su Tong greeted him as a big shot.

• Lin Xiao fused goblin talents, skills, and specializations into an Ancient Wise Goblin Species card, increasing the goblins’ genetic capacity so they could bear the powerful traits.
• Lin Xiao loaded the card and told Slarda to care for the two thousand Wise Goblins, while declaring the Little Flower Fairies protected creatures.
• Slarda and the Greater Nagas met the Wise Goblins and brought them to Naga City, where they settled as a servant race.
• Lin Xiao left the Divine Domain and joined a group chat with Lin Xu, Gu Cheng, Shen Yuexin, and other students from Yunmeng Province.
• Su Tong welcomed Lin Xiao to the chat by calling him a big shot.