Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yang reorganized Storm City under the Divine Wood Mountain God, empowering priests and holy knights to absorb divine power as he prepared the city to face its invaders. A new divination produced a black talisman showing a paper person’s smiling face, leaving Zhang Yang confronted by another sign of the threat.

• Zhang Yang issued a Divine Edict that gathered believers beneath Storm City, sharply increasing the city’s sincere and fanatic believers.
• Zhao Xianyu reported that he had selected Divine Wood Holy Knights and priest candidates, and Zhang Yang ordered him to train the knights, resurrect Hammer Daim as the God of Forging, and divine several items.
• Zhang Yang learned that the dragon-scale steel and blue stones came from the Immortal Cultivation World, while a golden talisman revealed the Heaven-Stealing Primordial Creation Mystic Art.
• After Storm City completed its transfer to divine authority, Zhang Yang issued five Divine Edicts that established priest groups and the Divine Wood Holy Knight Order, granting hundreds of believers Divine Power Absorption.
• Zhang Yang considered the soul ghosts, paper people, and Abyssal Ghost Tribe as threats, but Zhao Xianyu interrupted him with a new divination that revealed a paper person’s smiling face on a black talisman.

Zhang Yang prepared a Siege Crossbow and waited for the Paper Figurine Sect to target Zhao Xianyu, while the Divine Wood Holy Knights defeated five paper figurines. The chapter ended when a powerful paper figurine attacked Zhao Xianyu with an illusion, and Zhang Yang searched nearby for its true body.

• Zhao Xianyu showed the Divine Wood Holy Knights divination images that foretold their route and battle against the paper figurines, and Yous led them south with several priests.
• Zhang Yang stayed behind, forged an eight-hundred-kilogram Siege Crossbow, and predicted the enemy would attempt to assassinate Zhao Xianyu.
• The Divine Wood Holy Knights killed five paper figurines on the Wild Boar Plains, losing thirty-four knights, while grieving believers gathered outside Storm City to see their dead relatives.
• The corpses suddenly reanimated, and the priests lost access to their divine arts until Zhao Xianyu used Divine Edict: Awe to restore divine power and help them destroy the undead.
• A paper figurine appeared to challenge Zhao Xianyu, but its illusion frightened him and Zhang Yang; Zhang Yang told Zhao Xianyu to hold on while he searched for the figurine’s true body.

Zhang Yang strengthened Zhao Xianyu’s Divine Edict and Divination to Level 30, helping him resist a God-Slaying Potion and expose their attacker. Zhang Yang killed the Rhinoceros Horned Man with an enchanted Siege Crossbow, then discovered the cultivator carried an Immortal Cultivation Village Building Order.

• Zhao Xianyu cried for help as an unknown power bound him, dragged him into another dimension, and used a God-Slaying Potion to drain his faith and health.
• Zhang Yang raised Zhao Xianyu’s Divine Edict to Level 30, and Zhao Xianyu’s proclamations brought in faith faster than the potion could strip it away.
• As the attacker tried to flee, Zhang Yang upgraded Zhao Xianyu’s Divination to Level 30, revealing the Rhinoceros Horned Man and marking his weakness.
• Zhang Yang used the Siege Crossbow to fire three enchanted bolts, which accelerated to three times the speed of sound and killed the Rhinoceros Horned Man.
• The Mountain God Order plundered the cultivator’s Level 1 Immortal Soul, Level 5 Storage Orb, damaged Immortal Cultivation Village Building Order, and incomplete Immortal Cultivation Civilization Code Blueprint.

Zhang Yang decided to keep fighting for Storm City despite the losses, suspecting the World of Deities belonged to the dangerous Fourth Sequence. He examined his Immortal Cultivation Village Building Order and used Zhao Xianyu’s divination to decipher an incomplete civilization blueprint, obtaining five cultivation manuals.

• Zhao Xianyu reported that invaders were shrinking his Divine Edict’s range, indigenous forces were blocking believers, and suspected Divine Traitors were stealing followers.
• Zhang Yang told Zhao Xianyu they had to defend Storm City and expand their forces, while privately resolving to find a way to escape within a month.
• Zhang Yang examined the incomplete Immortal Cultivation Village Building Order and concluded that the World of Deities might belong to the Fourth Sequence.
• Zhang Yang found that the Golden Scales would not appear to help him sell the incomplete Immortal Cultivation Civilization Code Blueprint, so he asked Zhao Xianyu to divine its contents.
• Zhao Xianyu spent twenty units of divinity to decipher the blueprint, revealing the Complete Three Firewood Sword Art, Complete Azure Cloud Sword Art, and the upper, middle, and lower volumes of the Azure Cloud Sword Control Art.

As the Abyssal Ghost Tribe and Paper Figurine Legion attacked Storm City, Zhang Yang faced the truth about his arrival in this world and negotiated with Lame Robin. Lame Robin proposed becoming Zhao Xianyu’s successor and receiving half the divinity, while Zhang Yang delayed his answer and called on Salted Fish to divine.

• A freezing fog swept toward Storm City as an eerie woman killed Old Mark, and a rhinoceros-horned leader ordered the Divine Soldier Legion to attack the paper figurines.
• Zhao Xianyu warned Zhang Yang that the Abyssal Legion and Paper Figurine Legion had launched an early assault, and Zhang Yang told him to keep selecting talented people and bring Lame Robin.
• Zhang Yang asked Lame Robin about Little Cobbler Rick Joseph, and Lame Robin revealed that he had used a Soul Restraint Coffin to capture Rick’s soul and part of Zhang Yang’s soul.
• Lame Robin returned the coffin and proposed becoming Zhao Xianyu’s successor in exchange for half the divinity, offering to help defend Storm City while Zhang Yang escaped.
• Zhang Yang postponed his answer until the next day, promised not to kill Lame Robin if he refused, and ordered Salted Fish to perform a divination.

Zhang Yang opened Lame Robin’s Soul Restraint Coffin and discovered that it led into the damaged divine kingdom of the Thunderbolt Pseudo-God, which encompassed Storm City. He entrusted the city and divine kingdom to Zhao Xianyu and Lame Robin so they could defend it from otherworldly demons while he returned to his own plans.

• Zhao Xianyu divined that the coffin was linked to a divine artifact and produced a Mountain God Talisman that could nullify one death penalty, though the effort cost him three levels.
• Zhang Yang opened the coffin, entered the damaged divine kingdom in a pure soul state, and found the corpse of a level-22 Thunderbolt Pseudo-God and an incomplete Deity Village Building Order.
• Zhang Yang used his Soul Force Field to return to his body and realized that the divine kingdom was fused with Storm City, explaining why Lame Robin had wanted to trade with him.
• Zhang Yang offered Zhao Xianyu independence and control of the divine kingdom, and Zhao Xianyu accepted after understanding that he could keep his level and power through Storm City’s believers.
• Zhang Yang left Zhao Xianyu two hundred units of divinity and assigned him divine authority while Lame Robin handled royal authority, instructing them to preserve the city and prepare for the coming war.

Zhang Yang arranged Storm City’s defenses and divided authority between Zhao Xianyu and Lame Robin before returning to the Fantasy World. After ordering his village to prepare for the Ghost Queen and entering seclusion, he fused the Deity Village Building Order with the Mountain God Order and discovered its activated functions.

• Zhang Yang gave Zhao Xianyu the Thunderbolt Pseudo-God’s divine position and ordered him to reorganize Storm City’s defenses and believers.
• Zhang Yang established three defensive zones, assigned troops to train in the outer zones, and placed 450,000 believers under Lame Robin’s royal authority.
• Zhang Yang issued laws balancing Zhao Xianyu’s divine authority and Lame Robin’s rule, removed Zhao Xianyu’s binding, and returned to the Fantasy World using the Mountain God Talisman.
• Zhang Yang ordered Wu Yuan, Reyn, Wang Shen, Duan Kuan, and the others to tear down the Mountain God Temple and told them not to seek him before the Ghost Queen arrived.
• After reviewing the village’s development, Zhang Yang fused the Mountain God Order with the Deity Village Building Order and learned that it could provide a level-18 special building and resurrection capacity for spirits.

Zhang Yang bound the incomplete Immortal Cultivation Village Building Order and learned what benefits it could provide during his current village-building task. He examined the complete Immortal Soul, chose to save it for a later attribute increase, and planned to cultivate the Heaven-Stealing Primordial Creation Mystic Art after dealing with the Ghost Queen.

• Zhang Yang spent 50 mana to bind the incomplete Immortal Cultivation Village Building Order and glimpsed yellow-sand ruins before the vision vanished.
• Zhang Yang learned that the order could not activate its own task but could unlock a civilization war battlefield, provide a Level 22 building, and generate a high-grade person each month during a conventional village-building task.
• Zhang Yang examined the Immortal Soul through the seventh trading mode and recognized the Heaven-Stealing Primordial Creation Mystic Art as the offered item.
• Zhang Yang read the Immortal Soul's possible uses, including upgrading soldiers, heroes, a mountain god, or the Village Building Order holder's attributes.
• Zhang Yang decided to save the Immortal Soul for a future Second Sequence task and planned to try cultivating the technique after dealing with the Ghost Queen.

Zhang Yang celebrated the birth of an Elite Population child, then laid out plans for the village’s expansion and established a hereditary noble system. He ennobled the village’s leading contributors as the settlement prepared to grow into a small town.

• Zhang Yang named the newborn Wu Yan and made Wu Yuan his godfather and adoptive father.
• Zhang Yang inspected the heated Residential Houses and found the village well prepared for the winter cold.
• Zhang Yang announced plans to open a Jackalman iron mine, establish a temporary village there, and develop the deer demon village as a future inner ring.
• Zhang Yang reported the village’s population and projected that it would exceed 1,000 and become a small town by late spring or early summer.
• Zhang Yang explained that noble status would let capable descendants rise to leadership and granted hereditary nobility and private land to Wu Yuan, Wang Mumu, and other eligible contributors.

Zhang Yang and his people prepared for the Ghost Queen’s attack as winter’s cold intensified, then used four divinity-powered tornadoes to break her encircling Yin Energy Clouds. With the clouds scattered, the Ghost Queen sent waves of empowered ghosts against the village, and the chapter ended with the defenders fighting to protect the Residential Houses.

• Zhang Yang kept his mana concealed while he and Wu Yuan patrolled, and Sun Goudan spotted the distant Yin Energy Clouds beginning to move.
• Zhang Yang ordered the defenses into position, assigned Reyn to protect and prepare the Sky-Piercing Rockets, and readied himself to face the Ghost Queen.
• Zhang Yang spent the durability of the False God Position of Hurricane to create four tornadoes that tore through the Yin Energy Clouds and broke the encirclement.
• Zhang Yang blasted the scattered clouds with fireballs and collected Phantom Crystals as the tornadoes opened a path through them.
• The Ghost Queen answered with a shrill cry and sent Ghost Assassins, Ghost Priests, and evil ghosts surging toward the village.
• Wu Yuan, Wang Mumu, Wang Shen, Sun Goudan, Reyn, and the other defenders held their assigned lines as Captain-Level archers fired flaming arrows at the approaching ghosts.

Zhang Yang lured the Ghost Queen into striking by making her believe his Great Fireball was his trump card, then used the Goddess of Love’s divine seat to weaken her and burned her to ashes. With the battle over, he told his battered allies to revive the fallen soldiers and prepare for spring.

• Zhang Yang waited by the enormous pyre while his soldiers fought the Ghost Queen’s forces, using the four tornadoes and fireballs to lure her out.
• After fifteen minutes, the tornadoes faded and the pyre nearly burned out, and the Ghost Queen appeared and wrapped Zhang Yang in red silk.
• Zhang Yang offered to cooperate and invoked his name as Zhang Sheng, but the Ghost Queen began to tear him apart.
• Zhang Yang infused twenty units of divinity into the Goddess of Love’s divine seat, causing the Ghost Queen to shrink in terror.
• Zhang Yang killed the Ghost Queen with a Great Fireball, then told Wu Yuan, Wang Mumu, and the others to clean up and revive the fallen soldiers.

Zhang Yang looked back on the twenty years in which his village grew into a city-state and prepared to leave its leadership to Zhang Wenyuan. After his life came to an end, the quest entered its transition animation phase, and he chose text mode.

• Zhang Yang reminisced about using Phantom Crystals to build a level-38 Wood Demon Tower and tame Earth-Walking Wood Demons.
• Zhang Yang recalled surviving a catastrophic flood, then leading his people through years of migration before settling and building a city.
• Zhang Yang reflected on handing the city lord position to Zhang Wenyuan and on the city-state’s population, military strength, economy, and young generations.
• Zhang Yang laughed as his breath faded, and a message announced that the Fantasy Village Building Quest control phase was complete.
• Zhang Yang chose text mode for the transition animation.

Zhang Yang completed the Fantasy Village Building Quest after watching the civilization he founded rise and fall over more than two thousand years, and received a large set of rewards. He returned to the present, where a liaison from the Qingquan City Village Chief Guild invited him to discuss the upcoming mission.

• The quest chronicle traced the rise of Zhang Wenyuan, the Wu and Great Zhang dynasties, and later kingdoms that inherited Zhang Yang’s civilization before the Great Wei Dynasty fell and the village legacy ended.
• The Village Building Order awarded Zhang Yang supplies, troops, mounts, five Earth-Walking Wood Demons, a recruitment quota, ten historical figures, King's Aura, and a Hurricane Swordsmen token.
• Zhang Yang returned to his balcony, ate the chilled watermelon, and exchanged complaints with his mother while she watched television.
• A woman named Xiao Qi introduced herself as a liaison from the Qingquan City Village Chief Guild and recommended that Zhang Yang accept a discussion about the coming mission.
• Zhang Yang agreed to speak with Xiao Qi because he had questions about entering the Fantasy Village Building world again.

Zhang Yang and dozens of other returning village chiefs were gathered by the government and told that Earth’s civilization was under threat as its code was being deciphered. At the provincial Village Chief Guild, they learned about the government’s National Teams and mandatory evaluations before being sent to be assessed.

• Zhang Yang rode with other returning village chiefs and watched as soldiers forcibly brought a chained blond man onto their coach.
• The liaison officer explained that Fantasy Village Building Orders appeared across Earth and that Earth’s civilization code was being deciphered, prompting the government’s hard-line response.
• Zhang Yang and the others reached the provincial capital and joined more than a thousand village chiefs at the No. 1 Middle School auditorium.
• Liu Weixi explained that the government would evaluate the village chiefs and might force those unlikely to survive another quest to give it up and lose their memories in exchange for compensation.
• Professor Huang outlined the known Village Building Order types and warned that governments worldwide had formed 280 National Teams under satellite surveillance.
• Guo Dawei briefly described his two successful quests, and Liu Weixi directed everyone to undergo mandatory evaluations.

Zhang Yang met with government evaluator Gu Yun, who explained how the country tracked and trained Village Building Order holders before assessing his accomplishments. He passed along deliberately understated details of his Fantasy World quest while learning that his village had faced city-level difficulty.

• Gu Yun told Zhang Yang that the government monitored Village Building Orders and successors, and explained what would happen if he died.
• Zhang Yang asked whether his own successor would be forced to begin the quest if he died, and Gu Yun explained that the successor would instead become an Original Village Chief the following year.
• Gu Yun began assessing Zhang Yang and asked for his age, gender, attributes, village level, and civilization's lifespan; Zhang Yang reported four-dimensional attributes of Strength A+, Agility B-, Defense B, and Soul B.
• Zhang Yang initially claimed he had reached town level, then acknowledged that his village met the city-level standards Gu Yun described.
• Zhang Yang told Gu Yun that his civilization had lasted five hundred years, concealing the full extent of his achievements.

After qualifying for the National Team and enjoying a twenty-day vacation, Zhang Yang reunited with the other Hidden Dragons and learned how exceptional his village-building results were. When he heard the National Team had become involved with the Great Wei Emperor’s sister in Zhongdu Commandery, he realized they were in danger but could not convince his companions to take his warning seriously.

• Gu Yun told Zhang Yang that he had been designated a National Team reserve and would receive generous benefits, so he went home for a twenty-day vacation.
• Zhang Yang left home for university and was taken to an underground base, where he reunited with Liu Kai, Liao Zhongyuan, Yuan Gang, Cao Heng, Duncan, and Liu Yu.
• Zhang Yang shared his village-building results, and the others explained that his city-level difficulty and 582-year duration could place him among China’s top performers.
• The Hidden Dragons urged Zhang Yang to report his results and explained that the National Team’s main force was based in Zhongdu Commandery and had allied itself with the Great Wei Princess.
• Zhang Yang realized the Great Wei Emperor was about to rebel and warned that Zhongdu Commandery was a dead end, but the others laughed off his claim.

Zhang Yang tried to prevent Earth Civilization’s codes from being deciphered by forcing National Team captain Wang Xinzhi to abandon the village-building mission. When Wang refused without evidence, Zhang killed him and appointed a replacement captain.

• Zhang Yang rejected reporting his knowledge through official channels and decided to stop the National Team members from entering the mission.
• After viewing the map, Zhang Yang chose Wang Xinzhi, whose sphere of influence lay near the Great Wei Royal Capital, as the first person to confront.
• Zhang Yang subdued Liu Kai and the others, then forced Liu Kai to lead him to Wang Xinzhi.
• Zhang Yang warned Wang that the Great Wei Dynasty would fall and demanded that he give up the mission, but Wang asked for evidence and refused.
• When Wang continued to resist, Zhang Yang killed him, and a white-haired official appointed someone else captain while threatening to exterminate his clan if the team lost.

Zhang Yang argued that the other binders should withdraw from Hidden Dragon Hegemony, but the officials insisted that Earth needed to explore the battlefield and ordered him to guarantee victory. After the Village Building Order activated, Zhang Yang vanished from the monitoring systems, leaving officials unsure where he had appeared.

• Zhang Yang spent eight days in his room after killing Wang Xinzhi, then attended a briefing with fifty-seven other Village Building Order binders and government officials.
• Zhang Yang urged the other binders to withdraw, warning that the alien hidden dragons were too dangerous and explaining his suspicions about the Great Wei royal family.
• The chubby old man rejected Zhang Yang's proposal, ordered the binders to cooperate with him, and told them to name heirs; Zhang Yang chose Mu Shaojun.
• The fifty-eight binders received heavy equipment and activated their Game Village Building Orders, after which Zhang Yang disappeared from his starting location.
• Officials discovered that Zhang Yang's signal and tracking equipment had failed, while the other binders appeared normally in the game world.
• The officials speculated that Zhang Yang's King's Aura +7 had placed him somewhere unusual, then suggested that the King's Sword had to be reforged for the Return of the King.

After discovering that he had returned to the world as Zhang Yang and lost one Village Building Order, Zhang Yang accepted the Return of the King quest. He learned that he was stranded deep in Mirage Tribe Demon territory, thousands of kilometers from safety, and prepared to make weapons.

• Zhang Yang found his weapons, backpack, and bulletproof vest missing, then discovered that one of his four Village Building Orders was gone.
• The system offered Zhang Yang a choice between continuing Hidden Dragon Hegemony and accepting Return of the King, warning that the new quest would make powerful enemies hunt him.
• Zhang Yang chose Return of the King, merging his Fantasy Village Building Order and Game Village Building Order and gaining King's Aura and a quest to complete within 30 years.
• Zhang Yang received his ancestors' and village's legacy, including fragments of hope and the books Complete Records of Great Chu and Territory Map of Great Chu.
• Zhang Yang used the faction map to locate himself at Mount Taiyan, more than six thousand kilometers from Bald Head Ridge Fortress and surrounded by Mirage Tribe Demon territory.
• Zhang Yang decided to make wooden spears before setting out.

Zhang Yang tracked a disguised Red-Skinned Monster to a Fish-Mouth Fortress and watched the Shrimp-Shell Demons assault it. He learned how the attackers disabled the fortress, while the Great Wei Dynasty’s former territory remained under foreign control.

• Zhang Yang reasoned that the Mysterious Demonic Woman and the Otherworldly Demon were greater threats than the hidden dragons, so he avoided recruiting an army before learning more about them.
• Zhang Yang watched two groups of Mirage Tribe Demons fight and saw a Red-Skinned Monster emerge from one Demon, kill both forces, destroy their grain carts, and disguise itself in Demon skin.
• Zhang Yang identified the Red-Skinned Monster’s destination as a Fish-Mouth Fortress and waited there instead of following it, avoiding a likely ambush.
• After observing the Fish-Lip Demons for two days, Zhang Yang watched the Shrimp-Shell Demons attack the fortress and learned that their pungent liquid caused its gate to open.
• Zhang Yang noted that Zhongdu Commandery had fallen to foreign races and that another National Team member near the royal capital had already disappeared from the Hidden Dragon Hegemony rankings.