Chapter Summaries

An Yang returned to the real world, caught up on the An Shi system’s affairs, and spent time teaching Xiao Qian spells and arranging outings for the demons. He met Ji Weiwei for a nostalgic night at the market, where they ran into her former coworker Luo Shihao.

• Xiao Qian studied Divine Continent spells and explained them to An Yang when he joined her in the study.
• An Yang contacted Liao Heng and Shen Zhaowen, then planned meetings with officials and business leaders.
• An Yang arranged a Knight XV for Huang Lan and organized outings for Huang Lan, Rabbit Demon, and Xiaochán.
• An Yang invited Ji Weiwei to eat skewers and drink at a street stall, then walked with her through the night market.
• Luo Shihao saw Ji Weiwei holding An Yang’s arm and asked whether An Yang was her boyfriend.
• Ji Weiwei left with An Yang, later telling him that Luo Shihao had been a coworker at her previous company.

An Yang reunited with An You and Xiao Xueer and took them to the exclusive Rose Garden restaurant. An You was surprised by the luxurious venue and realized her brother had entered circles far beyond her own.

• An Yang invited An You to dinner, but she initially declined, so he contacted Xiao Xueer instead.
• The next morning, Xiao Xueer brought the reluctant An You to meet An Yang at the university district bus stop.
• An Yang greeted the two women, unexpectedly patted An You on the head, and drove them to Rose Garden.
• An You and Xiao Xueer marveled as An Yang entered the exclusive club with his platinum VIP card.
• An You compared her achievements with An Yang's standing and recognized that his world had become difficult for her to understand.

An Yang brought An You and Xiao Xueer to Rose Garden, where his Platinum VIP Card secured them a private room and an elaborate French meal. An You and Xiao Xueer gradually settled into the luxurious surroundings, while An Yang offered to get Xiao Xueer a membership card so she could return whenever she wanted.

• An Yang drove An You and Xiao Xueer to Rose Garden, where staff admitted them after inspecting his Platinum VIP Card.
• An You and Xiao Xueer were astonished and nervous at the castle-like restaurant, while An Yang remained composed.
• An Yang ordered the VIP meal service, and the three began a French dinner with seafood, caviar, and soup.
• An You finished her steak and listened as Xiao Xueer praised the caviar and An Yang offered to get her a membership card.

An Yang took An You and Xiao Xueer to a lavish meal and then to Hongzhuang City, where he paid for hundreds of thousands of yuan in clothes. Back home, he found the Rabbit Demon waiting for him and put an arm around her while Xiao Qian watched from upstairs.

• An Yang explained that he had borrowed the VIP card and offered to arrange one for An You and Xiao Xueer.
• An Yang invited the girls shopping, and Xiao Xueer agreed while An You protested before being persuaded to come along.
• An Yang took An You and Xiao Xueer to Hongzhuang City, where An You tried on clothes and he paid for their expensive purchases.
• An You returned to her dorm in a daze until her roommate saw the shopping bags and cried out in surprise.
• An Yang returned home and woke from a nap to find the Rabbit Demon watching him, with Xiao Qian observing from the second-floor railing.
• An Yang called the Rabbit Demon over and put his arm around her as she sat beside him.

An Yang showed Xiao Qian a clear recording of a fallen Azure Dragon transforming and flying away, then decided to upload it anonymously to see how people would react. He left Seventeen to post the video as “The Mysterious Mountain Village Fallen Dragon Incident” and turned his attention back to Xiao Qian.

• An Yang reassured the Rabbit Demon that he would spend time with her once he was less busy, then sent her to bed.
• An Yang retrieved the recorded Fallen Dragon video and played it for Xiao Qian.
• Xiao Qian watched the muddy Azure Dragon regain its strength, command the storm, and soar into the clouds.
• An Yang showed Xiao Qian a heavy, cold Dragon scale, and she confirmed she had never seen a dragon before.
• An Yang instructed Seventeen to hide his address and upload a compressed version of the video anonymously.

An Yang watched the video of the fallen dragon go viral around the world, while Xiao Qian joked that he had gone too far. He approved promoting Song Hanshan and then opened the Gate of Space to leave the villa for another world.

• Xiao Qian asked An Yang about making Song Hanshan her deputy, and he told her to decide for herself.
• An Yang watched viewers argue over whether his dragon video was real as it spread across video sites and social networks worldwide.
• Xiao Qian said An Yang had played things too big, but he dismissed the concern and said the world posed no challenge to him.
• An Yang told Xiao Qian to promote Song Hanshan, explaining that she had the ability and experience for the position.
• An Yang spent time with Xiao Qian, the rabbit demon, Xiaochán, and Huang Lan before opening the Gate of Space in the basement.

An Yang returned to Huaibei Base and heard reports on its advanced military equipment, territorial expansion, and government needs. He dismissed most of the meeting to focus on education and administrative reform, keeping Zhai Liying behind to discuss security and departmental cooperation.

• An Yang arrived at a meeting with Huaibei Base's officials and researchers, praised their recent work, and asked for an update on military equipment deployment.
• Chen Yafei reported that the base had equipped its forces with tens of thousands of upgraded Predator and Wind God armors, improved aircraft and weapons, and expanded its air and armored forces.
• Chang Hui gave a brief report, then Zhai Liying described the base's expansion into Xifeng Province and warned of rival forces and evolving zombies while proposing better armor for the Inner Guard Department.
• Zhou Mingyuan outlined plans to reform the administration of four bases and establish more than twenty departments, beginning with the Ministry of Education.
• An Yang sent the researchers and generals away, then kept Zhou Mingyuan and Zhai Liying behind to discuss education, research, and security matters.

An Yang convened Huaibei Base’s senior officials to establish a new political structure and assign acting department heads, leaving the finer details to them. Zhai Liying left disappointed because the meeting never addressed upgrading her troops’ equipment.

• An Yang summoned Zhou Mingyuan, the base’s Minister of Political Affairs, and senior officials to discuss institutional reform.
• An Yang and the assembled officials spent the day drafting the base’s new departmental framework, while Zhai Liying was dismissed after discussions about departments tied to her former Inner Guard Department.
• Yang Chao suggested that Zhai Liying seduce An Yang to get better weapons, and she threatened him for the remark.
• An Yang and Zhou Mingyuan selected acting officials for the new departments before ending the meeting late that evening.

An Yang walked through Huaibei Base No. 1, reflecting on its prosperity, and stopped at a restaurant to sample civilian food. When he realized he had no identity card to pay, one of his concealed Guard Team soldiers paid for him, startling the staff with the armor’s sudden appearance.

• An Yang left the research district with four Guard Team soldiers concealed nearby and walked through the residential district.
• An Yang watched a senior officer ride a Mutant Warhorse through the streets and heard women admire the military.
• An Yang dined alone at a restaurant, ordering Mutant Buffalo soup and several side dishes.
• An Yang tried to pay with an Earth banknote, then realized he had forgotten his identity card.
• An Yang called over a concealed Guard Team soldier, who revealed his armor and paid the bill, leaving the restaurant staff alarmed by the escort.

An Yang summoned military and education officials to announce an expedition to another world, where Huaibei Base would conquer a country and exchange technology for magic and population. He also tasked them with preparing to teach magic to civilians and soldiers, setting the stage for a new era.

• An Yang watched the expanding territory from the outer defensive wall as Chen Yafei, Chang Hui, and Zhai Liying arrived in customized Wind God armor.
• Zhou Mingyuan and four acting Ministry of Education officials joined them at An Yang's request.
• An Yang learned that Huaibei Base had forty thousand regular troops and ordered a temporary halt to external conquest and expansion.
• An Yang announced plans to expedition to a technologically primitive world with magic, conquer a country, and establish exchanges between the worlds.
• An Yang demonstrated magic by conjuring flames in the shape of a flying dragon, then confirmed that people in Huaibei Base could learn it.
• An Yang assigned the officials to prepare for spreading magical knowledge among the base's civilians and military.

An Yang outlined the expedition to the Divine Continent and ordered the base to prepare for governing its conquered territories and integrating Daoist cultivation with technology. He left the base facing an immense program of military expansion, administrative reform, and carefully controlled education in magic.

• An Yang assigned Zhou Mingyuan and the others to prepare an expeditionary force and administrative framework to seize and govern the Dayi Dynasty, while limiting the Inner Guard Department’s role to guarding and organizing forces.
• An Yang identified the Shushan Sect, Cangxiu Immortal Mansion, and the Dayi Dynasty as objectives, and said a separate army would bring nearby cultivation forces under his control.
• After the meeting, Chen Yafei, Chang Hui, and Zhai Liying departed, while Zhou Mingyuan and the Ministry of Education’s acting ministers stayed to discuss education reforms.
• An Yang gave Zhou Mingyuan and the ministers Daoist manuals and spell classifications, ordering them to promote cultivation while restricting dangerous paths and spells to the military.
• An Yang directed the government team to revise institutions and laws for a society where technology and magic coexisted, and arranged for cultivators from the Divine Continent to help classify spells.

An Yang arranged the classified distribution of Taoist cultivation books in the base and returned to Pararansu to meet An Qi. He told her he planned a large-scale expedition and gave her a modified Shushan Sect cultivation manual to test whether Heavenly Soldiers could practice it.

• An Yang set policies for distributing cultivation techniques, reserving dangerous Grand Dao directions and spells for the military, government, and special departments.
• An Yang stored a truckload of books in his Portable Space and used the Gate of Space to travel from the base to Pararansu.
• An Yang surveyed the developed Silver Moon Territory and welcomed An Qi when she arrived at the castle.
• An Yang took An Qi to the territory's edge and told her he would launch a large-scale expedition, withdrawing everyone except the defense troops.
• An Yang gave An Qi a Shushan Sect cultivation manual modified for her physical parameters, and she agreed to test whether Heavenly Soldiers could practice it.

An Yang assembled a vast expeditionary army and ordered An Qi to reorganize it, establish formation communication channels, and prepare supplies for a campaign departing in ten days. He returned to the real world, where Xiao Qian greeted him and Huang Lan was waiting in the villa.

• Hundreds of subordinate territories sent their Heavenly Soldiers to Silver Moon Territory, while An Yang promoted Taoist cultivation among marked Heavenly Soldiers after An Qi showed rapid progress.
• More than twenty thousand Heavenly Soldiers gathered, with most assigned to the expedition and the Silver Moon Legion reserved mainly for defense and command support.
• An Yang tasked An Qi with reorganizing the army into specialized formations, adding Silver Moon Legion members to each, and creating formation-level communication channels.
• An Yang told An Qi to rest or clear nearby mechanical organisms, prepare supplies, and ready the army for departure in about ten days.
• An Yang returned to the villa through a spatial tear, where Xiao Qian greeted him and Huang Lan lounged on the sofa.

Xiao Qian told Xiaochán and the Rabbit Demon to go out for a stroll, and An Yang and Xiao Qian went to find them on Huangjiao Road. They found the pair buying mochi, where the Rabbit Demon dropped hers after bumping into Xiaochán, and Xiaochán pointed out that An Yang had arrived.

• Xiao Qian explained that Xiaochán and the Rabbit Demon had gone out to play and called Xiaochán to learn where they were.
• Xiao Qian contacted the people following the pair and learned they were on Huangjiao Road.
• An Yang and Xiao Qian found Xiaochán walking ahead of the Rabbit Demon, who stopped at a mochi stall.
• Xiaochán bought six matcha mochi for the Rabbit Demon, who mistakenly treated the change as a good deal.
• The Rabbit Demon bumped into Xiaochán and dropped her mochi, then Xiaochán told her that the scholar had come.

An Yang asked Huang Lan, the Rabbit Demon, and Xiaochán to return with him to the Divine Continent, and all three agreed. In the Apocalypse World, civilians watched an enormous military force converge at Huaibei Base No. 1, though its destination and mission remained unknown.

• An Yang offered to take Huang Lan, the Rabbit Demon, and Xiaochán to the Divine Continent, and they chose to go with him.
• Youths in the Apocalypse World discussed a new decree requiring the universal teaching of Taoist magic to civilians.
• Qiao Yan and other residents watched wave after wave of flight armor formations cross the sky above Huaibei Base No. 1.
• Qiao Yan reached the main street and saw armored troops and military vehicles from multiple bases marching through the city.
• The residents wondered where the immense army was headed as its formations continued past.

Qiao Yan witnessed a massive troop mobilization at Base One, then discovered the troops had vanished without explanation. In the Divine Continent, An Yang and the cultivators of Cangxiu Immortal Mansion watched tens of thousands of troops emerge through two Gates of Space, confirming a full-scale invasion from another world.

• Qiao Yan used her Publicity Department identification to observe the assembled forces at Base One, but a Guard Team soldier ordered her to leave before martial law began.
• Qiao Yan returned to the Publicity Department, where she was warned not to broadcast news of the troop mobilization, then told listeners a story about meeting a handsome soldier.
• Qiao Yan waited outside the military zone and learned that roughly thirty thousand troops had disappeared inside, with no sign of where they had gone.
• More than twenty thousand heavenly soldiers entered the Gate of Space in Parlands, leaving civilians in Silver Moon Territory and nearby territories puzzled.
• An Yang, the leaders of Cangxiu Immortal Mansion, and Elder Huang Chen watched tens of thousands of troops emerge through two Gates of Space near Cangxiu Immortal Mansion.

An Yang opened the Gates of Space and deployed a vast force of armored troops and mecha before the Dao cultivators of Shu Mountain and Cangxiu Immortal Mansion. The army finished assembling, and its commanders reported to An Yang while the onlookers wondered what he intended to do in the Divine Continent.

• An Yang opened the Gates of Space, and armored soldiers and mecha poured through and formed ranks across the plain.
• The three banshees and the Dao cultivators watched in shock, recalling how a hundred mecha had defeated Shu Mountain, subdued Cangxiu Immortal Mansion, and pacified the demon uprising.
• Huang Chen and the other elders feared that the Divine Continent could not resist An Yang’s army, while Huang Lan worried about the fate of her homeland and its people.
• The army finished assembling with thirty thousand armored warriors and more than twenty thousand Heavenly Soldier Mecha, then fell silent at attention.
• Silver Moon’s commander and Chen Yafei landed before An Yang and reported that their forces had completed formation.

An Yang launched a coordinated invasion of the Dayi Dynasty, ordering his forces and officials to conquer its territory and take control of its government, security, and religious institutions. As the army advanced on many fronts, Kunlun’s Heavenly Dao cultivators sensed a sweeping catastrophe but could not discover its source.

• An Yang ordered the army to rest, then instructed officials and commanders to prioritize surrender through propaganda and deterrence, move swiftly when fighting, and prepare to govern conquered regions.
• An Yang assigned the disciples of Cangxiu Immortal Mansion and Shu Mountain to subdue Daoist factions, guide the Heavenly Soldiers, and help pacify practitioners.
• After the meal, An Yang ordered the army to advance, and its mechanized troops, aircraft, and Heavenly Soldier mechas departed for targets across the Dayi Dynasty.
• Officials flew to Cangxiu Immortal Mansion to study the dynasty and plan its administration, while the former Inner Guard Department personnel prepared to manage security and public order in captured locations.
• Huang Lan watched the technologically advanced army depart and wondered whether An Yang would truly bring the world a brighter future.
• On Misty Peak, Kunlun’s Heavenly Dao cultivators detected ominous signs of widespread military turmoil, and the Kunlun old Taoist hurried to summon the Heavenly Dao Grand Elders.

Kunlun Mountain’s Daoists concluded that An Yang’s changes had disrupted the Heavenly Dao’s control over Shenzhou, while Misty Peak surrendered to the Heavenly Soldiers without a fight. In Dianzhou Prefecture, armored troops descended from the sky into a crowded street, leaving the frightened people and a monk to interpret the arrival as a divine revelation.

• The three Kunlun Mountain Daoists reasoned that An Yang’s actions had crippled the Heavenly Dao’s ability to guide the world and decided to perform a divination.
• Misty Peak’s Grand Elder ordered the disciples to abandon resistance, and the Heavenly Soldiers took control of the sacred cultivation ground without firing a shot.
• A yellow-robed monk preached in Dianzhou Prefecture as townspeople gathered for the approaching Shangjie festival.
• The townspeople and the monk watched human figures fly across the sky, mistaking the formations for gods and Heavenly Soldiers.
• A transport formation dropped more than a hundred armored troops into the street, where they activated their weapons and began patrolling among the terrified crowd.

Pan Xue arrived at Jade Dragon Pass with a small, technologically advanced armored force and demanded command of the garrison in the Divine King’s name. The commander refused to surrender the stronghold and ordered his troops to prepare for battle.

• A sentry at Jade Dragon Pass heard a rumbling and spotted strange armored soldiers and black vehicles approaching across the Gobi Desert.
• The defenders mistook Pan Xue’s radiant display and her armored escort for a fairy and heavenly soldiers.
• Pan Xue identified herself as a disciple of Cangxiu Immortal Mansion and demanded that the garrison open the gates and hand over military command.
• The main commander arrived, rebuked the junior officer for nearly being fooled, and ordered the archers and heavy cavalry to prepare.
• The main commander warned Pan Xue and her force to leave Jade Dragon Pass or face execution.