Chapter Summaries

Zeng Shen cared for Xiao Bai and the cats in his divine domain, then reunited with Li Yuqing and discovered that driving through dangerous areas could earn him large amounts of survival points. He headed with Li Yuqing to sell jade to her uncle, leaving him with a new way to farm points.

• Zeng Shen returned to his divine domain, settled Xiao Bai beside the divine palace, and fed him and the cats at Bastet Town.
• The next morning, Li Yuqing arrived early, and Zeng Shen gained survival points by subduing and defeating her before they planned to visit her uncle about selling jade.
• Zeng Shen drove Li Yuqing toward the World Trade Building and earned survival points by passing through streets and areas occupied by powerful deities and mutant beasts.

Zeng Shen visited the Trade Tower with Li Yuqing and discovered that her uncle, Shi Mingqiang, was a tier three water deity. The deity’s warning proved unnecessary as Zeng Shen left the office unharmed and gained survival points.

• Zeng Shen drove to the Trade Tower, where the system warned that powerful deities occupied the building.
• The system detected a tier three water deity on the twentieth floor as Zeng Shen and Li Yuqing went to visit her uncle, Shi Mingqiang.
• Zeng Shen and Li Yuqing entered Shi Mingqiang’s office, where a woman named Ms. Liu was negotiating over a jade-bearing rough stone.
• Shi Mingqiang refused to sign a thirty-million risk guarantee until the stone was stripped and reassessed, so Ms. Liu left for the twenty-first floor.
• The system reported that Zeng Shen had shared a room with a tier three water deity and awarded him 1,000 survival points.

Zeng Shen learned that his rough jade was rare green dew imperial jade, worth at least two hundred million if processed, and agreed to let Shi Mingqiang arrange for it to be cut. When Ms. Liu returned to discuss her own stone, she spotted Zeng Shen’s jade and became interested in its value.

• Zeng Shen confirmed that the woman who had left Shi Mingqiang’s office was the tier-three water deity, then introduced his rough jade to Shi Mingqiang.
• Shi Mingqiang identified the jade as green dew imperial jade and estimated that it could sell for at least two hundred million after being made into jewelry.
• Zeng Shen agreed to let Shi Mingqiang bring in a professional stone cutter to remove the outer stone.
• After another buyer refused to sign a risk agreement, Ms. Liu returned and agreed to Shi Mingqiang’s terms for discussing her rough jade.
• Ms. Liu noticed the green glow in Zeng Shen’s stone, and Zeng Shen told her Shi Mingqiang had estimated its processed value at two hundred million.

Zeng Shen’s rough jadeite revealed a fist-sized piece of green dew imperial jadeite as Master Kuo peeled it, while Ms. Liu’s stone yielded too little to solve her company’s financial crisis. The chapter left Ms. Liu stunned by the valuable jade and curious about Zeng Shen’s composure.

• Zeng Shen said his rough jadeite could qualify for a five-hundred-million risk agreement, and Shi Mingqiang explained it was worth at least two hundred million unless a large piece of green dew imperial jadeite emerged.
• Shi Mingqiang introduced Master Kuo Jun and his apprentice Zhao Xiaoman, then entrusted Zeng Shen’s stone to Master Kuo and Ms. Liu’s stone to Zhao Xiaoman.
• Master Kuo and Zhao Xiaoman began peeling the stones while Zeng Shen watched calmly and Ms. Liu anxiously hoped for enough jadeite to secure a loan.
• Zhao Xiaoman uncovered only a thin layer of imperial jadeite, leaving Ms. Liu unable to obtain the loan her company needed.
• Master Kuo revealed green dew imperial jadeite half the size of a fist, and Ms. Liu realized Zeng Shen’s stone could be worth hundreds of millions.

Zeng Shen signed a risk indemnity agreement with Shi Mingqiang for the green-dew imperial jade, then gave Liu Miao the agreement so she could use it to secure a loan. Shi Mingqiang overheard and regretted entrusting his fortune to Zeng Shen.

• Master Kuo revealed the fist-sized green-dew imperial jade, and Shi Mingqiang agreed to promote and auction it while signing a 700-million risk indemnity agreement with Zeng Shen.
• Shi Mingqiang gave Zeng Shen a dark-gold card containing 100 million, and Zeng Shen left with Li Yuqing.
• Liu Miao followed Zeng Shen to the second basement and explained that she needed the risk indemnity agreement as collateral for a bank loan.
• Zeng Shen gave Liu Miao the agreement, joked that he wanted to beat her up every day, and exchanged WeChat details with her.
• Shi Mingqiang overheard their conversation and regretted not sharing the deal with his sworn rival.

Zeng Shen helped Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong set up Like Family Studio, then left to feed the cats in his divine realm. The cats’ gratitude strengthened their faith in him and earned him survival points.

• Zeng Shen told Li Yuqing he had no plan yet for how to use his money, and they drove to the Juling office building.
• Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong teased each other before helping Zeng Shen unpack and assemble the studio furniture and computers.
• After ordering food, Zeng Shen took Li Yuqing’s car keys and left to tend to the cats in his divine realm.
• Zeng Shen arrived in Bastet Town and fed the hungry cats, including Xiao Hei.
• Sixteen casual believers became true believers, earning Zeng Shen 1,150 survival points and 160 faith.

Zeng Shen used his survival points for a third ten-pull, gaining new cards and a skill that he deployed or learned while expanding his divine realm. After feeding Xiao Bai, he left the realm and called Li Yuqing, who was bathing with Liu Tongtong.

• Zeng Shen spent over ten thousand survival points on a ten-pull and drew aquatic plants, wild bulls, fungi, insects, rocket launchers, a war vehicle, breeding shrubs, and Potential Empowerment.
• Zeng Shen placed aquatic plants, wild bulls, fungi, insects, breeding shrubs, and pheasant chicks in his divine realm, then learned Potential Empowerment.
• Zeng Shen fed Xiao Bai and left the divine realm, planning to buy a car the next day and swap it for the Divine Energy War Vehicle.
• Zeng Shen video-called Li Yuqing and glimpsed Liu Tongtong passing by naked; Liu Tongtong shouted at him from offscreen.

Zeng Shen planned his day around earning survival points, then bought a two-million Wuling RV while Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong went to choose hanfu. He drove the new vehicle to register it as the women headed to the Trade Building.

• Li Yuqing asked Zeng Shen to help choose between pet videos and hanfu videos, and he recommended hanfu.
• Zeng Shen realized he had missed earning 1,500 survival points at Li Zhiyuan's Martial Arts Hall and decided to plan his daily schedule better.
• Zeng Shen startled Master Ma during tai chi, earned 200 survival points for driving back the tier-three fire deity, and said he would visit Li Zhiyuan that afternoon.
• Zeng Shen picked up Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong, then went with them to a car dealership before their hanfu shopping trip.
• Zeng Shen bought a two-million Wuling RV and drove it to the vehicle administration office, while Li Yuqing drove Liu Tongtong to the Trade Building.

Zeng Shen discovered that the intelligent race in the botanical garden was a colony of Mightyfolk ants, not the ancient pines. He tamed a Swift Ant Beast and sent her to deliver an ultimatum to the ant queen.

• Zeng Shen entered the botanical garden after the system warned him that an intelligent race lived there.
• Near an ancient pine, Zeng Shen killed a Swift Ant Beast and learned that the tier-four Mightyfolk chieftain was an ant queen.
• Zeng Shen found the Mightyfolk nest and used Eye of Observation to identify its worker ants as intelligent beings.
• Zeng Shen identified a Swift Ant Beast relaying her dead companion's signal and successfully tamed her.
• Zeng Shen named the ant Blackie and ordered her to tell the queen to submit, believe in him, and obey his commands.

Zeng Shen battled the queen of the Mighty Ant Tribe after she executed his pet ants, eventually forcing her out of the nest. The queen accepted his offer and decided to follow him and obey his commands.

• Heizai entered the nest to deliver Zeng Shen’s message, but the queen executed him and triggered a warning that she would seek revenge.
• Zeng Shen blew open the nest, tamed more ants, and sent Heizai No. 2 to demand the queen’s submission, but she executed him too.
• Zeng Shen tamed and empowered a group of ants, then sent Heizai and the others into the nest to drag out the queen.
• The queen’s forces killed most of Zeng Shen’s ants, but the empowered Heizai, Heizai No. 2, and Heizai No. 3 emerged carrying the queen.
• Zeng Shen offered the queen food and a comfortable nest or threatened to squash her, and she chose to follow him and obey his commands.

Zeng Shen converted the Mighty Ant colony into believers and moved its intelligent ants into his Divine Domain, then destroyed the abandoned nest for survival points. He arranged to meet Liu Miao at a bank in three days and planned to visit the Lihuo Martial Arts Hall before picking up Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong that evening.

• Zeng Shen ordered the Mighty Ant Queen to make her colony worship him, gaining 550 believers and 5,500 survival points.
• Zeng Shen opened a Divine Domain Gate to Emerald Valley and moved the queen and her intelligent ants inside, where Divine Blessing protected them.
• Zeng Shen tamed winged queen candidates and other female ants for Heizi, assigned Heizi Two and Heizi Three as the queen's guards, and supplied the groups with cat food.
• Zeng Shen closed the gate, flooded and destroyed the ant nest, and earned 5,770 survival points by stomping on mutated ants.
• Zeng Shen agreed to accompany Liu Miao to the Recruitment Bank in three days to sign loan papers and planned to scout the area the next day.
• Zeng Shen spoke with Li Yuqing, learned she and Liu Tongtong were shopping for hanfu, and arranged to pick them up that evening after visiting the Lihuo Martial Arts Hall.

Zeng Shen trained in martial arts, earned survival points around Jinhai City, and spent the night with Li Yuqing in his motorhome. After a twenty-pull lottery, he gained mining and storage cards, a Healing skill, and the Divine Control talent.

• Zeng Shen apologized to Li Zhiyuan, then learned basic hand-to-hand combat and sparred with the martial arts hall’s students.
• Zeng Shen took Li Yuqing to dinner and spent the night with her in his motorhome.
• Zeng Shen earned survival points across Jinhai City and continued his martial arts training with Li Zhiyuan.
• Zeng Shen spent 20,000 survival points on twenty lottery pulls and received Smart Mining Vehicle, Divine Energy Smelting Furnace, and Spatial Warehouse cards.
• Zeng Shen also drew a Healing skill card and a purple Divine Control talent card.

After learning Healing and Divine Control, Zeng Shen helped Liu Miao seek a 100-million-yuan loan using his 700-million-yuan risk agreement as security. The bank verified the agreement, and Zeng Shen reacted to the president’s repayment terms by asking her to repeat the one-year deadline.

• Zeng Shen learned Healing and Divine Control and spent the next day earning survival points.
• Zeng Shen met Liu Miao at the bank, where a warning said a tier-three water deity had restrained him, but he stayed close to her.
• Liu Miao presented President Li with Zeng Shen’s 700-million-yuan risk agreement as collateral for a loan.
• President Li verified the agreement with Shi Mingqiang, who consented to its use as security.
• Liu Miao asked to borrow 100 million yuan, and President Li quoted eight-percent interest with principal and interest due in one year.
• Zeng Shen interrupted President Li and asked her to repeat the one-year repayment deadline.

Zeng Shen arranged a five-hundred-million loan using Shi Mingqiang's assets and gave Liu Miao one hundred million of it interest-free, then visited her struggling Jinhai Wharf. He searched the port and its office for the water deities he expected to find, but received no encounter notifications.

• Zeng Shen negotiated a five-hundred-million loan with President Li and had one hundred million transferred to Liu Miao's account.
• Liu Miao thanked Zeng Shen and invited him to tour Jinhai Wharf, which she owned and managed.
• Liu Miao told Zeng Shen how her grandfather's illness, her husband's death on their wedding night, and Ye Li's business competition had left her isolated and the family's operations under pressure.
• Liu Miao identified Qin Wei as Zeng Shen entered the wharf and authorized him to visit whenever he wanted, despite a warning that the territory contained powerful water deities.
• Zeng Shen toured Jinhai Wharf and its office but found no second-tier water deities or system notifications.

Zeng Shen and Liu Miao were ambushed by thugs who tried to extort her and threatened her docks. Zeng Shen defeated them and drove them away, earning survival points from the system.

• Zeng Shen left the docks with Liu Miao, but two vans blocked their RV and several thugs ordered them out.
• Liu Miao confronted the thugs, and their leader, Huang Ziliang, demanded money and threatened to take advantage of her.
• Zeng Shen stepped in and slapped Huang Ziliang after he taunted Liu Miao to hit him.
• Zeng Shen used Agility Enhancement to knock down the lackeys and defeat Huang Ziliang with a shoulder throw.
• Zeng Shen threatened the thugs, who fled in their vans, and the system awarded him survival points for defeating stronger opponents.

Zeng Shen took Liu Miao to lunch at her family’s clam restaurant, then used a martial arts lesson to trigger survival-point rewards by pinning and repelling her. He left Liu Miao to take a taxi while heading for the Lihuo Martial Arts Hall, with another thousand points added to his total.

• Zeng Shen took Liu Miao to her family’s restaurant, where they shared a clam hot pot.
• Liu Miao mentioned that she might take martial arts lessons, giving Zeng Shen the idea to spar with her for first-time rewards.
• Zeng Shen demonstrated a shoulder pin on Liu Miao and gained 1,000 survival points for suppressing her.
• Liu Miao tried to copy the move but could not throw Zeng Shen, so he demonstrated the pin once more before leaving.
• Zeng Shen headed to the Lihuo Martial Arts Hall as Liu Miao went to hail a taxi, and he received another 1,000 points for repelling her.

After earning 1,500 points at Lihuo Martial Arts Hall, Zeng Shen inspected his divine domain and used twenty lottery draws. He gained several resource cards but had not yet placed them in the domain.

• Zeng Shen ended his video call with Li Yuqing after they discussed their costumes, filming at the park, and his encounter with thugs while helping Liu Miao.
• Zeng Shen earned 1,500 points at Lihuo Martial Arts Hall, asked Li Zhiyuan to teach him self-defense moves, and returned home.
• Zeng Shen inspected the cats, expanding aquatic life, breeding flower shrubs, ant colonies, and mined jade and elemental crystals in his divine domain.
• Zeng Shen made twenty consecutive draws and received copper mine, silver mine, hare colony, fruit tree sapling, sheep, and vegetable seed cards.

Zeng Shen used his new cards to learn defensive and flight skills, summon two mechanical maids, and establish an industrial zone in his divine realm. The chapter ended with him planning to put Xiao Di in charge of Lingnan District and Xiao Ai in charge of caring for his followers and species.

• Zeng Shen learned Air Shield and Flight, then summoned the Mechanical Domestic Maid and Mechanical Combat Maid.
• Zeng Shen named the maids Xiao Ai and Xiao Di and took them back to his bedroom; after sparring with Xiao Di, he gained six divine rank experience.
• Zeng Shen received 1,030 faith points from his believers the next morning.
• Zeng Shen deployed copper and silver mines, mining vehicles, smelting furnaces, and a spatial warehouse in the southern mountains, naming the area Lingnan Industrial Park.
• Zeng Shen deployed another spatial warehouse in Bast Town and planned to assign Xiao Di to Lingnan District and Xiao Ai to care for his followers and species.

Zeng Shen assigned Xiao Ai and Xiao Di tasks to prepare a post-catastrophe shelter and protect his girlfriend, then went to Like Family Studio to find Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong together. He left the apartment after overhearing them and called Li Yuqing, who said she and Tongtong were washing up.

• Zeng Shen gave Xiao Ai and Xiao Di a premium card with four hundred million and asked them to arrange a suburban shelter, identities, and protection for Li Yuqing.
• Zeng Shen assigned Xiao Di to handle mining and Xiao Ai to care for the divine realm's species, then gave them divine-powered war vehicles and told them to buy clothes and Blue Planet vehicles.
• Zeng Shen received notice that he could draw his license plate in three days and drove to Like Family Studio.
• Zeng Shen heard Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong crying out behind Li Yuqing's locked bedroom door and wondered whether they were romantically involved.
• Zeng Shen left the apartment, messaged Li Yuqing, and answered her video call as she sat by the bathtub with a towel on, saying she and Liu Tongtong were washing up.

Zeng Shen helped Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong film short videos at the park, persuading Master Ma and his tai chi group to serve as the backdrop. After filming, he left the exhausted women at the Spirit Gathering Building and planned to edit the videos, possibly showing them that night.

• Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong arrived in costume, and Zeng Shen drove them to the park to film their videos.
• Master Ma tried to avoid Zeng Shen, but Zeng Shen pressured him into helping with the filming.
• Master Ma gathered the elderly tai chi practitioners, and Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong filmed three videos as Zeng Shen recorded them.
• After filming, Zeng Shen teased Master Ma about sparring, prompting him to flee and earning Zeng Shen another survival-point notification.
• Zeng Shen said he had business in the north of the city, while Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong went upstairs to sleep; he said he might show them the edited video that night.