Chapter Summaries

Huosi learned that Adkins’s Steam Train had succeeded, marking a first step in his plan to use technology to change the Coiling Dragon World. He went with Bernas to see the invention, while Adkins prepared it for mass production and reflected on why he had devoted himself to Huosi.

• Bernas reported that Adkins’s Steam Train was working and would soon be ready for widespread use.
• Huosi recalled how refining a Divine Spark had left him unable to advance, how time and loss had made him restless, and how his Tech Cheat System had given him a new purpose.
• Huosi decided to inspect the train and flew with Bernas to the Design Department.
• Stephenson told Adkins that the experimental Steam Train reached 100 kilometers per hour, and Adkins ordered its blueprints sent for mass production.
• Adkins remembered how Huosi had saved him and Bernas from Ryan, inspiring him to follow Huosi and devote himself to him.

Huosi planned to expand Xuanshen Island by using technology and trade to attract the continent’s wealthy families, talent, and resources while developing weapons capable of challenging gods. He left the story focused on his distant ambition to unify the planes, though he reminded himself that he had only just begun.

• Huosi inspected Adkins’s preparations for an academy field trip to Dragon King Forest and approved the students’ use of firearms as product advertising.
• Huosi planned to use low-cost manufactured goods to draw wealth and resources from the Linggeste and Orsopu Empires while also exploiting the ocean’s resources.
• Huosi considered the System Space’s increasingly powerful weapons, including a God-Slaying Nuclear Bomb, an Interstellar Warship cannon, and the Sovereign Annihilation Cannon.
• Huosi envisioned developing technology to break gods’ Divine Domains, conquer the plane, and eventually challenge Paragons, then pulled himself back from imagining too far ahead.

Adkins and Bernas accompanied academy students on their first field trial to observe the Gatling machine guns in action. The students fought a Wind Wolf pack, and the Gatling team killed its Seventh-Level leader.

• Adkins and Bernas rode with the students to the Dragon God Forest so Adkins could observe the Gatling machine guns' first real-world test.
• A teacher briefed the students on the trial, and class monitor Charles organized them into scouting, defense, and support groups.
• A scout spotted fifteen Wind Wolves led by a Seventh-Level beast, and Charles ordered the students to prepare for battle.
• Ende fired his AK47 at the wolves, killing two, but the pack scattered and its leader charged through the gunfire.
• Charles ordered the Gatling team to target the leader, and three Gatling guns killed it.

Charles, Ende, and Lia celebrated defeating a Wind Wolf leader with a Gatling gun, but an eighth-level Velociraptor soon approached their group. As the students formed a defensive line, they faced a beast far stronger than the Wind Wolves they had just fought.

• Ende praised Charles for defeating the Wind Wolf leader with the Gatling, while Lia scolded Ende for roughly smacking Charles.
• Adkins and Bernas sensed an eighth-level Velociraptor approaching and discussed how the students’ Gatlings might not penetrate its armor; Adkins recalled riding in Huosi’s Apache helicopter.
• The scouting team spotted the Velociraptor, and Charles ordered everyone to fall back while the Gatling guns took the front.
• The enormous Velociraptor emerged, and the students froze in fear at the sight of the heavily armored beast.

Charles’s squad was saved from a Velociraptor by Teacher Erwin and the Apache, which overwhelmed the beast and pursued it as it fled. The Apache crew fired an Anti-Beast Missile, and the Velociraptor died.

• Charles ordered the squad to fire the Gatling at the Velociraptor, but the bullets barely marked its scales.
• The Velociraptor charged, and Teacher Erwin appeared, scolded the students for abandoning the school’s Gatling, and called for the Apache.
• Siesta and Rhine piloted the Apache as it attacked the Velociraptor, whose fire spell failed to penetrate its defenses.
• The Velociraptor fled from the Apache, and the crew decided to use an Anti-Beast Missile.
• The Anti-Beast Missile struck the Velociraptor, killing it.

Three years after the Apache Helicopter demonstrated the Academy of Sciences’ power, Charles welcomed his father Saiwode and uncle David to Mingzhu City to discuss a business partnership with Huosi Academy. Saiwode learned that Lord Huosi would meet them and that Charles had recommended him for work establishing state-owned enterprises.

• Erwin explained that the Apache Helicopter was one of the Academy of Sciences’ aerospace achievements, prompting Charles to resolve to study science.
• Three years later, Saiwode and David arrived in Mingzhu City with the Otto Chamber of Commerce’s assets after Charles arranged a possible partnership with Huosi Academy.
• Charles picked them up in an ore-powered car and showed them the city’s technology and construction projects.
• At Xinrongji, Charles told Saiwode that he had met Lord Huosi, who respected scientists and would attend their meeting.
• Charles revealed that Lord Huosi planned to establish state-owned enterprises and that he had recommended Saiwode for a role, leaving Saiwode shocked that he had not been told sooner.

Bernas recruited Saiwode and his merchant association to help establish Xuanshen Military Industry Enterprise, and Xuanshen Island’s new businesses transformed commerce across the continent. The chapter ended with Emperor Aorji Linggeste confronting a severe tax shortfall caused by merchants and nobles spending their money on Xuanshen Island.

• Bernas showed Saiwode a document and persuaded him to join Xuanshen Island, invest thirty billion gold coins, and bring his association’s resources into Xuanshen Military Industry Enterprise.
• Huosi arrived, welcomed Saiwode into the island’s ranks, and learned from Bernas that twenty-five merchants had been recruited.
• Over the next six months, enterprises spread across the continent, selling consumer goods, entertainment, and weapons while boosting Xuanshen Island’s prosperity and research funding.
• Emperor Aorji Linggeste learned that the empire’s taxes had fallen to about half of the previous year’s total.
• The minister of finance explained that merchant associations had relocated to Xuanshen Island and nobles were spending heavily on its products, leaving the emperor furious.

Walker Ryan ordered Saiwode’s abduction so the Ryan Family could seize his business, believing they could evade Xuanshen Island’s rules. Saiwode was captured, but his hidden security camera sent footage of Walker’s incriminating words to Xuanshen Island’s headquarters, leaving the Ryan Family and Linggeste Empire exposed to consequences.

• The Ryan Family elders backed Walker’s plan to capture Saiwode and his steward, conceal their disappearance, and take over their business.
• Walker recalled how the family’s past aggression had nearly led to conflict with Bernas and Lord Huosi, but ordered the operation anyway.
• Saiwode heard signs of an attack at his branch office, recognized the likely assailants as Ryan Family members, and activated his hidden security cameras.
• Walker and his men entered the office, and Saiwode baited Walker into boasting that the Ryan Family did not fear Xuanshen Island or Lord Huosi.
• Walker ordered Saiwode taken away, but Saiwode’s camera transmitted the recording to Xuanshen Island’s headquarters.

After the Ryan Family insulted Huosi, he decided to destroy them and flew to their headquarters with Adkins and Bernas. They arrived as Walker tortured Saiwode, and Huosi's group demolished the estate, leaving Walker to face the god-level powerhouse in despair.

• A monitoring-room observer sent Adkins footage of the Ryan Family's defiant remarks about Xuanshen Island.
• Adkins showed the footage to Huosi, who ordered him to bring Bernas and declared that he would wipe out the Ryan Family if they refused to submit.
• Huosi explained that his strength had advanced enough for him to kill Lingester if necessary, and Adkins thanked him for taking action.
• Huosi, Adkins, and Bernas flew to Haide Province while Walker's enforcer tortured Saiwode in the Ryan Family basement.
• Walker dismissed Saiwode's warning that the Ryan Family would be annihilated, but Huosi's group destroyed the estate and appeared above the exposed basement.
• Walker recognized Huosi and realized the Ryan Family was in grave danger.

Adkins killed Ryan and reached the Saint Realm Limit, after which Huosi faced Lingester in a battle between gods. Huosi overwhelmed Lingester, broke his divine sword, and trapped him, declaring that a god would fall.

• Huosi sent Adkins to confront Ryan, who attacked with his spear but discovered Adkins had reached the Saint Realm Peak.
• Adkins severed Ryan's arm, then killed him by slitting his throat and decapitating him; afterward, Adkins reached the Saint Realm Limit.
• Lingester arrived and demanded that Huosi hand over Adkins and Bernas, but Huosi refused and challenged him to a fight to the death.
• Lingester attacked with his crimson sword, but Huosi endured the strikes, seized the blade, and snapped the divine weapon in half.
• Lingester tried to flee, but Huosi bound his legs and pulled him back, announcing that a god would fall.

After Huosi killed Lingester, Walker realized the Ryan Family was doomed and took his own life. The gods gathered at the Hall of Gods to discuss the fallout, and Alsop asked to accept refugees from the Linggeste Empire as Huosi took control of its territory.

• Walker remembered the elder's warning, understood the Ryan Family's defeat was inevitable, and killed himself.
• Salanna and Alsop met Huosi after Lingester's death and agreed that Lingester had brought his fate upon himself.
• Adkins and Bernas rescued Saiwode while Xuanshen Island prepared to deal with the remaining Ryan Family members.
• The gods gathered at the Hall of Gods and agreed to focus on the Linggeste Empire's future and the continent's stability.
• Alsop asked Huosi to let refugees from the Linggeste Empire settle in his empire so his people's faith in him would remain strong.

After Huosi defeated Lingester, Xuanshen Island took control of the fallen empire and began organizing the Interstellar Federation. The commoners gradually accepted the change in rulers, while Xuanshen Island prepared to establish its new capital and government.

• Huosi and Salanna agreed not to shelter the nobles fleeing the Lingester Empire, and the news of Lingester's death spread across the continent.
• Lingester's nobles fled toward neighboring empires, while the emperor remained behind and gave himself over to drunken indulgence.
• Chairman Bernas announced Xuanshen Island's plans to take over the empire, control its legions, replace its provincial leadership, and establish the Interstellar Federation with its capital at Thunder City.
• Bernas said the Academy of Sciences would stay on Xuanshen Island, which would remain the Federation's economic center.
• Xuanshen Island's forces took control of the empire with little resistance, maintained supplies for civilians, and left them unharmed.
• The commoners gradually accepted the new administration, and most decided to transfer their faith from Lingester to Huosi.

A century after the Interstellar Federation was established, Huosi oversaw the successful test of its first Super Nuclear Bomb and the Anti-Divine Domain Magnetic Field. With weapons that could threaten gods, Huosi prepared to push the Federation toward unifying the continent.

• The Federation reformed its military, redistributed land and resources, expanded education and transportation, and grew prosperous through mechanized agriculture and trade.
• Huosi ordered the detonation of the Federation's first nuclear bomb in the Sara Desert, and the blast produced a massive mushroom cloud.
• Huosi explained that the Super Nuclear Bomb could gravely wound a god and that, combined with the Dongfeng missile system, it could help him overcome the continent's other gods.
• Huosi and Adkins went to the Academy of Sciences to observe Bernas test the Anti-Divine Domain Magnetic Field on a J-20 fighter jet.
• The fighter jet resisted Huosi's Divine Domain and kept flying, confirming that the counteracting magnetic field worked.

Huosi summoned the continent’s god-level experts and proposed unification under the rule of the strongest, then challenged them all to fight him. When Pulixier attacked, Huosi revealed his Interstellar Battle Armor and met the Dragon God’s punch head-on.

• Huosi’s research stirred his resolve, and a huge explosion in the east spread rumors of a powerful Federation weapon.
• Huosi sent invitations to the continent’s god-level experts, calling them to the Hall of Gods to discuss unification.
• Alsop questioned Huosi’s motives and suspected he had gained a new advantage, but decided to attend the meeting.
• The gods gathered at the Hall of Gods, where Huosi appeared without being detected and declared that the strongest should rule the unified continent.
• Huosi challenged everyone to attack him together, and Pulixier struck first with a dragon claw that Huosi dismissed with an invisible barrier.
• Pulixier charged again, and Huosi summoned his Interstellar Battle Armor gauntlet to meet the Dragon God’s punch.

Huosi defeated Airlock and the other assembled Deities using his enhanced armor, soul defense, and speed, forcing them to submit. The Pope of Light refused to surrender and killed himself, calling on the Lord of Light to avenge him.

• Priscilla was stunned when Huosi's enhanced strength pierced his arm, and Airlock agreed that he would submit if Huosi defeated everyone together.
• Airlock and the others attacked Huosi, but his Interstellar Battle Armor absorbed their physical strikes and his defenses withstood Airlock's water dragon.
• The group launched soul attacks, but Huosi's Soul Defense Divine Artifact blocked them all.
• Huosi used the Speed Profound Mystery of the Laws of Wind to disarm Airlock, and Airlock and the others conceded defeat.
• The Pope of Light refused to surrender, declared his devotion to the Lord of Light, and struck his own forehead with his palm.

After the War of the Gods ended, Huosi brought Alsop and the other divine experts to the Academy of Sciences to show them how science had made him powerful. He sent Alsop to spar with Adkins, hinting that the Saint Realm fighter could challenge a Lowgod by countering the advantages of divine power.

• Huosi explained that the Federation’s unification of the continent was now unstoppable and told the divine experts that science was the source of his strength.
• Huosi led the group into the Academy of Sciences, where he showed them its Anti-Divine Domain System and underground research base.
• Huosi revealed that the Academy could mass-produce Soul Defense Divine Artifacts, prompting Airlock and Alsop to eagerly offer their service.
• Huosi introduced the Nuclear Power Research Institute and sent Alsop to spar with Adkins at the training grounds.
• Huosi explained that the Academy could neutralize Divine Domains, and Airlock realized Alsop might lose to the Saint Realm Adkins.

Alsop fought Adkins and was defeated by the weapons Huosi had developed, convincing the gods that a Saint Realm expert could challenge a god with the right equipment. In the 102nd year of the Federation, Huosi unified the Qingya Continent and established the God-Level Council to oversee its governance.

• Alsop met Adkins for a duel and discovered that Adkins’s armor and flight equipment let him withstand attacks and match a god’s speed.
• Adkins and Alsop exchanged attacks until Adkins launched two tracking missiles that destroyed most of Alsop’s body, forcing him to concede.
• Huosi and the observers watched the battle and saw that Adkins’s weapons could overcome a god’s advantages and win the gods’ confidence.
• In the 102nd year of the Federation, Huosi unified the Qingya Continent and established the God-Level Council, with himself as chief councilor and five other permanent members.
• The God-Level Council delegated everyday governance to the Federal Council and prohibited gods and Saint Realm experts from attacking ordinary people without cause.

Three years after the Federation stabilized, Huosi traveled to the Extreme Northern Ice Plains to study a teleportation magic array with Kaido. After a hundred years, Huosi claimed he had learned nothing, though he had found a promising direction and planned to continue his research.

• The Federation prospered as gods joined its laboratories, and Huosi began a new research project.
• Huosi met Kaido, who invited him to join the Reinass Clan, but Huosi declined.
• Huosi asked Kaido for permission to study the teleportation magic array, and Kaido allowed him to try.
• After a hundred years of research, Huosi told Kaido he could not understand the array, while privately resolving to continue his work.

Huosi struggled to develop spatial teleportation technology so he could gather resources from other Material Planes, but his experiments kept failing. At Adkins's godhood banquet, Adkins's offer to help gave Huosi the insight that teleportation required paired arrays, and Huosi rushed back to his laboratory.

• Huosi concluded that Material Planes replenished their resources slowly and decided to focus his remaining efforts on spatial teleportation technology.
• Huosi repeatedly experimented with teleportation arrays but failed to understand how they worked.
• Twenty years later, Adkins became a Lowgod with the light attribute, and Huosi attended his banquet while troubled by his research.
• Adkins offered to help Huosi, prompting Huosi to realize that teleportation arrays had to operate in pairs.
• Huosi recognized that the array he had studied was only one half of the system and returned to his laboratory to continue working.

Huosi opened a portal from the Magic Universe to the Bailun Plane and persuaded his god-level subordinates to swear eternal loyalty before announcing an expedition. As the Federation mobilized to conquer the new plane, a black-robed man on Bailun Mountain stroked a golden kitten who cursed Alikui'en for turning him into a cat.

• Huosi connected a portal to the Bailun Plane and summoned Adkins, Airlock, Salanna, Alsop, Pulixier, and Brent.
• Huosi demanded an Overgod oath from the gods before sharing his secret, and Airlock and the others swore loyalty to him.
• Huosi revealed his plan to use portals to bring other Material Planes under the Federation's control and ordered its first expeditionary army to depart in three months.
• The Federation mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops and sent reconnaissance units to investigate the Bailun Plane.
• Huosi's scouts reported that Bailun had two continents, a god-level expert on each, and a Lowgod Plane Guardian.
• At Chiyan Mountain on Bailun, a black-robed man stroked a golden kitten who cursed Alikui'en for turning him into a cat.