Chapter Summaries

Li Yue claimed first place in the Twin Star Deity Confrontation Gala and used the Golden Divine Throne to fuse two defensive Divine Techniques. The rankings and rewards were revealed, with Blue Star winning the contest and Li Yue receiving an exceptional first-place reward.

• Li Yue sat on the Golden Divine Throne, whose inscriptions greatly enhanced his comprehension, and began studying 'Sky-Filling Clouds and Mist' and 'Intermediate Light-Generating Method.'
• Shen Jinxiao challenged for second place, while the remaining Deities fought to determine the rankings.
• Su Limeng placed second and Chen Jinbei placed third, while Shen Jinxiao finished eleventh and Blue Star won the contest by more than eight hundred Great Sun Points.
• Li Yue fused 'Sky-Filling Clouds and Mist' with 'Intermediate Light-Generating Method,' creating a defense powerful enough to withstand attacks from a True Lord at the Eighth Order limit.
• Li Yue checked the ranking rewards and saw that his first-place prize included Blessing Talismans, War Body Divine Talismans, a Heavenly Monarch Artifact Embryo, a Time Divine Talisman, and Principal Ninth Rank Divine Law Fragments.

Li Yue opened the Great Sun Treasury and spent nearly all his Great Sun Points on treasures, including a future technique, a Divine Pen, Heavenly Insights, and a resource blessing. Back in his Divine Domain, he claimed his gala rewards and focused on the Heavenly Monarch Artifact Embryo and Time Divine Talisman.

• Li Yue inspected the Great Sun Treasury and saw its many powerful treasures and prices.
• Li Yue filtered the treasury for affordable items and chose the Power of the Future, a Divine Pen, two Words of Heavenly Secrets, and the Power of Heaven and Earth.
• Li Yue spent one thousand Great Sun Points, leaving him with thirty, then left as the gala ended and the divine seats crumbled into inscriptions across the cauldron walls.
• Li Yue returned to his Divine Domain and claimed his first-place gala rewards, fixing his attention on the Heavenly Monarch Artifact Embryo and Time Divine Talisman.

Li Yue examined his first-place rewards, including the Time Divine Talisman and a Heavenly Monarch Artifact Embryo, and shaped the embryo into a cauldron he named the Heavenly Monarch Cauldron. He then used one of his Words of Heavenly Secrets, eager to discover what secret it would reveal.

• Li Yue read that the Time Divine Talisman could let his Jurisdiction experience ten years in one month, greatly accelerating his Believers’ growth and the accumulation of Incense Wish Power.
• Li Yue decided to shape the Heavenly Monarch Artifact Embryo into a cauldron, and it formed into a bronze vessel bearing an ancient poem and mysterious inscriptions.
• Li Yue named the artifact the Heavenly Monarch Cauldron and planned to inscribe an offensive Fusion Divine Art on it after ascending to Subordinate Seventh Rank.
• Li Yue used one of his Words of Heavenly Secrets to learn what beneficial secret it would reveal.

Li Yue used the Words of Heavenly Secrets to discover a Ninth Order Candle-Illuminating Nine-Yin Grass and used the Divine Pen to punish Zhou Zihao for rape and murder. The Divine Pen’s sentence was carried out in Zhou Family Village, where Li Xiuqi announced the crime and punishment.

• The Words of Heavenly Secrets showed Li Yue a nearby mountain where a Ninth Order Candle-Illuminating Nine-Yin Grass grew.
• Li Yue scattered three thousand units of Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty fortune across his Jurisdiction and used the copy of Power of Heaven and Earth, hoping it would produce a valuable resource.
• Li Yue read Zhou Zihao’s crimes in the Land God Register and wrote a sentence of hanging and thirty years of torment before reincarnation as livestock.
• Li Yue gave the Divine Pen to Li Xiuqi and assigned Deng Jiu'e to supervise punishments.
• Zhou Zihao was lifted by an invisible noose as Li Xiuqi announced his crime and sentence to the shocked villagers of Zhou Family Village.

Li Yue judged Zhou Zihao for murdering Zhou Qi, prompting the villagers to fear divine retribution. He then sent two War Body Divine Talismans to Chen Ergou and Li Xiuling, whose new War Bodies manifested as Four Seas Town prepared for a much larger Grand Sacrifice.

• Li Yue's judgment revealed that Zhou Zihao had raped and murdered Zhou Qi, and the villagers of Zhou Family Village knelt in reverence and vowed to avoid wrongdoing.
• Li Yue reflected that divine judgment would deter evil and strengthen faith, then considered the demonic forces in Tianlin Prefecture and his plans to expand his Jurisdiction.
• Li Yue sent the two War Body Divine Talismans to Temple Guard leaders Chen Ergou and Li Xiuling.
• Li Youming warned the Temple Guard to prepare for the upcoming Grand Sacrifice, which he expected to draw at least two hundred thousand Believers and visitors from the prefecture city.
• Golden radiance burst from Chen Ergou and Li Xiuling, forming two visions in the sky as Li Youming waited to learn which War Bodies they had received.

Chen Ergou and Li Xiuling became the Hundred Calamity and Undying War Bodies, giving Four Seas Town three Human War Bodies. An old man discovered the new War Bodies were in Xuan County and plotted to claim Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty fortune, while Li Yue began advancing Four Seas Town into Four Seas County.

• Chen Ergou and Li Xiuling received the Hundred Calamity and Undying War Bodies and thanked Lord Zhangyue for his blessing.
• The War Body Bell revealed that the two new War Bodies were in Xuan County, and an old man suspected Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty fortune was behind their appearance.
• An Evil Specter presence briefly took over the old man and planned to investigate Four Seas Town, while the old man continued plotting to seize the fortune for himself.
• After half a month, Li Yue used Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty fortune to begin advancing Four Seas Town into Four Seas County, and a dragon's roar shook the skies.

A Cloud Dragon appeared over Four Seas Town as Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty’s lingering fortune promoted it to Four Seas County City. Li Yue prepared to advance as its County City God, then struck at two Demonic Creatures and the woman in red who had sent them.

• Li Youming recognized the Cloud Dragon as an auspicious sign that Four Seas Town would become a Fortune County City, with increased food production, cultivation speed, and lifespan for registered citizens.
• Chu Hongyi sent two middle-stage Sixth Order Human Race True Persons to seize Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty’s lingering fortune, and they transformed into Demonic Creatures as they charged toward Four Seas Town.
• Li Yue watched the Cloud Dragon land, and Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty’s imprint declared Four Seas Town promoted to Four Seas County City.
• Li Yue said he had enough Human Race Believers and divine power to advance to Subordinate Seventh Rank, then decided to deal with the intruders first.
• Li Yue shattered the demonic souls of the two Demonic Creatures and sent a towering hand toward Chu Hongyi.

Li Yue captured Chu Hongyi and revealed that her use of Evil Specter power would eventually corrupt her soul and will. He offered to send her into Reincarnation, where she would be born in Four Seas County and become his Believer, and she willingly entered the Reincarnation Abyss.

• An Eighth Order True Lord seized Chu Hongyi despite her resistance and brought her into his Jurisdiction.
• Chu Hongyi met Li Yue on Heavenly Ape Mountain and recognized him as a true deity.
• Li Yue told Chu Hongyi that Evil Specter power had tainted her soul and would corrupt her completely within twenty years.
• Chu Hongyi begged Li Yue to save her, and he offered to send her into Reincarnation so she could be born in Four Seas County and become his Believer.
• Chu Hongyi accepted, rapidly became a Grade A Believer, and stepped into the Reincarnation Abyss.

Li Yue gained Li Tianyuan, a Natural Holy Spirit who became his Subordinate Eighth Rank God, and prepared to advance to Subordinate Seventh Rank Divine Rank. Half a month later, the Grand Sacrifice began in Four Seas County as Li Yue’s advancement remained underway.

• Li Yue recognized Chu Hongyi as a Seventh Order Believer with the makings of a Saint-Grade Believer, whose past-life memories would awaken after reincarnation and the ten-year Mystery of the Womb.
• A golden ape emerged at Heavenly Ape Mountain as a Natural Holy Spirit with Sixth Order Limit strength, and Li Yue concealed the celestial phenomenon with his Jurisdiction.
• The devout ape knelt before Li Yue, who named him Li Tianyuan and appointed him Mountain God of Heavenly Ape Mountain at Subordinate Eighth Rank Divine Rank.
• Li Yue ordered Li Tianyuan to remain within his Jurisdiction, then returned to the Divine Domain and resolved to advance to Subordinate Seventh Rank Divine Rank.
• Li Yue began his advancement using two million two hundred and fifty thousand units of divine power, and half a month later the Grand Sacrifice commenced in Four Seas County with believers and Prefecture City experts arriving.

Five representatives of the Human Race’s hidden factions visited Four Seas County City to assess Lord Zhangyue and presented a Sixth-Tier offering for the Grand Sacrifice. As the ceremony began before nearly two hundred thousand believers, six Deities appeared in the sky.

• Lu Yong and four other faction disciples arrived at Four Seas County City and recognized it as a rare Fortune County City.
• Li Youming lamented that he had found only one Fifth-Tier offering for the Grand Sacrifice.
• Lu Yong presented Li Youming with a Sixth-Tier emerald leaf on behalf of the Floating Cloud Organization, and Li Youming invited the five to watch the ceremony.
• He Yuanming escorted the visitors to the viewing area as nearly two hundred thousand believers gathered before Land Spirit Temple.
• Li Youming announced the start of the second Grand Sacrifice of the year, and six Deities appeared in the sky.

Lu Yong and the other Floating Cloud Organization members witnessed the Deities gathered above Four Seas County City, while Li Youming urged the city’s people to worship Lord Zhangyue sincerely. As humans, demons, ghosts, and gods bowed together, the city’s fortune manifested—then an observer outside the city was left questioning whether Deities could truly exist.

• Lu Yong and four others saw six Deities suspended above the city and recognized Li Tianyuan as the most powerful among them.
• Li Youming told two hundred thousand Believers that Lord Zhangyue protected the city and that sincere worship could earn Divine Grace and even godhood.
• Li Youming, the city’s people, mountain spirits, Subordinate Gods, and Lu Yong bowed toward the Land Spirit Temple.
• Humans, demons, Yin Soldiers, Ghost Messengers, and Deities released four colored auras as Heavenly Law inscriptions appeared across Four Seas County City.
• A farmer’s wife outside the city watched the spectacle in shock and wondered how real Deities could exist.

During the Grand Sacrifice in Four Seas County, Li Yue received a ninth-tier Ten-Thousand-Year Bodhi Jade Leaf through hundredfold amplification. He noticed a powerful scholar entering his Jurisdiction from Guobei County, devouring a female ghost.

• Li Youming led the believers in worshiping Lord Zhangyue as incense strengthened Four Seas County and its inscriptions.
• A farmwife possessed by a Black God Society member grew greedy for the Deities, while Li Yue detected him and planned to target his true body.
• Li Yue assessed his divine power and second Principal Eighth Rank Fusion Divine Art as his Metamorphosis toward Subordinate Seventh Rank Divine Rank continued.
• The believers completed a Grand Sacrifice, and Li Yue amplified their sixth-tier Millennium Bodhi Leaf into a ninth-tier Ten-Thousand-Year Bodhi Jade Leaf.
• Li Yue spotted a scholar carrying immense fortune power entering from Guobei County and devouring a female ghost pulled from a purple-black gourd.

Li Yue sold the Ten-Thousand-Year Bodhi Jade Leaf for divine power, then used the Grand Sacrifice to heal devout believers across his jurisdiction. The display of Divine Might drew Zhong Jin toward Four Seas County, where he intended to ask Li Yue how to become a deity.

• Li Yue discovered that Zhong Jin had great fortune and could eat ghosts to strengthen his cultivation.
• Li Yue sold the Ten-Thousand-Year Bodhi Jade Leaf to the Deity Shop for 5,300,000 strands of divine power, bringing his total to 7,700,000.
• Li Yue used the Grand Sacrifice to heal illnesses and restore disabilities among devout believers throughout his jurisdiction.
• A possessed peasant woman feared that Lord Zhangyue's Divine Might could destroy her if her possession were discovered.
• Zhong Jin recognized the golden radiance as a deity's power and headed for Four Seas County to pay his respects and seek a way to become a god.

Li Yue used Blessing Talismans to rapidly strengthen thousands of Believers in Four Seas County, helping Li Xiuwu advance into an Ascension King Body. That night, Zhong Jin knelt before the Land Spirit Temple and asked the Deity to grant him the path to godhood.

• Li Yue bought thousands of Blessing Talismans through Regional Trading and sent them to the Land Spirit Temple.
• Three thousand ordinary Grade B Believers became mid-level first-tier Martial Artists, while higher-tier Believers received stronger blessings.
• The fifth-tier Blessing Talisman transformed Li Xiuwu's Ascension War Body into an Ascension King Body, astonishing Lu Yong and inspiring faith in Lord Zhangyue.
• Four Spirit Field Divine Talismans expanded Four Seas County's Grade C Spirit Fields to ten mu, and the Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty's remaining fortune strengthened the Believers.
• Zhong Jin knelt before the Land Spirit Temple and asked the Revered Deity to grant him godhood, while Li Youming sensed his strange aura and Sixth-Order True Human cultivation.

Li Yue considered Zhong Jin’s potential as a devout believer, while the Bee Queen anxiously asked when she would become a Deity. Half a month later, Li Yue ascended from Orthodox Land God to Orthodox City God, transforming the Land Spirit Temple into a vast City God Temple.

• Li Yue told Zhong Jin that people who devoutly believed in him could become Deities, and Zhong Jin promised to return and worship after completing an important task.
• Li Youming reflected on Zhong Jin’s iron will, then met the Bee Queen, who asked when she could become a Deity.
• Li Youming advised the Bee Queen to work harder and strengthen her devotion, so she returned to Bee Spirit Valley and urged the worker bees to gather honey faster.
• Half a month later, Li Yue opened his eyes as thunder and dark clouds threatened Four Seas County, but his divine radiance destroyed them.
• Li Youming saw that the Land Spirit Temple had become a vast City God Temple and congratulated Lord Zhangyue on ascending to the rank of City God.

Li Yue ascended to the Orthodox City God rank, reaching King-class strength and expanding his jurisdiction across twenty counties. He planned to establish the Twelve Departments and subordinate gods, then transform the Underworld Dharma Domain into an Underworld City God Temple.

• Li Yue’s ascension raised his strength to the middle of the Ninth Order, and he considered himself among the strongest beings in the Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty’s territory.
• His jurisdiction expanded to twenty counties, covering ten million qing and a population of more than 6.2 million, while his daily divine power income reached about 810 units.
• Li Yue emerged in the City God Temple and saw that his vestments and register had transformed, while he had gained a Book of Life and Death for appointed Judges.
• Li Yue decided to staff the Twelve Departments with subordinate gods and appoint Mountain Gods and River Gods to strengthen his authority over the counties.
• Li Yue entered the Underworld Dharma Domain and planned to upgrade it into a City God Temple for the Underworld.

Li Yue expanded his Underworld Dharma Domain and built the City God Mansion as the foundation for his Twelve Departments. After assigning three Land Gods to temporary posts, he sensed an aura from another world beneath a mountain peak and suspected an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon was within his jurisdiction.

• Li Yue noted that he had 7.71 million units of divine power and needed 22.5 million to reach the Principal Seventh Rank Divine Tier.
• Li Yue expanded the Underworld Dharma Domain and built the City God Mansion, with palaces, a moat, and a city gate for souls to enter before judgment and reincarnation.
• Li Yue ordered Deng Jiu'e, Li Xiuqi, and Zhang Ronggui to serve temporarily in the Merit and Fault Department, the Sin and Evil Department, and the Blessings Department.
• Li Yue sensed an unfamiliar aura beneath a Heavenly Gate-like mountain peak and suspected it belonged to an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon.

Li Yue discovered a Ninth-Tier Item hidden beneath a mountain and fought off its powerful guardian phantom. After collecting the coffin and two Eighth-Tier Items, he returned to the Divine Domain and turned his attention to strengthening Li Youming.

• Li Yue used his Orthodox God Heavenly Eye to find a jade-green coffin beneath the mountain and shattered the blood-dripping spear it sent at him.
• A voice from the coffin claimed to be a Ninth-Order King, but panicked when Li Yue severed its hand with a beam of light.
• The coffin released a woman's phantom, which attacked Li Yue with a dragon of petals, but he shattered the attack and trapped the phantom and coffin in Ice Hell.
• The woman's phantom vanished, while the coffin warned that its true body would return within ten years before Ice Hell destroyed it.
• Li Yue collected the Ninth-Tier Item and two Eighth-Tier Items, returned to the Divine Domain, and looked toward Li Youming to strengthen him.

After becoming a City God, Li Yue formed the Samsara Grinding Disc and empowered his followers, then accepted a quest to visit the God-Fallen Heavenly Road and identify an enemy of the Divine Path. He set out for the road, confident he could complete the quest.

• Li Yue formed the Samsara Grinding Disc within his Divine Domain and noted that it could only be used there.
• The Temple Keeper Hall discussed how to mark Li Yue's elevation to City God, but Li Yue instructed Li Youming to govern his Jurisdiction and granted him power.
• Li Youming rose to the Sixth-Order Limit, the four Chief Priests reached Sixth-Order Middle, and other followers advanced to the Sixth Order through the Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty's remaining fortune.
• Li Yue received a quest to travel to the God-Fallen Heavenly Road and learn the name of at least one enemy of the Divine Path.
• Li Yue accepted the quest and headed for the God-Fallen Heavenly Road.

Li Yue encountered Tang Xiang and his daughter Tang Ting in 96 God Village, where Deity Descendants were persecuted and their divine bloodlines severed. He revealed himself as a Deity and promised to restore their paths, leaving the father and daughter as his Grade B Believers.

• Tang Ting asked Tang Xiang why the Deity Descendants were treated as the lowest of the low, and he explained that others feared their bloodlines might awaken.
• Tang Ting spotted Li Yue beneath an old tree, and Tang Xiang noticed his Incomplete Divine Eye react to the stranger.
• Li Yue learned that the village's Deity Descendants had severed divinity and told Tang Xiang and Tang Ting that he was a Deity from the outside world.
• Tang Xiang and Tang Ting knelt and chose to believe in Li Yue, who accepted them as Grade B Believers and sent divine radiance toward them.