Chapter Summaries

Wang Yun mistook Zhao Cheng’s appearance for the soul of her dead friend and imagined a heroic journey to restore him, but Zhao Cheng interrupted to explain that he was still alive. Her intense emotional upheaval began to awaken her to the strange nature of the Void.

• Wang Yun reflected on her long friendship with Zhao Cheng and how their different ambitions had kept them from becoming partners.
• After surviving a deadly crisis and seeing Zhao Cheng appear, Wang Yun imagined he had died protecting her and that she would restore his body and defeat their enemy.
• Wang Yun began crying as her romantic fantasies grew increasingly elaborate.
• Zhao Cheng pulled Wang Yun to her feet, erased her injuries, and told her he was alive rather than a Guardian Spirit.
• Zhao Cheng let Wang Yun’s emotions run their course because her intense reactions in the Void were triggering her awakening.

Wang Yun awakened the hidden Dao Child Sequence after Zhao Cheng rescued her in a void realm and asked her to deliver a warning to Sage Yellow Heaven. She returned to Earth and encountered Yellow Heaven Daoist, leaving her unsure whether she was awake or still dreaming.

• Zhao Cheng’s fading incarnation helped Wang Yun remove her void talent and awaken the hidden Dao Child Sequence.
• Zhao Cheng told Wang Yun that more than ten years had passed for him and asked her to tell Sage Yellow Heaven not to interfere too much with Earthlings.
• Zhao Cheng vanished as the foreign realm collapsed, and Wang Yun awoke on a bus with her Panel still present.
• Wang Yun wondered whether her experience was a layered dream and recalled that Earth had crossed into the world of Seize the Dragon.
• Wang Yun got off the bus and saw Sage Yellow Heaven Daoist smiling at her.

The Yellow Heaven Saint examined Wang Yun’s karmic ties and reflected on how Zhao Cheng’s choices had enabled the New Heaven’s rise. After sensing Zhao Cheng’s brief appearance, the Saint invited Wang Yun to talk, leaving her bewildered by how far her expected awakening story had veered off course.

• The Yellow Heaven Saint studied Wang Yun’s karma and considered how his rank had risen alongside Zhao Cheng and the New Heaven.
• The Saint realized Zhao Cheng came from a world beyond heaven and earth and had reversed the light of the cosmos.
• The Yellow Heaven Saint explained that he had come to investigate Zhao Cheng’s brief appearance, not Wang Yun’s awakening.
• The Saint invited Wang Yun to talk, and she followed him across the meadow toward the lake.
• Wang Yun wondered why her story had skipped the expected awakening, danger, and rise to fame, and questioned Zhao Cheng’s connection to the Yellow Heaven Daoist.

Wang Yun told Yellow Heaven Saint that Zhao Cheng had rescued her and warned him not to interfere too much, and the Saint explained the Dao Child Sequence and its potential. He left her with the understanding that Zhao Cheng had moved beyond her reach, and Wang Yun was left grieving their lost chance.

• Wang Yun told Yellow Heaven Saint that Zhao Cheng had vanished after arriving in New Heaven World, then rescued her in a different-dimensional space and sent him a warning.
• Yellow Heaven Saint accepted Zhao Cheng's message and explained why he had sheltered Earth Civilization despite his suspicions about its sudden arrival and the awakened Earthlings.
• Yellow Heaven Saint described the nature of Sequences and explained that Wang Yun's Dao Child Sequence had extraordinary potential but demanded exploration and effort.
• Wang Yun learned that Dao Children could develop powerful abilities and traits, though their choices could lead to vastly different outcomes.
• Wang Yun asked Yellow Heaven Saint where Zhao Cheng was, and he told her that she already knew the answer and had to move forward.
• Yellow Heaven Saint departed, leaving Wang Yun to recall their old jokes and realize that Zhao Cheng had moved beyond her.

Lu Xun returned to Feather City and considered the New Dynasty’s challenges, including its large army and the need to develop the nation. He entered the city as an honored Otherworlder, reflecting on how the court’s provisions solved the hardships he had faced after crossing into this world.

• Lu Xun arrived at Feather City and observed elite soldiers inspecting people at the gates.
• Lu Xun considered how the New Dynasty could reduce its army by turning soldiers into workers and using military strength to expand trade.
• Lu Xun’s carriage entered through a side gate without inspection because he was an Otherworlder summoned by the Heaven-Answering Emperor.
• Lu Xun recalled that the court gave Otherworlders travel, food, lodging, and one thousand Merit Points to address their lack of identity and money.
• Lu Xun remembered surviving by carrying loads at the docks after crossing into the world, unlike his former life as a minor general.

Lu Xun traveled to the Divine Capital with an army escort and reunited with Gao Shou, who recounted the dangers he had faced after transmigrating without an identity. The two discussed their plans in the New Dynasty and wondered what Zhao Cheng would make of their deaths in the real world.

• Lu Xun arrived in Feather City and waited with other transmigrators until more than a hundred people could travel safely to the Divine Capital under military escort.
• After nearly a month on the road, Lu Xun reached the Divine Capital and reunited with Gao Shou, relieved that his friend had survived the journey.
• Gao Shou told Lu Xun that he had nearly been abducted by bandits before authorities suppressed them, and complained that transmigrating had erased his identity and military achievements.
• Lu Xun and Gao Shou worried that Zhao Cheng might misunderstand their sudden deaths, then imagined how the three friends could have worked together in the New Dynasty.
• Lu Xun reasoned that the Heaven-Answering Emperor had summoned the transmigrators to use their education to speed the New Dynasty’s development, and said Zhao Cheng might thrive in this world.

Gao Shou and Lu Xun discussed how a person’s fortunes depended on the era and reflected on Zhao Cheng’s ten years of pastoral living, which had strengthened his resolve and knowledge. They wondered what Zhao Cheng might have achieved in a more turbulent age, until Lu Xun pointed out that the realm already bore the Zhao surname.

• Gao Shou and Lu Xun discussed how prosperity could suppress people with the potential to become hidden dragons.
• Gao Shou argued that Zhao Cheng’s ten years of deliberate, contented pastoral living had forged an unusually powerful mind.
• Gao Shou and Lu Xun recalled Zhao Cheng’s wide reading and the growing spiritual force they sensed in him.
• Lu Xun noticed that the realm already had the surname Zhao.

Lu Xun and Gao Shou reunited in Divine Capital, reminisced about their families and homeland, and saw that Great New had begun to prosper after the war. They then met Han Jinyue, who was surprised to learn they had all transmigrated, and Lu Xun lamented that Zhao Cheng had not joined them in restoring the New House.

• Lu Xun and Gao Shou drank together, spoke of their families, and cried over the losses and worries they had kept inside before sleeping through the night.
• The next day, Lu Xun and Gao Shou toured Divine Capital and saw signs of Great New's growing light industry and renewed prosperity.
• Lu Xun and Gao Shou learned that the empress had arrived in Divine Capital while the Heaven-Answering Emperor remained in seclusion and the cabinet governed.
• At the posthouse, Lu Xun and Gao Shou unexpectedly met Han Jinyue, who discovered that both men had transmigrated too.
• Lu Xun said he wished Zhao Cheng had also transmigrated so the three could restore the New House, prompting Han Jinyue to recall historical attempts to restore Han.

Lu Xun, Gao Shou, and Han Jinyue reunited over tea and discussed Zhao Cheng’s transformation, their experiences in the game, and the paths they had chosen. Han Jinyue learned that Lu Xun planned to pursue martial cultivation after meeting the legendary Gu Daotian.

• Lu Xun and Gao Shou arranged a tea feast to welcome Han Jinyue, who wondered whether Zhao Cheng had once been a player.
• Lu Xun explained that Zhao Cheng’s change likely followed his avalanche ordeal and described cultivation as strengthening the mind through practice.
• Han Jinyue agreed that facing death could bring great realization and recalled how surviving a furnace explosion had advanced her Daoist arts.
• Han Jinyue recognized that Lu Xun had the potential to enter the Dao through martial arts, but Lu Xun said he intended to refine astral force instead.
• Lu Xun revealed that an extraordinary person had told him about martial Divine Transformation and twenty-zhang martial true astral force.
• Han Jinyue identified that person as Gu Daotian and recalled his legendary battle with the Heaven-Answering Emperor.

Lu Xun, Han Jinyue, and Gao Shou compared their unusual paths and debated whether they had been chosen to save the world before discussing their plans in the Great New. Elsewhere, Liu Guangzheng enjoyed his island refuge, while Fan Qingmeng appeared before Han Jinyue and identified traces of a past-life bond with a Heavenly Demon.

• Lu Xun, Han Jinyue, and Gao Shou shared how they had gained their respective literary, martial, and Daoist opportunities.
• Gao Shou suggested the three transmigrators might be destined to unite Heaven and Earth, but Lu Xun rejected the idea that they had been sent to save the world.
• Gao Shou advised Han Jinyue to pursue court-backed scientific work for a chance at Human Immortalhood and urged Lu Xun to seek martial advancement through the army.
• Liu Guangzheng relaxed on his newly established island city and wondered how the Daoists he had left behind were faring.
• Fan Qingmeng appeared in Han Jinyue's room and said Han Jinyue had traces of a past-life karmic bond with a Heavenly Demon.

Fan Qingmeng investigated Han Jinyue after tracing her karma to the source of the Heaven Demons. She used her Dao art to probe Han Jinyue, leaving her caught in Fan Qingmeng’s terrifying gaze.

• Fan Qingmeng reflected on the persecution of Daoists and explained why her power let her enter Divine Capital despite the court’s suppression.
• Fan Qingmeng investigated the Otherworlders, suspecting their arrival after Great New unified the realm was tied to a greater mission.
• Fan Qingmeng noticed Han Jinyue because she was an Otherworlder who cultivated the Yellow Heaven Great Method.
• Fan Qingmeng traced Han Jinyue’s completed karma to the source of the Heaven Demons and realized the connection might reveal their weakness.
• Fan Qingmeng used her Dao art to examine Han Jinyue, who fell under its influence and met the terror within Fan Qingmeng’s eyes.

Fan Qingmeng's attempt to take something from Han Jinyue triggered Great New's national fortune and drew Zhang Huang'er’s intervention. The next morning, Zhang Huang'er summoned Han Jinyue and revealed that she remembered their past relationship.

• Fan Qingmeng's Dao art drew a response from Great New's fortune, and Zhang Huang'er’s authority disrupted the attack and drove Fan Qingmeng away.
• Han Jinyue examined herself but found nothing wrong, then spent the night unsettled by the difference between her path and Zhang Huang'er's.
• The next morning, palace guards delivered Zhang Huang'er's decree summoning Han Jinyue for an audience.
• Han Jinyue traveled to Zhang Huang'er's residence and found her sewing clothes for Zhao Cheng.
• Zhang Huang'er greeted Han Jinyue as “Little Yue” and explained that she remembered their past and had learned Fan Qingmeng secretly attacked her.

Zhang Huang'er used a ritual tied to the nation's fortune to cleanse Han Jinyue of any hidden influence from Fan Qingmeng and protect her in the Divine Capital. Afterward, the two discussed the game world and Han Jinyue's homeland, leaving Zhang Huang'er wistful about the free romance she had never experienced.

• Zhang Huang'er explained that the five-colored earth, jade, and imperial edict would use the nation's fortune to protect Han Jinyue from Fan Qingmeng's influence.
• The nation's fortune washed over Han Jinyue, cleansing her body, spirit, and cultivation without advancing her realm.
• Zhang Huang'er said Fan Qingmeng would not dare approach Han Jinyue in the Divine Capital and regretted that Zhao Cheng's seclusion had allowed the demoness to escape.
• Han Jinyue wondered about the secret she carried and spoke with Zhang Huang'er about the game world and their homeland.
• Zhang Huang'er listened to Han Jinyue's stories about romance in her homeland and lamented that she could not travel through time to experience it herself.

After settling into the residence Zhang Huang'er gave her, Han Jinyue wondered at Zhang Huang'er's strange envy and resolved to focus on cultivation. That evening, an armored messenger arrived with Zhao Cheng's oral decree, summoning Lu Xun and Gao Shou to the palace and leaving Han Jinyue alone beneath the waning moon.

• Han Jinyue suspected something was wrong with Zhang Huang'er's emotions, then decided the mysteries around her had nothing to do with her pursuit of immortality.
• Han Jinyue settled into Zhang Huang'er's residence and invited Gao Shou and Lu Xun over, where they celebrated with a banquet.
• A servant announced that an imposing carriage from the palace had arrived, leading Han Jinyue, Gao Shou, and Lu Xun to assume Zhang Huang'er had come.
• An armored messenger entered and said Zhao Cheng had sent an oral command inviting Lu Xun and Gao Shou to the palace.
• Lu Xun and Gao Shou left in the carriage, while Han Jinyue remained in the courtyard, gazing at the waning moon.

Lu Xun and Gao Shou worried over why Zhao Cheng had summoned them, then joked their way through the journey to the palace. Meanwhile, the court debated whether Great New should accept the grasslands’ offer to become a tributary state, leaving Zhao Cheng with the decision.

• Lu Xun and Gao Shou feared that Zhao Cheng’s decree to summon them might mean their old friendship had changed and wondered if they could take back the idea of becoming kings.
• Lu Xun and Gao Shou traded jokes about dramatic comeback stories to ease their anxiety as the carriage entered the imperial palace.
• The warrior driving the carriage overheard their conversation and suddenly understood the appeal of returning home in glory after hardship.
• Zhao Xiang and all eleven members of the Grand Secretariat met to discuss Great New’s affairs while Zhao Cheng remained occupied.
• The court split between advocating war and peace over the grasslands’ offer to submit to Great New and pay tribute.

Zhao Cheng decided Great New would wage a forceful campaign against the grasslands to secure trade routes, then entrusted the effort to Lin Yi and Li Tonghai. After leaving the cabinet, he reunited with Lu Xun and Gao Shou, who began pledging themselves to him.

• Zhao Cheng heard the cabinet debate whether Great New should attack the grasslands and argued that military force was necessary to establish profitable trade.
• Zhao Cheng assigned Lin Yi and Li Tonghai responsibility for the grasslands and trade, allowing them to recruit otherworlders for merchant caravans.
• Zhao Cheng left Zhao Xiang in charge of the cabinet while he returned to his efforts to stop the Heavenly Demon.
• Zhao Cheng encountered Lu Xun and Gao Shou in the palace and greeted them as old friends.
• Lu Xun began offering his service to Zhao Cheng, and Gao Shou stepped forward to call him Foster Father.

Zhao Cheng, Lu Xun, and Gao Shou bonded over their transmigration and reincarnation, while palace attendants noticed the two men walking beside Zhao Cheng and anticipated the resulting rumors. Zhao Cheng explained that he had awakened his memories on the brink of death and survived by killing Wu Yuan and taking his Heavenly Mandate.

• Zhao Cheng's joke about adopted sons eased the distance between him, Lu Xun, and Gao Shou.
• As the three walked through the palace together, attendants were shocked to see Lu Xun and Gao Shou walking abreast with Zhao Cheng.
• Zhao Cheng told Lu Xun and Gao Shou that he had arrived in the world over twenty years earlier and been reborn after time stripped away the power meant to shape his body.
• Zhao Cheng explained that he had awakened his memories after the defeat in the Southern Wasteland, when he was between life and death.
• Zhao Cheng recalled that he had faced a deadly tribulation in the Chain Mountains and survived by killing Wu Yuan and seizing his Heavenly Mandate.

Zhao Cheng told Lu Xun and Gao Shou how his transmigration connected the world to the Seize the Dragon anime, then revealed that all of Earth had crossed into New Heaven and that their families were safe. He made his old friends marquises, while Han Jinyue received news of their sudden rise and wondered what Zhang Huang'er knew about the past.

• Zhao Cheng explained to Lu Xun and Gao Shou that his Daoist body had closed the loop between cause and effect, linking this world's history to the Seize the Dragon anime.
• Zhao Cheng shared wine with Lu Xun and Gao Shou, and Gao Shou recalled their old grudge against Gu Ping while they avoided discussing Han Jinyue.
• Zhao Cheng revealed that Earth had arrived in New Heaven and that he had placed their families under the Yellow Heaven Saint's care.
• Zhao Cheng told Lu Xun and Gao Shou he would grant them marquisates, and the next morning his decree named Lu Xun Marquis Shenwu and Gao Shou Marquis Shengyan.
• Han Jinyue heard that Lu Xun and Gao Shou had become marquises and wondered whether Zhang Huang'er knew something about their past.

After Zhao Cheng granted marquisates to two commoners, Li Tonghai explained to his young son Li Bin how personal ties and imperial favor shaped rank and survival at court. Li Bin understood the grants as a reassurance to the ministers, but wondered what the titles Divine Martial and Sacred Edict concealed.

• Li Tonghai learned that Zhao Cheng had directly issued an edict making two commoners marquises and questioned the decision’s fairness.
• Li Bin asked whether the grants would chill the hearts of ministers who had earned their ranks through service.
• Li Tonghai taught Li Bin that personal bonds with the emperor mattered more than merit, and cited Wang Tianxian and He Pinggui as examples.
• Li Tonghai explained that the marquisates showed Zhao Cheng remembered old ties and reassured ministers that their families might be spared if they made mistakes.
• Li Bin grasped how the grants fulfilled a promise and calmed the court, then wondered about the meaning of the titles Divine Martial and Sacred Edict.

Li Tonghai considered the risks and promise of Zhao Cheng’s plan to open foreign trade, while Lin Yi and Lu Xun campaigned against the grassland barbarians. Their victory opened the first trade route, though the chapter ended with further wars still ahead.

• Li Tonghai weighed the danger of commerce and planned a gradual opening of foreign trade, relying on Lin Yi to help secure the routes.
• Li Tonghai and Lin Yi both hoped that success in the campaign would earn them the title of king.
• In the spring of the eleventh year of Heaven-Answering Kingdom, Lin Yi led a two-million-strong army north with Divine Martial Marquis Lu Xun as Chief Banner.
• In the autumn, the army broke the barbarian royal court; Lu Xun defeated five thousand soldiers with three hundred men and captured the Thirteenth Prince alive.
• That winter, the court established Northern Wasteland Market, opened its first trade route, and supported weaker grassland tribes with puppet rulers.