Chapter Summaries

Lu Xingshi entered Yun Mu’s Ghost Domain as the Destiny Ghost swallowed Ganzhou, then fought the Great Life Masters who attacked him and killed them for their blood. After defeating the fleeing Fate Masters, he faced Yun Mu and sought to capture it alive as material for his advancement.

• Yun Mu covered Ganzhou with its Ghost Domain, and Lu Xingshi realized the gap between it and the Forget-Worry Grass Life Ghost was immense.
• Tong You and the other Great Life Masters attacked Lu Xingshi, but he tore open Yun Mu’s Ghost Domain and killed or wounded most of them.
• Lu Xingshi used the Fate Masters’ blood to form his Eighteen Levels of Hell Diagram as the survivors fled.
• Yun Mu attacked the Great Life Masters, but Lu Xingshi shattered its skirts and wounded it, saving them briefly.
• Tong You tried to surrender, but Lu Xingshi killed him and absorbed his blood into the Fate Diagram; he then slaughtered the fleeing Fate Masters.
• Yun Mu sensed the strange power within Lu Xingshi, and Lu Xingshi moved to overpower it and capture it alive for his advancement.

Lu Xingshi forced Yun Mu into submission, then fought a Federation God Chosen who had come to reclaim the Destiny Ghost. The God Chosen fled after escalating his transformations, and Lu Xingshi realized the Federation’s use of Baleful-Intent Rank Destiny Ghosts was more complicated than he had thought.

• Lu Xingshi battered Yun Mu and threatened to kill it until Yun Mu agreed to serve him.
• A Burly Man from the Federation arrived and demanded that Lu Xingshi return Yun Mu, refusing to explain its value.
• The Burly Man transformed into a God Chosen and attacked Lu Xingshi, but Lu Xingshi overpowered him.
• The Burly Man activated Type Two and Type Three, then fled as Lu Xingshi’s Starving Ghost Curse took hold.
• Lu Xingshi concluded that the Federation’s relationship with Baleful-Intent Rank Destiny Ghosts was more complicated than he had expected.

Zeng Hu survived Lu Xingshi’s attack but was infected by the Starving Ghost Curse and realized he had little time to warn the Federation. He made Zheng Zhu his disciple and sent him to Jing Prefecture with a marked skull bone, while Lu Xingshi found Zeng Hu’s corpse and inferred that the boy had escaped with the message.

• Zeng Hu identified Lu Xingshi as an unfamiliar God Chosen of at least Type Four and discovered the Starving Ghost Curse was consuming him.
• Zeng Hu met the frightened boy Zheng Zhu, made him his disciple, and entrusted him with a marked piece of skull bone to take to Jing Prefecture.
• Zeng Hu warned Zheng Zhu to keep the matter secret and leave at once, then died as the curse consumed his body.
• Lu Xingshi found Zeng Hu’s dried corpse and deduced that an ordinary young boy had taken the skull bone and message.
• Lu Xingshi decided to change locations because he suspected the Federation had stronger God Chosen.

Lu Xingshi consumed Yun Mu, advanced to a Baleful-Intent Rank Great Life Master, and began planning how to develop his Fate Codex and access God Chosen research. He sensed that a Fate Master was altering timelines, while the Fate Organization’s leader independently discovered a disturbance in his own future.

• Lu Xingshi learned that the Federation had raised Yun Mu in exchange for a monthly quota of skirt hems, then fed it to the Eighteen Levels of Hell Diagram and advanced to a Baleful-Intent Rank Great Life Master.
• Lu Xingshi found that his Fate Pattern had fused into his body and become a Ghost Domain, and he considered using the Fate Codex and God Chosen research to support his future advancement.
• Lu Xingshi began searching for an isolated, high-achieving orphan whose legal identity could let him join Federation research projects, while he started revising the Fate Codex.
• Lu Xingshi sensed an invisible alteration in the timeline and realized that a Fate Master was interfering with it, though his current abilities could not reveal the cause.
• The Fate Organization’s leader noticed that his Book of the Future was lagging and concluded that something was wrong with the timeline.

Lu Xingshi rejected the village chief’s attempt to buy Cao Wan’s academy admission and searched for a way to fund his journey to Jing Prefecture. Meanwhile, Zheng Zhu traveled there by plane, his ambition growing as he drew attention for his pure eyes.

• The village chief offered Lu Xingshi a thousand Federal Currency to take the academy exam and give his grandson the acceptance, but Lu demanded ten thousand and the village chief refused.
• Lu Xingshi found only forty-five Federal Currency and sixty cents at Cao Wan’s home, then decided to use Federation Welfare Tickets to raise the money for travel and tuition.
• Lu Xingshi sensed daily timeline fluctuations caused by a powerful, influential person who could alter the world’s future.
• Zheng Zhu reached a city with Zeng Hu and, after his luck seemed to improve, boarded a plane to Jing Prefecture instead of begging his way there.
• Zheng Zhu resolved to become a Fate Master and God Chosen, and a fellow traveler asked to take a photo with him because of his pure eyes.

Lu Xingshi left for Jing Prefecture after exams, evading the village chief who wanted to take Cao Wan back to the village. At the station, he discovered the Gold Bracelet he had taken from the village chief was ancient summoning equipment, then boarded his train.

• Lu Xingshi lured a street thug into an alley, where a Grievance-level Destiny Ghost killed him, and Fate Organization personnel later closed the case.
• Lu Xingshi bought a ticket to Jing Prefecture and gathered food and supplies for the journey.
• The village chief tried to persuade Lu Xingshi to return to the village, but Lu Xingshi denied being Cao and ran into the station.
• After Lu Xingshi escaped, the village chief realized his ancestral Gold Bracelet was missing and assumed he had dropped it.
• Lu Xingshi examined the Gold Bracelet and recognized it as weakened summoning equipment from the Da Ci Dynasty Era.
• Lu Xingshi hid the bracelet and boarded the train from Xi Prefecture to Jing Prefecture.

Lu Xingshi enrolled at Jing Prefecture Federation Academy, completed his Great Vow Sutra, and began researching a Gold Bracelet while ignoring the Destiny Ghosts around him. When a Grievance-level Destiny Ghost entered his dormitory, he fled and shouted for help, forcing it to retreat.

• Lu Xingshi arrived at Jing Prefecture and enrolled directly at Federation Academy after proving his identity and perfect score.
• Lu Xingshi completed his Fate Codex optimization, renamed it the Great Vow Sutra, and learned that it strengthened his abilities while opening something within him.
• Lu Xingshi heard a Destiny Ghost kill the student next door and anticipated that the academy would respond with another crackdown.
• Lu Xingshi ignored the Destiny Ghost knocking at his door and focused on studying the Gold Bracelet from the Da Ci Dynasty.
• The Destiny Ghost crawled into Lu Xingshi’s dormitory, but he ran outside shouting “Ghost!” and made it retreat.

Lu Xingshi exposed Liao Kan and Liao Pan’s attempt to impersonate him at Federation Academy and had them escorted out. As he considered how to prevent them from causing more trouble, the pair encountered a pale woman whose upper body opened into a monstrous mouth.

• Ke Ju summoned Lu Xingshi to investigate Liao Kan and Liao Pan’s claim that Lu Xingshi had taken Cao Wan’s place at the academy.
• Lu Xingshi challenged Liao Pan to take his assessment test, and Ke Ju arranged for the test to be given to him.
• Liao Kan claimed Cao Wan had sold his enrollment qualification, but Lu Xingshi explained that the village chief had intercepted the admission notice, and Ke Ju rejected the alleged sale.
• Security Department personnel escorted Liao Kan and Liao Pan out, while Ke Ju advised Lu Xingshi to report such problems sooner.
• Lu Xingshi considered using someone else to deal with Liao Kan and Liao Pan, who planned to extort him for one hundred thousand Federal Currency.
• A pale woman lured Liao Kan and Liao Pan toward her, then split open her upper body into a giant mouth.

Lu Xingshi captured the Grievance-level Destiny Ghost formed from Liao Kan and Liao Pan, then planned to use it to develop an Enhancement Potion that could help him enter the Federation’s God Chosen research team. Meanwhile, Zheng Zhu’s extraordinary fortune continued to advance his Federation career, though he remained one step short of becoming God Chosen.

• The Liao Family Grandfather and Grandson Destiny Ghost attacked Lu Xingshi, but he bound it and dismissed its threat that Black Judge would avenge it.
• Lu Xingshi used the Sleep Curse and other curses to subdue the Destiny Ghost, then began preparing it as a research sample.
• Lu Xingshi decided to create an Enhancement Potion that slightly improved physical fitness and raised the success rate of initial God Chosen transformation by about ten percent.
• Zheng Zhu’s Heaven Luck Divine Steed Fate Pattern and inherited techniques brought him steady promotions and made him the Federation’s external promotional ambassador.
• Zheng Zhu realized that he was only one step away from becoming God Chosen, since he still needed to become a Great Life Master.

Lu Xingshi was recruited by the Federation after his arrest and learned about its conflict with the Fate Organization and the limits of using Destiny Ghosts to enhance ordinary people. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Fate Master noticed a future Type 8 God Chosen linked to the Federation and resolved to find and eliminate the person behind it.

• After seven days of interrogation, Lu Xingshi was offered a chance to clear his name in exchange for secretly fighting Destiny Ghosts for the Federation.
• Lu Xingshi accepted the offer and asked about the Federation’s use of Destiny Ghosts, prompting the middle-aged recruiter to explain that enhancement drugs could cause fatal side effects.
• During the journey to a classified location, the recruiter told Lu Xingshi that the Fate Organization sought to control the Federation and that a powerful Fate Master could threaten it.
• At the Fate Organization’s headquarters, the Heavenly Fate Master saw a future Type 8 God Chosen connected to the Federation and decided to investigate and kill the person before they rose to power.

Lu Xingshi advanced the God Chosen Project by improving the Enhancement Potion, while learning that a Heavenly Fate Master was a unique position and that Type 10 might be needed to match one. Liang Can proposed a secret project using a Fate Master with extraordinary luck to aid the potion and pursue Type 8 transformations, and Lu Xingshi agreed while demanding extensive time, secrecy, and resources.

• Lu Xingshi rose through the God Chosen Project by developing Enhancement Potions that modestly improved transformation success and survival rates.
• Lu Xingshi learned that only one Heavenly Fate Master could exist and that researchers believed a Type 10 God Chosen might rival one.
• Liang Can visited Lu Xingshi and asked whether luck could affect transformation outcomes and help improve the Enhancement Potion.
• Lu Xingshi explained that extraordinary luck might trigger beneficial transformations but would be difficult to verify or reproduce.
• Liang Can proposed a confidential project led by Lu Xingshi to use a Fate Master with extreme luck for potion research and Type 8 transformation experiments.
• Lu Xingshi agreed and told Liang Can the project would require substantial resources, strict confidentiality, and enough time to trigger luck repeatedly.

Lu Xingshi oversaw preparations to make Zheng Zhu part of the Federation’s God Chosen Seed Cultivation Program, while questioning why Liang Can had turned the selection into a public competition. Zheng Zhu, who had not intended to enter, learned that his friend had signed him up and resigned himself to competing.

• Lu Xingshi reviewed Zheng Zhu’s records, recognized him as the young man who took Zeng Hu’s dried corpse skull, and noted that his Fate Pattern and techniques focused entirely on luck.
• Lu Xingshi learned that Liang Can’s cultivation program was designed to recruit promising Fate Masters, with Zheng Zhu intended for Lu Xingshi’s hidden experimental base if he ranked high enough.
• Lu Xingshi suspected Liang Can had a contingency plan to ensure Zheng Zhu reached the required ranking, then received a letter reporting that an accident possibly linked to Zheng Zhu’s luck had disrupted the competition before the Federation smoothed it over.
• Lu Xingshi shredded the letter and anticipated that further accidents would make the program costly and difficult to manage.
• Zheng Zhu complained to Lao Hui that he had been registered for the competition without his consent, and Lao Hui urged him to win a place so he could benefit from Zheng Zhu’s future success.
• Zheng Zhu accepted that he would have to compete, though he doubted that luck could help him in an arena.

Lu Xingshi warned Liang Can that Zheng Zhu’s luck could influence the Federation’s leaders and argued that Zheng Zhu was a strategic asset worth researching. Zheng Zhu won first place in the tournament despite barely fighting, leaving his rivals angry and drawing further attention to his luck.

• Lu Xingshi told Liang Can that Zheng Zhu’s conspicuous tournament progress risked attracting the Fate Organization and could result from his luck indirectly influencing people.
• Lu Xingshi warned Liang Can that Zheng Zhu’s growing Fate Pattern could affect God Chosen research and urged the Federation to treat him as a strategic-level asset.
• Liang Can agreed to brief the Grand President and asked Lu Xingshi to research Zheng Zhu and compile a report on luck.
• Zheng Zhu finished first in the tournament after opponents’ tricks and mishaps helped him advance, while the judge defended his victory as a valid use of his Fate Pattern.
• The second-place Fate Master protested Zheng Zhu’s win, but the judge upheld the result and warned against slander; Zheng Zhu left to avoid further trouble.

After Zheng Zhu won the tournament, Lu Xingshi recruited him to the God Chosen Seed Cultivation Program and revealed that his luck could help him reach Type Eight or higher. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Fate Master learned that Zheng Zhu was the future Lucky Celestial Venerable but dismissed him as no threat.

• Lu Xingshi told Zheng Zhu that his luck was a genuine strength and that winning the tournament had earned him a chance to become a Type 8 God Chosen.
• Lu Xingshi planned to provide Zheng Zhu with resources to become a Great Life Master, advance through the God Chosen types, and focus on luck-enhancing Life Destiny Techniques.
• Lu Xingshi portrayed himself and Zheng Zhu as outsiders whom the other researchers undervalued, and Zheng Zhu promised to prove them wrong.
• The Heavenly Fate Master learned that Zheng Zhu had won the tournament and that the Fate Organization's assassination attempt had failed.
• The Heavenly Fate Master identified Zheng Zhu as the key to the Type 8 God Chosen but dismissed him as harmless compared with the threat of his own foretold death.

Zheng Zhu became a Great Life Master and asked Lu Xingshi to arrange his God Chosen Transformation. After considering whether to seek another researcher, he chose to trust Lu Xingshi, who scheduled the procedure for three days later.

• Zheng Zhu broke through to Great Life Master after completing his Fate Diagram and merging his Fate Pattern into his body.
• Zheng Zhu went to Lu Xingshi and asked him to arrange a God Chosen Transformation, explaining that his body felt fragile.
• Lu Xingshi scheduled the transformation for three days later after Zheng Zhu asked to begin sooner.
• Zheng Zhu worried that Lu Xingshi lacked practical experience, but learned that other researchers might make him wait years.
• Zheng Zhu chose to rely on Lu Xingshi, who urged him to trust their cooperation and reminded him that delays could cost him his advantage.

Zheng Zhu completed a perfect Type One God Chosen Transformation, and Lu Xingshi confirmed that it had achieved the highest possible result while preparing for the next stage. Lu Xingshi reported the procedure’s success to Liang Can and continued using the Federation’s project to gather data for his own plans.

• Lu Xingshi completed Zheng Zhu’s Type One God Chosen Transformation, and Zheng Zhu left to recover before beginning Type Two in seven days.
• Lu Xingshi told Liang Can that Type One transformations could succeed universally for most people and would not kill even those with unusual constitutions unless someone sabotaged the procedure.
• Lu Xingshi determined that Zheng Zhu’s transformation was a complete one-hundred-percent result, though Zheng Zhu still lacked combat skills and experience.
• Liang Can asked Lu Xingshi to rewrite his technical report for the Grand President, but Lu Xingshi told him to have an aide handle it so he could focus on research.
• Lu Xingshi resolved to remember who received his classified research results and used the project and Zheng Zhu’s luck to obtain data for perfecting himself.

After Zheng Zhu completed his Type Three transformation, he asked to leave the Experimental base for field work, but Lu Xingshi warned that doing so would jeopardize the project and Zheng Zhu reluctantly agreed to stay. Lu Xingshi then learned that Liang Can intended to replace him, and resolved to undermine the project rather than let Liang Can claim his work.

• Lu Xingshi told Zheng Zhu that Type Three was a watershed and proposed another transformation in a month; Zheng Zhu asked about the risks and when he could leave the Experimental base.
• Zheng Zhu said he wanted to go on missions and gain combat experience, but Lu Xingshi refused and warned that leaving could expose and end the project.
• Zheng Zhu backed down after Lu Xingshi explained the consequences, then returned to acclimate to his increased strength.
• Lu Xingshi told Liang Can that Zheng Zhu's restless attitude could affect his luck and offered to send the perfected Type Three transformation data; Liang Can said he would handle the arrangements and advised Lu Xingshi to protect himself.
• Lu Xingshi realized Liang Can planned to replace him and resolved to make Liang Can regret trying to take over his work.

Zheng Zhu was beaten by a Fate Organization raid until Liang Can arrived and killed the invaders, then accepted Liang Can’s offer to replace Lu Xingshi with a new research team. As Lu Xingshi departed, he warned Zheng Zhu that the incoming researchers might not indulge him, leaving Zheng Zhu confident but unaware that he greatly outmatched them.

• Zheng Zhu was caught off guard by a Burly Man who invaded the Experimental base and beat him severely while he waited for his Type Four modification.
• Liang Can arrived, killed the Burly Man and the other invaders, and told Zheng Zhu that a Federation traitor had helped the Fate Organization attack.
• After learning that Professor Cao had been injured and his modification might be delayed, Zheng Zhu agreed to Liang Can’s plan to bring in a more experienced research team.
• Zheng Zhu visited Lu Xingshi as he packed to leave, and Lu Xingshi warned him not to throw tantrums around the incoming researchers.
• Zheng Zhu dismissed the warning and assumed his new status as a Type Three God Chosen would keep the researchers from mistreating him.

Liang Can’s research team admitted they could not continue Zheng Zhu’s Type Four modification without Lu Xingshi, prompting Liang Can to consider bringing him back. Zheng Zhu realized the project’s failure could leave him abandoned and saw no way to secure Lu Xingshi’s return except by relying on luck.

• Liang Can berated his research team for making no progress in three months and learned that they could not continue Zheng Zhu’s modification or promise results even within a year.
• The team leader suggested other research teams might try, but Liang Can doubted they would do better and sent his team away with bonuses and a month of rest.
• Zheng Zhu watched the researchers leave and concluded that he needed Lu Xingshi back or risk losing his chance to improve.
• Zheng Zhu suspected Liang Can had pushed Lu Xingshi out to prevent him from becoming a threat, but recognized he lacked the authority to bring Lu back.
• Zheng Zhu decided he could only rely on luck and longed for enough strength to command the Federation himself.

Liang Can invited Lu Xingshi back to the Experimental base, and Lu Xingshi secured broad authority and resources before agreeing. As Liang Can took him back to the base, Zheng Zhu welcomed his return and prepared to support his research.

• Liang Can asked Lu Xingshi to return, but Lu Xingshi demanded genuine concessions and refused to accept Liang Can’s excuses.
• Liang Can agreed to Lu Xingshi’s fifty-seven conditions, including giving him control of the Experimental base and direct contact with the Grand President.
• Lu Xingshi agreed to leave for the base immediately and asked Liang Can to become a test subject for Type Eight research; when Liang Can stayed silent, Lu Xingshi said he would use Zheng Zhu for experiments instead.
• The Experimental base staff began cleaning up in preparation for Lu Xingshi’s return as its highest-ranking person in charge.
• Zheng Zhu celebrated Lu Xingshi’s return and resolved to cooperate with his research, recognizing that their interests were closely tied.