Chapter Summaries

Lu Xingshi advanced his research into inheritable Arcane Treasures and negotiated with the Grand President, who agreed to become a test subject. The Grand President prepared to isolate Liang Can so he could undergo the transformation without interference.

• Lu Xingshi told Zheng Zhu to return for an examination before the Type Five transformation, then recorded the results of his Type Four transformation.
• Lu Xingshi considered how inherited God Chosen structures could create a new Fate Master system based on Acupoints and Arcane Treasures, and continued pursuing a Type Ten God Chosen.
• The Grand President asked Lu Xingshi about his plan to transform an ordinary person; Lu Xingshi offered a seventy-percent chance of success, and the Grand President agreed to visit the next day.
• Lu Xingshi decided to use the inheritable Arcane Treasure transformation on the Grand President and chose the Gold Bracelet as its vessel.
• The Grand President discussed Lu Xingshi's abilities with his staff officer and ordered Liang Can transferred out of Jing Prefecture while his communications were blocked.

Lu Xingshi persuaded the Grand President to undergo an untested Arcane Treasure modification that could give him power comparable to a Type 7 God Chosen and help balance Liang Can. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Fate Master discovered that the future had shifted toward a Federation civil war and the accelerated birth of higher-type God Chosen.

• Lu Xingshi explained the Arcane Treasure Users’ benefits and drawbacks, then offered to help the Grand President reach Type 7-level power by influencing his Fate Pattern.
• Lu Xingshi admitted he wanted another Type 7 God Chosen to counter Liang Can, and the Grand President agreed to become the sole subject for the untested modification.
• The Heavenly Fate Master observed a future in which a Federation civil war accelerated the creation of Type 8 and possibly Type 9 God Chosen.
• The Heavenly Fate Master wondered whether he could prevent the civil war and rejected giving God Chosen technology to the Fate Organization, whose members might use it to overthrow him.

The Grand President underwent a successful transformation and gained the Hidden Sanctum Human Emperor, which could grow stronger as he spread Hidden Sanctums among ordinary people. After the Grand President left, Lu Xingshi focused on developing the God Chosen and planned to raise Zheng Zhu to Type 10 so he could draw out the Heavenly Fate Master.

• The Grand President recovered from the transformation and learned that his Hidden Sanctum would strengthen him and grow as more Federation citizens became Arcane Treasure Users.
• Lu Xingshi gave the Grand President the first edition of Tai Zu Long Fist and explained that the exhausted raw materials meant the Grand President was the Federation’s only Arcane Treasure User for now.
• The Grand President secretly planned to spread Hidden Sanctums and Tai Zu Long Fist so their users’ strength and Arcane Treasure Atlas would nourish him, while keeping his new power hidden from Liang Can and Lu Xingshi.
• After the Grand President left, Lu Xingshi confirmed that the Summoning Equipment-based Hidden Sanctum implantation had worked and that the Grand President could spread sealed Hidden Sanctums to other people.
• Lu Xingshi decided to focus on the God Chosen and raise Zheng Zhu to Type 10 so Zheng Zhu could lure out the Heavenly Fate Master.

The Grand President spread Arcane Treasures across the Federation, undermining the Fate Organization and Family Factions, while Liang Can traced their origin to Jing Prefecture but found no evidence against him. After Liang Can accepted responsibility for organizing Arcane Treasure Users, the Grand President privately welcomed their growing numbers because they strengthened his Hidden Sanctum Human Emperor.

• Arcane Treasures and the Tai Zu Long Fist spread throughout the Federation, weakening the Fate Organization and Family Factions as more ordinary people became Arcane Treasure Users.
• Liang Can traced the Arcane Treasures to Jing Prefecture, suspected the Grand President, but found that every clue had been erased.
• Liang Can met the Grand President and raised concerns about the Arcane Treasure Users, but could not prove that he was behind their spread.
• The Grand President assigned Liang Can to manage Arcane Treasure Users and shape their conflict with the Family Factions.
• After Liang Can left, the Grand President reflected that growing numbers of Arcane Treasure Users were empowering his Hidden Sanctum Human Emperor.

Zheng Zhu completed his Type 7 God Chosen modification, leaving Liang Can unable to stop him and Lu Xingshi with a powerful ally. Lu Xingshi warned Zheng Zhu about the Heavenly Fate Master and planned further research, while refusing the Grand President’s request to use Zheng Zhu in an upcoming attack on Liang Can.

• Liang Can called Lu Xingshi to order him to stop Zheng Zhu’s modification, but Zheng Zhu answered that he had already become a Type 7 God Chosen.
• Zheng Zhu told Lu Xingshi he would cooperate with research toward Type 8, and Lu Xingshi warned him that the Heavenly Fate Master could require a Type 10 God Chosen to defeat.
• After Zheng Zhu left, Lu Xingshi kept the research data for himself and privately judged that Zheng Zhu would turn against him once he reached Type 10.
• The Grand President called Lu Xingshi to confirm Zheng Zhu’s advancement and asked him to lend Zheng Zhu for an operation against Liang Can in three days.
• Lu Xingshi refused, arguing that Liang Can had too many family vulnerabilities to act against them, and decided he could wait until Liang Can was weakened before sending Zheng Zhu after him.

After the Grand President defeated Liang Can, the two negotiated a settlement that transferred military authority but avoided a Federation civil war. The Heavenly Fate Master realized events had diverged from the Book of the Future, then an unexpected change erupted as he prepared to leave.

• The Grand President revealed that Lu Xingshi had transformed him, and Liang Can agreed to surrender control of the God Chosen and Arcane Treasure Users while keeping his other authority.
• Liang Can demanded Cao Wan's head, and the Grand President agreed to kill him within one year.
• The Heavenly Fate Master saw that Liang Can and the Grand President's reconciliation differed from the Book of the Future, where Liang Can's death had triggered a civil war.
• The Heavenly Fate Master decided to leave after the conflict ended, but an unexpected change erupted.

Zheng Zhu killed Liang Can in front of the Grand President, but the Heavenly Fate Master appeared and nearly killed him before mysterious Heat Weapons intervened. Zheng Zhu escaped unconscious, and the Heavenly Fate Master realized someone in the Federation was secretly advancing the weapons and provoking civil war.

• Zheng Zhu tore out Liang Can’s heart and crushed it after refusing the Grand President’s demands to spare him.
• The Heavenly Fate Master appeared, but a bullet struck him and disrupted his attack on Zheng Zhu.
• Zheng Zhu fled as the Grand President pursued him, while his luck repeatedly thwarted the chase.
• The Heavenly Fate Master attacked Zheng Zhu again, but a missile collided with his strike and blasted Zheng Zhu into the air.
• An unseen figure carried the unconscious Zheng Zhu away, and the Heavenly Fate Master recognized the bullet and missile as Heat Weapons capable of injuring him.

Lu Xingshi rescued Zheng Zhu and the Grand President after the Heavenly Fate Master's attack, performing a Type Eight transformation on Zheng Zhu and emergency treatment on the Grand President. Both survived, while the Grand President learned that Liang Can's transformation had left weaknesses Zheng Zhu could exploit.

• Zheng Zhu woke in severe pain as Lu Xingshi told him that his Type Eight transformation surgery had begun without anesthetic.
• Lu Xingshi explained that the Heavenly Fate Master had attacked and that he had used modified heat weapons and robots to recover Zheng Zhu.
• Zheng Zhu endured the surgery, and Lu Xingshi completed the transformation before putting him under anesthesia.
• Lu Xingshi reached the Grand President's emergency ward, put the medical staff to sleep with his Eighteenth-Layer Domain, and treated the Grand President's critical injuries.
• The Grand President accused Lu Xingshi of saving him to preserve Federation control, and Lu Xingshi agreed that his survival served his interests.
• Lu Xingshi told the Grand President that Liang Can's incomplete God Chosen transformation had weaknesses that Zheng Zhu could exploit.

Lu Xingshi explained that Zheng Zhu’s luck was depleted and overdrawn, so the Type 9 God Chosen modification would have to wait while he recovered. The Heavenly Fate Master searched the Book of the Future for clues, then decided to restrain the Fate Organization and Family Factions to keep the Federation from weakening.

• Zheng Zhu asked Lu Xingshi how they could resist the Heavenly Fate Master, then proposed gambling on a Type 9 God Chosen modification.
• Lu Xingshi told Zheng Zhu his luck had been overdrawn and said they needed a month of observation before attempting the modification.
• Zheng Zhu realized Lu Xingshi had used Heat Weapons to injure the Heavenly Fate Master, but Lu Xingshi said the weapons could only cause minor injuries and make him wary.
• Lu Xingshi concluded that the Heavenly Fate Master possessed the missing portion of his Heavenly Mandate and chose to investigate the altered timelines before acting.
• The Heavenly Fate Master consulted the Book of the Future, saw no trace of Zheng Zhu or the hidden mastermind, and resolved to warn the Fate Organization and Family Factions not to weaken the Federation.

The Grand President ordered a purge of rebellious Family Factions and confronted Xue Yang, who had tried to seize the Federation’s leadership. After effortlessly defeating the Type Six God Chosen, he left Xue Yang in command of the God Chosen Corps and prepared to pursue his broader plan.

• As civil unrest spread, the Grand President ordered regional forces to suppress the Family Factions and Fate Masters, rejecting his Staff Officers’ plea to prioritize stability.
• Xue Yang entered the Grand President’s hospital room and demanded that he resign so Xue Yang could become Grand President.
• The Grand President explained that Professor Cao Wan had created the Type Seven God Chosen Zheng Zhu, who had killed Liang Can in one move.
• When Xue Yang challenged him, the injured Grand President crushed Xue Yang’s spine and punched a hole through his abdomen.
• Xue Yang submitted, and the Grand President ordered him to suppress the Family Factions and traitors while leaving the Fate Organization untouched.
• After Xue Yang and the Staff Officers left, the Grand President reflected that his real plan was to eradicate the Family Factions, weaken the Fate Organization, and promote the Arcane Treasure system.

Zheng Zhu became a Type 9 God Chosen but remained far weaker than a Heavenly Fate Master, and he bargained with Lu Xingshi to shorten the wait for his Type 10 transformation. Lu Xingshi then allied with the Grand President against the Heavenly Fate Master and arranged for the Grand President to prepare to restrain Zheng Zhu.

• Zheng Zhu reveled in his new Type 9 strength, then admitted he could only trade serious injury for a chance to escape a Heavenly Fate Master.
• Lu Xingshi initially set Zheng Zhu's Type 10 transformation for a year, but reduced the wait to three months after Zheng Zhu pressed him.
• After Zheng Zhu left, Lu Xingshi told the Grand President that the Type 9 transformation had succeeded and proposed joining forces against the Heavenly Fate Master.
• The Grand President refused to act immediately, saying he needed five months to reach the strongest state of the Arcane Treasure.
• Lu Xingshi accepted the five-month timeline and planned to delay Zheng Zhu after the Type 10 transformation was ready.

The Heavenly Fate Master forced the Grand President to stop his campaign against the Family Factions and the Fate Organization, though the Grand President privately resolved to remove him. The Heavenly Fate Master then discovered that a future version of events had ended even worse, and wondered what had caused the change.

• The Grand President recalled that Lu Xingshi had given him the Hidden Sanctum Human Emperor and realized how powerful Lu Xingshi had become.
• The Heavenly Fate Master appeared before the Grand President and ordered him to stop attacking the Family Factions and the Fate Organization.
• The Grand President pretended to repent, agreed to the Heavenly Fate Master's terms, and secretly resolved to remove him.
• The Grand President ordered Xue Yang to cancel all operations against the Family Factions and the Fate Organization.
• The Heavenly Fate Master compared his observations and found that Zheng Zhu had joined the Grand President against him, leaving the Fate Organization and Family Factions completely annihilated.
• The Heavenly Fate Master concluded that some event between his observations had changed the outcome and decided to wait for the next day's observation.

After Zheng Zhu accidentally killed Number Seven, an agent of the Grand President, he hid the incident and suffered a severe psychological shock. Lu Xingshi recognized Zheng Zhu’s weakness and his value as an experimental subject, while the Grand President planned to exploit the situation to turn Zheng Zhu against Cao Wan and eliminate Lu Xingshi.

• Lu Xingshi monitored Zheng Zhu as he secretly pursued Number Seven, unaware that she was an agent planted by the Grand President.
• Zheng Zhu’s lack of control caused Number Seven’s death and wrecked the hotel, leaving him traumatized and afraid to tell anyone.
• After three days, Zheng Zhu confessed that he had accidentally killed someone, but he withheld the details and fled when Lu Xingshi offered to examine him.
• Lu Xingshi realized Zheng Zhu’s weakness could make him vulnerable to the Grand President and regarded Zheng Zhu as valuable experimental material.
• The Grand President confirmed that Zheng Zhu’s mentality had deteriorated because of Number Seven and decided to win him over to undermine Cao Wan and kill Lu Xingshi.

The Grand President manipulated Zheng Zhu into agreeing to cooperate against the Heavenly Fate Master and Cao Wan, revealing that he had also gained power from Cao Wan. Lu Xingshi watched from behind the scenes and planned to use Zheng Zhu’s good fortune to draw out the Heavenly Fate Master’s remaining Heavenly Mandate.

• The Grand President lured Zheng Zhu to the Presidential Palace with a photograph of a woman resembling the dead Number Seven, then offered to cooperate against the Heavenly Fate Master.
• Zheng Zhu initially scorned the Grand President and attacked him, but the Grand President effortlessly restrained him and revealed that he had gained Arcane Treasure User power from Cao Wan.
• The Grand President warned Zheng Zhu that Cao Wan might be cultivating them for his own benefit, convincing Zheng Zhu to join forces with him for a chance of survival.
• Lu Xingshi observed their agreement and reflected that the Grand President’s suspicions were likely genuine as well as useful for manipulating Zheng Zhu.
• Lu Xingshi planned to use Zheng Zhu’s good fortune as bait to draw out the Heavenly Fate Master’s remaining Heavenly Mandate.

Lu Xingshi warned Zheng Zhu that Type Ten was the limit of what his luck could support, then revealed that Arcane Treasures were created through infection and that Fate Masters and Destiny Ghosts shared an unknown origin. He drugged Zheng Zhu after urging him to join forces with the Grand President, while the Heavenly Fate Master learned of their future attack and resolved to eliminate them first.

• Lu Xingshi told Zheng Zhu that Type Ten was nearly the ultimate transformation and that Zheng Zhu could not survive advancing further.
• Lu Xingshi explained the history of the God Chosen Project and revealed that Zheng Zhu was being made into a vessel for the Hidden Sanctum Fruit and the remnants of the Heavenly Mandate.
• Lu Xingshi revealed that Arcane Treasures were infected Fate Pattern aggregations that could seal the dangerous radiation affecting Fate Masters and Destiny Ghosts.
• Lu Xingshi urged Zheng Zhu to join the Grand President after his transformation and search for the Fate Pattern Origin, then drugged him while planning to use him as bait.
• The Heavenly Fate Master saw in the Future Diary that the Grand President and Type Ten Zheng Zhu would attack him in two months, and decided to kill them and the God Chosen Corps before they could become a threat.

After the Heavenly Fate Master nearly killed Cai Kang, Lu Xingshi rescued him with a one-shot living sniper rifle that wounded the enemy and forced him to retreat. The Heavenly Fate Master then realized that an unseen power could evade the Book of the Future, while Lu Xingshi took Cai Kang to a hidden base to continue their plan.

• The Heavenly Fate Master attacked Cai Kang, who escaped with the God Chosen troops’ help while the Family Factions took control of Jing Prefecture.
• Lu Xingshi found the injured Cai Kang and revealed that he had saved Zheng Zhu with lightning and was working with both men to kill the Heavenly Fate Master.
• Lu Xingshi fired a disposable living sniper rifle at the approaching Heavenly Fate Master, leaving a wound above his left eyebrow and driving him away.
• The Heavenly Fate Master retreated after a mysterious aura and the Book of the Future warned him that pursuing his attackers would lead to his death.
• Lu Xingshi offered to take Cai Kang to a base protected from the Heavenly Fate Master’s temporal observation, and Cai Kang asked him to use his name instead of his former title.

Zheng Zhu woke after two months of modification and learned from Cai Kang that Lu Xingshi had sent them to kill the Heavenly Fate Master. As Cai Kang recognized that Zheng Zhu’s instincts were overtaking his consciousness, Lu Xingshi watched from afar and wondered what the Heavenly Fate Master had been observing.

• Zheng Zhu woke in the Experimental base and learned from Cai Kang that he had been unconscious for two months and that Lu Xingshi had told them to kill the Heavenly Fate Master.
• Zheng Zhu dismissed Cai Kang’s strength and snapped at him, so Cai Kang slapped him and prompted him to explain Lu Xingshi’s cryptic advice about the Heavenly Fate Master’s weakness.
• Cai Kang noticed that Zheng Zhu could not control his emotions, but Zheng Zhu rejected the idea that he could control his nerves and hormones.
• Zheng Zhu agreed with Cai Kang to kill the Heavenly Fate Master before dealing with Lu Xingshi.
• Lu Xingshi observed that Zheng Zhu’s instincts were gradually taking over his consciousness, leaving him to wonder whether the Heavenly Fate Master could foresee his own death and what he had been observing.

Cai Kang and Zheng Zhu fought the Heavenly Fate Master after gaining enough strength to challenge him, but Zheng Zhu’s bodily instincts took over and left them both badly wounded. Lu Xingshi observed the battle and concluded that the Heavenly Fate Master possessed only an incomplete Heavenly Mandate, while the fight entered a second round.

• The Heavenly Fate Master attacked Cai Kang and Zheng Zhu over the destruction of Jing Prefecture and the Fate Organization headquarters, but the pair blocked him and managed to injure him.
• Cai Kang mocked the Heavenly Fate Master’s pride in his Da Ci Dynasty ancestry, provoking him to focus his attacks on Cai Kang until Zheng Zhu intervened.
• Zheng Zhu’s combat instincts increasingly took control of his body, and the Heavenly Fate Master exploited Zheng Zhu’s attempt to regain control to grievously wound him.
• The Heavenly Fate Master knocked Cai Kang down and stomped on Zheng Zhu, but Cai Kang stabbed him with a glass weapon containing scarlet liquid while Zheng Zhu’s instincts seized his body completely.
• Lu Xingshi watched from afar and reasoned that the Heavenly Fate Master had inherited a cognitive infection and possessed only an incomplete Heavenly Mandate.

Zheng Zhu and Cai Kang transformed into ravenous creatures that could consume the Heavenly Fate Master's power, forcing him to confront the monsters Lu Xingshi had engineered. Lu Xingshi then appeared alive, revealing himself as the mastermind behind the trap.

• Zheng Zhu transformed into a regenerating beast and attacked the Heavenly Fate Master, while Cai Kang feared that Lu Xingshi had hidden a similar contingency within him.
• The Heavenly Fate Master shattered Zheng Zhu and prepared to kill Cai Kang, but Zheng Zhu's surviving fragments interrupted his attack and merged into Cai Kang.
• Cai Kang's Hidden Sanctum Human Emperor turned into a tumor, overwhelmed his consciousness, and drove him to devour Zheng Zhu's fragments.
• Cai Kang transformed into the Starvation Ghost, ate Zheng Zhu, and tore away part of the Heavenly Fate Master's flesh and Heavenly Mandate.
• The Heavenly Fate Master realized the creatures had been designed to counter him, and Lu Xingshi appeared alive to claim responsibility for the trap.

Lu Xingshi defeated Gu Liang Tianming after discovering that he was both a Heavenly Fate Master and the Calamity-level Life Ghost Child of Heaven. He captured Gu Liang Tianming’s Heavenly Mandate and prepared to claim the unique rank for himself, leaving the First Generation Child of Destiny’s Mandate as his next target.

• Gu Liang Tianming accused Lu Xingshi of destroying the Da Ci Dynasty and vowed to restore its feudal order, while Lu Xingshi pointed out that Gu Liang Tianming had never been destined to rule.
• As madness boosted Gu Liang Tianming’s strength, he manifested his Child of Heaven Fate Pattern, and Lu Xingshi realized he was also the unique Calamity-level Life Ghost.
• Lu Xingshi unfolded his Eighteen Levels of Hell domain, overwhelmed Gu Liang Tianming’s Ci Dynasty domain, and had the ghostly monsters drag him away for punishment before questioning him.
• Lu Xingshi extracted Gu Liang Tianming’s remaining Heavenly Mandate and gave it to the Starvation Ghost, which condensed into a fruit that would let Lu Xingshi become a Calamity-level Heavenly Fate Master.
• Lu Xingshi planned to seize the First Generation Child of Destiny’s Heavenly Mandate next, forcing the world either to activate it again or arrange for its bearer to reincarnate.