Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating into a world where people worshipped gods for blessings, Lu Chen learned that his Divine Service Rating was low and his family was poor. At the Zhao Clan Temple, after hearing how much worshippers spent without receiving a response from the Wealth God, he decided to try backing a cold stove.

• Lu Chen met Li Ruoyi and clashed with Song Hao, then declined to accompany them to the God Temple.
• Lu Chen learned his Divine Service Rating was only 0.5% and that even cheap incense cost a hundred yuan per stick.
• After Li Ruoyi and Song Hao left, Lu Chen spent his last hundred yuan walking to the God Temple, intending to pray for wealth.
• At the Zhao Clan Temple, Lu Chen heard worshippers complain that they had spent tens of thousands of yuan on the Wealth God without getting a response.
• Lu Chen reconsidered worshipping a popular deity and decided to try backing a cold stove.

Lu Chen confirmed that the Zhao Clan Temple worshipped Lord God of Wealth Chai Rong, an obscure deity from the Five Route Wealth Gods, and bought incense to worship him. As other worshippers questioned his choice, Lu Chen challenged them to explain how they knew Chai Rong was ineffective when none had tried.

• Lu Chen studied the Zhao Clan Temple’s Divine Point Formation Diagram and discovered that its rear courtyard included Lord God of Wealth Chai Rong.
• Lu Chen bought three sticks of incense dedicated to Chai Rong despite the staff member’s surprise and disdain.
• Lu Chen encountered Li Ruoyi and Song Hao while waiting to enter the temple, and Song Hao mocked him for buying so little incense.
• Li Ruoyi and nearby worshippers questioned why Lu Chen chose Chai Rong instead of Zhao Gongming.
• Lu Chen asked the crowd how they could be sure Chai Rong was ineffective when none of them had worshipped him.

Lu Chen ignored the worshippers’ mockery and offered incense to Chai Rong, the neglected Lord God of Wealth, after repairing his shrine and reciting a Daoist summoning mantra. Chai Rong received the offering in Heaven and answered Lu Chen, who admitted he had come seeking wealth.

• Song Hao mocked Lu Chen for worshipping a supposedly ineffective deity, then challenged him to a bet; Lu Chen turned the challenge back on him, and Song Hao waited with Li Ruoyi to see what would happen.
• Lu Chen entered the dilapidated back courtyard, found Chai Rong’s neglected shrine, repaired its roof and cleared weeds before offering three sticks of incense.
• Lu Chen recited the Incense-Blessing Divine Mantra and waited, while a wisp of Incense Fire reached Chai Rong in the Heavenly Court.
• Chai Rong realized a mortal had remembered him and decided to visit the mortal world.
• As Lu Chen was leaving, Chai Rong’s statue glimmered and spoke; Lu Chen greeted him and admitted he had come to ask for wealth.
• Chai Rong asked Lu Chen why he had worshipped him instead of Zhao God of Wealth.

Lu Chen received a blessing from Lord Jun Cai, the Emperor God of Wealth, and a golden rain followed by a ten-thousand-yuan bill confirmed his good fortune. After recommending Lord Jun Cai to other worshippers, Lu Chen ignored Song Hao’s jealous accusations and went with Li Ruoyi to test his Divine Service Rating.

• Lu Chen impressed Lord Jun Cai with his knowledge and received a blessing that brought him good fortune for two days.
• Golden rain fell over Lu Chen, and a ten-thousand-yuan bill struck him as he left the courtyard.
• Li Ruoyi and Song Hao saw the golden rain, and Lu Chen told the crowd that he had prayed to Lord God of Wealth Chai Rong.
• Song Hao accused Lu Chen of staging the blessing, but Li Ruoyi dismissed his claims and congratulated Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen and Li Ruoyi went to the temple’s testing window, where Lu Chen asked for his Divine Service Rating to be measured.

Lu Chen’s first worship of Chai Rong, Lord God of Wealth, raised his Divine Service Rating by 5%, earning him a bonus and shocking the temple’s visitors. After leaving with Li Ruoyi, he looked forward to finally buying meat with his new money.

• Lu Chen’s Emperor Wenchang rating showed 0.5%, while Song Hao mocked him and doubted his earlier success.
• The display revealed Lu Chen’s Lord God of Wealth rating had risen by 5%, stunning the onlookers and leaving Song Hao speechless.
• A Zhao Clan Temple staff member awarded Lu Chen a five-thousand-yuan bonus, and Lu Chen accepted it.
• Lu Chen taunted Song Hao before leaving the temple with Li Ruoyi, while other worshippers rushed to buy incense for Chai Rong.
• Li Ruoyi told Lu Chen her Starsea Group watch could test Divine Service Ratings and revealed it had cost sixty-three thousand yuan.
• After saying goodbye to Li Ruoyi, Lu Chen felt the money in his pocket and said he could finally afford to buy meat.

Lu Chen celebrated his unexpected earnings with his family, then planned how to raise his Divine Service Rating by performing rituals for Lord God of Wealth. The next morning, he set out to buy lottery tickets while his rival Song Hao vowed revenge.

• Lu Chen brought food and a doll home, told his family he had earned fifteen thousand through a successful prayer, and shared a long-awaited meat dinner with them.
• Lu Chen offered his parents five thousand, but they urged him to keep the money for his studies and future worship expenses.
• Lu Chen considered ways to raise his Divine Service Rating and decided to test whether conducting Daoist rituals could earn merit for Lord God of Wealth.
• Song Hao regretted spending three thousand at the God Temple and vowed to crush Lu Chen after receiving Heavenly Official's Blessing at the Divine Service Rating competition.
• The next morning, Lu Chen left home to buy lottery tickets and scratch cards while his good fortune lasted.

Lu Chen visited his former classmate Deng Jiajia’s family lottery shop and won increasingly large prizes with scratch cards. After hitting the 150,000-yuan grand prize, he realized his divine blessing was running low and prepared to scratch one more card.

• Lu Chen ran into former classmate Deng Jiajia, bought two scratch cards, and won 1,000 yuan on the first.
• Lu Chen won 50,000 yuan on the second card, while customers gathered and asked which Wealth God he worshipped.
• Lu Chen sensed that his fortune was being used up, having already won more than 60,000 yuan through the blessing.
• Lu Chen scratched a third card and revealed three Fortune characters, winning the 100,000-yuan grand prize.
• Lu Chen told the excited customers he would share where to worship after he finished scratching the last card.

Lu Chen won more than 261,000 yuan on scratch cards after receiving a blessing from Lord God of Wealth, then learned that the academy would soon raise its standards and might send students on missions early. He left the lottery shop without revealing how little he had spent on incense, but Brother Zhang told Deng Jiajia that Lu Chen’s Wealth God rating had reached 5% after one stick of incense, leaving her stunned.

• Lu Chen won another first prize, bringing his scratch-card winnings to about 261,000 yuan, and told Deng Jiajia he worshipped Lord God of Wealth.
• Deng Jiajia warned Lu Chen that students below a 2% Divine Service Rating might be forcibly graduated and speculated that students could soon take missions from the Mission Hall.
• Deng Jiajia said she planned to develop in martial arts, while Lu Chen revealed that his Lord God of Wealth rating was 5%.
• Lu Chen refused to become a Fortune Bearer, collected his winnings, and left the shop after agreeing that Deng Jiajia could advertise his name.
• Brother Zhang told Deng Jiajia that Lu Chen had raised his Wealth God rating to 5% with one hundred yuan worth of incense, and she shouted in surprise.

Lu Chen returned to the Zhao Clan Temple to fulfill his vow to Lord God of Wealth Chai Rong and offered Black Incense. He then burned a Gold-Threaded Box as an unusual gift, leaving Chai Rong bewildered by this unfamiliar kind of offering.

• Lu Chen decided to seek a combat-oriented deity and prepared offerings before returning to the Zhao Clan Temple.
• Lu Chen bought Black Incense for twenty thousand and went to the rear courtyard to invite Lord God of Wealth Chai Rong.
• Chai Rong accepted Lu Chen’s Incense Fire, teased him about spending his windfall, and advised him to keep offering incense.
• Lu Chen presented a bundle of paper offerings and burned it before explaining what it contained.
• Chai Rong watched the paper burn and wondered how burning paper had become an offering.

Lu Chen’s offering of Heavenly Gold, immortal robes, and merit astonished Lord God of Wealth, who accepted it after Lu Chen explained his inherited secret arts. Impressed and tempted by Lu Chen’s promise of another powerful offering, Lord God of Wealth proposed that they become sworn brothers, leaving Lu Chen stunned.

• Lu Chen burned the Gold-Threaded Box, and Lord God of Wealth discovered that it contained ten thousand taels of Heavenly Gold, immortal robes, and abundant merit.
• Lord God of Wealth accused Lu Chen of bribery, but the merit strengthened him and eased his anger.
• Lu Chen asked whether Lord God of Wealth had received the offering, then explained that his methods came from an ancestral manual that had burned away.
• Lord God of Wealth accepted the offering and began calling Lu Chen his young friend.
• Lu Chen hinted at a method equivalent to one hundred thousand measures of Incense Fire, and Lord God of Wealth proposed that they become sworn brothers.
• Lu Chen agreed, then realized what Lord God of Wealth had proposed and reacted in shock.

Lu Chen became sworn brothers with Lord God of Wealth, who gave him a Fortune-Bringing Gold Ingot and the Treasure Appraisal Eye. After Lu Chen concealed the true cost of his offerings, Lord God of Wealth proposed that he invite him home for worship, leaving Lu Chen eager to secure the arrangement.

• Lu Chen accepted Lord God of Wealth’s offer of sworn brotherhood and performed the ritual to become his younger brother.
• Lord God of Wealth gave Lu Chen a Fortune-Bringing Gold Ingot that improved his chances of success and a Treasure Appraisal Eye that revealed the value of mortal-world objects.
• Lu Chen claimed that his secret art required his essence blood and great strength, hiding that the supposed cost was fabricated to preserve the value of his offerings.
• Lord God of Wealth asked what strength Lu Chen needed to use the secret art, and Lu Chen estimated he would need to become a Third Grade Spirit Cultivator.
• Lord God of Wealth suggested Lu Chen find out how to invite him home, promising to leave more divine power with each offering if Lu Chen worshipped him there.
• Lu Chen welcomed the proposal, seeing it as a way to gain Lord God of Wealth’s support and access to his wealth.

Lu Chen formed an alliance with Lord God of Wealth, who gave him a magical treasure and a divine ability and promised to help him advance. Still glowing from the blessing, Lu Chen decided to seek Thunder Ancestor’s recognition and tested his Divine Service Rating.

• Lu Chen promised to build Lord God of Wealth a temple, and Lord God of Wealth pledged to help him grow wealthy and offered to put in a good word with a martial god.
• Lu Chen left with a magical treasure and divine ability, then used [Treasure Appraisal Eye] and saw that nearly everyone around him was deeply in debt.
• Passersby noticed Lu Chen glowing with golden light, and he told one man to worship Lord God of Wealth.
• Lu Chen decided to seek Thunder Ancestor’s recognition and bought twenty sticks of incense.
• The staff member urged Lu Chen to test his Divine Service Rating, and he went to the testing window as a crowd gathered to watch.

Lu Chen achieved a 43% Divine Service Rating for Lord God of Wealth at the Zhao Clan Temple, drawing a crowd and the attention of Zhao Zhihong. Zhao Zhihong stopped worshippers from recording Lu Chen, then grabbed him and used telepathy to demand his cooperation.

• Worshippers speculated about Lu Chen's Divine Service Rating as Zhao Zhihong arrived at the testing window.
• The device displayed a 43% Divine Service Rating for Lord God of Wealth, astonishing Lu Chen and the gathered worshippers.
• Worshippers crowded around Lu Chen, praising him and taking photos and videos.
• Zhao Zhihong ordered the temple staff to enforce the no-photography rule and make worshippers delete their recordings.
• Zhao Zhihong congratulated Lu Chen, grabbed his hand and shoulder, and asked him to speak to the crowd.
• Lu Chen tried to pull free, but Zhao Zhihong used telepathy to tell him to cooperate, revealing himself as a Third Grade Spirit Cultivator.

Zhao Zhihong explained Lu Chen’s soaring Divine Service Rating as a past-life bond with Lord God of Wealth, calming the worshippers and protecting the Zhao Clan Temple’s reputation. He then threatened to remove the deity’s position to keep Lu Chen from worshipping Him, but Lu Chen decided he would summon the deity himself.

• Zhao Zhihong publicly presented Lu Chen’s high Divine Service Rating as proof of a fated bond with Lord God of Wealth from a past life.
• Lu Chen played along with the explanation, and the worshippers lost interest in worshipping the obscure deity.
• Zhao Zhihong posed for photos with Lu Chen, then warned him not to worship Lord God of Wealth at the Zhao Clan Temple.
• Zhao Zhihong said the temple could remove Lord God of Wealth’s deity position, leaving Lu Chen nowhere else in Jiang Province to make offerings to Him.
• Lu Chen recognized the Zhao family’s concern about the threat he posed and resolved to summon Lord God of Wealth himself.

Lu Chen applied to invite Lord God of Wealth’s divine seat and paid the required deposit, leaving himself seven days to raise the remaining money. He then hurried to watch Tan Kun attempt to extend the Sun family’s old master’s life, hoping to learn how to take on Spirit Awakener jobs.

• Lu Chen challenged Zhao Zhihong to let him invite Lord God of Wealth and agreed to pay the legal price within a week.
• Zhao Zhihong demanded a two-hundred-thousand deposit and warned that Lu Chen would lose it if he failed to pay the balance on time.
• Sun Qingcang arrived with Sun Yourong and asked Tan Kun, the Longevity-Extending Immortal, to bless the Sun family’s ailing old master.
• Lu Chen learned that the Sun family was offering an enormous reward for someone who could extend the old master’s life.
• Lu Chen submitted his deity-invitation application, paid the deposit, and rushed to the Longevity Star Hall to watch Tan Kun work.

Lu Chen watched Tan Kun repeatedly fail to pray for the Sun family's old master and considered entering the lucrative business of extending lifespans. As Tan Kun prepared to give up and Sun Qingcang offered an extra twenty million, Lu Chen realized the situation might be his opportunity.

• Lu Chen learned that Tan Kun charged millions to pray for extra lifespan and began considering other longevity deities he could serve.
• Tan Kun's first offering to the Longevity Star failed, and he noticed there was no divine power response.
• Tan Kun failed eighteen attempts in a row, leaving the Sun family increasingly desperate and the watching crowd baffled.
• Tan Kun told Sun Qingcang he could not help with the task, but Sun Qingcang pleaded with him and offered an additional twenty million.
• Lu Chen heard Sun Qingcang's offer and wondered whether his chance had finally arrived.

Lu Chen watched Tan Kun’s blessing prayer for the Sun family fail catastrophically, leaving Sun Qingcang convinced his father could not receive the Longevity Star’s blessing. While the family mourned, Lu Chen searched Longevity Star Hall for its Divine Point Formation Diagram.

• After Sun Qingcang increased the reward by twenty million, Tan Kun agreed to attempt the blessing prayer again.
• Tan Kun established communication with the Longevity Star, and the Sun family and worshippers believed the prayer would succeed.
• A fireball formed from the prayer’s radiance struck Tan Kun, injured him, and sent him fleeing the hall.
• Sun Qingcang collapsed in despair as his family grieved Tan Kun’s departure and the failed prayer.
• Lu Chen left the scene to find the Divine Point Formation Diagram and searched it for Magu and the Director of Longevity.

Lu Chen realized Zhao Clan Temple had no shrines for Magu or the Director of Longevity, then thought of King Yama as a deity who could extend life. As the Sun family prepared to leave, Lu Chen offered to pray for Sun Qingcang’s father, but Zhao Zhihong and Sun Xingwen rejected him.

• Lu Chen searched Zhao Clan Temple for Magu and the Director of Longevity but found no shrines to either deity.
• Lu Chen noticed the Hall of Yama on the Divine Point Formation Diagram and decided to worship King Yama for the mission.
• Sun Qingcang and his family prepared to leave Longevity Star Hall after Zhao Zhihong suggested seeking help elsewhere.
• Lu Chen stopped the Sun family and asked whether Sun Qingcang would let him pray for his father and extend his lifespan.
• Zhao Zhihong called Lu Chen a fraud, and Sun Xingwen angrily accused him of toying with the family.

Lu Chen proposed worshipping King Yama to extend the life of Sun Qingcang’s father, drawing ridicule until Zhao Zhihong revealed Lu Chen’s extraordinary Divine Service Rating gains. Sun Qingcang took Lu Chen seriously and asked his name.

• Lu Chen asked Sun Qingcang to let him try to save his father and proposed worshipping King Yama.
• Sun Qingcang threatened Lu Chen unless he gave a convincing reason, while Lu Chen asked Zhao Zhihong to recount his recent achievements.
• Zhao Zhihong revealed that Lu Chen had raised his Divine Service Rating to 5% with one stick of incense the previous day.
• Zhao Zhihong revealed that Lu Chen had raised his Divine Service Rating to 43% with another stick of incense that day, stunning the Sun family and the crowd.
• Sun Qingcang abandoned his contempt, clasped his fists, bowed to Lu Chen, and asked his name.

Lu Chen persuaded Sun Qingcang that King Yama might extend his father’s life and led the Sun family toward the Underworld shrine to make an offering. The group reached the dilapidated hut as night fell, ready to begin the worship.

• Sun Qingcang agreed to follow Lu Chen’s plan and sent Zhao Zhihong to obtain three sticks of incense for King Yama.
• Lu Chen led Sun Qingcang, Song, Sun Yourong, and Sun Xingwen along a desolate path while the Sun family’s bodyguards kept the worshippers back.
• Lu Chen explained that King Yama could influence life and death through the Book of Life and Death and by commanding Black and White Impermanence.
• Sun Qingcang warned Lu Chen that praying to the Netherworld could entangle him in Karma, but Lu Chen said he feared no properly enfeoffed Yin Gods.
• The group arrived at a shabby thatched hut marked with an UNDERWORLD plaque, where Sun Xingwen felt a sudden, bone-piercing chill.