Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen signed a contract with Sun Qingcang to seek an extension of life for the Sun family elder, then summoned King Yama at the Zhao Clan Temple. King Yama appeared before him, and Lu Chen offered to give him a considerable portion of merit.

• Lu Chen inspected the neglected Zhao Clan Temple and agreed with Sun Qingcang to follow Master Tan's contract, earning thirty million if he succeeded.
• Lu Chen signed the contract, and his Fortune-Bringing Gold Ingot triggered, indicating that the contract would succeed.
• Lu Chen lit incense and recited the Yama Heart Mantra, sending a stream of vital essence to the Netherworld.
• King Yama received the incense offering, left his hall, and descended to the mortal realm.
• Black clouds and crimson flames gathered above the hut as King Yama appeared before Lu Chen, while Sun Qingcang's group watched from outside.
• Lu Chen greeted King Yama and offered him a considerable portion of merit.

Lu Chen tried to persuade King Yama to extend Sun Qingcang’s father’s life, but King Yama refused to violate the Book of Life and Death. Lu Chen offered to have Sun Qingcang’s family build him a temple and golden statue, and King Yama began considering an exception.

• King Yama angrily rejected Lu Chen’s request to extend the life of a mortal whose lifespan was nearly exhausted.
• King Yama suspected Lu Chen of being a spy from another Yama King, but Lu Chen swore that his deity-communing spells came from his ancestors.
• Lu Chen realized King Yama was suspicious and focused on finding something that would appeal to him.
• Lu Chen offered to arrange a grand temple and golden statue for King Yama through Sun Qingcang’s wealthy family.
• King Yama’s anger eased, and he said he might make an exception for Lu Chen’s request.

Lu Chen negotiated with King Yama over the incense offerings required for a temple and proposed supporting him at home to help spread worship of the Netherworld. King Yama agreed to consider Lu Chen as an adopted son if he could show results, then asked for a name to investigate.

• King Yama demanded ten thousand sticks of incense each day, while Lu Chen warned that mortal worshippers would be difficult to attract.
• Lu Chen bargained the demand down, but King Yama rejected his offer of ten sticks a day and prepared to leave.
• Lu Chen promised to invite King Yama into his home and promote the Netherworld so offerings could grow over time.
• Lu Chen called King Yama his adoptive father, and King Yama said they could discuss it again after Lu Chen showed results.
• King Yama asked Lu Chen to give him a person's name so he could investigate.

Lu Chen negotiated with King Yama to extend Sun Dechang’s life, securing seven days in exchange for agreeing to build a temple and attract worshippers. After telling the Sun family the result, Lu Chen spotted an opportunity to press Sun Qingcang for a greater reward.

• Lu Chen emerged from the hut and told Sun Qingcang that Sun Dechang could be saved, then returned inside to speak with King Yama.
• King Yama checked the Book of Life and Death, found that Sun Dechang had less than six hours left, and granted him seven days of life.
• King Yama told Lu Chen to build a temple and bring him worshippers in exchange for further lifespan extensions, and Lu Chen agreed to invite the deity home.
• Lu Chen told the Sun family that Sun Dechang had seven days left; Sun Xingwen complained, and Sun Qingcang forced him to apologize.
• Sun Qingcang asked Lu Chen to negotiate for more time and promised money, while Lu Chen noticed the patriarch’s enormous net worth.

Lu Chen secured Sun Qingcang’s support and five million yuan after arranging a deal with King Yama to extend the Sun family patriarch’s life. On the ride home, Lu Chen devised a plan to promote ancestor worship and Netherworld Currency, potentially gaining the thousand worshippers King Yama required.

• Lu Chen told Sun Qingcang that one thousand worshippers could earn the Sun family patriarch five more years of life, and Sun Qingcang promised his support.
• Sun Qingcang called Lu Chen his nephew, gave him five million yuan, and offered him a villa in Cloudtop Manor.
• Lu Chen and the Sun family visited the God Temple, where Lu Chen obtained statues of Lord God of Wealth and King Yama.
• Zhao Zhihong watched Lu Chen leave and resentfully remarked on his growing financial luck.
• Lu Chen decided to propose ancestor worship and an officially designated Netherworld Currency business to King Yama as a way to attract worshippers and Incense Fire.

Lord God of Wealth returned to the Heavenly Court and wondered at Lu Chen’s unusual ability to offer divine treasures, while Lu Chen returned home and told his mother about his recent encounters. After gaining her support to worship Lord God of Wealth and King Yama at the Sun family’s villa, Lu Chen prepared to ask King Yama to back his bid to become the Netherworld’s man in charge in the mortal world.

• Lord God of Wealth rewarded his remaining attendants with Heavenly Gold and suspected Lu Chen was favored by destiny after sensing someone had invited his divine statue.
• Lu Chen returned home with Lord God of Wealth’s statue and King Yama’s spirit tablet, then transferred one million yuan to Mother Lu.
• Lu Chen told Mother Lu about winning the lottery, meeting the Sun family, and saving their old master, while leaving out several details.
• Mother Lu worried about King Yama’s spirit tablet at home, but agreed Lu Chen could worship both gods at the Sun family’s villa and keep his secret from others.
• After eating, Lu Chen set up both divine tablets, lit incense before King Yama, and activated the Yama Heart Mantra to ask for his support.

Lu Chen persuaded King Yama to build the Netherworld’s mortal offerings through ancestor worship and demonstrated that he could send underworld currency across the divide. King Yama agreed to hear his terms, and Lu Chen declared that he wanted control over all the Netherworld’s Incense Fire affairs in the mortal realm.

• King Yama appeared in Lu Chen’s home, and Lu Chen asked him to make his entrances less frightening for his family.
• Lu Chen proposed letting descendants meet deceased relatives as a way to earn worshippers for the Netherworld.
• Lu Chen argued that mortals could honor their ancestors as well as worship gods, potentially securing the Netherworld all of their offerings.
• Lu Chen burned a Great Silver note and showed King Yama that he could directly provide underworld currency.
• King Yama invited Lu Chen to state his conditions, and Lu Chen demanded authority over every Netherworld Incense Fire matter in the mortal realm.

Lu Chen negotiated with King Yama to make his Netherworld Currency the sole valid currency for passage to the underworld, earning a divine office, power, and underworld agents. Just as he celebrated his new plans, Uncle Li saw King Yama’s memorial tablet in the Lu home and fled in terror, prompting Mother Lu to rush out.

• Lu Chen secured King Yama’s promise to recognize his Netherworld Currency and persuaded him to assign four underworld agents while granting him the title of Underworld Martial and Virtuous General.
• King Yama gave Lu Chen divine power, three additional years of life, and Yama’s Command Token, raising him to First-Grade Peak and setting a goal of gathering three thousand Incense Fire in three months.
• Lu Chen celebrated his gains and planned to expand his currency business and raise his family’s status.
• Father Lu returned home with Uncle Li, who spotted King Yama’s memorial tablet and screamed before tumbling down the stairs.
• Mother Lu rushed out, furious with Father Lu for exposing the family’s secret so soon.

Lu Chen faced the elders and neighbors who demanded he send King Yama away, insisting that both divine statues came from a God Temple and that he had made an agreement with King Yama. To prove his claims, he offered First Elder the chance to see his deceased daughter, Aunt Qiu, leaving the room stunned.

• Neighbors crowded into Lu Chen's home and accused him of bringing misfortune by keeping King Yama, while the elders demanded he send the statue back.
• Lu Chen thanked the elders for protecting the compound but said Lord God of Wealth had provided the money for the statues and he could not return King Yama.
• Lu Chen explained that he had agreed to help the Netherworld gather Incense Fire among the living, but the neighbors laughed at his claim.
• Mother Lu and Lu Wan testified that Lu Chen had spoken with King Yama, but the crowd still refused to believe them.
• Lu Chen reminded First Elder that his daughter Aunt Qiu had died and offered to let him see her again, shocking everyone.

Lu Chen summoned Black and White Impermanence so his First Uncle could meet his deceased daughter, Qiu Shu. After their brief reunion, First Uncle resolved to worship King Yama for another chance to see her.

• Lu Chen summoned Black and White Impermanence, revealing that he had reached First-Grade Peak and earned the title of Underworld Martial and Virtuous General.
• Black and White Impermanence identified Qiu Shu in the Virtue Register and brought her to meet First Uncle.
• First Uncle and Qiu Shu embraced, exchanged news about their family, and learned she had thirty years of yin lifespan before reincarnation.
• White Impermanence returned Qiu Shu to the underworld when their two minutes were up.
• Lu Chen advised First Uncle to visit the Sun Clan Temple and pray to King Yama, and Qiu Zhiguo promised to worship only him.

Lu Chen learned that his four grandparents had reincarnated, then organized a trip for his neighbors to worship King Yama and helped his father become the neighborhood’s managing uncle. After rewarding Black and White Impermanence and learning their names, he called Sun Yourong to tell her Sun Dechang would live and arrange transportation for the next day.

• White Impermanence found that Lu Chen’s paternal and maternal grandparents had reincarnated into kind families, though she could not disclose which ones.
• Lu Chen counted 109 neighbors who wanted to visit the God Temple and arranged buses to South City for the following morning.
• The three uncles asked Lu Jianming to become the neighborhood’s managing uncle, and Lu Jianming accepted after Lu Chen encouraged him.
• Lu Chen burned several Great Silver notes into Netherworld Currency and rewarded Black and White Impermanence, learning their names were Xie Qingyi and Fan Rusong.
• Lu Chen gave the two underworld officers the nicknames Xiao Qing and Xiao Ru, then called Sun Yourong to tell her Sun Dechang would not die yet and ask her to arrange vehicles.

Lu Chen secured 109 new worshippers for King Yama, giving Sun Dechang nearly a year of extra life. Meanwhile, the Zhao family's young master returned and ordered Lu Chen to be watched and taken out if necessary.

• Lu Chen called Sun Yourong and asked the Sun family to arrange buses for 109 residents of his compound to visit King Yama's temple.
• Sun Qingcang and his family realized the 109 worshippers could grant Sun Dechang 327 extra days, and they thanked Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen decided not to call his brother late at night and went to bed.
• Zhao Zhihong welcomed the Zhao family's young master, who blamed him for failing to secure the Sun family's favor and forced him to bark like a dog.
• The Zhao family's young master ordered Lu Chen placed under observation and said to take him out if necessary.

Lu Chen brought more than a hundred residents to the Sun Clan Temple, earning an extra reward and a villa from Sun Yourong before learning about upcoming academy reforms. When he prayed to the Thunder Ancestor, the deity rejected his offering, leaving Lu Chen injured and wondering why the backlash had struck.

• Lu Chen organized a convoy of residents from Southern Mountain Residential Compound, and Sun Yourong rewarded him with an extra five million and the keys to a villa.
• Sun Yourong told Lu Chen she worshipped the Giant Spirit God, had a 37% Divine Service Rating, and was an early Third Grade martial cultivator.
• Sun Yourong revealed that academies nationwide were preparing reforms that would let students accept missions in advance, starting with Lu Chen's class.
• Lu Chen and the packed convoy arrived at the Sun Clan Temple, where Sun Qingcang and the staff welcomed the residents for a special day of service.
• Lu Chen offered incense to the Thunder Ancestor, but the deity destroyed the stream of Incense Fire before it reached the Divine Empyrean Jade Palace.
• Lu Chen suddenly spat blood and realized he had suffered backlash from his first attempt to pray for blessings.

After suffering a mysterious backlash from praying to the Thunder Ancestor, Lu Chen visited the newly renovated Hall of Yama and bought a high-end Divine Service watch to test Netherworld Yin Gods. He secured Lord God of Wealth’s support for his Netherworld Currency business and reaffirmed his promise to build him a temple, ending with his resolve to make the Lu Clan Temple his.

• Sun Yourong told Lu Chen he could not test his rating for King Yama because the Sun Clan Temple lacked the necessary module, then showed him the renovated Hall of Yama, where worshippers reunited with their departed loved ones.
• Lu Chen and King Yama agreed that kind souls could communicate with the living, but evil souls and vicious ghosts must not be allowed to do so.
• On the way home, Lu Chen spotted a Star-Sea Divine Service Watch store and ordered its two-million-yuan flagship model, which could test Divine Service Ratings up to seventy percent and included Netherworld Yin God modules.
• Lu Chen told Lord God of Wealth about his plan to connect the Netherworld with the mortal world, and Lord God of Wealth promised to support his Netherworld Currency business.
• Lu Chen explained that he wanted to become New Nobility so he could build Lord God of Wealth a temple, and vowed that the Lu Clan Temple would be his.

Lu Chen prepared paper currency for his plans involving the Heavenly Court and Netherworld, then mastered Underworld Divine Lightning before heading to school on the morning of the reforms. At school, Li Ruoyi brought him breakfast, irritating the jealous Song Hao.

• Lu Chen finished 500,000 Heavenly Gold and two million Netherworld coins, planning to use some to win Lord God of Wealth's and King Yama's support.
• Lu Chen's parents refused to move into the villa, so he agreed to live there while leaving rooms for them and Lu Wan.
• Lu Chen comprehended Underworld Divine Lightning instantly and discovered it sent anything it struck directly to the Netherworld.
• Lu Chen woke eager for school and arrived at Jiangdu No. 3 Middle School, where Li Ruoyi brought him breakfast.
• Lu Chen pointed out Song Hao's gloomy, jealous expression to Li Ruoyi.

Lu Chen attended the Divine Service Rating Examination as City Lord Yu Feng announced a nationwide reform of Advanced Classes, including a new Special Class and early access to missions. The examination began with a strict 2% cutoff, and Lu Chen waited to see which of his Divine Service Ratings the school machines could detect.

• Song Hao threatened Lu Chen after Lu Chen mocked him, but backed down when Lu Chen challenged him to slam the table again.
• Li Ruoyi told Lu Chen that Zhao Clan Temple had drawn crowds after strange Netherworld phenomena and that she had raised her Divine Service Rating with Emperor Wenchang to 3%.
• The principal summoned the Advanced Classes to the field, where City Lord Yu Feng announced a nationwide reform and said Principal Zhang would explain the details.
• Principal Zhang announced that students below a 2% Divine Service Rating would be forced to graduate and that students could take missions early to earn rewards and military merit.
• The examination began, eliminating more than seventy percent of the students, while Lu Chen hoped the testing machines would detect only his rating with Lord God of Wealth.

Lu Chen’s assessment produced a Divine Service Rating of 50% for the Lord God of Wealth, stunning the Jiangdu City leaders and overturning the principal’s claim that he was a bottom-ranked student. The chapter ended with City Lord Yu Feng demanding an explanation from Principal Zhang.

• Yu Feng watched Li Ruoyi pass with a 3% rating and Song Hao pass with a 3.5% rating, while the principal wondered how Song Hao had improved so suddenly.
• Lu Chen stepped up for his test after the principal told Yu Feng that Lu Chen had scored only 0.5% in his previous assessment.
• The first testing machine displayed 50%, and the principal dismissed it as a malfunction and sent Lu Chen to another machine.
• The second machine also showed 50%, so Yu Feng personally tested Lu Chen on multiple machines, each of which returned the same result for the Lord God of Wealth.
• Yu Feng grabbed the horrified Principal Zhang by the collar and demanded to know how he could call Lu Chen dead last.

Lu Chen revealed a 50% Divine Service Rating, stunning the school and drawing City Lord Yu Feng’s interest. After learning that Special Class students earned doubled mission rewards, Lu Chen chose the S-rank drought mission in Dragon Lake County and announced he would take it.

• Lu Chen explained his 50% Divine Service Rating as a bond with the God of Wealth, and Yu Feng told Principal Zhang to continue the proceedings.
• Principal Zhang explained that students needed to complete at least one A-rank mission and one B-rank mission to enter the Special Class, whose members received doubled mission rewards.
• Lu Chen browsed the available missions and found an S-rank mission to bring rain to drought-stricken Dragon Lake County for 20 million yuan and 4,000 military merit points.
• When Principal Zhang urged students to focus on lower-ranked missions, Lu Chen asked whether he could accept one and declared he would take the S-rank mission.

Lu Chen accepted an S-rank rainmaking mission after paying its four-million deposit, then received an Origin Spirit Pill at the Heavenly Official's Blessing ceremony. Song Hao broke through to First Grade and challenged Lu Chen, leaving a duel looming.

• Lu Chen insisted on taking the S-rank mission despite warnings, and the principal revealed it required a four-million deposit and military merit.
• Lu Chen paid the deposit and accepted the mission, which Yu Feng personally presented to him.
• The top ten students received Origin Spirit Pills, and Lu Chen felt his magical power approach peak perfection.
• Song Hao broke through to early First Grade and asked Yu Feng to confirm that First Grade Spirit Cultivators could not refuse challenges.
• Song Hao challenged Lu Chen after Lu Chen stepped down from the stage.

Song Hao challenged Lu Chen to a spar, but Lu Chen revealed his Yama of the Underworld inheritance and overwhelmed the venue with terrifying nether qi. The chapter ended with Song Hao and the jeering students cowering before Lu Chen as he demanded that everyone kneel.

• Song Hao challenged Lu Chen to a spar, claiming Lu Chen could either apologize for calling him an idiot or fight him.
• City Lord Yu Feng said Lu Chen could decline the match, but Song Hao insisted on an apology and the crowd urged Lu Chen to spar.
• Lu Chen accepted and unleashed the Underworld Office Nether Qi, revealing his Yama of the Underworld inheritance and First-Grade Peak strength.
• Song Hao collapsed in terror and wet himself as Lu Chen approached, while the other students lost their nerve.
• Lu Chen asked who else dared to spar, then demanded that everyone kneel before him.