Recaps

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.

Lu Chen subdued Song Hao by manifesting King Yama’s power, then received a City Lord’s Token from Yu Feng. The chapter left Lu Chen heading off as Yu Feng wagered a rare treasure that he would succeed in the S-rank Dragon-Tiger County mission.

• Lu Chen withdrew his divine power after Song Hao fainted, and Principal Zhang sent the medical team to take him for treatment.
• Yu Feng praised Lu Chen for worshipping King Yama and asked whether he had caused the Netherworld phenomenon at the Zhao Clan Temple; Lu Chen admitted that he had.
• Yu Feng gave Lu Chen a City Lord’s Token, and Lu Chen accepted it before returning to the students below the stage.
• Principal Zhang announced that missions took priority and reminded the students that the Special Class had only twenty spots.
• Yu Feng wagered a section of Thousand-Year Flame Sun Bamboo that Lu Chen would complete the Dragon-Tiger County S-rank mission, while his subordinates bet against him.

Lu Chen accepted an S-rank assignment to investigate the drought in Dragon-Tiger County, and Sun Yourong joined him after revealing that she knew the hidden cause. As they headed there, Sun Yourong told Lu Chen that someone had slain a dragon.

• Lu Chen reassured Li Ruoyi about his transformation into King Yama, but told her their gap would only grow wider, leaving her crying and laughing in frustration.
• Lu Chen went home, packed for the assignment, and told his mother he would be away in Dragon-Tiger County.
• Sun Yourong met Lu Chen outside his home and persuaded him to let her accompany him by offering to explain the county’s real history.
• Sun Yourong told Lu Chen that the drought had lasted three years and that the truth had been concealed by the authorities.
• As they drove toward Dragon-Tiger County, Sun Yourong revealed that someone had slain a dragon.

Sun Yourong told Lu Chen how the Four Seas Dragon Kings destroyed the River Dragon Kings and how a Spirit Cultivator avenged them by slaying the East Sea Dragon King's thirteenth son, leaving Dragon-Tiger County cursed with thirty years without rain. The S-class mission was deliberately understated and seemed nearly impossible, but Lu Chen confidently declared he would find another way to make it rain.

• Sun Yourong explained that the Four Seas Dragon Kings expanded their power by subjugating and slaughtering River Dragon Kings, while the Heavenly Court did little to protect them.
• Sun Yourong said a Spirit Cultivator descended from River Dragon King worshippers killed the East Sea Dragon King's thirteenth son at Great Dragon Pool three years earlier, then died from his wounds.
• Sun Yourong recounted how the East Sea Dragon King demanded the culprit, received only the Dragon-Slaying Sword, and ultimately swore to withhold rain from Dragon-Tiger County for thirty years after a Great Sage intervened.
• Sun Yourong explained that officials rated the mission S-class and concealed its full story to preserve hope for Dragon-Tiger County and prevent wider conflict.
• Lu Chen said he was frustrated that the mission's low rating meant a smaller reward, then claimed he could solve the drought by having the Western Depot do what the Eastern Depot would not.

Lu Chen and Sun Yourong arrived in drought-stricken Dragon-Tiger County, where Sun explained why other water gods could not bring rain and why the county’s divine-statue industry depended on ending the drought. At the government office, Lu Chen met rival rain-prayer specialists and declared that worshipping the God of Wealth could help him pray for water, then challenged one who mocked him.

• Sun Yourong told Lu Chen that the Dragon King’s formation prevented anyone without dragon blood from summoning rain, and explained Dragon-Tiger County’s expertise in making divine statues.
• Lu Chen realized that the county’s drought threatened his future plans to establish a shrine, while Sun said her family hoped the divine-statue trade would recover.
• Lu Chen and Sun arrived at the county government office, where Director Tian introduced them to Secretary Wang, Clan Chief Chen, and two outsiders known as Master Ling Shui.
• Lu Chen said he worshipped the God of Wealth and argued that wealth was water, so he could pray for rain; Master Ling Shui laughed at him.
• Lu Chen confronted Master Ling Shui and asked what he was laughing at.

Master Ling Shui demonstrated his rain-summoning art to persuade Wang Shuji and Chief Chen to trade the Chen clan’s treasures for his help with Dragon-Tiger County’s drought. Lu Chen and Sun Yourong recognized that the rain was poisoned dead water, exposing Master Ling Shui as an evil cultivator.

• Master Ling Shui revealed his Third Grade Spirit Cultivator strength, but Sun Yourong matched him and forced him to back down.
• Master Ling Shui demanded the Qilin Saber and the Profound God-Communion Canon, while Sun Yourong explained their power to enhance the Chen family’s divine statues.
• Wang Shuji persuaded Chief Chen to let Master Ling Shui demonstrate his abilities before deciding whether to bargain.
• Master Ling Shui used a blood-marked flag to summon clouds and drizzle over the county yamen, and the drought-stricken onlookers celebrated.
• Lu Chen and Sun Yourong realized the rain was dead water tainted with evil energy, and Wang Shuji confronted Master Ling Shui about his deception.

Master Ling Shui tried to pressure Dragon-Tiger County’s leaders into trading Chen Clan treasures for rain, but Lu Chen refused to give up on his mission and went to investigate the dried-up Great Dragon Pool. He considered asking the Star Lord of Water Virtue for help, then wondered whether to call his influential Big Brother for reinforcements.

• Master Ling Shui left after warning Secretary Wang and Chen Tiansheng that they could contact him about his conditions, while the townspeople urged the leaders to accept his rain.
• Wang Zhongmin and Chen Tiansheng discussed the dangers of Master Ling Shui’s rain and the public pressure they might face, then considered offering him the Profound God-Communion Canon instead of the Qilin Saber.
• Lu Chen told Wang Zhongmin he would keep trying to solve the drought and borrowed Sun Yourong’s car to investigate the county.
• Lu Chen drove through Dragon-Tiger County’s water-starved landscape and examined the dried Great Dragon Pool, where the Dragon King’s rain-banishing formation had been established.
• Lu Chen considered asking the Star Lord of Water Virtue to intervene, then thought about calling his Big Brother for help before deciding he might not want to do so.

Lu Chen summoned the local Land God to learn about the dragons once living in Dragon-Tiger County and find a way to end the drought. He learned that the East Sea Dragon King destroyed the Xu River Dragon King's clan, but another dragon—the Well Dragon King—still lived nearby.

• Lu Chen decided not to ask his brother to incur heavy favors and resolved to find another dragon who could summon rain.
• After stumbling near the dried-up Great Dragon Pool, Lu Chen spotted a buried Land God shrine and summoned its occupant with incense.
• Lu Chen showed the Land God Yama's Command Token and asked him about Dragon-Tiger County's history and surviving dragons.
• The Land God said the East Sea Dragon King had destroyed the Xu River Dragon King's aquatic clan and palace.
• The Land God revealed that a Well Dragon King lived in a deep well on a barren mountain about fifty li away and offered to lead Lu Chen there.

Lu Chen and Lord of the Land traveled underground to meet the reclusive Well Dragon King, whom Lu Chen persuaded to emerge by revealing his divine credentials and Yanluo form. After seeing the impoverished Dragon King, Lu Chen asked Lord of the Land to fetch his backpack, preparing to make use of it.

• Lord of the Land used Earth-Escape Technique to take Lu Chen to the Well Dragon King's hidden water manor and explained the dragon's fearful, impoverished circumstances.
• Lu Chen worried that his forces might not be able to defeat the true dragon, but decided to meet him anyway.
• Lord of the Land called the Well Dragon King out at a dry well, but the dragon doubted Lu Chen's importance because he had not reached Second Rank.
• Lu Chen showed the Well Dragon King the Fortune-Bringing Gold Ingot and assumed his Yanluo form, prompting the dragon to emerge and bow respectfully.
• After noticing the Well Dragon King's ragged clothes and bare feet, Lu Chen asked Lord of the Land to fetch the backpack from his car.

Lu Chen visited the Well Dragon King beneath a dried-up well to ask him to bring rain to Dragon-Tiger County, but the dragon feared the East Sea Dragon King and lacked the power to do so. Lu Chen offered to protect him, restore his cultivation and incense offerings, and make him the new Xu River Dragon King, and the Well Dragon King agreed to help if Lu Chen fulfilled those promises.

• Lu Chen gave the Well Dragon King and the Earth God magically transformed robes and boots before entering the Spring Source Water Palace beneath the well.
• Lu Chen asked the Well Dragon King to bring rain to Dragon-Tiger County, but the dragon refused because he feared the East Sea Dragon King and had lost most of his magic power.
• Lu Chen offered to resolve the threat, restore the Well Dragon King's cultivation with merit, and secure him worshippers, a temple, and the title of Xu River Dragon King.
• The Well Dragon King accepted Lu Chen's offer and vowed to protect Dragon-Tiger County and provide rain if Lu Chen freed him from his troubles.

Lu Chen secured the Well Dragon King’s support to end Dragon-Tiger County’s drought, then returned to find a furious crowd pressuring the county to make a deal with Master Ling Shui. He offered a different way to bring real rain and asked Chen Tiansheng to make a statue of Lord God of Wealth, leaving the plan ready to proceed.

• Lu Chen left the Well Dragon King after securing his agreement, and the Lord of the Land gave him a token to summon him in Dragon-Tiger County.
• Lu Chen found a crowd protesting outside the county office and demanding that officials accept Master Ling Shui’s offer to pray for rain.
• Wang Zhongmin and Chen Tiansheng considered negotiating with Master Ling Shui, while Sun Yourong warned against giving him the Profound God-Communion Canon.
• Lu Chen announced that he could bring real rain by worshipping the Well Dragon King, though he said his plan was only forty percent certain.
• Chen Tiansheng said he could handcraft the needed Lord God of Wealth statue, and Lu Chen urged him to make it quickly.