Recaps

Sima Zhao decided to accept the possible loss of Ma Huainan’s Divine Kingdom and sent a valuable gift to Lu Mingshi to ease tensions. Meanwhile, Yang Fan learned how Gu Le planned to use the Gu Family’s wealth and influence to secure Gu Chengye’s future, leaving him reflecting on how privilege gave children a head start.

• Sima Yurou left the Virtual World after Sima Zhao agreed that their message should reach Sima Tianci and vowed not to risk his Divine Kingdom’s resources for reputation.
• Sima Zhao ordered a fifty-thousand-Divinity-Point gift for Lu Mingshi’s birthday banquet and considered repairing their relationship despite their conflict.
• Yang Fan visited Gu Le and Gu Chengye in Primordial City, where Gu Le served him tea made with violet spirit water she had obtained from her father.
• Yang Fan asked what Gu Chengye was learning, and Gu Le explained that she prioritized his enjoyment and etiquette while arranging expert support for his future Divine Kingdom.
• Gu Le described plans to provide Gu Chengye with a ninth-tier artificial lifeform, companies, and high-grade Resource Buildings, and Yang Fan reflected on the advantages children of powerful parents received.

Yang Fan received Sima Tianci, who brought him confidential details of the Sima Family’s peace proposal in the Divine Kingdom War. Yang Fan denied any involvement in the attack on Ma Huainan’s Divine Kingdom, then claimed he had hired Lu Mingshi for his strength, leaving Sima Tianci to hear his shamelessly business-minded explanation.

• Yang Fan left the Virtual World and let Sima Tianci into his home, where Sima Tianci relaxed on a massage chair and said he had come to hide from his Lineage’s assignments.
• Sima Tianci showed Yang Fan a recording of Sima Zhao’s meeting, where the Sima Family demanded withdrawal, requested subsidies, and proposed compensation of one thousand S-Class Resource Buildings.
• Yang Fan denied that the matter concerned him and asked Sima Tianci to vouch for his innocence, saying he had only recently reached the Godhood Realm.
• Yang Fan acknowledged hiring Lu Mingshi as a Yang Group consultant and said he had recruited him after learning of his strength in Ma Huainan’s Divine Kingdom War.

Sima Tianci warned Yang Fan that the Sima Family’s support for Ma Huainan’s war would soon run out, while privately realizing Yang Fan was far more dangerous and capable than he had expected. As the battle dragged on, disease and pollution ravaged Ma Huainan’s Divine Kingdom and the Sima Family’s reinforcements began to resent the growing costs.

• Sima Tianci told Yang Fan that the family subsidies would end in five days and the Sima-backed gods could sustain the fighting for only about ten more days.
• After leaving the Lu Family Villa, Sima Tianci reconsidered Yang Fan’s strength and schemes, concluding that he could be a friend but should never be trusted too closely.
• Yang Fan discarded his electronic screen and considered deducing the Divine Kingdom Coordinates of the Third-Order Gods supporting Ma Huainan, intending to attack them later when the time was right.
• The battle inside Ma Huainan’s Divine Kingdom remained locked near the Divine Kingdom Core as both sides poured in supplies and suffered heavy losses.
• Rotting corpses spread plague and pollution across the Divine Kingdom, while war costs and food shortages prompted the Sima Family’s supporting gods to complain to Sima Jin.
• Ma Huainan’s believers grew sick, emaciated, and listless, and the prolonged war and polluted environment drove down birth rates despite his use of Breeding Cards.

Ma Huainan begged Qin Xue for more money to save his failing Divine Kingdom, but she rejected him and set out to recover what she could from his debts. Back in the real world, Ma Huainan found that nearly everyone in his contacts had already lent him money, leaving his prospects bleak.

• Sima Jin doubted whether Ma Huainan was still worth saving as the Sima Family gods discussed his ruined Divine Kingdom and the medicines keeping his believers alive.
• Ma Huainan knelt before Qin Xue and begged her for another loan, but she discovered his assets were frozen or pledged and threw him out.
• Qin Xue ordered Number Six to seek a government freeze on Ma Huainan's remaining assets and pursue lawsuits against the microloan companies.
• Ma Huainan awoke in the real world looking aged and haggard from the damage to his Divine Kingdom.
• Ma Huainan scrolled through his contacts and saw the words [Already borrowed] beside almost every familiar name.

Ma Huainan hid his worsening Divine Kingdom crisis from his worried parents, then asked an intelligent robot for braised ribs that tasted like his mother’s cooking. At the Frontline, Sima Jin concluded that Sima Zhao would not pay for further war losses and ordered the Sima Family gods to withdraw.

• Ma Huainan called his parents, reassured them that he was fine, and concealed how badly his situation had deteriorated.
• After the call, Ma Huainan’s parents worried about him and his mother said she would make his favorite braised ribs when he came home.
• Ma Huainan asked an intelligent robot to make braised ribs with the taste of his mother’s cooking, then requested to be left alone.
• Sima Family gods complained that Sima Zhao had not sent the promised Divinity Points and suspected he had abandoned support for Ma Huainan’s defense.
• Sima Jin said the Lineage had reached its limit for supporting the war and ordered the gods to withdraw.

After the Sima Family's supporters withdrew from Ma Huainan's Divine Kingdom, Yang Fan's Zombie Army occupied its core and won the war. Back at home, Yang Fan learned that Lu Wan was pregnant, strengthening his bond with the Lu Family.

• A Third-Order God and the other Sima Family supporters withdrew their followers from Ma Huainan's Divine Kingdom after the war's costs became too great.
• At dinner, Lu Wan gave Yang Fan a Female God Pregnancy Test Certificate and told him they were having a baby.
• Yang Fan celebrated Lu Wan's pregnancy and carried her upstairs to rest.
• Yang Da reported that the Sima Family's forces had withdrawn and Yang Fan's army had occupied Ma Huainan's core, winning the war.

Yang Fan ordered his forces to invade the Black Armored Beetle Clan’s Divine Kingdom after the battle, intending to grow stronger through war. As Ma Huainan’s ruined Divine Kingdom neared its end, Yang Fan ignored his pleas and waited for him to die so he could claim the Divine Kingdom Core.

• Yang Fan praised his forces and ordered Yang Si and the others to begin invading the Black Armored Beetle Clan’s Divine Kingdom after the battle.
• Ma Huainan appeared in his dying Divine Kingdom and asked to meet Lu Mingshi before he died.
• Ma Huainan received no response and lamented that no one would defend him now that his Divine Kingdom and believers were almost destroyed.
• Ma Huainan raged over Yang Fan’s success and demanded to know why his own life and ambitions had to end.
• Yang Fan watched Ma Huainan’s despair from within the Divine Kingdom Core and waited for him to die so he could take the Core.

Yang Fan’s army destroyed Ma Huainan’s Divine Kingdom, killing its final believers and causing Ma Huainan to die in the Real World. With the conflict over, Sima Yurou and Sima Zhao discussed recovering Ma Huainan’s remaining assets and meeting Yang Fan to seek cooperation.

• Yang Fan’s Zombie Army bombarded Ma Huainan’s last city, killing the believers who defended it.
• Ma Huainan’s consciousness vanished from his Divine Kingdom, and his body dissolved in the Sima Family’s villa.
• Yang Fan ordered Yang Da to retrieve Ma Huainan’s Divine Kingdom Core and withdraw the troops.
• Sima Yurou and Sima Zhao received confirmation of Ma Huainan’s death and discussed suing to recover his remaining assets.
• Sima Zhao proposed taking Sima Yurou to meet Yang Fan and pursue cooperation.

After Ma Huainan’s death, Sima Yurou arranged to recover his assets for his parents and hire a demigod to protect them. Lu Mingshi rejected the flood of new offers and matchmaking requests, then learned his mother expected him at a birthday banquet and asked his artificial lifeform to request the cash gifts instead.

• Sima Yurou ordered a legal-specialist artificial lifeform to investigate Ma Huainan’s assets, transfer recovered funds to his parents, and hire a demigod to protect them.
• Sima Yurou requested a male model resembling her ex-husband and chose a demigod because gods cost too much.
• News of Lu Mingshi’s strength spread through the Five Great Families, and he received over a thousand friend requests.
• Lu Mingshi rejected all the job offers and matchmaking requests, recalling how those people had dismissed him and his Corpse Cultivation path before.
• Lu Mingshi told his artificial lifeform he was content with his Yang Group income and did not need a part-time job.
• Lu Mingshi declined his mother’s birthday banquet invitation and asked her to send him the cash gifts while his father handled the return gifts.

Yang Fan reviewed the aftermath of the Divine Kingdom war, ordered restraint regarding the newly discovered coordinates, and rewarded Lingxu Zi and Yang Shi. The chapter left Lingxu Zi newly devoted as a god and Yang Shi set to receive an upgrade.

• Yang Da reported that the believers had withdrawn to the Eternal Corpse Mine and that Ma Huainan's Divine Kingdom Core had yielded coordinates for four gods, including Sima Yurou.
• Yang Fan ordered the coordinates recorded and all invasions postponed for the time being.
• Yang Da reported that Lingxu Zi had become a First-Order God after receiving resources from smaller Divine Kingdom Cores.
• Yang Fan tasked Lingxu Zi with gathering intelligence alongside Yang Si and promised rewards for valuable information.
• Yang Fan praised Yang Shi's command of the war and promised enough Mechanical Hearts to upgrade him into a fifth-order artificial lifeform.

After the victory over Ma Huainan, Yang Fan prepared his Divine Kingdom for larger future wars and absorbed the captured Divine Kingdom Cores to expand his power. As Ma Huainan’s Divine Kingdom collapsed, its land was incorporated into Yang Fan’s realm, where the lingering zombie virus began killing vegetation.

• Yang Fan instructed Yang Da to reward successful commanders with Mechanical Hearts and prepare War-Type Artificial Lifeforms to assist with future wars.
• Yang Fan summoned the stored Divine Kingdom Cores and absorbed the demigod-level cores, gaining numerous mostly low-ranked Divine Kingdom Talents.
• Yang Fan pressed his hand to Ma Huainan’s Divine Kingdom Core and absorbed its origin energy, experiencing a profound transformation in his strength and existence.
• Ma Huainan’s ruined Divine Kingdom collapsed, and part of its land was drawn into Yang Fan’s Divine Kingdom.
• The transferred land remained contaminated by the zombie virus, causing vegetation to wither and gray-black patches to spread.

Yang Fan absorbed Ma Huainan’s Divine Kingdom Core and gained the S-Rank [Myriad Martial Saint Body], a talent that strengthened believers and let them inherit martial legacies. After considering how it could accelerate the Myriad Forms Martial Court, he began fusing his lower-grade talents and saw the process finish.

• Immortal qi swept across Yang Fan’s newly expanded Divine Kingdom, purifying the zombie virus and restoring the land.
• Yang Fan checked his Divine Kingdom talents and found that Ma Huainan’s [War God Physique] had evolved into [Myriad Martial Saint Body].
• Yang Da displayed the talent’s records, revealing that it improved believers’ martial aptitude and let them inherit high-level Martial Artists’ insights and some of their strength.
• Yang Fan concluded that the talent could help the Myriad Forms Martial Court catch up with the Immortal Alliance and possibly produce a powerhouse beyond the Martial Emperor realm.
• Yang Fan used [Origin Evolution] to fuse his low-grade Divine Kingdom talents, and the fusion finished after a few breaths.

Yang Fan discovered that fusing ordinary demigod Divine Kingdom Cores had barely strengthened most of his talents, though his Myriad Martial Saint Body had improved somewhat. Yang Da explained that his new Soul Seed talent could preserve dead believers’ souls, opening the possibility of exploring Ghost Cultivation, and Yang Fan learned the path’s requirements and risks.

• Yang Fan examined his Divine Kingdom panel and concluded that ordinary Divine Kingdom Cores offered little talent growth, though he would continue collecting them for their coordinates and low cost.
• Yang Fan asked Yang Da about his new Soul Seed talent, and Yang Da explained that it could slow the dissipation of believers’ souls after death.
• Yang Da told Yang Fan that preserved souls might pursue Ghost Cultivation if they had suitable cultivation methods and conditions.
• Yang Da presented a Federation research document describing Ghost Cultivation’s requirements, strengths, and dangers, including its heavy resource demands and high risk of permanent death.
• Yang Fan learned that the Federation recommended only small-scale Ghost Cultivation experiments, despite offering rewards for valuable research findings.

Yang Fan ordered the expansion of his Divine Kingdom and the exchange of military merit for powerful S-Class Buildings, then learned that the Warfront Starfield Chamber of Commerce wanted to buy the Yang Group’s resources. Ma Yu reported that the deal had raised the group’s liquid funds to five quadrillion Divinity Points, and began explaining the chamber’s strict membership requirements.

• Yang Fan directed Yang Da to replenish Divine Kingdom supplies, prepare an invasion of the Black Armored Beetle Clan, and spend military merit on top-tier S-Class Buildings.
• Yang Fan left his Divine Kingdom and entered the Virtual World while Lu Wan continued sleeping.
• Ma Yu met Yang Fan at the Yang Group headquarters and reported that the Warfront Starfield Chamber of Commerce would buy the group’s resources at market prices.
• Ma Yu told Yang Fan that the Yang Group now had five quadrillion Divinity Points in liquid funds.
• Ma Yu explained that starfield chambers of commerce served large enterprises and required firms to rank among the starfield’s top five hundred, along with passing further reviews and certifications.

Ma Yu told Yang Fan that the Yang Group had received an unexpected invitation to join the Warfront Starfield Chamber of Commerce, and Yang Fan suspected Lu Wan had arranged it. He warned Ma Yu that wealth was only a tool for gaining influence and mobilizing resources, not a goal worth sacrificing the strength of a divine kingdom for.

• Ma Yu reported that the Yang Group had passed the Chamber of Commerce review and gained access to its sales and procurement channels, though it did not meet the usual membership requirements.
• Yang Fan and Ma Yu concluded that an influential figure had arranged the invitation, and Yang Fan guessed that Lu Wan had helped him in secret.
• Ma Yu proposed using the Chamber of Commerce to sell earthcore spirit marrow at a profit, and Yang Fan asked him what a corporate group was for.
• Ma Yu answered that a group existed to make money, and Yang Fan explained that wealth was a tool for building influence, gaining a voice, and mobilizing resources.
• Yang Fan warned that gods who prioritized investments over their believers could lose everything if their divine kingdom coordinates were exposed.

Yang Fan told Ma Yu to use the Yang Group’s money and resources to build influence and pursue the ambition of making the Yang Family the Human Federation’s Sixth Great Family. Meanwhile, Yang Fan gained new Divine Kingdom assets and left Yang Si’s forces to begin a war against a Black Armored Beetle Clan god.

• Yang Fan told Ma Yu that he valued the Yang Group’s influence and expansion more than its profits, and set the goal of making the Yang Family the Federation’s Sixth Great Family.
• Ma Yu doubted that a newly established company could challenge the Five Great Families and prepared to rewrite the Yang Group’s development plan.
• Yang Fan reflected that he needed influence and connections more than Divinity Points, but could not reveal to Ma Yu that his stores of wealth were already abundant.
• Yang Fan sensed that Yang Da had redeemed three [Heavenly Courts] and one [War God Codex] through the Han Family’s military merit system and loaded them into the Divine Kingdom.
• Yang Si assembled the Divine Kingdom’s forces and began a war against a Black Armored Beetle Clan god, while Yang Fan chose not to intervene.

Yang Fan ordered Ma Yu to invest the Yang Group’s wealth in essential industries, acquire Life Stars, and cultivate young talent despite the low returns. In the Real World, Sima Zhao and Sima Yurou requested a visit, apparently hoping to ease tensions after Ma Huainan’s Divine Kingdom was destroyed.

• Yang Fan approved Ma Yu’s revised plan and gave him more leeway to buy assets at reasonable prices.
• Yang Fan directed the Yang Group to invest in spacecraft, spatial Wormholes, energy, and food, and explained that these industries would build influence and connections.
• Yang Fan told Ma Yu to buy Life Stars and establish schools there to find and train talented young people.
• Ma Yu worried that investing five hundred trillion Divinity Points in low-return industries would waste the Yang Group’s resources and put his position at risk.
• Lu Wan told Yang Fan that Sima Zhao and Sima Yurou had requested a visit, and explained that Sima Zhao likely wanted to ease tensions now that Ma Huainan was no longer a shared source of conflict.

Yang Fan agreed to meet Sima Zhao and welcomed him and Sima Yurou to his villa, where the two men quickly established a friendly relationship over dinner. Sima Yurou then stood to apologize to Yang Fan for her ex-husband’s actions.

• Lu Wan told Yang Fan that Sima Zhao wanted to meet him, and Yang Fan agreed to receive him.
• Sima Zhao contacted Gu Tianyu as an intermediary, prompting Yang Fan to prepare a formal welcome.
• Sima Zhao and Sima Yurou arrived at Yang Fan and Lu Wan’s villa, where Yang Fan welcomed Sima Zhao as his big brother.
• Yang Fan, Lu Wan, and Sima Zhao chatted over dinner while Sima Yurou remained reserved.
• Sima Yurou stood and told Yang Fan that her ex-husband’s actions had nothing to do with her, then apologized in person.

Yang Fan and Sima Zhao resolved their tension over Ma Huainan by exchanging gifts, with Yang Fan receiving the deed to Short King Planet. After Sima Zhao and Sima Yurou left, Sima Zhao opened Yang Fan’s gift and froze at what he found inside.

• Sima Yurou apologized to Yang Fan, who denied any involvement in Ma Huainan’s death, and Sima Zhao backed his explanation as a misunderstanding.
• Sima Zhao criticized Ma Huainan for violating Federation law, then gave Yang Fan the deed to Short King Planet as a wedding gift.
• Yang Fan accepted the deed and presented Sima Zhao with a pale gold metal box, which Sima Zhao accepted as a sign of goodwill.
• Sima Zhao and Sima Yurou left Yang Fan’s villa, and Sima Zhao told his sister that Yang Fan was shameless for denying responsibility for Ma Huainan’s death.
• Sima Zhao opened the metal box aboard the Airship, extended his spiritual power inside, and froze in shock.

Sima Zhao recognized the enlightenment tea Yang Fan gave him as a gift worth five trillion Divinity Points and decided to maintain good relations, while Yang Fan privately planned to invade Sima Yurou's Divine Kingdom someday. After relaxing at Heavenly Fragrance Haven, Yang Fan returned to the war against the Black Armored Beetle Divine Kingdom, where his forces had swept through the outer region and were advancing toward the core.

• Sima Zhao valued Yang Fan's enlightenment tea at five trillion Divinity Points, and Sima Yurou compared his generosity with Ma Huainan's stinginess.
• Yang Fan watched Sima Zhao's flying ship leave and admitted he wanted to seem less suspicious before invading Sima Yurou's Divine Kingdom in the future.
• Yang Fan visited Heavenly Fragrance Haven to relax while Lu Wan was pregnant and under Lu Yanran's restrictions.
• Yang Fan entered his Divine Kingdom and learned from Yang Da that his forces had lost about twenty billion mostly low-level believers while conquering the Black Armored Beetle Divine Kingdom's outer region.
• Yang Fan observed the Black Armored Beetle Clan's armored, flying swarms as his forces prepared to advance toward the enemy's Divine Kingdom Core.

Yang Fan watched the Zombie Legion turn the tide against the Black Armored Beetle Clan while reflecting on his growing detachment from believers’ deaths. Yang Da explained that the war was also meant to manage population growth and improve the Divine Kingdom’s population quality, and Yang Fan approved the plan while insisting that the believers’ ideological work be handled properly.

• Yang Fan saw the Zombie Legion infect Black Armored Beetle Clan members and judged that developing multiple military paths had paid off.
• Yang Fan reflected that the deaths of enormous numbers of believers had dulled his emotions, though he still cherished his family in the Real World.
• Yang Fan asked Yang Da why he had not deployed the S-Rank War Weapons to reduce casualties.
• Yang Da said he and Yang Yi planned to use the war to ease population pressure in the Main Divine Kingdom and address population aging in the five great Mystic-Rank Secret Realms.
• Yang Da complained that the Black Armored Beetle Clan was too weak to cause the desired losses, while victory was already near.
• Yang Fan left Divine Kingdom development to Yang Da and Yang Yi but ordered Yang Da to ensure the believers’ ideological work was handled properly.

Yang Fan learned that Yang Da had prepared the Divine Kingdom for war and was researching a weak ghost-cultivation path, then left its affairs to his subordinates. A month later, the Divine Kingdom had advanced three thousand years, and its martial faction was nearing the Immortal Alliance’s strength.

• Yang Da assured Yang Fan that war preparations, compensation, and ideological education were in place, and Yang Fan told him to continue recruiting Subordinate Gods and expanding the Divine Kingdom.
• Yang Fan discovered hundreds of thousands of ghost cultivators and learned from Yang Da that they were weak souls produced through the Soul Seed talent, but that Yang Yi was researching ways to improve them.
• Yang Fan let Yang Da continue investing in ghost cultivation, then withdrew his consciousness from the Divine Kingdom and focused on the broader direction of its development.
• A month passed on the Frontline, corresponding to three thousand years in the Divine Kingdom, as high-level believers increased and the Myriad Forms Martial Court began to rival the Immortal Alliance.
• Newborn believers increasingly displayed exceptional martial talent, including the myriad martial saint body.

Yang Da explained that Yang Fan’s believers had advanced unusually quickly because of his Divine Kingdom’s rich environment, while its incomplete rules still made breakthroughs to higher realms difficult. Yang Fan learned that his Nascent Soul, Martial Emperor, and fourth-tier mechanical believers counted as his core fighting force, far beyond what was typical for a First-Order God.

• Yang Fan observed that the Myriad Forms Martial Court had produced more than ten million Martial Emperor realm believers and wondered why none of his believers had advanced to a new realm.
• Yang Da explained that Yang Fan’s Divine Kingdom had a top-tier cultivation environment, but its rules limited how far believers could progress.
• Yang Da described the realm classifications across the Immortal Cultivation, Martial Arts, and Mechanical Paths and said a typical First-Order God’s core fighting force consisted of Qi Refining believers.
• Yang Fan challenged Yang Da’s account by recalling that Han Jue, Qin Zheng, and the others had used stronger believers during a secret realm expedition.
• Yang Da clarified that the expedition forces were unusually powerful and confirmed that Yang Fan’s Nascent Soul, Martial Emperor, and fourth-tier artificial lifeform believers counted as his core fighting force.

Yang Fan discussed his Divine Kingdom’s strength and his cautious plans for invading other gods, while Yang Da predicted the Black Armored Beetle Clan would fall within a year. Yang Fan’s leisure was interrupted when Gu Le messaged that she and Chengye had arrived at the Frontline and were waiting for him to pick them up.

• Yang Da assessed that Yang Fan’s Divine Kingdom could face an ordinary fourth-order god and that its vast resources made it exceptionally wealthy.
• Yang Fan explained that he was waiting to target other gods’ Divine Kingdoms because invading Human Federation gods could expose him and provoke the Sima Family.
• Yang Da said the Black Armored Beetle Clan’s Divine Kingdom Core would be secured within a year and confirmed that no other gods were supporting the clan.
• Yang Fan relaxed in his villa until Gu Le messaged that she and Chengye had arrived at the Frontline.
• Yang Fan remembered Gu Le’s earlier warning and hurried out to pick them up.

Yang Fan met Gu Le at the Frontline after she arrived with Gu Chengye and Aunt Li, then brought them to Lu Wan’s villa. Gu Le and Lu Wan agreed to live together as a family, leaving Yang Fan relieved by their harmony.

• Yang Fan arrived at the Frontline to wait for Gu Le and spoke with Gu Jiuheng, who asked how to find a wealthy wife to support him.
• Gu Le arrived with the sleeping Gu Chengye and Aunt Li, and she greeted Yang Fan affectionately.
• Gu Le declined Gu Jiuheng’s offer of a Gu Family villa and said she would stay with Lu Wan.
• Yang Fan brought Gu Le and Gu Chengye to Lu Wan’s villa, where Lu Wan congratulated Gu Le on becoming a god.
• Lu Wan offered a nanny robot to care for Gu Chengye, and she and Gu Le agreed to treat each other as sisters and live together harmoniously.