Recaps

Yang Fan reviewed Ning Bailian’s records and decided to give the hardworking young employee an opportunity. He summoned Ning Bailian to the Yang Group headquarters, where Ning expressed his gratitude for the help Yang Fan had given his family and revealed that his hard work was his way of repaying that kindness.

• Yang Fan examined Ning Bailian’s work and personal records, considered his character, and sent him a message offering him an opportunity.
• Ning Bailian joked with his two younger sisters while cooking and reassured them that their family’s situation was improving.
• Minister Li urgently summoned Ning Bailian and instructed him to log into the Virtual World.
• Ning Bailian appeared at the Yang Group headquarters, recognized Yang Fan, and formally greeted him as Chairman Yang.
• Yang Fan asked about Ning Bailian’s sisters, and Ning explained that his family was doing well and that he had worked hard to repay Yang Fan’s past kindness.

Yang Fan offered Ning Bailian a chance to serve him in exchange for support and his family’s divine kingdom coordinates. Ning Bailian accepted, and Yang Fan gave him ownership of Soul Star and resources before sending him to begin his new life there.

• Yang Fan warned Ning Bailian that his plan could violate Federation law and demanded the coordinates of his Divine Kingdom, but Ning Bailian agreed without hesitation.
• Yang Fan promised to educate and nurture Ning Bailian and his two younger sisters, provided they followed his conditions and surrendered their divine kingdom coordinates.
• Ning Bailian explained how the Rao Family’s abuses ruined his family and said he would rather gamble on serving a powerful backer than repeat his father’s mistakes.
• Yang Fan told Ning Bailian to call him Brother Yang and gave him a document transferring ownership of Soul Star, along with one hundred trillion Divinity Points.
• Ning Bailian signed the transfer document, left the virtual space, and Yang Fan sent a message to Ma Yu.

Ning Bailian denied meeting anyone in the Virtual World, while Yang Fan secretly arranged for the Ning siblings to move to the Southern Sky Star Region. After Yang Fan reaffirmed his plans to expand the Yang Group, he entered his Divine Kingdom to hear Yang Da’s report on a building found on the Dark Web.

• Ning Bailian told Minister Li that he had met no important figure in the Virtual World, and Minister Li left believing he should give Ning easier work.
• A hidden attacker killed Minister Li, while Third-Order Gods at Yang Group headquarters reported purging people, organizations, and data connected to Ning Bailian.
• Ning Bailian’s sisters saw through his claim that he was a Planetary Lord and teased him for his unconvincing lie.
• Ma Yu told Yang Fan that arrangements were complete to send the three Ning siblings to the Southern Sky Star Region and described the security and company setup there.
• Yang Fan instructed Ma Yu to keep acquiring assets and Life Planets, then entered his Divine Kingdom, where Yang Da reported finding a suitable building on the Dark Web.

Yang Fan learned that the Calamity Pearl could generate disasters and negative emotions to support Wraith Race cultivation, then installed it in his Divine Kingdom after Yang Da assured him its effects could be controlled. Its arrival darkened the skies and alarmed followers across the Divine Kingdom.

• Yang Da explained the Calamity Pearl's calamity types and how Wraith Race followers refined the resentment it generated.
• Yang Fan worried that the building might endanger his Divine Kingdom, and Yang Da said its calamities could be adjusted and would not threaten the kingdom's foundations.
• Yang Fan loaded the Calamity Pearl into his Divine Kingdom, changing its laws and darkening its sky with black clouds and mist.
• Nascent Soul followers in the Heavenly Court, artificial lifeforms in the Mechanical Civilization region, and martial experts in the Myriad Forms Martial Court reacted to the strange energy and ominous sky.

Yang Fan warned his believers that an unknown force was changing the Divine Kingdom’s laws and urged them to defend their home. As factions across the kingdom prepared to fight, Yang Fan and Yang Da powered the Calamity Pearl and began bringing down an earth calamity.

• Yang Fan delivered a Divine Oracle, warning of coming disasters and promising rewards to believers who defended the Divine Kingdom.
• The Heavenly Court, Myriad Forms Martial Court, and mechanical civilization mobilized their forces, while the elves organized support teams and the corpse cultivators prepared to join the battle.
• Believers in the Secret Realms asked to return, and Yang Da announced that those at Qi Refining Realm or above could apply to fight for the Divine Kingdom.
• Yang Da explained that the Calamity Pearl needed energy and recommended testing it with an earth calamity; Yang Fan agreed and the sky filled with black fissures and falling dark figures.

Yang Fan and Yang Da used the Calamity Pearl to test an earth calamity that targeted Qi Refining believers while sparing mortals, and Liu San died defending his village. Yang Da then persuaded Yang Fan to let him manage future calamities as a way to cultivate ghost believers and drive the Divine Kingdom’s population to grow stronger.

• Dark shadows descended across the Divine Kingdom, and Liu San died fighting them as they swept through his village; a pale gray phantom drifted from his corpse toward the kingdom’s edge.
• Yang Da explained that the earth calamity spared mortal believers because only Qi Refining believers could become ghost cultivators, and Yang Fan approved the controlled approach.
• Yang Da proposed using future calamities to pressure all believers to cultivate, warning that some might otherwise avoid advancing to Qi Refining.
• Yang Fan entrusted Yang Da with controlling the calamities, and Yang Da described using them to produce ghost cultivators and intensify competition throughout the Divine Kingdom.

Yang Fan tasked Yang Da with training Ghost Cultivators and buying useful S-class buildings, while the Calamity Pearl unleashed a growing war across the Divine Kingdom. As increasingly powerful Heavenly Tribulations struck believers far from the battlefield, the factions began searching for a way to survive without relying on Yang Fan.

• Yang Fan instructed Yang Da to train Ghost Cultivators and buy suitable buildings through Dark Web auctions, including listings from Alien Races.
• Over the first century, the Calamity Pearl created growing numbers of Calamity Creatures, and the Divine Kingdom's factions mobilized to fight them.
• Yang Da altered the Calamity Pearl's rules so Foundation Establishment cultivators and stronger who fought the creatures faced a high chance of Heavenly Tribulation, prompting factions to limit their stronger fighters' participation.
• In the second century, Calamity Creatures destroyed cities and villages as Heavenly Tribulations grew stronger and began striking believers even in secluded cultivation.
• After a Core Formation believer died to a Heavenly Tribulation, High-Tier Believers learned that 1,642 such incidents had occurred that month and ordered thunder-spirit-root cultivators to seek a way to weaken the tribulations.

At Calamity Suppression Pass, Zhang Yue spoke with the zombie Mu Wan and asked why she had chosen the path of cultivation that made her a zombie. Mu Wan called it the greatest pain of every zombie and began explaining that their race originated with an artificial lifeform named Yang San.

• The major powers built Calamity Suppression Pass and coordinated their defenses against the Calamity Creatures.
• Zhang Yue thanked Mu Wan for saving his life and learned that she had been a woman named Mu Wan when alive.
• Mu Wan explained that reaching the White Jiangshi Realm could let her regain flesh and a human body.
• Zhang Yue asked why the Zombie Kingdom cultivated this way, and Mu Wan said it was every zombie’s greatest pain.
• Mu Wan began the story of Yang San, explaining that the artificial lifeform had brought the zombie race into being.

At Calamity Suppression Pass, Mu Wan explained the zombies’ history, and Zhang Yue’s team learned that Yang San had deceived them and been punished by the deity. As Human Calamity devastated the Divine Kingdom’s mortal settlements, Calamity Creatures launched a massive attack on the pass.

• Mu Wan recounted the zombie race’s history, and 4068 explained that Yang San was not from Mechanical Civilization and showed a recording of his punishment.
• The zombie generals thanked the deity, and Zhang Yue invited his investigation-team comrades to attend class and take a photograph together.
• In the fifth century, storms, fires, floods, and other disasters struck ordinary mortals across the Divine Kingdom.
• A report announced that Calamity Creatures had launched a massive offensive and wiped out the reconnaissance team outside Calamity Suppression Pass.
• The pass ordered all combat personnel to prepare for battle and fight to the death.

Yang Fan ordered Ning Bailian to establish a talent investment company on Soul Star and set ambitious goals for its growth. He left Ning Bailian to run it under the name Ning One Hundred Group, which Ning Bailian found baffling.

• Yang Fan observed that the population in his Divine Kingdom had fallen while the proportion of high-level believers steadily rose, and decided to keep using the Calamity Pearl.
• Ning Bailian told Yang Fan that the company paperwork on Soul Star was complete and asked what business it should pursue.
• Yang Fan instructed Ning Bailian to establish an investment company focused on talent, with the aim of listing it in the Southern Sky Star Region within ten years.
• Yang Fan told Ning Bailian to build local connections, develop his Divine Kingdom, and arrange for Soul Star's native inhabitants to relocate so intelligent robots could manage the planet.
• Yang Fan named the company the Ning One Hundred Group and left, while Ning Bailian questioned the name.

Ning Bailian accepted Yang Fan’s unusually generous talent-investment plan and resolved to follow the artificial lifeform’s lead. A month later, Yang Fan’s recovering son Yang Chenglu confronted him about being lazy and neglectful, then began crying when Yang Fan tried to ask about the family.

• Ning Bailian read the Ning One Hundred Group’s investment terms and realized they offered high funding with few obligations.
• Ning Bailian questioned Yang Fan’s motives, then decided to trust him and do whatever he asked.
• Over the next month, Yang Chenglu received treatment from drugs developed by the Mechanical Divine Kingdom and began walking and speaking.
• Yang Chenglu found Yang Fan resting in the Massage Room and scolded him for sleeping instead of looking after the children.
• Yang Chenglu told Yang Fan that Gu Chengye had gone out to play and Mommy Gu was visiting Uncle Jiu Heng, then cried that Yang Fan was mean and did not like him.

Yang Fan persuaded Gu Chengye to return and look after Yang Chenglu, unaware that the brothers had arranged the promise so Chenglu could try to run away from home again. Later, Gu Le brought Yang Fan to hear about a valuable Mystic-Rank Secret Realm filled with Fire Dragon Vines, leaving Lu Wan to explain its immense yearly value.

• Yang Fan promised Yang Chenglu that he would call Gu Chengye back, then offered Gu Chengye an extra thousand Divinity Points a month to return and play with his little brother.
• Gu Chengye canceled his trip to Xiling Star, while Yang Chenglu revealed that he had secretly recorded their conversation as leverage to get another chance to run away from home.
• Gu Chengye returned and played with Yang Chenglu, freeing Yang Fan to relax until Gu Le pulled him upstairs to discuss an opportunity.
• Gu Le told Yang Fan and Lu Wan that her cousin Gu Jiuheng had found a special Mystic-Rank Secret Realm occupied by the Jade-Scaled Snake clan, where Fire Dragon Vines grew in the magma.
• Lu Wan explained that the Fire Dragon Vines were difficult to cultivate and valuable for high-end pills, estimating that the secret realm could produce at least a hundred trillion Divinity Points' worth of resources each year.

Yang Fan learned that Gu Jiuheng and the Han Family had spent months failing to conquer a valuable Lava Secret Realm guarded by a powerful Jade-Scaled Snake God. Gu Le revealed that Gu Jiuheng wanted Lu Mingshi to help, but Lu Mingshi had insisted they ask Yang Fan first, leaving Yang Fan and Lu Wan surprised by his loyalty.

• Yang Fan saw that the Lava Secret Realm held dense fire-attribute spiritual energy and asked why Gu Jiuheng would share it.
• Gu Le explained that Gu Jiuheng and someone from the Han Family had failed to break through the Secret Realm's outskirts after months of attacks against its Third-Order God and poison-filled defenses.
• Lu Wan judged that conquering the Secret Realm would require powerful Mid-Order Gods, while its restrictions and potential losses made the venture risky.
• Gu Le said Gu Jiuheng wanted Lu Mingshi to join the effort because his corpse cultivation made him immune to poison and his strength had impressed powerful gods.
• Gu Le revealed that Lu Mingshi had already refused Gu Jiuheng's invitation and insisted that they discuss the matter with Yang Fan first.
• Yang Fan and Lu Wan were astonished that Lu Mingshi deferred to Yang Fan despite his formidable strength.

Yang Fan agreed to represent Lu Mingshi in negotiations over attacking a resource-rich Secret Realm held by a powerful Jade-Scaled Snake Race god. In the Virtual World conference hall, Gu Jiuheng and Han Qing arrived to discuss the cooperation, but Lu Mingshi had not yet appeared.

• Lu Wan and Gu Le explained the proposed Secret Realm raid and its profit shares, including a thirty-percent share for Lu Mingshi and a ten-percent introduction fee for them.
• Yang Fan accepted the proposal on Lu Mingshi's behalf, while Lu Wan urged him to secure a cooperation agreement first.
• Yang Fan and the two women entered the Virtual World, where Gu Jiuheng greeted them and affirmed that contributors should receive shares according to their efforts.
• Han Qing arrived, and Gu Jiuheng introduced her as a renowned human genius and a brigade commander in the Ninth Legion.

Han Qing insulted Lu Wan, Gu Le, and Yang Fan during a meeting about dividing the proceeds from a Secret Realm. Yang Fan challenged the deal, and Gu Jiuheng insisted their agreed shares would remain unchanged as he tried to keep the cooperation intact.

• Han Qing asked Lu Wan to help sell basic resources, but Lu Wan politely refused and linked arms with Yang Fan.
• Han Qing mocked Gu Le’s S-Rank talent and questioned her share of the Secret Realm proceeds, prompting Gu Jiuheng to hold back the furious Gu Le.
• Yang Fan confronted Han Qing after she mocked him and made an obscene gesture, asking Gu Jiuheng whether they were trying to lower the price.
• Gu Jiuheng denied any scheme and promised that Yang Fan’s ten-percent referral fee would remain intact, even if he and Han Qing had to give up some of their own shares.

At a meeting to divide the profits from a Secret Realm, Han Qing criticized Yang Fan and tried to win over Lu Mingshi, only to discover that Lu treated Yang Fan as his boss. Han Qing then offered Lu a major stake in her company, leaving the others stunned.

• Han Qing argued that the Secret Realm’s enormous returns justified her frustration and claimed Yang Fan and Gu Le had no right to participate without Lu Mingshi’s consideration.
• Lu Mingshi arrived looking disheveled, ignored Han Qing’s greeting, and respectfully called Yang Fan his boss.
• Lu Mingshi explained that Yang Fan’s group had transformed his life, and Yang Fan warned him not to arrive late again.
• Han Qing offered Lu Mingshi the position of general manager and ten percent of her company’s shares.
• Gu Jiuheng looked apologetically at Yang Fan as the meeting’s attendees reacted to Han Qing’s attempt to recruit Lu.

Han Qing tried to recruit Lu Mingshi with a 10% stake and a senior position, but he refused and loudly reaffirmed his loyalty to Yang Fan. When Lu Mingshi provoked Han Qing and her pressure threatened to escalate the confrontation, Yang Fan stopped him and told him to apologize.

• Han Qing offered Lu Mingshi a senior role and 10% of her company, arguing that it had better prospects than the Yang Group.
• Yang Fan asked Lu Mingshi whether the offer tempted him, and Lu Mingshi dropped to his knees to declare his loyalty to the Yang Group.
• Lu Mingshi explained that he preferred his comfortable role at the Yang Group over risking his believers in dangerous Secret Realm wars.
• Lu Mingshi insulted Han Qing and threatened her, prompting her to unleash a powerful Third-Order God’s pressure.
• Yang Fan told Lu Mingshi to stop and apologize, and Lu Mingshi retreated behind him.

Gu Jiuheng persuaded Yang Fan to join the effort to conquer the Secret Realm, whose Jade-Scaled Snake God and worsening Fire Poison threatened the expedition. Lu Mingshi volunteered his zombie believers for the mission, but Yang Fan doubted his dramatic promise to sacrifice them all.

• Gu Jiuheng stopped Han Qing from recruiting Lu Mingshi, and Han Qing dropped her offer after Lu Mingshi refused.
• Gu Jiuheng asked Yang Fan to cooperate in conquering the Secret Realm, and Yang Fan agreed to review the enemy's strength before committing.
• Gu Jiuheng sent the group a century of combat records, which Yang Fan quickly analyzed and found intriguing despite the formidable defenses.
• Gu Jiuheng explained that deepening Fire Poison weakened believers over time, while Lu Mingshi's zombies could withstand it.
• Lu Wan asked Lu Mingshi whether he was confident, and he promised to complete the mission even if all his believers died.
• Yang Fan privately dismissed Lu Mingshi's promise as unconvincing.

Lu Wan, Han Qing, and Gu Jiuheng negotiated the profit split and military obligations for a campaign against the Jade-Scaled Snake God, then finalized a contract. Yang Fan assigned the proceeds to Gu Le and Lu Wan rather than Lu Mingshi, who accepted the arrangement and declared he would work without pay.

• Lu Wan proposed that her side receive seventy percent of the Secret Realm’s profits, while Han Qing and Gu Jiuheng rejected the offer and argued over the costs and risks of conquest.
• Gu Jiuheng offered a fifty-percent share for Lu Wan’s side, and Lu Wan countered with sixty percent before Han Qing set her bottom line at fifty-five percent, provided Lu Mingshi supplied seventy percent of the troops.
• Yang Fan accepted Han Qing’s terms, and Gu Jiuheng had an Artificial Lifeform prepare six copies of the contract for everyone to review and sign.
• Yang Fan ordered the contract’s beneficiaries changed so Gu Le would receive ten percent of the Secret Realm’s annual proceeds and Lu Wan would receive the remaining forty-five percent.
• Han Qing protested that Lu Mingshi was risking his life without receiving a share, but Lu Mingshi said he had no objection and pledged to work without pay for the Yang Group.

Yang Fan finalized the Secret Realm partnership while Lu Mingshi refused Han Qing’s recruitment and profit offer. After Han Qing left, Yang Fan reassured Lu Wan about his arrangement with Lu Mingshi and placed the Secret Realm profits under her name; Han Qing later vented her anger before her father called to ask about her meeting with Lu Mingshi.

• Yang Fan approved the contract terms, and Lu Mingshi rejected Han Qing’s offer to join her company.
• Han Qing withdrew from the Virtual World after warning that she would see whether the Yang Group compensated Lu Mingshi for his losses.
• Gu Jiuheng apologized for the unpleasant exchange and encouraged everyone to focus on their Secret Realm partnership.
• Lu Wan questioned Yang Fan’s arrangement with Lu Mingshi, and Yang Fan reassured her that their partnership was stable and assigned her the Secret Realm’s profits to manage.
• Han Qing smashed a table in anger at her villa, then answered a call from her father, who asked about Lu Mingshi and proposed discussing a match with the Lu Family.

Han Qing’s father warned her that Lu Mingshi’s loyalty to Yang Fan suggested a deeper bond, while Yang Fan prepared his forces for a Secret Realm battle against the Jade-Scaled Snake God. Yang Fan left his troops ready to test their strength the next morning.

• Han Qing told her father how Lu Mingshi had rejected her offer and defended Yang Fan, and her father cautioned her against misjudging their relationship.
• Gu Jiuheng created an encrypted Feixun group, where Yang Fan and the others agreed to enter the Secret Realm together the next morning.
• Yang Da reported that the Ghost Cultivator population had surpassed ten million and explained how they could return to battle using new bodies.
• Yang Fan ordered Yang Shi to prepare the Zombie Army and called for troops from the mechanical civilization to join the Secret Realm attack.
• Yang Da promised to have all troops ready by morning, and Yang Fan looked forward to testing his forces against the Jade-Scaled Snake God.

Yang Fan, Lu Mingshi, Gu Jiuheng, and Han Qing began their invasion of the heat-scorched Secret Realm, where Yang Fan’s advanced equipment protected their forces. The army moved deeper toward the Jade-Scaled Snake God’s defenses, with Yang Fan revealing that his Divine Kingdom supplied the intelligent weapons.

• Gu Jiuheng and Han Qing waited at the Secret Realm’s outskirts, where the extreme heat and fire-attribute energy had worn down their believers.
• Yang Fan and the others arrived, and Han Qing questioned Lu Mingshi’s small force and Yang Fan’s million-plus artificial lifeforms.
• Gu Jiuheng explained that Flame-Gathering Towers defended the approach and urged the group to prepare for their attacks.
• Yang Fan sensed powerful Jade-Scaled Snake Followers deeper inside the Secret Realm and teleported his army into it.
• Yang Fan’s artificial lifeforms activated temperature-control equipment, shielding the zombies from the heat.
• Yang Fan confirmed that his Divine Kingdom had produced the intelligent weapons and cooperated with Lu Mingshi’s forces.

Yang Fan, Han Qing, and Gu Jiuheng began their contracted invasion of the Jade-Scaled Snake God’s Secret Realm, with Yang Fan’s army taking the center. The Jade-Scaled Snake Followers’ opening attack breached the zombies’ Thermal Shields, and the zombies transformed their arms into mechanical cannons to retaliate.

• Gu Jiuheng praised Yang Fan’s mechanical forces and realized Yang Fan had supplied Lu Mingshi’s weapons for the war against Ma Huainan.
• The Jade-Scaled Snake God appeared, condemned Han Qing and Gu Jiuheng’s repeated harassment, and warned them against attacking his Secret Realm.
• Han Qing declared that she would take the Secret Realm, and Gu Jiuheng ordered their forces to begin the invasion.
• Han Qing and Gu Jiuheng’s armies took the eastern and western sides while Yang Fan’s army advanced through the center, with Lu Wan, Gu Le, and Lu Mingshi observing.
• The Jade-Scaled Snake Followers attacked with poisonous mist, venom, and acid rain, which breached the zombies’ Thermal Shields and burned some low-level zombies.
• Yang Fan’s zombies transformed their arms into mechanical cannon barrels and began charging their weapons.

Yang Fan watched Gu Jiuheng’s and Han Qing’s powerful formations defeat the Jade-Scaled Snakes and learned that their specialized weapons came from the Five Great Families’ private resources. The chapter left Yang Fan curious about obtaining the Golden Edge Swords, while Gu Jiuheng revealed that securing them had helped him become a brigade commander in the Ninth Legion.

• Yang Fan’s intelligent weapons destroyed the Jade-Scaled Snakes’ formation as his Zombie Army advanced.
• Gu Jiuheng’s Cultivation Believers and Han Qing’s Martial King believers broke the snake formations with Golden Edge Swords and blood-red ancient bells.
• Yang Fan recognized that Gu Jiuheng and Han Qing had access to high-end warfare equipment unavailable through ordinary marketplaces.
• Gu Jiuheng praised Yang Fan’s intelligent weapons and asked him to reserve future war weapons at a discount.
• Yang Fan asked where Gu Jiuheng had obtained his Golden Edge Swords, and Gu Jiuheng explained that he had reserved an outdated batch from a Gu Family senior through his father’s connections.
• Gu Jiuheng said the Golden Edge Swords had helped him secure a brigade commander position in the Ninth Legion.

Yang Fan and his allies reached the Jade-Scaled Snake Clan’s heavily fortified perimeter and tested its defenses with a million-strong Zombie Army. Fire Dragons summoned by the Flame-Gathering Towers annihilated the army and disabled the Intelligent Weapons, leaving Yang Fan to face the enemy’s strength more seriously.

• Han Qing asked Yang Fan to sell her Intelligent Weapons, but he politely refused because his Divine Kingdom had no stock available.
• The allied forces advanced about a hundred kilometers into the Secret Realm and encountered a vast defensive wall lined with Flame-Gathering Towers.
• Gu Jiuheng explained that the towers were B-Rank defensive structures and that repeated attacks had failed to break through; Han Qing cautioned that the defenses alone did not prove the Jade-Scaled Snake God was a Mid-Order God.
• Yang Fan ordered the million-strong Zombie Army to attack the towers, whose Fire Dragons blocked the energy blasts and swept down on the army.
• The Fire Dragons melted the zombies’ shields, reduced the army to ash, and disabled the Third-Tier Intelligent Weapons, prompting Yang Fan to take the defenses more seriously.