Recaps

Yang Fan summoned a 110-billion-strong Zombie Army to support the advance against the Jade-Scaled Snake God's Flame-Gathering Towers. The army formed up and marched toward the towers as they unleashed another barrage of Fire Dragons.

• Jade-Scaled Snake Followers collected the intelligent weapons scattered across the battlefield and carried them back to their positions.
• Gu Jiuheng warned Yang Fan and Lu Mingshi that the Flame-Gathering Towers had the attack power of Class A buildings in the dense fire-attribute spiritual energy.
• Yang Fan told Lu Mingshi to bring over his Divine Kingdom's main army and said he would provide more war weapons.
• Spatial Transmission Channels opened, and 110 billion Zombie Followers poured into the Secret Realm, astonishing Gu Jiuheng, Han Qing, and the Jade-Scaled Snake God.
• The Zombie Army formed the Corpse Tide Frenzy Formation and advanced toward the Flame-Gathering Towers as the towers fired Fire Dragons at them.

Yang Fan and Lu Mingshi’s forces battled the Jade-Scaled Snake God’s army while their poison-filled attacks inflicted severe friendly fire on Gu Jiuheng and Han Qing’s followers. Yang Fan took over the eastern and western fronts with his own army, leaving the two allies to withdraw as the battle intensified.

• Lu Mingshi’s Zombie Followers used phantom formations to block the Fire Dragons from the Flame-Gathering Tower, while the clash devastated the terrain and destroyed much of the Jade-Scaled Snake God’s Fire Dragon Vines.
• Corpse poison from the formations mixed with Fire Poison, forcing Gu Jiuheng and Han Qing’s followers to stop fighting and consume Detoxification Pills.
• Yang Fan ordered Gu Jiuheng and Han Qing to withdraw from the front line, and Lu Mingshi supported his decision.
• Gu Jiuheng and Han Qing agreed to withdraw and promised to compensate Lu Mingshi for his losses.
• Yang Fan’s Zombie Army took over the eastern and western flanks, and phantom formations appeared across the battlefield as the fighting erupted again.

Yang Fan's forces endured a month of devastating losses while bombarding the Jade-Scaled Snakes, whose poison resistance kept them fighting. Yang Fan revealed that the accumulated corpse poison had turned the battlefield into a deadly zone and was weakening the defenders, leaving the story with Han Qing asking about Lu Mingshi's Corpse Cores.

• Third-Order Intelligent Weapons and Flame-Gathering Towers battered the Jade-Scaled Snake positions as the two armies suffered vastly unequal casualties.
• After a month of fighting, Yang Fan's Zombie Army had lost nearly ten billion followers and had nearly reached the Jade-Scaled Snake defenses.
• Lu Wan questioned the cost of the war, and Yang Fan explained that the Jade-Scaled Snakes' auras and scales showed signs of poisoning.
• Yang Fan said the poison had accumulated because Lu Mingshi's followers consumed Corpse Cores and released corpse poison as they died.
• Han Qing asked Lu Mingshi about the Corpse Cores after learning they caused the unusually dense poison.

Han Qing tried to recruit Lu Mingshi after learning that Corpse Cores could be used to poison Secret Realms, but he refused to leave Yang Fan. The Flame-Gathering Towers then erupted in a chain of explosions, engulfing the Secret Realm and catching both armies by surprise.

• Lu Mingshi explained that White Jiangshi followers condensed Corpse Cores, and Han Qing realized they could be useful in Secret Realms.
• Han Qing offered Lu Mingshi a twenty percent stake and a share of future profits, but he refused and reaffirmed his loyalty to Yang Fan.
• The Flame-Gathering Towers began shaking and emitting intense heat, with the Jade-Scaled Snake followers guarding them drying out and collapsing.
• Gu Jiuheng noticed abnormal energy fluctuations and told Lu Mingshi to order a retreat.
• The Flame-Gathering Towers exploded in a chain reaction, sending fire across the Secret Realm and engulfing the advancing forces.

The Jade-Scaled Snake God's Flame-Gathering Towers detonated, annihilating a vast portion of Yang Fan's Zombie Army while the Earth Wall protected its defenders. The Jade-Scaled Snake God revealed its preparations and ordered Yang Fan's group to leave, hoping to protect its Secret Realm and the Fire Dragon Vine without starting an irreconcilable feud.

• The Flame-Gathering Towers exploded and burned more than a hundred million Zombie Followers and everything across a vast stretch of the battlefield to ash.
• Yang Fan and the others saw that the Earth Wall and the Jade-Scaled Snake Followers atop it had survived the blast unharmed.
• Gu Jiuheng and Han Qing recognized that the enemy had concealed a devastating defensive weapon, while Yang Fan ordered his forces to hold their positions and wait for support.
• The Jade-Scaled Snake God appeared and revealed that it had equipped each Flame-Gathering Tower with ten Energy Storage Facilities.
• The Jade-Scaled Snake God told the human gods to withdraw, explaining that it wanted to protect its Secret Realm and Fire Dragon Vine rather than prolong the conflict.

After the assault on the secret realm stalled, Yang Fan revealed a massive force of upgraded mechanical weapons and ordered them into battle against the alien races. The Intelligent Gundams and Zombie Army charged toward the Jade-Scaled Snake God’s forces.

• Han Qing and Gu Jiuheng apologized to Lu Wan and Gu Le for underestimating their opponent and offered to compensate them for their losses.
• Lu Wan suggested retreating because the enemy’s defenses were too strong, but Yang Fan said reinforcements had not arrived yet.
• A hundred thousand Intelligent Gundams and millions of upgraded Annihilator Fighters emerged through Spatial Rifts and formed up for battle.
• Gu Jiuheng, Han Qing, Lu Mingshi, and Gu Le were stunned by Yang Fan’s advanced war weapons, while Lu Wan recognized the Gundams from an earlier battle.
• Yang Fan faced the Jade-Scaled Snake God and ordered the forces to attack.
• The lead Intelligent Gundam charged into the battlefield as the Zombie Army followed behind it.

The Jade-Scaled Snake God unleashed more than ten thousand Giant Serpents against Yang Fan’s Intelligent Gundams, but the machines adapted and gained the advantage. When the Snake God tried to make the Flame-Gathering Towers self-destruct, Annihilator Fighters destroyed them before they could finish charging, leaving the battlefield dangerously hot.

• The Jade-Scaled Snake God summoned more than ten thousand Giant Serpents, which Jade-Scaled Snake Followers controlled from atop their heads and sent against the Intelligent Gundams.
• Gu Jiuheng warned Yang Fan that the Snake God’s methods were dangerous and that the war structures could suffer costly losses, but Yang Fan remained unconcerned.
• An Intelligent Gundam detached its petrifying left arm, killed a Giant Serpent with a Force Diamond weapon, and helped the Gundams gain the upper hand.
• The Jade-Scaled Snake God began charging the remaining Flame-Gathering Towers for another self-destruction, but Yang Shi’s Annihilator Fighters destroyed the towers and Energy Storage Tanks with lasers before they could discharge.
• Yang Shi ordered the Zombie Followers to fall back until the heat subsided and commanded the Intelligent Gundams and Annihilator Fighters to keep attacking.

Yang Fan, Gu Jiuheng, and Han Qing attacked the Jade-Scaled Snake God's S-Rank Earth Wall, but it absorbed the Secret Realm's spiritual energy and endured their bombardment. The Jade-Scaled Snake God offered Yang Fan a share of the realm's future returns to withdraw, and Yang Fan answered with an insult.

• The Annihilator Fighters and Intelligent Gundams attacked the Earth Wall, but its crimson barrier blocked their strikes.
• Gu Jiuheng identified the wall as an S-Rank defensive structure and summoned hundreds of Immortal-Slaying Pagodas, while Han Qing explained she could not risk exposing her elite followers to corpse poison.
• Gu Jiuheng's Immortal-Slaying Pagodas unleashed enormous golden sword rays, but the Earth Wall absorbed the Secret Realm's spiritual energy and repaired itself.
• The Jade-Scaled Snake God explained that the wall had become one with the Secret Realm and offered Yang Fan twenty percent of its future returns if he withdrew.
• Yang Fan asked whether this was the Jade-Scaled Snake God's last resort, then called him a show-off.

Yang Fan overwhelmed the Jade-Scaled Snake God’s Earth Wall with more than a thousand Void War Arks and forced the god to abandon the Secret Realm. When the Jade-Scaled Snake God tried to retreat with its followers and supplies, Yang Fan ordered his forces to intercept them, escalating their conflict.

• Yang Fan summoned over a thousand Void War Arks, stunning Gu Jiuheng, Gu Le, and Han Qing with the scale of his Divine Kingdom’s forces.
• Yang Fan ordered the warships to fire their Void Cannons at the Earth Wall, whose barrier and structure began to crack under the bombardment.
• The Jade-Scaled Snake God conceded the Secret Realm and opened a Spatial Rift to withdraw with its followers and stored resources.
• Yang Fan ordered the Annihilator Fighters and Intelligent Gundams to attack the retreating Jade-Scaled Snake Followers and demanded that the god leave the goods behind.
• The Jade-Scaled Snake God accused Yang Fan of breaking the rules and threatened to keep returning to the Secret Realm, while Yang Fan challenged it to reveal its Divine Kingdom Coordinates.

Yang Fan and his allies defeated the Jade-Scaled Snake God’s forces and captured the Secret Realm, though much of its Fire Dragon Vine was damaged and its S-Rank Defense Structure escaped. They agreed on how to manage and divide the realm’s proceeds, then returned to the Real World, where Yang Fan credited his mechanical achievements to a legacy.

• The Spatial Rift expanded, letting the Jade-Scaled Snake Followers and the S-Rank Defense Structure escape as it closed over the ruined city.
• Yang Fan and the others discovered that the Secret Realm was filled with Fire Dragon Vine, much of it damaged in the battle.
• Han Qing and Gu Jiuheng offered to take ten percent each of the Secret Realm’s proceeds and acknowledged Yang Fan and Lu Mingshi’s greater contribution.
• Gu Jiuheng assigned Han Qing to oversee the Secret Realm, Lu Mingshi to arrange followers, and Lu Wan to manage the company’s finances and operations.
• After returning to the Real World, Gu Le praised Yang Fan’s mechanical research, and he explained that he had obtained a legacy.

Yang Fan and Lu Wan discussed their family’s share of the Secret Realm’s profits, and Yang Fan gave Lu Wan and Gu Le 100,000 Intelligent Gundams each. Months later, Yang Fan overheard Gu Chengye telling Yang Chenglu to ask Mama Lu for permission to go to Xiling Star.

• Lu Wan told Yang Fan that the Secret Realm would bring in around eighty trillion Divinity Points a year, and Yang Fan let her decide how to use the income.
• Gu Le asked Yang Fan for Intelligent Gundams, and he gave her and Lu Wan 100,000 each while offering future military support.
• Han Qing restored the Secret Realm’s defenses with Flame-Gathering Towers and arranged for Zombie Followers to guard it, while Lu Wan’s Otherworld Collectors handled the fire dragon vines.
• Months later, Yang Fan overheard Gu Chengye telling Yang Chenglu that they needed an adult’s permission to visit Xiling Star and suggesting he ask Mama Lu.

Yang Chenglu used a recording to make Gu Chengye honor his promise to take him to Xiling Star, and Gu Le persuaded Yang Fan to let the boys travel together. Six months later, Yang Fan was close to becoming a second-order god, while his sons had reunited and begun plotting a business venture.

• Yang Chenglu confronted Gu Chengye with a recording of his promise to take him to Xiling Star, and Gu Chengye agreed to ask Gu Le for permission.
• Gu Le arranged for Yang Chenglu and Gu Chengye to travel to Xiling Star with god guards, and Yang Fan approved the trip with restrictions.
• Over the next six months, Yang Fan devoured five hundred demigod Divine Kingdom Cores, deduced the coordinates of three foreign gods, and expanded his divine kingdom to 19.8 billion square kilometers.
• Yang Chenglu and Gu Chengye returned from Xiling Star after a month with Yang Fan's eldest son, Yang Chengrou.
• Lu Wan assigned the three boys the same teacher, and they began visiting the Warfront Starfield and discussing starting a conglomerate.

Yang Fan reviewed the Yang Group’s finances and learned that his three sons had founded a company called the True Yang Group. He ended the chapter furious that they had borrowed his group’s name, while Ma Yu continued managing the group under his direction.

• Yang Fan reflected on his sons’ habit of asking Gu Le for money and welcomed his growing friendship with Han Qing.
• Ma Yu reported that the Yang Group had acquired Border Grain Company, bringing its net assets to 4,724 trillion Divinity Points and its annualized return to 12.3 percent.
• Yang Fan approved Ma Yu’s management and promised to inject another 1,000 trillion Divinity Points into the Yang Group.
• Ma Yu told Yang Fan that Li Tiande had invited him to a symposium for outstanding entrepreneurs, but Yang Fan declined and sent Ma Yu in his place.
• Ma Yu revealed that Yang Fan’s three sons had started a company named the True Yang Group, and Yang Fan protested that they were trading on his group’s reputation.

Yang Fan learned that his sons had used the True Yang Group’s apparent ties to the Yang Group to borrow nearly a hundred trillion Divinity Points before bankrupting the company and fleeing. Though Ma Yu feared he had damaged the Yang Group’s reputation, Yang Fan concluded that the group had no legal liability and asked what Ma Yu thought of the boys’ scheme.

• Ma Yu reported that Yang Fan’s sons had advertised the True Yang Group as connected to the Yang Group and secured lucrative contracts with help from his private endorsements.
• Ma Yu explained that the boys had inflated their company’s finances to raise nearly a hundred trillion Divinity Points, then declared bankruptcy with assets totaling negative ten million Faith Points.
• Yang Fan learned that Li Yuanyue, the company’s legal representative, had disappeared after Young Master Chengye arranged her escape.
• Ma Yu assured Yang Fan that the Yang Group had no official financial ties to the True Yang Group and could not be held liable under Federation law.
• Yang Fan dismissed the lenders’ losses as their own failure to manage risk, while Ma Yu praised the boys’ daring and profitable scheme.

Yang Chengrou, Gu Chengye, and Yang Chenglu celebrated earning 112 trillion Divinity Points and planned how to explain their scheme to Yang Fan. They also discussed keeping Li Yuanyue hidden, and Yang Chengrou decided to visit her in the Virtual World.

• Yang Fan praised his sons for earning over a hundred trillion Divinity Points, warned Ma Yu not to let them take advantage of him again, and learned they had founded the Crown Prince Group to work in communications.
• Yang Chengrou, Gu Chengye, and Yang Chenglu celebrated their 112 trillion Divinity Points aboard a spacecraft returning from the Warfront Starfield.
• Yang Chenglu proposed that Yang Chengrou speak to Yang Fan on their behalf, and the brothers agreed to face any punishment together and bring their mothers if necessary.
• Gu Chengye said he had hidden Li Yuanyue's travel records and arranged robot guards for her, though she could not safely appear in public.
• Yang Chengrou said he wanted to visit Li Yuanyue in the Virtual World.

Yang Chengrou rescued Li Yuanyue from the robot guards and arranged for her son to receive a job in the Yang Group. The chapter ended with Luo Rou suspecting that Yang Chengrou had gotten into trouble.

• Gu Chengye scolded Yang Chenglu for involving Yang Chengrou in his scheme, then refused to consider killing Li Yuanyue and learned that Yang Chenglu had been testing his loyalty.
• Yang Chengrou entered the Virtual World and reassured Li Yuanyue that she was safe and would soon return to Xiling Star.
• Li Yuanyue told Yang Chengrou that her son wished to join the Yang Group, and the robot guard granted her request.
• Yang Chengrou called Luo Rou and asked her to arrange a well-paid, easy position for Li Yuanyue's son, claiming Li Yuanyue had died after encountering Sky Pirates.
• Luo Rou agreed to help but questioned Yang Chengrou because she suspected something was wrong.

Yang Chengrou reflected on protecting his place in the family, while Yang Fan learned that his younger sons had swindled companies out of over a hundred trillion Divinity Points. The chapter ended with Lu Wan and Gu Le praising the boys’ success as Yang Fan questioned whether he could still punish them.

• Yang Chengrou reassured Luo Rou that he understood her advice and resolved not to risk his place in the family.
• Yang Chengrou reflected that his status and opportunities came from safeguarding his father’s affection and his family’s bonds.
• At breakfast, Gu Le told Yang Fan that Chengye had tried to win her over before she learned of the boys’ scheme.
• Lu Wan said Chenglu had asked her to stay with Yang Fan when the boys returned so she could protect him from punishment.
• Lu Wan and Gu Le defended the boys’ scheme and praised their success, prompting Yang Fan to ask whether he was forbidden from punishing them.

Yang Fan confronted Yang Chengrou and his younger brothers over their deceptive business scheme, but the children dodged punishment with an elaborate apology and a Spiked Club. After the boys left to study with Lu Wan, Yang Fan discovered the club could bend under his grip and spring back into shape.

• Gu Le and Lu Wan agreed that the children deserved a warning, while Yang Fan promised to teach them a lesson without being too harsh.
• Yang Chengrou entered with Gu Chengye and Yang Chenglu, confessed to misleading the public using Uncle Ma's status, and offered to take the punishment for his brothers.
• Yang Chengrou produced a Spiked Club and knelt to receive punishment, but Yang Fan refused and confiscated the weapon as dangerous.
• Gu Chengye and Yang Chenglu hurried Yang Chengrou upstairs, then took him to Lu Wan's office to review their business venture and plan the Crown Prince Group.
• Alone in the living room, Yang Fan tested the Spiked Club, bent it effortlessly with his left hand, and watched it return to its original shape.

Yang Fan discovered that the Spiked Club Yang Chengrou used to fool him was a child-safe toy, and he was pleased that Chengrou had become more mischievous. Lu Wan reviewed how Yang Chenglu, Gu Chengye, and Yang Chengrou had built and bankrupted the True Yang Group, praising their results while exposing flaws and warning that their family connections made the scheme succeed.

• Yang Fan learned from Yang Yi that the Spiked Club was an unreleased Jiahe Toy Company product designed to soften before it could hurt someone or damage property.
• Yang Fan realized Chengrou had used the toy to fool him and felt glad that his previously proper son was acting more like a child.
• Lu Wan questioned the three boys about their scheme, and Yang Chenglu explained that he had adapted ideas from Beware of Ponzi Schemes to target wealthy people and avoid paying interest.
• Lu Wan displayed the True Yang Group's records and pointed out flaws in its finances, orders, and business data.
• Lu Wan learned that Yang Chengrou had asked Ma Yu to look after them and that Gu Chengye had used his family's connections to arrange approvals and supporting data.
• Lu Wan told Yang Chenglu that he had mistaken inherited credibility for business skill, and he asked her to spare him some dignity.

Lu Wan advised her three sons about the risks of mistaking luck for business skill and helped them plan a more sustainable future for the Crown Prince Group. She appointed Yang Chengrou chairman, and the brothers left to develop the company under her guidance.

• Lu Wan warned her sons that their earlier success depended on Yang Group's influence and that repeating their scheme would not work.
• Gu Chengye proposed copying the previous business, and Lu Wan struck him down and explained why the approach was unreliable.
• Lu Wan explained that a stable company needed sustained cash flow and asked her sons how the Crown Prince Group could achieve it.
• Yang Chengrou proposed targeting ordinary divine lifeforms instead of wealthy clients, arguing that this could bring safer, steadier profits.
• Lu Wan appointed Yang Chengrou chairman, took ten percent of the shares, and divided the remaining ninety percent equally among the three brothers.
• Yang Chenglu and Gu Chengye accepted the arrangement, then began arguing as Lu Wan sent them out.

Yang Chengrou recovered his Spiked Club and showed his brothers that it was a toy, while Yang Fan was summoned to Han Qing’s villa in the Virtual World and fled when she made a romantic advance. The chapter left Yang Fan back home, reflecting on his limits and his two wives.

• Yang Chengrou found his Spiked Club and swung it at Gu Chengye, but the club went limp before hitting him.
• Gu Chengye examined the toy and asked Yang Chengrou for toys and company shares, while Yang Chenglu complained that he had received none.
• Yang Fan heard his sons helping one another and felt pleased with their bond.
• Yang Yi alerted Yang Fan to a new request, and he entered the Virtual World at Han Qing’s Frontline villa.
• Han Qing offered Yang Fan Fire Flood Dragon Wine, called him Big Brother Yang, and pressed against his arm.
• Yang Fan recognized Han Qing’s romantic intentions and withdrew from the Virtual World to avoid getting involved.

After Yang Fan rejected Han Qing’s advances, she persuaded her father to seek the Gu and Lu families’ help in arranging a marriage. Meanwhile, Yang Fan dismissed the matter and reunited with Liu Ruyan, whose family had prospered thanks to his past assistance.

• Han Qing angrily called her father after Yang Fan rejected her and explained why she considered him an ideal partner.
• Han Qing told her father that Yang Fan had shared his Special Secret Realm earnings with his wives, and her father agreed to approach Gu Xuanting about arranging a marriage.
• Han Qing’s father warned that Gu Xuanting might refuse, while Han Qing remained confident that the families would support the match.
• Yang Fan resolved to refuse Han Qing’s next invitation and continued relaxing in the Massage Room while his consciousness visited Heavenly Fragrance Haven.
• Yang Fan comforted Liu Ruyan, who told him that his help had paid her father’s debts, cured her mother, sent her brother to university, and moved the family to the main urban district.

Gu Xuanting learned that Han Chao wanted to arrange a match between Han Qing and Yang Fan, but Lu Qinglan reassured him that the Han Family could not proceed without their consent. Meanwhile, Yang Fan won the S-Rank Netherworld at auction, and it began forming beneath his Divine Kingdom.

• Gu Xuanting complained to Lu Qinglan that Han Chao had tried to use him to arrange a match between Han Qing and Yang Fan.
• Lu Qinglan told Gu Xuanting that Yang Fan's growing strength and connections had made him a target for powerful families, and that she had already told Lu Yanran about Han Chao's proposal.
• Yang Fan decided the Netherworld would give his Ghost Cultivators a dedicated place to live and ordered Yang Da to secure the S-Rank building.
• Yang Da reported that the auction had ended and that he had purchased the Netherworld along with thousands of other buildings.
• Yang Fan ordered the purchased buildings loaded into his Divine Kingdom, and the Netherworld appeared deep beneath its ground as an inky-black sphere.

Yang Fan discovered that the Netherworld was a sealed realm suited to soul-based life, where Ghost Cultivation believers could cultivate and break through. He ordered Yang Da to develop it, then heard from Ning Bailian that their investment company had recruited 1,642 people but only one demigod.

• Yang Fan sensed the Netherworld and found it isolated from the Divine Kingdom and its spiritual energy.
• Ghost Cultivation believers entered the Netherworld, absorbed its soul power, and broke through their cultivation bottlenecks.
• Yang Fan ordered Yang Da to transplant soul-nourishing Spirit Plants into the Netherworld and buy more seeds to improve it for ghost cultivators.
• Yang Fan withdrew from the Divine Kingdom and joined Ning Bailian on Soul Star to ask about the company's progress.
• Ning Bailian reported that the company had invested in 1,642 people, including 1,031 final-year students, but only one demigod, who had accepted the investment to escape heavy debts.

Yang Fan directed Ning Bailian to expand the Ning One Hundred Group’s investment in students and requested information on its demigod client, Zhao Xuanfeng, so Yang Da could deduce Zhao’s Divine Kingdom coordinates. Meanwhile, Yang Chenglu’s business discussion with Gu Chengye and Yang Chengrou was interrupted by Li Tianheng, who asked to see Chairman Yang.

• Yang Fan transferred Ning Bailian one hundred trillion Divinity Points and instructed him to promote soul-nourishing wood cultivation, buy the mature wood at high prices, and help students advance toward demigodhood.
• Ning Bailian sent Yang Fan a detailed report on Zhao Xuanfeng, a demigod invested in by the Ning One Hundred Group.
• Yang Fan ordered Yang Da to use the mechanical civilization to deduce Zhao Xuanfeng’s Divine Kingdom coordinates, then sent another message and returned to his massage chair.
• Yang Chengrou, Gu Chengye, and Yang Chenglu debated how to invest their Crown Prince Group’s funds, with Yang Chenglu proposing a business requiring no capital.
• Yang Chenglu answered the villa’s door and met Li Tianheng, who introduced himself and asked whether Chairman Yang was there.