Recaps

Li Tianheng visited Yang Fan and was greeted by Yang Chengrou, who recognized him as an old acquaintance of the family. After reviewing the demigods seeking divine vassal contracts, Yang Fan gave Li Tianheng coordinates and ordered him to invade a Divine Kingdom.

• Yang Chengrou introduced himself to Li Tianheng as the son of Luo Rou and Luo Bing, then offered to take him to Yang Fan.
• Li Tianheng gave red-envelope cards to Yang Chengrou, Gu Chengye, and Yang Chenglu; the boys discovered each card contained ten Fountains of Life.
• Li Tianheng waited two hours while Yang Fan rested, then presented him with a list of demigods interested in signing divine vassal contracts.
• Yang Fan signed contracts for the applicants and gave Li Tianheng coordinates, ordering him to invade the corresponding Divine Kingdom.

Yang Fan instructed Li Tianheng to secretly poison the Divine Kingdom of Zhao Xuanfeng, a human demigod, and promised to protect his confidant if anyone investigated. Later, Gu Le and Lu Wan told Yang Fan that Han Qing’s father was pressuring their families to let her marry him, leaving Yang Fan furious.

• Yang Fan gave Li Tianheng Zhao Xuanfeng’s Divine Kingdom coordinates and ordered him to use Corpse Cores and robot soldiers while avoiding obvious traces.
• Li Tianheng agreed to carry out the attack and believed Yang Fan’s plans involved higher-level matters.
• Gu Le and Lu Wan confronted Yang Fan about Han Qing, and Yang Fan insisted that he had rejected her advances.
• Lu Wan explained that Han Qing’s father, Han Chao, had approached both the Gu Family and her mother to arrange Han Qing’s marriage to Yang Fan.
• Yang Fan became angry at Han Qing for using her father’s influence to pressure their families into accepting the marriage.

Yang Fan met Lu Yanran in the Virtual World, where she praised Yang Chenglu’s business talent and asked him to promise Chenglu would inherit the Yang Group. Yang Fan refused to choose an heir in advance, and Lu Yanran revealed she was testing whether he would treat his children fairly.

• Yang Fan learned Lu Yanran wanted to meet him and entered the Virtual World to speak with her.
• Lu Yanran showed Yang Fan a file on the True Yang Group and asked for his opinion of Yang Chenglu’s business talent.
• Lu Yanran proposed that Yang Chenglu inherit the Yang Group and offered to direct more Lu Family resources to the company in return for Yang Fan’s promise.
• Yang Fan refused to name an heir early, saying he would not favor any child and that choosing Chenglu could divide the siblings.
• Lu Yanran praised Yang Fan’s answer and explained that fairness and sound rules kept an organization healthy.

Lu Yanran confronted Yang Fan about his wealth and warned him not to deceive Lu Wan, then offered him Han Lingzhi as a cultivation partner. She revealed that Lu Wan did not know her biological father and that Lu Yanran had thirty-two registered husbands.

• Lu Yanran questioned Yang Fan about the Yang Group's expansion and reminded him that he had refused a hundred trillion Divinity Points as Lu Wan's dowry.
• Lu Yanran warned Yang Fan not to deceive Lu Wan and demonstrated her overwhelming High-Tier God aura.
• Yang Fan denied having any involvement with Han Qing, and Lu Yanran showed him Han Lingzhi and proposed that he become her cultivation partner.
• Lu Yanran told Yang Fan that Lu Wan did not know who her biological father was and that he had been a professional manager at one of her companies.
• Lu Yanran revealed that the Federal Government listed thirty-two male gods as her spouses, leaving Yang Fan astonished.

Lu Yanran explained that marriage alliances would help Yang Fan and his family gain access to the Five Great Families’ resources, then arranged another blind date for him. Yang Fan returned to the Real World, where Lu Wan rushed to confront her mother while Gu Le treated the match as a question of Yang Fan’s value and prospects.

• Lu Yanran told Yang Fan that marriage was a practical alliance and that the Han Family had shown interest in him through a High-Tier God.
• Lu Yanran warned Yang Fan that refusing the Han Family’s goodwill could hinder his growth and described how marriage could connect him to the Five Great Families’ resources.
• Lu Yanran revealed that she had chosen another woman for Yang Fan to meet in a blind date, adding that Han Qing ranked outside the top fifty.
• Yang Fan returned to the Real World and told Lu Wan and Gu Le that Lu Yanran had arranged another blind date after turning down Han Chao.
• Lu Wan put on her Virtual Helmet to confront Lu Yanran, while Gu Le said she only objected to Han Qing because she was not good enough for Yang Fan.

Yang Fan traveled to Han Lingzhi’s villa for their blind date, only to find that it was a heavily guarded command center. He met Han Lingzhi as she directed the Second Legion’s wartime operations, leaving their introduction overshadowed by an ongoing crisis.

• Yang Fan received a message from his blind date, Han Lingzhi, and flew toward the coordinates Lu Yanran had given him.
• As the Airship neared the Warfront Starfield, Yang Fan wondered why Han Lingzhi lived so close to the frontline.
• A powerful black robot greeted Yang Fan at Han Lingzhi’s villa and invited him inside.
• Yang Fan entered the villa and found it filled with soldier-like robots and wartime equipment rather than signs of an ordinary home.
• Han Lingzhi continued issuing orders about supplies, reinforcements, and defenses while Yang Fan watched her manage the Second Legion’s war.

Yang Fan met Han Lingzhi, the Sixth-Tier God commanding the Second Legion, and learned she had agreed to their blind date because she wanted a husband with the greatest potential. The conversation ended with Han Lingzhi calling herself young despite being about a hundred thousand years old.

• Han Lingzhi finished issuing military orders and told Yang Fan she had noticed him scanning her with Spiritual Power.
• Han Lingzhi introduced herself as the Second Legion's commander and explained that her concealment hid her from Yang Fan's senses.
• Yang Fan tried to leave, but Han Lingzhi used Spiritual Power to keep him seated and explained that his hundredfold timeflow talent could help them produce talented descendants.
• Han Lingzhi said she had investigated eligible prodigies and chosen Yang Fan for his potential, then revealed she was roughly a hundred thousand years old.

Han Lingzhi brought Yang Fan to a divine kingdom simulation arena and challenged him to defeat one hundred million armed fifth-tier artificial lifeforms, promising to marry him if he won. Yang Fan considered whether marrying a powerful Sixth-Tier God would cost him his freedom, and Han Lingzhi grew suspicious of his lack of enthusiasm.

• Yang Fan learned that Han Lingzhi was over a hundred thousand years old, then agreed to follow her while she corrected his reaction and called herself young.
• Han Lingzhi took Yang Fan into a divine kingdom simulation arena and summoned one hundred million fifth-tier artificial lifeforms equipped with weapons from her Divine Kingdom.
• Han Lingzhi challenged Yang Fan to win without using war structures and promised to marry him if he succeeded.
• Yang Fan judged the opposing force formidable but privately questioned whether he wanted to marry Han Lingzhi and live under her influence.
• Han Lingzhi offered to supply Yang Fan with resources and technology, but his calm response made her suspect he was not enthusiastic about marrying her.

Yang Fan tried to turn down Han Lingzhi’s marriage proposal, hoping to preserve his freedom and avoid her powerful scrutiny. When Han Lingzhi explained that they would rarely meet and that he would still receive her protection, Yang Fan reconsidered and decided the arrangement might suit him after all.

• Han Lingzhi offered Yang Fan marriage, a place in the Second Legion, military merit, and protection, and said she could deal with his enemy in the Sima Family.
• Yang Fan privately planned to make his believers perform poorly in the assessment so the matchmaking would fall through.
• Han Lingzhi saw through Yang Fan’s excuses with her powerful Spiritual Power and said she would not force him to marry her.
• Han Lingzhi explained that marriage would benefit Yang Fan but that they would live separately and might not meet for decades or even a hundred years.
• Yang Fan was relieved by the prospect of keeping his independence while receiving Han Lingzhi’s protection, and reconsidered the marriage.

Yang Fan deployed ten billion believers against Han Lingzhi’s army, but her Seventh-Tier Intelligent Weapons easily blocked their coordinated attack. The chapter ended as Han Lingzhi’s protective shield suddenly rippled, suggesting Yang Fan’s forces had affected it after all.

• Han Lingzhi doubled the opposing force and challenged Yang Fan to pass her assessment without using war structures.
• Yang Fan summoned ten billion believers, and Yang Si organized them into formations for a coordinated assault.
• Han Lingzhi’s Seventh-Tier Intelligent Weapons raised an Intermediate Shield that effortlessly repelled the attack.
• Yang Fan asked Yang Da to gather the Divine Kingdom’s artificial lifeforms and pool their computing power to find a countermeasure.
• Han Lingzhi noticed the unusual strength of Yang Fan’s Foundation Establishment believers, and her army’s shield suddenly rippled.

Yang Fan tested his forces against Han Lingzhi’s artificial lifeforms, but her upgraded shield neutralized his attacks and her strange water-based weapons devastated his charging army. The battle left Yang Fan stunned by the Mechanical Divine Kingdom’s advanced technology.

• Yang Fan’s elven archers pierced Han Lingzhi’s shield and eliminated hundreds of thousands of artificial lifeform projections, but the shield upgraded and blocked their next volley.
• Han Lingzhi asked Yang Fan to demonstrate all his offensive methods, and his energy cannons failed to damage her shield.
• Yang Si ordered Yang Fan’s ten-billion-strong army to charge while the elves provided ranged support.
• Han Lingzhi’s artificial lifeforms sent blue spheres into the densest parts of Yang Fan’s army, where the spheres released guided droplets that killed his Martial Master followers.
• Yang Fan was shocked that the water spheres and droplets acted as intelligent weapons.

Han Lingzhi’s intelligent weapons halted Yang Fan’s ten-billion-strong army and inflicted devastating casualties, forcing him to deploy stronger believers while concealing the full extent of his power. He prepared to concede if his limited reinforcements could not break through her defensive shield.

• Han Lingzhi watched Yang Fan’s army fail to advance as her water-based intelligent weapons killed his believers, and she asked about their unusual vitality.
• Yang Fan explained that his believers had improved their cultivation methods, while Han Lingzhi attributed their strength to his hundredfold timeflow talent.
• Yang Fan learned that nearly two hundred million Martial Master believers had fallen within moments, and Yang Da advised using stronger believers and weapons.
• Yang Fan ordered Core Formation and Martial King believers, some Nascent Soul and Martial Emperor believers, fourth-tier artificial lifeforms, and another billion Elven Warriors into battle.
• Yang Fan decided to concede if the reinforcements could not breach the shield and kept his larger reserves hidden from Han Lingzhi.

Yang Fan's followers used fire and a coordinated shield charge to break Han Lingzhi's Protective Shield, allowing the Fire Dragons to strike her army. White mist then appeared and extinguished the flames, and Yang Fan recognized an opening.

• Yang Fan withdrew nearly ten billion followers from the Simulated Battlefield, then summoned a new army of Martial King followers and fourth-tier artificial lifeforms.
• Yang Fan's army formed the Four Symbols Heavenly Evolution Formation and attacked Han Lingzhi's Protective Shield with enormous Fire Dragons.
• Han Lingzhi activated the highest-level Protective Shield and automated weapons, while her water spheres unleashed an indiscriminate barrage against Yang Fan's forces.
• Yang Da's analysis revealed that intense heat destabilized the water spheres, so fourth-tier artificial lifeforms used flamethrowers to clear gaps in the barrage.
• Yang Fan's Martial King followers charged with their shields and shattered the Protective Shield, letting the Fire Dragons strike Han Lingzhi's army.
• White mist appeared and extinguished the flames, and Yang Fan recognized an opening.

Yang Fan defeated Han Lingzhi’s army in the simulated battle, impressing her with his Divine Kingdom’s strength. Han Lingzhi then gave him a prenuptial agreement offering extensive support for his development, leaving their marriage arrangement on unexpectedly generous terms.

• Yang Fan’s Elven Warriors overwhelmed Han Lingzhi’s remaining artificial lifeforms with a barrage of arrows, wiping out her army.
• Han Lingzhi questioned Yang Fan about his strength and his Martial Arts believers, and Yang Fan attributed their growth to his hundredfold timeflow and claimed they had the Rank B Giant Elephant Body talent.
• Han Lingzhi advised Yang Fan to continue developing his Martial Arts believers and told him he could call her his wife because they were about to sign a marriage contract.
• Back in the real world, Han Lingzhi gave Yang Fan a prenuptial agreement that provided him with subsidies, resources, technology access, and potential military support.

Yang Fan and Han Lingzhi negotiated and signed a marriage agreement, then registered their marriage in secret to protect him from the Alien Race. The chapter ended with Yang Fan asking whether Han Lingzhi had time to begin trying for children.

• Yang Fan asked Han Lingzhi to add a clause protecting both spouses' freedom and preventing either from using strength or status to control the other.
• Han Lingzhi laughed at Yang Fan's insistence on independence, then added his requested clause to the agreement.
• Yang Fan and Han Lingzhi reviewed and signed the agreement, and the Federal Government registered their marriage under the highest level of protection.
• Han Lingzhi explained that they would keep the marriage secret because the Alien Race might target Yang Fan if it became known.
• Yang Fan asked Han Lingzhi whether she had time to produce offspring as she had proposed.

Yang Fan discovered that Han Lingzhi had arranged for him to provide samples for a medical fertility procedure rather than pursue a physical relationship, leaving him humiliated and furious. Meanwhile, Han Qing waited for her father to secure a Marriage Contract with Yang Fan and eagerly asked when she could sign it.

• After Yang Fan went upstairs expecting to be with Han Lingzhi, she left for a military administration meeting and ordered her robot to help him provide a sample and take a picture.
• The robot explained that Han Lingzhi planned to use in vitro breeding, and Yang Fan reluctantly followed its instructions.
• Yang Fan returned to the Lu Family Villa, turned down Gu Le's questions, and told Lu Wan she was the best before retreating to his room.
• Yang Fan lamented that Han Lingzhi saw him as a breeding stallion and vowed to grow strong enough to get even with her.
• Han Qing waited for news from her father, Han Chao, and asked him when she could sign a Marriage Contract with Yang Fan.

Han Chao told Han Qing that Yang Fan’s marriage to a Han Family woman had been arranged with Han Lingzhi, leaving Han Qing devastated. Meanwhile, Yang Fan resolved to grow stronger and reviewed the progress of his Netherworld, but his Ghost Cultivator forces remained too small for a major war.

• Han Chao ended Han Qing’s marriage proposal to Yang Fan and revealed that the Han Family had arranged for Han Lingzhi to become Yang Fan’s Dao Companion.
• Han Chao reflected on Yang Fan’s achievements and the Lineage’s decision to match him with Han Lingzhi, a Sixth-Tier God and commander of the Second Legion.
• Yang Fan decided to work hard and set himself the goal of surpassing Han Lingzhi.
• Yang Da reported that the Netherworld had increased Ghost Cultivators’ cultivation speed fivefold and that Nascent Soul Realm ghost cultivators had emerged.
• Yang Fan judged his Ghost Cultivator population of fewer than one hundred million too small to support a substantial Divine Kingdom War.

Yang Fan decided to increase the Divine Kingdom’s population after realizing it needed more people to garrison ten additional Mystic-Rank Secret Realms. He rejected forced reproduction and ordered Yang Da to halve cultivation resources for mortals and tiered lifeforms, hoping they would invest more in having children.

• Yang Fan told Yang Da to contact Chen Bo and purchase ten Mystic-Rank Secret Realms, but Yang Da warned that the Divine Kingdom’s population was already struggling to keep pace with its territory.
• Yang Fan considered issuing a divine oracle to compel low-level believers to reproduce, but Yang Da cautioned that repeated commands could weaken the deity’s authority and produce diminishing results.
• Yang Fan asked Yang Da how the Divine Kingdom supplied its believers and learned that food, housing, and cultivation resources were abundant and daily chores were handled by robots.
• Yang Fan explained that abundant cultivation resources encouraged believers to focus on self-improvement rather than having children, and proposed changing the system instead of forcing them through an oracle.
• Yang Fan ordered Yang Da to halve cultivation resources for mortals and tiered lifeforms while keeping their food and basic necessities unchanged.

Yang Fan ordered Ning Bailian to help Zhao Xuanfeng, the first demigod to accept the Ning One Hundred Group’s investment, and use the support to promote the company. He insisted the group act with a conscience, leaving Ning Bailian wondering why Yang Fan kept his own role hidden.

• Yang Fan instructed Yang Da to create a childbirth incentive program for ordinary believers before returning to the Real World.
• Ning Bailian told Yang Fan that Zhao Xuanfeng’s Divine Kingdom was under attack and that the aid offered by Zhao’s Small Lineage was inadequate.
• Yang Fan decided the Ning One Hundred Group would give Zhao a thousand Divinity Points and advertise its support across the Southern Sky Star Region.
• Ning Bailian raised concerns about the future cost of helping investment recipients, but Yang Fan said the company must act with a conscience and support Zhao’s family if he died.
• Yang Fan told Ning Bailian to keep investing in Zhao’s descendants if they awakened soul-type divine kingdom talents, leaving Ning Bailian puzzled by Yang Fan’s hidden involvement.

Ning Bailian relayed Yang Fan’s orders before Director Wang arrived to help Zhao Xuanfeng, whose Divine Kingdom was being devastated by poison gas. The Ning One Hundred Group approved an additional investment, and Zhao Xuanfeng felt he had not been abandoned as the aid began.

• Yang Fan told Ning Bailian to spend the resources he had provided and recruit more demigods, then left the Virtual World.
• Ning Bailian relayed Yang Fan’s orders through the artificial lifeform after returning to the Real World.
• Zhao Xuanfeng struggled to resist poison gas in his Divine Kingdom as his believers died and his strength drained away.
• Director Wang told Madam Zhao that the Ning One Hundred Group had approved her application for help.
• Director Wang announced that headquarters had decided to make an additional investment in Zhao Xuanfeng and brought in news media to cover it.
• Zhao Xuanfeng agreed to cooperate with the publicity and felt relieved that the group had not abandoned him.

Minister Wang announced that the Ning One Hundred Group would give Zhao Xuanfeng 1,000 Divinity Points and protect his family if disaster struck. He explained the company’s employee-first policies and ambitious mission to reporters, ending with a pledge to expand across the Human Federation.

• Minister Wang announced that the Ning One Hundred Group would grant Zhao Xuanfeng 1,000 Divinity Points, then handed him a storage card containing the resources.
• Minister Wang said Zhao’s family would receive employee benefits and legal assistance to protect them from debt claims if Zhao suffered an unfortunate accident.
• Zhao Xuanfeng thanked Minister Wang and the company’s senior management, while his wife became visibly emotional.
• Minister Wang told reporters that the company prioritized its employees and society over profit, and said his compensation was five times higher than at his previous employer.
• Minister Wang explained that Ning One Hundred Group was named for chairman Ning Bailian and vowed to expand its investments across the Southern Sky Star Region and the Human Federation.

Minister Wang explained why the Ning One Hundred Group supported overlooked soul-type and spirit-type Divine Kingdom Talents, then reassured Zhao Xuanfeng that the company had his back. Zhao Xuanfeng used the money to prepare his family for his likely death and admitted he had never known who was attacking his Divine Kingdom.

• Minister Wang told reporters that the Ning One Hundred Group invested in unpopular talents because young people without backing needed resources and a chance to develop.
• Minister Wang left with the reporters and sent Zhao Xuanfeng a message promising the company’s support, moving Zhao Xuanfeng to tears.
• Zhao Xuanfeng called his wife and three children to him and warned them that he might die that night.
• Zhao Xuanfeng gave his wife the 1,000 Divinity Points and instructed her to file for household bankruptcy and claim the money had been spent on the Divine Kingdom War.
• Zhao Xuanfeng told his wife he had no defensive line because he did not even know who or what the enemy was.

Zhao Xuanfeng’s Divine Kingdom collapsed, and he died after reassuring his family and asking Minister Wang to look after them. Yang Fan then received Divine Kingdom Cores from Li Tianheng and reviewed plans to increase his Divine Kingdom’s population.

• Zhao Xuanfeng prepared his wife and children for life after his death and told them to accept an investment from Ning One Hundred Group if they met its requirements.
• Zhao Xuanfeng pretended his Divine Kingdom’s situation had improved, but his body turned transparent as the collapsing kingdom killed him.
• Zhao Xuanfeng sent Minister Wang an apology and asked him to look after his family before dissolving into motes of light.
• Li Tianheng told Yang Fan he had obtained Zhao Xuanfeng’s Divine Kingdom Core, and Yang Fan ordered him to deliver the collected cores and leave no traces.
• Yang Da reported that the Divine Kingdom’s birth rate had risen after a century of adjustments and that defenses and population migration in ten Mystic-Rank Secret Realms were underway.

Yang Fan reviewed the Divine Kingdom’s population campaign and absorbed the essence of collected Divine Kingdom Cores to improve his talents. His Soul Seed talent neared a transformation threshold, needing only a little more essence.

• Yang Da reported that remote areas consumed little of the Divine Kingdom’s resources but produced most of its newborns, aided by Yang Yi’s planning and Yang Shi’s propaganda.
• Yang Fan praised Yang Yi and Yang Shi and awarded each one million Divinity Points.
• Yang Da told Yang Fan that the coordinates of a foreign-race god’s Divine Kingdom had been calculated and that Yang Si was preparing troops for war.
• Yang Fan absorbed the essence from the collected Divine Kingdom Cores, seeking talents rather than territory.
• Yang Fan fused low-level talents, and his Soul Seed talent trembled as it neared a transformation threshold.

Yang Fan upgraded his Divine Kingdom talent to Class B Soul Gathering, giving more deceased believers a chance to retain their souls and cultivate in the Netherworld. He announced the Netherworld to all his believers and promised that death could lead to a second life, while leaving the story with the Divine Kingdom ready to develop its ghost-cultivation system.

• Yang Fan discovered that his upgraded talent was Class B Soul Gathering and learned that it helped believers’ souls endure after death.
• Yang Fan ordered Yang Da to plan population transfers from the Secret Realms and strengthen the Calamity Pearl’s human calamity without harming the Divine Kingdom’s population base.
• Yang Fan descended his divine presence across the Divine Kingdom and its twenty Secret Realms, bringing all believers to silence.
• Yang Fan announced that believers whose souls endured could enter the Netherworld after death and continue cultivating.
• Yang Fan told believers that successful ghost cultivators might rebuild their bodies and return to their homeland, inspiring hope among the old and frail.