Chapter Summaries

Yang Fan arrived on Xiling Star and learned that the Gu Family expected him to investigate the powerful Rao Family before handing him ownership of the planet. He realized the Gu Family’s influence was far greater than he had imagined, while the Rao Family’s fate now rested in his hands.

• Rao Tianming welcomed Gu Shaoqing and Yang Fan with an elaborate ceremony, then treated Yang Fan with deference after learning he had two Third-Order Gods protecting him.
• Rao Tianming escorted Yang Fan to a lavish estate, where Yang Fan grew uneasy that events on Xiling Star seemed to have been arranged in advance.
• Yang Fan pressed Gu Shaoqing for answers, and Gu Shaoqing revealed the Rao Family’s illegal dealings and the Third Elder’s interest in seeing how Yang Fan handled them.
• Gu Shaoqing told Yang Fan that the Gu Family planned to hand him ownership of Xiling Star and that he could decide whether the Rao Family survived.
• Yang Fan joked about destroying the planet, and Gu Shaoqing said the Gu Family could cover for him, leaving Yang Fan newly aware of the Five Great Families’ immense power.

Yang Fan explored Xiling Star and saw its enforcement officers exploit impoverished residents while favoring wealthy travelers. After a hungry boy tried to rob him, Yang Fan learned the boy and his twin sisters were waiting for their conscripted father to return, and gave the girls Spirit Fruits.

• Yang Fan left his residence and walked through Xiling Star, where enforcement officers demanded taxes from poor residents and abused those unable to pay.
• Yang Fan saw the officers waive taxes and inspections for wealthy travelers at the spaceship port, and grew disgusted by the planet’s inequality.
• A boy ambushed Yang Fan in an alley with an iron rod, but the blow failed to hurt him; the boy’s twin sisters rushed to protect their brother.
• The boy apologized and explained that he and his sisters had only wanted food, while the girls said their father had been conscripted a year earlier because of his forging talent.
• Yang Fan gave the twins Spirit Fruits, which they eagerly ate, while their brother stayed still and stared at the food.

Yang Fan learned from Ning Bailian how the Rao Family had impoverished Xiling Star and preyed on its people while preparing to leave. After reviewing evidence of the family’s crimes, Yang Fan decided to destroy them, with Gu Shaoqing confirming that the Gu Family supported his intervention.

• Yang Fan questioned Ning Bailian, who explained that the Rao Family had piled on taxes to drain Xiling Star before moving to a larger planet.
• Ning Bailian revealed that the Rao Family controlled Awakening Stones, seized Divine Kingdom Coordinates, and had sealed communication and immigration channels.
• Yang Fan arranged a month of hotel lodging for Ning Bailian and said it would not be long before he could awaken his Divine Kingdom.
• Yang Fan summoned Gu Shaoqing and announced that he would destroy the Rao Family.
• Gu Shaoqing sent Yang Fan evidence of the Rao Family’s crimes and said the Gu Family believed some lines must not be crossed.

Yang Fan ordered the Gu Family to seize the Rao Family, and Rao Tianming surrendered after seeing the evidence of his clan’s crimes. Rao Tianming then began releasing his divine power to help Yang Fan take control of Xiling Star.

• Gu Shaoqing told Yang Fan that the Gu Family had prepared to take down the Rao Family and sent the order to begin the raid.
• The Gu Family enforcement team subdued the Rao Family, and Rao Tianming entered to beg Yang Fan for mercy.
• Ye Wen brought in the captured Rao Family Gods, and Yang Fan showed Rao Tianming the evidence against his clan.
• Gu Shaoqing explained the punishments planned for the Rao Family, and Rao Tianming killed a First-Order God who tried to speak out.
• Rao Tianming accepted the Rao Family’s defeat and unleashed divine power, forming a thousand-foot phantom above Xiling Star.

Yang Fan witnessed Tang Yue erase Rao Tianming and the Rao Family Gods, then learned that Tang Yue had obtained their Divine Kingdom coordinates and begun invading their Divine Kingdoms. Gu Shaoqing unveiled a broadcast presenting Yang Fan as Xiling Star’s new ruler, and the chapter ended with Ning Bailian stunned by the announcement.

• Rao Tianming announced that the Rao Family had been punished and that restrictions on Xiling Star were lifted, then asked Yang Fan to avenge Rao Yu and spare innocent Rao Family descendants.
• Tang Yue erased Rao Tianming and the Rao Family Gods, and told Yang Fan that her believers were invading their Divine Kingdoms.
• Gu Shaoqing activated the Third Elder’s promotional video, which showed Yang Fan announcing that he would govern Xiling Star and promising reforms, compensation, and two tax-free years.
• Ning Bailian stared at the sky in disbelief and realized that Yang Fan was Xiling Star’s new master.

Ning Bailian comforted his sisters after learning they had accepted their father's death, while Yang Fan learned why the Gu Family had given him control of Xiling Star and that it could shape his future in politics, commerce, or the military. The chapter ended with Gu Xuanting agreeing not to punish Gu Ming after Yang Fan advised that things should not be judged too harshly.

• Ning Bailian's sisters said they had known their father would not return, and he promised to give them a good life again.
• Tang Yue congratulated Yang Fan on becoming Xiling Star's master and said she would destroy the Rao Family gods' Divine Kingdoms within a month.
• Yang Fan met Gu Xuanting in the Virtual World and learned Xiling Star's population, tax revenue, and value to its master.
• Gu Xuanting explained that Xiling Star was a test that could lead Yang Fan toward politics, commerce, or a military career.
• Gu Xuanting asked how to handle Gu Ming, and Yang Fan advised that when water was too clear there were no fish.
• Gu Xuanting agreed to impose no punishment on Gu Ming.

After Gu Xuanting spared Gu Ming, Gu Shaoqing thanked Yang Fan and offered him help managing Xiling Star. Yang Fan appointed Ma Yu to oversee the Life Star and chose a long-term rebuilding strategy, leaving Ma Yu to begin moving Elephant Loans’ headquarters there.

• Yang Fan reassured Gu Shaoqing that Gu Ming was safe, and Gu Shaoqing thanked him for pleading with Gu Xuanting.
• Gu Shaoqing offered to find a professional team to manage Xiling Star, but Yang Fan said he already had someone in mind.
• Yang Fan summoned Ma Yu and appointed him to take charge of Xiling Star, which the Gu Family had invested in him.
• Ma Yu explained that a Life Star’s population and civilization made it far more valuable than a resource planet, then outlined short-term extraction and long-term development strategies.
• Yang Fan chose long-term development because Xiling Star had been drained by the Rao Family and needed rebuilding.
• Ma Yu promised to move Elephant Loans’ headquarters to Xiling Star to bring commercial activity.

Yang Fan learned that the Rao Family’s Divine Kingdom had been destroyed by the same human Demigod he had fought, and he ordered Ma Yu to eliminate the family’s direct line and any dangerous heirs. After returning to Primordial City, he accepted Gu Ming’s tribute and reunited with Gu Le, who promised her father would support him.

• Yang Fan asked Ma Yu to arrange ships to bring people from his hometown to Xiling Star and to offer the Luo family relocation or resources.
• Yang Fan watched Rao Tianming’s recording and recognized the human Demigod who had destroyed Rao Yu’s Divine Kingdom as his own enemy.
• Yang Fan ordered Ma Yu to eliminate the Rao Family’s direct line and any exceptionally talented members of its collateral branches.
• After arriving in Primordial City, Yang Fan met Gu Ming, accepted a crystal card containing twenty billion Divinity Points, and learned it was part of the Rao Family’s past tribute.
• Yang Fan returned to the villa, told Gu Le about Xiling Star and its tax exemption, and reassured her that he loved her; Gu Le said her father would support him.

Yang Fan reviewed the Divine Kingdom’s rapid growth and ordered Yang Da to focus on developing its believers before returning to his studies and life with Gu Le. A month later, Ma Yu reported that Xiling Star was stable under their control, but its tax revenue had fallen sharply after he cut the excessive taxes in half.

• Yang Fan entered his Divine Kingdom, saw that its population had neared one hundred billion and the Myriad Forms Martial Court had become dominant, then told Yang Da to invest in developing believers, the Mechanical Civilization, and immortal cultivation.
• Yang Fan decided to delay becoming a God so he could claim the remaining rewards from the Primordial Battlefield and prepare carefully for the dangerous Foreign-Race Divine Kingdom District.
• Yang Fan returned to a calm routine of studying, cultivating, and spending time with Gu Le, realizing he had grown used to sharing everyday life with her.
• A month later, Ma Yu told Yang Fan that Xiling Star had been taken over and was operating stably.
• Ma Yu reported that he had halved Xiling Star’s excessive taxes, but monthly revenue had dropped below ten billion Divinity Points despite usually exceeding twenty billion.

Yang Fan reviewed Xiling Star’s recovery and arrived to reunite with his family and friends after the Luo Family relocated there. He found the city’s commerce returning and a crowd waiting outside his parents’ home.

• Ma Yu reported Xiling Star’s tax revenue and expenses, and Yang Fan ordered him to reserve ten billion and transfer thirty billion to his Divine Kingdom.
• Ma Yu told Yang Fan that the Luo Family had moved to Xiling Star after he negotiated with Wang Yun, and Yang Fan asked everyone to gather in the Virtual World.
• Yang Fan arrived at Xiling Star and saw its residents trading and working again as the city recovered.
• Yang Fan reached his parents’ home, where more than a thousand people, including Luo Hai and Luo Chengfeng, waited outside.
• Yang Fan reunited with Yang Tiexin, Sun Rong, Luo Rou, Luo Bing, Zhang Pang, and Zhang Wanshan.

Yang Fan welcomed Zhang Pang and the Luo Family to Xiling Star, then spent time with Luo Rou and Luo Bing before returning to Gu Le. A month later, his Soul-Nourishing Wood neared the ten-thousand-year tier, and Yang Da swiftly defeated the few demigods who came after him.

• Zhang Pang told Yang Fan that Senior Ma had made him an administrative district’s leader, while Zhang Wanshan scolded him for his clumsy show of loyalty.
• Luo Hai led the Luo Family gods in greeting Yang Fan, who promised the family would become Xiling Star’s foremost lineage.
• Luo Rou and Luo Bing persuaded Yang Fan to stay in the Virtual World with them for the day.
• Yang Fan left the Virtual World the next morning and found Gu Le preparing breakfast while pregnant.
• A month later, the Soul-Nourishing Wood neared the ten-thousand-year tier, and Yang Da defeated three demigods who targeted Yang Fan and recovered their Divine Kingdom Cores.

Yang Fan learned that his enormous Divine Kingdom deterred many Demigods, then watched his wealth and strength grow as his Soul-Nourishing Wood harvest earned eighty billion Divinity Points. After granting Tang Yue the resources from the Rao Family Gods’ Divine Kingdoms, he calculated that his total monthly income had reached at least eighty billion Divinity Points.

• Yang Da explained that Yang Fan’s eighty-million-square-kilometer Divine Kingdom made Demigods wary of attacking him.
• Yang Fan decided to stop planting Soul-Nourishing Wood after the current harvest and prepare to enter Primordial Academy’s Foreign-Race Divine Kingdom District.
• Yang Da reported that more than two hundred million followers had become Alchemists and that the ten Spirit Plant Stars generated about two billion Divinity Points each month.
• Tang Yue told Yang Fan that she had breached several Rao Family Gods’ Divine Kingdoms, and Yang Fan let her keep the reclaimed resources.
• Yang Da harvested the mature Soul-Nourishing Wood and sold it for eighty billion Divinity Points.
• Yang Fan inspected his Divine Kingdom and calculated that his monthly income was no less than eighty billion Divinity Points.

Yang Fan entered the Primordial Battlefield with ten million carefully trained believers and watched them hold back the growing Alien Race tide. As their ranking climbed into the top ten thousand, Yang San raised the Spirit Tortoise Life-Nurturing Formation to protect the army from the relentless assault.

• Yang Fan decided to enter the Primordial Battlefield after his believers’ growth stalled against the Divine Kingdom’s rule limits.
• Yang Fan manifested ten million believers equipped with Intelligent Weapons, and Yang San, Yang Si, and Yang Wu coordinated their forces against the Alien Race.
• Yang Fan’s believers combined their defenses, firepower, and flying-sword attacks to withstand the enemy tide, and Yang Da reported that they had reached the top one hundred thousand.
• Yang Da later announced that Yang Fan had entered the top ten thousand, while Gu Yuan watched the battle and praised the elite army.
• As the battlefield filled with Foundation Establishment-level Alien Race, Yang San raised the Spirit Tortoise Life-Nurturing Formation to shield the believers.

Yang Fan ended his Primordial Battlefield assessment after reaching rank 99, drawing attention across the Primordial Academy and concern from the Gu Family about the Alien Race noticing him. Gu Yuan questioned why Yang Fan stopped short of the top ten, but Yang Fan worried greater fame would put him in danger.

• Yang Fan's believers held off the Alien Race until he requested an end to the assessment, leaving him ranked 99 in the Primordial Battlefield.
• Students across Primordial Academy discussed Yang Fan's sudden rise, while Ma Huainan vowed to reclaim everything he had lost.
• Gu Xuanting and Lu Qinglan praised Yang Fan's achievement but worried the Alien Race might target him; Gu Xuanting planned to urge him to become a god in his third year.
• Gu Yuan appeared before Yang Fan and asked why he had stopped despite having the strength to rank in the top five.
• Yang Fan learned there were no rewards for the top ten and said that greater fame would make him a target.

Yang Fan persuaded Gu Yuan to award him both the Heavenly Court and the Intelligent Goddess in exchange for ten Spirit Vein Stars. After receiving the two strategic buildings, he considered how they would help his Divine Kingdom advance cultivation, martial arts, and machinery together.

• Gu Yuan explained the rewards for Primordial Battlefield rankings and let Yang Fan choose a building.
• Yang Fan asked to trade lower-ranked rewards for a top-tier building, then admitted he wanted both the Intelligent Goddess and the Heavenly Court.
• Gu Yuan agreed to make an exception for Mystic Court's sake if Yang Fan paid ten Spirit Vein Stars, and Yang Fan sent him their coordinates.
• Gu Yuan warned Yang Fan to keep the two buildings secret because his Divine Kingdom lacked the strength to protect such wealth.
• Yang Fan received the Heavenly Court and Intelligent Goddess cards and read how they strengthened cultivation and mechanical civilization.

Yang Fan loaded the Heavenly Court and the Intelligent Goddess into his Divine Kingdom, transforming its Cultivation and Mechanical civilizations and greatly increasing their power. After Yang Da explained the Intelligent Goddess’s inheritance, Yang Fan prepared his believers for a battle against powerful Alien Demigods and received an invitation from Gu Xuanting.

• Yang Fan loaded the Heavenly Court, which drew the Penglai Islands into the sky and converted the Divine Kingdom’s spiritual energy into Immortal Qi.
• Cultivation Believers broke through to higher stages, while others left Penglai Island to seek residences in the Heavenly Court.
• Yang Fan loaded the Intelligent Goddess, connecting the Artificial Lifeforms and accelerating the Mechanical Civilization’s research and development.
• Yang Da told Yang Fan that the Intelligent Goddess held the core inheritance of a High-End Mechanical Divine Kingdom and could help him advance toward becoming a Seventh-Tier Mechanical God.
• Yang Yi informed Yang Fan that Gu Xuanting had invited him to the Gu Family Clan Grounds in the Virtual World, and Yang Fan ordered Yang Da to prepare the believers for a fight against Alien Demigods.

Yang Fan met with Gu Xuanting, who warned him that Alien Race Demigods might target his Divine Kingdom and urged him to become a god quickly. Gu Xuanting then asked Yang Fan for marriage advice, before warning him not to let Gu Le'er suffer.

• Yang Fan thanked Gu Xuanting for the Gu Family's support as Gu Xuanting praised his rapid growth.
• Gu Xuanting warned Yang Fan that his Divine Kingdom could be vulnerable to Alien Race Demigods and advised him to become a god before his junior year.
• Gu Xuanting said Gu Le'er often talked about Yang Fan and asked him how to handle a marriage.
• Yang Fan shared advice he had learned from Liu Ruyan, telling Gu Xuanting to offer emotional support, spend time together, and apologize first.
• Gu Xuanting warned Yang Fan not to let Gu Le'er suffer any grievance, and Yang Fan promised to obey.

Yang Fan considered Gu Xuanting’s warning and offered Gu Le a gift, while Gu Le told Lu Qinglan she wanted to help Yang Fan grow into a powerful figure and become his true partner. In Yang Fan’s rapidly developing Divine Kingdom, Yang Da reported major advances across its civilizations, including plans for Second-Tier Intelligent Weapons.

• Yang Fan reunited with Gu Le and offered her more than ten thousand phased-out Penglai Islands, but she declined and encouraged him to save them for himself.
• Gu Le told Lu Qinglan that Yang Fan’s talent and growth had convinced her she wanted a genuine marriage with him, not merely a contract.
• Gu Le said she wanted to help Yang Fan stop being so cautious, integrate into the upper echelons, and become a great figure.
• Yang Da reported that Foundation Establishment Realm believers had nearly doubled, Martial Master Realm believers had increased by more than fifty percent, and Second-Tier Artificial Lifeform production efficiency had roughly doubled.
• Yang Da revealed that the Mechanical Civilization had begun designing Second-Tier Intelligent Weapons.

Yang Fan learned that the Foreign-Race Divine Kingdom District offered only two dangerous challenges, so he decided to wait a month while his Divine Kingdom grew stronger. As he studied Divine Kingdom affairs and family politics, Sima Pang invited him to a gathering at Moon Fragrance Tower.

• Yang Fan asked Gu Le about the Foreign-Race Divine Kingdom District, and she explained its strict one-on-one rules and three levels of increasingly powerful Alien Demigods.
• Gu Le warned Yang Fan that the district had no exceptions and that even his father could not rescue him if he broke its rules.
• Yang Fan chose to delay visiting the district for a month so his rapidly developing Divine Kingdom could grow stronger before he used one of his two chances.
• Yang Fan spent his remaining time studying Divine Kingdom development and learning from Gu Le about rival factions within the Five Great Families.
• Sima Pang invited Yang Fan to a small gathering at Moon Fragrance Tower, and Yang Fan accepted.

Yang Fan met with Sima Pang and Ye Jianfeng, discussed Ma Huainan’s risky choice in the Foreign-Race Divine Kingdom District, and then inspected the changes in his Divine Kingdom. He left the story amused and exasperated by Yang Da’s extravagant behavior.

• Yang Fan greeted Sima Pang and Ye Jianfeng warmly at Moon Fragrance Tower, and Ye Jianfeng admitted that he had kicked Wen Yushui out of their group.
• Sima Pang told Yang Fan that Ma Huainan had entered a first-level zone in the Foreign-Race Divine Kingdom District after losing the War God Codex, and explained the dangers of second-level zones.
• After Yang Fan left, Sima Pang reflected that Yang Fan had been more interested in speaking with him than with Ye Jianfeng.
• Yang Fan inspected his Divine Kingdom and saw that the Cultivation Civilization and Martial Cultivation Civilization had developed organized societies and systems.
• Yang Fan discovered that Yang Da had built an even grander palace and organized a beauty pageant, and complained about his bad habits.