Ch. 241Good Steel Belongs on the Cutting Edge

Yang Fan decided his Divine Kingdom was ready for war and ordered preparations while arranging for Lingxu Zi to provide intelligence. He entered the Foreign-Race Divine Kingdom District to search for valuable S-Class Buildings, but rejected the first Demigod’s Divine Kingdom after finding only A-Class Buildings.

  • Yang Fan reviewed his Divine Kingdom’s strength and decided that war would drive further growth.
  • Yang Fan ordered Yang Da to prepare every faction for war and to have Lingxu Zi provide intelligence.
  • Yang Fan went alone to the Foreign-Race Divine Kingdom District, where students greeted him as a Peerless Monster.
  • Yang Fan examined information about a Black Bone Race Demigod’s Divine Kingdom and found its known buildings were only A-Class.
  • Yang Fan continued searching because he wanted to reserve his two chances for high-value S-Class Buildings.

Ch. 242Undead Race Demigod

Yang Fan searched the second-level area for an alien Demigod to challenge and found one whose Divine Kingdom held the Myriad Dao Evolution Temple. Despite Lu Wan warning him about the Undead Race Demigod’s extreme danger, Yang Fan chose him and initiated the challenge.

  • Yang Fan entered the second-level area and accepted Lu Wan’s help reviewing potential alien Demigod targets.
  • Lu Wan introduced Demigods with valuable S-Class buildings, but Yang Fan continued searching while prioritizing the safety of his Divine Kingdom.
  • Yang Fan found an Undead Race Demigod, six hundred years old, with four known S-Class buildings and a record of killing three Human Prodigies.
  • Lu Wan warned Yang Fan that the Undead Race Demigod was exceptionally strong and urged him to wait until a later year.
  • Yang Fan chose the Undead Race Demigod and pressed his hand against the screen, connecting to his Divine Kingdom.

Ch. 243Poaching Someone's Partner

Yang Fan’s Divine Kingdom War against the Undead Demigod began as his forces repelled the first wave and prepared holy-water weapons. Meanwhile, Lu Wan took Yang Fan to dinner, prompting Gu Le to rush out after seeing gossip that Lu Wan was trying to poach her husband.

  • The Undead Demigod sent billions of undead troops through spatial rifts, and Yang Da ordered holy water and mobilized the Divine Kingdom’s allied forces.
  • Yang Fan told Lu Wan that he had found the Demigod coordinates he wanted and agreed to have a meal with her.
  • Onlookers speculated that Lu Wan was pursuing Yang Fan and shared a photo of them in the family group chat.
  • Gu Le saw the photo, cursed Lu Wan, and left the villa after changing into loose clothes.
  • Lu Wan brought Yang Fan to the Lu Family Restaurant, where he realized her invitation was not merely a friendly meal.

Ch. 244Setting Out

Yang Fan learned the history of the Undead Demigod’s victories over Human Prodigies and began an invasion of his Divine Kingdom. The chapter ended with one billion vanguard troops advancing into battle.

  • Yang Fan rejected Lu Wan’s wine and left the restaurant, where Gu Le arrived to take him home.
  • Lu Wan saw Gu Le protect Yang Fan, crushed her cup, and called her mother to talk in the Virtual World.
  • Gu Le warned Yang Fan about the Undead Demigod’s record and sent him internal data on the Human Prodigies he had defeated.
  • Yang Fan reviewed footage of the Undead Race’s Divine Kingdom and learned that reconnaissance near its core had cost more than ten Void Spirit Race members.
  • Yang Fan ordered a direct invasion, and his one-billion-strong vanguard advanced after the F3500 Fighters wiped out the approaching Skeleton Soldiers.

Ch. 245The True Divine Kingdom War

Yang Fan’s forces began a Divine Kingdom War against the Undead Demigod, crushing its outer defenses while coordinating an enormous supply and production network. The advance continued through the vast enemy territory as resistance intensified, and Gu Le worried about the war from afar.

  • Yang Fan’s consciousness entered the Undead Demigod’s Divine Kingdom, where the undead ruler threatened him and Yang Fan mocked it as a resource pack.
  • Yang San led the Ten Halls of Yama Formation, shattering the undead ruler’s phantom as it promised to hunt Human Race geniuses in the core region.
  • Yang Fan’s army swept through the outer region, while Yang Er led hundreds of millions of Otherworld Collectors in dismantling and converting resources.
  • Yang Fan’s forces grew beyond five billion through the Hundredfold Evolution Talent, but the Divine Kingdom’s vastness and resistance slowed their advance.
  • Yang Da and Yang Yi coordinated supplies and production, while Yang San, Yang Shi, Yang Si, Yang Wu, Yang Liu, and Yang Qi directed frontline operations.
  • Gu Le visited Yang Fan and expressed concern, saying Primordial Academy’s rules prevented him from leading believers into the war.

Ch. 246Xiling Star's Development

Yang Fan kept his Divine Kingdom War against the Undead Demigod under control while Xiling Star developed into a hub for war production and logistics. He visited his family and gave them Penglai Island, while keeping other resources limited until they were strong enough to protect themselves.

  • Yang Fan judged that his forces had the battle against the Undead Demigod under control, despite swarming skeleton troops and occasional explosive traps injuring his believers.
  • Yang Fan learned that news of his Divine Kingdom War had spread among the Five Great Families and resolved to keep his growing strength from attracting unnecessary attention.
  • Yang Fan visited Xiling Star, where Ma Yu reported its expanding businesses, war-supply production, logistics network, futures exchange, and talent academy.
  • Yang Fan gave his Parents, Luo Bing, and Luo Rou Penglai Island to improve their Divine Kingdoms, while withholding greater resources until they became stronger.

Ch. 247Sacrificial Formation

Yang Fan’s forces pushed deep into the Undead Divine Kingdom while he prepared for the enemy’s hidden defenses. The Undead Demigod planned to activate a Sacrificial Formation, and Yang Fan’s allies suspected the core region’s Grand Array weakened living infiltrators.

  • Yang Fan reassured Gu Le that he would be fine and boasted that he might soon destroy the Undead Demigod.
  • Yang Fan’s army, now exceeding ten billion, fought the Undead Race across a brutal battlefield as his believers suffered heavy casualties and continued to grow stronger.
  • Yang Fan ordered Yang Da to deploy a Void War Ark under Yang San and keep watch as the army neared the core region.
  • The Undead Demigod learned that Yang Fan’s believers were the enemy’s core forces and prepared to use the Sacrificial Formation to turn their flesh, blood, and souls into strength.
  • Lingxu Zi reported that Void Spirit Race believers weakened and lost concealment in the core region, and Yang Da suspected a Grand Array designed to target living beings.

Ch. 248The One Who Should Be Anxious Is Him

Yang Fan rejected direct assaults and chose to reshape the Undead Divine Kingdom’s environment, spending vast resources to turn its deathly land into a land of life while preserving his army. Ten years later inside the kingdom, his forces had surrounded its core with a massive wall, leaving the Undead Demigod uneasy as it wondered what Yang Fan was preparing.

  • Yang Da proposed probing the enemy with mechanical forces or overwhelming it with believers, but Yang Fan rejected both plans and ordered his army to blockade the enemy and transform its environment.
  • Yang Da warned that the plan would cost more than one hundred billion Divinity Points, but Yang Fan prioritized his Divine Kingdom’s safety and ordered the spending to continue.
  • The Undead Demigod chose to wait inside its core, believing Yang Fan would become anxious if the war dragged on.
  • After ten days outside and ten years inside the Undead Divine Kingdom, Yang Da erected a World-Anchoring Profound Heaven Great Wall around the core, with both armies facing each other across it.
  • The Undead Demigod grew uneasy at the Human Race’s unexplained siege, and an undead strategist pointed out the many machines outside.

Ch. 249Retreat Ten Thousand Kilometers

Yang Fan flooded the Undead Divine Kingdom with costly purification liquids, weakening the undead and transforming the land around their core. The Undead Demigod judged the attack too limited to threaten the core and ordered his troops to retreat ten thousand kilometers.

  • The Undead Demigod saw Yang Fan’s machines digging trenches beyond the wall and sent undead troops to stop them, but City-Annihilation Cannons destroyed most of the force.
  • Yang Da reported that the canals were finished, the core region had been made into a lowland basin, and the first massive shipment of purification resources had arrived.
  • Yang Fan ordered the purification operation to begin, and holy liquids flowed through the canals toward the Divine Kingdom Core as dams released their water.
  • The flood diluted deathly energy, restored life to the land, and weakened the undead soldiers, who recoiled from the poisonous rivers.
  • The Undead Demigod dismissed the costly attack as foolish and ordered his soldiers to retreat ten thousand kilometers.

Ch. 250The Way of a Minister

Yang Fan used massive investments to transform the Undead Divine Kingdom’s core region, forcing the Undead Demigod to retreat repeatedly rather than fight. After spending over sixty billion Divinity Points, Yang Fan paused to make the enemy believe his funds had run out, while the Undead Race concluded that his forces would soon withdraw.

  • The Undead Demigod accepted his advisers’ recommendation to retreat another ten thousand kilometers as Yang Fan’s investments spread life through the Divine Kingdom’s core.
  • Yang Fan learned that the enemy had withdrawn and ordered his forces to continue investing resources in the ecological transformation.
  • Yang Fan reassured Gu Le that the enemy’s buildings would soon belong to him, then playfully tickled her until she agreed with him.
  • Five years later inside the Undead Divine Kingdom, the Undead Demigod’s advisers urged another retreat, and he agreed to yield ten thousand more kilometers.
  • Yang Da reported that the investment had exceeded sixty billion, so Yang Fan paused spending to make the Undead Demigod think he had run out of funds.
  • After the Frontline stopped moving, the Undead Race leaders concluded that Yang Fan’s resources were exhausted and expected him to withdraw.

Ch. 251Fight to the Death

The Undead Demigod grew desperate as Yang Fan’s steady resource investment forced its forces deeper into its Divine Kingdom, then ordered them to prepare for a final battle. Yang Fan arrived on the battlefield as two enormous mobile steel cities emerged from the Undead Divine Kingdom.

  • The Undead Demigod’s advisers urged it to withdraw again, but it killed one adviser and refused to keep surrendering territory.
  • The Undead Demigod ordered its forces to form battle formations, strengthen the sacrificial formation, and prepare to fight the invading Human Race to the death.
  • The Undead Demigod ordered its followers to bring out the captured Human Race buildings to use as transportation for their charge.
  • Yang Fan descended onto the Divine Kingdom Battlefield after Yang San reported the enemy’s preparations.
  • Two thousand-zhang steel giants emerged from the Undead Divine Kingdom, carrying dense ranks of Undead Race believers and bristling with weapons.

Ch. 252Survive

Yang Fan’s forces attacked the Undead Race as they emerged in an S-Class Mechanical War Puppet and Nine Nether River. The Undead Demigod resolved to survive by winning or prolonging the war until Yang Fan left.

  • Yang Da identified the Mechanical War Puppet and Nine Nether River as valuable S-Class Buildings, and Yang Fan recognized how useful the river’s healing waters would be to his believers.
  • Yang Fan ordered his forces to attack before the Undead Race could fully emerge, and the World-Anchoring Profound Heaven Great Wall opened fire on the Nine Nether River.
  • Adult Elves shot Holy Water-coated arrows through openings in the Mechanical War Puppet, killing large numbers of Undead Race members.
  • Laser fire struck the legion behind the puppet, and the life aura suppressed the Undead Race enough that even Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment experts died in droves.
  • The Undead Demigod regretted his defensive choices but decided to survive by winning the war or dragging it out until Yang Fan left.

Ch. 253Prioritize Defending the Nine Nether River

Yang Fan’s forces continued wearing down the Undead Race army as it advanced, while Yang Da prepared a concealed attack under cover of a vast fog bank. The Undead Demigod’s adviser identified the Nine Nether River as the likely target and urged its defenses to be reinforced.

  • Yang Fan approved Yang Da’s plan to send a surprise force toward the Mechanical War Puppets, accepting the risk of limited losses.
  • Yang Fan’s legions continued their bombardment as the Undead Race counterattacked with spells, while the elves rotated through the exhausting work of firing and resupplying.
  • Yang Da moved roughly one hundred thousand elite troops into position and ordered smoke bombs fired until fog covered a thousand-kilometer stretch of battlefield.
  • The Undead adviser warned the Undead Demigod that the fog could conceal an attack on the Nine Nether River and leave the legions behind their formations exposed.
  • The Undead Demigod ordered reinforcements sent to the Nine Nether River.

Ch. 254The Surprise Force Has Arrived

Yang Fan’s surprise force entered the Mechanical War Puppets through a hidden passage, then launched a coordinated attack on the Undead Race inside. The assault began with the Undead caught off guard as Human Race firepower poured into the war buildings.

  • Lingxu Zi told Yang Fan that his believers had found a safe route and delivered the map to Yang Da.
  • Yang San intensified the bombardment of the Nine Nether River, prompting more Undead Race members to patrol ashore.
  • Yang Shi led the one hundred thousand troops through a secret entrance in a Mechanical War Puppet and directed them to carry holy water bombs.
  • Yang Da reported that the troops had reached the knee joint while Yang Fan ordered continued attacks on the river to distract the Undead.
  • Yang Fan ordered the final assault, and the Human Race turned its cannons, flying swords, and arrows on the Mechanical War Puppets.
  • The Undead Race inside the Mechanical War Puppets cried out to defend as attacks penetrated the gaps in their armor.

Ch. 255Transfer of Highest Authority Successful

Yang Fan’s forces overwhelmed the Undead Race inside the two Mechanical War Puppets with Holy Water and coordinated attacks, then seized control of both S-Class War Buildings. The puppets stopped and shook off the climbing undead as Yang Fan ordered Yang Da to demonstrate their power.

  • Human believers opened the iron doors and bombarded the undead inside the Mechanical War Puppets with Holy Water, weakening them and disrupting their defenses.
  • The Human army and long-range fire support slaughtered the weakened undead while the Undead Race army climbed the puppets to reclaim them.
  • The Undead Demigod learned that the Humans had targeted the Mechanical War Puppets, killed an adviser in fury, and feared his path to a Divine Kingdom had ended.
  • Second-Tier Artificial Lifeforms reached the control area and completed the transfer of highest authority to the Human Mechanical Civilization.
  • The two Mechanical War Puppets stopped and shook violently, throwing off the undead clinging to them, and Yang Da told Yang Fan he had gained control.
  • Yang Fan ordered Yang Da to show the Undead Race the might of the S-Class War Buildings.

Ch. 256All In

Yang Fan’s Mechanical War Puppets devastated the Undead Race, but he kept his cautious strategy as the Undead Demigod prepared a desperate final gamble. The chapter ended with Yang Da urgently calling Yang Fan into the Divine Kingdom.

  • Yang Fan deployed two Mechanical War Puppets, which unleashed overwhelming firepower and slaughtered the Undead Race army.
  • Yang Fan rejected Yang Da’s suggestion to change their strategy and continued investing Holy Water and resources to avoid taking risks.
  • The Undead Demigod realized his forces were trapped, their death aura depleted, and the Eternal Corpse Mine could not save them.
  • The Undead Demigod ordered his followers to sacrifice everything and open the Sacrificial Formation.
  • Yang Da urgently told Yang Fan to enter the Divine Kingdom.

Ch. 257Hidden Far Too Deep

Yang Fan watched the Undead Race activate a Sacrificial Formation that restored its fallen low-level troops and filled the Divine Kingdom with deathly aura. He reinforced the Frontline against the advancing undead and, as the battle continued, deployed a colossal Void War Ark.

  • Yang Da identified the enormous formation as a Sacrificial Formation that consumed vast resources and could generally be used only once.
  • The formation reversed the holy water's effects, spread deathly aura through the Divine Kingdom, and revived hundreds of billions of fallen undead.
  • Yang Fan ordered twenty billion more troops from the Divine Kingdom to join the Frontline as the undead advanced toward the World-Anchoring Profound Heaven Great Wall.
  • The Great Wall's spells, Intelligent Weapons, and City-Annihilation Cannons tore through the undead tide while the S-Rank Mechanical War Puppets swept the battlefield with laser fire.
  • Yang Fan ordered Yang San to deploy One Void War Ark, which expanded into a colossal warship hundreds of kilometers long above the battlefield.

Ch. 258I Can Negotiate Too

Yang Fan’s forces overwhelmed the Undead Race with the Void War Ark and other reinforcements, prompting the Undead Demigod to beg to become his Subordinate God. After Yang Fan questioned his motives, the Undead Demigod ordered weaker believers to sacrifice themselves and replenish his Divine Kingdom, and Yang Fan commanded his troops to seize its core.

  • The Void War Ark descended and its cannons vaporized millions of Undead Race members as Yang Fan’s reinforcements joined the battle.
  • Yang Da and Lingxu Zi praised Yang Fan while he watched the battle from the World-Anchoring Profound Heaven Great Wall.
  • The Undead Demigod appeared, knelt before Yang Fan, and asked to become his Subordinate God in exchange for serving as cannon fodder.
  • Yang Fan questioned whether the Undead Demigod was hiding another plan, and the Demigod ordered believers below the Qi Refining Realm to detonate themselves and restore the Divine Kingdom’s deathly aura.
  • Yang Fan ordered his forces to deploy and seize the Undead Race’s Divine Kingdom Core.

Ch. 259War Victory, Banquet

Yang Fan defeated the Undead Demigod and discovered a trove of Divine Kingdom Cores, including those taken from three Human Prodigies. Back in reality, Gu Le celebrated his victory and told him the Gu Family would host a banquet in his honor that night.

  • Yang Fan refused to take the Undead Demigod as a Subordinate God and sent an elite army to test the defeated Divine Kingdom’s defenses.
  • Yang Fan’s forces extracted the Divine Kingdom Core, and Yang San’s Ten Halls of Yama Formation killed the Undead Demigod.
  • Yang Fan discovered forty or fifty Divine Kingdom Cores, including three belonging to Human Prodigies, and ordered his believers to develop the captured Divine Kingdom and report their gains.
  • Yang Fan returned to reality, where Gu Le embraced him and explained that news of his victory had spread.
  • Gu Le told Yang Fan that her father had arranged a Gu Family banquet for him that night, and she shared a poem she had written for him.

Ch. 260Connections

Yang Fan attended a Gu Family dinner with Gu Le, where influential young members and associates of the family welcomed him and explored possible business and military connections. He left the gathering with new contacts as the guests discussed plans affecting multiple Life Stars.

  • Yang Fan arrived at the Gu Family villa with Gu Le, drawing the attention of the dinner guests.
  • Gu Jiuheng greeted Yang Fan, resumed the music, and began introducing him to influential members of the gathering.
  • Gu Tianyu and Qin Xue raised possible cooperation and financing with Yang Fan, who responded politely without committing.
  • The guests discussed Divine Kingdom investment, Frontline affairs, interstellar trade, and development plans for Life Stars.
  • The attendees exchanged contact information before the banquet ended.
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