Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Shuhao’s Class 7 circle continues privately exchanging information and resources to help one another develop their Divine Kingdoms more cheaply.
• Wang Zhenyu discusses his shortage of food for his rapidly developing believers. Li Shuhao suggests purchasing an adult Tai Sui, whose meat could support long-term growth and gradually improve aptitude.
• Several students advertise discounted resources, including Spirit Rice, fish-type demonic beasts, Flesh Ganoderma, and other supplies.
• Wang Zhenyu buys 20,000 adult Bodhi Treasure Snakes from Yang Fan for 2,000 Credit Points, saving money compared with marketplace prices. Yang Fan warns that this is his final available batch because the snakes reproduce slowly and risk becoming endangered.
• The students learn that Senior Year 3 will soon participate in a school-wide Divine Kingdom Battle, held one month later during the first quarter after their Divine Kingdom awakenings.
• The battle will take place inside the principal’s Divine Kingdom. Students’ believers will be transferred there in physical form to fight government-bred demonic beasts.
• Major families, including the Li and Luo Families, will observe the event. Exceptional students may attract investment, making the competition especially important for Wang Zhenyu and Yang Fan.
• Li Qingying formally announces the examination in class and explains that students may withdraw if they fear excessive losses.
• Every student receives an F-rank Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array skill card from the Federal Government. Though free to students, it is worth approximately 100,000 Faith Points on the market.

Character Developments

• Wang Zhenyu is shown struggling to finance his combat-oriented Divine Kingdom. His believers consume enormous amounts of food, forcing him to rely heavily on his family’s support. He hopes the tournament will attract outside investment and change his circumstances.
• Yang Fan continues quietly building resources and remains especially interested in the possibility of attracting investment. His large supply of Bodhi Treasure Snakes suggests that his Divine Kingdom is developing efficiently, though he must now protect the species from overharvesting.
• Li Shuhao acts as the group’s informed and reliable organizer. After becoming a second-rank genius of the Li Family, he has become more mature and restrained. He knows Yang Fan intends to pursue a war-type Divine Kingdom but protects his privacy.
• Li Qingying provides the official explanation of the upcoming battle and emphasizes both its dangers and its controlled nature.
• Yang Fan privately contacts Liu Ruyan, apparently continuing to support or investigate her situation. He remains uncertain whether her tragic background is genuine, though he once heard a young man answer her phone.

Significant Themes

• Resource inequality and social advancement: Divine Kingdom development depends heavily on food, materials, and financial backing. Family wealth can determine a student’s potential, while tournament success offers poorer students a chance to gain powerful sponsors.
• Cooperation and mutual benefit: The students’ private trading network allows them to avoid marketplace costs and strengthen one another, contrasting with the competitive nature of the upcoming battle.
• Risk and sustainable growth: Wang Zhenyu’s food shortage and Yang Fan’s concern over the Bodhi Treasure Snakes show that rapid expansion can threaten the stability of a Divine Kingdom.
• Preparation for real conflict: The upcoming assessment marks the students’ transition from theoretical development to actual warfare. Even though the battle is controlled, it will be their first genuine test of military capability.
• Hidden potential and judgment: Most classmates view the tournament as a formality because they chose support-oriented Divine Kingdoms, while Yang Fan secretly aims for a combat path despite lacking obvious advantages.

Character Interactions

• Li Shuhao advises Wang Zhenyu about purchasing Tai Sui and later explains the tournament’s significance.
• Wang Zhenyu openly shares his financial and logistical difficulties, while the others encourage him and offer resources.
• Yang Fan and Wang Zhenyu conduct a mutually beneficial trade involving Bodhi Treasure Snakes, with Wang relying on Yang’s supply to feed his believers.
• Li Shuhao silently acknowledges Yang Fan’s ambitions, choosing not to reveal his secret to the group.
• Li Qingying addresses the entire class, clarifying the rules, enemies, risks, and rewards of the Divine Kingdom Battle.

Chapter Summary: “The Relationship Between Gods and Divine Kingdoms”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Teacher Li Qingying explains the value of the Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array, which requires ten thousand believers to form a unit and helps strengthen their bodies through the Federation Body-Tempering Art.
• Students pursuing the support route are allowed to skip the upcoming combat assessment, while the remaining students are encouraged to master the array for a chance to attract investment from powerful families.
• Yang Fan places the array card in his Divine Kingdom and commands his human believers to practice it, warning them that a war against foreign races will occur in three hundred years and that they must not fight among themselves.
• After a year within the Divine Kingdom, the believers make very little progress. Their formations remain disorganized, convincing Yang Fan that they lack both aptitude and proper instruction.
• Yang Fan consults the Gods’ Forum and learns that Gods must personally understand cultivation techniques and guide their believers through Divine Oracles rather than expecting them to learn independently.
• He attends Li Qingying’s lessons, rapidly mastering the array’s formations, movement, defensive and offensive applications, and cultivation benefits.
• Yang Fan then transmits this knowledge directly to his believers and personally supervises their training. By correcting mistakes through repeated Divine Oracles, he dramatically accelerates their progress.
• Over the following centuries in the Divine Kingdom:
  • After fifty years, the formations become combat-capable and can roughly triple the army’s strength.
  • After one hundred years, the formations have no major weaknesses against ordinary demon beasts or small beast tides.
  • After one hundred fifty years, the armies begin using the array for cultivation and organize military sparring matches.
  • After two hundred years, the army’s supply of Tai Sui flesh becomes insufficient, prompting Divine Revelation City’s emperor to order the Four Kings to hunt Bodhi Treasure Snakes in Snake Valley.

Character Developments

• Yang Fan grows from a God who initially expects his believers to practice independently into an active and thoughtful ruler who understands the importance of guidance, education, and resource management.
• His analytical abilities and willingness to learn allow him to master the array quickly. He also demonstrates patience and responsibility by spending extensive amounts of time supervising his believers.
• Yang Fan develops a deeper understanding of the relationship between Gods and their Divine Kingdoms. He realizes that a God cannot simply rely on innate talent or accelerated time flow; the believers themselves must be cultivated.
• Li Qingying is established as a skilled and effective teacher. Her structured instruction enables Yang Fan to understand the array’s complexities in a single class.
• The human believers gradually evolve from poorly coordinated groups into disciplined military formations capable of combat, cultivation, and cooperation.

Significant Themes

• Symbiosis between Gods and believers: A Divine Kingdom is not merely a subordinate possession. The God protects and develops it, while the believers grow stronger and nourish the God in return.
• Guidance versus passive evolution: Natural development is too slow and may lead to stagnation. Gods should not disrupt their believers’ basic survival or ecosystem, but they should provide beneficial guidance and resources.
• The importance of education and leadership: Even powerful techniques are useless if believers lack the understanding to apply them. Effective instruction can save decades of wasted effort.
• The limits of talent and time acceleration: Yang Fan’s tenfold Evolution Talent and accelerated Divine Kingdom time cannot compensate for poor aptitude or a lack of knowledge. Progress must begin with proper comprehension.
• Preparation for future conflict: The approaching war with foreign races and the major exam give urgency to the believers’ military training and explain Yang Fan’s decision to prioritize the array.

Character Interactions

• Li Qingying advises the students about the array’s value and teaches them its practical applications, greatly influencing Yang Fan’s understanding.
• Yang Fan interacts with the Gods’ Forum community, whose advice reinforces the need for personal mastery and direct Divine guidance.
• Yang Fan communicates with his believers through Divine Oracles, first issuing broad commands and later providing detailed corrections and instruction.
• The armies of the major cities begin sparring with one another, creating competition and cooperation while testing the array in realistic combat.
• The emperor of Divine Revelation City commands the Four Kings to obtain new food resources, showing the growing connection between military development, state authority, and Divine Kingdom resource management.

Chapter Summary:

Five Great Armies

Key Plot Points and Events

• Humanity’s two-year war against demonic beasts resulted in nearly 50,000 adult Bodhi Treasure Snakes being captured and transported to major cities, earning Yang Fan approximately 250,000 Faith Points.
• Although the human race hunted nearly half of the snakes, Yang Fan’s believers eventually stopped the slaughter and returned to their cities, partly because the third-year final assessment was approaching and they needed to focus on strengthening themselves.
• Thirty years passed in the Divine Kingdom. The believers’ mastery of the Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array advanced from merely copying its form to understanding some of its essence, reaching minor mastery.
• The first First-Order Lifeform emerged: the emperor of Divine Revelation City. This breakthrough demonstrated the benefits of advancing beyond the Mortal level, including increased lifespan, physical transformation, and improved descendants.
• To prepare for the upcoming assessment and support his growing population, Yang Fan personally reorganized the Divine Kingdom’s resources:
  • Sold large numbers of Night Vultures, Falcons, and Rocs.
  • Purchased and released 100,000 adult Bodhi Treasure Snakes around the five major cities.
  • He made this choice because his believers lacked anti-air weapons, making flying demonic beasts difficult to control and dangerous competitors for resources.
• The additional snakes created an abundant meat supply, allowing the cities to concentrate on cultivation and military preparation rather than starvation.
• Within seven days, the number of First-Order Lifeforms rose to six.
• The five major cities formed armies of 10,000 elite soldiers each:
  • Divine Revelation Army, commanded by two First-Order Lifeforms

White Tiger Army

Azure Dragon Army

Black Tortoise Army

Vermilion Bird Army

• Years of real combat against First-Order demonic beasts transformed the soldiers into hardened veterans. Their overall combat strength increased more than tenfold in a month.
• Yang Fan’s resource investments reduced his liquid Faith Points to below 500,000, but he sold Moonlight Dew, Solar Essence, and Water Lotus Seeds to recover roughly 800,000 Faith Points, bringing his total back to approximately 1.2 million.

Character Development

• Yang Fan becomes more pragmatic and ambitious. He realizes that relying solely on his SSS-Rank Evolution Talent and developing in isolation will not be enough to overcome his weak starting position.
• Influenced by his contact with Li Shuhao, Yang Fan accepts that opportunities, powerful allies, and investment platforms may matter as much as talent.
• He grows more willing to take calculated risks, recognizing that refusing to act in the face of opportunity is effectively cowardice.
• Yang Fan also gains a better understanding of resource management. He balances the Divine Kingdom’s ecosystem, military needs, and financial reserves while preparing for the final assessment.
• The emperor of Divine Revelation City becomes the first believer to reach the First Order, marking an important evolutionary milestone for Yang Fan’s entire Divine Kingdom.
• The believers evolve from loosely organized survivors into disciplined, battle-tested soldiers capable of coordinated formation combat.

Significant Themes

• Resource management and growth: Yang Fan’s expanding population requires enormous resources, forcing him to constantly balance investment, consumption, and profit.
• The importance of opportunity and backing: Talent alone is insufficient; access to powerful families and external investment can determine how quickly one rises.
• Evolution and civilization-building: The transition from Mortal believers to First-Order Lifeforms represents both biological advancement and the beginning of a stronger civilization.
• Combat as training: Repeated battles against demonic beasts make the armies stronger, demonstrating that real warfare produces growth that practice alone cannot.
• Risk versus caution: Yang Fan abandons excessive isolation and chooses to invest heavily in his believers before the assessment, embracing risk in pursuit of a breakthrough.
• Organized power over numbers: The human race’s mastery of formations allows it to defeat the more numerous but disorganized Bodhi Treasure Snakes.

Character Interactions

• Yang Fan’s relationship with his believers is primarily that of a divine ruler and strategic planner. He observes their progress, supplies resources, and intervenes when necessary to guide the Divine Kingdom’s development.
• His earlier interaction with Li Shuhao changes his perspective, convincing him that cooperation with powerful families and securing investment are essential.
• The five city governments and their strongest warriors cooperate to form the Five Great Armies, shifting the believers from separate city forces into a unified military structure.
• The newly advanced First-Order Lifeforms become commanders, leading the armies and symbolizing the growing political and military strength of the five cities.

Chapter Summary: “Buying Weapons, The Competition Begins”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Fan searches the marketplace for weapons to equip his Divine Kingdom’s army. F-Grade weapons cost over ten thousand Faith Points each, making it impractical to arm all fifty thousand soldiers with graded equipment.
• He decides to purchase ordinary iron weapons in bulk and negotiates with the Black Iron Mercenary Corps store. By pretending to be a struggling student from a single-parent family, he lowers the price of fifty thousand weapon sets from one million to eight hundred thousand Faith Points.
• Yang Fan then buys six complete sets of First-Order weapons for the six First-Order Lifeforms in his Divine Kingdom. This costs nearly two hundred thousand additional Faith Points and leaves his liquid funds nearly exhausted.
• Hoping to secure outside investment during the upcoming assessment, Yang Fan goes to Yang County No. 1 High School the next morning. All senior students have gathered there for the examination.
• Students reveal that the assessment will take place in a captured foreign Divine Kingdom filled with Demonic Beasts of various ranks. The Divine Kingdom was reportedly obtained by Principal Hong Bing, a powerful Third-Order God.
• Yang Fan observes his classmates and realizes that his improved senses allow him to detect the powerful auras of First-Order Lifeforms and gifted students.
• He notices Luo Bing, a B-Grade talent from the influential Luo Family, whose strength has advanced dramatically in only three months. Her progress makes Yang Fan aware of the enormous gap between himself and elite students.
• Li Shuhao again offers Yang Fan the possibility of changing his development path after the assessment, while Zhang Pang expresses skepticism that Logistics School students can attract investment.

Character Developments

• Yang Fan: Shows practical judgment by prioritizing cheap mass-produced weapons for ordinary soldiers while reserving superior equipment for his strongest believers. He demonstrates shrewd but shameless bargaining tactics, invests nearly all his remaining resources, and becomes increasingly determined to prove himself and obtain investment.
• Black Iron Mercenary Corps merchant: Initially appears stern and unwilling to negotiate, but secretly lowers the price after hearing Yang Fan’s fabricated hardships. His gentle relationship with his twin daughters reveals a kind and family-oriented side behind his hardened customer-service attitude.
• Second weapons merchant: Rejects Yang Fan’s emotional bargaining attempt immediately, providing a humorous contrast to the first merchant.
• Li Shuhao: Continues to support Yang Fan personally but still doubts the potential of the Divine Kingdom development path, believing Yang Fan lacks the resources and combat talent necessary for rapid growth.
• Luo Bing: Though she does not directly interact with Yang Fan, her presence establishes her as an exceptionally talented rival whose family support has allowed her to advance far beyond ordinary students.
• Zhang Pang: Remains relaxed and pessimistic about the assessment. He plans to avoid danger rather than compete aggressively, reflecting the limited ambitions of many Logistics School students.
• Wang Zhenyu: Appears unusually nervous before the examination, suggesting that the upcoming competition carries significant pressure for him.

Significant Themes

• Resource management and sacrifice: Yang Fan must balance the enormous cost of weapons with the needs of his growing army. His purchases leave him nearly financially depleted, emphasizing the economic burden of divine development.
• Talent versus opportunity: Luo Bing’s rapid progress, backed by her B-Grade talent and powerful family, contrasts with Yang Fan’s lack of support. The chapter highlights the unequal starting points among students.
• Competition and social hierarchy: The assessment represents a chance for students to gain recognition and investment, while elite families and major figures dominate the competitive environment.
• Pragmatism and deception: Yang Fan’s successful negotiation shows his willingness to use clever, even dishonest methods to secure resources.
• Family and responsibility: Both Yang Fan’s claim of supporting younger siblings and the merchant’s genuine care for his daughters emphasize family obligations, though Yang Fan’s story is fabricated for financial advantage.
• Preparation before a decisive test: Yang Fan has spent his remaining resources strengthening his Divine Kingdom and now faces the consequences of his preparation in the upcoming assessment.

Important Character Interactions

• Yang Fan bargains with two weapon merchants, succeeding with the first and failing humorously with the second.
• He speaks with Li Shuhao, who renews his offer to help Yang Fan change paths after the exam.
• Zhang Pang invites Yang Fan to eat together, but Yang Fan explains that his main goal is attracting investment from powerful families.
• Classmates discuss Principal Hong Bing, the captured Divine Kingdom, and the nature of foreign races, providing background on the assessment site.
• Yang Fan silently compares himself with Luo Bing and recognizes the vast difference between their abilities and resources.

Chapter Summary: Gods’ Divine Kingdoms

Plot Points and Events

• Yang Wanli, the dean of students, opens the first of three major examinations that students will face during their senior year: the Divine Kingdom Battle, the midterm class-placement exam, and the final College Entrance Exam.
• Important figures from Yang County’s major families, businesses, and associations attend as observers, including Luo Chengfeng, Li Yuan, Mi Caier, Tie Wuqing, and Wan Sanqian.
• Principal Hong announces the examination rules:
  • Students have ten days to compete.
  • There are no restrictions on believers or battle methods.
  • First-, Second-, and Third-Order monsters are worth 100, 10,000, and 1,000,000 points respectively.
  • Scores will later be converted into Faith Points at a one-to-one ratio.
• Students enter nutrient chambers that transfer their consciousness into a vast foreign Divine Kingdom used as the examination battlefield.
• Yang Fan quickly understands that the students are projected consciousnesses and that they can freely connect to their own Divine Kingdoms, summon troops, and deploy resources.
• He summons his 50,000-member Divine Revelation, Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise Armies. He orders them to split into five forces and sweep the battlefield in a fan-shaped formation.
• Seeing the unusually favorable point rewards, Yang Fan plans to maximize his score and profit in Faith Points. He also activates his Evolution Talent to replenish troops and supplies during the campaign.
• Outside the battlefield, a massive screen displays every student’s performance. Many students quickly withdraw, especially those whose Divine Kingdoms specialize in logistics rather than warfare.
• Luo Bing immediately establishes herself as the leading contender with 100,000 soldiers, including a Third-Order commander, nearly twenty Second-Order beings, and around a thousand First-Order troops, all heavily equipped.
• Observers also identify other promising students, including Li Tianheng, whose Berserk Blood talent boosts his believers’ strength, and Li Feng, who appears to be following a mechanical development path.
• Business leaders discuss recruiting talented students. Wan Sanqian explains that his company needs new managers after twelve Demigod executives died during a previous expedition.

Character Developments

• Yang Fan demonstrates strong tactical awareness and ambition. He immediately recognizes the examination’s potential for accumulating Faith Points and uses his unique Evolution Talent to gain a long-term advantage.
• Luo Bing is presented as the clear elite of the senior class, possessing overwhelming military strength and the backing of the powerful Luo Family.
• Li Tianheng is revealed to be a formidable rival despite lacking a Third-Order believer, thanks to his Berserk Blood talent.
• Li Feng is introduced as a student potentially pursuing the mechanical path.
• Wan Sanqian is shown to be actively searching for promising recruits to fill the leadership shortage in his company.
• The less combat-oriented students expose the major differences between Divine Kingdom development paths, as many are forced to abandon the exam early.

Significant Themes

• Competition and social hierarchy: The examination is both a test of strength and an opportunity for wealthy families and corporations to identify future talent.
• Resources and opportunity: Success can bring not only prestige but also investment and large amounts of Faith Points, making the battle economically valuable.
• Different paths to power: Military strength, special talents, technology, logistics, and family resources all influence a student’s prospects.
• Exploitation of war as advancement: The assessment turns combat against monsters into a profitable means of developing one’s Divine Kingdom.
• Generational succession: Wan Sanqian’s recruitment efforts highlight the need to replace powerful figures lost in dangerous expeditions.

Character Interactions

• Yang Wanli formally introduces the visiting dignitaries and encourages students by emphasizing their importance to Yang County and the Human Race.
• Principal Hong explains the rules and provides the nutrient chambers that make the examination possible.
• The visiting elites evaluate the students’ performances and openly discuss their potential.
• Mi Caier praises Luo Bing’s talent, while Luo Chengfeng responds with restrained pride on behalf of the Luo Family.
• The observers compare Li Tianheng and Luo Bing, identifying them as the two strongest students.
• Tie Wuqing questions Wan Sanqian about his recruitment contracts, leading Wan to explain his company’s need for new talent.
• Students who withdraw remain on-site to watch the public rankings and observe how their friends’ Divine Kingdoms perform.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Several months have passed inside the Divine Kingdom while only a few hours have elapsed in reality. The school’s leaderboard shows Luo Bing and Li Tianheng dominating the rankings, while Yang Fan has risen to around Rank 105 with 140,000 points.
• Yang Fan’s impressive progress attracts attention because, despite being placed in Class Seven and possessing an F-Grade “Resources” talent, he awakened a vast Divine Kingdom and has developed a large, organized army.
• His army successfully defeats groups of First-Order Demon Wolves, though the battles cost many soldiers and consume valuable weapons. Yang Fan realizes he underestimated how quickly his weapon supplies would be depleted.
• Seeking greater hunting efficiency before the ten-day assessment ends, Yang Fan orders his armies to advance deeper into the Divine Kingdom, where demonic beasts are more numerous.
• Because Yang Fan follows a cautious route, his score initially lags behind more aggressive students. However, Zhang Pang remains extremely impressed and decides to support Yang Fan in the future, even planning to become his subordinate.
• Yang Fan’s army eventually encounters nearly three thousand Giant Lizard Rabbits, the largest and most dangerous enemy group it has faced.
• Yang Fan organizes a defensive formation and orders the Azure Dragon and White Tiger armies to reinforce the Divine Revelation Army. The rabbits cause severe casualties during their initial assault, but the army holds its ground through disciplined formations, archery support, and strict battlefield commands.
• Outside the Divine Kingdom, the observers are shocked to discover that Yang Fan’s Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array has developed a trace of divine essence and reached the Minor Accomplishment Realm after only three months.

Character Developments

• Yang Fan demonstrates growing skill as a military commander. He remains calm despite heavy casualties, adapts his tactics, and prioritizes the long-term development of his Divine Kingdom.
• He also reveals inexperience, particularly regarding logistical preparation, as he regrets not purchasing enough weapons for prolonged warfare.
• Yang Fan’s cautious personality becomes clear: he deliberately avoids dangerous regions and stronger monsters, valuing the preservation of his believers over rapid score accumulation.
• Zhang Pang becomes even more convinced of Yang Fan’s future potential. He decides to attach himself to Yang Fan as a future Subordinate God and humorously plans to produce grain for him.
• Wan Sanqian, Tie Wuqing, and the major family elders begin viewing Yang Fan as a valuable recruit. His talent and unusual mastery of the array make him a target for competing businesses and powerful families.

Significant Themes

• Hidden potential and underestimated talent: Yang Fan’s weak-looking F-Grade talent and Class Seven placement conceal exceptional development ability.
• Strategy versus raw strength: His army succeeds not because individual soldiers are overwhelmingly powerful, but through discipline, formations, coordinated commands, and the Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array.
• Growth through hardship: Battles expose Yang Fan’s lack of experience while forcing him to improve his logistics, tactics, and understanding of Divine Kingdom warfare.
• The value of preservation and resources: Although believers can reproduce quickly through his Evolution Talent, weapons and battlefield supplies are limited, showing that victory depends on more than manpower.
• Recognition and recruitment: Yang Fan’s performance begins attracting powerful observers, suggesting that his future affiliations may become as important as his combat achievements.

Character Interactions

• Zhang Pang reacts with astonishment to Yang Fan’s rapidly rising score and later openly pledges future loyalty to him.
• Wan Sanqian and Tie Wuqing discuss recruiting Yang Fan, each wanting to secure him for their own interests.
• The Luo and Li Family elders take notice of Yang Fan after witnessing the advanced state of his array, signaling that even major clans now regard him with curiosity and respect.
• Within the Divine Kingdom, Yang Fan communicates with his commanders through Divine Oracles and battlefield orders, maintaining strict control over the armies during the Giant Lizard Rabbit assault.

Chapter Summary: “Results of the Grand Competition”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Fan demonstrates an exceptional grasp of the Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array, reaching the Minor Accomplishment Realm—a feat no other senior student has achieved.
• His accomplishment draws the attention of the Li Family, Luo Family, Central Plains Building, and other influential forces. His previously overlooked talent is reconsidered after it is revealed that he is an actuary, possessing unusually strong comprehension despite coming from an ordinary family.
• During the Divine Kingdom assessment, Yang Fan leads five armies against increasingly powerful demonic beast hordes. His forces initially achieve major victories with relatively low losses, earning large amounts of Faith Points.
• As he advances deeper, he faces more dangerous enemies, including eight thousand Gale Wolves led by a Second-Order Gale Wolf King. Nearly fifteen thousand believers and a First-Order general die in the battle.
• Yang Fan replenishes his forces through the accelerated development of his Divine Kingdom, but escalating enemy strength eventually overwhelms his ability to replace casualties. He withdraws to a safer region and adopts a steadier hunting strategy.
• When the assessment ends, Yang Fan ranks 64th, placing him within the top hundred students. His final result surprises him and confirms that his Divine Kingdom has developed far beyond expectations.
• The high-ranking observers estimate that he deployed over two hundred thousand troops, implying that his newly awakened Divine Kingdom already contains roughly five hundred thousand to one million inhabitants.
• Li Yuan announces that the Li Family will compete to recruit Yang Fan, while Luo Chengfeng declares that the Luo Family will do the same. Wan Sanqian also considers offering him the position of vice president at Central Plains Building.

Character Developments

• Yang Fan proves that his greatest strength is not his average Divine Kingdom Talent, but his personal intelligence, comprehension, and ability to develop his kingdom rapidly.
• He becomes increasingly pragmatic about warfare and the deaths of his believers. He recognizes that excessive mercy is incompatible with building a powerful war-oriented Divine Kingdom.
• Yang Fan also displays self-awareness and tactical restraint. When his forces become too depleted, he withdraws rather than wasting them in hopeless battles, though observers criticize his initial troop deployment as overly cautious.
• Li Qingying, initially dismissive of Yang Fan’s potential, is pleased and somewhat embarrassed that she underestimated him. She now recognizes his unusual talent.
• Li Yuan and Luo Chengfeng shift from merely observing the competition to actively competing for Yang Fan’s future allegiance.
• Wan Sanqian remains impressed by Yang Fan’s development but realizes that the two great families may have a decisive advantage in recruiting him.

Significant Themes

• Hidden potential and underestimated talent: Yang Fan’s ordinary background and average Divine Kingdom Talent conceal his remarkable comprehension and developmental ability.
• The harshness of divine warfare: Success requires accepting heavy casualties, and a god who cannot sacrifice believers cannot pursue a war-focused path.
• Growth through strategy and adaptation: Yang Fan’s decision to withdraw and hunt in safer areas shows the importance of balancing ambition with sustainable development.
• Power, investment, and recruitment: Outstanding students are treated as valuable future assets by powerful families and organizations, though Federation law requires them to be persuaded through favorable contracts rather than coercion.
• The gap between talent and experience: Yang Fan possesses tremendous potential but lacks the battlefield experience of established geniuses, leading to tactical mistakes despite his impressive results.

Character Interactions

• Li Yuan questions Li Qingying about Yang Fan’s achievement, prompting her to explain his background and actuary talent.
• Luo Chengfeng recognizes Yang Fan’s value and links his comprehension to his potential to become a lower-order god.
• The influential figures on the high platform debate Yang Fan’s troop strength and tactical decisions, with some criticizing his caution while others defend it as natural for a first-time participant.
• Wan Sanqian openly considers recruiting Yang Fan with an unusually powerful offer.
• Li Yuan and Luo Chengfeng directly acknowledge their rivalry over Yang Fan, establishing competition between the Li and Luo Families for his future.

Chapter Summary: Major Companies Vie for Talent

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Fan and Li Shuhao are the only students from Senior Year Class 7 to place in the grade’s top hundred. Yang Fan’s impressive score of 10,000 Faith Points shocks Li Shuhao, who realizes Yang Fan achieved this without the massive resources Li himself invested.
• Li Shuhao concludes that Yang Fan’s potential is extraordinary and may even surpass his own if given equivalent support. He also recognizes that the Li Family will likely try to recruit Yang Fan, potentially making them future equals rather than superior and subordinate.
• Zhang Pang enthusiastically reunites with Yang Fan after waiting for him during the competition. Proud of his friend’s success, he openly declares that he will follow Yang Fan and rely on his future achievements. Their close friendship draws envy from their classmates.
• Principal Hong Bing announces the competition’s conclusion and confirms that the Faith Point rewards will be transferred to the students’ Divine Kingdoms. He also informs influential families and organizations that they may contact students about investment opportunities before disappearing.
• Following Li Shuhao’s advice, Yang Fan returns home and enters the Virtual World to meet potential investors. He receives numerous recruitment invitations from major families, companies, and organizations.
• Yang Fan meets with representatives from several groups:
  • The Ma Family offers fifty C-Rank buildings and a monthly subsidy of 300,000 Faith Points in exchange for Yang Fan eventually joining the family.
  • The Liangzhou Chamber of Commerce offers ten million Faith Points initially, one million monthly, and a B-Rank spirit plant.
  • Central Plains Building offers ten million Faith Points initially, 1.5 million monthly, and five percent company equity plus a vice-presidential position once Yang Fan becomes a First-Order God.
  • The Li Family offers Second-Grade Genius treatment, including two million Faith Points monthly, ten million in annual dividends, and an immediate short-term investment of one hundred million Faith Points.
• Yang Fan carefully reviews every offer without committing, intending to compare all possibilities. He then enters the Luo Family’s meeting space and is surprised to find himself in what appears to be a private residence.

Character Developments

• Yang Fan is established as a highly valuable and sought-after talent. Despite being tempted by the offers, he remains cautious, analytical, and unwilling to make a rushed decision.
• Li Shuhao becomes more respectful of Yang Fan after recognizing how far he advanced with fewer resources. His attitude shifts from seeing Yang Fan as a potential subordinate to viewing him as a peer and valuable ally.
• Zhang Pang remains loyal and opportunistic in a humorous way. He proudly embraces Yang Fan’s success and hopes to benefit from their friendship, showing complete trust in Yang Fan’s future.
• Principal Hong Bing maintains a detached, authoritative position, treating the competition and investment process as routine matters beneath his level.
• The various family and corporate representatives reveal differing attitudes: some are polite and professional, while the Li Family’s representative displays confidence and subtle arrogance because of the family’s powerful position.

Significant Themes

• Talent attracts power and investment: Yang Fan’s ranking transforms him from an overlooked student into a prized asset courted by wealthy families and corporations.
• Resources versus innate potential: Li Shuhao’s reaction highlights the difference between someone who rises through enormous investment and someone like Yang Fan, who achieves comparable results with far fewer resources.
• Friendship and mutual benefit: Zhang Pang’s loyalty and Li Shuhao’s willingness to support Yang Fan show how personal relationships can become valuable alliances in a competitive world.
• Strategic decision-making: Yang Fan’s refusal to accept the first attractive offer emphasizes the importance of patience, comparison, and long-term thinking.
• Social hierarchy and power: The investment offers reflect the influence of major families, corporate organizations, and legal structures over the advancement of young gods.

Character Interactions

• Li Shuhao and Yang Fan share a growing brotherly relationship, with Li Shuhao now treating him as an equal.
• Zhang Pang publicly celebrates Yang Fan and jokingly positions himself as Yang Fan’s dependent, reinforcing their long-standing friendship.
• Yang Fan respectfully negotiates with multiple lawyers and representatives, repeatedly asking for time to consider their contracts.
• The Li Family’s offer demonstrates its desire to secure Yang Fan early, while the Luo Family’s mysterious private residence sets up the next stage of negotiations.

Chapter Summary: “Post-Marriage Agreement”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Fan is summoned to meet the Luo Family after his strong performance in the competition.
• He first encounters Luo Rou, a young woman whose voice and eyes appear youthful but whose skin is badly cracked and aged because her Divine Kingdom has been poisoned and is rapidly deteriorating.
• Luo Chengfeng, a Luo Family elder and true God, presents Yang Fan with three contracts:
  1. A standard affiliation agreement with favorable but ordinary terms.
  2. An extremely generous investment package, including monthly Faith Point subsidies, annual dividends, a large initial investment, and a Grade B building.
  3. A supplementary “Post-Marriage Agreement” required for the second contract.
• Luo Chengfeng explains that Luo Rou was ambushed by an alien Demigod during a university assessment. Her Divine Kingdom is filled with poisonous miasma, and she has little time left. Her parents also died in a war against alien races.
• Luo Rou wishes to have a child before she dies. Luo Chengfeng believes Yang Fan’s exceptional comprehension and potential to become a true God make him a suitable husband and future father.
• The marriage contract requires them to have a child within five years. The child must bear the Luo surname and will inherit two-thirds of Luo Rou’s Divine Kingdom, while Yang Fan will receive the remaining third after her death.
• Yang Fan finds the offer too advantageous to reject. Luo Chengfeng plans to move Yang Fan’s parents into the Yangcheng Villa District so the couple can live together.
• Yang Fan asks to speak privately with Luo Rou before signing. When he meets her upstairs, she jokingly asks whether she should call him “Husband,” making him embarrassed.

Character Development

• Yang Fan: Displays caution and practicality by carefully examining the contracts for hidden restrictions. Though surprised and uncomfortable with the arranged marriage, he recognizes the immense benefits and accepts that refusing would be irrational. His embarrassment at Luo Rou’s teasing also reveals his youth and inexperience with marriage.
• Luo Rou: Is introduced as physically deteriorating but mentally composed. Despite her terminal condition, she remains direct, calm, and playful, using humor to ease the awkwardness of the arrangement.
• Luo Chengfeng: Shifts from a distant, powerful elder to a protective grandfather desperate to secure Luo Rou’s future. His generous offer reflects both his faith in Yang Fan’s potential and his concern for Luo Rou and her eventual child.

Significant Themes

• Marriage as a strategic contract: In the Divine Kingdom Era, marriage can function as an economic and familial alliance rather than a romantic relationship.
• The value of potential: Yang Fan’s weak Divine Kingdom talent is offset by his extraordinary comprehension and future potential, showing how society evaluates people through long-term usefulness.
• Family duty and inheritance: The agreement is designed to preserve Luo Rou’s legacy, ensure her child’s place in the Luo Family, and distribute her remaining assets.
• Life, mortality, and legacy: Luo Rou’s impending death motivates the marriage and child arrangement, emphasizing the desire to leave something behind despite inevitable loss.
• Power and resources: The chapter highlights how wealth and divine-level resources can influence relationships, status, and even marriage.

Character Interactions

• Luo Chengfeng treats Yang Fan unusually respectfully while negotiating the contracts, creating Yang Fan’s suspicion that the offer has an ulterior motive.
• Their discussion reveals the emotional bond between Luo Chengfeng and Luo Rou, who have depended on each other since the deaths of her parents.
• Yang Fan and Luo Rou’s first private exchange is awkward but lightly humorous, establishing a potentially playful dynamic amid the serious circumstances.
• The chapter ends with their relationship poised to move from a business arrangement toward a legally binding marriage and shared household.

Chapter Summary: Taking Over My Wife’s Estate

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Fan agrees to marry Luo Rou, largely because of the enormous benefits offered by her powerful Luo Family and her generous dowry.
• After their relationship is confirmed, Luo Rou invites Yang Fan into her Divine Kingdom.
• Yang Fan discovers that Luo Rou’s Divine Kingdom spans a vast area but has been devastated by poisonous mist from the foreign Demigod Death Spider Empress. Only a few tens of thousands of elderly, weak, or disabled believers remain alive.
• Luo Rou explains that the poison will take decades to dissipate naturally and that curing her would require a high-level healing God and at least 100 Divinity Points—an unaffordable sum.
• She reveals that her family has largely abandoned her because of her poor condition, with only her grandfather continuing to care about her.
• Luo Rou relies on Moonwells and Sun Springs to generate income and sustain her remaining assets. She hopes these resources might eventually support her future children.
• Yang Fan asks whether the wells and springs can be transferred to his Divine Kingdom, realizing immediately that he sounds as though he is eager to inherit her estate.
• Luo Rou unexpectedly agrees, but requires a formal legal contract ensuring that the assets cannot be sold and that their future income must be given to their children. The Federal Government and Luo Family will enforce the agreement.

Character Developments

• Yang Fan is practical, opportunistic, and motivated by the financial advantages of the marriage, but he also develops genuine sympathy for Luo Rou after learning about her suffering. His embarrassment over appearing greedy suggests he retains a conscience despite his mercenary attitude.
• Luo Rou is calm, honest, and emotionally restrained. Although terminally ill and neglected by most of her family, she shows little fear of death and approaches marriage and inheritance as pragmatic arrangements.
• Luo Rou’s background reveals the harsh values of her family: resources are allocated according to talent and usefulness, while the weak are abandoned.

Significant Themes

• Marriage as a transaction: The relationship begins as a mutually beneficial business arrangement rather than romance.
• Inheritance and exploitation: Yang Fan’s request to move Luo Rou’s assets appears greedy, highlighting the tension between taking advantage of her situation and helping preserve her resources.
• The cruelty of powerful families: Luo Rou’s relatives prioritize talent and future value over loyalty or affection.
• Mortality and resignation: Luo Rou has accepted her impending death, while still making careful plans for her future children.
• Hidden potential and strategic secrecy: Yang Fan considers using his Evolution Talent to help Luo Rou but must conceal its true power.

Character Interactions

• Yang Fan awkwardly asks to call Luo Rou by her intimate name, and she permits it with faint amusement.
• Luo Rou reassures him that he is talented and says she is unworthy of him because of her damaged condition; Yang Fan insists he is willing to marry into her family.
• She openly shows him her ruined Divine Kingdom and explains her illness, establishing a rare degree of trust between them.
• When Yang Fan asks for her remaining assets, the conversation becomes uncomfortable. Luo Rou interprets the request pragmatically rather than emotionally and agrees under strict legal conditions.
• Their relationship remains emotionally distant but begins to develop mutual trust, sympathy, and a shared long-term arrangement.

Chapter Summary: Zhan Yunxiao, the Luo Family’s Guide

Key Plot Points and Events

• Luo Rou and Yang Fan conclude their virtual meeting after discussing their arranged partnership. Luo Rou calmly accepts the marriage arrangement and asks Yang Fan to guide her through what may be the short remainder of her life.
• Yang Fan is abruptly expelled from the virtual world and immediately regrets suggesting that Luo Rou transfer her Moonwells and Sun Springs into his Divine Kingdom. Although the arrangement would greatly increase their production of resources and make Water of Life affordable, Luo Rou interprets his proposal as selfish and exploitative.
• Back in reality, Luo Rou hides the unpleasant exchange from her grandfather, Luo Chengfeng, and tells him that Yang Fan is “not bad.” Luo Chengfeng explains that Yang Fan’s parents have a good reputation and instructs Luo Rou to live with them in a villa so they can help care for her.
• Luo Chengfeng gives Luo Rou five drops of Water of Life and encourages her to use them before the wedding so she will appear healthy and beautiful. After he leaves, Luo Rou drops her polite façade and angrily calls Yang Fan a freeloader seeking to marry into the Luo Family for its wealth.
• Yang Fan explains the situation to his parents, but they assume he is under extreme mental pressure and cannot possibly be telling the truth about the Luo Family’s marriage offer. They even discuss mortgaging their miniature mineral vein and taking him to a psychiatric hospital.
• A Luo Family delegation arrives at the Yang household. It includes Zhan Yunxiao, a Demigod and guest elder, along with four movers sent by Luo Chengfeng.
• Zhan Yunxiao confirms that Yang Fan has been recognized as a Second-Grade Genius by the Luo Family. He explains that he has been assigned to manage Yang Fan’s affairs and guide him until he graduates from university.
• The movers rapidly pack the family’s belongings, and Yang Fan, his parents, and the delegation travel to Yangcheng Villa. The chapter ends with Zhan Yunxiao beginning to brief Yang Fan on the Luo Family’s genius system and handing him an electronic tablet.

Character Developments

• Yang Fan: Reveals himself to be practical and resource-conscious, but his attempt to propose a mutually beneficial arrangement unintentionally makes him appear greedy and insensitive to Luo Rou. He remains embarrassed by the misunderstanding and struggles to convince his parents that his circumstances have genuinely changed.
• Luo Rou: Demonstrates emotional restraint and rationality by accepting the marriage arrangement despite her poor health. Beneath her calm exterior, however, she is deeply hurt, cynical about men, and angry that Yang Fan seems to be benefiting from her family’s wealth.
• Luo Chengfeng: Acts as a protective and supportive grandfather. He makes extensive arrangements for Luo Rou’s care, provides precious Water of Life, and personally organizes Yang Fan’s family’s relocation.
• Yang Fan’s parents, Yang Tiexin and Sun Rong: Remain loving but skeptical, interpreting their son’s claims as signs of mental strain rather than believing that the powerful Luo Family truly values him.
• Zhan Yunxiao: Is introduced as a formal, capable, and respectful Demigod guide. He treats Yang Fan as a promising future equal rather than merely an ordinary student.

Significant Themes

• Practicality versus emotion: Both Luo Rou and Yang Fan approach the marriage as a strategic arrangement, but their differing emotional reactions create misunderstanding and resentment.
• Class and power disparity: Yang Fan’s family comes from a poor residential community, while the Luo Family possesses enormous resources and can assign Demigod experts to its talented members.
• Appearances and miscommunication: Yang Fan’s economically rational suggestion sounds like exploitation, while Luo Rou’s restrained acceptance conceals her pain and anger.
• Family responsibility: Luo Chengfeng’s actions show the importance of familial duty, especially in protecting Luo Rou and securing her future.
• Talent and investment: The Luo Family’s support system demonstrates how powerful clans cultivate exceptional individuals through wealth, protection, and personal guidance.

Important Character Interactions

• Yang Fan and Luo Rou: Their virtual conversation establishes their awkward marriage partnership. Yang Fan’s proposal about transferring Luo Rou’s resources damages her first impression of him.
• Luo Rou and Luo Chengfeng: Luo Rou reassures her grandfather that Yang Fan is acceptable, while Luo Chengfeng arranges living support and gives her Water of Life. Their affectionate exchange contrasts with Luo Rou’s private bitterness afterward.
• Yang Fan and his parents: His parents worry that he is delusional or overwhelmed, while Yang Fan becomes frustrated that they refuse to believe his account of the marriage arrangement.
• Yang Fan and Zhan Yunxiao: Zhan introduces himself as Yang Fan’s Luo Family-appointed guide and explains the hierarchy and numbers of the family’s First- and Second-Grade Geniuses, establishing the scale of Yang Fan’s new backing.

Chapter Summary: “Choosing a B-Grade Building”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Fan is informed that the Luo Family will transfer his monthly allowance, initial Faith Points investment, and one B-Grade building into his Divine Kingdom.
• He is offered three buildings:
  • Hundred Spirits Blood Pool: Converts flesh and blood into Blood Pills that strengthen believers and may improve their aptitude.
  • Spirit Armory: Produces weapons from supplied ore, up to E-Grade quality.
  • Mechanical Heart: Gradually transforms believers’ bodies toward Mechanical Civilization.
• Yang Fan consults Zhan Yunxiao, his Demigod guide. Zhan explains that the choice depends on Yang Fan’s development strategy:
  • Mechanical Heart for a Mechanical Civilization path.
  • Spirit Armory for generating Faith Points through investment and sales.
  • Hundred Spirits Blood Pool as a balanced option that strengthens believers while producing profitable goods.
• Yang Fan chooses the Hundred Spirits Blood Pool, prioritizing the direct improvement of his believers over purely reinvesting Faith Points for long-term growth.
• Zhan Yunxiao adds Yang Fan as a Virtual World contact and promises assistance with resources, family benefits, and other matters.
• After moving into the private Yangcheng Villa, Yang Fan’s parents meet Luo Rou.
• Luo Rou pretends to be frail and near death because of her damaged Divine Kingdom, claiming that she only wishes to have children with Yang Fan before she dies.
• Yang Fan’s mother, Sun Rong, immediately sympathizes with Luo Rou, scolds Yang Fan, and declares that Luo Rou will control the household.
• Yang Fan’s parents fully accept Luo Rou as their daughter-in-law and encourage Yang Fan to treat her well, even viewing his marriage into the Luo Family as an enormous blessing.

Character Developments

• Yang Fan demonstrates practical judgment by choosing believer growth and immediate strength over excessive financial compounding. His Evolution Talent gives him confidence that he can earn resources through other means.
• Zhan Yunxiao establishes himself as a reliable mentor and liaison between Yang Fan and the Luo Family.
• Luo Rou reveals a playful and manipulative side. Although physically weakened, she deliberately acts pitiful to win Yang Fan’s parents’ affection and gain leverage over Yang Fan.
• Sun Rong quickly becomes protective of Luo Rou, favoring her over Yang Fan and threatening to punish him if he mistreats her.
• Yang Tiexin also accepts Luo Rou warmly and supports Yang Fan’s marriage, though he worries that his son may lose this fortunate situation.

Significant Themes

• Strength versus resource accumulation: Yang Fan decides that powerful believers are more valuable than blindly pursuing compound economic growth.
• Strategic development: The three buildings represent different paths—military production, commercial investment, and long-term racial transformation.
• Family and social status: Yang Fan’s parents see his marriage into the Luo Family as a life-changing opportunity, while Luo Rou jokingly reverses the expected power dynamic by presenting herself as the vulnerable party.
• Manipulation and appearances: Luo Rou’s delicate performance contrasts with her earlier intimidating presence, showing how appearances can influence relationships and gain sympathy.
• Marriage and household power: Luo Rou quickly wins Yang Fan’s parents’ support, leaving Yang Fan isolated and effectively pressured to treat her as the household’s authority.

Character Interactions

• Yang Fan and Zhan Yunxiao discuss the strategic value of each B-Grade building, with Yang Fan ultimately making his own choice.
• Luo Rou charms Yang Fan’s parents by respectfully greeting them and pretending to be weak and near death.
• Sun Rong scolds Yang Fan, physically drags him before Luo Rou, and promises to defend her.
• Yang Tiexin welcomes Luo Rou and helps with the move, reinforcing the family’s acceptance of her.
• Luo Rou privately enjoys her successful deception and views her new in-laws’ kindness as an advantage against Yang Fan.

Chapter Summary: Luo Family Headquarters in the Virtual World

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Fan’s parents visit the Luo Family’s luxurious villa and feel inadequate compared with the wealth and status of the powerful family. They ultimately accept that Luo Rou’s resources are far beyond what they can provide.
• Yang Fan finds Luo Rou resting in bed. After taking five drops of Water of Life, she temporarily suppresses the poisonous mist damaging her Divine Kingdom and returns to her usual calm, distant personality.
• Luo Rou urges Yang Fan to help her conceive a child, treating the encounter practically rather than romantically. Yang Fan reassures her that his earlier behavior had a reason and promises that he will eventually cure her.
• Afterward, Yang Fan receives the Luo Family’s reward for being recognized as a Second-Grade Genius: the B-grade building Hundred Spirits Blood Pool. Luo Rou also gives him additional resources, which become available after he signs the required legal documents.
• Yang Fan loads the resources into his Divine Kingdom, including hundreds of Moonwells and Sun Springs. The Hundred Spirits Blood Pool is so massive—covering roughly two hundred square kilometers—that he places it outside Divine Revelation City.
• His Faith Points rise to approximately 140 million, combining school rewards, the Luo Family’s investment, and subsidies. Realizing the wealth must be managed carefully, Yang Fan seeks advice from Zhan Yunxiao in the Virtual World.
• Zhan Yunxiao explains that the Virtual World functions as an economic and strategic extension of reality, with major families maintaining private bases for trade, research, and combat.
• Zhan recommends purchasing ten Adult Tai Sui to operate the Blood Pool, which could produce about ten thousand Blood Pills monthly and generate an estimated fifty-percent annual return. Yang Fan questions whether this profit is sufficient.

Character Developments

• Yang Fan becomes more responsible and strategic. Rather than spending his enormous new fortune impulsively, he recognizes the need for expert financial guidance.
• His feelings toward Luo Rou deepen. Though their relationship began under unusual and transactional circumstances, Yang Fan admits that she has affected him and sincerely wants to save her.
• Luo Rou temporarily abandons her vulnerable, pitiful demeanor and reveals her composed, pragmatic nature. Her urgency about conceiving a child reflects both her illness and the pressures surrounding her condition.
• Yang Fan’s parents begin accepting the disparity between their family and the Luo Family, showing a willingness to prioritize their son’s opportunities over pride or unnecessary frugality.
• Zhan Yunxiao acts as a patient mentor. Despite Yang Fan’s elevated status within the Luo Family, he remains approachable and provides practical advice without condescension.

Significant Themes

• Power and social inequality: The contrast between Yang Fan’s ordinary family and the Luo Family emphasizes the enormous gap between commoners and elite Divine Lifeform clans.
• Sincerity amid transactional relationships: Luo Rou initially treats their union as a duty or arrangement, but Yang Fan begins developing genuine concern and emotional attachment.
• Responsibility and wealth management: Yang Fan’s sudden access to massive resources creates new obligations. His caution shows that gaining wealth is easier than using it wisely.
• Virtual and physical reality merging: The Virtual World is portrayed as a major center of economics, politics, research, and conflict rather than a mere simulation.
• Hope against illness: Luo Rou’s damaged Divine Kingdom and Yang Fan’s promise to cure her establish an ongoing emotional and personal goal.

Important Character Interactions

• Yang Fan’s parents pressure him to cherish Luo Rou, reinforcing their belief that the relationship is an extraordinary opportunity.
• Luo Rou gives Yang Fan direct instructions regarding the fertility treatment and their encounter, maintaining emotional distance even while relying on him.
• Yang Fan responds to Luo Rou’s vulnerability with reassurance and compassion, promising to cure her despite their limited history.
• Yang Fan respectfully consults Zhan Yunxiao, who explains the Luo Family’s Virtual World headquarters and advises him on investing in the Hundred Spirits Blood Pool.
• The chapter ends with Yang Fan beginning to question the profitability of Zhan’s recommendation, foreshadowing further discussion about how to maximize his resources.

Chapter Summary: Zhan Yunxiao’s Investment Strategy

Key Plot Points and Events

• Zhan Yunxiao explains that Yang Fan’s use of ten Tai Sui in the Hundred Spirits Blood Pool has a strong apparent return, but the investment is inefficient when the value of the B-grade building is considered.
• He argues that Tai Sui is currently the most economical resource for Yang Fan’s Divine Kingdom. As Yang Fan grows stronger, he can eventually use powerful alien corpses to produce far greater quantities of Blood Pills.
• Zhan recommends either purchasing resources to strengthen believers quickly or hiring an actuary for 10,000 Faith Points to optimize species distribution, ecological balance, and long-term Divine Kingdom development.
• Yang Fan declines the actuary idea, believing his Evolution Talent makes time and natural evolution more valuable than professional planning.
• Zhan sends Yang Fan two sets of data: one about improving believer strength and another detailing his own Divine Kingdom investment methods.
• As a Second-Grade Genius of the Luo Family, Yang Fan receives access to a 50-million-Faith-Point loan at 11.2% annual interest, along with the right to use the Luo Family’s tax-free marketplace in the Virtual World.
• After leaving the Virtual World, Yang Fan studies Zhan’s investment advice before making major purchases.

Character Developments

• Yang Fan becomes more aware of the importance of using Divine Kingdom resources efficiently. Although grateful for Zhan’s guidance, he remains independent and refuses to follow advice that conflicts with his own evolutionary strategy.
• His faith in his Evolution Talent increases; he believes allowing species and resources to develop naturally will eventually outperform artificial, short-term methods.
• Zhan Yunxiao is revealed to be an experienced but ruthless Divine Kingdom investor. His methods generated immense returns and helped him become a Demigod, but they rely heavily on exploiting believers and sacrificing long-term development.
• Yang Fan’s opinion of Zhan changes from respect to discomfort and criticism after seeing how cruel his investment strategies are.

Significant Themes

• Short-term profit versus long-term potential: High returns can come at the cost of ecological stability, believer welfare, or future advancement.
• Resource management and investment: Divine Kingdom growth depends on choosing resources and strategies that can compound over time.
• Ethics of power: The chapter questions whether extreme exploitation is justified by efficiency or success.
• Natural evolution versus forced development: Yang Fan favors organic growth through evolution, while Zhan relies on artificial enhancement and aggressive resource extraction.
• Limits of expertise: Zhan’s methods made him a Demigod but may have permanently damaged his Divine Kingdom’s potential, preventing him from reaching Godhood.

Important Character Interactions

• Zhan patiently explains the economics of the Hundred Spirits Blood Pool and offers Yang Fan practical guidance.
• He recommends hiring an actuary and provides investment documents, emphasizing that Yang Fan should adapt the advice to his own circumstances.
• Zhan informs Yang Fan of his new Luo Family benefits, including the large loan and access to discounted internal transactions.
• Yang Fan respectfully thanks Zhan but internally rejects several of his recommendations.
• While reading Zhan’s advice, Yang Fan discovers disturbing methods: cultivating Bloodthirsty Lingzhi by sacrificing believers’ lifespans, using Blood Demon Flowers to increase strength at the cost of comprehension, and teaching the Flesh-Devouring Art, which can drive believers to cannibalism.
• Yang Fan ultimately judges Zhan’s approach as shortsightedly forcing growth and suspects it has placed a ceiling on Zhan’s Divine Kingdom.

Chapter Summary: “Early or Late, He’d Fall from Favor”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Fan reflects on Zhan Yunxiao’s extreme cultivation methods. Although Zhan reached the Demigod realm through unconventional means, Yang Fan considers his approach unnecessary and inefficient for someone with an SSS-Rank Evolution Talent.
• After receiving the Luo Family’s fifty-million Faith Point loan, Yang Fan spends his accumulated resources strategically:
  • Purchases fourteen Adult Tai Sui, placing ten in the Hundred Spirits Blood Pool and one near each of the five major cities.
  • Buys 193 Moonwells and 193 Sun Springs, bringing the total of each to 400.
  • Purchases the C-rank Muscle-Tendon Cleansing Art.
• Yang Fan issues a divine decree rewarding his believers for their performance in the war against alien races. He provides:
  • Adult Tai Sui near every main city.
  • Access to Blood Pills from the Hundred Spirits Blood Pool.
  • The Muscle-Tendon Cleansing Art to supplement the Federation Body-Tempering Art.
• His Divine Kingdom’s economy improves dramatically. Moonlight Dew, Solar Essence, Blood Pills, monsters, and spirit plants generate more than forty million Faith Points per month.
• Yang Fan decides to keep the Blood Pills for strengthening his believers rather than selling them. He also preserves a reserve of Faith Points for future investments and the Water of Life needed to treat Luo Rou’s terminal illness.
• He considers using Breeding Cards to accelerate the Divine Kingdom’s development but chooses not to rush, remembering the strain caused by their previous use.
• The next morning, Yang Fan observes that his believers’ food consumption has increased because of their new cultivation technique, though the Tai Sui and Blood Pool provide sufficient resources.
• In the mortal world, Yang Fan jokes with Luo Rou while she is in his arms. Their playful exchange reveals their complicated relationship.
• At breakfast, Luo Rou wins over Yang Fan’s parents by praising Sun Rong’s cooking, easing the tension in the household.

Character Developments

• Yang Fan: Becomes increasingly capable as a Divine Kingdom lord and investor. He demonstrates long-term planning by prioritizing sustainable resource production, believer cultivation, and financial reserves. He also shows affection and playfulness toward Luo Rou, though he remains insensitive to how his actions affect her trust.
• Luo Rou: Remains physically weak because of her illness but displays strong emotional control and social intelligence. She is suspicious of Yang Fan’s explanations and judges him by his actions rather than his words. Despite her coldness toward him, she treats his parents warmly and skillfully wins their approval.
• Zhan Yunxiao: Although absent from the chapter, he is characterized through Yang Fan’s thoughts as a determined but extreme cultivator who reached the Demigod realm by sacrificing his future potential.
• Yang Fan’s Parents: Yang Tiexin and Sun Rong are initially cautious and uncomfortable around Luo Rou, but Sun Rong is quickly reassured by Luo Rou’s warmth and praise.

Significant Themes

• Long-term growth versus reckless advancement: Yang Fan rejects rushing the development of his Divine Kingdom and favors stable, sustainable investments.
• Potential and personal sacrifice: Zhan Yunxiao’s path raises questions about whether extraordinary achievement justifies exhausting one’s future potential.
• Power used for collective development: Yang Fan’s resources are directed toward improving his believers rather than personal luxury, emphasizing the responsibilities of leadership.
• Trust and actions: Luo Rou’s statement that actions matter more than explanations highlights the damaged trust between her and Yang Fan.
• Family acceptance and social adaptability: Luo Rou’s ability to charm Yang Fan’s parents contrasts sharply with her guarded attitude toward Yang Fan.
• Foreshadowing of changing relationships: The title suggests that Yang Fan may eventually lose his favored position within the household as Luo Rou increasingly wins the affection and trust of his parents.

Chapter Summary: Divine Kingdom Development Paths

Key Plot Points and Events

• After dinner, Yang Fan transfers five million Faith Points to Luo Rou, promising to send her more each month. He tells her to use the funds to buy Water of Life, which suppresses the poisonous gas damaging her Divine Kingdom until he can cure her.
• Luo Rou is shocked and suspicious by Yang Fan’s generosity. She wonders whether he has ulterior motives, but realizes she has little left for him to gain from her.
• Yang Fan enters the virtual classroom, where his recent marriage into the Luo Family has already become widely known throughout the school. His classmates now regard him as a rising figure comparable to Li Shuhao.
• Zhang Pang congratulates Yang Fan and invites him to dinner. Yang Fan explains that Luo Rou is too ill to go out, so Zhang Pang agrees to visit Yang Fan’s new home instead.
• Teacher Li Qingying warns the class to prepare seriously for the midterm examination in three months, which will determine rewards, faction evaluations, and rankings—especially for students pursuing the warfare path.
• During a lesson on Divine Kingdom development, Li Qingying calls on Yang Fan. He claims not to have any special insights, so she asks Li Shuhao to answer instead.
• Li Shuhao explains the major development paths available to Human Divine Kingdoms:
  • Immortal Cultivation, progressing through realms such as Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, and Core Formation.
  • Martial Arts, progressing from Martial Disciple to Martial Master, Martial King, and beyond.
  • Mechanical development, involving technological body modification into artificial lifeforms.
  • Less common paths include the Phantom God Path and Zombie Path, though these are considered narrow and specialized.
• Li Qingying praises Li Shuhao, who subtly compares himself to Yang Fan. The class continues to misunderstand Yang Fan’s silence as deliberate humility, even though he genuinely lacks knowledge of the subject.

Character Developments

• Yang Fan shows unexpected concern for Luo Rou by providing regular financial support, suggesting his relationship with her may be becoming more genuine and responsible. He remains modest and uncomfortable with the exaggerated reputation surrounding him.
• Luo Rou becomes confused and wary of Yang Fan’s kindness. Her assumptions about him as a self-serving “scumbag” begin to weaken, though she remains suspicious of his motives.
• Zhang Pang continues to act as Yang Fan’s enthusiastic friend, treating him with admiration while maintaining their familiar relationship.
• Li Shuhao reinforces his image as the class’s academically accomplished student. His answer demonstrates broad theoretical knowledge, but his deliberate glance at Yang Fan reveals competitiveness.
• Li Qingying increasingly views Yang Fan as a highly capable but evasive student, interpreting his reluctance to answer as false modesty.

Significant Themes

• Trust and suspicion: Luo Rou struggles to understand Yang Fan’s motives, while Yang Fan’s actions challenge her negative assumptions.
• Reputation versus reality: Yang Fan is widely viewed as a brilliant, rising talent, despite privately lacking knowledge in the topic discussed and preferring to remain unnoticed.
• Social status and alliances: His marriage into the Luo Family rapidly elevates his standing among classmates and within the school.
• Preparation and competition: The upcoming midterm examination establishes pressure to develop Divine Kingdoms effectively and prove one’s value to schools and powerful factions.
• Different paths of power: The chapter introduces the variety of ways Divine Kingdoms and their believers can evolve, emphasizing that each path has distinct advantages and limitations.

Character Interactions

• Yang Fan and Luo Rou discuss his financial support and her continued survival, revealing tension between his practical concern and her guarded disbelief.
• Yang Fan and Zhang Pang share a friendly conversation about his marriage and new home, showing that their friendship remains comfortable despite Yang Fan’s rising status.
• Li Qingying challenges Yang Fan in class, while Li Shuhao provides the expected high-level answer and subtly competes with him.
• The class’s reactions to Yang Fan highlight how quickly rumors and assumptions have transformed him into an admired, almost mysterious figure.

Chapter Summary: “Yang Bro, Are You Still Taking Subordinate Gods?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Qingying concludes her lesson on the three major advancement paths toward Demigod and God: cultivation, martial development, and mechanical development. She advises students to begin preparing their Divine Kingdoms early by growing spiritual plants, cultivating body-tempering medicines, or purchasing a Mechanical Heart.
• After class, Li Shuhao invites the male students to dine at Heavenly Fragrance Haven. The girls feel excluded and privately complain about the boys’ repeated gatherings there.
• At the dinner, the class congratulates Yang Fan for receiving investment from the Luo Family, which greatly improves his future prospects and makes him appear destined to become a True God.
• Yang Fan remains calm and humble, viewing the investment as merely making his future path easier. His composure impresses his classmates, who interpret it as evidence of exceptional maturity and confidence.
• The classmates exchange resources and business opportunities, offering spiritual plants, animals, mineral veins, and other goods.
• Several students ask whether Yang Fan or Li Shuhao is willing to accept subordinate Gods. Li Shuhao refuses because he already has three valuable subordinate Gods. Yang Fan also declines for the time being, since his Evolution Talent gives him little need for additional resource providers.
• Wang Zhenyu reveals that the Ma Family invested in him with twenty C-grade buildings and a monthly subsidy of one hundred thousand Faith Points. Although the others envy him, he privately recognizes that his investment is modest compared with Yang Fan’s.

Character Developments

• Yang Fan: His status rises sharply after securing Luo Family investment. He remains composed, polite, and genuinely humble, though he internally feels little need for the resources others are offering. His Evolution Talent makes him self-sufficient and reduces his interest in recruiting subordinate Gods.
• Li Shuhao: Continues to act as the social leader of the class and generously treats his male classmates. He is confident enough to tease Yang Fan but becomes embarrassed when Yang Fan sincerely praises him. He has already selected three resource-specialized classmates as subordinate Gods and does not want more.
• Wang Zhenyu: Receives substantial support from the Ma Family and maintains a realistic attitude toward it. He is pleased that the investment gives his family an explanation for his performance but understands that he is far behind Yang Fan.
• Zhang Pang: Acts as a mediator when Yang Fan and Li Shuhao’s conversation becomes awkward, helping restore the relaxed atmosphere.
• The other classmates: Their attitudes toward Yang Fan shift from ordinary camaraderie to respect and opportunism. Many hope to attach themselves to his future power by becoming subordinate Gods or selling him resources.
• The girls in the class: Feel excluded from the gathering and recognize that Yang Fan’s rising status could make him a valuable source of cultivation knowledge and opportunities.

Significant Themes

• Power and social status: Yang Fan’s Luo Family investment immediately changes how his classmates view him, demonstrating how financial backing and potential influence reshape social relationships.
• Humility versus perception: Yang Fan’s sincere modesty is interpreted by others as profound composure, showing the gap between a person’s intentions and how society perceives them.
• Mutual benefit and obligation: Subordinate God contracts provide protection and resources but also create serious responsibilities. Benefits must eventually be repaid, and violating the contract can bring divine punishment.
• Early alliances and long-term strategy: Students begin forming connections and securing investments before entering society, understanding that early support may determine their future survival and growth.
• Self-sufficiency versus dependence: While many classmates need powerful backers to protect and develop their Divine Kingdoms, Yang Fan’s Evolution Talent allows him to remain largely independent.

Character Interactions

• Li Shuhao publicly congratulates Yang Fan and raises a toast to his success.
• Yang Fan responds politely, encouraging everyone to improve together rather than boasting about his new position.
• Yang Fan sincerely praises Li Shuhao’s classroom answers, but Li Shuhao mistakes the compliment for mockery, creating a brief humorous misunderstanding.
• Zhang Pang intervenes to smooth over the tension.
• Classmates offer one another resources, including Bodhi Treasure Snakes, Ice Crabapple Flowers, and mineral veins.
• Several students directly court Yang Fan’s favor by offering future services and resources in hopes of becoming his subordinate Gods.
• The discussion highlights the contrast between Li Shuhao’s established network of subordinate Gods, Wang Zhenyu’s moderate investment, and Yang Fan’s still-undetermined but much greater potential.

Chapter Summary: “Genius Chat Group”

Key Plot Points and Events

• During a class reunion, the students discuss developing their Divine Kingdoms, strengthening believers, investments, demon beasts, and spirit plants.
• Yang Fan realizes that, after receiving the Luo Family’s investment, he has far greater resources than his classmates. Their advice and experiences no longer provide him with much value.
• Li Shuhao explains that he organizes the gatherings partly for entertainment and the pleasure of being the center of attention.
• Li Shuhao invites Yang Fan to join the exclusive “Yang County 2026 Genius Chat Group,” created for the most talented students and prominent younger members of Yang County.
• As a new member, Yang Fan sends a red packet containing 100,000 Faith Points. Luo Bing receives the largest share—30,000 Faith Points—while Li Shuhao receives only 199 and becomes frustrated.
• Li Shuhao explains that the group includes elite students from major families, as well as other outstanding Divine Kingdom awakeners. It serves as a place to exchange resources, information, and future cooperation.
• Luo Mingxuan, a direct descendant of the Luo Family, insults Yang Fan and questions why someone of his status was allowed into the group.
• Luo Bing, the group owner and top student of their graduating class, immediately defends Yang Fan and silences the group.
• Luo Bing privately tells Yang Fan not to worry about Luo Mingxuan and offers her help if he causes trouble.
• Yang Fan realizes that Luo Bing knows Luo Rou and likely defended him because of their connection. He then returns to the real world rather than spending the night at Heavenly Fragrance Haven.

Character Developments

• Yang Fan: Becomes aware that his rapid rise and Luo Family backing have placed him above his former classmates in resources and opportunities. He begins distancing himself from less useful social circles but recognizes the value of elite networks. He also becomes more conscious of his relationship with Luo Rou and her connections.
• Li Shuhao: Reveals a vain but sociable personality, admitting that he enjoys hosting gatherings because they give him attention. Despite this, he sincerely values the genius group and explains its practical importance to Yang Fan.
• Luo Bing: Establishes herself as an influential, respected leader who protects qualified members of the group. Her private message shows that she is considerate and willing to support Yang Fan.
• Luo Mingxuan: Is introduced as arrogant, hostile, and resentful toward Yang Fan. His jealousy appears connected to Yang Fan’s relationship with Luo Rou, suggesting future conflict.
• Yang Fan and Luo Rou: Their marriage continues to affect Yang Fan’s social position. Although their relationship is described as a “bargain” marriage, Luo Rou’s family connections indirectly provide him with protection and status.

Significant Themes

• Changing social status: Yang Fan’s new wealth and backing separate him from his former classmates, showing how power changes one’s position within a social group.
• Networking and cooperation: Even powerful Divine Lifeforms cannot rely entirely on themselves. Resource exchange, shared information, and alliances are essential to developing a Divine Kingdom.
• Class and family influence: Membership in the chat group depends not only on talent but also on family background and reputation. Yang Fan’s acceptance challenges traditional assumptions about status.
• Jealousy and rivalry: Luo Mingxuan’s hostility reflects resentment toward Yang Fan’s rapid rise and possible jealousy over Luo Rou.
• Future potential versus present strength: The group members understand that Divine Kingdom development is a long-term process, so even current rivals may become future allies.

Important Character Interactions

• Yang Fan and Li Shuhao: They discuss the declining value of their old class gatherings. Li Shuhao explains why the genius group is more useful and emphasizes their shared connection as classmates.
• Yang Fan and the chat group: Yang Fan is welcomed, offers a large red packet, and is introduced to influential young talents from Yang County.
• Yang Fan and Luo Mingxuan: Luo Mingxuan attacks Yang Fan verbally despite not knowing him personally, establishing an antagonistic relationship.
• Luo Bing and Luo Mingxuan: Luo Bing publicly rebukes Luo Mingxuan, demonstrating her authority and preventing him from further insulting Yang Fan.
• Luo Bing and Yang Fan: Luo Bing privately reassures Yang Fan and offers protection, revealing a connection through Luo Rou and hinting at future cooperation.

Chapter Summary: “Signing the Divine Vassal Contract”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Luo Rou explains her history with Luo Mingxuan after Yang Fan notices her disgust toward him. Mingxuan once pursued her, but after her Divine Kingdom was damaged, he rejected the idea of marrying her unless he received a massive dowry, including key assets from Luo Chengfeng’s Divine Kingdom. He also demanded that he bear no child-rearing expenses, causing conflict between the two families.
• Yang Fan reassures Luo Rou that he will eventually cure her and spends the night with her, taking care to be gentle because of her condition.
• The next morning, Yang Fan invites his best friend, Zhang Pang, to breakfast at the Luo family villa.
• Luo Rou worries about making a good impression, but Yang Fan tells her that true friendships are not based on status or benefits. His view slightly improves her opinion of him.
• Zhang Pang arrives and is overwhelmed by Yang Fan’s new wealth and status. He enthusiastically greets Luo Rou as his sister-in-law.
• During breakfast, Zhang Pang nearly reveals that he and Yang Fan had previously visited Heavenly Fragrance Haven, then becomes nervous that Luo Rou might misunderstand the situation.
• Zhang Pang reveals that his father wants him to establish a close relationship with Yang Fan and become his Subordinate God through a Divine Vassal Contract.
• Yang Fan immediately agrees, while Zhang Pang instantly reveals his minimum demand: he will accept the contract as long as he receives at least fifty percent of the Divine Kingdom’s resource share. Luo Rou is shocked by their casual, unconventional negotiation.

Character Developments

• Yang Fan: Shows concern for Luo Rou and confidence in his ability to heal her. He values loyalty and longstanding friendship over social status, despite his rapid rise in power and wealth.
• Luo Rou: Opens up about the unpleasant history involving Luo Mingxuan and shows vulnerability through her apology. She also begins to revise her negative opinion of Yang Fan after hearing his sincere views on friendship. Her strong concern for etiquette and formal negotiations contrasts with Yang Fan and Zhang Pang’s informality.
• Zhang Pang: Remains straightforward, loyal, and somewhat impulsive. He genuinely trusts Yang Fan, treating him like an older brother rather than negotiating purely for personal gain. His loose tongue also reveals his anxiety about accidentally causing marital misunderstandings.
• Luo Mingxuan: Though absent, he is characterized as greedy, arrogant, and unwilling to accept responsibility, especially regarding marriage and child-rearing.
• Yang Fan’s parents: Show discretion and emotional intelligence by leaving when the private matter of the Divine Vassal Contract is raised.

Significant Themes

• Loyalty versus status: Yang Fan insists that genuine friendships can survive changes in wealth, rank, and power.
• Marriage and exploitation: Luo Mingxuan’s demands expose how powerful families can treat marriage as a transaction for assets and advantages.
• Trust and sincerity: Zhang Pang’s willingness to reveal his position immediately reflects his trust in Yang Fan, even though his openness is poor negotiation strategy.
• Tradition versus informality: Luo Rou expects careful, formal negotiations, while Yang Fan and Zhang Pang treat the contract as an extension of brotherly loyalty.
• Changing perceptions: Luo Rou gradually sees that Yang Fan may possess genuine loyalty and emotional values beneath his reputation for being profit-driven.

Character Interactions

• Yang Fan and Luo Rou discuss Luo Mingxuan, strengthening their mutual understanding.
• Yang Fan and Luo Rou share an intimate but considerate moment, highlighting his concern for her health.
• Luo Rou makes an effort to support Yang Fan’s social dignity when meeting Zhang Pang.
• Zhang Pang enthusiastically accepts Luo Rou as his sister-in-law, while she responds awkwardly to his exaggerated loyalty.
• Yang Fan and Zhang Pang demonstrate a close brother-like bond through their effortless agreement over the Divine Vassal Contract, leaving Luo Rou astonished by their unconventional approach.

Chapter Summary: Blood-Coagulation Flower: A Windfall Investment

Key Plot Points and Events

• Zhang Pang prepares to sell his Divine Kingdom’s resources cheaply to repay or support Yang Fan, but Yang Fan refuses, saying Zhang Pang should preserve them for his own development.
• Yang Fan and Zhang Pang sign a Divine Vassal Contract. They must aid each other militarily if either Divine Kingdom is invaded, but there are no financial or resource obligations.
• Yang Fan reassures Zhang Pang that he is helping him out of friendship, not profit. Zhang Pang leaves deeply grateful and offers future supplies such as grain and spirit plants.
• Luo Rou is surprised by Yang Fan’s generosity. His treatment of Zhang Pang makes her reconsider her negative judgment of him and gives her a small degree of trust.
• Over the next ten days, Yang Fan maintains a stable routine of studying, consulting the Genius Chat Group and Gods’ Forum, tending to his Divine Kingdom, and fulfilling his marital duties.
• One hundred years pass inside Yang Fan’s Divine Kingdom. With Blood Pills and Tai Sui flesh, his believers recover to 14 First-Order Lifeforms and 100,000 mortals.
• News spreads that the war with the Foreign-Race Gods has created a severe shortage of Premium Hemostatic Powder, which requires the D-grade spirit plant known as the Blood-Coagulation Flower.
• Although the flower is easy to cultivate and highly profitable, most people hesitate because it takes two hundred Divine Kingdom years to mature and requires vast amounts of farmland.
• Yang Fan realizes his tenfold Evolution Talent reduces the growth period to only twenty years within his Divine Kingdom, making the investment extremely attractive.
• After verifying the information, he invests 40 million Faith Points in four million Blood-Coagulation Flower seeds.
• He orders his believers to reclaim suitable land and plant the seeds at least ten meters apart. Nearly 100,000 believers spend several years creating 50,000 square kilometers of farmland.
• Yang Fan discovers that his Divine Kingdom can support at most another 50,000 square kilometers of reclamation, allowing a maximum of eight million seeds and a total potential investment of 80 million Faith Points.

Character Developments

• Yang Fan demonstrates both loyalty and strategic ambition. He supports Zhang Pang without exploiting him, but remains highly alert to profitable opportunities, especially those suited to his unique talents and Divine Kingdom.
• His generosity toward Zhang Pang challenges Luo Rou’s assumptions that he is purely selfish and exploitative. She begins to suspect that his past actions may have had legitimate reasons.
• Zhang Pang becomes emotionally devoted to Yang Fan after receiving protection without financial demands. His willingness to provide future resources shows growing loyalty.
• Luo Rou develops the first real trace of trust in Yang Fan, though she still views him with some uncertainty.
• Yang Fan’s believers continue to recover and gradually develop stronger lifeforms, showing that his Divine Kingdom is stabilizing.

Significant Themes

• Friendship versus profit: Yang Fan’s contract with Zhang Pang shows that personal loyalty can outweigh immediate financial gain.
• Reputation and trust: Luo Rou’s changing opinion illustrates how actions can challenge preconceived judgments.
• Strategic investment: Yang Fan identifies an opportunity others dismiss because his Evolution Talent eliminates the main disadvantage—the long growth period.
• War-driven commerce: The Foreign-Race war creates demand for medical supplies, allowing Yang Fan to profit from a battlefield shortage.
• Divine Kingdom management: Agriculture, available land, population, and ecological limits become crucial factors in long-term development.
• Patience and preparation: Although the investment promises major returns, Yang Fan must wait for cultivation and organize his believers on a massive scale.

Important Character Interactions

• Yang Fan and Zhang Pang: They discuss resources, friendship, and mutual protection before signing the Divine Vassal Contract.
• Yang Fan and Luo Rou: Luo questions his motives indirectly through her reaction to his generosity, leading Yang Fan to explain his childhood connection with Zhang Pang.
• Yang Fan and his believers: Through a Divine Oracle, he commands them to reclaim land and plant the Blood-Coagulation Flowers. They obey despite not understanding the plan.
• Yang Fan and the Genius Chat Group: He gathers intelligence from other gods, verifies investment rumors, and uses the group’s discussions to identify a profitable opportunity.