Ch. 401The Fairest Currency

Yang Fan worried that his Divine Kingdom’s immense resource output would expose him to danger and asked Yang Da how to manage it while limiting contact with the Real World. He argued that continued investment and the potential evolution of Origin Evolution would keep resources useful, then explained that Faith Points and Divinity Points served as the fairest currency under the Divine Kingdom system.

  • Yang Fan reflected that his Divine Kingdom produced hundreds of trillions of Divinity Points monthly and that showing such wealth before he was strong enough could invite danger.
  • Yang Fan asked Yang Da for ways to manage the growing resources while avoiding attention from the Real World.
  • Yang Da argued that resources would remain valuable as believers advanced, the Divine Kingdom expanded, and Yang Fan’s Yang Group grew.
  • Yang Fan replied that most of the Divine Kingdom’s usable regions still had room for investment and that Origin Evolution might grow beyond its current S-Rank form.
  • Yang Fan told Yang Da that resources mattered only when converted into strength and described Faith Points and Divinity Points as the era’s natural, shared currency.

Ch. 402Troop Garrisoning

Yang Fan considered how strength and authority gave wealth its value, then learned from Yang Da that secret realms could serve as bases for garrisoning armies. He decided to plan for the future, when his growing number of believers would exceed the Divine Kingdom's capacity.

  • Yang Fan said he needed to strengthen his believers, expand his army, and obtain more God Coordinates so he could gain authority and wealth.
  • Yang Da suggested using secret realms, explaining that they held resources and could be connected to the Divine Kingdom through Spatial Channels.
  • Yang Da described how gods could remodel secret realms into military bases and station armies there for long-term use.
  • Yang Da warned that garrisoning troops in secret realms would consume enormous resources and that their believers would grow more slowly without Divine Kingdom talents.
  • Yang Fan said his Rank A Breeding-Type Talent and hundredfold evolution talent would soon push his believers beyond the Divine Kingdom's capacity, making secret realms necessary.

Ch. 403I'm a Rather Proud Man

Yang Fan decided to prepare his Divine Kingdom for future wars by creating pressure and competition among his followers, then returned to the Real World to seek Secret Realm coordinates through Lu Wan's connections. He found Lu Wan managing her business with authority, and she reaffirmed that she was happy to support him financially.

  • Yang Fan told Yang Da that he would fight future gods alone and ordered reforms to move slower or less talented followers into Secret Realms as a reserve force.
  • Yang Fan instructed Yang Da to create a system for moving followers between Secret Realms and the main Divine Kingdom so they would stay motivated.
  • Back in the Real World, Yang Fan decided to ask Lu Wan for help finding Secret Realm coordinates through the Lu Family's connections.
  • Yang Fan overheard Lu Wan reprimanding a project manager for overspending and mishandling competition on a Three Trillion Divinity Points project.
  • Lu Wan welcomed Yang Fan warmly, explained her work and praised his refusal of one hundred trillion Divinity Points, saying she liked supporting him.

Ch. 404The Risks of Secret Realms

Yang Fan asked Lu Wan about buying Secret Realm coordinates and learned that investing in them meant risking battles with other gods, though losing a Secret Realm would not expose his Divine Kingdom coordinates. Lu Wan offered to introduce him to Han Jue, a Han Family connection who might help him buy coordinates, and they traveled together to the Han Family’s residential district.

  • Yang Fan asked Lu Wan about buying Secret Realm coordinates, and she warned him that other gods could attack and seize them.
  • Lu Wan explained that battles in Secret Realms would not expose Yang Fan’s Divine Kingdom coordinates, reassuring him that he could accept the risk of losing believers and his investment.
  • Lu Wan said she knew Han Jue, a Peerless Monster from the Han Family, and invited Yang Fan to join her at a dinner gathering where he might ask about Secret Realm coordinates.
  • Yang Fan agreed to go with Lu Wan, and they left the villa aboard a private airship that afternoon.
  • Lu Wan explained that the Han Family’s residences were among the safest places on the frontline as their airship crossed the quiet, carefully maintained district.

Ch. 405Lu Wan's connections

Yang Fan and Lu Wan arrived at a lavish Han Family estate for a banquet, where Yang Fan saw how differently the Five Great Families lived from ordinary people on Frontline. Lu Wan introduced Yang Fan as her husband and explained that her business dealings had connected her with many influential people.

  • Yang Fan reflected on the gulf between ordinary residents of Frontline and the Five Great Families’ privileged lives, and was grateful he had married into the Gu Family.
  • Yang Fan and Lu Wan arrived at the Han Family estate and were greeted by intelligent Robots.
  • Yang Fan sensed more than a hundred gods at the banquet, including Sima Tianci and Gu Jiuheng.
  • Lu Wan told the guests that Yang Fan was her husband, drawing curious attention from the banquet attendees.
  • Lu Wan explained that her business had brought her into contact with influential gods, investors, and geniuses.

Ch. 406A Single Encounter

Yang Fan and Lu Wan attended a banquet where several of Yang Fan’s old acquaintances greeted them, and Yang Fan sensed that Ma Huainan had also arrived at the front lines. Inside, Gu Jiuheng learned of Yang Fan’s marriage to Lu Wan, and the chapter ended as Lu Wan teased Yang Fan about his connection to the host, Han Jue.

  • Lu Wan greeted Han Wuji and three other members of the Five Great Families, who had come over to congratulate Yang Fan.
  • Yang Fan sensed hidden malice from Ma Huainan, recognized him as a former Primordial Academy classmate, and entered the hall with Lu Wan.
  • Gu Jiuheng greeted Yang Fan and was surprised by how tough his body was, then mentioned that Han Jue had told him about Yang Fan’s marriage to Lu Wan.
  • Yang Fan recognized banquet host Han Jue as the man he had met in a level-three zone of the Foreign-Race Divine Kingdom District.
  • Lu Wan asked whether Yang Fan knew Han Jue, and teased him that their connection seemed to involve more than one encounter.

Ch. 407You Actually Want to Be My Dad?

At a banquet on the Frontline, Han Jue warmly greeted Yang Fan and offered him support, surprising the gathered gods and drawing attention to their relationship. Han Jue then introduced Yang Fan to Qin Zheng, whose playful argument with Han Jue enlivened the hall.

  • Lu Wan noticed Han Jue approaching Yang Fan with unusual excitement and pinched Yang Fan for pretending not to know him.
  • Han Jue embraced Yang Fan, apologized for not welcoming him sooner, and insisted they were brothers rather than cousins.
  • Han Jue promised to help Yang Fan on the Frontline and gave him a glass of Blazing Flame Wine.
  • The gathered gods watched Yang Fan with new curiosity as Han Jue treated him like a close friend.
  • Han Jue introduced Qin Zheng as his little brother, and Qin Zheng joked that he would have beaten Han Jue into calling him Dad.
  • Han Jue twisted Qin Zheng's words into a joke, making Qin Zheng flush and the banquet guests laugh.

Ch. 408What Was Going On?

Han Jue introduced Yang Fan to the gathering, where Sima Yurou sought to smooth over the past wager between Yang Fan and her husband, Ma Huainan. After she left, Sima Tianci revealed that Han Jue had barred Ma Huainan from attending because of Yang Fan, leaving Yang Fan puzzled by Han Jue’s unexpected loyalty.

  • Han Jue introduced Han Zhen, a powerful front-line brigade commander, and Han Zhen invited Yang Fan to join the legion and fight alongside him.
  • Han Jue introduced Sima Yurou, who explained that she had come to resolve friction over her husband Ma Huainan’s wager with Yang Fan.
  • Yang Fan said the wager was settled and welcomed the possibility of meeting Ma Huainan, while Sima Yurou agreed to explain the matter to her husband and left the hall.
  • Sima Tianci told Yang Fan that Han Jue had refused to let Ma Huainan enter the hall because of Yang Fan.
  • Yang Fan wondered why Han Jue treated him like a close friend, while Han Jue ignored his puzzled looks and toasted the gathering.

Ch. 409What Woman Wouldn't Be Worthy of Him?

At Han Jue’s banquet, Yang Fan listened as young gods exchanged business opportunities and resources, reflecting on how his solitary path differed from the elite families’ networks. Han Jue praised Yang Fan’s strength and potential, saying he was worthy of Lu Wan and any woman in their generation.

  • Han Jue offered each guest a hundred tons of Blazing Flame Wine, and the banquet filled with lively conversations and networking.
  • Young gods sought partnerships and investment opportunities from Han Zhen, Lu Wan, and other guests.
  • Yang Fan listened to the exchanges and reflected that elite families relied on connections while he relied on his SSS-Rank Evolution Talent.
  • Han Jue teased Yang Fan about finding a match like Lu Wan, then told him he was more than worthy of her.
  • Han Jue recalled Yang Fan’s concealed record of killing an Angel Race god alone soon after reaching the Godhood Realm and concluded that Yang Fan’s potential rivaled or exceeded his own.

Ch. 410Lies Work Better Than the Truth

Yang Fan and Han Jue acted like close friends at the banquet, though Yang Fan knew they had met only once and Han Jue concealed why he wanted to befriend him. After returning home, Yang Fan chose to pretend they were good friends rather than convince Lu Wan of the truth.

  • Yang Fan used a Spiritual Power barrier to ask Han Jue why he was so eager to befriend him, and Han Jue assured him he meant no harm.
  • Han Jue invited Yang Fan and Lu Wan to meet him in the Virtual World to discuss a way to make a fortune, and Yang Fan agreed because he needed Secret Realm coordinates.
  • Han Jue stayed beside Yang Fan throughout the banquet, introducing him to young gods and helping him build connections among the Five Great Families.
  • After the guests left, Han Jue told Qin Zheng that befriending Yang Fan was worthwhile because of his hundredfold timeflow talent, while withholding confidential details.
  • Lu Wan questioned Yang Fan about his apparent closeness with Han Jue, and Yang Fan falsely claimed they were good friends to avoid trying to explain the truth.

Ch. 411An Untapped Earth-Rank Secret Realm

Yang Fan and Lu Wan met Han Jue in the Virtual World, where he revealed that his believers had discovered an untouched Earth-Rank Secret Realm. Han Jue proposed founding a company with Yang Fan, Lu Wan, Qin Zheng, and Sima Tianci to develop it, offering each of them ten percent of the shares.

  • Yang Fan and Lu Wan entered the Virtual World to meet Han Jue about a chance to make money.
  • Han Jue told Yang Fan, Lu Wan, Qin Zheng, and Sima Tianci that his believers had found an untapped Earth-Rank Secret Realm.
  • Lu Wan estimated the Secret Realm could be worth at least 300 trillion Divinity Points and asked why Han Jue was sharing the opportunity.
  • Han Jue explained that using the Han Family's elders would cost him thirty percent of the proceeds, and that he wanted to start a company.
  • Han Jue offered forty percent of the founding shares among the four guests, with each receiving ten percent in exchange for helping develop the Secret Realm.

Ch. 412Stars Group

Han Jue and his partners finalized the ownership and launch plans for Stars Group, then Yang Fan asked Han Jue for help finding low-rank Secret Realm investments. Han Jue offered to introduce him to a seller, warning that his protection would last only ten years in the real world.

  • Han Jue told Lu Wan that Stars Group was registered in the Warfront Starfield and asked her to provide a ninth-order artificial lifeform to run its operations; Lu Wan agreed, and Sima Tianci offered help with government connections.
  • Yang Fan said Lu Wan would handle his company duties, and the group signed the Equity Allocation Agreement with an artificial lifeform as witness.
  • Sima Tianci proposed creating a Feixun group and beginning the Secret Realm expedition in ten days, while Han Jue agreed to send the coordinates in encrypted form.
  • After the others left, Yang Fan asked Han Jue about buying Secret Realm coordinates, and Han Jue offered to introduce him to a third-order god who sold low-rank Secret Realms.
  • Han Jue warned Yang Fan that the seller would not cause trouble for ten years in the real world but would not guarantee his safety afterward; Yang Fan accepted the risk.

Ch. 413The answer was all but clear

Yang Fan realized Han Jue’s unusual attention likely came from the military merit information about his feat against an Alien Race god, and decided to keep a lower profile. He then met Chen Bo, a Third-Order God who ran a private leisure planet and offered him access to the Starsea Services Group.

  • Yang Fan questioned Han Jue’s enthusiasm and learned from Lu Wan that Han Jue could review military merit records through the Han Military Command.
  • Yang Fan concluded Han Jue had approached him because of the information he had submitted about the Angel Race Divine Kingdom Core, and resolved to conceal his strength until he grew powerful enough.
  • Yang Fan told Lu Wan he would meet Han Jue’s recommended contact and entered the Virtual World.
  • Chen Bo welcomed Yang Fan to his private vacation planet and introduced the Starsea Services Group, whose business included travel, Divine Kingdom investment consulting, private services, and Secret Realm investment.

Ch. 414You Call This Playing Around?

Yang Fan reviewed Chen Bo’s Secret Realm offerings and chose to buy the five largest Mystic-Rank Secret Realms for nearly ten trillion Divinity Points. Chen Bo prepared the contracts, and the deal was completed.

  • Chen Bo showed Yang Fan detailed records of the Yellow-Rank and Mystic-Rank Secret Realms he had for sale.
  • Yang Fan focused on the Mystic-Rank Secret Realms because he wanted their vast areas for garrisoning troops, not their financial returns.
  • Yang Fan said he would buy all five Mystic-Rank Secret Realms larger than ten billion square kilometers.
  • Chen Bo was stunned by the nearly ten-trillion-Divinity-Point purchase, then hurried to arrange the contracts.
  • Yang Fan signed the contracts, and Chen Bo congratulated him on acquiring the five Secret Realms.

Ch. 415Secret Realm Arrangements

Yang Fan bought five Mystic-Rank Secret Realms from Chen Bo and had Yang Da convert them into military garrisons with defenses, training facilities, and basic food production. Yang Da finished describing the preparations, leaving the realms ready to receive billions of believers.

  • Chen Bo completed the ten-trillion-Divinity-Point transaction with Yang Fan and agreed to withdraw his believers from the five Secret Realms.
  • Yang Fan asked Chen Bo to keep finding coordinates for larger Secret Realms, then entered his Divine Kingdom.
  • Yang Da reported that the five Secret Realms had been handed over and their creatures and resources transferred to the Main Divine Kingdom.
  • Yang Da described how the realms had been reshaped into war cities with cultivation facilities and troop infrastructure.
  • Yang Da outlined the realms' defenses, including World-Anchoring Profound Heaven Great Walls, F3500 Fighters, Patrol Robots, and Intelligent Gundams.
  • Yang Da explained that Spirit Source Grain-Nurturing Towers would grow basic food to supply the believers stationed in the Secret Realms.

Ch. 416Divine Kingdom Migration

Yang Fan reviewed Yang Da’s preparations for migrating believers into five Secret Realms and addressed resistance to the reforms. He ordered a Divine Oracle to enforce the migration and reward supporters, while insisting that Yang Da build a lasting system that gave relocated believers hope and a path to advancement.

  • Yang Da showed Yang Fan the completed Secret Realm facilities and explained that resources would be distributed according to believers’ performance.
  • Yang Da described a points-based evaluation system and reported resistance to migration among believers who resented the reforms and their administrators.
  • Yang Fan concluded that migration would redistribute resources and ordered Yang Da to announce that the plan served the Divine Kingdom’s long-term development and must not be defied.
  • Yang Fan proposed granting high-performing Divine Guards authority and privileges to win their support, then reclaiming that authority after the Secret Realm system stabilized.
  • Yang Fan warned Yang Da that political maneuvering could not replace a fair advancement system that motivated believers to cultivate, reproduce, and grow stronger.

Ch. 417Descending from the Upper Realm

Yang Fan ordered Yang Da to reform the Divine Kingdom by restoring competition and creating opportunities for believers to advance. The migration into the Secret Realms began, with A Zhuo named the first Divine Guard and ten billion low-level believers joining the plan by the Divine Kingdom’s tenth year.

  • Yang Fan explained to Yang Da that the Divine Kingdom needed a system balancing pressure, hope, and social mobility, then ordered reforms alongside the migration into the Secret Realms.
  • Yang Da and the digital artificial lifeforms began planning the reforms, and a Divine Oracle announced the migration and introduced the Divine Guard title.
  • A Zhuo volunteered to support the migration plan, became the first Divine Guard, and received one Divinity Point to manage believers in the Number One Secret Realm.
  • High-level believers were excluded from the migration, while low-level believers responded to A Zhuo’s reward by enthusiastically supporting the plan.
  • By the Divine Kingdom’s tenth year, ten billion low-level believers had joined the migration and more than ten thousand had become Divine Guards.
  • The digital artificial lifeforms intensified publicity for the “Descending from the Upper Realm” campaign, promising that believers who endured hardship and cultivated could one day return to the main Divine Kingdom.

Ch. 418No More Obstacles

The Divine Kingdom’s Great Migration Plan expanded as believers were encouraged to move to the Secret Realms, but the Divine Guards abused their authority and terrorized the population. Yang Da abolished the system, and Yang Fan continued overseeing migration and studying as the Secret Realms’ populations grew.

  • In the Divine Kingdom’s City of Technology, teachers taught children that cultivating and joining the “Descent from the Upper Realm” plan would serve their god and the Divine Kingdom.
  • By Year 60, the five great Secret Realms held over eighty billion people, while more than one million Divine Guards patrolled and abused believers who failed to meet their expectations.
  • In Year 70, Yang Da abolished the Divine Guard System, and believers gathered to denounce and punish the former Divine Guards.
  • Yang Da watched the upheaval and declared that artificial lifeforms would replace the Divine Guards and administer migration according to strict standards.
  • Yang Fan studied in the Primordial City Library while monitoring migration, and the populations of the five Mystic-Rank Secret Realms grew to fifty or sixty billion each.

Ch. 419The Situation in the Earth-Rank Secret Realm

Yang Fan joined Han Jue, Lu Wan, Qin Zheng, and Sima Tianci to begin pioneering an Earth-Rank Secret Realm, deploying a vast mechanical army. His companions arrived shocked by the force he had brought, leaving Yang Fan worried that he had revealed too much of his Divine Kingdom’s strength.

  • Han Jue sent encrypted coordinates to the Stars Group Shareholders Chat after everyone confirmed their armies were ready.
  • Yang Fan prepared five billion second-tier artificial lifeforms, one hundred thousand Intelligent Gundams, five Void War Arks, and five Mechanical War Puppets for the expedition.
  • Yang Fan’s consciousness and mechanical army arrived at the outskirts of the lush Earth-Rank Secret Realm.
  • Han Jue, Lu Wan, Qin Zheng, and Sima Tianci appeared and reacted with shock and unease to Yang Fan’s army.
  • Lu Wan chided Yang Fan for bringing so much force, while Sima Tianci inspected an Intelligent Gundam and asked whether Yang Fan’s Divine Kingdom could manufacture War Weapons.

Ch. 420Showing off his wealth?

Yang Fan brought an enormous mechanical army to the Earth-Rank Secret Realm reclamation, leaving Han Jue, Sima Tianci, and Qin Zheng astonished by his strength. The group compared their forces, with the others’ believers crowded at the edges of Yang Fan’s deployment.

  • Sima Tianci, Han Jue, and Qin Zheng reacted with amazement to Yang Fan’s five billion second-tier artificial lifeforms, Intelligent Gundams, Void War Arks, and Mechanical War Puppets.
  • Yang Fan explained that he had brought his Divine Kingdom’s main fighting forces because he could not contribute much to the Stars Group’s future development.
  • Han Jue welcomed Yang Fan’s strength, reasoning that it would help the group manage the dangers and risks of reclaiming an undeveloped Earth-Rank Secret Realm.
  • Sima Tianci described bringing eighty million Qi Refining Realm believers, twenty million Foundation Establishment Realm believers, and two Core Formation Realm believers to scout and set up a B-Rank Formation, then fell quiet as he looked at Yang Fan’s army.
  • Qin Zheng pointed out that Yang Fan’s War Weapons had pushed his and Han Jue’s believers into distant corners, and wondered if Yang Fan was showing off his wealth.
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