Chapter Summaries

Plot and key events

• Ma Huainan negotiates a loan from Qin Xue: two War God Codices at 40% annual interest. He signs after checking the contracts, then declines her offer to relax.
• Back in his Divine Kingdom, Ma Huainan detects an apparent invasion by zombie believers. He assumes they belong to an unknown corpse-cultivating god, not Yang Fan, believing Yang Fan could not have discovered his coordinates so quickly.
• Confident in his superior forces and two S-Class War Buildings, Ma orders fifty million Martial Disciple believers to destroy the invaders. He directs the borrowed funds toward spirit-plant cultivation and short-term investments, prioritizing cash flow for development.
• Ma plans to sell the presumed enemy god’s coordinates rather than invade, viewing the encounter as a potential source of income.
• After Ma leaves, the invading force’s real strategy becomes clear: supplies and Corpse Cores are sent into the Divine Kingdom. Under Yang Shi’s command, the zombies will advance gradually, spreading corruption through rivers, fields, orchards, livestock areas, and other productive systems rather than rushing into battle.

Character developments and interactions

• Ma Huainan is financially strained and more cautious than before: he accepts a costly loan, avoids Qin Xue’s tempting invitation, and stresses frugality and liquidity. Yet his confidence turns into dangerous complacency when he dismisses the invasion as a minor threat.
• Qin Xue presents herself as a helpful lender while recognizing that Ma’s weakened finances make the loan a promising long-term investment. Her lighthearted teasing contrasts with her calculating business outlook.
• Ma Huainan and his artificial lifeform interact as commander and adviser: it warns him about the unknown enemy’s strength, but he ignores the caution.
• Yang Shi, following a Divine Oracle, leads a patient campaign aimed at wrecking the Divine Kingdom’s capacity to sustain life and production.

Significant themes

• Financial pressure and resource management: Ma’s borrowing, investment plans, and insistence that “every penny saved counts” frame his struggle to fund expansion.
• Overconfidence and misjudgment: He mistakes a coordinated attack for a lucky encounter by a weak rogue god, leaving him unprepared for its true purpose.
• Warfare through attrition: The invaders seek not a quick victory but environmental and economic destruction, targeting the systems that allow the Divine Kingdom to develop.

Plot points and events

• Yang Shi orders the Zombie Kings to continue the invasion. The Ten-Thousand Corpse War Tombs advance slowly through the outskirts of Ma Huainan’s Divine Kingdom, carrying zombie believers toward its core.
• Ma Huainan’s outer territories contain low-grade spirit fields and demonic-beast farms. Yang Shi’s forces infect them by feeding Corpse Cores to ordinary zombies, which then spread corpse poison among nearby living areas.
• The tactic is meant to contaminate valuable land, water, and crops—not merely kill inhabitants—so that restoring the Divine Kingdom will cost Ma Huainan substantial resources.
• Yang Da warns that Ma Huainan may have hidden defenses and suggests deploying a hundred S-Class Flesh Calamity Broodmothers. Yang Fan instead orders an F3500 Fighter and a Patrol Robot to deliver the buildings, but forbids their use unless the war reaches a critical point.
• Yang Fan plans to prolong the conflict. He wants to avoid making Ma Huainan so desperate that he reveals his Divine Kingdom’s coordinates to the Sima Family. He also takes steps to conceal his involvement and orders Yang Da to keep buying expendable war supplies.
• Confident that Yang Shi and Yang Da can manage the early stages, Yang Fan returns to relaxing while the invasion continues.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Fan shows himself to be strategic and patient. He values attrition and secrecy over a quick victory, and sees Ma Huainan’s Divine Kingdom’s economic damage as a key objective. He also mocks Ma Huainan’s modest resource cultivation as shortsighted.
• Yang Da acts as a cautious adviser, pointing out that Ma Huainan may have powerful hidden defenses and recommending stronger forces. Though he privately recognizes that Ma Huainan’s development choices are sensible, he avoids challenging Yang Fan over his dismissive comments.
• Yang Shi carries out Yang Fan’s plan, directing the zombie forces and employing controlled contamination rather than an immediate, all-out assault.
• Ma Huainan is not present, but his careful development of even low-grade resources gives Yang Fan’s forces vulnerable targets.

Significant themes

• Attrition as strategy: The invasion aims to drain the enemy’s resources and degrade his territory over time rather than win quickly.
• Economic warfare: Poisoning land, water, and crops can cause lasting damage even beyond the immediate loss of life.
• Secrecy and misdirection: Yang Fan hides his role and moderates the assault to keep Ma Huainan from calling on the more dangerous Sima Family.
• Contrasting perspectives on development: Yang Fan dismisses low-yield cultivation, while Yang Da recognizes it as a rational way for a newly ascended god to use newly acquired territory.

Plot and key events

• Ma Huainan returns to his villa pleased with the two Resource Cards he bought after haggling, believing that thrift and long-term investment will make him rich. He privately vows to surpass his former partner, Sima Yurou.
• After nearly five months have passed inside his Divine Kingdom, he discovers that corpse poison has devastated its outer regions. Spirit fields and medicinal gardens are ruined, demonic beasts are mutating, and costly, long-term resource structures have been contaminated.
• His Artificial Lifeform shows him how the disaster happened: Ma’s fifty million Martial Disciple followers initially overpowered the enemy’s zombies, but the zombies retreated into Rank A Ten-Thousand Corpse War Tombs. Protected by barriers, they released corpse poison and miasma, surrounded Ma’s forces, and turned every follower into a zombie without a conventional battle.
• The Artificial Lifeform explains that it identified the structures only after the defeat, since the Zombie System is rare and marketplace information was scarce. It obtained details through the Federation’s Supreme Artificial Lifeform.
• Ma realizes the enemy had nearly ten thousand Rank A War Structures—far beyond what he expected from an ordinary rogue cultivator. He suspects his opponent is an experienced Third-Order God with resources accumulated over thousands of years.

Character development and interactions

• Ma begins self-satisfied and confident in his careful spending, but his confidence collapses when he sees the scale of the losses. He becomes furious, then forces himself to assess the enemy more soberly.
• He blames his followers’ failure at first, then demands an explanation from the Artificial Lifeform. Its report reveals that their defeat resulted from the enemy’s unusual defenses and poison tactics, not from a simple loss in strength.
• Ma regrets not personally commanding the first battle, believing he might have limited the damage. His earlier ambition to outdo Sima Yurou now contrasts sharply with the ruin of the assets he hoped would make him wealthy.

Significant themes

• Frugality versus risk: Ma’s effort to save money proves insignificant beside the much larger losses caused by underestimating his enemy.
• Preparation and information: The enemy’s specialized structures and tactics exploit gaps in Ma’s knowledge, showing that raw strength is not enough.
• The hidden cost of investment: Long-term assets can be destroyed quickly when a threat is misunderstood.
• Hubris and miscalculation: Ma’s confidence in his strategy gives way to the recognition that his opponent operates on a far greater scale.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Ma Huainan discovers that the Ten-Thousand Corpse War Tombs contain many Rank A war structures and considers invading Yang Fan’s Divine Kingdom to seize them. He also wonders whether the coordinates might be valuable enough to keep for himself.
• Unable to identify the pills producing the zombies’ powerful corpse poison, Ma Huainan treats the threat seriously. He suspends investment, orders high-end War-Type Artificial Lifeforms to reorganize his forces, and assembles a billion believers along with two S-Rank Immortal War-Spirit Steles.
• To protect his troops from poison, Ma Huainan rents biochemical protective suits and gas masks from a weapons dealer rather than buying them.
• Yang Fan checks the battlefield through surveillance equipment. He sees Ma Huainan’s enormous army—nearly a billion believers, including roughly one hundred million Martial Masters—wearing bulky protective suits.
• Yang Da identifies the suits as obsolete first-generation Azure Biochemical Defense Suits: effective against toxins and contamination, but unstable, energy-hungry, and easily damaged in combat.
• Yang Fan and Yang Da judge that Ma Huainan has committed about a tenth of his military strength to the confrontation. They believe the zombie army can defeat his forces, though Yang Fan is mindful that Ma Huainan might reveal his Divine Kingdom’s coordinates to the Sima Family.

Character developments

• Ma Huainan shifts from greed and opportunism to urgent preparation when the zombies’ poison proves difficult to counter. He remains confident that his believers’ war-god physique and battle formations can overcome the threat.
• Yang Fan watches the battle calmly and with growing confidence, regarding Ma Huainan’s army as far weaker than his own.
• Yang Da provides tactical analysis and expresses confidence in the zombie army, while highlighting the strategic reason Yang Fan has not yet attacked Ma Huainan directly.

Significant themes

• Greed versus survival: Ma Huainan sees the war structures as potential treasure even as the approaching zombies threaten his territory.
• Preparation and escalation: Both sides assess the danger and commit resources, but Ma Huainan’s large deployment reflects desperation as much as strength.
• Outward appearance versus real effectiveness: The protective suits look imposing, yet their obsolete design may make them a liability in combat.
• Military imbalance and strategic restraint: Yang Fan’s forces vastly outmatch Ma Huainan’s, but political risks involving the Sima Family limit how freely he can act.

Character interactions

• Ma Huainan questions his artificial lifeform about the poison pills, then orders it to mobilize troops and prepare for battle.
• He negotiates with a weapons dealer, agreeing to rent protective equipment despite its possible high replacement cost.
• Yang Fan and Yang Da review the battlefield together, with Yang Da explaining the equipment and estimating Ma Huainan’s commitment.

Plot points and events

• Yang Fan’s Divine Kingdom now has two Rank A cultivation talents: the Myriad Forms Spirit Body and the Undying Body. These are producing stronger clones, which may eventually strengthen the Zombie Kingdom as well.
• Yang Fan chooses to prolong the war against Ma Huainan rather than reveal himself. Keeping his identity hidden is essential to his strategy, and he expects the drawn-out conflict to wear Ma down.
• Ma Huainan calls for the invader to show himself. When no one answers, he rallies his billion followers and uses their combined blood essence to form a powerful ancient-beast phantom.
• The zombie commander Yang Shi prepares a counterattack: ten million Zombie Generals, one million Zombie Kings, and the Corpse Tide Frenzy Formation. His troops take Corpse Cores for protection and are equipped with advanced intelligent weapons.
• Ma Huainan is shocked to discover that the zombies carry Third-Tier intelligent weapons, while the stronger Zombie Kings have Fourth-Tier weapons. His Artificial Lifeform warns him not to underestimate them.
• Ma’s followers charge. Yang Shi orders his forces to raise Energy Shields and gather data before committing to a stronger response. The shields easily withstand the opening attack, and the weapons report that it is only 0.5% of their defensive limit.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Fan remains cautious and strategic, refusing to appear despite Ma Huainan’s challenge. He intends to win through concealment and attrition.
• Ma Huainan shifts from confidence and contempt to alarm when he sees how well-equipped the zombie army is, then rallies his followers to attack.
• Yang Shi demonstrates how much more capable battlefield command has become: he directs the army remotely using live data and coordinated weapon systems.
• Ma Huainan’s Artificial Lifeform serves as a warning adviser, identifying the weapons’ tiers and the scale of the threat.

Significant themes

• Preparation versus assumptions: Ma Huainan expects a conventional corpse-cultivation army built on numbers, but Yang Fan’s forces combine mass troops with advanced technology.
• Concealment and attrition: Yang Fan protects his identity while deliberately stretching out the conflict.
• Technology and command: Intelligent weapons, real-time data, and remote coordination transform the zombies into a disciplined, highly efficient army.
• Escalating power: Stronger clones and increasingly advanced equipment signal that the Zombie Kingdom’s combat strength is still growing.

Plot and key events

• Yang Fan worries that equipping his zombie army with intelligent weapons could reveal his identity or bring legal trouble. Yang Da explains that the Federation Marketplace sells so many similar weapon models that their appearance alone cannot prove where they came from.
• Yang Fan acknowledges that the weapons give his forces an unfair advantage. Since he wants Ma Huainan to keep fighting rather than reveal his Divine Kingdom’s coordinates to the Sima Family, he orders Yang Shi to let the enemy retain some hope.
• On the battlefield, the zombies’ intelligent weapons halt Ma Huainan’s vanguard and unleash coordinated, sustained fire. The followers’ blood-energy barrier slows the blasts but eventually collapses, leaving Ma Huainan’s army devastated.
• Watching the attack, Ma Huainan is stunned: the battle bears little resemblance to what he expected from a corpse-cultivation god.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Fan is cautious about concealing his identity, but also amused by how lopsided the fight has become. He deliberately restrains his army’s overwhelming advantage to keep Ma Huainan engaged.
• Yang Da reassures Yang Fan that the weapons cannot readily be traced to a specific source and explains their power relative to ordinary followers.
• The White Jiangshi commander directs the zombies’ firing in organized waves. He remarks that the weapons are so effective the army may not need the Corpse Tide Frenzy Formation.
• Ma Huainan, initially confident enough to lead the defense personally, becomes shocked and fearful as his forces are overwhelmed. He questions whether Yang Fan’s forces follow the corpse-cultivation path or the mechanical path.

Significant themes

• Concealment and strategy: Yang Fan’s military choices serve a larger plan to prevent Ma Huainan from exposing his Divine Kingdom’s location.
• Technology disrupting expectations: Intelligent weapons overturn Ma Huainan’s assumptions about a zombie army, which he expected to rely on infection and sheer numbers.
• Overwhelming power and controlled conflict: Yang Fan can crush the enemy quickly but chooses to prolong the battle for strategic reasons.

Key plot points and events

• Ma Huainan grows uneasy, suspecting a hidden threat, despite seeing only a little over a hundred million zombies on the battlefield.
• Yang Shi orders the zombies to stop relying on intelligent weapons and instead stage a seemingly even, close-combat battle. He believes the real danger is reinforcements that have not yet appeared.
• Ma Huainan mistakes the weapons’ silence for depleted energy and orders his believers to counterattack. His artificial lifeform warns him it may be a trap, but he dismisses the concern.
• The armies clash again. Ma Huainan’s War God Physique believers prove far stronger individually, and the zombie army suffers heavy casualties.
• Yang Fan remains unconcerned, since he has nearly a hundred billion more troops. He directs Yang Shi to control the battle’s pace and ultimately capture all of Ma Huainan’s billion believers.
• Yang Da explains the zombie strategy: mass deaths will build up corpse poison, while the Ten-Thousand Corpse War Tomb can release corrosive acid to damage the enemy’s protective suits and weaken them.
• As more expendable zombies are sent to die, corpses and miasma overwhelm the battlefield. The spreading poison transforms the landscape and is intended to erode Ma Huainan’s forces over time.
• Seeing the battlefield turn into what he considers a proper zombie war, Ma Huainan regains confidence and vows revenge against Yang Fan.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Shi demonstrates strategic restraint, treating the apparent retreat as a performance designed to conceal a longer-term plan. He instructs the White Jiangshi to lead the frontline and maintain the illusion of an even fight.
• The White Jiangshi initially questions the decision but accepts his role once Yang Shi explains the threat of unseen reinforcements.
• Ma Huainan shifts from anxious suspicion to overconfidence. He ignores his artificial lifeform’s warning, interprets the cessation of cannon fire as weakness, and mistakes the zombie strategy’s visible casualties for evidence that he is winning.
• The artificial lifeform recognizes that the weapons should not have run out of energy so quickly, but Ma Huainan’s certainty leaves it unable to press its doubts.
• Yang Fan is confident that losses are insignificant compared with his enormous reserves. He judges Ma Huainan’s divine talent formidable in potential but underdeveloped because Ma has been a god for less than a year.
• Yang Da advises Yang Fan on how accumulated corpse poison and corrosive acid can weaken the enemy.

Significant themes

• Deception and misreading: Yang Shi’s staged change in tactics leads Ma Huainan to draw the wrong conclusion about the intelligent weapons.
• Attrition versus individual strength: Ma Huainan’s fighters dominate one-on-one, but the zombies rely on numbers, expendability, and battlefield-wide contamination.
• Potential versus experience: A powerful divine talent cannot immediately replace the strength built through time and development.
• Confidence as a weakness: Ma Huainan’s certainty causes him to dismiss reasonable warnings and mistake a calculated strategy for an enemy flaw.

Key plot points

• Ma Huainan’s protective equipment is overwhelmed when the Ten-Thousand Corpse War Tombs release a vast rain of corrosive, corpse-poisoned liquid. The damaged suits leave his believers exposed to infection.
• The tombs gradually encircle Ma Huainan’s army. Rather than retreat, he orders a final assault, deciding that withdrawal would bring even greater losses and leave infected troops in need of costly treatment.
• Yang Shi uses waves of ordinary zombies as barriers rather than relying on them to defeat the enemy directly. As the battle drags on, Ma Huainan’s forces weaken, succumb to poison, and begin turning into zombies.
• A month later, Ma Huainan’s billion-strong army is annihilated. Though he claims both sides paid a price and vows revenge, Yang Fan orders ten billion zombie reinforcements and directs Yang Shi to keep advancing and degrading Ma Huainan’s Divine Kingdom.
• Back in the real world, Lu Wan tells Yang Fan that Sima Yurou has invited them to dinner, likely to apologize. Yang Fan declines, since his forces are still trying to locate her Divine Kingdom.

Character developments and interactions

• Ma Huainan shifts from confidence in his preparations to grim determination. He treats his believers as expendable when he judges retreat too costly, then masks his defeat with a threat of future vengeance.
• Yang Fan remains detached from the battle once victory is assured, delegating the campaign to Yang Da and Yang Shi. He also rejects any reconciliation with Sima Yurou because he may eventually invade her Divine Kingdom.
• Yang Shi carries out Yang Fan’s strategy of exhausting and obstructing the enemy.
• Yang Da respectfully receives Yang Fan’s orders.
• Lu Wan relays Sima Yurou’s invitation and accepts Yang Fan’s decision without protest.

Significant themes

• Attrition and strategy: The battle is won by sustained pressure, environmental hazards, and blocking tactics rather than a single decisive clash.
• The cost of war: Believers are treated as resources, while equipment, treatment, and territory all carry strategic and financial costs.
• Betrayal and distrust: Yang Fan’s refusal to pursue friendship with Sima Yurou shows that diplomacy is shaped by the possibility of future conflict.

Plot points and events

• Ma Huainan argues with the supplier of the low-quality intelligent weapons he rented. The equipment failed against acid rain, but the contract requires Ma to pay double compensation. Knowing the supplier could take legal action, Ma grudgingly agrees to pay and ends the call.
• As the zombie army spreads corpse poison and damages his Divine Kingdom, Ma suspends his investment plans and orders urgent purchases of antidotes, protective equipment, and war supplies. He abandons haggling and focuses on stopping the invasion.
• Ma realizes the enemy is far more powerful than he expected. He wonders whether Yang Fan is secretly supporting the corpse-cultivating deity, but doubts Yang could have found his Divine Kingdom so quickly. He is left unsure whether his bad luck is coincidence.
• Over the next week, Ma’s forces use raids and retreating battles to slow Yang Fan’s advance and drain his supplies. By the seventh day, the zombie army reaches the Divine Kingdom’s central region.
• There, Yang Fan discovers Ma’s extensive farming operation—spirit fields, high-quality soil, seeds, fertilizer, and advanced agricultural systems. Uninterested in the assets, he orders them destroyed.

Character developments

• Ma Huainan shifts from trying to recover his investments through aggressive cost-cutting to prioritizing the survival of his Divine Kingdom. Though greedy, he proves practical when the stakes become clear. His growing suspicion of Yang Fan reflects his mounting anxiety.
• Yang Fan remains calm and decisive. He is surprised by the scale of Ma’s agricultural enterprise but shows no interest in capturing or preserving it.

Significant themes

• Greed versus prudence: Ma’s bargain equipment and investment ambitions worsen his predicament, but he eventually recognizes when to stop pursuing profit.
• The costs of war: The invasion damages not only military forces but also the enemy’s economy, environment, and long-term development.
• Uncertainty and suspicion: Ma searches for a hidden explanation for his defeat, but cannot determine whether Yang Fan is involved.
• Different priorities: Ma has invested heavily in agriculture, while Yang Fan’s sole concern is defeating him.

Character interactions

• Ma’s dispute with the weapons supplier exposes the consequences of his cheap procurement and the binding force of contracts.
• Ma relies on his Divine Kingdom’s artificial lifeform to monitor the invasion and arrange emergency purchases, though his impatience cuts short its suggestion that he haggle.
• Ma’s forces repeatedly engage Yang Fan’s army through harassment and retreat, slowing its advance while depleting its resources.
• Yang Fan’s final order makes clear that Ma’s agricultural assets will not be spared.

Key plot points

• Yang Fan continues his campaign to weaken Ma Huainan’s Divine Kingdom rather than seize its wealth. He spreads Corpse Cores through valuable Spirit Fields and other assets, poisoning the land and making it worthless.
• Yang Fan sends ten billion more zombies to the Frontline—not to fight, but to speed up the destruction of Ma Huainan’s scattered investments. He finds that Ma Huainan’s buildings and resources are poorly planned and dispersed throughout the kingdom.
• On the ninth day in the Real World, the zombie army reaches the Divine Kingdom Core’s outskirts. It encounters defensive structures, but Yang Fan judges them ineffective.
• On the tenth day, Ma Huainan commits his full force: fifty billion followers, including thousands of Martial Kings. He chooses an open battlefield, activates powerful formations, and equips his higher-level troops with advanced protective armor.
• Yang Fan orders Yang Shi to devour the entire enemy army, regardless of losses. Anticipating that Ma Huainan may reveal his Divine Kingdom’s coordinates to the Sima Family afterward, Yang Fan also prepares reinforcements from the Eternal Corpse Mine.
• Ma Huainan confronts the unseen god behind the zombies, demanding to know why Yang Fan destroyed his investments instead of taking them. He reveals that he borrowed heavily and spent four trillion Divinity Points on fixed assets, making their destruction especially devastating.

Character developments

• Yang Fan remains focused on strategic ruin rather than plunder. He is confident that Ma Huainan’s army is his last major reserve and is already preparing for the consequences beyond this battle.
• Ma Huainan has shifted from defending his territory to staking everything on a decisive counterattack. His anger and desperation are evident, but his choice of terrain and use of remaining defenses show strategic calculation.
• Yang Da provides battlefield intelligence, identifies the enemy’s advanced armor, and relays Yang Fan’s orders.
• Yang Shi is entrusted with the freedom to pursue total victory, though the battle’s outcome is not yet shown.

Significant themes

• Destruction versus acquisition: Yang Fan deliberately destroys resources that he could otherwise capture, prioritizing the weakening of his enemy over material gain.
• Escalation and total commitment: Both sides are moving toward an all-or-nothing confrontation, with Ma Huainan deploying his entire army and Yang Fan preparing further reinforcements.
• The cost of ambition and debt: Ma Huainan’s vast investments were financed by loans, so Yang Fan’s campaign threatens not just his territory but the foundations of his rise as a god.
• Strategy against numbers: Ma Huainan relies on overwhelming manpower, formations, and technology, while Yang Fan trusts his zombies and their ability to consume the enemy force.

Character interactions

• Yang Fan consults Yang Da about Ma Huainan’s defenses, battlefield choice, and protective armor, then issues orders through him.
• Yang Da advises that Ma Huainan chose the open field to exploit his numerical advantage and surviving defenses.
• Ma Huainan addresses the hidden opponent directly, accusing him of senselessly ruining his Divine Kingdom and demanding an explanation.

Key plot points and events

• Ma Huainan surveys the devastation of his Divine Kingdom: Yang Fan’s zombie army has destroyed more than eighty percent of it over ten years, threatening Ma’s future growth.
• Ma tries to identify his opponent so he can seek leverage in the real world, but Yang Fan remains silent. Uneasy despite commanding fifty billion followers and holding unused reserves, Ma prepares for a final defense.
• Ma rallies his army, framing the battle as a fight to protect their home and families, then orders them to attack.
• From the command center, Yang Shi orders ten billion Zombie Generals and five billion Zombie Kings into battle, with their intelligent weapons operating at full power.
• The zombie forces unleash successive, immense volleys of energy fire. Ma is stunned by the scale: unlike their earlier encounter, the weapons now equip more than ten billion zombies.
• Ma’s followers raise barriers and formations to withstand the bombardment. He urges them to hold, reasoning that the weapons’ energy consumption must eventually create a lull. Despite the devastating attack, his army has not yet collapsed.

Character developments

• Ma Huainan shifts from indignation and confidence in his status and reserves to shock and desperation. Still, he demonstrates leadership by rallying his followers and directing their defense.
• Yang Fan remains unseen and refuses to reveal his identity, preserving his opponent’s uncertainty.
• Yang Shi reveals that the zombie army had been concealing much of its strength and now commits its overwhelming firepower.

Significant themes

• War as ruin, not profit: Ma’s Divine Kingdom and prospects are being destroyed, even though the conflict is ostensibly fought for gain.
• Preparation and hidden strength: Yang Fan’s vast stockpile and concealed weapons overturn Ma’s assumptions about what a god can afford or field.
• Leadership under pressure: Ma uses appeals to home, family, and duty to keep his followers fighting despite dire odds.
• The limits of endurance: Ma hopes the enemy’s firepower will falter, but the chapter leaves that belief untested.

Character interactions

• Ma repeatedly demands to know whether his opponent was sent by Yang Fan, but receives no answer.
• Ma rallies his followers with a patriotic appeal and orders them to defend their Divine Kingdom.
• Yang Shi issues battlefield orders to the zombie forces, which execute coordinated volleys while Ma counters with Divine Oracles urging his troops to hold their formations.

Key plot points and events

• Yang Fan’s army continues bombarding Ma Huainan’s fifty-billion-strong force. Despite mounting casualties, Ma’s formation holds and advances.
• Yang Fan recognizes Ma’s potential but remains confident that his ranged weapons will destroy the army before it reaches close combat. He orders more supplies and all remaining [Flesh Calamity Broodmothers] sent to the front, intending to crush Ma’s force decisively and frighten the Sima Family into withdrawing—without provoking a larger conflict.
• Ma realizes the enemy’s intelligent weapons have far more endurance than expected. His Artificial Lifeform concludes that Yang Fan deliberately misled him about their limits, turning the weaponry’s endurance into a trap.
• With his army suffering increasing losses, Ma deploys two S-Class [Immortal War-Spirit Steles]. Their power strengthens his believers, restores their cracking formation, and enables them to push forward through the bombardment.
• Ma reveals that the Sima Family gave him the steles when he became a god. Convinced that Yang Fan cannot possess comparable S-Class structures, Ma believes he has found a way to reverse the battle.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Fan remains cautious and calculating. He admires Ma’s potential and covets the value of his Divine Kingdom Core, but his immediate priority is to demonstrate overwhelming force without escalating the conflict with the Sima Family.
• Yang Da supports Yang Fan’s confidence, then respectfully carries out his orders.
• Ma Huainan shifts from confidence in his army’s resilience to alarm when the bombardment continues. After learning he was deceived, he angrily recognizes Yang Fan’s caution and reveals his strongest assets. The steles restore his confidence.
• Ma’s Artificial Lifeform analyzes the weapons’ endurance and identifies Yang Fan’s earlier restraint as deliberate information warfare.

Significant themes

• Deception and strategic patience: Yang Fan’s concealed weapons capability turns Ma’s assumptions against him.
• Preparation versus connections: Ma believes his Sima Family backing gives him access to rare S-Class war structures that wealth alone cannot secure.
• Escalation and restraint: Yang Fan seeks victory strong enough to deter the Sima Family, while avoiding a broader war.
• Confidence under pressure: Both commanders adapt to the changing battlefield, but the steles’ impact leaves the outcome uncertain.

Key plot points and events

• Ma Huainan’s forces gain more than twice their combat strength from two Immortal War-Spirit Steles. Confident of victory, he plans to capture the enemy’s weapons and use the proceeds to buy defensive structures, though he has given up on retaliating against the enemy Divine Kingdom anytime soon.
• Yang Shi dismisses the steles as unimpressive and deploys twenty Flesh Calamity Broodmothers, each controlled by ten thousand White Jiangshi believers.
• The broodmothers advance like mobile fortresses, releasing poisonous mist and corrosive liquid. The venom reshapes the battlefield into a hazardous river that blocks Ma Huainan’s army.
• Ma Huainan learns that the broodmothers are S-class war buildings and is stunned by the number Yang Shi possesses. With no retreat available, he orders his forces to charge through.
• The army’s protective equipment begins to corrode in the venom, while exposed soldiers rapidly zombify. A Martial Master officer kills a transforming soldier, then orders those with strong armor to lie in the poisonous river and form a human bridge.
• The officer is killed by an energy-cannon blast, and venom splashes onto more soldiers. A Martial King rallies the shaken formation, urging the troops to hold steady and fight for their homeland and god.

Character developments

• Ma Huainan shifts from overconfidence to shock when he realizes the scale of Yang Shi’s resources. Though shaken, he remains determined and orders a desperate assault.
• Yang Shi displays confidence in his side’s overwhelming military advantage, answering Ma Huainan’s boosted forces with a much greater deployment of powerful war structures.
• The Martial Master officer demonstrates ruthless discipline and self-sacrifice: he executes a zombifying soldier to prevent further danger, then gives his own body as a crossing for his comrades.
• The Martial King emerges as a rallying leader, restoring order and resolve after the formation is disrupted.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and collective duty: Soldiers willingly risk their lives so others can advance.
• The human cost of war: Both the venom and bombardment turn troops into casualties within moments.
• Unequal power and resource disparity: Ma Huainan’s impressive enhancement is overshadowed by Yang Shi’s far larger stock of S-class weapons.
• Faith, patriotism, and morale: The army is urged onward in the name of its Divine Kingdom and god, even as its situation grows increasingly desperate.

Character interactions

• Ma Huainan consults his artificial lifeform, which identifies the broodmothers and confirms their S-class status.
• Yang Shi gives the White Jiangshi Commander orders to deploy and operate the broodmothers.
• The Martial Master officer’s command turns equipped soldiers into a human bridge, while the Martial King’s rallying cry helps stabilize the advancing army.

Key plot points and events

• Ma Huainan’s forces endure heavy casualties crossing a river of corrosive venom, using fallen soldiers as stepping-stones. Injured followers receive antidotes; those already beyond rescue are killed to spare them zombification.
• After crossing, the army attacks twenty Flesh Calamity Broodmothers with a powerful formation. The assault damages and pushes them back, but their rapid healing limits its effect.
• White Jiangshi troops feed Corpse Cores to the broodmothers, triggering another release of poisonous gas. Ma Huainan’s prepared potions partially neutralize it, though they are costly supplies he bought for nearly ten billion Divinity Points.
• Yang Shi orders the “Suicide Squad Plan” rather than reveal more of his forces’ capabilities before reinforcements arrive. Zombie generals in Fourth-Tier Intelligent Weapons are issued black iron spheres and sent toward the front.
• Ma Huainan recognizes that the broodmothers’ defenses and regeneration are turning the battle against him. He refuses to surrender his Divine Kingdom coordinates to the Sima Family, despite the protection they would offer, because it would make him their subordinate.

Character developments and interactions

• Ma Huainan shows both resolve and growing desperation. He has prepared extensively, but the scale of his opponent’s resources surprises him; he also fears the loss of his independence more than he wants the Sima Family’s protection.
• Yang Shi remains controlled and strategic, directing No. 2 to deploy a sacrificial force while preserving other resources for the expected reinforcements.
• Ma Huainan’s followers demonstrate fierce loyalty, advancing despite poison, injury, and death in the name of their god and Divine Kingdom.
• The general and medical followers coordinate under extreme conditions: medics administer antidotes, while the general orders the doomed to be killed with dignity.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and loyalty: Followers willingly risk their lives for their god and homeland.
• The cost of war: Even expensive preparations and heavy casualties may not be enough against an opponent’s superior defenses.
• Strategic restraint: Yang Shi avoids exposing all his trump cards before reinforcements arrive.
• Freedom versus security: Ma Huainan’s refusal to give up his coordinates underscores the steep price of relying on a powerful family’s protection.

Key plot points

• While Ma Huainan hesitates over his next move, explosions tear through his army’s formation. Zombie Generals wearing Fourth-Tier Intelligent Weapons are launched into the Human Race ranks like missiles, detonating Micro-Nuclear Bombs on impact.
• The blasts kill huge numbers of believers and rupture the Poison River, splitting Ma Huainan’s formation. The bombs’ dispersal material spreads highly concentrated corpse poison, which damages protective gear and infects survivors.
• Ma Huainan rejects the Artificial Lifeform’s advice to retreat, believing withdrawal would leave his troops exposed to the enemy’s weapons. As casualties mount, infected soldiers—including Martial Master-level fighters—turn into zombies and attack their former comrades, throwing the battlefield into chaos.
• From the Divine Kingdom Core, Yang Fan learns the tactic was devised by Yang Shi. It was inspired by a past battle against a Black Armored Beetle Clan demigod, whose suicide attacks had caused heavy losses. Yang Shi’s specially trained “Suicide Squad” is now using single-use war supplies Yang Fan had purchased.

Character developments and interactions

• Ma Huainan shifts from alarm and disbelief to grim admiration. Though he recognizes the scale of the danger, he is unwilling to abandon his last chance to attack.
• The Artificial Lifeform identifies the Micro-Nuclear Bombs and corpse poison, warns Ma Huainan to retreat, and explains how the attack spreads beyond the initial blast zones.
• Yang Fan watches the assault and asks whether Yang Shi planned it. Yang Da confirms the origins and purpose of the strategy, leaving Yang Fan momentarily struck by the name “Suicide Squad.”
• Yang Shi, though absent from the battlefield, is shown as a resourceful and ruthless strategist willing to sacrifice a small number of troops to reduce overall losses.

Significant themes

• Costly strategic trade-offs: A limited sacrifice is used to inflict far greater damage on the enemy.
• The horror of warfare: Explosions, poisoning, and zombification make the battlefield increasingly brutal, with former allies turned against one another.
• Adaptation and imitation: Yang Shi adapts an enemy tactic from an earlier conflict and applies it to the current war.
• Admiration amid brutality: Ma Huainan recognizes the tactical ingenuity of a method he finds horrifying.

Plot and key events

• Yang Fan questions whether the intelligent zombie generals in his Suicide Squad might develop a will of their own and cause trouble.
• Yang Da explains that the zombies are cloned without human memories, kept isolated, barred from advancing beyond general rank, and given regular ideological instruction. Yang Fan accepts the plan and awards its architect, Yang Shi, resources worth a billion Divinity Points.
• At the front, Suicide Squad members detonate Micro-Nuclear Bombs among Ma Huainan’s forces. Their blasts shatter the [Immortal War-Spirit Stele] formation, leaving the human army exposed to the zombies’ aerial energy cannons.
• Ma Huainan’s fifty-billion-strong army is devastated. Ordinary zombies emerge from the Ten-Thousand Corpse War Tomb and infect the wounded, turning former human allies into more zombies and accelerating the slaughter.
• Seeing his army destroyed and his remaining believers unable to resist, Ma Huainan accepts defeat and withdraws his consciousness from his Divine Kingdom after vowing to destroy Yang Fan’s kingdom someday.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Fan shows himself to be a pragmatic, detached god: he prioritizes his Divine Kingdom’s strength over equal treatment, accepts the Suicide Squad’s use, and watches the carnage calmly.
• Yang Da reassures Yang Fan by describing the safeguards around the intelligent zombies. He remains respectful and dutiful.
• Yang Shi is praised indirectly for devising the Suicide Squad system and is promised a substantial reward.
• Ma Huainan shifts from commanding a powerful army to recognizing total defeat, but his despair becomes a fierce promise of revenge.
• The wounded human believers’ final pleas and helpless deaths emphasize the human cost of the battle; the newly turned zombies then attack the survivors they once fought beside.

Significant themes

• Unequal fate and hierarchy: Yang Fan argues that disparities in origin, talent, and opportunity are fundamental to life, and that his Divine Kingdom is not meant to be an egalitarian utopia.
• The god’s utilitarian perspective: The chapter presents Yang Fan’s willingness to sacrifice individual believers for the collective strength of his kingdom.
• War’s self-perpetuating horror: The battlefield’s dead and wounded feed an expanding cycle of death as victims become enemies.
• Rivalry and revenge: Ma Huainan’s defeat does not end the conflict; his vow sets up a personal struggle between the two gods.

Key plot points and events

• After Ma Huainan awakens in the real world, he sends his Divine Kingdom coordinates to the Sima Family and requests emergency aid from the Federation’s supreme artificial lifeform, One.
• A vast Human Federation force arrives in his Divine Kingdom: roughly a hundred billion believers, supported by five Third-Order Gods—one Mechanical God, two immortal-cultivation gods, and two martial-arts gods.
• Yang Fan recognizes that Ma’s distress signal has brought an unexpectedly powerful, well-coordinated response. Yang Da identifies the reinforcements as a professional Divine Kingdom support team.
• Ma Huainan returns to his kingdom and thanks the arriving gods, convinced that Federation protection and the Sima Family’s backing have made him safe.
• The support team is surprised to discover that Yang Fan’s zombie army belongs to the human race rather than a foreign one.
• Weng Chonghe, the Mechanical God leading the team, cites federal law requiring the government to defend Peerless Monster geniuses whose Divine Kingdoms are invaded within a century of their ascension. He urges Yang Fan to obey the law and withdraw.
• Yang Da explains that Weng’s speech is effectively an attempt to negotiate a peaceful end to the mission. If Yang Fan retreats, the support team can claim its rewards without risking major losses. Yang Fan concludes that they are trying to “slack off on the job.”

Character developments and interactions

• Ma Huainan acts quickly to protect himself and feels reassured by the enormous reinforcements. He accepts that his future will be tied more closely to the Sima Family in exchange for security.
• Yang Fan shifts from confidence to serious concern when he sees the scale of the opposing force, but remains skeptical of the government’s appeal and recognizes the support team’s practical motives.
• Yang Da serves as Yang Fan’s adviser, interpreting the force’s composition and explaining the legal and financial incentives behind the proposed truce.
• Weng Chonghe presents himself as a defender of federal law, but his cautious approach suggests he also wants to avoid needless casualties.
• The key interaction is the attempted negotiation between Weng and Yang Fan: Weng invokes duty and human solidarity, while Yang Fan sees an effort to end the mission cheaply.

Significant themes

• Protection of exceptional talent: The Federation treats Peerless Monster geniuses as strategic assets and has a formal system to defend them.
• Law versus personal conflict: Federal rules are invoked in a battle between two human gods, complicating what would otherwise be a straightforward invasion.
• Institutional incentives: The support team’s salaries and rewards help explain why its members may prefer a low-risk resolution over fighting.
• Scale and preparation: The disciplined, combined forces show the Federation’s capacity for organized military response—and the seriousness of Yang Fan’s challenge.

Plot points and events

• Yang Fan recognizes that Ma Huainan’s status as a Peerless Monster has brought serious reinforcements: five Third-Order Gods, with possible support from the Sima Family.
• Rather than retreat, Yang Fan orders Yang Shi to use the Zombie Kingdom’s S-Rank War Weapons and disposable supplies. He believes he has not yet revealed his full strength: his forces have grown to one hundred billion, backed by vast numbers of War Structures and newly produced zombie believers.
• Ma Huainan’s Federal Government reinforcements meet Yang Fan’s army inside Ma’s Divine Kingdom. The two sides now have roughly equal numbers, but Yang Fan’s army has an extraordinary concentration of War Structures.
• Weng Chonghe and the other gods realize the opponent is far stronger than expected. Their database has no record of him, and one of them identifies more than a hundred million Rank A War Structures and twenty S-Rank ones.
• One of the reinforcements openly worries that the group may suffer losses. Weng Chonghe rebukes him publicly, insisting they serve the Federation and must protect its people—but then hints to Ma Huainan that the enemy may be too powerful for them to defeat.
• Ma Huainan, who had assumed the reinforcements would protect his Divine Kingdom, is left shocked and uncertain.

Character developments

• Yang Fan is revealed as confident and strategically well prepared; he has been holding back substantial reserves and is willing to confront the Federal forces.
• Ma Huainan comes to understand how thoroughly outmatched he is and regrets not publicizing the enemy’s coordinates earlier. His confidence in his reinforcements falters.
• Weng Chonghe presents himself as a principled Federal official, but his cautious warning to Ma suggests that self-preservation may outweigh his stated duty.
• The other Federal gods shift from treating the mission as routine support to fearing the scale of the coming battle.

Significant themes

• Power and hidden strength: Yang Fan’s apparent forces are only a fraction of his full military capacity.
• Competition within the same race: Divine Kingdom wars between humans are presented as normal, even as the Federation selectively intervenes to protect a gifted individual.
• Duty versus self-interest: The reinforcements speak of serving the people and protecting Ma Huainan, yet their willingness to help seems uncertain once the danger becomes clear.
• The cost of relying on status: Ma Huainan’s exceptional potential attracts support, but it does not guarantee that others will risk themselves for him.

Character interactions

• Yang Fan gives Yang Da orders to alert Yang Shi and prepare the Zombie Kingdom’s strongest resources.
• Weng Chonghe negotiates with Yang Fan across the opposing armies, then returns to confer with his companions.
• The Federal gods discuss Yang Fan’s forces and their own prospects, while Ma Huainan listens and realizes the gap between his army and his opponent’s.
• Weng publicly corrects the god who complains about possible losses, then privately—through his remarks to Ma—casts doubt on whether the reinforcements can actually win.

Key plot points and events

• Ma Huainan, fearing the destruction of his Divine Kingdom, asks Weng Chonghe and his four brothers for help. Weng agrees—but demands 20 million military merit per brother, for a total of 100 million. Ma accepts because survival matters more than the cost.
• Weng publicly frames the intervention as a duty to protect a promising human genius and repel an illegal invader. Privately, the five brothers regard the mission as highly profitable and expect Ma to pay.
• As their army advances, the opposing god’s forces emerge: tens of billions of high-end zombie followers equipped with intelligent weapons.
• The weapons unleash a continuous barrage that overwhelms the five brothers’ blood-and-qi defensive formation. An energy blast breaks through, killing tens of thousands of their followers.

Character developments

• Ma Huainan recognizes that much of the admiration and support he once received was motivated by his status and future value. His crisis strips away his former sense of importance and shows him how transactional people can be.
• Weng Chonghe presents himself as a defender of humanity, but his demand for payment—and his confidence that Ma can be pressured into paying—reveals his business-minded opportunism.
• Weng’s brothers join the battle for the promised reward, not simply out of loyalty or principle.

Significant themes

• Self-interest beneath ideals: Public talk of duty and solidarity can conceal a desire for profit.
• Status and conditional affection: Ma learns that many people valued what he could provide, rather than who he was.
• Humility through adversity: Falling from prominence allows Ma to see that the world does not revolve around him.
• Power and vulnerability: Even a talented future genius can be reduced to bargaining for help when his position is threatened.

Character interactions

• Ma reluctantly bargains with Weng, accepting an enormous fee to secure military aid.
• Weng reassures Ma publicly while privately treating the agreement as a lucrative opportunity.
• The five brothers lead their army into battle, where the enemy’s overwhelming firepower quickly turns their confidence into alarm.

Plot points and events

• Weng Chonghe’s forces are shocked when the enemy’s first barrage nearly breaks their grand formation and kills close to 100,000 believers.
• Weng orders his brothers to unleash their S-Class Immortal-Slaying Pagodas. One fires immense waves of flame; the other sends giant streaks of Sword Qi toward the zombie army.
• Yang Shi orders twenty Flesh Calamity Broodmothers into their second-stage defensive form. They transform into towering flesh giants that withstand both attacks, rapidly healing their wounds.
• Weng’s army follows with a coordinated barrage of spells and cannon fire, hoping to exploit the intelligent weapons’ recharge time.
• Yang Shi counters by deploying all the Broodmothers. More than 300 rise across the battlefield and use spores, corrosive liquid, and fungal mats to absorb, weaken, or disperse incoming attacks. The Ten-Thousand Corpse War Tombs shelter believers from the few shots that get through.
• The Broodmothers block nearly 90 percent of the enemy’s attacks, leaving Weng stunned by the scale of their defensive power.

Character developments

• Yang Shi remains calm and strategic, judging the enemy’s tactics competently but recognizing their limited reserves. He relies on distance, layered defenses, and attrition rather than close combat.
• Weng Chonghe shifts from alarm to calculated resistance, attempting to exploit weapon-recharge intervals. His confidence is shaken when the Broodmothers neutralize the barrage.

Significant themes

• Preparation and specialization: The Broodmothers’ defensive design counters the offensive focus of the Immortal-Slaying Pagodas.
• Adaptation and resilience: The giants heal quickly and turn damaged biological material into renewable protection.
• Battlefield strategy: Yang Shi wins advantage through coordinated layers of defense and ranged attrition, not simply greater firepower.
• Misleading appearances: An opponent expected to rely on corpse-cultivation and numbers also fields intelligent weapons and sophisticated war structures.

Character interactions

• Weng’s subordinates voice disbelief and report the scale of the threat; he silences them and issues urgent orders.
• Weng’s brothers carry out his command to deploy the pagodas and coordinate attacks.
• Yang Shi gives precise orders to the White Jiangshi believers, who transform and direct the Broodmothers and protect the army.
• The opposing commanders’ decisions drive an escalating exchange: Weng increases pressure with spells and cannons, while Yang Shi answers with broader, more specialized defenses.