Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Yang Fan’s oracle—that dead believers could become ghost cultivators and continue cultivating—sends believers into a frenzy of faith and courage. At Calamity Suppression Pass, fighters vow to defend their homes without fear of death; families take comfort in believing their dead loved ones have begun cultivation in the Netherworld.
• Yang Fan sees this response as proof that effective Divine Kingdom management requires more than obedience: believers need hope, purpose, and sincere faith to unite them and keep the kingdom productive.
• He learns that his next opponent is a Third-Order Wraith Race god, whose followers and Divine Kingdom talents specialize in souls and spirit bodies. Yang Fan sees the enemy’s Divine Kingdom Core as a valuable opportunity to advance his own ghost-cultivation research.
• After confirming that Yang Si’s army is ready, Yang Fan orders the invasion and plans to observe the Wraith Race’s methods firsthand. Nearly ten billion Vanguard Army soldiers enter a spatial rift toward the enemy Divine Kingdom.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Fan reveals himself as both a strategic administrator and an opportunistic god: he deliberately inspires his believers, while viewing their faith as a source of power. He is also eager to study the Wraith god’s soul-based abilities.
• Yang Da reports the enemy’s identity and strength, then relays Yang Fan’s orders.
• Yang Si is tasked with leading the prepared Vanguard Army into battle.
• Believers’ attitudes shift from fear of death to fervent confidence, strengthening their resolve to fight.

Significant themes

• Faith, hope, and social cohesion: Belief in an afterlife can transform fear into courage and unify a Divine Kingdom.
• Power and administration: Yang Fan argues that lasting strength comes from giving believers purpose, not merely enforcing obedience.
• Faith as exploitation: His nurturing metaphor compares believers to crops repeatedly cultivated and harvested for a god’s power.
• Death and continuation: The promise of ghost cultivation reframes death as a possible next stage rather than an end.
• Knowledge through conflict: Yang Fan intends to turn war into an opportunity to study the Wraith Race and develop his own ghost-cultivation path.

Plot points and events

• Lingyuan, a Wraith Race squad captain, leaves a meeting with the Legion Commander after learning that someone has invaded his Divine Kingdom. He is ordered to handle the matter quickly, since his squad’s assignment begins in three months.
• His five squadmates arrive and tease him for leaving the meeting. They praise his reputation as a prodigy, but accidentally reveal that he has lured subordinate demigods into losing Divine Kingdom Wars so foreign gods will trace his coordinates and become targets.
• Lingyuan sharply warns them never to speak openly about the scheme: if other demigods learn how their own people are used as bait, they may refuse to serve under them.
• The squad prepares to invade a wealthy Divine Kingdom belonging to the Titan Giant Ape Race. Each member volunteers a role—obtaining discounted supplies, gathering alien corpses, sourcing poisons, and transporting resources.
• The six swear a binding oath of loyalty and mutual support.
• After the others leave, Lingyuan reflects on the Human Race invader who embarrassed him. He looks forward to the encounter, confident it will provide a more interesting challenge than his past opponents.

Character developments and interactions

• Lingyuan is revealed as ambitious, ruthless, and calculating. Though he presents himself as a loyal captain, he deliberately exposes his Divine Kingdom to lure enemies into a “reverse hunt.” He has risen from first-order to third-order god in about two thousand years by using this strategy.
• The five squadmates are experienced collaborators who readily divide up preparations for the Titan Giant Ape invasion. Their joking familiarity with Lingyuan gives way to silence when he warns them against exposing their methods.
• The Legion Commander remains detached and authoritative, issuing Lingyuan a straightforward order to resolve the intrusion.
• Lingyuan’s exchanges with his squad show both camaraderie and hierarchy: they tease him freely, but immediately obey when he turns stern.

Significant themes

• War as a means of advancement: Lingyuan sustains his growth through calculated conflict rather than cautious development.
• Deception and reversed expectations: He lets opponents believe they are hunting him, only to turn the attack into an opportunity to seize their Divine Kingdoms.
• Loyalty and secrecy: The squad’s oath binds them together, while Lingyuan insists that their methods must remain unspoken to preserve trust among potential subordinates.
• Ambition and predation: Both the planned invasion and Lingyuan’s personal strategy frame other races as resources or prey.

Key plot points and events

• Yang Fan views the Wraith Race’s Divine Kingdom through his believers. It is a barren, featureless world filled with black mist, eerie cries, and no spiritual energy, making it especially hostile to cultivators.
• Lingxu Zi, now a First-Order God, arrives and pledges extravagant loyalty. Yang Fan orders him to send concealed scouts ahead.
• Void Spirit Race scouts use advanced monitoring equipment to map the terrain, energy levels, spatial anomalies, and likely enemy positions. The equipment can detect Wraiths despite their invisibility.
• After receiving the intelligence, Yang Si organizes Yang Fan’s forces into coordinated formations and advances toward the designated target.
• In the Divine Kingdom’s core, Lingyuan watches the approaching army and realizes it is heading directly into an ambush he prepared.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Fan remains cautious and analytical, assessing the unfamiliar battlefield and relying on technology and reconnaissance rather than charging blindly.
• Lingxu Zi demonstrates increased power and fervent loyalty, though his over-the-top praise strikes Yang Fan as increasingly practiced flattery.
• Yang Si shows disciplined command, coordinating martial, Heavenly Court, and mechanical forces with precision.
• Lingyuan appears confident and opportunistic, anticipating that the human force will fall into his trap.
• Yang Da explains the Wraiths’ nature and how the monitoring system counters their concealment.

Significant themes

• Adaptation to hostile environments: Yang Fan’s forces compensate for the lack of spiritual energy with preparation and supplies.
• Technology versus concealment: Multispectral monitoring exposes enemies that ordinary sight cannot detect.
• Order and coordination: The army’s efficient mobilization contrasts with the eerie, chaotic Wraith realm.
• Loyalty and power: Lingxu Zi’s devotion reflects the bonds between Yang Fan and his followers, while the looming ambush sets up a test of that strength.

Key plot points and events

• Lingyuan prepares an ambush for Yang Si’s Vanguard Army, planning to have his Wraith Race believers unleash Soul Resonance together and wipe out the invaders. He hopes to trace their Divine Kingdom afterward and turn the war in his favor.
• A Void Spirit scout warns Yang Si that the enemy’s forces are unusually concentrated near the Divine Kingdom’s outskirts and that energy readings suggest a trap.
• Yang Si orders the army to halt and fortify its position. He requests one million pairs of Spirit-Breath Glasses—special equipment capable of seeing through the black mist—and keeps his soldiers on high alert while forbidding anyone from breaking formation.
• Lingyuan’s Wraiths wait in the mist, puzzled that the enemy has stopped before entering the range of Soul Resonance. Lingyuan suspects the halt may be coincidence, but wonders if the invaders have a way to detect the ambush.
• Once the glasses arrive, Yang Si uses them to see the hidden Wraiths and recognize that their positions form a large, linked formation.
• A confident Martial King urges an attack, but Yang Si rebukes him, emphasizing that overconfidence leads to defeat and warning the troops not to underestimate the enemy.

Character developments

• Yang Si demonstrates caution and strong command judgment: rather than advancing blindly, he responds to intelligence, secures specialized equipment, and prioritizes discipline.
• Lingyuan remains confident in his trap but becomes uncertain when the enemy stops unexpectedly, briefly considering whether they have special detection abilities.
• The Vanguard Army’s believers reveal their admiration for Yang Si and their eagerness for battle, but his warning reins in their excitement.

Significant themes

• Caution versus overconfidence: Yang Si’s restraint contrasts with the troops’ confidence and Lingyuan’s assumption that the enemy will behave as expected.
• Preparation and technology: The Void Spirit scouts and Spirit-Breath Glasses provide crucial intelligence that can counter a concealed supernatural threat.
• Discipline in war: Yang Si insists that soldiers remain alert and in formation until the enemy’s method is understood.

Character interactions

• The Void Spirit scout reports the suspected ambush directly to Yang Si, prompting his defensive orders.
• Yang Si coordinates with the artificial lifeform and Yang Yi to obtain the glasses and transport aircraft.
• Wraith believers discuss the enemy’s unexpected halt, then obey their general’s command to remain hidden and wait.
• Yang Si sharply corrects the eager Martial King, reinforcing caution across the army.

Yang Si discovered a vast Wraith Race force protected by an array he could not decipher and requested more Spirit-Breath Glasses. Yang Fan committed the Divine Kingdom’s resources to supporting the war, and Yang Si’s forces prepared for battle as the fighting began.

• Yang Si confirmed that the Wraith Race had ten million Core Formation Realm fighters and over ten billion Foundation Establishment Realm believers guarding the Divine Kingdom’s outskirts, and he ordered his troops to use Spirit-Breath Glasses.
• Yang Si asked Yang Yi for at least two hundred billion pairs of glasses, but Yang Yi said the Divine Kingdom had only four million in stock and lacked authority to approve the expense.
• Yang Fan ordered all current production capacity and resources devoted to supporting Yang Si, then explained to Yang Da that the Divine Kingdom could afford the costs.
• Yang Fan appointed Yang Shi deputy marshal while leaving him in command of the Zombie Kingdom, and Yang Da agreed.
• Yang Si directed his troops to form defenses, charge their weapons, and activate protective measures before urging them to fight for their master and the Divine Kingdom.
• The ten-billion-strong Vanguard Army and the Wraith Race began fighting.

Yang Si’s Vanguard Army ambushed the Wraith Race with a coordinated formation, precise lasers, and energy cannons, shattering their defenses and blocking their escape. In the Wraith Race’s Divine Kingdom Core, Lingyuan realized concealment no longer gave his forces an advantage and decided they would have to fight head-on.

• The Human Race Vanguard Army activated the Four Symbols Heavenly Evolution Formation, while precise laser strikes eliminated Wraith Race believers maintaining their defenses.
• The formation’s strongest attack engulfed a vast area in flames, breaking the Wraith Race’s battle formation and killing many believers.
• Yang Si ordered energy cannons to bombard the Wraith Race’s retreat routes and prevent them from escaping.
• A Martial King protected nearby Martial Master believers from Wraith Race spirit bodies attempting to possess them.
• Lingyuan watched the Wraith Race army falter, recognized that its concealment and spirit-body advantages had been countered, and resolved to fight head-on.

Yang Fan’s army nearly wiped out the Wraith Race believers after discovering and disrupting their ambush, while Yang Fan rewarded Lingxu Zi and ordered reinforcements and supplies prepared for the continuing war. The Divine Kingdom mobilized for a prolonged campaign as Yang Yi ordered the alchemists to work in three shifts.

• Lingyuan issued a divine oracle calling the Wraith Race to fight back, but Yang Fan’s army continued destroying their exposed believers.
• Yang Da explained that the Wraith Race had planned to use concealment and a grand array, but the army’s saturation attacks had left nearly ten billion wraith believers dead at the cost of fewer than ten thousand Martial Master believers.
• Yang Fan credited Lingxu Zi with helping uncover the ambush and awarded him one million Divinity Points, promising further support if he found Divine Kingdom Coordinates.
• Yang Fan ordered Yang Da to send troops to support Yang Si and prevent the front-line believers from being wiped out or his Divine Kingdom Coordinates from being exposed.
• Yang Fan’s forces began recruiting reinforcements, while Yang Yi ordered the alchemists to produce basic recovery pills in three shifts and maintain safe stockpiles.

Yang Fan mobilized his Divine Kingdom’s resources for the war and researched the Wraith Race’s abilities in Primordial City’s library. He realized the enemy had likely prepared a soul-based formation and was reminded to be cautious of unfamiliar races before Yang Da summoned him back to the Divine Kingdom.

• Yang Fan’s artificial lifeforms organized pill production, Spirit-Breath Glasses manufacturing, procurement, battlefield support, and intelligence research.
• Yang Fan returned to the Real World, then entered the Virtual World to study the Wraith Race in Primordial City’s library.
• Yang Fan learned that Wraith Race believers could split their spiritual essence to control many corpses or spirit bodies at once.
• Yang Fan concluded that the spirit bodies on the enemy Divine Kingdom’s outskirts had likely been preparing a soul-related Grand Array to ambush his Vanguard Army.
• Yang Fan left the library and removed his Virtual Helmet, then Yang Da called him back to the Divine Kingdom.

Yang Fan countered Lingyuan’s corpse-based human-wave assault by sending two million mechanical war weapons into the Wraith Race’s Divine Kingdom. He kept most of his arsenal in reserve as the battle continued.

• Yang Fan watched over a hundred billion Wraith-controlled corpses overwhelm the battlefield, and Yang Da warned that fighting them with followers would consume too many pills.
• Yang Fan ordered fourth-tier artificial lifeforms to pilot Intelligent Gundams and Annihilator Fighters to the front line.
• Lingyuan watched the human army’s growing resource consumption and expected his tide of corpses to wear Yang Fan’s forces down.
• Spatial rifts opened in the Wraith Race’s outer regions, and a million Intelligent Gundams and a million Annihilator Fighters descended onto the battlefield.
• Yang Fan decided to reveal his strength gradually and keep most of his war weapons in reserve.

Yang Fan’s Mechanical Legion devastated the Wraith Race’s corpse army, but the Wraith Race switched to soul attacks through damaged corpses. Yang Fan left the battlefield in the hands of his commanders and searched the Gu Family’s store for a Soul-Calming Bell to counter them.

• A million war Gundams and Annihilator Fighters slaughtered the charging corpses, prompting Lingyuan to have the Wraith Race possess damaged bodies and keep advancing.
• Yang Si ordered the vanguard to form a qi-and-blood barrier, but the approaching corpses attacked their minds and injured the front-line believers.
• Yang Si ordered the believers to take Qi-Blood Pills and Soul-Calming Pills, while Yang Er collected the crippled corpses and Yang Yi supplied more pills.
• Yang Fan discussed the Wraith Race’s possession and soul strength with Yang Da, then returned to the Real World to shop in the Virtual World.
• Yang Fan searched the Gu Family’s store for a Soul-Calming Bell, a War Structure designed to counter soul-based attacks.

Yang Fan bought 500 million Soul-Calming Bells for 160 trillion Divinity Points, and Gu Xuanting approved the purchase despite thinking it excessive. The bells arrived in Yang Fan’s Divine Kingdom, where his followers were still fighting the Wraith Race’s corpses and had suffered over a million deaths.

• Yang Fan ordered 500 million Soul-Calming Bells and confirmed the 160-trillion-Divinity-Point purchase.
• Gu Xuanting investigated Yang Fan’s activities, learned he was likely fighting a foe skilled in mental and soul-based methods, and approved the purchase.
• Yang Fan paid the Gu Family and received the Soul-Calming Bells through a special spatial channel.
• Yang Fan returned to his Divine Kingdom and found his followers still battling the Wraith Race’s corpses, with more than a million casualties.

Yang Fan ordered the Soul-Calming Bells sent to the frontline as Lingyuan assessed the Human Race’s defenses and adjusted his strategy. Lingyuan chose to target the Human Race martial artists while planning to postpone a full confrontation until after his Legion mission.

• Yang Fan ordered Yang Da and Yang Yi to deliver Soul-Calming Bells to the frontline for Martial King believers to wield.
• A Nascent Soul Realm Wraith Race believer reported that the Human Race’s Defensive Grand Formation damaged the spirit bodies of Wraith Race attackers trying to cross its blood-and-qi barrier.
• Lingyuan rejected the suggestion to deploy Yin Soldiers, reasoning that the war had only reached his Divine Kingdom’s outskirts and that the Human Race was suffering greater losses.
• Lingyuan hoped the three Human Race gods would withdraw as their losses mounted, allowing him to seize their Divine Kingdom Coordinates and attack later with his five brothers.
• Lingyuan ordered his forces to reward injured believers with wraith grass and target Human Race martial artists while ignoring artificial lifeforms and Cultivation Believers.
• Lingyuan reflected that his upcoming Legion mission in three months made a swift victory impractical and worried about the cost of the rewards.

Lingyuan considered the tradeoffs of his Divine Kingdom’s incentive-based system and decided to prioritize power after advancing to a Mid-Order God. At the front lines, Yang Si deployed the Soul-Calming Bells, which proved devastating to the Wraith Race’s Spirit Bodies.

• Lingyuan reflected on how rewards and freedom strengthened his believers but made them more willing to question his authority.
• Lingyuan decided to shape his believers’ thinking after reaching the Mid-Order God rank, even if the Divine Kingdom developed more slowly.
• Yang Si ordered all believers at the Martial King Realm or above to collect Soul-Calming Bells and use them against approaching Wraith Race believers.
• The Soul-Calming Bells rang across the front lines, spreading golden light that made the Wraith Race Spirit Bodies scream and dissolve.
• The Wraith Race’s abandoned corpses fell to the ground as Yang Si recognized the bells as their bane.

Yang Si ordered the vanguard to advance as Soul-Calming Bells and mechanical weapons devastated the Wraith Race’s forces. Lingyuan realized his Divine Kingdom was under a prepared assault, held his defenders back, and summoned his squad, revealing that three human gods were invading.

• Yang Si ordered the martial artists to charge while the Intelligent Gundams and Annihilator Fighters blasted the alien corpses and the Soul-Calming Bells destroyed Wraith Race spirit bodies.
• Wraith Race believers discovered that the bells had severely weakened many of them and called for help from their tribal elders and god.
• Lingyuan recognized that the invasion of his Divine Kingdom was likely a planned act of revenge and ordered his believers to hold position rather than engage the attackers head-on.
• Lingyuan returned his consciousness to the Real World and urgently summoned the other members of his squad.
• Lingyuan told his squad that three human gods were invading his Divine Kingdom.

After seeing the Human Race’s assault, Lingyuan and his five allies chose to reinforce his Divine Kingdom while keeping their plan to capture the Titan Ape in reserve. As Yang Fan’s forces advanced with little resistance, they uncovered a vast underground graveyard, overwhelming their corpse-collecting and processing capacity.

• Lingyuan shared the battle data with his five companions, who learned that hundreds of millions of Soul-Calming Bells were suppressing the Wraith Race’s spirit bodies.
• Lingyuan ordered the five gods to send troops and drive the three invading Human Race gods from his Divine Kingdom, then planned to seize the Titan Ape’s Divine Kingdom if they succeeded.
• Lingyuan and his companions returned to their Divine Kingdoms to mobilize reinforcements, including flying demonic beasts and Giant Race corpses.
• Yang Fan’s army advanced hundreds of kilometers as the Soul-Calming Bells prevented effective resistance.
• Yang Er directed billions of Otherworld Collectors to excavate the buried corpses, while Yang Si described the Wraith Race’s Divine Kingdom as an enormous graveyard.
• Yang Er reported that even ten billion Otherworld Collectors would face a huge task, and all three Life Essence Conversion Pools were already at maximum capacity.

Yang Si and Yang Er's advance into the Wraith Race Divine Kingdom was interrupted when five Third-Order Wraith Race gods sent vast hordes of corpse creatures through Spatial Rifts. Yang Fan ordered the army to hold the line and promised immediate support.

• Yang Si warned Yang Er that their enemy was exceptionally dangerous and ordered a cautious advance while they secured supply lines and transported corpses.
• Void Spirit Race scouts reported violent spatial fluctuations, and Yang Si spotted the arrival of enemy reinforcements.
• Five Spatial Rifts opened across the sky, unleashing enormous swarms of corpse creatures that halted Yang Fan's army's advance.
• Yang Si identified five Third-Order Wraith Race gods and issued orders for the army's formations and weapons to repel the attack.
• Yang Si told Yang Fan that the front needed support as enemy reinforcements overwhelmed their combat strength, and Yang Fan ordered the army to hold the defensive line.

Yang Fan mobilized his Divine Kingdom’s forces and resources as five Third-Order Wraith Race gods turned the invasion into a desperate battle. His army struggled to hold the front against endless waves of possessed beasts, and the fighting continued without a clear resolution.

• Yang Fan ordered Yang Da to send five million Intelligent Gundams and five million Annihilator Fighters to the front and to prioritize production of War Weapons.
• Yang Fan sent Yang Shi’s Suicide Squad to the front with disposable war supplies and told Yang Yi to buy ten billion Otherworld Collectors for Yang Er.
• Yang Fan ordered a large-scale draft across the Divine Kingdom and its twenty Secret Realms, and warned that he might deploy the S-Class War Buildings.
• The five Third-Order Wraith Race gods turned strange beasts and colossal corpses into vessels of war, forcing Yang Fan’s believers to fight desperately to hold the front.
• An Intelligent Gundam clashed with a giant corpse wielding a spiked club as Annihilator Fighters fought off swarms of flying demonic beasts overhead.
• The Wraith Race’s ground and airborne beasts kept charging at Yang Fan’s forces, and the killing showed no sign of ending.

Yang Fan's forces fought off the Wraith Race's relentless beast tide while Lingyuan's gods discussed their plans to defeat the Human Race gods and target the Titan Ape. The battle escalated when millions of Intelligent Gundams, Annihilator Fighters, and tens of billions of high-level followers poured through spatial rifts onto the battlefield.

• Yang Fan's followers used shields, formations, and wartime supplies to hold back waves of demonic beasts.
• Lingyuan and five Wraith Race gods planned to breach the defenses, then focus on the Mid-Order God of the Titan Giant Ape Race.
• Lingyuan sensed that the Human Race gods had made a major move as spatial rifts opened across the Divine Kingdom's outskirts.
• Five million Intelligent Gundams emerged from the rifts and charged toward the battlefield.
• Annihilator Fighters joined the fight and destroyed more than half of the flying demonic beasts with laser cannon blasts.
• Tens of billions of high-level followers, including hundreds of millions of Nascent Soul Realm followers, arrived and alarmed the Wraith Race gods.

Yang Fan’s forces revealed enormous reserves and used Zombie Generals carrying Micro-Nuclear Bombs to devastate Lingyuan’s beast horde. Lingyuan recognized the Human Race gods’ massive expenditure but insisted it had to be a bluff and ordered the Wraith Race to keep reinforcing the battlefield.

• More Wraith Race reinforcements poured through the Spatial Rift as Yang Fan’s forces continued arriving.
• Lingyuan told the other five Third-Order Gods that the Human Race had a fourth god following the Zombie Path.
• Zombie Generals carrying Micro-Nuclear Bombs were thrown into the beast horde, and their explosions annihilated beasts and the Wraith Race Spirit Bodies inhabiting them.
• Lingyuan identified the bombs and learned that each cost a hundred thousand Faith Points, while more than a thousand had already exploded.
• Lingyuan declared that the Human Race gods’ spending had to be a bluff and ordered the Wraith Race to keep sending reinforcements.

Lingyuan ordered his squad to mobilize Yin Soldiers and borrow heavily to protect their Divine Kingdoms from an escalating war. On the battlefield, Yang Shi defended his methods as the demon beast reinforcements kept coming, and the growing corpse piles overwhelmed efforts to clear them.

• Lingyuan ordered every tribe’s high-tier believers to possess Yin Soldiers and told his squad to borrow all available funds as a safety measure.
• Yang Shi praised using zombie generals in the Suicide Squad, while Yang Si warned him against manipulating people and Yang Shi insisted the marshal’s seat belonged to the capable.
• War weapons slaughtered wave after wave of demon beast reinforcements, but the Wraith Race continued sending more through the spatial rift.
• Yang Si ordered workers to carry Soul-Calming Bells and remove corpses before the Wraith Race could possess them again.
• Yang Er coordinated twenty billion Otherworld Collectors, but the corpses accumulated faster than they could be hauled away and began obstructing the army’s routes.